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THE LIFE OF H.R.H. . r i l l WE D•U K E .0 F KENT, 1 With Extracts from his Corrcspondeace and Original Letters, liowitl ,- st- published. • r.y tha. Rev. ERSKINE NEALE, Author of " The Life Book of a Labourer," " Closing scenes," tic. " The manner in which this life of the father of the reigning Sovereign is written oaght to secure for .it a large share of popu larity. It is, a very valuable, because truthful, holography, and is Vrsitten in a very charming ruanner."—Morning Herald. Ilichard Bentley, New Burlington-street. Now Iletvly, at all the Librarie•, in 3 Told., MR. WARi3URTON'S REGINALD HASTINGS ; • A HISTORICAL ROMANCE. • • es OF THE PRESS. " As a historical ro. %.t. Mr. Warburton takes a first rank, The present romance possea all the value oT a history. It is replete w th power and interest."—Literary Gazette. " Certainly no historical tale of great r power has been written Since the time of Sif Walter Scolt."—Messenger. • " An autobiography, so historically correct and naturally written, that it might be welcomed as a veritable record from the mtnaiment room rf urconqu, red Lathem."—Britannia. " Never have the civil wars of England been invested with greater faec'natioa or interest than in the present work, and we predict for it a popularity ctinn4nsurate with the historical importance of the events therein so truthfully and so charmingly pourtrayed." —Morn lug Ire-all. Mr, Warburton's ' Reginald Hastings belongs to a high order of historical rOMence. The story is told with great dramatic effect— ch,:ractera are delineated with admirable distinctness—society in those t:rd,lilesome times is depicted with no less fidelity to truth thaa artistic power. The contrast between the high-toned cavalier and the fanatical puritan is admirably drawn."—John Bull. Hear,' Colbura, Publisher, 13, Great Marl borough-street. • T. JAMES'S THEATRE , RARE; ATTBACTTON FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY. ME. BUNN'S BENEFIT THIS EVENING, APRIL 10. 71adlle. Carlotta Grisi, Mrs. Charles Kean, Mr. Charles Kean, i 51011.4. Samson, Mr. !raster, Mr. Stuart, Mr. Howe, Mr. Rogers, Mr. - BenNlict, Mr. Lindsey Roper, Mrs. H. Manton, Madlle, Avenl;.l, Diadllo. Denain, B;c., will all appear, together with Mr. Evan, and at playhouse 'dews. Private Boxes, Stalls, and 'rickets to be had at Mr. Mitchell's, 33, Cd Bond -street ; at all tha Libraries; and of Mr. Bunn, 6, Chandos vet, Cavendish-square. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. GRAND EXTRA NIGHT. Ills Nobility, Patrons of the C,pera, and the Public are respectfully informed that a Grand Extra 'Night wiil take place TO-MORROW EVENOTG, when will be presented, with new Scenery, Dresses, a (1.1 1, esoratiolui, Itoz . art's celebrated Opera, 'JON GIOVANNI. The Scenery by Mr. Charles Marshall. Don Giovanni, Signor Coletti ; Don Ottavio, Signor Calzolari ; Maeetto, Signor P. Lablache ; Leporello, Signor Lablache ; Demos Anna, Parodi ; Donna Diyira, Madame Giallani ; &Hine, Madame Santa g. In the Ball Scene will be danced, by Mdlia. Carlotta Grist and Mci'le. Mario Taglioni (who will appear as a Spanish Cavalier). ,tart's incidental Minuet in G ; and also Mozart's celebrated Zstrabauda in A minor, as performed with the greatest success at the It ‘yol Opera. Berlin. itetwecn the acts et DIVERTISSEMENT, in which Mdlle. Amelia Irepraris will appear. To conclude with the highly inceessful new and original grand Ballet, by M. Paul Taelloni. entitled LES METAMORPHOSES, In which Mdlle. Carlotta Grist, Mdlie. Marie Taxlioni, M. Charles, nod M. P. Togliatti will appear. Applications for Boles, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Bex 0111,''e cf the Theatre. Doors open at Seven, the Opera to commence at Half-past Seven. IiOTAL ITALT AS OPERA. COVENT-GARDEN. 9 - HAND rXTRA NIGH P. Maaamo Grisl, Slitjaor Tamberlik, Tamburini, and Signor Mario. TO-MORROW EVENING The porformO'neas will commence with (for the first time these two years) Bellini's opera, I PURITANI. IllvirP, Madame Grist ; Henrietta, Mdlle. Cotti ; Arturo, Signor Mario', Talton, Signor olonini ; Bravo, Signor Soldi ; Riccardo, Tagliatleo; GeciWo, Signor Tamburini, conclude with the second and third acts of Amber's Grand rri..al popular Opera, ICASINIELLO. Fenella, Mdlle. Bahia ; Pietro, Mons. Masscl ; Alphenso, Signer Mel ; ilorella, Signor Rommi ; Pescatore, Signor Rache ; Selya, Signor Greve(); Mksaniello, Signor Tamberlik (his third appearance in England). The Bata incidental to the Opera will be supported by Mons, Alexandre and Mdlle. Louise Tag Haul. Composer, Director of the MU.iic, and Conductor, Mr. Costa. The Overture to Masaniello will be played between the Operas. The dqors will be opened at Half-past seven, and tie perform. ances eommFkce at Eight o'clock' precisely. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LINE. Lasses and Manager, Mr. JAMES ANDERSON. THIS EVENING, Will be Presented, by her Majesty's Servants. A new and original Play, by B. Bernard, Esq., entitled THE rAssiso (mom). Characters f,y Messrs. Vanden/toff, Cooper, Diddear, Vinhar, Emery, Moltave. and Mr. J. Anderson. After which L'ILE DEVIL'S RING; or, Fire, Water, Earth, and .Ait• In Three Actwind Four Eleutents. 'The Rillowing arc the principal Scenes. ELEMENT THE FIRST—FIRE. • • A beautiful View of the OITY AND HAI:ROI:It OF CAPANIA IN SICILY, With Mount Etna Smoking in the Back-ground. CIRAItACTERS IY TIIB FIRST ELEMENT : Arnuph, Mr. W. Ifolangtte ; Rodolph, Mr. Frazer , Herman, Mr. S. J9nes; G.nrade, Mr. Clifford ; Otho, M r E vere tt ; 'Adolphus, Mr. • Daaieie; Rupert. Mr. Abbott; Carloman, Mr. Brayne ; Herbert, Miss F. Iluddart ; Franco, Mr. S. Artaud ; Host of the " World's End," Mr. G. Watson • the Enchanted Princess Eveline, 311ss E. Nelson; Lesla, Miss Rafter ; The Spirit Devil's Ring, Miss A. Lona- Whirlilsuriz, Mr. Seymour ; Go-dah,Mr C. Fisher. CAVERNS - OF THE BRAZEN HAND. T/13IPLE AND SPIRIT OF THE DEVIL'S RING. THE INTERIOIt OF TIIE CHARCOAL BURN T'S MIMI" THE REALMS OF FIRE. • ELEMENT TIM SECOND-WATER. FALLS OF NIAGARA IN TUE NEW WORLD. THE OITT OF TILE FOUNTAINS. BREAKING THE SECOND CHARM. THEX ASCEND UPON THE BOSOM OF THE WATERS CHARACTERS IN THE SECOND ELEIOINT : Herbert, Miss F. Hucklart ; Franco, Mr. S. Artaud ; American ettier, Mr. It. Romer ; ladlans, Messrs. Henry and Tressiclor Squa - ,v,lliss Foster ; Spirit or the Waters, Miss Nell; Queen of•tre Naiades, Miss F. Grey; Go.dah, Mr. C. Fisher. MUNI) NATADE BALLET. P.LEVIENT THIRD-EARTH. DIAMOND CAVES IN CALIfORICIA, f HANACT3/68 IN THAI THIRD ♦TD FOURTH ELEMENTS: Tlerhert, Miss V. llabbart ; Franco, Mr. S. .Artaud ; The Black • '.;ht ▪ 6hott, Henry, 7.11er, Drayne, Lc. ; the Princess EYsline, Miss E. ; Leda. Rafter ; Go-dah, Mr. C. Fisher. THE SICILIAN_ VINEYARD. - A TERRIFIC COMBAT DETWIRBX AYIBMAT AND THI 511ILD lIXIDET. 21.ENIZ,NT THE FOURTH-AIR. TIIE PALACE Or RAINBOW'S! HALL OF THE HUNDRED KNIGHTS. The Triumphal Eiitry of Herbert and Princess Eyeline In A CAR DTZAWY BY REAL HORSES. GRAND MILITARY BAND, AND GORGEOUS PROCESSION! THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET Mr. B. Weßster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. , His be performed MITCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. Benedlek, Mr. C. Kenn; Beatrice, Mrs. C. Kean. To repelinie with the Last Edition of IVANHOE, with all the newest fleprovemente. Cedric tho Saxon, )14. J. Bland ; Sir Briant de Bore Gilbert, Mr. • Sen 7 Sir Wilfrid of Ivanhoe, Mu. Keeley; Wamba, Mr. Buck ssohe ; Tiaac of York, Mr. Keeley ; Robin Hood, Mrs. litzwillitm ; 'Rebecca, Mies P. 'Torten. s• The liox-ofllze is under the afection of Mr. I. T. Archer. • THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EV EN'ING, Will be perfOrmed a new domestic Drama, called THE MOTHER'S ..Dra:AY. Principal characters by Messrs. Hughes, Writ, P. Bed ford , O. Smith, Madame Celeste, and alias E. Chaplin. . ' be followed by a grand historical Spectacle Vaudeville, entitled P-LAYING FIRS I' FIDDLE; or, Follow my Leader Principal Characters by Messrs. P. Bedford, Lambert, Madame Celeste, Mize Woolgar, and Miss K. Fitzwilliam. Atter which MY PRECIOUS ILETSY. Characters by Messrs. Wright, Bedford, WArrell; Miss narding, and Mrs. F. Matthews. To eonelule with TOM NODDY'S SECRET. ROYAL LTCEEM THEATRE. THIS ETENING B ill be repeated (9th time) a Lyrical. Comical Pastoral, entitled CYMON . and IPIIIGENIA, al'Srwl from the text of David Garrick. Characters by MsAsri. C. Mathews, Harley, F. Matthews, R. ltoxby d F. Cooke ; Mire St. Georße, Miss Kenworthy, Miss Dickinson, Mrs. ilumby, Miss Oliver, Miss Manners. and Miss Martindale. To be followed by THE ISLAND OF To conclude TWO IN THE MORNING. All applications for Private Loxes must be lead* to Mr. Aileron 15,•New Eond-street. • PRINCESS'S =EATItE. ,• , . THIS ILIING , 'FM bkperfeirmed a new comic Opera , entitl ed T HE PALLET OF -sN't)ORRE. . Sterltan, Mr. Allen: Tete lc de Bois, Mr. G. Barker; Jitoque3 :sincere, Mr. Weiss : Le Joyeux, Mr. W. Harrison ; Geor, ilmtte, M 'ulite. Illau ; and Rime de Mai, Miss Louisa Pyne. ‘ fte. which a New Grand .Talc Enchantment, with splendid '''enel*Y. Costumes, an d Appo intme nts ; estensiva Machinery, &C., tilt:tied , • TILE QUEER OF THE ROSES; or, The Sorcerer of Candahar. Piincipal characters by Messrs. Hy der, Ferman, Honey, .Craven ; Miss Louisa. Howird, Miss Saunders, end Miss VillarS. ~ . ISTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. New and Magnificent Spectacle Triumphantly Successful. SeeTid Week of the Easter Holiday Entertainments, unequalled for Novelty and Attraction. That wonder of the world, Young Ilernanaez, having been received . - :1 the istmost enthusiasm, will have the honour of appearing for a few nights longer, previous to his departure for Paris. TitlS EVENING The Entertainments will commence at Seven o'clock, with I , itzi,sll's new gorgeous Equestrian Spectacle of Enchantmeat, entitled TfiE FOUR SONS OF AYMON ; or The Days of Charlemagne. ~ r , ,duced with great splendour, and introducing the beautiful Stud ,7 Horses, Living Camel of the Desert, Zebra, and all the vast resources of the Estahltatment. To he succeeded by an uneeitialled Enuestriaft Feats in the Arena. To conclude with a FAVOURITE FARCE. r,d!,3 Arrl Gentlemen taught the Polite Art of Riding. Horses broke for the Field or Road by It. Smith. Box-office open From Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. T IT7 s D A y sfornitig 38 min. after 12 Evening 58 mia. after 12 ..r.lO-Afithaiww-- :Veining 18 min. after 1 1 Evening 3/ min. after 1 ,THE ME:IV:aIt.