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COMPLETE lIISTOR I 141, ME CHINESE WAR, &c. 'ready-, in 2 vols. Bvo., with Maps and Plates, 325. bound , Non ret A k rt AT IV E of the VOYAGE S and SERVICES of " THE NEMESIS," From 1840 to 1843; And of the combined Naval and Military OPERATIONS IN CHINA; Comprising a Complete Account of the Colony of HONG-KONG, and Remarks on the Character and Habits of THE CHINESE, &c. From the Notes of Commander W. 11. HALL, R.N., with Personal Observations by W. D. BERNARD, Esq., A.M., Oxon. " This is probably the most important publication that has ap peared respecting our late contest with China. In all that relates to the Nemesis especially, and to the naval operations of the expedition, It 13 replete with the most lively and stirring interest."—Naval and Military Gazette. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. • MAJOR HARRIS'S TRAVELS IN AFRICA. The New Edition of THE HIGHLANDS of lETHIOPIA ; being the Account of Eighteen Months' Residence of a British Em ha4sy to the Christian Court of Shoa. By Major C. W. BARRIS, Author of " Wild Sports of Southern Africa," will be published on Monday next. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. SIR ROBERT ADAIR'S MISSION TO VIENNA. This day is published, 83'0., 18s. AN HISTORICAL MEMOIR of a MISSION to the t `OURT of VIENNA, in 1601 i. By the Right Hon. Sir ROBERT ADAIR, G.C.B. With a Selection from his Dispatches, published by permission of the proper authorities. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. TO.MORROW EVENING, APRIL 23, Will be performed Bellini`g Opera, entitled LA SONNAMBULA. Amina, Madame Persiani; Lisa, Madame Be Elvin, Sig. Mario, To conclude with the Bal!et of GISELLE. Principal Characters.—Giselle, Mdlle. Carlotta Grisi ; Bertha. Madame Copere; Bathilda, Mdlle. Ferdinand ; Myrtha, Mdlle. scheffer ; the Prince of Courland, M. Gosselin ; Hilarion, M. Coulon Wilfrid, M. Gouriet ; Noblemen, MM. Venafra and Bertram ; and the Duke of Silesia, M. St. Leon. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box Mica, Opera Colonnade. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, AI'RIL Will be produces! A New Grand Opera, entitlei THE BRIDES OF VENICE. Count Alberto , Mr. ‘,/ Harrison; Count Ono Foranzo, Mr otrani ; Na'Ama, Mrs. Alfred Sh4w ; Gerald°, Mlle. .Alhert4zzi ; Francesca, Miss Romer. After which will be repeated a New Ballet, entitled LADY HEN RIETTA ;. or, The Statute }air. Lyonn.l, M. Silvain ; Walter, Mr. Howell; Sir Tristram, Mr. O'Bryan ; Queen Anne. Miss O'Bryan ; Lady Henrietta, Mdlle. Lucile Grahn; Nancy, Miss C. Webster ; Mina, Miss Carson. Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. 6d.; Upper Circles of Boxes 55., Second Price ;is.; Pit 3s, Second Price Mtddle Gallery 25., Second Price Is.; Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYNIARKET. MK. BENJAMIN WEBSTRR, LESSEE, First Appearance of Mr. W. Farren, since his severe indisposition. THIS EVENING, APRIL 22, Will be performed Sheridan's Comedy of THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL Sir Peter Teazle, Mr. W. Farren; Charles Surface, Mr. C. Mathews • Lady Teazle, Madame Vestris. To be followed a New, Original, Occasional, and Local Extra vaganza, founded on Fact, entitled THE DRAMA AT HOME; or, An Evening with Puff. Principal Characters by Mr. C. Mathews, Mr. J. bland, Mr. Caulfield, Mr& Glover, Miss P. Horton, and )Ilss Lee. To conclude with a New Farce, entitled LOVE IN A SACK. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr I. T. Archer, at the Box— office, from Ten till Five. • PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. AI A DDOX. TIIIS EVENING, APRIL 22, Will be performed LA SONNAMBULA. Amina, Miss Grant; Miss E. Bonner; Elvin°, Mr. Allea. To which will be added, the Farce of the SPITALFIELDS' WEAVER. To conclude with a new Fairy Burlesque Extravaganza, called FAIR STAR ; or THE SINGING APPLE, AND THE DANCING WATERS. The principal c haracters by Messrs. Wright, Paul Bedford, Oxbsrry, Mrs . H. I'. Grattan, and Miss Fortescue. THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM,SE. LATE ENGLISH OPERA HOU Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. THIS EVENING, APRIL z 2, Will be repeated the New Comedietta, in Two Acts, entitled H ASTY CONCLUSIONS. Principal Characters by Me,srs. Diddear, F. Mathews. F. Vining, Emery, Miss Fairbrother, and Mrs 'Keeley. After which. MY WIFE'S OUT. Principal Characters by Mr. Keeley. Mr Wigan, Miss Chaplin, and Mrs. Keeley. To be followed by a New Drama, in One Act, called THE POST IF HONOUR. Characters by Messrs. Keeley, Turner, Kinloch, J. Collier, Stanton, Yarnokl, Miss Woo!gar (from the Theatre Royal, Adelphi, her first appearance at this Theatre), and Miss Grove. To conclude with an entirely new Grand Boric que Fairy Extra vaganza, called OPEN SESAME; or, The Forty Thieves. Cha. Teeters 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—roxes, 45.; Upper Boxes, :is. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, 6d. Second Price —Balcony Boxes, 2s. ; Upper Boxes, is 6d. ; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the Balcony *1 ier (holding eight persons), Two Guineas Private Boxes on the Second Tier (ho'ding eight persons), One Guinea and a-Half. Private Boxes on 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. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BATTY. Tr' umphant Success of the Grand National Spectacle. THIS EVENING, APRIL 22, Will be repeated the Historical Spectacle of the INVASION OF ENGLAND BY WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR; or, the Battle of stings. With all the effects of the Norman Conquest, Death of Harold, &c. Monsieur Plege on the Tight Rope, New Scenes in the Circle, by eminent French and Bri ish Art stes. To conclude with a Favourite Fare'. Mr. Batty (the iroprietor) begs respectfully to acquaint the Nobility, Gentry, and public that, encouraged by the flattering success during the past year, and tinding the Theatre not suffi ciently commodious for its numerous p ons, 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 bees rebuilt, dress boxes enlarge:l, upper boxes widened, and pit and galleries extensively improved. Fourteen glass lustros are added, and a Grecian dome ceilhrg, with entirely new splendid classic decorations, and gorgeous apppontments, which, with the first-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 Norman Conquest of England, produced by Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. The Cirque Olyrnpique will in troduce un quailed equestrian tale.it, and the dou ,le company com prise talent of the highest older. The door will open nightly at six o'clock, and the performances commence at seven. Box-office opened 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. „,-- DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEAIB.E. THIS EVENING, APRIL 21, Will ba repeated an entirely New Drama, embracing all the Wong effbcts of the celebrated work, entitled WHITErRIARS, in which the entire Company will perform. After which, THE SCAPEGRACE OF PARIS, sup icrted by all the leading ifavourites of the Establishment. To conclude with a Domestic Drama, entitled BROKEN HOME. Races and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box. office, from Eleven to Four. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING, APRIL .21, Will be produced a New Drama entitled THE OLD MAN'S BRIDE; or, the Murder at Norwood Ville. Supported by Messrs. Freer, Nantz, Dale, Seaman, C. J. Bird, Gardner, Paul, Coreno, James, Miss Areen, and Miss Vincent To be fAlowed by the celebrated " Polka Dance." After which, the New Popular Drama, called LEONTINE; or SIXTEEN YEARS AGO! Fitzarlington, Mr. Osbaldiston; Ar thur, Mr. C. J. Bird; Mat, Mr. Freer; Paul, Mr. Coretio; Leon. tine ? Miss Vincent. To conclude with THE GALLEY SLAVES OF TOULON. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. FOR THE BENEFIT 01. MR. M. RAYMOND. THIS EVENING, APRIL `.:2. - _ Who can wonder that hundreds cannot gain admission to the Magic Temple of the WIZARD OF THE NORTH ? He has waved his mystic wand for the fourth time over the Great Metro. s olis ; its influence is greater than when he first appeared at the Strand Theatre four years ago—he has now performed during five years 510 nights (at a moderate calculation) before 450,0( 0 spec tators!—one and all proclaim him to be the only living profes,or of S.ientific Delusions. Were the Magi of old—Pythavrw, I'olydoras, Dide, Paracelsus, Jerome Cardan, Benevenuto, Cellini, Nostradamus, Michael Scott, Alburtus Magnus, Friar Bacon, and Dr. Faustus, to look up and be hold the WONDERS OF THE WIZARD, they would be as much au. prised as our great granPfathers would be to look on our locomotive of the present day. The Modern Faustus will nightly appear in his Magic Circle, and prove by ocular demonst-ation, that he can make the " eyes the fools of the other scn,es," Between the Wizard's performance, which will be divided into two Parts, Mr. MALONE RAYMOND, will give AN 1101.71 i IN IRELAND, assisted by Mrs. R. M. RAYMOND and hliss LI NLEY. All Complimentary Admissions suspended, the Press excepted. Private Boxes can be secured at the Agents in London. Reserved Scats, 58. noxes. 3s. Pit. Is. (Id. Gallery,Cd. Second Price at Nine o'clock. Reserved Seats, 2s. 6d.; Boxes, Is. 6d ; Pit Is. Doors open at half-past Seven—the Wizard appears at Eight. The KEY to the WIZARD'S I RICKS to be had at the Box-office EGYMAN HALL, PICCADILLY IMPORTANT NOTICE. ONE SHILLING Admission to THE NAPOLEON Mu sEUM, the most magnificent and extensive Collection of Histo rical Curiosities and Works of Art ever known to hove been formed by One Person, during Twenty-five years of elaborate research, at a cost of 60,000 guineas, and to completely illustrate, in the most in structive and interesting manner, the most Important part of Euro pean history, viz.