The Sun. — London, England, 1850-04-05 00:00:00

- quite as dea7. Damp qualities ruled heavy. Beans, Peas, and Indian C. rn were &most nomin4l. Flour moved olf slowly at barely stationary kIi.RIVALS THIS WEI:K Wheat Barley. Qrs. Qrs. English...... 1,650 Is7o Scotch...— - - Irish •. .. Foreign Qrs. Qrs. sacks. 1,030 1,390 Oats. _ I Malt, Flour, 1,450 4,620 2,110 17,520 2,601 SMXTEPXELD. Notwithstanding that the supply of Beasts in to-day's Market was very moderate, the time of year considered, the Beef-trade, owing to the mildness of the weather, and the large supplies of Meat on offer in Newgate and Leadenh a ll, ru l ed excess i vely heavy, at, i n somein stances, a further decline in the quotations of 2d per 81bs. The fresh arrivals were confined to 180 Scots from Scotland. Tile numbers of Sheep w ere small, yet the demand for all b rea d s wa s dull in the extreme, and prtets bad a downward tendency—the highest general figure fsr Downs in the wool not exceeding 4s 2d per Bibs. Lambs—the supply of which was tolerably good —moved off heavily, and Monday's currencies were not supported. In Calves, next to nothing doing, en some what easier terms. The Pork trade was very dull. Well Covey were offering at from 14/. to 181. each, in cluding their small Cal'. Per albs. to sink the offal. s. d. to s. d, s. d. to ‘. c. Inferior Beasts-- 2 2 2 4 Inferior sheer . 2 8 210 Second quality 2 6 2 8 Second qual. Sheep 3 0 3 4 Prime large Oxen.. 210 3 2 Coarse-weolled ditto 3 6 310 Prime Scots ......3 4 3 6 Southdown Wether 4 0 4 4 L arge coarse Calves 3 0 3 4 Ditto lola of the wool 0 0 0 0 Prune small ditto 3 6 310 Large Hogs SUc klial Calves . 18 0 25 0 Small Porkers ••. . 3 8 4 0 Lambs .......... 410 6 0 Quartar old Pigs ..16 0 20 0 TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET. Rents, I Pigs. 748 Sheep. I Calves. 1 3,920 195 280 FOREIGN SUPPLY. I Sheep. I Calves. I rigs. 280 104 SCOTCH . . I Sheep. I Calves. 1 rigs 60 Beasts. 165 Beasts. 'so NE WOILTZ AND LEADENHALL. The g enera l d eman d was excess i ve ly heavy, at droop ing prices. At per stone by the Carcase. s. d. to $. d. d. to s. d -e •itriferlor...... 2 0 2 2 Mutton, inferior .. 2 4 2 6 ""-- middling ...: 2 4 2 6 middling.. 2$ 310 ▪ primelarge .. 2 8 210 - prime 3 0 3 4 ▪ prime small .. 3 0 3 2 Pork, large .. 210 3 4 eld " ••••• •• 2 10 Si 10 - small ........ 3 6 4 0 Lamb. Is 9d t• 63 10d. BOROUGH HOP VIALERET. The finest qualiCes of Hops are in;moderate request, at about last week's quotations. In other kinds, so little is doing that prices are almost nominal. To effect large sales lower ra'es must be accepted.—New Mid and East Rout pockets, 61 Os to 111 ; new Weald of Kent ditto, 61 to 81 3s ; new Sussex ditto, 51 5s to 61 103; new Parnhams, 121 to 131; yearling KentQ, 31 to 41 7s; yearling Sussex, 21 8s to 3/ 12s; old Hops, 11 to 31 8s Per cwt. S uQkß. COLONIAL. A fair quantity of all descriptions has been offered publicly since the re-opening of the markets, and Upon the whole the sales have gone off tolerably well. Some Barbadoes of the new crop, being the first parcel received, has realised 35s to 371 6d for low and mid, 38s to 41s 6d for good and fine, and 32s to 35s for dabs. EAST INDIA..—Of Mauritius 5,732 bags and 3,000 mats were offered by auction, and met a fair sale ; low mid yellow 35s 6d to 375, good and fine 37s 6d to 39s 6d, grey 353 to 38s, and mid to fine brown 31s to 35 8 6d ; washed sold at 30s to 37e. Bengal was Put up to the extent of 6,302 bags, and most of it found buyers, low to mid white at 37s to 395, good and fine at 39s 6d to 41s, damp and washed at 37s to 40s, damp grainy white at 44s to 45s 6d, and low to mid grainy yellow 34s 6d to 371 6d; Madras, 1,187 bags partly found buyers, ord to damp yellow at 29s 6d to 32s Gd, and damp brown at 28s to 29s 6d. FOREIGN —Yellow Havannah has been sold by auction at 37s 6d to 413 for mid and good, at 36s to 37s for low yellow and brown white, Havannah was taken at 28s Cd to 31s 6d for sound. COFFEE.—The market has not been active, but early in the week there were symptoms of improvement which have not been maintained. Plantation Ceylon has been sold at 54s to 57s for good and fine ord, at 65s to 66s far mid dark colory, at 56s to 603 fur pea-berry, and at 423 6d to 52s for triage. Native has been nominally at about 54s per cwt. In other descriptions there has not been the least inclination to do business. COCOA.—The market has been quiet for this article, but previous rates have been maintained. COTTON.—There has been a brisker inquiry, and at a alight advance in the quotations. RlCE.—This article remains quiet. ARROWROOT.—Bermuda has been sold at is 6d per lb. &c.—The demand is moderate, and an im provement is expected shortly, the stocks in the country being light. TALLow.—The market continues steady for new Y. C., at 383 3d to 38s 6d per cwt., on the spot. No large transactions have been entered into. TEA..—The arrivals are increasing, and the demand is moderate. GREEN Faurr.--The demand for all kinds has been good, the mild weather and Easter holidays assisting consumption ; portions of two cargoes oranges from St. Michael, sold by Keeling and Hunt at :public sale, sus tained the advance in price obtained last week. Lemons in demand. Nuts have an improved sale, and the steady character of the trade generally in London, as well as slt the outports, affords a proof that the labouring classes are in a better position for purchasing these luxuries. GUILDHALL—(THIS DAY.) RO/lIIIING 1 DETECTIVE OFFICER.—Jathes Sympson Was brought up before Mr. Alderman Challis, on a charge of stealing a watch and other articles, the pro perty of Webb, one of the detective force. It appeared that the prisoner had long been a suspected character, being in the habit of picking up strange articles at hotels where he lodged for a night for that purpose, and that Webb had been set on his track to watch him. Last night the prisoner took up his quarters at Brett's Hotel, in Holborn, where also Webb followed him. The prisoner went to bed there about twelve o'clock, and by arrangement Webb occupied the next room. After he had been in bed a short time he heard his room door open, and saw the prisoner enter with a lighted candle in his hand. He approached the chair where Webb's clothes were placed, and after "searching the pockets took from them a pocket-book, and then retired, taking also a watch which was lying on the dressing-table. Webb then got up and followed the prisoner. The book and the watch were both found in his possession. The prisoner was identified as an old offender, having been transported for ten years fur housebreaking. The officer Webb said that if he had time, he could prove several cases of a similar character against the prisoner. Remanded till Friday next. BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) A rough, well-fed looking fellow, dressed as a sailor, was charged with begging. A Meudicity officer stated that, between nine and ten o'clock last night, he observed the prisoner at the Turn stile, in Lincoln's Inn-fields, begging and crying. He received alms from severa l passers-by, and a sixpence from a gentleman. told this gentleman that he had walked thirty miles, and had not had a morsel of food that day, adding that he had come up from the country to see a lieuteaant on Tower-hill, who had promised to get him a ship. He then went into Holborn. whore ,he obtained some more pence, and afterwards adjourned to a couple of public-houses to partake f some rum and gin. The officer now thought it high time to take him into custody, and on reaching the station a large quan tity of bread and meat was found upon him. The prisoner denied that he had received sixpence from any gentleman, or begged of any one. Mr. JARDINE thought the begging system had been sufficiently exposed to be well understood by the public, but unfortunately it was still encouraged by benevolent persons giving money to impostors like this. He should seed the prisoner to the House of Correction for a month, where the fellow would get neither rum nor gin, but be upon wholesome bread and water. the prisoner was accordingly committed for a month. A portly-looking middle-aged individual, with a jolly enlivened countenance, whose name did not transpire, W as Charged with being drunk and disorderly in Covent garden Market. police-constable stated that he was on duty this • morning, about two o'clock, in Great Russell-street, when he heard a noise in Covent-garden, and on hasten ing thither he found the prisoner with his hands to his mouth waking up the echoes of all the neighbouring streets, and shouting " Tally ho I tally ho I" with all his might. He told the prisoner that he could not be allowed to exercise his lungs in that manner at so un seasonable an hour, and the prisoner said in reply, " Never mind, my hearty, I am just going into the Bed ford." He told him to go at once, and returned to his beat; but he had scarcely got there before the cry of " Tally ho! tally ho, ho ho 1" came travelling along the breeza; and hastening again to the market, he discovered the prisoner still roaring and shouting with the voice of a stentor, and he therefore took him to the station. Ile Was quite drunk. Mr. Inspector Black stated that the prisoner was well known at the Bedford Hotel, where he was in the habit of staying when he came to town, and was a highly re spectable man, living in the country. Mr. JARDINE said that made his conduct the more disgraceful. It was perhaps excuseable for persons who had no homes to go to to amuse themselves in the streets by shouting and bellowing, but for a man in the priso ner's station of life to do so was really too bad. He must pay a fine of 40s. or be imprisoned ten days. Thu tine was immediately paid. WESTMINSTER. —(THIS DAY.) Jblin, [lodges, a dissipated-looking young man, who described himself as following the somewhat incongruous occupations of a pencil maker and a commercial tra veller, was charged this morning, before Mr. Burrell, with assaulting Mr. Edwin Gill, and robbing him of a silver watch and chain. Frnm the statement of the complainant, who raid be *Eta a servant of her Majesty at Buckingham Palace, it appeared that he had goee to the acenix public-house in Westminster last night, to smoke his pipe, where he met the prisoner, and after drinking in his company t:11 after One o'clock in the morning, the prisoner insisted on see ing him home, though the complainant expressed himself well able to go home alone. Complainant was 13 0 Qt So ber, and on the way home he hall a fall on his face. ch i e regainin g hi s l e gs the prisoner lent him a handker ft.t° wiPe the blood from his mouth, after using whtea th e complainant became quite insensible., in which state he remained until five o'clock this morning, wh en he found hitweft in his own Louse, bat his watch and chain wer e missing. Police -constable Green, 91 A division, deposed that di. 8114 1 3t4 122% - 2614 814 x. x.d 61fi 15% Li - 2% x.d 5 9 13 3 / 4 134 .