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THE LXNDED INTEREST. Now Ready, complete in two volumes, royal svo., double columns (equiftrf quantity to 30 ordinary volumes) , p rice onl y 21. 25., bound, B URKE'S LANDED GENTRY- FOR 1850, Corrected to the Present Time. This important National Work comprises a Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the whole of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, with Part cular s of 100,000 persons connected with them ; forming a necessary Companion to all Peerages. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. • THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee and Manager. Mr. JAMES ANDERSON. 10-MORROW EVENING, wrn be presented, by her Majesty's Servants, The Comedy of THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE. Characters by Messrs. Angel, Poker, Didti3or, Cooper, Vandenhoff ; Miss Phillips, and Miss L. Addison. To Anemia with the Play of THE SLAVE. p r i v ate home, V. 35., 21. 12s. 6d., U. 25., IL lb. 6d., and U. Is. Stalls, ss. each. s. d. s. d. FIRST PRICE. SECOND PRICE. Boxes - 4 0 Boxes - 2 0 Pit - - - 2 0 Pit - - - I 0 Lower Gallery - 1 0 Lower Gallery - 0 6 Upper Gallery -0 6 INo half-price to Upper Gallery. Box-book-keeper, Mr. J. Povey. THEATRE ROYAL, HAIMABKET. Mr. B. Webster, Sete i.essee And ',tanager, Old Brompton. THIS EVENING, Will be performed AS lOU LIKE IT. Jaques, Mr. C. Kean ; Rosalind, Mrs. C. Kean. To conclude with THE PRISONER OF WAR. Captain Chan nel, Mr. Webs'.er; Lieutenant Basil Fircbrace, Mr. C. Kean ; Mr. Peter Mr. Keeley ; Clarioa Channel, Mrs. C. Kean; Polly Pall-mall, Mrs. Keeley. the Box-ottlee is tinder the direction of Mr. I. T. Archer. TILL ATRIC ROYAL, ADELPIII. Under the direttion of Madame Celeste.. TIIIS EVENING, Will be pertenned a new domestic Drama, called THE WILLOW CCR„SE. Principal characters by Messrs. Hughes, Wright, P. Btd btd, 0. Smith, Worrell ; Madame Celeste, and Miss Woo?gar. After which MY PRECIOUS BETSY. Characters by Messrs. Wright, Bedford, Worrell; Miss Harding, and Mrs. F. Matthews. Ts conclude with SLASHER AND CRASHER. - PRINCESS'S THEATII.E. Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING WV be nerfOrmed DON GIOVANNI. Alter which ROT AND COLD. To be followed by the Ballet of TIIE THREE STATUES. To conclude with MT WIFE SHAN'T ACT. NEW ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Sole Lessee, Mr. W. Watts, St. John's Wood. THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE BELLE'S STRATAGEM. To conoMle with THE DREAM_ AT SEA• ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. TRENCH PLAYS AND OPERA COMIQIIIS. • Laar. - Week but Two of the Operatic Performances. Wt. MITCHELL begs respectfully to announce that the French rertennances at the St. James's Theatre will commence • THIS EVENING. At Half-past Seven, when will be performed LA PERRINUIERE DE MEUDON. After which LE3 DIAMANS DE LA COURONNE. Le Comte de Campo Mayor, M. Chateanfort ; Don Nenrigne do Sandoval, M. Lac ; La Catarina, Madlie. Charton. _. .... The Box-office of the Theatre is open daily from Eleven till Fly.. Boxes and Stalls at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond str eet. AGYAL LYCEUM THEATKE. Under the Management of Madame Verais. Sole Lessee. Mr. Charles Mathews. THIS EVENING. Will be performed A LADY IN DIFFICULTIES. After which TIIE ISLAND OF JEWELS. To conclude with TWO IN TILE MORNING. Dress Boles s ; Upper Ruxei, 4s. ; YU, is. ; Gallery, Is. No half—price to any part of the house. All applications for rriTate Boxes must be made to Mr. Allcroft, 15 N ew Bond-street. ASTLE Y's ROYAL AMPLUTREATRIL. eroprieter, Mr. W. Batty. An entire change in the Scenes of the Arena. • NeW Grand. Spectacle. Continued success of the Dames of the Fox-hunting Chase, by Eight principal Eluestrian Ladles of the Establishment. Madlles. Gardoni and Amilie on the Dcuble Tight Eves in a petite Ballet entitled The Hungarian Wood cutters. THIS EVENING, The performance will commence at a Quarter to Seven. with a new Grand Spectacle of TILE CORSE DE LEON ; or, the Brigand of Savoy. To be toilowed by a brilliant display of Batty's peerless scenes of the:Circle, supported by the accomplished artistes of the establish ment. , • To conclude with THE DIISERTED MILL ; or, The Soldier's Widow. Box-Once open from Eleven till Four. thud vvA•Mii. AT LONDON BRUNIE. Tau DAy *ming, G min. After 7 Eve g, 33 min. after 7 To- Ifoaaon )rnalg, 2 min. after 8 f Evening, 42 min. after 8 THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, MARcu 6 THERXOYIETER, Lowest, ; 30 Highest, 45, Noon 49. BADOMETEIt, 30'63. WIND W.S.W.—fine surshiny wesTher. . ..., 4F i l7 r 7k A Z C ' . 4.'-''' '' • :ii. a --S N, A •,-- i; 7 l , C V .., -,-. „0,.; P It . , 4 10— ' O. 5';;; ; i'?(, , ,........' 1- Z N6 cfc. lei ;- I .i, ,--,-,.:,-,.„: ,-. 1 .* g. , .., „., - , -I s ..7. - 4 , - O, E v ~. '' T• m o' 4 ''' " tea % " ok, nth w: LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1850. Yesterday witnrs►ed the completion of one of those great works of human ingenuity which attest in im perishable characters the glory of science and the grandeur of civilization. Silence upon an occasion like this would ill hefitia jJurnalist, whose peculiar province it is to be the annalist of contemporary occurrences, and the commemorater of every con temporary achievement. Happil:-, for ourselves, we have any thirg but reluctance to add our expres sions of panegyric to those which resound from all parts of the United Kingdom in reference to that great effort of engineering skill which has given to immortality the name of ROBERT STEPHENSON. Among those who have already Evinced an appre ciation of the genius of this remarkable man, we well remember that the delightful author of " Bubbles froM the' Brunnen of Nassau," has good reason to be enumerated ; for it has not yet passed our re collection how he has pencilled, with graphic exactitude, the physical and intellectual toil re quired in the fabrication of the gigantic tubular bridge suspended across the Menai Straits, within view of the celebrated suspension bridge constructed through the contrivance of TELFORD. After re counting the elevation of the first of the four enor mous cylinders to its place of destination, the distin guished contributor to the Qqarterly tells us of his observing the engineer on the fullowing morning, alone, in the open air, quietly enjoying a cigar, and contemplating the result of so many weary days and nights, the effect of so many arduous labours and profound calculations. Since then others of the re- roaming tubes have not merely been floated into their proper positions and secured in the grooves prepared for their reception, but the first attempt at crossing the channel through them has been actually made, and made too with a success the most com plete and triumphant. For the purpose of properly testing the strength and general capacity of the whole structure a variety of experi ments were yesterday made, under the direction of Mr. STEPHENSON himself, assisted by several of his most eminent contemporaries, men peculiarly inte rested in the triumph of his magnificent enterprise. Than these experiments nothing could by possibility have been more entirely satisfactory . Dead weightsgra dually increased to an enormous magnitude, weights in motion, and weights of a stationary character, were successively introduced into the cylinders, and all of them, not only without any perceptible deflection, but without even, in most instances, the slightest appa- rent vibration. At day break the " Cambria," steam engine, driven by ROBERT STEPHENSON himself, and followed by two others equally powerful, the " St. Mona" and the "Pegasus," the three locomotives harnessed together weighing altogether about ninety tons, entered the " vast iron corridor," and were " propelled at a slow , and s t a t e l y Pace " to the opposite extremity. Silo& quently another convoy, eonsisting of two dozen waggons heavily laden With Brymbo coal-blocks, and weighing, inclusive of the steam-engines, no less than three hundred tons in the aggregate, proceeded "deliberately ' through the orifice—emerging at the other end of the tube in the midst of "loud acclamations, fol lowed at intervals by the rattle of artillery.'' Again, a still bolder experiment was attempted, and we need scarcely say with a result capable of in spiring the fullest amount of satisfaction. A train of two hundred tons of coal was permitted to repose with its full weighf, for two hours, in the centre of the C arrnurthaenshire tube, and on its ultimate re moval, it was found to have produced a deflection of merely four-tenths of an inch, an amount of deflection equivalent to that caused by half-an-hour's sunshine ! Here we must refer to an interesting incident re corded by the reporter who was present on the