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No engineering &faculties present themselves to this project ; the line will be easy of construction, and the local feeling is in its favour. If Stephensbn's line be sanctioned, the branch to Horsham will be unnecessary; but, if Parliament should refuse its sanction to Stephen son's line, Horsham will have no connexion with any railway, except by means of the branch in question. Therefore, in the event of the last-mentioned conti gency taking place, we are not aware that any public reason will exist, which ought, in our opinion, to be decisive against it. In conclusion, we beg to draw attention to the pas sage of the Fifth Report of the Select Committee of last year, in which it is stated, in recommending that reports should be made to Parliament by this department upon railway schemes, " That no such report should be held to preju dice the claims of private persons , the examina tion o which should be altogether reserved to the Houses of the legislature." In submitting to Parliament, in conformity with the recommendations of that Committee, the results at which we have arrived, with a view to the information and as sistance of Parliament, in forming a judgment upon the schemes in question, in so far as our reportmaybe avail able for that purpose, we are anxious that it should be distinctly understood that we have arrived at these re sults solely upon public grounds, and to the exclusion of all 'considerations how far such results might require to be modified by a due regard for private rights and in terests. DAL EIOUSIE. C. W. PASLEY. G. R. PORTER. D. O'BRIEN. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. The THIRD EDITION of THE SUN of last (Tuesday) Evening contained The List of Appointments, Bankrupts, &c. from the London Gazette. The statement of the Accounts of the Bank of Ceylon, from the London Gazette. The Coarse of Exchange. 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This injustice is still further aggravated by an extra charge of a halfpenny (the Post lice fee) being made for nor supplying the latest or Third Edition. :'his Edition contains the Latest News: Parliamentary Debates up to a Istarter to Seven—The " Gazettes" on Tuesday and Friday, together with the ' Prices Current" of all the Markets, as well as Official Prices of Shares in Railways, dc. &c.—The Betting at Tattersalt's on Monday and Thursday—The latest (closing) Prices of the Funds — The Proceedings in Railway Committees up to the close—and all other news arriving in London after three o'clock in the afternoon, when the Aecond or Evening Edition goes to press. In distant parts of the country, the Third Edition contains news TWELVE ROVES IN ADVANCE, a matter of importance to those who want early intelligence. In those places where the evening mail arrives in the middle of the night, the " MORNING SUN," containing ALL the Debates, dc. ec., 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. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. TO-MORROW EVENING (Being a Subs , ription Night) Will be performed Donizetti's Opera, entitled LUCIA DI LAM MERMOOR. Lucia, Mdlle. A. Castellan ; Alicia, Madame Bellini ; Enrico, Sig. Fornasari ; Edgard°, Sig. Moriani. To conclude with an entirely new Ballet, by M. Perrot, entitled EOLINE ; ou, LA DRYADE. Vie Music by Signor Pugni. The Scenery by Mr. Marshall. 'Principal Characters—Eoline (betrothed to Count Edgard), Diddle. Lucile 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 : Waltze Selesienne, by the Coryphees of the Corps de Ballet. Pas de la Fiancee—Mdlle. Lucile Grahn and M. Toussaint, Pas de Cinq (composed by M. Gosselin)—Mdlles. Louise Weiss, Fer dinand, Demelisse, Cassan, and Moncelet. Mazourka D'Extase—Mdllo. Lucile Gr, hn and M. Perrot, Fourth Tableau. Grand Pas des Dryades by Mdlle. L. Grahn and the Ladles of the Corps de Ballet. On Thurstay next, April 3, there will be an Opera, it bein3 a Sub scription Night. Doors open at Half-past Seven ; the Opera to commence at Eight. kpplications for Boxes, stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box °Rice, Opera Colonnade. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. It is respecttlilly announced that a GRAND MUSICAL FETE, Comprising the SYMPHONIC ODE OF TII E DESERT by FELICIEN DAVID, will be presented in the ensuing Week. The particulars of which will be forthwith published. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE. THIS EVENING Will be performed ROBERT TIIE DEVIL. Robert, Mr. W. Hu rtson ; Bertram, Mr. Stretton ; Raimbaut, Mr. 1). W. King ; Isabella, Miss Rainforth ; Alice, Miss Romer. After which will be repeated, a New Comic Ballet, entitled ROBER T AND BERTRA.ID. Dances in the course of the Ballet : Pm de Deux, by Mdlles. Adele and Louise. Pas de Deux, by Mdlle. O'Br-an and Mr. A. Webster. Grand Pas de Caractere, by 3ldile. Polin and M. Gasperini. A New Polka, by Mille. Polin and M. Gasperini. Bolero, by Mesdames Louise and Adele. The Eminent Tenor, ✓ M. DUPREZ, is engaged here for Twelve Nights only, and will make his appearance on Monday, April 7, in his celebrated character of ARNOLD, in GUILLAUME TELL ; and is also preparing himself for his unrivalled personation of EDGAR, in Douizetti's popular Opera, THE BRIDE OF LAM3IER3IOOR, Aar the Performance of which, an Engagement has also been ex pressly entered into with 3ldlle. EUGENIE GARC I A- The Box-office is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six in the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, Places, and Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. LESSEE, MR. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING Will be repented a New and Original Comedy, entitled THE SHERIFF OF THE COUNTY. Principal Characters by Messrs. W. Farren, Strickland, Backstone, Webster, Mrs. Glover, Mrs. W. Clifford, Mrs. Humby, Miss Julia Bennett, &c. After which, a New Grand Classical Extravaganza, entitled THE GOLDEN FLEECE. Principal Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, J. Bland, Madame Vestris, and Miss P. Horton. To conclude with YOUNG ENGLAND. Major Martinet, Mr. Strickland ; Mr. John James Pooley, Mr. Buckstone ; Mrs. Pooley, Mrs. Hamby ; Mrs. Smiler, Mrs. Stanley THEATRE , ADELPHT. ITN. DEE THE DIRECTIONR OYAL OF MADAME CELESTE. FIFTIETH NIGHT OF THE GREEN BUSHES. THIS EVENING WM be repeated a New and Original Drama, entitled THE GREEN BUSHES ; or, A Hundred Years Ago. Connor O'Kennedy, "Mr. Seihy ; George, Mr. Hudson : Wild Murtogh, Mr. 0. Smith ; Master Grinnidge, Mr. Wright ; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Bedford ; ileraldine, Mrs. Yates ; Nelly O'Neill, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; Miami, Madame Celeste. After which, will be repeated a New Grand Empirical Exposition, called ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON. Principal Characters by Messrs, Paul Bedford, Wright, John Saunders Selby; Miss Woolgar, Miss Brooks, and Miss E. Chaplin. To conclude with MOTHER AND CHILD ARE DOING WELL Mr. Snugsby, Mr. Lambert ; Lieutenant O'Scupper, R.N., Mr. Paul Bedford ; Mr. Felix Fluffy, Mr. Wright ; Emily, Miss Fortescue. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE-FRENCH. PLAYS. SECOND APPEARANCE OF MDLLE. PLESSY. THIS EVENING Will be performed EPOQUES. Le Comte de Sivry, M. Beret ; De Melcour, M. Ondlnot ; Forestiar, M. Cartkny ; Marie, Mdlle. Plessy. - After which, the Favourite Comedy of LA SUITE D'UN BAL MASQUE. Madame de Belmont, Mdlle. Plessy ; Madame de 3lareuil, Mdlle. Andrea (her First Appearance). On-Friday, April 4, LA DAME ET LA DEMOISELLE, and LE BOUQUET DU BAL, in all of which Mdlle. MESSY will appear. Boxes, 6s. ; Pit, 3s. Gd. ; Amphitheatre, 3a. ; Gallery, 2s. Doors will be opened at Half-past Seren o'clock, and the Performances sommence at Eight. Boxes and Stabs may he !mired at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old liond-street ; and at the Box-office of the Theatre, which Is open. Daily, from Eleven till Five. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, MR. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a New Tragic Drama, called METAMORA THE LAST OF THE WAMPANOAGS Metamora, Mr. Edwin Forrest ; Mordaunt, Mr. Henry Wallaek ; Lord Fitz Arnold, Mr. Archer ; Mahmeokee, Mrs. Stirling ; Oceana, Miss Emma Stanley. 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 TEE TARTARS. Timour, Mr. Oxberry ; Zorilda, Miss E. Stanley. Stage Manager, Mr. H. I. Walla& ; Stage Director, Mr. Emden,; Machinist, Mr. Edmund Bradwell. Superbly decorated, and with extensive alterations! fonning one of the Most Elegant and Comfortable Theatres 111 tie Iletropolis I THEATRE ROYAL, LYCETSI. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT THIS ENT:„riNG oF MRS. KEELEY. Will be performed MART:'' CIIIIZZCEWIT. Old Martin Maxlewit, Mr. It. Yonnge ;',lr.Pecsnitf, Mr. Frank Matthews ; SaireY Gaily, Mr. lie: ie y ; Bailey, Mrs. Keeley. - After which, a X. x Farce, entitled LOWTHER ARCADE. Character% by • Keeley,Meadows, and Miss Grov e F. Matthews ; Miss Dawson, . To cone1110:e ' with a Ilurlesque of English History, I'ourtraying Olden A. " Ide e A and Modern Notions—lnvested with all the Pomp and tI I; of Scene—P ainters engaged expressly—Costumes according anc y —M echanisra, Ballet, Music. and Novel Stage Arrange- Inents—to be called, WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT I Dick Whittington, Mrs. Keeley ; Muley Moloch, the Lien Tamer of the Dessert, Mr. Keeley ; the Cat, Mr. Collier, supported by Me""' F. Matthews, and Wigan ; Miss Fairbrother, and Mies Grove. The Box-oftlee is open daily, under the direction of Mr. Grogan. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. (Under the Direction of Mks Davenport.) THIS EVENING Ulu be repeated THE GAME COCK OF THE . WILDERNESS. Colonel Mereville, Mr. 11. Mellon; Roderick, Mr. Dareie ; sam soti, Ur. Marble ; Mabel, Mrs. Gtflith. After which, THE S.L.rEN" CHAMPIONS OF CHRISTENDOM. To tie followed by THE SECRET. To con , ,thide with TIIE PLAGUE OF PLYMOUTH. ASTLEI"S ROYAL AMPHITHFATRE. FROPAIETOR, MR. W. BATTY. . Triumphant Success of the New Spectacle. THIS EVENING. The Performances will commence with a Grand Military Equestrian Drama, entitled THE MAID OF SARAGOSi , A. Scenes in the Circle, introducing M. and Mdme. Dumos, the cele brated French Equestrians. To conclude with THE SLEENNG DRAUGHT. DAVIDGFrS ROYAL SURREY THEATRE, Ints Heron's performance creates roars of laughter—The Two New Pieces, real Surrey hits. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New Drama, MARGARET CA .TCH POLE. Supported be 3lcssrs. H. Hughes, Hicks, Fredericks, R Horier, S. Cowell, Ileslop, Lewis, Mrs. Daly, Mrs. Lewis, and Mn,s Honner. After which, THE SPOILED CHILD. Little Pickle, Miss Heron. To conclude with THE MOOR MAIDEN, in which Messrs. Hicks, Neville, Fredericks, Lewis, Mrs. Hughes Miss Martin, and Mrs. IL Yining will pertbrm. Places and Private Mae.. to be has of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box office, from Eleven to Poor. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be repeated MARGARET CATCHPOLE, The Female Horse- Stealer. Onega and Pechuana (Red Chieftains), Messrs. Cony and Blanchard ; Margaret Catchpole, Miss Vincent. After which; THE APPOINTED SPOT. To conclude with TIIE BLOODHOUND; or, the Orphin's Crave. To which Messrs. Cony and Blanchard, and their celebrated Dog Hector, will perform. del s,:-E....,, , Falmouth has contributed 501., and L.. . :- •-nr.onation of 1001., to the local fund for the rtztanstonartd .. ,rovement of the Penryn Docks and Fal• ~ k i bouth 11.300:r.7 4 - a- 1 11-4•:' - 1 7 -'ll4, . 0 ....- , • • , - • a ; _.........,....;,,4). - - -f- liF.. '''R. '4 THE SON, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL q, 1845.' claim is derived from three titles—purchase from France, purchase from Spain, and discovery and prior occupation of the Colombia by citizens of the United States. Such are the pretensions that a very ridiculous partisan, a Mr. FARNHAM, has ventured to print and publish. Such are the visionary assump tions which Congress and the Senate affect to recog nise, and gravely call on Americans to uphold. Let us see, then, in what mode France acquired the ori ginal territorial sovereignty of Louisiana—how this was ceded by France to Spain as to part, and as to the other part to Great Britain ; and subsequently by Great Britain to Spain, which by the treaty cf 1819 confirmed the sale of the Floridas to the Re public. The first French colony in Louisiana having been established by Dr. IBERVILLE, a Canadian, under a commission for that express purpose, granted to him by Louis XIV., remained subject to the dominion of France until 1762, when, by the treaty of Paris (agreed upon in November of that year, and signed in February 1763), which ceded to England the several French possessions of Nova Scotia, Canada, and Cape Briton, the eastern limits of the remaining French settlements in North America were fixed with extreme precision by a line drawn along the middle of the Mississippi, from its source to the Iberville River; and from thence, by a line drawn along the middle to this river, and the lakes Maurapas and Ponchartrain, to the sea. Under the 20th article of the same treaty, Spain ceded to England the whole of Florida, with Fort St. Augusten, the bay of Pensa cola, and all its possessions on the North American con tinent to the east or south-east of the river Missis sippi. On November 3, 1762, the same day on which the preliminaries of the above treaty be tween France, England, and Spain were signed, the Government of France ceded to that of Spain all the country known under the name of Louisiana, as also New Orleans, and the island on which it is situated; by a secret treaty between Spain and France, that is to say, France gave up to Spain, thereby, so much of Louisiana as France had not previously contracted to transfer to Great Britain. The treaty of September 1783, between Great Britain and Spain, ceded East and West Florida to Spain, which thus became again possessed of its ancient colonies. We now come under Mr. FALCONER'S guidance to the Treaty of In dependence of the same year, between Great Britain and the United States, whereby the independence of the latter was recognised, and their South Western, Western, and Southern boundaries were defined in a manner so clearly described and with their necess ...ry connection, as recognised by the champio: , , of the United States' present claim, so foreibLi set out by Mr. Falconer in his—reeetit "*"„,al Plilet; entitled th e " Oregon (question," that we have quoted his ow n words.* In our ne•;; ; paper we shall pursue the course of these trP ..asactions, treaties, &c., from the retrocession of Louisiana by Spain to France, in 1800, down to the present time. * The treaty says, "By a line through the middle of Lake Erie, until it arrives at the water communication between that Lake and Lake Huron; thence along the middle of the said water communication into the Iluron, thence through the middle of the Huron to the water communication between it and Lake Superior ; through the Superior, northward of the Isles Royal and Phili peaux to the Long Lake ; thence through the middle of Long Lake and the water between it and the Lake of the Woods to the Lake of the Woods; and through the same to the N.W. point thereof ; from thence in a due west course to the river Mississippi, until it shall enter the northernmost part of the 31st deg. of N. lat. ; south, by a line to be drawn E. from the determination of the line last mentioned in lat. 31 deg. N. of the Equator to the middle of the River Apalachicola or Catahouche ; thence along the middle thereof to the junction with the Flint River ; thence straight to the head of the St. Mary's River, and thence, along the middle of the St. Mary's River, to the Atlantic Ocean." Mr. Falconer observes, on this pert of the treaty, " There was one error in this otherwise clearly defined boundary : the head waters of the Mississippi river are south of the Lake of the Woods ; and consequently a line carried due west from the lake would not touch the river. The clear intention of both parties was, to terminate the boundary where this junction was expected to take place —where, if the Mississippi had continued in a course north, it would have intersected the line running due west from the Lake of the Woods. This obvious cor rection of the mistake is adopted in the map lately pub lished in America by Mr. Greenhow, in which a dotted line from the bead waters of the Mississippi to the line running due west of the Lake of the "Woods completes this boundary. But nothing west or north of this line was granted by Great Britain to the United States in 1783, and zwai.o.;,.- Ltsylk.4.g l -%iitgal aiVciVatf • The accounts from Ireland, we mean the political accounts, are highly satisfactory. The sympathy shown by the Government towards the unfortunate Catholics is beginning to take effect—the re-action in that country, so long oppressed and so little accus tomed to English kindness or generosity, was evinced at the meeting of the Repeal Association on Monday, and fair play to the Irish is all now required to make them the most willing, for they have ever been, in battle, the most gallant defenders of the empire. The great Agitator, the man who bass done so much for his Catholic brethren, and whose word is more powerful than twenty thousand troops, described with just feeling the horrors with which he was impressed by the last intelligence from America. The real Yankee he never liked, th , ? slaveholder and slave breeder, even when they were courting his favour, he spurned from him as he would spurn malefactors polluted by the most atrocious crimes. True to these generous seeilments, he has expressed candidly, and in his um:al nervous language, the sorrow with which he hwed of the annexation of Texas, and the dreary PrcApect which it holds out for the friends of the African race. "It was idle," he said, " for the Americans to talk of liberty and practise slavery. For his part, he would repudiate any assistance from America if tainted with human blood ; and he was glad he had the opportunity of denouncing the atro cious system. The PRESIDENT likewise talked of seizing Oregon, and he would certainly do it. Eng land, however, should have the assistance of Irishmen, which would enable her to obtain Oregon, and pre vent the annexation of Texas ; but the equivalent should be justice to Ireland, and the re. storation of her domestic legislature," The last part of the paragraph is merely for show, or to round the sentence, for Mr. O'CONNELL has as serted fifty times that if he could obtain justice, he would cast repeal to the winds. Sir ROBERT PEEL has now a noble game in his hand. Even his most bitter political opponent admits that his measures are admirable ; and, to produce lasting peace and lasting union between the two countries, he has only to press forward these measures, alike despising the attack s o f bi gotry and the ;elfishness of a broken remnant of the T or y ferton. That faction, we learn by the same mail fl'otn Ireland, is again rearing its head in Dublt), denouncing the Premier and his new schemes, and threatening damnation to all Pro testants who refuse to join in the holy war against Catholics; but they are now powerless, and must yield to their fate. This is the opinion of an old friend of the Catholics, and almost his dying speech —we mean the late SYDNEY SMITII, Mho thus