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and who have been honoured by your Lordship in being invited to be present at t his sum p tuous and magnificent banquest. And although I attach great importance to return thanks in an adequate mann er, I deeply regret that it was not consistent with your Lordship's arrangements to have thrown the entire of the pleasing duty of ad dressing this assembly upon my senior—(Laghter)— municipal brother, the Lord Mayor of York. My first duty is a pleasing one, namely, to offer the expression of my profound and respectful thanks to the illustrious Prince who has the exclusive merit of originating this grand and important project; and my second, to congra tulate your Lordship on your wisdom in collecting this vast and important assemblage, in order to give practi cal effect to this great and useful national undertaking. My Lord, I have again to state that lam incapable of speaking on behalf of this great assemblage of municipal authorities —the greatest that ever met together in this or in any other country to forward a useful undertaking. When your Lordship proposed the:toast of the Foreign Ministers now present, the duty imposed upon his Ex cellency the French Ambassador was comparatively light, the number he represented not exceeding eight. — (Hear, hear, and laughter.) And, my Lord, when you proposed the health of her Majesty's Ministers, the duty Imposed upon the Noble Lord at the head of her Ma jesty's Government was comparatively light. ComparB their case with mine. —(Hear, hear.) I ask your Lord ship to carry your eye along this great and magnificent hall, and you will perceive that at least half the com pany are mayors, now standing atanditu te estifyin ga b by their respectful attitude, the grd t feel for the compliment you have paid them. My Lord, the merits of this great undertaking have been so eloquently spoken of by those who have preceded me, that I shall not presume to occupy any portion of yonr time upon that subject. But I cannot help drawing attention to the eloquent appeal of the Noble Lord (Lord Stanley), who spoke on behalf of the Royal Commission, and to the equally eloquent and im pressive address of the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Tamworth. And Ido confidently hope that these appeals will meet a ready and hearty response, and that the mayors whom I now have the honour of addressing, after they shall have returned to their respective mu nicipalities, will exert that influence which their high position has conferred upon them in favour of this patriotic effort to promote the manufacturing pros perity of this mighty empire. My Lord, I beg to guard myself against the charge of presump tion as presuming to speak on behalf of the manufac turers of the great towns and districts of England—that duty has devolved upon the Lord Mayor of York, who has ably discharged it; and, my Lord, as I am to be followed by the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, I have no doubt he will do full justice to the genius and manufae taring industry of Scotland. My task, my Lord, is then after all but a light one ; merely to speak of my own country—lreland. And I deeply regret to say that, as regards manufactures, that important part of this great empire has very little to boast of. Still, my Lord, when, in the year 1851, the great mart shall be opened, and, if I may be permitted to use the expression, when an aggregate meeting of the manufactures and the manu facturers of the world shall be held, the linens, and cambrics, and poplins of Ireland, although not occupy ing a large space, will occupy a respectable p osition, and I trust will be found to bear more than a compari son with similar articles produced in any other country. My Lord, in again thanking you on my own behalf, and on behalf of the mayors of the United Kingdom, permit me to express a hope that my countrymen in Ireland, profiting by the example for industry and per severance in the pursuit of manufacturing knowledge, may yet reap a portion of the benefits that have been so largely enjoyed by this glorious and much favoured country.—(Great cheering.) The LORD PROVOST of EDINBURGII,—MyLord Mayor, I can assure your Lordship that the mayors of Scotland have been highly gratified to accept the hospitable invi tation which your Lordship has given us to attend this magnificent meeting. We have admired also the project of our amiable Prince; we approve of his doings, we sym pathise with his sentiments, and we hope, with hi,n, that this plan of industrial and inventive competition may, at least for a time, engage all nations to abandon the strug gle of warfire for the peaceful and civilizing emulation of the works of industry and art And, my Lord Mayor. I will say. that in the far north we have not looked coolly on this great national work. Scotland is said to be poor; but I trust she will be found not to send her works aone, but her money, and to contribute amply and to her honour to the success of this great undertaking.— (Cheers.) I have heard that some specimen of the human race is to be shown to rival all that has hitherto been displayed. I hope, in that case, some of our Scotch mountaineers, some of our Breadalbane High 'madmen, will be allowed to attend the exhibition, and I feel convinced they will rival, if not excel, all that other nations can display. It has been sometimes said that Scotchmen have a tendency to move southward, but I ran assure your Lordship that never was that inclina tion more shown than when we were invited to attend this important meeting—(Cheers and laughter)—and in sitting down, I am sure that if we Scotch are short in words we shall be found good in deeds, and that Scot land will not be backward in all that contributes to the honour of Great Britain, or the civilization of mankind. —(Loud cheers.) In their name, and my own, I beg leave to return your sLordEhip and this distinguished meeting our warmest thanks.—(C beers.) The Earl of CARLISLE, who was very warmly re ceived, then rose and said—My Lord Mayor, my Lords, wad Gentlemen, after all the things and after the men we have hears, I should hold myself to be without excuse if I trespassed for more than a very few moments upon your time, even for the toast which, by a command con veyed to me by your Lordship, I have the great honour to propose. That toast " Die Working Men of the United Kingdom."—(Great cheering.) It is indeed most fitting that, amidst all the brilliant and gorgeous accom paniments of our present gathering, amidst all its royal, its patrician, and its civic splendours, those who form that great and active mass of beings who from day to day do the real work of the world should not be for gotten.—(Cheers.) For I feel, my Lord, that I may ap peal to the large proportion of your municipal brethren whom your truly metropolitan hospitality has gathered round you upon this occasion, who come from the hives and marts of industry in all corners of the realm, who may be said to represent the staple branches of our manufactures, and the varied pursuits of the nation's labour—(Cheers) —I may ask them whether there is a single person in this distinguished assembly, from the Illustrious Prince nearest the throne of Eng land to the magistrate of the smallest town within the kingdom, whose comforts, whose luxuries, whose life itself, are not prompted, embellished, and sus tained by the sweat of the brow, the strength of the sinew, the skill of the hand, and the resources of the brain, which go to constitute the wonder-working in dustry of Britain?—(Loud cheers.) It is most right, as it appears to me, that an assembly like this should give a distinct assurance that although the Exhibition of 1851 is for all classes as well as for all nations, it is yet pre eminently intended to be the festival of the working-man and of the working-woman—(Enthusiastic cheering)— for there is no monopoly of sex, any more than of con dition or of race, and to interest their attention, to refine their taste, to stimulate their invention, and, above all, to do honour to their industry, are among its fairest and most legitimate objects.