The Sun. — London, England, 1851-04-14 00:00:00

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Per ,0 tO ,11 tO 661 ioo t° 65 11 5 0 8 tO tO tO tO wer e " 0 1 60 fr rs ~ ~$ 3 c oo' if n otio ll o o ,ever, 06 oil' a ct o cll 6- 0 01. d• live ns , low - I I Oa r 59. 0 ,04 bete 84e -3d o 4°5 6 4 to' ' 55,460 9 4 i 9. 415 04 , c i e ptlf b ie be ! a o f in a l ion 013„ 3131301 CRI MINAL COURT.--(T HIS DAls'. OLD 1 / It Alexander W ardrobe awi Be, i,ewitt were in• dieted for feloniously breaking su,i entering tne shop of A kin Uriah Bryant Mealtin, fatal stealing ten sauce plates, tin plates, and other articles, value 41. The Jur? found the p r i soners Guilty. t wound proved that they hod both been previously convicted. They Were sentenced to transportaf ion for seven years. IIDDLESLX SESz)IONS. ( FHB A DY.) n BETTING LISTS.—Th e Ap ri l g e eral season for the It e . l in' b Y of Alii;dlesex comm. need thi. morning, before 7 « , Sergea n t Mau and a full bench of mag - sira es. Git , hs appealed tigai'::st the refusal of the stices of the Kensit gton division to grant him a licetwe the h ouse sad premises situate at No. 18, Palk-lune, `sli'gton Gore.-I.,evni;e refused uoanteously. " 144 ' 1 Searl e appealed aoinst the rtfuaal of the J.tlitices of the liberty of ‘Vestrnitot‘-r, to grant a licence La his house, S.l t 3hArms, Durham -street, Str.,nd. r , , the , ury tn . ; • DALLANTINE said he opposed the present at pit -cm, on behalt ot ttie justices of :lie oistrct. Last .. 11 ' s lle, having had h , s licence refused for having betting e at his house, appealed to this court, anti hiving made .Prontise that betting should he discontinued, he ob- Z e thed a licence; but immediately afterwards betting „ n i t, on with toll swing, as before. Upon making his tencetion at the last beS.lOl), the m.listrat« thOUdllt it datY to refuse the licence. 1 - 1, co,cluded by calling seen Policeman P u heernan of the F division, who state(' that he had d , post el on h orses u p on s e vera l occas i on s. graut ', l3 obsix adtuuted that last year a licence was arose to the appellant, and that a udsundsrstanding thoughttwneth« r betti ng s h ou ld b e cont i nue d or not . lle list s that if h e allowed sporting man or men to half , he s, a, arid deri ve d n , benef t from if, except the custom, was not wro'g. He thought th.,magistitves ought zo k i c ' f ' t h a t e ll y " P th r ou i 'P gh, ermealts to have bri tight him to he was off , ncting against the make °' law. It hi s li cence was gr anted, he would fh a ou - j a a , " aolemn p rom i se t h at every vest i g e of betting I,icence 7 " " swi-pt aw ay tor the future. refmed, with la . sts. of f l k g h Middleton also appealed against the deci tU,, 811:0 bench of magistrat-s, in the last e as e . for rre fusin p a licence to his house, situated in Long-erne, be 6; 1 1 41111 v appeared tor the appellant, and ,tAted that bough--i-to interest in the lists, except the custom that was '' to the house, they being carried on by a son of aPPellant.—LiePnep reluse't. SI T6 M 'LA "E'S( sE ssio p,s [HS D A Y.) A prtl adjourned sessions for the couli i ty oLti v ii , r i r ri ty . ton. aced this morning at the Court Hon. e, bennb till " w a before Thomas Puckle, E-q., awl a Wit o f j 4tettrateS. g o ,,,a r !! Aliller and Mary Withers, for steak g a hall .l.,ov:!gli Emu twelve from the person of Mary k i p r la the gallery of Astley's Theatre, were sentenced, the to twelve months, and With‘rs to six months in Qtt 'e Of Correction. Ez • "ON COMMITTEE—(THIS DAY) The 6l'. A1..13.‘N. C ommittees, at this morning at twelve o'clock. wa —.eetatatelv on the sitting of the Committee tee room sa t l in le wr , d, - and on our re-admittance the Chairman eiiiii-nu that the Committee had come to a resolution 11 1 ,, r z_ ol l the p e t it i oners t o p rocee d immediately h hlr. 4 8 1 „! . f or the -rgeallt WRANGHAM said that it was i m p oss ibl e We re c T, to comply wit h th at re quest , as t h e pe - t i,i oners ree, t s "u in the same po ition as before the ?ttet adjourn were ,till The wit esses were rot yet fort h com i ng, b ut being sought for and course do you propose we kt? kr ef t ' Sergeant WRANGRAM raid the only course which of 4 °lll d Prop ese was that the Committee, in pursuance theoPl co urse they had f or merly ta k en , s h ou ld a ll ow 41 still further time to dist over the witnesses. He East pro pose to as k th e Committee to a dj ourn over the r i ,,,r had c aye. te c h Retiota.ti said that the Committee, anticipating com e r, ( pest, had cons id ere d t h e matter over , an d h ad mosti to a resolution of not allowing a further adjourn s/2 by to call on th e p e titi oner to proceed at once. re , I. ergearit WRANGRAM said it was impossible to bit1)0,11(1 to that ca ll, as i t s useless for hem to c a ll 'i l l s ' sse s who, when called, would nut come forward. h, CH AIR 3 IAN then inquired from Mr. L a w, t h e tak e i c or th e petitiners, whether every mea ns h a d b een ‘ 7l to di scover the missing witnesses? . aa 44 . LAW sa id every means had been taken. lie " 14 , 11 cn the track of one, but he would not give any di' r ance to the Committee that he should have imme to success in apprehending him. wit4,4o C HAIRMAN—The caso must be now pro cee d e d or declared th 4. Sergeant WRArtertem said that it was certainly Possible tor him to proceed, and, therefore, of course t o % e n a 6 e must be considered closed. He should decline '''ta up on the evidence, becetuse there was arother m atter which render,d him uncertain whether he was itudressing a Committee of the House or not. ba Sir 8. - BALL—Before you make any objection, let osed 114 derittand whether your case is to be cons id ere d air, Sergeant WRANGHAN paid, certainly it would be Waste of time and expereeepettiot:r to proce-ed, Co mmittee he apprehended front what had i tt. e intpited the ' e rnreitt ee might yet he de dared a lapsed Cittniwtlee. of The room aaa then cleared. and after a deliberation halfan hour parties were re-edneitted, and he Chair announced that the C o m m itt ee h a d come to the full restilution 1 )1 ; thttt Jacob Bell, E sq ., i s d u l y e l ecte d to serve as a A it ,g's in the present Parliament for the b oroug h o f St. lo The Com m i ttee then announced that they s h ou ld th„ a e a special report to the House on the suoject, and we went to thenwa cleared. It c ,ntinued so at th e t i me press. COURT, C Aelhe.'Queen and Prince stem% in Albert walked ye . ,y . IRGULAR. , 164aMen of Buckingham Palace, and the Royal Family derheir usual airings. th Majesty and his Royal H i ig e h e n o er W Pr a i l n e c s e a i n ‘ d lbe t r h t : I,rzeloyal Highnesses t r kid Ik e a I d i ,,, yal, the Ladies and y titer 'T , domestic household,d P a ( t ; t h e e n n t d le d me D n o iv f in tlf , e .s C er o v n i r c t e , P k b,„uaY morning in the private cbarel in W. llesley officiated. Buckingham tr• The Ron. and B. v. herald h o !1• Majesty and his R ,yal Highness a Prince Albert thitiro,,ared the Duke of Devonshire , with visit at Devon It 1:14)11ae, Piccadilly, on Salurdayatt o e f rn p oo o n u . ro, T t h h e e tirZal suite consisted of the Marchioness Gordon. 114,,011as Seymour, the, Earl of Lisiowel, Colonel -- 'tnY. and Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. Th A. G nied by her 4 0y l e Queen and Prince Albert, aec d oln at ea em _ e _ d by the 441.4ighness the princess Mary, and S t eyna l our, the ',ti Iciness of Douro, the Hon. Ai,, °f Listuwel, Col. Buckley, and Liert -Col. the QIN-ander Gordon, honoured her M.jesty's litispr/.serice on Saturday evening. theatre with i:Nit ~.4°Ylll Highness Prince Albert, attended by Jattile",'-;olonel Iftnourable * A. Gordon went to the St. ter, a 3 Theatre on Saturday evening, to witness the krtiasentation of the Merchant of Venice by amateur k ei e ralers, f or .et,. . the benefit of the Printers' IN', Pension by )4 IV,yal Highness the Prince of Wales, 8• r• Btrch an airing in an open ittuilia , took _ _ carriage on attended Ilex 3% ,0 elevenoclock on Saturday at O3ll Highness the Duchess of Kent left town. morning, Illt4 l ", i te . , near Windsor. Her Royal Highness was for her residence, „Lad ended Lady Fenny Howard, Bareness de Speth, )4 4 i't iieorge Cowper. On her way from town, the 3)11- Sh1. 4. 1 )u bvss paid a visit to her Royal Highness 11,-7,ol'Cartbridge, at Kew. 1 / 4 y.f t;°Yal Highness the Princess Mary visited_ . her . 1, at 0_,,, .Ductless 44 7 ' lllll ilet3B the of Gloucester on batty ilkeiti,"),tice64r Ilousi.. . -' ' n' Council was held on Saturday afternoon Lord aohii..)4!g7l-office. Tb® Ministers present were ....n.o, at Si r ' 0 A'usi!ell i the Lard Chancellor, . the Earl of 511 thet eha,TeorE,, r. i n IL? 'fleY, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, Ili ht of the Exchequer, Lord Broughton, the th t —Qu ' Re ury L b 1 - the Earl of Carlisle, and e 140 4 ~ . _ a one lere. 0044 .deputation k lid 4 haiin4"•.PDX Dit..,ule. The Council sat two hours 11 4 1114t t i t n g ' 3 / Mr• William Armstrong, Mr. fl Mr. fr om the Irish Peet Sugar Company Thomas li.rit4n, Mr. Nathaniel Bland, Mr. John Gwynn. ' John ht , (;:t B. Bentihaw, Mr. Richard H Holland, Mr., Mr. hoia;:iVrt A LP., Mr, John Clement Hurling. anaView- e i• the Secretary to the CotnlY" Y had an inter s't,r..tift with flat, b Right Hon. Henry Lab uchere on SA u at the °Mee of the Board of Trade. B ed a t. ; 'Littun, 84licitor to the Board of Inland Rev"el Akit,;;nnerview on Saturday with the Commissioners of 4pe at the Office of the Board of Traria. Dean Itsii:Patation trona the Monmouth, or For,st of _ ( 1 ,9 1 a '; it Y a e ?tnPan , consistit.g of Mr. Blakem,ire, M.P., i' r4l l) - 1, 41 J' ' lll. . Y Gratrex (Vice-Chairman),. Mr. Wyatt.. ,_siatilrij-ei and Mr. J E. Powles, had an interview on aloQ,e•Y with Lord ' Seymour, at the Office of her Wir'Ys Co m •r • ", of Woods and Forests, in n e h ni , , tnissiener , Th„ .. „l"Place. a meetinr, on •rtid i . kiXford IT ' ' • Commission held roveratt3 T,,rp..