—CHARLES 1., OLIVER CROMWELL, and LOUIS XIV., to the deaths of GEORGE 111., and the EMPEROR NAPOLEON, in 1821. This unique Museum has been visited often, during the last and present year, by the Royal Family, the Duke of Wellington, the Foreign Princes, Ambassadors, and their Ladies, also many thousands of the Nobility and Public; and the Pro prietot has recently been able to increase, by several very tine pictures, &c., his previous almost isicredible number and variety of dISS., Works of Art, and a multitude of valuable Relics, and other curiosities, in this most instructive and, as hundreds have said it ought to he, a National Museum. Many thousand have inspected it, and THIRTY PRINCIPAL EDITORS of the PUBLIC PRESS have stated that it ought to be . seen by everyone. The price bf admis sion is reduced to ON,: SHILLING. The NAPOLEON MUSEUM is to be seen only at the "Egyptian Piccadilly, daily from Ten till Dusk. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, APRIL 20. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 48 ; Highest, 59 ; Noon, 62. BAROMETER, 30.35,—W1ND, W.N.W. NOTE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the f eezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. !UGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning —.lll minutes after 4 1 Evening 41 minutes after 4. ~...." 4.... , . N . 14 ,".• 111,,,. , , CRY - t; 0 , ''''.- .: r . ~ 4 r .i g i;s : 1%6' into CT \' 1' Nitni , ' ' 1044- ...,,r. '3' ' A ' ''r...Z.--21.-"...''.;'s '4. ..,.. _ einoriiinA A"inst, LONDON. MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1844. In the House of Commons on Friday, Mr. Buxom., greatly to his credit, - called the Home Secretary's attention to a recent capital conviction at the Central Criminal Court, which has excited public sympathy in no slight degree. " The case," remarked the Hon. Member for Durham, "struck him as being one of the most extraordinary that had ever occurred. It appeared that a poor woman had thrown herself and baby into the water, being at the time in circum stances of the utmost destitution. Apparently her intention wa s t o c om mit suicide, and not leave her infant alone and unprotected in the world behind her. Her own life was preserved, but the child perished. The unhappy creature had been sentenced to d ea th for her crime, and one of the news paper report s s t ated that the judge gave her no hope whatever that mercy would be extended to her. such a statement required comment, and he now wished to be. satisfied that the Right Hon. Gentle ula,tess attention had been called e G to so distressing a RoA.. HAM'S answer to case:"' Now, what was Sir J. this affecting statement? " In the Ileum- Secretary, " his attenti on p nt of fact," sa id , had not been called to the matter until the present moment. In the very delicate duty which would devolve upon him, the Hon. Member might rest assured he would do his best to exercise a sound and dispassionate judgment; but be yond this, he could not then say anything, as the Howe must be aware of the inconvenience attending such discussions." Anything more cool—we might almost add, supercilious—than this reply we do not often remember to have met with, even in the records of Parliament. It exhibits all that free and easy in difference to human life for which SIDMOUTH and CASTLEREAGH were so remarkable. The whole town is just now ringing with the case of poor MARY FURLEY ; the judgment pronounced on her—legal though it undoubtedly is—is generally declared to be harsh and unmerited; yet the Home Secre tary knows nothing at all about the matter ! The very Minister, who, from his official position, should be perfectly cognizant with every case of moment that transpires in the criminal jurisdiction of the country, boldly states that his " attention has not been called" to one of the most heart-rending trials that have taken place at the Old Bailey for many a year, " until the present moment !" Does Sir JAMES GRAHAM never read the newspapers ? If he is in the habit of doing so, he cannot fail to have read the whole circumstances of this distressing case, which have been detailed at length in the columns of the daily journals, wherein also may be found most unquestionable proof of the public sympathy for MARY FURLEY. But we are forgetting ourselves; Ministers of State make a point of never reading newspapers —on the same shrewd principle, we presume, that boys fight shy of a dose of wholesome physic—they tell us so themselves, and even seem to take a pride in their ignorance. Does an Opposition Member put an inconvenient question to Govern ment, on the faith of some perfectly just statement that he has met with in the columns of the daily press, some Minister or other is sure to get up and reply, that, for his own part, his time is so fully occupied that he really has not a moment's leisure to read newspapers, and consequently cannot be expected to know anything at all about the merits of the ugly questions put to him. But how changed the case, whenever the press happens luckily to furnish Ministers with weapons wherewith to assault their opponents—with apt nicknames wherewith to cast ridicule upon them ! Then, it is quite beautiful to see how well read they are in newspapers—with what studious attention they keep in mind their agree able arguments—what a vivid recollection they re tain of their apt felicities of sarcasm ! The other day, for instance, Sir JAMES GRAHAM—Who, of course, never reads either daily or weekly journals, or other wise he would have been fully acquainted with all the particulars of MARY FURLEY'S case—the other day, we say, this singularly organised Baronet, being indignant w ith the Opposition for presuming to differ with him on the Ten Hours' Factory Bill, coolly told them that they were encouraging a " JACK CADE " system of legislation. When called to account for this insulting expression, what was his reply ? The sarcasm was not his—" Non meus hic sermo est, sed qum precepit Ofellus"--he had met with it in a news paper ! Yes, it was one of those insignificant, plebeian journals, which well-bred Ministers of State never read, that had supplied him with the ma terials of his invective ! Finding not a single shaft left in his own quiver, he had—with a condes cension which cannot be too highly appreciated—bor rowed one from the well-stocked quiver of the Exa- miner. But, to return to the far more important subject with which we set out. Sir JAMES GRAHAM, it seems, has promised to exercise " a sound and dis passionate judgment" on the case of MARY FURLEY. We:most devoutly hope that this judgment will lean to the side of mercy, for never yet was there a case that more imperatively demanded the lenient interpreta tion of the law. It is long since we have opened a Parliamentary or Sessional Paper of more extensive importance and interest than the " First Report of the Select Com mittee" (appointed on 16th February last) " to inquire into the state of the laws respecting Joint-stock Companies (except for banking), with a view to the greater security of the public." This "Blue Book" (No. 19 of 11. C., 1844) comprises the Report of the Committee in question ; a detail of their proceedings de die in diem; minutes of evidence ; an appendix ; alphabetical heads and analytical digest of the evi dence taken, &c. &c. Joint-stock companies are, obvi ously, such powerful means for accomplishing signal good, or producing incalculable evil, in all the varied fields of enterprise upon which it is proposed to launch private capital for lucrative investment, that no more legitimate object could have been propounded for the investigation of a Committee of the House of Commons than the mode in which such as sociations are concocted, organised, brought out, financed, conducted, and wound up ! Such seems to be the skeleton-history of those more epheme ral companies, to the cases of which the labo rious attention of the Select Committee was more particularly directed. The details and particulars, and " filling up," as the artists call it, are to be found skilfully traced, and vividly coloured, in the evidence appended to the Report. Of that Report we can spare room, to-day, for little more than a very succinct compendium ; but this will be found to embrace matters, the importance and interest of which it would not be easy to exagge- rate. They well deserve the most serious attention of every reader. The evidence and appendix, occupying 350 folio pages, will be of course too volu minous for any purposes of abstract. This " Report," after stating that the Committee had perused the Report prepared by Mr. BELLENDEN KER on the Law of Partnership (presented to Parlia ment in 1837), and on which was founded the existing Letters Patent Act, 1 Vic., c. 37, adverts to the de positions they had taken of " other persons conversant with joint-stock companies as to their operation and the improvements that may be made in the legal and equitable remedies at present available to them, and their directors and shareholders ;" and to the evidence they had received, " in connexion with certain bubble companies, touching a few remark able cases of miscarriage or fraud." In order to confine their inquiries within practicable limits, the Committee divide bubble companies into three classes; namely, 1. Those which, being faulty in their nature (founded on unsound calculations), cannot possibly succeed : 2. Those which, whether with good objects or bad, are so ill constituted as to render