occa aion, and who alludes to it as follows : " During the trial of the dead weights a very inte resting episodieal proceeding took place in the interior re 'And tube—that of puttinr , 9.e of the Carnarvunsn last _ rivet int ) 1.0 making exactly ° the 2,000,000 th that have been used. Th e rivet having been put in by Mr. Mare, was dri ven b orne and fas tentil by Mr. Stephenson with successive strokes with a huge hammer. Thfi ceremony was f dlowed by th e waving of hats and the deafening acclamations of the work-people." About mid-day the last and most noticeable of all the different experiments was adventured upon ; the testing train employed on this conclusive occasion being thus described by an eye-witness : "It consisted of the three engines, the 200 tons of coal, and from thirty t o forty railway carriages, con taining betwe en 6 00 and pa sseng ers 7o o . packed together ae cIQ"IY 63 figs La a basket, Wi so clamorous and THE SUN, LONDON, eaczer to 'go through the tube,' that it bccamelimpos sible to accommoeate them. At length, obdiently to a shrill wild whist'e, the train, which was almost long enc ugh to cover the extent of tube, glided slowly into the interior, saluted by a loud burst cf 'Rule Bri!annip; from an array of Liverpool seamen up aloft in the towers at the entrance, oa the front of which, cut deeply in the stone, were the words 'Erected Anno Domini, 1850: Robert Stephenson, Engineer.' As the huge train trailed slowly through the tube successive ra'vos of artillery were fired at each end. This accomplished, the eteam was got up. and the company assembled pro ceeded at the rate of thirty-five miles an hour, amid the mcgnificert scenery and snow-capped hills of Wa'es, to Holyhead, where they were received by all the principal townspeop!e, and with salutes from the steam-ships in the harbour." With this felicitous success the experimental pro• ceedings of the day were brought to a conclusion. By the oth instant it is expected that the official in spector will have reported to the Government, and the 15th instant has with that expectation been fixed upon as the day of public inauguration. When the dimensions t f this magnificent structure are taken into consideration, when the novelty of the undertaking is borne in mind, when it is remembered how much physical exertion and intellectual calcu lation has been requisite from the moment of its com mencement, or, rather, we should say, from the instant of its original contemplation—the circum stance that the entire fabric has been the product of only four years' toil (the suspension-bridge cf TEL FORD requiring fur its fabrication exactly double that period) must be regarded as not the least marvellous fact connected with a work whose every detail is, cause for astonishment. 'While the experiments already particularised have demonstrated the capability of the iron tubular bridge to sustain greater weights than can ever under ordinary circumstances traverse the interval between its opposite extremities, the recent high winds have sufficiently proved its capacity to resist the lateral pressure of even the most violent hurricane. Upon this latter particular it has been calculated that, " taking the force of the wind at 501 b. on the square foot—an excessive supposition—the re sistance offered by the bridge would be 300 tons, which multiplied by 2 is equal to 600 tons, which is not two-thirds of its own weight. The wind going at 80 miles an hour, the rush of a hurricane would only press in the ratio of 128 tons on the side." In addi tion, however, to the extraordinary security here in dicated, it is intended to brace the two tubes together for the purpose of counteracting altogether the smallest possible oscillation. No language, however deservedly eulogistic, can by possibility add to the satisfaction which must long before this have been experienced by Mr. STEFUENEON, from the internal consciousness of having triumphantly carried through this his noble and gigantic achievement. Nevertheless, though in capable of adding one additional sense of pleasure to the agreeable emotions already felt by our illustrious engineer, this language of panegyric and congratula tion will be employed, not only by ourselves, but also by the great mass of our Contemporaries. And while wishing him most cordially the extension of Lis use ful life and eventful career, we may, in the beautiful words addressed to Lord DENMAN by the Right Honourable the ATTORNEY-GENERAL, assure ROBERT STEPHENSON that he is not only certain of possessing " the affectionate sympathies of every member of his profession," but (yet larger and deeper cause to him of satisfaction !) that he " will reap some reward for his labours in the knowledge that he will long live in their memories as an example to applaud and emulate." Whatever tokens of admi ration may be showered upon one who has thus con spicuously entitled himself to some great mark of national approval, it is certain no honour can confer upon him so much or such genuine satisfaction as the conviction that his life has proved a source of advan tage to his contemporaries, and that his memory will be preserved to a remote posterity. The knowledge of this, which must have recurred to Mr. STEPHENSON yesterday morningshortly after daybreak, when driving the first steam-engine through the Britannia Tubular Bridge, the locomotive being appropriately decorated with union jacks and the flags of all nations, must have rendered him indifferent to the strongest epithets of admiration, and must have reduced more than ever to mere baubles the honorary marks of knighthood or the " bloody hand" of a baronetcy. To-morrow evening MY. HENRY BERKELEY brings forward his motion on the subject of the Ballot in the House cf Commons, and we - trust that every Member of that Honourable House who has the least preten sion to th. , character of a reformer will be in his place early, so as to make a House; continue in it, so as to keep a House ; and divide in favour of the motion. P..iring off io favour of the motion ought not to satisfy any constituency without some valid excuse, such, for instance, as illness, for the absence of their Member, because although, if the question comes to a division, a pair is as effec tual as a vote, yet many a question has been burked by " a count out," the said "count out' having in divers instances been got up by sham friends pledged to their constituents to vote fir a motion, and who satisfy those pledges by pairing and remaining away from the House, thus violating their pledges as completely as though they had voted against the motion. We, there tire, trust that the constituencies will nar rowly scrutinise the division lists of to-morrow night, and will mark all absentees, whether paired or not. It is evident that for the present at least there is no chance of any extension of the suffrage, and it therefore behoves all Reformers to adopt the most effectual method for enabling the present consti tuency to record their free and honest opinion unintimidated_by " the bullies of politics," who have given us a taste of their quality at the recent Dorset shire meeting. The worthy Farmer BRAKE is but the type of his class, and at the next general election —and we know Lot how soon it may come— every species of intimidation, every species of brute violence, every species of bribery, will be had recourse to by the Protectionist faction to carry their men. Every Free 'trader, therefore, should vote for the Ballot. We hope every Member of Parliament professing reform principles will be in his place to-morrow at four o'clock, to support Mr. HENRY BERKELEY. The debate on the second reading of the Marriage Bill will be this day resumed, and we trust concluded in the House of Commons. The principle of the measure will probably have received the sanction of a large majority of the chosen representatives of the people before our observations on the subject can have reached our more distant readers. The matter, has, however, been already so fully discussed, and attracted such general interest, that there are few in deed who have not formed decided opinions on the subject. Further discussion may therefore, Fer ber., appear ,to be a wcrk of supererogation. But so long as a most unjust and arbitrary restric tion is maintained, so long as :civil and religious liberty is invaded by men being debarred from judg ing for themselves on a disputed point of doctrine, and that in a point of the most vital importance to the welfare and happiness of their future lives, so lon g is it the duty of the journalist to reiterate his arguments, and to direct public attention again and again to the impolicy and injustice of the existing law, and to demand its immediate abolition, that it shall no longer be permitted to remain a blot upon the national statute-bock. Tile question has