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The Grand Duke, in a state of violent agitation, de manded of him when he approached, what bad become of his father ? The silence of Count Pahlen soon dissi pated the fatal illusions he had cherished, in imagining that au act of abdication was only contemplated. The p,Ti , f of the young prince was profound ; it continued to be, we are told, the secret remorse of his life, as he was naturally of a good and generous nature. He threw him self upon a chair, and burst into tears ; would listen no longer to any thin., but loaded Pahlen with bitter re proaches, which the latter received with an imperturba ble composure. St. Petersburgh was filled with consternation at the news of this bloody catastrophe. The impression it created proved that the manners of the empire had un dergone a change, and that since 1762, Russian manners had become modified by the influence of European . civilisation. It may be said to the honour of Russia, that if she had already progressed since 1762, she has equally advanced since 1800. The Russians exhibited, on that occasion, feelings which did them honour. They feared Paul I. and his insanity, more than they hated him, as he was not of a sanguinary character. The horrible circumstances of his death were immediately known, and inspired the deepest commiseration. His body lay in state according to usage, but infinite pre cautions were used to disguise his wounds. Military gloves concealed the mutilation of his hands. A large hat completely covered his head. His fake was dis fi4ured by contusions, but it was given out that he had died of apoplexy. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. TO-MORROW EVENING Will be performed Donizetti's Opera, entitled LUCIA DI LAM MERMOOR. Lucia, Mdlle. A. Castellan ; Alicia, Madame Bellini ; Enrico, Si;. Fornasari ; Edgardo, Sig. Moriani. To conclude with an entirely new Ballet, by M. Perrot, entitled EOLINE ; ou, LA DRYADE. The Music by Signor Pugni. The Scenery by Mr. Marshall. unneipal Characters—Eolinc (betrothed to Count Edgard), Mddle. Lucile Grahn ; Rubezahl (le Gnome), M. Perrot ; Count Edgard, M. Toussaint ; Prince of Silesia (brother of Eoline), M. Gosselin. In the course of the Ballet the following Dances will be introduced : Waltze Selesienne, by the Coryphees of the Corps de Ballet. Pas de la Fiancee—Mdlle. Lucile Grahn and 31. Toussaint, Pas de Cinq (composed bY M. Gosselin)—Mdlles. Louise Weiss, Fer dinand, Demelisse, Cassan, and Moncelet. Mazourka D'Extase—Mdlle. Lucile Grlhn and M. Perrot, Fourth Tableau. Grand Pas des Dryades by Mdlle. L. Grahn and the Ladies of the Corps de Ballet. On Thurs./Ay next, April 3, there will be an Opera, it beirr; a Sub scription Night. Doors open at Half-past Seven ; the Opera to commence at Eight. Ipplications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box office, Opera Colonnade. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. • It is respectfully announced that a Second GRAND MUSICAL FETE, Comprising the unpublished manuscripts of the celebrated FELICIEN DAVID, Will be presented on MONDAY, APRIL 14, With the original Melodies and Choruses. Grand Descriptive Symphonic Ode of THE DESERT, _ _ . Produced for the first time with the most enthusiastic success at the Conservatoire Royal, Paris. LE DESERT. Ode, Symphonic, Orientate—divided in three parts with grand orchestra. The orchestra and chorus will include upwards of 200 per formers. The whole under the Direction of Signor Costa. Solos by Sigs Moriani and Corelli. PROGRAMME. Part I.—Entrance to the Desert. Glorification of Allah ; grand chorus and orchestra--Arrival of the Caravan—Departure of tht Caravan—Tempest in the Desert— lteturn of the Calm—The Caravan resumes its march. Part I I.—Night. The Evening Star—Halt of the Caravan—Hymn to the Night : air sung by Signor Moriani—Arabian Fantasia—The Dance of the Alines—The Liberty of the Desert grand chorus with orchestra— Evening reverie melody sung by Signor Moriani, with chorus and orchestral accompaniments—Sleep Part lll.:—Sun-rise. Call of the Muezzin; original Arabian melody, with the Arabic words—The Caravan starts once more on its journey—The Cara van gra:lually disappears in the distance ; grand chorus and orches tra—Silence in the Desert—The Song of Thanksgiving—Allah. Grand chorus final. Introductory Part—lst. Fragment of Grand Symphony in E flat-2d. Melodic imitative a Grand Orchestre : Les Ilirondelles, sung by Signor Moriani-3d. Melodie Orientale : Le Chibouque 4th. Soiree du Printemps Fragment tire des quartre Saissons de Iclicien David, executed by all the string instruments. Boxes, Two, Three, and Four Guineas each. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Pit Tickets to be made at the Opera-office, Colonnade, Haymarket. Doors open at Eight o'clock ; to commence at Half-past Eight. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE. THIS EVENING Will be performed ROBERT THE DEVIL. Robert, Mr. W. Har- Tison ; Bertram, Mr. Stretton ; Raimbant, Mr. D. W. King ; Isabella, Miss Rainforth ; Alice, Miss Romer. After which will be repeated, a New Comic Ballet, entitled ROBERf AND BERTRAND. The Eminent Tenor, M. DUPREZ, is engaged here for Twelve Nights only, and will make his appearance on Monday, April 7, in his celebrated character of ARNOLD, in GUILLAUME TELL; and is also preparing himself for his unrivalled personation of EDGAR, in Donizetti's popular Opera, TIIE BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR, for the Performance of which, an Engagement has also been ex pressly entered into with Mdlle. EUGENIE Gaiter A. The Box-office is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six m the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, k laces, and Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. LESSEE, %IR. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING Will be repelted a New and Original Comedy, entitled THE SHERIFF OF THE COUNTY. Principal Characters by Messrs. W. Farren, Strickland, Bnckstone, Webster, Mrs. Glover, Mrs. W. Clifford, Mrs. Humby, Miss Julia Bennett, &c. After which, a New Grand Classical Extravaganza, entitled THE GOLDEN FLEECE. Principal Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, J. Bland, Madame Vestris, and Miss P. Morton. To conclude with THE THIMBLE RIG. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New and Original Drama, entitled THE GitE EN BUSHES; or, A Hundred Years Ago. Connor O'Kennedy, Mr. Selby ; George, Mr. Hudson : Will Murtogh, Mr. 0. Smith ; Muster Grinnidge, Mr. Wright; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Bedford; Geraldine, Mrs. Yates ; Nelly O'Neill, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; Miami, Madame Celeste. After which, will be repeated a New Grand Empirical Exposition, called ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON. Principal Characters by Messrs, Paul Bedford, Wright, John Saunders Selby.% Miss Woo' gar, Miss Brooks, and Miss E. Chaplin. To conclude with MOTHER AND ChILD ARE DOING WELL Mr. Snugshy, Mr. Lambert ; Lieutenant O'Scupper, R.N., Mr. Paul Bedford ; Mr. Felix Fluffy, Mr. Wright ; Emily, Miss Fortescue. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, MR. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, Will he performed a New Tragic Drama, called METAMORA THE LAST OF THE wAmPANOAGS Metan.ora, Mr. Edwin Forrest; Drorctunt, Mr. Henry Irallack ; Lord Fitz Arnold, Mr. Archer ; Mahmeokce, Mrs. Stirling; Oceans, Miss Emma Stanley. After which, Mr. SANDS and his INFANT BROTHER, MAURIC E, will appear in their Pleasing and Wonderful Entertainment, DE SALON, FREAKS OF FANCY. To conclude with a New Grand Oriental Melo-dramatic Burlesque Extravaganza, in Two Acts, called TIMOUR THE CREAM OF ALL THE TARTARS. Timour, Mr. Oxberry ; Zorilda, Miss E. Stanley. Stage Manager, Mr. H. I. Wallack ; Stage Director, Mr. Emden ; Machinist, Mr. Edmund Bradwell. Superbly decorated, and with extensive alterations ! ! terming one of the most Elegant and Comtbrtable Theatres in the Metropolis ! THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. THIS EVENING Will be performed MARTIN CHUZZIIEWIT. Old Martin Chtizzlewit, Mr. R. Youn,ge ; Mr. Pecsnifr, Mr. Frank Matthews ; Mrs. Sairey Gamp, Mr. Keeley ; Bailey, Mrs. Keeley. After which, a Now Farce, entitled LOWTHER ARCADE. Characters by Messrs. Keeley, Meadows, F. Matthews ; Miss Dawson, and Miss Grove. To conclude with a Burlesque of English History, Pourtrayiug Olden Ideas and Modern Notions—lnvested with all the Pomp and Display Of Scene—Painters engaged expressly—Costumes according to Fancy—Mechanism, Ballet, Music, and Novel Stage Arrange ments—to be called, WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT ! Dick Whittington, Mrs. Keeley; Maley Moloch, the Lion Tamer of the Dessert, Mr. Keeley ; the Cat, Mr. Collier, supported by Messrs. Emery, F. Matthews, and Wigan ; Miss Fairbrother, and Miss Grove. i The Box-office is open daily, under the direction of Mr. Grogan. FIRST APPEARANCE OF MDLLE. PLESSY, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE-FRENCH PLAYS. Mr. MITQIIELL begsrespectfully to announce th,tihe above THEATRE WILL BE RE-OPENED THIS EVENING When willl be produced, commencing at Eight o'clock precisely (First Time in this Country), a New Vaudeville, in One Act, by M. Scribe, entitled LES SURPRISES'. Mathilde, sa petite File, 31dlle. Ozy, her First Appearance in this Country. To conclude with the popular and admired Comedy, by Casimir Delavine, entitled