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For InYernesss, 111 C North Star, 31,n(lay, 1!;th April, at eleven in the morning; (';tiling oil' lturglie. 1 1 • • Cr • ~r ty, , rd Citation* , ..tt , !it creo: (OAI, Cr o• , • ()Lll '-'es •• —Spread En4le, Regent Circus; 82, Lombard-street; or 2 5 7, Wapping. wore to St tiirs but she di,,a time a 61 0 back staill prisoner COO. `ay in ce e 7, ar positlye, _ _ .1, • .P. !'fit. 4 r-. e s ‘ll N u . 17 951.1 LONDON WEDNESDAY 4„ n o-0-0 ..tc" A • %.• • It 7 APRIL 10 ) 1850. [PRICE SD. CHARLES WILLIAM WILLOUGHBY, Agent, risoner decli° th stealiog;, property °, .aynan prisoner ou ,t ho • Swift, ;e-E•treet. his party wh ° ; i td of hilly' to whicbt! rliament-w )f the col he priso% instead of', Ike d id a par' ately s louse, he jury °P and :pressed $ 1 r they rettO illy.—Sep int case* d DAY') 0, named' lenry Witb bert, bake r had ocel Ind up t ° ' esp ectsbi,° 1 the el! who re in I carousil oise, greo ) bad red 0 bout )0 1 eating 1 0- 0 tested bids irisoner 07 d Iged the 1 ) ', ing of th 9 , 01, such 112 1 0 is teeth ith doioll, tl him un in conseqd .aid he O li o ' !ned, bUi suspect cent. f‘'` geous pon the P s i to &clops 'Sion. A: it/ "" rpense. prisoner rnment. I mitigst e ened. came 1 0 malty. col s 13'3" urge 11111° si ger ° CI Boti erl :ent' r°9jt PV 2414 ;1* 14 0-ti of up T° the PROPRIETORS of EAST INDIA STOCK. Ladies and Gent:emu], I have the honour to inform you that it is not my intuition to 6 , 14 r myself at I.lv, Bahot. on the vacancy oecaA o ned by the death of your r e sp e cted Director, Major - Gen eral sir Archibald Gal °waY, I have at the same time .the honour.or:olicitim our rapport at some future v,eancy, and to thank you for the courtesy and Madness which, during my canvass, I Katie received at Ytair hands I have the boloor to be, Ladies and Gentlemen, Ycur faithful servant, FREDERICK LIILLETT, Woodhill, near Ripley, April 10, 1850. CUNTRACT for COALS. for t he PACIFIC. Department of the Storekeeper-General of the Navy, Somerset -place, April 8, 1850. The Commissioners for executing the eilice of Lord High Admir al of the United Kin gdom of Great Britai n amb Ireland do hereby give notice, that on TVESDAY, the 3 0 th instant , at One o'clock, ,PY will be ready to treat with suc h Persons as may be willing to 'ontraot tor supplying and delivering a t Valparaiso and Callao , or at any intermediate Port, as may be di r ected by the Command er-in- Chief on the Station, or Senior Naval Officer at Valparaiso, 1,000 Tons of WELSH COALS, Fit for the Service of her Majesty's Steam-vessels. The Conditions of the Contract and a Form of Tender may be seen at the said Office. No Tender mill be received after Ono o'clock on the day of treaty, nor any noticed, unless the party attends, or an agent for him, dLY authorised in writing. Ever,' Tender must be addressed to t he Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hami corner the words " Tender for Coals," and Must also be delivered at Somerset -place, accompanied by a letter signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become bound with the person tendering, in the sum of 5001. for the due performance of the Contract. ONE lIUNDRED AND TWELFTH SALE. CUSTOM=HOUSE, LONDON, APRIL, 1850. For SALE, by Order of the Honourable the Commissioners ef her Majesty's Customs, at the Commercial Sale Rooms, Ml,coing -14ne, on Thursday, 18th Friday, 19th, Monday, 22d, Tuesday, 23d, Wednesday, 24th, and Thursday, 25th Aprll, 1850, at Twelve O'clock at Noon precisely, the fol l owing GOODS for Home _Con sumption, : ' ' Artificial Flowers,'Artifidial Flower Preparations, Baskets, plain embroidered; Beads. Books, Boxes : Snuff, Toilet, Worklkc..; Brandy, Brooch Paintings, Bronze Vases, Beakers, &c. ; Bromine. Brushes far artists, Butter, Buttons ; Cambric-handkerchiefs, plain and em broidered, Cameos, Candelabras, bronze, ormulo, &c.; Candle 'nicks, Carpets, Turkey ; Carved Ivory ?Cant-cases, Card-racks, Chessmen, Puzzle-balls, Work-boxes, Vases, Watch-stand., &c. , China Ware Bottles, Cups, Jars, Teapots, Toilet-pots, &c. ; Citron, Preserved in salt, &c.; Clocks : Alabaster , Car ria g e, Dutch, Hall, I nlaid, Ormolu, Pillar, &c. ; Coffee, Cologne Water, Coral Necklaces and Negligees, ; Cotton-trine, Cotton Gloves , Cu rtains, Muslin, Em broidered Crayons, Dresden Porcelain, Embroidery and Needle work, viz.: Cap Pieces, Capes or .Mantillas. Chemisettes or Ha bits, Cuiri, Insertion, Dresses or Hobos, Sleeve Piece s, Shirt-fronts, &c. ; F an', Feathers, dressed ; Flock for Paper-stainers, Frames for Pictures, Prints, &c. ; Furniture, viz.: Cotlee, Loo, and other Tables, Bookcases, Drawers, &c.; Geneva Glass, Mounted Vases, •nottles, &c. ; Glove Bands, Boxes, &c. ; Grass Cloth, Handkerchiefs, &c'; Harmonicas, Instruments, Scientific, &c. : Inkstands, Jewel Caskets or Coffers ; Jewellery, viz. : Bracelets, Brooches, `Alarms, Chatelains, Chstelain Ornaments, Chains, Companions, Shawl, and Head Pins, &c.; Lay Figures, Lacquered Card-Boxes, Leather Boot-backs, Gloves, &c. ; Lace : Brussels, &c.; . also Barbs, Berthes, Collars, Coiffeurs, Cuffs, Shawls, Scarfs, Tr mining, Veils, &c.; Mala chite Brooch Pieces, &c. ; Molasses, Musical Boxes, Musical Instru ments, viz.: Accordions, Cornopeans, Fiutinas, Ophicledes, Piano lortes, Opera-glasses, Oiled Silk, Paper Knives , Pa p er Gilt, &c.; Gla , ses, Oiled Silk, Paper Knives, Paper Gilt. &c. ; Paper-hangings, Perfumery, Pictures, Porcelain , Plain and Ornamented ; Purses, Parse-fringes, Garnitures, Slides, Snaps, Tassels, &c. ; Rugs, Koalas, Turkey, &c. ; Savealls (of glass) ; Seals, Desk, &c. ; segar-cases, Segars, Scum of Sugar, Shaving Paste ; Silk Braid, Bags, Brocatelle for Curtains, Hea d-dresses, Milllinery, Purses, &c. ; Shawls, Woollen, Cr.shmere, &c. ; Snuff; Spirits, plain and mixed; Steel-Buckles, Reads, Chains, Locks, \Vatch-guards, &c.;Sugar, Tallow C-ndlcs, Tea, Tobacco, Tobacco Ashes, Toys, viz., Dominoes, Marbles, &c. ; Turquoises (imitation), Utrecht Velvet, Vestments, 'Vegetables preserved in salt, &c.; Waistcoat Pieces, embroidered, &c.; Watches, Gold and Silver, Wateh-gurads, Wine, and various other Goods. For Expertation only—Books, a Clock, Cordials, Prints, Spirits, \Vetches, Wine, &c., &c. For Exportation, or for Home Consumption, on payment of the duties —Arrowroot, Coriander Seed, Clay Figures, Coffer, Fig;, Fish cured, Rice, Silk and Velvet Br oad Stuffs, Aprons, Handkerchiefs, & o _c., Saccades, Spirits, Tea, Tamarinds , Turm eric, Wood, Wine, • &C. The above goods may be viewed at the Queen's Warehouse, Cns tom-lieuse, Thames-street ; at the London, and the East and West India Docks; and at the Tobacso-grotind, Rotherhithe, on Monday, 15th, Tuesday, 16111, and Wednesday 17th, of April, 1850, from Ten o'clock in the Morning until Three o'clock in the Afternoon, and en The days of Sale horn len o'clock in the Morning until Twelve o'clock at Noon. Take notice, that goods sold at this sale will not be delivered until after two clear days of the day on which they are sold, and that no lots can be paid for at the office of the Receiver of Fines after Two o'clock in the Afternoon ; and that on the days of sale, money will not be re ceived hy the Receiver of Fines after Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon. Catalogues may be had at the Queen's Warehouse, Cnstom house, Thames-street, Londeu, price ls. each. NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSU RANCE SOCIETY. 26, Cornhill, London. Capital £500,000. Empowered by Act of Parliament. This Institution embraces important and substantial advantages With respect to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuties. Policies issued by this Society have a twofold advantage :—provi sion for the family of the Assured, and an augmenting pecuniary available resource to himself, if needful, while!. iving. The Assured has, en all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense, or for feiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the Premiums paid. DIVISION OF PROFITS. The continued prosperity of the Society has enabled the Directors at the Annual Meeting, held on the 10th of May, 1848, to declare a elxth bonus, varying from 27 to 65 per cent. ou the Premiums paid on each Policy effected on the profit scale. EXAMPLES. - Perms- Sum the .4.8 Annual Policy Bonus in Rent Re- A d Age. Pre- taken addition Bonus in euct'on of may bor n mium. out in to Sum Cash. ' Annual row on -n Assured. Premium. Policy. X s. 41. £ s d. £ s. 0. £ s. d. 1837 276 14 3 , 128 14 321 7 2 593 6 8 1838 251 18 10 . 