The Sun. — London, England, 1845-03-22 00:00:00

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Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. post Bvo., THE PRIME MINISTER; An Historical Romance. By W. H. G. KINGSTON, Esq., Author of " The Circassian Chief," &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public are respectitilly informed that this THEATRE WILL RE-OPEN on TUESDAY, MARCH 25, When will be repeated (fourth time in this country), Verdi's new Opera, ERNANI. In Four Parts—lst., The Bandit; 2d., The Guest; 3d., The Pardon ; 4th., The Mask. With sew scenery by Mr. Marshall. Rivtra, Madame Rita Boric.; diovanna, .Mdlle. Bellin ; Buy Gomez, Signor Fomasari ; Don Carlos, Signor Botelli ; Ernani, Signor Moriani... _ It is respectfully announced that in consequence of other novelties the highly successtlil Opera of ERNANI cannot be repeated wail later in the Season. To conclude with an entirely new Ballet, by M. Perrot, entitled EOLINE ; ou, LA DRYADE. The Music by Signor Pugni. The Scenery by Mr. Marshall. Principal 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 la Fiancee—Mdlle. Lucile Grahn and M. Toussaint. Pee de Cinq (composed bit M. Gosselin)-3ldlles. Louise Weiss, Far- dinand, Demelisse, Cassan, and 3loncelet. Mazourka D'Extase—Mdlle. Lucile Gr a lin and 31. Perrot, Fourth Tableau. Grand Pas des Dryades by - Idll — e - ...17G -- r . ahn and the Ladies of the Corps de Ballet. Madame Anaide Castellan, of the Imperial Theatre St. Petersburgh, is daily expected in town, and will make her first appearance forth. with In DonizettPs Opera of LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. ►ppiications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Bex• office, Opera Colonnade. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. It is respectfully announced that • A GRAND MUSICAL FETE, Comprising the unpublished manuscripts of the celebrated FELICIEN DAVID, Will be executed, for the first time in this country, ON THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 27, With the original Melodies and Choruses. Grand Descriptive Symphonie Ode of THE DESERT, produced for the first time with the most enthusiastic success at the Conservatoire Royal, Paris. PROGRAMME. LE DESERT. Ode, Symphonle, Orientals—divided in three parts with grand orchestra. The orchestra and chorus will include upwards of 290 per tbrmers. Solos by Sigs. Moriani and Corelli. Part I.—Entrance to the Desert, Glorification of Allt; gT;;lchoru; -^- anclO;Chestra—Arrival 01 the Caravan—Departure of the Caravan—Tempest in the Desert — Return of the Calm—The Caravan resumes its march. Part H.—Night. The Evening Star—Halt of the Caravan—Hymn to the Night : air sung by Signor Moriani—Arabian Fantasia--The Dance of the Almes—The Liberty of the Desert : grand chorus with orchestra— Evening reverie : melody sung by Signor Moriani, with chorus and orchestral accompaniments 7 Sieep ! _ . Part lll.:—Sun-rlse Call of the Maezzin; original Arabian melody, with the Arabic words—The Caravan starts once more on its journey —The Cara van gradually disappears in the distance ; grand chorus and orches tra—Silence in the Desert—The Song of Thanksgiving—Allah. Grand chorus final. Introductory Part—lst. Fragment of Grand Symphony in E fl a t-2d. Melodies imitative a Grand Orchestre: Les Hirondelles, sung by Signor Moriani-3d. Melodic Orientate : Le Chibouque 4th. Soiree du Printemps Fragment tire des quartre Saissons do Felicien David, executed by all the string instruments. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Pit Tickets to be made at the Opera-office, Colonnade, Haymarket. Doors open at Eight o'clock ; to commence at Half-past Eight. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE. FIRST NIGHT OF A NEW COMIC BALLET, For the Debut of Mdlle. POLIN and Mons. GASPERINI (Principal Dancers from the Grand Opera at Berlin), And of the Demlles. LOUISE and ADELE, with the full Corps de Ballet of this popular Theatre. ON EASTER MONDAY, MARCH 24, Will be peribrmed ROBERT THE DEVIL. Robert, Mr. W. Har rison ; Bertram, Mr. Stretton ; Raimbaut, Mr. D. W. King ; Isabella, Miss Rainforth ; Alice, Miss Romer. After which will be produced, a New Comic Ballet, entitled RORER T AND BERTRAND. Dances in the course of the Ballet : Pas de Deax, by Mdlles. Adele and Louise. Pae de Deux, by Mdlle. O'Bryan and Mr. A. Webster. Grand Pas de Caractere, by Mdlle. Polin and M. Gasperini. A New Polka, by Mdlle. Polin and M. Gasperini. Bolero, by Mesdames Louise and Adele. La Esmeralda, by Mdlle. Polin, and A MAZURKA, by the I'rincipal Ballet Performers. The Eminent Tenor, 31. DUPREZ is engaged here for Twelve Nights only, and will shortly make his appearance in his cele brated character of ARNOLD, in GUILLAUME TELL; and is also preparing himself for his unrivalled personation of EDGAR, in Donizettrs popular Opera, THE BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR, for the Performance of which, an Engagement has also been ex pressly entered into with Mdlle. EUGENIE GARCI The Box-office will be opened this day, as usual, under the roperintendence of Mr. John Parsons, THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. LESSEE, MR. B. WEBSTER. ON EASTER MONDAY, MARCH 24, Will be repeated a New and Original Comedy, entitled THE SHERIFF OF THE COUNTY. Principal Characters by Messrs. W. Farren, Strickland, Buckstone, Webster, Mrs. Glover, Mrs. W. Clifford, Mrs. llumby, 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 oonclude with YOUNG ENGLAND. Major Martinet, Mr. Strickland; Mr. John James Pooley, Mr. Buckstone; Mrs. Pooley, Mrs. Humby ; Mrs. Smiler, Mrs. Stanley THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHT. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. ON EASTER MONDAY, MARCH 24, Will be repeated a New and Original Drama, entitled THE GREEN BUSHES ; or, A Hundred Years Ago. Connor O'Kennedy, Mr. Selby ; George, Mr. Hudson : Wild Murtogh, Mr. 0. Smith ; Muster Grinnidge, Mr. Wright ; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Geraldine, Mrs. Yates ; Nelly O'Neill, Mrs. Fltzwilliam ; Madame Celeste. After which, will be produced a New Grand Epereal 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. To conclude with MOTHER AND CIIILD ARE DOING WELL Mr. Snugsby, Mr. Lambert ; Lieutenant O'Scupper, R.N., Mr. Paul Bedford ; Mr. Felix Fluffy, Mr. Wright ; Emily, Miss Forteseue. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, MR. J. M. MAI)DOX. ON EASTER MONDAY, MARCH 24, Will be performed the Play of THE STRANGER. The Stranger, Mr. Graham; Baron, Mr. Archer; Count Wintersten, Mr. Courtney ; Mrs. Haller, Miss Cushman. 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 Grand 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. 11. I. Wallack ; Stage Director. Mr. Emden ; Machinist, Mr. Edmund Bradwell. Superbly decorated, and with extensive alterations ! forming one of the most Elegant and Comfortable Theatres in the Metropolis 1 THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF AIRS. KEELEY. This elegant THEATRE WILL RE-OPEN ON EASTER MONDAY, MARCH 24. The Performances will-commence with a Comedy calle4 THE RECRUITING OFFICER. Supported by Messrs. Vining, F. Mat thews, Emery, Meadows, Bellingham, Wigan, and Keeley ; Mrs. Keeley, Miss Tillars (her first appearance in London), Mrs. Wigan, and Miss Dawson (her first appearance). After which, a New Farce (never acted), entitled LOWTHER ARCADE. Characters by 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 Seene—Painters engaged expressly—Costumes according to Fancy—Mechanism, Ballet, Music, and Novel Stage Arrange ments—to be called, WIIITTINGTON AND HIS CAT! Dick Whittington, Mrs. Keeley ; Muley Moloch, the Lien Tamer of tke Dessert, Mr. Keeley ; the Cat, Mr. Collier, supported by Messrs. Emery, F. Matthews, and Wigan ; Miss Fairbrother, and :Hiss Grove. The Box-office is open daily, under the direction of Mr. Grogan. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. GREAT ATTRACTION FOR THE EASTER HOLIDAYS. ON EASTER MONDAY, MARCH 24, Will he produced a New Drama, called MARGARET CATCH rot.E. Supported by Messrs. H. Hughes, Hicks, Fredericks, R. Homier, S. Cowell, Ileslop, Lewis, Mrs. Daly, Mrs. Lewis, and Mrs. R. llonner. After which, THE IRISH TUTOR, in which the Infant Power, Miss Heron, will appear. To conclude with THE MOOR MAIDEN, in which Messrs. Hicks, Neville, Fredericks, Lewis, Mrs. Hughes, Miss Martin, and Mrs. 11. fining will perform. maces and Private Boxes to he had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box office, from Eleven to Four. ERRATUM.—In the account published yesterday of the estimated cost returns and net profits of the rail ways from Paris to Lyons, and from Lyons to Avignon, the sums were given in francs in place of pounds sterling. THE FLEET PRISON.