The Sun. — London, England, 1851-03-24 00:00:00

is le, 3, I, is 31 If hl If I A .q Co 11 1,11, e ' naequently the consumption, which has been large, ko rtt e l n entirely met with home supplies—must have been ° US. The trade ruled heavy, on the following terms : /or k Per Ton. Per Ton. ia h • Regents. 70s to 90s Kent Shaws —s to s aitt n — , 4 egents.. 60s to 70s Essex Shaws sto 1 —s Li of 60s to 70s Kent Regents —s to s 4 , 01 L ...... b r i a ' ec Cam- Essex Regents —s to s Pr t age ........ 50s to 75s Kent & Essx. Mid. —s to —s 14 - ' 4 ' Whites... 55s to GOs Kentish Red Kid. —s Coli k Shaw s .,, —s to s Chats g eleete 'WOOL. r u qualities of English Wool, fit for mixing with k o , e nial, are in fair request, at full prices; but other kinds aq t r, heavily, at barely late rates. Last week's imports ot-t / ,, 82 bales frora Melbourne, 14 from Rouen, 1,516 from `"P, 114 from Bombay, and 62 from the Cape. L A 1„ - TALLOW. qtr la , -r ge amount of speculative business having been ,aie r ":,, t ,ed, since Monday last, prices have fluctuated con- Art r '''Y. To-day the demand for immediate delivery is tio: r ra active, yet the currencies are quite Gd per cwt tted t han on this day se'nnight. P.I.C. on the spot is at 40s 6d ; Town Tallow, 395 per cwt net cash ; ItiZ Fat 2 8 ' 2 - 14 d per Blbs. Our St. Petersburgh letter st,,,,,Laer higher quotations. •"rather higher quotations. 1847. 1848. 1849. 1850. 1841. I kt, thi, rti tt -"lay •• .... 10,991 6.948 26,944 33,147 37,1 6 6 p in °I Y. C. 503 id 523 0 C o d a t 40s 0 3d oi 37t , s e n d jo to 4o o s s o d d Week t to 0 5 3 1 0 3 d to 1,851 8 ° 1 3 5 31 2 226 1 814 Iv *° ' l,l. lln 72 311 86539 85 , 498 80,155 81,172 L itol4t " " week . 839 55 994 ?N ' , dune 1 ... 72,679 87,016 104,1G9 87,831 93,1 20 Hof T oWli 53s Gd 53s 02 43s Od 390 6d 4ls 6d r , CALIFORNIA. tti r a dCalifornia the dates are to the Ist of February. Its h „ e , accounts on the whole seem favourable. The 'i t h'al absence of rain still interfered with operations !ta l e , ; (l tY or winter mines, where a certain amount of a` g tiired for washing, but large surfaces had It l t ig up in preparation, and it is alleged that a few h i we t Would enable an immense amount of the metal atd:Gileeted. Meanwhile, although complaints are fir e °F the small returns, it appears that in addition to 4 t 'ta, (l , l ' in gold brought to New York by this arrival, a is t i;' 60 0,000/. was on its way to the United States and by other steamers, amongst which was the ; On this occasion some further accounts have ;tt,;Feived of a wonderful discovery, originally re , I wO r l the San Francisco letters of the 15th of January, ht in . , 4l ch appeared unworthy of notice without further 11 4 41 Y. The statement then was that an explo 14ts,C4npany, formed with a capital of 6,0001 : , to between Trinidad Bay and the Klamath river, ` , ,r, °t lad between these places some bluffs on the sea ti`' e xtending about 15 miles, at the foot of which the eitcintlined gold in quantities ranging from 10e. to l b , ° `', ll ' per lb. The metal was so fine that quicksilver I ta,' tl ting would be essential, " but the sand would be I t4 - ,,, W ay by shiploads, and would be conveyed to tree where labour was cheap, perhaps to England, 11 4 sold extracted." The bluffs were described as `4 l °F rotten quartz, the disintegration of which by N 1 ;, )11 of the sea was supposed to have caused the N 1 18 .; " For miles," according to these stories, " the S„' as yellow with gold." A vessel was forthwith k 4 80 .:1 to take new adventurers to the spot and 150 . 1 '41 4 . 48 . They had already departed when the ori -5,4 s ln telligence of the discovery was brought away Ni tt f r l Francisco, and further news was anxiously L'itor' ° r• The dates are now 16 days later, but the s 'iPapers are imperfect. The San Francisco Herald , . contaias the following:— :Itabimentioned in our last circular the report of very discoveries of gold on the sea coast near the mouth • L 'illiath river. Further investigations confirm in a de gree the richness of the deposits, but also discover • ser ious ob s t ac l e s to rendering them available at the t tli time. The Gold .Buff' is about 30 miles from ,-'the nearest safe point for vessels to discharge their 'air, • The road between is of an almost impassable ko li ci llY practicable for mules. i t iot h ti lderable difficulty also exists in bringing into ope tiVlY really efficacious method of separating the gold t s and, the weight of the latter, which is in a great etallie, preventing the ordinary Virginia rockers from g ueeessfully. Experiments have been tried to nilre NI • acti on by fusion, but whether they can be carried ; i iii t a. et ‘ o s b u e M s c e i e e n nt .,, ly large scale to be practically useful re ,,:leeunts from the West Indies received at New i ti . ' e ro to the 27th of March. In Jamaica business Ot t , k tiye, and there had been a revival of the cholera ,A4 -4 :,° 1 the rural districts. On the Isthmus of Pa- L lts t re was much sickness, but not of a malignant FWith regard to Nicaragua and the proceed ett connexion with the temporary transit and the the New York Herald furnishes the follows 1, Snsation t ated a short time ago that the Nicaragua Canal rib Atj Were proceedin with the work of connecting the ah ti k c With the Pacific a g s speedily as and that months they would open a transit route, rid Ni t ,A tl for the conveyance of passengers and freight from th en to the Pacific, to San Francisco, in California. , 1 6 1b . ,"ed Commodore Vanderbilt, the most prominent , ;# '4; 6 "cn e.nnected with that company, has returned from til tl ai where he went for the purpose of seeing for him ,' th - ,, a dvantages which that part of the continent offered lening of a ship communication between the two I , lfi t • '„ 4 9(.1 of overseeing the preliminary arrangements for Si t ,"'olg the gigantic undertaking, and conferring with 10P'ors and engineers, who have been for some time 'th - "„ 10 selecting a route for both the proposed ship canal ` l / 1 0 ( 1' temporary transit route for passengers. He has re ' awlth the conviction that the work is not only feasibl e , 4 1 , no ' t at impediments that cannot be overcome by dr } ,atld enterprise exist in the way of constructing a ship 4 o` 4 at will change the course of commerce, and make 4,` 111 great mart of the world and the centre of universal l iti,.. t2 nrveyors and engineers have been very busy since 'pal in Nicaragua. Up to this time they have fixed ti; t deli for a ship canal between the Lake of Nicaragua At Pacific Ocean and also a road for passengers and ' r otn the extremity of that lake to the Bay of San e the op Pacific. After examining in a thorough man ▪ Whole of that country, the engineers at length se "at4;l'eint on Rio Lagas, which empties into the Lake of as the Atlantic side terminus of the ship canal, thL• eerta'n point on the Rio Grande, which empties ;'(i r "f,acific Ocean, for the terminus on that side. The ,'Sts t ,7 , e terminates at the harbour of Barito, which, we possesses every requisite for the purpose for Al• a 1; "as been selected. The whole , distance from one "to the other is but 19 miles. The summit of the ' . 4 t r it t'und on the route above the surface of the lake is is a `tet, • and for a distance of seven miles . and a half from th e • b „ ground runs down to a level with the water. It per ceived therefore, that the route which has been ,—' 4 ers uncommon advantages for the construction of l'i, i ; t 7ntl. It is not certain, however, that this will may . d e t hat will ultimately be chosen, as a bette r one ' l l/. c °vered. rah t ßard to the transit route, the land portion of it will t p l lati l t at Virgin-bay, on Lake Nicaraa, and end at of San Juan del Sur, on the Pacific, the d . 1 , - i,44-%t betty the two points being 12 miles and 30 chains, ` 4 t• ry" a straight line, and through a remarkably healtly The whole route will be as follows:—From .N.ew )in att (I-40 Juan by steam-ship, thence to the Castillian i';_tt o - ! the s an • Juan river by steam-boat ; from this e river above these rapids, a distance of 100 yards ' ' t , i tar" aL ,' 44 d; thence b te river San Juan and the Lake t 1 1 4 ,,k16 5114 to Virgin Bay; thence to San Juan del Sur, on Oa th '? a distance of 12 miles, by land, and thence to t' hi C i sco by steam-ship. Making liberal allowances for this will bring San Franciscj within 20 days of mad e t l t s ' being many days shorter than the connexion can y t We 3" any other route. thi; t e Pretty well satisfied, from what we have heard, olet transit route to San Francisco maNicaragua will 4` i re Z tion some time in the month of June next. Com anderbilt's character for energy is well known; I,;.`„frena other considerations, the fact that he is con thl'n this enterprise is a guarantee to the public that vol 11 ,'se great projects—the construction of an ocean ship fe at that of a transit route—will be finished at the m om e nt practicable." I iCENTS OF ATLANTIC STEAM -SHIP S FROM lIft4i l ti o,11: 7!:•--The United States mail steam - ship Baltic, Comstock, sailed from the Mersey on Saturday t: for New York, with the usual mails , a large cargo, Vi t l ltY-six passengers. During the summer months 04 1 t 111 -ships composing the Collin's United States fromline LiVerpool every other Wednesday, commencing ° Pacific, Captain Nye, on the 9th of April next. The S4:_ltail steam-ships (Cunard line) will sail from Liver 'Yeekly. during the suummer, commercing with the Capt.sui Ryrie, on Saturday next, the 29th instant. 'Will /be no alteration from the other side of the At- O katil May. tib & 11 4 ,- , bBROUS ATTACK-ON A POLICE OFFICER.--On Vight, at half-past nine o'clock, Banks , one of t he eanstabulary force, was attacked in Southdown-lane, 1, by nine men, carrying fire - arms and bludgeon s. tik, 4 ggled with them, and took from one a formidable farmed of a carp prop, heavily bod with iron and lattached for the wrist. On retreating they fired • twice, but the shots fortunately did not take touple of the mounted patrol followed in the di the gang gang had taken, but did not come up w ith L tci ‘te t hey are supposed to have taken to the fields. At 414 t otti' O ur it transpired that about an hour an d a half lt k a attack upon the police officer a number of armed O A ' t he same gang doubtless) entered the house of Mr. lopner, Allerton. They abused the inmates , and b gold.' tai gd 1,_ g° 1:1 X 8 ACT EXTENSION BILL.—The minutes of itA taken before the Select Committee of the House of 0 the Bill for extending the provisions of the D esi g ns , and to give protection from piracy to persons ex- NLlat t. t.; 4 °Y inventions in the Exhibition of the Wor ks of LAO* all Nations, has just been printed. The wit 111`.aniined were Mr. Thomas Webster, barrister-at -4;11. li kt :• William Carpmael, patent - agent ; Mr. A. P. New \rofr-agent ; Mr. Charles May, civil-engineer, of the lii i lle tr ,„ l kasome and May, Ipswich; and Professor Bennet 11,7tca‘• S ome considerable difference of opinion is ex 0t '1 the witnesses with respect to the working of the o,l4,Patent laws, and the necessity w hich exists for some loti 4L ti 41 °Ya with respect to the protection of inventors ex gt% t hair inventions in the Great Exh i b i t ion. The fol "°11 - ift, extrac t from the evidence of C harles Ma y , Es q ., ~,Aiti„c ri va the injurious effects of the p atent laws in t he Ni . ' l :tieZ n, and the necessity which existed for t he p assin g 1 0 :•.,i,"tleh measure as that of the Designs Act Extension Zit % There is one subject to which I would refer, which . r Boa Tti the spoke of, with respect to the number o f tlo4aiti me t ro p o litan commission, with regard to this 1, ; °ll , who made protection a condition of exh i bit ing; iitiP a member of a different section of the machine ry 41 4 , 3 1° 0 0 i 1i1 1 l our section there were a great many who made totillth o " 011 of exhibiting that there b hould be protection, r ,a(l u s Withdrew their applications when they were in -44411 gat there was at present no distinct protection. I.I I Y , MURDER IN BEICKELEY-sQIJAILE.