• 20 . , 40A 124 1 6 , 6 51; Ci 12 -;% ow. I i 7 ;4 1 , 4 I.i 424 )AY•) )sh gsl9 9 all lest is ever/ ad well‘ to tbi o Light' ed to bo els hail a Sham" estport; A Yet: Ile; soo of Nor f Goole. Whitby ult. og tstable; e lattert I " Sil: I it gold for thie of the w were r in the it. The a alma" sooner 4110 rao, R'ol Le after by re r Cork during water; oo full ei . to be s been what'What' arterit miss* TILE SUN, between one rid two o'clock this morning ho saw the prisoner n d another man, net now in custody, le;:ding tlt comuLitient along the street. Both the prisoner and the complainant were drunk, eepecially the complainant. Ou accosting the party, the prisoner said the people at the pubic-liouem had ra:ked " the complainant into the street, and he (the prisoner) and the other man were taking him home. Witne.s accompanied the party to the complainant's house when, before the latter entered the door, the prisoner said h• wanted to leave them for a necessary purpose, but would be with them in a minute. The prisoner, however, never returned. Before leaving the prisoner offered t give witness sixpeace for assist ing him in taking the complainant home, which witness refused. The prisoner in defence said the complainant and him self were drinking last night, at the Pncenix public house, where they hal a few 'goes" tf gin just beton the house closed. Four or five men were in the house at that time, and they all It ft together, taking different roads. Prisoner saw the complainant fall just after be had 1, ft him. and returned to his assistance and told him •he would so) him home. The complainant was bleeding at the mouth. and they went iut ) the Duke t f York public house to hate his mouth rinsed with liquor. There they had two glasses of gin-and-water, and on their way to the complainant's house they were joined by a young man having the appearance of a foreigner, un known to either of them, who assisted the prisoner to carry the complainant home, the policeman having also joined them in Gillingham-street. Prisoner denied all knowledge of the complainant's watch and chain. Had seen the complainant wear a watch and chain on several previous occasions, but did not remember his doing so last night when he was in his company. Mr. BURRELL remanded the prisoner till Thursday next, requiring him to find bail for his appearance in the meantime, himself in 401., and two sureties of 201. each. CLERKEN WELL.—(THIS DAY.) Richard Human, Benjamin Gardner, Charles Morris, and Jane Phillips, well-known thieves, but none of whom appeared to be more than eighteen years old, were placed at the bar befure Mr. Tyrwhitt, charged with burglariously breaking into a house and stealing therefrom several pairs of boots and shoes. Police-constable Harris, 112 N, said, as he was passing along Field-place, Bagnigge Wells-road, about hall past twelve last night, his attention was attracted to the shop of Mr. Cox, a bootmaker, where a shutter had been taken down. He crossed the road, and on examining the front of the shop he found that a square of glass had been broken, sufficiently large to admit a person's arm. He called up Mr. Cox, and asked him if he had lost any property, and he told him that four pair of boots and four pair of shoes had Leen taken away from the show board. The pri soners had been seen loitering about the shop ten minutes before the discovery of the robbery, and he immediately went to the house where they lived, they being well known to the police, and knocked at the door. There was a scuffling inside, as if they were trying to escape, or to secrete the stolen property, and he heard Morris cry out for them not to open the door. The whole four prisoners lived in the front parlour. A sawyer who lodged up stairs, however, came down and admitted him, and he then saw Morris in the passage, as if he had just come out of the yard. With the assistance of other constables, ho took the whole of them into custody, and afterwards went into the yard, and found three boots, five shoes, and ss.iu money had been thrown down the water-closet. The prosecutor identified the property, and said the shutters and shop were safely secured at ten o'clock, at which time the stolen property was on the showboard in the window. He had seen the prisoners loitering about the shop in the course of the evening. The prisoners were remanded until to-morrow. The female and two of the male prisoners bad been previ ously convicted. A young lad, named Joseph Keely, was charged Kith stealing some silk, value 155., the property of his master, Mr. Donald, a linendraper in Gray's Inn road. It appeared that the prisoner was an errand boy in the employ of the prosecutor, and that no suspicion what ever attached to him until the prosecutor received a let ter from Mr. Fletcher, a person in the same trade, stating that the prisoner came to his shop, and said his master had directed him to bring the silk, and sell it to him for 55., a sum much below its value. The prose cutor, upon the receipt of this, accused the prisoner with the theft, and he denied it in the first instance, but afterwards admitted that he had taken the silk, and said he had carried on a system of robbery for eighteen monthe, in concert with another youth in the prosecu tor's employ. The prisoner said nothing to the charge, and was committed to take his trial at the sessions. Worley, and he had written to her to come up and ace him previous to going on fireign service. Through the gale of last night the wreck has neatly been washed away. Mr. Davidson, the malief, of the company's wharf, continues et Msvgate, in order to surerintend the interment of what bodies are washed ashore, as also to provide the proper means for recovering the cargo. The heavy gale of wird, however, which has been blowing the last twenty -four bourn baa rendered all opEraims impracticable. A letter was received this morning from the super intiolent of police, at B amid), announcing the finding of a body at that port, supposed to be one of the sufferers. A life preserver, formed of cork, was found attached to the corpse, evidently showing that the poor fellow had made a desperate effort to save his life. By this it will be seen that some time must have elapsed Mote the vessel broke up, to have enabled the roar cicaturce to prepare themselves in the hope of escaping. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE• NORFUAMPTON AND PYTCHLEY HUNT RACES.-TIIURSDAY. The Tallyho Stakes (Handicap) of 10 sovs. each, h f', and 25 added. Two miles. (4 Subs.) Mr. Price's Legislator, 6 3 rs, llst 71b (Cpr. Bromiley) I Mr. Peuifer's Last Furester, 11st 71b ...(Cpt. Little) 2 Betting-6 to 4on Legislator. Won niu lengthard a half. The Pytchley Stakes of 10 eovs. each, and 50 added. One mile. (11 Subs.) Duke of Richmond's Compass, Bst 1116 ...(Flatman) Lord W. Pow lea's Give-and-Take, Sat 71b (S Rogers) 2 Mr. Stevens's Knight t f Gwynae, Bst 71b (Marlow) 3 Mr. Ilalford's Marriott, Bst 71b ......(G. Whithouse) 4 Mr. Freeman's Impression, Bst 31b ...(Bartholomew) 5 Air. Dawson na Mark Tapley, 83t 71b (Prince) 6 Bettina-5 to 2 agst Marriott, 3to 1 each agst Com pass and Give. 4 to 1 agst Knight of Gwynn°, and sto I agst Impression. Won by a length, half a length between second and third; Ilarriott a bad fourth. Run in I rain. 57 seer. Earl Spencer's Plate of 100/., added to a handicap of 15 soy& each, 5 ft. T.Y.C. (41 Subs., 12 of whom de- dared. Mr. Merry's Brennus, 3 yrs, 63t 31b (Wells) 1 Mr. W. Moseley's Alonzo, sst 101 b (W. Sharpe) 2 The following also ran:— Lord Exeter's Bishop cf Romford's Cob.. (Norman) 0 Mr. Eedgrave's Hind of the Forest, Bat 51b (Rogers) 0 J. Gerard's Jest, 5 yrs, 7st 131 b (Sly) 0 Mr. Payne's Crucible, 4 yrs, 7st 12Ib (Flatman) 0 Mr. Ford's Ferule, 4 yrs, 7st 121 b ...(Bartholomew) 0 Lord Clifden's Wallflower, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b ...(Pearl) 0 Lord Strathmore's ch gby Epirus, 7st 51b ...(Pettit) 0 Mr. Fowler's The Monk, 3 yrs, Est 121 b (Evans) 0 Mr. S. Scott's Willingham. 