—SUN OFFICE, APRIL 10. TIIERNOMETER, Llwest, 41; Highest, 54; Noon, 57, BAROMETER, 29.52. breezz and fine sunshiny weather. . .„ 4 ., . • ›.-. : 4'Y I:,:rt- 4 -4: , 77)7,1; ( 1 , v ‘, . , ,tizttniittx . LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1850. Puxeipas's Inunourous version of the saying that an EngliAman!'s house is his castle was about the bitterest sarcasm with which •he could possibly have enlivened his admirable speech last evening, against the continued imposs levied upon light and ventilation. According to the' satirical suggesti on of the nble Lord the Itepresentative of Bath, we are left to conjecture with him that the true definition of the remark amounts to this, that English houses re.; semble the castl es o f o ld, b e i ng " dark habitations, with as few s indows as possible." Howbeit, although neither irony nor logic, neither statistical arguments nor sana!ive adjurations could, secure to the noble as sei/ant' of the 'window-tax. a .majority ..aver his an tagonists, the reasonableness of his motion, the incontrovertible accurrcy of his statements, the force appeal uttered in the name ( f common sense, of humanity, and of rational economy, enabled him to force a division inch as amounted to the virtual de feat of the Government. A glance at the close of last night's proceedings in the Commons House of Par liament will show this sufficiently well—a miserable three being the gross amount of the Ministerial ma jority, 77 voting for, and 80 against the pro position for the discontinuance of the tax upon windows. Nothing further, certainly, was re quired to satisfy the community that of all classes of politicians the Whigs, when entrusted with the reins of administration, are the most timorous and the least inclined to adventure upon any scheme of amelioration. Nevertheless, if anything had been desired to demonstrate this deplorable fact so vividly as to place it for ever beyond the reach of incredulity, such would indisputably have been accomplished by the paltry proceedings of her MA JESTY'S Ministers yesterday. Let it not be forgotten that the injustice of the window-tax, the tax against which Lord DUN CAN has long been directing the influence of his most laudable and strenuous consistency, is notorious throughout the length and breadth of the United Kingdom ; so notorious in truth as to be admitted, directly or indirectly admitted, by almost every administrative authority, and certainly by every philosophic writer who :is looked up to as a political economist. Sir ROBERT PEEL, in 1845, only evaded the motion made against the window-tax by Lord DUNCAN, by de claring his readiness to take the matter into consider ation on some subsequent occasion—thereby avowing plainly enough that the impost was one which ad mitted of ultimate abolition. Again, in 1848, on the introduction of a similar motion by the same distin guished Reformer, it was explicitly confessed by Lord JOHN RUSSELL himself that the proposal was only rejected by her MAJESTY'S advisers in conse quence of the then deficiency in the finances of the country, the argument, as far as argument could be adduced, being wholly in favour of the suggested re mission. Not only, moreover, has the justice of the demand, again and yet again brought under the con sideration of the Legislature by the Noble Representa tive of the city of Bath, been thus openly recognised by the present Premier and his illustrious predecessor, but others among the minor administrators of the affairs of England, colleagues of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, have energetically insisted upon the remission of an impost in all respects so peculiarly iniquitous. The Noble Lord the ,Repre sentative of Plymouth, at present presiding over the Board of Sanitary Commissioners, as far back as 1845 enlarged upon 'the advantages accruing from the unrestricted admission of light into the dwelling houses of the population, or rather, we should say, insisted upon the necessity existing for an arrange ment of this description. Previously, that is to say in 1842, the removal of the window-tax had been earnestly demanded by the Noble Marquis, the present English Ambassador to the French Republic. All these opinions being in ac cordance with the views entertained by men dis tinguished in science, whether as political economists, physicians, or abstract philosophers. M• QUETELET and M. DUPUYTTLEN, Mr. Coarse and Mr. CHAD• `vices, Dr. ARNOTT and Professor ALISON,:Dt.:SOUTII.• WOOD SMITH and Mr. TOYNBEE—aII coincided in the necessity of ample light and ample ventilation, neither being attainable without the previous abolition of the tax upon' windows. And concurrent with those were the opinions expressed by two illustrious philosophers of a previ ous generation : DAVID HUME condemning the tax very energetically, while declaring all poll-taxes , whatsoever to be not only arbitrary but dangerous ; while ADAM SMITH, the great founder and originator of the science of political economy, pronounced the window-tax to be altogether unjustifiable, if on no other account, on account of its egregious inequality. Nevertheless, while the iniquitous character of the impost is thus apparent to the narrowest capacity, while its unjust and pernicious effect upon the health and resources of the commu nity have been protested against by all these dis tinguished and competent authorities, while the Whig administrators themselves are incapable of concealing their own recognition of the cruelty of this very dis advantageous system—they yet, in the teeth of all irony and of all argument, of all reason and of all hu manity, cling to the window-tax with their old m-lancholy and narrow-minded tenacity. " No," saith the Chancellor of the Exchequer, " 1,800,000/. (that being in round numbers the estimated proceeds of the impost) can't be spired so easily ! 1,800,0001. quotha ! No, no ; the window-tax is all very bad, no doubt, but we can't consent to the abolition of the window. tax, a tax yielding us annually very nearly two millions sterling! Why, where on earth are we to make up such a deficit as that ? No doubt it seems very bard upon the people, the poorer classes especially, to place them in the pleasant alternative of paying through the nose into the Exchequer, or of living in physical as well as in moral and in tellectual darkness; we're very sorry for them, you know, very—but don't you see that you might just as well ask a piaceman, in place, for his salary, as a Chancellor of the Exchequer to lop off, 'at one fell swoop,' 1,800,000/.1" Such is the gist of the Minis terial opposition to the window-tax now-a•days. Was ever anything so barefaced ? They dedicate so much of their unexpected surplus to the liquidation of the national debt ; they throw so much in.tbe shape of brick-dust into our eyes just to blind us to their unconscionable maladministration ; and they squander withal one million annually on the sup port of that great maritime swindle, done, Stiggins like, under the garb of morality, the African squadron ! Why, if we had some bold financial Ad ministrator—no Whig, mind, but a statesman with a soul and an ambition, a ruler at once brave and pa triotic—we should see the 1,800,0001. produced by the window-tax abandoned soon enough, and without any inconvenience whatever. Yet how, some may ask, could this be accomplished ? How ? Look at this perfectly useless and ,lamentable blockade of the slave-coast of Africa, swallowing up an annual mil- lion ! Look at the remission of the humbugging brick-dust duty ! And look at that portion of the surplus devoted to the liquidation of the national debt! Had the Whigs clubbed these three things together, they could readily, and without inconvenience, have yielded to the pressure of a great necessity, the necessity gradually growing imperative for the abo lition of the tax upon windows. But " one might as well do anything most hard" as try to extort the boon of a large and wholesome reform from the grasp ing timidity of a Whig Government. The Solicitor-General again brought forward, last night, the supplemental Bill for facilitating the sale of encumbered estates in Ireland. Its true intent and meaning is at length understood, and it was ac cordingly read a first time