The Sun. — London, England, 1845-04-18 00:00:00

10E StISSCRIttERS The THIRD EDITION of THE SUN of last (Thursday) Evening contained The conclusion of the day's proceedings before the Parliamentary Committees on Railways. The conclusion of tilt day's proceedings in the Court of Exchequer. The Spirit of the Public Journals. The Parliamentary Intelligence of the - Evening, being a full Report of the proceedings in both Houses of Parliament, up to a Quarter before Seven o'Clock. Newmarket Races, received by Express. 13, Great Marlborough-street. MA. THIERS' HISTORY OF THE • CONSULATE AND EMPIRE, A SEQUEL TO HIS " HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION." THE ONLY AUTHORISED ENGLISH EDITION. Translated by D. FORBES CAMPBELL, Esq., with the sanction and approval of the Author. Volumes I. and 11., gm, price only ss. each, ARE NOW READY, and may be had of all Booksellers and Newsvenders. Vol. 111. will be ready in a few days. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. TO-MORROW EVENING Will be performed Rossini's Opera Seria, in Two Acts, entitled SEMIRAMIDE. Semiramlde, Madame Grisi ; Arsace, Mdlle Brarnbilla ; Assar, Sig. Fornasari ; Idreno, Sig. Corelli ; Oroe, Sig. Lablache. Between the Acts of the Opera a DIVERTISSEMENT, in which the celebrated Spanish Dancers will appear in various of the National Pas of Spain. The Danseuses Viennoises (under the direction of Madame Jo sephine) will appear in some of their favourite Pas. To conclude with the highly successful Divertissement, entitled KAYA ou, L'Amour Voyageur. The Music composed and arranged by Signor Pugni, and comprising Themes from the Norwegian Melo dies The Principal Dances composed and arranged by M. Perrot : those of the Danseuses Viennoises by Madame Josephine Weiss. Kaya, Mademoiselle Lucille Grahn L'Amour, Fraulein Fanny Pragher ; Herman. M. Gosselin ; Knud, M. Perrot. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Pit Tickets to be :Bade at the Opera-office, Colonnade, Haymarket. Doors open at Seven ; the Opera to commence at Half-past Seven. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. It is respectfully announeed that the celebrated SYMPHONIE ODE of the DESERT. by FELICIEN DAVID, will be repeated on MONDAY NEXT, APRIL 21, Preceded by a Grand Miscellaneous, Vocal, Orchestral, and Choral Selection from the most classical Composers, including Mozart, Weber, Mendlessohn, Gluck, Beethoven, &e., and supported by nearly all the Distinguished Artistes of this Establishment. The Orchestra and Chorusses will include upwards of 200 Per formers, the whole under the direction of Sig. Costa. PART —Sinfonla in C Minor—Beethoven.—Aria "Chi faro," Mane. Brambilla—Gluck. Aria " Les Horondelles," Signor 3loriani—David. Aria, " Zitti Zitti," Sig. Lablache (Seasons) — Haydn. With the Hunting Chorus. "La Carita"—Rossini. With Chorus. Soprani, Mesdames Castellan, Rosetti, and Rita Borio. Contralta, Mdlle. Brambiila. Overture, Oberon—Weber. PART IL—The Desert. The solo parts by Sig. Morianl. Boxes, Two, Three, and Four Giiineas each, may be had on apply cation at the Box-office, Opera Colonnade. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public are respectflilly I formed, that there will be an Extra Night (not included, in the Subscription), ON THINIADAY NEXT, APRIL 24, When will be performed Rossini's Opera IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA. Rosina, Madame Grist; Bertha, Mdlle. Bellini ; Il Conte d'Almaviva, Sig. Mario ; Bartolo, Sig. Lablache ; Basin°, Sig. F. Lablache ; Figaro, Sig. Fornasari. The Danseuses Viennoises will appear in some of their Favourite Pas. With Other Entertainments, in which the most distinguished Artistes of the Establishment will appear. In the course of the Evening the celebrated Spanish Dancer, Dona Manuelea Perea, known as La Plena, and the celebrated Bolero Dancer, Don Felix Garcia, will appear in various of the Na tional Pas of Spain. With th M Kaya, e New Ballet dlle. Lucille DivertissementGrahn ; Knud, of KYA ; ou, L'A ur. mour VoyageA M. Perrot. And other Entertainments, in which will appear all the Artistes of the Ballet. Ipplications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box- Office, Opera Colonnade. Doors open at Seven ;to commence at Half-past Seven o,Clock. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE. THIS EVENING Will be performed TIIE BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR. Edgar, by I. Duprez ; Colonel Henry Ashton, Mr. Burdini ; Arthur, Mr. Barker ; Raymond, Mr. Weiss; Nor►nan, Mr, H. Horncastle ; Lucy Ashton, Madame Eugenie Garcia. After which will be repeated, a New Comic Ballet, entitled ROBER r AND BERTRAND. Dances in the course of the Ballet :-- Pas de Deux, by Mulles. Adele and Louise. A Nevv Polka, by Mdlle. Polin and M. Gasperini. Bolero, by Mesdames Louise and Adele. La Lituana Pas Seul, by Mdlle. Folin. A. MAZURKA, by the Principal Ballet Performers. Le Sevillianne, Spanish Dance, Mdlle. Polin and M. Gasperini. The Box-office is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six in the Evening, where Privette and Family Boxes, Stalls, Places, and 'rickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. LESSEE, MR. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New and Orizinal Comedy, entitled THE SHERIFF OF THE COUNTY. Principal Characters by Messrs. W. Farren, Strickland, Buckstone, Webster, Mrs. Glover, Mrs. W. Clifford, Mrs. Hamby, Miss Julia Bennett, &c. After which, a New Grand Classical Extravaganza, entitled THE GOLDEN FLEECE. Principal Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, J. Bland, Madame Vestris, and Miss P. Horton. To conclude with THE MILLINER'S HOLIDAY. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHT. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTY THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New and Original Drama, entitled THE GREEN B' SUES ; or, A Hundred Years Ago e Connor O'Kennedy, Mr. Selby ; George, Mr. Hudson Wild Murtogh, Mr. 0. Smith ; Muster Grinnidge, Mr. Wright ; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Geraldine. Mrs. Yates ; Nelly O'Neill, Mrs. Fitzwilliam Miami, Madame Celeste. After which, will be repeated a New Grand Empirical Exposition, called ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON. Principal Characters by Messrs, Paul Bedford, Wright, John Saunders Selby; Miss Wooigar, Miss Brooks, and Miss E. Chaplin. To conclude with MOTHER AND CHILD ARE DOING WELL Mr. Snugsby, Mr. Lambert ; Lieutenant O'Scupper, R.N., Mr. Paul Bedford ; Mr. Felix Fluffy, Mr. Wright ; Emily, Miss Fortesene. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, MIL J. M. MADDOX THIS EVENING, Will he produced _tuber's Comic Opera, entitled LE DUC D'OLONSE. Gaspard, Mr. Leffler ; The Chevalier, Mr. Allen ; Blanca de Molina, Mdlle. Helen Condell; Mariquita, Miss Grant. Mr. SANDS and his INFANT BROTHER, MAURICE, will appear in their Pleasing and Wonderful Entertainment, DE SALON, FREAKS OF FANCY. To be followed by THE WIDOW BEWITCHED. Mr. Clement Furnival, Mr. Walter Lacy ; Mrs. Lorimer, Mrs. Stirling. 'to conclude with GONE TO TEXAS. Mr. Swellington, Mr. Walter Lacey. - - - - THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. Unparalleled success of the New Grand Burlesque—lrresistible Fun in " On Duty." THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New Original Drama, to be called ON DUTY. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Vining, F. Mathews, and Keeley; Miss Villars, Mrs. Woollidge, and Miss Grove. After which, THE MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE. Principal Characters by Messrs. F. Matthews, F. Vining, Collier, and Turner ; 3liss Grove, and Mrs. Keeley. To be followed by a Burlesque of Engl i s h History, Pourtraying Olden Ideas and Modern Notions—lnvested with all the Pomp and Display of Scene—Painters engaged expressly—Costumes according to Fancy—Mechanism, Ballet, Music, and Novel Stage Arrange ments—to be called, WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT ! Dick Whittington, Mrs. Keeley ; Muley Moloch, the Lien Tamer of the Dessert, Mr. Keeley ; the Cat, Mr. Collier, supported by Messrs. F. Matthews, and Wigan ; Miss Fairbrother, and Mies Grove. To conclude with the New Farce of A MODEL OF A WIFE. In which Messrs. A. Wigan, Turner, and Meadows, Mrs. Woollidge, and Miss Fairbrother will perform. • The Box-office is open daily, under the direction of Mr. • Grogan from Ten till Four. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—FRENCH PLAYS. I.e-engagement of 31dIle. Plessy, and Second Appearance of Monsieur Ravel, wllbse first appearance in this country on Monday Evening was so eminently successful. THIS EVENING win be performed an admired Comedy, entitled CHACUN DE SON COTE. La Baronne de Valliere, Mdlle. Plessy. To comlude with a New Vaudeville, entitled L'ETOURNEAt r . Felix, Monsieur Ravel, hissecond appearance in this country. Boxes, 6s. ; Pit, 3s. Gd. ; Amphitheatre, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. Doors Alit be opened at Seven o'clock, and the Performanees commence at Half-Past. Boxes and Stalls may be secured at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33 ,oid Bond-street ; and at the Box-office of the Theatre, which is vpen Daily, from Eleven till Five. . _ AST LEY'fi ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. FROPHIETOR, MR. W. BATTY. Triumphant Success of the New Spectacle. TIIIS EVENING The Performances will commence with a Grand Military Equestrian Drama, entitled THE MAID OF SARAGOSSA ; or, The Spanish Amazons. Entire Change of the Scenes in the Circle. M. and Mdme. Demos, S. Bridges, &C. An arrangement has been made Mr. White (the exhibitwi t his Wonderful Feats with his unrivalled collection of Lions, Tigers, Leopards, Panthers, &c. To conclude with an Admired Farce. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. In consequence of the immense sensation created by the Feats of Mr. Canfield, the American Samson, he will repeat his Herculean Feats every Evening. THIS EVENING Will be performed Shakspeare's Play of THE MERCHANT OF BENI,'E. Duke of Venice. Mr. lleslop ; Antonio, Mr, ; assani°, Mr. Fredericks ; Shylock, Mr. H. Hughes ; Portia, Neville Mrs. It. Honner ; Nerissa, Miss Martin After which, THE GAME COCK OF THE WILDERNESS. Samson Hartillead, Mr. Marble. To be followed by the Extraordinary Feats of the American Sampson. To conclude with THE VERMONT WOOL DEALER. Deuteronomy Dutiful, Mr. Marble. Places and Private Dozes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box. Mice, from Eleven to Four. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be repeated MARKARET CATCHPOLE, The Female Horse stealer. Onega and Pechuana (Red Ch i e ftains), Messrs. Cony and Blanchard ; Margaret Catchpole, Miss Vincent. after which, LOCHINIVAR ; or, The Bride of Netherby. Lochin oar, Mr. U. Howard; James the Sixth, Mr. J. T. Johnson; Lord Netherby, Mr. Dale ; Mysie, Miss E. Terry. Ta conclude with 0111 ; or, Three Fingered Jack. Thr ee Fingered _B4 k, Mr. Cony ; Captain Orford, Mr. Blanchard; Quashee, Mr. Searle; Rosa, Mrs. G. Lee. THE WEATIIER.—SuN OFFICE, APRIL 17. THER3IOIIRTRR, Lowest, 35 ; Highest, 53; Noon, 54. Bahosmrah, 30.33.—W1ND, E. Nont.—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 .. 51 minutes after 10 Evening ~ 23 minutes after 11. i ' d . " " '....,.1.. , . v. , \ . 3 9'- - , Vtl,.. * Zo ,, •'J , •MA I:' I 9 ' tcipr ip ~.,,,., ~' s ,S. \sa Zr ,tti !Rai; % :. ' N, • - , 410,1 b, , . ‘ ~, . ~., s • , W; ~...,,,, ~ ,, , ,, ,1.r. , 0, . " 01.1.' D IE C '1 . 11 . 7 ~,, " ''' ...." ~., 0" ' • W...tgf . ' ,4lC -..... ' ,lIVIIt. t *Vat LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1845, The House of Lords met at Five. Lord BROUGHAM laid an order on the table to compel Railway Companies to pay costs to parties aggrieved who came before Parliament to establish their rights. A short conversation arose which led to no result. The Earl of CADOGAN moved for a Committee to inquire, whether the assignment made by the Church Building Companies to the Rector of St. Luke's of the pew-rents was advisable, but After a few words from the Bishop of LONDON, the motion was negatived. The Duke of RICHMOND moved that a Select Com mittee be appointed with a view to some legislative enactment for enabling the possessors of entailed es- tates to charge such estates with a certain sum, to be i limited, and to be expended in drainage for the improve ment of the same. After a short conversation,the Committee was granted, and the Duke of RICHMOND, the LORD CHANCELLOR, the LORD PRIVY SEAL, the Duke of CLEVELAND, Lord BROUGHAM, and several other Noblemen were nomi nated. The Bills on the table were forwarded a stage, and the House adjourned. The House of Commons met at Four o'clock, and after the transaction of private business, the ordering of unopposed returns, and the presentation of petitions, the greater number of which were against the Maynooth Bill, the adjourned debate on that measure was re sumed by Mr. CUMMING BRUCE, who opposed the Bill. The House was subsequently addressed by Sir George Grey, Mr. Rice, Mr. Trelawny, Lord Courte nay, Mr. W. Martin, Mr. Tuite, Mr. Carew, and Sir James Graham, in support of the measure ; and by Colonel Sibthorp, Mr. Blackstone, Mr. Plumptre, and Mr. M‘Leait, against it ; and, on the motion of Mr. S. Crawford, the debate was again adjourned. The House adjourned at Twelve o'clock. The debate on the Maymoth question presents some peculiar features, which probably could be found in no other country but England. We find Sir R. H. INGLIS, the representative of Oxford University, leading the assault on the grant ; and Mr. GOCLBURN, the repre . sentative of Cambridge, and the most staunch supporter of Protestantism, directly opposed to him, and also to his own colleague, Mr. Law. The Duke of NEWCASTLE, the last of the true Eldon school, the un flinching advocate of Church and State united, and the bitter enemy of Catholicism, has published his opinions to the world, and forebodes nothing but ruin by an addi tional grant of 16,000/. to Maynooth. This was the last feather laid on the camel's: back, and the very prospect of the fatal measure has almost , broken the veteran's heart. Ms son, who no doubt has been educated with an unusual care, and instructed in the path wherein he should go, has disowned the paternal example, turned a traitor to the principles of the house of Newcastle, and joined with the base and destructive Whigs in supporting a grant to the Catholics. But even that defection is nothing when we look to the paragon of Orangeism, the leader of the High Church Irish party, the Earl of RODEN, and the speech made by his heir apparen on Wednesday night, Lord JOCELYN, who rejoices that the wall of separation between the inhabitants of the north and the south is to be removed, and that a measure is in progress which will create a stronger feeling of kindness and sympathy than had hitherto prevailed between the Protestants and Roman Catholics of Ire land. The most remarkable speech of all, however, was that delivered by Mr. BRIGHT. He belongs to a highly respectable class, who prefer peace to all other considerations ; who have set their face against soldiers and sailors, and guns and bayonets, and war in every shape ; who, in fact, would not enlist into the army, or fire a shot at the most blood-thirsty Frenchman, if it were to save the whole island from destruction ; yet Mr. BRIGHT on Wednesday opposed the measure on the ground, among other reasons, that it would tend to put down agi tation, and pacify Ireland. "He could not see how the grant of an additional sum to Maynooth was likely to give employment to the people, or to feed or clothe them, or make them more satisfied with their condition ; but he could easily see how, by the granting of this sum, the people of England and the Legislature of this empire might hear in after times far less of the sufferings, and sorrows, and wrongs of the people of Ireland than they did at the present moment. One great source of the agitation which has taken place for the redress of Irish wrongs was the support which the Irish priests had given to the various associations throughout the country. The ob ject of this Bill was to tame down these agitators." Now Mr. BRIGHT must know that the main object of these agitators is the separation of the two countries, and he must also know that such a calamity could not be inflicted on the United Kingdom but at the ex pense of oceans of blood, and the murderous death of thousands of human beings as anxious to live at peace, too, as any member of the Society of Friends. To put down the Irish Protestant Church at present is the most hopeless of all remedies. Were it swept from the country root and branch, we believe peace would soon be restored, and all the jealousy, the heart-burnings, and the persecutions that prevail would soon cease ; but man is not omnipotent. He cannot say "De this, and it is done;" he must act according to circumstances, and to act otherwise would only add to the evil. In the mean time, the Government must keep up a large army in Ireland, 30,000 rank and file, at least, at an expense of more than a million sterling a year, thereby showing our weakness to foreigners, and encou raging them to bring all the horrors of war on the civilised world. Is it not better then to calm down the hostility of the Irish, and bring their minds to such a state of composure as may enable them to judge calmly of what is best for their in terests ? A vast proportion of the people of England and Scotland take a deep interest in the suffer ings of the Irish nation ; many of them are ready to sacrifice their ease, their comfort, and the brightest political prospects for the sake of justice and mercy ; and we may, therefore, presume, that even in England the Irish will not want friends, though the repeal agitation were set at rest to-morrow. The Whigs, to their eternal honour, sacrificed more than once place and all its allurements for justice to the Roman Ca tholics. For many long years they remained in opposition on that ground alone, and it is gratifying to find, among so many political changes and so many backslidings, that this party still nobly maintains its character, and risks even the opposition and the enmity of friends to carry out a great principle. Not one of the leaders has flinched from his post, though by opposing the motion of Sir ROBERT PEEL they could have I driven him from office. On Wednesday night not fewer than four Whig Members—all representing large constituencies too—spoke in favour of the measure, and preferred what they believed to be their duty to all pos sible consequences. Their names deserve to be recorded, and are as follows :—Mr. ELLICE, Member for Coventry; Sir W. CLAY, Tower Hamlets ; Sir JOHN EASTHOPE, Leicester ; and Mr. RUTHERFORD, the late Lord Advo cate, Member for Leith. In The Sun of Tuesday we noticed the arrival of the ship St. George on Monday last, off Dover, from Syd ney, with letters, &c., down to the sth of January. The speech of the Governor of that colony, Sir G. GIPPW, on closing the first session of the Legislative Assembly, in common with the general tenour of the advices received, permits us to hope that New South Wales is making a certain, though it be a slow, progress towards the re establishment of her financial and commercial prospe- rity. Among the most pleasing indications of this fact, is the recovery of the colony from its monetary de pression. The shipping trade was extremely active ; a great number of craft were loading at their berths at Sydney ; wool was coming in abundantly from the farmers in the interior, and these auspicious symptoms are strengthened by the interesting fact that the St. George brings home some con signments of lead and copper ore, the product of New Holland mines. In all this there is much en couragement to those who look to our colonial posses sions as capable, under able and intelligent administra tion, not only of reimbursing the mother country for the expenses of their maintenance, protection, civil and mili tary staff, &c., but of one day contributing largely to her revenues and making ample and permanent provi sion for their own defence and services. At another time we might feel strongly disposed to dwell on this intelligence, in consideration not only of its intrinsic and present interest, but in relation to its bearings on the future career of New South Wales. There is not one of those sources of material wealth, which, in the above notice we have briefly touched upon, that may not be made, in our judgment, to yield results far beyond any which have yet been developed in the colony. Its mineral riches, we