The Sun. — London, England, 1845-03-04 00:00:00

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The Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public are respectfully Informed that this THEATRE WILL OPEN on SATURDAY, MARCH 8, When will be produced (first time in this country), Verdi's new Opera, ERNANI. With new scenery by Mr. Marshall, Ernani, Signor Moriani; Ruy Gomez, Signor fernasar Carlo Quint°, Signor Botelli ; and Elvira, Madame Rita Borio. TO conclude with ail entirely new Ballet, by M. Perrot, entitled EOLINE ; on, LA DRYADE. The Music by Signor Pugui. The Scenery by Mr. Marshall. In which will appear Diddle. Lucile Grahn, 31dlle. Louise Weiss, Mdlle. Ferdinand, Mdlle. Detneitese, .31dIle. Casson, Mdlle. 31oncelet, &c. M. Toussaint, M. Gosselin, M. Di Mattia, 31. Bertrand, 31. Perrot. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE, THIS EVENING Will be repeated Balfe's Grand Opera, TIIE DAUGHTER OF ST. MARK. Lusignano, Mr. Burdini ; Adolphe de Courcy, Mr. W. Harrison ; Catarina Cornaro, Miss Poole. To conclude with the celebrated ballet of LA GISELLE, in which Mdlle. Maria, Monsieur and Maclaine Finart, Sce., will appear. The Box-office is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six in the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, 1. laces, and Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYYARKET. LESSEE. MR. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New and Origioal Comedy, entitled THE SHERIFF OF THE COUNTY. Principal Characters by Messrs. Farren, Strickland, Buckstone, Webster, Mrs. Glover, Mrs. W. Clifford, Mrs. Humby, Miss Julia Bennett, &c. In the course of the Evening Mr. John Parry will give his De- Scriptive Scene, " Cinderella." After which, SPEED THE PLOUGH. Sir Abel Handy, Mr. W. Farren ; Bob Handy, Mr. 11. Holt ; Sir Philip Blandford, Mr. Stuart ; Farmer Ashfield, Mr. Webster; ',firs Blandford, MissJulla Bennett ; Susan Ashtlehl, Mrs. Edwin Yarnold ; Lady Handy, Mrs. W. Clif ford ; Dame Ashfield, Mrs. Glover. To conclude with 110 W TO PAY THE RENT. • Private Boxes, Two Guineas and one Guinea and a-Hall each. Tickets and .1 laces to be had of Mr. I. T. Archer at the Box-office, from Ten till Five o'clock. TREAT} E ROYAL, ADELPIII. UNDER TIM DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New and Orig:ual Drama, entitled THE GREEN It . Sri ES ; or, A Hundred Years Ago. Connor O'Kennedy, Mr. Selby ; George, Mr. Iludeon ; Wild Mtirtogb, Mr. 0. Smitli ; Muster Grinnidge, Mr. Wright; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Geraldine, Mrs. Yates; Nelly O'Neill, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; Miami, Pladame Celeste. Alter which, MOTHER AN!) CHILD ARE DOING WELL. To be follewed by a New Dramatic Anecdote, entitled THE SOLDIER OF FORTUNE ; or, The Irish Settler. The Duke of Anjou, Miss Woolgar ; Captain O'llorke, Mr. Hudson ; the Baroness Beaupre, Mis 4 Fortescue. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LE.SEE, MR. J. M. MADDOX. Fern TILE BENEFIT OF MR. IIANSFORD. THIS EVENING Will be performed THE RENT DAY. Martin Heywood, Mr. Wal ack ; Crumbs, Mr. Granby ; Bullfrog, Mr. Compton ; Sliver Jack, Mr. Waltor Lacy ; Rachel Heywood, Mrs. Stirling ; Polly Briggs, Mrs. Brougham. Alter which, A GRAND CONCERT. To be followed by the " Mazurka," by Mr. and Miss Marshall. To conclude with HIGH LIFE BELOW STAIRS. Stage Manager, Mr. H. I. Wallack ; Stage Director, Mr. Emden Machinist, Mr. Edmund Bradwell. FRENCH PLAYS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be performed L'HOTEL GARNL To be followed by DON CESAR DE BAZAN. Don Cesar de Bazan, Monsieur F. Lemaitre ; Charles 11., Roi D'Espagne, Mon sieur Oudinot ; Lazarille, Mdlle. Eliza Forgeot ; La 3laritana, Mdlle. Clarisse. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. JNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. THIS EVENING Will be performed THE PRISON Elt OF WAR. Captain Chan nel!, Mr. Emery ; Palimall, Mr. Keeley ; Clarina, Miss Walcott ; Polly Palimall, Mrs. Keeley. Tu be followed by a New Farce, entitled A MODEL OF A WIFE. Principal Characters by Messrs. A. Wigan, F. Matthews, and Mea lows ; Miss Walcott, and Miss Fairizraller. To conclude with VALENTINE AND ORSON. Principal Cha racters by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, Wigan, Collier, Turner, Kinlocb, Yaraold, and Keeley ; Mrs. Wigan, Miss Arden, Miss Fair brother, Miss Grove, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss James, Miss Turner, and Airs. Keeley. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. AND MRS. KEELEY, And Last Night or the Season. ERIDAY EVENING, MARCH 7, Will be performed MARTIN CIIITZZLEIVIT. Old Martin Chuzzlewit, Mr. It lounge; Mr. Pecsniff, Mr. Frank Matthews ; Mrs. Sairey Gamp, r. Keley ; Bailey, Mrs. Keeley. In the course of the Evening Mrs. Keeley will speak AN ADDRESS on the CLOSE of the SEASON. After which, the Polka from the " Forty Thieves" will be danced by Miss Fairbrother and Miss James. Mr. Distill and his boar Sons will play sonic of their most popular To be followed by the New Farce of A MODEL OF A WIFE. In v eich messm A. Wigan, l'nnk Matthews, and Meadows, ML,s Walcott, and NiNi Fairbrother will perti_mn. To conclude with VALENTINE AND ORSON DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New D-ania, with New Scenery and splendid Appointments, entitled MIDNIGHT ; or, the Sentinel and the Hour. A Legend of St. Panl's In which the entire Company will perform. After which, a New Farce, entitled GALVANIC RING. Cha racters by Messrs. Reslop, Seaman, COrri. 3fiss Martin, Mrs. H. Hughes, a - 0 Mrs, W. Daly, To be followed by REBEC('A ; or, The Carbonari and the Jew's Daughter. Rebecca, Mrs. Henry Vining. To conclude with BATTLE ; SLAVERY AND SHIPWRECK ; or, The - Poor Little Child of a Tar. Places and Private Roxez to be had of Mr. Kerseluter, at the Box office, from Eleven to Four. THE WEATHER-SUN OFFICE, MARCH 4. rELETCROMETER, Lowest, 23 Highest, 41 ; NOOD, 29. BAROMETER, 29.99.—W1ND, E.N.E. NoTß.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and " Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the thermometer during. the preceding twenty-four hours. All the other observations are made at noon. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning 34 minutes after 11 I Evening .. 0 minutes after 0. il" : * ~:, il e , . --,..;$ .• ~-&-,-,-,-;-, 4,, . . •,._' 4 , 414::', , A.AAIN . , ''-` IT - . 1 -!...` : ... ‘ ? P i ":.' • . .7"Wi ° 44AIW3 I I O , AWS_ 0 ili. : e - lb , • -.. 2 iik ,(44' A ' 'l h „,,,, "....,.."- - "if h , , grr -- -' ~., V. , -4. „.„, „OW.. . -R0 IT ' ~,,,....: s • mot* ~,, , 4rniw. in °Tall% LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCII 5, 1845. The House of Lords met at Five o'clock. The presentation of a petition by Lord ASHBURTON, praying for a repeal of the law of last session, abolish ing imprisonment for small debts, gave occasion to a lengthened conversation, in the course of which Lord BROUGHAM; while admitting that the law required amendment, stated that, on the whole, it had worked well; and Lord CAMPBELL said that, while he would be happy to support a measure for remedying the grievance, he could net consent to repeal the Act and restore to creditors the power of imprisonment. The Marquis of NORM AN3Y postponed his motion on the subject of the Irish constabulary force until Friday, and gave notice that at the same time he should move for a return of all the outrages com mitted in Ireland during the period to which the other return referred. Lord DENMAN, in presenting a petition from a person who had been in prison for three years, because he refused, in consequence of conscientious scruples, to take an oath which he had been required to take under a Commission of Bankruptcy, said that with regard to the Act last session, abolishing impri sonment for small debts, the effects of it were not as yet fully evident. He believed, when WO had full experience of its influence, the Act would be found beneficial to all parties, The ill effects that were at present experienced ought decidedly not to be charg e d to this measure. The Earl of DALHOUSIE presented several Railway Report*. In answer to Lord CAMPBELL, the LORD CHAR• CELLOR said that it was not his intention to intro duce any measure on the subject of the Ecclesiastical Courts this session. Their Lordships then adjourned. The House of Commons met at Twelve. Various amendments were agreed to in the Corn panics Clauses Consclidation Bill, which was read a third time and passed. The House then resolved itself into Committee on the Railway Clauses Consolidation Bill. Considerable opposition, however, arose to the 20th clause, and ultimately Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET consented to postpone the further con sideration of it until Thursday, on the morning of which day, the Railway Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Bill, and the Land Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Bill, are also to be considered. The House then adjourned, and afterwards assembled