The Sun. — London, England, 1850-04-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tuts DAY —Morning 38 min. after 3 I Evening 56 min. after 3 aga.3foaaow— Morning 14 ruin. after 4 I Evening, 35 min. after 4 THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, APRIL 14. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 42; Highest, 51; Noon, 50. BAROMETER, 29.96. WIND N.—Dull morning; Afternoon, fine, with a change of wind to W.S.W. Heavy rain yesterday evening, which continued till midnight. APRIL 15. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 42 ; Highest, 51 ; Noon, 51. BAROMETER, 29'45 ; a fall of halt an inch since yes- terday evening. WIND S. W.—fair. Rain all the morning. •e ‘ - 7.1 , - - , - • A p _it ,---ii ~;,. - - ik .. • I C . -., 4 :i 2 4 €: • hi El: ~ ' • 8,0 7 ' bROIT ' -1- etionina : 1 4 Mt TIIF.ATRE ROYAL. HAYMARKET.' • Mr. 11. Webster, Solej.essee and Manager, Old Bromptou. • VIIIS EVENINk, Will by performed a new drains, called • THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. Dr. Prlmrose, Mr. Webster; Squire Thornhill, Mr. H. Vanden. howl; 'Mr. Iltirchill,Mr. Stuart;. Moses, Mr. Buck:stone ; Mrs. Print- Ilrs Keel:Cy Mitts'lieinoidS ; Lady Blarney, Miss P Ilorton'; 11148 Skeggs, Mrs. Fitzwillianif. To conclude withthe Last: Editionof IVANHOE, with all the newest irnproyeniefits, Cedric the suaon,„ltr..J.7.llland ; Sir Brian Warrrat, de Bore Guilbert , Mr. Seuw ; sir Ivanhoe, Mrs. Keeley; Wombs, Mr.- Buck ssono ; Isaac or York, Mr. Kmeyt Robin Hood Mrs. Fitawilliam ; 'Lebec/ea; Nktts r.liorton w " els dor . the direction of Mr. I. T. Archer. • • • THEATRE ROYAL. ADELPIII. tinder the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EV,:_NING, Will be •perforrsed the celebrated - Drama of THE HARVEST HOME. • Principal characters by Messrs. Hughes, Wright, Paul Belford, 0. Smith:. Madame Celeste, and Miss Woilgar. ro he followed t y a grand historical Spectacle Vaudeville, entitled 'PLAYINti FIRjI FIDDLE; or, Follow my Leader Principal Characters by Messrs. P. Bedford, Lambert, Madame Celeste, Miss onlgar, and Miss Tv conclude with MY PRECIOUS BETSY. Characters by Messrs. var t igut, Bedford, Worrell ;• Miss_ 'larding, and Mrs. F. Matthews. ROYAL LYCEUM TIIEATRE .thDe P astora l , av id THIS ErttNING . I va ap,repeated• (13th time) a Lyrical. Comical E...1A, altered from the teAt s, entitled c yMON' and TOTTG sr Garrick. CbararteiPbt Messrs. C. Mathews, Harley, r. sad Y. Cooke.; Miss St. George, Idisslieaworthy, ‘M w tst R. Roxby Mrs. Hamby, Min Oliver, - Miss Manners, and Miss Marti ndale. Dickinson, T. 1,4 fol lo w ed 67 Tl/14' ISLAND Or 3 EIVEts: To conclude with.TWO IN-THE .MORNING. , All applications for rrivatemoxes,must be made to I,lr. Aileron 15, New Bond-street. riaxcEss's , i B ßATAL., • ••• • Wilt 1I produced (first time in this eortrdry corn .. 'pleto f o r m ) ~.A.it h er's Opera of GUSTAVUS THE Nagar:is ji• rriSon • Oficar,. 3llB o;;f• Pyne; Aekaatrom, Mr. Weis't• 'r n • it • 3 NW) G I:arker ; orn, r. R. Latter; Christian. Mr.lVtAn e i n i c a s tinrn, Mdild•.•llau ; Arredson, Madame 311'etvr...• P r i nc i pal Fo li o mdikr,. Celeste Stepilui (her lirst ap pear ..' a ece nrr e ). ' A in....ter which New Grind Tale rotreclfdrdin•enf, With splendid -ec -Owf C °Sailits,and Appflauttaents •enntled • ' extensive .Machinery, Sec., • TIIE l 'it'teti e or nip. .. The Sorcerer of Candahar. Principitt 4 el/erecter s . by ; Or, - Mi.. f.aoisa } 34 .° l rrn ss Cr-wen • .ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHIT HEATRE. Proprietor, W, Batty ttnec,na:tel. euccew of the new grand t pectanle of Enchant ment. La4t ise ,,, k but 'otie of that; extraoidihary Amerlean Equestrian - Young Hernandez, univetsallrprontuinced " wonder of the . world. the TIieV•EVEICING The Eltertalittnents wilt commence at :•Betren •ceelock, with Fitzball's new magnificent Speetacieeatitied THE FOUR SONS 01' .AXMON ; •otlhe Days of 'Charlemagne. Most gor;„ ,- ,mly preducec,,and introdnein;,- a Living Camel. of the • Desert, Zebra, .the henntite Stnd of llQrses, and an the vast and nneqn tilted resourceA of this Establishment. To be stmet•etted by a brilliant tontine, of Equestrian wond ers , during which Young Hernandez will aPpeal• in all entirely N ew A ct galled. the Page Troubadour,' • • ••• • To concitute•witn the interesting Melodrama of AtEG MURDOCK . ; or, the Fatal Glen. 'Box-of lce open From Eleven till Four. Stage . Manager, Mr. W. West. LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 15, 1850. Tabular reports and epistolary correspondence of a very copious character, occupying altogether fifty three pages folio of a Parliamentary document re cently printed, comprises the whole of the arguments for and against the cessation of Post-office labour on Sundays. We have turned to the examination of these papers with that peculiar satisfaction which is derivable from the perusal of comments on an im portant question, couched in language de serving all praise for its candour and luci dity, and replete with inferences at once logical, decisive, and satisfactory. Utterly forgetful . of the abuse lavished upon them by their religious antagonists, the authorities of St. Martin's-le-Grand have here repelled the attacks most unjustifiably made against them by statistical records of indis putable authenticity. Directing their remarks to the dignified disproof of accusations whereby their moral integrity was impeached, the three principal person ages at the head of the Post-office Department have demonstrated that by acting contrary to their present arrangements they would have been carried into one or other of the two deplorable extremes which stood glaringly before them as the only remaining alterna tives. They show by " facts and figures "of indis putable accuracy, that they must either have allowed matters to remain in their previous position, thereby necessitating a more numerous attendance of the clerks and other employes at the provincial offices, or have bowed implicitly to the dictation of their as sailants, thereby inflicting irreparable injury, more or less, upon all the various classes of the community. The former proceeding would have been a connivance at that very evil which is so loudly reprobated by the people designated Sab , batarians. The latter would have been a monstrous and most dangerous interference with the onward march of civilization. In either case the cause of the religious observance of the Sunday would have been materially and most detrimentally affected. By the first, directly ; by the second, indirectly : by the latter, mediately ; by the former, imme diately. For while the continued demand of Sunday labour at the money-order offices in the provincial or branch establishments (a requisi tion at present happily dispensed with) must neces sarily have grown more and more into an evil prece dent, the stoppage of the mail trains, the closing of all the post-offices of the United Kingdom peremp torily on one day out of every seven, the frequent periodical interference with the working of the chan- eels of communication must have acted so terribly against the interests of a great commer cial population like that of England, that a tremendous reaction must, in the end, have been altogether inevitable—a reaction so overpowering, from the force of its suppressed and accumulated in dignation, that the rules of the Church, and the sug gestions of reason, and the incitements of religion, and the recommendations of the Evangel must have been set at nought wholly and entirely—a reaction not by any means incredible or impossible in a sceptic and unbelieving generation. Consequently it has been 1 from a solicitude to advance at once the cause of mora lity and civilization, to facilitate the attendance of the 1 Post-office clerks to their religious duties on all Sun ! days, and at the same time to forward the interests lof justice and humanity, by maintaining on those 1 days the continuance of intercommunication between 1 the different parts of the United Kingdom, that the changes latterly visited with so much abuse by the Sabbatarians were contrived and at length carried into execution. Object's apparently so incongruous were,. in fact, only reconcileable th rough such novel and beneficent arrangements. This fact—however much the sticklers for Sunday stagnation' may snee at the assertion—is proven in black and white in the Parliamentary document already particularised, It is explained very comprehensibly by arith metical arguments at once logical and statistical. It is demonstrated by the lucid narrative penned with such elaborate caution by Mr. ROWLAND HILL; by the conclusive and temperate minutes of Lieu tenant-Colonel MABEBLY ; and by the curt and pithy approvals appended to the different official papers by the Right Hon. the Postmaster-General, the Marquis of CLANICICARDE. In testimony of this we refer with confident satisfaction to the lately printed " Post-office Return," a document from which we have made certain important extracts in this even ing's impression of our journal. From one of these most interesting excerpts from the Parliamen tart' document, a copy of which is under our elbow while we are writing, it will be perceived not only how forcible, but how numerous are the reasons assigned by Mr. ROWLAND BILL for refusing to consent to the suggestion of the Birmingham memorial, to the end that there might be on Sundays throughout