The Sun. — London, England, 1850-05-25 00:00:00

E R MAJE STY'S THEATRE.- -ILI_ One more Grand Classical, Dramatic, Concerted MI SICAL EINTERTAINMPST Selected from the following authors: — Mozart, Handel, Mercadante. Cimarosa, Meyerbeer, Ricci, Rossini, Verdi, Bake, A. Adam, Purcell, Spohr, (Hack, Beethoven and Mendelssohn, Will take place on MONDAY MORNING, May 27. On which occasion the following eminent artistes will appear:— • Madame Sontag. Mlle. Parodi, Miss Catherine Hayes, Madame Giuliani, • Mdlle. Ida Bertrand, and Madame Frezzollni , Signori Baucarde, Calzolari, Sims Reeves,: Coletti, Belletti, Lorenzo, F. Lablache, and Lablache ; Supported by all the Instrumental and Choral resources of the Theatre. In addition to which, the valuable assistance of M. Thalberg has been secured. The whole under the direction of Mr. Balfe. Part I. Overture (Faust) Te Deem (Landamus), Mesdames Sontag,Parodi, Ca • therine Hayes, Giuliani, Ida Bertrand, and Frezzo- • lint; Sign ai Baucarde, Calzolari, Sims Reeves, Co , let% Benet% Lorenzo, F. Lablache, and Lablache, and Chorus ----- - - Mozart. Cavatina, Madame Freztoiini, " Di qual soavi pal piti " (Graz! e Curiazi) - - - Aria, Signor Calzolari, " Spirito lentil" (La Favo , rita) - --- Donizetti. Duetto, Madame Sontag and Mdlle. Ida Bertrand, " Ser brami ognor" (Serairamide) - - - Rossini. Romanza, Signor Baucarde, " La Dea di tutti I cor" (Giuramento) "Le Dieu de Paphos" (first time of performance in this country), Meseames Sontag, Parodi, Catherine Maya', Giuliani, Ida Bertrand, and Frezzolini ; Sig nori Baucarde, Calzolari, Sims Reeves, Colletti, Belletti, Lorenz?, F. Lab ache and Lab ache, and. Chorus - - - - - - - " Variatim; (by desire), Madame Sontaq, Ah, vous dirai-je," flute obligato, 31. P.amusat (Le Tor . - Mercadante - Mccadante, - Gliick. - A. Adam. reader) War Scng and Chorus (by eMre), Mr. Simi Reeves, "Come if you dare" (King Arthur) - - Purcell. Part 11. Overtare (The Tale of Fingal) - - - - Mendelssohn Recit. e Aria, Signor Coletti, " Lieti voci" (Zaira) - Mercadante. Rondo, Madame Frezzolini (Betly) - - - Denizetti. Dnetto, Signor Coletti and Signor Lablache, " Qui fra voi" (Ellen e Claudio) - - - - - - Merculanfe. Aria, Mdlle. Parodi, " Sempre all' alba" (Glovanna d'Arco) - - ------ Verdi. New variations, Pianoforte, on the " Barcarole" (L'Elisir d'Amore) - - - - Air, 3fadame Sontag "Let the bright Seraphim" (Samson), trumpet obligato, Mr. Z- Ass - Aria, Signor Belletti, " PIS-paff " (Gli Ugonotti) Polacca, Madame Giuliani, " Severe estate encore (Les Martyrs) Cantata (Lobgesang), " Hymn of Praise," the Solos by Madame Sontag and Miss C. Hayes - - Mendelssohn. Part - Thalberg. - Handel. - Meyerbeer. Overture (Promethus) Beethoven. Terzetto, for three Tenors (in consequence of the rapturous encore at the last Concert) Signori Ban carde, Sims Reeves, and Calzolari, "In quale aspetto imbelle " (Armada) - - Rossini. New Ballad, Miss Catherine Hayes, " The joy of tears" (first time of performance) - - - - Balfe. Russian Ballad, :Uadaine FrezzAni, " Zolovol ; on, le Rossignol " Fantasia, Pianoforte, M. Thalberg, on subjects from Luerezia Borgia - - Duetto, SLmor Lorenzo and Signor Coletti, " Cho Pantipatica" (Cillra di Rsscrn)ergh) - - Ricci. " Ser: , ate o Del Castodi" (Ls Clernenza di Tito) Mesdames Sontag, Etrodi. Catherine Hayes, Giu liani, Ida Bertrand, and Frezzollni ; Signori Bau cards, Caizolari, Sims Reeves, Collett', Belletti, Lo renzo, F. Lablache, and Lablache. and Chorus - Mozart. PRICES OF ADMISSION. Boxes .. Two Guineas. Pit Stalls . 12s. 6d. Gallery . Bs. 6c Pit • • ...... ss. 6d. I Gallery .. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box-office of the Theatre. The Concert will comment - Thalberg. T at Two o'clock precisely. TTER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. A -11.. GRAND EXTRA NIGHT. Combining the talents of Madame Sontag, and Madame Frezzolini; Signori Calzolari, Bancarde, Sims Reeves, Coletti, Belletti, Lorenzo, and Lablache ; Mdlle. Carlotta Grist, Mdlle. Amalla Ferraris, Mdlle. Marie Taglioni, and M. Paul Taglionie, will take place On THURSDAY next, May 30, Whea will be presented (for the last time) Bellini's celebrated Opere, LA SONNAMBULA. _Amin /, Madame Sontag ; Count Rodolpho, Signor Belletti; and Elvino, Mr. Sims Reeves. After which a Divertissement from the admired Ballet, THEA, by Marie Taglioni, Males. Aessandon, Julien, Lamnreux, Rasa, and Corps de Ballet. In the course of the evening, Selections from Rossini's celebrated Opera, GITGLIELIIO TELL. Arnoldo, Signor Bancarde ; uugliclmo Tell, Signor Coital ; and Walter, Signor Lablacbe. And the admired PAS STTRIEY, by Madlle. Carlotta Grisi and M. I'. TaVionl. To be followed by the last act of Donizetti's Opera, L'ELISIR D'AMORE Adina, Madame Frezzollni ; Nemorino, Signor Calzolarl; and Dr. Dulcarnara, Signor Lablache. To conclude with the highly successful new grand Pas de Trois by M. Paul Taglioni, entitled LES GRACES. Mdlle. Carlotta Grist. Mille. Amelia Ferraris. Mlle. Marie TAglionl. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and llckets to be made at the Box-office of the Theatre. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE THIS EVENING, Will be present:A Donlzetti's Opera, entitled L'ELISIR -D'AMORE. Adina, Madame Frezzolinl ; Nemorino, Signor Calzolari ; Belcore, Signor ; and Dr. Duicamara, Signor Lablache. To conclude with the the highly snccessfulnew (}rani Ballet, by M. Paul TagUoni, entitled LES METAMORPHOSES, By Mdlle. Carlotta Grist, Mdlle. Marie Taglioni, Mdlle. Amelia Ferraris, M. Charles, and M. P. Taglioni. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box Office of the Theatre. :LOYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. A GRAND EXTRA Second Night of Roberto 11 Diavolo. • THIS EVENING IVIII he performed far the Second time, with the following power% cast, Meyerbeer's grand Opera, ROBERTO IL DIAVOLO, Alice, Grist "(her 2d appearance in that character) ; nme. Castellan ; Dama d'Onore, Mdlle. Cotti ; Elena, Mdlle. Loalse Taglitnti ; Albert,, Sig. Rommi ; Eraldo, M. Massol ; Il Priorfs, ig. Tagliafleo ; Majordomo, Sig. Soldl ; Cava'iers Sig. Mel and Po7onini ; sober o, Sig. Tamberlik (his 2d 'appearance in that character) ; Bertram, Herr Formes; and Itambaldo, Sig. Mario (his 2cl appearanc: la that character). The Incidental Diverti , sement will be danced by Mdlle. Louise Taglioni and 31. Alexandre, with a numerous Corps do Ballet. Conmoser, Director of the Music, and Conductor, Mr. Costa. The Scenery ty Messrs. Grieve and Telhin : the Dresses by Mrs. Bailey and Mme. Mgrzio ; the Appointments by Mr. Bla mire ; the Machinery by Mr. Allen; the Dances arranged by M. Alexandre ; and the Spectacle under the direction of Mr. A.. Harris. The Doors will be opened at Half-past Seven, and the performances commence at Eight o'clock precisely. Tickets for the Boxes, Stalls, or the Pit, may be had (for the night or season), at the Boa-office of the Theatre, which is open from Ten till Five. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Oa MONDAY EVENING The Performances will commence at Eight o'clock precise'', with (for the last time), The Comedic-Vaudeville of LOUISON. En Dena Actes, par M. Alfred de Masset. Tertband, M. Regnier ; Lisette (Louison), Madile. Nathalie. After which will be performed (for the 2d time in this country), M. Alfred de Musset's Proverbe, IT, FAUT QETUNE PORTE SOIT OUTERTE OTT FEMME. Le Comte, :a. Lafonte ; La Marquise, Mdlle. Nathalle. To conclude with (for the first time), the amusing Comedy of LES DEUX MEKAGES, En Trot' Actes, par MM. Picard, Wafftard, et Fulgence. Bourdcuil, M. Regnier ; Madame Bourdenil, Madile. Xathalle. Tne Dox-ollice of the Theatre is open daily from Eleven till Five RA NO and Stalls at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond. etreet. THEATRE ROYAL, H.A.TMARKET. Mr, 13.'Webster, Solo Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. THIS P.: vg.151.N Will be presented (15th time) an entirely new and original Cainedy, by Douglas Jerrold, entitled THE CATSPAW. Captain iturgonet, Mr. Howe ; Mr. Snowball, Mr. .Keeley ; Doctor Petgoose, Mr. James ; Audley, Mr. Charles Selby; Appleface, Mr. Buckstone ; Dust. Mr. Tilbury; Coolcard, Mr. Benjamin Webster; Dugvits, Mr. Ellis ; Snowball's Servant, Mr. A. Brindal ; Mrs. Peachtlown's Servant, Mr. Coe ; Mrs. Peachdown, Miss Reynolds ; Cassandra, Mrs. L. S. Buckingham ; Rosemary, Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with the Last Edition of IVANHOE, with all the newest Improvements. Cedric the Saxon, Mr. J. Bland ; Sir Briant de Bore Guilbert, Mr. Selby; Sir Wilfrid of Ivanhoe, Mrs. Keeley; Wamba, Mr. Buck 'tont> ; Isaac of York, Mr. Keeley; Robin Hood, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; Rebecca, Miss P. Horton. The Bta-ollice Is under the direction of Mr. I. T. Archer. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Will be performed an entirely original Musical Comic Drama, called THE WHITE SERJEANTS; or the Buttermilk Volunteers. Major Slowmari Mr. 0. Smith ; Jemmy Tweezer , Mr. Wri g ht ; Captain Ginger Green, Mr. P. Bedford ; Tommy Bask, Mr. Mun 'era ; Madlie. de Tourville, Madame Celeste; Susan Pockets, Miss K. ; Dolly Huggins, Miss Woolgar. Alter which will be produced a new and original Farce, in the - Vulgar Tongue, to be called JACK IN THE GREEN; or, Hints on Liequette. To conlude with a :grand historical Spectacle Vaudeville, entitled PLANING FIRST FIDDLE ; or, Follow my Leader Principal Characters by Messrs. P. Bedford, Lambert, Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, and Miss K. Fltzwilliam% ROYAL LYCEUM* THEATRE THIS EVENING Will be performed CHARLES THE TWELFTH. After which will be presented an entirely new and original antici pation of what may possibly occur one of these days, entitled NOVELTY FAIP. ; or, Hints for 1851. Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, F. Matthews, Binge, Bellingham, Cooke, and Ciliates ; 'miss St. George, ss Miss Renworthy, Miss Gl over, Miss Oliver, Miss E a rdjey, and Mi Martindale. To conclude with TWO IN THE MORNING. A n applications for Private Poxes must be made to Mr. Aileron '5, Yew Bond-street. The BOX-office , adjoining the Theatre, in W ellington-street, is T en to six o'clock, under the superintendence of op , day from Mar. T. F. Bennett trader h_a P a tronage of her Most b G er rtc . i a ou c s & M e ajcsty, his R oyal t Hi g hness Prince Al • Second week ZOOLOGICALof Mons.JIJLI. G lEp u . • ROYAL SURREY DENS . OPEN every 3IONDATYH, uR TUE sD SD Ay A T , WEDNESDAY, an d m r s o d b e l y l e N d a D p o i l o e r o a n m a l e n d P h c. - 5 Prodigious Success of the Geuntior ! with innumerable moving in the Wor ld tare representing the PASSA GE o f Army the largest Picture painted, and produced by Mr. Figures the size of life. Modelled, months, and The it is Damon and Son, assisted by Messrs • Adams, Wilson, Picture has occupied the Messrs. D ans on for many &c. &c. conildently submitted to the Public as a chef-d'muvre of art , and not Inferior to any production of the day. The Splendid MENAGERIE has lately been enriched by several vattuble Presents Dom the Queen. The Musical Department will be conducted by Mona. Jullien and to offer Mr. Godfrey. I t will be the a l as of the E stablishment for the gratifi ca ti on of the S u b scr ibers and the Public, the most Splendid Military Band in the Kingdom ! I Sel ected from the Band s o f h er Majesty ' s Horse an d F oo t Guards , and _ e most eminent Artistes in the profession. The following list of engagements will, it is hoped, convince the Public, that the l ong - acknowledged excellence of the Band of this Establishment will be tally maintained ! The Repertoire of Music will be most extensive and varied, arranged from the most Popular Operas in this and other countries. Solo-Players—Messrs. Koenig, Lazarus, Pro'perre, Colinet, Pratten, Jarrett, Sonnenberg, Sollimers , and Winterbotham. During the evening a grand Colossal, Scenic, and Pyrotechnic Tableau illustrating the celelsrated Picture by David, of Buonaparte Crossing the Alps ! Showing a gen era l view of the Region of the Alps, stretching from the small mountain lake in the foreground to the distant snow-clad mountains, crowned by the stupendous Mount ' St. Bernard and its far-famed Monastery. A portion of the French Army is first seen " en bivouac," presently the drums beat to arms, and amid the clash of Military Bands and Martial Music, the Troops commence the Ascent. The Soldiers are seen dragging the Artillery in Trunks of Trees, now ascending almost Perpendicular Heights, and traversing the most Terrific Ravines, but all difficulti es are overcome, . a ried she Gallant Army is seen pureeing its cours e to the Fertile 44'la ins of Italy. Thu whole to conclude with a Gorgeous Display of Fireworks, by Xs- Soutbb j „.•- y, introducing, amongst various novelties, the most mired feux d'artifice of former seasons, jets d'eau, water rockets, lying pieces, a magnificent Transparency fifty feet in height, 1 1 by Messrs. Dansou, representing Buonaparte on Horseback ins , on his Troops, surrounded by warlike emblems, insignia of r, flags, trophies, &c., amidst a cerrusoltion of various coloured •.! coanlicated and o.llllmit maelinery, ant the erection of the tzraer the direeron of Mr. nos Lowe. The extensive gas !a by Messrs. Botcherby and Dixon, 23, King-strect, CoVent- Admission, Is. ' v . / oh - • t pa!nt \s • 0 :0 \ ••• ttinzl -."` garden THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 25 ) 1850. THE ITALIAN REVOLUTIONS. On GENERAL Monday, May 27. l E'S NAn 2 vols, 21., bound, NARRATIVE OF SCENES AND EVENTS IN ITALY, From 1847 to 1849. This I mportant Narrative comprises the most interesting particulars respecting the Revolutions in Naples, Sicily, and Rome ; the Mili tary Operations of Charles Albert ; and the Siege of Venice, of which City General Pepe held the Command. It also includes the details of the General's confidential communications and interviews with the Itean Sovereigns, &c., &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Crest Marlborough-street. SECO2.7D EDITION.—Now ready in Three Vols., PASSAGES IN THE LIFE OF RS. MARGARET M AIT LAND, OF SUNNY SIDE. Written by Herself. " The most gratifying work of its class since the great delineator of Scottish manners cease' to write."—Tait's Magazine. "We have read this book with unusual pleasure. It has points of merit which may compare with Miss Ferrier, Galt, Lockhart, and Wilson."—Examiner. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. MISS PARDOE'S NEW WORK. SECOND EDITION. In 2 Vols. gvo„ Engravings. 365. THE couß . r and REIGN of FRANCIS I. KING of FRANCE. By Miss PARDOE. Author of " Lents the Fourteenth awl the Court of France." " The spirit of the best memoir writers has here been caught by Miss Pardoe. The work is full of biographical sketches and per. s.onal anecdotes."—Britannia. Richard Bentley, PahEsher In Ordinary to her Majesty. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Ratty. Enormous attracton for the Whitsuntide Holidays. The Grand Military Spectacle of the Affghaniatan War. Brilliant D splay of Equestrian Wonders In the Scenes in the Arena, Dy the first Artistes in Europe. Russia, or rather the whole of the Eastern Govern ments, including the despotic Government of the Au tocrat, have received, through these recent transac tions in the Mediterranean, a very significant intima tion that the energies of E egland are in no appreci able degree abated. Upwards of thirty years' tran quillity, maintained between this country and the rest of the European dominions, has not tended to dimi nish our ancient sensitiveness to insult, our prompti tude in avenging ourselves upon political offenders, or in eliciting amicable relations with diplomatic re cusants. Such, at least, has been obviously the ulterior purpose held in view throughout these proceedings by her Britannic MAJESTY'S Foreign Secretary. Consequently, while the interests of justice have been forwarded, the outraged dignity of the British flag has been vindicated, and the power, and the vigour, and the resolution of England have been proclaimed in accents of thunder to the eastern states of Christendom. In estimating the claim advanced by our Ambassador, and ultimately forced by him upon the acceptance of the Greek Govern ment, these things should not be forgotten. It should not be overlooked that, besides demanding compen sation for the injuries inflicted by the Greek police at Pyrgos upon two lonian unfortunates ; be sides requiring repayment for the property plundered off the Custom-house at Salcina from six lonian boats trading in the river AchelOus ; besides insisting upon the acknowledgment of the claims advanced by Mr. FINLAY, by two lonian revellers at Patras, and by the Gibraltar Jew Don PActrico—Eogland has been all along demanding an apology from the Greek Govern ment for an atrocious outrage perpetrated at Patras upon the coxswain and certain seamen belonging to her Britannic MAJESTY'S shin " Fantome." The assailants of Lord PA L 15,1 ERSTON have endea voured to "blink'' this portion of the claims presented to the Athenian Cabinet by the British Ambassador. The animus of-the whole of their opposition to the Foreign Secretary may be appreciated from the consideration of this single cir cumstance. Aware that of all the demands this vves precisely the one which would be most calculated to excite the popular sympathy for the policy adopted by Lord PALMERSTON towards the Greek Govern ment, the enemies of