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MON. • It is Jespettfully annonnced that in consequence of other novelties the hilltly sueeessful Opera of ERNANI cannot be, repeated until latex in the Season. • To meiotic with an eptirely new Ballet, by M. Perrot, entitled EOLINE • ou, LA DRYADE. The Music by Signor Pugui.. The Scenery by Mr. Marshall. brnicipal Characters—roline (betrothed to Count Edgard), Diddle. Lucile Grahn ; Rnbezahl (le Gnome), M. Perrot ; Count Edgard, /of. Toussaint; Prince of Silesia (brother of Eoline), M. Gosselin. In the coarse of the Ballet the following Dances will be introduced : Waltze Selesienne, by the Coryphees of the Corps de Ballet. Pas do la Fiancee—Mdlle. Lucile Grahn and M. Toussaint, Pas de Cinq (composed by M. Gosselin)—Mdlles. Louise Weiss, Fen• (inland, Demelisse, Cassan, and Mcncelet. Mazurka D'Extase—Mdlle. Lucile Gr , lin and M. Perrot, Fourth Tableau. Grand Pas des Dryades by Mdlle. L.Grahn and the Ladles of the Corps de Ballet. Madame Anaide Castellan, of the Imperial Theatre St. Petersburgh; is daily expected in. town, and will make her first appearance forth with in Donizeti i's Opera of LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. kpplicattons ibr Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Bex •!l1ce, Opera Colonnade. HER MAJESTY'S TMEATRE. It is respectlblly announced that A GRAND MUSICAL FETE, Convulsing' the unpublished manuscripts of the celebrated FELICIEN DAVID, Will he executed, for the first time in this country, ON THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 27, - With the original Melodies and Choruses. Grand Descriptive Symphonic Ode of TIIE DESERT, prodneed fbr the first time with the most enthusiastic success at the Conservatoire Royal, Paris. PROGRAMME. LE DESEI.C. Ode, Symphonie, Orientele—divided in three parts with grand orchestra. The orchestra and chorus will include upwards of 200 per formers. Solos by Sigs. Moriani and Corelli. Part I.—Entranse to the Desert. Glorification of Allah ; grand chorus and orchestra—Arrival of the Caravan—Departure of the Caravan—Tempest in the Desert— Return of the Calm—The Caravan resumes its march. Part ll.—Night. The Evening Star—Halt of the Cavvan—Hymn to the Night : air sung by Signor Moriani—Arablan Fantasia—The Dance of the Almes—The Liberty of the Desert : grand chorus with orchestra— Evening reverie : melody sung by Signor Moriani, with chorus and orchestral aecompanhnonts 7 Sieep ! Part 111.----sun-rise. Call of the Muezzin; original Arabian melody, with the Arabic words—The Caravan starts once more on its jou/mop—The Cara can gradually disappears in the distance; grand chorus and orches tra—Silence' in the Desert—The Song, of Thanitsgiving—Allah. f4rand chum. flue. Introductory Part—lst. Fragment of Grand Symphony In E flab-2d. Atelodlee imitative a Grand Orchestra: Les Illrendelles, sun by Signor Moriani-Ad. 3lelodie Orientale : Le Chihouque 4th. Soiree du Printemps Fragment tire dee quartre Saissons do Felicien David, executed by all the string instruments. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and l'it Tickets to be made at the Opera-offlee, Colonnade, Haymarket. Deers open at Eight o'clock ; to commence at Half-past Eight. THEATRE ROYAL, I)RURY LANE. FIRST NIGHT OF A NEW COMIC BALLET, For the Debat of ➢idlla. POLIN and Mont. GASPERINI (Principal Dancers from the Grand Opera at Budin), And of the Den LOUISE and ADELE, with the full Corps de Ballet of this popular Theatre. ON• EASTER MONDAY, ➢fARCH 24, Will be performed ROBERT THE DEVIL. Robert, Mr. W. Har rison ; Bertram, Mr. Streeton ; Rainibant, Mr. D. W. King ; Isabella, Miss Rainforth ; Alice, Miss Romer. After whteli will be produced, a New Comic Ballot, entitled RORER I' AND BERTRAND. • Dances in the course of the Ballet : Pas de Deux, by Wiles. Adele and Louise. • Pas de Deux, by Millie. O'Bryan and Mr. A. Webster. Illrand Pas de Caractere, by Mdlle. I'olin and M. Gasperini.' A New Polka, by Mdile.Polln and M. Gasperini. Bolero, by Mesdames Louise and Adele. La Esmeralda, by 3ldlle. Polin, and A. MAZURKA, by the Principal Ballet Performers. The liminent Tenor, M. DUPRKZ is engaged here for Twelve Is;glite only,. and will shortly make his appearance in his eel, In - sted character of ARNOLD, in GUILLAUME TELL; and is also preparing himself for his unrivalled personation of EDGAR, in Donizetti's popular Opera, TILE BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR, for the Performance of which, an Engagement has also been ex pressly entered into with Mdlle. EUGENIA GARCIA.' The Lox-offlce will be opened this day, as usual, under the superintendence of Mr. John Parsons, IMIP:ATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. LESSEE, MR. B. WEBSTER. ON EASTER MONDAY, MARCH 24, Will be repeated a New and Original Comedy, entitled TIIE STIPIRIFF OF THE COUNTY. Principal Characters by Messrs. W. Farrah, Stsickland, Buckstone, Webster, Mrs. Glover, Mrs. W. Clifford, Mrs. Ilumby, Miss Julia Bennett, &c. After whicli, a New Grand Classical Extravaganza, entitled THE fIOLDEN FLEECE. Principal Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, J. Bland, Madame Vestris, and Miss P. Horton. To eenctrule with YOUNG ENGLAND. Major Martinet, Mr. Strickland ; Mr. John James Pooley, Mr. Iluekstcme ; Mrs. Pooley, Mrs. Rhmby ; Mrs. Smiler, Mrs. Stanley THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. LT/MEE THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. ON EASTER MONDAY, MARCH 24, Will be repeated a New and Original Drama, entitled TILE GREEN BUSHES ; er, A Hundred Years Ago. Connor O'Kennedy, Mr. Selby ; George, Mr. Hudson : Wlld Murtogh, Mr. 0. Smith ; Mneter Grinnidge, Mr. Wright ; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Ggraldine, Mrs. Rtes; Nay O'Neill, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; tridkme Celeste. After which, will be produced a New Grand Eperoal Exposition, called ST. GEORGE AND TILE DRAGON. Principal Characters hip Messrs, Paul Bedford, Wright, John Saunders, Selby; Miss Woolgar, Mise,Brooks, and Miss E. Chaplin. To conclnde with MOTHER AND CHILD ARE DOING WELL Mr. Snugsby, Mr. Lambert ; Lieutenant O'Seupper, R.N., Mr. Paul Bedford ; Mr. Felix Fluffy, Mr. Wright ; Emily, Miss Fortescue. Supsrbly decorated, and with extensive alterations! fonning one of the most Elegant and Comfortable Theatres in the Metropolis ! 1111EATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDI THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. This elegant THEATRE WILL RE-OPEN ON EASTER MONDAY, MARCH 24. The Performances wal commence with a Comedy called THE RECRUITING OFFICER. Supported by Messrs. Vining, F. Mat thews, Emery, Meadows, Bellingham, Wigan, and Keeley ; Mrs. Keeley, Miss %liters (her first appearance in London), Mrs. Wigan, and Miss Dawson (her first appearance). After which, a New Farce (never acted), entitled LOWTHER ARCADE. Characters by Messrs. Keeley, Meadows, F. Matthews ; Miss Dawson, and Miss Grove. To conclude with a Burlesque of English History, Pourtraying Olden Ideas and Modern Notions—lnvested with all the Pomp and Display of Scene—Painters engaged expressly—Costumes accoralng to Fancy—Mechanism, Ballet, Music, and Novel Stage Arrange ments—to be called, WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT ! Dick lelettUngton, Mrs. Keeley; Muley Moloch, the Lien Tamer of the Deelert, Mr. Keeley ; the Cat, Mr. Collier, supported by Messrs. Emery, E. Matthews, and Wigan ; Miss Fairbrother, and :Was Grove. The Box-onlee Is open daily, under the direction of Mr. Grogan. IDGE'S ROYAL GREATDA AT V TRACTION FOR THE SURREY EASTER THE,TRE. HOLIDAI S. ON EASTER MONDAY, MARCH 24, Will be produced a New Drama, called MARGARET CATCH POLY.. Supported by Musa's. H. Hughes, Ilicks, Fredericks, R. tjonner, S. Cowan, Reslop, Lewis, Mrs. Daly, Mrs. Lewis, and Mrs. r_ Horner. After which, THE IRISH TUTOR, in which the Infant Power, Nips Heron, will appear. To conclude with TIIE MOOR MAIDEN, in which Memirs. Hicks, Fredericks, Lewis, Mrs. Hughes, Miss Martin, and Mrs. 11. Vining will perform. Plates and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Boa &dice, front 41even to Your. EXPERIMENTAL STRAII.BOAT CRUISE. —THE SCREW v. TILE PADDLE-WPMELS.--The Rattler, screw-propelled steam sloop, Commander Smith, and the Alecto, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, Lieut. Commander lloseason' have left Wool wich, on an experimental trip. The Admiralty have or dered them to cruise in the .ortli Sea, and not to return anti' they have had sufficient opportunity of establishing their comparative superiority in point of speed and other qualities. Their Lordships on this as well as on other recent occasions granted permission to any naval officer who was desirous of witnessing the trials to be accommodated on board one or other of the sloops. The vessels are of equal tonnage and horse power, and are commanded by experienced otl6erF, but we still think it is hardly fair to the principle of the screw propeller to risk its character in such an ill adapted form as that of the Rattler. In rough weather, the Alecto's paddle-wheels must be of good service in keeping lo , r comparatively steady, while the Rattler will necessarily roll, anti in some degree paralyse the efforts of the screw, and reduce her speed through the water. Under all circam stapceE, however, the Admiralty desem the greatest credit kretutiDg then Walt. THE WEATHER.