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DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY TIIEATRE. GREAT ATTRACTION FOR THE EASTER HOLIDAYS. ON EASTER MONDAY, MARCH 24, Will be produced a New Drama, called MARGARET CATCH POLE. Supported by Messrs. H. Hughes, Hicks, Fredericks, R. Homier, S. Cowell, Heslop, Lewis, Mrs. Daly, Mrs. Lewis, aud Mrs, R. Honner. After Which, THE IRISH TUTOR, In which the Infant Power, Miss Heron, will appear. To conclude with TIIE MOOR MAIDEN, In which Messrs. Hicks, Neville, Fredericks, Lewis, Mrs. Hughes, Miss Martin, and Mrs. H. Yining will perform. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box office, from Eleven to Four. FLANDERS MAIL. BRussiaLs, Mancit 16.—8 v a Ministerial resolution of the 15th of March it is decided, that in addition to one packet between Antwerp and Batavia and Singapore, for which service special regulations are made, there will be, i n 1845, regular packets ; one between Antwerp and Constantinople, touching at Smyrna, Athens, and Syra ; two between Ant werp and Bahia, touching at Pernambuco; three betweeen Antwerp and New York ; four between Antwerp, Valpa raiso, and Cablao ; five between Antwerp and New York. In consequence of the continuance of the cold, vegetables are extravagantly dear, aad so scarce that many persons re siding in the distant quarters, find it difficult to procure any. The farmers sell their cattle, being unable to feed them. The supply of milk in the city is insufficient. Great fears are felt for the crops. As for statistics of pauperism we dare Rot touch on that subject. The Impartial of Bruges publishes a letter from Ostend, of the 14th, which says :—" The schooner belonging to the royal marine is fitting out in our basin. Orders are daily It ex pected for its departure for the late colony of Guatemala. will not be commanded by Captain Petit—Bruneht Papers, March 17. THE GENERAL POST-OFFlCE.—Considerable altera tions are about to be made is the establishment of the General Post-office, in St. Martin's-le-Grand, by the erection of aide galleries and other conveniences in the newspaper and letter-sorting offices, in order to expedite both the morning stud evening duties. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. The THIRD EDITION of THE SUN of last (Wednesday) Evening contained The Spirit of the Public Journals. Further Particulars of the late Fire in Bermondsey. Parliamentary Intelligence of the evening, being a full report of the proceedings before the House of Commons up to a Quarter before Seven o'clock. THIRD EDITION OF ~ THE SUN." 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The Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public are respectfully Informed that this TIIEATRE WILL RE-OPEN on TUESDAY, MARCH 25, When will be repeated (fourth time in this country), Verdi's new Opera, ERNANI. lho row Parts-Ist., The Bandit ; 2d., Tho Guest ; 3d., Tho Pardon ; 4th., The Mask, With new scenery by Mr. Marshall. Elvira, Madame Rita Borio ; Giovanna, Mdlle. Bellin ; Buy Gomez, Signor Fornasari ; Don Carlos, Signor Botalli ; Ernani, Signor Moriani. It is respectfully announced that in consequence of other novelties the highly successful Opera of ERNANI cannot be repeated until later in the Season. To conclude with an entirely new Ballet, by 31. Perrot, entitled EOLINE ; ou, LA DRYADE. The Music by Signor Pugni. The Scenery by Mr. Marshall. 'rmeipal Characters—Eoline (betrothed to Count Edgard), 3lddle. Lucile Grahn ; Rubezahl (le Gnome), 31. Perrot; Count Edgard, M. Toussaint ; Prince of Silesia (brother of Eoline), M. Gosselin. In the course of the Ballet the following Dances will be introduced Waltze Selesienne, by the Coryphees of the Corps de Ballet. Pas de la Fiancee-L-ildlle. Lucile Grahn and M. Toussaint, Pam de Clnq (composed bt M. Gosselin)-31dlles. Louise Weiss, For. dinand, Demelisse, Cassin, and Moncelet. Mazourka D'Extase—Mdlle. Lucile GrAurand M. Perrot, Fourth Tableau. Grand Pas des Dryades by Mdlle. L. Grahn and the Ladies of the Corps de Ballet. _ . Madame Anaide Castellau, of the Imperial Theatre St. Petersburgh, is daily expected in town, and will make her first appearance forth. with in Donizetti's Opera of LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box. Office, Opera Colonnade. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. It is respectfully announced that A GRAND MUSICAL FETE, Comprising the unpublished manuscripts of the celebrated FELICIEN DAVID, Will be executed, for the first time in this country, ON THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 27, With the original Melodies and Choruses. Grand Descriptive Symphonie Ode of THE DESERT, produced for the first time with the most enthusiastic success at the Conservatoire Royal, Paris. Programme.—lntroductory Part—let. Fragment of Grand Sym phony in E flat-2d. Melodies imitative a Grand Orchestre : Les Rirendelles, sung by Signor Moriani-3d. Melodie Orientale : Le Chibouque Soiree du Printemps-4th. Fragment tire des quartre galssous de Felicien David, executed by all the string instruments. LE DESERT. Ode, Symphonie, Orientele—divided in three parts with grand orchestra. The orchestra and chorus will include upwards of 200 per formers. Solos by Sigs. Aloriani and Corelli. Part I.—Entrance to the Desert. Glorification of Allah ; grand chorus and orchestra—Arrival of the Caravan—Departure of the Caravan—Tempest in the Desert— Return of the Calm—The Caravan resumes Its march. Part ll.—Night. The Evening Star—Halt of the Caravan—Hymn to the Night : air sung by Signor Moriani—Arabian Fantasia--The Dance of the Almee—The Liberty of the Desert : grand chorus with orchestra Zvening reverie : melody sung by Signor Moriani, with chorus and orchestral accompaniments—Sleep ! Part lll.—Sun-rise. Call of the lkittezzin; original Arabian melody, with the Arabic words—The Caravan starts once more on its journey—The Cara van gradually disappears in the distance ; grand chorus and orches tra—Silence In the Desert—The Song of Thanksgiving—Allah. Grand chorus final. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Pit Tickets to be made at the Opera-office, Colonnade, Haymarket. Doors open at Eight o'clock ; to commence at Half-past Eight. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE. FIRST NIGHT OF A NEW COMIC BALLET, For the Debut of Mdlle. POLIN and Mons. GASPERINI (Principal Dancers from the Grand Opera at Berlin), And of the Demnes. LOUISE and ADELE, with the full Corps de Ballet of this popular Theatre. ON EASTER .MONDAY, MARCH 24, Will be performed ROBERT TILE DEVIL. Robert, Mr. W. par rison ; Bertram, Mr. Stretton ; Itaimbaut, Mr. D. W. hang ; Isabella, Miss Rainforth ; Alice, Miss Romer. ♦tter which will be produced, a New Comic Ballet, entitled RORER P AND BERTRAND. Dances in the course of the Ballet : Pas de Deux, by 3fdlles. Adele and Louise. Pas de Deux, by Mdlle. O'Bryan and Mr. A. Webster. Grand Pas de Caractere, by Mdlle. Polin and M. Gasperini. A New Polka, by 3fdlle. Polin and M. Ga.sperini. Bolero, by Mesdames Louise and Adele. La Esmeralda, by Mdlle. Polin, and A MAZURKA, by the Principal Ballet Performers. The Eminent Tenor, M. DUPREZ is engaged here for Twelve Nights only, and will shortly make his appearance in his cele brated character of ARNOLD, in GUILLAU3IE TELL; and is also preparing himself for his unrivalled personation of EDGAR, in Donizutti's popular Opera, THE BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR, fur the Performance of which, an Engagement has also been ox pressly entered into with Mdlle. EUGENIE GARCIA. The Box-office will be opened this day, as usual, under the superintendence of Mr. John Parsons, THEATRE ROYAL, lIAYMARKET. LESSEE, MR. B. WEBSTER. ON EASTER MONDAY, MARCH 24, Will be melted a New and Original Comedy, entitled THE SHERIFF OF THE COUNTY. Principal Characters by Messrs. W. Farren, Strickland, Buckstone, Webster, Mrs. Glover, Mrs. W. Clifford, Mrs. Ilumby, Miss Julia Bennett, &c. After which,-.a. New Grand Classical Extravaganza, entitled THE GOLDEN FLEECE. Principal Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, J. Bland, Madame Vestris, and Miss P. Horton. To conclude with YOUNG ENGLAND. Major Martinet, Mr. Strickland ; Mr. John James Pooley, Mr. Buckstone ; Mrs. Pooley, Mrs. Humby ; Mrs. Smiler, Mrs. Stanley THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. ON EASTER MONDAY, MARCH 24, Will be repeated a New and Original Drama, entitled THE GREEN BUSHES ; or, A Hundred Years Ago. Connor O'Kennedy, Mr. Selby ; George, Mr. Hudson : Wild Murtogh, Mr. 0. Smith ; Muster Grinnidge, Mr. Wright ; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Redford ; Geraldine, Mrs. Yates ; Nelly O'Neill, Mrs. litzwilliam ; Miami, Madame Celeste. After which, will be produced a New Grand Epereal Exposition, called ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON. Principal Characters by Messrs, Paul Bedford, Wright, John Saunders, Selby ; Miss Woolgar, Miss Brooks, and Miss E. Chaplin. To conclude with MOTHER AND CHILD ARE DOING WELL Mr. Snugsby, Mr. Lambert; Lieutenant O'Seupper, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Mr. Felix fluffy, Mr. Wright ; Emily, Miss Fortescuo. Superbly decorated, and NI - Ith extensive alterations! forming enc of the most Elegant and Comfortable Theatres in the Metropolis ! THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KHELEY. Thts elegant THEATRE WILL RE-OPEN ON EASTER MONDAY, MARCH 24. The Performances will commence with a Comedy called THE RECRUITING OFFICER. Supported by Messrs. Vining, F. Mat thews, Emery, Meadows, Bellingham, Wigan, and Keeley; Mrs. Keeley, Miss Pillars (her first appearance in London), Mrs. Wigan, and Miss Dawson (her first appearance). After which, a New Farce (never acted), entitled LOWTHER ARCADE. Characters by Messrs. Keeley, Meadows, F. Matthews ; Miss Dawson, and Miss Grove. To conclade with a Burlesque of English History, Pourtraying Olden Ideas and Modern Notions—lnvested with all the Pomp and Display of Ssene—Painters engaged expressly—Costumes according to Fancy—Mechanism, Ballet, Music, and Novel Stage Arrange ments—to be called, WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT Dick Whittington, Mrs. Keeley ; Muley Moloch, the Lien Tamer of the Dessert, Mr. Keeley ; the Cat, Mr. Collier, supported by Messrs. Emery, F. Matthews, and Wigan ; Miss Fairbruther, and Miss Grove. The Box-office is open daily, under the direction of Mr. Grogan. THE WEATHER.