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Bella ; Buy Gomez, Signor Fornasafi ; Don Carlos, Signor Botelli ; Signor Moriani. To conclude with an entirely new Ballet, by M. Perrot, entitled EOLINE ; ou, I.A DRYADE. The Music by Signor Pugni. The Scenery by Mr. Marshall. s'rincipal Characters—Eoline (betrothed to Count Edgard), Mddle. Lucile Gratin ; Rubeznhl (le Gnome), M. Perrot ; Count Edgard, N. 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 1.1 Fiancee 3ldlle. Lucile Grain! and M. Toussaint, Pas de Cinq (composed by M. Gosselin)—Mdlles. Louise Weiss, Fer dinand. Denielisse, Cassan, and Moncelet. Mazourka D'Extase-31dlle. T.t;ile Cr .hn and 31. Perrot, Fourth Tableau. _ Grand Fa 3 des Dryades. blif - diTe::l7.:6 - r:thn and the Ladies of the ...• Corps de Ballet. tpplications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Bet- Pftice. Opera Colonnade. Doors open at Seven; the Opera to commence at Half-past Seven o'clock. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE. FOR 'rut BENEFIT OF MDLLE. MARIA, Her Last Appearance this Season. THIS EVENING Will be repeated Balfe's Grand Opera, TILE DAUGHTER OF ST. MARK. Lusignano, Mr. Burdini ; Adolphe de Courcy, Mr. D. W. King ; Catarina Cornaro, Miss Rainforth. After which, a Grand Divertissement of LA BAYADERE. Cha racters by Monsieur IL. Vestris ; Monsieur and Madame Finart, and Aida, Marla. To conclude with the Last Act of LA. GISELi.E, in which Wale. Marla, Monsieur and Madame Finart, &c., will appear. The Box-office is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six in the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, 'laces, and Tickets way be hail on application to Mr. John Parsons. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. LESSEE, MR. B. WEBSTER. 1111$ EVENING Will be repetted a New and Original Comedy, entitled SHERIFF OF THE COUNTY. Principal Characters by Messrs. W. larren, Strickland, Buckstone, Webster. Mrs. Glover, Mrs. W. Clifford, Mrs. Humby, Miss Julia Bennett, &c. In the course of the Evening Mr. John Parry will give his De scriptive Scene, " Cinderella." After which, SPEED THE PLOUGH. Sir Abel Handy, Mr. W. Farren ; Bob Handy, Mr. 11. Hull; Sir Philip Blandford, Mr. Stuart; Farmer Ashileid, Mr. Webster; Miss Blandford, Miss Julia Bennett ; Susan Ashfield Mr.:. Edwin Yarnold ; Lady Handy, Mrs. W. Clif ford ; Dame Ashtleld, Mrs. Glover. To conclude with TEDDY THE TILER. Tholy Mullowny, Mr. Collins. Private Boxes, Two) Guineas and One Guinea and a-Halt each. Tickets and Maces to be had of Mr. I. T. Archer at the Box-office. from Ten till Five o'clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL LAST NIGHT OF THE SEASON. UNDER THE DIRETHISCTIEV ON OF MADAME CELESTE. ENING, Will be repeated a New and Original Drama, entitled THE GREEN itt SHES ; or, A Hundred Years Ago. Connor O'Kennedv, Mr. Selby ; George, • Mr. Hudson : Wild Murto g h, Mr. 0. Smith' ; Muster Grianidge, Mr. Wright; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Geraldine, Mrs. Yates ; Nay O'Neill, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; Miami, Madame Celeste. Atter whirl), MOTHER AND CHILD ARE DOING WELL. To conclude with NORM t. Poliio, Miss Woolgar ; Norma, Mr. Paul liedßird ; Adalgisa, Mr. Wright ; °roves() ; Miss Reynolds. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LEaSEE, MR. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING Will be pertermal Shakspeare's Play of AS YOU LIKE IT. Duke, Mr. Archer; Jacques. Mr. Graham ; Amiens, Mr. Allen ; Rosalind, Miss 'ustiman ; Autrey, Mice Emma Stanley. After which, THE QUAKER. Lubin, Mr, /lime; Steady, Mr. Ledi.:;r ; Cicely, Miss Fosbroke. To conclude with a New Ballet Divertissement, entitled LE FETE DES PEcEIEUIN. Principal Characters by Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Mar shall, Mlie. Teresine, and Miss Marshall. Stage Manager, Mr. il. I. Wallaek ; Stage Director, Mr. Emden; Alachinbn, Mr. Edmund Bradwell. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The communication of B. E. has been received, but we have not space for it. It is left for him at the Office. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRUME THIS DAY. Mcrniag • • 6 inintttea aster 6 Eveniug mittutea after 6. , ~. ~.. __._,,,,__ ,i .s ,-•..,,_ -.-‘ ~ ~.ce.... 0. _.,.... •,,,4,,, , .;,•,•„ , . . - , ..•'- --, 4 ^, , - ~ ..,...w •:',. .- • ,1 - ‘•• .Y. 4: ' .t-? , ; ,t 1 k .. .fil , ki• , •<:: i . N , , 4.1.. . i , ),., • ....: , , Or , * ~ / , E L' .'• 1 , ,,,.V.,, ~11 '11. 0... ' bit 0 l'r ' , 14; ,, ,„...... , ~.. .4,- .1 ip, ; :ss,;o 6 -- - ~- ~ mil k ...„-., , , —,... SECOND EDITION. 11 - Ining r- it LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1845. The House of Lords met at Five o'Clock. In consequence of the continued indispcsition of the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Earl of MINTo post poned his motion on the subject of the naval force at Oteheite, until after the Easter hol:days. The Fresh Water Fish (Scotland) Bill was read a second time. Lord BROUGHAM stated that he did not intend to in tro:lace the Bill of which he had given notice on a pre ceding evening, on the subject of the non-free traders of the city of London, and moved for a return of the number of non-freemen admitted to the freedom during the year ending April 1844. The Earl of RossnvN gave notice that, on Tuesday, he should put a question to the Government, on the sub ject o! their intentions with regard to the scotch bank ing system. The JewiAA Wild Bill was then read a third time and passe I, after a *hurt but energetic Epeech in its favour by the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, and the House adjourned. The House of Commons met at twelve, and immedi ately went into Committee ou the Railway Clauses Con solidation Bill. The Bill passed through Committee, and was ordered to he repirtr.d at twelve o'clock on Monday. The House then went into Committee on the Land Clauses Consolidation Bill. The Bill passed through Committee, and the House adjourned to Five o'clock. On the re-assembling of the House, The Souctiron..GEsEßAL gave notice of his intention to move for leave to bri , T in a Bill for the protection of property in the British Museum, and other public places. On the motion of Mr. WAKLEY the petition from Finsbury, on the subject of Post-office espionage, was ordered to be printed. Mr. G. W. HOPE gave notice that, on Tuesday, he should bring forward a motion for papers for the pur pose of giving the New Zealand Company an opportunity of substantiating the charges which they hat brought against Lord STANLEY and the Colonial Department. A short discussion followed, in the course of which Mr. AGLIONBY and Mr. MANGLES expressed their readi ness to substantiate every charge they had made ; and the latter Hon. Gentleman designated the Colonial De partment as a plague and a nuisance. ment for the propriety of the new legislation which the association deprecate so much. But it is said " That these increased facilities for debtors getting out of their difficulties should have made creditors more cautious in giving credit;" that" they have the power of withholding credit, and that if they will give credit, they must take the consequences." "If they will give credit?" Why, they must give credit. Busi ness could not go on tt single day without giving credit, and the general stoppage of further credit woutd bring the whole country to a stand. There is a vast number of tradespeople who cannot be ready-money men. Men whose labour must be completed on certain materials before they can ask for their money. To say to such people " You must not give credit "—is equivalent to saying " You must do no more work ;" and to say to the shopkeeper, " You must not give credit," is equal to saying to him, " You must close your shop." The fact is that credit must be given and taken from the highest to the lowest; from peers of the realm down to peasants at the plough. _ _ Sir R. PEEL had no wish to force on a discussion on the general question, but his Noble Friend, at the head of the Colonial Department, having been accusfd of bad faith, was desirous that the House should not separate for the recess until he had an opportunity of vindicating himself. Mr. IltimE and Lord J. RUSSELL suggested that the charge against the Colonial Government should be taken on a Government night, and the charge against Lord STANLEY personaliy should be taken separately on a motion night ; and on Very well. If this excessive credit be essential tt, the present extent of trading, give it. But don't let tradesmen insist, on the one hand, on the necessity et continuing an admitted evil practice, that they excuse on the plea of its being essential to their suc cess and prosperity ; and on the other, ask the Legis lature for heavy penalties on those on whose heads tile accommodation afforded by this practice turn& out to be actual loss, instead of the contem plated profit of the tradesman who has given it. When we read the list of the members of thh Society, we pictured to ourselves, in reference to their trades and addresses, sleek oilmen, it Bishopsgate-strect, portly leather sellers, wealthy ironmongers, ruddy