the kingdom a suspension of Post•office business. At the same moment, while pronouncing most decisively against the practicability of yielding to the requirement of the Sabbatarians, our great national , benefactor refers with a proud and enviable complacency to the results of his previous innovations in the Post -office depart ment, whereby so many generous arrangements have been effected—arrangements which he declared on the sth of January to be then "in such a state of advancement that in a few days the Sunday duty throughout England and Wales will have been re duced to probably little more than half its original amount." Let any one of our old friends the Sabbata rians put their hands upon their hearts and say (without lying) that they have done one half, one quarter, nay one fractional part of what has been accom plished by this vilified Mr. ROWLAND HILL towards the diminution of the national toil on Sunday ! Bah ! this is true and practical morality, this is true, and practical humanity, which, without making any noisy assumption of godliness, ox of religious superiority, effects vast and incontes table ameliorations for the people—doing this, more over, without any unjustifiable interference with the right, the interest, and the, consciences of individuals ! While such have been the results, the happy, humane, and moralizing results of the changes effected under the direction of Mr. Rovreamilliii, the " minutes" in which Colonel MADEELY, the experienced and in defatigable Colonel MABEBLY, has corroborated the statements of that innovator at , St. Martin's-le- Grand, contain the subjoined opinion as to what would be the consequences of . a measure authorising the discontinuance of all Sunday labour in con nexion with the Post-office : " What the effect would be upon the Post-office reve nue, or upon the trade And.nommerce of the country generally, it would b e i mpossible to eay. In my own opinion it would be most in jur i ous, us, in . point of fact, the measure would be almost a return, as regards one day of the week, to tho slow coMmuutestion which ex isted between various places in the kingdom in the early part of the nrcdent century." - Inasmuch as the Post-office authorities have pre vented these calamitous results from paralyzing the and commercial strength of th e nat i on, moral, social, they have shown themselves lovers of h umanity, patriotigm, and religion. _________._ On Saturday we felt it our duty to remark in • FOREIGN GRASS.--A vessel which has arrived i strong but necessary temrs upon :the timid and vacil. the river from Havre has brought several blade s o f an article I lating policy adopted by the Wh i g Ministr y , a nd called dogs' grass, as portion of her cargo, consigned t o order. obstinately This appears to be a somewhat novel a nd rem ar k a bl e article and nately persisted in, notwithstanding the dis t i nct of importation from Prance. A vessel arrived from Ha m - , unequivocal expression of public opini on, as w e l l burgh has also brought several bales of an article ter me d within the walls of Parliament as by the community „ a . g tasit, but as a later importation has taken place frora in general.- We are , indeed , appointed at the failure of deeply and bitterly dis i (p lamburgh of a ant* of seaweed, and so called, we pre sume the previous one, from the Hanseatic States, was of the . those who were once same character, although differently designated. 1 styled "the Liberal Government." They may , LONDON, now be regarded as the strenuous opponents of the great reforms so urgently demanded throughout the length and breadth of the lard by persons of all parties, of every shade and variety cf political feeling, and of every grade and rank in society. Parliamentary reform cannot be ex pected at their hands. They admit the propriety of a considerable extension of the franchise. They cannot summon sufficient hardihood to deny the grievance under which so many of their countrymen are suffer ing, in being refused a voice in the election of le gislators by whom laws are to be enacted, by which all, without exception—the unrepresented as well as the represented—are to be bound. It is but too painfully notorious that taxation is not coin cident with representation, that every man, however humble his means and scanty his resources, must contribute to the maintenance of the national establish ments and the liquidation of the interest of the public debt, for which the labour of the working classes— the only inheritance they derive from those by whom that debt was contracted—is mortgaged ; but yet they cannot bestow their suffrages upon those whom they deem best qualified to promote the welfare and prosperity of the country. One of the fun damental principles of the British Consti tution is thus violated ; but our rulers will come to no practical conclusion, will decide on nothing, will do nothing; nay, more, they will not permit others to take the initiative. They feel that such propositions should emanate from the Government, and therefore they strenuously oppose any independent Member who. may intimate an in tention of bringing forward an adequate measure. It is the same with respect fo " the Ballot," the " duration of Parliament," and " the property quali fication of Members." Indeed in these respects they adopt the old Tory policy, and resolutely set their faces against every amelioration—they will stand or fill ' by the existing system, and as they cannot possibly sustain it, diametrically opposed as it is to the spirit of the age, they must make up their minds to succumb, and to relinqui-1 the posi tions they now occupy in order to make way fur better men. Their sole object now appears to be to protract their existence to the last moment, to procrastinate every important question that might bring their inglorious tenure of office to a speedy conclusion. The equalisation of electoral districts is also re sisted, and even the judicious proposition of Mr. MON SELL, for increasing the con stituencies of certain Irish boroughs, by uniting several of the smaller towns, as already prac tised in Scotland and Wales, and which was received with almost unprecedented unanimity, is summarily disposed of by the assurance that the llouse " may have an opportunity of considering the question in a future session, should it be deemed necessary to raise it again." _ _ . Turning from Parliamentary reforms to the other great questions that interest the public mind, we ask what hope is there of sanitary improvement from a Cabinet that peremptorily refuses the free admission of light and air, the gratuitous gifts of an All-wise and merciful CREATOR to his people ? Proper ventilation is practically prohibited, and if the desideratum to be attained was to render our towns as unhealthy as pos sible, and to abridge the lives of the less wealthy classes, nothing better calculated to achieve the ob ject could be devised than the tax on windows, to which our rulers are so devotedly attached. The monetary , code has no more strenu ous supporter than the present Chancellor of the Exchequer. Although compelled to assent to the temporary suspension of the iniquitous Act of 1844, he spoke of it in terms even stronger and more favourable than its very author could have used. And there is, perhaps, no second person in the entire community who, after having signed the Ministerial letter, which was the greatest prac tical condemnation of that iniquitous and most im politic law, would have afterwards lavished such unmerited praise on the atrocious enactments. The Brick-dust Budget has exhibited in the strongest light the nature and character of the fiscal changes that will alone be tolerated by Sir CHARLES WOOD. When, mira bile dictu, a surplus happens to be at his disposal, he partly truckles to the agricultural opponents of his Government, and partly devotes his balance to " the liquidation of the national debt" (! !!) while the African squadron is maintained in full effi ciency, absorbing at least one million of pounds sterling per annum, and the lives of thousands of our gallant sailors ; and in financial affairs, in place of introducing proper measures of economy and re trenchment, a Committee is moved for on whom the responsibility may be cast. We confess that at all times we regard with con siderable suspicion the appcintment of a Select Com mittee at the instance, and on the nomination of the Government. This suspicion is materially increased when the facts to be investigated and reported on are clearly and distinctly understood, and there can be no necessity for additional infor mation to enable Ministers to frame suitable mea sures, or for Parliament to legislate on the subject. Such a reference is but too - often an "ingenious de vice" to shelve an inconvenient question, to adjourn its consideration, and throw it over to a future ses sion, when the public mind may have relapsed into a state of quiescence, and become apathetic and in different on the topic. Such tactics have been pursued in the olden time, and the proceed ing 3 on the virtual suspension of the Bank Charter Act, to which we have already alluded, proves that the present Cabinet are quite willing to adopt a similar subterfuge. To use a vulgar but expressive phrase, the Chancellor of the Ex chequer " let the cat out of the bag" on that occa sion, and showed that a Committee might be packed fur the purpose, not of promoting, but