The Sun. — London, England, 1851-05-17 00:00:00

-••%:r - fq wr, cr vs :44 z kt) THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the direction of Madame Celesta. THIS EVENING, ROYAL L YCE UM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestal& Sole Lessee, Mr. Cu.d es Mathew', TINS EVENING, Will be performed COOL AS A CUCUMBER. To be followed by A DAY OF RECKONING, in which Madame Vestris will appear. To conclude with THE QUEEN OF THE FROGS Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, It. Roxby, Bellingham, Iron:leastle, Morris ; Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss R. George, Miss Martindale, and Miss Oliver. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Farren. THIS EVENING, Wlll be performed THE LADIES' BATTLE ; or, ITn Duel en Amour. After which THE FARMER'S STORY. To conclude with FRIEND INTA,;GLES. A.STLEY'S ROYAL AMP tiITEIEATRE. llP.der the Patronage of her Majesty and his Royal Flighoue Prince Albert. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. TIIIS EVENING, Will be per a grand ne w S pec t ac l e , en titl e d ELEA NOR HE AMAZON ; or, Queen of Face and England. To be foll owed by new Scenes r ot s the Circle, introducing an en tirely new Company of French Artistes. To conclude with a laughable Farce, PUNCPPS PLAYHOUSE AND STRAND THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. W. R. COPELIND, Liverpool. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new Conaecy, entitled KENSINGTON GAR DENS. Principal characters by Messrs. Tilbury, A. Davies, Nor ton, T. Rogers, and Romer ; Mrs. Seymour (her Ilth appearance) ; Madame.; E, Romer, M. A. Marshall, and Wallis. An ILLUSTRATION OF THE EXPOSITION. Principal charac ters by Mesdames Marshall, M. Taylor, C. Horsman, and Dlbdin ; Messrs. J. Reeve, Norton, J. Rogers, and Romer. To conclude with a new Farce called TAKING THE CENSUS. The prices of admission are arranged as follow :—Orchestra 41; Boxes (first circle), 35,; . (second circle), 2s. ; Pit, is. Doors to be opened at Ilall-past Seven, - and the performances to oommence at Eight precisely. L second price will be taken to the Boxes only at Half-past Nino —first circle, 25.; second circle, Is. Private Boxes One Guinea and a Half each. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Open for the t-eason on MONDAY, the sth of May. First representation et' a gigactic modelled Panorama, painted by the Messrs. Danson, representing the Temple of Janus in the Eternal City, with a striking View of the Colosseum, Palace of the Caesars, &c. The Menagerie is both varied and extensive, including two gi "lies, two elephants, which promenade the grounds, appropriately eaParisoned and attended. The band, composed of musi : :tans of first-rate c e l e b r ity, i s con d uc t e d by Mr. Godfrey. :r e d on the lake is seen a rea l Chi nese p l easare j un k, with mas t s n~elt complete. Also Remington's aerial bridge, and various colossal . n h a „_ . ! ; and at dusk will be given, on a scale of surpassing ntag- Ter;Zocra representation of the Closing of the Brazen Gates of the J " , 1 3, with (for the first time ever attempted) a grand War anal riParent diaphonic panopticon, showing the horrors of display of f C , ' _ bl essing's of peace, terminating with a most brilliant o f the arty and by Messrs. Southby ; and an allegorical tableau iecle ever Nvite e Majesty Q uern B i 7. l i enoes, depositing their treasures at the feet of her ctoria, the whole forming the most gorgeous spec ssed. 4MI SSION—ONE SHILLING. Friday. Exhibition nights —M onday, Tuesday, W e d nesday, Thursday, and f, JULLIEN, with the ellte of his Band, will commence their en gagements on Manday, M ay 26. The FLORAL EXIIIIIITIONS of the Royal South London Flori cultural Society will be repeated during the Season ; the First will take place on Wednesday, May gg. HIGH WATER Al LONDON BRIDGE go.3fo3low_gor ,- —Morning min, Baez ning 0 rain. aft 3 I Evening 21 min. after 3 THIS 1r 40 er I Evening 59 loin. after 3 THE WEATHER.—Sox orricit:-_-_! T HERM OMETER, IN TH- E s 1 2.. Lt Y 17. 63—highest since noon yesterday, 45—lowest this morning and during the iiigi,t. 58—this day, at noon. BABOILETEE, 30'01. WIND W.S.W.—light breeze and cloudy. DATLY WEATHER TABLE. $f ate of the Wind and Weather at each of the following Places at Nine o'clock yesterday morning.—Ths stations are am _ . . p vnto 'ngeu in order of latitude. Poo Lic L err i g7 — Wind S., gentle breeze—overcast. Baioirro N ',l ir ' s To/V., gentle breeze--partially cloudy. flouniAste 7 . oN uld „,S.W.. calm—partially cloudy. FoLKEaroxn.....wr int' W., gentle breeze—cloudless. Tulamtmos.—winnt S-W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. GREENWICH—r, .E., calm—cloudless. SWlNDON—Windrt n— hUy. LEIGHTON — Wind E •, Irat airs—cloudlesz. CA3U3P.MGE—Wind fi ca Ell—cloudless. RUGBY—Wind E., gentle breeze—cloudless. IhussINGIWI— Wind vv., , r e e n et i e—cloudlis. y AnmouT H—Wind W., calm_ breeze —overcast LrvEuroor,—Wind W.. gentle reudiess. LANcAsritn—Wind S.W., ca i m _ n ez e — Partially cloudy. W nrrav—Wincl N., gentle breeze —cloudless, cloudy. SNAP— wind S.W.. gentle breeze c °u • dles s• —partially BEArrOCK—Wind S., gentle breeze—overc- cloudy. The returns from the following places indicate the wind and weather on Thursday re —ate th e state of o'clock :-- or ning at nine KINGSTOWN (DuBLIN ) Wind S.E., calm—overcast. MULLINGAR— W ind 5.., strong breeze—overcast. PLYMOUTH —Wind S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloud y, POOLE —Wind S.E., gentle breeze—cloudless. BASIN/ISTOKE —Wind N., gentle breeze—partially cloudy, SWINDON—Wind E., light airs—cloudless. LEmirroN—Wind E., gentle breeze—cloudless. Yong—Wind S., calm—partially cloudy. 104 z casmx—Wind S.W., calm—principally clear. X.E ~ gentle b eeze—partiallYcloady. OARD OF GREEN CLOTH, BUCKINGHAM PAL ICE, MAY 17,. 1851. Notice is hereby given to the Ambassadors, the Foreign Ministers, the Members of her Majesty's Most Honourable Pzivy Council, and the Officers and Ladies of the Royal Household, invited to her Ma jesty's BALL, on MONDAY EVENING, the 19th instant, that their Carriages, having Tickets for that purpose, are to enter St. James's. park by the Great Gate on Constitution-hill, pass through the North Gate of the Fore Court into the Garden, set cloaca at the Garden entrance, and leaving the Garden by the gate near the riding-house, are to turn to the right ; and that no carriage can be allowed to pass through the Great Gate on Constitution-hill with- out a Ticket. The empty Carriages are afterwards to ge round by the Consti tution 11111-gate Into the Park, to wait there till called to take up, and to go away through Grosvenor-place. The Carriages of all other persons invited to the Ball are to fall into lino in St. James's-street, enter the Park by the Stable-yard -gate, pass through the gate north of the Centre-gate of the Palace, and set down at the principal entrance in the Quadrangle. The empty Carriages are to draw off, and gritting the Quadrangle by the gate south of the Centre Gate, pass down the Bird-cage Walk, cross the Parade opposite the Horse Guards, and wait in the Mall till called to the Palace; after taking up, they are to quit the Palace by tie gate south of the Centre Gate, and to g* away by Buckingham Gate, or through the Stable-yard gate, up. St. James's-street. WEST iIINSTE/t, Lerd Steward. LADY BUL2O, IVEGreat MRarlborL Y ougli-s TT treet, May 16. ON'S NEW NOVEL, "MIRIAM SEDLEY," A Tale Real IS NOW READY AT ALL TEIE L Life, IBRARIES, in 3 yols. " Singularly lively and spirited."—Critic. Also, ,In a few days, in 3 vole , ORD WILLIAM LENNOX'S NOVEL, PERCY HAMILTON; or, The Adventures of a Westminster .W. Shoberl, Publisher, 20, Great Marlborough-street. Orders received by all Booksellers. BUENOS AYRES BONDS. A PUBLIC MEETING of the Holders of the Buenos Ayrea Bonds of the Messrs. Baring's Loan of 1824, for 1,000,0001. sterling, will be held at the London Tavern, on THURSDAY next, may 22, at Twelve for One o'clock precisely. ALFRED GODFREY, Secretary. 