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g for publication, in one large vol., Syo., BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY A', ALL LIVING NAVAL OFFICERS. By WILLIAM R. O'BYRNE, Esq. This Important work, which has long occupied the attention of the Author, will comprise a Memoir of the Life and Services of every Officer holding a commission in her Majesty's Navy, from the rank of Admiral of the Fleet, to that of Lieutenant inclusively. In furtherance of his arduous undertaking, the Author earnestly solicits each officer who has not yet favoured him with information, to apply, either personally or by letter, at his residence, 9, Doughty street, Russell-square, for a Formula, containing the list of inquiries liceemary to be answered. Henry Colbarn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. . THE CURRENCY QUESTION. Thia day, price 2a., AN INQUIRY into the PRACTICAL WORE - Ing of the PROPOSED AEIIANGEMENTS for the NEWAL of the CHARTER of the HANK of ENGLAND, and the REGULATION' of the CURRENCY. With a REFUTATION of the FALLACIES advanced by Mr. TOOK. By R. TORRENS, Esq. Smith and Elder, Cornlllll. THE DAYS OF QUEEN ELIZABETH. Just ready, HELDEBB A N D; OR, THE DAYS OF QUEEN ELIZABETH. By.the Author of " The King's Son." Loudon : John , 3fortimor, Adelaide•street, Trs.falgar-square. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. • THIS EVENING, MAY IS. Will be performed Herold's Chef d'oivre, Z A MPA. Carnilli, Madame Persianl; Rita, Madame Bellini ' • Zampa. Sig nor F • sttalllr Alfonso, Signor Corelli ; Daniel Capussi, Signor 1.. Lablache ; and Dandola, Signor Lablacbe. Toconciu‘le with the Grand• Ballet,: in Six Tableaux, by M. Perrot, ent It led ONDiNE, ou, LA NAIADS. The Scenery tv Mr. W. Grieve. The music composed by Signor Pnini. Principal claracters by Mdlle. Cerito, Mdlle. Scheffer, Mille. Fee. &nand. Mdlle. Plunkett Mdlle. Barville , and Mdlie. Adelaide Yeassi; M. Perrot, M. Montassu, and M. St. Leon. Applications for Boxes,. Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box Office, Opera Colonnade. Doors open at Seven. The Opera will commence at Haltpast Seven. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Nobility , Subscribers to the O p era, and the Public, are re. apectfuily informed that there will be an extra Night (not tncluded In the Subscription) on THURSDAY NEXT, May 16, when will bo performed Mozart's chef dceuvre IL DON GIOVANNL Donna Anna, Madame Grisi ; Donna Elvira,'Mdlle. Favanti; Zerlina. Madame Fersiani ; Don Giovanni, Sig. Fornasari • Le potelle, Sig. Lablache ; Ma setto, Si g . F Lablache ; II Cornman datore, Sig. Felice ; and Don Ottavio, Sig. Mario. .To conclude with ALMA. Alma. Madame Cerito. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and 'tickets to be made at the Box. *like, Opera-colonnade. THEATRE ROYAL. DRURY-LANIL THIS EVENING, MAY 14 Will be repeated A New Grand Opera entitled THE BRIDES OF VENICE. Count Atberto, Mr. VV. Harrison • Count Onto Soranzo, Mr. r.otrani ; Naiiina, Mrs. Alfred . Shaw; deraldo, Mdlle. Alberts:A; Francesca, Mims Romer. Te conclude with the revive d Grand Fairy Ballet, entitled THE REvoLr OF THE. HAREM. Mahornet, Mr. Howell; Ismael. M..Silrain ; Myssout, Mr. W , H. Payne, Zulma, Mdlle. Lucile Grahn • Zelika,- hfdlle. Clara Webster ; The Genius of the Harem, Mediae Giubilei: ' „ THEATRE ROYAL. HAYMARKET.' MK. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSEE. THIS EVENING, MAY 14, Wilt bis performed a New Comic Drama, entitled USED UP. Sir Charles Cqldstream, Bart., Mr. Charles Mathews; Sir Adonis Leech, Mr tilliury; Wurzle. Mr. James Bland; Mary, Miss Julia Bennett ; Lady'Clutterbuck, Mn.s Humby. After which, a New Comic Drama, entitled GRIST TO THE MILL. Marquis Iticheville, Mr. Charles Mathews; Francine , Madame Vestris. To be followed bin New, Original, Occasional, and Local Eatra. iraganza, founded on Fact. entitled THE DRAMA AT HOME; or, An Evening with Puff: Principal Characters by Mr. C. Mathews, Mr. J. Bland, Mr. Caulliekl, Mrs. Glover, Miss P. Horton, and Miss Lee. To conclude with a New Farce. entitled LOVE IN A SACK. ----- • PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD.STREHL • LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. • THIS EVENING, MAY 14i . Will be repeated a New Comic Opera, -; entitled CROWN DIAMONDS. Count de Campo Mayor, Mr. Welts; Don Hen riques de Sandoval, Mr.. Allen; Reboilelo, Mr. Paul Bedford; La Catria,a; Madame Anna Thillon; Diana, Mils U rant. To be (allowed by a New Farce, called CU I' FOR PARTNERS. To conclude with MY WIFE'S SECOND FLOOR. PRINCES'S THEATRE. OXFORD-STREET. FOR TILE BENEFIT OF NI R. GILBERT AND MISS BALLIN. THICK'S DAY EVENING, MAY 16, • Will be. presented: Shakspeare's Play of AS YOU LIKE IT. Jaques, Mr, Phelps ;• Mr. Allen ; Orlando, Mr. Walter Lacy ,• Rosalind Miss.DninaStaulkv ; Audrey, Mrs. F. Matthews. Herr Srancligl wit sing " OtWßuedier th n the Cherry." To befatldwed by the New k aree7rf - CUT FOR PARTNER'. Ts conehille 'with TH E SOMNAMBULIST ; or, The . Village Phan. ton ;, Elvin°, Mr. tillbert Amine, Miss Bailin. THEArRIC ROY'. L LYCEUM, LAZE ENGLISH .OPEttA. :ROUSE. • Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. THIS. EVENING, MAY.I4,- Will ,be repeated as original" C'putic Drama, enbeed THE THREE WIVES OF .1A DRID.i Pritvioal Characters by Messrs. s. Keeley, Diddear. F. ...atthews, Emery, 'Wigan. C Turn YarnWd, Miss . Woolgar, Mi s s Fairbrother , Miss Grove, Miss Turner, Mrs. Wigan, and M... Mccley. After which, will be pi ocluced a new Comic Drama, called THE LOVE BIRDS. l'srucipal Charscters by . Messrs. , F. Mathews, Younge, Mrs. tA oall,gc, Mrs. Usher, Miss .f aubrother, Miss Chaplin. Miss Grove, and Miss r ort..,seue. To be followed by in Apropos Bagatelle. called POLK AMANIA Characters by Mr. Y. Matthews, Mr. Wigan, Mr. Keeley, Miss Woolgar, and Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with G•aa I Burle'que Fairy Extravaganza, called OPEN SESAME; or. r Night with the Forty Thieves. Cha, meters by Miss Woulgar, Miss E. Chaplin , M rs. Woellid g e, Miss Turner, Miss Grove. MIT.. Wigan, Miss 'James, Miss Fairbrother, sod-Mrs. Keeley, Messrs. F. Mathews, Turner. Younge, Wigan, Yarnold, and Chaplin. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BATTY. :nod Attraction. 1 HIS KVENING. MAY 14, - WM be repeated the Hs.tot !cat Spectacle of the INVASION OF ENGLAND BY WILL 'THE CONQUEROR; or, the Deaththe , of Harold, Sec. "- Entire Change of th . z Splendid Scenes of the Circle. To conclude' with tl.e Oriental Spectacle of THE SECRET MINE; or, the 11.ndoos o' the Ruby Cliffs. , • The doors will open nightly at six o'clock, and the performances commence at seven. Box-ottice ope ned dail y from ten till four. The private boxes have been re, , onstructed and decorated with care and splendour. • - • Acting and stagen viager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. Oa Monday, May 20, IL Plege will re-appear, for the last week of We Engagement, and will take his Benefit on Ff iday, May 2s. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY 'CHEAT RE. THIS EVENTING MAY 14, Will be performed a New Drama, entitled HUGH, THE GIPSY. Supported by htessrs. E. F. Saville, li. Haghes, R. Honner, Neville, We, Mrs. H. Vining, Miss Terrey, and Mrs. Lewis. After which, a Domestic Drama, entitled BROKEN HOME. To conclude with a New Piece for the MWion, entitled LA POLKA. • THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL OPEN EVERY EVENING. WO the astounding Wonders of the Extraordinary Being the GREAT WIZARD OF THE NORTH, and the ARAB BROTHERS. aged seven, nine. 'and twelve years of age, whose Clas-ic Groupings, and Surprising Featsof Strength, are the theme of general admiration. A Trick worth Knowing! How to fill a Theatre by Magic! This is the Fourth Season of the Great Deltisionist in London! Hs has completed the Thirtieth Night of his present Season I His' Miraelea have been witnessed by tipwa:ds of nve Hundred Thou. sand.Spectatcnsi still his• Magic Temple is nightly hononred with most brilliant and crowded audience: ; thus proving to the world the *XII sing suPerlority of his unparalleled Entertairmients. He nightly excites the astonishment of Hundreds, by his Scientific Experi ments ; the peculiar effect of which beggars description. His new Delusions, THE FLYING RINGS. and THE ENCHANTED MAT, are wonders which have no equal: !. And, Novelty being at present the rage, the GREAT WIZARD intends MAKING A WITCH! Therefore, any Ltriyi desirous of appearing as the Great Witch, in conjuitction with the Great Wizard., is informed, that the latter will be happy to initiate bet in the Mysteries of his Art.—A French, German, or Italian Lady wo uld g be preferred. Boxes, 35.; Pit. Is. ' ficl.; Gallery, ed. Reserved Seats, and Private Boxes can be secured at the theatre. and of all the Agents. becond"Price at Nine o'clock. Wort open at Half -past Seven. -the Wizard appear* at ,Faiht. EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY. • IMPORTANT NOTICE'. ONE SHILLING Admission to TILE NAPOLEON MU MUM, the moat magnificent .and extensive COileetion , of Histo ric* Curiosities and Works of Art ever known to have been formed byline Person: daring .Twenty-live years of elaborate tese areb, at a . lest of .60,000 guineas; and to completely illustrate, in the most in- _ 'etritetive and Interesting manner, the most important part of Euro- • Teen history, v12,- , —CiLtRLES 1., OLIVER CROMWELL, and .1 4 OUIR. XIV., to the deaths. of. GEORGE 111.,^euni-the EMPEROR ,ICATPLIION; lit is'll, This uniquo Museum has.been visited Often. during the last and present year, by the Royal .Esunily. the Duke of Wellington, the ..Foreign Princes, Ambassadors, and their Ladies, • 'also' many thousands of the' Nobility and Public; and the Pro pristor b:is recently been able to increase, by several very fine pictures, &e.. his Previous almost incredible number. and variety of . Ns!4., Works of Art, .and a multitude of valuable Relies, and other sntriosities, in this most . instructive and, as' hundreds have said it ought to be, a National Museum. Many thousand have inspected it, jnd THIRTY PRINCIPAL EDITORS of the PUBLIC PRESS' , %Lave stated test it ought to be seen by every one: The price of admis den is redticed to ONE SHILLING. • • • The NAPOLEON MUSEUM. is to be.seen only: sit the," Egyptian HO." rieeadilly, daily from 3en till Dusk. THE WEATHER,SCW OFFICE, MAY 13. TIMILMOBIETER, Lowest, 48 ; Highest, 68; NooiP 68 • RATIOMETER, E.N.E. Narg.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the ffeezing point; and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is winally placed opcsoite 30, and rain at 29. - - - • WWI WATER AT LONDON:BRIDGE TUN DAT. after 0.