*Yi at the official residence of the , Fir-t L ,rd of the h Biala, pof N0r;!037, at Dooming -ate,, er. Present — t 01 e Pernbr%l.,, 16 4 i t l eh, the Dean of Carlisle, the Master q the Rev, p,. ' ta to 't o ' It G. Liddell, J. L. Danqi. r, ES . ' d the - fl" ' A „ owell, the Rev. G. S. Th'i;',•,,*-r• Stanley (secreiar ) ). Saturday, 4 t hi, "ri of Carlisle had a dinner party on .n. t/14,41:tgidenee in Groaven,,r•plan'• The companye Grey, $e R. - v-', a‘ri Granville the Right Hon. Sir Georg Becht, Sir n u t)ll i l lut Ron. H. 144 . boucherc, Sir H. De la .. . r. ~"'° , 4 -tirugnYne• Captain Dawson, Mr. E. Lawe'_•_ . m r,,.. is'ek er if'r• C. ' Fox, Mr. Rerdel, Mr. Pero, Mr. Ha .go ' -.l'. Cubitt M F. Fo:te r Mr C. H. Woolt) cb, 401e ie 1 R 14 7 8 ) Difr:C. ;le,. Mr. ' D:g,b) Wyatt, Mr. 0. ‘. IV ~.'l , ".• ike. and Mr. Cole. q. , rvire erest„, - . , &Juke of WI llingtou attended lhi, early . era 1v0tt;'..4537. at the Chapel R'lalr Sr. Jau.es's. The Pratt j ,ho h , r n e nd and the Serna, n was preached by the Rev. J. 41 tIC`i, 11 . The Communion Service ~ as re ad by th• 4 4-r• Wesley. The Bishop of St. Astiph preached e ,f 0,, - ,9 10 i1 at the daily el vice) ect rday. The Bishop at 'ord will a oy tli ~, preach on Ester Sunday, at the , t., 1 • -•1411:106'S. t % ' ___,-..-...- 'IItbIeIIiEIIENTATION OF OXFORDsIiIRE.--The tenant ,,Noile 43pusof Oxfordshire are, we hear, bent upon rev.rning 1 0 t n uei r Own body at the next election. They are taking "'try "enre tbe election of Mr. Joseph Roberts, of ". ater tiotie ' tlear Oxford. It ispurposed to do this by subscrip kiWilli It is stated th tth lig to , . a ere are pert snoscribe 10/. each towards the return of Mr. tlsp, 4, who ' ty_ la a strung Protectionist, and a tenant of Mr. T he ' " 4 -1! of the present Members for the county. Pkth44llht4l lion. the Speaker gave his ni n th an d - 7 dinner on Saturday. THE SUN, 11T 1 - " "4 - A 11 1'., 4 INDIA. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH FROM TRIESTE.) A telegraphic dispatch from Trieste has brought us the following : TRIESTE, Aram 11. The steamer Italia, from Alexandria, with the dispatches from India, has run aground at Umago, about twenty English miles from Trieste. Two of Lloyd's steamers have been sent out to take the pas sengers and letters. The mails may be expected this evening. The tranquillity of India remains undisturbed. A skirmish had taken place at Burrow, in the mountains near hohat, between some robber hordes and a Piinjiub regiment, in which the former were defeated and driven back. The Governor-General issued a general order on the 15th, regulating the pay of officers end men in the Pon . ilub, and reforming the military organization there. Toe army of the Punjdub is to be placed un dor the orders of a Brigadier, at a fixed salary of 2,000 rupees a month. Tne Marquis of Dalhousie was at Attock on the B'h of March, en route for Peshawur. He proceeds to Simla in May. His Lordship was suffering from ill hoalth. The ship Buckinghamshire, Captain Macgregor, was burnt in the Hoogley on the 31 of March, whilst sailing down the river to start for England. It is insured for 18,000/. and cargo for 70,0001. in London insurances. Two passengers, invalids, perished. Captain Grantham, of her Majesty's 98th, has been severely wounded by some robbers, who attacked him whilst out riding in the neighbourhood of Peshawur in company with a young lady. Ile was left for dead on the ground, but hopes are entertained of his recovery. . . _ An order was to be shortly issued by the Go vernor-General prohibiting military officers from holding !‘i u , itiona as directors, secretaries, and audi tors of the Indian Bank. A conspiracy has been discovered in Nepaul, the o'oject of which was to murder General Jung Baba dour. The conspirators were his own father and brother. The General is a favourite of the army, whom the conspirators endeavoured to gain over. Lord Grosvenor, the Hon. Leveson Gower, and Mr. Egerton, had been received on a viit by the King of Oude. Admiral Austen, in command of the naval forces in the Indian waters, had arrived at Calcutta. General Sir Daaley Hill has died of apoplexy at Umballo. The obituary also mentions the death of Captain J. D. Cunningham, deeply regretted, the son of Allan Cunningham. . . Bombay is healthy. A heavy thunder-storm burst over the Presidency on the Bth of March. Lord and Lady Falkland were on the point of leaving for the hills. The market for manufactured goods had not rallied, although within the last fortnight some heavy sales had taken place. Exchange had fallen, but prices rose in propor tion. Stock on hand considerable, and more was ex pected. Raw cotton had declined since last quotations. The decline in price received by the last English mail of the 7ch of February caused a corresponding decline of seve❑ rupees per candy. The new crop is good and clear. Exchanges have fallen. CHINA. We have no later news from China than that sent with the mails of the 3d from Bombay. The murderers of Da Costa have been taken. Four piratical junks had been captured. Exports heavy. HIE UNITED STATES. SOUTHAMPTON, SUNDAY EVENING. The Ocean Steam Navigation Company's steam ship Hermann, Captain Crabtree, from New York, arrived off Cowes this afternoon, having fifty pas sengers, a large cargo, and specie to the amount of 45.000 dolls. After transhipping her English pas. sengera and mails, she immediately proceeded to Bremen. TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION. (ZVEZY MONDAY AND WEDNESDAY.) Sir,—On Wednesday the 9th, much debate on the subject of Smithfield Market. As often happens, the question was contrived to be so perplexed, that there WAS no chance for one holding what the Apostle calls the place of a private individual (not of an idiot, as the word might seem to bear), to steer his way ex cept by an indistinct notion that certain men meant well, and others ill, and that by following the one and not the other, he should find himself right. Not that there was any difficulty in knowing the thing to be desired. Any man who should be pitched from the clouds anJ light on his feet in the neigh bourhood of the metropolis, must know that as no rural gentleman conducts his cattle North and South by passing through the centre of his dining-room, but on the contrary contrives that they shall halt in some point in what Euclid would call the circum ference of his domain, so a metropolitan inha bitancy with their wits and liberty to exercise them, would instinctively feel that the place for sale and purchase of ox, bull, and cow, implying as it does the congress of currents of living beef in all direc tions but particularly from North to South and from South to North, should be on either the East or \Vest side of the circumference, and inasmuch as some come up the Thames and none down, should by the direct intimatio❑ of nature which made the Thames run East, be on the East side and not the West. But all this was so obscured by cross notions of different kinds, that there was no clue to an end but what has been described. On the order for second reading of the Religious Houses Bill, a scene of considerable violence took place among the Catholic Members, and no Protestant attempted to interfere in support of the mover, who was in consequence severely pressed, and it was only by the display of considerable determination that he got his second reading fixed for the 14th of May. We are bullied by the Catholics, and no man careth for our souls. I cannot conceive how any Member with liberty of speech, and the habits formed by con verse with the portions of society which live in the exercise of the greatest quantity of independence and free-will, could sit still and hear a Member in the position of the worthy mover so sore beleaguered, without coming to his assistance. What should be done on the subject of religious houses, is sufficiently clear, though it is by no means equally clear that there is blood enough left in the body of old Protestantism to think of doing it. The law, with reservation of course of deliberation for reason shown, should go to the extent of what has been found necessary by Catholic Governments of good repute. If Catholic Governments have found it necessary to check the formation of monastic associa tions for political reasons of their own, still more is the necessity obvious in this country, where, glose it as you will, monastic institutions are open and avowed hotbeds for the rearing of deniers of the, right of po litical or physical existence to Protestants whenever their leader shall think it advisable to say so. He did it in the case of the St. Bartholomew, and there is not a Catholic Member in the House of Commons who dares stand up and say that he was wrong, or acted under anything but the immediate direction of the Almighty. If he did it again, there might be some who would prove themselves bad Catholics ; but they must cease to be Catholics, if they declined to act against our liberties and our lives at the bidding of the Pontiff. The country once thought these things were changed ; but that web of trust has been swept away by a flood of evidence. By God's mercy, we have been abused and made fools of ; because to be abused and made fools of, is one of the most effective ways in which men can be roused into a timely defence. On Thursday was the commencement of debate on the subject of the Colonies. It was stoutly denied that there was any connexion between the profit and loss of a colony, and the desirableness of keeping it. Colonies are not commercial undertakings, but places to feed those who want feeding, you paying for the same. Turn this over at Bradford, and ask whether you would not like to be a colony. The strange transactions at the Cape of Good Hope came in for their share of notice from the attacking side. You are to pay two millions for a governor's brass-beaded stick. There has been no such costly toy since Gessler set his hat upon a pole. But you have no de fence,—not the slightest prospect of anything like either indemnity for the past or security for the future. Kafir wars are the act of God. Nobody makes them ; nobody is answerable for them ; nobody can hinder them ; nobody is responsible for them. You might as wel ask who is responsible for an earthquake. No body can do anything but pay for the damages. Re signation is all that remains for you, and you will have to resign yourselves again, and again after that, till men are tired of being paid for injustice and re compensed for folly. In the present case two millions will not be all ; you will still have to pay the doers. They must be paid, like everybody else. Men do not do mischief for nothing ; it would be a cheaper world than it is, if they did. You must pay them, and honour them, and hold them up as examples to your little boys, that in your posterity for ever there may be no want of zeal to consume the millions you may have or the millions you may borrow. At the same time it would not be right to be too hard upon the Government. The Government has no innate desire for your wrong. There is the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, for instance, fretting I have no doubt in the innermost sanctuary of his domestic felicity, at being obliged to give up what be, poor easy man, had counted on as a surplus. We ought to have a fellow feeling for him, and not a hostile. We are all in the same plight ; we are like the con script in the French comedy, to whom the ferocious sapeur does nothing but cry out, "Jean, paye." Our chance to help ourselves is nothing. There is no or ganization for it, no preparation to make it possible. We are the born slaves of such demands, as our fa thers were, and as our posterity will be after us. Yon might as well ask an African chief to make an elec tric telegraph, as conceive the possibility of our set ting about either relieving ourselves from such a mischief, or preventing it in future. The debate was adjourned till Tuesday; when the rest of it will be said or sung. On Friday was the repetition of the debate, on what virtually means the restoration of the Corn Laws. The Pope and Protectionists together press hard upon the Government. The majority of the Irish boldly avow, that they vote for the Protectionists because they are Papists. It is the repetition of the Irish invasions under Montrose and others, modified by the difference of times. I hope we shall re member it, when the gnawing, thankless incubus of Ireland comes again to drain us. Remember that the majority of Irish Members did their best to saddle you with the restoration of the Corn Laws, as the means of saddling you with submission to the French general who holds the Pope in leash. It is a new phase of the Papal aggression. When milk is burned to the bottom, we say in Yorkshire, the bishop has put his foot in it; a reminiscence, possibly of great antiquity, of some unkindly feeling towards the spiri tual power. If you do not take care, you will find the Pope's toe in your bread-loaf. The division, at all events, displayed stability. A Member for Aylesbury has been unseated, and the new one, though he might be in the House, had not taken his seat. If he had been there, the majority for the Government would have been what it was be fore, or 14. We are at something very near a dead lock , with the Pope and his allies of the small loaf. it only shows the necessity there is to be up and doing. Bating the political necessity, I am rather sorry the late Member for Knaresborough was not re turned to the House of Commons. He is the beau ideal of what should be sent to that place. I wish he was on your side, and you bad him. The man wanted for that House by a constituency which has got anything to say, is a man who will set forms at defiance; who will fly in the face of autho rity if it wax wanton to the treading on his toe ; who will be overbearing that he may not be over borne; who has no debilitating habits of deference for othere, nor of dependence on receiving the same himself; who can be audacious or wearisome as suits his purpose; which are the two qualities leading to success ; who will.create a salutary dislike to come into collision with him, and a silent convic tion that the easiest is to let him have his way ; who will exercise, in short, those virtues by which the big boy of a school maintains his ground. The minor moralities are thrown away in such a position, and end only in the loss and - clisapppointment of a con stituency. I am, Sir, yours very sincerely, AN OLD REFORMER. London, April 14, 1851. FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT ON THE STAGE OF bER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—Between ten and eleven o'clock on Saturday an accident occurred on the stage of her Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket, to a young man named Samuel Den well, aged 27. It was he duty of Denwell in the third act of the opera of Masaniello to fire off some guns on the stage behind the sceneQ, and whilst so engaged one of them re bounded and discharged its contents into his left leg, the lower part of which was complete'y shattered to pieces, with all the bones of the foot. The accident happening behind the scenery the fact was not made known to the company. The unfortunate man was quickly removed to Charing- cross Hospital, where the process of amputation of the leg was performed without delay. Mr. Lingham states that the right leg is also much injured, but it, is considered that am putation in that cake will be avoided. THE NYMPNETT MURDER.—The execution of John Wills and John Smith, who were convicted at the last Taunton assizes for the murder of William Williams, at Nympnett, on the Bth of February last, was to take place tt is day, at Taunton. Since thei r conviction the pri_ Boners have paid great attention to the advice of the rev. chaplain, and both have acknowledged the justness of the sentence. They, however, state that they had no inten tion of murdering the man, but that it was done on the spur of the mome tin consequence of Wilkins's resistance. CusTom-HousE SEIZURE.—The Revenue-cutter Stag, made a seizure off the French coast last Thursda y . The vessel prov e d t o b e the Duck, of Portsmouth, with a crew of three ntot4t4 Guard' is, 4 '" :en; and tbirty-six tuba of spirits.—Ports- The Hermann left New York on the 29th ult. By this arrival we have received three days' later intelligence, up to the 29th ult. inclusively. The Canada arrived at Boston on the 28th. There is no change in the commercial ad vices COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRLSPONDENT.) COWES, APRIL 13. Wind East.—Arrived the American steam-ship Her mann, Cal;tain Crabtree, from New York, in 15 days. She brings 80 pas.engers, 12 of whom, for England, were taken out by the Ruby steamer, and the otht rs proce-d un to Bremen. When off Falmouth yesterday after noon, between three and four o'clock, she came in con ,act with the schooner Hope, of North Yarmouth, laden with salt, from Liverpool to Holland, and carried away both her MMUS. Expk cting the schooner to go down, all her hands got on board the sir amer, but afterwards finolir•g that. the hull of the vessel had received but ;rifling damace, and made no water, they were put on b , ard again, and the st. amer took her in tow and brought her in here. Captain Crabtree behaved like a gentleman, and gave directions that the schooner's da mages should all be made good with as little (hilly as possible. This accident caused the detention of the steamer full twelve hours. ICE.—A Norw , g . an brig has arrived here with blocks of ice, and we hear other vessels are on their passage tor ihe neighbouring ports. The very low rate paid for freights makes the ice speculation a good one this sea ,,n, the winter having been so mild that almost every icehouse is empty. MARRIED. —GATT, MEW.—On Saturday, at St. Paul's Church, Whippingham, Charles Catt, Esq., of Brighton, to Mary Ann, daughter of the late Ben. Mew, Esq., or West Cowes. LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH-COAST RAILWAY. Traffic—Week ending April 12, 1851 £3,859 14 6 Traffic - Week ending April 13, 1850 ... 10,253 15 8 Total of the half-year, to this date, 1851 ... 118,878 7 10 Total of the half-year, to this date, 1-50 110,64 J 9 0 Total number of Passengers—Week ending April 12, 1851 ... 47,243 Passengers ...X ,771 6 1 Goods ••• 2,098 8, 5 Total ... I:8,8 9 14 6 Total miles open, 1851, 173E4 ; ditto, 1830, 171 1 A. London Terminus, April 14, 1851. RAILWAY AND SEA-BORNE COALS.