The Sun. — London, England, 1851-04-03 00:00:00

NOTICE. MR. DISRAELI'S CHARLES I . The New and Revised Edition of TIRE LIFE AND REIGN OF CHARLES I. By I. DISRAELI. Edited by his Son, B. DISRAELI, M.P. IS NOW READY, in 2 vols. Bvo., 28s. bound. " Mr. Disraeli has conceived that the republication of his father's Commentaries on the Life and Reign of Charles I.' is peculiarly well timed at the present moment, and he Indicates the well-known chapters on the genius of the Papacy, and the critical relations of protestant sovereigns with Roman Catholic subjects as reflecting. znirror-itte, the ' events, thoughts, passions, and perplexities of the present agitated epoch. No apology was needed for re-Introducing to the world so instructive and original a work."—Times. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborsug,h-street. H ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. M. 3IASSOL. It is respectfully announced that In addition to the talent already announced, an Engagement has been made with M. MASSOL, who has arrived, and will shortly appear. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. GRAND EXTRA NIGHT, Uniting the talents of Madlle. Caroline Duprez, Madame Florentinl, (Signor Calzolari, 33. PonWar, Madlle. Carlotta Grisi, and Madlle. Amalia Ferraris. It is respectfully announced that a Grand EXTRA. NIGHT will take place THIS EVENING, April 3, when will be presented Auber's celebrated Opera, entitled GUSTAVE III.; ou, Lc Bal Masque. Amelle, Madame Fiorentini ; Arvedson, Madlle. Feller; Oscar (page of the King), 3ladlle. Caroline Luprez ; Ankastrom, Signor Lorenzo ; Dehorn, Signor F. Lablache ; Ribbing, M. Poultier ; Gus save 111., Signor Calzolari. In the Ball-room Scene Madlle. Carlotta Grisi will appear in a _rand Pav, assisted by 3lesdlles. Aussandon and Dantoine ; with va rious EntertainineWs in the Ballet Department, in which Madlle. Carlotta Grist, Mesdlles. Aussandon, Tedeschi, Soidansky, Dantoine, adlle. Amalia Ferraris, MM. Ebrick, Gcsselin, Venefra, Gouriet, Di :Mattis, and Charles will appear. 1'4.) be followed by a new and original Ballet, a la Watteau, entitled L'ILE DES AMOURS, Composed by M. Paul Taglioni, the Musia by M. Nadaud, the Scenery by Mr. C. Marshall, in which Madlle. Amalia Ferraris will appear. Fleurette (Bergere), Mdlle. Amalie Ferraris. Colin (son Fiancé), M. Charles. Gregoire (Pere de Colin), M. di Mattia. Blaise (Amoureux de Fleurette), 31. Ehrick. Le Governeur de l'lle des Amours, M. Gosselln. Mdlle. de Follanges (Grand Dame), Mme. Petit Stephan. Ire Chef des Amours, Mdlle. Tedeschl , 2me Chet des Amours, Mdlle. Aussandon. Un Maitre de Ceremonies, M Astrologues (Conseiller du GoaverneurV)en, MaSr.liouriet." First Tableau, La Loi Impossible. " Les Fiances, dance pasto rale. "Le Jen de la Rose," pas de deux, P o ar ure M ux. saris and M. Charles. Le Governeur Ara •Sa Apal eee a pti F o er n - . Vengeance. La Proclamation, Second Tableau, La Pay sann e ala Corr* Jadis et Anjourd'hni," rne scene executee par Lutte de la Dance Roccocl et Mdlle. Amalie Ferraris, mu l e. Third Tableau, Les Amours 'leng e P Danse du Chef des Amours, r e tit , l S ts ° t d e . e hail. et M. Gosselin. Mdlle. Tedeschi. " Les I3ergeres tivees par le Amours," Balla c3ardlle. Te_de , sc , hi, et lea Dames du bile, par Mdlle. Amelia Ferraris. Betg rs Delaisses, final, par Mille. Corps de Ballet. Les „.„d e h e t, M. Charles, et Corps de Ballet. Amelia Ferraris, 11 a" e ,',";.,,,, -- e s a c ax Amours. " Le Pas Mt Trebuchet," Yourth Tableau, La Mdlle. Aussandon, and M. Mdlle. Tedeschi, executee par aux Amours. Comme on se laisse Ehrick. La c°" -- p mation Abolle. Le Pardon. prendre dans sea filets. La roc a Divertissement. Grand Pas de Deux, par Mdlle. Amelia Ferraris d M Charles, aecompagnes par Mdlles. Soto, Emma, Lavinia, v a nhollen, et Beale. Final General et Apotheose des SoldanskY , • Amours. applica tions for Boxes, Stalls , and Tickets to be made at the Box. Arn i ca of the Theatre. Doors opened at Seven, the Opera to com. t o e n c,e at Half-past Seven o'clock. ms•ainsiaooll.W.llllF.olo THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. James Anderson. THIS EVENING Will be presented by her Majesty's Servant* THE QUEEN OF SPADES. Prince of Moskau, Mr. W. Lacy ; Ivan, Mr. J. Anderson ; Kopeck, Mr. Barrett; Katinka Nelidorf, Miss F. Vining ; Olga, Mrs. W. Lacy. After which, a new grand Operatic Spectacle, entitled AZAEL, THE PRODIGAL. Reuben, Mr. Vandenhoff; Azael, Mr. J. Ander son ; Amenophis, Mr. W. West ; Bucharis, Mr. Cooper ; Sethos. Mr. Rafter; Jephtele, Miss F. Vining; Nette, Mrs. Walter Lacy ; Lis, 11 edlle. Victorine Legrain (Premier Sujet du Opera de Paris), who has been expressly engaged for the occasion, and will make her appearance every evening. Mr. JAMES ANDERSON has the honour to announce to his Friends and the Patrons of the Drama generally, that his BENEFIT is fixed for SATURDAY, April 12, being the Last Night of perform ing before Easter, on which occasion will be presented Schiller's magnificent romantic Play of THE ROBBERS (adapted to the English Stage by Mr. James Anderson), and other Entertainments, particulars of which will be duly announced. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARK Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. THIS EVENING, Will be performed Moliere's Comedy of TARTUFFE. Oregon, Mr. Lambert ; Damis, Mr. Davenport ; Valere, Mr. Howe ; Cleante, Mr. Rogers ; Tartuffe, Mr. B. Webster ; M. Loyal, Mr. Selby ; El mire, Miss Reynolds ; 3lariane, aliss L. Addison ; Dorine, Mrs. Fitzwilliam. After which THE SERIOUS FAMILY. To conclude with a new and original Farce called MAKE THE "EST OF IT. THEATRE, ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the aireetion of Madame Gelede. THIS EVENING, Will he performed THE WILLOW COPSE. To be followed by JACK IN THE GREEN. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. C. Kean and Mr. Keeley. THIS EVENING, Will he performed a new and original Comedy entitled LOVE IN A MAZR. Characters by Messrs. C. Kean, Keeley, Wigan, Harley, Addison, Meadows ; Mrs. Keeley, Mrs. Winstanley, and Mrs. C. Kean. To conclude with a new Melodrama, entitled PAULLNE, in which Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean will appear. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestris. Pole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. Last Week but One of King Charming, previous to the Easter Holidays TIIIS EVENING, Will be performed COOL AS A CUCUMBER. Alter which an entirely new and original Fairy Extravaganza, to Le called KING CILiRMING , or, the Blue Bird of Paradits. Characters by Messrs. C Mathews, F. Matthews, Uorncastle, Suter, Bellingham, and Donner; Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss Ellis, Mrs. C. Horn, Miss St. George, and Miss Martindale. To conclude with US ED ur. 1101" AL OLYMPIC 12111.ATRt. Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Farren. 'THIS EvENIN(I - be performed THE REIGNING FAVOURITE. After which CHARLES KING. To conclude with FRIEND WAGGLES. ANILEI"s AMPHITBEATRE. Gader the Patronage of her Majeay and his Royal Highneas Prince Albert. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. Extra4rdinary series of attractive novelties. Last Nights preparatory to Easter. Decided hit of Tom Thumb The Great. Last Week of Mr. George Wild and Miss Fanny Williams who will appear in one of their favourite afterpleces. 'rats F 1 V t.:N The Grand new Spectacle of JOI.Isi OF ARC , ; or the Mail of Or- leals, with new and costly costumes Together with Batty's Splendid Scenes of the Circle. To conclude with the laughable Farce of PORK CHOPS ; or a Dream at lUme, ,n which Mr. George Wild and Miss Fanny Wil liams will appear. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. T. Thompson. THOU WATER Al LONDON BRIDGE Tam DAY —Morning 1 min. after 3 Evening 16 min. after 3 To-Vonow—Morning 32 min. after 'Evening 4 min. after 3 THE WEATHER.—Su' OFFICE, APRIL 3. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 50—highest since noon yesterday. 42—lowest this morning and during the night. 50—this day, at noon. BA FLOMF:I EU, 30.08. WIND N.N.E.—hazy weather, with occasional sunshine. DAILY WEATHER TABLE. State the Wind and Weather at each of the following places at Nine o'clock yesterday morning. —The stations a-,‘ arranged in order of latitude. PLyetouTit—Wind W., gentle breeze—rain. PORTSMOUTH—W in d %V., strong breeze—overcast. Einuirros—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast. Setertweercee—Winu W., strong breeze—cloudy. YoureeeroNe— Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast. r umiwzo E—w ind W., gentle breeze—overcast. Resuseeroxit -- Wine 5.1 , V., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. GREENWICH—Wind S.W. gentle breeze — overcast. v B wlND ol4 —Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast. weicarrox—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—rain. COLCHESTER—Wind S.W., gentle breeze — o vercast. CAM Brawls—Wind S .N. gent l e breeze—rain. Biateteuiram — Wind S. W;, gentle breeze—overcast. Y A RMOUTH—Wind c , ,„ strong breeze—cloudy. 