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AMERICAN LIFE. Just ready, in 3 vols., post Bvo., JONATHAN SHARP; OR, THE ADVENTURES OF A RENTUCKIA2 4 I. Written by Himself. Henry Co'burn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. A NEW ,A.1 4 1D GREATLY IMPROVED ED ITION OF MISS ACTON'S MODERN COOKERY, price 73. 6d., is now ready. London: Dingman, Brown, Green, and Longman. ------iIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. y 14 Is resp,ec y announeed that the celebrated SYMPHONIE ODE of the D ERT. by FELICIEN DAVID, will be repeated THIS EVEN G APRIL 21, Preceded by a Grand Miscellaneous, Vocal, Orchestral, and Choral Selection from the most classical Composers, including Mozart, Weber, Mendlessohn, Gluck, Beethoven, ste., and supported by nearly all the Distinguished Artistes of this Establishment. The Orchestra and Chorusses will include upwards of 200 Per formers, the whole under the direction of Sig. Costa. PART I. —Sinibnia in C Minor—Beethoven.—Aria "Chi faro," Mdlle. Brambilla—Gluck. Aria, " Les Hirondelles," Signor Moriani—David. Aria, " Non pin andrai," Sig. Lablache, and Chorus (" Nozze di Figaro")—Mozart. Aria, " Non mi dir," Ma dame Anaide Castellan—Mozart. Duo, "La Dove prende arnor ricetto" (Flauto Magico) Mdlle. Rosetti and Sig. F. Lablache—Mozart. Chorus, " La Carita"—Rossini. PART ll.—The Desert. The solo parts by Sig. Morianl. PROGRAMME OF THE DESERT. Part I.—Entrance to the Desert. Gloriffaation of Allah ; grand chorus and orchestra—Arrival of the C s an—Departure of the Caravan—Tempest in the Desert — Return of the Calm—The Caravan resumes its march. Part ll.—Night. The Evenkg Star—Halt of the Caravan—Hymn to the Night : air sung by Signor Moriani—Arabian Fantasia—The Dance of the Alves—The Liberty of the Desert : grand chorus with orchestra — Evening reverie : melody sung by Signor Moriani, with chorus and orchestral aecompaniments—Sleep ! Part lll.—Sun-rise. Call of the Meezzin; original Arabian melody, with the Arabic words—The Caravan starts once more on its journey—The Cara van gradually disappears in the distance; grand chorus and orches tra—Silence in the Desert—The Song of Thanksgiving—Allah. Grand chores final. Doors open at Half-past Seven ;to commence at Eight. Boxes, Two, Three, and Four Guineas each, may be had on appli cation at the Box-office, Opera Colonnade. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. TO-MORROW EVENING Will be performed Bellini's celebrated, Opera, entitled LA SON NAMBULA. Amina, Madame A. Castellan. The Danseuses Viennoises (under the direction of Madame Jo sephine) will appear in some of their favourite Pas. After winch, the highly successful Divertissement, entitled KAYA ; on, L'Amour Voyageur. The Music composed and arranged by Signor Pupil, and comprising Themes from the Norwegian Melo dies. The Principal Dances composed and arranged by M. Perrot; those of the Danseuses Viennoises by Madame Josephine Weiss. Kaye, Mademoiselle Lucille Grahn ; L'Amour, Fraulein Fanny Pragher ; Herman, M. Gosselln ; Knud, M. Perrot. To conclude with Selections from the Ballet of EOLINE. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Pit Tickets to be made at the Opera-otlice, Colonnade, Haymarket. Doors open at Half-past Seven o'clock ;to commence at Eight. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public are respectfUlly I formed, that these will be an Extra Night (not included in the übscriptlon), ON THURSDAY NEXT, APRIL 24, When will be performed Itossini's Opera IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA. Rosina, Madame Grisi ; Bertha, Mdlle. Bellini ; Il Conte d'Almaviva, Sig. Mario ; Bartolo, aig. Lablache ; Basllio, Sig. F. Lablache ; Figaro, Sig. Fornasari. The Danseuses Viennoises will appear in some of their Favourite Pas. With Other Entertainments, in which the most distinguished Artistes of the Establishment will appear. In the course of the Evening the celebrated Spanish Dancer, Dona Manuelea Perea, known as La Nena, and the celebrated Bolero Dancer, Don Felix Garcia, will appear in various of the Na tional Pas of Spain. With the New Ballet Divertissement of KAYA ; on, L'Amour Voyageur. Kays, Millie. Lucille Grahn ; Knud, M. Perrot. And other Entertainments, in which will appear all the Artistes of the Ballet. tpplications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box office, Opera Colonnade. Doors open at Seven ;to commence at Half-past Seven o,Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE. THIS EVENING Will be performed THE BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR. Edgar, by M. Duprez ; Colonel Henry Ashton, Mr. Burdini ; Arthur, Mr. Barker ; Raymond, Mr. Webs ; Norman, Mr. H. Horncastle ; Lucy Ashton, Madame Eugenie Garcia. Atter which will be repeated, a New Comic Ballet, entitled ROBERT AND BERTRAND. Dances in the course of the Ballet : - • Pas de Deux, by Mdlles. Adele and Louise. A New Polka, by Mdlle. Polin and M. Gasperini. Bolero, by Mesdames Louise and Adele. La Lltuana Pas Seul, by Mdlle. Polin. A MAZURKA, by the Principal Ballet Performers. Le Sevillianne, Spanish Dance, Mdlle. Pulin and M. Gasperinl. The Box-office is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six in the /Welling, where Private d Family Boxes, Stall, laces, and Tickets may be had on applicatio an n to Mr. John Parsons.s THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. Mr. JOHN PARSONS (Box -book-keeper) must respectfully an nounces that HIS BENEFIT will take place on THURSDAY, MAY Ist, when will be performed a POPULAR OPERA, A GRAND DIVERTISSE3IENT, and a Variety of ENTERTAINMENTS, full particulars of which will be speedily published. Dress Circle, 7s ; Boxes, 5s ; Pit, 3; Gallery, 2s ; tipper Gallery, Is. Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets, may be obtained of Mr. John Par !tons, at the Box-office of the Theatre. THEATRE LOYAL, HAYMARKET. LESSEE, MR. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING Nit hs pueited a New • and Original Comedy, entitled THE THE COUNTY. Principal Characters by Messrs. W. larran ,S&ickland, Bnckstone, Webster, Mrs. Glover, Mrs. W. Clifford, Mrs. Ilumby, Miss Julia Bennett, &c. After which, a New Grand Classical Extravaganza, entitled THE GOLDEN t'LEECE. Principal Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, J. Bland, Madame Vestris, and Miss P. Horton. To conclude with YOUNG ENGLAND. Major Martinet, Mr. Strickland ; Mr. John James Pooley, Mr. Buckstone ; Mrs. Pooley, Mrs. Hamby; Mrs. Smiler, Mrs. Stanley THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Last Three Nights of TILE SHERIFF OF THE COUNTY—This Evening, Wednesday, and Thursday. OLD HEADS AND YOUNG HEARTS To-morrow and Friday. On Wednesday (Shakspeare's Birthday), after THE GOLDEN FLEECE., a Grand Tableau Vivant, representing Shakspeare in kis Study surrounded by the principal Characters from his Plays. RAILRO ADS FOR EVER o J Thursday. J. T. ARCHER, Box Book-keeper. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI JJNDEIt THE DIRF.CTIOS OEVENING F MADAME CELERTF. THIS in he repeated a New and Original Drama, entitled THE G.tE EN 13 t, SUES ; or, A Hundred Years Ago. Connor O'Kennedy, Mr. Selby ; Lleorge, Mr. Hudson : Wild Murtogh, Mr. 0. Smith ; N:uster Grimaidge, Mr. Wright; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Bedford; Geraldine, Mrs. Yates ; Nelly O'Neill, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; Miami, fib:dame Celeste. After which, will be repeated a New Grand Empirical Exposition, galled ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON. Principal Characters by Messrs, Paul Bedford, Wright, John Saunders Selby; Miss Woolgar, Miss Ilrooks, and Miss E. Chaplin. Toconclude with MOTHER AND CHILD ARE DOING WELL. Mr. Snugsby, Mr. Lambert ; Lieutenant O'Scupper, R.N., Mr. Paul Bedford ; Mr. Felix Fluffy, Mr. Wright ; Emily, Miss Fortescue. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, MR. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, Will be performed Sheridan Knowles' Play of THE HUNCH• BACK. Master Walter, Mr. Wallack ; Sir Thomas Clifford, Mr. Leigh Murray ; Lord Tinsel, Mr. W. Lacy ; Modus, Mr. Compton ; Julia, Miss Cushman ; lielen, Mrs. Stirling. To be followed by a New Farce, called WHO'S THE PAPA ? Mr. Peter Bottle, Mr. Compton ; Mrs. Grubworm, Mrs. Fosbroke. To conclude with GONE TO TEXAS. Mr. Swellington, Mr. Walter Lacey. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. Unparalleled success of the New Grand Burlesque—lrresistible Fun in " On Duty." THIS EVENING Will be repeated a NeW Original Drama, to be called ON DUTY. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Vining, F. Mathews, and Keeley ; Miss Villars, Mrs. Woollidge, and Miss Grove. To be followed by a New Drama, entitled THE DRUNKARD'S GLASS. Principal Characters by Messrs. Diddear, Emery, Meadows; Turner, Miss Dawson, Mrs. Wigan, and Mrs. Woollidge. To conclude with a Burlesque of English History, Pourtraying Olden Ideas and Modern Notions—lnvested with all the Pomp and Display of Scene—Painters engaged expressly—Costumes according to Fancy—Mechanism, Ballet, Music, and Novel Stage Arrange ments—to be called, WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT I Dick Whittington, Mrs. Keeley ; Muley Moloch, the Lien Tamer of the Dessert, Mr. Keeley ; the Cat, Mr. Collier, supported by Messrs. F. Matthews, and Wigan ; Miss Fairbrother, and Miss Grove. The Box-office is open daily, under the direction of Mr. Grogan from Ten till Four. ST. JAMES'S THIS EATRE.--FRE NG NCH PLAYS. EV I Will be performed LA SUITE D'UN BAL MASQUE. Madame de Belmont, 3fdlle. Plessy. After which, LA TANTE MAL GARDEE. Anatole, Monsieur Ravel. To be followed by the favourite Comedy of LE BOUQUE I' DE BAL. Clara, Mdlle. Plessy. To conclude with RUE DE LA LUNE. Chevillard, Mona. Ravel. Boxes, 6s. • Pit, 3s. 6d. i., Amphitheatre, 3s. ; Gallery, 2 s. Doors will be opened at Seven o clock, and the Performances commence at Half-past. Boxes and Stalls may be secured at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33 ,Old Bond-street ; and at the Box-office of the Theatre, which is pea Daily, from Eleven till Five. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. SOIREES MYSTERIEUSES. It is tespectihily announced, that the celebrated MONSIEUR PHILLIPPE, of the Theatre Bonne Nouvelle, Paris, whose extra ordinary Experiments have created universal astonishment, is en gaged to present a short series of his SOIREES MYSTERIEUSES at the ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, which will be commenced on TUESDAY, the 29th of APRIL, and be continued, for a short period only, every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Full particulars will be duly announced. Boxes and places may be secured at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street; and at the Box-office of the Theatre, which is open daily, from Eleven till Five. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. PROPRIETOR, MR. W. BATTY. Unparalleled Success of Mr. White's Trained Animals ; last week of their Performance in London. THIS EVENING The Performances will commence with a Grand Military Equestrian Urania, entitled THE MAID OF SARAGOSSA; or, The Spanish Amazons, Entire Change of the Scenes in the Circle. An arrangement has been made with Mr. White (the celebrated Lion Tamer), who will appear TIIIS EVENING, and exhibit his Wondertlit Feats with his unrivalled collection of Lions, Tigers, Leopards, Panthers, &c. To conclude with an Admired Farce. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. r consequence of the immense sensation created by the Feats of Mr. Canfield, the Am er i can Samson, he will repeat hi s Herculean Feats every Evening. - THIS Will be performed RICHARD THE EVENING THIRD. In which Messrs. Hughes, Dlrs. Daly, &c., will perform, After which, THE GAME COCK OF THE WILDERNESS. Samson Hardhead, Mr. Marble. To be followed by the Extraordinary Feats of the American Sampson. To conclude with THE WATERMAN. Place* and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box. Mike. from Eleven to Four. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be repeated MARGARET CATCHPOLE, The Female Horse stealer. Onega and Pechuana (Red Chieftains), Messrs. Cony and Blanchard ; Margaret eatchpole, Miss Vincent. After which, I:OCHINV.Ift ; in, The Bride of Netherby. Lochin var, Mr. H. Howard ; James the Sixth, Mr. J. T. Johnson ; Lord Netherby, Mr. Dale ; Mysie, Miss E. Terry. To conclude with NAPOLEON ; or, The Deserter and his Dog. in whl^h MeS3TS. Coney and Blanchard and their celebrated Dog Hector will perform LICENSED VICTUALLERS' PROTECTION SOCIETY. At a special meeting of the Committee of the above Society, held at the Office, New Bridge-street, on Friday the 18th instant, Mr. L. Jones in the chair, the following sums were awarded :—To Jesse Connor, 7. 69, and Samuel Hockaday, L 178, one guinea as a reward, and an extra guinea as a gratuity, for the vigilance and ac tivity they displayed in detecting mid apprehending John Murphy and Edward Sullivan, for burglariously entering the house of Mr. Pitcher, St. George's Tavern, Lambeth-road, at three o'clock in the morning, and stealing therefrom a musical snuffbox, and other property, for which they were sentenced to two years' imprison ment. To Wm. Kealy one guinea, for apprehending Robert Holmes, for robbing Mr. Bathe, Spanish Patriot, Lower Marsh, Lambeth, of a pewter pot, and a spirit funnel. To Thomas Ludd, L 12, and another man one guinea, for detecting and apprehend ing Richard Perkins, for robbing Mr. Smith, Angel, Webber-street, New-cut, of a pewter pot. And to William Whales, servant to Mr. Dickson, Worcester Arms, George.street, Portman-square, half.a-gitinea, for detecting W illiam Thompson, in robbing his employer of a glass. At the same meeting it was unanimously agreed that the annual excursic n should take p!ace on Tuesday the 15th day of July ascii NOTTINGHAM and BOSTON RAILWAY, 47% MILES LONG, CONNECTING THE CAPITAL OF THE MIDLAND COUNTIES WITH THE NEAREST SEAPORT. A Detailed Prospectus will be issued in a few days, containing a List of the Provisional Committee, which contains the names of all the most influential gentlemen residing in Boston and Nottingham. In the meantime communications to be addressed to Messrs. Hopkins and Rice, the Solicitors to the Nottingham and Boston Railway Company. Boston, April 19, 1845. THE WEATHER-SUN OFFICE, APRIL 21. THEUMOMETER, Lowest, 38 ; Highest, 61; Noon, 58. BAROMETER, 30.18.—WIND, E. NOTE.—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 •• 58 minutes after 0 I Evening .. 18 minutes after 1. s, 00 . u • mA g --- QFi V Vi k r ` _ —4llllk 41016 p,,. 04',41 : • w - •4r . m y , • g inning LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1845. Trade, to which we were among the first to direct public attention, are becoming, every day, more palpable and more serious. But let us note, in passing, how extensively prejudicial ad ministrative defects in that Board—superadded to the customary alternations of ruinous delay and still more fatal hurry produced by the technical forms of " pri vate business," as it is called, and the interruptions we have alluded to of even their halting action— must prove to the extensive community and vast ca pital embarked in railway constructions; and these evils, thus aggravated, inevitably re-act on the proper discharge of the public business. If the legislation on railway Bills has been hitherto so slovenly and im perfect, owing to the mass of preliminary details in each case to be brought under the cognizance and opinion of Parliament, and the impossibility of doing justice either to them or to the measures of the executive and financial departments of the State, in consideration of whose exigencies they are so often slurred over or delayed—what may we not anticipate of the amount of embarrassment and prejudice likely to be experienced from the vast increase of railway Bills now pending in Parliament, and coming before it, not in that more organised and perfect form of in ception, which it was the object of this Board's creation to communicate to them, in order to econo mise the time of both Houses, but in a condition the very reverse of this. Lord Howicic (himself a perfect master of official business) remarked that a certain omission, in laying a promised report before the House of Commons, " was only another example of the system of carelessness which, from first to last, had characterised the fiscal business of that depart ment." We do not remember, in the case of a young " Board," to have heard so severe a censure passed in either House of Parliament ; and we greatly fear that it is too well merited. In addition to the objections we have before urged to the constitution of this Railway Board, which we deny that it was competent to the Lords of Privy Council of the Board of Trade, by virtue of their own " minute,"—exmero motu, as it were, originally to create so empowered—to its assumption of original functions hitherto permitted only to the Queen's Courts at Westminster, and to its exercise of a spe cies of equitable jurisdiction, which it is marvellous to find wholly unexcepted to by the vigilant legal acumen of the House of Lords,—we have now to urge those which have been so strongly_enforced in the House. The House will do well, dismissing all party feeling in the matter (and to say truth, it is not easy to understand how such feeling can be in fused into it), to discuss Mr. DUNCOMBE'S motion on the subject of this anomalous Commission or Board with all care and deliberation. Its object involves considerations of the most extensive and profound im portance to the public, and in an espccial degree to parties interested in railway undertakings. The Board seems equally overwhelmed by the magnitude of its powers and extent of the business they are to be applied to, by the incapacity or " carelessness" of some of its members, as much as by the extravagant grasp of its delegated jurisdiction. Bank of France •••• 3250 ..3255 ..3251 ..3255 Gouin Bank, I,ooof Shares-1110 ..1110 ..1107 50 ..1110 Belgian Fives, 1940•- •• •• 102% .. 102% .. 102% .. 102% Four-and-a-Half lOl% .. 101% .. 101% .. 101% Two-and-a-Half 62 30 .. 62 30 .. 62 30 .. 62 30 Spanish Threes•••• •• •• •• 42 .. 42 .. 42 .. 42 Active . • • • • • • • • • • • 40% • • 403 .. 40 • . 40 la Passive • • • • • • • • • 7% •• .. 7% .. 7% Portuguese Five per Cents•• 67 .. 67 .. 67 .• 67 Roman .•• •• •• •• •• •• 107% 107% .. 107% 10751 The whole British empire, India and the Colonies in luded, does not furnish such important and difficult topics of discussion as Ireland alone. Independent of jarring in terests, caused by the mode in which English dominion in that country was obtained, and her sway continued, the Irish Established Church is sufficient, of itself, to cause an annual debate, which must increase every year in in tensity till the anomaly is finally removed. The appro priation clause, the Maynooth establishment, the pay ment of the Catholic clergy, and a variety of other elements of disunion, all spring out of a grievance which is every day more felt, and which is with out a parallel in the history of Europe. This evening, on the motion that the House resolve itself into a Committee upon the appropriation to be made from the Consolidated Fund for the College of Maynooth, Mr. WARD is to move—" That it is the opinion of the House that any provision to be made for the purposes of the present Bill ought to be taken from the funds already applicable to Ecclesiastical purposes in Ireland." This is a rational proposition, and, if carried into effect, would make the grant to Maynooth even more popular than it is with the whole of the Catholic population; but we see no prospect whatever that such a just, necessary, and decisive measure will be adopted for many years to come. When the list of the division is made out some curious transpositions of names will ap • pear. Sir R. INGLIS'S party, of course, will retain their original position, but the supporters of Sir R. PEEL'S scheme must change sides, and separate themselves from the Whigs ar.d Liberals vs ho noted with them on Saturday morning. Then what is to become of those Members who oppose the grant on religious grounds, and especially on the ground that there should be no endowment at all for any church establishment ? To he consistent they must still cling to the skirts of Sir R. INGLIS, for they cannot, according to principle, vote any money in support of an idolatrous faith, or of any faith whatever. The result, of course, cannot for a moment be doubtful, and the motion of Mr. WARD, unless it had been preceded by one of a more practicable character, would only have added another insult to the Irish people, and made them despair of justice from the Imperial Par liament. Thanks to the upright conduct, the sound judg ment, and the wise policy of the statesmen of all