—A memorial has recently been presented by the Shipowners' Society of the port of Sunderland to the Lords Commissioners of the Privy Council of Trade respecting the intended coal traffic on the Great Northern Railway. The memorialists state that they represent the interests of the shipowners of Sun derland, comprising a capital of 1,000,0001., and affording em ployment to nearly 10,000 seamen ; that their interest is suffering severely from foreign shipping and from the navi gation-laws, and that the railways are now interfering to a great Extent with their traffic, and that the Great Northern Railway Company have lately been lowering their tariff upon coals to London for the parpose of Entering into com petition with the shipping trade. They urge the injustice of this system, and they ask that such clauses may be intro duced into the Bill of the Great Northern Company now be fore Parliament as may compel the company to charge rateably for all articles of a like kind, according to the dis tance they may be conveyed. A reply to this memorial has been received from the office of the Committee of Privy Council of Trade, in which their Lordships state they do not think it right to introduce any clause into the Great Northern Railway Bill which would involve a principle not adopted with regard to all railways, and they do not see any reason for recommending the adoption generally of the principle suggested by the memorialists. It is said that the new tariff advertised by the Great Northern Company will have the effect of diminishing very materially the price of coals in the London market, and that the charge will in all probability be brought down as low as 155. per ton. Sunday Paper. RAILWAY CAPITAL.—The total amount raised by railway companies up to the end of 1849, as seen by a return just published, was 229,7 47,7791 . 15s. Bd.. of which 8 , 4 12,625/. 6s. 7d. was raised by shares and 51,335,1541. 95. Id. by loans. The amount raised during the year 1849 was shares, 29115114,77,6.27001.,67 1 3 5 1. 8. 16 8 5 d .. by v io z a"ns 2 . been issued fromp;liNeliA2 1,904,0461. 19s. 6d. by General laK.— MAILS To The st- f o o ffi ll c o e w :_ in p g riv n a o t tice bas e steam vessels havint , Hjerthing orT3alium ( Ted running beta' en Lowestoft and ti eemar k) ship letter mails for:Denmark will in tutors be made at Lowestoft, and such letters and newspapers e. ill be tran smitted in them as may be re ecially addressed "by private ship postage only, at the rate o l t P s'i via ' Lowe st of t." T h e British collected in this country, upon such the half-ounce, will be letters, and this postage must be paid in adva. ce, or the letter! not be forwarded by the private ships in question charg e able with a rate of one penny each,w which must will be must also be paid in advance. One of t h ese vessels will leave every Saturday night , a nd a ba g f or transmissionea Lowestoft b be forwarded from Lon don b y the 5 P.M. train of by da it will for the present. Letters , &c., for thi s dispatch, must tb y e posted at the receiving-offices in London, before 2 P.DI the branch o" ces in Lom bard-street, Boro ugh. Chari at ng" cross, and Old Cavendish - stree t, before 3 P.m. ; and at the General Post-office, St. Dlartin's-le-Grand, before 3 30 r.m. ThiTIISIONIAL To THE LATE MR. RUSHTON.— From the amount already collected towards a fund for a tea timenial to the late lamented Liverpool magistrate, hose family are left in rather straitened circumstances, it is fully expected that the sum will shortly reach 10,0001. It is in- I tended:to have two stipendiary magistrates, instead of one, 1 1 $ Liverpool in future. 7.LONDON, MONDAY . EVENING, APRIL l4, 1851. LADY FRANKLIN'S RENEWED EXPE- DII7ON. The following interesting paper has been circulated by Lady Franklin, who is again fitting out the Prince Albert at Aberdeen, and which is intended to sail on the Ist of May. We cordially wish her success, and as good a run out as she had last year under Captai❑ Forsyth:— "It having been ascertained last year that an im portant part of the field of search for the missing Arctic Expedition could not he explored by any of the ships then engaged, or about to bo engaged in the service, it was resolved to equip a supplementary expedition for the examination of the portion thus unprovided for. " The part alluded to includes Regent Inlet and the passages connecting it with the Western Sea, S.W. of Cape Walker, to which latter quarter Sir John Franklin was required by his instructions to proceed in the first instance. This search was assumed to be necessary on the following grounds:— "First—The probability of Sir J. Franklin having abandoned his vessels to the S.W. of Cape Walker. Second—The fact that when Sir John Franklin sailed, ho believed that an open passage was to be found from the westward into the south part of Regent Inlet, according to the chart supplied to him from the Admi ralty, and which does not exhibit the discoveries of Rae, made subsequently to that period. The chart annexed is a copy of that we allude to. " Third—Sir John Franklin would be more likely to take this course, through a country known to possess the resources of animal life, with the wreck of the Vic tory in Felix harbour for fuel, and the stores of Fury Beach further north, in view, than to fall upon an utterly barren region of the north coast of America. Foutth—He would be more likely to expect succour to be sent to him by way of Lancaster Sound and Bar row's Strait, into which Regent Inlet opens, than in any other direction. _ . "In corroboration of the necessity of this part of the search, we may refer generally to the Parliamentary papers of 1818, '49, and '5O, and may hero quote the very important words of an experienced Arctic officer, Captain Beechey, p. 31 of the first series—' If, in this condition (that of being hopelessly blocked up to the S.W. of Cape Walker), which I trust may not be the case, Sir John Franklin should resolve upon taking to his boats, he would prefer attempting a boat navigation through Sir James Ross's Strait, and up Regent Inlet, to a long land journey across the continent to the Hudson Bay settlements, to which the greater part of his crew would be wholly unequal.' And again, in his letter to the Secretary of the Admiralty, 7th of Feb., 1850, Cap tain Beechey writes, . . . . the bottom of Regent Inlet, about the Peliy Islands, should not be left unex amined. In the memorandum submitted to their Lord ships 17th January, 1849, this quarter was considered of importance, and I am still of opinion that had Sir John Franklin abandoned his vessels near the coast of Ame rica, and much short of the Mackenzie River, he would have preferred the probability of retaining the use of his boats until he found relief in Barrow's Straits, to risking an overland journey via the before-mentioned river; and it must be remembered that at the time he sailed Sir George Back's discovery had rendered it very probable that Boothia was an island.' " The memorandum alluded to by Captain Beechey as having been submitted to the Lords of the Admiralty on the 17th of January, 1849, was the expression of the unanimous opinion of the Arctic officers assembled by command of the Admiralty to deliberate upon the best means to be taken for the relief of the missing ex pedition; and in this report clause 14 is expressly de voted to the recommendation of the search of Regent Inlet. " Upon the grounds above stated was founded the ne cessity of an auxiliary expedition, and accordingly last spring a small vessel, the Prince Albert, was fitted out to convey two boat parties to Regent Inlet for the search of its western shore, and of the passages or isthumes connecting it with, or dividing it from, the western sea, including James Ross and Simpson Strait. This expe dition was equipped for an absence of two years' dura tion if required; but returned in less than five months, unhappily without effecting any part of its object, a failure which was owing to circumstances that do not in any degree affect the practicability or hopefulness of a renewed attempt. The vessel has been proved well fitted for the service, whilst the intelligence which it has brought back that traces of the missing expedition had been discovered far to the westward, on Cape Riley, in the route to Cape Walker, confirms the presumption upon which the vessel was sent out, and gives increased ground for hope in the renewed search. The necessity for its renewal will be the more apparent when it is stated that the early return of the Prince Albert is un known either to Captain Austin, Captain Penny, or the American ships employed in the search, so that the er roneous impression must exist among them that this special service is even now in the course of accomplish ment. . _ " The resumption of the interrupted search being thus deemed necessary, the command of the expedition will be given to Mr. Kennedy, late an officer in the Hudson Bay Company's service, who has come over from Canada for the purpose of affording his gratuitous ser vices. Mr. Kennedy was eight years on the coast of Labrador, and was the first European who ever visited its northern coast. Ho has had consequently very great experience in the kind of service to which he has now so nobly devoted himself. A whaling captain of very great experience 1 , -.s been engaged to conduct the Prince Albert, under ths erders of Mr. Kennedy, to her desti nation. The sum of 3,7001. was expended last year in sending out the Prince Albert, of which nearly 1,6001. was supplied by subscription, the remainder being de rived from Lady Franklin's private resources. It is cal. ciliated that, in addition to what remains of these pri vate resources, about 1,0004 will be required to meet the current pay of the master, his subordinate officers and crew, as well as the expenses of the necessary refittings and additional