• Morning ... 0 minutes after 0 Evening ... II- minutes , , 1... • • ''-i. ~, . . i . 11 .1.114 i ., "--/ ;,z ;T, r . ~,.;: t....' - . .4016 • .‘,... , , ) ,!..-- . kink, ..; 11 40 0 . ,. : . ,-; •. • - ~.:411111 0 t . 1 - 1 ;" , ~-.. e• • $.1.1 '-. p ... 7 1101*,,,. :1:( 1. ' . ' ~,,, ....,,,,,,,,,. ... ; • ~..- ilrlirfr. .0 .1. , -I' - • :.• .' • - W. ~.. - ~ at., -4 - 346: 216 6e ;.!.•,,, 4r . MO S : r d .. ~, ..0 - 'RO IT 41h, ...i *, . . - ... , 1 . 4 . ., _W . ..., •,, ~. A • •••:;‘,—' , . • ; t.* ,OTlfilin LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1844. In the House of Lords, Lord Bap GUAM movedthe second 'reading'of a Bill for digeSting and simplifying the civil and criminal statutes. His Lordship entered at considerable length into the anomalous, disjointed, and often absurd laws which the people of this coun try were bound to obey, though they did snot—nay even the best lawyers did not—know one- half. of , them; ,Many of these laws had become obsolete, yet on certain occasions they were revived, and some -unfortunate person or another was caught by some legislative enactment which, till the moment of punishment, had never been heard of by any man li v i n g. He moved that the Bill bljead a second time pro forma', in order that'it might be referred to a Select Committee. They LORD CHANCELLOR paid a. high complitue4 Lord BROUGHAM for his able, exposition ot thaJipre. sent defective state of thelaw, and laid thei”mald b e prr no doubt as to the expediency of of this Bill which related , ta the crimioa.9o, pi; many of the enactments• were a disgrace .to thia . statute-book, but he doubted the expediency of agptying the same rule to the common law. lie dici'laKthit* that much benefit would be derived by seliding tha Bill to a Select Committee, and wauldj, rather prefer that it should stand over till next session ! , , In the;meantime Government would turn their attention to the sub t • ject. Anoth e r reason' ror. postplmng t h e measure was, that the Commissioneis:.who were engaged on the subject wetila complete their :labours before nett session,' and thereby ' enable al interested in a reform of such importance to have the bestmeani .of carrying it out with effect. After a few rems.rlcs by Lord ))RA24.i,iit and Lord CAMPBELL, the Bill was read ii-seconcitisnei and the House adjourned. - In the Commons, Mr. TUESIGEZ took his seat for Abingdon ; and Mr. &OTT MmuLAY, one of the Members for Bucks, who has become a Papist, took the oath administered to Catholics. A new writ was ordered for 14unceston,' in the TOM of Sir H. HARDINGE. Lord ASHLEY presented petitions from several places in Lancashire, in favour of a Ten Hours' Fac tories Bill. Mr. WYSE gave notice that, on Wednesday, he should move for a Select Committee on Art-Unions: In answer to a question from Colonel Woon, Sir J. GRAHAM said a Bill, founded on the report of the Welch Commissioners relative to the late disturbances, was in preparation, and would. be introduced next week. Mr. LinnELL complained bitterly, amidst loud laughter, of the 'attacks made upon him in the news papers in reference to his speeclr'on the Factories Bill, and said he had never, on tiny one occasion, given the slightest symptom that he would support a Ten Hours' Bill. Mr. MILNES opened the adjourned debate on the Factories Bill, and strongly supported the amend ment of Lord ASHLEY. Mr. WARD opposed - the amendment. Mr.. 31 4 GEAcax - ~mod Mr. HAWES supported it, and Mr. M. Surfori; - as a Member of the Government, of course declared his intention of voting against it. Lord YOLLINGTON and Mr. S. WoRTLEY, though both strong supporters of the Government, took the humane side of the question. The former, in reply to en assertion that if Lord ASHLEY'S motion was car ried, the corn-laws must be repealed, manfully declared that if the corn-laws rested on such a rotten founda tion, he would be the first to vote for their repeal. • Sir R. PgnL entered into a number of statistical details, to show the hazard and impolicy of interfering with the trade of the country to the extent proposed by Lord Asir, and exprested.his determination to oppose the amendment. Lord J. RUSSELL followed. 'He went into some statements to prove that the proiosed limitation of the hours of labour would not be productive of the evils anticipated, and concluded by stating his intention to vote for the clause. After a few remarks from Sir R.lNums, the House divided, when numbers.were— For Lord Ashley's clanse , .... 159. Against it Majority against the clause ---- 138 A clause proposed by Mr. BROTHERTON was nega tived without a division. Mr. GRANGER then moved additions of words' to clausei 4, 45, 69, and,7o, which were carried. On a division the Bill was passed by a majority of 129. • The House then, at Two o'Clock, adjourned. "No one, we suppose," says the Herald of yes.' terday,si reference to Friday night's debate an the': House 'of Commons, on the Factories Bill, "No one, even of the warmest adherents or the longrhour sys• tem, will attempt 'to deny that the adherence of Government to that system, however conscientious, has" inflicted. the .most serious injury on the Conser vative cause that it has sustained since the list grand mistake in '1829. That injury, too, is wide-spread, and consists of many parts. One of these, and by no means a slight , one; is the deterioration of the. Oa racter of the louse of Commons. Titii is too often the forerunner of sonie hazardous organic change." Our COntemporary then proceeds to comment on the late speeches of that consistent couple, Messrs. LIDDELL and GALL!' KNIGHT, and adds ,:—‘` No two speeehei of 'such brevity were ever ,before fraught with so much loss and damage to the party to-which the speakers belonged.". There is a world of truth *in these remarks, and what ad d s to their significance . 4 . is the singular fact that they are put forth by a journal which is a staunch supporter of - that very " Conservative cause" which it now frankly and boldly insists has been seriously injured by the ob stinate tenacity of the , Government on the factory question. The mischief inflicted by thafGovernment on Toryism, and . more particularly on "the cha racter of the 'House of Commons" - which House, however, so far as we can see,' hai not of late years had much character to lose—must, indeed, have been great and undeniable, ere the Herald would have dreamed of alluding to it in such strong, emphatic terms. We respect our ConteMporary for his manly candour, and we cor dially subscribe to every one of his observations. His allusion, in particular, to the deteriorated charac ' ter of the House; is true t o the letter; , for not a man • of any reflection but must acknowledge that by its vacillating conduct on . the factory question, the Im perial Senate his greatly lOwered !nation. But three short weeks since it was carried away by a sudden paroxysm of humanity ; 'so great was its., benevolence —so ardent its sympathy with the sufferings of the factory women and children, that the awe in which it habitually holds _the Premier was laid aside ; and, despite his frowns, protestatiOnsr and even menaces, it had the boldness to deeide ,against him, and even leave him in a Minority. Such ,was the bold, independent demeanour which, the House 'of Commons maintained not quite three weeks ago;; But since then a complete Change has come over it. It has had time for reflection; it was " drunk --to Use Mr. GALLT KNIGHT'S appropriate phrase—when, 'it decided in favour of the overtasked factory opera tives; but it is now " sober," and being so, it feels it its bounden duty to repudiate the claims of the poor and the helPless, and to stand by the interests of the rich_ and the influential. : Its, humanity, like 808 ACREii Valour, has fairly oozed out at its finger-ends, and it is once again the obsequious slave of the Aladdin, Lamp-!---in other words, the ready, submissive tool of That conjuror, Sir ROBERI PEEL. True, its final de :vision is not yet made, but every one, endowed with the slightest observation, can foresee Which way the debate on Lord ASHLET'S clause will terminate ; every one can foresee 'that the House will most egre giously stultify itself ; and that *the Coniervatives, More especially, will rush, in breathless haste, to follow the consistent—the enlightenect—the high minded eiample set them by those twin political luminaries, Messrs. GALLY KNIGHT and TADbilx. .Ahd all this wholesale tergiversation is to take place, because, forsooth, the Premier will have it so! and because-;-more and more humiliating still-if •the House persists in being consistent; the Home Secre tary.will feel it his duty to retire from office, and cultivate, like another CINCINNATUS, his garden at Netherby ! 'To think' that the : threat of a OBAHAH quitting public life lb:Mid be sufficient to Seam 'a British House of 'Commons froM the broad, straight obvious path ,of duty—Of consistency—of common sense-43f humanity ! 'We look. upon this is one of the most : inglorious and hnmiliating, " signs of the times" that has been manifested for many years. . _ • Madrid journals of the s th have been .received. If we are to credit the statements in them, put forth by .the Government, the decree abolishing mar tial law is only the . beginning of a -new system, which is to be in accordance With the Constitution. The present Cortes is to be dissolved forthwith, and a , new assembly is to be convoked, 'to meet .in the month of August, for the dispatch of ,business. Most ,of the State ; prisoners have. bet released, now that NARYAEZ has obtained, the' object of his_ wishes; LOPEZ 'and Mai)oz who were .committed to. prison,at the breaking out: of the insurrection., at Alicant, had presented themselves before thiNlitical: Chief, and there being no charge.B'ol6st them, they were set at liberty. BRAYO ,had also been rewarded for his services by i *alua bl e appOint "menti.. "We know," says the Heraldoi,‘, 4 ;that the ei tesident of the Council is animated wi t h . -the best ' sentiments for the triumph of the order 'of things to which he so powerfully contributed, and we ate aware ,Of the ardent desire which animates him to give to the . ,Q"Ccrg and the 'Country new proofs "of fidelity and dcvotion." . - --- - ._ The ex-editor . of a scurrilous journal has been ap pointed Ambassador to the Court of Lisbon. The Three per Cents. were done at SOf cash, and 31 5-16, 60 days, and the Five per Cents. at 211,60 days. The FTench Chamber of Deputies , are still e to the exclusion of all other business, a na.o i n Friday s t g e n discussing, se ' the clauses of the Prison Bil l , Government .submitted to a material alteration in one of them proposed by M. VATOUT, The original clause declared that all prisoners should be shut up in separate cells day and night, with one , hour for. recreation; whereas the amendment restricted *at terrible( punishment to criminals condemned to the galleys or imprisonment with hard labour. S everal Ilembera-vere- apposed ta- the: clause .even in • its' amended shape, and contended that with the cellular .RV SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY . MORNING, MAY 14, 1844 SUMMARY OF NEWS AND 4)104.k.00.0t0tt• " Wise runs may read." rostzunr.: On Wednesday the King and Queen of the French, the Duehes of Kent, and-the Prince de Leiningen took an airing in. he forest. Their Royal Highnesses the 'Dukes' de Ne mours and Montpensier preceded them on horseback. In the evening.there was a dinner ofninety 7 five covers at the Palace. The different authorities and a great number-of officers of all . grades of the. troops in the garrison. at Fontainebleau, were preeent. After dinner the royal party visited the-galleries of. the Palace, and on Thursday returned to Paris.. On the Name day the Duch•ss of Kent left, for Switzerland. . The following appears in the Journal des Chemins de lir —" The account published by several journals, stating that the Committee on the Northern Railroad pronounced in favour of the working of that - line ,by the State, is incor rect. The majority, it is true, adopted the system of short leasea (10 or 12 years), a system objected to by us, on general grounds, but the adoption of which we can understand for the Northern line, which by the advanced state of•the works is an exception to other lines. The recommendation of the Committee proves its desire that the country should, as soon as possible, be put into possession of the advantages which must result from,the opening of a line Of such importance." , . The Constitutionnel says :--" The examination of the Paris and Strasburg Railroad project has been terminated. The Council-General of the Ponts-et-Chassees is to present its conclusions to-day in favour of adoptink the line, and it is said that the Minister of Public Works' will present the Bill to the Chamber of Deputies in •the :early part . of the week. The Government has , adopted the direct line, for which •a, tender was made Mx weeks bade by the CoMpany of which M. MOle. is the chief. The, most minute investigation has preceded the resolution taken "by- the Minister of _Public Works, and it appears to result, from all the information obtained, that the -direct line—by • • the of the Marne, Chateau4hierry, Chalons, Vitry, and Bar--is that which host responds te what the general interest demands." A letter from Tharandt (Saxony) of • May 4, states that Count de SeckendOrit aged 17, a pupil of the . Academy, has been'eondemned to three years and a'half's imprisonment, for killing in a duel one of his comrades, a young man of his own age:- the two persons who conveyed the challenge to three months ; 'and the four seconds to two months. • They have all appealed against the sentence. • ,• A letter from Naples of the 15th says :—" In the night of the 4th, the inhabitants of, Catania were roused from their beds by a slight shock of earthquake. In the evening of the 10th, a new eruption of the principal crater of Etna was visible from that place." Viscount - de Boubers, 'who had visited the Duke of • Bor deaux at London, has been deprived of hit rank as captain of the' National Guaid at Miromesnil. • The Commerce mentions a report from' Madrid; that the prOperty belonging to Don ' Manuel Godoy, Prince - of Peace , hasjust been restored to him. Those estates have been under sequestration for thirty-six years. Thoie of the greatest yalue are. the palace of Buena . Vista, the lake of Valencia, the pasturage of Alcudia. and the palace of the Ministers. A treaty has been agreed to between the Governments of Texas and the United States, for the annexation of Texas to the Republic. Texas is to be admitted as a territory, and to • be allowedone delegate in Congress. COMIT----PALBECIONAZIAL The Duchess of Kent is expected to remain on a visit to her sister the Duchess Julienne Henriette of Saxe Coburg, at her chateau of Elfenan, near Borne, about a month, and then return to Clarence House, St. James's, for the remainder of the season. We believe the Royal Duchess has not seen her august sister since her marriage with the late Duke of Kent, in 1818. The Earl of Wilton, who has been among the guests of the Earl and Counteas of Eglinton, at Eglinton Castle, during the week, arrived in town yesterday. Lord Lorton, Lord TichAeld, and Colonel Wvlde and fa mily, were among the passengers - that arrived trom Ostend, on , Saturday morning, by the General Steam Navigation Company's, steam-ship Sir Edward Banks. Lady Howard de Walden and Lady Charlotte Denison are staying with the Duke of Portland, at Welbeck Abbey, Notts. Lord Henry Bentinck, after attending the funeral of his vene rated mother, returned to Welbeck the same evening. Lord George Bentinck continues at Harcourt House. • • The Duke of Norfolk has returned to town from Arundel' Castle. The Duke of Devonshire hail a select family circle to luncheon, on Saturday, at the beautiful suburban villa of the Noble Duke, at Chiswick. The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne received Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston and < a distinguished party. at dinner, on Saturday, at Lansdowne House. , It is some years now since the Duke of Devonshire cast open hie salons for such a brilliant assemblage as gathered within the ducal residence in Piccadilly on Friday-night. At, least 900 persons of distinction crowded the splendid apart ments at the invitation of the Noble Duke. The DucheSs of Inverness is passing the season at Ken sington Palace, where the other inmates of that ancient abode of Royalty now comprise Lord and Lady Frederick Gordon Hallyburton, Major General and the Misses Wyn ward and the Right Hon. J. Wilton Croker, Mr. George Bar row, and the Misses Stephenson and Disbrowe. The Earl of. Cawdor s 'grand dinner, in South Andley street, on Wednesday next, will be given to his Royal High ness the Duke of Cambridge; the Duke of Wellington, Archbishop of York, &c.; his Lordship being grand director of the Ancient Concert for the evening. • MISCELLANEOUS. - The anniversary of the Artists' Benevolent Fund was held at Freemasons' Tavern on Saturday, Lord. Palmerston in the •chair. About 120 sat down to dinner, and the subscriptions amounted to 5501. The annual dinner of the Medical Benevolent Society took lace also on Saturday at the same tavern, at which his Royal Highness the Diskeol'.Cambridge presided, supported by Sir Charles Cherk4DtitP,aris (President of,the Royal College of Physicians), Dr. Chambers, Dr. Pope, Dr. Pitman, Dr. Sutherland; Mimi. Stone, Pennington, E. White, &c. About 11004eutlemetusat down to an excellent entertainment. An :theZsubscriptiong Announced were twenty guineas froMisiseßoyal Highness:lke chOrman, and a munificent do .nationx6:loa.,guitteits tfrem4or. Chambers, whiCh 'was most enthusiastically applatle.din_-- , _ The 11-lenelsig varnohial referm of St. James's parish, West minster, celebrated,tlet twelfth, anniversary of its emancipa tion from the bondage of the select,vestry system, and of the placing the betetvol:of. their resources under an electiVe yes ,tryi by it su ppee k onfTbuesilay - _evettiog, at the crown Tavern, Broad-street, Golden square. The chair was taken by T. S. Duncombe; ESVsUPPOrted by two of the most hearty paro chialsion reformers sitturd of y ciety for the Supp r e ssion of Mendicity was held in the Society's rooms , Red Lion-squa re , wh e n several noblemen and gentlemen: of distinction mere present. Among them were Earl Manvers , L o rd Du dley Stuart , the Earl of Arundel th t e he tw p e a n ri t s ytxth annual meeting of the So - parish --'Messrs. Maul and A'Beckett. in the chair. The report and Surrey, Lord Radstock, Lord Lovaine, Sir John P. Boi leau,&c. Lord Gage wal , was read and adopted, but no speeches were made. Bart., The iron trade continues improving, with every prospect of being in a healthy state for several years. Many iron works, which have been standing for a long time, have com - menced Mork, and others are in course of preparation. The members of the Dublin C onserva ti ve Society have been summoned to meet .on Tuesday, evening to dissolve the Society, " it being found • impracticable to carry it on any longer, in consequence of the apathy now manifested 14y Pro testants to the cause of Couservatisra t and3the consequent falling away of the funds of the Society?' FLANDERS MAIL. • . • BITUSSEL, M A Y 10.—To-day, 'at -noon, the King received the great deputati o n of the m anufacturers o f the p rovince of Liege, which it Was said at first would not be received till Sunday. The Journal de Liege says, " We have received this morn ing the following particulars r e r a ti ve to the proceedings of the great deputation of our tnantrfacturers and merchants at Brussels. On' Wednesday evening the deputation waited on the. Minister • of Pinance 'and the Interior, and some of the members stated the 'great objections of our . province to the sy stem of differential dutie s, but the y g ot only evasiVe_inswers. In the interval that will_elapse before they have an audience of the King, they will 'wait on some .of the representatiVes, and endeavour to convince them of the immense injury which the differential duties Would do to the country." • A correspondent at Madrid informs us that Senor Bermii,dea de Castro, formerly -Secretary to - the Council of Ministers, has just been appointed . Minister for . the 'Queen of - Stain at Brussels. • The. Theodorea will leave Ghent to-ninrrow for St. Tho Mas, with one hundred 'and thirty settlers. It is calculated,. that when they ace larded, the European population of the colony will. amount .t:6,4ight hundred souls. As from this time a vessel will be 'diiiitched every month, the European popula tion may amount, at the.end of the year, to nearly two thou sand. . Its subseq uent inerease•will certainly be rapid. ‘• . • •..• Sir Robert . And Lady Peel enteitalneff his Excel lency Prince Caste'cicala, his Excellency , M. Dedel, Deka and Duchess of Buccleuch, Viseoinit and Viscountess Mahon, 'Viscount and Viscountess Villiers, Sir Henry end Lady Emily - Hardinge, -,Sir William and HOnourable Lady •.Middleton, Right Hon. George and Mrs. Dawson, Colonel Malcolm, Mr. Balfour, Mr.-Repton, and aselect party, at dinner, on Saturday ast, at their house,in Whitehall.gardens. x , • PRINCE METTERNICH.