that statesman have sedulously striven from first to last to ignore its very existence. Tney have harped upon claims put forward in behalf of private individuals, but have closed their eyes and hushed their voice in regard to the " Fan t6me." They have assumed a total ignorance of the outrage upon the British officer and the boat's crew of that vessel at Patras, and have contented them selves with sneering most sarcastically and sardoni cally at the pecuniary compensation required by Mr. FINLAY and by Don Pacirico. The miser able irony directed against the latter indi vidual appears to have been reiterated again and again as a sort of rhetorical dust thrown into the eyes 4 the public for the purpose of blinding them to the principal injury requiring reps.. ration. Don Pactrico has been subjected to almost as many indignities as SHYLOCK, when " many a time and oft, upon the Rialto," the merchants of Venice plucked him by the beard, and called him dog, and spat upon his Jewish gaberdine ! With a view to depreciate him in the estimation of the multitude these most disingenuous journalists have jeered at him in Italics, as the Jets PACIFICO ! As if the circumstance of his being a Hebrew in re ligion militated against his claims as an Englishman in allegiance! The slur endeavoured to be cast upon him by this hinted implication has thus fallen back upon his deriders as harmlessly as a similar sarcasm directed against a great man used to do upon those who tried to degrade the Emperor NAPOLEON by sneering at him as " the Corsican." Don PA.-. CIFICO'S claim, again, has been called in question as to its validity, first by Baron Gaos, and subsequently, with an eager delight, by those English journalists who are foaming at the mouth with the true Ur quhart-madness against Lord PALMERSTON. They insist, with a sort of spiteful rapture, that his claims upon the Treasury at Lisbon must be false and altogether hypothetical, because they are resolutely disclaimed by the Por tuguese Government. Why, of course the Portu guese Government pretends to know nothing whatever about them, aware that the documentary evidence, by which alone they could have been enforced, was destroyed in 1847 by a party of rioters in the Greek capital. Any administration pr es id e d over b y a statesman so notoriously conscientious as the CABRAL would be certain to avail itself of such a very tempt ing opportunity. The claims of Don PACIFICO, the Jew of-Gibraltar, are consequently laughed at by the assailants of Lord PALMERSTON—whiIe not a syllable is breathed in reference to the outrage perpetrated during the night of the 9th of January, 1848, at Patras, against an officer and boat's crew belonging to her Britannic MAJESTY% ship " Fantanae"! Com parable instances of fairness are visible throughout the whole of these shameless attacks upon the policy of Lord PALMERSTON. We can find time now to allude to these paltry littlenesses, unbecoming E ng . lish journalism, for the purpose of expressing our indignation against them and theiroriginators— we can tied time now, we say, to do this, seeing that the more important features of the opposition raised against the Greek policy of the Government have been crushingly dealt with in the masterly oration deli vered in the House of Commons, on Thursday evening, by the illustrious statesman, her MAnfo Principal Secretary for the Foreign Department. We refer at length to these wretched instances of trumpery and splenetic personality, however, with a confidence that the moral of their manifestation will not be lost upon the English people —upon that peo ple whose sympathies are peculiarly in favour of candour in attack, of openness in animosity, and of manliness in argument ! TUTS EVENING, The Entertainments; will commence at Seven o'clock, with the immensely successful grand National Military Equestrian and Dramatis Spectacle (in three acts) entitled THE AFFGHANISTAN WAR ; or the Revolt of Cabul and British Triumphs in India. Produced with every possible care to all its original and magnificent effects, calling into action the unequalled resources of the estab lishment. A Brass Band engaged expressly for the occasion, and a host of Auxiliaries. To be succeeded by an inimitable Display of Batty's Feats of Equitation in the Cirpie Olympique, introducing La Petite Jeannette, the Infant Prodigy, and the diminutive steed Hare Bell, in a pecu liarly Novel Act of Menage, teing a model of that accomplished artiste Made. Valentine, in the high school of Equitation. To conclude with the Farce of the TWO GREGORIES. Bost-office open From Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. QitNl* 6 - 770 , LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1850. Another attempt was last night made in the House of Commons to obtain some reduction of the existing taxation. Such motions must he of constant occur rence, so long as the present fiscal system is main tained in a:1 its st r i ngency . The proceedings in almost every instance are precisely similar. some Honourable Gentleman exposes the injustice and im policy of some particular impost, and asks leave to bring in a Bill for its abolition or reduction. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, in reply, states that it is his painful duty to oppose the motion. The Right Honourable Gentleman declares that he will not then enter into the question of the propriety or impropriety of the burden, of the grounds on which it was originally imposed, or of the legislative pledges that have from time to time been given for its modifi cation—that it produces so many thousands of pounds to the revenue, a sum which he is certainly not pre pared to give up, &c. &c. &c. A division then takes place, in which occasionally the Minister of Finance is signally and disgracefully defeated. But more fre quently the whipper-in has discharg his duty—the independent Members,who are looking fur favours from the Government, are easily induced to come forward ; they are joined by others who desire reductions of a different description, and the proposition is negatived. Such is the ordinary routine, and last night consti tte.ed no exception to the general rule. The object of Mr. BLACKSTONE'S motion was the repeal of so much of the 3rd and 4th Vic., chap. 17, as imposes an additional duty on assessed and window taxes. These additional charges were sanctioned es a mere temporary makeshif t at a time Winn the national income was very far below the national expenditure, and when—the country being blessed with a Whig Chancellor of the Exchequer—no bold or decided Course could be anticipated. Sir FRANCIS THORNHILL BARING was as averse even as Sir CHARLES WOOD himself to travel out of the beaten path. No alter native remained but to sanction his proposition of granting an additional ten per cent. on the assessed taxes, and five per cent. on Customs _and zcise duties, or to submit to an annually increasing defi ciency, which would naturally be accompanied by a diminution of public confidence and a loss of national credit. The lesser evil was, therefore, submitted to, al though with a bad grace, and on the distinct under standing that matters should be replaced in their original position on the first favourable opportunity. But, alas ! far those who consent to the imposition of any burden for any temporary purpose. There is a peculiar te. nacity about Financial Ministers that induces them to cling to any charge, however obnoxious, so long as it can be levied. Accordingly, we find that the additional duties of ten and five per cent. are still maintained, and that no intimation of their intended abolition has been given, although the necessity for which they were required has long passed away, and they are almost universally admitted to have proved decided failures, the entire measure being based on a gross financial blunder. While the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Tamworth remained in power this indifference was not very surprising. Sir ROBERT PEEL, • from the moment of his accession to office, was engaged in a series of important fiscal reforms, which eventually led to the recognition of free-trade principles, and the abolition of the odious corn-laws. Hi s time and attention were thus fully occupied. Perhaps, also, he had no very great objection to con nive at the continuance of so palpable an example of the financial incapacity of his predecessors. Nothing therefore was done in the way of advance under his Government. But when the Whigs again obtained office it might reasonably have been supposed that the matter would receive immediate attention. Sir F BARING is still a Cabinet Minister, holding an important office in the Government, one who should have some influence over his colleagues, and they in turn should have sense regard for the public cha racter of their coadjutor. When, therefore, a surplus was at length obtained a circum stance of rather rare occurrence to the Whigs—it seemed almost a matter of course that the ten per cent. addition to the assessed taxes would be relinquished, even if no immediate change were made in the Customs or Excise. But Sir CHARLES WOOD defeated all previous anticipations. He would not, as he might have done, give up the taxes on light and air, or concede any other great and much-required boon, which would induce the people to remain satis fied for some time longer "Bricks," and nothing but "Brick s ," would he render free; and the moiety of the available fund was to be applied to—the reducia.to of the National Debt !! ! He would devote '750,000/. per annum to the liquidation of 800,000,0001, or about one-fifth of a penny in the pound per annum as a sinking fund. Never was there a more lame and impotent conclusion. But Sir CHARLES WOOD so decided, and nothing could in duce him to rescind or qualify his determination. lie 1 is resolved to show that if hel possesses no other qualification for his situation, he i s at l east as obsti nate as any of his predecessors. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (7ROM OUR OWE CORRESPONDENT.) COWES, MAT 24. ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE. ARRI. m ay 17. Osprey, cutter, H. C. Goodden, Esq., from Cowes' harbour. M a y 20. Urania, schooner, Lord Rodney, from Cowes' harbour. . Bacchante, cutter, B. 11. Jones, E sq, west , ward. May 22 SAILINGS. May 14. Gondola, cut►ter, W. H. Woodhouse, E sq ., for Jersey. May 20. Talisman, cutter, Csptain IL N. Smith, R.E., Brighton. May 21. Urania, schooner, Lord Rodney, for South ampton and Gravesend. FITTING OUT IN COWES' HARBOUR. Constance, schooner, 218 tons, Marquis Conyngham. Corsair, cutter, 84 tons, Jos. Gee, Lord Ilchester and several other members have been at the Royal Yacht Squadron-house this week. The Duchess of Kent having found Powlasso House too small for her Royal Highness's establishment in former years, six rooms are being aided to it. Under these circumstances, then, Mr. BLACKSTONE brought forward his motion. He did not ask for any pre sent alteration in the Customs or Excise. His proposition Po n a f T t a hi a s sr or LOUD GouGu.—An admirable por trait was restricted to the ten per cent. on the assessed taxes , li they stood before and window duties, which he desired to have placed duties plished artist himself, has been recently issued from illustrious soldier, painted by Mr. Harwood, 1840. and excellently well lithographed by that Becom e the increase of d • was, that the income derived from these sources is h s t .r e en estab T li h shment of Mr. Grundy, 130, Regent- I ( To the shower] game ed that footing the result u w l t l3 i o c gradually but certainly diminishing ; that the tax n t h . c t impression of this beautiful lithogra phic likeness on male servants prevents employment to many, who r brilliantly presents to before us clearly and even workhouse, Gough, s to U 3 the features of Lord are in consequence driven to the union and that there is a serious falling off in the use of all have seldom seldom seen equalled in that departmet the articles on which the taxes are imposed, notwith- 1 duced ote by t th of e h en n g d rav f ing. The original picture pro standing the additional population of the country and the gallant (y)tlicer ao.A . lr. Harwood for the nodu and r,,, e g . himself, is thus multiplied and rendered buil • dings in course of erection every day. 11- ' accessible to the public, a circumstance which w i window-tax, which, i n 1841, had produced 1,664,053/. 1 be no small cause of self-gratulati on t o the numerous in 1847 only realised 1,626,060/., a decrease of admirers of the conqueror of Sobraon and Goc'jerat. 1 37,9931. Servants, in 1841, 215,8441., in 1847, 203,105/. ; de2rease, 12,739/. Carriages, 1841, 464,5921., 1847,427,823/. ; decrease, 36,769/. Horses, 1841, 414,6751., 1847, 373,9601.; decrease, 40,7151. Dogs, 1841, 172,191/., 1847, 148,413/. ; decrease, 23,7781. Other assesed taxes, 1841, 258,1381., 1847, 238,1931.; decrease, 19,945/. Additional ten per cent., 1841, 311,3571., 1847, 299,2491. ; decrease, 12,108/.—showing a total diminution of revenue within six years on these items of 184,0471, or nearly two-thirds of the additional tax, a further proof, if any were required, that in fiscal affairs two and two do not always make four. Sir CHARLES WOOD was, how ever, firm, and he was sustained by an obedient ma jority, who negatived the motion by a majority of 130 to G 5, or exactly two to one. Let not the fiscal re formers be discouraged at this untoward result. They require a steady organization, and that minor points should be given up, in order to produce a general co operation that will compel the Minister to relin quish his own hobbies in deference to the general will of the nation. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. Tie discession on the separate articles of the Elec toral Law commenced in the Assembly on Thursday, and there vas some sharp sparring between MM. DE MONTALEMBERT and VICTOR HUGO, in the course of which the latter gentleman took the opportunity of inflicting on M. THIERS and the Burgraves one of the severest castigations they have ever received. In reply to the charges of inconsistency brought against him on the previous day by M. DC MONTA LEMBERT, M. VICTOR HUGO said :—"M. DE MONTA.• LEMBERT accuses me of having been a renegade to all my opinions. Does he allude to CHARLES X , whose consecration I celebrated in verse, and whose tomb I honcured—or to the Duchess DE BERRI, because I denounced the wretch who sold her, and withered him who paid the price of blood—or to NA.- rohEoer, for whose family I have so earnestly pleaded to the Duchess D'ORLEANs, when I was the last man to proclaim her Regency in the Place de la Bastile ?" This terrible allusion to the seller and betrayer of the Duchess DE BERRY, told with immense effect. "M. THIERS," says the National, " hung down his head, and his accomplices of the present day, the Legitima tists, maintained a silence, which is the condemnation of the treaty into which they have entered with the man who purchased her betrayal." M. DE MONTA LEMBERT then accused M. ViCTOR 'ludo of having deserted their camp. M. VICTOR Huh° denied that he could have deserted a party to which he had never belonged, the reactionary camp, he re garded es the camp of disorder. " There is this dif ference," said M. VICTOR HUGO in conclusion, " be tween M. Dx MONTALEMBERT and myeelf; I know no other sovereign but the people, whilst he knows no other sovereign than the POPE." After this incident, the discussion of the clauses ,of the Bill having been determined on by 412 to 227, M. DE LAMARTINE opposed the first article in a speech in which he took a historical view of the suffrage from 1790—arriving at the revolution of February, 1848. General GOUEGAUD interrupted him with an allusion to the way in which the army had been commended, on which General 13EDEau rose to explain, as he said, fur more than th e first time, why he had given an order to a detachment of soldiers to retire from a barrack, not to cause useless effusion of blood. After this explanation M. DE LAMARTINE pro ceeded to justify the acts of his own Government— then he attacked Socialism as understcol by AL DE MONTALEMBERT, and praised some other kind of Socialism as he figured it to himself. The Honour able Gentleman then, alluding to the encou ragement given in pnblications and in the theatres to erect the English Parliamentary General Menck into a hero, made direct allusions to the rumoured project of a restoration of the monarchy by means not unlike those practised by the English traitor. In fine, he concluded, may we, in two years, say to these detestable agita tors, who prophesy evil for evil, who impru dently provoke, as if to tempt the wisdom of a great nation, and take liberty in flagrante delicto, may we say to them, on leaving this place in two years hence, or in returning to it invested with a new mandate, " You have been imprudent, you have given a ren dezvous to the tempest, and the tempest, snore wise than you, has not arrived."—(Sensation.) The day's proceedings were concluded by a speech from M. BaaocuE, the Minister of the Interior, which was from betzinning to end an exposure of the inconsistencies of M. DE LAMARTINE, but in the course of which the Hor. Minister did not offer one single argument in favour of the Bill. The &foniteur contains a notice from the directors of the Bank of France, announcing that thr ee forged notes of th a t establishment, of 1,0001. each, have been presented there by the Commissary of Po lice, who arrested the parties in the act of passing them. The same journal publishes a dispatch from the Governor of Guadeloupe, announcing the conclusion of the trials of the persons who committed the dis turbances during the election of M. MARIE GALANTE. ot . 