The Sun. — London, England, 1850-04-01 00:00:00

R ENCH PLAYS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. ARRANGEMENTS AFTER EASTER. Mr. Mitchell reopectfully announces that the THEATRE will be E-01..PENED during the Easter Week, for the performance of Comedie od 'Vaudeville, and begs to submit the following arrange ments : Ecgageraents--M. Samson (of the Theatre Francais-, Paris), his first appearance, Madlle. Denain (of the Theatre Francais), M. Regnier (of the Theatre Francais), Madlle. Nathalle (of the Theatre Francais), and M. Lafont (of the Theatre des Varietes). The first production after Easter will be Scribe's popular Comedy ' of " Bertrand et Itatton ;" Le Comte liertrand de Rantran (Premier Mlnistre), M. Samson, as performed by him in Paris. Sabsequeut performances will be selected from the following :—" L'Ecele des Veillards," " Un Venvage," and " Ma Femme et Ma Place," new Comedies by M. Samson ; " La Marquis de Senneterre ;" the two admired Proverbs of Alfred de Musset, "Il ne Faut Jnrer de Rien," and " Il Feat qu'une Porte soft Ouverte on Fermee ;" " Les De moiselles de St. Cyr," " La Pais a Tout Prix," " Un Chateau de Cartes," " Le Marl a la Campange," and the new Play by Emile Angier, " Gabrielle," now performing in Paris with unsurpassed suc cess, and in which Madlle Regnier and Madlle. Nathalie will sus tain their original characters. Mr. Mitchell feels particular gratification also in announcing that, in the production of Scribe's celebrated Comedy of " La Camarade rie," estimated amongst the chef d'oeuvres of the modern stage, the prineipal characters will be sustained by four members of the Theatre Francais, Paris—M. Samson, in the character of De lialremont ; Denain, In that of Cesarine; M. Regnier in that of Be Mentluear ; and Madlle. Nathalie, in that of Zoe; presenting a com bination of ta'ent not to be witnessed at any other theatre in Europe, the arrangements for which have been most generously accelerated by the administration of the Theatre Francais, Paris. In addition to the present Company, and the foregoing engage- rileqta, are the following :—Madile. Avenel (of the The Lire do 1 'Odeon) ; Madlle. /31'assine (of the Theatre du Palais Royal) ; Madlle. Renaud (of the Theatre du Vaudeville) ; Madame Octave (of the Theatre tin Vlindeville) ; Madlle. Constance (of the Theatre des Varietes), &c. The first performance of the eminent tragedienne, Madlle. Rachel, deglnltively arranged for Moaday, July Ist. Subscriptions for ;he remainder of the season may be arranged at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. First appsaranck of Miss Catherine Hayes. The Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public are respectfully informed that this Theatre will Re-OPEN TO-MORROW EVENING When will be presented Donizetti's Opera LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. . . Lucia, Miss Catherine Hayes; Signor Belletti ; Bidebent, Signor F. Lablactis ; Edgardo, Mr. Sima Reeve,. Betweenithe acts of the Opera will be presented a Divertissement, in which Aladin!, Lmalla Ferraris will make her appearance in a grand Pas cle Deux with M. Charles. To conclude with an entirely new and original Grand Ballet, by M. Paul Taglioni, entitled LES METAMORPHOSES. . The Music composed by Signor Pugni ; the Scenery (entirely new) by Mr. Marshall ; the Appointments by Mr. Bradwell ; the Cos tomes by Miss Bradley and Mr. Coombes, under the superintendence f Madams Cuero. The Sprite (under the forms of I, a Page —2, a Rustic Coquette-3, W ill-of-the-Wisp--4, a Folie —5, a Domino-6, a Cavalier), Mdlle. Carlotta Grist ; Karl (a Student), M. Paul Taglioni ; Ida (his be trothed), Madlle. itosa ; Mounts, M. Charles ; Nlves, MacUles. Resa, A usandon„lullenne, Lamoureux, E. Pascales, and F. Pascales. .tpplicatious for Boxes, Stalls, and icketa to be made at the Op-rt itx-oflice, Colonnade, Haymarket. HER 'MAJESTY'S THEATRE. A GRAND EXTRA NIGHT Combining the talents of Madame Sontag, Sigsieri Lab'ache, Belled', Lorenzo, Calzolari, Sims Reeves, Madlles. Parodi, Carlotta Grist Maria Taglioni, and Amall a Ferraris. The Nobility, Subscribers to the Opera, awl the public are respect , fully informed that A GRAND ENTERTAINMENT Will take place On THURSDAY, April 4, When will be presented Winizetti's celebrated Opera of DON PASQ UALE. Nor Ma.• • ..• .. Madame Sontag. rrnesto.. • • .. • • ........9ignor Calzolari. Doctor 3lalateAa• • .. Signor Delletti. and Don Pasquale •• Signor Lablache. After which, A DIVERTISSEMENT, In which Marine. Amalia Ferraris will appear. To be followed by a Selection front A FAVOURITE OPERA, Combining the talents of Madlle. Pared!, Signor Lorenzo, and Sims Reeves. To conclude with LES METAMORPHOSES. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. COVENT-GARDEN. The first appearance of Signor Tamberlik. MA:_4AN !ELL° NEXT THURSDAY. Tbo Directors have th• honour to announce, that in compliance with the desire of a large portion of their Subscribers, who have left town for the Easter recess, NEXT THURSDAY, April 4, will be given as a Sttbscription Night, instead of To-morrow. April 2, when will he performed (for the first time this season) Auber's Grand arid popular Opera of MASANIELLO. In which Signor Tamberlik will make his first appearance in England. Eivlra. renella.. •• • • •• • • Mill!. Bailin. Emma• . • • .. • • .. • • •• ..Mdlle Cotti. Pietro. • .. • ... Mons. Mass, 1. Alphoaso • ..... •. • ... Signor Luigi Mel. 80rei1a...... • • Signor Borami. Lorenzo.. Sold!. Pescatore...... —Signor Bache. 5e1va...... .• .. • • •• Signor Gregorio, and • Masaniello...... Signor Tauaberlik. _ _ From the Theatre Sa❑ Caries at .N'..tples, and the Grand Opera at Parcelonn—hls first appearance in England. The Characteristic Daadea incidental to the Opera will be sup ported by Mons. Alexandre and 31,111 e. Louise Taglioni (Premiere Danseuse of the ♦cademie Royale at Faris), with whom the Di rectors have effected an Engag,ernen% Composer, Director of the Music, and Conductor, Mr. Costa. • On SATURDAY, A p7il 6, A GRAND OPERA. Oa TUESDAY, April 9, will be performed Donizetti's Open, I.ECIZEZIA BORGIA, • In which Madame GriA, hidlle. de Merle, Signor Tamhurinl, and Sl;nor Mario will make their first appearances this season. The performances commence at Eight o'clock precisely. Tieitc.tA for the Boxes, Stalls, or the Pit may be had (for the night or season) at the Box-office of tied Theatre. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee and Maaager, Mr. JAMES ANDERSON. TRU, EVENING, Will be performed JANE AIIORE. ♦fier which IHE DEVIL'S RING; or, Fire, Water, Earth, and Air. THUATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. r, . Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Broaspton. Great A. t 'action for the Holidays. T [US F.VENIN:,, Will he performed MECII ADO ♦BOUT Benedict, Mr. C. Keen ; Beatrice, Mrs. C. Kean. To conclude with a :rand new and original SPECTACULAR BURLESQUE. The Be%-of11:a le tinder the direction of Mr. I. T. Archer. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. TIIIS EVENING, _ _ Will be pertormed a new domestic Drama, called THE MOTHER'S DRS AM. Principal characters by Messrs. Hughes, Wright, P. Bed ford, 0. Smith, Madame Celeste, and Miss E. Chaplin. To be followed by a grand historical Spectacle V audeyills, entitled PLAYING FIRST FIDDLE ; or, Follow my Leader After which MY PRECIOUS BETSY. Characters by Messrs. Wright, Bedford, Worrell; Miss Harding, and Mrs. F. Matthews. To conch; lo with TOM NODDY'S SECRET. ROYAL VICE LT If THEATRE. THIS EVENING --.--. Will be rrodused (first time) a Lyrical, Comical Pastoral, entitled C Y MON and I FIIIGENIA, altered from the text of David Garrick. Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, Barlay, F. Matthews, R. Roxby. and If. Cooke; Mims E. George, Miss Keaworthy, Miss Dickinson, Mrs. Hamby, Mies Oliver, Miss Manners, and Miss Martindale. After which the original Fairy Extravaganza, called THE ISLAND OF JF.WIELS. To conclude with AN APPEAL TO THE PUBLIC. All applications for Private Boxes must be made to Mr. Aileron 15, New Bond-s tr ee t PRINCESS'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING • Will be presented THE BEGGAR'S OPERA. Captain Mac heath, Mr. W. Harrison ; Polly (first time), Miss Louisa Tyne. After which n New Grand Tale of Enchantment, with splendid Scenery, Costumes, and Appointments; extensive Machinery, &c., entitled THE QUEEN OF THE ROSES; er, The Sorcerer of Candahar. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Immense attraction for the llolidayti. ne-engngament of Young Hernandez, the wonder of the world. THIS EVENING The Entertainments will commence at Seven o'clock, with an entirely new and magnincent Equestrian Spectacle, entitled THE FAT:: SUNS OF AVMON ; or The Days or Charlemagne. To be succeeded by an incomparable display of Equestrian Wonders in the Arena. To conclude with a FAVOURITE FARCE. Hu; II WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE Tits DAT crtninf,: 39 min. after 4 I Evening 57 min. after 4 Te-xfolanw—Morning 13 min. after 5 I Evening 31 min. after THE WE A.THEIt.—STTN OFFICE, MARCH 31. THERXONETEE, L'..iCeSt, 36; Le3t, 48; Noon, 50. RAROMETICR, 29.78. WIND S.E.—light breeze and dull weather; slight rain in the morning; sunshine in tho afternoon, with a shift of wind to S.W.. and rain cecamionally. APRIL 1. TirRAIDMETER, Lowe:t, 41 ; 54; Noon, 52. BARODcETER, 29'8. Winn S.S.E.—light breeze and cloudy. ;:11- vf". VIVO% LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 1, 1850. The intended abolition of the mock court, at Cork hill, seems to be the topic on which her MAJESTY'S Mire subjects of the good city of Dublin are intent for the tiara being, to the exclusion of almost all others. A good working grievance i 3 at all times valuablevald the excellent gentlemen who are ac dustomell to haunt the purlieus of " the Castle," for the purpose of perpetrating jobs and soliciting Government aPPointraents; for themselves and friends are resolved not to let slip so favourable an opportunity for raising an outcry on the wrongs and injuries of Ireland. They are anxious that the short-sighted and erroneous policy, which has de graded their native land into a mere province, in place of its being an integral Portion of the British empire, should be perpetuated— tliat the spirit of pseudo-nationality, and the petty intrigues and party feelings, for which the Irish metropolis has been se painfully notorious, should he permitted to flourish in rank luxuriance. What is it to them that the Viceregal establishment has been truly designated as a " hotbed of corruption," that it has led ;to excesses and extravagances which have reduced many respectable families to comparative poverty- and distress, encumbered estates, and made the nominal proprietors unable to discharge the sacred duties they owed to their tenantries ? What mitten it if it has prevented the puisuits of honest in (lustry from being cherished, and over-stocked the learned professions, because the " Counsellor" or the " Doctor" could be received "at Court," and could astonish the weak minis of his country• cousins at his mative village with grandiloquent accounts of . the aristocratic company he mixed with at the "levee" or " drawing-room ?" The empty pageantry might have led to many real and substantial evils, but to say this is to say nothing to the purpose. The Imperial Exchequer was subsidised ' to the tune of some twenty or thirty thousands Of pounds per annum for the especial use and benefit of a few Dublin shopkeepers, and that covered a multi tude of sins, and was more than an equivalent for all the attendant evils which the Irish press so freely and unsparingly exposed at other times. This withdrawal of the salary ii, after all, the head and front of the Ministerial offending. All the elo quence of the indignant orators is devoted to that point, and that alone, in their remonstrances. They do not venture to assert that any national advantage is derived from the presence of the Viceroy—that their country is more wisely and efficiently governed, or that there is, in consequence, a better legislation for Ireland. Nothing of the kind ! There is no such substantial reason put forward. The burden of their song is the injury to shopkeepers—the ruin to the trade of Dublin (!) from the withdrawal of the expenditure of the Lord-Lieutenant's household ! That trade must indeed be in a pitiful condition if 20,0001. per annum, more or less, could have any per ceptible effect one way or the other. Edinburgh still flourishes, although it has no resident representative of its monarch. Its public buildings have not fallen into decay, nor are the better class houses suffered to remain untenanted, because the Scottish gentry cannot exhibit themselves some four or five times in the year at festivities in Holyrood House. The popu lation of Glasgow " has increased, is increasing, and will increase," albeit no court is held to stimulate trade and promote the manufactures of Scot land. Liverpool, Birmingham, Manchester, and a host of other towns can still flourish under a resident municipality, although there is no local imitation, no caricature of regal splendour. Even in Ireland itself, we find Belfast, the capital of the " Black North," prosperous and contented, without any such adventitious aid. Dublin alone is an exception to the general rule ; its quarter of a million of inhabitants appear to be the only individuals in the United Kingdom who are dependent on the " nods and becks, and wreathed smiles" of an in dividual, not merely fur their comforts, but for their very existence. Deprived of the fostering care of a Lord:Lieutenant, nothing can prosper or turn out favourably. All will be lost when the good citizens are no longer blessed with a sight of their territorial aristocracy arrayed in garbs that travestie the attire of an over-dressed footman. But after all, if the Viceregal Court exercised so wonderful an influence on the fortunes of the citizens of Dublin, let us ask, what right have they to retain an advantage denied to all other towns and cities in the empire? Why should the over-toiled artizan, the careworn operative of Manchester, of Sheffield, or of Birmingham, contribute a portion of their hard earnings as a tribute to the wealthy shopkeepers of Dublin ? Protection in every form has been deliberately condemned by solemn acts of the Legislature. It is decided that the various in terests of the British empire must sustain themselves by their own united strength, that they must not seek to charge the community in general for their own private advantage. The corn-laws have been repealed; the food of " the many" is no longer taxed to swell the purses of tbe favoured " few." The naviga tion-laws have been modified. There is no longer a monopoly for the British shipowner or the British sailor. 'Why, then, should the tradesmen of Dublin constitute an exception to the general rule ? Why should they alone be " protected ?" Why should the wealth that would otherwise be expended throughout the entire country—that would provide employment for labourers, improve the fertility of the soil, develop the natural resources of the country, and carry com fort to many a cottage in the rural districts, be with drawn from its natural channels to he expended in folly and extravagance in Dublin ? The Lord- Lieutenancy does not stimulate production or increase the national wealth. If it really hare the effect its present advocates so strenuously and vociferously proclaim, if it increase the rents of furnished houses in Dublin, and occasion greater activity in drapers' shops during a few weeks of the year, other localities suffer in an inverse ratio, and are kept in misery and wretchedness all the year, for the brief period of sun shine, the fitful gleams of prosperity that fall upon the metropolis. And there can be no just or valid reason adduced why a principle so pernicious should be perpetuated. But, after all, would the people of Dublin be at all injured ? Is it not more than probable that " the reality " would replace " the shadow ;" that in place of a mere representative they would have their SOVEREIGN herself paying occasional visits to her Irish subjects, with whose loyalty and devotion she was so well pleased last year? Would not a "royal visit" for even a single week be far more beneficial in every respect than years of the " Brummagem Court ?" Then, indeed, the English and Scotch aristo cracy would,be induced to cross St. George's Channe?, to carry their wealth to the Irish shores. No express stipulation! can, of course, be made on such a subject. Our Most Gracious QUEEN cannot be made the ser vant of the Dublin shopkeepers—an agent to puff their wares and to bring custom to their counters ; a bargain cannot be entered into on the point. There can, however, be little doubt that Queen VICTORIA would now and then visit her Irish