The Sun. — London, England, 1845-05-28 00:00:00

NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. The THIRD EDITION of THE SUN of last (Tuesday) evening contained — The conclusion of the Reports of the day's pro ceedings before the Railway Committees of the House of Commons. The Epsom Races, received by Express. The List of Bankrupts, &c., from the London Gazette. The latest Market Intelligence. The whole extending to nearly Six Columns of the smallest type. RAILWAY NEWS. SOscribers and others interested in Railways will find a FULL ACCOUNT of the PROCEEDINGS before the RAII.WAY COMMITTEES in the THIRD EDITION of THE SUN, reported up to the CLOSE of EACH DAY. Sun-office, 112, Strand. MUSEti3I of HISTORY, established 1544, 10, St. James's-street, Pall-mall. TLLITSTRATED LECTURES will be given, by W. H. SHEPPARD, on the RUINED CITIES of AMERICA, this EVENING and FRIDAY Evening,:at Eight o'clock, and SATURDAY Afternoon, at Three o'clock. Scenery by Mr. C. Marshall, of her Majesty's Theatre. Transparent Maps by Mr. Rasine. Admission, One Shilling ; Reserved Seats, Two Shillings; Children, Half-price. THE NEW HISTORICAL NOVEL. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., 31. AIDS OF HONOUR; A TALE OF THE COURT OF GEORGE I. " The Author knows the character of English society of a hundred years ago, is practised in its memoirs and correspondence, and writes with spirit and vivacity. We have amusing sketches of the broader vanities of the times, saunteriags among gay historic haunts on the banks, of the Thames, and peeps into the first Guelph Court at St. James. ' Maids of Honour' is a book certainly superior to the run of its class now-a-days."—Examiner. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready, in 3 vols., MR. D'ISRAELI'S NEW WORK, " SYBIL ; or, THE TWO NATIONS." Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. To be had of all Booksellers, and at all the Libraries. NEW WORK BY THE HON. RICHARD RUSH, (The American Plenipotentiary) Immediately in Bvo., A RESIDENCE AT THE COURT OF 11 SECOND SERIES. Comprising Incidents, Official and Personal, from 1819 to 1825 Amongst the former, NEGOCIATIONS on the OREGON QUES. TION, and other unsettled questions, between the United States and Great Britain. By RICH XRD RUSH, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo tentiary from the United States during the above years. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. LONDO N. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public are respectfully Informed, that there will be an Extra _Night (not included in the Subscription), TO-MORROW EVENING, When will be performed Donizetti's Opera, DON PASQUALE. Norina, Madame Grisi ; Dr. Malatesta, Sig. Fornasari ; Ernesto, Sig Mario ; Notary, Sig. Dai Flori ; and Don Pasquale, Sig. Lablache. The Danseuses will appear in some of their favourite Pas, and in a New Pas, entitled " La Polka" (being their Last Appearance but Three). To be followed by Selections from the First Act Act of LINDA DI CHA.MOUNI. In which Madmpe Castellan, Mdlle. Brambilla, and Sig. Moriani will appear. In the course of the Evening, the Pas de Deux, " De Is Favorite" (composed by M. Perrot), by 3ldlle. Carlotta Grisi and M. Toussaint, and the celebrated " Pas de Quatre" (composed by Mdlle. L. Grahu), by Mdlle. L. Grahn, Mesdames Moncelet, Cassan, and Demellsse. To conclude with an entirely New Grand Ballet, in Five Tableaux, with New Scenery, Dresses, and Decorations, entitled ROSIDA ; OLT, LES MINES DE SYRACUSE. The Ballet and Mis en scene, by M. St. Leon. The New Scenery by Mr. Marshall. The Music by Signor Pug ii. Rosida, lidliC. Cerito ; Alman, M. St. Leon ; The Queen of the Mines, Mdlle. Moncelet ; Torbern, M. Di Mattia. In the course of the Ballet the following Dances : -- First Tableau.—" La Sicilienne" (New Pas de Caractere), by Mdlle. Cerito and M. St. Leon, accompanied by the Corps de Ballet. Second and Third Tableaux.—Pas du Mineur, by Mdlle. Cerito and R. St. Leon, assisted by Mesdlles. Fenlinand, Demelisse, and Cassan. " Pas des Quatre Nations" (New Pas de Caractere), by the Corps de Ballet. To be followed by "La Wolinienne," by 3ldlle. Cerito and M. St. Leon. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Pit Tickets to be made at the Opera-ctlice, Colonnade, Haymarket. Doors open at Seven; the Opera to commence at Half-past Seven. • THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE. THIS EVENING Will be repeated an entirely new and Original Opera, entitled THE ENCHANTRESS. The Music composed by M. W. Balfe ; the Libretto, by M. de St. Georges and Mr. Bunn. Mr. Salle will, on this occasion, preside in the Orchestra. Don Sylvio, Mr. W. Harrison ; Ramir, Mr. Borrani ; Duke d'Aquila, Mr. Weiss; Nu,gnez, Mr. 11. Horncastle ; Stella, Madame Anna Thillon. To conclude with the Second Act of the celebrated Ballet of LA CISELLE. The Duke of Silesia, Monsieur Silvain ; Giselle, Mdlle. Weiss. Dress Circle, 7s; Boxes, 5s ; Pit, 3s ; Gallery, 2s ; Upper Gallery, Is. Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets, may be obtained of Mr. John Par sons, at the Box-office of the Theatre. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. LESSEE, MR. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New and Original Comedy, by Douglas Jerrold, entitled TIME WORKS WONDERS. Goldthumb, Mr. W. Farren ; Felix Goldthumb, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Bantam, Mr. Buckstone ; Bliss Bessy Tulip, Madame Vestris ; Florentine, Miss Fortescue ; Miss Tucker, Mrs. Glover ; Patty, Mrs. Ilumby. After which, a New Grand Classical Extravaganza, entitled TILE GOLDEN FLEECE. Principal Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, J. Bland, Madame Vestris, and Miss P. Horton. To conclude with YOUNG ENGLAND. Major Martinet, Mr. Tilbury ; Mr. John James Pooley, Mr. Buckstone ; Mrs. Pooley, Mrs. Humby ; Mrs. Smiler, Mrs. Stanley' THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIIL UNDER THE DIRECTION 01 , ' MADAME CELESTE. EVENING Will be performed PALL PRY. Paul f ry, Mr. Wright; Grasp, Mr. 0. Smith ; Mrs. Subtle, Mrs. Yates ; Phcebe, Miss Woolgar. After which, will be produced, a New and Original Farce, entitled THE IRISH DRAGOON. Mr. Brown Sherry, Mr. Selby; Paddy Murphy O'Brallaghan, Mr. Hudson. To "occlude with ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, MR. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING Will be repeated Auber's Comic Opera, entitled LE DUC D'OLONNE. Gaspard, Mr. Leffler; The Chevalier, Mr. Allen; Bianca de Molina, :Mlle. Helen Cundell ; Mariquita, Miss Grant. After which, a New Drama, entitled THE CHEVALIER ST. GEORGE. The Chevalier St. George, Mr. Vtrallack ; The Countess, Mrs. Stirling. To be followed by a New Farce, entitled LOVE IN LIVERY. Lord Sparkle, Mr. Walter Lacy ; Paul Patent, Mr. Compton ; Violet, Miss Emma Stanley. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. National Triumph—Unprecedented Suecess of the New Burlesque. THIS EVENING Will be performed an Original Comedy, entitled OUR NEW GOVERNESS. Characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, Wigan, Turner, Stanton, and Keeley ; Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Grove, Miss Arden, and Mrs. Keeley. Previous to which a New Farce, called A GOOD NAME. Cha racters by Messrs. F. Mathews, Stanton, Mrs. Woollidge, and Miss Dawson. To conclude with an entirely New Operatic, Dramatic, Chivalric, Fairy, Romantic Burlesque, entitled CINDERELLA. The Principal Characters by Mr. Keeley, Mr. A. Wigan, Mr. Frank Mathews, Mr. J. W. Collier, Nlrs! Keeley, Miss Villars, Miss Falrbrother, Mrs. .0"Woollidge, Miss Grove, Miss Howard, &c ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—FRENCH PLAYS. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MADEMOISELLE PLESSY. Positively the Last Night but One of Mdlle. Plessy's and Monsieur Regnier's Performances. THIS EVENING Will be performed an admired Comedy, entitled CHACUN DE SON COTE. La Baronne de Valera, Mdlle. Plessy. After which, FAUTE DE S'ENTENDRE. Blum, M. Regnier ; Louise, Mdlle. Plessy. Added to which, LE MARRIAGE FORCE. Pancrace, Monsieur Reguier. To be followed by the English Comedy of A DAY AFTER THE WEDDING. In which Mdlle. Plessy will perform, in English, the Character of Lady Elizabeth Freelove; Colonel Freelove, Mr. Cooper (of the Theatre Royal, Drury-lane.) To conclude with PRECIEUSES RIDICULES. Le Marquis de 31asedrille, M. Regnter. Boxes, 6s. ; Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. Doors will be opened at Seven o'clock, and the Performances commence at Half-past.. NEW STRAND THEATRE. THIS EVENING, Will be produced an original Drama, in two . acts, by Leman Retie Hall, called SALOON and CELLAR; supported by Messrs. H. , Romer, Cockrill, H. Lee, Montgomery ; Mrs. H. Lee, and Misses Bromley, Fitzjames, and Hamilton. After which, a grand Scena from DER FREICHUTZ. Rodolph, Mr. C. Hodes ; , Ridgway. To be followed, el by a Mr. Military Ballet, called The SOLDIER'S DREAM. Added to which LONDON BY NIGHT. To conclude with ROBINSON CRUSOE ; or, the ADVENTURES of a FRIDAY. Robinson Crusoe, Mrs. C. Horn, Jun. ; Martyn Crusoe, Mr. Thompson ; Friday, Mr. H. Hall ; Whitmmda, Miss Hamilton. Boxes, 3s. ; half-price, Is. 6d. Pit, Is. 6d.; half-price, Is. Gallery, 6d • ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. PROPRIETOR, MR. W. BATTY. GRAND MORNING PERFORMANCES. To-day and during the week, the GODOLPHIN ARABIAN ;or the Race Horse of the Desert. In compliance with the wish of several influential and fashionable parties, and in order to accommodate those who, residing at a dis tance, are prevented from visiting the nightly representations at the Amphitheatre, as well as with a view to the gratification of the 'uvenile members of families, Mr. BATTY has concluded an arrange ment with Mons. Tournaire for THREE DAY PERFORMANCES, Introducing the entire troop of French Equestrians. These per formances will take place TO-MORROW, the 29th May, June 5, and 12. . - DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. The Greatest Novelty in London—Two New Pieces, and " The Old Fleete Prison," at Half-price. Tins EVENING Will be produced an entirely New Drama, entitled THE FAIR MAID OF PERTH. With New Scenery, Dresses, Appointments, and powerful cast. After which, a New Comic Drama, called THE HONEYMOON SCRUPLES. • To conclude with a New Local Drama, entitled THE OLD TLEETE PRISON ; or, The Widow and her Suitors. golendidly appointed and supported by the Entire Company. A DIFFERENT SUBJECT EACH SEASON!