The Sun. — London, England, 1850-03-25 00:00:00

Po‘ing it. It was his happy task to ask the noblemen and gentlemen whom he now addressed to drink to the gallant men who had supported him in the bat • ties in which he and they had been engaged. Thy had ' on the plains of India nobly fought and bled for their Sovereign and their country.—(Loud' cheers.) He would, therefore, nropose " Sir William Gilbert and the Indian Army." . Sir JAMES LUSHINGTON, as the senior officer pre sent, returned thanks. The CHAIRMAN then proposed "The Visitors." •He and his brother directors felt highly honoured by the presence of those noblemen and gentlemen whom • be saw around him. • Sir Wm. GoMM returned thanks. ' • The company then broke up. Mr. Toole discharged the duties of toastmaster with • 'his usual efficiency. NOTICE.-THE NEW EDITION OF BURKE'S PEERAGE BARONETAGE, FOR 185 0, IS PUBLISHED THIS DAY, REVISED AND 60EREE'PED --- THEZW&OEOiirT TO TILE PRE SENT TIME, from the personal communications of the No bility, ttc„ In 1 vol., royal ave., comprising as much matter as twenty ordinary volumes, with 1,500 Engravings of Arms, &c., 318. bound. " The most complete, the most convenient, and the cheapest work of the kind ever given to the public." —Sun. floury Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great 3farlborough-street. SECOND AND CHEAPER EDITION. Now roily, in one Vol. with Portrait, lee. 6d., bound, REVELATIONS OF THE LIFE OF pRINCE TALLEYRAND, .By 31 COLMACHE _ _ Private Secretary to the Prince. "We have perused this work with extreme interest. It Is a por trait of Talleyrand drawn by his own hand."—Morning Post. flenry . Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great blarlborongh•street. 'FRENCH PLAYS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. ARRANGE )IENTS AFTER EASTER. Mr. Mitchell respectfully announces that the THEATRE will be RE-OPENED during the Easter Week, for the performance of Comelie and Vaudeville, and begs to submit the following arrange ments: Engagements—M. Samson (of the Theatre Francais, Paris), his first appearance, Madlle. Denain (of the Theatre Francais), M. Regnier (of the Theatre Francais), Madlle. Nathalie (of the Theatre Francais), and M. Lafont (ef the Theatre des Varietes). The first production after Easter will be Scribe's popular Comedy of" Bertrand et Ratton ;" Le Comte Bertrand de Rantzau (Premier Ministre), M. Samson, as performed by him in Paris. Subsequent Performances will. be. selected from the following :—" L'Ecole des Veillards," " Ern Veuvage," and " Ma Femme et Ma Place," new Comedies by 31. Samson ; " La Marquis de Senneterre ;" the two admired Proverbs of Alfred de Musset, "Ii ne Faut Jurer de Rien," and " II Faut qu'usie Porte soft Ouverte ou Fermee ;" ." Les De moiselles de St. Cyr," " La Pali a Tout Prix," " Un Chateau de Cartes," " Le Mari a la Camnange," and the new Play by Emile Angier, " Gabrielle," now performing in Paris with unsurpassed suc cess, and in which Madlle 'Regnier and Madlle. Nathalie will sus tain their original characters. Mr. Mitchell feels particular gratification also in announcing that, in the production of Scribe's celebrated Comedy of " La Camarade rie." estimated amongst the chtl d'oeuvres of the modern stacte, the principal characters will be sustained by four members of the Theatre Francais, Paris-3f. Samson, in the character of De Miremont ; ILIA! e. Denain, in that of Cesarine; M. Regnier In that of Do • Iftntlacar ; and Madlle. Nathalle, in that of Zoe; presenting a com bination of to ent not to be witnessed at any other theatre in Europe, the arrangements for which have teen most generously accelerated by the administration of the Theatre Francais, Paris. In addition to the present Company, and the foregoing engage meats, are the following :—Madlle. Avenel (of the Theiire de P.Odeon) ; 3fadlle. Brassine (of the Theatre du Palais Ro - ;a1); Madlie. Renaud (ot the Theatre du Vaudeville) ; Madame Octave (of the Theatre du Vaudevil.e) ; Madlle. Constance (of the Theatre des Varietes), &c. The first performance of the eminent tragedienne, 31adlle. Rachel, it definitively arranged for Monday, July Ist. Subscriptions for the remainder of the season may be arranged at Mr! Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. ♦ GRAND EXTRA Num r ' Combining the talents of Madame Sontag, Signori Lablache, Belletti, Lorenzo, Calzolari, Sims Reeves, Madlios. Parodi, Carlotta Grist. %taria Taglion', and Imalla Ferraris. The Nobility, Subscribers to the Opera, and the Public are respect billy informed that A GRAND ENTERTAINMENT Will take place On TRURiDAY, April 4, When will be presented D nlzetti's celebrated Opera of DON PA , QUALE. Norina• Madame Sontag. Ernesto• ..... Calzoler!. Doctor Malatesta•... Signor Belletti. and Don Pasquale•..... • • Signor Lablache. After which, A DIVERTISSEMENT, • In which Madlle. Amalie Ferraris will appear. To be follcwed by a Selection from A FAVOURITE OPERA, Combining the talents of Madllc. Parodi, Signor Lorenzo, and Sims Reeves. To conclude with an entirely new and original grand Ballet, by M. Paul Taglioni, entitled LES METAMORPHOSES. The Music osmposed. by Signor Pugni ; ths Scenery (entirely law) by Mr. Marshall ; the Appointments by Mr. Er olvrell ; the Cos tames by Miss Bradley and Mr. Coombes, under the superintendence of Madame Copere. The Sprite (tender the forms of 1, a Page —2, a Rustic Coquette-3, Will-of-the-Wisp-4, a Folie —5, a Domino-6, a Cavalier), Mdlls. Carlotta Grist; Karl (a Student), M. Paul Taglioni ; Ida (his be trothed), Madlle. Roca ; Momus, M. Charles ; Nlyes, Madlies. Rosa, Ausandon, Julienne, Lamoureux, B. Pascales, and F. Pascales. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and rickets to be made at the Opera Be x.oftice, Colonnade, Haymarket. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMA.RKET. Mr. B. Webster. le Lo'aee and Manager Old Brompton. Great Attraction for the Holidays. Oa BASTE it MONDAY Will be perfbrned MUCPI ADO ABOUT NOTHING. Benedict, air. C. Kean ; Beatrice, Mfg. C. Kean. To conclude with a grand new and original SPECTACULAR R URLESQUE. The Box-office is tinder the direction of Mr. I. T. Archer. THEATRE ROYAL, A.DELP/11. Elder the direction of Madan". Celeste. On EASTER MONDAY WM be performed a new domestic Drama, called THE MOTHER'S )BEAM. Principal characters by Messrs. Hughes, Wright, P. Bed ford, 0. Smith,'Madame Celeste, and Miss E. Chaplin. To be followed by a grand historical Spectacle Vaudeville, entitled PLAYING FIRST FIDDLE ; or, Follow my Leader. After which MY PRECIOUS BETSY. Ciriracters by Messrs. Wri;ht,,:3edford, Worrell; Miss Harding, and Mrs. F. Matthews. To conclu le with TOM NODDY'S SECRET. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty, Enormous Attraction for Passion Week. • New Grand Spectacle. Mr. FATTY has much pleasure in announcing to the Public that he has engaged that extraordinary artist YOUNG HERNANDEZ. the Wonder of the World, who will have the honour of appearing rout Nights during Passion Week, viz. : . TIPS EV&NING ♦nd TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, and THURSDAY, When the Entertainments Is ill commence at Seven o'clock, and com prise Equestrian and Gymnastic erformaaces only. In active preparaVon for Easter, a new grand romantic Spectacle by Fitzball, with other novelties, due notice of which will be given. Ladies and gentlemen taught the polite art of riding. Roma broke for road or field, by Mr. R. Smith. hoz-olte• opea rrum Eleven till Four. Rtage Manager, Mr. W. West. HIGH WATER AT LONDON Tlfta DAT .ruing, 0 min. after 0 Evening, 4 min. after 12 To-lioaeow •- , ernina, 3(1 man. after 12 I Evern,. 56 - *mi. torte: 12 THE WEATHER.—SUM OFFICE, MARCH 2i. THERNOMSTER, Lowest, 29; Highest, 39, Noon, 36. Beatorewrzit, 2918. A heavy fall of snow yesterday. WIND N.N.W.--cold breeze, and fine clear weather. k . , . '4l . ' "" 4 • ' '4 ,, ~. , . s e. . .., 4 , , , . 0 cV., -•• 4, .f. A. 4 , '.14,1-ira:_---. Ir, ~ -_- ' - _', ~^.-,"' • ~ ..., ...A , ,,.. ,••••-•Ntbs..- , •-t• • .€ 4 f -,:: 7 ' ,4!;"i" - i ~_. • i .ir T 7 . ,i,.:l4Ziltigit, ~,, . ..Z....... X OTT ' • „.....