The Sun. — London, England, 1845-04-05 00:00:00

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The above reward will be paid tor its restoration, on applying to Mr. De Bernardy, 21, Cork-street, Burlington-gardens. Payment of the Note stopped at the Bank. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be performed Belllni's celebrated Opera, entitled LA SON NAMBULA. Amina, Madame A. Castellan. To conclude with an entirely new Ballet, by M. Perrot, entitled EOLINE ; ou, LA DRYADE. The Music by Signor Pugni. The Scenery by Mr. Marshall. Characters—Eoline (betrothed to Count Edgard), Mthlle Lucile Grahn ; Rubezahl (le Gnome), M. Perrot ; Count Edgard, M. Toussaint; Prince of Silesia (brother of Eoline), M. Gosselin. In the course of the Ballet the following Dances will be introduced • waltze Selesienne, by the Coryphees of the Corps de Ballet. Pas de la Fiancee—Mdlle. Lucile Gratin and M. Toussaint, 'Pas de Cinq (composed 'DT M. Gosselin)-3ldlles. Louise Weiss, Fer• dinand, Dernelisse, Cassan, and Moncelet. Mazourka D'Extase—Mdlle. Lucile Gratin and 3f. Perrot, Fourth Tableau. Grand Pas des Dryades by Mdlle. L„Grahn and the Ladies of the Corps de Ballet. Doors open at Seven ; the Opera to commence at Half-past Seven. Ipplications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box- Office, Opera Colonnade. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. It is respectfally announced that on FRIDAY NEXT, APRIL will be presentee a GRAND MUSICAL FESTIVAL, comprising the celebrated Work of FELICIEN DAVID, the SYMPHONIE ODE ORIENTAL, entitled TUE DESERT, with the original Melodic, chorus, and Grand Orchestra ; to be preceded by admired Selections front the most classical composers. The Orchestra and Chzrusses will include upwards of 200 Per formers, the whole unti_er the direction of Sig. Costa. The programme w comprise selections from the works of Mozart, Weber, Mendlessa,n, Gluck, David, Berlioz, and Beethoven. Applications 11e4- Boxes, Stalls, and Pit Tickets to be made at the Opera-office, Colonnade, Hay-market. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The - .‘ , (Obility, Subscribers, and the Public are respectfully Inferr.ted, that there will be an Extra Night (not included In the Sutiscription), • ON THURSDAY NEXT, APRIL 10, Irhen will bo performed Donizetti's Opera, DON PASQUALE. Xorina, Madame Grisi ; Dr. _Malatesta, Sig. Fornasari ; Ernesto, Sig. Mario ; and Don Pasquale, Sig. Lablache. ' After which, a New Divertissement, in which the celebrated Spa laish Dancer, Dona Manuelea Perea, known as La Nena, and the celebrated Bolero Dancer, Don Feliz Garcia, will appear in various of the National Pas of Spain. To be followed bv the Last Act of LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. To conclude with - the New Ballet of EOLINE ; ou, LA Dryade. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE. FIRST APPEARANCE THIS SEASON OF M. DUPREZ. ON MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 7, Will be performed GUILLAUME TELL. Arnol3, M. Duprez ; Gesler, Mr. Weiss ; Rodolph, Mr. H. Horneastle ; William Tell, Mr. Stretton ; Walter Furst, Mr. Borrani ; Ruodi, Mr. Barker ; Lutern, Miss Poole; Matilda, Miss Romer ; Martha, Miss Betts. After which will be repeated, a New Comic Ballet, entitled ROBElef AND BERTRAND. The Box-office is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six In the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, I-laces, and Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. LESSEE, AR. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New and Orizinal Comedy, entitled THE SHERIFF OF TIIE COUNTY. Principal Characters by Messrs. W. Farren, Strickland, Buckstone, Webster, Mrs. Glover, Mrs. W. Clifford, Mrs. Humby, Miss Julia Bennett, &c. After which, a New Grand Classical Extravaganza, entitled THE GOLDEN FLEECE. Principal Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, J. Bland, Madame Vestris, and Miss I'. Horton. To conclude with YOUNG ENGLAND. Major Martinet, Mr. Strickland ; Mr. John James Pooley, Mr. Buckstone ; Mrs. Pooley, Mrs. Humby ; Mrs. Smiler, Mrs. Stanley THEATRE ROYAL. ADELYIII. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New and Original Drama, entitled THE GREEN B SUES ; or, A Hundred Years Ago. Connor O'Kennedy, Mr. Selby George, Mr. Hudson : Wild Murtogh, Mr. 0. Smith ; luster Grinnidge, Mr. Wright ; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Geraldine, Mrs. Yates ; Nelly O'Neill, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; Miami, Madame Celeste. After which, will be repeated a New Grand Empirical Exposition, called ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON. Principal Characters by Messrs, Paul Bedford, Wright, John Saunders Selby; Miss Woolgar, Miss Brooks, and Miss E. Chaplin. To conclude with MOTHER AND CHILD ARE DOING WELL Mr. Snugsby, Mr. Lambert; Lieutenant O'Scupper, R.N., Mr. Paul Bedford ; Mr. Felix Fluffy, Mr. Wright ; Emily, Miss Fortescne. PRLNCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LEISEE, MR. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, Will be performe4 Shakspeare's - 2omedy of MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. Benedick, Mr. Walla& ; Beatrice, Miss Cushman. After which, Mr. HENRY RCSSELL will sing his popular com positions, " The Maniac," and " The Ship on Fire," Mr. SANDS and his INFANT BROTHER, MAURICE, will appear in their Pleasing and Wonderful Entertainment, DE SALON, FREAKS OF FANCY. To conclude with a New Gran] Oriental Melo-dramatic Burlesque Extravaganza, in Two Acts, called TIMOUR TIIE CREAM OF ALL THE TARTARS. Timour, Mr. Oxberry ; Zorilda, Miss E. Stanley. Stage Manager, Mr. H. I. Wallack ; Stage Director, Mr. Emden ; if *chi nist, Mr. Edmund Bradwell. Superbly decorated, and with extensive alterations! forming one of the most. Elegant and Comfortable Theatres in the Metropolis I THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. The I.ast Nl,ht of " Martin Chuzzlewit." THIS EVENING Will be performed MARTIN CHUZZISEWIT. Old Martin Chaszlewit, Mr. It. Younge ; Mr. Pecsniff, Mr. Frank Matthews ; Mrs. Sairey Gamp, Mr. Keeley ; Bailey, Mrs. Keeley. After which, a New Farce, entitled LOWTHER ARCADE. Characters by Messrs. Keeley, Meadows, F. Matthews ; 111,s Dawson, Cid Mlas Grove. To conclmie 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 according to Fancy—Mechanism, Ballet, Music, and Novel Stage Arrange ments—to be called, WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT ! Dick Whittington, Mrs. Keeley; 31aley Moloch, the Lien Tamer of the Dessert, Mr. Keeley ; the Cat, Mr. Collier, supported by Messrs. F." Matthews, and Wigan ; Miss Falrbrother, and Miss Grove. The Box-office is open daily, under the direction of Mr. Grogan from Ten till Four. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. (Under the Direction of Miss Davenport.) THIS EVENING Will be repeated THE GAME COCK OF THE WILDERNESS, Colonel Mereviile, Mr. H. Mellen; Roderick, Mr. Dareie ; Samson, Mr. Marble ; Mabel, Mrs. Griffith. After which, THE SEVEN CHAMPIONS OF CHRISTENDOM. To be followed by THE SECRET. To conclude with THE PLAGUE OF PLYMOUTH. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITEVATRE. PROPRIETOR, MR. W. BATTY. Triumphant Success of the New Spectacle. THIS EVENING. The Performances will commence with a Grand Military Equestrian Drama, entitled THE MAID OF SARAGOS'A. Scenes in the Circle, introducing M. and Mdme. Dams, the cele brated French Equestrians. To conclu!e with THE SLEEPING DRAUGHT. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Mos eron't performance creates roars of laughter—The Two 1.2 ew Pieces, real Surrey hits. THIS EVENING be repeated a New Drama, called MARGA RET CATCH POLE. Supported by Messrs. H. Hughes, Hicks, Fredericks, R. R°nner ' Ilealop, Lewis, Mrs. Daly, Mrs. Lewis, and Mrs. It, Howler. After which, THE IRISH TUTOR, in which the Infant Power, Id is s Heron. will appear. To conclude with THE MOOR MAIDEN, in which Messrs. Mrs. Hicks, Neville, Frederick s , L ewis, Mrs. Hughes Miss Martin, am, Vining will perform. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box olllce. from Eleven to l'our. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. TIIIS EVENING • Will be repeated MARGARET CATCHPOLE, The Female Horse_ stealer. Onega and Pechuana (Red Chieftains), Messrs. Cony and Blanchard ; Margaret Catchpole, Miss Vincent. After which, THE APPOINTED SPOT. To conclude with THE BLOODHOTTND ; or, the Orphan's Grave. In which Messrs. Cony and Blanchard, and their celebrated Dog Hector, will perform. ATTEMPTED Satr-DESTRUCTION.