with the unanimous assent of the House. The Hon. and Gallant Gentleman the Member for Portarlington withdrew, for the time being at least, .the opposition which he, no doubt horiestly and conscientiously, offered on its first intro duction. It will now receive the mature and atten tive consideration which the vast importance of the principle so eminently deserves. Is we have already shown, it is calculated to bring capital into Ireland, or rather to enable the parties who may become purchasers of encumbered estates in Ireland, to make the capital which they may invest in real property available fur the purpo_se of improving their newly-acquired lands, and fully developing all their capabilities. Full and remunerative employment will be provided for the labouring populati on in the districts that may be so fortunate as to corn e within the scope of the new Act, and the fxst great want of Ireland will thus be sup plied in laose favou red localities. But why, we again as k —why I,hould it be so limited and restricted in its operatic/ i ; and why should the existing proprietary of Ireland be deprived up Participation onth os those o w t h h o e mpraiy vileges abo' it to e conferred all chocie to di 4place t he ancient owners of the inheritances which bail • descended to them through a long line of ancestors. The (‘ bounty " (as Mr. C. H. BowEN happily de,t-i, 4r ated it) thus granted is calcu l at e d to infli c t ter i oa s i n jury upon a class already sufficiently damnified t the recent leg islation for Ireland. When must properties, which an artifi.:.i s I va l ue is given to certain market pricer, all others m u a t b e d eprec i a t e d in an inverse rat io. NI such semi c iti es en mat enhance their brancere ; no loans can be obtained except throu g h are given to a new b od y of incum- THE SUN, LONDON, the agency of the Commissioners, except at an enormous sacrifice and a ruinous rate of interest, until the debentures which will pass from hand to bane ; - without expense or difficulty, by a simple endorsement, and will circulate freely in the money market, can no longer be obtained. In proportion, therefore, as the new corners will be benefited the old holders will be injured, and the British Parlia ment should not, and we believe will not, sanction an act of such gross and palpable injustice, although the aggrieved parties be a body so little favoured as the landed proprietors of Ireland. There can be no difficulty in extending and gene ralising the measure, so as to confer a " Parliamen tary title" on every debenture holder, and to afford the same facilities for transferring by simple endorse ment the charges on every description of estate. Old encumbrances might be paid off and satisfied, or placed on an entirely new footing, and at an easier rate of interest. Money to almost any amount could readily be obtained at three-and a-half or four in place of five or six per cent. ; and this would at once reduce the amount of interest payable by one-third of its former amount, which would thus remain at the disposal of the proprietors, and enable them to discharge more efficiently the duties imposed upon them, which have at all times in Ireland, and more especially since the passing of the new poor-law, been peculiarly onerous. This great desideratum would be further promoted if the Government were to undertake the manage. ment of every transaction, requiring the owner to pay the amount of interest, afcer the rate of four per cent. per annum, into the Bank of Ire land within a certain limited period after it became payable, and to guarantee 3} per cent. to the holders of such debentures. With such a guarantee they would speedily be quoted at a high premium in the money market, particularly if there were no direct dealing or possibility of collision between the debtor and creditor—the former depositing the amount of his liability in the Bank, and the latter calling for it at fixed periods, as he would for his dividends in the public funds, and with an equal certainty of being paid the amount to the day. This principle is partially sanctioned by the new measure, for the Solicitor-General last night declared that " one thing, at least, was very manifest, that provi.ion ought to be made for the payment of all sums due for interest money at some fixed time and place, and the place proposed to be ap pointed fur that purpose was the Bank of Ireland, where a department might be created for the purpose of receiving and paying the interests on those estates, somewhat in the manner of dividends." Here, then, one part at least of our suggestion will be carried out; all that remains is " the full and satisfactory guarantee" that would render the holders perfectly contented to receive the same note of interest payable on Government securities, and that such a course is in contemplation may be gathered from what fell from the Right Honourable Gentleman. He said—" It would, of course, be neces sary for some company, or persons, to guarantee the punctual payment of those several sums of interest, and remuneration out of the interest itself might easily be awarded to them. Looking, then, at the case as it stood, he thought it exceedingly probable that some such arrangement could easily be carried into effect." No guarantee, however, could be so effectual for all persons as a national guarantee, and one-half or even one quarter per cent. would be amply suffi cient to secure the country against the possibility of loss, and even to leave a handsome surplus to be ex pended on arterial drainage or other works of public utility in Ireland. A provision might also be added for the gradual redemption, by means of a sinking fund, of all those charges, so that the proprietors may eventually come into the full enjoyment of their estates, without being subject to any encumbrance or liability whatsoever. The principle of the Prussian landshaft, or mort gage banks, to which Mr. C. H. BOWEN has directed the attention of the Premier in the admirable pamphlet to which we alluded on Friday last, would in fact obtain every object that the best friends of Ireland could desire. It is, therefore, no new or un tried experiment, but one that has already been fully tested, that has been " weighed in the balance, and not found wanting." It elevated the proprietors of land from the depressed condition to which they had been reduced by the protracted war, and restored them to the position which they were justly en titled to occupy. Is it not then, we ask, due to Irish proprietors, that something should be done, and that speedily, to elevate them from " the slough of despond," in which they have been involved, through no default of their own, but simply through the mislegislation and mal-administration of affairs in Ireland through a long series of ages ? and have they not an ur.questionoble right to call upon Government to reverse their former policy, and to do something tangible for their benefit, although the aid has been deferred even until the eleventh hour ? CABINET COUNCIL.—(rnis DAY.)—The Ministers assembled this afternoon, at two o'clock, in Council for the first time since the holidays, at the Foreign office, Downing-str( et. There were present Lord John Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Mar quis of Clanricarde, Earl Grey, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, the Chancellor of the Exche quer, the Earl of Carlisle, Sir Francis Baring, Mr. Labouchere, and Mr. Fox Maule. The newly-appointed First Commissioner of the Woods and Forests (Lord Seymour) is not, we believe, to hold a seat in the Cabinet. THE ROBBERY Or PECKHAM, TUE POSTMAN. Notwithstanding the most strenuous exertions on the part of the Post-office authoritie4, no clue to the thieves who stole the letter-bag from William Peckham has been discovered. It is said that the Post-office authorities have suspended Peckham, who has been in the service twenty-eight years, and bears an excellent character. Several inquiries have been made at the Post-office for missing letters since the robbery. _ _ - ERRATUM.--In the leading article on the land-tax in yesterday's impression, we are made to say that " previous to the late convulsions on the Continent the land•tax in France yielded 23,5C01. ;" a casual misprint for 23,500,0001. FATAL EVENT.—It is our painful duty to record a most dreadful accident that befel the Rev. George Pretyraan, of Great Carlton, eldest son of the Chancellor of Lincoln. On Saturday afternoon last, as he was passing through a hedge with a gun in his hand, its contents were unhappily lodged in his body, and in a few seconds he was a corpse. The whole neighbourhood, by whom he was deservedly re spected and beloved, are thrown into the utmost consterna tion and grief, especially the family of the Rev. W. Smythe, of Elkinton Hall, to whose daughter he was on the point of being united in matrimony ; and it is awful to relate, that in the very week in which his marriage was to have taken place will be the day of his funeral. PROTECTION OF INVENTIONS ♦T THE 1851 correspondent of the Builder says—The paper on Cheapening Patents," in your last number, is a step towards agitating this question.