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THE NEW NOVEL. Just ready, in 3 vols., post 81 0. , ANNE D SAR T: A STORY OF EVERY DAY LIFE. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-Street. To be had at all the Libraries. HER AIAJESTY'S THEATRE.- It is respectfully announced that the Oecond Grand Classical, Dramatic, Miscellaneous, Concerted MUSICAL ENTERTAINMLNT wm take place on MONDAY MOANING, 'fay 27. On whien 000asion the following eminent artistes will appear:— Madame Sontag. Mdlle. Parodi, Miss Catherine Hayes, Madame Giuliani, Mdllo. Ida Bertrand, and Madame Frezzollni , Signori Baucarde, Calzolarl, Sims Reeves, and Gardoni, Colettl, Belletti, Lorenzo, F. Lablache, M. Muller, and Signor Lablache ; supported by all the Instrumental and Choral resources of the Theatre. The whole under the direction of Mr. Balfe. Applications for boxes, stalls, and tickets to be made at the ]3x Office of the theatre. HER mAJEwrv'q TRT , t mR.E - GRA-ND HXTIA NIGHT Combining the talents of Macniine Catherine Hayes; signori Baucarde, Calzolari, Sims Reeves, Coletti, Beßeal, F. Lablache, and Lablache ; Mdlles. Carlotta Grist, Amelia Ferraris, Maria Taglloni, and M. Nu] t ke place TO-MORROW HVENING When w!ll be performed (tor the Lis, tune this season in con tsiuence of the Immediate production of the grand Opera La Tempeita, and other subsequent novelties) Rossini's celebrated Opera, IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA. Rosina, Mdlle. Sontag ; Il Conte d'Almaviva, Signor Calzolari ; Figaro, Signor Belietti ; Basilio, Signor F. Lablache; Bartolo, Signor Lablache. In the Lesson Scene Madame Sontag will introduce Rode's cele brated variations. After which the highly successful new and original grand Pas de Trois (by MM. Paul Taglioni et Gosselin, the Music by Signor rugni), entitled LES GRACES. Euphrosyne, Mdlle. Carlotta Grist ; Thalia, Mdlle. Marie Taglioni ; Eglaia, Mdlie. Amelia Ferraris. To be followed by Selections from RTELL.ossini's celebrated Opera, ELO Arnoldo, Signor Baucarde; Guglielmo Tell, Signor Coletti ; and Walter, Signor Lablache. After which the admired PAS STTRIEN, by Madile. Carlotta Grist and M. P. Taglioni. To be snccee l ed by the last act of Donizetti's Opera, LUCIA LAMMERMOOR. Lucia, Miss Catharine Hayes; Edgardoi Mr! Sims Reeves. To conclude with the last scene of the admired Ice Ballet, by M. T. Taglioni, entitled LES PLAISIRS DE L'HIVER ; ou, Les Patineurs Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box Ofece of the Theatre, ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. COVENT-GARDEN. A GND EXTRA NIGH ' TO- RA MORROW EVENING Will be performed Meyerbeer's Grand Opera. LES HUGUENOTS. Valentina, Madame Grisi ; Margarita di Valois, Madame Cas tellan; Dama d'Onore, Madlle. Cottl ; Urbana Madile. de Meric ; the Huguenot Soldier, Signor Lavia ; Il Conti di San Eris, Sign_' j Tagliatico ; II Conte di Nevers, M. Massol ; De Cosse, Signol- Luigi Mei ; De Retz, Signor Polonini ; Meru, Signor Itcmiti; Maurevert, Signor Seidl; Capitano della Guardia, Signor Talamo ; Marcella Herr Formes ; and Raul di Nangis, Signor Mario. Composer, Director of the Music, and Conductor, Mr. Costa. The Doors will he opened at Halt-past Seven. and the performances cutmnence at Eight o'clock precisely. Tickets for the Boxes, Stalls, or the Pit, may be had (for the night or season), at the Box-office of the Theatre, which Is open from Tex till Five. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING The Performances will commence at Eight o'clock precisely, with (for the 3d time in:this country) the new Play, entitled GABRIELLE. Julien Chabriere, M. Regnier ; Gabrielle, Madlle. Watholle. After which will be produced, the favourite Comedie-Vaudeville, LES DEUX BRIGADIERS. Ramadour, M. Lafont. The Box-office of the Theatre is open daily from Eleven till Five Boxes and Stalls at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old street. Bon d THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Bromptoa. EVENR , 4 Will be 'presented (6th ' time) an entirely new and original Comedy,by Douglas Jerrold, entitled THE CATSPAW. Captain Burgenet, Mr. Howe; Mr. Snowball, Mr. Keeley ; Doctor Petgoose, Mr. James Wallack ; Audley, Mr. Charles Selby; Appleface, Mr. Buckstone ; Dust. Mr. Tilbury ; Coolcard, Mr. Benjamin Webster ; Duggens, Mr. Ellis ; Snowball's Servant, Mr. A. Brindal ; Mrs. Yeachdown's Servant, Mr. Coe; Mrs. Peachdown, Miss Reynolds; Cassandra, Mrs. L. S. Buckingham ; Rosemary, Mrs. Keeley, To conclude with the Last Edition of IVANHOE, with all the newest improvements. Cedric the Saxon, Mr. J. Bland ; Sir Briant de Bore Guilbert, Mr elby ; Sir Wilfrid of Ivanhoe, Mrs. Keeley; Wamba, Mr. Buck sone ; Isaac of York, Mr. Keeley; Robin Hood, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; Br:bocce, Miss P. Horton. The li,,x-office is under the direction of Mr. I. T. Archer. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Will be performed an entirely original Musical Comic Drama, called THE WHITE SERJEANTS; or the Buttermilk Volunteers. liteo r plowman, Mr. 0. Smith ; Jemmy Tweezer, Mr. Wright ; S 3 taro Ginger Green, Mr. P. Bedford; Tommy Rusk, Mr. Mun ard ; Madl.e. de Tourville, Madame Celeste ; Susan Pockets, Miss . Fitzwilliams ; Dolly Durgin, Miss Woolgar. To be followed by a grand historical Spectacle Vaudeville, entitled PLAYING FIRST FIDDLE ; or, Follow my Leader Principal Characters by Messrs. P. Bedford, Lambert, Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, and Miss K. Fitzwilliam. To conclude with MY PRECIOUS BETSY. Characters by Messrs. Wr:ght, Bedford, Worrell; Miss Harding, and Mrs. F. Matthews. ROYAL LYCEUM' THEATRE THIS EVENING Will be performed CHARLES THE TWELFTH. To be folowed by THE ISLAND OF JEWELS. Characters by Messrs. F. Matthews and F. Cooke; Madame Vestris, Miss Julia St. George, Miss Dickinson, Miss Kenworthy, Mrs..Macnamara, Miss Martindale, and Miss E. Ilonner. To con , lurie "-ith TWO IN THE MORNING. •••••••• _. - • .... • - All applieatt nis for P ♦ to foxes must be made to Mr. Allcrott ti, New lionthrureet. The Box-office. adjoining the Theatre, in Wellington-street, is open daily from Ten to Six o'clock, under the superintendence of Mr. T. F. Bennet* PRINCESS'S THEATRE. This Evenino there will be no performance. TO MORROW EVENING L st nl,ht but ones{ the present season. Will be presented the Opera of iHE 11011 E MIAN GIRL. Count Arnhelm, Mr. Borranl , Florestein, Mr. Barker; Thaddeus, Mr Harrison ; Devilshoof, Mr. H. Corri ; Arline, Miss L. Pyne. After which ANTONY and CLEO!' A TRA. With the last r.ct of the Opera of LUCIA DI LAADIERMOOR. Z 'gat, Mr. Al , en Lucia, 3ld le. Nan To oonc:u,le with the Grand Masked Ball from Gustavus. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITEIEATRE. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. Last Eire Nights of Fitzball's gorgeous Spectacle of Enchantment. Entire change in the popular Feat of Equestrianism. Supported by the accomplished Artistes of the establishment. THIS EVENING, And daring the Week, the Entertainments will commence at Seven o'clock, with (for the last Five limes) the magnificent Spectacle of TitE v OUR SONS OF AYMON ; or The Days of Charlemagne; Introducing the entire Stud of Horses, Camel of the Desert, Zebra, and all the vast resources of this theatre. To be succeeded by an unusually brilliant routine of Batty's Scenes of the Arena. To conclude with a favourite FARCE. On Whit-Monday will be revived, for the First Time these Seven Tears, on a most extensive scale ot splendour, the immensely suc cessful Grand Military Spectacle, in three Acts, entitled THE A FFGH ANISTAN VAR; or, The Revolt of Cabul, and British Triumphs in India. Boa .office open From Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Under the Patronage of her Most Gracious Majesty, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, &c. &c. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. The Summer Season et this favourite place of Fashionable Resort sommenced on MONDAY, MAY 15th, 1850, Tuesday 14th, Wednesday, 15th, Thursday, 16th, and be continued on each 01 those days throughout the Season. First representation vof an entirely new.modelled Dioramic Pic ture representing the PASSAGE of the ALPS by Napoleon and his Army ! the largest Picture in the World! with innumerable moving Figures the size of life. Modelled, Fainted, and produced by Mr. Damon and Son, assisted by Messrs. Adams, Wilson, &e. &c. The Picture has occupied the Messrs. Danson for many months, and it is confidently submitted to the Public as a chef-d'muvre of art, and not inferior to any production of the day. The Splendid MENAGERIE has lately been enriched by several -alusble Presents ft om the Queen. The Musical Department will be conducted by Mr. Godfrey, but e Proprietor (acting under the advice a f the most eminent musical lttla9rities), has decided to con trust the Band of Wind Instruments only! with the addition of Contra Bassi, atter the manner of the most celebrated Con: inental Bai,ds. It will be the aims of the Esta blishment to offer for the gratification of the Subscribers and the Vublic, the most Splendid Military Band in the Kirgdorn ! ! Selected from the Bands of her Majesty's Horse and Foot Guards, and the most eminent Artistes in the profession. The following list of engagements will, it is hoped, convince the Public, that the long-ackr owlettged excellence of the Band or this Establishment will be fully maintained ! The Repertoire of Music will he most extensive and varied, arranged from the most Popular Operas in this and other countries. Solo -Players—Messrs. Kcenig, Lazarus, Prosperre, Colinet, Pratten, Jarrett, Sonnenberg„ Sommers, and Winterbothatn. and P During the evening a grand Colossal, Scenic , T yr otechnic ablesu illustrating the celebrated Picture by David , o f Buona p arte Creasing the Alps ! Showing a general viewof the Region of the Alps, stretching from the small mountain lake in the for e g round to the distant snow-clad mountains, crowned by the stupendous Mount St. Isy t,t anderinanrrd, its far-famed Monastery. A portion of the French sad amid the seen ' en bivouac," presently the drums beat to arms , clash of Military Bands and Martial Music, the Troops oora nenee the Ascent. The Soldiers are aeon dragging the Artillery in Trunks of Trees, now ascending almost P er p en di c ular Heights, and traversing the most Ternfie Ravines, but all difficulties are overcome, and the Gallant 'limy is seen pursuing it s course to the Fertile Plains of Italy. The whole to conclude with a Gorgeous Display of Fireworks, by Messrs. Southby, Introducing, amongst N . ariou s novelties, the most admired teux d'artiflee of former seas revolving pieces, a magnificent ll r unn Transparencyish B j etsuo n d l4n a a u ct , tye w foe a ne t ee c b k i ga e hc t s tk , painted by Messrs. D 3 cheering on his Troops, surrounded by warlike emblems, insignia of honour, flags, trophies, &c.,amidst e.corruseation of various co l oure d tires. The complicated and difficult machinery, , and the erection of the pfcture under the direction of Mr. Thos fittings by Messrs. Botcherby and Dixon,o vs. The extensive gas garden. on 23, King-street, Covent- Admission, 2o t b , 34 , , I n s . . O n Whlt-Monday, May . J"ullieno.eri andi his unrivalled piaadyede by r an d will commence a limited num ber of Pr Selec tions will be made f rom the p o p ula r Music t h e Concerts Monst re and Congres Musicale at Exeter-hallY him at . - On We d n esday, May 22 d , the Ro y al South Lo ndou Floricultural S oc i e ty will hold the ir First Grand Miscellaneous Flo wer Show, on which occasion an Extra Brass Band will be in attendance, with all the other Attractions of the Gardens.—Doors open at One. HIGII WATER AT LONDON" BRIDGE. Trts Day —3lorning 58 min. after 3 I Eiening 20 min. after To-Mottai,n, —Mot ning 42 min. after 4 Evening, 7 min. after WEATHER. —Sus OFFICE, MAT 15. TIIERMON'eiTEE, 55—highest since noon yesterday. 39 —lowest this morning and during the night. 47—this day, at noon. BAROMETRII, 29'07. Wm-n N.E.—stiff breeze, and very cold. 4 7 a .1 2 To 's - - \"kt • ttlY s eci f . ' 4 •m o #R-6, II glllll6 LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1850. Government, with the connivance of the Legislature, appears resolved to dedicate London to the filthy cus • toms acquired by its inhabitants from an almost im memorial antiquity. Last evening two most im portant measures for the better supply of water to the Metr°l"iiii We reigetecl by naAjorities of 106 And 110, after having already passed a first reading. Both of these projected improvements were foregone, more over, for reasons of the flimsiest character. One ob jection was a prejudice against artesian wells, and another was an extravagantly disproportioned consideration for eleven mill-owners over and above the many hundreds of thousands of people requiring some more nutritious and wholesome beverage than that obtained from the great water channel now employed for the purposes of drainage. Than this nothing could be more false in principle or more ridiculous in its general application. Well might we feel disposed to despair of ever obtaining good water for consumption in the capital if we re garded the matter as wholly dependent upon the mea sures yesterday rejected. Fortunately those mea sures, to our thinking, are, though truly admir able in contrivance, little better than temporary makeshifts until such time as the Thames can be turned to its natural account, being rendered the purveyor of health and nourishment instead of disease and poison. When the sewage shall, as it must ultimately, be conveyed from the metropolis by other means than the river, leaving that noble means of irrigation uncontaminated by material capable of judicious employment as manure throughout the agricultural districts, the inhabitants of London can be as readily supplied with water for household con sumption from the Thames between the bridges as it could though the current were conveyed to the me tropolis by means of an aqueduct either from above or below Henley. Under those circumstances, heavy penalties inflicted upon all such parties as should throw refuse of any kind into the river would pre serve the waters of the Thames at Waterloo -bridge sufficiently pure for all domestic purposes—as pure as it is at this time below Henley under existing ar rangements. When, therefore, we express our extreme disappointment at the successive re jection of the London (Watford) Spring Water Company Bill, and of the Metropolitan Water-works, (Henley-on-Thames and London Aqueduct) Bill, upon the occasion of their proposed second reading, we do so less because we regard them as calculated to prove good expedients for the time being, than be cause we view the fact of their being quashed so hastily, and quashed too upon arguments of such paltry opposition, as a token of the apathy of the Government, and generally speaking of the Legislature itself, in reference to all sanitary improvements. By the obstinate main tenance of the window-tax the light of heaven is shut out from the poorer classes, and with it all chances of proper ventilation. By the ridiculous subserviency of the Cabinet and of the Parliament to the whims, the eccentricities, and the dawdling of the Board of Health, session after session is allowed to pass without witnessing one advancement in any one particular. Steps cannot be taken in this matter' or in that matter, according to the Secretary for the Home Department, until the report, long expected and long promised, has been obtained from the Com missioners. And the utility of such reports has cer tainly been strikingly exemplified of late by that long-winded document, in which the result of the Board's deliberations upon the subject of metropo litan drainage was intimated ! Thank heaven, if this is the disposition of the Government, if this is the habitual procrastination of the Commissioners, if this is the usual indifference of the Parliament, there are some few even among our popular repre sentatives who are not disposed to wink at its un interrupted continuance .1 Last evening, for example, on e of our most veteran reformers, Mr. Hume, pro tested against the notion that the supply of good water to London will necessitate the injury of pro perty incapable of adequate compensation. He main tained that if a few mill-owners might be injuriously affected by the Aqueduct Bill from Henley, it must also be borne in recollection that a beneficial result would follow inevitably, and that beneficial result, moreover, affecting no less than two millions of the inhabitants of the metropolis. Again, Mr. Mowarr, with a delightful enthusiasm, went to the length of maintaining that, supposing even that these eleven mill-owners lost the whole of their property, such a circumstance ought not to weigh one iota in the scale ? And Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE, the truly independent Mem ber for Middlesex, almost pathetically adjured the House of Commons to examine the water im bibed in the metropolis with the aid of a mi croscope. Anything more discouraging to the aspi• rants for s anitary improvement has not for a consider able time been so conspicuously visible in the Parliamentary debates as the result of these two me lancholy divisions last evening. The long-expected trial of strength between the Protectionists and the Free-traders, is the popular branch of the Legislature, has taken place. The nation has, at length, an opportunity of testing the accuracy of the statement as to the "decided reaction" in pub lic opinion, and the numerous conversions from the anti-monopolist ranks that had been so loudly vaunted. After the series of meetings held last autumn, and the unusual activity displayed by the agricul turists, we had vainly supposed that not a single week would have elapsed after the re-as sembling of Parliament before the question was fully and fairly discussed on neutral ground. But week after week, and month after month, glided away, and nothing practical was done. No leader of the agri culturists could be induced to fling down the gauntlet which so many free-trade champions were ready to accept. In fact, the really talented Members of the party shrunk from the unwelcome task. The Hon. Member for Buckinghamshire, whose position and ability might have warranted the undertaking, too clearly perceived the impolicy of hazarding a " pitched battle." A guerilla warfare was better suited to the troops on whose