—Between seven and eight o'clock this morning a journeyman tailor, named Jewi3, nearly eighty years of age, in the employ of Mr. Young, a master tailor, residing in York-street, Queen square, attempted to put a period to his existence by shoot ing himself. It appears that the unfortunate man has been living, for some length of time, in the house of Mr. Dodd, a farrier, in Craven-yard, Drury-lane, and has appeared much dejected in his manner. The inmates, having heard a report of a pistol, went into his room, where they found that he had tried to destroy himself. He was bleeding from the effects of a wound in the right side. He said that he had three bullets in his body. Assistance was immediately rendered, and he was conveyed to the King's College Hospital, where every necessary medical aid was administered; but it is feared that from the nature of the injuries he has received that he cannot long survive. No reason can be assigned fcr so rash an act. We understand that a clerk of some standing and length of service at the Custom-house has been suspended from duty by the Commissioners for some alleged miscon duct. We forbear to mention the name of the party, as his case is under the consideration of the Board, and the exact Cause of his susposion is not known with any degree of certainty„tlkeaggii is said to be in consequence of receiving pec oyiAylvantneratign from certain persons connected with trade"of the port, on condition of enabling them rlacl* OW vista outwards, after the legal hour of business • .4ernifinited,. to the' injury, of course, of other merchants r. .nnoctett with the affair. lt is also reported that the in owiecOeing refused In one particular instance was the im• t - rm & - ts wise of the system being reported to the authcri v*Epiall the Air *us-kw& to light, THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, APRIL 5. I HERMOMETER, Lowest, 33 ; Highest, 62; Noon, 48. BAROMETER, 30.11.—WIND, E. Narw.—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. HIGII WATER AT LONDON•BRIDGE TIIIS DAY. Morning .. 43 minutes after 0 1 Evening .. 6 minutes after I. t. • —.— , ~ ..u• .., ... . :4: ~Q--,-?"., * -v, tct .., ti : ..,`P ' ,-;,___'o_,' ` - :t)::',' - _ - ~u •:ia - ' , ".. ° 1.1:41 7 ' , 2 jppr.- - 4 01 0" so- • ..-,,, ..... .-.. 4. . 44 ....7‘45 , 1- - : ( I t- . er4,Jfi' -e -0 .11i •P'''''''' '': ' -AA -0 z - , -:.-- ,r•m o s "i '',X, /?, 2),; ) ,.,.tit111f w„., ~:',.,...... ..,,,,,,,,,,, • . ." ,51,.., SECOND EDITION. Oltening LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1845. The House of Lords met at Five o'clock. Lord BROUGHAM presented two petitions from Tito- MAS LUKIN and ANN WARD, who had been each com- mitted to prison for a month, with hard labour, by the " insane magistrates of Leicester," as the Noble and Learned Lord denominated them, for non-payment of the costs of a summons which had been issued against them for non-payment of poor-rates. He had understood that these magistrates had committed these poor per sons without a hearing. It was true Sir JAMES GRAHAM had ordered their liberation ; but he would put it to his Noble and Learned Friend on the woolsack whether it was fit that such magistrates should be longer employed in the administration of justice. The LORD CHANCELLOR said that if he should find that the conduct of the magistrates had been such as had been represented, he should remove them from the Commission of the Peace. In answer to the Duke of RICHMOND, The Noble and Learned Lord also stated tint the parties aggrieved had a remedy against the magistrates by action. The Earl of CLARENDON then proceeded to draw the attention of their Lordships to the Oregon question, and concluded by saying, that he considered it was the dnty of Government to maintain their rights westward of the Rocky Mountains ; and if the question could not be amicably settled, he trusted the Government would take such steps as might be thought necessary for vindicating the national honour of the country. Lord ABERDEEN, if he followed his own inclination, would at once lay all the papers relating to this matter on their Lordship's table, and he was sure they would give satisfaction to their Lordships and the country. But the time, he thought, had not yet arrived for adopting that course. He thought the late PRESIDENT had gone somewhat too far when he spoke so strongly of the amicable spirit in which these negotiations had been conducted. The inaugnral address of the new PRESIDENT had no official authority, and as the twelve months' notice re quired for annulling the existing treaty could not be given before December, there was no immediate neces sky for the production of any papers. The Noble Lord then proceeded to vindicate himself from the charges of pusillanimity and neglect which had been brought against him. He was fully aware of the blessings of peace, and believed war to be the greatest crime and the greatest folly that a country could commit. Fortu nately for this country we need not be so very sensitive in the point of honour, a, some people appeared to be, but with regard to Oregon he believed that we had rights which were clear and indisputable. The Government were quite ready to make every concession which would avoid the necessity of any extreme course, but if the) were compelled to take it, they were content to rest upon these rights, and with the b.e stng of God and the as sistance of their Lorchhip. he believed they were full . ) . prepared and determined to maintain them. The Earl of RIPON then mount the third reading of the Income-tax Bill, and went into a long financial state ment, with little more than a repetition of the state ments already made in the other House by Sir H. PEEL in justification of the measure. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE objected to the impo• sition of an income-tax as a permanent impost. Lord ASHBURTON regretted that so little attention was paid to the state of the debt of the country. It was the duty of every Government to do all they could tt, relieve the country from that heavy load. He dislikes the income-tax, because it was a tax upon capital, anu any tax upon capital was a check upon improvement. Lord STANLEY thought that his Noble Friend (Lord ASHEURTON) had scarcely done justice to the effort: which had been made by the present Government fox the reduction of the debt. Lord MONTEAGLE objected to the financial policy of the Government, more especially as regarded the dutieb, on corn, timber, and sugar. The Duke of RICH3IOND did not object to the income- tax s) much as to the manner in which the surplus reve nue derived from it was applied. That surplus shouldhave been applied in effecting reductions from which the agri cultural interests would derive some benefit. The Noble Duke complained much of the treatment which tke ag rizultural interest had received from Sir R. PEEL, and concluded by moving an amendment to the motion. The House was also addressed by the Marquis of NORMANBY and the Earl of RADNOR, after which the amendment was put and negatived, and their Lord ships adjourned. The House of Commons met at Four o'clock. Mr. T. DUNCOMDE gave notice of a motion for Tues day, on the subject of the Railway Department of the Board of Trade. _ In reply to Sir C. NAPLER, Sir J. GRAHAM said that he did not intend to persevere in the accusation which he had made against Mr. MAZZINI, on the subject of the assassination at RODEZ, and had, therefore, withdrawn it. Sir R. PEEL fixed Friday next for the second reading of the Maynooth Bill. Lord J. RUSSELL then entered into an explanation relative to his statement on a former night, on the sub ject of the instructions he had sent out to Lord SIDES HAM relating to the Madawaska settlement, and said that it was evident that Lord ASHBURTON had, in animadverting upon his observations, fallen into a mistake which he (Lord JOHN RUSSELL) could hardly understand, for if these instructions had related to diplomatic negotiations, they would have proceeded frem the Foreign, and not from the Colonial Secretary. He asked the Govcrument if they would produce copies of the correspondence between Lord SYDENHAM sue himself on the subject. After a few words from Mr. Holm and Mr. HUME, the latter of whom urged the production of all dispatches on the subject, Sir R. PEEL consented to produce such documents as i could be produced without O. ttim,nt to the public ser vice, although he considered t , eft• production unneces sary, as the negotiations on the subfc, had terminated. Lord PALMERSTON denied the right of Lord Ass euferoN to quote from any dispatches which had not been laid before Parliament, unless Government had given permission to do so, and, if permission had been granted, it was contrary to Parliamentary rule not to lay the documents before the House. The question in volved an accusation against a Member of Parliament having made erroneous statements, and, therefore, was of importance. Sir R. PEEL replied that, if it were necessary, any dispatches which had been produced before the other House might be laid on the table. In answer to Mr. M. GIBSON, Sir R. PEEL stated that the Government made a proposal to the Government of Brazil, for continuing to British subjects in that country the privileges which they had enjoyed under the late commercial treaty of disposing of their property by will, and of enabling the British Consul to administer to the effects of British subjects dying in that country. Lord J. RUSSELL then rose to draw the attention of the House to the state of the Oregon question. If it had