L'ECOLE DES VIELLARDS. Danville, ancien Armateur, M. Oudinot ; Bonnard, son Ami, M. Cartigny ; Le Duc Delmar, 31. Pascal ; Madame Danville, 'Mlle. Plessy, her First Ap pearance this Season. On Wednesday, April 2, MARIE; ou, LES TROIS EPOQUES ; and LA SUITE D'UN BAL MASQUE. Oa Friday, April 4, LA DAME ET LA DEMOISELLE, and LE BOUQUET DU BAL, in all of which Mdlle. PLESSY will appear. The Popular Comic Actor, M. RAVEL, will have the honour of making his First Appearance in this Country on Monday, April 14, and will perform on that Evening in a New and highly-popular Comic Vaudeville, entitled L'ETOURNEAU. M. REGNIER will also make his First Appearance in this Country at the end of April, and will perform with Mdlle. PLESSY in the celebrated Plays of " Le Mari a la Campagne," " Les Fausses Confidences," " Le Mariage de Figaro," " Les Fourberies de Scapin," " Tartuffe," " Le Barbier de Seville," " Le Jeu de L'Amour, " Le Mariage D'Argent, &c., &c. At the end of May, the Favourite Actor, M. ACIIARD (who is en gaged for a few nights only) will perform in several new Vaudevilles, and in the occasional Performance of some Pieces already so de servedly popular. The Season will terminate by the Engagement of the celebrated Comic Actor, M. Arnal, who will have the honour of making his First Appearance at this Theatre ; and during whose Engagement the fol lowing popular Plays, as originally performed by M. Arta], will be produced, " L'Homme Blase," " L'Humoriste," " Passe Minuit," " Renaudin de Caen," " Le Poltron," " La Mansard du Crime, &c." Boxes, 65.; Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. Doors will be opened at Half-past Seven o'clock, and the Performances commence at Eight. Uoxes and Stalls may he secured at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; and at the Box•otlice of the Theatre, which is epeu Daily, from Eleven till Five. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. (tinder the Direction of Miss Davenport.) THIS EVENING Will be repeated THE GAME COCK OF THE WILDERNESS. Colonel Mereyille, Mr. 11. Mellon ; Roderick, Mr. Binge ; Samson, Mr. Marble ; Mabel, Mrs. Griffith. After which, THE SEVEN CHAMPIONS OF CHRISTENDOM. To be followed by THE SECRET. To conclude with THE PLAGUE OF PLYMOUTH. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHFATRE. PROPRIETOR, MR. W. BATTY. Triumphant Success of the New Spectacle. THIS EVENING. The Performances will commence with a Grand Military Equestrian Drama, entitled THE MAID OF SARAGOSSA. Scenes in the Circle, Introducing M. and Mdme. Dumos, the cele brated French Equestrians. To conclude with THE SLEEPING DRAUGHT. DAYIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Miss Heron's performance creates roars of laughter—The Two New Pieces, real Surrey hits. EVENING Will be repe a t e d a New Draina, called MARGARET CATCH. POLE. Supported by Messrs. 11. Hughes, Hicks, Fredericks, R. Hounex, S. Cowell, Heslop, Lewis, Mrs. Daly, Mrs. Lewis, and Mrs, R. Honner. After which, THE SPOILED CHILD. Little Pickle, Miss Heron. To conclude with THE MOOR MAIDEN, in which Messrs. Hicks, Neville, Fredericks, Lewis, Mrs. Hughes, Miss Martin, and Mrs. H. Vining, will perform. places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box ofilce, from Eleven to Four. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will he repeated MARGARET CATCHPOLE, The Female Horse stealer. Onega and Pechuana (Red Chieftains), Messrs. Cony and Blanchard ; Margaret Catchpole, Miss Vincent. After which, THE APPOINTED SPOT. To conclude with THE BLOODHOUND ; or, the Orphan's Grave. In which Messrs. Cony and Blanchard, and their celebrated Dog Hector, will perform. It is important that it should be generally known, which we believe is not at present the case, that a notification has been made to the revenue officers, accompanying the copies of the resolutions passed in the House of Commons, and furnished to the several de partments by the directions of the Lords of the Tree y, that the additional duty of 5 per cent., directed f.p i Ae i t passed while the late Government were in ' ofEbe,', to be charged on all goods imported into the "r 'United Kivgdom, and continued by the present Govern- Ment,i!s,di. Customs Bills of previous sessions, i s not to be 4i " ~ .'ered applicable to the articles in respect of—ss duties have been reduced by the resolu tiodOpt•.. • THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN." W have received many complaintsfrom Subscribers who are frequently disappointed in not receiving the Third Edition. The fault rests en tirely with the News-agent who serves them, and who thereby not only injures the paper, but does injustice to his customer. 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Morning .. 9 minutes after 7 I Evening .. 44 minutes after 7, -19 t u • m l. „ - , teg • 1k - • IF: r ~, ,•. r. m" zziTur SECOND EDITION. ebvningni LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1845. discover on what feasible grounds this opposition is founded. Whether the question is viewed as one of religion, or of pounds, shillings, and pence—whether the measure is opposed by members of the Established Church, or Presbyterians or Dissenters—not one solid argument can be adduced for refusing to pro vide suitable teachers to a fourth-part of the inhabi tants of the United Kingdom. The grant has been recognised and cordially acquiesced in for many years by the whole nation, for we throw the paltry knot of bigots that assemble annually at Exeter Hall out of the calculation. The Irish Presbyterians receive money out of the Consolidated Fund, so do the Scotch Presbyterians—the Established Church of the North, with ample funds, too, for its maintenance — the established religion in the numerous British colo nies —is, with one or two exceptions, maintained en tirely at the public expense ; catholic priests, as well as Protestant ministers, are paid by the State, yet when any favour is to be conferred on Ireland—when the Government ventures to act on the principles of humanity, justice, and charity—men who are called Christians excite themselves to fury, and utter execrations against those who would obey the divine precept and do as they would be done by. This is more than folly—it is absolute wickedness. It displays human nature in all its deformity, and exhibits erring man setting himself up as a judge between GOD and his creatures, and claiming infallibility on a momentous question, which is viewed in a different light by fifty sects in England, and on which the sages and priests, and moralists, of at least a hundred nations of the earth, disagree. A great country cannot be governed by bigots. England is not to be at eternal war with Ireland to humour religious prejudices, and when the main question is conceded—when provision is made for Catholic instructors in all cur colonial possessions, and not a whisper is heard against the universal system, every impartial observer must be struck with the inconsistency of granting favours—or rather jus tice to all—while we refuse them to our nearest and best neighbours. The opponents of this measure may be sincere in their opposition, but the admission is at the expense of their wisdom and common sense. If a horror of the Catholic religion justifies them in causing one of the greatest of national calamities, the disunion of two parts of the empire, that nature had joined together, if no grant is to be made to Mayndoth, because the Catholic religion is damnable and idolatrous, and if, according to their blasphemous phraseology, it will bring down upon the land the Divine wrath, why do they confine their religious indignation to only one small portion of the question, and leave all the other points un touched ? Popery is making dreadful inroads on the Protestant Church of England ; the Bishops of that Church say the Established Church of Scotland is no Church ; and the Dissenters, who contend that they alone are in the right path, are treated as visionaries and impostors. Yet, while we hear of meetings to oppose a grant of public money to a Church from which all the rest have sprung, and which so liberally endowed many national and religious establish ments—while the Town Council of Edinburgh, pro fessing to follow in the steps of JoriN KNOX, have protested against Maynooth—not one word is heard from the Calvinistic north, or from any of the anti- Popery sects in England, against the Puseyism or Popery, for they are synonymous terms, of the Bishops of EXETER, and LONDON, and OXFORD, and some other ten or twenty Prelates, with the Arch bishop of CANTERBURY at their head. If the Catholic religion is bad, why confine all their indignation to the partial relief offered to the persecuted and maligned Irish ? They are as sincere in their worship of the Great Creator as Presbyterians or Puseyites, they are infinitely more steady in their faith, they are more obedient to their pastors, when reviled they revile not again, and they are at this moment submitting to deprivations and sufferings, which their very oppressors—the Pro testants and Presbyterians—rid themselves of by rebel lion and torrents of blood. If there is any virtue in this principle of opposition to one species of religion, why is it so limited ? If the Divine Word, as they say, commands them to resist Popery, they are traitors to that word, by contributing, year after year, without either compunction or complaint, to the maintenance of Popery in Canada, Australia, Gibraltar, Malta, the lonian Islands, and India. It