feel satisfied from the report of several individuals whose means of information and diligence of research are of a superior order, will prove much more varied and extensive than the English public are generally aware of. The colossal strides which have been made in its great st a p le trade of Europe .ty which w ill carry i t ere long , and and t o h f e A c f o r i n competition to of ev t i h nc e e li a ke vi tiet in g commodity o u rand elas ticity a o s - f enormous abundance into every market of the world. And, again, whether we look at it s f ortunate pos ition for commercial inter course with all th e maritme countries of Asia and the western coasts of South America, or to the magnificence of its natural harbours, the the productiveness of ts fisheries, of its sea board, and it anticipate that at no distant day i s i mpossible not to of the most important resorts of sh i . t w ill . become . one sou thern hemisphere. But it is not our pr esent in the to enter into any historical view of the p ro gress purpose this colony has made since the period f i which organiza tion some half century ago ; nor to consider to what ex -1 tent its present condition is less advanced than might ex- have been expected from a country so favouredb nature and the concurrence of events. It is enough to y know that, despite its own resources and the facilities which have been presented for their improvement through a continuous series of year!, and with an expanding market here for their consump- THE S VW, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 18 1 lB4O COURT CIVCULAR tion, it has for some time past been in a condition of decline and depression, both as to its internal prosperity and its external trade. Now, although New Holland is the country of phenomena, this interruption to the onward career of New South Wales is a m.. - 42 phenomenon greater than any of the natural wonder:, with which either that section of it or the great insular continent itself can exhibit. Her flocks have immea surably increased ; the quality of her wool, and the manner and condition in which it is shipped for European markets prodigiously improved; the price ob tained for it (although less at present than it has been at some former periods), enormously enhanced ; and the consumption, vast as it is, with few occasional interruptions, annually extending. The culture of the vine in some districts has been pursued with so much success that wine, like wool, may one day become an Australian staple. The enlarged aggregate shown by the returns of horned cattle is every way satisfactory, both as an evidence of the extensive supplies which the colonists can now reckon on for their own sub sistence, and as giving further development to the lucrative trade they have commenced, and if not interfered with, will certainly carry on in tallow and in hides. Then their production of grain, especially of wheat, has been such as to leave in most years a large excess or surplus for exportation. How then, it may well be asked with that astonishment which so generally prevails here upon the subject—how does it happen that New South Wales is not a paying colony ? That she i.; in a condition of embarrassment, whilst sur r.,unded by so many sources from whence capital should be so easily realised ? That she complains of panics and want of confidence and decay of trade, of unemployed shipping and unsold stock, who pos sesses these abundant means of commanding a profitable foreign trade with every quarter of the globe ? That she should suddenly be struck with a species of paralysis and helplessness, whose career from infancy to adolescence has hitherto been the astonishment and ad miration of old-established nations ? The problem is to be solved by the same conditions as those which ex plain the anomaly of New Zealand's useless fertility. This latter possession produces a superabundance of corn, the mother country a superabundance of legisla tion, which will not admit the product to be imported here, except at a rate of duty ruinous to the New Zealand grower. New South Wales, in like manner (the evil aggravated in the ratio of her greater remot ness from the mother country), is afflicted by the triple malady of English home monopoly, domestic law making, and British Colonial Department imbecility. If the first two of these types of colonial misfortune are, for the present, irremediable, the third surely admits of easy remedy. Its virulence is derived from the misinforma tion, prejudice, obstinacy, and haughty refusal to acknow ledge demonstrated errors of judgment, which are esta blished in Downing-street, and only with their expul sion from Downing-street, we are every day more firmly convinced, the revived prosperity and permanent improve ment of the colonies will be coincident. The christening of the infoit daughter of the Dike an.l Duchess of Buccleuch took place yesterday morning, in the Chapel Royal, Buckingham Palace, the Queen being one of the sponsors. The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, accompanied by the iutlint, and the juvenile meinbers of their family, arrived at the Palace shortly I), , fore twelve ocl.ck. A select circle, including the Earl and Countess of Cas , dor, Mr. Archibald and Lady Mary Campbell, Lord and Lady Evelyn, Lady Montagu and Miss Montague, Rev. Lord John Thynne, Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. George Montague, Mr. and Lady Caroline Duncornbe, Lord Stopford and Mr. Frederic Stop ford, Lieutenant-Colonel F. Clinton, Captain the Hon. Pere grine and Mrs. Cust, Miss and Miss Charlotte Cust, and Mr. Francis Cust, also arrived at Buckingham Palace, and were conducted to the Chapel Royal. Her Majesty and Prince Albert,. accompanied by the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, and attended by the royal suite, entered the £hapel soon after twelve o'clock, when the Hon. and Rev. Charles Leslie Courtenay commenced the baptismal service. The child was named Victoria Alexandrina. The sponsors were the Queen, and also Lady Montague and the Rev. Lord John Thynno. The royal suite consisted of the Marchioness of Douro, Lady in Waiting; Lady Caroline Somers Cocks and the Hon. Miss Devereux, Maids of Honour in Waiting ; the Lord Chamberlain, Viscount Hawarden, Lord in Waiting; Lord George Lennox, Lord in Waiting to Prince Albert ; Sir Frederic Stovin, Groom in Waiting; Captain Francis Sey meur, Groom in Waiting to Prince Albert; and Colonel Ar buthnot, Equerry in Waiting. After the ceremony the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch and family returned to Montagu House, Whitehall Gardens, and the other visitors also took their departure. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Colonel Bouverie, rode out on horseback yesterday. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice we r e taken an airing yesterday in an open carriage and four, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton. The Queen and Prince Albert inspected, on Wednesday, the Royal Hunt Cup of Ascot Races, the subject. " Brace's escape on the Retreat from Dairy." Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were graciously pleased to express their ap- Madrid papers of the 9th inst. have been received, but they are without interest. In the Chamber of Deputies the report of the Committee on the new electoral law was read, which entirely accorded with the Government scheme. A good deal of business was transacted on the Bourse. In the Three per Cents. 102 millions were done, and 90 millions in the Five per Cents. The former closed at 35 cash, and 35i at 60 days, and the latter at 25i cash, and 261 at 60 days. Coupons are quoted at 2SA. for the 25th of May. Passive Debt, Bi, at 60 days. Vales Reales, 10i cash at 60 days. A religious discussion took plaee in the French Chamber of Peers on Monday, relative to a petition presented from ninety-three inhabitants of Marseilles against certain doctrines professed in the College of France against the Catholic religion. The debate was conducted with much more acrimony than that which is going on in the House of Commons; and it is singular enough, that the object for which the religionists in the two countries contend is of the most opposite character. In France, the Catholic Church is considered in danger, and Count MONTALEMBERT, said M. QUINET, one 01 the teachers, had published a work in contradiction with history, the Catholic religion, and real Christian phi• losophy, and when such doctrines were used, was it to be wondered at if the heads of families got alarmed fur the instruction of their children ?" and another Peer accused the Government of being the cause of the scan dals on religion. After some remarks by the Minister of Public Instruction, disapproving of the course pursued by certain of the professors, the Chamber rjected the petition, and proceeded to the order of the day. The Chamber of Deputies, on Tuesday, - was occupied with the Savings' Banks Bill, to which much opposition is made. The chief clauses are, to diminish the amount of weekly deposit ; to lower the maximum that any one depositor could hold ; and to enlarge the time of notice of withdrawal. The latter clause is proposed with a view to prevent any derangement of the finances by a sudden withdrawal of deposits in case of a money panic. We have accounts from Zurich to the 11th inst., but we find nothing in them of fresh interest. Long discus sions had taken place, but, with the exception of recom mending a general amnesty, nothing had been decided. probation. Her Majesty and Prince Albert honoured the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch with their company at dinner yester day evening, at Montagu House, Whitehall- gardens. The royal suite included the Marchioness of Douro, Viscount Hawarden, Lord George Lennox, Sir Frederick Stovin, Cap tain Francis Seymour, and Colonel Arbuthnot. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Countess Wratislaw, and Colonel Sir George Couper, honoured the Duke and Duchess of Bnc clench with her presence last evening. The Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden visited her Ma jesty the Queen%Dowager yesterday at Marlborough House. The Duchess of Gloucester continues in a favourable state. The Duchess of Kent and the Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal Highness yesterday. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden yesterday. A Deputation on the subject of the Portendic Claims had an interview with the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday, at the Foreign-office. The deputation consisted of Mr. Somes, M.P., Mr. Lyall, M.P., Mr. Foster, M.P., Mr. Redman, Mr. Harrison, and Mr. G. F. Young. The Marquis of Breadalbane and a deputation had an in terview with the Earl of Dalhousie yesterday, at the Board of Trade. A deputation, including Mr. Hawes, M.P., and Mr. Turner, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday. Mr. Spottiswoode and Sir John Rennie had an interview yesterday with the Earl of Dalhousie. The Chairmen of the Excise transacted business yesterday at the Board of Trade. HER MAJEST 'S THEATRE. The opera of Semiramide was performed here las night, for the first time this season, Mademoiselle Bram billa sustaining the part of Alsace, being her first appearance here for the last two seasons. She was in good voice, and sustained the character in the most tasteful and artistically accomplished style. The celebrated duet, in the second act, " Gioino d'er ror e di contento," was encored, as a matter of course. Grisi was the Semiramide, and never was Grisi more brilliantly magnificent than she was last evening. Fornasari in Assur was very fine. He retained all that impassioned energy which has ever been his dis tinguished characteristic, while, at the same t'me, he is more polished. Who does not know, and who that knows, does not admire, the Oroe of La blache ? This is one of the many instances in which Lablache elevates a small character up to his own level. Corelli displayed great taste as Idreno, and the opera, on the whole, has never been more ad mirably represented. Between the acts of the opera the danseuses Viennoises, appeared in the Pas Styrien, which was given with all that liveliness and precision for which the performances of these wonderful children are so distinguished. After the opera a new divertissement, entitled Kaya, was produced with the most complete and deserved success. The idea of this divertissement is due to Mdlle. Grahn, who suggested its composition in order to afford an opportunity for the display of the wonderful pantomimic talent of Fraulein Fanny Pragher, one of the Danseuses Viennoises. Perrot composed the diver tissement, the scene of which is hid in Norway, and Lucile Grahn having sung several popular Norwegian airs to Pugni, he speedily instrumented and adapted them. The scene is laid in Norway at the time of harvest, and the following are the characters : Kaya L'Amour Hermann Knud ........ M. Perrot. The following is an outline of the plot, whi,th is as old as the days of Anacreon, but which, from the novel manner in wldch it has been treated, makes the prettiest divertissement that has been produced for many seasons past. Kaye is a village coquette, the daughter of Ilerrnenn, a rich farmer. Her hand is sought by Knud, but his suit is rejected, not from any rooted dislike, but out of a mere spirit of coquettry. He offers her a ring, which she accepts, but instead of putting it on her finger, she passes a ribbon through it, and after playing a number of coquettish tricks with it., she suspends it round her neck, The espieglerie of Lucile Grahn in this scene was grace ful and fascinating in the extreme—Knud leaves her in despair. As he is proceeding up the mountains, he meets a poor child which has lost its way ; the child has fallen from weariness, he takes it in his arms, and bears it to the cottage of Kaya, who tends it with the greatest kindness. This child is the God of Love himself, who seated at her feet as she is spinning, interrupts her work by all sorts of mischievous tricks. At length she seizes a birch, and, threatening to chastise him, drives him away ; and here is introduced Lo pas des Cinq Seus, by Lucile Grahn and Fraulein Fanny Pragher, whose pantomime, as Cupid, was delightfully arch and amusing. The child offers strawberries to her to please her taste. He then gathers a rose. She wishes for it. He snatches it from her, but wafts it so near her, that, delighted with the perfume, she is still more anxious to obtain it. This is the illustration c,f smell. She snatches it, but, in doing so, runs a thorn into her finger, and thus illustrates feeling. The hunters' horn is heard in the distance. She stands fascinated by the sound, and at length her sight is delighted by the entrance of Knud, whom all the while she had loved in her heart. There is something exceedingly quaint in the idea of this pas, and it is most artistically and beautifully worked out by Lucile Grahn —it was delightful to see the manner in which she acted with little Fanny Pragher, always managing her own pantomime in such a manner as to af ford the child the fullest opportunity for the display of her powers. Knud determines to work on her jealousy, and makes love to the other girls. She then finds she really loves him. The mischievous urchin is denounced as the cause of all the confusion, when he appears in his real character as the God of Love. A pas de six, in which Perrot and Lucile Grahn take the principal parts, follows, and in this the dancing of Lucile Grahn is truly marvellous. She was rapturously applauded, and in her solo part, if we may be allowed the expression, was de servedly encored. The divertissement concludes with the pas des moissanneurs by the danseuses Viennoises, which surpasses even the marvels of the far-famed pas des fleurs. It is impossible to convey by words the slightest idea of the wonders performed by the children in this pas. It is in fact a perfect illustration of harvest —they reap, they pile the sheaves, they thresh out the grain, but their operations are mingled with the quaintest devices, the most picturesque yet intricate groupings imaginab!e. The scene, which repre sented a Norwegian landscape, was very beaut:ful, and Kaya, if we mistake not, is destined not merely to be the divertissement of one season only, but to take its place with La Giselle, and Alma, and Ondiue, as a ballet for all time. After the ballet, Aloriani appeared in the last scene of Lucia. Le Nena gave us one of the National Dances of Spain ; and the performances concluded with the last scene of Eoline. With such a bill of fare, it is needless to say that the house was crowded. MELODISTS. — There are four candidates for the prize offered by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge for the best convivial duet, which will be awarded by his Royal Highness, at the Melodists' Club, on the 24th inst. THE SEASON AND THE CROPS.—The weather still continues very cold for the season of the year, but now that the rain has begun to fall freely, the temperature is likely to be come milder. There has never been a better season for getting the spring crops into the ground than the present, or one when the ground was in finer order for receiving them. In some places the wheat is said to have suffered, but that is not the case in this neighbourhood. During the last fortnight it has rallied wonder fully, and with favourable weather for the rest of the season, will prove a very good crop. The great want at present is the want of grass, the pastures being bare beyon I all example.—Liserpool Times. A FAMILY OF DWARFS.—Judging from the success of General Tom Thumb's visit to our shores, one may reasonablyconclude that dwarfs are not quite so plentiful as blackberries, and yet, at Kishorn of Applecross, there is a family of that genus, each of them being of loss di mensions than and as proportionate as Tom. The father of these pigmies (John Finlay) is a poor cotter of the ordinary or middle size, and the mothi r is rather beyond it. The eldest son, Mater Finlay, is upwards of 20 years of age, and stands two feet 10 inches in height. The next is a girl, somewhat the ) unior of Finlay in years, and considerably less in stature, and the third, and last, is a boy, aged 15, a mere pigmy. It is ludi crous to see these little creatures sit around their little dinner table ; but to observe them dance together, re minds one forcibly of the Celtic accounts of dancing elves (the fairies of the Highlands), whose fantastic measures so oft beguiled the wayworn Highlander, as he saw, or dreamed he saw them trip it lightly on the mountain side. Honest John should try his fortune in the south, where wonders always attract, one of the large gentle men playing the pipo would complete the matter.— Rosshire Advertiser. GLASS GAS PIPE3.—We understand that James Hartley, Esq., of the Bishopwearmouth glass-works, has been engaged is determining the practicability of mak ing glass pipes suitable for the conveyance of gas or water ; and we are happy to learn that he has been en tirely successful—that he has proved that pipes, stronger than the ordinary metal pipes, and much cheaper, may be made of glass.— Gateshead Observer. SURIARYOF NEWS AND ptoltr Optnton. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. A letter from Alexandria of March 29 states that Mehemet Ali still remained at Cairo, and that Ibrahim Pacha was seriously ill. The result of the railway survey (from Cairo to Suez) has been made public, and was deemed satisfactory. The cost for the eighty-eight miles is estimated at 320,0001. The surplus profit on the working is calculated at 27,500/. per annum, and the general opinion was, the Pacha would at once carry out the work. There was a visible improve ment in trade generally, but especially the export trade. In the French Chamber of Deputies the proposition of M. Larllandien for putting an end to duelling was read, and the 26th fixed for taking it into consideration. According to the records kept at the Paris Royal Observa tory, and the daily observations made during the last month, it has been the severest March since the commencement of the present century. On the 14th the thermometer was 8 deg. below zero Centigrade, 16 Fahrenheit, and the general average of the temperature was 1 3-10 C. below zero, 30 Fah. During twenty days the wind blew from the north. The first French mackerel-boat of the present season came into F6cartp on the 10th with about 30,000 fish, and on the following day thirteen other boats came in, with about the same quantity, making altogether a catch of about 500,000 fish, which are estimated as bringing nearly 100,000 f. to the fishermen. A journal having announced 212 as the number of officers of the National Guard who have signed the petition against the armament of the fortifications, the Cominfrrce says : " The officers who have affixed their signatures with their rank annexed are much more numerous, as will be seen by the petitions when presented to the Chamber; but all the names have not;yet been , published. The non-commissioned officers are now signing.' About the beginning of the year a duel took place at Can nes between Captain L., of the Russian service, and ex-Cap tain de R., of the African Chasseurs, in which the latter was wounded in the shoulder. The Tribunal de Premiere Instance of Grasse condemned M. L., in default, to imprisonment for six months, and his two seconds, who appeared and pleaded, to the same punishment for 15 days. On an appeal to the Cour Royale of Draguignan, the sentence upon Captain L. was fully confirmed, but that upon the two seconds was com muted into a rine of 500 f. each. Both these Courts admitted that every duel was not absolutely an attempt to murder, but that the result of the meeting, and the intentions of each of the parties, are to be taken into consideration, in order to ascerttzin whether both or either of the parties went out with a decided purpose of killing his adversary. A letter from Smyrna, of March 29, says :—" A.second case of plague, which proved fatal, has occurred among the pilgrims from Beyrout. The population, however, need not be alarmed, as the strictest precaution is taken at the Laza ret, as also among those recently arrived. Instead of placing here travellers bound for Constantinople, they will have, by the order of the iutendent, to take their quarantine at the Dardanelles." Mustapha Bey, a pupil of the Egyptian School at Paris, died two days ago from the consequences of an accident which happened to him while riding on Sunday, the 6th inst. He was the son of Kourchid Pacha, a brave old Genera of the Vice-Roy, and, having been two years in Paris, spoke l and wrote the French language with remarkable correctness. Mehemet Ali's son and his two grandsons, who are in the school, attended the deceased constantly throughout his illness. The Patrie states that a letter has been received from a gentleman attached to the embassy to China, which removes all doubt of M. Maynard having been murdered by the Malays. According to this letter Admiral Cecille has taken vengeance on the offenders. The chief and a great number of Malays are said to have been killed. LAW AND POLICN. An action brought by a person named Gurten against Mr. Davison, the proprietor of the Musical World, was tried in the Bail Court. The plaintiff claimed 1241. for work and labour, and his case was, that he had been engaged to assist in editing the publication in question, and that he was to receive 20/. per cent. on all advertisements that he could pro cure for the paper. The defence was, that he was originally engaged as errand boy ; that he was never employed except as a messenger and collector of advertisements, for which he had been amply remunerated. To disprove the allegation that he had been employed in the editorial department, a letter written by the plaintiff was put in, many of the words in which were incorrectly spelled. Mr. Justice Coleridge thought the action could not be maintained, and the jury found for the defendant. In the Nisi Prius Court of Exchequer, on the occasion of an application to postpone a trial on account of the absence of counsel in other courts, Mr. Baron Platt, in refusing to ac cede to the application, said—" It is quite as well that I should now express my determination, which I mean to ob serve for the future in cases where counsel are absent, and applications are made for delaying a trial. I intend never to accede to such an application, unless the gentlemen of the bar who are concerned in it chanced to be away on business of this Court." The case of L. J. Nicolav, alias Lewis Isidore, alias Joseph Louis, alias Murray, Lewis, and Co., alias Alexander Grant and Co., alias Bouz Lewinson, a Belgian, from Antwerp, who had carried on business in this country under all the above names, and who as L. J. Niculay had traded at Woolwich as a draper and grocer, and absconded, came on in the Bank ruptcy Cour. Mr. James intimated that the assignees in tended to make his conduct the subject of investigation before another tribunal ; on which Mr. Commissioner Fon blanque delivered judgment in these words—" As this matter is to be brought, and most properly so too, before another tribunal. I shall not at present say one word as to the bank rupt's conduct. I shall, however, adjourn the case sine die, and I may add that I shall never grant the bankrupt his certificate nor protection even for a single hour. Edward Jenner tannard was remanded for eight months by the Chief Commissioner of the Insolvent Court for falsi fying his account books. At the Central Criminal Court, Mr. Commissioner Bullock sentenced John Nash, convicted of robbing his master. Mr. M`Dona, a tailor, to six months' imprisonment with hard labour. The magistrates of the Surrey Sessions have determined that the occupation of rooms in Bethlem Hospital, by the s uperintendent, is not a beneficial occupation, and conse quently, that the hospital is not liable to be rated to the poor's-rate. It would appear, from an application made at the Guild hall, that Joseph Adyis in the field again. The proprietors of South Sea Stock seem at present to be the peculiar objects of his care. A cabman, named James Clarke, was fined 40s. at Maryle bone for furious driving. At the Thames police-office, Mr. John Hawn, the master of the barque Julia, of Jersey, appeared to answer a summons under the Pilotage Act, the 6th of George IV. cap. 1 9 3, for having refused to employ Mr. William Watson Ord, a li censed pilot, after he had tendered his services to conduct the vessel from Gravesend to the Downs, by which he had in curred a penalty of double . pilota.ge, amounting to 13/. Is. 3d. The defendant was convicted in the full amount of the penalty. C OURT—FASIIIONABLE; On Tuesday Prince Albert visited the: Exhibition of the Society of British Artists, in Suffolk-street, Pall-Mall (erro neously stated in the Court Circular as the Water Colour Ex hibition in Pall-Mall East.) His Royal Highness remained for some time inspecting the various works of art, and made p h ,s ad res a id d e i r n e n e er in pa t r h ty e purchases of three p ictures, in oil colours, b y Messrs. H. M. t h on yh o ee ndt: Earl rsAld o ec i N i , t oe a un g ni u nt e ge a s n aot d f illV his . d S Ld on a r g y d ts e oh r n . Ad m i r alty. ' T Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, Viscount and Vis countess Gage, Lord and Lady Radstock, Sir George and Lady Cockburn, Sir William Gage, Sir John West, Admiral and Miss Bowles, Captain Dundas, and the following officers of the French navy—Baron De la Ronciera, Captain Boner, Lieut. d'Arricace, and M. Langle (all of whom have arrived in England to give evidence on the "right of search" ques tion)—were the guests of the Noble Earl and Countess. The Marchioness of Hastings and Captain Reginald Henry, R.N., have returned to Donington Park from Dover. The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne received the Earl of Bessborough, Mr. and Lady Charlotte Denison, Mr. and Lady Louisa Tighe, Sir T. Hobart, the Rev. H. Mill man, and a select circle at dinner on Wednesday evening, at Lansdowne House. The Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury have arrived at their seat, Alton Towers, Staffordshire. The Earl and Countess of &afield have arrived at the Olarendon Hotel from Brighton. The French Ambassador has issued cards for a grand ban quet on the Ist of May, to celebrate the birthday of the King of the French. The C'ountess de St. Aulaire will give a grand ball on the following day, in honour of the same auspicioas event. Lord and Lady S tan l e y have cards out for a dinner p art y on Wednesday next. Lady Caroline Barrington and Lady Georgiana Grey have arrived at the residence of their noble father, in Berkeley square, from Howick Hall, Northumberland. Dr. Lushington entertained the Duke de Broglie, Prince Albert de Broglie, and a select party, at dinner en Tuesday evening, in Great George-street. MISCELLANEOUS. Wednesday the first Almack's ball of the seasibn took place at the usual locale, in King-street, St. James's, and, we are gratified to say, was undiminished in its attractions. The s pirited proprietors of these rooms, seemingly ned to commence the season with a desirable éclat, have recently caused considerable additions to be made in the already ela borate decorations of the splendid salon de danse, so that the habitués who last night graced the ball by their p must have been surprised at the admir a ble alterations resence that have been completed since last year. On Wednesday, at two, a numerous and most respectable meeting of the trustees and the mortgagees of the tolls of " turnpike trusts," in England and Wales, of which there are 1,300, was held at the Euston Hotel, Euston-square, St. Pancras, for the purpose of considering the expediency of taking measures to obtain, through the medium of Parlia ment, compensation for the injury that will be done by the intended railways, which will interfere with the traffic Thomas a the various turnpike trusts in England an d Wales; Mr. Henry Evans, the Mayor of Carnarvo n, in the chair. Several gentleman having stated various tu rn p ike trusts which had had their revenue s l ar gely diminished , it was moved that a deputation wait upon Lord Brough am, would lay their cl a i ms b e f o re the Hous e of Lords, and which to request that he deputation should report to a future meeting of trustees. The resolution was unauimously agreed to, and the meeting se pa herated. T second. Ancient Concert of the season took place at the Hanover-square Rooms, under the direction of his Royal HAghness Prince Al. detachment ofthe t 13th, Prince A lbert's Light Infantry, arrived on Tuesd a y a t th e Invalid DepOt, Casemate Barra fi cks, Gillingham, from Gravesend, where they dicosembnsisti arked ng of five lions sergeants, five corporals, and fifteen pr ivates, de at for the for the purpose o f f orm i n g a four-company p regiment, which em b ar k s for England . The above troops the ship Stag, 700 tons, Captain Y oun g , w ith two boys, were at the storming of Ghuznee, and throughout the whole of the campaigns in Kohistan and defence of Jellalabad. They embarked at Bombay on the 18th of November last. The to the naked whole of the men b e l ong i n g to the 1 3 th have been in India about twenty-two years. To- day the pl ane t M e rcury, which is seldom visible observation, a littl e a ft er s unset. It arr ives at the point of its greatest east ern e l ong ation from the sun at forty minutes past sev en i n the morning, and will be seen in the evening,eye, will be in a favourable position for about half an hour after sunset, at a low elevation, a littl e t o the north of the western point of the heavens. On Saturday last a gentleman, who vras proceeding by the afternoon train fro m Gl asgow to Ayr, had his pocket picked of It would a 4101. in bank notes, an d a l e tter of cre dit for 9/. nearly expended, s p ecu l a ti on has suggeste d the import of the Rear that the guan o at Ichabo e having become birds that when living produced it. A sal e is announced of " 200 bags of penguins, consider ed well adapted for the same uses as guano." It yet remains, we presume, to be proved how far the mummies of these sea-fowl will form a substitute for the manure so much in requisition. THE BOURSE--TUESDAY, APRIL 15. First Hip h; st Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents. ••.