of smothering, or at least retarding necessary re forms. The Right Honourable Baronet abso lutely refused to assent to a fairly constituted Committee. He obstinately resisted any alteration, and insisted that no member should be selected but those originally nominated by himself. Under such circumstance the result of the investigation was but a "foregone conclusion." There was not a single Member of either branch of the Le gislature, or an individual at all acquainted with public affairs, who could not have declared the nature of the report that would ulti mately be agreed to, even before the Committee had entered upon their labours, or a single witness was examined respecting the subject -matter of inquiry. Indeed, Sir CHARLES WOOD, with an unusual degree of candour, acknowledged that he thought Government would have been very wrong to have consented to the appointment of the Committee unless perfectly certain as to the result. With such a precedent before us, what can we sup pose but that the present Committee has been ap pointed merely for the purpose of amusing the public, and evading all direct motions on the subject of finan cial reform, until a few bulky volumes be added to the thousands of " blue books" that uselessly encum ber the shelves of our public libraries, and which might be disposed of for waste paper without the slightest injury to any interest in the community. ? ROYAL NAVAL BENEVOLENT SOCIETT. This morning, at twelve o'clock, a quarterly general court of this society was held at the Thatched-house Tavern, St. James's .street, St. James ; Rear-Admiral Law Radstock in the chair. The Secretary, Commander Dickson read the quarterly re port, from which it appeared, that the total receipts during that term had been 2,1631. 15s. 10s., and the disbursements 666/., - leaving a balance in the hinds of the treasurer of 1,4971. 15s. 3d. There had been one bequest of 181., free of duty. The report being unanimously adopted, a resolution was carried that 10/. 10s. be annually given to the Adult Orphan Institution. A vote of thanks ,was passed to the chairman, and the Meeting separated. THE COMMANDER•IN•CHIET or THE MEDITER RANEAN STATION.— There is no longer any hoodwinking the fact that Rear-Admiral Dundas will succeed Vice- Admiral Sir William Parker in the above appointment, Rear-Admiral Berkeley moving up into the place of the senior naval Lord, until the Pacific command can be conveniently filled by him. —Portsmouth Times. • THE HOLYHEAD STEAM-PACKETS.--The City of Dublin Steam-packet Company, who Lave taken the con tract for conv e yi ng t h e ma i ls between Dolyhead and Kings town, are about to purchase two of the Admiralty steam packets for the purpose of carrying on their contract with the same efficiency, celerity, and regularity that the service has been performed under Admiralty management. This is a very judicious arrangement, and will. bear repetition in the service between Dover and Calais.-- United Service Gazette. ST. CLEMENT liAriEs..--The contest at the election of guardians for this union has been a sharp one, and has terminated as follows :—Mr. Jaquet, 695 ; Mr. Scrivener, 688 ; Mr. Cull, 644; Mr. Woods, 632; Mr. Bates, 634; Mr. Jud kins, 616 ; • Mr. Dent, 587 ; M r . L ane, 573 ;Mr. Score, 556 ; Mr. Dobby, 547. The three following go out :—/1.12.Wi11e , ter, 396; • Mr. Clarke, 210; Mr. Dickens, 124. The first ;fleeting of the new board takes place to. morrow (Tuesday). MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 15, 1850. PATOW'S motion in the Lower House has been ac cepted. Yeas, 125 ; Noes, 89. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. A Berlin letter of the 14th says, that the Provi sional Government of Kiel had announced to the Prussian officers attached to the army of Schleswig- Holstein the cessation of their relations. It had also addressed thanks to the Prussian Government, and had assured it that it would continue its efforts to effect a pacific arrangement with Denmark. NEW .SCOTC El lIISTORICAL ROMANCE. Now read,' at all the Libraries, in 3 v o ls ., THE SCOTTISH CAVALIER.. By JAMES GRANT, Esq. Author of " The Gordon Highlanders," r A very spirited performance "—Literary Gazette. "This interesting rorna,ce bears the genuine stamp of the Waver ly Service Gazette. • work possesses an absorbing interest."—Weekly News. • Thls story, ful! of deep and heartrending interest, is told in the pegtiest style of tragic power, and with great skill lu the delineation of character." — John Henry Colbarn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE NEW STORY OF MODERN LIFE. In 3 yolk,. post tivo., T II E I TIA L S, A STORY OF MODERN LIFE, IS PUBLISHED THIS DAY. And may he had at all the Libraries, and of all Booksellers. Millard Bentley, New Burlington-street, NEW PLAY BY THE Aurnou OF " CI - OE:H.7i, KING OF LYDIA, " ke. ANt poWl,hed, In tivo , price 3s. 6d., sewed, VANDYCK ; a Play of Genoa. By ALFRED B .BICHAHD?, Esq., Author of " Croesus, King of Lydia," It Tragedy ; " Cromwell," a Drama, &c. London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmuns. TIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. GRAND EXTRA NIGHT, Cornwning the tslents of )ladame Sontag, Miss Catherine Hayes, and ; Signori Colett!, Belletti, Lab'ache, Calzolari, and Sims Reeves; Mdlies. Carlotta Grisi, Marie 'foghorn, and Amalia Ferraris, Will•t4e ..place on THURSDAY, April 18, when will be presented Mozart's Opera, NOZZE DI FIGABO. Susanna, Madame Sontag ; the Countess, Madlle. Parodl; Chem bino, Mdl!e. Catherine Hayes; the Count Almaviva, Signor Coletti ; Figaro, Signer Beletti; Basin°, Signor Calzolari; Bartolo, Signor La blaeh e. In the Wedding Scene, the Zarabanda in A (composed expressly for this Opera) will be danced by Mdlle. Carlotta Grist and Mdlle. Marie IttgliouL After the Opera will be presented Selections from the admired Ballet of LA ESMBRALDA, comprising the celebrated Truandalse, by Mdlle. Carlottb Grist and M. Charles. To be followed by the last scene of Donizettrs Opera, LUCIA DI LAIKM,ERMOOR, by Mr. Sims Reeves. Ater which will be revived the admired Ice Ballet, by M. P. Taglioni, entitled LES PLAISIRS Dr, ; ou, Les Patinenrs. The principal characters by Mdlle. Carlotta Grist, Mdlle. Marie Taglioni, and atdlle. Arnalia Ferraris. Applications tor Boxes,• Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box-orrice of the Theatre. Doors open at Seven, the Opera to sommence at Half-past Seven. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. (By special sire.) TO-MORROW EVENING Will be repeated (by special desire) Donizetti's Opera, DON PASQUALE , — No, ins, Ma lame ronta; ; Ernesta, Signor Calsolari. ; Dr. Mala testa, Wor Belletti ; Don Pasquale, Signor Lablache. To conc.ude with the principle Tableaux of the highly successful seiv gratin Ballet, be M. Pant Taglioni, entitled LES METAMORPHOSES, In which Mdlle. Carlotta Grisi,3ldile. Marie Taglioni, M. Charles, and )1. P. Tagllont will appear. Mozart's celebrated Opera, Don Giovanni, Is unaT)idably pest pne4d, and will be . zepeated forthwith with its present powerful cast. Signor Baucarde has arrived, and will make his first appearance on Saturday next. Madame Frezzolini Is daily expected. The new kr tibi Cpera, La 'Pertly sta, founded on The Tempest of Shakspere, the music by II:levy, composed expressly for the artists of her Maj sty's Theatre, is in active preparation. All the magni ficent resou c,s of th's great establishment will be combined to give Oft e t its pt o Inetton. . Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box Office of the Theatre. ' ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. COVENT-GARDEN. Madame Grist, 3ladlle. Vera, Herr Formes, M. Massol, and Signor Tamberllk, TO-MORROW EVENING The performances will commence with BeULM'S Opera of N 0 R M A. Norma, Mme. Grist ; Adatails Aldlle.lVera (her 2d appearance la that character at the Royal Rattan Opera) ; Clotilde, kidlle. Cotti ; Fiavio, SI:. Soldi Oroveso, Herr Formes (Ws 2d appear ance in that character in England) ; Pollio, Jig. Tamberlik (his 2d al pearanee in that character in England). To conclude with the second and third acts of Auber's Grand and popular Opera, SANIELL 0. ronella, Mdlle.. Balliri ; Pietro, Mons. Mass(.l; Alphenso, Signor Mel ; Borella, Signor Rommi ; Pescatore, Signor Rache ; Selva, Signor ; Gret , ,orio; Alasaniello, Signor Tamberlik. The Ballet hicilental to the Opera will be supported by Mons. Alexandre and Mdlie. Louise Tarlioni. The Overture to Mrs inielo will be played between the Operas. Composer, Director of tho Music, and Conductor, Mr. Costa. A GRAND EX I'RA NIGHT will take place on Thursday, April 11, when will be performed (for the first time this season) Mozart's celebrated opera of boN GrovANsr Donna Anna, Mme. Grisi ; Elvira, 3ldlle. Vera ; Zerlina, Mme. Castellon; Leporello, Herr Formes: Don Giovanni, Sig. Tamburini; Masetto, Pulonini; 11 Commendatore, Sig. Tagliadeo ; and Don Composer, 111 rector of the Music, and Conductor, Mr. Costa. The doors wi►l be opened at Ilalf-post Seven, and the perform ances commence at Eight o'clock precisely. Tickets for the Boxes, Stalls, or the Pit, may be had (for the night or ,eaten), at the 13ox-ottice of the Theatre, which will for the future be open.trom Ten till Five. PLAYS'.-ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING the Performances will commence at Half-past Sn'en o'Clock precisely, with L'APPRENTI. After which (the only time it can be repeated) M. Samson's Comedic, UN VEUVAGE. Menatd. M. Samson. To conclude with the Popular Comedy of LA MARQUISE DE SENNETERRE. Le Commandeur de Darkjumeau, M. Samson; lienriette, Mdlle. Demain. The nos-officio of the Theatre is open daily from Eleven till Five • Boxes and Stalls at lir. littebell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond street. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee and .Manacer. Mr. JAMES ANDERSON. TIIGS EVENING, he presentee, by her Majesty's Servants. A new alit original Flay, by B. Bernard, Esq. ' entitled THE CLOUD. Char,,cters by Messrs. VandenholT, Cooper, D iddcor, Viaimr. Emery,' Montazue, and Mr. J. Anderson. Arc7ro wltien (Wet time) anew and original Farce, called THE CIIECKET MATCH'. To- eonelifdc! With CIIE pEvrr.'s RING ; or, Fire, Water, Earth, and A.ir. In Three Acts and Four Elements. The following are the principal Scenes. • JILEMENT THE FIRST—FIRE. • A beautiful View of the CI EY AND, HARBOUR. OF CArANIA IN SICILY, With Mora Etna Sinr,ltin:z in the Back-ground. Cif ARACTERS IN mete FIRST ELEMENT A rtinph,lC.r. W;.Motspgitie.; Nodolpb, My. Frazer; lierman, Mr. S. Jones; r tirade, Mr. Clifford ; Otho, $r Everett; Adolphug, Mr. • Dareie ; IftiOrt. "Mr. •Alko't ; Carlomitu," &spiel Iterberf, M iss,F.llw4gtatt z•Franco4 ;Mr. 8. Artaud ; Beet of the " World's E )Vstsniii, zhe Eileimpiesi Princess ,Eseline, giss E., N elson ; MlaTtAfter ; The Spirit Devirs•ftinz, Miss A: Lens dale t''WhPrlthiarg, lle;Sgiyntour ;- Go-dati, Mr' C.(Ploglver.' '• Gjtikr;l:,. - ; ...OF TILE lIAND. T E3IPLE AND SpIRI.I' OF TIIE DEVIL'S RINCI. . THE ISTERIO:: 00 'nit., citArtco,U BURNER'S di/ODE. , 'THE REAL3IA OF FIRE. MENT T. 113 'SECON"D—WATER. FALLS OF - NIAGARA IN THE NEW WORLD. ; 2 Wits CITY OF.THE:FOUNTAINS - .. • BREAKING THE SECOND CIIARM.' THEY ASCEND L'PON THE BOSOM OF TILE WATERS IN THE SECOND ELEMENT: F, Reclaim; France, 34r. Artaucl; American Settler, )Ir. It. homer; Indians, Messrs. Henry and Tressidor Indian Squaw, MIS 3 Foster ; spirit of the Waterl, Miss Neil; Queen of the Cirey ;,Go-ilah, Mr. C. Fisher. • . , GA,AIN.) NAIADE BALLET.. ELEMENT TUF. DIAMOND: 'CAVES IN CALIFORNIA. elrenAt.l bits innrue rulers. AND , FOICATII ELEMENTS: lliss L. Hubbell; Franca, Mr, .S. Artaud ; The Black Knitht Mucklow, Air. Mande'rson': Gnomes, Messrs. Abbott, liSrayne, Fee. ; this Princess Eyohne, Slim E. ic e i s wkyecla, stilts Ratter; Go-dah,- Mr. C. Fisher. THF. SICILIAN VINEYARD. • A TERRIFIC coanuT seThistrz 1011 BEET AND VIE SABLE it NmanT. ,ELE.MLNT THE FOURTH—AIR.. THE PALACE OF RAINBOWS! lIALL OF THE HUNDRED KNIGHTS, Thd Tr,urnphsl Enfry of Herbert And Princess Eveline in • A"CAR'DRAWN WY REAL HORSES. GRAND MILITARY HAND, - ,AND ,G ORGEOUS PROCESSION! ‘. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris papers of Saturday and Sunday. The Minister of the Interior, M. BAROCHE, has taken upon himself to virtually prohibit any meetings of electors in Paris, although such meetings are ex pressly permitted to be held by the Law on Clubs. The National of yesterday thus describes the act of the Minister, and the determination of the Republi cans not to permit themselves to be provoked into the commission of any illegal act. It says : " The Minister of the Interior has suddenly inter dicted the citizens of the 7th and 10th arrondissements, cf Charenton and Montmartre, to meet and discuss the merits of the candidates who ask for the votes of the electors. This measure, which nothing explains or jus tifies, is of a nature to cause much emotion. We hope, however. that tbo patriotic good sense of the people will give an example of moderation to those who use their power so immoderately. The patience of the people of Paris will not be worn out, and no pretext will be given to the liberticide projects avowed each morning by the organs of the reaction. The success of the election of April 28 is now assured, and this intervention of the police will only meet with calm disdain. In their baste, the Ministers hare not patienee to wait for the Assembly to interdict these electoral meetings, which It!. Dufaure declared in the discussion on the clubs to be formally excepted. M. Baroche, ex clubbist, fore stela the vote of the majority. Be it so—there will be room to examine if he has riot outpassed his powers, but we affirm that the interdiction is inexplicable and unjus tifiable. Inexplicable, for unless it be affirmed that there are to be no electoral meetings, it must be allowed that the arrondisements still free are just as culpable, their crime being the same, to have held Republican meet inge. Unjustifiable—and is fact we defy the Minister to mention a single act of disorder which rendered necessary in the interest of public peace , _ the close of th e meet i ngs ent, Montmarto, &e. As t o the offences word of mou th, cou ld t h ey of the 10t chomarmroinudeidsse bym not he legally proceeded against ? Does not a commis sary of police attend to take note of any language which ought to be prosecuted ? The Government was, conse quently, not disarmed, and the ordinary means of re pression would have been fully sufficient. We wait for the Ministry to furnish us with explanations ; we have a right to them. P.S. We are certain that everywhere the electors will follow the example which was last night given by the citizens of Montmartre. We have just learned that the Members of the Bureau, the dele gates of the Socialist Democratic Committee, placed themselves at the door, and Informed the comers of the interdiction, and recommended them to withdraw. Order was Rot an instant troubled. For a moment some agitation was perceived in a group, and it was not without surprise that the citizens saw the commis sary of police of Montmartre commenting on the deci sion of the Assembly refining the authorization to pro secute M. Michel (de Bourges). A few instants sufficed to dissipate the group of the functionary of the earlier order." On Saturday the subject was brought under the notice of the Assembly, and M. BAROCHE having given utterance to the usual common-place claptrap about " order," &c., which never fails to elicit cheers from the majority, declared that he took the respon sibility of these measures on himself. " The Minis ters, the agents of the executive power," said M. BA ROCHE, "are attacked by the orators at these meetings, and whoever attacks the agents of the executive power attacks society itself." Many an obscu rantist has proclaimed " the right divine of Kings to govern wrong," but it was reserved to M. BAROCHR to propound the theory of the di vine right of Ministers. M. JULES FAYRE, inia spirited improvisation, recalled to the recollection of M. BAROCHE the manner in which, prior to the 10th December, 1848, the supporters of M. Louis NAPOLEON BONAPARTE had in all public meetings praised up the virtues of their hero, and calumniated the Chief of th e E xecut i ve an d hi s Ministers. " You have," said M. JULES FAYRE, " profited largely by the right of meeting, but now that the gales of universal suffrage blow against you, you seek to con fiscate this right." In order to cover the retreat of M. BAROCHE, who at each attempt at reply only made matters worse for himself and his colleagues, M. DUPIN adroitly put the question of the order of the day, which was agreed to by the majority, a voice from the Left prophetically exclaiming, "You are closing all the valves, and yet continue to stir up the fire under the boiler." The state of the army continues to excite the greatest uneasiness in the minds of the reactionary party. At Angers the 11th Light Infantry, which was under orders to g►o to Algiers, raised the cry of " Vive la Itepublique Democratique et Sociale," and insulted their commanding officers. This regiment was for merly under the command of General DAMESME, who was killed in June, 1848. The 11th is not the only regiment stationed at Angers (in the heart of a Legitimatist district) which has exhibited a similar disposition. The Patric says— " It was said this afternoon, just as the Assembly had broken up, that the Minister of War had sent to-day, by telegraph, orders to General de Castelane to proceed im mediately to Angers, on account of some acts of insubor dination manifested by the 47th Regiment of the Line. It was also said that the following incident had occurred as the President of the Republic was leaving Paris for Versailles. One of the horses of his carriage having fallen at the Rond-Point in the Chumps-Ely: in, a few of those indiviestals who seem to }lave for mission to place themselves on his passage to make an appearance of what they call popular demonstration, surrounded his carriage, and uttered a seditious cry. The horse rose again immediately, and the President was enabled to continue bis journey without this incident assuming a more grave character.' The same journal says— " We 'are assured that the Government has decided, in a Council of Ministers, to withdraw the Bill on the press. There will no longer, we hope, be any pretext for the members of the Extreme Right to ri ject or mo dify the measures of order and of public safety presented by the Ministry, with the co -opera ion of a considerable portion of the majority. It is said that M. Emme DE GIRARDIN will be brought forward by the Democratic Republicans for the representation of the Soane et Loire. The discussion on the Paris and Avignon Railway Bill has