- (I: laming LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1850. It required the arguments of two of the most dis tinguished orators and statesmen in England to re move an impression such as must otherwise have been entertained as to the incongruity or incompatibility of the two sumptuous entertainments given within or ty-eight hours of each other towards the close of irst week in the heart of the British metropolis. One assemblage, convened in the Mansion-house by the Lord Mayor of London, for the purpose of evincing the general admiration experienced for the scheme originated by his Royal Highness the Prince CONSORT, whereby in 1851 this great capital will he adorned with a vast and cosmopolitan Exposition of Industry, was, in reality an d in effec4, a cel e brati on o f are glories of peace. The other concourse (",f — illustrious personages, collected together in the London Tavern at the behest of our merchant-princes, the Directors of the East India Company, with a view to express their sense and the public sense of the great services of the Lord Viscount Ooirmi, was, on the contrary, a direct celebration of the splendour of warlike achievements. Neverthe less,, on reflection, the two festivities, as was admi rably intimated by the Noble Premier and by hi s eminen(predecessor, were in no respect at variance in principle. No one will have the temerity to gain say the accuracy of that sentiment, which was avowed ohSaturday by Lord JOLIN RUSSELL, and reiterated by the lips of Sir R. PEEL, that " those who display valour in war and moderation in victory are laying the oundations of internal and international tranquillity," sentiments so obviously correct as to amount to some thing very little short of the baldest truism. Hence, therefore, the enthusiasm evinced upon both occasions may be regarded as perfectly reconcileable, and hence moreover, we may be permitted with the fullest con• sistency to commend the congratulatory address to the veteran conqueror of China and the Punjaub, although our sympathy with the pacific enterprise suggested by Prince ALBER T has been so very recently expressed in language possessing at th e very least the characteristic of earnestness. If anything were required by way of compensation for the dangers and difficulties encountered by a commander-in-chief during campaigns such as those conducted-to a successful issue by the victor of Sobraon and Goojerat, if anything, we say, nere"re quired by way of compensation for passing through such tremendous dangers and such enormous difficul ties, beyond the secret approval of that inner con science which tells a man he has performed his duty to his country and his SOVEREIGN—sureIy ample recom pense must be found by the veteran soldier who returns likt Lord GotiG l y, in the very meridian of his reputa- tion, to receive the spontaneous homage of a grateful I nation. It has so happened, that in very spite of the recollections of Chillianwallab, the brave old General has extorted the cheers, not of adulation but of pride and gratitude--pride in his prowess and gratitude for his achievements—from a community whose congratula tions are only heightened in emphasis by the re 'me mbrance of their momentary, ungenerous, and unmerited abandonment of confidence. Never having ourselves participated in the panic which unhappily at one period spread so widely throughout the population, but having been actuated in our opinion of Lord Gomm by that implicit reliance on his prowess and capacity which induced Sir ROBERT PEEL to declare " at no period of his career did I ever despair of his ultimate success "—we can look with threefold satisfaction upon those tokens of respect and admiration which are just now pouring down plentifully upon the head of the aged conqueror. As if for the unalloyed gra tification of his ambition, he is now, immediately after his return homewards, receiving from all classes and sections of the community the welcome due to his many distinguished services and his many illustrious achievements. From the hand of his SOVEREIGN he has obtained the guerdon of his bravery, and the re ward of his long and glorious career in arms. From the Parliament, from the Government, from the Com pany, from his brother officers, from the leaders of fashion and the leaders of trade, as well as from the great mass of the population, Lord . GOUGH has ob tained the assurance that his merits have been appre ciated and his numerous and splendid victories duly recognised. The knowledge of all this cannot fail to console the victorious veteran for his prolonged absence from his native land, and will doubtless enable him with larger satisfaction to him self to sink into the brilliant obscurity of the peerage, and exchanging the duties of the senator fur those of the commander-in-chief, to crown his services as a soldier with his patriotic conduct as a member of the Imperial Legislature. Incidentally during the entertainment given to the Noble Lord in the London Tavern, on Saturday evening, we were gratified to observe the cordiality with which two names of distinguished officers in the sister service, the Royal 'Navy of England, were mentioned and received—the names, we mean, of Sir WILLIA➢i PARKER and Sir JOHN FRANKLIN. It was due to the merits of those gallant sailors, that though spoken of as it were merely in parenthesis, their names should be greeted with IQud and earnest acclamations. One of them, by his daring and self-sacrificing devotion to the cause of science, and to the credit of his country and of his profession, has expatriated himself during many past winters in the frozen deserts of the Arctic Circle, carried thither in his great voyage of discovery. The other—than whom there is not a nobler or braver sea captain now living in the Royal Navy of England—has, for a considerable time past, in the Indian Ocean, and since then in the Mediterranean Sea, watched over the interest of Great Britain with unwinking vigilance, during days of war, of conspi racy, of intrigue, and of revolution. The first, it is true, has exposed himself to the peril of perishing by the horrible death of starvation, while the other, by his bold and brilliant proceedings, not only on the coasts of China, but on those of Italy, Turkey, and Greece, has rendered himself the object of partizan vituperation. Yet the names of both we are certain are enshrined in the hearts of the people of England, and the achievements of both, we are satisfi e d, will be inscribed in golden characters in the annals of our maritime greatness. It was as appropriate that the merits of Sir Jour/ FRANKLIN and of Sir WILLIAM PARKER should have been incidentally acknowledged during the entertain ment given by the East India Company in honour of Lord GOUGH, as it was but just for that great Com pany to welcome thus early and thus earnestly back to his native land the veteran soldier, whose sword has illustrated anew the glories of their empire, and whose victories have so largely extended the limits of their dominion. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of Saturday and yesterday. The Constitutionnel and the Patrie, both Ministe rial journals, have declared against the proposed law on the press, which is now opposed by every journal of the metropolis. At a meeting of the club of the Conseil d'Etat, held on Thursday, M. DB LAROCREJAQUELIN loudly condemned the Ministerial repressive measures, which were supported by MM. THIERS ' MOLE, PISCATORY, and the oth e r Orl ean i sts . The Legitimatists (at least the LAROCHEJAQUELIN section of them) ostentatiously abstain from mixing themselves up with these most unpopular measures. These measures were dis cussed in the bureaux of the Assembly on Saturday, and a committee, with a majority fa vourable to the measure for the suppression of electoral meetings was returned ; for although in five bureaux no return was made, yet as ten bureaux have nomi nated members favourable to the Ministerial project, there can be no doubt as to the report. With regard to the Press Bill, there are nine members of the Com mittee in favour of it, and five who are either for its rejection or its modification. In the course of the discussion in the bureaux, M. DE LAMARTINE said that he looked on Socialism as a passing malady, having its source in ignorance, so that instead of restricting discussion he would allow it full play. General CAVAIGNAC said that he never had refused to Government the means of putting down evils threat ening the security of society, but he thought there was a wide difference between transitory weapons for transient dangers and the establishment of general principles of legislation. Seeing that the late elections had passed off peaceably, he thought it unwise to pronounce censure on the con stitutional exercise of universal suffrage, by having recourse to repressive laws when there was no sedition to repress. M. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE protested that he saw no midway between repression and liberty. A coalition of the Monarchist parties had caused a coalition of all shades of Republicanism, and he thought that to meet the elections for Paris by such measures was to throw down defiance to public opinion. M. DE LA ROCLIEJAQUELIN, M. DE BEAUMONT, M. COQUEREL, M. VICTOR HUGO, all spoke against the law affecting the press ; even M. TRIERS declared that Governments never were saved, and never could be saved, by such expedients. There will be a new election of the Soane et Loire. It appears that at the last election 6,000 persons voted above the registered number of the whole con stituted, and it was likewise stated that 60,000 were kept from voting by intimidation, an accusation ab surd on the face of it, while it appears that 6,000 more than the whole constituency voted. The Com mittee recommended that the election should be confirmed, inasmuch as the majority in favour of the sitting Members was much more than 6,000. The Assembly, however, decided that the election should be null, a decision which might have been foreseen, inasmuch as the returned Members are all Socialists. There can be very little doubt of their re-election. Among the remarkable trials for murder tha have taken place within the last half-century few present more extraordinary features than that of MARY CATHERINE NEWTON, who was arraigned at Shrewsbury last week, on a charge of matricide. It was the third time that the unfortunate woman had appeared before a jury of her countrymen to answer the most serious accusation that could be preferred against anyindividual—an accusation whicb, if substan tiated, would inevitably have subjected the wretched prisoner to an ignominious and painful death upon the scaffold. There was a legal question of no ordinary importance connected with this part of the case affecting the trial by jury, which has been justly termed the palladium of national liberty. And there was also that pleasing diversity of opinion among the medical witnesses, for which " the profession" has been distinguished from the earliest times, and which has led to the aphorism that " doctors differ." The case was, therefore, one of deep interest to the mem bers of the legal and medical professions, and the re sult of the trial was awaited with the greatest anxiety. It has terminated in an " acquittal," although we be lieve some of our contemporaries took a former jury to task for the difference of opinion that prevented the execution of the party accused. The deceased ANNE NEWTON, whose death formed the subject-matter of investigation, was a person of advanced years, who had survived the ordinary age of mankind, being seventy-two years of age. She was described as " very quick and acute for that time of life, but rather flighty; not insane, but at times much excited, and would say unreasonable things." She was entitled to a life-interest of 500/. sterling, 2001. of which, on her death, would become the property of her only child, the prisoner, who would also be entitled to a life -interest in the remaining . 300/. It was established beyond the possibility of doubt that the daughter had on several occasions behaved in the most cruel and unnatural manner towards her aged parent, having frequently beaten her severely, and expressed an anxious desire for her death, in order that she (the prisoner) might come into possession of " her fortune." Repeated re monstrances were made to MARY NEWTON on the gross impropriety of her conduct, but without any great effect, although she occasionally promised amendment. Her continued misbehaviour in this respect gave additional weight to the grave suspicions excited by the death of he r mother, and the serious inconvenience to which she has been subjected, her protracted im prisonment, and numerous trials, may in a great degree be ascribed to her own heartless and unfeeling conduct towards the author of her existence. On the evening of the 4th December, 1848, the old woman went to the house of a Mr. DYER, with whom the prisoner lived as housekeeper, where she remained for the night, sleeping on a sofa in the kitchen. About two o'clock the next morning the sofa was found to be on fire, but it was easily extine guished. On search being made, the deceased Arms NEWTON was found in the brewhouse, lying on her face, apparently burned to death. The prisoner, who at the time was in a state of intoxication, used several remarkable expressions, and behaved very strangely in other respects, so as to give some sanction to the opinion that she was in some degree implicated in the transaction. These, however, might in some degree be, accounted for by the maudlin condition to which she had reduced herself, having consumed the greater portion of a quart of rum during the evening. An inquest was held on the body, at which several me dical practitioners were examined, th ree of whom, who conducted the post-mortem exami nation, declared that in their opinion the death had been caused by suffocation, and that the injuries from fire had taken place after death, while two other gentlemen expressed opinions more favourable to the prisoner, and thought that there were no certain data whereon to decide whether they took place before or after death. It was conceded that there had been no examination of the " larynx, trachea, bladder, or rec turz," so that the investigation could not be consi dered as by any means satisfactory. The coroner's jury, who met on ten different occasions, were unable b) agree as to the cause of death, but the prisoner was fully coma fitted on a charge of wilful murder by the borough ma ..gistrates. The first trig I took place at the Spring As s i zes , GREECE. 1849 ; thelnquis .y was continued during two succes- The Austrian papers state, from telegraphic ad siTe days. Tb jury, however, could not arrive at an vices from ^:rlieAstneca 12 The affairs of Greece are : unanimous d ec ii s i on , an d th e comm i ss i on d a y i n the still Pirstirt:: q. o. The British fit-et has not sailed fir adjoining coun t , 7 having arrived, and it being declared the Dardabellet r. The Hellenic Government persists in that there was rao prospect of their agreement, they its refusal to a egctiute previous to the recal of th e The Gobemouches of Paris, among the most gullible of whom are to be reckoned the correspondents of certain of our reactionary contemporaries, have lately been regaled by a story of a pretended plot for the assassination of the Emperor of RUSSIA, the Emperor of AUSTRIA, the PRESIDENT of the French Republic, and various other illustrious personages, all in one day. This notable plan was, it is stated, communi cated to the democratic leaders, and disapproved of by them ; but the concoctors determined to carry it into execution, and accordingly one of them set out on foot, with only a few franca in his pocket, to walk from Switzerland, through France and Germany, to Vienna, to assassinate the Emperor of AUSTRIA, but was arrested, it is said, in France. Such is the absurd story got up by the police, in order to distract public attention from the trial about to com mence at Geneva of the Austrian police spy, charged with endeavouring to suborn persons to assassinate Mazzo'. The inventive genius of the employes of M. CARMEN is dull in comparison with that of the ci-devant employes of M. DELESSERT. The llioniteur publishes a decree of the PRESIDENT of the Republic, reducing the registry and stamp duty in Algeria to one-half of their amount in France. The Prevoyante frigate is about to proceed from Cherbourg to the west coast of Africa, to farm part of the French naval station there. The French funds are heavy, Five per Cents., 901. 4.5 c. ; Three per Cents. 55f. a.lc. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, MARCII 23. Boulogne and Amiens, VA—Namur and Liege, VA — Northern of France, 12%. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 19th have arrived. . The rumours of an impending ministerial crisis bad been renewed. The Bolsa was closed. were discharged without a verdict. At the Summer Assizes she was again arraigned, when it was objected to, on her part, that the jury had not been discharged by her consent, or by inevitable necessity, and that, therefore, having been once placed " in jeopardy," she could not again be tried. The point was reserved, and a new jury sworn, who again dis agreed, and were discharged after a long confinement, in consequence of the serious illness of one of their number. On the present occasion she was again in dicted, and, as we have already stated, at length acquitted. It is most desirable that the important point of practice raised by the prisoner's counsel should be set at rest. It is the unquestionable privilege of every British subject that he shall not be kept in durance with a serious charge hanging over his head. If once tried, and, as it is termed, placed " in jeopardy," he cannot be a second time arraigned on the same charge, but may put in a plea of autrefois acquit or autrefois convict to the indictment. There is allowance made for a disagreement by the jury, in which case a second inquiry may take place, but every effort must be made to obtain a conclusive verdict, one way or the other, before their discharge. In the present case, however, no such effort was made. It was not alleged that the health of any of the jury rendered necessary their dismissal. It was done solely for the convenience] of the Learned Judge, who wished to leave the town without further delay, and who occasioned the detention of the prisoner and her fur ther trials, that he might be enabled to do so. We believe that similar decisions have on several occa sions been made on circuit, but that the " point" has never been satisfactorily and conclusively settled by a full court. This vexata guestio would have been finally determined had the result been unfavourable to the prisoner. As the humane principle of the British law declares