—(Cheers.) Though I have not the honour of being a member of the Commission, I am sere I do not misrepresent the;views of that Commission when I state that among the many, though, perhaps, still scattered, acts of liberality which have been ex hibited towards this project, any contributions from the working-people, limited and proportioned to their mo dest earnings as they must be, will not be the least ac ceptable. I quite agree with those who have advised you not to entertain any feelings of discouragement from the circumstance that the; various temperaments and aptitudes of the rases and nations which people the earth would scarcely allow any one nation whatever to carry away the palm in every species of excellence from a field where the competition is universal. It was said of the most powerful people that the world has yet known, and at the very moment when the power of that Roman people was at its meridian point, that others might more softly mould the breathing brass, or chisel the living features from the marble, but that the com pensation that was held out to them was prowess in arms and the subjugation of the world. So it may be that our countrymen appear comparatively deficient in some of the minuter graces of design and fabric, but they will seek their counterpoise not in the din of strife, or in the roar of battle, hat;they will find it in the sturdy, useful, persevering industry that forms the element of the Saxon character and the glory of the British name. —(Loud cheers.) In the exhibition and storehouse of all the most choirs productions of the world they will see nothing but what industry like their own has produced —nothing but what industry like their own may aspire to excel—(Hear, bear, and cheers)—and, in the confidence that they are made of the stuff and fibre which will not allow them, in any course of useful progress, or any career of high achievement, to fail, I give you now, " The Workmen of the United King. dom."—(Loud cheering.) Sir G. Gerey proposed " The health of the Magis trates of the City:' Mr. Alderman Tholdrsorr returned thanks. Sir J. GaArrAm proposed'" The City Companies." This was the last toast, and after it had been drunk the Prince and the rest of the • company retired to the draw ing -room to partake of coffee. _ His Royal Highness almost immediately took his departure, and was again, :as on his entrance, greatly cheered. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. WARWICK AND LEAMINGTON (MILITARY) STEEPLECHASES.-T_IIIJRDAY. The Gold Cup of 100 sovs., added to a Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, for officers' horses, 12st each, &c. Three miles. (29 Subs.) Capt. Dyson's Hawkesworth (Owner) 1 Capt. Green's The:Treasurer, 71b:extra (Mr Morris) 2 Capt. Hervey's Meath (Owner) 3 The following also started, but were not placed:— Captain Gambier's The Thrush ...... (Capt. Douglas) 0 Lieut. Tomlin's Buckjumper (Capt. Little) 0 Capt. Dyson's Gyneth (Mr. Winterbottom) 0 Lieut. Scobell's Junk, 41b over (Owner) 0 Lieut. Reed's Champagne (Capt. Lane) 0 Capt. Knight's Leo (Mr. Greene) 0 Betting-9 to 2 agst .Hawkesworth-4 to 1 agst Meath-5 to 1 agst Buckjumper-6 to 1 agst Cham pagne—and Bto 1 agst The Treasurer. Won by two lengths, Meath a bad third, Buckjumper fourth, Junk fifth. Buckjumper and Leo went the wrong side of a flag early in the race, and having to turn back lost a good deal of ground. The Veteran Stakes—No race. Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, for officers' horses, list each, &c ; riders, &c., as above. (10 Subs.) Lieut. Scobell's Gipsey Queen, list ...(Capt. Little) 1 Lieut. Lindow's The Captain, list 71b ...... (Owner) 2 Colonel Shirley's Councillor, list (Mr. Proby) 3 Captain Gambier's Stilts, llst . (Captain Lane) 4 'THE SUN,. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, Lieut. Mytton's Mind-your-own-Business, list 71b... 0 Betting 6to 4 agst The Captain-2 to lap ;at Gipsey Queen—and 7to 2 agst Mind-your-own-Bu sir ,ess. Won by two lengths. Nothing near tho first t wo. Mind your-own-Business only went twice round. The Welter Stakes of 10 Boys. each, h ft, ft ir horses the property of, and ridden by, officers on fual pay; 13st each. Three miles. (6 Subs.) Lieut. Tomlin's Buckjumpe r Capt. Lane's Marathon (Mr.. "Mo ob rris) 2 Capt. Hervey's Meath (Mr. ;Scell) 3 Capt. Pack's Miracle . (Capt. Thomas) 0 Col. Shirley's Farrier Major. ...... (Mr. Winte r'; bottom) 0 Betting-7 to 4 agst Marathon -5 to 2 each agst BuckjumpQr and Meath—and 7to 2 agst Ferrier Major. Won cleverly. THE LEA)IINGTON HANDICAP STEEPLEC HASE. sto 4 agst Proceed. 12 to 1 agst Si r Peter Bto 1 agst Little Fanny. Laurie. 10 to 1 agst Vengeance. 16 to 1 agst Tipperary 12 to 1 agst Maria Day. Boy. 12 to 1 agst Venture. 1 25 to 1 agst THE ALTHORP PARK STARES (NORTHAIIPTON). 3 to 1 agst Buckhound. SECOND AND CHEAPER EDITION Now ready, in 1 vol., 10s. 6d. bound, SAM SLICK'S OLD JUDGE; Or, LIFE IN A COLONY. •` This work is redolent of the hearty fun and st ring masculine sense of our old friend Sam Slick. The last work of Dili'. Haliburton is quite equal to the first. Every page of The Old Jaelge is alive with rapid, fresh sketches of character—droll, quaint, racy sayings—and capitally told anecdotes." —Morning Chronicle. henry Coll:ern, Publisher, 13, Great Marlboroota - h-street. ------- T HE ROYAL VISIT to IRELAND.—Messrs. LLOYD (BROTHERS) and CO. have the hon oar to announce amt. in consequence of the great desire evinced to view her Majesty's PICTURE of the Departure of the Royal Squadron. from Kings town Harbour, they will, by her Majesty's permission, retain it until the end of the week, at their Gallery, 22, Ludg et e-hill. Cards of admission may be obtained on application to J. Cundall, 21, Old Bond-street ;E. Churton, 26, Holler-street, Cavendish square; Ackermann and Co., 96, Strand; Clark and Welton, Regent street; and at the Publishers. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The First Appearance of Mr. Sims Reeves. The Nobility, Subscribers to the Opera, and the Public are respect 'ally informed that TO-MORROW EVENING It being the Last Night before Easter, on which (waste* MR. SIMS REEVES Will make his appearance in Verdi's Opera, ERNANI. Brnani, Mr. Sims Reeves ; Ruy Gomez, Sig. Belietti ; Carlo V., Sig. Lorenzo ; Elvira, Madile. Parodi. Between the acts of the Opera will be presented a Divertissement, in which hladlle. Amalie Ferraris will make her appearance in a grand Pas de Deux with M. Charles. After which will be presented a n entirel y new and 'original Grand Ballet, by M. Paul Taglioni, entitled LES METAMORPHOSES. The Music eemposed by Signor Pugni ; the Scenery (entirely new) by Mr. Marshall ; the Appointments by Mr. Bradwell ; the Cos tumes by Miss Bradley and Mr. Cuombes, ander the superintendence of Madame Copere. The Sprite (under the forms of 1, a Page —2, a Rustic Coquette-3, Will-of-the -Wisp -4 , a Folie-5, a Domino-6, a Cavalier), Mdlle. Carlotta Grisi ; Karl (a Student), M. Paul Taglieni ; Ida (his be trothed), Madlle. Rosa ; Momus, M. Charles ; ItZlves, Madlles. Lose, Ansandon, Julienne, Lamoureux, E. Pascales, and Pascales. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and tickets to be made at the Opera Rix-office, Colonnade, Haymarket. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. The Directors ofhe Royal Italian Opera beg most reqpectftilly to inform the Nobility, Gentry. Subscribers, and the Pablis that TO-MORROW Will be presmtesi Weber's Grand Opera er DER FREISCHUTZ, With entirely new Scenery, Costemes, and A.ppointments. Agata, Maclaine Castellon ; Annetta, Mdlle. Vera ; Una Paraninfa, Mdlle. Cotti ; Giulio, Signor Enrico Maralti ; Chillano, Mons. Massol; Cuno, Signor Bommi ; itgo, Signor L ; Erenaita, Signor Gregorio; Zamiel, M. DOering: Gaspar, Herr Formes. Composer, Director of the Music, and Conductor, Mr. Costa. The Scenery by Messrs. Grieve and Telbin : the Dresses by Mrs. Bailey a Mme. Marzio ; the Appointments by Mr. mins ; the Machi nd nery by Mr. Allen ; the Spectacle arranged by Mr. A. Morris. The Deore will be opened at Half-past Seven, and the performances commence at Eight o'clock precisely. Tickets for Boxes, Stalls, or the Pit, may be taken for the night or season. N.B. Subscribers for the Season will have the option of paying their Subscriptions in advance (as heretofore), or by monthly in stalments. The terms may be obtained at the Box-office of the Theatre (cor ner of Hart-street and Bow-street), which is open trim Eleven till Fire o'clock. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. J E AMS ANDERSON. TO-MORROW. Will be presented, by her Majesty's Servants, The Comedy of THE ELDER BROTHER ; or, Love at First Sight. Lord Lewis, Mr. Diddear ; Mirameunt, Mr. Emery : Brisae, Mr. Davidgm ; Charles, Mr. James Anderson ; Eustace, Mr. Mon tague ; Angelina, Miss T andenhoff ; Sylvia, Miss A. Lansdale. To be followed by A DIVERTISSEMENT, in which Madllm. Falser and 'Madame Louise will appear. Ti eonelude with MART STUART. Privet. bout', al. as., 2/. 12s. 6d., 21. 2m., 11. lls. 6d., and 15 . ls. Stalls, ss. each. s. d. s. d. FIRST PRICE. SECOND PRICE. Boxes -4 0 Boxes - -2 0 Fit - - - 2 0 Pit - - - 1 0 Lower Gallery - 1 0 Lower Gallery - 0 6 Upper Gallery -0 6 INo Half-price to Upper Gallery. Box-book-keeper, Mr. J. Povey. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, sele Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. THIS EVENING. Will be performed MUM ♦DO ABOUT NOTHING. Benedict, Mr. C. Kean ; Beatrice, Mrs. C. Kean. After which TRH ROUGH DIAMOND. To conclude with THE THREE CUCKOOS. The Box-office is under the direction of Mr. I. T. Arches'. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new domestic Drama, called THE MOTHER'S ford,Principal characters by Messrs. Hughes, Wright, P. Bed 0. Smith, Madame Celeste, and Miss E. Chaplin. After which MT PRECIOUS BETSY. Characters by Messrs. Wright, Bedford, Worrell; Miss Harding, and Mrs. F. Matthews. To be followed by GOING TO THE DERBY. To conclude with THE DANCING BARBER. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. FRENCH PLAYS AND OPERA COMIQITE. Last Night of the Operatic Performances. Mr. MITCHELL begs respectfully to announce that the French Performances at Use St. JamesEVENlN's Theatre will commence THIS G, at Half-past Seven, precisely, with LE DEBUTANT. To conclude with Auber's Opera, entitled LES DIAMANS DE LA COURONNE. Le Comte de Campo Mayor, M. Chateasilfort ; Don Ilenrigne de Sandoval, M. Lac ; La Catarina, Madlle. Charton. The Box-oltice of the Theatre is open daily from Eleven till Five Boxes and Stalls at Mr. Mttehell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond street. ROYAL LYChtrld THEATRE. Under the llanagemeßt of Madame VeStria. hole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS; EVENING. Will be performed CHARLES THE TWELFTH. To be followed by THE ISLAND or JEWRLS. To conclude with A PRACTICAL MAN.I Dress Boxes. 61.; Upper Boxes, 4 3. ; Pit , 23 . ; Gallery, 11. 1 FO half-price to any part of the house. All applications for Private Boxes must be made to Mr. Alicroft, 15 New Bind-street. A STLE Y'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATIM. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. An entire change in the Scenes .f the Arena. New Grand Spectacle. THIS EVENING The performance will commence at a Quarter to Seven, with a new Grand Spectacle of THE CORSE DE LEON; or, the Brigand of Savoy. To be iollowed by a brilliant display of Batty's peerless scenes of the Circle, supported by the accomplished artistes of the establish went. To conclude with a favourite Afterpiece. Box-otlice open trom Eleven till Four. s tage Manager, Mr. W. West. - _ illi4ll WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins DAT —Morning, 4G min. after 7 I Evening, 24 min. after g To-Nfonnow—M ,rnir.q. 11 min. after 9 I Evening, 57 min. after THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, MARCH 22. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 26; Highest, 34; Noon, 45. BAROMETER, 30'09. ---- WIND Westerly.—fresh breeze, with occasional sunshine, cumstance fail to infuse an additional enthusiasm into the greetings accorded last evening to his Royal Highness. It was felt, doubtless, by the many dis tinguished personages there assembled that the enter prise suggested by the Priace was one which, if car ried out on a scale commensurate with that of its conception, would live in history as the first fitting celebration of the victories, the pacific and bloodless victories, achieved by terrestrial industry. X car- . - ried out in accordance with the spirit of its sugges- tion it must be nothing less than the antithetical realisation of one of the beautiful dreams of the classic poets of antiquity. It is the apparition among the peoples of the earth of the Apple of Concord ; and the site of the Exhibition, whether Hyde -park or elsewhere, will inevitably be considered as more entitled to remembrance than the famous scene of the interview of old between the French and English Sovereigns, whose rivalry was not more elevated than a competition in splendour. Contrasted with that, this field of fraternal rivalry and industrial competition might not inappropriately be designated the Cloth of Gold of the Nations. Everything con- spires to assure us that the hopes of the community in regard to the grandeur of the proposed cele bration will, to the utmost extent, be realised. Nor among the auguries of this successful reali sation do we recognize one more emphatic than the tone of the very graceful and felicitous oration delivered yesterday by the Royal originator of the enterprise. It has so happened that the speeches pronounced by the Panics CONSORT on many previous occasions have been articulated pre cisely in that style of eloquence which finds its way directly to the hearts of the multitude ; and we doubt not that in this respect his remarks will prove more than ever successful. Brief though the observ ations of his Royal Highness were, they were nevertheless eminently worthy of his intellect, worthy of the genius of the country of his adoption, worthy of the enlightened auditors to whom they were more immediately addressed, of the epoch of whose great achievements they were commemorative, and of the prospective demonstration by whose approach they were elicited. While giving due credit to those human energies from which so many scientific truths, so much artistic excellence, and such various indus trial achievements have emanated, his Royal Highness gives voice to that profound and ineffable gratitude which the appreciation of these facts induces towards the DIVINITY. Moreover, with the acknowledgment of all that has already been accomplished, he couples the confession that these efforts of human industry and human intellect should be regarded rather as con stituting a means than an end, rather as yielding an encouragement to further exertion than as afford ing a reward for past enterprise. Scattered as the labourers of the earth are over so many and such widely-separated dominions, it is but just and judi cious that they should be enabled to obtain some comprehensive acquaintance with the aggregate value and extent of man's proficiency in arts, sciences, and manufactures. To this end the projected Exhibition will prove eminently beneficial— its influence having an advantageous effect in many different directions, in exciting a laudable competi tion, in provoking unexpected inquiry, in stimulat ing dormant ambition, and in merging all the animo sities of contending nations into that friendly unani mity which will end in the alliance of the peoples of the globe in a large-hearted and lasting brotherhood. Under such auspices, indeed, we may ultimately ex pect to see the attainment of that beautiful futurity hinted at by the Scottish Ploughman, when " Man to man, the wide world o'er, Shall brothers be and a' that!" This prospective and attainable unity, as was admir ably expressed last evening by the PRINCE CONSORT, means "not a unity which breaks down the limits and levels the peculiar characteristics of the different nations of the earth, but rather a unity the result and product of those very national varieties and antago nistic qualities." An anticipation such as this was befittingly avowed by the illustrious orator, in an assemblage such as the one yesterday collected toge ther in the city of London, an assemblage happily designated by the French Ambassador the House of Commons of English Industry. In the speech from which we have extracted that felicitous ex pression, a graceful panegyric was pronounced by M. DROUTN DE L'lluys upon the free-trade policy adopted by the British Legislature, where he likened the golden fruits of industry to the forbidden apples of the Hesperides, guarded from the touch of the profane by the dragons of protection. Equally feli citous were his assertions that all would necessarily benefit by the competition excited by the proposed Exhibition. Few, he maintained, would deny the accuracy of the assertion " for" said he, "as has been justly remarked, merit consists not alone in cheapness of price, but in the texture of the fabric, and in the nature cf the pro duction ; not in a fine gloss, as the wife of the Vicar of Wakefield said, but in such qualities as will wear well." As the most eloquent and condensed defi nition of the nature of the approaching demonstra tion, however, we hare as yet heard nothing com parable to the following portion of the noble speech delivered yesterday by his Royal Highness the Prince ALBERT Science," said the Prince, " dis covers the laws of power, motion, and transformation ; industry applies them to the raw matter which the earth yields us in abundance, but which becomes valuable only by knowledge ; art teaches us the immutable laws of beauty and symmetry, and