is impossible to escape from the dilemma. But there is another most important part which these persecutors utterly for get. They know, or ought to know, that the Chris tian religion was nurtured by persecution ; that the Founder of our faith was the great victim ; that his Apostles were compelled to fight with wild beasts as o.es:teeter. thee many of tlioila zuflercd Elle most igno minious and painful deaths ; that the Coliseum at Rome, and the other great arenas of Pagan sports, were made wet with the blood of the martyrs, yet the Christians remained steadfast to the faith, and increased in strength and numbers till they be came a great multitude. This is only a picture of the state of Ireland. Every mode of persecution was tried, Christian teachers were hunted like wild beasts, they died on the gallows as malefactors, the wretched people were deprived of every municipal right, robbed of their property and treated as no nation ever was treated, yet they have grown and multiplied, and their very sufferings, like those of the Christians in the dark ages, have only made them more fixed in their resolution, and rendered their reli gion more sacred in their eyes. " Refrain from these men," said a wise Pharisee to the persecutors of the Apostles, " and let them alone ; for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought ; but if it be of God, you cannot overthrow it." The history of Ireland is a remarkable fulfilment of these pro phetic words. The modern persecutors fight against destiny in vain. The Catholic Church is increasing every day in Ireland, and its tenets are making rapid progress in the Protestant establishments of Oxford and Cambridge ; she is recognised by our Bishops as the Mother Church, and one of the stanchest Pro teitants and most upright of men, the late Dr. AR- Nom), thus speaks of her and her bigoted traducers : —"I know that my principles would lead to the establishment of the Catholic religion in three-fourths of Ireland; but I think that a Catholic is a member of CHRIST'S Church just as much as I am, and I could well endure one form of that Church in Ireland and another in England. We are suffering here from that accursed division among Christians of which, I think, the Arch-Fiend must be the author. The good Protestants and bad Christians have talked nonsense—and more than nonsense—so long about Popery and the Beast, and Antichrist, that the simple, just, and Christian measure of esta The two Houses of Parliament will resume busi ness, after the Easter recess, with, we trust, renewed strength and redoubled alacrity. They have a plen tiful amount of work cut out for them, the greater part being, in the language of trade, " for orders that press." In consideration of the large proportion of such special matters to the general mass of affairs to be dealt with, we rather hope than believe that the House of Commons in the first instance, and the Lords in the second, may be induced to adopt some more effective plan for the succession and dispatch of pending measures and questions than, of late years, has been followed by either. It is a subject of general and just complaint that the most weighty and important questions usually receive a degree of discussion in the inverse ratio of that importance and weight. After nights and even weeks have been consumed on seine worth less party squabble, or some merely personal differ ences between individuals who take a prominent posi tion on the Opposition and Ministerial benches—and the devotion of an almost equal expenditure of the public time to frivolous charges of grave delinquency arising out of the inevitable excitement of debate — the real matters of business are sure to be cushioned altogether, for the next twelvemonth, or pitchforked into the Statute-book by dozens in the shape of Acts of Parliament that are, next year, tolerably certain to be superseded by other "Acts to explain and amend" them. About a month before the anticipated ad journment or prorogation of Parliament it is always discovered, that there is business enough incepted to occupy for its proper investigation and completion the whole of at least one entire Session. Ministers, reduced to a state of extreme difficulty between their anxiety to pass some Bills which they have carefully framed in order to carry out their own views, and the necessity for pushing forward to their ultimate stages, without delay of any kind, those annual and other money bills, indispensable to the transaction of the public service—throw overboard the former class, with as little compunction as a Brazilian slaver, hotly chased, disperses all its human cargo to the waves and the winds. But the same Ministers col lect, classify, drive on, goad, and bring up to their destined point of third readings and royal assents the whole of the latter class, with an impartiality of purpose, and an inflexibility of vigilance, that would do honour to a detachment of Cossacks, superintend ing, on behalf of the Emperor of RUSSIA, one of his Imperial Majesty's "grand operations" of internal policy—such as the transfer of the whole community of the Russian Jews to the banks of the Don, or the removal of one-third of the Polish nation into the territory of Siberia. If a guide, or a guard, an officer or a superintendent, drops or dies on the road—no matter; the first convenient man to be found is thrust into his place. The commander charged with the duty knows full well that the task he is to discharge is to hand over, and get an acknowledgment for, at the end of his long march, a certain number of human beings, who must he certified by the authorities receiving them to have been brought under an escort composed of so many officers, and such a troop or detachment. In like manner, if the Chancellor of the Exchequer, or the Home Secretary, or the First Lord of the Ad miralty, or the Attorney or Solicitor-General, or the Vice-President of the Board of Trade, or the Secretary to the Treasury, discover, in the middle of June, some essential deficiency, some blunder, or chnission, or technical error, in a departmental Bill of his introducing, he puts the unfortunate Bill horsde combat without ceremony, by "moving to dis charge thc , , order of the day upon it." The measure thus knocked out of the ministerial rank and file Bills, in their march upwards to the foot of the throne, which they are to reach, say on the last day of the ses3ion, 1; replaced by what is called a " short Bill.'' This is drilled and disciplined with surprising expedi- tion through all the various grades of first, second, and third readings, in both Houses, in the short space of two or three evenings ; and, after a short delay for other company, comes up to be presented to the SOVEREIGN, with a regiment of fifty others, for her royal assent, with all the external attributes of a Bill that had gone through the regular period of probation. The results of this system are found by long experience to be most injurious to the public interests. It is difficult to say at what point th e evils of this crude and hurried legislation exhaust themselves. They are felt long after their cause and origin are forgotten, and it is usually the employ. ment of a third of the time occupied by any session to correct, and if possible to remedy the defects— the "short-comings," and the mistakes into which the legislative sagacity of its predecessor has been be trayed by this slovenly precipitation. Whether we regard the number or amount, or the vast importance of the questions now pending in the House of Commons, we must express our most anxious solicitude that this long e3tablished but mis chievous precedent of " getting through (as it is called) the sessional business," may be abandoned in 1845. The enormous interests involved in new lines of railroad in all their associations, and the stupendous aggregate of the capital invested in those, even alone, which aro now before Parliament; the new proposi- tions for simplifying the law of parochial settlement; for regulating and ;reforming (or deteriorating as it may be)the medical profession; the present condition and aspect of our foreign relations, and especially those which regard our territorial negotiations with the United States; the scheme of Sir R. PEEL for stopping the further growth of Scotland's prosperity by putting down her small-note circulation ; th 9 incidental — necessity connected with this scheme for again examining the actual condition and ten- dencies of our own monetary system, as it exists under: the Acts of 1819 and 1844; the progress made in our steam armament, and in increasing and extending the general efficiency of our navy ; these, and a prodigious number of fiscal, commercial—aye, and of social questions, are, each and all of them, pressing for full and mature discus sion, under circumstances of almost unparalleled inte rest and exigency. The public mind is profoundly occupied with them ; and the future welfare of the country may be said to depend on their deliberate but early examination and adjustment. They cannot, with reason or decency, be further evaded or post poned, still less can they be permitted to run through the forms of Parliament, in unexamined sections, and to be, at the eleventh hour, swamped, or em bodied in statutes, en masse. blishing the Roman Catholic Church in three-fifths of Ireland seems removed by common consent." And he adds, in another place—" The Christian people of Ireland have a right to the full benefit of their Church property, which