The Sun. — London, England, 1845-03-21 00:00:00

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In those places where the evening mail arrives in the middle of the night, the " MORNING SUN," containing ALL the Debates, sic. sire., will answer best, and Subscribers can suit themselves accordingly. - Respectable Agents will always supply the proper paper; but where any wilful neglect is experienced, we recommend parties to write to " The Sun" office, 112, Strand, where prompt attention will be paid to their representations. AMERICAN LIFE. Just ready, In 3 vols., post Bvo., JONATHAN SHARP; OR, THE ADVENTURES OF A KENTUCKIAN. Written by Himself. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public axe respectfully informed that this THEATRE WILL RE-OPEN ou TUESDAY, MARCH 25, When will be repeated (fourth time in this country), Verdi's new Opera, ERNANI. In Your Parts-Ist The Bandit ; 2d., The Guest ; 3d., The I : ardon ; 4th., The Mask. With Dew scenery by Mr. Marshall. Metre, Madame Rita Borio ; Giovanna, Mdiie. Benin ; Ruy Gomez, Signer Fornasari ; Don Carlos, Signor Botelli ; Ernani, Signor Moriani. It is respectfully announced that in consequence of other novelties the highly successful Opera of ERNANI cannot be repeated until later in the Season. To conclude with an entirely new Ballet, by M. Perrot, entitled EOLINE ; ou, LA DRYADE. The Magic by Signor Pugni. The Scenery by Mr. Marshall. Characters—Eoline (betrothed to Count Edgard), ]fiddle. Tien° Grahn ; Rubezahl (le Gnome), M. Perrot ; Count Edgard, M. Toussaint ; Prince of Silesia (brother of Eoline), M. Gosselin. In the course of the Ballet the following Dances will be introduced : Wa'tee Selesienne, by the Coryphees of the Corps de Ballet. Pas de la Fiancee—Mdlle. Lucile Grahn and )f. Toussaint, Pas de Cinq (composed 13T M. Gosselin)--Mdlles. Louise Weiss, For. dinand, Demelisse, Cassan, and Moncelet. Mazurka D'Extase--3ldlle. Lucile Grahn and M. Perrot, Fourth Tableau. Grand Pas des Dryades by Mdlle. L. Grahn and the Ladies of the Corps de Ballet. Madame Anaide Castellan, of the Imperial Theatre St. Petersburgh, is daily expected in town, and will make her first appearance forth with in Donizetti's Opera of LUCIA DI LA3I3IERMOOR. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box "lnce, Opera Colonnade. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. It is respectfully announced that A GRAND MUSICAL FETE, Comprising the unpublished manuscripts of the celebrated FELICIEN DAVID, Will be executed, for the first time in this country, ON THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 27, With the original Melodies and Choruses. Grand Descriptive Symphonie Ode of THE DESERT, prodnced for the first time with the most enthusiastic success at the Conservatoire Royal, Paris. PROGRAMME. LE DESERT. Ode, Symphonie, Orientate—d Frided In three parts with grand orchestra. The orchestra and chorus will include upwards of 200 per formers. Solos by Sigs. 3loriani and Corelli. Part I.—Entrance to the Desert. Glorification of Allah; grand chorus and orchestra—Arrival of the Caravan—Departure of the Caravan—Tempest in the Desert— Return of the Calm—The Caravan resumes its march. Part I I.—Night. The Evening Star—Halt of the Caravan—Hymn to the Night : air sung by Signor Moriani—Arabian Fantasia—The Dance of the Almes—The Liberty of the Desert : grand chorus with orchestra— Evening reverie : melody sung by Signor llorlani, with chorus and orchestral accompaniments—Sleep ! _ . Part lll.—Sun-rise. Call of the Muezzin; original Arabian melody, with the Arabic words—The Caraian starts once more on its Journey—The Cara van gradually disappears in the distance ; grand chorus and orches tra—Silence in the Desert—The gong of Thanksgiving—Allah. Grand chorus final. Introductory Part—lst. Fragment of Grand Symphony in E flat-2d. Melodies imitative a Grand Orchestre : Les Hirondolles, sung by Signor Morianl-3d. Melodic Orientale : Le Chibonque 4th. Soiree du Printemps Fragment tire des quartre Saissons de Felicten David, executed by all the string instruments. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Pit Tickets to be made at the Opera-office, Colonnade, Haymarket. Doors open at Eight o'clock ;to commence at Half-past Eight. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE. FIRST NIGHT OF A NEW COMIC BALLET, For the Debut of Mdlle. POLIN and Mona. GASPERINI (Principal Dancers from the Grand Opera at Berlin), And of the Deadles. LOUISE and ADELE, with the full Corps de Ballet of this popular Theatre. ON EASTER MONDAY, MARCH 24, Wlll be performed ROBERT THE DEVIL. Robert, Mr. W. Har rison ; Bertram, Mr. Stretton ; Raimbaut, Mr. D. W. King ; Isabella, Miss Rainforth ; Mice, Miss Romer. After which will be produced, a New Comic Ballet, entitled ROBER f AND BERTRAND. Dances in the course of the Ballet : Pas de Deux, by Mdlles. Adele and Louise. Pas de Deux, by Mdlle. O'Bryan and Mr. ♦. Webster. Grand Pas de Caractere, by Mdlle. Polin and M. Gasperini. ♦ New Polka, by Mdlle. Polin and M. Gasperini. Bolero, by Mesdames Louise and Adele. La Esmeralda, by Mdlle. Polin, and A MAZURKA, by the Principal Ballet Performers. The Eminent Tenor, M. DUPREZ is engaged here for Twelve Nights only, and will shortly make his appearance in his cele brated eharaeter of ARNOLD, in GUILLAUME TELL ; and is also preparing himself for his unrivalled personation of EDGAR, in Donixetti's popular Opera, THE BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR, for the Perfbrmance of which, an Engagement has also been ex- Manly entered into with Mdlle. EUGENIE GARCIA. The Box-office will be opened this day, as usual, under the superintendence of Mr. John Parsons, THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. LESSEE, SIR. B. WEBSTER. ON EASTER MONDAY, MARCH 24, Will he repwited a New and Original Comedy, entitled THE SHERIFF OF TILE COUNTY. Principal Characters by Messrs. Farren, Strickland, Bnckstone, Webster, Mrs. Glover, Mrs. W. Clifford, Mrs. Hamby, Miss Julia Bennett, &c. After which, a New Grand Classical Extravaganza, entitled THE GOLDEN FLEECE. Principal Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, J. Bland, Madame Yestris, and Miss P. Horton. To conclude with YOUNG ENGLAND. Major Martinet, Mr. Rtrickland ; Mr. John James Pooloy, Mr. Backstone ; Mrs. P.eley, Mrs. Hamby ; Mrs. Smiler, Mrs. Stanley THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL UNDER TIIE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. ON EASTER MONDAY, MARCH 24, Will be repeated a New and Original Drama, entitled THE GREEN BUSHES ; or, A Hundred Years Ago. Connor O'Kennedy, lfr. Selby; George, Mr. Hudson : Wild Murtogh, Mr. 0. Smith ; Muster Grinnidge, Mr. Wright; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Bedford; Geraldine, Mrs. Yates ; Nelly O'Neill, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; Madame Celeste. After which, will be produced a New Grand Epereal Exposition, called ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON. Principal Characters hy Messrs, Paul Bedford, Wright, John Saunders, Selby; Miss Woolgar, Miss Brooks, and Miss E. Chaplin. To eonelade with MOTHER AND CHILD ARE DOING- WELL Mr. Snugshy, Mr. Lambert ; Lieutenant O'Scupper, R.N., Mr. Paul Belford; Mr. Felix Fluffy, Mr. Wright; Emily, Miss Fortesono. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, MR. J. M. MADDOX. ON EASTER MONDAY, MARCH 24, Will be performed the Play of THE STRANGER. The Stranger, Mr. Graham; Baron, Mr. Archer; Count Wintersten, Mr. Courtney ; Mrs. Haller, 3liss Cushman. After which, Mr. SANDS and his INFANT BROTHER, MAURICE, will appear in their Pleasing and Wonderful Entertainment, DE SALON, FREAKS OF FANCY. To conclude with a New Grand Oriental Melo-dramatic Burlesque Extravaganza, in Two Acts, called TIMOUR THE CREAM OF ALL THE TARTARS. Timour, Mr. Oxberry ; Zorilda, Miss E. Stanley. Stage Manager, Mr. H. I. Wallacki Stage Director, Mr. Emden ; Machinist, Yr. Edmund liradwell. Superbly decorated, and with extensive alterations! forming one of the most Elegant and Comfortable Theatres in the Metropolis ! THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. This elegant THEATRE WILL RE-OPEN ON EASTER MONDAY, MARCH 24. The Performances will commence with a Comedy called THE RECRUITING OFFICER. Supported by Messrs. Vining, F. Mat thews, Emery, Meadows, Bellingham, Wigan, and Keeley ; Mrs. Keeley, Miss Villars (her first appearance in London), Mrs. Wigan, and Miss Dawson (her first appearance). After which, a New Farce (never acted), entitled LOWTHER A RCADE. Characters by Messrs. Keeley, Meadows, F. Matthews ; Miss Dawson, and Miss Grove. To conelade with a Burlesque of English History, Pourtraying Olden Ideas and Modern Notions—lnvested with all the Pomp and Display of Scene—Painters engaged expressly—Costumes according to Yancy—Mechanisra, Ballet, Music, and Novel Stage Arrange ments—to be called, WHITTINGTON AND BIS CAT! Dick Whittington, Mrs. Keeley; Muley Moloch, the Linn Tamer of the Dessert, Mr. Keeley ; the Cat, Mr. Collier, supported by Messrs. Emery, F. Matthews, and Wigan ; Miss Fairbrother, and 3Liss Grove. The Box-offies is open daily, under the direction of Mr. Grogan. TIIE WEATHEIL—SIIN OFFICE, MARCH 21. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 23 ; Highest, 37; Noon, 40. BAROMETER, 30.59.-WIND, W. NOTR.