—The Fleet Prison, in Far ringdon-street, which was purchased a short time ago by the Corporation of the City of London, giving 25,000/. to her Majesty's Government for the property, is about to be disposed of by auction. The building covers nearly an acre of ground, and at various times has had above 1,000 inmates in it. The prison included within its walls the governor's house, the public kitchen, the fair, the coffee-gallery, &c., &c., and it has been computed, upon actual measurement, that there are nearly three millions of bricks, 50 tons of lead, 40,000 feet of paving, &c., &c. Applications have been made fvr the ground by some public companies, THE WEATHER.-SuN OFFICE, MARCH 21 THERMOMETER, Lowest, 23 ; Highest, 37; Noon, 40, BAROMETER, 30.59.—W1ND, W. Nom—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. lIIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 58 minutes after 0 I Evening .. 19 minutes after 1. • ' -. 'l" • ' 1 • 41 C=Ck Ir 50 ,7,11 VI • 1•4,. mk t 400 i, 416, cel if ,17-w. 4o:v = ‘, 4 o„ Att..q, - 1 • '1 , 2. • ° • e fitarniin LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1845, The motion of Mr. MoRIsoN, on Thursday night, had for its object to make Parliamentary provision for that which ought long since to have been guaranteed to the public by the Legislature. The Hon. Gentle man called upon the House to affirm three resolutions of a declaratory and economic character, to the effect that the public should be secured the utmost amount of accommodation in railroad travelling, at the lowest rates of charge, which may be compatible with a fair interest or return, to the several railway companies, on the capitals invested by them in such under takings ; that the arrangements introduced in respect of some former railway Acts for guarding the public against the exaction of unreasonable or even exorbitant fares had been found to fail, utterly, in practical working; and that, in all future railway Bills or agreements to be made between the Board of Trade and the directors of companies, the latter should be required to assign, beforehand, the highest rates of fares which they would be content to take as the extreme limits within which the charges that would adequately remunerate them should be fixed. Whatever force may attach to the objection taken by Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET to the terms of these resolutions, especially of the latter, which we agree with his Lordship would not necessarily secure to the public the maximum charge by ascertaining the mini mum demand to be made by future railway com panies for fares—it must be allowed that the pro positions which they involve are reasonable enough. Mr. MORISON showed very clearly that from the favour with which the present system of railroad tra velling has been adopted by the public, it is rapidly superseding all other modes whatever of moving from one part of the kingdom to another. We quite con cur with him also in considering the marvellous faci lities of locomotive communication and intercourse which we have already attained, as being at once the result and the evidence of an extremely advanced de gree of civilisation. But in this—as in so many other branches of economic labour and art—the neces sity of progress is an indispensable condition attached to permanency of suness. When the improvement of material forces, and of machinery for their exhibition, shall have reached a point of ap parent perfection, there will still, doubtless, be discovered many new and important im provements in the system and details of Administration connected with these vast undertakings. Now it is not less essential to this principle of pro gress, and its concomitant prosperity in railway con cerns, than it is to the convenience, service, and benefit of the public, that the former should not take too large fares for travelling from the latter. The palpable in fusion of the monopoly principle in the constitution of every existing railway company, sanctioned by the dangerous laxity of the Legislature in passing the Bills for their establishment in a form and with powers enabling them to enforce such principle to its fullest extent, is already felt as a serious grievance under a variety of circumstances. Excessive fares are an imposition of which the public soon be comes cognizant. In point of fact, no worse policy could be well pursued by any new company than the attempt to exact unreason able fares from those who are to support them ; and in that point of view, perhaps, there is not much reason to apprehend that new companies would, in such a manner, compromise their own welfare. But, as it was remarked in the course of the debate, the remedy for any abuse, however oppressive in railway management, is of so cumbrous and protracted a character that it will be but seldom, and only in the last necessity, resorted to. Under the high-road system of travelling, for extortion, misconduct, or incivility of any kind, there was always a means of punishment and redress at hand to those who were habitual sufferers by such proceedings. It was a work of little difficulty and of no overwhelming expense, distributed as that expense was, among a few subscribing residents and pro prietors along the line of road,—to establish an oppo sition coach with all its appointments, relays of horses, stabling, staff of coachmen, &c. &c. An opposition railroad is quite another affair. The most credulous speculators in railroad projects would be disinclined to subscribe a second capital of one or two millions, in order to construct between two termini already so connected, a second railroad, even were Parliamen for such a purpose, disposed to negociate with ase cond set of parties far the purchasing up of a second strip of freehold through fifty or sixty miles of the kingdom. The Duke of WELLINGTON alone, among the Peers, had the sagacity, we well remember, to foresee, when the Bills for some of the earliest esta- blished railroads (such as the London and Birmingham, Great Western, and London and Southampton Line Bills), were before the House of Lords, the extent and inconvenience of the monopoly which the Legislature were sanctioning. His Grace strongly urged upon the Lords the necessity for taking guarantees from these companies that the public should not be placed in a worse position, as to the fares to be demanded for travelling by rail, than they were in then, in respect of fares for high-road travelling and posting under a long matured system, which had at that time attained its culminating point of perfection, and has ever since been rapidly declining to decay. For once, the Duke's remonstrances were disregarded by Parliament. With all our respect, and even admiration for the excellent management and general liberality displayed by our great railway companies, we must say that subsequent events have largely justified the Duke's solicitude. Mr. MoßisoN's resolutions seem excellently adapted (at any rate, with regard to new or future companies) to supply the ?aches of Parliament in not having sooner devised and organised those guarantees which the Honourable Gentleman so justly demands on behalf of the public. We are pleased to observe the consideration and marked favour with which they were entertained by the House, and have no clout; that Lord G. SONIERSET, when they shall have been shaped to meet the objection suggested by his Lord ship on principle, and so as to avoid some technical informality which is supposed to attach to their original wording, will give them the benefit of his sincere and efficient support. The service which Mr. MORISON proposes to render to the public was clearly demonstrated in a speech distinguished, as the speeches of that Honourable Gentleman always are, by its neatness and ability. We have often directed public attention to the la mentable and fatal consequences to be apprehended from the continued practice of interring human bodies within the churches and in the burial -grounds of the metropolis and other great towns. In advert ing to the " Reports of the Committee on the health of Great Towns," we have over and over again had to deplore the fatuity which perpetuates a prejudice re• suiting in consequences the most revolting and dis gusting to all the instincts of our nature, and in defiance of the most awful visitations of infection and disease that can visit on the living the most dis astrous reminiscences of the dead. It would be a painful task to refer our readers to the tedious details disclosed by witnesses to whose credibility no excep tion could be taken or was attempted to be hazarded. But we may remark in few words that they esta blished the existence of a system of desecration of the sanctuary of the grave in the churchyards, situated in the most populous localities of our metropolis. The custom of those to whom the care of these receptacles of the last remains of mortality is confided by local and parochial authorities, as well as by the common law of the land, has evidently been to levy a guilty revenue from the abuse of the functions invested in them. The parties who have possessed the interest in the land devoted to the reception of their corpses who are summoned by the &at of PRovunzicri to re- incorporation with the original dust from which their primal creation was supplied, whether they have pos sessed the freeholds as ministers of the Establishment, or