salesmen, &c. &c., of Thames atrcet, Milk-street, Newgate-market, &c. But we soon found our error. At p. 11 we learned they were but " shadows of their former selves," mere walking anato - mies ; their natural fluids exhausted, or replaced by the atrabilious secretions consequent on bad - debts and worthless schedules. " All these legal evil: combine to giving credit—and yet credit must be given—precarious; and to make the life of a tradesman a corrosion of care—and the conduct of business anxious and perplexing in the extreme." W. had prepared other extracts from this paper; but it, is hardly needful to press further such self-evi dent and post-dated appeals from the late decrees of the Legislature to the angry and interested passions of one class of the community: with a view to reinforce the absolute severity of the law upon another. The "remedial" propositions tt be pressed on Parliament include one for taking thk cognizance of all debts for sums over 201., and no: above 1001., from her MAJESTY'S Courts at Westmin ster, and giving this jurisdiction to the Sheriff ! Mr. G. W. HOPE repeating his expectation of being able to bring cn the matter on Tuesday, the conversa tion dropped. Various questions were then asked; after which the House went into Committee on the Sugar Duties Bill. Mr. HAWES moved " that provision be made in the Bill for the drawback of the amount of the duty re- duced, on such duty•paid sugar as now remains in the QUEEN'S warehouse." After some discussion, Sir ROBERT PEEL stated that there would be, he thought, no objection to allow upon sugar in bond a drawback equivalent to the actual loss sustained. With this announcement Mr. HAWES expressed him self satisfied and withdrew his motion. Several other amendments were subsequently pro posed, all of which were lost ; and the Bill eventually passed through Committee. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at Half-past One o'Clock. We have received a copy of the "Address of the Equitable Debtor and Creditor Association to the Members of the Trading and Mercantile Interests," the object of which appears to be to induce the great community of the latter to join the "tyrant maj mity" of the former in a very determined crusade against those worst of modern infidels, the men who run in debt. To say the truth, at the outset, we have not often perused a document less marked by evidences of a Christian spirit of charity for the unfortunate, or of common equity in considering the relations between those who have fallen, and those who maintain their places, in our social system. Indeed we do not remem ber to have once stumbled, in passing through sixteen well-filled octavo pages in which the "Address" is composed, on the words "charity" and " misfortune." After announcing that the addressers, "being men in trade," have an " entire and practical knowledge of the evils under which they now labour in conducting their business"—which may be supposed likely enough—" and of the legislative remedies those evils require"—a fact much more problematical, they observe, that " for thirty years last past successive Acts of Parliament have passed hostile to the interests of the creditor." They omit to notice the converse of this allegation—that for centuries before the statute-book had been loaded with " Acts of Par liament" hostile to the interests of the debtor. There are other omissions of essential facts, tending towards conclusions very different from those which the " Ad dress" endeavours to establish, which we can readily ac count for. The party or parties who have framed this document appear to have been so completely preoccu pied by sensitiveness to the supposed peril of their own immediate interests under the present state of the law, that they could entertain no considerations which did not lean, like the trees for many miles in the vicinity of Liverpool, all in one direction. For the same reason, too, they rest their whole case on premises which have reference to the wrongs of tradesmen exclusively, not to those of the commercial classes, who are included merely in the superscription of the "Address." This is a species of egotism which we have often noticed in the constituency of the addressers. The course of Government on great national questions—the policy of the measures it may have adopted in vindication of the national honour— the ultimate results of so vast a disturbing action as that of the Reform Bill—these are always put in the same category with a proposition for repealing the small receipt stamp duty, or the duty on rice. "The" question with every tradesman, and the only one he ever dreams of in connexion with any measure of the kind, is—" Will it make good for trade ?" An Emperor dies, and there is a court mourning here, and there are sanguinary tumults, with fearful violence, elsewhere. The court mourning goes down to the credit of the event; the consideration for the mass of human misery which accompanies it appears nowhere on his books. A man like ROMILLY, or BUXTON, passes out of existence : there is no court mourning, but a voice of lamentation from the friend less, the indigent, and oppressed. His death, however, does not "make good for trade," and on that account is " not" a matter of congratulation with the thrifty London trader. Eight hundred thousand of our fellow-creatures, negro slaves in our West Indian colonies, are, by a magnificent act of retributive justice and British magnamity, set free in a single day. Eight hundred thousand human beings spring, at a bound, from the lowest depths of social degra dation to the status and relations of freemen—a noble spectacle, worthy of a festival holiday in its honour to be celebrated by all the races of civilised mankind in all time to come. In London it was difficult to show that this mighty manumission " would make good fur trade ;" and on that account no entries are to be found in its day-book or in its ledger to record this proceeding as matter for con gratulation. The Property and Income-tax Renewal Bill ha passed the House of Commons. All that could have been hypothetically urged against it on the argument derived from its inequality, its anticipation in peace of the resources which should have been preserved inviolate for the exigencies of war, the tendency of its operation to repress exertion or industry both in material am' intellectual enterprises or occupations ;—all this ha been conceded by its Ministerial supporters—and the House of Commons have passed the measure withoui even dividing on the question of the passing. What ever objections could be sustained to the vexation an( inquisitorial nature of the machinery, by which alone it has hitherto been possible to assess or to collect it ; ti the lowness of the point or extremity at which the amoun of income liable to pay this impost shall commence; to tla hardship of that liabilityon the recipient of 150/. per annum, from which the recipient of 1491. 19s. 11d., or any lesser sum per annum, is wholly exempt ; to the gross injus tice of mulcting, in the same proportion, the income al ready befow the demands of the most modest, or evee needy household, and the incomes of many superfluous thousands ;—all these have been taken, discussed, and overruled. Yet the Bill has passed the House of Com mons. The Premier, when he first brought the scheme forward three years ago, admitted that any tax was a , evil. It has been admitted since, by his own partisan and colleagues, that this tax has about it all that evi, which belongs to a severe impost, without even taking into account these aggravations of them to which we have just referred. And yet it has been adopted by the Commons after defeating, in the most signal manner, every proposition for its amendment and modification, however reasonable or equitable it might be. But the last debate elicited certain other acknowledgment:. of inherent defects and vices in the working o' this tax which make it almost incredible that even on Wednesday night, at the eleventh hour, es Sir ROBERT PEEL or Mr. GOULBURN would say—Or the penultimate proposition of the third reading—oa even the final question " that the Bill do pass"—some vigorous stand should not have been made on the part of some independent Members for the institution of searching inquiry into the matters which had then been brought under their notice. What were these ? There was, first, the strongly propounded hypothesis of Sir ROBERT INGLIS—the inti mate and confidential friend, supporter, ally, of the Premier especially, and of his Government generally— " that the income-tax was meant to be perpetual." This hypothesis was neither denied, nor objected to, by the Government or by the Premier. If ever " silence gives consent," the inference is irresistible under such circum stances as these. Is it the desire and meaning of tin House of Commons that this tax shall be perpetual How do they propose to answer for such consent to the electoral constituency whenever they shall be sent back to give an account of their stewardship? ID the second place, Mr. WAKLEY brought forward the case of Mr. FIELDEN, the late benevolent Member for Oldham, whose name is associated with a 1 recollections that