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MR 13, Great MarlborotighlAreet. 1 lishment of fraudulent companies. The Right Hon. LEVER ' S NEW WORK, 3 ILLUSTRATE BY eItUTKSILINK. i Gentleman statedthe proposed changes so briefly that tiimun. O'LEARY; His WANDERINGS AND:PONDER- i we cannot abridge them.,, Such a measure was much INGS TN MANY LANDS," Edited by •hla Friend, HARRY I.Oh REQUER, sub . ! Illustrated by GEORGE CRLTIKSHANIci lin j wanted, and if carried into effect, will give the public 3 vols., post Bvo. -, •-' i some security against fraudulent schemes. - is NOW READY AT ALL THE BOOKSELLERS -.: . , • and Libraries throughout the Klngdoln. • " 1 Returns were moved for relative to the Menai Henry Colburn, Publisher; 33,1Giitil-tirlbotough-street. ! Bridge, the Harbours of Holyhead and Port.Dynllaen, the Grand Jury Gess (Ireland), the University of Dublin, the College of ' Map - I - oath, and several other public institutions ; and_ the - House adjourned till the 15th instant. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Immense Attraction for Easter. It is respectfully announced, that the Administration' Of the Academie Royale, Paris, having consented to a prolongation of the conge )f M. Duprez, this eminent Artiste wiil sang Three Nights in the Easier Week. MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 8, • Wilt be performed the Opera of-GUILLAUME TELL. Arno'd, Duprez ; Gassier. Mr. G. Horncastle; N illiam Tell, Mr. !•tr,t ow; Lutern, Mdlle. Albertazzi ; Matilda, Miss Romer; Martha, bliss Cetts To conclude with the revived Melodrama of THE-TALE, OF MYSTERY: Count 3onamo, Mr. Selby; Count Romaldi, Mr Cooper; Michelli. Mr. Harley ; Selina, Mrs. Stirling. Dress Boxes 75., Second Price :is. 6d. ; Upper Circles of Boxes 55.. Second Price Is. ; Pit 31 Second Price Msdale Gallery is., S Prike- is. ; Upper dallery IS., Second Price fid. • THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. - • ' M r,BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSEE_ fteturn of Madame Vestris and Mr. C. Mathews. ON EASTER MONDAY, APRIL 9, Will be-performed a New Comic Drama; entitled USED UP. Sir Charles Coldstream, Bart., .Mr. Charles Mathews ; Sir Adonus Leech, Mr Tilbury; %Vurzle Mr. James Bland; Mary, Miss Julia Bennett; Lady Clutterbuck, Mrs Humby. After which, a New Comic Drama, en titled GRIST TO THE MILL. Marquis de Richeville, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Francine, Madame Vestrii. To be followed by a New, Original, Occasional, and-Local Extra. , vaganza, founded on Fact, entitled THE DRA MA AT HOME; or, An Even,ng with PidE Principal Characters by Mr. C. Mathews, Mr. J. bland, Mr. Caulfield, Mrs. Glover, Miss P. Horton, and Miss Lee. To conclude with the Extraordinary Performances of Professor RISLEY and his INFANT SON, surnamed " Le Petit Mercure." The Box-office will be open on Saturday; April 6. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Boxes, ss. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, 25.; Upper Gallery, Is. H a Mprice —Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 25 .; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, aid. Doors opened at lialf.past Six, and the Performances commence at Seven. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr I. T. Archer, at the Boa °lice, from Ten till Five. • THEA THE ROYAL, LYCEUMHOU ,SE LA IE ENGLISH OPERA- Under the Management of Mr's. KEELEY. The Pubic is respectfully informed that this Theatre WILL OPEN on EASTER MONDAY, .April 8, with an Address by Mrs. Keeley. After which, will he produced a New Comedietta, in Two ,sets, entitled H ASTY CONCLUSIONS. 1-rincipal Characters by Messrs. Diddear F. Mathews, F. Vining. Emery, and Miss Fairbrother, and Mrs. Keeley. To be followed by a New Drama, in One Act, called THE POST OF HONOUR. Characters by Messrs. Keeley, Turner, Kinloch, J. Collier, StAnton. Yarnold, Miss Woolgar (from the'l heatre Royal, Adelphi, her first appearance at this Theatre), and Miss Grove. To conclude with an entirely new Grand Burlesque Fairy Extra vaganza, called OPEN SESAME; or, The Forty Thieves. I ha ractets by Mios Woolgar, Miss F. Chaplin, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Turner, Mi.s Grove, Mrs. Wigan, Miss James, Miss Fairbrother, and Mrs. Keeley, Messrs. F. Mathews, Turner, lounge, N igan, Yarnold, and Chaplin. PRICE 4 OF ADMISSION.—First Price—*'ores, 45.; Upper Poxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s. • Gallery, 6d. Second Price—Balcony Boxes, 2s. ; Upper Boxes, is -,6d.; Pit, is. Private Boxes on the Balcony 1 ier (holding eight persons), Two Guineas Private Boxes on the Second Tier (honing eight persons), One Guinea and a-Half. Private Boxes on the Pit Tier (holding six persons), One Guinea. Free Ad mission Tickets (for the first forty nights), One Guinea. Nightly Transferrable Free Tickets (for the first forty nights), Three Guineas Doors open at Half-past Six. Performances begins at Seven o'clock. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE OF ARTS. EASTER MONDAY, APRIL S. Toe REOPENING of ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHI THEATRE of A R (under the management and sole proprietor. ship of Mr. BATTY), with its Treble Rotation of Equestrian and Dramatic Spectacles, and unequalled Scenes of the Circle, and Batty's Matchless Stud of beautiful Horses, Fairy Ponies, &c. Mr. Batty, in announcing the Re-opening of Astley's for the se eond season of his management, bep respectfully to acquaint the Nobility, Gentry, and public that, encouraged by the flattering success during the past year, and finding the Theatre not slit& clently commodious for its numerous pitrons, he entered into an extensive arrangement with Messrs. Haward and Nixon, the emi— nent builders of Lambeth, for the re-consiructing on a magnificent and novel principle, the whole of the interior of the Theatre, which has been rebuilt, dress boxba enlarged, upper boxes widened, and pit and galleries extensively improved. Fourteen glass lustres are added, and a Grecian dome ceiling, with entirely new splendid classic decorations, and gorgeous apppmntments, which, with the ti , st-rare talent to he offered, he presumes cannot fail of obtaining that support so liberally bestowed on his endeavours during the last season. The grand Easter national Spectacle will combine all the splendid historical effects of the Nothian Conquest of England, produced by Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. The Cirque Olympique'will in troduce un quaffed equestrian tale..t, and the double company com prise talent of the highest order. The door will °pet' nightly at six o'clock, and the performances commence at s yen. Box-office will beopened on Saturday, April 6, and continue so daily from ten till four. The private boxes have teen reconstructed and decorated with care'and splendour. Acting and stage-manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. LOVE'S POLYPH()NIC ENTERTAINMENTS, CROWN AND ANCHOR TAVERN, STRAND. Mr. LOVE has the honour to anneitince that he will RESUME HIS ANNUAL POLYPHONIC ENTERTAINMENTS, and LEC 1 URES on LIFE and CHARACTER on EASTER MON DAY, and will continue the same on the following WEDNESDAY and I. RIDAY. He will introduce much Novelty, which has been long in preparation, with entirely New, and Appr•priate Mutative Costumes and Appointments. Total Change. Entertainments Every Evening. (In NIONDAY, April 8, MIRTH AND MARVELS; with A 'WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHIN(;; and other Entertainme ts. On WEDNESDAY, April 16, LOVE'S REMINISCENCES; with MINE HOST'S DILE MAS ; and other Entertainments On FRIDAY, April 12, LOVE IN ALL SHAPES; with LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOS ; and other Entertainments. Particulars in Handbills. D.)ors pen at Half-past Seven ; begin at Eight. Admission, Is. tkl.; Reserved Seats, 2s. 6d. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, APRIL 3. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 42 ' • Highest, 64; Noon, 61 BAROMETER, 29.95—Wpm, S.W. NOTE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes tilt freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. ~~=. .IIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGM TICS ! , AY. !doming... SE minutes after 1 Evening 57 minutes after I Xmonk the notices of motions given in the House of Commons last night, was one by Air. HumE, who stated that immediately after the present 'recess he should move that " the House should take into its consideration the exemplary conduct of the people whenever they had been admitted to public edifices, and their general disposition to maintain order and propriety ; ; also, that the House do approve of the re cOmmendation of the Select Committee, formerly ap pointed, that there should be a more free admission of the people to cathedrals and churches." We cordially concur in the justice and propriety of this motion—more especially in that portion of it which . refers to the general orderly demeanour of the people when admitted to visit public buildings. If it were ever otherwise, the fault lay not so much with them as with the official authorities, who for many years made a point of studiously throwing every obstacle in their way, by saddling them with an admission-tax beyond their means, whenever they wished to gratify a natural and laudable feeling of curiosity as regards those magnificent ecclesiastical structures which were erected at the public cost and fur the express benefit of the public. For years and years to gether, the clergy, to their shame be it said, most rigorously exacted fees at the door of every cathedral ; and not an individual could enter, unless indeed when Divine service was being performed, but those who were prepared to satisfy the very un-apostolic rapacity of the clerical authorities who had charge of the sacred edifice. Of late, however, a considerable alteration has taken place in this respect; the clergy have been shamed into something like respect for public opinion; their habits of extortion have greatly softened down ; and the consequence is, a corresponding improvement in the manners of the people, who, as they become more and more habituated to the sight of these majestic