now they cannot have, be• cause Protestant clergymen they will not listen to. I think, then, it ought to furnish them with Catholic clergymen. I have one great principle which I never lose sight of—to insist strongly on the difference be tween Christian and anti-Christian, and to sink into nothing the difference between Christian and Chris tian." We may here state that an admirable book has just been published on this subject, entitled "Past and Present Policy of England towards Ire. and." We have rarely met with such irrefragable arguments for the speedy settlement of these dan gerous civil broils, so much good sense, and so much Christian charity from any writer ; and coming from a Churchman and a Con- servative, their value at the present moment is doubly enhanced. The approaching contest with America, and it cannot be long delayed, adds one reason more for the final settlement of Ireland. Let England yield in time to the dictates of justice and mercy, and not be forced, as hitherto, to make reluc- tant concessions, which give no satisfaction to the re- ceiver and lowers the national dignity of the giver, for, says the able writer, " if any menacing cloud begins to blacken the horizon, if any storm appears brewing on the side of America, or France, Ireland rejoices. She has not forgotten the memorable words of GRATTAN, That the weakness of England is the strength of Ireland;' and experience has shown, that when England's fears are thoroughly awakened, :here is no concession that may not be extorted from her in some moment of difficulty and danger." BANDEIRA had again come forward as a public cha racter, and with Count DE MELLo and some others, was organising a strong opposition to the CA BRAL Ministry. The Chamber of Deputies had re sumed its sittings, and the Committee appointed to examine the financial plans of the Government had made a favourable report. The discussion on the Budget was fixed for the 2Gth. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Meetings have been held in some parts of the coun try to oppose any additional grant of public money to the College of Maynooth ; but no rational being can Madrid journals of the 23d and 24th have been re ceive 1, but they are destitute of news. The Bourse opened on Saturday, the 22d, and the following are the quotations of Spanish Stock :—The Three per Cents. left off at 34g- for cash, and 35 at 60 days; the Five per Cents. at 251 for cash, and 26 1-16,at 60 days; the Coupons at 281 for the 28th inst. The proceedings which took place in the Chamber of Deputies last week on the Customs' Bill shows that any improvement in the commercial system of France at present is utterly hopeless. The majority—we may say all—of the representatives of the people, with exceptions that hardly deserve notice, are a century behind the age, and adhere with the most impertur bable pertinacity to high duties and prohibition as the perfection of commercial legislation. The duties on oleaginous seeds furnished an excellent subject for the display of this bigoted spirit. The present duty on sesame is 21 francs the 100 killogrammes. A Member from the north proposed to raise the duty to 5 francs. The Mini.iter of Commerce reluctantly consented, but that was only one-half of what other Members wanted. M. GARNIEIt PAGES proposed 81. M. D ' ARRLAY outbid him, and proposed 10f., which the Chamber almost unanimously adopted, thus raising the duty on an article from Egypt four hundred per cent. This is a melancholy exhibition, and will not at all tend to raise the character of French legislators in the eyes of their friend MEHEMET ALL. The same feeling prevailed in reference to duties on foreign machinery, which were raised on several articles. The Member for Rouen moved an amendment to raise the amount of duty paid on foreign linen and cotton threads, and that, probably, would have been carried but for the interposition of the Minister of Commerce, who requested the Chamber to postpone their decision till the tulle manufacturers were con sulted. The tax on Swedish iron amounts nearly to prohibition, and it was proposed to modify the duties, as French iron is badly fitted for machinery, but the patriotic motion was rejected, and France, therefore, must rest satisfied with machinery for her steam vessels and carrying on her manufactures inferior to those used in every part of the world, solely for the advantage of a small portion of the population. This is actual suicide, and precisely what the enemies of France wish. England may well be proud of the vast step towards free trade and the total abolition of useless restriction, which has been almost unani mously sanctioned by her representatives this session. In the Chamber of Peers the discussion on Count DARE'S motion, relative to jobbing in railway com panies, was renewed on Friday, and ultimately re jected. Ministers have been more lucky than usual in the appointment of Committees for the month of April, having obtained eight members out of the nine. This result is considered of vast importance, as these Committees have to report on the vote of 17,500,000 f. for arming the fortifications of Paris. The Opposi tion journals are highly incensed against the vote, and openly assert that the " Chateau" is the sole cause of this inroad upon liberty. The Reforme thus writes on the subject : " The fortifications of Paris have been erected against the liberties of France, and not against foreigners. This is a fact so obvious, that it would be losing one's time to Attempt to demonstrate it to those who still affect to doubt it. The fortifications of Paris are menacing Paris, but once armed, Paris is enslaved, In proposing to arm the forts our rulers call on France to declare if she is tired of the representative government, and ready to bow to an ignominious despotism. The Ministry, we are told, has lost its senses, and the Chamber has only to pronounce its interdiction. The Ministry, we maintain, is fully conscious of its acts—it is the system that is pre paring to pronounce the interdiction of its adversaries. Ministers obey the dictates of him who fostered them, and directed their entire conduct during the last four years. Supported by a doubtful majority, placed in pre sence of an assembly in which there is no majority cer tain for anybody, the Cabinet wishes to obtain from a Chamber whose fate was sealed by the vote on the Ad dress, an act of extreme weakness ; they think they may expect anything from those who granted an indemnity t. Mr. Pritchard. It is their last obsession at the bed side of a dying power, it is a will extorted in extrernis. , We are told that t, 1 4 - ; - ! 'Ministry hesit a t e d a l ong t i me before embarking L° usdcrtaking so,difficult ; after sustaining so mar:; 7 / 4 ,.' its on second ar y quest i ons , t o raise one that ore their destruction, is, it is alleged, the heigfii imprudence. We say that they .ire obeying an ime , sus necessity." Some of the ott.2r journals use the same strong language. The Ourrier Francais thus describes the extent of thel fortifications, and the enormous number of guns required to mount them : " The continuous line of the fortifications contains 94 frontsand the detached forts 93, in all 178 fronts. Each front, consisting cf two half curtains and a bastion, requires for its defence twenty pieces of artillery, or for the 187 fronts 3,640 guns. As each gun is to be sup plied with ammunition for 600 rounds, the war depart ment will have to provide 2,184,000 cannon balls and up wards of 25,000,000 killogrammes (25,000 tons) of gun• powder. The 17,000,000 f. demanded by Marshal Soult will consequently comprise but a portion of the expense necessary for the complete armament of the fortifications of Paris," The following telegraphic dispatch had been re ceived by the French Government : "PERPIGNAN, MARCH 25, 9 P.m. "LIEUTENANT-GENERAL LAMORICIERE TO THE MINISTER OF WAR. "BIVOUAC OF SIDI-BE L-ABBES, 20TH. "The Convention for fixing the frontiers between Al geria and Morocco was signed the day before yesterday. All the conditions stipulated by General Delarue have been acceded to by the Morocco Commissioner. The interview was attended with great solemnity. The numerous escort of Si Hamida showed the most ami cable dispositions. The news of this happy solution has already produced a good effect in the country. Si Ilamida has announced that, by order of the Emperor, he is about to march against the Emir, and that his movements will be combined with those of a body of troops arriving by the Rif." The accounts from Switaerland are still unsatisfac tory. The following intelligence to the 26th appears in the ConstituConnel : " The intelligence which we received yesterday from Switzerland announces that the invasion projected by the refugees of Lucerne to overturn the Government was to take place on the night of March 26. For this purpose, continual envoys of fresh refugees were arriving on the territory of Argan, where the insurrectional committee furnished them with arms and ammunition, which ap peared to be in abundance. It was said that they had been able to procure several pieces of artillery. Numerous defections were reckoned on amongst the troops which the Government would oppose to them. This prospect had even acquired in the eyes of the commander••in•chiet' of these troops such a degree of importance, that at Zurich, Berne, and Argau his resignation was expected. This officer (General Sonneberg) is the only military man of real ability which the Government