are honourable to the integrity of the head of a vast manufacturing concern, and the extensive charity of a capitalist whom prosperity has novel made oblivious of the humbler beginnings from whence it has raised him. It may be remembered that three years ago the Messrs. FIELDEN protested against the assessment which had he en made upon them in respect of income from the profits of their e,tablishment. They demurred to the assessmen on the very reasonable ground that, upon an average of the three years on which the assessment was to be taken, their works had been carried on at a loss, insteai of any profit. After a fruitless correspondence, the pre test was overruled, and their property was distrainee upon for the original assessment. Since this, the Local Commissioners have thought proper to assess the profit of their concern at 24,0001 per annum—an assessment which, it may be imagined, they at once disputed. The Local Commissioners, finding - that Messrs. FIELDEN in tended to resort to the means of legal appeal agains, their assessment, requested Mr. JOHN FIELDEN to allow the matter to stand over till after the ensuing Easter quarter. He did so ; and in the meantime they have actually claimed, and propose to enforce the assessment on profits of 24,0001 a year, in the face of the same par ties' declaration to a similar effect as that made by them in the first instance. Mr. WAKLEY might well severely animadvert on this proceeding. It was distinguished alike for its bad faith, its insolence, and its inquisitorial oppressiveness. The Chancellor of the Exchequer's answer was—like the answers of Sir JAMES GRAHAM and Sir ROBERT PEEL himself, on al, q:trstiona addressed to them in respect of the gross mis conduct of Government functionaries of any kind:—" The Chancellor of the Exchequer knew nothing about the case. It was the first time he had heard of it." Doubt less. So trivial a matter as the assessment of profits at 24,0001 a year, where the parties were prepared to show they had worked rather to a loss Shan any profit at all, Lad no pretensions of gravity sufficient to disturb the epicurean repose of the gods of Downing-street. Be this as it may, Mr. GOULDURN'S answer was ready and conciliatory to a singular degree. "If the Local Commissioners were in error, it was to be re gretted that Mr. FIELDEN had not personally waited on the Chief Commissioners under the Act in London, who would have given hies every assistance in getting it rec tified." A pretty dilated expression this " error, " if Mr. FIELDEN'S complaint be well grounded ; for such an outrageous and fraudulent proceeding as the assessment in such case amounts to on the part of the Local Com• missioners. The remedy, too, so simple. Mr. FIELDEN Nsc uld have only to come up from Lis "dear, native vale of 'Coda:Kaden," as we have heard him call it—fi om one extremity of Lancashire to the capital, in Middlesex—to obtain that justice which it has been sometimes con t, nded, "is virtually to be had at every man's door." Yet even this case does not so powerfully illustrate the intolerable and unconstitutional operation of such a sys tern of taxation as the very significant fact distinctly stated by Mr. BRIGHT, that the most shameful cases of arbitrary and excessive assessment occurred in the coun try, owing to the Income-tax Commissioners, in many instances the same individuals as the land-tax or other Commissioners of the district, who, from that position, often exercised their power to annoy and over charge in the most unscrupulous manner their rivals in trade or their opponents in politics. Yet still this Bill has passed—we might have almost said, unanimously— the House of Commons. Is there any hope of getting its odious injustice modified, at least, elsewhere ? It is really pleasant to contemplate the emotions of resentment with which the Address adverts to the statutes that have ameliorated the severity of the old penal law against debtors. " This hostility consists in the furnishing of increased facilities to the debtor to get rid of what is mildly and tenderly termed his difficulties.' " Of course these could not possibly be the result of " his misfortunes." These latter-day evils of mitigation are attributed, among other causes, to the Insolvent Debtors Court, the abolition of arrest on mesne process, and Lord BROUGHAM'S late Act "until, at length, the creditor is left without any power" ! !—(there are no writs, no judgments, no ex• ecutions, no costs, no imprisonments, now, then ?) " and lays (lies) entirely at the mercy of his debtor." That is, we suppose, the debtor can proceed against his creditor fur giving him credit, and only abstains from so doing as an act of mercy " Formerly the debtor was at the mercy of his creditor." Now, there's the rub. Why should the Legislature have ever taken away from the creditor the useful and delicious pow ers of ingeniously tormenting ? Alas, for the good old times when a creditor was armed, like a cat, with strong legal talons and unescapable eyes, aril paws and mouth, to frighten, toss, worry, agitate, wound, mutilate, and destroy his victim, for his wholesome sustenance, as well as for his pleasure and amusement! In 1845 we could not have anticipated that one hand would be raised again, as it is here, stealthily, in favour of the arrest on mesne process, and that we should hear a Jeremiad over the days that are gone of swarming prisons, with broken-hearted unfortunates herded up together with fraudulent and felonious swindlers, knaves, and cheats. Why, we know that in the eighteen months subse quent to the peace of December, 1825, produced by one of the many convulsions which Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Currency Bill of 1819 has already occasioned, and, alas ! is still destined to generate; no less than 101,000 writs for debt were issued from the Ccurts in - England alone. Is it to this wise and humane and politic state of things that this " Equitable" As•. sociation would desire to force the country back ? We know that in the-year ending sth of January, I SW, to the several prisons of London alone, 7114 persons had been committed for debt, of whom 1547 on that day were still confined. Is this the standard number of hecatombs which the Association's pro pensity to victimize would still demand ? The As sociation seems to rely for a confirmation of its amiable views on a very foolish speech attributed to Mr. Commissioner Evaisis, who, if ever he pronounced it, was guilty of a strange excess of judicial indecorum so to express himself of the very Act of Parliament, the provisions of which he was sitting expressly to administer. The spirit in which the address is con ceived may be further inferred from this passage : " The workhouse has been rendered as repulsive as possible, to induce persons to support themselves by their own industry and conduct ; but the Insolvent Courts have been rendered as attractive as possible to people in difficulties ;" and then comes the ugly argu- The accounts from Zurich are to the 10th instant, , A hen the Diet was still sitting. The note of M. G UIZOT had caused much excitement among the Liberal Members, who regard it as put forth in aid of the Jt,suits rather than for the purpose of calming the ex- THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING-, MARCH 15, 1845. citement. A correspondent, who writes from Zurich, on the 9th, gives the following remarks made by some of the speakers:— " M. kera, the deputy for Thurgau, was the first who alluded to the subject. He said that the communication was, to say the least of it, strange, considering that the French Ministry must have been perfectly aware that the instructions given jo the deputies relative to the corps francs, are almost unanimous in favour of the suppression of tha t force. M. Drouey, the deputy for the canton of Vaud, went into a lengthened examination of the dispatch, which he considered as a direct intervention on the part of the French Government in the internal affairs of the Confederation, which ought to rouse the feelings of the country. M. Neuhaus, the Deputy for Berne, also considered the dispatch as an insult to the Swiss nation, and an auwarrantabla interference on the part of a foreign Government. He demanded of M. Mounson, the President, what answer he had made to the note. The President replied, that no one was more anxious than he was to repel anything that could militate against the liberty and independence of the nation; but he would not allow his anxiety to respect the susceptibility of his countrymen to go so far as to compromise their relation with foreign Powers who were friends and allies of Switzerland, by misconstruing the intentions of those Powers in lending their advice. The Deputy for Bale accused the Jesuit party of having begged the dispatch from the French Government as a means of de feating their adversaries. This accusation was strongly re pelled by the Jesuit party, and especially the deputy for Neufchatel, who said that the position of those with whom he acted was a painful one, because, though disapproving of the conduct of their adversaries, they could not avoid being in some degree involved in the severe