monuments of architecture, necessarily leurn to appreciate them better, to take an honest national pride in their grandeur and sublimity, and carefully refrain from all acta of wanton spoliation, such as they used not unfrequently to be guilty of, w h en th ey were regarded by the ghostly guardians of the dif ent cathedrals in no more respectable light than as tasteless, vulgar intruders. We hope to live to see the day when the principle adopted in Mr. HumE's excellent motion shall be carried out to the utmost possible extent, and all- our ecclesiastical edifices be thrown open unreservedly to the public, and no one be seen standing at the portals, seeing, as it were, in forma pauperis, on behalf of the Dean and Chapter, for an admission fee. There is no thing that so refines and - elevates the mind and manners of a people as the frequent con templation of magnificent works of art, whether in architecture, sculpture, or painting; and every op portunity should be , taken by their rulers of giving them free, unrestricted access to productions of this character. Treat the people like Ignoramuses inca pable of appreciating the sublime and beautiful in the creations of art, and you will surely make them what in your arrogant sense of superiority you choose to consider them; but treat them like rational beings, capable of deriving enjoyment from such in tellectual sources, and you will reap the benefit of your considerate conduct, in the improved tone and temper of the national mind. ; Without intending any personal offence to Sir JAMES GRAHAM, we must confess our habitual doubt of the soundness or the sineerity of those con stitutional principles, which he is so fond of vouching, as the motives and guarantees of his public acts. There is one principle which is inherently worth many, and, under some circumstances, is more ac ceptable than all others to the public at large. Poli tical consistency is the valuable unit of which vie speak. It is to be feared-that the Right Hon. Baronet has parted with his life interest in this inestimable property, as the price of a short lease of official power and emolument : not that the sacrifice of political consistency necessarily implies a vicious and inte • - rested departure from previously avowed principles, or inevitably amounts to a declaration of insolvency of character. Public men may conscientiously differ tutu exlo from the party to which they belong, touch ing some particular crotchet or some announcement of general views which that party may fatally in. Bulge, or may have rashly promulgated. The result of such a difference may not unreasonably be, to'com pel such men to fall out of the ranks in which they had originally enlisted themselves, and to take their stand with some other section, professing opinions not universally concurrent with theirown, but much more nearly approximating to them, than either the men .- from whom• they have just separated, or the men whom . they have so long opposed, and will still continue to resist. But this is .a graduated, as well as a necessary change of original position. But to become—' from a Whig, and something more"—from a Liberal, and something beyond it—a high Tory, a high Church man, a high prerogative man ; this is a metamorpho ,sis. more abrupt and more astounding than any which have occurred since the " mutalasformas" recorded by Om), in the most classical of "Wonderful Maga `sines." We, therefore, are not among the over candid few who give the Right Hon. Home Secretary credit for having abjured his old leaders, and changed his old colours, out of some incomprehensible alarm touching some phantom of encroachment and spolia tions to be visited on the Established Church. Mor tified amisition, personal pique, a prescient percep tion that he was quartered, in 1835, in a trembling House, and a lively hope of good things to be found i)y just crossing over to • that on the other side "of the lway ; these motives, or any of them, suggest a k much simpler explanation of his organic transmuta tion into .a Cabinet Minister, tinder Sir ROBERT PErt, than the whole combined powers of even Thes salian magic could supply. With this impression, then, upon our minds tmtching the quality of Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S adopted Toryism, we are prone to look with distrust at , the tm , a.sures MI from time to time propounds for " the pulilic" benefit. We have already denounced his morbid appetite for prison-discipline legislation. We 'have denounced the horrors of his Pentonville model bastille. We have shown how those atrocious experi ments have resulted, which speculators on the nature of crime and the relations between it and punishment, have presumptuously indulged in, carrying retributive vengeance to a Asitcli that infringes on the exclusive functions of the DEITIC—and strains the decrees of Human law heyorid.: the extremest limits of penal satisfaction which it has yet demanded—in sacrificing the mind , in frustrating and extinguishing the moral sentiment of the convicted Criminal. We adduced, on the authority, of an eminent magistrate, and a most upright man, the two cases of incurable mad ness in the two ,prisoners lately removed into Beth lem Hospital, after a hideous experiment of a few months' " silent and solitary" confinement in this pet prison of Pentonville—this model farm of stock criminal-reform discipline, which has been laidOui at 'so enormous an expense, fta. theopmecoulsiaerergretaatriyfi.eatilovne, , as _ it should seem, of our H have also assigned, at • some length, our objec tions to one or two Bills, b ear i ng Sir JAMES GRA - Hanes name on their docquet, that were intro duced at an earlier period of the session. In the Right Hon. Gentleman's statement of Friday night, on moving for leave to bring in a " Bill for the more kaay Recovery of Small Demands in the County Courts of 'England," there were many passages that fortify our distrust of tbe expediency and of the con stitutional principles of all his legislative efforts. Sir JAMES relied .for his own justification and the House's sanction of this attempt to remodel and de fine the jurisdiction of these very ancient institutions, on the success 'which had attended the analogous expe riment of subjecting the Courts of Requests to the same sort of treatment, by the Bill of 1839. That Bill raised the jurisdiction of those Courts to demands under 15/. ; and he proposes to give a similar jurisdic tion to his newly modelled County Courts all over the kingdom, on the assumption that the Courts of Recittests,- established by Soeal - Acts since 1839; with this enlarged scope 'of action, have given great satis faction. It may be a convenient source of patronage— (a consideration to which Sir JAMES seems, in all these cases, more keenly alive, than any Home Secretary within our recollection)—to create another batch of Courts, to be " presided over by judges who are very competent to discharge the duties devolved upon them in that capacity, being all barristers of fice years' standing."-- But we can assure him the Courts of Requests of this new constitution do not receive by any means the degree of public approba tion he affects to claim for them, and that the' public are little disposed to tolerate these jobbing " judge nominations," made by wholesale. Sir JAMES has the grace to admit that some difficulty would attend the. simultaneous introduction of so extensive a measure in all the counties of England at once—and (always a subsidiary consideration with he MAJESTY'S Minis- Ministers) great expense, also. Therefore, that the in troduction may he gradual, he proposes to give to her MAJESTY in Council the power to bring the Act into general operation gradually, at the discretion of Ministers. Will Sir JAMES give us leave to ask him what is his precise merit in the public estimation, on which he supposes that the nation would intrust such a " discretion" in his hands, as one of those Ministers ? We trust that this clause will be expunged from the Bill. Men he proposes to pay the judges of these new courts by salaries—the clerks by fees. The distinction is invidious as to the clerks; but as to suitors and par ties the fee system has been already denounced and abolished wherever Parliament have had an oppor tunity of dealing with it in connexion with all legal salaries. To introduce it. in a system of revised county courts machinery is an idea that could have found no habitation in any brain except one so per versely constituted as Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S. Why, it would be the readiest conceivable course to foment vexatious suits, or dishonest defences, and multiply proceedings and expenses to their utmost limits, in order to fill the pockets" of these dragons' teeth of "whom the HoMe Secretary is about to sow so litigious a crop. We have no objection to the scope of the new jurisdiction " which is to extend to cases of simple contract, of damages for breach of the peace, of unlawful holding of property in certain cases, or in other words, actions of trover in their simplest form," and amongst matters excluded, are to be all matters affecting title. But we are no admirers of a new-fangled scheme of juries. Now, Sir JAMES would have a Hindoo " Pun chayet :" a constitution of such a tribunal, which we should feel great respect for in Hindostan, but utterly repudiate in England. "If parties required a jury, the judge might grant it, but the jury should not consist of a larger number of five." How soon the Right Hon. Baronet forgets his im portant obligations to a jury, elsewhere, of TWELVE! We are glad to observe that Mr. HAWES directed the attention of the House to the oppressive effect of enormous fees accumulating upon small debts, and to the importance of enacting, that in all 'cases of debt under a certain amount, the execution should only be against the goods of the party. Sir JAMES had prOposetl that execution should issue " against body or goods;"—an accurately adjusted arrangement for reserving the greatest possible power to inflict the utmost amount of misery and dis tress of which the circumstances of any case might admit, at the pleasure of the creditor. On a former occasion we ventured to show how