—The French Ambassador it Vienna, the Count de Flahaut; celebrated the King's fete en the 4th inst.; bf.giving A dinner to. the diploanatic, the grand officer's •of the Austrian Court and State, and other distinguished.gaests; amounting in number to 70.. It was subect of remark that Prince M etternich, ,who for - several successive years' had been from circumstances absent from , this anniversary, was present en this occasion. .THEDERBY.---Beitaife in London, of Sunday next, May 19, will contain : —Forewarnings by Pesakt-inaix to the Winner-The Derby Prophecy, and important pre-: liminary hifermatiOn. Contents of Beira - Life of last Sunday, Nay 12, 16 folio columns of Sporting events. An epitome of the week's miscellaneous news, and a hundred adVertisements chiefly connected with sportidg matters. The insertion of a, ;single advertisement in Belrs.Life may be equally beneficial to that Of half-a-dozen in some jrrnals. A sixpence, or six penny stamps, to Mr.,Clement, 'junior, 170, Strand, will at all times ensure a copy of. Berra Life by return of post. The weekly, sale of Bell's Life exceeds 20,000 copies. It is pub , fished in time for, the Saturday afternoon railways: ANOTHER. INCENDiART ATTEMPT TO FIRE. THE PLAmraTtoxs BELONGING TO, THE Cno - ws. , -LAnother most abominable attempt to destroy ; the valuable plantations 'of firs and young oaks in the Great Park, et: Windsor, was made on Thursday last, but which was fortunately discovered in sufficient time to prevent the extensive destruction, which .otherwise, must have ensued, from taking place. On the morning in question the heath, close to the clock-case, in the Great Park, and but a short distance from the fishing temple at Virginia Water, was, discovered .by Mr. Turner, her Ma jesty's head gamekeeper, to be on fire, the wind at the time blowing from the north-east. Mr. Maslin, surveyor of her j Majesty's Woods and Forests, who was 'near the spot, in stantly summoned', all• the assistant keel** vio, 'aided by several other persons, succeeded lnit not 'withouht considerable difficulty, in subduing the flames, and preventing their ex • tanding . beyond some : thirty or.forty y ar d s froin the vicinity fl t a a k m e e n s placehd attained a t and .before the where the lire *as fait ignited. sl f icl not the disci:Aver y the Whole of 'the s°ear an i c a g P re!a ascendancy, rtiod Royal plantations in. this part of, till Great fork, extending' over nearly 150 acres, and also a great conntity of the game and pheasant's eggs in these, portions'orethe Royal preserves, must have been utterly destroyed: ' regnt to state, that, not the least trace of, the scOlinsliehi: (who are, no doubt, partof the ;same gang.. who. of 700 - acres of Prince Albert's plantati9Ps m the neighbourhood of Bagehot a fortnight ago) had a ye t be 04.413 "0 1 On Thursday afternoon .•a -Phil& 0,134 Pvo years old, unfortunately fell into the Grand SurreY ..Canal, near the wooden bridge leading over to . the VictualAng-office. It 'as rescued from a watery grave-by the admirable conduct of Mr. Oliver,' a -retire& g entlernen, in thei Bfi t tii ,i ear of his -age; who : intrepidly leaped,:into tlle,-yratar wrought the child on shore, anckin,thnnaFft.44o 4 P u . OW B quite re stored. Such heroic conduct is well worthy ot record. system nothing but absolute torture could maintain I discipline. The clause as amended, however , .was i "ultimately adopted. The domestic news in the Paris I papers is without interest. It was the general belief at Paris that Louis Panarrn seriously intended to pay a visit to the Queen of ENGLAND this summer, either at Windsor Castle or London. "The report ofthe KING'S journey to England," says the ; Courrier Francais, "begins again to obtain. credit. The Mari time Prefect of Cherbourg has commanded at Havre several silk flags, on which are to be embossed the arms of England and France. ' The KANO, after having crossed the Channel to London, where it is Said he is shortly expected,' wilt proceed to Brest with the squadron which . is being prepared to accompany him on his voyage. His RiazsTr is said to have given orders to prepare for his reception at Brest, where he proposes to pass two or three days." The beer riot at Munich' seems to have been rather of a serious character. The - following account of the affair, probably denvecl from offiCial sources, appears in the Journal des Debuts . " Up to this moment no other cause has been discovered for the riots which have been now continuing for four or five dayethan the rise in the price . of beer. This beverage is one •of the first necessity among the , inhabitants of Bavaria, par ticularly of the working classes ; the price has therefore con siderably increased of late years. It has been the general custom to advance the,price.during , the summer months, and that change has usually taken place on the Ist of May. This year, unfortunately; it occurred just at , the period of the tele hration of the marriage of the Princess Hildegarde with the Archduke Albert. The people made grievous complaints that on this occasion there had been no public rejoicing ordered by the Government, no illeminations, nor fireworks, nor theatres - opened gratis. These causes united provoked, during the Ist of May, some disorderly proceedings, which went on increasing on the following days.. About five o'clock the garrison beat to arms, the mob had attacked all the breweries, breaking the windows, and destroying everything that fell in their way: Barricades were.begun to be thrown up in one of the principal streets. The cavalry on reaching the spot were obliged to charge on the mob, when two or three persona were - killed. "On the following days the . city was pretty quiet ; the people assembled in considerable numbers before the houses which had been destroyed, but without making any hostile demonstrations. Numerous detachments - of troops patroled and kept the - streets 'clear. But. in the evening the distarb anew recommenced in the same quarter as on the previous day, and it was necessary,to have again recourse - to the cavalry. These . tumultuous scenes took place whilst the King and Royal family were at the theatre. A nume rous mob bent their steps in that direction, exclaiming that they would not allow the rich to divert themselves whilst. the necessaries of the poOr were advanCed in price ; but the guard at the door presenting their arms on , the approach of the people,. made them drawback. The people within the theatre were in' great alarm, fearing the building might be set fire to, and several retired as fist as they could. 'The King and Royal Family, however, stopped out the first , act, and . then retired. In the course of the evening numerous arrests took place, and it Was hoped the discord had ceased ; but on the folloviing day some disturbances again took place, and several bakers' shops were entered and pillaged. His Majesty went out each day in his Carriage, The director of police issued a proclamation prohibiting more than ten persons assembling together' at the same time. On the' following day, the troops of the garrison, who were very, much fatigued, were relieved by the garde bourgeoise, and this display of force was the means of preserv ing order. in theineantime the - Governnient deemed it pru dent to make some concession, and the burgomasters circu lated placards, announcing that .beer • would 'be sold, at the old price. This news was soon spread through the city,sand tended' so much to restore quiet, that the sth passed without disturbance; and the: King was preparing to set out for -Rome on the Bth. • ' , . , "There' is every reason to hope that there will - Ise no re currence-of those violent scenes, 'tranquillity having been Be mired by the timely concession Made to the roused passions of the multitude." • • TiiB 'BOURSE--4Ateßray, MAY '9. First I.llgbeet Lowed: Last • Price. Pries. Price. , Price. French Five pereents•••••• 122.56 .. 122 56 .. 122 45 122 45 Youper Cents ••••• 106 90 •• 106 90 •.•106 90 .. 106 90 Three per Cen1a....... 84.40 • • 84 45 .• 84 40 -.• 84 45 /lank of France ' 3120 "—MO • 8120 —3120 Belgian .. . 687 50 .. 687 50 .. 6110 .. 680 Belgian Fives, 1831.. • • ... 103 f .. 103 f .. -103 f .. 103 f 1840 .. 106 106 1842 •••••••• 1681 .. 1081 •. .321 108 t .. 108* - Spanish Active .. 32j . . 321 Threes •• •• •••••••• 36 .. 36 36 •• $6 Passive •- .• GI 6/ 61 •61 Neapolitan.••• •• . 102 50 5O .. 102 35 .. •A - 104}35 koman,.ex dle• . ••. . put .. 104} . 1041 St.Germaitt••••••.: ! 1A ... 1 . L f3 A 0 1r Si" ..•B R 3 E O B. : •. 130 Yersailles;jl.l l . 377 50 .. 377 50 •• 377 50 •. 377 50 L. 11••••••• •••••: 247 50 .: 247 50 .. 245' 247 501 ..•.• • • .. ....... • 976 25 ..'976 25 • . 975 ..-976 25 Rouenßouen to'Havre .. 737 50 737 50 • . 736 25 736 25 O r leans • Strasburg to Bali— • • .... 275 .. 275 .. 372 50 .. 273 75 A v ignon to Marseilles•••• .. 766 25 766 25 766 26 766.45 RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE A6COIII(T. Vera111e5;R.13".. . ...... Rouen •.........•••.••••: 976-25 ••"971•711 976 25 .• 978 75 Rouen to Havre 737 se .. 737 50 .. 737 50 .• 737 50 Orleans itrasbitek to 271 25 •• 275 •• 271 25 ... 276 Avignon= to ltarie)lles.. •• • • *766 25 766 25 . 7G6 25 .. 766 25. MONEY: MARKET and CITY NEWS. CITY, MONDAY. .EVENING. A t fre ) rtiiide itistre off , much the same as in the morn ing, if we except, a decline again in Bank of England Stock 'to 193 193 f, though last marked 194. The .assent of the rroprietars assembled this day, to the Government terms, will 'no doubt soon rally the price. Consols were 99 i; New Three-and-a Half . per Cents. receded to 102 i• and .ReduCed to 1014. .Exchequer Bills: continued tint. , • Spanish Bonds did not improve, the Five,per Cents. realising 244 4; and' the. Three per Cents., 351 to 36. The Passive were , 6 to 1. ' Mexican Stock was at,351 1, a retrograde moveinent. Colombian brought ,144 :to 1; and Brazilian, 81f.. Portuguese Converted advanced to i; Belgian were up .to 103 5 ;, and Russ ian to 118. The. additional transactions •in Itsilway Shares this, afternoon.Were.to. a moderate extent. Birmingham and Derby wer6 38; Birmingham and,.Gloucester,. 7; and Blackwall, 9 i_disgount.; Edinburgh and Glasg ow were 1611; G rest Western, 42:t0 424; Birmingham , i 315 to . 130; South-Western, 44k; Manchester and Birmingham, 181; and South-Eastern,. 44 , premium. Colonial Bank hares were 10 to 9i discount; and Provincial pf Ireland, 195 prelniulp, (FroM I'4 Suss of Lait Night.) - , The sales of Cotton' in ths-,Llverpeol Market, on Saturday, Were 4,500 bales, at' stelidy prices.