of congregations dissenting from it in the multi plied forms which religious dissent has assumed in its separations from our Church, have manifested equal sordidness of feeling, equal obtuseness of sentiment, and equally vivacious selfishness in making the highest possible market of the superficial areas and cubical capacities of the grounds that they had thus to farm to the uses of the dead. In vain spotted, malignant, typhoid fevers of various intensity dis played the encouragement which was afforded by such a state of things to their influences. The horrors of such corrupting charnels, as those which still disgrace the localities we have often indicated in the neighbourhoods of Drury-lane, Portugal• street, Cannon-street, and elsewhere, still exist. The Gol gotha of St. Clement's Danes Churchyard, to the disgrace of the metropolitan police, the scandal of the parish authorities, and the imminent peril of a densely peopled vicinity, is still permitted to be opened for the entombment of additional putrefaction into its reeking and pestiferous bosom. It has been our duty to show how the sordid avarice, and brutal, reckless cupidity of the parties who commit these grievous offences against the decencies of :society and the in stincts of our common nature, have endeavoured to accommodate the capacities of the limited space under their control to the unlimited, ever-increasing de mands of local mortality. Every fair and reasonable inference that can be founded on the facts before the public and on the discouraging results of compara tive mortality in the last year, embraced by the reports of the Registrar-General, as compared with the pre ceding one, compels us to suppose that the latent cause of aggravated and extended fatal disease is really to be found in this still continued practice of intermural interment. Were any further evidence necessary to confirm such a deduction we should find it in our police report for Wednesday last. At the Clerkenwell office a poor widow, whose husband had been buried in that enormous sewer of human de composition called the Spa-fields Burial-ground, in the disgusting purlieus of which the people who reside in Exmouth-street are content to breathe a tainted atmosphere, appeals to the magistrate for advice. Having read in the newspapers of the grave violations that had occurred in that respectable receptacle, she applied in her anxiety to learn whether or not his remains had been disturbed, to one BIRD, not inaptly termed in the report one of the " managers " of the grave-yard. This person and his colleagues, by public advertisement, had offered to open any grave in their ground on application from the relatives of persons interred there, so as to show that their re mains had not been disturbed. This was a clear trick enough, but the poor widow's application was of course rejected. We take for granted the allega tions of the report. From these it would seem that BIRD refused the woman's prayer on various pretences. First, "the ground had not been opened for fifteen years ;" 'second, when she demonstrated this to be false, BIRD'S will was "It should not be opened ;" thirdly, on the wretched wo man's importunate pressing of her application, " that she had got teeth enough to dig a grave her self." We have no space nor time to follow the story of what ensued in the attempt to neutralise this ruffianly denial. Enough for our purpose that the vestry-clerk of the parish, corning forward under instructions to prosecute the " managers" of this Exmouth-street Golgotha, made this impressive and appalling statement :—" He had evidence to show that the corpses were tumbled out of the coffins in heaps, and thrown upon a mound of clay, then beaten and chopped up with the clay, and, when compounded together, the whole was thrown to the bottom of a pit dug for the purpose." Any further remarks of ours could but weaken this official testimony to such incredible horrors in a Christian land, in the head-quarters of civilisation and refinement. We content ourselves with asking, Can the municipal, the district, the parochial autho rities—can the magistracy, the Government which appoints them—or the Legislature, which controls the action of that Government—continue any longer to slumber in drowsy apathy for the remainder of a session—nay for a month, a week—after the ensuing recess, with the loathsome stench of such sickening horrors in their nostrils ? The intelligence from Madrid is to the 13th inst. On that day the Chamber of Deputies was again en gaged in discussing the Bill for restoring the unsold Church property, and the report of the minority of the Committee was rejected by a majority of 117 to 27. MARTINEZ DE LA RosA made an eloquent speech on the occasion, for the purpose chiefly of calming the public mind with regard to the security of purchases already made. In reference to the general measure, he said " a solemn and official de claration of the Holy See has been communicated to France and Austria ; the Father of the Church pro claims that the hour has come for entering again into negotiations rwith Spain. The Government having faith in this declaration, hopes that these negotiations will soon end in a desirable concordat. The Holy See approves of the conduct hitherto pursued by the Spanish Government ; nothing can, therefore, pre vent a most satisfactory arrangement." The Bill, of ceurse, will be carried by a large majority. The following account of a burglary and capture of the thieves appears in the Castellano : " A band of thieves who had expected to find millions at the dwelling of M. Carriguiri, the capitalist, have cap tured but 18,000 reals (1801.) They had been admitted by one of the banker's servants, to whom the most splendid offers had been made. As the miscreants in tended to return and murder M. Carriguiri, if need were, in order to find the treasure, the repentant servant se cretly warned his master of their design. Eleven persons have in consequence been apprehended." The Three per Cents. closed at 34 9-16 for cash, and 35 at 60 days ; the Four per Cents. at 24 at 60 days; the Five per Cents. at 26 at 60 days ; the Vales at 104 ; and the Debt without Interests at 8 at 60 days. ' made the terrors of riot growl, the blade of the poig nard glitter, the muskets of insurrection flash and explode in the eyes and ears of his adversaries, and he conquered. This result, we repeat, is to be regretted. Happily, however, it is not definitive. An institution which can be defended by only such miserable argu ments cannot continue long in existence." There will now be three modes of voting—by assis et leve, by actual division or the public vote, and by the ballot. The vote by division will be given through the means of two urns placed upon the table, one white and the other black ; the first destined to re ceive the balls in favour of the adoption of the measure in question, and the other the balls for its rejection. As the colour of the urn indicates the vote, it will, of course, be public. In cases where at present the vote is taken by the secret ballot, the vote by division becomes a right. On the demand of ten Members it must be granted, even after a vote taken by assis et leve. Recourse can also be had to the secret ballot when only it is demanded by twenty Members, either by a written list or by word of mouth. The concluding scene in the Chamber, in reference to this question, was rather amusing, and is thus described by the Con stitutionnel "At the moment when the vote on the ensemble of the proposition took place, the Chamber offered a singular spectacle. It was going to proceed to the vote by assns et leye, as is practised, when a ques tion of regulation is treated of, wh en several Mem bers announced their intention to demand the ballot. It would have been again judged by itself, and would perhaps again have given a proof of its inconve nience. A list was, in fact, being p re p are d. I t con tained some names, but in vain was the attempt made to complete it. It circulated from bench to bench, every where meeting with new refusals, whilst the Chamber complacently waited for the deter m i nat i on o f t hi s useless journey. At last, the faithful defenders of the ballot on its last day, despairing of finding 20 signatures, tore up their list. The Chamber proceeded with its business, and the secret vote, dying of itself, was condemned by a public vote. The Chamber had scarcely separated when there were seen to pass, op the shoulders of two work men, the urns now proscribed, which have served for the ballot. They were taken away, no doubt, to give them the colour required for their new destination. They thus passed mournfully in the midst of the Deputies, and were greeted with universal laughter." The following are miscellaneous extracts from the papers : A letter from Algiers, of the 10th, says :—" The pre parations for the expedition against the Kabyles have commenced. The Vautour left this morning with nearly 30,000 cartridges, which are to be deposited at Bugi a , and 600 cases of biscuit for Dellys. It appears that a column will leave