been left to be settled in the usual manner between the Executive Government of this country and that of the United States he should have waited in silence until the close of the proceedings, but the new PRESIDENT of the United States had adopted a course entirely new—a course which, it Dot met by something decisive on the part of this country, threatened to overthrow all the ordinary intercourse which should exist between the Ethxeedceuctii decision n Governments s o o f f g t r h e e a t two o n n a a t l i o i ro n s p , o a r n t a d leave be decided,o n t t o h e theonepeople band by ; and on popular ot efrro, by a m t Government course which would put an end to all peace and amity. The present course purs ue d b y the Government of the United t United States tended e n ti re l y to i ts own territorial aggrandisement, and was a direct contradiction of the declarations made by Mr. WEB STER . Th e Noble Lord then went into a lengthened detail of the nature of the rival claims to the Oregon territory, proving that ieither by treaty nor by priority of discovery had the United States any right to the possession of it Efe might be told that the Oregon territory Maimed by the United States was not of much value, and that it did not matter much who possessed it. " Yes, Sir," (said the Noble Lord), but I say it does matter. A large territory .;annot be a matter of indifference, particularly where our age is better end japer, nog should it be yielded under such circumstances to what might be call the blustering announcement on the part of the PRESIDENT of the United States." He should not have interfered if the matter had been left to diplomatic ar rangement between Lord ABERDEEN and Mr. BUCHANAN, but he felt that a Minister, from his poEition, could not well introduce the matter ; and so he thought it right to tell the House and the people of this country what were their rights. With this statement he would leave the matter in the hands of the Govern - ment of the country, and he would not express the smallest doubt that in all their proceedings they would duly consult the interests of the country and ttis honour of the Crown. The Noble Lord sat down amidst loud cheering from all parts of the House. Sir R. PEEL was not surprised at, nor did he regret the course the Noble Lord bad adopted, and he did not think the Noble Lord responsible for any consequences that might follow from it. As a Minister he must ne cessarily speak with reserve, but he felt it to be his duty on the part of her Majesty's Government to state, in language most temperate, but at the same time. most determined, that they considered their rights, in respect to the territory of Oregon, were clear and unquestionable; that the) trusted still to effect an amicable adjustment of their claims, but if, having exhausted every effort to effect that, their rights were invaded, that they were resolved and prepared to maintain them. This announcement on the part of the Right Hon. Baronet was received with the loudest cheering from all prrts of the House. The House was then briefly addressed by Lord PAL MERSTON, after which the subject dropped. On the motion that the order of the day for the House resolving itself into a Committee of Supply be read, Mr. WAKLEY moved for a copy of the warrant of the Secretary of State authorising the opening of Mr. T. DUNCOMBE'S letters. The motion was opposed by Sir J. GnAnAm, and after a short discussion the House divided, and the motion was negatived by a majority of 51. After some observations by Mr. WILLIAits and Mr. HUME upon the expense incurred in maintaining the Horse and Foot Guards, The House resolved itself into a Committee of Supply, and the Army Estimates were proposed by Mr. S HERBERT. Several votes were objected to and discussed, but ulti mately the whole were agreed to, and the other orders of the day having been disposed of, the House adjourned at a quarter to One. The House of Commons has at last spoken out about the question of the Oregon territory, and with an unanimity which can leave no doubt that all parties are resolved, at every hazard, to maintain our indisputable rights. These rights were admitted on all hands, and the extravagant claims of the American Presi dent, made in his first inaugural address, and made too in such insolent language, met with universal reprobation. Lord JOHN RUSSELL showed, that in whatever point of view the question was looked at, our right to the greater [cation of the Oregon, including the Columbia River, was unquestionable. It tt rested on ancient discovery, England had a claim far superior to that of the United States; if on treaty, the United States had no claim whatever; and if on modern discovery, the discovery of the Columbia, made by regular officers of the British navy, and the subse quent settlement of the adjoining country by British settlers, gave England a title which could not possibly be displaced. Sir ROBERT PEEL was no less impressed with the fact, and (a rare feature in the speech of a Prime Minister) spoke his sentiments as openly end as firmly as the leader of the Opposition. I feel it my imperative duty," said the Prime Minister of England, "on the part of her MAJESTY'S Government, to state in language the most temperate, but at the same time most decided, that we consider we have rights respecting this territory of Oregon which are clear and irresistible. We trust still to arrive at an amicable adjustment—we desire to effect an amicable adjustment of our claim ; but, having ex masted every effort to effect that settlement, if our rights shall be invaded, we are resolved—and we are prepared—to maintain them." This spirited announce ment was responded to by loud cheers from all parts of the House. The language of Lord ABER DEEN in the other House was equally explicit and determined, and when he asserted our rights, with the unanimous resolution of the Government to maintain them at all risks, the Peers cheered with as much fervour as the more excitable Commons. The question is now brought to a fair issue. The Ameri cans make claims incompatible with British rights: ne gotiations may be still going on, for since the accession of Mr. POLK, our Government have received no intelli gence on the subject, but if they have been renewed, and unfortunately should turn out unsuccessful, Great Britain has only one alternative. We have submitted too long to the vain boastings and warlike threats of American senators ; we have even scarcely adverted to the hos tile pretensions of the late President, and treated these, and the wild and rabid effusions of the statesmen from the " Far West " with equal ceremony; but in that respect England has only shown her moderation and her power, and her enemies in r.ny part of the globe will find that her " frighful silence has not lost any of its terrors. But there is another Power besides this country that has affairs of import ance to settle with the Americans. The occupation of Texas is a flagrant breach of good faith. It is repro• bated by all civilised States ; and Mexico, weak and disorganised, will not fight her battles alone. Though she has neither fleet nor army that could make any great resistance, she can furnish letters of marque to the ships of other nations, and neither brave hearts nor willing hands will be wanting to curb a power dangerous to every peaceable and well-governed State. We have no wish to enter into the quarrel; we would avoid it, but only with honour. " Our honour," said Lord ABER DEEN, is a substantial property, which we shall never neglect, and fearlessly leave the judgment to posterity." Even Mr. HUME, the watchful, the trustworthy, and prudent guardian of the public purse —an office which he has now filled for little short of a quarter of a century—last night cast economy to the winds, and with a patriotic spirit, withdrew his motion for the reduction of the army. The crisis is one of fearful importance, but it is not of our seeking, and confident of the justice of our claims, and the integrity of our purpose, we are prepared to meet it. It is not the least of the many grave objections which the experience of their operation every day establishes against the Game-laws, that the taint of their original institution affects their administration, even at the pre sent day. The Game-laws were, especially, a class made code for class objects ; and wherever country juries are impannelled to try cases arising under them, it but too often happens• that their verdicts appear to have a class bias. The framers and affirmers of these oppressive statutes were ever the great landed pro prietary, nobles and c.)mtnoners, directly interested in providing for their favourite sports, and reckless of the extravagantly penal consequences to which, in their anxiety to protect and encourage and preserve for their own use and pleasure the game upon their lands, they subjected all persons who might be convicted of infrac Lions upon their enactments--committed in the absence of " qualifications" that could belong only to individuals moving in classes of society elevated