dominions, and afford to her Irish subjects the o ppo r tu ni ty of offering their vows of fealty to their Monarch, to whom th e Crown has descended through a long line of ances tors. Then, indeed, the citizens of Dublin would have cause to rejoice at the change, the very mention of which is now exciting their anger and indignation. Because juvenile delinquents still crowd our pri scns, and juvenile vagrants still throng every corner of our thoroughfares, there has been a question raised as to the efficacy of one of the most practically excellent of the benevolent undertakings of modern days. We have so often commended the excellence and set forth the claims of Ragged Schools that it is unnecessary to dwell upon their peculiar merits now. Those merits have been almost universally admitted, yet on a recent investigation of the actual condition of the juvenile population of the metropolis, so degraded have been the characters, and so pitiable the spectacles revealed, that the inefficiency, or rather the insufficiency, of ragged schools has been (some assert) made pain- , fully apparent. Nevertheless, before we decide upon the success or the non-success of any undertaking, it is only fair to inquire what we were justified in expect ing from it. If any sanguine enthusiasts anticipated that ragged schools alone and unaided, save by the exertions of individuals, were to regenerate a com munity whose wretchedness and precocious iniquity have almost passed into a proverb, then indeed we may admit that these institutions have failed in ac complishing their object. If, on the other hand, w e rightly estimate their true position—if we con ceive them to be (as indeed they are) hospitals for the morally sick and destitute, receptacles for the hapless foundlings that society casts from her bosom to perish, in hundreds and thou sands, by the wayside, then, on the contrary, we shall agree that, so far from proving inefficient, ragged schools have not only accomplished much, but they have accomplished much that other hands have left undone. While, however, we take this opportunity of again bearing testimony to their excellence, while we again remind the rich and the charitable, that their alms and their assistance cannot be better bestowed than in furthering th e e ff or t s o f th ese lit era l pi oneers Of civilization, we would also again enforce the truth which, with all our confidence in the good effects of ragged schools, we have never lost sight of, namely, that the very existence of such insti tutions, while it attests individual charity, is a national disgrace. Silently, but. not the less eloquently, these scanty, poorly-furnished buildings, with their voluntary teachers and scholars whose " ragged" habiliments are a less pitiable sight than the obvious misery of their physical, mental, and moral condition —children with none of the happiness and little of the innocence of children—children with frames stunted by hunger and covered with filth, a ready prey to the first attacks of disease—children whose hearts are ignorant of the first rudiments of real knowledge, yet whose hands are perhaps skilful in the intricate mysteri es of theft—silently and eloquently do these scenes cry shame upon the Legislature under whose sway they exist. i iVe repeat it, ragged sc h o o ls are a disgrace to th e nation. We are a b ou t t o ca ll toge ther men of all countries to witneas our artistic skill, and to receive proof of our national magnificence and magnanimity. Whatever the reality of 1851 may be, I it is not difficult for imagination to conjure up a gorgeous spectacle, wherein the wealth of England and the enterprise of Englishmen will be splendidly conspicuous. Let us imagine, however, some stranger from another world, dazzled by the glory of the "show," asking, like King ARTHUR on a similar occasion, to see the " substance ?" " Where stands the People?—Genius, lift the blind." What sort of an exhibition for the eyes of all nations would a close scrutiny of London afford ? To return to the subject of these remarks — one only, but one of the most important of the many crying wants of the community—Education, we are yet in expectation of some Ministerial effort in its behalf. In this case, more than any other, we may say, bis dat qui cito dat ; for in this case delay is death. The public have observed with pleasure that by her MAJESTY'S desire the name of the Prince of WALES has been placed upon the list of patrons of many of the principal public charities. Has the young Prince given a do nation to the ragged schools of London ? In no place would the name of youthful royalty be so ap propriately inscribed. In another part of our paper will be found an ac count of the Totnes Election, which, although it does not contain the report of any speeches of great oratorial display, certainly possesses some interest from the tone of the speech of Lord Seymour, (now a Cabinet Minister), who, when speaking on the suf frage question, stated it to be his belief that the Go vernment would, on being convinced that it was really the desire of the people generally, grant a measure of reform in the shape of an extension of the suffrage. We hope the people throughout the entire length and breadth of the kingdom will, there fore, petition for reform, and, perhaps, the Govern ment will be alive to its own interest, and make timely concessions. It is now very generally ad admitted, even in small boroughs, that the present sys tem is far from perfect, and that electoral districts could easily be established on the basis of the poor law unions. This alteration would at any rate give the franchise to hundreds of thousands who are at present unrepresented. There can be no doubt, if the people are true to their own interests, a measure of reform will, ere long, be introduced by the present Government, and carried through Parliament. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC We have received the Paris journals of Saturday and yesterday. The Presse of Saturday has a long article avowedly from the pen of M. DE LAMARTINE, in the course of which he thus alludes to the proposition of M. DE LAROCHEJACQUELIN : "As to the proposition of M."de Larochejacquelin, I will not discuss it. Evidence is not discussed, it is f. It or it is not, that is the whole controversy. If, however, I had to disc uss it, I would merely, like Socrat.-s, ask the author of the proposition five or six questions, and from comequence I would constrain him to end in anarchy which he detests as much as we. Thus, I suppose it had triumphed, and the nation had chosen the monarchy; the next day, the author would be obliged to have another trial ti decide which monarchy. I suppose the. nation replied that cf the empire. The next day M. de Lirochejacquelin, or a partisan of the majority of July. would come and ask for a third trial, founding his demand on the pressure of the reminis cences of the glory of the army, of the Government then existing and dominating the ballot. I suppose that at this third trial the nation replied by the monarchy of July. The next day a proposition, signed by an Impe rialist and a Legitimist would deman a fourth trial, founding his demand on the presssure of the functiona ries of July still in place, of recent influence, of affection not yet extinct, of habits not yet forgotten. I suppose the nation replied by choosing the Legitimist monarchy. The next day Republicans, Imperialists, partisans of the illegitimate royalty, would sign a proposition to de mand to have the ballot annulled, founding the applica tion on the pressure of the nobility, the clergy, the great proprietors-, and the other aristocracies - ialuencing the country districts. I suppose that the nation at last tired of these trials, should divide into two nearly equal parts, and should give only one or two votes majority out of twelve millions of voters. Does M. de Larochejacquelin suppose that there is under the vault of heaven a nation of philosophers sufficiently scrupulous observers of the metaphysical decisions of number, in matters like these of government, to stop short before a vote and not ask for the simulation of the ballot, founding their demand on some pressure or other, fir what is there that is not pressure here below ? Nations feel the pressure of circumstances, of events, of panics, of Ideas, as the mercury feels the pressure of the atmosphere. I suppose, also, that the votes aro exactly , equal. Then, is it an appeal