at Five o'clock. After several private Bills had been forwarded a stage, and several petitions presented, Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET rose to propose the re solutions which the General Committee on Railways had recommended to the House for the regulation of the railway business of the session. One of these re solutions went to the exclusion of Members locally in terested from serving on Railway Committees. Mr. CHRISTOPHER moved the omission of the resclution. A lengthened conversation ensued, and the gallery was cleared for a division; but, ultimately, Mr. CHRISTOPHER'S amendment was negatived without a division, and the resolution was agreed to. On the seventh resolution being put, Lord GRANVILLE SOMERnET stated, in answer to Mr. GISBORNE, that no railway Bills of consequence would be committed before Easter. Mr. HAWES expressed his dissatisfaction with the present constitution of the Railway Committee of the Board of Trade, and suggested the propriety of making it an open tribunal. Sir R. PEEL deprecated any attempt at altering the constitution of the Board as far as the present year was concerned. He knew nothing of their pro ceedings except from their published reports, and looking to them he thought they had elicited infor mation on the sub;ect of railway matters, which never could have been elicited before a Committee of the House. Mr. J. S. WORTLEY thought the constitution of the Board could not be altered for the better, and suggested the propriety of postponing the further consideration of the subject until a later period of the session. Mr. HOUSMAN thought the present a very inoppor tune time for discussing the question. Mr. CURTEIS complained of the shortness of the time all9wed for the inspection of plans of proposed railways, and of the exorbitant charge made for such inspection. The resolution was agreed to, as were several others ; but a resolution being p:oposed, making the attendance of Members on Committees compulsory, Mr. BERNAL rose and opposed the resolution on the ground of the, hardship and inconvenience it would inflict on Members. He thought a tribunal ought specially to be appointed to adjudicate upon railway matters. Mr. WARBURTON and Sir R. PEEL both considered the appointment of any such tribunal would be an abdication by the House of its powers, and could not but operate prejudicially on their character with the country. A desultory conversation ensued on the neglect by Members of their duties as Committee-men, and ultimately the resolution was agreed to. On the 19th resolution, which is to the effect, " That parties promoting railway projects which have been grouped together by the Classification Coni mittee, shall be permitted to appear before the Com mittee on any railway belonging to that group, and to ( ffrr evidence either against the Bills immediately under the consideration of the Committee, or in sup port of their own pre ject," being put, Mr. BANKES again urged the propriety of appoint ing Members possessed of local knowledge to serve on these Committees. A long discussion ensued, but ultimately the reso lution was agreed to. The following resolution was then proposed : " That in Committees on a Bill or Bills, .when such evidence has been given, it shall be within the com petency of a Committee to adjourn their proceedings until tl.e Bill or Bills for such other project shall be before them, care being taken by the Committee of Selection that in all such cases the Bills for the so op posing projects shall be referred to the Committee by which the first Bill or ails had been considered," which after a short discussion was agreed to. Various motions standing on the paper were post poned, and the public business of the House com menced at a late hour by Mr. COWPER moving for leave to bring in a Bill ,:luthorising and regulating the granting of garden allotments to the poor. Mr. MILES seconded the motion which, after a short discussion, was agreed. to, and the louse Adjourned at a Quarter to Twelve o'clock. The House of Commons is about to record, on the motion of an Honourable Member, its deliberate opinion on the expediency or impropriety of allowing the prac tice of interring human bodies in churches and burial grounds within the boundaries of large towns and cities. Since the appearance of the last two reports of the Select Committee on the Health of Towns, we have, on more than one occasion, endeavoured to direct public attention to the immense imp )rtance of the statistics therein developed of disease and mor tality in the most crowded seats of our population. _ _ The Committee had before them the evidence an reports of many intelligent witnesses, speaking from continuous series of observaticns long and assiduously journalised. From the more recent results, arrived at by their personal investigations and inquiries, conducted under every dscouragement to the r:...- volting and disgusting exhibitions and exposure to the influences necessary to be encountered of malignant and revolting maladies; from their own expe riences, therefore, as well as the testimony of others, the Committee in question accumulated and classified some of the most appalling facts that were ever brought forward to illustrate that great feature in any scheme of the domestic economy of a populous nation —its system for the disposal of its dead. If there ever existed, since the first civilisation of organised society, one city of the world in which the disposal of the dead must necessarily affect, and almost govern, the health of the living, it is to be found in the re dundantly peopled London, with its present popula tion of about 3,000,000. Notwithstanding all the vast improvements already effected, or in course of execution, in the drainage, sewerage, and ventilation of particular districts comprised within the extensive area it occupies—the widening of the thoroughfares and the removall'of obstructions, and the cleansing and purification of many among the most confined and filthy quarters to be found in it within these twenty years—the surface over which this march of improvement has, as yet, been effected, is necessarily of very contracted dimensions compared with that which still remains unvisited by it. And in these latter there still subsists, in its widest extent, its mo s t uncontrolled and unmitigated action, and its most hideous aspects, that productive source of typhoid and malignant fevers, ulcerated sore throats, habitual nausea terminating in paralysis and death, which the Committee, concurring in the strong opinions of Mr. WALKER and other medical authorities whom they had examined, reported to the Legislature as the mc3t active causes of what may be called the local Mortality of certain districts carefully indicated by them. It will be seen that we allude to the crowded state of our metropolitan churchyards, and the continued practice of interring in them. In many of our more populous borough and manufacturing towns the same evil prevails in a degree more or less miti gated. But we hope that from the notice which the matter is about to receive in the House of Commons, it will first be dealt with effectually at present, and permanently for the future—in London and its au. burbs. 'We have no intention, on this occasion, to dwell upon the horrors which have been several times so prominently brought before the public; on the noxious exhalations from the burial-ground in Por tugal-street, which swept out, like the besom of des tiny, the entire of the inmates, saving one, of a house with windows that opened upon the reeking and cor rupting Golgotha beneath ; or the Wych-street Cha pel, with its burial cellar and yard beneath and behind it, wherein, year after year, bodies were received and buried, till they reached within a few inches of the surface and the flooring, and the process of adapting the impassable limits of cubical capacity and superfi- cial area to new contributions, week after week, of / present session, but simply to discuss it, and prepare the human corpses, could be carried no further, except by public mind for a scheme of such importance. The the burning of old coffins and the removal of forgotten following is an outline of the Bill : bones to make room for new corners. "The Minister of Finance is authorised to reimburse, at the rate of 100 f. for each sf. of stock,' all holders of Fives, It is scarcely necessary to remind the reader of who within a month from the time fixed by royal ordinance, that similar receptacle (of a few square yards) in should not formally, by a new inscription, d eman d th e con version. This reimbursement is to be effected in series, and Cannon-street, and the swarms of noisome insects is not to be obligatory on the State, but to the amount of the series called on. Such holders of stock as think fit to de mand the conversion are to receive for cash sf. cf Five per Cent. Stock. 