above those of the poorer and lower sort. To classes, only, equally fortunate, could th e p roper t y i n, and rights over game, which were to be protected, belong. Does this community of class interests stop here? We doubt it. Country jurors who are to try indictments for Game-law offences, sit, as it were, on glazed boxes. They know well enough that their deliberations are transparent. They seem to think themselves ever in the presence of the great man, at the great house in the great park. It is well known that they are returned on the panel ; shall they be astute to eonnect the evidence with the guilt of the accused? or shall they show rather a disposition to give to the acts proved against the men placed at the bar a construction, if possible, which shall remove them out of the reach of these penal enactments? The tendency to propitiate those above them by affect ing sympathy with their prejudices, pursuits, and modes of thinking, in reference to such pursuits or prejudices, is natural, in an advanced condition of society, to its in. ferior sections, in all countries. But we believe it is most decided as actuating the lower ranks of an agricul tural community to gratify the assumed expectations of a landed aristocracy. We are far from imputing to juries, thus composed, at country assizes, for example, u an n y de a r b a s i o ly lut e e ire i u n in te s n ta ti n o e n es o , r p eun u tr rp ar o y se of to uth g e iving a verdict, irhuneatan and ev a i r d e en a c r e gu th in a g t m fr a , y ln h t a h v e e e b ‘ e e e ry n t c e o n n d sc er ie e n d ti o tes us th v e ie m ws ; ‘ l ) ) f ut th w e e impressions of such men—and the result of it — which is day's experience of the unconscious bias acting en the their practical, albeit unconscious, fallibility as jurymen. Cases to exemplify—and, we must add, to corroborate —our apprehensions on this score are of constant occur rence. Take, however, for a single and signal example the case tried at the present Chester Assizes, where some culprits were arraigned as reputed poachers for a very formidable attack upon certain keepers in the em ploy of a Mr. BROOK. The evidence, in this instance, was much of the usual character in these cases. The men were undoubtedly contemplating, under the usual temptations, the c omm i ss i on of the usual offences of Ptischwg) when they were interrupted by the vigillince of the keepers. A fierce affray ensued, in whie4 either side sustained serious injuries. The Learned Judge, both in the course of the examination of witnesses, awl in his summing up, directed their special attention to some remarkable and important facts which clearly inferred (his Lordship observed) that the first " blow, or tha: provocation, out of which all the ensuing violence must be considered to have flowed—had been given by one of the party of the keepers, not of 1 3 .1 Z poachers." His L.,rd ship intimated, in and very intelligible terms, that if the jury saw this point in the same light with ',"limself, they would, of course, by their verdict, give the prisoners the full benefit of so important a consideration. What did the jury do? They threw overboard altogether the suggestion which the Learned Judge bad thought it his duty so emphatically to present to them, they re turned a dry and unqualified verdict of " Guilty ;" and the Learned Judge, having no option under this verdict, upon all the counts of the indictment they had to try, sentenced the prisoners to about the highest penalty which could be awarded against them under the existing law—namely, transportation for fifteen years ! the. Game-laws, being clearly in the nature not of crimes against the moral or Divine law, but offences against mere municipal and conventional laws of artificial pro perty, are precisely those illegal offences to which the accused are clearly entitled to plead—where they are in a condition to do so—the prior and higher law of our common nature in their defence—viz., the law of self preservation. The wise and benevolent Judge saw all the force of the fact incidentally proved that the keepers committed the first violence. The jury either could not or would not recognise this all important fact in their favour. Thanks to their verdict, the prisoners received the same full measure of punishment as if their case had been one of unmitigated atrocity. Did we need one ad ditional argument to those we have so often urged against these iniquitous and unequal laws, we should find it in this Chester poaching case. We now perceive that the Game-laws, not only brutalise their victims by the des peration they excite, and unhumanise your preservers of game by the premium they extend to the gratification of tyrannic and irritable temperaments, but stultify and obfuscate the rural solons who are called upon to admi nister them, whether as magistrates or jurors. When will this moral and social nuisance be swept from the ' land by the long delayed besom of public indignation ? The accounts from M.,drid are to the 28th ult. The journals are chiefly occupied with particulars of the late conspiracy, which, however, are contradictory. The number arrested is said to be much greater than was at first stated, and according to the Ho aldo, a Government journal, the object of the parties was to bring back ESPARTEIIO, and among persons of note implicated are Senors DELGADO, PINTADO, HUERTOS, ARENAS, and Tono. Three per Cents., for cash 32i; for account, 34. Five per Cents., for account, 25i. The Paris journals announce painful intelligenc • from Switzerland. Contrary to general expectation the volunteers against Lucerne have muste red in con siderable force in several cantons, in opposition to the Executive, and made every preparation to join a body of about 4,000 men from Argau. c, insisting of volunteers and refugees, who left that canton ou the Ist jest. to invade Lucerne. Civil ear, in fact, has commenced, • and unless the Jesuits and the Government of Lucerne surrender at discretion, the result cannot fail to be of a most serious character. All the neighbouring powers are fully determined to interfere by firmed force, and crush the civil war. The following is the latest particu lars furnished by the Journal des Debats of the 3d inst.:—" We have received intelligence that on the Ist inst. the free corps of Argau, reinforced by volunteers from the Radical cantons, and the refugees from Lucerne, amounting together to four thousand men, had entered the canton of Lucerne. They had advanced beyond Surzee, a small town five leagues from Lucerne, near Lake Sempacher, and prob;ibly had gained possession of the city itself, which had only 2,000 men to defend it. At Bale, all the men from 18 to 25 years of age had entered the Burgher Guard, for the maintenance of order and the protection of the city ; but at Berne, the proclamation against the free corps, instead of arresting the movement, had only excited the people the more. The agitation began to extend to all parts of the canton. At Nidau two cannon had been seized. In the canton of Soleure the same effervescence prevailed. According to the ac counts we had previously received, Lucerne was but in sufficiently prepared to resist invasion ; but it was ex pected that the smaller cantons of Schwytz, Uri, and Unterwalden would come to her aid, and thus render the success of the Radicals at least doubtful. A letter of the 30th ult. from Argau says The Government of Lu cerne, instead of endeavouring to conciliate parties in its canton, has redoubled its prosecutions. Fresh warrants of arrest are daily issued, and consequently we have daily arriving in this canton hundreds of fugitives, almost all armed. Two days ago the number of these fugitives amounted to nearly 2,000, of whom 1,500 at least are armed, and a great many have uniforms. The news they bring can only increase the irritation of the neigh bouring cantons, which are overburdened already with emigrants. The different governments have taken all the measures dictated by the conclusum of the Diet ; but they already find themselves inundated, and the Council of State of Argau would have been overthrown had it ventured upon energetic measures; for these could have ended in nothing, since the soldiery would have re • fused to act. In this state of things it convoked the Grand Council, which has this day sent to the Vorort a request that the Diet may be immediately convoked. Tnis convocation, it is feared, will come too late. As soon as the news of the Government having put impedi ments in the way of the projects of the Lucerne refugees was spread abroad, free corps were at once formed at every point, and set out on the i march, Ev en th e more tai-taut cantons have taken part n the move ment . T o -d ay near l y fifty men have arr ived from Schaffhausen, in post or private carriages ; th ere are some also trem St. Gall , the Grisons, an i Glaris ; others are coming from Zurich and Berne ; Bale country is coming en masse; and in Argau and Soleure there is not a village that dues not send out at least ten fighting men. This evening all the free corps will be united at Zefingue and its environs. They will, no doubt, commence their operations in the night, and to-morrow morning, or at least by mid-day, will, in all probability, be at the gates of Lucerne. It is not expected that they will meet with any resistance, unless, indeed, the smaller cantons should come forward In fact, they cannot sustain the assault ; but still blood will be shed. If, on the contrary, the small cantons do not come to the assi,tance of the Government of Lucerne, it is to be presumed that all will be brought to an end on Wednesday.' " The Consft.zronnel also gives important information to the effect theta number of officers and soldiers, called under arms by the Go v e rnment of Luce rne , h ad refused to obey the call, and some .who had j o ined had d eser t e d to greatlyth e f free corps. en s e incensed The against ' be majority h of the inhabitant s were e Executive. Since the previous account was in type, we regret to state that intelligence of a still more distressing nature has been received from Paris by express. The following appears in a second edition of the Morning Herakl : " BATTLE IN S%VITZERLAND.