8, Broad-street-buildings, May 16, 1851. !TER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. • Al /. GRAND EXTRA NIGHT. It Is respectfully announced that a Grand EXTRA NIGHT will take place on THURSDAY EVENING, May 22. when will be pre sented, for the first time this season. Rossini's celebrated opera, IL BARBIEKE DI SIVIGLIA.. Rosina, Madame Sontag ; n Conte d'Almaviva, Signor Calzolarl ; Figaro, Signor Ferranti • Basin°, Signor Casanova ; Bartolo, Signor Labiache. In the Lesson Sceae Madame Sontag will introduce Rode's cele brated Variations. A Selection from a favourite Opera, in which Madlle. Caroline Duprez, Madame Fiorentini, Signori Gardoni and Coletti will ap. pear. With Talons Entertainments in the Ballet Department, by M a dll e. Carlotta Grisi, Madile. Amalia Ferraris , Madlles. Rosa, Esper, Juli en, i Pascales, Kohlenberg, Dantone, MM. Charl es, Lamoureux, Allearini. es, Ehrick, Paul Taglion!, Di Mattia, Gouriet, and Vanefra. Application for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets, to be made at the Box.. office of the Theatre. Doors o p ened at S even , the Ope " mane at nail-past Seven o'clock. ra to op,. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE, Madame SONTAG. seated Dreosnizpeetti's &Dilly Oper a.an a ounced that THIS EVENDM will be pre- LA FIGLIA DEL REGGIIIENTO. M a ria, Madame Sontag; Tonio, Signor Gardonl Ortenslo, Signor Balanchl ; Sergente Sulpizio, Signor F. Lablache. To conclude with the admirable Ballet (arranged In one act) of LE DIABLE A Q UATRE, Allegrini , By Mdlle. Carlotta Grist, Mdlles. Rosa, Esper, J u li en , L amoureux, Aussanden, Kohlenberg, Pascales, Dantoiae, MM, Charles, Ehriek, Paul Taglionl, - 011 -rlef, Venefra, and Di Mattis. The Opera will commence at Eight o'clock. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box Office of the Theatre, Opera-colonnade, Haymarket. The highly s uccessful Divertissement, Les Cosmopolit es will be repeated forthwith. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. James Anderson. Re - engagement of Madlle. Victorine Legrain. Engagement of Miss P. HORTON. THIS EVENING Will be presented by her Majesty's Servutts t new grand Operatic Spectacle, entitled AZAEL, THE PRODIGAL. Reuben, Mr. Yam:lmhoff; Azael, Miss P. Hor ton ; Amenophis, Mr. W. West ; Bucharis, Mr. Cooper; Sethos, Mr. Rafter; jephtele, Miss Viilars; Nette, Mrs. Walter Lacy; Lia, 3fadlle. Victorine Legrain (Premier Sujet du Opera de Paris), who has been expressly engaged for the occasion. To be followed by UNE SOIREE CARNAVAL, hl which Madlle. Victorine Legrain and Madame Louisa will appear. To conclude with the comic Pantomime of HARLEQUIN AND GOOD QUEEN BESS ; or, Merrie England to the Olden Time Harlequin, Mr. Lauri ; Pantaloon, Mr. C. Lauri ; Clown, Mr, Doughty ; Columbine, Miss PaLser. Stalls and Dress Circle - First Price. Second Price. Boxes . 3 s . Is. 6d. Pit Lower Gallery - 11.1 No half-price Upper Gallery - - - 6d. to Galleries. Private Boxes to admit 8 reduced from 31. 3s. Od. to 21. 12s. 6cl. Ditto 6 ditto 21. 12s. 6d. to 21. 2s. Od. Ditto 4 ditto 2/. 2s. Od. to 11. 115. 6d. Ditto 4 ditto 11. Its. 6d. to 11. Is. Oct. THEATRE ROYAL, IL&YMARKET. Mfr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brampton. THIS EVENING, Will be performed an entirely New Comedy, entitled RETIRED FROM BUSINESS. Zachary Pennyweight, Mr. Lambert; Creep• mouse, Mr. Buckstone ; Lieut. Tackle, Mr. Stuart ; Captain Gunn, Mr. B. Webster; Paul Puffins, Mrs. Pitzwililam ; Kitty Penny weight, Miss Annie Romer. After which, a new and (as times go) original domestic drama o starting interest, entitled ARLINE ; or, The Fortunes and Vicissi tudes of a Bohemian Girl. Count Arnhem. Mr. J. Bland; Count Florestine, Mrs. L. S. Buckingham ; Thaddeus of Warsaw, Mrs. ritzwanam ; Devilshoof, Mr. Buckstone ; the Gipsy Queen, Mr. H. Bedford. Will be performed THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST. To be followed by a new musical, historical, pastoral, comical fairy drama, called O'FLANNIGAN AND THE FAIRIES ; or, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Phelim O'Flannigan, Mr. Hudson ; Oberon, Miss E. Chaplin; Mary, Miss K. Fitzwilliam. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. C. Kcaa and Mr. Keeley, THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE STRINGER. Beall; Mrs. Haller, Mrs. C. Kean. After which a new Farce called APARTMENTS. " Visitors to the Exhibition may be accommodated." To conclude with a new grand spectacular Extravaganza (taken from a Tale, by Washington Irving), entitled THE ALHAMBRA ; or The Three Moorish Princesses. Characters by Messrs. Keeley, Harley, A. Wigan, Wynn, Cooke, Flexmore ; Misses Murray, Daly, Vivash, Robertson, Leclerq, Keeley, Mdlle. Auriol, and Mrs. Kee'eY. The Stranger, Mr. C, Boy. THE SUN, • 1 1 1 6 % 4 •1 4 ' 011 a. , • . 44., .• s 0 ..,.... ~.A„ .., "4 r• m 0 ''. • Di, t• • Roll ) blenind LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 17, 185 On the CHAIRMAN putting the question that the pre amble be postponed, The Ecclesiastical Titles Assumption Bill has at ength got into Committee. The devotion, we may almost term it the self-immolation of the Brigade, retarded but could not prevent that consummation —a consummation which, it was manifest to every disinterested person at all acquainted with the state of public feeling in Parliament and in the country, could not possibly be averted. If any doubt could have previously existed as to the motives of those who, by an abuse of the forms of the House, compelled the large and overwhelm ing majority to succumb to less than one-seventh of their number, it would be completely set at rest by the proceedings last night. Where were the nu merous" brigaders," brimful of eloquence and anxious to pour forth the enlightening torrent on the be nighted nation? They were all determined to be heard. The refusal of an audience would be but adding bitter insult to deep injury. Where was the Honourable Gentleman the Member for Clonmel, who moved the adjournment of the debate, and thus ob tained a prescriptive title to resume the proceedings ? Where were those whose claims were so feel ingly expatiated on by the lion. Gentleman the Member For Mayo ? None were forthcoming. Human patience bad been exhausted, and none could be found with sufficient temerity to brave the national indignation that would be excited by the sacrifice of another evening, and the expressions of impatience with which the orator would be greeted during the progress of his harangue. We have heard of a barrister speaking against time, in order to delay matters until a necessary witness could be procured from a considerable distance. We have been pre sent at the cross-examination of a witness to cha racter for more than three hours, in order that a special messenger might be dispatched for a learned Queen's Counsel to take advantage of the op portunity for reply afforded by the indiscretion of the adversaries ; and we were not astonished, for in each case something was to be gained by procrastination. In the one a nonsnit was avoided, in the other an elo quent and feeling address was delivered to the jury that must have materially influenced their verdict. An advocate might submit to the censure of th• Court for such purposes. On the Bill now under notice the procrastination has been just as palpable as in the cases above alluded to. But nothing was to be gained by the success of th• manoeuvre. They could not throw out the Bill by a temp)rary success, or bestow upon a foreign po tentate the privilege of invading the prerogatives of the British Crown and the independence of the British empire. Ireland, their native country, will be the chief sufferer in consequence of the precious time thus recklessly wasted, a considerable portion whereof might have been devoted to subjects intimately connected with her welfare and prosperity. But it can never be reclaimed, and doubtless we shall hear some of the chief obstructives complaining, at the end of the session, of the neglect of Irish interests, and demanding justice for Ireland with voices of thunder. They will not then receive their own fac tious proceedings as an adequate excuse for Ministerial backslidings ; but they must be contented, for the good sense of the country will discern that they are the parties responsible for the evils that may arise. The debate has been again adjourned to Monday evening, but on this occasion there has been a suffi cient reason for the delay, viz., that the Bill should be reprinted in the form in which the Government