been postponed in order to enable the Mi. nisters to make the alterations rendered necessary by the passing of the amendment of M. COMBAREL DE LE/VAL. It is rumoured that M. ACBILLE FOULD will resign the Finance Ministry. M. CHARAMAULE has proposed to the Assembly to a dd t h e f o llowing clause to the amendment of M. COMBAREL DE LEYVAL, adopted On Thursday The companies of the Northern, Centre, and Western Railways shall not be allowed, either directly or indirectly, to tender for the Paris and Lyons and Lyons and Avignon Railways." Baron TRIAIRE, one of the oldest Generals of the empire, and Commander of the Legion of Honour, has the 87th y ear o f hi s age . General took part in the camp a i gns o f the j Paris, in the e mp i re, i n I ta l y, and i n Germany, a the'iy was orders Republics p t uT d bß i l inR and E w of fo also o f Prince present in th a t o f R uss i a i n 1812, EUGENE, to whom he was Aide-de •Camp. In 1814, he f o ll owe d t h at P RINCE to Munich, where he remained a tt ac h e d to hi s f am ily under until 1832, when he returned to France. The Marquis of NORMANDY gave a grand fete on Friday, at which the Duke of SOTOMAYOR, the Spanish Minister, was present. This visit is looked upon as a proof that the differences between the British and Spanish Courts are arranged, as the Spanish Minister has not before visited at the British Embassy since the interruption of the Diplomatic relations between the two Courts. The delegates chosen by the Democratic and Socialist electors to nominate a candidate for the representation of Paris, h ave nom i na ted AI • EUGENE SUE by a majority of 143 voices. The Five per Cents, were done in the Passage de l'Opera at 881'. 45c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, APRIL 13. Boulogne and Amiens, s%,—Central of: Fr ance (Orleans and Vierzon), 12 X Dutch Rhenish, 1% —East Indian, 5 1 ,8 —Great Indian Peninsula, 118—Northern of France, 123 i. The Spanish SPAIN. Madrid jour na l s of the 9th have arrived. ;ion of six steam - f r i gates, two o f w hich are to be b u il t Ln England. navy is to be increased b y the addi _ The The works of th e ra il wa y The lately dis covere d l ea d m i n es in the provinc e o f from St. Ander o t o The Three per C en t s . closed on the 9th Grenada are desc r ib e d as a b oun ding in silver. A tzda d A e n l a tey ß a o r L e sA su , sp A e r fi st d l e L d , ended T w h ant of funds. at 29 for cash ; the Five per C ents. at 13i for cash ; C oupons at 8 k for paper ; and the Debt without Interest at 41 paper. GERMANY. A telegraphic dispatch from Erfurt, of the 10th, states that the Prussian Government intends to con voke a Congress of the Zolverein at Cassel in June next, to deliberate on the reforms considered neces ' sary, in the Customs' affairs of the northern states of Germany. The dispatch adds, that in the negotia tions 'which are about to take place with Austria for the prorogation of the provisional central commission of Frankfort, Prussia will lay down the condition that the federal state of Erfurt shall be recognised. A letter from Vienna of the 7tb states that the troops encamped in the Tyrol had received orders to go to the Vorarlberg. A letter from Vienna states that Count REDEAT, the Russian AmbaQsador, had presented a note to the Austrian Cabinet inviting it to intervene in the Schleswig-Holstein question in such a way as to pro mote the interests of Russia. The letter adds that it was not doubted that the Austrian Ministers would comply with the demand. The Austrian Government has notified that it will pay 20,000 ducats to the person who will construct and deliver the best locomotive for the railway which passes by the Scemmering, the mountain whioh se parates Styria and the Archduchy of Austria. The Kollar Zeitung has a telegraphi c di s pat c h from Erfurt of the 1301 iPatr, stating that Barvn , RUSSIA. The German paper.state that the reserve divisions of the three infantry corps which are now quartered in Poland are being placed on a war footing. Letters from Ifucharest of the 31st ult. announce that General LUDERS, the Russian Commander in the Danubian principalities, has been summoned to St. Petersburgh. ITALY. , The French Gavernment has received the fallow ing telegraphic dispatch, dated Naples, April 9 : The Pure entered Terracina on the evening of the 6th, where he met such a reception as may be regarded as a good omen. He set out at a very early hour yesterday morning for Frosinone." The Giornale di Roma publishes a notification from the Minister of Finance, fixing the 12th of April as the last day on which the bills of the Roman Bank will be received or exchanged. The commis sion fur the recovery and restitution of articles im pressed for the use of the late Republic, has issued a notice stating that those articles which have not hitherto been claimed by their owners shall be sold by auction to cover the expenses of the commission. Cardinal SPINOLA returned to Rome on the 4th. On the day before, Monsignor DE LIGNE, Domestic Prelate of his Holiness, and Prefect of the Master of Ceremo nies, arrived from Portici. ILLNESS or MR. ROEBUCK, M.P.—We regret to hear that Mr. Roebuck continues to be rather indisposed. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman was very much fatigued by his professional services at the northern circuit, where he was engaged op some heavy trials, and it appears that he has suffered more or lass ever since. His illness, however, is not of a dangerous character. ACCIDENT IN THE THUNDER STORM.--The storm of Friday was extremely destructive. A man, unknown, was struck dead by the electric fluid near the Nightingale, Lisson-grove, and removed to the Paddington dead-house. A billy-boy, 80 tons burthen, was also struck near to Hun gerford Suspension-bridge, and instantly sunk, the crew, three in number, escaping almost by a miracle. The enor mous hailstones that fell have destroyed property to a con siderable amount in the suburbs, more particularly in the nursery grounds at Kilburn, .Fulham, Deptford, Camber well, &c. VOLUNTARY CONFISSION OF A MURDER.—Much excitement has been caused in the neighbourhood of Sun bury and Laleham, in consequence of a man named Charles Holden, a labourer, aged 40 years, having voluntarily sur rendered himself up to the police and confessed that he mur dered a young woman twenty years ago. Holden has stated most clearly and distinctly that about the time specified he used to keep company with a young woman, aged 18, named Jane Lewis ; that one night, in going across a field path with her, between Chertsey and Laleham, they had a quar rel, and he gave her a blow with his left hand under the ear, from the effects of which she instantly expired ; that he then carried the body into a plantation near to the mansion house of the Earl of Lucan, where he buried her, having first made a bole two feet deep with a spade, which he got from the tool-house of Lord Lucan's gardener. He then stated the exact place where he had laid the body, and went with two policemen to point out the spot. It appears that in No vember last a skeleton was found in this very place, and a communication was made to Mr. Wakley upon the subject, but that gentleman, owing to some information received from a surgeon in the neighbourhood, declined to hold an inquest, and no further notice was taken of the skeleton. The statement made by the prisoner has been taken down in writing, and he has several times declared solemnly the truth of it, both before the policemen and Mr. Marriott, one of the county magistrates. He has been remanded to the next petty sessions. THE MURDER AT NEWPORT.—NEWPORT, MON MOUTHSHIRE, Twansnasts—The two Irishmen, Maurice Murphy and Patrick Sullivan, who, as stated in The Sun of Wednesday, had been apprehended by the Gloucestershire police at Cheltenham, on the charge of having murdered a poor old woman named Lewis, at Bassaley, near this town, have undergone an examination before the magistrates here upon the charge. There can be no doubt, from the testi mony of the witnesses, that the horrid crime was committed by one or both of the prisoners, each of whom, when before the authorities, laid the crime u p on th e other. Patrick Sullivan gave a detailed account of the transaction. He re presented that the poor woman was knocked down with a stone by Murphy, and then kicked about the head, and that they robbed her of her shawl and a little money which they found upon her. It appears that the brutal ruffians mistook the unfortunate deceased for another woman whom they had seen receive some money for a cow which she had sold in Newport fair, and whom they had resolved to follow and rob. By some means, however, they afterwards mistook the woman, and followed and murdered the deceased. The magistrates fully committed the prisoners fur trial on the charge of murder. ROYAL ADELAIDE.—The following is copied from the Jersey Times of the 12th inst. :—Drowned in the Royal Adelaide, on her passage from Cork to London, the 30th March, Anthony Le Ber, Esq., and his faimily, consisting of his wife and six children, three sons and three daughters, the eldsst 16, and the youngest 8, leaving behind one daughter. NAVIGATION LAWS.