of Lucerne can op pose to the insurrectionary troops. On the other side, a report was current that the refugees were to be com manded by the head of the federal staff, an officer who had made tho last campaign of the empire, and who be fore deciding on taking this command, had, it is said, sent in his resignation as colonel•federal, a grade corresponding in Switzerland to that of general of division, or general of brigade, according to the length of service. If this intelligence should be con firmed, all the chances would be in favour of the army of invasion, looking at the ardour and hope with which it is animated, and its confidence in the incon- - - testable capacity of the leader commanding it. The re fugees intend occupying a secondary town in the canton of Lucerne, in order from thence to proceed on the capital, of which the greater part of the population is hostile to the present regime. The co-operation of some free corps appeared to be altogether secondary, in pre sence of the support which is found in the numerous de sertions that had just reinforced the insurrectionary troops. It was stated at Zurich on the 25th that M. Siegwart, deputy of Lucerne, had come to solicit the as sistance of the directory ; but that this authority had decided to place only a battalion on foot, leaving to the Grand Council, which is going to meet, the care of pro nouncing on the ulterior destination of this force." THE BOURSE--SATURDAY, MARCII 29. First Hiai , st Lowest Last Price. Price. Price Price. Fratch Five per Cents..... 117 75 .. 117 90 .. 117 75 .. 117 85 Fours .••• •• •• •• •• •• 107 .. 107 .. 107 .. 107 Three per Cents •• 85 60 .. 85 60 .. 85 60 .. 85 60 Loan ••••••••• •• •• 86 40 .. 86 40 .. 86 40 .. 86 40 Brink of France •• •• •• •• •• 3200 —3200 ..3200 ..3200 Gouin Eank I,ooof Shares.•lois —lOB5 .•1085 —lOB5 Belgian Bank . • • • • Ite gian Fives, •• •• •• 1 0 4% .. 104% .. 104% .. 104% 1842•••••••• 107 .. 107 .. 107 .. 107 Four-anti-a-Half ... let% .. 103% .. 103% .. 103% Ditch Two and-a-Half.• ••• 64% .. 64% .. 643 . 64% Spanish Active • •••• •• •• •• 45 40 .• 41 •• 40 Threes •••••• • • • • • • 41 .. 41 . • 41 .. 41 Portuguese Five per Cents.. 66y s .. 66% .. 6G .. 66 Nesoolitan•••• •• •• •• •• • •• 102 .. 102 • • 102 .. 102 Roman •• •• .• 105% .. 106 .. 105 1 % .. 106 RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain •• •• •• •• •• •• ••1205 ..1210 ••1205 ..1210 Versailles, 11.11 •• • • • • • • 640 .. 640 .. 640 .. 640 L.B ... ••• •• 407 50 . 407 50 .. 402 50 402 50 Rouen •• •••••• •• ••••••••••1145 . 1150 ..1145 ..1150 Rouen to Havre. , • Orleans . • ••••1320 ••1325 ..1317 .50 ..1321 25 Royal Tar, has arrived with the Peninsular Mails with intelligence to Gibraltar to the 22d of March, Lisbon the 25th, and Oporto the 26th. Political af fairs at Lisbon presented little variety. Viscount Strasburg to Bale • • ..... • • 340 .. 341 25 .. 338 75 .. 341 25 Avignon to Marseilles•• •• ••1:40 • •1140 ..1135 . 1135 RAILWAYS FOR TIIE ACCOUNT, Arita, 3. St. Germain ..... •. 1205 ..1210 —1205 —l2lO THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MA RCH 31, 1845. Versailles, R. 8...• •• ••• • • 64) • • 650 •• 610 •• 645 L. 8.. •• •• •• 402 50 .. 40'1-50 .. 401 23 .. 491 25 Rouen.. ..........1145 ..1152 50 —1145 —1152 50 Rouen to Havre. •• •• •• •• •• 955 ~ 975 . • 965 .. 975 Orleans.•...• ...... I 320 • • 1325 ..1315 ..13 . 23 75 Strasburg to 8a1e.......... 341 25 341 25 •• 337 50 •• 341 23 Avignon to Marseilles.. •• •• 1122 50 .• 1140 .. 1122 50 ..1132 53 THIS DAY'S NEWS ADJOURNED GENERAL LICENS ING MEETING FOR THE CITY.—(THIS DAY.) This morning the adjourned licensing meetimg for the City of London was held at Guildhall, for the granting licenses to new houses. The Lord Mayor in the chair. Aldermen Sir John Pirie, Sir P. Laurie, Farncombe, Hooper, Challis, Hughes, and Moon. Several licenses were renewed to persons who had forfeited them by non attendance in proper time at the last Court, and they were admonished to be more careful in future. The following nt - ,w licemes were then applied for: — For the White Bear, Bishopsgate -street, re-opened— granted. For the Dark House, Darkhouse-lane, Thames-street, for removal of the license to a house in Thames-street. Mr. Clarkson opposed it on behalf of the rector, church wardens, and inhabitants, on the ground that the Dark House was a night house for the accommodation of the fishermen coming up with the boats and persons at tending the market, and that the removal would create a great nuisance.—Application refused. For Grady's Coffee-house, 31, Buoklersbury, second application.—Granted. For Careless's Coffee house, Finch-lane.--Refused. For a new house the corner of New Furringdon-street. —Refused, there being twenty-two licensed houses in the immediate vicinity. IMPORTANT CASE.—By Ralph Fellowes, for a license to a new house, the corner of Bride-lane The applicant is also the occupier of the Crown, in Fleet street. The application was supported by the parochial au , thorities of St. Bride's and several licensed victuallers. Sir PETER LAURIE said he had seen the house, and should support the application, as he cansiilered it was ranch more to the public interest to have houses in a public place than up courts and alleys. Mr. CLARKSON said that the applicant had been in solvent three times within seven years, and had once been remanded for six months, and again for eight months. This being proved, Sir PETER LNunii.; said, he should, under such cir cumstances, refuse his consent, and vote against the man, though not against the house. The original license to the Crown, which stands up a •tirt, was granted to the application, but the extension refused. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY CORN EXCHANGE-MONDAY. Du►ing the past week large arrivals of English Wheat, coastwise as well as by land-carriage, and samples were re ported for our market, while of Irish Oats upwards of 55,000 quarters came to hand. Of other kinds of grain the receipts were by no means extensive. From Essex and Lincolnshire a fair average quantity of "Wheat came to hand, hence the stands were rather heavily filled with parcels of both Red and White. Notwithstanding we had a large number of buyers in attendance, the demand for all descriptions of Wheat of home growth was extremely dull, at a decline in the currencies paid on Monday last, of is per quarter, and a large quantity was left unsold at the close of business. The accounts which have reached us this morning, from various parts of the country, relative to the ap pearance of the wheat plants, are very satisfactory. The show of free Foreign Wheat was on the increase; hence the trade for that article was much depressed, and previous rates were with difficulty maintained. Bonded Grain almost nominal in value. Of Barley, the supply was rather limited, yet the demand for all except the best Malting parcels, which were quite as dear, was in a very sluggish stare:at last week's figures. Superfine Malt supported previous.rates. In other kinds next to nothing was doing. The supply of Oats being unusually large, that article was a mere drug, and quite is per quarter lower than on Monday last. Beans and Peas were in slow inquiry, at unaltered currencies. The Flour trade was again dull. Most kinds of Seeds were in sluggish request, at about stationary prices. CURRENCY PER IMI Wheat—Essex & Kent, Red . 38s to 458 Ditto, White 42s 54s Norfolk and Lin coln, lied. 38s 43s Ditto, White...." 40s 47s Irish, Red s —s Ditto, White —s —s Rye-01d New. .. ••• • • Barley—Grinding .• • • Malting . ••• • • Chevalier • ...... Malt—SutTolk and Nor folk.. Brown ... Kingston and Ware 60s —s FOREIGN GRAIN Al Wheat—Dantzie . • 32s to 36s liamburgh ....... 30s —s Barley ..... ..... 20s 24s Oats —New ..... ••• • .. 19s 233 Feed ...... • ..... 19s 22s SMITHFIELD. ERIAL MEASURE. Malt—Chevalier.. Oats—Yorkshire and Lincolnsh., Feed. 22s 23s Potatoe •• . • 24s 25s roughsll and Cork, Black . . Cork, White ... • • 2ls 23s Scotch, Feed. • • 22s 23s Beans—Tick . •• • • 34s 36s Pigeons .. •.•• . • • . 38s 39s Pease—Grey .•.• • • • Maple .••• • • . White 33s 35s Boilers ..... ••• • . 36s 38s Flour—Town-made .• . 42s —s Suffolk ••••• • • • • • 338 35s Stocktn & Norfolk 33s 35s ID FLOUR IN BOND. Beans • Pease • ••••••• • • • • • • • 288 32s Flour—American . • ... 19s —s Baltic . ..... ••• • • 18s —s Compared with those of several previous weeks, the im ports of live stock for our markets, since Monday last, have been somewhat limited, they not having exceeded 37 oxen and 12 cows, all from Holland. The number on sale con sisted of only 15 oxen and cows, but the whole of them were of full average quality ; indeed, we may observe, that scarcely any of them were out of condition. The demand for them ruled steady, at prices varying from 14/ lOs to 18/ lOs per head, at which figures the whole found buyers. The supply of Beasts from our own grazing counties was less, by nearly 300, than that exhibited on this day se'nnight, and we are happy to observe that that description of stock was less afflicted with the so-long-complained-of epidemic than was the case on that day. Still, several losses have again oc curred on the roads. On the whole, there was a slight im provement in the demand for the primest Scots and Home breds, which sold at from 3s 10d to 4s per Blbs ; but all other kinds were extremely inactive, at barely late rates, ----- - , ,•-c.ce not effected. The bullock droves from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, were composed of 1,800 Scots and Homebreds. From the northern grazing districts we received about 200 short horns ; from the western and midland counties, 400 Devons, Runts, Herefords, &c. ; from other parts of England, 200 of various kinds ; and, from Scotland, 110 horned and polled Scots. The numbers of Sheep were somewhat on the increase, par ticularly those out of the wool. Prime Old Downs mostly sold at previous currencies ; but all other kinds had a dow ward tendency. A large portion of the Dents and Leicesters were in demand. From the Isle of Wight were received 135 Lambs per railway ; while the receipts from Essex, Kent, Hampshire, and other quarters were seasonably good. The Lamb trade was rather inactive at Friday's reduced currencies. The supply of Calves was small, yet the Veal trade ruled heavy, at a decline of from 2d to 4d per 8 lb. on last Monday's figures. The Pork trade was very dull, and the prices were 2d per 8 lb lower. Per Bibs. to sink the offal. s. s. d Inferior Beasts 2 6 2 Second quality ditto. 