The Sun. — London, England, 1845-03-31 00:00:00

THIRD EDITION OF ~ THE SUN:' Wz hare received many complaints from Subscribers who are frequently dlsappointed in not receiving the Third Edition. The fault rests en tirely with the News-agent who serves them, and who thereby not only injures the paper, but does injustice to his customer. This injustice is still further aggravated by an extra Marge of a halfpenny (the Post office fee) being made for NOT . supplying the latest or Third Edition. This Edition contains the Latest News: Parliamentary Debates up to a gi:arter to Seven—The " Gazettes" on Tuesday and Friday, together with the " Prices (torrent" of all the Markets, as well as Officia Prices of Shares in Railways, kc. &T.—The Betting at Tattersall's on Monday and Thursday—The latest (closing) Prices of the Funds— The Proceedings in Railway Committees up to the close—and all other news arriving in London of. so three o'clock in the afternoon, when the Second or Evening Edition goes to press. In distant parts of the country, the Third Edition contains news TWELVE HOURS iY ADVANCE, a matter of impo;':adace to those who want early intelligence. in those places where the evening toad arrives in the middle of the night, the " MORNING SUN," containing ALL the Debates, dr. de ., Will answer best, and Subscribers can suit themselves accordingly. Respectable Agents wilt always supply the proper paper; but where any wilful neglect is experienced, ice recommend parties to write to " 77de Sun" office, 11g, Strand, where prompt attention will be paid to their representations. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. TO-MORROW EVENING Will be performed Ponizetti's Opera, entitled LUCIA DI LAM MERMOO!!. Lucia, mdile. A. Castellan ; Alicia, Madame Bellini ; Enrico, Sig. Fornasari ; Edgardo, Sig. Moriani. To conclude with an entirely new Ballet, by M. Perrot, entitled EOLINE ; on, LA DRYADE. The Music by Signor Pugni. The Scenery by Mr. Marshall. Characters—Eoline (betrothed to Count Edgard), Mddle. Lucile Grahn ; Rubezahl (le Gnome), M. Perrot ; Count Edgard, M. Toussaint ; Prince of Silesia (brother of Eoline), M. Gosselin. In the course of the Ballet the following Dances will be introduced : Waltze Selesienne, by the Coryphees of the Corps de Ballet. Pas de hi Fiancee—Mdlle. Lucile Gratin and 31. Toussaint, Pas de Cinq (composed by 31. Gosselin)—Mdlles. Louise Weiss, Fer dinand, Demelisse, Cassan, and Moncelet. Mazourka D'Extase—Mdlle. Lucile Gr !lin and 31. Perrot, Fourth Tableau. Grand Pits des Dryades by Mdlle. L. Grahn and the Ladies of the Corps de Ballet. On Thursilay next, April 3, there will be an Opera, it being a Sub scription Night. Doors open at Half-past Seven ; the Opera to commence at Eight. kpplications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Bsx cfßce, Opera Colonnade. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. It is respectfully announced that a Second GRAND MUSICAL FETE, Comprising the unpublished manuscripts of the celebrated FELICIEN DAVID, Will be presented on MONDAY, APRIL 14, With the original Melodies and Choruses. Grand Descriptive Symphonic, Ode of THE DESERT, prod:teed for tha flit tima with the most enthusiastic success at the Conservat )ire Royal, Paris. LE DESERT. Ode, Symplionie, Oeientalci--divided in three parts with grand orchestra. 'f he orchestra and chorus will include upwards of 200 per fcrinrA. Tie whole whin the Direction of Signor Costa. Solos by Slgs..Nlorlani and Corelli. PROGRAMME. Part I.—Entrance to the Desert. Glorification of All ; grand chorus and orchestra—Arrival of the Caravan—Departur., of the Cara, - an—Tempest in the Desort— Return of Calm—The Caravan resumes its march. Part ll—Night. The - Evening Star—Halt of the Caravan—Hymn to the Night : air sung by Signor Moriai—Arabian Fantasia--The Dance of the Alines—The Liberty of the Desert : grand chorus with orchestra— Eveuing rt:verie : melody sang by Signor Moriani, with chorus and orchestral accompaniments—Sleep ! Part I I I.l—Suit-rise. Cail of the Muezzin; original Arabian melody, with the Arabic words—The Caravan starts once more on its journey —The Cara van gradually disappears ill the distance; grand chorus and orches tra—Silence in the Desert—The Song of Thanksgiving—Allah. Grand chorus Iniroductory Fragment of Grand Symphony in E fiat-2d. Melodie imitative t Gran Orchestra : Les Hirondelles, sung - by Signor :Moriaai Melodie Orientale : Le Chibonque 4th. tio:ret da Printonps Fragin.nt tire des quartre Saissons de Felicien Dav:d, ex cAtted by ail the string instruments. . Loses, Two, Three, and Four Guineas each. APpliCntions tbr I:fixes, Stalls, and Pit Tickets-to be made at the Op.ra-ottice,lontEole, Haymarket. Doors open at Eight o'clock ; to commence at Half-past Eight. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE. THli EVENING Will be performed ROBER THE DEVIL. Robert, Mr. W. Mr riton ; Eci tram, Mr. Stretton ; Raimbaut, Mr. D. W. King ; Isabella, Miss R.tinforth ; Alien, Miss Romer. After which will be repeated, a New Comic Ballet, entitled ROBER - f AND BERTRAND. The Eatinent Tenor, M. DUPREZ, is engaged here for Twelve Nights only, and will make his appearance on Monday, April 7, in his celebrated character of ARNOLD, in GUILLAUME TELL ; and is also preparing himself for his unrivalled wrsonation of EDGAR, in Donizetti's popular Opera, THE BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR, for the Performance of which, an Engagement has also been ex press!y entered into with Mdtls. EUGENIL GARCI t. The Box-office is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six in the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, I laces, and Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. LESSEE, ,MR. B. WEBSTER. Tills EVENING Will ha repo - Jed a New and Orhrinal Comedy, entitled TIIE SHERIFF OF THE COUNTY. Principal Characters by Messrs. W. Farrell, Strickland, Backstone, Webster, Mrs. Glover, Mrs. W. Clifford, Mrs. Humby, Miss Julia Bennett, &c. After which, a New Grand Classical Extravaganza, entitled THE GOLDEN FLEECE. Principal Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, J. Bland, Madame Vestris, and Miss P. Horton. To conclude with THE THIMBLE RIG. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New and Original Drama, entitled THE GREEN B SUES; or, A Hundred Years Ago. Connor O'Kennedy, Mr. Selby ; George, Mr. Hudson : Wild Murtogh, Mr. 0. Smith ; btu ter Grinuidie, Mr. Wright ; Jack Gong, IN - Ir. Paul Bedford ; Geraldine, Mrs. Yates ; Nelly O'Neill, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; Miami Madame Celeste. After which, will be repeated a New Grand Empirical Exposition, called ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON. Principal Characters by Messrs, Paul Bedford, Wright, John Saunders Selby; Miss Woolgar, Miss Brooks, and Miss E. Chaplin. ToConclude with MOTHER AND CHILD ARE DOING WELL :kir. Si - Rigsby, I'vEr. Lambert ; Lieutenant O'Scupper, It. N., Mr. Paul Bedford ; Mr. Felix Fluffy, Mr. Wright ; Emily, Miss Forteseue. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LEsSEE, MR. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a New Tragic Drama, called METAMORA THE LAST OF THE WAMPANOAGS Metamora, Mr. Edwin Forrest ; Mordannt, Mr. Henry Wallack ; Lord Fitz Arnold, Mr. Archer; Mahineokee, Mrs. Stirling ; Oceans, Miss Emma Stanley. After which, Mr. SANDS and his INFANT BROTHER,MAURICE, will appear in their Pleasing and Wonderful Entertainment, DE SALON, FREAKS OF FANCY. To conclude with a New Gran] Oriental Melo-dramatic Burlesque Extravaganza, in Two Acts, called TIMOUR THE CREAM OF ALL THE TARTARS. Timour, Mr. Oxberry ; Zorilda, Miss E. Stanley. Stage Manager, Mr. IL I. Wallack ; Stage Director, Mr. Emden ; Machinist, Mr. Edmund Bradwell. Superbly decorated, and with extensive alterations! forming ens of the most Elegant and Comfortable Theatres in the Metropolis THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER TIIE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. THIS EVENING Will be performed MARTIN CHUZZAIEWIT. Old Martin Chuzzlewit, Mr. R. Younge ; Mr. Pecsniff, Mr. Frank Matthews; Mrs. Sairer Clamp, Mr. Keeley ; Bailey, Mrs. Keeley. After which, a New Farce, entitled LOWTHER ARCADE. Characters I,)y Messrs. Keeley, Meadows, F. Matthews ; Miss Dawson, and Miss Grove. To conclude With a Burlesque of English History, Pourtraying Olden Ideas and Modern Notions—lnvested with all the Pomp and Display of Scene—Painters engaged expressly—Costumes according to Fancy—Mechanism, Ballet, Music, and Novel Stage Arrange ments--to be called, WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT! Dick Whittington, Mrs. Keeley; Muley Moloch, the Lien Tamer of the Dessert, Mr. Keeley ; the Cat, Mr. Collier, supported by Messrs. Emery, F. Matthews, and Wigan ; Miss lairbrother, and Miss Grove: The Box-office is open daily, under the direction of Mr. Grogan. FIRST APPEAIL OF MDLLE. PLE=SY, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE-FRENCH PLAYS. Mr. MITCHELL begs respectfully to announce th.t the above THEATRE iVII,L BE RE-OPENED THIS EVENING When will! be produced, commencing at Eight o'clock precisely (First Time in this Co mtry), a New Vaudevile, 1 One Act, by M. Scribe, entitled LES SURPRISES. Mathilde, sa petite Fille, Mdlle. Ozy, her First Appearance in this Country. To conclude with the popular and admired Comedy, by Casimir Delavine, entitled L'ECOLE DES VIELLARDS. Danville, widen Amateur, M. Ondinot ; Bonnard, son Ami, M. Cartigny ' • Le Due Delmar, M. Pascal ; Madame Danville, Mdlle. Plessy, her First Ap pearance this Season. - On Wednesday, April 2, MARIE; on, LES