— On Staur -14 'Arm • • tp it tis atlon was given to Mr. Bedford, the coroner, h iki l Previous evening, the body of a fine full-grown lo t . : l l's a l_uaan found in the enclosure of Berkeley-square, I,..'uPposed to have been born alive and then made "alt. 4011 b,„ et i ,„.tr, or AN INFANT.—On Saturday Mr. 4 0 `441 - 0 ,7a coroner, received information from Devarill, the th„ l.4 l';`, 111 Officer of Shadwell, that the body of a newly ctivt—,,,,aT infant was the previous day found floating in 4 names, off Bell Wharf. It was in a decomposed andto t he were marks of violence observable. It was 1 / 4 'as dead-house. CoPe. Co t °l lor i t . • Baker, jun., d e puty coroner for the eastern tqa tt 1 9 , the coun t y of Middlesex, has been appointed the ; the Toyer liberty, THE S UN, Ea MAJESTY'S THEATRE,. Saturday night was the opening night for the season of this, our great national, Lyrical Establishment, and if we may regard the opening night as an omen, then will the season of 1851 be the most brilliant ever re corded in the annals of our lyrical drama, for never do we recollect such a brilliant opening. night as that of Satur day. Mr. Lumley inaugurated his management by setting at nought the careless practice which had been indulged in by many cot' his predecessors, so long as to become almost a tradition of the opera, of cautiously abstaining from pro ducing any work or any artist of merit before Easter. He has, on the contrary, always acted loyally with his subscribers and with the public, and the nominal has always been, with Mr. Lumley, the real commencement of the season. Ho has been so fortunate as to inaugurate the commencement of the season of 1851 by the (Wit of a young and accomplished artiste, the inheritor of a name which the world will " not willingly let die," and of a world-wide renown, which she herself will worthily sustain. The evening of Saturday, March 22, 1851, will be hereafter celebrated in the annals of the lyrical drama in England as that of the dada of Mdllc. Caroline Dupre z, the daughter and pupil ot the great tenor, and who is destined, if life and health are pre served to her, to be one of the great illustrations of modern lyrical art. This young lady made her debUt in Paris at the Salle Ventadour, under the management of Mr. Lumley, in Paris, on the 10th of January last, and created a furore such as has seldom before been created by one so young. Yet, brilliant as was her success on that occasion, it cannot but be considered that her triumph of Saturday was even more complete, more satisfactory. In considering the enthusiasm which she excited in Paris, some allowance had necessarily to be made for national feeling and for personal friendship; but when we find that in Londen, where she is a stranger, this young lady has achieved a access to the full as triumphant as that which she achieved in Paris, then are we justified in considering that she depends upon no adventitious support, that hers is the legitimate success which genius, and genius alone, cultivated to the highest pitch, can achieve, and that she will excite the same enthusiasm in every other land as she has on her native soil; for hers is that genius, " one touoh" cf which " Makes the whole world kin." The character chosen for her debiit was that of Lucia in Lucia de Lammermoor. The moment she appeared on the stage it was evident that the character was admi rably chosen. Mademoiselle Caroline Duprez is young, certainly not exceeding eighteen years ot age, her ex quisitely chiselled features are most mobile, and her lustrous eyes are capable of the most intense expression of feeling; her figure, although somewhat petite, is per fect in its symmetry, and there was in her appearance and gesture an expression of girlish sim plicity, relieved, however, from any appearance of awkwardness by the gentleness' of manner which is the inherent characteristic of high breeding, which pointed her out at once as the representative, par excellence, of that Lucy Ashton who was imagined by Sir Walter Scott. A burst of enthusiasm greeted her on her ap pearance, and then all was hushed into silence for the far-famed cavatina, " Ancor non giunse. Never have we heard this delicious cavatina wore perfectly ren dered. The voice of Mademoiselle Caroline Duprez is exactly suited to the music of the part ; it is a high soprano of the very purest quality, of the great est flexibility, cultivated to the highest pitch of perfection, and possessing that delicious freshness of youth for the absence of which nothing can compensate; her intonation, too, is perfect, and in this respect she possesses a great advantage over her cele brated predecessor, Madame Persiuni. Before she bad concluded the cavatina it was evident that she was not only the Lucy Ashton of Sir Walter Scott but also the Lucia of Donizetti. The whole conclusion of the first act was a series of triumphs; the duet with Edgardo was exquisitely given, and at the conclusion she was called on and greeted with the most enthusiastic applause. In the second act, the scene with Enrico was beautifully rendered, and Mdlle. C. Duprez showed herself through out this act as great as an actress as she is as a singer. In the malediction scene she was especially true to nature; she sinks to the earth as though blighted by that terrible malediction, as though she had indeed no longer any hopes in this world. The mad scene was beau tifully rendered, and at the conclusion she was again called on and enthusiastically applauded. Sincerely do we congratulate Mr. Lumley and the public on the deblit of Mdlle. Caroline Dupre z, who is, if we mistake not, destined at no distant day, to take her place in the front rank of the prime donne of Europe. She was again called on at the conclusion of the opera, and when she appeared to sing in the National Anthem was again enthusiastically applauded. Calzolari was the Edgardo. He sang the music with great feeling and expres sion, end reminded us more strongly of the Edgardo of Rubini than has any other artist who has recently appeared in the part. Los renzo's Enrico was full of power; his rendering of the "Se tradirmi to potrai " was very fine. Signor Balan chi was the Bide the Bent, and made more of the character than any of his predecessors have done ; and Signor Romagnilli did full jus tice to the little character of Arturo. These gentlemen are new to Her Majesty's Theatre; their engagement adds to the efficiency of the:company. The orchestra, under Mr. Balfo (who was warmly greeted on taking his seat), has been greatly improved, and the choruses are admirable. At the conclusion of the opera all the artistes were called on. The National Anthem was then sung, the solo parts being taken by Madame Fio rentini and Madlle. Dupree. The overture to Masa nielo wan then performed by the orchestra in the most admirably perfect manner. Then came the ballet L'lsle des Amours, a sketch of the plot of which ap peared in our number of Saturday. High as our expectations had been raised by what we had heard of this ballet, we must oorifess that they were more than realized. Nothing can excedo the quaint beauty of the scenery, the dresses, and the dances. Watteau has been reproduced oven to the minutest particular of his style; the scenes are just the " trim gardens " in which the lords and ladies, and shepherds and shepherdesses oft Watteau, "take their pleasure," and the characters are just the shepherds and shepherdesses and lords and la dies which our grandfathers wore wont to purchase at high prices in Dresden china as chimney and drawing room ornaments. There is, however, an exquisite creations, whose prototype is not to be found in Watteau, it, is F: , eurette, the creation of Amelia Ferrari', who has proved that she is to the full as great as a mime, us she has long been acknowledged to be as a diesse de la danse. Her acting was full of espieglierie, as her dancing was of grace, elegance, and art. The pas de bouquets, with M. Charles in the first tableau, was the very perfection of coquettry, and nothing could bo more piquant than her polka and waltz; her grand pas in the third tableau was a superb display of choorographic art; but the. great triumph of the night was her pas de deux with M. Charles in the fourth tableau. She was called on to repeat this, and at the con clusion some superb bouquets were thrown to her. This is the greatest triumph she has yet achieved. At the conclusion of the ballet she was called for, and was' led on by M. Charles and M. Paul Taglioni. Madame petit Stephan danced a rococo dance, us a grande dame, with great quaintness; and Metallic. Tedeschi made a most successful debtit as art. the God of Love. The house was crowded in every p (From the Times.) Seldom has the O per asea n so ig n ht c . om E m v e e n r c v ed with bit u s; cheerful must be an perfectlyasilectwSaturdaytheopening of the lyrical often but a dull business, and unage d s . will recur . to t his mind n tbat yearis a box a a u nd ien e c v e en cut a over-dis tinct,-lookinaelsl aware ° of a pit scantily peopled, groups by unseemly gaps, sorton Saturday. g3 The g housestage. aTheres filled w , a in swere in demand, and everythi g pa o r f t part, he hoses _ r not a trace of listlessness was to be found. Moreover, the v good groundwork of cheer fulness was given to the whole vocalist,with i n terior of the edifice had b een entirely cleaned, and thus a the knowledge that she picture. The promised appea rance of a new the world-honoured name of Dupre z, and was quite had been introduced by her well - rem embered father to the Pa risian public, who had received her with all honour , enough to r a i se a general feeling of expectation. Mademoi selle Caroli ne Dupree was warmly greeted on her first en trance, and a t once struck her audien ce by her light and youthful appearan ce . Her dress was simple but picturesque, her gestures graceful and unaffected. She was not the Lucia elevated into a tragic heroine b u t the artles s, sensitive girl, gently winning the sympathies no t taking them b y storm. Her age is said not to exceed 'eigh tee n, and as an almost n ecessary consequence h er vo i ce, though beautifully fresh, has not yet attained its full volume. She is not as yet a powerful singer, but nevertheless the organ is equal throughout, and there is not a note without its value. Her training musthave been most admirable. Through the whole character her execution was a remarkable specimen of steadiness and truth ; every passage was perfectly rendered ; not a single fault of intonation was committed ; and it should be observed that she gained in favour as the opera progressed. Those who had been most susceptible of the juvenile want of power at the beginning were surprised by the effect which she gave to the concluding aria in the mad scene. The grace, delicacy, and precision with which she executed the difficult ornaments were most