The Sun. — London, England, 1844-05-06 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. TO-MORROW EVENING, MAY 7 Will be performed Donizetti's Opera, entitled L'ELISIR D'AMORE. Adina, Mad ime Persiani ; Giannct ta, Maclaine Bel lini ; Nemorino, Sig. Goren'; Belcore, Sig. F. Lablache; and Dr. Dulcamara Sig. Lablache. To cii:naude with the Grand Ballet of ONDINE. Principal Characters by Moilles.eerito, — Scheiii,finiaet, Ferdi nand, Barville, and Frassi , and Messrs. Perrot, Montassu, and St.lLeen. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box office, Opera-colonnade. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Signor FOR NA•SARI has the honour to inform the Nobility, Sub scriber; to the Opera, his Friends. and the Public, that HIS BENEFIT will take place on THURSDAY NEXT, May 9, when Will be performed Herold's Chef d'oeuvre, ZAMPA. Camilla, Madame Persian ;Rita, Madame Bellini ; Zampa. Sig nor Fornasari (his fir- t appearance in this character) ; Alfonso, Signor Corelli • Daniel Capuzzi, Signor F. Lablache ; and Dan dola, Signor Lablache (his first appearance in this character). After which, the Second Act ot NORMA, by Madame Grist, Mdlle Favanti, Signor Lablache, and Signor Mario. To conclude with the Grand Ballot, in Six Tableaux, by M. Perrot, entitled • ONDINE, ou, LA NAIADE. The Scenery by Mr. W Grieve. The music composed by Signor Pu rrincipal characters by Mdlle. Cerito, Mdlle. Scheirer, Mille. Fel'. dinand, Mdlle. Plunket, Mdlle. Barville, and Mdlle. Adelaide Frassi ; M. Perrot, M. Montassu, and NI. St. Leon. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box Office, Opera Colonnade. Doors open at Seven. The Opera will commence at Half-past Seven. THEATRE ROYAL. DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, MAY 6, Will be repeated A New Grand Opera, entitled THE BRIDES OF VENICE, Count Alberto, Mr. W. Harrison ; Count Ono Soranzo, Mr. Boirani; Nainaa, Mrs. Alfred Shaw; Geraldo, Mdlle. Albertaszi ; Francesca, Miss Romer. After which will be repeated a New Ballet, entitled LADY HEN. RIETTA , or, The Statute Fair. Lyonnel, M. Silvain ; Walter, Mr. Howell; Sir Tristram, Mr. O'Bryan ; Queen Anne. Miss O'Bryan ; Lady Henrietta, Mdlle. Lucile Gra.hn; Nancy, Miss C, Webster ; Mina Miss Carson. Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. ad. ; Upper Circles of Boxes Ss.. Second Price 38.; Pit 3s , Second Price 21.; Middle Gallery 21., Second Price Is.; Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARICET. MIL BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSEE. THIS EVENING, MAY 6 Will be performed GRANDFATHER WHITEHEAD. Grand. father Whitehead, Mr. W. Farren ; Driver, Mr. Strickland ; Beb Lineoln, Mr. Webster; Louisa Drayton, Mrs. Edwin Yarnold. After which, a New Comic Drama, entitled GRIST TO THE MILL. Marquis de Richeville, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Francine, Madame Veatris. To be followed by a New, Original, Occasional, and Local Extra. vaganza, founded on Fact, entitled THE DRAMA AT HOME; or, An Evening with Puff: Principal Characters by Mr. C. Mathews, Mr. J. Bland, Mr. Caulfield, Mrs. Glover, Miss P. Horton, and Miss Lee. To conclude with a New Farce, entitled LOVE IN A SACK. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr 1. T. Archer, at the Bo:- office, from Ten till Five. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, MAY 6, Will be repeated a New Cemic Opera, entitled CROWN DIAMONDS. Count de Campo Mayor, r. Weiss; Don Hen riques de Sandoval, Mr. Allen; Rebolle , -o, Mr. Paul Bedford ; La Caterina, Madame Anna Thillon; Diana, Mils Grant. To which will be added, the Farce of the SPITALFIELDS WEAVER. To conclude with the Grand Ballet, entitled LEOLA; or, the May-day Bride. • Patrick, Mr. T. Hill; Phelim, Mr. Gilbert; Rhona, Miss Charleton ; Leola, Miss Bailin. THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUM, LATE ENGLISH OPERA. HOUSE Under the Management of Mrs. KEELEY. " Open Fesame; or,a Night with the Forty Thieves," continues to be nightly received with perfect enthusiasm by crowded and fashionable audiences. THIS EVENING, MAY , Will be repeated an Original Comic Drama, entit'ed THE THREE WIVES OF MADRID. Principal Characters by Messrs. Keeley. Diddear, F. Matthews, Emery, Wigan. Craven, Turner, Yarnold, Miss Woolgar, Miss Fairbrother, Miss Greve, Miss Turner, Mrs Wigan, and Mrs. Keeley. To be followed by an Apropos Bagatelle. called POLK AMANI A Characters by Mr. F. Matthews, Mr. Wigan, Mr. Keeley, Miss Woolgar, and Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with a Grand Burlesque Fairy Extravaganza, called OPEN iiESAME; or, a Night with the Forty Thieves. ('ha. racters by Miss Woolgar, Miss E. Chaplin, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Turner, Miss Grove, Mrs. Wigan, Miss James, Miss Fairbrother, and'Mrs. Keeley, Messrs. F. Mathews, 'Turner, Yeunge, Wigan, Yarnold, and Chaplin. PRICES OF ADMISSION.—BaIcony Poxes, 45.; Upper Boxes, Ss. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, 6(1. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2s. ; Upper Boxes, Is 6d. ; Pit, Is. Private Boxes on the Balcony 'Tier (holding eight persons), Two Guineas Private Boxes on the Second Tier (hailing eight persons), One Guinea and a.Half. : Private Boxes on the Pit Fier (holding six persons), One Guinea. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. BATTY. Grand Attraction. THIS EVENING, MAY 6, Will be repeated the Hi +torical Spectacle of the INVASION OF ENGLAND BY WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR ; er, the Battle of Hastings. With all the effects of the Norman Conquest, Death of Harold, &c. Entire Change a the Splendid Scenes of the Circle. To conclude with the Oriental Spectacle of THE SECRET MINE; or, the H ndoos of the Ruby Cliffs. The doors will open nightly at six o'clock, and the performance commence at seven. Box-office opened daily from ten till four. The private boxes have been reconstructed and decorated with care and splendour. Acting and stage-manager. Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. DAV WOE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING MAY 6, Transcendant Success of Miss Barnes' Tragedy of Octavia Era galdi"—aa entirely New Piece, and Whits friars" at half-price. Will be repeated a New Tragedy, entitled OCTAVIA BR A- G ALD I ; or, The Confession. Supported by the Entire Company, aid Miss Charlotte Barnes, from New York. After which, a New Piece for the Million, entitled LA POLKA. To conclwie with an entirely New Drama, embracing all the strong effects of the celebrated work, eutitled WHITEFRIARS, in which the entire Company will perform. Paces and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box.. o'lice, from Eleven to Four. THEATRE ROYAL,ADELPHI. - OPEN EVERY EVENING. The GREAT WIZARD of the NORTH is getting more end more mysteri, us. He nightly introduces new wanders. His Mystic Temple is thronged with most brilliant audiences, who proclaim him to be the only legitimate Professor of Modern Magic, the very " ne plus ultra" of Cabalistic Phenomena. tie performs more wonders in one night, than all other Professors could accomplish in a month. The " Great Wizard of the North"• has no rival, no equal in Europe or the world. He will be fouhd nightly at Home," Plucking from his Mystic Caul dron NEW MAGICCOP[CAL EXPERIMENTS of Natural Phi l-,sophy. bringing froca any Gentleman's Hat a Feather Bed and the tilts of Flora. Between the parts -of the Wizard's Performances, Mr. SMITH wdl perform on his new instrument, the CRYSTALOPHION. Mr PHILIPS, the Banjoist, will nightly appear. The THREE INFANT ARA:ITS, Seven, Nine. and Twelve years of Age, go through anew and original Performance. Dress Circle, 3a. ; Pit. Is. lid.; Gallery, ed. Reserved Seats, and Private Boxes can be secured at the Theatre, and of all the Agents. Second Price at Nine o'clock. DJOPS open at Half-past Seven—the Wizard appears at Eight. 1143 , V A.' H LL B c~CavILL T• IMPORTANT NOTICE. ONE SHILLING , Admission to THE NAPOLEON MU SEUM, the most magnificent and extensive Collection of Llisto lea' Curiosities and Works of Art ever known to have been formed oy One Person, during Twenty-five years of elaborate research, at a cost of 60,000 guineas, and to completely illustrate, in the most In structive.and interesting manner, the most Important part of Euro pean history, viz.--CHARLES 1., OLIVER CROMWELL, and LOUIS XIV., - to the deaths of GEORGE 111., and the EMPEROR NAPOLEON, in 1821. This unique Museum has been visited often, during the last and present year, by the Royal Family, the Duke of Wellington, the Foreign Princes, Ambassadors, and their Ladies, also many thousauds et• the Nobility and Public ; and the Pro prietor has recently; been able to increase, by several very fine pictures, &c., his previous almost incredible number and variety of MSS., Works of Art, awl a multitude of valuable Relics, and other curiosities, in this most instructive and, as hundreds have said it ought to be, a National Museum. Many thousand have inspected it, and THIRTY PRINCIPAL EDITORS of the PUBLIC PRESS have stated th•it it ought to be seen by every one. The price of admis• eon is reduced to - ONE SIIILLING. The NAPOLEON MUSEUM is to be seen only at the "Egyptian Hall," Piccadilly; daily from Tell till Dusk. THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, MAY 6. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 46; Highest, 69; Noon, 64. BAROMETER, 29.9.—W1ND, N.E,_ . NOTE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the t oozing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is usually placectopposite 30, and rain at 29. WWI WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE TM'S DAY. Morning 13 minutes after 4 I Evening ... 