• 117 117 116 95 .. 117 Four-and-a-Half 113 .. 113 .• 113 •• 113 Fours. .... 107 50 107 50 .. 107 50 .. 107 50 Loan .•• • • ...... 86 35 .• 86 35 .• 86 35 .. 86 35 Gouin Bank. I,ooof Shares-1110 ..1110 ..1107 50 ..1110 Belgian Bank •• .. 637 50 .. 637 50 637 50 .• 637 50 Be gian Fives, 1840.. 1023 .. 10234 .• 10234 .. 1023 1842........ 105% .. 1053 •• 10534 .. 10534 Spanish Threes •••• • • • . 4114 • . 41% 4134 • • 41 % Active •• •• •• • . .... 40 .. 404 • • 40 1 4 .. 404 Passive..... 7 •. 7 4 .. 74 7 A Portuguese Five per Cents • • 66 .. 66 • • 66 G 6 Neapolitan •• • • lO2 .. 102 .. 102 .. 102 Roman ••• .• •• •• 10634 .. 10634 10634 .. 1063¢ RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain • • ...... • ..... 1140 ..1140 ..1143 .. Versailles, R. 8..•• •• ...... 577 50 .. 578 75 .. 572 50 . L.B Rouen Rouen to Havre 957 50 957 50 .. 950 • Orleans ••.•1260 ..1260 ..1250 • Strasburg to Bale• • .....• Avignon to Marseilles.• ••••1090 —lO9O ..1090 • Bordeaux to Teste •• • • .1140 572 50 377 50 ..1135 950 ..1250 327 50 RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, APRIL 16. St. Germain .• •••• • •• .• • .1140 ..1150 ..1135 Versailles, R.8...........580 .. 580 .. 568 75 L. 8.. •• • • 380 .. 380 .. 373 75 Rouen.. . .. —1145 ..1145 ..1132 50 Rouen to Havre ••• 960 960 • . 947 50 Orleans • • 1260 ..12 60 ..1245 Strasburg to Bale ••• • • • 330 .. 335 .. 325 Avignon to Marseilles ......1095 .. 1097 50 .. 1082 50 Paris to Sceaux . . . - 655 .• 655 1090 . 220 • 568 75 • 373 75 ..1132 50 .. 947 50 ..1245 .. 326 25 -1087 50 .. 655 - - SOCIETY OF BRITISH ARTISTS.—On Tuesday last, the 14th inst., his Royal Highness Prince Albert, at tended by Colonel Bouverie, visited the Exhibition of the Society of British Artists, in Suffolk-street, Pall mlll (erroneously stated in the Court Circular as the Water Colour Exhibition in Pall-mall East). His Royal Highness remained for some time inspecting the various works of art, and made purchases of three pic tures in oil colours by Messrs. H. M. Anthony, A. Mon- tame, and W. Shayer. BRITISH AND FOREIGN INSTITUTE —Wednesday the eighth soiree of the season was given at the Institute, and was attended by a large and fashionable assemblage of up wards of 300 ladies and gentlemen. The spacious and ele gant suite of apartments were filled at an early hour, and the music of the evening was rich, varied, and agreeable. Among the instrumentalists present were Mr. Kiallmark, Miss Weller, Mr. Muhlenfeldt, Mr. Kreutzer, Mr. Haussmann, and Mr. Kuhnone, a young violinist, recently arrived from Holland, who made his first appearance here, and produced a most favourable impression. Among the vocalists were Mr. and Mrs. C. Horn, Mademoiselle Burette, and the Misses Williams, with Mr. Machin, Signor Brizzi, and Signor Minim, a fine tenor singer, recently from Italy, who paid his first visit here on this occasion. In the course of the evening Mr. Buckingham read a beautiful monody on the death of the poet Campbell, the composition of one of the members, Dr. W. Beattie, his intimate friend and exe cutor. At the close of the proceedings it was announced that his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge had ho noured the Association by becoming one of its members, and hoped to pay it an early visit. The Rev. Dr. Wolff, who joined the Institute previous to his setting out for Bukhara, was expected during the evening to give a narrative of the principal events of his journey, but the lateness of the hour rendered it necessary to defer this pleasure till the next occasion of these meetings. Captain Grover laid on the table his recently published volume, entitled " The Bukhara Victims." Among the company were Mr. and Mrs. William Howitt, and Mr. Spencer Hall, the mesmerist, whose success ful cure of Miss Martineau has excited so much interest, and led to so much controversy. Altogether, the evening was one of the most agreeable of the season. The first volume of the transactions of the Society was said to be in a state of great forwardness at press, and it was hoped that it would be speedily ready for publication in a quarto volume, illustrated with numerous engravings, and containing full reports of the lectures, conversazioni, soirees, and discussions which have taken place among the members, thus presenting to the pub lic the best possible index by which to judge of the nature, objects, and character of this new Literary Association. INCENDIARISM.—Information of the following daring and wanton acts of incendiarism was on Wednesday for. warded throughout the metropolitan and City police dis tricts :—On the afternoon of the 3d instant, a wood, in the parish of Nutley, Hants, called Oxdown• coppice, the pro pertyof George Purefoy Jervoise, Esq., was wilfully and maliciously set on fire ; and again, on the night of the fol lowing day ( Friday ) , p art of Nutley -coppice was also set on fire by some person or persons unknown. A reward of forty guineas, in addition to the reward of ten guineas allowed by the Alresford Association, has been offered for the discovery and apprehension of the parties. Also that, on the 16th instant, some evil-disposed person or persons maliciously set fire to and destroyed about 100 yards of a hedge, in th e road leading from the Warwick road to Hayhall House, in the pyish of Yardley, Worcestershire, belonging to Mr. Edward fa rmer . BUSINESS or THE ROLLS COURT.—The book of were in the list of Hilary causes before the Master of the Rolls, for hearing during Easter Term, and in the sittings after, if any, has just been issued, and it a Lordship, 138. This that there are, in the whole, before his his number includes those causes winch to the close of as have been set down Term, and remained undecided up vacation . sittings , . as also such new causes Term last. once the issue of the list of Hilary .;;,~;~: t , THE IRON 'FRADV. SATUIWAY 'GUT. oc masters' quarterly meetings WtiS held this evening. The prices agreed upon at Woiverban - Tten wen - maibtaineti, and may be quoted as follows : s. d. Mffs Common nail rods Rails l4 0 0 Hoops Plates Sheets Pigs (Shropshire) Pigs (Staffordshire) There is a prevalent opinion that the last advance of 21. was uncalled for, injudicious, and likely to prove in jurious both to masters and men. This extraordinary price is, however, justified upon several grounds. The great advance which has taken place in the price of coal and limestone, combined with at least 25 pr cent. in crease in the wages of the miners, has unquestionably compelled the ironmasters to put a high figure upon their make. Coal at the present moment, owing to the preva lence of local strikes in certain districts, is extremely scarce, and in many other parts, where the men are ap parently satisfied with the wages given, the miners do not, work more than four days a week. It is a fact to be regretted, seeing the great demand for coal, and the ad v,tnce of miners' wages, that the men in many districts of the Suffordshire coal-field, in consequence of their absenting themselves from their work, are in the receipt weekly of little more than when the iron trade was at its lowest ebb. The advance in the price of coal in con sequence of the flourishing state of the iron manufacture and the demand of the colliers has not been less than 3s per tt. 6 it is thought, that even the increased dernano, great as it was, and the high price of materials, did not justify the advance in bars at one sudden step front 101. to 121. One singular reason, however, in addition to the more plausible ones already urged, has been given for this advance. It is stated. that it was suggested by some of the great firms, with a view to step fur her orders This may appear somewhat absurd, but if good autlswity is to be relied upon, it is nevertheless true. It is a fact, that many of the most extensive houses in South Staffordshire have more orders on hand than they can execute for matiy months to come; and it was hoped, by the means alluded to, to cause a pause in the demand. Unfortunately, however, this maseenvre (if such it was), while it answered the purpose of those by whom it was projected, has in some degree in jured other interests. Buyers imagine that there is something unsound in the rise—that the price is al ti ficial, and cannot be maintained. As a matter of course there is at present considerable hesitation in the market —a hesitation which has proved extremely detrimental to the manufacturers and dealers in hardware goods. Travellers from Birmingham houses, during the last four months, have in some instances been compelled to decline orders, in consequence of the extreme rise or uncertainty in the price of iron. The factors of Bir mingham have suffered severely on this account. With respect to Staffbrdshire pig iron, the opinion is it will fall. It will be observed that, in the list given above, the prices of Staffordshire and Shropshire pigs are given as the same. So they were clouted in Bir mingham on Thursday. It was, indeed, stated that Staffbrdshire had been sold at 71. ; but the purchaser could not be ascertained. Now, the ground upon which a reduction in Staffordshire is expected is the known superiority of the Shropshire pigs, till lately selling at 61. 