stores. " The necessity for the proposed search may be thus further developed. The very open season of 1845, in which Sir John Franklin commenced his enterprise, was followed by others of extreme severity; and it is most probab!e, that having, iu obedience to his instructions, attempted to effect the passage westward, by cnteri ,, g the region S.W. of Cape Walker, his progress was there arrested during succeeding seasons, and that he ulti mately was compelled to abandon his ships, when his provisions became nearly exhausted. Such a necessity may have arisen somewhere about the latitude of 74 deg. N., long. 105 deg. W.; in short at any point S.W. of Cape Walker, not farther W. than long. 110 deg. And in such case, rather than return north (which might be indeed practicable), or move south upon the American continent, of which (upon the coast) the utter barren ness was already well known to him, he might prefer a south-eastern course, with a view of passing in his boats, either through James Ross Strait, or through Simpson Strait, into the Gulf of Boothia, and so up into Regent Inlet to the house and- stores left at Fury Beach, the only deeot of provisions known to him. The advantages of such a course might appear to him very great. " First—Two open passsges being laid down in the Admiralty Chart into Regent Inlet, by James Ross Strait, and by Simpson Strait, a means of boat transport for his party would he afforded, of which alone perhaps their exhausted strength and resources might admit; such a course would obviously recommend itself to a commander who had experienced the frightful difficul ties of a land journey in these regions. " Second—The proposed course would lead through a part, the south of Boothia, in which animal life is known at some seasons to abound; the testimony of Sir John Ross upon this point, as shown in his work, being very strong, and well known to Sir John Franklin. " Third—The Esquimaux frequenting this part of Boothia were found by Sir John Ross to be extremely well disposed and friendly, though they could not be induced, during his detention of three years and more, to act as guides to remote parts beyond their accustomed limits. It may be remarked, that Sir John Ross first communicated with the Esquimaux at Boothia Felix, in January, 1830, and that on the 27th July, 1834, Sir George Back first met the Esquimaux at the mouth of the Back River, at which date they know nothing of any ship having been in Regent Inlet. In other worth', the news had not travelled 200 miles in four years and a half. " Fourth—lt is the direct route towards the habitual yearly resort of the whalers on the west coast of Baffin Bay and Davis Strait. Indeed these ships occasionally descend Regent Inlet to a considerable distance south. " Fifth—There aro two persons attached to Sir John" Franklin's expedition who are well acquainted with this region and its resources—viz., Mr. Blanky ice -master; and Mr. Macdonald, assistant-surgeon of the Terror. The former was with Sir John Ross in the Victory. The latter has made several voyages in whaling vessels, and is acquainted with the parts lying between the Regent Inlet and Davis Strait. Where so tew amongst the crews of the missing ships have had any local experience, the concurrent knowledge of two persons would have considerable weight. " Sixth—Opinions are very greatly divided as to the part in which Sir John Franklin's party may have been arrested, and as to the course they may have taken in consequence. It would be therefore manifestly unfair and most dangerous to reason out and magnify any one hypothesis at the expense of the others. The plan now proposed seeks to provide for the probability of the ex pedition having been stopped shortly after the passing to the south-west of Cape Walker. The very open sea son of 1845 was followed by years of unusual severity until the last. It is therefore very possible that retreat as well as onward progress has been impossible—that safety alone has become their last object. Can it be that now, when the hope of rescuing them in their last ex tremity depends (as far as human means can ensure it) on the multiplying of simultaneous efforts in every direc tion, the necessity of this one should not be recognised? The special search which is now pleaded for must be neglected unless a vessel be sent out purposely to carry it into effect." DEATH OF THE HON. CAPTAIN DUDLEY A. W. PELHAM, R.N., M.P.—We regret to announce the unexpected demise of the above gallant officer, who expired yesterday, at his residence, in Motcomb- street, Belgrave, square, in his 39th year. He was youngest son of the late, and brother to the present, Earl of Yarborough, and married, 1839, daughter of Rear-Admiral Sir John Gordon Sinclair, Bart., by w h om he has left an infant family. He was a Liberal in politics, and was elected for Boston on the retirement of Sir James Duke, Bart. DEATH OF THE HON. F. SAVILLE. - TtliS gentle man died on the 3d of April, a Coblentz, after a short illness. The deceased was fifth son of the Earl and Countess of Mexborough. He married in 1639, Antonina, daughter of the Rev. William Archdall, by whom he leaves issue three children. Mr. Saville was brother to Lord Pollington, late M.P. for Pontefract. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.— On Friday information was received by the Metropolitan Police that the loyal Ordnance Powder-mills, at Waltham Abbey, bad been burglariously entered and plunderer) of a large amount of property. The thieves broke into the cashier's dice, and, forcing open the iron -safe, they took from it 3201. in Bank of England notes, 196 sovereigns, and 18s. 2d. in silTer and copper. They also effe.;ted an entry into the storekeeper's-room, from whence they took la Besides the cash, they took a quantity of powder, and got clear away with, their booty. THE NATIONAL INSTITUTION OF FINE ARTS. Very fortunately for the artists of this country, there is no lack of opportunities for the public dis play of their paintings. Outside the galleries of the Royal Academy they can find accommodation for their works in one or other of the numerous subordi nate exhibitions. For instance, there are the walls of the British Institution, there are those of the Society in Suffolk-street, there are the apartments of the old and new Water Colour Establishments, there are the rooms of Mr. Grundy, and further on, in Regent street, there are the saloons of the Portland Gallery, nearly opposite the Polytechnic. On Saturday we had the gratification of attending at the last mentioned exhibition of pictures, on the occasion of the private view, prior to the opening of the collection to public view this morning. Having luckily visited the Portland Gallery before it had become inconveniently crowded with visitors we had the satisfaction of surveying the works of art on the walls under somewhat advantageous circumstances. When it is remembered that the majority of the paintings are the productions of young and conse quently inexperienced artists, but artists manifestly, in the very selection of their themes, ambitious, and for that reason, therefore, entitled to attention, it must be obvious that with an abundance of blemishes to pardon, the critic has much to admire, to marvel at, and to commend. It is, per haps, this fact, more than any other, which, to our thinking, invests the collection in the Portland Gal lery with a more than usual interest. Among the mass of unknown aspirants, however, may be recog nised the names of men already well known by the power and versatility of their productions. Conspi cuous among these, moreover, willlbe noticed the name of the president of the institution, Mr. R.'S. Lauder, several of whose pictures this year are of admirable ability. His "Christ Walking on the Sea," No. 61, perhaps the most remarkable painting in the collection, is a noble evidence of his capabilities, conceived in a lofty spirit, and prodaced with a bold and daring mastery of the materials of art. The figure of the Saviour, serene and majestic, stands in the lull between two enormous waves green as emerald, and transparent in their liquid modulation. The one form appears alone amidst the awful solitudes of the sea ; and the sun having already sunk below the horizon has left a solemn glare of red in its wake— the ruddy streak of light contrasting finely with the darkness coming over the rest of the waters. Another painting from the same hand represents " John the Baptist in the Wilderness," No. 281, a work of great excellence, especially in reference to the grouping. The figure in the foreground, among the listeners, bears, inten tionally perhaps, but we cannot but think unfortu nately, too manifest a resemblance to the form and features of the Divine Redeemer. " Macbeth," No. tel 9, by E. J. Niemann, is in admirable keeping with its theme, wild and weird as the very sound of the marvellous poesy itself. The Thane of Cawdor and his companion, startled in one of the gloomier por tions of the " blasted heath" by the ghastly appa rition of the witches, are portrayed with an obvious appreciation of the text of Shak ' spere—the altitude of the ridge on which the weird sisters are grouped, being well indicated by the crow winging its way to the " dusky woods," whilst the mists congregate over the moor, and the " light thickens " into twilight. The " Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum," No. 32, by L. W. Desanges, is a not unsuccessful venture upon a path already trodden grandly by John Martin. A charming portrait of " Rudolph, youngest son of Sir Alexander and Lady