it probable that the miscarriages or failures incident t• mis management must attend them : 3. Those which are faulty or fraudulent in their object, being started only to create shares for the purpose of jobbing in them, or to create, under pretence of a legitimate business, the opportunity and means of raising funds to be shared by the adventurers who start the company. All the companies of this last kind, adopt, to the utmost practical extent, all the charac teristics of the best companies : an array of directors and officers—a large capital announced—plausible statements issued propounding excellent purposes; intimating that they are sanctioned by Act of Parlia ment—publishing their addresses in some conspicuous places of business respectably situated, and employing throughout the country respectable agents and bankers. These pretences, of course, are, many of them ficti tious. To remedy the evils of this class of projects in future, the Committee deem an easy affair— " Publication of the directors, of the share holders, of the deed of settleraent, of amount of capital and whether subscriad or not subscribed, nominal orreianl, the would baffle every such case." The class o f dealing companies, No. 2 in the above reca pitulation,Committee anti c ip a t es more diffi cultywith; and the class No. 1, " faulty in their nature," it deems to be " beyond certain cure by the Legislature." The general remedy it proposes, in respect of the other classes, is the regis tration of n ew companies' prospectuses, circulars, &c. The bubbl e companies, which were the imme diate occasion of the inquiry, having been con cerned in effecting assurances and granting annui ties, the Committee's attention was naturally directed to such associations. Its " summary," includes 1. The cases examined, and the character of their objects, concoctors, and managers ; 2. The modes of deception adopted ; 3. The duration of the compa nies ; 4. The amount and distribution of the plunder ; 5. The circumstances of the victims ; 6. The impunity of the offenders. " Exami nations by which the character and conduct of individuals were implicated, and which are therefore companies excluded from the evidence annexed," relate to ten viz., seven insurance, annuity, and loan 1 companies, three, mining and general ditto. In 1 eight of these the concern was represented to have been founded by mere adventurers, on schemes evi dently fraudulent. The history of some of these companies, avid the processes of fraud by which dishonest managers, directors, &c., realised large sums, will be perused with astonishment. We can quote at present only a passage or two from this portion of the Report. An insurance office was established by one or two per sons, one an uncertificated bankrupt, on terms highly advantageous to himself as resident manager, and 'shareholder of 100 shares : but which, owing to dis putes among the parties, was dissolved after effecting insurances to a considerable extent. "On behalf of this company a prospectus was issued, containing highly respectable names. It appeared from some legal proceedings that the number of shareholders was only eleven—who' were all directors." Under " Direction of Companies " we meet with this anec dote :—" Another company existed for four years, the manager having deluded the directors by flourish ing statements of accounts, until some of them be came suspicious, and, on examination, found they had no funds. They were obliged to pay the manager 2,0001. to induce him to remove, there being, in the deed of settlement, a provision that he was to have 1,0001. a year." And under " The Amount and Dis. tribution of the Plunder," we have this :—" One of the least creditable of these concerns obtained, in the course of two or three years, from about 120,0001. to 150,0001., and another at least 100,0001. By another, the shareholders lost about 100,0001.; by another, 80,0001. were lost in London, and 10,0001. in Edinburgh. In two cases, where the chief actors had been bankrupts, no books or accounts were forth coming. In another, the clue was, the enrolment of annuities." Here, for the present, we must close. Among the essential distinctions that give to the hostilities of party in England a very different aspect from that which they assume in the United States, (and certainly a much better and more decorous one,) the tone of respect and forbearance adopted towards the judges in this country, is of the most remarkable. There can be no doubt that this feeling of deference for our judges arises in part from the tendencies of our education. One of the first principles inculcated in the minds of our youth, is a profound veneration for the law. One of the first duties of the adult citi zen is to protect, with a jealous vigilance, the inde pendence and official inviolability of those who are chosen to expound and administer it. But the reve rence with which the judges are habitually regarded, by all ranks of the British people, arises chiefly (much to the honour of those functionaries be it said) from the high feeling, the impartial judgment, the learning, and the constitutional spirit which they bring to the practical discharge of their duties, so responsible, so solemn, as they are. The faet that, against the com petition of such a bar as we can boast, they should have attained to the dignity of the bench, is, in itself, a certain guarantee for their personal integrity, their general deportment in private life, and the con scientious propriety with which they will fulfil the duties devolved upon them by the confidence of the Crown. It happens, therefore, that infirmity of tem per is rarely to be objected to our judges. They have already passed through a long ordeal of pro fessional education and business, in which the exi gencies of their position have come in aid of obvious merit and social considerations, so as to have accus tomed them to the discipline of that beautiful self. control which is indispensable on the judgment seat. True it is, that from time to time we have had great judges who have manifested little petulances; but these petulances have been, for the last half cen tury, the full extent to which objections to the de. meanour of our judges in court could fairly be stated. With the essential purity, the scarce less essential dignity, of justice, has been maintained. We have had, certainly, on a recent occasion, to re mark upon a very premature development, in a high law officer—(not a judge, however)—of bellicose propensities. But this was a mere lulus naturce—or, in the parlance of our provincial journals, " another proof of the extraordinary mildness of the season." One Mr. Attorney• General SMITH no more indicates the professional morale of functionaries in general occupying such an office, than a single swallow establishes the approach of summer. Such excep tions only illustrate and corroborate the rule of that contrary course of things which, as we con tend, obtains in our judicial system. In the United States we fear that these mat ters fall out very differently. The judges there, do not seem to be more remarkable, as a body, for the exalted professional qualifications we have touched upon, than individuals among them are for exem plary morality, decorum, or propriety in private. What more common than to read—and especially of late—in American papers, of sanguinary duels, the re sult of disgraceful brawls and miserable squabbles, be tween "honourable" judges, or some such func tionaries? The scales of justice appear to be thrown down very unceremoniously when there is some private feud to be revenged by those who hold them. The sword of the law is abandoned, without even a decent show of regret or compunction, for the rifle or the bowie-knife. Scandals like these sound as impossible absurdities in an English ear. Never theless, they are but too frequent in America, and are, we fancy, as much the result of education there, as with us are the worthier notions and associations that we attach to the judicial office, character, and bearing. But we are compelled to own that a recent case, in which a native born American citizen was capi tally indicted in one of the Courts of South Carolina, tried, convicted, and condemned, for the offence of aiding the escape of a female negro slave from her " owner," has elicited a written statement from a judge of appeal (!)