foretels, we ' trust, coming events : " I have some belief in Sir Robert. He is a man of great understandin g , an d mus t see that this eternal O'Connelling will never do, that it is impossible that it can last. We are in a transition state, and the Tories may be assured that the Baronet will not go too fast. If Peel tells them that the thing must be done, they may be sure it is high time to de. it ; they may retreat mournfully and sullenly before com mon justice and common sense, but retreat they must when Tamworth gives the word, and in quick step, too, and wits loss of time. And let me beg of my dear Ultras r to -r t Z i gine that they can s ur vi ve f or a single n-' W-ithout Sir Robert—hat they could f an Ultra-T ory Ad ministration. Is ther" I Chartist in G reat Britain who would not, the first intimation of such an at tempt, order s t.iiew suit of clothes, and call upon the baker and milk%ian for an extended cre dit? I s t h ere a political ro'L - uner who would not come out of his hole with a new constitution 2 Is there one ravenous rogue who would not be looking for his prey? Is there one honest man of com mon sense who does not see that universal disaffection and civil war would follow from the blind fury, the childish prejudices, and the deep ignorance of such a sect? I have a high opinion of Sir Robert Peel, but he must summon up all his political courage, and de something next session for the payment of the Roman Catholic priests. He must run some risk of shocking public opinion ; no greater risk, how ever, than he did in Catholic Emancipation. I am sure the Whigs would be true to him, and I think I observe that very many obtuse country gentlemen are alarmed by the state of Ireland and th e h o stility of,F rance an d America." siderati on o f t h at wild persecutor, Dr. :111‘Gueu, and The subjoined paragraph w e recommen d to t h e con tbe bigoted clique that still infest the Castle at Dublin : " I have always compared the Protestant Church in Ire land (and I believe my friend Thomas Moore stole the simile from me) to the institution of butchers' shops in all the vil lages of our Indi an empire. We will have a b u t c h er ' s s h o p know that in every village, and you, Hindoos, s h a ll pay for it. We many of you do not eat meat at all, and that the sight of beef steaks is particularly offensive to you ; but This is English legislation frit. Ire like it in all :t.trole, in al,l pia, in still a stray European may pass through your village, ttnd want a steak or a chop ; the shop shll be establiz;ned ; l a a n n d d you Theresh al l p i nyofoarb Talrpio fScrultao , all the discovered parts cf Africa, and in all we have heard of Timbuctoo. It is an error that requires 20,000 armed men for its protection in time of peace, which costs more than a million a year; and which, in the first French war, in spite of the puffing and panting of fighting steamers, will and must break out into desperate rebellion." The intelligence from Madrid is to the 25th ult. The Bourse was closed on that day, and the journals are destitute of interest. The Gazette publishes ac counts of the capture of some smugglers by the Coast Guard, in which several lives were lost. The following letter, dated Barcelona, March 23, appears in the Phare des Pyrenees : " For some days a sharp correspondence has been ex changed between the Captain-General and the Neapolitan Consul relative to two Neapolitans, Vicente Ferrazano and Thomas Appignoni, whom General Concha expelled from Barcelona, and forced to take refuge in France. The Neapo litan Consul has protested against this act as arbitrary and in contempt of the law of nations, as well as contrary to the guarantees stipulated in treaties in favour of the subjects of the two nations. But the Captain-General, in place of acceding to this representation, declared that, being con v i nce d t h at there were at Barcelona foreigners who, in place of remaining neutral in the midst of troubles which had occurred, had, on the contrary, excited them, he was decided to inquire into the conduct of each, and to expel, not only from Barcelona, but also from the province, all whose conduct had not been com pletely neutral. General Concha added, that he regretted adopting these measures, but that he was obliged to do so, in order to preserve tranquillity in the province under his orders. Almost at the same time a French subject, M. Kessler, was thrown into prison by the orders of the Captain-General, on the most futile motive. M. Flury, the French Consul, hastened to demand his liberation, and, in addition, requ i re d an indemnity to be paid in proportion to the l eng th o f M . Kessler's detention. But, if lam well informed, it would seem that all the steps taken by M. Flury have not hitherto produced any result, the Captain-General having referred the matter to his Government for decision. This incident has produced much excitement among the members of the con sular body, who all appear decided to support the rights which treaties afford their courtrymen." The French Chamber of Deputies on Monday re sumed the discussion on the Customs Bill, and the Sardinian treaty occupied them up to the hour of post. An amendment was proposed by M. L'HER• BETTE relative to Sardinia' ships arriving in French harbours and the coastirg trade between the two countries, which led to a long, and according to one account, a magnificent speech from M. GUIZOT, who accepted the amendment as a Cabinet question. It was generally believed that M. GUIZOT would not have taken this ground unless certain of a major: . _at/ • The domestic intelligence in the papers 'i s not of importance. Marshal SOULT was -ta !tering under an attack of cold and fever, bue according to a bulletin issued on Sunday, n-4 the slightest danger was ap prehended. 0 Saturday, the gallant veteran en- ins seventy-sixth year. The accounts from • wgzerland are to the 28th ult. A Berne journal of the 27th states, that M. GUIZOT had proposed to Lord ABERDEEN a conference, to be held at Paris, relative to the present unsettled state of that country, which his Lordship declined. According to the Constitutionnel, the cause of the Jesuits is daily losing ground. Berne, and some other cantons refuse to restrain the free corps, and Lucerne begins to see that public opinion, as well as the decision of the Extraordinary Diet, is against it. That journal gives the following account of the state of• affairs : " According to private accounts transmitted to us from the best sources in Switzerland, the insurrectional movement pro jected by the refugees from Lucerne, and of which the Swiss journals no longer make any mystery, and which was to have been made in the night of the 26th inst., has been put off for a few days by reason of divisions which have arisen, not among the members of the committee of the people of Lu cerne, but among the members of the auxiliary committee of Argau, which have ended in abandoning the whole conduct of the affair to the parties interested. This has evidently put the Government of Argau more at its ease in its relations with the federal authorities. Already the Vorort has addressed to it the most warm remonstrances against its having, at the very moment when the Diet had promulgated a decree against the free corps, not only openly tolerated the formation of such bands within its own territory, but in not having done anything to prevent volunteers from coming from other cantons, and ranging themselves under the banners of the rebels of Lucerne. The lesser Council of the canton of Argau is said to have re plied to the Vorort nearly to the effect that its deputies to the Diet having discharged it from all the consequences of the re solution come to against the free corps, the responsibility ought to fall, above all, upon the States which had refused to co-operate in the decree for the expulsion of the Jesuits ; that as the popular effervescence bad been announced to the Diet as the inevitable consequence of a decision against the free corps, unaccompanied with a decision against the Jesuits, all the measures which the authorities might take to prevent the sympathising of the people in the liberal cause of Lucerne must fail, in the presence of the deliberate determination of these people to do their utmost for the triumph of this cause. The Government of Berne, invited by the Vorort to oppose the entrance of the free corps, has answered that it has not any power to prevent the citizens from going wherever they please, and that if they commit unlawful acts they may be attacked by the ordinary means. In consequence of the inert attitude assumed by Berne, and the direct support lent by the Go vernment of Argau to the cause of the refugees, it is reported that the Directory has resolved to address a new summons to this last-J4lllml e s lg kt..4tAti/utit t s ment, it will propose to its Grand Council to take such pre cautionary measures as may be necessary to prevent any dis turbance of the public peace. The Government of Lucerne, on its side, has not remained inactive. Not only has it ap plied to the primitive cantons to hold their troops in readiness to afford it federal assistance, but it has called out its own elite force, the whole of its reserve and landwehr, making an effective body of 11,000 men. In reality, however, not one half of this number is available ; for, in the two nights of the 25th and 26th instant, nearly 1,000 armed soldiers have gone over the frontier to join the insurgents. Under these circum stances, the Grand Council of Lucerne has been convoked, and it is Armed that the Council of State is prepared to sub • mit to it a proposal for an amnesty on a large scale. This proves that the Government feels that its existence is at stake. The whole line of the territory of Argau bounding the canton of Lucerne is covered with refugees and well-armed volun teers, waiting only for the word to march in. The Govern ment of Berne on the 27th had not yet decided upon any levy of troops, but it is prepared to meet whatever may happen in case Lucerne should call in the aid of the primitive cantons." THE BOURSE--MONDAY, 111Ancu 31. First Hiehist Lowest Last Price. Price. Price Price. French Five per Cents. •••• 118 •• 118 .. 