that "it is better that ninety nine - guilty persons should escape with impunity than that one innocent man should be un justly convicted," it certainly seems that if there was so much doubt in a case that a jury of twelve men could not agree in judgment ) , and that their deliberations were not cut short by the act of GOD, the prisoner should receive the benefit of that doubt, and be discharged from further proceedings in reference to the alleged offence. Such a course would, we are convinced, be in accordance with the true spirit of the British law, and, although a criminal might occasionally evade the punishment due to his crimes, if such a rule were established many innocent persons would be protected from the greatest incon venience and annoyance, and an additional guarantee would be given for the full security of the liberty of the subject. GERMANY. t A telegraphic dispatch from Berlin, of the 23d inst , in the Kolner Zeitung, corroborates the late news of the revocation of the Prussian Ambassador . from the Court of Wurtemburg. Baron Srnow has been instructed immediately to leave Stuttgard with all the members of the embassy. The Prussian Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Baron Sciu,Enurz, has addressed a note to the Wurtemburg Ambassador at the Prussian Court, notifying to that diplomatist the total rupture of all relations between the x wo Governments. Tb e Upper House of the German Parliament of Erfur th adjourned on the 21st for the Easter holi days. The Lower House was to elect a Speaker on the 25t h. Baron AUERSWALD has been elected Pre sident c if the Upper Chamber. SWITZERLAND. The St.:isse of Berne has the following : " From the information which we receive from the cantons, w e find that the majority of the refugees have determined of themselves to quit Switzerland. The Poles pro posy to proceed to the Riot, in the event of their not being able to find employment in England. The Gera tans, who were at Valangin, are all going to leave this week, en route for Amerioa. We hope they will find elsewhere those res ources whi c h th e S w i ss !(:p, however good US will might b e , cannot a C if o o n r f d e Confederal fish fleet. England has broached some fresh demands, which date from the war of liberation." I"fALY. The French Univers, the organ of the Jesuits, states that it has been officially announced to the King of NAPLES, that the Pore is about to return to Rome. The Univers says : " The day fixed is the sth of April. He will go by land. Still it is possible that the Vauban may transport his Holiness to Terracing. At all events, that ship will carry to Civita Vecchia some of the Cardinals, the employes of the Secretary of State, the archives, &c. Portici is in movement with preparations for the journey. The Pope and the King are exchang ing compliments. Pius IX. has distributed decora tions to the most distinguished personages of the Neapolitan Court, and the King has done the same to the principal attaches of the Pontifical Court. The Nuncio of the Holy See at Naples, M. Garibaldi, whom you knew formerly when be was Nuncio at Paris. has re— ceived the Grand Cordon of St. Janvier. The Hol►' Father is to go to Cassuta to perform the ceremonies of Holy Thursday. The King and Royal Family will be there. The religious affairs of Piedmont, and especially the Bills lately presented, are a source of serious pre occupation to every one at Portici. The Pope, it is said, is greatly affected by that attack on the Church, and fir all that is to be feared for the future." A letter from Florence, of the 15th March, says : " A report is current here of a grave dispute which has arisen between the English Government and the Tuscan Cabinet, relative to the indemnities claimed by the English subjects at Leghorn, for tae damages which they, as well as other foreigners, suffered, at the period of the seizure of the town by the Austrians, and in May last. People went so far as to announce the speedy ar rival of Admiral Parker before Leghorn. Nothing hitherto confirms this rumour." On the 19th Count SEYSSEL left Turin for Milan with a protest, signed by the ICING and the Ministry, as also by the Ambassadors of France and England, against the law of Marshal RADETZKY on emigration, which is considered a violation of the armistice and conventions of the plenipotentiaries with M. BRUCK and the Marshal. LABUAN. _ - By her MAjesty's brig Albatross, Captain Far quhar, advises have been received from this place to the 12th instant. Sir James Brooke, after his arrival there, suspended the Lieutenant-Governor from office, but on what charge or charges we have not heard. The sale of the town allotments, we are told, went off very briskly, and the lands sold well, there being a considerable competition. The colony was quite healthy ; there has been no fever for many months, and the hospitals are generally empty, having one or two patients at the utmost. Sir James Brooke was much better in health, and may be ex pected to arrive in Singapore at an early date, in the Hon. Company's steamer Nemesis.—Free Press, Jan. 18. We understand that the Commander-in-Chief at Madras, Sir George Berkeley, has expressed an opinion in regard to the occurrence between the Lieutenant-Governor of Labuan and Captain M'Cas kill, to the effect that the gallant officer had entirely misconceived his position, and done exactly the con trary of what he ought to have done. This is the common sense view of the case, and we, therefore, never doubted the result, when the matter was in the hands of so able and impartial a commander as Sir George Berkeley has proved himself to be.—lbid, Feb. 1. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Never since the debut of Cerito has such an effect been produced by the debut of any danseuses as that which was produced by the debut of Mademoiselle Amalia Ferraris, at this theatre, on Saturday even ing. Ceeiar-like, she came, she was seen, and con quered. At eight o'clock on Saturday all that was known of her was that it appeared by the bills that Mdlle. Amalie Ferraris was to make her first appearance in a divertissement and dunce a pas de deux with M. Charles, and at 10 o'clock she had established herself, by the unanimous verdict of the habitues of her M-jesty's Theatre, as par excellence the queen of the dance, and this on the scene of the triumphs of the elder Taglioni, of Fanny Eisler, of Cerito, of Lucille Grabn, of Carlotta Grisi, of Rosati. Mademoiselle Amelia Ferraris possesses every physical requisite for a deesse de la danse. Her features are beautiful and expressive, and her dark and lustrous eyes are full of fascination —her figure is perfect and exquisitely developed, and her poses are full of grace and abandon. She is perfect mistress of her art, and unites to the poetic graces of a Taglioni the glittering execution of a Fanny Eisler and the abandon of a Cerito. Her aplomb is wonderful, and she made all her " points ' with an ease and a steadiness that excited the most intense admiration. Not the least pleasing part of her performance was the graceful ease with which she managed the transition from the spiritual and majestic grace of the classical school of the Taglioni to the abandon, the revolving pas of the Cerito, and from this again to the glittering won ful little steps of the Fanny Eisler. As a danseuse she is perfect; we have none, we have bad none, who, like Mademoiselle Amalia Ferraris, has seized upon the beauties of such opposite schools, and made them all her own, combining them with a style in which the animation of the realist school is in fused and inspired by the majestic and graceful in spiration of the idealist. Her reception was at first rather cold, but she had scarcely commenced her pas before she warmed her audience into enthusiasm ; throughout her performance she was greeted with repeated bursts of the most rapturous applause, and at its conclusion she was called forward and honoured with a complete ovation. Mademoiselle Amalie Ferraris is, we understand, from the Royal Opera at Piedmont, and the thanks of every lover of ballet are due to Mr. Lumley for having discerned and secured her services for her Majesty's Theatre. The opera was Ernani, in which Mr. Sims Reeves and Parodi again produced a perfect furore by their imNtssiened performance in the finale, and were at the conclusion called before the curtain to receive the well-merited reward of their exertions. The ballet was Les Metamorphoses, in whi c h C ar l o tt a G r i s i was as e his Grace sPiegieand ath graceful a s ever . Th ere were pre sent e Duke of Wellington, the Duke and Duchess of Montrose, the Duke and Duchess of Leeds, and Miss Elizabeth Lane Fox, his Excellency the Russian Minister, Baroness de Brunnow, and Madlle. Olga de Lechner, his Excellency the Swedish Minister and the Baroness Rehausen, M. de Berg, the Count de Barke, the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, the Marquis of Donegal, the Mar quis and Marchioness of Blandford, the Marquis of Granby, the Earl of Aboyne, the Earl of Lons dale, the Esrl of Falmouth and the Countess of Glen gall, the Countess de Flahault and Alias de Flahault. the Cardigan, Earl B ruce , the Earl of CountessShelburne. of HerMaesty's box was occupied by Miss Lascelles, Miss Mary Lascelles, Mr. Claude Lascelles, Mr. Edwin Lascelles, Miss Ellis, Miss Diana Ellis, Mr. James Ellis and party. The Viscount Cantilupe, the Viscount Somerton, Viscount Melbourne, the Baron de Sisterton, the Comte de Civry, the Viscount Clifden, Lord and Lady Rendle sham, Lord and Lady Ernest Bruce, Lady Brougham, Lord Sandys, Lord Clarence Paget, Lady Cowley, the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Ward, Lord H. Paulett, Lord George Paget, Lord Cecil, Lord and Lady Eddisbury, Lord Foley, Lord Adolphus Fitz clarence, Lord Southampton, General the Hon. H. Cavendish, the Hon. C. R. Neville, Sir H. Fremantle, Bart., and Lady Fremantle, Sir J. Lowther, Bart., M.P., Sir Thomas Barrett Leonard and Lady Barrett Lennard, Sir Seymour Sadler, the Hon. Mr. Welles ley, Sir T. Retford, General Sir Alexander Woodford, Bart., and Lady Woodford, the Hon. Mrs. Gore and Miss Gore, Lady Gordon, &c. SIGNOR GARDONI. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sza,—l. beg leave to state that there is no truth in the article from the jf o niteur du Soir, reporting the death of Signor Gardoni, and copied into the Sun . of Saturday. I have before me a long letter from St. Petersburgh, written by Signor Gardoni on the 11th, and post e d on th e 12th of March ; th ere f ore posterior I find following hisof passage, allege which shows thatd decea se . I n t hi s letter there have not even existed plausible grounds for this malicious rumour :—" As regards my health, I have only one thing to observe, that except one night in October, on my first arrival here, I have always been able to respond to all the demands of the management, which have not been few, having successfully sung in Puritani, Beatrice, Norma, Elisir, Conte Ory, Linda, Giovanna d'Arco, Roberto it Diavolo, Orazii e Curl azii, &c." I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, 5 A, Cork-street, March 24. G. PUZZI. MR. BUNN ON THE STAGE. — The highly instruc- tire, amusing, and intellectual entertainment, lately given by Mr. Bunn, at the St. James's Theatre, closed on Saturday night last with the most brilliant eclat, when Mr. Bunn delivered the following farewell address to' a highly fashionable audience, amongst whom we perceived several distinguished members of the literary world : "Ladies and gentlemen, —lt would .be the height of ingratitude were I to suffer this evening to pass orer without acknowledging the heavy obli.:ations your kindness has imposed upon me. You have given me throughout my undertaking a recep tion rarely allotted to performers of the highest standing, by virtue of which I have received provincial offers, I am now going to carry out in e‘ary part of the empire; and I will trespass on you no further than to say, that when I cease to remember this I hope you will cease to remember me." At the conclusion of this appropriate speech Mr. Bunn was recalled before the curtain by of f h eThhe unanimousauditory,hEnuwsreoh. pena greetings classic wreatha nd ap c p u whichse t , f washis a card, on which something was written) was thrown to him, when a fresh salvo of applause burst from all parts Captain Gott, sailed from Liverpool , on Saturday for Halifax and New York. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEW`. CITY, Q UAI:TER TO THREE. The sales f,f Cotton at Liverpool, on Saturday, were estimated at 5,000 bales, of which 800 American were taken for export, and 500 on speculation. The market closed heavily at previous rates.—Railway Shares conti nued very dull, without any material alteration in value. In the Grain Market to-day wheat has moved off freely, at full prices. The following are portions of a statement upon the dried fruit trade, furnished us by Messrs. Witherby and Hanson:— " We have no alteration in the currant market to notice since our last report; its characteristic has been one of perfect monotony; only two cargoes received; the sales of an unusually contracted extent for the season, and, with some few exceptions, limited to second-hand parcels. Importers may almost be said to be out of the market, by reason of their high pretensions, caused by the continued advance of price at the several places of growth, by the fact of our stock being about one-third less than that of March 1849, and of the quantity to arrive here during the remainder of the season, not being likely much to exceed our requirements, if our ch aranees equal those of last season during the corresponding period. " We ha i hoped to announce this month an increase in our clearances for home consumption, to make up in part for the falling off which we noticed in our last report, but we find from the 19th ult. to the 15th inst. they have not exceeded 300 tons against 605 tons during the like period of 1849, and against 420 tone, 633 tons, and 390 tons in 1848, 1847, and 1846 respectively. At Liverpool, on the contrary, they exhibit a decided im provement, having reached during the four weeks ending 12th inst. 395 tone, against 285 and 304 tons during the corresponding weeks of 1849 and 1848 respectively. The clearances at this port during the last three months of 1848 and 1849 were alike, say about 4,680 tons respectively; but from the Ist January to the 28th February of this year they have fallen off to the extent of about 750 tons, having been 820 tons in 1850 against 1,570 tons in 1849. At Liverpool there was an unexpected decrease during the last three months of 1849. of about 240 tons, but an in crease of about 85 tons from Ist January to 28th Fe bruary, 1850, making an aggregate comparative falling off since Ist October of about 150 tons." The prevalence of contrary winds still keeps out a large number of arrivals, but the dates brought by the sailing vessels will generally be old, as the steamers oc casionally dropping in furnish an outline of the news. The Thames steamer, with the West Indian and Mexican mails is hourly expected. When the homeward bound fleet arrives, there will be an immense addition to the qaantity of produce held here, and the effect on prices may be correspondingly prejudicial, though it is probable that fair allowance has already been made for this, otherwise we should for some time past have had great.e. buoyancy. The arrivals from the Continent are exceedingly limited, and there is no very prominent political intelli gence. No one, however, who takes an interest in the affairs of foreign countries can fail to regard with solici tude the condition of French finances, elucidated as this occasionally is by the reports of the Ministers for the time being, or of the Committees. The latest state ment concerns the budget of receipts fur 1850, and the necessity of equalising expenditure and income is very properly admitted, but, as far as we can ascertain, by no means acted upon. The savings proposed amount but to 84,000,000 francs, off a gross sum of 11,408,000,000 E, 326,000,000 t. being for the interest of the debt. At a time when the revenue is admitted to be only 1,251,523,967 f., no arrangement is made for wholesale retrenchment, and the salt duties alone have entailed a loss of forty-one million of francs. We should be glad if we could believe that the total deficiency of income compared with the ex penditure for 1850 would be under fifty millions, but there appear to be such constant changes in the financial plans of the State, and there is such frequent recourse to extraordinary votes, that we cannot indulge any con fident expectations. Business in the English Stock Market has been very inactive again, and prices have undergone no fluctuation worth noting. In the aspect of foreign politics there is nothing encouraging, but the abundance of money here tells powerfully, aided, too, by the impression that, as confidence abroad becomes impaired French and other Securities will be disposed of by the holders, with the view of investing the proceeds in Consols. These latter have been 95i for Transfer, and 95i for Account. Exchequer-bills are steady at 625. to 635. premium, and India Bonds at 86s. to 88s. premium. The Foreign S eck Market is still rather dull. Mexi can Bonds are 29 , with no inclination to do business. Peruvian Five per Cents. have been quoted 71i to 72i, and the Deferred 27i to 28. Equador Stock has been 33- I, and Grenada D e f erre d 3i. Russian Scrip has been l to 11 premium. Danish has been run up to 2i and 3 premium. Spanish Five per Cents. are 164 le and the Three per Cents., 35k. Dutch Four per Cents. are 86g. The Railway Share Market is rather flatter, especially for Caledonian. North Stafford have advanced, and North Western are tolerably firm. ONE CLOSING PRIQES OF BRITISH FUNDS O'CLOCK. PRICES. 3 Jo, Uent. Consols Annuities... 95 A 1,4 95% Long Anne. to expire Jan.lB6o inn,: Bonds, 1,0004 B6 86 p 89 p Ditto under 1,0001... .... 