-SIIN OFFICE, MARCH Is. THZUMODIZTER, Lowest, 29 ; Highest, 38 ; Noon, 39 BABODIZTER, 29.82.—W1ND, N. Nora.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and " Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the Thermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All the other observations are made at noon. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning •• 45 minutes after 11 1 Evening .. 0 minutes after 0. w • .CC , s '74 . - • z 7- • , . fr 400 ,1 - 4, 44 , 1 ,1. 30 . 1 , figolk . ~..,,,b ~. 0 s ., .: ..,,, - '.,:-':,:-.,,,, -,k,:= 4 K .- 41; illim iL , ~` i r . ` . - - =:A. ,- - - i t mirpk. vAli • 1 , .'rW 7 W4I I II • 'O , -*-10: ' ..-700i ~, 2 , / , t i ~,• - ',.4 . 2 , •. 0 TI ~o r , 0 „ .. 0 . lica z iwol, .-4r , „,. '7 , -- -- - ' 1 titia ' n .-=-- AIM LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1845. The House of Lords did not sit last night. The House of Commons met at Twelve. The Railway Clauses Consolidation Bill was read a third time and passed. The Lend Clauses Consolidation Bill was read a third time and passed. The report on the Railway Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Bill was brought up. The third reading of the Land Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Bill was postponed. In the course of the discussion on these Bills, Mr. HAWES protested against these morning sittings so early in the session. Colonel Summar also expressed his objections to them. Bills of the greatest importance were hurried through at these sittings, when only 15 or 20 Mem bers were present. Mr. LABOUCHERE admitting that, in the case of these Bills, the Government had only a choice of evils, thought that on the whole it was inexpedient for the House to sit at that early hour. In t he long run, they would not get through more business than if they sat at the usual hour in the evening. Lord G. SOMERSET admitted the inconvenience of morning sittings, and regretted the necessity that had existed for having recourse to such a procedure. The House adjourned at half-past One o'clock, and re-assembled at Five. Mr. PAKINGTON brought up the report of the Dart mouth Election Committee, declaring JOSEPH SO/lES, Esq., duly elected. After the transaction of private business, Mr. C. BULLER moved that the petition of the mer chants of London, on the subject of New Zealand, be printed, which was agreed to. In answer to Sir R. Nam, it was stated by Sir R. PEEL, that the intention of the Government was to proceed by way of Bill in proposing the increased grant to Maynooth and the grant for the establish ment of academical institutions in Ireland, as he thought great advantage would be derived from doing away with the annual discussion on this subject. The Right Hon. Baronet further stated that he had no objection to make the Regium Donum, and the grant to the Presbyterian Church of Scotland also per manent. Mr. ALDAsf, in reference to President TYLER'S re cent Message, put a question on the subject of the state of the liberated negroes in the West Indies. Sir R. PEEL said they were perfectly free there. There was no apprenticeship—they were not com pelled to labour, and were in the state of free men— and if the United States chose to appoint a Commis sion to investigate their state, every facility should be afforded to that Commission for ascertaining the facts of the case. With respect to the allegation that both the subjects of the United States and those of this country were concerned in carrying on the slave trade, that was a subject for serious consideration. He was not prepared to deny the fact. He hoped that if the law did not reach this application of Bri tish capital, the Legislature would be prepared to apply a remedy. In answer to a question by Sir D. NORREYS, Sir J. GRAHAM said it was not the intention of the Government to propose any measure with regard to Medical Charities in Ireland, nor to propose any measure with regard to the railway system in Ireland. In answer to a series of questions from Mr. B. DENNISON and Lord HowicK, Sir G. CLERK denied that any negotiations had taken place between the Board of Trade and the promoters of the Direct Northern and the Cambridge and Lincoln Railway Companies, or with the Newark and Sleaford Railway Company, or that the Board had given any intimation to to those companies to form a coalition ; and that no facilities were given to those companies to make communications to the Board, which were not equally given to the London and York Direct Railway Company. In answer to Mr. SOMES, Lord INGESTRE stated that he did not intend to bring the subject of Captain WARNER'S invention again before the House; but that Captain WARNER would abide by his offer to destroy a line• of battle ship at five ruilus distance at his own expense. Sir C. NerLEE hoped that the Right Hon. Baronet would permit Captain WARNER to try this experi ment, at his own expense, behind the Goodwin Sands. Sir R. PEEL, had no doubt but that, if Captain WARNER did intend to make the experiment at his own expense, he would get permission to do so from the Board of Ordnance. Lord JOCELYN, in answer to Mr. HOESMAN, said that a communication had been received from India stating that the Governor-General in Council had taken into consideration the recommendation of the Home Government, to devise measures for placing Penang sugar on the same footing as Indian sugar, and had referred . the subject to the Governor of Penang. The Home then went into Committee on the Customs' Act. The various articles in the tariff were gone through, and, after some discussion, were agreed to. The House then went into Committee of Supply ; and, after voting the Ordnance Estimates, adjourned at Five Minutes past One o'clock. It ought to be a great consolation to very poor men who cannot conjure a crown-piece into either pocket, " charm they never so wisely," that there are other mortals who are reduced to a fearful condition of perplexity and distress by the very converse of their own condition. A poet of antiquity has sung " that a good man struggling with the storms of fate" is a spectacle fit for the contemplation of the immortal gods. He would have added, had he lived to our times, that the study of a First Lord of the Treasury " bother'd"—(there is no other phrase of force or significancy equal to our meaning)—with a surplus revenue of about 3,000,0001. is a luxury to be enjoyed, in all its intensity, only by a pauper. Pleasant to him ;who, having little money enough, Heaven knows, to spare for his own and his family's purposes, is compelled to part with a portion of it to a grasping Government, which is hampered in its movements by the fortunate dilemma of having " money in both pockets." The Premier is like a successful gamester, who, having broken the other players and swept the board, is set upon, before he can move off with his booty, by twenty different claimants on his " kind consideration " and relief. They become importunate in the proportion of his success ; and the imperiousness and decision of their demands in the ratio of their numbers and influence. Sir R. PEEL had a task of no slight difficulty, either on his original proposition of the income• tax or on his recent application for its three years' renewal— to win the consent of the . :House of Commons to his plan. He played boldly, however, and, as we have stated, he succeeded. In return, the House was to be put in good humour with his scheme for appropriat ing the surplus of public income over expenditure which he had realised on the financial year ending in January last. Every man who voted for the Pre mier's property and income-tax must have assumed that there was something to be obtained in return, by way of fiscal concess i ons , i n w hi c h hi s const i tuen t s or himself would find themselves more or less inte rested. Not the least successful part of the character which he so well sustained, pending the discussions on the nature of the exigencies that were to justify his demand and the vote of the House, was, the ability with which he managed, up to the very closing scene of his performance on this occasion, to induce all classes of his supporters to imagine that he was acting up to the wishes and hopes of each, to the exclusion of those of all others. The drama being over, the serious interlude ensues of the " Surplus and its Disposal." In this the new principal appeals to the favour of the Legislature are sustained on behalf of the remis sion or modification of the tea duties, the total re moval of the window-tax, the extinction of the soap duty, a large diminution of the duty on malt, or a still larger reduction of the tobacco duties. When a great nation can be persuaded, in a period of profound peace, whilst in the enjoyment of a very high degree of national prosperity, and of a still increasing com merce of unexampled extent and almost incalculable value, to submit to the imposition