0 WHITBY — Wind . 1 v e gentle breeze—overcast. B ,I.CASUCK— Wind W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. The returns from the following places indicate the state of the wind and weather on Tuesday morning at nine o'clock:— LekteceucK—Wind S., strong breeze—partially cloudy. CARLOW—Wind S. W. gentle breeze—cloud y . MULLINGAR— Wind SAIL, gentle breeze—overcast. POOLE—Wind N., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. DUG HTON—Wind N.W., gentle breeze—overcast.. BiumeerearAet—Wind W., gentle breeze —overcast. PETELBOROUGH—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—parti a ll y cloudy. CREWE —Mind W., gentle breeze—cloudy. LivEurcx:e.— Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast. y oß K—Wind N.W., gentle breeze.—overcast. WHITEHAVEN Wind S.W.. gentle breeze—partially cloudy.' „..,.7- z .t!,, • 7 :,.. , f, ~'..- 7' - - -1. ‘),,,,,*,.4.-ziv ~..,.,.- )0 ,, ~k r,, ----' , - -- " , - . --- -, - , ..,f,<-03'';'P ' 7 %;:i 0s s , 4. Didu 5 ; •,, DIE ii ,' ”. " 2' i ZAt ' - a _ Ob - tiga aitiff6 LONDON, TuuRsDAY, APRIL 3, 1851. Thu House of Common S sat yesterday at Twelve. The Compound Householders' Bill w ent throu g h Cpmmittee. Mr. LOCKE KING moved th e secon d reading of the Bill for the Extension of the Franchise Mr. HmnE and Mr. P. TIONVIRD au t d the Bill. Mr. Fox MAULS did not object in Counties. the measure, but considered th e Preaent moment inop portune far bringing it forward. e. the princip le of Sir B. BALL, Sir DE LACY EVANS, COL Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE, Mr. HEADLA3T, THOMPSON, all reconarne4 . RICE, MY. CLAY, and Colonel ROMILLY, drawel of the Bill for the present. filed the w ith. Mr. BRIGHT, though hopeless of succeeding,!ti hed it Alderma n to go on, as did Mr. T. DUNCOMBE and Mr. SIDNEY. Lord J. RessELL submitted that it was better to wait .for a comprehensive measure until next session th snatch impatiently now at a partial one. lie reiterated his pledge to bring forward a Bill for extending the franchise at the very nornmePeement of the session next year, but declined from prudential reasons to specify any details. After a few words Pram Mr. DisnAELI and Mr. W. 0. STANLEY in opposition to the measure, and a short -reply from Mr. LOCKE KING, the House divided, when ...there appeared—. ro• For the second reading ..• ••• 83 .. 299 Against Majority against the second reading —216 MO Audit of Railway Accounts Bill was read a second tEsae on the motion of Mr. Loos.E. i t Uprises of Prosecutions Bill was committed , p ro it 94 &h motion of Sir G. Gur. ~~ 'tip., f ~. . The reports on the Mutiny and Marine) Mutiny Bills were brought up and agreed to. ¶fhe House then adjourned. Thirteen years ago Sir ROBERT PEEL delivered that memorable oration in Threadneedle-street Iwhich ultimately led to the foundation of a great party based upon the principles of Conservatism. A recollection of this circumstance appears to have revived during the last few days the fading hopes of the Protectionists. Hence the rather disproportioned significance associated in their minds with the enter tainment given yesterday evening by the Merchant Taylors' Company to Lord STANLEY and his political adherents. It was presumed that a similar banquet, given in the same hall, under somewhat kindred auspices, must necessarily lead to results almost identical in their character. PEEL had formerly overwhelmed the MELBOURNE Administration. STANLEY, by adopting the like tactics, and discharg ing the artillery of his rhetoric from the same quarter, was to scatter dismay through Downing-street and as effictually to destroy the remaining forces of the RUSS ELL Government. Now, to our thinking, imi tations are almost inevitably failures, or, at any rate, only so far successful as to derive an evanescent im portance from the glory cast around them by the remembrance of their prototypes. It bas, there fore, been to us but little cause for astonishment to find the expected manifesto of the Stanleyites dege nerating into after-dinner eloquence, their looked-for declaration of principles degraded to complimentary twaddle, and their anticipated thunderclap a mere Brummagem Demonstration. We are perfectly aware that it may appear little short of high treason to mention, in language at all flavoured by derision, any proceedings of that very gifted and chivalric statesman who is regarded by many as the probable successor to the consulship. His brilliant powers as a rhetorician have been too frequently displayed by the " Rupert of Debate" to admit, according to some, of any scornful allusion being made to his latest, and his not least elaborately prepared, harangue. We are ready to acknowledge, of course, as every one gifted with the most mediocre faculties of appreciation must perforce acknowledge, that Lord STANLEY is, among all living orators, per haps one of the most scholarly, as be is unquestionably one of the most distinguished. Nevertheless, we must at once avow that in his speech of yesterday we can no where discover those lofty claims to admiration either in reference to good taste or to logical acumen. Let any unprejudiced man read that speech dispassionately, and we defy him to commend the speaker conscien tiously in either of those particulars. Let him read it without knowing beforehand whose lips it fell from, and we defy him, if he be an unprejudiced man, to peruse it without feelings very nearly approaching to absolute contempt—contempt too profound for indig nation. Why, as a mere specimen of declamation the harangue dwindles down to veritable insignificance. And as a flagrant defiance of all the proprieties of political etiquette, it stands altogether beyond the reach of comparison. Remembering only too bitterly the death of one of the greatest statesmen who has ever adorned the annals, or presided over the destinies of England, the people will listen with sorrow to the sinister reference made by Lord STANLEY to the most notable act in the life of that illustrious man ; when, disclaiming any intention to wound the memory of the departed, the Noble Lord hinted with a dark and disingenuous significance that he would " draw a veil" over that recollection. 'What posthumous slander is this ? Directed too against the vanished genius of one as noble in nature as the very noblest of his antagonists, as elevated in pa triotism, and as spotless in reputation! And this, moreover, from one who was formerly glad to be numbered among the ranks of his supporters, the Roland of the Lords, and the knight-errant of the Legislature ! But all this, we may be told, is allowable just for the sake of rhetorical colouring, as a prelude, a foil, and a contrast to the panegyric immediately after wards pronounced by Lord STAN LEY upon another departed leader of the Commons House of Parliament. A panegyric on whom ? On one endowed by nature with a gallantry so conspi cuous as to be little less than Quixotic. On a brave, out-spoken, resolute, and unflinching upholder of doctrines that might otherwise have been altogether abandoned in desperation. In a word, a panegyric On the memory of Lord GEORGE BENTINCIi. Some eulogistic allusions to that daring champion of the Protectionists was naturally almost demanded, if it were only out of considerations of gratitude. An encomiastic allusion to his efforts immediately before his sudden and lamented departure was about the most graceful tribute that could possi bly have been offered by Lord STANLEY. And any thing in this way we should—Free-traders though we are—have hearkened to with a respectful and sympa thising deference. But the exaggerated and prepos terous adulation indulged in by the chieftain of the Country Party when referring to the late representa tive of King's Lynn, is so nauseous from its extrava gance, that while we esteem and even admire the memory of the eulogised, we laugh to scorn the eulogiser. Why, the panegyric scarcely falls short of being an actual apotheosis. The manes of a departed demigod could hardly be propitiated with more hyper bolical flattery. The greatest hero that ever lived would look little under the trappings of such ever gilded compliment. And all this is effected, more over, through the medium of claptrap sentiments ex pressed in the tritest phraseology. "To say that he had his failings," exclaimed Lord STANLEY, in a tone of magnificent concession, " and that he committed errors, is to say no more than that he was a mortal man." We fancy we have heard those words before —just once or twice. " But his failings," continued the eulogist, " were failings that lean to virtue's side' [an expression applied already some few dozen times to others besides the village parson of GOLDSMITH] ; and his errors were the too vehement ebullitions of a generous and indignant spirit, that could not