115 14 81812 8 543 17 9 A 1839 226 6 0 1 02 15 116 2 9 494 810 X S '"' 1840 178 008214212 14 11 145 0 0 GO 1000 74 3 4 1841 174 0 078 3 4 12 3 0 395 11 1 1842 147 4 2' G 5 15 10 10 2 4 346 2 3 1843 99 18 4, 44 8 4 615 11 296 13 4 L./ 1844 62 6 8. 27 13 4 4 4 0 247 4 5 DEFERRED ANNUITIES. By the operation of the same principles, the Society is enabled to afford to the public a plan of Deferred Annuities far more advanta geous than any hitherto offered, whereby an individual, by the con tribution of a very small annual, monthly, or weekly saving, may se cure either a comfortable provision for himself in advanced age, or, at his option, a large sum of money, or a policy to his family at his death ; while by giving to the purchaser, at any time, the power of borrowing two-thirds of all previous payments, it removes all risk of ferfeiture front inability to continue premiums, besides affording an ample resource during sickness and want of employment ; and should the purchaser die before arriving at the stipulated period, two thirds of his payments will be returned to his representatives. The following Table is a specimen of the great and varied advan tages which the judicious application of a small saving can secure through this Society. ENEFITS 11. PREMIUMS To secure 1 lon attain- Annnity.Elo 10 0 ingtheag,e Cash .. 82 10 0 of 65, the Policy.. 97 8 6 option of Secured on at 65 , by an An 2 1. 12!. ttaining the age of anual Premium of pr 4 ci 4, Annuity •• Payable Payable : Payable Annu- 114 one for Dis t. ally. I sum. parity. Cash. I Policy. I .£ S. d. 20 47 It; 6 30 26 15 10' 40 l 3 19 5 £ s. d .£s. d. 491 11 0 466 0 0 1.21 0 0 261 0 0 115 8 0,136 6 0 s. d. s. d.£ s. d. 0 10 11 10 0 10 0 0 0 0 19 616 7 1 7 3 11 1 17 327 3 11 19 4 10 Immediate Annuities are also granted by the Society on liberal terms, as will be seen by the following extracts from the Tables . , showing the annual amount of annuity upon every 100/. deposited : Age 60, £7 Bs. I Age 60, £9 14s. 3d. I Age 70, £l4 2s. 2d. The Annual Report, with Tables of Rates, &c.. may be had at the office, or any of its Branches in the Country ; or, on application, will be forwarded post free. W. S. B. WOOLTIOUSE, Actuary, • THIRTY-FIRST EDITION. Inistrated by 26 Anatomical Coloured Estgravin - s on Steel. ON PHYSICAL DISQUALIFICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCA PACITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE. New Edition, enlarged to 196 pages. Just published, price 2s. 64., or by post, direct from the Establ' shment, 3s 6d. in postage stamps, rriflE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on the infirmities and decay of the generative system, from ex cessive indulgence, infection, and the inordinate use of mercury, With remarks on Marriage, and the means of obviating certain dis qualifications. Illustrated by 26 Coloured Engravings. By R. and L. PERRY and CO., Consulting Surgeons, 19, Berners-strect, Ox ford -street, London. Published by the Authors : sold by Strange, 11, paternoster-row ; Hannay, 63, and Sanger, 150, Oxford-street ; titanic, 23, Titchborne-street, Haymarket; and Gordon, 146, Leaden hall-street. PART I. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the re-product Ivo Organs, and is Illustrated by Six Coloured Engravings. 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With Forty coloured Engravings, illustrating the Anatomy, Physiology, and Diseases of the Reproductive Organs, explaining their straetui es, uses, and functions, and the various if‘luries that are produced in them by solitary habits, excesses, and lefeetion. BY SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D.. 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON. 7 03eter of Medicine. Matriculated Member of the University of Edin burgh, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Ste. This work contains an accurate and complete account of the Anatomy and Physiology of the Reproductive Organs. It un fortunately happens that the unhappy victim of excessive indul gence and vicious habits, while suffering from their invariable con- Sequences, unwisely entertains a fear of applying to a qualified physi cian for relief. Shame and the dread so frequently, but erro neously entertained that these complaints are beyond the reach cf art, alike restrict him and prevent his seeking for assistance where al one it can be procured. Dr. LA'IIERT has taken the highest m edi calhonours, as his diplomas testify, and the great extent of his raetiee for many years is a guarantee for his professional expert .7lc_e which has reference almost solely to the treatment of these diseases. _ P ublished by tha Author, and may be had of Kent and Richard s, 52, Paternoster -row; Haunay, 63, Oxford-street; Stacie, Ticheome ,st__reet, Haymarket ; Mann, 39, Cornhill ; Gordon, 146, Leaden "au-street London ; or, free by post for torty-two stamps, &ors Anther's Residence, 37, Bodiord-square London. FIFTY .POUNDS REWARD.-WHEREAS,. on the msrning of Nionday, the Bth instant, about nine o'c!oelt, 'a Blue Bag, containing Post Letters, aidressed to Leadia , hall-street, and its vicinity, was stolen at the corner of Leadenhall and Bishopsgate Streets, London. Whoevcr will IMMEDIATELY come forward and give such informa tion as will lead to the apprehension of the Offender or Wien& ts,' shall receive a Reward of FIFTY P‘UNDS, payable on Conviction. By Command, IV. L. MABERLY, Secretary. General Post Office, 9th Ai.ril, 1853. IVIO R.T G AGE-2,0001. WANTED on Um Security of Dividenes in the Three per Cent. Consols, and the assignment of a Folicy of Insur.mee. The dividends can be so icceived by the lender that he will always have them in his bands long before the interest on the loan accrues. No person but princips or tlicir solicitors need apply. Apply to "M. A.," No. 5, lied al Lion Square, London. GUILDHALL, APRIL 3, 1850. r THE COMMITTEE for LETTING the CITY'S LANDS will MEET at GUILDHALL on WEDNESDAY, the 10th day of April instant, at One o'clock precisely, to receive TENDERS for LETTING on LEASE, for twenty-one years from Lady-day, 1850,:a House, No. 14, on the north side of Broad-street-but:dings ; Two Houses, Nos. 28 and 29, on the south side of Broad-street buildings. Also, to receive TENDERS for LETTING on a BUILDING LEASE, for 61 years from Midsummer next, a Piece of Ground, on the north side of 11 arrow. street, Ratcliff. Further particulars and plans may be seen, and forms of tender obtained, at the Office of Works, Guildhall. THOMAS SAUNDERS, Comptroller. F ONDON, BRIGHTON, and SOUTH COAST RAILWAY.—EPSOM SPRING RACES, 1850 ; GREAT METROPOLITAN STAKES, on THURSDAY, April lath; GREAT METROPOLITAN STEEPLE CHASES, on FRIDAY, April 12th. Ordinary fares will be charged - by the ordinary trains. 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Srocic Excrwirox.—There was but a small amount of bu siness transacted to-day, and prices remain unaltered. LIVERPOOL, Arum 9. STOCK EXCHANGE.— The share market has been dull to day, and the amount of business done was limited. The transactions were as follow s—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, 10% dis. — London and North-Western, 164'A c.— Ditto, New Quarters, Bs. 9d. dis.—Midland, 35 1 / 2 —Ditto, Halves, 27 1 4 c. dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, 13!A—Ditto (No. 4), 41. Bs. 9d.—Belfast and Ballymena. 10 1 . MANCHESTER, APRIL 9. STOCK EXCHANGR.—Business on our Stock Exchange was dull today, and prices had a tendency downwards. The transactions were as follow :—East Lancashire, 7 3 4: — Caledonian, B—Ditto, Preference, 514—Lancashire and York shire, 32/. 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IMPORTS OF CORN AND OTHER GRAIN IN 1849. —According to a return just published, the total quantity of wheat and wheat flour imported into the United Kingdom in the year ending January 5, 1850, amounted to 4,835,280 quarters, of which 4,765,233 were from foreign countrie 4 and 160,047 from British colonies; the average price of wheat during the year being 445. 3d. The quantity of foreign barley and barleymeal imported in the same year was 1,389,858 quarters, the average price being 275. 