support he could reckon. He did not wish to reveal his real weakness and the poverty of his resources to his triumphant adver saries ; accordingly, in place of demanding the re enactment of the corn-laws, he contented himself with asking for a " fair adjustment of local taxation," and a modification of the fiscal charges that pressed unduly upon the owners and occupiers of land throughout the country. But this moderation was not duly appreciated by the sturdy yeomen. They could not understand w h y their leaders were not as " ready for the field" as they were themselves. The pack was ac cordingly unkennelled, " Old Jowler (Chowler) leads the cry," and threats and menaces were freely hurled against all who refused to comply with their very reasonable requests, or to pay a " black mail" to the bucolic freebooters. The walls of the Crown and Anchor rung again with 'the torrents of indignant eloquence lavished on the occa sion. The labourers were to be turned adrift defi cient of employment, and thus driven into a state of insurrection, while the farmers would take care not to interfere in any way to suppress the disturbances which they had themselves excited. The much vaunted loyalty :of the " Yeomen of England" was for the moment forgotten. In fact, they were not merely contented with professing neutra lity, or declaring their intention to let the agrarian tumult proceed without let or hindrance, but some of the more energetic were prepared to take a more active part, a n d " t o exerc i se th e s tr e ngth they still retain in their arms." however, w v e g v o e r r o , u s insufficient t o st i m a u n I d a t e bold their w o a r c d We T re h : se • s knowledged leaders. and The h Honourable Member for athnwould disastrousu n e n g o u t i a v b o a e t aTu e hti o o t u h s e p r o c li h o i y efs of the party, Buckinghamshire, enteredn r a d l e s o d u u n e l i f t ot e s ha a t e t . they had deli beratelyhtcaot hmaezy:awere e tooenc encounter. t l e a r w . ar e of was ls o adecisive rea z dy to lead the " forlorn hope." The new - fledged able in all recent converts perhaps ea st l i so u a l k a r . t e e n d public mg , or, to remark able Hon. Gentleman to the desperate undertaking, probably, he was anxious to induce the forget the "family jars" in which he had played so con.picuous a rat—or, possibly, he might have dis covered in the exposure some ingenuous device for annoying his elder brother—the head of his house— and would -he notninater of the representatives for the county of Gloucester. The Protectionists willingly accepted the proffered aid ; they entered not into his motives, and influenced, perhaps, by feelings similar to those which induce the Moslem to give the " post of honour" and of "danger" to renegades, they permitted the Honourable Gentleman to lead the vanguard, and introduce the long-expected motion. It is scarcely necessary to allude to the debate. If THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 15, 1850. any question has received full and ample discussion— if any principle has been definitively and irrevocably settled, it is that of " free trade." Further pro gress must be made; certain existing restrictions must be abolished, but there can be no retrogression or reaction. Mr. BERKELEY, who still calls himself a Free-trader (a Free-trader—GOD save the mark !) desired, because some obnoxious taxes were still re tained, to reimpose the most objectionable of all— " the tax upon bread," on the food of the people, for the benefit of the privileged few. It was not, per haps, the " corn of England" so much as the " corn of the tropics" that the Honourable Gentleman was looking to. He might not object to the abolition of the "bread monopoly" if the " sugar monopoly" could still be retained. But one measure of relief naturally followed the other, and the West India proprietor sympathised strongly with the landocracy of England at the grievance they had sustained, of being no longer able to maintain artificial prices, and to preserve taxes that bad been originally imposed, not for the purposes of revenue, but of protection Hence his abjuration of his " former errors," and his readiness to bring forward resolutions totally op posed to the principle which he had formerly sustained by his votes. The division was, however, too decisive for us to quarrel with the Hon. Gentleman for having pro duced a result so very satisfactory. His motion was negatived by a majority of 114-184 only having sup ported, while 298 opposed any further consideration of " the Acts relating to the importation of foreign corn." We can now understand the reason why Mr. DISRAELI refused to bring forward such a resolution. The Honourable Member, indeed, candidly ac knowledged that "it was not one which, had be been consulted, he would have recommended. If he had thought such a motion ought to have been made, he would either have proposed it himself or asked some person more competent to do so." Mr. GRANTLET BERKELEY was clearly not the champion he would have selected ; and, indeed, we cannot wonder at his unequivocal displeasure. His well considered system of tactics has been overturned by the rashness, and hardi hood of the recruit; the strength of his party has been annihilated through the obstinacy of the new convert; his forces have been dissipated and dispersed, and he must now en deavour to re-organize his forces, and to commence de novo. In the meantime we wish the Protectionists much joy of their acquisition ; we give them their new ally with all our hearts. There are, we believe, few of the Free-traders who will not join with Mr. COBDEN, that if asked to " make a present of one of their colleagues," they would not have selected the Hon. Gentleman, the hopeful scion of the ancient house of BERKELEY, as the person to be freely sur rendered, THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. The Ministers received a severe check in the As sembly on Monday, a check which seems to be ominous of the fate of the Electoral Bill. In the de bate on the Budget, M. CHAUTIN proposed an amendment, rendering each Minister personally re sponsible for any expenses he might incur without the authorization of the Assembly. This proposition, which was opposed by the Minister of Finance and the Minister of Justice, and which is tantamount to a vote of want of confidence, was carried by a majority of. 85, the numbers being for the amend meat 361, against it, 276. The Patrie says that the Procureur-General of the Republic will be guilty of a dereliction of duty if he does not demand an authorization to prosecute M. NAPOLEIN BONAPARTE, for having been guilty of a provocation to insurrection in his recently-published protest against the Electoral Bill. The following modifications are said to have been made in the Bill by the Committee:— " 1. It has been decided that individuals shall be inscribed on the electoral lists who can prove that they have been inscribed for more than three years on the list of those who are bound to give a certain portion of labour (prestations en nature) for the vicinal roads.- 2. The mayor in drawing up the electoral list shall be assisted by assessors chosen by the Juge de Paix amongst the electors residing in the commune. The dis putes relative to the inscriptions on the list, or the strik ing out of electors, shall be carried before the Juge de Paix.-3. Difficulties which may arise relative to the re fusal of fathers, masters, or employers, to deliver certi ficates of residence to their sons, domestics, or work. men, shall also be submitted to the jurisdiction of the Juges de Paix, who, where the three years' residence is clearly proved, may order the inscription on the list." Petitions against the Bill are coming in from all parts of the country. Among these is one signed by MM. ARMAND MARRAST, GOUDCHAUX, RECURT, BASTIDE, and ether members of the Committee of the Constitution in the Constituent Assembly. It is abundantly clear, therefore, that the authors of the Constitution consider any attempt to limit universal suffrage that may be made, except by, a Constituent Assembly properly convened, as illegal. M. Duris is, it is said, also of this opinion, and be has therefore purposely absented himself from the Assembly during the discussion. A telegraphic dispatch was sent to him by the Ministers on Mon day, urging him to return and resume his place as President. His absence is considered a stronger protest against the measure than would be the most eloquent speech. Even General CISANGARNIER quails before the firm yet calm attitude assumed by the people, and is obliged to temper the violence of the reactionary measures which the Ministers would fain adopt. General CHANGARNIER, who has taken some pains to inform himself of the real state of the feelings of the soldiers, is now convinced that the warning given by General LAMORICIERE from the tribune to all violators of the Constitution, is a warning not to be despised. The Ministers wished to dismiss all colonels and officers of the National Guards who should sign petitions against the elec toral law. General CIIANGARNIER said they might as well dissolve the National. Guards, as the men would take part with the officers, and the troops of the line would not be inclined