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ment—the whole 30,000, by-the-bye commanded by Raja Lal Singh, whom a modern Siekh historian has represented as being in league with the British ge neral. If so, defend me from my friends ! With out an instant's hesitation, Lord Gough gave orders for movements of hone -artillery and cavalry to both flanks ; and it was in this movement to repulse the Siekhs, that the Queen's 3d Dragoons commenced that series of remarkable achievements which have since stamped them as the noblest cavalry regiment that ever went to India. The repulse was complete on both flanks. Our artillery and cavalry went through the enormous line of the enemy, and got into its rear, so as to become an object of the deepest anxiety to Sir Hugh Gough. It was then that he turned to his aide-de-camps, and com manded two of them to recal the flank detachments back to their own line. I was one of them, and I leave you all to judge whether the duty was a plea sant one. It was performed, however, and I shall carry the memorial of it to my grave, in the shape of a ball through my thigh. Such, gentlemen, was the introduction into military life which I received from my earliest patron in India—Lord Gough. I recovered from my wound in time to serve as his Lordship's aide de-camp, again at Sobraon, the closing battle of the Sutlej war—a battle most complete in its result, from the circumstance of a broad and rapid river at the back of the enemy's position, into which they were driven. A young soldier could not have re ceived a mole instructive lesson than was displayed to ; him in that magnificent battle ; and I well remember fancying at , the end of it that I could meve 10,000 men if called upon next day. The campaign thus closed. Lord Gough recommended me to the Governor-General for promotion to the political staff now required for the Punjaub ; and to this great step in life I am mutually indebted to. those two great men. But while expressing my gratitude to those powerful friends who gave me these great opportunities, let me not forget the master who taught me how to use them—Sir Henry Lawrence, who, at this very moment but acaptain of artillery, has made himself, by his high purposes and indomitable energies, the foremost man in India, and a bright example to every Indian soldier. He it was who, through three years of British protection of the Pun j aub, was my public master and my private friend; and it was sitting at his feet, amid great political events, that I trust I learnt that noble lesson, to live note or myself but for the state." ir,IFE-ERUPTION by Mte. VESCE'CEUVIUS ; X.. 4 with COAL PIT DEATH EXPLOSIONS—TO OUR RIVER SPAWN of FISH. Memo. for J. BIRD, (charred-black, alas, unaided), at Wigan, &c.—Seep up the isolation of the bony-fabric thro' inhalation of the pure white flame air left ye'—refilling hourly the nostril air-vase exhaust cylinder-vacuum, for the Lungs' heart beatexpulsion to the sulphurous fire-damp—in the skin-vescicles, for 'aptiai- regeneration of fleshy rib-covering. This Vesce'ceuvr'lan life-giving system by " Captain," ACKERLF.Y has providentially resuscitated eight (including " the man with his dog"), of the miners "blown" with gas and charred by the late disastrous colliery explosions Lear Stourbridae, Chowhent, and Wigan, as meteorized in February, on the 9th to 13th in,t. Thus proving (as iestaneed in '49 at Iladleigh. Dudley Port, and St. Giles's) that practical utility belies— the Government -talking drone s - his int prison=ers ; and that his usefulness, thro' God's gift,' altho' at self-expense [See the Captain's, " Savoyin Blanch Chambrlaynx de Grandson ; fact. 'arks., It F."], verifies the old shalbe;* that Wh'ere there's A will th, re's a way' for alleviating this dire calamity to the workhig claasest —found Drs.-scare'd, dying like dogs at bay.' A.m. C . , t bath wonder, that reason canna scan 1 P.m. , The mod e l's aa aid ; how 'cod, is'eQuod.i.man." Th . the New Exchange CoAL-n•aAers, under Queen Eleanor of Slivo3"s' (niece of Esx., Peter Fail of niclimend, of Susx., in .Isicew Collete,.• ag, On,' OXthrd) : 110 W vac'covv'tn' in St. Katherine's Dock and East I:had:3*, A.D. 127:3, to 4399, a 1849 -" till magna' wsterity requires 'em, for the rite of the Common-weal' * ExoduS 3, L'ehretv pretext future for hope in " I am that Amite" azainst tiring, and Windsor-sta: explode, 'scatter ing of the salmon •fry from Thames fishermen, for scotch " Park" ales; as adj net, with the crafty im-moral • obey' under the Church spy, .21natsiage-trap (signature 0 Edw. Vl.):—set in place, of the civic. racrunental bond " to cherish, be bonnie and buxonee, till eeatli no c:epart ; vide, L'bre-r:tualis, Secundum usum Sarum." - • •-• • • • t Cfa " 'Qtuy, - utn" Certifi , sufferer is entitled on loss in life or ltnd,, to Q. Aloes pension or smart fro n the Greenwich Chest " Consolidated Fund," (inyerte , l, with I: bevel, and j,-sqr. Inch line Stancla.:d equatuplex, with 10 In's', Track Acts"), - ordained for the encourageinent of Trade, Navigation, and Naval strength. [7llreomr iv.yr.lo2] Litz Sszac;,r -xcLitro [511cm.m.../Etl.] m.coike • Edw. ii = Izabelee de oal.ltal. de I' Imp. 'Rom.' ....cnstn.—oW. o iii. EcsLionbe=. (C.3lortimr3lont'agueAtkime A.) Ric. iilz....Joame of Ed. i VItENCH PLAYS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE ARRANGEMENTS AFTER EASTER Mr, ALitcbell respectfully announces that the THEATRE will be RE-OPENED during the Ester Week, for the performance of Come.!le and Vaudeville, and begs to submit the following arrange ments Engagements—M. Samson (of the Theatre Franca:s, Paris), his first Appearance, 3fadlle. Denain (of the Theatre Francais), M. Reviler (of the Theatre Francais), Madlle. Nathalie (of the Theatre Franca;s), and M. Lafont (of the Theatre des Varietes). The first production after Easter will be Scribe's popular Comedy of " Bertrand et Ration ;" Le Comte I-;ertrand de Rantzau (Premier MiniStre),.M. Samson, as performed by him in Paris. Subsequeut performances will be selected from the following :—" L'Ecele des Veillards," " tin Veuvage," and " Ma Femme et Ma Place," new Comedies by M. Samson ; " La Marquis de Senneterre ;" the two admired Proverbs of Alfred de Musset, "line Faut Jnrer de Rien," and "11 Faut qu'une Porte soit Ouverte on Fermee ;" " Le s De moiselles de St. Cyr," " La Pais a Tout Prix," " tin Chateau de Cartes,";." Le Mari a la Campange," and the new Play by Emile Angier, " GabrielJe," now performing in Paris with unsurpassed suc cess, and in which "I',ladlle Regnier and Ma Ille. Nathalie will sus tain itiefr original characters. Mr. Mitchell feels particular gratification also in announcing that, in the production of Scribe': celebrated Comedy of La Carnarade ne," 'connated amongst the chef d'ceuvres of the modern stage, the principal characters will be sustained by four members of the Theatre Francois, raris—M. Samson, In the character of De Miremont ; Madlie. Denafn, in that of Cesarine; 31. Regnier in that of Be Montlucar ; and Madlle. lcathalie, in that of Zoe; presenting a com bination of talent 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 mo,,ts, are the following :—Madlle. Avenel (of the Thelire de FOdeon) ; Madile. Brassine (of the Theatre du IJ:flats Royal) ; Madlle. Renaud (of the Theatre du Vaudeville) ; Madame Octave (of the Theatre du Vaudeville) ; Aladlle. Constance (of the Theatre des Variiltes), &c. The first performance of the eminent tragedienne, Madlie. Rachel, i 3 definitively arranged for Moaday, July Ist. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. ' The First Appearance of Mr. Sims Reeves. The Nobility, Subscribers to the Opera, and the Public are respect fully informed that TUTS 'EVENT KG . It being the Last Night before Easter, on which occasion MR. SIMS REEVES Will make his appearance in Verdi's Opera, ERNANI. Ern r ani.; Mr: Sims Reeves ;TinY4l;mez, Sig. Beßeth ; Carlo V., Sig. Lorenzo ; Elvlra. Madlle. Parodi. Bet Ween the acts of the Opera will be presented a Divertissement, in which Ma'ille. Amalla Ferraris will make her appearance in a grand,Pas rte Deux 'with M. Charles. After which will bipresented an entirely new and original Grand Ballet, by M. rant Taglioni, entitled LES Al ETA MORPHOSES. The Music composed by Signor Pugni ; the Scenery (entirely new) by Mr, Marshall the Appointments by Mr. Bradwell : the Coe• tames by Miss Bradley and Mr. Ccomhes, ander the euperintendenee of Madame Copere. The Sprite (under the forms of 1, a Page —2, a Rustic Coquette-3, WLII-oPthei-Wisp-4, a Folie-5, a Domino -6 , a Cavalier), Mdllo. Carlotta , Grisi ; Karl (a Student), M. Paul Taglioni ; Ida (hie be trothed), Madlle. Rosa ; Momus, M. Charles ; Elves, Madlles. Rosa, Alisandon, Julienne, Lamoureux, B. Pascales, and F. Pascales. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and tickets to be made at the Opera Be a-office, Colonnade, Haymarket. ~ ' ItOTAL IT IL TAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. The Directors of the Royal Italian Opera:beg most re.pectfully to inforutt4e Nobility, Gentry, Subscribers, and the Publie that THIS 'EVENING, • Will be preivnte4 Weber's Grand Opera of DEI; FREISCHUTZ, With entirely new Scenery, Costumes, and Appointments. Agatic Madame Castellan ; Annetta, Mdlle. Vera ; Una Paraninfa, 3ldlle—Cotti ;Giulio, Signor Enrico Maralti; Chillano, Mons. Massol; Cuno,_ Signor Romini • Cgo, Signor Luigi ; Eremita, Signor Grcgorto ; I>iicr!hg; Gaspar,. 