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and " Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the Thermometer during the preceding twenty-four boors. All the other observations are made at noon. moit WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE TIIIS DAY. Morning .. 13 minutes after 0 I Evening .. 38 minutes after 0. ',4e , • „...sei • • ^ _ ..,-b -• ' i ;;41110110 ? I" , • ,111%, BF.COND ilj - *iii LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1845. The House of Commons met at Four. Several railway and other private Bills were brought' in and read a first time. Sir R. PEEL moved that the House, at its rising, do adjourn to Monday, March 31, which was agreed to. Among the notices of motion given was one by Mr. T. DIINCOMBE, for the Bth of April, of a Bill to secure letters from being opened at the Post-office ; and one by Sir R. PEEL, for the 3d of April, of a motion on the subject of the grant to Maynooth. In reference to this subject, Mr. WARD gave notice that he would, at the time it was most fitting to do so, move that all further money grants for the pur poses of religion be made out of the funds at present appropriated to the maintenance of the Protestant Episcopal Church. On the motion of Mr. CHRISTIE certain returns re lating to the Universities were ordered to be laid be fore the House. The evidence taken before the Dartmouth Election Committee was ordered to be printed. In answer to Mr. DENNISTOUN, Sir J. GRAHAM said that he was not prepared to propose any measure to prevent interment in towns. Mr. MORRISON moved the following resolutions : ' 1. That it is the duty of Parliament, in giving its sanc tion to the establishment of new railways, to render them the means of affording to the public the best and safest communication, and the greatest amount of accommoda tion, at the lowest possible rates. 2. That the clauses heretofore introduced into Rail way Bills to limit the amount of tolls to be demanded for the use of the railway, having proved practically in operative, it is expedient to make more effectual pro vision against the undue enhancement of the cost of travelling and transportation in every future Railway Bill, by fixing the highest rates which the railway com pany shall be allowed to charge for the conveyance of passengers and goods. 3. That for this purpose every Committee on a Rail way Bill, introduced in the present or any future session of Parliament, shall report a table of fees and charges, the lowest whi?,h they shall judge to be consistent, under the circumstances of each case, with a fair and reasonable return for the capital to be invested. 4. And that every Committee to which two or more competing projects for new railways may I e referred, shall require the promoters of each to put in statements as to the rate of charge for the conveyance of passen gers and goods to which they are content to be limited, and the amount of accommodation which they will bind themselves to provide for the public at those rates ; and that, in determining on the comparative merits of com peting schemes, regard shall be had to the extent awl nature of the advantages which can be thus reserved to the public from each. In the course of his speech the Hon. Gentleman complained bitterly of the conduct of the railway , companies in regard to third-class passengers. In stead of attaching third-class carriages to all their trains, a plan which would be more economical to the company, and more convenient to the public, they preferred starting separate trains for the third-class, which travelled at a much slower rate, thus incurring additional expense for the sole purpose of inconve niencing third-class passengers. Mr. WARBURTON seconded the motion, and sug gested the propriety of adopting a maximum of rates beyond which a company could not charge. Lord G. SOMERSET admitted the justice of some of the complaints which had been made ; but he doubted whether the remedies proposed were calculated to meet the e►il. He would advise the Hon. Member to withdraw these resolutions. But if he could de vise any other mode of attaining the object he had in view, so much was he impressed with the importance of the principle, that he was quite ready to go with him. For instance, if he would propose some altera tion of the standing orders of the House, which would have the effect of obliging railway companies, before their coming to Parliament, to lay down some rate of charges, it might accomplish the end desired. Lord Holum had heard with great 'satisfaction the declaration of the Noble Lord, that though he did not coincide altogether in the terms of these re solutions, yet that he was prepared to accede to the principles which they contained. And if the Hon. Member should be induced to withdraw them, he hoped that her MAJESTY'S Ministers would adopt some other mode, and that speedily, to accomplish the object at which these resolutions aimed. At any rate, he trusted that the Government would take up the matter, and give it their best attention before the great mass of Railway Bills which had been intro duced this session were committed. He thought it would be well to introduce some enactment by which lines of railway should, within a certain period after their formation, revert to the Crown. Sir R. PEEL acknowledged the great difficulty of the subject. How could they erect a tribunal to adjudicate upon the prices which railway companies might charge ? The great doubt in his mind was, whether such a tribunal would not establish too high a rate. He thought that Committees on special Bills, keeping the principle of these resolutions in view, might be safely left to take care of the public interest. After a few words from Mr. DENNISON, Mr. S. WORTLEY, Sir G. GREY, and Mr. PARKER, the motion was withdrawn. After a short conversation between Mr. HUMS and Lord LINCOLN, on the subject of lighting the House, the report of the Committee of Supply was brought up and received. The Railway Clauses Consolidation Bill (Scotland) was read a third time and passed ; and Mr. WAIELEY having given notice of a motion for the production of the Secretary of State's warrant, authorising the opening of Mr. T. DuNcostnes letters, the house adjourned at Twenty Minutes before Eight o'clock. We have often directed public attention to the la mentable and fatal consequences to be apprehended from the continued practice of interring human bodies within the churches and in the burial-grounds of the metropolis and other great towns. In advert ing to the "Reports of the Committee on the Health of Great Towns," we have over and over again had to deplore the fatuity which perpetuates a prejudice re suiting in consequences the most revolting and dis gusting to all the instincts of our nature, and in defiance of the most awful visitations of infection and disease that can visit on the living the most dis astrous reminiscences of the dead. It would be a painful task to refer our readers to the tedious details disclosed by witnesses to whose credibility no excep tion could be taken or was attempted to be hazarded. But we may remark in few words that they esta blished the existence of a system of desecration of the sanctuary of the grave in the churchyards, situated in the most populous localities of our metropolis. The custom of those to whom the care of these receptacles of the last remains of mortality is confided by local and parochial authorities, as well as by the common law of the land, has evidently been to levy a guilty revenue from the abuse of the functions invested in them. The parties who have possessed the interest in the land devoted to the reception of their corpses who are summoned by the fiat of PROVIDENCE to re incorporation with the original dust from which their primal creation was supplied, whether they have pos sessed the freeholds as ministers of the Establishment, or of congregations dissenting from it in the multi plied forms which religious dissent has assumed in its separations from our Church, have manifested equal sordidness of feeling, equal obtuseness of sentiment, and equally vivacious selfishness in making the highest possible market of the superficial areas and cubical capacities of the grounds that they had thus to farm to the uses of the dead. In vain spotted, malignant, typhoid fevers of various intensity.dis played the encouragement which was afforded by such a state of things to their influences. The horrors of such corrupting charnels, as those which still disgrace the localities we have often indicated in the neighbourhoods of Drury-lane, Portugal. street, Cannon-street, and elsewhere, still exist. The Gol gotha of St. Clement's Danes Churchyard, to the disgrace of the metropolitan police, the scandal of the parish authorities, and the imminent peril of a densely peopled vicinity, is still permitted to be opened for the entombment of additional putrefaction into its reeking and pestiferous bosom. It has been our duty to show how the sordid avarice, and brutal, reckless cupidity of the parties who commit these grievous offences against the decencies of _society and the in stincts of - our common nature, hare endeavoured to accommodate the capacities of the limited space under their control to the unlimited, ever-increasing de- mands of local mortality. Every fair and reasonable inference that can be founded on the facts before the public and on the discouraging results of compara tive mortality in the last year, embraced by the reports of the Registrar-General, as compared with the