—The Share Market was without any. new feattire': Eastern Counties Registered; 141 ; Great Western 211i'Brighton'Loan - Notes, 111 South WeStern; 851'; Paris'' aid Orients - ' 384 South.F.smtern, I%. , rew; 114. . ; •' • • Much interest is takefirinLthe discussions which. are now. - 01" piogkss at'the Bank tit England', - - relative- to the renewal ; of the charter, and ,the, future - mode by which' 'the banking and currency of this country is toliwcondncted; No strenur . one opposition Will; however, be - offered to the Blink Pro ' prieters to the terms prOpeied.: The 'managers and propris pm 'of the jCiinti , stock banks are, upon the whole, well satis fled and at a meetin g held of thirprivate banks, resolution§ hit.:c been passed Pproving' of the general policy of Sir R., Peel' as far as they' are concerned; but, having asked for another. interview, -tar' the purpose of Suggesting Improve ments tlii plan abotit *hien - their long: experience as ;banker's givei thera the Opportunity of rendering inforMation 'to the Premier, therefore •it -is confidently expected that, With . sonic mo difications ie Co ' details; , the-immense interest connected with banking and currency;Aneluding the renewal of'the charter of the Bank of England, wilt be based upon the scheme that has been already propounded to Parliament. The 'commercial advises from New York contittimfavour able; - but it seems that political agitation was still kept Texas and the Presidential election engrossing chief attention. The trade of New York seems to have been particularly active this year. From Van Diemen's Land we have accounts to Jan. 19. The revenue continued deficient, but the . new Governor had already effected some material reductions in the expenditure. The Buslirangers had not been entirely rooted out. The Funds are not quite so buoyant; a broker of some standing having made sales of Consols sufficient to occasion a decline of about * per cent., viz , to 994 to 1. There havp also been. softie parcels of ExChequer Bills thrown' upon the market, and the premium has dropped in consequence to 725. and 745. East India Bonds are 925. to 945. premium. Batik Stock has been quoted 194 to 1941,-a decline again of 1 to 14 . per cent., which indicates that some of the holders do not exactly like the new terms. East India Stock has been •at 288, being steady. • The ti'ew Three=and-a-nalf per Cents. have obtained 1024 to 1; the Reduced, 1011 - to it; and the Three per Cents., 981 to 4. - The Commissioners for the Savior? Banks, he., have taken ,Consols at 994. • . . The Foreign Market is rather dull. , Spanish Five per Cents. have not been . higher • thin •• '241, and the Three per Cents. have 'realised 351. to "36. Mexican Adtive Stock tai been 354 to and the Deferred, 354 to 4'; being not . quite so good, owing to-the-intelligence of the pro- posed annexation of Texas. to the United Stem— Colom bian Bonds have been 144. to- 4. -Belgian Stock has realised 1031.'th '1024 ; • and the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents: , are 604 to 614, which is rather . firmer. -There is not much doing in the Railway Shaies,'and prices generally are about the same. MaxenEarEn Smelt- EXCHANGE, MAY - 11.--Our market to=day heavy,' and several stocks are lower.:—Chester and Birkenhead, 30};' . South-Eastern, 38 374; Trent Valley, 11 kl 9 , Manchester, -Bury, andilOsenclale, 6 1-16 4. • . • - ' CLOSING PRICES. : BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock • 194' ! Indian Stock... .».».• per Cent. • 99% DWG BOZOS "7.7• 2BB " Otis. 3 per Cent - Cons. 99$ Ditto Old Annuities 3% per Cent. Red lin Ditto New Annuities:" New 3% per Cent......... 102 Es. Bills, 1,0001. I%d 74 pm. New 5 per . Ditto 3001 73 pm Long Annuities to expire . • 'Ditto • Jan.. 1860............ 12 7.16 Bank Rock for Acct 193 • fkt. , consols for Acct..... ... Jan. 1800............ • India Stock for Acet - , - FOREIGN :FUNDS. • • • Austrian, 5 per Cent ........ . 'Portuguese, 5 per Cent Belgian, 5 per CenL .... 103% Ditto, New Brazilian Bond. Prussian , per Cent ,iluenos,Ayres,ll per 'dent. ,Russian, 5 per Cent 118 Chllian t 6 per Cent 'Ditto , Metallic Celombsan,6 per Cent ..... 14% Spanish, 5 per 2174 Ditto, ,Iritto, 3 per tent •••••••••••.•• 36 - Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent... .IDitto, Deferred.. 14 ' .Dattish, 3 per Cent — French, 5 per —f. —c. Grteki s'per Cent — Exchange Mexican, 5 per Cent ,French, 3 per —f. .-c Ditto, 6 per Cent, „Dutch, 254 per Cent.... 61% _Peruvian.lB2s.,6perCent — • Ditto, 5 per Cent SHAR4S. Birmieghani and Gloucester (100 , 93 • Ckester and Holyhead. (1 6% , Eastern Counties (2 3 paid) • Ditto Registered (81618 d paid) . Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, 135.4 d. Paid Edinburgh and Glasgow, 50 paid , I( Great Western (75 paid) • ,117 Harwich (Braithwaite), a paid Londen and Birmingham (Stock) Ditto, Quarter Shares ( 2 paid) 27% London and siactswati (161.135. 4dl) ..... ..... 7% lamion and Brighton (50 paid) ..».».».».»....».. 4 4 % • London and Greenwich (1td..15A paivi... Londe. and South Western (411, 6s. 184, paid)... 86 • ' Ditto Eighths (1 5 s. paid) " ' • 4% „ London- and Croydon ""." Manchester and Birmingham ..... 511% • - 'Newcastle and Darlington Jnnetiou,lB.paid 41 - Northern and Eastern (45 paid) •. 57% • South Eastern and Dover (3312, 4d pind) , Tit o zio a u n t d h : an r d b N or o o r u w g r B ( r 1 = 13 2 5 19 , , - Parts and Orleans (20 paitiN 37 g •.•. • . 24R Duzecomaß.-:-In cOnsequence of Mr. Dun• combe's manly conduct, in respect to the defeat of the coer eiVe Masters and Servants:Bin in. the Bouse . of Commons, the working men of Nottingham have passettavote of thanks to the Hon. Member. COURT CIRCULAR , - - - - - - The Queen and Prince Albert walked yesterday in the Royal Gardens of Buckingham Palace. His Royal Highness Prince Albert visited the Artillery Ground, Finsbury, yesterday morning. His Royal Highness was attended by Colonel Wylde, Equerry in Waiting. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice were taken their usual daily airings yesterday in the Royal Gardens. The Royal Dinner party at Buckingham Palace yesterday evening, included' his Excellency le Marquis Yilluma, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Mrs. Howley, the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, the Marquis of -Granby, the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord and Lady Dalmeny, Lord and Lady Lyt telton, and the Right - Honourable Sir - Henry anti Lady k'mily Hsrdinge. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager took an airing yesterday in an open carriage, in the parks. His-Royal Highnesi the 13uke of Cambridge visited bee Majesty, the Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough •••• House. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the Foieign-office. It was attended by Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington, the Duke of Buccleuch, Lord Wharncliffe, the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Earl of Haddington, Earl of Ripon, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, and Sir E. Knatch bull. The Council sat two hours. The Ecclesiastical Commission for England had a meeting yesterday afternoon, at their office in Whitehall-place. The 'Commissioners present were the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Exeter, the .Bishop of Hereford, the Bishop of Lichfield, and the Bishop of Salisbury. Mr. - Wickham, the Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yes terday, at his official residence in Downing-street. Dispatches for the Governor of Van Diemen's Land were sent off yesterday from the Colonial-office.. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office ..froM... the .Go vernor of the Gambia, and also from the Gdycknor of Gib raltar. The Judicial Committee of her biajestv.'4 'Most HOriour able Privy Council sat yesterday. The Lords present were Lord Brougham, the- Vice-Chancellor Kniglit Bruce, - the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, and Judge' or the. Ad miralty Court. . Dr. Lushington gave judgment in an appeal from Bengal, " Tej . Chund Bahadoor v. Sri Kaultin Ghose," that 'their Lordships were Well satisfied that the decision of the Court of Sadder Adawlut was not contrary to the law of Bengal • the decree of the Suidder Adawlut must, therefore, be affirmed, and with costs. Mr. Fitzroy Kelly, Queen's Counsel, was heard on an ap peal from the Vice-Admiralty Court of Sierra Leone, "Christian Sohst, a citizen of Hamburgh, v. the Queen," relative to the ship Echo. The Queen's AdVoCate was heard for the respoadent. .The case was adjourned for further hearing. SPORTTING INELLIGENCE. • TATTERS ALL'S.—YESTERDAY. The subscription room was fully attended until between six and seven o'clock, and some progress was made in comparing books on the two •great events to come off next week, a ceremony that every prudent man will take care to complete on Thursday. Of betting we have little -to say., The two favourites were steady at the prices last reported in this paper ; the Buck with eager. supporters at 5, to 2 and 9 to 4, and Ratau at 13 to 4 and 7 to 2. We were informed thatl,ooo to 500 was laid against one, and 1,500 to 500 against the other, between the same parties. Orlando was backed at 16 and 17 to 1, lonian at 20 to 1 in fifties early in the day, and at 25 to 1 towards. evening. Akbar freely at 25 to 1, Qui Tam at 1,000 to 30, and Foig-a-Ballagh at 35 to 1 in fifties: The price*. returned against Leander, Bay Momus, T'Auld Squire, and Mount Charles are, nominal. THE OAKS.—The • Princess was backed freely at 8 to 1, Cretioline at 12 to 1 in small sums, All-round-my-Hat to win a large stake at .20 to 1, and April Noddy at 25 to 1. Sister to Martingale again reported to be amiss, went back to 12 to 1. • The only bet we heard on the Gorhambury Handicap was 6 to 4 against 'the Devil-to-Pay. The Brewer, Vitellius, and Seaport, are declared not to run there. . DERBY. 8 to 1 agst Col. Peel's lot 1000 to 35 agst Ford's lot—taken • 1000 to 15 agst Dawson's lot—taken 9 to 4 agA Mr. John Day's The Ugly Back—taken 7 to 2 agst Mr. Crockford's. Ratan—taken freely 12 to 1 agst Mr. Lichtwald's Leander 18 to 1 agst Col. Peel's Orlando 20 to I agst M. A. Wood's Running Rein—taken 20 to 1 agst Mr. Scott's Bay Momus 20 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's T Auld Squire 25 to 1 agst Sir. G. Heathcote's Akbar—taken freely • 25 to 1 affst Col. Peel's lonian—taken 33 to 1 agst Mr. Ford's Qui Tam—taken 33 to 1 'agst Osborne's Mount Charles 35 o'l' agst Mr. Quin's Foig-a-Ballagli—taken 40 to 1 agst Mr. Onglefs King of the Gipsies 40 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Campanero 1030 to 10 agst Mr. Forth's Ashstead Pet—taken 1000 to 'lOO agst Leander and lonian—taken . • .OAKS. 8 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's The Princess—taken .