110 , r Formes. Compoeer,• Director of the Masic;and Conductor, Mr. Costa. The - :Scenery 1 y Messrs. Grieve and Telbin : the Dresses by Mrs. Miley and Mine. .Marzio ; the Appointments by Mr. Ma ni Ire ; acAnery by Mr. Allen ; the spectacle arranged by Mr. A. Ila#4. The Doors will be op . ened at Half-past Seven, and the performances • • "conninencn at Eight o'clock precisely. Tiekets for Boxet, Stalls, or the Pit, may be taken for the night or season. N.l.l.,Satiscribcrs for the Season will bare the optio-i of paying their Sabseriptions in advance - (as heretofore), or by monthly in stalmea.-, The terms mar be obtained at the Box-ofilce of the Theatre (cor ner of hart-street'and Bow-street), which is open from Eleven till Five ()Week... ' • • TIT E A.T E ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee and Manager, .Mr. JAMES ANDERSON. THIS EVENING, • Wlll be presented, by her Majesty's Servants, The Comedy of THE ELDER BROTHER ; or, Lave at First Sight. Lerd Lewis, Mr. Diddear ; Miramount, Mr. Emery: Brisac, Mr. Davidge ; Charles, Mr. James Anderson ; Eustace, Mr. Mon tague ; l Angelina, 'Miss V andenhoff ; Sylvia, Miss A. Lonsdale. To be followed by A DIVERTISSEMENT, in which Madlle. Palsar and Madame Louise Will appear: To conclude with MARY STUART. FrlvatT bows. 2 1.4.. 21. 123.6 d., 21. 23., 11. lls. 6d., and 1/. Is. Stalls, ss. each. s. •d.• FIRST PRICE. BoXes - - 4 0 rif ' 2 0 Lower Gallery . 1 0 u pper G a ll er y • 0. 6 • Box-book-kee: _ s. d. SECOND PRICE. Loxes - - 2 0 Pit - - I 0 Lower Gallery - 0 6 No Half-price to Upper Gallesy. r, Mr. J. Povey. THEATRE ROYAL, IIAYMARKET. Mi. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Oil Brorapton. • THIS EVENING, Willie performed THE WIFE'S SECRET. ter A oraY tt, Mr. Charles Kean ; Lady Eveline Amyott, Mrs. Charles Kean. To be followed by a new Comedy, entiled TIIE SERIOUS MILT:, Characters by Messrs. Webster, IVallack, Bnckston F e ; V. Clifford. Miss Reynolds, and., Mrs. Fitz am• To conclude with THE THREE CUCKOOS. The T..ex-oftl:e 13 nuder the direction of Mr. I. T. Archer. THEATRX ROYAL. AI)ELPIIL the direction et Madame (-siesta, < THIS EVNING, Will be performed a new domestic E Drama, called THE MOTHER'S IMEASI. Principal characters by Messrs. Hughes, Wright, P. Bed ford, 04. Smith, Madame Celeate, and Miss E. Chaplin. After which MY PRECIOUS BETSY. Characters by Messrs. Wri ghe;,sedford, Worrell; Miss Harding, and Mrs. F. Matthews. To be followed by 'GOING TO THE DERBY. To ceuraude with THE DANCING BARBER. DOTAL LYCIUM THEATSE. Under the Management of Madame Vestrta. 4 • 8010 Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING, Will be pesformed WHY DID YOU DIE T o to followed by THE ISLAND OF JF/WHLS. To conclude with . TWO IN THE MORNING. Dress' hoses. 55.; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, as. ; Gallery, la. , NO half-price to .any part of the house. All app li ca tions for Private Boxes must be made to Mr. Allcroft, 15 New Bind=street. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. An entire change in the Scenes of the Arena. New Grand Spectacle. THIS EVENING The performance' will commence at a Quarter to Seven, with a new Gnuad Spectacle of THE CORSE DE LEON g or, the Brigand of Savoy. - To be - fotlONied by a brilliant display of Batty's peerless scenes of the Circle; supported by the accomplished artistes of the establish ment. To conclude 'with I favourite Afterplece. Lox-ofEico open trom Eleven till Four. .stage 41anager, Mr. IV. IVost. TBS. ASE ON . ANN LIERRITT. — Mr. Sheriff iteenrepani4 by Mr. Under-Sheriff Millard, and Mr. Haly, of the Middle Teinple, wtended at the Home Office; on Thursday:" and had en interview with the Under-Secretary of'State. It g as understood that the ct.se of Ann M9litt, now lying unc'er seLtecco of demh in Nevgate, f't,t+,ltri the zuhjecr - cf their visit. Atter their departure Mr. Matile, the Treasury Solicitor, had a long consultation with . the Under-Secretary 'NOTICE. 11 1. ? ' R. WARBURTON'S NEW ROMANCE, 1 REGINALD HASTINGS, WILL BE READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES Oa TUESDAY, March 26. Henry Colbnrn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready, in 2 vols., demy Bvo., price 285., THE PILLARS of HERCULES; A Narrative of Travels in Spain and Morocco. By DAVID URQUHART, Esq., M.P. " Full of originality and talent. These volumes give the (sliest and best accountiwe have yet had ofMorocco. They,are most valuable and interesting."—Daily News. " An entertaining production, adapted for_, every taste."—Literary Gazette. " Throughout interesting and instructive."—John Bull. " Abounds in interesting and picturesques descriptive passages. He gives us a panorama of Cadiz transparent in its details, and by a few massive touches bring the scenes distinctly before us."—Atlas. Richard Bentley, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tats DAT —M irning, 11 rain. after 9 I Evening, 57 min. after 9 To-Moanow— ..orning, 41 min. after 10 I Eveiaing,:2l rain. aster 11 THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, MARCH 23. TRERMOMETFR, Lowest, 31; Highest, 47: Noon. 36. B.A.ROBIETER, 29'52. The mercury has fallen more than half an inch since yesterday. WIND N.W.—Morning, a heavy fall of snow; afternoon, cloudy, with occasional sunshine. 4 -ft 3 4 U..M THE SUN, J?_ : intim, 4m LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1850. Slowly as the Australian Government Bill pro gresses through Committee, there is really some chance of the Honourable Gentleman the Member for Exeter finding his prediction realised. The present ses sion may, according to the present rate of progress, have elapsed before even this instalment of justice to our colonists can have been imparted—a circumstance over which we should deeply lament, seeing the ne cessity for a series of such large ameliorative enact ments. After exciting the hopes of the population of Australia, it would be deplorable for the Legislature to damp the ardour just now evinced by the Government for colonial re form by an unnecessary and captious procras tination, not, of course, that we would desire to witness anything at all approximating to precipitate legislation upon a matter requiring such profound preparative meditation. What we are solicitous to observe in the conduct of the Parliament, in re gard to this bold and in many respects most excel lent measure, relating to the future administration of affairs in Australia, is that laudable and attainable blending of caution and rapidity in its acceptance which may best promote the interest of our colonists and afford at the same time the best stimulus to the co lonial reform movement now at length adventured upon by the Cabiaet. So earnest, we are satisfied, is the general solici tude in this regard, so real is the interest felt in the advancement of the reasonable ambition of our co lonial dominions, so sincere is the popular goodwill to ward this particular step, now promising to confer a constitution upon the Australians, that a large share of public curiosity will be directed, bas already been directed to the perusal of last evening's proceedings in the House of Commons when the Bill in question was unthr examination in Committee. Even with the strong rival attraction of the discussions in the House of Peers, we are con vinced that the usually dry and tedious business of the Committee in the Commons will be turned to with peculiar relish by the more reflective portion of the community. Lord OVERSTONE'S very successful debzU as a speaker, being his first public appearance since his recent elevation to the Peerage, and the brilliant and entertaining altercation between my Lord BROUGHAM and my Lord STANLEY—two of the most distinguished orators in the British Parliament—will of course demand the notice of the more attentive observer of the reported sayings and doings of the Legislature. But even, we repeat, with these power ful distractions for public attention, the inquiring gaze of the people will be turned immediately and searchingly upon the progress of the proposed boon for Australia. Unhappily the advance movement in the way colonial improvement has hitherto been slow, de plorably slow, resembling in this, as in other respects, the inductive pace of the " Traveller :" " Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow." Remote it unquestionably has been from imparting any advantage to the unfortunate colonists. Un friended it has been until now, saving by one or two staunch philanthropists, such as the Honourable Re presentative of Southwark. Melancholy it has been, too, melancholy and forlorn as JACQUES himself— doomed to a lonely and almost unnoticed existence. That its progress, even in its best moments, has merited the epithet " slow," we rather conjecture to be tolerably well demonstrated by the course pursued last evening in the Committee