to act against the National Guards. The insurrection in the Soane et Loire is spread ing ; the insurgents were still in possession of Creusot w hen-tbe last accounts left. The Patrie says — "The workmen of the coal basin of the Creusot are in open revolt, to the numbers of 5,000 or 6,000. There is something besides a question of wages mixed up in this strike; but the Government is in a position to re establish order." The Constitutionnel has the following : " A dispatch from General de Castebaue has reached the Government, which confirms and explains the ru mours relative to the insurrection of the coal-miners of the Creusot. We have told how some workmen, who had been arrested, were rescued from the hands of jus tice. The arrival of the law officer of the department had for effect, to give the insurrection a more consider able development, and the number of insurgents is esti mated at from, 7,000 to 8,000. Troops were immedi ately ordered to the spot, and the last dispatch of Gene ral de Castellano is of a nature to quiet all anxiety as to the results." A singular letter appears in the National, signed by 'Annear, ex-Prefect of Corsica ; ADAM, ex- Mayor of the Ist Arrondissement of Paris; and BOUILLON, ex-lieutenant Colonel of the 2d Legion of National Guards, certifying the following state ment "Colonel Laborde, representative of the people, a particular fri en d o f the President, with whom he had been condemned for the Boulogne affair, assured us, only the d ay b efore yesterday (11th of May), that M. Berryer and other Legitimists addressed him about a month ago, at the Chamber, in pre sence of General Montholon, for sake of recom mending that they should advise the President that it was time fer him to come to an understanding with the Bourbons, who would ensure him a suitable position; but that it he did not make haste to treat' he would be lost before two months had expired." The colonel further admitted that he had related the conversation to the Prince himself. P ARIS BOURSE, MAT 14.—L a t est Prices--Five per 6 5f; Bank of Cts ~ USINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAY S AT THE 8 2 8 , f. 075 72c. ; Three per France,Cents:,e n LOZ , I1)01 STOCK-EXCHANGE, MAY —Namur —Northern of France, 12.. Orleans Bour nAm Am iens, 6—Dutch Rhenish, deaux, and Boulogn e Liete vA a —Paris and Roues, 20L4. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 9th have arrived ; th ey contain no news of interest. The Bolsa was closed on the 9th. in petty trade shall be conducted exclusively on the numeracy system whenever it does not exceed the sum of 10 florins. The commission therefore pro poses that small copper coins of the value of kreutzer, ditto, 1 kreutzer, and 2 ditto, shall be issued ; silver coins of the value of 5, 10, and 20 kreutzers, and of 1 and 2 florins ; sand gold coin of 5, 10, and 20 florins. The com mission also unanimously recommends that only one species of paper money shall be put in circulation for facilitating large negotiations, and that there shall be a guarantee that these notes can be at any time changed by the holder, at the national and branch banks, for the coin of the realm ; that the only paper money in circulation shall consist of that issued by the National Bank, and that these notes shall not be issued at a lower rate than ten florins. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti mated at 6,000 bales, of which 1,000 American were taken for export, and 3,000 on speculation. The market closed firmly with American nearly id. per lb. higher.— The market for Railway Shares opened firmly at former rates, but closed rather heavily. In the Corn Market to-day prices are firm. A larger demand has arisen for Sugar, and the quota tions are better supported. The public sales of Indigo, comprising 12,214 chests, began last evening, and are proceeding rather quietly. The qualities of the Bengal, as we are advised by Messrs. Wilkinson and Jewesbury, well-known brokers in the trade, are about three•fourths middling and ordinary, and one-fourth good and fine; the Madras one-third ordinary, and two-thirds good and fine; the Kurpah, two-thirds middling ordinary, and ore•third good and fine; the Java very fine; the;Manillz ordinary, with one or two chests good; the Bombay very ordinary. The room presented rather a thin attendance both of foreign and home buyers. The sales opened with a parcel of fine Bengal, consisting of 306 eheats of the mark I. and R. W., and was about half sold at 3d. per lb. above January rates; prices were from 3s. 9d. to ss. 4d. per lb., but without competition; there was only one chest at the former price, the chief proportion ranging above 4s. 9d. per lb. The advance upon liarpah and Madras has been full 3d. to 4d. per lb., and these rates ruled throughout yesterday. 1,187 chests passed yesterday, of which 217 were withdrawn, 210 bought in, and 760 sold. IC is understood that the Canada Reciprocity Bill, which was some time since re-committed to the Com mittee on Commerce, in the United States Legislature, will be again reported to the House, together with a correspondence between the Committee on Commerce and the Secretary of State, and between the Secretary of State and the British Minister, in which the British Minister communicates to the American Government his power to pledge the British Government to open the river St. Lawrence and the adjacent canals, to Ameri can citizens and to American shipping. This cor respondence was instituted by the Committee on Com merce, to avoid the necessity of introducing into the Reciprocity Bill any feature which could make this Bill in itself a measure of reciprocity with the Imperial Government, and thus open the same privileges to other nations with which the United States have commercial treaties containing the clause commonly called " the most favoured nation clause," that is, the clause which promises to put the nation with which the treaty is concluded on . the terms of the most favoured nation. The pledge of the British Minister is considered full and satisfactory, and the whole region of the north west is deeply interested in this privilege. The unfair and shuffling conduct of certain of the direc tcri elf the Madrid and Valencia Railway excites the highest degree of indignation in the City, but does not discourage the shareholders in their belief of ultimate and entire satisfaction for past disappointments. A party interested writes as follows: . " yeu have in your valuable paper ex posed the proceedings of the Madrid and Valencia Railway Company, I expected before now you ;would have stated what steps have been taken against the di rectors, individually and collectively. to secure the 110,0001. they have to account for, according to a `state ment published by a Mr. E. H. Lindo, the only item in which it appears to me they can object to is the 9,0001. for interest on the 75,000/., for if they have been using the money for their own purpose, they may not like to pay interest for it. All that has yet bees shown against it is, the secretary swears that about 3.000 shares have been bought in with the company's money, at about 11. per share. Mr. Waley committed a gross error in de , daring that part of the 3,7001. received from the bank was taken to pay the six millions Spanish stock, the cost of which is charged iu the account • rendered to the 31st of December, 1846. Nor can it Le supposed the Spanish Government would give up one security before it had another. The secretary declares Mr. Chadwick received the interest on that stock, which is about 1,900/. per annum. Care should be taken to prevent any of the directors getting out of the jurisdiction of the court. Let them prove their set-off' to the account. As to Mr. Rose's claim, it is all fudge; when his accouat is examin e d it w ill b e found Mr. ~ his kind father-in-law, has overpaid him, for the company cannot have to pay for Pattison, Wells, Neale, and others; he must look to his clients. As to the books, they are of minor consideration after Mr. L.'s plain account; probably they may only be duplicates of the North Wales Company's. It is therefore to be hoped that the official manager and his solicitor will lose no time in securing the large amount proved to be due by all the directors. " May 15, 1850. " A SHARER , LDER." We adverted a few days since to the imperative ne oessity of a generous line of policy being adopted to wards the railway companies, which are nearly crushed by improvident engagements formerly contracted, and it is highly pleasing to sea that the holders of Caledonian preference stock have come f n•ward to set an excellent ex ample by a voluntary sacrifice of part of their indisput ableclaims. The difference to them may notprove serious, but to the company it will be most valuable, and we trust the other guaranteed creditors will act in a like spirit. The Funds are very steady, and the signal defeat of the Protectionists counteracts the still unsettled cha racter of the French news. Consols are 96* to a for Transfer, and 961 for Account. Exchequer-bills are 68s. to 7 is. premium. Bank Stock is firm at 206 i. In the Foreign Market Spanish Five per Cents. are 171 I, and the Three per Cents. 