parties, this great calamity has been averted, and one of the main grounds for a repeal of the union has been undermined. True, it is hope deferred—but : still there is hope, the last consolation of the wretched— and from the manly, statesmanlike, and conciliatory speech of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, as well as the discreet silence of Sir ROBERT PEEL, on Friday night, Ireland, and the friends of Ireland, may reckon with" certainty that the days of that unsightly fabric, so injurious to We have accounts from Madrid to the 13th inst. The Chamber of Deputies was still engaged in discussing the estimates, most of which had been passed with little opposition. A letter from CORTINA, who is in France, was read, in which he called upon the Chamber to de cide on his return as Minister for Salamanca, and if pronounced good he would present hina3elf and take his scat. The letter was referred to a Committee. On the 12th the Three per Cents. closed at 35 11-16 at 60 Ways; the Five per Cents. at 251 for cash, and 25i at 60 days ; and the Debt without Interest at 9 at 60 days. BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) • There were no 'notions of any interest this morning, (Sittings at Nisi Prius.) JENNINGS V. HADDOCK THE ELDER. The Paris papers state that M. GUIZOT was seizes with sudden illness on Saturday. It was not, however, of long continuance, as appears fromthe following notice in the Messayer of that evening:—" The Minister of Foreign Affairs was this morning seized with a slight indisposition, a sharp pain suddenly rising in the region of the liver, which yielded promptly to some slight re medies." In the Chamber of Deputies the Savings Banks Bill was passed by a majority of 207 to 35. One of the clauses enacts that the total amount of deposits by one individual shall not exceed 1,500 f., but may be allowed to accumulate with interest to 2,000 f. (801.). The interest is to remain the same, and also the time of giving notice of withdrawal of deposits. Several of the journals are still occupied with the Maynooth question- One of them, the Presse, has an article on the disputes between England and America, and evidently would rejoice if the English Government should be embar rassed with Irish discontent should a war take place. France, it says, would profit by a war. "We learn," says that journal, " from a certain source that the British squadron recently fitted out at Portsmouth, and placed under the orders of Admiral SEYMOUR, is in tended to act in the Pacific Ocean. The principal ob ject of this expedition is to be ready, in case of a rup ture between Great Britain and the United States, to occupy, militarily, the ports and important positions of the Oregon, and to capture the numerous Ame rican merchantmen and whalers. We are far from desiring a war, but it becomes us to examine carefully the various chances which either party has of success, although we would almost dare to affirm that Great Britain will yield, as she has always done, in presence of the menacing attitude of her rival. But it is an historical fact that every time Great Britain has yielded to America some advantage has accrued to France. The treaty of 1783, by which the Cabinet of St. James recognised the independence of the United States, caused us to recover the possession of Senegal, delivered us from an English Commissioner residing at Dunkirk, and restored to Spain, our ally, the Floridas and Port Mahon, which Great Britain retained nearly a century. We trust that the example of the treaty of Washington in 1842 will equally bear its fruits." We hope the anticipations of the Presse will be disappointed, and conciliation will yet make Ireland the best friend of Great Britain. The same paper makes the following remarks on the opposition to the grant:— " Imagine that in Ireland, where it is proposed that a poor College shall receive 27,000/. sterling to educate the clergy destined to instruct 8,000,000 Catholics, there are twelve Protestant bishops receiving for themselves alone 70,000/., and not having the tenth part of the population to direct. The Presbyterian Church likewise receives a consi derahle subsidy. Both are gorged with the property taken— stolen, we shall add—from the Catholic clergy, and they utter exclamations sufficient to unsettle the three kingdoms to their foundation, because a miserable shadow of restitution is granted to the Catholics ! Once more we assert that such a proceeeding is a disgrace to England." The National thus contrasts the policy of Sir ROBERT PEEL and M. GUIZOT, or, rather, that of the " Chateau :" " Sir Robert Peel knows the men whom he leads, and he is well aware that with the haughty aristocracy, to which he does not belong, and on whom he has been imposed by his merit and his experience, there is no medium between domination and servitude. He must either be the master of the Tories or their instrument. Sir Robert Peel has too good an opi nion of himself to submit to the humiliating position of a servant, or even to the secondary position of a counsellor. He is the chief, and he leads his party with rare boldness. But to what point is he conducting them ? Into a course new to the defenders of all the prejudices of birth, of religion, and of privilege. He has compelled those men to place their hands on what they ought to have religiously respected. He has loaded property with an income-tax. He has op posed to the absolute spirit of prohibition a vast reform of ta riffs. He has impoverished the agricultural interests by a mo dification of the corn-laws. He is now placing his foot in the sanctuary; and, notwithstanding the exclamations against Popery and idolatry, he is about to endow a Catholic semi nary largely, after having treated officially with the Roman Catholic Bishops of Ireland for the execution of the Religious Bequests Bill. When the period arrives at which parties are to be extinguished there always appears an indispensable statesman who himself undertakes to dig the trench in which worn-out institutions and exhausted ideas are to find their final sleep. Thus affairs pass in a country where statesmen know how to prepare pacific changes. In France it is dif ferent. A systematic immobility appears to preside over all the acts of the Government. The party which calls itself Conservative traces round it a circle which is not to be crossed. Inclosed in a species of lazaretto, it neither feels the movement of the flood which rises, nor the pressure of facts, nor the permanent action of ideas. Nevertheless a re sistance is formed. Disaffection is engendered by contempt, the latter will one day give place to anger, and a final mo ment will arrive when the Conservatives, who refused to re new some worn-out furniture, will find themselves invaded by a force, too long suppressed, which will throw the entire household and furniture out of the window." The Minister of Public Works had presented to the Chamber of Deputies Bills authorising the adjudication of the railways from Paris to Strasbourg, and from Tours to Nantes. The maximum of the leases to be granted is fixad as follows :—For the Paris and Strasbourg Railway forty-five years, and for the Tours and Nantes Railway thirty-five years. The Committee of the Chamber, appointed to examine the Northern Railroad Bill, had reduced from forty-five to twenty five years the dura tion of the lease, and the security to be deposited by the Company from 30,000,000 f. to 15,000,000 f. The intelligence from Swi'zerland is not satisfactory. The Const:ttitionnel says, the demand of Lucerne, made in the Diet on the 16th, for an indemnity led to an ani mated debate, which ended in a rejection, six votes only appearing for the indemnity. All steps to induce that canton to grant an amnesty would, it was said , fail , un less by mone y. y The Diet adjourned without fixing a day for discussing the propositions of the com mission. Protestantism , and such a source of endless bitterness— the Church of Orangemen—are numbered ; and, if not swept from the country, it will speedily be so modified and curtailed, as to remove all just cause of com plaint. The work has already begun ; the principle of adapting the staff and chief officers of this Church-mili tant to the purposes for which it was intended, has already been admitted even by the most bigoted and obstinate member of the Cabinet, and when the principle is granted, and we have to deal with rational politicians, the details are of less consequence. Time, the in crease of liberal opinions—and, above all, the rapid change which has manifested itself among the rising generation of Consrrvatives—will yet complete this great work of justice and mercy. The prospects of Ireland never were so bright. Ste has brought over all the statesmen of the day to her side. She will yet be placed on a footing with Scotland, and, to the honour of her leaders, and the spirit of the age, she will, unlike Scotland, obtain her rights without sheddinz a drop of blood. The remarks which we hazarded at the commence ment of the Easter recess, on the evils arising from the accumulation of Parliamentary business, derive, we think, additional force from the protracted debate of last week ; and from the incidental animadversions elicited in the earlier period of the discussion, in the House of Commons, en Friday night, of the careless and unsatisfactory transaction of business by the Rail way Department of the Board of Trade. Under the present aspect of public affairs, and especially of our foreign relations, we feel increased anxiety to see the business of the Legislature return into the long-neg lected channels of orderly arrangement, digestion, and dispatch. The ordinary course of ordinary sessions is mischievous enough. We cannot too often repeat the fact, certified by the experience of all men connected with Parliamentary business, that of the most important questions, and the most useful Bills in troduced in any given session, a large proportion are indefinitely postponed, cushioned for the session, or passed into laws without a tithe of the investiga tion and mature discussion which they demand. The facilities afforded by the modern practice of Par liament for " dropping" orders, and the unbounded licence which modern Administrations exercise, of ad dressing requests to private or individual Members, to postpone the rotation of their respective notices, in favour of some Government or official business, are among the