The Sun. — London, England, 1844-04-15 00:00:00

SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 14.—Acrd. Lady Mary Wood (at.). Gibraltar. OFF DOVER, APRIL 13.—Mohawk, Jordeson, Buenos Ayres ; Undine, Boston for St. I'etersburgh. COWES, APRIL 14.—Arrd. Mary Brougham, Matanzas. OFF BEACHY HEAD, APRIL 12.—Seth, Mobey, Rio for Stockholm ; Abenia, Batavia for Rotterdam ; Lesmona, Grerken, Trinidad de Cuba for Bremen ; Teutonia, Huckens, ditto for ditto ; Adolph, Wilkstrom, Matanzas for Hamburg)", out 50 days, experienced a very heavy gale from N.E. FALMOUTH, APRIL 14.—Wind W., strong breezes.—Arrd. Linnet Packet, Rio, sailed Feb. 28, on freight 18,0001. in gold and diamonds. GUEIV;ISE - Y7APRIL 6.—Sld. Nancy, Reeves, Savannah. LrvanrooL, APRIL 13, Wind W., fresh ; 14, N.W., do.— Arrd. Edinburgh, Jaurm, and Themis, Brown, New Orleans; Joseph Munn, Watt, Savannah ; James White, Prince, Charleston ; *Cahawba, Coffin, New York, March 23 ; 14th, Britannia, Wylie, Ichoboe (Feb. 7) ; Star, Craig, Rio Grande; Leander, Phelan, Savannah ; Jane Duffers, M'Donald, Charleston , Rivenis,. Collins, New York, 26th ult. Put back, Fuchuen steamer for Calcutta, machinery damaged. Conic, Aran, 12.—Arrd. Argyle, St. Andrew's. Sld. Do minica and Eliza Ann, Quebec; Eagle, New York. WATERFORD, APRIL 12.—Ski Pandora, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Caithness-shire, Halifax ; Rose, Macroom, Mira- Inichi ; Ann, Quebec; Medina, ditto; Ocean, Newfoundland. • PXDSTOW, APRIL 12.—The Fancy, Tyrer, from Newport to Brigham, got on the Dunbar in entering the harbour last night, but was assisted off without much damage. MILFORD, APRIL 12.—The Rapid, from Liverpool to Wells, /thieh sank in Hubblestone Pell, 11th inst., has bean raised and in here; part of cargo saved. The Tamerlane, Thomas, from Liverpool to Quebec, which put in here 6th inst., leaky, has been lightened. SWANSEA, APRIL 12.—Arrd. Sarepta, Outerbridge, and Su matra, Harvey, Cuba. CROOKHAVEN, APRIL 10.—A female figure-head, painted blue, with an imitation gold chain round the neck, has been Picked up five miles to the S. of Mizenhead. ICHOBOE FEB. 7.—Loading, Pearl ; loaded and waiting to assist, Clydesdals; half-loaded, Joseph Porter ; " well on," Palestine and Mayflower; half-loaded, Angra . Pegninit;" l oading, Bradshaw. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN-EXCHANGE-MONDAY. Fine parcels of English Wheat were taken off steadily, at prices quite equal to those obtained on this day se'nnight. In all other kinds not much business was doing, yet previous rates were supported. Fine Foreign Wheat at barely sta tionary prices. For Corn under lock the rates were almost nominal. Malting qualities of Barley supported their last value ; but grinding and distilling sorts had a downward tendency. Malt without alteration. For Oats last week's Prices were supported in everyinstanCe. In Beans, Peas, and Flour, no alteration. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. V IREAT—Essex & Kent, IMALT—Chavalier......... 636 to red 41s to 51s Oars—Yorkshire and Ditto, white s2s to 63s Lincolnth., feed ... 23s to Norfolk and Lin Potatoe ............... 25s to coin, red ..... 4os to 43s Youghall and Cork, Ditto white 42s to 47s black _. .... .......... 17s to IA Irish, red. 47s to 501 Cork, white Ile . itto, white TR—Old ........ ..... ..... 214 to 33s' BEANS—Tick.....„ 3os to 36s .. New 36s to 38s Pius— Grey ............„. 35s to 381 nal t.ay—Grinding 2ss to 28e Maple ...........».».. 33s to 34. Malting 13s to 36s White ........... ....... 304 to 351 ~,, • Cheva1ier...........„ 32s to 358 80i1er5 ..„.....„....... 32s to 38. '''ALT...Buffolk and Nor nova—Town made ... 488 to 531 folk 563 to 62s Suffo k..„....«. „.«. . 34s to 38$ Brown 50s to 54s Stockton & N orfolk 345 to 3ti Kingston and Ware 563 to 62. vv FOREIGN GRAIN A 2, nEAT—Dantzie 4Bs to 62s RsitHa burgh36s to 40s uty OATS --New Feed l4s to 16. ~~yS E WS. , 4 1 )14, B v sD . t .ship v are f ° ' 'we - s o I ult.* inc° i of Con 0 exelafog e o Th e folio and sPriilb ec tei i s eSP s oob e n t and ° Dst-olmt' joubw -25. i s roo.-- ink 41 off ioisjo rc eoi iv ° 10/ I r i e t t s ,p )ny - e nt. °i dol:f p / bear -„4 nve_ g s "bi abrk'' y or i$ f` .~' ~~11 ....• ~." '." 0 0, lc' , co s p , erf 03 Art. J beY l ,o% irl' l .ll o 'i, ot o, c. c p , • ite' t ot o cic ce YA4 In c oo ,0 : 311 ,,nD• /'. Ire aise D FLOUR IN BOND. BEANS ..».......».».» 20! to 261 IPsas 23s to 21's FLOUR—American Baltic 22s to 234 SMITIEFIEMD. , The Beef t ra d e was somew h a t ac ti ve , at an advance on i l ast M on d ay ' s quotations of 2d per Blbs, the best Scots and "hreds producing 45 per Sibs. The Mutton trade was I) fns steady, at 4s 4d per Sibs for the best old " 11 3 in the wool, and 3s 8d per Efts for the half-bred. ,!trub at late rates. Veal without any alteration in prices. I P at full currenc i es. Per 811 n. to sink the offal. . . . s. d. to s. dig s. d. to s. d. Inferior t &on 1, . d q ße a uality " ditto 2lO 3 2 Coarse-woolle ty d ditto.. 3 6 3 6 ,nMe large Oxen 3 4 3 8 Southdown Wethers 310 4 4 pine Scots, &e. rriecoarse Calves 3 8 4 4 Large Hogs 3 2 3 6 • ii,'P 1 ,., 11 small ditto 4 6 4 8 Small Porkers.... 3lO 4 4 -- "'"ult C.alves each 18 0 27 It Quarter old Pigs,eachl6 0 20 0 Weller sheep , each 1 2 2 8 3 2 Lambs 8 0 6 6 SUPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts. I Sheep. I Calves. ,I Pigs. 2,725 21,940 89 350 u r . . 417 irCiELTE AND LEADEN lIAL 1.. whil e London-killed meat we have been well supplied N . ; 'e the primest qualities have met a steady demand, at full E t aces. In oth er ki n d s o f mea t, h owever , com p ara ti ve ly tie has been doing. o At per atone, by the Carcase I. d. to s. d.l a. .1. to s. d. „__ lli et. Inferior.. .« ..... 2 2 2 4 Mutton, inferior 2 4 2 8 --"-• Middling ......... 2 6 2d t middling 2lO 3 4 ~..._ prpne large ~..„, 2 8 30 ( prime 3 6 3 6 17 -- ta il?xlme small . 3 2 34 1 Pork, large 2 6 3 1 .......................... 310 4 6! —small •3 16 4 2 mb. 5s to 6s. 4d. ARRIVALS D La URING THE PAST WEEK. Beasts. Sheep. Calves. Pigs. Scotland lO 450 400 Y orkshire suftbn, •••••••••••• 0000000000 •••• Norfolk . 5 120 SO 7 50 100 Catnbrid lO 130 40 Essex ......... geshire Eurr e ,..................... Qt....von:hire 4 41 38 , 40 Offer 15 50 50 '7O ••••••••- ....... •• `Alter parts ..«.«.......».« 2O 100 18 100 —.—. .._ Total...— .... ...... . 107 2,083 08 1.842 i-re vious week's arrival::: W 1,720 750 2,071 .M....M. ..1 .1........ ............... /...,....... Difference since our last... 11 283 292 226 X O EIOI7OB AND SPITALFIELDS. Di ngsi the past we e k th e arr i va l s o f po t a t oes a t th e water _ have been but moderate. The beat samples command a th e trade nactive. for all BOROUGH HOP 3P.ICARILISIT.. kinds of Hops, both in pockets, mid bags,. the de has b ecome very inactive, and . Jost week's quotations with ,c4itficulty supported. __- . • WOOL MA ZIKET. _ YiublicsaleA of about 5,006 packages of Colonial and Fo rer ur an 19th instant. s are appointed to take place on the 17th, 18th, This announcement has caused the de inarean(lbY private contract to rule heavy, and previous rates barely supported. There i TALLOW. intai ne , s 1 :2 1 _)t. the least alteration to notice in this market; that pr. ed I . l'o r ' t T e rhe letters receiv atter period net cash. spot and for autumn delivery is very from fill ices there -v at 408 6d ere S t lit ~, there are sellers at 42s 3d. By P etersburgh this morning, we learn — " t ie easier. Town Tallow is plenti- M O N EY AN COM----- - 11 3 MERCIAL NEWS' The sales of C ti e Lott dealoi Cou n tie s, ottonClaTt iri Li C 2 rp "R ool o T n E S ß atur TO day T w lr e ß re E 2 E ,s 2 oo Lot the market being depr essed.-Shares were firm, and ibrestern, 112 o i ii 2 if in the speculative lines and in French. ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 651; Great ; ► Birmin ham Quarter, 'vans, 30 • ; Paris andgL ,Quarter, 3; Paris and Rouen, 371; South-Eastern, 36 ; Ditto)New, 6L 3s. 9d. 271 ; Paris and Or .4_,A private mercantile communication received from Pari s that morning tends to confirm very materially the statemen ts tohat have recently been in circulation, that fin attempt is to made indirectly, it is true, to increase the imposts upon Th r ee linens and yarns, and that to a material extent. . !opecious plea is, that an equalisation of duties only is mplated. Our Correspondent informs us, however,. r,that there is likely to be a strong part y . in the Ch of of Deputies. A ft er the liberal concessions that I ,:ave been made by the new tariff upon the fabrics and pro 'nice of Fran ce as well as the world generally, such a pp eding, to say the l eas t o f i t, i s most shabby, to say nothing of the principl es o f rec i procity, some time back talked of by Li beral party in. the Fr enc h Ch ambers. t h e ; A mong the Colonial and other merchants and brokers 'a the City, the discussion is kept up with much 4a,altnation upon the presumed contents of the Budget. A reduc "cm, in the foreign sugar duty to 445. per cwt. is held fo be likely. t , °itaking off the 10 per cent. extra taxes imposed some years -at ' i s also considered as very likely, as well as a diminution wouldan the tea and coffee duties. No question such reductions afford, to the public generally, great satisfaction. „the accounts from Brazil notice rather a dull market . for a ' s c l ee, and the exchange was lower. From Monte 'Video we -e it t ill advised of skirmishes, but nothing more. fell..o„e cape of Good Hope papers, a few days later, allude to ura blY to the measures taken by the local Government secure NataL b Ifie English Stocks are to-day higher, and there is a fair tira'n-sfeir... 304 Onn ines6 doing. The Commissioners have taken about been . 1003 to i; and for tim e C h ° a a y s e ols at -1001 ; Consols for imme di ate 74°Cla! t0 ") 76, 4 : Exchequer Bills have been mar ked premium and East India Bonds, 91s. I PPZ O a aI• The New Th 4 eanda-Half per Cents. are worth , 1044 ; the Reduced, 1034 to i • and the Three r eM s• 99 A to . In d i a stock 4 , Bank Stock is quoted 2 9 00 to 200 4 ; and E ast _ o _ . . - et for aa. 293 4, being The mark steady. South Sea New .Annuit i es Three per Cents, e ',(l ru N, In the ab on . Spanish B ds opened rather better this madrid. Th n:x.sense of any important intelligence from morning. Actives have been 264 to 24 ; and the 374 t° 4, having receded a little since zi. Loan have b een other Foreign Bonds are firm. and Buenos A 34 to . 4 ; Colombian, 154 ; .„, 89 4 and 81 p . .Y r ea, 371. Brazilian have advanced -to - I'd ia * -°' " % es e - Converted Stock are 46, being dull. ,eil,.,__ge. Stock realises 1044 to 1041 ; and Dutch Five per ,the have fluctuated from 1001 to 1004. ham a _ ail way Shares are more buoyant to-day. Birming ,_ Courtier Derby are 39 to 38, Ditto and Gloucester 54, Eas 7eu.e nties 101 to 10h, Brighton 6 to 51, and Midland al_ti t.ifiesivTeattdisco2ri Y'_'. nties*New 64 to •Itfiistol and Gloucester were 19, Chester 4 , Dublin and Cashel 3, Eastern s, Great Western 36 to 4, Ditto New pl t o 22, Lancaster and Carlisle 4to 4 ; Birmingham 132 to ...14eA0 South-Western 42A, Croydon 3-1, North British 1, Nor ;V_l neand Brandon si, North Midland Half 44 to 5, South 17T_ rn 2i •A ) 1 4, York and North Midland Half 34, Paris 04 Orleans 16A to 17, and Ditto and Rouen 18 premium. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List) Bank Stock. . *. 3 Per Cent lie,L;ll ' t;;;;;,ii,; ************ 99tx,„ ISS per Cent. Consols. Annuities.. ** . . ***** per Centlßeduced Annuities *-- .* 1 , 03 ,1% ' e s' 3 16 Per Cent Annuities Jul Long nnuities Expire sth Jan. 1860... ..... India Stock ..t..'.. • Indiaßonds,l,ooo.::::./. ******* - ********** „„„ 9l South Sea 5t0ck.........."...."."..""".....Z.... Bank Ditto New Annui.ties ********* * 7:::...... ***** 99% ConsoStock for Account ******* ........:....: ..... . ls for Accourit . ...... ... Exchequer Bills, I%d, limp I • ° °° l . ••••••......... ........ - .... .... 76 pm. 50 04... ...... . ........ . ....... - ...... ...... 76 pm. Ditto Small... 76 pm. .............. • - FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. ' Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent .......................... Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent . ............ .... Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent. ......... ........ :17 Columbian Bonds, . ........... ~.. ........ ... Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent ............ Ditto for the Account .. ............ .. ........ 36 Ditto the 5t0ck...._... .- ........... . ........ 16 Portuguese Bonds 5 pct Cent ... ........... ••• Ditto Converted... „..... .... ~ ....... .... ..... 46 Spanish Bonds, Five Cent 1840. .......... .... 26%% Ditto for the Acc0u ter................... 26% Ditto Ditto Deferred ..... ..... ............................ ... 15% Ditto Three per Cent. . .. .......... . ....... ... 37%% for the Account ... ...... .................. ..... 377 i% - - Venezuela Bonds, 2 per - DutDitto Deferred ... . Cent, .,,, ,, ................:::::::. 12% Dutchch 2% per Cent 5...................... .................... SO% 61 14, 5 per Cents. ............................ . ..... 1 00 4 1,30%% New Loan 1837, 5 per Cents.... ............. . ... ; . 100% PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. _ rm. RAILWAYS. PAID. PEE SUM ~.. Ingham and Derby ,,,,, ' 100 .. ...... 6i to 62 Biranngham and G loucester...... 100 .., 24% ... to - .....h,/?4,itt;t.5raNandnedwati0...u.ic.y.Q.b.5.et.i..dr.................................... 30 17 5 % ...... 24% ttoo - Eastern and casi,el .... . .. 2);*.Z.: 75:174i o w - .astern Cou ...... ...... ... ......... ..-:: 12% 5 ' j s to - - Ditto Cou nties Register.ed. ................ 65. 23 8 d. .. . ... 1.4 3 ,4 i.% to - ~ i/itto Perpetual 5 per eent ...... Ids. 4d.... 154 ~. to - .. . Great Western .......... ....... .. ..... 75 Ditto % Shares ...... ..... Ditto Fifths Harrowgate and Knaresboro' ... 3 Lancaster and Carlisle London and Birmingham lOO ...23334 London and Brighton 5O 44% to London and South Western ...... 41% London and Croydon (Trunk)... 13 3 4 Midland Counties lOO - North ItTiti.h North Midland • Ditto % Shares 4O .... „.: 45 Norwich and Brandon South Eastern and Dover 32 36% to 35% Ditto New York and North'Midland ......... 50 Ditto 54 Shares Paris and Orleans ............. ....... . :1 , 0 ..... .... 36%% Parisand Rouen 2O 38 to Rouen and Havre. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHA/sTGE, APRIL 13.—W e have had a steady market to-day without any material change in prices. Dublin and Drogheda, 73 ; London and Birmingham, Quarters, 28 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 491 •, Paris and Lyons, al ; Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale, 7 ; Harrowgate and Knareslaorongh, 34 ; Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, xi ; Huddersfield Canal, 214. LAW INTELLIGENCE CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY). This being the first day of Easter Term the Lord Chan - - cellor entertained the Judges, Masters of Chancery, and Queen's Counsel, to breakfast, at his Lordship's house, George-street, Hanover-square. His Lordship took his seat in his Court shortly after one o'clock, accompanied by the Master of the Rolls, the Vice• Chancellor of England, and Masters Sir G. Wilson and Farrar. THE NEW CHIEF BARON. _ . . Sir F. Porn ocic was this morning sworn in'a Sergeant at Law and Chief Baron of this Court of Exchequer, in the Lord Chancellor's private room. The Court then proceeded to hear appeal motions. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY ".EVENING; APRIL 15, `1 44. MARYLEBONE.-(THIS DAY.) John Jones, an emaciated looking man with a child in his arms, was charged with creating a disturbance. Police-constable 19 E, said that yesterday afternoon about three o'clock, he saw the prisoner in Wells-street, with the child on his shoulder. He was dancing at a great rate. Mr: RAwmisoN—What, dancing? Was it for the pur pose of getting money, or was he thank ? Police 'constable— He was not drunk, Sir, for when the people said " Oh, here comes the police," he said, " Then I'll give him a run ;" and he did run well too. I saw him afterwards in-Poland-street, doing the same thing, and took him into custody. Mr. RAWLINSON, on the prisoner promising not to be found . " tripping on the light fantastic toe " a second time, dis charged him. Susannah Thompson, - 4 young girl, was charged with having set fire to . a bed 'and bed-clothes, supposed with a felonious intent, to destroy the house, 89, Oxford-street. • Mrs. Cubisson said she was a widow, and lived there. The prisoner was a servant to one of her lodgers, and was, on the Sunday evening, at seven o'clock, left in the house with a serving boy-and a Miss Downes, a young lady from Herne Bay, who was on a visit. Witness's own servant had gone to church. The- house had been set on fire twice before in a similar manner. • • Miss Downes said that soon after seven she, while reading in the parlour, dis Covered" smoke descending the stairs, and called up the prisoner at-once, who threw the door open, and shouted " Fire !" The boy ran for the engines, and a fire man came. George Giles, the boy, said that the prisoner had borrowed a match from him for the purpose of lighting her mistress's fire. He also stated that the other girl had taken up a lighted candle to the bed-room for the purpose of dressing herself. Stephen Martin,S)s Fire Brigade, said that on his entering the bedroom, he discovered the whole bed with its clothing on fire. He got it extinguished. The prisoner was very active in bringing up water; from the kitchen, and he did not at the time see anything to criminate her. The prisoner accounted very satisfactorily for the use of the Lucifer match, and denied that she in any way bad been guilty, as alleged against her. Mr. RAWLINSON thought there was nothing in the case to warrant her committal, and would therefore discharge her. Should further evidence be forthcoming she might be again taken into custody. John Saunders, a gentleman's servant, living at 38, Baker street, was charged with an assault upon two boys, with in tent to commit a felony. The prisoner's intentions were sufficiently obvious, but as the assault was not distinctly proved, the worthy magistrate contented himself with ordering the prisoner to enter into recognisances to keep the peace in time coming. LITERATURE. BRITISH AND FOREIGN REVIEW, No. XXXII!. Taylor, London, 1844. M. Louis Blanc's " History of Ten Years," which has created a considerable stir in Paris, and which we noticed some weeks since in The Sun, forms the sub ject of a criticism in the number before us, penned in a very unceremonious spirit, and treating the author as if he were no better than a political quack. The truth is, the reviewer is a warm admirer of the juste milieu system of Louis Philippe, and, as M. Blanc is a staunch opponent of that system, which he boldly tells his readers has compromised the honour and the interests of France, and reduced her from a first-rate to a second-rate European power, of course there can be no very ar d en t sympathy between the historian and his critic. M. Blanc's work, notwithstanding the severe censures of his reviewer, is really a very able production; and if it press somewhat hardly on 'the King of the French, the author alleges good grounds for his severity, and shows that Louis Phi lippe has, one by one,abandoned almost every principle which he professed when called to the throne of the barricades. Though a skilful, energetic sovereign, and possessed of a sort of plain, practical John Bull like common sense, yet Louis Philippe is sadly de ficient in all the nobler and more generous elements of greatness. He has not an atom of magnanimity, or loftiness of intellect about him, and in his domestic policy is far, too much swayed by considerations of self ; That he has kept France at peace with Europe for so many years i s no t a littl e t o hi s cr e dit ; but it mu s t no t b e f orgotten h ow h e equivo cated on the subject of the non-intervention _system of . , policy, which he maintained and violated just as suited his purposes for the time being, nor 'with what cool indifference he abandoned un happy Poland to her fate, though he knew well that it was to the timely insurrection in that country that he was indebted for the safety of his monarchy, which would otherwise have been placed in imminent hazard by the avowed hostility of the Emperor of Russia. Alluding to the stability of the French Crown, the reviewer justly observes :—" The feel ings of unwavering allegiance and of ardent loyalty are both extinct in France; the throne is supported by the bare but general conviction of its necessity. Louis Philippe has reigned with undoubted power and signal success, but that success has failed to re store the prestige of monarchy to his house, or to con centrate upon himself or hi s d esc e n d a nt s th e affections of the people." The " Bank Charter" is a sensible matter-of-fact article, in which the Currency Ques tion is discussed in a just and temperate spirit. In the notice of the late " Sir Charles Bell's Essays," justice is done to one of the soundest and most con vincing reasoners of his day. " Books for Children" contains some serviceable suggestions respecting the - manner in which works intended solely for the in struction and amusement of the young, should 'be written. It may seem an easy task for an adult author to adapt himself to the capacity of children ; but, in truth, there is nothing more difficult—nothing that requires so much nice taste and judgment. In the article on " Atmospheric Railways," the reviewer expresses himself decidedly in favour of this grand• experiment, remarking that no machine, depending on a moving principle, scarcely less costly than