4f. 50c. in Four-and-a-Half per Cent. Stock, with a guarantee against the exercise of reimburse ment for ten years, and with the enjoyment of the interest of five per cent. for the half-year after the day on which the operation shall have been terminated. The Minister of Finance is to be authorised, in order to effect the reim bursement of the Five per Cents., Ist, to negotiate Treasury Bonds; and, 2dlY, to have inscribed, if necessary, on the grand livre of the public debt, Four per Cent. Stock, the negotiation of which is to be effected by public competition, and in no case below par. - The part attributed for the Sink ing Fund to the stocks which shall have been reimbursed or converted, shall be transported to the stocks substituted for them, dating from the day of the inscription of these new stocks in the grand livre of the public debt." At TORTONI'S, on Sunday, the Three per Cents. were quoted at 85f. 15c. Swiss papers of the 27th ult. have been received, from which we are glad to find that things wear a better aspect, and that the agitation is on the decrease. - and flesh-flies that it supplied for the annoyance of the children of a neighbouring national or parochial school. The story of that gravedigger in the church yard of St. Ann's, Soho, to whom an incident oc curred,—in the way of his profession,—which the Westminster Review declared might, in point of over whelming horror, have suited the terrible fancy of EURIPIDES or LESCHYLUS,—may form a good exem plification of the hideous casualties attaching to the system of parochial interment which we are still con tent to tolerate. One of the several gravediggers whose evidence was taken—a wretched man in the last stage of a wasting disease, external and internal, brought on by the fearful necessities of his calling, which had constantly subjected him to the mephitic gases and noxious putrescences of decomposing bodies —described the chopping and breaking-up operations by which coffins and the bodies within them bad been habitually disposed of, to accommodate the current demands for new sepultures. A colleague of the mattock had probably been specially employed in these clandestine operations without his knowledge, for he seems to have had no expectation of such an evidence to what had been going on as he was pre sently to meet. On the occasion referred to, the wit ness was digging a deep grave, several feet below the first one, which he had dug through, very near the surface. Whilst in the progress of his excavations the loosened soil from the end of a coffin not long before submitted to the curtailing violations we have described fell down, and a female corpse, in a shroud, still fresh and undiscoloured, fell int.) his arms; and his first shock was succeeded by one of still greater intensity on discovering that it was—headless ! But, to the best of our recollection, no churchyard in Lon don or Westminster was described as being more disgustingly crowded, mare horribly desecrated by the wholesale lopping and disturbance and carting away of coffins and bones—more alarmingly dan gerous to the health of its very densely-populated neighbourhood, from the putrescent exhalations pro ceeding from it, especially on occasions of opening what is called the " Rector's Pew," than that of St. Clement's Danes, in the Strand. PORTUGAL. By our Lisbon correspondence of the 26th ult., it appears that her Majesty was likely to carry into effect her anxiously desired purpose of granting an amnesty to the persons en gaged in the late revolt, and now in exile in Spain and else where. The accounts of her Majesty's health continued favourable The baptism of the young Infanta took place on the 20th ult. The Bill for the Abolition of the Conservatorial Courts. in its definitive form, had been laid before the Chamber of Depu ties. A project of law for the abolition of slavery in all the Portuguese possessions, in the case of children barn after the date of the promulgation of the proposed law, was presented to the Chamber of Peers, and transferred to the Special Anti- Slavery Committee. Another project of a very different kind, imposing penalties of inordinate severity in cases of smuggling of corn into the country, was introduced by Ministers. The Custom house receipts of Lisbon, Oporto, and Sete Cases, for the month of January, had greatly fallen off. The prosecu tions for libels on the Government had again commenced The first of six state prosecutions against an editor was heard on the 17th ult., and terminated in an acquittal. A new financial statement, and a project of the capitalist Roma, on an extraordinary scale of magni tude, for the eonversion of the interest of the fo reign debt, and habilitating the Government to effect that object and meet outstanding engagements, had been submitted, it was reported to the Minister Cabral, and had been sanctioned by him. It was likely to be laid before the Cortes, notwithstanding the ministers Castro and Tojal. were said to be unfavourable to it. The matter was supposed to be the subject of differences between Senhor Ca bral and his colleagues, and of altercations between the Count Tojal and Senhor Roma. Now, it is notorious that, for some months past, the average mortality of the metropolis has in many weeks exceeded that of the corresponding period last year. Will any man venture to say that the in , creased aggregate of fatal disease in the metropolis has had no connexion with the continuance of the abominable abuses of interment, which have been already so strongly reported upon to the Legislature ? It is not above half a year ago since a feeling of in dignation was excited in the public mind by a scene in the Portugal-street burying-ground—if we are correct in our remembrance of the fact—by its being found impossible to bury a coffin, over which the service had been already performe,i, and which wa s left to stand on end, about a foot deep in the ground, till the remonstrances of an agonised relative induced the interference of the minister, or some other autho• rity, to procure a grave of adequate capacity to be dug, in which it was finally interred. The excuse of gravedigger and sexton was, that the ground was so full the corpse could not be buried deeper than in the hole they would have committed it to. Now we earnestly invite the attention of Members of Parliament to facts like these---to the weekly exhibition of graves newly opened, and bodies newly buried in the over-gorged and reeking church yard of St. Clement Danes, and other metropolitan receptacles of the kind, already denounced by the highest professional authority as saturated with human corruption, and giving out, daily and hourlc•, the principles of infectious• disease and death. The nuisance has really become as flagrant as it is in tolerable; and whether its existence arise from the avarice of interested incumbents, or of interested paro chial authorities, or from the carelessness and apathy of the incompetent supervision in other quarters, to which that- supervision has been entrusted ; we implore the Legislature to interpose the most strin gent measures of prohibition and penalty, which may seem best adapted for its entire suppression. At the bottom of every financial measure in Portugal, a small incidental proposal for a large loan is usually found; in the present case, no doubt, Senhor Roma will not disappoint his patrons, or forego the opportunity of doing a little business with them.— Chronicle. Mr. WAKLEY, in our humble opinion, has displayed more zeal than judgment or discretion in his attacks upon the p'dice magistratcs,'and governors of gaols, and the Home S, cretary, for not cordially entering into his views with regard to the production of prisoners at a coroner's inquest. This court was established originally not for the trial of persons accused of murder, but simply to iveertain, when there were reasonable grounds of suspicion, by what means the individual, on whose body the inquest is held, lost his life. It was for the purpose rather of satisfying the friends of the deceased and the public as to the manner in which death had been caused, than for investigating all charges that might be brought against individuals. That task is 1. ft for police magistrates and judges and when the different stages " through which a process of this kind passes is considered, the formalities on which the Coroner for Middlesex so ardently insists appear altogether uncalled for. The verdict of his jury, in fact, decides nothing. It merely adduces grounds for further trial, and the accused has every chance of fair play. He is brought before a magistrate, is allowed to hear evidence and defend ' himself ; and if there are reasonable grounds of suspicion he is committed fir trial. But two more investigations take place. The case must be heard before a grand jury, and if . no sufficient evidence is furnished, the bill is ignore:l ; but if the Co roner's jury has returned a verdict against him, he is not discharged, but arranged before a petit jury. lie has thus three, or at least two, chances of fair play— as many as any man can reasonably desire ; but to carry on four separate investigations, and to bring up the unfortunate person, with all the wit nesses, and solicitors, and agents and friends, in each instance, appears to every unprejudiced mind a work of supererogation. Nay, it is a wanton waste of time, and the public mind is kept in a state of excitement, without one good purpose being served. The case of this man llocKett is an instance in proof of the fact. The affair has been kept before the public for ten days, and it has only arrived at the second stage yesterday ; and at the Central Criminal Court the whole business must again be brought before the pubic. It is an ab surd syrtena, and the sooner the Coroner is convinced of the fact the better, both for the accused and the good of the public. The Madrid journals of the 24th ult. contain no news of interest. Senor CASTELLO Y AYENZA. was about to return to Roble with a higher title—that of Minister Plenipot( ntisry from the. Court of Spain. MADRID BOURSE, Fun. 24.