37k. Another good remittance, about 70.000 dollars, is advised as being on board the " Medway" steamer, for the dividends on Mexican Bonds, which are now quoted 294 /. Peru vian Active have touched 741 and 754. Railway Shares are not fully supported, but look well generally. QUARTER TO THREE. Consols ... 961 Ditto, Account, June 12 ... 961 BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK. ( From the Official List. ) Bank Stock 20 6 1/ 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 2 per Cent. Consols Aims New 34 par Cent. Amts. Gong Annuities. Exp. Jan. sth, 1560 6 3-16 8 1 4 India Stock Do. Bonds, 10001 B6 90 p Ditto under 1.0001 South Sea Stock 106% Consols for Account 2d. Exchequer Bills. Marck. Jane. 68 71 p 68 71 ' 1,0601. 5001 - - Small — 68 71 p P PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS IT ONE O'CLOCK. Danish Bonds 1825, 8 per Cent-- Ditto, 5 per Cent Mexican 150nd5,1846,5 per Cent., Giupons Ditto Ex Jan. Coupons Ditto for the Account ..... Peruvian Bonds, 4 per Cent 74t, 751 4 Ditto Deferred Portuguese Bends, 5 per Cent Ditto 4 per Cent. Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent — Ditto 4 1 4 per Cents 95% Ditto Scrip 3 3 1 4 p Spanish Bond s , 5 p er Cent I7AI/2 Ditto Account Spanish Ronds,ll per Cent,l840 Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2 1 ,E per Cent., 12 Guild Ditto 4 oar Ceflt. Certificates BIISINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONR O'CLOCK RAILWAY/. PAID. Pas SKAZS. • herdeen /ember., Notting., Boston, &c. 7 1 4 — .... •to • tyrshire and Gall owa y 7 l /2 ,to Belfast and County Down .. 30 .. — .Irmlngham & OxfordJunct., calls duly pd, or with guar. 20 Do., without a guarantee... 20 . 24 4 / ... —to 'aledonian Eastern Counties Do. New Pref., 6 per Cent.. 10 Do. Exten.,s perct.No. 1,6/.135. 4d p..... to Do., do N 0.2,64 135.4 d... U p...... to .4;ast Lincolnshire, gear. 6 per Cent....... Great Nertnern Do. 14 A Deferred ......•• 12 1 4 2 1,...... to Do., 5 per Cent. Pref. ... ... 12 1 / 2 lO% to Glatt Western ..100 ...... £3l/23/414 to lull and Selby ..ancashire and Yorkshire ...100 Ditto Fifths Do., New Guar. 6 per cent Lond., Bright., & Soutb Coast 100 ..... 79 1 4 to Do., New Si., gun, 6pr Ct.loo l3 i .... . to 137 London & North Weatern--.100 10 2 14% .. to Do. Fifths l2 ..... 11A 3 Le Won and S. We5tern.......100 Ditto, New 404 wench Buxton, & Matlock 5 Midland.. . .... ........ ...100 .. 33 , Jorth British •• .. ......... . 25 ...... 7% 1 4. to North Staffordshire... .. ...... 17 1 4 Scottish Central south Eastern ..... ... 33 1 / 2 1 3 74, to Ditto. No. 3. ?oath Wales .. Wear Valley 6 per Cent. Guaranteed ,,.. ...... 50 .....• Do. do. do. Xilts,Somerset,&Waymouth 50 ..... 39% to York, Newcastle, and Berwick 25 ...... 13 Do. and Newcastle Eaten. 20 Do. G. N. E. Pur. or Pref. 8 York and North Midland .. 50 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Northern of France l6 ..... 12 1 4.... to Paris & Strasbourg ..... Sambre and Meuse COURSE 01 Amsterdam ...... .... 12 2 Ditto, three months .. 12 3 4 Rotterdam ...... 12 35{, Antwerp .. 25 85 Brussels • ... ... 25 85 ilatnburgh M.B. 13 13 Altona.• • .... Paris, 3 days'sight 2b 70 Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Marseilles .. ........ 25 87% Bourdeaux ..... • Frankfort on Mains 121% Vienna, effec. flo • . 12 20 Trieste, ditto .. • • .... 12 22 Petersburgh, 811. Ebbe.. 87% Madrid .... • • .... 49% Barcelona ............ .. • • •• • • • • • • • • ••• EXCHANGE. Gibraltar.. • • .. • • ...... Leghorn ........ • ..... 80 Si Genoa .... • • ...... •• .. 26 25 yfilan .. • • ............ Venice.. .. .. •. • • .... DTaples ...... • • • • • • • • 40% Palermo, per0z........ 121% Afessina .............. 122 Lisbon.... •• .......... 53% 0p0rt0.... • • .... ••• • • • 53% Rio Janeiro Buenos Ayres ........ New York, 60 days'sight Philadelphia -- PRICES OF BCMLION, PER OIL Foreign Gold in bt.rs.. X 3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coln .. 0 0 0 Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0 New Dollars • ... .. 0 4 10% Silver in bars ...... • • 0 4 11% AVOTHER SAVINGS' BANK DEFAULTER. ..... The Ulverston Advertiser of Thursday last announces that the trustees of the savings' bank in that town have discovered a d e falcation to the amount of 8281. in the accounts of the actuary' No loss will, however, SCCIII9 to the tlepOlitoo, as the bond of the actuary is for 8091. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, MAY 15.—Wired 9t noev, N breeze and fire, but cloudy a tint's. Balm 30 (Fail). PARIS, MAY 15.—The Sans Souci, aid from Pond,- cherry on the 10:h of Octobel. Fist, bound to Reunion. and bad not reached her destination on the 22d cf February. The Vladimer left Rochelle on the 27th of January, bound to New Yolk, and had not reached that port on the 20th of April. BANGOR, MAY 14.—A large piece of a vessel's stern, with " Waterwitch " in gilt letters on it, was picked up a few days since in Red wharf Bay. LIBIERICK, MAY 13. Wind N.W. Sld. Mereea, New York ; Lively, Boston ; Victoria, Quebec; Tom Bowline, Quebec. LONDONDERRY.—SId. Leander. New York. SHIELDS, MAY 14.—Wind N.E.-61d. Aphrodite, Ce%lon; Sea Nymph, Bosto n. DEAL, MAY 14.—Wind N.W. to W. and W.S.W.— - - - Arrd. Purchase, St. Kitt's. Arrd. from the River, Eleanor, BarbadQes; Caroline, Jamaica. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 14.—Wind W. to N.W.—Shl. Plenty, Aliramichi. LIVERPOOL, MAY 14.—Wind W.N.W. to N.N.W.— Sld. Avoca, Panacea; St. Helier, Rio Grande. Off port. Martha, Shallcross, Buenos Ayres. PLYM , UTH, MAY 14.—Wind N.-1.31d. Emily, Me hide and Pert Pnilip. _ _ _ FALMOUTH, MAY N.—Arrd. Sorurse shire. Symons. Sierra Le.ne. NEWPORT, MAY 13.—Wind N.E.—Sld. Mary Adelia, Boston, Uuited States. WHITSTABLE, MAY 14.—Three sails, marke l " Guil ford, sailtnaker, N. Shields" have been sciz , d, supposed to have been taken from a vessel lost on the Whittaker Sand. A wood-stocked P.nchor, marked " Est-r, Lon don," and 30fms. chain, have been landed; also, an iron stocked anchor of 7 cwt., and 45 fins of chain, taken up half-a-mile E. r , f Shivering Sand. GERMANY. Count BRANDENBURG, the Prussian Prime Minis ter, officially announced on the 10th, to the 'Ministers of the Allied Stater, the approval by Prussia of tt• amendments proposed in the Constitution by the Erfurth Parliament. The Wiener Zeitung of the 9th publishes the re port addressed to the Austrian Minister of Finance by the commis s i on c h arge d to ma k e propos it ions relative to the organic disposition of the bank. It appears from this report, which is dated February 26, that the bank possessed only the sum cf 30,372,600 florins in cash, whereas the bills of ex change and other papers in circulation amounted to 338,9 73,742 fl or i ns. The commission unanimously recognises that the basis of the circulation in Austria ought to be re-established in nume rary, and it proposes that in future any traneactione MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY. CORN EXCHANGE—WEDNESDAY. Scarcely any English Wheat was on offer in to-day's market. The demand. however, was far from active; yet Monday's quotations were well supported in every instance. Very few offers reached us from the East coast to ship Wheats at ruling prices. The imports of Foreign Wheat have been confined to 3,560 quarters, chiefly from the Baltic. Fine parcels were held firmly at the late advance. In the middling and inferior kiwis very little was doing. Scarcely any Barley was brought forward; grinding awl distilling sorts moved off freely, at full rates of cnrrency; malting parcels were quite as dear. We had a steady inquiry for Malt, the prices of which were well supportea. Oats, the supply of which was very small, sold at 6J per quarter more money. Beans, Peas, Indian Corn, and Flour, were unaltered in value. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Malt. Flour. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Sacks English B3O 460 1,570 910 Scotch•• •• •• • • Irish — Foreign .. 