coals, can pretend to vie with the beautiful simplicity of the atmospheric pressure. From the notice of "Wil liam Taylor, of Norwich," we quote the following sketch of thelate Walter Whiter : " In Mr. Robberds' list of Taylor's associates we miss the name of Walter Whiter, the friend of Porson, the recluse etymologist of Hardingham, in Norfolk. Whiter's 'early life was passed in the most polished and intellectual circles of England and France; his last twenty years were those of an eremite. Although far from a water-drinker, he was an inveterate dipper, and his midwinter ablutions in a stream that bathed his garden would, fifteen centuries earlier, have procured him a niche in the • Vitae Sanctorum.' His hermitage was not unvisited ' • it was a frequent reso r t o f th e accomp li s h e d John Hooltham Frere, and more than once attracted the steps of Cannin g . Punctually eac h morn i ng, as t h e clock struck nine, Whiter's study-table groaned beneath the burden of dictionaries and glossaries, and the sheets of his Etymologicon Universale.' His three quarto volumes—which now, alas l the book-stalls offer at the price of waste paper—would, he used to aver, twenty years after his death, be the text-book of European phi lologists. But of the predicted period nearly two-thirds • have passed, without producing a single convert to the - new plan of wholly rejecting vowels as elements of • words, and of deriving man and all his labials and aspi rates from the earth.' Etymology, and a fancy that death was frequently the crisis and not the term of dis ease—a theory which he argued in an octavo volume, with most perverse ingenuity —were Whiter's crotchets. But his specimen of a Commentary on Shakspeare' is a iber aureus, notwithstanding its hallucinations about the genuineness of Rowley and the honesty of Chatterton. Equal to Steevens in acuteness, in black-letter learning to Malone, and immeasurably superior to them both in his perception of the meaning and his sensibility to the metre of Shakspeare, Whiter well merited the appellation of Dorceus, or the sharp-sighted, given him •by the author of the Pursuits of Literature.' As much un• published matter as would double the thin octavo of the Specimen' exists, we believe, among his manuscripts, and the representatives of Walter Whiter should re publish the volume, with this additional commentary, as the only adequate record of its author's talents. , In the solitude of Hardin g h am , Whit er ' s mornings were divided between cold-bathing, study, and lonely walks. A dress ing-gown, so often repaired as to admit an argument whether it were the original dressing-gown or, not, a waistcoat of untanned calf-skin, capacious slippers or clouted shoon, were his morning attire. But in the evening, whether it were to be solitary or social, he dressed with anxious precision, as if the salons of Faris or the clubs of London were still within his reach. In London Whiter was a walking chronicle of every re markable site or scene eastward from Charing-cross, or within the liberties of Westminster and Southwark. Knight's Loudon' might have been written down from his lips. Abroad, among other strange companions, , he had been intimate with Collot d'Herbois—but before Collot had developed his talent for the highest tragedy, —and Whiter a l ways descr ib e d hi m ' as the mildest' of men.' As a story-teller Whiter h a d f ew equa l s ,— no superior : hi s anecdotes were inexhaust ibl e , hi s d ramat i c powers were g reat , varied." and his knowledge of life unusually rilE FUNDS-(Cl Bank Stock - BRITISH . . . ...... 200 3 per Cent. ........ 59 3 per Cent. Cons. ......... 100 334 per Cent. Rei .. ...... 103 New 334 per Cent,...... 104 New 5 iper Cent........ ... Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 ............ 12% Oct. . Atn. 1860 .... ........ ,OSING PRICES). FUNDS. Indian Stock 293%pm. Ditto Bonds Ditto Old Annuities Ditto New Annuities 9991 Ex. Bills, 1,000/. I%d 76 pm.. Ditto 5001 0000000 ......•• 76 pm. Ditto Small 76 pm. Bank Stock for Acct 291 Consols for Acct. 100 )4 India Stock for Acct — Belian, I FUND& Austrian. 5 per Cent — Portuguese, 5 per Cent — g ßrazilian Bonds .. ... ******* " FrUSSiall, 5 per Cent Buenos Ayres, 6 pe . r "* Cei:t . ..., Russian, 5 per Cent...... 5 Per Cent.. Ditto, New Ditto Chllian, 6 per Cent .. . 103% Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 per Cent .... .. .... 15% Spanish, 5 per Cent Ditto, 1824,,.,,,,, - —.• Ditto, 1 per Cent 32 67 %M ............. Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent ll3 'Ditto, Deferred 153 Danish, 3 per Cent ... Greek, 18 5, 5 p er Cent ... ., Exchange Mexican, 5 per Cent. 36%'French, 3 per Cent. f4f. —e. Ditto, 6 per Cent., l&W. ..... 'Dutch, 2% per Cent 61% Peruvian, 1825, 6 pe r C ent... I Ditto, 5 per Cent ... lOO% SHARES. Birmingham and Derby (100 paid) 62 Birmingham and Glouc es t e r Bristol and Ex e t er (70 pa id)...... • • 74 (100 paid) 94% Eastern Counties (23 paid) Ditto Registered (8/ 6s gd paid) Edinburgh an d Glasgow (50 paid) 66 g Great Western (75 paid) Ditto Half Shares (50 paid) London and Birmingham (Stock) Ditto New Quarters ( 2 paid) London and Greenwich (lit. 15s. ild paid) _ Ditto, Preference or Privilege (131. 17s. 2d. pd) 18% Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) Mrtnchester and Birmingham B% Midland Counties (100 paid) 59 Newcastle and Darlington Junction (13 paid) , 41 Norwich and Brandon ( 2 paid) 7% Paris and ()abatis (20 paid) THE WEATHER.—On Friday evening the fine, dry, genial weather, which had prevailed.for upwards of a fort night, underwent a change. During the day the atmosphete was chilly, with a fresh breeze from about S.S.E. Shortly after six o'clock in the evening the sky became overcast, and rain commenced falling, but not heavily, until about eight o'clock, when it fell in torrents for about four hours, and then it ceased. On Saturday the weather was variable, there having been alternately rain, showers, and sunshine, with a m oderate breeze from W.S.W. At noon the thermometer at the London Docks, which on the previous day stood at 49 degrees in the shade, had advanced to 52. Late in the even ing there was another heavy fall of rain. Yesterday morn ing the atmosphere was gloomy, indicating rain, and there were several light showers during the day. There was oeca sional warm sunshine. The weather was milder, the ther mometer, lit noon, at the London Docks, havi ng advanced to 56 degrees in the shade. There was a light b reeze f rom about W.N.W. The rains which have fallen s i nce F r id a y have greatly benefited vegetation of every ki n d. L as t even - Lieutenant Lord Aberdour, 11th Hus sars , so ld ou t lithe service on Friday , the s th instant. There i s a vacancy on the staff of his Excel l ency the Lord Lieutenant of I re l an d by this retirement. i erain i skys expected. was gloomy, and, as the b arometer is gett i ng low, nnigor the FIRING PLANTATIONS. — During the past week the extensive fir plantations belonging to the Crown in the vici nities of Bagshot-park and the Military College, at Sand hurst, have been twice fired by incendiaries, to th e grea t alarm and terror of the. respective neighb our h oo d s . U pwar d s several hundred s o f t h e young trees, wh i ch a consumed. A rewar d o f 20 gu i neas h as ofd are emoa 14 only damage acres e partially a t r o e completely destroyed, b es id es cons id era bl e been offered by the Commissioners of Woods and Forests for the discovery and apprehension of the guilty parties. THORWALDSEPL — According to an account from Copenhagen, contained in the Ilague Journal, Thorwaldsen was the son of an Icelandic sailor, who was also a carver of those rude wooden figures which are placed at the heads of vessels. He was born at sea, while his mother was passing from Raisciavik in Iceland, to Copenhagen, in 1769. At an early period he lost both his parents. Being admitted' pu pil in the class of design of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts at Copenhagen, he carried off; in 1794, the great prize with which a pension is given of 2,400 francs for four years, in order to enable the successful candidate to complete his studies in Rome. A - Bill, CHARITABLE PAW N SOCIETIES , --ti.to pro vide for the establishment and regulation of Charitable Pawn Societies," has been drawn up and introduced into Legislature by. Mr. Cowper and Mr. Hutt, the Members for Hertford and Gateshead. It contains twenty clauses, and enacts that societies may be formed for raising among the members thereof a stock or fund for the purpose of advancing money on property taken in pledge or pawn, the rate of interest not to'exceed five per cent. per annum. The operation of the Bill Guernsey, Jersey, and Man. is extended to Great Britain, Berwick, and the isrands of THE NEW SOLICITOR-GENERAL (From the Morning Herald-) Late on Saturday evening Sir Frederick Pollock received an official intimation of his appointment to the office of Lord ' Chief Baron of the Exchequer - Sir William Follett of his appointment to be Attorney-General; and Mr. Thesiger of his appointment to be Solicitor. General. The first two of the above announcements have long been anticipated as almost matters of course, but the last has oc casioned very anxious consideration to the Government. While fully recognising the eminent qualifications of Mr. Fitzroy Kelly for the important office of Solicitor-General, it was found impossible to overlook the seniority, both at the bar, and as one of her Majesty's counsel, of Mr. Thesiger, who had, moreover, been already twice passed over in the elevation of Sir William Follett to the post which he has just quitted, and of Mr. Justice Cresswell to a seat on the bench of the Common Pleas. Mr. Thesiger was called to the bar in the year 1818, and Mr. Kelly not till the year 1824, and Mr. Thesiger obtained a silk gown so long before Mr. Kelly that no fewer than 17 gentlemen obtained that distinction between Mr. Thesiger and Mr. Kelly. Under these circumstances the Government were na turally anxious to avoid so signal a slight upon Mr. Thesiger as would haVe been inflicted upon him by the appointment of Mr. Kelly.. This, we believe, is the consideration which determined the choice of the Government. It is not, more • over, difficult to imagine that, knowing that Mr. Kelly had been retained on behalf of Mr. O'Connell and his fellow tra versers to conduct the proceedings about to take place in the House of Lords as their leading counsel, Ministers would feel a great delicacy in depriving them of such invaluable assis tance as that of Mr. Kelly. This must inevitably have been the case bad Mr. Kelly been promoted to . the Solicitor-Ge neralship. (From the Morning Chronicle.) The Solicitor-Generalship has been conferred upon Mr. Thesiger. We cannot flatter him, or those who have ap pointed him, by saying that, in our opinion, he is likely to make an efficient law officer. As a lawyer