gratifying to the ear, and seldom do we find the quality of neatness raised to so high a position. The acting of the mad scene is in keeping with all the rest—not a ter rific display of violence, but a quiet exhibition of grief. It is a great virtue i n Mdlle. Caroline Du prez that she does not attempt too much in the histrionic way, but that all she does attempt she carries out thoroughly. The poignant anguish of the marriage scene, for instance, could not have been more voca li s t employed. She was called a t th e en d o f impress i ve ly represented than by the simple mean s w hi c h the e ch act, young her great triumph was the aria above alluded to, where she was summoned back by universal acclamations before Edgardo had commenced his finale. (From the Herald.) This great establishment opened on Saturday later by some two or three weeks than usual. This circum stance, however, brought together an audience of unusual brilliancy, in consequence of the universal presence in town of the leaders and satellites of fashion. Since the occup at i on of the house by the give rs of the National Conceits the restorer has been at work, and we are glad once more to see the golden cur , ains, and the long lines of boxes, the divisions of which had been removed by the projectors of the unfor tunate speculation alluded to. After the cold and tasteless decorations which had been substituted upon this occasion, the rriental lustre of the beaten d'or hangings was doubly, trebly welcome. Mr. Lumley still exhibits the enterprise which has all along distinguished his management, and the subscribers are not called upon to wait till Easter for the production of matters of interest. The old system has been utterly extirpa - ed by him, and instead of the obscure personages who were formerly called upon to parade theft' feebleness and indifference before the habitue's, entertainments are now provided of similar mark and character to those which, in the ancient days of the house, were only thought of after some weeks bad elapsed. The reform in this particular has been one of the most noticeable features of Mr. Lumley's career ; and recurrence either by himself or his successors to the old shabbinesses of provision at this period of the season is now impossible. The event of Saturday night was the first appearance of Mdlle. Caroline Uuprez, the daughter of the celebrated tenor, who recently made her debut at the Salle Ventadour under the auspices of Mr. Lumley. The nationality with which this young lady would instinctively be regarded in the French capital tended in some degree, no doubt, to heighten LONDON, Its sensation which she evoked ; and the criticisms that reached this country were warm and enthusiastic. Ihe success which awaited her in Paris has been realized to a like extent in London, and Mr. Lumley may be congratu lated upon his good fortune in having found a vocalist of such great present utility and such unequivocal promise. The per sonal appeara.:ce of the debutante at once preposses , ed the spectator in her favour. Small in stature, and evidently nog yet far emerged flom girlhood, piquantly Jewish in the cast of countenance, in demeanour sweetly modest and unassum ing, the new Lucia kindled universal sympathy the moment she set foot upon the stsge. Although the ordeal through which the was about to pass was a severe one, her self-pos session, notwithstanding the vehemence of the salution, did not desert her, and she delivered the " Perche non ho," a test of no ordinary kind, with as much excellence probably as she would have exhibited had the circumstances been less exciting and the stake at issue less important. The charac teristics of Madlle. Uuprez's voice are sweetness and flexi bility, frequently reminding the listener of the instrumental delicacy of the organ of Persiani. Power it certainly has not, and hence we do not imagine that for a year or two, at least, she will be enabled to grapple with parts of the higher tragic class. The cultivation to which her voice has been subjected is betrayed in the smoothness - and docility of her execution, which is exquisitely neat and finished, nothing occurring from the first note to the last that iis crude or irritating. This easy and unforced delicacy, combined with an intonation uniformly just, ensures most agreeable results; and though as a vocal demonstration no effect is produced that is large or astonishing, we have seldom had so pleasing a Lucia—one so personally accordant with the spirit of the story. She rendered the well-known cavatina to which we have referred with simple and graceful freedom ; and we were soon put out of fear for the floriture, all the feats which declare the ripe ness of exercise, and the command of voice which it is its function to establish, being, plainly within close and im mediate reach. The child and pupil of one of the finest dramatic singers in Europe, the musical education of Mille. Duprez has been conducted under peculiar advantages ; and the fruits are before us in purity of style, correctness of articulation, nicely-balanced phrazing, and elocutionary ex actness. These qualities were vividly manifested in the two duets which follow the cavatina, and again in tbs.uaad scene. We could scarcely expect to#(1, in sli t,' u3ote adroit and better-disciplined order of Miphan*a#7..", (From the Post.) . • • ' - BIDLLE. CAROLINE DUPRit'S DEBUT. --- A great name is a dangerous inheritance. Associated with ideas of lofty excellence and encyclical public triumphs, it suggests comparisons and creates expectations difficult indeed to sustain and realize. Its advantages are as nothing com pared with its responsibilities and, instead of being con sidered beneficial to a debittant, it should be regarded rather as an alarming and oppressive burthen. It is true that the child of an old and favourite artist possesses hereditary claims to our consideration ' • that a grateful recollection of past enjoyment may add heartiness to the reception, and vigour to the applause, which courtesy bestows and dis cernment awards; but rigid justice admits no further claim, and its power must rather be directed towards preventing us from expecting too much, than being satisfied with too little. People will compare, although "comparisons are odious," and lif a 'great name be a legitimate passport to public interest, it is at the same time one which subjects the bearer to an unusually severe scrutiny. Such was the case with Mademoiselle Caroline Duprez, who on Saturday evening made her London debut, in the character of Lucia; and when we state that she came most honourably through the trying ordeal, we shall (the nature of the circumstances considered) make a very large and important admission in her favour. Madlle. Duprez possesses a pure, sylvery, soprano voice, not very:full in quality, but remarkably fresh and youthful. It is firm throughout, and clear as crystal in the upper register, espe cially from E in the fourth space to C above. Assiduous exercise has rendered it very flexible, without, however, impairing the brilliancy of its tone. ller method is perfect. Nothing can be more artistic than the vocal management, or more systematic than her execution. She has not sung many bars before you feel that whatever difficulty she may attempt will certainly be accomplished; so scrupulously correct is her style, so composed and steady her manner. The young lady's intonation too, if we except a slight ten dency to rise (which might, on this occasion, have been the result of nervousness), is irreproachable. As an actress she is judicious and pleasing; her demeanour is ladylike, her countenance expressive and interesting, and her figure though petit, symmetrically formed. (From the Chronicle.) The raising of the curtain of her Majesty's Theatre, an event of which took place on Saturday night, in the presence of a brilliant and distinguished audience, may be regarded as the formal announcement that the most extraordinary season ever likely to be recorded in London annals has fairly commenced. Lucia di Lammermoor was the opening work. The opera has rarely been performed under more interesting circumstances. It introduced to the London public a young debutante—the daughter and pupil of one of the greatest musical authors France ever produced. Mdlle. Caroline Duprez (who made her first appearance upon the stage early in the present year in Paris), sought, in the arduous character of the Bride of Lammermoor, an English ratification of the French verdict, which declared' her, both as an actress and as a vocalist, more than worthy of the name she bears. The con firmation of that verdict was not merely unhesitatingly, but enthusiastically, accorded on Saturday. Sir Walter Scott's exquisite conception has never been more com pletely realized upon the stage than by Mademoiselle Duprez. Young, for she is scarcely eighteen, ex ceedingly pretty and exceedingly graceful, with a most fortunate manner, in which modesty, though ap proaching timidity, never approaches it so nearly as to pre vent the artist from doing herself justice, Mdlle. Duprez ad mirably reproduces the idea of poor Lucy Ashton With a freshness to which the opera-goer is little accustomed, there is a charming air of refinement about her, which seemed in stantly to fascinate the aristocratic audience, and caused her to be at once taken into their favour. The moment she came on, at the terminatima of the harp prelude, her face and manner created that species of impression which rarely proves a false prophet. There was an unmistakeable indi cation of intellect in high cultivation. The first acclama tion she received could, under any circumstances, have been showered upon - the daughter of her father, but, although not a note of her voice had been heard, they appeared to be bestowed upon one whom the house, having just seen, had already learned to like. But if there could be any doubt upon this point, her execution of the opening cavatina de cided her claims. Mdlle. Duprez's voice is a high soprano of exceeding flexibility, perfectly under command, and with a compass of great extent. Her method is that of the superb artist who has sedulously instructed her, and she phrases largely and nobly, as might be expected from his pupil. This, and the sympathetic quality of her voice, may be re corded as the two great elements of her present success, and as the assurances of manifold future triumphs. Her preci sion of execution is marvellous, and in the passages where the composer has designed that executive power should for the moment be the object of display, she dealt out her ca dences with ;masterly ease, and amid irrepressible plaudits. But, speaking of the cavatina, the tenderness of the character and of the sentiment was developed throughout with an earnestness and a completeness which spoke of strong dra matic intention. It was clear that the artist before us had never been taught to regard an opera as a mere construc tion designed to introduce a singer, but that, in a true and fitting spirit of art, she regarded a singer as one whose duty it was to devote all her vocal and histrionic power to till illustration of a lyrical drama. This distinction, which can never be too strongly urged upon those who aspire to follow a Vasta or a Malibran, but which those who are content with being mere vocalists may neglect at their will, was un ceasingly brought to our minds by Mdlle. Duprez's perform ance. She never forgot that she was an actress as well as a singer, and she brought