-SuN OFFICE, MARCH 20, THERMOMETER, Lowest, 25 ; Highest, 40 ; Noon, 34 , BAROMETER, 30.13.—W1ND, N.N.E. Novic.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and " Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the Thermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All the other observations are made at noon. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 45 minutes after 11 1 Evening .. 0 minutes after 0. 4g 2,1 *Of = AZIM, v h , • .4 00 %.,,"Nikliv igt m. • ' 10 , " • ' SECOND EDITION.. i4itening :-=-)Allt LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1845. The House of Lords did not sit last night. The House of Commons met at Twelve. The Railway Clauses Consolidation Bill was read a third time and passed. The Land Clauses Consolidation Bill was read a third time and passed. The report on the Railway Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Bill was brought up. The third reading of the Land Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Bill was postponed. In the course of the discussion on these Bills, Mr. lIAwEs protested against these morning sittings so early in the session. Colonel SIIITHORP also expressed his objections to them. Bills of the greatest importance were hurried through at these sittings, when only 15 or 20 Mem bers were present. Mr. LABOUCHERE admitting that, in the case of these Bills, the Government had only a choice of evils, thought that on the whole it was inexpedient for the House to sit at that early hour. In the long run, they would not get through more business than if they sat at the usual hour in the evening. Lord G. SOMERSET admitted the inconvenience of morning sittings, and regretted the necessity that had existed for having recourse to such a procedure. The House adjourned at half-past One o'clock, and re-assembled at Five. Mr. PAKINGTON brought up the report of the Dart mouth Election Committee, declaring JOSEPH SOMES, Esq., duly elected. After the transaction of private business, Mr. C. BULLER moved that the petition of the mer chants of London, on the subject of New Zealand, be printed, which was agreed to. Jn answer to Sir R. INGLIS, it was stated by Sir R. PEEL, that the intention of the Government was to proceed by way of Bill in proposing the increased grant to Maynooth and the grant for the establish ment of academical institutions in Ireland, as he thought great advantage would be derived from doing away with the annual discussion on this subject. The Right Hon. Baronet further stated that he had no objection to make the Regium Donum, and the grant to the Presbyterian Church of Scotland also per manent. Mr. ALDAM, in reference to President TYLER'S re cent Message, put a question on the subject of the state of the liberated negroes in the West Indies. Sir R. PEEL said they were perfectly free there. There was no apprenticeship—they were not com pelled to labour, and were in the state of free men— and if the United States chose to appoint a Commis sion to investigate their state, every facility should be afforded to that Commission for ascertaining the facts of the case. With respect to the allegation that both the subjects of the United States and those of this country were concerned in carrying on the slave trade, that was a subject for serious consideration. He was not prepared to deny the fact. lie hoped that if the law did not reach this application of Bri tish capital, the Legislature would be prepared to apply a remedy. In answer to a question by Sir D. NORREYS, Sir J. GRAHAM said it was not the intention of the Government to propose any measure with regard to Medical Charities in Ireland, nor to propose any measure with regard to th• railway system in Ireland. In answer to a series of questions from Mr. B. DENNISON and Lord llowloc, Sir G. CLERK denied that any negotiations had taken place between the Board of Trade and the promoters of the Direct Northern and the Cambridge and Lincoln Railway Companies, or with the Newark and Sleaford Railway Company, or that the Board had given any intimation to to those companies to form a coalition ; and that no facilities were given to those companies to make communications to the Board, which were not equally given to the London and York Direct Railway Company. In answer to Mr. SoMEs, Lord INGESTRE stated that he did not intend to bring the subject of Captain \VARNER'S invention again before the House; but that Captain 'WARNER would abide by his offer to destroy a line• of battle ship at fire miles distance at his own expense. Sir C. NANER hoped that the Right Hon. Baronet would permit Captain WARNER to try this •xperi mFnt, at his own expense, behind the Goodwin Sands, Sir R. PEEL had no doubt but that, if Captain WARNER did intend to make' the experiment at his own expense, he would get permission to do so from the Board of Ordnance. Lord JOCELYN, in answer to Mr. HonsmAN, said that a communication had been received from India stating that the Governor-General in Council had taken into consideration the recommendation of the Home Government, to devise measures for placing Penang sugar on the same footing as Indian sugar, and had referred the subject to the Governor of Penang. The House then went into Committee on the Customs' Act. The various articles in the tariff were gone through, and, after seme discussion, were agreed to. The House then went into Committee of Supply; and, after voting the Ordnance Estimates, adjourned at Five Minutes past One o'clock. What is Sir ROBERT PEEL about? Does he under stand the position which he is compelled to maintain? Is his occupation of it his own voluntary, spontaneous act, or the effect of circumstances which he cannot con trol? Does he retain office as the head of a party, or of a principle? If of a party, what is it? Between bim self and the Whigs there is nothing in common, but the reciprocity of mutual repudiation. True,—he talks of his intimate relations with the Conservative community of the empire, and the identity of his views with those of the Conserratire section of the House. But the com munity in question di:avow his political doctrines, as being too liberal for the scope of their own opinions and wishes. The section reject him, as having compromised their interests, and falsified his pledges to them, by the line of policy which he has adopted since he last resumed the reins of power. Neither the Duke of BUCKING HAM, nor his Grace of RICHMOND, nor even Mr. W. MII.Es, hesitates to remind him that the landed interest, which each of them conceives himself to represent, placed the Premier in his present position; or forbears to hint that they can, at any time, displace him when they shall be so minded. It is not with their patty, therefore, that he is identified. "What, then, is the principle of which he is the exponent? Of the pro tective monopoly-class-legislation system? Why, it is very true that he has avowed himself over and over again the champion of the corn-law monopoly ; and, until lately, of agricultural protection. It is also cer tain that, by an unfortunate inconsistency, he has greatly marred the effect of his relief to commercial enterprise and trading industry, and to the pocket of the home consumer, by an ill •judged positive increase of protec tion to our West Indian colonist, although it is accom panied by a reduction of the duty on foreign sugar, the growth of free labour. But, on the other hand, the author of the tariff of 1842-43, and of the financial pro ject of February, 1845—the one largely reducing the rate of duties on articles of extensive consumption (corn always excepted)—the other striking off, altogether, at one erasure, the duties on 430 articles, and contemplating the virtual extinction of all export duties whatever ; this man cannot be said to embody the principle of pro tection. Sir ROBERT PEEL, then, is a ministerial ano maly, an official nondescript. His influence and his suc cess aro not the less palpable facts. The strength which supports him is in the inverse ratio of the basis on which it apparently reposes. If consistency in a public man be strength, the Premier's public position should be weak. If inconsistency be a principle of weakness, it works— in Sir ROBERT PEEL'S case—to the consolidation of his strength. Many previous Idinisters have been upheld THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 20, 18/5. by the superior force of their own party to that of the party opposed to them. None before him, to the best of our knowledge, have made their fortune by securing the opposition both of their followers and their adver. saries. Let it not be said that if they maintained their authority in virtue of party support, Sir ROBERT holds his in despite of it ; for no man was ever more indebted than he is to the assistance of party. It is his habit practically to recognise this fact. He throws him self, as the occasion may demand, and without hesitation, out of his own ranks and into those of