—Three per Cents., 33 11-16 cash, 34k at 60 days ; Five per Cents., 254-, at 60 days; Coupons, 26k, on the 28th current; Passive, 7 5-16, cash; Exchange on London, 7 9.16. The parties in the French Chamber of Deputies on Saturday had another trial of strength on the passing of the Council of State Bill. A ballot took place, when there were for the Bill 197, against it 170, giving a majority of 27 to Ministers. In the Committee on the Budget AL LACAVE LAPLAGNE, the Finance Minister, explained, as we stated yesterday, the views of the Go vernment on the conversion of the Five per Cent. Stock, and announced that unless some material financial changes should take place in the meantime, a Bill to that effect would be introduced next session. His reasons for not presenting such a Bill this session are thus stateda— The situation of the country as regarded public credit was •satisfactory, and seemed favourable to the measure, but the Government was engaged in considerable expenses for railroads and other works of public utility; that it had just submitted to the Chambers a new system for the execution of the railroads; and that it would be injudicious to change the economy of the finances before the additional charges they would have to bear were exactly ascertained ; he also urged that a considerable loan had just been raised, which was not yet classed, and that a feeling of delicacy towards the contractor did not permit the Government to under take a financial measure which might compromise the success of his operation." " After all," he said in conclusion, "a discussion begun this year in the Cham bers, would perhaps possess in other respects some ad vantages: it would prepare matters for the measure and would enable the Government and the Chambers to see their way more clearly in the questions which are to be resolved ; the Bill could in this way be voted more rapidly next year." Towards the close of the public sitting on the same day, a Bill was presented to the President for the con version of this stock by M. MIIRET DE BORT, who is understood to be in the confidence of the Government, the object of which is not to carry the Bill during the FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS, MARCH 1.-The Chamber of Representatives, in its sitting yesterday, adopted several projects of law of purely local interest, and received many applications for acts of na turalisation, all of which were taken into consideration. A journal of our city says that the Bank of Antwerp (a branch of the General Society) has resolved not to lend on Belgian funds. We are enabled to affirm that this is a mis take. We believe we may assert that the General Society did not make advances in Belgian funds either at Brussels or Antwerp, but that sometimes, as an exception, it received pub lic funds and shares as representing a second signature on papers (f ffects), which, according to the statute, ought to have them. Of late this faculty has been abused, to procure means of exporting to London gold coin (ten florin pieces) which was attended with some profit, the exchanges on London having risen to 25f. 80c. _ _ _ The General Society, which has always endeavoured to prevent the exportation of coin, has judged it necessary to take effectual measures to prevent the exportation of gold, a large quantity of Ichick had already been sent to London. This measure has had the good effect of obliging the specula tors to go to Amsterdam to purchase ten florin pieces to a considerable amount, for which they had to pay an agio of per cent. BELGIAN FUNDS.—Barsms, Mend' 1. Actual Debt, 214 per Cent ..... Pothschild's Loan, Five per Cent Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent - gg% Ditto Three per Cent . ............. . • • • • • •• Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto 77 Ditto, ditto, 1840 • 103!.6 Ditto, ditto, 1844 . • • • •• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 102 Ditto of the City, 1843 Ditto, 1832 • • ...•• • • • Bank of Belgium •• • ••••• • • • • • —Brussels Papers. March 2. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TUESDAY EVENING. Stocks closed firmly to-day. Consols, 991 to par for Money, and 100 to 1 for Account. Exchequer bills have been 625. to 643. premium, and the New Three-and-a- Quarter per Cents. were 104 to 1. The Foreign Bonds were quoted, 28 t 1 for Spanish Five p,r Cents., 40i for the Three per Cents, 90k for Danish, 62 for Portugese Converted, and 63i for Dutch Two-and-a-halt per Cents. - The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been these :—Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings were I ; Caledonian, 2g ; Cambridge and Lincoln, ; Chiches t, r and Brighton, 11 ; Churnet Valley, 31 to 4 ; Corn wall, 2 ; Eastern Counties, 3+ ; Ely and Bedford, ; Great Southern and Western (Ireland) Extension, 41 ; Guildford and Portsmouth, 21 ; Hull and Selby, 37 ; ditto, Ilalf, 15 ; Lancaster and Carlisle, 19 ; Brighton, 142 1 ; Croydon, 5 ; South Western, 381- • London and York, 5} ; Lynn and Ely, 21 ; Midland, 28 ; Rugby and Tring, 21 ; Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 2/ • South Devon, 61 ; South Eastern, 9i ; Staines and Richmond, 1 ; South W a l es, 3 ; Waterford and Kil kenny, 2to 1 4 ; W est Cornwall, 3 ; Selby, 451 ; Bou logne and Amiens, 8; Bordeaux and Cette, 1 ; Dieppe and Paris, 1 ; Great Northern of France, 21 ; Lyons and Avignon, 1 ; Orleans and Bordeaux, 71 ; Paris and Lyons, 11 ; Paris and Rouen, 24i ; Rouen and Havre, 17 ; and Tours and . Nantes, 1i premium. Blackwall have been 9, and Strasburg and Bale, 1 discount. The Foreign Exchanges generally were very firm this afternoon. The following is the official return of the exports of Bullion from the Port of London for the week ending Thursday last : Silver coin to Hong-Kong, 4,000 oz. _ _ (From The Sun of Last Night.) There was a large business done in Cotton at Liverpool yesterday. Sales 12,000 bales, including 4,000 on speculation. The market was very firm, and in some instance l Ad. per lb. higher.—There was a good business dcne in Shares, and generally at improving rates. Birmingham and Del by, 96 1 ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 1341: Caledonian, 7% 1-16; 373/4; Chester and Cambridge and Lincoln, 31,4:Yi ; Holyhead, 8 1 4 ; tual, 51. 13s. 4d. ; Edinburgh and c C hh Easternue s r t n e e r t and c\o,ua In ß i et Birkenhead, e 6 n pi lie r% a p d a: Lan caster Ditto and Greenock, 15% ; ; le g ra o w a i Junction, Quarterncti Carlisle,o i Shares, 2 21 34; ; 15 Dittor e; Great Western, 177; Liver poolLan- and Manchester, 206 and Preston, 52 ; ; London and Birmingham, Quar ter Shares, 29 ; Ditto and Brighton, 64 1 / 2 66 ; Ditto and York, 7 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 66 ; Ditto and Leeds, 142 1 / 4 ; Ditto, Half, 9 2 %; Midland Counti e s, 127%; Ditto, 401. - Shares, 8% ; Northßritish, Thirds, 3; Preston and Wyre, 25 1 4 !4, ; Shrewsbury and Grand Junction, 6 1 4 ; South-Eastern, 421 4 ; Ditto, No. 2, 11% %; Trent Valley, 20% ; Lyons and Avignon, 545. ; Paris and Rouen, 43%; Bordeaux and Toulouse, 2% ; Boulougne and Amiens, 91. Is. 3d.; Northern of France, 6 64. Much disappointment is expressed in the City at the many delays that have occurred, and which are likely to occur in the settlement of the Sugar Duties. It is thought, in practi cal circles, that Sir Robert Peel ought to have made himself fully master of the subject as respects classification long be fore he brought forward the Tariff; as it is, losses will accrue by the want of purchasers at a time when any doubts exist in the public mind as to what may, or may not ;be, the resolv e s of the Legi-lature upon questions connected with the Customs or the Excise Duties. The circular of Chaloner and Co. of Liverpool, relative to he Timber trade thus sensibly remarks:— " In consequence of Sir Robert Peel's intention to remove the duty on all descriptions of staves, there has been a pause in the demand until it can be seen what direction the market will take. For the present, it is likely that prices will be maintained until supplies can come forward from the United States, from which place we are sure to have a largely increased