a remarkable dramatic power in aid of her voice. We do not mean that she merely paid the closest attention to the business of the scene, taking her own share in the " by- play," as well as in the more prominent detail, for these are duties which the admirable stage edu cation of all French artists never allow them to forget ; but Mdlle. Duprez did far more. She threw herself, heart and mind, into the dramatic cha racter she was representing, and whether that heart was speaking in the accents of affection, or whether that mind was wandering through the haunted mazes of madness, she never lost sight of the dramatic retirement of the scene. her acting during tke celebrated finale of the second act, when Edgar tears from her the ring, end curses the moment when he gave her his love, was exquisitely touching ; and in the concluding passage, where the agonised girl, true to her woman's nature, pours out her prayer for him by whom she has just been outraged and crushed, her " Dio ! lo salve.," was a beautiful instance of tragic and lyric power. The sad melodies of the mad scene, the listening to the songs of the angels, the vision of the bridegroom and of the marriage ceremony, the vow of eternal fidelity, and the subsequent awaken ing of the mind to the agonies of the situation, were rendered with united perfection of musical delivery and of dramatic appreciation. When a few seasons shall have further developed the physical powers of Mdlle. Duprez, there will be no character in the prima donna's range which she will not be able to undertake. The gentle sorrows of Lucy Ashton are already perfectly within her grasp, and, with increasing strength, she need not fear, with her style, intelligence, and executive skill, to venture in the darker walks of the lyrical drama. For the moment we predict her chief successes in parts which call forth either the smiles or the sympathies of an audience. Her triumph on Saturday night was complete ; she was summoned before the curtain at the close of each act, the plaudits were unanimous and enthusiastic, and the house seemed to find a pleasure in having an opportunity of reviving them when Mdlle. Duprez appeared to take her share in the anthem. The advices from New York by the Cambria state the failure of Austens and Spicer, a large firm, with liabilities for upwards of 200,0001., Which are magnified to double that amount in the papers. They were the oldest auctioneers in the city (their business being analogous to that of our pro duce brokers), and until last September enjoyed the highest credit. Embarrassments in Connexion with some cotton and woollen mills in the interior of the state, coupled with losses on shipments to California, are mentioned as the causes of their stoppage. As usual in such cases, on both sides of the Atlantic, it is represented that the house will pay in full, but it is not really believed that the assets will yield more than 50 per cent. This event, together with the suspension of four of the smaller banking establishments, had created some little distrust, and money was rather• more in demand. The rate of exchange also was slightly more in favour of Eng land, the last transactions having been at 10. From this side the news was to the 22d of February, and the accounts of the Liverpool cotton market had produced a favourable g The statement that an additional grant of 200,000 fdeoelllisn.p.er annum had been made to the Collins' line of steamers appears to have been telegraphed to New York in error previous to the sailing of the last packet. It was sub. sequently contradicted. It is reported that the Government, convinced at last of the necessity of moving the National Gallery from the building in Trafalgar-square, have adopted the suggestions thrown out in various quarters, sad propose to place the pic tures in Kensington Palace. The Hon. Frederick George Ellis, son of Lord Howard de Walden, is appointed an unpaid attaché to her Majesty's Mission at Brussels. vt sixty fl on UN w o e a d it n r e A sd rf ay ß a E lt r e u rn G o E on Es IN Li , we learn hat New York =Tuesday. Sixty-three altogether had signed the LI VERPOOL.—On POLIES—o ° f the i inrcleAu:iirgi)Ye'es embarked in the Charles Croker for sixty, thirty-two three two (and agreement for their tran smission, but when the muster-roll was t the ns ix 3,. Besid es toe re f ugees , there were also on board thirty Hol steiners, whose p,ssage-money were Pthoeleses,P and twenty-eight wereHmissing. Hungarians. had been paid by Messrs. Shunk, Souchay, and Co., merchants, of Manchester, and about twenty-nine German emigrants, who paid their own fare. Three of the refugees, who have expressed their wil lingness to proceed to America, are sick at licme, and one is in the hospital. The rest are at the soapery, in Oriel-street, in the most wretched plight. Their allowance of money does not exceed 6d. per day, and above twenty of them have been attacked by bronchial affections.--Liverpoo/ Tittles. THE STREET ORGAN NUISANCE.—In consequence of the recent accident which occurred to the brougham of a medical gentleman in North Audley -street, and of repeated complaints which have been made with respect to frightening ' horses, and endangering the lives of the public by the street organ nuisance, the Commissioners of Police have issued a general order for the suppression of street-organ playing in the public thoroughfares of the metropolis. MONDAY AMERICAN NEWS. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 23 By the Royal Mail steam-ship Europa, Captain Lott, we have advices from New York, vii Boqm., to the 11th instant. Our usual telegraphic message, viu Halifax, has not arrived. She brings 60,000 dells. in specie. A ship, supposed to be the Asia, was seen oil' Halifax on the 12th. Beyond various diplomatic appointments, little busi ness of importance had been done in the special session of Congress. The Empire City had arrived at New York with 750,000 dolls. in gold dust. Her advices from California had been anticipated. Tho steamer Georgia had also arrived with 500,000 dolls. in specie. By the mail ship Merlin we have advices from Bermuda to the 26th ult. There was a great want of water. Our advices from Canada mention that a dispatch Las been received from Earl Grey stating that Government declined to open the coasting trade of the provinces to foreign reAsels until the question of reciprocity with the United States had been determined. Details of news from Jamaica to the let instant had been re ceived. Tho cholera continues to prevail i❑ many parts of the island. In the country districts it had made its reappearance. From Central America we learn that on the 21st of January an engagement took place between the armies of Guatemala and Salvador and Honduras, resulting in the total defeat of the latter. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. There has been a moderate business done in stocks since the last steamer, with a moderate improvement in some de scriptions. The demand for exchange has been less active in consequence of the firmness of the market. The sales have been to a fair extent at 10 to 10% for first-class sterling; France, 5.10 to 5.7 1 ,4 ; Amste.dam, 41M to 41 3 / 4 ; Ham .burgh, 36 1 to 36% and 37 ; Bremen, 79:1./ 1 to 79. The -kupply of bills moderate, but the renewed activity in 4bt,ton here as well as in the south will furnishAa better supply for the steamer. Cotton— Fakotes Circular gays,-- " Our last weekly circular was written for the Baltic, 4th instant. On the sth sales were 3,000 bales at ic. to advance; on the 6th, 2,000 bales at further advance ', c. to %c. ; on the 7th, 2,0 0 bales at LA c. to 3e. further advance; on the Bth, 2,100 bales at very extreme rates, and to-day 4,000 bales at a further improvement of 1 / 2 c. to Mc., making the average advance since the 4th instant. 1%c., the market closing with an upward' tendency. Our latest dates from Mobile are of the 7th per 'telegraph, as fol lows: —Markets suffering and progressing, middling- 10%, receipts falling off; river overflowing; freights dull at %c. New Orleans market rising; receipts and estimates decreas ing; and by mail of 2d from New Orleans, our correspondent writes, the rivers about are rising, and we shall have a greater overflow of the Mississippi and tributaries than for last two years. We revise our quotations to conform to the present state of our markets. Inferior Atlantic, 10 to 10%; New Orleans and Mobile, 10 1 4 to'. ; other Gulf43orts, 10 to 10% ; good ordinary Atlantic, 10% to 10 3 / 4 ; Few Orleans and Mobile, 10 3 / a to 11 ; other Gulf ports, 10 1 ,4 to 11 ; mid dling to good middling, 11 1 ,( to 111 , 12 1 ,/ to 1x 1 ,4, 11 1 ,4 to 12; middling fair to fair, 12 to 12 1 / 2 , 13% to 14%, 13 to 134 1 ; fully fair to good fair, 12% to 13 1 ,x, 14,4 ';ci 15." Breadstuffs—Flour—For some days there has been rather more activity in the market on Eastern acconiit, without any change to notice. The transactions in wheat are very limited, holders not being willing to meet the markets as compared with flour. Indian corn in limited supply for home use. _ '" Iron — The market for English bars has declined, and we note sales of 200 tons, from store and to arrive,l'at 21 dolls. 50c. to 22c., six months, showing a firm market:: Toleacco rather quiet, but prices were unaltered. A lot of hogsheads Kentucky brought 10c. to 11 Freights are lass firm, with less engagements; of cotton at 5-13ths ; flour is 164 ; dead weight, 20s. Within a few days we noticed engagements to Liverpool of 100 tierces of beef at 35., 1( 0 barrels of lard at 255., 2,000 bales of resin at ls. 3d., to London. We hear of sour at ls. 31. to ls. 4d. ; 600 barrels of turpentine, 250 barrels of resin, 2s. to 2s. 6d.; 700 barrels of beef at 4s. 6d. ; 700 packages 4' bacon and lard, 255. ; cheese, 305.; 500 barrels of oil cake, 2s. fid. Glasgow—heavy goods, 255. to 275. 6d. To Elollacld—rice, 30s. ; and to Hamburgh—cotton, 0-16 cents., and rice 25. JAMAICIA,ISIAncir 1. The business of the last fortnight has been principally con fined to purchases forimmediate consumption, bat few whole sale purchases have occurred. The markets fOrpost descrip tion of goods are heavy and inactive, as the prospect of the crop is favourable. IRELAND. DUNGAEVAN ELECTION. DUBLIN, SATURDAY.—The Tenant League has received another and more signal repulse than it met in Limerick by the disastrous defeat at Dungarvan of one of its ablest champions (Mr. J. F. Maguire), and the return of the Whig candidate by a majority of 75 in a constituency which counts little over 300 voters. The result is more remarkable when it is recollected that at the last general election, and before this new " Irish cry" had been got up, Mr. Maguire was within an ace of ousting from the representation of this same borough a no less distinguished antagonist than Richard Lalor Shell ; and yet now, after three years of preparation, and with four-fifths of the Liberal press ofllreland at his back to sustain what is deemed a great " principle,. he is driven from the hustings by an all but unknown and inexperienced opponent. The organs of the League are perfectly dumb foundered—and well they may be. Subjoined is a sketch of yesterday's proceedings:— " DUNGARVAN, FRIDAY.