—GREAT LOSS OF LIFE. PARIS, FRIDAY. " The Debats published this morning the following most serious intelligence:— somewhat e ' Fwhraotmcot confused, f e u accounts sed, we have t h a tthe received, fre e which corps are co w lle e ct pre sented themselves before Lucerne upon the morning of the Ist, and were received by a fire of musketry, and two attempts to enter the town were repulsed. It is added that the besiegers, believing in a capitulation, retired to the Faubourgs, where they were received by a fire of grape-shot so terrible, that from 800 to 1,000 were killed. Notwithstanding this terrible loss, the free corps mastered the town. On hearing of this loss, the Radicals of the other cantons put themselves in movement against Lucerne. Those of Bale Campagne left on the Ist. On Bale Ville there was the greatest alarm, and at Bale several incendiary attempts were made. On the other hand, the Catholic party of Argovia had risen to go to the aid of Lucerne, and the tocsin sounded throughout the canton. The Vorort had convoked 17 battalions and Berne 7; but it is not likely they can put down a struggle began in a manner so bloody.'" The domestic intelligence in the Paris papers is of little interest. The Opposition journals, with the excep tion of the Constautionnel, have articles on the discus sions in the Committees on the grant for arming the fortifications of Paris, but we find no new argument , . though much violence, against the measure. M. DE LAMARTINE said the Chamber of Deputies must cease to exist the moment they had to deliberate under Ow thousand pieces of cannon. M. ARAGO and M. BAUROT Could not say much, for the latter had voted in savour of the fortifications, and els° the former under certain re strictions. General PAIXIIANS, for the contohttion, or rather in ridicule of the Parisians, assured them that the two thousand guns with which they were to be presented, would not be more troublesome than the guns of Lille, Strasburg, and Metz were to the inhabitants of those towns. The Three per Cents, closed on the Paris Bourse on Thursday at 85f. 80 e.; the Five per Cents. at 117 f. 80c ; Orleans shares, 1,303 f. 75c.; Rouen, 1,162 E 50e. ;Havre, 9721. 50o.; Avignon, 1,1301.; Basle, 341 f. 25e.; Belgian Two and-a-Half per Ce n t s ., 621 50c. ; Spacish Actives' 40i ; Ditto Three per gents., 41i ; Dim p a ssiyoo, 7i. Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 20f. ; Paris and Lille (Blunt), 50f. ; Paris and Lyons (Blunt), 50f. ; Ditto (Cabin), sf. if. 50:!. ; Ditto Ganheron), 171. 50c. 20f.; Paris and Strq4burg (Gunneron), 17 f. 50c. 20f. ; Paris and St. Quentin, 101. ; Bordeaux and Cette (Espelette), 35f. 40f. THE LATE MURDER IN S3T. GILES'S. BODY-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) EX AMINATION OF THE SUPPOSED MURDERER. The exterior of the Police court in Bow•street presented an exciting appearance this morning, for a crowd exceeding at least two thousand persons had assembled before ten o'clock, for the purpose of seeing the prisoner conveyed from the station-house opposite. Their curiosity was, how- ever, to remain unsatisfied, for with a wise foresight the au thorities had caused him to be taken into the Court as early as half-past eight o'clock. The prisoner, who was kept till the opening of the Court in an adjoining room, is a thin young man, of middle height, perhaps five feet eight inches, with an appearance of heaviness in his features which seems to belie the existence of strong passions, such as the murderer of the unfortunate female may be supposed to have possessed. His complexion is very sallow, his nose unusually large, and the lower part of the face far from pleasing. He was dressed in a fustian jacket and corduroy trousers, and wore a silk neckerchief. He seemed somewhat agitated while waiting in the ante-room, but evidently laboured to conceal it. His father is stated to be a respectable man, a working silversmith in Belton-street, now Endell-street, Long-acre. The prisoner was for some time a porter in Covent-garden Market, and has been employed latterly as a plumber's la bourer, in High-street, St. Giles's, where he is well known to many persons. Suspicion was aroused, we understand, by his absenting himself from his work, and that, conjoined with certain information received by Superintendent Pearce of the F division, led to his arrest on the preceding night. At half-past ten the magistrate, Mr. Jardine, having taken his seat upon the bench, proceeded to dispose of the night charges. At half-past eleven the prisoner was brought into Court, and placed in the dock. He wag asked if his name was Joseph Connor, and he an swered in the affirmative. The first witness called was Bridget Honan, better known as " Irish Biddy." I know the prisoner, and saw him at half-past nine o'clock on Monday night last. I have been in the habit of seeing him once a week, and I saw him on the Saturday night before that in George-street. I asked him how he was, and he said, " I'm a good deal better." He said he did not wish his father or any of his friends to know that there was anything the matter with him. Mr. JARDINE—WeII, there is nothing particular in that. Go on, and tell when you saw him again. Witness—l saw him again on Monday night, at half-past nine, and he said he had been seeing the old b—, and blowing her up, and then he pointed out the woman that was after wards murdered. I have not seen her since, but she was Mrs. Tape. He then said " She will know me in these clothes ; I'll go home and take off my hat and jacket, and put on my cap and coat." He then left. He said he would serve her out for giving him an infectious disease. He came back again in ten minutes to the same piece, and said, putting his face close to me, " Do you think that she would know me now ?" I said, certainly she will know you, for you have been speak to her before. He said, " I've got someth ng at home that will pepper her." A person was coming by that I knew, and I went away. I was away about three-quarters of an hour, and came back again, when I saw a crowd in George-street. Mr. JARDINE—Was he there ? Witness—No, he was not there. Mr. JARDINE—It was in reference to this disease then that you ask .d in the first place how he was ? Witness—Yes, sir. Mr. JARDINE—Did he tell you his object in peppering this woman, as you cl 11 it ? Witness—He said it was because she had given him an infectious disease. Mr. JARDINE—Did he tell you before this Saturday that she had given him this disease ? Witness—Yes, sir. Mr. Burnaby—Did you know that the prisoner was at the hospital ? Witness—Yes, he told me so himself. Mr. Burnaby—Who did he say had given it to him ? Witness—Mrs. Tape. He said he would serve her out for giving him an infectious disease. Prisoner to the witness—l wish you would speak out, I can't bear what you were saying. Witness's examination continued—l was away about three quarters of an hour, and when I came back I saw a crowd about No. 11, in George-street. He was not there. I heard that a woman had been murdered in the house. The prisoner then questioned the witness—Did you say that I had something at home to pepper her with ? Wit ness—Yes, you said so. _ _ _ Prisoner-lit is quite false. I never said so. He had no other question to ask. Elizabeth Hall examined—l saw the prisoner on Monday, evening in George-street and he asked how I was. I asked him how he was ? H said, " Very queer. I have got the -- from that old b— that walks in George-street and Charlotte-street." I forgot to say that I saw him speaking some time before that to the woman herself in Charlotte street. I heard her say, "I didn't give it to you ;" but what it was about I don't know. Witness, in answer to Mr. JARDINE—I know the prisoner, and have seen him before. The first time I saw him on the Monday night was at quarter past nine. That was close to the chapel in Charlotte-street. I did not speak to him then, and he went