chief causes of that mischievous ac cumulation of Bills which results in their wholesale precipitation in the six weeks preceding a proroga tion. The "requests" we speak of have grown into an organised grievance, by reason of the little chance they run of being refused. It is suicidal policy to turn a deaf ear to the bland solicitations of a Chancellor of the Exchequer, or a Secretary of the Treasury, a Secretary for the Home Depart ment, or a Secretary to the Admiralty. In the first place, these Gentlemen have always the plausible pre text of the exigency of the business in their depart ments. In the second, if they are disposed to retort the tenacity of Mr. H. to-day, in refusing to allow the vote they desire to move to take precedence of his motion on the notice-paper,—Mr. IL runs a pretty certain risk of discovering to-morrow the art and mystery of Ministerial tactics, in the shape of a "no House," by withholding men from coming in before 4 o'clock, or the effect of less than 40 members being present, by a " counting out" of the House, or of " a whip" by the sudden filling of the house with a formidable detachment of members, who, not having heard one word of his speech, or of the discussion to which it has led, come down, on a preconcerted notice dispatched to them in all the quarters of the Metropolis—vote,throngh some extraordinary power of intuition, in favour of any hostile question that may be raised, off-hand, upon his original motion. This latter is thrown out, or thrown over, before he can imagine that two-thirds of the House have yet heard one word of the matter. It hss happened this session, according to the usual course, that a great proportion of the time of the Legislature has been al ready occupied in the labour of mooting amc>ndments on the legislation of last session; simply because Bills were then passed into law, in a condition too crude and defective not to came them to break down on the first attempt at practically administering them. Intheus of timeualcours which course, also, there might eht hasavebe beena en vast much ex pendituremore profitably appropriated, on the discussion of abstract principles and general questions, such as, to the thinking ofall practical men, after being once distinctly enunciated and fairly discussed, might h ave b een very much more speedily disposed of by vote, w ith results at last equally satisfactory with any that have been arrived at, after so many nights of bootless argument, subtracted from the term, too limited, that is yet available for the imperative demands upon it of the public service. From the observations of Lord HONVICK, Mr. DUNCOMBE, and Mr. AGLIONBY, On Friday night, we are compelled to infer that the defects of the Railway Department of the Board of E SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 21, 1845. RAILWAY SHARES. Versailles,• 560 .. 560 .. 550 .. 550 L. 13•••••• •••• 360 860 .. 355 .. 355 Ronen•• ••••—•••••••••••• 1120 . 1120 ..1110 —Edo Rouen to Havre••••••• ..... 937 50 .. 937 50 .. 935 •• 935 Orleans Strasburg to 8a1e.......... 320 •• 320 .. 315 .. 315 Avignon to Marseilles.• —lO5O ..1050 ..1040 . 1042 50 Bordeaux to Teste •••••••• 212 50 .. 21.2 50 .. 210 .. 211 25 RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, MAT 3. St. Germain ••• • • • •• •.1110 ..1120 ..1103 ..1105 Versailles, R. 8.... • • ••• • • 565 .. 566 .. 552 50 .. 552 SO L. 8.. .• •••• • • • • 360 .. 360 .. 352 50 .. 352 60 Rouen— •• •• •• •••• ••••••••1120 ..1125 ..1110 ..1110 Rouen to Havre. •••••• • • • • 940 942 50 930 .. 930 Orleans. • • Strasburg to Bale ••••• • • • • • 320 .. 325 .. 315 315 Avignon to Marseilles •• • ...1050 ..1055 .. 1040 .. 1042 50 THIS DAY'S NEWS. Mr. V. Lee for the plaintiff, Mr. Petersdorff for the defendant. This was an action brought to recover an amount of 301. on an acceptance granted under the following circumstances : —The defendants son, a publisher in North Wellington street, required pecuniary assistance in his business to the above amount, and his father accepted a bill for 301. This an attorney of the name of Coles, in Holborn, undertook to ge discounted. After the lapse of a few days Coles gave the de fendant's son a note to a Mr. Dipple, also a publisher in Holywell-street, who advanced 101. upon the collateral secu rity of the acceptance, which was to remain in Mr. Coles' hands. A second advance of 10/. was afterwards made by the same gentleman. The defendant subsequently paid back to Mr. Dipple 41. and 51. of goods, leaving a balance standing of 11/. Mr. Coles afterwards negotiated the bill with Mr. Jennings, the plaintiff in the action, who is the manager of a loan society in Farringdon-street, and Mr. Jennings applied to the defendant when it became due for payment. The action was defended on the plea that the bill was to remain only as a security, and that no instructions were given that it should be negotiated. On cross-examination of the defendant's son, it appeared that he had been indebted to Mr. Coles in some former transactions, and that he had instructed him to negotiate the bill in question ; to settle with Mr. Dipple, and pay himself with the balance. _ Mr. Justice COLERIDGE said the defendant had not the shadow of a case, and a verdict was retained for the plaintiff, with costs. BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner SHEPHERD.) IN RE JOHN CONNOR. This insolvent, who had been in the green-grocery and coal trade, in the Edgware-road, came up this morning for his final order. He was opposed by ➢Lr. Walsh, on behalf of the creditors, on the ground that several articles had either not been given up to the official assignee, or not set forth in the schedule. The articles referred to were a pony and small cart, a large van, and two account-books. Objection was also taken to an entry in the schedule, which described a large cart to have been sold in December, whereas it had not been sold until after the petition was filed. The large van was represented to have been pledged with a Mr. Pargiter, in Lambeth, for 30/., but on inquiry no such person could be found. A witness was called to prove that a large cart, answering to the one described in the schedule, was in the possession of the insolvent in February last. The insolvent (who was examined by Mr. LEwrs) said that the pony and cart had been taken away by his son at Greenwich fair, and he had not heard of him since. With respect to the large van, he did not know the number of the street where Mr. Pargiter lived, but he had no doubt he could take any messenger from the official assignee to the party, and establish the fact. He was also willing to deliver up the books required, though he did not think they were of any consequence. The large cart alleged to have been seen in the possession of the insolvent in February was a borrowed one, somewhat like the one sold in the December, and hence the supposition that it was the same one. Mr. Warsir called upon his Honour to adjourn the case sine die, as he considered the explanation altogether unsatis factory. He did not dispute the fact that the large van had been pawned for a sum of money, but he entertained the opinion that it was made away surreptitiously after the party was insolvent, to the injury of the creditors. His HONOUR, who was at first disposed to adjourn the case sine die, said he would give the insolvent another chance, and would fix the sth of May for another examination, to be at the expense of insolvent, and if the insolvent did not on that occasion give a better explanation of the matters re ferred to, lie should most certainly dismiss him without his final order. Mr. Walsh was instructed to give Mr. Lewis notice of what the insolvent would then be required to prove. Boulogne and Amiens:: 4 Bordeaux and Toulouse 2 Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette " SOUTHWARK.-(THIS DAY.) Robert Braley, a well-dressed man, blind of an eye, was charged with entering a room in the Masons' Arms, Horse monger- lane, and stealing several articles. Mr. Spence, the landlord of the above house, stated that on Saturday night, one of the servants having occasion to go up stairs, saw the prisoner in one of the bed rooms. Though alarmed at the circumstance, she did not make any outcry on seeing a stranger there, under the dread of his making an at tack on her. She, however, descended with all haste, and hav ing informed her master of the circumstance, he immediately went up, and, on entering the room, saw the prisoner sitting on the side of the bed. He had a bundle by his side, con taing various articles of dress, which he had taken out of a box in the room. He assumed to be intoxicated. The prisoner, in answer to the charge, said that he had no remembrance of what had happened, being so drunk ; that he was a coachmaker by trade, and, work being very slack in Glasgow, to which place he belonged, he came up to London, and, having met with some of his townsmen, they gave him so much drink that he did not know what he was about, and could not account for his being found in the situa tion described. Mr. TRAILL said that the prisoner gave such a very un satisfactory account of his proceedings, that he should re mand him until Friday. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. h es ol t e b d e u b l u l, a b in u e t aa w d it e h n o e u w t a aa ny li m mi a t t eti eri en al in ch p a a n r g ed e The sales of Cotton at Liverpool on Saturday were 5,000 bales, including 1,500 on speculation. The market was very 41. 41 . quiet, nptveheiti.e.cae6tAnsrs.ad.b-ne3ot,rlndadn.cte ; t h e S i noel Shares Birkenheadrecently,ailw aßailway, 5 ; b a u n t d pricesßarnsley Cheshirehj had no Junction, n t n e ,n Junction,nd tendency toc f9 y x i A d e Shares,- Darwen,Blackb Blackburn, Belfast and Ballymena%, Birmingham and Gloucester, New S B h l a a r e es k , bn 4 r y rt ; 13 Ctster and Birkenhead, ; 5 'Y Caledonian, 5/- lG 5' 12 6 7/ €l B . -; BBnulrntolne,y,saszl Accrington, 9% %; I C lv hest l e andHolyhead Dereham and Norwich, ' cs2a l / 2nl Bolton, bsr2i d ; A g V e i g Ditto,a a n n $l , a H n La d i l Li Le Shares, l v hn e a, r p r : is , 0 141 1 2 , 5; s ; 13% • Churnet Valley, 9% 9/. ls. 3d. • Clydesdale Junction 1 1 0 %4 % ; 11( Dublin;Cork a ns an d d ß N e v lf ri aa te t rf J o u rd n;et 3 i 4 ? , ; Dublin and Galway, 5% i; . .Dublin, lullingar, and Athlone, 3 1 ,‘ ; Dundalk and 'nniskillen, ,1%; Eastern Counties, 21 ; Ed i n b urg h and Glasgow, 63 %; Ditto, New Quarter Shares, 614 • Gl asgo w and Dumfries, 11. 