—GRAND FETES. Exhi by bi u ti . on lt. of it th p e m C xe olo z ssal Pictorial Representation suggested BERT. Under the Patronage of her most Gracious MAJESTY, her Majesty the QUEEN DOWAGER, 11. R. H. PRINCE ALBERT, &c. &c ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. A magnificent modelled ine ßepresentation of EDINBURGH, the and , the immortal Scott's "Ain Pride of Scotland and of Scotc Romantic Town," introducing t e h n e e ' alt .d and New Town, the Nor' Loch, as it formerly existed, s4 s th , the Castle, Hill, Nelson's Monument, Salisbury Cr Sir Walter Scott's Monu ment,Arthur's Scat, the Royal Institution, Holyrood S Palace, and all the most inter esting features of " Auld Reekie." The Proprietor had the honour of submitting the Medd t o hi s Royal Highness Prince Albert, and he is delighted to say it met with Lis most decide and perfect approval, and from the mere than usual it out as the ut care which has been observed in its execution, he points happ i e st production of Mr. Danson's pencil. Thedrawings made by Mr. Danson on the s p ot, and p resent a bird's-eye view were view of the principal objects of the O ld and New Town, the Firth of Forth, &c.i Th e PROMENADE CONCERTS , so decidedly popular at this Eztablishment, will this season be on an unusually effective scale. Mr. GODFREY has been occupied since the close of last summer, in com posing and arranging a varied and pleasing succession of superior Novelties, which will be produced In rotation,i ncluding some Ori ginal Pieces by Foreign Composers, not yet performed in this country. At Dusk will take place the most extraordinary Exhibition of FIREWORKS ever attempted. The entire of the Gigantic Model will be Illuminated. The different devices In front of the houses, the tires on the :Calton Hill, Arthur's Seat, and the surrounding Moun tains, the illumination of Nelson's Monument, and all the rejoicings which took place on her Majesty's Visit will be accurately pour trayed. And, as a Finale, a grand Aquatic Royal and Patriotic Tableau, Fifty Feet in Height, will be exhibited in the centre of the Lake ! The Portraits of her Majesty and Prince Albert, surmounted by Fame, and surrounded by emblems and other devices will be ison. n ieduced. The Tableau d esi g ned and executed by Mr. Dan Mr. Southby has been occ u p ied for months in giving effect to this matchless and superb design which combined with the Feux D'Arti flee, the Salute and Discharge of Rockets from the Castle and sur rounding heights, will form the most bril liant Pyrotechnic Display ever witnessed. Feeding of the CarnivOra, at half-past Four; Pelicans, &1., at Five ; Comer' at Six ; and Pyrotechnic Display at Nina. Adm'Ailon, One Shilling, TIT C HESTER, WHITCHURCH, WEDS, and SHREWSBURY RAILWAY. Capital 500,000/., in 20,000 Shares of 25/. each. Deposit 11. 7s. 6d. each Share. Provisionally Registered. The object of this Railway is to connect Liverpool, Birkenhead, Chester, with South Wales and the West of England, forming a Junction at Chester with the Chester and Birkenhead and the Chester and Holyhead Railways, and also at Whitchurch, forming a Junction with the Trent Valley Continuation and the Manchester and Birmingham Continuation Railways, and thence continue its course through Wem to Shrewsbury, there forming a junction with the Hereford and South Wales and West of England Railways, being the direct route to Bristol. Full partculars, and names of the Provisional Committee, will be published in a few days ; in the meantime- application; for Shares may be addressed to the Company's Solicitors, Messrs. Vincent and Sherwood, Temple, London ; and Messrs. Harper and Parry Jones, Whltchurch, Salop. THE WEATHER.-SuN OFFICE, MAT 28. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 46 ; Highest, 60; Noon, 58. BAROMETER, 29.91.—W1ND, E. Nora.—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 .. 54 minutes after ei I Evening .. 26 minutes after 7. • '7; « 419 411,, aui.m - . 5 ,0. y. (*Az!: - 411 %g'• • SECOND EDITION: Mt 7 0 k LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1845. SUN, LONDON, enterprise and activity for which the Scottish nation is so justly distinguished. In saying this, we mean to speak, of course, comparatively. Scotland is by ' no means so rich a country as England ; but, cateris paribus, we_may well doubt whether Eng land has not shown more alacrity and industry in im proving her sources of natural production. In any case, the extension of her fisheries, and nature has supplied her with some of the finest in the world, has not been prosecuted by Scotland with half the ardour or success that she has shown and realised in advancing her agri culture and stock-farming. Much, even as to her fisheries, she has accomplished, but she has not yet availed herself of a tithe of the opportunities that pre sent themselves for profitably extending them in a hun dred localities upon her creek, estuary, and harbour ndented shores. _ _ _ The dispatches published in Tuesday's Gazette, rela tive to the operations in Sinde, are highly honourable to Sir CHARLES NAPIER and the little gallant army under his command. It is a singular fact that this able officer has been successful in every plan for defeating his ene mies, and tranquillising that important district. The malevolent press of India has been compelled to acknowledge his merits ; his opponents in this country cannot find one fault, and the praises bestowed upon him by Sir HENRY HAR BINGE, the Governor-General Elect of the India Board, are equally flattering with those so willingly given by his calumniated predecessor. Here is the tribute paid by a discriminating judge and skilful warrior After announcing the complete success of the expedition, the Governor-General says :—" An operation of this na ture demanded, on the part of the General, the utmost prudence, skill, and foresight, and on the part of the troops, the greatest fortitude in enduring the fatigues and privations to which they were exposed. These qualities, which prove the merit of a commander and the discipline of the troops, have been displayed by both with characteristic energy. Every officer and man in this short but arduous campaign has shown that there are no difficulties which discipline cannot surmount under able guidance." On Monday evening Lord JOHN RUSSELL brought forward his promised series of resolutions, which, though nominally limited to a review of the condition of the labouring classes, embraced a great variety of other topics. These topics were, many of them, of an interest almost equally extensive to such as the Currency, the Corn Laws, and Free Trade. His speech also embraced a searching inquiry into the condition of education among the people generally ; but this subject is so legi timately connected with any attempt to consider the con dition of the poor, that we should not venture to discuss the one without the other. From this description of Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S speech, our readers will readily understand that it would not be very practicable to con dense such observations as we may desire to offer upon it, within the limits of a single article. Sir JAMES GRAHAM passed this well-merited eulogium upon it ; that in justice to the Noble Lord he felt bound to say that anything more worthy the great subject it dealt with, or more comprehensive in its views than the speech of the Noble Lord, he had never heard in that House. It was totally devoid of all party feeling, or any acrimonious assertions. To this high praise it was certainly entitled ; and from that very conviction we are as anxious to parti cularise its more prominent merits as to express with caution, and all the respect due to such a gifted speaker, the occasional points as to which we find ourselves un able to arrive at the same conclusions which he has re corded. Impossible as it will be on the present occasion to do more than throw a comprehensive glance over the general effect of this admirable address, owing to the pressure of much matter of immediate interest, we cannot refrain from expressing the gratification we have derived from the indications this speech everywhere abounds with, of a deep and anxious solicitude for the welfare of the in dustrial classes. Lord JOHN RUSSELL speaks like a man alive to the wrongs which this invaluable class of the community have long endured, and bent on a vigor ous and chivalrous effort to retrieve them from their pressure in future. On the question of the course to be taken in providing for the general education of the poor we are proud to find his Lordship concurring in a grin ; eiple we have so lately argued in relation to that point. He expresses broadly his conviction that any mea sures for the moral or intellectual improvement of the poorer classes, to be attended with success, must be preceded by adequate provision for their physical im provement, and especially of their food, subsistence, and lodging. It certainly does appear a romantic com mencement of any scheme of popular amelioration — where the distress to be remedied is extensively diffused and of the most sordid and disorganising character, and its causes imbedded deeply in by by-gone errors of po litical legislation and social usages—to grapple with the choice of abstract principles to be adopted in the discipline and training of men's minds, whilst their bodies are exhausted by inanition, suffering, and disease. What aro class books and interesting lessons in light or instructive literature to them, whilst they themselves are starving, and their families are sinking around them, under the double pressure of want and domestic misery? With regard to the Noble Lord's statistics of wages and prices, in their reciprocal relations to one another, we cannot entirely concur in the results which he draws from his at Paris : own premises. into that larger question, how ever, we will not now enter ; and we forbear, for the present, from contesting, as we should feel bound and prepared to do, the Noble Lord's views of the action of the Bank Restriction Act of 1797, at the time, and ever since, on the wages of labour and the con -dition of the labouring population. It is with all sub. mission no sort of proof that the present wages of la bour are not greatly below a fair remunerating, or even a bare living standard in some of the largest branches of agricultural and manufacturing employment, that it appears