210 3 4 Prime large Oxen.. 3 6 3 8 Prime Scots •• • 310 4 0 Large coarse Calves 3 8 4 2 Prime small ditto .. 4 4 4 8 Suckling Calves, .18 0 30 0 Inferior Sheep • ... 210 3 2 s. d. to s. d. Second quality ditto 3 4 3 8 Coarse-woolled ditto 310 4 0 Southdown Wethers 4 2 4 4 Ditto out of the wool 3 8 310 Large Hogs •• . 3 0 3 6 Small Porkers •• 3 8 4 2 Quarter old Pigs ..16 0 20 0 Lambs .... .••• • . 4 8 510 MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. A very moderate amount of business was done in Cotton at Liverpool on Saturday. Sales 3,500 bales. There was no change in prices. -Shares were rather quieter :-Aberdeen Railway, 3% 31. ss. 9d. ; Parnsley Junction, 7% ; Black burn, Burnley, and Accrington 6% ; Blackburn, Darwin, and Bolton, 4 1 4 ; Birkenhead, and Cheshire, Junction, 12 1 4 11% ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 11%%; Bristol and Gloucester, 53 ; Caledonian, 10 1 / ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 7% % ; Chester and Birkenhead, ex div., 50 1 4 49 ; Ditto, Half Shares at 5 dis. ex div.,_25 1 4 24%; Ditto, New Shares at 33 ex div., 43 1 / 2 42 ; Chester and Holyhead, 8%; Chester and Preston Brook, 3% ' • Churnet Valley, 7% %; Clydesd a l e J unc ti on , 1012 • ' Direct Northern, 4/. 16s. 3d. ; Dublin a n d B e lf as t, 7 3 / 4 % ; Eastern Counties, cx div., 21% ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, ex div., 62%; Ditto, Quarter Shares, ex div.,15 3 / ; Ditto,New Shares, 5 3 / 4 %; Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 19s. ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Ayr, ex. div., 62; Grand Junction, Hale Shares, 112 ; Ditto, Eighth hares, 18%; Great Grimsby and Shef field, 31. 16s. 6d. ; lludderstield and Manchester Railway and Canal, ; Huddersfield and Sheffield, 614, 16s. 3d.; Lancaster and Preston, Three. quarter Shares, ex. div., 33 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 8 1 / 2 ; Leeds and West Riding, 7 ; Limerick and Waterford, 41/ ; Liverpool and Manchester, ex. div., Half Shares, 101 ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 2% I Is. 6d. ; London and Birmingham, ex. div., Eighth Shares, 44 1 / ; London and York, 3/. ls. 6d. ; 1%1 inchester and Birmingham, ex new, New Quarter Shares, 5% prem. ; Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, ex. div., 164; Manchester and Leeds, ex div., 145 V ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 19%; Ditto, Sixteenth Shares, 7 1 / 4 ; Midland Stock, ex div , 147% 147 ; Ditto, 40/. Shares, ex div., 17 1 A 16% ; Newark and Sheffield, 5% 5%; North British, ex new, 17%; Ditto, Half Shares, 4% ; North Union, stock A, ex div., 148 149 North Wales Mineral, New Shares, 5 1 -A • North Wales, 21 16s. 3d. ; Oxford,Worcester, and Rugby, 41. ; Preston and Wyre, 34 1 4 %; Sheffield and Manchester, 115 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 14% 15; Shrewsbury and Grand Junction, 5%; Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 4% ; Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and Birmingham, 4% ; South-Easters, New Shares, at 18 dis., ex div., 16%; Ditto, New Shares, at 16 2-3. dis., 11%; Ditto, New Shares, No. 3,8% 1 / 2 ; Trent Valley, ex new, 16% 17 • Ulster, ex div., 45 ; Wexford and Carlow, 23% ' 3 ; Boulogne and Amiens (English) 12 12 1 / 8 ; Northern of France (Eng lish), 6%; Paris and Lyons (Laflitte's), ex new, 2/. 18s. 6d.; Paris and Lyons (Ganneron's), 2/. 1 ls. 2/. 10s. 6d; Paris and Strasburg (English), 2/. 145.; Paris and St. Quentin, 2 1 4 21. ss. 6d. ; Sambre and Meuse, 6 1 / 2 ; Tours and Nantes (English), 3 ; Toulouse and Bordeaux, 2%; Tou louse, Bordeaux, and Cette, 2% 2/. Is. ; Verona and Ancona, 1/. 19s. 21. 2s. 6(1. ; Sardinian, 6s. There has been another royal Dutch decree, dated the 27th inst., received by Messrs. Raphael and Sons. From this we glean that the remaining 300 series of Four-and-a-Half per Cents. are to be drawn at the Hague to-day. The first 70 series drawn, and amounting to 14,000,000 guilders, are to be paid off on the the 15th of next month with interest to date. Notice will be given when the remainder can be paid. There is very little doing in the public securities, which continued somewhat flat, owing to the sales for time. Con sols for Money have been 99% 1%, and for Account 99% %. The Texas question and the state of matters in Switzerland is the ground upon which the speculators for a fall seem disposed to operate. The premium on Exchequer -bills has been 575. to 595., and on India Bonds 695. The Foreign Bonds are dull, except in one or two instances. Mexican have been flat, at 35% % for the Active, and 16% 34 for the Deferred. Colombian are firm at 154 to %; Spa nish Five per Cents. obtain 30, and the Three per Cents. 40%, being for the former rather lower rates. Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents. have realised 6318. The settlement of the account progresses easily. In Railway Shares there is a good deal of business doing, and prices in many instances are better. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) 3 per Cent. Consols Anns 99 % 1/ India Bonds 1,000/ Ditto under 1,0001 Consols for Account Exchequer Bills. - 1 3 / 4 d. 1 1 %d. 1,0001. 5001. ... Ditto Small - pm. PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Columbian Bonds. 15 % 1/ Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. 351A . 5 Ditto for the Account Ditto Deferred Stock... Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1840 3O Ditto, 1844 2 3 34 Ditto Passive Bonds 71% Ditto Deferred Ditto 3 per Cent — Ditto for the Account 4 0 34 Dutch 2 1 / 2 per Cents Ditto for the Account. Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE Aberdeen Armagh, Coleraine, Portrush 1% l% to Birmingham and Gloucester 100 136 Bristol and Exeter Ditto, New Bristol and Gloucester 3O 59 ...... to Caledonian Cambridge and Lincoln ... 1% ... .. 7% 8 to 7 3 / 4 Chester and Holyhead 5 .., ... 8 1 / 2 ...... to Churnet Valley Coventry,Bedworth, and Nun - eaton Cornwall ... .. 3 ..... 4%% to rirect Northern .. Direct Norwich 1 ...... 0% ...... to Dublin and Belfast Junction 2% B % l / 2— to 7% Dublin and Galway 2IA 3 ,4...... to Eastern Counties Eastern Union Ditto Extension Edinburgh and Glasgow Ditto New 1 4 Shares 2 l,i 5 34 to Great South and W. (Irish)... 5 Ditto Extension Great North of England ..... .100 195 ...... to =Ditto New 5 ' 47 Ditto New Great Western Ditto % Shares 5O lO O 3/...... to Ditto Fifths Hull and Gainsborough Hull and Selby .. .. 50 100 Ditto Half Shares . Lancaster and Car1i51e......... 15 ...... 38 3 / 4 to London and Birmingham ...100 234 ...... to 233 Ditto Thirds London and 8right0n.......... 50 Ditto Cofisolidated Bths London and Croydon... 13/. 15s. 9d.... 18 1 / s to 17 3 / 4 Ditto Guaranteed 5 per Ct. 4 London and South Western.. 413 E 1. 79 3 A to Do. New consolidated 8 ths.. 6 London and York...—. ...... 2 1 %...... 34 to 3 Lynn and Ely Manchester and Birmingham 40 Midland ...100 152 155... to 153 Ditto New Midland, Birm. and Derby ...100 lls Newcastle & Darlington :ilinc. 24 ...... 48 Newark and Sheffield North British Ditto New 1 .. ... 4 1 , ...... to Northern and Eastern North Kent North Wales Preston and Wyre Richmond and West End June. 1 Rugby, Worcester, and Tang 1 Scottish Midland Shrews.,Wolver., Dud., Birm. 2% 4% to South -Devon South Eastern and Dover ... 33% 4 3 14 to Ditto New, No. 2 2 . 12 South Wales Trent Valley Waterford and Kilkenny 1 ...... 3 1 4 to rork and North Midland ... 50 ...... Ditto Scarboro'Braneh Ditto Selby Ditto, Extension FRENCH RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens Bordeaux and Toulouse . 2 Bordeaux,Toulouse,andCette 2 Dieppe and Paris Junction... 2 Great Northern of France ... 4 Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 2 Paris and Lyons (Laffitte) .. 2 Paris and Lyons (Ganneron's) 2 ... .. 24% to Paris and Lyons (Calon's)... 2 . ... 24 %to Paris and Orleans Rouen and Havre Sambre and Meuse - MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 29.