86 p . 86 p - 0n5,.1 , i for Account 95%% 95 1 / 2 India Stock for Account — 267 ii.c hequer Bills. 1 1 ,44.& 2d 1,000/. June... 63 62 p 65 p . 5001. June Small. June 65 62 p 62 p ONE CLOSING PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. razilian Bonds ....... ..... ..... ... ..... 89 Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839 ... 8814 Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent.... -- 49 Danish Bonds, 1825,3 per Cent. .. Ditto 5 per Cent..... — Ditto, Scrip Equador Bonds Grenada Bonds, 1% per Cent — Ditto Deferred ;Mexican, :1 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons— Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons .... Ditto, Account ......... Peruvian Bonds, 4 per Cent Ditto Deferred Portuguese 5 per Cents. Russian Bonds Ditto Scrip 11)414 p 1 1 ,h p 7:p5.r0313 5 per Cant. 1840 Ditto. 3 per Cent Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2 34 per Cirit., 12 Guild. .. 551 4 Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates 86% 86% 4ARICES OF PAM. BUSINESS DONE CLOSIN RAI'..WAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRI( E 4 berdeen Do. Preference Birtninp, Wolverh'ton, and Dudley, calls duly pd, or with guarantee 15 ..... ...... IMMO Do. without guarantee 15 Caledonian Ditto, New IC/. Pref... 10 Chester and Holyhead... 50 Ditto, Preference l 5 Dublin and Belfast June. 40 East Anglian, 25L, L. & E. and L. and D...... 25 Do., 3/. 108., Pref... 3 1 ,4 - astern Counties........ 20 ii'reat Northern Do., 5 per Cent. Pref. 12% lO% :rear South. and West. 7 3 / 4 1% 7% 7 1014 (Ireland) 4reat Western 100 Ditto. New 171........ 15 ... ~ 7 6% 74 7 1 / 4 Lancaster and Carlisle... 50 Lancashire& Yorkshire 100 Ditto, ditto lOO ..... 36 1 4 .... ..... ...... 35 London &Blackwall...ll/. 6s. 3d... 3%.. L .rition, Brighton, and South Coact..... 100 Do., New, guaranteed 6 per Cent . ...100 132 London and N Western 100 .....105 1 4 104% lo3lh Ditto, New Quarters 12 D'tto.Fift i London BS.W , •stern lO4l ..... 62% 62 63 63 Do, New 50/. . ...... 424 — Do., New Preference. 5 Nllnchester. Sheffield, and Lincolnshire...loo Do. New 101. Pref..... 10 ...... 7 6', 7 , 'Midland ....... ..... ....MO ...... 39 39J/ 4 Do., 50/. Shar.q Dc. Consolid. Bristol and 3 S Binning., 6 per ct.... 100 ......12.3 ( 4 12 3 14 N0, , .}) British ........... 25 ..... ... ... Ditto, Halves .. North Staffordshire ... 17 1 p j 7 l4dA% 7A Reading, Guildford, and Reigate l5 .... 15A 3 / 4 1 5 3 /4 Shrewsbury and Biwa... 13%. — dis ....... Ditto ditto, Class B 9 - ... .. ..... 2% :.pith East,r,i Do., No. 3 ....... ...... 30 ...... 14 1 4 13% Do.. Registered No. 4 10 ...... 5 4 3 / 4 3g .4% York. Newcastle, and Berwick. . .. Do. Newcastle Exten, 20 Do. G.N.E.Preterence 8 ... 1 )i 4 s %A Ai York and North Midland 50 ii , ti , .: Preference FOREIGN RAIL WA lI'S. - Boulogne and Amiens... 20 Central of France (Or leans and Vierzon)... 20 Luxembourg Ditto Northern of France. l6 ....... Rouen and Havre ...... 20 ...... MINES. Brazilian Imperial ...... 24 1 ,4 — ....... •—• BrazilianCocaes&Cuiaba 30 Do. St. John Del Rey 15 United Mexican JOINT STOCK BAN KS. Union of L0nd0n......... 10 24 12. 4 , 8% f', I :2 • ih, 13 3 4 7 LLO YD'S SHIPPIN (;_('THIS DAY.) LONDON, MARCEL 25.—Wind this day at noon N.N.W., light br( eze and fine dry weather.—The Thomas Demp sey, Liverpool to Trinidad, sprung a leak, and was abandoned, Ist Feb. ; crew arrived at Barbadoes on the 10th ult. DEAL, MARCH 24.—Wind N.N.W. to N.N.E., strong and :qually.—Arrd. Leonard Dobbin, Dawson, Callao; Jane Erskine, Llay; Mary, Inglis, Demerara. Arrd. from the River and sld. Diana, Sydney, New South Wales; China, Madras; Tyro, Monte Video; Captain, Trinidad; Marmion, Quebec; Faside, St. John's, Now Brunswick; Sultana, Adelaide, South Australia; Ann Milne, Port Philip; Actress, St. John's, New Brunswick; Johrt Anderson, Demerara. Sld. Diana, San Francisco. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 24.—Wind N.N.W., strong and squally.—Arrd. H.M.S. Cygnet, Sierra Leone; sld. Ist Feb. BIDEFORD, MARCH 24.—Tho Dasher, of St. Ives, struck on the South Tail Sands, off this harbour, and sunk, crew, except a boy, saved. The Speculator, of Liverpool, has been brought in a derelict.] CLIME, MARCH 22.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrd. Lavinia, Turnbull, Matanzis. Sld. Kallibakka, Barbadoes; Hea- ther, Bell, Trinidad. DUBLIN, Martell, 23.—Wind N.W.—SI3. Pearl, St. John's, New Brunswick. SCILLY, MARCH 21.—Wind E.N.E.—Off port, Mar (pis of Breadalbane, Clark, Jamaica, fur Liverpool. NEWPORT, MARCH 2-I.—Wind N. strong.—Sld. Ra diant, Norfolk, V. MILFORD, MARCH 24.—Wind N. to N.W. strong.— Arrd. Latimer, Evans, Wilmington, for Liverpool, with damage, from contact with the Joseph Potteir, of St. Malo, in lat. 51, long. 7. WATERFORD, MARCH 22.—Wind N. to E. by S.— Arrd. Alegria 'e Minho, Alves, Caminha. Sld. Downes, New York; Demboddy, Lima. QUEENSTOWN, MARCH 22. Wind N.W. fresh.— Arrd. Albert, Hayles, Barbadoes ; Parzm, Kier, Ma tanzas ; Tecumseh, Johnstone, Honduras. Off port, Mersey, Duke, Buenos Ayr( s; Pallas, Amey, Barbadues. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN-EXCHANGE-MONDAY. _ _ _ • _ _ The principal country markets held on Saturr 4 ay were but moderately supplied with both English and Foreign Wheat. Fine qualities were in moderate request, at full prices. In the middling and inferior kinds compa ratively little was doing. All spring Corn ruled dull, and in some instances the quotations had a downward tendency. The latest advices from the United States represent the Grain and Flour trade as steady. In the continental ports very little has been doing in Grain, the quotations of which have given way Is per quarter. Up to our market last week the arrivals of English Grain were moderate. From abroad we received 6,920 quarters of Wheat; 19,414 ditto of Barley;_ 29,705 ditto of Oats ; 200 ditt o o f R ye; 3,3 6 1 di tto o f Beans; 869 ditto of Peas; 1,136 ditto of Tares; 332 ditto of Linseed; 546 ditto of Hap.-seed; 9 ditto Mustardseed; 76 ditto sundry Seeds; 1,992 sacks and 220 brls of Flour. The quantity of English Wheat received fresh up to our market io•day coastwise, was small. By land carriage and sample, the receipts of that grain were trifling in the extreme. As has been the case for some time past, the stands were very scantily supplied with parcels of home-grown Wheat, the quality of which was, how. over, arising from the fineness of the weather, unusually gond. The supply from Essex was speedily cleared off, and in same instances rather more money, say is per quarter, was obtained by tho factors for the finest white. In all other kinds a steady business was transacted, at fully last week's quotations. Offers still continue to reach us from the east coast, to ship Wheats at ruling currencies. The show of fresh foreign Wheat was but moderate, but that of granaried samples was good. Fine qualities commanded a steady, though not t r say brisk, inquiry, at very full prices. The middling and inferior descriptions were in moderate reqiiest, at late rates. We were fairly supplied with English Barley. That of foreign was very extensive. All kinds were a dull inquiry, at a decline in the quota tions of is per quarter, at which very little progress was made in sales. The quantity of Malt offering was con siderably in excess of the d-mand, which ruled heavy, at barely the late decline in value. Home-grown Oats were in very moderate supply. That of foreign was ex tensive. The Oat trade ruled heavy, at a fall in value of Is per quarter, and the bulk of the supply remained un sold. Although the supply of Beans was not large, that grain gave way Is per quarter, with a very dull inquiry. Peas moved off slowly; but we have no decline to notice in the quotations. Indian Corn, Meal, and Flour com manded very little attention. CURUENCY PER IMP. Wheat—Essex & Kent, Red, New.. •. 378 to 423 Ditto, White, New 40e 48s Norfolk and Lin coln, Red..... 36s 39s Ditto, White...... 39s 43s Irish, Red........ 37s 41s Ditto,Wlaite...... 405 443 stye—Old 21s 22e New....... • ..... 21s 22s . - sarley—Grinding • .... 15s 19s 'ERIAL MEASURE. Malt—Chevalier— •• 553 to 56 Oats— Yorkshire and Lincolnsb., Feed. 133 151 Potato • • • 17s 215 Youghal and Cork, Black . .• • . 13s 155 Cork, White . 13■ 155 Scotch, Feed..... 18, 22. Beans—Tick ......... 235 265 Pigeons ..... . • . • • 28* 348 Peas—Grey .• •• 238 25s Maple. •• •• 258 268 White....... •• .. 22i 24s Malting ...-...... 21s 23s Chevalier .... ... 231 20 Melt—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers ... .. 24 • 2Gs Flour—Town-made... 324 36s Suffolk • ... .•• • • . 27? El, Stocktn & Norfolk 27s 31s folk .• .......... 515 54s Brown ........... 42s 45s Kingston and Ware 53s 54s SEED, Clover Seed continues in moderate reques►, at abou last week's quotations. Canary Sud has further de dined 2s p.r cwt., with heavy demand. Rape Seed is higher, owing to the small supplies on offer. Tares, Cakes, and all other artielPs are a flow inquiry. Turnip, White, per bush. 10s to lls Carraway .. .. lied mad Green.. • • 105 12s Coriander 166 24s Mustard, 8r0wn.... . 