curb the language which flowed to his tongue when he witnessed what he thought in justice." A rather ungraceful reminder, this, of vi tuperations it were well poor Lord GEORGE had never indulged in—seeing that they tended to accuse wrongfully a great and pure nature of conduct the most dastardly, leading by inference even to a charge of secret assassination ! To return, however, from thin sickening stab in the dark to a dead man slum bering in an honourable grave—the orator pursues his theme with an undiminished glibness of abounding platitudes and diluted commonplaces. t, Th a t noble heart," he says, " bas long ceased to beat [a rather threadbare method of re ferring to a dissolution] ; and the untutored elo quence which flowed from those lips is now heard no more" —a remark, withal, not less hackneyed in expression, an d somewhat blunderingly intro duced, seeing that it calls only too painfully to the remembrance of those who have ever listened to the departed nobl eman the distressing hesitation of his delivery, the scarcely comprehensible entangle ment of his argument, a n d the interrupted manner o f his articulation—very nearly amounting to a positive were impediment of speech. S uc h among the most tawdry adornments of that classic or a ti on i n which Lord STANLEY yesterday bid f or the red boxes, and , the red tape, and, sweetest of all, the red, red gold, inseparable from the prerogative s and responsi bilities of the British Government. Most of the other speakers at the banquet last evening would seem to have been infected by disease of flattery, with which the N oble Lea the of the Protectionists was so lame ntably tdoerr. mented. Among these must beespecially particularised the Honourable and Learned Ge ntleman the representative of Midhurst. One a l, most laughs to hear the grandiloquence of his toast to a personage " equally distinguished in the camp and in the Cabinet"—could it be the health;of his Grace the Duke of WELLINGTON ? No, but—" the tried friend of the agricultural interest, the Duke "whose RICHMOND." Were the object of the panegyric to have asked those w ho evidenced astonishment at the non sequitur, if the y remembered him not; as suredly they might have been t em p ted to answer, as HAMLET - answers POLONIUS — " E xcellent well, y ou area fish monger !" One ve or sycop hancy h onourable and almos t so litary exception to this display of akness . . Honourable Gentleman the protectrnmst leader of th e H °use of Commons, a popu l ar repre sentative (according to z i the appropriate expressions of Lord STANL E Y) talents for conducting a party bad been proved rawly a well fought Meld; 1 ' and whose weight, ability, and eloquence were the admiration of his friends and the terror of his enemies." The eloquent and well considered speech in which Mr. DISRANLI responded to this emphatic tribute of admiration, and to some extent also, we might even say, of gratitude, was the solitary counterpoise to the otherwise distressing and unre deemed indecorums which characterized the de monstration. For inasmuch, therefore, as his oration tended to mitigate the disgust with which the entire entertainment must have been otherwise regarded, the members of the Protectionist party have new cause for thankfulness to the repre sentative of Buckinghamsh ire. Actions for libels against public journalists will speedily cease to be fashionable. Thanks to consti tutional British Judges, and honest and intelligent British Juries, the liberty of the Press is at length placed on a solid foundation. While we are so fortu nate as to possess such men as the Loan CHIEF JUSTICE of England, Lord Chief Justice JERVIS, Mr. Justice Elm's, and their distinguished and able coadjutors presiding on the Bench of Justice, and impartially administering the laws of the land, but little encou ragement will be afforded to needy or vindictive plain tiffs to bring forward frivolous or unfounded com plaints, in order to gratify their malice or cupidity at the expense of the fourth estate. Neither will specu lative attorneys be quite so willing to carry on such suits, seeing that "a farthing damages will (no longer) carry costs." The " good old time," when 500/., or 1,0001., or 1,500/. verdicts could be obtained, when numerous suits might be instituted against every person in any way connected with a publication, for one and the same cause of action, have departed, we trust, never to return. They are buried in " the tomb of all the Capulets," and long may it before any judge or jury can be found to make any effort for their resuscitation. Since last Trinity term we have had to comment on fie of such actions, two against ourselves (by the same individual and for the same alleged cause), and one each against our contemporaries the Weekly Dispatch, the Times, and the Daily News. The results were similar in every case ; verdicts for the defendants, or for merely nominal damages were returned. The plaintiffs gained nothing, except the privilege of bear ing their own costs, and, in some instances, of defray ing those of the defendants ! Another experiment was also tried last week, but there was still no change. The plaintiff and the plaintiff's attorney re ceived but little encouragement from a special jury of the county of Norfolk, who, after hearing an admi rable and lucid charge from the Loan CHIEF JUSTICE of the Common Pleas, returned a verdict, which was equivalent to a decision in favour of the defendant, and assessing damages (in case that decision should be set aside on a point of law, so that a new investigation should not be re quired under any circumstances) at the smallest coin of the realm, " one farthing," the usual remunera tion for parties who come into court for the alleged purpose of vindicating their characters without clean hands. Our respected, uncompromising, and talented contemporary, the Norwich Mer cury, has thus fought the good fight on behalf of its order. It was on this occasion placed in the posi tion of champion of public journalism, which suf fered nothing in its hands, for ably and manfully it discharged the onerous and important duty, and per formed its devoir in true chivalric style. There was a considerable family resemblance be tween the cases of ABBOTT v. BACON and of MIAs v. LAWSON, to which we directed the public attention towards the end of February. in the latter case the action was brought by a dis missed turnkey of Marlborough-street Police court, who was discharged from his situation on " suspicion " of conniving at the escape of a notorious convict. The reporter of the Times, how ever, in speaking of the transaction six months after it had occurred, unfortunately omitted the word "sus picion." The name of the plaintiff was not men tioned, and few, indeed, could have identified the party alluded to. The omission of the single word however, entitled the plaintiff to a verdict, but the jury made that a matter of but little consequence, by assessing the damages at " one farthing !" So that the only practical difference between the verdict for the plaintiff and one for the defendant was the one fourth part of a penny. We say the only practical difference, for the plaintiff having sued in forma pauperis no costs could have been obtained from him, even had there been a decision in favour of the defendant. In the other case the plaintiff was not " a dis charged turnkey," but a " resigned superintendent of police," who had been charged by the Norwich Mercury with having purloined various articles from the shop of a chemist at Dereham. There could be no doubt that this charge led to the " resignation" of the plaintiff; but the publication had nothing to do with that resignation, for it had taken place before the publication of the article complained of ; the orders of the 10th and 27th of December, 1850, pro duced in evidence, having spoken of the " resigna tion" as having been accepted, while the article only appeared on the 28th of December, after the mis• chief had been done. It afforded, however, a favourable opportunity for the plaintiff to attempt the retrieval of his damaged reputation. It was much pleasanter to stand his trial for the alleged felony as a plaintiff in an action for libel than as a prisoner in the dock. In the former case, if acquitted, he would recover his costs and expenses, as well as a handsome pecuniary recompense from the defendant; but if the decision should be adverse, the only injury would be a liabi lity to the defendant for the costs of the defence, a liability which, under all the circumstances of the case, Mr. BACON may find it exceedingly difficult to enforce; whereas, had the question been tried by a criminal prosecution, in place of by a civil proceeding, be would have borne his own costs and expenses, re ceiving no pecuniary compensation in the event of an acquittal ; while if there were a conviction, he would have expiated his offence by undergoing a suitable punishment. We need scarcely say which