of a war-tax, for the sole purpose of bringing up the aggregate of the public income to the sum of its expenditure—the nation has a clear right to the 7greater:proportion of whatever benefit, direct or indirect, may accrue on the result of such an experiment. The constant tax payer has an equitable claim to this indulgence rather than the larger tax-payer. This consideration is strengthened by the fact that the new impost ,in virtue of which the excess of revenue arises, is an extraor dinary one. Now, since it is the inevitable condition of trade to fluctuate in extent and value, the product of custom and excise duty must be liable to similar variation. New tariffs, moreover, and the philosophy of free-trade principles, occur now and then to relieve trade from many and grievous burdens. But there is no phenomenon in the history of Go vernment measures so rare; as a tariff of reduced assessed taxes. The great bulk of assessed tax payers are a perpetualitarget:for Ministerial finance practice. They stand to be shot at. There they have stood so long, and have been fired at so success fully, that Ministers, without them, would retain neither the eye nor: the aim needful to carry on the operations of their Government. In short, the as sessed taxes, since the close of the war in 1814-15, have had so little remission or indulgence that it does seem high time to give them the honours of at least a partial dismissal and retirement. They ought to be superseded. On the principles we have stated, it seems clear to us that of all the proposed remission of taxes, this class of imposts has the preferable claim on the Premier. And of this class :we are strongly dis posed to concur with those who consider that the window-tax ought to have stood foremost on the list of the " boons," as they have been called, or re missions in favour of the tax-paying community. Its principle was odious, vicious, and oppressive, from the first day that it received the sanction of the Legislature. Its operation, like that of almost every other tax in this country, has been espe cially severe upon the poor. It has a ne cessary tendency, by rendering chargeable one of the first common bounties of Providence, to mar the beauty of nature; to sap the health of the community; to discourage all those conditions of the atmosphere within and without the dwellings of man, which are most essential to the vigour, conve nience, and enjoyment of his existence. A tax upon the light of heaven—that blessed element of all social vitality and beauty—is a premium on disease, a de stroyer of industry, a scourge of the human consti tution, an incentive to crime, and a cloak for guilt; and the mother of the most sordid progeny, that be speak their connexion:with idleness, squalor, misery, and shame. Remove this tax, and give to the hum bler classes well-lighted, and therefore well-aired tenements, and you surround them at once with an ameliorated physical atmosphere, which will have for its sure concomitants a moral cheerfulness, an alacrity of spirit, a suscep tibility to the improving influences of natural scenery, or civil associations, in the town and in the country, which will work a reform and an improve ment in their condition far more practical and exten sive than any of which nine out of ten projectors of utilitarian schemes and normal schools have, we sus pect, any notion. On these grounds we are most anxious for the re mission of this window duty ; postponing only (but far from undervaluing, even comparative3y) the re mission of the various other duties to which we have alluded in the commencement of this article. We have not forgotten with how much severity certain Whig leaders, after accepting office, were visited by their constituents for their violation of the pledges they had given to procure the repeal of the window duties. If anything connected with the ingrained " luck" of the present Government could astonish us, we should marvel at the facility with which the vast proportion of their supporters, equally opposed to this obnoxious tax, have permitted it hitherto to remain unchal lenged at the hands of her MAJESTY'S Ministers. The division of Tuesday has settled the question for the session, but hopes are held out by the Premier that he will take the subject into serious consideration, and remove the tax as soon as the state of the finances will admit. The proceedings of the meeting convened at Exeter hall, on Tuesday last, for the purpose of petitioning against the anticipated endowment, and the enlarged grant proposed to be made to the Roman Catholic Col lege at Maynooth, afforded a melancholy exemplification of the pertinacious bigotry with which certain very worthy persons will persist in treating all questions that are connected with religious education. It is lament able to observe a gentleman of Mr. PLUMPTRE'S respect ability and goodness, lending himself to the sanction of such a one-sided and pharisaical demonstration of at tachment to the principles—not of the Established Church, but of Protestantism in general, and of hatred and denunciation of the Roman Catholic Church. The lion. Member for Kent felt the invidious character of the position be had assumed, together with the chair of the meeting, and therefore repeatedly disclaimed all idea of harbouring any other sentiments but those of brotherly lore, and hearty good-will for his Roman Catholic brethren of Ireland ; but the liars h things ho had to say of the religion professed by them, and of the hopeless and eternally-doomed error of their faith, he was compelled to utter, because, forsooth, it was a question of "principle." In this view of the subject consists the whole fallacy of the impressions under which Mr. PLUMPTRE. and the whole Anti-Maynooth Synod of Exeter-hall labour, in treating the Maynooth grant. It is net a question of principle—it is a question of domestic policy. What are the facts ? A certain Church, or religious profession, is recognised by law as " the Established" Church of the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom is composed of three elements, England and Wales—Scotland and Ire land. The Established Church, with its doctrines and forms, is that of the great majority of the people in the first of these integers ; the doctrine, without the forms (Presbyterianism), is that of the second ; but the third repudiates both the doctrines and the forms of the other two, and stands inflexibly on its own more ancient traditions, and its own succession and stream of hierarchical ordination. Whatever be the aggregate numbers of those who dissent from the forms and ritual of the Established Church in England and Wales, and Scotland, there can be no doubt that its doctrine is that of the great majority of a population mustering at least fifteen millions of souls. But in Ire land the doctrine, the forms, and the ritual of a perhaps still greater majority of a population of between seven and eight millions, are those of its ancient church, the Church of Rome—not the Protestant Established Church of England. If the amount or proportion of the majo rity determines the intensity of the attachment in the one case, it must do so in the other. If the fact that in all England and Wales and Scotland, six-sevenths of the population are devoted to the cause of the Reformed or Protestant Church, under whatever denominations — if this be a proof of that genuine regard for one species of doctrine, the same sort of attachment on the part of somewhat more than six sevenths of the population of Ireland being with equal sincerity attached to the doctrine and communion of the Church of Rome, is to be as necessarily inferred. Now► the highest and most sacred authority acknowledged by either Church, has declared that the Sabbath was made for men, not men for the Sabbath. Religion has been thus devised for the benefit of man ; but man was not made for the benefit of any particular form of religion. Would Mr. PLUMPTRE and the Rev. Mr. BAPTIST NOEL have six-sevenths of the Irish people surrender their hereditary faith, their honest convictions, too, to the authority and at the bidding of some proportion of their brethren of Great Britain? Surely this is too preposterous. Even the Honourable Member, and the Honourable and Reverend Chaplain to her MAJESTY, do not go the length of supporting any such preposterous pre tension. For what reason, then, are the Irish people not to have the means granted by the Imperial Le gislature, for the careful and liberal education of those among them destined for the priesthood of the Church to which they belong, in the discipline and the doctrine of that religious profession in whose ele ments it will be their especial function to instruct the rising laity of Ireland ? What matters it, in this view of the subject, whether the election of a church or a creed which the Irish have made be right or wrong ? That is an affair between the disciple of a faith, and the GREAT SEARCHER of all hearts. Do the brethren of Exeter Hall imagine that they can re verse this election by a string of cut-and-dried resolu tions? Do they hope to roll back the mighty tide of usage, prepossessions, associations, civil and religious, which for fourteen centuries has poured on through the same unaltered channels, without witnessing, as in other countries, the downfal of its ancient land-marks—the undermining of its bases throughout the length and breadth of the land. On what plea the grant to May- Booth, in respect of the Roman Catholic community of Ireland, was to be opposed by those who support the grants in aid of our Universities, in respect of the Pro testant community of Great Britain, we never could de vise. Wiser heads