up and spoke to Mrs. Tape. the woman who was murdered. He spoke to her but a very short time. He was speaking angrily, and I heard her say, " I didn't." He had a hat on him then. I saw him again in about a quarter of an hour, at the corner of Vine-street. He then said to me, " Well, old girl, how are you ?" I said, " Very well, I thank you, how are you ?" He replied, " Rather queer ; the old woman that walks in Charlotte-street has given me the —." I understood that he meant by the old woman, Mrs. Tape. He also said, " I've been home to put my cap on. I bad a hat on when you first saw me." I then asked him for half a pint of beer, and he put twopence into my hand. Then we sepa rated, and afterwards, in ten minutes, I met him at the corner of the new street (New Oxford-street), near the chapel. He had on a dark velveteen coat at the time and a cap. I saw no more of him. It might be half an hour after he went away that I heard Mrs. Tape was murdered. He did not say at any part of the evening why he changed his dress. I saw the people round the door of No. 11, George street, and I was told a woman was murdered. The prisoner did not question the witness. He said, "It is quite correct what she says." Mary Palmer sworn—l work for Mrs. Hall, No. 11, George street. On Monday night last, about a quarter to eleven o'clock, a man came to the door with a woman, and they asked for a threepenny room. I gave the woman a candle in the passage. The man was dressed in a velveteen coat, and he had a cap on. The woman I think asked for the room. I know that they called the woman by the name of Mrs. Tape. Ido not know what her right name is. They went into the middle room from the passage. I sat down on the stairs, and iu about five minutes I heard the cry of " murder" from the room. The woman it was who cried out " murder." I got up and knocked at the door but I got no answer. I knocked a second time and still received no answer. Then I turned my back to the door and forced it open. On entering I saw the woman sitting on the bedstead, and the man was standing over her with his right arm up as if in the act of striking her. I said, " For Goe's sake don't beat the woman." With that he turned round and ran out of the room. I caught him by the pocket, but he loosed my hand, and pushed me over to the fire-place. He swung me round the body. The place where he caught me and my shawl was all bloody, so that his hands Must have been all over blood. Before I could get down to the door to call Mrs. Hall, the woman got up from the bed, and came up close to the fire-place where I was. I saw her smothered with blood, all covered with it, and it was flowing from her. She never spoke, and when she came to the fireplace she gave a bit of a stagger, and fell against the fire .place. I ran out into the passage first, and the man was then running out of the door. I called to Mrs. Hall, "for God's sake stop that man; I think he has committed mur der." She got hold of him, but she is a little person, and he forced himself from her and got away. I went back into the room, and she was lying in the same place where she fell. I knew her to be Mrs. Tape. I think she was dead then. I saw the knife sticking in the back of her neck. It was a large carving knife. Several persons came into the room soon after the man left. They were all women lodgers. Mrs. Hall was there also. At that time, and before the police came, I saw the knife. I think she was dead. I went out afterwards and called a police man. I did not take much notice of the man. Mr. Barnaby (to prisoner)—Put on your cap. The pri soner did so. Mr. JARDINE—Now look at the prisoner—is he the man? Witness—The prisoner is like him, but I am not sure that he is the man. Mr. JARDINE (to prisoner)—Do you wish to ask any question of this witness? Prisoner—l know nothing about it. Mary Hall sworn—My husband keeps the house No. 11, George-street, and I live there. On the Monday night, about eleven o'clock, I was in the parlour, and heard Mrs. Palmer call out " Mistress, mistress, there's murder." I ran to her assistance, and the man rushed by me in the passage, and pushed me on one side. I got hold of his coat, auei said, "For God's sak.i, what have you been doing of 1" He made me no answer, but he ran out of the front door into the street. I ran to Mrs. Palmer's assistance in the middle room. I saw the poor woman lying by the fire-place, with the knife sticking in the back of her neck. I did not examine her, I was so frightened. There was a great deal of blood about, and she was covered with it. I then sent Mrs. Palmer for the police, and they came immediately. I have seen the woman before. She lodged with me six month ago, and she was always called by the name of Tape. When the man brushed past me I bad no light. The coat felt like velveteen'. I could not see the man's face. The prisoner declined to ask any questions, and, as before, he said, " I don't know anything about it, Sir." John Allen, 159 E—l was on the evening of Monday last on duty at the station in George-street. I was at the en trance to the police-station just three doors below No. 11. At a quarter to eleven Palmer came to me and said that a woman was struck in No. 11, and in company with another constable I went there. I found some women standing out side the door, and on entering the room . I saw the woman lying on her sae, against the fire-place. I saw the knits in her neck and drew it out. It has been in my possession since. She slightly moaned when I drew the knife out. She was covered with blood. I afterwards went for the surgeon, Mr. Fitzgerald, of I I igh-street. About five or six minutes be fore the woman called me, I saw a man come from the house, No. 11, George-street. lie passed me in the street, and crossed over to the opposite side. He was dressed in a dark velvet coat,and had a cap.-1 think a cloth one—on his head I thought he was running to hear a noise at the bottom of . George-street. I hare no doubt that that person is the p T ;softer , for I had seen him before several times. Prisoner—Can you swear it was me? Witness—l will not swear it, but I have no doubt of it. Henry Oldham examined—l reside, at 10, High-street , St. Giles's, and am a cuttler. On Monday last, about ten minutes to ten, I sold the knife which is lying before me to a man. I believe the isoner is the person to whom I sold it. Ile said, on coming into the shop, what is the cheapest small carving•knife you have ? I said I will show you mane directly, I believe I've some second-hand ones. 1 then took three old knives out of a drawer, and he selected this one from the three. I said, " those are one shilling each.' He put down the shilling and took it up. As he was going away, I said, " Stop, I'll wrap it up for you." I then took it from him, set the edge, and did it up in a bit of brown paper. I think he had a hat on. He had on a coat—not a a jacket. It might have been a velvet jacket. lam sure he F had on a hat. Prisoner—Can you say positively that I am the person .hat bought the knife? Witness—To the best of my belief, you are. Prisoner—Can you swear it? Witness—l do swear it. Emily Elizabeth Oldham—l was ten years old on the Bth of last month. The last witness is my father. I was in the shop on Monday night last, and remember a person coming in to buy a small carving -knife. Mr. JARDINE—Do yeu see that person now? Witness ;after looking for some time at the prisoner)—That looks ike bim. The prisoner did not ask her any question. Michael Fitzgerald, of No. 57, High-street, St. George's, surgeon, sworn—l was called to see this unfortunate woman at No. 11, George. street. I was called by a police-constable. When I arrived, about eleven o'clock, she was dead. I saw her in a room on the ground-floor. She was doubled up against the fire-place. Saw several wounds then about the neck. I saw that there was no blood flowing, and I knew she was dead. Since that time I have made a post mortem examination. (The witness produced a sort of drawing of the wounds upon the body.) There were sixteen wounds upon the body—the first was five inches in length on the lower part of the cheek, reaching to the centre of the neck. It was a superficial incision. The second wound was five inches and a half deep—a penetrating wound passing over the edge of the first rib near the spine, wounding the bone, and extending downwards between the ribs and shoulder blade. There was no important part divided there. The third was a penetrating wound, one inch and a half long, on the left side of the breast-bone, dividing the cartilages of the second and third ribs, piercing the edge of the left lung and the pericardium, and piercing the pulmonary artery for about a quarter of an inch. There were about forty ounces of blood, fluid and coagulated, by measure. In the pericardium and parts surrounding the heart there were six drachms of fluid blood. Number 4 penetrated the chest between the third and fourth ribs, breaking off a piece of the fourth rib, and entered the left lung to the depth of an inch. That would have been also a mortal wound. The