branch of the alternative was most agreeable to the gallant ex-superintendent. He selected the civil tribunal for reasons that may easily be understood, and the result is known. The jury declared him to be guilty of one of the felonies charged against him in the plea of justification, and in the event of there being anything to set aside that verdict, they assessed the damages at a farthing on the other charges which had not been sustained. The results of those various cases seem to indicate the necessity for some change in the laW, restricting the power of bringing such actions for libel against public journals. GOD forbid that we should prevent any man from vindicating his cha racter if it bad been unjustly assailed. But an action for damages is not the best way of retrieving an injured reputation. It is in variably considered that a criminal information,where the court ,exercises a discretionary power, before sanctioning such a mode of proceeding, and where, in order to obtain the necessary permission, a com plainant must come into court with clean hands, denying, on his own affidavit, the truth and accura c y of the e accusation that has been put forward, is the proper and satisfactory method of proceeding, if he set a just value on his own character. We would suggest then that some such preliminary investigation should take place before one or more of the judges before an action for libel for anything that appeared in a public journal, and that the presiding judge or judges should be enabled to refuse permis sion to bring such an action, save on the condition of the plaintiff giving full security for the defendant's costs in the event of an unfavourable verdict being returned against him. There would be no hardship in this to any person who was really aggrieved, although it would put a total stop to such actions as those brought by the " dismissed turnkey" or "the resigned superintendent," and would have saved the loss of some hundreds of pounds to the proprietors of the Times and of the Norwich Mercury. LEGAL APPOINTMENTS. —Mr, G. Turner has been appointed to the new Vice - Chancellorship. The Master of the Rolls has appointed Mr. Brett, of the Chancery bar, his chief secretary, and Mr. Knight his first gentleman of the chamber. Ne other changes have been mace in consequence of the appointment of Sir John Romilly to the Rolls, his honour having, with a kind regard to the services of the persons holding office, declined to avail himself of his right to exercise his patronage to the full extent.—Morning Paper. THE NEW LAW OFFICERS OF THE CROWN.Sir John Romilly, the new Master of the Rolls, and Sir Alex ander Cockburn, the new Attorney-General, were yesterday re-elected, without opposition, for Devonport and Southamp ton N.PeCti‘etY. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. The Constilutionnel states that the negotiations for the formation of a Ministry have been resumed with M. Odilon Barrot, and that the following gentlemen will in all probability be members of the Cabinet:—MM. Fould, Thiroche, Rouher, Chasseloup-Laubat, De Toc- Queville, Gustave de Beaumont, Gen era l A u pick, and uentin Bauchart. It was at one time reported that M. Benoit D'Aay, the Legitimatist, would join the new Cabinet. M. Thiers, General Bedeau, and General Changar. nier will, it is said, oppose any Cabinet of which MM, Fould and Baroche shall be members. The Bourse was again dull, without any great variation in the quotations of Government stock. Railroad shares declined slightly. The Five per Cents. opened at 93f. 60c., and closed at 93f. 40c.; the Three per Cents. closed at 57f. 40c.; Orleans Railroad Shares, 8951.; Rouen, 647 f. 50c.; Havre. 2851.; Great Northern, 4771.50 c.; Avignon, 206 f. 25e.; Vierzon, 4501.; Basle, 158 f. 75c.; Bordeaux, 4031. 75c.; Paris and Strasburg, 3711. 25c.; Tours and Nantes, 2781. 75c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 2. Boulogne and Amiens, 9%—Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 17 5 ,;,—Dutch Rhenish, 3A—Luxembourg, 1 —Ditto, 2%—Maria Antonia, 84—Namur and Liege, 8 Northern of France, 14%—Orleans and Bordeaux, 4 1 4, Paris and Strasbourg, 10% Rouen and Havre, 11 Sambre and Meuse, 3%—Tours and Nantes, 6. ti! 1 t t 1, I SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 29th uit. have arrived. General MENDEz Viao has been appointed Captain. General of Madrid. The Committee on the Publio Debt have adopted the whole of the Ministerial propositions. MADRID BOLSA, MARCH 29.—The Three per Cents. were done at 351 for time; the Four per Cents, at 15; the Five per Cents. at 18; the Debt without Interest at 7i; and the Coupons at 91. GERMANY. Accounts from Berlin of the 31st ult. state that it was considered impossible that the MANTEuFFEL Ministry could stand. Count ALVENBLEBEN has refused the portfolio of Foreign Affairs. The Staats-Anzeiger, for so many years the only offi cial organ of the Prussian Government. will cease to exist after the Ist of July, and the official announce ments will thereafter appear in the Preussische Zeitung, late the Deutsche Reform. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. General Vex DER Holum and the staff of the Holstein army have been dismissed, and the 14 2 elstein Marine Academy abolished. The Notables for Denmark anti Schleswig have been nominated. ITALY. The Risorgimento of the 29th ult. states that a great number of Romans intended to visit the London Expo sition. "But," adds the correspondent of the Turin journal— - "The Government will not grant passports to all those who will apply for them. I know that the Pope has dis suaded a learned prelate, who had come to take leave of him, from undertaking the journey. lam assured that the Nea politan Government will be still more severe than that of Rome with regard to delivering passports for London." h 4 ROttion EPSOM RACES. (THIS DAY.-BY EXPRESS.) THE STEEPLECHASES. The Beddington Free Handicap. The General ... ... Trust-me-not ... ... ... 2 The Free Handicap Hurdle Race. Lord George ... ... ... ... 1 Vesta ... ... ... ... 2 Valentine threw a shoe this morning, pulled up lame, and is not expected to start for the Handicap. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY LONDON, APRIL 3.--Wind this day at noon N.W., cloudy. Hula., Amur, I.—The Jean and Mary schooner, off Banff, from Findhom to Goole, sunk near the Spurn last night, af.er being in contact; crew saved. ROCHESTER, APRIL L—Sld. Maidstone, Manilla. BRIDPORT, APRIL I.—Sld. Saucy Jack, St. John's, New foundland. QUEENSTOWN, MARCH 31.—SId. Ella, New York. LIMERICK, MARCH 31.—Arrd. Rambocia. Constantinople. GRANGEMOUTH, MARCH 31. Sld. Henry Porcher, Quebec. Sirrams, Maucti 31.—Sid. Robert Moffatt, Leghorn; Robert and Mary, Copenhagen and Quebec. CUXHAVEN, MARCH 30.—A Dutch ruff is on shore above Ottundorf. GLUCRSTADT, MARCH 29.—The Sophie Augustine, of St. Vaust, was towed in here yesterday, dismasted and aban doned, having been picked up off Bochum Reef; she is sup posed to have been in contact with a steamer. YARMOUTH, APRIL I.—A hesd• board was washed on shore at Caister yesterday, with the name "Isabella Scott" thereon, in gilt letters. APPLEDORE, APRIL I.—A piece of timber, 57i feet in length, was washed on shore at the back of the Barrows yes terday, apparently some time in the water. DEAL, APRIL W.S.W.— Kron Prins Oscar, Longwund for Falmouth; Jan Daniel, Java, for Rotterdam; Barbara, Hjortb, Frederickshold ; Somnautb, Lawson, Bombay; Sertum, Sparks, Berbice. Sid. Susan. Collings, the Nassau; Scud, Turk's Island. Arrd. from River, Lord Dalhousie, Ferris, Calcutta. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 2.—Wind variable.—Arrd. Gertrude, Middlemist, Sand Island; Emily West, Porto Rico; Juno, Morn, Savannah ; Chimboyayo, Nelson, Valparaiso ; Hal cyon, Wade, and Geo. Raynes, Penhallow, New Orleans; Eliza Morrison, M'Culloch, Mobile; Agnes, Brown, Apala chicola. Sld. Jane Hammond, Lady Elgin, Eliza Anna, and New York, Quebec. Off port, Florist. The American Lass, from Lisbon to Newfoundland, was spoken with on the 24th March, in lat. 47 N., long. 29 W., having lost her rudder five days previously, but with another on deck ready to ship when the sea went down. GuituNsui, APRIL I—Wind S.W.—Sld. Daring,Havannah. 1 JERSEY, APRIL 1. —Wind N.N.W.—SId. Brand and P.R.C., Arichat, Harnatorre, Gasps; Sophia, Paspebiac. NEwPoRT, APRIL I.—Wind N.W.—Sld. Prima Donna, Porto Rico; Caroline, St. Thomas's; Bacchus, Quebec. QUEENSTOWN, APRIL I.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Duncan Rit chie, Jopp, Callao; Maid of Erin, Ibraila and Falmouth. LIMERICK, APRIL 1. —Wind N.W. - Arrd. - Rambachia, Vretta, Ibraila ; Adrianople. Melfs, Alexandria. Sid. Napoleon, and Hopewell, New York. OVER, APRIL 2.—The Glenbrenbrat, from Rio Janeiro to Bremen, put in hereyesterday with loss of bowsprit and lar.. board-bow stove, having been in contact with a bark. name unknown, off the Galloper, on the night of the 31st March. COWES, APRIL 2.