the opposition ; or he defies opposition, whilst making a sentimental appeal to the sympathies of the treasury benches. The attrac tion which, one should suppose, would draw him out of his Premier's seat, is counteracted by an equivalent force operating to retain him in it. Like the fabled coffin of Mahomet, he is equipoised between two Mag netic principles. Whatever the shock of parties, or his own oscillations, the result always leaves him in un disturbed suspension between them. In this whimsical, undefinable, capricious interpolation between two extremes, there may be something very astonishing, very artificial, very clever. We doubt whether it is very becoming in a statesman at the head of the councils of a great country. Is it a fair or a generous return for that confidence which a great people has shown itself disposed to place in him, notwithstanding its dissent from some of the more prominent measures adopted by his Government in past years, and its dis satisfaction with many details connected with his present Administration? Why should he be any longer unjust to his own reputation, and the demands of his own sta tion, by declining to adopt some more prominent and decided rule of action? Why hesitate between a broad And intelligible vindication of the sound principles of free trade, and a halting, unsatisfactory compromise with the obsolete errors and importunate demands of monopoly-protections and class selfishness? Surely the Premier is now strong enough to feel his own ground; to use his own feet; to throw away his " sliding-scale" crutches; to abandon his shifty supplements, his ricketty expedients. Does he imagine that, in that case, he will not find supporters enough in the House? Let him throw himself upon the support of those without l Such a pro ceeding would supply a summary means of realising that victory over interested opposition, which the very fact of daring thus honestly and openly to encounter it would assure to him beforehand. It is clear, then, that he can gain nothing further by remaining within his present entrenchments. How much he may lose, he may have inferred from the spirited but serious de monstration of the lion. Member for Shrewsbury, of a mutiny in the camp behind him, which already reckons able heads, stout hearts, and prompt hands, among its leaders. How much he has yet to gain by heading, in stead of following, the movement of liberal principles, and of a truly patriotic policy, to, which the whole em pire is looking forward with the most intense solicitude, he can only surmise, by imagining himself already what, in that case, he would inevitably become—the most po- Pular Minister who had ever directed the affairs of the noblest empire which a statesman can aspire to serve. The proceedings of the meeting convened at Exeter hall, on Tuesday last, for the purpose of petitioning against the anticipated endowment, and the enlarged grant proposed to be made to the Roman Catholic Col lege at Maynooth, afforded a melancholy exemplification of the pertinacious bigotry with which certain very worthy persons will persist in treating all questions that are connected with religious education. It is lament able to observe a gentleman of Mr. PLumr-rees respect ability and goodness, lending himself to the sanction of such a one-sided and pharisaical demonstration of at tachment to the principles —not of the Established Church, but of Protestantism in general, and of hatred and denunciation of the Roman Catholic Church. The lion. Member for Kent felt the invidious character of the position he had assumed, together with the chair of the meeting, and therefore repeatedly disclaimed all idea of harbouring any other sentiments but those of brotherly love, and hearty good-will for his Roman Catholic brethren of Ireland ; but the harsh things he had to say of the religion professed by them, and of the hopeless and eternally-doomed error of their faith, he was compelled to utter, because, forsooth, it was a question of "principle." In this view of the subject consists the whole fallacy of the impressions under which Mr. PLUMPTRE, and the whole Anti-Maynooth Synod of Exeter-hall labour, in treating the Maynooth grant. It is not a question of principle—it is a question of domestic policy. What are the facts ? A certain Church, or religious profession, is recognised by law as " the Established" Church of the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom is composed of three elements, England and Wales—Scotland and Ire land. The Established Church, with its doctrines and forms, is that of the great majority of the people in the first of these integers ; the doctrine, without the forms (Presbyterianism), is that of the second ; but the third repudiates both the doctrines and the forms of the other two, and stands inflexibly on its own more ancient traditions, and its own succession and stream of hierarchical ordination. Whatever be the aggregate numbers of those who dissent from the forms and ritual of the Established Church in England and Wales, and Scotland, there can be no doubt that its doctrine is that of the great majority of a population mustering at least fifteen millions of souls. But in Ire land the doctrine, the forms, and the ritual of a perhaps still greater majority of a population of 'between seven and eight millions, are those of its ancient church, the Church of Rome—not the Protestant Established Church of England. If the amount or proportion of the majo rity determines the intensity of the attachment in the one, case, it must do so in the other. If the fact that i❑ all England and Wales and Scotland, six-sevenths of the population are devoted to the cause of the Reformed or Protestant Church, under whatever denominations— if this be a proof of that genuine regard for one species of doctrine, the same sort of attachment on the part of somewhat more than six sevenths of the population of Ireland being with equal sincerity attached to the doctrine and communion of the Church of Rome, is to be as necessarily inferred. Now the highest and most sacred authority acknowledged by either Church, has declared that the Sabbath was made for men, not men for the Sabbath. Religion has been thus devised for the tenefit of man ; but man was not made for. the benefit of any particular form of religion. Would Mr. PLUMPTRE and the Rev. Mr. BAPTIST NOEL have six-sevenths of the Irish people surrender their hereditary faith, their honest convictions, too, to the authority and at the bidding of some proportion of their brethren of Great Britain? Surely this is too preposterous. Even the Honourable Member, and the Honourable and Reverend Chaplain to her MAJESTY, do not go the length of supporting any such preposterous pre tension. For what reason, then, are the Irish people not to have the means granted by the Imperial Le gislature, for the careful and liberal education of those among them destined for the priesthood of the Church to which they belong, in the discipline and the doctrine of that religious profession in whose ele ments. it will be their especial function to instruct the rising laity of Ireland ? 'What matters it, in this view of the subject, whether the election of a church or a creed which the Irish have made be right or wrong ? That is an affair between the disciple of a faith, and the GREAT SEARCHER of all hearts. Do the brethren of Exeter. Hall imagine that they can re verse this election by a string of cut 7 and.dried resolu tions? Do they hope toroll back the mighty tide of usage, prepossessions, associations, civil and religious, which for fourteen centuries has poured on through the same unaltered channels, without witnessing, as in other countries, the downfal of its ancient land-marks—the undermining of its bases throughout the length and breadth of the land. On what plea the grant to May nooth, in respect of the Roman Catholic community of Ireland, was to be opposed by those who support the grants in aid of our Universities, in respect of the Pro testant community of Great Britain, we never could de vise. Wiser heads than that of ➢lr. PLlMPTRE—judg meats more dispassionate than that of the lion. and Rev. B. NOEL—have deeply considered, and solemnly recognised, not only the moral justice and equity, but the undoubted political expediency, of providing for and protecting in Ireland, a foundation for the education of her native priests in the doctrines of her national church, in a native seminary. Mr. Pitt, and other en lightened statesmen, his contemporaries, readily per ceived the growing danger of leaving such a class of men to find at once a refuge, a home, instruction, and na tional attachments in a foreign country, instead of at home. It seems unnecessary to push the argument further to establish, in this instance, the powerful case of political necessity. But we cannot take leave of the Exeter Hall affair without acknowledging the amusement afforded to us by the Rev. Mr. BAPTIST NOEL'S repeated declara- tions of the extreme reluctance with which he would have interfered at the meeting, or adopted any other course that would have had a tendency "to embarrass her Majesty's Ministers." had there been any proba bility of such