strongly this strange instinct of implacable animosity to the crime of debt was developed in the legislative morality of the Home Secretary. On another principle of the Bill, Mr. F. SHAW forcibly remarked, "that if they compelled the parties to attend and givll evidence, much inconvenience and injustice also might arise. He thought it a dangerous principle to adopt, and it would be a dangerous experiment to allow the parties to the suit to be examined in their own behalf." But, perhaps, it did not occur to the really, acute mind of that Right Hon. and Learned Gentleman that he himself had so recently sanctioned a similar perilous " experiment" in a Secretary of State for the Home Department, whose tampering negotiations with a London reporter had proceeded on a view strictly analogous, namely, that of the "parties to a suit being afterwards examined on their own behalf ! " The Bill, we apprehend, must be altered "out of all knowledge" before the House can be induced to pass it. The Madrid journals of the 26th ult. are entirely filled with accounts of the illuminations, the levees, and the other public demonstrations given in the capital since the arrival of Queen CHRISTINA. • An amnesty was talked of, and an order, it was said, had been sent to General Itoricam to show more lenity at Carthagena than he had done at Alicant, and not to molest those who wished to leave the place. The ac count of the surrender of the town had not reached Madrid at the departure of the mail. On the morn ing of the 22d the insurgents had opened a fire on the QUEEN'S troops, and discharged upwards of 600 pro jectilei ; but at two- o'clock their fire had been silenced, RONCALI having thrown -in nearly 3CO bombs by that hour. On the Madrid Bourse the Three per Cents. were done at 37 for cash, and at 38 . for 60 days, and the Five per. Cents. at 24 at 60 days. creased out of the pocket of the consumer or the workman, must be inadequately paid—a consequence to be deplored. Augmentation in the prices of articles of necessity is always injurious to an immense body of people—to all such persons as have limited incomes—as public officers,.persons living upon their dividends; and the labouring classes ; while those whom it does not affect are .very few in number,- When, therefore, a valuable produce, like that of % the Sesame, is brought forward, it. should be received with welcome, and warmly encouraged. Instead of this; hoWever, this blessing is to be treated as if it were a scourge. A pretended equality of favour is talked of, but this pretended equality will-end in. a , genaml ,equality . of d:stress, instead of that equality which would insure the general good." The - Pressi takes nearly the same view of the ques tion, and thus points out what the commercial navy of France has suffered by prohibition : I " This is particularly - the case With the teaty of 1822 with the United States, and that of 1826 with England. The offi cial tables show that in 1842, on a movement of 973,006 tons' Iftween France and Great Britain, the latter . Power con veyed 791,000 tons: On the total quantity between France and the United States • the American .flag takes 94 per cent., leaving only 6 per cent:. for France. Such are the fruits.of treaties.. The evil would be less striking if theinjury to our mercantile shipping were in some degree made up for by aid voltages in favour of our manufactures. But ON is not the care. The last customs' lables prove that England receives from us to the amount of 92 millions of products, and sends td ns an amount of 112 millions. As to the United States, the disproportion is still stronger. In 1842 they took only 48 millions' worth frOm us; and sold 135 millions in our mar kets. •If we are, not lucky in commercial treaties,-it is pru d*t to abstain from them." : . . I We perceive by the papers that the Duke D'AUMALE his had some fine country sport in a late razzia ma d e near Constantina. A letter from that place says : "The Duke d'Aumale, on the 13th ult., left Biskara, to make a razzia on some down's, belonging to Ben Said, who was beheadectat Constantina, by older of 'General Negrier. The booty thus obthined was very considerable. The women wire collected, and placedeunder the protection of tile people of ;Biskara. While the Duke d'Airmale and his division were at iskara, a considerable body of -Arabs made a- vigorous at ck upon the intermediate camp at - Bethona, where a large st eof provisions and ammunition for the column in action was collected. These attacks, repeated on the successive days of the 11th and 12th, were not only, fruitless to the enemy, but he was obliged to-retire with numerous losses. Om the side of the French, there were about 12 men killed', and 20 wounded. On being made acquainted with what had passed at Bethona, by an exiiresslfrefn the Commandant of the camp, the Military antlibrities sent' reinforcements to it tinder the orders of Colonel He.rbillen. , This small column, after having insured tranquillity at Bethona, will move to the frontier of the Harnett's, .to f keep that tribe in subjection, - and act on the left of the Duke d'Aumale." • Some foreignjournals," says . La Repie des Deux Mondes, " haVe much too lightly attended to the report of the King intending to Make an excursion to England in the course of net summer. 'The Monarch'S age surely exempts him from a visit whereiri.he has more than once-been represented by the!Princes, his sons. Stich ajoUrney, being required by no co4enanee whatever,.would remairtquite apolitical one, and whatever may be the feelings .of the Ministry regarding the English alliance, we believe them to be much too enlightened to e.tpose the head of our new dynasty to an ovation which would be more dangerous to it than'the clamour of its most implacable enemies." Most of the Paris papers contain articles on the new Customs' Bill introduced into the Chamber of Deputies, and we are glad to find that those of them which venture an opinion on the subject con demn in strong terms the prohibitory system, or in deed any material addition to the :present customs' duty. This is a good symptom in fai , our of free trade. The writers' in these journals begin to see that, though high duties serve particular interests, and are imposed for the sake of a few monopolists, the people are great losers: They have to pay higher prices for articles of, consumption the commerce of the country, and consequently the mercantile shipping is diminished in proportion, and France, to a certain extent, becomes isolated from the rest of the world. The Journal des : Debuts, which usually supports the Government, is decidedly opposed to the measure, and points out by forcible and s=ound argument the folly of these eternal changes, and the injury done to the best interests of the country by prohibitory duties. After adverting to the preamble of the Bill, the writer thus proceeds : The funds on Monday remained without any mate rial alteration. THE BOURSE - -MONDAY, APRIL 1. First. Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents l2 l. 90 122 10 121 90 .. 122 Four per Cents— • • 105 50 .. 105 50 •• 105 50 .. 105 50 Three per Cents.... • 83 10 .. 83 10 • • 83 05 .. 83 10 Bank of France 1175 _3175 ..3175 ..3175 Lathtte 8ank,,5,000f. Sharessl3s - 5135 - • .5135 • .5135 Belgian Bank Belgian Fives, • . 1840. •• • • 108 - .. 108 • • 103 .. 108 1842 •• •• • • 1094 .. 1091 .. 109/ 1091 Dutch Two-and-a-Half 58+ 58+ • . 584 • • 58/ Spanish Active Threes ••••• • • • • • •-• • 311 .. 371 • • 371 • • 374. passive 6 - .. 61 • • 61 Ohl Deferred— • . 7+ .. 71 • • 71 .. 71 Portuguese Five per Cents.. " 4G .. 46 • • 46 •• 46 Neapoilitan • • •• ••••• • • • • • 101'45 .. 101 45 .• 101 25 .• 101 25 Roman ••• • • • • ••. • • • • • 107 .. 107 107 • • 10 7 I RAILWAY SHARES. Versa les, ..... 412 50 .. 412 30 .. 410 .. 410 L. 13. ..... ....• • • 250 .. 270 Roue 920 -.. 915 • • 92D , • _ 925 llouen,b ! ).Havret • -09 t . .• - 697'30 .. 697 50 Orleans..... 900 .. 905 .. 900 902 50 Strasburg to Bale • • • • • • • • • • 302 50 .. 303 75 .. 301 25 .• 301 25 Avignon_ to Marseilles 766 25 .. 770 • • 766 25 .. 770 RAILWAY si t AREA FOR' 31ATICII ACCOUNT. Versailles, 11.11. ....... . • • 400, .. 400 .• 400 .. 400 L. 8.. •••••• • • • • • 260, .. 270 .. 260 .. 270 Rouen . 625 .. 930 •- 925 .. 930 Rouen to 11avre..... ..... 697 50 .. 700 .. 697 50 .. 700 Orleana 9lO .. 912 50 .. 910 .. 912 50 Strasbtrg to Bale 305 305 • • 300 .. 300 POLICE INTILLIGENCE, BOW- S'T'REET.--(THIS DAY.) A decently-attired and rather good-loOking young woman; named Esther Lillywhite, ar, inmate of St. Giles's workhouse, was brought up before Mr. Taryford, charged with assaulting the watchman of the workhouse last night. Nantes. Payne; the night watchman at the workhouse, stated that last night, at about eleven o'clock, the prisoner came home drunk. He let her in, and she immediately com mence 4 abusing him, and ultiMately flew at him and tore his hair, scratched his face, and blackened both his.eyes. Look ing upbn this as invtlibig but ladylike behaviour, and having regard to his nose, the only perfect feature left on his coun tenance, he called in another watchman to his assistance, and after a struggle Miss Lillywhite Was secured, and conveyed to the lock-up. The prisoner, in her defence, .insinuated that the com plainant had, on one de two occasions, attempted to take liberties with her, a thing she could not adMit of from "sich as he.'''; The complainant emphatically denied this, and the infer ence te74e drawnfrom what he said was, that Miss Lillywhite was no so prudish and delicate as she wished to be thought. Mr. TWYFORD said.a clear case of assault had been made mit, and he should therefore, fine the .prisoner in the sum of 205., or ;in default of payment commit her for a month. She was accordingly committed. Miss Esther; as' she was•leaving the bar, raised her finger towards the complainant in a very ominous manner, and said, " I'll giVe it you when I come out." The witness. was then about to withdraw from the witness :box, upem which Mr. TwYFORD, with alarm 'expressed upon his countenance, said, f` Pol?ot go out of the box until she is safely locked: up." - The prisoner was then escorted by a policeman to an apart ment adjoining the Court, provided for the accommodation of similar characters. • QUEEN-SQUARE. -(THIS DAY.) John Such, a middle-aged man, was charged by Mr. en deavouring landlord , topas o h pass at gilt.e " Grapes;'' pocket.ie ß e r e o f mpt ora on sz od e a rei ,ith gzLast night the defendant, who was .driving a cab, drew up at the complainant's house and, had glass of gin for which he paid three-halfpence. ne.thei .left iec ft et t - h p eh e o , use- but immediate ly returned, and throwing 4 p i having at first sight the appehrance of a sovereign, on the counter, asked.for two half-sovdreigris. The defendant was giVen into custody, and on beinglsearehed he drbpt another pocket-piece of tha-size of half a sovereign on the floor. The defendant said he received the two pocket-pieces from a fare by Mistake for ls. 6d.,' and thinking them genuine he asked the complainant for change; • • • The Magistrate thought that as•thedefendant had not re ceived any: money from the complainant-the charge could not be maintained. • • '''''''' - • The defendant was further c.lia.rged.with .driving the cab without a license or badge, and NTith out. t he. consent of the owner, ihns rendering himself liable to a penalty under the " Hackney Carriage Act," and for which offekipe..he was fined 30s.i or in default of paynietic :10.41,1Y5' imprisonment. • UNIOI4' HALL.