TROIS EPOQUES; and LA SUITE WUN DAL MASQUE. On Friday, April 4, LA DAME ET LA DEMOISELLE, and LE BOUQUET DU DAL, in all of which Mdlle. PLESSY will appear. The Popular Comic Actor, M. RAVEL, will have the honour of making his First Appearance in this Country on Monday, Aprll 14, and will perfmn on that Evening in a New and highly-popular Comic liamieville, entitled L'ETOURNEAU. M. REGNIER will also make his Firs' Appearance in this Cou►►try at the end of April, and will perfor►n with Mille. PLESSY In the celebrated Plays of " Le Mari ala Carnpagne," " Les Fausses Confidences," " Le Mariage tie Figaro," " Les Fonrberies de Scapin," " Tartuffe," " Le Darbier de Seville," •• Le .fen de L'Amour, " Le Mariage D'Argent, &c., &c. At the end of May, the Favourite Actor, M. ACHARD (who is en gaged for a few nights only) will perf.rm in several new Vaudevilles, and in the occasional Performance of some Pieces already so de servedly popular. The Seas.'n will terminate by the Engagement of the celebrated Comic Actor, M. Areal, who will have the honour of making his First Appearance at this Theatre ; and during whose Engagement the fol lowing popular Plays, as originally pertbrmed by M. Antal, will be produced, " L'Homme Blase," " L'Humoriste," " Passe Minuit," •• Renaudin de Caen," " Le Poltron," " La Mansard du Crime, &c." Boxes, 65.; Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. Doors will be opened at Halt past Seven o'clock, and the Performances commence at Eight. Boxes and Stalls may be !S ecared at Mr. Mltcheli's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; and at the Box-office of the Theatre, which is pen Daily, from Eleven till Five. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. (tinder the Direction of 3llss Davenport.) THIS EVENING Will be repeated THE GAME COCK OF THE WILDERNESS, Colonel Mereyille, Mr. H. Mellon; Roderick, Mr. Binge; Samson, Mr. Marble; Mabel, Mrs. Griffith. Atter which, THE SEVEN CHAMPIONS OF CHRISTENDOM. To be followed by THE SECRET. To conclude with THE PLAGUE OF PLYMOUTH. ASTLEY'S ROYAL A MPHIT HFATRE. PROPMETOR, MR. W. BATTY. Triumphant Success of the New Spectacle. THIS EVENING. The Performances will commence with it Grand Military Equestrian Drains, entitled THE MAID OF , SARAGO,VA. Scenes In the Circle, introducing M. and Mdme. Damns, the cele brated French Equestrians. To couch] 'a with THE SLEEPING DRAUGHT. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. 3fisa Heron'a performance creatks roars of laughter—The Two New Pieces, real Surrey hits. THIS EVENING Will he repeated a New Drama, called MARGARET CATCH. POLE. Suppw . ted 'by Messrs. H. Hughes, Hicks, Fredericks, R. Homier, S. Cowell, ilestop, Lewis, Mrs. Daly, Mrs. Lewis, and Mrs. R. Homier. After which, THE SPOILED CHILD. Little Pickle, Miss Heron. To conclude wi h THE MOOR MAIDEN, in which Messrs. Hicks, Neville, Fredericks, Lewis, Mrs. Hughes, Miss Martin, and Mrs. 11. Vining will perform. Places and Private Boxes to be ha.l of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box office, from Eleven to Four. ROYAL. VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS.EVENING Will be rep 'at. i MA RGA EV CATCH POLE, The Female Horse stealer. Onegft and reel; tuna (11,!fl Chieftains), Messr s . Ccaly and Blanchard ; Margaret Catclikfr, 11.fs_syineent. '''' - i - tter which, THE A PPOINTED sp:,T. To conclude with TILE BLOODHOUND ; or, the Orphan's Grave. In which "Mcs rl. Cony and Blanchard, and th e i r celebrated Dog ' F , Hector, wilt perform. • [ADVERTISEMENT.]—BOTANIC WATER AND BEAR' S GREASE.—When the hair is becoming thin, and falling off, the only effectual remedy, besides shaving the heat, is the use of the two above named articles, applied al ternately—the botanic water to cleanse the roots from scurf anti as a stimulant, and tha bear's grease as a nourisher. If any further evidence was required of the virtues of bear's grease for renovating and pre3erving the hair, Mr. Catlin's account of the quantity used, and the length of hair obtained by some of the North Ame rican Indians, would be a sufficient answer. Ross and Sons, 119 and 120, Bishopsgate-street, who first intro duced the use of bear's grease in this country, and who fat and kill the animals, recommend the public to put.- chase none other but with their names and address printed on the pot, or the chances are their obtaining a spurious article. All vegetable oils applied to the hair Are worse than useless. THE WEATHER. —Sing OFFICE, MARCX 31. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 35 ; Highest, 53; Noon, 53 BAROMETER, 30.25.—W1ND, S.W. NoTic.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the Thermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All the other observations are made at noon. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 9 minutes after 7 I Evening .. 44 minutes after 7. T.EI F: SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, MARCH 31, 1845. The Paris Constitutionnel, which is supposed to re ceive correct information from head-quarters, says : " The news received from Switzerland would seem to give warning of grave events. The Government of the canton of Lucerne, of this canton subject for more than three months to a system of terror, of which there has been no example in that part of the world, ap pears a prey to a feverish excitement, and rushes into extreme means, thinking to supply by violence the elements of life which are wanting to it. It only re strains itself through fear of foreign intervention, in case of a domestic struggle. On their side, the populations of liberal Switzerland, which form the immense ma jority of the nation, sup" ort with difficulty the tone adopted in certain diplomatic notes. They would pro bably have submitted without too much olj.Ttion to an adjournment, seeing the impotency of the Diet to decide the Jesuit question at present; but they are rxasporated by this intervention to such a degree, that on many paints it is impossible to restrain the expre,sion of their discontent ; so that it may be said that all the steps taken by the Powers to prevent, as they say, the popular out brelk, have only served to accelerate it. The men who enjoy- the confidence of the nation, such as the Avoyer Neuhaus, of Berne, M. Wieland, of Arau, and M. Druey, of Lausanne, exert all their influence to le strain the resentment of the masses. What has raised to its height the indignation of the Liberal party is M. de Metternich's note, less vielent in form than M. Guizot's, but not at bottom less offensive. We understand that 'the Prussian Minister has just taken, with the President, a similar step to that of his col leagues. Thus, there is only wanting in the concert of representatives, of which Switzerl an d is the object, the co-operation of Russia. It is nevertheless possible, ac cording to what our correspondent writes us word, that the crisis, which appears inevitable, may be confined to the overthrow of the unnatural state of things which prevails at Lucerne, and that the question of the Jesuits, the sole cause of the state of disorder in which Switzer land is plunged, may at last receive a solution by the change of the vote of this canton in the Diet. In the midst of the grave circumstances which agitate Switzer land, M. de Pontois quitted Zurich on the 23d, to repair to Paris, where he comes, no doubt, for directions." The Bill presented to the French Chamber of De puties by Marshal Soul.; requiring a vote of 17,750,00:A: to provide guns for the fortifications of Paris, has raised a vi'.-lent outcry from nearly all the Opposition journals, but the time for such a display of patriotism has gone by. Most of these papers cordially supported the plan when M. TRIERS' party raised the war-cry against England; they now find themselves sadly mistaken, and exclaim against mea sures of their own seeking. The Commerce, how. ever, is an exception. Ti we re..member right, it has been constantly opposed to these fortresses, and may therefore show that its anticipations were well founded. " Extensive barracks," it says, " are about to be erected in the very capital, which will convert each bastion into a citadel im pregnable to the citizens. In raising the forts the Chambers never intended perpetually to concentrate round Paris the greatest military estab lishment in the kingdom, or to collect there all the attirail of an army ; yet this is what is about to b done at Saint Maur, where they are establishing two arsenals, a manufacture of arms, a foundry, Sce. The Chambers have consented to some forts supporting the fortifications of Paris, but they have never dreamed of placing Paris under the guns of a great fortress, and of stationing at that fortress an army beyond the reach of the people and laws; yet this is what has been d.me at Vincennes." The National, one of the original supporters of the measure, joins in the cry, and calls upon the whole population of France to re sist a scheme for overawing the friends of liberty. The Courrier Francais can attribute this act of the Ministry only to insanity. This question, it is an ticipated, will excite war discussions in the Chamber of Deputies, but in vain. They have sanctioned the measure; it is one of the hobbies of the "Chateau," and besides it would be utterly absurd to erect forts without guns. The discussion in the Chambers on railway companies and the Customs Bill were still going on, but they possess no interest to the English reader. A, - • 1 Ao* . 't • 11 0 1 " 11 . 112:13330V,141...