of the Commons. Hours were exhausted in wrangling and hag gling over the tendency and phraseology of the two first clauses—over we should say, most strictly speak ing, the second of the two first clauses, the first having been agreed to without opposition. According to that preliminary enactment, it was decided that the district of Port Philip should form a separate colony, and be known as the colony of Victoria. Coinciding, how ever, as the House did, in the reasonableness of that, the first proposition, the Members were by no means disposed to become unanimous upon the second, every one having some crotchetty notion as to the advisability or non-advisability of the mode of constituting the legislative councils of New South Wales, and of the new colony of Victoria. Some were for this decision, some for that, and some for another altogether different. One person advo cated two chambers, and a second was earnestly in favour of one. So wide and various were the fluctuations of opinion upon this point, that one of the more conscientious Members, the Noble Lord, the representative of Arundel, fairly acknowledged that he had gone down to the House strongly pre possessed in favour of a second chamber, but that his opinion had been entirely changed from all he had listened to during the course of the discussion. Upon this head, we conceive that the argument is reduce able, as it was nearly a couple of years age in France, to a single inquiry. If you say that an upper chamber is necessary, where would you find the materials for its formation ? In France, with the debris of three aristocracies scattered prodi gally throughout the country, the parvenu peers of the Orleans dynasty, the nobles of the empire, and the ancient aristocrats, tracing back their pedigree to a period in some instances anterior to the rise of the BOURBONS—in France, we say, with the ruins of three aristocracies visible in all directions, the ques tion proved altogether incapable of a response indi cative of the possibility of such a fabrication. Consequently, such being the case in France, in France, we repeat emphatically, of all the countries of the earth, how much mbre obvious that the diffi culty should prove insurmountable in the new and scantily populated provinces of Australia! Happy would it ,be for our unfortunate colonists if our Legislature, upon such features of their new consti tution, would prove a trifle more, quick of apprehen sion. Were such the case the country would no longer be distressed by witnessin g the exhaustion of a whole evening in a debate as futile as it was irk some and protracted. It is impossible to estimate too highly the import ance of the motion brought forward by the H on . Gentleman the Member for East Surrey, on Thurs day evening. There are, perhaps, no subjects on which the feelings of the middle classes are more deeply concerned than on the two branches of Mr. LOCEE KING'S proposition. The points, too, are so intimately connected with each other that the second, at least, could not well be carried out without the adoption of the first also. It is only astonishing that, considering the altered circumstances of the nation, and that England is now eminently a commercial country, no regular or organized agitation has ever been made for the substitution of a more just and equitable system in place of that now in existence. It is to that circumstance alone that the rejection of the motion can be attributed. Mr. KING should not, however, be discouraged thereby. Few reforms of any real importance have been carried on their first introduction. They must be hrought prominently under the public consideration, and fully canvassed before a favourable result can be antici pated. If the Hon. Gentleman should persevere zea lously and energetically, we have no doubt that he will be rewarded by eventual success, and by the pleasing reflection that he will have materially contributed to the welfare and prosperity of his country, and to the happiness and independence of thousands of his fellow-subjects, who would otherwise have been left unprovided for through an absurd ad• herence to the principles of the feudal law. The first point alluded to by Mr. KING refers to the restrictions affecting the free transfer of real estates. The tedious delays and enormous expenses attending a close and accurate investigation into title, and the doubt and insecurity to which the purchaser is exposed, notwithstanding the adoption of every possible precaution, act as a virtual prohibition to the subdivision of landed property, or to the acquirement of small estates, and these delays and expenses are enormously increased at every additional dealing or transaction to which the property is subjected. It is true that, as stated by Sir EDWARD SUGDEN, " in forty-nine cases out of fifty, the present expense in regard to titles is superfluous," but still it is no less certainly incurred. No man will advance his money, either by way of purchase or on mortgage, until every matter connected with the property has been thoroughly investigated and considered by a con veyancer of his own selection, in whose soundness of judgment and competency he entertains full confidence. The most willing purchaser will insist on the clearest and most satisfactory evidence with re spect to every point in the vendor's title. Every fact, though undisputed, must be affirmatively proved, and that proof must be repeated do novo on every new transaction. The result is, that to use the language of the Society for Promoting the Amendment of the Law, in their admirable report on Registry, " the time is fast approaching when the expense of any dealing with real property will be so great as utterly to preclude the poorer classes from the acquisition of land. Practically speak ing, small properties cannot be dealt with ex• cept as matters of luxury ; the large proprietor is de barred from selling, and the poor man from buying, by the expense of the transfer. Retrospective titles, then, are not merely a legal inconvenience, but a great social evil." Mr. KING desires to grapple with this " great social evil," to establish what Mc. JAMES STEWART, the eminent conveyancer, happily termed " a free trade in land," and to enable every man to dispose of his savings in the purchase of real property, without the certainty of himself or his children being " fleeced," if it should be necessary to bring it again into the market. A greater boon could not be conferred on the owners of real estate than the carrying his proposal into full and practical operation. The Honourable Gentle man did not enter into any details ; he did not specify the means by which his object could be effectuated, he merely called upon his brother legislators to declare " that it is expedient now to adopt measures for diminishing the existing restric tions on the ffee transfer of landed pro perty;" and that almost self-evident propo sition they thought proper to reject by a majority of 58, the numbers being in favour of the motion 52, against it 110. We trust that the several consti tuencies will closely scan the division lists and see how their representatives have voted on the occason. The names of the supporters of the present system, of those who think the restrictions affecting the transfer of land beneficial, and that no measures should be adopted for their diminution, should be well known to the public. The second point referred to by the Honorable Gentleman must appeal directly to the heart of every parent. By the present law, if he should be suddenly or unexpectedly called away from this transitory scene, if he should die without any will being discovered, or if there should be any flaw or technical error in that important document, the eldest son would inherit all his real estates, while the younger children, who have equal claims on his consideration and affection, might remain totally unprovided for, in a state of the greatest poverty and destitution. His daughters, brought up in the enjoyment of every comfort and luxury, might be driven to earn their daily bread as governesses, or reduced to the hu miliating condition of becoming dependents upon r the charity of the " heir," or of other relatives. It is impossible to contemplate a situation so painful without the deepest regret, and yet such cases are of almost daily occurrence, and there is, perhaps, not a single person in the entire community who could not mention specific instances of such a character which have occurred within his or her own knowledge. Mr. KING, following in the footsteps of Mr. EWART, who fifteen years since brought the subject under the consideration of Par liament, desires to correct this anomaly, and to place real estate upon the same footing as personal property in cases of intestacy. This just and salutary principle was, however, construed into an attack upon .the law of primogeni ture, as if it was a revolutionary attempt to disturb the existing settlements of property, and to prevent a man from " doing as he wished; with his own," as a covert blow, directed against the territorial aristocracy. Never was there a greater mistake or a more erroneous interpretation