intended to proceed with it, so that Honourable Gen tlemen might understand exactly that on which they are voting. We can now only express our hope that no further time may be misapplied, but that at length, in the fourth month of the session, the House may really enter upon the important duty of legisla tion, and avoid all future escapades unbecoming the dignity and character of the " first body of gentlemen in the world." A noble example of independence was yesterday afforded by the Honourable Gentleman the represen tative of Nottingham. It will have been observed that within the last few days two gentlemen, one of them distinguished by his forensic reputation, were summarily requested by an arrogant and bigoted majority to retire from the Conservative Club, having, it was intimated, ceased for some time past to enter tain sentiments consistent with the principles of Conservatism. The individuals thus virtually ex pelled were, it is by this time well known, no other than Mr. BETRELL and Mr. TINDAL. Without having in any manner provoked the insult gratuitously directed against them with so much impertinent ostentation, these quondam members of the club suddenly found themselves called upon to withdraw from the midst of their former associates. Anything more indecorous in tone than the requisition addressed to them can scarcely be imagined. Regarding the occurrence, moreover, as a precedent, it must be looked upon as the inauguration of a system by which the opinions of every member of society similarly situated will be subjected to the scrutiny of a body of inquisitors. Hence, therefore, it cannot but be reprobated as a circumstance calculated to prove sin gularly detrimental to the liberal and enlightened spirit of the age, reducing each person, as it does, to the possible supervision of a faction arrogating to itself the secret authority of the Carbonari or the irresponsible despotism of the Vehmgericht. Feeling this, we remarked with the utmost gratification the course taken by Mr. WALTER—a course as brilliant in i_ts deci s i veness as it was chivalric in its promptitude. Indignant at the disgraceful manner in which his flung d o _ still remain ing as numbered amongst the ranks rejection of member s wght Bo cious maj tationhich mi of inso any lence. preferring this h aug ht y on fur , ther continuance in a p os iti on ority, roode er orrhl.ater, at the whim of a capri nourable to the Memb er Eavam liable to a similar manifes cide with ourselves i n Every 2:riong a p roceeding so ho ne will assuredly coin admiring affordt n toneut most - for which must, we feel satisfied, inNevoi most gratification to his numerous s nPPorters ' th co nstituency. His conduct in th e matter bas ln ev spirit of independence masculine ande dently been inspired by that generous Peculiarly befitting the English gentleman under all circumstances, but mere especially when to his own personal dignity has been joined that of one of the popular representatives. It will probably be as well for those who may be at all solicitous to maintain the Conservative Club in its state of prosperity to bear in remembrance the jeo pardy incurred by pursuing the path just adventured u ixtql by the lat e v i r t ua l an d ill-advised expulsion. , ti PP"ini; the precedent be adopted as ineuguretive, The House of Lords sat last evening fora short time, but transacted no business of importance. In the Commons, On the order of the day for the resumption of the debate on the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill being read, a di vision took place (after an abortive attempt, on the part of Mr. REYNOLDS, to occasion further delay) on t h e question that the SPEAKER leave the chair, and the motion was carried by 116 to 35. The House then went into Committee on the Bill. Mr. KEOGH moved that it be taken first. This led to conversation, in the course of which, Mr. DISRAELI declared that he would support no le gislation on this subject that did not apply to Ireland as well as to England. and that he would support any pro position whith should make the Bill a retaliatory act to vindicate the national honour. Lord JOHN RUSSELL expressed his willingness to adopt certain of the amendments of Mr. WALPOLE, and ' to reject others. Mr. WALPOLE explained his intentions in proposing certain of these amendments, and it was ultimately ar ranged that the Bill should be committed pro forma, to be re - committed on Monday, and that in the meantime it should be reprinted in the form in which the Government intended it should stand. The House having resumed, The Coalwhippers (Port of London) Bill was read a second time, and after a desultory conversation on the manner in which the accounts of the Court of Sewers are kept, and w hi c h l e d to no result, the House adjourned. The strengthening tendenciei of the convictions of he thinking portion of the public towards the prin ciple of direct taxation, receive a fresh impetus from the rapid development of commerce which every monthly return of the imports and exports of our trade and navigation confirms. As the effects of our free -trade policy gradually unfold themselves, and it is seen that while we produce at home more food than ever, we import four times as much as we did under the system of protection, we consume all we produce and import, and it is eaten by those who could not afford to purchase it under the higher prices of mono poly, the conclusion becomes inevitable, that the economy of unrestricted commerce improves the con dition, not only of those who are dependent upon manufactures and foreign trade, but of the great masses of our rural population. Increased imports infallibly indicate enlarged powers of domestic con sumption and means of internal purchase. Equivalent exports equally prove that trade is strictly reciprocal, and that with every importation a new and growing demand arises for the labour of our producers. Not all the statistics of CHOWLER, and all the "ex ceptional cases" of GEORGE FREDERICK YOUNG, can rail this free-trade seal from off the bond of nations. As the significancy of these facts becomes better understood, a growing conviction arises that it is essential to the full development of our powers of barter, under the new dispensation of commercial intercourse, that all unnecessary restrictions upon the merchant should be removed, and every practicable facility afforded for the full development of our trading capabilities. It is now understood that tariffs, import duties, taxes upon the exchange of commodi ties, are not only pernicious to the consumer, who has ultimately to pay them, but obstructive to an in calculable extent of the enterprise and energy of the distributor; and that indirect taxes are not only the least economical in collection, and the most burden some to every class of buyers and sellers, but inci dentally deprive us, by the irksome restrictions with which they encompass business, of a vast amount of profitable trade, which might afford large profits to the capitalists, and inexhaustible employment to the labouring classes. It was from this conviction that Sir ROBERT PEEL, n what may be called his regenerate political state aimed, in the reduction of taxation, to repeal rather than to reduce duties—to take off entirely the im posts from those commodities whose produce the re venue could spare, rather than merely to diminish a little of the duties of everything, leaving still a *le for every article of import to pay. One difficulty he failed to anticipate, which has effectually frustrated all his expectations. He re membered indeed that we had taxes, but he forgot that we had a Custom-house: He relieved trade from the fetters in which duties had bound it, but he left it the slave and captive of the iron chains of Red Tapery, and the farcical technicalities of a Thames street board. " Her MAJESTY'S Commissioners for Foreign Revenue" have been the PENELOPES who have industriously unwound in the board-room the web which the Minister had warped and woofed in his Cabinet. They have accumulated their forms, rules, regulations and orders, just in the proportion in which his policy dispensed with the need of them; and the product of his total repeal of duties on twelve hundred articles of revenue has been an increase of 600,0001. per annum in the