—The Vivid schooner, of and for Scilly, from Hull, was abandoned last night, five miles S.E. of St. Catherine's, after being in contact with the Atlantic (American ship) from Antwerp to New York ; crew saved. PILL, APRIL 2.—The Ashley, for New York, has put back to Bristol, making nine inches water per hour. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) NEWGATE AND LEADENHAX.X.. The general demand ruled tolerably steady to-day, at full prices. Beet from 2s 2d to 3s 4d; Mutton, 2s 6d to 3s 10d; Lamb, 4s 8d to 5s 10d; Veal, 3s to 4s; Pork 2a 6d to 3s 10d per 81bs by the carcase. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 31 Os Od to 416 s Od; Clover ditto, 3/ 5s to 4/ 8s ; and Straw, 1/ 5s to 11 10s per load. Supply rather limited, and trade firm. CUDIBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 31 Os to 4/ 8s; Clover ditto, 3/ 5s to 418 s ; and Straw, 11 bs to 11 108 per load. Trade steady, at very full prices. WHITRCHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 3/ Os to 4/ 3s; Clover ditto, 315 s to 4/ los •, and Straw, 114 s to 11 10s per load. A moderate supply, and a steady sale. MEAT MARA:LETS. SOUTHALL, APRIL 2.—Our market to-day bas been fairly supplied with each kind of fat stock, in which only a limited business has been transacted, at 'barely stationary prices. Beef, from 23 10d to 3s 8d ; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 6d ; Lamb, 5s to 5s 10d ; Veal, 3s 4d to 3s 10d ; Pork, 3s 4d to 38 8d per Blbs, to sink the offal. ROAMED, Areal. 2.—Prime Sheep were in good request, at full prices. In other kinds of stock very little was doing. Beef, from 2s 8d to 3s 8d; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 8d; Lamb, 5s to 6s; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s; Pork, 3s to 3s 8d per Blbs. LEWES, APRIL I.—The general demand is inactive, at our quotations. Beef, from 3s to 4s; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 8d ; Lamb, 55 to 5s 8d ; Veal, 3s 4d to 3s 8d per Sibs. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the Week ended March 27,1851, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in Eagland and Walcs per Imperial Quarter. wasaT. 'BARMY.' OATS. RTZ. 1 BRANS. ?BAS. PRICE I ZBs Oct 123 s Id 16a 7d 128 s 5d 1 255 7d I 24s 6d DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. WHEAT. I BARLEY. I OATS. I NYE. I BEANS. I PE/U. IS Od Is Od Is Od Is Od Is Od Is Od QUANTITIES OF GRAIN SOLD IN THE PAST WEEK. Wheat, 84,729; Barley, 48,609; Oats, 21,829 ; Rye, 59; Beans, 6,624; Peas, 940 quarters. PANORAMA. OF TEE ROUTE TO PAR15,....A pano rama was exhibited, in connexion with a popular monologue on art by Mr. J. Clark, from the Polytechnic Institution, on Tuesday evening last, at the Southwark Literary Institution, but which differed from the panoramas of the day in the circumstance of the summer tourist being supposed to have an ulterior object in view, a desire to see the gallery of the Louvre, and to prepare the traveller for the appreciation of the works of art seen in the gallery. A monologue, called "Twenty Minutes with the Arts," was delivered by Mr. J. Clark, who, at the same time that he interested the fair por tion of his audience by his amusing anecdotes and observe tions on colour, afforded many hints to those who wish to be instructed in the works of the old masters. The exhibi tion was very instructive and entertaining, and the artist de serves great credit for the manner in which the illustrations were executed. CITY SEwans COMMISSION.—Oa Tuesday the Commissioners held their court at Guildhall. Mr. Deputy Peacock presided. A deputation of the inhabitants of Bishopsgate presented a memorial in favour of wood paving, which did not, however, produce the result desired by the memorialists, only three hands being held up in favour of it. Mr. Deputy Harrison withdrew his proposition for the amal gamation of the City of London and Great Central Gas Company. Some business of no public importance having been dispatched, a statement was made by the medical officer of the amount of deaths in the metropolis. After some discussion as to the salubrity of Smithfield-market ensued, several•speakers bearing testimony to the healthiness of the place, and others testif'ing to its disadvantage. The Commissioners afterwards adjourned the court. THE EDINBURGH NATIONAL GALLERY.—The contract for building the National Gallery on the Mound has been taken by Mr. David Lind, the builder of the Scott Monument, the Assembly Hall, and the British Linen Com pany's Bank. THE SHARE MARKETS. BRITISH RAILWAYS. Railways. Paid. Nonxbial Peon. 14 to 14% 3% 3 dl3. 10% - 11% .. ".. •• 81 - 82 13 -13 U 21% - 22% i(*) Zii dl. 4% - 5 :4 - 3 )4 71i - 7)4 5% -6% 4% —4% 16% 16% 34 —3b 7% 8 . • -- • • Ni 3i 17% - 17% 5% -5% 11% - 12 41 -43 15% 86% 2% 2i die. 75 —BO 8 —lO p. 29 —al p 57% 58% 10% —9% d. 7 —6% Ws. 6 —51,6 d. 15 —l7 7%- 8 34 -1- 34 P 94 -95 -127 '4% - 5 P. 5 -5%p. 2% - 3 p. 86 -87 7% —6% die. 6 4 die. 3% —3% el. 32 -34 3 —2% dia. 59 59% 15 14% dis 83 —as •• •- •• - 5 —4 d is. 4 3 dia. 26 -28 13 —l2 die. 25i —4 4 dis. 9y4 10 6%dls. 11 10% dls. 1 1) 17N - 184 16 -17 9% - 10% -7% 4% dls. a% a dia. 2 18 —2O 9 —lO 13 —l5 27 % dis- 0. 18 -20 - 35 1% - 34 dis. 3%- 4% 9A - 10 i% = ' 7 7 du. 134 2 4 b d. 5 17 —IS -•-- •• 8 7% 31 -21% 4 —3% di,. IS —1% dls. 26% -- 26 FIXED Leasin Railways. conapant g es. Paid. Closing Prices. Business Berks:and Hants Ex. 5 per Cent. Gt. Western 6 34 1 p. Bir. and Oxford Junc.,calladuly paid, or with a guarantee •• Do .. .. 90 28% 29% Do., without a guarantee .. DO .. • • 20 27 —2B Birm., WoL, & Dud ~calls duly paid, or with a guarantee •• Do .. 15 834 p Do., without a guarantee •. Do • • • . 15 7 8 p Buckinghamsh. Lon. &N. W. 17% 17% 17% E. Lin., Guar. 6 per Cent. .. G. Northern 25 32% —33 327 hull and Selby Yk. &N. M. 50 101 103 103 Do. % Shares Do .. • . 25 50 —5l Do. 34 Shares Do • • .. 12% 23 —24 Leeds and Brad. Midland .. 50 973( 98% 98 Lon. and Green. S. Eastern . 12 15 4 11% 11% Do., Pref. .. Do .. 20 24 —25 Lowestoft, Gd. 4 per Cent. • • Norfolk • • 20 15 —l6 N. & East, 5 per Cent. .. E. Counties . 50 54 —56 Do. New .. Do • • • • 43 4 6 p Preston andl &N. W.l 25 41 — 43 Wyre •• $ & La.& Y. Do. 34 Shares ADo .. •• 103%s 734 Read., Guild., and Reigate .. S. Eastern 20 21 213( Roy. & Ilitchin G. Northern 634 77 9 —B% Do. Shep. Ex.. Do .. 354 1 110. South Staffords. Mr. M`Clean 5 54 dls. 6 34 Wear Val. 6 per Cent. gua. • Stock.& Dar. 25 24 2434 24 Wilts, Som., & Weymouth .. Gt. Western 50 4436 45% INC iRETER SHARES. Railways. I Paid. Nominal Prices. Business done to-day. --- Aberdeen •• •• • • 8 6 r % die. Caledonian 10/, .. • • 10 6 —6% Chester and llolyhead .. 15 15% 16% x.d lf % x.d East Anglian (31. 10s.) 6 per cent. .. 8% 2% Do. (51.) 7 pr. et. Pref. Do. (7 L 175.) 7p. c.Tref. 2 • • Eastern Counties Eaten., per cent. No. 1 613 4 par p rm Do. No. 2 .• .. 613 4 par P % Pm Do. New 6p. cent. Stock 10 10% 11% 11 Eastern Union, Scrip guaran. 6 per cent. • • 20 15% 16% 16 Do. 101. Deben. Shares . 10 East Lancashire, 6 per cent, quarter shares .. 64 • • Glasgow & S.-W. Consol 100 .. Gt. Northern, 5 per cent. 12% 13% 13% Great South. & Western (Ireland) eighths .. 1 p. Lancashire and York shire, F. 201. .. 6 1% —1% die. Do. 6 per cent. Stock . 100 .. Leeds and Thirsk, 6 per cent., No. 1 .• 11 p Do. 6 per cent., No. 2 . 17 .. —• • Do. 6 per cent., No. 3 . 5 • • —. • Do. quarters, 1848 .. 9 2 p London, Brighton, and South Coast guar. 5 per et., late Croydxn thirds 100 .. Do. pref., 5 p et. Stock, 1851, from 501. share. E 100 114 120 Do. cony. 5 per et. 1859 50 67 —6O Do. new guar., 6 per ct. 100 136 139 London &S.-W., new .. 5 2% - 234 p. Londonderry and Ennis killen, half shares •• 10 .. Manch., Sheffield, and Line , quar. Ws., No. 1 25 13% 14% Do. new, 101. 10 l 1 —l2 12 Do., 6L .. • . 3 % % Midland Con. 6p. c. stock 100 132 134 Do. Consel. Bristol & Birming., 6 per cent... 100 .. Do. Bristol & Glouces. 48 .. ••-• Do. do. do. .. 33 10.6 .. Do. Erewash Valley .. 50 .. Do. Leic. & Swanning. 8 per cent. guar. • • 100 .. Norfolk Extension • • 20 17 —lB Do, guar. 5% per cent. 5 4% —4% Do. Wavenoy Valley .. 2 North British • • .. b 5 —5% x.d b 3` X.d Shrewsbury and Birm. New Guaranteed .. 11 11% Shrews. and Ches. (Nor. W. Min.) 8 per cent. 10 15% 15% 15% South Devon • • • • .. 95 14 —l6 South-Eastern, 434 p. et. 10 .. Waterford &Kilkenny,sL 1 • • WestLendon,lst Cl. (10L) 10 Do. 2d Class ds. (par) 20 York, Newc., and Berw., 17 Gt. N.of E. Pur. .. 16 —l7 4%-+4% York and North Midland 11. and S. Purch. .. 10 1 die. 9 Oxford, Wercester. and Wolverhampton, 151., 6 per cent., 3%. FOREIGN. 20 Boulogne and Amiens .. Central of France (Or leans and Vierzon) .. Demerara .. .. .. Dutch Rhenish .. .. East Indian .. .. .. 9% -.9x 17% - 17% Do. do. do. :: Great Indian Poninzula .. Ditto ditto Louvain a la Samre Luxembourg • . 