of a perfectly simple and intelligible proposition. Mr. KING did not de sire in any degree to interfere with the full con trol which every man should exercise over ' his own property. If any man was so im bued with the absurd ambition of "founding a family," that he was willing to disregard the interests of his younger children that the ' elder might wallow in wealth, while the others were sunk in poverty, he might do so with impunity. All that was required was, that his wishes to that effect should be clearly and explicitly declared in due form or law. He might make any disposition or settlement he pleased by deed or will, and no impediment or ob stacle would be interposed to the perfect realisation of his fancy. But if, through any negligence or accident' his desires with respect to his real estate could not be known, then, and then only, could the resolu tion have any effect ; and we venture to say that the distribution which would take place under the new law would meet the wishes of ninety-nine per sem cut of a hundred who possessed the ordinary feelings of humanity, or who were imbued with the natural instincts of parents. Away, then, with the specious sophisms by which the resolution was op posed. Away with the ridiculous pretext that it was intended as a heavy blow and great discouragemen t to the territorial aristocracy, or to produce a social revolution, and a change in the depository of power in the country. The law arraigned is, as the Hon. Member for Montrose truly observed, " impolitic, unnatural, and disastrous in its effects," and as such it cannot long be sanctioned and tolerated by the British Parliament. CABINET COUNCIL (THIS DAY).—A Cabinet Council was held this afternoon, at two o'clock, at the Foreign office. There were present Lord John Russell, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Earl of Minto, the Earl of Carlisle, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl Grey, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Mr. Labouchere, Sir Francis T. Baring, Sir John Cam Hobhouse, and Mr. Fox Maule. The Lord Chancellor was absent through indisposition. The Ministers will dine this evening with the East India Directors, at the grand banquet to be given to Lord Gough. CORN, CURRENCY, CONSOLS, AND TRADE.—The fluctuations in these, between the years 1790 and 1839, are cleverly and compactly indicated in a "fly sheet," just published, by Mr. Wyld, of Charing cross. The sketch must prove inestimable to every mercantile man in the United Kingdom. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—The season of French c Ac o hu m ab i re c tro o ,ns p n e a r si a athm w ea a n s hse b r r do o ei u n g eia. h t cA t yo o ubr a roini c ln l i o ae s n e wt ah l s a o s up t z e r v fr e oe n rwm i a n g, when e ol n ,ph t e e en r sfi p rrf first enterprise yp tif eue t d h ee e vwi l i c e : 88:need. general dramatic Easter dvrtte rm iraat in t cd h p e ee rt t f h oß e r er a ma dd t k e' r a d e ne w ,c t r i e h i t . e sn he : which Samson will sustain the chief character. The other principal artists engaged are Mdlle. Denain Mdllc. Nathalie, M. R egn i er , and M. Lafont. . The re pertoireincludes some very attra c ti ve pieces; amongst which, the more prominent will be Scribe's c omedy La Cameraderie. Rachel appears on the lat of July. SACRED HARMONIC SO CIETY.—Last even i ng t h e per f orma nce of sacred music by this society, at Exeter !hill was must successful, the hall being crowded to ex cess. The programme exhibite d . more variety than Haydn's " Third Service," Mendels .e.traaisceingJebovah " (Lauda Sion), and Spohr's The solo performers were—Mips HrDu:si: Philips.labl "Las t l s' ' A il ; Bliss Bir c h, B m m i e r i r c i . t h . C , " os Missta con ducted. Ilay es Mr.. Lockey, and Mr. THE AGAPEMONITES.—It is said that there is a general split amongst the deluded sect at their abode mar Bridgewater. Many, seeing their folly, and dis gusted with their course of life, have int ima ted their in tention of returning to :heir homes and families,— Wor cester Chronicle. LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING-, THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. Although the Assembly has consented to take into consideration the demand of urgency made by the Minister of the Interior for his repressive Bills, it is not by any means certain that he will be enabled to carry them. It is clear that there is a schism in the camp ot . the majori,y;:M. LAROCIIEJACQUELIN spoke against the Ministerial measures on Thursday, and should the section of the 'Whites of which he is leader make common cause with the Reds, as they did on the question of imposing a stamp duty on transfers of stock, they will most assuredly again beat the Thiers- Mole-Berryer coalition, of which the Ministers are the tools. The journals have all declared, with wonderful unanimity, against the law on the press, and notwith standing the statement of the Cowrrier Francais, that the editors of the principal journals of the Moderate press had had an interview with the Minister of the interior, it would appear they were never consulted. That statement, and the official contradiction of it, are so curious that we give them : The Courrier Francais says : " The editors of the principal journals of the moderate press had yesterday a corlerence with the Minister of the Interior on the Bill which was to be presented on the press The Minister of the Interior, in the absence of the Minister of Justice, informed them of the principal provisions of the Bill. The gentlemen of the moderate press observed to the Minister that the Bill wculd pro duce an affect altogether opposed to the desire of the dc finders of order, and various arguments were adduced in support of that affirmation. The Minister expressed his regret that these observations had not been pre sented before it had been drawn up in council. It was replied to the Minister that the press bad not considered it right, to interfere before being consulted, and that it had w aited to the very last moment to be applied to The committee of the moderate press who were present. were, M. Berate (Debate). M. V eron (Constitutionnel), M. LINA (Union), M. Forcade (Patrie), M. de Valetta (AssembMe LVationale), Latour Dumoulitt (Courrier Francais.) The journals of the moderate press, in their meeting in the morning had declared unanimcusly that they could not support a measure on the press opposed to the object which the moderate press desired to attain. The result of this deliberation was stated to the Mi nister. It is to be hoped that the Bill will be submitted to a new examination." _ _ Surely M. LATOUR DumouLnr, who it was said re presented the Courrier Francais at that interview, must know whether or not any such interview took place, and whether or not what is stated by his own journal vs having passed at that interview is correct, yet the fact is officially denied by the minister in a "communication" contradicting of the comments made by the National on the statement which appeared in the Courrier Francais. The following is the "com municated" note which appears in the Patrie and the Illonitcur du Soir:— •• The National cf this day slates that the Minister of the Interior convoked yesterday the editors of the prin cipal journals of the moderate press to communicate to them his new Bill on the press. The National then en ters into a long comment upon what it calls this truly polite attention. The statement cf the National is com pletely incorrect. It is not true that the Minister or any other member of the cabinet convoked the editors of the journals or made any communication to them. The truth is as follows :—Yesterday at the commencement of the sitting the Minister of the Interior was informed that some members of the moderate press of Paris were desirous of speaking to the Minister of Justice, or in his absence with the Minister of the Interior. The Minister of Justice being absent, the Minister of the Interior went to the editors who were desirous of speaking to him. Ile met these gentlemen in one of the lobbies of the assembly, where a sort of conversation took place. The Minister listened to the observations which were presented to him, and promised to transmit them to his colleagues, which he did immediately. The laws which were presented to-day would have been presented yester day, if the entire sitting had not been taken up with the discussion of the Stamp Bill." The Constitutionßel, the Ministerial organ par excellence, has merely the following relative to the proposed law on the press : " Some journals pretend that the Government con sulted the different organs of moderate opinion before it prepared the new law upon the press. The story is com pletely inexact. Several proprietors or editors of news papers went y esterday to the Chamber to make some observations concerning the new measures ; but the Minister to whom they addressed themselves replied it was too late, as the Council had already decided. Thus was not only the moderate press not heard—it was net even consulted." Not one word in defame of the measure does the Ministerial journal venture to offer. The