4 1 1 ' t.:;111iti01/ NEWMARKET RASE S, (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPIL) Sweepstakes of 50 sovs• each, for four yr s old. St. Rosalie walk Or' Bordeaux Nutcracker Diligence Laundry Maid The Champion Stakes. Handicap Plate of 501. The Suffolk Stakes of 15 swim. eaeli. St. George iierbnt C )icot Sweepstakes. Off by consent. Jockey Club Plate. St. ltosalim ". I I "‘ $ olke" sr ••• • • ••• EXTRAORDINARY CASE O' POSTURE. (From the Essex Herald.) t ger At the weekly board of the Sussex C Ollll f re dible pital, yesterday, a remarkable and almost ia c case of imposture was exposed : rent ( A woman named Bet s y Ginn, aged 23n0000 . three weeks since as an in-patient, on the no, Ao dation of a subscrib e r an d a su r g eon's certiPd o ed charged by her sur geon with w ilfully Pr o gialta the disease for the cure of which she hac l !Pb r e ro l :, the hospital. The statement made again st that very numerous diseased patches of a fsei nearly the whale of her body, limbst,,, sn ot tts' were the result of her own application to 44 1 E 1 01 hydrochloric acid (spirit of salt). S eve s rs ad s :d ° were nearly as large as the palm of the m ti- es they were in different stages, the recent ° n o OP yet in a gangrenous condition, others (fiv a tr oub A lr the sloughs had suppurated) were deep and bet some ulcers, and many (the majority) ha es but with disfiguring scars, and in, some injury and contraction of the adjacent sirl e i te •dia t o ; following arguments were advanced by her 140 )0 —That the parts of her body (as her backt jo readily accessible t o h er own hand ree2 l ffel:l fectly sound, and f ree f rom scars; that th e be was totally different from a n y di s ease Wilt s Yi 7 ever witnessed; that the three fresh Pg' tcPw Co°l had shown thems e l ves d ur i ng h er s tay the clisti ll ,a Hospital had been scru ti n i ze d ; that son e f or:„ water, with which they h a d b ee n carefu ll i o lder, gave, with chemical tests, abundan t 0, 4 1 of the presence of hydrochloric se'' ap ; e 1 little hydrochloric acid, which he brough,rocla„ the surgery, and applied to her skin, haa.fe of a gangrenous spot—a miniature fac - si f7 t c loth ° be others ; and, lastly, th a t on searc hing phial had been found con t a i n i ng the refflail%, d 001 01 hydrochloric acid. Th e woman , after 08.., 7,i11ia and prevarications, at length admitted he t r e c i e cer o f further, that she had been practising t ilg ,„ o oo, o i for a period of nearly three years, four which she had spent in the Colchester o°s i rjaw;': nine weeks in University College HosP itti s " without the imposture being discoverewd beesA begging for mercy, she stated that shell , 1 V' duced so to act in the hope of obtaining • tiof home than a workhouse. fOr s It appears that suspicions o f fraud Wee a cts entertained by the medical gen tl e men t i cieeiattl her in Chelmsford. It was a t the Pee, - December, 1847, whe n me di ca l relief 0 r i .,7, 0 10 11 0 1 for, and she exhibited to Mr. 0. gangrenous appearance upon the fore7 rlDi is gentleman, from its appearance, instant'ia she her with producing it by burning, but $: peatedly and solemnly denied, declaritt o sl; o 4 came of itself; and the mother when que st ,i3 O t firmed her in this, adding as a proof •fro was no deception in the case that the g e l tst , ther died from a disease of the same char t ; t he it o the course of a short time a large piece ° ,41 8 a in the arm mortified and a c t ua lly dropped° - a deep and painful ulcer, nearly six lac', to secure the healing ot which it was necesse* c ol l o painful caustiee. Since then there has bea l3l oo lo4 succession of sores, as many as sixty P i r r eari appeared, all of the same character, and s` l oB 0 6 ) the same treatment. Some of these were . • I so d the top of a teacup, others as large 0-, r o t Y plate, and several, though healed, have leftX.o t y injury behind them; one in p a rticula r ' fed back of the hand, was s o d ee p th a t it llatie 0 whole of the tendons, d es t roy i ng t h e use el 0 0 9 entirely ; the face is scarred from the same V i ths in fact there is scarce l y a part of the b o dy marked by frightful cicatrices of these *Twice was not till these sores were multiplied, 913 " o f th e m ) pearance upon the face, to the great injUrY, ; - ro d ' man's personal appearance, which it seemea7 h ii that any woman would voluntarily inflict , ''," - e stir d i,' rent absence of all motive to counterbalati-Je9 degree of pain, and after the many 30161 1 1 : tions of the party, that Mr. Copland vi" - e to consider it or treat it as a 40 10'0 was certainly then considered as one before:o lll A 0 The woman was seen by several medical ' P A 0 4 1 '0 town, all of whom were fairly pusal e ,"irerber medicine was baffled, arrangements " C01,. 5 0 1 by the benevolent, and she was sent t ° 0 1.0: ter Hospital. Discharged from tha t he ment• in much the same state as 9 "belsa n loll through the sympathy excited in b e i r r , hOre was introduced to one of the Lonco, - re stl, o pt where her case created intense il l ' e r igh' t tt e gave rise to every conjecture but the 0 1 , Artists were employed to take drai r l iv , i v trto wounds ; every means of cure that ing e % o o ols oo suggest were attempted ; but after som e - s be patient returned home much worse tha A n beal i etel The pity of those w h o f or th ree years 135- 00" or atrociously imposed on did not let her osaa cto oo . i ii sil another effort wa s h a ppil y made, andt,-,Orlig,Y clothes were furni s h e d t o p l ace h e r in tic; o o 6l Hospital, where the f rau d was mos t jege tected. r try. The reason assigned by the impostorfor h e Ae ( is of a piece with th e w h o l e t ransac tion. bet sll stated she was in service ; and it has ne lie s ase . f posed that she should go i n t o th e u nion . P - o blei ott o doubt her object was to defraud the ch a ,, 11 , 0 1; 1 9 she has succeeded, though, we should t_.`""ss the extent of her original plan ; but sbe p etti obtained rank amongst the most reniarkab'e postors of the day.' THE CITY GAS QUEST coo' Yesterday, o n the reassembling of t he of r' Mr. Cardw e ll i n th e chair, the examination Coo Mr. Croll, the en g i neer of the Central Ga i botlf s. o o l l was proceeded with, and continued for thr eo „.th e t 6 did not anticipate any difficulty in run t p t re j at. 4 6 Y e ri through Whitechapel, though SD many through that district. The amount of gm' foss rj the public street lights of the metropolis o h 4 05 than that consumed by private lights, 'P e e . . - io t latter were a less time burning. Generi P Ao o,fr o dio there was very little escape of gas in Doil", c aen g tf i rf greater proportion of gas that could not be i'ol o- ek aa 4i ttlAv arose not so much from leakag e , but Up t o termed " cheatage" and " stealaie.” iy eao last the Great C e nt ra l C ompany had receLot and had 12,0001. at the backers. The ' - iser'"110: 0 1 4 due on the 16th of April, and was comPe,, ) A l3 4r able before the 29th of May. Witri,, es o o 6 11" - to,ch in the company was about twenty thoussuu ` oo tilatr o he was interested in it as an engineer, a e ße lie f p# ll. o meter, manufacturer, and a shareholder. gas might be supplied by the Commercial 050 v roO l i C 01$ in Whitechapel, at less than 55., and at i l;reia' per cent. Was not aware that the Corow - d , f r A i pany did not for several years pay a divid h e f t foi l i bev The Hon. CHAIRMAN—Do you think t , •-• if „, supply less gas than you have centractel for fe companies came down permanently to 40,,,,t 0 14 4 Witness—lt would not affect us for the 6.' n ' a o„ j t because we have entered into contracts, with 6• consumers in the City to supply them w t- is ° cubic feet of gas for five years, and after a fic ik? operation we expect to pay a first dividend' t o 1 0 The committee, at four o'clock, adjourned y / 27th inst., at twelve o'clock. , 130112.0 UGH 1101. Our market continufs very inactive; ,)e,;hulders are not disposed to accept I,,w(r_pr,ces._ VTECITEC - 1111PEZ. Prime Beef, Mutton and Lamb, commanded a steady sale at full prices. In other kinds of meat only a limited business was doing. Beef from 2s to 3s oil; Mutton, 2s 8d to 3s 10 , 1; Lamb, 4s 4d to 5s 8d; Veal, 2s 8d to 3s 4d; and Pork, 3s to 4s per 81bs, by the carcase. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi Prim., at Guildhall, lA' ,re Lord CAMP BELL and a Common Jury.) HETHERINGTON V. DI‘CORMIC. Tbis was an action brought to recover damages for an assault and false imprisonment. Mr. Lush was counsel for the plaintiff, and Mr. O'Mal• ley represented the defendant. The plaintiff is a Parliamentary agent and debt collector, and the defendant is a tradesman residing in Fleet street. It appeared that the plaintiff, who had been an attorney in Ireland, having been reduced in circumstances, came to England, when he became connected with the defendant in certain busi ness transactions, and in November last the defendant, thinking he had some cause of complaint against the plaintiff, gave him into custody on a charge of em bezzling 21. 45., as he (the plaintiff) was walking down Fleet-street on his way to his chambers. He was then taken before the police magistrate at Guildhall. by whom he was detained in custody from the 19th of November until the 16th December, and then discharged. Witnesses having been called to prove these facts. Mr. O'MALLEY addressed the jury for the defence, contending that the reputation of the plaintiff had sus tained no injury. The charge against him only fell to the ground for want of legal evidence to support it. The plaintiff had himself admitted his moral guilt. there were several charges of a like description against the plaintiff, and on one of them he had been committed to Newgate, though afterwards discharged. The defen• dant, he submitted, was only liable for the imprison ment of the plaintiff until the remand took place. Lord CAMPBELL told the jury the sole question for them was the amount of damages. The plaintiff was net entitled to damages beyond the time of the remand. He thought this was hardly a case for nominal damages, as the defendant had taken the law into his own hands. The defendant had no. proved that a felony was com mitted; therefore it must be assumed that the charge against the plaintiff was unfounded. The di f -ndant tied, on the other hand, act d on very excusable motives in giving the plait tff into custody, arid tha , being so, he (Lord Campbell) did nut think it was an aggravated case. The jury returned a verdict fur the plaintiff—Damage one farthing. EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) The second sittings at Nisi Prins, in the city, were held to-day, but nothing transpired of the slightest pub lic interest or importance. BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) A respectably-attired man, who spoke with the ac cent of au Irishman, was charged under the following circumstances:— Police-constable F 16 stated, that yesterday afters on he met the prisoner in Crown-street. Holborn, carrying a child, about nine years of age. The prisoner was in toxicated, and th• child appeared to be insensible from drink. He sent the prisoner in custody of another con stable to the station, while he himself took the child to the hospital, where it was found to be in a dangerous state, but its stomach was relieved of its foul contents, and now the child was only suffering from the langour produced by the drink it had taken. The father of the child, who appeared to be a me chanic, stated that all he knew of the prisoner was simply this .