37 minutes after 4. ~.;•- , • ,,, _:j,-, , :t• , ••••-• , ce . : ~. : is- C 4,, , - -.!.-.--.: v , ), "ail , ft Vi. ' - ll .' i .- / '5 •••-, .Ss°' ' .... 4 4• • -- ' . t. : '`.. .et A A- ai i= .t• .. - ii_cr.k-• -0 ' 1 0 1 ,-, k ,- .•-. - ~, ,- A ' ii', , '...- Art:oo 6b '• '. . * *-i - 4 , 77,-Fill■fti A '.- A - ':',- ~ 'zN4'''. :itC , -, . - ' f . - , ' '. lALN - ' '1;771.41\ 1 ' "•% ,. k : i4.''' ~„ ~ z . DI t , y., „4;,:.,,R r•Ai 0 ~ ,:, .1,i',10:3 , CY: ' ' I'' .. ...,- 4 000 , , SIJOIsID EDITION. lb - min LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 6, 1844. We implore every Member of Parliament who de sires to see the commercial and monetary condition of this country established on a prosperous and per manent basis, to be in his place, in the House of Commons, this evening. Owing to the almost smuggled notice which was given by Sir GEORGE CLERK (amidst the confusion of the House breaking up after the discussion on the Budget of the 29th ult., and the pro for= reading of the Bank Acts) of the Premier's intention to submit certain resolutions tonching the renewal of the Bank Char ter, we believe that many gentlemen are not aware of the important business thus appointed for to-night. On, the " Vote" paper of the 29th it stands as No. 88 of that ev e n i ng ' s proceedings, the i ast within some eight or ten of the whole. On the Notices" given on the 29th, it is an entry papernot ore . prominent or discernible. For these reasons, and. because of the pertinacious taciturnity which Sir RoBEETEL PE of the Government ob served onFriday night, after Mr. THOMAS BARING hi4 l , o i ntedl this subject- in an earlier Y ru addressed Mr. GOULB URN on stage of the business, we gentleman are most anxiou s th at no should be sur prised, even on the first enunciation of these inten tions, into a tacit though relucant toleration of pro positions which he may find grave reasons for ob jecting to, but; because of their unexpected d vel ment, be unprepared to resist. It is tr ue that e if, asop the Chancellor of t he Exche quer stated, "he believed" (for (for it would be a pity—a deplorable inconsistency were any of the subordinates of a PEEL Administra tion to be at any time in a condition to speak out openly and with certainty of the intentions o f hi s chief) it be not the First Lord's design to call for a vote, of the House upon the resolutions on the same - night, it is so far the less probable that any Hon. Members will be taken by surprise in this matter. But - we have not much faith in the ingenuousness of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's " belief," and none at all in the reluctance of the First Lord to disembarrass himself of its implied conditions, should a favourable opportunity present itself for snatching up a vote of the House on his " Resolutions." Now, the entry_ on the Vote paper of the 29th, " 1 34: -Bank of England Charter. Act 3 and 4 William c. 98, for giving to the Corporation of the GoTinier . and Company of the Bank of England certain privileges for a limited period, under certain restrictioaa—read. l Also, :several other Acts relating to the Cl:Carter of the Bank of England, and advances by them to the Government--and also to Banks and Banking partnerships—read. Committe3 on Monday next." Those who know how utterly unintelligible and unlistened to are the proceedings when, after the "field-day" business—like the " Budget"—the motion has been agreed to " that the other orders of the day be now read"—will easily understand that of all which is recorded in this entry, nobody but the Speaker, Sir GEORGE CLERIC, and the Clerks at the Table, heard or knew one word at the time. And if others had, the amount of their knowledge en the sub ject would have been no greater than it actually was for these pro forma proceedings are like the new gas cooking stoves. Everything is put down, no body sees how . ; shut up, nobody understands why; cooked by fuel, nobody can tell what; and taken out, dished and served, nobody can tell when. Now the House of Commons' process is much the same. Acts of all reigns are said to be read which no man has heard, of purport and effect which no man could divine; certain steps taken which no man is cognisant of ; and the whole affair is finished before any man can say it is begun. li). eat morning it is dished up in the Votes after the fanciful fashion just quoted. It is surprising how much matter is condensed into the mummery of this pro forma" business. A Member moves the House into Committee, and then that a certain order of the day be read. Mr GREENE pro pounds the order with a rapidity equal to that of galvanic communication, and (may we be pardoned) quite as unintelligible. The Clerk, taking up a roll of paper, gravely says, " this is an Act," and throws it under the table. The mover, who has in voked the sublime machinery of the Committee, and its presiding genius, Mr. GREENE (dignus vindice nodus), being satisfied himselcassumes the House to be equally satisfied, with this instructive statement. He proceeds to move certain resolutions, which are actually read at the table once; the Chairman then proposes that they be read a second time, and, if there be no opposition, the House, by a well-bred fiction, assumes that . they are read again. Then the Chair man proposes himself, "that he do now leave the Chair ;" takes the sense of the Committee by pro posing " that they who are of that opinion say aye, of the contrary opinion, no ;" and, because none answer either with the one monosyllable or the other, he concludes, on the extra-Parliamentary axiom that "silence gives consent," that the ayes have it ; quits his chair, walks to the door, is called upon by Mr. Speaker in his most benign manner, and, with modest brevity, announces that the Com mittee on such an order have come to certain reso lutions. This "fact" is recorded by the Clerk, and printed in the votes distributed on the morrow. Such, then, is the whole amount of what has been preliminarily done—of what has subsequently been made known—of the proceedings that are to lead the business of this evening. This business is yet more succinctly announced in the notices of motions —"Monday, 6 May. Sir Robert Peel.—ln Commit tee on Bank Charter to move resolutions." But what is there which regards the well-being of this great empire, the integrity of its power, the prosperity of its trade, the maintenance of its politi cal grandeur, the subsistence of its millions of in dustrial population, the payment of the wages of their labour on a scale compatible with its value, and, therefore, adequate to their physical sustenta tion, which is not involved, more or less, in the terms upon which you will renew this charter of the Bank ? In which of their multiplied relations are not the security of property, the energy of trade, the productiveness of capital, theemployment of manufac turing and agricultural labour, the further develop ment of our vast but latent resources, the present main tenance and activity of our shipping—manufactures— and all our staple trades, mixed up with this ques tion of the renewed privileges of the Bank of Eng land ? On what other pivot turn the sacredness of property, the inviolability of legal title and pos session to all the realty and personalty of the kingdom, but the public good faith in the confidence of which our wealth upholds and everywhere supplies and animates the arteries of this mighty monarchy ; and what is the controlling, absolute, disastrous influence which alone—except only the decree of Providence—can endanger the ex istence, as it already paralyses the operations of that wealth, if it be not the power exercised under the charter of the Bank ? Former Governments have done rashly, no doubt, in putting into the hands of two dozen of private gentlemen, presiding over the amurs ui u private Corporation. this tromandnue authority, morally or politically speaking, of life and death over the whole national community. These Governments might plead in their excuse, however, the pressure of frightful political exigencies, the dis organisation of the public revenue, the imminency of perils from without, only to be grappled with by the concentration of energies within, the State. They might allege that money being the grand lever of all action in modern times, they had made large present sacrifices, and consented to still more important concessions for the future, to those who could soonest supply them with the funds in ex cess of those raised by public taxation, necessary for the current services of the empire, and the wars and the expenses in which it was involved. In all this there might be some show of palliation for the un statesmanlike improvidence of confiding to private hands the entire control and management of our mone tary system. But even pending the last and most costly of those wars, the gigantic proportions of our commerce have vastly expanded themselves. Capital has multiplied itself under every discouragement of taxation. The resources of our manufacturing ca pacity, the productive powers of our industrial la bour, and the still unrivalled perfection of our ma chinery have enlarged the amount and variety of our commodities to an extent which the most sanguine of speculative minds could scarcely have anticipated. The estimated rental of England and Wales, alone, rated this year to the poor rate, is 62,000,0001. per annum. The annual taxation of the United Kingdom is not 12,000,0001. less ; and there is a surplus of public income of more than 4,000,0001. for the current year. Yet, with these marvellous elements of public prosperity, how hap pens it that the market of labour is so frightfully overstocked, the poor-houses so fearfully crowded ? —that of the industrial community, even that portion which is in work is starving; and that the manufac turers are unable to pay them higher wages ?