Journal des Dtbats declares, that all chiefs of parties equally dislike the press, and would, if they could, fetter it ; and with regard to the proposed measure, it adds— " We believe that the measure proposed will he more than inefficacious, and that it will produce the very contrary effect to that intended by Government." The National describes the introduction of these measures as the commencement of a solemn duel. " On the one side is Paris—Paris, the capital of the revolu tion Paris, brain and the heart of France, Paris, • I the the sanctuary of the genius of progress, Paris, the city of the States General of 1789, of the Convention, the city which, by a mere gesture, sent fourteen armies to victory on the frontiers, and at the same time crushed in the interior the rebellion of the partisans of the past—Paris, which triumphed over the restora tion and over the monarchy of July ; on the other side is the chief of the executive power, M. Louts BONAPARTE, not alone, but worse than lone, for he is not strengthened but weakened by the assistance of those men of fatality and of misfortune, who have been successively the ruin of every cause in which they have been engaged, who brought about the fall both of legitimate and of quasi-legitimate royalty." The article then goes on to describe M. LOUIS BONA PARTE as _ "Engaging his responsibility in a crusade against the press and the ;right of meeting—arming him self with the sophisms of M. Polignac and M. Guizot, and meeting for adversary a people firmly resolved not to quit the ground of the law, or to ask for other vie be afforded by the consti ttourtiioesn.,t,han such as may " The street is calm," says the National in another part of the same article, the "feelings are calm, the press is calm. Who then is creating an agitation ? The executive power, and no one but the executive power. Instructive contrast, which will not escape the clear-sighted observation of the country, and which enables us to judge and to condemn the means by the end, and the end by the means." Having described the proceedings in the Assembly, the National terminates : " Such has been the first skirmish. But be it under stood that the struggle begun to-day will not termi nate with the vote for the proposed laws, supposing the assembly to vote them. This struggle will be prc longed without intermission, inexorable, and implacable to 1852. A challenge is thrown down to universal suffrage which universal suffrage will take up in due time." The journals of all shades, even the Bonapartist Dix Decembre, condemn the ministerial measure which the Univers pronounces will be inefficacious. The Commission formed to take into consideration the measures to be adopted in the interest of French manufactures, with regard to the Exhibition to take place in England in 1851, held its first sitting two days ago, when the Minister of Commerce made known the preparatory measures adopted by the Royal Commission of England. He stated that the Ministers Plenipotentiary of France, Prussia, Belgium, and the United States, had been called on to form part of that Commission, and French interests would conse• quently have a vigilant and enlightened organ in it. Several important measures as to the in structions to be given to the Chambers of Commerce, and to the Consultative Chambers of Arts and Menu factures, were proposed by the Minister, and immediately discussed and decided on. The topogra phical plan, and the conditions of the competition for the building destined for the Exhibition, which was opened to the architects of all countries, is to be sent F to re t n h ch eCahreahmibteeertsof who my wish to compet e may a Commerce of Paris, wh ere any , in spect it. The General Committee was afterwards di vided into six special committees, as follows :—Com mittee of Administrative Affairs and Correspondence ; on Arts connected with Agriculture; on Mechanical Arts and Philosophical Instruments; on Chemical and Metallurgical Arts; on Wove C'toods, and on the Fine Arts. At a subsequent meeting, the following ge o n n t i l m em it e te n es we r r ep were chosen :—M. CHAS. Durm, M. as Presidents of the above Committees HERICHARD DE THUM - , M. COMBES, M. LEGENTIL, and M. FONTAINE. A letter from B . rest of the 18th inst. announces that the steam -corvette Espadan bad sailed from that port for Senegal. • A letter from Toulon of the 18th inst. states that the steam-frigate Mogador had sailed thence with ammunition and provisions for the French fleet at Naples. The Valmey three-decker and the ship-of the-line Ocean had received orders to proceed to rein force the fleet under the command of Admiral PARSE. , VAL DESCHENES. The Municipal Council of Dieppe has appointed a committee to organise a packet service between Dieppe and a port in England. PARIS BOURSE, MARCH 22: Latest Prices—Five per Cents. 90f. 85c.; Three per Cents. 56F.; Bank Actions, 2,212 f. 50c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON MARCH 22. Boulogne and Amiens, 61A—Namur and Liege, 6t / — Northern of France, 12%—Paris and Rouen, 20W. MARCH 23, 1850, Eastern Counties P: as t Lancashire ... eklinburgh and Glasgow Great Northern 22 Do. %B 6 per Cent....... 7% 5 Great Western ......100 Do. New 17/ .. Lancashire and Yorkshire —.IOO Ditto, ditto Ditt 0. Thirds Do., New Guar. 6 per cent. 10 Leeds and Bradford 5'J .. ... 98 3 4 to London ea North Western...../00 IO S IA ...... to Do. Fifths London and S. We5tern.......100 ..... 63 Midland— ... .... ........ —.Wu Ditto, 50/. Shares ..... ...... 80 ...... 4 - 3Z ..-... to North Staffordshire— Reading, Guildfd., & Reigate 15 south _Eastern Ditto, No. 2. Ditto, No. 3. Ditto, Registered No. 4.... 10 York, Newcastle, and Berwick 25 ... 13% x.d... to Do. G. N. E. Pur. or Pref. 14 ferlt cud North Midland .. 50 Ditto. Pretereaca FOREIGN RAILWAYS Boulogne and Amiens 2O ... 6% to Namur and Liege Northern of France l6 ..... 12% . to lII' Cobro Copper Unitod hloxicau ...... ~E3. COURSE OF Amsterdam 12 3% • Ditto, at sight • ... 12 2 Rotterdam • 12 4 Antwerp...,,,,,, 25 25 80 Hamburgh .... • • ALB . 13 13% Altona ...... .......... Paris, 3 days'sight • 25 57% Ditte, 3 months .... 25 77% Marseilles .. .......... 25 80 . 25 77% Frankfort on Maine.... 121% Petersburgh, Sil. Rble.. 37% 40 231 to Vienna, effec. ilo • • 12 0 Tricate, ditto.... 12 0 Niadrid 49% Cadiz 49 F s Barcelona • • • • ...... • • 5evi11e.......... SPAIN. -- Madrid journals of the 17th have been received. The Gaceta publishes a royal decree, appointing a committee, composed of men specially versed in com mercial affairs, to prepare a modification in the customs tariff. It is to be presided by the Minister of Financf., and the Duke of VERAGUAS is to act as Vice-President, and ill. BARZAISUELLANA a .-)tcrt tary. The Bolsa was closed. PORTUGAL. Advices have been received from Lisbon to the 11th. The country was tranquil. The Count DE THOMAIL was suffering from indisposition. The debate on the law for gagging the press commenced on the 11th in the Cortes. GERMAN Y. OPENING OP TUE GERMAN PARLIAMENT.--A telegraphic dispatch, from Erfurt, of the afternoon of the 20th inst., announces the opening of the Ger man Parliament. The first sitting took place in the Government house. The members of the Adminis trative Council took their seats at half-past 2 P.M. Baron RADOWITZ, who opened the proceedings by commission, addressed the Assembly in a speech, in which he gave them an historical account a the events which preceded and led to the German Parlia ment. He dwelt on the duty which the united Go vernments had of granting a constitution. The pre sumption that all the Governments would accede to the League had turned out to be unfounded. Holstein and Lauenburg (Baron RADOWITZ said) are prevented by the Danish war. Hanover and Saxony differ in their views from the united Governments. The former has declared its intention to secede from the the League. An impeachment has been brought forward against Hanover as well as Saxony. The united Governments must not allow themselves to be deterred by obstacles. The Commissioner then adverted to the Bills which the Government intended to submit to the Parliament —such as the charter of the constitution and the memorial, the electionary law, and the additional act. Baron RanowiTz exhorted the House to subject these Bills to a strict and patient examination, and to ad vance the alterations on which they might agree to the notice of the Administrative Council. He further asked for powers for the Presidency (Vorstand) of the Empire to enter into negotiations on the subject of the immunities which had been granted to the Hanse towns. After informing the Parliament of the ap pointment of the other Commissioners, Baron RADO WITZ concluded his address by declaring, in the name of the united Governments, that the Parliament was opened, whereupon the members withdrew to consti tute their Houses. The Austrian Lloyds announces that the coronation of the EMPEROR will take place during the course of the summer. GREECE. Letters from Athens, of the Bth, state that Baron GROS had recommended King Orno to admit the validity of the English claims for compensation, leav ing the amount open for subsequent discussion, and that the Greek Government appeared disposed to ac cede to his recommendation. ITALY. Letters from Rome of the 12th state that General BARAGUAY D'HILLIERS has issued an order of the day commanding all the officers and soldiers who have been decorated by the POPE to wear taeir decorations. The Gazette of Genoa announces that during the trial of the accused of the 15th of May at Naples the government prosecutor had demanded that sentence of death should be pronounced against the ex-depu ties Pocno and SETTEMBRINI, who have been in pri son for many months. THE BRITISH MtDITERRANEAN FLEET. It was reported at Trieste on the 18th, that one half of the British fleet had sailed for the Darda nelles, the other half remaining at Salamis. LLOYD'S stiIPPINU—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, MARCH 23.