a result, he would, on no account, have taken a step in anywise calculated to throw- difficulties in their *ay, &c., &c. For gentleman who stand so stiffly on " principle," this is rather a blinking of" essentials," as they call them, to " cere- moniale." But we find a key to the inconsistency in the recollection—or in the matter that we recollect—the in- seldom of this gentleman's name, the other day, in the list of chaplains, ordivary or extraordinary ) to her Die- JESTY. Court chaplains may not fight First Lords of the Treasury. Again—we remark tw•o notable instances I of that " fair play and no favour" department in the august Synod, which is always dear to Englishmen— elsewhere. Only • two individuals attempted to address the meeting on the Liberal wide. The first bold intruder was removed—actually and bodily taken into custody, and removed by the policemen in attendance, on the motion of Sir C. EARDLEY SMITH, Bart., and with " the unanimous consent of this very fair and impartial meeting." Sir C. EARDLEY SMITH, and the policemen vi ho acted on his sugges tion, we would think it extremely likely will hear again of this ebullition of enthusiasm. The other intruder, whom we suspect to be the somewhat notorious Captain ACKERLEY, was also violently ejected, speech un spoken, and by the police. Exeter Hall fanaticism may be incurable, but the Commissioners of Metropolitan Police will do well to instruct their rather officious con stables better in the rights of English subjt ets at open meetings—or meetings not professedly called by previous advertisement announced to be intended only fur packed audiences, The intelligence from Zurich is to the 14th inst. The committee, according to a letter from that place of the 13th, had already met several times, but it is said the members do not agree on the main points—a very likely circumstance. Four Radical members propose to draw up a prper for the expulsion of the Jesuits, and then those of St. Gall, Bale (city), and Zurich, are to draw up one inviting Lucerne to deliberate at once on the iu structions to be given to its deputies for the ordinary Diet. The majority, it is said, propose to send to Lu cerne federal commissioners to convoke the Grand Coun cil of that canton, and to transmit to it the invitation of the Diet, which is to declare itself. Tho labours of the committee were expected to terminate on the 14th. On the question of the Free Corps, the committee has pro posed the adoption of the two first paragraphs of the Vorort, with some modifications. As to the amnesty, they agree on the propriety of sending an invitation to all the cantons having political offenders to adopt it. A let ter from Lucerne of the 12th, states that several of the persons who were sent to prison three months ago on charges of rebellion, have been set at liberty. Madrid journals of the 12th have been received. The new Electoral Bill, an outline of which we gave yester day, appears in the Gazdt:, but it does not appear to ex cite any interest, and will, of course, be passed. In the Chamber of Deputies the Minister of the Interior an nounced that it was the anxious wish of the Govern ment to calm the public mind relative to the Church lands, and a negotiation had been entered into with the POPE on the subject, the object of which was to get the sanction of his Holiness to the sales already made, which would increase the value of the property, and quiet the consciences of the purchasers. It was under stood that the session would be closed about the end of April. The Three per Cents. closed at 35i at 60 days; the Five per Cents. at 26i; the Coupons at 28k; and the Debt without Interest at 8 at 60 days. A discussion has been carried on in the French Chamber of Deputies for some days on the motion for abolishing vote by ballot, which posesses considerable interest, as the question is one applicable to all consti tutional governments. At the last sitting it assumed more than usual interest, from the remarks which it led to on the overthrow of the BOURBON dynasty, and from one of those brief, sententious, and cutting speeches which M. DUPIN only can make. The Bill, as is usual in France, had been referred to a Select Committee, consisting of nine members ; of these, four had voted for the total abolition of secret voting, and the other five thought it ought to be retained, but only in certain in stances. M. BERRYER, who was one of the Committee, said the members were unanimous in allowing that it was most awkward, when the Chamber had voted by assis and !eve (one party sitting and the other standing), and the vote appeared doubtful, it was necessary to have recourse to a secret vote, which too frequently had the 'effect of giving a broad contra. diction to the decision of the Secretaries. Another member said the ballot was an utter delusion—it no longer existed. Some of the journals had published lists of the PRITCHARD Deputies, and had announced that they would have them placarded in the 44,000 com munes of France. The practice of secret voting had only one result—to favour a permanent system Of calumny against all the Deputies who !served or sup ported the Government, by furnishing a pretext for doubting of the sincerity of their opinions and of their courage. M. DE TRACY declared; himself a convert to the ballot. At one time, before he had the honour of being a juryman, he had thought that "nothing was more desirable for an honourable man than to give his verdict openly, but experience had en lightened him, for when he felt the anxieties and doubts —the moral torture, in fact—incidental to the delibe_ rations of the jury, whenever the vote was public, he felt eav2o2ildebd.efoLreetththee Clahstamßbeervorleumueomn.berEtyheeryadodnreesswaosf th it a happiness that by a secret vot e suc h tortures could be aware what an influence it had exercised on the fate of medal.e ot d be onot u t o ldFrance, yet it was notorious th a t amongst those who had then voted there were some w h o d i d not desire to cfon acknowledge that they had do ne so. It might be re memberedpbe petuate distributed,t'e t e b v a en event o t r by th2aa:l period it was s But Deputies u t the could medalnot willing to receive it. They had voted, but they did not wish to avow their vote.—(Sensation.) The Chamber might do what it pleased—it would not be able to change human nature. All had their weaknesses and their fears." This roused M. DUPIN, who had drawn up the address signed by the 221. He demanded the parole. M. DE LA. ROCHEJAQUELEIN wished first to say only one word, but the assembly would not hear him, and the calls from all parts of the Chamber were for M. DUPIN i He then made these remarks on the great event which placed Louis PHILIPPE on the throne, not forgetting to put forward his friends, the Jesuits, as the prime actors in the mad schemes of CHARLES X :-- " I drew up the address of the 221 ; and, on the part of those with whom I then voted, I cannot admit the reproach of their having in a measure denied their vote, and shrunk from the duty of avowing the part they had taken. I deny that the address of the 221 was one of destruction. When it revolution had taken place, when it had been lawful and useful to the country, care ought to be taken not to allow its principles to be misrepresented or its origin falsi - fied. The actuating motive of the 221 had been fidelity to the Crown and attachment to the institutions of the country. They only wished to lay a t t h e f oot of the Throne a constitutional warning, which it was their right and duty to give. When the Crown, abused and worked on by evil counse ls, allowed itself to b e persua d e d to . guard at the head of affairs a Gove rnmen t h os til e t o the opinions of the majority .of the Chambers, the duty o f the Chamber was to respectfully offer its advice. Could the document containing such advice be termed an address to subvert things existing? Certainly not. lat that period de clared to M. Guernon Ranville that the Crown hada right to dissolve the Chamber. The Crown used that right ; and what caused the overthrow of the dynasty then reigning was that, after that solemn appeal to the country, after adisso lution which was to give a contradiction to the majority of 221, or confirm the advice which they had constitutionally given, another Chamber came which held precisely their opinion. The Government dared not meet the new Chamber, and the ordonnances were, issued. Yes, the ordonnances were then published by the suggestions of detestable ad visers—of a certain Jesuit congregation which then existed; and which would again do the same at present, if they were only permitted to act as they pleased.—(Loud cries of Hear, hear.') The Government declared war with the people, and from it resulted the revolution of 1830. The address of the 221 was one of those friendly warnings which were never listened to by Princes in times of danger. The Chamber gave useful advice, which was neglected, and the people replied by a revolution. But those who gave the best_adyice were the least listened to.