—We understand that informa tion has been received that the advantage of the admission of British vessels into the indirest trade with the United States, consequent upon the repeal of the British navigation.. laws, is beginning to be felt in the orange trade from the Azores. The cargoes in this trade being of a perishable nature, the exporter prefers British to Portuguese vessels for the purpose of carrying them to the foreign market, as being both better found and more fearlessly sailed, and therefore better calculated to deliver them in good order, and several British ships have been employed since the beginning of the present year in the trade between these islands and the United States. Portuguese vessels could at all times be chartered at a lower freight, but they have only been em ployed in such voyages as were closed to British vessels. There is every reason to believe that, for the future, this trade will give regular employment to a certain number of British vessels of between 50 and 60 tons burden.—Times. ESQUIMAU% VOCABULARY.—We understand that a dozen copies of the Esquimaux Vocabulary, compiled by Captain Washington, R.N., and published by order of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty for the use of the Arctic Expeditions, were dispatched to New York by the Cambria mail steamer on the 13th inst. to Mr. H. Grinnell, the generous merchant of that city, who is fitting out a pri vate expedition from the United States of America to go in search of Sir John Franklin and his companions. A simi lar number of the vocabulary were forwarded to Captain Penny at Aberdeen for the use of the two ships under his command, which were to sail on Saturday afternoon for Davis's Straits. It is worthy of notice, as showing the libe ral feeling that animates all parties with reference to the Arctic Expeditions, that the British and North American Royal Mail Steam-packet Company having accidentally learnt the contents of the parcel, refused to receive any pay ment for its carriage. METROPOLITAN POLlCE.—Captain Douglas W. P. Labalmondiere is appointed Chief Superintendent of the Metropolitan Police, in the place of Captain Hay, who has succeeded Sir Charles Rowan as joint Commissioner with Mr. Mayne.— Sunday Paper. TRANSFER OF LICENCES.—STRAND.—List Friday was appointed for holding a special session for transferring victuallers' licences for the division ; but in consequence of there not being sufficient magistrates present to make a bench, na business was transacted. To constitute a special session it is necessary that there should be two magistrates, but upon this occasion the only gentleman in the commission in attendance was Mr. Autrobus, and he, after waiting until an hour beyond the appointed time, left. The result was that the business ready to be brought forward was postponed until the next special session day, 7th June. THE REV. DR. NOLAN AND THE COUNTY CON GREGATIONAL UNIOR.---The annual general meeting of ministers and delegates of the Congregationalists of this county was held at Liverpool, on Thursday last, when it was unanimously resolved that the church of Ducie Chapel, of which the Rev. Dr. Nolan still holds the pastorate, should be expelled from the union; the consequence of which decision is, that this place of worship is no longer regarded by the Independents as a congregational chapel. We understand that, in conformity with the rules of the union, prior to the annual meeting, Dr. Nolan and his church had been served with notice that their connexion witk the union was objected to. Accordingly Dr. Nolan and two of his deacons attended to defend themselves against the objection. On the nomination of the com mittee, it is stated that Dr. Nolan wished to propose a layman or laymen connected with Ducie Chapel ; but this was objected to, on the ground that it was very unusual that parties acdused should be allowed to be come their own judges in their own cause. Dr. Nolan then claimed the right to object to any one of the nine gen tlemen, as they were proposed. He objected to the first minister proposed (the Rev. J. Kelly, of Liverpool), and proposed another in his stead; but as no one seconded his proposition except one of his own deacons. of course his amendment was lost. The second minister nominated being absent, Dr. Nolan nominated in his stead the Rev. Mr. Har rison, of Heywood, who was appointed. To the third minis ter nominated, the Rev. J, Sutcliffe, of Ashton, Dr. Nolan objected; and on that gentleman being elected almost unanimously, Dr. Nolan said he should decline going on with Isis defence, and should withdraw from the union. Mr. lick, one of his deacons, then said that he fully agreed with Dr. Nolan, and that he was instructed by the church at Ducie Chapel, to state that they should also withdraw from the union. The chairman (Dr. Blackburn) said that they could not withdraw, but that Dr. Nolan and his church were expelled from the union.—lllanchester Guardian. EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE.--0a Wednes day, the 311 instant, a fat cow was slaughtered by Mr. E. Boddington, of Rugby. In the belly he found three calves, one of which, under the ordinary course of nature, should have dropped twelve months ago ; the other two were twins, with which the cow had gone six months. The first calf weighed 811 b. ; the hair was very long, and the teeth pro minent. At the time the cow was expected to have calved she lost flesh, and this was attributed to some disease; she afterwards gained flesh, and was taken to the bull, and stall fed. The calves and womb have been sent to the Veterinary College in London, who have sent a letter to Mr. Walker, veterinary surgeon of this place, requesting him to collect and send them every particular concerning this singular affair, and account fur it in this way :—at the time the calf should have been brought forth it escaped through a lesion in the womb and lay in the abdominal cavity twelve months; that this lesion closed up afterwards and the twins were soon afterwards formed in the womb. There were eleven stone of fat in the cow.—Leicestershire Mercury. SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAIL;YAY.—The opening of the Dudley Branch of the South Staffordshire Railway is announced to take place on the Ist of May, and by this route there will be a direct communication (although somewhat circuitous) between Birmingham, Wednesbury, Greatbridge, Tipton, and Dudley, besides that sow existing between Bir mingham, Walsall, Lichfield, and Burton-upon-Trent. The communication between the mining districts of East Worces tershire and South Staffordshire and the Midland and North ern counties of England will thus be complete. RESIGNATION OF DE CANDOLLE.—We hear with regret, that the state of public affairs at Geneva ha, induced the celebrated botanist, De Candolle, to resign his chair a n d the direction of the Botanical Garden of Geueya. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER 70 THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool on Saturday were estimated at 10,000 bales, of which 7,000 were Ameri can; 400 Pernam and Maranham realised bid. to 71,-d., 300 Bahia at 61d. to qd., and 400 Surat at 4lrl. to sd. per lb. The market closed firmly with a hardening tendency.—ln Railway Shales a further depression in prices occurred, and the market closed h. avily. The Corn Market in Mark-lane is very depressed again. English Wheat being Is. to 25., and fore'gn, lower. Aris' Gazette of to-day gives the fullowing upon the iron trade:— " Our notice of the quarterly meetings, which did not conclude until late on Saturday evening last, must necessarily be short. The observations we made throughout the week, and the informations we have obtained, are far from encouraging. Considerable num bers attended both at Wolverhampton, Birmingham, and Dudley, but the amount of business dune was un usually small ; indeed, scarcely anything was trans acted further than the se,tlement s,f accounts. The:e were very readily arranged, being of a very limited character, from the large reductions entailed upon our district during the last six months, both in produce and consumption. Considerable firmness has been mani fested by makers and sellers of iron, and purchasers have as resolutely refused to buy, both parties aver that they are utterly unable to relax their demands, and but little anxiety to do busi ness on either side has prevailed. Merchants' e arc - houses are known to be by no means heavily stocked, and they are not altogether without orders; but the demand is so unsettled, and so far from realising previous expectations, that they are with holding their contracts in the hope that easier terms may be submitted to when the quarterly meetings are concluded. A general reduction can, however, scarcely be contemplated, as present prices of both pig and bar iron are barely sufficient to protect the iron master from ruin, and an attempt to lower wages, which must neces sarily follow, would doubtless be met by a stubborn re sistance on the part of the workmen. In pig iron very little has been done; but a few parcels changed hands on Saturday evening at a shale lower quota tions: Since midsummer last, several furnaces have been blown out, and others have reduced their make, while, in some instances, portions of Christmas sales have yet to be delivered. Manufacturers also are consuming much less than they expected, and, under the present critical circumstances, are scarcely justified in purchas ing beyond the immediate wants of the hour, hence more than usual indifference has prevailed in this branch of the trade also. " Coals, ironstone, and