gives to our productions forms in accordance with them—Gentlemen, the Exhibition of 1851 is to give us a true test and a living picture of the' point of developement at which th e whole of mankind has arrived in this great task, and a new starting point from which all nations will be able to direct their further exertions." It was but fitting that this most admirable definition of the nature of the novel enterprize adventured upon by England should proceed from the lips of the illus trious Prince, in whose patriotic intelligence the whole thought of the coming demonstration originated. After the propitious proceeding of last evening, we hare every confidence in the success of this ma jestic Exhibition. The proceedings at the half-yearly General Court of the Bank of England, yesterday, are worthy of especial notice. It is true that there were none of the disssensions and disputes that sometimes prevail between the directors and proprietors on the question of a dividend—all was harmony and unanimity on that point at least. The ve.rata questio of the " rest," appears to be set at rest for ever. The directors have at length thought fit to bow to the often-ex pressed wishes of their constituency, and have abandoned the attempt to accumulate large sur plus capital, for which, according to their re cent practice, they can have no earthly use but to keep it lying idle and un productive in their coffers. They do not now seek to deprive tenants for life and other owners of limited estates in Bank Stock of their just rights, in order to enhance the value of the reversion. It was, after a long discussion and mature considera tion, determined that the " rest," or accumulated profits of the establishment beyond the amount of paid-up capital, should be maintained as nearly as possible at 3,000,0001. sterling, and that all beyond that sum should be divided among the proprietors, not by way of a bonus, but in the more legitimate form of dividends on their respective interests in the undertaking. The directors have shown no desire to disturb that just and equitable arrangement ; the result is that a dividend at the rate of four per cent., free of income-tax, has been announced for the half-year ending the 28th of February last, which will leave the sum of 3,001,314/. standing to the credit of the " rest" on the first day of the current half-year. This decision must, pursuant to the bye-laws of the corporation, be c on fi rme d by a t x fixed not tout the take ea ni mslightest o p u l s a l c ye chance hg n ar the ne ec agreed ballot, t ihn the whichtant. proposition h sa stherewill n not t2toh6,attNah'e may congratulate the parties on a result so honourable to the directors and satisfactory to the great body of the proprietors. There was, however, a point alluded to by Mr. DE WINTON in the course of his able speech which it is to be hoped will not fail to attract the attention of the directors, so that they may act on the hint given by a gentleman of great practical experience and sound judgment in banking affairs. The lion. Proprietor showed that an enormous amount of capital, averag ing from eleven to twelve millions of pounds sterling, was kept unemployed and unproductive, which might hare been circulated with the greatest advantage to the community in general, and with considerable profit to the holders of stock. The directors, however, thought proper to keep on " the screw" long after every neces sity for such a proceeding had terminated. For that purpose they had kept the "notes in circulation" far below the amount required for the general busi ness of the country. Experience has shown that about 20,000,0001, of Bank of England notes, in addition to the circulation of the private and joint- stock banks, is the amount necessary to carry on com- naercial transactions with ease and security. When such a sum is in the hands of the public every legiti mate degree of credit and confidence is perceptible, and really solvent houses find no difficulty in procur ing adequate funds for every bona fide operation. The result is full and ample employment for the labouring population, and fair and remunerative wages to every man able and willing to work, and, as a natural consequence, universal content and happi ness. A busy people will not easily be induced to enter upon a course of political agitation, or to take part in an insurrectionary move ment. Although there may be serious evils ' requiring correction, and many acknowledged grievances to be redressed, the people will remain quiet so long as their chief wants are supplied. While a sufficiency of food, comfortable lodgings, and decent clothing are attainable there will be no danger from Chartists or Socialists, or any other malcontents' Even the enormous burden of taxation will be borne without complaint or remonstrance, and the laisser faire policy, to which Sir CHARLES WOOD is so de votedly attached, may be adopted with impunity ; the Chancellorship of the Exchequer will become a practical sinecure. It may seem strange to ascribe such vast political importance to the operations of a few elderly gentlemen assem bled in a snug parlour in Threadneedle-street ; but those who have inquired into the currency question will easily understand the vast influence which they exercise on the political condition of the nation. These gentlemen, then, have not only deprived the proprietors of an additional one- half per cent. profit on the half-year (as was clearly shown by Mr. DE Wirrori), but what was of infinitely greater con sequence, they have retarded to the utmost extent of their power the national prosperity. They have depressed prices, and prevented the com mercial activity that would otherwise have been already perceptible. The "other securities" have been kept under 10,000,0001. sterling, although accommodation to the banking and commercial inte• rests might easily have been afforded to nearly double that amount. It should not be forgotten, in relation to this topic, that for several years previous to Oc tober, 1847, the " other securities" had averaged from sixteen to twenty millions, and that when the Go vernment thought proper to issue the celebrated letter of the 25th of that month, by which the Bank Charter Act was virtually suspended, that extra ordinary step was taken to enable the Board, in accordance with the Ministerial recommendation, to enlarge the amount of their discounts and advances upon approved security." On that very day no less than 19,467,1281. was so employed. But how did the directors perform their part of the contract ?—for a contract it undoubtedly was. If they were not pre pared to accept the above condition, on which alone the boon was conceded, they should have spoken out and repudiated the proposition, but in place of so doing, and notwithstanding their implied, although tacit assent, within a single week they commenced re ducing " the amount of their discounts and advances on approved security," until they brought the other securities below 10,000,0001. sterling, or about one half the former amount. Under such circumstances, they could not have maintained their dividend, were it not for the usurious and exorbitant rate of interest established in pursuance of the letter above alluded to. To that recommendation they yielded a prompt and willing obedience, although they acted in diame • trical opposition to the more important one that wts contained in the very same document. It now remains to be seen what attention will be be stowed'on the valuable suggestion of Mr. Ds WlNTON— whether they will still continue deaf to the entreaties of the mercantile and manufacturing community, or whe ther they will, although tardily, adopt a wise and more liberal policy. Should they continue obstinate the results may be more serious than they themselves an ' ticipate, and some future Chancellor of the Exchequer may, when the renewal of the Charter is in question, compel them to render a heavy measure of retribution to the public. If, however, they should act in a more becoming manner they will secure for themselves the esteem and approbation of the proprietors, and the blessings and heartfelt thanks of the community. It ' is for themselves to say which branch of the alterna tive will be most consistent with their own interests and those of all classes and grades in society. organization. The journals had become unusually vio lent, and had constantly appealed to the worst passions. Every act, however criminal, had found a panegyrist. It was the duty of the Government to combat the evil and protect the Republic. The laws in force were sufficient. The security in money was a guarantee of repression ; it