9d. The total quantity of oats and oatmeal imported was 1,307,904 quarters, of which 1,283.834 were foreign and 24,070 British colonial; the average price was 17s. 6d. Of ryemeal 246,843 quarters were imported ; 246,522 from foreign countries, and 21 from British colonies, the average price being 255. Bd. The quantity of peas and peameal imported was 236,525 quarters, of which 221,705 was foreign, and 14,820 British colonial; the average p rice bein g 31s. 2d. The total imports of beans and beanrneal amounted to 458,651, all of which, with the exception of one quarter, was foreign ; the average price being 30s. 2d. The quantity of Indian corn and meal imported was 2,277,224 quarters, 2,274,624 being foreign, and 2,600 British colonial. The imports of buckwheat and buckwheat meal amounted to 627 quarters, all but one quarter being foreign. In bere or bigg 843 quarters were limported. The aggregate quantity of grain and meal of all sorts imported in 1849 amounted to 10.753,755 quarters, the largest proportions being supplied by Denmark (1,320,571); Prussia (1,364,694); Russia (northern ports, 343,124, ports within the Black Sea, 577,633); France (1,025,009); and the United States of Arndrica (1,834,000). THE WINDOW-TAX. There was never a stronger case made out upon a financial question than that cf Lord Duncan last night in the Commons for the repeal of the window-tax. It was impossible to resist conviction. The division was the best test of the feeling of the House, and of the impression made by Lord Duncan's speech. The Ministers, with all the Ministerial strength at their backs, could only secure a majority of three. In such a case this virtually amounts to a defeat. We are not surprised at such a result when we look a little closely into the nature and operation of this most ob jectionable tax, and consider at the same time the prac tical suggestions made for making the deficit conse quent upon its repeal. Lord Duncan's speech was complete in its kind. Ile demonstrated the injurious working of the impost as it stands; he traced its tortuous annals from the days of William 111. to the present year of Queen Victoria. He mentioned incidentally that one and other of the inevitable First Ministers of this country had given in his adhesion to the policy of repealing this tai, with as much distinctness as Mi nisterial nature would permit. In 1845 Sir Robert Peel expressed "his readiness to take the matter into consideration at some future period." In the year 1848 Lord John Russell admitted "that the argu ment was in favour of the opponents of the tax, and regretted that the state of the finances would not allow relief to be afforded." As though to make his case as strong as authority could reach, Lord Duncan reminded the House that in the Queen's speech at the ()peeing of the session a clause was inserted to the effect that her Majesty hoped ‘` Parliament would be enabled to make further progress in the removal of those evils which affected the health and welfare of her subjects." Lord Duncan next, passing from generals to particulars, mentioned the unex ampled depression to which the glass trade was at present reduced, mainly in consequence of the hard necessity under which Britons as well as Esquimaux are brought of building and inhabiting houses without windows or air-holes. Not only is the warfare car ried on against the crystal pane which admits the genial light of day into our dwellings, but as it ap pears from an anecdote mentioned by Lord Duncan to the House last night, even metallic substitutes come within the ban of our stern financiers. As air and light could not be had together, it was proposed some time back to get at a little atmospheric air in dwelling houses by means of a zinc plate perforated with holes. Mr. Williams, of Penrhyn, endeavoured to obtain a little air in this way, but what was the surprise of that ingenious Cambrian at finding him self immediately surcharged for his supplemental zinc ? In vain he appealed—the appeal was de cided against him. He was told that if he wanted untaxed air, he might find it in abund ance upon the lofty summit of his own Snow doe, or on the craggy peaks of Ceder Idris. If a man needed such a commodity at home, he must pay for it. Atmospheric air and hair-powder fall under the same category. But it may be said zinc plates are a low and palpable evasion of this necessary tax. Well, then, suppose we make up our minds to do without any substitute whatsoever for the window pane, and content ourselves with knocking out a few bricks, so as to get at a gulp of fresh air with all the draw backs of intrusive winds, slanting showers, and so forth—what then? Would such an aperture be a window? Mr. Goulburn, when Chancellor of the Exchequer, has laid down the law upon this point in a manner that may set all doubts to rest for ever. A correspondence took place between that gentleman in his official capacity and the Carpenters' Society of London, who were anxious to know how the matter might be managed. Mr. Goulburn set their per• plexities to rest at once by telling them that " if they could make a hole through a wall which should admit air without light then it would not be charge able." In Wieland's fairy tale the hero of the piece is banished by Charlemagne from his dominions until he shall have gone to Babylon, and procured a hand ful of the Sultan's grey beard, and four of his soundest back teeth, and the condition was thought a hard one at the time, even by the Paladins, who were not men to stick at trifles. But an English Chancellor of the Exchequer is more ingenious at setting puzzles than the most imaginative of romance writers. But let us carry this chapter of exemptions a little further. As we have just said, holes that admit air without light are exempt. Ireland, of course, is exempt from this as from other taxes to which Englishmen are sub jected. Public offices are exempted—this perhaps with some reason, considering that the exemption is a clear and definite one, and that it is idle waste of time to transfer money from one breeches pocket to the other. Hospitals, too, and churches may claim immunity from other and obvious reasons. But why are the Universities privileged ? Why do not the Inns of Court contribute their quota to the window-tax, if it is to be paid at all ? Surely Christ Church, Oxford, and Trinity, Cambridge, are not such poverty-stricken bodies that they can come forward with decency to ask for immunity from taxa tion. And the lawyers too, why should they not be made to pay up their share of taxation ? The dwellers in Stone-buildings and King's Bench-walk are not a l class of men unfit for grappling with the difficulties of life—they need no dry -nursing at the hands of the Finance Minister. Then, again, farmhouses where the rent is under 2001. per annum, manufactories, shop windows, counting-house windows, warehouses, are all exempt. We can readily enough perceive the policy of such exemptions in the cases of the classes enumerated; but it would be just as easy to gi ve as good reasons for exempting other descriptions of buildings as those mentioned. We find an other and a singular exception, which would al most lead one to expect that the successive Chan cellors of the Exchequer have been deeply tinged with Brahminical superstitions. A certain divine r ev erence appears, according to them, due to the cow and her produce. Dairies and cheeserooins are ex empted from the tax ; and here again we will admit that there are excellent reasons to be adduced for the exemption, but other portions of a farmhouse might be named which certainly stand as much in need of atmospheric air and light as the cheeseroom, but which are yet subjected to the tax until some one shall succeed in solving Mr. Groulburn's problem of admitting air without light. Let us add, in conclu sion, that in nine cases out of ten—and certainly in country neighbourhoods—the policy of these exemp tions, even as far as the favoured classes are concerned, is more than dubious. As much money is probably spent in contriving shifts to evade the tax and in litigation as would be sufficient to liquidate the claim. No doubt the window-tax is but one of many which we must. all of us he anxious to see removed —the question remains which is entitled to the preference. For many reasons which will be found stated at length in Lord Duncan's excellent speech, the window-tax is entitled to be reckoned amongst the first for abolition—if it doss not, in point of fact, stand clearly and indisputably first upon the list. But says Sir Charles Wood, " Where can I get the money se bitch will make up the deficit caused by the iemoval of a test of this amount ? " The answer is ready in a form which will meet Ministers over anu over again. The cost of the African squad ron, useless and mad as the expenditure is, would snore than cover half of the deficiency ; for the other half Lord Duncan points to the Woods and Forests, and asserts that if this property were properly managed there would be no pinch felt in the Ex chequer if the window-tax were abolished to-morrow. Let every one who receives the little half-yearly notice of the tax-collector consider that he is but called upon to pay his contribution to meet the ex penses of the insane blockade of the African coast, and of the mismanagement of the Crown estates. — Times. • MONEY MARKET.