-:(THIS DAY.) Thomas Liss r lt o n- was brought up late on th e p rece di ng afternoon; charged with Wounding Fanny Weldrake in Gravel- lane, tiouthwark. • ' The woman was too ill to attend , and it was stated that the prisoner aid Weldrake cohabit together, and live in Gravel.- lane. That on the preceding night cries of "Murder" were heard proceeding from the house,• and in a • moment - after wards aNs4oman was seen to rush out into the street with her face streaming with blood. She ran into an adjoining public house for protection, followed by : the prigoner who carried her back to th e h ouse ; a nd a policeman by this time being lid - firmed df the circumstance, went into the house, and found the place in a state of the greatest 'possible disorder; the Chairs and; tables WOE broken:to pieces, and on the leg of a broken chair, with which the woman had been assaulted, was -found a quantity of clotted blood:and hair. The woman was found to b so dreadfully maltreiged that she was obliged to be conveyed to the 'hospital. .• • •• • Mr. Olding, the surgeon, stated that the woman's body is one mass of bruises, evidently inflicted with a blunt instru ment, and that she is in such a conditiouthat renders it im possible she can be brought gf)0111.4 ouit to appear against her assailant for at least a mouth; The prisoner said that the wom a n in the hospital was as much to blame as lie was, and that lie had everyyeason to be lieve she would not appear against him. The MAGISTRATE said that he should*take'eare that a man who committed such a very brutal-assault should 'not escape the punishment he so richly descried, and remanded him till she was sufficiently recovered to attend. • • • • • "The duties on machinery of every kind are increased, but with the substitution of an assessment by weight for that of I ad valorem. The duties on the imports of foreign manufac tured articleff into Algeria are increased also, thus departing from an established principle, which lays down that, in the infancy of colonisation and civilisation of a country, it should receive at the lowest possible rates all necessary provisions, all useful engines and materials for manufacture. In addition to this, war is' declared against two products brought from abroad into our ports in great quantities, and which afford nourishment to very profitable branches of our industry—we mean the lard from the United States, used with great ad vantage by Our soap-boilers,• and the oleagenous seeds of the Levant, which, Within these last few years,has given birth to a very fine manufacture at Marseilles, that of the oil extra c t e d from them, affording great benefit to the soap-works, inas much as the oil of Sesame is an excellent corrector of the olive oils; and also to the agriculturists, as the residuum, or oil cake, which they use in abundance in fattening their cattle and manuring their lands. The additional profits derived by our agriculturists from this source are estimated at several millions per annum. The public - also derives a benefit ; for cold-drawn oil of Sesame is good for domestic purposes. In tine, the French mercantile marine, about the interests of which the GoVerhment is considerate, was about to find em ployment in the transport of oleagenous seeds from the East. In 1834, the import of these seeds to Marseilles. amounted to 1,306,000 kilos, or cargoes of seven or eight ships. In 1842, the same import increased to 36,700,000 kilos, or cargoes of about two, hundred ships • By levying a slightly additional Customs' duty, the whole of this transport trade would be se , cured to France. This piece of good fortune,bowever, is likely to be lost, by_increasing the duty on the Sesame to double fo i r n ty m B4 a 2 gn — i tz e . n , t f . ro n n in i_ n2ifi.nssOce.sttaohlifs. established at a t t h e m l a O r t! acres of land looking to the oil-cakes for their fecundity will s k e i' i hl l o l as e t ; a i ' tl‘ re ll'i' t e. h as us threatened with annihilation, and the 75,000 remain productive in a wretchedly Ininorfdinneg,r.iee,sitfleihiot are to tally uncultivated. And this is called theprotec consequences of listening to the partisans of prohibition. receipts haso initiative, but has submitted to the suggestions f t rr h u e rn C i u ng sto t e o is th o 6 f ' not taken the ,‘ q . u h e ic s h tio m n , Governmente d are au p g e ni rsu en a ta de t d io t h he ofthe of other interested parties, we proceed to make the following observations :—lt Is an incontestible fact that the national industry is progresively expanding and improving. In a few days, the exhibition of useful arts will be opened, and all will see the great advances made in new inventions and in execu tion. The. Administration itself "will proclaim with praise innumerable improvements, and they will meet with hono rary rewards. All the trumpets of Fame will repeat, that the industry of France is marching towards perfection with gigantic strides, and this, we admit, will not be ' an exag geration.. But, after all, we still ask, where is the necessity for these augmentations of prohibitive duties? The branch in which the greatest p rogress has been made within the last few yearshas, unquestionably, b een machinery. The Trea sury, it must be acknowledged, hasnot been wanting in giving it encouragement. Extensive orders have been given to our mechanicians, for engines for the Transatlantic steamers in particular, with the view of encouragement. These wet e sacri fices which we applauded as w e ll p l aced ; but what are we to think of them if they end in making us pay more dearly fo r once perceive are burdened perceive that by raising ng tmach inery?epace, t he Whoma manufactories t r o t r u i t e s at n in o geeral with heavier charges, and injury is done_to the wholelndrts— try ofthiS country ? Moreover, another great obstacle to the endeavours of the productive branches to lower their prices is the increasing rise of articles of food. From this rise one of two things ensues—either wages of workmen must be in- ILLNESS OF LORD ABINGER. BURY ST. EDMUND'S, 2.:—Lord Abinger was last night suddenly attacked by paralysis whilst entertaining the magistracy :of the county after the business of the day, which he had metjanddisiliarged.with his usual power and clear ness. This Melancholy circumstance has caused the greatest sensation hcire. The answers this, morning were„that his Lordship though sensible *Ai quite unable to articulate. Ex presses were sent tolown last night. ERRATUM. —In the Parliamentary report which ap peared in The Sun on Tuesday, it was incorrectly stated that the Chancellor of the Exchequer was to bring forward the budget on the 15th inst. ; no day it appears is fixed, but it will be introduced on an early day after Easter, of which due notice will be 0:4 _ _ THE TE I N BIEE.—In accordance with a placard extensively circul a t e d throug h ou t Glasgow an d neighbourhood, a public meetin g of the inhabitants, favour able to the Ten Hours' Bill of Lord Ashley, was held on Friday night, in the Christian Chartist Church, Blackfriar street. Mr. G. Adams officiated as Chairman. The meeting was composed chiefly of operatives, and was conducted throughout with . great propriety and decorum. Mr. Matthew Cullen introduced the business in an address explanatory of the proceedings in Parliament connected with the measure, and concluded by delivering several appeals in favour of abridging the hours of labour, more particularly in connec tion with the' factory system. He then proposed a resolution to the effect, that !‘ Longhours of labour have a direct ten dency to injure health, prostrate man's physical powers, produce a deterioration of morals, and further lead to habits of intemperance, thereby Preventin t h o se subjected to them having the means of mental and m o ral cultivatien."—A vote of thanks was given to Lord Ashl e y, and it was agreed to g memor ialise hint to , bring iu a T en Hours Bill, if Govern ment gave up theirs.—Glusgow A rgus . THE DONCASTER CUP. --Th e cup to be given at ' the races for the present year, which takes place on the 16th of September, is expected to be the most chaste and beautiful which has been awarded for some time. It will consist of a group of three figures, two of which will be represented on horseback. The subject.will he:the:request of an archer at as Robin Hood .to King Henry the Eighth and Queen Catherine, to enter an adjacent wood, there to partake with - the assembled outlaws in their rude festival. The Earl of Carlisle continues slowly to improve in health at Castle Howard; where Lord. Morpeth has; oined the family circhi from t own. 04. 