and revived trade, as well as from the Baltic, though probably not for this year; but as regards this port, we more particularly expect large supplies from the t United States, and at such prices, through absence of date, reduced freight, as will restore to our coopers the Wen tlndia trade, which has been nearly lost to them. We do n falter our quotations for the present, although holders are more inclined to sell than they were before Sir R. Peel's announcement. " Sir R. Peel having announced his intention of taking the duty off all furniture woods, has thus, to the fullest extent, thrown the trade open for the benefit of the British cabinet maker, who may now be expected to be able to compete with the foreign manufacturer in every market in the world. The Premier's determination on this head cannot be too highly appreciated, and we look for a largely increased trade in every article. The removal of the auction duty, also, and the fetters imposed by the Excise restrictions, is another great boon to this particular branch of trade, which, in this port, is invariably conducted through means of public auction." From the monthly resume of Messrs. Wilkinson and Jewes bury, relative to the state of the dry-saltery trade, the fol lowing remarks are not without interest at the present moment : _ _ "It is quite true that agriculture and trade require relief, but all cannot be done at once ; yet we have reason to believe that before long, a Select Committee will be appointed to in quire into our fiscal laws, with a view to the revision of them, and that such evidence will be adduced before that Com mittee, of the necessity of improving the system, that by merely simplifying it and preventing frauds, a revenue may be obtained to meet the annual disbursements, comprising the total repeal of the assessed taxes acid Excise laws, with out the imposition of a single additional tax, and leave a large surplus towards liquAlating the public debt. Should this be adopted, agriculture and trade, so far as the Legis lature is concerned, cannot fail to prosper. " From the manufacturing districts the accounts continue favourable; the same activity in almost: every branch is quite equal to what it has been tor months, and up to this time both manufacturers and dealers seem to act with caution. "The last accounts from the United! States are by no means encouraging for European munufa.ctures, but arc very important to capitalists, inasmuch as the payment of the dividends on the Pennsylvanian Debt have been resumed. This we always maintained would be the case, notwithstanding the Shylock wailings of the cosmopolites, and the ravings of those who wish to destroy the good understanding which exists, and the reciprocal advantages of the two nations. " The intermediate overland mail from India, to the Bth January, brings no good news for the manufacturers of this country. Money was said to be abundant, but not to pur chase their commodities. Produce, however, was selling, generally, at rates unprofitable to those who had to ship to this market, notwithstanding the great abundance of all the leading articles:" Messrs. Raphael and Sons send us a copy of the decree concerning the second drawing of Four .and-a-Half per Cent. Bonds, Six millions of Guilders will be drawn on the sth March, to become Four per Cents. on Ist April at 99 1 / $ per Cent., unless the money is claimed on or before the 26th inst. The improved appearance of the English Funds is well maintained to-day, and in the heavy securities especially there is a good deal of business doing. The New Three-and a-Quarter per Cents. have been up to 103% and 104 1 / 8 . Consols have been 9931 to par for present transter, and 100% to for Account. Exchequer-bills have been at an advance to 625. to 645. premium, and India Bonds at 725. premium. Bank Stock has been depressed, however, to 212 1 / 2 and 211 1 / 2 . The Foreign Securities have been dull but firm. Spanish Actives are 28%, and the Three per Cents. 41. Portuguese Converted have touched 62 1 / 2 . Mexican have been 36 1 / 2 ; Peruvian 31 ; and Brazilian 90 3 M. Dutch Two and-a-Hall per Cents. have been firm at 63 1 % to 1 / 2 , and Belgian Four and-a-Half per Cents. at 101 to 101%. The Railway Shares are buoyant. Brighton have been higher; South-Eastern are much the same; Churnet Valley are depressed ; the old lines are well supported, and in French there is a large business doing. ONE CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISII FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock 21 2 1% 211 1 212 1 / 212% 3 per Cent. Reduced 3 per Cent. Conscls New 3 1 4 per Cents 103% 4 314 VA 3% 4 104% Long Annuities toexpireJan.l66o 121, 1-16 12 1-16 Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 11 13-16 15-16 11 15-16 India Bonds, 1,0001 Ditto under 1,0001. Bank Stock for Account 2131/ 213 1 A Cons Is for Account..... Exchequer Bills,, 1,000/., I%d 63 62 64 • pm. 64 Ditto 500/. , Ditto Small • 63 65'pm. 65 Ditto Advertised 62 6:3 60 61 pm. 61 CLOSING PRICES. ONE PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent — 90% Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 36% Ditto. Account ..... ... Ditto, Deferred 5t0ck...... Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents 3l Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto, Converted Ditto, Account 62 63 Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Account 28% 28 3 / 4 Ditto, Passive Ditto 3 per Cent. . ..... ... .. Belgian Scrip, 4% per Cent Dutch, 21/ per Cent Ditto Account Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 991 1 4 PRICES OF CLOSING W PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILAY SHARES PRICES. Birming. and Gloucesterloo 135 Ditto % Shares Bri'ton, Lewes, Hastings 5 Bristol and Exeter Ditto New 2 Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ...... 59% CalJdonian Cambridge and Lincoln 1 1 , 4 3% Chester and Holyhoad... 5 ......... Chichester and Brighton 5 Cliurnet Valley Direct Northern Dublin and Galway..... 2% 3 Eastern Counties 144 165....... 17% 181/s 17% Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1....41. 13s. 4d — Ditto ditto, No. 2. l3s. 4d.. Eastern Union lO .. .. Ditto Extension Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 Ditto, Quarter Shares 16 Eli• and Bedford Great South. and West. (Ireland) Ditto Extension Great North of England 100 Ditto New _., 5 Great Western SO ...... 176 177 1 / 2 ...... Ditto 1 / 2 Shares Guildford, Farn'm,l'orts. 2 1 / 2 ... Hull and Selby Ditto Quarter Shares 12 1 / 2 ...... 193 Do. Half Shares Lancaster and Carlisle... 15 London and Birminghm (Stock)... Ditto, Quarters London and Blackwall. 161. 13s 4d 7 l /2 London and Brighton... 50 - Ditto Consolidlited Bth 16 London and Croydon, 13/. 15s. 9d lB% 19 Ditto Guaranteed 5 per Cent. London and S. Western 4116 s 10d 79 1 / 2 Ditto New 2 l/ 12% London and York 4 12 7 PA Lynn and Ely Manchester and Leeds... 73 Ditto Sixteenths Manche:ter and Birmin. 40 Ditto Quarters Midland... 100 ......130 129 130 Ditto New 2 ...... 10 9%% Midland, Birm., Derby...loo Newcastle and Purling ton Junction 24 ..... 48% Newcastle and Berwick 1% ...... 141 15 ... North British Ditto, New ......... ..... 1 Northern and Eastern... 45 Norwich and Brandon... 10 Ditto New 1 Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1 Shrews., Wolverhamp., Dudley, and Birm 2%..... 51 ,4 South Devon lO . ... South Eastern & Dover 33123 4d... 43 1 A 43 1 / 2 Ditto, No. 2. Ditto, No. 3 2% 9 Staines and Richmond... 1 South Wales Trent Valley 2 ...... 20f4 1 / 2 Waterford and Kilkenny 1 ..... ••• West Cornwall ...... 14..... York and North Midland 50 lO4 Ditto, Selby Ditto Extension l!4 . 15 1 4 % 14% 15 1 ,E FRENCH RAILWAYS. Boning/le and A miens 2 Bordeaux and Toulouse 2 Bordeaux, Toulouse. and Cate ..... .... . ... ..... 2 Dieppe and Paris June. 2 ...... Great North. of France.. 4 Lyons and Avignon 2 Orleans and Vierzon ... 2 Orleans and Bordeaux... 2 Faris and Lyons ' Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen- Paris and Strasbourg ... 2 Rouen and Havre Strasbourg and Bale ... 14 Tours and Nantes 1 63% JOINT STOCK BANKS. Commercial of London... 20 Provincial of Ireland ... 25 Union of Australia Union of London. 3% OA 4% 1% - 7% 101 5 87 30 7 5 r 65% 1 E 3/4 7% 51A 16% 60% 65 1 / 2 2% 2y6 4 4% 31 13 2% 21 44 1 4 124 MANCHESTER STOOK EXCHANGE, MARCH 3.—We have had a better market to-day, and prices are somewhat im proved.