no one can com pare him with Mr. Kelly. It does Sir Robert Peel, there fore, more honour that he has refused to consent to the ap pointment of the latter. We have stated our unequivocal objections to the appointment of Mr. Kelly; and we feel a pleasure, therefore, in acknowledging the merit of overlook ing all inducements of expediency, in comparison with the higher considerations that rendered that appointment inad missible. We understand that Sir Frederick Pollock will be sworn in as, hief Baron to-day. The new writs for Hun tingdon, Exeter, and Woodstock will, we presume, be moved to-night. _ _ (From the Times.) The elevation of Sir Frederick Pollock to the Chief Barony of the Exchequer may now be spoken of as a fait accompli, and the consequent appointment of Sir William Follett and Mr. Thesiger to the respective offices of Attorney and Soli citor-General as equally certain. In this distribution of legal patronage—as far at least as regards the two first mentioned gentlemen—there is hardly anything to astonish, certainly nothing whatever to offend, the public mind. The long, laborious, and successful career of Sir F. Pollock at the bar, his affable demeanour, his popularity with the profession, and, above all, the judicial character of his mind, have for some time past confirmed those claims to high pro motion which the usual routine of succession might justify any Attorney-General in preferring. Nor do we suppose that any man, of whatever party, will express other senti ments than those of satisfaction at seeing the office which was filled by Sir Frederick Pollock bestowed on one whose erudition and varied attainments were early re warded with a celebrity which has often been denied to the incessant labours of a long life. If any emotion of a different nature mingles itself with the feelings, not only of lawyers, but of the public, it can only be one of regret, sincere and general, for the ill-health which must for some little time prevent the most distinguished advocate and most accom plished lawyer of his day from entering on the active per formance of his new duties, and perhaps render his prolonged tenure of office uncertain. We cannot dismiss this subject without expressing a wish, apparently more personal than political in its bearings, but from which we are anxious to separate every personal consideration. It has become, we believe, of late years, pretty much a matter of course to offer the dignity of the Peerage to the chiefs of the three Courts at Westminiter. Nor have there been many instances of such a dignity being refused. The present venerable Chief Justice of the Common Pleas has exhibited a peculiar and exceptional prudence in declining to accept the questionable and unprofitable honour. We hope that his example, at once so rare and so sensible, will be imitated by the new Chief Baron. We are not making objections—nor do we think that there exist solidreasons for objecting—to the tenure of seats in the House of Lords by the superior Judges of the land. On the contrary, we are ready to admit that, on some occasions, the Upper House might derive considerable benefit, both in its legislative and its judicial capacity, from the assistance of the judges ; and that, so far, it is a salu tary and proper exercise of the prerogative to raise the chiefs of the Queen's Bench, Exchequer, or Common Pleas to the rank of Peers. But when it is borne in mind that the Peer ages thus conferred are not for life only, but hereditary; that the Legislature in this way not only receives the benefit of a learned judge's permanent assistance during his lifetime, but is also illumined by a succession of sons and sons sons after him ; the propriety of conferring such an honour, and the prudence of accepting it, appear equally ambiguous. We hold it to be a sound constitutional principle, that at least the majority of the Peerage should consist of men secured by the competency of their fortunes from the temptations of Ministerial dependence—men with ample estates, unembar rassed means, and independent principles. When a Peerage is poor, it must become servile; where servile, contemptible; and from contempt there is but one step to annihilation. For this reason we should feel disposed to restrict—except on some very peculiar occasions—the dignity of the Upper House to those whose fortunes would enable them to transmit it without compromise or qualification to their posterity. Ex ceptions in favour of high desert and brilliant services will, of course, occur; . but such exceptions are by their very na ture too rare to justify the present universal fashion of making law Lords. Besides this, in the case of extraordinary diplo matic or military services, the Legislature always anticipates the miseries of a poor peerage by conferring a pension for two or three lives. Even this indeed is rather an acknow ledgment than a remedy of a great evil. It serves only to stave off for a generation or two that most wretched of com plications—the union of rank and indigence, pride and po verty, pretension and starvation. It keeps two Peers on short commons, and then starves the third outright. However, in sufficient as this system is towards supporting in decency these whom it elevates to dignities, it is better, or at a n y ra t e l ess objectionable pri m a facie, than the universal creation of law Peers. The latter transmit no pensions with their titles. All that they can leave their successors is what they have saved themselves from their professional earnings, often during the last years of their lives ; sufficient, for the most part, to maintain the respectable station of a private gentle man, but wholly inadequate to meet the expenses of an In dependent and hereditary senator. We have already enough of law Lords ; more than enough of law Lords' sons. If judges go on accepting peerages at the rate they have done for the last fourteen or fifteen years, we shall have a respect.. able proportion of " new peers" (as Lord Brougham, with patrician superciliousness styles them) running about in a vain attempt to establish a settlement in St. Clement's Danes, by proving an ancestral connexion with Old-square or King's Bench-walk. We therefore trust that Sir Frederick Pollock's fatherly care for the welfare of the profession will induce him to set the profitable example of declining a dignity which in some cases has been ruinous, and in all is barren. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—With reference to the late accident at the Joint Terminus of the Brighton, Dover, and Croy don Railways, in the Kent-road, we consider it ne cessary shortly to state, that although we are the Contractors for the whole of the works at that station, our Firm was not concerned in the erection of the Iron Roofing to which the accident occurred, nor were any of our workmen employed thereon. We shall be obliged by the insertion of this expla nation."—We are, Sir, your obedient servants, GRISSELL and PETO. Lambeth, April 13. THE THREE-AND-A-HALF PER CENTS.-Holders to the amount of 8,000,000 L have concurred to take the New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. Annuities. This stock only comprises a seventieth part of the National Debt, or thereabout : i, e. 10,000,0001. As the price of 'the Three-and-a-Half per Cents. of 1818 is now 103, it follows that the few remaining holders will lose that per cent. less the half year's dividend to October next, by re maining passive. Although we have on a previous occa sion. warned the holders of the Three-and-a-Half per Cents. to send in their adhesion, or they must take 1001. cash for 1001. stock, it may be as well to state that their position will be damaged to the extent mentioned, if they do not assent before Saturday next. Holders residing abroad have an extended period allowed to them. As respects the other portions of the Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Annuities, in the ~ ,r oss amounting t 0240,000,00 01 ., the dissents (for the holders of these were required to say nay, ,if ill-pleased with the Chancellor's offer), as mentioned under this head a fornight since, do not place the Treasury in any difficulty, as under 100,0001. will be required to settle their claims. A word or two more as to the remaining 2,000,000/. of Three-and-a-Half per Cents. of 1818. Those who have dissented, as well at those holders who have assented, must regret the course they have taken, seeing that the Three-and. a-Half per Cents. obtain an average of about 34 per cent. above par. The Directors of the Bank of England have taken means to inform the holders of the 1818 Stock that they must assent, or they will be paid off at par, by sending round circulars, the numerous inquiries at the office of their-chief cashier proving that there are still many who do not understand their position.-Observer. ROYAL PALACES, GARDENS, &c.-On Saturday a Parliamentary return was issued, showing the sums re ceived by the Commissioners of the Woods and Forests. on account of each of the Royal palaces, gardens, parks, &c., for rents, pasturage, sale of unserviceable timber, &c.., for the year 1842-3. It appears that 1,080/. 4s. 10d. was received from Hyde, St. James's, and the Green Parks, of which sum 662 L 10s. was as rent of grass land and pasturage ; 701. was paid for pasturage in Kensing ton Gardens_; 551 L 15s. sd. for the like in Regent's Park; 379/. 18s. 6d. in Richmond Park ; 31L 14i. in Windsor Park, ansi 1,060/. 6s. Bd. for the same in Phoenix Park, Dublin. Greenwich Park only produced in the year 61. for old timber, &c. It appears that 3141. 13s. was obtained for keys of the pleasure grounds in the Three Parks, and 379/. 2s. from the same source in the Regent's Park. The return shows the receipts since the year 1838. Prince Albert purchased on behalf of the Crown, of the executors of William the Fourth, certain stock on the farms called the the Norfolk and Flemish, and the Home. Park Farm. His Royal Highness paid in 1838, 2,402/ 15s. 6d.; in 1839, 2,7291. 12s. 2d.; in 1840, 2,6781. 9s. Bd.; in 1840-1 three sums of 3,320 E 165., 1,771/. 10s. Id., and 3,422/ 7s. 6d.; and in 1842-3, the sum of 2,000/. The stock so purchasad was the private property of the late King. The return was moved for by Mr. Williams. UNFORTUNATE OCCURRENCE.-OD Monday after noon two little boys, tempted by the-fineness of the day, went to play in a wood at a short distance from their re sidence, at Lamgum, in Pembrokeshire. They unfortu nately met with a quantity of the roots of the hemlock, of which they both partook so freely, that en their re turn home one of them fell down insensible; the other lad went-to call assistance, which was procured, and the poor little fellow, after being con ve y e d to a neighbouring cottage, died in violent convulsions. During the time the other lad had strayed off, and being misse d , as found on the bank of a neighbouring river, quite w neighbouring. A small quantity of the ab ove root g fatal, if taken into the stomach.