from Mr. Dent's tables that wages are much the same now, with corn at a moderate price, as they were in 1801, for instance, with corn at the famine price of 115 s. per quarter. It is clear that the Noble Lord omits out of his calculation the enormously increased burden of indirect taxation now borne by the labourer, and the consequent reduced amount of necessaries and all other consumable articles which the same nominal scale of wages now represents. The consideration of this incident in the condition.of in dustrial labour in this country—of the operation upon it of the altered standard of currency established by Sir R. PEEL in 1819, and of the corn-laws, we must defer to a future but early opportunity. Connected with the question of corn-laws, we cannot deny ourselves the pleasure of noticing the manly and candid language in which the Noble Lord acknowledged the discrepancy between his present convictions touching the expediency of a graduated scale of protecting duties. We shall speedily recur to them, and to his argument in favour of a fixed low duty of 45., 55., or 6s. per quarter. Whilst public opinion on this side of the Tweed ap pears to be much divided as to the merits of the Lord Advocate's new poor-relief legislation for the kingdom of Scotland, it may be expected that we should recur to a subject which we handled at some length on the occa sion of the Learned Lord bringing in the Bill in ques tion. But we should be sorry to throw impediments in the way of any measure having for its object the mitigation of those evils which the Scottish poor have too long been left to encounter, with means almost in conceivably inadequate to procure them the means of even the most meagre and attenuated subsistence. The disclosures,—for his instrumentality in bringing which under the notice of Parliament we think the Learned Lord has scarcely received from some of our contemporaries hi s d ue mee d o f pra i se, — t h e di sc l osures which have been made o f th e d est i tut i on i n w hi c h a vas t community of the people of Scotland habitually dwell, ts formingand subjects, the than r lot t h of so they are scarcely more appallin g f rom t h e amount of personal misery many which of ou t r h f e el o y exhibit, w.cr ea as u r e are startling from the economic phenomena they reveal. The condition of the poor of Scotland becomes aenoab . ob ject of deep but painful interest, when one reflects u p on this remarkable fact, that although the development of agricultural, manufacturing, and commercial prosperity in Scotland, within the last half century, is scarcely to be surpassed by the example of any other nation within the same era, and the same interval of years ; her un developed, or at least unimproved resources, are still so extensive that their amount is almost a scandal to the The followingare the quotations for the new lines : Orlears and Bordeaux, 220 f. premium ; Boulogne, 110 f. ditto ; Troyes and Montereau, - _ 50f. ; Paris and Lyons (Laffitte), 20f. ; ditto (Caton), lf. 50c. ; ditto (Ganneron), 10f. ; Northern line" (Laffitte), ;35f. ; ditto (Rosamel), 7f. 50c. ; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 10f. ; ditto (Drouil lard), par; ditto (O'Neill), 15f. ; ditto (Jacques Lefevre), par ; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe), 20f. ; ditto (Talabot), 35f. ; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), 10f. ; Bordeaux and Toulouse (Mackenzie), 4f. 50c. ; ditto and Cette (Espe leta), 17f. 50c. ; Creil and St. Quentin, lf. 50c. ; Paris and Strasburg (Ganneron), 12f. 50c. LYONS, MAY 23. —Avignon and Marseilles, 1,060 f., cash; Orleans and - Vierzon, 825 f., end of May ; Orleans and Bor deaux, 730 f., ditto ; Boulogne, 617 f., ditto ; Nianes and Montpelier, 590 f. There is, perhaps, in all Europe, no landed gentry who possess better, or more extensive, fishing fields than that of Scotland, scattered, as their possessions are, along a coast line of vast extent, washed with seas that swarm with fish. It is much to be deplored that the great landowners in these districts—take, for example, the Western Isles and Highlands of Scotland—do not far more largely avail themselves of the means which are thus ready to their bands, of increasing their own fortunes by vastly benefiting those of the hardy natives who hold under them. They are fishermen by the acci dents of their birth, and the necessities, not less than the advantages of their position. But their energies, their intrepidity, their endurance, and fortitude, being at present limited to little more than the care of provid ing for the immediate subsistence of themselves and their families, are rarely accompanied by that perseve rance which permanent employment, at however high wages, and the exertions of capital among them, would be sure to stimulate. Fresh fish in the spring and summer, and cured fish for the winter, with a scanty supply of potatoes raised by that slovenly tillage of neglected garden plots and closes which the sagacity and sarcasm of the late Dr. MACCULLOCH shamed, for a time, into something like transitory activity, are too com monly the utmost achievements of their forecast and their exertions. Having so few resources to fall back upon, their poverty habituates them to a reliance more or less, on one or two, exclusively, out of that limited number. A wet summer or a protracted winter de stroys, or nearly destroys, their potato harvest. A very boisterous season greatly diminishes the produce of their fishery. The decay of their once valuable kelp trade leaves them little or no chance of repairing either of these calamities. But let some great proprietors emulate the noble example of Mr. MATHESON, M.P., on his enormous pro perty of Lewis, which we yesterday described in our columns. Let them reclaim their bog and moor lands by drainage ; let them build and furnish fishing and curing stations ; facilitate the purchase of nets, tackle, and implements, where such aid is required of them at the hands of meritorious individuals : let them cut roads, deepen water ways, and avail themselves of the substantial material -which nature has every where around them placed within their reach, of erecting dams, constructing harbours, and all other works requiring only rude and massive masonry ; and they will be mul tiplying ten-fold the present value of their rent-roll, and ameliorating a hundred-fuld the physical comforts and condition of their poor tenants and compatriots. When these primary elements shall have been got into vigorous and well-combined action, then let the land owner introduce a simple but generous plan of moral education for those whose social lot he will have already so incalculably improved. What will be the amount of free unalloyed enjoyment which they will thus secure for themselves, who will move about wide domains more overspread with an aspect of busy and contented in dustry and cheerful vigilance, amidst the most inhos pitable rigours that may at times beset the climate, and gaze, with honest emotion, on the noble contrast which their own efforts, their own desire to amend the hard existence of these remote but well-disposed people, and ,heir own spirited liberality have established, with the desolate and savage and dispiriting fea tures that the same country presented but three or four years previously. In Sutherlandshire, in Caithness, and along the northern and north-western shores of Scotland, how much may yet be done, fraught with better and more salutary influences than all that poor laws can effect for a well-disposed and kindly natured people. Let the same fine spirit which is now diffusing life and activity to the most distant corners of the " distant Lewis," visit the pauperised recesses of Mull and Tobermory, or Sutherlandshire itself ; but not to expel—not to eject—not even to force into an ill-pro vided-for emigration, a starving yet reluctant race of hereditary but impoverished tenants. There are Dukes in Scotland—Lords of the fairest lands in Sutherland shire and Argyllshire, who, if they would betake them selves to follow out such plans as the wise and generous proprietor of Lewis is now working for the improvement of his property—and the people on it—might hope, like him, to verify the glorious aspiration of our lyric poet, and " read their history in a nation's eyes." Let those Dukes " go and do likewise." The intelligence from Madrid is to the 20th inst. On that day the Senate voted the entire budget, by a ma jority of 70 to 5, and this closed the business of the Cortes, which, as will be seen by a telegraphic dispatch, was prorogued three days afterwards. The Court was to set out for Catalonia on the 24th. On the 20th the Three per Cents. closed at 32i, and 33} at 60 days ; the Five per Cents. 24 for eash, and 24i at 60 days; and the Debt without Interest at 8 3-16 at 60 days. The following telegraphic dispatch has been received " The Queen of SPAIN closed the session of the Cortes, in person, on the 23d instant. The new Constitution was promulgated on the same day." The Paris papers are chiefly occupied with the affairs of Morocco and Algeria, and the forthcoming discussion on the Budget. On the latter subject the Jou, nal des Debate says :—" The Chamber of Deputies will be able to enter on the discussion of the budget of estimates; at the beginning of next month. The report of M. BIG - NON'S report is in the press, and will be distributed to the Deputies in the course of a week. The five Bills, for the removal of the hotel of the Minister of Foreign Affairs—for the extraordinary credit for Algeria— for the police—for the railroads—for the colonial regulations—and for the Paris and Lyons railroad, will probably be brought forward before the budget. The report on the extraordinary credits for Algeria, which amount to 14,430,000 f., was distributed on Saturday, and will be taken into consideration on Tues day. The Committee, after having taken a full view of the entire situation of Algeria, has made a rigid exami nation of all the questions connected with the conquest of this country, its government, and colonisation. On the day the Committee was formed it was made acquainted with the projected expedition of Marshal BUQEAUD against the Kabyle country. Marshal SOULT, to whom the Committee applied for a full statement of the case, sent a summary of all the late reports from the country in question. Soon afterwards the Minister of War attended the Committee, and declared that, in his opinion, the