—There was a heavy fall of rain during the night, with snow this morning.—Wind at noon N.W., moderate breeze and cloudy. CLYDE, MARCH 20.—Calm.—S1d. Magellan, Singa pore; Ocean, Boston, United States. LERWICK, MARCH 19.—Wind N.—Sld. Rufus, and St. George, Greenland. A quantity of casks and some staves and flour in barrels and sacks have come on shore; a piece of wreck is marked "Jane, of Montreal." DEAL, MARCH 22.—Wind N.W.W.—SId. Maranham, Philadelphia. Arrd. Maria and Louise, Smith, Man zanilla de Cuba. Arrd. from the River, Diana, San Francisco; Canada, and Vivid, Montreal. Arrd. from the River and Sld. City of Hamilton, Montreal. The Acorn, London to Guernsey, struck on the inner part of the Brake-sand, and has anchored in the Downs. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 22.—Wind N. W.—Arrd. Gene 'inane, Pernambuco; Mary, M`Lean ' Mobile. Sid. Can dace, S.. John's, Newfoundland and Valparaiso. STORNAWAY, MARCH 16.—The Lawrence O'Connor, Do) le, which sank on Skennoe Rock, 10th inst., has been towed into a creek near the Isle of Glass lighthouse, with hull and spars very much damaged. PENZANCE, •MARCH E.—Arrd. Earl of Devon, James, Rio Grande. BRISTOL, MARCH 22.—Wind W.N.W., fresh.—Sld. Feliza, Trinidad. WATERFORD, MARCH 21.—Wind N.N.F. to S.S.W. —Arrd. Gasper, Cobglan, Cominba. BELFAST, MARCH 21.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. Sir W. Molesworth, Lawrence, New York. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 22.—Wind variable,—Sld. Mid Lothian, Adelaide, South Australia. FALMOUTH, MARCH 22.—Wind variable and light.— Arrd. Canopus, Buschman, Laguna, for Hamburgh; Matrons, Jargensen, Jacmel. MONEY halo ut.) 1,11.1E11.c:1AL. NEW.. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 5,000 bales. The market was dull and heavy.—Railway Shares remain without alteration. The return made by the Bank of England for the week to the 16th inst. is favourable in every respect. With an increase of assets there has been an extension of business, and the Government balance continues steadily to rise. The comparison with the previous week is as follows: Notes Issued ... ... 30,486,570 Increase 139,190 Rest ... 3,597,959 Increase 2,328 Public Deposits ... ... 8,542,182 Increase ... ... 381,977 Other Deposits ... 10,260,861 Increase ... 75,861 Seven Day and other Bills ... 1,051,558 Decrease . . 43,546 Government Securities 14,418,854 Decrease ... 878 Other Securities ... 11,322,296 Increase 458,499 Notes ... 11,477,695 Decrease 41,740 Bullion ... 17,273,285 Increase ... ... 139,929 Active Circulation 19,008,875 Increase ... ... 180,930 The negotiation of Bills of Exchange upon the prin cipal continental cities was effected yesterday, on the following terms for 90 days paper:—Paris, 25.70 to 77k; Antwerp, 25.75 to 80; Amsterdam, 12.3 to 31; Ham burgh, 13.13 to 131; Frankfort, 1214; and Trieste, 11.52 to 55. The following bas come to hand by the Overland Nail, and is interesting in the present state of the Coffee market:— Colombo, Feb. 15, 1850. Per Spectator, cleared Jan. 17, Coffee. 1850, for Liverpool Gilmore, London, Jan. 18 ... Kirkman Finlay, London, Jan. 22 383 „ Lydia, Liverpool, Jan. 30 248 „ 4,490 „ Abyssinia, London, Feb 6 Conda de is Barbanois, for Bor- deaux ' Feb. 8 l9 brls 2,391 „ City of London, London, Feb. 9 265 cks 2,735 „ Madeira, London, Feb. 14 Beet, London, Feb. 14 British Tar, London, Feb. 1 l9O „ 2,902 „ 3,757 cks 24,188 bgs The exports of the precious metals from London dur ing the week to Thursday last, were about 70,000 ounces of silver, of which 4,975 were sent to Mogadore, and the rest to Rotterdam, and 40 ounces of gold to Mogadore. The accounts from the manufacturing districts repre sent trade as being dull, but the Indian advices may give a little more animation. Sydney advices of Dec. 2 report unfavourably of the market for textile goods. The Funds have been extremely quiet, but rather tending upwards. Consuls 95i for Transfer, and 951 it for Account. The premium on Exchequer-bills is 625. to 65e., and apparently on the advance. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active Bonds realise 161; Portuguese Four per Cents., 331; and Brazilian, 89. Mexican Stock has been at 291 -a. Peruvian De ferred are 281 to I; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. realise 55. Danish Scrip is 2 3 1 1 premium; and Russian, 14- premium. Railway Shares have been dull, but generally maintain previous rate:, and in a few instances are better. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) 3 per Cont. Consols Anne Consols for Account 9 5%%4% exchequer Bills. J LAd. 2d. March. June. 1,060/. 5001 62 65 p Small 62 65 p PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK, Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent B9 Ditto, New, 1843 Danish 80nd5.1825, 3 per Cent 63 Ditto, 5 per Cent Ditto, Scrip Grenada, 1% per Cent. Mexican 80n515,1846,5 per Cent., Coupons Ditto Ex Jan. Coupons Peruvian Bonds, 4 per Cent Ditto for the Account . . 7 2 1,E Ditto Deferred Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent B5 85% lj Ditto 4 per Cent. Russian Bonds. 1822,5 per Cent — Ditto Scrip 1 P Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto for the Account ••• 16 % Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK RAILWAYS. PAID. PEA Caledonian Do., New 101. PrPference 10... 6 1 4% .. ro - bitty, Preier4nee - Elst Anglia, 25/. L. & E., aad L. & D. EXCHANGE. Gibraltar • • • • • • • • .. • • •• Legh0rn........ • • • 30 65 Genoa .. •• • . 26 5 .. • ....• Venice........ .. • • .... Naples 40% ealermo, peroz ........ 122 Messina .. 122% Lisbon.... • • .. 53 % Oporto.. • .. • • 53% Rio Janeiro • • ...... • • Buenos Ayres.. New York, 21 da:rs'alght Philadelphia .......... !MOMS OF W.TLLION, PER CZ Foreign Gold in k.r.rs.. £3 17 i Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 Spanish Doubloo. .. 0 0 0 New Dollars ...... G 4 10 yf, Silver 1n bars .. .... • • 0 4 11% MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) GOV7a7Srr._•GBUDEZSI The supplies of vegetables, tii:day,ere small, and a steady Eusiness was transacted, at higher rates. In fruit, very little doing. English Fruit—Pine Apples, lOs to 14s; Hot-house Grapes, 12s to 15a per lb; Pears, 20s to 30s; Eating Apples, 5s to 6s per half sieve; Apples for cooking, 2s to 4s 6d per bushel; Fil berts, 708 to 75s per 100:bs. Foreign Fruit—Black Hatnburgh Grapes (forced) 3s 6d to ss; Portugal ditto, 9d to is per lb; Spanish Nuts, 4s to ss; Brazil ditto, 3s to 4s ; Barcelona ditto, 5s to 6s; Almonds, 5s to 6s; and Spanish Chesnuts, 3s to 3s 6d per peck; Lemons, 5s to 105 ; and Oranges, 3s to 105 per 100 ; Spanish Onions, 14s to 20s Od per box. Vegetables— Cape Brocoli, 6s to 8s per dozen bundles; Turnips, is 3d to is 6d; Carrots, 2s 6d to 4s; Greens, Is 9d to 2s; Leeks, is to is 6d; Parsley, is 6d to 2s Od; and Sage, 2s 64 to 3s per dozen bunches ; Horse radish, 2s to 3s per bundle; Onions. 3s Od to 3s 6d per bushel; Savoy Cabbages, 6d to 8d; Red ditto, 2s Od to 3s Od; Red Beet, Is to Is 6d; and Parsnips. 4d to 6d per dozen; Endive, is 3d to is 64 per score; Mushrooms, 9d to is per pottle; Brussels Sprouts, 6d to Is Od; Spinach, Is Od to is 6d; Jerusalem Artichokes, is to is 6d; and Common Salad, is 3d to is 64 per half-sieve; Small Salad, 2s Od to 2s 64 per dozen punnets; Shallots, 3d to 4d per lb; Potatoes, 75s to 1003 per ton; ditto, 3s Od to 4s Od per bushel; Sea Kail, is 6d to is 9d per punnet; Asparagus, 5s to 7s per 100; Rhubarb, 4s to 6s per dozen bundles; Cornwall White Brocoli, Is 3d to Ili per dozen heads; Celery, 9d to is per bundle ; Cucumbers, 5s to 75 Gd per brace; Turnip Grcans, 6d to 9d per bushel; French Beans. 