67 persons tried 26 were acquitted, and 41 were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment for at tempts at assassination, arson, and pillage. The Republican journals all comment on M. DE MONTALEMBERT'S threat of a Roman expedition to the interior, the meaning of which becomes evident on reading the comments of the Ministerial Patrie, which, speaking of the Republicans, accuses them of denying GOD and humanity, and then proceeds thus :—" Against them force alone is of any avail, and we must hasten to have recourse. to it. Therefore we must organize the Iteman Expedition to the Interior against the enemies of society, and thus re-establish authority upon its basis, as Catholicism► was re-established. " Might we not be tempted to believe," says the National, in commenting on these atrocious threats of the parti-preitre, " might we not be tempted to be lieve that we were returned to the days which preceded the massacre of St. Bartholo mew ?" which massacre, be it remembered, has found not only an apologist but an eulogist in this very M. DE MONTALEMBERT, who is now proclaiming a holy crusade against Republican ism. "Up and at the Huguenots," exclaims the .Natioaial, " as on the 24th August, 1572. Death to the Albigenses, and strike all without distinction. GOD will know how to recognise those who belong to him." Between an apologist for the massacre of St. Bartholomew's and an imitator, the distance is not great, and could the party of M. MONTALEMBERT have their own way, there can be little doubt but that they would inaugurate a reign of terror in comparison with:which 1793 would appearas insig nificant as it does when compared to the wholesale butchery of St. Bartholomew's, which " re-established Catholicism on its basis," and which the Patrie holds out as an example. General CBANGARNIEIt is, it appears, in the habit after dinner of assembling his officers around him, and rehearsing an attack on the people, giving orders for the destroying of hundreds of imaginary barri cades, and for the shooting of thousands of imaginary prisoners, " for prisoners," says the humane General, are a hindrance and an embarrassment." Ms vivacity, however, carried the General on Thursday too far. "In case of an emeute occurring," said he, "if an order is sent you, whether by the Pan- SIDENT of the Rep u bli c , o r by the President of the Assembly, or by the Minister-at-War, I fq,rbid you to pay any attention to it. I alone ought ,, to command, and I alon e oug ht t o be obeyed. These words being reported at the Elyase created alarm and disgust, and if General CIIANGARNIER is not immediately removed, it is rather from want of power than want of will on the part of those who have learned, we fear too lat e , t o di s tinguish their friends from their enemies. The following are the principal items of the weekly Bank returns :-- France. Specie 341,133,662 Ditto in the departments ... 128,499,281 Bills in portfolio ... ... 39,445,205 Bills in branches ... ... 65,535,667 Bill: lying unpaid ... 935,757 Ditto in branches ... 1,370,008 Bank notes in circulation ... 406,643,500 Ditto in branches ... ... 72,740,475 Credit to,Treasury ... 39,235,101 Private credits ... 94,661,518 Ditto in branches ... 27,779,491 The ceremony of opening the railroad from Creil to St. Quentin, fixed for the 26th, has been adjourned in consequence of the inability of the PRESIDENT of the Republic to be present on that day. It is be lieved the ceremony will take place on the 2d of June. The Grand Duchess STEPHANIE of Baden left the ElYs.43 on Thursday to return to Germany. The servant girl of the Abbe DELMOTTE, cure of Savy-Berlette, department of Pas de Calais, died suddenly a few days ago i and the abbe laid out the body himself, and caused it to be buried with great haste. This gave rise to strong suspicions, and it soon became generally rumoured that the girl had died from poison. Accordingly, the body was dug up and opened. It appeared that poison had been administered, and that the deceased was enciente for seven months. The abbe has been arrested on the charge of having committed the crime. Paris and Rouen, PARIS 13ounsE, MAY 2 Cents., 90f. 45c. ; Three per Cents., 56f. 25c.; B an k of France, 2,120f. ' 4.—Latest P sm el ego _ de p a i iieapnedr BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EJECHANGE. MAT 24. Bordeaux, B onl o Boulogne e 2 k a and —ParisAm i eu and, 6 o — r EL ens,aat I n 2 d B i a t z ...., SIN. be searched, both of which charges were perfectly false. He was searched, and nothing found on his person, and he was then marched as a prisoner to the civil governor ; but, on arriving there, was again marched back with an order that he was to remain there until he heard from him, and after a detention of two hours and a half an order came by an aide de-camp of the military governor for his immediate liberation. Fortunately an officer in the Spanish service, and a captain of the Royal Artillery, was pre sent and witnessed the whole of this gross insult to an Admiralty agent. The Bolsa was closed on the 19th. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of Cotton at Li►erpool yesterday were es timated at from 5,000 to 6,000 bales, nearly tell to the trade.---In Railway Sirzres a good business way dono at further advanced rates. The public ales of Indigo were brought to a conclu sion yesterdr,y, zr.d it appears, by the report of Messre. Wilkinson and Jewesbury, that fine Bengal has been rather neglected, in proportion to the good and middling defective qap.lities. The greatest competition has been for Kurpah Indigo, which continues scarce. Madras has been in good demand at current rates. The small parcel of Java, being of superior quality, realised very high prices. Of the quantity brought forward it is es timated that 1,590 chests are bought in, 5,333 with drawn, and 5,300 sold, to which may be added about 1,200 of the bought in and withdrawn, making the total quantity sold 6.500 chests, of which 4,000 chests are for expert, 1,000 for home consumption, and 1,500 for re-sal,. We have a statement likewise on the dried fruit trade by Messrs. Witherby and Hansom, who report that:—" The extent of the forthcoming crop of currants is at present a matter of mere surmise. An actual and also sudden felling off in the consumption in this country to the extent of 25 her cent., though it may partly be Re counted for, aroi may even be temporary, is, however, a fact which should make the growers pause before ex acting high prices f)r next season's produce. If prices open and continue high, the consumption will rapidly decrease. So important, indeed, it is to impress upon importers the practical influence of high and low prices upon consumption, that we beg to re-insert at foot, car ried on to 30th April, a table which we published a few months ago, showing the monthly clearances and prices of currants during the last five years. There is no change to notice in the Raisin market. The stock is con siderably less than in May, 1849, but the clearances do not increase. The official return of the consumption in the United Kingdom, for the first three months of this year is 1,085 tons, against 1,600 tons, and 1,850 tons in 1849 and 1848. Some parcels of Smyrna barrel fruit k, ep arriving from the continent, and tend to depress that description. The accounts from Spain and Turkey afford every hope of abundant forthcoming crops and low prices." The letters reccive.l this morning from the manufac turing riots are satisfactory, and business seems more activ,-, in Yorkshire, though rather quiet in Lancashire, owing to the holidays and the races. Th. 3 Bank returns tor the week show again an in erc ase of essete, and no perceptible augmentation of the means of empl,yiug them. The Government balances are steadily increasing. Compared with the previous 'veil, the changes arc as follows: Notes is,m7d Increase Rest Increase ... Public Deposits ... ... 29,963,005 ... 135,075 ... 3,109,812 ... 1,663 ... 6,764,415 Increase ... Other Deposits ~. ... 933 792 ... 9,582,999 Decrease . . ... ... 362:705 Seven Day and other Bills ... 1,190,891 Decrease ... ... ... 36,744 Government Securities ... no alteration. Other Securities ... ... .. 9,746,392 Increase ... ... ... 37 570 Notes ... ... ... ... 10,494.480 Increase ... ... ... 567,470 Bullion ... ... ... ... 16,631,080 IncrcaF• ... ... ... 66,041 Active Circulation ... ... 19,468,525 Decrease ... ... ... 