pre ceding one, compels us to suppose that the latent cause of aggravated and extended fatal disease is really to be found in this still continued practice of intermural interment. Were any further evidence necessary to confirm such a deduction we should find it in our police report for Wednesday last. At the Clerkenwell office a poor widow, whose husband had been buried in that enormous sewer of human de composition called the Spa-fields Burial -ground, in the disgusting purlieus of which the people who reside in Exmouth-street are content to breathe a tainted atmosphere, appeals to the magistrate for advice. Having read in the newspapers of the grave violations that had occurred in that respectable receptacle, she applied in her anxiety to learn whether or not his remains had been disturbed, to one BIRD, not inaptly termed in the report one of the " managers " of the grave-yard. This person and his colleagues, by public advertisement, had offered to open any grave in their ground on application from the relatives of persons interred there, so as to show that their re mains had not been disturbed. This was a clear trick enough, but the poor widow's application was of course rejected. We take for granted the allega tions of the report. From these it would seem that BIRD refused the woman'sprayer on various pretences. First, " the ground had not been opened for fifteen years ;" second, when she demonstrated this to be false, BIRD'S will was "Jt should not be opened ;" thirdly, on the wretched wo man's importunate pressing a her application, " that she had got teeth enough to dig a grave her self." We have no space nor time to follow the story of what ensued in the attempt to neutralise this ruffianly denial. Enough for our purpose that the vestry-clerk of the parish, coming forward under instructions to prosecute the " managers" of this Exmouth-street Golgotha, made this impressive and appalling statement :—" He had evidence to show that the corpses were tumbled out of the coffins in heaps, and thrown upon a mound of clay, then beaten and chopped up with the clay, and, when compounded together, the whole was thrown to the bottom of a pit dug for the purpose." Any further remarks of ours could but weaken this official testimony to such incredible horrors in a Christian land, in the head-quarters of civilisation and refinement. We content ourselves with asking, Can the municipal, the district, the parochial autho rities—can the magistracy, the Government which appoints them—or the Legislature. which controls the action of that Government —continue any longer to slumber in drowsy apathy for the remainder of a session—nay for a month, a week—after the ensuing recess, with the loathsome stench of such sickening horrors in their nostrils? The Lord Bishop of EXETER is a man of consistent contumaciousness. He has long acquired a notoriety as extensive as that of his compulsory divorce from the Rectory of Stanhope for his high-flying principles of prelatical infallibility, and of the inherent supremacy of the spiritual over the temporal jurisdiction. From a period long anterior to the time at which he polemicised himself into a factious importance, and the political re version of a bishopric, by running a tilt at the projected concession of the Roman Catholic claims, to the present time, he has lost few opportunities either of dis playing the " prelatica superbia" or vesting the odium theologicurn so congenial to his nature. It is a pity—(for the Bishop)--that the times have passed away when a true soldier of the Church availed himself of the abun dant opportunities which offered for vindicating the prowess of the Church militant on her temporal enemies. In those good times your fierce Bishop doffed his mitre and assumed his helmet with as much nonchalance as, now-a-days, a young cornet exchanges his smoking cap for his shacko. These hierarchical pastors moved to consecrations or to battles with equal alacrity. If they were ready to preach or preside at the preaching of the Christian doctrines of peace and humility, with an array of armed partisans, resembling the splendid retinue of a powerful military baron, or with a sumptuously habited court and clergy (numerous enough to have gratified Lord J. MANNERS' yearnings for the revival of Convoca tion), they showed no unworthy weakness ofpurpose--no diffidence about their moral justification in marching to the more exciting pastime of war. Like WALTER SCOTT'S modern Irish soldiery, " they move to death with military glee." Many a hard blow, in border forays, was dealt by Bishops of DURHAM or CARLISLE; and Bishops:of WINCHESTER and of SAINT ANDREWS are recorded to have fought in pitched battles with a zeal not less intense than—and we may surmise about as holy as—that which animated Pope Juuns, when work ing in the trenches, or directing in person the opera tions of the siege and the assault. Bishop PHILLPOTTS— HENRY of EXETER, we mean—is a most worthy repre sentative of the bishops-belligerent of our historical tra ditions. Could our times be rolled back to that remote point at which the enlightened toleration and Christian liberality of a few such unbigoted and self-denying priests as this Right Reverend Father would heartily desire that they should be, how astounding a lesson would he yead to some of those meddlesome laymen who now presume, to interpose their unwarranted opinions in matters ecclesiastical ? Why, we would not trust Mr. CHARLES BULLER, for example, after a debate in which Puseyite innovations and their Episcopal patrons had been somewhat freely handled, within ten miles of Exeter city, were Bishop HENRY in residence there, armed with the old hierar chical authority and power. In our mind's eye, we can fancy our gentle Bishop, mounted on his Barbary jennet, and eased in that " harness of proof " which still seems to render him insensible to the rudest assaults of his adversaries, heading his body guard at a fierce gallop to the spot where private information had led him to believe he might fall in with the luckless Member for Liskeard, on his unsuspecting return from a legislative campaign, to the head-quarters of his family in Devon shire. Oh 1 with what a fiery glance of anticipated triumph world our good Bishop—followed by his deans and his canons and minor canons, his prebendaries, priests, and deacons, his proctors and precentors—all armed like him self, to the teeth, despite the cassock or the stole—have betaken himself to the spoil of such a Philistine I But the days of practical prelatical doughtiness are past. If the Bishop of EXETER expect the advent of the most furious anti-Puseyite protester, by the fastest special down-train, in these deplorable days of radicalism and railroads —he cannot, publicly, venture ever to anathe matise anything more sentient than the boiler of the locomotive. He may exorcise the demon-whistle, or he may threaten the stoker with the censure of the spiritual courts ; but it is doubtful whether he would be much more successful in stopping the momentum of the train than he has been in staying the impetuous current of anti-Puseyite feeling. Yet still, the Right Rev. Father, albeit shorn of the good old power of other days, and oppressed by the accumulating forces of that freedom of thought and independence of action which the disas trous tendencies of the reformed constitution of our Anglican Church have so fatally fostered in the laity— still he retains the ancient instincts of his caste. He is, even in defeat, haughty, domineering, and litigious— smooth of speech, but eager and reckless in the indul gence of once adopted prejudices. Courtier enough to have studied the science of dissimulation profoundly, he is so much of a churchman as to permit the expression of his constitutional temperament sometimes too un guardedly to develop itself. The Bishop of EXETER has been of late too much, too often, and too discreditably, we must say, before the public in connexion with what, notwithstanding his Lordship's testimony to its solemnity and importance, we shall take the liberty to designate as one of the most worthless and impertinent squabbles that has ever vexed the repose or disgraced the dignity of the Esta blished Church. He has, in that unhappily officious spirit which, since his elevation to. the Bishops' bench, has always been embroiling him in some shape or other, put himself forward as a determined champion of the offensive pseudo-papistical observances, which make small Birmingham; martyrs of the W ARD an d P ALMER disciples of Dr. PUSEY'S school, but which offends and disgusts about four-sixths of all the congregations of the Establishment in the United Kingdom. We had hoped, from the signal nature of the reproofs lately administered by every organ of public opinion, that our excellent Bishop would have been, by this time, aweary of the controversy. Ile has been already compelled—and compelled against his own declared convictions to the contrary—to abandon the ceremonials he had most vehemently contended for in a most elaborate correspondence. Yesterday we re corded another case of defeat. The curate of Falmouth has given up, it seems, the Puseyite forms which had so much estranged his parishioners from his church. Bishop PHILLPOTTS writes to him and the churchwardens in a sulky, " I-won't-give-in-though-I-am-beaten" sort of style—that though, for the sake of peace, he had con sented to this abandonment of particular