—that a surplus income of 4,000,0001. is out-balanced by an aggregate of poor-rate for England and Wales of upwards of 6,000,0001. ?—that pauperism, and the crimes generated by abject poverty are on the in crease ?—that our manufactures and our machinery find new competitors starting up in Europe and in America ?—that declining markets are coupled with increased production ; and accumulated stocks, so far from being put into distribution among the classes whose labour has been most taxed and worse paid to produce them, re-act on prices, and by lower ing them still further, run down diminished wages ? —that this state of things, attributable neither to the avarice of masters nor to the indolence of workmen, co-exists with the monstrous and oppressive scandal of more than 30,000,0001. of taxes being actually paid by the producer or half-famished artizan and labourer, which ought to be, which were intended to be, but which, under our existing monetary system, cannot be paid by the consumer ? We answer, that all this happens because the Bank of England have a charter, in virtue of which they control the whole currency of the country, expand or diminish the circulation, make money scarce or plentiful, derange the plans of the merchant and trader, disorganise private incomes, check the salutary enterprise of trade, diffuse doubt and suspicion among all classes, and in proportion as they repress and distract all the operations of legiti mate business , encourage gambling adventure, enrich unprincipled and merciless usury, and promote profli gate and reckless jobbing. Yet our quarrel is not with the Bank. They are but the instruments of a legislative fo lly. The mon ster mischief, un d er whose commissi on their charter has worked th ese ev il s, is PEEL'S Currency Bill of 1819. B an y u th ni e t nfpuerile,measurement—in yet terrible, anomaly of ima giningasurement—in assigning, by statute, a fixed value to the ounce of standard gold— the total quantity of gold above ground or below, hoarded or in circulation, coined or in bullion, bei ng just as fluctuating as it must be ever uncertain—the Legislature armed the Bank with two swords. The conver tibility of its notes into gold on demand was that which any body of men, or individ uals , might use to cut down the Bank into bankruptcy, whenever more of its notes would be brought to its counters than there should be bullion in its cellars to pay them withal. The power to issue more or less of those notes to any extent it might fancy, The public begin to look forward to some terrible according to the cheapness or dearness of gold in the convulsion about Church property. The priests and market, was the sword with which the . Bank could the military rule at the Palace ; and orders, at the cut down any body of men , o r individuals, whose instigation of the former, had been privately issued to operations in trade had been based on the fallacy of suspend the sale of Church property. Those who have supposing that the circulation at one time remained purchased Church lands are, therefore, in the utmost the same as at another, and that its facilities, or the ex- consternation, for they believe with good reason that changeable value, of their securities, bills and money, they will not be allowed to hold it undisturbed. were, therefore, the same at like periods. The sad records j The " Sabre" Government will repudiate the acts of of the working of PEEL'S Bill, and the co-incident intlu • a Radical Cortes, and rob the purchasers, in the same ences of the Bank Charter, are to be read in the Ga•• way that FERDINAND robbed those who had lent zettes of 1825, 1826, 1833, 1834, and 1838. Ancient money to Spain when he was not absolute KING. bankers, merchant princes, and a host of honourable The Castellano endeavours to dispel the panic by asserting that "there is no cause for alarm in the idea merchants and traders of minor celebrity , were lite rally swept out of the circle of British comm erce b y of giving back the unsold property to the clergy, and the panics of those years. There is , a s the Cit y cor- that there is no intention of interfering with existing respondents of all our Morning Co n t em p oraries, con interests ; that the question is one which ought to be firm an opinion of our own in statin g ever y pos considered calmly, and upon its own merits. It re sible indication of the approach of such another minds the public that previous to the pronun hideous crisis in 1844, if it be not arrested in time. ciamentos of 1840 the Cortes had passed a law Let every Member of the House of Commons be which the Crown had sanctioned, by which the at his post this evening, animated by a determination, property of the secular clergy had been assigned if possible, to avert that crisis, so far as its approxima- to them as a part of the provision designed for tion would be the result of continuing to the Bank them by the State, together with 4 per cent. upon its charter on its present terms. • agricultural produce in place of the tithe—that this law was indeed upset by the famous mutiny or pro - Whether this be intended by Governme nt, or not, or in what modified shape it may be p ro p osed to nunc iamento, as it was called, of 1840, the Cortes renew it, all Englishmen beyond the doors of the which followed having done everything exactly con- Cabinet have as yet no means o f j ud g in g . Again trary to their predecessors ; but that now a reaction we ask, why all this silence ? Is Sir ROBERT PEEL had taken place in the public mind; that some of the juntas formed last year against ESPARTERO had sus anafraid to give the mercantile and mo ne y ed Members opportunity of considering his propositions, what- pended the sales of Church property ; and it says the ever they may be, before their discussion? Is it too question now is, Will it be just, politic, much to concede to the commerce and capital of the and convenient, to give back to the secular country such a means of maturely deliberating upon— clergy the property of which it was de before their representatives in Parliament commit spoiled, and which is not yet sold ?' " It replies themselves to a single step in advancieg—the scheme to this query in the affirmative, while, at the same on which the Ministers may be disposed to grant re- time, it alludes also to the restoration of the whole nswed privileges? Have the public at large no reason, property, on the present possessors being indemnified. from the dreadful experience of the past, to anticipate The possessors and the public evidently have not much similar results for the future, if similar causes are hope of indemnification. We have no accounts from to remain in operation. If they are not so to remain, the provinces of the effects produced by these two what has prevented the Right Hon. Baronet from events, but there can be no doubt that they will pro announcing that fact long since, and quieting the duce a great convulsion, and that some new scenes of alarms and , fears entertained by those who deprecate horror will be enacted in that distracted and helpless his irretrievable, and, we must say, presumptuous I,Eauntry. The French Government have incurred a tampering with the currency in 1819 ? If they are fearful responsibility by sending CIIRISTINA, NAR to remain—what shall we not have to fear from the VAEZ, and other firebrands, to destroy the Constitu , counsels of a Minister who can have been all this tion, and lay waste the kingdom. time brooding over a perverse and audacious deter mination to re-enact those bad powers which all sen sible and experienced observers concur in indignantly denouncing? If Sir ROBERT be unjustly suspected as to the character of his intentions, he has only him self to thank for the misconception. If those inten tions be such as they are thus suspected to be, our entreaty to Hon. Members is at once fortified and justified. Leave nothing, we will add, to the Right Hon. Gentleman's further consideration in this last event ;—but principiis obsta ! Reject his resolutions. " There is a strong and growing feeling," says a Whig Morning Contemporary, " that the working classes of this country have been too much left to themselves—that masses of population have been al lowed to form in the seats of our manufactures, with out adequate provision, or with hardly any provision, for the education of children, the amusement, or men tal improvement of adults, or the healthfulness of the localities in which their dwellings are crowded to gether. There is a strong feeling that, with the means we have, the working classes are not either physically or morally so well off as they might be—and that the fault is chargeable in no small degree to the neglect of the various Govern ments of the last thirty or forty years. No statesman can or ought to disregard these growing impressions." There is much calm, sound sense, in these remarks, though we hardly expected to have met with them in the leading organ of the W higs and the middle classes. The working masses of the population have, indeed,.for years past, been treated with nearly equal indifference by the two great contending parties of the State; the Tories—if we may judge from their legislation—seem to have been almost wholly un conscious of their existence ; while the Whigs have had little hesitation in sacrificing their interests to those of the class immediately above them. Few and faint are the voices that have been raised in Parlia ment in behalf of the claims of the labouring portion of the community. Few—miserably few and inefficient —are the remedies that have been suggested for the amelioration of their condition. While the middle elassss huva hstri r" 1 a great degree, of controlling the Legislature, con ferred on them by the