than that of Mr. PLUNPTRE—judg ments more dispassionate than that of the Hon. and Rev. B. NOEL—have deeply considered, and solemnly recognised, not only the moral justice and equity, but the undoubted political epediency, of providing for and protecting in Ireland, a foundation for the education of her native priests in the doctrines of her national church, in a native seminary. Mr. Pitt, and other en lightened statesmen, his contemporaries, readily per ceived the growing danger of leaving such a class of men to find at once a refuge, a home, instruction, and na tional attachments in a foreign country, instead of at home. It seems unnecessary to push the argument further to establish, in this instance, the powerful case of political necessity. But we cannot take leave of the Exeter Hall affair without acknowledging the amusement afforded to us by the Rev. Mr. BAPTIST NOEL'S repeated declara tions of the extreme reluctance with which he would have interfered at the meeting, or adopted any other course that would have had a tendency "to embarrass her Majesty's Ministers." Had there been any proba bility of such a result, he would, on no account, have taken a step in anywise calculated to throw difficulties in their way, &c., &c. For gentlemen who stand so . stiffly on " principle," this is rather a blinking of " essentials," as they call them, to " cere menials." But we find a key to the inconsistency in the recollection—or in the matter that we recollect—the in sertion of this gentleman's name, the other day, in the list of chaplains, ordinary or extraordinary, to her MA JESTY. Court chaplains may not fight First Lords of the Treasury. Again—we remark two notable instances of that " fair play and no favour" department in the august Synod, which is always dear to Englishmen— elsewhere. Only two individuals attempted to address the meeting on the Liberal side. The first bold intruder was removed—actually and bodily taken into custody, and removed by the policemen in attendance, on the motion of Sir C. EARDLEY SMITH, Bart., and with " the unanimous consent of this very fair and impartial meeting." Sir C. EARDLEY SMITH, and the policemen who acted on his sugges tion, we would think it extremely likely will hear again of this ebullition of enthusiasm. The other intruder, whom we suspect to be the somewhat notorious Captain ACXERLEY, Was also violently ejected, speech un spoken, and by the police. Exeter Hall fanaticism may be incurable, but the Commissioners of Metropolitan Police will do well to instruct their rather officious con stables better in the rights of English subjects at open meetings—or meetings not professedly called by previous advertisement announced to be intended only for packed audiences. We have received Madrid journals of the 11 th inst., which contain an outline of the Bill for reforming the representative system in Spain, and perhaps in no country where a national assembly exists is reform more wanted. The return of Members hitherto has been made not by the people, but by the men in power, corrupt alcaldes, political chiefs, military officers, and smugglers. ESPARTERO had too much honesty to bribe and inti midate, and on that account he failed. NARVAEZ was less scrupulous—he left nothing untried, dared every outrage, and succeeded in moulding a Cortes to his will. The Bill was introduced on the 11th by the Minister of the Interior. The country is to be divided into 306 districts, each to return a Member The qualification for electors is to be reduced to 400 reels of rent, and of Deputies to 12,000 reals of rent (1201.). No changes are to be made in the electoral lists, or in the districts. Precautions are to be taken against frauds at elections. Captains-general of pro vinces, the Commanders-in-Chief of the navy, the Procurours-general of the tribunals, political chiefs, and intendents of the national debt, are to be excluded from the Chamber. It is stated in one of the Madrid papers, that the public prosecutor had demanded that capital punishment should be inflicted on seven officers implicated in the conspiracy at Vittoria. The provincial deputation, the municipality, and the clergy, were pre. paring a petition to the QUEEN to spare the lives of these seven officers. MADRID BOURSE, MARCH 11.—Three per Cents. 35i at 60 days, 114 millions done ; Five per Cents. 26i- at 60 days, 80 millions done . ; Passive Debt 8 at GO days ; Vales Reales 10+ cash. The Paris papers contain accounts of the grand ban quet given to Marshal BUCEAUD, on Sunday, in the Salle de Bourse. About four hundred persons sat down to dinner. M. GOUIN was in the chair, and among those present were, the Duke of NEMOURS, the Prince DE JOINVILLE, and their two younger brothers, the Dukes of A UMALE and MONTPENSIER. The first toast was " the KING," and the next the " Royal Princes," who had honoured them with th e i r company . The Duke of NEMOURS returned thank s . Th e di nner altogether was conducted in the Engli s h s t y l e — s p eec h es were that toast the Lord Mayo r ' s f east on the 9th of f ollowed toast, a n d t h e bill o f f are rivalled November. One of the papers states that upwards of 400 waiters were employed. Marshal BUGEAUD, in returning thanks fur the high honour conferred on him by the commercial men of Paris, made some remarks on the definitive system to be adopted in carrying on the war, and in colonising the country. Ile pointed out the immense advantages which will be insured to the trade of France by the security of her African possessions ; and, after reminding the com pany that the commercial movement between France and Algeria last year amounted to eighty millions of francs, he declared his conviction that in ten or twelve years Algeria will be able to do without assistance from the mother -country. At the conclusion, he an nounced that he would set out for Algiers in two days. We r e g ret to find that the report respecting a dreadful explosion at that place is confirmed in these papers. It is said that upwards of 200 per sons had lost their lives by the accident, the particulars of which are given below. In the Chamber of Deputies on Monday the Mi nister of Publ ic Works presented a up to public tender contracts for th e Paris to Lyons, and from Lyons to Avig rßaiilllrofoard r u o t m t i non. The motion of M. DUVERGIER D'HAURANNE, for abolishing vote by ballot in the Chamber, was under discussion. The Journal des Debuts states that a treaty of amity, commerce and navigation, was signed on the 17th of November, at Zanzibar, be tween France and the Imaum of Muscat. Several of the Opposition journals have been loud in their praises of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S policy, not because they love PEEL, but because they hate GulzoT more, and delighted to draw the contrast between a Minister, with a majority of 90, and one who rarely can muster nine. The Journal des Debuts says the fault is not with the French Minister but the French Conservatives in the Chamber, who have not the patriotism, like the English Tories, to sacrifice private differences to higher and more general considerations. The following is an extract from the artiele;:— "There is reall y somet hi ng amus ing in the fit of admira tion with which the Opposition of every shade, from the left to the dissentients of the centres, has been all at once seized for the English Ministry, and particularly for Sir R . P ee l . If the illustri ous P rem i er of England was not a prophet in his own country, he would at least have the consolation of being so in ours. We expect some of these days to se e statues raised to him by subscriptions opened in committees of the Opposi tion, or by the journals most affected by Anglo-phobia. In truth, there is cause to render the English jealous or Sir IL Peel suspected. The French tribune and press have no longer eyes or ears but for this fortunate Minister. M. Billault, who would like w e ll enoug h to get a c ompliment in return, calls hint a great man; Peers and Deputies offer him incense; the journals join in this concert of praise; in fact, Sir Robert Peel is the political lion of the moment. That does riot shock us. Let the Opposition be at rest—we are not going to accuse it of treason, or to reproach it with sacrificing to per fidious Albion the honour and interests of France! We shall not call it the fo re i gn party, or the Pritchard party, or even the Peel party. W e a l so have the highest esteem for the Prime Minister of E ng l an d ; we believe, in fact, that the Opposition has sometimes reproached us with expressing it in fine, there is a measure in everything, and e to v o en of t t h en e . bes ßt best things ought not to be abused. As to us, if we are ready on all occasions to admit how much boldness, as well as spirit of government, there is in the important reforms ac complished in England by Sir R. Peel, we do not do so, it may be believed, to lessen the men who govern us, and to deprecate their acts. It would be perfectly absurd to turn against the French Ministers the praises which every one justly accords to those of England, seeing that the political practices and habits of the two countries render all compa rison in this respect i na ppli ca bl e . We shall even declare that if a comparison of this kind could be made, and if it could be disadvantageous to us, the fault would not be in our government, but in our Chambers, and in the manner in which the practice of Parliamentary institutions appears to be comprehended in our country. Thus we behold every day the English Ministry coming victoriously out of all debates with majorities of ninety or 100, and thereupon the great politicians of the Opposition fall into