—The premium on gold at Paris is 151 per mille, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 101 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an ex• change of 25.54; and the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25.521, it follows that gold is 0.06 per cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By advices from Hambtirgh the price of 'gold is 4361 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17e. 101 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13.10 i; and the ex change at Newburgh on London at short being 13.111, it follows that gold is 0.23 per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburgh. The Tomb and the Remains of Alfred the Great are to be offered for sale by auction on Thgrsday next, by order of the County Magistrates !! ! If future generations do not affix the burning brand of shame on this our own generation, which permit'ed such a disgraceful act to be perpetrated, retribution will be proved to be a fallacy, and indignation to have discharged its shafts wide of the mark which it ought to reach. This deliberate act of the county authorities— this act of men on whom education seems to have been lavished in vain—this insult to the feelings of every Englishman who has ever cherished or nurtured as a household theme the name, the deeds, the thoughts, and the words of Alfred, as the impersonification of all that is great and good in a monarch, of all that can dignify, adorn, and elevate humanity—is to be consummated, and the moulder ing dust of Britain's greatest legist is to be disposed of on Thursday next. We should have thought that the lowest depth of degradation had been reached when the site of the splendid abbey where his remains were deposited was co vered with the buildings of a bridewell ; but it is enough for every Englishman to hide his face with everlasting shame, to be told that the ashes of our best, our wisest, our greatest King, are to be sold—are to be chaffered and cheapened—at s public auction.—Hampshire Independent. Priussrail RAILWAYS. —At a meeting just held at Cologne it was resolved to resume the project for constructing a railway from Middleburgb, in the directon olLimburgh, and terminating at Venloo. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. CJnsiderable sensation was produced in the lobbies of the National Assembly, on Monday, by a state men; made by M. ANTOINE BONAPARTE, that the Minister for Foreign Affai rs had received a telegraphic dispatch announcing that the POPE had died from the effects of poison, on his way from Portici to Caserta. M. GUSTAVE DE BEAUMONT, who arrived at the As sembly shortly afterwards, declared that he had only just left the Foreign-office, and that no dispatch of the nature alluded to had been received there. Still, as the official evenirg journals contained ❑o contradiction of the report, which had been circulated - by a member of the BONA PARTE family, in so authoratative a manner, the quasi contradiction of M. GUSTAVE DE BEAU MONT was considered as not at all satisfactory. The National, in relating the circumstance, asks whether M. GUSTAVE DE BEAUMONT is likely to be better in formed than M. ANTOINE BONAPARTE, and then pro ceeds as follows :-- _ " The news of the violent death of the Pope received a ready credence from the chiefs of the representatives of all parties. This readiness of belief would be inex plicable were we not aware that all the letters written for the last two months from the headquarters of our army predict that if Pius IX. does not abdicate and re tire to a convent he will never enter Rome alive. The name of Ganganelli is in the memory and on the lips of every one. The Cardinals and the clerical party were determined that Pius IX. should not enter Rome - until - Cho French army should have evacuated it. They knew him to be weak, irreso lute, and greedy of popularity. They feared lest he should make concessions to popular opinion, and they have, therefore, for nine months past had recourse to every species of threat, marceuvre, and intrigue to pre vent his return to the Vatican. Pius IX., however, has, notwithstanding, determined to return ; hence the im placable anger, the profound irritation of this Court of Red and Brack men, who assume the guise of courtiers, the more effectually to become dominators. There is, therefore, nothing improbable in this report of a palace catastrophe. The manners of Italy have progressed during the course if the last two centuries, but the Court of Rome has not followed this movement of civilization; it even glories in having resisted it." The Roman correspondent .of the Patrice who is evidently in constant communication with the chiefs of the clerical party, declares somewhat ominously as well as categorically, " Pins 11. will not go to Rome. He will go to Terracina, thence by the Marches to Loretto, anti so to Bologna." Bologna, it will be remembered, is occupied by the Austrians, and a change from Portiei to Bologna will be, as far as Plus IX. himself is concerned, mercily a change of gaolers. The Cenamittee of the Assembly on the law of electoral meetings has determined to postpone the presentation of its report until after the election of the 28th. There is every probability that M. Easing DE GIRAIIDIN will be the Democratic candidate, General CIIANGARNIER had, it appears, given orders for n review to take place at the Champ de Mars on Monday, without consulting the PRESIDENT of the Republic, who, on learning the circumstance, countermanded the review. The Presse has the following in the course of its weekly article or the state of trade During the last fortnight, in which we have not examined the commercial ;situation, calm has become somewhat re-established in tiansactions, but the attempts made by certain politic:l parties to frightea commerce has not yet been forgetter. Reserve is observed, and we must not hope that affairs will resume much ac• tivity before the now election, fixed for the 28th, shall be terminated. It is now known whet were the real causes of the crisis, of which the conse quence s are still so sevt rely Llt in most of the branches of trade of Paris ; the provinces and foreign countries are for nothing in the felling-off of lausirees ;it was caused by the Parisian merchants and cernmission agents. who, after the election ef the 10th of March, withdrew ' their commands from the manufactories of Paris, as also from those of Flanders, Alsace, Rouen, Lyons, and St. Etienne. Some of them have been led by the ex aggeration of their political opinions thus to suspend their affairs; others have followed this example by a sort of panic, and if public tranquillity had received the slightest injury, commerce would have been very long in recovering from the shock. But in all parts more cor rect ideas on the situation are beginning to be entertained ; little by little business habits are re sumed, and those who have caused consternation every where, by proclaiming that all was lost and that France was on the eve of a now political convulsion, are now severely blamed. The Government has refused to accept the modifi cations proposed by the Committee of Assembly in the Bill for regulating the apppointment of mayors. A letter from Toulon of the 3d says that the Caton steamer had arrived with the intelligence that the Mediterranean squadron was, on the 31st ult., in the Bay of Naples, where it was to remain until further orders. The Caton brought dispatches from Vice- Admiral PARSEVAL DESCHENES, commander of the squadron. The steamer Salamandre had also arrived at Toulon from the Pincus with dispatches from the Minister of France at Athens. The Salatnandre left on the 26th tilt., and at that date nothing was settled in respect to the Greek question ; but the English no longer maintained an aggressive attitude and the news of the acceptance of the mediation of France had pro duced a good effect. There was but little speculation at the Bourse. The Five per Cents. opened at 89f. 25c., and closed at 89f. 60c. ; the ,Three per Cents. closed at 55f. 60c. ; the New Roman Loan at 781. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LYNDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, Arrar. 9. Central of France (Orleans and Vierzcn), 12 X, - East In dian, s[4—Luxembourg, j."—Namur and Liege, 6% — Northern of France, 12[4 —Paris and Strasbourg, 5%. SPA I.N. Madrid j , :urnals of the 4th instant have arrived. The Committee on the tariff has been installed under the Presidency of the Finance Minister. The majority of the Committee are, it is said, in favour of the adoption of a liberal commercial policy. MADRID BOLSA, APRIL 4.