—at least, I hope so. Perhaps you will be humane enough, also, for the sake of the humble workman—l repudiate the term poor—to throw out a hint to the prime movers of the intended Exhibition in 1851, as to the absolute necessity of publishing what sort of protection they intend to hold out to inventors who are minus the means to protect themselves with 1201. patents—and whose anxiety is immense_ to exhibit their inventions to the discerning world. I know three, who, with your humble servant, all Englishmen ! have dared to exercise some ingenuity respect ing machinery connected with manufactures, aid articles of domestic use. hut, Sir, one of the perfections of human reason !—i. e., the patent law—forbids us to be too commu nicative to each other, and, consequently, with everybody else, having very naturally a terror of the black flag before our eyes; for of what avail are small craft against the well equipped pirates who so abound in a trading community. How are inventors and improvers, without a shot in the locker, to steer in 1831 ? Might not many a good and useful thing (even though it were only suggestive of something better) be still kept in darkness for want of paternal security when realised before the public eye? LIBERAL CHARITY.—The venerable Baroness N.M. de Rothschild has given new clothing to 650 boys of the Jews' Free School for th.e Passover Festival.—Jewish Chronicle. TOE LATE HUNGARIAN WAR.—There is now, in this metropolis a Jewish Rabbi, of the name of Margoliouth Merl, whose congregation at Sztcniy, near Waitzen, is totally ruined by the late campaign. The Rabbi, who is . a very learned and pious man, informs us that the town was for sixty four hours successively bombarded by the Russians and then pillaged. The distress is indescribable, and he has come over to these hospitable shores for assistance. His documents are unquestionable.—Jczcish Chronicle. MarcciresT Eß APRIL 9—The TRADE REPORT,• whichmarket might to-day ayh have es beenfailed a t t ici exhibit pate ii those which e signs e, of yto activitymtthe . aii , were teridly hoped to r , f rom t h e i m p r oved aspect goods market last week. For heavy goods especially, the market has been very dull; and though prices keep firm, goods of all descriptions move off slowly. The Indian mar ket takes off a large quantity of light cloths, at prices rather score remunerative (say 2d. to Dt, d. a piece), than those of this day week. :;6-inch shirtings have still little sale at pre sent prices, and producers are unwilling to concede the demands of purchasers, It is considered that the continental trade will be materially improved by the end of the pre sent month, as most of the orders at present in hand are worked up. ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.-1-ler Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, accom panied by the Prince of Wales and the Princess Alice, honoured the Zoological Society by visiting their gardens in the Regent's-park yesterday afternoon. The Royal visitors directed their attention more particularly to the fine collec tion of animals which were recently received from the Em peror of Morocco, and which her Maje s ty has g rac i ously presented to the society. IVEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 10, 1850. SECONDARIES".---(THIS DAY.) (13c , for: Mr. ;3; - .condary JAmEs.) DrKELIAR V. HOMEWOOD. This was all aCtiOT.I to recover the :Aim of 6 1 . 5g., for one qtrtrter's rent, of n hour'., 3, Cutriei-place, .N(.tv Peckham. Mr. CitorcEr appeared for the plaintiff, and called Mr. Ramsay, who c.a..; the agent who .10., the house to the defendant. The witness said thet he had wade nume rous applications for the re,it, hut tee only reply he got was that he (witness) might co his Lest and his worst, as it was only a county court job alter all. Witness felt very n3uet annoyed this, and said that as defendant did not st em to care much about that he would sse what else could be done, and the present action was breught. The Learned SECONDARY said the case was quite clear. IMendant made no defence, and it was not ma terial to the present issue whither the county court judge had been applied to, or whether the present action had been brought. It might be a qui-stion as to costs, but as to the rent being due there could be no doubt. Verdict for 61. ss. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice ERLE and Mr. Baron PLATT.) Mr. BoDux applied for a postponement of the trial of the persons who stood indicted fbr keeping public music and dancing rooms, known as the Argyle Rooms, without being licensed by the magistrates, on the ground that an important question was about to be decided by the Court of Queen's Bench, as to the construction of the 25th Gen. 11., under which the parties had been indicted. Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Parry, who appeard for other of the defendants, concurred in the application. Mr. CLARKSON, who had been retained for the prose cution, objected to the postponement of the trial, and stated that the parties still continued to keep the rooms open notwithstanding the indictment which had been preferred against them. They had, in fact, admitted the illegality of their proceedings, by apply ing at the last sittings of the magistrates for a license to keep the rooms open for dancing and music. The JUDGES, after consulting together, postponed tl - te case, as far as some of the iprisonees were concerned, until next essions, intimating, at the same time, that they thought this a fit tribunal to determine any point of law, because, if any doubt was entertained respecting it, an appeal might afterwards !at had to the Court of Cri minal Appeal, which perhaps would be better enablid than the Queen's Bench to give a proper construction to • the Act. With respect to the other prisoners, their Lordships fixed the trial for Friday next. MURDER.—Alexander Lovey, 43, described as a gun smith, who was remanded from the last sessions, was placed in the dock, indicted for the wilful murder of Charlotte, his wife. Mr. Bodkin appeared fa the prosecution, and Mr. Parry for the defence. • Mr. BODKIN briefly stated the facts of the case. It appeared that the deceased, who lived in Whitechapel, went to the magistrate at Worship-street to get a sum mons against her husband, in consequence of sonic quarrel which had happened between them. She left home in the morning, and on returning at night, her husband, who seemed to be in a good humour, offered to bring her some wine, Be went out for this purpose, and came back with the wine and some sweetbreads, and es he was cooking the latter on the fire, his wife told him that she had been to the magistrate fur a warrant. The prisoner turned round, and, using a vulgar expres sioh, said, "Have you?" and immediately struck her on the shoulder with a knife, and in flicted a blow from which a vast quantity of blood .issued. She ran down stairs into the street, and was picked up by some persons who were passing by and carried to the hospital, where she died after lingering for a short time. The magistrate for the district attended the deceased at the hospital, and took her depositions in the presence of the accused, and they would be produced in evidence against him. These were the chief circumstances involved in the charge, and he should prove them by the testimony of witnesses. John Woolcock, aged fifteen, was then called—lle said his lived in Crown -court, Whitechapel, and knew the prisoner. He worked for him on the 19th of February, when the occurrence took place. The de ceased woman, his wife, was away from home in the early part of the day. She went out between ten and eleven, and did not come home till dusk—about half past five in the evening. The prisoner was then at home, and he asked her where she had been, and she said bluee witness's n " Welt, if you have only comfortable." She then said, " Well, go fetch it;" and there we mother.will haveile replied, some lied, wine and make ourselv es the prisoner went and took a stone bottle with him. He returned with some wine and some sweetbreads. She took the stone bottle and poured come of its contests into a teacup and drank it, and while he was frying the sweetbread she said, " I have been up to the court to get a warrant against you." He said, " You thief; you want to swear my life away," and immediately stuck the knife which he had in his hand into her shoulder. He struck her only once, and the blow was between the shoulder blade and the breast. She cried out, " Oh, you have stabbed me," and ran down stairs to the street, screaming all the way. She was sitting at th e fi re in a chair at the time he aimed the blow. Witn ess fol lowed her into the street, and a gentlem an came up, and the deceased was immediately taken to a doctor's shop, a few doors from Petticoat-lane. A street-keeper took charge of the wounded woman, and witness le turned with a policeman to the house, and they found the priso ner sitting on the opposite side of the fire to where his wife had been. He was finishing his tea, and cutting some bread with the knife with which he had stuck his wife. The prisoner was then taken into custody. In the morning the deceased was sharpening the knife upon an earthen pan, and said she intend e d to cut h er t h roat with it. The prisoner told her she might do so if she liked, but he pulled the knife out of her hand. The prisoner was sober when he used the knife, and his wife was a temperate woman. Sergeant Barnes, who it will be recollected discovered the body of the murdered O'Connor in Minver-place, deposed to arresting the prisoner, when he told him that he was going to take him into custody fir stabbing his