forms, " he could not permit, in any of the churches of his diocese the discontinuance of any part of the Liturgy (as ordered by the Rubric) Which was used there at the date of his last letter to the clergy (Bth January last). He must, therefore, require that the reading of a sentence of the offertory, and of the prayer for the Church militant, after the morning service at Falmouth, be continued as before, Poor Bishop ! He would have thought it graceless to leave his concession an act of grace ! Is there no retir ing fund on which Bishops, after certain periods of active service, may be pensioned off the bench ? The intelligence from Madrid is to the 13th inst. On that day the Chamber of Deputies was again en gaged in discussing the Bill for restoring the unsold Church property, and the report of the minority of the Committee was rejected .by a majority of 117 to 27. MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA made an eloquent speech on the occasion, for the purpose chiefly of calming the public mind with regard to the security of purchases already made, In reference to the The discussion in the French Chamber of De puties on the Bill for open Toting has been brought to a close by the partial adoption of the measure. Vote by ballot is still to be allowed, but can take place only on the demand of twenty Members in place of forty, e ec The h 0 f m A o l d . i D fi C u a r t l i o N n , N NV y h a o s P the Chamber. H e sup ported adopted li proposedgreat r chieflyeiant o t iN li , e iflnu o ge r intgoci influence in s a i. vote by ballot, but not with forty Members demanding it, for that wastoo many, but with twenty. " As for me," continued M. DUPIN, " who am a Con servative, but who do not belong to the Conservative party, and who have no object to preserve for a longer or shorter period in power such or such men, or to place there certain others, I am of opinion that publicity may one day produce almost miraculous effects, and the next, he attended with most detes table consequences. I consider that the ballot is ne cessary for the future safety of the country, for the li berty of this assembly. When there are so many factions around us, when we lire in the midst of such great vicissitudes, I am at a loss to discover how the abo lition of the ballot can be called for ! There are various kinds of tyranny—the tyranny of insurrec tions, the tyranny of power. Happy are they who have the courage to brave everything in the day of trouble, and declare their opinions aloud ! But there are others who have need of secrecy to venture to vote according to their conscience. Do not take from them the protection they require. Re• move not from your regulations a guarantee which is useful in times of calm against corruption, and in times of agitation against popular tyranny." The Journal des Debats is satisfied with the result, but most of the Opposition journals complain that the evil is by no means removed, and that secret voting in all important cases will still be resorted to. " The discussion which preceded the vote," says the Presse, "has very feebly answered our expectations. Count DE SALVANDY did not come up to what he promised on Monday. During his ridiculously solemn evoca tion, M. GUIZOT, who was doubly weary of M. DE SALVANDY, both as a colleague and as an orator, whistled between his teeth with a sneering air, beating time with his wooden paper-knife ; but he said nothing, for he has left off saying anything, this poor Minister ! After M. DE SALVAAY,I4I.BARROT occupied the tribune, and found no difficulty in throwing down the whole scaffolding of sophisms c e tdotien: giot rhthietibeos when several so clumsily raised by the illustrious author of 'Nathalie ' and ' Alonzo.' In fine, the secret ballot found its last advocate in the man who is the best personification cf the unclassed species, in M. Durfs. M. DUPIN evoked the solitary efficacious argument in favour of the secret ballot—fear! In turn, he made the terrors of riot growl, the blade of the poig nerd glitter, the muskets of insurrection flash and explode in the eyes and ears of his adversaries, and he conquered. This result, we repeat, is to be regretted. Happily, however, it is not definitive. An institution which can be defended by only such miserable argu ments cannot continue long in existence." There will now be three modes of voting—by assis et lave, hiativegiven a, Whilst the Chamber by actual division or the public vote, and by the ballot. The vote by division will be given through the means of two urns placed upon the table, one white and the other black ; the first destined to re ceive the balls in favour of the adoption of the measure in question, and the o e t s h a er rig t h h t e . balls for its rejection. As the colour of the urn indicates the vote, it will, of course, be public. In cases where at present the vote is taken by the secret sthecerdetembaalnlodt,otfhteenvomteebmybedriavisiitonmbueactombe even after a vote taken by assis et lea. Recourse can also be had to the secret ballot when only it is demanded by twenty Members, either by a written list or by word of mouth. The conducing scene in question, was by the Con rt rather t e h e C r haammub:ira, amusing, and reference fie: thusen ,C Chamber the ehomrecebne ree ardla ensemble oti off ueMem berstr ehes the . stitutionnel : a en te t d ion to demand the ballot. "At the moment when th g e oo of the porosspiossiettioinevet,oca)ks ipslapcer,acttihseed l a ,o s t i o ng b u y lar spectacle. It was proof of its inconve- I ti t on w ooufldr announcedeg have l a a v t o i o n theirb i e s en t i r n e ta g a i n judged by itself, and fact, being prepared. It sals of this useless con tained some names, but in vain was the attempt made to n w i o e u o l e cl e. per A ha l p i s st ag w a a in s, complete it. It circulated from bench to bench, every journey. At last, the faithful defenders of the ballot on complacentlywhe r e meeting waited with forne new the refusals , e f determinationu its last day, despairing of finding 20 signatures, tore up their list. The Chamber proceeded with its business and the secret vote, dying of itself, was condemned by tt, public vote. The Chamber had scarcely separated when there were seen to pass, on the shoulders of two work men, the urns now proscribed, which have served for the ballot. They were taken away, no doubt, to give them the colour required for their new destination. They thus passed mournfully in the midst of the Deputies, and were greeted with universal laughter." The following are miscellaneous extracts from the papers :--. A letter from Algiers, of the 10th, says The pre parations for the expedition against the Kabyles have commenced. The Vautour left this morning with nearly 30,000 cartridges, which are to be dep os i te d at Bugia, and 600 cases of biscuit for Denys. It appears that a column will leave from that point, and another from Setif, and that they will proceed towards the mountains of Bugia, and others which constitute Kabylia. We are assured that General Changarnier will take the com mand, under the orders of Marshal Bugeaud. The ar rival of the Marshal is positively announced for the 80th, but the expedition cannot march untiltowards the middle of April." Die Semaphore of Marseilles states, on the authority of a letter from Algiers of the 10th, that there was found in the ruins of one of the powder-magazines which was blown up the body of a negro or moor which could not be recognised, and that this pe rson i s su pp ose d un d er the influence of fanaticism to have been the cause of the disaster. A letter from Zurich of the 15th inst. says :—" By a circular letter, dated the 12th, the Vorort has freed the cantons of St. Gall, Thurgau, and Shaffhausen, from the obligation to maintain their contingent under arms. The State Gazette of Lucerne, and the Federal Gazettl of Zurich, attribute this result to the French note." TILE BO URSE --WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19. First Highest Lowest I ast French Five Ter Cents.. •• •• woe ' Price. Price. Price. 118 10 .. 118 10 .. 117 73 .• 117 80 Bank of France........... Three per Cents..... 85 35 160 .. 85 40 •• 85 30 •• 8 5 40 Gouin Bank, 1,0004:. Shares. • 1090 —1 36 3 090 • • 1090 • • 13090 Belgian Bank. ..... 652 30 .. 652 50 .. 652 50 .. 652 50 Belgian Fives, 1840 .... • ... 10514 .. 1081 / . .. 103% • • 105% 3160 —lO .. 160 .. 1842 ........ 107 .. 107 Four-and- a - Half .•• 103'' .. 103% .. 103% • • 1031 Spanish Active ••..••. • . • • . 391; .. 30!4 • • 3934 • • 30 % Passive ...... ...... 7'" .. 7 .. 6% •• 6% l'ortugucse Five per Cents.. 67% .. 67)4 .. 67Y1 ••67!4 F.ontan . ........... •• •• 106 .. 106 .. 106 •• 106 RAI LWAY SHARES. St. Gennain............... .. 106% 108. 4 1190 ..1190 ..1190 —ll9O Versailles, R. 8....• .. ...... 672 50 .. 673 .. 653 ..667 50 Rouen ....................118 0 . 1190 L. 8... •• •• •"••• 400 ~ 410 .. 397 50 .• 407 50 Rouen to Havre. Avignon to Marseilles-- ..1162 50 ..1162 50 •• 1160 Orleans ..1355 50 —1350 ..1340 —1340 ..1160 Strasburg to Bale•••• •••• 348 75 .• 348 75 .• 345 .. 345 Bordeasx ts.Ao:TieLswtoA.y..B.;3lt2T2,us z ACCOUNT, T;tr 2 1, 2 1 5 1. 3. .. 230 St. Germain .......•1085 -1182 50 -1185 ..1190 672 50 .• 680 .. 655 .. 665 400 .• 412 50 •• 397 50 .• 410 R V o e u rs e atil n• e . s .: R 8 ... ...... .. .. L 8...... ...:.....1195 ..1195 ..1180 "1180 Rouen to Havre..........., 992 50 •• 992 50 •• 977 50 .