117 95 .. 118 107 .. 107 .. 107 .. 107 Three per Cents •• •• 85 55 .. 85 65 .. 85 55 .. 85 60 Loan 86 50 .. 86 50 .. 86 50 .. 86 50 Gouin Bank, I,ooof Shares • 10:15 ..1085 ..1085 ..1085 Belgian Bank ............. 641 25 .. 641 25 .. 641 25 .. 641 25 Belgian Fives, 1840.- •• •• •• IPS •• 1051,E .. 105 .. 105 k 1842•••••••• 107 •• 107 .• 107 107 Two-and-a-Half. •• 62 50 62 50 62 50 .. 62 50 Spanish Threes •••••• • • • • " 41 .• 41 .. 41 •• 41 Passive.• ••••• •• • • 102 7 % • • 7 % • • 7% • • 71,1, Neapolitan .• 102 • .• 102 .. 102 106 .. 106 .• 106 .. 106 RAILWAY SHARES. ....1 6 2 5 1t 7. 1 6 2 5 1 5 5 7 . 1 6 2 5 1 , 5 5 7 . 1 6 2 5 1 5 5 S Ver s a ares a , in it •• •-- •• •• •". 410 . 410 .. 405 .. 405 R0uen..........•• •• •• •• •• 1155 • 116 0 ..1155 ••1160 Rouen to Havre— ........ 9" ** 975 975 Orleans 1323 75 ..1330 ..1322 50 ..1328 75 Strasburg to 8a1e.......... 340 .. 342 50 .. 340 .. 342 50 Avignon to Marseilles•• •• •• 1=35 ..1140 ..1135 . 1140 Bordeaux to Teste ........ 2 'o .. 232 50 .. 230 .. 232 50 RAILWAYS FOIL TIIE ACCOUNT, APRIL 3 1 6 2 5 2 . 7 5 50 1 6 2 5 1 5 5 .• 1218 75 .. 405 . • 403 75 • • 403 75 • Boum .......... •• •••••• •• 1155 ..1165 ••1155 .•1160 Versailles,Sl : t o . t G ie to : IL : •••:: • •••• •• • . 1• 1 1 :62 3 0: 2 5 5 : 55 1 9,73,7 50 975 •• 9 7 5 ..1320 .. 1330 Orleans .•... •• •• •. • • •• Strasburg to Bale ••••• • •• • • 341 25 .• 342 50 .. 341 25 342 50 ::: 1 2 13 3 2 01 50 ..1142 230 50 ....1 2 13 3 2 0 50 :1 2 1 3 3 0 2 50 B A o v r ig d i e l a o u x n toto3lTaersstecill.e.s. RESIGNATION OF ME. WALLACE, M.P. FOR GREENOCK.—We are sorry to see, by the Greenock Advertiser, that the country is about to be deprived of the services of that most useful and indefatigable Member of Parliament, Mr. 'Wallace. Much as we re gret the loss of his services, we still more deeply regret that ill health, brought on by over exertion in the discharge of his Parliamentary duties, should be the cause of his resignation of his seat. The Greenock Ad vertiser of Tuesday contains his valedictory address to his constituents, in which he refers with honest pride to the many reforms which he has brought about during the thirteen y ears over which his Parl i mentary career has ext en d e d . First, among these in importance and in time, is th at Post -office reform which eventuated in the establishm ent o f the uniform system of Penny Postage. May the n ex t representative of Greenock be as honest, as assiduou s , indefatigable: as the ltlSt, COWES, ISLE OF WIGH T . ; -- ; - - - ----7--------- (PROM 01.1 k o wN conRESPONDENT.) DEPA RTURE OF THE COURT. APRIL I.—H er Majesty and suite embarked at half past tw o thi s day, on board the to )ftebt. 'the shore was lined with people, th g « 1 1 :p (E ng li s h and f ore i gn ) salutes gaily dr esse d out, trid were fired from the Royal ... Yacht S qua d ron Ho ae and the Castle. Prince Ally w —.- r ho.- • -11 yesterd a y w ent over sevel of the new a ,... in East C owes Park, attended by Colonel Wewyss and the Hon. Mr. A nson, and i n t h e a f ternoon th e y ro d e out to Ring's Quay, an d went over the grounds of Woodho use F arm. It consists of about 230 acres, and it is understood that her Majesty wishes to purchase it, and also Lit t l e Shambles, about six acres, which belongs to Lord G eorge Seymour and Sir George Seymour, which will give a ri ng fence to the royal prem i ses. T wo lodges ar e p roposed to be built, but the immediate altera tions are n o t i ntended to extend to more than three weeks in executing, that the Royal Family may be down again by the Ist of May. This morning the Prince, accompanied by the Queen, ' again visited th e h ouses in East Cowes Park—i. e., Mr. Brooks, Mr. Cattlin's M r . L a ncaster' s , and Mr. Vicks (attended by th e architect of the estate, Mr. Mooring). This latter ho use , i t is expected, will be purchased for , part of the es t a blishment. The royal party afterwards went through the park and gardens. Oeborne Villa is also likely to become the properly of her Majesty. _ __ Lord Yarborough is entertaining Sir William and La:ly Montagu© and a large company of fashionables at St. Lawrence. CUSTOMS DEPART MENT.—From accounts issued by order of the House of Commons, it appears that in the year ending January 5, 1844 , there were 1,881 officers of the several grades and classes employed in the Customs depart ment in the port of, London: The expense in salaries and pay was That year i.:148,5561. 18s. 2d., and there was a further expense of 11,281/. Bs. Ild. for extra clerks and extra day pay officers, whose services were occasional. In the year ending sth of January last 1,858 officers were employed in the like duties; and the expense was 251,805/. Bs. 4d., and 13,8441. Is. sd. for extra clerks, &c. Thus, in the last year there were fewer men than in the preceding twelvemonth by 3, and increased expenses by upwards of 6,0001. 6 - 11 PS THIS DAVIS NEWS. p 3 jwou l eTonr O l ech3te, Junction, yesterday. net,rewyr7ad:safiiyi 8;o and COMMERCIAL NEWS. E ClTY,haalDetneisdrtatalot asa lteration iUtn exceedingAt (,QUARTER TE Cotton i/ 3 TO th O tt tbk T :l / te a. il t E SL E til er es with Half a goodsh Shares, e s d , e 3 al yB d 3 o l i . n g : -Barnsley 9d a . rns ; B 1 i e r y . Blanchester, e s ew sthe Shares, e a; d 4 IClBletsitrearA and l T in t b e g n l a t 11 4 - 1 4 a ys n ci ; Gloucester, ken ead Bolton, Wigsn, mud Liverpool, 12%; Caledonian, 10% %; 4 C 6 am 46 b % rid ; g D e it a t nd o, N Li e ico w i s ln h , ar B e % 9 s, 39 ; he 39 C 4; st n er aittuo,d Half Birkh e s n im e r a e d s: 22% 23 1 / 2 ; Chester and Holyhead, 8% % Chester and Preston Brook, 3% 1% ; Churnet Valley, 71. 10s. 71 13s. 6d ; Clydesdale Junction, 10% ; Cork and Bandon, 4 ; Dublin and Galway, 3% ; Dundee and Perth, 68s. 6d. ; -Dublin, Mullingar, and Athluht, 138 ; Eastern Counties, 21% ; Edinb9Asgh and Glasgow, New Quarter Shares, 53,4 o.lasgow and Dumfries, 19s. ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, Half Shares, 9% ; Ditto, Preference Shares, 8 1 4 (pd. up) ; Grand Junction, 224 225 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 112 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, fib ; Ditto, Eighth Shares, 19 ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 91s. 6d. 5 ; Great Western, Half Shares, 101 ; Ditto, Fifth Shares, 40 1 / ; Huddersfield Canal and Railway, 314, ; Huddersffield and Sheffield, 6% 6 1 ,4 ; Lancaster and Carlisle 37 1 4 ; Lancaster and Preston, 54 1 4 ; Limerick and Waterford, 5% 34 ; Liverpool and Manches ter, Half Shares, 101 ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 2 3 4 53s 6d; London and Birmingham, 234; Ditto, Quar ter Shares, 32 32 1 / 2 ; London and Brighton, 654 ' • London and South-Western, 80; London and York, 61s. 6d.; Direct Northern, 4% 5% ; Manchester and Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 10 1 4 ; Manchester, Sheffield, anti Alidland, 6%; Manchester and Leeds, 147 ; Midland Railway, 156 155; Ditto, 401. Shares, 20; Ditto, Fifth Shares, 81s. 3d. 4%; Ditto, Consolidated Birmingham and Derby, 118; Newark and Sheffield, 6% 3% ; Newcastle and Berwick, 15 1 4 ; Newcastle and Carlisle, 124 123 • Ditto, Quarter Shares, 31 ; Newcastle and Darlington, 4 3 / 4 ; North British, Half Shares, 4% 4 ; North Union, A., 149 ; Ditto, 8., 91 ; North Wales Mineral, 15% ; Ditto, New Shares, 5 3 4 ; North Wales, 2/. 16s. 3d. 23, ; Preston and Wyre, 35 34% ; Sheffield and Manchester, 118 120 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 15% 16%; Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and Birmingham, 4%; Shrewsbury and Grand Junction, 6 6%; Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Cheshire, 4% 965. 3d. ,• South-Eastern and Dover, 43 1 4 ; Ditto, New Shares, No. 1, 17 ; Ditto, New Shares, No. 2, 11%; Ditto, New Shares, No. 3,8% ; Scottish Central, 5% ; Wexford and Carlow, 2 3 / ; Worcester and Tring, 81s. 6d. 81s. 3d. ; York and North Midland Half Shares, 14 3 4 15 ; Austrian and Sardinian, 7 prem. ; Lyons and Avignon (English) 61s. 6d. 60s. ; Northern o cl f ue F nt r i a n n , ce 44 ( s E . 