—Some time ago he introduced a lodger to his house. Yesterday he called to see this lodger, and toot: that opportunity of getting possession (,f the child, by inducing the wife to let it go to a neighbouring pawn shop to redeem a scarf for him. Nothing was heard of the child till the police-constable came with the informa tion that it was in the hospital. The prisoner admitted this statement to be correct, and told the magistrate that before he got to the pawn shop he met a friend, who invited him to have some drink, and this person gave the child two glasses of ruin. Mr. HENRY asked if the child was a male or a female? —The father replied that the child was a female. The child was not sufficiently recovered to admit of her being removed from the hospital. Mr. HENRY, therefore, remanded the case until she could attend to give evidence in the case, SADLER'S WELLS THEATRE. PERFORMANCE IN AID OF THE FUNDS OF GRAND EXHIBITION OF 1850. All honour to Messrs. Grk enwcod and Phelps for having set an example which, we trust, will be followed not only by all metropolitan managers, but by all pro vincial managers also. They, to-morrow, give a per formance at the Theatre Royal Sadler's Wells, the entire receipts accruing from which will be given in aid of the funds of the Grated Exhibition of 1851. the expenses of the evening being defrayed by the management. This liberality on the part of Messrs. Greenwood and Phelps is almost unparalleled in the history of theatricals, and accordingly we are rejoiced to find that their conduct has been so highly appreciated that H. R. H. the Duke of Cambridge has consented that the performances shall be under his most gracious patronage, and that his Royal Highness bas taken a box, and signified his intention to honour them with his presence; that the Duchess of Sutherland, and several others of the nobility have taken boxes and will also be present, and that the following gentlemen have consented to act as a committee :—Charles Dickens, Esq , Leigh Hunt, Esq., Charles Kemble, Esq., D , uglas Jerrold, Esq., John Forster, Esq., Charles Knight, Esq. John Oxenford, Esq, D. Maclise, Esq, R.A., H. F. Chorley, Esq., J A. Heraud, Esq., F. G. Tom lins, Esq., G. Daniel, Esq., Clarkson Stanfield, Esq., lt. A. The peforrnance will commence with an Address written by R. H. Horne, Esq., which will be spoken by Mr. Phelps, after which the National Anthem will be sung. This will be followed by four acts of Shakepere'a Henry VIII., atter which Mr. R. H. Horne will appear as Shy lock, in the trial scene of the Merchant of Venice. This will be succeeded by a grand coucert,lin which Miss Dolby, Miss Lucombe, Miss Lanz4,Miss Lizzie Tedder Mr. G. F. Kiallmark, Mr Sedgwick, Herr Stuart, Herr Ernst, Mr. Whitworth, Mr. Travers, Mr. G. Esq., Sheridan Knowles, Esq., B. H. Horne, Esq., J. W. Marston, E• q., I'. K. Hervey, Esq , Charles Cowden Clark, Esq., Lord Nugent, M.P., Lord Dudley C. Stuart, M. P., Richard Monck ton Manes, Esq., M. P., W. M, Thackeray, Mengis, and other eminent performers, who have kindiy given their valuable assistance, will sppt ar. The whole w 11 conclude with the farce of the Silent Woman. Again, we say, all honour to Messrs. Greenwood and Phelps for the liberal manner in which they have come forward in support of a great national object, and may the excel lent example which they have been the first to set be followed by every other manager in the kingdem. " SACRIFICE" TRADESMEN.—OnO of these generous, disinterested, sacrificing gentlemen had stuck upon every other pane of glass, "Selling off • no reasonable offer refused—must close on Saturday." This man once offered himself as bail, or security, in some case which was brought before a magistrate. The magistrate asked him if he was worth 2001. ; he said "Yes." "But you are about to remove, are vou not ?" "No." " Why you wrote up `Selling off.'" ." Yes ; every shopkeeper is selling of." " You say, 'No reasonable offer will be refused.' " "Why, I should be very unreasonable if I did refuse such offers." "But you say you ' Must •close on Saturday.'" "To be sure ; you wt , uld not have me open on Sunday, would you ?" —Liverpool Paper. The Earl of Lincoln's Divorce Bill was yesterday read a first time in the House of Lords, and Wk Ordered to be reed OCGO.GI ti w, 9IA UMW' , 2841 HOLLAND. THE HAGUE, Mir Il.—The Handelsbad says:— " We learn from an authentic source that the Go vernment does not intend to dissolve the Second Chamber after the adoption of the electoral and other organic laws which now occupy the States-General. It is rather intended that there shall be a short session in the middle of September. The First Chamber, on the other hand, will be dissolved in order to its re election by the provincial states.—Journal du Com merce, May 13, TURKEY. Accounts from Constantinople of the 27th ult. state that the insurrection in the Island of Samos had again broken out. Disturbances have also oc curred at Bagdad and in the Syrian cities. THE lONIAN ISLANDS. The Gazetta di Corfu of the 27th ult. publishes a Parliamentary resolution, confirmed by the Lord High Commissioner, by which all goods transported by the Austrian Lloyd steamer from Corfu, Cepha lonia, and Zante are exempted from the Customs duty of five per cent. formerly imposed. MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT, MAY 14.—The intelligence by the Atlantic has had a very depressing effect ou to-day's mar k et. I t has sent up the price of yarns I,Bd. to ,y d., and i n some i nstances even more, over the rate of this day week. The consequence has been .an almost total stagnation in the yarn market. Except for the East India market (numbers ranging from 50's up to 90's and 100's, upon which of course the advance in the price of cotton is not so much felt) few purchases have been made. In lower numbers, unless it may be for the completion of pressing orders, under contract, little or nothing has been done. The goods market has experienced little alteration in prices. The demand for shirtings is tolerably good, 36 and 40-inch T cloths are dull of sale, and decidedly unremunerative. TREASURE TROVE.—Exactly twelve months since we announced the fact of a large amount of treasure being found in an old clipper, bought by two watermen after being engaged in t h e coa l trade, but w hi c h cra f t h a d b een captured several years previously when engaged in that abominable traffic the slave trade. It gives us great pleasure in an nouncing that the same good luck has fallen to the share of her Majesty's steam-sloop Cormorant, Commander H. Schoenberg, one of whose prizes, an empty slave barque of 382 tons, arrived at St. Helena on the 6th March last, in charge of Mr. G. C. Smith, master's assistant of the above steam-sloop. The barque had bad a tedious passage of forty-eight days from the Brazils, but the voyage was somewhat enlivened by the discovery of between five and six thousand dollars headed up in a farinha cask. She was the third prize made since the Cormorant arrived on the station, but the first sent to the prize court at St. Helena for condemnation, the others being burnt, unseaworthy.—Nau tical Standard. POST-OFFICE NOTICE.—The following notice has been sent to the deputy-postmasters, by command of the Postmaster-General :----General Post-office, May 12, 1850. It is found that many postmasters still forward, on the Saturday night, in their " London through" bundles, letters and newspapers which ought to be kept over for the dispatch to London of the following day, viz., letters for London and the London district; letters for foreign parts; inland letters, prepaid by money; unpaid letters; letters for Guernsey and Jersey; and newspapers. Particular attention must be paid to the previous instructions, which direct that the " London through" bundles are to contain none but stamped forward betters, and the State's or Government letters. No registered letters, unpaid letters, or letters pre-paid by money, or news. papers, are to be sent, nor any letters addressed to London or the London district, except the Government letters. Postmasters at the outports must, however, forward to Lon don, as usual, all foreign, colonial, and ship letters landed at those ports. - ILL-TREATMENT Or A LUNATlC.