Spearman," No. 113, is contributed by the same master to the collection. R. R. Mc lan has two spirited and admirable paintings in the gallery; one No. 68, " The Highland Sword Dance, or Ghillie Callum," an animated representation of that most animated of dances, wanting only the bagpipes as an accompaniment, and suggesting rather a painful idea of fatigue in the old fellow who is whistling the melody ; and another, No. .219, depicting some " Highland Children going to School—Lochabar"— most of them blowing their nails to warm them in the bitterness ofi `the season, while the gilli nen adhere blows his horn in advance of his compa nions. R. Burchett arrests our attention at the very entrance of the gallery with his clever delineation of the "Death of the Venerable Bede," No. 2, one of the sublimest deaths ever recorded by biographer. The subject is taken from the beautiful account fur nished us by Cuthbert, the favourite disciple of the good and wise old monk of Yarrow. It runs as fol lows :—" The young disciple I spoke of before, whose name was Wilberth, said to him, Dear master, there is still one sentence that is not written.' He answered, Write quickly.' The young man said, It is now done." Thou bast said well,' said he, all is consummated, hold now my head, that I may have the pleasure to sit looking towards my little oratory, where I used to pray, and whilst I am sitting may call upon my Heavenly Father,' and thus sitting on the flour of his little habitation, he sang Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost;' and when he had named the Holy Ghost he breathed out his soul." The whole scene is monastic in its character, and is portrayed with an elevated pathos. Among the sea-pieces we may especially notice, No. 46, "A Dutch Market Boat leaving Shore," by A. Montague, delightfully fresh and breezy throughout ; and No. 124, a dashing picture of " An Affray," by 11. P. Parker. "An Incident in the Life of St. Elizabeth of Hungary," No. 177, by J. Collinson, is a noble specimen of its school, the countenance of St. Elizabeth in particular being depicted with a wonder ful expression of devotional rapture. Among the more meritorious works of Mr. R. S. Lauder should have been noticed before this, No. 256, his clever delineation of " The Lady f Shallott," from the lovely verse of the Laureate Tennyson. The shadows and reflections in the mirror are wonderfully managed. What can possibly be said of W. H. Deverell's " Banishment of Hamlet," No. 53—what ? But that it is a detestable sample of a most execrable style— out-Franciaing-Francia—hard, angular, grotesque, more hard, more angular, and more grotesque than any limning on a stained glass window of the mid dle ages ! The collection, after all we have said, is richest in landscapes than in any other kind of pro ductions, and its finest landscapes we have not yet particularised. S. 11. Percy contributes one of the finest of these, being No. 39, " Llyn Id wall, North Wales"—the lights and shadows on the distant mountains in the background being entitled to especial admiration for their truthfulness. Another and a yet nobler picture, by the same artist, is No. 250, " Summer—Storm clearing off"—a painting such as Thomson would have prized and appreciated. The broken tree to wards the centre of the picture—the draggled and saturated look of the vegetation, and the wild and scattered look of the clouds passing off we might al most fancy with a muttering of thunder in the dis tance—all are admirable, and prove the painter to be no unobservant student of nature. J. C. Bentley has one or two clever pictures in the exhibition, such as No. 71, " The old Mill Ferry ;" and No. 160, a " Scene on the Weaning in Yorkshire." As usual, G. A. Williams is ;among the most successful con tributors ; No. 162, " A Morning on the Thames," and No. 189, " Stacking the Autumn Hay Crop—Evening," being exquisite specimens of his ability. The last is a rich sunny piece of English rural life. Two little circular pictures from the same hand win our admiration at a glance—No. 239, " Midday," somewhat too dark, by the way, for the hour indicated, and No. 217, "Evening," with a warm sunset glow on the tree-tops. J. Collinson has a clever rustic scene, entitled "The Reply," No. 93, and a " Fruit-piece," No. 120, by W. Duffield, arrests the attention as a picture highly meritorious. A view of the " Boulogne Coast," No. 222, by E. J. Cobbett, appears to us one of the curiosities of the gallery, odd in treatment, and yet singularly natural in its effect. " The Halt, Smugglers," No. 276, by 11. P. Parker must not be overlooked, animated as it is and true as reality, even to the very biscuits in the blue cotton handkerchief. A Cottage interior, No. 312, by A. Provis ; a Landscape with.a watery atmosphere lit up with sunshine,.and having ajwonder fully beautiful appearance, No. 223, by A. Gilbert ; a charming group of three children suffused with the pink glare of sunrise, and poetically entitled the "Morning of Life," No. 335, byjL.W. Desanges—also demand from us some eulogistic mention however in cidental. In the Water Colour Room we observe a capital sketch of " A Young Shaver," in the manner of W. Hunt, No. 343, by W. Ilemsley. altogether the gallery, as may be conjectured from :our notice, is in same respects of more than average excellence, several of the pictures in the ga ller y being of a meritrat really entitled to praise border in g even on pan egyric. LYCEUM THEATRE, MR. RISDEN'S BENEFIT.— The benefit of Mr. W. B. Risden, assistant box-bookkeeper will and box-keeper to the dress circle, which was fixed for the 7th instant, but which was unavoidably postponed in con sequence of the closing of the theatrhe e, ta will ke ie p placcese one day be tli seconde A All lvteieckk tickets Easter, issued for 'r the we under stand, b n performed. be available at the forthcoming benefit. Mr. liisden, who is suffering we believe, from severe indisposi tion, was' not aware of the closing of the hou se until the evening of the 7th. We understand that a movement is now going on amongst the influential shareholders of the York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway, to invite George Hudson, Esq., M.P., to resume the chair of their important company. OPENING OF THE SOUTH WALES RAILWAY FROM CHEPSTOW. —The 18th of June next has been fixed as the day for opening the portion of the South 'Wales line from Chepstow to Gloucester, in order to complete the rail com munication between that city and Swansea. The bridge over the Wye at Chepstow is in a forward state; a single lino of rails will be laid down by the proposed date of open jug. Great exertions are being made to complete the heavy tunnel at Cwnabwrltt, to the west of Swansea, andlin order to accomplish this a large number of excavators have been employed. The works in Pembrokeshire are being pushed forward with all possible speed. Strenuous exertions are being made to complete the Vale of Neath line, so as to be opened D imultautously 'with the kouth Walla HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. La Muta di Partici was repeated on Saturday, and was received, from beginning to end, with enthusiastic auplause. The magnificent acting of Mademoiselle Monti more than confirmed the very high opinion which we expressed of her powers on Friday. She is the greatest mime the world ever saw. Signor Pardini was suffering so severely from influenza that be was com pelled, at the end of the second act, to resign the part of Massaniello to M. Poultier, whose manner of rendering the character gave general satisfaction. Madame Fiorcn tini sang the music of Elvira exquisitely, and Massol was as great as ever in,Pietro. The choruses were given with admirable precision, and the superbness of the wise en scene elicited repeated plaudits. Her Majesty and Prince Albert honoured the theatre with their presence. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. COVEN T-GARDEN. Roberto it Diavolo was to have been performed here on Saturday, with Tamberlik as the hero, and it was understood that her Majesty would honour the theatre with her presence. On the doors being opened the fol lowing hand-bill was found posted over the money takers' box:— " It is with extreme regret that the directors are com pelled to announce that the illness of Signor Tamberlik , c was this afternoon so greatly increased as entirely to c.- prive him of his voice, and it will therefore be impos sible to perform the opera of Roberto it Diavolo this evening. The opera of Semirainide will be substi tuted, in which Madame Grisi and Mademoiselle Angri will perform; the part of Assur will be sung by Signor Salvatori. who, although still suffering most severely from hoarseness and sore throat, has most kindly con sented to appear. Under these circumstances, the direc tors most respectfully request the kind indulgence of the audience. "Royal Italian Opera, April 12, 1851." " MEDICAL CERTIFICATE " I hereby certify that it is quite impossible for Signor Tamberlik to perform this evening, in conse quence of complete loss of voice from a sudden attack of influenza. A. BILLING M.D. " April 12, 1851.' " , It was also understood that her Majesty would not be present in consequence of the postponement of Roberto. No sooner had the overture to Semiramide commenced than a row began which completely drowned the music, the calls for " Gye" were uproarious and continuous, and it was not until Grisi appeared that calm was re-estab lished. She soon sang the rioters into good humour, and the opera proceeded in the usual manner. Both Grisi and Angri were in excellent voice. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. Mr. Anderson's benefit, on Saturday evening, was deservedly patronised by a numerous and brilliant au dience. The entertainments consisted of tho petite comedy of A Morning Call, in which the charming Nisbett made her first appearance since her recent in disposition; followed by a Ballet Divertissement, in which the Spanish dance "La Manola" was executed by Madlles. Victorine Legrain and Louise, and a pas seul most gracefully and bcautilully danced, by Madlle. Adele. In the musical melange which ensued, the warmest applause was given to Miss Birch in Bishop's " Lo, here the Gentle Lark," and to Miss Goddard, who performed a fantasia on the piano -forte, the theme being an air from L'Elisir d'Amore, with admirable ex pression, ease, and execution. Azael was the concluding piece, with its unrivalled Memphiau splendours; showers of bouquets greeting the finished brilliancy and exquisite agility of Legrain, and similar tokens of approbation falling to the lot of Falser, la jeune deesse de dance. The theatre re-opens on Easter Monday with an adaptation of Schiller's renowned drama, The Robbers, and Azael is to be the afterpiece for some nights more, when, we un derstand, a pantomime is to be produced, which will doubtless prove a fertile source of attraction to the Ext hibition visitors. Mr. Anderson has also announced a reduction in the prices of admission, being desirous of rendering the great national theatre a really popular place of entertainment during the:summer months, and we confidently expect that the exertions of so spirited and excellent a manager will receive their due appre ciation and reward. SPORTING NOTES: No. XXXIV. A FEW WORDS ABOUT THE MALTON MEET ING AND THE BETTING MARKET. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—The way the money is going would lead me to infer that my prognostication of Friday last on the Mel ton races, though on the right scent, is not exactly cor rect. For the Two years old' Stakes, The King of Trumps, upon the strength of his running second to Mountain Flower at Doncaster, is being backed as if it were a foregone conclusion; although holding his m eaty in high respect, I am confident that Scott has a " dark" youngster in his stable, entered for this stake, good enough to cut out the sovereign of the card table; but the question is, whether he will pull him out or not; echo answers, No! For the Melton Handicap, the "yel low slave" points to Presto, Unity, The Magic Wand, and Abbess of Jervanx as the animals destined to figure to most advantage, the first-named for choice. The Saxon is the fancy animal for " The Claret;" and the colt by Prince Caradoc, out of Miss Julia Bennett, fur the Convivial Handicap; Mulgrave, 4 yrs, 7st 31b; Magic Wand. 4 yrs, 6st 61b; Lady Jersey, 5 yrs, 7st 31b; and Madame Wharton, 3 yrs, sst 71b, also figure prominently among the nominations for the latter stake. The betting this morning shows several changes, and is as follows .—Malton Handicap-3 to 1 agst Presto, taken freely; 4to 1 agst Unity. Two Year Old Stakes —Even on the King of Trumps—Convivial Handicap -2 to 1 agst Prince Caradoc Colt. Two Thousand Guineas-6 to 4 agst Grecian; 3 to 1 agst Mountain Sylph Colt (in great force); 4 to I ago, Newminster (effaed); l 0 to I east Confessor; 20 to 1 agst Exeter. One Thousand Guineas-5 to 2 agst Iris; 3 ti 1 agst Aphrodite; Bto 1 agst Phlegia. Newmarket Stakes— Offers to back Tedaington against anything. Cheater Cup—As before. a-Hay—Oilers to take 12 to 1 to " a sum" about Mountain Sylph colt. Oaks-7 to 1 each, Aphrodite, Payment (despite the cough), and Iris. I am. Sir, yours, ax., THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. April 14, 1851. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. STR ATFORD STEEPLECHASES.-SATURDAY. Handicap Steeplechase of 2 sovs. each, with 10 added. About three miles and a quarter. Mr. Campbell's Modesty, aged, l lst 71b( Wainwright) 1 Mr. G. Bott's Fanny, lost (Frost) 2 Mr. J. Phillips's Dunmurry Lass, I Ist 41b(Unsworth) fell Mr. Armstrong's Pathfinder, 10st 41b (A groom) fell Betting-5 to 4 agst Modesty, 7to 4 agst Dunmurry Lass, anu 4to 1 each agst Fanny and Pathfinder. Won easily by six lengths. The Hunters' Stakes of 2 sovs. each, with 10 added, for horses that have been regularly hunted this season within twelve miles of Manchester, 12st each. About three miles and a quarter. Mr. Campbell's Modesty... (Wainwright) 1 Mr. Lewis's Eleanor (Walton) 2 Mr. Armstrong's Pathfinder (Winkup) 3 Mr. Thompson's Reveller (Frost) 4 Betting-6 to . 4 on Modesty. Won easily by two lengths. TRES FOR 1851. aL. Abergavenny 24 The Hoo(Gorhambury) 26 Chester Lothians S York Spring Bath l5 Epsom Harpenden ag Wye 29 lE. S. Lancashire (Newton) 18 Lenham . ............ Stockbridge ........ 19 Winchester-- Newcastle Salisbury Ipswich Stamford.... ............. 15 Ileley ..................... 16 Nottingham ........... 17 Chelmsford .............. 22 G00dw0 0d............... 29 1 UST. RACING FIXT AP Mutton l5 Newmark. First Spring 21 Hambledon Hunt Lewes 5 Newmkt. Second Spring 6 Plymouth Spring Liverpool H (Hoylake) 7 Durhum Shrewsbury 8 Ascot Beverley, Hull, &c 4 Hampton ll Manchester ll Southwell (Notts) l2 Knighton l3 Loo (Holland) l6 Bibnry JET Newmarket Carlisle ........ 1 Ludlow Lancaster Worcester Liverpool AUG Ripon Brighton 6 Wolverhampton . .... 11 Huntingdon l2 Reading .. 13 SEPTE Eccles . ........ 1 Warwick ............... 2 Lincoln .................. 4 Radcliffe .................. 8 Lichfield ............... 8 Yarmouth ............... 9 Weymouth ............ 10 York Southport Derby 26 Egham 27 :MBErt. Leicester lO Doncaster Sandbach Bedford Eglinton Park ... 23 or 24 Manchester Autumn 25 Newmarket P.O 3O IBER. Wrexham Newmarket S.O l3 I Newmarket Houghton 27 • ; Monmouth .... VII 1 Richmond Chester Yorkshire Union Hunt 8 NOVE: Worcester ;MBER. ...First week. The Master of the Rolls will take his seat in the Rolls' Court, Westminster, to-morrow. The practice of holding a levee, and entertaining the Accountant-General, the Mas ters and . Registrars of the Court of Chancery, and the leading members of the equity bar, which had fallen for some time into disuse, will on this occasion be revived. After receiving and entertaining them at his house, Gordon square, the Master of the Rolls will proceed to the house of the Lord Chancellor, who will hold his accustomed levee, and enter tain the judges and bar: Lord Bury (son of the Earl of Albemarle) is about to discharge the functions of private secretary—without salary—to Lord J. Russell, in,the place of Mr. W. R. Grey, M.P. for Tynemouth, lately appointed one of the Secretaries of the Pocr-law Board. THE QUEEN'S LEVEE. — O n Wednesday, the 28th of May, the Queen will hold a levee at St. James's Palace, instead of that gazetted for Wednestiay, the 18th of the fol lowing month (June). THE MARQUIS 01 LANSDOWNE. —We are h appy to learn that the Marquis of Lansdowne was much better yes terday than his Lordship had been since the lamented demise of his estimable Afar . ci . uoness. The Noble Lord President of the c oun e4 will not join in the meetings of his colleagues til atter the'Easter recess, and his L rash . fet %stout/ e F A e tt."' RAIL WAY IN TELLG.ENCE. THE EASTERN COUNTIES AND NEWMARKET RAILWAY COMPANIES. We subjoin the report of the committee of Eastern Counties shareholders on the subject of the proposed guarantee by that company to the Newmarket Company: Report of the Committee of Shareholders, to be laid betore the Proprietors at the Special General Meeting of the Company, convened for Thursday, April 17, 1851. " I our committee have to report that the negotiations with the Newmarket Company, alluded to in their sup plemental re p ort adopte d b y the special general meeting. held on the 18th ultimo, have resulted in the provisional arrangement of the terms of a working agreement between the two companies, based, in the opinion of your committee, upon a due consideration for the common interests of them both. " Thu terms so rranged, subject to your approval, have been referred to the solicitors of the company, to be by them embodied in a formal agreement, for execu tion by the two companies respectively. " A sketch map of the country occupied by the New market Company, in respect of lines made and unmade, exhibiting their connexion with the other lines of the district, accompanies this report, a study of which will illustrate the importance of securing a position which, in the command of a competing company, might be used as the basis of operations seriously detrimental to Eastern Counties interests. "Indeed, the main object of your committee in re commending the arrangement is to prevent the diversion of traffic from the lines of the Eastern Counties Com pany by intrusion en the part of other companies having competing, if not hostile, interests, care being taken that the desired protection be obtained upon terms at once prudent for the Eastern Counties Company to con ; cede and satisfactory to the Newmarket Compaay to accept, s in their p ract i ca l operat i on , t o sb pecuniaryd interests of both companies, and Ito maintain between them const ant good-will and mutual uve and ae calculated, co-operation. " The entire arrangement is based upon the condition of the speedy completion and openin g o f their line to Cambridge by the Newmarket Company, from the date of which event the proposed agreement will come into operation, and not before. The principal financial feature in the arrangement is the obligation to be assumed by the Eastern Counties