wife. He said he know all about it, but hoped he had not hurt her. He told witness that the knife with which be was cutting the bread aas the one ho stabbed his wife with. There were some slight marks of blood on the handle. (The witness produced the knife, which was a table one of the ordinary sin.) Mr. Wyatt, house surgeon at the London Hospital, said when he was called to attend the deceased she was bleeding from a wound in the neck, and appeared much exhausted. It was a Punctured wound, and such as might have been produced by the knife exhibited by the last witness. The wound was three-quarters of an inch long, and three inches deep, She lived from the 19th until the 27th, and died at mid night on that day. He made a post mortem examina tion of the body, and the cause of death was inflame tion, arising from the infliction of the wound. The de ceased appeared very desponding about her recovery. Mr. Pine, chief clerk of the police court, produced the statement of the deceased, and said it was made in the presence of the accused. It was the result of ques tion and answer, and, after being made, it was read over to her, and she attached her mark to it. The statement contained no important facts beyond those detailed by the preceding witnesses. M T h r i . s p w A a n s ß t y li , e f o c r a s t e h f e o p r r t i h s eo nprosecutiond .ed that as there was no plan or plot connected with the perpetration of could whether, after re viewing the crime, it could not be construed to b e a mur d er , d manslaughter.w tilingb only return a verdict ( it to stances of the case, they could of n ife ere th l e r w e h t h o a e t theenicircumstances c j up u mu r come to any other conclusion than that the fatal wound was inflicted in a moment of irritation and while the prisoner was quite unconscious that he held the weapon in his hand. The expression of kindness and affection which had fallen from him immediately prior to the melancholy circumstance was good proof tbat he had ent e rtained no malicious feeling t owar d s hi s w if e , and confirmed the opinion that the blow was th e result of momentary passion. The Learned C ounse l th e n called several witnesses, who spoke in high t er ms of the pri soner's character, and described him as kind-hearted wards his wife. and affectionate in his bearing to among his associates, Mr. Justice ERLE then summed up, and the jury, aLer a short consultation, returned a verdict of man slaughter against the prisoner. His LORDSHIP took time to consider the sentence. NEW COURT. Bef,,re the Common-Sergeaftt BuLtocK, and Mr AldermanCAßDEN.) John Leach, a respectable•looking young man, who had been eight years in t h e serv i ce o f Messrs. Swann and Edgar, pleaded guilty him with embezzling is. 6d., the money of his em ployers._ to an indictment charging IluDnLEsTortE, on behalf of the prosecutors, strongly recommended the prisoner to mercy on account of his previous good conduct, believing that this was his first offence. The CommoN SERGEANT sentenced him to eight days' imprisonment in Newgate. A poor emaciat e d-l ook i ng young man was pl ace d a t BOW-STREE T. _(THIS DAY.) his master' s goods. the m b r. a r r o b tl e ie fo , r t e h 'M e l ar ge bootmaker re s idi ng pawning prosecutor, se h c l u en to r r y , , a c harged with unlawfully in Broad-street, Bloomsbury, deposed that the prisoner worked for th em i n the cashmere l a d ies ' b oot l i ne, be being an excellent workman in that particular branch ( f their trade. ne a r ly As a l t that kind of work was given to him, he had a l ways - plenty on han d, an d i t was nothing out of the way when h e as k e d for more work, even sup posing he h a d f our or fire pair at home w i t h hi m. Some seven days ego he asked f'Jr some more work, and ho was questioned about the other eight pair he had at home. He replied that they were nearly done, and that he would bring them altogether. Since that time he had not been to his employers, and yesterday one of the ah9pmen was s en t to his lodgings. There he found the prisoner in the gr eatest di stress — no fire, no clothing, no furniture, and, i n f act , nothing in the shape of corn fort. lie s a id h e was in a state o f starvat i on when he pawned them, and from appearances he spoke the truth when he said so. Mr. HisNitY remarked that the competition now-:- days was such, that the masters were obliged to send their work to the cheapest markets. Bat still they and the pawnbrokers must be protected from such frauds us the present. Both these gentlemen pleaded hard for the prisoner, and the worthy Magistrate mitigated the fine to U., which there was every reason to believe will be paid by Mr.l'ottle. INFANT ORPHAN ASYLUM.—Her Majesty's at tention having been tailed to the distressing case of an in fant family, suddenly deprived of both parents in Clonmel (the fattier having been Sergeant-Major in the Ist Regiment of Dragoon Gnarls), she has most kindly placed one of the youngest children in the Wanstead Infant Orphan Asylum. 1 MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER i THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liv e rp oo l yestziafati were: esti mated at 3,000 bale:, of which 1,500 American were ' trken on IT( Tne - market closed firmly, and nearly per lb. higher for American descriptions.— Railway Shares were dull, and prices had a downward tendency. The quantity of colonial produce pressing for public side, eine fly sugar, is large, ai.d prices are urfavourably ittluer.ccd in consequence, being lower rigain to-day. The arrival of ships from all parts of the world has been very extensive within the last few days, and full em ployment is aGrded to the various water-side depart ments. With large foreign arrivals, the Corn trade rules dull to-day, but prices are not generally lower. Arrangements have been made between the British and - United States Post-office authorities, whereby letters or rape.rs from England may be forwatded to California and Oregon being addressed "via New York" or " via United States." Whether such letters go by the English or American t. aakets the charge will be 2s. sid. per half ounce, or not exceeding one ounce 11d., to be prepaid, and newspapers will be charged 2d. each. The only alteration yesterday afternoon in the rate at which bills of exchange were negotiated was a slight de cline on Ilsmburgh and Trieste, and an advance on Antwerp. The ship arrivals today furnish no late intelligence of importance, and the Continental mails add but little to our previous information. At Amstiardam business in the Two-and-a-Half per Cent. Dutch Bonds was more animated, and prices advanced. There were a good many purchases iu Spanish, owing to the decree con cerning the debt. ;As the meeting of the Mexican Bondholders takes place on Friday, it may be useful to state what is cur rently rumoured. Mr. W. P. Robertson and Mr. Mills retire definitively, it is raid, from the new committee, but Mr. Guedulla and the other two members, will pro bably offer themselves for re-election. It is hoped that some very influential parties may then be induced to strengthen the committee, and the number will be in , - creased, if possible, to about ten. An important question, that will probably engage attention at the next meeting, is that or the tobacco duties, and the second report of the committee gives the following information upon it:— " By the non-arrival of the last Mexican mail no ad vices have been received from Messrs. Manning and Mackintosh relative to the tobacco duties. Your com mittee subjoin an extract from a letter, which they ad dressed on the the 28th of February through their chairman, to those gentlemen on the sub ject, which must necessarily be attended with results on its arrival in Mexico. In the meantime, I understand that you are in process ef receiving from the tobacco monopoly the proceeds of the bondholders' pro portion of the first year's operations, and this committee are extremely anxious to be able to lay before the public a definite account of the amount coming to theta from the tobacco towards completing the next dividend to be paid. I am instructed by the committee to say, that there is no part of the failure of the Mexican Govern ment to comply with these engagements so deeply felt by the bondholders in the drialeations in the appro priated revenues as this proceeding from the tobacco monopoly. The committees therefore are doubly anxioth, in order to soothe the irritation generally felt, to Le able, from time to time, to show that this important source of revenue will be gradually available to them, on an in creasing reale. The committee are strenuously exert ing themselves to procure from the Admiralty and the Royal Mail Steam-pacleet Company such ts an arrangement as will effectually dtehfoeafts iwsploavr, eoiltrae :ergeb7eyipiianrtehgpysoe whichtat tihitno,etnhooenf bond holders coasts, r h aen o x l e d i n er y s ,. t s h h .s e a o v a i 61.1:b Thegeaal e shipmentodue defrauded committeea u t e f Congress, relative to the convention which I ma t d hu e etin w l i t i the Executive. In the meantime I sincerely trust that Mr. Doyle and your good selves will vigorously oppose, in every possible shape, the appropriation, to the local wants of the Government, any part of the first 1,500,000 dollars of the indemnity money apportioned to the pay ment of the overdue dividends of the Mexican Foreign Debt." Owing to the numerous " options" which come off this day, at about 96, the Consol Market is kept down, and the quotations have varied from 95i to 95i, being now about 951 -1, and fur May 96 to *. 