-Bristol Mercury, On the departure of Bishop • Selwyn for his diocese of cannibals, N . e w Zealand, the Rev. Sydney Smith is said 4o have taken leave of him in these affecting terms " Good bye, Selwyn ; I ho e you will not disagree with %ll* man that 'eats yo " A Ft U.Advertiser. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, SUNDAY.—Yesterday their Excellencies Count Bjornstjerna, the Swedish Minister, and General Stjernerona, on a special mission from his Majesty King Oscar, arrived at the Castle on a visit to the Queen. The Earl of Aberdeen, her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, also arrived at the Castle in the evening from town. _ _ _ The King and Queen of the Belgians, the Duchess of Kent, and the Prince of Leiningen, went' yesterday murn ing to Bushy Purk, to pay a visit to the Queen Dowager. The Illustrious Party partook of a dejeune with her Majesty, and afterwards proceeded to Clare mont. The Queen of the Belgians, the Duchess of Kent, and the Prince of Leiningen, returned to the Castle in the evening to dinner. The King of the Belgians remained at Claremont. The Queen, accompanied by her august visitors, walked yesterday forenoon in the grounds adjoining the Castle. The Royal Family were taken their usual airings yes terday. His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horse back, in the middle of the day. This morning her Majesty and Prince Albert, the Ladies and Gentlenien of the Royal suite and the House hold, attended Divine service in the private chapel of the Castle. The Hon. and Rev. C. L. Courtenay officiated. Her Majesty the Queen of the Belgians attended Di vine service, this morning, in the Roman Catholic chapel, Clewer-green. The Rev. F. Wilkinson officiated. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and her Lady in Waiting, attended Divine service to-day in the parish church. _ _ The Queen and Prince Albert, took their usual early walk this forenoon. In the afternoon, Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Leiningen, rode out in a pony carriage, attended by Colonel Buck ley, Equerry in Waiting. The Royal Family were taken for their customary air ing this morning. The Court will, it is expected, leave the Castle on Tuesday next for Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, arrived at her re sidence, Marlborough House, Pall-mall, in a carriage and four, at half-past three o'clock on Saturday after noon from Bushy House, Bushy Park. Her Ma jesty's Suite included the Dowager Lady Clinton, the Honourable Caroline Boyle, and Earl Howe. Yesterday morning, the Queen Dowager attended Divine service in the'Chapel Royal, St. James's. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Dibdin, who touk his text from Psalms et, verse 3. The prayers were read by the Rev. Dr. Knapp ; the lessons by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, and the Communion service by the Bishop of London, The musical service was Nares in C. ; the sanctus Arnold's in C. The anthem " Give the King" (Boyce) was sung by Messrs. Hawkins and Horncaqle. The Marquis of Huntley, Lords Cawdor, Cathcart, Howe, Tyrconnel, Wilton, Wharncliffe, Ernest Bruce, and De Manley ; and Ladies Wilton, Wharncliffe, and Ernest Bruce, were among the nobility present. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday, at Marlborough House. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, at tended by Baroness Ahlefeldt and Baron Knesebeck, honoured Drury-lane Theatre with her presence on Sa turday evening. A Cabinet Council was held at two o'clock on Satur day afternoon, at the Foreign-office. It was attended by Sir Robert Peel, the Lord Chancellor, Earl of Aber- deen, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Earl of Haddington, Earl of Ripon, the Right Hon. W. C. Gladstone, Sir henry Hardinge, and Sir Edward Knatchbull. Sir H. Hardinge and Sir E. Knatchbull arrived in town in the forenoon from Kent, to attend the Council. The Earl of Haddington also arrived in the afternoon. The Council sat two hours and a half. The Lord Chancellor arrived in town on Friday from Turville Park. Lord Wharncliffe, Lord President of the Council, ar rived in town on Saturday evening from his seat, Wortley Hall, Yorkshire. Sir William Follett, Solicitor-General, arrived in town on Saturday from Tunbridge Wells. Sir William trans acted business at the Treasury in the afternoon. The Turkish Ambassador transacted business at the Foreign-office on Saturday. Dispatches from the Governor of the Cape of Go'od Hope were received on Sunday at the Colonial•office. Lord and Lady Villiers arrived at Farrance's Hotel, Belgrave-street, for the season, on Friday evening, from Upton House, Warwickshire. ' The Earl of Aberdeen left town on Saturday after noon, on a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. Hoc, RACES.—SATURDAY. The Farmers' Plate (handicap) given by the Hunt. Once round the New Course. Mr. Nightingale's Alice, 3 yrs, 9st 51b ...(Owner) 1 1 Mr. Thorn's Pauline, 12st 0 2 Mr. Oldaker's Harpenden, list 71b i 0 Mr. Parrott's Miss Frances, list 71b Mr. Smith's The Unknown, 10st 71b Mr. Delme's Zara, list 71b Mr. Hayward's First Turn Out, lOst 101 b Won easy. Match-50 sovs, T.Y.C. Radcliffe's ch g Sheldrake, lOst 101 b (Owner), beat Mr. Brand's Sharp, list 31b (Owner). A race all the way, and won only by half a length. . - - - The Hitchin Priory Stakes of 15 sous. each, 5 ft. (11 Subs.) Lord Verulam's Robert de Gorham, 4 yrs, 1 Ist 121 b 1 Hon. G. Ongley's Humility, 5 yrs, 1 Ist 61 b Mr. Higgins' Europa, 5 yrs, 1 lst 61b 3 Any odds on Robert, who took the running out of his opponents for the first quarter of a mile, and cantered in by himsel£ The Hunters' Sweepstakes of 10 sous. each, list 71b. Once round. (3 Subs.) Capt. Alexander's Symphony (Owner) 1 Mr. D. Radcliffe's Sheidrake Mr. Brand's Sweep Symphony made strong running all the way, and won easily by two lengths. Match-50 sous. Hitchin Priory Course.—Captain Alexander's Symphony, lOst lolb (Capt. Oliver) beat Mr. Delme Radcliffe's the Lad, llst 71b (owner). Won easy by a length. The Fox Challenge Cup was walked over for by Mr. Ongley's Warden. The Scurry Stakes of 5 sous., &c., were won by Lord Verulam's Camelino (lion. G. Ongley), beating Mr. Nightingale's Ascot, Mr. Shelley's Nizza, and two others. DUTCH AND FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS, APRIL 11.—His Majesty has not ac cepted the resignation tendered by M. Deschamps, Minister of Public Works. We are assured that their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians will return to Brussels on the 19th of this month. Their Majesties will afterwards go to Paris, at the time of the fete (saint's-day) of the King of,the French, which will be marked this year by the solemn opening of the exhibition of the national manufactures. M. Bareel, chief clerk of the division of the Post office in the department of Public Works, embarked at Ostend yesterday, for London. If we are rightly informed, the mission of M. Bareel is connected with a negotiation which will do honour to the Government, namely, to establish a daily communication by steamers, and likewise to re duce the postage of English letters, and to abolish the obligation of paying the postage before-hand. THE HAGUE, APRIL 11.-L-We learn with pleasure that the Temperance Society formed here has already correspondents in several towns in the kingdom, who are labouring with great success to promote the laudable objects of the society. His Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Alexander of Pruss'a arrived here yesterday evening, on a visit to their Majesties, and alighted at the Royal Palace. It is said that Lis Imperial Highness will make a very short stay, and perhaps leave the Hague this day. ST. PETERSBURGH, MARCII 21.—T0 cheek the continental emigration of the Jews over the frontiers, the followinc , resolution of the Council of the E m pi re , sanctioned by e ' his Majesty the Emperor, has been just published as a law : " Jews who, without legal licenses, or with licenses which have expired, go over the frontiers, when they have, before been recognised as actual Russian sub jects, and as such brought back into the empire, shall be given up to the local Government authorities, who shall deal with them according to the laws relating to deserters and vagrants, even when their former places of residence, and the parishes to which they belong, are known. According to the laws the y shal l be employed in the military service; in case they are unfit for it be placed in what are called the penal companies, without the right of being given up to their parishes, if the latter shall desire it. If they are not fit for hard work in public works they sh a ll b e sent, with their wives , to settle in Sibeira." DRIIRT-LANE THEATRE.—There is an unusual de gree of excitement created by the performances of this evening, because they present the combined attraction of a new danseuse arid a new ballet. Mademoiselle Lucile Grahn has never before been in this country, but she brings with her a high reputation both from France and Italy ; while the ballet of Lady Henriette is at this mo ment all . the rage in Paris. When we add that, with these attractions is united that of The Bohemian Girl, it will be admitted that the bill of fare is most inviting. STATE OF CRIME IN LEEDS.—The return of the number of persons taken into custody in Leeds for various offences during the first three months of the pre sent year, shows a great comparative diminution of crime in the borough. The total number of persons taken into custody on various charges was in January last, 200 ; February, 161 ; and March, 110. Com paring this three months' return with the corresponding period of last year, we find a decrease of persons taken into custody of 164. In the month of March, 1843, the number of prisoners was greater by 90 than in March last, and even this year there were 90 prisoners less in March than January, and 51 less than in February. There is little doubt that the present favourable state of the borough arises from the improved condition of the inhabitants, consequent upon a revival of trade.—Leeds Paper. In order to expedite the completion of the two experimental 12-gun brigs, building at Chatham-yard, an order - has been received for the men employed on them to work from• six o'clock in the morning until dark at night.—Dover Chronicle. IRELAND. OPENING OF TERM-THE STATE TRIALS. DUBLIN, Aran. 13.