ecstasies, and exclaim with an air of admiration an d e n vy, ! there's a Ministry. That's what can be called a GovCrnment.' It appears to us that it would be quite as natural and much more just to cry out, ' There's a House of Commons ! that's what may be called a party F' We subjoin, from the Akitbar, of Algiers, an abridged account of the dreadful explosion which took place there on the Bth instant:— "About a quarter past ten at night, on the Bth, a loud explosion was heard, in the direction of tho marine establish- THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 20, VW. usent of Algiers ; this was followed by another loud explosion and, by successive detonations, like the tiring of a broadside from a ship of war. The inhabitatants of Algiers rushed in alarm to the spot, where they found the light of the light house extinguished, and a scene of ruin and desolation. A portion of the casemated rampart between the old Spanish town called Pignon and the post and the houses built against this rampart were only a heap of ruins, from which mutilated persons, covered with blood and dust, were extricating themselves. The pavilion, inhabited by Commandant Palard, sub-director of the artillery, and the buildings in- Ambited by companies of artillery workmen and pontWiers, had been carried away. The explosions which caused these disasters had taken place in the two magazines, separated from each other by the ditch at the foot of the old Spanish town upon which the lighthouse stands. Considerable in jury was done in the port, and especially on the Bouberak, by numerous stones, thrown to a distance of 200 metres. In the buildings there are killed 43 artillery workmen, 10 artil lerymen, 31 pontonniers, and 2 workmen of the second com pany ; there were, besides, 30 wounded. Sergeant-Major Denot, his wife, who was pregnant, and a child, perished. The Controuleur d'Armes, Piron, died after under going amputation of the leg. Five other non-commis sioned officers were crushed to death on the ruins. The Commandant of Artillery, Palard, was killed under the ruins of his house, which was almost levelled to the ground by the violence of the explosion. Close to the pavilion oc cupied by M. Palard was the house of M. Segretier, Director of the Port, who had at the time about twenty persons in his drawing room. Mme. Segretier, hearing her child cry, left her guests to go into the room where the child was, and, as she was returning to the salle-a-manger to give directions for tea, the explosion took place, and she was buried in the ruins of the house, only one room of which was spared—viz., that which she had quitted, and in which the company was as sembled. In that room only one person, Madame Sylvestre, the wife of the Admiral's secretary, was injured, and that slightly. When the spectators of this horrible scene had re covered from their first shock, they heard the last words of the unhappy mother—they were ' Save my child.' " THE BOURSE-.-MONDAY, MARCH 17. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents .. •• • • 117 90 .. 118 .. 117 85 .. 118 Fours. .. 106 50 .. 106 50 .. 106 50 .. 106 5() Three per Cents." •• 85 15 .. 85 20 .. 85 15 .. 85 20 New Loan .. • .. • • 8G 5 .. 86 5 .. 86 5 .. 86 5 Belgian 8ank........ •• • • • • 652 50 .. 652 50 .. 652 50 .. 652 50 Belgian Fives, 1840 •••• • • • • 1051 i • . 105 1 A .. 1(5 .. 1(5 1842 ..••.••• 107 .• 107 .. 107 107 Four-and-a-Half . 10334 .. 103% .. 10334 .. 103% Two-and-a-Half.... 62 35 .. 62 35 • . 62 35 .. 62 35 Spanish Active •.• • • • •• • • 28% • • 39 • • 38% • . 39 Threes. ......• 41% 4118 .. 41% .. 411 Passive . .. 6% .. .. Portuguese Five per Cents.. 6734 .. 67% • • 67% • • 6 714 Roznan • • . ............... 106 106 .. 106 .. 106 RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain ..........1170 ..1170 ..1170 ..1170 Ver5ai11e5„R.8............. 670 .. 670 .. 650 .. 650 400 .. 400 .. 400 .. 400 Rouen .. 1180 ..1175 ..1180 Rouen to Havre 985 .. 987 50 .. 985 .. 985 Orleans; ..........• • 1332 50 ..1335 ..1332 50 ..1335 Strasburg to Bale .... Avignon to Marseilles.... ll4O .. 1160 ..1140 ..1160 Bordeaux to Teste Paris to Sccaux 7OO .. 700 .. 700 .. 700 RAILWAY SHARES FOR SETTLING, lfaacH 17. St. Germain 1175 ..1175 ..1170 ..1175 Versailles, 647 50 .. 650 .. 647 50 .. 650 L.B 393 75 . 401 25 .. 398 75 .. 398 75 Rouen 1175 . 1182 50 ..1172 50 ..1182 50 Rouen to Havre......, 982 50 987 50 -. 982 50 .. 981 50 Orleans . . 1325 —1340 ..1320 ..1340 Strasburg to Bale.. 340 .. 345 .. 340 .. 345 Avignon to Marseilles 1140 —1155 ..1140 . 1167 50 RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, APRIL 3. St. Germain ..............1075 ..1190 ..1175 ..1190 Versailles, R. 8............. 647 50 .. 655 .. 647 50 .. 647 50 L. 8............. 402 50 .. 402 50 .. 400 .. 400 Rouen ....................1180 .. I 190 ..1177 50 ..1185 Rouen to Havre............ 985 .. 990 .. 985 .. 990 Orleans ........ ....... 1320 ..1345 ..1320 .. 1342 50 Strasburg to 8a1e......•.•. 340 .. 347 58 .. 340 Avignon to Marseilles• • • • •.1140 —1167 50 —ll4O . 345 ..1167 50 THE WEATHER.—The severity of the frost has much abated within the last few days, and except during the night a more genial temperature prevails. A partial thaw commenced on Tuesday, and the effect of the sun, which should now be felt, on the 20th of March, has, we hope, put an ent: to skating for the season. In the parks and Kensington Gardens but few persons wet e seen on the ice, and the amusement was very indifferent. We have now had a winter of nearly five months—one of the longest on record. The market gardeners, who have nothing to bring to market, and absolutely nothing to do, say that all vegetable productions will be fully a month later than usual. RE TAWELL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. - --- Stß,—ln your issue of yesterday, No. 16,406, I find iit column 5, page 1, the following paragraphs-- " In deference to the wishes of the members of the Society of Friends, he will not be executed in the garb of a Quaker. Well knowing that you have ever stood the firm friend of toleration and religious liberty,*rnay I, as a Dissenter, inquire why so small and respectable a body of Dissenters should be allowed to cast the stigma upon Dissenters generally? I would in all Christian charity ask the Quakers whether they would be contented if an Independent, and a true one. without any nonsense, was to ask the executive power to allow a Protestant Dissenter, and not a Quaker, to assume the garb of a member of that body, under such circumstances, "in deference to the wishes" of the aforesaid members. What would be said by the purities? My conviction, and that of many of my friends, is, that tome one more qualified than ourselves should take the mat ter into consideration ; and, whether Jew or Gentile, let each bear their opprobrium. The honest press is, we feel satisfied, the best qualified to bring the matter before the public. I remain, yours most respectfully, AN INDEPENDENT DISSENTER, Manchester, March 18. And a lover of Fairplay. Osborne House, with its prettily timbered demesne and pleasure farms (recently purchased by the Queen, but, it should seem, is not quite large enough), is, through the instrumentality of Lady Isabella Blackford, placed in Mr. George Robins's haads, to sell by public auction in June. In the mean time Thornhill Park estate, upon the purchase of which, and the completion of the splen did mansion, it is said 50,0001. was expended by Mr. Barlow Hoy, late M.P. for Southampton. Mr. Robins's commentary in respect to the next vacant seat, shall speak for itself. Thus it is—" It is a fact not to be im peached—that if the new purchaser partakes of his hos pitality, and be of sound political creed, he will walk over the course, whenever the next election arrives." THE IRON TRADE.—MERTIIYR.—The iron trade, which for several years past has been progressively declin ing, is now about to take a rapid stride in advance, and this time we can congratulate our readers upon there being no fear of a retrograde movement. In June last, the men at the various establishments had an advance of 10 per cent., bat the price of iron having soon afterwards fallen, the iron trade has ever since been making but slow progress. The large numbers of railways now in contemplation in England, Europe, America, and India, bespeak a flood-tide of prospe rity, and accordingly the price of iron is steadily, and, we believe, permanently advancing. So encouraging is the as pect of affairs, that the spirited proprietor of the Cyfarthfa Works has not only many hundreds of men employed in erecting a stupendous steam-mill for the maaufacture of rails ; but last week he freely announced the intention of giving the men in his employ another advance of wages. The manner in which this intimation is conveyed is too cha racteristic of the enterprising, clear-headed, and business-like writer not to merit insertion : _ _ "1‘;) all the Workmen of Cyfarthfa and Hirwain Iron Works. " London, March 1, 1845. "I have much pleasure in communicating to you that it is my intention to advance your wages after the expiration of the present month of March. The improved state of the trade enables me to do this ; but you must be well aware that some old orders and contracts still remain on my books at low prices to be executed, and that the very heavy losses which I have sustained in carrying on my works for the last four years, will not allow me to give you the benefit of the improved prospects of the trade before I myself enjoy a little of them ; and I have fixed the end of this month as the earliest period at which it will be mutually fair and reason able to commence an advance of wages. Trusting that you will adhere steadily to your work, and enable me to execute some of my standing orders without interruption, I am, your friend and master, " War. CRAWSHAY." The other iron -masters, as in duty bound, are about to follow the example so nobly set, and we hear upon good authority that the next advance is to be 2s. Gd. in the pound, or 12* per cent.