4 yrs, 6st 91b (Rodney) 0 D. of Richmond's Harum-Scarum, 6st 8I b (Collins) 0 Major Martyn's Fernandez, 3 yrs, 6st 81b(Kitchener) 0 Mr. Hobsou's Gladiole, 3 yrs, Gst 81b (Osborne, jun.) 0 Mr. Jamieson's Recluse, 3 yrs, bat 81b (Arnold) 0 Mr. H. Hill's Equiria, 3 yrs, 6.t 41b (Charlton) 0 Mr. W. Cowper's b f by Pantaloon, out of The Mite, 3 yrs, sst 131 b (Child) 0 Lord Chesterfield's Humphrey, sst 121 b (Hiett) 0 Mr. J. Cassidy's Diligence, 3 yrs, sst 101 b (Plummer) 0 l3etting-3 to 1 agst Crucible, 6 to 1 agst Wallflower, 7 to 1 agst Alonzo, 8 to 1 agst Bishop of Romford's Cob, 10 to 1 agst Fernandez, 12 to 1 each agst The Re cluse and Equiria. Won by a neck; Recluse, Jest, The Cob, and Equiria well up. Run in 47 Fecy. Dilligence and the Mite filly fell, but without injury to themselves or the lads; a man, however, who ran into the course to pick up the lad who was first down, was run over by the Mite filly, and very seriously injured. The Alt - horp Park Stakes of 10sovs. each, and 50 added, tor two yrs old. About half a mile. (27 Subs.) Mr. Ford's ch fby Slane, Bst 41b ..(Bartholomew) 1 Mr. Howard's Prestige, Bst 41b (A. Day) 2 Duke of Richmond's Buckhound, Bst 71b (F. Butler) 3 The following also started, but were not placed : Lord Warwick's Leap Year, Bst 71b (Crouch) 0 Mr. Merry's Pierre de Touche, Bst 71b (Prince) 0 Mr. Hussey's The Mitre, Bst 41b (Abrahams) 0 Mr. Delamere's The Forlorn Hope, Bst 41b (Sly) 0 Mr. Payne's Catalpa, Bst 41b (Flatmau) 0 Mr. Freeman's Olivia, Bst 41b (Rogers) 0 Betting-11 to 10 agst Buckhound, 4 to 1 agst Pres tige, 5 to 1 agst Olivia, 7 to 1 agst Pierre de Touche, and 10 to 1 agst Receipt filly. The Slane filly made all the running, and won in a canter by three lengths; half a length between the second and third. Run in 44 secs. The Northamptonshire Cup Stakes of 10 sous. each. Twice round. (12 Subs.) Mr. Meeson's Doubt, 4 yrs, Bst 71b ... (Whitehouse) 1 Capt. Lowther's Watchdog, 6 yra, 9st 101 b (Rogers) 2 Betting-6 to 4on Doubt. Won by four lengths. Run in 5 min. 55 secs. Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, h ft, with 50 sovs. added. One mile and a half. Mr. Sadd's Salute, 3 yrs, sst 81b (Hiett) 1 Mr. Fowler's Cosachia. 6 yrs, 7st 101 b...( Whitehouse) 2 Sir J. Hawley's Van Dieman, 4 yrs, 7st 41b (Rodney) 3 Betting—Even on Cosachia. Won by a neck. Run in 3 min. 17 secs. LATEST BETTING. METROPOLITAN HANDICAP. 2 to 1 agst Cheerful l 20 to 1 agst Black Eagle 7 to 1 agst Ada Mary I CHESTER CUP. to 1 agstPeep•o'day Boy 1S to 1 agst Fogleman 3 to 1 agst Cossack 20 to 1 agst Roland—t .3 to 1 agst Miss Ann 30 to 1 agst Chantrey—t .4 to 1 apt Glauca DERBY. sto 1 agst Bolingbroke (t) 12 to 1 agst Voltigeur (t) 6to 1 agstGhillie Callum(t) 20 to 1 agst Clincher (t) 13 to lagst Mayors (t) 30 to 1 agat Penang. 16 to 1 agstlitalian (t) Mayors was in great force. THE FARMERS' PLATE.—An objection made against the winner, on the ground that he was not bred in the county, was gone into this morning by the Stewards, and the objection having been substantiated, the race was awarded to little Houghton. The bets go with the ctakes. SOUTHWARK--(THIS DAY.) John Taylor was placed at the bar before Mr. Ham mill charged with violently assaulting Ellen Howard, a female with whom he cohabited, and who is now lying in a dangerous stater Ann Hander stated that the prisoner and the injured female resided in her mother's house, 131, Cornwall road, Lambeth. About seven o'clock that morning, the prisoner came home, and proceeded - to his room up stairs. Witness was in the parlour, and a few minutes afterwards, she was startled by a heavy fall on the floor above, and a frightful scream followed. Witness in stantly ran up stairs to ascertain what was the matter, when she perceived the female attempting to gain the bed, when the prisoner approached her and struck her a violent blow on the stomach, which caused her to fall down insensible on the bed. Prior to his striking her in witness's presence, she exclaimed that he had given her her el( ath-blow. Police-constable, 180, L, was called in by last wit ne.s-,_ he called in a surgeon. Witness here handed in a certificate from that gentleman, setting forth that she was in great danger, and was not expected to live. In defence, the prisoner said he did not strike her. Mr. HAMMILL said he should remand him for the at tendance of other witnesses. THE WRECK OF THE ROYAL ADELAIDE. AUTHENTIC LIST AND NAMES OF THE PAS SENGERS WHO PERISHED. - (RECEIVED THIS MORNING.) We regret to confirm the great loss of life, as pre viously conjectured, by the wreck of the Royal Ade laide. This morning Mr. Hartley, the manager of the City of Dublin Steam Navigation Company, received from the agent at Cork an accurate list of the passengers who were shipped on board the ill-fated steamer on her leaving that port for London. Mr. Hartley, with a view of allaying the excitement as to the real number who perished, and their names, has handed us the following for publication:— C,,rk, April 3, 1850. Dear Sir,—Your note cf Ist inst. shocked me not a little. It is a sad, sad affair—such a tearful loss of life, in addition to a fine steamer. I sincerely trust some portion of her passengers and crew may have been saved, though from present accounts here I fear there is little chance. Enclobed you have the list of passengers by her, which, as it turns out, were so numerous-144 adults and 23 children. These are, of course, exclusive of those fir Pl) mouth, and possibly more may have got on board there. We had a fearful night here on Saturday—so bad that I kept the Duke of Kew until Sunday morn- ing.—Yours truly, James Hartley, Esq. Way-bill cf . the steam-packet Royal Adelaide from Cork to London, 27th day of March, 1850: JOHN LEFEBURE. Ally Hickey and N. Leary„ Batterby, P. and Ann Sullivan; Learys (wife and child); C. Ktane, P. Delano and boy, R. Belly, E. Hamilton, M. Creed, J. Keefe, E. Wall and wife; C. Devane, D. Daly, Howley and Collins, M. Day, one child; C. Buckley, Mary Roche, B. Mur phi, E. Sullivan, N. Sullivan, J. Sullivan, E. Buttler, M. Young; .L Meagon, wife, and two children; Biddy Bolan and two children; Hurt, Sullivan, and two children; Andy Barrett; T. Murphy, J. Murphy, Julia Murphy, one party; Alice Murphy, with three children; Barrett, Madegan, and Collins; Ellen Rearden, J. Apern, Jude Belly, one party; Jerry Downing, M. O'Brien, D. Fagney, J. Cunningham, one party; J. Graham and daughter; M. Lorden, Ellen Leary, Undergar, Walsh, Hogan and Hayes; E. and M. Roymayne; Boyle and sister; Abraham Boyle, Will Boyle, one party • E. Kelehur and child; D. Coleman, D. Coleman, jun.; Jane Hurley, Ellen. Daly, C. Cronin, one party; E. Crowley, Al. M . Carthy, S. Sincocks and child; Hannah Lahive, B. Shea and Kelly; M. Brien, J. Hogan, J. Har rington, Mary Puckle, Mary Driscoll, Mary Cow ley, and three small children, one party ; four adults (no names given), John Fitzpatrick, Mary Picket and child; C. Sullivan (booked and not gone), Mary Flannagan (booked and not gone), Regan and child, one adult (name not given) ; Al. Madigan, Puckle, J. Maronv, M. Shaughnessey, 1). Shehan, one party ; Kaufil, J..Kaufil, Quick, one party ; Scanlon, C. Wil liams, A. Sweet, Mograth, J. Green, M. Henessy, Ma c kin, Walsh, J. Buckley, Sally Finneen, Dwyer, N. Corbot, Noonan, Mary Leary, Fahy, C. D. Brien, one child, a soldier named Bennett, J. Sullivan ' M. Donovan, Mahoney, Al. Barry, Hearn and Howgan, Murphy, Cul lins, Hingely, Flannagan, two Sullivane, Coughlan, Reardon, ArCarthy, Mellish, F. Glynn, Twoomy, Healy, Weldon and wife, J. Schaughuessy, Madigan, Sullivan, Healy, two adults and three boys (no names), Hickey, three adults (no names). The only cabin passenger for London was Mr. O'Callaghan, who said he might get out at Plymouth. The names of those who shipped at Plymouth are as follows :—Cabin passengers—Mr. Payne, surgeon, of Plymouth, wife and three children; Mary Ann Hurst, married lady, who was travelling to London with her sister, Jane Wether; and Mr. Tucker, a ship's mate. Deck paisengers—Ann Welch, who was going to join her husband at Woolwich, and 3 children; u young man, Munroe, and Thompson. The list of the crew has already appeared, with the exception of a cook and a seaman, whose names are not correctly tl:Ct rt :tint d. B • the above it will be seen that the number who pe rished were -144 adults from Cork. 23 child' en, ditto. 14 passengers from Plymouth. 25 crew, Including captain, Mr. J. Batty. Total 206 Several distressing scenes have taken place during the week at the company's office, in Leadeuhall-street, and at their wharf, in Lower East Smithfield, by relatives of the unhappy suffer( rs inquiring after their probable fate. The man Munroe ' from Plymouth, was a pen sioner in the East India Company, and he was coming up to town t.) receive his pension. Among the unfor tunate creatures from Cork was a young wif., named Julia Harrington ; her husband was a soldier, in the service of the East India Company, at the barracks at HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. East Essex hds., Tues., Blsekwater-street ; Thurs., Massing-street; Sat., Lyons Hall, Leigh-101. Bramham Moor hds., Mon., Little Almscliff; Wed., Brayton; Fri., Bramham Park-10i. Suffolk hds., Tues., Gipping Hall; Fri., Horseleath Worcestershire hds., Mon., Himbleton; Wed., Rad ford Gate; Fri., Cotheridge-10i. Ledhury hds, Mon., Dymock Village; Fri., secand mile•stone, Tenbury Road-10i. Mr. Farquharson 'a hds.. Mon., Milton Park. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, THURSDAY. The Queen and Prince Albert walked this morning in the Slopes. The Royal Family took their usual airings. The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening will include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Duke of Wellington, the Lady in Waiting on the Duchess of Kent, the Baroness de Speth, Lord James Murray, Major-General and Lady Isabella Wemyss, Sir George Couper, and Colonel Hall (Ist Lite Guards). The band , of the Ist Life Guards will attend during dinner. Her Majesty's private band will afterwards attend. The Queen's private hand was in attendance yesterday evening in the Castle, and performed the following pieces : Overture (Op. 15) Scena and Aria, " Freischute Weber. Adagio and Allegro, Sinfonia, No. 2 .... Mozart. Selection, La Part du Diable" His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge honoured the Royal Society of Arts in John-street, Adelphi, with a visit yesterday. The Royal Duke visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday at Gloucester House. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. - (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDk;NT.) COWES, Aram 4. FASHIONABLE VISITOES.—A great influx of com pany has taken place during the past and present week, principally to view the splendid furniture of Northwood House, the property of the late G. H. Ward, Esq. After a fruitless attempt to let it, as it is, the whole of the elegant and costly furniture, ntate, &c., are to be sold by auction. There are few noble mansions in England that are so expensively furnished, and before this can hardly be call‘d finished the princely owner dies, and the whole goes to the hammer. Sic transit gloria mundi. The beautiful schooner yacht, building for the Marquis of Uonyngham, by White, is in a very for ward state. She is to be launched next week ; she measures 225 tons. Captain Smith is having his yacht, the Talisman, fitted for the season, and several others are making preparations. THE RIVER PLATE. We have letters, by the Ipswich, from Buenos Ayres to the 17th January. The Governor had de livered his annual message, which filled, in moderate sized type, 250 octavo pages, and was chiefly devoted to self-gratulations on the subject of the success of his effOrts in bringing the English Government round to subscribe precisely his own terms, in the treaty lately arranged. On this subject the message was extremely diffuse; but the bulk of it is without in terest for the English public. The commercial intelligence is important. Some purchases of tallow at high prices had been nego tiated, and the market was entirely cleared of the article. The accounts from the country districts were deplorable, the entire face of the country was likely to be covered with the flights of young locusts, which had not received any check trom the weather, and, in case rain did not arrive soon, ould destroy every vestige of vegetation. The au thorities had stopped the working of all the Estan cias ; the proprietors of cattle were forbidden to in terfere w ith their herds in any way, even so much as to move them from one pasture to another; and this restraint was not to be removed until one month after the rains had set in. If rain did not come soon the cattle would be all destroyed ; as it was, all the salt ing establishments were at a dead stand ; and what few miserable beasts were driven into Buenos Ayres had not a pound of tallow in them. It was impos sible to procure salted hides suitable for the English market at any price, there being none at the Sa laderos. Freights still very low, but not considered to have LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 8, 1880, reached a minimum-25a. for salted hides and tallow, 20s. for wool, and 255. for hair, were the current rates. Exchange on England was falling, and ruled at 695. per ez. Ounces, 251 dolls. to 262 dolls. each. whole group is admirable and beautiful, the interest of it being heightened by other wounded figures scattered about, and also by a little ship-boy kneeling with a lantern in his hand, his countenance and attitude being alike attractive from their ex e:sion of intelligence. Although the number of forms introduced into his design of the Nile by Mr. Woodington is less by two than that comprised in Mr. Carew's design of Trafalgar, the composition has an appearance of barrenness only in its upper por tion—and this, be it remembered, from the circum stance of the naked panelling of the cockpit afford ing no opportunity for a picturesque arrangement of spars, blocks, or rigging, as decorative accessories. Altogether the limbs are admirably arranged and developed, the features are heroic and classical, and the casting of the whole is worthy of all praise from its singular sharpness and accuracy. Abstaining from any invidious comparison between the two designs now completed, we may be allowed to ob• serve that the bronza adornments of the pillar pro mise to benefit largely from the competition excited among the artists engaged in their production. MERCHANT SEAMAN'S ORPHAN ASYLUM. —The anniver ary dinner of this excellent institution, which was established in 1827, and is patronised by the Queen and the Duchess of Kent, took place last night at the London Tavern. The Duke of Northumberland presided. The toast of " The Queen" having been drunk with the customary honours, the Noble Chairman, in proposing the health of Prince Albert and the rest of the Royal Family, expressed his deep regret that by the death of the Queen Dowager the society had been deprived of the aid of one of its most generous benefactors. The chairman then gave the toast of " Prosperity to the Merchant Sea man's Orphan Asylum," and stated that the society now fcd, clothed, and educated 110 children, the orphans of per sons who had been engaged in the merchant service. The Noble Duke urged the importance of raising a building fund, which would enable the society tb establish an asylum of its own, instead of holding the building in which the chil dren are at present placed upon an uncertain tenure. He also expressed his opinion that the wealthy merchants and manufacturers were especially bound to support this institu tion, as they were so much indebted to the skill, enterprise, and daring of British seamen. Captain Nelson, of the Trinity-house, treasurer to the society, announced during the evening donations and subscriptions, amounting to 1,1751. The " Health of the Chairman" was proposed by Mr. %V. Cotton, and the Noble Duke having returned thanks, gave the "Corporation of the Trinity-house," who, as well as the corporation of London, had given several munificent dona tions to the charity. Among the subsequent toasts were the " Directors of the East India Company," " Captaia Nelson, the treasurer," and " Ships, colonies, and commerce." which was briefly acknowledged by Mr. G. F. Young. Mr. Toole was a very efficient toastmaster, and the musical arrange ments were under the direction of Mr. G. F. Taylor. ST. STEPHEN'S, WALBROOK.— CLOSE OP THE LI TIGATION WITH ALDERMAN Glans. —Yesterday the pa rishioners of St. Stephen's, Walbrook, assembled in the vestry-room of the church, for the purpose of electing churchwardens and other parochial officers for the year en suing. The Rev. Dr. Croly, the rector, presided. The vestry elected Mr. Wilson and Mr. H. Rock as church wardens for the ensuing rear. Mr. Crosbie, the vestry clerk, read a lengthened report of the trustees as to the pa rish property they had received in charge from the Court of Chancery, and the recommendation that UM be paid on both sides in liquidation of the costs in the case " Gibbs v. Flight and another." A long conversation ensued, in the course of which it was stated that the claim of Mr. Phillips as sent in to the select vestry amounted to upwards of 2,00(4. Mr. Rock hoped the parishioners would not waver. Let them stick to the 5001. More would not be got, and they would have the 5001.. to beautify the church. Eventually the resolution was confirmed confining the offer to 500 t." • Charles Lockington and Samuel Grieves, who have been several times on a charge of conspiracy to defraud Messrs. Figgins, the eminent type founders, were yesterday fully committed for trial from the Guildhall, by Mr. Alder man Challis. A tall, determined-looking man, who gave bis name George Honeysett, was charged at the Marylebone Police court with having been concerned in a number of burglaries which have been recently committed by a gang of house breakers in Sussex. Mr. Long remanded the prisoner until Saturday. A girl named Catherine Braidwood was yesterday remanded from the Westminster Police-court, charged with ribbing Sarah Wilmot. The prisoner had been taking tea with the prosecutrix whom she hocuased, and then robbed her of her wearing apparel, and of everything portable in her lodgings. Tns CHOLERA AT TUNIS.---A letter from Tunis of the 19th ult. states that the cholera, which had apparently subsided, had again made its appearance. Four or five cases had appeared amongst the Jews. In the little town of Bi zerte the loss had been considerable. A French physician, who had been sent there by the Bey, was obliged to fly, the population declaring that he spread the disease by his breath and glance. The Bey has established a cordon sanitaire about Bizerte. But it is not at that place alone that such an accusation was brought against the medical men ; the same was done at Tunis when the malady was most rife, and then almost all the patients perished, no aid being accepted. At Worship-street, yesterday, Mr. Griffiths, the barrister, attended for the purpose of making a statement in vindication of the character of Mr. Watson, a silversmith, in Norton Folgate, who had been recently summoned to this court, by a Mrs. Mitchell, charged with detaining a gold chain, which she alleged she bad left at his shop for repairs. Mr. Watson and his shopman, both deposed that Mrs. Mitchell had never been to the shop; she, however, swore . positively to having left the chain with the shopman, and the magistrate ordered Mr. Watson to make restitution. It appears, however, that Mrs. Mitchell was altogether mis taken, and that she had left her chain at the shop of a Mr. Willis, in the same neighbourhood, whose shopman bore a remarkable resemblance to the shopman of Mr. Watson, and who, on hearing of the circumstance, produced the chain which had never been called for since Mrs. Mitchell had left it. THE WEATHER IN FRANCE.