tn the people? No; but an appeal to civil war! Here, then. is the nation setting up a casus Belli against itself. What logic that is which ends in blood May the republic preserve us from it I Let us remain in it and improve it, in place of discussing it incessantly and so weakening it. I doubt.that this incessant crisis in which the proposition of M. de Larochejacquelin would plunge us, that this successive change of kings, dynasties, empires, or republics, would be an efficient remedy for the crisis of business which the author of it seems to think. An appeal to order, to common sense, to labour, would in my opinicebe better than eight or ten appeals to the people. In finishing, an idea occurs to me, and would cause me to pardon the republic if I was among the number of those who are impatient against time—it is this:—ln 1790 a pro position like M. de Larochejacquelin's would have the next day seen its author in prison; in 1793, would have led him to the scaffold; in 1810, would have seen him on the plain of Grenelle; in 1815, would have carried him to the prevotal court; and in 1840, would have had him before the Court of Peers; whilst in 1850, the Republic, free and magnanimous, listens witho u t being angry, dis cusses without scandal, and confines itself, after having honoured the courage of the proposition;' with sending its author to what?—to reflection. I cannot help hoping well of a Republic which has at once disused the good sense, humanity, and morals of my country to make such progress." The election for the Vosges has grminated in the return of M. GUILGOT, the Democratic candidate. He polled 34,000 votes. Democracy has made great progress in Vosges. In May, 1844, the highest number of votes polled by any of the Democratic candidates was 18,1300. It appears that the differences between the Pant- DENT and the Orleanists and Legitimatists who com pose the reactionary majority of the Assembly are by no means arranged. The Siecle has the following on this subject : " We must not believe all that people say, but yet we hare a right to listen to it. Some days alter the election of the 10th March a Council of Ministers and of inti mate friends was held at the Elysee. Such and such a one breathed fire and flame against the Parisian shop ocracy, who wanted the sword of a Napoleon to bring them to their senses. The principal auditor replied that he was of a different opinion that he thought reforms urgent that the revolution was made for sake of such reforms, and that if the nation desired them, who, he asked, had the right to stop the national will? On hearing such language the person to whom this retort was addressed flew to a cer tain general whom certain parties transform into a monarchist ogre, and rushing in, exclaimed, ' All is lost; even he, our hope, has gone over to the Reda! General, save us once more. A new Council was called, at which the leaders of parties assisted. AL Thiers dis played extraordinary vivacity. Louis Napoleon, whose maxim it is that the world is commanded only by the phlegmatic, simply replied by offering power to M. Thiers. The latter, encouraged by the presence of M. Berryer and others, pushed his remarks to such an out rageous length. that the matter ended in the nomination of M. Baroche." That there is by no means an entente cordiale sub sisting between the PRESIDENT and the Bourbonists is evident fr om th e f o ll ow i ng article, headed UR GENCY, which appears in the Napoleon of yesterday : "Present circumstances are such that never was it more necessary to simplify questions. Let us leave to occupy other times th e t as k o f d iscuss i ng t h eor i es; l et us s stateeach law so f tthings n a g n s d . measures The firm as m ay snicou l p to y me ourselves present e inten tion of the Government, we are convinced, is to act with beery d n p r o s s h s l i e b loon y d l t o 'e n r e o n n c o e a r n es ci pe a c c t co t r o d t ; he bu A t s t s h e e ra ir bl u y ni w on ith wil e l y condition —that the important propositions submitted to the Assembly shall be decided in one way or the other. Uncertainty is ruining the country. When a Bill is of great importance to the publio its rejection or adoption ought not to suffer any delay. What, for instance, de mands more urgency than the discussion upon the Bill which relates to the press? What at the same time more prejudicial than the disquietude to which are de livered up both those who hope to see it rejected and those who desire to see it favourably received? Let the Assembly, therefore, we conjure it, rise by its activity to the height of the peril. Let it discuss without the slightest delay that which is marked by so decisiv:: a character of utility for the country. The country cannot, we must over and over again repeat it, be tranquillised but by twe kinds of laws—those which repress excesses and prevent disorders, and those which give a just satis faction to popular interests. The representatives who know how to appreciate both the gravity of the situation and the importance of their mandate, ought, with all their efforts, all their solicitude, to hasten the examina tion on the one hand, of the laws on the press, on elec toral meetings, on the jury, on the mayors, and on transportation; and on the other of the budget of 1851, and of the bills on a- pension hind for the poor, on mutual aid societies, on public wash ing-houses and on the credit foncier. If all these measures were voted in a month, the influence of the Assembly and the government would gain im mensely, and both would have merited well of their country." The Estafette declares that it is probable that the majority may make extensive alterations - in the Bills relating to the press and the electoral meetings. The Journal des Debats of Saturday bitterly la mehts the immense progress which democratic opi nions hare made in the centre of France, particularly among the Bourgeoisie and the peasantry. The Illoniteur publishes returns from the principal corn markets throughout France, showing the average price of wheat in those markets, by which it appears, that the average price of wheat per hectolitre in the departments of the Moselle, the Meuse, the Ardennes, and the Aisne, is 12f. lc., being the lowest average throughout France, and 1.5 f. 40c. in the departments of the Pyrenees Orientales, the Aude, the Herault, the Gard, the Bouches-du-Rhone, and the Var, being the highest average. The Three per Cents. were done in the Passage de l'Opera at 89f. 80c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE _ LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE. MAncit 30. Boulogne and Amiens, 6 5 ,6—East Indian, 55—Northern of France, 12%—Orleans and Bordeaux, 2%—Rouen and Havre, 834. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 26th ult. have arrived. It is said that the QUEEN is highly irritated against NARVAEZ, and that the KING has placed himself at the head of a party consisting of the entire Court, a portion of the Moderados, and the whole of the Pr9gressistas, the object of which is the overthrow of NARVAEZ. Father FULGEN cio has received per mi ssion to return to Madrid. MADRID BOLSA, MARCH 26.—The Three per Cents, closed to-day at 29 3-16 cash ; the Five per Cents., 121 paper ; Coupons, 7 paper. The Stock Exchange is to be closed during the next three days in consequence of the solemnities of Holy week. • .40.