5 434 dls. 1 —l% p. Ditto Madrid and Valentia . . . % - %P. si-%P. Maria Antonia ---- .: .... Ditto, New .. .. Namur and Liege .. • • Northern of France .. Orleans and Bordeaux .. Paris and Orleans .. .. Paris and Rouen • • •• Paris and Strasbourg • • Rouen and Havre .. • . Sambre and Meuse • • 1 -1% Tours and Nantes •• • • Tournay, Jurbiso, Lan don, and Emelt Wait Flamion • 7 —9 2 —4 7% 14% 15 4 clic 36 —3B 25 —26 5 % -5 db. 11 11% 3)4 —21% 9 die. oh % 17X 18 lf,i 3% 3 % .. •••• • • 9 •• 2)16 143;ri 11 14 3% li 64-24 Business done to-day. 14% 15%% lb 5 % % % 82% 1 3 % 1 4%14% 22% 21% 23% 5 4% 7% % 4% 54 1% A % 17% % 34 % 5 % % % 12 3 12 86% 87% % 59 lA% 60 1 15 [59% 4% 17 M 17 95 U [128% 128 12]% 128 22 % 86% 34 88 1% % die. 60 % 62 61►( 120% % st%% 1 % % % 3i 10% 9% 10 [9% 10% 11 19% pa. 3% 4% 3%% 3% 2(du. 33i% x.d [26% 26 %%% 27k 35 34 14% 14 Aberdeen.. .. • • •• Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston, & E. Juncion Belfast and County Down Birming., Wolverhamp., and Stour Valley Birkenh., Lan., & Chesil June., late 331.65. Bd.. Do. Chest. & Blrkenhd., SO/. &251. Consolidated Do., do., 201. • . Bristol and Exeter.• •• Caledonian .• • • • • Chester and Holyhead .. Direct Lond. and Portam. Dublin and Belfast Junct. Dublin and Kingstown.. Dundalk and Enniskillen East Anglian (251. L. & E. and L. & D!) Do, (181. E. & H.) •• Eastern Counties .. Eastern Union, class A, late E. U. shares .• Do. do. do. .. Do. do., B & C shares East Lancashire .. Do. New quarters Edinburgh ani Glasgow Edin., Perth, and Dundee Do. Newport .. • • Exeter and Exmouth .. Glasgow and South-West, Do. do. G.l). & C. god Great Northern • • • • Do. halves, A, deferred Do. halves, B, 6 per ct. Great dontherni l and Western, Ireland • • Great Western .. Do. New, 171. .. ~ Lancaster and Carlisle .. Do. thirds .. Lancaster and Preston Lancashire and Yorkshire Do. quarter shares .. Do. fifths . Do. West Riding Union Leeds and Thirsk Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport .. London and Blackwall Do., Tilbury Eat. Scrip London, Brighton, and South Coast • • • • London and N.-Western Do. do new quarters . Do. fifths Do. 101. sh., M.&IS (c) London and S.-Western . Do. new 50/. Do. new 401. .• Londonderry & Coleraine Do. half shares .. Londonderry and Ennis- Manchester, Buxton, and, Matlock •• Manchester, Sheffield, & Lincolnshire .•• Do. Manchester and Lincoln Union •• Mldland .. • • •• •• Do. consolidated pref. Do. 501. shares .: Do. Birming & Derby Midland Gt. West. (Ire.) Newcastle and Carliale.• De. quarter shares .. Newmarket • • .. .. Newport, Abergavenny, and Ilereford .. • • Newry and Enniskillen .. Newry, Warrenpoint, & Itostrevor .. • • Norfolk • • .. .. • • Do. New 20/. shares.. Northern Counties Union North British • • • • • North Staffordshire • • North-Western .. • • North & Sth.-West. June. Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton.. • • Scottish Central .. • • Scottish Midland .. . Do. new .. .. .. EParewsbury & Binning. Clasi A. Do. Class 8.. • • • • Shrews. & Hereford., Old Do., do., New • • Shrewsbury and Chester (Nor. W. Min.) •• Do. Halves .. • • • • Do. Oswestry •• •• Do. New.... .. • • 'Shropshire Union • . • • Do., A, B, C, & D, Hilly paid up at per cent • • South Devon South-Eastern .• •• South Wales.. South Yerkah. and River Dun .• Shell., Roth ? and Goole, South Division Stockton and Hartlepool Swansea & Loughor, &c. raw Yale Extension .. Thames Haven Deck and Railway .. Vale of Neath .. • . Waterford and Kilkenny Waterford and Limerick, Waterford, Wex., Wick. and Dublin .. West Cornwall .. West London .. Whitenaven and Furness York, Newcastle, & Ber wick • • „ • • Ditto and Newcastle Extension .. Ditto G.N.E. purchase or preference .. .. York and Nerth Midland LINES znas: ID dir 16( li Vxf % 26% )4 % 'TAX'S. 13 14 0 174 100 5 45 100 1 1 0 100 8 6 8 11 13 4 47% 100 Li 6 8 1W 100 42) 4 2 0 100 100 100 47% 100 50 25 25 22 13 6 3 9 12 3 paid up paid up 20 1 6% Anglo-Mexican(is. 5/. p.) Asturian • • • • • • • • I Australian :..... _ - Barossa Range Blaenarvon Iron and Coal Bolanes Scrip ........ • • British 1r0n.. ...... Brazilian Imp. (is. 51. p.) Do. Cocaes and Cuiaba Do. St. John del Rey— Cobre Copper •••• .• . Coplapo ..... • ..... • .• General.. Real Del Monte, llnreg. Do. Black Debentures. Do. Red Debentures .. Santiago de Cuba ...... Tin Croft United Mexican.— JOIN 10EL: 324 14 tble for tl interests -2% 3% - 32% - 32 1414 - 1574, 35 14 - 34.31 6)4 - 7 7 s% 10% 11 4% 5►4 !ic sa=ves 33 32!,i 421 i 42 971 12 25 25% 18% 17% 273 i 273,4 17% 18 42 —43% 15% 15 33% 33% 3 354 12% -- lea( .ANEOUS. 42% - 46 26% - 27% 68A -7th 73 -78 lo errors of the Official Lists, and I correspondents.] Australasia ...... British North America.. Colonial .............. Commercial of London.. London Joint Stock .... London and Westminster National Provincial Eng. Do. New ... ..... .... National of Ireland .... Provincial of Ireland.... Do. New . ...... Union of Australia .... Do. New ...• • ....... Union of London ...... Union of Madrid - Canada .........: Gen. Steam Navigation .1 Penin. & Oriental Steam. Royal Mail Steam ...... rWe cannot be answers will not be influenced by MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at 6,000 bales, of which 500 American were taken for expert. The market was quiet, and closed with American a shade in favour of buyers.—Railway Shares continue very depressed. The six weeks' average price of Wheat is 375. 3d. per quarter. Some interesting statistics, bearing upon the Cotton market, are furnished by Mr. H. F. Forrest, of Manchester, who states : " The feeling of uncertainty respecting the stability of prices which has prevailed for so long a period, on account of the doubtful position of the Cotton crop, and the sensitive state of the principal markets everywhere, as regards that article, continues to affect all classes of buyers, and is likely to do so until prices arrive at a point calculated to inspire confidence in their maintenance. As it is pretty generally agreed that a state of things so desirable can hardly be hoped for until the supply of the raw material is much in excess of the probable consumption, some time will doubt less elapse ere this momentous question is set at rest—mean while, as the period of its solution approaches, and until the prospect of a supply of Cotton from every quarter, where exertions have been made to increase its growth, has been ascertained sufficiently to reduce its value, within safe limits, the trade of this district must continue unsatisfactory and harassing to the spinner, and to the merchant a source of much anxiety and doubt. Another cause likely to affect the future value of Cotton, and to assist in its decline at an earlier period than might otherwise have been the case. had its consumption been on the usual scale, is the material reduction in the amount consumed in the United States. Very little stress appears so far to have been laid upon this cir cumstance, by a large proportion of our consumers, but they have taken into account, and very properly, a fact referred to in some previous circulars, tending to counteract a decline in prices, from other causes, namely, the very inferior qua lity of a large portion of the crop, and the relatively small proportion that is suitable for the middling and superior qualities of our staple fabrics. For this reason it is not im probable that the prices of printers, shirtings, and other kinds of goods, as well as yarns, in the manufacture of which such a quality of Cotton can alone be used, will be better maintained than some are now disposed to admit. At all events, the moderate state of the stocks on hand do not justify the belief entertained by many, of an early decline in prices, espec:ally if a more active demand succeeds the dull and unsatisfactory state of business since the beginning of the year. The quantity of Cotton taken for consumption at Liverpool for the twelve weeks ending the 28th ult., was 303,200 bales against 283,540 bales in 1850 to the same period. Prices are about the same as they were month ago, having recovered the decline which took place about the middle of the month. The imports this year into Liverpool are 382,741 bales against 326,130 bales to the same time in 1850, and the stock on hand 518,740 bales against 490,510 bales." Messrs. Joseph Robinson and Co. give us the following report concerning the Wool Market at Liverpool : " The Wool Market since our last monthly report has been more languid, and for the home trade an almost suspension of business is apparent; under such circumstances, pur chases are reported on easier terms. This decline arises from the absence of demand for manufactured goods for export, and is supposed to be of a temporary character, because stocks on hand throughout the kingdom are light, and imports limited; besides the high prices demanded abroad, leave no margin for the importer, which must have the effect of re stricting the supply. From different parts of the country the accounts are anything but cheering. Manufacturers are loud in their