—At an early how this morning the sovereign people were once more in the streets, particu larly and unnecessarily noisy. The dragoon:, infantry, and constabulary patrolled the streets and prevented the collec tion of crowds. The voters under the new franchise Bill (a rating of Si. under the poor-law), commonly called the agri cultural electors—snug, comfortable farmers- were brought into the town by escort, and a few scuffles ensued in the market square. The mob seized the heads of the horses and endeavoured to turn them back ; the military interposed—the prancing horses of the dragoons very soon cleared a passage for the vehicles, and the voters were enabled to come to the ' poll and vote for Ponsonby. The market square was the grand scene of action. There all the import ant b att l es we re I fought. The bribery and qualification oaths were adminis tered to the voters, and there were not a fete of the usual electioneering incidents, such as attempts to rescue voters, and loud demands for freedom of election, insinuations of bribery, and quick repartees in Irish, express i ve o f a love of country and Mr. Maguire, or admiration of Mr. Ponsonby as a landlord. Sir Nugent Humbl e came to the poll with 30 of his tenantry, and the tenantry of the Duke of Devonshire averaged from 80 to 100. Th e gross amount of the constituency is 318 ; of these it was presumed 239 could be brought to the poll. The state of the poll was as follows at 12 o'clock at noon : For Ponsonby For Maguire ... At half-past twelve o'clock : For Ponsonby . 145 For Maguire ... Majority for Ponsonby 82 63 "Up to this hour 227 had voted, and judgin g from the con stituency and voters available for Mr. Ponso n b y there can not be any doubt about the result of the election. Indeed , at twelve o'clock the Maguireites gave up th e hope of con quest. The farmers from the country parts had arrived, the "Prussians" had come up, and the victory was with Pon sonby. The booths, however, will be kept open till five o'clock in obedience to the Act of Parliament. The num bers at half-past two o'clock were as follow For Ponsonby „. 158 For Maguire ••• Majority for Ponsonby 75 "Neither of the candidates polled a vote after half-past two o'clock yesterday. At three o'clock Sir. m a with drew from the contest. guire .... ••• ... 131 .. ... ... 79 " This morning the High Sheriff will officially declare that the Hon. Charles Ponsonby has been duly e lected 'to represent in Parliament the borough of Dungarvan." There is no doubt that the defeat of the League candidate was, in a considerable measure, to be attributed to the neu trality observed by the Very Rev. Dr. Hally, the p Irish priest, who, had he exercised his influence in opposition to Mr. Ponsonby's return, the result might have been very dif ferent from what it has been. A Romish journal thus sneers at the middle course adopted by Dr. Rally ; - " The Very Rev. Dr. Rally, the parish Priest, looks on with his hands in his pockets. He is for nobody, and thinks the country can do without him. So it can. H e also has the two ways' in him. He's not patriotic enough to vote for Maguire—and he's not honest enoughlo tell Ponsonby that he's a Whig. That's enough to call any one. No matter ! As a Dungarvon man said, The pari a h priest says he'll do nothing for us now ; and when the E we can tell him we'll do nothing for him.' dues come, Lord Stanley will be entertained at dinner at Merchant Tailors' Hall on the 2d of April. For such a fes tival the time is appropriate—for such a festival the country is prepared. Lord Stanley has within a very brief period declared his opinions in reference to the greet questions which now agitate the empire; but, despite the explicitness with which those opinions and those declaratio ns were made —notwithstanding the characteristic frankness of the Noble Lord in relation to all matters connected with the recent Ministerial crisis—there have been persons who could not see plainly that which was sufficiently evident—who would not understand that which was patent to ail . Therefore we are, glad that this manifestation of public opinion as to Lord Stanley is about to take place. Lord Stanley, we k no w, wishes, as he has always desired, that with regard to his opinions there shall be no m i stake. The dinner at Merchant Tailors' Hall will afford the leader of the Countep . party an opportunity of putting an end to all the quibbles to which politicalschisma tics have subjected the open - hearted policy of Lord Stanley. It is somewhat strange—the coincidence is singular—that when the nation was sick of Whiggery, some years ago, and was determined upon a reaction, the late Sir Robert Peel was entertained at Merchant Tailors' Hall; th a t h e t h ere delivered his memorable speech of " Register ! register 1 re gister !" which gave to him in the neat Parliament, chosen within a few months, a majority. of ninety; and th ere was sealed the compact between the Right Hon. Baronet and the nation which was destroyed by himself—a compact which is now in the hands of a nobleman of unblemished character and undaunted chivalry.! The dinner of the 2d A pr il , we doubt not, will be worthy of the occasion and of the man. —Herald. Two failures were announced on Saturday, the patties being Messrs. James Deacon and eons, Irish linen tactors, and Oliver, Worthington, .and Co., warehousemen. The amount of their respective liabilities was not stated, but those of the latter house are small. The loss from Messrs. Deacon, it is said, will fall in Scotland, and that from Oliver, Worthington, and Co., in Manchester. The two firms were connected in business. SIR RALPH ABERCROMBIE..--THE FIFTIETH ANNI VERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF ALEXANDRIA AND THE SCOTCH FUSILIERS.—On Thursday morning the 2d battalion of the 3d Regiment of Guards paraded at St. James's Palace with laurels at the head of their colours, in commemoration of the battle of Alexandria, and the glorious fall of Sir Ralph Abercrombie. The most distinctive, or rather attractive, part of the scene was the appearance of several old veterans, evidently non-commissioned officers, who had survived the `battle and the breeze" through the hard-fought services of the Peninsular to the final struggle at Wa*erloo. Some of these veterans, wearing their medals, were upwards, of 80 years of age, yet still hale and hearty : they were most heartily cheered by the spectators on the occasion. The men were marched off to the parade-ground of Buckingham Palace to the truly appropriate tune of " Bonnie Scotland ;" and, although the weather was inauspicious, a vast 'lumber of civilians atteisded, deeply impressed, as far as they could understand them, with the glories won in Egypt by the "Scotch Fusiliers," then designated " The Third Guards. The Transatlantic Packet Station Commission thee on Friday at the Board of Trade. Present—Earl Gianville (Chairman), the Hon. illiam Cowper, M.P. Sir: James Gordon, lir C. 8., Sir John F. Burgoyne, K.C.8., Captain Stephenson Ellerby, and Lord Hobart (secretary)". Vis count Bernard, Up., had an interview with thq Cpm nlizaitniera. EVENING MARCH 24, 1851. PAPAL AGGRESSION. ( From the Times.) After five nights of debate we may presume that we know something of the opinions of the House of Commons on the subject of Papal aggression. After three months of inces sant discussion we may also presume that we have gained a sufficient insight into the opinions of the people of England. As those opinions have been but little alluded to in the debate, and when alluded to have been mention , d principally with the purpose of misrepresenting them, it may b worth while at this particular crisis to remind the public of what those opinions really were. It has been the fashion of those who are looked upon as pre-eminently liberal, and whose constant appeals are to the popular voice so long as it coin cides with the views of which they are the advocates, to speak with the most supercilious contempt of the great po pular movement which would seem to have an especial claim to the support of these expositors of popular wants and wishes. But they have not only treated this movement with contempt, they have also grossly misrepresented its tendency and meaning. Every one who has alluded to the public meetings of the last three months has spoken of them as outbursts of bigoted intolerance, as de monstrations got up by the clergy in defence of their rank and emoluments, as efforts directed against the spread of the Catholic religion at the expense of its rival de nominations, as embodying a feeling rather theological than political, more sectarian than national, and more fanatical than loyal. Is this, or anything like this, a fair representa tion of the great and unanimous movement which, during the last few months, we have witnessed and recorded? Did not every meeting anxiousiy protest its wish to preserve invio late, notwithstanding the aggression, the principles and prac tice of toleration? Did not almost every speaker carefully distinguish between the conduct of the Pope of Rome and his Roman Catholic fellow-subjects? And did not almost every meeting exhibit among its most active supporters persons estranged from the faith and hostile to the pre-eminence of the Church of England? Was not the prayer of almost every petition, that measures might be taken to counteract Papal aggression ? And was Parliament ever asked to prevent the spread of the Roman Catholic faith by the fair and legitimate weapons of discussion and controversy? We are sure that no one who has made it his business to acquaint himself with the proceedings of the public meetings on this question can deny that this is a true account of their general scope and ten dency; and being strongly impressed with this, it is with some impatience that we have heard the constant misrepresentation of the sentiments of the English people by those who on most occasions assume peculiarly to represent them. It is doubtless very disagreeable to those gentlemen to find themselves in so signal a minority. But the public hate seen the true bearings of the question with at least as much acuteness as they have, and it will avail them little to seek to give a false colour to the deliberately expressed views of persons as intelligent and as clear-sighted as themselves. Might we not, also, in our turn, on behalf of the aspersed public, ask these gentlemen whether it is entirely on pure and philosophical views that they have arrived at the con clusion that nothing must be done to arrest the career of Rome? When they accuse the recent public meetings of an overweening partiality to the Establishment, may not their opposition be in many cases attributed to an equally power ful dislike? Have they never felt that the aggression of the Church of Rome is a step towards the demolition of the union between Church and State, and the introduction of a voluntary system of religious worship ? And are they quite sure that they are not seeking this object by lending themselves to the support of an intolerant and domineering aggression? But if the public opinion of England has been slighted and misrepresented by the opponents of the Bill, it has equally been slighted and misrepresented by the Bill itself. The resolutions of the public meetings were levelled at the Papal rescript and its various results—namely, the estab lishment of a regular Roman Catholic hierarchy, the intro duction of the canon law, and the convocation of synods. With no one of these different causes of complaint does the Ministerial measure propose to deal. It is on these matters and their legal and constitutional results—the breach of the law of nations by the exercise of an act of sovereignty by a foreign Prince; the breach of the Constitution of