must be proportioned to the multi plicity of the offences and to the prejudices they are likely to occasion the Republic and society. That security bad been reduced since February, 1848, to 24,000 f. for Paris, and to I,Boof. for most of the departmental journals. The Bill was merely a copy of the law of the 9th of August, 1848. It, however,lin troduced an innovation, for' it proposed to assimilate the department of the Rhine to that of the Seine. It was also important to check the circu lation and sale of publications of an obnoxious nature during the forty-five daye preceding the elections, but full liberty should be left to the distri bution of electoral lists and of the profession of faith of the different candidates. The Government had likewise resolved to re-establish a stamp on news papers. The financial situation, the principle of equality which required that everybody should con tribute to the burdens of the State, and the necessity of balancing the public receipts and expenditure, ren dered that measure imperative. The decree of the 4th March, 1848, which suppressed the stamp, had created an exorbitant privilege in favour of jour nalists. The Government did not intend to revive the law of the 14th of December, 1830, which graduated the tax according to the size of the jour nals. The tax was to be the same for all, and Go vernment expected to derive from it a revenue of at least 6,000,600 f. The Minister then read the two decrees. By the first the proprietors of all journals and periodical works are to be held to deposit in the Treasury a certain sum as a security. That security, for journals published more than twice a week, in the departments of the Seine, Seine-et-Oise, Seine-et-Marne and Rhone, is to amount to 50,000 r. ; if only published once a week, to 40,000 f. ; and to 20,000 f. if the pub lication takes place at irregular intervals. In the de partments, in cities containing upwards of 50,000 souls, the security is fixed at 20,000 f., and in less im portant towns 12,000 f. A month is allowed the pro prietors of existing journals to conform to the law. The second Bill required, that within the fortnight following the promulgation of the law a fixed stamp of 4 centimes should be established on all journals published within the above four departments, and of two centimes on those appearing every where else. Works discussing political and social questions, of less than six sheets, are also to be subjected to a stamp. Violations of the law are to be punished with a fine of 50 francs, and for every successive offence of 100 francs. In conclusion, M. Rouher asked that, considering the gravity of the circumstances, the As sembly should declare the discussion urgent. M. Pascal Duprat combated the urgency. There were other journals, he said, besides those of the Opposition which ought to be severely prosecuted. The latter were stigmatised as barbarians, but they were found perfectly civilised and friends of order when they supported the election of M. Louis Bona• parte on the 10th of December. Why not prosecute the journals which every day maintained that the Assembly had a right to revise the constitution, and told M. Bonaparte that he would die at St. Helena if he did not take possession of the Tuileries. The Mi nisters had been deterred by shame from presenting those laws, which they had kept concealed several days in their portfolios. Were the Assembly to grant urgency, it would be guilty of an act of rancour and vengeance. M. Rouher: contended that the question should re ceive a speedy solution, and that the Bill must im mediately be either adopted or rejected without de lay. Too much importance had been assigned to the election of the capital. Paris did not constitute the majority of the country, which continued ani mated with unchanged sentiments of order. The Government knew the elements which composed the majority that had returned the three Socialist candidates—a majority which would to-morrow, if successful, divide and wage war against each other. The presentation of those Bills had been com manded by a sentiment of conservation and the main tenance of social order. What would be thought of a majority that arrayed in the same camp the con querors and vanquished of June ? The Government took a higher view of the situation, and beheld, in that election, a legal and political fact, which it re spected; but it was fully convinced that the majority of the country remained unchanged. M. Larochejacquelein, who followed, admitted that the evil was serious, and required a speedy re medy; but he thought that the laws should not be lightly discussed and voted. He, accordingly, op posed the urgency. The question of urgency, however, was put from the chair, and voted by a considerable majority. M. Baroche, Minister of the Interior, next rose and presented a Bill demanding that the law of the 19th June, 1849, which authorized the suppression of clubs, should continue in force during another year, and be applicable to electoral re-unions calculated to compro mise public security. M. Baroche likewise demanded urgency. M. Cremieux combated the urgency, which was advocated by M. Baroche in terms that obtained the enthusiastic approbation of the majority. M. Bac, who followed, was left speaking. PARIS BOURSE, MARCH 21.—Latest Prices—Five per Cents. 90f. 90c.; Three per Cents. 55f. 900.; Bank Ac tions, 2,212 f. 50c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, MARCH 21. Boulogne and Amiens, 6% —Luxembourg, 2%—Northern of France, 12% Rouen and Havre, 9 Tours and Nantes, 2%. ••• •,9 • „. „ • • ‘9b-Y'V r. s4 l ‘ - JAW •: 4 . 11 4 ' . iC1..4•6 , ' • '-'•••• mil• • Nik, , u iTellilt# 31111's LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1860. A better augury of the success likely to attend the grand international Exhibition of Human Industry in 1851 could not by any possibility have been afforded than that which yesterday imparted interest to the magnificent hospitality of the Chief Magistrate of the British metropolis. Assembled together for the purpose of forwarding the project now in prepa ration, the illustrious guests of the LORD Mlyott of London gave, by their presence last evening in his official residence, by the cordiality of their eulogies upon the undertaking, and by the complete unani mity of their sentiments, the best assurance that the effort would in no respect prove futile, either in re ference to ourselves or to the other nations of Christ endom. An inaugurative banquet conducted through out with more complete good feeling, or charac terised by more sumptuous munificence, could not have been given in any other capital, or in , any preceding generation. The assembly, like the circumstance in which it bad originated, was altogether approp riate to the age, the country, and the occasion. It comprised almost all the prin cipal celebrities in her MAJESTY 'a dOMin i i l o it n a s r , y pe a e n r d s and commoners, civilians a nd statesm en , m naval commanders,' as well as ecclesiastical dignita ries, men of science and of letters, municipal magis trates and foreign ambassadors. Local interests were suddenly subordinated to the interests of an enter prise altogether cosmopolitan in its nature and ten dencies. National predilections were contemned and forgotten in the general solicitude to forward an un dertaking so eminently calculated to ensure an uni versal and permanent pacification. Party politics were eschewed, and the energies of rival factions directed simultaneously to the realisation of the same object--an object associated with th© prosperity of the entire population. The glory of having ori ginated this beneficent movement it cannot very speedily be forgotten is due exclusively and directly to the illustrious Consort of our SOVEREIGN. Nor did the recollection of this cir- SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 16th inst. have arrived. The Prince and Princess DE JoitiviLLß were ex pected to arrive there shortly. MADRID BOLSA, MARCH 16.