complaints that the raw material is still too high to enable them to realize a profit; this statement seems to be confirmed by some of the mills working short time; however, it is supposed that a change will in a few weeks take place, and that the current value will now be main tained. There were no public sales held last month of sound wool, and the sales are by private treaty. For home con sumption the transactions have been chiefly in Lisbon, Oporto, good Eyptian, and Turkey; for export, parcels of Southdown, Peruvian, and Servia have changed hands. Sales could be made of Russian Combing Fleece at a reasonable figure, but holders not inclined to meet the market. Turkey Wools, if good, are inquired for; what has been recently brought here is below an average. Peruvian and Alpaca are not wanted at present rates, being higher in proportion than other de scriptions. East India is in request, but held for no high rates. All sorts may be now considered '4d. per lb. lower, with the exception of choice combing classes; our quota tioLs are altered to the value obtainable. Scotch—Very little has been done for consumption; in Laid Cheviot a large quantity is recorded for speculation, but nothing to the trade ; a few transactions have occurred in laid and white cross, and laid Highland, without any decline in price ; white Highland is inquired for, and there is none here; holders firm. English and Irish—The apathy existing in the combing districts has precluded the possibility of making sales either in fleece or skin ; parties here refuse to submit to the reduction which has taken place among the spinners, as the belief is, that when the Continental ports get open, prices will soon recover." The official accounts relating to trade and navigation have been completed for the month ending the sth inst. Taking the imports into the United Kingdom, the following are the comparisons : 1850. 1851. Oxen and hills number ...... 904 Cows •••• • 0000 .•• 874 Sheep Coffee ....• ... lbs. 2,170,493 ... .. 2,077,949 Wheat......... „ qrs. 127,692 Flour ...... ... .... . cwts. 208,690 Flax .. Hemp Copper, unwrought ......... ,• 12,597 Bacon ... ~ 12, 226 3, 394 _ _,_ ..... Beef, salted .... . Pork, ditto • .. t, Butter 15,723 11,287 14,755 5,758 8,746 17,662 Silk, raw. • ••• .. . lbs. 326,531 Brandy galls. 472,105 .... . 244,171 Sugar, unrefined .. cwts. 529,161 ...... 427,780 Tallow Tea lUs. 8,195,541 ...... 8,250,893 _ _ __ . Wine . Cotton wool cwts. 416,960 Sheep's wool ..... ....... - lbs. 3,858,030 These items show generally an increase in the number of live stock, the quantity of grain, hemp, tallow, and tea; but a decrease in brandy, wine, silk, cotton, wool, coffee, salt, provisions, and copper. The month's exports stand thus :- 1850. 1851. Cotton manufactures £1,643,421 Cotton yarn...... Linen manufactures Iron bar, bolt, and rod Silk stuffs, handkerchiefs, and ribbons ......... 28,385 Woollen manufactures 584, 434 The totals in these cases do not show any important change. The aggregate exports were : 1850. 4551. Month to March 5.. ....... , £4,801,970 £4,740,278 The tonnage returns of the month are for ships engaged in in the foreign trade as follow : 1850. 1851. Inwards, tons Outwards, tons .. . The vessels of the United Kingdom and its dependencies increased largely inwards, but fell off slightly outwards. The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up to this day, are, in round figures, as under: -- 1851. 1850. Great Western .E14,380 ... £l4 17 8 North-Western South-Western Brighton 7,536 8,262 Midland South-Eastern North Stafibrd Caledonian The English Funds have been buoyant, end a slight im provement in prices has occurred upon money purchases that have been made. Consols have realised 96 5 / 8 3 / 4 , which are the present value. Exchequer-bills have been marked 53e. to 565., and India Bonds 60s. to 635. premium. In the Foreign Market Spanish Stock has been ra ther neglected, at 21 to 21% for the Five per Cents. The Three per Cents. are 39%. Portuguese Four per Cents. have been quoted 35% to 36 1 %. Mexican Stock has been quiet, at 33% and Peruvian Four-and. a-Half per Cents. have been 84%, ex. div., and the De ferred 38 3 % to 39 1 A. Equador Stock is at 3 3 / 4 , and Grenada Deferred at 4%. Dutch Four per Cents. are 89 1 /, Railway Shares have been decidedly better, and the week's traffic returns, as compared with the like diantethoef last year, which w.. 8 Easter, may be considered goo d . The improvement in the 1001. shares is 1/. to 21., and smaller lines in proportion. QUARTER TO TFIRRE Consols ••• •• ••• 96i /. Ditto Accoun6 ••• ••• 96i ONE - CLOSIIIO PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS O'CLOCK. vitlcES. 8 per Cent. Consols Annuites,.. , 96% 1 , 2 3 4 96 5 4 India Bonds, 1,0001.......... ..... . GO 63 p 63 p Ditto under 1,000/........ ....... GO 63 p 63 Consuls for Account ................. 9 6 5i 96 % Exchequer Bills. 14 ,1.& 2d 1,0001. June ........... ... o NE CLOSINu PRICES PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. 761/, ex . d. Danish 80nd5,1825,3 per Cent. .. 76i / 2 101 ._ Do., 5 per cent Equador Bond s Do. Ex Dec., 1849 C0up0n5...... 7„ Ditto Deferred .................. . ± .. 1.1 0 4 ..... 's 4 I A hlsxican, 5 per Cent.lB 46 , with C 0 pn i a Ditto, E x Jan , Coupons ....is 33-9 35% Vitto, Account ... Pe-uvian Bonds, 4 i.. per Cent — Ditto, Account Ditto Deferred 38% 39 1 4 39!‘ Portuguese 5 per Cents. Ditto, 4 per Ce n t. Ditto, Account Ditto, Small R9BBiall Bonds -- Ditto, 4% per Cent •.. 93% 1 4 96 S,vinish 5 per Cont. 1840 2l 21 Ditto, Account .... .... Ditto, Passive 6% % 6 Ditto. 3 per Cent. — ... Ditto. Account Dividends on the above payable in London. D itch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild. Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates d•w,, 90 el SHERIFFS' COURT.--(THIS DAY . ) (Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BURCHELL.) THE EARL OF VERIJLAM AND OTHERS V. CHARITON. This was an action brought by plaintiffs, as trustees, is recover the sum of 1,241/. 9s. Bd. for interest, under the IQ' lowing circumstances:— cumstances It appeared that, so far back as 1841, the defendant TO!' chased a portion of an estate in Norfolk for 4,340 L, and v t i the conditions of sale d e f en d an t was t o ma k e a d epos i t o f o per cent., and to enter into an agreement for the complett of the purchase; and that, until the completion took o' l defendant undertook to pay interest at the rate of HI, cent. Interest was paid f or th ree years , b ut a l t h oug h defendant had promised from time to time to comple eto arrangement he had not done so, and the balance due for O' terest was the sum now claimed. The UNDER-SHERIFF asked whether the' interest had bef. calculated simpl e or com p oun d, as th e p l a i nt iff s coul d OW claim the former? On being answered that it was only charged at simple it terest, a verdict was given for the amount. A CASE IN EANKIWPTCY.—LANGBOURNE V. WELSH,. The plaintiff in this actio n res id es near Maidenhead ;11; fendant is a builder in Regeit-street, Mile-end-road. v, action was brought to recover the sum of 16L is. 4d. O bill of exchange. Defendant pleaded that he was not indebted by 6. statute. counsel for the plaintiff, said the real defend was, that the defendant had become bankrupt, and had of tained his certificate, but he (the Learned Counsel) felt tif, that did not absolve th e d e f en d an t f rom hi s liability, as IP fiat was i ssue d i n J une , an d d e f en d ant gave the bill in Set tember, at three months after date, and did not get his CO ficate till October, Defendant's attorney contended that the consideration the bill ought to be shown, for the original debt might haf: been barred by th e b an k ruptcy, an d t h e bill g i ven to libe creditors to forbear opposing the certificate. The UNDER-SHERIFY said the bill was prima facie S' dente that th e d e b t was contracte d the d ay i t bore date : r all events to have raised the question defendant should W I pleaded the want of consideration. The jury thereupon gave a verdict for plaintiff for 0 0 amount. ELECTION COMMITTEES.