• 11 to agst Lord Exeter's Merope—taken.. 12 to 1 agst Mr. Osbaldeston's S ister to Martingale—taken 12 to 1 agst Duke of Rutland's Crenoline—taken 18 to' 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's All Round my Hat—taken 20 to 1 agst Mr. J. Robinson's April Noddy—taken. EGLINTON PARK STEEPLE-CHASES—FRIDAY. Vie Heavy-weight Sweepstakes of 15 soya. each, 10 ft, with 100 added. Four miles. 13st 71b each. (10 Subs.). lord Waterford's Blueskin, aged..... (Owner) 1 Lord Glenlyon'a.Mountain, aged 0 Mr. Harrington nd Ragweed, aged • 0 Sir W. Scott nd Bourdeaux, 6 yrs Mr. Robertson's Tinder4.)Ox • - 0 Lord Maidstone's Emperor, aged .. . ...... 0 Blueskin took the lead, kept it throughout, and won by nearly half a mile. The judge did not place a second. 'A protest was then•made, that Blueskin had gone on the wrong side of a flag„ on ascertaining which the stewards decided that the, whole race was ...Old. • . • The Light.:weight Sweepstakes, 15 soya. each, 10 ft; with 100 ' added. Four miles. 'l2st each. (10 Subs.) Mr. Ramsay's Binks the Bagman, aged 1 Lord Maidstone's C'sar', aged". 2 Lord Waterford's Brutus (late Viscount), aged 3 Lord Glenlyon's The Mountain, aged' The following also ran :—Mr. Moore nd Goblin, Mr. W.F. -Hamilton's Grace, aged, and Mr .Willington's Grace Dar ling, aged. A good race, won cleverly at last by two lengths. Handicap Sweepstakes fJO SOVB. each, h ft, with 50 added. Two miles. (14 Subs.) Lord Waterford'i Blueskin,•l3st 71b (Owner) 1 Mr. W. R. Ramsay's Binks the Bagman, 13st 2 The following also started, but were not placed :—Lord Eglin ton's Scraper,'9st 51h—Lord Glenlyon's Hotspur, llst 1 lb -Lord Maidstone's Emperor, 12st 71b—Mr. Robertson's Tin der-box, 12st 1113 - -;-Capt. Boyd's; the Pony, 9st 91b—Lord Maidstone's Caasar, 13st 41b-41r. Johnstone's Red Ribbon, :Ost 1114, and Mr;Willington's The Veteran, 9st 51b. A fine race. Won by half a length. LLOYD'S' SHIPPING: Losuoir; Mar 13.--=Moderate Northerly breeze, and hazy, DEAL, MAY 11.—Wied; N. by W. to NE. ; 7, P.M., fresh —Arrd. Rajithan,Stewart, Bombay. Sld. Canton, Valpa. raiso ; Agnes, Jamaica; Trent, Miramichi. OFF MASTINOS, MAT 12.—Calcutta, Hawkes, Hobart Town ; Caroline, Porto Rico, for Lubeck. PORTSMOUTH, MAY. 11.—Wind, N.N.E. to S.S.W. ; 12th, N.N.E.—Her Majesty's ship Rattlesnake, Hong-Kong, left the Cape Of t Good Rope March. 5, Ascension, 25. Sld. the transport Nautilus, Eastward ; Hendrik Hudson, New York. Off, Gloriana, Webb, Calcutta. OFT WOwriivici, MAY '1.1...-Regina, Stace, Calcutta. COWES; MAY 12.---Arrd. Mary Dick, Bahia. OFP TEIGNMOUTH, : MAY 11.—Traveller, Trinidad. OFF SALcounk:, MAY ' 10.—Chieftain, Brown, China ; Vesta, StUbbeman, Matanzas fur Bremen ; Pocahontas, Higgins, Baltimore. 11 th , Varuna , M auritius. OFF ARUNDEL, MAY 12.—Wilson, Houston, Sydney, New South Wales, Jan. 4. - • SOIMIAbit.TON, MAY 12.—Arrd. Lady Mary Wood steamer, Gibraltar,"sailed 3d inst. HULL, MAY 10,--Sld. Regent, Quebec. Witt" MAY 9.—Sid. Lady Lilford, Prince Edward's island. 11th, Xarifa, for Barbadoes. - Cony, Mar 10.—Arrd. Templar, London, for Sydney, New South Wales. Off; Maid of Athens, and schooner Ann, Ichoboe. Sld. Cornelia, Ascension;, Albion, St, John's, N.B. DuNratzi MAY 10.—S1d. Mountaineer, Cape of Good Hope. The Whitby, Ferlis, of this• port, with lime, from Shields, took fire in this harbour, and subsequently sank, and appears to have beconie a total wreck, SHIELDs, MAY 9.- - --Sld..Comaierce, West Coast of Africa; Caroline, Cape of Good Hope. YAitmotni ROADS, MAY : 12.--Arrd. Maese PaCket, Grange minith, with-damage, haring been in contact with a brig last night, off Cromer. ~ Anzanwt, MAY 9.—Sid. Red Rover, Ichoboe 1 b ipm ., 0 , 04 .MAY 12.—Wind N., light.—Arrd. Malcolm, Lankin,_".Calcutta; BlaCkneSs, Murray, New York; Shakt peare Miner : Samuel Hicks, Bunker, New York; Cropper (17tliult.), New York. Off, John o'Gaunt, China; Wilsons, Demerara. Sid. Helme, Calcutta ; Union, Bombay ; Lord Stanley, Cuba; Olive and Eliza, 'Boston; Woodstock, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Stirling, Wiscasset ; .Broad Oak,. Calcutta ; Llama, La GuitYra ; Fear Not, Nassau • Princess and Roscins, New York ; Abercrombie, Quebec. FALMOUTH; MAY 12.—Wind N., moderate.--Off, Invoice, Rio; James Turciin, Turcan, BataVia. JERSEY, MAY 7.—Sid. Tiphys; Labrador. BRISTOL, .)II~Z 12.--Arrd. Eling, Tucker, .Trinidad. Sld. Clydesdale, Ichoboe; Lucy Anne, Africa. N.N.E. to N.E., moderate.—Arrd. Diadem, Fox, Galveston. 1 Sld. Alexander, Cape of Good Hope ; Lord . Goderich and Euxine, America ; St. George, ditto." , . • • OFF ran STASI T , .MAY, 11. 7 -Margaret Thomson, Harvey, Demerara... ..• OPP . nymourn, MAT 10.-Seawitch, Baker, Gambia.; Medora, HaVaniiith for Hamburgh ; Andres, BozesOn, Bahia for Stockliblm: ' Poirromoum, MAY . 12.—The Sterling (apparently a brig), water-logged, with a white masthead, was passed, a few days previous to the 4th instant; by the Leontine, from New Orleans to iltethen, *hid'. was spoken on that day'by the Gloriana, off this port: , CowzO, MAY 12.—The schooner Tom Wood, of Baltimore, Was fallen 'in witb,..water-logged and abandoned; lat. 38,.„ ion. 53, .1,) . Y the Neptunus, off the Wight. THE CZAR'S VISIT: TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN: ". 11: '? Sia,—Perhaps you have not inserted letter I sent 'you on the 6th inst., because of its length. Now, I shall compress this as much as possible, hoiping . you will this time,' injustice to me and Captain .-Tokisk, i, 'give, in your next, publication to it, as 1 afro anxious , to contra-. dict the report so detrimental . to misrepreient ing our sentiments on the subject: - The pa ragraph al luded to; I be li eve, originated in a mistake of jour re porter; and afterwards found it way tolhe - CAronick and other respectable journals. . To show the real state of things, I beg to inform you that on the 3d of this month. on the occasion of the an 'niversary Meeting of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland, I spoke not a word of the Czar. It would be foolish, and against his interest, in a Polish exile, to , wish to prevent the better part of the people of this country to express, in any way they like, their, sen timents against the oppressor of Poland ; and I do as sure you, that my Gallant Friend spoke in a spirit quite reverse to that which the atticle alluded to represents him.. , • . • I am, Sir, Your humble, obedient servant, 3, Queen-street,.Gelden - square , WIERCINSKI. • May 11, 1544. . • - On Wednesday morning, says the Quotidienne, about half-past eight, a gentleman was passing through the Rue Mazagran, when a man, pale and emaciated, came up to him and said, "I am dying of hunger, I have not eaten anything these two days." The gentleman took out some money, and giving him some, returned the rest into his waist coat pocket. " Give me all," said the man, "or I plunge my knife in your body." Thegentleman, nothing frightened at this, attempted to seize on the fellow, but he took to flight • and escaped. • , THE F BILL (From the Times.) 1 The desperate tenacity with which Ministers stick to tiler twelve hours of factory labour, is something which stands quite alone in our times. Really there would be a degree of heroism about it, but for the utter miserableness of the ob ject.. Many occasions have there been in Sir Robert Peel's life when he might have shown himself a groat man. We will not say that lie has entirely thrown them away; but lie has most unhappily reserved the cream and flower of his strength for an ignoble and inevitably unsuccessful war with labouring women and children. The only account of his ob stinacy is to suppose that now, as on some former emergen cies, the Premier is not entirely his own master. We do think better of him than to believe he really does stake the prosperity of the empire, including that very prosperous cir cumstance, his own possession of office, on the first and the last hour of the factory woman. And, after all, it is conso latory to remember that Sir Robert has not so wholly and inseparably identified himself with the Govermiaent Bill as the Home Secretary. But with what a singular ill grace does this unwonted tena city now show itself, considering how many things great and sacred have been touched—yes, touched in the strongest sense, handled, abstracted, mangled, and even destroyed. But it is capital, capital invested in factories, and, by an in direct but probable consequence, capital invested in land, which is now in danger. Of all things, wealth in every shape is the most cowardly, suspicious, and touchy. It is the most thin-skinned of all the children of selfilmess. The miser might as* well be flayed alive, for any comfort he has of his hoard. A hungry mouse stirs behind the wainscot, and he imagines a dozen robbers ransacking his chests. He is shipwrecked, and, leaving his wife and children to the sailors, he instinctively ties his bag of money to his neck, and dies the natural death of a dog. His house is on fire; he runs away from his terrified family, and nothing is heard of him till, when all is over, the firemen find in some hiding place .a few calcined bones, and among them a fused lump of gold and silver. So, after the nation has borne everything, swallowed everything, sacrificed everything, done every. thing, laughed at every terror and every scruple, at last it makes a stand—for what ? pro aria ac fotis? No. For twelve hours' labour a day I The isle is frighted from its propriety. It is terrified by a vision of bankruptcy. It imagines the whole of its wealth running out; a universal unproductiveness of capital—a great blight on money. Who have caused this panic P The factory women and children. To the disordered senses of the capi talist that feeble cry is a voice of thunder, that small loss a tremendous defalcation, that hour or two of leisure a univer sal standstill of labour and machinery. So it has always been. Forty years ago the northern manufacturers wrote, subscribed, published, and published again, the same terrors, the same exaggerated statements, the same melancholy pre dictions of universal ruin, as Sir James Graham now intro- Luces to the House with so much pomp of sympathy from he Manchester millowners. Of course they had some truth on their side, otherwise it is not to be supposed that se many honest men would have published what they did. The particular custom which they considered the palla dium of British prosperity, and in behalf of which they so strenuously deprecated all legislative