• 987 50 ~O rt , .l , ,,,e ah n m . s ~,.. t . n . . R . W A ..... ••• •• 1365 . • 1360 ..1337 50 .. 1340 ----- ' s ----- .. •• •••• 350 •• 350 •• 343 75 • 346 25 Avignon to Marseilles— ••••1180 —llBO ..1155 .• 1155 Bordeaux to Tests •—• •• • • 230 .. 230 .. 230 .. 230 A Deputation from the Chester and Birkenhead Railway Proprietors waited yesterday on the Chester and Holyhead Directors, to endeavour to make better terms for the sale of their line to the latter Company, but were mot with a decided refusal on the part of the Chester and Holyhead Board to entertain any proposal for re opening the terms of the existing agreement, which has been arranged by the Directors of the two Companies, and been ratified by the Shareholders of each. It is rumoured that the Earl of Clare is to have the vacant Ribbon of St. Patrick, general measure, he said " a solemn and official de claration of the Holy See has been communicated to France and Austria ; the Father of the Church pro claims that the hour has come for entering again into negotiations ;with Spain. The Government having faith in this declaration, hopes that these negotiations will soon end in a desirable concordat. The Holy See approves of the conduct hitherto pursued by the Spanish Government ; nothing can, therefore, pre vent a most satisfactory arrangement." The Bill, of course, will be carried by a large majority. The following account of a burglary and capture of the thieves appears in the Castellano :--- " A band of thieves who had expected to find millions at the dwelling of M. Carriguiri, the capitalist, have cap tured but 18,000 reals (1801.) They had been admitted by one of the banker's servants, to whom the most splendid offers had been made. As the miscreants in tended to return and murder M. Carriguiri, if need were, in order to find the treasure, the repentant servant se cretly warned his master of their design. Eleven persons have in consequence been apprehended." The Three per Cents. closed at 34 9-16 for cash, and 35 at 60 days ; the Four per Cents. at 24 at 60 days ; the Five per Cents. at 26 at 60 days ; the Vales at 10/ ; and the Debt without Interests at 8 at 60 days. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Pubitt %pinion " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. On Monday evening their Majesties received the Bri tish Ambassador, the Danish and Mecklenburgh Mi nisters, the Ministers of Commerce and Marine, and M. Baude, Deputy. Prince Augustus of Saxe•Coburg-Gotha, nephew of the King and brother-in-law of the Queen of the Bel gians, arrived at Brussels on Monday, on a visit to their Majesties. Lieutenant-General Count Dejean, Peer of France, President of the Commission of Cavalry, and formerly Aide-de-Camp of the Emperor Napoleon, died in Paris on Monday, of an illness of nearly a year's duration. The new trial of Walker and his confederates before the Cour Ilo; ale, upon the charge of cheating at cards, terminated on Tuesday. The Court pronounced them all guilty, and sentenced Walker, Peyronnet, Fraser, Lam bert, and Drummond Baring (the last in default of ap pearance), to imprisonment for two years, and Ogilvie and Emma Caye for one year. In the Chamber of Peers, on Wednesday, M. Teste presented the report of the Committee appointed to exa mine Count Daru's proposition to prevent gambling on the Stock Market in railroad shares. The Noble Peer stated that the Committee adopted the principle of the proposition, but differed from it on certain points. The Committee recommended to have all shares inscribed by numbers in a register, and the shareholders to receive a receipt, which should serve them as a guarantee of the bond fide nature of the enterprise. Amongst other penal ties established by the Committee, the subscribers are to have liberty of suing criminally all dishonest speculators. The Chamber adjourned for the holidays to the 25th. In consequence of the result of the duel between M. Dujarrier and M. licauvallon, telegraphic orders to arrest the surviving combatant and the four seconds were sent off in every direction, in case they should attempt to get out of the kingdcm. The news reached the shores of the Mediterranean on the 12th, but a Valenciennes joernal states that the order did not reach that place till the 13th, by which time the fugitives might have got into Belgium, if they took that road. The Journal de Lille announces that M. Wicart, Grand Vicar of the Arehbishop of Cambrai and Archdeacon of Lille, has been nominated Bishop of Frejus. The Madrid 'Jerald° publishes a letter from Xeres, stating that, in consequence of the considerable ship ments of wine made from England to China and India, the exportation of that article from Andalusia had greatly increased. In the month of February last 33,438 arrobas were exported to England from Xeres, and 32,997 from Puerto de Santa Maria. A letter from Moscow, of the 22d ult., states that at a late ball, given for the benefit of the charitable fund for the relief of the indigent French in that city, the net re ceipts, after payment of all expenses, amounted to up pards of 20,000 f., being a much greater rum than has been obtained by this means for several years. It was patronised not only by the authorities of Moscow, but by the Emperor himself. More than 4,000 persons attended, and the magnificent ball of the nobility's assembly pre sented a most brilliant spectacle. A Madrid journal of the 12th states, on the authority of a letter from Lisbon, that M. Rodriguez, of Barcelona., a partisan of the Ex-Regent of Spain, and who had taken refuge in Portugal, committed suicide in one of the squares of Lisbon, on hearing of the execution of Zurbauo • a.avr AZAD rozacm. MISCELLANEOUS. The Lord Mayor has issued cards for a grand dinner at the Mansion-house for the 24th inst., to which many of the leading nobility have been invited. On Thursday next the Dcsei t, of Felicien David, which has created an immense sensation at Paris, is to be performed at the Opera House. The Hoxne Union, in Suffolk, last week unanimously decided to petition against the Settlement Bill ; and on Tuesday the Desswade Union, in Norfolk, by a large majority (above 30 against 5) came to the same decision. These two unions join the Wangford Union; the Hoxne also touches the Blything Union. The Braintree Union, in Essex, and the Steyning Union, in Sussex, are to con sider the question this week. The Judges' Chambers will be closed for this day (Good Friday) only. Mr. Baron Rolfe, the vacation Judge, will sit as usual to-morrow, and Monday and Tuesday next, notwithstanding the whole of the Common Law offices will be closed. Very great inconvenience arises both to the public and the profession in conse quence of the closing of those offices at the present, the busiest, period of the assize business. On Thursday, Mr. Bedford, the new Deputy Coroner for the City of Westminster, was sworn into office be fore the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, in the Jeru salem Chamber of the Abbey. Mr. Bedford held his first inquest at the Red Lion, Princes-street, West minster, on the body of a child named Charles Hurd, aged three years, who, while left alone for a few minutes, set fire to his clothes, and died from the consequent in juries soon after its admission into Westminster Hos pital. Verdict---" Accidental death." On Thursday afternoon, between the hours of one and two, the inhabitants of Clapham-common were surprised by the outbreak of a fire upon a portion of Clapham common known as Battersea Manor. It originated in one of the plantations of furze, the property of Earl Spencer, and before it could be extinguished nearly two acres of furze, very thick, and some eight feet high, were consumed. A number of workmen, with a strong muster of police belonging to the V division, hastened to the scene of conflagration, and set to work in cutting a roadway, in which they succeeded, and thereby pre vented the flames from making greater havoc. It is believed that the fire was the work of some evil-dis posed person. DREADFUL SUICIDE IN BATTERSEA-FIELDS.-011 Wednesday afternoon, about five o'clock, Thomas Edley, of Lordship's-place, Chelsea, and another man, who were out shooting in Battersea-fields, discovered the body of a man, who from his dress appeared to be a butcher, lying in a ditch inclosing the grounds - of Mr. Popart, a market-gardener. The body lay on its right side, and the head was almost severed from it. Close to the side of the deceased lay an open razor, smeared with blood. The police were made acquainted with the circumstance, and removed the body upon a stretcher to the Prince's Head, when it was immediately recog nised as that of Charles Martin, foreman to Miss Wood, a butcher, in Battersea. Doctors Connor and Lyons were callel in, but they declared that death had taken place many hours previously, and were of Opinion that the wound was self-inflicted. It appears from Miss Wood's statement, that the deceased left the shop on Tuesday night to return home to his dwelling in Ca mera-square, Chelsea, and from that time she had seen nothing of him. He was a man of temperate habits, and strictly honest. What motive could induce deceased to commit the rash act will probably ever remain a mystery ; he had no family to maintain, and enjoyed the respect of every person, high and low, in Battersea. SALMON FISHING. —The fishing in the northern friths and rivers continues unsuccessful. Takes are few and far between, and when they do occur they are meagre in the extreme. The fishing on the Conan is somewhat improving, but on the Beauly only two salmon were caught during the whole of last week. At Aloes beach stake -net two clean fish were lately caught, weighing 911,. each. An English nobleman, who had been angli ng f or a week on the Garry (which' is allowed to be one of the best rivers in the north), captured only seven salmon during that time.