Reform Bill, the lower classes, by whose agitation principally that important mea sure was carried, remain in the same abject, defence less, destitute state as ever. True, proposals for giv ing them the inestimable benefits of a sound, prac tical education, are, from time to time, brought for ward in the House of Commons ; but these proposals never get beyond their first stage of discussion, for some obstacle or other is sure to arise to prevent them from being carried into effect. True, a new system of poor-laws is adopted for the express purpose of nourishing a manly spirit of independence in the minds of the labouring classes ; but 10, when the system begins to work, it is found, in many of its details, to injure, oppress, and degrade in their own estimation and in that of others, those whom it was meant to benefit. True, a proposal is made for limiting the hours of labour in the manu facturing districts, and thereby giving the overtasked operative a chance of doing some little for himself and his family in the way of evening instruction ; but no sooner does the Minister set his face against the scheme, than those who have brought it forward, and been most zealous in its support, take fright, and the whole thing falls at once to the ground. Under these dis heartening circumstances who can wonder at the un deniable discontent and bitterness of the labouring classes of the community ? Who can wonder that they fall an unresisting prey to the acts of designing demagogues, and hug to their breasts the flattering delusion of the Charter? Who can wonder that the estrangement between them and the classes immediately above them becomes daily more marked ; and that they regard their repre sentatives—or rather their nominal representatives—in Parliament less as friends than oppressors, who have scaly scarcely soande mistakes gl e our rulers in l e rs a re common making it h them het thus ? u s wantonly disregarding the claims of the labouring classes, and trying experiments on their patience and forbearance by inclosure bills—trespass acts —game laws and Heaven knows how many other vexatious enactments, whose only object is to benefit the strong at the expense of the weak—and assist the rich to the manifest de triment of the poor. The evil of such partial, one-sided legislation may not be felt in its full effects just now, but assuredly a day of reckoning will come —and this at no distant period—when those who have the power will bitterly regret that they did not exercise it in a more equitable, beneficent, and con siderate spirit. The Paris papers of Saturday have been received, but wa find nothing in them of importance. The discussion in Committee on the Prisons' Bill con- tinued, and twelve clauses had been adopted. The Peers were still occupied with the Education Bill. In the Chamber of Deputies on Saturday, a petition was presented from certain operatives of Paris, for the abolition of negro slavery in the French colonies; and, after an interesting debate, was referred to the Minister of Marine. From the re marks made by M. Guizur and Admiral MAcicau, we learn, that the Government intended to abolish slavery, but not all at once, and that it would be necessary to prepare the slaves for freedom during some years before total emancipation. The funds continued firm. On Saturday the Three per Cents. closed at 84f. 55c., and the Fives at 1221. THE BOURSE—TuEsDAy, MAY 2. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. ' Price. Price. French Five percents•.•.•• 121 75 .. 121 75 .. 121 65 .. 121 70 Four per Cents. Three per Cents B4 20 •• 84 45 .. 84 20 .. 84 45 Bank of France... ..... 3090 ••3090 . 3090 .•3090 Laftitte Bank, I,ooof. Sharesll67 50 • • 1167 50 • • 1167 50 ..1167 50 5,000 f. Sharessls7 50 —5157 50 ..5157 50 ••5157 50 Belgian`Bank 1841. lllO —lll5 ..1110 ..1115 Belgian Fives, 1831.• • ..• .• • 103} • • 103 f • • 103 E • . 103 E 1840 1051 .• 106 .. 1051 .. 106 1842 1081 •• 1081 .. 1081 108 f Dutch Two-and-a-Half 61f • • 61f .. 61f .. 61f Spanish Active •••• .• • Threes .... •• • Passive ....•. ••.. • • 6 • • 6 .. 51 .. 51, New Deferred l4l .. 14} .. 14 .. 14 Old Deferred .•• • • • 7 - • • 7 - • • 7 7 Portuguese Five per Cents • • 45 .. 45 .. 45 .. Neapolitan . 102 .. 102 .. 101 85 .. 101 84 Roman ........... 1064 .. 1064 .. 1064 .. 1064 RAILWAY SHARES. 380 .. 380 - .. 375 .. 375 L.B. 250 256 25.. 250 .. 256 25 Rouen • • • • • • • • 962 50 . • 96.5 .. 962 50 .. 965 Rouen to Havre............ 725 .. 732 5D .. 725 • • 732 50 Orleans . • • •• 972 50 Strasburg to Bale. • . A.vignom to Marseilles• •• • .. 271 25 .. 275 .• 765 .• 770 RAILWAY SHARES, FOR THE ACCOUNT. Versailles, L.B• ••• • • • .. .. 245 Rouen • • • • • • • • • • .. 2GO -.. 245 .. 972 50 - .. 965 Rouen to llavre.. 730 Orleans ...... ..... ........ 970 The accounts from Madrid are of an alarming character. The BRAVO Ministry have all resigned, and General NARVAEZ is to be at the head of the new Cabinet. This important news was conveyed to Paris at a late hour on Saturday night, by the fol lowing telegraphic dispatch : .. 977 50 - - 970 " MADRID, MAT 2, 1844. " THE AMBASSADOR OF FRANCE TO THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS. " The whole of the Ministry have resigned, and their resignation has been accepted by the Q UAEN . General NAEYAEZ has been intrusted with the forma tion of the new one, in which M. MuterLoazs is to be included. "Al. BRAVO and his colleagues have stated to her MAJESTY that they are willing to give their support to their successors. " Madrid is tranquil." The French Ambassador, however, or perhaps the authorities at Madrid, have suppressed still more im portant news. As soon as the fact became generally known that NAEYAEZ was to form the new Cabinet, a panic took place on the Madrid Bourse, when the funds fell in two days nearly 6 percent., and business was transacted to the enormous amount of 127,600,000 reals. On the 26th ult. the Three per Cents. closed at 361, and on the 29th they had fallen to 30i, and so eager were holders of this stock to get rid of it, that sales continued after the usual period of busi ness, and the latest quotation was as low as 29. For fi t on his rd teup g ne r en e , d a a t e I t n m d o fe r rt a eh p e i s d abr fallsabre" elevationthereto tho fe Ns head A R v anotheroAfEzt the eao reason,Ministry. er o f •• 257 50 • 972 50 THE SON', LONDON, MONDAV _EVENIN'tI, MAY 6, 1844. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN-EXCHANGE.-MONDAY. Fresh up, we received a fair supply of English Wheat from Essex and Kent. The finest parcels sold readily at prices quite equal to those obtained on Monday last. The middling and inferior kinds at late rates. For fine foreign Wheat last week's prices were supported in every instance. In Grain under lock, the rates are nominal. Barley at prices quite equal to those obtained last week. The best potatoe qualities of Oats were held at 6d per quarter more money, the value of other kinds being firmly maintained. Beans. and Peas had an upward tendency. Flour produced very full prices. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. WHEAT—Essen & Kent, 1111m.r..--chevalier 63s to red 4lls to 58s OATS—Yorkshire and Ditto, white Norfolk and Lin i Potatoe coln re d 4O. to 438 Youghall and Cork, Dittowhite 42s to 478 black Irish, red 47s to 50s Cork, white Ditto white RYE—Old 2Ss to 33s BEANS—Tick 30s to 36s New 36s to 383 Plus— Grey BARLEY —Grinding ...... 24. to 275; Map!e Malting ............... riSs to 3651 Wh i t e 30s to 35. Chevalier 32s to 35.51 80i1er5.......,,„... 32 •to 8 MALT—Suffolk and Nor FLOU R — Town maci. . e.... 45 ; to 5 3 3: folks6s to 625 1 buffo k .......... ........ 34 1 t o 38 s Brown sos to 54. Stockton & Norfolk 34s to 36 Kingston and Ware 568 to 62s FOREIGN G RAIN AT WNEAT—Dantzic Hamburg h 366 to 40s BARLEY 30. to 335, OATS—New ••... ........ .•• 15s to 17s Feed l4s to 16s, SMITHFIELD. W FLOUR IN BOND. BEANS ........ 20. to 26. PeAS 23s to 214 FLOUR—American Baltic Prime Scots, homebreds, runts, &c., at an advaece in the currencies obtained on Monday last of 2d per 81bs—the highest figure being 4s per 81bs, while the value of all other breeds was supported without difficulty. The Mutton trade was somewhat steady, at last week's prices, the best old Downs selling at 3s 8d per 81bs. The Lamb trade was very steady, at prices fully equal to those obtained on this day sen'night, viz., from 5s to 6s 4d per Sibs. Calves at full quo tations. The value of Pigs was supported without difficulty. Per Sibs. to sink the oOaL 0. d. to s. d. s. 11. to I. st. Inferior Beasts 2 6 2 8 Second quality ditto... slo S I Second quality ditto 2lO 3 9 Coarse.woolled ditto.. 3 2 3 4 Prime large Oxen 3 4 3 8 Southdown Wethers 1 6 3 s Prime Scots, &c. Large coarse Calves l4 4 2 Large Hogs 3 0 S 1 Prime small ditto 4 4 4 8 Small Porkers 3lO 4 4 Suckling Calves, each 11 0 29 I Quart er old Plgs, each 16 0 IS I Inferior Sheep SUPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts. Sheep. Calves. Pigs. I I I 2,540 29,770 104 402 NEWGATE AND LEADENZIALL. The primest Beef, Mutton, and Veal have commanded a trifle more money—the value of other descriptions being sup ported. In addition to the arrivals below, about 500 carcases of Lamb, and 800 hind quarters of Mutton, have come to hand from various parts, per railway. At per stone, by the Carcase s. d. to s. d.I s. d. to s. d. 3eef, inferi0r............ 2 2 2 4 Mutton, inferior 2 4 2 8 middling ..... .... 2 6 2 II; -- middling 2lO 3 2 prime 1arge...... 210 32 ( -- prime ..... prime small 3 4 36 ( Pork, large. 2 4 3 6 Vaal ..... ••••••••••• ..• 3 4 4 61 —small ..... •••••••••• 3 6 4 4 Lamb. 4s 10d to Is ARRIVALS DURII , 4 G THI: PAST WEEK. Beasts. Sheep. Calves. Pigs. 8 350 320 7 400 412 2 '7O '7O .