4 s . • Grand Junction, 2271!/, ; Ditto, Half Shares, 11 3 i/ /2 111 ; Ditto, Quarter Sh are s, 56%; Ditto, New Quarte r Shares,44l/Q 3 / 4 • Ditto, Eighth Shares, 19 ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield: 6% ; :Great Southern and Western, 19% 20 ; Ditto Exten sion, 15% ; Great Western, Half Shares,loeie /2;Huddersfield Canal and Railway, 41. 18s. 9d. 4% •, Huddersfield and Sheffield, 8% ; Inverness and Elgin, 1% • , Lancaster and Preston, Three-quarter Shares, 33; Limerick and Waterford, 8% %; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 3% ; London derry an d E nn iskillen, 3i. 17s. 6d. 3 3 4 ; London and South- Western, New 501. Shares, 15%; London and York, 4 1 4 % ; Direct Northern, 4 1 / 2 ; Leeds and Thirsk, 4 5 / % ; LYnn an d Dereham, 3% I t ; Manchester an d Buxton, 5v2 ; Manches t er , Bury, and 9ssendale, 181/ h ; Manchester, Shef field, and Midland, 9% %; Midland ailway, 1581/, 158 ; Ditto, 40/. Shares, 19 1 4 ; Ditto, Fifth Shares, 4 ; Ditto, consolidated Birminghamand Derby, 120 ; % ; Newark and Sheffield, 6 Newcastle and Berwick, 16% • Newry and En niskillen, 1 51 / 8 ; North Union (A), 145; ' N or th Wales Minera l, 18 4 ; Ditto, New Shares, 6%; North Western , 5 % %; N orth Wales, 31 h%; Oxford and Birmingham Junction, 5 4%; Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 1/. 18s. ; Sheffield and Manchester, 125%; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 16%; Sheffield and Lincoln, 1%; Shiewsbury, Wolverhampton, and Birmingham, 4% ; wes ry Sh rews bury and Grand Ju nction, 6 % ; Shrewsbury, Os t'. , and Cheshire, 4 3 % 4/. 13s. 9d. ; South-Eastern and Dover, New Shares, No. 1, 16% ; Ditto, No. 2, 11; Ditto, No. 3, 8%; Scottish Central, 7% 7 ; Trent Valley, 19% 204 . Ditto, Extension, 5 6% ; West Yorkshire, 6 ; Wexford and Carlow, 4% %; Worcester and Tring, 54% ; Whitehaven and Furness, 31. le. 6d. 3/. Is. ; Central of France,l7 ; Lyons and Avignon (English), 2% ; Louvain and Jemeppe, eu ; Northern of France (English) , 5 % ; Ditto, Rosam'el's (English), 2 1 A ; Paris and Lyons (Ganneron's), 2% 21. 16s. ed. ; Ditto (Calon's), 2/. Is. 6d.; Paris and Orleans, 48%; Paris and St. Quentin, 2/. 13s. ed. 2% ; Verona and Ancona, a Is. There are accounts of the 9th January from Hobart Town, which advise very unfavourable weather for the crops, a material deficiency being fully anticipated. is _ From the tenor of the published accounts it feared that the mercantile letters from India will not advise an improve ment in the markets there, and this probably will have some effect in the manufacturing districts. . Consols, and There has been a further decline to-day in . he some on which although we attach but little weight to t . der it is grounded, viz., an apprehension of some mistin - standing with the United States, we _are not by any means o surprised at a reaction from another cause, viz., the have n r temptation of railway investments. Consols , - i b 8 for down to to 98% % for Money, and to 99 and t 8 former, count, and are now about 98% to 74 for one and 98% for the latter. The premium Ex he e quer.bill s h as b een s teady at 59s • t o 61s. N k and-a-Quarter per Cents. have bee n 10 Ito 1005 4 . Ban w Three- Stock has been firm at 210 to 210%. Reduced hree per Cents. have been 98 to 97%. by the declinein The Foreign Securities have been affected 1 Consols. Spa n i s h Fi v e per Cents. have receded to 30% 4; and the Three per Cents. to 40% Vt. Port9guese Converted iven way to 37 1 /,. Stock has been 66 1 %, %. Mexican have g . _ Columbian are 15% to 16. Dutch Four per Cents. bring 97%. There has been a good deal of busin ess doin g in Railway Shares, and, taking them generally, it may be said there is a disposition to sell, and that they rule lower. ONE PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. Bank Stock .. •••••• ••••"" 3 per Cent. Reduced ' 4 Dijon and Mulhouse ... 2 Great North. of France.. 4 - ---- ...... Do. do. (Rosamel's) 2 Great Paris and Lyons 2 ---- Lyons and Avignon 2 — Louvain and Jemeppe... 2 ... . 4 Orleans and Vierzon ... 2 ...... 1 5 4 1,6 Orleans and Bordeaux... 2 ...... 124 12 Paris & Lyons, Laflitte's , Paris and. Lyons, Gan neron's' ... .. ............ 2 Paris & L yons, (Caton's) 2 Paris and Strasbourg ... 2 Paris and Rouen 2O - ......... •••.. Royal North of Spain ... 2 Sambre and Meuse ~... 2 Tours and Nantes, Mac kenzie's 2 JOINT STOCK BANKS. CLOSING PRICES 216 1 / 2 97% 98% 'l3/ ~7 . , 3 per Cent. Consols ~.... ........... 99 9 . 8 ' All/ -- ~_ 100% 101 100 A is 11 °° 3 A New 3% per Cents 16 Long Annuities to expireJan. lB6o 11% 7-16 11 7 Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 •• • 1 11 11 114 Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 ... 11 11-16 % i 5/ s _ India Bonds, 1,000/.. 74 Ditto under 1,000/. •• • • 74 South Sea Stock ............ 96% Ditto Old Annuities ............ 96% Ditto New Annuities Consols for Account. •..... 99% 98 Ts 99 pin. 61 Exchequer Bill s , 1,0001., llhd. ... 5 9 61 Ditto 5001. Ditto Small .• 61 59 pm. 59 ONE CLOSING v oLocK. PRICES. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. c 44 Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent.. 44 16 Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela. 15% 16 98 3 ' Chiliau Bonds 6 per Cent..., • •••••• 37 q Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 — Ditto, Account 37 37% Ditto s Deferred Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent ... op Ditto, Converted. 6 6 1,6 65 3 / Ditto, Account 66 % 1 /2 66 Russian Bonds , „ ...... 117% Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Account Ditto, Passive Dilibe Deferred Ditto 3 per Cent. 4C Ditto Account Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent — Ditto, Deferred 14% 14 3 / 1 !Belgian Bonds, 4% per Cent — 101 3 Dutch, 2% per Cent Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 97% 97% PRICES OF PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK. CMSINa RAILWAY SHARES PRICES. Aberdeen Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush . 1% 2 3% 3 Birmin. and Gloucester. 100 Ditto % Shares Bristol and Exeter 7O Do. New .... . ......... 2 ...... St Caledonian Cambridge and Lincoln 1% Chester and Holyhead... 5 Chumet Valley Coventry, Bedworth, and Nuneaton l l /2 5 l /2 5 l /2 Coventry and Leicester 1 1 / 2 3 l /2 3 Cornwall ~ . 5% 1 4 . .... .. 5 1 Direct Northern Dublin and BelfastJunc 2% 11%A% Dublin, Belfast, and Coleraine Dublin and Galway 2%.. _.. 5%%% Dublin and Mullingar... 2% Eastern Counties Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1....51.135. 4d ll% Ditto ditto, N 0.2 l3s. 4d... Eastern Union l5 Ditto Extension Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 Ditto, New Quarters.. 2% 6%...... .. ..... Ely and Bedford Great South. and West (Ireland) Ditto Extension Great North of England..loo 20 13 3/ 202 ...... 202 Ditto New 2 24 % 3A 24 24 Great Western BO ......190 191 Ditto 1 ,4 Shares 5O 106% GDitto Fifths 20 — uildford, Fare'm,Ports. 2%..... 6% 6 Hull and Selby Ditto Quarter Shares 12% 2 31 % 1 / 2 .. ... 23% Do. Half Shares L ineaster and Carlisle... 20 London and Birminghm (Stock)... Do. New Thirds L lndon and Blackwell. 161.135. 4d. 98% 9% 8% 9 1 4 9% London and Brighton... 50 ...... 63 3 / 4 London and Croydon, 13/. 15s. 9d. 17% l 7 l/ London and S. Western 41/6210d 81 3 / 4 .. . . ..... Do. New London and York 2 1,6 3%%% 4 3 3 / Londonderry &Coleraine 2 A — Lynn and Ely Lynn and Dereham l% Manchester and Leeds... 73 Do. % Shares Midland 100 Do. New Midland,Birm.,Derby 100 Newcastle and Darling ton Junction 25 . 51 Do. New Brandling... 10 Newcastle and Berwick 1 1 / 2 l 5l Newry and Enniskillen. 2 1 / 2 ..... 4% Newark and SLeffield ... 1 1 ,4 6 % 1 /2 North British Do. New Northern and Eastern... 45 Do. Scrip • 30 North Wales Norwich and Brandon... 10 Do., New ... ..... ..... 1 Richmondand West End Junction Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1 Scottish Central Scottish Midland l%. 4% 1 A 4 l /2 Shrews., Wolverhamp., Dudley, and Birm 2 l /2 4 1 4%... 4 IA South Devon South Eastern & Dover 3312 s 4d... 41: Do., No. 1 8 Do., N 0.2. Do~ No. 3 7 3 % 7 l /2 Staines and Richmond-. 1 South Wales ..... -.... ... 2% 6 % 3 /4 6 14 Trent Valley 2 . 20% 2O Waterford and Kilkenny 1 ..,... 41 ... ..... Yarmouth and Norwich. 20 York and North Midland 50 lO4 Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 25 Do. Extension FRENCH RAILWAYS. 84 3 4 8 3 A 12 1 4 17% 9 3% 64% 7 3 Australasia - -- 40 British North American 50 .. ... 45% 4 S IA London & Westminster. 20 - Provincial of Ireland ... 25 MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE ' APRIL 19.—The sales are :—Birmingham and Gloucester, New Shares, 4% ' • Lan caster and Carlisle, 39 1 ,/ ; Manchester and Leeds, Sixteenth Shares, 7% ; Manchester and Birmingham, New Quarters, 5 13-16 pm. ; North British, New Shares, 5%; Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter Shares, 15%; South Eastern, 42% ex div. ; Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction, 9% %; Blackburn, Darwen ' and Bolton, 5 3 / ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 13 3 ,E ; Caledonian, 13 3 / 4 ; Clitheroe Junction, 414 1 % prem. ' • Direct Northern, 4 1 4 ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 14 ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, 6 1 ,4 ; Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and'Canal, 54 ; Hud dersfield and Sheffield Junction, 8%; Kendal and Winder mere, 5 7-16; Leeds and Thirsk 4%; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 34 ; London and York, 44 ; Lynn and Dere ham, 3% ' • Manchester and Buxton, 5% 5 ; Newark and Sheffield, 64 ; North Wales, 3% ; North Western, 54 % ; Scottish Central, 7% ; Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, 1/. Bs. ; Trent Valley, 20 19% ; Ditto, Continuation, 4% 3 / 4 prem. ; Whitehaven and Furness, 3% ; Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette, 2 3 ,rq ; Great Northam of France (English), ; Union Bank of Manchester, 10%. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.--(THIS DAY.) LONDON, APRIL 21.—Wind this day at noon, Northerly, fresh breeze, and fine. ''''DF,AL, APRIL 19.—Several oars, white blades, and some butter firkins, marked" Ostrfriesriscb, F.H., M. H., 42, H.G.G.," (Hanoverian horse), have been landed here from the galliot lost on the Goodwin Sands. oFF ST - % - ALBAN'S HEAD, Amu. 17.—Rebecca, Buenos Ayres for London. OFF THE WIGHT, APRIL 20.