—Three per Cents., 28k, Five per Cents., 12k, both paper. Exchange on London, 50 25. GERMANY. The Prussian Minister MANTEUFFEL left Berlin on the 19th for Erfurtb, to be present at the opening of the German Parliament. The President DB SPIEGAL has been named to take possession of the Hohen zollern principalities in the name of Prussia. Sentence has just been passed by the Court of Assize upon the former Burgomaster of Spandau, Mr. ZIMMERMANN, who was accused of having fol lowed the National Assembly of Frankfort, of which he was a Member, to Stuttgard. He was declared guilty of high treason, condemned to twelve years' imprisonment ; to the forfeiture of all civic rights and the Prussian cockade, to the deprivation of his office, and to twelve years' surveillance. The Assembly of Wurtemburg, which was opened on the 15th by the KING, and was elected to revise the Constitution, was formally constituted on t he 16th. M. Schoder, chief of the democratic party, was elected President, by 44 votes against 15 given to M. Romer, chief of the liberal party. In taking possession of the chair M. Schoder made a speech, in which he glorified the Constitution drawn up by the Constituent Assembly of Frankfort, attacked the great Governments of Germany, and declared that the recent alliance of Bavaria, Saxony, and Hanover, would no more lead to a solution of the German question than that of Prussia, Saxony, and Hanover had done. As the majority of the Assembly enter tains the extreme democratic opinions of its President, a dissolution is considered inevitable. _ _ At Berlin, on the 18th, the anniversary of the re volution, the democratic chiefs issued proclamations to the people to be calm, and recommended them to re frain from visiting the cemetery where the victims of the barricades are interred. The democratic journals appeared with black borders. Precautions for the preservation of order were taken by the authorities, but there was no disturbance. The formal recal of the Prussian Envoy for Hanover, in consequence of the retirement of Hanover from the treaty on the restricted Federal State, is now officially confirmed by a circular, addressed by the Prussian Minister of Foreign Affairs to the Prus sian representatives at the German Courts. The Prussian Government has published the reply of the Minister of Foreign Affairs to the notification of Hanover of her withdrawal from the treaty. In this document the Minister characterises the proceedings of Hanover as " unexpected and unjustifiable," and says plainly that the " maintenance of friendly rela tions depends on the conduct of Hanover." General HAYNAII published at Pesth, on the 10th, a notification that the honveds who bore arms against Austria after January 6, 1849, shall alone be hence forth incorporated in the Austrian army. HOLLAND. Tug HAGUE, Mencli. 18.—The Staats Courant of this day publishes the general and comparative table of the census and population of the kingdom, made in 1840 and 1849. It appears that, according to the last census, Nov. 19, 1849, the population was 3,086,456, while in 1840 it was 2,860,450, being an increase in 1849 of 195,006. It is now officially announced that his MAJESTY has by a royal decree, dated sth January, conferred the dignity of Lieutenant of the King Grand Duke of Luxemburg upon Prince HENRY. The decree was published at Luxemburg on the 13th inst. His Majesty's Government has received intimation from the British President of the Board of Trade, that it is desirable for some means of communication to be opened for carrying out the plan of the Gran d Exhibition of Manufactures of all Nations which is to take place in London in 1851. In consequence of this intimation the Netherlands Commercial Company at Haarlem has formed a com mittee which is thoroughly acquainted wi▪ th the state of home manufactures, and which sto enter into communication with the English authorities. The following are the gentlemen appoi▪ nted :—Mr. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. The truckling of the Ministers to the parti-pretre in the matter of the Education Bill so disgusted the citizens of Paris that they returned. MM. CARNOT, VIDAL, and Da FLOTTE by large majorities, thereupon the reactionary party becomes outrageous, and threatens the introduction of all sorts of repressive laws in direct violation of the Constitution ; and the consequence is, that the Assembly bec o m es di s gusted, and the Reds having obtained a majority in the Paris elections, are also enabled to outvote the Ministry in the Assembly. The Reds proposed to impose a stamp duty of sc. on the transfer of every 100 f. o f ca pit a l o f rente, and notwithstanding the opposition of M. FOULD, the present Minister of Fina nce , o f M. H YP a majority o f 400 to consternation b produced by POLITE PASST, the late Minister of Finance, of M. BERRYER, and of M. Ducos, they have succee d e d i n 2 carrying propositiont g h r e e ir atwasthe y this severe and unexpected check, that M. ROUHER, who had the measures of repression with regard to public meetings and the press ready drawn up to place in the bands of the President, withdrew them, after a short consultation with his colleagues. The w ithdrawal of these Bill s i s th e first symptom of returning sanity that the Ministers have exhibited since the Paris elections, but, we fear, that like the withdrawal of the Bills, it is only of a temporary nature. Six of the insurgents of June transported to Belle Isle, who were transferred to Vannes, in the depart ment of the Morbihan, to be tried for rebellion and for setting fire to the wooden houses in which they were confined, have been acquitted by a jury. M. LAUAT, a barrister, and proprietor of the Unien Democratique de l'Ariege, who was prosecuted by the Attorney-General for an article reflecting on the judgment of the High Court of Versailles, has been acquitted by a jury at Toulouse, The military schools of St. Omer, Grenoble, and Toulouse, have been suppressed. The withdrawal of the repressive Bina by the Mi nistry was, as we anticipated, merely a temporary withdrawal. It will be seen from the following re port of the proceedings of the National Assembly that they were presented yesterday afternoon. The Assembly met at half-past two, when the Chairman of the Committee on the Paris Elections moved that MM. Carnot, Vidal, and De Flotte should be proclaimed Members of the Assembly. • M. Denjoy here rose and observed that one o f th e Members stood in a particular position ; he meant M. de Flotte. He had been sentenced to transportation by a decree of the Constituent assembly of the 27th of June, 1848, which declared that all the individ ua l s insurrection of as having participated in the of that period should be transported, and bad charged :General Cavaignac (the then Chi e f of the Government) with the execution of the decree. Until the contrary be proved, the legal i t n oo su k r p g a e r n t t the june in . sur i u r c . tio D n e , presumption existed, and M. de Flotte, whotctually of n w in a ythen asked thes in his opinion a n Minister of Justice and the reporter of the Com mittee if any administrative inquiry had satisfied the Government that M. de Flotte had been re leased from Belle Isle as the victim of an arbitrary measure. M. Rouher, Minister of Justice, replied that the Government had been pre-occupied with the le gal po sition of M. de Flotte. The decree sentencing him to transportation bore the character of a decree of public safety, and did not deprive M. de lotte of his civil or political rights, but merely of his liberty. M. de Flotte was not tried by a court of justice, and he had since recovered his liberty with the integrality of his civil and political rights. The Government, consequently had no objection to raise against the le • gality of his nomination. The election of M. de Flotte was afterwards put from the chair and sanctioned by the almost unani mous vote of the Assembly. M. Router,; Minister of Justice, nest ascended the tribune, and deposited on the table two projects of law relative to the re-establishment of the stamp on newspapers and the augmentation of the security in money required from their proprietors. The Minister stated that the press, since the revolution of February, had undergone a serious modification, and attended less to political matters than to social re- MARCH 22, 1850. Gevers Deynott, the Director of the Netherlands Company at Rotterdam ; Dr. Symonds, Director of the Royal Academy at Delft, and Dr. Buehler, Member of the Royal Netherlands Insiitution and Vice-President of the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences at Rotterdam. ti The espousals of her Royal Highness the Princess LOUISA and the Crown Prince of SWEDEN are to take place at the 'Hague at the latter end of May. The marriage will be celebrated at Stockholm. Prince FREDERICK of the Netherlands purposes going with his family to that capital, and passing the summer there. ITALY. King BoMBA is in a terrible fright lest Sir W. PARKER should pay him a visit to remind him of certain little accounts which he has to settle with England. He has dismantled all his war steamers and laid them up in ordinary in the Royal Arsenal, so as to put them, if possible, out of Sir W. PARKER'S reach. _ _ _ It is currently rumoured that the POPE will leave Portici for Rome either on the 7th or on the 10th of April. The Austrians are fortifying themselves at Spoleto. The French are highly displeased at the approach of the Austrian troops to Rome. RADETSKT and his staff arrived at Venice on the 9th inst. The Veto Amico of Bologno, of the 14th, states that the Pontifical army is to be composed of three foreign legions; namely, one of Austrians, one of French, and one of Spaniards or Swiss. General ST AasLND, who is entrusted with the organization of the Papal troops, has proceeded to Rome, to confer with the Pontifical Government on the subject. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY. QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti mated at 6,000 bales, of which 500 American were taken for export. The market closed heavily and American mid. were d. per lb. lower.—Railway Shares were quiet, and with the exception of the leading lines, a decline in prices occurred. The sales of Wheat in the markets which regulate the averages were last week 77,113 quarters, and of Barley. 57,923 quarters. The last week's average price wae 38e. ld. per quarter. In the colonial and foreign produce markets this week no greater activity has existed than for some time past The prices of coffee have been further depressed, and sugar has been purchased sparingly, though not :lower on the whole. The rice, rum, and cotton markets have all drooped, and neither home dealers nor exporters ar, inclined to buy. The question of slavery or no slavery in California has revived the controversy between the partisans of ihr Northern and Southern States as to which could most conveniently dispense with the other, and strong facts are certainly adduced to show how important is the posi tion of the slave-holding districts. The south, it is al leged, is more than ever firmly convinced that in the event of a dissolution the balance of trade between them and the north would be annually millions of dollars in favour of the latter. A table of exports before us serves to prove this, and .a local writer remarks upon it: We have put in the year 1847, fur the purpose of showing, that with the enormous exportation of bread stuffs, at enormous prices, the value of the staple pro ducts of the south exported, at moderate prices, was but twenty millions less than all the rest. In ordinary years, the excess in favour of the south will average about the same as in 1849. This year, 1850, the ex ports from the south will be unusually large, while those from the north and west will be unusually limited, and we have no doubt that, at least, two-thirds of the aggregate exportation will be composed of southern products. Of the imports, the two sections of country are reversed. The north consumes about two-thirds of the aggregate, so that it is clear that without the south the north would be compelled to re strict their importations very much, or lose annually large amounts of gold and silver. Without the south the north would be annually buying more than selling. and thus become rapidly impoverished. As a whale our foreign trade is productive; but divided, the south woula be daily growing richer, while the north would be daily getting poorer. The carrying trade of the south annually puts millions into the pockets of the northern shipowners, and under the union the monopoly of the coasting trade is enjoyed by the north. A dissolution would open the southern ports to vessels of all nations, arid the north could not expect any better terms than those extended to the most favoured. The north could not place a duty on the im portation of cotton from the south, while the south could not put a high duty upon any articles from the north. Great Britain cannot tax cotton, and the nor thern manufacturers would have to admit it free to com pete with those of England. New England manafac• turers would have a auty to contend against in the markets of the south, and they would find British goods disputing every step with them in Charles. ton and New Orleans. In any light in which the question can be viewed, it assumes but one aspect, and that is unfavourable to the prosperity and progress of the north. The political and commercial position of the south is much stronger than is generally imagined. The more any cool, calculating, reflecting men looks into the question, the more he must be con yineed of the reaouroos of the south, and the limited ex tent to which they are at present developed." The issue of the struggle is highly important. We are of opinion that there is some exaggeration in the above view, fir the north boasts a fine enterprising race of men, and many natural advantages which are not here touched upou. At Amsterdam, on the 20th instant, very little was doing in Dutch or Foreign Stocks. The Two-and- a- Half per Cents. were 55 3-16ths. In the Frakkfort market on the 19th Austrian Bonds were 80i, and Spanish Three pet Cents. 28i. There is a fluctuating market again for public secu rities, and the fact of a further decline having occurred at Paris has some effect here. Consols have,ranged from 951 to for Transfer, and from 95-i to for Account. The latter are now 951 The premium on Exchequer-bills is maintained at 61s. to 6'3s. On India Bonds it is 87s. to 88s. The Foreign Securities have been quiet generally, but Peruvian are better, the Active having touched 72i and 73, and the Deferred 281 to . Spanish Five per Cents. have been 16} 4, and Portuguese Four per Cents. 33, being merely nominal. The new Danish Scrip is 21 to 2i premium, and Russian is premium. Mexican Bonds have been heavy at 29k Railway Shares have been dull, but without any general change in prices. ONE CLOSIN PRIQES OF BRITISH FUNDS O'CLOCK. PRICES. 3 ~.i. Cent. Consols Annuities 95% 1 A WA 95% 3 per Cent. Annuities ,l726 95 95 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 ... India Bonds, I,ooot. Consols for Account 95 Vs %NA 9 5% .xchequer Bills. 1 1 4 d. & zu 1,0001. June 63 61 p Small. June 6l p 65 p 61 p ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK. PRICES. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. tsrazilian BOWLS Ditto, New, 1 843 Danish Bonds , 1825,3 p er Cent. • .. 69 68 Ditto 5 Der Cent. Ditto, Scrip Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons-- Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons ...,...., 29 IA 29 4 Ditto, Account Peruvian Bonds, 4 per Cent Ditto, Account Ditto Deferred Portuguese 5 per Cents. Ditto, Converted, 1841 32 Ditto, 4 per Cent. Russian Bonds Ditto Scrip l /4 P 1 1 A P Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840 1 6 34 163 Ditto, Account Dividends on the above payable in London. 32 33% PRICES OT PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING RAILWAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRI( E , berdeen .......... SO D , Preference ...... JO. Pretere Li, Amber. Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 7 i ji ...... Ayrshire and Galloway.. 7% — Belfast & County Down 30 ... Berks & Hants Extens. (Gt. West. Per. 5 per ct.) 6 Birmingham and Ox ford Junct., calls duly paid, or with a guaran. 20 Do, without guarantee 20 , irming, Wolverh'ton, and Dudley, calls duly pd, or with guarantee 15 ..... 21%1A... . Do. without guarantee 15 Bristol and Exeter 100 ...... .. ...... ... Ditto, Thirds ..» 33i nuckinghamshire ...... 17 1 % Caledonian Ditto, New IC?. Pref... 10 .;hester and Holyhead... 50 Ditto, Preference Direct London & Ports mouth _ Dublin and Belfast June. 40 ...... ••• Dundalk & Enniskillen 30 214 dis. IP% 10% 6% 7% East Anglian, 25L, L. & E. and L. and D...... 25 -- Do., 3/. 10s., Pref... 3 1 / 4 Eastern Counties........ 20 ..... 7% •• Po. North. & Eastern, 6 per Cent. Ditto. 5 per Cent.... 50 ...... 57% Eastern Union, Class A (late E. U. Shares) 25 Do. Scrip (6 per cent.) 20 •... 17 .............. 17 Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ..-.. 24% x.d 24% x.d Exeter.Yeovil, & Dorch. 2 5 m Exeter and Exmouth... 21s. Glasgow Dumfries, and Carlisle ....... ... -8 1. 60. &1.... - ....... ...... ••• Glasgow,Kilmar., & Ayr 50 ...... Do. Preference Consol. Gloucester & Dean Forest 121. 57% ~ .,reat Northern Do.,per Cent. Pref. 12 1 A1 'rent 5 South. and West. (Ireland) Ditto, Eighths rest North of England 100 ...... — , Ditto, New, 401 4O Ditto, ditto 35 Ditto, New, 301 Ditto. New ,15/ l5 .. .. Great Western 100 ...... 57 571 A • Ditto, 1 4 Shares Ditto, Fifths ... 20 Ditto, New 171... ..... 15 ... Lancashire & Yorkshire 100 Do. Fifths... ... 10 Leads and Bradford Leeds and Think •....• 60 .....• ...au. •• 57% 14 7 V g .... 37 x.d. ~. %.,x.d. London, Brighton, and South Coa:t... .... 100 ...... . Do., New, guaranteed 6 per Cent . Do. Prefer. 