-- 60 29 3 32 25 6 100 120 160 41 200 130 136 40 49 4 50 90 SO 100 80 100 Scotland Yorkshire Norfolk Suffolk Cambridgeshire, Essex Surrey Devonshire Wiltshire Other puts Total 3$ 1,412 480 1,40? 9 1,503 6g! 1,540 Previous week's arrival — Dithrence since our last. 3l 100 12 135 BOROUGH AND SPITALPIELDS. The arrivals of Potatoes having exceeded the demand since our last ; holders have in some instances been compelled to submit to lower rates to effect sales, while most of the in ferior qualities have been housed. From Belgium, Holland, and Ireland, nearly 700 tons have been received, and held at from 40s to 45s per ton, their quality being very inferior. WOOL MARKET. During the past week the imports of Foreign and Colonial Wool have not exceeded 800 packages. By private contract very little business is doing, yet prices may be considered about stationary. BOROUGH HOP MARKET. The accounts from the plantations are by no means favour-. able to the young bine, yet the trade here for all kinds of Hops is in a sluggish stat T e A at, last week's prices. LLOW. The market continues in that same dull state as it has been for some time past, with little variation in prices, there being no speculative business doing, and the trade buying sparingly. The Hamburgh mail arrived this morning, but the letters were not delivered sufficiently early for our report. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(T HIS DAY.) LONDON, MAY 6.—Light northerly. DEAL, MAY 4.—Wind N.E. by N., strong ; 5th—N.N.W. to N.E., fresh.—Arrd. Coquette, St. Helena. Sailed Fox hound, South Seas; Athenian and Troy, Bombay; Mary Ann, Algoaßay ;Colony and Randolph, Cape of Good Hoke ; Floraville, West Coast of Africa ; Woodmansterne, Ascension and ditto; Edward Thorne, Miramichi ; Messenger, Imo gine, Horneley, and Elizabeth. Quebec; Henry, Woolley, Montreal ; Harriet, Newfoundland, OFF THE START, MAY 4.—Thomas Coutts, Bomoay. FALMOUTH, MAY s.—Wind E., light breezes.—Arrd. Penguin packet, Rio, sailed March 13, on freight about 20,0001. in gold and diamonds. Off port John Brewer, China. The brig Ann, which sailed from Liverp o ol D ec . 13 or 16, h a d not reached Rio when the Penguin left. YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT, MAY 3.—Wind, E.—The Vivacious, from Ensworth and Newport, got on the Shingles, and remained two hours, when she got off and proceeded. NEWPORT," MAY 4.—The Severn (steamer), Parfitt, in leaving her station this evening, got athwart the bridge, and after hanging two hours upon a spring flood tide, filled, and went down, head foremost. LIVERPOOL, MAY 4.—WindE.S.E., light. 5.—N., light.— Arrd. Elizabeth, Patten, New Orleans ; Enterprise, Ro bertson, Calcutta. Sld. 4. Albert, Edward, China; Marina, Cape of Good. Hope ; Chilian, Lima ; Richard Weston, De merara ; Margaret Trinidad ; Arabian, Cahaba, and Liver pool, New York. • Richmond and Marion, Halifax ; Britan nia (steamer), dalifax and Boston; Bridge Town, Ellicolie, and Ocean Queen, Quebec. s.—Lima packet, Cape of Good Hope ; Revoke; Ditto ; Bee, Africa ; Merchant, Rio; Ga zelle, Miramichi • Ann, Boston ; Peter Hattrick, N ew Yo r k. CLYDE, MAY i.—Sld. Nelson, Bombay. CORK, MAY 2.—Sld. Lord W. Bentinck, Port Philip. SHIELDS, •MAY 2.—Sld. William and Ann, Quebec. 3. Thunder, Rio. 4. Cingalese, Cape of Good H o p e ; Ma zeppa, ontreal. • SUNDERLAND, MAY 4 —Sid. Spartan, Quebec. DEAL, MAY s.—Sld. Cleopatra, China ; Fairy Queen, Cape of Good Hope. • • PLYMOUTH, • MAY s. —Wind variable. Arrd. Johanna Cristoff, La Guayra, for Hamburgh. OFF PENZANCE, MAY 3.—Montezuma, Selkirk, Sydney ; Briton, Jeffrey,•Mauritius. MARYPORT, MAY 2.—Sld. Ocean and Jane, Quebec. DINGLE, MAY 2.—Sld. British Queen, Halifax. STROMNESR, MAY I.—Arrd. Suffolk, Hull, for Quebec, bore up leaky, and orew refusing to proceed. MONE AND CO NIMERCIAL NEWS CITY QUARTER TO THREE. There was a continued good demand for Cotton at Liver pool on Saturday, at firm rates,—sales about 6,000 bales, in cluding 1,000 on speculation. —There was less done in shares, Dover being, the exception, as for them there was a good de mand. French shares were rather better. It is much to be regretted that the commercial letters re ceived from the Brazils do not hold out any sanguine expec tation from the new, treaty between this country and the Ministers of die Emperor. Nor can any favourable arrange ment be ma 4, as is stated, until the Government of this country makes concessions as to the sugar duties, so as to embrace the produce of the Brazils, and the admission of the staple for home consumption at a reduced rate of duty. The accounts and advices from India and China are not of much importance, if we except the fact that the markets were generally overstocked with British manufactures. We have accounts to Feb. 23, from the Cape of Good Hope, but being only a day . later, they furnish nothing of particu lar interest. , The exchange on London, at 30 days was 24 per cent. premium. The Funds have been a shade better to-day, but there is only a limited business doing. Consols for transfer have realised 994 to 4, and for Time 99a to 4. Exchequer Bills are at the high premium of 755. to 775. East India Stock nominally supports the rally upon the previous depression, the appointmeni of Sir Henry Hardinge being looked upo n a s satisfactory. Bank` Stock has been marked 1954 to 196. The New Three-and-a 'Half per Cents. have obtained 1024 to 1024 ; the Reduced, 1014 to ; and the Three per Cents. 984 to 4. The Commissioners have taken Consols at 994. The intelligence froin Madrid, of the resignation of all the Spanish Ministers; has led to a fall in the Stock of about one per cent», the reaction here, however, not being equal to that in the continental markets. For the Five per Cents. the quotations have been 234 to 234, and for the Three per Cents. 344 to 334. The West India mail being expected to bring a fair remittance from Mexico, the Stock has im proved a little. The Active has been at 354. and the Deferred at 154. Colombian have been quoted 144 ; and Peruvian 29, being dull. Danish Bonds are firm at 88, and Dutch Two-and-a -Half per Cents. at 61 to 614. Ve nezuela Deferred liave realised 114 to 114. The market for Railway Shares 'has been firm, with a moderate business doing, and we quote Blackwell and South- Eastern rather higher. National Bank of Ireland Shares are 34 discount. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (Froin the Official List) Bank Stook _• • _ 195 S 196 3 per Cent.. Reduced Annuities 3r•Ceut. Consols. Annuities 9 9%4% 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities ew 3% 'per Cent. Annuities......... Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 12% Consolisfor Account .............. Exchequer Bills, 114 d. I%d 1,0001. Ditto Sniall- FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE o'CLOCE. Columbian' Bonds. 14% Danish. Bonds; 1825, 3 per Cent. BB Mexican Bonds, .837, 5 per Cent. Ditto for the Account Ditto'Defeired Stock l5 Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents Spanish •Bonds. Five per Cent 1848 23% Ditto for the Account 24 2 %Mt Ditto Passive Bonds. Ditto Three pet Cent. Ditto for the Account 3 4 % 3334% 431 Venezuela • Bonds, 2 per Cent Ditto .Deferred Dutch 234 per Cents Bl% Dutch 5 per Cents 100%34% New Loan 1837; 5 per Cents. ........„ 9934 PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. • ' RAILWAYS. PAID. Pelt SHAWL Caledonian i 4% to Chester and Holyhead 5 7% to Dublin aid Cisliel Eastern Counties Ditto New. Registered Si. 6s. Bd. Great Western Ditto Shares % Ditto fifth's •' ' • 12 London and Birmingham. loo_. .. ...231 London and Blackwall 16% ..... 8%.734 to 87% London and Brighton 5O ..»..... 44% London and Greenwich London and Greenwich (Preference) 18% . . 17 to London and South Western ...... 41% Ditto Eighths London and Croydon (Trunk)... N% Manchester and Leeds- 7O .....».." to Ditto 34 Sharee • 3O ..... .... - 47% ..... to Manchester and Birmingham Midland Counties lOO 9034 ...... to Newcastle and DarlingtonJunct. 18 .... North British Norwich and Btaridon ..».»..... 2 ••.••»•• 9% South Eastern and-Dover Ditto New. Yarmouth and Norwich lB 25% to York and North,Midland ......... 50 Ditto 36 - Shar& ' • 25 -59 Ditto Scarboro' Branch 234 MANctiEs'rErt Stocx EXCHANGE, MAY 4.—We have no material change 'Since yesterday. Manchester and Leeds i ; Half, 47i ; Sheffield and Manchester, 79 South-Eastern, 37i to 38 ; Ditto New, 1 ; Dublin and Cashel, FIRE IN PARLIAMENT -STREET, THROUGH THE MISCONDUCT' OF A FOOTMAN. This morning, at a quarter before eight o'clock, "a fire was discovered raging in the base ment story of 'the offices adjoining the spacious residence of Mr. Driver, the eminent land surveyor, situate at No. 8, Richmond-terrace, 'Westminster. It appears that the care of the plate was entrusted to the footman, William Cotton, whose duty it was to' sleep in the pantry, but, availing him self of the family's sojourn at East Grinstead, Sussex, he re mained out the whole of last night, leaving the gas burning in the pantry: Upon an alarm being raised, the engine from the Chandos-street station, and five other engines belonging to the fire brigade, were speedily upon the spot, and a good supply of water having been obtained, the firemen succeeded, in less than an hour, in subduing the flames. The pantry, however, and the valuable family plate, is nearly entirely destroyed, and the staircase and one of the front offices abutting upon Parliament-street, are considerably injured, and but for a massive door connecting the offices with the family mansion impeding the progress of the flames, the valuable collection of pictures and costly furniture, &c., be longing to Mr; Driver, might have fallen a sacrifice to the devouring element. _ _ _ REMOVAL OF TROOPS.