'lb. furegn news reads well, and official intimation has been given that the sum available from the surplus revenue and bequests for the retLuiption of debt during the current quarter is 526,4761., all to be.laid out in the purchase of stock, accur.lingly the Commissioners have already com menced operations, and will buy gradually, and from day to day. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have realised 96i- to 97*, and the Three per Cents. 94,1 to 95. Bank Stock is steady at 206. Ex chequer-bills are firm at 70s. to 729. premium, and India Bonds at 91s. to 945. India Stock is 267 to 268. In the Foreign Market the transactions have been moderate. Mexican have realised 2SI to 29, being higher, and Spanish Five per Cent. are held firmly . at 18 to 4 1 . Portuguese Four per Cents have been 32g. Buenos Ayres Stock has realised 54 to *. Dutch Fuur per Cents have been 85} ex div, Railway Shares have undergone no uniform move ment. Great Western are lower, and also Midland. Caledonian and North Stafford are rather better. North We.,,t , rti and South-Western about the same. South Eastern heavy. ONE CLOSING PRICES OF BIIITISII FUNDS O'CLOCK. PRICES. "arm 3 ; :ar Cent. Reduced Anns ... 94 3 / 4 95 94% 94 3 / 4 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities........ 957 ii 94 3 / 1 96 g.“.:, 3 1 4 per Cent. Anns. ... Long Anne. to expire J an. 1860 -16 8 LA I 818 Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 — Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860. 8 7-16 5-16 8 5-16 _ _. :cdia Stock tue,l,, Bor ln, I,OOW. 9l p Ditto under ....... 91 p .. . South Sea Stock ;onia,l'or Account 0 z .tt & : Ya is 96 - xvbequer Bills. 1% d • Zig zu 1,0001. June Small. June ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK. PRICES. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. r.zit len bonds ............ ..... .... Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839 — Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 54 54% 53% Danish Bonds, 1825,3 per Cent. — Ditto 5 per Cent. Ditto, Scrip ;Mexican, por Cent.. 1846, with Coupons— Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons .... Peruvian Bonds, 4 per Cent ......„ Ditto, Account Ditto Deferred Portuguese 5 per Cents. Ditto, 4 per Cent. Swinish 5 per Cent. 1840 Ditto, Account Ditto ..... 1847 10 3 / 4 10 / 4 Ditto ............ 1843 10, 10% Do., Coupons... Ditto, Passiv 2 3 3 /4 33 / 4 Ditto. 3 per Cent Ditto, Account 3714 37 Venezuela Bonds, 2 1 ,gi per Cent Dividends On tile above payable in London. Dutch 2% par Cent., 12 Guild. .. 55 3 / 4 Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates B 5 l /2 x d :85% x d PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLO:GNO RAI !-,WAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICE I A..., , ,rde 8 n 5O ..... Do. Preference Caledon i an 8 Ditto, New IC/. Pref... 10 Che s ter and Holyhead... 50 , ast Anglian, 251., L. & E. and L. and D...... 25 Do., 31. 10s., Pref... 3% — Ea s t ern Comities ... ..... 20 ... 71 %.. ....... Do., New Preference, 6 rcr Cent...... ..... 10 Do. North. & Eastern, 6 per Cent. Ditto. 5 per Cent.... 50 Eastern Union, Class A (late E. T.. Shares) 25 Do. Scrip (6 per cent.) 20 East Lancashire ......... 25 E iinbti r g h and Glasgow 50 Gloucester &Dean Forest 12% ...... 8 8 •.- .. Great Northern Do., % A Deferred ... 121%...... 1 3 / 4 l% Do., %B 6 per Cant... 9% 4% ... Do. 5 per Cent. Prof. 121 .lO (4 10 lO G rat Do., of England.loo ......217 Ditto, New, 401 4O - Ditto, ditto 35 Great Western 100 ...... 52 60 3 / 4 51 1 4,-. 51 Ditto, % Shares 5O - . Ditto, 1 4 Shares - ... 12% 12% Ditto, Fifths Ditto, New 171........ 15 ... _ 6 14 ... ..... . OA Hull and Selby .. ...... 50 Lancashire & Yorkshire 100 ...... Do. New, Gua.6 perct. 10 ..... 11% Leeds and Bradford Leeds and Thirsk ...... 50 London & Black wa11...11/. 6s. 3d 3% 3% London, Brighton, and South C0a5t......_ 100 ...... 78% 78% Dc. Prefer. 5 per cent. 50 Ditto ditt0...... 1852 50 _ _ 56 57 London and N Western 100 103 % 3 /4 . 103% Ditto, New Quarters 12 Ditto, Fifth, l2 .- .. 11 1 ,E ll% London at B.Wcstern ..ICO ...._ 60 61 Midland .. ........ ... it 0 .... . 34%% 34% Do., 50/. Shares Do. Birin., and Derby ICO Do. Consolid. Bristo! & 7% 11% Birminz, 6 per ct.... 100 ..... 121 1 / 2.... 12 1 14 North Briti!,ll ........... 25 ....,. 7 , 4 4 x.d 7% x.d Ditto Preference North Staffordshire ... 17 1 /g 7 7 , 4 7 l /8 Preston & Wyre ... 25 ... .. 40 1 / 2 4 0 ,.4 Do. 1 ,4 Share:i (A) lO ...... 16 3 4 1 6% Reading, Guildford, *nd Reigate Slirawabury mid Birra... 1314. — di5........ Ditto ditto. Clams B. 9 :2t,, , ,,,,....... ..... -4 Ditto, New Guaranteed S Shropsiiire (Ji Lion soLitil Eq4i. ,, r~ So ith Wale 3 .... - York. Neweaatie, and .. Berwick. Do. Newcastle Eaten. 20 - • - •• • ..... I) .G.N.E.I' r e f or ~n c e 8 ... Yort: :Lad North i'rli.ilainl 50 D:tt., Prefetenc, ,, ...... 10 - • .... ....... FOF:EIGN RAIL WA Y.'% Bouloomo and Amiens... 20 Fast Indian ...... - • ••• •- Namur and Liege ...... 20 ... .. 7 1 4 ... .. . ... Northern of France Paris and Orleans ...... 20 ....• .... ...... Psis and Rouen 2O ..,.,. 19%..... ........ Roam and Havre MINES. Santiago de Cuba IC of T STOCK BAN Kb 12 1 4 6 3,4 15 1 ; G 3 1 2 ?i 4 8 I/2 Colonial 25 z,ationalProv.England. 35 LLOYD'S SITIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, A PEIL 10.—Wind this day a,s nuoa light ple;;,a7,t, tie zo and fine clear weltthcr. A r::11, 9.--Vt[,d S. to W.—F,‘ld. na, New Y o ! 0; S:ster,, Prince k!nr:d. tiprELDs, 9.—Wind Quebec; Horne, tlito. SUNDERLAND, APRIL B.—Viind S.S.E.—Arrd. To ronto, Seaton, Moulmein. Sid. Puller, QueLec; Robert MlWilliands, ditto. TROON, APRIL 6.—A number of bale i.ools. barrels and bexcs, floating about, have been pAsstd and Mull of Kint) re. ST. MARGARET'S HOPE, ORKNEY, APRIL I.—A great number of Norwegian battens aid biller wood, and ves!,el'6 wheel, 1 aimed green, and a headboard with some such name as " Syphidon," in gilt letter:, have been picked up on the east side of this island. COWES, APRIL 9.—Arrd. Venus, Schuldt, Aricabo. ECATTERY LOADS.—Sid. Polly, New York; WatA , ford, ditto; Primrose, Quebec; Governor, ditto; John Wishart, Boston. WAIIRENPOINT, APRIL 7.—Wind 810. thers, .New Yolk. NEWPORT, APRIL B.—Wind S.W.— S!d. Ila. vatniali; Yandue, Alt xandiiu, United States; Cuusnn, Norfulk, United tittiteF. Bum., APRIL 9.—WiLd S.S.W.—SId, Gazelle, Ila. vanntih. DEAL, APRIL 9.—Wind S.W. to W.S.W.—Acrd. Delphin, Daheberg, New York, from Bremen; Bedstone, Dixon, Penang; Ligris, Jamaica; Letitia, Boston, ditto; Jane, Allan, ciao; William and Thomas, Biat.ia; With amby, Jennings, China. Arrd. from the River, Aretros, Red ea. Put back, Edmund, Quebec. LIVERPOOL, Avail. 9 —Wind S.S.E. to W.S.W.— Arid. Felici:y, Moore, Jamaica; Bell Reck, Pendleston, New ()deans; Ashley, Clark, St. John's, New Bruns wick. Sid. Penelope, Singapore; L'is, La Guayra; Abi gail Quitier, Chapmans, Ceylon ; Josephs, Mauritius and Cape of Good Hope; Everthorpe, Charleston; Mary Wards, New York; Devon, Staten bland; Colchester, Costine, Caledonia ; Johns, Quebec ; Dolores, New foundland. Sid. Grange, St. Domingo; Perate (steamer); Lord Wellington, Valparaiso. CLYDE. APRIL . B.—Wind S.E.—Arril. Minstrel Boy, Lewis, Mauritius; Queen, Hutton, China; Cingalise, Trinidad; Da Parzen, Matanzas; Agnes Sophie and Rowallan, Cuba; Tar, Mauritius; Retrieve, Trinidad; Edward, Matanzas. Sid. Collingwood, Mauritius; Ma lhbar, Quebec; Adler, New York; Oxford Miramichi. KINGSTOWN, APRIL B.—Arrd. Castries, llynd, St. Lucia. QUEENSTOWN, APRIL B.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrd. Isis, Aran, Havannah; Victor, Kenney, Cuba; St. Law. rei,ce, Steward, Norfolk, V.; Pacific, Sawser, OFF DOVER.—Manner, .Huggap, Mauritius; Tom Criegle, Mafsh, with loss of bulwarks, &c. WEYMOUTH, APRIL B.—Wind Astoria, Quet.ec. FALMOUTH, APRIL 9.—Wind W., strong.—Arrd. Parnassus, Odessa, with damage from contact last night off Scilly with the Hope, Newcastle, trom Panama, which lost bowsprit, and cutwater damaged. BRIDLINGTON, APRIL 2. —The John Mowlora, of and from Weymouth, got on shore last night north of Flam borough Ihad, and remains. Assistance has been sent. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) 91 p 94 p 66 26% ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. 1 Wheat. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Sacks English .... • • 2,2;0 1,520 750 3,430 3,410 Seoteh•. • ..... Irish ........ Foreign Barley. Oats. Malt. I Flour. 11,6 - 10 I 5,750 I 26,77-10 VINGS ' BANK. 1,200 Mr. JONES, on behalf of the assigness, objected to any discussion, either upon the law or the merits, until the expiration of the notice. ....... It is therefore expected th a t the matter will be fully gone into on the day appointed for the last ex amination. IN TILE MATTER OF GIBSON AND STURT..-.ST. ALRAN'S BANK. The Learned COMMISSIONER, upon the application of Mr. Lawrance, intimated his intention to give judgment in this case, upon the question of certificate, on Wednesday next, the 17th inst. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. DOME CIRCUI T.