4‘ tc4.l' 4-v l yq ' , ~• • • &ai,, v • ' I ,l' l * „ .6 3 -4 . ' SECOND EDITION. f ~ ~ TILE gifN, LONDON. WEDNESDA Y EV.EITING, APRIL 3, 1844. IL Annul _Azut LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1844. In the House of Lords last night a number of Bills received the Royal Assent, and, after the pre .sentation of petitions, and some other business of no public interest, the House adjourned. till Tuesday, the 16th .instant. In the Commons, Sir R. PEEL moved that the House, at its rising, should.adjourn till Monday, the 13th. In moving the adjournment, he trusted that he should have been able to state the order in which Bills would be brought frirtva'rd after . Easter, hut, owing to the absence of Sir J. GRAHAM, he was un ible to give the explanation.. Lord J. Ituss'LL took that opportunity of com iplaining that only one ship of the line was to be, sta -tioned in the Mediterranean. They had important interests to watch in that quarter, and it seemed to .him very inTdicious to collect naval forces - in the Channel, while the affairs of Italy, and Morocco, and States along the - Mediterranean, might demand our interference. Sir R. PEEL said the Government thought it right to have a:number of vessels - in the Channel fur exer klie, which should be ready upon any emergency. The interests of the country in the Mediterranean --would not be endangered because the fleet Was . Off the mouth of the Thames or in the Channel. Lord PALmEasToN also blamed the Government ibr leaving so few vessels of war in the Mediterranean. :gore things might happen there in which British in -terests \vete concerned than in .any other quarter of `the globe, and he thought it not a wise distribution the naval forces to have only one ship of the line an that quarter, in place of the usual complement on Tomer occasions. HOME approved of the reduction, as the vessels -were generally laid up at Malta, and the ckicipline of '7 he ti4eet neglected. Sir PEEL, in reply to some remarks of Mr. WYSE, complaining o: the hurried manner in' which iriih Registration Bill was to be carried on, said lie hart nn. wish ,to press the second reading against he wish of Irish Members, and he would postpone -tne seconl reading of the Bill from Monday • (the I.ljtli) till Friday. Sir R. PEEL laid on .the table certain documents re wing to the treaties lately •entered into between E n g:arid and China. In laying before the House the i a , t ,{l l -►lomatic 'paper from Sir 11. POI -moult he could not refs ain from bearing testimony t 6 the ability, zeal, lirstmess, and discretion with which he had performed s4c, many difficult duties, and which had secured to not.only the confidence of his own Government, but also the confidence of the Chinese authorities.- It •was impossible to bear higher testimony to the merits of Powitcimt than .he could, but he was .aware Mat a panegyric was Weakened by being di 3uted. Lord - PALMERSTON concurred in the sentiments .expressed 1w Sir R. PEEL, and said, that when he recommenced that gentleman to the notice of the :G overn ment, he did so without any political conside ;rations, and he was happy to find that the present 'Government had appointed his- successor on the same a)riuikei pies. • In answer to a question froin Mr. F.lwAur, Sir JlounitT Pam: said he was not prepared to introduce a..ny Bill to reform the criininal law of the country. On the motion of Lord Emor, the Irish Franchise vas read a first time. Mr. Humn gave notice that he would move, after ;Easter, for a more free admissipn of the people to ....cathedrals acid other public edifNits. • On the motion of Mr. DUNCOMBE, a copy of the ::notes taken by the shorthandlt-ritera at the trial of Ithe QUEEN v; O'CONNELL was ordered. A brief discussion took place between Mr. Suaw d Mr. E*, VArs 4 l l Willielrish Temporalities Bill, is Jorcharatteri4id;Of \ the sister country to M r :, ,groisirort obtained Tease to bring in a Bill Tor the *Olratiun of joint-Agek companies, and for conferria such compalLe4 certain privileges of Corporate ~and afsolisifreventing the estab rj. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Jubltc OPtinten* " Who runs may read." 170 REIGN. A. meeting, at which About 2,000 persons 'were present, was held on Sunday, in the Great Hall of the Hotel de Ville, at Paris, under. the presidency of 'the Prefect of the Seine; the Count de Rambuteau, to witness the distribution of the prizes of the Gratuitous Drawing-schoola of the 7th and Bth arrondissemens. The business of the day was opened by an impressive address from the President, on the advantages of the institution ; and he was followed by M. Charles, the director of the schools, who gave an interesting account of the zeal of the pupils, and'of the kind encouragement bestowed upcn his labours by their Majesties and the Whole of the Royal Family. The Committee charged by the Minister of War to present the rough draft of an ordonnance on the questions which affect the Jewish population in Africa, has reccommended that all bye-laWs and customs, changed into laws, which have hitherto served as rules of conduct to the Jews of Alge ria, should be abolished and replaced by the common law, by which the other inhabitants are governed. The Council of Administration of the Left Bank Versailles Railroad, on Saturday, presented to the Minister of Public Worki a tender for continuing that road to Chartres, and has sent ta the Chambers of Peers - and Deputies a protest against any other railroad between Paris and Chartres being allowed . to be formed. The Paris journal, the Commerce, was sold on. Monday for 317,000 f. (12,5001.), to MM. Farnissier, C. Didier, and Dela mann, bankers. The Moniteur publishes a return of the price of wheat in the different departments of France, for the purpose of regu lating the duty on the importation and exportation of grain and flour. The returns are divided into classes, according to the departments, and the medium price in all of them ranges from 16f. 58c. to 22f. 83c. per hectolitre. • . The price -of bread at -Paris for the first fortnight Of the present month is fixed at 35 centimes the kilogramme. -A letter from Stockholm, March 18, in the New Hamburgli Gazette, says :—" It is stated that the Queen D owager in tends taking a journey into Italy immediately after the vb seqlies of the late King. Her Majesty will pay a "visit to her sister, the wife of the ex-King Joseph Buonaparte. The report that the Swedish Diet is to be convoked in the month of June is gaining strength. The reason of this measure is that the King desires to open the Norwegian Diet in person in 1845, which could- not be done if .the Swedish Diet was not convoked during 'the present year." The mail conveyance by sea about to be eqablished be tween Stettin and St. Petersburgh will commence in the spring of next year. The. iron steam-boats constructing in England for that purpose are - to be each of - 700 tons, and , above 300-horse power. It is stated in the Augsburg/a Gazette that the Prussian Government has given the Polish emigrants permission to prolong their stay in the province of Posen, until they have terminated their affairs, those at least. relating to their pro perty. As the Government has not named the period at which the emigrants must be ready to quit the province, hopes are entertained that they will be allowed to remain in definitely provided they be quiet and av o id a ll p o li t i ca l mat ters. Tbis happy. result is in a great degree attributed to the intervention of the Countess Kwiteika, who repaired to Berlin to intercede with the King in favour of her unfortunate countrymen. MAW AND POLICE. At the Liverpool assizes, William Taylor, a respectable• looking elderly man, was indicted for uttering, at Oldham, on the 20th of September; a bill of exchange for 221/. 145., drawn on John Brown, and purported to be accepted by him,.know ing that the said acceptance was forged. The prisoner, it appeared, carried on business for some years at Saddleworth. He had been unfortunate, and had twice failed, on the second occasion for the sum of 20,0001.; he was again, however, able to establish himself in business. The charge was fully proved, and the jury returned a verdict of guilty. Sentence deferred. The Chester assizes commenced on Monday. The calendar is more than usually light, there being only forty-one cases, and only one in which loss of life•has been the consequence of crime. Mr. Justice Maule did not take his seat till a late hour, being seriously indisposed. At the Uxbridge Petty Sessions on Tuesday, a person of respectable appearance. who gave his name and address as Joseph-White Simmons, living in the Vauxhall-road, was brought up in the custody of Inspector Otway, A division, before Sir W. S. - AViseman, Bart., and Mr. T. Dagnall, the sitting magistrates, on a charge of having knowingly uttered a forged bill of exchange for the value of 2001. Two parties proved the forgeries, and he was fully committed to Newgate. At Worship-street two young girls, who gave their names Amelia Walker and Rosa Abel, both of them wretchedly ragged and dirty, were placed at the bar before Mr. Bingham, upon a charge of stripping a child, named Thomas Hillier Dawson, of his clothes and boots. Mr. Bingham remanded them for a week. • Three young men, named William and Robert Hurtaway, brothers, arid George Reeves, were brought up for final ex amination upon charges of uttering counterfeit coin. Mr. Powell, the solicitor to the Mint, recognised Wm. Hurtaway as having been recently charged with a similar offence. All the John pr Smith i s on e r were and committedn r O d w wai d Carter rial. placed at the felons' l bar, before Mr. Henry, at , Lambeth-street, on the double charge of forgery and felony. The charge of felony was that of stealing a time-piece and other property from a school in which the prisoner Smith had been a teacher in September last, and no mofal doubt existed of his (Smith's) guilt. The charge of forgery consisted in the fact of the prisoner Smith having written a note in the name of his sister, who had been formerly known to that gen tl eman as a highly respect able person, to Mr. Barlow, inclosing a note of hand payable at a short date, and requesting cash for it. The bill was a forgery. The prisoner Carter had carried the note. Both prisoners were remanded, but Carter was admitted to bail. , Thomas Holmes Gummer, Wm. Estell, Thomas Pritchard, Wm. Wedge, and Eliza Burling, were finally examined, at the same office, on a charge of being concerned in a burglary and extensive robbery of cigars, from the premises of Mr. Johnson, a cigar manufacturer, in Gloucester -street, Commer .cial-road East. Gummer was fully committed for trial, and the others discharged. COVlLT—rAsszorcanzz. Lord'Brougham, accompanied by Mr. H. Vane, passed through Folkestone on Saturday afternoon, en route to Paris. Lieutenant-General Baron de Stjerrierona, one of the most distingt!ished aides-de-camp of the late King of Slkeden, has arrived from Stockholm to present to her Majesty the Queen, the letters of notification of the demise of King Charles John, and the ascension of King Oscar I. to the thrones of Sweden and Norway. He is accompanied as an aide-de camp by Baron Charles Bjornstjerna, an officer in the Swedish Horse Guards, and the eldest son of General Count Bjornst- jerna, the Swedish. Minister at this Court. The Countess of • Erroll and Lady Agnes Hay returned to Clarges-street, en Monday, on a visit to Lord and Lady Ida Campdin, •,at•Barham Court, near Maidstone. The Earl and Countess and family are expected to leave town at the close of the month, for Slane Castle, near Peterhead, North Britain, where a grand fete to the tenantry will be given, and other rejoicings, in honour of Lord Kilmarnock coming of age. The Duke and Duchess of Montrose arrived at Belvoir Castle, on Friday last, from Selby Hall, Northamptonshire. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort left the seat of the Duke of putland on Monday last for the hunting lodge of the Earl of Wilton, at Melton Mowbray. The Marquis of Lansdowne intends to pass the Easter holi days at Richmond. The Marchioness and Lady Louisa Fitz maurice are gone to Bowood Park for a few days, and then they join the. Noble Lord at his villa on the banks of the Thames. , The Earl and Countess of Shelburne intend to pass the Easter recess at Richmond. The Earl and Countess of Sefton leave Croxteth Park on the 14th instant for Belgrave-square. The Earl and Countess of Powis and the Ladies Herbert leave Powii C i astle about the 15th instant for town. _ The Countess Dowager of Sefton and the Ladies Molyneux leave Boyle Farm in the course of next week for town. Viscount Clive has left Berkeley-square for Powis Castle. The Bishop elect of Newfoundland (the Rev. E. Field) will leave London for his distant diocese early in the next month. The Hon. Ara : Dawson Darner and the Misses Dan son Darner have arrived at Gainsborough House, Cavendish square, for the season, from Milton Abbey. Sir Philip Grey Egerton, Bart., M.P., has taken a house in Eaton-plaCe for the season. " • DRISCIEZMANEOUS. Both Houses of Parliament, last night, adjourned for the Easter recess—the Lords till Tuesday, April 16 ; and the Commons till Monday, April 15. On Tuesday the third spring meeting of the Horticultural Society, at the. Exhibition-rooms, in Regent-street, was fully and fashionably attended. Mr R. S. Solly, V.P., F.R.S., took the chair, supported by. the Right Hon. the Earl of Auckland, Right 11On. Sturges Bourne, M.P., Sir Augustus Foster, Sir Richard Joddrell, Captain Davis, R.N., Dr. Hen .derson, Professor Lindley. The exhibition stands contained a large variety of plants in full bloom and cultivation. • • On Monday a large meeting of the Repeal Association took place in Dublin, when some interesting proceedings, took place, which we have reported elsewhere. , The rent for the' week was announced to be above 9.00/., including 6001. from New York., . In 1698 the first printing press was erected in Manchester.; in 1844 there are, it is -estimated, Upwards of 500. • The Belfast banks have reduced the interest on. local paper to 4i- per cent., and on English to 3i. The interest on deposits now on hand will be reduced to 2 per cent. on and after the Ist of July. The Provincial Bank of Ireland has reduced the rate of interest on deposits - to 1i per cent. A man charged with the murder of Mr. Waller and Miss Vereker, at Finnee, escaped" from - Nenagh gaol on Friday morning. • • Another capital conviction has been had at Nenagh, before Mr. Justice Ball, in the case of John Hickey, indicted with Others for conspiring to murder Michael Hanley (who was actually murdered). The evidence was clear and decisive. The motive for this crime was the desire to obtain ground. ROYAL THAMES YACHT l aim.—Last erening the general meeting of the•members of this Club, for the trans action of the annual business, was held at the British 'Hotel, Cockspur-street..,!Shortly before nine o'clock the chair was taken by the Commodore (W. H. Harrison, Esq.), Who having opened the proceedings in the usual manner, the former minutes were read by the Secretary, and confirmed. The Sailing Committee were next appointed, after which a dis cussion took place regarding the course to be adopted with reference to defaulting members. • From the auditors' report it appeared that the total receipts were, including sub scribers' entrances, - -5991. 12s. Bd.. Deducting the total ex penditure, with the sums paid for prizes, cups, &c., a balance of 179/. 17s. sd. remained with the treasurer. A list of the yachts entered was then read. It appears that no less than eighty-eight have been named, including those of the Mar quis of Anglesea, the Earl of Fitzharding, Lord Wharnclffe, Lord Alfred Paget, M.P., Lord de Ros, Sir William Russell, Sir Bellingham Graham, Hon. H. Upton, Hon. Augustus Berkeley, T. M. Gibson, Esq., M.P., Captain Erle, Captain Armstrong, Delme Ratcliffe, &c., &c. the first match of the season will take place towards the close of May next, under the usual arrangements. Several gentlemen having been balloted for, were admitted mem b ers o f th e club. It ap pears that it is intended to give several valuable prizes for contention next season, together with two, of the value of 501. each, two 25/. each, and the challenge cup (to be won two years in succession by the same yacht), value 100 guineas. Under all these circumstances, the lovers of yachting may rely on a most brilliant season. . TESTIMONIAL TO ROWLAND HILL.—At the grand Fancy Ball at Liverpool on Monday last, one of the most interesting characters personated was that of Mr. Birch, of Grove-street, as 'lowland Hill, in a sort of light Roman dress; the front of it,- from', the neck to the wai s t, b e i ng encased in penny and twopenny postage stamps, with, un • derneath, embroidered on the belt, the words, " My heart was in it," and the endorsement of this part of the dress being as follows : • • • . • • • • • • -•- - " LETTERS FOR THE MILLION." Froni Temple-bar to Piccadilly, ld.; From London-bridge to Londonderry, Id. ; From Land's End to Jobn-o'-Groat's, ld. ; Done by me. ROWLAND HILL." .—Shrewsbuy Orcmkle, Consols have reached within a + per cent, of par this morning, but they are now a shade lower. Not much business has, however, been done. It was generally ex pected early in the (lay that the Commissioners would have to give par for the amount of stock they have usu ally taken of late, so buoyant did the market look. Those functionaries, however, took 30,0001. Consuls at 98g. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents, have been sold at an improvement to 103, and Bank Stock at 2011. In the premium upon Exchequer bills scarcely any alteration has taken place. India Stock for the opening has been quoted at 294. A large amount of business has been transacted in the Foreign Stock market this morning. Spanish Five per Cents. have realised 274 g ; the 'Three per Cents., 381 1 ; the Passive, 7i ; and the Deferr e d, 16g. Th e French Five per ents. are worth 121 f. 50c., the ex change being given at 25f. 70c. Duteh Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are up t o 604 / ; t h e Fi ve per C ents. to 99 g i- ; Mexican to 37+ g ; Portuguese Converted 46 4 1 1 ; and' Colombian, ex Venezuela, to 16k. Brazil Stock is now at 20+. The desire to speculate in the Foreign Stocks is evidently on the increase. The Railway Share market is on the rise. The Bir mingham and Gloucester, the Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings. the Edinburgh and Glasgow, the Lancaster and Carlisle, the South Western, and the Manchester and Birmingham, all improved in value. London and Westminster Bank shares have rallied to 5 prem. ; Na tional Bank of Ireland to 3/ disc. ; and Union of Aus tralia to 1 prem. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (Front the Official List.) 3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities 9 954% New 3% per Cent. Annuities 102%.503 Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860..... ..... Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. 1860 India Bonds,l,ooo — Ditto under 1,000 B7 Bank Stock for Account ...... .............. Consols for Account India Stock 29 499 Exchequer Bills, I%d. I%d 1,0001. Ditto Small 73 pm. FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCI%. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto for the Account. SO Columbian Bonds. l6 Mexican Bonds, 1837,5 per Cent. .... 37 37% Ditto for the Account Ditto Deferred Stock. Portuguese Bonds ' 46 5 per Cent. - Ditto Converted Ditto for the Account Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840 2 7 34% Ditto for the Account 714 3 Ditto Passive Bonds. Ditto Deferred 15% ' 16% • Ditto Three per Cent. Ditto for the Account. Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent — Ditto Deferred French Re ntes , 5 per Cent Dutch 23 4 per Cents . t t Ditto tor the Account. 6O Dutch 5 per Cents New Loan 1837, 5 per Cents. 99% PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE Birmingham and Gloucester Bristol and Exeter...-. ............. . 70 72 Bristol and Gloucester 3O ......... 48 Caledonian Dublin and Cashel ... 2% 5%% "' to Eastern Counties Ditto New Registered.... Al. 6s. Ad. Ditto Perpetual 5 per eent l3s. 4d. ... 1,4 Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O .. ... 65 Great Western Ditto x Shares Grand Junction 100 Ditto % Shares Lancaster and Carlisle 5 ......... 7%% ... to 8 London and Brighton ... ......... London and Birming ham . _ London and South Western ...... 41% Ditto Eighths - Manchester and Birmingham ... % ..... -.. 4934 Midland Counties lOO --, to Ditto Fifths 2 ......... 