— Cambrian. THE SUGAR QUESTION.—The dock establishments and other places in which sugar is deposited in bond pre sented a most bustling appearance on Saturday, owing to the new sugar duties coming into operation on that day. Very little sugar had been cleared from bond for some time past, in anticipation of the reduction of duty, and from an early hour in the morning the avenues leading to the docks, and the streets in the neighbourhood of what are termed the up town warehouses, belonging to the St. Katherine and the East and West India Dock Companies, were crowded with waggons awaiting the clearance of sugars at the reduced duties. Considerable delay necessarily took place, as accord ing to the provisions of the new Act, not a single package of sugar could be delivered out of bond until a sample had been furnished for the inspection of the landing surveyors, and pronounced by them to be inferior to the standard samples with which the several departments in London and at the outports had been provided by the Commissioners on Friday, as was stated by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the House on Friday night. The additional amount of respon sibility and labour which devolves upon the Customs' officers is very great indeed, at the dock establishments of the dock companies and Customs; officers remained for some time after the expiration of the legal hour of business in order to facilitate the deliveries of sugars for which warrants had been passed in the Long-room in the early part of the day, and as far as possible to prevent complaint or dissatisfaction. It was remarked that, considering the difficulty attending the commencement of the new Act being brought into opera tion, the deliveries took place with very little delay. We understand that the standard samples which have been fur nished to the revenue officers at the several departments, for the purpose of comparing with the sugar in bond previous to delivery under the Act, have been selected in a very liberal spirit, the samples being of such good quality that scarcely any of the sugar imported from the West Indies, and very little of the description usually imported from the East Indies within the limits of the East India Company's char ter, will, with reference to it, come under the denomination and be liable to the duty as " white-clayed sugar, or Sugar rendered by any process equal to white-clayed sugar," & c . The amount of duty received at the Custom-house, on sum, taking Sa turday, for sugar alone , was about 105 , 0001 ., a large taking into consideration the great reduction which had taken place. ANOTHER COLLIERY ACCIDENT FATAL IN ITS CONSEQUENCES.-011 the evening of Saturday last, an inquest was held before the Coroner at Wigan, at the house of Mr. Hill, Robin llood, Hallgate, on the body of a boy, named Thomas Martindale, who met with an accident at S w i n l ey colliery, about a week previous, in consequence of which he died that morning. It appears that the father of the deceased and his three sons were going down in the basket to their work, when they were all thrown out and more or less injured. At the time of the accident they had got beyond the five-feet mine, when the basket in which they were descending, from somo means or other, was interrupted, by which Martin dale and his children were precipitated to the bottom. The deceased was found to have received several very serious injuries on the head, and parts of his body, the father had an arm broken, and was seriously hurt, but the other two escaped with a few very slight bruises. The jury returned a verdict of " accidental death," with a doodand of ss. upon the engine.-13olton Free Press. MONEY and COMMERCIAI, NEWS CITY, WEDNIT.SAY EVENING. The English Securities leave off rather heavily. Consols 99 3 % % for Money, and 100, sellers, for the Account. Ex chequer-bills declined to 60s. premium. Spanish Three per Cents. receded to 28 3 / 4 this afternoon, but closed at 29 to 30; the Five per Cents. remained at 304 ; Portuguese Converted were 68 to 68 3 / 4 ; Chilian, 101 3 / 4. t0 102 ; Brazilian, 92 1 A ; Colombian, 14%; Russian, 116%; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 63%; and Belgian Four and-a-Half per Cents., 1014. Shares generally remained pretty steady; the business done being moderate. _ _ (Film The Sun of Last Night.) The sales of Cotton at Liveipool yesterday were only 1,200 to 1,500 bales, and American was 1 / 9 d. per lb. lower. The business consisted of 300 bales Surat, at 2 3 / 4 d. to 314 d. ; and the rest American, at 3%d. to 5 1 ,4 d.-all to the trade. Cotton was freely offered for sale. A good business continued to be done in Shares, at steady prices. Aber deen, 2% ; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 6% ; Blackburn, Darwen and Bolton, 44. Is. 6d. ; Blackburn and Preston, 15 1 4 ; Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire Junc tion, 9% 10 1 4 ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 9 9 1 4 ; Bristol and Gloucester, 58 ; Caledonian, 10 10 1 ,4 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 6%; Chester and Birkenhead, ex div., 45% %; Ditto, New Shares, at 33 discount, 37% 38 ; Chester and Preston Brook, 5 ; Churnet Valley, 7% 7 ; Direct Northern, 4% 3 / 4 ; Dublin and Belfast, 6% ; Dublin and Cashel, ex new, 12 ; Ditto, Extension, 71. 16s. 3d. Dundalk and Enniskillen, 2 3 / 4 ; Eastern Counties, 22% % ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, Quarter Shares, 15% ex div. • Ely and Bedford, 2%; Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 1/. Is. 11. 2s. ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, 17 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 8% % ; Grand Junction, 226 226 1 /, ex div. ; Ditto, Eighths, 19V, ; Great North of England, 30/. Shares, 20 204 ; Lancaster and Carlisle, 35 1 / ; Leeds and Think, 4% 4% ; Leeds and West Riding, 6% ; Limerick and Waterford, ; Liverpool and Manchester, ex div., 207 ; Ditto, New Shares, 38 3 / 4 ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 31. 6s. 31. 17s. 6d. ; London and Birmingham, ex div., 231% ; Ditto, Half Shares, ex div., 43% ; London and South Western, ex div., 79 ; London and York, 3 3 / 4 ; Man chester and Birmingham, ex div., 65%; Ditto, New Shares, 5 1 / s 5 1 % prem. ; Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, ex div., 165; Manchester and Leeds, ex. div., 145 146 ; Ditto, Half Shares, ex div., 64%; Midland Stock, ex div., 140 139% ; Ditto, 40/. Shares, ex div., 13% 3 4 ; Ditto, Birmingham and Derby, ex div., 108% ; North Walcs Mineral, ex new, 13; Oxford, Worcester, and Rugby. 31. 18s. 9d., 3/. 17s. 6d. ; Preston and Wyre, 13% ; Scottish Central, 4 3 / 4 5 1 %; Sheffield and Lincoln, 1/. 45., 1/. ss. ; Sheffield and Manchester, ex int., 109 111 , Ditto, Quarter Shares, ex int., 13 1 / 4 ; Shrewsbury and Grand Junction, 7 ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 3% %; Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and Birmingham, 5% 4%; South-Eastern, ex new, 43 1 / 44; Ditto, New Shares, at 18 discount, ex new 18 17 3 / 4 ; Ditto, New Shares, at 16 2-3 discount, 11% 12 3 4 ; Ditto, New Shares, No. 3, 9 3 4 1 / 2 ; Trent Valley, 16 3 / 4 , ex new; West Yorkshire, 31.55. 3/. 6s ; Boulogne and Amiens (English), 11% 12 ; Consolidated Central of France, 17 3 / 4 ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux (Eng lish), 10% 3s. 9d. ; Paris and Lyons (Ganneron's), 2/. I ls. ; Paris aad Rouen, ex div., 44 1 i4 l / 4 ; Paris and St. Quin tin, 21. Os. ; Toulouse and Bordeaux, 2%; Toulouse, Bordeaux, and Cette, 2%; Verona and Ancona, 1%. Accounts from Arica, vid New York, state that proposals had been made to the Bolivian Government, for the exclu sive privilege of exporting bark by some British merchants, and which it was believed would be granted, and continued whatever change of Government might occur. There has been a meeting to-day at the East India House relative to the oft-debated matter of the Raja of Sattara, but the subject excites very little general interest, however important to the individual immediately concerned. Stocks are very quiet, and a little flat. Consols realise 99 3 4 % for Money, and 100 for Account. Exchequer-bills have declined to 655. and 625. premium. India Stock, for Money, has been done at 284 a and Bank Stock, for Account, at 215%. There is also very little doing in the Foreign Market. Spanish Actives bring 304 %,: being rather lower. Portu guese Converted are 68 1 4 to % Mexican Stock is 36 3 4 to 367. Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents. are 63%. ['he Railway Shares are very well supported, with a moderate business doing at the quotations below given. ONE PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. 3 per Cent. Consols 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1726 98 3 4 India Stock India Bonds, 1,0001 Ditto under 1,0001 — CLOSING PRICES. 99% 98:y 4 284 215% 10C Bank Stock for Account... .„ 215 1 / Consols for Account.. Exchequer Bills, 1,000/, 1 1 / id. ... 65 64 pm. 60 Ditto 5001. . Ditto Small ... 62 65 pm. 65 Ditto Advertised Pm CLOSING PRICES. 924 102 14% PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. Brazilian Bonds Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent..... . Columbian:Bonds, ex Venezuela — ' Mexican 5 per Cent. 1837 ...... Ditto. Account ... .... 