6 ni; „ li ; sh) 6% ,• Paris and Lyons (Laffitte's English), 3; Paris and Orleans, 50 1 ,4 ; Paris and St. - Sambre and Meuse, 6%; Verona and Ancona, 21 ~.0re is in the Bankers' Magazine for the present month information which will startle the honest tradesman and the merchant, with respect to " Accommodation Bill Swindling." At present we have not time to quote but the introductory paragraph upon this really interesting topic. It is as fol lows :- " The facility with which a dishonest trader can impose upon his banker, by means of accommodation bills, where the parties to them have been able for some time to keep up an appearance of regularity and integrity in their business transactions, makes it a subject of the first importance that a banker should know when ever any of his customers are in any way whatever con cerned in such practices. The difficulty of detection, however, is usually in proportion to its importance ; for the parties, knowing very well that the least in dication to their bankers of such practices being carried on must necessarily lead to their exposure and discredit, are always artful enough to give the fictitious bills as much an appearance of genuineness as possible, so that they may be taken by the banker as resulting from bowl fide business transactions between the drawers and acceptors. Too many bankers have been robbed by such practices to render it necessary to say any thing on the extent of this kind of swindling. We need scarcely remark, that as every banker is liable to be made its object, so it is a duty on every one to lend his assistance in detecting and exposing it whenever he has the opportunity." We have before us the monthly statement of James Houghton and Company, of Liverpool, having relation to the timber trade. It is barren of information. There have been but few arrivals, and few sales, but it states " The Customs' duties on mahogany, cedar, and all fancy woods, are now en tirely removed, and an extensive business may therefore be calculated upon." The market for the British Securities is very dull, and prices continue flat, Consols being 99% % for present deli very, and about 99 1 / 2 % for time. Bank Stock has been at. 215 for Account. The premium on Exchequer-bills is 645. to 625., being an improvement. There is some firmness in the value of the Foreign Bonds, but they are not active. In fact not a bargain is officially noted in Spanish, the staple of the foreign house. Portuguese Converted have been well supported at 66 1 / 2 3 / 4 ; Mexican have been done at 35%; Colombian have realised an ad vance to 15 3 / 4 and 16 1 4 ' • Brazilian are 88 ; and Dutch Four per Cents. 97% % ex div. The Share Market is buoyant, and advanced prices have been obtained for Cambridge and Lincoln, and several other railways. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) 3 per Cent. Consols Aims 9 9 1 / 2% Bank Stock for Account. Consols for Account Exchequer Bills. I%d. 1 1 / 2 d. 1,000/. 500/. - pm. Ditto Small PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent Std Columbian Bonds. 1 5 34 16% Danish Bonds 1825, 3 per Cent BB% Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent - "`l4 Ditto Deferred Stock... Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto Converted Ditto for the Account. Dutch 2% per Cents Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE Aberdeen - Birmingham and Gloucester MO_ - - _ Ditto, New.. Ditto, Ilaif Shares Bristol and Exeter Ditto, New Bristol and Gloucester Caledonian Cambridge and Lincoln ... 1 1 / 2 9 8 3 / 4 ... to 9 1 / 2 % Chester and Holyhead Churnet Valley 2 - to Coventry,Bedworth, and Nun. eaton Cornwall Diss, Beccles, and Yarmouth 1 1 / 2 ...... 3% to I' ire c t Northern ... ......... .. 2% 4%%... to Dublin and Belfast Junction 2 1 / 2 B 3l %..• to 9 3 / 4 Dublin and Galway 2 l /2 37 4 1 / 2... to 4% Eastern Counties Do. Perpet. 5 per Ct. No. 1. 3% l l /8 to Eastern Uuion _..... to Ditto Extension Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O ... 61 Ely and Bedford IIA l l% to Great Grimsby and Sheffield... 2N 4% to Great. South andiV. (Irish)... 5 - to Ditto Extension Great North of England...... 100 Ditto New Great Western Ditto 1 / 4 Shares 5O lO l l/2 to Harwich 1 Kentish Coast Lancaster and Carlisle l5 ..„.. 39 1 4 to 40 London and Birmingham ...100 234% to 235 Ditto Quarters ...... ......... 2 London and 8right0n.......... 50 London and Croydon... 13/. 15s. 9d.... 17 3 .. Ditto Guaranteed 5 per Ct. 4 London and South Western.. 41 ....79 3 / Ditto New 2l /a 1 2 5 ‘ 34... to London and York ... ..... ...... 2/ 2 3 1,8 to Lynn and Ely Blancheito and Leeds 73 .....147% to Ditto 1,4 Shares Manchester and Birmingham 40 Ditto Quarters Midland ......100 15 5 1/. to 157 Ditto New Midland, Birm. and Derby ...100 ll 7 l /i to Newcastle & Darlington ;lunc. 24 ...... 49% to Ditto New Brandling Newcastle and Berwick Newark and Sheffield North British Ditto New 1 Norwich and Brandon lO .... 11 Preston and Wyre Richmond and West End Junc. 1 Rugby, Worcester. and Thug 1 Scottish Midland l% 3 Y - y l4 to 4% X , 8 Shrews.,Wolver., Dud., Birm. 2% 4 X 4 34... to 511/__ B South Devon South Eastern and Dover ... 33% 42%%... to • Ditto New, No. 1 8 Ditto New, No. 3 2 l /2 B% to 9 South Wales ...• .. TrAnt v alley . ~. Waterford and Kilkenny I ~.... 3Yi ... to West Cornwall l l4 4 14 to York and North Midland ... 50 ...... Ditto Half Shares Ditto Scarboro' Branch Ditto Selby Ditto, Extension FRENCH RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens Bordeaux,Toulouse, andCette 2 Great Northern of France ... 4 Orleans and Vierzon ..... .... 2 Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 2 ...... 12 1 / 8 to 12 1 4 Paris and Lyons (Laffitte) ... 2 Parisand Lyons (Ganneron's) 2 ... .. 2 1 ,E to Paris and Lyons (Caton's)... 2 . ... 2 1 4 to Paris and Orleans... Paris and Rouen .. Paris and Strasburg Tours & Nantes (Mackenzie) 2 JOINT STOCK BANKS. London and Westminster ... 20 ...... 27% to Provincial of Ireland MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL I.—The sales are :—Jamaica, 30 ; Lancaster and Preston, 54 ex div. ; Manchester and Leeds, Quarter Shares, 19 3 / ex div. ; Ditto, Sixteenth Shares, 7 1 / s ; Manchester and Birmingham, 58 ex new and ex div. ; Ditto, New Quarters, 5% 76_ prem. ; Manchester, Bury, and Rossendal e , 15% ; Midland Railway, Preferential, 3 15-16 Ditto, 401. Share s , 20 ; North British, 1714 ; Preston and Were, 34 1 , 1 2 3 / i ; Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter Shares, 15N ; • South -Eastern, No. 3,8% 74 ; Barnsley Junction, 8 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 3% ; Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction, 12 1 4 12 ; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 7 1 4 1 / 2 ; Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 4 3-16 1 4 ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 12 13; Caledonian, 101,4 % ; Cambridg:..s and Lincoln, 8 :- A ' - A ; Churriet Valley, 7% ; Direct Northern, 4•N ; Dublin and Galway, 3 7-16 ; Erewash Valley, 15 ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 20s. ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, 4% 1 / 2 ; Hud dersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 3% %; Hud dersfield and Sheffield Junction, 6 13-16 ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 6% • ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 2 1 / 4 ; London and York, 3 ; Manchester and Buxton, 2 9-16 3 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction, 6% % ; Newark and Sheffield, 6 1 4 % ; Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver hampton, 1% ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester Junction, 5; Southport and Euxton, 2% 9-16; Trent Valley, 167 g ea: new; Paris and Lyons (Cutnneron'o, 2 1 A ; Piis and 5 trasbur,g, 27§.. THE MURDER IN ST. SILES'S. (FURTHER PARTICULARS.) Since the murder of Eliza Grimwood, in the Waterloc road, no case of that description equals in atrocity and cold- blooded determination the murder perpetrated on iftihday night, on nib 13dc 4 4 br AIM Tattj; bet who ie married woman of the name of Brothers, for some yearg separated from her hu , band. It appears that the murderer and the murdered went to the house at about twenty iiiiiiutes td elbvett o'clock, and the latter asked an old woman, named Mary Pal mer, locum tenons for the landlady, whether they could have a threepenny bed for the night. Palmer answered in the affirmatlVe, and the intiedeter paid her threepence. Palmer then gave the woman a light, and she and the murderer entered the inner room, already described. They had scarcely done ste when Palmer seated herself oft fhb last step of the stairs " to have a smoke," she said, and was barely five minutes there when she heard the parties quarrelling, and perceived, she thought, the sound of blows. She called out, " What are you doing to the Woman ?') The murderer returned no answer. Palmer then pushed the outer door in (the door opening into the street passage), and advancing to the door of the inner room, saw the de ceased sitting on the bed, and the murderer with his right hand above his head in the act of striking her. The old woman, Palmer, exclaimed, "Do not beat the poor woman any more, you have beat her enough already !" The assassin their rushed out, pushed Palmer aside, and hurried into the street. His victim rose from the bed, staggered towards the room door, and fell back in the inner passage in the position already described. It was not until then that the aged woman, Palmer, who is near sighted, saw the extent of the mischief. The unfortunate creature was 45 years old, a stout, strong woman, of once comely features, until dissipation had disfigured them. She was a married woman, but abandoned her husband ten years ago. He is still alive, and lives in George. street. After she left her husband she lived with a man named Tape, and assumed his name. He has been dead some time, and since she has led a life of prostitution. She was well known in St. Giles's, and was a quiet woman—one of the least ill-behaved of her class. The person of the murderer is known to the police, but not his name. He is somewhat under the middle height—has broad high shoulders, one higher than the other. His face is dark and pallid— his hair black, his whiskers of the same colour, and shaven small. He wore a rough hair cap, a dark velveteen jacket, and light coloured trousers. His age is about thirty. IkATEST-END and SOUTHERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. . V TRUSTEES. Sir John Hare. Thomas Reginald Kemp, Esq. John Benson, E q. Bankers—The Union Bank of Lond•n. Notice is hereby given, that no further Applications for Shares can possibly be received in this Company. The Committee have been and are making the strictest inquiry into the responsibility of applicants, and will proceed to allot as soon as possible. In consequence of the number of applications received, the Committee will necessarily be compelled to disappoint many par ties, who are requested to consider this advertisement as sufficient notice thereof. THE WEATHER.