—The sales are :—Eastern Counties, 21%; Manchester and Leeds, Six teenth Shares, 7% ; Manchester and Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 9 1 / 2 ex new and ex div. ; Ditto, Ne w Quarters, 5 3 / 4 prem. ; Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale, 15% ; Mid land Railway Consols, Preferential Stock, 3 3 4 ; Ditto, 401. Shares, 17 ; North British, 174 ; South-Eastern, No. 3, 8%; Barnsley Junction, Half Shares, 3 1 / 2 ; Birkenhead, Man chester, and Cheshire Junction, 11%; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 6% ; Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 4% ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 7 1 / 2 7-16; Churriet Valley, 7%; Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, 3% % ; Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 34 % ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 2% 13-16 ; London and York, 3% ; Manchester and Buxton, 2% l/ 2 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction, 3% ; Newark and Sheffield, 5% 1 / . ; Southport and Euxton, 2 ; Bordeaux, Toulouse, and C e tt e , 214. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, MARCH 31.—Wind W.N.W., fresh breeze, and fine clear weather. DEAL, MARCH 30.—r.n. Wind S.W., strong—Arrd.Emperor, Scott, Ichaboe; Rowena, Paint, Gambia; Ealing Grove, Fal coner, Dominica ; Thomas and William, Playter, Savanilla ; Wallace, Young, Charleston, for Antwerp ; Sophia, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Berbice, Cocks, Berbice ; Clutha, Fowler, New Orleans ; Spheriod, Bayley, St. Vincent's. Ski. Vesta, Cape of Good Hope; Eliza, Jamaica; China, Bermuda; Ga zelle, Newfoundland. RAMSGATE, MARCH 29.—Wind N.N.W., strong.—Arrd. Rouenna, St. Domingo, for Havre, leaky ; Hope, New castle, for Teignmouth, with damage. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 30.—Wind S.S.E. to S.W.—Sld. her Majesty's ship Dublin, Plymouth; Pekin, Madras, &c.; Larkins, Cape, Mauritius, and Calcutta; Feiris, Valparaiso; her Majesty's ship Eagle, Plymouth, and Rio Janeiro. Cowics, MARCH 30.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrd. Cumberland Lass, Campbell, Bahia. SOUTHAMPTON, MAILCH 29.—Arrd. New Forest, Ichaboe; Royal Tar steamer, Gibraltar, left 22d inst. TORBAY, MARCH 28.—Put back, Persian, for Sydney. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 21—Wind . S.S.W.—Arrd. Deemster, Pinchard, Ichaboe. OFF DOVER, MARCH 29.—Damariscetta, Hawes, Charles ton, for Antwerp. FALMOUTH, MARCH 28.—Wind N.N.W., strong.-30. S. S.W., di tto.—Arrd. Courier, Havighort, Iquique, sailed Nov. 27, Arica Dec. 10 ; Vernon, Brobie, Matanzas (18th ult.) ; Mecca, Hale, Aux Cayes. The Neptune steamer, bound to Hamburgh, is aground on the mud below Gravesend. DART3IOUTH, MARCH 30.—The Thomas Lowry remains in the same situation. About 109 bales of wool have been landed from her; she has been stripped of spars, rigging, sails, &c., except the lower masts and shrouds. The Sappho, in the Downs, from China, was in contact, on the night of the 27th inst., between Dover and Folkstone, with a steamdr, and received damage. Mem.—Supposed to be her Majesty's steamer Black Eagle. LOWESTOFT, MARCH 29 —The Providence, of Ipswich, sprung a leak and foundered yesterday, in a gale at W.N.W., in the North Sea; crew saved. WHITEHAVEN, MARCH 28.—The Ravenswood, MlCellar, from Ichaboe to this port, in coming in here late in the tide, grounded in the gap of the harbour, but will be got off. SUPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts. I Sheep. Calves. 2,660 21,130 61 NEWGATE AND LEADENIIALL. I Pigs. 324 The past week's arrivals of slaughtered Meat up to these Markets, from nearly every quarter, have been somewhat extensive for the time of 3 ear, while the supplies killed in the metropolis have been seasonably large. The general demand has, therefore, ruled extremely heavy, at a decline in the quotations of 2d. per Blbs., and clearances have not been effected on either day. About 500 carcases of Lamb have been received, mostly from Essex, Kent, and Hamp shire. At per stone, by the Carcase. s. d. to s. d. s . d. to s. d. Beef, inferior. ••• 2 4 2 6 Mutton, inferior •• 2 6 2 8 middling ••• • 2 8 210 -- middling •.2 10 3 0 prime large •.2 10 3 2 -- prime • . 3 2 3 6 prime small •• 3 2 3 4 Pork, large.... ••• • 2 6 3 6 Veal •••••••• • • • • .. 3 8 4 8— small .• • . Lamb, 4s. Bd. to ss. 10d. ARRIVALS - DURING TILE PAST WEEK. Beasts Sheep Calves Pigs. 22 600 700 30 800 900 20 200 60 22 150 30 30 300 30 32 340 125 200 41 300 200 180 12 40 30 39 200 80 170 50 300 100 200 Scotlaiad • . . • Yorkshire • • • • • • • • • • • • Norfolk •• •• •• • • • • • • • • Suffolk .... ••••• • • • • • Cambridgeshire ••• • • • ESSCX • • • • ••••• • Surrey.. Devonshire . • Wiltshire Other parts ••• .••• • • • - - - Total ••••••• • • • • . • . 298 3,230 505 2,500 Previous week's arrival.. •••• 163 2,070 420 2,240 Difference since (whist •• • • 125 1,160 85 260 BOROUGH AND SPITAIMIELDS. The arrivals of Potatoes having been on the increase since our last report, great heaviness prevails in the demand. The best qualities have- supported previous rates, but all other kinds are decidedly lower. About 200 tons have been im ported from France and Holland, in middling condition. BOROUGH HOP MARKET. The best new Hops, as well as old ones, are still in steady request, and prices are tolerably well supported. All other kinds of Hops are very dull, and when sales are pressed lower terms must be submitted to. WOOL MARKET. The receipts of foreign and colonial Wool during the past week have been somewhat on the increase, they having amounted to about 1,600 packages. In the private contract market only a limited business is doing, notwithstanding no public sales are yet announced, and prices are barely sup ported. TALLOW. This market is again somewhat depressed in prices, and the deliveries arefalling off. The trade purchases very sparingly, and the entire absence of speculative operations incline us to look for lower prices than have been current for many years past. The price for the Autumn is 3Ss 6d to 38s 9d. Town Tallow not being required for the purposes for which it has been used, is now continually, week after week, pressed upon the market, and must, of necessity, substitute Foreign Tallow to some extent ; and we think from this time it will affect it still more than it has ever done. The very small qnantity of Tallow moulds made this season by the tallow-chandlers in London, will, in a great measure, bear us out in our remarks upon Town Tallow, the price of which is 38s to 39s 6d., net cash. Mr. George Robins has at length taken the field, and we suspect in right earnest, but he is too good a general not to wait until the Messrs. Frost and Snow, with their companion, the easterly winds, have taken their departure, ere he lets them into "the Secrets of the Prison-house," by disclosing what he has in petto for them. He has not, how ever, forgotten to remind the great capitalists of the memo rable declaration made last session, by Sir Robert Peel, to this effect,—" I neither have, nor do I contemplate, any change what eve7 in the corn-laws." This is, indeed, a real comfort for the agricultural world to repose on. It will be seen in his introductory announcement, Mr. Robins had paid a neat and well-turned compliment to Sir Robert, for having abandoned the odious duty on auctions, and it appears to be a prevailing opinion that the benefit will be an immediate re-action in favour of land. The Duke and Duchess of Leeds have received a select party this week, at Hornby Castle, Yorkshire, for the Catterick Race Meeting. The Earl of Zetland and the Earl of Glasgow have been among the guests of the Noble Duke and Duchess. ISLAND ON FLOrrA, MARCH 24.—The Margaret, Vries, from Banff to Loch Broom, drove from her anchors in Long" hope yesterday, during a gale at N.W., and was stranded 04 this island, with considerable damage. SCARBOROUGH, MARCH 29.—The Wilna, of London, from Shields to Harfieur, came ashore four miles north of Fla ni : boroagh Head yesterday, and is expected to become a totO wreck. BRIDLINGTON, Marten 30.—1 t blew a very heavy P I : all yesterday, at W.N.W. and N.W. Several vessels &e l to sea with loss of anchors, &c. FALMOUTH Mancn 29.—Sid. New Zealand, Jamaica Two Brothers, St. John's, Newfoundland. Off, Gratitude! Bruce, Ichaboe, and skl. for Arbroath ; Mary, Rio Janeiro Lina, Osterloh, Tampico for Bremen, left Feb. 27. JERSEY, MARCH 26.—Arrd. Caroline, Poyn, Rio Janoios Sld. Farrago and Patramu a Bay Chaleur. Hum., MAncir 29.—The Hearts of Oak, from Scarboroug to this port, was driven ashore on the Spurm yesterday moril ing, but is expected off without much damage. WAINFLEET, MAncn 27.—Upwards of 100 pieces of N°era wayand Swedish timber, marked " G. B. and Co." in letters, were washed ashore last November in the neighbo.- hood of Saltfleet. _ _ GUERNSEY MARCH 25.—S1d. Louisa, Rio Janeiro. BRISTOL, 111 - Ancir 23.—Arrd. Oregon, Rowe, Gambia. Cosmo, New York ; Miranda, Cape de Verds. GLOUCESTER, MARCH 29.--Sld. Galatea, Quebec. SWANSEA, MARCH 29.—Arrd. Adam Smith, Valparaiso, Canadian, Pomeroy, Cuba. Sld. Agnes, Blaikie, Cuba; Su beam, Chili. h te CARNARVON, MARC!! S- a 29.—The Ann and Catherine, „ ° ,t on the Bar, has driven higher up on the sands, but hat'. suffered more damage ; nearly all the cargo has been s s)e with slight damage. A .d, LIVERPOOL, MARC!! 30.—Wind, S.S.E. to Albert Edward, White, China ; Liverpool, Ad`Do.lt; Manilla ; Emily, Mauritius ; Venus and W. S. lianulT d. ' Ichaboe ; Enchantress, Cormick, Callao ; John Hor roc° APLachlan, Demerara ; Higginson and Freeman, Barbado e ! Rapid, Thomas, Jamaica; Robert Syers, Rio de la. Hoc_ o b e j Ann, Lumsden, Laguna; Marquis Abercorn and Wa r ; ‘ , Hastings, New Orleans ; Covenanter, Apalachicola D e Lba port, Kirk, Savannah ; Tiberius, Howes, B L VtOI I ; it. o' Gaunt, Robertson, China, left St. Helena, 15 t h ° Do- Balino, Caledonia, and Durango, Ichaboe ; Walton St!,.. a bel miugo ; Glenlyon and Miltiades, New Orleans. Sld . .