England by the Pope's assumption of an ancient branch cf a royal pre rogative; and the violation of the great compact between Protestants and Catholics embodied in the measure of 1829, that every speaker in favour of the Bill has based his argument ; and yet the Bill leaves all these un touched, and merely attempts to deal with one, and perhaps by no means the most important result of the Papal rescript —the assumption of territorial titles—and even that prohi • bition it is admitted that there is no intention of enforcing. It is difficult to say what the principle of the Bill is, but it certainly is not what the people of England ask for—an adequate and complete resistance, or, indeed, any resistance at all, to the onward movement of Rome. We have seized the colours of the invading army when we should have done more wisely to possess ourselves of their arms. The policy of such a measure reminds us of Plato's celebrated comparison of the dogs that bit the stones, not daring to attack those who threw them. When we find the whole argument in favour of a measure tending to a totally different conclusion, we are forced to believe that a changeling has been substi tuted for the legitimate offspring of public opinion. We be lieve the argument in favour of some legislation to have been most triumphant. But that legislation is not the Ministerial Bill, but a measure such as we have before alluded to, and such as was pointed out by Mr. Walp le in his admirable speech, in which, if anywhere, is assuredly to be found a faith ful and vivid expression of the enlightened opinion of the pub lic. It is to such a measure as this that the wishes of the people of England are directed, and by such a measure alone that they will be satisfied. Instead of this what is it which the Government offers us? According to Lord Pal merston, a complement of the Emancipation Act of 1829. Did the people of England, or did those who argue in favour of legislation, demand a complement of the Act of 1829 ? Has one single public meeting, or one single speaker in fa vour of legislation, out of the ranks of the Ministry, said one word in favour of extending the Bill to Ireland ? The uni form line of argument has been, that the Pope has made an aggression, and that therefore it must be repressed ; but not that the Act of 1829 is too limited and ought therefore to be extended. The attention of England was entirely directed to the attack on England, and by way of complying with her wishes the Ministerial Bill leaves the wrongs of which Eng land complains unredressed, and avenges them by an unpro voked and uncalled-for attack upon the Roman Catholics of Ireland. It is an abuse of language to call the measure a prohibition of Roman Catholic eccle siastical titles in England extended to Ireland. The principle and substantive effect of the measure is the attack upon Ireland, the English part is trivial in comparison. The Attorney-General declares the effect of the measure to be merely to assimilate the case of the newly-created English Roman Catholic bishops and of any Irish bishops who may hereafter be created to that of the ancient Irish bishops. Is this to carry out the wishes of the people, or to supply a conclusion legitimately following from the arguments of his supporters? The people pro tested, and the Attorney-General and his friends argued against the effects of the Papal brief, and among others against the new hierarchy, and the Attorney-General seeks to satisfy these demands by placing that objectionable hie rarchy on the same footing as the ancient and firmly esta blished Roman Catholic bishoprics of Ireland. It was not to place Dr. Wiseman by the side of Dr. Murray, nor Dr. Ullathorne, Dr. M'Hale, that England has protested and Parliament has debated. No better guarantee for the safety of these ecclesiastical intruders into England can be given than in placing them in a situation iden tical with the ancient prelates of Ireland. Why should the Attorney-General wish to assimilate the case of the new bishops to that of the old? Can any law be more unsatis factory, more anomalous, and more unjust, than that which he is anxious to invest with a larger sphere of action ? The Roman Catholic prelates of Ireland are recognised in that capacity by Government, by Parliament, and by the courts of justice ; and yet for doing what it is their bounden duty to do, and without doing which they would be utterly use less, they are subject to a penalty to be enforced at the will of the Government. These penalties do not prevent the existence of the canon law, of synodical action, or the use of the very titles at which they are levelled. Recognising in this state of things the best relations in which a Roman Catholic hierarchy can stand to the State, the Attorney- General proposes to extend it to England, and he does this in satisfaction of a demand for the suppression of territorial titles, the prohibition of the canon law, and the repression of synodical action ! Will Parliament accept injustice to Ire land as an equivalent for denial of justice to England ? the various sacerdotal impostures at different times astir in Europe. " Winking statues, bleeding pic tures," are unhappily notorious, as having called forth the exertions of the well-informed and honest among the Roman Catholics themselves, to expose and put them down. A further addition w hich: Mr. Drummond made, was what effected the explosion, and as offence was taken at it, I shall not repeat it in terms, but refer to the reports rs; contenting myself with stating, that it is an entire mistake to suppose there was anything either in the matter or the manner, which authorized such epithets as " insulting, gross, and indecent," which are applied in some of the public prints. It was the simple statement of an alleged fact; en which the question ought merely to be, whether it is a historical fact er not. If it is not, Chan it ought not to be made use of as a groundless taunt. If it is, we are not yet come to that pass, that a weakness in an adversary's case shall not be mentioned for fear of displeasing the adversary. All I can individually say upon the subject is, that from my ear liest youth Ihnveiheard it stated as what nobody thought of denying. Et was stated always with the addition, that the asserted quantity of the relic in question in different places far exceeded the bounds of possibility; though per haps not so palpably as in what was always mentioned as a parallel case, the superhuman numbers which zeal un checked by anatomical science had attributed to certain teeth. The thing was and is matter of general belief as historical fact among Protestants; and therefore we are not yet at that pass when a Protestant Member may not mention it. The cries and gesticulations of some of the opposite party might lead to awful apprehensions, when this was dono in the green tree, of what might be done in the dry. Fancy that the numbers had been inverted, and that we had been a minority, protesting against Smithfield. The Speaker behaved admirably ; and his niche ought to stand next to that of the man who " had neither eyes to see, nor ears to hear." A word of flinch ing from him, would have doomed as to never uttering a word in Parliament that bad not previously receired the imprimatur of the Holy See. He declared that the Member for Surrey had done nothing that was out of order, that he had not reprimanded him, that the inter ruption given to him was disorderly and contrary to the rules of the House, and concluded by calling on the House to assist him in supporting the freedom of debate, which was responded to with a vigour that put an end to the insurrection. On Friday the debate was resumed. Mr. 'Walpole Q.C.;made a powerful speech in support of the Bill. What assumes to he the Free-Trade and Liberal party made a painful exhibition. It asked how the House could think of proceeding with the Papal question, when an uncertainty in the Coffee duties was hanging over the heads of the community. The declared object was to obtain delay. On which question there are at all events two sides. If delay is keeping up an agitation which diminishes the Government's majority against the Pro tectionists, and so far favours the views of what call themselves the Free-Trade party, on the other side it is plain that the country is fast coming up to the rescue, and that the end will be anything but in their favour. The debate was finally adjourned till Monday, when it is expected it will conclude for the present. I am, Sir, yours very sincerely, AN OLD REFORMER. London, 24th March, 1851. Han MAJESTY'S THEATEE.—The Queen's box at her Majesty's Theatre was on Saturday evening occupied by Colonel the Hon. C. B. am! Mrs. Phipps, Miss Phipps, Colonel and Lady Drummond, and party. Amongst the noble and distinguished individuals who also honoured the theatre with their presence we observed the following : His Grace the Duke of Wellington, his Serene Highness Charles Duke of Brunswick, his Excellency the Hanoverian Minister, his Excellency the Russian Minister, his Excel lency the Swedish Minister, his Excellency the Sardinian Minister, the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, the Marquis of Granby, the Marquis of Donegal, the Marquis of Douro, the Marquis Clanricarde, tie Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Earl of Aboyne, the Earl of Lonsdale, the Marchioness of Sligo and the Ladies Browne, the Earl of Malmesbury, the Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementine Villiers, the Earl and Countess of Glengall and Lady Butler, Lord Ward, Lord Adolphus Vane, the Earl of Fal mouth, the Earl of Pembroke, Lord Eliot, Lord William Lennox, Lord Templemore, Viscount Exmouth, Viscount Canterbury, the Earl and Countess of Bradford, Lord and Lady Frances Gordon, Lady Antrobus, Viscount Dillon, Colonel Blair, Sir Henry Webb, Bart., Sir Thomas Barrett Lennard, Bart., and Lady Barrett Lennard, the Hon. John Jocelyn, the Hon. John Fortescue, Mr. Hubert de Burgh, Mr. C. Barry Baldwin, M.P., &c. COURT CIRCULAR: OSBORNE, SATURDAY, MARCH 22. The inclemency of the weather prevented the Queen and Prince, and the younger members of the Royal Family from enjoying their accustomed early walks and rides, this morning. There was no addition to the royal dinner party yes terday. SUNDAY, MARCH 23. The Queen, and Prince and the Royal Family walked early this morning in Osborne Park. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, and the ladies and gentlemen of the Royal Household, attended Divine service in Whip pingham Church this forenoon. The Rey. J. Protheroe officiated. THE SPEAKER'S PARLIAMENTARY DINNER.--The Speaker of the House of Commons gave his sixth Parliamen tary dinner on Saturday. The following noblemen and gen tlemen sat down to table :—Lord Drumlanrig, Lord Charles Wellesley, Lord Mahon, Hon. Captain Dudley Pelham, R.N., Sir H. Inglis, Sir Thomas Acland, Sir J. Johnstone, Sir J. Guest, Mr. Edward Banbury, Mr. Simeon, Mr. Hastings Russell, Mr. Monckton Milnes, Mr. Baring Wall, Mr. Roundell Palmer, Mr. Portal, Mr. Bonham Carter, Mr. Thomas Greene, Mr. Compton, Mr. Pugh, Colonel Moore, Mr. Deedes, Mr. Utley, Mr. Mackinnon, Mr. GreaYes Lown ley (Cambridge), Mr. Wigram, Mr. Slangy, Mr. Langston, Mr. H. Pigott. There was no addition to the royal dinner party yes terday. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon, at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. Present—Lord John Rus sell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, Sir Francis Baring, Lord Broughton, the Right ion. Henry Labouchere, the Earl of Carlisle, and the Marquis of Clanricarde. The council sat three hours and a half. _ _ _ The Attorney-General had an interview with Lord John Russell on Saturday, at his official residence in Downing street. A deputation in reference to the Sunderland Improvement Bill, consisting of Mr. Hudson, M.P., Sir H. Williamson, Batt , M.P., Mr. Koe, Q.C., Mr. Fenwick, Mr. Ettrick, Mr. Webster, Mr. Bowery, Mr. Scott, Mr. Phillipson, Mr. Wright, and Mr. Robinson, had an interview with Sir George Grey on Saturday, at the Home- office. Mr. Sandford had an interview with Earl Grey on Satur day, at the Colonial-office. Mr. George Pownall, Mr. George Gutch, Mr. Charles Mayhew, Mr. Robert Hesketh, and Mr. Richards had an in terview with Lord Seymour on Saturday, at the office of her Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and Forests, in White hall-place. Lord Langdale has placed his resignation in the hands of Ministers. This was a course of action to be ex pected. We announced some time since, on good authority, that it would take place. The appointment of Sir John Romilly to the vacant seat on the bench will be made as soon as it will be convenient for Government to dispense with the vote of the Hon. and Learned Member for Devonport. The services of Lord Langdale are justly appreciated by all the members of the profession of which he is an honoured mem ber. We believe that Sir John Romilly will be a worthy successor of the Noble Lord.--iforning Paper. SOCIETY OF ARTS.—Amongst the numerous com pany who attended the private view of the Exhibition of the Society of British Artists on Saturday, were the Marquis of Aylesbury; the Earls of Cawdor, Bradford, Lovelace, and Sheffield; Lords Sondes, Crewe, Worsely, G. Lennox, De Lisle, and Dudley; Viscounts Hill, Rokeby, Claud Hamil ton, Radstock ; Charles Wellesley, Viscount Mandeville; Viscount Strangford, Viscount Canning, Naas, Robert Gros venor; the Bishops of London and Worcester; the Dean of St. Paul's; Sirs A. Murray, Henry Calder, Charles Lemon, W. Stirling, W. Baynes, John Hanmer, William Verner; Messrs. Charles Baring Wall, M.P., James Matheson, M.P., Hon. R. Verner Smith, M.P., H. J. H. Hope, M.P., Henry Howard, M.P., W. Lockhart, M.P., Quintin Dick, M.P., W. Ewart, M.P., &c. REPRESENTATION OF SOMERSET.—Lord D ungar von has withdrawn himself as a candidate for the representa tion of Somerset, vacant by the death of Sir A. Hood, on the ground of reluctance to take a course in the House of Corn. mons, on the subject of Protection, opposite to that adopted by his grandfather, Lord Cork, in the House of Lords. Mr. Gore Langton has since been requested to become a can didate. DEATH OF LORD DACRE.." — We regret to an nounce the decease of Lord Deere, which took place on Fri day afternoon at his seat, the Hoo, in Hertfordshire. The late venerable nobleman was in ,his seventy-seventh year, having been born in 1774. He was always a consistent Whig in general politics, although he never joined his party in supporting the late measures for a free importation of foreign corn. On this subject he leaned towards the doctrines of protection. He is succeeded in his title and in his estates by his only brother, General Trevor, cf Glynden, in Sussex, who was a distinguished officer throughout the Peninsular war, and who took the name of Trevor on his succeeding to large property in that county. The present Lord's eldest son, the Hon. Thomas Brand, is one of the Members for Hertfordshire. His second son, the Hon. Henry Brand, has acted as private secretary to Sir G. Grey since the accession of the present Ministry to office. DEATH OF MR. SERGEANT LUDLOW.—We deeply regret to announce that the illness under which Mr. Sergeant Ludlow has so long laboured terminated in his ceath on Tuesday, at his residence, Aldmondsbury. The deceased was one of the Commissioners in the Court of Bankruptcy for the Bristol district; was formerly town clerk of that city, and for many years discharged the duties of chairman of the first criminal court of the Gloucestershire Quarter Sessions. Gloucestershire Chronicle. JOINT STOCK COMPANIES. —It appears, from return printed by order of the House of Commons, that 159 companies were provisionally egistered during the year 18'.0 ; 57 were completely regisrtered : and 142 companies were provisionally registered, but have not obtained complete registration. The amount of fees received at the office for the registration of joint stock companies during the year 1850 was, at the head office, in London , 2,6561., and at t h e bra nch office in Dublin, 751.; total, 2,731 /. Only one joint-stock company is stated to have become bankrupt. THE LONDON AND NORIH-WESTER N , M IDLAND, AND GREAT NOUTHERN RAILWAYs.7-The representatives of the above companies met at the h uston-squar e stat i on on Saturday, for the purpose of effecting an arrangement for an amicable division of traffic to and from all those places be tween London and York where they come into competition with each ether. We regret to have to state that the par ties could not effect an arrangement.— Herald. DISASTROUS LAMBING SEASON.—The lambing season this year, says the Lincoln Chronicle, as far as it has proceeded, is the worst on record, the number of ewes cast ing their lambs is immense in the four parishes of Rothwell, Holton-le-Moor, OwersbY, and Blyborough. We shall be much within bounds if we say the loss exceeds 1,000. In many instances one-third, and in others one-half, is lost. This will add consid era bl y to t h e over p o wering difficulties and embarrassments of the Lincolnshire agriculturists. TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. REFORM ASSOCIATION. MALTA, MARCH 11.—It is now blowing a gale of wind Sir,—On Wednesday the 19th, the Expenses of Prose- from the north-west, and it is thought doubtful if the French cutions Bill was gone into in CommitteP, with great attend- steamer will be able to get out. The ships in port are all aaee and zeal on the part of rural dispensers of the law. made snug, with their topmasts and yards struck, and the merchant s vessels are equally prepared. On Thursday considerable debate arose on the subject of Passports. What appears to be a hard case, was . The e . i c u o r u n r e g d e t steam rt - t s r h i o g r a t t l e, whic f h t went out on the 6th stated by Mr. Bright. Naturalized foreigners, of whom after, , blowing too strong to lust., her to proceed to Gr y aham s Island, whi c h s he was there are numbers in all the manufacturing towns and ordered to visit. notably in your own, settled in England to all appearance The Peninsular and Oriental Company's new steam-ship for life, are refused a Briti s h passport if they have occa- Ganges arrived here from Southampton and Gib ra lt ar on sion to visit the co n ti nen t f or commerc ial or domestic the evening of the 7th inst., and left for Constantinople on purposes. They may possess the power of voting for a the morning of the Bth, having made the passage from her Member of the British Parliament, but they may not first port to Malta, in eight days four hours, including ten have a British passport to Hamburgh or to Calais. This hours' stoppage at Gibraltar, showing an average speed of Ili looks very much like a thing which might be mended. knots per hour—the quickest passage ever yet effected. The A phenomenon on the Vot e p a p er o f t hi s d a y, is that Ganges is perfect, w h e the r as regards hull, engines, accom the petitions for more stringent measures than the m he o r d a atio re n a , ter acquisition stowage, and rapidity th h e er li imm fe e r n w se hicf sh is willfntreennddeedr, Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, are beginning to swell in num- viz., to run between ber, the names of the places occupying more than a o ns n tantino n p a le, Smyrna, and England. She is commanded by the veteran Commodore Brooks, who page in material extension. All creatures require a is well known here as the commander of the Sultan and certain time for getting their eyes open; but they open Erin, both belonging to the company. them at last. The homeward India mail may be looked for about Satur- On the same evening an extraordinary scene took day next; the outward mail for India by the Medina may be place in the Commons House, on the resumption of the expected here to-morrow. Her arrival is looked for with debate on the second reading of the Ecclesiastical Titles intense anxiety, the Ministerial crisis causing as much ex- Bill. There has been no such exhibition there, since citement here, as it cannot fail to have done in England. Mr. Daniel Hall, second master, of 1848, has been tips what was called the "Ten Minutes' Cheer" given in the nature of a charivari to a Noble Lord who was dis- pointed from the Impregnable, flag-ship, at Devonport, to the Fisgard, flag-ship, at Woolwich, for surveying service. covered inopportunely sitting in the back benches; and Mr. C. J. ' Cawley has been appointed master assistant to which, I remember saying to those who were then my the Victory, flag-ship, Portsmouth. worthy and approv'd good masters, resembled the repro- P r i nce R egent, 90, Captain Harris, has been masted at sentations of what in France was called the assembly of Portsmouth. She has about 460 names on her books. the Jeu de Fannie, when the national representatives ex- Birkenhead, steam-transport, Master Commander Salmon, pelled by force from their hall, adjourned to a racket- is coaling at Portsmouth. She will be some time collecting a court. crew. The able and as the press denominates him eccentric PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY, FIVE P.M.—For several hours last Member for West Surrey, Mr. Drummond, (whom it is night we had a very heavy gale of wind, almost approxi mating to hear so qualified, without remembering the w mg a ti t nf ow to ar a d h s uzic m an o e r , with much rain. It moderated f some best if not the only joke attributed to the somewhat S.W. The Cumberland, , 70 but w i f t ti s i tiAl d blu ir wl t r oz r g eor r g o e m s t e he . matter-of-fact sovereign in whose reign persons of the mour and family on board, cannot get away from St. Helen a, standing of your Members began their lives, when he nor can the American packet-ship Independence, outward said of a certain admiral, that ho wished he would bite bound for New York, get away from Spithead. The Sprightly somebody), rose to the question of the Ecclesiastical steamer went out to St. Helen's with letters, &c., for the Titles Bill. As I must plead guilty to saying that his Cumberland, this morning. The Atalanta, Dutch man-of speech upon a former stage of the Bill was the only one war schooner, Lieut.