5a., and now at 61 . 10s. It is thou g ht that the Staf fordshire makers cannot maintain an e q ualit y of price with their Salopian neighbours. It is but justice to the iron and coal masters to state, that hitherto they have , da rin g their brief p er iod of prosperity, exhibited a sp irit of fairness and justice t o wards the mining population ; but it is to be feared that at the present lime the colliers in some districts— in districts, too, where when wages are high men will not work full time—do not reciprocate the good and fair feeling manifested by their employers. Wages amongst the thick-coal men have, as before stated, risen 25 per cent. In the neighbourhood of Dudley a large number of men have, notwithstanding. struck for a further ad vance of 6d. per day, and the consequence is, that some of the furnaces have been brought to a stand for want of coal. The men have now assumed the mastery, and in sist on the price of labour keeping pace with, and even outstripping, the advance in iron. The advance of 6d. a day in a man's labour is estimated at ls. per ton on coals—a material consideration in the ironwaster's out- goings. It is hoped these isolated local " strikes" will speedily be at an end. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. Losnox, APRIL 17.—Strong breeze and fine clear weather. COWES, APRIL 16.—Wind N.E., blowing a gale.—Arrd. Chariot, Ichaboe, and not the Charlotte as reported. DEAL, APRIL 16 —Wind N.E. to N.N. E., stron g gale.— Sid. Cookson, Quebec; Misc hief, Calcutta and China; Trusty, Quebec. The British Union, for Prince Edward's Island, and several other vessels, have lost their anchors. RA3ISGATE, APRIL 16.—The Agues, Burgess, from Jamaica to London, with loss of anchors. PAN SAND HOLE, APRIL 15.—Arrd. Duke of Bedford, China; Lads- Marshall, ditto, windlass damaged, &c. CLYDE, APRIL 15.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. Nautilus, St. John's New Brunswick. DUBLIN, APRIL 15.—Sld Bridget, Grace Darling, and Mar quis Wellesley, Quebec. WEYMOUTH, Apntr.l6.—Sid. Astrea, Quebec. PLygount, Arum 16.—Wind N.N E.—Arrd. Tyne, Bosustow, Mauritius ; August, Elmhorst, Honduras for Hatnburgh. Std. Hotspur, Ruth, and Katherine Stewart Forbes, Quebec. OFF' EXMOUTH.—Mandengo, Bunting, Jamaica. LtvEnrotn„ APLIL !6.—Arrd. Lancaster, Huller, Bom bay; Exeter, Barrett, Ichaboe ; Barrett, Foster, Charleston. Off, Margaret, Africa. Sid. Doris, C !ne of Good Hope ; Xarifa, Rio and Valparaiso; Ann and Emily, Sierra Leone; Trea surer, Barbadoes ; Superior, Apalachicola; Eben Preble, Philadelphia; Charles Humbeeston ard No Kingdom. New York ; Shannon, Boston ; Argent and Racer, Halifax ; James, Montreal. The wreck reported yesterday proves to be the Euterpe, which is being brought in here by t wo steam tugs; she was bound from St. Domingo to this port. WEYMOUTH, APRIL 16.—The Mary and Elizabeth, from Plymouth to this port, drove ashore at Portland yesterday, during a heavy gale at N. WHITSTABLE, APRIL 16.—The Isabella, from Trieste to London, was the vesssel that got on the Spaniard; she has beat off, and is now on the main, near Warden Point, with loss of rudder, but making no water. A lugger and a smack have gone to lighten her. FALMOUTH, APRIL 16.—Wind N.E., strong breezes.—Arrd. Concord, Hewitt, Ichaboe ; Mary Laing, Ellison, Cieufuegos Neptunus, Wissing, Valparaiso. Off, Waterloo, lehaboe. SWANSEA, APRIL 15.—Arrd. Arrieta, Ellis, Cuba. PWLLHELI, Arum 15.—1 t is blowing a strong gale at N.N.R. A large ship with painted ports, no figure-head, came to anchor at St. Studwell's outer Roads, and a brig was seen to leeward of Studwell Roads, it blowing a strong gale from N.N.W. All last night it blew a terrific gale. At nine A.M. this morning was seen riding S.F. of Studwell's, rudder gone; at eleven A )t. the foremast and bowsprit went, and she is now riding a complete hulk. Two P.N. It has moderated a little. YouGHAL, APRIL 14.--Sid. Tottenham, Quebec. CORK, APRIL 14.—Wind N.W., squally.—Arrd Aretbusa, Forbes, .;entenary, Douglas, Providence, Cornforth, APLagan, and Warren, Ichaboe. Sld. R. N., Parker, St. John's, New Brunswick. Off, Black Princ e, Su pp le, Diamond, earc John APLellan, Coates, and Jos. Cunard, M'Leod, Ichaboe. e' LowsTOFFE, APRIL 16.—The New Leeds remains on the beach, and is much damaged. THE SALFORD CMARTER.—By a defect in this charter, the mayor and chief magistrate of Salford cannot either hear or issue warrants or summonses.—Liverpool Chronicle. WEST KENT.—The divided Conservatives of West Kent have, it is reported, cast off both Lord Holmesdale and Mr. Frewin, and have picked out a third man in the person of Colonel Austen, of Kippington, near Sevenoaks, as likely to unite the suffrages of the electors in his favour. THE LAND or LIBERTY.—It has long been an Englishman's boast, that as soon as a refugee sets foot in England, that moment he becomes free. Now, we think this boast hardly goes far enough. It should particularly state that the letters of the foreigner are treated with even greater freedom than himself.—Punch. IMPORTATION or DUTCH OXEN, SALMON, &C.— On Wednesday forenoon, the Dutch steam-packet Batavier, Captain Dunlop, arrived alongside the St. Katharine's steam packet wharf, east side of the Tower, from Rotterdam. She had a considerable number of cabin passengers and an excel lent cargo, principally consisting of 47 live cows and oxen in prime condition, and a large quantity of Dutch salmon and turbot, poultry, &c. SUPPOSED CHILD MURDEA.—Wednesday morning, between seven and eight o'clock, as the grave-digger con nected with the burial-ground of the chapel-of ease to the parish of St. Mary, Islington, in the Holloway-road, was going into the ground to pursue his employment, his atten tion was attracted to a large sized garden-pot near the rail ing adjoining the road. On going up to it he found the top covered over with a piece ofrag, and on its removal, crammed into the garden-pot, he discovered the body of a remarkably fine newly-born male infant, wrapped up in some old pieces of calico and linen. From the appearance of the body there is but little doubt the child had been subjected Co violence producing its death. The body was placed in one of the vaults of the chapel, where it awaits the Coroner's inquest. OH ! How SHOCKING !—ln the " Vegiges of the Natural History of Creation," Ugliness is described as a con sequence of Misery. What frights we shall all be through the operation of the income-tax !—Punch. AUCTIONEERS —Tire following nww rezulation re specting auctioneers appears in the Bill before the House of Corn. mons to repeal the auction duties :—" And be it enacted, that every auctioneer, before beginning any auction, shall fix or sus. pend, or cause to be affixed or suspended, a ticket or board con. taining his true and full Christian and surname and residence, painted or written in large letters, publicly visible and legible in some coospicuous part of the room or place where the auction is held, so that all persons may easily read the same; and shall also keep such ticket or board so affixed or suspended during the whole time of such auction being held ; and if any auctioneer begins any auction, or acts as auctioneer at any auction, in any room or place where his name and residence is not so painted or written on a ticket or board so af f ixed or suspended, and kept affixed or sus. pended as aforesaid, he shall forfeit for every such offence the sum of 1001." The new duty on auctioneers' lice..ses throughout tke United Kingdom is to be (on the passing of the Act) 10/. a year. WESTRUTHER.-A UOOD DAY'S WORK.-Mr. Wm. Gibson having entered on a new lease of the farm of West. ruther Mains, and having executed a drainage of upwards of 1,800 roods during winter, his farm labour from that operation and from the spring frosts was retarded; his friei.ds, accordingly, gave him a day's ploughing on the 24th ult., when 17 ploughs started on a lea field of 27 acres, and turned the whole over in not more than eight hours. The turn-out wai splendid, and the execution of the 'ork performed in superior style. Mr. Gibson afterwards enter tained a number of his friends, who had so kindly come forward to assist him, at dinner in the evening, when, over a social glass, "Speed the plough," was eot forgotten.—Berwick Paper. LEITH.--The spring trade is opening up here with considerable briskness. During the last two days upwards of 1,200 qrs. wheat, 800 qrs. barley, 400 qrs. oats, and 300 qrs. beans, have been brought in coastwise or foreign. One valu able cargo has just arrived from Port Louis, consisting of, among other articles of traffic, 4,100 bags sugar. Clover seed is also coming in In great quantities ; and since the re. moval of the glass duties, a good deal has been done in the clearauce of wine from bond. Altogether the trade of the port exhibits at present a very lively and healthy appearance. Of Guano, several cargoes are still arriving, the prices look ing steadily up, averaging about Si. per ton.