—a judge of the free United States,—the vaunted home, the so-called " cradle," the professed refuge of Liberty (! !), which is twenty times more disgraceful to the writer, the judicature to which he belongs, and to the Government under which it is established, than twenty such atrocities even, as those we incidentally noticed in The Sun f l the 9th of March (the caning of a Judge TURVILLE, of Nashville, and the murder of Judge lIORSTORD, at Texas), and the 16th instant (the murder of the Hon. BENJAMIN MAJOR, a Senator and Judge of Missouri). We need go no further back, as we could multiply these melancholy examples. On this last case of Jowl BaowN, of Fairfield district, sentenced to be hanged for the offence we have described, under an old Caro ' lina statute of 1754, a public meeting, it seems, had been called at Pittsbargh ; and certain resolutions were agreed to, such as a body of freemen, nobly alive to the natural rights of their fellow-creatures, might be supposed to come to. These resolutions were forwarded to the functionary, whose coarse and brutal mode of expressing himself at the trial will be fresh in the recollection of many of our readers—a certain Judge O'NEALL. " Stung," says the editor of the Pittsburgh Emanci pator, "by the severity of the remarks made, the judge sent for publication a letter, of which the fol lowing is the principal portion : "John L. Brown is a native of Fairfield district ; he was tried and convicted, on very clear proof, of aiding a negro woman to run away and depart from her em ployer's service. The proof created a strong belief that the woman had been his kept mistress for some time." As to the righteous instinct of attempting to escape from a condition of bondage—accursed both of GOD and man, indefensible on principle, demoralising and degrading in its influence on any society in which it is permitted—we disdain to utter a word in the nature of a plea vindicatory. But the disgusting cant and hypocrisy of this judge (himself, if we mistake not, a slave-owner) in reference to the humiliating, but enforced viciousness of all slave connexions, and writing in the polluted atmosphere of South Carolina, affecting to introduce this topic of aggravation against the prisoner, is an ingredient of additional disgust, in the paper he has thus ventured to put upon record. He proceeds to quote the Act of May, 1754, under which BROWN had been convicted. It is a charac teristic document, and makes us blush for the blunted perceptions and one-sided morality of our fathers to have tolerated (as the English Legislature must have done) a colonial statute in which the most odious pretensions of slave property are stated and vindi cated in this barefaced and shameless manner : " Whereas, by the laws of this province, negroes and other slaves are deemed to be chattels personal, and Noiwilneerreaassnoanpyunoisthhemrengtocoadns b a e nd infi ch ic a t t e te d ls are, in eve r y respect, as much the property of their persons inv e i g li ng , s t ea li ng , or b a y r e the Ands now now in force upon carrying away any such slaves from their lawful THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, APRIL 22 1 1844. owners or employers. And whereas the inhabitants of this province are liable to and receive great preju dice and damage by such unwarrantable and perni cious practices and wicked proceedings," therefore, any person who shall so " inveigle, steal, or carry away as aforesaid any such slave, so as the owner sr employer of such slave or slaves shall be deprived of the use and benefit of such slave, or slaves ; or that shall aid any such slave in running away or departing from his master or employer,' shall be guilty of felony, and suffer, on conviction, death for the same. No matter (it would seem) for what base or dreadful purpose the slave might be so inveigled—that is of no consequence. That is not the question. To bring the offender within the sta tute, it must be shown that the abduction of the slave has deprived the owner of the use and benefit of such slave. This, however, is not the comment of the Christian-spirited, the free-born, republican, liberty-loving Judge !—No ! O'NEALL remarks:— " This Act, it will be seen, is nearly 100 years old, and could, therefore, have had no direction against the abolition folly of the present day." From hence we learn that WILBERFORCE and PITT, ROMILLY, MACKINTOSH, and GREY, have all been very silly fellows—to his thinking. Poor fellows. Their laurels, then, must wither; for the venom of this Judge of Appeal has been shed upon them. He proceeds in the scolding strain of a store-owning small planter :—" I have no doubt it may check such philanthropy as that of the editor of the inclosed, if he should ever venture to try his hand in stealing a negro or aiding one to run away." Therefore we must infer that in Pittsburgh " philanthropy" is dis couraged from the bench where justice is assumed to be administered in mercy—and that judges deco rously suggest the commission of felonies which they themselves are afterwards to try. his own simplicity, his sensitiveness to harsh constructions put on such enlarged views of law and mercy, are absolutely touching :—" How a judge can be justly styled a murderer fur enforcing the law of the State whose officer he may be, is rather strange : perhaps the editor can find something in the new code of morals,' of which he seems to be an exponent, which may justify it." Does he gravely suppose that the mora lity which would excuse the act of one party in en abling another to escape—in a country of free insti tutions—from slavery is new? But let his own language tell his own case. We despair of rivalling the sustained dignity and graceful energy, the judge like, dispassionate calmness and generous sarcasm of the subjoined passage from his Honour's letter : " Our revolutionary sires thought precious little of the rascals who stole or aided negroes in running away ; little of their blood would have been poured out to keep such from the gallows ; they would sooner, much sooner, have tied the noose, than cut it with their swords. Say to the worthy editor of the inclosed that John L. Brown will not be hanged. By the recommendation of myself and my brethren of the Court of Appeal he was par doned by the Governor, on the condition of receiving, on Friday, the 26th of April next, at Winnsborough, thirty nine lashes on his bare back. If the editor will then and there attend, I have no doubt John L. Brown will gladly accompany him to the West, where he can soothe and cher►sh him, as one of ' the young and ardent men' who loved negro women, and advised them to escape from slavery.—JOHN BOLTON O'NEALL." • On perusing this extract, we began to doubt whe ther the waggery of CHARLES DICKENS had not pre vailed on JOHN BOLTON O'NEALL, to allow him to write this most cutting of " American Notes" for him I But the ." nine-and-thirty lashes;" which will probably be so inflicted as to equate poor Buowx's commuted punishment with the extreme penalty of his original sentence, are genuine " American stripes." Madrid journals, of the 12th instant, have been re ceived, and if any credit could be given to their statements, the. BRAvo Ministry increases in public favour and strength every day. They have the entire confidence of Queen CHRISTINA, who is virtually Regent. Some changes were anticipated relative to the Church. The Minister of Justice had interviews with several Archbishops and Bishops, who were on their return to their dioceses, and the latter were stated to have retired from the interview highly satisfied with the views of the Government. The Church and martial.law are to be the main springs of the Government under the new system. The Three per Cents. were done at 351 for cash, and 36i at 60 days ; the Four per Cents. at 22 for the 6th of June; the Five per Cents. at 22. 3 , for cash, and 231 at 60 days. The Paris papers of Thursday bring the conclusion of the debate in the Chamber of Peers, the result of which we have already given. Great preparations are in progress for a combined attack on the " Man of ,Ghent" by the Right and Left of the Chamber— the Liberal (if any party in France can be called Liberal), and the Tory parties. One of the organs of the former section states that the Deputies of M. °DILLON BARROT'S party held a meeting on Wed nesday, to deliberate on the re-election of M. CHAS. LAFFITTE, and the questions to be put to Ministers on the Otaheite affair. It was decided that the annul ment of the election should be insisted upon, but no determination was come to as regards the part to be taken by these Deputies in the debate about to be entered on as to the disavowal of the measure taken by , take e t the confidently pected p i a s rtin Admiral Du i‘ liE . T T IT uI T ER II s OU w A i R II S ta . that discus sion. It is affirmed that they have resolved to call upon the Government to produce all the papers trans mitted from different officers in the Pacific, and in case of refusal (of which there can be no doubt), they would protest against such policy, and, pro bably, move a vote of censure. The Legitimatists, under the guidance of M. BERRYER, had concurred in these plans. In reference to the Otaheite affair M. TRIERS' paper makes these sarcastic remarks : " It is announced that numerous promotions are about to take place in the navy. For the first time the nomination of a Lieutenant de Vaisseau to the grade of Captain de Corvette has become a Cabinet question. It is M. Reine who gives the importance of an affair of State to a simple question of promotion. if this officer shall consent to leave M. I)upetit rhouars, under imputations which the Ministers have cast upon him ; if he preserve a silence which a proper sense of duty does not impose upon him ; Vile consent to sacrifice his superior and friend, M. Reme will be Capitaine de Corvette, and perhaps be made . an officer of th e L eg i on o f H onour ; otherwise he will not.' The Journal du Havre of Wednesday states that accounts have been received from Hayti of the 14th ult., according to which the disturbances in that country have assumed a still more serious aspect. All the army and the National Guards were preparing to march against the insurgents, and a de cisive affair was expected. The Government appeared con fident of being able to put down the revolt. A letter from Rio Janeiro announces that the frigate Sirene, with the special missionaries sent by the French Go vernment to the China Seas, left that port on Feb. 23, for the Cape of Good Hope, in company with her consort the Victorteme corvette. All on board the two ships were in good health. The French Funds had advanced a little, the Fives closing at 122 f. 35c., and the Threes at 83f. 65c. THE BOURSE—THURSDAY, APRIL 18. First Highest Lowest Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents 121 85 .. 122 20 .. 121 85 .. 122 20 Four per Cents• .• • lO6 30 • . 106 30 • • 105 60 106 30 Tine per Cents 83 60 • • 83 65 .• 83 55 .. 83 65 Bank of France. 3095 ..3100 .. 