—lnverness Courier, At the Carmarthen assizes, before Mr. Justice Cress well, David William Joshua, toll-gate keeper, was charged with having forged a certain receipt, called a Post-office order, for 21. This case caused the greatest excitement in the Court, as the prisoner has gained an unenviable notoriety as a public informer during the celebrated Rebecca disturbances.—He was committed. Frederick Harrison, aged 23, convicted at York of having, on the 6th inst., feloniously assaulted John Rigg on the highway, and robbed him of ss. and his watch, was sentenced by Mr. Justice Wightman to be transported for twenty years. At Exeter Isaac Taylor, as principal, and James Jackson and John Sambo, as accessories, were indicted for the manslaughter of Charles Derrick. Taylor and the deceased bad engaged in a pugilistic contest, in which, by an unlucky blow, the prisoner had killed his opponent. They were found guilty, and sentenced each to one month's imprisonment, without hard labour. At Norwich, Mr. Baron Parke sentenced John Skinner, a butcher, to ten years' transportation for stealing a lamb. There were no less than three cases tried yesterday at the Surrey sessions in each of which the prisoners escaped, in consequence of the clumsy manner in which the indictments were drawn up. A very genteel-looking young woman, between 20 and 35 years of age, named Ann Furnell, was brought up at the Marylebone Police-court, charged with having stolen bank notes to the amount of 501., and other pro perty of considerable value, from the residence of the Hon. Colonel Finch, 6, Hyde Park gardens. The pri soner, who had lived as lady's maid in the establishment, was remanded until Thursday, in order to give time to trace the notes. A man named Brick was brought up at Worship street, charged with having attempted to murder his wife with a chopper. The poor woman, who received a frightful wound on the head, is in the hospital. The prisoner was remanded. COURT—PASIIIONAME. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland will leave Alnwick Castle for Northumberland House, Charing cross, at the close of the ensuing week, for the season. The Earl of Malmesbury, Viscount Ossulston, M.P., Mr. and Lady Jane Lawrence Peel, Sir H. llume and Lady Campbell, Colonel Fox, and:Mr. and Mrs. Rowland Errington, are amongst the fashionables who intend to pass the Easter recess at Paris. Lord and Lady Francis Egerton have arrived in Bel grave-square, from their seat, llatchford, near Cobham. The Noble Lord and her Ladyship proceed to-day to Trentham, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Suther land, who are about to entertain a family circle during the Easter recess. Lord and Lady Charles Wellesley will pass the Easter recess with the Duke of Wellington, at Strathfieldsaye. The Marchioness of Douro is staying with the Noble Duke. His Excellency Ali Effendi, the late Turkish Minister at our Court, and suite, left the Embassy, in Bryanston square, yesterday, on his return to Constantinople. Lord and Lady Dusany have arrived at their seat, Dunsany Castle, county Meath. Lord Ossulston leaves town this evening for Paris, where his Lordship purposes remaining for about a fort night. The Rev. Lord Decies has left town on a visit to Viscount and Viscountess Beresford, at Bedgebury Park, Kent, where a small family circle is assembled. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY QUARTER TO THREE. There were yesterday only 2,000 bales of Cotton sold at Liverpool, and the market was flat. The market is now closed for the holidays. The sales of the week to last night were 18,950 bales. The stock is 758,000 bales against 608,000 at this time last year.-Shares were steady and lively. Barnsley Junction, 6/. 18s. 03. ; Ditto, New Shares, 3 1 4 ; Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 4!. Is. 3d. 4s. ; Blackburn and Preston, 15X ; Bi r k en h ea d , M anchester, an Cheshire, 978 ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 11 1 4 11; Caledonian, ' 10 ; Chester and Birkenhead, ex div., 47%; Ditto, Half Shares, at 5 dis., ex div., 23% • Ditto, New Shares, at 33 discount, ex dividend, 39 1 / 4 'l / 2 ; Chester and Preston Brook, 4% 5 ; Churnet Valley, 6% 16s. 3d. 7 ; Clydes ' dale Junction, 7% ; Direct Northern, 4% ; Dublin and Galway, 2% • Dundee and Pe r th, 3 ; E as t ern Counties, ex div., 21 1 / t 1 / 2 ; Ditto, Perpet ua l, N 0 . 2, 1/ . 6s. ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, ex div„ 61 1 / 2 62 ; Ditto, New Shares, 5 1 / ; Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 11. Is. 11. Os. 6d. ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, 18 17 3 / 4 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 8% ; Grand Junction, Eighth Shares, 18% ; Great Western, ex di v ., H a lf Shares, 101%; Huddrsfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 5 1 4 ; Hudderfield and Sheffield, 4%; Lancaster and Preston, 54 ; Leeds and Thirsk, % ; Leeds and West Riding, 7 ; Liverpool and Manchester, 208 ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 3% 31. 11s. 6d. ; London and Birmingham, ex div., 231 1 / 2 ; London and South-Western ex div., 79% ; L on d on and York, 3 1 / 2 ; Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, ex div., 164 164%; Manchester, Bury, and Rosendale, 14% • Midland Stock, ex div., 140 140 ; Ditto, 40/. Shares, 13%' 18s. 9d. ; Newark and Sheffield, 2%; Newcastle and Ber wick. 14% ; North British, Half Shares, 44. North Wales Mineral, N ew Sh ares, 4% ; N orth Wales, % 74 ; Norwich and Brandon, New Shares, 4/. Ifs. 4%; Oxford, Worcester, and Rugby, 4; Preston and Wyre, 31%; Scottish Central, 5 1 4 %; Sheffield and Lincoln, l/. 45.; Sheffield and Manchester, ex hit., 113 112; Ditto, Quarter Shares, ex int , 13% ; Shrewsbury and Grand Junction, 6 5%; Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 31. Ifs. 6d. 1 / 2 Shrewsbury,Wolverhampton, arid Birmingham, 4% ; South Eastern New Shares, No. 3,8/. Bs. 9d. ; South Wales, 6% 1 / 2 ; Jamaica, 30 ; Boulogne and Amiens, 11% ; Lyons and Avignon (English), 274 ; orthern of France (English), 6%; Paris and Lyons (English), 4% ; Ditto (French), 4 ; Ditto (Ganneron's), 2% 21. 1 Is. 6d. ; Paris and Rouen, 45% ; Paris and St. Quintin, 455. 93., 461. ; Toulouse and Bordeaux, 21. I Is. 6d. ; Toulouse, Bordeaux and Cette, 2 3 ; Verona and Ancona, 1/. Is. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 20.-The sales are :-Eastern Counties, 22 21%; Ditto, No. 2, 265. 265. 6d. ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, New Quarters, 5% ; Manchester and Leeds, Half Shares, 641/ 2 ex div. ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 1714 3 / 4 ex div. ; Manchester and Birmingham, 57 I A. ex new and ex div. ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 9% ex new and ex div. ; • Ditto, New Quarters, 5% 1-16 prem. ; Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale, 14 1 / 2 ; Midland Railway Consols, 40/. Shares, 13% 14 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 113 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 13 1 4 ; South-Eastern, No. 2, 12% ; Ditto, .No. 3,8% ; Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction, 9% 13-16; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington,6% ; Blackburn, Dar wen, and Bolton, 4 1-16 ; . Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 10%; Caledonian, 9 74 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 6% 3 / 4 ; Churnet Valley, 7 6 15-16 ; Direct Northern, 4%; Ely and Bedford, 2 1 / 2 7-16 ; Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 5%; Leeds and Thirsk, 4%; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 6% 13-16 ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 3% ; London and Worcester, Oxford and Rugby, 4; London and York, 3%; Manchester and Buxton, 1% ; Newark and Sheffield, 2% ; Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 1 15-16 ; S co tti s h C entra l , 5% ; Scottish Midland, 2% % ' • Sheffield and Lincolnshire J unc ti on , 2 45. 245. 6d. ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester Junction, 3% Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, Dudley, &c., 43 ; Trent Valley 16 74 ex new ; West Yorkshire, 3% ; Lyons and Avignon. 2 13-16; Paris and Lyons (Ganneron's), % prem. MARKET NE WS-(TiIIS DAY.) This being what is termed the Great Lamb Market, there was rather a numerous attendance of both London and coun try buyers at an early hour; but the result of the trade was such as to disappoint the expectations of the graziers. Prime Down qualities were, however, in steady request, at from 5s 10d to 6s per 8 lbs., but all other descriptions of Lamb were extremely dull, at from 5s to 5s Bd, and a clearance was not effected without much difficulty. The numbers, per railway, from the Isle of Wight, embraced 200 ; from other quarters about 5,000 head. The general quality of the Lambs was by no means first rate. The number of Beasts, amongst which were 30 Oxen and Cows from Holland, and 70 Scots from Aberdeen, were more than adequate to meet the wants of the butchers ; hence, the Beef trade, notwith standing the coldness of the weather, was heavy, at a de cline of 2d per 81bs. Sheep, the supply of which was sea sonably extensive, commanded a steady, though not to say brisk, inquiry, at Monday's currencies. The Veal trade, from the number of Calves being good, was very dull, yet prices were mostly supported. In Pigs only a limited busi ness was doing, at previous quotations. Mulch Cows moved off slowly at from 151. to 19/. each. Per 81bs. to sink the offal. a. 4. a. 4. s. d. to s. d. tiferior Beasts .. •• 2 4 2 8 Second quality ditto 3 6 3 8 Second quality ditto. 