36% 3 / 4 Ditto, Deferred .......... . Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto, Converted 6 8 1A% 68 3 / 4 Ditto, Account 6 8 1% 69 Russian Bonds .. .. 1 17 116% Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Account 3 0 % 3/% 30 1 4 Ditto, Coupons . — 29 Ditto, Passive Belgian Bonds, 4% per Cent .. 101 1 4 Dutch, 2% per Cent . Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 9 9 1 / x% PRICES OF CLOSING RAILWAY SHARES PAID. AT ONEO'CLOCS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush l% 1%.. l% Birming. and Gloucesterloo 134 135 133 ... 135 Ditto % Shares Bri'ton, Lewes, & Hast. 10 Bristol and Exeter Ditto New - 2 Caledonian Cambridge and Lincoln 1% 6 3 /4 14. Chester and Holyhead... 5 Ciiurnet Valley Cornwall ... . 51 /s ... Diss, BeccleS, Yarmouth 1% 2%% Direct Northern Dublin and BelfastJunc. 2 1 / 2 6 Dublin and Galway..... 2% 3 2% Eastern Counties Eastern Union lO .. ... Ditto Extension Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 Ditto New 1 4 Shares... 2% Great Grimsby and Shef• field ONE O'CLOCK. Great South. and West (Ireland) Ditto Extension Great North of England..loo Ditto New 2 — Great Western BO ......180 .... 22% 7 3 / 4 21 1 / 2 181 Ditto 1 ,4 Shares Ditto Fifths Guildford, Farn'm,Ports. 2 1 , ... .. 5 Harwich Hull and Selby Do. Half Shares Kentish Coast l% I% 2 Lancaster and Carlisle... 15 Lincoln, York, and Leeds 1% l l /4 London and Birminghm (5t0ck)...234 233 Do. New Thirds Do. Quarters London and Blackwall. 16/. 13s. 4d 7%% London and Brighton... 50 London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. 18%% Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. London and S. Western 41/6s 10d 79 1 / 80 Do. New Do. New London and York . 2 1 / 3 14% Lynn and Ely Manchester and Leeds... 73 145 Do. v„ Shares Midland 100 13 9 1/ .2 . 140% Do. New Midland, Birm.,Derby...loo 106 Newark and Sheffield ... I% Newcastle and Darling ton Junction 24 ...... 47 1 / 2 ... Do. New Brandling North British Do. New Northern and Eastern... 45 North Wales Preston and Wyre Richmond and West End Junction Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1 :•cottish Midland Ph-- 3% Shrews., Wolverhamp., Dudley, and Birm 2 1 2..... 3 3 / 4 4 1 4 ..... .. South Devon... lO ...... 18 18% South Eastern & Dover 3312 s 4d... 43% 3 / 4 Do., No. 1 8 Do., No. 2. Do., No. 3 South Wales 2% 5 3 /4 ... ...... ...... Trent Valley 2 ...... 17 Waterford and Kilkenny 1 ..•... ...... West Cornwall York and North Midland 50 102% Do. Selby 2O Do. Extension FRENCH RAILWAYS. ,- Boulogne and A miens... 4 Bordeaux and Toulouse 2 Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette Great North. of France.. 4 Lyons 6 ...... ......... and Avignon 2 3 Orleans and Bordeaux... 2 Orleans and Vierzon ... 2 ...... Paris & Lyons, Laffitte's 2 Parts and Lyons, Gan neron's, Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg ... 2 Rouen and Havre Tours and Nantes, Mac kenzie's JOINT STOCK BANKS. British North American 50 .. 1% 36 1 1 / 8 233 44 31% 31A 5 1 % 147 2% 47 1 % 32 4% 19 12r t 8 .., 6. 17 1 2 3A 14 1 4 11 3 % 18 1 / 2 4% 52 454 45 3 / 4 MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 17.—The sales are :—Dublin and Drogheda, 82% ex div. ; Eastern Counties, 22 1 ,E 58 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, Quarter Shares, 15 1 / 2 London and South-Western, 79 ex div. ; Manchester and Birmingham, 57 1 4 ex new and ex div. ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 9 1 ,1 2 %ex new and ex div. ; Ditto, New Quarters, 5 prem. ; Midland Railway Consols, 40/. Shares, 13% ; North British, New Shares, 4%; Preston and Wyre, 30 1 4 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 109 112; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 13 1-16; South-Eastern, 44%; Ditto, No. 2, 12% 1 ,4 ; Ditto, No. 3, 9 % ; Barnsley Junction, 6% ; Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction, 9 3 / 4 ; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 6 1 ,4 ; Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 4 1-16; Caledonian, 9% 10; Cambridge and Lincoln, 6 1 / ; Chumet Valley, 6% 7 ; Direct Northern, 4%; Erewash Valley, 13% ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, 3% 3 / 4 ; Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 5 1 A 3 ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 6 13.16 3 / 4 •, Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 3 5-16 I ; London and Worcester, Oxford and Rugby, 4% ; London and York, 3% ; Scottish Central, 4 3 / 4 5 ; Scottish Midland, 2% % •, She ffi eld and Lincolnshire Junction, 255. ; Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, Dudley, &c., 5% % ; South. port and Euxton, 3% ; Trent Valley, 17 16% ex new ; West Yorkshire, 3 3-16; Paris and Lyons (English), 4%. COUNTY MEETING.—We understand that a county meeting will shortly be held, to take into consideration Sir James Uraham's Settlement Bill.— Cambridge Advertiser. SUMMARY OF NEwS AND VUb tJ: ptittoo• " Who runs may read." POREIGN. .i.rivel ci l, The Journal des Debats states that, on the .---, soPt Lagrene, the French Ambassador at Victoria (,_ ll , ° ! ° s o4!,'" apartments had been prepared for him and his li u j gr days afterwards a grand dinner was given to them . b 1 of ei General d'Aguilar, at whi c h th e health of the glees French was given by the General, and that of theeceirobt England by the Ambassador. Both toasts Were, r . t oo!i the company with great en th usia sm. During th e ' e s selM Ambassador and hi s l a dy a t Victoria they receive jos other proofs of politene ss an d c ordiality for e authorities. A t 1 1°16 M. de Latour-Maubourg, the French Ambossor A _,tg • will r r°t ;slt h ' who is replaced provisionally by Count Rossi, jab to Montpellier for change of climate, in consequence° t g ion a The following is the bill of fare for the bannu e tro ges,L, Marshal Bugeaud on Sunday :-32 pheasell t . L*l 6e ;4 woodcocks, 258 partridges truffes, rods ou en 3 ,', 4, - of M I , de bceuf, 64 fowls, 16 salmon, 16 turbots, 64 es' e h mit rev _ o f, vegetables, such as green peas, asparagus' F e der"' artichokes, &c. ; 128 sweet dishes, 64 baskets 0 •,..„,„, , compotes, 32 plumpudding-diplomates, 32 large 11 :::;: g to in sugar, &c., 32 jellies, 16 iced creams, 32 fro 100 _ i d 800 bottles of Borde aux , Beaune, a nd Champagu e ' s ooo! by of Madeira, 500 gl asses of pucch A la ronsailleo lighted coffee, with brandy and liqueurs. The sane i rBs ./ 6,000 wax-candles. A , Aer e, sett A letter in the P resse of the 10th, from l'e. (10 ' 01 "Our journals have no t d are d t o say it, but the lathemito accident is owing to the flagrant want of care roar• e b.- e el administration. Above the powder magazin e . ~o e ads,, e fs occupied by artillerymen and pontonniers. 00 „ ; .. , 1 t bs . e , ,, the principal magazine, and all around were pl cr.. di.o7 - 0 , and forges of the artillery and marine. This "m b - o dies7 r a then, might have been foreseen. All the missi n g 0 0 0 . not yet been found. It i s f eare d that the ent ire a 0 not be less than 200." befe le bffe Marguerite Pineau, was tried on Saturdaft,. Do 0 Court of Assize at Paris, for the murder of .`"' the l . the bookseller in the Galerie Vivienne, 011 . , e d 0 ' a t i t of November, and found g u ilty. She was seille' loo ft e t, prisonment with hard labour for life, and e x e i the vv itod • pillory. Several distinguished persons wet...e la i .,, sa amongst whom were Lord Plunkett and Mr. Der'' jo s ber of the English House of Commons. , atelnl The Commerce states that, in conseuence of we rs - tre sed 4 , - • cases of poisoning which had taken place, it i 5 PO 1 0 the authorities to make all the pharmacians a ll "„,y 0 1 ;0 sons who sell poisons to present themselves e__„„ l 7disere i nt e . the office of the Procureur du Roi of their ev A " o f flier with an account of the sales made by thew, an . • ',a , scriptions which they had prepared containill ut tole substances, so that it may be possible to trace si r " ately the origin of any case of poisoning. b I f er o g • A M. Flandin has returned to Paris from h is m Oa er oaS Dr searches in the East, bringing with him a Bu m Se 0 ;04 tion of works of art and historical memorials! to j e s ,„o the honour of being received by the King, le he • e ose'S . with the most lively interest the interesting PI t 'OOlO ture which M. Flandin has brought from allel e° t oot h tte The annual exhibition at the Louvre of the /pea ilia artists was opened on Saturday, and visited; ... N O. d o, weather was so bad, by an immense crowd 0 . 11 1 5 iii t e idi catalogue contains 2,332 notices, being 9 1 le ss : t his I The Italian scientific Congress will meet hith. Naples, and not at Genoa, as has been statee., rob Tor It appears, by the accounts transmittecl4re otiae, Committee sent by the Minister of Agrku!..t to 0e;;44 merce to investigate the epizootic disee", sa id sp iv dr that the malady, far from gaining strengtf, d o enta" in the direction of the French frontiers, DA oil° minished. aistret to oft , The Cologne Gazette states, that great ~ of J . '" - __A OP among the working classes of the kinga u ` - ve cleent. At one place, Osterode, the manufacturers be jo itne'r factories, and 1,600 workmen were without ealP brig" .i< .W A.Arn volixolt• h Caoc o ott- ca In the stone altar case (the Round Clier c Arc 'bee, „ J o f the costs were taxed at 1001. Ils. 10d. in the 4- . 