censures which that con duct had drawn upon the whole Confederation. The Diet then took up the question of the corps francs, and after a long liscussion the subject was referred to the same Committee as has a'ready been appointed to consider the question of the Jesuits." The Gaza& de BaZe draws the following comparison between Lord ABERDEEN'S note and M. GUIZOT'S "Whilst the former breathes sentiments of kindly feeling towards the Confederation, although England is less inte rested in Swiss affairs than France, the note from M. Guizot is, on the contrary, in a decided tone, like a newspaper ar ticle, and not like a diplomatic instrument. It contains lessons which are orders, notices which are threats, and is thus offensive. It must, however, be admitted, that it speaks the truth in respect to the free corps. It is a great humilia tion to Switzerland to be told, that a country situate in the centre of European civilisation is not to be made the instru ment of barbarian anarchy. As the disturbances of the free corps mad• be said to have been over, this note was no longer necessary." A Bill has been brought into the French Chamber of Deputies to prevent electors from voting in arrondisse ments whore they do not pay at least 501. of direct taxes. The law at present Allows electors paying 2001. to choose the college in which they are to exercise their right of voting, and the opponents of the measure consider this perfectly in accordance with the object for which a De. puty is returned to the Chamber. The Conservatives, on the other hand, fur the Bill is brought in by them, contend that it is not just to allow voters the privilege of turning the scale of victory in a college with which they have not the slightest connexion ; and that some amount of taxes ought to be required to prevent such an abuse. The general discussion closed on Wednesday, but none of the Ministers had spoken on the motion. At the commencement of the sitting, the Minister of Public Works presented a Bill for a vote of 80,000,0001. (3,200,000 L) for improving river navigation, and espe eially the Yonne, Seine, Sarthe, and Mayenne. It is proposed to make a canal along the Marne between Join edle and Vitry, for the purpose of linking the ironworks of the Upper Marne to the great navigable line of the iarne, to the Rhine, and the Paris market. The plan also contains a proposition for another canal, that of the navigation of the Upper Garonne, and for establishing on he height of Lannemezan, from which there are nume rous streams, a cluster of reservoirs for the purpose of rrigating the country. In the Chamber of Peers the estimates were under consideration, when it appeared ,hat in a previous year, 1,500,0001. had been voted or improving and fortifying the harbour of Algiers. One of the Members objected to the amount, but Baron CIikRLES DUPIN supported the vote, and regretted that it should be limited to such a small sum. Admiral Ilackau, after supporting the grant, said, the works at Algiers were now in such a state that the place could re sist with advantage any attack on the sea side. The leading articles in the journals relate chiefly to the note of M. GuizoT addressed to the Swiss Diet. The Opposition rapers denounce it vehemently, and contrast it infavourably with that of Lord ABERDICEN, which they praise for its moderation. In reference to this sub ject the Journal des Debuts says : " This is the note, equally discreet and firm, which the journal of M. Thiers, carried away no doubt by its recollec tions of the last campaign in the East, calls a Matti sheriff, a eisir's ordonnance. While it is the vein of figurative lan guage, the Constitutionne/ permits itself to go so far as to lay that M. Guizot treats the Swiss as a Pacha would treat troops (f infidels, or a Tartar a tributary race of people. This criticism on the note of the French Government would not have been complete, had not the Constitutionnel added its eulogy upon the note of the British Government, and exalted the moderation, reserve, and politeness of Lord Aber been, in order to thrown out with greater prominence the harshness and arrogance of M. Guizot. Leaving to the Constitutionned the full enjoyment of its oriental style, we shall content ourselves with simply restoring to facts that true character which has been so strongly denaturalited by it. We shall begin with affirming that Lord Aberdeen, as far as regards the effects en the general policy of Europe that would be the result of any change in the constitution if Switzerland, speaks in a manner fully as significative as NI. Guizot; and if the English Minister does not express himself in equally explicit terms on the subject of the free •orps, it is from the simple reason that this question touches France much more closely than it does England. In the +Hairs of Switzerland, France has interest in common with the other great Powers—those which may disturb the general balance of power in Europe; but she has, moreover, parti cular interests of her own, resulting necessarily from her geographical position." Tho Duke DE BROGLIE, it appears, has postponed his departure for London to hold a conference with Dr. r.ESIIINGTON relative to the right of search. On this subject the Const:tat:onnel says :—" Two systems are spoken of for the arrangement of this difficult question —one would consist in the establishment of mixed crui iers, placed at the entrance of rivers, and in the ordi nary rendezvous of slave vessels, and the reciprocal right of search between English and French ships would be suspended ; the other would consist in two means of putting down the slave trade ; first, the destruction of the slave establishments founded on some points of the .11 the negro chiefs on th e coast who carry on t h e s l ave roast of ATfrhiicsasecondly, a d ec l arat i on o f war aga i nst journal objects to both systems; but there is nothing to show that either will form the basis of the approaching conference. The following are miscella neous extracts from the papers : .. - The Gc.zate des Tribunaux says : " We understand that warrants were issued on Tuesday against several of the persons who took part in the meeting in which M. Dujarrier, the responsible editor of the Presse, was killed. We take this opportunity of declaring that it was by an error we designated MM. Granier de Cassagnac and Solar as seconds of one of the parties. These two gen tlemen had nothing to do with this deplorable affair." Two new articles have just been added to the postal treaty between Franca and Great Britain. They have for object—l. Tu place the post-office of Boulogne in direct correspondence with the post-office at Folkestone, oy means of the private steamers between the two ports. 2 . To regulate the transit through France of the letters, paid or unpaid, from Great Britain and her colonies and possessions for the kingdom of Greece. The Grand Council of the - Vaud, in it 3 sitting of the ith inst., appointed a Committee of 15 members to draw , Ip a new constitution. THE BOURSE- , -THURSDAY, MARCH 13. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. Fre•neh Five perCentB•• •• •• 118 .. 118 25 .. 118 •• 118 20 Three per CentB.• ••• 85 10 .. 85 20 .. 85 10 .• 85 20 New Loan •• •• •• 86 10 .. 86 10 .. 86 10 .. 86 10 Bank of France Gouin Bank, I,ooof. Shares— 1090 —lO9O "1090 . • 1090 Belgian Fives, 1840 .. • • .... 105 .. 105 .. 105 .. 105 1842........ 106% •• 107 .. 106% 107 Four-and-r-Half, ... 103% .. 1633( .. 10334 •• 1035{ 6paniah Active ........ 59% .. 39% .. 39% .. L 9% Three 5............ 41% .. 41% .. 4154 .. 41% Passive 6;•4 .. .. 6y .. rortuguese Five per Cents• • 70 70 • • 70 •• 70 .. 101 75 .. 101 75 .. 101 7b .. 101 75 4onian THIS DAY'S NEWS. DARTMOUTH ELECTION COM- MITTEE.-(THIS DAY.) The Committee sat this day at eleven o'clock, pursuant to adjournment. . . _ The CHAIRMAN announced that it was the wish of the Committee that that part of the petitioner's case, founded upon the allegation that the sitting Member was a Government contractor, should be closed before any other point could be considered. Mr. W. Prout, the town••clerk of Dartmouth, was then called, and he proved that Mr. Somes had been a candidate, had addressed the electors, and was elected, &c. ➢lr. Sergeant WRANGIIAM then proposed to close this part of the case, and sum up upon it. The CHAIRMAN said he considered it would be better and more convenient to all parties to close the whole of the evi dence first. The room was then ordered to be cleared, and upon our re- admission, The CHAIRMAN said, the Committee had come to a resolu tion to the effect that, as there appeared to be some misap prehension amongst the counsel for the petitioner and the sitting Member as to the rules the Committee had adopted, they would not object to counsel summing up on the branch of the case that had been closed; but this should not apply to any other allegation. Mr. Sergeant WriANcinkm wished to know, if his Learned Friend Sergeant Kinglake, were now to sum up, would he be prechtded fiom entering upon the allegation of bribery? The CHAIRMAN said, that one of the first rules of the om tnittee was not to allow any other allegation to be gone into without