\_ -.IC - '1.0 4 41> "6,, 4 e't 21111 f( LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1345. The two Houses of Parliament will resume busi ness, after the Easter recess, with, we trust, renewed strength and redoubled alacrity. They have a plen tiful amount of work cut out for them, the greater part being, in the language of trade, " for orders that press." In consideration of the large proportion of such special matters to the general mass of affairs to be dealt with, we rather hope than believe that the House of Commons in the first instance, and the Lords in the second, may be induced to adopt some more effective plan for the succession and dispatch of pending measures and questions than, of late years, has been followed by either. It is a subject of general and just complaint that the most weighty and important questions usually receive a degree of discussion in the inverse ratio of that importance and weight. After nights and even weeks have been consumed on some worth less party squabble, or some merely personal differ ences between individuali who take a prominent posi tion on the Opposition and Ministerial benches—and the devotion of an almost equal expenditure of the public time to frivolous charges of grave delinquency arising out of the inevitable excitement of debate— the real matters of business are sure to be cushioned altogether, for the next twelvemonth, or pitchforked into the Statute-book by dozens in the shape of Acts of Parliament that are, next year, tolerably certain to be superseded by other "Acts to explain and amend" them. About a month before the anticipated ad journment or prorogation of Parliament it is always discovered, that there is business enough incepted to occupy fur its proper investigation and completion the whole of at least one entire Session. Ministers, reduced to a state of extreme difficulty between their anxiety to pass some Bills which they have carefully framed in order to carry out their own views, and the necessity for pushing forward to their ultimate stages, without delay of any kind, those annual and other money bills, indispensable to the transaction of the public service—throw overboard the former class, with as little compunction as a Brazilian slaver, hotly chased, disperses all its human cargo to the waves and the winds. But the same Ministers col lect, classify, drive on, goad, and bring up to their destined point of third readings and royal assents the whole of the latter class, with an impartiality of purpose, and an inflexibility of vigilance, that would do honour to a detachment of Cossacks, superintend ing, on behalf of the Emperor of RUSSIA, one of his Imperial Majesty's " grand operations" of internal policy—such as the transfer of the whole community of the Russian Jews to the banks of the Don, or the removal of one-third of the Polish nation into the territory of Siberia. If a guide, or a guard, an officer or a superintendent, drops or dies on the road—no matter; the first convenient man to be found is thrust into his place. The commander charged with the duty knows full well that the task he is to discharge is to hand over, and get an acknowledgment for, at the end of his long march, a certain number of human being, who must be certified by the authorities receiving them to have been brought under an escort composed of so many officers, and such a troop or detachment. I❑ like manner, if the Chancellor of the Exchquer, or the Home Secretary, or the First Lord of the Ad miralty, or the Attorney or Solicitor-General, or the Vice-President of the Board of Trade, or the Secretary to the Treasury, discover, in the middle of June, some essential deficiency, some blunder, or omission, or technical error, in a departmental Bill of his introducing, he puts the unfortunate Bill /wrsde combat without ceremony, by "moving to dis charge the order of the day upon it." The measure thus knocked out of the ministerial rank and file Bills, in their march upwards to the foot of the throne, which they are to reach, say on the last day of the session, is replaced by what is called a " short Bill?' This is drilled and disciplined with surprising expedi tion through all the variou; grades of first, second, and third readings, in both Houses, in the short space of two or three evenings; and, after a short delay for other company, comes up to be presented to the SOVEREIGN, with a regiment of fifty others, for her royal assent, with all the external attributes of a Bill Oat had gone through the regular period of probation. The results of this system are found by long experience to be most injurious to the public interests. It is difficult to say at what point th e evils of this crude and hurried legislation exhaust themselves. They are felt long after their cause and origin are forgotten, and it is usually the employ ment of a third of the time occupied by any session to correct, and if possible to remedy the defects--. the "short-comings," and the mistakes into which the legislative sagacity of its predecessor has been be trayed by this slovenly precipitation. Whether we regard the number or amount, or the vast importance of the questions now pending in the House of Commons, we must express our most anxiuw solicitude that this long established but mis chievous precedent of " getting through (as it is called) the sessional business," may be abandoned in 1845. The enorm - ms interests involved in new lines of railroad in all their associations, and the stupendous aggregate of the capital invested in those, even alone, which arJ now before Parliament; the new proposi- tion3 fur simplifying the law of parochial settlement ; fur regulating and yeforming (or deteriorating, as it may be) the medical profession; the present condition and aspect of our foreign relations, and especially those which regard our territorial negoti=ations with the United States; the scheme of Sir R. PEEL for stopping the further growth of Scotland's prosperity by putting down her small-note circulation; the incidental necessity connected with this scheme for again examining the actual condition and ten dencies of our own monetary system, as it exists under ; the Acts of 1819 and 1844 ; the p rogress made in our steam armament, and in increasing and extending the general efficiency of our navy ; these, and a prodigious number of fiscal, commercial—aye, and of social questions, are, each and all of them, pressing for full and mature discus sion, under circumstances of almost unparalleled inte- rest and exigency. The public mind is profoundly occupied with them ; and the future welfare of the country may he said to depend on their deliberate but early examination and adjustment. They cannot, with reason or decency, be further evaded or post- poned, still less can they be permitted to run through the forms of Parliament, in unexamined sections, and to be, at the eleventh hour, swamped, or em- bodied in statutes, en masse. Meetings have been held in some parts of the coun try to oppose any additional grant of public money to the College of Maynootb ; but no rational being can discover on what feasible grounds this opposition is founded. Whether the question is viewed as one of religion, or of pounds, shillings, and pence—whether the measure is opposed by members of the Established Church, or of Presbyterians or Dissenters—not one solid argument can be adduced for refusing to pro vide suitable teachers to a fourth part of the inhabi tants of the United Kingdom. The grant has been recognised and cordially acquiesced in for many years by the whole nation, for we throw the paltry knot of bigots that assemble annually at Exeter Hall out of the calculation. The Irish Presbyterians receive money out of the Consolidated Fund, so do the Scotch Presbyterians—the Established Church of the North, with ample funds, too, for its maintenance—. the established religion in the numerous British colo nies—is, with one or two exceptions, maintaine i en tirely at the public expense. Catholic priests, as w e ll as Protestant ministers, are paid by the State, yet when any favour is to be conferred on Ireland-r-when the Government ventures to act on the principles of humanity, justice, and charity.—men who are I called Christians excite themselves to fury, and utter execrations against those who would obey the divine precept and do as they would be done by. This is more than folly—it is absolute wickedness. It displays human nature in all its deformity, and exhibits erring man setting himself up as a judge between GOD and his creatures, and claiming infallibility on a momentous question, which is viewed in a different light by fifty sects in England, and on which the sages and priests, and moralists, of at least a hundred nations of the earth, disagree. A great country cannot be governed by bigots. England is not to be at eternal war with Ireland to humour religious prejudices, and when the main question is conceded—when provision is made . for Catholic instructors i n a ll our co l on i a l possess i ons, and not a whisper is heard against the universal .system, every impartial observer must be struck with the inconsistency of granting favours—or rather jus tice to all—while we refuse them to our nearest and best neighbours. The opponents of this measure may be sincere in their opposition, but the admission is at the expense of their wisdom and common sense. If a horror of the Catholic religion justifies them in causing one of the greatest of national calamities, the disunion of two parts of the empire, that nature lied joined together, if no grant is to be made to Maynooth, because the Catholic religion is damnable and idolatrous, and if, according to their blasphemous phraseology, it will bring down upon the land the Divine wrath, why do they confine their