432,395 The exports of bullion from London this week have been confined to silver, 18,000 ounces of which were sent to Madras and Calcutta. The Funds have been very steady this morning, but net bun) ant. The impression gains ground, founded upon private letters from Paris, that the difference with England is arranged. Co n s o l s have been 651- the New Three-end-a-Quarter per Cents. 96111, and the Three per Cents. 9 , 4 Bank Stock has been at 2061 to 207/, Exchequer-hills aro 675. premium, In the Foreign Market business is extremely dull. Mexican are heavy, and have been done at 301 to 4. Peruvian Deferred are 324 to 1. Spanish Three per Cent. have been nominally 37i. and Peruvian Four per Cents. 32 to 34. The Lisbon Mail advises a deficiency in the estimated revenue of the year ending the 30th June, 1851, amounting to 2,374 contos. Railway Shares have been generally lower than yes tardily. QUARTER TO THREE, 95# 95 I CLOSING PRICES. 207 1 4 94% 95 3 4 96% A • SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 19th have arrived. On the 15th an untoward event occurred at Cadiz. An English officer, the Admiralty agent to the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's ship Pacha, was grossly insulted and subsequently arrested and kept a prisoner for some time by the Spanish authorities. It appears that on the arrival of the Pacha at C idiz, a person came on board and demanded the mails on behalf of the Spanish Govern• ment. The Admiralty agent refused to give them up, and landed the mails as usual. On i his landin g , a note from th e C onsu l was placed n his h an d , authorising hi m t o g i ve up charge, which he imme diately did, and p rocee ded towards the consulate, an d on passing thro ug h the gates he was arrested, not withstanding that he was in his English unifo rm , and confined as a prisoner. In reply to his demand for an explanation, he was inform e d that he was there by order of the civil governor. On the arrival of Mr. BIIACKENDURY, authorised by her MAJESTY'S Consul to act for him, he was told th a t the Admiralty agent had been given in charge for resisting the Post-voice authorities, and refusing to PORTUGAL. Advices have been receives from Lisbon of the 19th ir.st. The Finance Minister brought forward his budget in the Chamber of Deputies on the 11th inst. It sets oat by stating that although in the preceding relatorio the deficit for the year ending the 30th of June, 1850, was declared to be 1,594 contos, it in reality turned out to be 1,398 contos, owing to the subsequent filling up of situations in the different departments of the public service which were vacant when that rela torio was published. The ordinary deScit for the year ending the 30th J une , 1851 (which perhaps may likewise turn out much greater), is declared to be 2,330 contos, from which, however, are to he de ducted the usual donations from the royal family out of their allowances, and any reductions which may be effected in the salaries and pensions as well as in the interest on the internal and external debt. This will reduce the ordinary deficit to 775 contos, to which, however, will have to be added the following increased charges—viz., for the marine de partment, 229 contos ; for the war department, 102 contos; for the Home Ministry, 4 contos; besides a diminution of 221 contos in the revenue derived from the tobacco, soap, and gunpowder contracts ; all which together will bring it up to 1,332 contos. The extraordinary deficit (arising from terminable liabilities) is stated to amount to about 350 contos. The whole deficit, therefore, including 700 contos from the preceding year, amounts to 2,374 contos. To meet this the Government, confiding in the marked improve ment which has begun to take place in the collection of the existing revenues, will not for the present pro pose any new imposts. Under the herd of ar rears of "decima" uncollected, which amount to upwards of 4,500 contos, it reckons upon being able to get in about 800 contos during the year. With respect to the flotation of the Board of Public Credit, the following alterations are proposed viz. : PRESENT DOTATION. Contos. Assignment upon the tobacco contract 1,000 Mao Custom-houses ... 1,157 Ditto Fish duties ... ... 65 Ditto Decims ... ... 624 2,845 PRIPOSED DDTATION. Couto& Tobacco contract ~. ••• .. 1,000 Customs ... ... ... ••• ... 524 Fish duties ... ... ... ... 67 Dcoirna (Lisbon and Oporto district 0... 760 Drciaia (other districts of the kingdom) 460 2,811 The only material alteration here is the reduc tion of the assignment upon the custom-houses, and corresponding augmentation of that upon the " denims." This is accompanied by an as • surance that the interests of the bondholders will not suffer thereby—the assurance being based upon the assumption that the assignment upon the decima is quite as good as that upon the custom houses, which certainly is not true as regards that portion of the decima appertaining to the "other dis tricts of the kingdom"—witness the enormous arrears already due for many years past. Were there really no difference, as it is pretended, the Government would not trouble itself to make the substitution. GERMANY. e The following is the official telegraphic dispatch to C.)logne, announcing the attempt to assassinate the King of PRUSSIA : TO THE PRESIDENT Or THE REGENCY OF COLOGNE, DE 310ELER. " To-day at noon, as the King was setting out for Potsdam, his Majesty was struck by a balj from a pis tol. The King was slightly wounded in his arm, but he is es well as can be under the circumstances. The would-be assassin is a sub.officer of the artillery of the Guard, lately discharged as an invalid. His name is Sefeloge. He was immediately arrested and consigned to prison. (Signed) " Berlin, May 22. On the 20th the Prince of PRUSSIA left Berlin for Warsaw, there to meet the Emperor of RUSSIA, in order to explain to him the German policy of Prussia, and also to confer on the affairs of Schleswig- Holsteir. " HINKELVEY, President of Police, The Wanderer publishes an article from Austria, in which weat complaints are made of the con duct of the Roman .Catholic bishops since the par ticulars of the late ecclesiastical law were made public. HOLLAND. THE HAGUE, MAY 22.—According to ancient cus , torn the banns of marriage between his Royal High ness CHARLES Louis EUGENE, Prince Royal of Sweden and Norway, Duke of Sudermania, aged 24 years, and her Royal Highness WILHELAIENA FREDERICA ALEXANDRIA ANNA LOUISA, Princess of the Netherlands, aged 21 years, were publicly proclaimed on the steps of the Senate House the day before yesterday. BELGIUM. - BRUSSELS, MAT 22.—Lord HOWDEN, the newly. appointed British Ambassador at Madrid, arrived at Brussels on Sunday last. His Excellency is charged to carry to the KING the thanks of •the British Go• vernrnent for his efficacious intervention in arranging the differences between England and Spain. This mission be accomplished in an audience which he had with the KING. Chevalier HEBIET, Ambassador from Spain, also had an interview with his MAJESTY, to convey the thanks of his Government for the same services. The Chamber of Representatives has been convoked by the Minister of the Interior for the 28tb of May. —Journal du Commerce d'Ancers,May 24. IRELAND. DREADFUL MURDER. DUBLIN ' FRIDAY EVENlNG.—Accounts have reached town of the murder in open day of Mr. Robert Lind• say Maulever, an extensive land agent and a magis trate for the county of Londonderry. The dreadful event took. place yesterday morning at Crossmaglen, on the borders of the counties of Louth and Armagh. Mr. Maulever had. been em ployed for the last few days in giving each tenant a plot of bog free, and had just transacted all his business in time to go by the train that passes Col ville at one o'clock P.M. He left the hotel at Crossmaglen on a car for the Colville Station, and in less than half an hour the car returned with the melancholy intelligence that he had been brutally murdered. The driver states that he was shot from behind a hedge. The sole object of this great crime appears to have been the gratification of revenge, as a considerable sum of money was found on his person after he was removed to town. RETURN DINNER TO THE LORD MAYOR OF LON DON.- On Wednesday last a preparatory meeting of the Mayors was held at Derby, when it was decided that the Lord Mayor, the Prince Albert, the Royal Commissioners, and her. Majesty's Ministers, should be invited to a dinner provided by the Mayors of England, to be held at some fu ture time at York. The Lord Mayor of York and the Mayors of Leeds, Bradford, Manchester, and Hull, were apnointed a committee to make the necessary preparations.—Nottingha m Guardian. PRESENTATION OF A GUTTA. PERCIIA BOAT TO LADY FRANKLIN.