3095 ..3100 Latfitte Mink, I,ooof. Sharcsll7o —ll7O • • 1170 • • 1170 5,000 f. Sharessoss —5055 •.5055 .•50."..5 Belgian Bank ........ ••• . • • 700 .. 700 • • 700 • • 700 Belgian Fives, 1831.. lO3 .. 103/ 103 .. 1031 1840 1842 107 .. 1077 •• 10 77 Spanish Active •. . 34 .. 347 • • 347 • • 341 Threes.. Passive 64 .. 6f .. 61 •• 61 Portuguese Five per Cents.. 461 • • 461 .. 467 • • 461 Neapolltan• • • ..... ..• 101 50 .. WI 90 .• 101 50 .. 101 90 Roman . 106 .. 106 106 106 AILWAY SHARES. St. Germain • • ...... 832 .. 832 50 • • 830 .. 831 50 Versailles, L. 8... ••• • • . 235 .. 235 .• 232 50 .. 232 50 Rouen .... ••..••••• • • • • • .. 962 50 .. 965 • • 962 50 .. 965 Rouen to Havre• • Orleans . 950 50 951 25 •• 950 •• 950 Strasburg to 8a1e.......... 277 50 .. 281 25 • • 277 50 • • 281 25 RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT. St. Germain •• .• .. Versailles, L. 8.•• •. •• Rouen ........ • • Rouen to Havre.• ••.• • Orleans . Strasbarg to Bale• . 230 ..2 85 • 277 50 • • 278 Mr. Humfrey, the barrister, has started for Wood stock, in opposition to the Marquis of Blanaford. The politics of Mr. Humfrey are Tory, and he is pre sumed to have the countenance and support of Mr. Thesiger's friends and of the Government. This is a very pretty quarrel, and one instance among many of the harmony which prevails in the Tory camp. The Government appoint a Solicitor-General who has no scat in the House, save dependent upon a Tory nobleman—the patron strikes for a rise in his wages, as the operative would say—a turn-out ensues —and then a Government candidate opposes the patron's son who seeks his patrimonial seat. We do not despair of seeing the Duke of Marlborough in the Radical ranks again. The Great North of EnglAnd Railway Company have recently made an offer to the Darlington and Newcastle Junction Company (whose line is about to be opened) to contract for supplying locomotive power and carriages of all descriptions for each train at Is. 3d. a mile. By this esti mate, ten third-class passengers, charged at the exorbi tant rate of lid. a mile, as on the London and Birmingham and other railways, would pay the expenses of a whole train, capable of conveying ECTCraI hundred passengers 1 THREE DAYS LATER FROM THE UNITED STATES. LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY MORNWG. A very remarkably quick passage from New York has just been completed by the packet ship Europe, Captain Furber. She left that city on the 3d inst., and has performed the entire voyage in somewhat less than sixteen days. We have received our usual files of the papers to the day of her sailing inclusive, but they contain little news of interest from the United States. The Nev York journals are full of surmises regarding the fate of the pending negotiations on the Oregon Territory . question and the annexation of Texas. It is stated that gr. Pakenham has assured the Government of the United States that England, under no circumstances, would receive Texas as a province or dependence of her own ; the New Fork Herald, however, says, "We learn from good authority that General Henderson has engaged a passage in the Acadia, which was to leave Boston on the Ist of 3lay for England. This indicates the course he is to pursue in the event of the failure of the mission to Washington. That he would go to England if he failed here we stated before. This merely confirms that statement. The proceedings of Con gress present nothing of interest to the English reader. Numerous petitions had been presented against any further a'Aeration in the tariff laws. The election of Gover nor of Connecticut has ended in the return of the Whig can didate by a majority of about seven or eight hundred over the locofocos; the Whigs have also carried both branches of the Legislature, which gives them a Senator. Mr. Calhoun, in a letter declining to accept a public compliment which some citizens of 'Charleston were desirous of offering to him, makes use of the following remarks :—" It is well known that I am the advocate of peace—peace with all, and especially with that great country from which we draw our origin, and of whose renown we well may be proud. There are no other two countries which can do more harm to each other, or con fer greater benefits; the one on the other. But as highly as I value peace, I hold it subordinate to the honour and just rights of the country; whilst, on the other hand, no consi deration shall induce me to sacrifice the peace of the country, by claiming more in the discharge of my duties than I shall honestly believe that the honour and rights of the country demand. Her true honour and interest consists, according to my conception, in claiming nothing but what is just and right, and in accepting nothing that is not." The accounts from Cape Haytien bring intelligence that the Spanish part of the island had revolted against the pre sent Government. The whole of the regular army, and all the national guard or militia, were nearly ready and under marching orders against the revolters. Fifteen hundred sol diers left Cape Haytien on the 13th, and about three thousand 'arrived on the 14th of March, on their way to the Spanish part. It appeared that the President was collecting all the effective force of that part of the island. One of King Christophe's officers, a black man, General Perrott, com manded that division, and arrived at Cape Haytien on the morning of the 14th. It was thought that there would be at least thirty thousand men march against the Spaniards ; and if the latter were well prepared, there woul4 probably be some fighting. What the result will be it is difficult to predict, but these movements have the effect to depress trade, and make the produce of the island extremely scarce and high. The well-informed at Cape Haytien think the revolu tion will be put down with very little trouble. Advices from Matanzas to the 28th March, state that the disaffection among the slaves is more general than it was at first supposed. ft is said that there about 3,000 slaves in irons in the different forts in the vicinity of Matanzas. Num bers are daily tried and immediately shot. A regiment of troops had just arrived from Havannah for the purpose of scouring the country. Business on some of the plantations is at a complete stand. Nothing of importance had been done in New York in fo reign bills since the departure of the Boston mail steamer. The rate of exchange on London was 108 to 104 ;_ on Paris, 5.28 g. A fair amount of business was done at the Stock Ex change. Cotton was in better demand ; there was less dis position to sell, and prices had somewhat improved. Flour was likewise in better request. THE LATEST COMMERCIAL NEWS. From the New York Courier and Inquirer, 3d April : The operations at the Board of Brokers this morning were to a fair extent. Pennsylvanian Fives advanced 1 per cent., Ohio Sixes 4, Illinois 4, Kentucky Sixes 4, Farmers' Loan 14, Canton Co. 4, Harlem Railroad 14, Utica Railroad 4, Long Island 4, and American Exchange Bank 4 per cent. At the Public Stock Exchange, Ohio Sixes improved 4 per cent., Harlem Railroad 4, Farmers' Loan 4, and Long Island Railroad 1 per cent. After the Board adjourned, $5,000 Kentucky Fives were sold by auction in the Merchants' Exchange at 90 per cent. ; $5,000 do. do. 89 per cent. Cotton.—Holders have shown less disposition to press sales this week, and there has been a fair demand ; prices have improved 4 a 4 cent. per lb. from the lowest point on Friday last. The sales of the last three days amount to 6,350 bales, of which 3,050 were Upland and Florida ; ordi nary to middling 74 a 74 cents., middling fair to fair 8 aB% cents., good fair to fine 84 a 9 cents. ; 3,300 Mobile and New Orleans, ordinary to middling 7% a 74 cents. per lb., middling fair to fair 84 a 94, good fair to line 94 a 104 cents. per lb. Western Flour is in better demand. About 2,000 barrels sold to-day at $4 94c., 500 of which were for export. Ohio is firm at $4 874 c. ; Georgetown and Baltimore Howard-st. $4 874 c. ; Michigan, $4 94c. ; Alexandria and Fredericks burg, $4 874 c. ; Richmond City Mills. $5 50c. ; Brandy wine, $5. Rve Flour, $3 124 c. a $3 23c.; Corn Meal, $2 50c. a $2 400 bushels Dutchess county Wheat fold at $1 Olc. ; 2,000 bushels of North River Corn at 50c. measure. Ashes are dull, $4 50c. is asked for Pots, and $5 for Pearls. 50 barrels Pots sold yesterday at $4 91e. Seeds are in fair demand. Sales of Clover are made at 94 a 10 and 10i cents., according to quality. Timothy, $l4 50c. a $l6. Rough Flaxseed, $9 75c. Pork is firm, and has an upward tendency. Mesa is held at $9 62c. ; Prime do. $7 25c , with sales. Beef is dull at former rates. Lard is in moderate demand at 6a 74 cents.— the latter price for city rendered. Butter and cheese are firm, and in request. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. (From The Sun of Saturday Evening.) The sales of Cotton at Liverpool, yesterday, were to a moderate extent, being 4,000 bales ; prices were steadier. Shares were dull, at previous rates.—Birmingham and Glou cester, 93 ; Eastern Counties, 13 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 66k ; Great Western, Half, 72 ; Caledonian, 5i ; Dublin and Cashel, sh; Birmingham, 230; Brighton, 44; Manchester and Birmingham, 50h ; Paris and Lyons, 21. 