been considerably narrowed in the late discussions. We now hear little, save from some rampant and intolerant bigots, either of a scrip tural prohibition, or condemnation by the early Christian Church, or by the canons of the Church of England against such connexions. It is now suffered to rest by the more moderate and reasonable disputants on either side on the more simple ground of " social convenience." The House is no longer made the arena of polemical discus sions which can serve no useful purpose, and which, as in all similar cases, only leave the parties more firmly attached to their original opinions. The great majority of the opponents of the measure have long since abandoned the " scrip tural" ground as utterly untenable. Indee( l , it ap pears generally conceded that the 18th Leviticus, v. 18, the only part of Holy Writ in which the subject is directly alluded to, so far from sustaining their views, is absolutely conclusive on the other side, " Neither shalt thou take a wife to her sister to vex her , ** * besides the other in her Ve. time." The latter words distinctly and clearly show that the command was altogether limited in its application—that it only remlined in operation so long as the first wife was still in existence, and that it was, in fact, only intended to forbid such marriages as that of JACOB, with LEAH and RACHEL, at a time when polygamy was sanctioned and recognised. The inconvenience of such marriages was fully unthrstood among the Israelites from the example of their progenitor, and such connexions were thenceforward forbidden ; but from the moment that death dissolved the former union, the only obstacle was removed, and they be came as lawful as any other that could be contracted. There was no such consanguinity or kindred as could render the marriage undesirable in a physical point of view, or which, as leading to the deteriora tion of the offspring, eculi be regarded as contrary to the law of Nature, and se therefore find that they were generally entered into with the universal assent of mankind, and were not considered contrary to any generally received notions on the subject. The canons of any particular church cannot fairly be brought into the argument, inasmuch as they could not be regarded as binding upon those who conscientiously di , sented from its doctrines, and who were determined to judge for themselves on all religious points, taking the Holy Scriptures as their sole guide and rule of faith. The attempt to enforce obedience to the dogmas of any church or sect has long been abandoned. Dissenters are now permitted to enjoy every political privilege awarded to the members of the Established Church, and those persons who endeavour to bring the canons of that Church into the argument must be considered, as desirous of repealing the several Acts that brought almost universal toleration into operation. But it is,, by no means certain that such mar riages, are forbidden by these canons. On the contrary, we find many of the most pious and learned prelates and ministers of that Church have come forward as the most strenuous advocates for a speedy alteration in the law. The only remaining point, then, on which the pro hibition can for a moment be maintained is that cf " social convenience," and here the case is no less conclusive than on the other grounds above alluded to. Is it a matter of "social convenience" to bring law into contempt by enactments that are habitually disregarded ? by passing Acts which are universally admitted to have failed to attain their objects ? Is it expedient to bring the all-powerful dictates of nature in opposition to an existing regulation ? Is it desirable to multiply the numbers of unwedded mothers, and of , illegitimate children ? to make the innocent offspring responsible for acts over which they had no control ? Most decidedly not! The Commissioners have told us in their able report, that " these marriages will take place when a concurrence of circumstances give rise to mutual attachment ;" that " they are not de pendent on legislation." How absurd, then, is it to encumber the statute-book with needless enactments, which can have no effect in preventing the marriages they were intended to restrain. But even if the law were really operative, or that it could be supposed to influence the public mind, we contend that it should be abrogated, and that, so far from such marriages being social inconveniences, they are frequently in the highest degree expedient and desirable. Second marriages seldom turn out happily fur the offspring of the firmer union. Stepmothers are proverbially unkind to their husbands' children. A person in such a condition cannct feel as a mother towards the partial orphans com mitted to her charge ; she may love her hus band, and feel some degree cfregsrd to his children, but that regard will be tempered with a certai❑ de gree of jealousy, more especially if there be issue of her own nuptials. She is also regarded as an intruder by her stepchildren ; they can seldom receive her with cordiality, or be prevailed upon to accord that respect due to her position and influence in the house hold. These great " inconveniences" will, however, be greatly mitigated, if not altogether removed, if the person selected is already closely related in blood to the children. Who can be so well qualified to discharge the duties cf the deceased mother towards her sur viving children as her sister, who is already endeared to them by the ties of affection and consanguinity, and who, in many instances, has already acquired, as their aunt, considerable kfluence over them, and who can therefore exarcise the necessary control of a step Mother without incurring the odium, or exciting the jealousy, which such authority, however gently and mildly exercised by a comparative stranger, must un doubtedly provoke ? We believe that there ca❑ be but one answer to this interrogatory, and that is de cisive as to the question of expediency—and proves, be yond the possibility of doubt, that such marriages, so far from bekg objectionable, are, whenever practi cable, in the highest degree desirable and praise worthy. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of yesterdal The Constitutionnel says that upwards of 60,000 persons have balloted during the preliminary polling by the Electoral Union, and that General LAIIITTE, MM. BONJEAN and Foy, were at the head of the poll, and would probably be the candidates for Paris whom the Union would support—the name next on the poll is that of General D'AnnouvuLa. The first reading of the Paris a n d A v i gnon Rail- way Bill was carried in the Assembly on Monday by a majority of 418 against 218. According to the National, the Government has es tablished a censorship of foreign books on the frontier. It appears that M. RICCIARDI has recently published a history of the events which have occurred in Italy from the outbreak of the Sicilian revolution to the battle of Novarra, and that the douainer at Les Roussel, refused to permit the book to be carried across the frontier. In reply to his remonstrances M. Ric- CIARDI received a letter from the principal douainer at Les Mousses informing him that all works relating to politics or to recent events were prohibited to be imported into France, and that an inspector of hocks, recently appointed by the Minister of the Interior, officiated at the various stations on the frontier. The absurdity of this system is demonstrated by the fact that a translation of this very work by M. RICCIARDI has been recently published in Paris. In several of the departments the Prefects have dismissed the Mayors of various districts on account of their political opinions. A preparatory meeting of Democratic Socialist electors took place at Chatillon, at which a stone mason, named JURA UD , presided. At the moment when some of the Socialist leaders were about to address the meeting in support of their ideas, about 200 quarrymen raised a cry of " Vile Napoleon !" " A bas les Rouge, !" and eventually cleared the room. The Mayor of Chatillon, dreading a sangui nary collision, had called in the troops from the fort of Vanvreg, but their services were not required. A letter from Strasburg of the 2,1 inst. states that the nucleus of the army of the east is about to be formed in Alsace. The 7th and 19th Regiments of Infantry have already been sent from Lyons for that purpose. The former has received orders to reach Belfort on the 18th, 19. h, and 20th of March, and the other is to arrive at Strasburg on the 27th. The Constilutionnel says :—" The accounts which we receive from all sides agree in presenting the policy of Prussia under a more satisfactory aspect, and in removing the sad eventualities which had alarmed the public mind. In the question of Neuf chatel the Prussian Cabinet, taking into consideration the present state of Europe, does not appear disposed, while maintaining its rights, to enforce them by force of arms. As far as regards the projected annexation of the Grand Duchy of Posen to the German terri tory, it is the Government itself which, contrary to the reports in circulation, in order to remove any cause for conflict, Las withdrawn the Bill." The Pilots du Calvados states that some arrests have been made at Caen of persons charged with being engaged in a Legitimist conspiracy. The chief of this conspiracy is a person named RIVERAIN. PARIS BOURSF, MARCH s.