—Three per Cents., 29i account; Five per Cents., 13i paper. Exchange on London, 50 25 money. GERMANY. counts u h t takingalesacr o c e A telegraphic di s p a t c h f corn Erf u rt of the 7th inst. s tates that the Committee of the Upper House has ac cepted the prop osa l s o f i ts S u b-C omm itt ee with a majority of fourteen vot es . These propositions are identical with those w hi c h' M. C AMPITAUSEN made to the Lower House. The question on the right of peace and war has found a s a tisfactory solution by the House accepting a moti on w hi c h was b rou ght in by B ar on CARLOWITZ. Intelligence from B er li n c f th e 7 t h s t a t es that there is cvery probability o f an i mme di a te reconcilia tion place betwee n A us t r i a an d P ru s s ia. Prussia has dispatched an agen t t o Berne to nego tiate u s toms union with S w it zer l an d. T B a varian papers ar e fill e d w ith detailed ac o the military prepar a ti ons w hich are making on a g scale throughout the kingdom. A new levy of recruits has been decreed, and the troops are preparing to encamp between Schweinfurt and Wurzsburg. (Croatia) is quelled. t ( i )f on Au c s : peasants in Zagoria AUSTRIA has remitted the sentence has given him years' imprisonment ; and permission, together with the other Bishops who upon Th eal el) Emperor is o u p r u r e u c had been condemned, to retire to a EmEß . of . 20 monastery upon a small pension. GREECE. ENGLISII CLAIMS. Letters from Athens of the 28th ult. have come to hand. All the claims will, it seems, be. xecognised, with the exception of that put forward by M. PACI.. rico, which the French plenipotentiary does not con sider valid. It was stated in the latest previous ac counts from Athens that Baron Guos had had an interview with Mr. WYSE on board the French steamer La Vedette. M. Gaos objected from the first, it seems, to M. Pacutco's claims. Mr. WYSE did not, i t seems, deny the exorbitance of M. Pact FICO'S claims, and if any indemnity is granted in this case it must be a small one. Another meeting between M. Gaos and Mr. WYSE was to have taken place on the 29th, when u definite settlement was to take place. However that may be, it was rumoured in Paris on Monday that the details of the arrangement had already hpen received-there. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Her Mijesty, Prince Albert, and two of the Royal children honoured this theatre with their presence last evening, for the purpose of witnessing the per formance of Rossini's chef d'sfeuvre and (with the single exception of the .Nozze) the best comic opera ever produced, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, with Madame Sontag as Rosina. It was in this character that Madame Sontag made her first appearance before an English audience some twenty-three years since, and at once acquired that high standing which she has ever since maintained. She made the character her own ; during her retirement from the stage, her Rosina was the invariable standard of comparison by which all other Rosinas were tested, and to which none could ever approach, and last night she was as perfect, as beautiful—aye, and as young as ever ! still unapproachable, still the very Rosins of the Maestro. The facility and ;accuracy a ith which she executed the most brilliant passages last night was perfectly marvellous. Her "Una voce poco fa" was the very perfection of florid vocalisation, and her execution of Rode's air, which she gave as the singing lesson,"produced a furore exceeding in intensity, it that ' be possible, that of last season. It is needless to.say that she was called on to repeat the last variation, and that she was applauded to the echo. Lablache, glo rious Lablache was, as Bartolo, more rich, more unctions, more full of humour than ever:; and Beletti, as Figaro, was the most' lively of barbers, and sung the music most effectively, his " Largo al factotum," and his " Nell idea di qua! Metallo," were admirable ; in the latter he was excellently supported by Calzorlari, who appeared for the first time us Count Alrnaviva, and who sang the music with great taste and correctness. He gave the cavatina "Ecco ridente " with great taste, and was much and deservedly ap plauded. The overture and orchestral accompaniments were most effectively given, thanks to the energy and decision with which Balfe conducts the orchestra, and to the admirable manner in which lie has drilled the band. Madame Sontag and the prin cipal artists were frequently recalled during the course of the evening, and at the conclusion she was honoured with a perfect triumph. Between the acts Mademoiselle Ferraris repeated her grand pas, and was as usual most enthusiastically received ; Les Metamorphoses, which bids fair, thanks to Carlotta Grisi, to revive the ballet furore which has been somewhat in abeyance since tne ad vent of Jenny Lind, concluded the performance. The crush at the doors was terrific, and the house was crowded in every part long before the commence ment of the opera. The Queen and his Royal Higness Prince Albei t honoured the performances with their presence. Her Ma jesty and his Royal Highness were accompanied by his Roy al Highness the Prince of Wales and her Royal Highness the Princess Royal. The suit - 1 in attendance upon the Royal party comprised the Viscountess Can ning, the Hen. Miss Murray, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, Lord Elphiristone, and Colonel Seymour. Amongst the comraay were his Grace the Duke of Wel lington and the Marchioness of Douro, his Serene Highness Charles Duke of Brunswick, his Excel. lency the Russian Minister, his Excellency the Swedish Minister, M. de Berg, the Belgian Charge d'Affaires, the Marquis of Bath, the Marquiss of Hunt ley, the Marchioness Dowager of Sligo and the La dies Bromi ne, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Marquis cud Marchioness of Salisbury, the Marquis of Dune gal, the Earl of Shelburne, the Earl and Countess Granville, the E ar l o f Falmouth, the Countess de Flahault and Miss Flahault, Viscount Enfield, Lord George Gordon Lennox, Lord Gardner, Lord Somerville, Lord William Lennox, Lord Reudlesban, Lord and Lady de Tabley; Lord Ashburton, Lord Adolphus Fitzelarence, Lady Kerrison, Lord George Paget, Lord and Lady Sondes, Lady Charles Somerset and the Misses Somerset, Lady Vivian, the. Count de Herbeloa, the Count Civry, the Baron do Schutz, Sir W. Fietnantle, Bart., and LadyFrernautle, Sir G. Womb well, Bart., Sir J. Lowther, Bart , Lady Flower,lLieu tenant-General' Sirl Alexander Woodford, Bart., and Lady Woodford, Sir Thomas Parrot Len .nitrd, and Lady Barrett Lennard, Sir Sey mour Sadler, Lady Caroline Sandford, Lady Kirkland, Lady Carnwath,Bir W. Abdy, Bart., Sir T. Retfurd, Lady Gordon, the First Lord of the Admi ralty and Lady Arabella Baring, the Hoc. Mr. Wel lesley, the Hon. C. R. Neville, Major Neville, Mr. Pren dergast, Mr. Broderip, Captain Douce, Captain Clarke, Captain Drummond, Mr. Richards, M.P., Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Palmer, Mr. Willoughby, Mr. Hubert do Burgh, Colonel Percival, Colonel Wildman ' Mr. H. Broad ley, M.P., Mr. W. Delafield, Mr. F. Stanley, Mr. W. Packe, M.P., and Mrs. Packe Reading, Major Buckley, Mrs. Hobson, Mr. Peabody, Mr. G. Cornwall, Captain Lyon, Mr. Adolphus, Mrs. Leslie, Captain Villiers, Mrs. Eeauelerk, Mr. C. Barry Bald win, M.P., Mr. Henry Singleton and Miss Singleton, Mr. Mills, Mr. Lygon, Mr. Chichester, the Hon. Mr. Vernon, Mr. and Mrs. Sandford, Mrs. Paul, Mr. Ford, Mr. Brereton Trelawney, Mr. W. Cubitt, MY., Mrs. and Miss Ewing, &c. T URKEY. There is news from Constantinople to the 25th of March. General DEMBINSKI, who was among the Poles on board of the ship that carried some eighty Polish refugees to Malta, would not abandon his friends in distress, but took ship for Brousga, from Whence he went of his own free will to join Kossurn and his friends in misfortune who have been sent into the interior. There were still 600 Polish refugees at Sebumla. MM, CLIANDOE, TELEKI, and Count BETEILEM, who had succeeded in making their escape from Arad, had passed through Constantinople. HAWICK AND GALASIIIELS FACTORY DEPUTATION. —A deputation of operatives from Ilawick and Galashiels arrived in London in the beginning of the - week, with peti tions from all the factories in the place in favour of relay working.' The deputation is still here exerting their utmost to carry out the object of their mission. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. Grisi, Mario, and Tamburini, the glorious three, made their rentree for the season last evening, and, i judging from their appearance, a winter at St. Peters- burgh is rather favourable than otherwise to the voice and to the personal appearance. The opera was Lucrezia Borgia, and was well chosen for the occasion, since the Lucrezia of Grisi is one of the finest of her tragic representations. Her reception was enthusiastic. The applause lasted some minutes ; indeed she seamed quite affected by the warmth of her welcome, and at first could scarcely command her voice. She was, however, soon herself again, and never did La Diva look better, sing better, or act better than last evening. The reception of Mario (for whom an apology was made on the ground of hoarseness) and of Tamburini were equally enthusiastic. Mario, who seemed determined to show that he stood in no need of any apology, sang with excellent taste and sweetness. The " Deh pescator" was exquisitely rendered, and the last scene was one of the most perfect pieces, both of acting and vocalization, that even Mario has given us. The Alfonso of Tamhurini was full of power, and sublime in its wickedness. The part of Orsini was to have been performed by Mademoiselle de Merle, but in consequence of the indisposition of that young lady it was undertaken by Madame Do kolski, a lady previously unknown, who is very pretty, - and who sang the music with great taste. The house was very well attended. Her Majesty's box was occupied by Lady Mary Wood and the Hun. Charles Grey. Among the visitors were the Duke acd Duchess of Norfolk and Lady Ade liza the Marchioneks of WeSlareath, the Marchesa end Maclernoiselhi de Brancaleone, the Earl and Countess of Stamford, Earl and Couuteis of Beauchamp, Countess of Malniesbury, Countess of Tankenille, Lady Dalmeny, Countess Dowager Waldegrase, Earl Granville. Count Putocki, Viscount Malden, "Viscount Centilupe, Viscount Exmouth, Viscount Mandeville, Lady Carrington and the Hon. Miss Carrington, Lady Suffield, Lady Seymour, Lord Arthur Hay, Lord Archibald St. Maur, Lord Ernest Bruce, Lord Alfred Churchill, Lord Arthur Lennox, L - ,rd Henry Loftus, Lady Augusta Baring, Sir Henry and Lady Lushington, Sir Henry Webb, Sir William de Bathe, Sir George Armytage, Sir Charles Marshall, Lady Flint, Sir William" Fraser, Sir George Carroll, Hon. Cecil Forester, Hon. George Milks, lion. Tbeobald Dillon, Bun. John Fortescue, Hon. Spencer Montagu, Hon. Colonel Dawson Darner, Hon. Mr. aad Mrr. Dudley Ward, Hon. Major licedhani, Hon. Mrs. Morlay, Right Hon. E. J. Strutt and Mrs. , Strutt, Colonel Brownlow Knox, M.P., W. H. Gregory, UP., Thomas Baring, M.P., Mr. and Miss Hohhouse, Miss Burdet Courts, Mr. Samuel Rogers and Sir William Ross, Mr. Sloane Stanley, Captain Egerton, Colonel Sullivan, Captain De Bathe, Mr. H. Gruville, Captain Trelawney, Mrs. Milner Gibson, Mr. Gore Currie, &c. PRINCESS'S THEA TRE. The performance of Miss L. Pyne in La Sonnam hula, last evening, gave perfect confirmation to our previous assertion of her being the very best Amina on the English boards. Her acting was marked by deep and unstrained feeling, and she sang throughout with exquisite sweetness, combined with an extraor dinary development of power and execution. In the finale she obtained a rapturous encore, and was en.: thusiastically applauded when led on before the cur tain by Allen and Weiss, wbo had acquitted them selves very creditably in the opera. Wynn was ex• trernely comical as Allessio, proving himself to be alike a master of the facetious as well as the ferocious line. The Queen of the Roses continues to attr,,a, from the great beauty of the scenery, dezorations, and costumes, which are each and all superb ; • indeed, the " Flight of Nerilha in a Corbeille of Flowers" is second only to the closing scene in The island ,of Jewels. The dialogue,. it is true, is utterly puintlese, but Forman gives a comic song with grotesque effect, to the intense delight of the gods. Ryder is a noble-looking and deep-mouthed sorcerer; Miss Saunders, as Cadige, is a petticoated double of Keeley ; and Miss Louisa Howard, as Nerilha, the beautiful slave, is fascinatingly animated in look, speech, and motion. The ballet has been extremely well arranged by Flexmore, previous to his recent secession from the establishment. Auber's Gus tavus is to be brought out next .week, and it is highly probable that Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Kean will make their appearance at Witsuntide ; indeed, it is strongly rumoured that Mr. Kean is in treaty for the lesseesnipaof this theatre. If opera is to be the order of the evening for the re mainder of the season we would entreat for a little improvement in the orchestra, and, in any case, we would recommend the dingy condition of the gilding and decorations of this once•-beautiful house to the renovating consideration of the manager, not forget tine the neglected chandelier, from which a string of drops is pendant, like a stray stalactite, over the de voted heads of the pit, precisely as we recollect it on last " Boxing-night." Parsimony—or neglect, as it may be—is no true economy; and the judicious out lay of a few pounds would once more render the in terior of this theatre the most beautiful, unquestion ably, of any of the metropolitan temples of the drama, and would prove no less creditable to the spirit of the lessee than conducive to the ocular satisfaction of the visitors. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert, with Prince Alfred and the Princess Helena, visited the Zoological Gar dens, in the Regent's Park, yesterday afternoon. Lord Charles Fitzroy and Lieut.-Colonel F. H. Sey mour, the Equerries in Waiting, attended her Majesty and his Royal Highness. Lord Seymour had an audience of the Queen yes terday afternoon at Buckingham Palace, and had the honour to kiss hands on being appointed Chief Com missioner of her Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings. Her Majesty was attended by Lord Elphinstone, Lord in Waiting. His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horseback yesterday morning, attended by Lieut.- Colonel F. H. Seymour. The Queen and Prince Albert honoured her Majesty's Theatre with their presence yesterday evening. The royal suite consisted of the Viscountess Canning, Hon. Miss Murray, Lord Elphinstone, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and Lieut.-Colonel F. H. Sey mour. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, and the Prin cess Louise, took their usual airings yesterday. The Viscountess Canning has relieved the Countess of Charlemont in her duties as the Lady in Waiting to her Majesty. Her Majesty's private band attended in Buckingham Palace on Monday evening, and performed the follow ing pieces : Overture, "La Dame Blanche" Cavatina, " Donna Curitea" Marsche, " Zauberflote" Selection, "Don Pasquale" Mr. Jones, R.A., had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday at his official residence in Downing -•street. Mr. Cardwell, MT., had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial-office. Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday. Mr. Tidd Pratt had also an interview yesterday with the Right Hon. Baronet at his official residence in Downing-street. The Building Committee of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 met yesterday in the New Palace of 'Westminster. There were present—Mr. Cubitt (chairmen), Messrs. Barry, R. Stephenson? C. Cockerel], Brunel, and Donaldson. Mr. Scott Russell, Secretary of the Commission, was in attend ance. Colonel Reid (chairman), Messrs. Cole, Dilke, and Fuller, attended by the secretary, Mr. Digby Wyatt, were present on the part of the Executive Committee. The Committee examined the plans which have been submitted for the building. The Committee on Sculpture met yesterday. There were present Viscount Canning, Lord Ash burton, Sir Richard Westmacott, Mr. Baring Wall, Mr. William Wynn, Mr. D. Maclise, and Mr. UvvinF. Messrs. Cole and Dilke attended on the part of the Executive Committee. The Committee on the Mineral Kingdom met yes terday in the new Palace of Westminster. The members present were Sir Charles Lyell, Sir Roderick Murchison, Dr. Lyon Playfair, and Mr. Richard Phillips. Messrs. Cole and Dilke NN e r present on the part of the Executive Committee. Mr. Scott Russell, Secretary to the Commission, was in attendance. Mr. Adair had an interview with Sir George Grey, yesterday, at the Home-office. The Earl and Countess Grey arrived in - town on Monday night, from Howick Hall, Northumberland. Lord John Russell has issued invitations for a Par liamentary dinner on Saturday next, at his residence in Chesbam-place. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governor of the Mauritius. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF TUESDAY. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Essex. Henry John Selwin, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant. NATIONAL DEBT-OFFICE, APRIL 4, 1850. The Lords Commissioners Gf her Majesty's Treasury having certified to the Commissioners for the Reduc tion of the National Debt, in pursuance of the Act, 10th Geo. 4th, c. 27, sec. 1, that the actual surplus revenue of the Unittd Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, beyond the actual expenditure thereof, for the year ended the sth day of January, 1850, amounted to the sum of two millions and ninety-eight thousand ore hundred and twenty-six pounds two shillings and one penny ; The Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt hereby give notice, that the sum of five hundred and twenty-tour thousand five hundred and thirty-ene pounds ten shillings and sixpence, being one-fourth part of the said surplus of two million and ninety-eight thou sand ono hundred and twenty-six pounds two shillings and cue penny. will be applied, under the provisions of the said Act, between the 7th day of April, 1850, and the sth day of July, 1850, viz.:— To be applied to the purchase of stock £524,531 10 6 Add interest receivable on account of donations and bequests to be applied to the purchhse of stock 1,945 5 1 £526,476 16 5 JAS. irianim, Assistant Comptroller. WHETELIALt, APRIL 4. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Charles Hodgson, of Selby, in the county of York, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. We the undersigned, two of her Majesty's Commis sioners of Inland Revenue, in pursuance of the Act Sth and 9th Victoria, cap. 38, hereby certify, that 's% e have ascertained that the average amount of bank notes of the Unio❑ Bank of Scotland, carrying on the business of bankers at Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberden, Greenock, and divers other places, under the name or title of the Union Bank of Scotland and the Banking Company, in Aberdeen, in circulation during a period of one year preceding the Ist day of May. 1845, according to the returns made by such bankers, in pur suance of the Act passed in the 4'h and sth years of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled "An Act to make further provision relative to the returns to be made by banks of the amount of their notes in circula tidn,” is four hundred and fifteen thousand six hundred and ninety pounds.—Dated this Bth day of April,lBso. JOIIN THORNTON. C. Y. BUSHWORTH. To the Union Bank of Scotland. BANKRUPTS. Richard Thomas Peters, hotel keeper, High Holborn, to surrender April 20, at half-past Eleven, and May 18, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Guildhall-chambers , Basinghall-street; Sutton, Ureat Ormond-strcet, Queen-...square. H Nottingham, John Harriman, draper, .otingham, April 19, and M a y 17, at ten, at the Butmingham Di s t r i c t C ourt . Bitt!eston, ("facial assignee, Nottingham; Parsons, Not tingham. Robert David Evans and David Meredith Evans, drapers, Wrexham, Denbighshire, April 25 and May 16, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool; Evans and Son, Liverpool. AN EMBARRASSING REQUEST.—A man, habited as a gentleman's servant, knocked at the door of the mansion of Catchfrench, in the parish of St. German, on Tuesday night, about 9 o'clock, and left a large reticule tied down with cord with the two female servants, saying it contained some things for the Misses Granville, the ladies of the house; he then departed, saying he was going to look after his gig, which he had left in the neighbourhood, and would be back again shortly. The girl who took the basket said, as the man would soon be back she would defer taking it to her mistresses till his return; but, on setting it down rather hastily, she was astonished to hear the shrill tones of au infant voice issuing from it. In the utmost surprise and alarm the servants ran to acquaint their mistresses, whose consternation may be easily imagined on finding the nature of the present they had been favoured with. After due de liberation, however, the basket was opened, and was found to contain a fine male child, apparently about a fortnight nicely dressed and deposited with every care for its comfort and convenience. There was also a note written in a good hand, addressed to the Misses Granville, informing tbem that the parerts of the child were unable, from the pressure of the times, to bring him up as respectably as his ancestors, and therefore hoped that they would take compassion and adopt him. No clue has yet been obtained to the actors in this strange and unusual proceeding. It is needless to say the man did not return, but it has been as that he ' cstne in a gig and passed through the neighbouring toll-bar. The infant will most likely be placed in the St. Germain's Union Workhouse.— arnteall Gazette. FINANCIAL AND PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.—A crowded and most enthusiastic meeting was held in the theatre, Sheffield, on Monday night, to receive Sir Joshua Walmsle, M.P., and George Thompson, Esq., M.P., as a deputation from the National Parliamentary and Financial Reform Association. The appearance of these gentlemen upon the stage, accompanied by Wm. Fisher, Esq., Solly, Esq., and other gent lemen, was receive d with loud applause. Several excellent speeches were made, and the meeting passed off with much cleat. FOREIGN REFINED SUGAR.--A vessel named the Zumanshoop, belonging to Holland, which has arrived from the Dutch capital, has brought the unusually large quantity of 53S tierces and 1,146 barrels of foreign sugar, and also 4CO cases of sugar candy, forming together an entire cargo, the produce and manufacture of Holland. LITERATURE.,: , LODGE'S POR 7'R..4.1 TS. V*, V. irn4 pp* The same commendations which Nt4 Jaave bestow ••cs .„ cn the former vo l umes o f M r . 13ohni ery, beriut u 1; and . very ch ea p e d it i on o f " L o d ge ' s 3 6 tat, applicable to the new volumes now bef the celebrated individuals whose personh are here exhibited to us by the masterly hand of a Vand)ke, a Godfrey lineiler, a Peter Lely, and other contemporary artists, and whose characters and his tories are briefly but admirably set forth, in the very interesting b;ographies of " Lodge," are Selden, Oliver Cromwell, Monk, Queen Henrietta Maria, the heroic Countess of Derby, Hyde,; Earl of Clarendon. Sir Kenelm Digby, and others, in Volume V., which contains no less than thirty memoirs and portraits- A simil ar num b er i s also contained in Volume VL , among which the most interesting are those of Charles 11. and bis Queen, Prince Rupert, Alger non Sidney, Lord Russell, Locke, and Tillotson The characters of these personages are forcibly, and for the most part (m a ki ng d ue a ll owance f or th e writer's loyal predilections) fairly described with a few vigorous touches. Of John Selden it is remarked— " Mr. Selden was certainly the most learned, and per haps, the most honest Englishman of his time. He was actually a patriot, for his continued efforts to serve his country, however frequently he might have mistaken the means, seem never for a moment to have incurred even a suspicion of selfishness." Of Oliver Cromwell we are told—" We shall seek in vain for any other estimable qualities in Cromwell's character than judgment, courage, and decision." Mr. Lodge's portrait of the Lord Protector is somewhat unflatter ing, a fact readily accounted for, when we read the opening passage of the biography of Monk, penned by the same hand. Opinions, indeed, differ as to whether the most famous act of Monk's life has entitled him to the gratitude of posterity, but as to the justice of these remarks upon the sentiment of gratitude itself there cannot be two opinions. "As we are told," says Mr. Lodge, " that we may cover a multitude of our own sins by our charity, so, in another sense, may it be said that we frequently cover those of others by our gratitude. It is difficult even to discern the faults of one from whom we have received great favours ; painful to dwell on the contemplation of them; and scarcely possible to proclaim them, &c." The story of " Charlotte de la Tremorille," the heroic Countess of Derby, is necessarily dull of interest. Many other attractive themes and memorable anecdote', too numerous to particularise, abound in these pages. In the memoir of the Duchess of Richmond, no less celebrated for her virtue than her beauty, we are re minded of a circumstance perhaps not familiar to all who are accustomed to the sight of penny-pieces. The