18s. 6d. The private commercial advices received from the United States to-day, are rather more satisfactory. Money was rather abundant. The provision trade was prosperous. The Stock Markets are rather more firm this morning. Consols for Money have touched 99k, and for the Account, 99k. Since these rates were paid, time bargains have been made at 998 4. Bank Stock has improved to 196 k. The Three-and-a-Half per Cents. of 1818 have just been sold at 102 k. This is the last day allowed for the holders of the Stock to assent to the plan of reduction. We are told that the holders of the 10,000,0001. of this stock have assented to within a mere fraction. The reduction of the Three-and-a-Half per Cents. may, therefore, be said to have been accomplished. In the value of Ex chequer Bills and India Bonds but a slight alteration in the premiums have occurred to- day. A small amount of business was transacted in the Foreign Stock Market to-day. Spanish has been rather firm at 25 ; the Three per Cents. at 36i ; Dutch at 60A for the Two • and. a-Half per Cents. ; Belgian at 1041 ; Brazilian at 803 ; and Mexican at 353. 11 slight tendency to decline was observable in the Rail way Share Market to-day, with but few exceptions. Aus tralian Bank Shares were sold at 3 premium. Australian Agricultural Company's Shares are at 10h discount. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL, 19.—We have had a steady market to-day, and a fair business transacted. The quotations are—Eastern Counties, 13k ; ditto, Regis tered, 15 ; Hull and Selby, Quarter Shares , 9 fr ; Manchester and Birmingham, 50A 51 and ; Midland Counties, Quarter Shares, 22a ; South-Eastern, New, 10 ; Norwich and Bran don, 7 9-16 ; Caledonian, stosh ; Scarborough Junction, 193 to h ; Union Bank of Manchester, 9h ; Manchester As surance, lei. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 98% IDitto Bonds .3 per Cent. Cons. 3% per Cent. Bei 102%. Ditto New Annuities... New 3% per Cent. 103% Ex. Bills, 1,0001. 1%d... 74 pm. New 5 per Cent. — Ditto 5001 Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 74 pm. Jan. 1860'... ...... .... 12 7.16 Bank Stock for Acct 196% Oct. 1859 Consols for Acct ..... .... 99% Jan. 1860 l2 11-16 - India Stock for Acct.... FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per Cent — ,Portuguese, 5 per Cent — Belgian, 5 per Cent 10 454 Ditto, New Ditto Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent... Russian, 5 per Cent 117% Chinon, 6 per Cent Colombian, 6 per Cent....... 15 Spanish, 5 per Cent 25% Ditto, 1824 Ditto, 3 per Cent 36% Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent 93 Ditto, Deferred Danish, 3 per Cent Greek, 18.5, 5 per Cent — Exchange —f. —c. Mexican, 5 per Cent ... ...... 354 French, 3 per Cent. —p. _.. c. Ditto, 6 per Cent., 183'7....... Dutch, 2% per Cent 60% P e ruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent SHARES. .. , Ditto, 5 per Cent 100% Birmingham and Derby (100 paid) 6l Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid) Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) 74 • Bristol and Gloucester (39 paid) Caledonian, 8 paid Dublin and Cashel (2% paid) Eastern Counties 'ald) Ditto Registere d ( 8 1 6 s Btl paid) Ditto, rerpelual 5 per' cent. (135.4 d. paid) Edinburgh and Glasgow (60 paid) 66 Great Western (75 paid) Ditto Fifths (12 paid) 19% Harwieh (Braithwaite) (2 paid) London and Birmingham s (Stock) . .. Ditto Quarter Shares ( 2 paid) 27 London and Blackwall (16/. 135 4di) 6 London and Brighton (50 paid) London and Greenwich (121. 15s. 4d. paid) 474 London and South Western (11/. 6s. 10d. paid) — Ditto Eighths (15s. paid) London and Croydon (Trunk) l7) Birmingham and Manchester 52 Midland Counties (100 paid) • Ditto Quarter Shares (15 paid) 22 Northern and Eastern (45 paid) Norwich and Brandon ( 2 paid) 7% South Eastern and Dover (3312 s 4d paid) Ditto New Shares ( 4 paid) York ,nd North Midland (50 paid) ll Ditto Half Shares (25 paid) Paris and Orleans (20 paid) .... : 7 Paris and Rouen (20 paid) s7g Rouen and Havre ( 8 paid) THE LAYS OF THE LAST GREAT SCOTTISH MINSTREL. —We understand that Mr. Templeton gives his new en tertainment " The Lays of the last Great Scottish Min strel, Sir Walter Scott," on Friday next, at the Hanover square rooms, under the patronage of his Royal High ness Prince Albert. The proceeds - of the evening's en tertainments are to be handed over to the Scott Monu ment Committee, Mr. Templeton adopting this appFo priate mode of testifying his admiration and respect for the memory of Sir Walter Scott. We fear that this is the last opportunity which the admirers of Templeton will have of hearing him during the present season, as we understand his numerous provincial engagements will completely engross his time during the remainder of the spring and summer. He has just returned from a very successful professional visit to Liverpool and its neighbourhood. FREDERICK THE GREAT ; HIS COURT ANDIRMES. EDITED BY THOMAS CAMPBELL , ESQ.—To many of our readers, and especially to such of them as may have been disappointed of procuring the highly meritorious work, lately ushered before the public by the distin guished author of " The Pleasures of Hope," containing memoirs of the Life and Times of Frederick the Great, it will be, we doubt-not, a welcome piece of information that a new and - much cheaper edition has just issued from the press, c omprised in a couple of small volumes. This is certainly a work which rivals almost any in our language in the deep and varied interest of its contents, and especially in the rich picture which it exhibits of the mind and person, of the vpinions and actions, of the splendid achievements and pacific labours, of the habits and manners, not excepting the foibles and eccentricities, of the most renowned Sovereign, and most reimizkable wan of the age in which he lived, SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Vttiatr Optittotv. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. The King of the French visited St. Cloud on Tuesday after noon, and inspected the works which are in progress. After taking a walk in the park, his - Majesty returned to the Tuileries to dinner. In the evening their Majesties received . _ the Neapolitan Ambassador, the President of the Chamber of Peers, General Bellonet, the Prince and Princess Pigna telli, the Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry, and Lady Alexandrina Vane, &c. Lord Brougham left Paris on Wednesday for London. The marriage between Mdlle. Gabrielle Dumont, daughter of the Minister of Public Works, and M. Gustave Trubert, auditor of the Council of State, was solemnised on Wednesday, at the church of St. Thomas d'Aquin, by the Bishop of Beauvais. All the Ministers, a great many peers, deputies, and members of the Council of State, were present at the ceremony. The preliminary examinations into theinfamous transac tions in the Rue du Pot de Fer Saint Marcel, called after the Thar de Nesle, have been carried on without interruption. On Tuesday four more persons were arrested as accomplices. The number now in custody is no less than 28. The administration of the indirect taxes has published a report showing the produce and consumption of beet-root sugar in France, from the commencement of the present year to the end of March, and the duties received :—There were 325 manufactories at work, being 59 less than at the like period of 1843. The amount of the sugars in hand from' the last year, and the quantities made in this quarter was 30,700,000 kilogrammes , being 2,000,000 kilos. less than in the correspondig period of 1843. The quantity delivered for consumption was 24,300,000 kilos., or 339,000 kilos. more than in the first three months of 1843. The duties paid amounted to 3,488,000 f., being 590,000 f. more than iu 1843. The kilogramme is equal to 2 1-sth lb. English. The Semaphore de Iliarseilles of the sth inst. contains a letter from Algiers on the 10th, announcing that the grand expedition to the East was to leave on the 19th, under the orders of Marshal Bugeaud. Another column, under Colonel Eynard, will operate in the mean time to the south of Teniet- We find the following in the Moniteur Algerien :—" While our columns were engaged in watching the west and south of Tlemcen, working at the same time on the Sebdou and Alla Maghina roads, Abd-el-Kader, with between 400 and 500 horsemen from the frentier 4 tribes, and nearly 140 regulars, made a detour, and, crossing the desert country. of the Djaffry, fell suddenly upon the Beni Salimans, a fraction of the Beni Amers, who had incautiously encamped at Mesid, out of the line prescribed to them. Several of the douars were razed to the ground, their flocks and herds carried off, and the men, women, and children, who could not escape, massacred. By these terrible acts the Emir hopes to regain his lost power." The last accounts from Rome announce that the senior mem ber of the Holy Conclave, Cardinal Pacca, had received the last sacraments, and was not expected to survive many days. The Cardinal was born on the 25th of December, 175 G, and consecrated in 1801 by Pius VII. The King of Prussia has forwarded the order of the Black Eagle to the Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha. A letter from Munich states that the King of Bavaria will set out for Italy on the oth of next month. According to a letter from Warsaw, of the Bth, in the Uni versal German Gazette, the Emperor of Russia was expected there in the course of le month, but nothing is said of an in tention on the part of his Majesty to visit Germany. LAW AND POLICE. The Wills Forgery case closed at the Old Bailey, by the conviction of all the parties implicated. Barber appeared to be confident of an acquittal. Mr. - Crook and Mr. Moses Nathan, two gentlemen who are in the habit of attending the purlieus of the;Stock Exchange, were charged at the Guildhall with disorderly behaviour in the space between Capel-court and the Bank. There had been a quarrel between them, arising out of some transaction in Spanish Funds, and the interference of the bystanders was required to