—The journals from Languedoc give a gloomy account of the effect of the late cold and frosty nights on the fruit trees in that department. Almonds, peaches, apricots, plums and pears are said to have been cut off. It is stated hat some of the trees on the high grounds have escaped, but the blossoms of all those in the plains have been entirely destroyed. The vines have also sutrered considerably, both in the department of Languedoc and in the adjoining ones. The young buds of the mulberry trees have also been much injured. MALTA, MARCH 26.—The Council of Govern ment has lately been occupied with an important discussion on religious affairs, and the priests have carried their point —fixing the Roman Catholic religion as the dominant one. The discussion was animated. The Bishop of Gibraltar has entered a protest. Persons become endeared to each other while par ticipating i❑ the admiration of works which speak to the soul by their grandeur.—Eliza Cook's Journal. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT MILNGAVIE.—Oh Thursday night, about ten o'clock, a destructive fire broke out in the extensive printworks of Messrs. Black and Co.. Milngavie, which rapidly spread from one building to another, and threatened to lay in ruins the entire premises, with their valuable machinery and vast stock of cloths in the process of being printed. A messenger on horseback was instantly dispatched to this city for the assistance of the fire brigades, and a few minutes before eleven o'clock the North and West of England engines, and the Kelvin, belonging to the City Fire department, under the direction of Mr. Turner, the su perintendent, set out for the scene, each drawn by four spirited horses, and accompanied by their respective staffs of firemen. They all reached in less than an hour after starting, and within a short time of each other, and in the above order commenced vigorous operations. The fire had originated in the finishing loft, which is in the second story of one of the detached buildings of the works, and was rapidly spreading over the steaming-house and other portions of the premises. The first object of the brigades was to stay the progress of the flames, and prevent them from spreading to the main portion of the buildings. The North of England engine arrived in time to effect this to a considerable extent, and followed by the others, and with a copious supply of water from a lade lead ing from the river to the works, were able in a short time completely to subdue the devouring element. It was not, however, till seven or eight o'clock in the morning before the burning was entirely extinguished, at which time the fire brigade left the spot. The amount of property destroyed must be considerable, though we have not heard any estimate of the loss; but we are glad to learn that the whole is co vered by insurance. We have not learned how the fire ori ginated.—Glasgow Herald. EMIGRATION FROM GLOUCESTER.—(FROM OUR CORIMSPONDENT).—Yesterday (Friday) morning an un usual spectacle attracted the attention of thousands of spectators upon Gloucester quay. This was the departure, for New York, of the barque Solway, E. Shadwick, com mander, with about 130 emigrants. The vessel left the docks about half-past six, amidst the cheers of a very numerous body of spectators. The vessel, which is a hand some one of the class, was gaily decorated with flags from her bowsprit to her stern. The people accompanied the vessel for a considerable distance down the canal. She be longs to Messrs. Price and Co., of Gloucester, and is of 900 tons burden. She is fitted up conveniently, but plainly, fir the accommodation of the voyagers, and the passage money was as low as 51. to New York. A second vessel, the Cor sair, belonging to the same firm, is announced to sail from Gloucester in a few days, with emigrants to Montreal and Quebec. This vessel takes out about 200 paupers from Chel tenham union, the guardians paying their passage, under the new regulations which those authorities are permitted to make. This is quite a new feature in the history of the port of Gloucester.—Bristol Mirror. ABSENCE OF MlND.—Christopher Trotter, one of the witnesses on the trial of James Hill, at the Dorchester Assizes, last week, who reported to the Judge the fact of his having been robbed, while in the Crown Court, of 81. 65., discovered, upon his return to his lodgings, that his money was quite safe in the place where he had deposited it for se curity until his return.— Salisbury Herald. THE NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE, " REGINALD HASTINGS," BY THE AUTHOR or " TrrE CRESCENT AND THE Caoss."—The appearance of Mr. Eliot Warburton as a writer of historical romance may be considered as the lite rary event of the present season. Unusual curiosity and in terest, indeed, has been excited to see whether that pen to which we owe one of the most attractive books of travel, and one of the most stirring biographies of the day, wculd achieve success in the field of fiction. The publication of " Reginald Hastings" will put an end to all doubt on the subject, for it may be characterised as among the best his torical novels that we have had since the days of Scott. Like his great predecessor, Mr. Warburton has mingled much historical truth in his web of fiction, and has given us a picture of some of the most striking events in the grand period of our civil war, combined with a story of touching personal and domestic interest, that will place his name in the foremost rank of the novelists of our time. Cavaliers and Roundheads are pourtrayed in his pages with equal force and justice. Among the principal historical personages, more or less elaborately drawn, are Charles I. and his Queen, the fiery Rupert, Digby, Falkland, Cromwell, Pvrn, Hutch inson, Goring, and other leaders of both parties. - It is, how ever, in the fictitious characters of his story that Mr. War burton has been most successful. The chivalrous hero, Reginald, and his brother, Hugo Hastings, true types of en thusiastic loyalty; their venerable father, Lord Hastings, and Reginald's rollicking cousin, " Hotspur;" the unfortu nate " trimmer," Sir James Demiroy, and his lovely and well-contrasted daughters, Zillah and Phoebe; the humorous and original Irishman, Bryan O'Connor; and, above all, the stern and mysterious Puritan, Hezekiah Doom, under which name is concealed a character which it would spoil the reader's interest to reveal—all these are sketched with the band of a master.—Evening Paper. MACiAZIIdES, (CONTINUED). HARRISON AIiv'SIVORTII'S ROMANCES. Vol. VI. Cheap _Edition.: A sixth volume having been now issued, and con sequently, we presume, about half the series having been completed of the present cheap and popular re publication, we may hero briefly reiterate our previ ous words of approval of the entr: e character of the re-issue. Volume Six brings to a conclusion the well known " Chronicle of the Tower of London," fol lowed by the three chapters of " Cecco del Orso," As we have already intimated in a recent notice, the subsequent volumes to appear, (both of them) during April, will comprise " Saint James's; or the Court of Queen Anne," together with the story, scarcely so well known, called " Auriol." As an addition to the libraries of fiction already accessible to the mass of the population, the re-issue of "Harrison Ain worth's Romances" in their present form will prove, as already proved, acceptable to many thousands. For cheapness it rivals even the standard publica tions of Bohn, and the periodicals of Knight and Chambers. DER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Last night was the first " Sontag night" of the season, and also the first of the delightful " long Thursdays ;" no wonder therefore that there was a crowd collected around the doors of her Majesty's Tbeatre long before the time fixed for their opening, no wonder that the Haymarket was thronged with carriages, no wonder that the crush was terrific, that every box and every stall was occupied, and that even standing rooom in the pit and gallery was at a pre mium even long baize the commencement of the opera. The opera was Don Pasquale, with Lablache as the Don, his first appearance this season, and Madame Sontag as Norina, her first appear ance before a London audience in that character, and also her first appearance for the season after having achieved in Paris, during the course of the last few weeks, a success to which nothing can be compared save the triumphs she herself achieved in the French capital on her first appearance there, before her retirement from the strge, and in comparison with which even those triumphs appear as nothing. The character of Norina is exactly suited to Sontag's peculiar style of acting and vocalization. Norina is witty, espiegle, gay, vivacious, but, above all, and before all, she is a lady, cud there is not, there never has been in our re• membrance, any artiste on the Italian lyrical boards who could approach Madame Sontag in the delinea tion of the lady. Tae Norina of Grisi was full of power, but it was too boisterous, and approached at times almost to vulgarity—not so the Norina of Madame Sontag, it is to the full as animated as that of Grisi, but is always ladylike and graceful. In the scene in which Norina is introduced to Don Pas quale, in the concluding scene of the second act, where she turns upon the astonished Don, and in the whole of the third act, we could not but make the comparison