—Kingston-upon- Thames has been in a state of excitement in consequence of certain facts brought to light a few days back by a brick layer and his labourers in their repairs of a house. It ap pears that whilst these men were at work a young woman opened a window, and communicated to them that she had been imprisoned in a room at the top of a house for several years and treated as a lunatic by her relations, and that her incarceration was in consequence of certain claims to pro perty tinder her father's will. The report made by the bricklayer and his men caused considerable sensation is the town, and in consequence of what transpired the business was brought before the magistrates, who, after an investiga tion, instructed their clerk (Mr. Jemmett) to see that the young woman was forthwith removed to a more comfortable and healthy apartment, that she had not only medical but other attendance, that her diet should be such as was proper and nutritious, and that she should have out-door exercise when necessary, and these regulations they insisted on ; and they did not separat e w ith ou t express i ng t h e i r acknowedg ment of the services rendered by the parochial authorities and police. LONDON HOSPITAL 1/SEDICAL SCSIOOL.The me dais and honorary certificates awarded for the past winter session were publicly distributed on Tuesday, May 14, in the library of the hospital, Mr. C. B. Stutfield, chairman of the house committee, presiding. Hospital gold medals, presented by the governors of the hospital for zeal and humanity in attendance on the patients :—Medical—Henry Hanks, Bath. Surgical—George Cochrane Millar, Finsbury. Medicine— Senior class—Gold medal - Robert Brudenell Carter, Tiver ton. Honorary certificate—Thomas Peete, Margate. Junior class—Silver medal—Alfred Adams Mantell, Bilton. Hono rary certificate—Ridley Porter, Bishopsgate. Surgery— Senior class—Gold medal—George Edmund Smale, Ply mouth. Honorary certificate—Willi am Th omas Bell, Great Grimsby. Junior class—Silver medal—Robert Brudenell Carter. Anatomy and Physiology—Senior class—Gold medal—Alonzo Henry Stocker, Chelsea; George Edmund Swale, Plymouth. Chymistry—First silver medal—William Horder Sheppard. Shaftesbury. Second silver medal—Tho mas Busby Jeffs, Finsbury. Forensic Medicine—Silver medal—Alonzo Henry Stocker. Honorary certificate— Bernard Charles Beale, Bow. Botany—Silver medal— Alonzo Henry Stocker. Honorary certificate—William Henry Harris, Barnstaple; Owen Jeffries Llewellyn, Pad dington, Devon. PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.--A meeting of the Bethnal-green Reform Society was held on Monday evening, at the Norfolk Arms, William-street, Bethnal-green, which was numerously attended; Mr. Joseph Dean in the chair. Mr. Hackman, one of the delegates to the National Reform Conference, made his report, which was approved and adopted. The meeting then proceeded to take into consi deration the principal objects of the society, which were to obtain the elective franchise for all persons living in houses for which the landlord pays the rates and taxes, without the necessity of claiming to be rated to every rate made during the four quarters of the year. The chairman stated that a Bill had been prepared by Sir William Clay to remedy the evil, who was now in communication with the Government and the law officers of the Crown on the subject. Mr. Wick ham urged upon the meeting the importance of watching most closely the progress of this Bill, which there was too much reason to fear would be rendered nugatory by the Go vernment officials. The meeting resolved to act upon Mr. Wickham's suggestion. Stu R. PEEL AND MR. KEARSEY. -- Mr. Kear sey having written to Sir Robert Peel that he had been seventeen years a farmer, and yet never earned so much dur ing that time as in the seventeen last months since he be came a trader, Sir R. Peel has caused the following reply to be sent :—"John Kearsey, Esq., Warnford, Bishop's Wal tham, Hants.— Sir,—l am directed by Sir Robert Peel to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 30th March, and to thank you for its communication. You observe that you gained more money in seventeen months' trading than you had gained in seventeen years' farming of a good estate in Barks, of 5,0001. stocking, and that farming has long been an unprofitable trade. During the seventeen years of farm ing to which you refer, or a very considerable portion of the time, there were high duties on the import of foreign agri cultural produce, and yet they did not avail to secure you a profitable return on your capital and skill applied to farm. ing ; he concludes, therefore, that you would not look to the restoration of such duties as a remedy for agricultural dis tress. I am, sir, your most obedient servant, A. W. PEEL.— Drayton Manor, April S." INSPECTION OF THE HOUSEHOLD TROOPS.—(TRIS DAY.) The fineness of the weather this morning attracted a vast crowd of spectators to witness the inspection of the Household Troops, which took place in the presence of his Grace the Commander-in-Chief, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, Colonel of the Fusileer Guards, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, Colonel of the Coldstream Guards, and a brilliant staff of officers. The troops looked extremely clean and healthy, and went through their evolutions with marked precision and nicety. PETTY SESSIONS CLERKS (IRELAND).--From a return ordered by the House of Commons it appears that the number of petty sessions in Ireland is 595, which furnish employment to 555 clerks, 47 of whom hold two, and 7 three petty sessions. The amount of fees paid to clerks was, 1849, 16,201/. Isa. 10d. - - condition that he should THE RUINOUS BILL SY STEM.—Lieuten ant Arthur 7751., e W ha i l r l g i a e m d b T y w t i h ss e , l o n f so th h e .e n i t -t o c y o a t l irt A , r o t n i l l e e o ry n d , was yesterday di s .. The the trans appropriate a certain sum from hi s p a y for the liquidation of his debts. The cause of his i nsolvenc y wa s the acceptance of various accommodation hills for a brother officer, Lieute nant Burchell, who is also in p rison. Th e Jew bill-dis counters obtained, by this a bominable s y s tem , from these y money oung n a d ie N n ,a bills nc e d faotirdvish-icouhr a i t m i c o s n to nt e t a h t e o a o m n l o y u 8 n t w o . f actions only extended over t he s p ace of a y e ar. At the Lambeth Police - court yesterday the corps dramatigue of a penny theatre , recentl y opened in Lock's fimeelndst, e w n e e r h e , sentenced rin to in 2 g O w s. i fi th n o e n , torafiliiueretneceen imprison . days' Sidney Robert Sparke a a nd Charles Stanley, alias Nixon, charged with having in various instances ob tained money under the false pretence of providing persons with situations—with being , i n short, k e e pers of a sham aMgre.ncyJaordffiincee—rewfuesreedyetosterclay remanded from Bow- s t reet. admit them to bail. THE WEATHEE.—The mean daily reading of the nes n d i a li( y ) , barometer in the past wee k at the Royal Observatory, Greenwi c h, was 29.577. The mean temperature was 461 deg., and was less by 5 .4 deg. than the average of the same week in seven years. On every day it was less than the and rsday but especialwhen ly t the en decrease l onday w , Tuesday,as from seven to Wednesday, degrees. The wind was generally in the north-east and south-west. The body of a Custom-house officer, named Sta pleford, whose disappearance from the Dutch b r i g P a ll as, at Portsmouth, about two months since, caused considerable excitement was picked up floating near the shore off Ilayling Island, on Sunday last. In the Bankruptcy Court yesterday Mr. Commis sioner Fonblanque adjournea the examination of henryßose sine di e , an d re f us ed him protection for a single hour. The bankrupt had carried on buarneee in Aleachester AS a brew er. DIED. el P ° l ) 3/ ' Lcanihna o agr n sili the sth inst , at Tenb , Marv, relict of C°l°lil4sP Lieu sister of rs o i f ffiu r t nr h ec e y, a a ar t gi l e ß dß i g :s h . 3 11 7 on. 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Or e On the 11th inst., in Hill-street, Berkeley -§errs• ' :to o f' d f of the Rev. R. M. Wood, curate of Aldbury, t he fl` e p On the Bth inst., at Balsdon-lodge, Torqu a y' P" H. Lee, Esq. n °r eel °b, On the 11 th inst., at Sutton's-gate, ' 0 1 Mrs. J. J. W. Gutch. b 0 ig OF A DAUGHTER. " of p 00 On the 11th inst., Mrs. Rice W. Liarrio, 0,c14,, Birmingham. 0 , gr . ' et On the Bth inst., at Kingston,GloncestersL J. l A COOP On the 11th inst., at Tilford, the wife o r ''' j t 46th Regiment. ...,,:Ager'ilr 46th Regiment. ---- -----4'clger'it'f ~ i 011 MARRIED. .... :rail A dti At Highbury, on the 14th n st•, oir.• -- e coo' Broadbempston, Devon, to Elizabeth ter of Thomas Cox, Esq., of Avlesbury ri ck° tolit IP , , . 1 Bur s r ce , On the 9th inst., at L'langai•ren, Dante ...., 0 0 p., Matilda, s „woo son of the late D. B. Scott, Esq., of logh t t,'poio' e Edith, youngest daughter of the late Thom , " le t t of Bernithan-court, near Ross, Herefordshire • _.,, Or , _Ao O On the 9th inst., at St. Peters's, Shaftesburioor Oxley, of Frome Selwood , Somerst, to E liza iee• daughter of T. Abbott, E ' . IN l tl i ' , t Es ,of the former 1 3 . - 'll'