prevent them coming to blows. Mr. Alderman Johnston exacted from each gentleman a promise that there should be no further breach of the peace, and dismissed them, recommending an arbitration of the dispute. John Ireland Blackburn, Esq., M.P. for Warriugton, waited upon the Magistrate at Queen-square to intercede in behalf of Mary Laing, who was held to bail on Tuesday for creating a disturbance at that gentleman's house. She had formerly lived in the establishment as housemaid, and had been charged about a month ago with annoying a lady xelated to Mr. Blackburn, when she was ordered to enter into her own recognisances. This, however, did not havethe effect of keeping her quiet, and on the occasion of her visit to Mr. Blackburn's it was found necessary to call in the police to secure her. The woman was sent for from Tothill-fields Bridewell, and on making a promise not to repeat her con duct, was discharged. Thomas Jones, alias Bradshaw, was finally examined at Lambeth-street on a charge of embezzling 245., the property of Mr. John Barrett, his master, and committed for trial. Ellen• Kelly, a young woman in the, service of Mrs. Wilson. of Camberwell, recently deceased, was charged at Union Hall with stealing plate, decanters, and wearing articles of linen, and other property, belonging to her late mistress. She was remanded. Thomas Robson Bone, the master of the ship Robert Watt, appeared before Mr. Ballantine at the Thames Police-office, to answer a claim for double pilotage, preferred by Mr. James Paton. The amount sued was for -15/. 14s. 6d. Mr. Paton, in his capacity of pilot, had boarded the vessel while getting under weigh, and offered his services, which were refused, and the amount was therefore sued for under the Pilotage Act. The magistrate enforced the penalty. COURT—rasicxqzranzp. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert are expected to be absent from the royal residence at Windsor for a period of upwards of five months; indeed, until the end of September, or the commencement of the month of October next. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, who will take her departure for the Continent, accompanied by their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians, on Thursday next, will be absent from England for a period of about three months. The Ditke of Redford, the Earls of Chesterfield and Glas gow, the Hon. Colonel Anson, and many of the leading sport ing noblemen and grntlemen, proceed to Newmarket, on Monday, to attend the Spring Meeting. The Marchioness of Normanby is expected at the Claren don Hotel, where the Marquis is staying, on Monday next, from MulgTave Castle, near Whitby, for the season. The Hon. William Maule, youngest son of Lord Panmure, and brother to the Right Hon. Fox Maule, was married at Edinburgh, on Tuesday last, to Miss Binny, daughter ,of Binny, Esq. The Duchess of Hamilton returned to Hamilton Palace on Tuesday last, from Holyrood House. The Marquis and Marchioness of Douglas are shortly expected to proceed to Brodrick Castle, in the Isle of Arran, where his Lordship, we hear, intends to construct a spacious new mansion. The Duke of Rutland left town on Friday for Southampton. On Monday his Grace goes to Newmarket. Baron Le Couteuil de Mohay, Mons_ De Glassenass, Aide-, de-Camp to his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Russia, Prince Zurlo, and Prince Sans Severo and suites, &c., have arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, Jertnynlstreet, Win the Continent. • . IVEXSCZLIGANEOITS., The importation of fat cattle from Scotland is on the in crease. On Friday the Dundee steamer arrived at Hore's wharf; from Dundee, with a considerable number of first and second cabin passengers, and an extensive cargo, consisting of 110 live fat cattle, four valuable horses, 80 boxes of river 'fay salmon, upwards of 10 tons of pork, beef and mutton, and a large quantity ofmanufactured goods, &c. On Tuesday the Duke of Wellington arrived from Aberdeen, with no fewer than 125 live fat oxen, 20 tons of killed meat, and nearly 200 boxes of salmon. The Police Gazette contains additional infermation touching the incendiary fire upon the premises of Richard Lacy, Esq., at Braintree, Essex, on the Bth instant. A reward of 1001.1 s offered for the discovery of the incendiaries; and it is stated further, that in addition to the rewards offered for the dis covery and apprehension of the authors of either of the three fires at Roynelodge, on the 16th ult., in the Coggeshall-road, on the 18th, and at Braintree, on the Bth inst., her Majesty's pardon will be given to any accomplice (except only the actual incendiary), for such information as will lead to the apprehen sion of the principals. Her Majesty's surveying steam-vessel Fearless, Captain Sherringham, commenced surveying the Southampton water on Wednesday week, and has marked_ out mile stations for placing buoys all down the southern coast of the river. There has been -no survey under Government orders since that of 111'lienzie in 1783. The Earl of Egmont, who has become an extensive landed proprietor in Sussex by the purchase of the Cowdry estate, qualified as a magistrate for the western division last week. RAILWAY RETURNS. We extract from the Railway Magazine the sums received on the principal Railways of Great Britain for the week ending on the day of the month prefixed to each. The return includes the money received for passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, mails, and mer chandise:— Total. Week Name of Railway. ended £. a. d. April 13 Arbroath and Forfar ll7 11 6 13 Birmingham and Derby Junction 1,476 14 0 12 Birmingham and Gloucester 2,229 6 4 Brandling Junction — 12 Chester and Birkenhead 558 8 7 16 Dublin and Kingstown 896 3 2 14 Dundee and Arbroath 222 0 1 13 Durham and Sunderland 322 7 3 13 Edinburgh and Glasgow 2,209 6 10 14 Eastern Counties and North Eastern 4,474 11 7 13 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr 1,334 3 0 13' Glasgow and Greenock 7ll 19 10 13 Grand Junction 7,607 0 9 13 Great North of England 1,518 6 0 14 Great Western 12 Liverpool and Manchester 13 London and Birmingham 18 London and Blackwall 774 13 4 13 London and Brighton 16 London and Croydon 18 London and Greenwich 758 9 10 14 London and South Western ....... 11 Manchester, Bolton and Bury 866 15 4 13 Manchester and Birmingham 3,425 13 0 13 Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc 6,533 7 6 13 Midland Counties 13 Newcastle and Carlisle 1,300 12 2 14 Newcastle and North Shields 378 11 10 13 North Midland 4,429 0 3 12 North Union and Bolton and Preston 1,371 16 5 9 Paris and Orleans 5,418 0 0 15 Paris and Rouen 4,610 0 0 13 Preston and Wyre 233 12 8 13 Sheffield and Manchester 792 18 5 18 South Eastern 13 Tall Vale 14 Ulster 707 0 11 13 York and North Midland CA.MILLO SIVORI'S CONCERT.--This celebrated violinist gave a morning concert on Friday at the Hanover . square Rooms, and met with a most rapturous reception. He never played more finely. The certainty-of his intonation and the delicate finish of his execution seemed to electrify the members of the orchestra as much as the company. He executed the first movement of Paganini's concerto of tre mendous difficulty, the prayer from Mose, on the fourth string, with variations, and the " Carnival de Venise." In all these pieces he displayed varied powers, and was tremen dously cheered. There was an excellent orchestra, con ducted by Tolbecque. The vocalists Were Miss S. Novelle, Miss E. Lucombe, Madlle. Frassi, and Mr. Weiss ;. but there was nothing remarkable in the selection. Madlle. Frassi sang fearfully out of tune, but that appears to be regarded as a beauty in these days. Miss Day executed with some talent Weber's concert Stuck, but it is a work which overtaxed her powers. FLANDERS AND DUTCH-MAILS" BRUSSELS, APRIL 17.—The average price of w i j e/ last week was 17f. 39c., and that of Rye 10f. 71e. per hectolitre. The import and export duties, therr fore, remained as they have been for several Weel's past. ti The A letter from Antwerp, of the 15th, say s numerous ships that arrive I, yesterday, from Ws voyages, gave our port a very animated appeara li C e ; Among them were three from the Havannah, from Monte Video, one from Buenos Ayres , °Pe fIL Rio de Janeiro, one from New Orleans, two frvgl New Orleans, and one from Savannah. In consequence of the ordinance of the -IWO , Government against speculation in railways? the r ." 1; ject of a railway, in competition with the R railway, has been abandoned. "The Provincial Board of the iron railway PrAre jetted between Cologne and Creveld, informs public, through the medium of the Cologne Gaeuei that, in consequence of the notice of the Minister e Finance, dated the 11th of this month, the condi tions on which it has received subscriptions to this rail have become ineffectual, and it has, therefore,. reieikto heims to declare those subscriptions null and void , a n release the subscribers from their engagelnen t s But," adds the Committee, "We do not r enal ? the hope of seeing the importance of an undertalani recognised, and we leave subscribers the optioe.f. taking part till the 10th of May in the expensesof preliminary works by the payment of sums, the 7, e ceipts from which will entitle them to take part in w s . deliberations and the resolutions which will ben el:, sary when the authorisation shall have been ob taineu, o It seems that their Majesties will not return i l l Lacken so soon as was expected, and that they W not leave England till the 23d of this month. . 