from that point, and another from Setif, and that they will proceed towards the mountains of Bugia, and others which constitute Kabylis. We are assured that General Changarnier will take the com mand, under the orders of Marshal Bugeaud. The ar rival of the Marshal is positively announced for the 30th, but the expedition cannot march until towards the middle of April." The Semaphore of Marseilles states, on the authority of a letter from Algiers of the 10th, that there was found in the ruins of one of the powder-magazines which was blown up the body of a negro or moor which could not be recognised, and that this person is supposed under the . influence of fanaticism to have been the cause of the disaster. A letter from Zurich of the 15th inst. says :—" By a circular letter, dated the 12th, the Vorort has freed the cantons of St. Gall, Thurgau, and Shaffhausen, from the obligation to maintain their contingent under arrn i i. The &ate Gazette of Lucerne, and the Federal Gazi.e of Zurich, attribute this result to the French note." The discussion in the French Chamber of De puties on the Bill for open Toting has been brought to a close by the partial adoption of the measure. Vote by ballot is still to be allowed, but can take place only on the demand of twenty Members in place of forty, as proposed in the original. The modification was adopted chiefly owing to a speech of M. DUPIN, who has still great influence in the Chamber. He sup ported vote by ballot, but not with forty Members demanding it, for that was too many, but with twenty. " As for me," continued M. DUPIN, " who am a Con servative, but who do not belong to the Conservative party, and who have no object to preserve for a longer or shorter period in power such or such men, or to place there certain others, I am of opinion that publicity may one day produce almost miraculous effects, and the next, he attended with most detes table consequences. I consider that the ballot is ne cessary for the future safety of the country, for the li berty of this assembly. When there are so many factions around us, when we live in the midst of such great vicissitudes, I am at a loss to discover how the abo- on of the ballot can be called for ! There are various kinds of tyranny—the tyranny of insurrec tions, the tyranny of power. Happy are they who have the courage to brave everything in the day of trouble, and declare their opinions aloud! But there are others who have need of secresy to venture to vote according to their conscience. Do not take from them the protection they require. Re move not from your regulations a guarantee which is useful in times of calm against corruption, and in times of agitation against popular tyranny." The Journal des Debals is satisfied with the result, but most of the Opposition journals complain that the evil is by no means removed, and that secret voting in all important cases will still be resorted to. " The discussion which preceded the vote," says the Presse, "has very feebly answered our expectations. Count DE SALVANDY did not come up to what he promised on Monday. During his ridiculously solemn evoca tion, M. GUIZOT, who was doubly weary of M. DE SALVANDY, both as a colleague and as an orator, whistled between his teeth with a sneering air, beating time with his wooden paper-knife ; but he said nothing, for he has left off saying anything, this poor Minister ! After M. DE SALVANDY, M. BARROT occupied the tribune, and found no difficulty in throwing down the whole scaffolding of sophisms so clumsily raised by the illustrious author of Nathalie ' and Alonzo: In fine, the secret ballot found its last advocate in the man who is the best personification cf the unclassed species, in M. Duna. M Durirt evoked the solitary efficacious argument in favour of the secret ballot—fear! In turn, he THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 22, 1845. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. (From The Sun of Last Night.) There were yesterday only 2,000 bales of Cotton sold at Liverpool, and the marliet was flat. The market is now closed for the holidays. The sales of the week to last night were 18,950 bales. The stock is 758,000 bales against 608,000 at this time last year.-Shares were steady and lively. Barnsley Junction, 6/. 18s. 9d. ; Ditto, New shares, 3%; Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 4/. Is. 3d. 4s. ; Blackburn and Preston, 15%; Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire, ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 11% 11 ; Caledonian, 10 ; Chester and Birkenhead, ex div., 47%; Ditto, Half Shares, at 5 dis., ex div., 23 3 / 4 ; Ditto, New Shares, at 33 discount, ex dividend, 39% 1 / 2 , ; Chester and Preston Brook, 4% 5 ; Churnet Valley, 6% 16s. 3d. 7 ; Clydes dale Junction, 7% ; Direct Northern, 4% ; Dublin and Galway, 2% ; Dundee and Perth, 3 ; Eastern Counties, ex div., 21% %; Ditto, Perpetual, N 0.2, 1/. 6s. ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, ex div., 61% 62 ; Ditto, New Shares, 5% ; Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 1/. ls. I/. Os. 6d. ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, 18 17 3 / 4 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 8% ; Grand Junction, Eighth Shares, 18 3 / 4 ; Great Western, ex. div., Half Shares, 101%; Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 5 1 / 1 ; Hudderfield and Sheffield, 4 1 / 2 ; Lancaster and Preston, 54; Leeds and Thirsk, 4%, % ; Leeds and West Riding, 7 ; Liverpool and Manchester, 208 ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 3% 3/. I ls. 6d.; London and Birmingham, ex div., 231%; London and South-Western, ex div., 79%; London and York, 3% ; Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, ex div., 164 164%; Manchester, Bury, and Rosendale, 14% ; Midland Stock, - ex div., 140 140 3 / 4 ; Ditto, 401 Shares, 13% 18s. 9d. ; Newark and Sheffield, 2%; Newcastle and Ber wick. 14% 3 / 4 ; North British, Half Shares, 414 . ; North Wiles Mineral, New Shares, 4 3 / 4 ; North Wales, 2% '% ; Norwich and Brandon, New Shares, 41. lls. 4%; Oxford, Worcester, and Rugby, 4 ; Preston and Wyre, 31%; Scottish Central, 5 1 4 %; Sheffield and Lincoln, 11. 45.; Sheffield and Manchester, ex int., 113 112; Ditto, Quarter Shares, ex int , 13 1 4 ; Shrewsbury and Grand Junction, 6 ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 3L 11s. 6d. %; Shrewsbury,Wolverhampton, and Birmingham, 4% ; South Eastern New Shares, No. 3,8/. Bs. 9d. ; South Wales, 6% I.A ; Jamaica, 30; Boulogne and Amiens, 11% ; Lyons and Avignon (English), 2% ; Northern of France (English), 6% ; Paris and Lyons (English), 4% ; Ditto (French), 4 ; Ditto (Ganneron's),2 l 2 21. Ils. 6d.; Paris and Rotten, 45% ; Paris and St. Quentin, 455. 9d., 465. ; Toulouse and Bordeaux, 2/. 11s. 6d. ; Toulouse, Bordeaux and Cette, 2 3 / 4 ; Verona and Ancona, 1/. ls. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 20.—The sales are :—Eastern Counties, 22 21%; Ditto, No. 2, 265. 265. 6d. ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, New Quarters, 5% ; Manchester and Leeds, Half Shares, 64% ex div. ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 17% 3 4 ex div. ; Manchester and Birmingham, 57 1 / t ex new and ex div. ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 9% ex new and ex div. ; Ditto, New Quarters, 5% 1-16 prem. ; Manchester, Bury, and Rosaendale, 14%; Midland Railway Consols, 401. Shares, 13% 14 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 113 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 134 ; South-Eastern, No. 2, 12 1 ; Ditto, No. 3,8% ; Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction, 9% 13-16 ; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 6% ; Blackburn, Dar wen, and Bolton, 4 1-16 ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 10A ; Caledonian, 9 % ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 6% 3 / 4 ; Churnet Valley, 7 6 15-16; Direct Northern, 4%; Ely and Bedford, 2% 7-16 ; Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 5%; Leeds and Thirsk, 4 1 ,1 ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 6 3 / 4 13-16 ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 3% ; London and Worcester, Oxford and Rugby, 4; London and York, 3%; Manchester and Buxton, 1% 3 / 4 ; Newark and Sheffield, 2% 3% ; Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 1 15-16 ; Scottish Central, 5. 1 ,4 ; Scottish Midland, 2% % ; Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, 245. 245. 6d. ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry; and Chester Junction, 3% ; Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, Dudley, &c., 4 f ; Trent Valley, 16 % ex new; West Yorkshire, ; Lyons and Avignon, 2 13-16; Paris and Lyons (Ganneron's), % prem. COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—(YESTERDAY.' Amsterdam CF. 12 7i Gibra1tar............... Ditto, at sight l2 5i Leghorn ....... ..... ..,. 30 90 Rotterdam 2U. 12 74 Genoa ..... .... ...... .. 26 15 Antwerp 26 15 Milan ...... ...... ...... - Fiamburgh M.B. 13 5i Venice .... .. . , ... ..... Altona — Naples Paris, 3 days' sight... 