intended expedition would have favour able results, but he did not consider it urgent, and there fore the Government would not consent to any increase of the effective force for this purpose. The Committee admits the propriety of keeping up the effective force for the present year at 82,000 men and 15,513 horses." The Con.seitutionnel has changed its tone relative to the failure of the commercial treaty with Morocco, and now implies that the failure has been brought about by English influence. M. GUIZOT, of course, comes in for a share of the blame. The following are observations on this affair in that journal : " A council of Ministers was held on Saturday relative to the affairs of Morocco. It is stated that the resolution come to was such as might be expected from the Cabinet which signed the treaty of Tangiers, disavowed MM. Dupetit Thouars and D'Aubigny, and indemnified Mr. Pritchard. The convention negotiated by M. Delarue had a double ob ject—to regulate the question of limits, and to assure to our commerce certain commercial advantages. It was the execution of two articles of the treaty of Tangiers. The convention has just been ratified by France, but the Emperor Abderrhaman, disavowing his ple nipotentiaries, refuses the ratification. What course will be taken ? The matter is perfectly simple. General Delarue will be disavowed without noise, and a new negotia tion commenced. It will be stated, it is already said, that M. Delarue has gone beyond his instructions, and that he was too exacting with regard to that Moorish Govern ment,which, in other respects, gives us so many proofs of goodwill and deference. In the frontier question, without giving way to the cunning and tardiness of the Arab nego tiators, who would have prolonged the discussion to eternity, relative to every blade of grass, M. Delarue decided the question equitably, like a geometrician, and obtained the assent of the negotiators. This-operation will be gone over again, and Abderrhaman will receive some portion of the territory which he claims. As to the commercial ques tion, it will be abandoned purely and simply, under the form of indefinite postponement, to please not only the Emperor Abderrhaman, but also another power. Such are the poli tical exploits by which our Ministry will impress the Moorish tribes with respect for France,and will perpetuate the remem brance of the victory of Isly I You will find that M. Guizot and M. Duchatel will attempt to prove afterwards that by this condescension they are giving the Maugrabins a high idea of France I See, in fact, how the evacuation of Moga dore and the treaty of Tangiers have strengthened the Em peror and weakened Abd-el-Kader." The business in the French Chamber on Monday was only of local interest. The prices in the Funds and shares were somewhat depressed. The Three per Cents. closed at 85f. 85c. ; the New Loan, at 86f. 15c. ; the Five per Cents. at 121 f. 85c. • Orleans Railroad Shares at 1,227 f. 50c. ; Rouen, I,loof. Vierzon 817 f. 50c. ; Havre, 885 f. ; Avignon, 1037 f. 50c. • Basle, ' 270 f. ; Spanish Actives, 39% ; Sp an i s h Passives, 1%. EDNESDAY EIEN'INCI, MAY 98 1648. Sambre and Meuse Tours &Nantes (Mackenzie) 2 JOINT STOCK BANKS. 40 Australasia . LLOYD'S SHIPP ING.—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, MAY 28. —Wind N.E,, moderate breeze and cloudy, with showers. DEAL, MAY 27.—Wind N.N.E. to N.F., light.—Sld. Ethelred, Aden ; Ranger, Sierra Leone ; Belle Creole, De merara ; Rebecca, Honduras ; Cremona, Quebec. PLYMOUTH, MAY 27.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. her Majesty's ships Electra and Illustrious, Bermuda ; Brunswick, steamer, Plymouth, get ashore this morning in a thick fog, but came off with the flood. SOUTHAMPTON, MAY 27.—Sld. Royal Tar, steamer, Gibraltar. OFF THE WIGHT.—Don Antonio, Valparaiso. OFF DARTMOUTH.—Northumberland, Brid, Madras. PLYMOUTH, MAY 27.—S1d. Wilberforce and Richard Rey ' nold, Quebec. Off, Abberton, Campbell, Port Phillip. DARTMOUTH, MIT 27.—The Bolina, arrived here from New Zealand and the Falkland Islands, reports the crew and master of the Jane Grey were at Port William (Falkland Islands), Feb. 10. She had been struck by a sea off Cape Horn, and bore np for the islands, and was subsequently wrecked on the West Falkland, Feb. 10. The Manney was condemned at Falkland Islands, had discharged part of her cargo, and was waiting a vessel from Monte Video to take the cargo into Valparaiso. Her Majesty's ship Philomel was lying there. FALMOUTH, MAY 27.—Wind variable and light.—Off, Saline, New York, for Hamburgh. OFF THE OLD HEAD OF KINSALE, MAY 25.—Henry Gar diner, Kinsale. WHITEHAVEN, MAY 27.—The Catherine and Isabella, from the Clyde to Liverpool, ashore near Booth, has been got off, and put in here to repair. PORT TALBOT, MAY 26.—The John Thompson, from White haven, with iron ore, grounded on a hollow near the quay at Meath, and strained and filled, and has been discharged for repairs. BERWICK, MAY 23.—Sld. Mohawk, South Seas. LONDONDERRY, MAY 20.—Sld. Harriet, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Cahawba, New York ; Agenora, Philadelphia. COWES, MAY 27.—Sid. Unicorn, Swan River. SWANSEA, MAY 25.—Sld. Elizabeth Bevnon, Valparaiso. OFF BRIGHTON.—Tiber, Charleston, for Antwerp. LIVERPOOL, MAY 27.—Arrd. Douglas, Farrell, Loango. Sld. Epamonidas, Boston ; Eliza Ann, Rio Grande ; Flibberty, Bahia; Emelie, Africa; Diana, Barbadoes ; Isabella, Phila delphia ; Waterloo, New York ; Junius, Nova Scotia. on; Ottoman, —. SUNDERLAND, MAY 27.—The Elizabeth Vane, off and for this port from Hamburgh, is ashore near here. CLYDE, MAY 26.—Sld. Benares, Gilkison, Trinidad. POSSESSION ISLAND, FEB.—Loading, Mauley, Glover. ICHABOE, MARCH 10.—Arrd. Fame London ; Lochinvar, Clyde. 11. Aulabv, Southampton. RAILWAY COMMITTEES (THIS DAY.) Group F. The Committee met again this day in Room No. II ; present, the Right Hon. F. Shaw, Chairman ; Mr. Drummond, Mr. V. Stuart, Mr. Bramston, and Mr. Lockhart. The Committee pro ceeded with the adjourned case of the LONDON, WORCESTER, AND SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE Kidderminster, and passes within half a mile of the town. Group A. WAY. Group V. MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, RAILWAY. Mr. Coceoutor said that in consequence of what had fallen from the Committee yesterday, as to the character of the evidence re garding the traffic, he would sacrifice his own feelings in the matter, and he would now call a fresh class of evidence. He would call Mr. Brunel, who would speak as so the difference of gauge and the engineering evidence. He would, however, reserve to himself the right of calling, at a future time, evidence on the local traffic. '1 he importance of such evidence would be seen, in asmuch as Parliamentary Committees generally decided upon the merits of the lines before them. The CHAIRMAN had only to say, that the number of witnesses examined already amounted to eighty-four, counting on both sides. The intimation of the Committee yesterday amounted to a sug gestion, and no more. The Committee were of opinion that the importance of a line of railway was apparent to the Committee, and they thought that the London and Birmingham had proved the case, up to a certain point, for the Great Western Company. Mr. Hope hoped that if there was any more evidence to adduce in support of the traffic on the line, it would be brought forward at once. It would not do after breaking down in the engineer ing evidence to bolster up a case by calling fresh traffic evidence. It would disarrange the proceedings. _ . . The Cumuli AN could not see_ that anything like bolstering up would succeed with the Committee. Mr. COCKBURN could inform his Learned Friend that there was nothing in his mind fearful of a breaking down of the engineering evidence. On the contrary, he defied his Learned Friend to shake that evidence. Mr. Brunel examined by Mr. COCKBURN—Is engineer to lb • Great Western schema for the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton line of railway. In laying down the line he was guided by the ob ject of connecting South Staffordshire with Oxford, Berkshire, and London. There is a cross line before Parliament from the Great Western line to Basingstoke, which will form a continuation of the line then before the Committee. The plan of the line from Wolverhampton to Worcester and Oxford had been made for some years. The project is of old standing. The line was first projected in 1836, but from the difficulty of raising money at that time, it was abandoned. There was also about that period a branch line to Oxford. It was then propsed to carry the line from Rugby by Banbury to Worcester. The branch to Ox ford was thrown out of Parliament three times in consequence of not introducing the academical clauses. The traffic of the South Staffordshire districts was very important. The cost of the Ox. ford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton line would be 1,500,0001., and the cost of the Oxford and Rugby would be 600,000/. The gradients of the Great Western line were more favourable than the gradients on Mr. Stephenson's line. The population accommodated on the Oxford and Rugby line was much greater than the popula. Lion on the Tring line. The report of the Board of Trade stated that the population on the Tring line was much greater ; but wit nese believes that the reverse was the fact. The line to Wolver hampton commences near the Grand Junction station between two large and important towns. Mr. Stephenson's line at certain points would b e much higher, and would then descend considerably. _ _ The Great Western line would come into the fire-brick works, which was a most important consideration in the traffic. From Stourbridge the Great Western line is carried to reason for not bringing the station into the town was, that the tonnage did not exceed more than fifty tons per week, and the value of that to a railway amounted to a very small item. The value of the manufactured goods was from 1501. to 3001. per ton, and the cost of cartage from the town t• the station would be very trifling. Had no station at Stockport, the trade was not important, and there is a canal accommodation (LEFT Immo.) THE LONDON, CHATHAM, AND ROCHESTER RAIL. The Committee met again to-day at twelve o'clock. Chairman Mr. Laccelles. The Counsel in suppoat of the Bill called Mr. Sedder, an estate agent at Rochester, who had been mayor of the city. This gentleman stated that