—(THIS DAY' ) AYLESBURY. At the sitting of the Committee this morning, Mr JAMES proceeded to reply on the whole case on behalf of P' petitioner. The room was then cleared, and after deliberating an 120 and a half, The CHAIRMAN announced that the Committee had Ca ll to the following resolutions:— " 1. That Frederick Calvert, Esq., is not duly electr , - serve in th e p resen t P ar li a ment f o r th e b oroug h an d bps dred of Aylesbury. " 2. That the said election is not a void election for ti ll borough and hundred of Aylesbury. " 3. That Frederick Calvert, Esq., was, by his age ° guilty of treating during the said election. " 4. That it has n o t b een proved that such acts of treat ing were performed with th e k now l edge and consent of x' derick Calvert, Esq. • ,4 5. Th e C omm itt ee also find that a number o f pro t ed refreshment tickets, to th e amoun t o f s s . each, were issue before and after the electi on , an d th a t t h e sa id practice °,ll, tamed considerable prev a l ence d ur i ng th e e l ec ti on; and Its Committee feel it their d u ty t o re p or t t h e same to tP House." ST. ALBAN'S. At the sitting of this Committee, Mr. Sergeant WRANGIIAM, on behalf of the petitioners, 9 r , plied this morning for a further delay on the ground that so had onlyj ust learned that five out of the nine witnesses Or o had been abducted, a s it was th oug h t b y t h e agents o f t o sitting Member, had that morning made their appearanoe te the gallery, and that c o nsequen tl y i t h a d b een impossible 'of him, by a previous examination, to ascertain the nature the evidence which they would give to the Committee. Mr. Sergeant KINGLAKE opposed the application. After a deliberation, the Committee announced their rel o lution of adjourning until t o - morrow , at 11 o ' c l oc k , t hen proceed with the cases of bribery which might be ready to lay before them. COAL MINE EXPLOSIONS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. tb° Stn,—As it seems to be generally admitted that " Davy Lamp" is not an absolute preventive to explosh ) .s I beg to offer the following suggestions for the considersh of those who are interested in mines. No doubt most explosions are attributable to rashnesso the part of the miner, wh o , i n order to obtain a tolertro light, frequently dispens es w ith t h e protecting gauze. 'Poi it is more than probable that accidents also arise from stro currents of air causing small ignited portions of carbot e i, pass through the instertices of the wire in a condition sump ently heated to fire the carburetted hydrogen surreundieg k i Besides this, the falling in of portions of the roof mart ri breaking the gauze, occasion frequent explosions. 0 04 It is evident, therefore, that a li g ht w hi c h would 1,1 under any circumst ances , cause acc id ent b y exp l os i on object to be attained. This, I submit, may be accomplito by using the electric light (and none other) in mines 10 '4 explosive gase s a r e generated. By this means not o,y 1 would daylight be b r o ug ht t o t h e m i ner ' s aid, but as this It burns in vac u o and e ven i n water, no explosion can poesi ' occur. An objection may be started on the ground of expenses I apprehend that th e a d vantage in favour of using the el€ 4; tric light would more than compensate for any immedi a ti expense that mi g ht b e i ncurred by its adoption. For, to °II nothing of the enormous expense attending an explesioew cannot be doubted that, with this brilliant light, nahTo operations would be much simplified, and consequently tm t o considerably more work could be got through than with present light, which is rather "darkness visible." In a moral point of view, it is evident that any contr il : ante to prevent explosions would be a very great advantsf. One has on l y to th i nk of the m i sery caused by the late °' plosions to become convinced of this.—l am, Sir, &c., ENUINEEB• 8, Chapel-street, Clapham-road, March 31. The accounts from the Amsterdam and Rotterda m produce markets refer to the general inactivity of busie r . Coffee was not positively quoted at a reduction, but tiro was less disposition among the operators to hold out for prices. In sugar ver y lit t l e h a d b een d one, sad tea, rice, fhe spices remained without material variation. Indigo was only article considered to be well supported. Sir William White, Knt., of 5, Lothbury, on Monday fined ten shillings, by Alderman Salomons,:4 assaulting Mr. E. F. Watson, a clerk in the L on don r, County Bank. It appeared that the clerk had presenteu b o bill made payable at the above address, and drawn in 1 ,4 name of J. P. White; whereup on Si r Willi am sa id h e nothing about it; and upon the clerk serving the us ed formal notice, Sir William followed him down stairs, "", assaulted him. The assault was admitted, but the aultiog ance to which Sir William had been subjected by per', o , making bills payable at his counting-hous e , w ith out big thority, was urged in excuse. fi e At the half-yearly meeting of th e A gra tl„j e United Service Bank, the report sh owe d 31,2411. aviiii!`"d for distribution for the six months ending the 3 9 ' ne r December. A dividend at th e rate of 8 per cent . annum was therefore declared, and 5,7831 was carried to ~,e reserve fund, which no w amounts to 46,5561. A new sy s ni, of audit propcsed by the directors has been almost 0' 1 :0 rnously approved of. Th e pa id- up cap i tal of the ban g stated to be 636,45 W. With reference to a ridiculous advertisement- 1 : the Times of to-day, signed "a shareholder" of the Londp and County Bank, and calling upon the proprietary to eS two of the directors on account of their having voted ag 4 '.' ei „, the Ministerial Bill on the Papal aggressi on , we a re 1 : - • formed that it has been traced to a p erson who i s 0° shareholder, and who was recently di sm i ssed from the 13'',," vice of the establishment.— Times. el & DEATH OF MAJOR-GENERAL SIR HENRY BETEL —The overland mail brings accounts of the decease, at heran, cn the 19th of February, of this officer, formerly° o f mander-in. chief of the Persian army, at th e to li c i tat ioli the sovereign of that country, Mahomed Shah. LICENSED VICTUALLERS' SCHOOL.—Mr. head, of Whitecros?-street, one of the committee of this l e , stitution, at the monthly meeting, held at the school_boi l9 / on Tuesday last, presented a handsomely -mounted pail globes for the use of the children on the establishment. p vote of thanks was given to Mr. Whitehead, by his 1 : ) ,1 leagues, for his valuable present, as indicative of the kl o interest evinced by him to p romo t e t h e progress of t children in their studies. We forgive the man who bores us, much it na ° • easily than the man who lets us see that we are boring —Eliza Cook's Journal. THE CHIPPING SODRURT POISONING CASE.""- 1 _, Tuesday Daniel Gibbs Hathway was indicted at Glouces t l before Mr. Justice Talfourd, for h av i ng , on the 15th °‘ February, poisoned his wife, Jane Hathaway, at Chipß ill i s Sudbury. The evidence was entirely was not satisf circumstantial, and a ctory: 6 appears that the purchase of arsenic brought home to the prisoner, and he was in co nse que, ll ,o acquitted. The prisoner was discharged immedi a t e ly sP t , the verdict, and left the court ; but on being recognised ott side was jostled a n d i nsulted by the mob, and followed 111°1g the streets. Ile attempted t o t a k e r e f uge i n some houses 14 Westgate-street, but was refused admittance. H e 01, hastened, und er th e protection of a constable, down Soutl, gate - street, and a f ter a short t i me returned to the Cross, I°o lowed by the mob, who seemed determined to give him t i respite. Mr. Henry Roe, a goldsmith, of Liverpool, 01r tained a verdict, with 501. damages, at Chester, on TueEd!O against the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junctl Railway Company for false imprisonment. Th e plaintiff bad taken a ticket by an excursion train from Bi r k en h e ad Bangor. On his return an attempt had been made by f o r railway officials to force im to pay 2s. 6d. additional 1 1 0 travelling between Bangor and Chester. He resisted 03 ,, e attempt and was given into custody and taken to tP O station-house at Chester, where he paid 2s. 6d. under prote s t In summing up, Mr. y Justice M au l e to l d the jury that t plaintiff had been j im prisoned under circumstances , 13 c ould not bej ustified A man named Aubrey, a t ra i ner of young tbi . . r e v eti at the Thieves' Kitchen, was yesterday convicted at the xld, t , dlesex Sessions, tog e th er w i th Jane Dunham, of having $ tempted to commit a ro bb ery, and was, with his convoy ;ol3, sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment. [ADVERTISEMENT.]--The Observer and Grad ° stamped twenty column Supplement; sixty folio color° for sixpence. Sunday, Apr 1 6, a full report of and ° O O the Budget and I ncome-tax; also the Quarter's Reves,..e Tables, furth er Ch ancery movements in Miss Talbot's c'',s &c. The exten s i ve pu b l i cation of the Observer comm at five o'clock on S un d ay mornings, in time for all the Sane day morning ra il ways. A Monday's edition, which is. best for the count r y an d a b road, at four Monday afterneo " ' df CRUELTY OF THE CENSUS.--A young maiden -- Ifi aged fifty-two, who felt considerable alarm lest her s ii'e should become kno wn i n h er village, was driven to th e necessity, on Sunday last, to walk four miles to the Y of Beeston, in di r t an d rain, to sleep at the house of a f ries in order to avoid the dreadful ence4re.—,Nottingham ;toy, MINES. 1 13 0 13 5 24% Nominal Prices. '2B 2 814 ' STOI Business done to-day. Pro COMM "11. distinct 411.1)9.5e Th e p in theeuuced Scheiu 3, 1851. Paid. - Mi wed 6 . Thl othi 7. A 1 8 4 4 b . ; atm; tUrai Pto la tl Ot ti _~