King was an ardent, perhaps the more ardent, because an entirely unsuccessful suitor to the fair Stewart before her marriage with the Duke of Richmond, as the following anecdote testi fies : THE EFFIGY ON PENNY-PIECES. "Charles's passion for her increaseddaily, and betrayed him into several singular, but inoffensive extravagances. Among these a gold medal appeared, doubtless by his order, representing on the front his own bust, and on the reverse a portrait of the idolised fair one in the character of Minerva; said to have been so exquisite a likeness that it was instantly known, as Evelyn, who lived in her time, informs us in his Nusitnata,' by all who bad ever seen her. We are told that Philip Rotier, who, with his father and brothers, was joint engraver to to the Royal Mint, and who executed the dye, fell distractedly in love with her in the interviews to which he was necessarily admitted to study her fea tures, and soothed his hopeless passion by copying again and again, in various sizes and metals, this happy effort of his art. The King was not less desirous than the engraver to disseminate to the utmost the belovel por trait, and it was pres e ntly transferred t) the copper coin of the realm, on which it appears to this day, unaltered in its general appearance, as the emblematic figure, and bearing the inscription cf Britannia." In, alluding to this circumstance, and to the virtue of the Duchess (the golden medal reminding him of the fable of " Dance") Waller wrote some complimentary verses, in which he observes— "Britanzia there, the fort, in vain Had battered been with golden rain: Thundi.r itself had filled to pass — Virtue's a stronger guard than brass." LEILA. Part IV. By Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton. The present cheap and elegant republication of one of the least known, and yet one of the most imaginative of the remarkable fictions penned by our poet novelist, progresses from month to month favour ably. Each instalment is embellished with two of the exquisite engravings originally decoratirg the romance of the " Siege of Granada "—engravings pr,:duced under the superintendence of Mr. Charles Heath from original drawings by some of our most distinguished artists, such men, for example, as Maclise and Stephanoff. " Ayxa la Horra reproach ing Boabdil," a sketch copied from a picture by the former gifted painter, affords in the present number an admirable specimen of the style of embellishment. The narrative itself has advanced as far as the com mencement of the Third Book, depicting among other incidents the temptation of the Jewess—consequently the work is just about half completed. THE ART JOURNAL. Etty's lovely picture of " Youth and Pleasure " one of the principal gems in the Vernon collection— has here afforded to Mr. C. W. Sharpe an opportunity of displaying the skill of his graver, an opportunity of which he has availed himself with inimitable suc cess. The impression before us is rich in beauty, and looking at it we scarcely miss the variegated colouring of the original. Another painting, the " Cottage Children, " of Gainsborougb, also in the same precious repository of modern art, has been skilfully engraved by Mr. G. B. Shaw, for the April number of the Art Journal. Mrs. S. C. Hall makes a pilgrimage this month to spots sanctified by the footsteps of Milton, and those classic localities are ingeniously sketched out by the practised pencil of Mr. Fairholt. The distinguished modern artiste, whose portraits adorn the pages of this excellent periodical, are Westall and Pickersgill. In addition to a variety of other contributions, both literary and pictorial, we must also especially particularise, seve ral very beautiful illustrations of popular poetry, and an admirable engraving of the Nelson column, Tra falgar-square, as it will look when in a state cf completion. REPEAL OF TUE RAILWAY PASSENGER Petitions aro now being presented by railway companies to Parliament for a repeal of the Act 6th and 6th Victoria, whereby a duty of 5 per cent. was imposed on all sums re. ceived or charged fur the conveyance of passengers travelling on railways. Tney set forth that since the passing of the Act railway property has undergone great alterations; that railway revenues have been reduced by competition and by heavy assessments of another character; and that the re mission of the ditty would relieve the particular intercet from a burden that does not attach to steam-vessels, or any other description of property. SINGULAR DISCOVERY OF EQUINE REMAINS.—An exhumation, which most probably will rather excite the spe culation of the sporting than the scientific public, took place o n Monday morning at Lewisham. Some workmen em ployed in the repair of an extensive mansion in the village had occasion to take up the flooring of the dining parlour, when, within a toot of the joists, the skulls of no less than seventeen horses were found, and in every instance the lower jawbone was absent. Of course this affair has caused no little conjecture and speculation in the vicinity ; and some venture to Lint that there have been more horses of mis represented age, that have gone the way of all horse-flesh, than the unlamented Leander, or the living Running Rein. WRECK OF TUE ROYAL ADELAlDE.—lnformation having been communicated to Mr. Ccdd, coroner, that the body of a woman had been found on the Maplin Sands , in the parish of Foulness Island, dressed only in her shift, a petticoat and bed-gown, the body being quite fresh, anti with a wound on her right temple, which was then bleeding, that gentleman summoned a jury for Friday last, and re quested the attendance of a medical man, w hen it appeared that she was found as stated on Wednesday last, b y a man named Belton, and carried to an out - hous e attached to the King's , cad public-house, in Foulness; that on searching her he found in the pocket of her gown several letters, two of which were dated respectively the 7th and I__ oth _of March, 1850, from Warley Barracks, commencing,, lk.ear wife," and signed " John Harriugton ;" a lso is pair . of child's sock s , w le - h g i ; ch b N o v t a h s had made an external examin ation of the body of the de and a string of beads. Mr. Mille r, the suigoon, stated that lie b u e p r on right te her e m right p temple, which a nd were of is trivial c h aracter; ceased, and found a woundburupiosne then still bleeding, and a that he believed from h er a p pearance she was an Irish wo man, been receivect,d ur i n g life, man, and about 3.5 years of age; her breast s were f u ll o f milk. He was inc lined to think, from the manner in which she was dressed, that she had been lost from some vessel, and wa shed overb oar d whilst in the act of dre ss i ng . V er di c t, e Found dead." Since the inquest, information has been re ceived of other bodies having been washed up, namely, that of a man with a cork jacket, at Harwich ; a woman at Great Holland, a child at Little Holland, and a child at Flinton ; but as there can be no reasonable doubt, under the circum stances, that they are bodies o f p art i es d rowne d at sea , an d probably belonging to the Royal Adelaide, we understand Mr. Codd has declined holding inquests upon the bodies.—Essex Berard. QUEER'S COLLEGE, BIRMINGHAM.—The local officers and linatee committee of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held last year at Birmingham, having determined to return to the l oubscribers to the local fund the whole of the funds in hand, which will amount to one-half of the subscriptions, the Earl of Dartmouth, the Earl of Ilarrowby, Viscount Lifford, the Hon. the Dean of Lichfield, Mr. James Taylor, Dlr. J. E. Piercy, and other in fluential subscribers, have consented to transfer their moiety to complete the new buildings, museum, library, model room, engineering workshops, &c., of Queen's College, towards the erection of which and the purchase of the free hold site the Rev. Dr. Warneford has contributed the muni ficent sum of 3,0001. SUCCESSFUL CURE FOR RATS.—In an ui land prish, not an hundred miles from lirechin, the inmates of a house were much annoyed with the ravages of those de structive vermin— eating their hams and everything that came in their way. A kind neighbour advised the purchase of coal tar, which was accordingly got, and their retreats were overlaid with the material, and in a very short time they had left. The story is rich in it 3 sequel. The gude wife, to make sure that her hams should] not suffer further, besmeared them with the tar also, which has had the etlect of scaring bipeds from them, as well as the rats, for they are now fairly inedible.— Breehin Advertiser.