between the Norina of Grisi and that of Madame Sontag; and, in making the com parison, it was impossible to avoid observing how much more delicate and graceful was the Norina of Madame Sontag. As a piece of vocalization it was perfect. Her beautiful execution of her aria d'intrata, " Quel guardo it cavaliere," created a perfect furore, which continued the whole evening. Nothing could exceed the brilliancy and the finish of her fioriture in this exquisite air. Her acting in the scene in which she is introduced to the Don was, as we have before said, moat graceful and ladylike, but at the same time irresistibly comic; and her voca lization in the quartette and finale to the second act was exquisitely beautiful ; the quartette was, as a matter of course, encored, and never have we before heard it so effectively given as it was last night by Sontag, Lablache, Beletti and Calzolari. The duet with Lablache in the third act, " Signorina in tante fretta" was exquisitely rendered by Madame Sontag and Lablache, and in a histrionic point of view it was the very perfection of comic act. ing. Nothing could exceed the elegant playfulness of Sontag throughout this scene. The duet was encored, as a matter of course. Then came the finale, which as a piece of brilliant, sparkling, yet most graceful and most finished execution, has never been surpassed. Sontag lavished a profusion of the most brilliant ornaments upon this finale, and created a furore which resembled the triumphs of Jenny Lind. She was, of course, encored, and at the conclusion the pit and stalls " rose at her," as Edmund wean used to say, and greeted her with tumultuous and en thusiastic applause. She was called on at the conclu sion of each act, and three times at the fall of the curtain. Lablache, the great Lablache, the evergreen Lablache, was the Don. Ile appeared in excellent health, excellent spirits, and in magnificent voice, and never acted the Don with more unctious humour, never sang the music with greater power than he did last night, and his re ception was as enthusiastic as the welcome back of an old friend always should be. He is the same La blache that he has been any time the last twenty years, and is still in every sense of the word the greatest of bassos. Calzolari sang the music of Ernesto with great sweetness, and was encored in the serenade, and Beletti was admirable as Malatesta. All these artistes, were called at the conclusion of the opera, and several times also during the course of the performance. At the conclusion of the opera Madame Amalia Ferraris repeated her pas with M. Charles, and excited the greatest enthusiasm. As a professor of choerogra pbic art, Mademoiselle Amalia Ferraris has no rival ; the applause with which she was greeted was rap ous, and at the conclusion bouquets a foison were showered on her. The last scene of .Ernani, with Sims Reeves, Mademoiselle Parodi, and Beletti, fol lowed, and the exquisite singing and acting of these accomplished artistes elicited the enthusiastic plaudits of their delighted auditors. The delightful ballet of Les Metamorphoses, in which Carlotta Grisi was as brilliant as ever, concluded the entertainments of the evening. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by her Royal Highness the Princess Mary of Cambridge, and attended by the Ba roness Ahlcfeldt, Major Stephens, and Mr. Edmond St. John Mildmay, honoured the performances with their presence. The royal party cccupied her Mdesty's box. Amongst the company were his Excellency the Russian Ministers, the Baroness Brunow, Mademoiselle do Brunow, and Mademoiselle Olga de Lechner; his Excellency the Portuguese Minister and the Baroness de Moncorro, his Excellency the Swedish Minister, the Duchess of Leeds and Miss Ehz ibeth Lane Fox, the Earl and Countess of Oxford, the Countess de Flabault and Miss de Flahault, the Count M. de Rosen, Viscount Canning, the*Baron Reitchel, the Count de Potocki, the Baron de Krehmer, the Count de Civey, the Baron de Schertz, the Viscount ClifJen, Lord Adolphus Fitz clarence, Lord William Lennox, Lady Paulet Lady Augustus Wentworth and Miss Wentworth, Lord Francis Gordon, Lady Charles Somerset, Lord Gardner, Lord Rendlesham, Lord Harry Vane, Li e utenant-General Si r Alexander Woodford, Bart., and Lady Woodford, Sir John Lowther, Bart., Sir Thomas Barrett Leonard, Bart., and Lady Barrett Lennard, Sir W. Keith Ball, Bart., Sir Heury Meux, Bait., and Lady Meux, Sir Ralph Howard, Bart., M.P., General the Hon. B. Cavendish, Sir Compton Doraville, Bart., and Lady Domville, Sir John Scott, Bart., Captain the Hon. A. Vivian, Mr. Walter Lennard, the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Ward, Mr. Holford, the Hon. Mr. Chichester, the Hon. C. R. Neville, Mr. Sackville Lane Fox, Mr. T. Wentworth, Miss Sands, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Palmer, Major Buckley, Mr., Mrs., and Miss Bren ton Trelawney, Mr. W. Cubitt, M.P., Mrs. Paul, Mr. Phillips, Mr. and Mrs, Mackenzie, Mr. and Mrs. Grote, Mr. Martin, Mr. Hubert do Burgh, Mr. Megan, Mr. C. W. Packe, M.P., Mr. G. Cornwall, Mr. G. Barrow, Mr. C. Barry Bald Win, &c. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. Signor Tamberlik, a new tenor from the Opera of the San Carlo; Naples, and from the Opera of Barce lona, made his debut here last evening in the charac ter of the hero in the opera of Masaniello, and, albeit he was suffering from the fatigue of his journey (he only arrived in London on Wednesday), and was, moreover, dreadfully and visibly nervous, yet it was evident before he had been on the stage five minutes that he was an artist of very tigh order. His voice i s a pure ch es t vo i ce, o f cons id era bl e power and of sonorous quality, and his style and deli very prove that he has been educated in the best schools. He was encored in the barcarole, and this co mpliment seemed t o h ave restore d t o hi m hi s presen ce of mind, for he sang it on the second occa sion admirably, and without any trace of that tremu lousness which was evident when he first sang it, and which we at first took for an - i n di ca ti on o f a'voice which had passed its prime. He was also encored in the invocation to sleep, which was beautifully ren dered; the mad scene was splendidly acted, and the address to the insurgents was magnificently declaimed. Signor Tamberlik was called on frequently during the course of the evening, and he has achieved a great and a deserved success. Madame Castellan sang the music of Elvira very gracefully, and Miss Balliva, as Fenelle, gave evidence of the possession of much greater pantomimic power that the world has hitherto given Ler credit for. Massol resumed hi s o ld c h a r a ct e r of Pietro, and was perfect in it. The choruses were admirably rendered, and the spl en did over t ure w as as usual encored. MONUMENT. THE NELSON A second alto relievo in bronze has been affixed, on the north side, to the base of the Nel son Column in Trafalgar-square —having been very recently completed at the establish ment of Messrs. Moore, , Terrance, and Com pany, Baldwin's-gardens, Gray's Inn-lane, from a design by Mr. Woodin• gton. In material it consists of one-tenth part of ti n to nine-tenths of copper; the whole being of an equal thickness throughout, weighing altogether three tons, and being cast ver tically in five divis i ▪ ons, with a skill and clearness highly creditable to all parties concerne d i n th e undertaking. In design the subject is treated in a manner singula rl y felicitous, representing an incident in the battle of the Nil e — t h at f amous incident when the her oi c Nelson, h av i ng b e en wounded over his only remaining eye by a langridge shot, was conveyed into the cockpit with his face and bosom covered with blood. The great sea-captain is portrayed as half recumbent in the arms of two of his sailors, and the surgeon, disturbed in his attend ance upon a wounded tar by the appa ren t d ange r o f his renowned commander, is hurrying forward to the assistance of the latter with eager em o ti on . By th e side of the illustrious admiral is the gallant Cap tain Berry, speaking to Nelson, w hil e Nel son himself is gently rejecting the proffered help of the surgeon until his " turn arrived. In the background are two more sailors descending into the cockpit with another wounded comrade, while a fourth, though severely maimed, is raising his arm enthusiastically to cheer the glorious hero, who was not on ly reverenced but beloved by every man in the British fleet. T he effect of the ELIZA COOKS JOURNAL. If in any respect Eliza Cook's Journal for April differs from its predecessors, it is in the greater variety and excellence of its contents. A mere enu. meration of the titles of some of the articles will be a sufficient evidence of their variety. Among the more reflective essays, we have one on " The Indi gent Poor," another on " Literature and Civi lization," an interesting criticism on " The Caxtons," " A Visit to the Gutta Percha Works," a " Biographic Sketch of Dr. James Hope," " Working-class Benefit Societies," " Vol canic Phenomena,'' &c. &c. Among the lighter, but not less practically valuable contributions, are the ad mirable fictions of Silverpen end " The Wayward Wife," "Advice to the Ladies," "The Happiness of Home," &c. Poetry always has a con spicuous place in Eliza Cook's Journal, the con tributions of the editress, of course, holding the foremost rank. Of these the charming song, " how glad I shall be when the Cuckoo is singing," is most appropriate to the season, and will be delightful to all who love the country beauties which it so vividly conjures up; such readers will gladly respond to the gay refrain of every stanza : " And the❑ we'll go straying And playing And maying By upland and lowland, by dingle and dell." In " The Streets " we find another of those affectionate reminiscences of her childhood, which abound in the writings of Eliza Cook, and are so justly admired by all who appreciate the genuine heartiness and naturalness of her verse. "Turn again Whittington" affords a happy theme for inculcating the excellence and efficacy of hope. The legend, as illustrated here, has indeed— " A might and a meaning for many sad hearts." THE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL. From an interesting criticism upon Robert Brown ing, with which it commences, to the "Annals of Progress," with which it concludes, the People's and Ilowitt's Journal for April is altogether excellent. Amusement and information are pleasantly mingled in its pages. In an article on -" Crime ; its Causes and its Cure," we are reminded of a fact which (until it is practically acknowledged) we shall never weary of impressing upon our readers, namely, that "it is cheaper—taking no higher view—to educate a hun dred children than to transport one thief." In "Hints to Nervous Gentlemen," we find the following infallible recipe :—" Be careful to have no time fur nervousness !" In some remarks upon a most at tractive theme, " The Mission of the Poet," it is rightly said, "Every man has his mission, lives for a purpose, and wields an influence ; and when he dies the world is either the better or the worse for his existence." And what, then, is the mission of the poet? Accurately as it is here de scribed, that mission has long since been more em phatically set forth—" Let your light shine before men, that they may glorify your Father in heaven." This injunction, more or less applicable to all, is more especially appropriate to those to whom much is given, and from whom, consequently, much is to be expected. SOUT.HEY'S LIFE AND CORRESPON DENCE. rOl. 111. Within the present ♦olume of the biography of Robert Southey, edited with much care and ability by his son, the Rev. Charles Cuthbert Southey, we have an account of his career during seven years of his prime, from 1805 to 1812, from the thirty-second to the thirty-ninth year of his age— mostly given us in the shape of a very various and agreeable correspondence. The extraordinary care with which these letters have been treasured up, collected together, and subsequently arranged inexact chronological sequence, must be a matter of very sincere self-gratulation to the many admirers of this distinguished writer. The persons to whom the epistles are addressed are almost as various as the moods in which they were written—to his friend Bedford, to Mr. May, to Lieutenant Southey, to John Rickman, to the Messrs. Longman and Company, to Walter Savage Landor, to Mr. Neville White, to Mr. Adamson, to Walter Scott, to William Gifford, &c. &c. All go far to prove the dtopth and worth of his scholar ship, the ripeness of his style, the warmth of his heart, and the delicacy of his sensibilities. As such they are delightful to read, and we doubt not will be devoured with avidity by many thousands. THE WORKING 3IAN'S FRIEND. This little periodical is indeed calculated to be what its name asserts, the working man's friend and family instructor. It is issued in weekly numbers at the price of one penny, and the monthly part now before us is a sufficient evidence of its excellence. Written for working men, its articles are chiefly characterised by their common sense. Amusing anecdotes, tales, and poems enliven its pages, which contain also an abundance of good advice and useful information. The spirit of the work is well exempli fied in the following lines, not remarkable for their poetic excellence, but nevertheless well worthy of being constantly remembered by all : " SMOOTH THE PATH. " 'Tis well to walk with a cheerful heart, Wherever our fortunes call— With a friendly glance, and an opeu hand, And a gentle word for all. " Since li(e is a thorny and difficult path, Where toil is the portion of man, We all should endeavour, while passing along To make it as smooth as we can." ALISON'S HISTORY OF EUROPE. Tol. XIII. Illustrated Edition. Bringingthentti4ative — inciusively down to the battle of Ligny, the last military triumph of the Emperor Napoleon, the volume before us is em bellished with two striking portraits, excellently en eraved from original and authentic paintings, one of Prince Talleyrand and the other of the Emperor Alexander, as Byron calls him in his " Age of Bronze," the "coxcomb Czar." From the represen tation of the Autocrat's countenance, however, pre fixed to this volume as a frontispiece, uncomely as it is in every feature, we should scarcely have given his Russian Majesty credit: for having ever dared assume the airs of a petit maitre. The republication of the masterly illustrative Atlas, by Alexander Keith Johnston, is continued with the ut most regularity, month after month, the companion re-issues appearing simultaneously. Next month both will have been brought to a con clusion, in a fourteenth part and a fourteenth volume. When thus completed, Mr. Alison m a y congratulate himself on having witnessed the publica tion of his great history in an edition as su p er b as could be well contrived with the united aid of the paper manufacturer, the engraver, and th e typographer. His narrative of the most momentous epoch (humanly speaking) that was ever recorded in the annals of mankind since the first commencement of the great march of natio ns a l ong t h e pat h o f civiliza tion, will herein be present e d t o th e rea d er i n a f orm worthy of its eloquence and its comprehensiveness. No library, no English library, no European libritry can . be consider e d comp l e t e w ith ou t a co py o f Ahson , s work upon their bookshelves, and no edition of that, many as there have been, and excel lent ones as there h ave b een a lr ea dy, c an be regarded as in any respect comparable to the one here drawing rapidly towards its termination. It is an edition honourable alike to the age, the work, the author, and the publishers. HISTORY OF THE CONQUEST OF MEXICO. Vol. 1 . 11. By IV. H. PreBcott. Another of the masterly works of this luminous historian—one whose name is henceforth destined to shine brightly in the records of American literature —has here been brought to a conclusion by 111 r. Bentley in the form of a cheap and admirable repub lication. The mere circumstance of the present edi tion being (already) the fifth, is a token that the writings of Prescott are appreciated—nor is the pub lic appreciation of his effusions, the effusions of his scholarship and his erudition, of his industry and his eloquence, carried to any extravagance, ,enthusiastic and earnest as is his literary popularity. the books this Milton of historians has penned with his firm, though invisible, hand, are an attestation that his perceptive faculties, his judgment, and his discrimina tion are as keen and vigorous as if the light of his eyes (now sightless) had been transferred internally to his intellect. That a melancholy interest is excited towards the author of these brilliant productions by the knowledge, at present very g . cneral, of the extra ordinary difficulties under which they have been penned, we are, of course, a ware ; but apart alto• gether from the fascination inspired by the great toil overcome by the blind annalist, his genius would be quite sufficient of itself to secure to him a wide and lasting admiration. Such being our opinion of the historian Prescott, an opinion formed not lightly, it must be almost unnecessary to add that we regard this cheap and beautiful re-issue of his works by Mr. Bentley as a boon conferred upon the mass of English readers. As one interested in the diffusion of sound knowledge and sterling literature, we are sanguine the population may not be unmind ful of the present advantage. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Having just read a leading article in your paper of yesterday, upon the subject of the Bill for facilitating the sale of encumbered estates, brought forward by the English Solicitor-General in the House of Commons, on Monday night ; and agree ing in opinion as I do with you upon the useful results that would accrue to Ireland, and in deed to the empire at large from the adop tion of a measure really calculated to attain the bene ficial objects which you have enumerated, I take leave to forward to you a copy of a letter addressed by me to Lord John Russell about eighteen months back, and also a short article in connexion with its subject, published in an Irish provincial paper ; and this I do, Sir, in order to direct your attention to the par tial character of the Bill now proposed, and the gross injustice it tends to work to owners of property in this country, who are not within the jurisdiction of that court, to facilitate whose operations it has been solely framed. The object of the Bill in question is confessedly to enhance the value of encumbered es tates, by giving them an artificial advantage in the market. Were the object to restore the value of land generally, for the purpose of facilitating its transfer by sale, Irish proprietors could not complain ; but this attempt to raise the value of encumbered estates by means which must have the effect of depreciating those which are unencumbered, and of reducing the value of their secu rity below its natural level, is, in my opinion, an exercise of legislative power alike highly impolitic and unjust. Is it not most inconsistent in . a " Free-trade Ministry" to thus grant a "bounty' —for it is to do nothing less—to their own peculiar customers ? What must be the effect of such a