25 87i Palernso, !_pey oz ll9* Ditto, 3 months 26 10 Lisbon 534 Marseilles Bourdeaux 26 15 Rio Janrito . Frankfort on Maine.. 1224 Bahia Petersburgh, 3 Us... Buenos A.yies Berlin — NowYo!k . .:22dyssight Vienna, effee. fl. 3 M lO 2 Trieste, ditto Madrid 36i Cadiz Bilbao Barcelona Seville PERIM BULLION, PER OE. Foreign .";(ilkl,bars.l3 17 9 Portnisa: qold Coin 3 17 5 New Doubbona 0 0 0 New INAlars 0 4 9. Silver to tars . 0 0 0 THE BRAZIL MAIL. FALMOUTH, MARCH 20.—The Petrel packet, Lieut. Creser, arrived this morning from Rio de Janeiro, with the mails, from whence she sailed on the 16th January. Passengers—Messrs. W. Wylie and Henry Ousely, and five miners. Freight, about 35,0001., of which upwards of 6,0001. is for the St. John del Rey Mining Company. Exchange, 24 to 25. No Government Stock in the market for sale. Left at Rio de Janeiro, her Majesty's ships Alfred, Viper, and Spider ; American frigates, Raritan and Congress ; French frigate, Boussole ; and Portuguese frigate, Diana. Advices had been received from Monte Video to the 24th of December, mentioning that a difference had arisen between the Government authorities and the Bra zilian Charge de Affaires, which obliged the latter to repair on board a Brazilian ship of war. • RE TAWELL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. ESTEEMED FRIEND,—In The Sun of this evening I notice a very reasonable inquiry from a Correspondent, as to how it comes, " that in deference to the feelings of the Society of Friends,"" this unhappy man is not to be executed in his usual habiliments ? To this inquiry I can give him a satisfaetory reply, which is, that no such desire has been expressed. If I know anything of the feelings of the body, it is enti re ly o pp ose d t o any suc h interference. If we have a murderer among us, by all means let us bear all the odium which can fairly and justly belong to us. But, if not, if aft individual assuming our garb, and identifying himself with us in the eyes of the public, have perpetrated a horrible and brutal murder, by all means allow him to wear this cloak of hypocrisy, which has so long masked his real character, to the very last. Since the paragraph above alluded to first appeared, I see it has been contradicted, and that "he is to die as he lived, in the Quaker garb ; " but I thought it d ue t o those who, like your Correspondent, put the above query, to inform them that there is no such general desire among us, either expressed or felt. Certainly no one but a man of a contracted mind would seek to alter the usual course of things in these cases, for the sake of any morbid sectarian sympathies.— I inclose niy card, and remain respectfully, City, 3d month, 20th, 1845. AMIC US. THE THAMES YACHT CLUB.—The annual " meet" for the opening of the yachting season of the boats' crews and commanders of this club took place as usual on Thurs day at Greenwich. Though the day was cold, yet the fineness of the weather attracted a larger gathering than had been anticipated on the occasion. The preliminary business of the day having been transacted, the commodore (Mr. Harrison) and the captains of the yachts present, together with the visitors, sat down to dinner at the Yacht Tavern, and after having partaken of the good things set before them, and drunk the toasts usual on these anniversaries, went on board their respective vessels, the tide suiting at a little after three o'clock, and took their departure for Erith. On passing Blackwell the fleet of yachts was increased by the joining of Lord A. Paget and other noblemen and gentlemen. The fleet made a gallant show, the Gnome, the Naiad, the Sabrina, and the Clyde being conspicuous in the number. It is understood that this season will be distinguished by some excellent matches. The splendid cup, from the manufactory of Messrs. Hunt and Roskil, valued at 1201., and presented by Lord Saye and Sele, to be sailed for, has already excited great emulation, and it is supposed that the contest for it will display greater excellence in sailing and power of speed than has yet been exhibited. THE SALT-HILL MURDER.—AYLESBURY, TRUES DAY.—John Tawell, the murderer, continues to main tain his accustomed meek demeanour, but makes no confession of his crime. He was visited yesterday by a Quaker, a stranger, who came all the way from Leices tershire to see and converse with the culprit. The Rev. Mr. Wilcox, from Berkhampstead, likewise paid him a visit, and earnestly and becomingly represented to the convict the necessity for confession and repentance. He received the admonition of his friend with respectful at tention, but remained inexorable. To-day he has ap peared somewhat more cheerful, probably in the expec tation of seeing his wife, who arrived from Berkham stead at two o'clock, and had an interview with him. This unfortunate lady exhibits great fortitude and re signation, but she is evidently a great sufferer. She is much commiserated and respected here, and remains un shaken in her belief of her husband's innocence. The interview was less distressing than might have been ima gined. The Rev. Mr. Cox is in regular and solicitous attendance, and the wretched man seems earnestly pre paring for his doom. The petition in favour of all who may be condemned to death has been signed but by very few people. Lord Nugent has promised to present it to the Home Secretary. THE CONVICT JENNINGS.—This criminal, whose trial and conviction at the Berkshire Assizes, held at Reading on the 3d inst., for poisoning his daughter at Thatcham, near Newbury, we recorded at the time it took place, still continues to manifest the same in ! difference to his fate that he exhibited immediately after the sentence of death was pronounced on him. Notwithstanding the clearness of the evidence of the murderer's guilt, he steadfastly maintains his innocence of the crime for which he will to-morrow (Sa turday) suffer the extreme penalty of the law, and when earnestly entreated to make his peace with his offended God, he either pretends to be, or is, very angry at the supposition, implied by such advice, that he has perp-2- trated the crime for which he is to forfeit his life on the scaffold, and of which no reasonable doubt can be enter tained. Preparations for the event are making at the new gaol, and barriers to prevent the pressure of the crowd are in the course of erection in the For bury. A number of special constables have also been sworn by the Mayor, Mr. J. Y. Willats, as an immense concourse of spectators will no doubt be present to witness the melancholy scene. A period of eleven years has elapsed since the last execution took place in Berkshire. We understand that two peti tions have been presented to her Majesty from this town, praying for a commutation of Jennings' sentence, but the Secretary of State for the Home Department, and also the Learned Judge (Baron Platt) who tried the prisoner, decline to interfere—consequently the law will take its course. On the 9th instant an accident, fatal in its conse quences, occurred to Colonel Charles Bayley, at Bud leigh Salterton, whose clothes accidentally caught fire, and who was so burnt that he died from the injuries. The deceased was seventy years of age, and brother to General Sir Henry Bayley. On the inquest a verdict of " Accidental death" was returned.—Exeter Flying Post. THE BOURSE- , -WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19. - - First Highest Lowest Last P r i ce . Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents•• •. • • 118 10 .. 118 10 .. 117 75 .• 117 80 Three per Cents 85 35 .. 85 40 .. 85 30 .. 85 40 Bank of France. .• • 3160 ..3160 .•3160 ..3160 &calm Bank, I,ooof. Shares 1090 ..1090 ..1090 ..1090 Belgian 8ank........ .• 652 50 .. 652 50 • • 652 50 .. 652 50 Belgian Fives, 1840 105% .. 105% .. 105% .. 1053 1842 107 .. 107 .. 106 N .. 106 Four.and-a-Half .• . 1033 .. 103% • • 103% • • 103% Spanish Active ••• • • 893 • • 393 • • 393¢ • • 39% Passive 7 .. 7 • • 6% .. 6% Portuguese Five per Cents • Roman .... 106 .. 106 .. 106 .. 106 RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain.......... . ll9O ..1190 ..1190 "1190 Versailles, R.B .. 672 50 .. 675 655 .. 667 50 L. 8............. 400 .. 410 .. 397 50 407 50 Rouen •• •• •• •• •• •.....1180 —ll9O ..1180' ..1190 Rouen to Havre.. ..... •• 987 50 .. 987 50 .. 980 .. 987 50 0r1ean5........ .....1355 50 .•1350 ..1340 ..1340 Strasburg to 8a1e..... . Avignon to Marsellles...• • 1162 50 ..1162 50 ..1160 "1160 Bordeaux tojeste RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, Aran, 3. St. Germain ...• • ...... • • •1085 ..1192 50 ..1185 ..1190 Versailles, R. 8... L.B. .. Rotten •• •• •• •• ..1195 ..1195 ..1180 ..1180 Rouen to Havre.• ••• • • . . 992 50 992 50 .. 977 50 .. 987 50 Orleans ... Strasburg to Bale•••••....• 350 .. 350 .. 343 75 . 346 25 Avignon to Marseilles• • • • • •1180 ..1180 • •1155 ..1155 Bordeaux to Teste • ..... . 230 • • 230 .. 230 .. 230 WORCESTER STEEPLE-CHASES, (CONCLUDED.) TUURSDAY.