—Kingston, April 9. (Before Lord Chief Justice WILDE and a Special Jury.) WHEELER V. THE BISHOP 07 WINCHESTER. This case has been brought to a conclusion, after having occupied the Court nearly four days. The action was brought to try the right to certain waste lands, and whether they belonged to the plain tiff, claiming as lord of the manor of Churt, or to the defendant, who is lord of the manor of Farnham. A great many witnesses were examined on both sides, but it appeared to be very clearly made out on the part of the Right Rev. defendant that no such manor as Churt had ever existed, and that it was only one of the tythings of the manor of Farnham. The jury stopped his Lordship while he was in the course of summing up the case, and said they had made up their minds, and they at once returned a verdict for the defendant. OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Gloucester, April 8. CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron PLATT.) Sarah Peters, a respectable looking married woman► with an infant at her breast, was indicted for wilful and corrupt perjury. Mr. Skinner was counsel for the prosecution and Mr. W. H. Cooke for the prisoner. It appeared that on the 25th of October, at a Tolsey Court holden at Bristol, an action of debt for goods sold and delivered was tried, in which the hus band of the prisoner was the plaintiff and a person named Milward the defendant. On that occasion the prisoner, who had been married to the plaintiff since the cause of action arose, gave avidence as a witness for the plaintiff, in the course of which she swore, upon cross-examination, that she was not related to the prosecutor; that she was a widow ; that she was a perfectly disinterested witness; and th4t she was not married to the plaintiff. The ver dict was upon her evidence given in favour of the plaintiff, and it turning out that all her statements as to her interest in the case were false the present pro secution was instituted against her. Notwithstand ing a very ingenious defence, in the course of which the prisoner's counsel illustrated practically how even experienced witnesses might state that which was untrue, when confused by cross-examinations, the prisoner was convicted, and sentenced to a fine of On shilling, and to tvbelve months' imprisonment and hard lAbour. Mr. Baron PLATT then disposed of a City case, which terminated the business of the circuit, and in the course of the evening left for London. fGLASGOW, APAIL 6. COTMN.—The nrrival of the I Canada this wee k bringing confirmation of the accounts of a short crop has infused some spirit into the market, and a 1 considerable am oun t o f b us i ness has boon done, b ot h by th e trade and on spe cu l a ti on, at an advance of from id. to Id. per lb. The p r i ce off ' t h e raw material now b ears s uch a large proportion to the finished article that manufacturers are working principally to order, and look forward ere long to an abridgment in production. A moderate business has been done this week in goods and yarns, and stocks continue light. Pig Iron.—There has been scarcely any business doing in our market for pig iron during the week, and prices have continued almost without change. The price of mixed numbers may to-day be quoted 435. Gd. ; buyers at 435., with nothing doing. Bars may be quoted from 5/. Ws, to 5/, 12s. Gd. CORN EXCIIANGE-WEDNESDAY. The supply of English Wheat on offer in to-day's market was larger than for some time past, and chiefly composed of Monday's unsold parcels. Owing to the dull accounts from the outports, and the large quantities of foreign Flour pressing for eale, the demand for all kinds of Wheat of home produce was exceedingly heavy, at almost nominal currencies. Large parcels might have been purchased on lower terms. Nearly 12,000 quarters of foreign Wheat have arrived since Saturday. That article was dull in the extreme, and the mildling and irferior kinds were is per quarter lower to purchase. Barley was in moderate request, at previous latLs; hut Malt commanded scarcely any atten tion. Very few Eng Hill Oats were in the market; but the supply of foreign was immense, the arrivals this Week having excee:led 30,000 quarters. All kinds ruled dull, at barely stationary prices. Beans, Peas, aid In dian Corn were very dull. Low qualifies of Flour were again a caper. WEIXIMCIELEXPEL. Our market ruled heavy, at drooping prices.— Beef from Is 10d to :33 Od ; Mutton, 2s 4d to 3s 4d; Lamb, 4s 4d to 5s 6d; Veal, 3s to 3s 8d; and Pork, 3s Od to 4s Od per Blbs, by the carcase. BOILOUGH lEZOP inazumeT. The demand fur all kinds of Hops is exceed ingly inactive, at tardy last week's prices. —New Mid and East Kent pockets, 61 Os to 101 10s; new Weald of Kent ditto, 61 to 81 3s ; new Sussex ditto, 51 5s to 61 10s; new Farnhams (nominal), 121 to 131; yearling Kent , , 3/ to 41 7s; yearling Sussex, 21 8s to 31 12s; old Hops, 11 to 31 8s per cwt. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, April 9. (Before Mr. Commissioner TloLuoyD.) JOSEPLI JARDINE'S BANKRUPTCY.-DARTFORD SA- The bankrupt had for many years carried on busi ness n 5 a draper at Dartford; he was also actuary of the Dartford Savia,, , s' Bank, and had in that capacity received and appropriated to his own use moneys of the depositors, amounting, as was alleged, to upwards of 2,0001. This was a sitting for the last examination, but no balance sheet having been filed an adjournment was ordered until the 10th of May. Mr. LAWRANCE, on behalf of tho trustees of the savings bank, called the attention of the Court to his former application, founded on the 28th section of the 3d William IV., whereby the assignees of any person becoming bankrupt, who had been intrusted with the moneys of a savings' bank, were bound to pay to the trustees their claim in full before paying any of the debts. Mr. Lawrance stated that the forty days' notice required by the Act had been served upon the assignees, but had not yet expired ; and as the depo sitors were complaining loudly of the delay and in convenience, the trustees were anxious to know whether the assignees would at the expiration of the notice be prepared to comply therewith. THE COUNTRY MARKETS. IPSWICH, ATKIL 9. With a more liberal supply of wheat than of late, the sale was exceedingly heavy, and must be quoted fully t!s par quarter below last week's prices. Barley was also a heavy sale, at same prices as before quoted. The trade in general very dull and languid. PER QUARTE R. 1 PER QUARTER. Wheat, red Dit+ o, white. 39s to 44s Oats Ods to o''s narley, malting ... 22s to 23s Rye Ditto, grinding ... 18s to 193 Malt ...... .... Beans ........ ...... 00s to 00sIFlour, per sack ........ _ AVERAGES FOR THE WEEK ENDING APRIL 6, 1850. Wheat .. ....... ..... 725 quarters at 38s. Od. Barley 992 225. Id. Oats ....... . 12 2 's. Od. Beans-. ff s. Od. Peas ... . ... ~ Od. HULL, Aran 9. Messrs. Taylor and Bright's Circular states :—During the past ten days we have made rather extensive inquiries in dif ferent parts of the country, as to the stock of wheat held by farmers at this season as compared with other years, and the result is, that they hold fully their usual quantity; and in some important districts even beyond it.. The growing crops are everywhere well spoken of. Arrivals, with the prevailir.g winds, have somewhat increased during the past week, spring corn, and especially beans and barley predominating ; both have been offered on low terms, but have gone off, generally speaking, from ship, the low current rates having to some ex tent, attracted speculators. To-day we had a good supply of wheat from sour own farmers, with a somewhat better show of foreign ; the demand being slow last week's rates were with difficulty maintained, and that only for picked samples. In some instances is less money was taken. In foreign we find no quotable alteration, but demand continues slow. A good supply of barley, chiefly thin and light foreign, for which we have had some sales lately to dealers desirous of being in stock when the feeding season commences. Beans are rather at tracting attention at present rates, but buyers will not exceed them. Peas are quite neglected ; oats go off at our quota tions. Although we have no arrivals of linseed the market is fiat, and transactions on a small scale; cakes are saleable at our currency. No rapeseed on the market; for rape cakes we have a fair sale at the late reduction. Bones support their value. The following are the present prices of grain 8. M. 8. s. Wheat, English, red 34 to 37 Peas, white and yel. 22 24 Do. white 3B 40 Do. grey Dantzic and ho- !Linseed, Black Sea 45 46 nigsberg ... 40 45'Do. Petersburgh ... 38 45 Pomeranian and Do. Riga & Archngl. 38 —42 Hamburgh . 34 38 Do. Konigsberg .... 36 39 Danish, Holstein, & Par ton. Friesland 3O 36 Lins. cakes, Hull 6/10. to 0/08 laussian and Odessa 30 35 1 D0. tine foreign Oats, English Do. Danish.... ...... . 10 13. Rapeseed Do. Friesland l5 Rape cakes ..80s Od to 00s Od Do. Russ. & Odessa 12 14' Tares, English . 30s —00 s Barley,malting l3 —201 Do. foreign 20s —30 s Do. grinding........ 16 18 Guano 6/ to 101 5 s Beans 2O 24; Bones, do ...... 00s Od to 85s Od Do. foreign .. .. 20 23,Rye meal 5115s Coax, APRIL B.