210 3 2 Coarse-woolledditto 310 4 2 Prime large Oxen• • 3 4 3 6 SouthdownWethers 4 4 4 6 Prime Scots •••• • • 3 8 310 Ditto out ofthe wool Large coarse Calves 310 4 6 Large Hogs .. Prime small ditto •• 4 8 5 0 Small Porkers .. ••3 10 4 4 suckling Calves, .• 18 0 30 0 Quarter old Pigs •• 16 0 20 " Inferior Sheep ••• • 2 6 3 4 Lambs • • Lambs, 56 to Cs. SUPPLY AT MARKET. Sheep. I Calves. I 8,100 176 ZEMMTGATE AND .&z L. We had fair average supplies of Meat on sale here, while ,he demand was heavy, on the following terms : At per stone, by the Carcase. a. 4. to a. 4. 2 4 2 6 Mutton, inferior 2 8 210 middling. 210 3 0 prime .•. 3 2 3 4 I Pork, large...—. -3 10 410 I small Lamb, ss. to 6s. This being a holiday, no transactions took place at Mark , tane, in the Borough, or the Coal Exchange. Beasts. 700 Pigs. 315 Beef, inferior ..... . - middling .... - prime largo .. - prime small Veal. ..... s. d. to s. d. 26 2 6 2 10 3 0 32 3 8 2 10 3 6 38 4 4 WORCESTER STEEPLE-CHASES, (CONCLUDED.) (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) TIIURSDAY.—The Hunt Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, and 100 added ; 12st each, &c. Four miles. (8 Subs.) Mr. Barnett nd Cora, 12st 12Ib (Walker) 1 Mr. Chellingsworth's Red Hawthorn, 12st (Bradley) 2 Mr. G. Sheward's Mulatta, 12st (Frisby) 3 Mr. Bunney's Herbert Lacey, 12st (Crickmere) 4 Mr.-Bosley's Quartermaster, 12st (Powell), killed, and Cupt. Shirley's La Gitana, 12st (Byrne), also started. The Tally-ho Handicap of 5 sovs. each, with 50 added. (9 Subs.) Capt. Barnett's Diameluke, 10st 71b (A. M'Donough) Mr. Tilbury's Tom Tug, lOst 71b (Crickmere) 2 Mr. Davis's Tantalus, lOst 2lb (Archer) 3 Mr. Pulostone's Rosebud, 9st 121 b (Oliver) 4 The following also started but were not placed :—Mr. Oliver's Vanguard, 12st 71b (Oliver); Mr. Coleman's Paddy, lOst 41b (Holman) ; Mr. Willis's Light of Other Days, lOst 41b (Frisby) ; Mr. Wynne's Master Hum phrey, lOst (Wynn) ; and Mr. Price's Laurel, 9st 10Ib (Thrift). DEPARTURE of FOREIGN MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 20.—The Oriental Company's steam-ship Great Liverpool left the docks this day at three o'clock, for Alexandria, carrying out the East India and China mails, and about thirty passengers, and a very full cargo of bale and other goods. The same company's steam-ship Braganza, Captain Lewis, also took her departure to-day for Calcutta, from which place she will run to and from Hong-Kong, &c. She will remain out three years. She takes out a full cargo of stores for the company's stationary vessels in the East. The Paella steamer went out of the docks this after noon, outward bound for Gibraltar, with the Peninsular and Mediterranean mails and twelve passengers. The Peninsular packets will shortly cease to go oftener than twice a month. MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.--The number of deaths last week was 1,069, showing a decrease of 72, as compared with the previous week, and only 30 above the average of five winters. The decrease is chiefly in deaths caused by diseases of the lungs and other organs of respiration, the total number being 388; previous week, 406; average, 347. Notwithstanding the severity of the weather, the deaths from old age are 12 below the average. The deaths from small-pox (32) occurred at the following ages:—eight under 1 year; ten 1-3; five 3-5; three 5-10; one 17 ; four 20.30; and one 30 years. We regret to find that the deaths from burns and scalds are still very numerous, amounting to fifteen, and of these ten aro children, from one to three years of age. Seven persons died at the following ad vanced ages :—two males respectively at 91 and 97 years; and five females 90, 92, 92, 93, and 97 years. THE THAMES YACHT CLUB.—The annual " meet" for the opening of the yachting season of the boats' crews and commanders of this club took place as usual yester day at Greenwich. Though the day was cold, yet the fineness of the weather attracted a larger gathering than had bet.n anticipated on the occasion. The preliminary business of the day having been transacted, the commodore (Mr. Harrison) and the captains of the yachts present, together with the visitors, sat down to di nner at the Yacht Taver n , an d after having partaken of the good things set before them, and drunk the toasts usual on these anniversaries, went on board their respective vessels, the tide suiting at a little after three o'clock, and took their departure for Frith. On passing Blackwell the fleet of yachts was increased by the joining of Lord A. Paget and other noblemen and gentlemen. The fleet made a gallant show, the Gnome, the Naiad, the Sabrina, and the Clyde being conspicuous in the number. It is understood that this season will be distinguished by some excellent matches. 'The splendid cup, from the manufactory of Messrs. Hunt and Roskil, valued at 120/., and presented by Lord Saye and Sele, to Le sailed for, has already excited great emulation, and it is supposed that the contest for it will display greater excellence in sailing and power of speed than has yet been exhibited. THE SALT-HILL MURDER.—AYLESBURY, THURS DAY.—John Tawell, the murderer, continues to main tain his accustomed meek demeanour, but makes no confession of his crime. He was visited yesterday by a Quaker, a stranger, who came all the way from Leices tershire to see and converse with the culprit. The Rev. Mr. Wilcox, from Berkhampstead, likewise paid him a visit, and earnestly and becomingly represented to the convict the necessity for confession and repentance. He received the admonition of his friend with respectful at tention, but remained inexorable. To-day he has ap peared somewhat more cheerful, probably in the expec tation of seeing his wife, who arrived from Berkham stead at two o'clock, and had an interview with him. This unfortunate lady exhibits great fortitude and re signation, but she is evidently a great sufferer. She is much commiserated and respected here, and remains un shaken in her belief of her husband's innocence. The interview was less distressing than might have been ima gined. The Rev. Mr. Cox is in regular and solicitous attendance, and the wretched man seems earn es tly pre paring for his doom. The petition in favour of all who may be condemned to death has been signed but by very few people. Lord Nugent has promised to present it to the Home Secretary. FLANDERS MAIL. (RECEIVED THIS DAY), i BRUSSELS, MA RCH 18.--The average P ric e v iii lB4 n the week ending, on the 15th of Marcb , ,, W and that of rye sc. These prices are lt." e t jes than those of the preceding week, but not 0115 44 0 the import and export duties, which remain as tu been for some months past. By a law, dated th e 13th of March, the b ud g et ° ta rtllle Minister of the I n t er i or i s fixed at the su 5,822,372 f. 40e. The number of pass enge rs by the steare ers be•Atgeeit tob l i Ostend and Lo n d on was un d o ubtedly C °1151.-e greater in 1844 than in 1843. 18 0 00 A 0 ' Landed 1843. Em b ar ked. Land,- 46• E 090 1,4 4,155 The Dover Company.... 4 97 The British Government 2,002 1,607 pl 7 ... 2 T :„. 23° The London Company .. 4,252 5657 12,0 10, 434 „,..t1p0 6,264 7,264 In consequence of the cessation of the m i ' l b,,elas c° the canals, trains for conveying goods hare b ecu 'is more considerable in some directions. A few cis isel s there was on the southern line a train from J 3 T rti o sisl; which there w ere 52 waggons with coal& 'indiosS:,, pelled by two eng i nes only, gg but these being f°ll-,betiv ficient, it was necessary to add a third before reached Brussels.—Brussels Papers, March 1 2 . AUSTIZIA.N FUNDS.-- - VIENNA , MA lc5 11 5 per Cent. Metalliques ....... . • • • • • • -• • • 102 4 per Cent. ditto • ... • • TS 3 per Cent. ditto•..... • • • • • • • • • • • • Ditto, 1839 •• •••• **** • Bank Shares • • • • •• • • ••• • • Esterhazy's Loan • • • . • •• • • —Allgemeine Zeitung, March 14. •• • • 16 3 $ ..... • RE TA WELL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPlV:4,o'niogit ESTEEMED FRIEND,—In The Sun of this v. oo ' deal notice a very reasonable inquiry from a C°rrerpes9agthi° es to how it comes, " that in deference to the ;to the Society of Friends," this unhappy rus ll4 ;Ltitl„i i executed in his usual habiliments ? To ,t his can give him a satisfactory reply, which s, that li o f ;be desire has been expressed. If I ' know anything 5 00 ti clings of the body, it is entirely opposed to any l b) , tJ a i interference. If we have a murderer among means let us bear all the odi u m which can flt" justly belong to us. But, if not, if an individualesseves, our prb, and identifying himself with us in til e d 1 -tits' t the public, have perpetrated a horrible secloilt murder, by all means a ll ow hi m to wear this ate i rt hypocrisy, which has so l ong mas ked his real e°'" • o sre ti ' to the very last. Since the paragraph above alluded to fr et 1/4; pe, die I see it has b ee n co n t ra di c t e d, an d that "be is "" t t oe 1 " he: lived, in th e Q ua k er gar b ;" but I thought it ail ed' those who, like your Correspondent, put the a:i aOi rti to inform th em that th ere i s no such g ene- .A tr ted among us, either expressed or felt. Certainly no one but a man of a coo-, a ‘ c in t- ese would seek to alter the usual course of thi e b n - a thieV cases, for the sake of any morbid sectarian sir - I inclose my card, and remain respectfully, 011°' City, 3d month, 20th, 1845. A 3ll THE BRAZIL MA/L . ta t ji e f t t i t. FALMOUTH, MARCH 20.