—1 t is currently rumoured that Chief Justice Pennefather is ill of the gout, and that it is doubtful whether he will be able to take his seat on the Queen's Bench at the opening of term on Monday next. The absence of the Chief Justice, if such should occur, would, not neces sarily interfere with' the judgment on the traversers in the State prosecutions; but circumstances may arise to cause a postponement if he were unable to attend during term. The traversers are likely to =apply for a new trial, on various grounds, including misdirection to the jury on the part of the Chief Justice. If this course should be deter mined upon, the traversers would have to-apply at once for a conditional order for a new trial. The Crown might oppose such an application at once, or, allowing the con ditional rule, have a day. fixed for showing'cause against the motion. If this point should be raised, judgment could not. of course, be pronounced until it were decided. INCREASE OF THE IRISH NAVAL: SQUADRON. A letter from Cove states that two or three vessels of war, with reinforcements of marines, were expected to join Ad miral Bowles on that station. It was supposed that this sudden augmentation of the squadron was caused by the expected judgment on the traversers on the State trials. Another manifestion of ministerial sagacity ! IMPORTANT MEETING OF THE REPEAL ASSO- QUEEN'S BENCH . -(THIS DAY). The Judges, who had, according to, custom, breakfasted with the Lord Chancellor, did not take their seats upon the bench until a quarter before Oro-o'clock. • THE QUEEN V. TENDELL.-QUO WARRANTO. Mr. KELLY move:l for a rule nisi for a quo warranto, call ing upon George Tendell, to show by what right he claimed to exercise the rights of a capital burgess of the borough of Ilchester. A rule had been applied for last term, and he be lieved it had been discharged on the ground that the relator had concurred in Mr. Tindell's election. The present relator was not in that situation. The ground on which the rule was applied for was that Mr. Tendell was not an inhabitant of the borough. Lord DExmArt—The rule which was applied for last term is still pending. Mr. WATsox—l was in the case, my Lord, and it was en larged the last day of term. ' Mr. KELLY hoped the present rule would be granted. Lord DENnAN—Certainly not. We will take a note of your application, but we cannot grant two rules for the sam• cause.—Application refused. EXCHEQUER COURT-THIS DAY. (Sittings in Banco.) The Judges did not take theirseats on the bench till shortly before two o'clock. The Court was thronged to a degree mnch greater than is usual even on the days which mark the commencement of each term ; a small portion of the throng consisted of fashionably-dressed ladies. There seemed to be a very general expectation that Sir F. Pollock would take his seat on the Bench as Chief Baron ; and when the Learned Judges entered the Court unaccompanied by the Learned Gentleman, the general feeling of disappointment on the part of the sight-seers was very evident. Their Lordships immediately proceeded to dispose of mo tions. PERRDT V DAVENPORT. This was an action against the Sheriff of Chester for not ar resting a person named Buckfield, against whom judgment had been obtained. A verdict had been obtained for the plaintiff, and Mr. Jervis now moved for a new rule to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside, and a verdict entered for the defendant. One of the grounds relied on for the application was, that the writ had not been deli vered to the defendant within the due term prescribed by law Baron PARxE—Take a rule to show cause. There were some other motions disposed of, but they were not of an interesting nature. THE WILLS FORGERIES. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS 'DAY.) OLD COURT. CONTINUATION OF THE TRIAL OF BARBER, FLETCHER, AND MRS. DOREY. - The Learned Judges took their seats upon the bench at ten o'clock, at which time the Court was densely crowded, more particularly by ladies, most of whom were young and elegantly attired, and who, if we could-judge from the levity and apparent glee with which they rushed to their seats on the bench and in other parts of the Court, seemed to con sider the awful position in which the three unfortunate pri soners were placed as a mere theatrical exhibition. Mr. GREAVES, on behalf of Fletcher, said, before the Learned Baron commenced his charge to the jury, he wished to raise one point for their Lordships' consideration. [At this moment Mrs. Dorey fainted, and was some time before she regained consciousness.) Mr. Greaves then con tended that in point of fact, in this case, the administration taken out, and the bond granted to the actual individual, although under a false name (according to the law as it stood, since the alteration, in the year 1761), were good. Mr. Baron GURNEY then proceeded to charge the jury, and said, that a most important point for their consideration would be to reflect upon how far the evidence went to in clude the several prisoners, either as accessories or principals, in the offence with which they were charged. (He went through his notes at length, and read all the documents ad duced during the evidence, which have been already pub lished in The Sun, commenting upon the various points as he proceeded.) With respect to a portion of the evidence con • cerning Barber, he thought there was some which seemed to tell in his favour, and one very important point for the jury to consider was the evidence relating to the age of Jane Stewart ; for if she was only 40 or 50 years of age, she could not be so decrepid a person as the one seen at the office of Barber. It would be also important to remark, that when he was applied to with respect to the payment of 31.35. 9d., he at once gave the right address of the prisoner Stewart ; and certainly this did not appear very much like an anxiety to keep the parties with whom he was connected a secret. Another point for the jury to consider was, that Barber, al though a professional man, gave the name of Peckham, al though he had given his residence in Nelson-square. A fact which -had been urged strongly in his favour was, that Hyatt's visit occurred in October instead of June. This was a matter for the most serious consideration of the jury, for the bond had been executed before the latter period. They should be very careful not to allow the confession of Mrs. Dorey to operate on their minds, because the part taken by her in this case was open to strong censure, as she must have known that Fletcher required her agency to procure money b w ea hi r c i h ngs was of n t o h t e h w i s h o o w l e n . case, They an ands should t l h o e o kpcaar particular Barber was a professional man, and althou g h, according to o s tn i h t e i ey on,s of each of the parties. They s hould recollect that the evidence of Hyatt, he had given the name of Clarence Peckham, yet he gave his right address. Griffin stated in his evidence that Barber had been present in the office of Pott till the business was completed, and that he also had been present at the Bank; but it was also stated that he was pre sent there in his professional capacity as an attorney. They should also remember that although a large sum of money was obtained, the sum allotted to him did not exceed the ordinary professional remuneration which was given in such cases. There could be no doubt but that Fletcher had taken a conspicuous part in all those nefarious transactions, more especially when they reflected upon the circumstances stated by Mr. Christmas, whom he had corrupted. He (Baron Gurney) thought it was clear, also, that the prisoner Dorey had taken an active part in those proceedings—more so when they found her statement confirmed by that of Griffin. With these observations, he would remit the jury to the consideration of their verdict. The jury retired, and after an absence of about ten mi nutes returned into Court with a verdict of Acquittal in the case of Barber, and of Guilty against Fletcher and Dorey. Mr. Barber stood in the dock during the greater part of the time the Learned Judge was delivering his charge, but when the verdict of " Not Guilty"' was returned, and several friends hurried to the bar to shake him by the hand, he put his hand to his face, and leant down upon the dock, app. rently much affected. Mrs. Dorey again fainted upon hear ing the verdict, and was carried out of the dock. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. UNION HALL.-(THIS DAY.) A young married woman named Roberts, with an infant in her arms, was charged with stealing a piece of beef weigh ing 101bs., belonging to a butcher in the Kent-road. The complainant stated that on Saturday night the prisoner came into his shop, which was crowded at the tine, and, in the confusion of business, was observed to snatch up the piece of beef, and, placing it under her shawl, walked out, and when stopped, she dropped the meat on the pave ment. The butcher added that he would not have pressed the charge if he had not discovered that the woman was not in want, she having a large joint of pork at home at the time of the robbery. It was further stated that the prisoner's husband was in good circumstances, and that he allowed his wife a sufficiency to provide the necessary provisions for the family. The prisoner endeavoured to induce a belief, that the meat (10 lbs.) had adhered to her dress without her knowledge. Mr. TRAIL said that it was obvious the theft was not com mitted by a person who was reduced by distress, but by one who did it probably to obtain liquor, it being stated, that she was addicted to that propensity. It was such a case as should go before a jury, and as a material witness was not present, he should therefore, remand her. QUEEN-SQUARE.-(THIS DAY.) Thomas Gates was charged with riding a horse at a furious rate along York-street, 'yesterday, between twelve and one o'clock. The horse had no bridle, and many pehons were placed in considerable danger by the recklessness of the de fendant. He was fined 205., or in default to be committed for one month. - I The horse, which is .the property of a person living at Kingston, Surrey, was detained until claimed, and the fine paid. A respectably dressed youth, named" John Morse, was charged by 147 B with tossing halfpence on Sunday morning, with other lads. The mother and grandmother of the lad stepped forward and expressed their regret at the youth's misconduct, stating that if the Magistrate would look over this, his first offence, they would take care that such misconduct was not repeated. Mr. PAINTER severely reprimanded the youth, and said that he should have felt it his duty to have inflicted a larger penalty had he not received a good character from the de fendant's mother and grandmother. He should, under those circumstances, only inflict a fine of three shillings. Two labouring men, named Herbert and Howard, natives of the " Emerald Isle," were charged with creating a dis turbance, and assaulting the police. From the statement of several constables, it appeared that the defendants conducted themselves in an exceedingly vio lent manner, and, when requested to go away without creating any further disturbance, they assaulted police constable 115 A knocked him down, tore his clothes, and split his truncheon, which he was obliged to draW in self defence. He sprang his rattle, and five constables came to his assistance, and had the greatest difficulty in taking the defendants into custody. They were both drunk, or, to use the expressive words of one of the policemen, " they seemed quite mad altogether." Herbert was further charged with striking a policeman at the station-house. The defendants, in answer to the charge, said, that they had been seriously assaulted by the police, but adMitted that they were drunk. Herbert was fined 11. 