334 North British ' 234 Norwich and Brandon 7%U... to -. Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 18 Paris and Orleans ............ ....... . 20 Paris and Rouen ,4 % ... to .... Rouen and Havre. .......„ ..... 8 '.' •ttio. tO .... South Eastern and Dover Strasburg and Basle ... ..... ...... "14 - York and North Midland ......... 50 122 .... ... to Ditto Scarboro' Branch .. •...... .. Yll --•.i JOINT STOCK BANKS. 254 •••• 3i••• to London and Westminster 2O 2.5 to MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 2.—We have had a good market to-day for most shares, and a fair amount of business has been done :—Dublin and Drogheda, 71; Dublin and Cashel, 6 ; Eastern Counties, 11; Ditto New Registered, 13i ; Ditto Perpetual, 1/. 13s. 4d. ; Grand Junction Half shares, 116 ; Lancaster and Carlisle, 8i ; Manchester and Birmingham, 484 to 49i t ; Manchester, Bury, and Bosseu dale, 7i ; Sheffield and Manchester, 704 ;Preston and IN'yre, 12i ; Soutit-Eastern 54 to j ; Union Bank, 8i ; Hud dersfield Canal, 174.. , SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) MANCHESTER BETTING.—TUESDAY. TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES. sto 2 agst The Ugly Buck—t. 16 to 1 agst Wadastra c. 6 to 1 agst Keeley CHESTER CUP. 20 to •1 agst Bramble '22 to 1 agst Merry Andrew--t. ;25 to 1 agst Vak ee l-- ta k en 25 to 1 agst Sir Robert—laid I once . 35 td. 1 agst Haitoo 40 to 1 agst What —offers to t. 11 to 1 agst Pharaoh • 13 to 1 agst Pagan 14 to 1 agst Cattonite 18 to 1 agst Alice Hawthorn —taken • 20 to 1 agst Jamie Forest 20 to 1 agst HOoton 20 to 1 agst Red Deer Say.' '3O to 1 agst lonian • . '35 to 1 agst Campanero 40 to'l agat: Biy MorauS the sister to Grey Mornus c)—t. 40 to 1 agstikkbar—taken 50 toJ.agst Telemachus 6 to 1 agst Rattan 64 to 1 agst Ugly Buck— take 7 to 1 15 to 1 agst Orlando—taken 18 to 1 agst Running Rein 22 to 1 agst Cockamaroo 25 to 1 agst T'Auld Squire— i offered I 'No offers for the Oaks. NORTHUMBERLAND_, AND ,DURHAti STEEPLE - • CHASE' EN'TRY.—Timnstimr. Mr. V. Surtee's' Ariel—Mr. It. -Hoyle's Middlehana—ML W. Greenwell's Byron—Mr. 11. W:FenWick's Kitten—Capt. De Salis's Tommy—Lord Killeen's brother to Binks the Bag mangy-Captain Shewell's Rival—Mr. Cookson's' Charles O'Malley—Mr. Thbmpion's Tanner—Mr. T. 'Butler's Albert —Mr. Headlam's - CrefiTELL-Mr. Salkeld's Little Devil— Mr. Lamb's Maria PeksianiL-Mr. Waring's Creeping Molly —Mr. Yea's Safeguard—Mr. Wood's Moonraker—Mr. Moun sey's Sir—Mr: Dixon's Foxhunter—Mr. D. Cookson's Rufui —Mr. Foster's Nubian—Mr. Clavering's Man Friday—Mr. W. J. Johnstone's Donald Cair:(l---and . Mi. R. Crawford's Blucher. AOUTHAM STEEPLE CHASES.---TUESDAY. Sweepstakes of 20 sous. each with 100 added. Mr. Jenkins's Lyeurgus, llst 31b . . ............. . ..... (Owner) 1 Mr. Green's Vanguard, I2st ..................................... 2 Crawford's The Returned, list Sib ................ 3 Mr. Ekin's Blue Pill, lOst 31b Mr. Tilbury's Tom Tug, lOst Mr. Inman's Marston, lOst 31b ..... ............ . ............ 6' Mr. Conolly's Shamrock; lOst 31b ............ . ... 7 Sweepstakes of3.sovs. each, .and 30 added. Three miles. Mr. Tilbury's Duprez .. . ....................... (Mason) . 1 Mr. Birch's Dandy... Little Robert, Waverley, Refuse, The Monk, Perfection, Shakespeare, No Doubt, and Caroline, also started. The third sweepstakes of 3 sovs, each, with 10 added, lOst each, two miles, was won by Mr. Grindle's Ace of Diamonds (Parker), beating Discord, Langollan, and Principe. Killed— Discord, who was • running the winner in, fell at the dis tance, and was ridden over by some farmers and much hurt. FINCHLEY ,STEEPLE C HASE , 4uEsnAy. • • , Sweepstakes of 3 s ous . each.-11st 71b. Mr. A. Dixon's Ragman - - .. . ....................... Mr. B. Land's F a ith ... ............. .. Several old coins bave been found near the sea shore, close to a field called Cae'r Henblas, near Bangor, Canarvonshire. They are inscribed ftherang hyb; on the re , erne, Civit as L on d o n ; others have Bristol on the reverse. They evidently belong to the reign of Edward 1. and are probably some of the grea t co i nage which he issued in 1279, being therefore 565 years old.—Shrewsbury Chl The Bush coach-office, in Bristol wher ronic e an. exten sive business has been carr i e d on for, we believe, more than a century, has this week closed, hi obedience to the . giant power of steam,i' and the absorption of its business in the great vortex of railway monopoly. We hear that it is pro bable the premises will be occupied by the Branch Bank of England.--Fx/ix Farley's Bristol Journal.- •• - - "' - BENEVOLENCE.—A few minutes after the election of pensioners on Monday for the City of London General Pension Society, the secretary received 5/. in an anonymous letter, desiring that it might be given to the highest tome cessful candidate. MOVE Y AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. • The Cotton Market at Liverpool, yesterday, was very dull : sales, 2,000 bale;, of which 500 were on specula tion. There was no change in prices. The Share market was brisk for French, Dover, and the minor lines. Birmingham and Gloucester, 911; Chester .ani Holyhead, 71 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 65; Grand Junction, 232 ; Great Western, Half, 701 ; C a l e d on i an, 6 1 1 ; Dublin and Cashel. 54 ; Birmingham, Quarter, 281; North British, 31.35. ; Paris and Ly ons , 2. 15s. to 2/.145.; Ditto and Orleans, 361, to ; South Eastern, 36. -• The commercial advices received from Merida, Cam peachy, notices the fact that the Government of Yucatan had issued a decree establishing an entrepot for imported goods at that place. As British trade is increasing in that direction, it may be of use to give the details. The following are the provisions of the decree " Art. Ist. A mercantile depot is to be established in the port of Campeachy, where all goods may be stored for one year, without being liable to duty, on .paying two per cent. for storage, which two per cent. is payable within thirty days after the goods are enterect " 2d. Goods or merchandise taken from the depot before the end of a 3 ear, for exportation, are not subject to either State or municipal duty. " 3d. Goods or merchandise taken from the depot for the State market, or which have remained a whole year in the depot, will pay both State and municipal duty. _" 4th. Provisions, pitch, and inflammable stuffs, empty vessels of every description, and naval stores, are prohi bited from being stored in the depOt. " sth. The government of the depot will be adminis tered by officers appointed by the State." The supplies of timber from Canapeaehy are at pre sent short in the Markets of London and Liverpool, at feast as far as respects good-sized logs of mahogany. The timber trade generally is good fur select samples. The advices from St. Petersburgh relative to the brack of tallow, and the probable supplies, state that the latter cannot be estimated with any certainty, but the opinion wag that it would fall short of those of last year. The reason for this belief is that in consequence of the abun dance of grain and fodder, the proprietors of stock were not compelled to slaughter. The business of the London market was another inducement to keep back supplies. The Russian merchants at St: Petersburgh were of opi.: nion that prices would be kept Up. Speculation was on the increase. Difficulties exist as to the legality of mixing -chicory in 'the coffee. 'About two years since, an order was issued by the Excise department; as we are told, permit ting the addition, but now it is asserted that such a -course of proceeding is illegal. The Treasury, it is to be hoped, will consider the subject, so .that something definite may be known upon the subject, which is of general importance to the mass of the people, who 'buy coffee generally in a ground state, not having. mills of their own. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-('r HIS DAY.) • LoNnoN, Amur, 3.—Wind this day a t noon , light • Southerly airs and line. DEAL, APRIL S.E. to S.S.W., light airs.—Arrd. Wkendlandt, Hamburgh for Matanzas ; Alwi na , H au ib u igh: • for Buenos Ayres. Shl. 'Gleaner, Quebec;. Grace Darling, , Madeira; Hollander, Boston. • • • OFF Du,NGENEss, Aram 2.—Georgiana, St. Helena for Rotterdam. PouTsmounr, Amur, 2.—Wind S.E. to W.S.W.—SId. Wei lington, New York; Royalist, Quebec. FALmouTrr, Amur, 2.—Wind variable and light.-51d.f:i Alchymist, Quebec. OFF PENZANCE, APRIL I.—Wilhelndua Lucia, Carst, Pas- . saryuang for Amsterdam. JERSEY, 11Ltucll 31.—Sid. Dolphin, and C. R. C.; Nor' . foundland ; Johnny, Labrador. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 2.—Wind variable and moderate.-- Arrd. Hebe, Wright, Savannah ; Atlantic, Mallett, Cabota, Hepburn, and Peter Hattrick. Nast, New York.. Put back Sarah Fleming, for Angia Pequina, bore up from lat. 40, very leaky. Off, Glenbervie, Charleston ; Archduke, —. 51d- - William Prowse, China; Ellen Jenkiuson, and Havannahl Packet, Africa ; Maly Jane, Prince Edward's Island ; Eliia bath, I3uctush ; Syria, Quebec ; Promise, Montreal ; Quebec Packet, Newfoundland; England, New York. CORK, MARC!! 31.—Ski. Dale Park, POrt Phillip. HULL, APRIL I.—Sld Humber, Miramichi ; Sao% Elizabeth, and SatMa, Quebec. April 2.—Ross and Aurora. ditto ; Lord Mulgrave and Endymion, Miramichi. Arrd- Plutus, Aymar, New York. SHIELDS, Minot 31, AND Aruir, Siniapore, . Harvey,. Mayflower, Lord Brougham, Mary Hudson, Cana- • tion, Christiana, Gazelle, and Canada, Quebec. SUNDERLAND, APRIL I.—Sld. Employ, Bathurst. NEWPORT, Kuten 30.—Sid. Anna, Riehmond Quebec. April I.—Volusia, St. Thomas; Inconstant, Phila delphia. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) . CORN-EXCHANGE—WEDNESDAY. •• . Although the supply of English Wheat was again but . moderate, the sale for that article was in a very depressed ~ state, and Monday's quotations were ba re ly supported. Bo th, , free and bonded Foreign Wheats were a heavy. sale, and had .'.-. a downward tendency. The best Malting Barley was kali at full prices, but grinding and diitilling sorts were extremely ~," heavy. In all other grain not the slightest variation; ixas noticed. • ARRIVALS. - ' • • • • • Wheat. Bailey. Oats. Fleur. . Engligh 1,910 qrs. 250 qrs. 800 qrs., 888 sac ks, .