—Latest Prices.—Five per Cents., 961. 20e. ; Three per Cents., 58f. 1 0c. ; Bank of France, 2,290 f. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONON STOCK-MP ANGE, MARCH 5. Boulogne and Amiens, ►7 W il — C Central of France (Orleans and Vierzen), 12 . % —Northern of France, 13%—Orleans and Bordeaux, 3. ISPAIN. Madrid journals of the 28th ult. have arrived. The _Fieraldo states that the elections of the pro vincial' deputations continued to be favourable to ti-e moderate party. A deputati on o f the garrison of Madrid had waited on the QU EEN to congratulate her on her interesting situation. The Cabinet had resolved to create a board for the special management of the affairs of the West India colonies, under the name of Council of Spain and the Indies. GbIIIIIAN Y. The Prussian Govirnment has lublidiecl a l ong reply of N. DE SCIII.FINITZ, Miniqcr of Foreign Affairs, to the note of Prince SCRWARZENBERG, in the name of the Austrian Government, agninat th e convocation of the Gorman Parliament of Erfurt!). M. DE SCHLEINITZ commences by declaring that, in spite of the protect cf . the .Alistiian Cabinet, WEDNESDAY EVENING, the Prussian Government cannot, without gravely compromising the interests of Germany, abandon the path in which it has entered, and he declares that it intends to f::1low it without violating the rights and interests of the Grraanic Confederation in general, or of Austria in particular. He, then pro ceeds to justify the policy of Prussia in reference to the events of Germany, and says that the aban donment of two of the powers which acted with Prussia (Saxony and Hanover) renders its duty to continue in that policy the more imperative, especially as it is supported by the majority of the members of the Confederation. M. DE SCHLEINITZ next contends that the convocation of the German Parliament at .Erfurth does no', in any way, en croach on the federal compact. lie says that neither Austria nor any other state shall be injured in their rights by the resolutions of the Parliament. lie de clares that the Prussian Cabinet does not think, like that of Austria, that the meeting of the Parliament will give rise to disturbances, but that if it should, Prussia will employ farce to repress them, and he says that it thinks the convocation of the Parliament the surest means of preventing disturbances. The Minister concludes his dispatches by expressing his belief that his statement of tha views of the Prussian Cabinet will not disturb the amicable relations between Austria and Prussia. A decree of the Emperor of AUSTRIA. orders that all the national guards who served in the insur rectionary forces in Hungary shall be incorporated in the Austrian army. The Vienna journals of the 27th ult. state that in telligence had been received from Transylvania to the effect that the Russians were assembling a Con siderable military force at the defile of G-oito, on the Transylvanian frontier, with the intention of again occupying Transylvania, so as to allow the Austrian troops to march into Italy, and to th e f ron ti er of Germany. This intelligence bad caused great sensa tion at Vienna. The Committee of the Saxon Second Chamber on the German question had agreed to a series of recom mendations to the Ministry, urging the policy of ad hering to the Prussian Bund, and using its influence with Wirtemberg and Bavaria to induce them to join it also. There had been some rumours in Berlin of a postponement of the day of meeting of the Erfurt Parliament for three weeks, which, it was supposed, were connected with the pending debate on the above propositions in the Saxon Chamber. ITALY. The Riforma of Lucca states from Leghorn, Feb. 27, that the Austri an o fficers in garrison th ere believe they will be ordered to Rome very shortly, while a Croatian regiment will take their place at Leghorn. The following notification has been publizbed there by the military commander: — "This is to notify that the state of siege hitherto limited to this city and to a radius of a mile beyond it, shall henceforth comprise all the country as far as Antignano, and is extended also over the whole terri tory under the jurisdiction of the delegate of the port. _ " The Colonel Count F. DE CAENEVILLE. " Leghorn, Feb. 25." The Risorgimento of Turin quotes letters from Bo logna, of the 25th ult., stating that new highway robberies bad been committed in the vicinity. The Roman Government has issued a circular to all its functionaries, ordering them to cut of their mus tachios. The Giornale di Roma, of the 233, contains an article in answer to the Observatore Romano, which ha I alluded to the possibility of the interesting ancient paintings lately found on the Esquilino being exported to enrich some foreign museum, meaning thereby the museum of Path.. The answer of the official paper is, that the Government, in the case of imaginary and exorbitant pretensions, will use the power which existing laws place in its hands to pre vent ancient monuments from leaving Rome to adorn any museum of Europe. _ _ _ A letter from Rome of the 26th ult. says— " Yesterday 6,000 French troops marched out in fine order, commanded by General Baraguay when a sham fight took place. An immense concourse of the Romans went to see it. The rapidity (..f movement and vivid firing were surprising. No accident whatever occurred, and the day was delightful. The General gave a soiree in the evening, which was attended by all the noblesse cf Rome; it was remarked that no Cardinals were present." Leiters from Rome in the IVazionale of Florence state that several thousand Austrians are shortly expected there for the ostensible purpose of raising the Imperial arms over the hotel of the Austrian Embassy. Cernrischi, who was acquitted by the French court . martial of the charges brought against him, has been again arrested by order of the Cardinals, and will be again tried on the same accusation. Letters from Leghorn, of the 231 ult., state that the fortress of Purtoferrajo is to receive an Austrian garrison. The Austrians are fortifying the fort of Portzmurata, at Leghorn, on the land side. A battalion of Imperial cavalry arrived at Leghorn on the 221 Arrests are still the order of the day. M. Antoine Boneparte has arrived from Marseilles, and proceeded to Florence. MONEY and COMIVIERUIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotten mark, t at Liverpool yesterday was very quiet, the sales being only 2,000 bales, of which 500 American were taken for export. The sales comprised 1,800 American, 80 Pernans wid .Maranham at 6p. to 6id., and 100 Surat at 41. to sfc). per lb.—ln Railway Shares a fair busine.s was done at higher quot,tions. The arrivals of grain have been small, and the market has been dull at Monday's quotations. The Board of Trade return for the month to the sth ult. is again very satisfactor:-, the increase, compared with the like month of 1849, being 858.285/. Accounts from Holland state that the Second Cham bers had unanimously adopted the project of law for augmenting the budget of 1849, to meet the interest on the new issue of Treasury Bunde. In the Amsterdam market the Funds were rather better on Monday. The Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. realised 55e to 1 -16th. At Frankfort, on the 2d inst., Austrian Bonds were 82k. The total value of the exports from St. John's, New Brunswick, during the 3 ear to the sth January last was 238,7561., while in 1849 it was only 94,113 L The shipments to the United States alone under transit, and from the river St. Lawrence to lake Champlain were 55,0671. The Toronto Board of Trade, in its annual report, comes forward in support of free trade, and states— " Your council congratulates the board twat the obstruc tion to the freedom of trade between foreign countries and this colony has been removed by an alteration in the navigation-laws, which will have a tendency to remove the disparity which now exists in the price of produce between this country and the Uoi-ed States, and your council looks forward with confidence to the increased prosperity which such an act of liberality on the part of the mother country cannot foil of producing." In the same report it ia also obrervzd :—" Your council deems it c f the utmost consequence that facili- ties and encouragement should be held out to a better class of emigrants, and it is believed that much might be effected through the instrumentality of the colonial ; it i s hi g hl y i mportant that d develope the resources legista'ure. Rapid strides hav e o f l ate years been made ir' ve domesticr of United Canada." bedon manufacturesecalate Icu The opinion which we gav e yeit ' r el ay as to the upward tendency of the Stock Lrket, has b ean b orne everything out by an improvement in Consols to 95i and 96. The hope that the French elections will go off well, and that the other Continental questions will quietly be dis posed of, encourages patties to buy, and the abundance of money is an vsistance to them. The New Three and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 98i to 981, and the Three per Cents. 