70. 6d., or one month's imprisonment, Howard, 1/. 55., or three , weeks' imprisonment. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PonTsmoum, APRIL 14.—Tut NEW 12-GUN BRIGS.— Another of the experimentall.2-gun brigs, the Flyin* Fish, upon Sir W. Symonds's (Surveyor of the Navy) principle, was launched at Pembroke Dockyard on Wednesday, the 3d, and was immediately docked to be coppered and jury-rigged, preparatory to being brought to this port for commission. It is reported that when ready the brigs will be sent to Ireland, to augment the squadron of Rear-Admiral Bowles, under whose orders and directions the trial of superiority, &c., will take place, which is looked forward to in the naval world with intense interest. The following are the dimensions and draught of water of the Flying Fish :--, Feet. Inches. Length between perpendiculars lO3 1 Length of keel for tonnage , Bl 7 Breadth, extreme 32 4i Breadth for tonnage 32 Oi Breadth moulded 3l 6 Depth in hold l4 4 Draught of water afore 9 0 Draught of water abaft l2 2 Burden in tons 445 49-94. The Prometheus steam-vessel was undocked yesterday, and the Collingwood, 80, docked in her stead, to have her copper cleaned, preparatory to being commissioned by Capt. Eden for the flag of. Sir G. Seymour, who has, we are in formed, accepted the command in the Pacific. Several flag officers are named as likely to succeed Sir George at the Ad miralty Board, but to whom the vacant seat will fall is not yet announced. The Pearl, 20, Commodore Stopford, is daily looked for in England, having left Rio de Janeiro on the 28th of January. The Cleopatra, 24, Captain Wyvill, was in Simon's Bay en the 18th of January, refitting. The Pilot, 18, Commodore Jervis, left Simon's Bay on the 28th of January, for Singapore and Hong-Kong. She left Rio on the 18th of December. _ The Winchester, 50, flag of Rear-Admiral Hon. Jocelyn Percy, C. 8., was in Simon's Bay on the 30th of January,and was shorty to proceed to the western coast of Africa. The Switzerland, American packet-ship, arrived at Spit head yesterday evening. In Dock—Prince Jteient, Collingwood, Rodney, Athol, Scourge, Lily. In Harbour—St. Vincent, Victory, Excellent, Victoria and Albert, and Black Eagle, Echo, and Fearless steamers. At Spithead—Switzerland, American packet-ship. DEVONPORT, Arm. 12 —The Pantaloon, 1,0, Lieutenant C. H. Lapidge, arrived yesterday from the coast of Africa. She left Gambia River on the 29th of December, and Sierra Leone on the 7th of January, touched at Ascension, from whence she sailed on the 13th of February. The Madagascar .and Heroine had left Ascension some days prior, the former for the Cape Verds, and the latter for Accra. The Ferret was off Cape Mount on the 12th of February. The Pantaloon touched at Porto Praya on the 10th of March, for water, from which place the Madagascar had sailed on the sth to cruise among the islands. The Pantaloon left on the 12th of March, and in the early part of the present month experienced very heavy gales off the Western Islands. The First Lieutenant (Walter Reid) of the Madagascar came home in the Panta loon. The Pacific, Rear-Admiral Thomas, Commander-in- Chief, was off Sabre on the Ist of January. The Petrel, 6; Lieutenant Commanding T. Crozier, arrived from Falmouth on the 4th, and, having completed her stores and provisions, will be paid wages in a few days, and return to her station at Falmouth, SHIPS ADVANCED AND FOR IMMEDIATE COMMISSION.— The St. George, 120 ' • the Royal Adelaide, 104 ; the Nile, 92 ; the Bombay, 84; the Clarence, 84 ; the Calcutta, 84 ; the Vanguard, 80 ; the Foudroyant, 78 ; the Implacable, 72 ; the Endymion, 44; the Melampus, 42 ; the Persian, 16; the Pandora, 16. The flag-ship Caledonia, 120, Captain A. Milnes, went out of harbour on Thursday, and proceeded on a short cruise. She returned to her moorings, which have been laid down for her in the Sound, the same afternoon. In Harbour—The San Josef, the America, and Confiance. In the Sound—Trhe Caledonia, the pantaloon, and Petrel. SHEERNESS, APRIL 12.—The Pylades, 18, is ordered to be sold out of the service. She was built by Sir Robert Sep pings, and was one of the experimental squadron of 1830, and contended with the Columbine, also built by Sir Robert Sep pings, and Orestes, built by Dr. Inman, both which ships proved her superiors. The Bonetta, Commander Brock, and Sparrow, Lieut. Otter, surveying vessels, are nearly ready for sea at Chatham. The new 12-gun brigs Mutine and Espiegle will be launched about the 20th at Catham. The Phoenix steam-frigate is being got ready for commis sion at Deptford, and will soon be completed, also the Virago new steam. vessel. The Raven cutter, Lieutenant Commander John Stephen; arrived on Saturday from-Plymouth. The Boscawen, 70, was taken into the basin on Tuesday, and docked on riday. The Amazon, 42, in addition to other alterations, will re ceive a new square stern. In Harbour:—Camperdown, Ocean, Raven, and African. . In Dock—Boscawen, Ganges, Amazon, Cygnet, and tEolus. PROMOTIONS. Commanders—W. Smyth and G. Dobson, to the rank of Captains ; W. Style, to the rank of retired Captain. Retired Commanders—D. Shewen, E. K. C. Bacon, W. Knight, J. Valobra, T. Consitt, to be retired Commanders, under order in Council of the 30th of January, 1816. Lieutenants—R.ls r . Pelley, C. B. Hamilton, C. J. Feather stone, M. Thomas, fo the rank of Commanders; S. Sison, B. Thirlwall, B. Ashley, G. Ranishay, V. W. H. Boyle, to be retired Commanders, under order in Council of the Ist of November, 1830. Mates—G. G. Phillips. J. Townsend, H. G. Veitch, J. H. shairp, J. W. Probert, s G-M. Alldridge, P. W. Gibson, C. Raynier, H. G. St. John Mildmay, B. E. Hawke, F. C. Her bert, to the rank of Lieutenants. Second Masters- - W. Hyne, H. D. Burney, T. C. Pullen, G. Collier, V. G. Roberts, to the rank of Masters. Assistant Surgeons—F. N. Slight, M.D. ;J. Walsh, M.D. ; R. D. Mason, W. W. Baynes, R. J. B. Chambers, H. M'Far lane to the rank of Surgeons. Midshipmen—C. 11. Shipley, F. F. Nicholson, to the rank of Mates. Masters' Assistanp—W.-*Brodie, W. H. Fetch, C. Grigg, J. Wallace, F. Macbtan, A. 0. West, G. H. Foster, W. T. Chapman, W. F. Farrant, fo the rank of Second Masters. ArPQLTTMFI~TS. Commander—Henry Layton, to the Pandora: Lieutenants—J. D. Agassiz, to the American; Thomas Anson, from the Queen, to the Aigle • H. F. Elliott, from the Illustrious to the Albatross; A. E. S. Winthropp, from the Cormorant to the Ardent, vice Bridge, who exchanged; J. J. Palmer, from the Serpent to the Cambrian; G. S. '1 ay lor, to the Clio; G. R. Holiday, from the Alfred to the Daphne ' • J. Hunt, from the Starling to the Dido ; H . St. J. George, from the Racer to the Growler; W. J. R. Cart, to the Hyacinth ; J. H. Shairp and H. G. St. J. Mildmay, ad. ditional, to the Illustrious; A. D. Jolly, , from the Illustrious to the Ringdove ; Hon. G. D. Keane, to the Vernon ; E. C. Miller, to the Volcano ; T. H. Downes, to the Firefly. Masters—J. N. King, to command the Alligator, vice Browne ; P. Wellington, to the Maiden ; H. Paul, from the Wolf to the Thalia. Surgeon—G. Willis, acting, to the St. Vincent, for service at Hasler Hospital. _ _ _ Second Masters—W. Linstone, to the Pigmy; N. Levell, acting, to the Rapid; G. S. Carr, acting, to the Tyne; H. D. Beach, acting, to the Vernon. Assistant-Surgeons—G. H. Ryan, J. A. Addison, and W. H. Burt, all additional, to the Illustrious ; R. Beith (acting), from the Starling to the Dido ; C. A. Anderson, to the Formidable ; D. Thompson, to the Griffin, vice Laffer ' • J. W. Moffatt, to the Hermes, vice Goodrich, promoted; C. Coffey, to the Hyacinth ; It. D. Pritchard, to the Maiden ; H. Weld, additional to the Queen; F. Woolridge, additional to the Caledonia. Clerks in Charge—J. Mallard to the Albert ;S. Winter to the Firefly. Masters Assistant—J. H. Kerr to the Flamer, from the Victory. Midshipmen—J. Harwood, to the St. Vincent ; Molyneux, to the Excellent; C. Chapman, from the Caledonia, to the America. COAST GUARD. ArrommENTs.—Lieut. W. G. Grand, R.N., to Leigh sta tion ; Lieut. C. W. Poynter, R.N., to the Sylvia, revenue cutter, vice Brewer; Lieut. T. Brewer, R.N., to Sennin sta tion, Cove ; Lieut. G. F. Westbrook, R.N., to the Tartar, revenue-cutter, vice Botcher, resigned; Lieut. R. Butcher, R.N., to Portobello station ; Lieut. J. Robinson (b) R.N., to Lepe station, vice Westbrook; Lieut. J. Davidson, to 24, Tower, vice Lory. R Em ovAL..—Lieut: C. B. Warren, from the Cadmus to the Mothercombe rotation, vice Lame, resigned. The Allgemeine Zeitung contains an article, by which it appears that Russia has obtained from the Turkish Government a document which legalises its pretensions to the Caucasus, and will permit it to treat as rebels the Tscherkessians (Circassians), with whom they have carried on a sanguinary war-for some years past. SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 14.—The Oriental Company's steam-ship" Lady Mary Wood, Captain Cooper, arrived here this morning at 10 o'clock from Gibraltar, and landed the Peninsula and Mediterranean mails, which will be forwarded by the mail train to-night to London. Her dates are—Gi braltar, the 6th inst. •, Cadiz, the 7th ; Lisbon, the 9th ; Oporto, the 10th; and Vigo, the 11th. ' On Wednesday last!the Baron de Bond 6 led to the altar, at the BritislrEmbassy, Paris, Lady Augusta Mar gare t Fitzclarence, youngest daughter of the late Earl of Munster, - and sister to the present Earl. The ceremony was performed in the presence of Lord and Lady Cowley and the Hon. Miss Wellesley, Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence (who gave away the noble bride), Lady Mary Fox, the Hon. Mrs. Dawson Darner, Mr. and Lady Jane Lawrence Peel, &c. Prince Demetrius Galitzin, who recently died at Paris, `was buried lad Friday in the Russian chapel, rue Neuve de Berry. - , . _ FOREIG CIATION. The weekly meeting of the Association was held on Saturday in the Conciliation Hall. Mr. O'Connell entered at one o'clock, and was received with loud cheers. On the motion of the Hon. Gentleman, the chair was taken by John Primrose, Esq., ex-J.P. The CILURMAN said he felt highly flattered at the com pliment paid to him in calling him to preside. Mr. RAY read the minutes of proceedings on the last day of meeting. Mr. O'CONNELL handed in 115/., transmitted by the Arch bishop of Tuam.