religious indignation to only one small portion of the question, and leave all the other points un touched ? Popery is making dreadful inroads on the Protestant Church of England ; the Bishops of that Church say the Established Church of Scotland is no Church ; and the Dissenters, who contend that they alone are in the right path, are treated as visionaries and impostors. Yet, while we hear of meetings to oppose a grant of public money to a Church from which all the rest have sprung, and which so liberally endowed so many national and religious establish ments—while the Town Council of Edinburgh, pro fessing to follow in the steps of Josses KNox, have protested against Maynooth—not one word is heard from the Calvinistic north, or from any of the anti- Popery sects in England, against the Puseyism or Popery, for they are synonymous terms, of the Bishops of EXETER, and LONDON, and OXFORD, and souse other ten or twenty Prelates, with the Arch bishop of CANTERBURY at their head. If the Catholic religion is bad, why confine all their indignation to the partial relief offered to the persecuted and maligned Irish ? They are as sincere in their worship of the Great Creator as Presbyterians or Puseyites, they are infinitely more steady in their faith, they are snore obedient to their pastors, when reviled they revile not again, and they are at this moment submitting to deprivations and sufferings, which their very oppressors—the Pro testants and Presbyterians—rid themselves of by rebel lion and torrents of blood. If there is any virtue in this principle of opposition to one species of religion, by is it so limited ? If the Divine Word, as they say, commands thesn to resist Popery, they are traitors to that word, by contribating, year after year, without either compunction or complaint, to the maintenance of Popery in Canada, Australia, Gibraltar, Malta, the lonian Islands, and India. It is imp-ssible to escape from the dilemma. But there is another most important part which these persecutors utterly for get. They know, or ought to know, that the Chris tian religion was nurtured by persecution ; that the Founder of our faith was the great victim ; that his Apostles were compelled to fight with wild beasts as gladiators; that many of them suffered the most igno minious and painful deaths ; that the Colliseum at Rome, and the other great arenas of Pagan sports, were made wet with the blood of the martyrs, yet the Christians remained steadfast to the faith, and increased in strength and numbers till they be came a great multitude. This is only a picture of the state of Ireland. Every mode of persecution was tried, Christian teachers were hunted like wild beasts, they died on the gallows as malefactors, the wretched people were deprived of every municipal right, robbed of their property and treated as no nation ever was treated, yet they have grown and multiplied, and their very sufferings, like those of the Christians in the dark ages, have only made them more fixed in their resolution, and rendered their reli gion more sacred in their eyes. " Refrain from these men," said a wise Pharisee to the persecutors of the Apostles, "and let them alone; for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought; but if it be of God, you cannot overthrow it." The history of Ireland is a remarkable fulfilment of these pro phetic words. The modern persecutors fight against destiny in vain. The Catholic Church is increasing every day in Ireland, and its tenets are making rapid progress in the Protestant establishments of Oxford and Cambridge ; she is recognised by our Bishops as the Mother Church, and one of the stanchest Pro- teitants and most upright of men, the late Dr. A. NOLD, thus speaks of her and her bigoted traducers : —"I know that my principles would lead to the establishment of the Catholic religion in three-fourths of Ireland; but I think that a Catholic is a member of CHRIST'S Church just as much as I am, and I could well endure one form of that Church in Ireland and another in England. We are suffering here from that accursed division among Christians of which, I think, the Arch-Fiend must be the author. The good Protestants and bad Christians have talked nonsense—and snore than nonsense—so long about Popery and the Beast, and Antichrist, that the simple, just, and Christian measure of esta blishing the Roman Catholic Church in three-fifths of Ireland seems removed by common consent." And he adds, in another place—" The Christian people of Ireland have a right to the full benefit of their Church property, which now they cannot have, be. cause Protestant clergymen they will not listen to. I think, then, it ought to furnish them with Catholic clergymen. I have one great principle which I never lose sight of—to insist strongly on the difference be tween Christian and anti-Christian, and to sink into nothing the difference between Christian and Chris tian." We may here state that an admirable book has just been published on this subject, entitled " Past and Present Policy of England towards Ire land." We have rarely met with such irrefragable arguments for the speedy settlement of these dan gerous civil broils, so much good sense, and so much Christian charity from any writer ; and coming from a Churchman and a Con servative, their value at the present moment is doubly enhanced. The approaching contest with America, and it cannot be long delayed, adds one reason more for the final settlement of Ireland. Let England yield in time to the dictates of justice and mercy, and not be forced, as hitherto, to make relnc- taut concessions, which give no satisfaction to the re ceiver and lowers the national dignity of the giver, for, says the able writer, " if any menacing cloud begins to blacken the horizon, if any storm appears brewing on the side of America, or France, Ireland rejoices. She has not forgotten the memorable words of GRATTAN, That the weakness of England is the strength of Ireland;' and experience has shown, that when England's fears are thoroughly awakened, there is no concession that may not be extorted from her in some moment of difficulty and danger." • The accounts from Switzerland, of the 24th inst., are not favourable. The country is in a very excited state, both from the spirit displayed by the free corps ant the attitude taken by the neighbouring powers. The Tiasle Gazette states that Switzerland is threatened either with a civil war or a foreign intervention, and all the battalions of the canton of Lucerne were sum moned to arms on the 23d. Orders, also, had been given for reinforcing the Austrian troops in the Tyrol in the event of a civil war breaking out. The following is the intelligence from Argau, dated March 23 " Important events seem to be impending. Last week the free corps were convoked in all the districts where there were any. They have been organised into com panies, and have received orders to keep ready to march on the first signal given them. The officers have been app ,inted. Yesterday orders were given by the Com mittee to the Chiefs of the Communes to provide vehicles for the conveyance of the free corps to a rendezvous, and, perhaps, for the conveyance of the wounded. The free corps have thirty-eight pieces of ordnance at theit disposal. It is affirmed that they are commanded .by a Lieutenant-Colonel, styled in spector of the cantonal militia. Despite, however, the effort made by influential persons to increase the effec tive force of the free corps in our canton, their numbers will not amount to above twelve hundred men. The in cursion into the canton of Lucerne is fixed for the 26th or 27th of this month. Eight hundred men from Lu cerne were yesterday expected at Sursee." THE BOURSE--THURSDAY, MARCH 27. First 111fhist Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents..... 117 85 .. 117 85 .. 117 70 .. 117 80 Three per Cents.... 85 80 .. 85 85 .. 85 70 .. 85 80 Loan .......•• •• .• 86 GO .. 86 65 .. 86 GO .. 86 65 Bank of France •••••• •• "3210 ..3210 ..3230 ..3200 Gonin Eank I,ooof Shares..lo , s —lOB5 ..1085 ..1085 Belgian Bank ..... •• •• 670 .. 670 .. 667 50 .. 667 50 Be:gian Fives, 1 840........ I(sy, .. 105% .. 105 .. 105 1842....•••. 107 .. 107 .. 107 .. 107 Four-and-a-Half... 10 Y, • . 103% .. 103% .. 1e3% .• Two-and-a-Half... 62 60 .. 62 65 .. G 2 60 .. 62 G 5 Spanish Active ......• •• •• 4) .. 40 .. 40 .• 40 Threes . •••• 41 .. 41 .• 41 .• 41 Passive •• •• .. .. .. keaniilitan ••• 102 lO2 102 .• 102 Roman ........... •• •• •• •• 105 3 1 .. 105% .. 100, 1 , .. 105 1 % RAILWAY SHARES. • St. Germain .. Versailles, R. 8....... ..... 660 .. .• G 47 50 .. 647 50 L.B•••••••••••• 412 50 412 50 .• 410 .• 410 . R0nen..........••••••••••1170 • 1171 25 ..1170 ..1170 Rouen to Havre.... Orleans • • 1332 50 ..1332 50 ..1332 50 —1332 50 R •• •• • rasburg to Bale . . 345 .• 345 .. 343 7.5 .• 343 75 tiviCnon to Marseilles...• •• 1150 ..1150 ..1147 50 • 1147 50 Pordeaux to Teste •• •• 2'o .. 235 .. 230 .• 232 50 Paris to Seeaux ••••••• •• •• 762 50 •• 702 50 .• 71. 4 2 50 702 50 RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, APUit 3 St. Germain ...............1212 50 ..1222 50 ..1212 50 ..1215 Versailles, R. R. . .... •• . • 660 • • 660 .. 655 .. G 55 L. 8.. 412 50 .• 412 50 .. 410 410 Rouen.. .................1170 ••1170 "1167 50 .. 1167 50 Rouen to Havre.. • 9 0 ,• 982 50 .. 980 .. 980 Orleans .• •• —1335 ••1340 ..1332 50 ..1333 75 Strasburg to Bale-- •• • • 343 75 346 25 .• 343 75 345 Avignou to Marseilles.... • • 1152 50 .. 1152 50 ..1142 50 ..1142 50 llord4aux to Teste .........232 50 .. 232 50 .. 232 50 .. 232 50 COURT CIRCULA.R. WINDSOR, SUNDAY.