83 Its Hempseed, per quarter 32s 35s White •• ..••• • .. 6s 9 Linseed, Eng. =owing.. 54s 56s Tares, Spring .... • • ..3s 6d 48 6d Cru,hing ...... • . 402 43s Old ............ .. Baltic •• .. 38s 44, Canary, per quarter •• 70s 74s Odessa ..... ..... 42$ 461 Rye gra55.......... 20s 24s LinieedCake,pr.l,ooo— Red En,,. (cwt.) 35s • 50s English .. ••.81 5s 9i 155 White .......... 34s 48 Foreign, per ton 61 Os 71 10$ Foreign Red...... 338 508 Rape Cakes, pr ton 41 Os 41 Si White.... 32s 50s ttapeseed,New,prlst 3bl Os 351 Cs Trefoil .............. lls lss SMITHFIELD. A further slight increase ha: taken place in the im portations cf foreign stcck into London. Since Monday last they have amounted to 1,720 head. During the corresponding period in 1849 they comprised 1,944, and at the same time i❑ 1848, 893 head. The anr.exed state ment shows the quarters whence the stock has been derived. IMPORTS INTO LONDON IN THE PAST WEEK. From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs Harlingen 447 ... 26 .. ... 1 „. Hamburg!). 35 ... ... Ostend — • • 185 ... ... Rotterdam Antwerp 80 ... 49 ... Nieu Diep Total 579 ... 966 193 Corresponding week in 1849 351 1,426 7 160 ... Same week. in 1543 424 .. 343 .. ... 131 ... By sea, from Ireland, 131 Beasts, 48 Sheep, 30 Calves, and 72 Pigs have reached us. At the various outports only about 700 head of stock have been landed. Net withstanding that the last two cargoes of Si anieh Beasts are reported to have bee❑ disposed of at a loss of fully 20 per ceat., we understand that further importations are about to take place. This stock is by no means in favour with the butchers, owing to its Lad weighing qualities. Should the present high prices continue in Holland, we may reasonably expect a filling off i❑ the arrivals of Sheep this year from that quarter. It is, how ever, well known that the evadable supplies of both Beasts and Sheep on the Continent are large, and that there is an extensive surplus fit for export. The supply of foreign Beasts on offer to-day was good— that of Sheep and Calves very moderate. From our own grazing districts the arrivals of Beasts fresh up I were seasonably extensive, and of full average quality. The primest Scots, Herefords, &c., were in somewhat improved request, at prices quite equal to those obtained on Monday last, the highest figure for Beef being 3s 6d per Blbs., but all other breeds moved off heavily at barely late rates. However, as the weather was very cold, a clearance was effected, though at a late hour. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, we re ceived 2,100 Short-horns and Scots; from all other parts of England 700 Herefords, Runts, Devons, &c.; and fr, en Scotland 200 Horned and Polled Scots. There was a further decided increase i❑ the number of Sheep, at least a moiety (.f which were out of the wool. All breeds met a very inactive demand. Tie primest old Downs were mostly disposed of at about stationary prices, but all other Sheep declined in value 2d per elbg. Lambs were in good supply, and sluggish inquiry, at late rotes, viz., from 5s to 6: per BltiF. In Calves, comparatively little business was transacted, at about stationary prices. The Pork trade was heavy, but we have uo change to notice in the currencies. Per albs. to sink the offal. s. d. to s. d, s. d. to s. d. Inferior Beasts 2 6 2 8 Inferior Shoe; •• • 2 10 3 9 Second quality -. 2 10 3 0 Second qual. Sheep 3 3 3 6 Prime large Oxen 3 2 3 4 Coarse-vreolled ditto 3 8 4 0 Prime Scots • . Large coarse Calves 3 0 3 4 Ditto eut of the wool 0 0 0 0 Prime small ditto z uckling Calves •• 18 0 25 0 Small Porkers •• •• 3 8 4 0 Lambe •• •• •••• • • II 0 6 0 Quarter old Pigs .. 16 0 21 0 TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts. I Sheep. 1 Calves. I r i g s. 3,355 22,050 i 103 154 FOREIGN SUPPLY. I Sheep. I Calves. 1 Figs. -.. 490 44 ATEctrais.Tz AND LEADEN/MX.la. Comparatively speaking, our markets continue to be well supplied with both town and country-killed Meat, but its quality is by no means good. Prime Lamb is selling steadily, at full prices. Otherwise, the demand is in a sluggish state. and late rates aro with difficulty supported. About 700 carcases of foreign Meat slaugh. t..rod in London have found buyers; and an importation ci ll baskets of 13ekf and Mutton has taken place from Hamburg h. At per stone by the Carcase. s. d. to s. d. i e. d. to s d Beef,inferlor•••• .. 2 2 2 4 , Mutton, inferior •• 2 8 2. 10 I --- prime .... 3 4 3 2 middling •• .. 2 4 2 6I middling. 3 0 10 3 4 = primp small ..: 3 2 0 8 3 2 1 2 0 Pork, lare.... .. 3 y ea 1.............. 3 0 310 email.. gon.OUGU ZIOP NZA Lamb. is 10d to 5s 10,1. " **** 3 6 4 0 It in i fo ir L . mdtm last gn Hops With Hops of home- The total imports of Forei Ostend. With supplied; never home growth t hw ourer viers 2511) market t s from iis very O all kinds is N i e nactive, and late E Ist d6iiffi6csulttoylslulp;ptozetwed:W, Weald of Mid and theless, the demand for SiBs t o o t 6 l i ie l n o t s; d o it' e o w , 6 Kentat t e o s arer i3 e 3 kw a eitt ; sh' new Sussex ditto. , Farnhams, 12/ to 131; yearling Kent,, 3/ to 4/ 7s; 10. ling Sussex, 2/ 8 s t o 3 1 12s; old Hops,year to 31 per cwt. Beuts. 34g BOROUGH AND SPITALrXELDS. Since this day sa'nnight, the imports of Foreign Po tatoes into London have comprised 83 tons fro .n Ghent; 110 tons from Louvain ; 413 tom from Rotterdam; 15 tons from Dieppe ; 174 tons from Ant,verp ; 440 tons from Dunkirk ; 65 tons from Harlingen ; 60 LOIN from Ostend ; 145 tone from Rouen; and 5 sacks from Ire- OFF SALCOMBE, MARCH 24.—Elise, Gatgen, Balti more for Bremen. FALMOUTH, MARCH 24.—Wind N.N.E , strong gales.— Arrd. Petrel racket, Rio Janeiro, sailed 17th January, freight about 10,000/. in gold and diamonds. Off port, Koopbandel, Remmers, Surinam for Rotterdam; Adele, Loorirs, Havannah for Antwerp. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 24.—Wind N.N.E., fresb.— Arrd. Maria, Adams', Huanchaco ; Rhonda, Buenos Ayres; Arrow, Galloway, Para; Devon, Murdoch, New Orleans ; Scotland, Hawkins, Mobile ; Fidelia, Veile, New York; Andrew Foster. Howes, New York. The Howard, from Mobile, is off the port with rudder da maged, &a.; two steamers have gone out to tow her in. Arrd. Virginia, Thompson, New Orleans. Sld. Europa, steamer, Halifax, &c. 25th. The Howard, from Mo bile, to this port, is on shore near Southport, with her back broken, and fills with the tide; crew saved. The schooner Mary, Wilmington to Demerara, was aban doned 17th ult., lat. 32, long. 72, in a sinking stag; crew saved. 3% land—forming a total supply of 1,511 tons, in, for the most part, goad condition. Coastwise, about 2,000 tons have come to hand. By railway, 1,150 tons bare be? forwarded. We have to notice a slight improvement ? the demand fur the best qualities, owing to the preva il' ing cold we a th er ; b ut t h e m iddli ng an d th e i n f e rior kinds—the warehoused stocks of which are large—ale again lower to purchase. Present rates as under: — Per Ton. Per Ton. York. Regents 70s to 100 s Common Whites 40s to 458 Ditto Shaws ... —s to —s Kent Kidneys ... '''.B to .1 Scotch Regents 60 s t o 65 3 E ssex R egents ... —a to --- Ditto min. Cups 50s to 65s Ditto Shaws ...... —3 to — 1 Ditto Buffs ... —3 to s Ditto Kidneys ... —s to --6 Blues ...—.. —s to —s French Whites .., 60e to 656 Pink Eyes Liucoln.Regents 7os to 85s Belgian Whites... 50s to 556 Wisbeach ditto COs to 70s Dutch Whites ... 40s to 411 I Ditto Kidneys Berwick Regts... 658 to 75s German ditto ... 45s to Ws WOOL. Last week's imports of Wool into London were confined to 129 bales from Hamburgh, 10 ditto from :Antwerp: and 15 bags from Ireland. The quantity of Colonial Wool on offer in the private contract market is very small , and buyers are still coming forward at full prices. Foreign Wools are very dull in sale. For British qualities, the demand is steady at fully late rates. TdZLO W. Since our last report, a lair average amount of businesS ba. been transacted in Tallow. In prices, however, n° change has taken place. To-Jay, P.Y.C. on the spot is selling at 375, and the nearest quotation of new, for the last three months, is 38s per cwt. Town Tallow, 57g per cwt net ash ; for prime malted rot gh fat. 2s Id P PI : 81bs. St. Petersburgh advices state that the market there was flat. 1846. 15,482 423 rid 'to 43s Od 1,789 78,486 419 78,041 1847. 1848. 1849. 10,991 6,94 s 26,944 505 6d 525 6d 40s 3tl to to 050 d to Os Od 4!'s Od 543 ! 1,851 1,331 72,311 ! 88,239 85,498 839 55 72,679 ; 87,086 101,909 535 Od 535 Od 435 Od 15aU. 23, 141 37s od to 09 " 2,1 26 80,10 Stock this day ...... Price el Y. C. .... Delivery last week .. Ditto from June 1.... Arrivals last week . Ditto from June 1 87, 831 390 64 Price of Town • • ... 45s 6d SURREY SESSIONS.