• Irish.. , _. Foreign . 2,10 --;••• - 811 • ..-- .. ••.' alt, 770 qrs. . - • . • • 1 ____ WHITZCHALPEZ. , • We had only a moderate supply of meat, yet the general demand was heavy, on the following terms :—Beef.from 29 2d to 3s 4d ; Mutton, 2s 4d to 3s ; Lamb, 5s 2d t o 6 s 2d; Veal, 3s' 4d to 4S 2d; and Pork, 2s 4d to 4s 2d pertilbs. • DUELLING. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—There appears to be, an inclination in Eng- ' lishmen at the present moment to put a stop to the wicked practice of duelling. This feeling is manifest in all the speeches in. the late debate in the House Commons, and yet lam sorry to find that no Bill' appears likely to be brought forward.that will effec tually stop this degrading practic&—degrading, in the' highest degree, to a people strongly attached to their religion and laws. instead of boasting of the stite. of society in this enlightened age, we ought to, be shocked at it, if we are told that an officer in her . Majesty's army or navy, or indeed any Mall i n the' rank of a gentleman, is obliged to settle a , dispute with his neighbour by taking his life ‘ We are told that gentlemen are obliged to resort to this foolish praetioe, though strongly opposed to it, e‘nd that there is no other means of settling their disputes in a. manner that will enabl e th em to k eep their places in „ society. Let us see what this honour is really worth 'that must be kept by pistol-law. I believe there are many men in this country--gentlemen by birth-and , education—that could not hit a man once in a thou- • sand shots at the gentlemanly distance these gentle men duellists stand from each other. Some of the professors of the art, I have no doubt, would hit their • man three times out of five. To place a man who scarcely ever saw a duelling-pistol before one of these dead shots, as they are called, is - the most unfair and. unmanly thing that human invention can devise. Ifr duelling is to be the only gentlemanly way of settling a dispute, let every scion of these gentlemen be taught the use of the pistol at school, or by his private tutor. We should then be enabled to ree,ognise something like fairness and fairplay, which, we are told, is the boast of Englishmen. If travelling tin- kers, rogues, and vagabonds, would but resort to .this duelling for six months, we 'should hear no more of it in society, where it ought to be scorned as an unsia tisfactpry and unchristian-like mode of settling (Es' pates. J. 11. Warwiolt. • ' • EXECUTIONS IN SPAIN. A letter from Orihuela of the 16th inst., published in the Ministerial Castellano, gives the following radditiotga executions:— " The day before yesterday seven Of those whO an active part in the rebellion were shot at Meant. Ity:4 said that up to fifty are to suffer this terrible punishment, imposed by the Military Commission, and that: Morf, than 200 will be s en t t o t h e presidios" (put, tO,hard labour). " Others have al so b een s h ot i n their respective', parishes." The above seven, not including the " others" shot art ; not kept account of, amounts already to 50 since -thi siege of Alicant began, viz. : , At Aledy, Februa r y 3, ' At Alicant, March 8, : . . . ....... . ... At Ali Cant, Montefbrte, and Concenteina, March_ 12, 13, -- and - 1 - 6 - . 4' At Gallicia,• • March 12 At Bardelona, March - " " , At Orihaelai.March 14 ' • " •` 150 Besides two Women sentenced on the 18th attareelo , o42_ , / to two and s i x years ' hard labour reipectiielY; for being privy to their hushand'a treasons and not informfwg against them I - - • • - 1. In addition to the 65 iti'dividuals deilotinced at Alicatv:l . a few days since by .cleneral Roncali, the Madrid Miinisr terial jortrnals publish alist of , 39, otihers; all of wltota are sought for to suffets the.penalty of high treason; slid': similar denunciations of being pasados: por arm as'- (shot) are levelled at all who may secrete them 1 • - • • THE Dtrrda , ImOmt-TAx.---We hare weeii /ed ! Dutch papers of the Ist instant; from which • t•--. 4 '• an extract :—" TII HAptal, agreeable ,re. port that he loan is complete, and that therfa t .Pro the extra" ordinary ax will n o t' b e r e qu i re d , i s sprread here, andl generally 13elieved.' But it seems that th"ofilcifil notice Cs el not be expected before to-morrow." ' • • 314 - cHttNics' INSTITUTION, SOTYTILIMPTO IQEI7II.P' 1..x.G5.---Last night Mr. Wilson gave 9lie of hii,hrghly popular • enteitainnients on the Songs of Sebtland; the„theatre. of the InstitultiOn, ilie - pioCeeds of -- Which- were generously de-, voted by him to its .funds,..ol4. being. the. place where Mr. Wilson lira was called on to display his talents as au illuStia tor of national song. The evening passed off with, great Ortrijel'lreriilaste°rntabirieinrint,hlthee,CPeltreenidt :117c4tereoseantdo?tpliirant"' .e k h r th th u e si e asin nd Mr., Wil s on , in.;the name of the-Society; for his servitea:*P4 the occasion,' and presented Iti•rn witlyttlper on Whiell..was beautifully written "the resolution t o .COnimittee, making hire ; an henOrl,ry menitleF. of :ii ,. i.lnstitution. 1 Mr. 'Wilson, iii returning thanks for the. honour conferred onlim•;said that ~ six years ago, whenke first gavehis - Lectnre's - there; , expected that they wo u ld h ave met With• such abunda n t su e , - cess everywhere, and: that th e cirCninetauce,shOuld open-up him a new tithe of life, which he found both pleasant•and pro fitable: • The profitatle part, he said, had roused the envy of • several of , is professional• brethren, - and all over the country • , he, had ho s'of imitatOrs;• who - did net : scruple t o take, his • titles and cpy billa'*almust literally in word and forin t '` He read a ill which had been sent to-him-from Portsmaithr announcin thatsnine person, stylinghimSelf - from' the Nan lity's Cone rts in London, WoUld give Nicht wi' Burns" ' there to-in rrdiv evening, and next. Monday would give his ,• , "popular" entertainment. of • 9 .The Adventures of Prince:, Charles," &c., a literal copy of "Mr. ' ; amuses' the!audience by recounting several of the tricks of his imitator, som e - o f ;whom had even tak en hi s name. One • who had ben purloining Mr. Wilsbn's titles, "A Night "wi' • Burn s ," and " The Adventures of Prince Charles,' in the • • North of England; had gone away without " remembering"' to •".: pay some of his ac coun t s , w h en Mr. Wilson was waited uponi - on his arrival in the town, and asked if he had any objection, to pay then, as the person had been giving the same enter- • -- tainments, and Mr. Wilson had, no doubt, som e thi ng t o d o in' • the business: M r . Wilson finished the evening's entertain- , ment by singing Burns's glorious song of "A' Ain's man • for a' that, and was loudly Cheered on his retiring. UORTICiTLTURALSOCIETY OF - L ONDON.— Y ester - day the members held. their. third spring.meeting, at : the ex hibition rooms in Regent-street ; Mr. Solly, in the !" - chair. Prestnt the Countess of Buckingham, Countess` Da Salis, Hon: 1 milylfitig,"Hon. Miss Eden, 'Lady:Mary Stan ley, Lady Foster, Lady . Banburi, Lord Auckland, Mr. • Sturges Bourne, Sir 'Augustus }osier, Sir R. Joddrelli Captain Davis, R.NI, Professor Lindley, Dr. Henderson, and others., The • Duke of DeVonahire, 'President of the Society, exhibit e d some . specimens •of Dendra. , , • bium, with clusters of, orange-coloured aromatic flowers, cultivated at Chatsworth, - but originally' brbugbt over from the Indies. ' IVIr. Pole :presented a' cucum ber of 21i inches in length. ' Sir Edivard Antrobue• seine Calcepla r i a , an d Mrs. Lawrence Orchidaceous plants. Among the novelties was a plant called Phycella•Cloacra, • . brought over to this country originally 'by Humboldt, and a ',,' ) ; ;;., 4 ° A 1, 1 i curious plant called' Pilate's Nightcap, a large concave' -` shaped flower; identical with that described by Humboldt inz his travels as being gathered. by children in Peru, and used, in summer as decorative caps or head-dresses. 'A new ?Pe"' cies of garden-Wall of slate was exhibited, and *gold medals" were awarded to Mrs. Lawrence) and the Duke of Devon- shire's gardenir. The total ;amtnintiV of rain, as observed' in the Society's g ar d ens at Chiswick from March 19 to April 2. is estimated at 0.19 inches. THE LAST OF THE ROYAL GEORGE'S CREvr.-7-4 1 - fe* days since died, at •Morden College, 'Blackheath, Mr. Webb, one of the last, if not the Only, surviving officer who held rank on board this unfortunate ship, with the exception of Admiral Sir Philip:Durham. At the time Of this unfortu nate calamity the late Mr. Webb, : who was a, niidshipman , , had a narrow e sca p e f ro th t h e fate which awaited.hundreds o f his less fortunate companions. 'lie was one of a heat's' crew : who had permission to go on - shore under the of a lieutenant. Th e b oat had rowed off some;, :®, when a brother midshipman. reqUesteXthat b@ mightreerar.w . as he had forgotten 111 dirk. The lieutenant aqede,cl.lT, request, and the midshipman wilsrpnt do b6ard "hilt, longer than the irascible lieutenant desired," he, io.re' chide. 4 ,lo% , for the - crew to row away, the :boat, Which' hadlscar,cebrAt.l,d • out of the re ac h o f .the whjrlpoolicaused by-the-W6364)0e, s" before the ill-fated vessel capsized. Mr. Webb,, who never ranked higher than a lieutenant, quitted the nary to embark in mercantile pursuits, and so became qualifred to pass the latter portion of his days under this hospitable root: He was very eccentric in his habits, and although upwards of ninety years of ag e (t wenty of which he had spent in this asylum), he retained his faculties unimpaired until the y last. i ~l O.~p . ~ . • I d plaerrehetol-1. in erery one o'oo, On the O'Brien, Mr. 0 , beginnin g reserve t the A . , 0 Sum of ( Ye s w the .Assn Warded t .The in lir. read to tl correspoi of C4arlc then rea, "MvL which - in effort in tl takd the 'I hav7 union Mr. then, poi, Imperial ight be Ireland di Whai more so ii pre?ent as import now (if v public) a: persuasio. meat in 1 "it is ture was strain ipf stood thaw legislate thus be lo ger, thi g "Some taentous s laid before Majesty h enclose a- , " you will 1) as w ay 8 may occur should of the conter "Bet