—(Cheers.) A vote of thanks to the Archbishop was then carried by acclamation. Mr. O'ColixELL—l will now say, in order that I may not have to return to the subject again, that the course which I believe will be taken in reference to us is the fol lowing :—On Monday we will be called up for judgment, which, perhaps, will not be pronounced until Thursday, and on Thursday our writ of error may be entered. I believe that a writ of error in misdemeanour cases first lies to the twelve judges inlreland. That, I admit, is not the general opinion; but it is mine; I may be mistaken; yet I have no very great interest either way in their legal determination—it is my opinion, and no more. If it do lie with the twelve judges, it will go from them to Parliament. If not, it will go at once to Parliament, where it will be fully . argued ; and I have much pleasure in being able to inform you that there is every reason to suppose that the judgment will be quashed altogether.—(Cheers.) It is my own legal opinion that it ought to be quashed, and that opinion is given as unquestionably as if I was not myself concerned in the matter. My judgment is not in the slightest degree cloaked by my personal interest. The truth is, it is not my case personally—it is the case of Ireland.—(Cheers.) And find that the opinion I have just expressed is not only mine. but that also of the ablest lawyers both in England and Ireland. They say that the judgment ought to be quashed. At all events, it, will give us six weeks. and then, if at liberty, I will go over to England on Friday next, to hinder the attempt made to limit the franchise in Ireland from taking place, if possible, and prevent the transfer of the people's rights and privileges to the hands of a Tory aristocracy. At a subsequent part of the proceedings Mr. O'CONNELL corrected a misstatement that had . appeared in a book written by the Marquis D'Arlincourt, who stated that Mr. O'Connell was the author of a quotation used by him.at a public meeting, and inscribed by him in the Marquis's album. Mr. O'Connell said, " Now, I am a plain prose writer, and I neither wrote, nor said I wrote, the lines in question. You may recollect them ; they are as follow : " Oh, Erin, shall it e'er be mine To wreak thy wrongs in battle line; To raise my victor head, and see Thy hills, thy dales, thy peopl% free? That glance of bliss is all I crave' . Between my labours and the grave." (Cheers.) The rhyme is perfect, the versification excellent, and my disinclination to take the paternity is not because of any defect in them but it is a matter of fact—there is only one word which I inserted, and which I claim as my own compostion—that word. is Erin.'—(Cheers.) In the ori ginal lines the word was " Scotland"—they are from a poem by Miss Mitford, called Wallace'—a poem not as wall known as it ought to be." He then addressed the meeting on the Franchise Bill of Lord Eliot, of which he gave a minute analysis, pointing out the calamitous effect its provisions will have on the popular franchise in Ireland. With the blessing of Heaven, out of prison he would be in his place in Parliament, and divide the House one hundred times before he would allow such a Bill to pass—he would perish on the floor of the House of Commons, or defeat such an attempt to strike down any little remnant of popular rights as remained to them.—(Loud and long-continued cheers.) Now, who would tell him, when they saw such specimens of imperial legislation, that they ought ever to be content till they had a - Parliament in Dublin ? He trusted, however, that the opposition raised against it would be such as to prevent Lord Eliot's Bill passing before next Christmas.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. O'Connell then concluded by moving, " That the Association do take steps to procure the opinion of Ire land with regard to Lord Eliot's Bill ; and that the people be called upon to petition against the passing into a law of that atrocious measure."—(Cheers.) Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN having addressed the Association, Mr. O'CONNELL announced the repeal rent received since last meeting as 4031.95. 3d.—(Great cheering.) NEW ARRANGEMENTS OF THE POST-OFFICE. The new arrangements came into operation yesterday. The Merlin, Government steamer, left Kingstown, with the Eng lish mails for Birkenhead, at seven o'clock. She carried only four passengers. When nearing that place, the Merlin wa s to drop the north of England mails in a boat, to be kept in waiting to convey them to Liverpool; and she was then to proceed with the - London bags for Birkenhead.' EXECUTION AT TULLA MORE. Private George Jubee, found guilty, ai King's County assizes, of the murder of Adjutant Mackay, of the sth Fusi. Tiers, was executed on Wednesday. lie acknowledged the justice of his sentence, and was extremely penitent. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, APRIL 13.—Her Majesty the Queen Dowagtr has given the sum of 501. to the subscription recently commenced by the Provost and Fellows o 1 Queen's College, for the pur pose of forming a fund for ecclesiastical purposes, to be placed at the disposal of the Rev. Edward Fend, formerly a Fellow of that College, and recently appointed Bi s h o p o f Newfound land. His Lordship will embark for Newfoundland early in. May. 1 he erection of a new Choristers' School is now determini.d on by the President and Fellows of St. Mary Magdalene Col lege, who have approved of the design lately submitted to them by their architects Messrs. Buckler. Mr. Pugin's de sign for a new Gothic entrance gateway to the same College, in lieu of the present Doric structure, has been also approved of, and will immediately be carried into effect. Easter Term begins next Wednesday, when the new Proc tors will be admitted into office. The usual Latin sermon, 'before the commencement i.f Term, will be preached at St. Mary's on Tuesday by the Row. John Carr, late Fellow of Balliol College. • The Rev. Edward Dickinson Scott, Fellow. of Queen's Col lege, has been presented by the Provost and Fellows , of that Society to the Rectory of Enham Knight, near Andover, Hants. The Rev. R. Barnes, son of Dr, Barnes, Canon of Christ Church, has been presented to one of the portions of Bamp ton, in the diocese of Exeter, by the Bishop of Exeter. PREFE - MMnS. Blackburne, Rev. Gilbert fiodberccto the perpetual curacy of Whitchurch, by dispensation, with Long Ashton. Bond, Rev. Henry, to the prebend, or canonry, of Cud • }north, in the Cathedral church of Wells. Burton, Rev. C., has been appointed clerk in orders at the parish church, Leeds,xice the Rev. J. W. Twist, resigned. Butterfield, Rev. 'John, assistant-lecturer at the parish church, Bradford, has obtained the appointment of Head Master of the Free School, Catterick, near Richmond. Chadwick, Rev. Robert, to the district incumbency of Christ Church, Lafthouse, on the nomination of the Rev. John Bell, M.A., vicar of the parish. Cooke, Rev. Charles, to the rectory of Withycombe. Deedes, Rev. Charles, to the rectory of Chilton Canteloe, by dispensation, with West Camel. Ellis Rev. Richard, son of the Rev. John Ellis, vicar of Yedingl am, to the incumbency of Bellerby, near Leyburn, Yorkshire. _ Gwyther, Rev. John, Assistant-Minister of St. Phillip's Church, Sheffield, to the Vicarage of Fewston, near Otley. "Hughes, Rev. Jacob, formerly Curate of the parish, to the Vicarage of Llanrian, Pembrokeshire. Bardam, Rev. John Johnson, to the Rectory of Welborne. Kirkham, Rev. J. W., 8.A.,0x0n, to the perpetual Cu rac y of Llandysilio, diocese of St. saph. Patron Sir Watkin W. Wynn. • Lowe, Rev. Noel, to the Vicarage of Coliton Rawleigh, Worcester, vacant by the death of the Rev. R. Greenwood. M'Clatchie, Rev. Thomas, to the Curacy of Midsomor, Norton. Rawlins, Rev. Henry by dispensation, with liddingto n. William, to the Vicarage of Kilton, Stephenson, Rev. Joseph Henry, to the Rectory of Lympsham. Thomas, Rev. R. J. Harries, to the Curacy of Combe, St. Nicholas. Tudor, Rev. William, to the Rectory of Sidersterne, on the Thomas Holt, to the R ec t ory o f Red gpresentation of the Marquis of Cholmondeley. Whisk, Rev. M. Henry , to b e th e Minister of the Church of St. Peter, sponiih i eßßvo.itsepbsapdloai Curacy annexed, on hi s - own petition. ----- FIRE AT BASS'S PALE ALE STORES. — Between the hours of twelve and one on Sunday morning a fire was discovered raging in the premises belonging to Messrs. Bass, pale ale brewers, of No. 3 wharf, City-road Basin. It commenced in the hay-loft over the stabling, and owing to the easily ignitable nature of the stock the loft was soon one complete blazing mass and the flames shot through the roof i n t o t h e a i r a considerable distance. A number of engines were with all possible speed at the scene, and, being aided by an abundance of water, they soon extinguished the flames, the danger being confined entirely to the loft and stabling, which are consumed. A. man, who it is supposed had fallen asleep in the loft, is reported - to be much burnt, and was taken to the hospital. PRINCE ALBERT AT COBUROt-AlLOCOrding to letter, dated the 4th:inst., the Prince, accompanied by his brother the Reigning Duke, went, the day after his arrival, to visit the apartments occupied by their late father in the castle of Ehrenbourg, which had been left precisely in the same state, without a single article being removed.. Prince Albert was deeply affected at the view. At two in the after noon, the whole court attended divine service in the catlig dral, every part of which was filled with the people, anxious to see once more their beloved young Prince. THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY'S STATE DIN NEM—It is understood that the Reverend Primate has so far recovered in health and vigour as to be capable of -presiding at the State dinners, which will, consequently, be resumed this season. THE GALVANIC . TELEGRAPH ON TAE GREA r w E , Tui c, HAlLwAy.—The first intelligence of the arrival of his Royal Highness Prince Albert in this country from Ger manv, on Thursday last, was communicated to her Majesty, at Windsor Castle, by means of the galvanic telegraph on the line of the Great Western Railway. Within one minute of the arrival cf his Royal Highness at the Paddington ter minus the information had reached Slough ; at which station a special messenger, mounted upon one of the fleetest horses in the royal stables, was stationed, by command of the Queen, and who proceeded with the gratifying intelligence to the Castle, where h e arr i ve d i n eight minutes and a half from the time of his leaving Slough. Thus the news of the Prince Consort's return to England reached" her Majesty, and their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians, in less than ten minutes after his Royal Highness had arrived at Pad dington, aid forty , minutes before the PrincS reached the royal residence at 'Windsor. 'We hear that a limited reduction:in thejtoyal stud, comprising some of her Majesty's valuable saddle-horse:, which, it is said, are to be sold; is likely to take place shortly.