interference, was that of working their apprentices by relays during the whole of the 24 hours, so that the engine never stopped night or day. In their fervid and inventive fancies a single hour's stop page was utter ruin. Their calculations to prove this point, were elaborate, ingenious, and, of course, quite infallible. They made quite as much of the twenty-fourth hour as their degenerate sons, with the assistance of Mr. Senior, have made out of the eleventh hour. However, Parliament ven tured to pass an Act prohibiting the employment of Appren tices during any of the nine night hours, thus reducing the daily task to fifteen hours. The manufacturers were not utterly ruined, but rather the contrary, though they remon strated a good deal at first. So thoroughly is it the nature of the capitalist to exaggerate into mountains the most trifling impediments to wealth—to dream of the workhouse and the gaol in the midst of growing heaps and improving dividends. Exquisitely and painfully susceptible of danger, he hears the faintest rustle in the leaves, and is ready to drop with terror s —et corde et genibus tremit. The British people are by nature brave, confiding, and hopeful. It gets over difficulties by not seeing them, and is not defeated through being unconscious of defeat. But all this will be changed if it allows itself to borrow its tone from the craven spirit of the capitalist, whether that capi• talist derive his wealth from horses or from horse-powers. It may as well go to learn greatness in the parlour of the money-lender, and largeness of mind at the stall of the huckster. Your monied men are great in their place. Lettliem be attended to on currency and revenue. But beware how you °diver up to the rigorous demands of mercantile con venience all the women and young persons in the most po pulous districts of the empire. We see in these debates a something rusty and leprous diffusing itself through the mind of Parliament. The rust of gold and silver is the worst Of all rusts, because it is invisible. Other corrosions stain the hands, or the garment ; the secret canker of gold poisons the soul, and makes it callous to social appeals of the most ap palling and sacred urgency. Certainly it is a day of deterioration and ignominy which is marked by such portents as the sudden recantations we have lately witnessed. Mr. Gaily Knight with his " time to get sober," and Mr. Liddell reproaching Ministers for their inconsiderateness in not having earlier let their sup porters know how much they staked on the question, are prodigies. The Act must mean more than the authors are aware of. It is so unnaturally base. We view them scarcely as conscious agents, but as ordained types of truckling, for the warning of the age. The sacred nature of the cause— the monstrous inequality of the compromise—justify the mind iu imparting a little of the preternatural to this history. Surely these two persons are meant to be remembered— not merely as Ministerial dummies, not merely as Parliamentary men of straw, but as mementos to • a selfish and sentimental age of the dangers attending susceptible feelings, showy Virtues, and weak resolves. • Whenever we hear of gratui tous professions of kindness, ending in as gratuitous a cut direct, we shall be reminded of Mr. Liddell and Mr. Gaily Knight. Nothing 'his occurred within our recollection so calculated to destroy the sympathy and confidence of the • people, as the whole discussion of this question. How can the people, already scarcely aware of any benefits received, respect a body which seems so loth to help them at any risk, and which is so ready to rescind its decisions in their favour ? It already suspects Parliament to be a mere function of the Government. The rejection of Lord Ashley's measure would certainly go some way to countenance that, impression. Yet how dangerous just now to efface from the popular mind all trust in Parliament, and refer the people to themselves for legislation and deliverance ! Such, however, is the advice, not of Chartists, not of Whigs, not of Mr. Ferrand or Mr. Muntz, but of Ministers themselves. They remand all ameliorations, even those of the most unquestionable and de sirable kind, even the protection of women and minors, to the internal and spontaneous workings of the labour market. " The law cannot help you ; help yourselves. You have heretofore, struck for more wages, and got them. Why do you not strike for less time ?" Very well. This is not our way of effecting great social improvements •, we would rather have them done by the nation. But if the Government will not do them,. and leaves the matter in the hands of the people, we have nothing to do but to acquiesce. (From the Herald.) No one, we suppose, even of the warmest advocates of the long•hour system, will attempt, to deny, that the adherence of the Government to that system, however conscientious, has inflicted the most serious• injury on the Conservative cause that it has sustained since the last grand mistake in 1829. That injury, too, is wide-spread, and consists of many parts. One of these, and by no means a slight one, is the deterioration of the character of the House of Commons. This is too often the forerunner of some hazardous organic change. In 1828, one-half of the House • of Commons reso lutely opposed the Romish claims. In 1829, on the word of command being given, nearly one hundred members were sud denly converted, and simultaneously discovered that to be just and necessary, which, only twelve months before, they had declared to be unjust and dangerous. From that instant a deep resolve was taken in hundreds of thousands of British bosoms to reform, i. e., to punish, to break up, and utterly to remodel an assembly, the conscience and principle of which were seen to be a mere pretence. And the people, having so resolved, did not long want an opportunity or an instrument. The dissolution of 1831 remitted the question to their decision, and wherever there was any real constituency, in nineteen cases out of twenty, the re sponse was, " Away with the borough system, which pro duced the disgusting exhibition of 1829, and let U 3 have almost ' any change, almost any system, rather than that.' There were two features in the calamity of 1829 which are most painfully recalled to mind by some of the events now passing. One of these is the incongruous mixture of parties which took place at that period, as now. The Conservatives effected their own destruction by casting themselves into the hands of the Liberals; and these latter were only too happy to greet with the greatest warmth the conversion of their opponents to. their own views, assured that the common sense of the nation would soon adjudge that if the country was to be governed on liberal principles, it ought to be governed by liberal men. The nation did so decide, and it took only a few months to carry that judgment into execution. Another un pleasant feature is the occurrence every now and then of in dividual conversions, as we saw them in 1827-1828 (the Brownlows, &c.), in which men, after voting consistently and steadily for one view of the question, suddenly became, con vinced of their error, and passed over to the opposite ranks; assigning reasons (as they were called) which to other men seemed the most miserable apologies for changing sides, and forced the hearers.to suspect, by their very weakness, that some other cause, which it was not so convenient to explain, had in reality worked. those conversions which, upon the face of them, seemed utterly inexplicable. 'We were grieved to the very heart to behold this dry-rot• again , infecting the Conservative body, and:-especially so when the two speeches of the new converts of Friday night, Mr. Liddell and Mr. Gaily Knight, reminded us .so forcibly of those droppings be fore the storm of 1829 to -which we have already alluded. No two speeches of such brevity, we will 'venture to say, were ever before fraught with so much loos and -damage to the party to which, the speakers belonged, - Infinitely better would it have been to have calmly and quietly changed sides, without making any remark' about it, than to rather o ha t v h e ar cti a l u le b. d th e attention of the public to such reasonings, stitutes for reasoning, as these. One of the gentlemen chiefly regietted that, on the former occasion, 3linisters had not •sisore Efrrttlkly declared the firmness of their determi diakisoilsisarnuch as he quite believed that . if they had '-atiViSnit, Wetly Members who had voted against them would Vbteil for them! He himself, as well as others, had imagined, in the former debate, that they were allowed the exercieilbf their own judgment.. He now, however, found vat it a4' made .a point of" by the Government; and be lieving that the Government knew best, and were actuated by { the•most conscientious motives, he would leave the matter ;in their! -heads, and- would restore to them his support. The drift of all this is, that however Mr. Liddell may like a little liberty at times, yet that, whenever the Government chooses to be pOSitive and peremptory, he is prepared to fall into the ranks, and do as he ;is bid. Upon this principle of " confi dence in Ministers"—even in a question of working a poor -.factory girl more hours than her constitution will bear—it is evident that Mr. Lidell might vote for making the girls work -20 hours out of the 24, as well as for 12 ; for, in truth, he surrenders his own judgment, the moment the Govern ment becomes • resolute; and merely leaves it to them to say for what measure he shall vote. But is this the proper and dignified course for an English county Member? Still -more intolerable, if that s be possible, is the plea of the other convert , Mr. Pally Knight. The question of a ten hour clause has now been before Parliament for more than a dozen years. It has been often argued in Mr. Knight's hearing. Only last month it was discussed in three or four long debates, spread over a period 'of ten days. After listen ing to all this discussion, after hearing even the able speeches of Sir Robert Peel and Sir James Graham—speeches which left nothing to be said on that side of the question, Mr. Gaily Knight, on three several divisions , voted for the ten hour clause ! He is now going to vote against it ; and he very naturally asks himself. " What has occurred to justify such a change of opinion, ?" And he answers, "Nothing, except time for inquiry, time to get sober !" He adds, that " since the Bill was last under discussion, he had paid great attention to the subject." That is, he first votes three times on a question, having the liberty of going away . without voting he pleases, and