cost of collecting the duties that remain. Here we might atop. Q. E. D. There is noforty• sophist power which can explain away this simple fact. The less the Board of Customs have to do, the more they charge for it. The fewer the duties to be collected, the greater the labour of collection. As goods cease to be the subject of revenue, they become daily more liable to the supervision and inspection Of the fiscal officers. The fewer the objects of taxation, the more numerous are the ceremonials of entry, j clearance, examination, pricking notes, cockets, seizures, stoppages, and confiscations. Upwards of half a million added to the expenses of the service 15,000 petitions per annum to the Board ; rules and orders so voluminous that the additions reach an average of 460 printed pages annually, and embrace in all upwards of 4,000 different regulations; forms so intricate that the clearance of goods wholly free of duty requires, outwards thirteen different official solemni ties, and inwards nine, while dutiable commodi ties are favoured with nineteen inwards and twenty three outwards ; and an ignorance so omni-nescient that the chairman denied that these were the forms, while his deputy admitted it, and the presiding genius of the whole gravely informed a committee of Lon don merchants that no cotton was imported into London ;—these are a few of the indications of the spirit in which the Board of Customs carries out the policy of free trade. Not one of the Commissioners had any connexion with the service till he took his seat at the board ; each of them takes fifteen weeks' holiday in the year, besides dedicating the chief part of Monday to its patron saint, and futile visits to the outports Accustomed as most Englishmen are, by costly ex perience, to the voracity of the judicial mind, our readers must forgive the weakness of the confession, that even we were somewhat startled by that mani festation of official vigour, and almost super-solicitor energy, which has recently taken the tone of raising one hundred and twenty informations, all at the same time, at the instance of the Crown, against the Lon don and St. Katherine Dock Companies. W e had imbibed an almost mythological reverence for these vast developments of the large ideas and gigantic designs of British commerce. We had been, as it were, born and bred up to regard these leviathan esta blishments as th e pr id e an d glory of the enterprise and contriving i n t e ll ec t o f t h e metropolis of the commerce of the wor ld . W e bad heard at least that they were the c hi e f collectors of the revenue, the authors of a Vrn ate which had di m i n i s h e d smuggl i ng to its prac ticable minimum—the ri g ht h an d o f t h e C HANCELLOR of the E, ca EquEß—tbe energetic vo l un t ary substi tutes for o ffi cial imbecility —doing grat u it ous l y th e fiscal b us i ness of the country, w hil e th e servants o f the publi c received the thing, often er f or pay! sometimes for doing no d • °InR mischief. But new brooms, We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. The Constitutionnel publishes another long article advocating the repeal of the Electoral Law of the 31st May, 1850, and a contequent return to the regime of universal suffrage. It is rumoured that serious differences exist between the PRESIDENT of the Re public and M. LEON FAUCHER on this subject, in consequence of which it is considered probable that the latter will resign the Ministry of the Interior, to which M. DE LAMARTINE will be appointed, who will in that case at ozqe propose the repeal of the Electoral Law. General DURRIEU has been returned for the Landes. ; The Assembly was occupied on Thursday in dis cussing the Sugar Bill. The nineteenth Committee of Parliamentary Initia tive has decided on recommending the rejection of the proposition of M. HUGUENIN, for taking the fire insurance offices int o th e h an d s o f the State. The Committee, to which was referred the propo sition of M. DESMAUSSEAUI;DE GIVOY for regulating the presentation of petitionsounanimously adopted the following resolution : " No petition brought or transmitted by an assemblage of persons can be received by the president or laid on the bureau. Any representative who shall make him self the intermediate agent between such assemblage and the Assembly shall be subjected, according to the gra vity of the case, to the penalties provided for in Art. 113 of the regulations." At the last monthly dinner of the Republicans of the Vielle they invited M. DUPONT (de l'Eure) as their guest. Although the party had not been in the habit of giving toasts on these occas , ions, the rule was in this case departed from, and M. ARMAND MAR EAST proposed the following one :—" To the health of DUPONT (de l'Eure), to the venerable and vene rated DUPONT (de l'Eure), to the model of French citizens." M. DUPONT (de l'Eure), who notwith stand his great age (eighty-four) still enjoys vigorous health, rose and replied :—" I cannot express to you, gentlemen, how much I am moved, and deeply affected by the fresh proofs of sympathy and of at tachment which you have just given me. I cannot better express to you my sincere gratitude than by saying that my last sigh shall be for the Republic." The agents of Russia are busily intriguing in Paris to promote the fusion and restoration of the Comte DE CHAMBORD. On this subject we read the following in the Patrie : "We think we are well-informed in announcing that General Changarnier will be present to-day at a fusionist dinner given by Mine. Pozzo di Borgo, and not, as has been stated, by M. Pozzo di Borgo, who, as is known, is kept from the political world by the state of his mind. MM. Guizot, Duchl el, Vitet, Damon, de Noailles, de Valmy, and de Pastoret will be among the guests." Socialist intriguers are at once deported from the territory of the French Republic, why does the Ex ecutive hesitate to treat Absolutist intriguers in the same manner ? Is the Executive timid, or is it act ing in complicity with the friends of the Cossacks ? The Moniteur Algerien of the 10th has the follow ing from the province of Constantine : " All the Kabyle country through which the division under the command of General de St. Arnaud is to pass is in a state of great agitation. Conferences had taken place between the chiefs of the principal unsubmitted tribes, and an oath had been taken by them to dispute the passage of the Christians. The little town of Cello has been induced, from an unforeseen circumstance, to join in these manifestations. On the 25th of April the uperior Commandant of Philippeville came with an escort of Arab horsemen to inspect the works of the mule road which was being executed by the Kabyles themselves, and thought he might go on as far as Cello. While he was in conference with the Caid, an as semblage composed of men of the Beni Isack, some ill diqkosed inhabit mts of the town and strangers belonging to the neighbouring tribes, formed on the road, separated the Commandant from the main body of his escort which he had left at the entrance of a defile. After endeavouring in vain to force a passage through the crowd, he was at length compelled to get on board a boat with four officers of Spahis who were with him. After again landing at some distance and again rejoining his escort, he re gained Philippeville with no other loss than that of five horses, which had been abandoned on embarking. After this first outbreak, the Caid found himself unable to keep under the hostile portions of the inhabitants. The partizans of the French were compelled to bide them selves. Several vessels which were at anchor in the bay were obliged to remove under a heavy fire of musketry, by which, however, no one was injured. An outbreak twit place at the same time, near Djidjelli, and the ad- LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 17, 1851. of a regular system, we may readily imagine to ourselves before long the possibility of one of the bay-window bucks traversing the deserted saloons of the Conservative, and exclaiming, like the hero of Osstaav—" I passed through the halls of Balcleutha, and they were desolate !" More particularly is there a likelihood of this on the supposition that there are, among the remaining members of the club, men as sensitive of their independence as the