a special application to the Committee. Mr. Sergeant KINGLAKE then proceeded to sum up. He said he would be very brief indeed in his observations, for he had only to contend that it had been clearly proved that a case of disqualification had been made against Mr. Somes; and he (Mr. Kinglake) hoped to be able to satisfy the Com mittee that not only was Mr. Somes disqualified at the time he was elected, but that it was utterly impossible for him to have got rid of that di qualification. He believed that the undisputed facts in this were, first, that Mr. homes was a ship owner in the month of December, 1844, and that he had also been engaged in Government contracts at the time. Certain charter parties had been produced before the Committee, in which persons of the name of Lackland and M'Leod appeared as contractors. It was true that these persons were the contractors under the Admiralty in law; but then Mr. Somes would still be disqualified, unless it was made apparent that those parties did not hold those ships in trust for kina. The charter party said that it was executed for and on behalf of the owner, and be (Mr. Kinglake) would insist that Mr. Somes was the legal and equitable owner of those vessels on the 27th of December, 1844, though he made an attempt to get rid of the ownership on the 17th of December, 1844. The Learned Counsel then read sec tions from different Acts of Parliament, and opinions of various legal authorities, which, he contended, bore him out in his assertion that Mr. Somes was disqualified as the owner of those vessels, un less a release, of which he had heard something, should be produced from Messrs. Lackland and M'Leod. He would also contend that, independent of Mr. Somes' owner ship in the vessels themselves, he was also the owner of articles for the use of those on board the ships, furnished by him and at his expense, and therefore those .articles were his property, and were on board those ships while they were at sea on the 27th December, 1844; and, therefore, that fact would disqualify him, for such was the law. The Learned Counsel opposite said they admitted that Mr. Somes was an owner of those ships at that time; if so, then that was his (Mr. Kinglake's) case, for it would be idle to attempt to divide the ownership into two parts, and say that, though Mr. Somes was the owner of one part or portion, he was not the owner of another. Then there was the additional fact, that in December, 1844, the Admiralty owed a debt of 50,000/. to Mr. Somes for services rendered by him through these ships, and under the charter party, and Without the production of which the debt could not be recovered ; and this debt could not be assigned, for there could be no such thing as an assignment of a contract ; if there were, then the whole policy, the whole intent, the whole wisdom, and the purport and object of the Registry Act would be ren dered totally void and useless. With these observations he would conclude, again repeating that his case had been made out by the admission that Mr. Somes was the owner of those vessels in December, 1844; or that if there was an assignment at all, it was only a colourable transaction, done to effect a certain object. (The Committee was sitting when our report left.) MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) COVENT-GARDEN. In consequence of the prevailing extremely cold weather, the supply of Vegetables here exhibited a considerable fall ing off; hence the demand was firm, and prices had an up ward tendency. In Fruit, only a moderate business was doing at our quotations. Potatoes, from 3s 8d to 5s 3d per cwt ; Turnips, 2s 3d to 3s 8d ; Carrots, 6s to is ; Coleworts, or Greens, 3s 3d to 4s 6d; and Leeks, is 3d to 2s per dozen bunches ; Apples, 2s to 4s ; Pears, 3s to 8s; and Onions, 2s to 3s per half sieve ; Forced Po tatoes, 8d; Pine Apples, 8s to lOs ; and Filberts, is to is 6d per lb; Savoys, is 3d to 2s per dozen ; Forced Rhu barb, is 8d to 2s 3d; ditto Asparagus, 6s to 8s; Horseradish ; 2s to ss; Brocoli, 2s 6d to 4s ; and Celery, is 3d to 3s per bundle; Oranges, 5s to lls ; Lemons, 8a to 12s ; and ITorced French Beans, 3s per hundred; Forced Cucumbers, 3s to 5s each. EtTNGERPORD. The supply of each kind of Meat here was somewhat ex tensive. Prime qualities commanded a steady inquiry, at full prices ; but, in other kinds, only a moderate business was doing. Fruit, Vegetables, and Fish sold slowly, at barely late rates. Week ending NAME OF RAILWAY. Mar. 8 7 Arbroath and Forfar .......... Birmingham and Gloucester.. • • • • • • • • Brandling Junction . Bristol and Gloucester ...... . • • • • • • • Chester and Birkenhead . • • • • • • • • • • Dublin and Drogheda.. _, ... .. ___ Dublin and Kingstown . • • • • • Dundee and Arbroath . Durham and Sunderland . • Edinburgh and Glasgow . • • • • •• • • • • Eastern Counties and North Eastern.. Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr .. •• . Glasgow and Greenock Grand Junction .. •••• • • • .. Last week. 136 3,318 450 2,070 3,512 1,544 Great North of England • . • • •• ..... Great Western . • • • • • • Liverpool and Manchester London and Birmingham . • ..... ••• London and Blackwell.. London and Brighton . .. London and Croydon. ......... London and Greenwich . •• •• •• • • • • •• London and South Western. • • • • • • •• Manchester, Bolton, and Bury •• •• Manchester and Birmingham• • • • . • Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc• • Midland Counties 706 7,917 1,722 13,165 4,746 14,336 695 2,634 833 4,494 874 6,532 9,179 1,095 1,380 327 1,277 4,078 4,140 Newcastle and Darlington •• •• •• •• •• Newcastle and Carlisle ... • • • •• •• Newcastle and North ......Shields.• North Union and Bolton and Preston Paris, Cornell, and Orleans•• •• •• •• Paris and Ronen •• •• •• •• Preston and Wyre— ... •.•• .. Sheffield and Manchester........... South Ea5tern..................... G 34 3,337 791 I g 4, - 2.1..; t,l c.) 1' 4,, .!..4t4 11G 1,931 523 1,972 3,416 1,270 705 6,690 1,555 11,544 3,771 13,500 b 36 2,382 614 4,GGO 759 2,858 5, , ;43 7,111 1,364 Taff Vale Ulster . ........... ....... .......... Yarmouth and Norwich •• •• •• York and North Midland . • • .• •••• .. 304 1,179 3,776 3,761 195 495 2,5.)9 563 543 205 2,211 1,951 MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. jJji ICi iiihjt There was not a large business done in Cotton at Liver pool yesterday. Sales 5,000 bales, including 400 American and 600 Egyptian on speculation. Surat, Brazil, and Egyp tian were nearly l/2d. per lb. dearer than yesterday week, but the prices then quoted for American were realised with difficulty, especially for cotton in bond.--:-A large busi ness was done in Railway Shares at firm rates. Grand Junction and Birmingham were in good request. Bir kenhead, Manchester, and Chester, 8% .% ; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 5%j Bolton, Wigan, and Liver pool, 8% ( 3 ; Caledonian, 8 % ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 6% 4 ; Chester and Bir enhead, 42 41% ; Ditto, New Shares, 33:Y z ) Ditto, Half Shares, 21% ; Chester and Holy head, 8 1 4 8 ; Chester and Preston Brook. 4% ; Churnet Valley, 6 % ; Clydesdale Junction, 7% ; Cork and Brandon, 4 ; Dublin, Mullingar, and Athlone, 2%; Dun dalk and Enniskillen, 2% ; Eastern Counties, 21 ; Ditto, Perpetual, No. 1, 51. 13s. 4d. ; Ditto, No. 2, 245. 6d ; Ely and Bedford, 2% 1/2 ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 175., 17s. 6d., IBs. ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock. 164 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 7 3 4 ; Grand Junction, 229_ ; Ditto, Half ' Shares 115 ; Ditto, New Quarter Shares, 45% ; Ditto, Eighths, 19% ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 4 ;Ditto, xtension, 71/ N/ 4 ; Great Western, 177 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 100 1 , ; Ditto, Fifths, 40 ; Lancaster and Preston, 53 1 , ; Ditto, Three-quarter Shares, 324 ; Limerick and Waterford, 41. 6s. ; Liverpool and Man chester, Half Shares, 103 ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Pres ton, 31. 2s. 3/. ss. ; ondon and Birmingham, 233 ; London and Brighton, 64; London and Croydon, Third Shares, 5; Londonderry and Enniskillen, 21. 6s. 3d. 2 1 ; London and York, 3 1 / 1/2 ; Direct Northern, 4% ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 7% ' • Manchester and Birmingham, 644 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, %; Ditto, New Shares, 5 premium ; Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale, 14; Manchester, Bolton, and Bury ' 165 ; Man chester and Leeds, 143 1421 A; Ditto, Half Shares, 64 ; Midland Railway, 139; Ditto, 401. Shares, 13% 12% ; North British, Half Shares, 4%; Preston and Wyre, 304 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 107 1 ; Sheffield and Lincoln, 14 ; Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and Birmingham, 64 %; Shrewsbury and Grand Junction, 61 ,4 %; Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 3/. 