—Orders have just been issued for the removal of the undermentioned troops to the several quarters mentioned :—The Ist Dragoon Guards from Newbridge to' Dublin ; the 49th Foot from Portsmouth to Winchester ; and the 76th Foot from Plymouth to Gosport. SERIOUS ILLNESS OF SIR JOHN LOWTHER, BART. —We regret to hear that this venerable Baronet, brother of the late Earl of Lonsdale, has for fome days past been la bouring under severe indisposition, so as to cause alarm to the members of his family. The respected Baronet is at Swillington House, near Ferrybridge, Yorkshire, surrounded by his family. Although the accounts received in town on Saturday were .morp favourable than these forwarded pre viously, yet it was feared the Hon. Baronet would sink under the attack, as his advanced age and consequent infirmities will militate against his recovery. DECORATIVE FURNITURE.—It has long been matter of great desire amongst the most scientific and prac tical chemists engaged in the advancement of our manufac tures, to provide for. the furniture printer a permanent green colour, which, while. it would retain its brilliancy equally by night as by day, would not detract from the beauty of other colours with which it might be associated. Simple as this may seem, there has been great difficulty in accomplishing it, and we understand that Messrs. Clarkson and Co , her Ma jesty's Furniture Printers, have expended considerable sums in the attempt to attain it, a result which has at length re • warded their perseverance. The colour now obtained is pecu liarly fine, and approaches in all its tints as closely to nature as possible. As these gentlemen are already celebrated for the artistic beauty and arrangement of their chintz designs, it is well that a discovery of such importance has fallen to the lot of those who can render the perfection of British chintz furniture, in the most extensive degree, available to the public. BELL'S LIFE IN LONDON" OF SUNDAY NEXT MAY 12.—Newmarket Second Spring Meeting—The Suffolk Handicap and important matches between Oakley and St. Lawrence—Semiseria and Extempore—Pegasus's fore gatherings of Gorhambury Races—Shrewsbury and other Races—Racing, Steeple-chasing, and Fox-hunting at Rome —Angling, by Ephemera—The Cricketters' Register— Aquatics—Sailing-matches and Regattas on the Thames— Pedestrianism—Coursing—Alphabetical List of " Run-up Dogs"—Pigeon Shooting—Fancy doings on Tuesday, and the usual Sporting varieties. Price of Bells' Life, 6d. Office, 170, Strand. Bells' Life of last Sunday, May 5, gave three long and wide folio columns of Chester Races, 100 advertise ments connected with sporting matters, Marylebone, Cam bridge and Oxford Cricketting, Meetings of the Royal Thames Yacht and Thames Regatta Clubs, &c. The present fine weather, together with the cheap ness and convenience of communication between Dover and the great metropolis, is daily drawing numerous visitors to our shores. The town at present is exceed ingly well filled.—Dover Chronicle. TRAFALGAR•SQUARE.—During yesterday afternoon thousands of persons visited Trafalgar-square. For several hours the spacious terrace was lined with promenaders, the appearance of whom from the base of the Nelson pillar, gave a living interest to the scene. It is said that the expensive establishment of the Royal Buckhounds, which, with the salary to the noble master, the Earl of Rosslyn, 2,0001., the chief huntsman, Mr. Davis, and the wages to whippers-in, feeders, &c., amounting to a considerable item in the Civil List, is to be broken up. His Royal Highness Prince Albert will still keep up his fine pack of hariers, with which the Prince will regularly hunt next season. Sir Robert Peel has taken a house in the Isle of Wight for thirteen *eeka from the Ist of June. .. 723 75 .. 733 75 .. 735 .. 977 50 Strasburg to Bale•••. Avignon to Marseilles.- 766 25 . 772150 .. 766 25 • • 772 50 STATE TRIALS.-The arguments of counsel in support of a new trial came to a close on Friday, when the Attorney-General was heard in re ply on the part of the Crown. The Right Hon. Gentleman was to resume his argument at two o'clock on Saturday. The Repeal Association held a meet ing on Friday, but the proceedings were not of any interest. The amount of the repeal rent for the week was 1101. THIS DAY'S= NEWS HOUSE OF LORDS.-4THIS DAY.) The House sat to-day to hear appeals. -The Peers present were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham; Lord Cottenham, and Lord Campbell. THE MARQUIS OF WATERFORD V. KNIGHT. The arguments in this appeal, the facts of which we hare alreadv:given in detail, were resumed, and occupied the House the whole of the morning. VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY). The Vice-Chancellor of England sat to-day at ten o'clock. but in consequence of the absence of Mr. -Bethel!, who was engaged in the House of Lords, the Court - rose before eleven o'clock, having nothing to proceed with. --- QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY). CUSTOMS FRAUDS.-TRE QUEEN v. MOTTRAM AND WILLIAMS THE QUEEN v. BLAKE.. The defendants in these cases had. been convicted of con spiracy to defraud the revenue of certain Custom-house duties payable on the importation of certain French goods. Thu defendants Mottram and Williams had - been importers of silks, gloves, flowers, &c. The defen - danf Blake had been a landing-waiter. The parties were severally under recog nizance' to come up for judgment. _ Mr. JERVIS moved that the recognizances in all these cases should be continued till next term.—Application granted. THE QUEEN V. BENT. The defendant in this case was a broker, and had been convicted of appropriating to his own use certain sums of money which had been entrusted to him -to effect an insur ance on certain goods shipped for Texas. - He was called up for judgment early in the term, but did not - appear. Mr. WARREN applied to have the recognizences of the de fendant and his sureties estreated. - Lord DExmAx having looked over the affidavits, refused the application on the ground that the service of notice on the sureties had been insufficient. - - EXCHEQUER COURT-.THIS DAY per T i ! : i t s o w r a e s co a \ n ,er ac c t o io n n v b ei r i o s u at g i l o i n t b in y d t a h m e agplaeisnt for r s JOHNSON AND WIFE V. MORLEY . f i a n ls f e ormaPau- imprison ment. Mr. LEE, for the plaintiffs, said that his client occupied part of a house of the defendant in 'Warren-street, Fitzroy square, where he carried on the business of hair-dresser. He entered in January, 1843, and, in March of the present year, having neglected to pay his rer t, a distress was put in. Three days after this, on the 25th, the defendant - came into the shop, with a policeman, into whose custody he committed Mrs. Johnson, for having removed a stove. The plaintiff pointed to the stove, which had been put into the shop to replace another which the defendant had removed, but Morley per sisted in arresting her. She was accordingly taken to the Albany-street Police-office, where the insp - ector dismissed the case, expressing his belief that no felony_had been commit ted. The defendant, not yet satisfied, returned with plain tiff, still in custody, and assured himself that the stove was his own. Mr. HUMFREY appeared for the defendant, who pleaded not guilty. • Baron GURNEY, in summing up, remarkeil that the de fendant had failed to make such a concession as would have excluded the action, and hived the jury would give such a verdict as would protect the plaintiff from being taxed with felony. The jury gave a verdict fir the plaintiff—Damages 51. (Sittings in Banco.) - Motions to have conditional rules made absolute occupied the Court during the day; but they were 'not of a nature to call for particular notice. BAIL COURT-(THIS DAY.) Mr. Justice COLERIDGE heard several motions this morn ing, but they were all of a technical character s totally devoid of public interest. His Lordship also sat at Nisi Prins for a short time, but the causes were all unddended and unim portant. CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY). OLD COURT. - This day the session of oyer and terminer commenced, before the Recorder, the Lord Mayor, and a bench of Alder men, at the Old Bailey, being the 115th (and 7th during the present Mayoralty). The calendar is comparatively light, consisting of only 174 names, of which two stood charged with murder, one with arson, five with cutting and wounding, with intent to murder or maim, and one with forgery. The proportion of the prisoner s to the respective metropolitan districts are as follows :—London prisoners, 21; Middlesex, 131; Kent, 7 ; and Surrey, 15. The RECORDER, in addressing the grand jury, previous to their retiring to their room, o b serve d that the present ca lendar was one only marked by those ordinary features which might be exrezted from the dense population of a large me tropolis like London, and did not call for any peculiar ob servations from him. The names of two prisoners appeared in the present calendar as charged with murder, whilst one case of infanticide remained over from the last session. lie did not consider it necessary to detain the" gentlemen of the grand jury with any remarks upon those cases, but would re mit them to the discharge of their duties. - The remainder of the day up to the period of our going to press was occupied with swearing in the petty juries, after which the Court adjourned for refreshment. BOW-STILEET.-(THIS DAY.) ME CAT'S-MEAT lAN.