—Scotsman. TO THE .EDITOR OF THE SCS SlR,—Livii,g in a remote corner o f tire empire, it was_ only this morning that I perused the debates in Parlianaoli! on the Oregon question, which wi ll be hailed it' delight by every Briton who has t ile honour of I°3 country at heart. Tice present crisis between this country arid Airler i r is certainly one of fearful importance, and it is to hoped that the new President of the United? tates win maturely consider the consequences that may sult fro m r his decision before be involves his own country a Iv :, with the British . empire, a war which may, shake t. boasted institutions of his Government to their found" tion, and plunge a great portion of the citizens of the United States in utter ruin and desolation. Mr. Polk, the new President of t he United State', seems giddy with his recent exaltation , and anxious.t° signalise the limited period of his brief authority by making the Blitish Government to cro uch to anY tha he may please to impose on it, without d re aming of „ possibility of Britain being able to mak e any .iunpress.w: upon the American U hien ; and, under this unpressMu e ' he sets Britain and all other Governm ents at &fiat; calling upon their subjects to revolutioni se their °",,. countries, and fraternise with the must virtuous slideft` y lightened Government on the face of the earth, W e t keeping in the back ground that their own Govern p the is bankrupt, both in credit and reputation, en f damning fact of the horrid and inhuman elat e° , 1 0 . e slavery which is upheld in their southern states, Where human beings are made to breed like cattle, sod t he ir unhappy progeny ale seld like cattle, and sent to 11111 W countries in the far west, where their lives are Dot worth more than from two to three years' purchto ° The virtuous citizens of the United States ialaY ` hem fur the idea that the wrath of tied will overtake th this inhuman traffic, but such they may rely IW° ill certainly be the case, and I will now unfold to them - - be easily it may be ac tale mi, and how Britain m a Y n made the instrument of inflicting this vengean ce ! I ,Ap j g them and their country—the British Empire pcss e ' — i l i e mare means of aggression against America rest of the world put together, and America being other vulnerable to attack from Britain than from nay e t nation. r the Britain could at once land on the shores cLi rt y southern or slave states of America from t hirty t° ' 1) thousand disciplined sepoys, led on by British °Wel in a high state of discipline, and accustomed to eic t ° ; not one of whom would de, , eit, and send along wit h t e re a complete train of artillery, with veteran gli ° l - 4 s than all ore With this force she could send from the West lcuri j i few thousand disciplined Africans, co naraand el ",,si• British officers, to make acquaintance with their ela'„" t ; and with this combined force she could land fronityle:ith to thirty thousand British bayonets, accompanied ~- e oi• arms, clothing, and accoutrements for 300,000 ern— paced negroes. le of Against this overwhelming force, I ask the Pc°,.P 60$ America what resistance they could make? Oh tl' e nt ipg proclamation from British head-quarters gra`lield liberty to the slave, the unhappy African race :jet° immediately desert their masters, and be forrceu ‘ ,, - 0 1cl corps for their destruction, and the whole forc e . L e rte advance into the interior. like the simoom of the destroyii.g all that opposed them. de i° The sepoys only require that the promises made them should be faiA Melly kept, and from their et',',oo. inept to their officers, they will readily follow "seie The writer of this has been with them o n foreign note vice oftener than once, and he thinks be sees thetahoes, march three paces to the front, with their tuilitarYa!' when volunteering to follow their officers. et I tell the citizens of the slave states that their p eewee fancied security depends altogether upon the forbear;oo. of the British Government, and that so long ss i ,t h he r/ tinue to possess a slave population, they free tinuelly exposed to destruction from their efforts ° tru e. themselves from their cruel yoke—that the usl etiPers:ed, ture of their constitution is built up with the Wit t i g , ta blood of their hapless slaves, and that when the ~eir th e retribution arrives, great and dreadful wil l be geance they will take upon their inhuman masters'. pri. With the powerful force I have mentioned, Gre sy r i is tain could at once settle the question of ela i h e e aclif America, and oblige the repudiators of their own " t heir who are lost to ad sense of honesty, to pay l e tilo s bonds with interest to the last farthing, at the ea` -- tor that they would bring our dispute about the Oregon ritory to a speedy termination. n A " SIPAHI SIB RA IL WAYS. „ 2 „. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUl".i vi ► Sit SIR,—AII secrets are better out respcting a pd to prevent the knowing ones fleecing the igiari:go o. thinking many will be obliged for the following is cor set allow don, you, perhaps, will allude to or allo per in your paper :—The Leeds and Manchester srebestal iating for the lease of the Huddersfield and Mane itiw thus throwing overboard the Leeds and Dewsbull' securing the succet,s of the West Riding Jinic, ti 9 li oS. Yours, &c. W. THOU York, April 10. TO THE EDITOR OF THE Sllniceoc e ' Sin,—ln reading the debate on the a uction °c ol I was much surprised to find no Member tdcnoesr‘ the general interest of the revenue, and wh ich to me so very clear--which is that the dot for cities or boroughs should be fifteen poullus' o thers places seven p;:unds ten shillings. It iv° l.ll ' - e le y the gr eatest revenue, as I feel confident that no t °ll l,os would be tak.'n out in the cities and boroughs' , o pse, great tailing off in tie country places would be the ,;000 (lite; ce of one utiitorm charge; but reducing it hall iiptrt insure a continuance f the same number in the c °- t s, which is a great convcnience to the rural distrileapsr may be observed that the agriculturists 10 %, titularly feel the benefit of the continuance of 1 , r er i pra-er's separate license, as nine times out of tee Toeti are called in for the valuation between farreel,.„dtli° there is an exchange of tenants, they und,rsta.ool" nature of it much better than au auctioneer. itoi, Ripon, April 12. A FAR° GLASS MANUFACTUR E ' Concurrently with the abolition of the duties ottiod recent improvements are likely to give an extra(); jer i impulse to the manufacture of it, and to cause..ft terial to be employed for the fabrication of a v.- an efri a articles it has hitherto never been applied to, i npeo a i'l of man), which require strength and solidity -- :,, tue t of cir o s gravity of glass being very great (about half ' 41.21- 3 f iron)—consequently when used in thick mes ses 1 !Ic e° liable to acci:lental injury. To afford one leadenat)o. its applicability to nolel purposes we may h l ' o t e employ ment of glass of deep and brilliant golden A frames to smell or moderate sized p i ctu res ‘ , l O $ 13 . 0 orname :ts in friezes or cornices, capitals of d ti nc ' - ute cl a t pilasters, and a variety of decorations now e X I - 4 , 5 0 11 ,' ° 1 ; gilding—one very obvious advantage over the ' — fo ibil c i tioned mode being durability, owing to the t he e O l of fading or tarnishing. We do not say tha t P o yi would be so precisely the same that the er i e l o loti 6 distinguish between ornaments cast in goal gull glass, and those coated by a surface of SCOI/„1: yet the beauty of the one mode might b e fully so that of the other, although with a different.' 0 0 . then, new resources seem to be " opened lir' Scotch say, to decorators. Ord, o Looking to a more immediate and obvious Ptak.," architectural embellishment by means of the flea` eutwor have been strink by the decidedly great improv en r l e t y has lately been introduced into the manu faet ta namental patterns in coloured glass for vvind°„"oo,,,, Messrs. Powell, of Temple- street, Fleet-stree t ' for its superior economy no less than its intrinele,e-rdlei is incontestably preferable to that produced au'''',oo,o the usual process. Instead of being traced on °lls. lof burnt-in of a darker or nearly opaque c olour , naid eoF tje li terns on diapered glass may now, in e° 135 1 -1 1 0 Messrs. Powell's invention, be cast in the p a s 4 s l; by a single operation—an improvement analog — tr." of printing compared with manuscript. TII:er00:4d thus produced in relief, or actually ernhos..,, act ° li side of the glass, whereby is not only gret.„' s e C ii and uniformity of outline obtained, but 51 " 4 0 91 and singularly beautiful effect; for, owing to Lil t, tion of the light, a sort of gem-like, flickering w t , Ol i o; takes place, productive of richness, without t il ° _, Ag i e; gaudiness. Of course such glass is nionoCn"; 0 1°oft i although each guard or pane is only of singa ,10°, the different panes may be of different hues, V.:OOV different shapes and sizes, so that any.e"ra.l,'"" 4 patterns and colours can be introduced into t'"" , 0 4 design of windows so executed. Besides ltilope 0 r 0 0 value for " painted windows," where the 0 16° 10 i• ii 4 is to be so filled in, this embossed colou red g o ,b e admirably adapted for window blinds (i° 5 , 0 4 , e d while highly ornamental within, they could r, s ;0 1 : 1 ,1/ 0 tually serve as a screen from without), that' " oor A l t be a matte. of of surprise were blinds of the k ill ' . ocero O'f come into vogue. Embossed glass is further s ec ite e o' of variety of colour, for we observed one sl:' n i e ce, Messrs. Powell's show .room, in which sraall er f 0 0 0 / different hues were inlaid into certain parts ° cu j e dd i tern, so that it had the appearance of being ° l ye eV gems; whereas large masses of the more inteinriop,loo are apt to have a rather overpowering, too g ifl e fi e;: h eo somewhat crude effect—one less pleasing le t A b free l themselves than for the coloured light sb e ' upon other objects. . 0 t he This invention is about to be employed 1: ion of the New Hall of Lincoln's Inn. le° Of and TUB FAUGH-A-BALLAGH.—ThiS !le vy , 0.1.0 iron steamer, built for the Drogheda Steara-paclceL' 00 4, 14 fr o i Messrs. Caird and Co., the eminent engineers of e G rc ' en bat i ef in our river on Wednesday, after a voyage Of l e °,,elel „ t ie? Drogheda. The Faugh.a.Ballagh is a beautiful P: e 41 0 0 ff architecture, and so constructed as to combine all t .",,, er/ swift :tiller with the capabilities which are essential,:t; pr cient steadiness In the heaviest seas. She 15 her length all over is 195 feet, length of keel, 190 beam 26 feet, and depth of hold 151 she if , It 7 beautiful pair of engines, each 150 horse pow er malleable iron framings 0:1 a new and greatlYirar by which greater strength is united with a graceful appearance. The ornamental aPP' are of an exceedingly chaste descriptir very elaborately worked, displaying gracefully intertwined with various devices. The rich mahogany furni' panelling, so tastefully relieved with ornamented mirrors, and the lofty give an air of grandeur to the ca' tion of all who have beheld it. been studied as well as elegar been made for the most pert did state-rooms, one of w for ladies, and is most cor is capacious and lofty, ample accommodatior here a large party other gentlemen h were entertained the enterprishir —Liverpool SINGUI lambs belr ham had r . 1