31. Is. 6d. ; South-Eastern and Dover, 43 ,• Ditto, New, No. 1,16 2 A ; Ditto, New, No. 3, 8 1 ,4 ; Worcester and Tring, 3% ; Bordeaux and Toulouse (Mackenzie's), 2%; Bordeaux and Cette, 51s. ; Boulogne and Amiens (English), 10% ; Northern of France (English), 6 ; Paris and Lyons (French), 3%; Paris and Lyons (Ganneron's), 2 1 ,4 ; Paris and Or- leans, 51 ; Paris and St. Quentin, 7a. 6s..prem. ; Verona and Ancona, 21s. There are no ship arrivals with late news of interest. The banks of Scotland, during the four weeks to the Ist inst., diminished their circulation by 83,350/, but those of Ireland augmetred theirs by 15,442/. as regards the private and joint-stock establishments, and by 8,000/. as respects the Bank of Ireland. The Bank of England, in the week to Saturday last, in creased its paper issues by 69,970/. ; its bullion by 146,374/. ; its rest by 2,095/. ; and its deposits, public and private, by about 458,000/. In the seven-day and other bills, however, there was a decrease of 9421. There is a steady market for Consols, but the transactions are limited. The quotations have been 99 3 / 4 to % for pre sent transfer, and 100 to 1 / 4 for Account; Exchequer-bills are 675. to 655. premium; Bank Stock for Account is 217 1 to 215. The Foreign Stocks are very dull, though firm. Spanish Three per Cents. realise 30% 1 ,4 ; Portuguese Converted, 67 to 67%; and Mexican, 36%. Dutch Two-and-a-Halt per Cents. bring 63%. This is settling day in the Share Market, but there has been a good general business, chiefly in the scrip and small shares. Caledonian shares have advanced again, and Shrews bury and Wolverhampton have been in favour; the York lines have been quieter; Brighton have rallied. In the French shares there is not much doing. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) 3 per Cent. Consols Aims 99 % 3/ India Bonds 1,000/ Ditto under 1,000/ 75 South Sea Stock Ditto New Annuities Bank Stock for Account. 21 7 1% 215 216 Consols for Account Exchequer Bills 1 3 / 4 d, 1 1 ,4 d. 1,0001. '5OO/. Ditto Small Ditto Advertised ..... pm. PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent 36% Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent — Ditto Converted Ditto for the Account 67% Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1840 30%4 Dutch 2% per Cents Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SRAM Armagh, Coleraine, P3rtrush 1% 1 34%.... to Birmingham and Gloucester 100 l3l Bristol and Exeter Ditto, New Bristol and Gloucester Caledonian Cambridge and Lincoln ... 1% Chester and Holyhead 5 ...... 8 1 4 A... to Churnet Valley Cornwall _ _ Diss, Beccles, and Yarmouth 1% 2 to Dublin and Belfast Junction 21 ,4 6ll ~.... to 6 Eastern Counties Eastern Union Ditto Extension Ely and Bedford 1 IA 2% to GrEat Grimsby and Sheffield... 2:h 3s to 4 Great South and W. (Irish)... 5 Ditto Extension Great North of England ..... .100 1V8 ' ....... to Ditto New ... .... : ...... ...... 5 Ditto New Great Western _ _ _ Ditto % Shares 5O lOl Ditto Fifths Guildford, Farnham, Portms. Hull and Selby SO Ditto Half Shares London and Birmingham lOO 233 to Ditto Thirds _ Ditto Quarters London and Brighton... .. 50 London and Croydon Ditto Guaranteed 5 per Ct. 4 Loudon and South Western.. 41%...... 80 London and York ... ..... .... . . 2 1 2 ...... 3%%% to Manchester and Birmingham 40 Midland Ditto New Midland, Birm. and Derby ...100 10414 to 107 Newcastle& Darlington :iiinc. 24 ...... 46 Newcastle and Berwick North British Ditto New 1 .. ... 4 1 / 4 — ., .... to 4% Noi th Kent North Wales l4 2% to Rugby, Worcester, and Tring 1 Shrews.,Wolver., Dud., Birm. 21 South Eastern and Dover ... 33% ...... 42% 3 A to Ditto New, No. 1 8 Ditto New, No. 2 2 12% to Ditto New, No. 3 2% 84 %%% to 8 1 / 2 % South Wales West Cornwall York and North Midland ... 50 ......102% to Ditto Selby Ditto, Extension FRENCH RAILWAYS. Bordeaux and Toulouse Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette 2 Great Northern of France ... 4 6 ... to 5 3 4 Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 2 Paris and Lyons ( Laffitte) ... 2 Paris and Lyons (Ganneron's) 2 ... ..V 2 2% to Paris avid Orleans ' 20 ...... 51 t•5O Pans and Rouen Paris and Strasburg 2 .. 2 3 4 to MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 14.—The sales are :—Birmingham and Gloucester, New Shares, 3 1 / 2 %; Eastern Counties, 20 1 4 ; Lancaster and Preston, 53 3 / 4 ; Manchester and Leeds, Sixteenth Shares, 7 1 % ; Manchester and Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 9 15-16 ex new and ex die. ; Ditto, New Quarters, 4 15-16 5 prem. ; Preston and Wyre, 29 3 / 1 /, ; South-Eastern. No. 3, 8 1 4 %; Barnsley Junction, 7 ; Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction, 8 % ; Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 4% ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 8 1 / ; Caledonian, 8 1 / 2 % ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 6 1 4 ; Dublin and Belfast Junction, 6 Ely and Bedford, 2;( 4 ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, 3% 3 / 4 ; Kendal and Windermere, 4%; Leeds and West Riding Junc tion, 7 6% ; London and York, 3% 3-16 ; Manchester and Buxton, 2 1 15-16 ; Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 2 1 / s ; Scottish Central, 4 1 / s ; Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junc tion, 235. 9d. ; Shrewsbury and Grand Junction, 7 1 4 ; Shrews bury, Wolverhampton, Dudley, &c., 6% 6 ; Southport and Euxton, 3 1-16 ; Trent Valley, 16% ex new; Manchester Fire and Life Assurance, 11%; Union Plate Glass, 18%. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, MARCH 15.—Wind, Northerly, fresh breeze and hazy, but fine. DEAL, MARCH 14.—Wind E.N.E. to N.E. by E., mode • rate.—Sld. Louisa Campbell, New Zealand ; Lady Clarke and Orlando, Calcutta; Sea Witch, Gambia ; Great Britain and Lady Seaton, Montreal. PORTSMOUTH, MAnot 14.—Wind E.N.E., fresh breeze.— Feires, St. David's, for Valparaiso, and is come into the har bour to take in a patent slip. Std. Thorney, Close, St. John's, New Brunswick. Arrd. Tagus steamer, Brooks, Constanti nople, left on the 22d ult., Smyrna 24th, Malta 28th, and Gibraltar 7th inst. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 14.—Wind E.—Arrd. Robert Clive, Mercer, St Helena. WHITSTABLE, MARCH 14.—The Prince Albert, Holder ness, of Wisbeach, for Sandwich, got in contact with the smack Sophia. of London, during a gale at midnight of the 12th inst., and received damage ; she took assistance, and has gone into Faversham Creek. CORK, MARCH 12.—The Lucy Ann, of Bristol, from Icha boe, stranded at Kinsale, has been towed in here by her Ma jesty's steamer Dee. DUBLIN, MARCH 13.—The Burly, which was stranded at Arklow, has been towed into the Liffey by the Adelina steamer. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 14.—Wind variable and light.—Arrd. Mississippi, Hillyards, New Orleans. Sld. 13. Jamaica, Barbadues. 14. Bidston and Princess Royal, Calcutta; Hartland, Bombay; Sandford, Rio Grande; Zephyr, Africa; Oregon, New York. Off; Nais. CLYDE, MARCH 13.—Wind variable.—Sld. Eglinton, St. John's, New Brunswick. WARRENPOINT, MARCH 13.—Wind E.—Sld. Orissa, Bombay. HULL, MARCH 13.—Arrd. George, Cornelison, La Guayra for Hamburgh, put back from off the Elbe, on account of the ice. 14. The Clyde, from Gainsborough to Whitstable, grounded on a sand bank, off Burton, 9th inst., and upset and filled, but was subsequently righted and brought in here— crew saved. NEWPORT, MAncii 13.—S1d. Trinidad, Grenada. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 14.—1 t has blown a heavy gale from daylight to the present time (3 P.M.), and continues without sign of abatement. SHEERNESS, MARCH 13.—The Jack, White; got on the five fathom Middle Sand, during a snow-storm this morning, but was assisted off in a sinking state, and brought in here. SWANSEA, MARCH 13.—The Little Avon, Gregory, of Christchurch, came ashore in here this morning. SOUTHWOLD, MARCH 13.—The Industry, of Whitby, is riding at anchor, close in shore, off Dunwich. GIBRALTAR, MARCH 6.—The Duc Sorelli, Peri, from Ali cant to this port, was in contact with the Carlota, Lagana, from Liverpool to Palermo, 11th instant, off Carthagena, and sank ; crew saved. The Carlota received but trifling damage. The French vessel reported to have been wrecked near Tarifa proves to be the brig Henriette, of Sa:des D'Obnine ; she struck on the Cabezes Rock, came off leaky, was run ashore to prevent her sinking, and has since gone to pieces. '[he American barque Grand Turk, Mayo, bound from Cadiz to HISTORY RA.ILWAit SHAI•CEbi St. Germain • • • • •• ..1165 ..1165 —1165 Versailles, It B .... .... 695 .. 640 625 .. 637 50 896 .. 395 .. 395 .. 395 Rouen ..1145 —ll4O ..1145 Rouen to Havre • 970 .. 965 •• 965 •• 965 Orleans 4 trasburg to Bale • • •••• 335 .. 337 50 .• 335 336 25 kvignon to Marseilles.. —llO5 .. 1105 .. 1100 .. 1100 RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT. Manen 16. St. Germatn • . •.. • • .......1160 ..1167 50 —111:0 1165 Versailles. 12.8.• ••• • • ...... 640 •• 64 5 .• 630 .. 630 L.B.•••••••••••• 380 •• 397 50 380 .. 392 50 Rouen ........ ..... .......1125 ..1150 ..1125 "1145 Rouen to Havre 950 .. 965 •• 950 .. 960 Orleans • •.....1295 .•1305 ..1285 ..1290 Strasburg to 8a1e.......... 335 .. 1 , 31 50 .. 335 . 