there was consider able deficiency in the means of communication at present between Chatham, Rochester, and London. The inhabitants were obliged to come by the Rochester Railway to Gravesend, and thence by the boats to London. There were many charges and many delays. Many thousands of troops sent to Chatham in the course of the year, and many thou.. sands of workmen employed in the dockyards, had to pass to and fro from time to time between Chatham and the metropolis. He was acquainted with the North Kent Railway projected by Mr. Vig notes. At a public meeting held at Rochester to consider the merits of the various lines, the feeling was almost unanimous in favour of Vignoles' line. The inconvenience at present felt for want of complete communication was very great. The population of Rochester, Chatham, and Stroud, without the troops, was 35,000. The country around was very fertile, and a great number of cattle were sent to London. Cross-examined by Mr. WILMORE, for the London and Croydon Railway—The feeling of the meeting to which he had referred was decidedly in favour of Vignoles' plan. There was a great want of railway communication between his part of the country and London. Cross-examined by Mr. MEREWETHEE, for the South-Eastern Company—Was not aware that nine tenths of the owners of property in the neighbourhood were unfavourable to it. He admitted that the names read to him by the Learned Counsel were owners of a very large portion of the agricultural property in that part of Kent, but did not know they had petitioned against the present project. Re-examined by Mr. GOLDSMITH—The feeling was generally in favour of Vignoles' plan. 7he delay of communication with London, especially in winter, was very great. Mr. J. Batter, auctioneer and surveyor of Rochester, was also one of the Rochester magistrates. (LEFT SITTING.) MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. -WEDNESDAY We had a very limited supply of English Wheat on offer to-day, while demand for all descriptions was firm, at fully Monday's enhanced rates. The show of Foreign Wheat was somewhat on the increase. Most kinds were in steady request, at Is per quarter more looney. The sale for Barley was steady, but Malt experienced a very sluggish demand. Oats, Beans, Peas, and Flour were uite as dear, RA Barley. GO qrs. Wheat. 1,210 qrs. Oats. Flour. 830 English • • • • • • Irish .••• • • • • Foreign .• • • • • 670 8,180 6,810 500 1,480 Malt, 1.260 qrs. WHITECHAIaEL. There was only a moderate supply of Meat on offer. Prime Beef and Mutton were in steady request, at full prices. Otherwise, the demand was in a sluggish state. Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s ; Mutton, 2s 10(1 to 3s 10d ; Lamb, 5s to Cs ; Veal, 3s 10d to 5s ; and Pork, 2s 10d to 4s per Blbs, by the carcase. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. Y, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was steady. Nearly 7,000 bales were sold, 1,000 to 2,000 being on speculation.-Midland Railway Shares had been in good request, but the market was heavy. Ar. magh and Portrush, 2 3 4 ; Barnsley Junction, 4 % 5 ; Bi r kenhead and Cheshire Junction, 9 1 4 ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 135 ; Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 5% ; Belfast and County Down, 1% ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liver pool, 12 1 ,! 2 12% ; Caledonian, 10 1 / e 1 / 4 ; Ditto Extension, 2 3 / 4 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 7 ; Chester and Birkenhead, 53% ; Ditto, Half Shares, 27 ; Churnet Valley, 5 3 / 4 % ; Clitheroe Junction, 1% ; Clydesdale Junction, 9% ; Cork and Bandon, 8% ; Cork and Waterford, 2% ; Dublin and Belfast Junction, 10 1 /, ; Dublin and Galway, 795. 78s. 4d. ; Dundee and Perth, 3% ; Dublin, Mullingar, and Athlone, 4%; Dundalk and Enniskillen, ; Eastern Counties, 18%; Glasgow and Dumfries, 28s. 1 1 / ; Grand Junction, 233 Ditto, Half Shares, 116 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 58%; Ditto, New Quarter Shares, 47 3 / 4 ; Great North of England, 301. Shares, 29 ; Great Western, 187 ,• H u dd e rsfield Canal and Railway, 6% 7 ; Lancaster and Carlisle, 40% ; Leicester and Birmingham; 1 / 2 prem. ; Liverpool and Manchester, 209 ; Liverpool, Orraskirk, and Preston, 515. 2% ; London and Birmingham, 240 ; Ditto, 321. Shares, 46 ; Quarter Shares, 34 ; London and Windsor, 6s. ; Londonderry and Enniskil len, 4% ; Leeds and Dewsbury, 9% 1 / 4 ; Leeds and Thirsk, 7 ; Lynn and Dereham, 435. 6d. ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction, 6 1 / 4 ; Manchester and Leeds, Quarter Shares, 21 1 / 2 22 ; Matlock and Midland, 3 3 4 ; Midland Railway, 179 182 ; Ditto, 401. Shares, 21% 5 / 8 ; Ditto, Fifth Shares, 3 1 /., • Newcastle and Berwick, 18 %; Newry and En niskillen, ; North British, Half Share s, 4 % 5 ; North Western, 4 2 ; Oxford and Birmingham Junction, 3%; Ox ford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 2/. 41s. ; Sheffield and Manchester, 120 ; Ditto Quarter Shares , 15 1 / 4 •, Shrewsbury and Herefordshire, % 34 ; Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and Birmingham, 4% ; Shrewbury and Grand Junction, 514 Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Cheshire , 3% 1 / 4 ; South-Eastern and Dover, New Shares, No. 1, 15 ; Ditto, No. 3,6% 7 ' • Scot tish Central, 5%; Trent Valley Cont inuation, 1 ; Welsh Midland, 28s. 20s. 6d. ; West Yorkshire, 48s. 2 1 / 2 ; Wor cester and Tring, 4 1 ,4 ; Whitehaven and Furness, 2 1 / 4 ; Austrian and Sardinian, ss. ; Boulogne and Cette, 495. ; Northern of France (Laffitte's), 5 5 / 8 ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 11 1 / 4 ; Paris and Lyons (Laffitte's) , 595. 595. 6d. ; Paris and Lyons (Ganneron's), 565. 6d. ; Sambre and Meuse, 10%. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 27.-The sales are -Barnsley Junction, 5 ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 12%; Churnet Valley, 5% 9-16 ; Clitheroe Junction, 2% 2 prem. ; Direct Northern, 3%; Eastern Counties, 18% ex new ; Ditto, New, 4 1 / 4 prem. ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, New Quarter Shares, 6 5.16 •, Glasgow and Dumfries, 1% 7-16 ; Goole, Doncaster, Sheffield, and Manchest er, 1 5-16 ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, 4 ex new ; Great North of Eng land, 30/. Shares, 30 1-16 ; Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 6 3 / 4 ; Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 6% ; Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 9 % ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 8 1 4 1 / 8 ; Leicester and Bir mingham, % ss. prem. ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 2 5 / 8 ; London and Windsor, ss. 6d. 7s. prem. ; London and York, 4% ; Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland Junction, 3 13-16 4; Manchester and Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 94 ; Manchester and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh Junction, 2 1 ,4 • Manchester and Leeds, Quarter Shares, 21 1 4 ; Manchester, 'Sheffield, and Midland Junction, 51A . Newcastle and Berwick, 18%; North Wales, 3 1 4 %; North Western, 4%; Oxford Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 2 1 / 8 ; Preston and Wyre Extension, 2% 5-16 ; Sheffield and Lin colnshire Junction, 1 13-16 38s. ex new; Sheffield and Man chester, Quarter Shares, 14 3 / 4 ; Southport and Euxton, ; Trent Valley Continuation and Holyhead Junction, 2% ; Welsh Midland, 13', % prem. ; York and Carlisle, 1% prem. ; York and North Midland Extension, 18 ; Great Northern of France, English, 5 3 4 ; Ditto (Rosamel's), 2%. There is comparatively little business doing in the City to-day, so many of the speculators, stock brokers, and others being absent, hundreds having left for the " Derby" event at Epsom. There are some accounts from Ceylon to-day, but the in formation supplied is not of any general importance. There had been a considerable increase in the importations of Bri tish manufactured goods at Ceylon. 111 the exports, however, a marked reduction has occurred. A new plan, it is said, has been discovered for the management of the coffee plantations, for which a patent has been taken out. The British Funds have been firm; Consols at 99 5 / 8 for Account, and at 99 1 % for Money. Exchequer-bills are at 645. to 628. premium, and Bank Stock at 210. Very few bargains were made in the Foreign Funds to day. Spanish Consols have ruled at 29%, Portuguese Con verted, at 66%, Belgian at 87, the Dutch Four-and-a-Half per Cents. at 98 1 4; 1 4, and bfexican at 37%. The Share Market has been pretty active, but in general the prices have not varied mach. B JUTISH FU NDS rom t TH he Official List .)IS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (F Bank Stock 2lO 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 98 % 1 /2 3 per Cent. Consols Anns 994 1. 4 z New 3 1 / per Cent. Annuties lO l l / 8 14 L a ng Annuities ,Expire sth Jan. 1860 ll 5-16 Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. 10, 1859 l l l /2 India Stock 279 South Sea Stock — Ditto Old Annuities Consols for Account Exchequer Bills. 1 3 / 4 d. 1 1 ,1 d. 1,000/. ........... 500/. ••• .. ... 64 66 pm. Ditto Small D i tto Advertised ..... ... _ 62 63 pm. PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent — Ditto New Bonds, 1829 and 1839 87 Danish Bonds 1825, 3 per Cent BB Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent — Ditto for the Account. Ditto Deferred Stock...,. Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent — Ditto Converted Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1840 29 1 2 Di t to Passive Bonds 7 9 Ditto Deferred Dutch 2% per Cents Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates ..... 98 11 / PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE. Aberdeen .................... ... 2 1 / 2 3 34%... to adnGd Oxfordloucesterl 00 134% to Birmingham 2% Brighton, Lewe s, Hastings ... 20 4 to B r i s tol and Glouces ter 30 Birmingham Junction .. .... 3 . .... . . . .. . ...... 2 Caledonian ........................ 5 9 8% 9v, to 9% Ditto Extension Cambridge and Lincoln Chester and Holyhead Ch u rnet Valley Coventry, Bedworth,and Nun- 1 eaton ........................... I Coventry and Leicester ....•• 11 .4 l% to Diss, Beecles,:and Yarmouth 1%...... 2 Dublin and Belfast Junction 2% l O l / 2 : 3 / 4— to — 5 Dublin and Galway .. ... . Dublin and Mullingar 2% ...... 4..... to Dundalk and Enniskillen 2 l /2 4 to Eastern Counties Do. New 4/. 