—Calcutta, Ross, Hobart Town, sailed Jan. 9, and Pernambuco 14th ult. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY CORN EXCHANGE-MONDAY As is almost invariably the case at this period of the year, the arrivals of English Wheat up to our market during the past week has been on a very moderate scale, yet the various parcels have come to hand in good saleable condition. Of English Barley, Malt, Beans, Peas, and Flour, the receipts have been small, but the aggregate supply of Oats has amounted to 50,000 quarters. Fresh up, only a limited quantity of Wheat of home produce came to band from Essex, Kent, Lincolnshire, and Cambridgeshire; hence the s how of samples of that descriptidn of Grain was small. The attendance of both town and country dealers being tolerably good, the finest qualities commanded a ready sale, at prices fully equal to those obtained on Mon day last. In all other kinds, a fair amount of business was, transacted at late rates, and a clearance was effected. From the whole of our grain districts our accounts relative to the young wheat plants are very favourable. The supply of fine foreign Wheat brought forward was comparatively small. Selected parcels were in fair request , and last week's prices were readily supported. All other kinds were in slow request. Bonded grain was heavy. Owing to the large imports of Barley the sale for that article was extremely inactive, at a further depression in the quotations of is per quarter. Malt. the supply of which was small, moved off slowly, yet we can notice no alteration in val ue . Notwith standing the large display of Oat samples a good business was doing, at prices about equal to those paid on this day se ' nn i g ht. Beans and Peas, owing to their scarcity, realized a trifle more money. The Flour trade was dull, yet the millers were firm. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE . Wheat—Essex & Kent, Malt—Chevalier •• • • 648 to 65s Red .•••• • • • • 38s to 45s Oats Yorkshire and Ditto, White ••• • • • 42s 548 Lincolnsh., Feed. 22s 23s Norfolk and Lin- Potatoe 243 25s coin, Red. —• • 38s 43s Youghall and Cork, Ditto, White . • 408 47s Black .. . Irish, Red Ditto, White .. —s -8 Scotch, Feed. • 22s 23e Rye—Old ••• • • • 308 34s Beans—Tick .••. • .. 34s 36s New. .. •. •. ••• • • • 35s 36s Pigeons 388 39s Barley—Grinding 23s 28s Pease—Grey . 348 36s Malting . •••• • • • 328 34s Maple 3ss 36s Chevalier •. .. •• • • 36s —s White . ....... . 33s 358 Malt—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers _ folk ...... ••• • • • 58s 63s Brown ... .•• • • • 56s 60s Kingston and Ware 60s —8 FOREIGN GRAIN A Wheat—Dantzie • • 32s to 36s Hamburgh ....... 30s —s Barley ..... 20s 24s Oats —New l9s 23s Feed ...... • 19s 22s SMITEPXELD• In the past week three steamers have arrived in the por of London, direct from Rotterdam, with live stock for our market--the Batavier bringing 47, the Giraffe 10, and the Columbine 8 Oxen and Cows, or a total of 65 head. Respect ing the quality of the above importations, we may observe that it has proved extremely good ; indeed finer beasts have not been received under the new tariff, for sale here than those which have reached us since this day se'nnight. The average weight of these animals has been about 116 stones (81b). The number on offer did not exceed 17, the other imports finding purchasers on Friday last, while they commanded a steady demand, at full prices. We doubt not • that every precaution is exercised at the Custom house to prevent the landing of diseased animals ; still. we are fully convinced that some of the Dutch beasts.- which were very badly on their feet—here this morning were suffering from the effects of the go-long-complained-of epi demic. As to those from our own districts, we ought to ob serve that large numbers of them were thus affected. Al though the supply of Beasts from our own counties was, the time of year considered, very moderate, and of middling quality, compared with that brought forward on some pre vious market days, the Beef trade (owing principally to the dead markets being rather heavily supplied) was by no means so active as many persons were led to expect. Still, however, the priinest Scots were in good request, at Flour—Town-made .• . 42s - s Suffolk ••••• • • • • • 33s 35s Stocktn 8c Nortblk 333 353 13 FLOUR IN BOND. Beans Pease • 28s 32s Flour—American .•• • • 19s —s Baltic ....... .... Ids —e THE BOURSE-SATuRDAY, APRIL 19. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price French Five per Cents..... 117 60 117 60 .. 117 50 .. 117 60 Three per Cents.... 85 95 .. 85 85 .. 85 85 85 85 Loan ••• • • • 86 40 86 50 .. 86 50 .. 86 50 fully last week's enhanced currencies, they moving off at from 4s to 4s 2d per 81bs ; but all other breeds hung heavily on hand, and some difficulty was experienced in effecting a clearance at late rates. The arrivals from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, embraced 1,900 Scots and Homebreds • while, from the Northern counties, we received 300 Short Horns, &c. ; from the Western and Midland districts, 350 Herefords, Runts, Devons, &c. ; from other parts of England, 300 of various breeds ; and, from Scotland, 180 horned and polled Scots. Nearly 400 store beasts have come to hand from Scotland in the week just concluded; but the number here to-day was small, though, in consequence of the shortness of grass, more than adequate to meet the wants of the few dealers in at tendance. Prices rule very low. The numbers of Sheep were rather limited, yet the Mutton trade was in a sluggish state, at prices barely equal to those paid on Monday last, yet the best old Down in the wool were taken at from 4s 4d to 4s 8d per 81bs. From the Isle of Wight 170 Lambs were received by the Southampton Rail way; while, from other parts, the receipts were moderately extensive. Prime Down Lambs sold steadily at from 5s to 6s; but other kinds were a dull sale, at barely stationary prices. The supply of Calves was rather limited, yet the Veal trade was dull, at Friday's depression of 2d per 81b. From Ireland we received 120 Pigs, the demand for which, as well as English breeds, was heavy, at barely late rates. Per Bibs. to sink the offal. s. d. s. d Inferior Beasts •• 2 8 3" 0 Second quality ditto 3 2 3 6 Prime large Oxen • 3. 8 310 Prime Scots . . Large coarse Calves 3 4 4 2 Prime small ditto •. 4 4 4 6 Suckling Calves, lB 0 29 0 Inferior Sheep SUPPLY A Beasts. I Sheep 2,722 23,700 s. d. to s. d. Second quality ditto 3 6 310 Coarse-woolledditto 4 0 4 2 Southdown Wethers 4 4 4 8 Ditto out of the wool 310 4 2 Large Hogs .• • • 3 0 3 6 Small Porkers .. .. 3 8 4 0 Quarter old Pigs • .16 0 19 0 Lambs .•. • • • 4 8 6 0 MARKET. Calves. Pigs. 112 309 NEWOATE AND LEA.DENNALL. The arrival of slaughtered Meat from Scotland, as wtll as from various distant parts of England (as will be seen by the annexed tabular statement) during the past week have been seasonably extensive, and of fair average quality ; while with meat killed in the metropolis we have been but mode rately supplied. On the whole the general demand was by no means so active as was that on this day se'nnight ; nevertheless prime Beef, Mutton, and Lamb were in steady request at full prices ; but otherwise the trade ruled dull, and previous rates were with difficulty supported. Nearly 400 carcases of Lamb have come to hand from Hampshire, Essex, &c., and sold at from 4s 10d to 5s 6d per 81bs ; while tan carcases of foreign Beasts, in good quality, have produced from 3s to 3s 9d per 81bs. At per stone, by the Carcase. 1. d. to s. d. a. d. to s. d. Beef, Inferior— ••-• 2 4 2 6 Mutton, Inferior 2 8 3 0 middling •.• . 2 8 210 mlddling•• 3 2 3 4 prime large •• 3 0 3 2 prime •••• 3 6 3 8 prime small 3 4 3 6 Pork, large ...... .. 210 3 6 Veal •••••• • • •• • ••• 3 4 4 4 small ..••• • • • 3 8 4 0 Lamb, 4s 8d to 6s. ARRIVALS DURING THE PAST WEEK. Beasts Sheep Calves Pigs. 20 495 430 30 680 600 15 100 100 10 110 120 12 200 85 15 300 90 200 30 400 120 300 6 90 100 180 14 180 90 200 20 200 100 300 Yorkshire ••• •.. Norfolk • . ..... ...........• •• .• Cambridgeshire • ..... ....• .• Essex ...... ..... ..........• • • Devonshire• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Wiltshire Otherparts .. Total •••• • • • • 171 2,755 500 2,515 Previous week's arrival 140 2,060 185 1,659 Difference since oar last ...... 31 695 315 856 110111017GN HOP ASH ET. For all kinds of Hops the demand since our last report has ruled somewhat inactive, but in prices we have no ma terial variation to notice. The continued easterly winds are considered by most parties as likely to prove injurious to the plant. Sussex pockets, 71 to 8/ 8s ; Choice ditto., 8/ 12s to 81 13s ; Kent, 71 to 91; superfine mid Kents, 91 93 to 131; superfine East ditto., 9/. 9s to 131; Yearlings, 71 to 8110 s. DOUOUGH AND SPITAILPZELDS Tne arrivals of Potatoes at the water-side continue large, especially from the northern districts ; owing to which the trade rules extremely dull, and the inferior parcels may be purchased on easier terms. WOOL WARM:MT. The imports of Wool in the port of London during the past week have been on a somewhat extensive scale, they having consisted of 320 bales from the Cape, 250 ditto from Bombay, 120 ditto from Hamburgb, 15 ditto from Moga dore, 135 ditto from Seville, 120 ditto from Gibraltar, 761 ditto from Sydney, and 400 ditto from various other quarters. No public sales are appointed, yet the demand by private contract is somewhat inactive at about previous currencies. TALLOW There is no change in this market since our last worth notice. Fine Y.C., in small parcels, on the spot, is rather above oar quotation, and for forward delivery, October to December, the price is 38s. Town Tallow is 38s to 38s 6d nett cash. ERRATA.—In our report of the proceedings of the House of Lords on Friday evening, the name of the Mar quis of Clanricarde was, in two instances, inadvertently sub stituted for that of the Marquis of Normanby. It was the Marquis of Normanby who brought in the Bill for giving the franchise to all persons paying the Property-tax, and it was the same Noble Marquis who gave notice on the subject of New South Wales. THE HOMCEOPATHIC SYSTEM.