96 i l- to 1. Exchequer -bills are 555. to 585., an improvement of Is. Foreign Stocks have been rather quiet, but generally are firm. Peruvian Active Bonds have been marked 731 to 74f, and the Deferred 314 to 32k. Mexican Bonds have been 29i 1. Brazilian New Bonds have been sold at 88. Portuguese Four per Cent. have been quoted 33. In Spanish Bonds there have been no bargains. Dutch Two-and a-Half per Celts. have been quoted 551 to 11. Russian Scrip is 11 to 2 premium. The Railway Share Market is more buoyant. ONE,, LOG P or : , ItITIBIi YUNDo O'CLOCK. PRICES. dank Stock 1 11 1,4 per Cont. Reduced A nn s . 7 9 ” 8 5 96% 3 per Cent. C onso l s A nnu i ties ... - • 95 7 s it, 96 96 New 3'4 per Cent. Arens 9B E4 %Y % 98% Long Anna. to expire Jan.lB6o -16 Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 8 5 - 16 8 5-16 India Bond s , 1,000/ ... ' Ditto ender 1,000/. ...... 8 ! P 84 South Sea Stock ........... . 10a '4 105 1 4 i Consols for Account 951 :1 9G OGIA Exchequer Bills. 140. & 2d 1,000/. June 5B 55 58 p 58 p 500/. June Small. June ............... 54 57 p 57 p PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. ON O'CLOCK. OLOSI/N nupEs. Crazilian Bonds ...... Ditto, Small Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839 ••• 88 Daniih 80nd5,1825,3 per Cent. Grenada Bonds, 1 1 / 2 per Cent — Ditto Deferred Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons— Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons ..-....• Ditto. Account Peruvian Bonds, 4 per Cent .. ——• 75 • 75 Ditto, Account 7 4 1/ :2 73% 74 74 4 Ditto Deferred Portuguese 5 per Cents. ......... Ditto 5 per Cent., Converted ••• 32 % Ditto, 4 per Cent. Ditto, Accfulnt Kussi3n Bonds ...... Ditto Scrip, .......................... Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840 • Ditto. 3 per Cent Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2V per Cent., 12 Guild. .. 65 % 1 4 Ditto. 4 or Ce nt . Certificates 86% 87 PRICES OF BUSI NESS DONE CL OSINt; izAILWAY SBARES. PAID. AT ONE: O'CLOCZ. PRICES, ruckingliam:hir e ...... 171,2 Cal(3doni r.n ........... .. f; 0 Ea; torn Com:tie:: ......... 20 ...... 7AI 'A x ' d " • • - 71,4 x. d- Do., New P.c. f.re. ce , 6 rer Cent.... .... 10 East Lincolnshire, guar. 6 per Cent. .. ......... 25 k:(1113burgll IVA Glasgow 50 ...... 27 ... 27 89 88 70 V% 32 1 /. 2 1 3 4 p - 2 p 364 r, 5 lA' 87 1174 WHITECHAPEZ. Our market was heavy tu-Jay, at barely stationary prices. Beef, from 2s 4d to 3s 4d; Mutton, 2s 10d to 3s 8d; Veal, 3s to .3s 8d; and Pork, 34 to 4s per Sibs by the carcase. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) (Before the MASTER OF THE ROLLS.) The Court was occupied throughout the morning in hearing the further arguments of counsel in a part-heard case of Wilson v. Eden, the question in which turns upon the construction of a will. SECONDARIES'.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Secondary POTTER.) PINCHIN AND OTHERS V. DOWLING. A HEAVY DEFALCATION.—The plaintiffs are brewers at Northgate, Bath, and de'endant had been their London agent. The action was brought to recover the sum of 1,4901., the balance of an account for money had and received on account f the plaintiff , . The LEARNED COUNSEL for the plaintiffs skid that the only question was one of amount, and is that there could be no difficulty, for the defendant had written a letter admitting that he had received 1,8521. lls. on account of the plaintiffs. Two gentlemen who had be come sureties for the defendant paid 2001., and other sums were paid, reducing the balance to the sum now claimed. The jury gave a verdict for 1,490/. BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner FONiLANQUE.) IN RE WOODS AND THOMAS. These bankrupts were described as of Cheapside, warehousemen and hardwaremen, and to-day was ap pointed for consideration cf the certificate. Mr. LINKLATER, for the assignees, said they had nothing to offer in oppofition, but one creditor con ceived himself aggrieved, and wished to oppose, but he had not proved his debt, nor bad he given notice of op position. Ho (Mr. Linklater), therefore, being solicitor to the fiat, wished to take his Honour'a opinion whether he bad not a locus slancli to put the case before the Court, and whether, in fact, he was not bound to do so. Mr. LAWRANCE objected, contunding that if an opposi tion of this nature were admitted, the very object of the L-gislature was defeated. It was enacted that the assignees need not give notice, as they represented the interests of the general estate, but it creditors, who had neither proved nor given notice of opposition , could be . represented in the way proposed: would be doing in directly what directly was prohibited, and a bankrupt would never know, what charges he had to meet. His HONOUR said there might be cases which affected the general estate, although raised by an individual creditor, and in that case the assignees could be heard, but not to adopt tho personal complaint of the creditor. The opposition must, tlieref, , re, be confined to the ques tion, as to how far the general estate was affected. After a short examination, His liorrotia said that a first-class certificat e was the highest proof of the approbation of the Court of the bankrupt's conduct, and that the bankruptcy had been wholly caused by unavoidable losses and misfortunes • in this case he could not go to that extent, b ut i t cer tainly was a ease in which he could give a certificate of tLe second class. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. (Tuts DAY.) OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice CRESSWELL and Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN.) ROBBERY IN THE POST -OFFICE. —Henry !Planning, 36, described as a postman, was indicted with stealing a post letter containing half a sovereigr, one sixpence, and a penny stamp, the property cf the Postmaster-General. Mr. BALLANTIN E , w h o appealed to da!Lci the pri soner, aAed for a postponement cf the trial, on the grourd that the accused was now labouring under insanity. Mr. Justice WICIITMAN said it would be necessary to leave the question as to the prisoner's sanity for the de cision of the jury. Mr. M'i%lurdo, the surgeon of Ncwgate, was then callei, and said ho had seen the prisoner from time to time since he became an inmate of the gaol, and he was of opinion that he was not in a fit state to plead, being of unsound mind. He thought ho would not be able to un derstand the evieence. Mr. J. Miller, ten.istant-surgeon Lt the Bethnal green Lunat'c Asylum, said the prisoner wrs admitted as a patient to that institution in May, 1848, and was discharged in June following, h6ving been cured. Justice WxokimAzi 1 (. 4 it to the jury to say MARCH 6, 1850 Great Northern ... 22 ...... 8 7 7 4 8% .. ... 8 Do., 5 per Cent. Pref 12% ..... 10% , , :gat North of England .100 .. ... 221 Ditto, N0w,15/..• ...... 15 .. .. 33 Groat Western 100... .59 58% 59% x.d. 59 x. d. Ditto, 1 4 Shares ..., 2.5 ..... x,d......... 14 , 4 x.d. Ditto. New 171— l5 ... - 71h l /s l ie x.d.... 7th x.d. Lancashire& Yorkshire 100 ..... -.... Do. Fifths... lO Do. New, Gua.6 per ct. 10 so. (W. Riding Union) 11 1 4 ....• 4% Leeds and Bradford London, Brighton, and South C0a.i.t........ 100 London and N W2.itern ICO. —lOl% 105 105 1 4 x.d. 105 %xd Ditto, Ncw Quarters.. 12 afto,Fifth , ...... - London &S.Wostlrn -100 ..• 65 61% 65 ;Ix.d .. 65 4 x.d M. t - .chester. Sherreid, and Lincolnshire...100 Ditto. New 10/. Pref... 10 Midland .. .. D0., 50/. Shares Norfolk .......... North British ........ ... 25 .... , ... .... 3 ,4 ' Ditto Halves .. ..... 12% — .... ....... .. 4 3 / 4 North Staffordshire ... W A . 6 '!,:„...• • ...... ... 6% tioyston and Hitchin ... 4 %.. Scottish C attral Shrewsbury and Birra... 13?.i Ditto ditto, Cla: B. 8 ...... .. ..... 1:4.i 1. , 0 ;th h;.•.:-..A.tri Do., No. :3 ..............30 ...... 16% . South Wales . • 1, 'N ilt 5 9 Saner:PAO% V. a- - ••• •• • mouth York, Newcas , le, and Berwick. Do. Newcastle Fl!Tten. 20 Do. G.N.E.l'refen nce 8 ... -1 . !., York And North Midland 50 ...... 