—(Cheers.)" This closed the general discussion on the principles of the Bill, and the Chamber rose at six o'clock. On the same day th e Mi n i ster of Publ i c W or k s gave an out li ne of the pr o p ose d conditions of the two R a il way Bill s f rom Paris to Ly ons, and from Lyons to Avignon. It autho rises the Mi n i ster to adjudicate the li ne b y pu bli c com petition. He is to declare in a sealed paper the maximum of the duration of the lease that can be granted. This period in no case to exceed forty-five years for the part from Paris to Lyons, and fifty years for that from Lyons to Avignon. No person is to be allowed to compete for the line unless previously approved of by the Minister, and unless there have been deposited in the Caisse des Depots et Consignations twenty-five millions for the part from Paris to Lyons, and eight millions for that from Lyons to Avignon. The same Bill also opens to the Minister of Public Works a credit of five millions for the works on the line from Dijon to Chalon. The station at Paris is near the site of the Bastile, and the line proceeds along the right bank of the Seine to Melun, thence passing through the forest of Fontainbleau, along the valley of Changy and Loin;, along the left bank as far as Aisy, a distance of 147 miles. It thence proceeds by Dijon, Chalons, and Macon to Lyons, the distance from Paris to that town being about 320 miles. The cost is estimated at 7 ,210,000 f. ; the revenue is calculated at 1,030,000 f. ; the net proceeds 566,000 E, or about 7 per cent. The line from Lyons to Avignon proceeds along the left bank of th e Rh one, b y Vi enna , M o ntell- mart, and Mornas, and the cost is estimated at 3,200,000 E and the revenue at 22 5,000 f., or better than 6 1 per cent. The Univers publish es t h e following letter from the Archbishop of LYONS to the Minister of Justice and Public Worship, but it is evidently directed against M. DUPIN:— " If I had composed a manuel of legal, commercial, or ad ministrative rights for the use of Messieurs les Procureurs- Generaux and Procureurs-du-Roi, and for the instruction of young adlrocatea, and had iu this elementary work, bearing ! the impress of my ignorance in jurisprudence, attacked the rights of the nation, of the King, or of the Chambers, placed privilege above common law, and confounded ordonnances with laws, and liberty with servitude, and if this book had been laid before the magistrates and condemned by them, my duty 'would hare been to recognise the justice of the sen tence, and accept in silent respect the double brand of ridi cule and of the tribunals. But when I remain within the limits of the spiritual Dower, and, seated upon my pontifical seat, cite before me doctrines opposed to the Catholic doctrine, in order to judge them, I do not acknowledge upon earth any power that can revise my judgment except the Roman Pontiff and the councils. The Council of State has not been made my judge in these matters by Jesus Christ." TILE BOURSE—TuEus&y, MAncH 18. First Highest LOWE t Price. Pik.. Price. Price. FrenehFlveperCents•••••• 118 20 118 20 118 10 .. 118 15 Three per Cents..... 85 25 .. 85 3') .. 85 25 .. 85 33 New Loan •• •••••• 86 10 .. F 6 10 .. 86 10 .. 86 10 Bank of Franco . ..3162 50 .•3162 50 .•8162 50 ..3162 50 Goain Bank, I,ooof. Shares • • 1090 • • 1090 • • 1090 ..1030 Belgian Fives, 1840 .... •• • • 105% 1053 .. 10514 1054 1942 ••••••.• 107 .. 107 .. 167 .. If 7 _ .. Four-and-a-Half. 103% .. 1C.3% .. 103% .. 103% Two-and-a-Half— •• 62 35 .. 62 35 .. 62 25 62 25 Spanish Active .......• •••• 39% .. 39% .. 39N .. 39% Threes.. Passive 6 . . G 7,4 .. 6 ,', .. 6 ;;; . 4 Portuguese Five per Cents • • 67., • • 67!,', • • 67! , j • • 67;_, Neae01itan.........• •• • •• 101 75 .. 101 75 .• 101 75 .. 101 - 7 Roman .. • •••••••• •• •• 6 106 .. 106 .. 196 RAILWAY SHARES. St. Gernsair • • .1185 —1165 —1145 ..1185 Versailles, 1t.13..• .... • ....• 655 .. 665 50 .. 655 .. 6G3 50 L. 8.•• •• •• •• 3.5 •• 398 75 .. 395 .. 397 50 Ronen . ..... .......• • • •• •.1190 ..1190 —llB5 ..1190 Rouen to Havre 9 90 .. 990 .. 9'A .. 9:0 Orleans Strasburg to 8a1e•... Avignon to Alarseilles•• • . • ll4O .. 1180 —1165 ..1175 Bordeaux to Test° .... • • Paris to Sceaux 702 50 .. 725 .. 702 50 .. 725 RAILWAYS FOR TUE ACCOUNT, Aram 3. St. Germain lO9O ..1195 —ll9O ..1190 Versailles, R. 8....... •• 647 50 .. 670 .. 647 50 .. 667 50 L. 8.......•••• 4OO .. 403 .. 392 75 392 75 Rouen ...• .....••• •• •• •• ••1195 ..1195 ..1182 80 ..1192 50 Rouen to Havro.• •• •• •• 990 .. 995 .. 987 00 .. 992 90 Orleans . Strasburg to 8a1e.......... 346 25 .. 350 .. 345 . 347 5Ct Avignon to Marseilles ..1182 50 —llB2 50 —1165 ..1172 50 Our columns to-day show that there are strong symptoms of tho approaching season commencing with great spirit. Our friend George Robins, comme a fordi naire, takes the lead, and it is amongst the on dits of the last fcw days, that he has declared his intention to transfer this season, by public competitior, as much land as will require one million of money to pay for it. THIS DAY'S NEWS S.HERIFFS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Ur. Under-Sheriff BURCIIELL.) COOK V. HOOPER. This was an action brought by a person rained Cook, a messenger in the Post-office, to recover from Mr. James Hooper, a medical gentleman, 41. 13s. 6d., for rent, with attendance, due by him to the plaintiff for the use and oc cupancy of apartments. The apartments were charged at the rate of 6s. 6d. a week, with an additional 2s. 6d. for at tendance. Mr. PEARSON, who appeared for the defence, put in, as a set off, a doctor's bill for medicines furnished by the defendant to the plaintiff's family, at various times. lie further al leged that, of the amount sought to be recovered by the plaintiff, only 1/. 6s. was due for rant, as the remain ing 31. 78. 6d. was charged for attendance, which had never been given. The latter item had not been mentioned to the defendant until a quarrel had arisen between the parties, and- Mr. Hooper had sent in his bill for medicines, &c. The set-off now advanced on behalf of Mr. Hooper amounted to 151. It was an amended bill, to which, in addition to medicines supplied to and attendanco on the plaintiff's family, medicines supplied to a female servant of the plaintiff, and a quantity of butter and several fowls, which it was alleged that the defendant had supplied, were added. The first bill sent in by Mr. Hooper was for medicines alone, amounting to 41. 13s. 6(1., being exactly the same amount as that sought to be reco vered by the plaintiff. The UNDER-SHERIFF, in summing up, commented rather severely on the doctor's bill, which he believed had been stretched out to meet the case, and was to be looked upon with considerable suspicion. The jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict for the plaintiff for the full amount of 41. 13s. 6d. CLERKENWELL.-(THIS DAY.) Jeremiah Lucy was charged with being found concealed in the National Guardian Institution, in Bedford-row. Mr. Burt, the Secretary, found him concealed in the office yesterday, and arrested him. He has been heretofore in custody. Mr. COMBE remanded him. MARLBOROUGH-STREET (THIS DAY.) Benjamin Langstaff a young man of fashionable appear ance, was charged with wantonly knocking at doors in Tot tenham-court. road, at four o'clock this morning. He was taken in the act by a police constable of the E division. The defendant said he was merely trying to get a cigar; he knew a tobacconist lived somewhere thereabouts. Mr. HARDWICK—And so the inhabitants are to be dis turbed in their beds because you wish to have a cigar at that unseasonable hour. Pray, what are you? Defendant—l am an engraver. Mr. HAnnwicx—l shall fine you 40s. Defendant—But I am only a journeyman, and I am very sorry for what I have done. Mr. HAnnwicK mitigated the fine to 205., or ten days to hard labour.—The fine was paid directly. WORCESTER STEEPLE-CHASES WEDNESDAY. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) The Royal Birth-day Handicap of 25 aovs. each, with 100 added, 15 ft, and 5 only, if declared, &c. (51 Subs.) Mr. W. Holman's The Page, Ilst 101 b ....... ....(Owner) 1 Mr. T. Collins' named Albert, 11st 71b. 2 Baron Rothschild's Consul, lOst 121 b.. Mr. A. M'Donough's Ploughboy, 10st 101 b Mr. T. Morris's Tainworth, lOst 101 b 5 Mr. IL H. Bunney's The Cardinal The following also stated, but were not placed :—Mr. Raworth's Robin Adair, 12st 71b—Mr. W. Scott's nd the Re turned, list 101b—Mr. J. Elmore's Gaylad, llst 101b—Capt. Barnett's Boxkeeper, list 21b--Mr. J. Bosley's Quarter master, llst—Mr. Draper's Sam Swipes, lOst 101b—Mr. J. Anderson's Pickwick, lOst 71b—Mr. Melville's Tantalus, lOst —Mr. H. N. Powell nd Preissnitz, lOst—Mr. Hussey's Lazarus, 9st 101 b. Betting-6 to 1 agst Robin Adair (t)-7 to 1 agst Quar termaster (t)-8 to 1 agst Albert (t)-8 to 1 agst Lazarus :t)-9 to 1 agst The Page-9 to 1 agst the Cardinal (0— [0 to 1 agst Duenna (t)-10 to 1 agst The Returned (t)- 10 to 1 agst Sam Swipes (t)-12 to 1 agst Preissnitz (t)— [2 to 1 agst Ploughboy (t). _ _ The Witley Stakes of 5 Boys. each, with 25 added, 4 yrs old, lOst 121 b; 5 yrs, list 71b; 6 yrs and aged, 12st. Heats, 2 miles. Mr. Price's nd Laurel, aged (Groom) Mr. Spooner's nd in by Ebury, 4 yrs LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, MARCH 20.