—Yesterday morning the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Princess Royal, left the Castle a few minutes before ten o'clock, escorted by a party of the Royal Horse Guards, under the command of the Hon. George Watson Mines, for the Farnborough station of the South-Western Railway. Her Majesty and the Prince wera conducted to their - carriage, at the Grand Entrance, by the Hon. Misses Stanley and Hamilton, the Earl of Hardwicke, and the Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay. The royal suite in attendance on the Queen and Prince Albert consisted of the Lady in Waiting, the Countess of Charlemont, and the Equerries in Waiting, Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, and Major-General Sir Edward Bowater. The royal party left the Farnborough station by a special train for the Gosport terminus, to proceed from thenre to the Clarence Yard, to embark on board the Lightning steamer for Osborne House, Isle of Wight. Their Royal Highnesses the Princa of Wales, and the Princess Alice, were taken for pony and walking exer cise yesterday. This morning the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, and the Princess Alice, were taken an airing. Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden, attended by the Baroness de Strumfeder and Baron Roth de Schreckenstein, dined with their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, on Saturday, at their residence at Kew. In the evening the Grand Duchess of Baden, the Duchess of Cambridge, the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Meeklen burgh Strelitz, and Prince Ernest of Hesse Philippstahl, left Kew for town, attended by the Baroness de Strum feder, Baron do Sehreckenstein, Baron Knesebeck, and Mr. Edmond Mildmay, and honoured the Italian Opera with their presence, Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Meeklenburgh Strelitz afterwards re• turned to Kew. The Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden attend d vine service yesterday morning in the chapel of the Austrian Embassy. Baroness de Strumfeder and Baron de Schreekenstein were in waiting on her Royal Ilighnes-. His Excellency Count de St. Aulaire paid his respects to the Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden, at the Duke of Hamilton's residence in Portman-square. The Earl of Aberdeen and Sir James Graham had interviews with Sir Robert Peel on Saturday morning. Sir R. Peel left town on Saturday for the Isle of Wighi, La a visit to her Majesty. Lord Stanley arrived in town on Saturday evening from Knowsley Hall, Lancashire. Dispatches from the Governors of New Zealand and St. Helena were received on Saturday at the Colonial Office. The Marquis of Anglesey, the Marquis and Mar chioness of Ormonde, Lords Cawdor, Tyrconnell, Ernest Bruce, and Parker, attended Divine Service yesterday in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Prayers wore read by the Rev. C. Packe, the Lessons by the Rev. Dr. Knapp, and the Communion Service by the Rev. Dr. Sleath. The Sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. si ea th. The Anthem, " 0 how amiable" (Dr. Greene) was sung by Messrs. Francis, Bennett, and Bradbury. Mr. Turle presided at the Organ. Her Majesty arrived by railway at Gosport from Farnborough at two minutes past one on Saturday, an 1 embarked from the Clarence-yard on board the royal yacht for Cowes, accompaiied by Prince Albert, at the Princes Royal. Her Majesty was received by Sir II PAkenhatn, Colonel llendersm, and the other Directors of the railway. Her Majesty appeared in excellent he a lth. The Journey was performed in one hour and a half. THE KING Or HANOVER.—It is said the King of Hanover has very recently sent autograph letters to their Royal Highnesses, the Duchess of Gloucester and the Duke of Cambridge, as well as to several intimate personal friends of his Majesty in this country, commu ideating the interesting condition of her Royal High ness the Crown Princes, which at no distant period promises an heir in direct succession to the throne of Hanover. HUNGERFORD SUSPENSION-BRIDGE.—This bridge x ill be opened for traffic this day fortnight, being earlier by some days than announced in the last report of the Board of Directors. Very little now remains to be done for its completion, the entrances being nearly ready, and there being but a few yards length of iron railing and stone balustrade to put up. The toll will be one halfpenny, and a neat house will be erected on each side. Workmen are now busily engaged in levelling the boards forming the platform and in painting the structure. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. (From The Sun of Saturday Evening.) The Cotton market at Liverpool yesierday was not brisk. The quotations of the Shares were as follows :-Aberdeen Railway, 34 •, Barnsley Junction, 7% &s. 9d. ; Ditto, Half Shares, 3%; Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire, 9 3 % - }1 ; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 6 18s. 6d. ; Black burn, Darwen, and Bolton, 4 1 / s 3s. 9d. 3s. 6d. ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 10 1 4 11 ; Caledonian, 10; Cam bridge and Lincoln, 714 % ; Chester and Birkenhead, 4711 4814 ; Ditto, New Shares, 41 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 24 24%; Chester and Holyhead, 8%; Chester and Preston Brook, 51% 1 / 2 ; Churnet Valley, ;A ; Clydesdale Junction, 10%; Cork and Bandon, 78s. 9d. ; Dublin and Belfast Junction, 73' 14; Dublin and Galway, 61s. 6d.; Dundee and Perth, 314 ; Dublin, Mullingar, and Athlone, 2; Dun dalk and Enniskillen, 565. 3,1. 555.; Eastern Counties, 21 1 ,4 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, New Quarter Shares, 5% % ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, 18 1 ,2 ; Ditto,. Half Shares, 9 1 % ; Glasgow and Ayr, 62; Grand Junction, Quarter Shares, 551:,. 56; Ditto, New Shares, 44; Ditto, Ei g hth Shares, 18'3 7 4 ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 3%; Great North of England, 30/. Shares, 22 1 4 ; Huddersfield Canal and Railway, 3% ; Huddersfield and Sheffield, 4% ; Lancaster and Preston, 54 1 ,4 ; Limerick and Waterford, 4 14 4%; Liverpool and Manchester, 51; Liverpool, Orin skirk, and Preston, 765. 3 3 % ; London and Brighton, 631/ ; London and South-Western, 80%; London and York, 3% 61s 6d.; Direct Northern, 4% 47%y ; Lynn and Ely, 7 ; Manchester and Leeds, 145%; Ditto, gall' Shares, 65%; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 19.< 4 ; Midland Railway, 146 148 ; Ditto, 401. Shares, 16% ; Newark and Sheffield, 4% 514; Newcastle and Berwick, 1414; Newcastle and Dar ling-ton, New Shares, 32; Newry and Enniskille n , 2% 13s. 6d. ; North British, 17 1 / 2 ; Ditto, half Shares ' 4% %; North Wales 'Mi n e ra l, N ew Shares, Ll 4 ; Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampt on , 11.16 5. 6d ; Preston and Wyre, 34 1 /., 1 4 ; Runcorn Gap, 241/ 2 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 113 I% ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 14 1 4 % ; Shrewsbury and Grand Junctio n , 5% ; Shrewsbury, Oswsstry, and Chester, 4% 41. 15s. 6d. ; South-Eastern and Daver 42%; Ditto, New Shares, No. 1, 16%; Ditto, No. 2, 11 3 / 4 %; Ditto, No. 3,8% % ; South Wales, 6%; Ulster, 45 ; IN' exford and Carlow, 21. 18s. 9d. ; Worcester and Tring, 4!. Is. 3d., 4/. ; Austrian and Sardinian, s'. 6d , 7s. prem. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 2% 2/. Ils. 6d. ; Northern of France (Laffitte), 61,E 6 ; Paris and Lyons, Laffitte's (English), 2/. 18s. 61. ; Paris and Lyons (Ganneron's), 2/. 113 ; Paris and St. Quentin, 2/. 4s. 6d. ; Sa nbre and Meuse, 6%; Tours and Nantes, (Mackenzie's Co.), 3/. Is., 3% ; Verona and Ancona, 1/ 135., 1/. lEs. There are advices from some of our southern colonies, but they have been anticipated by the overland accounts. The amount of the Bank of England's circulation during the week to the 22d inst. is 29,213,5551., being 65,495/. over the previous week. The " rest" is larger by 2,455/. and the bullion by 55,8437., the amount of the former apportioned to the issue department being 15,213,5551. and to the b a nki ng department, 786,869/. The other items also show a general augmentation. The Funds are rather vacillating to-day, but the effect of the Texas affair is wearing off. Consols have been 99% to 99% for Transfer next week, and 99 3 / 4 to 1 / 2 for the Account. Exchequer-bills have been 595. to 575. premium. The premium on East India Bonds is 68e. The Foreign Investments are slack. Spanish Five per Cents. realise 33%, and the Three per Cents. are nominally about 407. Mexican Stock realises 35% to %, and Colom bian 15% to %. Dutch Four per Cents. are 99%. Railway Shares have been firm upon the settlement, which has been the principal business of the morning. ONE CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. 3 per Cent. Consols Long Annuities to expireJan.lB6o - - Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 India Bonds, 1,0004. ... ~ - - Ditto under 1,000/. . Consols for Account..... ...... ......, 99%v, 9912 Exchequer Bills, LOON., 1 1 / 2 d 59 57 pm. 57 Ditto 500/. . Ditto Small ... „,.••49 ,- o. as-,..5.,:.p in . 59 Ditto Advertised ''' ./ i..,; , . -,----...' , .=' -•- • 'pin. - ONE CLOSING PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela, 15 1 /% 15% Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837... ...... 35 3 4% 35% Ditto, Account Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Passive 7 14 71/ Ditto, Deferred - Ditto 3 per Cent. - Dutch, 2% per Cent - - Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 99% 99% PRICES OF PAID. O'CLOCK.CLOSING AT ONE II.IILWAY SHARESI'RICES, Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush l% 1 3% ....... Binning. and Gl ouces t er loo Ditto New Shares ... 