0 old r,", P' : In the Court of Bankruptcy, W. Letter t ' Gait 70 9# years of age, whose case had been before the h osst J . and had been adjourned sine die, Came 111) for theltbelil nation, and was passed. He bad paid 1 15 . e i t rOslu a At Stafford, Mr. Baron Platt sentenced , ~ ot itb" to one month's imprisonment for bigamy. b op' g , 0 it) . ,, 1 William Jackson was indicted at York fe e r ro ell e dr ieee; 6th inst., feloniously assaulted Georg! /V to d e ° Oa v s rural police, and wounding him, with i ntent tteo pt tios ab , bodily harm. The charge arose out of all a e rr je rt part of the prosecutor to aid a gamekeeper le r r fO tro dir prisoner, who i... 5 the son of a respectable fer ffi T e e 'sy ee e co afe,,, °ll ing over some land. The evidence was ef,,t, of IL tO 4.- tory character. The jury found him gluul ce a by" A f. assault, and Mr. Justice Wightman sea t° A cn o f days' . imprisonment. all en p o p William Young was remanded from Guild ni the v of having stolen a watch and three rings f ro p Asa 1 0 14,..:1 of the Bank of British North America. .. te og u t ok a , among the crowd in the office when be .41 7 1 , tb_ . .,,,e 8 le a servant of the house as having been see° on OAP' • ; t at before the robbery was discovered, and Wee - efe 4 diately apprehended. 1 bone 'till v o l, Joh Parish was remanded from MarPe crheio0;0001 charges of horse-stealing. His plan was, COiloOr , i iii a horse, or a horse and cart, standing at a to mount instanter and ride or drive off. m ated ,000 0 eh A labourer, named Michael Lee, was conl i d, 0 roo lier; Thames-office, for obtaining 5/. from Mr. Pa 11 38 P o isle b 0 a Custom-house gauger, under false pretence t ha t , it appeared, had threatened Mr. O'Connor., ,t,".. 1 00 0 . ~. gave him 5/. he would charge him with recel r 'sodelit I f persons to procure them employment in the O'Connor applied to the police, and, aCtil j g an ti d na l e ° l ; °iPj vice, gave the prisoner some marked moneY , .., 0 1 afterwards had him apprehended. . 4104 bat 0 - COITECT—PASHION'An; 3d v- 01, o t The Duke of Cambridge dined with t' e ute ss•r ee it &• Grenadier Guards, on Monday, at th e ,,„ I t ee otSP - James's. The officers on duty were-1; 31 0 00 ' Saxe Weimar, Lieut.-Col. Eyres, Captains , , ot y''' and Trelawney, and Lieut. Sir Coutts Lind sa y Cel l ? 4, , o f Lady Adelaide Fitzclarence has arrived e _ . , r ., 9 tre.401 1 ,. Lady Mary Fox's residence, in Upper Grosv.l,":„olie!l.froot Lord Brougham entertained the Duke de P ee 7 fl ce Pi t , tr ot on Tuesday at his mansion in Dover -e r ti c ; Cbal t P ri vy lency the French Ambassador, the Le_ietite6risoosi Marquis of Lansdown, the Eail of Ab e Lad P.s"" o r e , Bessborough, Lord and Lady Ashburton, i t ten' .A , Lushington, Mr. Fitzroy Kelly, Mr. Luttl' ort the 001 Mrs. Ord were among his Lordship's gu ests bv er ge tbe 04 The Marquis and Marchioness of Norta, n f o diag OS t o ing a family circle at Mulgrave Castle, and Sit e d trf I s and Countess of hlulgrave, Hon. Mr . an co mPo lu rettl i ! Phipps. The Marquis and Marchiones s, Ile ted to co , Earl and Countess of Mulgrave, are expo ~aelo' t town after the Easter recess. r S tilt" . ' lot h The Duke of Wellington has left torn •° rec ess. A ka g , where his Grace intends to pass the Eas te r_ The Duke and Duchess of H a milton hav" 014 • Or 1 _ l l. 0 0d . u grand entertainment on Saturday nex t ° te d 0 - Ilse , se The Marquis of Westminster is expe r goon o ber, '..4 venor-square, at the close of the week, fo r Ong4 6. orl Chester, where the family s till r emain. octeb er reo' esdel ao ' ego Lordship's eldest son, will come of age ill oa ~ - 1 3, 1 5 1-to• aave is The Earl of Cardigan left Portman -sc l ft u gite- il w ip ,0 0 a visit to his aunt, the venerabill 3 1 W,,, r iottef l' formerly Maid of Honour to Queen tive County. ..,,, o r disposed at her villa at Richmond. T he r e tl e l in town. left ° ere • The Earl and Countess of Wilton . ,. l laL r b e tot y, * ... f or' square for Egerton Lodge, Melton rav" OP' purpose passing the Easter recess. w ick In ' $O l The Earl of Mornington left the Brun- , Br ight°,i e ritier street, on Tuesday, to pass a few days a', ree 10" $ The Countess of Longford and the 1 ,11 " 1 _ s treet. Georgiana Pakenham, have arrived in Brut e° led • a lA tc„ t square, for the season. ntrO• crabs ci inzsczzz.a.2oo- aerol, 10, I_, or For some time past a report has been . f rt he-e% dos , A 4os throughout the parish of St. 31artin's•1,„„t is te isgo cif..,.f curiously carved mahogany cover of the if ' t oe O l io Pnt ing- pew of the church had been for se ' s shop f 51:0 1 ; lit it the edifice, and had been traced to a bros. the s ute s o tt er t t i 5 lane, where it was exposed for sale for , _ the ' t , . tr ic , 0 ( great deal of secresy has been thrown oeseirosatoteu'ispl:op, is believed that the parish officers hay b , wbether' o 4oe quiries to ascertain by what means an° ~ the font found its way from the chnrucho—t°,l4tibilienli the No news has been publicly mentioned ''''`." tbs o ld, t he with the abstraction. mo o , old, On Sunday morning a child, ele .i v e n li tt go, 1, . fl i r ,7o l eraill daughter of a labouring man naMeu ngs boeP" o if tilv fo r # Platt, Putney, was scalded in the folloW.l vai ter _„ t o l ye —The mother had taken a pot of boil s m e g ieft t h s t to and set it upon the hearth, whilst .1'4,00 t o" 1 to ho, moment, during which time the child .e c,; hea dlo ll .4 , 0 5t, ;0 1 boiling, before the mother's return, l x !` ries ted t i t l; 0 1 0 0. water. The poor infant was e ld t al , °g el 11" P ire4 mediately, but it was so dreadfully see._ ree oib o t elc 1 ' gentleman who was called in de clared After enduring the most dreadful ago t h e lw 1 for th e 10' se go , at eight o'clock on Monday night. dig l e l nt e Banlinnudatleeelkecptiloanceoeftintmhe enatLesfodreet,h.ileds:S;eseernb°:,oortel:oo. iteihro There were no less than seven t y can elected' e OP ° 0 1 ,,, from which number but eighteen we Ztee , b e '"aldat e tot, v. others will be selected by the Cellu u c - ess f u l can te d; " or have been lcngest on the list of unsuc e. ,... adm it .11 l; bo l has hitherto been the number annil s T„„ r t wlllf ot at coo r consequence of the increased public . slYk e, the & T he °l o s t i3s cellent institution continues to recelY __ m bar. . , fib sere determined on admitting the additionai na _ o nt.a. ful candidates will be received in about a__,•"; . , s ad et l ailli% pie s number of inmates will be seventy-five 1134 ` nine feales. e %te- h oe _ a lf • ib ack-lette!+, i o K.. r.. h A collection of old songs, in one hundred and ten years, from hundred in number, in three vols. fo 1 ~ o ir 1570 r0 t0 , W i r e 15°I for a t .':'ijr11.11' elte t ,ioe!, b il y iu M seu r. m S . otheby for 535/. Understood t° m line'uf-11$013'.00s Mediator, Captain Chadwick, sailed , s h o o ... sr eief A sa , On Tuesday morning the Ame d ricei fro la ra the S t t• eift hti Dock, for New York. She carries cultural lari co ot.. J ai! grants, principally consisting of agli c ;,, so t an e '„,.. on). their families, from the counties er ±':,, oiv 11 , 1 1 7: to P" , freight of goods is considerably beloW _' - ' s o f che" pie" she had to take on board nearly 300 tel! ier •,J r tha t rati T 'i of We are delighted to be able to an _ ext 00 4 t be_ it te. in sufficient trim for crossing the Atlanntelec.ece d ._ 0 Benedict is engaged to conduct _ the e __ l 2 Lon tl b 'col it er a Norwich, in September. He will ay' of Me eting t gel iter o l v the present week for the purpose. _ fl ___ aro tt est p with the view of making the prehnil ari... a 01 ,nt i‘ i t l il enetli. engagement will tend greatly to for an a t of os result. 1010 t on - o f • We understand a project the performance of French operas. _ o ver. _OP -se" large theatres during the ensuing ..e_f_... sse i s , b! ..4 015 vo directors at the Theatre Royal, at P ru en te for D ry .„. isinc° nateudinPN'lletj 8 0 0° _lski ltl o ,doGripia; d thr ee -1 .d, thisowonpei nraotriedearntdo terpsichoreancomplete tbe c a o r r p r a n s .. g_e r o u an . _ A, On Tuesday afternoon, between tl,v an d of l__ e _ u tt i.e` - ners, entered a haberdasher's shop in tuc r i some - b tin (/- f 14 t o young females, handsomely attirea,,,_ 0ge; 0p... _., 00 7 0 0; requested the shopman to show them_ 5. .,_ an d e a , us to . , cases, containing numerous roll of iii , spection, ali_c_loPott o .. placed on the counter for their in _ so so al., 00 1 3 ) 0 „ di s pressed their regret for giving the shop,.', b , g AT. ./ ; 0 1, they quitted the shop WithOUt.. n_r s w ere o T 080 _.O, Shortly afterwards four rolls of Tinp?f to 00 0 1 oNTO fil e] had been Tem0ve...frt22...1!......_-- iiiffsii: V i co-- Do s A , DEATH OF THE DOWAGER . ... e the . .t a v Jr., —We have to announce the dernir,..t.o'rdsy fas y go bs ps i countess Lifford, who expired on °Sf tier i i l c t Of / 0,0 Castle, Warwickshire, the residence .° was re tout 0 1 .1 Viscount Lifford. The deceased La a i L or iefid 4 nie rOilied ‘, James, second Viscount Lifford, n ar t 9 July, 1766, the Hon. Henrietwtah° daughter of Arthur, first Viscount the 22a * orif er 'S 10 a Judith rb 22d of April, 1778; and, secondly, Jo an , us eed, Oi tj i i io 1781. Alicia, eldest daughter of the .Res hip hao i gl oo (the deceased Viscountess). Her LadY;i; e peese P oo, George, who died an infant, and Janies , ' lto Si' Viscount, married to the Hon. Mal i wA rdeas daughter 9f Curnwallia, Ant ViscountA 82% 6% 7 8 1 ,4 6%. 6% ,/ prig a.r 1 411 :_ tta t e: r e r e rr ' 111 ° 1 4, 1 .4 Y , ra a a i ii j ee e ss ; t t ( a , 14 th ‘ 4llee n Lad ' e . s s,Royal Y Waitii ... 11 r, at a qua] t rort ed by a boa'e Great Nv F , f t i ,V 4 ward 13 ( Po w er in a -ea of w te te — a a 4 : 4, Pattied t e ftniage ,on. Miss 4 rl of 41 444 four ardwi apes by thi The Geor ro al g for 131 Ind U N] 1: 11 fan % How t eNt4 It ) ' S Ow„ LIE 1 , 14 -‘ .4 t a i n A Tl % tv t it ti r o ! tt. D Ol ‘lttLL' t F. J n