—Messrs. Searle, boat-builders to her Majesty, have presented a very Sue boat, of a novel description, which has been constructed by them, to Lady Franklin. It is similar in form to a whale-boat, 23 feet long, 5 feet 8 inches broad, 2 feet 2i inches deep, strongly framed with fir, the external part covering the ribs being a perfect skin of gutta-percha. She will go out with the expedition under the command of Captain C. C. Forsyth, now about to sail for Regent's Inlet, in search of Sir John Franklin and party; and as she is calculated to carry six or seven men and 1,600 pounds of provisions. and moreover possesses the advantage of extreme portableness as well as strength, there is no doubt she will be found exceedingly useful. She has been inspected by several aquatic men, and has elicited their warmest ap probation. THE ALLEGED MURDER AT KENSINGTON.—Yes terday afternoon, at three o'clock. Mr. H. M. Wakley, the deputy coroner for the western division of Middlesex. held an inquest at the Coach and Horses, Palace-yard, High. street, Kensington, on the body of Mary Barry, aged 46. who was alleged to have been murdered by a kict on the temple, given by Patrick Barry, her husband. The jury were sworn, and went into the inquiry in the same room the corpse lay. On the examination of the body a lacerated wound of about half an inch or three-quarters in length presented itself on the right temple, and it was such a blow as might have been given by a heavy-nailed boot or shoe. The facts, which have been already given, were then proved in evidence. At the close the room was cleared for half an hour, and a verdict of " Manslaughter" returned. Pleasure loves the garden and the flowers; labour loves the fields and the grain ; devotion loves the mountain and the skies,—Eliza Cook's Journal. MIDDLESEX SESSI3NB.—The Court sat yesterday at Clerkenwell to hear appeals. There were thirty-nine en tered, and a number of them were disposed of, 'nit they in volved merely uninteresting questions under the L aw o f Settlement, and were not worth reporting. Several appeals against convictions by magistrates, and against parochial assessments, were postponed, and the Court adjourned. THE CHELSEA PENSIONERS. INSPECTION THIS DAY.— The Woolwich division of enrolled Chelsea Pensioners, under the command of Major Forbes,.and also th e P ens i oners of the Greenwich and Deptford districts, assembled this day on Blackheath. for the purpose of being inspected by the commanding officer, Colonel Tulloch. At the hour appointed, the gallant Colonel, accompanied by a numerous staff, ar rived on the ground, and the pensioners h av i ng t a k en re view order; commenced their evolution s . C o l one l Tulloch at the conclusion expressed his high admiration of the disci- ; pline of the gallant veterans, and the inspection terminated. THE WEATHER.-Syx OFFICE, MAY 25. THERMOALLTER. 61—highest since noon yesterday. 43—lowest this morning and during the night. 62—this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 29 . 63. ITTEm W.S.W.—fresh breeze, and cloudy. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tuts DAY Morning 19 min. after 1 1 Evening' 41 min. after 1 To-Morrow—Motnfag 1 min. after 2 Evening min. after : 1 4.: :; rlf? t,44 1 1 5 "',•," 't? ..,ti . , N *A eatA., zi : .--,&i.„,:r .i t „, Aits 6-_ t,y-- - 8 , 7-- ---,..... ~.........„1 , .. ( ~ . ...,, ~, , ,„,zir, Consols ... ... .. Ditto, Account, Jane 12 ... ONE _ O'CLOCK. 206% _207% PRICES OF BRITISU FUNDS Liank OtocZ 3 , u.- Cent. Rcdneed Anns ... 94% 8 - N I 3 par Cent. Consols Annuities........ 95' 3f,t New 3i,( per Cent. Anns. 9 6 3%% Long .-t nna. to expire Jan.lB6o Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 -16 7 5-16 iLditt Bonds, 1,0004... — Ditto under 1.0001. • B7 p Consols for Account 9 5 1 / 8 3 /1 i - iichequcr Bills. 1 V. & 2d 1,0001. June 67 - p 67 p 500/. June ... 67 p 67 p Small. June 67 70 p 70 p ONE CLOSING PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Mexican. 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons— Ditto, En Jan. Coupons — Ditto, Account Peruvian Bonds, 412 per Cent...... Ditto Deferred Pofzuguee3 5 per Cents. ;.%,issian Bonds Ditto, 4% per Cent Ditto Scrip 2 p Dividends on the above payable in London. n atoll 21 / 2 per Cent., 12 Guild. - .. 55 3 4 56 56 Ditto, ,!, per Cent. Certificates... 85 1 / 2 85 1 / 2 PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING BAILIVAY SLARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PB.ICE,. ,I.b?rdern ' 4 / Do. Preference Bristol and Exeter 100 ...... 63 Ditto, Thirds Caledonian Do. New 10/. Pref..... 10 ;- ast Anglian, 251., L. & E. and L. and D....... 25 F astern Counties........ 20 ...... 7% 7% Do, Now Pref.rence, 6 per Cent. Eastern Union, Class A (late E. U. Shares) 25 Do. Scrip (6 per cent.) 20 ...... -- ..... . .. 1614 East Lancashire ';reat Northern Do., ;4 3 A Deferred ... 12 1 / 4 2 l / 2% 2% Do., 5 per Cent. Pref. 12 1 ,x. lO L /2 .... ..... i;reat Western 100 Ditto, Now 17/... ... 15 ... _. 7% Lanct: l / 4 bire & Yorkshire 100 De. _Fifths— ... 10 Do. (W. Riding Union) 114 2 Leeds and Bradtord SO London &Blackwall...ll/. 68. 3d... ... ••• L -, nrlon, Brighton, and South Coact... ..... 100 Do., New, guaranteed 6 per Cent . ...... ...103 Loudon and N WeJtern 100 10 3 14 103. Ditto, New Quarters 12 Ditto, Fifths .... . l2 ... .. ..... ..... Do. 101. 4M. & B.) C. 1 London N S.Weitern ..ICJ) ..... 61% Midland .lOO ..... 344 84 Do. GonsolidatedPref.loo Do., 501. Shares ..... 80 Dolinn.. and Derby ICO ro. Consolid. Blistoi & Binning., 6 per ct..... 100 ...... Ditto,Brist &Glocatr. 44 ...... ...... ..... Ditto ditto' .261. ls. 6d... ... ........ ... Do.,ErewashVel. Pref. 50 Ditto, Leieest.& Swan nin gton, 8 per ct. guar.loo Midland Great Western. Irish - . ..... ....... North British ........ ... 25 •••••• 7 1 4.. Ditto Preference . 5 North Staffordeh ire ... 17% 7 A I4 Northern Counties Union 4 . ..... North-Western .... 1 3 3 /4 . Ox' - ' , Td, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Preston & Wyre 25 ... .. Do. q Shares (A) lO Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Royston and Hitchin ... 4 1 ,x..... Do. Shepreth Eaten . 5 4 — Scottith Central Scottish Midland Ditto, New - 7s j - 12% Shrewsbury and Biros... 13 1 4 — dis .. .. die Ditto ditto. Class B. 9 Ditto,New Guaranteed S - Shrewsbury and Herefd. 5 Shrewsbury & Cheater (Nor. W. Min.) 2O Ditto Halves Do. S per Cent. i'ref. 10 Ditto Ozweetry ...... 20 Ditto New Shropshire Union S )uth Devon Do. Preference ... .. 25 So ith Qtatfordshire...... 8% — .....«• •••• Sunt,l. Y,rv,tilca Do., No. 2. Dc., No. 3 ....... ...... 30 Do.. Registered No. 4 10 Wilts. tiomerstt,& Wey mouth York, Newcamle, and Borwick. Da. Newcastle Eaten. 20 Dc. G.N.P.:. Preference 8 Do. Hartlepool Dock nol Railway 100 ...... . York. and North alidland 50 Ditt4 Preference ... .. i 0 FOREIGN RAILWAYb. Augl (late Ita lian and Austrian). ... Boulogna and Aintens... 20 Central of France (Or leans and Vierzon)... 20 Dena eri.ra 17% — Du t Rhenish ...... ..• 8 ••• .. East Indian Ditto .. 20 Great Indian Peninsular 5 ...... Do. Do. ... 1 Louvain la E'ambr9 ... 7% Luxernhourg Ditto . Madrid and Valentia... 2 Namur and Liege Northern of France.-- 16 13% 13% 39% 13% . $l4 16% 714 Orleans and Bordeaux.. 7 Paris and Orleans ...... 20 Paris and Rouen 2O •• • •• ........ Paris and Strasbourg Rouen and Havre Sambre and Meuse 2O ..... Etraabourg and Bole 0 Tours and Nantec l3 ....„ .•••••••• ' •"•• Tournay, Jurbise, Lan den, and Hasselt...... 20 ........ West Flancisra . .. . .......... MINES. .. Brazilian Imperial ...... 24 --- BrazilianCocaes&Cuiaba 30 . — ......... Do. St. John Del Rey 15 Cobra Copper General Real Del Monte, Unreg. Do. Black Debentures .....-- Do. Red Ditto ... ..... ............... 12 1 Santiago de Cüba.. lc Tin Croft 7 —••— ......... 1 •• • •• I - . United 2.lexican .......... JOINT STOCK BANKS. Union of Australia Ditto, New ...... • ........... Union of L0nd0n......... 10 ..... ....-.• • Union of Madrid 4O LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS yA LONDON, MAY 25,—Wind at noon S.S. W.; breez , , and cloudy. LEITH, MAY 24.—The Albert steamer, St irl %, ° 0 1° • Leith, is on a lege of rocks to the westward of „ no ton Pier. DEAL, MAY 24.—Wind S.E. to S.W.—Arr d ' t. W l ;et River. 'Thomas Hughes, Port Philip; SY° 3lJ3 : 4 ,:r 4 d s . 11 1 Ion; Honor, Mauritius; Edgar, Algoa Bay. Arad. the River and sailed, Descedo, Ilavannab; New York; Freya, Quelh , c, n o boo SLIGO, MAY 23.—Wind S.E.—SId. Grace, wkleboOt CFF DOTER, MAY 24,—Harlequin, C linc—P Hayti for Antwerp. SALCO3IBE.—A 4 all OFF goatina, Launees:on, man's Land. OFF PEN4ANCE.—CoIombo, Ritchie, Usturit ills beil‘' BRISTOL. MAY 24.—Wind S.l,l7.—Arr d. Knowles, Trinidad. Sld. Herundo. Quebec. 1,0 LIVERPOOL, MAY 24.—Wind E S.E.