3s 6d to 5s per 100; Radishes, is per punnet; early York Cabbages, is to Is Gd per dozen. NZIATGATE AND LEADENEALL. Turkeys, 4s Od to 9fi Od; Geese, 4s to 6s 6d; Ducks, 2s to 3s Od; Tame Rabbits, Is 4d to is 9d; Wild dit:o, 8d to la 2d; Pigeons, 6d to 8d; Roasting Pigs, 4s to is each; Surrey Fowls, 7s to 9s; ditto Chickens, 4s to.6s; Barn-door Fowls, 3s to 6s; Capons, 4s to 7s per couple; Fresh Butter, 8d to is 2d per lb.; English Eggs, is to 8s Od; French, 6s to 7s 3d per hundred; flares, 2s to 3s Od each; Wild Duck', Is 6d to 2s 3d per couple. Z. 7 ZIWP onir. Beef, from 2s 6d to 3s 4d ; Aluttoo, 2s 10d to 3s 6d; Lamb, 5s 2d to 6s; Veal, 35 2d to 33 10d; and Pork, 35 5d to 4s per Blbs. _ ViTEXTECEAPEZ. Beef from 2s 4d to 3s 2d ; Mutton, 23 Sd to 3s 6d; Lamb, 4s 10d to 5s 10d; Veal, 3s to 3s 10d; and Pork, 2s 10d to 43 per 81be. • BILLXNGSGATE. Turbots, 4s to 14s ; Brill, 2s to 8s ; Cod Fhb, Is 3d to 6s; Whitingr, 4d to 6d; Lobsters, 10d to 2s 64 each; Soles, 6d to 2s 6d per pair; Eels, 4d to 13 per lb.; Haddocks,4ci to 8d each; Fresh Herrings, is to is 2d per dozen; Oysters, 10s to 42s per bushel ; Flounders, 6d to is; Smelts, is to Is 4d; and Bloaters, 10c1 to is per dozen; Mackerel, 3d to 5d each; and Salmon, 13 4d to is 9d per lb. 111M.13.3121. The prices of Wheaten Bread in the Metropolis are from 6d to 7d; of household ditto, 4d to sid per 41b loaf. HIDE MARKET. Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, lid to lid; ditto, 641 b to 721 b, lid to lid; ditto, 721 b to 801 b, 2d to 2id; ditto; 801 b to 881 b, 2id to 24d; ditto, 881 b to 961 b, 3d to 34d; ditto, 961 b to 1041 b, 3id to 3id; ditto, 1041 b to 1121 b, 34d to 4d. Calf Skins, light 2s 3d to 3s Od; ditto full 53 Od to 5s 6d; Horn Hides, 6s to 6s 6d; Polled Sheep, 5s 8d to 7s 3d ; Kents and Half-breds, 4s 4el to 5s 4d; Downs, 4s 3d to 4s 10d; Sheerlings, 6d to 7d. 1145.1 r ZYZALIMILZMEs. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 21 10s to 31125; Clover ditto, 31 Os to 41 12s ; and Straw, it is to 11 9s per loa.A. Trade dull, at barely stationary prices. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Bay, 21 1O: to 31 14s; Clover ditto, 3/ Os to 4/ 8s; and Straw, It 2s to II lOs per load. A full average supply, and a heavy demand. WIIITECHAPEL. Meadow Hay, 21 8s to 31 12 ; Clover ditto, 31 Os to 4/ 12s; and Straw, 11 is to I/ 86 per load. Supply good, and trade dull. BOW-STREET. 7 -(THIS DAY.) A poorly-clad woman, with a child in her arms, was charged with begging in the streets. Police-constable 88 F stated that he was on duty in Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, last night, between six and seven o'clock, when he saw the prisoner accost several gentlemen, two of whom gave her money. A third party, to whom she spoke, turned her away roughly, and complained to witness.of her conduct. H e accordingly took her into custody, as an impostor, and when he reached the station he found that she had been there some three or four minutes before, on a charge of stealing a pocket handkerchief from a lady, near Charing cross. The theft, however, could not be clearly proved, and she was then fore liberated. The prisoner told the inspector on duty that she was innocent of the theft, but admitted the charge of begging, as the wants of her children forced her to do that or starve. Mr. JARDINE asked her what she had to say in answer to the charge. The prisoner replied, that having been unsuccessful in procuring employment during the last week, she bad no alternative but to seek a living for her children, of whom she had two besides the one in her arms, in the streets. Mr. JARDINE said that could not ba allowed; there were workhouses open for the reception of the suffering poor, and begging in the streets, which had latterly be come quite a nuisance, must be put a stop to. He had reason to believe that the prisoner was a professed men dicant, and he should commit her to the House of Cor rection for 21 days. The prisoner, who had entreated the magistrate to let her go for this once, seemed perfectly astounded at the sentence, and became very violent in her manner, de manding in a passionate manner to know what would become of her children while she was in prison. Mr. JARDINE said they would be taken care of. The prisoner declared that she would not leave the dock until she was satisfied that her children would not be allowed to die of starvation, when Mr. JARDINE again told her that they would be pro vided for in the workhouse. The prisoner still protested that her children must starve in her absence, and clinging to the side of the dock, she vowed she would not have it until her chil dren had been sent for. The officers of the court were therefore compelled to remove her by force. HOTEL AND TAVERNKEEPERS'PROVIDENT INSTI TUTION.--The anniversary of this excellent institutio n was held at the London Coffee-house, Ludgate-hill, last evening, when upwards of seventy gentlemen sat d own is to o an excellent banquet. The object, of the soc i e ty afford permanent assistance to hotel and taverns_ to pers, proprietors of club-houses, confectionary ebtltb,li cooks, and waiters, being members, and . ther . r widows, and temporary assistance of members, i t i h ot e s ir . w a id l o te w ß s r a g r h id t children, when in necessitous cireumsta Hen. the Earl of Yarborough pre:ided ontbesrl. oc cas i o n, and E. Brewster, Esq., o ffi ciated as vice- t cirro Th e subscriptions of the evening amounted o vice-c ha i rman. 2601. ROYAL CALEDONIAN ASYLUM• T in he qu arterly S M tor o m nt y - General Court of this asylum was held the Scottish r H o a se ll, p F re l s e i e d l e - d st . meeting confirmed th e pro positionsr e e i t ‘ , h o e n proceedings Thursday . were The o tDuke very r o y f the by the directors. Ther e was character, but ultimately made to them no statement of the accounts of the charity laid before the meeting. BURKI'S PEERAGE AND BARONETAGF. FOR 1850. We are requested to state that, Mr. Colburn has this day published the new edition of "Burhe's Peerage and for 1850, corrected throu g h ou t to the time,pre sßeanrtone tae " from the personal c ommun i cat i ons of the ty, ill on e volume, r o y a l B vo., with 1,500 g gs of arms,&c., price 385., bound, which can engravings now be had of all booksellers. Also, just published "Burke's History of the Landed Gentry" for 1850, cor rected to the present time, and comprising particulars of 100,000 persons, forming a companion to the Peerage, complete in two volumes, price 21. 25., b.nrid. WRECK OF A MAIL-BOAT AND LOSS OF LIFE.— The cutter Experiment, trading and carrying the mail between Guernsey and Alderney, was wrecked on some rocks about two miles from the eastern coast of Guernsey last Saturday night. The cutter left Guernsey at three P.m. on that day for Alderney. She bad a full cargo, consisting of flour, drapery, salt, and clothing for the de tachment of the 16th regimect, quartered at Alderney. Besides the crew, there were twenty-seven passengers. The ves'el neared Alderney at, eight o'clock. hut tl-c ;t1 winie returning, the cutter struck on a rock at eleven o'clock on Saturday night. The darkness of the night, the violence of the wind, ;bud the cries of distress (from the passengers, were dreadful. The first boat that wai launched was swamped, and the captain and five men were i!rowneo. The tide ebbing, all on board got on a rock, which is covered at hi;4ll water. They there burnt their clothes to make si;.znals, but Lo assistance could get near them. As the tide rose, they were obliged to leave the reek aid get on to the rigging of the wreck. Four of Orin, while clinging to the rigging, were paralysed by ate cold, and, rei%xing their hold, perished. The sur vivors were rescued at six o'clock on Sunday morning, nt arly dead from hunger and exhaustion. Those who perished were Peter Le Cock, commander of the cutter El , zaleth Baker, of Sark; Avard, a French catch dealer; John Sark, Peter Buckley, and John Scarier. of K-rry, Ircl3cd; Mrs. Harris, and her daughter, aged six years, and a man, name unknown; total, nine. The mall bsg was washe,i ashore. OLDSWINFORD LAND SOCIETY.—This society has now purchased lsnd sufficient to allot shares to all the members. The last piece of land was purchased by M. S. Hipkins, who has kindly consented to receive the pur cnisse money by instalments convenient to the scelety, and was taken possession of on the 11th inst., when the remaining shares were allotted.— Worcestershire Chronicle. TUE SNUFF-TAXIING STATUE.—An English officer in Venice, walking one day from the Doge's Palace, thought he observed one of the figures on the clock to► er of St. Mark's stoop down and take up something! He looked again, and he positively saw the figure take a pinch of snuff ! The officer confessed he wai apprehen sive be was losing his senses, or that his vision was de r,nged ; when an old woman, observing his consterna tion, soon explained the seeming miracle, by telling him that one of the figures that struck the hour being out of repair, her nephew, Jacopo, was engaged as a substitute till the machinery wis pnt in order. TRAVELLnG IN 1671.—1 n a debate in the House of Commons in the reign of Charles 11., relative to Put ney-kidge, Sir Henry Herbert spoke against such inno vating projects, and said, 'lf a man were to come to the bar. end tell us that he proposed to convey us regui ,rly to Edinburgh in coaches in seven days, and to bring us back in seven days more, should we not vote him to Bed lam Or if another told us that he would sail to the East Indies in tix month.;, should we not punish him for playing on our credulity?" Poor Sir Henry !--what would his vexed shade feel were it in a coupd, expressing in ten hours to Edinburgh, or careering by the Indian mail from the Ganges to the Thames within a mouth! — Inverness Courier. EMBARKATION or Tnoors.