17 3 , 4 %%......... D.ttrl, Preference ...... 10 FOREIGN RAILWA l':•.-. Boulogne and Amiens... 20 Central of France (Or leans and Vierzon)... 20 ...... 12 1 / 2 % Dutch Rhenish ......... 8 ..... Northern of France...-. 16 Orleans and Bordeaux.. 7 - MINES. Australian 4 ...... 5%... Cobre Copper United alexican JOINT STOCK BANKS. British North American 50 Commercial of London 20 12 1 ,i 4 V s DS iii 14 , ! A 9 17" i; 656 1 40% 2214 LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY. LONDON, MARDI.' 6.—Wind at noon W.S.W., light breeze and fine clear, dry weather. DEAL, MARCH 5.-W ind N.W. to W.S.W.—Arrd, Helena, Dixon, Port Beaufort; Agent, Callao; Eglin ton, Dunn, Callao; Spheroid, Baillie, St. Vincent; South ampton, Greswold, New York. And, from the River, Caesar, Demerara. OFF DOVER, MARCH s.—Wind W.N.W.—Guineho, Zslbedea, Cuba for Brewer. COWES, MARCH s.—Wind W.—Arrd. Active, Sunike, Angosture, and sailed for Bremen. OFF TUE START.—Johanna, Baltimore, and sailed for St. Pettersburgh. LIVERPOOL, MARCH s.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrd. Nia gara, Smith, Now Orleans. Sld. Fanny, San Francisco; Hero, Belize; Primrose, Cape Breton; Mary, Buenos Ayres; Washington, New York; America, New York. Off port, Alex. Grant, J. R. Skiddy, Fanny, ,Ann Gar reguei, and Yon. MARGATE, ALLacu s.—The Isabella, London and Harwich to Liverpool, was brought in to-day nearly full of water, having been ashore aid abando! SCILLY, MARCH 4.—Altop they, there hare been picked up 395 casks of palm oil, which are supposed to be a portion of the Woodpecker, of Bristol, Africa to Liverpool, which sailed 16th Nor. lad. DARTMOUTH, MARCH s.—S!d. Aginorea, Caminha. NEWPORT, MARCH s.—Wind S.W.—Sid. Bywater, St. Thomas; Helen, Savannah; Adinc, St. Thomas. SWANSEA, MARCH s.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. Circassian, Chet kley. Cuha. MILFORD, MARCH 4.—Wind E.N.E.—SId. Charles and Lord Ogilhy, West Indies; Ann frigate, Trinidad. WHITEHAVEN, MARCH 4.—Wind N.—Arrd. Thomas and William, Hargrove, Antigua. BERWICK, 111Ancu 5. Wind N.W., stiff breezy.—The Briton, of and ,for Durdee, fccm Nevi castle, in taking Holy Island Harbour yesterray morning, drove on shore on the Paslong Steel, t the southward, and is likely to become a wreck; part of cargo saved and part washed on shore. 11ULL, MARCEI s.—Sld. St. George, Greenland. FALMOUTH. MAIICH s.—Wind N., light.—Sld. Fairy Queen, New Zealand. _ . BowsionE, MARCH I.—The Edward Auld, the Clyde, to L , mdonderryobe Jesse Cook, hence to Glasgow, and the Killserry, of and from Glasgow, all came off the strand this morning, sifter discharging their cargoes, and will proceed to some port for repairs. CIirALE, MAECH 4.—Wind N.Vir.—Sld. Helvellyn, Madras; Packet, Berbice; Tiber, Antigua; John P. ILirward, New Orleans; Cerra Linn, New York; A!- cyon, Boston, Dublin; Clare, St. John's, New Brunt.- wick; Kingstown, Wilsons, Dinierare. Oats. 31alt. Wheat. Barley. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Sacks English ...... ,010 7,240 -1- 2,77 Qrs. ,lB 3,820 5c0tch........ Irish .... 1,390 Foreign ..... • 2,43) 410 2,500 whuther the above evidence had proved the prisoner's inability to plead. The jury immediately returned a vereicf: that tho prisoner was of unsound mind, and the trial was con tepiently postponed. The vacant stare and conduct of the prisoner while in the dock bore out the medical testimony that his in tellect ware affeetod. CASE OF POISONING.—On the sprlication of Mr. CLARKS.N, the tri:il of Ann Merritt, who sL,nds charged with tho wil'ul murder of hcr Lto)ind risoning, was fixed for Friday next. POST-OFFICE ROBBERY.— Georgellner, 19, a respectable-lookin g young man, d eem ih e d as a c l er k , was indicted withetealiog a poet lctt-r, containing a half-sovereign and a florin, the property of the Post met Gencr.ll. It appeared that the prisoner way an assistant to Mr. Dews, a chemist, carrying on business in Abbey-road, St. John';-wood, who kept a receiviEg-house for Post office lettAts, and cs :eti•eral letters coat lining coin which had bi ea posted there had not reached then destination, the superintendent of the di(triet, with the view et detecting the party who had taken tlte,n, posed a le.:!er on the 13th February, directed t a person at Liverpool, in which he etclose a marked hail-sovereigo, and also a marked •flutiss. This letter did not reach the Geteral Pus;-office in the ordinary course, and consequently officers were suit to Mr. Daws', to take the prisoner into custody, and on being searched the letter, as well as the two pieces of coin, were found upon him. The ac cu-ed was a native of Derby, and was very respectably connect(( The jury fund a verdict of Guilty, but the sentence of the Omit was deterred. IVA IV (JOURT. (134 fore Mr. Commissioner BULLOCK.) John iliaskell was indicted for stealing a vetch, value of 81, !row the person of John Irving. The theft was alleged to have bean committed in Wombwell's Menagerie, at Greenwich, whither the prosecutor had gone " to see the lions," on the night of the ith c f February. In the course of the same night the prisoner, in a sate of intoxication, having raised some disturbance, was given in charge by the landlord, and on his way to the station-house was observed to throw something away from him, which, on examination, pro; ed to be the watch stolen from the prosecutor and identified by him. The jury Bound the prisoner Guilty, and The Learned COMMISSIONER sentenced him to im prisoument fur twelve calendar months with hard labour. The other trials disposed LI by the Court were too trifling to merit a report. BOW-SfifEET—(THIS DAY.) A tan, respectably-dressed young man, who repre sented himself to be Mr. Brindle, the actor, at the Haymarket Theatre, was charged with the following assault:— Mr. Pettigrew, the complainant, a groce^, stated that last night, about a quarter before seven o'clock, he was passing over Westsoim-ter- bridge, in company with his sister-in-law, a young unmarried woman, when he ob served the prisoner strike two little boys; one of them fell to the ground, and rolled off the pavement, nearly under the wheels of a ponderous waggon that happened to be going by at the momen'. He snatched the boy from his perilous situation, and then remonstrated with the prisoner upon the impropriety of his conduct. The prisoner, however, instead of expresting his regret tor w hat had occurred, began abusing him in very strong language, and at last went the length of calling his sister in-law a w-. He told him that she was a poor but virtuous girl, and on leaching the corner of Parliament. street he threatened to give him in charge, when the prisoner up with his fiat, and struck him a violent blow in the.moutb. The policeman, who witnessed the assault, then came up and took him into custodi. The complainant's sister-in-law, a genteel-looking young woman, confirmed this statement, and the police contt tble spoke to having seen the prisoner strike the cemplainant. The prisoner admitted that ho pushed the boy, who fell down by accident, bet the complainant fancying the fall was the result of the push, opened upon him a volley of abuse, .and eventually challenged him to fight, when he lost his temper and- struck him in tho manner de scribed. He denied having made use of the filthy ex pression attribu'ed to him, and said the complainant provoked the assault by the coarseness of his language. Mr. HENRY—What are you? Prisoner—l am at teched to the Ilayrearkt t Theatre. Mr. 11ENRY—In what capacity? Prisot er—As an actor. Mr. HENRY—Have you given your right name, then? Prisoner—Yes, sir. Mr. Webster bailed me out. Mr.,HENRY Bliiii, to say the least of it, the prisoner had acted inconsiderately in pushing the boy down. Bad the lad met his death at the time the prisoner would have had to answer a charge of manslaughter, or per haps a still more serious charge, at the Obi The prisoner said no one could have been more sorry than he was that the lad had been put in so much dan ker, but he repeated the push was not sufficiently violent to throw him down, or to justify the language of the complainant. Be might have expressed his in dignation in milder terms. Mr. HENRY observed that ignorant people were to be excused when they t xpreEsed themselves warmly. The prisoner, he thought, had committed an unprovoked assault. The prisoner reminded his Worship of the challenge to fight. — Mr. HENRY said that was no justification whatever, as fighting could not be tolerated in the streets. The pri soner must pay a tine of 34, or be iniprisorei three weeks. The fine was paid. MARLBRO'-STREET-(THIS DAY.) ASSAULT ON A I ICENSED VICTUALLER.