then`" he pays great attention to the subject" . and d y wefnl followed e t d r u that mn a such : exhibitions t i H o n n s wie as these, nfcn n i f ont s i fact, would ruin the character of any assembly as noreason able and safe tribunal? . HOUSE OF LORDS, 11141 g Their Lordships met at Five.o'Cloclt. Messengers from the Commons brought up bbvertu - Bills, which were read a first time. The Earl of MINTO gave notice that he should . , to , morrow move for a return of the services of her ; Majesty's ship Queen while in the Mediterranean. The Common Law Courts (Ireland) Bill passed through Committee, and was ordered to be read a third time on Friday. The Common Law Courts (England) Bill Om . , passed through Committee, and was ordered to be read a third time on Friday. - _ - - The Marquis of NORMANBY postponed till tb-• morrow his question relative to the appointment 01 : Mr. Gray to the magistrav in Ireland. LordWHARNCLIFFE postponed his motion with.' respect to the new Houses of Parliament till FridaY next. Lord LYTTELTON presented a petition from Worcestershire against the union of the sees of S. Asaph and Bangor. RAILWAYS. The Earl of MALMESBURY raid he had not. quite understood, from the answer which was given, by the Noble Earl, the President of the Board 01" Trade, on Tuesday last, to the Noble Earl opposite, (Earl Fitewilliam) respecting -railways, whether 4 the Government intended to sanction the proposition s which were contained in the report which had been made to the Government on the subject of railway& which propositions involved very important The object of the first of these propositions was th at the public should be protected against paying. to . high rates 'of passage, and the next was that t he profits on all railways should be limited to 10 p er , cent., and that in certain cases the Government sh ould the management of the railways. All exampl e in his opinion proved that it was inexpedient to pl ace such matters as railways under the manage ment of the Government of the count r y' The speech of the Noble Lord had made a great i nr pression on the country ; and he would ask whet hei the Government purposed taking those matters, 111 connexion with the railways, under their surveillance? Prin ci p les. • - Earl DALHOUSIE was sorry that the tile Lord did not put the question before the House et earlier period. With respect to the right of t",l railway companies to take a certain rate of profit , P: thought that the Noble Lord opposite ought to have moved for a Committee to consider it. With regs 7 to the other question, in the event of a dividend reaching ten per cent., he thought that Governraeo! • should be at liberty to purchase the lines under eel; tain restrictions. After a few words from Earl DALHOUSIE, Earl FITZWILLIAM said, the point to whiCh L I Lw evished to direct the attention of the Government the recent survey which had been compleT of the United Kikkdom in the establishment of an , particular line of railway. - • The matter then dropped. CRIMINAL LAW. Lord BROUGHAM said that, in rising to au areo their Lordships on the subject of . the cri ati, t law of the land, for the discussion of will their Lordships had been summoned, he 0 not avoid feeling very great anxiety, and 5 ' 44 apprehension, w hen he contemplated the l e V e great importance of the subject, much O bbs than he felt the difficulties that might surround.the task which he had imposed upon himself: He hai'l • did forward in extenuation of the offence of putting hoe Akl forward to begin this discussion—first of all, that he,'"'",, so most reluctantly, for he had held himself 174 from the subject, as the Noble and Learned OR the woolsack well knew, and he had °ilea it pressed his unfeigned disinclination to grapple Wi e —that he had done all in his power to" induce it, Noble and Learned Lord on the . woOlsack,, 1 4 .,„ ( 1 his longer experience, with his greater capacity, ept his powerful influence, both with the Goverl lP ?". to and their Lordships, and in the profession'l which he and his Learned and Noble Friend beinel to take this important task upon himself, but refused. But he (Lord Brougham) had no rn"iii to think that his Noble and Learned Friend li c h be adverse to the proposition with - to he was about to conclude, and he had no reseli,i apprehend that any opposition would be shown.teL;ut the Government. The measure which: he was Toe to explain had originated in the seven reportse,°to, Common Law Commissioners, afterwards the . ptio nal Law Commissioners. 'That Commission a, of appointed to enter fully into the consideratia: l to the criminal law of the land, w ith• a 14° 0 00 its being digested into one general code. e. the ask how much longer were they to remain Wit r e criminal laws scattered over so - many statutes- --w t id main di ff used among so many books, and fictikolt as it were, only in Westminster Hall ? Bow 01 ;0 9 longer were they to suffer the criminal law t0?_ .. , ; •41 main thus diffused, thus locked up—that criPL r y law which they ordered, and commanded one of their subjects at his peril to dise be dst It was at his peril to be ignorant of them. It.`" e 1 his peril through ignorance to disobey them. Il e .00 9 that many persons entertained prejudices, is his toil utterly groundless, against all attempts at dir r itte o the law of England—at making that law a v ' O 'f' the, text, instead of locking it up in the traditions r• common law. Lord Mansfield, when at the 14'0;001 said that it was always better that the f'S yor° law should remain unwritten, because, ss l A c s iti Mansfield, while it remains unwritten law, it njes: self pure by rules drawn from the f o untait e .viii P tice. He (Lord B.) approached these fall' s , i veneration. He wished to quaff of their 50 0 1 . t he' pluck some of those flowers which grew *Nu' • ' margin— Juvat ictegros acc eciere fontes, be Juvatque novos aecedere bores. ta m s Of the streams which • flowed from those foun"' to wished them to quaff, and he asked them With - 1 ,4 h e ' cull those new flowers. It did not follow r",iitiog' cause the law was not wholly reduced to %% they were therefore -not encumbered wit h n ost t , ° ing or printing. There , were thirty-twe,..l7,es "' volumes -of public statutes, besides three ..A ` l o sge, ° ' many private Acts, containing 30,000 Prinl e- 1 4 ‘ r ej and this was independent of the common lar ai e let them look at the common law, - on w"f,ted to Mansfield laid - so much stress. , - It . 0 3115 ,,, - . the decision of the judges, who had ""- o°7 o up their minds in nine cases out of t en 'o conflicting decisions, and to apply tt e b' e tig l3 t y .sense of what they knew to be the laW, 1 17 w ith t y might not be reduced to writing or cloth ° `",io g authority of judicial decision. What sue' of number of volumes of these decision l „„urt / 46. only to common law, and excluding the ' i r ly equity, which had . accumulated since the' 't,toc'op the . time when Lord Mansfield ',eft th e 0 00 0 , There were 160 closely-printed volume`', °' io law reports, beside ten volumes of Nisi Frit° t i la W r to proceeding from the three courts of conl o P, h , - ce'L f ir 'Westminster Hall alone, without reckoningt;ssith'..i? of Equity, sr the Courts of Ireland ; and it that the judges and the 'lawyers s hould u` g pseli , with this mass of printed matter, painf ul t° ;Ip, ja and frightful to contemplate. , He ;hell A rit o o hand a volume of three - hundred elose,'/'45f4 pages, containing- more print than t 140701 of the Code Napoleon, and what did their t d a is, think it was ? Peradventure, it was a tligf:afe;ol whole of the common law ? No.. it was an index to the whole of the 169 'O, tf. ) , reports ? No such thing. It Was en ' e cd ie 9° reports of thecourts of We fc ) i , e 10 3 year, 1842.. A digest of the reports for t esi l years consisted of 8,000 closely printed P -3 g-1,0 0 e: those who had .ceased - to be • students wer e alt," they could, to maketheir own, _by purchaltieji jto volumes, and to try to read them .if t 1 ' 1 ' 0 0: The judges it behoved to read, to under, vi el'e ‘j jge i o f inwardly digest ,that mass, because th e f t hat et warily called upon to give the results „ d oe 00,, 1 - .1 lion when they passed judgment. Ti,.,„ 1 t atif 'o l w accumulation was now going on more,v's - ar o oe ever; for every one of these common laW rep o , 001 were published half a century ago , published,' and at' the present raemlnloeyni i n el;:foitlteerbr; fifty-nine learned r s ons were to • writing the judgments' which , and: in adding .to this, enormous nif , r ePe'i c elvt This was a mass which it' defied any rperlt ho procure, any wrath -7 to retain, or ill er ed ,P 0 wh A to understand. Was it then to be we n t . of . Or re sse, the most venerable of judges and able! have itoPethil had written on jurisprudence, s hould 11 ; 0 scill'i o r4t, on,the Government to reduce thii nu!s 3 th e i c e v" enable . . ote re . 0 1 1 ,1 like order ;to those who adnun pi ith J do it with satisfaction to. themselves. an t be P": 30 P / :. e r the country. . This was attempted I . ev ibo t c„,o towards the end of the sixth centurY ; _ t t oo 0,' 4 Cfesar and Justinian, two of the g reste) co ul lived, had made similar attempts• lifsweorlYit'sio:#lo,l down to the history of this country. l ace t he 0 41 t bo t of Edgar an attempt was wade to p i r tite es, lig ht, ir a plain footing. Lord Bacon, Isl a , / as l t hat V i ola a digest ought to be made to. give be l, sw yert.„,o, not a different, nature. But it mig", l , ol si j Baeon shone more as 0: v ig.ol ll . P . i h e : 0 , that upon the latter subject he O rd coke :bo to 1. ;,... 4 pod then, what did they - say that .to repeal many penal . st ; at,_.T. o e hef,„, plain, peripicuous law, div det _' ., "';' lol l how . :' eo leo: every subject m ight_ know - the . I s. 7_ 09.t . c coot' e to ss! oo would be necessarily a work th e . great P:beho:,,,ity Sit Matthew Hole, considering t ere awn in t he law hooka had become, and thet_v. tb , , t hel' e °,ot their Lordships table compare d a w., corn i n g.s .. !; n i t tee. t o —but, leaving these authorities: 13“ 165 0 11 C; r P' C° °3ll o 4ll/ lature itself, they would find .n in . .. r6 sn oth9 o r to f 91 0 0 with Whitelecke at its head; ..o tf ed by rae ocau tiot a .oo sat upon the same subject; . 7; 81 6, w w h e t , tbe.3 . the eminence. And, in later times, e, „ tt , - e 4 0 , er. • of Parham- ..0.0 come to by both Houses u , , be pe r; le' work of digesting the .law sho dots errol e bert „„ 0 , House of Commons passed a se- it should be employed for that pu,ry.f4(o,e,itog.v in 1826; introduced a m easure ler. 111IPERIII :AMENT .4 Co thi . .~