—(THIS DAY.) George Knight, 36, de-cribad on the calender as II whitesmith, was indicted fir stealing a chaise, the pro" perry of John Smith, at St. George the Martyr. , Mr. Goldsmith prosecuted, and Mr. Johnson defenoeu the prisons:a. George Smith, the son of the prosecutor said, that it; the beginning of February la: t, a chaise was entrusted by his father to the prisoner to repair. Witness repeat' edly called upon him for it, when he male mane excuses► and when pressed for the return of it, whether finished or not, he told him that some one had stolen it. Witness called in a policeman and gave him into custody, when the axletree and springs were discovered concealed in the back premises. _Witness identified the axletree and springs from a peculiar mark placed on them when hie father purchased the chaise. Even Jo❑es, a police-constable of the N division, said he searched the prisoner's house, and after finding th e property produced he discovered nearly a hundred skeleton keys of the most extraordinary description; , , sufficient to open any lock, a number of , 6 jemmied , and two curiously-construc•ed centre-bits tfgreat power, which would enable a housebreaker to enter any s hop. The whole of them had been manufactured by the Pri' soner, and he was knoen to supply the most notorious burglars in the country. The prisoner said that, being a whitesmith, he bed use for those things in his business. Ile denied making them for housebreakers. Mr...T6hnson addre3sed the jury for the prisoner, rind a verdict of Gu Ity was returned. The constable stated that the prisoner had been in custody several times fur stealing carts, but he generally managed to get acquitted. He was, however, sun" manly convicted six months ago for robbing his ftw fished lodging 4. The CHAIRMAN said the prisoner was a dangerous character to society, and there could be no doubt be manufactured these extraordinary implements for the purpose of disposing of them to housebreakers. 0 6 should take care he did not carry on his avocation for s long time, by sentencing him to two years' hard labour in Brixton House of Correction. BOW-STREET -(THIS DAY.) A middle-agel man, dressed in a comfortable-look' ing fustian suit, named Collins, was charged With Police-constable E 42 stated that yesterday afternoon he was on duty in Bedford-square, and about fee t o'clock he observed the prisoner try several area•gated• One of them was open and he went down the steps, bet he did not appear to do anything wrong except kneckiug at the kitchen door. Receiving no answer to his knock the prisoner returned into the square, when witneee asked him what he wanted there, and the prisoner re plied that he bud been begging a little bread. He had a long canvas bag across his shoulder, which on being searched was found to contain broken victuals enough to last any moderate man for four days. The prisoner 111.90 had money about him, and witnes., suspecting that he was a practised hand at meudicity, took him to SP* station. The prisoner said he was a anuff-grinder, and be came from New Ross. Mr. HALL sentenced him to eight days' imprisonment. A woman named Mary Archer was charged on bench warraht by a common informer, who stated bin mane to he Fr. derick Cruse, of 51, Mount-street, Grosvenor-6.quare, with keeping a brothel in Lower Searle's-plate, Temple-bar. Mr. Inspector Dodd thought it right to inform the magistrate of the manner in which the warrant had been execu:t d. This warrant bad been in the informer's hands for some time, but be bad watched his opportunity to arrest the defendant on ;;:aturday, so that she might be locked up all Sunday. Mr. HALL had ❑o doubt that these men were nothing better than extortionists, but his duty was simply minis terial, to order the woman to put in bail. The formal evidence of the granting of the e arrant and finding of the indictment was then put in, and the defendant having been told that she must find good bait for her appearance at the sessions, r,f which she must girl/ twenty-tour hours' notice to the informer, she said she wished to make a statement to the magistrate. This man Cruse and another came to her about a month Mr and threatened to indict both her and her husband na' less she paid him 2/. 10s. Some money was handed to him, and then, by his direction, she went into the country till the meaer had blown over. She returned home on Saturday evening, and just as she was going out to market Cruse and another pounced upon her. She had two sovereigns and two shillings in her hand at the time she was arrested, but when she got to the station the two sovereigns were missing. No one had touched her but Cruse. Mr. Inspector Dodd informed the magistrate that • true bi►l had been found against Cruse and his assist:ill fur att?mpting to extort money from the &tendon'. hu,band. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.—Her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Bighness Prince Albert again honoured the performance of the opera of Der Freischutz with, their presen ce on S atur d ay even i ng. In the Hey s' suite were the Viscountess Jocelyn, the Hon. Miss Mao' donald, Lord Alfred Paget, the Earl of Morley, and Colonel Bouverie. The general company included, among others, his Grace the Duke of Leeds, the Countess f Jersey, and L a dy Cl ement i ne Villiers; the Earl of Cardigan, the Earl and Countess of Bradford and the Ladies Bridgman; Viscountess Mahon, Viscount 1% 161 . 11 " deville, Viscount Castlereagh, Viscount Clifden, count Chelsea, Viscou n t E xmout h , L or d George MO' ners, Lord Alexander Gordon Lennox, Lady Ann i e Dashwood, L a dy H arr i et Ramsden Lord Alfred Churchill, Lord Arth u r H a y, Lady Wallscourt, Admiral Berkeley, M.P, Lady Charlotte Berkeley, and Mis s Berkeley; Hon. James Stuart Wortley, M.P., Colonel the Hon. G. Fitzgibbon, Sir Isaac Goldamid and the Misses Goldamid, Sir George Armytage, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Dillon, Sir William and Lady Do Bathe, Sir Henry Webb, Sir John Burgoyne and the Misses Burgoyne, Lady Quentin, Sir George Carroll and Lady Carroll, Sir Alexander Spearman and Lady Spearman , Sir Charles Marshall, Hon. Mrs. Ferguson and the Misses Ferguson, Mr. Henry Greville, Mr. ex Sheriff Laurie, Mrs. awl Miss Laurie, Mr. Gerard Start, Major Gage, Colonel Brownlow Knox, M.P., Mr. P. Borthwick, Captain Bentiack, Captain Eeerton, Mr. Morier, Mr. and Mrs. Coghlan, Mr. and Mrs. Hilliard, Colonel Blare, Mr. Orm, &c. OLYMPIC THEATRE. On Saturday next a performance %sill take place at this favourite place of amusement, in aid of the Metropolitan Typogra phical Widow and Orphan Fund. Tobin's admired comedy of The Honeymoon is one of the pin's selected.: in which Miss J. Coleman, late of the Lyceum, sad Miss E. Clas ton, will sustain the respective parts of Volanre and Juliana, each lady having given her ser vices on the c cca,i a. A divertissement, in which Mdlle. Rose, Miss Desborough, Miss Louisa Coleman, Miss S. Jenkin,, M r . S m i t h , Mr. Britton W. Waite, all v o l unteers, , and Master e ti n o t n er t t o ai w n m h ts th w e i r i e l cwonilellubdweeilal with appe ar, ,fareietyt n foll o ws. aonflstiendgei,na 0 p i nl d i d he i e farce of His First Chompagne. We hope to see the house crowded to the ceiling. MR. BEIJLER'S BENEFIT.—OUT old friend Beuler, the prince of cow c writer singers, canes out in great force to-morrow eve ning at the H i nover square Rooms , on which occasion his annual mu , ical soiree takes place' The entertainment will commence with a Monologue by the be*iciaire. and will conclude with a concert, sup' ported by the first vocal talent of the day. The veteran humourist will no doubt have a bumper. WESTMINSTER AND ETON BOAT RACE.—TIIB COD" teat, which formerly took place almost annually betweg these two schools, and which, as our readers ma! r aware, has latt er ly b een prevented by the Hea d Mas t e r of We s t m i nster, on t h e ground that rowing bad ate ne e'ency to injure the health, will in all probabilityb s 14. newed durit g th e p resent season. All old Westminsters and Etoniana look forward to this match with as In" pleasure as they d o t o t h e sc h oo l cr i c k e t ma tches at Lord's ; and thinking, as they must, that the fact of a boy occasionally hurting himself by rowing, affords no more re icon for abolishing that sport than an accident at _ u cricket or sho o ti ng ( o f w hi c h t h ere ar e many) affords for prohibitin g th ose man ly amuseme nt s , th e y will ..v glad to learn that D r . Liddell's objections are removed Man was never intended to be idle. Inactivity frustrates the very design of his creation; whereas an active life is the best guardian of virtue, and th e greatest preservative of health.—Eliza Cook's Journal. Pe)mhbeerrtol, Ma jesty'sysli has been for many atta Ai ch r. d t e the public service ; and the other office held by tha t cr gentleman—viz., ce nt for the Russian-Dutch Loan -- has ben abolished by the Lords of the Treasury. We also understand that it is not their Lordships' intenti on to fill up the vacancy occasioned in the office by M r. ret retired years e d from