—Birmingham and Gloucester, New Shares, 3% ; London and Birmingham, 233 ex div. ; London and Brighton, 63 1 / 2 65, ex new and ex div. ; Manchester and Leeds, 141; Ditto, Half Shares, 62 ; Manchester and Birmingham, Quartet Shares, 12 7-16 ex div. • Midland Railway, 401. Shares, 8%; Preston and Wyre, 25 1 % 1 / 2 ; South-Eastern, No. 3,8% 9 ; Barnsley Junction, 6% ; Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction, 8 1-16 ; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accring • ton, 5% ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 7:!.i ; Caledonian, 74 %; Cambridge and Lincoln, 31; Churnet Valley, 6 5 7-16 ; Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and C ana l, 5 1 / 2 ; Kendal and Windermere, 4% • Leeds and West Ridi ng Junction, 6 1 % ; Liverpool, Ornaskirk, and Preston, 3 1 / 8 ; London and Worcester, Oxford and Rugby, 3 9-16 %; Lon don and York, 7 1-16 7; Manchester and Buxton, 3 1 ,‘ ; Southport and Euxton, 3; Boulogne and Amiens (English), 9 ; Tours and Nantes, 21,i. The half-year's dividend :on the Cuba Bonds due to-day, will be paid at Messrs. Harman's, in Old Broad street. This is a stock that is seldom quoted; indeed, it is but little known. Originally there was but 500,0001. capital, and this is paying off half-yearly at par, at the rate of about 20,000/. a year. These Bonds are seldom if ever to be pur chased in the market; the interest is 6 per cent , and the dividends are paid with a punctuality not exceeded by the funds. The quotation is 96, but no sellers The railway throughout the whole island of Cuba is the source from which these dividends arise, and the traffic during the last three years, it is said, has increased six-fold. COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—(YESTERDAY.) Amsterdam CF. 12 8 Gibraltar..... Ditto, at sight l2 6 Leghorn ... ...... 31 Rotterdam 2U. 12 8i Genoa .... Antwerp 26 20 Milan Hamburgh M.B. 13 15i Venice .... .... 47 Alton& l3 14 Naples .. 394 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 90 Palermo, 1,47 0z...... 119 Ditto, 3 months 26 15 Lisbon...._ ....... 531 1 Marseilles 26 20 Oporto . Bourdeaux 26 25 Rio Janci:o ..... 230 Frankfort on Maine 123 Bahia . .. :.. ..... Petersburgh, 3Us 37 Berlin 7 Vienna, effec. fi.3 M lO 2 Trieste, ditto Madrid 36} Buenos Ayi‘ss NewYoik . :'dyssight Cadiz 13ilbao 36 Barcelona 36 Seville 7.? 41,31.L10N, pica OZ Foreign bars. se3 17 9 Coin 3 17 5 New Do!!.:00T13 u 0 0 New :iotlars 0 4 9i Silv'e: , f , nits ..... A beautiful display of Italian sculpture is now in public exhibition, at Robins' auction rooms, which has been very recently brought to this country. It embraces numberless fine specimens of the sculptor's art, both in alabaster and marble, copied from the most celebrated models of the Thrghese, Florentine, and Vatican gal leries ; and, from the beautiful style in which they are executed * are worthy to adorn the mansion of the most critical connoisseur. The sa l e t a k es p l ace to•morrow. DRURINLAN TREATILE.—The benefit of Mr. Bunn was attended on Monday by a highly respectable audience—a tribute properly due to his enterprise and activity as a ma nager. The performances commenced with the English ver sion of L'Elisir &Amore, played by Miss Romer, Mr. Stret ton, Mr. W. Harrison, and the other principals of the esta blishment. This was followed by a variety of other entertainments in the shape of ballet and concert singing ; and everything, during the time we were present, gave un mitigated satisfaction. SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY.—A very interesting selection of music is announced for performance on 'Wednes day next. It includes Handels " Coronation Anthem," his " Dettingen Te Deum " and several other pie ces , an d Pur cell's " Jubilate," and , ik cantata, " In guilty night." We understand that Madame Albertazzi sings this evening at the Olyrripic Theatre, for the benefit of Mr. Darcie. This gentleman is a rising actor of consider able talent, and his personation of " Old Bogie," in the pantomime at this theatre, will not be speedily forgotten, and we doubt not that his benefit will be a bumper. Messrs. Marshall and Co., Leeds, have advanced tha wages of their linen power-loom weavers from ten to six teen per cent., for fine linens and drilla. MISS CLARA SE Y TON'S NE W ENTERTAINMENT. Miss Clara Seyton gave her new Entertainment, last evening, at Crosby Hall. It is entitled " Illustrations of the Drama and the Opera," and is the first of a series which, judging from the specimen of last evening, will be most interesting. She began by some general ob• servations on the übjects of Poetry, and then drew a com parison between Dramatic and Epic Poetry, giving the preference to the former. After some brief allusions to the Greek Drama, she came to the revival of thematic art in modern times, in which revival the English took the lead. This naturally brought her to Shakespere, and the first musical illustration was the beautiful serenade from Romeo and Juliet, set to music expressly for this entertainment, by Mr. 'l'. Coolie. It is unnecessery to dilate upon the qualifications of Mr. T. Coke as a musical illustrator of Shakespere. Who has not heard, and who, having heard, has not ben delighted with his music to the Midsummer .IViglt's Dream ? In the Tres- nt instance his genius has not de serted him. It was indeed " music married," and worthily " married to immortal verse," and was given by Miss Clara Seyton, accompanied by herself on the harp, in a style worthy of the poet and the composer. A short account of the invaluable services of Shakespere in popu larising the history of his country brought the play of Henry IV. under notice, and Hotspur's celebrate d description of a fop was recited with great !junto, and was much applauded. From Shakespere to his commentators the transition was easy. Among those the must illustrious • are Schlegel and Goethe—the latter himself a mighty poet, and as a specimen of his poetry, his magnificent ballad of the Erl King (set to music by Schubert) was most effectively given. Returning from this slight 'digression, the works of Beaumont and Fletcher came tinder notice. A recitation from their play of " Love's Pilgrimage," t was given as a specimen of their dramatic powers, while the song" Welcome, sweet liberty," from The Chances, was given as an example of their lyric poetry. This latter song is prettily set by T. Cooke, in the Spanish style, with a catagnette ac companiment, and went off very trippingly. A recita tion from Jane Shore, beautifully acted, was given as a specimen of the dramatic powers of Rowe. This reci tation (the indignant rejection, by Jane Shore, of Glou cester's advances, and her emphatic calling fur blessings on the head of Hastings, for his defence of Edward's children against the machinations of the crooked-back tyrant) was peculiarly appropriate to the locality, inasmuch as it was probably in the very hall in which it was then delivered that the actual scene took place, for Crosby-place was the residence of Gloucester, and in Crosby-hall all his plots against his brother's children were concocted. Ti.is was followed by Claude Melnotte's description of his course of love, from Bul wer's Lady of Lyons, and the first part concluded with the blind girl's song, " Buy my flowers," from the "Last Days of Pompeii," which was beautifully given, and deservedly encored. The second part was devoted to the musical drama, and the first illustra tion was the grand scena, " Softly sighs," from Der Fieisehutz, which was given with great power and effect, arid was rapturously applatn!ed. A brief but succinct narrative of the career or n.zart was then given, and the story of the composition of his requiem and of his death was so beautifully and so pathetically told as to draw tears from many of the auditors. The civatina, " Non piu di fiari, ' from the Clemenza di Tit), was given as a specimen of this great master. A digression was then made, giving an account 4,f the origin of concerts in England, and several interesting anecdotes were related of the career of the famous Britton, the small coal-man, the originator of this species of entertainment. Returning from this digression, the lyrical drama again became the subject of consideration, and the cavatina, " Must I woo thee," from Pacini's opera of Sappho was given as a specimen of the modern lyrical drama of Italy. Musically speaking, this was the gem of the concert—it was exquisitely given, and to those who know the opera we need not state that Miss Clara Seyton possesses a highly cultivated voice of great power and immense compass, for all these are essentially requisite to do any thing like justice to this exce4 dingly beautiful composi tion. A brief notice of the perfection to which the com position of catches and glees has been brought in thia country, gave occasion to the introduction of a well merited tribute of admiration to the talents of Mr. T. Cooke as a musician, which was received with the most rapturous applause. A new romance, entitled " The Black Knight," composed by Mr. Cooke expressly for Miss Seyton, was here introduced, and a medley scena, entitled "A Musical Scamper over Europe," arranged by T. Cooke and written by Alb-rt Smith, concluded the entertainments. This " mu sical scamper " introduces Miss Seyton to us in quite a new character. We were previously aware that her histrionic talents were of the highest order, but we had no idea of her versatility. Nothing can exceed the fun, the humour, the buoyancy with which this musical scamper is given, and yet she " ne'er o'ersteps the modesty of nature;" all is ladylike, and in the very best taste, but the humour is of the eery riches.t cha racter. The imitation of the French street •singer grinding her organ, and singing " Partant pour La Lyrie," in the genuine orthoclase French nasal twang, was one of the most humorous things we have seen for years—the Bavarian broom girl—the Swiss girl, all, all were excellent. It was a hit—a most palpable hit—and the audience felt that it was so—the old hall re-echoed with the 'shouts of laughter and applause, and when at the conclusion of the scamper, as a specimen of that music which is dear to every English heart, she gave the first verse of " God. save the Queen," the audience rose en masse and commenced rounds of cheers, which were con tinued not only long after the conclusion of the song, but long after the fair lecturer had retired from the hall. The entertainment was exceedingly well attended. COURT UIItCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert walked yesterday morning in the royal gardens of Buckingly:m Palace. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was taken an airing yesterday forenoon, in the royal gardens. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent left her re sidence, Clarence House, St. James's, at twenty minutes before ten o'clock yesterday morning, and proceeded to the terminus of the London and Birmingham Railway, in Euston-square. Her Royal Highness, attended by the Countess Wratislaw and Sir George Coupe'', Bart., took her departure, at ton o'clock, for Witley Court, Worcestershire, on a yisit to her Majesty the Queen Dowager. Mr. Dean, Chairman of the Customs, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence, in Downing -street. Sir Moses Montefiore had an interview with Sir R. Peel yesterday. The Ecclesiastical Commission for . England had a meeting yesterday at the office in Whitehall-place. The Commissioners present were—The Archbishop of Can terbury, the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Chichester, the Bishop of St. David's, the Bishop of Hereford, the Bishop of Lichfield, the Bishop of Worcester, the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, and the Right Hon. Sir J. Nichol I. A deputation from the Goole, Doncaster, and Sheffield and Manchester Junction Railway, consisting of the fol lowing gentlemen :—Mr. William Vickers. Chairman; the Right lion. Lord Beaumont, the lion. J. S. Wortley, M.P.; Messrs. Henry Wheat and Henry JUbb, of Shef field ; Mr. William Gordon Thomson, and Major Adair, attended by Mr. Leather, Civil Engineer ; Mr. Hayward, Parliamentary Agent ; Mr. Staniforth, Solicitor, Sher field ; Mr. Rodgers and Mr. Cary, Solicitors, London ; and Mr. P. H. Newall, Secretary, had an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie, yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. . Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an in terview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governor of Gibraltar. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE NORTHAMPTON AND PYTCHLEY HUNT RACES, 1843. Acceptances for the Great Northamptonshire Handicap. Napier, 5 yrs, 83t 51bs—Discord, aged, Bst—Yardley, 5 yrs, 7st 91b—Tne Queen of the Gypsies, 5 yrs, 7st 71b—Doctor Husband, 4 yrs, 7st 21b—Queen Blab, 6 yrs, 7st—Lord Sultan, 4 yrs, 7st—Arcanus, 6 yrs, 6st 121b—The Courier, aged, 6st 1211.3—Father Matthew, 4 yrs, 6st 111b—Roderick, 6 yrs, Est 101b—The Dean, aged, Est 911.--Dash, 4 yrs, 6st 91b—Warp, 4 yrs, Est 91b—ch c by Ratcateher out of Tur quoise, 4 yrs, Est 61b—April Noddy, 4 yrs, 6st 51b—Bastion, 3 yrs, sst 711—Velux, 3 yrs, sst 71b, and Sparsholt, 3 yrs, 4st 71b. The rest declared forfeit. LIVERPOOL STEEPLE CHASE. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY NIGIIT.—The following horses have arrived for the Handicap Steeple Chase :—Vanguard, Peter Simple, Crcesus, The Page, Clansman, Cure-all, Boakeeper, Ceremony, The Stranger, The Knight Templar, Nimrod, The Romp, Brilliant, and Tom Tug. LORD SEFTON'S PLATE. Lord Chesterfield's Jenny Wren is named for this race, in addition to those mentioned yesterday. The Duke of Rut land, Sultan, Jenny Wren, and Master Stepney are here. COURSING. COCKNEY UNION MEETING—FEn. 26, 27, 28. The Cup—value 32 sovs—was won by Mr. Miller's Brenda —Mr. Fowles's Fop ran up.—The Jenner Stakes (8 dogs) were won by Mr. Chitty's Cotherstone and Mr. Duusford's Dreadnought, who divided.—The Enford Stakes were won by Mr. Chase's Burgundy.—The Amesbury Stakes were won by Mr. Miller's Marquis.—TheNetheravon Stakes by Mr. Long's Crucifix, and the Longstreet Stakes by Mr: Miller's Gipsy— the sport was good. ARDROSSAN MEETING, FEB. 27 AND 28, AND MARCH I. The Cup of 25 sovs. was won by Mr. J. Dunlop's Matilda Jane; the Champion Collar of 32 sovs., by Mr. Geddes's Bothwell Bank; the Couples of 32 sovs., by Mr. G. Pollok's Helen Faueit ; the Eglinton Park Stakes of 14 sovs., by Dr. Brown's Swallow; the Tyro Stakes of 16 sovs., by Dr. Brown's The Emperor of Coursers; the Harbour Stakes of 12 sovs., by Sir J. Boswell's Clinker; and the Selling Stakes of 13 sovs., by Mr. Sharp's Rook. Mr. Allan's Caststeel ran up for the Cup; Lord Eglinton's Oliver Twist, for the Cham pion Collar; Dr. Brown's Scotland's Queen, for the Couples; and Mr. J. Dunlop's Rosalind, for the Eglinton Park Stakes THE NEW WORK ON SrAts.—We are requested to state that Mr. Colburn, of Great Marlborough-street, has this day published Revelations of Spain in 1845," by An English Resident, in 2 vols., price 215., bound, which can now be had of all booksellers. The following is a list of the principal contents of this important work :—The Fall of Espartero—The Rise of Narvarz— The Provisional Government—The Central Junta — Lopez and Olozaga—The Royal Conspiracy—Queen Isabel—Queen Christina—The Camarillas—The Repre sentative Chambers—Sketche of Party Leaders—Gon zalez Bravo and his Ministry—rhe Catalan and Valen cian Guerillas—The Pronunciamentos—Freemasonty -- The Republicans—The Contrabandists—The Spanish Army—Military Life—The Conscription—The Bandits of Andalusia—The Church—The Navy—The Infante Don Francisco de Paula—Grandees and hidalgos—The Universities—The English and French in Spain—The Slave Traders—Agriculture—State of the Lower Or ders—The National Militia—The Ayuntamientos or Municipal Chambers--Parliamentary Elections—The Judicial Bench—The PresA—Spanish Literature and Art—The Drama—The Wine Commerce of Spain— Finance and Financiers—The Colonies of Spain, &c., &c. ME NT JUSTicEs , eL it AND ci.lir,Ks OF THE PEAC E 'b c S I A 8.11 has been prepared and brought in, ' f ir James Graham and Mr. Manners Sutton (lie cipal and under Secretaries of State Department), "for payment of justices' evi ks of the peace by salaries, instead of rob for regulating fees in criininal proceedings , r oll was ordered by the House of Commons to be P. C i • on the 26:h ultimo. The first clause authorl directs the justices in quarter sessions to returns . (rein justices of the peace within their s o e de ,) commissions, setting forth the names and ° el l the persons appointed to act, or usually set clerks to the justices of the several divisions, j forth the amount of salary which they will rec° l .;i4, to be paid to each of such clerks respectivef,,loi of fees. Clauses 2 and 3 enact that the in sti f for the each special division shall, on receipt °, 64 1 precepts for this purpose from the ju st . l oo ! quarter session, meet in special se ssi g e , make these required returns, and that a 40 return may be made in cases where there are Se petty sessions, or a different clerk of special 7 00 0 Clauses 4 to 6 direct that where two or more , [ c lef°, shall be appointed under provisions of this A c id oti of petty session, in any division, they shall 11 4 0 0 offices jointly, and not severally; estl sbils -40 amount of the qualification, and direc's the,we supplying vacancies. 7to 11 provide that t il e d ries recommended shall be considered at the p e - o IV quarter sessions, which shall be compete nt WO them ; such salaries to be payable out of the cou.n of No clerk to be dismissed except by.resolutio:A majority of justices present at a special sessit_iLed convened, after seven days' notice, for the Pt u r c iall considering the same ; and during the vans ll o ,o clerk's office, its duties to be discharged by 5 c l pro iefi and competent substitute, who shall be pai d Lop; tional amount of the salary that would have " — de r to the eerk himself. Clauses 12 a nd 18 sear! that clerks shall be disqualified from 01 1 as attorneys in certain cases. Arnutes 1 111 : ic i 6, 4 f accounts of all moneys received an d Pi s 11 each clerk to be appointed under t h e to be kept, and made to the cle:I of the Pea c eo pt° also to the treasurer of the county, a true ac; be li o all fines, fees, and other moneys receive islretid (such clerk), annexing to such account 3 di d 01 , of its truth and accuracy. Amount aPPe ar co u% l P thereon to be paid to the treasurer the e e lo d e and in default made thereof, treasurer to lte . s g ee, sct s d plaint before any any two justices of the P- 4 I shall immediately issue their warrant for r eeo ierf ,P the amount out of the defaulting cleric's s spo living, from his executors or estate if dea d ' 04 to be payable except to the appointed clerks. bci 19 to 35 have relation to the office, dutieeblos clerks of the peace. Clause 19 directs that a i i: ed; or; the peace shall render an account of fees re ee ne ciY,e if unable to do so in respect of any year, n c' e i et r i ; his return the reasons of such inability. 