—Wind N.N.W., fresh breeze, and fine clear weather. DEAL, MAncie 19.—Wind N.W. by N., light.—Arrd. Wolscove, Ilickner, St. John's, New Brunswick. Sid. Per sian, and Robert Matthews, Sydney; Galatea, Algoa Bay; Mediator, New York ; Brushopeside, Montreal. WAINFLEET, MARII 19.—The Three Brothers, Lilford, of Goole, from Lynn to Wakefield, drove ashore on Wainfleet Sands this morning, but is expected off. The Ann, Rhodes, of Hull, on the Wainfleet Sands, has been bro ug ht in here after discharging her cargo. WEXFORD, MARCH 17.—A ship's boat, marked " Sir Colin Campbell," was picked up on Arklow Bank 14th instant. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 19.—Wind N.N.IV. to W.—Sld. her Majesty's ship Vindictive, Rio Janeiro ; Sir John Falstaff, Quebec. !FALMOUTH, MARCH 19.—Wind 9 A.M. a calin.—Off, An nandale, Chalk, Ichaboe. LYMINGTON, MARCH 18.—The Falmouth, Wills, is aground in the river, and not expected off until the springs, without lightening. LivEnroor., MARC!! 19.—Wind N.N.E., fresh .—Sld. Mary Winch, Columbia Ricver ; Laura, Bahia ; Zante, Tobasco ; Tyrian, New Orleans; Sardinia, Mobile; Cambridge, Devon shire, and George Gardner, New York; Union and Ninian Lindsay, Halifax; Flora M'Donald, St. Andrews ; British Queen, St. John's, New Br unsw i c k ; A more, Cape Breton ; Britannia, Sir R. Jackson, Magnet, and Souter Johnny, Montreal. CLYDE, MARCH IB.—Arrd. Brothers, Ward, Ichaboe. CASTLETOWN, MARCII 14.—Arrd. Honora, Tralee for London, making sixteen inches of water per hour. YARMOUTH, MARCH 19.—Wind N.—The Mellona, of Guernsey, has repaired, and is ready to proceed. SCILLY, MARCH 14.—Arrd. Cornet, Sanderson, Africa. NAVIGATORS ISLAND, JAN. 17.—Arrd. Rose, Swan, Hali fax, with 1,100 barrels of oil. SAN DIEGO (CALIFORNIA), PRIOR TO DEC. 2.—Arrd. Krons Prins, Higham, with 1,600 barrels • Clementine, Norton, with 1,500 b arre l s; an d Bremen, Gerken, with 700 barrels, all belonging to Bremen. A Cabinet Council was held this afternoon, the sum monses for which were issued from the Foreign-office on Tuesday evening. PROTECTION OF PROPERTY IN PUBLIC MUSEUMS.-- The Bill for this purpose now before the House of Commons, which was brought in on Monday by the Solicitor-General, enaets--That if any person shall maliciously destroy or damage anything contained or kept in any public museum, gallery, cabinet, library, or other public repository, whether such thing be or be not of any intrinsic value, every such person so offending shall be guilty of misdemeanor, and being duly convicted thereof, shall be liable to be imprisoned, with or without hard labour, for any period not exceeding two years; and, if a male, during the period of such imprison ment be once, twice, or thrice publicly or privately whipped, in such marther and form as the Court, before which such person shall be tried, shall direct. HER MAJESTY'S STEAMER SCOURGE.—This vessel made an experimental trip down the River on Tuesday, as far as sea reach, for the purpose of testing her machinery. She was designed by the Surveyor of the Navy, and built at Portsmouth. The Scourge is 190 feet long, 36 feet beam, and 21 feet deep ; tonnage 1,120. She is fitted with a pair of Maudsley and Field's double cylinder engines, of the collective power of 420 horses ; there are four cylinders, each 54 inches diameter, and 6 feet length of stroke ; the proper number of revolutions, when she is at her load draft (13 feet 6 inches) is 17 per minute; but having none of her guns or stores on board, the drart was only 11 feet 3 inches mean (10 feet 2 inches forward and 12 feet 4 inches aft), and the wheels having too little immersion, the revolutions were 23, and occasionally 24, per minute. At this speed, the pistons were travelling at the rate of 288 feet per minute, and the boilers, which are of the tubular description, supplied more steam than was required, the throttle-valves being full open during the whole run. Her speed was tried in Long-reach, at the measured distance, and f oun d t o b e 11 knots or 12 3 / 4 miles per hour. ETON COLLEGE.— An extra week's holiday has been given to the school this Easter, which will have the effect cf prolonging the vacation until the 12th of next month. It will be recollected that upon the visit of the King of the French to the College last year, his Majesty re quested and obtained an a dditi ona l week's holiday at Christ mas ; the extra holiday, was not then given, but postponed till Eater. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 2,000 bales only, the market being very ,quiet ; 400 bales were American, on speculation. Prices compared with Friday last were %d. to 1 4d. lower per lb.-Shares were steady, and a large business was done. Aberdeen, 2% ; Famsley Junc tion, 7 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 3 1 % ; Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire, 10 9 3 4 ; Blackburn, Burnley, and Ac crington, 6%; 'Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 10 1 4 11 ; Caledonian, 9% 10 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 6%; Chester and Birkenhead, 46 ; Ditto, New Shares, 38 38%; Ditto, Half Shares, 22% 23%; Chester and Holyhead, 8%; Churnet Valley, 7 7 1 4 ; 'Dundee and Perth, 3 ; Dundalk and Enniskillen, 2,%; Eastern Counties, 21 3 / 4 %; Ditto, Per petual, 265.; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 61%; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 15% 1 ; Edinburgh and Northern, 1%; Ely and Bedford, 2%; Glasgow, Paisley, and G reenoc k, 17 1 4 18; Ditto, Half Shares, 8%; Grand Junction, 226 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 113; Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 3%; Great Western, Half Shares, 101 3 / 4 ; Ditto, Fifth Shares, 40 3 / 4 ; Lancaster and Carlisle, 35% ; Limerick and Waterford, 4% % ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 3% 1 ,6 • London and Birmingham, 232 ; Ditto,. 321. Shares, 44 ; Londonderry and Enniskillen, 2; London and South-Western, New 501. Shares, 12 ; London and York, ; Direct Northern, 4% 4 1 / 2 ; Leeds and Thirsk, 4%; Leeds and West Riding, ; Lynn and Dereham, 1%; Lynn and Ely, 5%; Man chester and Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 11% ; Ditto, New Shares, 5 6s. 3d. ; Manchester, Bury, and ROsendale, 14% ; Manchester and Leeds, Quarter Shares, 17 1 4 ; Midland Rail way, 140 140%; Ditto, 40/. Shares, 13% 16s. 3d. ; Ditto, Fifth Shares, 3 3 4 • Newaik and Sheffield, 2% 2 1 4 ; North British, half Shares, 4/. 95., 4%; North Union, 142; Preston and WTyre, 31 3 4 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 111 112; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 13% 13 1 ,4 ; Shrewsbury, Wolverhampt on , an d Bi rm i ng h am , 4 1 4 ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 3/. 12s. 6d. 3/. Ils. 6d. % ; South-Eastern and Dover, 43 43%; Ditto, New Shares, No. 1, 18; Ditto. New Shares, No. 2, 12 3 / 4 ; Ditto, New Shares, No. 3, 8 3 4 • Scottish Central, 5%; South Wales, 6%; Tring and Worcester, 3/. 18s. 9d. ; Bordeaux and Toulouse (Mackenzie Company), 2/. 12s. 6d. 21. 16a. 3d.; Bordeaux and Cette, 2 3 4 ; Central of France, 17 3 / ; Lyons and Avignon (English); 21. 12s. 6d. 2/. 14s. ; Northern of France (English), 6%; Ditto (French), 51. 14s. ; Paris and Lyons (Laffitte's English), 4/. 4s. 4/. 10s. ; Ditto (Ganne ron's), 21.105. 6d. 2/. 1 ls. 6il. ; Paris and Rouen,44% ; Paris and Sr. Quintin, 465. ; Sambre and Meuse, 6 ; Verona and Ancona, 20. Accounts from the Continent describe the mortality among the cattle as continuing very serious. In Belgium another contagious malady, called the black typhus, is said to have broken out,, and our farmers, from all we hear, have very little reason to be alarmed at the prospect of extensive im portations. Fur the sake of the consumer it might be wished that it were otherwise. Owing to the influx of German labourers into Holland, the Dutch Minister of the Interior has decided upon employing natives only upon the public works, unless in cases of special recommendation by the engineers, on account of talent or other qualifications. It would appear by this that employment is scarce in Ger many, and indeed, from circumstances mentioned under this head a few days since, we believe such to be the case. The English Funds have been very dull. Consols have not been higher than 99 3 / 4 % for Money, and par for Account. Exchequer-bills have been 625. to 60s. premium. The Foreign Investments have been also very quiet. Spanish Five per Cents. have realised 30 1 4, and the Passive, 7 1 4 ; Portuguese Converted are 68 to 1 / 8 ; Mexican have touched 36 3 4 to 37; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. ha ve b een 63 1 4. 'the Railway Shares are generally steady, but with scarcely so much doing. The French Shares are very buoyant. ONE PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. 3 per Cent. Consols - Bank Stock for Account Consols for Account... Exchequer Bills, 1,0004, 1%d.... 62 60 62 pm. 59 Ditto 5001. . Ditto Small - 6O 62 pm. 62 Ditto Advertised pm. CLOSING PRICES. CLOSING PRICES. 