-SIIN OFFICE, APRIL 2. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 34 ; Highest, 45; Noon, 50. BAROMETER, 30.2.—W1ND, ►S.E. NOTIL—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and " Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the Thermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All the other observations are made. at noon. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 55 minutes after 9 I Evening .. 38 minutes after 10. /cc - ' , ±17.- , C :\ a - ,.." ~,,,4 , ;,‘ -, t... , ' ir ' 4 , 41., -;) Aga • , 1.... , At. • y EV. ' ''',.,114 Zil , ...,‘ M°-•••••••./ AN. ,'../fifrriwrilvpsf4FWA • ''''. - - 4"7„v0 -,*4 1 .-1iV77.-, 7."°4"w". ilhoir:l.e. SECOND EDITION: ..itu; LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1845. The House of Commons met at Four o'clock. In answer to Dr. BOWRING, Sir G. CLERK said that the negotiations with France and Austria on the subject of the Quarantine Laws were in the same state they were in July last. A long conversation ensued on the subject of the decisions of the Railway Committee of the Board of Trade, in the case of the North Kent Railway. Mr. AGLIONSY gave notice that he would on Fri day call the attention of the House to a letter which had appeared in the Times, written by Mr. CAR* RINGTON, and reflecting on his (Mr. AGLIONRY'S) conduct. He would at once state that the assertions in that letter had no foundation in truth. Dr. BowRING then brought forward his motion for the appointment of a Select Committee to consider the subject of Colonial accounts, which, after a short discussion, was agreed to. Mr. SUELL then moved the following resolution : "That this House expresses its regret that letters addressed to a foreigner residing in this country should have been opened without his knowledge, and that information in reference to disturbances in the Papal States, obtained by such means, should have been communicated to a foreign Power." Sir J. GRAHAM opposed the motion, and defended the conduct of the Government. The House was subsequently addressed by Mr. T. DUNCOMBE, and ultimately the motion was negatived by a majority of 14. The House then went into Committee on the Excise duties, and the CHANCELLOR of the Ex- CHEQUER moved a resolution for the remission of the duties on glass, which, after a short discussion, was agreed to. The other orders of the day were disposed of, and the House adjourned at a Quarter past Nine o'Clock. The experience of American—that is, of United States'—good faith and political probity ; of their moderation, equity, and magnanimity in dealing with the political rights and relations of feeble and disorganised States such as Mexico ;—of their inflexi bility in adhering to the spirit and letter of their own Constitution, which especially disavows and dis courages a policy of territorial aggrandisement;—this experience has been wonderfully enlightened by the recent vote of the Senate for the annexation of Texas. But we are much inclined to suspect that this is but the first act of a serious drama, the combinations of which having been long rehearsed, will be speedily produced for the edification of the world. The tone which the leading organ of the new President's party assumes, in respect of the Oregon question, has been on former occasions, as it now is, sufficiently me nacing towards this country, and arrogant and ridi culous. But the Texas affair imparts to it a point and emphasis which should fix the attention of every irpoQl;le, an attempt upon the interests and honour of this country, which may be meditated by the s^ me party on some other question. Now, it would be idle to affect, after the language used in Mr. PoLies inaugural address, to doubt the intention of the United States to carry their pretensions upon the Oregon Territory, after their usual fashion, by hard swearing and big words—if they can. It would be still more absurd to argue at this time of day the duty as well as the right of every independent State to withstand, at the earliest available oppor tunity, any meditated aggression upon its dominion, its honour, or its authority. But a State of the paramount rank and grandeur of Great Britain has no option in the matter. If it could be once base enough to permit such aggressions to be made with impunity, it would, ipso facto, fall from its pride of place, and out of its rank in the majestic career of those nations with whose welfare are bound up the destinies of civilisation. We have great doubts, indeed, whether all the vaunting of the land of stripes and stars will not evaporate before the consideration of dollars to be spent and taxes to be raised—by a Government of bankrupt credit. But as democracies are always liable to the uncontrol,.. Table action of popular feeling and passion, in de. tance of palpable danger, and inevitably disaetrous re sults, we shall do well to accustom ourselves to a consideration of the extreme probability that the attempt at the Oregon occur::ation may be forced upon that Government, wlyleh, not having had virtue enough to discourage the agitation of the project, will not have strength enough to restrain the po litical fanaticism, that may rashly endeavour to faci litate so iniquitous an enterprise. In the meanwhile, as the " Oregon question" is one of many details, the succession and connection of which it is necessary for. those to bear in mind who would master its elements, we propose to consider it under three heads. 1. What the question at issue between the two Governments (of the United States and Great Britain) really is? 2. What are the known received principles of national law which apply to the territorial rights of discovery and occu pation of lands, as regards the authority of the Parent State, through whose subjects the discovery and occupation have been effected ? 3. What are the de rivative and possessory rights to the territory of Oregon, now respectively vested in Great Britain and in the United States, through France or through Spain ? We are confident that we shall demonstrate, in an ensuing article, and upon a recapitulation of the facts and details, and evidence of treaties and IT:t . olic acts which we shall have to submit N t'ne considers. tion of the reader, that the claim d the United States to the Oregon cannot be mai - ntained upon any of the principles above adverted to. That the United states cannot establish any such derivative and. possessory rights to that territory, through any title either from France or from Spain, or under treaty with Great Britain : That in all respects, and on all the principles as to which the United States cannot establish their pre tensions to the Oregon, the title of Great Britain is continuous, corroborated, valid, and inexpugnable. 1. Th e O regon quest i on i s th e va lidity o r i nva lidity of the claim of the United States Government to the whole of the O regon terr i tory, or f u ll an d sovere i gn and to Oregon territorytheexclusional is altogether possession, occupancy. The v o l s t track of North Western America, extend;*ig from about 42 a out 42 deg. to 49 deg. N. lat., inelPiling the course of the Columbia River (whon embouchure is about 46 deg. N.), which wa t ers acountry fertile, but earteially va l ua bl e f or iti su moderately P l' l 9 o f f the fur animals, whose p e lt r y supplies one most valuable of all stapl es f or the ma ritthe of China. It has other nat ura l and geo graphical advantages, into which we shall not now enter. The question of right must be traced through a chain of many links in the composition of legiti mate title. First of all, and as the shortest method of propounding the question, it may be said that the foundation of the United States' claim to the Oregon territory rests on the recognised geographical extent and boundaries of ,Louisiana, when tint vast tract of country was purchased by the American Govern ment in 1803, and the effect of a treaty made by that Government with Spain in 1819. For this LATEST PARTICULARS.-(THIS DAY.) The police are as yet completely in the dark as to the person who committed this infamous murder. Many reports were in circulation in the course of yesterday that the real actor in this diabolical deed had been taken into custody ; but these rumours, on further inquiry, proved unfounded. True it was, that a man named Medhurst, or Meadows, a widower, with whom the un fortunate deceased had, at a former period, cohabited, had been by the mother of the murdered woman taxed as the supposed assassin ; but this imputation had been completely set aside by the positive assurance of the women in the brothel that Meadows was not the man who had taken the room in George-street on Monday night. 