5 per cent. 50 ...... 57%4 - 5; % London and N Western 100 London & t.Western ..ICO ...... 62 1 4 3 4 6 2 3,4 11.idlArd ...... ........ ...i , 0 ...... 09 31 1 4 ...... .. E 9 A D.). Consolidated Pref.loo Do., 501. Shares ..... 30 ..... 4;5 1 % .. ..... Do. 3irm., and.oerby 103 _— DAto,Drist. tic Gloestr. 42 Ditto ditto .. Do.,ErewashVal..Pref. 50 Ditto, Leieestis Swim nington, 8 per et. guar.loo — Midland tireat Western Irish 47% 22 % ••• •••.......... 21 hi Adlesbro' and Redcar, 6 per cent. guar.. SO - Newcastle and Caslisle.loo ..... Do. Quarters Newmarket .. .. . 23 Do. Extension ......... 2/. 125.... - ewport, Abergavenny, and He •etord . 6 ....• liTewry and Enliskillen 7 Nswry, W arrenpoint, and Rostrevor .. 20 Norfolk . ..... ..100 North British ........ ... 25 .... , ... • Ditto, Halvesi".. ..,.. 12% — .. .. ...... ... 4 1 Ditto, Quarters Ditto, Thirds .... .. .. Bi - - Ditto Preference North Statlordshire ... 17 3y 7 6 3 4 7ii 7 ereston & Wyre Do. 4 Shares (A) lO ...... - 4,4 eading, Guildford, and Reigate — .:oyston and Hitehin Do. Shepreth Exten . % Seottilli Central darewsbury and liirm 13%...... dia. ...... .. .. die Ditto, New Guaranteed 8 Shrewsbury 86 Chester (Nor. W. llin.) Dittollialyes Ditto Oswe.qry Ditto New Do. 8 per Cent. Pre..o ilropiiiire Union - •••‘. ...... am 3 6;ellield. Rotherham. & Goole (N. Div.) Gua ranteed 5 per cent. ':o1:1, , a itn•L Do., No. 3 ..... ....... 30 ... Do.. Registered No. 4 10 South ~% a , e, N ear Valley 6 per Cent. '-'l - karantl ... .- ..... 60 - Do. do. dc. ... 25 N .I. ~ Somerset, & IN e 3 - mouth ,k. Newcas•le, and Lierwiei. .... ..—.._,... 25 yo, Newcastle Exten. 20 Do. G.N.E.Preterence 6 ... - 6 4, 3 4 Cork and North Midland 50 ~ .s.tt.,, Preterenc , ,, ...... 10 FOREIGN RAILWAYm. 3oulogne and Amiens... 20 ...... ' 6 1 ,4 Namur and Liege Luxembourg Ditto Northern of France earis and Rouen 2O ...... ... .. ........ 204 , Ouen and Havre Tours and Nantes l3 ...... MINES. Anglo-Mexican lOO ..•••• Asturian ..... 15 kustralian 4 ...... ...... Bassora Range . 2 . 989. Blaenarvon Iron & Coal 50 Bolonos Scrip ...... United olexican 28% JOINT STOCK BANKS. British North American 50 erovincial of Ireland ... 25 7 , 4 LLO YD'S SHIPPIrt. G—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, MARCH 22.—Wind at noon W., light breeze and fine. HoTHESAY, MARCH 20. Sld. Parkfield, Valparaiso ; Spartan, New York. ALLoa, MARCH 16.—S1d. Joanna, St. John's, New Brunswick. SHIELDS—Sid. Brancepeth Castle, Havre and St. John's, Newfoundland ; Walker, Newfoundland. COWES, MARCH 19.—Arrd. Asia, Coquelin, St. Do mingo. OFF ST. MAWES, MARCH 19.—Brilliant, Williams, North Carolina,with loss of jibboom, foretopmast,sails,&c. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 21.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. Consti tution, Britton, New York ; Zuliaka, Williamson, Cal cutta; Jas. M'Queen, Wilson, St. Domingo. Sld. John o' Gaunt, Bombay ; Arsene, Senegal ; Manuelita, Val paraiso; Majulcofur, Havannah; John, Savannah; Bri tannia, Wilmington ; Chaos, New York ; Gipsey, Staten Island ; Washington Irving, Boston; Olive, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Aurora, Halifax ; Toronto, Quebec. BRIDLINGTON, MARCH 21.—The Era, cf and from Newcastle, for Rotterdam, foundered yesterday, Tyne mouth Light-house bearing W. by S. about 14 miles; crew saved. The Samuel Hickes, from Baltimore, United States to London, cleared on the 2d January, and sailed from the coast on the 13th, and has not since been beard of, The wreck cf an apparently British-built vessel, of between 600 and 700 tuna, with bowsprit standing, top► gallant forecastle on, and after part of ship very much broken up, wa; seen 19th January on the S.E. reef of the Island t,l Cargados Garayos, by the Sir John Fal staff, Rowell, arrived at Aden. A flagstaff was observed on the island abreast of the vesse►, but no person was visible. She had probably been some time in that situa tion. HARTLEPOOL, MARCH 20.—A pilot coble, with John and Henry, No. 98, South Shields on it, and her star board bow stove in, has been picked up by the English Rose, arrived here. NEATH, AlArtca 19.—The Janes, from Lynn, has started her stern-post, and is very leaky. The Vanguard, of Maryport, went on shore on Crooked Is!and Reefs, 4th ult., during a heavy gale, and would become a wreck; crew saved. FOWEY, MARCH 20.—Arrd. Brilliant, Smith, Wil mington, with damage. FALMOUTH, MARCH 21.—Wind N.N.E., moderate.— Off, Canopus, Basetaian, Laguna, and sailed fur Ham burgh. NEWPORT, MARCH 21.—Wind N.E.—Sld. Baltimore; Rosins, Panama; Joseph Cunard, Cardiff and Quebec. DEAL, MARCH 21.—Wind N.E. to N.N.E.—Arrd. from the River and sld.. Vallisneria, Cape of Good Hope; Highland Mary, New York; Venilla, Mogadore. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 21.—Wind variable.—Sld. Pearl, Montreal. PILL, MARCH 21.—Sld. Feliza, Trinidad. OFF LIVERPOOL. - Gannet steamer, Hudson, and Envoy. MAREET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN-EXCHANGE-FRIDAY. Daring the present week the arrivals of English Meat up to our market coastwise, have amounted to 1,950 quarters. Those by land carriage have been on a very limited scale. To-day the show of samples was trifling, nevertheless, the demand for all kinds of Wheat of home produce was in a very inactive state, at prices barely equal to those obtained on Monday. The imports of foreign Wheat have been confined to 3,420 quarters. Se lected qualities were mostly held at previous rates, at which, however, only a limited business was doing. Damp and inferior parcels were almost nominal. The Barley trade, owing to the increasing supplies, ruled heavy, and, in some instances, the quotations had a. downward tendency. We had a fair quantity of Malt ont show. All descriptions moved off heavily at barely eta- , tionary prices. The best parcels of Oats sold at about previous rates. In other kinds next to nothing was doing. Beans, Peas, Indian Corn and Flour commanded scarcely any attention. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. English • • • • • • Scotch.. • • • • • — Foreign Wheat. 1 barley. Oats. Malt. I Flour. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Baas. 1,950 3,160 2,640 4,250 1,460 3,426 4,00 6, I 167- SMITHFIELD. For the time of year the supply of Beasts on sale in to— day's market was tolerably good, both as to number and'. quality. Owing to the small number of buyers in at-• tendance, the Beef trade ruled very inactive at prices barely equal to those, obtained on Monday., sad a total clearance was not effected. With Sheep we were scan tily supplied; nevertheless, the demand for that descrip tion of stock was far from brisk, at about stationary fi gures, the best old Downs in the wool tolling at 4s 4d per Sibs. There was a decided improvement in the Lamb trade, but we have no advance to notice in value. Calves were in fall average supply and moderate request at late rates. In L'ig , t very little was doing at our quo tations. Mulch Cows sold heavily at from 141 to Bleach, including their small calf. Per Blbs. to Oaths offal: s. d. to s. d, s. d• to 0.11; Inferior Beasts..... 2 6 2 8 Inferior Sheep .. 3 0 3 2 Second quality .... 210 3 0 Second qual. Sheep 3 4 3 8 Prime large OXell.. 3 2 3 4 Coarse-weolled ditto 3 10 4 0 Prime Scots ••-• .. 3 4 3 6 Southdown Wether 4 2 4 4 Large coarse Calves 3 0 3 4 Ditte auto( the wool 0 0 0 0 i Prime small ditto .. 3 6 310 Large Hogs ......E 2 3 3 iickling Calves ..18 0 25 0 Small Porkers .... 3 8 4 0 Lambs • • TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts. I Sheep. I Calves. 1 Pi". 850 ?,010 240 3tU FOREIGN SUPPLY. I Sheep. I Calves. I Ng& 225 180 SCOTCH. Beasts. I Sheep. I Calves.l f' 200 80 NEV7GATZ AND lallinilifiLazz• These markets were well supplied. The general de• wand ruled inactive, on the following terms:— Betuste. 190 At per stone by the Carcass. s. d. to 1. d. 8. d. to d; Beef,tnferior.• ••.. 2 2 2 4 Mutton, inferior •2 8 10 middling .• .. 2 4 2 6 ---- rald 4 ling • •• 3 o a primelarge .. 2 8 210 ----Priam •• •• 3 4 2 6 prime small .. 3 0 3 2 Fork, large • ... ••1 10 4 3 0 ---- 0 3 1 Mill " ... 3 6 4 0 Lamb. 4s 10d to Is 10d. 33011,017G1C SOP MAILICET. The quantity of Hops, both new and ola, on sale. here is small, yet the demand fo r all descriptions is ins 'very inactive state, and last we -k s prices are with difficulty supported. A few parcels have come in from the conti nent:—New Mid and East Kent pockets, 616 s to 11110 s; new Weald of Kent ditto. 6/ to 81 3s ; new Sussex ditto. 518 s to 61103; new Farnhams, 121 to 131; year ling Kent=, 31 to 41 7 s; yearling Sussex, 2181 to 31 1 20 ; old Hops, 11 to 31106 per cwt,