16s 4% to Do. Perpet. 5 per Ct. No. 1. 5/.13s 4d Ditto, ditto, No. 2. ......... % O% to Great North of England 100 227 Ditto New Ditto New Great Western Hull and Selby ... 50 Ditto Quartersi Lancaster and Carlisle... 2O ...... 40 London and Birmingham ...100 ..••••242 Ditto Thirds London and Brighton 5O ...... 63%%... to 64 London and Croydon... 13/. 153. 9d...• Ditto Guaranteed 5 per Ct. 6 London and South Western.. 41%...... 79 Ditto New 2% ...... 13% to ... London and 2%••"" Londonderry and Coleraine... 2% ...... 3% to Manchester and Leed5......... 73 .. ...152 Manchester and Birmingham ...... 57% to 572 Midland 140 00 ...... 180 178% to 182 Ditto New 2 21% 21 23 1 / 2 to 23 Midland, Rim. and Derby 100 ...... 140 Newcastle & Darlington :iunc. 25 ...... 52 1 / 2 . to 53 Ditto New Brandling ...... 10 ......133 to —% Newcastle and Berwick ...... 1% ...... 4 18% to 16% Newark and Sheffield ......... 1 1 / 2 ..... 3 A to North British Ditto New l.. •"5% to North Kent Rugby, Worcester,:and Tring 1 ...... 4% to Scottish Central Scottish Midland ... I% ...... 2 3 / 4 ... .. to Shrews.,Wolver • , Dud * , Birm. 2% ...... 4% to South - Devon l5 ...... 24 South Eastern and Dover ... 331/8..•••• 41 1 /% to Ditto New, No. 1 8 ...... 14'4-- to ... Ditto New, N 0.2 7 .. ... 13 Ditto New, No. 3 ............. 21/2...... 6% to Trent Valley 2 ... .. /8 1 / 8 to ••• __ .. Trent Valley and Holyhead Junction IX, ...... 2%% 5 A, to Waterford and Kilkenny 1 ...... 3 1 / 2 to Yarmouth and Norwich...... 20 ...... 27/ to York and North Midland 50 to Ditto Selby • to Ditto, Extension FRENCH RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens. ..•••••• 4 ...... 8 1 / 2 3 / 4 ... to Great Northern of France (Laffitte's) .............. 4 ...... to Louvain and Jem ~ 2 ...... to 1/2 ppe ...... Lyons and Avignon 2 ...... .. to Namur and Liege 2EA ...... ▪ to Orleans and Vierzon Orleans and Bordeaux .. 2 ....•• • to Over Yssel 413 s 4d...... Parisand Lyons(Granneron's) 2 ... to iAyt Paris and Strasburg Do. (Haiuguerlot's) 2 ...... 2% to AND MIDLAND JUNC- TION RAILWAY. The Committee, consisting of the O'Conor: Don, chairman, Sir John Rao Reid, Sir Denham Norreys, Mr. Hope Johnstone, and Mr. Davies, sat at twelve o'clock in Room No. 9, and pro. ceeded to hear further evidence on the part of the promoters of the above railway. Mr. BAINES, Q.C., called Mr. Appleby, of Sheffield, who spoke to the great advantages which would result to that town from the opening up of the coal district between Chesterfield and Sheffield, including the Dronfield and Unston coal and coke, which was par ticularly esteemed by iron-founders for its valuable qualities in the conversion of iron to steel. The railway would also com municate with the markets of Lancashire and Cheshire. Mr. Blake, also of Sheffield, was examined by Mr. Ser geant WRANGII4I6, and he quite coincided in the opinion given by the previous wittness, as to the advantages which would be given to the towns of Chesterfield and Sheffield, and the district between these places. Mr. linowles, of Brampton Manor, was an earthenware manufac turer, and spoke to the quantity exported to Manchester, and the districts to the south, which would be greatly increased by the line being opened. Mr. Birkett and Mr. Wright gave similar evidenye. (LEFT SITTING.) Group X. LONDON AND NORWICH DIRECT LINE. The Committee on this line resumed its sitting this morning at the usual hour, when Mr. ALEXANDER, Q. C., on behalf of the promoters of the Bill, stated that the total length of the line he advocated would be 45 miles 10 chains, offering no engineering difficulties what ever; no turnpike-road would be crossed upon a level ; either bridges would be thrown over the roads, or the roads raised above the railway. No tunnelling would be required, and the worst gradient was 1 in 100, and that but for two miles. The cost of the entire line, including all contingencies, was estimated at 760,0001., while the traffic tables presented a prospect of fair remunerative returns. With respect to the accommodation proffered by the competing lines by a connexion with the metro polis, the distance from London to Norwich by the Eastern Ex tension would be 113 miles 1 furlong ; by the Norwich Junction 118 miles 1 furlong ; and by the London and Norwich Direct 110 miles 5 furlongs. The last-mentioned thus affording a very material saving in time and distance. At Wick. enbrook a favourable point presented itself for forming a junction with Newmarket, reaching the latter town at the eastern side, so that the Heath would not. be interfered with ; so impressed were the Jockey Club wan the advantages that would be afforded by such a project being completed, that they had actually presented a petition in favour of the independent line, solely on those grounds. By the returns presented by the Board of Trade, the population on the London and Norwich direct line was 31,800, and on the Eastern extension only 21,000 ; the population within three miles of the former 56,262 ; and within the same distance of the Ipswich and Norwich 47,600 ; and between Thetford and Nor wich 20,294. On these and other concurrent superior advantages, he therefore sought the favourable interposition of the Committee, and urged the passing of the preamble of the Direct Norwich Bill. Charles Beard, examined by Mr. G lILDEN—Is an ironmonger at Bury, and well acquainted with that town. Has inquired into the condition of the trades in the district, and found that 600 tons of bar and pig iron, coming principally from Lynn, at a cost of 10s. per ton, are brought to Bury annually, and 500 or 600 tons of hardware, at a cost of 15s. per ton. The groceries imported annually into that town from London, a distance of 72 miles, at a cost of from 301. to 495. per ton, amounted to 2,000 tons annually. Linen and woollen also corning from London is above 300 tons. The only accommodation, besides the expensive and ob- jectionable land route, is a circuitous water navigation from Lynn ; anticipates a reduction in the carriage of goods of 35 per cent. by the establishment of a direct railway communication. has attended meetings at Bury in favour of the Direct Norwich Line. Six.. sevenths of the Parliamentary electors and seven eighths of the in habitants of the town prefer this to any other project. Cross 'examined by Mr. llAwm NSON—In anticipating a reduction of 35 per cent. by the establishment of a direct railway communi. cation, he presumed hardwares and general groceries would be car ried then at the rate of 4d. per ton per mile, nails and sugar, how ever, at 7 , 1 4 -d. par ton per mile. The line from Lynn to Cambridge and from Cambridge to Bury, would not afford a good means of transit for the Yorkshire and North coal. (LETT iIITTING.) SECONDARIES.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Secondary POTTER.) BEGIII7. V. RAWLINGS. This was an action brought to recover the balance of are attor. ney's Bill. The defendant is a broker in Bethnal-green. Mr. BEGBLE stated the case. In 1839 he was sent for to the office of Messrs. Smith, of Furnival's Inn, and introduced to the defendant, and requested to defend an action brought against him by a Mr. Babbington, Messrs. Smith's business being principally confined to Chancery suits. The action was settled, and defendant paid 2/. to him on account of costs, and frequently, both before and after the commencement of the present action, promised to pay. The action was commenced in 1843, and judgment obtained against the defendant, which, how ever, was set aside, on an affidvit that there was a bona fide defence. Defendant, however, was to pay costs, and he (Mr. Begbie) accepted 4/. on account, the then attorney for defendant urging him not to proceed with the action, as de. fendant was very poor. The proceedings were then stopped, but a short time since, after the passing of the Act for the:abolition of imprisonmect for debts under 20/., the defendant's attorney called, and said that if the 41. was returned the proceedings should drop—if not, they would force him to go on with the action. This course had been adopted, and plaintiff therefore came before the jury contrary to his own desire, and whichever way the verdict went he must be the loser, as defendant had no property which could be taken in execution. The defence was that the retainer of plaintiff was by Mr. Smith, and that it was a common practice for one attorney to employ another as his agent, and also that plaintiff had consented to take costs out of pocket, and which amounted only to 13s. 6d. The jury then gave a verdict for the plaintiff for the balance as taxed by the Master. DR. WM. SNELL. (F.ox A CORRESPONDENT.) Dr. Wm. Snell, the Professor of Law in Berne, who was summarily dismissed from his chair, on account of his supposed participation in urging, counselling, or abetting the Free Corps in their expedition against Lucerne, for the purpose of opposing vi et armis, the introduction of the Jesuits, is one of the most in tellectual, consistent, and energetic political leaders, of the Liberal party on the Continent. As far as twenty-five years ago, when he was engaged as barrister in Nassau, he was persecuted for having dared to publish an address on behalf of the citizens of his country against some arbitrary proceedings of the Minister of the reigning Duke. He was obliged to leave his country, and to accept a professorship in the Russian Univer sity of Dorpat. But not long was he there established with his family, when, by a special command of the Emperor, he was dis missed from his chair, and obliged to return to Germany. He crossed that land under a disguised name, and went to Coire, the capital of the Swiss canton of the Grison. There he met Dr. Charles Follnius and Dr. de I'rats, and formed with them the plan to establish a German society of Liberals, the Mannerbund. After having established this society, and organised other societies depending on them, which embrace, in different groups, the military, the students, and the working people, Professor Snell, in conjunction with Follnius and Dr. de Prats, effected a junction between the Committee of Paris and the Carbonari of Italy. Betrayed by a false friend, the well-known De Witte, a Danish adventurer, the three gentlemen were obliged to quit Coire. William Snell and Follnius were elected professors at Bale, whilst De Prats was obliged to fly to England. A year aft, r, however, De Witte, having given more positive information