limestone retain their f u ll prices, and in general have hitherto met with a ready sale. Under the sanguine impressions of last quarter day, many of the accumulations of ironstone were swept off; and the stone getters are now prepared for hold ing their stocks, unless they can realise the same figures. " The general feeling of the trade seems to incline towards an equable and universal reduction of make, rather than any attempt at reduction in price, which is thought would only lead to disastrous results. The Shropshire trade has resolved to maintain their present position with scrupulous integrity." There is no intelligence yet of the American mail steamer. The accounts from Germany are interesting in a com mercial point of view, as they notice the prevalence of embarrassment among some of the firms which bare been most largely engaged in sugar and corn speculations. The great reaction in the prices of both those commodities has been of a nature, certainly, to test the strength of houses of even very ample means, though some of them may counter balance their recent losses by the previous gains in coffee. How long the existing state of things in the corn trade is to last remains to be seen, for it is the opinion of experienced parties that the Continental growers and dealers must suffer greatly from the wide extended competition to. which our Cue-trade system exposes them. Accounts from Holland state that the heirs of the late King William have determined to accept the succession, and will make a declaration to that effect on the 17th of this month, the day after which the debts will be paid. There has been a supply of money stock again that has caused the Consol market to fluctuate considerably, but the tone is more buoyant than on Saturday. The receipt of lower prices from Paris has been made rather a handle of by speculative sellers, but with the abun dance of money here, and the prospect of our political differences with foreign States being speedily adjusted, the variation of the renter, unless occasioned by events of importance to us as well as to France, should hardly be estimated too highly. Consols have been 951 4, and since 95 for Transfer, and are 95i for Account. The New Three-and-a Quarter per Cents. have been 97 and 964. Bank Stock has been steady at 2t)6. Exchequer-bills have been quoted 68s. to 715.. premium. Loans on Stock are procurable at very low rates, and there is but little demand for them. In the foreign market the half-monthly account is being arranged, and prices have fluctuated ac cording to the special circumstances affecting each security. In Peruvian the Bears have pre dominated, and the Active Stock is up to 69 and 70, and the Deferred to 29i and 30. The Mexican spe calators are Bulls and the Bonds therefore have receded to 291 1 to 28i. Buenos Ayres Stock has been 541 to 55, and Brazilian, 871. Spanish Five per Cents. have im proved to 18, and the Three per Cents. to 37+ They come higher from Amsterdam, and it is said that a lead ing Hebrew capitalist will join the new committee of bondholders. This is what has long been wanted. Contrac•ors are bound by every consi deration of mercantile probity to assist the parties who have embarked their means in loans brought out under the auspices of the former. Portuguese Four per Cents. have been 321 to 331. Danish Scrip is 41 premium, and Russian 1 to 2 premium. Dutch Ta o and-s• Half per Cents. are 55i to 56. Railway Shares are exceedingly heavy upon the set tlement, and no real buyers come forward to support the market. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 206 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities I per Cent. Consols Anna New 3 1 4 per Cent. Aims. Long Annuities. Exp. Jan. sth, le6o 8 3-16 8 D 0.30 Years, Expire Oct. 10,1853 7 Consols for Account 95 3A% % Exchequer Bills. 1 1 ,4 d. 2d. March. Jane. 1,060/. - 68 71 p 5001. — 68 71 p Small 6B 71 p PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent 8 7 14 Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 par Cent 5 4 14 55 Danish Bonds 1825, 3 per Cent.— Ditto, 5 per Cent Ditto, Scrip ••• Mexican Bonis, 1846,5 per Cent., Coupons Ditto Ex Jan. Coupons Ditto for the Account ..... 29% Peruvian Bonds, 4 per Cent 69 Ditto for the Account 7O Ditto Deferred Portuguese Bends, 5 per Cent — Ditto 4 per Cent. Russian Bonds. 1822, 5 per Cent — Ditto Scrip 2 I% R p Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent IBA IA Ditto for the Account Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent,lB4o Ditto Account Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2 , 4 per Cent.. 12 Liuild ... 56 55% Ditto 4 Der Cerit. Certificates ... 851/8 BESINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK RAILWAYS. PAID. FEZ SHARE. berdsen Bristol and Exeter Do., Thirds Caledonian Do., New 10/. Preference lO .., - bi1 t ...... to Eastern Counties ...- ....... Eastern Union, Class A (late E. U. Shares) ... .. 25 Ditto Scrip (gua. 6 per cL) 20 Great Northern Do. 14 A Deferred ..... ... 12 1 % 1 1, 0 3 / 4... to Do. 14 B 6 per Cent. Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 50 2 5 3 /4 to Great Western ..100 5O 48 3 / 4 49 to 48% Do. New 171 ... Hull and Selby Ditto, Half Shares .. ...... 25 Lancaster and Carlisle-- -... 50 Do~ Thirds Lancashire and Yorkshire ...100 ..... 31 1 ,4 3 4 to Ditto Fifths Do., New Guar. 6 per cent. 10 Do., West Riding Union... 11 1 „a .... . 2 1 A ... Leeds and Bradford Lon d., B right., & South Coast 100 ..... 77% ... to 76% London & North Western-100.-102 102 1 4, 101% to 101% 3 / 4 Do. New Quarters. Do. Fifths Loidon and S. We5tern.......100 ..... 581,4 to 57% Midland-- .... .. . ..... —lin) 33 32% ini to 31% Ditto, 501. E hires ..... ...... 30 North British .. - ......... . 25 North Staffordshire... South Eastern South Wales ... Wear Valley 6 per Cent. Guaranteed Do. do. do. Do. do. do. York, Newcastle, and Berwick 2)5 Do.,and Newcastle Exten. 20 Do. G. N. E. Fur. or Pref. 8 York and North Midland .. SO - Ditto. Preference FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Central of France ( Orleans and Vierzon ) Northern of France l6 ..... 12 to Parts and Ilonen MINES. A.nglo Alexlean lOO rm. Santiago de Cuba....... [o 8%..... to JOINT STOCK ISANES. Australasia British North American LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, APRIL 15.—Wind S.S.E., moderato braze with rain. DEAL, APRIL 13.—Wi n d W.S.W. to S.W.—Arrd. Globe, Pe nang; Mary Ann, Charleston. Arrd. from the River and sailed, Burette, jun., Hobart Town; Mary White, Sydney, N.S.W.; Sophia, A u=tralia; Lunda, Wanapoa; Catubyses, Rio Janeiro; Marys; Demerara; Candidate, Barbadoes ; Briton, Quebec; Aldeboran, ditto; White Mou3e, Nassau. The Eendraght Naakt Mast, Antvi erp to Valparaiso, and the Planet, Ha mburgh to Plymouth, got on the Goodwin Sands this morning, but .came of making no water. Arrd. Jean Keay, Savannah for Antwerp ; Su tang, Cape Coast Castle ; Helena, Pernambuco for Copenba . gen; Agenoria, Callao ; Mary Ann, Charleston, with considerable dam age an d leaky - Norma, Santa Cruz. Arrived from the Riv er and sailed, Diadem, Quebec ; Prince Edward, P r i nce Ed war d' s Island ;Prudence, Marseilles. S!d. Queen, New Orleans, with the rest of the outbound, except the Branscombe, Calcutta. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 14.—Arrd. Cockburn, Patagonia; Rlersbe, N. w Orleans; Roberts, ditto; Greenock, 1,100 bile; Lady Milton, ditto; Carnatic, Savannah. The Lon don, from Danizic, has arrived with loss of boats, bul warks, &c., and cargo supposed to be damaged, having been struck by a heavy sea; also with loss of b ows p r it, head, cutwater, &c., f rom colision, 11th inst., off Holy head with a vessel, name unknown. QUEENSTOWN, APRIL 11.—Sid. Waitron, New York; Su:ae, St. John's, New B:unsviiek. ABERDEEN.—SId. Albert, IN%llimin:tine, Sarah, Lord Seaton, Heroine, Caroline, and Berbice, Quebec. SHIELDS.—The Mary Anna, of and hence to London, has been on the Buddens. The Theodore, ot Rye, has received much damage. The Mary Ann, Blytb, for London, has been got off the Scarp. HARTLEPOOL.—The Biotic, Violet, of Wisbeach, and the William and Ann, ot this port, stranded during the late gale, have got off. RAMSGATE, APRIL 14. Wind N.E. to N.N,E.-011 . port, Creole, Rio Grande, for Bremen. PLYDIOUTH, APRIL 14.—Wind S.S.E.—SId. Frances, Ridley, Adelaide, South Australia. FOWEY, APRIL 13.—Wind N.N.W.—SId. Good Intent and Royal Adelaide, Quebec. FALMOUTH, APRIL 14.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Bernard, Sierra Leone; Caroline, Sierra Leone; Livonia, Ara caibo, and sailed fcr London; Lord Panmure ' Gouaines, and for Liverpool. Off port, Win. Brodrick,Havannah, for Antwerp. Sid. Alchymist and Clio, Quebec. The Export, from Cuba, put in 12th inst. with damage and leaky, having struck on Jardinallo Reef, the 24th February last. SCILLY, APRIL 11.—The Washington, M aur iti us to London, has been assisted in with de c k s swept, eight feet water in her hold, loss of rudder, sails, bulwarks, stanchions, &c., from stress cf weather. LERWICK, APRIL 12.—The James schooner, of YA' mouth, was driven on shore a derelict OR the 9th inst.. on Sandlodge, S.E. coast of Shetland, and has become a wreck, but the greater part of the vessel and materials will be saved. NORTH RONALDSHAY. The Herrings, of North Shields, for Quebec, went on shore on Durness, Ist April, and has become a total wreck; crew saved. The Lord Brougham, of North Shields, drove on shore in London Bay, Island of Elley, same day, hut is ex• pected off. KIRKWALL.