Company to pay to the Newmarket Company such a sum as shall, with the amount of their own net earnings, be sufficient to pay a dividend equal to 3 per cent. per annum on the amount of their share capital (stated at 350,0001., or thereabouts)—with this limitation, that in no event shall the Eastern Counties Company be called upon to pay a larger sum than 5,0004 in any one year. " In reference to this part of the proposed arrange• ment, your committee observe that the deputation from the Newmarket Company in an early stage of the nego tiations stated that they estimated the value of their lines to bo equal to 3 per cent. per 81.11311111 on the share capital; and, at the request of your committee, fur nished statements of the amount of their share capital, and of their debenture debt, and also calculations show ing the grounds on which they so estimated their pro perty. " Upon a careful consideratio n of the facts and esti mates thus submitted to your committee, and having especial regard to the importance of the situation occu pied by the Newmarket property, which they cannot but look upon as the key of a.defensive position of great value to the Eastern Counties Company; and also in consideration of the improvement which must necessarily take place in the earnings of the Newmarket Company by the opening of their line to Cambridge, which will have the effect of extending their traffic to Ely over the Eastern Counties lfne, and of increasing it to Chester ford, via Cambridge, your committee came to the con clusion that it was expedient to admit the estimate of 3 per cent. as the basis of the financial part of the pro posed agreement, subject to the limitation of 50001. as a maximum possible payment by the Eastern Counties Company. At the same time your committee stipulated for an option being reserved to the Eastern Counties Company of the right to purchase the whole undertaking at twenty years' purchase on their guaranteeing to the Newmarket Company a dividend of 3 per cent, per annum on their share cepital, being at the rate of 151, per share for each paid-up share of 25/. each. This stipulation has been agreed to by the Newmarket deputation. " The working details of the agreement your com mittee would leave to be settled by the board of directors, as your responsible executive. " With these observations your committee recom mend the adoption of the proposed terms, and that they be referred to the board of directors to carry the same into effect. " Acting upon the powers granted to them your com mittee received a deputation from a publicly convened meeting of proprietors of the East Anglian Company, held at Manchester, from whom they learned that the pending agreement between that company and the Great Northern Company is still in abeyance. " The deputation expressed a desire for a working arrangement with the Eastern Counties Company, in preference to that proposed with the Great Northern Company; when, after giving the matter due considera tion, your committee came to the conclusion that the matter could be more fitly dealt with by the board of directors, to whom, therefore, they referrt d the deputa tion, and accompanied such reference with a strong re commendation to the board to consider the matter, rcith the view of carrying the object into effect upon equitable terms, and thereby to promote the policy of securing to the Eastern Counties Company the con.rol and manage ment of the lines and traffic in the eastern districts of Euglard. "In conclusion, your committee okierve that they have practically confined their I.hour to the arrangement of the terms with the Newinark,q Company, the Dego tivions with whom were pending at the date of their last report to you; and have not thought it prti , frnt or expdient to act upon the powers conferred upon them, to enter into negoti:.tions with all or au of the other companies in 010 eastern district, as they have consi dered that to have deco woula interfere with the free and reipon.sible action of the board of direc;orr, and would have retarded rather than promoted the accom plishment of the object you had is view in conferring those powers upon Oman " B. NIARWOOD KELLY, DAVID WADDINGTON, GEO. C. PAULING, MATH. NICHOLLS, JOSEPH Box. JEREMIAH Finals:R. " Bishopsgate Station, April 10, 1851." The Court will most probably leave town about Wednesday next. Pairs TERs' DRAMATIC SOCIETY.—on Saturday evening an amateur performance by the members of this society took place at the St. James's Theatre, in aid of the funds of the Printer& Pension Society. The entertain ments consisted of The Merchant of Venice, a recitation of Collins's Ode on th e P ass i ons, and the drama' of Charles the Twelfth. The performers on the occasion were all mem tiers el, or connected with, the printing trade, with the ex ception of Miss Cooper and Miss Marshall, of the Lend= theatres. The theatre was extremely well filled, and Prince Albert, under whose patronage the performance 3 i . 00k place, attended by Colonel Gordon, occupied the royal i oo s u e r se d box, which had been specially retained by her Majes yon i h ' y es a tr n a. ti the occasion. On his Royal Highness being recognised by , t , h o e o a d tar sa u v p e on the his 1 i w y j :ft , h i r c e: The charitable object for which the entertainment was pro motedmany par s well acted. Great pains Queen x was performed I o , n_ m d i c cheer a s renders comment unnecessary ; but we are bound to say, that the Ifercha read t - to in render the scene worthy had throughout, bee n taken and of a more " professional " event, and the costumes betrayed a stricter adherence to historical truth than is generally observed by amateur performers. Previous to the comedy an ap b3 Min Catherine Will . and Collios'a Ode on the Passions was recited lam,' propriate'addrees was spoken , • Hi s Royal Highness theappPealaryedanmduch Ellen Feist between the concluding drama. g performance. Richings Park, near Iver, the residence of Sir Thomas and Lady Willshire, was the scene of great festivity on Friday l ast, on occasion of the christening a their infant son and heir, who receiv e d th e names of Arthur Reginald ~ friends 1 m and neighbours. ° as, in the presence of a di s ti ngu i s h e d party of their . Ills Excellency the Belgian Minister (M. Van de Weyer) is, we are happy to learn, quite recovered front his recent indisposition arising from influenza. MARRIAGE OF MISS TALBOT.—This young heiress' attended 'the souse given by the Countess of Jersey nu Friday night, in company with the Countess Newburgh. She is a visitor at the residence of the Lord Chancellor and Lady Truro, and all her proceedings are closely watched by the Chancellor, who seems determined that no undue influ ence shall be exercised towards her. The ease of this lady, which has excited so much attention, is likely, it is said, to . holds the office of receive a very happy and legitimate solution. It is ,cur rently rumoured that Mies Talbot is about to be married to Lord Edward Fitzallan Howard, M.P. for Horsham, second t h e value of 26,000/. per son of the Duke of Norfolk, Hereditary Earl Marshal, and Premier Peer of England. His Lordship is ie his 34th veer; is Vice-Chamberlain-to the Queen, and dwaid is a Roman heir to a property in Devonshire of that Lord E annum, so that the 80,0001. would not be thrown away. It, perhaps, need scarcely be added Catholic. THE CONDEMNED Cos CT 111 A R —Y CLARE.—This unfortunate young woman, who Ras convicted at th e l as t Bury assizes of the mu rder of her Vinfant, still remains in Ipswich gaol, an d should no reprieve be received she will be executed en the 23d instant. It is, however, generally believed that she will not be hung, it being alleged that at the time she committed the crime she was lab our i ng under au attac k of the milk fever. The way in which buryingrtuac .710111 ala perpetrated the murder—namely, the ilot alive seems to bear out this belief. A statement of the whole case has been submitted to Sir George Grey, but up to Friday night no answer had been received. _ ETON uOLLE --- ri GE.—The Dowager Lady Farquhar, * Sir Walter Farquh ar, and Mr. Ilarvie Farquhar, have caused a memorial window to be , laced in the college chapel of p . Eton to th e Eto and memory of Mr. larquhar who was educated at Eton, at the age of 19 kill e d at' the battle ot Alliwal, fighting gallantly. ' The subje c t o f th e w i n dow is the story of King David. There are two compartments- the centre one represents king David, and in each of the other divisions are groups of figures illustrative of the narrative. Between the groups are angels bearing scrolls, on which scriptural passages are inscribed. The tracery is also tilled up with angeL bearing similar scrolls and inscriptions. The detail is composed of rich foliage, of the most harmonious colours. This beautiful window, w hi c h has just been completed, was executed by Mr. \Valle, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. An ad joining window to the above, subscribed for by old Etoniaus, and executed by Mr. Connor, of London, has recently been presented to the college. These windows are at the western entrance to the chapel. The Grand Surrey Canal Company have notified a winch will date from the 31st reduction in their charg es . ult.. The alteration is the same as that recently adopttd h rt li a 1 Commercial Dock ComPailY, with the exception that a monthlv an d no t a weekly rent, will be substituted for the quarterirtarnis In - ' 't,her to customary. The Essex 4144 10 ,C0..1 1 4.7 1 .e figented.a tehrigto,ereci (16 . 66 11 64 iiiiitlc asp= for 63,466/. I I