against Follnius, this gentleman was also obliged to leave Switzer land, which he quitted for the United States, where he met with friendly reception, and was elected Professor of Philosophy at Boston. In the meanwhile, the republic of Bale had become the scene of civil discord ; the rural districts, dissatisfied with the oligarchical despotism of the town, declared to demand a government of their own. William Snell could not help to side with the Liberal party; hence he was obliged to give up his situation to accept one of a similar nature in Berne. How a man of such talents, experience, and penetration could have, for a moment, favoured the insane plan of the free corps is a matter of surprise to those who know him and know the circumstances of Switzerland. Without materialmeans, without discipline, without unity of pur pose, few had to attack enemies in their own houses, commanded by able officers, supported by men, arms, ammunition from Aus. tria, Naples, Piedmont, and Prussia. Yea, even if the first at tempt of the invaders had been successful, their success would only have served as a pretext for Austria, France, and all the ultra montane enemies of Swiss freedom, to let loose their arms against the Helvetic Republic. But, as far as the decree of dismissal of the said professor, it is an act of pusillanimity, injustice, and cowardice. If Snell was favourable to the expedition, indeed, even if he urged it on, he did nothing to deserve the blame of a Govern. ment, who did not interfere actively against the dismemberment of the free corps, and rather encouraged than disapproved it. From all we hear from that quarter, the rude dismissal of one of the most esteemed and influential Professcrs of the University of Berne, may prove the signal for a rising of the liberal party against the actual Government. CURRENCY AND SOLAR SPOTS TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—It being admitted by all the great authorities on the ' subject of money that the circulation of this country should be regulated by the foreign exchanges, or, in other words, by the supply of gold in the Bank of England coffers, and not by the in ternal requirements of the country in respect of its population and productive power, as was the case in what Mr. Samuel Jones Loyd terms "The dark ages of the Currency," prior to 1819, it is de sireable that the lights of modern science should be brought to bear on this all-important subject, so that a still more expeditious and comprehensive plan may be devised for " regulating the issues" of the Bank of England. And, further, as it is well understood that the removal, or order for removal, of a few millions of gold from the Bank coffers is sufficient to plunge the whole mercantile community into con fusion, panic, and bankruptcy, it becomes a most important point to ascertain the causes which chiefly operate i❑ creating a drain of bullion from the Bank. Now, passing over, as unworthy of philosophic attention, the paltry jobbing of two or three bullionists, the possibility of foreign wars, or foreign loans, which must always act as disturbing causes, we arrive at a great natural cause for a drain of bullion which no wisdom or foresight has hitherto been supposed capable of anticipating, that is, the drain arising from deficient harvests. As it is well known that deficient harvests arise from unfavourable seasons, and that unfavourable seasons depend on the number and magnitude of the spots on the sun's disc, it must be apparent that accurate observations as to the solar health (so to speak) would be a far more correct and scien tific way of " regulating the issues " of the Bank of England than the present vulgar and contracted method of ascertaining the comparative relative value of gold in Paris, London, and Amster dam. It is therefore submitted, with due deference to Sir Robert Peel, Lord Monteagle, and " his friend " Mr. Samuel Jones Loyd, and all the other writers on political economy, that In future the Astronomer Royal, at the Observatory, be required to furnish peri.. odically an account of the number, size, and appearance of the solar spots, to be published conco.nitantly with the returns of bullion in the Bank of England. By means of the electric tele graph on the Greenwich Railway, the Bank Directors will be able, on an emergency, to apply the screw with the greatest expedition, if not ease, to the mercantile community. Hoping these speculations may be of some use to my fellow countrymen, I remain, Sir, your most obedient servant, Laputa, May 20. PROJECTOR. EPSOM RACES. (THIS DAY-BY EXPRESS.) THE DERBY STAKES of 50 sovs. each, h ft, for three yrs old; colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 21b; the owner of the second horse to re ceive 100 sovs. out of the stakes, and the winner to pay 100 sovs. towards the police regulations of the course. Last mile and half. (140 Subs.) Mr. Gratwicice's The Merry Monarch . (F. Bell Mr. A. Johnstone's Annandale (Marson . Won by a length. The following also started, but were not placed:— Mr. Mostyn's Pantasa (Marlow) 0 Mr. Gully's Old England (J. Day) 0 Lord Stradbroke's Idas (G. Edwards) 0 Mr. Gully's Weatherbit (J. Day, jun.) 0 Mr. A. W. Hill's The Libel (Calloway) 0 Mr. Greville's Alarm (NA) 0 Mr. Gratwicke's Doleful (11. Bell) 0 Lord Chesterfield's Pam (F. Butler) 0 Mr. Ford's Fuzbos (Sly) 0 Colonel Cradoek's Jinglepot (Templeman) 0 Duke of Richmond's Laird o' Cockpen (Whi tehouse) 0 Mr. Wreford's Worthless (J. Howlett) 0 Mr. St. Paul's Mentor . (Lye) 0 Colonel Peel's Cobweb colt (E. Edwards) 0 Mr. Waller's Columbus (Wakefield) 0 Lord Exeter's Wood Pigeon (Boyce) 0 Mr. Worley's John Davis (Crouch) 0 Mr. A. W. Ilill's Salopian (Denman) 0 Col. Anson's Ledger (Simpson) 0 Lord Glasgow's Miss Whip colt (Holmes) 0 Lord Verulam's Corumba colt (W. Cotton) 0 Sir G. lleathcote's Gwalior. . (Chapple) 0 Mr. Theobald's Desperation . (Bartholomew) 0 Mr. Lintott's Cabin Boy (Buckle) 0 Mr. Watt na Adonis (Hornsby) 0 Mr. Fergussou's Clear-the-way (Robinson) 0 Mr. Coleman's Young Eclipse (W. Coleman) 0 Mr. Mytton's Black Prince (Copeland) 0 Mr. Balchin's Chance (Balchin) 0 Thirty-oRe ran. The Echo de Lodeve (Herault) announces the death at that place of an inhabitant, at the extraordinary age of 110, without having been previously subject to any infirmity, although a great consumer of tobacco and brandy. So late as the 20th instant the snow fell heavily round Geneva till it became full a foot deep. At the same time it came down at I hann in the Haut Rhin, at Auch, Tarbes, and other parts of France, even at Compiegne. The widow of one of the brothers Bandiera died on the 15th at Venice aged only 27. The death is attributed chiefly to grief at the melancholy fate of her husband. On Saturday afternoon th e Ki ng o f th e French, with several members of the Royal Family, took an excursion in the yacht round the islands at Neuilly. In the evening their Majesties received the Ministers of Sweden and Wurtemburg, the Marquises de Rumigny and de Lagrange, Counts de Alontalivet, Portalis, de Murat, and de Montesquiou, General Pernety, and M. de Girardin. The Presse says :—" M. Guizot's health is so perfectly restored that he is expected to re-assume the full exercise of the functions of his office in the course of the present week. He, on Saturday, attended the Council of Ministers, and took part in the discussion df th e Morocco affilir." The Anti-Corn-l aw L eague B azaar finally closed at ten o'clock last night. The number admitted for the day being 10,364. During the afternoon the admissions were considerably in advanceof those of yesterday, but were less M the close by 419. THE COLLEGE OF MAYNOOTO , I,l\ liia l ni n el n anti-Maynootht whAti:h piece of intelligence i cin D nhetvioa T rsiirl i .. - io l rivf.(rae)i : on adieCnatiOl:::ti?,h,:Gtle,dhEa pc u m? BUDDHA which arc Eu oagxnnhi.rieobsu;:s) Friday,t t to b ' r t° i h n ve g err: : i r s'i e da " kingdom. Certain Siamese priests hadirspvoislisie:ewdals:driasentbutilyikb,iicniggn the anti-Maynooth fanaticism that is nw the kingdom. in the Nand of Ceylon, for the purpose of seeing and wor shipping the relic, called the tooth of the Idol Budb, which is carefully preserved by the British Govern ment !! ! Sir Colin Campbell, it is stated, was at first unwilling that the tooth should be displayed ; but he was at length prevailed on to give his consent ; and the sacred tooth was exhibited to the adoring strangifs from Siam, in the presence of Lord E l p hinstone, by Mr- Mercer, the Assistant Government Agent ! ! ! No lightning from Exeter Hall descends on the guilt): heads of a Government which permits and sanc tions lle°' abominations 1 No conferences, no vl i g i ou s break‘tist, no indignant protests, no meetings, crammed to suffoe:r tion, to denounce this iniquity ! For half a century the English Government have cherished and protected ttf, foulest form of Idolatry that ever polluted the w orld, a nd offended the One Living and True God there has scarcely been a whimper of disapprbe4l in this country. The Christian zeal of our furiousoe theologians is expended in reviling the religion ' Francis Xavier, " the Apostle of the Indies," who ei I P 141 verted millions of idolators in this very island of Cef ,_„ but it is not its vocatisal to denounce the anti-Cheistl apostacy of that Government which fosters th I ,e l _ n, Budh; in opposing which, 600 of the natives of CePe fell rts converted to the faith of Christ, by Na''' er martyrs upon one , occasion. . • i‘ tv aill' tained and protected" in the interior of Ceyl oll By the treaty of 1813, the Buddhist religion is the by eicet ;—and rat British Government ; the British Government select British and appoint the priests; the British Government Pe: are the temple patronage; and the British Government:4e the keepers of the Dalada and other relics of Bah' far, Ceylon. t ont In one part of llindostan the English Gover_atae ot lessrr e d a e tr Governor-Generalet d h e , ,tsuperstitionhe abominations—with sandal-woodot. i o n f de Sqi India, equal tt — eht see w :: , Earl r eta s arr li cepoirt al i ' ne ‘ ,d 'i a l : l ot:Jr : 1 e: oui 1 rg g eth ! clo e , I' übll , be borne, with military honours, to "th e r temple of Sornnauth." rejud ices Jo fu l gt ' gh h ee e r n E naa n ut g itv l , i e s as h no G df o s v ll e ino r dl n vi a m , t e it n i he t a s ut o ttmh fa eo r ys. t c p o e n aoy s n u st l iii t s t b e % a P p - las i tho 5 t i c i r Mohammedan religion ; and yet men rage,erataOonsce, an m atter ef f and twaddle against the Minister who, as 5 , ca tioll political justice, increases a grant for the cu ll their fellow-Christians ! cirentlt. surf. „ When the Irish Roman Catholics consider the ris e,' ee stano, , s we have drawn attention to , can you u fis h cen t at their indignation ? They see that the flg .. .., iim ; but science can tolerate Budh, J ugge rnaut, and t a gna t ' is offended at Catholicism ;—that it strains at a and swallows a camel ! 