—The Hunt Sweepstakes of 10 sous. each, and 100 added ; 12st each, &c. Four miles. (8 Subs.) Mr. Barnett nd Cora, 12st 121 b ............... (Walker) 1 Mr. Chellingsworth's Red Hawthorn, 12st Bradley) 2 Mr. G. Sheward's Mulatta, 12st (Frisby) 3 Mr. Bunney's Herbert Lacey, 12st ...... (Crickmere) 4 Mr. Bosley's Quartermaster, 12st (Powell), killed, and Capt. Shirley's La Gitana, 12st (Byrne), also started. The Tally-ho Handicap of 5 sovs, each, with 50 added. (9 Subs.) Capt. Barnett's Mameluke, lOst 71b (A. M'Donough) 1 Mr. Tilbury's Tom Tug, lOst 71b ......... (Crickmere) 2 Mr. Davis's Tantalus, lOst 21b .....(Archer) 3 Mr. Pulestone's Rosebud, 9st 121 b (Oliver) 4 The following also started but were not placed :—Mr. Oliver's Vanguard, 12st 71b (Oliver); Mr. Coleman's Paddy, lOst 41b (Holman) ; Mr. Willis's Light of Other Wpryincen,es'sLlkaularsetle bOlb , r ,st Hum phrey,DayslOosst t 4 ( 1 1 13 v ( y F n r n i b ; y a ) L M A r i . r (Thrift). DEPARTURE of FOREIGN MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, MARC'S 20 . —The Oriental Company's steam-ship Great Liverpool left the docks this day at three o'clock, for Alexandria, carrying out the East India and China mails, and about thirty passengers, and a very full cargo of bale and other goods. The same company's stearn-ship Braganza, Captain Lewis, also took her departure to-day for Calcutta, from which place she will run to and from Hong-Kong, &c. She will remain out three years. She takes out a full cargo of stores for the company's stationary vessels in the East. The Paella steamer went out of th e d oc k s t hi s after noon, outward bound for Gibraltar, with the Peninsular and Mediterranean mails and twelve passengers. The Peninsular packets will shortly cease to go oftener than twice a month. and only 30 abo ve MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.—The num b er o f as s e deaths p l a a r s e t d w ‘ e v t k h w t a h s e I p , r o e 6 v 9 i 0 , ushowing a decrease of 72, , the average of five winters. The decrease is chiefly in deaths caused by diseases of the lungs and other organs of respiration, the total number being 388; previous week, 406; average, 347. Notwithstanding the severity of the weather, the deaths from old age are 12 below the average. The deaths from small-pox (32) occurred at the following ages:—eight under 1 year; ten 1-3; five 3-5; three 5-10; one 17 ; four 20-30; and one 30 years. 'We regret to find that the deaths from burns and scalds are still very numerous, amounting to fifteen, and of these ten arc children, from one to three years of age. Seven persons died at the following ad vanced ages :—two males respectively at 91 and 97 years; and five females 90, 92, 92, 93, and 97 years. FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS, MARCH 18.—The average price of wheat in the week ending, on the 15th of March, was 18F., and that of rye 11E sc. These prices are little higher than those of the preceding week, but not so as to affect the import and export duties, which remain as they have been for some months past. By a law, dated the 13th of March, the budget of the Minister of the Interior is fixed at the sum cf 5,822,372 f. 40c. The number of passengers by the steamers between Ostend and London was undoubtedly considerably greater in 1844 than in 1843. 1843. 1844. Landed. Embarked. Lauded. Embarked The Dover Company.... .., 1,446 2,590 The British G overnment 2,002 1,607 4,971 4,185 The London Company .. 4,252 5,657 4,017 5,230 6 10,434 12,005 In consequen ce o f the cessation 7 sation ,26 o 4 f the navigation on the canals, trains for conveying goods have become much more considerable in some directions. A few days ago there was on the southern line a train from Brussels in which there were 52 waggons with coals. It was im pelled by two engines only, but these being found insuf ficient, it was necessary to add a third before the train reached Brussels.—Brussels Papers, March 12. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, MARCH 12. 5 per Cent. Metalliques •• • ... • • • • ••• • • • • • 112 4 per Cent. ditt0.................. • • • • • • 102 3 per Cent. ditto...." • Loan, 1834 ...... Ditto, 1839 • . ••• • • Bank Shares Esterhazy's Loan •• • ABgemeine Zeitung, March 14. .... ........... lf>Bs HOLIDAYS AT THE LAW OFFICES.—The whole of the Common Law and Chancery offices were closed yesterday, and will be also closed to day, Monday, and Tuesday in next week, those days being holidays ap appointed to be kept by the 3d and 4th William IV., c. 42 ; and by a rule of court, signed by all the judges, those days are not to be reckoned in computation of time for pleading in any action or rules and notices, with . the exception of notices of t r i a l an d t h e execut i on o f writs of inquiry. In all cases w h ere part i es have b een serve d with copies of writs to appear in eight days, if the last of those eight days should happen to fall on either of the above-mentioned days, then, by the Uniformity of Pro cess Act, next Wednesday, being the Wednesday in Easter week, is to be taken and considered as the last of such eight days for entering an appearance. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Vubitt ®pinion. " Who runs may read," FOREIGN. On Monday evening their Majesties received the Bri tish Ambassador, the Danish and Meeklenburgh Mi nisters, the Ministers of Commerce and Marine, and M. Baude, Deputy. Prince Augustus of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, nephew of the King and brother-in-law of the Queen of the Bel gians, arrived at Brussels on Monday, on a visit to their Majesties. Lieutenant-General Count Dejean, Peer of France, President of the Commission of Cavalry, and formerly Aide-de-Camp of the Emperor Napoleon, died in Paris on Monday, of an illness of nearly a year's duration. The new trial of Walker and his confederates before the Cour Ro3 ale, upon the charge of cheating at cards, terminated on Tuesday. The Court pronounced them all guilty, and sentenced Walker, Peyronnet, Fraser, Lam bert, and Drutnmond Baring (the last in default of ap pearance), to imprisonment for two years, and Ogilvie and Emma Caye for one year. In the Chamber of Peers, on Wednesday, M. Teste presented the report of the Committee appointed to exa mine Count Daru's proposition to prevent gambling on the Stock Market in railroad shares. The Noble Peer stated that the Committee adopted the principle of the proposition, but differed from it on certain points. The Committee recommended to have all shares inscribed by numbers in a register, and the shareholders to receive a receipt, which should serve them as a guarantee of the bond fide nature of the enterprise. Amongst other penal ties established by the Committee, the subscribers are to have liberty of suing criminally all dishonest speculators. The Chamber adjourned for the holidays to the 25th. In consequence of the result of the duel between M. Dujarrier and M. Beauvallon, telegraphic orders to arrest the surviving combatant and the four seconds were sent off in every direction, in case they should attempt to get out of the kingdom. The news reached the shores of the Mediterranean on the 12th, but a Valenciennes journal states that the order did not reach that place till the 13th, by which time the fugitives might have got into Belgium, if they took that road. The Journal de Lille announces that M. Wicart, Grand Vicar of the Archbishop of Cambrai and Archdeacon of Lille, has been nominated Bishop of Frejus. The Madrid Herald° publishes a letter from Xeres, stating that, in consequence of the considerable ship ments of wine made from England to China and India, the exportation of that article from Andalusia had greatly increased. In the month of February last 33,438 arrobas were exported to England from Xeres, and 32,997 from Puerto de Santa Maria. A letter from Moscow, of the 22d ult., states that at a late ball, given for the benefit of the charitable fund for the relief of the indigent French in that city, the net re ceipts, after payment of all expenses, amounted to up pards of 20,000 f, being a much greater sum than has been obtained by this means for several years. It was patronised not only by the authorities of Moscow, but by the Emperor himself. More than 4,000 persons attended, and the magnificent hall of the nobility's assembly pre sented a most brilliant spectacle. A Madrid journal of the 12th states, on the authority of a letter from Lisbon, that M. Rodriguez, of Barcelona, a partisan of the Ex-Regent of Spain, and who had taken refuge in Portugal, committed suicide in one of the squares of Lisbon, on hearing of the execution of Zurbano . SLAW AND POLICII. At the Carmarthen assizes, before Mr. Justice Cress well, David William Joshua, toll-gate keeper, was charged with having f orge d a cer t a i n r eceipt, called a Post-office order, for 2/. This case caused the greatest excitement in the Court, as the prisoner has gained an unenviable notoriety as a public informer during the celebrated Rebecca disturbances.