Honourable Gentleman upon whose conduct we have here eagerly pressed forward to pronounce some few words at least of earnest commendation. Let the admirable example of Mr. WALTER be emulated, and we will answer for it that the exchequer of the club will experience the consequences. It is not every one, however, who possesses spirit sufficient to set the arrogance of a majority at defiance, even when the injustice of that majority is glaringly re cognisable. We do not, therefore, anticipate that much emotion will be excited in the south-eastern corner of St. James's -street beyond that of dismay, mingled, perhaps, with a dread of falling in like manner under the condemnation of the so-called Conservatives. Should the individuals who have recently acted towards Mr. BETHELL and Mr. TINDAL in this very extraordinary manner feel in cited to persist in a similar course of proceeding towards their remaining associates, we rest assured, however, that they will find ample reason of a like character for requesting them to withdraw from all further con nexion with the Conservatives. Only upon the supposition thrown out by Mr. WALTER in his energetic communication to the secretary, that Conservatism and Corn-laws are really conver tible terms, is the treatment of the two gen tlemen already particularised comprehensible under the circumstances. Supposing this to be the veritable principle upon which the majority of the club have acted in the present instance, ample opportunity will remain to them for multiplying the number of persons thus gratuitously insulted from two tr.. , two hundred, and of provoking others besides the Honourable Representative of Notting. ham, to an indignant tendering of their resignation We cannot but suspect, however, that the prompt independence of Mr. WALTER Will somewhat mo derate the fanaticism of the more enthusiastic, in ducing the majority, who have been thus precipitate in their arrogance, to place themselves a more ac curate construction upon the veritable significance of Conservatism. it is said, sweep clean, especially the besom of destruc tion. The demand of these great institutions for be coming the gratuitous tax-gatherers of the State is to have a new solicitor of Customs fastened upon the country, and a perfectly unprecedented quarrel upon the docks. And if those alone who have been either too credulous of the tale-bearing lies of traitors, or too ready to corrupt the servants of great public com panies, and spread disaffection and unfaithfulness among their dependents, were the only sufferers by the fatal rigour and pernicious energy of the abettors of the Government prosecutions, the verdict " served 'em right," would be the unanimous finding of pub lic opinion. " Oh, mother !" exclaimed CoaioLaNus, "you have saved Rome, but lost your son !" The London Dock Company have gained their cause, but lost 13,5001. of costs—they have rescued their two boxes of sugar at the sacrifice of about two thousand times their whole worth. Fortunately, at the back of all this, a Special Committee of the House of Commons is sitting, They have already discovered that the machinery of the Board of Customs consists of an endless and intri cate system of futile forms and labyrinthine rules and regulations, apparently devised for rendering profi ciency in the mysteries of the Customs business im possible, except by becoming the exclusive study of a separate profession of Custom-house agents ; and certainly calculated as much as possible to obstruct, retard, and discourage, the entire trade and commerce of the country. A complete case has been made out for dispensing with the whole apparatus of the board, and transferring its functions to the heads of depart ments in London, as it already is with signal advan tage at the outposts. It is proved that there is no contriving head and methodical mind among the Com missioners. Simplification and precision, the unfail ing evidence of the presence of thoughtful intellect and rigorous understanding, are utterly ignored in the i,xisting system ; and a certain maze of meaning less officiousress overlays all real work with a suffo cating burden of the modes of transacting it. Ships detained, goods stopped or seized, cargoes procrasti nated in the delivery, confiscations of merchandise for the purpose of converting the Custom-house into a retail shop for underselling the fadr trader,—these are a few of the beauties of our fiscal theory. The establishment whose aim should be to facilitate trade and extend commerce, is a perpetual drag upon the skill and enterprise of both. This not only prevails, but at last its existence has been found out and ex posed. Before ss. 9d. of overpaid duties can be reco vered from the Crown the merchant has to obtain the signatures of twelve officers, and wait twelve months for his money. Fifteen thousand complaints of tra ders are sent to the petition seat every year. The Board of Trade and the Treasury are overburdened with memorials, on which neither of them can manage to give a satisfactory deliverance. In short, things, have come to that worst pass which proverbially is the prelude to amendment. The Board of Customs, we venture to prognosticate, will be entirely remodelled. Half of the members (the whole would be still better) will probably be reque s t e d to prolong their fifteen weeks annual vacation through the whole fifty-two. The rest will be endured until they are legally superannuated. One or two men of real capacity, experience, and vigorous men tal power, will be clothed with absolute au thority and undivided responsibility. Small in formalities and regulation traps will not b e per mitted to reward pettifogging officers with "fi nes " or " satisfactions." The scandalous huckstering in ad valorem duties, ruinous to the fair profit of the im- porters, carried on confessedly at a loss to the Crown, and destructive to the retail trade of perfectly inno cent shopkeepers, who with rent, taxes, and fixed ex penses to pay, cannot compete with the Customhouse broker's bazaar,—all these abuses will, doubtless, meet with summary correction. Above all, the uniform civility, obliging spirit, and prompt assistance which earn for f ore i gn , an d especially American Custom-house officers, the good will even of those they tax, will be strictly enforced in our own. The public will be ensured a plain and satisfactory answer to simple questions. The merchant or the stranger will not be fobbed off with the insolent direction to employ a Custom-house agent, or, when he goes to the petition seat, in formed that he will neither be enlightened on the sub ject of the reasons for having injured him, the pretext on which redress denied, the statements he is to meet, nor the tribunal to which he is to appeal. The reign of Jacks-in •office has come to a violent end, and we may look for a little common sense and coin- mon civility from those whe are paid well for giving us both, and seem, for that very reason, to be habitu ated never to give us either. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. vanced posts of the town were fired upon. All these manifestations cannot, however, improve the nature of the resistance which the populations of the Sahel will be able to oppose to our troops. This resistance was carried to its utmost extent during the expeditions of 1843, 1847, and 1849. That of 1851, undertaken with very superior means, and with the advantage of the influence acquired by the first successes, will certainly complete what the others had commenced. Letters from Bugia state that secret preparations were making for an outbreak among the tribes who only last year submitted themselves to General de Barra]. The false Cheriff Bon-Bargbela is said to have turned his efforts to that side, and had been listened to by men who impatiently support our recent domination. Nothing in fact is more probable than the first success of these attempts, but we have every reason to hope that the first blows dealtlby General de St Ar naud, and the approach of a column sufficiently strong arriving from Setiff under the orders of General Csmon, will promptly restore order. The Governor-General, par interim, will embark on the 13th for Bougia and Ujidjelli, where he will meet General de St. Arnaud, on the 15th or 16th, and decide on the measures which are to be taken.", The following are the chief items in the weekly bank account : Francs. Specie in Paris .., 415,150,160 Ditto in branches ... 