—" Please yer Wership this tongue was a lyin on my shop board," said a tall bony man, step. I ping into the witness-box: " — Stop, stop," said Mr. HALL, the sitting magistrate, " what charge is this ?" .... The answer to this inquiry was that a little boy, whose head appeared just above the bar, had been charged with stealing a sheep's tongue. Mr. HALL (to the prosecutor)—.Well, now, first of all what are you? Prosecutor—l'm a butch%•r by perfession, but I deals rather in ships' (sheep) light's and bull's liver. The Clerk—What's the use 0 4 : being above your business —why not tell the magistrate that you are a cat's-meat man at once? Prosecutor—Well, so I is. Mr. HALL--Well, now go on with your complaint. Prosecutor—Well this boy, which is the wust o' all, comes up and bolts with the tongue, which was a Jyin' on my shop board between two more. Mr. HALL—Did you see him run away with the tongue? Prosecutor—Oh, no ver Wership, which the little girl comes up wot lives next door, and says, says she, while the other was standin round the winder, there goes the boy with his tongue in his pocket—(Great laughter)—so I cuts arter him and takes him, but I found as how he hadn't got my tongue in his pocket, but howsomcver as he vos the one wot took it, I brings him to the station-house, but I could'nt find my tongue. Mr. HALL--You only took the boy then because the little girl told you? Prosecutor—Oh, no. I knows he took it, cos his:always a pitchin dead cats on to the shop board. Mr. HALL—That does not prove that he took the tongue. Cat's-meat man's wife (in the body of the Court)—He missed the tongue which was lyin at the time. Mr. HALL—WeII, it seems there is no charge against the prisoner, so he must be discharged. The prosecutor (with a look of dismay)—But the dead cats, yer Wership! Mr. HALL—Oh, if he does that again bring him to me and I will punish him.—The prisoner was then discharged. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. (THIS DAY.) John Shore, a lad, and Philip Stradling, a young man who has been at sea for several years, were charged with having in their ►ossession, under suspicious circumstances, a 10/. Bank of England note. It appeared that the prisoners were paupers, in the workhouse of St. George, Hanover-square. The former prisoner was committed from this Court to West. minster Bridewell for 14 days to hard labour, for behaving in a riotous and disorderly manner in the workhouse, and he only came out of prison on Friday last. On the following day he was re-admitted into the house. On Sunday both the prisoners had the usual leave to go out after dinner-time, and in about three hours afterwards Shore brought Strad ling back to the workhouse in a wheelbarrow insensibly drunk. Shortly after this the master of the house was informed that the prisoners had a quantity of gold and silver money in their possession, and on search ing them, sovereigns and silver to the amount of 9/. 4s. were found. Shore then stated that on Saturday last, as he was wandering along Oxford-street, he picked up the note in question, but thought it was only a flash note. On it being shown to Stradling, he said he would get it changed if 2/. were given to him for his trouble. This was agreed to, and about 2'clock on Sunday afternoon, change for the note was obtained at a public house in the neighbourhood by Strad ling, who was known to the landlord, representing that it had been sent to him by his sister, to refit him out for sea. They then commenced drinking, and in a very short time had expended 16s. _ _ _ They were discharged, and the note ordered to be adver tised. MARYLEBONE.-(THIS DAY.) Robert Henry Attwood, a very respectably dressed lad, was placed at the bar, charged with the gentlemanly amusement of ringing bells and creating a disturbance. Police constable 209 S stated that the prisoner was busily engaged this morning, about one o'clock, ringing the bells iti Clarendon-place, Edgware-road. When he saw the witness, he said to a companion who was with him, but who did not join in the amusement, that "here was a policeman," and upon his being taken into custody he offered a considerable sum of money if he would be permitted to go away. Witness, how ever, refused the bribe, and landed him in the station-house. Mr. RAWLINSON—You seem to enjoy your position amaz ingly, Sir—pray, what are you ? Prisoner—l was secretary to an Irish gentleman. Mr. RAwwisoN—Has the Irish gentleman dispensed with your valuable services now? Prisoner—Yes, I now reside with my mother. Mr. RAWLLNSON—YOU are fined forty shillings, Sir, and I hope you may find the amusement too expensive for daily practice. Prisoner—Well, I think you are too hard. The prisoner's further remonstrances were cut short by Mitchell, the gaoler, very politely handing him out of Court. CLERKENWELL.-(THIS DAY.) A ruffian, named 31Wermott, who has just come out of the House of Correction, where he has been for the last month, was charged with assaults of a very brutal character on the police-constables of the E division. The prisoner was drunk and creating a disturbance in Coram-street on the previous night at a late hour. E 35 at tempted to remove him, but he kicked him on the legs so as to cause him great pain. , He sprang his rattle, and another officer came up, and him too the fellow kicked and cuffed unmercifully. Mr. COMBE asked him if he liked to be in prison ? M'Dermott replied in the negative, but could assign no other reason for his savage conduct except that he was drunk. Mr. CO3IBE, who did not seem to consider drunkenness any palliation of the offence, sent him back to the House of Cor rection for another month. UNION HALL.-(THIS DAY.) Jeremiah AP Carthy was charged with wilfully damaging a table belonging to the Grand Masonic Lodge of England. The table, whiCh was described to be 300 years old, was produced ; it was of a circular shape and very neatly inlaid with different kinds of wood. Thomas Murray stated that on Saturday evening at eight o'clock, he was carrying the table on his shoulder in High street, when the defendant who was behind came up, and striking it with all his force knocked it off, and falling off the pavement it sustained very much damige. The defendant was not sober, and accompanied the blow with a vulgar ex pression. _ . _ _ _ The defendant said that he ran against the table acci dentally, as he had a " drop in" at the time. Mr. TRAILL said the defendant was liable to pay the damage, besides a fine for being drunk, and that if he did not do the former he should be committed to gaol. After a good deal of quibbling, the defendant endeavour ing to lessen the estimate of the damage, he consented to pay it, and was discharged. Mary Easton, servant to Mr. Fennell, grocer, of Ber mondsey, was charged with stealing a cash-box containing 201. in sovereigns and silver, besides 1791. in cheques. It appeared that the prisoner had taken an opportunity of getting possession of the cash-box on the preceding day about two o'clock, with which she absconded and went to Chelsea. When she got there, she gave the cash-box to an old fruit woman to try and open, but not succeeding in the effort, the latter person took it to a beer shop keeper on the spot, who, suspecting it was stolen, detained it and gave in formation at the station house. This led to the detection of the robbery, and the prisoner being taken into custody, she was forthwith lodged in the station house. She said nothing in her defence, and was committed for trial. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND tittbitt Opinton. " Who runs may read." roamnirg. and The King and Queen of the Fren c h g a ve a re followed by a concert, at the Tuileries, on Tbn g, - - , 4 0 honour of the visit of her Royal Highness the Dun o il Kent, to which the Ministers, Foreign Ambassi& rs ' f great number of the nobility and gentry, members of Chambers, and distinguished English and other fore's, had the honour of receiving invitations. The concert .4 sisted of selections from Gluck, Handel, Mozart, ll°7 4ii Mayerbeer, Balfe, and Donizetti. Messrs. Duprez,Bart ly Balfe, Levasseur, and Mmes. Derus-Gras and Balfe, principal performers. The Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the King , rest of the Royal Family, visited, on Saturday, the of the Products of French Industry. A Company has been formed for executing the Pr ° ,jj eglei railroad between Lyons and Avignon. This will CO IP! the grand line from Paris to the Mediterranean, dews the law of 11th June. 1842. It will be connected on 0 1 1 : 1 ,0 with the northern railroad by the line from Paris t°,. r ;,ct ,, and, on the other side, to the southern roa d by its " 1 branch junction with the roads already executed, or in fo r gress of completion, from Avignon to Marseilles, fro I ...API caire to Alais, and from Nimes to Cette, an d hereafter 1" - .4 0 joined to that between the Mediteiatanean a nd the by the Toulouse and Bordeaux railroid. The National, of the sth ult., in speaking of Girardin, when observing upon the combination betweep journals at 40f. per annum, made some reflections ;in s 0 4 to which he sent a letter to the N a ti ona l, stating tu, original shareholders of the Presse had been deceived w c i o 4 4 calumnies of the National. This letter the National r 0 ,4 4 to insert. Whereupon M. Emile Girardin cited DI. De ll 4 l , its responsible editor, before the Tribunal de Preltulel stance, to enforce the insertion. The case was be s i dl' Friday, when the Court declared that the complaint founded, and gave judgment in favour of the defendatd;4 The Maltese Times, of the 22d ult., announces Maltese Huereb, who had been condemned to death tril murder of a servant of Sir Thomas Reade, was belles' Tunis, on the 12th ult. p ro The Gazette des Tribunaux announces the arrest, ;i 1 of another gang of thirty-nine thieves and robbery merous complaints, says this journal, having been laid ,00 the Prefecture of Police against a gang who have f or p )i time infested the museums, concert-rooms, and otheLcso places, but more particularly the churches, the an 0 4 : justice were put upon the alert, and by their researcbt / d, vered a large confederacy under the c ommon appeut; the Bande Belge, composed chiefly of malefactors .1 1 ,160 for their misdeeds been inhabitants of the prisons in P7O O and who, being too well known in that country, WI over to Paris to exercise their nefarious talents. PUBLIC OPINION. 