17% 33 Ditto 1 / 2 Shares - .. Bristol and Exet er Ditto New 2 - Bristol and Gloucester... 30 Caledonian Cambridge and Lincoln 112...... 7 1 4 714 % Chester and Holyhead Churnet Valley ......... 2 Coventry, Bedworth, and Nuneaton - Cornwall Direct Northern Direct Norwich - Dublin and BelfastJunc. 2% 7 l /2 8 7 3 % Dublin and Galway 2 l / 2..,... 3% Eastern Counties 25 ....... 21% 1 4%% ... Eastern Union lO ..• - Ditto Extension Great South. and West. (Ireland) Ditto Extension Great North of England..loo - Ditto New 2 Great Western Ditto % Shares 50 ..,... 101 [lull and Selby Kentish Coast 04.- 1,6 Lancaster and Carlisle... 15 17 1 % London and Birminghna (5t0ck)...233 Do. Quarters 2 London and Brighton... 50 London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. 17 3 / 4 18 1 London and Greenwich 12/ 1554 d... - Do. Preference ...18117s 2d 2 4 3% London and S. Western 41/6s 10d 79 1 / 80 Do. New consolidated Bths 6 ...... - , Do. New - London and York 2 1,7, 34x y s Lynn and Ely . Manchester and Leeds... 73 - Do. 1 / 2 Shares Do. 1 4 Shares ......... 2 Mancherter and Birmin. 40 - .. Do. Quarters Midland... 100 l4B 151 1491,6... Do. Fifths Do. New Midland, Birm., Derby.•.loo ll2 113% Newcastle and Darling ton Junction . . 24 ...... 4614 47% Newcastle and Berwick 1 1 ,( 2 1414% 14 Newark and Sheffield ... 1% siii y 2 14 North British Northern and Eastern... 45 North Kent North Wales .. Preston and Wyre ...... 50 - Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1 - Scottish Mid1and......... 1 1 / 2 ...... - Shrews., NVolverhamp., Dudley, and 8irm...... 1 21 2. .... 6 , , . 4 South Devon South Eastern & Dover 33/ 2s 4d... 42 . 3 / Do., No. 1 8 Do., No. 2. ............ 2 South Wales . ... 2 1 / 2 ...., 6% 1 4 Waterford and Kilkenny I ..,... 3% . .., ~ West Cornwall 1 4... 414 iork and North Midla n d 50 - Ditto 1/ 2 Shares 25 - Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 20 Do. Selby Do. Extension 13 / 4 135 33 33 / 1 B:3t 6/ 101 1 / 2 99 IYB 3714 234 24 3 / 1 80 24 12 1 4 3%t 9 3 % 149%. 31% 20q 43' lig 53/, FRENCH RAILWAYS Boulogne and Amiens... 4 Bordeaux and Toulouse 2 Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cet te Orleans and Bordeaux... 2 Paris & Lyons, Laffitte's 9 Paris and Lyons, Gan neron's, Paris and Orlea ns 2O 2 l /2 50% • Paris and Rouen Sambre and Meuse ~... 2 Tours and Nantes, Mac kenzie's 2 MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 28.—The sales are :—Manchester and Leeds, Quarter Shares, 20 ex div. ; Ditto, Sixteenth Shares, 7% ; Manchester and Birmingham, 57 1 / 1 ex new and ex div. ; Ditto, New Quarters, M. 6s. 6d. 5 5-16 prem. ; Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, 163 ex div. ; Midland Railway Consols, 401. Shares, 16% 1 4 ; Preston and Wyre, 32% % ; Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter Shares, 13 3 / 4 14 ; South-Eastern, No. 3,8% 81. 6s. 6d. •, Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction, 9% ; Blackburn, Damon, and Bolton, 4% ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 10% %; Churnet Valley, 7 3-16 % ; Direct Northern, 4 11-16 ; Erewash Valley, 15 1 / 1 ; Huddersfield and M anc hester Rail way and Canal, 3 1 ,4 ; Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 5 1-16; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 6')'g ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston. 3 3 / 4 ; Lond o n an d W orcester, Ox ford and Rugby, 4 1.16 ; London and York, 3 14 ; Man chester and Buxton, 2% ; Scottish Central, 5% ; Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junctio n , 24 5 . ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester Junction, 4% ; Southport and Euxton, 3% ; West Yorkshire, 3%; Great Northern of France (English), 6% 3-16 ; Paris and Lyons (English), 3 1-16 ex new ; Union Plate Glass, 163/4. 11% 23/4 The Queen of Spain has recently sent to this country, as a present to our Sovereign, a beautiful An dalusian horse. MAIDS OF HONOUR.—We have not had for a long time a novel so likely to attract general attention as this tale of the Court of George I. As regards the number and variety of its characters, and the skill with which they are brought before the reader, it is almost unri valled. The remarkable fortunes of the four youthful beauties first selected to grace the Court of St. James's, as " Maids of Honour," form the groundwork of the novel. They are the fair Mary Lepel. immortalised by Chesterfield, Pope, and Gay, and the Misses Bellenden, Howe, and Meadows, almost equally eulogised by their celebrated literary contemporaries. The work conveys an elaborate picture of the Court of George I. —present ing us with full lengths of the Hanoverian King and his suite of mistresses, including the Schulenberg (afterwards Duchess of Kendal), and the Kielmansegge (Countess of Darlington), the Hanoverian Prince of %Vales (making awkward love to the beautiful attendants of his consort), and the amiable blue-stocking, Princess Caroline. In their society we are introduced to the King's favourites, Baron Bothmar, and Counts Roberthon and Berndorf, and the Turkish pages of the back stairs, Mustapha and Mahomet. Amongst the other personages of the story are the celebrated Earl of Chesterfield, Lord John Hervey (Pope's Lord Fanny), that heroic madcap the Earl of Peterborough, those gay Lotharios, the Dukes of Somerset, Buckingham, and Wharton, together with the Dukes of Newcastle, Kingston, Argyle, and Or mond, Lords T3ellenden, Berkeley, and Bolingbroke, and the King's Ministers, Walpole, Townsend, and Stanhope. The literary characters are not less distinguished, for they consist of Addison, Pope, Defoe, Vanbrugh, Steele, Swift, Kneller, &c. In the society of these fascinating Court beauties and brilliant w it s , th e rea d er cannot fail of finding a fund of entertainment. SU - MARY OF NEWS AND Public Optition. a Who runs mayrend." FOREIGN. 40% lition a few weeks sinc9, under the New Building Act, is about to be repaired and restored, scaffolding having been erected around it for that purpose. At the early part of the present month a grey pony. the property of Mr. Robinson, greengrocer, of Windsor, near Manchester, died at the extraordinary age of fifty years and eight months, it having been foaled in July, 1794. 2% 11% 2% On Friday morning the body of a young man was dis covered floating in the river Thames, off the Folly-house, near Blackwall stairs. It was conveyed to the Bone house, Poplar, where it was soon afterwards discovered to be another of the sons of •Mr. Byford, of Barking, who, with two other brothers nod a man named William Day (whose body was found on Thursday last) were drowned by the upsetting of a fishing smack, in a gust of wind, on the night of the sth of February last. It is a singular coincidence that these two bodies, which have been so long missing, should have risen within one day of' each other, and have been found at the short distance of 200 yards only apart. The second son of Mr. Byford is still missing. On Wednesday afternoon last, between four and five o'clock, as a gentleman was passing from the Surray hills, along the western wall of the Nunliead Cemetery, he discovered a man lying in the cemetery, under a pile of iron railings. Having called to him, and receiving no answer, Mr. Buckstine, the superintendent of the ground, was informed of the circumstance, and who immediately hastened to the spot. He there found that a young man, named John Bowers, a stone-mason, was under the iron work, and to all appearance a corpse. A number of the grave-diggers were instantly summoned together, and the rails having been removed, the deceased was extricated, and taken to the Nun's Tavern, Peckham. Drs. Lodge and Bloomfield were quick in attending, but not in time to be of any assistance, us the vital spark had flown. The unfortunate deceased, it appears, had been set to work by Mr. Buckstone, a short time previous, in cutting the rails out of the coping, and it is supposed that, to hasten his work, he shook the rails, and the whole fell forward and broke his neck. GOSPORT, FRIDAY.—Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert are expected to arrive here to morrow, about one o'clock, en route to the Isle of Wight, on a visit of inspection to ()Thorne House, of which her Majesty has within the last few days become the bona fide purchaser. Her Majesty's coachman has arrived this day with one of the royal carriages for the recep tion of her Majesty and the Prince Consort. A special train is ordered at the Farnborough staaon, which will leave that place at half-past eleven. The royal car riage will convey her Majesty and Prince Albert to the Royal Clarence Victualling-yard, where they will em bark either on boihrd the royal yacht or the Admiralty yacht, which is expected round from Woolwich. The Comet steam-vessel, Lieut.-Commander Pretyman, left Portsmouth harbour this morning for Southampton, to embark carriages, &c., for the use of her Majesty and suite in the island during the royal sqjourn, which will be, we are informed, until Tuesday. 'CITE QUEEN'S VISIT TO IRELAND.