—On Friday last Mr. Wakley, M.P., held an inquest at the New Crown, St. Paul's terrace, Ball's-pond, Islington, on the body of Mr. Samuel Friend, aged fifty-seven, landlord of the above house. It appeared in evidence that deceased was found dead on the floor of his bed-room, on the afternoon of Tuesday last. Mrs. Berry, his housekeeper, said he had been ill for a conside rable period, and latterly had next to completely lost his appetite. A friend of his had taken him to consult Dr. Epps, for a week previous to his death—" And," added the witness, " I was very sorry to hear that he had been taken there." By the Coroner—He was only a week under Dr. Epps, and had no signs of death when he first went to con sult that doctor. The Coroner—What did Dr. Epps order him with regard to food ? Witness--A lamb chop, oysters, arrow-root, &c. The Coroner—That's not exactly the starving system. I held an inquest the other day ou the body of a homoeopathic patient, who had been for ten days kept upon water. On the eleventh day his doctor said he might have toast and water, but strictly forbade his eating the toast, lest.he should make blood too fast. On the twelfth day, as I suppose, a supreme treat—a great " blow out "—the homeopathic physician allowed his patient one spoonful of beef-tea.—(Laughter.) Mr. Jefferson, a surgeon, who for merly attended deceased, attributed his death to affection of the heart ; and having been shown some prescriptions, signed J. E., and some bottles of medicine made up according to them,the chief component part of which was "aqua pura ;"and being asked by the Coroner his opinion of" the mixture," he said it could not do any injury, nor could it cure any disease. The Coroner—Do homcepathic doctors take homeopathic fees, I wonder? Mr. Jefferson—l fancy not. It is a good thing that they cannot do any harm. The Coroner—Do you say so seriously? Suppose a patient was attacked with inflam mation, would homoeopathy do no harm then ? Mr. Jefferson —I should not like to try it. I would stop the progress of inflammation by active and proper medicines, not adminis tered in infinitessimal doses. The Coroner—To be sure. Well, all I can say is, that John Bull, with all his reputation for good common sense, is the greatest visionary in the world. A stubborn, stiff-necked bull, indeed ! Call him rather an inexhaustible, meek mulch-cow, for fattening every species of quack. The jury, thinking that disease of the heart, and not homoeopathy, caused the death of deceased, returned a verdict of " Natural Death." We regret to announce the indisposition of Viscount Melbourne, chiefly arising from an accident which befel his Lordship a few evenings since, on alighting from his carriage at the door of his mansion in South-street. The Noble Viscount, it appears, caught his foot in the folds of a cloak in which he was enveloped, the consequence being that he fell heavily upon the stone steps leading to the hall of the mansion. The whole of his Lordship's left side was very badly bruised by the fall, and we are sorry to learn the Noble Viscount has been confined to his bed ever since the accident. Prince Albert has called once personally on his Lordship. Mr. Anson has paid daily visits to South-street, on the part of her Majesty , and his Royal Highness, to make inquiries as to the Noble Viscount's health. The Duke of Wellington and a great number of the nobility have also called to make similar inquiries. Dr. Copeland is in attendance upon his Lordship. ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.---OR Sunday, the 19th inst., a gentleman, a passenger to Bristol by the twelve o'clock down-train from the Paddington terminus of the Great Western Railway, discovered, shortly before the train arrived at Slough, that he had lost bis purse con taining Bank of England notes to the amount of 9001., besides 21. 10s. in gold and Bs. 6d. in silver. Immediately on the arrival of the train at the Slough station, he proceeded direct to the office of the electric telegraph, in a state of very great excitement, not knowing whether he had been robbed of his money in the railway carriage or had lost it before he entered the train. Information of the loss was instantaneously transmitted to the superintendent of the telegraph at the Paddington terminus, who immediately pro ceeded to the booking-office, where the gentleman paid for his ticket, where the purse and its contents were found un touched. Within five minutes from the time of the less being made known at the Slough Telegraph-office, the gentleman had the satisfaction of knowing, by means of this extraordi nary invention, that his property was safe, and shortly after wards he received it by the following train. CONTINUED DISTRESS IN THE CANE TRADE.— Sad and general complaints still continue to prevail in the above, trade. The lots of cane kept back in bond are now nearly all sold out, and at unheard of prices ; and if very shortly hence a fresh cargo of stock does not arrive, there will, of necessity, become a complete stand-still throughout the trade. Of late years, the above article has been gra dually getting scarcer and scarcer, owing to the great re luctance with which owners of vessels consent to freight their craft with cane. Being very elastic, it is with great diffi culty compressed into a convenient compass, and the stowage of it is attended with considerable trouble, independent of which it is a light freight, and very inadequately pays the masters for the pains and trouble they are at in shipping it. The dealers in the rattan article are wholly unable to meet the orders they are daily receiving from large houses, whilst the hands employed in the latter are doing nothing. A speedy arrival of cane would just now tend to resuscitate a branch of business which was never so depressed as it is at present; nor is there a scarcity experienced in the rattan stick alone, the cane trade is generally at an ebb, and fur nishes a theme for much discontent and disappointment. it is not, perhaps, generally known that the rattan Is, unlike all other articles of a similar nature, sold by the pound avoir dupois. CALLS TO THE BAIL—The first series of calls to bar in Easter Term, of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple was made on Friday, and on Saturday the after mentioned gentlemen were sworn in before several of the benchers in the dining-hall :—Mr. P. J. Nagle, the second son of James Nagle, of Ballyelis, in the county of Cork, Esq. ; Mr. Charles Lavingtone Pannell, the only son of the Rev. J. Pannell, of Oldsworth, in the county of Sussex ; Mr. Henry Beeston, the second son of William Beeston, of Grove terrace, Kentish-town, in the county of Middlesex, Esq. ; Mr. Henry Leigh, the eldest son of Henry James Leigh, of Taunton, in the county of Somerset, gentleman ; Mr. Alex ander Shea, the eldest son of Alexander Shea, of Gibraltar, Esq. ; and Mr. William Holmes Edwards, the only son of George Edwards, of Framlingham, in the county of Suffolk, gentleman. FATAL ACCIDENT ON TUE CROYDON RAILWAY. On Friday afternoon, about one o'clock, a carpenter in the employ of the Croydon Railway Company was proceeding up the line to his work, and had gone p e er a c h e o i u v t in ' g n a ti i i i e le u d p is t t r a a n in t from the Croydon terminus, when, approaching, he stepped over on to the down line; in an instant a Dover train was upon him, and his transition from life to death was the work of a moment. The body was taken to the Windmill public-house, Croydon-common, to await an inquest. _ _ A game at whist is about to come off, to be played in quite a novel way by means of the electric telegraph. The four players to be stationed--one at Southampton, and his partner in London ; their adversaries at Gosport, and Basing stoke. The time it will take playing will be little more than the period occupied at the usual game, 15 1 ,4 16f t 4A 2Y/ 4l 15% 12 2% 2% 42% 3M RAILWAY COMMITTEES . (THIS DAY.) Sub-Committee (No. 1.) Forbes This Committee, consisting of Mr. Pakington, Mr. V. Stuart, and other Members, met this morning. ABERDARE RAILWAY. This is to be a branch line of eight miles in length , cr iti ; mencing at the Navigation House station on the Tag ' Railway; cost 50,000/. oof an d Mr. Venables submitted the necessary formal Pr - A ' bee the Committee decided that the standing orders had complied with. LONDONDERRY AND ENNISKILLEN RAIL ' The length of the line is fifty-seven miles, an d the '- 450,0001. Engineer, Sir John M'Niel. Standing orders complied with. NORTH WALES MINERAL RAILWAY . Standing orders complied with. Committee (No. 2.) WEST YOKKSHIRE. we t ' Ste to; The names of the Committee are—Mr. P. M . Renfrewshire, Chairman Mr. Moore O'Ferrall, giwiLter, Mr. Redington, Dundalk; Mr. Rice, Dover ;• Trot Su They re. 01) Committee having remained in deliberation for time, admitted the parties shortly after one o'clock, ‘s' ll t il doto The CHAIRMAN said that from the mass of business in the them the Committee had resolved to take the 1 ,0 " T o cb, following order :—They would first take the Heywo od br tea from Manchester to Leeds ; then the line to Bur nley ; hen that to Manchester and Huddersfield; then the D e :lorlt:. and Leeds; and then the West Riding and W es "„gi 0 , shire Bills; and when those should have been &PG' they would take up the Leeds and Thirsk Bill. LYNN AND ELY, :AND ELY AND HUN TOO LN LES. The Committee appointed to N investigate the merits of tio lines met to-day in Committee-room No. 11. Isfr' The Committee were. Lord Palmerston, the Chairly R. Palmer, Mr. Leslie, Mr. Wyse. and Mr. F. Berkeley:4y The Lynn and Ely line was first considered. The p g ., pal petition against it was that of the Middle all Level. Mr. Austin, Mr. Sergeant Wragham, Mr. M. Sroi t : b ' Mr. Baggerly appeared for the Bill. Mr. Talbot and Mr. Paget appeared for the petition. Mr. AUSTIN stated the case for the promoters of the a l ig He said that the length of the line between Lynn 813 000 was 26i miles. The population of Lynn was 18,U,N• toiler was a branch to Wisbeach, the length of which was 10a .140 ; The population of Wisbeach was 12,000. There woo also branch line, called the- Harbour Branch, of seven -eight ,71 a mile ; the total length of proposed line was, therefor r e to miles. It was also proposed to make a line fro:, -.1,010 Huntingdon, and from thence to Bedford. The leng th Ely to Huntingdon was 25 miles ' • th a t made ~°l 3O O Sire length of proposed line of 62i miles. I t to ler proposed that both lines should be placed ,aJ, an united management. The levels on the line wort po the gradients were good, and it was a line on tt e dto such thing as tunnels would be thought of. With ,61 the trade at present, it