% ' 4 4, • •••' eot - •, • - „it s e 4I T:Rt A .. • "iv:, GERMANY. A letter from Vienna of the 25th states that ar rangements had been made for bringing the income tax into operation at the beginning of next month. The preliminary inquiries had, it is said, caused great dissatisfaction. The letter adds that a commission of the Ministry of the Interior is drawing up a Consti tution for the Italian provinces. The Austrian am bassador at Constantinople, Count STURMER, had been put on the retired list, and was to be, replaced by M. DE PROILESCH, the Minister at Berlin. The court martial of Arad had been dissolved. A letter from the Adriatic, in the Kolner Zeitung, contradicts the late rumours of the impending sur rended of the Bay of Cattaro to the Russians, while it asserts that that bay will for some time be given up to the Russian fleet. From a Berlin letter of the 29th ult., in the Kolner Zeitung, we learn that the Bussian dispatch of the 6th of February, treating of the affairs (,f Denmark and Prussia, has met with a reply on the part of the Prussian Foreign-office. In this reply it is asserted that the Armistice Convention with Den mark is being executed by Prussia in the sense in which the latter power concluded and uniformly in terpreted that convention. Another practical re joinder to the Russian dispatch is the non-admittance of the Danish agents in Frankfort, and the advice which General RADowITz has given to Prince GORT SUAKOFF, viz., that the CZAR, ought to inform the Copenhagen Cabinet that the great powers would be opposed to that party which would first recommence Another Russian dispatch on the German question was delivered at Berlin on the 28th ult. This dis patch, it is stated, is written in a very conciliatory spirit ; it urges a mutual understanding between Prussia and Austria. It admits that the Prussian League is not necessarily in opposition to the treaties of 1815, and asserts that the Prussian League, though not opposed to the rights of the old Convention, must ultimately exclude its existence. SWITZERLAND. The French Constitutionnel says that at a popular Assembly of the Canton of Berne on the 25th ult., the Liberal Conservatives were much more numerous than the Radicals, and it augurs the election of a Conservative majority in the elections in May. The same journal has the following : "The Federal Council has just made a very important communication to the Confederated Statei, relative to the societies of German workmen established in the different cantons. It is known that an arrest was made at Murat of a certain number of delegates of those societies, who bad assembled to hold a conference in that place. These arrest 3 have led to the seizure of important papers, both on their persons and at the place of meeting. It ap pears that they were in relation with several German adseciations, and the correspondence furnishes proof that measures were being concerted for the execution of a new armed expedition against the Grand Duchy of Baden. The Federal Council is about to take severe measures, for the purpose of preventing the execution of such projects." ITALY. The Osserratore Romano of the 20th has the fol lowing : " The almost immediate return of the Holy Father may now be considered as certain, and the satisfaction of Pius IX. at having taken a definite resolution hs' been generally remarked. After the consiatory held at Portici, in which the very eminent Cardinals Lam bruschini, Dupont, Vizzardelli, Orioli, Franzoni and Antonelli took part, and in which the resolution of the Holy Father was unanimously approved of, the Secre tary ot State convoked a meeting of the Ambassadors of the four Catholic Powers, in order officially to notify to them the determination expressed by the Holy Father of returning to his states immediately after Easter, as the solemnities of the holy week, which are at hand, do not allow of his setting out before that time. The Am bassadors of France and Spain gave their unreserved approbation to this determination; those of Austria and Naples, on the contrary, made some reservations in case of unforeseen events. Notwithstanding this, on the following day (the 12th) diplomatic circulars were dispatched from the Secretary's office to the Ambassa dors and members of the Sacred College." A letter from Rome of the 21st, in the Statuto of Florence, says that on that day the arms of Austria were again hoisted on the Venetian Palace. None of the French authorities were present at the ceremony. The Tempo of the 20th states that the greater par of the French squadron is now anchored at Naples. SICILY. PALERMO, MARCH 19. Baron REGILIFI, well known fur his cowardice in 1848, and for his arrogance after the restoration, has again provoked the public of this capital, and led to new victims of oppression. During the per formances at the theatre he stood up in his box arid shouted "Long live the KING." Every one main tained a dead silence. He then repeated his cry, which this time drew forth from the whole house cries of the " The Constitution of 1812" and " he Constitution 0f.1548." The Baron, irritated, ordered the doors of the theatre to be closed, surrounded the pit with guards, and arrested 52 persons, who have been transported to the Isle of Favignana, and there immured in an underground dungeon, formerly used for murderers and such like criminals. The Duke of Newcastle is gradually regaining his health, and it is expected will be enabled to attend in the House of Lords soon after the re-assembling of Parliament. The Marquis of Northampton, accompanied by Viscount Alford, M.P., and Lady Marianne Alford, and Lady Margaret Compton, is expected to arrive from his tour in Egypt early in the ensuing month by the way , of Marseilles and Paris. We are happy to say Viscount Alford's health has improved during his sojourn in the East. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston are to leave town to-day for Broadlands, near Romsey, and while there will entertain a select circle of friends. Viscount and Viscountess Jocelyn have gone to Paris for the Easter holidays. Wm. Nicholson Hodgson, Esq., M.P., arrived in Carlisle, on Wednesday morning, from London, and will remain during the Easter recess. Mr. P. H. toward, M.P., is also arrived at Corby with the like intent.—Carlisle Patriot. The Stamford Mercury mentions that, in the Gainsborough County Court, on Monday week, the vicar of Gainsborough successfully sued a person for marriage fees. It appears that the bridegroom had borrowed the money for the licence and fees, and when the ceremony was completed be refused to pay the latter, and spent the cash at a neigh bouring public house. REBUILDING OF THE TEMPLE OF JERUSALEM.— It is stated in the Berliner Allgemeine Kitchen Zeitung, that the Jews have obtained a firman from the Porte, granting them permission to build a temple on Mount Zion. The pro jected edifice is to equal Solomon's temple in magnificence. Millions of money are said to have been collected for that purpose in America alone. A ROYAL GIFT TO A VETEUAN.—Her Maj esty the Queen has remitted to the Rev. J. Fawcett , of Low Moor, the sum of 51. for the use of an aged couple named Worsnop residing at North Bierley. Worsnop is in the 100th year of his age, and was formerly in the 21st Light Dragoons.— Bradford Observer. CHELSEA HOSPITAL GARDENS.—We are happy in being enabled to announce that arrangements are at length concluded for affording to the metropolitan public the ad vantage of much increased facilities of admission to the gardens and the grounds of the Chelsea Hospital. At pre sent certain portions of these grounds are accessible at stated seasons of the year, and on Sundays only. It is now arranged to throw them open daily, and without restriction as to season. The particular portions of the garden to which it is intended the public shall have access, are its centre walk and terraces, the latter bounded by the Thames, and com manding, as our readers need scarcely be reminded, all the diversified attractions of that portion of the river. The enclosed spaces abutting on the northern frontage of the hospital, known as " Burton's Court," have hitherto been attached to the occupation of the governor; but measures have been effected fur throwing open these also, subject to conditions which contemplate the very slightest interference with the enjoyment of the public, viz., the occupation of a part of the ground, at a particular period of the year, for the drilling of the Chelsea pensioners. FIRS AT DOVER.-Ou Saturday evening, shortly after eight o'clock, a tire of an alarming character broke out in the workshop of Mr. Stephen Williams, builder, Middle row, Pier, which soon communicated with the p remises ad joining., and at one period threatened destruction to the numerous housea in Seven Star-street, also endangering the South-Eastern Railway station, which is in close proximity therewith. The town engines at the scene shortly after the outbreak of the fire, and also the Ordnance engines, from the garrison, most efficiently manned by a detachment of Royal Artillery, and the 50th Regiment, under the direction of Colonel Tylden, R.E., the commandant of the garrison, arrived, and rendered invaluable service. So threatening an aspect did the fire assume, that a telegraphic dispatch wa, sent to Folkestone for an engine, which was forwarded im mediately, and brought to the spot. After labouring at the engines some two or three hours, the further spread of the fire was arrested. The fire continued to smoulder through out the night and yesterday. The property destroyed consists of Mr. Williama's shop, a store occupied by Messrs. Baldwin and Godden, brewers ; a large building, used as a store for provisions, &c., by Messrs. Nazer 'and Lor. g ; and. a workshop, belonging to Mr. Daniel Street. Several houses in Seven Star-street were injured, but none to any great extent. The property, we understand, is insured. THE POISONING AT STOW.