'There is now no doubt, however, that the murderer is known not only to many of the unfortunate girls in that neigh bourhood, but also to the police—known, we mean, by sight—for his name is, as yet undiscovered. The latest intelligence at the different police stations adds nothing to the information given the first day, except perhaps this somewhat meagre addition, that a man, whose name need not at this stage of the proceedings be given, culled at the police-station, in Marylebone, and informed the inspector on duty, that he was fully of opinion that he knew the murderer; that they had been schoolfellows together, and had been in com munication since ; that he (the informant) met him on the day after the murder, and had been told that he had enlisted in the East India Company's service. The in ' formant had no doubt from that person's manner, and from other circumstances that had come to his know ledge, that that person had committed the murder. A constable was at once ordered to go with the informant to the East India Company's re cruiting quarters in Soho-square, for the purpose of ascertaining if such a person had actually enlisted, and also of identifying the party. The result of that in quiry is as yet unknown, but the whole circumstance seems too vague to justify any exp,ctation that the real criminal is the party. On inquiry "at the George -street station-house our re porter received the general answer, that no intel ligence, calculated to lead to any instnediate de tection of the murderer, had been received, and consequently it may be confidently stated that nothing can b. certainly known worthy of credence until the pro ceedings before the Coroner's inquest shall have been reported, The warrant for the inquest has not yet been issued, but it is expected to sit to-morrow. The house in George-street is still an object of un abated curiosity, hundreds of persons attending from the very earliest hour to gaze at its external features ; and it is found a matter of necessity to have a posse of constables in attendance to preserve some degree of order. The inmates, it need scarcely be added, are under the surveillance of the police. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY . A -sr ___W;snri N r f..nch hroco,.. ni tine. SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL I.—Sld. Port Glasgow, St. John's. New Brunswick ; William Lushington, Quebec ; Tagus steamer, Constantinople. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL .—Wind E.S.E.—Arrd. Switzer. land, London, and sailed for New York. Sld. Permingham. Pernambuco ; Aurelian, Quebec. , DEAL, Amu, 1, A.M.—Wind E.S.E., r.se S.E. by E., mo derate.—Arrd. Robert Fulton, Philadelphia ; Mary Frances, Boston. Sld. Elizabeth Adnett, Quebec; Canton, ditto; Eleanor, Mauritius, and the whole of the outward bound. STANDGATE, APRIL I.—The Hawkhill, Miller, arrived here, picked up off Cadiz the crew of the Cypress, from Alexandria, which was run down the previous evening by a schooner, name unknown. RAMSGATE, APRIL I.—The Rouennais, Bigot, from St. Domingo, for Havre, which put in here leaky 29th ult., com • menced discharging to-day. COWES, APRIL I.—Arrd. Mary Puns, Rio Janeiro. FALMOUTH, APRIL I.—Wind E.S.E.—OfF, Europa, Ligert wood, Ichaboe, and sailed for Peterhead. GUERNSEY, MARCH 30.—Sid. Adelaide, Demerara. JERSEY, MARCH 30.—Sid. Ulysses, Cape of Good Hope ; Jane, Auchat. DUBLIN, MARCH 31.—Wind W..N.W—Arrd. Britannia, St. John's, New Brunswick. Sld. Simeon Hardy, Barbadoes; Industry, New York. The Jane and Susan, of Whitehaven, Merryman, from Newry, missed stays, and drifted against Dolly Mount Bull, capsized, and filled; crew saved. ATERFORD, MARCH 30.—Ski. Cumberland, Quebec. CORK, MARCH 30.—Wind W.S.W., fresh breeze.—Arrd. Janet Guthrie, Ichaboe. Sld. Tradore, St. John's, N.B. LONDONDERRY, MARCH 28.—Sid. Fanny, Philadelphia and St. John's, New Brunswick. 29. Sea Nymph, ditto. LEITH, MARCH 31.—Sld. Glance, Montreal. CLYDE, MARCH 31.—Wind W.—Arrd. Jeanie Deans, Brown, Ichaboe ; Conqueror, Blair, Trinidad ; Brilliant, Bair, Mobile. Sid. European and Erromanga, Montreal; Mandarin, Calcutta; Akbar, Mauritius and ditto. BELFAST, MARCH 29.—Ski. Great Britain, Quebec. ABERDEEN, MARCH 30.—S1d. Spring, New Orleans. SUNDERLAND, MARCH 31.—Sld. Ilrown, St. John's, New Brunswick. LIVERPOOL, APRIL ind S.S.E.—Arrd. Ann Hall, St. John's New Brunswick. Put back, Clydesdale, for Africa, with loss of mainyard, &c. Off Champion, Laguayra ; Carnia, supposed from Barbadoes ; James Moran, from Mobile; Cockermouth Castle, Queen Dowager, and Diana, Sid. Victory and Bahamian, Hong- Kong; Earl Harewood, Ceylon; Luna packet, and Wilson, Ichaboe. BELFAST, MARCH 31.—The Harriet Matilda, bound to Liverpool, was thrown on her beam-ends yesterday, in a gale, and was obliged to cut away her masts at the entrance of the Lough. A steamer has gone to her assistance. STRANRAER, MARCH 31.—1 t blew a gale yesterday, at S.W., suddenly shifting in the afternoon to .N.W., with in creased violence. The Thomas Parker, of and for Dublin, from Whitehaven, got ashore near here at high water, but has not sustained much damage. The David, from Shields to Car thagena, stranded in the roads in January last, has driven higher up, and is now sunk five feet is the sand. The Mary, of and for Clyde, from Liverpool, has driven ashore near the David, and is somewhat strained. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.? CORN EXCHANGE-WEDNESDAY. On the whole, our Market was heavily supplied with sam ples of English Wheat. All descriptions, as on Monday, sold slowly at that day's depressed currencies. In Foreign Wheat so little was doing, that the rates may be considered almost nominal. In Barley and Malt next to nothing was doing, at late rates. Oats, owing to the immense supplies brought forward, were selling on easier terms. Beans, Peas, and Flour, without alteration. ARRIVALS. Wheat. I Barley. Oats. Flour. 2,580 qrs. 2,050 qrs. 4,700 1,620 430 2,830 English • • • • • • Irish .••• • • • • Foreign • . • • .. Malt, 3,950 qrs. WIEXTECELAPEZ.• We had a fair average supply of Meat on offer, while the general demand was heavy, at barely previous rates. Beef, from 2s 4d to 3s 4d ; Mutton, 2s 6d to 3s 8d ; Lamb, 4s 8d to 5s 8d ; Veal, 3s 6d to 4s 8d; and Pork, 2s 8d to 4s 2d per Sibs.. by the carcase. CLERKENWELL.—(THIS DAY.) William Wranglaim was charged with shoplifting. Joseph Samton, shopman at the drapery establish ment cf William Penthenby, of 25, llatton-garden, de posed that, at a quarter before eight o'clock on the pre vious night, ho heard a noise at the shop-window, and, on running down, saw the prisoner, who had forced in a cracked pane of glass, dragging three silk handkerchiefs, value 155., through it. The prisoner was soon after arrested. Wrangham denied the offence, but was committed for trial. ISLINGTON PARISH. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. New g tun- green , March 31, 1845. SIR,—I will thank you to insert the enclosed letter, received in reply to the one sent by myself, and alluded to in your report of the proceedings at the adjourned vestry last Friday. I shall, of COIMP, suspend legal proceedings at pri.sent, to give time to the trustees to determine on the course they may think proper to adopt. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, J. J. RAE. " Islington, March 28, 1845. _ _ _ " Sir,--I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of yesterday, and in reply thereto to' - say, that as the newly-elected trustees have not at present entered upon their duties, I have not had an opportunity of laying it before them, but I will make a point of communicating its contents to them at their first meeting, after which you shall hear again from, Sir, your most obedient servant, " ROBERT OLDERSIIAW. "Mr. Rae, IN:lewington-green," SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) BETTING AT MANCHESTER—TUESDAY. s Cur.-10 to agst Obscurity (take 11 to 1), 11 to 1 agst S e m iseria, 11 to 1 agst Cataract, 13 to I • agst The Era (t), 2,0 to 1 agst Strathspey, 20 to 1 ag St Witisottr 4)! 30 to 1 agst Portrait (t), 30 to 1 agst Fogs 45 to 1 agst, Triteboy (t), 8 to 1 agtt the Irish lot (offers to take). Two THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES.-5 to 2 a g st 1d .s (t), 9 to 1 agst Kedger (t) , 6 to 1 a g st Weatherbit. DERBY.-1W to 1 asst Alarm, 14 to 1 agst Kedge'. (Of 15 to 1 agst Idas, 18 to 1 agst Pa m, 25 to 1 a g st Cob. web c, 25 to 1 agst Weatherbit ( t ) , 25 to 1 a g st Newt' monger, 30 to 1 agst Mentor, 37 to 1 agst Annandale, 49 to 1 agst Fitz-Allen (t), 40 to 1 agst Doleful, 40 to I agst Ironmaster, 12 to 1 agst Forth's lot (offers to take). OAKS.-61 to 1 agSt Lancashire Witch, 12 to 1 apt Maid of Orleans. THE WINDSOR MILITARY STEEPLE-CHASE S. WINDSOR, TUESDAY,—The Earl of Rosslyn, the noble Master of the Buckhounds, has kindly altered the day s of hunting during the present week, in order that thef may not interfere with the steeple - chases , the appoinit" ments being on Monday, Tuesday, and Friday • the chases taking place on Wednesday and Thursday. 'The military chase closed with eight entries. Last night the 5/. sweepstakes, with 301. added, closed with eight entries ; all the horses have arrived in the neighbour hood, and will no doubt go to the post. The Hack Race (being the third race of the first daY) of 2 sous. each, with 10 added, also closed on Monday night with thirteen entries. The ground, which is in excellent order, is admirably chosen in the neighbourhood of Oakley-green, about two miles from Windsor, the starting post being on Mr.Wea' der's farm. There are no less than twenty-eight lea including a brook of about thirteen feet wide, which ie of a far less dangerous character than the brook of the two preceding years ; neither are any of the fences of se desperate a character as those of last year, most of thee being clipped down to a certain height. The town and neighbourhood is fast filling with sport ing c haracters, and if the weather continues fine, t here is no doubt but we shall be unusually gay. The promisee of entry for the gentlemen's match, which comes off Abe the second day (Thursday) are already numerous. Thee nobility and gentry's ball takes place on the eveni n g the second day's chases. HER MAJESTY'S BUCKHOUNDS.