-Commander Klerk, has run into har bour for shelter, but will proceed for Curasao directly the Kar in which common sense had been uttered, I am not going to join in any hue-and-cry against him now, and shall wind will allow. On Saturday the court-martial on board the Victog sat coolly speak my mind. from 9 o'clock in the morning to try Commander St. Leger His speech was a resuscitation of what might have and Lieutenant Kelham for the loss of the Flamer, and been heard in the days of Elizabeth or the third William, Elam, the mariner, for shooting the Krooman. After a mass when men could see danger in an agent from the Pope of evidence had been gone into, the Court, after an hour in the hands of a foreign general, sent to pooh-pooh the and a-half 's deliberation in retirement, acquitted Com existence of any law in England but by the fiat of the mander St. Leger of being responsible for the loss of the Vatican; and the remarkable ensemble of his head, the ship, but reprimanded and admonished him to be more model if not the copy of a martyr in an ecstasy, added cautious in future. Lieutenant Kelham, the officer of the vigour to the whole. The first declaration by which he watch at the time the Flamer struck, and tried on the same excited the fury of the opposite party, was to some ex- .charge ine. asantdheElcoamm,mtahneder, marine,as whrooLatbliheacoioottemdanofwaasll tent exaggerated. Our forefathers when they sup- blame; also acquitted, keying mistaken the deceased in the night pressed what were called religious houses, did not de- for an enemy. Commander St. Leger had no legal " friend" dare that all such were either places of involuntary to conduct his case, but was assisted by Captain the Hon. confinement or receptacles of immorality. But they George Fowler Hastings, late in command of her Majesty's declared, and. they thought they had the proofs, that steam-frigate Cyclops. such establishments had a strong tendency to lapse into Admiral Sir John Ackworth Ommanney, KC 8., of one or both of these predicaments, and that numbers of Havant, near this port, was appointed on Friday to succeed them had so lapsed, and therefore they suppressed them; Admiral Sir W. H. Gage as Commander-in-Chief at Ply and Catholic ns well as Protestant powers, have at sub- mouth. sequent periods followed the example. If the Member PLYMOUTH, SATURDAY.—The crew of the packet brig Pe for Surrey had confined himself to this, he would have terel, 6, Lieutenant Commander Creser, will be paid off on Monday, and she, like the other packets of her class, is to strengthened his position; which he might have still be re aired and fitted up for slave suppression service on the further done, by appealing to the facts, that in the public coast p of Africa. papers there e.re at this moment cases mooted, one in- Her Majesty's steam-frigate Retribution is ordered here volving a very pointed suspicion of one of the charges, from Lisbon to be refitted. and the other of the other. The St. Jean d'Acre, a screw-propeller of 100 guns, is to But all thin was nothing compared with the explosion be laid down on slip No. 5, from which the Sans Pareil, 80, which ensued on the orator's giving an enumeration of was launched on Tuesday. ... WOOLIVICH, MARCH 22. Captain William Moors= (1851), recently promoted from the Excellent, gunnery ship, at Portsmouth, is appointed additional to the Fisgard, flag-ship at Woolwich, and will be borne on the books of that vessel while carrying on experiments with concussion shells, with which he has hitherto been very successful. The gallant officer joined at Woolwich on Friday, on his ap pointment to the Fisgard. Commander Arthur Morrell (1823) to the Boscawen, 70, guard-ship of ordinary at Chatham, vice Commander Joseph Cammilleri. Captain William Loring (1848), having completed his studies at the steam-factory at Woolwich dockyard, was ex amined to-day by Mr. Bumphrys, chief engineer, and on passing received his certificate. The Vivid, Dover mail steam-packet, Captain L. Smi thett, arrived from Dover to-day to have some defects made good. The Garland, Dover mail steam-packet, Lieutenant-Com mander Wylde, will leave Woolwich on Monday to resume her duties on the Dover station. The Garland was taken out of the basin to-day. The Black Eagle steam-vessel, Master-Commander Pa ley, was taken into the basin to-day to be repaired and painted. The Tartarus steam-vessel was taken out of the dock and into the basin during the same tide to-day. The Shearwater steam-vessel was taken out of the basin and into the dock vacated by the Tartarus to-day. The Infanta Don Suez, Portuguese war steamer, Captain Da Silva, went up the river en Friday afternoon, to land the packages she had on board for the Exhibition in Hyde park. Mr. Tomlin, extra clerk at Woolwich dockyard, is sp• pointed third-class clerk on the establishment here, vice J. Manning resigned. RELIGIOUS HOUSES.—The Bill brought in by Mr. Lacy and Mr. Spooner to prevent the forcible detention of females in houses wherein persons bound by religious or monastic vows are resident or associated, provides that such house shall be registered by the clerk of the peace of the county in which it is situate; that the justices for every county in which any religious house shall be registered shall appoint six or more justices of the peace to act as visitors of each house, who shall be sworn to keep secret all such mat ters as shall come under their knowledge in the execution of their office as visitors, except when required to divulge the same by legal authority, or for the better execution of their duty. Registered religious houses shall be visited twice a year, and if it appear to the visitors that any female is desir ous of leaving the religious house in which she is resident, they shall have the power to remove her, and to place her under the care of the matron of the union in which the reli gious house is situate. Superiors not causing their religious houses to be registered, or wilfully making any false state ment in respect of such houses, or obstructing or impeding any of the visitors on their;way:to,lat, or in or returning from any such religious house, shall be deemed guilty of a mis demeanour. Any person assaulting a visitor in the religious house shall be deemed guilty of a felony. Concealment of any part of a religious house, or the premises appertaining thereto, or of any person residing therein from the visitors, or the production of a false list of the inmates, shall be looked upon as a misdemeanour. NATIONAL EXHIBITION. GRAND FAIR. -- The London committee for conducting a grand fair, or Ate, in honour of the Great Exhibition, and composed of individuals of well-known experience and respectability (the best pos sible pledge that can be offered to the public) have selected a spot admirably adapted for this purpose ; viz., the former site of the Hippodrome, at Bayswater, a convenient distance from the Crystal Palace, and comprising some twenty-five acres. The proprietors of many of the principal establishments in the United Kingdom, as well as foreigners, have already applied for ground. Amongst them, Richardson's far-famed Temple of the Muses," newly constructed by Messrs. John son and Lee ; Alger's Crown and Anchor booth ; the tent of Mr. Nicholson, of the Garrick's Head ; M. Ricardo's museum ; M. Fritzen's, Exhibition; Signor Raffael's "Cabinet," cum multis aliis, and a profuse: display of costly bazaars, and fancy stalls, the whole presenting to the nations of the earth a graphic " English Fair, " conducted too with the utmost judgment, liberality, and decorum. LONDON DISTRICT LETTER-CARRIERS PENSION SOCIETY.—This institution is established, first, to add to the small official pension allowed to those who have served as letter-carriers for no matter how long a period, and worn themselves out in the public service; secondly, to grant a small annuity to widows, who, from the limited salary re ceived by their husbands, are with their families, tee often left in the deepest distress; and, thirdly, as soon as the fund of the society will allow, to make provision for unprotected orphans, which last, it is confidently hoped, will be accom plished, should the same liberal encouragement be continued as hitherto has been experienced. The foregoing objects are effected by the members' own contributions, assisted by the donations of their already numerous patrons, from which sovirce a sum amounting to 3001. has been received within the last twelve months. Among the contributors are—Lord Holland, Messrs. Hoare and Co., Baring Brothers and Co.. Masterman, Peters, and Co., and several other highly respec table banking and mercantile firms. On Thursday evennai last a benefit in aid of the funds took place at the Sadler* Wells Theatre, which was well attended, the performance being Lytton Bulwer's play of Riehelieu, and Charles the Second, or the Merry Monarch and was supported by Mr. Phelps and the talented company belonging to this popular establishment. ~ The important case of Miss Talbot, and all the matters connected therewith, including . Saturday's proceed ings before the Lord Chancellor, were given in the Observer of Sunday morning, March 23, to the extent of three columns ; correspondence of the Bishop of m Lo ar n e d h on and 2 3d also, the angry Sir B. Hall; Suffolk-street, Gallery, Society of British Ar tists, affairs of the great parishes Marylebone and St. Pan. eras, &c. Price of the Observer, 40 folio columns, 6d. The Observer of Sunday morning, gave, in addition to Miss Talbot's affair, and the correspon dence deuce of the Bishop of London with Sir B. Hall, ece abou t a column of the opera, first appearance of Madlle. D • D ' ~4 , - 7an ° Saturday night- The extensive publication of the u orb — se ; v 7 r commences at four o'clock on Sunday mornings, time for all the Sunday morning railways. A Monday ' s M which is best for the country and abroad , at four, Monday afternoons. ALLEGED MURDER AND EXHUMATION OE TH2 BODY.—Last August Elizabeth Catherine Richards, aged Ib, living as nursemaid with a private family at Swan-Wall:.. Pimlico, after partaking of some beer, was suddenly seized with violent pains in her stomach, vomiting, and other symptoms of poisoning, H er illness increasing, she was re moved to her father's house, Battersea, w here she died a few hours after her arrival. B efore her death she to ld h er f a th er that a certain party had put a white powder into the beer that she drank. Whereupon the father went to that party sad inquired concerning the white powder, about which the ac cused gave different versions. The deceased's statement, and her body having swollen and burst after death, gave rise to the most unfavourable rumours, which were greatly increased by the fact that deceased and her tel were not on good terms. her father, after various strong representations to Mr. Wakley, M. P-, the coroner for the western district of Middlesex, induced that gentleman to issue his warrant for the exhume' ion of the body, in order that it should be sub t. The body jected to an autopsyan and au ninque i s n St. Luke's wax cliu a li ce"d". i ugly disinterred last ofM Thursday, r. _ H. M. Wakl • rc yard, Chelsea, in the presence d ej , the deputy coroner, Dre. Rogers anthe Waldron, father, and several The ''dof other relatives of deceased.. .1 the coffin having been d the body identified, it was conveyed to the removed an d workhouse, i here a post- mortan examination will be per formed, a nd r•n analysis of the stomach ma d e, preparatory to the holding of the inquest. __ - - The South-Western Railway Company have sub mitted to the Home Secretary a statement of the advantages that weuld result from making the port of Southampton a central depot for emigrants, both to the" public interest and to the emigrants themselves. Among the advantages eau navigation, saving enu merated are safety as regards of time, punctuality, and economy. The company offer to make ar rangements to secure conveyance to and from Southampton at moderate rates, and in every respect to meet all the re quirements of the. Emigration Commissioners. The question is now under consideration, and we believe it will be deter. mined in the course of the present week. Dr,f 4