—The information which we were able to lay before our readers last week relative to this most serious case was substantially correct. An inquest was held on Saturday last, at the house of the deceased, upon his body and the body of his son (who died on Friday even ing), before W. Townley, E•q , deputy coroner. The evidence occupied the whole day, but we are prevented from giving the verdict of the jury, as it was adjourned for a fortnight. We may state that nothing was elicited throughout the whole of the investigation, which was most carefully con• ducted, to throw any light as to the manner in which the arsenic could have been introduced into the sugar-basin. That it was the result of accident, and not of design, seems to be the pretty general opinion. It seems that none of the inmates of the house knew there was any arsenic left, for Mr. Page only purchased it as he wanted it at the particular seasons of wheat sowing and sheep dressing; but it appears from the evidence of the po lice, that upon searching the house, about half a pound was discovered in a knife-tray, in the kitchen closet, and this half pound was identified by a man who dressed Mr. Page's sheep, as being part of a packet which he did not require. and which he gave to Mr. Page some time in October last, and there can be little doubt but that the unfortunate gen tleman himself deposited the packet in the kitchen closet, for that was the usual receptacle for the arsenic. The question then arises, how did it get into the sugar-basin? Upon this we may add, that the evidence throws no light, further than the tea things used to stand in the same cup board, directly underneath the shelf upon which the arsenic was deposited. What is more singular, however, is, that although the tea things stood there, the sugar-basin was generally removed into the store-room. As public jour nalists, we cannot but deprecate the too common practice, in farm-houses especially, of leaving arsenic and such matters in exposed, or to say the least of it, in insecure situations. Lyn n Advertiser. THE LATE ERUPTION OF MOUNT VESUVIUX.—A few words as to the lava. The whole of that magnificent and extensive wood, Bosco Reale, is now destroyed ; not a vestige remains ; and the fair crops of springing wheat, the pasture and arable land, where are they? They no longer form a part of this earth's surface. The face of the country to within a short distance of Pompeii is changed—the roads, the landmarks, the means of communication from one point to another, are obliterated—all lies buried under a superstra tum of from twelve to fifty feet of lava. It is generally ad mitted that in any other country the exertions and energy of the people would have saved nearly the whole of the timber, and much else that is now lost. Twenty men could have cut the trees in a line faster than the lava approached, which might then have been carted off by others, and relays of about the same number would thus have caved property worth several thousand pounds—a kind of property very valuable, too, here, where firewood is so dear. The lava has now nearly reached the sea, and it is said covers a superfices of about 14 miles. It is the opinion of the cog noscenti that no further damage or danger need be appre hended, the crater having given indications of being " used up." As a spectacle, it must remain treasured in the me mories of all who were so fortunate as to be eye-witnesses to their dying day. The slow, steady, remorseless progress of the lava can be compared to nothing better than the advance of another common enemy—Time—the edax rerum, and poets. divines, and philosophers, would all have found food for reflection here, each seizing on the parts adapted to his own specialite, and elaborating them so as to "point a moral or adorn a tale." The corruscations that occurred of from five to ten minutes, and closely resembling lightening, are philosophically explained by Humboldt in his "Cosmos," to which renowned work—a cheap edition of which is now sold —your readers should refer. The nature of the lava geo logically and chemically considered, and of these corrusca tions, as also of the phenomena of eruptions, will there be found agreeably treated, and quite secundum artem.— Chronicle. BRIDGWATER. REVERSE OF FORTUNE. The schoolmaster and mistress of the Bridgwater union, named Penley, by the death of a distant relation, will ultimately succeed to a large property. lie has left them by his will 3,0001., to be paid in a twelvemonth, and at the death of a lady, aged about 75, upwards of 7001. per annum.—Felix Farley. I(NOTTINGLET AND BURTTON SALMON BRANCH LINE.—We understand that it is the intention of the York and North Midland Company to open this line for traffic on this day, Ist of April. The government inspector went over the line on Thursday. This line will do away with the in convenience which has hitherto been felt—that of perform ing the portion of the journey between Knottingley and Burton Salmon by means of an omnibus. The bridge over the river at Brotherton is a temporary one, but we under stand is considered perfectly safe. The line will prove very convenient to passengers from Doncaster and southwards, to Hull, Selby, York, and all places northward. It is a matter highly creditable to the engineers and contractors that so short a time has elapsed between the commencement and the formation of a railway, which although not four miles in extent, has not been made without considerable difficulties, and such as must require great engineering skill. The line will form a branch between the Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole line s at Knottingley, and the York and North Milladd line at Burton Salmon.—rorkshire Gazette. THE FIRST LAW REPORTER.—The first English reporter of law cases, the first recorder of the science and eloquence of the bar, was Dyer, afterwards Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, in the reign of Queen Diary. at tended in the cour s of law every morning from seven to eleven, with his notebook, in which he took down the ar guments and judgments in all important cases occurring in Westminster Hall. When he returned to his chamber, after supper, he digested and abridged his notes, introducing only the facts necessary for raising the point determined, with a short summary of the arguments of the counsel, and of the opinion of the judges. So honourable, useful, and im proving was this labour then held, that it steadily advanced 'Dyer in business and reputation, and procured him to be re turned to the last Parliament of Edward VI. In this Par liament he was elected speaker, though without the rank of Solicitor-General or Sergeant, usually considered necessary for the deputy.—North British Quarterly Review. SACRILEGE.—It was observed on Friday afternoon that a box, kept in the interior of St. James's, Piccadilly, and which contained a large sum collected for the poor, since the commencement of the year, was broken open and the contents abstracted. No trace was left by the thieves. Srumous SOVERBIGNS.—Saturday certain infor mation was conveyed to her Majesty's Government of the discovery of an illicit manufacture of sovereigns in the town of Birmingham. It was first ascertained in one of the Go vernment departments, ►here some suspicion being enter tained as to a coin tendered, the same was secured, which resulted in the discovery that the centre was entirely com posed of inferior metal enclosed within a shell of standard gold. These coins are so skilfully executed that they defy the test of weight, sound, or aquafortis. A slight imperfec tion, however, exists in the milled edging, which should be closely observed to discover the imperfection. NATIONAL REFOXIII ASSOCIATION.