—Upwards of one hue' dyed were at the meet on Monday, which took place s' the Golden Ball, Bracknell, where an untried deer ic°6 uncarted shortly before twelve o'clock. The deer took away towards Binfield Church, skirting the paling o f Billingbear Park to Shurlock-street, and thence to Shottesbrook, on nearly to the Great Western Railway, where it doubled back to White Waltham, and was take° on the common near the Bray-cutting, after a very pretty run of an hour and ten minutes, at a good hunting pac e throughout. THE COLLEGE OF MAYNOOVL Sir Robert Peel, on Monday night, entered on th e books of the House of Commons a notice of his intention to-morrow (Thursday) " to move, in a Committee of 01 ! whole House, for a Bill to amend the Acts relating t" the College of Maynooth." Such is the form in vvhie"h the Prime Minister has couched an intimation, the bar e rumour of which has excited no slight amount of disst . tisfaction and complaint. At the present momec," therefore, a brief review of the past history of this CO lege may not be uninteresting. It is situated in tt e county of Kildare, which also contains another of te principal Roman Catholic educational establishments II Ireland, namely, that at Clongoweswood. The Royal College of St. Patrick, Maynooth, was founded purstisc to an Act passed by the Irish Parliament in 1795. Sl , ie object of the institution is professed to be to provide `— home education" for the Irish priesthood of the Roease Catholic Church, who were formerly obliged to resort tl the various colleges on the Continent. It was first opened for the reception of 50 students, in October'. 1795, and consequently, in the autumn of the preserv e year, will complete its first half century. A lay coll e g e was attached soon after the commencement of the es tetr lishment, but that addition to the original plan was d isc continued in 1817. The buildings of th College in its pre' sent state are fitted for the accommodation of 450student5ci 1 Of this number 250 are free students, who are sel ected by the bishops of the several dioceses, at yearly provi vcie examinations. They pay eight guineas upon their en' trance into the College, and that is their only expec se ' The rest of the students in the establishment are eithe r " pensioners," who pay twenty-one guineas per annt l 4 l , and four guineas entrance, or " half-pensioners," v",,, pay only half that amount a year. The expenses of t" College are supported by these various sources of re venue and by private bequests, in addition to the Pre' sent Parliamentary vote of 8,9281, granted each Ye ar ' The College is governed by a President, Vice-Presiden t, , Dean, and Procurator, or Bursar ; and the education O' the students is under the superintendence of professo rs of the Sacred Scriptures, of dogmatic theology, 13 1 ° 1 ;, theology, natural and experimental philosophy, 1 0 :4'" belles lettres, Hebiew, Greek, and Latin, English of: cution, and of the Irish and French languages. 11 students rise at half-past five o'clock, and retire to r e s s at half-past nine in the evening, eight hours being th e . allowed for repose. The students usually remain at al College for their period of study for five years. Two= these are devoted to humanity, logic, and mathematic" and three to theology. The course, however, is solor times shortened by the omission of mathematics fron3tue. list of the studies. The College buildings consist o f pin 01 e centre, with ext ens i ve re t urn i ng w i ngs . The of its erection was 32,0001., before some late additioni had been even commenced. There are fifty-four acres land attached, which are laid out as a park for the r e. • creation of the students.—Post. MAYNOOTH. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—What a fuss is making about a little increase to the grant to Maynooth College. This point is now Meal the grand objection. These persons have only to wa i t until Thursday next, when it will become an insignifice ,° ' question. Why? Because other questions will be in troduced of much higher importance, which will stagg' these objectors. They will beat the Whigs' " a pproprl i : ation clause" hollow. Lord Stanley's significant spe c ' at the late dinner at the Mansion-house disclosed a COr templation of an early resignation of the present Mini 9; try:—" When ever th e y retire d, h owev e r soon , they show"' do so, feeling that they had done their duty," Bcc. &C. grant After Thursday n ex t th e su bj ec t o f an i ncrea sed to Maynooth will be the most insignilcant point of 0 1 "" jection.—l am, Sir, yours, Ilfracombe, March 27, 1845. MARKMYWORDS. Mr. Etwall paired off in favour of Mr. Sheil's rac'' tion with Lord Villiers. NOVEL MATCH OF PIGEON-FLYING. —Yesterday is match, which had been made to fly two pigeons against each other, was decided. The stakes were 51. a side, and the cow' ditions were, that two pigeons belonging to respective owner (pigeon-fanciers of Lambeth) should be taken a distan ce from London, an d th e fi rs t h ome t o rece i ve th e s t a kes, th e domicile of each bird being attended by umpires to mark the time of their return. It was arranged that Brigh ton s hould be the st ar ti ng p l ace, an d t h e pigeons, which were oft dragon breed, were accor di ng l y conve y e d b y di s i n t e reste and impartial hands, and, as was subsequently ascertaine d ' let fly p rec i se l y at one o ' cloc k (L on d on t i me ), Th e fi rst bird arrived (b e l ong i ng to S p i ers ) at ten m i nutes pas t two,: the other oc cu pi e d e i g h t m i nutes l onger . Th e di stance back to London is calculated at 49 miles. JUDICIAL PLEASANTRY.—During the trial of sti action for ejectment, Mr. Chilton, Q.C., had occasion t° examine witnesses as to their knowledge of the boundari es of a certain farm, th e su bj ect un d er cons id era ti on. One of these was ninety-four years of age, the other two upwards of eighty. The welt-developed figures and florid looks of the old men astonished the Learned Counsel, who inwardly CO 11 ; treated his own attenuated and delicate frame with the yet burly proportions of the fine old fellows. "It is astonish ing, my Lord," said he, addressing Mr. Justice Cresswelly " how well men of such an age look—the place surely Ines; be healthy. I wonder what they do take ?" The Learned Judge gave one of his blandest smiles, dropped his pen, and looking significantly at the Learned Counsel, said, "I'm sure , Mr. Chilton, I don't know what they take, but I'm quite sure they don't take brivs."—Carniarthen Journal. A FAST TRAIN.—On Sunday Mr. Brunel travelled in the fast train from London to Exeter. The whole journey was performed in four hours and three quarters, including stoppages at Swindon Bath and Bristol, of twenty-two minutes, so that the actual time of travelling 196 mike vl four hours and twenty-th ree m i nu t es . Th e greatest speed attained on the journey was seventy miles an hour, and eL• , this apparently frightful velocity there was no unpleasso; motion. Mr. Brunel declares that, if the directors 'tonic' permit, he would undertake to perform the journey to Exeter in four hours instead of five.—Dettizes Gazette. BANK-NOTES.—It appears from a Parliamentary paper, that in the month of August, 1844, at the passing of the Act the 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32, by which the returns in England were superseded, the notes in circulation belonging to the Bank of England amounted to 21,980,00 0 % and those belonging to private banks, to 4,550,353/. ; and those belonging to joint-stock banks to 3,204,460/. The bullion in the coffers of the Bank amounted at the same time to 15,227,000/. The notes of the chartered, private, an d joint-stock banks in Scotland in circulation on the Ist of February last amounted to 3,070,058/. ; those of the Bank 01 : Ireland to 3,983,050/ . ; an d t h ose o f pr i vate an d j o i n t-stock banks in Ireland to 3,115,066/. On the 16th of Augu st, 1844, the tot a l li a biliti es of the Bank of England amounted to 35,414,0001, and the total assets to 38,487,000/. The notes in circulation amounted to 21,524/., and the bullion iii the coffers of the Bank to 15,579,000/. THE FAIRY.—This new iron steamer, intended as s yacht for her Majesty, was built by Messrs. Ditchburn and Mare of Blackwell, and the engines have been construct ed by Messrs. Penn and Co., of Greenwich. On Monday and Tuesday she proceeded d own th e r i ver to tes t h er s peed, and we believe she has far exceeded the most sanguine expectations of her constructors. It is stated that after twelve trials at the mile laid down by Government in Long-reach, her speed was found to be fift een m il es per hour, which is the greatest rate a vessel has ever been propelled by a screw. Such a re sult is highly creditable to the parties above-named, and Ws a good deal in favour of a propelling power, which up to this time has not been much adopted. THE LATE STEAM EXPLOSIONS AT BLACKWALL.-- The subscription which was set on foot soon after the explo sion of the steam-pipe on hoard the Gipsy Queen steam-boat at Blackwell, for the benefit of the widows and orphans of the sufferers, has amounted to nearly 1,800/. The trustees and committee have invested 800/. f or t h e perman ent benefit of the orphans, to pl ace th em out i n trades or situations when at, a suitable age. Since the 12th of November last, when the unfortunate occurrence took place, the widows have rece ived permanent relief, as well as , a weekly allowance according t° their circumstances and number of their children. ACCIDENT TO ONE OF THE FIRE BRIGADE.O n Tuesday morning, during the fire in the Minories, the fi r() brigade experienced several very narrow escapes of their lives. Samuel Girard and another of the Farringdon-stree t station saved themselves by hanging to a beam, when the front wall fell out, and George Carew, of Watling-street, was on a ladder in front of the adjoining house, with the engine branch in his hand, throwing water into the second floor, when, unfortunately, the ladd e r slipped, and Carew fell to the pavement. The man was instantly conveyed home to Watling-street very much injured, but no fatal results are anticipated.