—There embarked yes terday on board of the ship China, bound for Madras, 203 urtillerymen, six sappers, and 13 women and chil dt belonging to the Honourable East India Com pany's service. The whole of the troops stationed at the depot at Warley, Essex. amounting to about 800, were inspected by the Court of Directors on Saturday last, and were addressed by the chairman, Sir Archi bald Galloway, who congratulated the officers, non-com missioned officers, and privates on their efficient, cleanly, and soldierlike appearance, and recommended hi the strongest terms abstinence from intoxicating liquors, which had, he said, killed more men than the war had. After inspecting the whole establishment the directors retired to the White Hart Inn, Brentwood, where a splendid collation was prepared for them. TERRIBLE ACCLDENT.-1 melancholy occurrence took place on Friday morning in the Greyhound-yard, Friar gate, Derby, which has caused a very painful sensation, There is a row of cot:ages on either side of the Greyhound yard, which is very narrow; in one of these miserable abodes a family of the name of Dakin have been residing. The husband, we understand, is employed at Breath:all, and his wife works in the Bold lane mill. On Friday morning she went to her occupa tion, It aving a girl seven years of age in charge of two other children, a girl about 12 month., and a boy about three years old. In order, as she stated, to prevent the neighbours' children beating her own, as they were ac customed to do, she locked them in the house. Between ten and eleven o'clock a man, who was employed re pairing the roof of the Greyhound public-house, ob served smoke issuing- from underneath the door, which he immediately burst open, and a most horrible sight presented itself. The house was full of smoke, and two children, the eldest and the youngest, were found literally b ur nt t o a c i n d er . Th e little boy was found sitting upon a chair in a corner. where he seemed to have gone for protection, with his hands be fore his face, in a state of suffocation. He was imme diately carried out and saved. From the position of the elder girl's arms. it is conjectured that she was nursing the youngest. From the statement made by the little fellow, who has been literally snatched from the jaws of death, it appears that the elder girl was near the fire, and that her clothes ignited, and she was instantly in blaze. She appears to have rushed to the window to make her escape, but did not succeed; and she and the infant seem ti have fallen into the cradle, which was un derneath the window, and which was much burnt. The house was in a filthy, miserable state, and contained very little furniture. On the mother arriving sLe laved against the neighbour3, accusing them of being the cause of her children's death, by rendering it necessary to lock them up out of their reach. The remains of the poor children presented a horrible appearance. Mr. Greaves, surgeon, was called in, and paid every atten tion to the little boy, who would have been dead in ts few minutes had not the discovery been made when it was. What is singu'ar is, that the neighbours declare they did not hear the children scream.—Derby Mercury. ELECTION OF COMMON SEIMEANT..--On Thurn day a Court of Common Council was held for the Fur pose of electing a Common Sergeant for the City cf London, in the room of the late Mr. Sergeant Mirehouse, when Mr. Bullock, the present Judge of the Sheriffs' and Small Debts Court, and Commissioner e f the Central Criminal Court, was unanimously elected to the vacant office. A resolution was then passed, that Mr. Bullock be requested to continue the offices he now holds until a successor or successors be appointed. It was then resolved that it be referred to the Officers and Clerks Committee to inquire int') the nature and duties of the several offices of Judge of the Sheriffs' Court and Commissioner of the Central Criminal Court, and Judge ef the Small Debts Court. and to report thereon to this Court. The• Court then adjourned. LIE FIRE AT WACKERBRATR'S SUGAR FACTORY• —Yesterday morning, about two (,'clock, another out break occurred on these premises, the smouldering fire amongst the ruins having burned into one of the sugar huses which were preserved on the previous day. A considerable time elapsed before the firemen succeeded in suppressing the flames, and not until much damage was done. The origin of the first outbreak continues in a state of mystery. As yet the firm have been unable to ascertain the exact amount of property destrojed ; it is, however, upwards of 50,000/. FIRE AT liomEßroN.—Yesterday morning a fire, of a very destructive character, broke out i❑ the premises belonging to Mr. J. J. It'lntosh, the patent ink manu facturer, situate in Church-road. Lower Homerton, near four miles from town, and before the London engines reached the scene the entire building was burned down. The fire was occasioned by the boiling over of a pot of oil. INCENDIARY FIRE IN KENT.—Yesterday (Friday) nannirg, soon after eight o'clock, a fire took place in the village of Seuthfieet, Kent, at Scodbury Farm, in the occupation of Mr. F. Andrews, on the estate of Sir .bert Price, Barr., M.P. for Hereord, which unfortu nately destroyed all the corn-stacks, barns, and other buildings, the dwelling, stables, and oast-house being with difficulty saved. Mr. Andrews is much respected by the labourers in the parish, bat as the fire breko out in a large wheat stack on a frame, there cannot be sof doubt of its Icing the act of an incendiary. REPORTED DEATH OF SIGNOR GARDONL—The Moniteur du Soir states that a letter has been received from St. Petersburgh announcing the death of Gordon' , the celebrated tenor. SUICIDE AND CHARGE OF NEGLECT AGAINST TUB AUTHORITIES OF KING'S COLLEGE HOSPlTAL.—Yester day, the adjourned inquest on Ellen Ryan, who cow' witted suicide by swallowing opium, and whose death it as allcg , d had been accelerated by her removal from King's College Hospital to the police•station, was held before Mr. Bedford, at the Plough public-house, Carey" street. The inquiry was adjourned for the purpose of having the opinion of Mr. George A. Walker, and on the jury re-assembling yesterday, Mr. Walker said the treatment adopted by Mr. Steel was quite correct up to a certain period. The deceased would have had a better chance of recovery if she had not been removed from the hospital. Mr. Stanbrook, deputy-chairman of the hos pital, said the house-surgeon had no other alternative but to send the deceased from the hospital. There were upwards of 120 patients in the house, and if the deceased had been kept walking about the corridors of the dif ferent wards, the patients would have been disturbed and their lives endangered. The jury. after consulting for short time, returned a verdict " That the deceased died from the effects of opium, administered by herself while in a state of temporary insanity, and that her death was accelerated by her removal." BIRTH& On the 15th inst., Mrs. William Pocock, of Cold Harbour" road, Brixton, of a daughter. On the 16th inst., at Donnington Priory, near Newbury► the wife of N. J. Senior, Esq., of a son. On the 18th inst., the wise of W. W. Johnson, Esq., of Limehouse, of a son. On the 19th inst., at South Ferriby.hall, Lincolnshire, the lady of Cap ain W. J. Symons, of twin daughters. On the 20th inst., at Street-end-house, near Canterbury , the wife of E. Foss, Esq., of a son. MARRIED. On the 19th inst., a t W es t M a ili ng , Th omas H. Lowry , Esq., M.D., Royal .Navy, to Mary Ann, widow of the late G. L. Perfect, Esq., M.D. On the 20th inst., at Grafton Regis, Mr. Daniel Hopkins'of Bloomfield, Tipt on , t o S ara h, youngest daughter of the late Mr. T. Gallard, of Grafton-lodge, Northamptonshl.r e : _ On the 20th inst., at Belper Church, Derbyshire, eldest son of W. Edgar, Esq., Clapham-common, to Ele anor ' eldest daughter of 'l'. Ingle, Esq., Belper. WilltatT DIED. On the 18th inst., at Isleworth, William Hutchinson , Esq ' , M.D., fourth so n of the late Captain Emanuel Hutchin son, aged 58. On the 19th inst, at Bath, Henry Armstrong, Esq., l a te of the borough of Southwark, aged 42. On the .113th inst., Henry Goldsmid, Esq., of Windsor terrace, City-road, aged 58. On the 20th inst.. at College-house, Hammersmith, Ann, relict of the late J. Goodwin, Fen., aged 85. On the I , :etii inst.. ElL.abetl, i.,c 1 , if. of :ill.. T. Ruscoe , of Quality-court. Chanc;•rv• Oil the 2 , .-th inst the Westminster Hospital, Edward, Neville, 11 , 1., youngest son cf W. H. Neville, ESCP , Esher, aged 23. On the 19th inst., at the Rectory, Ayot St. Peter, Ilerts , aged 18, Emily, youngest daughter of the Rev. E. Prodgers• On the 19th inst., Mrs. Sarah Larkin, aged 59, the m other of Mr. G. Larkin, of Pratt-street, Lambeth. On the 14th inst., in Upton-road, Kingsland, ag ed 28, Octavius, youngest son of the late Mr. J. IS ewman, of Laos ' dm, ne-terrnee, Hackney. - • • an Y0T...N0 9. o. N 13 2, Strand, - Printer, at The Sun Office, INo. !wtrand, iu thl Precinct of the Savoy, hi the eeuntY ° Kitlaleset, Saturday, March 23,1850.