140,893.147 Bills in Paris portfolio ... 46,452,911 Bills in branches ... ••• ... 73,182,748 Bank-notes in circulation 414,114,900 Ditto in branches ... ... 102,818,775 Credit to Treasury .. ..• ... 105,558,965 Private credit accounts ... ... 85,298,179 Ditto in branches ... .•• . 28,154,101 Gold has increased in Paris 4i millions, but is less by 2f millions in the departments. The portfolio has increased nearly two millions, and for the de partments 1, million. The bills in circulation have increased 4 million in Paris, and 21- in departments. The credit to Treasury is upwards of 5 millions more. The Bourse was feeble. The Five per Cents. opened at 89f. 90c., fell to 89f., 80c., rose subsequently to 90f. 25c., and closed at 90f. 10c. ; the Three per Cents. closed at 54f. 95c. Orleans Railroad Shares, 810 f.; Rouen, 612 f. 50c.; Great Northern, 472 f. 50c.; Avignon, 223 r. 75c.; Vierzon, 420 f ; Basle, 143 f. 75c.; Bordeaux, 4001.; Paris and Strasburg, 3621. 50c.; Tours and Nantes, 273 f. 75c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 16. Boulogne and Amiens, 9 3 , E - Dutch Rhenish, 314—Lnzem bourg, 1 —Namur and Liege,7 —Northern of France, 14 3 4 - Paris and Strasbourg, 101—Tours and Nantes, 6,i —West Flanders, 3. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the Ilth have arrived. The elections had passed off in Madrid without dis. turbance. The Bolsa was closed on the 11th. 'THE SHARE MARKETS Xailways. Aberdeen.. Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston, & E. Juncion Belfast and County Down Uirn 2 lng.. Wolverhamp., and Stoar Valley .. Birkenh., Lan., & Chesil June., late 331. 6s. Bd., Do. Chest. & Birkenhd., 501. & 251. Consolidated Do., do., 201. Bristol and Exeter.. • • Caledonian Chester and Holyhead Direct Lond. and Portsm. Dublin and Belfast Janet. Dublin and Kingstown.. Dundalk and Enniskillen, Dundee, Perth, and Aber-1 deen Junction .. Do., New .. .• •• East Anglian (251. L. & E. and L. & D.) Do. (181. E. & IL) .- Eastern Counties .. Eastern Union, class A, late E. U. shares Do. do. do. .. Do. do., B & C shares East Lancashire .. Do. New quarters Edinburgh and Glasgow Edin., Perth, and Dundee Exeter and Exmouth .. Glasgow and South- West, De. do. G. D. & C. stock Great Northern Do. halves, A, deferred Do. halves, B, 6 per et. Great southern and Western, Ireland .• Great Western .. Do. Now, 171. .. • • Lancaster and Carlisle .. Do. thirds Lancaster and Preston .. Lancashire and Yorkshire Do. quarter shares .. Do. fifths .. Do. West Riding Union Leeds and Thirsk Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport .. London and Blackwall Do., Tilbury Ext. Scrip London, Brighton, and South Coast .. London and N.-Western Do. do. new quarters . Do. fifths Do. 101. sh., M. & B (c) London and S.-Western . Do, new 501. Do. new 401. .. Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock • • Manchester, Sheffield, & Lincolnshire Do. Manchester and Lincoln Union Midland • • •• •• Do. 501. shares .. Do. Birming & Derby Midland Gt. West. (Ire.) Newcastle and Carlisle.. De. quarter shares .. Newmarket Newport, Abergaveany, and Hereford Newry and Enniskillen.. tewry, Warrenpoint, & Rostrevor • • Norfolk .. Do. New 201. shares.. Northern Counties Union North British.. North Staffordshire .. North-Western North & Sth.-West. Jane. Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton.. .. Scottish Central .. Scottish Midland .. Do. new .. Shrews. & Birm., Class A Do. Class 8.. • • Shrews. & Hereford., Old Do., do., New Shrewsbury and Chester (Nor. W. Min.) Do. Halves Do. Oswestry Do. New.. .. Shropshire Union .. Do., A, B, C, & D, hely paid up at per cent .. South Devon .. South-Eastern South Wales.. .. South Yorksh. and River Dun Shell., Roth. and Goole, South Div ision Stockton and Hartlepool Swansea & Loughor, &c. Taw Vale Extension .. Thames Haven Dock and, Railway .• Vale of Neath .. • Waterford and Kilkenny Waterford and Limerick, Waterford, Wex., Wick. and Dublin .. West Cornwall .. West London .. Whitenaven and Furness York, Newcastle, & Bar wick Ditto and Newcastle Extension .. Ditto G.N.E. purchase York and North Midland =Nits LEAs: 13 4 47% 100 4 2 0 All all all I 63 16 2-3 4% 24 24% ZISLITISII RAILWAYS , a%— 5 434 - 4 934- 9 17 —IS Si 9 13 —l4 % 54 Lig. a% —3d. 16 -18 28 -29 26% % 1 db. 44 -4% 914 - 10 7 % - % ft. If —l5 die. 6 5 d. s% —4% die, 91 120% 2 4 1 4 dlsdia. . I 15% 35 4% Nombud Prices. I Basin' 13 to 13% 113% 4 - I 4% 1 0X - IOX •• 4.m. .. .: •• •- •,, 79 -81 14 -IN 14 13 21 % - 2N .. , 20 - 18 118. •• •••• •• 9% - 1034 4% -4% 2% -3 7% -7% 7% 6 -6% 44 - 15 -164 I 13% 33 - 343 7 - 6 X- % la% It% 1 18% 6% -6% 1 12% - 12% 40 —42 864 —B6a4 —l4si 80 —B2 9 —lt p, •• 60 —60% 10 —9% d. 7(-6%d1. 4% 6% —54 d. 16 —l7 15% 8% -8% ' - % I , 96% - 125 - 4% - 4% - 2% - 86 - 7% - 6 - • 97% , 125% 1255( 4% P• 21Ni .b p. 87 8N 6% dig. 5 as. 3 1 4 d. 8 334 Ws. 69% —6N 60% 16 143( die. 20 31 33 —34 8% - 9 3 54 3 as. b — 4% di.. - 7% 14( - - 16% ,s 12% Mk 2% die. 94 8N 1534 die. 103 i 10% dis. 1 p as. die. die. 4% die. PORT UGAL. The Madrid Herald°, of the 11th, publishes a cir cular which was sent by the Duke of SALDANIIA to all the civil governors of Portugal, on his receiving official notice that he had been appointed by the QUEEN President of the Council of Ministers. He desires that it may be immediately made known in every district of Portugal that his object is to conso lidate the throne of DONNA MARIA 11., and the liber ties guaranteed by the charter of the Monarchy ; as also to introduce such reforms as experience may have shown to be necessary. GERMANY. The Breslau Gazette says :—" The Emperor of Austria will leave Vienna on the 22d, to visit the northern part of his empire. MAJOR KELLER, his aide-de-camp, has already proceeded to Warsaw to compliment the Emperor NICHOLAS, acid to invite him to an interview, not on the Polish territory, but at Frappau. It is hoped that the Czar will accompany the Emperor to Olmutz, where grand military ma noauvres will take place. It is thought that the object of this proposed conference is to bring about a closer connexion between the Emperor of Aus- TRIA and the King of PRUSSIA, and to decide on the line of policy to be observed towards the French Republic." Accounts from Frankfort of the 15th state that M. DE Rocnow was formally introduced to the Diet on the previous day by Count DE Tnonri. The Prussian Gazette has the following from Elberfeld, dated the 13th :—" In the night of Satur day last placards were sent to different places in the environs for the convocation of an assembly of the people between Elberfeld and Kronenberg on the fol lowing day. The authorities adopted measures to prevent this assemblage, which was for a criminal object. The attempt to hold a meeting, however, continued, and revolutionary pamphlets, supplied by the central committee of European democracy, and subscription lists, for political refugees in foreign countries, were put into circulation. A great num ber of persons appeared wearing the well-known emblems of the party of anarchy. Whenever the agents of authority presented themselves, the crowd, which was composed of from 1,500 to 2,000 persons, gave way, but did not disperse. It was found necessary, therefore, to proceed to the use of force, and some slight wounds were inflicted. Three persons, who had seriously compromised themselves, were arrested. In a few hours tranquillity was re• established. The burgomaster has just published a proclamation, in which he relates what had occurred. The assemblage was formed in a field near Trubsal. Copies of a revolutionary appeal from RUGE, KINKEL, RONGE, and HANG were distributed." ITALY. The Prague Gazette states that the POPE has so licited the Austrian Government to send a strong reinforcement to its army of occupation in the legations. The Independance of Brussels goes still farther, for it publishes a long note which it states to have been sent by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of his HOLINESS to the Austrian Cabinet, declaring that he had accepted the aid of France only under the influence of necessity, and is now much alarmed lest a successful movement