one sided measure on property other than that which it is intended to favour ? Irish landlords are being incessantly reminded that it is their bounden duty to promote improvement, and to provide their tenantry with suitable farm offices and such other permanent conveniences as may be required for the proper cultivation of the soil. I admit that it is. Many of them have done this, more are doing it, and still more are anxious to do it. Would you throw an insurmountable obstacle in their way ? Supposing a proprietor not encumbered with debt, yet desirous to raise money on his estate, for the above-mentioned purposes, brought into competition with mortgagors under this Bill, would he not find it impossible to do so, on the security he can offer, unless at a ruinous rate of interest? Supposing another burdened with debt, although to no extraordinary extent, might not such .a Bill, by inducing mortgagees to call in their money, plunge him into difficulties, and thereby add to the evil which it was the purpose of the framers to correct ? Are the prudent and deserving individuals of a class to be thus unjustly injured for the benefit of its imprudent or less worthy members? and is a moral and economical wrong to be perpetrated for the purpose of propping up an imperfect and arbitrary enactment ? These questions, Sir, I am induced to address to you by the conviction in my mind that much mischief would be the result of the proposed partial application of principles, which, if judiciously embodied in a legislative measure, to be extended equitably to landed property in Ireland—if not in Great Britain also—might be productive of all, and more than, the advantages that you seem to antioi pate.—l: have the honour to be, Sir, &c. C. H. BOWEN. 13, Longford-terrace, Monkstown, Dublin, March 28, 1850. THE LATE GALES IN IRELAND. On Friday and Saturday last we were visited by very severe gales of wind blowing from S.S.E. to S.S.W., during which the shipping along the coast has suffered severely, and several lives have, wo regret to say, been lost. On Saturday morning the mail steamer Thetis, which made her passage good during the late tremendous gale, on the night of Tuesday the sth, and morning of Wednesday the 6th of February, did not arrive here on Saturday morning till half-past 8 o'clock, being five hours beyond her usual time. The Firefly, from Ar drossan, and the Princess Alice, from Fleetwood, arrived about the same time. The steamers Athlone and Wil liam Penn, which sailed hence on Friday night for Liver pool, put back on Saturday. The Athlone bore up off the Calf of Man. The Windsor, which should have sailed on Saturday evening, did not leave till Sunday morning, when she, the William Penn, and Athlone, proceeded same tide for Liverpool. The Lyra steamer, which left Greenock on Saturday evening, at 7 o'clock, with the mails, arrived next morning at a quarter past 5, being about three hours beyond her usual time. Tho Prince of Wales, which left hero on Friday evening, and for whose safety great fears were entertained, encountered the gale, and arrived safe in Fleetwood on Saturday afternoon. The Blenheim arrived here on Sunday, from Liverpool, the storm being still very severe, at a quarter past 1 P.M. On her passage off thu Mew Island, near Donaghader, she passed a quantity of wreck, which was proved to be part of the cargo of the barque Teresa Jane, Wright master, of and from Liverpool, with general cargo, which went on shore on the Mew rocks on Saturday night, at 11 o'clock, and has become a total wreck. Same of the cargo (calicoes) has been saved and landed at Groomsport. In this cise of shipwreck, we aro sorry to say that before the vessel went ashore the master and six of the crew were washed overboard, and drowned. The bull° Burrell, of Lancaster, Wil liam Foster master, went ashore on the rocks at Coney Island Bay, near Ardglass, on Friday night. The schooner Peggy, of Portgordon, Reid ,master, from Liver. pool to Aberdeen, loaded with salt, was driven en shore in Cloughey-bay, on Friday morning. She has received little damage; but her cargo will have to be discharged before she can be got off. A small vessel was driven on shore on the North Rock, on Friday, the 29th ult., all hands lost. Her name is not known; but she is sup posed to be a Manx schooner, laden with salt, for Bel fast. The brig Spartan, Rorge master, from Liverpool to the Mediterranean, has put into this lough, leaky. The schooner Preston, Wilson, master, of Belfast, from Dundalk to Llanelly, was wrecked on Saturday on the Cammon Rock, and, lamentable to state, not a single soul of those composing the crew was saved.—Korthern REQUISITION TO SIR E. N. BUXTON, BART., M.II. —A requisition has been got up by the advocates of Protec tion, and is in course of signature by the electors in South Essex, calling upon Sir Edward North Buxton, one of the Members for the Division, to resign his seat and make room for a gentleman who will uphold the principle of Protection in the Legislature. The requisition states that the parties view with the utmost alarm the distress of the cultivators of the soil and the depression of trade ; and convinced that ruin must result from free-trade in corn, they are anxious to obtain a Parliament that shall represent the general feel ing of the country. With this view addresses have been presented to her Majesty, praying for a dissolution, but these have been unheeded; and they add," Under these circum stances, we are obliged to scrutinise the conduct of indivi dual Members of the House of Commons, and finding that all your votes have been recorded in favour of free trade, and against all remedial means of relief, we are reluctantly compelled w request that you will forthwith give us an op portunity of electing, in your place, some gentleman who in a British Legislature will advocate protection to British industry."—Esees Herald. --- - OXIDE or ZINC.—A communication has been made to the Customs' authorities by the Secretary to the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, stating that he has received the commands of their Lordships to transmit to them for their information a communication from the Board of Trade on a memor i a l , pray i ng that a mater i a l deno minated grey oxide of z i nc may be henceforth imported into the United Kingdom without payment of duty, and that he was directed to state that their Lordships of the Treasury at present concur with the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade in considering that the article in question should be admitted free of duty. It was, however, the wish of their Lordships, that it should be understood by the Com missioners, that if it should appear to them that there is any substantial difference or distinction between white oxide of zinc {which is already by Treasury order admissible free of duty) and grey oxide of zinc, their Lordships would be t i: o r m e pared, upon being furnished with adequate information. the material scientific persons upon the subject, to reconsider deci• sion. It appears from competent authority thhaet Process ern is an impure oxide of zinc, produced during the and that th. - ployed for extracting metallic zinc from the retorts used for portions of coke placed with the ore in grey colour which it bears results f r om th . i" e ts o a r dmixture with p- p ted to consists • the substance thus obtained is then subjected in the smelting process, and that the only aration to which been directed in that the Commissioners of Customs, it has crushing and sifting it, and on consideration of the matter by future grey oxide equally with white oxide of zinc is to be admissible duty free. A CLERGYMAN HIS OWN CHURCHWARDEN.— At the usual meeting for the e lection of a church warden for the parish of St. ', in the city of Durham, on E aster Tees day, the c i s Thompson, incu m b ent, nom i nated an d el his own churchwa r d en, stat i ng that, as h e had Rev. Giles' s, 3 s able to appoint on e th at gave h i m satisfac tionectned never himself e in the discharge of the duties of the office, he would nominate and elect himself. The meeting :protested against such appointment, as being inconsistent with his other duties and nominated t wo i n h a bit ants t o fill the the reverend chairm an wou ld on l y put one o f the par i sh, nominated to the c h o i ce o f t h e meet i ng , an d the p e rsons office. the ns other as an amendment. The parishioners insisted on elect ing both, if the chairman refused to appoint a parishioner as usual. The chairman stated that he would only return him self and a Mr. Joseph Dawson, who had the majority of votes, at the next visitation as elected. A scene of confusion ensued, and the parishioners then left the vestry in a body, declaring that such conduct of the chairman was tantamount to shutting the doors of the church. TIIE LANCASHIRE ESTATES OF THE EARL OZ' DERIIY.—The Right lion. the Earl of Derby is now engaged in draining nearly the whole of his extensive estates in the townships of Halewood, Eccleston, Knowsley, Bickerstaff, and other places. We believe his Lordship is determined to complete the task in a thorough and workmanlike manner. which will be a lasting and permanent improvement, and ultimately return twenty-fold to his numerous tenantry. There are a great number of labourers now engaged in the good work.—Liverpool A BLACK RAINBOW.—We learn from Messrs. Hatch, Gray, and Co.'s Reporter, that a a black rainbow wag discovered one evening, about eight o'clock, by the good tl people of New Bedford. Its direction was from the nor tes • west to the south-cast, and it lased about twenty min u. It was very perfect, and of great s size.—Boston Trqnserilo Y.)