fifth was a penetrating wound, about an inch and a half long, on the fore part of the left arm, near the shoulder. The sixth was a wound three inches below the last-named of smaller size. Both these wounds communicated with the bone of the left arm, dividing it com pletely by a smooth clean cut, five inches in length. The great blood-vessels and nerves of the arms were uninjured. The seventh wound, an incised wound about an inch and a half in length, about an inch and a ha:f above the right collar-bone. The eighth, a penetrating wound on the back part of the neck. The ninth, a superficial penetrating wound. The tenth, an incised wound on the back of the neck. The eleventh, an inched wound above the left shoulder blade, about six inches long. The twelfth was on the back part of the left hand, an inch long. The thirteenth was an incised wound, extend ing from the first joint of the fore finger to the end of the second joint of the left hand. The 14th, an in cised wound on the back of the right hand, three inches in length. The 15th, a penetrating wound on the left arm-pit an inch long, going towards the direction of the a rm : The 16th, and last, was a penetrating _wound, in the left arm pit, about an inch from the other. He attributed death to the wound on the pulmonary artery. The prisoner had no question to ask Mr. Fitzgerald. Medical evidence continued—There was no trace to show that the deceased had recently suffered from disease. The body was in a perfectly healthy state, ana free from all disease. Richard Partridge, 15, New-street, Spring-gardens—l am professor of anatomy at King's College. The prisoner has been an out-patient of that hospital. He applied on February 21, and subsequently on the 28th, and lastly, on the 18th of March, and was treated for a disorder of two days' standing at the period of his first application. After the examination of several other witnesses, Mr. Pearce said he had no wish to have the case remanded for further evidence. The depositions having been read, the prisoner was fully committed, and the witnesses bound over to prosecute. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF LORDS. Their Lordships net this morning at Eleven o'Cloek ROYAL COMMISSION. There was a Commission for the purpose of giving the Royal Assent to the Income.tax Bill. The Com missioners were, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Buccleuch, and the Earl of Shaftesbury. The Commissioners having taken their seats at the foot of the throne, directed the Usher of the B.ack Rod to summon the House of COiIiMOIIS to the bar of their Lordship? House. _ The SPEAKER, accompanied by several Members, then appealed at the bar. The comwission was read, and the Royal. Assent given to the Income-tax Bill in the usual form ; atter which the Speaker and the Members of the House of Commons withdrew. The Commissioners haviniunr,:bed, The LORD (.11ANCELLOR took his seat upon the Woo: sack. The Pudsey Gas Bill, the Birkenhead Company', Dock Bill, the Birkenhead Commissioners' Dock Bill, and the Duke of Arg) le's Estate Bill, were then seve rally read a second tiui; ; after which, their Lordship, adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMON. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Ekv,, , n o'clock ; shortly after which the Usher of the Black ltod appear en at the table and summoned the House to the bar of the House of Pears to hear the _Royal Assent, given by Com. miz.sion to a certain bill. The bPEAKER, accompanied by fev e ral Members, then left the House. On their return, The SPEAKLE. announced that they had been to the bar of the iluuse of Peers and had heard the R o y al Assent given by Comtniss7on to the Income-tax Bill. The House then adjourned. MONEY and uo '9l3l.tatutAL....NEW QUAIiTEdi .7 - u THRAE. The accounts from Liverpool represent that Cotton has been decidedly active this week, the change of weather hay-' ing influenced it.-Shares were quoted as follows :-Aber deen Railway, 4% 5%; Barnsley Junction, 10% 10%; Ditto, Half Shares, 4%; Birkenhead, Manchester, an,. Cheshire, 12 1 / 12%; Birmingham and Gloucester, Ness Shares, 5 ; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 8% ; Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 4% 4% • Belfast and Ballymena, 41,4 % ; Bolton, Wigan, a n d iLiver pool, 13A 14%; Caledonian, 13 1 4 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 10% 9 ; Chester and Birkenhead, 48% 49 ; Ditto, Halt Shares, 24%; Chester and Holyhead, 9% t ; Churnet Valley, 8% ; Clydesdale Junction, 10% ; Dubliii and Belfast Junction, 9 10% ; Dublin and Galway, 5 1 4 % ; Dundee and Perth, 3% ; Dublin, Mullingar, Athlone, 38s. 6d. ; Dundalk an Enniskillen, 4 1 4 ; East ern Counties, 21 ; Eastern Union Extension, 755. premium; Edinburgh and Glasgow, Quarters, 6 6% 1 • Edinburgh and Northern, 1% 1 / Ely and Bedford, 2 2 1 / 1 ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 215.; Glasgow, Paisley, arid Greenock, 18% ; Grand Junction, Half Shares, 112% ; Ditto, Eighth Shares, 19%; Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 5% ; Great North of England, 301. Shares, 22% ; Great Western, Halt Shares, 102 ; Goole and Doncaster, 395. ; Hudders field and Sheffield, 7% 8 ; Hull and Selby, Halves, 22 1 4 ; Limerick and Waterford, 6% ; Liverpool and Man chester, 204 205; Ditto, New Shares, 38; Liverpool, Orms kirk, and Preston, 545. 2% ; London and Brighton, 655. 4%; London and Enniskillen , 60s. 61s. ; London and South Western, 80% ; London and York, 61s. 6d. 615.; Direct Northern, 6 g/' 4 . ; Leeds and Thirsk, ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, % ; Lynn and Dereham, 1%; Manchester and Birmingham, 61 ; Ditto, New Quarter Shares, 7% 7 ; Manchester and Buxton, 3% % ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland, 10 10%; Manchester and Leeds, 149 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 66 ; Ditto, Sixteenth Shares, 7%; Midland Railway, 155 154; Ditto, 401. Shares, 19% ; Ditto, Fifth Shares, 4 ; Newark and Sheffield, 8%; New castle and Berwick, 17 1 ; Newry and Enni>killen, 535. 6d. ; North British, Half Shares, 4 3 % ; North Union, A, 149 ; Ditto, 13,91 ; North \Vales Mineral,l6 l ,4 ; North. Western, 4% 5 pm ; North Wales, 3 1 / % ; Preston and Wyre, 351 ; Runcorn Gap, 24% ' • Sheffield and Manchester, 123; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 16% 1 ,4 ; Sheffield and Lincoln, 235. 265. 6d. ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 4% 1 ls. 6d. ; Eastern and Dover, New Shares, No. 3,9% 9; Scottish Central, 6% 1 ,4 ; South \Vales, 6 1 ; Trent Valley, 184 t ; Ulster, 45% . ; Worcester and Tring, 81s. 6d. 1 4 ; Yarmouth, Diss, and Beccles, 3/. Is. 3d. ; York and North Midland, New Half Shares, 19 ; Austrian and Sardinian, ss. 6d 45.; Bordeaux and Cette, 21. Ils. ; Lyons and Avignon, (English), 3 1 %; Louvain and Jemappe, 1 prem. ; Norther'. of } ranee ( English ), 6%; Ditto (French), 5%; Paris anti Lyons, Latitte's (English), 31. is. 6d 3% ; Ditto (French), 2% ; Paris and Lyons (Ganneron's), 21. 13s. 6d. ; Paris and Lyons (Calon's), 2% Bs. 6d.; Paris and Rouen, 44 1 %; Paris and Strasburgin 3; Sambre and Meuse, 6%; TrAirs and Nantes (Mackenzie's Company), 3%; Verona and Ancona, 21. Us. 6d. The declarations of the Ministry last night upon the Oregon question have afforded much satisfaction in the City " Nothing (said au old merchant) is like announcing your intentions boldly." As to the probabilities of a war upon the question, they are held to be remote indeed. We have not any late arrivals to announce from the Bcitith colonies to-day. The usual weekly statement of the operations of the Bank of England gives the following results Au increase in the circulation of 257,885/. An increase in the ReSt of 2,1701. An increase in the rtiblie Deposits of 431,734/. M bureau in the outer Deotti of 255271. An increase in other Securities of 591,3001. A decrease in Gold and. Silver Coin of 54,059/., and an in crease of Bullion of 203,796/. In general terms, it nay b?, mentioned that the Notes issued are of the value of and that the stock of Bullion is 16,201.220/. A Trade Circular has the following remarks : "The business transac• ions in the early part of the last month were almost confined to the supply of the necessary re(pirements of almost every branch of industry, in conse quence of the measures of refief in the Tariff of Duties, pro , . posed by the Executive to the Legislature, on articles titcsi. nary for manufacturing purposes; but when those mea sures were adopted by the House of Commons, orders were imMe diately sent to the officers of the Customs throughout the kingdom to deliver such merchandise free of duty, and tb o consequence has been such as to create an unusual activity." The Consols Market has been rather variable this morn ing, 99 3 i to 92A', fur the AccAint, and from 99% to 5 .g 1 for the immediate transfer. The premium upon Exchequer:billg has advanced to Cds. ; and upon India Bonds to 755. In the Foreign Market a good deal of business has been transacted. Colombian Bonds have been quoted at 16 and at 15% ; Mexican at 351; ; and Portuguese Converted at 661 and at 65 1 ,4 just now. Spanish Consols have only fluctuate from 29N to 29%. The Share Market has presented a most active appearance. The Irish Railways are increasing, as well as the French schemes. The market for all is generally firm. BRITISH FUNDS THIS -DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) 3 per Cent. Consols Anne 99%%% India Bonds 1,0001 73 75 Ditto under 1,0001 73 Bank Stock for Account. Consols for Account • Exchequer Bills. 