336 25 A.viguon to Marseilles •• • ...1090 ..1105 —lO9O ..1145 DEATH OF THE lION. MISS FOIL—The Hon. Miss Fox, only sister of the late Lord Holland, expired at half past eight o'clock on Wednesday evening, at Little Holland House, Kensington. The deceased was eldest child and only daughter of the second Lord Holland, by his marriage with Lady Mary Fitzpartrick, daughter of John, first Earl of Upper Ossory, and was born 3d of November, 1767, and con sequently was in the 78th year of her a e ,e. By her demise the families of the Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne, Viscount and Viscountess Lilford, Lord and Lady Holland, Colonel and Lady Mary Fox, the Dowager Lady Holland, the Countess of Berry, the Earl and Countess of Shelburne, &c., are placed in mourning. The Hon. Miss Fox was niece of the Right Hon. Charles James Fox, the distinguished Whig statesman. In a paragraph relative to the severity of the weather, which appeared yesterday, it was stated that the highest point which the thermometer r( ached, in the course of Thursday, was 35. The number should have been 21. FATAL ACCIDENT.—Last evening Mr. Joseph Payne, Deputy Coroner, held an inquest at St. Bartholo mew's Hospital, on the body of Dederick Merlin, aged 35, a commercial traveller, in the employ of Messrs. Pritchard, wholesale tobacconists, of London-wall. It appeared that the deceased, on Thursday week, was returning from Stratford, in a light chaise-cart, in which was alio a youth. Upon reaching the Mile-end-road, the cart came in contact • with an omnibus, proceeding in the contrary direction. The two vehicles struck with such violence that both deceased and the youth were thrown out. The latter escaped with very slight, if any, injury; but the deceased, upon being picked up, was found to be perfectly insensible. He was taken to the above hospital, where he died on Thursday last. Verdict—Accidental death. NaIiVGATX AND LEADMINNAZI. We had a very large supply that of Mutton and Veal was rather limited. Generally speaking, the trade was firm, and prices were supported. Beef, from 2s 6d to 3s 4d ; Mutton, 2s 8d to 3s 84 ; Veal, 3s 10d to 43 10d; and Pork, 2s 8d to 4s 4d per 81bs, by the carcass. We had a large supply of both Game and Poultry here, while the demand ruled heavy, at barely last week's quotations. Turkeys sold at from 3s to 7s ; Hares, 2s to 3s ; and Rabbits, 6d to Is each ; Fowls, 5s to 8s ; Chickens, 2s 6d to 53 ; and Ducks, 3s 64 to 6s. per couple. NEWPORT. - Prime Mutton and Pork sold steadily; other kinds of Meat slowly, on the following terms :—Beef, from 2s 8d to 3s 6d ; Mutton, 2s 8d to 3s 8d ; Veal, 38 10d to 5s ; and Pork, 3s 4d to 4s 4d per Blbs. BIL% INGSGATZ. The-supply of Fish still continues abundant, and prices extremely low. Soles were selling at from 3d to 2s per pair ; Turbots, 5s to 12s; Cod Fish, 2s to 6s; Whitings, 3d to 6d each; Salmon, is 3d to Is 9d per lb; Mackerel, 16s to 20s per 100. WHITECHELPEL. There was a full average supply cf each kind of Meat here, while the demand was somewhat inactive. Beef, from 2s 6d to 3s 6d ; Mutton. 2s 8d to 3s Sd ; Veal, 3s 10d to 4s 10d ; and Pork, 2s 6d to 4s 2d per 81bs. BREAD. The prices of Wheaten Bread in the Metropolis are from 7d to lid ; of Household ditto, 50 to 60 per 4lbs leaf. HIDE MAHEET Raw Hides, at per stone of 141bs :—Best Steers and Heifers, 5a 8d to Gs ; Middling Hides, 4s 8d to 5s 6d ; Inferior ditto, 4s 4d to 4s 6d. Sheep and Calf Skins, at per skin : Market Calf, 6a Gd to 8s; Long-woolled Sheep, 4s to 5s 3d ; Short ditto, 3s 3d to 4s 3d ; Lamb Skins, is to Is 4d ; and Shearlings, 6d to 8d each. SAY MARZETS, Sawn(max.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 8s to 4/ 5s ; use ful ditto, 41 6s to 41165; fine Upland ditto, 4! 17s to 5/ 3s; Clover Hay, 41 83 to 5/ 16s; Oat Straw, 1/ 16s to 1/ 18s ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 18s to 21 per load. Both Hay and Straw met a slow inquiry at, in some instances, drooping currencies. CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ lOs to 4/ 103 ; useful ditto, 4/ 12s to 5/ ; fine Upland ditto, 5! 3s to 5/ 5s • Clover Hay, 4/ 8s to Si 12s; Oat Straw, 1/16s to 1/ 18s ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 18s to 2/ per load. A fair average supply, and a sluggish demand. Prices about stationary. WHITECHAPEL.—Couse Meadow Hay, 3/ 8s to 41 8s , aseful ditto, 4/ lOs to 4/ 18s ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ ti 5/3s ; Clover Hay, 4/ 105 to Si 18s ;Oat Straw, 1/16s to 1/ 18s ; Wheat Straw, 1/ lits to 2/ per load. Supply tolerably good, and trade WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.-FRIDAY. The arrivals this week of all descriptions of Grain have been moderate. A fair business has been doing in Wheat, at full prices. Barley dull of sale, and may be quoted a shade lower. In Beans, Oats, and Shelling no alteration can be noted. Per qr. of 601 b. to the bushel EXTRA. Wheat—Suffolk, Essex, and Kent • • .• Red.... 44 to 45 to 46 Ditto ditto • . White •. 49 50 51 Norfolk • • Red • ... 43 44 45 Ditto ditto •.• • .. White.. 45 48 50 Lincolnshire and Cambridge.. Red.. .42 43 45 Ditto ditto •. •. White.. 46 48 50 Yorkshire • Red.... 40 42 44 Ditto ditto ...... White.. 45 48 50 English, Old ••• • • • • • Red.... 43 48 48 54 Foreign .................. Red.... 41 46 48 Ditto ditto ......White.. 48 50 52 Per quarter imperial. Barley—Norfolk and Suffolk. 34 35 36 Yorkshire and Lincolnshire • ..... 31 32 34 Grinding. Foreign . . 30 82 34 Per qr. of 631 b. to the bushel. Beaus—Small fine ............ ...... ......... 36 33 44 Ticks ... ............,... • ... 36 37 42 Foreign 35 40 42 Oats—Mealing, per Stone ...... •• • • •• • 10d, 11 d —d, 12d Feeding .......... ..... • ..... • • • 10d, lld —d, --d Foreign ...... .. • • 10d, I 1 d —d, 12d Shelling, per Load . 255, 26s —s, 27s Malt, per Load of 6 Bushels •••••••••• • • • • • • • • 40 42 43 Per qr. imperial. .. 40 44 • • 82 40 2.51. 231., 25/. Pease—Blue and White Boilers.. • • • • • • • • • • Grey and Feed Rapeseed—English, per Last Imperial Foreign ...... • ... RAILWAY RETURNS. RAILWAY TItAFFIC.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same week in the previous year:— or Rio Grange, which went ashore on the west beach , , r CONSTANTINOPLE, FEB. 22.—The Castor Odessa, with Linseed, has put in here with Castor, have to discharge to repEir. SPORTING INTELLIGE, N Cl ' s LEAMINGTON CUP STEEPLE. CHASE--- „oft Sweepstt kes of 10 sows each, with a Cup added, (20 Subs.) (0 0er) Captain Windsor's Major .............. • ...... Mr. E. Nunn's The Friar... .:...... .................. .. Colonel Wallingham's The Que- of Trumps gn aw The following also started but were n °- , Mr. E. H. Clarke's Whitenose ; Mr. 11 • ate , kerley's Vixen ; Mr. J. Bruce's The Ca r : 7 4; A r Hobson's The Prince ; Mr. Maddocks' Ch" o Maddocks's Lioerty (owner); Sir A. Chichester c 00,,, pagne (Captain Sutton); Mr. Gardener's The (Mr. H. Storey); Sir Win. Russell's Pussey_ Mr. Carew 's Waverley (Mr. Gage); Mr. tt ' Magicienne, 7lbs extra. (Mr. Ricardo); Mr.bat i odo' ley (owner); Mr. J. Wilson nd. Grey Galer 0 1 ! Mr. Bradshaw's Celarias (Mr. Bright); Mr-, 13 " f l. d busy; Mr. M'Alpine's Life Guardsman; and iss; !`t; netes Martingale. The race which was ov i er,,' Ny e Southern Course, was run in a snow storm, and ”- six lengths; Whitenose was fourth. Ol d° (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) A Warwick races are postponed to this day; an' frost continue, will be abandoned altogether. MANCHESTER BETTING.--Fnival; CHESTER CUP. 10 to 1 agst Cataract 12 to 1 agst Semiseria 2 2 5 5 t t o o 1 1 a l s s t t It . rf a br o v i ce 14 to 1 agst The Era—t 251. 40 to 1 agst Truel r rt, , ,, 14 to 1 agst Obscurity—t 1001 600 to 10 agst NY,.. ste e sr` . 20 to 1 agst WiNesour 8 to 1 agst the tweii;,i)ot 25 to 1 agst Zanoni 8 to 1 agst Mr. 1111 DERBY. 10 to 1 agst Alarm 20 to 1 agst BO ta w er , 14 to 1 agst Kedger 27 to 1 agst Miss t 7 15 to 1 agst Idas 30 to 1 agst Mentor 18 to 1 agst Clear-the-Way-30 to 1 agst Pantags , taken to 501. 16 to 1 agst Cobweb colt The " lions" of the day were The Era and Obsce-bsci the Cup, and Clear-the-Way for the Derby, L b ! 3 3 5 5 to to 1 1 agst lAroonornangsdtsineerity 00 offering to " go (..n." ° o' CO ( 1 1 3 ' DANBY MEETING.—The URSIN Cup, forG. 16 a ll-agea I, l l in of won by Mr. J. Anson's Baktersale; Mr. SaoP e ' ran up. The Scroope Stakes, for 8 puppies, were Mr. Mangle's Jerry ; Mr. Ewbank's Spring ran uP• 8 A, ANDLEM MEETINO.—The Combermere St 3 k -es b r ia o were won by Mr. Harper's Bazkgammon; 3 l r ' Steamer ran up. 1 S 3' BARTON-UPON-HUMBER MEETING, MARCII A 0 The St. Leger Stakes of 5L 10 s . each, 8 subs. , w e ' r io Mr. Atkinson's Sultan ; Mr. Nicholson's TaPPitt 4 r i tcl: o The Cup, 8 dogs, was won by Mr. Burckhin Brown's Venus ran up. The Appleby Carr Maiaia, won by Mr. Gunning's Maria ,• Mr. l'Cicholgd e ran up. The Aucholnde Stakes, 4 subs., wer e a 00001 1k.6 Fowler's Lindsey; Mr. Nicholson's Wootton ran Rowland Stakes, 4 dogs, were won by Mr. Atleins°ll FLANDERS MAIL. ste p' BRUSSELS, , Ste BRUSSELS, MARCH 12.—We learn that oar' . 