—The Petrel Pae - p i r o, Creser, arrived this morning from Rio de J 3ll-- Jaati sid a the mails, from whence she - sailed on the 16th n Passengers—Messrs. W. Wylie and flecrY five miners. Freight, a b ou t 35,0001., of W lLl . e .oetur tn l ' of 6,000/. is for the St. John del Hey Alie Ln c ",,ek l e Exchange, 244 to 25. No Governmen t market for sale. h ips Alf re ji Left at Rio de Janeiro, her Majesty's Viper, and Spider ; A mer i can frigates;t r a o ' r iuge e ' e Congress ; French f r i ga t e , B ou ssole ; a n to th e , frigate, Diana. - v ideo m e Advices had been received from Monte e pee differ DO' 24th of December, mentioning that a d t he arisen between the Government authorities all iota the zilian Chargé de Affaires, which obliged repair on board a Brazilian ship of war. GOAL IVIAILHET . Adair' s : r lJei' Prices per ton a t th e c l ose o f t l n , t 15s 6d; huddle's Westst Hartley, 16s 6 d; ,ar t 16s 6d ; Davison's West Hartley, 16s 6d; 11 7 d . Ulu to; Hartley, 16s 6d ; Morrison's West 'Hartley', 1 5 s §sith r, top, 15s ; Ord's Itedlteugh, 15s ; Oakwellg ate )1 13' Pontop Windsor, 15s ; Pott's Primrose, 14s f ; SVylzuO 6d; 19s ; Townley, 16s;_ West Hartley, 17s • West VI I igste/i Wylam, 15s 6d ; W.E., GosforthlBs ; g e/" 's ' g et- B r addY ll 4, 19 1! Wreckington, 15s 6d; Eden Main, 19s 3d; 3110700 21s 3d; Hetton, 21s 3d ; Lambto n, 21s ; Pemberton, 18s 6d ; Stewart's, 21s 3d ; Caradoc, v 2 c ieit's 9 4 1 ; den, 17s 9d ; lielloe, 19s 9d , Triln don , 20s 6d, f : r fa ls s ..d field, 15s 6d; Seym our Tees,. l9s 6d; Tees Ll e 7 § Cow pen Hartley-, 16s 6d; Hartley, 16s; l aue:- 16s 6d.—Ships arrived, 8. o 1 - A 5 010 ----------- SALE OF VAN AMBURGH'S STUD, lace ]p ap auction, of a rather n ove l d escr iption, too- s treet, via arena of the Roman Amphitheatre, Coop er 'o oo chester, on Monday, when the whole of the e, ve Or o . stud of Van Amburgh, an elephant, g , by Diesstas lions, harness, vans, &c., were disposed 0 1 . s e er , to e ) Lucas, of Liverpool. The attendance (tall nls ca l Ply theatre being obtained by the purchase of t he 09 was very numerous. The sale commence d pith iw eieb„,bl posal of the harness, the greater part brOle beautifully mounted with silver, and wil t l e vaS s ldee ' pretty fair prices • and we understand-th at dispo s- ed sold tolerably well. There seemed to be blacko4o4 to bid high for the trained animals —a fin e Ke - African lion, said to be unequalled in EnglishZoa;b; sold for 3501. Mr. Cobbold, of the Edin burg aout 7, 0 0 cal Gas dens, pur c h ase d a ma l e lion cub' of the : e go months old, for 121. 10s. ; and a female en": s i% .7 0 e; age was sold for 35/. Another lion, abet"' fo r 7i , p i old, went for 310/. The elephant Bolivar we n s ea s t and a very fine giraffe for 400/. The b erse wee fci des l sold at fair prices. The greatest competition Brest . grey gelding, named Doctor, which, of bidding, was knocked down for 601.--'1" Guardian.e vhc6 g THE CONVICT JENNINGS.—This Crimin a l ' 5, bell ter trial and conviction at the Berkshire As si ze elid ed '? a Reading on the 3d inst., for poisoning n` s a t be• at Thatchatn, near Newbury, we record Sato s atoe after a 4,vocioree it took place, still continues to manifest t!„.meclistsoe difference to his fate that he exhibited l o w toc ed to after the sentence of death was Pr t e he evi de bie him. Notwithstanding the clearness or " i n tain s r ae• of the murderer's guilt, he steadfast l 4 o o oa s orrl f o o , innocence of the crime for which he will ► and ''dea turday) suffer the extreme penalty of the . b e his enee g be earnestly entreated to make his peace wit angrY tit re" God, he either pretends to be, or is, very - I, a s P e le'e supposition, implied by such advice, that be. l ire oa r , trated the crime for which he is to forfeit ht_s,, bee he scaffold, and of which no reasonable doubt c k 6 r eg st the new tained. Preparations for the event are n ie ss ure °t er new gaol, and barriers to prevent the p r e ss the e iso crowd are in the course of erection 1 " ha ve 0 bury. A number of special constableswilists, he been sworn by the Ma or Mr. J. ~I;*f le clen. b o d of an immense concourse of spectators al" A per i welt present to witness the melancholy . exec scene atin p ep, place eleven years has elapsed since the last tw o 0 place in Berkehire. We understand the__ th is to b o tions have been presented to her Majesty, sentence, .(1 e, „ praying for a commu t at i on of Jennings s v oe ot, a the Secretary of State for the Home PePahri, tried G ill also the Lea rne d Judge (Baron Platt) Iva-thelaw prisoner, declin e t o interfere—consequently the take its course. m reenC es he SURREY THEATRE.— Mrs. Davidge the season on Easter-Monday with two new n r i ' ea of n. first, Magar6tt Catchpole ' , is a drarna.tibeedirebr' work of the same title, recently publis ad vent : of. being the biography of a Suffolk girl, who se a rse were were of the m os t roma ntic and ieterestingo atored! is The other new drama, entitled The Spir,iit 0 11 „,, e 0retl er , a grand spectacle, founded on a tale winc h er' i e Yee g Blackwood's Magazine. Mies lltarn, the fin al t nis n Toole, s e e . t he also makes her first appearance. as Dr. rand the holiday folks may anticipate a grand t of The w Surrey. hole I u HOLIDAYS AT THE LAW OFFICE S. .11 C j a nd the Common Law and Chancery offices w i ve/0 10 1 00 , this day (Good Friday), to morrow, and ho lidag,:e, Tuesday in next week, those days being.,,iiisolv...9, appointed to be kept by the 3d and 4th all the juegince 42 ; and by a rule of court, signed by ta tiOn °f th e those days are not to be reckoned in comp wit w iS- of for pleading in any action or rules and noP__ o f writs l i, exception of notices of trial and the exectitiou_rfed goof inquiry. In all cases where parties have selfstubs lastthe copies of writs to appear in eight day, ei t her ° f or° those eight days should happen to fall P r n rin ity 0-. 1- 0 above-mentioned days, then, by the Urn", ) „„ r i u esdare e cess Act, next Wednesday, being the , he lack Easter week, is to be taken and considered a such eight days for entering an appearance. _........yeetec TROTTING AIATCH FOR FIFTY POL(NDSn efe .. Dee _ day morning (Thursday) the match betwee,:Tio'rse, tin t , celebrated horse, Highflyer, and Mr. Collett •c l ista nce ro e r trot two miles in harness, came off over tha h ' as been for road, on Wimbledon-common. The m atch ter of ego some time pending, and attracted a good ,Irl e e s nee sed or e local sporting fraternity. The horses, er light carts, were brought to the starting pia_ r p, eoo,e%ia quickly at the contest. They continued ilea,/ s od Highflyer br_on e e ' i a Ot t ; three quarters of a mile, when h w ar d s in o h opponent went ahead, and turned minutes and sixteen seconds, being fbrty..y of the g Vance ; and when within a quarter of a I„nn..end wire' the horses were trotting at great speed, "' 0 equal positions as to winning ; and after a v,r e e.l ee s p i ) l,e s ii rc i l race, Highflyer trotted in the winner by 11 . "'„ flo gesaf e accomplishing the two miles of road in seve ... nu''' a for t: s. three seconds, and apparently little the " sews o wner s race. The horses were driven by their respee on ite r , TRAGICAL OCCURRENCE AT CH"SE:''CIOCk,'MV nesday evening, about half-past seven . el- _ A Anne Murray, a servant in the establi.sl= entered Bloncoe, No. 14, Whitehead's-grove, cne;' eee d, the shop of Mr. Saunders, of No. 5, King_ s l:, o f tall', Chelsea, and desired to be shown some artiT .ed 1.0 taa,.„ dashery. Shortly afterwards she was r °l?seabout her roll of ribbon from a box, and secrete It Lon the PfZ e son, and as she was preparing to leave the su_ n rd 'l e prietor desired her to walk to the other :„,, e f e ra . a rj ` g premises, whilst he sent for a policeman. P ire, t hr°W o l li did so, but on a sudden rushed down ste n , the roll of ribbon away in her progre ss e ' p e at • rt,e a e - t lth; soiir l i: seizing a table-knife from the dresser, cut..nng the most dreadful manner, literally dividi e t; pipe. Dr. Warner, of Putney, who time, and Mr. Neale, surgeon, of Sloane - diately attended her, but life was extinct. , u_ s " ser oble: cumstance becoming known a large crownisigielenlie and in the pressure an elderly female 6 ws the W y lie thrown down, and dislocated her thigh, a _A that being of a compound nature. We underst we for vr: unfortunate young woman (gurray) has ber o d b. s _: wards of three years in Mr. Blencoe's eerve ,„, e0 .1 " lel hitherto borne an irreproachable character. the ne cumstance has created some excitement i n bourhvgd. " --~_ RE v.EL.eI THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 21, 1845.