1%1 I%d. 1,0004 500/. ... ......... ......... .. Ditto Small — ',RICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent 114% Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 43 41% Columbian Bonds. l6 15X Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent 35% Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent 32 Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent BB Ditto Converted Ditto for the Account. Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent ,117 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1840 29% I Ditto for the Account. Ditto Passive Bonds 7 %1 Ditto Deferred Ditto 3 per Cent — Ditto for the Account 4O 40 . Dutch 21,4 per Cents Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE Aberdeen Armagh, Coleraine,F. , rtrush 1% FA 21%t0 2% Birmingham and Gloucester 100 13 : 1 /2 ... to Ditto. Gad' Shares ......... 3 Bristol and Exeter Ditto, New Caledonian - Cambridge and Lincoln ... 112 Chester and Holyhead , 5 ...... 9 1 ,414% to 9% Churnet Valley Coventry and Leicester Dies, Beccles, and Yarmouth 1 1 /, 23 ...... to 3., L'irect Northern ... 2% 5 ' to 6A Dublin and Belfast Junction 2 2 lO 2 to Dublin and Galway 2% 4 / 4%... to Dublin and Mullingar 2 l /2 2% to 3% Eastern Counties - Do. l'erpet. 5 per Ct. No. 1. 3% — to -- Ditto, ditto, No. 2. - Eastern Union Ditto Extension Edinburgh and Glasgow Ditto New 1,4 Shares 2% 5 3% to 6 Ely and Bedtord lli 2% to 3 Great Grimsby spa Sheffield... 23i 6 3 / 4 14... to -- Great South and 'N. (Irish)... 5 Great North of England 100 199 ...... to -- Ditto New .. - . Ditto New Great Western Guildford, Fareham, Foams. 2 1 ,( 514 to 5% Harwich 1 - Lancaster and Car1i51e.......,. 15 - London and Birmingham ...100 ... Ditto Thirds Ditto Quarters - London and Blackwell 16% B l /i to -- London and Croydon... 131. 15s. 9d.... 177/ 8 .. - London and Greenwich... 121. 15s. 4d... 11 London and South Western.. 41%...... 80% to -- Ditto New 2 1,4 [114% to 14 Ditto, New 2 - to -- London and Y0rk........ ...... 2%...... 3% 2% to 3 Lynn and Ely Lynn and Dei eham - Manche.... :ld Leeds 73 ..... - Ditto Half Shares Manchester and Birmingham 40 Ditto Quarters Midland lOO 154 .... to 13 6 Ditto New Midland, Birm. and Derby ...100 ll5 116... to 114 Yi Newcastle & Darlington .Aron. 25 Ditto New Brandling Newcastle and Berwick Newry and Enniskillen ...... 2 Newark and Sheffield North British Ditto New 1 Norwich and Brandon lO ...... 16% to 17 Ditto New 1 .. ... 4% ...... to --- Rugby, Worcester. and Tring 1 Scottish Midland ... 1% 5%X... to 5 Shrews.,Wolver., Dud., Birm. 2% 4%76— to --• South Devon South Eastern and Dover ... 33% 43 Ditto New, No. 3 2l 9/4I"1.. to 2% --- South Wales 6? to 4 -- Waterford and Kilkenny 1 ...... 3 West Cornwall l% 4 - York and North Midland ... 50 ......103 - Ditto Selby ; 2O - 1% 1 / 4 Ditto, Extension FRENCH RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens - Bordeaux,Toulouse,andCette 2 - Lyons and Avignon 2 - Orleans and Vierzon Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 2 ...... 13 - Paris and Lyons( Laffitte) ... 2 - Paris and. Lyons (Ganneroies) 2 ... .. 2 i i to --- Paris and Lyons (Calon's)... 2 .... 2) 4 to --- Paris and Orleans... ........ .... 20 Paris mid Rouen ........20 ...... 444 to -- Paris and Strasburg... 2 ...... 2% to ---,g Royal North of Spain Sambre and Meuse strasburg and Bale Tours & Nantes (Mackenzie) 2 JOINT STOCK BANKS. London and Westminster ... 20 ...... 27 1 National of Ireland ... 17% ...... to --- linizat of London .--T!gm MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 4he are :—Birmingham and Gloucester, New Shares, 4%,50A1, London and Birmingham, 235 ; Ditto, 321. Shares, 45; 134; chester arid Leeds, 1481, ; Ditto, Sixteenth Shares, Manchester and Birmingham, 62 ; Ditto, Quarter Sti e r, 11 1 % ; Ditto, New Quarters, 7 1-16 GA prem. ; Manche s „ o . Bury, and Rossendale, 16% % ; Midland Railway', fereutial, W ; North ales Mineral Railway, New Sat; ; Preston and Wyre, 354 ; Ditto Extensions, 4 preT ; Sheffield and Manchester,l23 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares,lo 4 ,4 South-Eastern. No. :3, ; Birkenhead, Manchester , r op Cheshire Junction, 12 % ; Blackburn, Darwen, and n's. t t iei 54 ; i‘ igan, and Liverpool, 13% % ; Cambrl ;;3, and Lincoln, 9 1 4 ; Churnet 8 1 A ; Direct Northesh; 6 5 15-16 Ely d Bedford, ; Erewash 15- 11, ffie Glasgow and Dumfries, 225. 235. ; Goole, Doncaster, She . 0 4 and Manchester Junction, 24 5.16 ; Great GrinisbY - to Sheffield Junction, 6% 1-16 ; Huddersfield and Mauch Railway and Canal, 3 9-16 ; Huddersfield and sh e g/ ; Junction, 8 1 A ; Leeds and West Riding Junction , ; 3 4 Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 2 15-16 ; London ; Worcester, Oxford and Rugby, 44 %; London and Yorl4'rfla Manchester and Buxton, 3 . %; Manchester, Sheffield, ;"; Midland Junction, 8% ; Newark and Sheffield, 7 s l / 2e tti sl/ North Wales, 3% ; North Western, 6% -° Itr Central, 5%; Scottish Midland, 4% • ' Sheffield and Li cO ter shire Junction, 25 5 . ; Shrewsbury, Osweatry, and Ches,,, -Junction, 4% ; Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, Dudleft ; .Trent Valley, 184 ex new ; Bordeaux and Toll°'" -. 2 /8 ; Paris and St. Quentin, 2%. u. BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY FOR APRIL.--Bentlej - 10 merely maintains but increases in reputation. We hal o , he present number a humourous story of " Ould Ireland, ..;'• " The Irish Whisky Drinker." In Bliss Costello's skatc.t,s of Ross, '[intern Abbey, Chepstow," (a most choice subl!i l and well treated) notices of " The Man of Ross" and bio;, the Regicide." "The Literary Retrospect of the DePa c e, Great" brine in bold relief before us Sir Thomas Lau ren Sir David W ilkie, and Sir Francis Chantrey, as it ne re , fio it undress, but all the more agreeable; and, in the " hie of the Rev. Sidney Smith," we find many of the best thollEto and sayings of the wittiest of parsons. "The Wet 131 a n c T ero will be found a good description of those odious chn A ra t hetst who delight to cast a shadow and gloom o'er all arolinuin the instead of being happy themselves, and so tending " happiness of others.—Glasgow Argus. IMPORTANT DISCOVERY OF MINES AT Dl'_, NEW SOUTH WALES. —A letter has been received VBO, gentleman in this City, dated Sydney, November 6th, te ll of which the following is an extract :—" I am hapPY t° eat you that there has been a quicksilver mine discovered no Sydney, a copper mine at Brisbane Water, and m e ss valuable mine of Fuller's earth in another district , . f ibs valuable and interesting discoveries added to the rise 1 1 , t yler price of wool, have raised the spirits of the settlers no t A ' as you ay suppose.— Cork Southern Reporter. , 1, .---Th e YARMOUTH MURDER.—Friday two o'ciocp• Grand Jury have just found a true bill against BoY al l o wn' and Mapes—Yarham is admitted evidence for the Cr —Norfolk News. fpr attl FATAL OCCURRENCE TO A CHILD.----Yes"-tresto afternoon, as some children were playing in Stanhope -s e e Clare-market, a little girl, whose parents reside in then pia bourhood, was thrown down, and before she could be,oel hold of, the wheel of a cart passed over her head end: s iits her. It was stated that the man belonging to the cart " no way blameable. ANOTHER CASE OF POISONING.—YeSterd a Y ing a young man named Ward, residing with a relativ!!bed, Lesconibe, of Shoe- lane, Holborn, was found dead in his elm having destroyed himself by poison some hours presquid be As to the cause of the dreadful act no information ce:„6 obtained. The Coroner's inquest will be held ti___?.!.l::e.,,;•ou. BIRTHS. On the 31st ult., at Monkton Farleigh, the lady a WO d Browne, Esq., High Sheriff of Wilts, of a son i , Fes * On the Ist inst., at Leeds, the wife of the Rev. l• P. _....., of a son. _....-------- . At Boulogne-Bur-111er, on Friaav, the 4th inst.fi n t stree t year of his “ge. Mr. Thotnas Clay ° late of 17, Doug' tr Mecklenhurgh-equare, London. —40.1 On the 3a inst., Theodore, second sou ofCharles of Esq., Loughborough-rout., Brixton, in the 10th Ye.'" hi:; age. f vagia ern l h On the 2d inst., at Hoddesdon, Herts, 111ra. /4 3-- aged 84. 'll P lis On the 2d inst , at her father's house, Castlebar ing, Caroline Frances Hunt, aged 25. fre 3l4 On the 26th of January, at Cannanore, Liantenan- - Barber, of the 45th Madras Native Infantry. London: Printed and Published by mußno No. 112, strand, Printer, The Sure Strand, in tho Priteme. , _ of the Savoy, in the uv— ktiddlaui 54tuvisy, April 5,1545. I THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 5, 1845