—The stern board of a ship's boat marked " Diamond, Liverpool, Charles Ludoe," has washed on shore at Edey. Th e c o pp ere d b r i g which foundered off North Ronaldsbay, 23d March, has been towed into the bay bottom up. COWES, APRIL 14.—Wind light and variable.—Arrd. Wassely Schukoff, Ebberfield, Havannab. • SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 14.—Wind S. to S.E.---Sld• Avon, Montreal. TORBAY, APRIL 14.—Wind southerly.—Arrd. Ed wardoner Catharine, Dttlfyhyl for Dublin, leaky in top sides. Ski. Camden, Quebec. BRISTOL, APRIL 14.—Wind W.N.W.—SId. Fermis , British Queen, Sea Flower, and Countess of Durham, Quebec ; Zion, Calcutta. DUBLIN, APRIL 13.—Wind S.S.W.—SId. British, Queen, New York. WATERFORD, APRIL 13.—Wind N. to E.N.E. and W. —Sid. Elias, New York; Countess of Durham, Quebec; Lady Campbell, ditto; Algeria de Minhs, Catninha. _ QUEENSTOWN, APRIL 12.—Arrd. Flordi Moudacle, Callao; Britannia, Liverpool, for Wilmington, leaky, and with decks swept, &c., and a man overboard. Sid. WO" Liam, New York; O'Hallaran, Norfolk, Virginia. DO beck, Marion, for Boston, with cargo shifted. SAUNDERSFOOT.—The Elizs, from California, on shore at Gillar Point; floated off after discharging; will repair at Tenby. NEWPORT, APRIL 13.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Screw, Winkle, Gloucester, for Jamaica. Sld. Helena, Sr. Thomas's; Triton, Quebec; Falcon, do; Nicaragua, do. CLYDE, APRIL 13.—Arrd. Indus, St. John's, NO Brunswick. Sld. Columbine, Valparaiso ; Ungalish, Trinidad; Favourite, Montreal; Onyx, Quebec. LIMERICK, APRIL 13.—Wind W.—Arrd. Mercia Earbadoes. Sid. Waterford. Patty, and Charles Richard , New York; Lady Peel and Jessy, Quebec. WARRENPOINT, APRIL 13.—Arrd. Sarah Parka, New York and Belfast. ABERDEEN, APRIL 13.—Wind S. to S.S.E.—Sid' Arab and Richibucto, Quebec; Lady Franklin and' So. phis, Arctic Regions. LEITH, APRIL 13.—Wind W.—Arrd. Chieftain, Col' lao. SW. Munro, Montreal. SHIELDS, APRIL 13.—Wind E.—Sld. Graham,. 1 ,15. , drab; Gift, Montreal; Francis, Quebec. SUNDERLAND, APRIL 14.—Wind N.E.—Sld. Royal 'Oak, Naiad, Ophelia and Ann, and Felton Park, Quebec; Metropolis, Hong-Kong; Ashley, New York. HARTLEPOOL-61d. Percy, Quebec. HULL.—Arrd. Allen Brown, St. John's, New Brune wick. Std. Ross, New York; Thetis, Montreal. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE-MONDAY. The leading country markets held on Saturday wer e heavy for Wheat, at a decline in the quotrtions of frpts is. to 2s. per quarter. All spring Corn, including Fluor. was lower to purchase, owing to the large quantities' p o '' offer. The latest accounts from New York represent the demand for Grain and Flour as steady. At Danish!' and Ode:i.a.. prices had a downward tendency. Ti-,e near port continental markets have been in a very inactive t state. Up to our own mar k e t, l ast wee k , t h e arr i va l s o f English Grain were on the increase. From Ire!ant i no supplies reached us, while those from Scotland wnr° limited. The foreign imports amounted to 25,90 1 . quarters of Wheat, 16,160 ditto of Barley, 57,9.58 IF of Oats, 3,924 ditto of Beans, 275 ditto of Peas, 1, ditto of Tares, 2.973 ditto of Linseed, 1,699 ditto Rapeseed, 37 ditto of Mustard Seed, 1,012 o tsv of sundry Seeds, including Indian Corn, 3, 60 ' sacks and 10 barrels of Flour. Adsices come to hand this morning, st a ti ng th a t sev ers; large corn shipping houses abroad have moppet' paynent—one for upwards of 900,000 dollars. Frets Essex a very scanty supply o f Wh eat was rece i ve d f re sh up to this morning', m ar k et , coastw i se as well as by l aP " carriage. The quantity from Kent and all other guar" ters was but moderate; nevertheless the show of soar pies, owing to several parcels being left over from Fri day, was fully equal to the demand. The pressure of foreign Wheat and Flour still continues; the miller s purchased with extreme caution, and the fact ors , to eJr feet sales, were compelled to accept is to 2s pe r . quarter less money • than on Mond a y l as t, ab which amount of depression a total clearance Was not effected. Offers have arrived from the East coasts to ship home-grown Wheats at reduced prioeS• We had a large quantity of foreign Wheat on sholvo from granary as well as ex ship. Comparativelf speaking, a very limited amount of business was tran s' acted, and prices gave way fully Is per qua r t e r, a t wh ich very little disposition was shown to effect purchases any kind. The supply of English and Scotch Barley was small; that of foreign very extensive. In moat Iry stances the finest parcels sold slowly at late rates; hit most other qualities gave way Is per quarter. With Malt, ready for delivery, we were well supplied. The transactions in that article were wholly in retail; bnc we have no decline to notice in price'• Au immense quantity of foreign Oats was brought for' ward. This had a most depressing influence upon the trade, and the currencies gave way Is per quarter. At the close of the market the bulk of the supply remaide unsold. We had a very inactive demand for Beans. at barely last week's quotations. In Peas and Indian Corn next to nothing was doing. All kinds of Flour were 0 1. • fering at a reduction of quite is per 2801bs. , CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wheat—Essex & Kent, I malt—Chevalier...... 505 te Red, New.... 355 to 405 Oats—Yorkshire and Ditto,White, New 38s 46s Lincoln's., Feed. 131 151 / Norfolk and Lin- Potato l7e 9 " coin, Red... 34s 37s Youghal and Cork, Ditto, White ••• • •• 36s 41s 81ack....... I 1/ 1 Irish, Red •••• • • • 34s 39s Cork, White..... 23e 1 14 Ditto,White ••• • .. 38s 42s Scotch, Feed. t2' Rye—Old .••••• • • • • • • 21s 22s Ilcans—Tick 22' s 280 New. •••••• .• .. 215 22s Pigeons ..... .•• • . 26i; 34 4 Barley—Grinding 15s 19s Peas,—Grey •••• •• •• • • 23s 245 Malting . .. •• .. 21s 23s Maple . .......... 2js 250 Chevalier •.. 225 25s ite..... 2 4 23 2 34 Malt—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers •• • •..... 24s :e f01k............ 435 48s Flour — Town-made. • • 328 36 . 1 Brown 40s 42s Suffolk -•••• • • • • • 27s 3 : 1 Kingston and Ware 46s 50s Stockta & Norfolk 275 PO SEED, Our market to-day was well supplied with most seeds' the demand for which ruled heavy, at almost nominfil prices. Cakes were lower to purchase. Turnip, White, per bush. lOs to lls Car rawa y ...... • • .... 29s 1126 , Red and Green.. • • 105 12s C or i an d er .... .•..• • •• 16s 2:: Mustard, 8r0wn.... . 85 ll s H empsee d , per quar t er 32s White .••.. • • • .. 6s 9s Linseed, Eng. Sowing.. 543 50 1 Tares, Spring .•••.••• 3s id 45 3d Crushing •••• • • • • 40s 43 4 Old .... Baltic 445 Canary, per quarter .. 68s 7 r C Odessa • • Rye grass.. ••• • . 20s 24s Linseed Cake,pr.l,ooo— Red Ers. (cwt.) 355 50s English .81 55 91 56 White .......... 34s 48s Foreign, per ton 610 s 7 1 1 1 Foreign Red..-- 33s 50s Rape Cakes, pr ton 41 05 41 White.... 32s 50s Rapeseed, New, pr lat 3510 s 381 06 Trefoil .............. 145 its NEWGATE AND LEADMNBALL. Although the weather has been very, mild,' upwards of 2,000 carcases of country-killed Meat were received up to these markets last week; while from Hamburg° seven baskets of Bed came to hand. The supplies 0 0 offer, slaughtered in the metropolis, have been reason' ably extensive, and of full average quality. ' Generall speaking the trade is heavy, and late rates' are with diP ficulty supported. About 500 carcasses of Foreign Meat have been disposed of. At per stone by tho Carcase. a. d. to 1. d. 1 S. d. to 0. "' lieef,lnforior•• •• -• 1 10 2 2 ' Hutton, inferior •• 2 2 2 6 middling •• •• 2 4 2 6 middling.. 2 8 2 I : --primelarge •• 2 8 210 prime •••• 8 0 3 . prime small .. 210 3 0 Pork, large.... ——2 10 3 ‘," vela...". .• •• •• .• 2 10 3 8 — Kiwi ........ 3 6 4 v Lamb. 4s 8d to 58 Bd.- SMITHFIELD. A very moderate importation of foreign stock Wl s taken place into London since Monday last. The total supply has been confined to 1,004 head. During th e same week in 1848 we received 1;256, and in the corres ponding period in 1849, 656 head. IMPORTS INTO LONDON IN TIIE PAST WEEK. From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs Hamburgh 20 ... Harlingen 144 ... 24 .• ... 2 ••"" Antwerp Rotterdam 91 ... 491 ... ... 184 . Total 255 ... 515 ... 224 .. Corresponding week in 1849 256 ... 210 ... 12 ... 179 ... 1 1 Same week in 1848.., 545 .. 612 .. 99 ... At the various outports the arrivals hare been small; especially those of Beasts and Sheep. Fxota Irelisnu 26 Cows, 138 Sheep, and 219 rigs, teye orgiyod direct by sm serv e d ro bo lces, h a table s oft lint. F r , the itnpor nirRITE Ozer Cow: Calve Shee Laml Pig s IMPOI Oxex Cow l Calve Inferior Bea quo P rime Prin ic Le 14,rxe coartgs, rae s small t atab g .C 4 Beut a, 3,255 Bea sti, 2138 s3l3' sinceNotvvith' reported " the ti t l,6lk2l kir 2 to .431. 411 i; Cal 1 .4 tone. , 8 ,' 2 ° 0 tom .°En ewhat tied held f Z °ll iltalted e re, 118 York, Ditto RegeSha B cotch R Ditt o rifn e l Ditto B 1 134 1 , 3 "fa Pink cj" Lincoln" Re bitto Kiln . o erlyi ek R 4 u. Last in 11 were, 1 5 b ditto ee ry mods /et the de atti nees • lo ae~ Mid W ditt o si e al to 131 ; Y 21 83 to; is d or the Fein • Obtai„ g d it , (Noted at; ta r „ mon 35 194 per Ot. P« ters !tack thls di trice -e 17. 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