was carried on by navig a lco d means of four rivers, the Cam, the Ouse, the IX AO , Little Ouse. Now with regard to each, and several of 'V he would show that the navigation of them several slob uncertain, inconvenient, and expensive. If the con , 0 6 looked at. the map and considered the position .0140 northern counties of England, that the commerce , 5,,r 11 11 was carried on through the town and port of Hu ll the Gainaborough, and thence by sea to Lyni. In this , Aly passage was made to Lynn, and in this WeYArriea traffic in manufactured goods, as hardware, wa s h e iiseel on. There was also a considerable traffic carried on Lynn and London in agricultural produce. The r cost of the line between Lynn and Ely was 300, 0 9 t od g , expected there would be a gross income of 43,01,V00 tf; net income of 25,8001., giving a return of 8% per eenn'op expenditure. The gross income was expected to be In s " fre ,..l 16,0001. from the profits on the carriage of coals, slat es, „s o 27,000/. was expected from the carriage of passe ll ibrelll traffic. The only substantial petition against the 011" that of the Middle and South Level. The petitionere i d that they owed 48,0001., and that they / 11 44_ ° injured seriously if the traffic which they Tor present was attracted from them by a railwai• was the substantial ground of objection, but a s the it, not in a worse position than any others in this reoPeciartl,l as it is not a Parliamentary ground of objection, theY tec tir stated that the Bill contained no provision for the P,,, , "% g 01f of their works, and for the drainage. But the L' ° ,ht h i were ready to make any reasonable protection that 0,170; hi thought necessary with regard to the branch to Lid tbi crossed a bit of land belonging to the petitioners , was the reason they came there. o f PI; Mr. C. Willett, Mr. Riley, Mr.Cresswell then, - , v and Mr. Charles Berners Preston, were alled filtibo Austin. The result of their testimony was to e hoW t oi o proposed line would be of the greatest benefit to the and neighbourhood of Lynn. RETURN OF DR. WOLFF FROM BOKHA"-'0 3 11% terday morning a sermon was prea c hed at Trinit); d • Gray's Inn-road, by the celebrated R e v. J ose ph lv ,, n, t o who has within the last few days arrived in Engr e io4 ll ...o"" Bokhara. The Rev. Gentleman preached a mo st d ye' discourse from the Ist chapter of St. Luke, 30th to 33 e ptio l3 r : inclusive, to a numerous and deeply-attentive 91tlie consisting of at least two thousand persons. vice a collection was made on behalf of the Soci,.',.;pcile'il, Promotion of Christian Knowledge, and also for t% l ttes tu , for Promoting the employment of additional CO populous places, which amounted to 37/. 4s. At en t o k 11 13 , r e sion of the service, and as the Rev. Gentleman so w es to parture from the church, a great number afrpects collected round the doors, anxious to pay tbnii i 00• 0 1 the celebrated and devoted philanthropist, 1 " whom he cordially shook hands. to° / ' AFFAIR OF HONOUR.—A hostile YO'd place yesterday morning, between the Ho n . DOlninic Da l y r 'atte'"c. eisl SecretAry, and the Hon. T. C. Aylwyn ; the forme r. by S. Derbishire, Esq., and the latter by Dr. Tache, M . to f C Dominic Daly w. resolved that the session should 51, issie without his doing something to rescue himself from the co p ( e into which he has fallen. He, on Tuesday night, used Mr. Aylwyn publicly in the House, whi c h no d ue llist e ° ' l ,;osic . notieing in the manner that was desir e d. W e quo te the "; p ort e.i , , report, and would merely add that some of Mr; Dall:_ fr e su ; t0 1 „ r cried out very audibly across th e floor, "Take that; n": -Mr. Aylwyn-" I have read M r . B u ll' s p a mphlet, ffie`" „" w Th e ct'' tir-O the Member for Megantic." Mr. Daly-. I have 0 0 of it." Mr. Aylwyn-" Yes, you did." Mr. Hair believe it." Mr. Aylwyn (rising)-" I say you did." S t iff. te ii " Sir, it is false." Mr. Aylwyn-" Wh a t do you say r lo odi te j -" I say that it is false." Mr. Aylwyn sat doWn• steps were taken to arrange a meeting, which f or tunatell; o r )gu o , without bloodshed, after an exchange of shot/. .P 1 sib enough that while in England her Majesty is giving p r of r ,,, daily of her deep anxiety to suppress the barbarous N[ 0 ; 5 0 4 ling, when by the very last mail we have accounts of fo , De fi ` o , being dismissed, and an ensign p u t a t th e feet o f the I 9 4 0101, 40 , i . implicated in an affkir of this kind, a member of the Ca n ilo l, vernment should set su c h an examp l e to t h e peolde•"-- treal paper. $ - 4 ' o , i SUICIDE OF THE V ESTRY C LERK or .IW. cp3tr! Mr. William John Clark, jun., the officiatins parish clerk of Mitcham, comm i tte d su i c id e o n xr l , - 0 oL: it ing by hanging hims e lf ' w ith a rope to a beameing out-houses belonging to hi s f a th er . The fielonnf appeared was fifty-on e y ears o f age , rose on Friday Ito is 4 11 ; between seven and ei g ht o ' c l oc k, l eav i ng his wife4: l 4o i 11 , 1 0,1 more than twenty-t wo y ears o f age , i n b e d, wit h addrso child. Having dressed himself, he wrote a letter ; 0 10 3 4 ; to his wife, and then left the house. As he did ne' an de appearance at breakfast his wife became alarmed , ~h r, into an o ffi ce, where she found the letter, in w"„„.(. lone - ceased said it was impossible for him to ' exist a ny and by the time she read the letter he would be u. D e ie-t, cause of this act is supposed to be certain defalcatios, speot to the office of actuary to the Mitcham Saving s which had been held for some time by the deceaPeg t orah We hear , as a rumour at Liverpool on ° „v • that the blockade of Monte Video has been broke n - lel"' Mr. Weekes's plan for lighting towns m tb,z e"; 1 3 1 city is about to be carried into effect in America- . r i t aen' t es; of the Cincinnati Mechanic states that an e , cl 3- ,, - 0 0 1. •40 lately witnessed was perfectly successful ; that tbe •y is by no means costly; and that for lighting Cinci ll i n ote tio i towers, it is considered, w ill be s u fficient to ilium in whole city. Mr. Weekes's plan was first pubraw the country as far back as 1831.-Builder. turai l l NEW FARRINGDON-STREET.—OH Surveyors of her Majesty's Woods and Forests We"' 0 01: 1, 44 01 in planning out, and lotting off for building ground recently cleared from the portion of the t o eLfl now formed to P e t er - s t ree t, l eav i ng b ut small aPa c- feif plete the line to Clerkenwell-green. Within the last the tenants of se vera l h ouses in W est - street , prese nting ° . 4 00 4 40 So the " improv emen t" o f t h e neighbourhood, WI the r' true bills of indi c t men t h av i ng b een found aggrot jG prietors for keeping houses of ill-fame. f At the second concert of the R o y a l Academl? ge r r e on Saturday, seve ra l o f th e young pupils made firs ances, which, though th e y i n di cated different degrTitec .° o ( ficiency, were all promising, and gave proof of a s vo `bal e e re course of study. The ro om was crow d ed . Tee . . Cambridge and a num b er o f distinguished gag' s V' present. f itro The Earl of Howth, Lord Leigh, Lord m vo 14; 3 Lord Guernsey, Viscount Le w i s h am , an - d Sir a bs ods ° . o 4 , Bart., M.P., are am o n g th e subscribers, with Le5 ,1 , / ,eo donations, towards the erection of a tennis-court 1 1 ' ton Spa, the cost of which is estimated at 1,600/. fe l,9 t" hundred pounds have already been s u b scr ib e d toils' to' object. 1, of P LOVE ANTI FOLLY.—In an action for brea c , - „,tsfol mise of marriage, Commins v. Willesford, tried et'"; iag aPt tit di S th a da t lt u m, r hh d uee a c yhßw be l ievedreiet c red i tki s , ht M toha r tii Justi ce del their vhNe steam-ship, Hibernia, Captain . nnv 10 .0 , °P eao letters dr Coleridge, of the i u m cleverestm s i ß h yr A ie, m s e ai r .l i e c d an fro ; a 7 . 4 44 3l o , o l ,l on Saturday, with the semi. monthly mail, for kl 3" the United States, and a large number of passe th e ' o f -The l 4e t LLOYD'S COLLECTION OF CHARTS. 1 ,, i; h v lands Government has presented to the establisn e Lloyd's copies of the maps and charts published the country by o ffi cial authority. t hat ft A rumour was very current in Dublin sotto Lord-Lieutenant is in the receipt of a letter from P'erjoid to Peel, to the effect that her Majesty will leave for Ir bo ot 04 or about the 10th of July. The Corporation are : 4 3.0° 1 advertise for tenders for the decoration of the Itnn,,t' a rtb'„ l i in which their predecessors entertained George the "" bifr THE LATE ROBBERY AT THE RAILWAY f,,0- 3 0 AT READD7G.-On Saturday 'morning Thomas Hen r y lien, son and Ann H arr i e t Southall, the former claarb4 stealing and the latter with receiving a 50/.. ;I C o `:. land note, the prop er ty o f th e G rea t W es t ern Railv/J , ea 4 pany, were b roug ht u p t o th e p u bli c o ffi ce , beforetu trates for this borough for final examination. 111 , e bo ro' l 'o trates committed Robinson for trial at the adjourn e d t i o e e:0 1 Sessions to be held on the 9th of May. An apP ll l l w lll 4 . o . made by Mr. Carrington to admit the prisoner to '-' 3 " t be P'i j o was objected to by Mr. Williams, who appeared fn sA r secution ; the Bench, however, assented, and ste t v; if s ec .,e would be discharged from custody upon his finding ; t ee rities of 100/. each, and himself in 200/., to appear tt- soetkV. sions, and to give 48 hours' notice of his security eo f was liberated upon entering into her own recoguisso off to be present at the next sessions. bn ; THE MACKEREL FISLIERY.—Last week ii le br oug h l) o in Mount's Bay were tolerably successful, an d 013 t . O , ashore considerable quantities of fine mac kerel-, Ir y day that the Hayle steamers left that port f' . 0 13 tol, the fish realised 16s. per hundred ; bn"..„ican: days on which there was no steam comin% - olr e between the ports named, the price fell to 5 5 - a - bere e, With a railway communication with the markets t to 13 1j e , Penzance and the metropolis, the fishery in ge, tl h tl e pri c e may be expected to be consider a bly enhanced by 0 0 ,;( the fishermen will no doubt realise for their fish. T 4 , l sit ket gardeners, too, will reap the benefit of q uick tr their early produce.-Penzance Gazette. A painful rumour is afloat, which is unfor tll 3 lll too well founded, that a junior clerk to the firm °Lond e , Miles, Harford, and Co., bankers, in this city, has with a considerable sum, the property of hiscoplOY Bristol Journal.