—He was committed. Frederick Harrison, aged 23, convicted at York of having, on the 6th inst., feloniously assaulted John Rigg on the highway, and robbed him of ss. and his watch, was sentenced by Mr. Justice Wightman to be transported for twenty years. At Exeter Isaac Taylor, as principal, and James Jackson and John Sambo, as accessories, were indicted for the manslaughter of Charles Derrick. Taylor and the deceased had engaged in a pugilistic contest, in which, by an unlucky blow, the prisoner had killed his opponent. They were found guilty, and sentenced each to one month's imprisonment, without bard labour. At Norwich, Mr. Baron Parke sentenced John Skinner, a butcher, to ten years' transportation for stealing a lamb. "There were no less than three cases tried on Thursday at the Surrey sessions in each of which the prisoners escaped, in consequence of the clumsy manner in which the indictments were drawn up. A very genteel-looking young woman, between 20 and 35 years of age, named Ann Furnell, was brought up at the Marylebone Police-court, charged with having stolen bank notes to the amount of 501., and other pro perty of considerable value, from the residence of the Hon. Colonel Finch, 6, Hyde Park-gardens. The pri soner, who had lived as lady's maid in the establishment, was remanded until Thursday, in order to give time to trace the notes. A man named Brick was brought up at Worship street, charged with having attempted to murder his wife with a chopper. The poor woman, who received a frightful wound on the head, is in the hospital. The prisoner was remanded. COURT—FASHIONABLE. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland will leave Alnwick Castle for Northumberland House, Charing cross, at the close of the ensuing week, for the season. The Earl of Malmesbury, Viscount Os.ulston, M.P., Mr. and Lady Jane Lawrence Peel, Sir H. Hume and Lady Campbell, Colonel Fox, and:Mr. and Mrs. Rowland Errington, are amongst the fashionables who intend to pass the Easter recess at Paris. Lord and Lady Francis Egerton have arrived in Bel grave-square, from their seat, Hatchford, near Cobham. The Noble Lord and her Ladyship proceeded yesterday to Trentham, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Suther land, who are about to entertain a family circle during the Easter recess. Lord and Lady Charles Wellesley will pass the Easter recess with the Duke of Wellington, at Strathfieldsaye. The Marchioness of Douro is staying with the Noble Duke. His Excellency Ali Effendi, the late Turkish Minister at our Court, and suite, left the Embassy, in Bryanston square, on Thursday, on his return to Constantinople. Lord and Lady Dusany have arrived at their seat, Dunsany Castle, county Meath. Lord Ossulston left town last evening for Paris, where his Lordship purposes remaining for about a fort night. The Rev. Lord Dscies has left town on a visit to Viscount and Viscountess Beresford, at Bedgebury Park. Kent, where a small family circle is assembled. MISCELLANEOUS. The Lord Mayor has issued csrds for a grand dinner at the Mansion-house for the 24th inst., to which many of the leading nobility have been invited. On Thursday next the Desed, of Felicien David, which has created an immense sensation at Paris, is to be performed at the Opera House. The Hoxne Union, in Suffolk, last week unanimously decided to petition against the Settlement Bill ; and on Tuesday the Desswade Union, in Norfolk, by a large majority (above 30 against 5) came to the same decision. These two unions join the Wangford Union; the Hoxne also touches the Blythin Union. The Braintree Union, in Essex, and the Steyning Union, in Sussex, are to con sider the question this week. The Judges' Chambers were closed yesterday (Good Friday) only. Mr. Baron Rolfe, the vacation Judge, will sit as usual to-day, and Monday and Tuesday next, notwithstanding the whole of the Common Law offices will be closed. Very great inconvenience arises both to the public and the profession in conse quence of the closing of those offices at the present, the busiest, period of the assize business. On Thursday, Mr. Bedford, the new Deputy Coroner for the City of Westminster, was sworn into office be fore the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, in the Jeru salem Chamber of the Abbey. Mr. Bedford held his first inquest at the Red Lion, Princes-street, West minster, on the body of a child named Charles Hurd, aged three years, who, while left alone for a few minutes, set fire to his clothes, and died from the consequent in juries soon after its admission into 'Westminster Hos pital. Verdict—" Accidental death." On Thursday afternoon, between the hours of one and two, the inhabitants of Clapham-common were surprised by the outbreak of a fire upon a portion of Clapham common known as Battersea Manor. It originated in one of the plantations of furze, the property of Earl Spencer, and before it could be extinguished nearly two acres of furze, very thick, and some eight feet high, were consumed. A number of workmen, with a strong muster of police belonging to the V division, hastened to the scene of conflagration, and set to work in cutting a roadway, in which they succeeded, and thereby pre vented the fl ames f rom ma ki ng grea t e r h avoc . It is believed th a t t h e fi re was t h e wor k o f some evil-dis posed person. DREADFUL SUICIDE IN BATTERSEA-FIELDS.---O D Wednesday afternoon, about five o'clock, Thomas Edley, of Lordship's-place, Chelsea, and another man, who were out shooting in Battersea-fields, discovered the body of a man, who from his dress appeared to be a butcher, lying in a ditch inclosing the grounds of Mr. Popart, a market-gardener. The body lay on its right side, and the head was almost severed from it. Close to the side of the deceased lay an open razor, smeared with blood. The police were made acquainted with the circumstance, and removed the body upon a stretcher to the Prince's Head, when it was immediately recog nised as that of Charles Martin, foreman to Miss Wood, a butchet, in Battersea. Doctors Connor and Lyons were called in, but they declared that death had taken place many hours previously, and were of opinion that the wound was self-inflicted. It appears from Miss Wood's statement, that the deceased left the shop on Tuesday night to return home to his dwelling in Ca mera-square, Chelsea, and from that time she had seen nothing of him. He was a man of temperate habits, and strictly honest. What motive could induce deceased to commit the rash act will probably ever remain a mystery ; he had no family to maintain, and enjoyed the respect of every person, high and low, in Battersea. SALMON FISHING.—The fishing in the northern friths and rivers continues unsuccessful. Takes are few and far between, and when they do occur they are meagre in the extreme. The fishing on the Conan is somewhat improving, but on the Beauly only two salmon were caught during the whole of last week. At Alnes beach stake -net two clean fish were lately caught, weighing 91b. each. An English nobleman, who had been angling for a week on the Garry (which is allowed to be one of the best rivers in the north), captured only seven salmon during that time.—lnverness Courier. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albo took their accustomed early walk to-day. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales an. r o Princess Alice, accomp a ni e d by the Dowager ,Pf o ot Lyttelton, were tak e n an a i r i ng i n a carriage an early this forenooat std Her Mt d P-* ;h Ladies ..ay ert, the - Gentlemen of est the Court, rince and the Domestic House, 3 ,), attended Divine Service to-day (being Good- 1 ' 1414 0 in the private chapel of the Castle. The 1 1 ° 13 ' Rev. Charles Leslie Courtenay officiated. Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess Stephanieth4 Baden attended Divine service yesterday morning af yi Chapel in George-street, Portman-square. Her _ o f Highness visited her d a u g ht er , th e Marcbion ess o Douglas, yesterday, at her residence in Connaught. The Earl of Devon, Lord and Lady Eest it. Lady VVharncliffe, Lords Polworth and Porker '.. ,l tended Divine service, lesterday morning, in t he C11 ; 6 Royal, St. James's. Prayers were read by th e d Mr. Pack, the Lessons by th e R ev . M r . Povah,on Communion Service by the Sub-Dean. The ° e `,. was preached by the Sub-Dean. The Anthem , was despised," was sung by Mr. Francis. CLERICAL BIGOTRY EXTR A ORDINARY ! . tett A circumstance has just occurred at lirarmin s ,,t which has occasioned consider a bl e excitement among all classes in that town. eats . , An aged and respectable wo m an , whose 1 5411. an cl formerly belonged to the Established Church , ea ts who was herself baptised in it, was EnanY since married to a member of the Presbyterian ' l , sr id tarian) church of that place, and w ith her 1 105 ",, s o f has since attended its services. After manYl l , ll ;bicb ill-health, she had a seizure on the 6th instan ti 4 , - ba d carried her off on the following day. Du e of brought up a family of fifteen children, lin r ',' he o whom are respectably settled in life. Four 01 ,`" $ lie buried in the parish church-yard, inclul".