0 The Duchess of Kent and the Prince of Leining,'o; " her son, will come to Ostend in the same steam s brings their Maes. fine weather which we have had for some ti t ° past has quite effaced the traces of the inundations 1.1,1, which the country suffered so severely, and the 1;1„ counts from all quarters speak in the most fav ours 4 manner of the forward state of the labours of farmers. d the AMSTERDAM, APRIL 18.—Their Majesties all, Royal Family are still here. The King gives dience every day, and the Princess, as well a s ; be r Prince of Orange, take advantage of fine wea' to visit different institutions, and make excursion the environs. tar Yesterday between twelve and one o'clock, a - to rible fire suddenly broke out hi the English maga„, il e d of Kerckhoff and Co., near the palace. There ne a r . reason to fear that the fire would extend to the nei,,,.g e y bouring buildings; however, it was most fortuneiv confined to the magazine, which is wholly clestref,: The magistrates of Amsterdam have ordered 5 neral collection to be made for the relief an of thehl g j ferers by the fire at Alsmeer. From n o d statement of the loss occasioned by this fire that the whole amounts to 167,701 florins, ia "74 ings, furniture, merchandise, bcc. which wer e " insured to the amount of 56,140 &ins. the The statement of the amount subscribed to t o. voluntary loan by the several provinces is now i)E d lished. The province of North Holland s ubset 0 1 about 54,000,000, South Holland 27,000, 0°1 _, of. the other provinces the remainder of the sli A '"bi 117,000,000, which, with the 10,000,000 ache the King to his first subscription, made up the of 127,000,000 florins that was required. 1 4! THE HAGUE, APRIL 18.—TheHandelsblad "We learn that measures are preparing I n P ied offices of the Department of Finance to be °ola into execution, by way of refusal, if Belgium sP o id adopt the proposal to lay on colonial produce et c yd from the Netherlands a heavier duty than is '" O 9 , on the same articles imported directly from the tries which produce them." This article has induced the following no tice O s l o the Journal de Bruxelles :—" This threat iabays sh serious. We have already said, and we akberti occasion to prove, that Belgium is perfectly 00 to introduce a commercial system adopted by .. - re • all nations, and that Holland will in no cam:lll°6o. prisals. May the Chambers and the Belgi an yernment be fully sensible of these truths." tb The Journal de Bruxelles seems to consi.,.e article to the Handelsblad as a threat on the 17, 00 i• the Government. This is an error. We kn e ` [ O O tively that it did not emanate from any Miljoidi department. The Government of the Ne ther ybs never threatens, but it is watchful, and wheal, 1 0 Journal de Bruxelles may say, it will 'not he ee ted' act in case the interest of Holland should he Is it necessary to add, that with respect to Pe it a vo we have abundant means of making reprisals ? ..tion of our neighbours forgotten how large a proP ° VW Belgian produce exported comes to Holland • btr need quote only one article, namely, that of eig six per cent. on all the calicoes. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LawnoN, APRIL 20.—Light breeze at N.W., and eloo Ud DEAL, APRIL W.—Wind E. to S. E. , variable an,,,ll:iftaj: rate.—Arrd. Mona Milligan, Launceston; Duke 'bum' Calcutta; Antelope, Fleetwood, Batavia for Goal,"Sid. Sid. Acorn, Trinidad; Emanuel, New York; Ilrlttonfiyotk Quebec; Friends, Metis. Ord. Homely, Ballia; deer, Jamaica. MILFORD, APRIL 18.—Sid. Tamerlane, Quebec., WHITBY, APRIL 18.—Sid. Britain, Quebec. I . o'' ABERDEEN, APRIL 17.—Sld. Queen Victoria, Sir lace, and Brilliant, Quebec. A; r eMl OFF DovEn, APRIL 19.—Johanna, Meyer, nee° - be ea , for Rotterdam, with loss of bowsprit, & c., having_ w ith v contact last night at the back of the Goodwin Sloth' , American ship. Engleborough,Mear, China. Arendt Dee n o OFF lIA.STINGS, APRIL 19.—Amphitrite, hey Ayres for Antwerp.,xi, I,VXAV PORTSMOUTH, APRIL b. Majesty's ship Thames, from Bermuda. 3 .1 r SLMOUTII, APRIL 19.—Wind N., light.—w' La Guayra. • Afr ic'l' BRISTOL, APRIL 19.--Acrd. Tom Cod, Everett, Sld. Lockwoods, Quebec. limnusir, APRIL 16.—S1d. Ann Moore, Quebec; 13° ° St. Jo LlV hn's, New Brunswick. ERPOOL, APRIL 19.—Wind N.W., Brace, Park. and Reliance, Cargill, Maracaibo .24fAl ' l ast' Inglis, Charleston ; Europe, Furber, New York to".tefooci, Abigail, St. John's, New Brunswick. Sld. Hibernit; o"e ' Halifax; Argylslaire, Bay Chaleur ; Victory, Qu e , t iona ct r t, nare, Newfoundland. Off, Lybia, Africa ; Vere, th is r v e, and William, —. The Balfour, from Mobile te.__o,storm., has put into Matanzas, with loss of cutwater and now having been in contact with the Wabush, bound t.rf..ooo'iro leans. The Jane Ritchie, M'Clachlan, hence to 'nos ° , 0 was ashore 14th ult. in the bight of the Canal 7 o f ego (Cuba), bilged, and likely to become a wreck; 40. ,tr expected to be saved. -self ; i loc' CORE, APRIL 17.--Sid. 'St. Vincent, SydneY , o' Wales. Arrd. Caledonia, Rawlinson, Jamaica. „Lt an o' Heim, west coast of Africa for Leith, WA Woodpec ker, TßßFOßD W , i 8. Sid. Eliza, Hal if axl APRIL lliams, Cuba for Loudon. H a lifax ; Cor n l e a ' 1u Dispatch, Don, and Thistle, Quebec; Rotchfordp „te land. . . - COWES, ISLE OF WIG0'11" A APRILL YAClH9T.—SpheUAgpnßerOalNm (Mold OUR OWN coRRISFONDESIO,v•Iahe 1 .6 COWER, o f the r b o iv o i of Houseth YachteßToayvaelrn,oil Saturday,Sqadon will the tialktehpolfacßei aaytritirlleberecoairbfee;oscie:oy leNetlin'EgliLl'l''llcll3-h' eii candidates will beballotted for as members. eleven or twelve gentlemen proposed as honorary r a n ci d 1",,1 be The, other__ meetings are held at Cowes the see ° ';., vi11,% 0 0 iu July, and the second Friday in August. VI - , e1,e 6 ,0 - eo this year an additional meeting in September for tl7, eit tin t ig of candidates ; this will be a great acquisition to sroter et o t w h l e io s m qu a lv y i l r i o ar p p e u ev re io h u as s ed th y p a r c o h e t e s e , d a i n n d g f u ee p l d t e h s e iv; i l e s d l t efil li p Ac 1 t• during the winter season. The general impression is that there will be a bll flic ‘p ol ing season, and it bids fair- to be the best on record.,, o, l' a ile(l gatta will take place in August ; and there will b' pe 'lo' three, cups given by the Royal Yacht Squadron, t o ap of bot ai for during that month, besides her Majesty's 1 015 guineas; the latter will he sailed for on her nee ger, the Duchess of Kent's birthday, the 17th Augus' b, is ",es' The Noble Commodore, the Earl of DerivedYarborug 10. ping at the Club-house. His Lordship has , lobs benefit in his health from the effects of the sea ut te r, f „el . ' On Wednesday the Royal Yacht Squadron ei''', - 1, 1 35. .e1 ° of Yarrrow, again resumed her element from Mr. Ato to yard, where she had been hauled up and leogtbl3,)lielligic• feet amidship. The alteration has been nle de fol ii rti fc ° ,, afford greater accommodation for his LordshiP's to 1701/ , ' flie Marquis of Conyngham has been frequelltlloo l'_,,te superintending the refitment. The intention ° L.,. O v id Marquis to have her converted into a schooner, 1 ,"' lli oe r i t 7e o sent, has been abandoned, and she will retain thef lav e d o o d i before, with the exception that the sPars te r, 0 , 7.1 ,7' lengthened in proportion. She is a splen did cut 000 adineasures, 182 69-94 tons by old measurenien ' ' 0 1 ; 114 1716-3500 tons. F igott i t n t 0 The Ganymede, belonging to J. IL W. S. ~r t l, Iv . t. , was hauled up on Thursday in Mr. Ratsey's4. 4 o.Y r t purpose of having a thorough overhaul and re 1t !26-96-tol, Colonel Petre's new cutter, the Osprey, of Via,"'ci tit - 0 t°g and 41 3492-3660 tons N.M , will be laune° o f 0 (0 0 these spring tides ; and Mr. Hop will be launched from the same yard during ti le p ot i tides. aO, 1 v 0 1 Mr. Lyon's new schooner, building in Len -° off named. ht, solo ill The Marquis of Conyngham's new iron yacht' iell fp P 0' 35 tons, is nearly ready for sea. ( Iro os 8 0 0 e's Zephyret net .T et The Commodore of the Royal Yacht Squa a t, ps yacht Kestrel, is to be hauled up on il anse tious . early next month, to undergo extensive a1te!?,,,... 0. 4 1 FASHIONABLE INTELLIGE-Ini 1.4 ". , Sir Richard and Lady Rycroft are entertip,r oosembolii borough and a party of fashionables at °Atli-11,0,-e `_ glo p ' Lady Isabella Blachford's establishinen_vve'rose ice! House this month, that her Majesty may ha , t or t ile the Ist of May. berv. , lis,, .„ Adels lue l'o` 0 6 ' Egypt House, Gothic Hall, Beach Villa, _ ii -vill To 0 1 The following houses are let, but mostly for 5 ..1 11 ` 411 0 Y 7th and Bth Cottages, Trafalgar ,tin House gr. le , s g s ' 1:1 0 " t i ol o Oak Hill House, Nos. and Parade,th 13 „ o n of ~,<•' bend's house on the South Gran"ving lis,il several smaller ones. From the num bers_?,l% . l l , s o- I ,ol‘ ,..e r e j, there is every prospect of an early and f,lt,', Cove? ,06" - pected that eleven of the new villas in I ,3 '," st bers lo ' t i , be finished this summer; there are ins-',, above eeft ______.-- - - ---------- ",„,, 0 , the bits,. e th e TliE MARSIIALSEA PRISON.----P'74/1011 At tofwer son has been sold, a great number of INol,_,ng it , _ iit e t iio employed in repairing the intent.a nle_k"of tb e r, y e t 0. ,, A reception of tenants, it being the .V 1 o trq , e `', li d,Tet, to divide it into separate tenements. 1,, 1 , 5 id„ , ,,,475.: Do houses will be up Chapel-court, on the north in iD ) , I, :, 0' ~g court next to Walmesley's, the on the south. A portion of the walls ( ( c.. s l-i ne sbv i t; se , v oi a , A lian,t Q.. taken down for that purpose. er nor's 911 pc built in High-street, in front of the G e o\ _ uses w will be let with it. The name of the Pt' shalsea-buildings. pawnbrolz...oo7:ol 5_1,,0)5 nll, on .1..,,. ,