of the anarchists in France should convert into enemies the French troops who had been sent for his protection. The object of the note, therefore, is to induce Austria to adopt effectual measures to preserve the Papal Go vernment from the eventuality that it dreads. The lndependanee does not guarantee the authenticity of this note, but states that the source from which it has received it is such as to induce it to believe that it is authentic. DEATH OF THE DOWAGER EMPRESS OF BRAZIL. The Duchess AmEmA of Leuchtenberg, Dowager Empress of Brazil, widow of Don PEHRO 1., died at Munich on the 13th, in the 39th year of her age. THE HUNGARIAN REFUGEES IN TURKEY. The SUBLIME PoRTE has, says the Cologne Gazette of yesterday, &livered its ultimatum to the Court of Vienna on the subject of the refugees. It declares that on no pretext will they be detained in the interior of the kingdom longer than next autumn. OVERLAND MAIL INDIA AND CHINA. We have received our telegraphic dispatch from Trieste, in advance of the Overland Mail from India. The Haddington steamer arrived at Suez on the 6th inst., with 100 passengers, most of whom left in the Ripon for Southampton. The dates are—Hong Kong, 80th March; Cal cutta, Bth April ; Madras, 14th April; Bombay, 17th April. Some late disturbances in the province of Kuangtse have bad a amorioratingt influence on trado at Canton. The exchange at Hong Kong was 53. to ss. 60. The Governor-General is on his way to Simla. He will return to Calcutta during the monsoon. Rumours are still afloat of an expedition against the Affreedees. The Wuzerees, on the borders of the Desert, are still very troublesome. Dost Mahommed has, it is said, invaded Bokbara, and taken the city of Balkh. It is stated that the head-quarters of the Bengal artillery are to be moved to Meerut. The trial of Jotee Persaund has commenced, but the witnesses for the prosecution seem unable to make out a case. A commission has been appointed to inquire into the malpractices of the Bengal Commissariat. A deficit of more than 3,000/. has been discovered in the Bengal Military Orphan Fund. The Government loan at 5 per cent. was closed at Calcutta on the 7th April. The States of Oude and of the Nizam are in a state of anarchy. No Minister has been appointed in the latter State. The Five per Cent. Loan had been concluded at Bombay on the 14th April. Exchange on London, six months' sight, 2s. OV. to 2s. id. per rupee. Exports and imports, great activity. Opium is at 1,086 rupees per chest. Cotton is rising from 104 rupees to 114 per candy. Freights to Liverpool, 2/. 105. to 3/. ; to London, 2/. 10s. to 21. 15s. 6d.—Times. Mr. Forbes Mackenzie has been prevented for some days from attending to his Parliamentary duties, in consequence of . a severe illness, which has confined him to his house. Mr. Osborne has been prevented from attending i his Parliamentary duties by an attack of nflatamAtory sore throat, AT r==im ENNTALX.B. Railways. Leasing Paid.) Nornimil Prices. 13uethege Companies. dens to-day. • ---- ------ ) Barks and Hants Ea. 5 per Cent. Gt. Western 6 34-1 p. ' Bir. and Oxford r Junc.,callsduly paid, or with a ' guarantee •• Do .. .• all 284 293 Do., withou a guarantee —Do .. • • all 27 —2s itirm., WoL, & Dud ~calls duly paid, or with a guarantee .. Do .. .. 15 854 —94 p Do., without a guarantee •• Do • • .• 15 7 —1 p Buckiughamsh. Lon. & N.W. all 174 —lB 17% Clydesdale June Caledonian all 41 —43 E. Lin., Guar. 6 per Cent. •• G. Northern all 32 —33 Gloucester and, Dean Forest Gt. Western 20 par I p Hull and Selby Yk. &N. M. all 1014 1024 Do. 4 Shares Do .. • • all 504 514 Do. 4 Shares Do • • •• all 224 234 Leeds and Brad. Midland .. all 984 994 Lon. and Green. S. Eastern . all 114 —ll % Do., Pref. .. Do .. • • all 234 244 Lowestoft, Gd. 4 per Cent. • Norfolk .• all 15 —l6 Do., 6 per cent Do .. .. all .. —.. Middlesbro' and Redcar, 6p. ct Stockt.& Dar all .. —.. N. & East, 5 per Cent. •• E. Counties . all 84 —56 Do. New .• Do • • • • 43 4 6 p Preston and i L. &N. N.W. all 42 —44 Wyre • • •• I &La.& Ir• Do. 4 Shares*, Do .. •• 104 8 • 9 D. Read., Guild., and Reigate .. S. Eastern • all 21 214 Roy. It llltchin G. Northern 64 7N —B4 o. Shep. Ea.. Do .. • • 4:1 14 I%p. She, Roth. and Goole, 5 per ct. Lane. & York 18 11 6 .. —• South Staffords. Mr. M'Clea n 9 4 3% —. 2% 415. Wear Val. 6 per Cent. gua. • • Stock.& Dar. all 24 243{ Do. do. •• Do .. •• all .. —.. Do. do. •• Do .. • • all .. —.. Wilts, Som., & Weymouth .. Gt. Western all 46 -e- 45 , RE: 46 .. r . 46% BRAZES. Railways. Aberdeen .. Caledonian 10/. .. Chester and Holyhead .. Dund. Per. & Aber. June, East Anglian (31. 10s.) 6 per cent. .. Eastern Counties Exten., 5 per cent. Ne. 1 .. Do. No. 2 .. Do. New 6 p. cent. Stock Eastern Union, scrip guaran. 6 per cent. .. Do. 101. Deben. Shares East Lancashire, 6 per cent. quarter shares .. E. & W. York. June. sths Edin. Per. & Dun. p. et. Glasgow & S.-VV Comp d at Northern, 5 per cent. Great South. & Western (Ireland) eighths Lancashire and York shire, F. 20/. .. Do. 6 per ct. Stock .. Leeds and Thirak, 6 per cent., No. 1 Do. quarters, 1848 .. London, Brighton, and South Coast guar. 5 per et., late Croydon thirds Do. pref., 5 p ct. Stock, 1851. from 501. share. E Do. new guar., 6 per et. London &S.-W., uew Londonderry and Ennis killen, half shares .. Stanch., Sheffield, and Line., quer. stirs., No. 1 Do. new, 101. Do., 61. Midland Con. 6 p. c. stock Do. Causal. Bristol & Birnmg., 6 per cent... Do. Bristol & Glouces. Norfolk Extension .• vo. guar. 5 36 per cent. Do. Waveney Valley .. North British .. Oaf. Wor. &1:4°1.151.6 p.c Shrewsbury and Birm. New Guaranteed .. Shrews. and Chee. (Nor. W. Min.) 8 per cent. South Devon • • • • • • South-Eastern, 434 P. et• Waterford & Kilkenny, bi. WestLondon,lst Cl.(101.) Do. 2d Class de. (par) York, Newc., and Berw., Gt. N.of E. Per. .. York and North Midland M. and S. Parch. Boulogne and Amiens .. Central of France (Or leans and Vierzon) Demerara • • • • .. Dutch Rhenish East Indian .. Do. do. do. .. Great Indian Peninsula.. Ditto ditto .• Louvain ala Sambre . Luxembourg . Ditto .. .• • • .. Madrid and Valentin •• Maria Antonia • • •• Ditto, New •• •• Namur and Liege .. •• Northern of France •• Orleans and Bordeaux •• Paris and Orleans .. • • Paris and Rouen •• • • Paris and Strasbourg .. Rouen and Ilavre Sambre and Meuse • . Tours and Nantes .. Toumay, 3urbisa, Lan den, and Hawn .. wfatrangai Nominal Prices. 'Business dole to-d&y. (111X.d 6% —6% 16 16% 6111. di& 6% P Vis - %P I 1 - 1,1% li - ' • .•• • '' • • •• •• gals. par 13% - 13% % - 1 P. 1% —1% dli. 131% —133% .. -•• p .. - •• 134 -137 2% - 2 % P. , . INN. • • :2 -13 1%-12 - % 32% = 1 83 % j 64 - 17% oi -4% - ii --634 1% - I%p 10% - 11% 18 - 15% 12 -14 '"'" • • •••• •• ..." a • ... • • X 44 16% k— 1 dig. 9% - 16% - 16% 5% 43 dis. 2 -, 2%p. - N P• - % P. -I% -3% -8 —3 —7% 14% —4% dIS. 34 . 24 —b %% db. —9% --4 9 dig. •e •• ;3‘ 3$ ICO 8 6 Paid. au all all 100 all Poi :GBT. al ift ,ises done Asturian ........ to-day. Australian ..., Barossa Range ........ 3s Blaenarvon Iron and Coall Bolanos Scrip ..... British Iron.. .• ..... . Brazilian Imp. (is. 51. p.) Do. Cocaes and Culaba, Do. St. John del Rey.. Cobre Copper ...... • Copiapo .•••. • • • Mexican Sc S. American Real Del Monte, 'Jiang. Do. Black Debentures. Do. Red Debentures Santiago do Cuba Tin'Croft .......... United Mexican.... JOIN' Canada ........ Gen. Steam Navigation Perin. & Oriental Steam, Ditto ditto Royal Mail Steam .. IWe cannot be Lumen 86 will not be influ ence d by able for ti intereg Not©s Issued ... Increase ... Rest (From the Official List.) 8 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 96 A per Cent. Consols Anne New 3 1 4 per Cent. Anus. , 9M 4 , .ong Annuities. E xp . J an. sth, 1860 7 5-16 Consols for Account 97 % 14 E , rhsoner Bills. 144 d. 1,0001. ;lor —, 44 47 p Small — 47 44 p PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Buenos Ayres Bonds. 6 per Cent. ... 57 Chilianßonds,6per Cent ........ ~ 103% Msxican Bends, 1446, 5 per Cent., Coupons Ditto Ex Jan. Coupons 354% Peruvian Bonds, i per Cent Bl4 Do. Deferred 37 Portuguese Bonds,s per Cent — Ditto Converted, 1841 Ditto Account Ditto 4 Der Cent. Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent — Ditto 4% per Cent. lOO 100% Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent — Ditto for the Account Ditto Passive Bonds 6 6% Spanish Bonds,3 per Cent,lB4o Dividends on the above payable in London. COURSE OP Amsterdam ......... 11 164 Ditto, three months.. II 17% Elotterde.in .... ••.. • • 11 1731 Antwerp.............. 25 224 Brussels ........ ...• • 25 224 Elttrnburgh .... • • 31.8. 13 7% Altona• • • •• .• •• Paris, 3 days'sight ,• 25 2% Ditto, 8 months .... 25 225, Marseilles .......... 25 25 Bourdeaux.... •• •• • • ffrankforton Maine.... 119 16 Vienna, effec. 800 12 40 Trieste, ditto.... • • .... 12 10 Potersbargh, Sil. Rble.• 3 Madrid •• 50 Cadiz •• 60% Barcelona •• •• •• • • •• •• •• .• •• EXCHANGE. . • Legh0rn........ •• ..•• 30 45 Genoa 25 4b Milan •• •• •• Venice........ •• •• •• .. Naples .... •• •• •• •• •• Palermo,peroz•• •• •• •• Me.sina ...• •........„ Lisbon •• •• •• •• •• •• • • ttio Janeiro -• • • • • .. •. Buenos Ayres New York,6odays'aight Philadelphia • TRIM OF BULLION, MI Of. Foreign Geld in bars.. $4l 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0 New Dollars .. CI 4 11% Silver ia bars ........ 0 5 1% LLOYD'S SHIPPIN G.—( THIS DAY.) LONDON, MAY 17.—Wind at MOH S., light bretze and cloudy. LIMERICK.—Arrd. P r i sc ill a, Barbadoee. I'ERNAMBUCO, APRIL B.—The Seringspitim, from Sydney, N.S.W., touched here 27th ult., for supplies, and in getting under Weighs truck on the reef, got off, and proceeded for London without apparent damage. SUNDERLAND, MAY 16.—Wind N. W.--Sld. John And Mary, Quebec. JERSEY, MAY 15.--Wind E.N.E.—Sid. Emma Eden, Labrador; Brasedor, ditto. CLYDE, MAY 15.—Arrd. Albion, Havannah; Hynde ford, New York; Arethusa, Trinidad. DARTMOUTH, MAY 16.—Wind s.—Off port, Ada , Jamaica. OFF FALISIOUTH.—CIio, Barbadoes. H av BRannah,lST, MAY 16.—Wi n d - S.W.— Arrd. Algorts, OL WATERFORD, MAY 15.—Wind S.S.E. to S.S.W.—SId. Laurence, Forrestal, Quebec; Nelecatos, ditto. QUEENSTOWN, MAY 15. Arrd. Avon, Iquique; Emma, Barbadoes; Beta, Belize. Sld. New Liverpool, Quebec. DEAL, MAT 16.—Wind N.W. to S.S.W.; S.W. to W.S.W.—Arrd. John Bunyan, Shanghai; Martina, Buenos Ayres, for Bremen; Dolphin, Rio Janeiro, for Rotterdam; Wanner, Rio Grande, for Antwerp; Bs. hiana, Bahia; Anna Cbarlotta, ditto; Jane, Barbadoes; Netts, St. Kitt's; Elizabeth, Porto Cabello; Baring Brothers, Havannah, for St. Petersburgh; H ercu l es, ditto, for Copenhagen; Haabet, Charleston, for liioben haven. Arrd. from the River, Samuel Boddington, Adelaide, South Australia; Zarah, Singapore; Ruckers, St. Vincent ; Mary Montague, Jamaica. Arrd. from the River and std. Rajahateen, Bomba y ; Island e r, Barbadoes. LIVERPOOL, MAY 16.—Wind W.S.W. to N.N.W.— Arrd. Xanthuy Mauritius ; Swordfish, Pernambuco; Amunda, Demerara; Isabel, Antigua; Eudocea, New Orleans ; Magdelina. ditto; Spartan, M obile; Mary y A o n r n k , ; Al iy Ann a a l r achicola J Portland, di tto; St. George, New ohnston, cocutte; Mediu m , C allao; Village Girl, Patagonia; Ann Baldwin, 13uanos Ayres; Amathea, Porto Rico; Jenny Lind, Ne w O r l ean s; Atomo, ditto; Willington, St . Domingo; Prince of Wales, Savannah; Snowd on, S t. John's, New Bruns wick. Off port, Australia, Calcutta; Lydia, Ceylon; Richard, Eut erpe, Georgians; Jane, Pirie, Bal mora l , R i vrea steamer, JAarmamesinwtar,igßhotm, Wiliam St. Vincent, Oregon, and Virginia. FIDELTO.—We believe we may state, and that ex clusively, that the reason why Fidelio has disappeared for the present from the bills of the Royal Italian Opera is this—that the wish has been expressed by royal amateurs, that Beethoven's only opera should be given in the greatest perfection ; and to do so it would be necessary that Viardot should be the Fidelio, and that Mario should study Florists') ; hence the maxpected delay.—. Lady's Newspaper. dS Paid. I Nominal Prices. to-d Businessel, Australian 4 1% Ilarossa Range ....... 113 0 Blaenarvon Iron and Coal all —• • Bolanos Scrip .......... British Iron.. ... 13 5 .. —• • . Brazilian Imp. (is. 51. p.) 24% —.• Do. Cocaes and Culaba all 32% —32 Do. St. John del Rep.. 15 16% 15 % Cobre Copper ...... •• • 40 38% —3l Copiapo ... •. • • .. • • • 14 General •• • • •• • • • • all 1,3•% —l4 Mexican & S. American 9 Real Del Monte, Unreg. Do. Black Debentures. • • —•• Do. Red Debentur es •• Santiago do Cub a 10 — 6% Tin Croft •• • • 7 414 United Mexican— •• •• 28 28% —3% JOINT STOCK BANKS . Australasia ........ •• • • all 33 324 British North America.. 50 42% 43% Colonial ...... • • .... 25 9% —l2 Commercial of London.. 20 25 25% London Joint Stock .... 18 18% 17% London and Westminster 20 27% —2B National Provincial Eng. 35 Do. New National of Ireland •••• 22% 18% 20% Provincial of Ireland.. 25 42 43% Do. New all 15% —l5 Onion of Australia ...• all 35 33% Do. New •• • . 2% 3 —3% Union of London .... •• 10 12% 134, tTnion at Madrid Canada MISCELLANEOUS. ........ 32% Gen. Stea m N av i gation . 14 26 —2B 42% 46 Perin. & Orie n t a l Steam. all 65% —6B Ditto ditto 5 11 11% Royal Mail Steam .....• 60 75 —73 111NEOUS• 42% 46 26% -- 28 65% -_ 68 11 75 e errors of the Official Lam' AS I correspondents.] MONEY and COMMERCIAL 1 ST- 6 CITY, TWO O'CL OC K ' The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday w ere ell' timated at 8,000 b a l es , o f which 2,000 were takes speculation. The m ar k et c l osed quietly.—lo flsj.iw. Shares only a limit e d b us i ness was done, an d the t ort dency of prices in favour of sellers. The accounts o f th e B an k of England, ma d e tIP f or the week to the 10th instant, are more satisfactory i n ri b ; sped to the item of bullion, in which there is II I l A i g r . increase. A feature in the account is the very C ol3 , 6ju ft e i , able reduction in the amount of the Government P 4);; rities, arising, it is presumed, from sales made b 1 t he Bank with the view of curtailing its circuleti °ll ,l l - 1 , checking specie shipments. In the loans . upon v " he ' &c., there was a slight increase. The balance to credit of Government is getting larger as the clu ir tet advances, and th ere i s ev i dence of the fuller 073 00; went found for money, probably on account of the l3l° policy, by the reduction in the private deposits. C ° 7 l ‘ pared with the pre v i ous wee k the changes are '°• lows:— 26,649,1 10 ••• 6,84 0 ••• ... 3,134,3 69 Increase ... 4,300 Public Deposits ... ..• 5,154,59 6 Increase ... 392,10 0 Other Deposits ~. 8,963,8 91 Decrease 599,86 0 Seven Day and other Bills ... 1,127, 8 ° Increase ... 2,39 0 Government Securities ... •••• 13,606,362 Decrease • 518,74 0 Other Securities 11, 508.89 0 Increase▪ 67,735 Notes .. 7,195,96 0 Increase ... 238,71 5 Bullion ... 13,271,617 Increase 18 06 0 Active Circulation... ▪ 19,453.15 0 Decrease ... ... 231,87 5 „ r The Foreign Exchanges were in some cases real% depressed again yesterday afternoon. Bills at 9 0 di/ a were taken at a reduction on France, Belgium, 1/ ,', 1 Trieste, but on Amsterdam and Frankfort higher were paid, and Hamburgh were firm. There has been a considerable amount of bullion ef, ported from Lo n d on aga i n th i s week, viz., silver, 138,0vv ounces to Rotterdam), 87,556 ozs. to Belgium, 4,000 ~, ofti; to Hambur g h, an d 7 , 0 00 to France. Of gold, the exrr are 250 ozs . to Hamburgh , 2,620 ozs. an d 5,0001. r Belgium, and 3,068 ozs. to France. From the woollen manufacturing districts, the advi ce° are more satisfactory this morning, but the Manchest er ' market has b een fluctuating, and not on the whole brisi; The Funds ar e very quiet, and prices are with°// alteration. C onso l s h ave b een 97f for Transfer, a 97f for Account. The New Three-and-a-Quilt /et per Cents. h ave b een marked 97: 4 1 and the Three p e t Cent. Reduced 96k. Excbequer-bills have gone rathe r lower again, being 445. to 479. premium. A moderate business has been done in Foreig n Stocks. Spanish Five per Cents, have been quoted 2 0 1' and the Passive 6to f. The Three per Cents. are at 40 . Portuguese Four per Cents, have realised 32f to 3 3 1 Mexican Stock has been quoted 35/ I, Buenos Are ° 57, and Peruvian 811. Russian Four-and-a-Half per Cents, have been 100 to 1004. Railway Shares have been neglected, but the ins' proved rates of yesterday are generally supported. QUAILTER To Consols 97 I Ditto Account, June 10 ... ... 97 BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK. 61 60. 31 3{ 41% 124% 124% 63% 63% t. 2 1 C tA