„ ° °s, daughter, who died under distressing circunst' the t, within the past year. At the daath of the un' ye a the aged and bereaved companion of fiftr se t he years, applied to the parish sexton to re-ope n bleb grave scarcely closed on the daughter, on vi t he the following letter was brought him Ire vicar : p 0 " Haynes,—l understand your wife has ur4,-„ b 0 suddenly as others of your family. °',"„,. s o died in an awful and damnable heresy, which rell l 7 impossible for her to be buried in the churchysiw .91 refuse her burial there. If you choose to have her T or without any service, you may do so, or, lest I sb° °l „ for pear to deal harshly with you, I will pay the cha r b"d; her burial in the unconsecrated ground at Town s ` dio ll but in the churchyard, with the burial service, s b „ e isar not be buried. I trust Almighty God may OP e yfrot e eyes to repentance, if such a thing may be, but er you have sold your Saviour for thirty pieces of silo " March 8, 1845." " ARTHUR 8 . - 61 're. The old man, trembling with sorrow an weight of years, knew not how to receive enc",noolf sations—so harsh and unfounded. But still a n d and it being the wish of his family, that their 010 10 6 should lie with her children who had gone beforeho, and understanding that a written certificate °, f , f r om tism would render it undeniable, he procured " o at' the parish register; hoping therewith to set th,e, t heir ter at rest.—But not so; for still finding I' t o b' efforts vain, they were compelled (having writ the tamed permission from the trustees) to eetnn 3 :, her body to the unconsecrated ground, apart fr t " children and family. The facts have been reported to the Bishop' tt o ool' demand made on him to see justi ce done to 0 15 aged, and calumniated sufferer.—Th e Bishop ha:f the gaged to make inquiry into the ci rc umstaneeg, - t far' case, and on his determination w ill depend sv, l li e oes* ther measures may be adopted.— Washirein dent. THE LATE M. ETIENN'„ftIo M. Etienne was a nati v e o f th e d e partmen t d B O3 Haute Marne, but came to Paris in 796, 811 „ t eeC connected . in the first part of his metropolitan %Ili; with some of the journals, but he soon abandone`in,iic occupation to devote himself exclusively to r 3- ec es literature. After producing several successful Pal at the minor theatres, he brought out the ccot,eeitre Bruer et Palaprat with great success at the l' ,"; the Francais. .Soon after this he was patronised, Lcl pos or Duke de Bassano, and in 'lBlO was appointed lj es l of the Journal de l'Empire. He w as ge # charged as chef de la di v i s i on li tt e ra i re with th e st i neral police of the journals. In 1811 he prodaysde the Theatre Francais the comedy of Les Deg! N O dres, which was very successful, and led to Ina' tb made a member of the Institute, at the desboall Laujon. At the first restoration of the Ba ur . 0 0 M. Etienne was deprived of his appointments' re' on the return of Napoleon from Elba they W tb stored to him, and he w a s ma d e a member. e at Legion of Honour. At thi s ti me h e w as Pra 9 l; the Institute, but, on the second Restoration , m Aes ig: struck off the list of its members, and was,:, 0. nated in the Moniteur as one of th e men Iv' co-operated towards the return of the Etnper °r „,, * tiire' Etienne then devoted himself exclusively to-litT a the and published in the Miner v e F ran gaise, on "-et of title of "Lettres sur Paris," an animated B 0° 182 0 ; all the political movements from 1818 to .„ c ip. 9 He was also, at a later period, one of the pig - 0 5 writers in the Constitutionnel. In 18 20 he utie s elected Member of the Cham . ber of P g e n P vear for the department of th e M euse , and in L 'ora' ber, 1839, was made a Peer of France. ' Ta, e ,f e eries ber of successful dram a ti c p ro d uc ti on s of Di- P ri ; o uti9 up to the period of his b e i ng made a one was far more than usually falls to the lot of it to rf man, and he was also the auth o r o f a poPo k l sl : 4 ,l, - efe ° of the- French theatre. His politics were lia e rrese under the Imperial regime; and his address a s f r om dent of the Institute to Napoleon, on his rata n t he Elba, was remarkable for its independene , 8 . 1 %60' v . iew that it took of the ne cess ity o f liberal g l iple , tton s for France. M. Etienne w as a wid°we r ile 05 Etienne having diedabout ten months ago• in the 68th year of his age.—Galignani. et r th* SURREY THEATRE.— Mrs. Davidge cora e r l . l , e he season on Easter-Monday, with t w o ne w dralow'of the first, Magarol Catrhpole, is a dramatic versie,innibarlb work of the same title, r ecen tly p u blished hy i ' o ter es being the biography of a Suff o lk g irl, whose anseraeter' were of the most romantic and interesting a ch u tel , The other new drama, entitled The Spirit i' a „ n eed a grand spectacle, founded on a tale which aPP ;170 01 '; Blackwood's Magazine. Miss Hearn, the Infa nt go 0 6 ' also makes her first appearance, as Dr. O'Toole, " g the the holiday folks may anticipate a grand treat $ Surrey. Wed' TRAGICAL OCCURREN CE AT C H ELSEA. ---°ll Old nesday evening, about half-past seven o ' clock , o fOr• Anne Murray, a servant in the establishment otersii Bloncoe, No. 14, Whitehead's g rove, Che!seay s e d Ost the shop of Mr. Saunders, of N o . 5, Kin(s -r° , Litb er Chelsea, and desired to be shown some article 0. t oe it dashery. Shortly afterwards she was observe d toes per. roll of ribbon from a box, and secrete it about T o pre' son, and as she was prepari n g t o l e ave the shoed the prietor desired her to walk to the other er foa l : Premises, whilst he sent fur a policeman. T u fh did so, but on a sudden r us hed down stairs, ildonli the roll of ribbon away in her progress, a her nd e b ti r oati! seizing a table-knife from the dresser, cut t yi joa' the most dreadful manner, literally dividing the at the pipe. Dr. Warner, of Putney, who was passing icatne. time, and Mr. Neale, surgeon, of Sloane-street, be cif diately attended her, but life was extinct. 011 t ai bled' cumstance becoming known a large crowd suddenly and in the pressure an elderly female was et ; r acte re thrown down, and dislocated her thigh, the that the being of a compound nature. We understand fa r ar, unfortunate young woman (Murray) h as been d bs wards of three years in Mr. Blencoe's service, al' C ir. The le hitherto borne an irreproachable characte r. oeig cumstance has created some excitement in the bourhood. hie ll LONGEVITY OF ARTISTS.—Ina work 0. v • ts .-- Legincourt is the author, it is observed that arti s „ re or not long lived. Among four hundred artists, ni re " s eat less celebrated, since the time of Raffaelle to the Poi to time, only one-fortieth of that number have OW Reg the age of 70 to 99 years—these are,Vincent, 70 l i on' nolds, 70; Lairesse, 71; Lebrun, 71; roussin, 711, on" pagne, pagne, 72; Terburg, 73; Salario, 73; Pannini, 7 osti ole, vert, 73 ; Vernet (Joseph), 74 ; Renault, 7 5 ; 7I ; 75 ; Leonardo da Vinci, 75 ; Guercino Bourgeel;es 79; David, 77 ; Schnyder, 79 ; Bakhuysen, 78 ; G`r r S t) ,! Carl Vernet, 79 ; Teniers, 80 ; Cousin, 80 ; Primaticcio, 80 ; Jozepin, 80 ; Lagrange, 81; unisitiet Albano, 82; Claude Lorraine, 82; Tintoretto, Bgig' 82; Gentileechi, 83; Barroccio, 84; Jordaens, (goy' naro, 85; Richard, 85; Crayer, 87; Marratti, 6 .6 0 ' 0 , 9 3 ; pel, 89; Bellini (Giovani), 90; Calabrese, 9 0 ; Titian, 99. —Art- Union. t SIGHT AND HEARING.-39, Albemarle -st r eet, opera` dilly. Newly-invented spectacles, telescopes , _ a i s 5 glasses, microscopes, &c. Patronised by Genc.astister, Edward Paget, Sir Evan Lloyd, Frederick 0401,ort' Clayton, Galway, Grosvenor, Morrison, Dyott, tiphirr son, and Mackenzie ; Major-Generals Sir giveroya4d; stone, P. Fyers, D. Macleod, Hamilton, and„,,dooe_: Lieut.-Generals Sir Henry Bouverie, Sir J. n`J'Adpiirri Sir R. Barton, Sir T. Dallas, Lord John Hay ► jrs Sir George Cockburn, Sir George IvltindaP ic i, an" Martin, Sir James 11. Whitshed, Sir D. G ° ,,tscleS: Ross. By the use of these newly-invented 11' s- gthe lle t imperfect vision becomes preserved and strebneir and very aged persons are enabled to employ t th ey at the most minute occupation, and can see wi_ . , ;ll tbeY o lenses of a much less magnifying power, nor als o require the frequent changes to further he: los er:te r newly-invented achromatic waistcoat-pock et t f larg e and opera glasses. Every kind of telescoP e o or pose e ; size with increasing powers, for shooting, I and, upon stands, for astronomical purposes, :',oltlP' sea with t h e same celebrated lenses, the powers are so great,t; at lenses so bright and brilliant, that minute obi der ti l o extraordinary distance are brought complete!. t o rs eye. Sportsmen, tourists, and sea-side s have a great treat. Their invisible voice Conduct° etip of no immediate relief to old standing extreme 0 550$ mc/a ness. Caution—Messrs. S. and B. Solornons, °roorSol3,. and aurists, are not in any way connected With 6 t ) c1, 131). of the same name in their immediate neighbourho oos be in any part of the country. To prevent in..,i s h . t 0 1,1 0 ' cautious and observe, only to be had at 39, greet, riccAdilly, opposite the XoUli 11901. 1?E vEi