40 ° , ll n o v r eacl o eu u se r s,i p tly a v r e t, while we hold very decided ot--churca, and value, o ft trust, s t r , e reformat abtiloenssiiung the vi l: i o c l l3 ll,. 7, eror te o a r t e a r o : : England enjoys, we must own that we ll' sore better than Buddhism ;—that we estee,tu ieitirisi; what more highly the religion of Thomas ' th o ' 1 Francis Xavier, Fenelon, and fatheur, ~_ g e tbe' do the idolatry of Kandy . The founder oftn:rid colOci dints, John Wesley, wrote a life ofd v' r ies ; 6I !( mended him as the model of Christian in ssiel 1,- - .0)1 11 1 he edited " The Immutation of Christ, to ne d pietY h e s for the use of the Methodists. The deePchosti°hy Thomas i. Kempis is admitted by all sects Of Christ to (for his works are used as books 0 1 , veo ture bo them all);—and yet there are persons vv",, n at wet' r': er , assert, without any fear of contradiction, 1 ' a d to e l entertain the views of i Kempis are in the r° a 11 lasting perdition.rnon itS pe ru Shame upon the unworthy spirit that nlaltes y et O- raging lion against his Catholic neighbour ; e d _ nar , him to be a very lamb against the Bsh stro l l latry of Ceylon and Hindostan. ,attert ain c s ,h 11. Every sincere Protestant, of course, --,• ne 01 '' la pov objections against the doctrine and discill' l OW' i r e man Catholic Church : but those objectioo.ies. aoTtisa convert men into wild and irrational fali al o f Chr is] duce us to violate the fundamental laws Charity, and Civil and Religious Liberty,, rrejankrille Not only are the Roman Catholics o', ` mor e ol lie i r human beings; but they hold a great den l on y of 0 1 0 bio common truths of the Gospel than l i f e the tr e re) silly libellers (who, generally-, never ta the y 0 05 , et . of fairly examining the opinions Fordsthat ril.)o suppose. Romaa Catholics use the .te Apo. , e j ; Roman Catholics believe all the articles la t ool c , ,re r. , eo Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the A.than 5 . ,, t he I , ei Roman Catholics hold, I believe, and tena""catboitili, Commandments of the moral law. 1.10'?`_ 11 „ h o ld , li f believe the Bible to be the word of God i ; ff t u n s e ) it. l e i, reverence ; preach it ; read it ; and , d _,..., , e v ith a te will be quite angry w hen We present tne.... ' lowing picture of a Bible -reading is " The /loutish father reads the 0f onpag,lgb ; Hew Abram was the friend of Godu Or Moses bade eternal warfare wage, With Amalek's ungracicus pr ogeny t Or how the Royal bard did groaning lie lyr e. Beneath the stroke of Heaven's aveliging Perhaps the Christian volume is the thernbg4 How guiltless blood for guilty man was !„,are, How Ha who bore in Heaven the S econn : Had not on earth wherewith to lie his 11 , 6 How his first followers and servant sPen,ad The precepts sage they wrote to Irmo' a How he who love in Patmos banished, o° ll Saw in the sun a mighty angel stag; ~d by Il e And heard great Bab'lons doom pronoun' ? V ii command."nib l e t • —lmpossible ! Do not the Papists hate the /, it n o ° ,,i• they not burn it wherever they find it ; je ani bal 4 sealed book to the laity ?—There are '"Fi r ries ts F_ctir s meaning people who suppose that rol ll sac red sr diAl l en unconquerable repugnance to the so le g li a 13 0 ,: t • tures. But they forget who were tho., o _ atee, h e i_ . and keepers of those sacred books ' ' ;hoorhie in the Diu 1;5 dyed years ; they forget that before , t i l e , poli printing all the manuscript c opies o' opens ol ot c og, our possession were copied by th,, e t P tbe, ~.e i ree . .oB and Romish priests: they forget tl at Ma; e r ~t of the Bible ever printed was printe tha t 0 0 0 ; tli t l e Popish Bishops ; they do not kne r vi the ::\f,_ il e epi s ,, a s and gospel is an essential portion or i , tu 4l ts o f in Roman Catholic-prayer-books the r t : foginje t oy and gospel for every day in the year,_, l ,l,sh _ 13e il y nearly all the Collects in the rfr,, lass ~,,,, Common Prayer' are from the n° l " t here fi e fole tt lar finally, they cannot be aware that ie cire Pernace 3 1310 so millions of complete copies of the ,_ the re sts b erg England, Ireland, and Scotland,__oll".ish r' h ara to v. s s tongue, by the authority of the I :_ i T s , c ad . 0 _ ilo : Iv Bishops. Nay, there are some cella° _ Ttie ,„or _„ fcr the benefit of the poorer claustsbe;-risedbitint7oscrof ° Church binds her children to her:.. int ore ,ea t ip tion of all controverted points of ~ -el e' r A iiien t 'iltri',,i,o mends to instructed Christians tl f a u tta 7niagr ia tts, l 'io the oracles of God as a means ° oth ze 4l°ts t C atb' tb d perfection. W hen the anti-Mayno reflec t O h of b oo Te Demo next time, let then 3 n o bitl i a ‘. t heY o il sing that majestic hymn tO O .,_". ,t• who', t hel can blush) when they recollect triiiroperl, 0. t l i ! been so energetic against ' reel ; asntuDnd"ha3 pop had no indignation to spare a ga.n ening too 03 ,,1te ho a. Field Marshal the Duke o vc yo ke will w e 5 w et ° , Maynooth Bill in hand. The pretty mes' b i e ecl) t a i° was* of it. He knows what a hc o be lea hot t ar be in if America or France (or Irelan d 04 , to declare war against us, with rat tle b oti °l : hostile ! girth'------...---(-IPrite e c e` le s BONDED GOODS. A diversul weightcliate;fell prevailed in ascertaining and recording o l,,,alle r ., Pa ivOijid' :of of packages of goods repacked into °their .rf ose. ,,poi' of j o .otoi t ve the warehousing regulations, particular a. Y ' ti kl e ti rue e t fir,lo l bt or assumed tares have been allowed t i, L iiiat w h ; 00 0, , ss. i.tet , the Customs' authorities being of °Pi"' e bas bee the 0 ore,' fhb a package upon which an a verage tar rebo use, " t n' oc ti required to be s ubdivided in th e w , r od di!, and `sou c te thereof should be previously ascertainen:og weis n i t o , c 0 0 .4 th ile , wards taken and deducted from such g r e po und to e, s P se tell ev e case of tea the usual allowance of on t he act ual at t he t l,v original package should be added to ..eotticeil_oern .na rem, packing account so adjusted, the reve . o :_, io „, to b „ e ll, .1, the partments in London have received art " nia de . fte'', o o tv , , out the h ° Ct ueit si •ri acmuconricleaintegdlyt,oatnhdetvhaerot.rudesrploiartssstlinircoeugb,er Wt 4 ; ,i re Ilit , 1 : 1 , i g.- , he - . 4 I , formation of all parties concerned. i fiAn - id at ',,,, t erd . :f i o; Surcinu.—Williani Cock arl . t . '_, e , no , 101 ,1)_ e p 2 , lived in the capacity of waiter a nd 10_`; th e lao", nt oacl e00 301, Crown, Holborn, and were di:charged i v i l vpro per w ' r , theY put t it consequence of the discovery of an, and Cl ie , and Lited :ired between them. After leaving the ' li L e ca tlier -1 , ~,.,ter, . .., - 0 esr i oc room at a beer -shop in Cross-strec t ' d.is i c t ol i n n titt h en e l e h r e pi vi soo ° so ' : itl 't o - i c4: ° l l :, quantity of oxalic acid. They ini"' • o n. loisan didoooo the Pc't T he r ~sei , go y 0 became cool, and then swallowe ..„ ~,e co , o a few minutes afterwards in great :F s et . y .ca at t e n iand ian! , w po co , effect upon the man, who became . 1 i" . e. Th ..,,, a t . at c e, pito o e his rash act, and suplicated for assistae in a dy ing goe t oit of oil into the room, found her female lodge r , .„ Coc‘. t he t De tody afterwardsof tthe ebpreoalitchee,danhder,,l,auslt.ber:deett;daiez;...Aosuedntlits so i d . t° otiteoo 11 1 g ill coroner's inquest is known. The 0117 4 ° o n o T 1 1:11 twenty years of age. ST. PAUes CATIIEDRAT;;e works a r e e d exce pt oo ice has been posted up:- g 1.3P . 0; dclaiyur.ceh;tt,hte.e morningoth b e continued stii r ‘ vR d E a c. i liyc Ilis::useistr.us‘v:a(istic;rie?:iti°lll:b°t:vsjd‘ Ao fig tvii sub ester ryi Dec r t 5 e ci : del:: p t o t i,:e i VOLENT SOCIETY. --A special Meeting... _ as be 05 ta _re hod yc A p l Us afterga a b t l e e , s i tt n e: : : t ele i ii t t i ne : o T ci: theml : 0 c h ,ce : : i t t o 0 ccg 0 i. teob be e l. t . b b , :el en le t , ct o i r , 1 : ofLc Jamesthe n do London Tavern,low above-nameder, shßoirsth: stated the object he had in cou _. s of the S to I, , op ti o. ,v, which it appeared that the ac ter, I":,__ sp pe it a , : tio g e i Do i 00 : c ' ot; atnnourtieh:ei multifarious u n der w hole Proc etil oa to ot, ~ quoting i m iou u i beo p e ot n r i nri o cna p :gtn e d e r fad b l rg y oi y enm, ; n k u be e ty s ri p h t t t et a . h n ome d f irn i t c n i h h eu r e a e : t r esi i s n : t aogcrbfie.erettly:fiesencliooi n .;, : i g aren s " ::: te t ats 3 ene t bd . c el : , I os.tnnog_ i d a r,c h ww a bg t i :eel / : Doeuer p : ;; l oai ros c i roco t f: i ,i, ; ,:, ,i; will shortly be held, when the b ....r. stephetphsaotn,the st Selo oer „; the publc. It was m oved Y Air opin ion wrecuo t ' t ; woo :, adopted, " That this meeting into the OW , thens ~,,, . e llr. by Mr. West, late secretarYu _,„. datcoe, y OlO4 er tudcTul:eeishamrierrtr:ealoinnqbntfoe:detriesbhatsietittnie'ices:dg,euee:biatidn:SseCiaMivirbtit:cterbihidee'ainrwassttabesSaectleocnlonialsrtibtolg.boYdYfeue'le,strsrhass3,anslent.nu:iniuidr::tri.'cotitlii:ctaocitnititot.e'utoeit'tilf.oeshreireaefti".,:l . Il t i i i 'l 'l' e i c it it , . 4 :t, : ,,,, their i i , A thanks i Lyv A tyo Coal the hi ne c g : l' ° :a i l iT'nrem:l::ttcr.°—,llsvie:l .e , P' ; ' c l o cr : : : ; ib b r : 1 13 Y" ei 3 ;: ' tb s p e s :: : : 1 :::: d' o : ga i r f t e r o ' Da c r o ; c c t, t; f i t ? : by railway comp reallye' shadech ars g e t r ll 3;t 11.1 1' ; e 0 1' 0 ownittee; vec o e . s tor trr i o t d nervo c th an ° f 0 not n iisteumndwenrsictfonothdtc;rt rhnoowtsst -_-, a stle an . isore bold ° the Committee on the rival IN C‘' , • ctiehnef:rrragmye:tuh:e. inquiry At before tO 7, 0 01 00 ter lu' 0P • Berland Itail,wsoaoyis.;paenrddaiyt.its es_teFraraetneesci:7c_tafinn,ol:l:ll: 4 wl,oori\ ,1: Committees dioai a zd t aoLmlaetcl oolvindaetncvasmiciQrt'vstyionair:gitianicagatehee,re. Eiu. do 9s Ir lett ri , ~,, . aged 71, Select C