4.l '„ena t o f of the fees demanded by clerks of the Pe L .,a c " re eiri fie amount thereof, to be determined by the ' ec to eil State. The custom of fifty years' receipt as . et iges shall be taken to legalise it : nevertheless ,the ithe? suite thee" the Court of Queen's Bench my be con The Home Secretary of State is to ascortainiorosetioi and net amount of the lawful fees and etn 9 ch clO i e r ki all clerks of the peace, on an average in and ° .e r j,r the receipt of the last seven years; auu f t he' ,V shall certify such amount to the Lords en e tber' o ll sury ; present legal fees to be received til e _ ece oa j , directed. Clerks of the peace to render Ol e Ir e / in the manner prescribed, every year, t i e „,eur 4 ,lis' sury, with a declaration o f th e truth an ° anid thesame annexed thereto. In the event, of state satisfaction, on the part of th e SecretarY t ' f s ac- ell such accounts, they are to be examined b.Y.irefilo sons as he may appoint, who shall b e ! r o e of" sworn truly to report thereof... Any su lved b io? and emoluments that shall have been W ei - 0.21 h fL g '` .. es l l clerk of the peace, over and above )J o .l_, average as aforesaid, to be paid over to P e re eeinff treasury ; any deficiency in any year' s , g, the other hand, to he paid by her MAYIOOI4I'OO out of the same fund provision, in case 0 1 but v oc oft st nation, or dismissal of a clerk of the peac e ;01)°,, re t iot° to lie for compensation to anyperson who s, be appointed to the office, in respect of aNtiteontior that may in future be made by lawfu l . 6 o f saf di eed the constitution, pleadings, practice, &I x , cii9 l pointment. A clerk of the peace maY,, 0 11 p ub from his office notwithstanding this A e", B peal, dismissal or resignation of a ny clerk o f to y fl y holding such office, the ju s tices of the ° F , oat , point the salary of his successor, to be Pa ~ county rates. s ting re , Under the remaining clauses, the ex' . 0 the " Custos Rotulorum" of each counts' re / 0 10,1 the appointment of clerk of the P eace ; b e e No future appointment of any such n=e- of 6 et eft so as to entitle him to the salary of the ell s tb o jto he shall have given notice of his apPoi nt i rli stat o S o ie in writing, to one of the Secretaries ° o f o f the Treasury. Fees of the clerks of essi/ e iloto t ool l° indictments, of the peace of counties, of e 'fo e- eers'eed) tices of the same, and other such public ° be tt uniform throughout England, Fees t c ' f Slat them to be settled by the Secretary, ° t saV _ o r digested 2S a table; and none others ut i ts e: A r,' contained in that table hereafter tc.b e fer f 4 power of reducing these fees to be trali T s rePl il tr i the Commissioners of her Majesti s ' oe d ° 0 ; 131/ & „, whom it would otherwise have conf'stsf $Ol by the 11th of Geo. IV., to the Secretaryrigetsiueirr that clause shall not affect the existing of to officers officers named in this Act by the nu rees eola e c orii 6 o e specthe offices, from his title to all to be e at s awarded to him heretofore, or h et eafterp or liibroloej to be due to him ; under any Act Of fea soll 4 1 $1) ready passed for such purpose. BY t he r e rv ii ,,i or for other reasonable cause, clerks 0 , e5 0 0 , 1 : v eo clerks of justices may appoint derl e t' n Cl 4 :00, 0 ditions and circumstances set forth o,ither,es, ce d e no addition to be made to the salary r ° l fell t io account ng any such appointments of e tot fe - 'i t 8 is death of any of the officers to whom,' t raded his records, papers, accounts, to be ". %tie; perks successor. Clerks of the peace and J 6 3 13 0 4t r e corporations, to be paid by salaries, tow. 0 to 1:40 g IV C. 76. This Ace, however, eV:O'. ,ial'', ll 3l appoint salaries, not to extend to 111111 0 1:Sc ety. lions. The Act not to extend to Irc le • City of London. an L ci tt fi N n D e o c N le , a ll r lAuct 4.—Wind, fresh br: 141 t . °.- '' LLOYD'S' SHIPrv- •I.'" ' • j 1 i n p e, o ( - 1 1i F t , l R c , u t_ l t i a A . eo a " tr ed , argue, West Indies for the river. Sid. -I , '' eel _ a l l - "' , i rt weather; it froze hard lain g fres b. , ja b DEAL, MARCH 3.—Wind S. to E.5.,,r,„ betii . tit'' ncti 3.—The Ignacia, (e t ! don to Santander and Bilbao, waatetaFlelYrijfiri• cleil 197. d to-day ; crew saved, cargo washing out• o F u A d if t i o : bNts'EaTnssb: tio,:eh.lilfileoliiiiiecar:brioC3a. BRISTOL, MARCH I.—Sid. Congo, Africa . • N T.., b ..ft, 2 1 0 1ii r ti' PORTS:H.OI7TH, MARCH 3.—Wind W. to i. er , 3./e a j tir squallv.—Arrd. Northumberland, Load ° , , T ri ;,tori atin ; A O / her Majesty's steamers Black Eagle and ' ', P . " from a cruise. 1 ,. ....Ago' ejli PLirmoCTf I, MARCH 3. Wind - 1 .` 1. ..‘,.. * ii cae Spence, Wilson, Ichaboe, and sailed for Kull. Y . ," t ol Alj St ( i .s E t E i c .l CI SHIELDS, MARCH L—Arrd. 'Etna, T h°l' 0 64 f t of - . le..—The stens sand l • ie ' - (.0 0 —Wind o f d p LI.- . 4 . , the Apollo, from Dartmouth have be e p-/ ne v i o , fri iii iii;:p DISMISSAL OF AN IRISH MAGISTBA t he / 1 0- re Chancellor has dismissed Mr. Langford o° 7 e ertPlacet for the county of Limerick, in consequence 0 c obs t' 0 ,0 inns in his magisterial capacity, seve ral 0 0 4)(11 14 e • il specting opposition to a distress for rent. 1 5, j , be I.,rd Alidleton nvans to eXP°r l c ci , nt _4s o improving the town in the county Cork , ' - Alior, rives his title. .„4. tope Lord Ellenborough has subscribed t i n t , AV' to public monument to the late Sir Willitull - 14 i s then. ~, IVlC ‘if in9 PRINTERS' PENSION SOCIETT.---''ri of t w ilte e lf annual meeting, and twenty-third eiediOnto;clociCtiog ti, took place at the London Tavern.- - - At 00 t e he V 110 4 01:4 was taken by one of the committee, when here W e ' of, menced, and terminated at four o'clock'. ''',r4ont„.4 s, one candidates, seven men And fourteen w° rs ; Wht,7„• l 4 , six were elected pensioners, and one to th e ago thevr 010 pension. After four o'clock the chair wa s re ad e ery, Taylor, when Mr. Hodson, the secretark,id bee,e00.,,00 front which it appeared that the SocietY.fer dill j,latpea and that an increase of 231. 3s. 9d• in o' vr i t h OVA 0 been derived from depositing their funds ed to 0 0'6. Debt Commissioners. 3001. had been. P l3 o e o w 00 3° J , s'o,4 capital at the close of the year, which an 3fr• f est t o° 3,805/. 2s. 6d. Mr. W. Clowes, jun. , a. he past j' r ed Nichols were elected as trustees. ad been reli e d C;iii pensioners had died, and one male him 0 oiles iact v ," lunatic asylum ; two of the deceased Wer 0 aoic to a t - eit were females. The Whittingliam petta t _ ° ., n d seve e ipio, e o l to 71. 12s. per annum. One hundred an , o ciei,j, sioners had already been elected, and t 1 14 0 , the,,. is.,,ao males and twenty-five females) were now_ 1,21!,401,35, funds. The total receipts for the year wer e , e tt , n;,4 l l'; and the balance in hand was 90/. 13s. Bd. ;:A.:irilli.wg,rjf successful candidates were now announcVert Beet_ ; K t, 3,552; William Watson, 2,784; Riu_epaionfl, DIP Robert Jackson, 1,561 (Whittinghan aria All(''' i Dewey, 2,917; Anne BrOWII, 3,1.37 ; 4 f esril A CO '' At 2,578 votes. c P --.l ' . bat I .OY THE LATE LAM 4N BLA IC- L IAR ;allot', , bo; a lto / dent, who calls himself an actor and In ~ _: _ n to pa ~,, gO . might be invidious or presumptuous_ .1 0 _',',`:4 e 4 `;; o 6 o a,e to his note, inquires whether a benett_nopr, o f tn_ at one or more of the theatres for the fain tbere., Or Mr. Laman Blanchard. Ile assures 115._',",... so bOiZ h Otr. 1 , hers of actors who would be found to aSS_I S ' r ri the :;la , and as Mr. Blanchard was well•ka°T; „ r ojeot be for,Y world, there seems little doubt that tiro _ a D om eminently- successful. I'Ve place hi'. ! nerro 0 ' 0 1 readers, and leave it to them tog o. or , Chronicle. citspllO, b39,„0P JOHN THOMSON, ESQ.? L l ,i TZ , gent 01° Roy.tr, BANK ot , EnTNIT_ of t he o aev 9 dressed a circular letter to the partsnrs awn t°Datatoiiii. calling upon them to direct an inve _l i f._, of the:snosi Air his conduct while manager of the alt il ',1,'_. 1 a ll rso;crell,r4l Thomson declares his perfect freedeoit. fron t elj n ei, . o. P b lie , as to the mismanagement of the L tior-i; th is lard 5 t i' inquiry into the circumstances die , t o de tb efo ie / • uch, b a b e ong" eiu he says has involved hint in m ~ 0 beto . 0 TL: _ A suspicion. This letter will, we belie,;, P ace next meeting of proprietors, which L 4 ' hi° I : 11 0 6 SP 'S Edinburgh Post. s ize w oo A calf of an extraordinaryowesst iiii, slaughtered by Mr. Richard Swan, 9 , 1 , ed vat. ,' was only fourteen weeks old, and Virejo" The Lo at Five ot J ... 7 Il