—We have been informed, on something like authority, that it is her Majesty's intention to honour the Duke of Devonshire with a visit, at Lismore Castle, during her stay in this country. If the party who has favoured us with this intelligence be well informed, we may indulge in the hope of seeing our beloved Sovereign in this quarter also, as we can scarce think that the second city in this portion of her dominions would be passed by unnoticed. —alb Examiner. The accounts from Madrid are to the 21st. No jour nals were published on that day (Good Friday) and the Bourse was closed. Mr. Francis Mowatt, the President of the English Committees of the two Companies lately formed with the view of tendering for the construction of the Paris and Lyons (Ganneron's Company) and Dijon and Mul house lines of railway, and of which General Count Baudrand, Governor of the Count de Paris, is President, was honoured with a special audience by the King of the French on Monday. Accounts have ht en received from Martinique to the 26th ult. The Colonial Council had voted 20,000 francs towards the relief of the distressed colonists of Barbadoes, and the Governor of Guadeloupe had sent a vessel to Barbadoes with stores and provisions. Genital Tom Thumb is the rage among the Parisians at rresent. One of the journals says, "No such sensa tion has been created among the fair, since the first appearance of Lemuel Gulliver at the Court of Brob dignag." The Sentinelle of Toulon of the 23d inst. says :—" The discharge of the 1,500 sailors is suspended, it being im po Bible to carry th's order of the Minister of the Marine into effect without dismantling a great many of our ships of war. There were only 600 sailors on shore that could be discharged, and therefore it would be necessary to take the rest from the crews of ships in commission. None of these ships have their full complements, and to take from them the remaining 900 men, would reduce then by one-half, which would be equivalent to a dis armament of our squadron. If it had become necessary from any eventuality to send out any of our ships, it would have been impossible to man them." A letter from Rome, of the 11th inst., states that the extensive domains of the Duke de Leuchtemberg, son in law of the Emperor of Russia, in the States of the Church, have been purchased by the Roman Govern ment for 3,850,000 Roman crowns (about 20,500,0000, which sum has been paid in obligations bearing interest at 4 per cent. These securities have been negotiated by the agent of the Duke de Leuchtemberg at the houses of Torlonia and Rothschild, which have given in exchange for them bills on Paris and London. Prussian journals inform us that the mortality in horned cattle and horses in some parts of Prussia is very great. A letter from Konigsberg states that nearly 4,000 head of cattle have vrishi d in a s , ingle district. The schism among the Catholic in Prussia seems to be on the increase. Great numbers have recently declared for what is called the New German Catholic Church, and the Government has authorised collections in sup port of it. LAW Awn POIACk. The investigation into the case of the Rev. Mr. Mnnekton still continues before the Diocesan Court of Inquiry. At tsow-Areet, William John Berry, described as a gentleman's servant, living at No. 12, Shire-lane, Temple bar, was charged with brutally treating his child, a little boy only ten years old. It appeared that the prisoner kept the child chained up in a room, and was in the habit of cruelly beating it with a thick stick, and also with a cat-o'-nine-tails. The child was covered with bruises and sores. The Magistrate committed the brutal father for trial at the sessions, and the parish officers undertook to prosecute. The prisoner was subsequently admitted to bail. A short period prior to the closing of the Marylebone Police-court, Charles Stuart, a shoemaker by trade, and Dorothy Stuart, his wife, were charged with unlawfully plt-dging sheets, blankets, &0., the property of their landlady, Maria Kean; and also with having attempted to destroy themselves, by cutting their throats. On the landlady discovering that her property had been pawned she questioned the prisoners on the subject, who each deliberately attempted to commit suicide by cutting their throats. It appeared that they had once before taken laud mum for the same purpose. The female, who had pawned all the articles, was committed for twenty days, and the man was sent to the infirmary. _ COVET-PASHIONABLE. It is rumoured in the dZlTcirersii;TLer Majesty contemeates giving a magnificent fa? at Buckingham Palace in the course of the season, which will equal in splendour the gorgeous bel mosque. The Countess of Jersey intends to have a grand as sembly on the 10th of the ensuing month, the night of her Majesty's Drawing-room. It will be a dress party. The cards of invitation are not as yet i4sued ; but it is not to be a grand ball, as erroneously stated in a morn • ing contemporary. Gereral Espartero has quite recovered from his late indisposition. The Gallant General and the Duchess of Victory continue to reside in retirement at Abbey Lodge, Regent's Park. The Earl Harewood and family have left Harewood House, Yorkshire, in consequence of a fever having broken out at the mansion. Prince and Princess Nicholas Esterhazy, it is confi dently stated, purpose dui ing the summer to come to this country, from Austria, on a visit to her Highness's parents, the Earl and Countess of Jersey. The Duke and Duchess of Richmond and the Ladies Lennox are not expected to arrive in Portland-place, for the season, from Goodwood Park, until the third week in April. The Marchioness of Hastings, after her approaching marriage with Captain Reginald 'listings Henry, nephew of the Duke= of "Leinster, is expected to proceed on a continental tour. Count Louis de Noailles has arrived at the French Embassy from a visit to the Earl and Countess of Essex at Caskiobury Park. MISCELLANEOUS. Mrs. JonathaViiTcTtiiouse,Orliarlington, a member of the Society of Friends, and a la•.ly well known for her Christian philanthropy, and her zealous labours in the cause of religion and humanity, were among the nume rous visitors who attended John Taw•ell after his convic tion, to exhort him to sincere repentance, and to pre pare his mind for the ignominious fate to which he was doomed. Early on Tuesday the church of St. Leonard's was broken into, and the vault entered, it being supposed by the ruffians that a lady named Musehets, a native of Africa, who had been interred on the previous Friday morning, had been buried in her costly . jewels and rings a custom peculiar to that country. The villains, were, however, disappointed, and they then emptied the con • tents of a bottle of the communion wine, and ransacked the national school boxes, which contained only a few shillings. A pickaxe and a crowbar were found in the vault, and the lid of the coffin was removed. The fel- lows committed the mDst disgusting acts. Service was intended to have been performed, but the circumstance caused such excitement, that it was not proceeded with. The town-council of Edinburgh resolved on Tuesday last, by 16 to 9, to petition Parliament against " any grant of public money to Maynooth, or any other re ligious establishment or institution whatever i" the pe tition to be intrusted to Mr. Macaulay. The Lord Pro vost differed, because the grant would promote the tran quillity of Ireland. St. John's Gate, that remnant of ancient ecclesiastical architecture, in which, in 1713, Cave first printed the Gelseenian's Magazine, and where Dr. Johnson was a constant visitant, and which was threatened with demo- , ANOTHER EXPEDITION TO Tl° NIGER. It appears, though the fact h as n o t y e t come pro--mi• „ nently into public notice, th a t a no th er expe di t i o n to w r. river Niger has been organis e d, an d i s b y t hi s tize on the way to its destination. The subscriptions for I d have been raised chiefly in London and in Li ve rpool's!, at the head of the former li s t i s th e name o f t h e bite D I : T. F. Buxton fir 5001. The command of the expendabl e is intrusted to Captain John Becroft, who was second ° l a command tinder Colonel Nichull at Fernando Po, se, this will be his fourth ascent o f th a t r i ver , s o 0 0 ,7 : may be said to be perfectly s e asone d t o t h e c li ma te. ' 4 is accompanied by Dr. Ki n g, an d t h e same eng i n eer ," went kith him in his form e r voyages, and, to guard for ther against the fatality which visited the previous e r pedition, the rest of the crew is composed of Africse g ' Among the assis'ants to the eng i neer i s an Af r i ca n yeetb, nineteen years of age, who h a s h a d th e a d van t ag e of I— years' education here, the scientific part of which obtained in the engineering department of Woolaie dockyark, and who worked the Wrlberf'orce up t he i Niger in the last trip he made ; aiso down t he ' river and to Fernando l'o, and back to England. Se ve ; rag of the crew are exper t seamen and boatmen ; othe r„ are good tradesmen, an I a ll a bl e t o rea d an d write---05„ professing the Christian religion. The tradesmen to be left with cert tin proportions of merchandise at tb mot populous and convenient stations on the river Nik e ! and its tributaries, to coll ec t a cargo f ur t h e E t hiop• veEs 1 fitted out for the exploration of the river). "A n ti she arrived, according t o accoun t s rece i ve d , on the of November last fro m Li ver p oo l, an d i s to rema in teu l the proper time for ascendi ng th e Ni ger i n J u ly nei t, f or be employed meantime i n surve yi ng t h e en t r ances of several rivers on the coast, f rom th e Old C a l a bar te t"". Congo. Connected with this subject, it may be w eir tinned that Captain Becroft has furnished letters of le' troduction to parties in England interested in the e s. pedition to Mr. W. Daniel, a well-informed and eater prising surgeon, who has devoted himself to tbe cause of humanity, by visiting Africa fur the ppr pose of finding out the best mode of counteracting curing the African fever, which had been heretofore 54) uniformly fatal. His proceedings in the P r ,' suit of this object are both interesting and valusb' s to medical science. In his first voyage to Benin], b e lost six men out of his ship's company, the whole of them being attacked by the fever, whom ho treated according to the method adopted by other medical practitioners 0 ° the coast. This less stimulated the more his exertioes to discover a better remedy ; lie, therefore, next Pr° creded to Old Calabar, on e o f th e worst parts on tha t coast. His crew was 40 in number, 37 o f whom had i fever during a protracted stay 70 miles up that rive r !, but having now brought his o wn pl an o f trea t m ent into we, he succeeded in bringing th e w h o l e of the crew sai l ' Y. Emelt 19 Liverpool. In a succeeding v oy age he brough t the whole of the crew safely back, with the ex ception e; one men, who died of an organic disease, which wo o b' have been fatal under any circumstances. These facts have all been laid before the Government as the found° . tion of a claim, if they are well established, for an °E . pointment for Dr. Daniel u n d er th e Colonial-offiee, order that he may go on with his plans at the other see' tions on the African coast. If these beginnings termer nate nate in a safe exploration of th a t p ar t o f Af r i ca , its ben fits must soon be made manifest upon the profitable com merce of this country.