99 3 A 216 100 ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 Ditto. Account ... . Ditto, Deferred Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent ... Ditto, Converted 6 8 1,E 68 68 3 1 Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto Account Ditto, Passive Ditto 3 per Cent. ...... ...... Ditto, Account Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent — Dutch, 2 1 / per Cent Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 99 % 14% PRICES OF PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK. CLOSING RAILWAY SHARES PRICES. Aberdeen Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush l% l3 Binning. and Gloucesterloo 13311 134% 134 133 Ditto % Shares Bristol and Exeter Bristol and Gloucester... 30 Cal Alonian Cambridge and Lincoln 1 1 / ...... 6 3 / 4 %% Chester and Holyhead... 5 Churnet Valley Coventry, Bedworth, and Nuneaton Diss, Beccles, Yarmouth 1% Direct Northern Dublin and Belfast June. 2 % 6%% Dublin and Galway.. ... 2 1 / 3 Eastern Counties 25 ...... 21 3 / 4 %% 22 ... Ditto ditto, No. 2, 133. 4d... 0% Eastern Union lO .. .. —/ Ditto Extension ~. 3 % 3 / 4 Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 — Ely and Bedford Great Grimsby and Shef field Great South. and West. (Ireland) Great North of England..loo Ditto New Ditto New 2 21% Great Western SO Ditto 1 h Shares 5O lOl Guildford, Farn'm,Ports. 2 % ... .. Hull and Gainsborough 1% Hull and Selby 5O — Kentish Coast l% Lancaster and Carlisle... 15 Lincoln, York, and Leeds 1% l% London and Birminghm (Stock.) —.235 Do. New Thirds Do. Quarters London and Brig 0n... 50 London and Croy n, 131. 15s. 9d. 18% London and Green ch 12/ 15s 4d... London and S. Western 4116 s 10d 79% Do. New London and Y0rk...... ... 2 11 3 % 14 Lynn and Ely 2% 5i..... Manchester and Leeds... 73 l4B Do. 1 4 Shares Midland 100 138% 139 3 / 4 . Do. New Midland, Birm., Derby...loo lO7 106 Newcastle and Darling ton Junction 24 ...... ... Do. New Brandling Newcastle and Berwick 1 1 / 14%... Newark and Sheffield ... 1% North British Do. New North Kent 2 3 / 4.. North Wales .. l l /4 — Norwich and Brandon... 10 Richmond and West End Junction Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1 i• - . cottish Midland 1 i h 2% Shrews., Wolverhamp., Dudley, and Birm 2%..... 4 1 4 X... ..... .. South Devon lO ...... 19 20 South Eastern & Dover 3312 s 4d... 43% 44 Do., No. 1 8 Do., No. 2. Do., No. 3 Staines and Richmond... 1 South Wales Trent Valley 2 Waterford and Kilkenny 1 .. ... 3% West Cornwall 114... 414 Yarmouth and Norwich. 20 York and North Midland 50 lO2 37 36% ... 17% 7!4% 2:r t 3% 195 44 21% 101 1 ,E 0/4 95 35 1 4 11A; 31 3 / 4 63% 17X 10 3 / 4 80 18M 1414 14 3 / 4 2.5 Ditto .4 Shares .. 25 Do. Selby 2O Do. Extension FRENCH RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens... 4 Bordeaux and Toulouse 2 Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cet te ..... .... . ... ..... 2 Great North. of France.. 4 Lyons and Avignon Orleans and Bordeaux... 2 Orleans and Vierzon ... 2 Paris & Lyons, Laffitte's ' Paris and Lyons, Gan- neron's, Paris and Orleans - ,L Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg ... 2 Rouen and Havre Sambre and Meuse Strasbourg and Bale ... 14 - Tours and Nantes, Mac kenzie's 2 1 4 2 1 h 17 4 1 4 25/, 4% 43% 1% 6 17 1 4 3% 44 274 103 18% 4% 2 8 53 14 5% 2 JOINT STOCK BANKS. British North American 50 .. 45 3 / 4 London & Westminster. 20 Union of Australia MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 18.—The sales are :—Eastern Counties, 22 21 3 / 4 ; Manchester and Leeds, Quarter Shares, 17 1 ex div. ; Manchester and Birmingham, 57 1 4 ex new and ex div. ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 4 15-16 prem. ; Midland Railway Consols, 40/. Shares, 13 3 / 4 ; Preston and Wyre, 30 1 4 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 113 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 131 ; South-Eastern, N 0.2, 12, 1 A; Ditto, No. 3, 8 3 / 4 13-16; Barnsley Junction, 7; Ditto,: Half Shares, 34 ; Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction, 9 3 / 4 ; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 6 1 / 8 ; Blackburn, Dar wen, and Bolton, 4 1 / 4 4 ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 8 3i % ; Caledonian, 10 1 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 6 1 / 2 ; Churnet Valley, 7 ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 21s. 3d. 21s. ; Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 5 1 4 1 ; Leeds and Thirak, 5 ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 6 3 / 4 ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 3 3 / 4 ; London and Wor cester, Oxford and Rugby, 3 15.16 4 ; London and York, 3 1 ,1 %; Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 1 15-16; Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, 255. 245. ; Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, Dudley, &c., 4 3 / 4 ; Trent Valley, 16 15.16 ex new ; West Yorkshire, 34 ; Boulogne and Amiens (English), 11 1 ,4 3 / 4 ; Great Northern of France (English), 64 45 3 % 271/2 AMERICAN SEAMEN.—By a report made to Con gress by the chairman of the Naval Committee (Mr. Reade) it has been ascertained that out of 109,000 seamen sailing out of the United States, only 9,000 were Americans, or a proportion of Ito 12. The Ohio ship-of-the-line sailed from New York on a three years' cruise, with a crew of 1,000 men, only 182 of whom were Americans; and the Delaware went to sea with a less number in proportion. Yesterday morning, about half-past nine o'clock, a fire broke out in the front-room second-floor at the residence of Lady North, No. 24, Manchester-square. The flames were in the first instance observed by two men who were passing the house, one of whom ran for the engine, while the other knocked at the door and alarmed the inmates. Tho con flagration was fortunately subdued without any further mis chief being done than the destruction of a bedstead, bed ding, and other articles of thrniture which were in the room above alluded to. The origin of the fire has not been as certained. ' a ill MARKET NE WS.—(TIIIS .'" ...• ELT a roticr. SMITHFIELD.—C M oarse Meadow Ha y , 3 llos to 41 9 a cjc" 4 ful ditto, 4/ 10s ; fine Upland ditto, tot 5 ,n lil t. ) Hay, 4/ 8s to 51 16s ; Oat Straw, 1/ 163 1 'l v ' 01 Straw, 1118 s to 21 per load. Trade tolerably 5 ° 5 ''' prices. t o 0" CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 105051 t useful ditto, 41 12s to Si; fine Upland ditto ° s ill" Clover Hay, 418 s to Si 15s; Oat Straw, 1/ 1 6 s to 11 Wheat Straw, 1/ 183 to 21 per load. SupplY b ut 11' n 41 1° P and trade rather dull. IVIIITECHAPEL.—Coarse Meadow HAY, 31 h s t° 5 1 '1 di" :; toll!: useful ditto, Hays to 5/ 3s; fine Upland 5/ 8s ; Clover 4/10s to 6/; Oat Straw, 11 1 - - Op' Wheat Straw, 11 - 18 s to 2/ per load. A fair ave rsg4 and a steady inquiry. : i 0 raz.aT 14.11121MT5.• • 1 ,01 Id HAmtninin, MARCH 19.—The supi ly A* stock boo 1115 1 ( the trade ruled active, at very full -) prices.' Beef, filirl to 4s ; Mutton, 3s to 43 Gd ;' Veal, 4s to 4s 6ul- 1( 3s to 3s 6d per Sibs. the gil P 'i ARUNDEL, MARCH 18.—For each kind of steelc, , ,,' ad, of which was only moderate, we had a steady " 111 3 ; to previous rates were well supported.—Bee f, fr° Tod 0 Mutton, 3s to 4s 6d ; Veal, 3s 10d to 4s 6d; - 1 fat to 3s Gd per 81bs. n ot °„ , 11 CHICHESTER, MARCH 19.—Although the sa. • 0 v. , stock was tolerably good, the trade ruled stead'', 5 -ite l ' , : were somewhat on the advance.—Beef, from 25 17 11 pork Mutton, 3s to 4s 6d ; Veal, 3s 10d to 4s 6d i 4 to o t ; 2s 10d to 3s 6d per 81bs. Suckling Calves , '''; , ',45, 1(1. Quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s to 19s; - and 3 111 ch ''' SP I Y their small Calves, 16/ to 18/ 15s each. . thnite d Ifie SOUTHALL, MARCII 19.—We had rather . - - ,„t. - , 1 '5 of each kind of fat stock on sale in to-days nl ar ',;.r, ol l ' ha l Beasts and Sheep were in somewhat active incl u ' dl icy';"ti some instances the quotations had an upward tea 1 , o t 0 j; the middling and inferior qualities moved off si r t )' 15 6 4 rates.—Beef, from 2s 8d to 4s ; Mutton, 2s 1 %,4. °1 ° 5 i1; Veal, 3s 8d to 4s 8d ; and Pork, 35 to 43 per il74; t hrea, ' the offals. Supply—Beasts, 38; Sheep, 1,241 i v- e e cers , Pigs, 54. f an 3 eitr Ilontvortm MARCH 19.—There was abou t foe time of.year supply of stock here to-day. Gen e. t erta i k es l, ing, the trade was firm on the following 5 ~,,g Beef, from 2s 8d to 4s ; Mutton, 3 3 to 45 u stic•%Pi . 3s 8d to 4s 8d; and Pork, 2s 10d to 4s per 8Ibs• 19s; Calves, 18s to 29s ; Quarter-old Store Pigs , 165 t° Milch Cows, with their small Calf, 16/ to 19/ each' , g a io? COAL 211.A.FLET . Adair g _.4 - ief , Prices per ton at the close of the market: ---"" JIP' 't cares , ICe 6 15s 6d; Buddle's West Hartle 16s 6d; Ifis 6d ; Davison's West Hartley, 16s 6d ; liss i tisg old rt i ; Hartley, 16s 6d ; Morrison's West Hartley, 15 6 Nsia ,',., 0 .5 5 top, 15s; Ord's Redheugh, 15s; Oakwellgate .",-,1;311,, Pontop Windsor, 15s ; Pat's Primrose, 143; 'l l t ri ,,Vistas i i,J; 19s ; Townley, 16s ; West Hartley, 17s; We ii 5t 0 . t0 % r , 1 5 , 0 16 , 5 tt0:: Wylani, 15s 6d; W.E., GosforthBs 9d; Wreckington, 153 6d ; Eden Main, 19s 3d ; 11 raCa l tr Il '0 5 ,1 16 4( 1 ' 21s 3d; Hetton, 21s 3d; Lambton, 21s 3d; A" -- o i t s; 1' 4 . 