-,•" fins . and Clydesdale, Africa ; Douglas, St. John's, New wick ; Sarah, Montreal. Off, Rival, supposed from M.' ham. FLANDERS, HAMBURGH, AND DUTCH MAILS. THE HAGUE, MARCH 17.—1 n the Java papere, 6. 4 the 27th of November to the 4th of December, we the following particulars:— BATAvIA, Nov. 29, 1844.—Accounts from Ma cil e ssitr e a state that the authorities there had received letters 1 03-- f . William Brownrigg, commander, and from the crew .s ° the English barque The Premier, of Belfast, which *I-- stranded on the 27th of July, 1844, on Poeloe Pendi a ": near the north-cast coast of Borneo, on its voyage fro 14 China to Belie Badong, in ballast, having eh Chinese coin for Messrs. Lainge and Company. of It appears, from the letters, that the Sultan d Goenong Tabor had taken possession of the wreck 10 of the Chinese coin, and left the shipwrecked crew illt greatest distress, in danger of being put to death or sO by the Sultan. of The native major, Kalang Kankang, in the :Bays Palos, who happened to be at Macassar when thie . ° c o d was received, was requested, and undertook to P rec t he immediately to Borneo, in order to obtain frail o f Sultan of Goenong Tabor the release of the cr ew The Premier. The Government of Macassar received iestru cti°ll o s d if assistance should be required, immediatels' f t_ ° s s e t y's either his Majesty's brig the Postilion, or his IVe . ';l e e n - the schooner the Cameleon (both which ships belong "" • • • ehli ) Macassar station) to Poloe Pandjang, to deliver the wr S c ecked crew. • c " ci THE HAGUE, MARCH 26.—We learn that the A or Chamber of the States General will meet on To e the Bth of April. -.hog 1 0 Her Royal Highness the H ere dit ar y Grand "' e , of of Saxe Weim ar i s ex p ec t e d h ere on th e sth or 6 ` h - April. Her Royal Hi g hnes s ' s bi r thd a y is on the nee DORDRECHT, MARCH 26.—0 n Sunday night' t " s w ep in the and the Mallegat was entirely cleared 11- 01 and yesterday it broke up before the town. 90 1:1 floated away. Some ice still remained in the No° . the Papendrecht, but that broke up last night, so thar t.cr navigation is again open, an d th e s t eam -b o at to Bc t dam will go to-morrow at the usual hour. w hich ROTTERDAM, MARCH 27.—The Dordrecht boat , to was removed from the harbour yesterday evening'end commence to-day its voyages between that te7 „ ,ieb this, sunk during the night. It seems th a t the ice w t It came down the Medwede damaged it so much th e a oa filled with water. Happily, there was only one m a- t het board, who got on shore. The vessel lies so deeP be to-day, at high water, the paddle-boxes were not t') seen. 3 IOW AMSTERDAM, MARCH 28.—The navigation is completely restored, and, a fter th e l o ng iaterrup to tA e l proportionably active as we ll on th e Y— as the iew'' and Them sall streams. accounts from the rivers are, on the -Leeswh°l- vourable ; the ice has broken up, though in some P it is still firm. AN' BRUSSELS, MARCH 27.—The ca pitalists , have formed a company to undertake the execution .c es, railway from Louvain to Jemappes-sur-Sambre , ar l o • ea at Numer on the 25th. They told a person of de C opt tion that high hopes were entertained to obtain th e goo of the railway which they project before the close 0t t hs session, and to be able to commence the work befor e end of the year. MARCH 29.—1 t is positively affirmed that a cue - J r o) is formed to undertake the execution of a railwaY_," e Antwerp to Rotterdam, and Rotterdam by way of.l3Er_ It is affirmed that the founders of this company already obtained subscriptions in Holland to the 11 111° ;;,1 of 13 or 14 millions of francs, and that they have enter into negotiati ons w ith th e Government of t h e Nete r lands on the subject. The navigation of the can a l s f rom B r sels to Ch a i r t e le ; roy, us ,4rid to Willibroelc, was resume° yesterday, being interrupted for three months and a half. M. Rochusson, the new Governor of the Dutch pell e t; eions in the East Indies, will remain for a for tnl e p l Brussels. He will then go to the llague, thence to P a ra and finally return to Holland, and embark for h is I) ' destination. A, oil Many ships that wintered i n th e basins at left there on the 25th, and d ro pp e d down the rive!: co the 26th. To prevent accidents, the vessels which bas arrived from sea on the 25th were ordered to remain ill the road till the morning of the 26th.—Brussels P a P` March 28. g e nig STOCKHOLM, MARCH 14.—The Dogligt A . 1a 00 says that the Government h as gran t e d a loan of Jd :) bny bank dollars, without interest, to the Stockholm and of 10,000 dollars to the Uprata Lehn, for the P' chase of seed corn. fa* HAMBURGH, MARCH 25.—We have nothing iee - v e i b e , vourable to state respecting the ice i n the Middle h This morningloaded waggons passed directly over tis river from Blankenese; and, higher up the river, Pec.Pde* with sledges and ho rses s till p ass a l ong th e south s l Mr° The ice in our harbour is breaking up, and in a few ik e it will be possible to get at the ships with boats. is Brunshausen a large space of open water is forneil am , the channel. At Sch u l au th ere i s no charge.--- - I' burgh papers, March 25.. DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, MARCH 26. Money. / 3 , 1 ",,,'" Actual Debt, 2% per Cent...... :tato, 3 per Cent 761% 794, Ditto, 4 per Cent. Ditto, 5 per Cent. Amort Syndic, 4% per Cent •.. . Ditto, 3% per Cent. Commercial Company, 4% per Cent • • 150% 1511 ' —Dutch Papers. March 29. Exchange on London, one m0nth....... 12 25 Two months.. 12 20 On llamburgb, at sight • • 35 50 Two months... •••• • • • • if 31% PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, :Slim 26. n e•s% Bills. .... 0 — 100 994 j-264 St. Schuld Sch., 3% per Cent . Pruss. English Bonds, 1830, 4 per Cent.. Exchange on London, 2 m0nth5........- -Prussian State Gazette, March 26. HAMBURGH BORSENHALLE, MARCH 26. Bills, lioneY• Austrian 5 per Cents •• • • ..... ....... 1144 Bank Shares 1670 1665 Anglo-Russian Loan .......... - • • 1141 Russian 5 per Cent., Hainb. Certificate. 1053 i 105% Ditto let series Inscription-- .• ...... • 105% Ditto, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th series • • —99 v Ditto, in Certificate.... .• •• • . New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. •••• 9214 92,4 Ditto Stieglitz 924 92 Spanish New 5 per Cent • 2234 224 Ditto 3 per Cent .••••• • • • • • • Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 24 . per Cent • • Dutch Actual Debt, 2 1 /, per Cent.... • . 63% 63% Ditto 3 per Cent. Polish New 4 per Cent. Loan, 1844 —• • 8738 87 q Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent ••• • • • 88 871 National Bank 5hare5................ 148 Exchange on London Hamburgh, March 23 Ditto Two months Christiana, March 1, 3 31 Stockholm, Feb. 21, 75 D .... •• • • 11amburgh Borseuhalle, Mareh. 27. 13 11% 13 1O AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, 11fAacif 20. 5 per Cent. Metalliques• •••• • • . 4 per Cent. ditto •••• • • • •••••••• • • • • • • . 102 3 per Cent. ditto YI7% Loan, 1834 Ditto, 1839 Bank Shares Esterhazy's Loan • • • • •••• • • • • 574 .Allgemelne Zeitung, ara'.l 25. RUNNING MATCH IN HYDE PARK.-This morning a foot-race came off in Hyde park ; the competitors were Coles, of St. James's, and Milwood, of Bayswater. The contesting distance was half a mile, arid the stakes 5/. a side. In betting Millwood was the favourite at 5 to 4, and money to some tune was laid out. The usual preliminaries were arranged, and after twelve false starts the men got off, Coles at a good lead, which he maintained for 200 yards, when his opponent came up, and a splendid race ensued, which terminated in favour of Coles, who ran in a winner by eight yards, completing the half-mile of ground in two minutes and thirty-two seconds. Many spectators were present. SUDDEN DEATH OF A SOLICITOR WHILST ALTERING His WILL—On Saturday Mr. Baker held an inquest at the Ship and Dolphin, New Gravel-lane, Shadwell, on view of the body of Mr. Joseph Sweet, a solicitor, aged 70 years. Mrs. Ruth Sweet, of No. 18, New Gravel-lane, widow of deceased, deposed that deceased, during his long life, had enjoyed a re markably good state of health, until within the last few weeks. lie was then taken poorly, but nothing of any con sequence ailed him. Deceased had a great aversion to medical men, and would consult no one. On Wednesday afternoon, about four o'clock, he told witness that, as one of the legatees whom he had named in his will had died, he should make an alteration in it, and bequeath the legacy to witness,which h• had intended for the other. The necessary papers were brought to him, and deceased himself wrote the alterations t• his will, to carry into effect his intentions. He signed it, and the document was regularly attested by three witnessep, with the usual formality. As soon as he: had completed it, witness observed a sudden change to take place in his fee". tures. Fearing he was taken worse, she again wished Mm I• have medical advice, but he replied "No." He laid down cai a sofa in the room, breathed faintly twice, and expired in a moment. The Coroner remarked upon the singularity of the occurrence, and the jury returned a verdict of " Natures death," - 1,, • J.: . At Liv er v r , atte nvt b y quitted. ltichard : + . o undi ng Voi, and dc t l isti tig his 4: a bight observed th took him, a session ( killed and tirne s• lie ji f s At the se sentenc e,