— Times. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT MANCHESTER—FRIDAY. no CHESTER CUP.-30 to 1 agst St. L awrence (t) -3 to 10 and 625 to 25 agst Celeste. Nothing done on the Derby. COURSING. THE LYTHAM (FINISH) MEETING, MARCH 26 AgD 27. —The Great Clifton Cup, by 16 dogs, at 5/. 1014 ea c h' was won by Mr. Clark's You ng Lill ; M r . Arder° 4 Matchless ran up.—The Lytham Cup, by 16 pupplea , „ f s , 3/. 104. each, was won by Mr. Rodgett's Gin Brook's Bonnet ran up.—The Talbot Stakes of 3L 1 0 "; each, 20 dogs, were won by Mr. Clark's Lune ; Thomas's Topperran up.—The Trial Sapling Stakes We t : won by Mr. Clark's Shropshire.—The Hopeful Sapling Stakes by Mr. Dickinson's Fvlde CuP+ le dogs, was won by Mr. Ardern's Monsoon.- - The Ri the Puppy Cup, 8 dogs, by Mr. Robi nson ' s Pi ice b e ; and `" Westby Hall Stakes by Mr. King's Silk. MORPETH (SALTWICK) MEETING, M ARCH 0 7 IV Ogle Stakes, 20 clogs, were won by Mr. Tinley s Meurtrier ; Mr. Arthur's Sligo ran up. The OLD HOLLY (NEAR LANCASTER) MEETING. „ Sweepstakes of 1 guinea each, f or 10 d ogs, wer e won PI Mr. H. Gardner's Patalina ; an d th e Ei g h t D ogs ' Sweep stakes by Mr. Woodburne's C ossac k. J..-- CALEDONIAN (COURSING PICT URE ) M EETING , Ait C 25, 26, 27, 28, AND 29.—The Mi c h ae l A nge l o S ta kesq 6 dogs, were won by Mr. W. R amsey ' s R ector ; Mf' .ej Dundas's Ould Harry ran up.—Th e Leonardi da " 1„ " - Stakes, 16 dots, were won by Mr. A. G ra h am 's Curs' tore ; Mr. %V. Sharpe's Mercury ran up.—The He l l; brandt Stakes, 16 dogs, were won by Marquis Dougla s Drift ; Capt. Wivanhoe ran up. DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—Mademoiselle Polio ba g more than fulfilled the utmost expectation of her nuai g. ' rous admirers, and has created a complete sensation amongst the devotees to her enchanting art. Her style of dancing is equally as exciting as it is novel, and re' ceives, as it well deserves, the utmost approbati°,?; She performs in the new ballet, after the successla' revival of Robert the Devil, and their combined attrae tion has filled the theatre each evening; these pieces hsg e been played together. We understand that the Lords of the Treasury have appointed Charles Ross, Esq., (formerly Member for Northampton), to be ae Special Commissioner for the purposes of the income-tax, in the mum of Thoinea Pargiter Dickenson, Esq., who has been appointed 5 Commissioner of Customs. ANNIVERSARY DINNER OF THE MORNING AN D EVENING NEWSPAPER COMPOEITORS.-011 Saturdalf evening last a numerous and respectable assemblage the above-named body of the daily press had their annual festivity at the Freemasons"favern, at wil e), k : establishment they had often assembled previously „,l dinner was, as usual, of the best description, and nothing was wanting on the part of the stewards to promote the necessary comforts of the evening(the only one in the wee: that can be enjoyed by that portion of th e b us i n ess). T l ' s chair was ably filled by Mr. Irons, and, throughout th e evening, there was no want of harmony, for the best excl . ' tions were used by Messrs. Parker, Woodham, Marsden' Brimmer, Scott, German, Thomson. Slyth e , lel'Arde l, " Alt'ord (profe:sional), &c , to contribute their utmost to the comforts of those around them. COLLISION WITH TUE BLACK EAGLE STEAM-FAO''' . —We stated that the Black Eagle steam-yacht, Mast er ' Commander B. Cook, was ordered to Portsmouth , t c } convey her Majesty and Prince Albert t o th e Isle 0 Wight. For this purpose she left Woolwich on Thur r day, and by half-past eight o'clock Pen., was about 10 0 miles to the westward of the South Forel an d, in a Pi e of wind, and the night very dark, when a merchant ship, name unknown, with great force ran into ber port side, striking her just abaft the paddle box. By th is concussion the Black Eagle was cut down ten or twelve feet to below the water line ; the after-funnel was cut down about half-way above the clock, and h er masts and rigging were much damaged, and the furniture in th e saloon was smashed. The water immediately poured 1 0 very fast, end some apprehensions were eutertained a time that she would sink ; but, happily, t h e eng'° received no injury, and they were enabled to keep the engine-pumps going. They immediately turned bar" , and, with great difficulty and some danger, reached th e Thames, and arrived at Woolwich yesterday afternoon' It 14 ould ii appear that the strange shi lost nothing but be' b -boom. 'The Black Eagle had all her lights exhibited' forming a perfect triangle, and on seeing the stranger close upon her on the port-bow, she put her helm a - P° 6 " If this judicious proceeding on her part had in the lea3t. degree been followed by the other vessel, the concussion' would have been avoided. Great careles s n ess a n d n 3ll ,_„ ° ' blame seem to be attributable to this ship, w h oe ver so. may be. The Black Eagle, unfortunat e ly, h a d two 15 ' her crew injured. One poor fellow has his leg broleem and another is much hurt about the chest. They ba re both been sent to the Royal Marine Infirmary at Woolt svich. She will be docked the moment a dock can be gut ready to r e ceive her, and her dama ges re p a i re d. g e e pumps are at work to keep her free from water. In con' sequence of the inability of the Black Eagle to atteh d on her Majesty at Portsmouth, the Lightning, steam: tender, Master Commander Petley, was order e d by the Lords of the Admiralty from Woolwich to Portsmouth to supply her place. The Lightning took on hoard.° Trinity pilot and proceeded to Portsmouth. Cape? Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence. of the Royal yacht, command whatever vessel her Majesty may please to embark on board. THB NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, for April, COI tains many highly attractive papers. We may Pert y cularly al:ude to the story called "The Left-Hand Glove' or Circumstantial Evidence." Miss Agnes Strickland has furnished a narrative of equal interest, entitled "Kate Wilson." The " Passages in the Lives of Cele brated Statesmen of Europe" affords us a clever bio graphy of that distinguished diplomatist, Baron Buluw ; and much entertainment will be found in an attic!: headed " What we're doing and what we're coming to. The papers entitled " A Field Day with the rortU guete," and " An Excursion up the Orouooke," vary the, contents very agreeably. To these we have to add clever contributions from Mrs. Trc,llope, Mr. Maxwell, the Author of " The Talle.yrand Papers," and the Author of " Peter Priggins ;" an admirable artistic article, called " Conversations in the National Gallery;" and an able review of the great historical work of M. Thiers. GROSS SUPERSTITION. —A fellow at Weymouthp named James Stone, has been bound over to keep t ll ° peace towards his mother-in-law, whom he brutally Ill used on her taxing him with defrauding his father. It appeared that he not only struck and kicked the poor woman, but that he sprung from behind .a hedge and rulke3 a prickly thorn across her eyes and face until her face was almost covered with bloody scratches. IS defence was that his mother-in-law had bewitched hieo, and that the only way of breaking her spell over 12 1 . 81 was by drawing blood from her person !—Hampsh i re Adze, tiser. The rate of money in the discount-market is called ‘ - >a to 3 per cent. The payment of money on account of 4 the railways, and the collection of the revenue previous to the time for the dividends, have occasioned the ad- 'anew,_ by_ withdrawing a large number of Bank-notes. from circulation. DISCOVERY OF HUMAN SKELETONS.—OR Wad' nesday, as some workmen were engaged in excavating the ground on the north side of the Town-hall, St. Mar garet's-bill, High street, Borough, they discovered a great quantity Of human bones at a depth of about eight feet. Sonic of the thigh bones were of extraordinary size and the teeth in some of the jaw bones were in ex cellent preservation. They were placed in a cart and taken to St. Saviour's churchyard for interment. The ground in which the bones were found was formerly the burial-place attached to St. Margaret's Church, which many years ago stood on the site of the Town-hall. ........ 5.......,_, THE PAL • t lin We err, an :a t p :Nt th e 'll.ll lives -11 lyric