6 0' Pemberton, 18s 6d; Stewart's, 21s 3d ; Caradoe, f b, o 's ) 3 0; den, 17s 9d ; Kelloe, 19s 9d ; Trimdon, 203 6(_„ f,„, 1 56 , 1 ,v, field, 15s 6d ; Seymour Tees, 19s 6d ; Tees lieL`"lsP" Cow pen Hartley, 16s 6d; Hartley, 163; Side 16s 6d.—Ships arrived, 8. CORN AVERAGES. ( GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRlTlSietonlslo ' For the Week ended March 15, 1845 m ade up from l an d Joici 74 Inspectors in the different Cities and T o wns in Eug4— 3 1 fi per Imperial Quarter. Wheat • Barley ••••• • • 32s 2d I Rye .. 31s Id I Pea se ' AVERAGES OF THE LAST SIX BeAn . ' 4 Wheat. i Barley. I Oats. Itle• 35 I s 35 o 1 6 5 1 35 9 3 1 34 34 34 ' Weeks .................* 13 0 " - .. /1 Wheat. Barley. Oats. 11 l e ' ending , 35 0 -- * Feb. 8.... 45 6 ; 33 0 21 6 30 , 35 35 a", i., 3 0 1 3 15.... 45 4' 32 3 21 7 3 0 " 35 ; 3 5 f 22.... 45 2, 32 4 21 7 2 9 2 34 : 1 ,5 li Mar. 1.... 45 0 1 32 3 21 7 3 2 Z 3 4 ' 3 5 r 8.. • • 45 0' 32 2 21 7 3 0 ", 34 SlCst4l 15. .• 45 1 132 2 21 4 31 " SIX l'i • 341 14 IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF TIL E 6 .....• :, 0 Wheat •••• • • 45s 2d I Oats • ....... 21 6d I n e a5 311 ,,.•• 6 ,1 Barley •••• • • 32s 4d I Rye ---, g L E 18 3 4 o go t AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF T 1 • 453 d I Oats •• • • .... 21 6d ne 3 l "'. t i • 32s 4 2 d Rye . 3O 8d it! 5 DUTIES ON FOREIGN COS- 6 ' ••••" . 203 Od I Oats . eaS e Od I De ° •••• • 6s Od Rye 103 6d F.. Wheat Barley FLANDERS IVIA ILof Saxe o f ° Ti re oei BRUSSELS, MARCII 17.—Prince August in • Isr Gotha, the nephew of the King, and brotherin-eat Queen, arrived yesterday e ve ning at the Palecfor from Vienna. His Hi g h ness is to set out - morrow, s fl r i r"P A letter from Gorcum, of the 12th, at n e ot ter u a 'ao ° ll cart crossing from \Vaalwijk, and going to lb e yetis' at re' a load of more than 2,500 po u nds, passed the isd o f the ice at Hardineveld. The oldest inhabiterleaas o e, collect a similar circumstance." • ldia cro M. Bicker, inventor of the process for c ultri or - 10 , es: every kind without manure, has just set °T o th• being expected by the Government to proceeutmii l og ia periments of sowing in several places, Per rie fa ni b el ff landes (in heath) about Bordeaux and ori th e . - a tioll to Government at Grignon. At the s olicit I d, most distinguished persons in pr Eliglat, has omised tgo to London "1".0 next month. Biro Lapeyrou d se rem ains vr l iog inl e t( to prepare everything necessary for ee t ea per parcels of land in the spring. We know thou the will be tried in all kinds of soil, for instance, e''o,•ogrooee7 the Campines and Flanders, and even in the in is of 14 a jt.4 The accounts which we receive from all Pa r the r" es 3 t o and France confirm all that we have heard 0. 0 oc itil t 601 the new process. Belgium will soon have to 3 11 0 ;40, the said facts. We are happy to believe that l' b i a to L:ijoe, hence, even the most incredulous will not be l i nk pros r d l lt:i the truth; everybody will have reason to th a m g,'" re,„ o `, for this great benefit to humanity.—Brus sels 0 ' of red s MUNICH, MARCH 12.—As soon as his 3 1 a.) ve itesg' do o *- gracious King, learnt through the .Allgoneine in y o n pfr , Bth instant, that it is contemplated to forml Gerilisj egi e j hospital for poor Germans, to which s evers . 0 ,110 110 0 reigns have already subscribed considerable st.l°:to to immediately resolved to contribute 1001. sterhapdiaglf .1 a volent object, and has given directions s oc c ot i hy Ambassador in London. of r " 'rs INNSBRUCK, MARCH 11.—In consequence c oete r d a, state of Switzerland, orders were received h ere of nalie p 3 Del express, for the regiments of the Grand h - „ tree o f t , garrison here, to proceed to Voralberg. & I , - Atter; Lip followed by a regiment of light horse, ane $ w ood e to • io, e r artillery. All these troops are under the cosi d i ti fes ' o eu r , Field Marshal Roninski. Another regime nt 000 9 01 its march to Tyrol. Another body o f a bout 4, ow eltP t iori the command of Major-General Count Lon frol , o l i n dared to reinforce the Austrian garrison on pt. ,01 0' Switzerland. CONSTA.NTINOPLE, FEB. 26.—The roissinr/errrifile.,,Bre bas arrived here, with the Envoy from 13 01 " ha w bich panies him. The hardships and privationsa tinguished and high-minded man has en the fa 1 : 15 00 have visibly affected him. It is said that, tne u 0 00 , tion here will not give the Envoy of the lh a passport to Enland. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VISNX-4, 14.1;11.c.°-11.;.,34 5 per Cent. lietalliques ........ '• 1 11YI • •• •• " -° 4 per Cent. ditto . 01 3 per Cent. ditto• • • • • • • • • • ***** • • • ••• '• Ditto, 1839 ... ........... •• • 1 03 4 Bank Shares •• • • •• Esterhazy's Loau •••• • • • • " • • • IgSS RAILWAYS. . 47 4 The Northern, or Ferdinand •" • ' .. • • ',t Gloggnitz Milan —Allgemeine Zeit ig, March 14 ~ RAILWAY 511A.R.,,0 - ciff• • L ool s TO THE EDITOR OF Tlir, '00aole'r(0, the Mt—lt might be beneficial to railwaye° o f 0 0 t o f teu public generally, if they were ar i ll s a Cl i r , vl e. of many allotments of shares. I t " pIY , practice for those who have no capital t° f/ :ll l3l ' s ' l ti certain number of shares in a railway ichl`theo.,t'bili pro:-pect of going-a -head, and then S c " i t at th e # so , eums:mtehitsimcree,attahsesaerissielairnest,heifransoye.,: opor.ibeetroe claimed. Many railways require referenc 'o° ° o lio' circumstancesthe u company tommigahkte be avoided. a r ni efer s e i.4l . B : o ) l l l l/ 1. , 0. dient servant, j, LOC° AP March 19, 1845. ---------"=". -• —..........---- ,-------.-- _ THE CHURCIIii• F 9) 1 ; 101 11f TO TIIE EDITOR OF 71",c,ribe li:orse4l Silt, — Some of your readers, who En t ` v iittle 513 '0°, 4 ' to the Church-building Society, will be g'" been ;fl iq to learn that a very handsome church 12 °A o rie",,re b n y ow su rn bs o c r r e ip ti t l i a o n n t i s i v i o th y e ea c r o s u , furtoym: fp„uund raisc",r e b o is e b b,: 1$ e s u d'ol onts'ld' stands in the town of Woodbridge► in that Mime o ise e ,: has never been consecrated, and apPes r9 ° ~ Ole" ing. In passing through this town a sho r d viitP bof I heard several persons regret having Parte__Sorrltti money merely for an ornament to the town N.-v I,ou botO ____---_- -- - WILD SWAN —'---- s.—A flock of Norvvitf crori,-00 Yo twenty in number, alighted in the of / oej‘ „,c'eg i e l Hall, near Durham, on the morning of A ur."" The - 11 a 14 1 . 0 0 quietly proceeded to feed amongst the poultrY.„o,Al4l of the farmer immediately sallied forth with e. - . 1 30 au' oftw oßyateras,-sghroete,na.n—dTtlyienereylearic,n jdregr.took flig ht 111 ' .eigh i Ar M r 7'l " ATTORNEYS' BILLS:— After La ' ~c i tor , ye s oil co. officers can, whenever they see necessarY,"a oe I, o f the r A for parochial business, taxed by the der" -- '_______.-------------- . .. nifi BI.RTLIS. Li * IP"- On the 12th inst., at Fareham, the larlY °I uebteooo. Jenner, of her Ma'est 's ship St Vincent, of ad s ° of s Colville, lady On o t the 14th inst j ., inYEnleigh• -street, Mrs. M.:10111W. lb i l t l e e l l 6 6 ot t fh h ai i nd n sa s t t u On the 15th inst., at East Heath, near 10'. gP , fl e iv. u l .n 4 C. : h . 11,,,, i s n qe s n i. r , oi e t ih t a l : sli ß ,osn a g. r:n o e f Baroness French, Archibald, OO 1: ttFlackroo.- ndo k r'' Stanclige, of a daughter. " 6 . 'o-Psr"' .gahtateitrA.SYdenharn' lel'it' sal. IS' On the 17th inst., in Fork -terrace, Regent gri• it, 7.1 if-r ir On th e 17th inst at Oakfteld, Clapham —e j(o' wn d e ialuog:set,er.eoo o f,. gc. 1$ , i. Geor Cge oles, of a dughter. • the 0 0•1 , the 19th ult., at Argostati, Cephalonia, lob Lieutenant-Colonel C. C. Hay, commanding tbe 'Tient, of a daughter. _______------ Ito MARRIED• par's' 14 On the 13th inst., at the British Embassn 4,,y0,1, f Rolls Iloare, _Esq., of Lambeth, to Emmit x•rdilfbeg.toeP daughter of the lite Thomas Bird, 1 7 -' s q . ' 0,05 M idd I e sex. b' V.dillb tirg ofo l lt itt On the 14th inst., at Regent-terrace, --, t ;,.8 ~ f nant-Colonel Cavaye, of the 6th Bombay -D., 5 " .01.1. F• Isabella Jane, eldest daughter of the late .D. 3.8.1 chiuson, Bengal Army. o.,nb theal;r' barrister-at-law. a t i the 13th inst Major-General .neral George dei?‘"TED. On ght, 00 6 ' Inn of the 27th 11 nt, aged 73. 8ineviri 15th inst., of the Stamp:o:le )6 01 3, of Osnaburgh-street. rotic lje°' On the 15th inst ,at Vauxhall, Louis Joh n o llr i r 0. 1114 the 17th inst On the 15 h Stamp-oflice. t inst., at Boulogne Bur et elder brother of Mr. C. Withal!, 'eweller, Reb`"Atlai"" James Sharpe, i J n s n an eß e e , "'el t s h st' e r h e° :C l3 il; stol d rf r iV ia '.l4 3 CTi:l i tliT h otel i e l lill'il3 : ll B : l4'::: On the 16th inst , at Cumbejrland-sliltreare't';:7--t.4tl;e'jejt.epfr penter, aged 86. • On of Middle-road, ISu'rtei• Brisatone, 101 X 6 1 19 _ London : Print©d and Publishe d by MUL"'itice, No. 112, Strand, Printer , at The Sas I" tbe Strand, in the Precinct o f the Savoh Dliddlooz, Thursday. Plarch 20, 1845* 40% 46% 58% 934 8% 21% 03/4 lIER Ar( rMng been pl the CS in ennsegi Cer;', 4 '„,ettPtions teth, — "2M Insur &toe — 't ll . the Iti m. "ting to a e tut_ b wnerole i 4o Z In th e cone Ti.sed assistau TY