—Jamcs To, bin was brought Lc lire Mr. Harciv, iek, charged with assaulting Mr. William Beasley, landlord of the Black Horse, Gratton-place, Tottenhkm- court-road. On the previous nigh►, about nice o'clock, the prisoner, who was very drunk, we nt into the complainant's house, and called for some gin. On the complainant refusing to serve hiw,he struck him a tremendous blow in the face with his fist, and knocked out one of his teeth. The prisoner was rroceeding to further violence, when his barman ran out and fetched i❑ a constable, who conveyed the prisoner to the station. The prisoner, who admitted having committed the assault, pleaded drunkenness in extenuation of the offence. Mr. IlAnnwlcK said a man was equally amenable to the law whether sober or drunk, for any offence he might commit. He should therefore fine him 205., and in default to be imprisoned fur 14 days. • /AIPERIAL PARLIAMENT (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly after Twelve o'clock. Mr. SCHOLEFIELD presented several petitions from Birmingham in favour of the repeal of the stamp and advertitement duty; and also a ix talon from the at tendants at Carr's-lane Chapel, Birmingham, in favour of the Marriage Bill. Mr. Alderman SIDNEY presented petitions from Stafford in favour of the Marriage Bill. Mr. HENLEY presented petitions from Oxfordshire in favour of the establishment of county financial boards. Sir THOMAS BIRCH present( d a petition from Liverpool in tavour of the Marriage Bill. Mr. 0. DUNCOMBE prt seated petitions from places in Yorkshire against the Bill. Mr. BUSFIELD presented petitions from paces in Lancashire in favour ef the Bill. Mr. FORBES presented a pt tition from Stirlingshire in favour of protection to agriculture. Sir R. INGLIS presented petitions from various parts of Oxfordshire against the Marriage Bill. Mr. WILSON PATTEN presented petitions in favour of county boards from cliffs:rent parts of Lan cashire. Mr. FREWEN presented similar petitions from places in Sussex. Mr. STAFFORD presented a petition from Limerick against the Fisheries Bill. Mr. HOPE presented several petitions from Gloucester and Worcester rgainst the Marriage Bill. Mr. ROUNDELL PALMER presented similar peti tions from Norwich and ether placer. Mr. S. WORTLEY presented several petitions in fa vour of the Marriage Bill. Mr. SANDERS presented petitions from Wakefield and other places against the Marriage Bill. LANDLORD AND TENANT BILL. Colonel SIBTIIORP gave notice of his intention, on the motion for the second reading of the Landlord and Tenant Bill, to move that the Bill be read a second time that day six months. OCCUPIERS OF LAND—COUNTY RATES. Sir IL HALFORD gave notice of his intention, on the 12th of the present month, to move for leave to bring in a Bill to relieve the occupiers and tenants of land, not being the owners thereof, from the county rates. IRISH CHURCH._ _ Mr. ROEBUCIT;; notice of his intention, on as early a day as possible after the Easter recess, to call the attention of the House to the state of the Irisk Church. The dropped orders of the day and notices of motion were then re-appointed. HEALTH OF TOWNS (SCOTLAND). The LORD ADVOCATE, after a few observations from Mr. Forbes, obtained leave to bring in a Bill for the improvement of the health of towns in S cot l an d . Tt e Noble Lord also obtained leave to bring in Bills fur the bettor paving of towns in Scotland, and fur th e regulation of their police. In answer to a qeestion from Mr. O'FLAHERTY, Sir W. SOMERVILLE stated that it was his in tention to introduce very shortly a Bill for the better re gulation of fiscal affairs in counties in Ireland ; and also a Medical Charity Bill. REDUCTION OF OFFICIAL SALARIES. Wm el SIBTHORY wished to know from the Go vernment whether the reductions which a Committee of the House had recommended in the salaries of official efficerA of the Government had been carried out in re spect of the eppoinfteet.t9 which had been ;nude during the past year? In putting this question, be made espe cial reference to the recent appointment of the Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's B c . ne b. a p n a d p G er a , ll t a h n e t o Y u T I dEpRu repl ied, tli! e u t e h s a t i t oinf the lion, the Me lN ua lr b . e li r A w Government would have no objection to answer it. Colonel SIBTIIORP—'fhen I give no ti ce fhat.l will repeat the question a ga i n t o - morrow. IRISH FISHERS BILL. Mr. HAYTER urged the n IE or. Member for Youghal (Mr. Ansley) to postpone the consideration of this Bill until after Easter, because as it would involve a consider able expenditure of public money if cArried out, it was desirable that the Chancellor of the Exchequer should be present when the diecussica respecting it emu 9130 MARE ET NE Ws.—(TIIIS DAY.) CORN - EXCHANGE—WEDNESDAY A fair average quantity of English Wheat has come to haul for our market this week, coastwise as well as by land carriage and sample. '1 he dull accounts received from the provinces had a depressing effect upon the trade, and all kinds of wheat of home produce were very difficult of sale, though offered at drooping currencies. The imports of Foreign Wheat have not exceedel2,43o quarters. Fine dry parcels were almost nominal in value. The middling and inferior kinds gave way is per quarter. We were well supplied with English Barley; but the show of Foreign was small. All de scriptions moved off he avily, at barely stationary prices. Tho Malt trade was dull in the extreme, and most quali. lies must be considered somewhat lower. In Oats very few transactions took place, at Monday's prices. Beans, Peas, Indian Curn, and Four were exec stively dull. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Flour. aOw • ---► t , Mr. ANSTEY agreed to postpone the 10th of Aprd. Ire. Mr. CONOLLY presented several petitions f ro m ext land against the Bill, and gave notice that wh en it n tioa came On he should move that the further considers of it be adjourned for a year.—(Laughte r. ) AFFIRMATION BILL. This Bill was read a second time proforma. LIFE POLICIES OF ASSTJUANCE. u ntil The s' coed reading of this Bill yeas pcetpocc" this (lay wee k . vereTE. Bill untis MARRIAGE BILL—ADJOURNED I)-e t ate Mr. S. WORTLEY p resen t e d petitions from Pr", o f Salford, and oth e r pl aces i n Lancashire, i n faret° this Bill. The adjourned debate was resumed by told on the g r° Mr. HOPE, who opposed the measure tl at it was not justified either by divine or te''''' s i,ter Every one must admit that the degree of wire' hi bed was not so flagrant a case of violation of the pro the degree as a marriage with a niece or curt, arl V, e t ' rer g case made out for the rne class proved an ego gate case for the other. The re turns which the N i g"' t of Gentleman the Member for Bute read in seePl ib l e s h o is ciet ß y i i ll n L " o w n r d e on, n' bu a t i l e ie had u in by bis P a c n s' es7°‘llsPru ' ell a t r a r r i n: ' which had been collected by a number of youogf ee se terse and in which Le placed much more reliance, beet 0,0 they could have lied no interest in deciding !h i o re one way or the other. These returns, toe, w hic r ears chiefly from the agricultural districts, embraced Pa ea re e` il of small populations, where the cle , rgytneo ,- opgrc conversant with the situation and history of b 1 ,.= 2 e mo tion gation, and of cour se th e h es t able t) give it"'r',7etteni upon the subject. Now, he found from the se n e that within a given space of tine, no less than 26a, de , riages had been solemnised within the probibiteeister; green cf affinity ; 102 were with a wife 3 6 oil 46 with a brother's widow; 6 with 11 l ja niece; 19 with an aun t ; and 89 easegstee all within the degrees other than a wif e'. aged It might be urged that these eighty-nine cases actor in the lower grades of society; but the return, wets selves showed th a t it was no t s o. Many of t u r " taken from the higher a n d m iddle ranks of societY• oat first case he had extracted from the returns w as a d's of a titled lady who married her firmer hangs the nephew. The next was a Lieutenant-GenereLAl test army, who m arr i e d a l a dy, then rearfi e u s i s tere lady's aunt, and afterwards that lad) 0 00 In another case, which occurred at moving in a respectable sphere of life, married bulftturreer illegitimate d aug ht er; while in another Cash s dou bt had married his step-mother. These were ne wt be painful detail s , b u t i t was necess ary to give the d e gree s cause they proved a case in favour of the other ,0e0a) equally as s t rong as t h at o f a w ife's sistereaell a l f l t e h H e p or ar . ish le u m f b l e i r en t t h i e s n h r T ea n d wn let ; ters from the ,c, l :tbore . : St. Leonard dies. ditch; St. Peel's, Knightsbridge; 'St. Margaret et L e i; ininster; St. Marylebone ; Christ's Church, Drove; is St. Mark's, Old-street, City-read, and other Pi t ': t han mor its to London, with the view of showing that not one of the cases of marriage which it was now 004 , 0 0 legalize iwn as n o their suchhad respectivecome c as e to Tt parishes,hh e e k a n a s o ea w ,n l det too ogne manyof th 0 0 7 t e h le e r igill e b t : thought had fallen to the ground. A d s t t h o e the P Is r s case the poor, be would read a few extracts from the frets the clergymen on the subject. The first Was t ac id senior curate of Bethnal-green, in which on, the I have not heard of any instance, solosperiee poor of this parish cf a poor man havi n grrh al s , his deceased wife's sister."