0 1 The following are the opinions of our Morning CO LO raries respecting the appointment of Sir Henry the Governor-Generalship of India : TIMES.—We cannot think it any great deprivation g ot lS Indian empire to have lost Lord Ellenborough and 00 Sir Henry Hardinge. That Gallant Officer stands in and far from unfavourable contrast, with his predecees is a tried man and a trained man. He has been co" j engaged in different kinds of active life, and No ;yr what has been committed to him. Me is not given o co pe Ellenborough's truly Eastern aspirations, and may, i 1 1,„ 0 0/ quence, neglect as impracticable, or as out of his ownle' - „ r er, noble enterprises which the useful restlessness of lug Fe te cessor might have called into being; but neither will 1 1 e 10 himself ridiculous by an apish affectation of On'entali sln e ite, i 'l has seen too much of war to be at all anxious to plal t diers—he has served under far too able a master et be unprepared for such emergencies as may occur. f CHRONICLE.—Sir Henry Hardinge's is .a mind ° ,,441 quality, if of no, high order. With little general kn ° ,," e ler, he is acquainted with but a limited portion even of t o tO J of politics. But within that limited field he seems - Oe„, , with correctness and promptitude. He is not a n 3414 b0 t,," of course, to , originate any great scheme of policy ; le man may better be relied on for carrying into exec ,4 suggestions of others, for understanding what he uncle' li/ j and undertaking nothing but what he understan d eic, a v such a man in the position of Governor-General ; it 0 1 $Jel ' be expected that the actual duties of the office " efficiently and safely discharged. tb s POST.—Sir Henry Hardinge has been selected 1 5 - e r a cessor of his near connection, Lord Ellenborough. in he t tri Temment of India. We have reason to believe t'j etl e, nomination has been made at the suggestion of the b e i el , t i Directors, and with the full concurrence of the Ca g i ll j which Sir Henry is a member. The appointment,e Pi e j confirmed at a Special Court to be held this day at ' cie ck A India House for that purpose. One thing, at least, i 9 cOP, 4 by this nomination : in choosing a member of the.,,, o i which has avowed in both Houses of Parliament approval of the policy of Lord Ellenborough—on e e i course, will carry out that policy as his predecessor e. menced it—the Directors have given an unequivoc sl ,, e ce tion that the motives which operated with them to ht te tip recal of that Noble Lord, are not connected with 5 `,7,0, ,, , f siderations arising out of his p o liti ca l Government of 7 , HERALD.—The East Indiathrectors have atone d in late indiscretion in what, after all, is perhaps the be s r 4 ner open to them. They have solicited the - e to agree to the appointment of Sir Henry Harawf re i t o i successor of Lord Ellenborough ; and,' although, Fr ei' absence and indisposition of the Earl of Ripon, ally of the Board of Control, nothing has been fellffet 0 ranged in the matter, there is no doubt that the v . „ 1 ,10,,, be accepted. Lord Ellenborough could scarcely r f,": to r t the Government satisfactorily to himself, or usefu l l y, 0 0 0 empire, after the gross affront offered by his 1.64 . 0 W ll ,l better successor than Sir Henry Hardinge.—one !, er e the country would repose more confidence, even 7, 0 10, the Government heartily disposed in his favour -4 ;0 , o r be named. Sir Henry's near family connexion . present Governor-General, too, is a circumstance To Oro of the proposed arrangement, deserving of regard w 2 t itle' who think the feelings of even public men are e" some respect. COURT—PASILIONABLZ. ' Arrangements have been made for the departu re of e jesty and his Royal Highness Prince 'Albert, acconW i , „ font the infant Royal Family, from Buckingham Palli c e 'e, ;j; Isle of Wight, in the course of the ensuing w, e „ e oli.,,J Norton, the present superintendent of the Royal u", has just returned from Osborne House, which he bas for the purpose of making the necessary preliminari eart, ments for the reception of the Queen and the Prinel ar ia o l Her Majesty will reside in comparative retirement u , sit brief visit of the Court, which is not expected t o beyond ten days or a fortnight. El l t h s ip The Earl' and Countess of Minto and Ladies arrived in town, from Minto House, near Hawick , of oP order to be present at the approaching roarriag e o Melgund, heir apparent of the Nobl e E a rl, with - ell t ele daughter of Lady Hislop. The day is no t as yet " e for the nuptials. The Duke of Devonshire has a' grand dinner c 4 . l re o i inst., and a large ball on the 17th inst., at Devoo 9 The Marquis of . Salisbury has issued invitations to . o f entertainment to her Royal Highness the Duch jetv 'ester, on Friday, the 14th inst. The Noble Mug ° totive a grand te same niht. he Lord Mayor g i ves a gran g d entertainment to biero4lsl jesty's Ministers at the Mansion House, on Wedn" ..- gre el the 15th inst. for $ Sir Robert and Lady Peel have issued cards p dinner on Saturday next. 0 161 , 4 0 The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury hgtad il ev e' entertainment on Thursday next, at the famib' „ o ttl Grosvenor-square. tP The Earl and Countess of Shannon have artive- at Hotel, from their seat in Ireland. t The first annual meeting of the Association Po Milliners and Dressmakers, took place on Saturn/ P o of Hanover-square Rooms. A considerable numb er p - oli t ei,r of distinction were present, among others , e Sunderland, Lady Francis Egerton, Lady 4 7_, ° r gisl i to to countess Jocelyn, Viscountess Howick, Lady u.:!. ° 1 .. e . Wortley, Lady Georgians Bathurst, and Lady r_lylporl the Ashley was in the chair. It appeared from the 7 ur iegote the sums received in donations and subscription s h ", deP ° p ti past year amounted to 5741.55. 5d., which, with t tere t ! ,eO , sums subscribed towards the medical fund, and i u r r ee investment of 2531. amounted to 6471. 13s. Bd. hal $0 e diture amounted to 5361. 14s 2d., leaving a hands of the treasurer of 1101. 19s. 6d. 0 The anneal distribution of prizes and certificstel pee in the medical department of King's College, t° ° Saturday. • seo On Saturday night Viscountess P a lmerston ha d - I !' "Is t bly at the family mansion on Carlton House-terri l lie eiDs,l o a brilliant reception, above 300 of the leadinA tor s, b e present in town being among her Lady s hip's nearly the whole of the diplomatic body. iNC%" SPORTING INTELLIGE. SUFFOLK LA STAKES.-21'ESTBET t T o I 1 N a G gs I t N T hSeT. CureJA 3 ( IE S 1 ag l s ) t Fr o a n y ia .-3 n (ta to ke l n) a — gs 2 t B T to he l a !_r g talLe n l ). 18,0" ' to I A panero-500 even between Mount Charles an d Rein (taken). No others mentioned. 10* De NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER, - 10 10 Duke of Bedford's Oakley, 9st 11b, a st Mr. " St. Lawrence, Bst 81b. D.M. 200 g gstlYAkEbuacr_ok (takeapest o; at The Cure, Bashaw, and Semiseria have arri ved IV market for the ensuing meeting. ka ar! )° ' Scott has sent the following 1— to Epsom :--Cee, - , - „s ul ter''' Bee, The Princess, The Castor, Muff, and The 19 Voltri is now in John Day's stables at Danbu r y # gra To A VALUABLE CORK LEG.—SOMe., 110 1 " t lie pauper belonging to Whitby, named Wil t s 0 , ono% formerly a tailor, became a confirmed letts' e f seli ofi te parish authorities were under the necessi t i ns st : him to Mr. Martin's retreat for insane po le- r P e a II Helmsley. About two months since this Pal:yes:of the asylum, and on the 15th ult. Mr. Martin the VIIP-001 letter to Robert Breckon, Esq., the clerk of Po; union, informing him that 201. ss. 4d. 11111 b ee p °Abe in William Holliday's cork leg, vvrapPe a . % e dit °. for and that the amount was placed to the 000 union. We understand instructions have be 0 0° 3 ; 0 0 the cork leg to be forwaided to the Whitby / 00' 0 • A married female, residing in Distingt°o4ls fo r its to last week, suffered severely for some E a° pain in the stomach, and every means o °7o to rtu' removal proved of no avail. On WedeescK.„ her ' re . ever, during a fit of coughing, she ejected f_ru,pgdi±iia, mach a living reptile, above twelve inches lt ee n cent sembling the water asp, and has ever sinc e ea dure u 'i ratively free from the pain she had hithertosooweita is conjectured that the reptile had beenad:toinoov water when very small, and that it b v iote al) ' t ool g ha re d at be si e z n e s i o n itohnecrsttoomrtiaicrhedofbyt.hheeurnsftorratnugneateand ,taipat ep ipg lodger.— Cumberland Pacquet. nail,' el ll As Mr. Willson, of L on d o n, on Thu tro iPg e t last, between the hours of nine and ten; w_7 os fe e to from Caine to Devizes, about midway , 1 4 1 ; 0 054 0 9 three men who demanded his moue/ ; w hich 10 comply, a dreadful conflict ensued, °I the 11 ,, to very much cut and otherwise bruisent: unte d 00±Y ol it, pilfered him of all his money, which e:T e a loge .0 about ten pounds, he luckily having intw e !ten dea f the tance the same afternoon. The Sup n h seere - ° others of the Devizes police started L we hope 1 1„ robbers as soon as the news arrived madeior fbilittra trust they may be discovered, and OO penalty of the law. He now lies at The C very precarious state. member of the ' t he ABINGDON ELECTION .—The ex" n ut ken f t he house of Blenheim, Mr. Thesiger, has b e e n e e _ go patronage of Mr. Duffield, who has va c c ) it,_l t i no , borough of Abingdon, for the purpose t In su ed s s Solicitor-General. The Learned G 040 14 " address to the electors.