-Ilt pursuance of the recommendation of a meeting of reformers, held in the city of London, on Thursday, December 20, 1849, Sir Joshua Walmslev, M.P., in the chair, to hold a conference of the friends of reform from all parts of the kingdom, the council have decided that the conference shall be held in Crosby hall, Bishopsgate-street, on Tuesday, the 23d, and Wednes day, the 24th of April next, the sittings to commence at eleven o'clock in the forenoon. The objects of the conference will be to receive reports from delegates in reference to the progress of the reform movement, to devise means of carry ing out with promptitude and vigour the objects of the As sociation, and to complete the arrangements for realizing the fund of 10,0001. required for the present year's operations. Professor thin having resigned the Assistant- Secretaryship to the Board of Health, is succeeded in that office by Tom Taylor, Esq., Barrister-at- Law. Sir John Millet' Doyle is appointed Vice-Consul at Santa Martha. James Davys, Esq., is appointed Colonial Surgeon at the Gold Coast. David Jardine and Joseph Frost Edger, Esqs., are appointed members of the Legislative Council at Hong- Kon g. EXHIBITION OF ART AT BOLTON.—By the ex ertions of Mr. Bothwell, the local secretary to the London Art-Union, an exhibition of the Art-Union prize pictures and bronzes, proposed by him to be made there for the benefit of the public baths and the dispensary, has been converted into a very successful general exhibition for these charitable pur poses, by help of liberal picture loans from gentlemen in the town and its vicinity. Nearly 600 valuable works of art I have been exhibited, in the outset at ls. a-head, afterwards at 6d., and ultimately. at 3d., to enable the working classes of Bolton to enjoy a treat. The rooms are still nightly crowded, and yielding a clear profit of 30/. a-week, besides donations to the amount of several hundred pounds, so that both of the institutions aided will be greatly benefited, and the advance ment of the arts much promoted.—Builder. BURGLARY AT &PICTURE DEALER ' S.—Yesterday morning, about one o'clock, the premises of Mr. George Corsby, picture dealer, of 56, Princes-street, Soho, were en tered by burglars, it is supposed by means of a picklock key. The robbers succeeded in carrying off a number of paintings by the first masters, including Watteau, Teniers, Gainsbo rough, and Wilson. Most of these paintings were on canvas, and the thieves cut the pictures from the strainers to render them more easy of carriage. They carried off at the same time four paintings on panel. Mr. Hayes, the German pro vision dealer, who resides next door, heard a considerable noise in the house early in the morning, and he imagined that the servants of the proprietor were packing up some of the works of art. Immediately after the noire ceased a cab was heard to drive away from the door. The value of the property lost is estimated by Mr. Corsby at nearly 1,000/. No clue has as yet been discovered to lead to the apprehension of the robbers. GUTTA PERCHA BOOTS.—Two days ago a Ger man, wearing gutta percha boots, left Brussels for Paris by railway. He placed his feet on the zinc pan, containing hot water, with which the carriage was supplied, and fell asleep. On arriving at the station of Tubize he prepared to alight, but, to his astonishment, found that his boots stuck fast to the warming-pan, and as he pulled to remove them the soles split into shreds. At last, amidst the loud laughter of his fellow-travellers, he had to draw his feet out of his boots altogether, and, having sent his baggage on before, had to wrap them in pocket-handkerchiefs and newspapers; and in that pitiable plight he came all the way to Paris.— Galignani's Messenger. FIRE AT THE NEATH ABBEY WORKS.—On Fri day morning an alarming fire was discovered to have broken out in these extensive iron -works, which are situate adjoin ing the ruins of Neath Abbey, Glamorganshire. The fire was first discovered in the fitting-up shop, which, with the carpenters' and pattern shops, were entirely destroyed, and some of the valuable machinery much injured, notwith standing the utmost exertions to subdue the flames by the inhabitants of the district, who were speedily on the spot. Fortunately, the conflagration was confined to these portions of the works, and did not spread to the steam-ship building yards, &c., or the damage must have been much more con siderable. As it is, however, the damage is estimated at about 3,0001., but it is covered by insurances effected by Mr. Joseph Price, the proprietor. The origin of the fire has not been ascertained. THE CASE or THE BIRDS.—The Government have instituted inquiries for the purpose of ascertaining whether the accused parties could be arraigned upon other charges than those involved in the late inquiry at the Exeter assizes into the charge of the murder of their servant Mary Ann Parsons. It is found impossible, of course, to institute another trial on the precise charge ( that of murder or man slaughter) for which the late acquittal hes been had. The public will be glad to hear, however, that such cruelty is not permitted to escape scot free. The Government has issued orders to have indictments prepared for the previons assaults upon the deceased girl, which were not included in the late arraignment.--sl4nday Paper. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. Saturday was observed as a holiday in the Liverpool Cotton market. A compilation of great utility, upon the subject of steam to Australia and New Zealand, has been made by s colonist. It embraces all the leading comments tti, t have appeared in the public journals, including The Sue, and likewise an account of the meetings held. An effert is making to get up a testimonial to Mr. George Walter, the founder of the General Annuity Endowment Association. The capital of the society commenced with a single sovereign in 1829, on the mu tual principle of assurance, and has now accumulated to nearly a quarter of a million sterling. The Overland express has arrived with late advices from Bombay, &c. The substance of the accotrits ap pears to be that trade still was dull. There was in creased tightness in the Money Market at Bombay, and discounts were one per cent. higher. The improvement in business which had been expected to occur afi;er the holiday's had not taken place ; freights were veey dull, and the exchanges unsettled. At Calcutta the transactions in produce ha 3 been limited, but this arose partly from the want of supplies, and partly from the deficiency of tonnage. Later in the month the arrivals of vessels were more numerous. In imported goods there was not much to notice, but ap pearances were rather favourable, and Manchester pi e ce goods were held firmly. The rate of exchange 'was 2s. per rupee. Accounts of Friday last from Hamburgh state, that Coffee had been rather active, and very little was done in other articles. There was some demand for bills of exchange on London. At Stockholm, on the 19th ult., the weather t tea ex ceedingly wintry, and the navigation was not e: epected to be opened until the first or second week of the present month. There is a very firm market to-day fa. Publi c Secu rities, and with the prospect of a satisfactory cetarterly revenue statement Stocks have advanced. Cons als have been done at 96* and 961 for Transfer, and at 964- and 96g for Account. The accounts from Denmark read wed, , end an amicable settlement is mentioned as being fully expected. The Russian notes to Prus sia upon the German union question are likewise pacific in tenor. Exchequer-bills have been at 653. to 675., and India . Bonds at 90e. premiuut. The state of affairs in France seems to be the only ewback to the English Stcck Market. In Fereign Securities there is very little era 'nation. Spanish Five per Cents, are 17* e t, and Portugcie se Four per Cents. about 31 to 33. Mexican have been edone at 294. Peruvian are 70i, and Buenos Ayres ba Ve risen to fili to 54. Russian Scrip has realised 11 veraium. Dutch Four per Cents. are 85 to ex div. Railway Shares have been much the same. ONE (LOSING PRIQES OF BRITISII FUNDS O'CLOCK. 1 1 . 1 ItICES. 3 E ,Kr uent.Cuu:.ois 96% 96 96% 96% India Bonds. 1,000/ • Consols for Account 9 6 1 / 5%% 96 Excheqoer Biro, 1%(1. & 2d 1,000/. June 65 p 67 p 5001. June Small, June ONE CLOSING PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Psuenos Ayres Bonds, 6 ner Cent.— 52 50% 51•1 53 1 /. 2 54 Danish 80nd5,1825,3 per Cent. .. Ditto 5 per Cent. Ditto, Scrip loxican, 5 per Cant. 1846, with Coupons— Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons Peruvian Bonds, 4 per Cent — Ditto, Account Ditto Deferred Portuguese 5 . per Cents. Ditto, Converted, 1841 3Ol /2 Ditto, 4 per Cent. Ditto. Account enssian Bonds Ditto Scrip p • 1% p Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840 17% 17% Ditto, Account ..... Ilividends on the above payable in London.. Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild. .. Ditto, 4, Der Cent. Certificates B5 le e 85 xd. 85 x d PRICES OF PAID. :BUSINFJIB DONE CLOSING RAInWAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. A t , erdeen 5O — Do. Preference Amber. Nott., Boston, and Eastern Jun. , :tion 7%.....„ Ayrshire rod Galloway.. 7% ..— .. E',elfast & County Down 30 . . ....... ' " Bcrks & Hants Extens. (Ut.West. Per. .5 per ct.) 6 Birmingham and Ox icrd Junct. ' calls duly Paid, or with is guaran. 20 Do, withoutguaranteo 20 Binning; Wolverh'ton, . and Dudley, calls duly pd, or with guarantee 15 Do. without guarantee 15 Birming.,Wolverh'pton, and Stour Valley 131. 14e ... ........ ........ ~ Birkenhead, Lancashire, • and Cheshire junc, Bristol and Exeter 100 ... .. • Ditto, Thirds 34 — dis. P; licking ha m t hire Caledonin Ditto, Nev ICI. Pref... 10 Ditto,Clydesdale June 50 Chester and Holyhead... 50 Ditto, Preference l5 ...... Direct London & Ports mouth ... . Dublin and Belfast June. 40 ...... 5 % ... Dundalk& Enniskillen 30 i!.a.st Anglian, 25!., L. & E. and L. and D ... 25 Do. 181., E. & H.... 18 - ......••••••••• Do., 3/. 103., Pref... 3% — .., .., Ditto, 71. 175., 7 per Cent., Preference... 2 Eastern Coustie 4•.. Do., New Pref.rence, 6 per Cent. .-- lO Ditto,Eztenaion, 5 per Cent., No.l 61,135. 4d.... p .• Ditto ditto, No. 2-64 13s. 4d... % p .. - Do. North. &, Eastern, 6 per Cent. Ditto. 5 per Cent.... 50 Do. New Eastemiernion, Class A (late E. U. :Awes) 25 Ditto, Class A, ditto... 6 Do., Class B & C ...... 25 - Do. Scrip (6per cent.) 29 East Lancashire ... 25 Ditto, New Quarters 61 , 4..... • .. Do., 6 per Cent. Pre ference Quarters ... 6 i ii •••••• ... East Lineolnahir6, guar. 6 per Cent. Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 Edin., Perth, & Dundee 25 Ditto, Newp0rt......... 15 .. ... ... •••• • Exeter•Yeovil, & Porch. 29, a — ..... .. . • • Exeter and Exmouth... 21s. .. Glasgow, Dumfries, end Carlisle ... Glasgow Kilmar., & Ayr 5 0 ...... , .M lo dis ..... ••• ••••. •t ...... Do.Preferenco Consol. ........ • ••• Glow iter &Dean Forest 12h...... tees 1 . _ cyreat Northern ......... 22 Do., 1 4 A Deferred ... 121,4..„.. . . •• Do., .14 B 6 per Cent... 9 1 ,4 Do., b per Cent. Pref. 12% 10%7, , • ••' .• Great South. and West. (Ireland) ... ............ 50 .... .. . - Ditto, Eighths ........ 14 .. _ " .... •": Groat ''"''''•••-••• North of England.loo „,„ _ Ditto, New, 401......... 40 ...... ..... ••• •• Ditto, ditt0....... •.••••• 35 ...... 82 . ••••• Ditto, New, 30/......... 30 ...... _ ...........• ••• Ditto, New,ls/ l5 .•.... _ • ...... ••• ••• Great Western 100 ...... 55 551,....... ... Ditto, , 1 -, Shares 6O ~ D itto, IA Shares . Ditto, Fifth Fifths 20 ...... ~ • --" * '' Ditto, New 171 171 15 ... _. 6 % •• Hull and Selby ...••••• 50 ..... 96',): 97 ~ Ditto, Half Shares ... 2 6 ...... .., •• Do. Quarter Shares... 12 % ..... . _ La nca ster and Carlisle— . 50 ..... 2 5 Vi 7 1 4 - In b 4% 6 7 / . s Ditto, Thirds Lancashire& Yorkshire 100 ...... - Do. Quarters ... Do. Fifths... ....... ..... 10 Do. Thirds ...-. ....... 18 Do. New, Gua. 6 per ct. 10 Ditto (Huddersfield ) 50 Do. (W. --- Union) 11% — ... .. ...... .. 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Santiago de Cuba lO United Mexican 28% 7% LLOYD'S SHIPPING. —(THIS DAY.) LONDON, APRIL I.—Wind at noon S.E., light brei zs and cloudy, with mild weather. DEAL, MARCH 31.—Wind S. to S.E.—Arrd. Par land, Smith, Calcutta; Newton, Cato, Bahia. Arrd. from the river and sld., Emigrant, Moreton Bay. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 31.—Wind S.—Arrd. Barbara, Mauritius; Symmetry, Thompson, New Orleans; AZ, Chandler, New York; Empire State, Rus se ll, di tto; Iloecius, Eldridge, ditto. Off port, Edward Banstead, Singapore; Alexander Baring, Calcutta ; B e ll e , B onny; Arixdne, Barbadoes ; William Peree and Eaphemia, New Orleans; Abeona, Savannah. Sld. Mary Rowe, Africa; Margaret, Havannah; Jenny Lind, Halifax; Bereza, Pernambuco; Woodman, Halifax ; Heroyna and China, Quebec ; Pampero, Lima ; Uriel, New Or leans; Esther May, Boston; Reindeer, Montreal. FoWEY, MARCH 31.—The John and Henry schooner, of Ipswich, was totally wrecked here 29th instant during a heavy gale. SAMDERSFOOT, MARCH 31.—The Eliza, of Llanelly, from San Francisco, is on shore at Gillar Point, near Tcnby. HARWICH, MARCH 31.—1 t blew a heavy gale at S.E. yesterday and the previous day.—The Cleopatra, Mee sine to Hamburgh, has put is leaky, &o. MILFORD, MARCH 30.—A schooner, dismasted, is at anchor off here, on a lee shore, with Jack flying. It is blowing a gale at S.E., and no communieation can be held with her. HARTLEPOOL, MARCH 30.—The Liberty and Pro perty, of Whitby, the Cruiser, and the William and Ann. of Hartlepool, the Merchant, of Scarborough, and several other vessels, have received ranch damage, having been on the beach south of the jetty in running for the harbour during a heavy gale at S.E., and a high sea OR the bar. A small vessel has driven on the rocks under the Heugb, and the Little Henry, of Whitby, on the rocks near the pier, after being dismasted from contact with the Isis barque. 830 P.x., it is still blowing front the S.E., but More moderate. CLYDE.—Arrd. Warren, Lawton, New York; Julius Caesar, Fleming, Mobile. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 31.—Wind S. to S.SE.—Arrd. Neptuae, Toorley, Bahia, for Hamburgh. BEAMARIS, MARCH 30.—1 t blew a heavy gale from the S.E. yesterday and the day before, and the following vessels have been driven on shore :—The Mercury an d Robert and Mary, Cardiff to Liverpool, and both fell with the tide; the Barbara (sloop), very l ea ky ; th e Victoria, for Liverpool; the Brothers for Yarmouth, master, wife, and boy drowned ; Emmet, Irwin to Hartlepool ; the John, from Wilmington, United States, has lost rudder; the Anne and Mary P • the Alert of Port Madoc ; th e M ar y, o f Ch es t e r ; the John and Wil liam, of Purt Madoc; the Wilton, Newport to Liverpool; the Guess, of Abergassen; the Enterprise, of Newport; the St. Jean, of Caen; and the William, et Liverpool. SUNDERLAND, MARCH 30.—The Alas, of Lynn, and the Ovation, of this port, are on shore. SHIELDS, MARCH 30.—The following vessels got on the rocks at Teignmouth to-day during a heavy gale at ofSu this ndeprloaa port—gone g and on e to ' S.E.:—TheLuna,Han Galt, from Hamburgh, greater part of cargo washed out; Vigilant, of wrecked—stores saved; Ariadne, pieces: Theodore, of Rye; Good Intent, of Yarmouth; Mary Anne, of this port, from Hamburgh : James. of this port, and the Swede brig Minnett, of Sund&Wlel l , from Ipswich. Owe gto the number of vessels running for the harbour, it has become completely blocked up, and a very great deal of damage has been sustaked by the shipping in consequence. 31. The Sally, cf Lon don, got on the rocks this morning, and is expected to become a wreck; stores landing. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE-MONDAY. The provincial markets held on Saturday were tolerably firm for English Wheat, the prices of which had an upward tendency. All Spring Corn moved off heavily, and the quotations were not supported. The Flour trade was in sluggish state. From the near con tinental ports we have advices to the effect that a steady business was doing in Flour for shipment to England and Ireland. In Grain next to nothingwaa doing. The Baltic and Black Sea markets were very dull for all articles. Up to our markets last week the arrivals of English Grain were but moderate. From Ireland and Scotland the receipts were small. The imports from abroad amounted to 11,163 quarters of Wheat, 12.106 ditto of Barley, 21,839 ditto of Oats, 3,361 ditto of Beans, 387 ditto of Peas, 2,346 ditto of Tart* 195 ditto of Linkeed, 550 ditto of Aaposeedi 3p 29'/ g dis. 17% 6 - 514 - P P 56 1 h 17% ... 144 12: X 4% ...... ral no 43 TUJ LOl 972 Thi has bar Ant Rot Ost far itar Corr Wee Sam IF Fro] Pigg ti,Zl breec dop e sold wool Rupp' 5 1 P o at lo n the q Inferi Secon Prime Prime Large Prime guekli Limb Sii fur havit land, offer and inact Las, Ram ab ou have Nero ....... , i Veal., Stock Price Deity Ditto Arrit Dittc klico wan frott twe( lefty chin IN 16% 6% 12% 2,,, 20 1 4 VA 21,‘ lf % 37 6 THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING-, APRIL 1, i 8.50