—(Hear, hear.) — • e nto °- another clergyman who bad entered deeply 2 e f lifor subject—a clergyman of two parishes in the city o sa d to cester, containing a population of 19,000 souls oar said, " I have never heard of any I c t i t ede riages amon g t h e poor i n ray parish. J .° ova may safely affirm, there seems to be a rerY n i tt iort feeling again s t them. * I bevy COM O to the O e ro 0: that marri age w i t h a d ecease d w if e 's sister se c l ontrary to reason it never enters their bead,„ from cause." use. sanctioned If, t 1 h i e; Pear there is more of crime and incest aristelb ot her the crowded cottages of the poor than frog , en,Y t deal W ere o u io let the House not set a trap to catch P e° e P stra ct thene—(Cheers.) He would read e n , w as a d) ; Parliament those , marriages bat i fwtehreey lawful jet from a letter cf a clergyman in a parish Wh ie , W ee ' toriously the most demoralised in Englat3d-eeed beet a the parish of Devonport—a clergyman ell?, he o bs Place ve and-a-half pars in that parish. He 8 . 51 ";b15 heard clergymen of the longest standing in 0 !ay that when the person sent round to colleeb.„-poot co. onl f t a h v o o s u e r b o e f , t th a e ble rr t o o p s o u se p d piy Bill in f e o a r nst m e a h ti e o r n e , be diu s seed but A " . : o 6r i s tent to take the vague onions of one who ha" - et th i " curd tii as or was well known n, i n f a vour e s ee• The had p h e e t e i n tio y n e s ry aa , ro‘ritnl ty:: factured.—(hear, hear.) Scarcely any ci cr k - nf t t place which was known to be ega l e Bill had been as k e d t o sign those Pe and copi e s o f t h e circular letter biob he had been sent round hal in many places Wil li ff n jotb et was acquainted—viz., in Kent, Northumberland, 000 p f la t c h e a s— pa b r e i r h, se a d n u d lo n u n s t ly th f e or a r e a rg rd y e in d e t n o . the chil re respect to o f With low Dr. Hook's letter, some few years ago the it bs olel Dr. Hook in th e t own o f Leeds wa s aesea despotic. te Now, among the petitions P._ T eri by him (Mr. Hope) to the 'louse thl'sjoed printed Ina against this Bill, by thirty-six (f Dr. Hook's clergyrrL,°°„Vbfish„i consanguinity Pa a ni re Ph a l tn t on s g ili t c h h e he (Mr .Hope) found this passage—.. Certain " - a 'rrittgl oce f them was a petiJion bore stoop both by the law of nature and by the reeeel e ed er ele a r6 ;ii God, and those degrees, as designed by the ki h i r i t ere,'" - D im i p . o l ci l ini oo e k lit h s e : r.i velic e a r r e ci e s ,: ex tossed in a table drawn up by Archbishop opipiorl 01f.5 6 t 3 h , e a lr nd ie s a e r t o f f o L rt e h tt b is y .— ar i lr a r r it , y h .' e ' aTr.h)at ;a!Ila deals went on to say—" The law a E dee that marriage may henceforth: nbt;eilanrderer-d,eta civil contract ; but the Church is ' 1 " •estra c- t and she affirms that the word cf God t rel i g eet us otherwise, and that marriage is e ",i' Cb urc a li ; contract." He went on to say—" 0 • course ' lno rtion o men must now adhere to their principles, t ha „ t o d by th n f is religious contract, and must be solemeiz' Alpoaa a Cberch." He (Mr. Ho% e) trust d, if a scan ld the Blue Book was published by the Note wee ) (Mr. S. Wortley), those opinions of Dr. 11°- (fica r l be given in an appendi x a li tt l e more fullY• be feel l e The first place at which meetings were hel d ' eib er from the Leeds Mercury was atb Huddersflei is be the attendance was numerous. The nest w 5 05 he'd e " Ramsden-street Chapel, in Leeds. Ano ther we. on e re: York, wh e r e th e attendance was both ourstretl'o then spectable.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) • Ilt octet meetings Mr. Slay was present in the cha r v,W he i: chief lecturer. The next meeting was at Dewsh u d i es ireb h ' t : the meeting was not so numerous As wt ili de ll greatly to the disappointment of the projectors t Mr. Slay bad endeavoured to hold a m eeting a ) pool, but it proved a total failure.—(Hear' Se h l e . Honourable Gentleman then read a series °` cnt'a cations from Wakefield and other Oise"' t ier " ; opinions of writers, principally clergyme n i s e ae cl v a ' 9 . ° is facturing districts that the law as it DOW E" wen ° oppression on the lower orders. n e then to saf e to say, that it was only a mists di fferent principle that the law of England Was tr principle from that of every other count* a ode ge fa t law it was necessary to restrain licentiousnes'tlibettf p, individual must give up some portion of I s ar , the n r t ; c l the common w ea l, and under the English toe oe je t F. traints against marriage w ere so few that thcieeYoistedl. to eo oppression whatever. The Church held b the law of marriage was founded ou th e 18 , 1 0 ,e1Y ter cf Leviticus, and there it was , e s of c a - i; e a a l anrgendi sanguinity that w e m r i e w p ri r a o g h e i s hi b te e d t v.v—ee(ntic‘earrt,aiiiteeacri.l gage rtse-rei sb a should o rl u flud were t b e e remember ed they if t t to e yp r ac e , could not allowed the transgression of the law in ° ,, n p e ieg cli rr t i ae sister of a deceased wife lvleo ma rriag e , t he no i r " an d aione• ins to c j riages with aunts, nieces ' , and otber relet i V a arieg ee e ;• hear.) And should permission for such . ia t he ta) those be granted, to what degree of irePu r , j i t r e ar, h e Les Lionel character might they not descead?aik " - d oe w n w t headt the twho p ea ro i gd rpersesfeen-b2i(iibile_st.,:; They must stand upon one ground or sinotuF'_' , hot e' say that England, f:r the last three centurieesture or,_. on a wrong track, and must place her ife7yre:thbseele:prjebeijiolt:: similar relation as Prussia, or they m ust r - toter , 9 5 tion on unions which were contrary to Serl op acie e o d striction which might be burdensome to th e t he f o e of some, but which was necessary for yid th ose of all. In England they bad prohibitions on the marries or which existed in other couetri ag ea, wh ere t t' igh t , h e ° o o was not permitt e d t o marr y a lady who be cow,' 0 00 aunt, or his mice or his wife's sister , it sSac ec' produce the re quisi!e number of quarterings•gosoisebsd the case in Slaw, and in what state were th e t los st biltty now he would ask? Their proud e ! ote d bl. tt ees been their ancient Christian blood enteldorehibitheir Moorish mixture, and to reserve this they At 'OO on the marriages of their nobility, end o3o 7 e lizet state now —dwarfed dissolute , and de had I' AlO in hitherto Christian England they ha", d to 6 . 11 , 1 " 0 0 prohibition. He (Mr. Hope) had been gl e ;os erte",eieg been • in the Bill of this year there had w ove oro clause which Le rejoiced to see, for *W i l t w as i be iloti* prevented was a gain t o m orality, and ty, eit i g ht : „ed hibition against marriages with a niece- 9 ,00 1 40 i Gentleman, however,in one of the motives he ' d so o f to at for the bringing forward this ocae ur t e he sa-9'rof i ' lamentable ignorance, and that was; tha t st eee P e es' these marriages among the poor called for fool dto sion from the Legislature. He could ehcl' ou ld r e i e s asee tract from a Manchester paper which be oee er for them, that this rims not the case—that in that part of the country at least s howeu dres taac A e t hat any such marriages, and that their na c ho " hope" t beo not lead them to desire such unions; en hav e moral England never would submit to legalized. the DO denies did (LEFT SITTING.) ___.......... On the 2d i a° t n he 2d in ns s t t: , Tumor, of a (laughter,---,_. at Streatham,... , the wife of James Car°l`'lB of f.adi 0: at Stoke Rochford, the I On the 2.Bth ult. at , a ter 1ti.3213./Ejt)olldersbciely rmtna, fifth daughter• 0. frsq' of William r ► ;reen, Hadlow, "r chas te ' , to Mr. Edw . In Hedgeock, ph Cu'hrch, 601 ______------- Eves ''- - DIED On the 28th tilt , at Penshurst, Kent, Pc lia the wife f F • 'oF. R. Lee, Lel., R.A., eged 46 ' merit On the 28th ult., ' t .51 l , 13uclis, 'jet a urs 0), nre f Causto En, 4 ci . &or , k 02. War .0 On the 4th inst., aged 83, Mrs. Catherine the 1> of the late NV. Ward E Secretary t° Scotland. ' r"' sq.' Harriett .ra o( .. niqpo f °ljl4(ll°' London: Printed and Published by bi- riOce , 1 .i1a c. 49 °I No. 112, titrand, Printer, at The Sus ‘' tbe co.- - Strand, in the Precinct 4,f the Savoi , i n Niddleas, Wediaegilayi liach 6 , LW'