—Flour—First 123 Od to 13s Od ; extra 14s ; seconds, Ils to 12s; households Os Od to lOs 6d; thirds, 6s to 8a per cwt. Oatmeal 10s Od to 00s ; Indian meal 7sto 7( 3d:; wheat. , meal. 9s 64 to 105 per cwt. Indian corn 1301 to 137 a 6d per ton. Bran 4/0a od to 0/0s per ton. Hay—Farmers 35s to 375; average AOs ; dealers 38s to 45s Od; average 42s per ton. Stt aw— Farmers 22s Od to 20s Od; average 225; dealers ;30s Od to 33s Od; average Ws 04 per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf 6d to od ; household loaf 5d to sid per 41b. Fresh butter, gd to 10d per lb. Eggs —4s 4d to 4s 54 per hundred. Coals— Newport 15s; Lydney 17s ; Landore 15s ; Best Neath Culm 14s per ton. Tallow 40s Od to 00s per cwt. Whisky, 25 o. p., 5s 9d per imperial gallon. Meat —Beef 4d to 6d; mutton 5d to 6d; veal 6d to 6}d ; pork 3id to 3id ; baton 6d to 7d ; sausages 5d pet lb. Hops 131 Os per cwt. Bangor slates 312 s 6d to 315 s per ton. Bark—Barbary 715 s to 8/ ss; Valonia 14/ to 01; French 71 53; English 0/ per ton. Fleece Wool lOs to 12s per atone. Hemp 32/ to 001 per ton. Fish— Seotch herrings 16s to 17s; re d ditto 20s to 22. per barrel ; Newfoundland 9' Os to 11/ per ton. Timber—Memel, 85s per ton; deals, first quality, 18s; second quality, 16s per 100. Hides—Market 143 to 20.; salted 15s to 21s per cwt ; calf skins 2,tal to 2id per lb. Potatoes, white 84 to 104 ; Minions 12d to 13d • Guano— Peruvian, 11/ 10s ; Ichaboe, 91 p er t on; Tar—Archangel, 191 per barrel. FIRES AND Loss OF LlFE.—Yesterday morning the firemen were called to Ship-yard, Ttmple-bar, when they found that the wearing , apparel of Mrs. ltachael Turner, the occupier of No. 25, had become ignited, and that the poor creature was burned in a most frightful manner. She was forthwith removed to the hospital, where death soon put an end to her sufferings.—Last evening, between six and seven o'clock, the neighbourhood of Park-street, Bankeide, Southwark, was thrown into alarm iu consequence of a firs breaking out in the premises belonging to lir. Carpenter, situate in Moss-alley. The firemen and inhabitants after much trouble succeeded in getting the flames subdued, when a most pitiable scene presented itself, for Mrs. Carpenter, the wife of the owner of the property, was found so dreadfully burned that the flesh when touched peeled off her body. A medical gentleman was instantly sent for, who pronounced life totally extinct. FIRES IN CRURCIIES.—The destruction of St. Anne's Church, at Limehouse, by fire, on Good Friday, sug gests a point or two for consideration, and ought to serve as a warning and preventive. Examination, it appears, has shown that the end of one of the girders supporting the roof actually entered a flue, at the north-western corner of the church, and it is unnecessary for us to say, if this be so, the beam, too, being thoroughly dried by the continued action of the fire, perhaps even decayed, that the cause of the destruction of the church is tolerably obvious. The fires which have been originated by timber being let into flues, ap parently too far from the fireplace to be dangerous are not to be counted. In a sixteenth century building, wherein works are going on under our direction, we found last week a piece of timber in the face of the chimney-breast, put in to relieve the lintel over the opening of the fireplace, and form ing, in part, one side of the flue. lt was black and charred, and although it had led to no evil conequences during many years, might next week have caused the destruction of the building. In the case of Limehouse Church, if the statement be correct, no blame attaches le the architect: the flue was for ventilation, not for a furnace ; and the error was committed by those who made the fire communicate with it, without first taking proper precautions. The principal object we have in view in noting this occurrence, is to induce a proper ex amination, by professional eyes, of the city churches generally,with respect especially to the means used for warm• ing them. Several of these churches are exposed to great danger by the position of iron smokepipes, introduced to the great disfigurement of the building, and passing close to woodwork. We would exhort the authorities to be wise in time—to remove the pcssibility of danger, so far as it can be foreseen, and insure the building. —Bui der. METROPOLITAN FREE HOSPITAL.—This excellent institution held its anniversary meeting, last evening at the London Tavern. In the absence of Lord Dudley Couto Stuart, the duties of the chair were efficiently discharged by John Gurney Hoare, In proposing the toast of " The Patrons of the Charity," the Chairman adverted to the bene fits that had baen conferred upon the institution by their Royal Highnesses Prince Albert and the Duke of Cambridge. Mr. Nash read the report, front which it appeared that the hospital, during its fourteen years' existence, had relieved no less than 120,000 persons, or about 10,000 annually...e. (Cheers.) It was one of the peculiar features of the hos pital, that it gave relief to every sick person that applied for it.—(Cheers.) It had been considered desirable to open neW premises in Devonshire. square ' and if the society with an income of only 6001. a year h ad been able to do so much gond, what might not be done when the institution was ra pidly advancing in public favour? Every shilling that was subscribed to it contributed to the relief of some poor and suffering fellow- creature. The claims of the hospital were afterwards warmly advocated by the Chairman, Mr. Richard Wingfield, Mr. Rogers, and Mr. John Gurney Fry. The re sult of the festival was announced to be nearly 1,0001., a stint which considerably exceeded the expectations of its promo ters. It included the following sums : —The St. Clement Danes, Holborn Charity, 1001. ; Mr. Samuel Gurney, 501.'; Baron Rothschild, 21/. ; Mr. Thomas Baring, 20/. ; Mr. Ed ward Gurney, 21/. ; Lord Dudley Stuart, 211.; Mr. W. Evans, M.P., 101. 10s. The musical arrangements of the evening were under the direction of Mr. Ransf rd, assisted by Miss Ransford, Miss Ellen Lyon, Mr. Holmes, and Mr. W. E. R,ansford. Messrs. Bathe and Breach catered with their customary taste to the gratification of the guests, and Mr. Hicks was an efficient toast-master. Her Majesty the. Queen of the Belgians entered on her 39th year on Wednesday last. Her Majesty was born at Palermo on the 3d of April, 1812. La Patrie of Bruges announces that it is probable that Louis Philippe and his family will visit Bruges in the month of May next. INCENDIARY FIRES IN FRANCE.--The'departmEntal journals still continue to give accounts of the progress of in- , cendiarism. A part of the communal forest of Borderes, near Tarbes, has just been destroyed. On Tuesday last four fires took place in the neighbourhood of Soissons. The most con. siderable was that on the farm Of a M. Fortville, at Pasly. The stable, barns, and other outhouses, with all they con tained, were destroyed, the dwelling•house alone escaped. So determined were the incendiaries to effect their purpoie that a rivulet which ran before the house, and the water of which would have served to extinguish the fire, was, on the previous evening, turned from its course by the miscreants. Dommiers, Ambleuy, and Juvigny have also suffered. At Seurrc (Cote d'Or), on Sunday last, a fire broke out, and be fore it could be got under, two houses were destroyed. Soon afterwards, when all the people who had been present had returned to their homes, a second fire was discovered, which, in a short spaco of time completely destroyed 17 cottages. During the night several other fires were seen in different parts of the country.—Galignani's Messenger. BIRTHS, On the 21 inst., at Ewell, the wife of the Rev. Sir George L. Glyn, of a son. On the c'id inst., at MidhurA, Sussex, the wife of Carnegie R. J. Jervis, Esq., of a son. On the 6th inst., at Newnton Longville, Bucks, the wife of the Rev. J. R. Hughes, of a son. On the 6th inst., in Woburn-place, Russell. square, the wife of N. J. Dampier, Esq., F.R.C.S., of a son. On the ;th inst., in Sussex-terrace, Hyde-park, Mrs. W. C. Judd, of a son. On the 7th inst., at Walton, the lady of Captain Sir T. R. T. Thompson, Bart., RN., of a daughter. On the 7111 inst., at Heathcote•street, Mecklenburgis square, Mrs. G. Johnson, of a daughter. On the 7th inst., in Eaton-square, the lady of Captain Gladstone, R.N., of twin daughters. .TARRIED. On the 6th inst., at Eltharn, Kent, Arthur C urr i e , E sq ., of Millwood, near Ulverston, to Catherine Elizabeth, daughter of Robert J. Saunders, I!:9 , of Eltham. _ _ On the 9th inst., at Chis;l;ick, llobeit Laurie, Esq., of the College uf Arms, Norroy King of Arms, to Sophia, eldest daughter of the late R. Handy, of Fareham, Hants. DIED On the Rh inst., at Southend, Essex, Commander Arthur Grant. On the ttli inst.. in Upper Harley-street, Mejor-General Sir A. Galloway, K. 0.8. On the I:th inst., at Southampton, Captain George Smith, R.N., Admiralty Superintendent of her Majesty's Mail Steam-pack:As. At , qaclikwell, on the 7th ins'., Eleanor Margaretta, eldest slaughter of the late 111 r. James Go.dinge, of treat Winchester-street. On the 7th innt., in Upper Kennirgton-lane, the Rev. W. Fraser, aged On ill e - 7th ft;st., in Park-cottages, Park-village East, aged 42, IL. T. Loaviale, Esq. Oa the ith lust., in Gloucester-place, Portman-square, Janet Lawrence, widow of the late J. Bebb, Esq., of Doning ten-grove, Berks. • , ti , ndon: 'Printed and Published - by MURDO YOUNG. cl *o. 112, Strairel, Printer, at 'Piw Bun Office. 112. "Arand, in th, II) the county 4 1 Paidilloy.vx, Wednesday, April 10, 1850. ( Pri ai r will the T Clay 1.30 Th u at 7 On; Will Ti Of th noti c hey Coat Chic. Tb itt th N( tOr 4ly tad must Slgn e the the r_r(