1 , 0 the celebrated English engineer, has accepted serif made by Richards and Co., to visit the line, entlotelor Meuse, in all its details, to study the situation of ' ofi nge o f and consider the wants of the various branches ic hicl i ture, and the modifications in the proposed 1 131 appear to na be:advantageous. tbe. The Sete finish ed to-day the discussion 0%00 of the Department of the Interior, which Wis tp adopted. .d tr a , Sl oo The Chamber of Representatives contino.- bbe 0 , 0 1 discussion of that chapter of the budget of Ptobic' O tt which relates to the railways, all the articles ohoberjoro agreed to without any important debate. Tha v C ode Of ter came to the chapter on the Post. office. M.A.'",rn tdr M. Osy insisted on the necessity of a haegen found fault with the present manageolefl" part ni en t. A letter from Ostend says—" We have long m en ,„ ;1 114 0 ; that the length of the pier for the steam - h ° ,‘"" be I p oril seventy-five yards. This improvement pensable, since the number of these vessels v 0",,, For d f, 4 ; will be increased next summer. In fact, ife.l7; assured that, in addition to the steamers 1 10 " D, o,;(er tween this port and England, others are oS a i j ; l ob e ' sea ; which, as soon as the weather permits, 9 '1;0. Folkstone and Ostend.—Brussels Papers, Marc" 5C 11. 0 4 ,i - TO THE EDITOR OF Tl l :atertl sl i e f r- Stu,—Having observed in your paper of IT 00 01 1 )", ing a letter signed "A County Magistrate , ' t ot te tt obliged if you would insert, for his informati ° %ictio ll y already forwarded to the Times a direct contr a ir d entr, paragraph which appeared in that paper on de A ctl o tio , and have insisted on being immediately 1113 with the name of the author of so foul a calutal i b' ! jot' that you will give this a place in your nest P u I am, Sir, tour obedient servant, ~ '7 O l HERBERT R. MANNERS, Lieut., ~ Gosport, March 14, 1845. , ,istraL e 'pe f P.S. I should recommend the " County fil.reco appears so luminous on the subject, to obtaill c° tion before venturing an opinion. 4' TO THE EDITOR OF TA: S_ A '; 11 0 4 j eC I SIR,--I , perceive that the Board of ens cided in favour of certain railways, which - 0 of the metropolis with the mouth of that la r g $ 11 0: t' t Humber, Grimsby. Now, in case of $ 131 ",',.. f enced persons are of opinion that the liti v hr ni ild protected by Government steamers; and ""fat that land at Grimsby should be secured eipc Depot, before the proposed improvements ha c t $, its value. I am, Sir, your obedient servo') Woolwich, March 12, 1845. .„,„,, PRINCESS'S THEAT II ',O 4 .I I t Banim's tragedy of Damon and Pythias vras„r 4 ,oo_Alig; last evening, with Mr. Edwin Forrest as 1 ' ,'" sr os", Forrest has now got tolerably used to his auclie l3 ;ol consequently enabled to do his certainly grallt.gre-ebM ample justice; he has also had the tact to pere, e . i c h taa t ; II: 04 those peculiarities of intonation and gesture * Oll , i f , 0 0 earlier efforts, and to get rid of them comPle` e ,l,...ll; - 00 0;, been enabled, in such a short space of time , ' l ' l ' oe r I I himself of such defects proves, that bur. F or res t(- 0 11 man of intellect and taste but of gre,a, t h g o. y 9 He possesses all the qualifications scni'l l is 'Od making up of a first-rate actor, and be d "01 1 E iff . a p." career before him. His Damon is a fine 5 .' Itil f lit piece of acting throughout. His parting r m of e- e otso exquisitely pathetic, and the scene at the PL s— „ o d 'e f ortil where he rushes on, looking for his friend , 01 oriy sinks from exhaustion, when the load i 5 re him , 'fa W mind, and he finds he is not too late to sat. 00.41 ciot conceived and magnificently developed. '"" bea°7 Senate-house enabled Mr. Forrest to give ill li do, ttl i cimen of his declamatory powers. Since the w oe. 01°,0 Young we have had no such declaimer on tbra lotbeidi excellently supported by Mrs. Stirling a' ` ll the 1 9 Mr. Graham as Pythias, and was called for st oo l hlo 0 curtain. The house was crowded to e xcet. etrotV mate drama, thanks to the exertions of M fr. , ' at Forrest, bids fair to be as successful he re hitherto been. , • errof OLYMPIC THEA rr —ilX o 6 0 0,d Last night was the last night of the seasoo,,. oper,Aerl ances were ft,r the benefit of our old frien(Wralk,hreli were glad to see that the lovers of sterling 5e t 1700 3 :,/ him on the occasion. The house was crowis ,tit of the curtain. The first piece was Carl , wtlp port as the heroine, and Rayner as Rollin°• o f do ' of Clari there is that beautiful taix tu vr r h e i h P seler if and pathos, in the depicting of '": Ard venport stands unequalled. Never h al s - ce. ltd, more beautiful—a more interesting Peri ern „ie n ce Ott i Rolamo was a fine, energetic, manly r-terrie.,- The scene in which tie curses his eaughter ntionectrisrl Clari we had the School of Reform, wit h 7iji e Prbse v oe Tyke. To all playgoers the announcement sal` b id f tint—the character of Tyke is Rayner's vet's' venlig since the death of Emery, and we De v i c ,. l o4 A te, Tyke better than he did last evening. - 1 ," ante worthy of the character and ' o 'll9 comedy was got up with a very O r ;°-; ° 11 ' s was James Browne as Ferment, act,,l e i' o r the t i do; and looking as young as ever, with a sin B , c 7 th 6 i style about him, which was quite delightnl'.,' d. Mr. Browne, do not, for the future, place 1h" .. " - c oesi ae y. r syllable in the word consideration—it savours 9 00 es tl i o the other side of the Atlantic). And there w e d coel e tt i or t , ville a 4 Mrs. Ferment, the most lady-lik e 11 : o d t re di sej actresses; with Waldron as Lord Avondale, ethe r ' — Sys? Martineau as Shelah. The comedy, altogetetl0;00:1;:), lently got up. There then followed a co ncerti is r t 1 ing feature of which was Rayner's sr!. peP lery, the gods joining in chorus. o ,'W hitr i r voofe liO4: 4 4 concluded with A Rowland for an Olive r, as Alfred Highflyer, and Miss L. Melville as M ter ,- garcon Miss L. Melville was excellent in this ch arac d Qs lively, yet genteel withal—never since the (Ist gelf' have we seen such a Maria Darlington as Alin au ded• is needless to add that she was rapt uro usly app C lls ------- 10, -n t oro , O ro , MOST DELIBERATE SUICIDE AT sh Monday, at four P 31., the report of a mus ket. _ to o f os geants' mess-room, George-square Barracks " l ei P„d, tion to that quarter, and on two men of the his D WO. thither, they found a comrade weltering !m a nes el t s e y deceased was one of the three men in attent,?ol geants' mess, and a few minutea before hit _a i r he op t° Op' room with the two others, on which occss w ore nt aS .A 0!, be in his usual spirits. Leaving them, h e o cl, at``' joining apartment, took off his right boot, 9 .0 4 fa s he , ing the lace, lie tied it round his big toe, and t'otree! end to the trigger of the musket. He then 11) they solif in his mouth, gave a jerk with his toe, al? 00 1_, the firelock blew out the right part of his 0 01 , 5st i , has transpired to account for the suninu tr . ) : a nd 5P to deal with his life. He was a very eiv„, t ,,,ve ' le,' and was respected in the regiment. His d Davidson, and he was 26 years of age. glee 01 1 7 Mr. Daniel Richardson, the highlrre; oi A r or taxing-officer of the Court of BankroPt„trfto,,,,4ol;" residence at Brixton-bill, on the 13th iota . ' ' 00 0 34 07 j of paralysis. Mr. Richardson had been W e rer ip t y (billy connected with the Court as one e. f t ,?. bil t n iotri which he was appointed by his late MaJe e l ' o e sprrte last lie received from the Lord Chancellor t le p ose tr Master one hour after his Lordship had ti ' l°c fr i ii it r ro it, and in terms the most flattering. o e nO I ILFRACOMBE —Between five and oci . i iiP oc e 0 f oe morning of the 13th inst., a tremendou s L a e 610 1 from the top of Hillsborough, opposite t'-`„ 0 0 fe harbour, being a height of more than ,tirnotrofsoo.i beach. The quantity of earth tha t fell i 3 e ..50( 1, t il t than 1,000 tons. The crash was awfullY tore" the cliff have continued to fall during pd oo t oo of that majestic bill is, of course, 1, 41 °3 pearance.—Somerset County Gazette. s or DARING ROBBERY ON \' ESTMI% WO;llP t if f c/ i, ; Thursday John Hunt, a boy about 16 years of a . f c ,l o ,,e ot or, j bar at Queen -square, charged with robbery'. „ l ot .,, ' 7 , spectable-looking young married woman, state a ` p osbilef lor eight o'clock on the previous evening she WO.„, cll.' 0 1 lor minster-bridge, when on a sudden a Man no tice g O . pinched her arm severely. She took Ito 11— furtP_A4 — 1 014 thought by complaining she might receive 11 , ,0 quickened bar pace, but had not proceeded 1 114n , ( 1, Otory ceived a violent blow on the lett side of heed he" po ( qv instant felt that she was being robb , e fi ct ° ,,C niaterou and graspe prioner's hand, which he was in the OW" from her pocket with the purse in it. She ofdejlf purse, which contained nine shillings, and laid g5, 40 0,'0 ,40 , but was immediately surrounded by a t heforroi d3l)^ P r e'e pushed her about and insisted upon her letting 00#, fellow then kicked at her repeatedly , wil en . 3 01 . • and the prisoner was ultimately taken into ells , ..coce rented that the parties should be bound over to P' d see tral Criminal Court for the highway robber'', s a committed for trial. /.- , .11.....,, (jt‘i. 416 fjp 'unt ._ gA -,