- - "A r v ru , Pollock, Crooksh a nk, N ew O r l ean s. SO' A ` ii ,volc ° aistln ; Intrinsic, Qu e b ec ; L a dy Harvey, •ri c— to° e ' Alexander, Acajutta ; Fergus, Jamaica; Dr, I 'Ser New York ; British Anutricsn, Boston; Ad elt/lae ' foundland. ire A DUNDEE, MAY 23.—The Dundee steamer b' fogg y her machinery, havin g groun d e d d ur i n g a thic k I" must discharge. Jersel SHIELDS, MAY 24.—The Isabella, of and 1 0 1, grounded during a thi c k f og t hi s morn i n g, and ue ,. • f 6 111 ,; but is expected off n ext t id e. Th e Woodeiti r t„d jail - gow, capsized this morning, an d i s grow on the water. ser VIGO, MAY 2o.—The Scipio, Ca thsgen a t° castle, sprung a seriou s leak, r and was sinkinga r ral here. QUEENSTOWN, MAY 22. Wind S.E. —S id. C513(116.1 St. John's, New Brunswick: QUARATINE NOTICES. t h gOl' o ft By order of the B oar d o f H ea l t h t , b' Oav b es il s ' els B i r° :o l7ll ',, ef of Brazil comin g in ballast, may I d soU d e r national produce in the port of St. Übes 1111 ran tine. b St. Übe', g op Vessels from Bra z il are now a ll owe d to 14 ** A aisii r antine, in the sam e manner as t h ose that places where there is cholera. MARKET NEWS.—(THIS covmmyr.-GAnnian. eti bm'od Oar market wa s w e ll supp li e d w i t h v c g,,,,01 FruitBll which a large busin sss was tr a nsacte d. CV.'" Pl eh very full prices. , s „e AP of English Fruits—Strawberries, 68 to 125; L orvtl lOs to 14s; Hot-house Grapes, 8s to lOs perlb; 17 .s e to 30s per half-sieve • Apples, sieve; ditto, for cooking, 45 to 6s per bushel:oo 6 9 j 30s to 35a; Nectarines, 35s to 42s per dozen; ''' 6( l for eating, 5s to 65 . F eA ct' io to 123 each; Cherries, 15s to 20s per lb; Flo 50 per doz 3e. qg 6 ( i tij o se Foreign Fruit—Black Hambur h Grapes , White ditto, 9d to Is; Cherries, 91 to is per 1bt0,5,10 6s to 12s; Oranges, 7s to 15s per 100; Alur n cee Bs l es per peck; Spanish Nuts, 4s to se; SPal liS l 0 3s to 63; Brazil ditto, 3s to 4s ; 13a:caw:la - ' 1 46 6s per peck. Der a ,to English Vegetables—Cucumbers, is to 1 8 .r„', Cauliflowers, Oa to 12s per dozen; White pr";, 11 t 18s per dozen bundles; Carrots, 4s to 6s; G re ed sa to 2s per dozen bunches ; Onions, 5s t°, et bushel; Horseradish, 2s to ss ; Celery, B ', ; c o ' tp bundle; Leeks, is Gd t o 2s; P ars l e y. 4u gcl; dozen bunches; early York Cabbages, 6c l t ,, ° „er riff' 2s to 3s 6d per d ozen; M us h rooms, 63 to 9 '1,4041 Spinach, 44 to 6d p e r p unne t ; Jerusalem 41:4 44 to 94 per half-sieve ; Small Salad, 25 1L11 V : eel punnets; Sage, Is ed to 2s p er d oz en botte'7,,, Salad, 94 to Is per half- s i eve; Sh a llots, Sd . 40 6 'o; lb; Potatoes, 100 s to 1403 per ton; ditto , p er 1 0 9 5s 6d per bushel; Asparagus, 2s to 38 6 ' 1 .0 t ph Rhubarb, is 04 to 4s per doz. bundles; 0 ° 55 % 135 jirocoli, 2s to 2s 64 per dozen heads; Fren, e d to, e et 2s 03 to 3s per 100; Cabbage Lettuces , u, 6 8 5; White ditto, 6d to is per score; Water Cr° 5 , 5 4 e 6:11/ 5 4 r e dozen bunches; early framed Potatoes, is to Tar,;O: Mint, 2s to 3s per dozen bunches; Yotl o 4 b s ;ll' Is 3d to is 6d; Young Carrots, 6d to 8d Fifes' Radishes, 3d to 4d per dozen hads; Turtl i P *) ; Is per ditto. A b sr3 o Foreign Vegetables—French Carrots, 6 ' sotl e g i Cucumbers, 3d to 4d each; Asparagus, 9d t°i," - y' It TIE W - G.A.T2I .G,ND LEILD3O IIL— ocI: Turkeys, 4s Od to 7s 04; Geese, 6s to 85 „ - 3cl; pif; 3s Od to 5s 04; Tame Rabbits, Is Od ', L ea qtr , ditto, 7d to 10d; Pigeons, 6d to 8d; and B° s "igs;; / , 4s Od to 7s 04 each; Surrey Fowls, 108 10 , 1 - to p 54 $ 4l Chickens, es to 8s; Barn-door Fowls, 4 6 o `", t , O f ," le couple; English Eggs, 6s 03 to Es 3d; Fre ss llf;' 5s 64 per hundred; Fresh Butter, 8d to 10 pc- rots, 4s to 5s each. 4 $ 5 O l O NiiWPOET. Beef, from 2s 6cl to 3i 2d; Mutton, 2 8 0 4 " , - Pdfr Lamb, 43 4d to 5s 24 ; V ea l, 2 s 10d to 4u; - 3s 6d to 4s per Blbs. 50 6J; NITEZTECIZAPEIs• a to, r Beef from is 104 t o 3 s 04 ; M utton , 211", ¢O O Lamb, 4s to 5s 2d; V ea l, 2 s 8d t o 35 33 to 4s per 81bs. EI 55 ELLINGSGATS. to . 10 Salmon, is 2cl" to Is 44 per lb; TurboveL 1) 0 ; Brills, is to 2s 64; Cod Fish, 3s to 65 L i: P er if,l large, is to 2s per pair; ditto small, 4 8 t„°„ 6 5 P e e s Eels, 84 to 104 per lb; Lobsters, 8d to " D ee go i 'r 6d to 2s 64 each; Shrimps, is 6d to 2 4 5 4 1 0 10,1 Prawns, 2s to 3s per ib; Mullets, 24 to 4 ° "Ms ' l O r„ Herrings, 4s to 5s per 120; Smelts, 18 t ° , 5d ' 0 11 : doz; Whitings, 2d to 8d each ; Maelor e '' 641 '' ddecl‘ s ',o JO; Plaice, 3d to 6d; Gunnets, 8d to Is; Ha . fre 1 , 4 ditto Dried, 2d to 4d; Carp, is to 2s• Doreys, Is 6d to 2s each ;, Skate, to 6 Oysters, 6s to 32s per bushel. lio TinZ.43.D. o d p° The prices of Wheaten Bread in the Au - r a from 6Ad to 7d ; of h ouse h o ld di t t o , 4id t° , PI is . , loaf. 641.1:s11 EXDE IVIARICET. , A;001 - 0 1 ) , Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, lfd to lid; ` .. .21 ,3 ; 31t,! 721 b, lid to Od; ditto, 721 b to 801 b, 2d r i , - scl 11-Oil 801 b to 881 b, Ad to 21d; ditto, 881 b to 2 6 ' e Thb t°„,' O r ditto, 961 b to 104113, 3441 to aid; ditto, I `',..i. cli'4'el 34d to 4d. Calf Skins, light 2s 6d to 3 5 sailed 'of I; Os Od to 63 Od; Horn Hides, 6s 6d to 05;..2,-Ii to w. opo -53 6d to 7s 0.1 ; Kent and Half-breds, 4 : '' 9cl; r Downs, 4s Od to 5s Od; Shearlings, 7 ' to .4 iv Skins, is 6d to 2s 4d each. Met os NAY rriARIUMTO. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Ha 21 8s to 31 1- i ll c 0 1 A ,ef ditto, 3/ Os to 4/ lOs ; and Straw, y 11 2 a.10 11- :1 )1 ,1 load. A full average supply, and a heavy :To / " a i r ditto, 3/ Os to 4/ 6s • 11 CUPIDEALAND.--Me - - ' l l - load. Trade dull, at la ' te rates. ' 3 1 ef g , to / 61 W m o a w a H s a t y r a , w 2l lfl i s to to 1 101 l HITECHAPEL. -- Meadow Hay , 21 11 ri g 0 1 Clover ditto, 3/ O s t o 41 12s; and Straw, load. Supply goo d, and trade dull. f or:) ROLLS' COURT_(THIS ASTER HO W O A f Ri HOWARD e V. O P L R L I S N g C a E y — e J. J u il d D g G al g e V ri S t o .d'l £ ' The M case, which came before him some time sin e ' . fa m r" in different shapes has been before the Ceq_ t go of e years, and references had been had before sil e j o ba fr ascertain the debts due on the estate of bl i r ,," P I I I3 J ley, the testator, who was a rat West ' -d r , 10 10, e )1 1. , a and died in 1770. A referengceehad also he i. e r s , pa d " tP; the purpose of ascertaining the value of opo:i; and other property, as well as to eletero3,l". tee; ID; best mode of administering it ansongsiiili" s grandchildren, and discharging the P.- V estate. The Master bad made his relA l.- ' the, exception had been taken to it . ; bu t 011 0 9 A half of Mr. and Mrs. Prince r ha. tended thet in some respects the Ig,a st , e- furg lie wP; carried, and that in consequence of ta a '' n f the be tifi,' quiries should be directed. The Mestef dir t ",,rP'; in giving judgment, stated that he dee'', t he further inquiry before the distribution 0 , of the, unless Mr. and Mrs. Prince were willing id P e e fi e r ec pence of such inquiry. lie, however, coulu li Tbe r t jo' that would result from further inquirPr the erder would be, that after the payn3ec t (3 " l i e d, the suit the remaining fund should be aPP t bee td 0 payment of the charges upon the estate' e Pr oll 4° charge of the legaci , s of Mr. and Mr s. cOS . in discharge of the other legatees.: eel. t" t t i)ti After some short discussion among coon vier Chet was ordered to stand fur Saturday next ill °.„ the. ° minutes of the decree might be draw n VP 1". w ,4,00 f. time. o at P et 0 The Court then procteded to hear eon in t he i io , and short causes, and alter disposing 0 1 he oa ns pi the arguments were resumed in tho ps! . ; COOK of Graham v. Tho Birkenhead Railwe oflhe which occupied the Court the remain der S PA VICE-CHANCERY.—(Tgi ./01,404 (Before the VicE-Crr a tswEr..l. ol4, °• ep O of nAnaow v. FENT3 hor N. a 0 0 The further argum en t s in this part cupied the Court the whole day. .ptacc-g;6091 (Before tho Vice-Chancellor lirricall' pei His Honour heard short causes a nd co t t al e to-day, but nothi ng o f t h e s lightest interest eo the Court during the whole morning. . The Vico-Chancellor Wigram d id not s i t. --------"--------- li A-' 5 r -.) 0 QUEEN'S BENCII.—(THIS , r ok (Sittings in Banco, before Lord Chief Justice CO r) and Justices PATTESON, and 11/1001.'" ATTESON, COLERIDGE, .• - 0 f Mr._ LANKFORD v, 'WILSON. •eb wh l Sergeant Wailirs said, iv this case, _ fo r ' „ f tried before Lord Campbell at the sittings, tii nt ff v i Easter term, and a verdict found for the plit.'", 0 0 5 4 701.,. he had to move for a rule to show cause 1"1/0141v trial should not be had, on the gregli d 0 tlie 87 p 95% 32 1 4 85L4 p 904 414 2% 14 4 i this ) 4 41 wh tu not ,matt th It eh, he „ f phi Le h e S d Chi ?' t tit an 0 4 4 -4 of ri b il ge. I eo; i4 Lc a 't Iv a s r4l e . ilAi to , " (Befo re