The Sun. — London, England, 1850-05-10 00:00:00

NOTICE. f WiilE NEW WORK ON NINE VEH. ti By the Rev. J. P. FLETCHER, Minister of St. Saviour's Church, Haverstock Hill, Including TRAVET.S IN MESOPOTAMIA, ASSYRIA, &c. • IS NOW READY AT ALL THE BOOKSELLERS. In 2 vols., post Svo., 215., bound. . . . " A work of great merit—the remarks of a highly intelligent and ttrote observer. The work Is not less acceptable as a book of travel than it is valuable as an auxiliary to the archmology of the Holy Scriptures ." Stand ard. henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. TIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. A GRAND CLAS'ICAL MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT Will take place on MONDAY MORNING, May 13, Selected ;rom the following autho's : Mozart, Weber, Spohr, Cherubini, Spontini, Gluck, Cimarosa, Beeth oven, Zingarelli, Purcell, and Mendelssohn, And embracing many highly interesting novelties. On this occasion will appear :. Madame Sontag, 311sa Catherine Hayes, Mdlle. Giuliani, Mdlle. Ida Bertrand, and Mdlle. Parodi ; Signori Calzolari, Sims Reeves, and Baucarde, Colsttl, Beiletti, Lorenzo, F. Lablache, M. Muller, and S gnor Lablache; Supported by all the Instrumental and Choral resources of the Theatre. The whole under the direction of Mr. Balfe. Amongst other novelties Madame Sontag will have the honour to sing the "Swiss Airs," by Eckert (Composed expressly for her, and sung with the most enthusiastic success at the concerts of the Grand Conservatoire of Paris) ; The " Grand Scoria" from Oberon ; the Ballad of " Borne sweet Horne ;" and, by general desire, the hymn, "Hear my prayer" (with full chorus), by Mendelsshon. Miss Hayes Will sing the admired Irish Ballad, "Kathleen Mayourneen," :nd in other favourite pieces. Mdlle. Parodi The admired " Ombra adorata," front Romeo a Giulietta. Mr. Sims Reeves The celebrated " War Song," from Purcell's King Arthur. Favourite pieces by Signori Baucarde and Calzolari. The admired Dao, by Signori Lablache and F. Lablache, from I Due Barone of Cimarosa. There will also be presented— Grand selection from' the celebrated Mass in C, " Gloria," " Qui tollis," " Quoniam" Mesdames Sontag. Parodi, Giuliani, C. Hayes, and Ida Bertrand ; Signori Baucarde, Calzolari, aims Reeves, Belletti, Celetti, F. Lablache, Lablache, and full chorus . . Beethoven. " Sestetto con Coro," with the incidental Dance Music (celebrated Polonaise) Mesdames Parodi and Giuliani ; Signori Calzolarl, Belletti, Coletti, and Lablache, and Chorus, " Ah ! godan for felicitade " (Fau-t) Scene from Armida, assisted by Mdlles, Permit, Giuliani, C. Mayes, Ida Bertrand, Grimaldi, Malpasuta ; Sig nori Baucarde, Calzolari, Sims Reeves, Coletti, Bel letti, F. Lablache, Lablache, and Chorus The whole to conclude with the celebrated Finale to the first act of La Vestale—Mesdames Giu liani, Hayes, Bertrand, and Parodi; Signori Calzo lari, Sims Reeves, Baucarde, Coletti, Belletti, Lo renzo, F. Lablache, Muller, Lablache, and full Chorus - - - - Gluck. - Spontini. A Trio for Three Basses, By Signori Coletti, Belletti, and Lablaehe. A Trio fcr Three Sopranos, By Madame Sontag, Miss C. Hayes, and Mdlle. Parodl ; and A Trio for Three Tenors, By Signori Baucarde, Calzolari, and Sims Reeves. Fall progfammes may be obtained at the Box-office of the theatre And all the principal Libraries and Mugicsellers. PRICES OF ADMISSION. Boxes Pitt Stalls ...... 12s. tel. I Gallery Stalls .......... 3s. 6d. Pitt • ....... ss. 6d. I Gallery 2s. 6d. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box-office of the Theatre. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. GRAND EXTRA NIGHT. Combining the talents of Madame Sontag,'Mdlle. Catherine Hayes; Signori Baucarde, Calzolari, Sims Reeves, Coletti, Beßettl, F. Lablache, and Lablache ; Mdlles Carlotta Grist, Amalia Ferraris, Marie Taglioni, :and M. Paul Taglioni, will take place On THURSDAY next, May 16, When will be performed (for the last time this season) Rossini'S celebrated Opera, IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA. Rosina, Mdlle. Sontag ; 11 Conte d'Almaviva, Signor Calzolari ; Fi,garo, Signor Belletti ; Basilic, Signor F. Lablache; Bartolo, Signor Lablache. In the Lesson Scene Madame Sontag wr.l 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 Signer Pugni), entitled _ . LES GRACES. Euphrosyne, Mdlle. Carlotta Grist ; Thalia, Mdlle. Marie Taglioni Eglaia, Millie. Amalia Ferraris. To be followed by Selections from Rossini's celebrated Opera, GUGLIELMO TELL. Arnoldo, Signor Bancarde ; Gu,glielmo Tell, Signor Coletti; and Walter, Signor Lablache. After which the TAR.ANTELLA, by 3ladlle. Carlotta Grisi and M. P. Taglioni. With other Entertainments, in which Miss Catherine Hayes and Mr. Sims Reeves will appear. To conclude with the last scene of the admired Ice Ballet, by M. P. Taglioni, entitled LES PLAISIRS DF. L'IIIVER ; on, Les Patineurs Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box Office of the Theatre. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. TO-3IORROW EVENING Will be repealed Bellini's celebrated Opera, I PURITAN'. Elvira, Madame Sontag; Georgio, Signor Lablache ; Riccardo, Signor Coletti; and Arturo, Signor Baucarde. To conclude with the highly succesful new and original Grand Pas de Trois (by MM. Paul. Taglioni et Gosselin, the 3lusic com posed by Signor Pugni), entitled LES GRACES, Euphrosine, Mdlle. Carlotta Grist ; Thalia, Mdlle. Mario Tagiloni Egle, Mdlle. Amalia Ferraris. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box-otlice of the Theatre. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. TO-MORROW EVENING Will be performed Meyerbeer's Grind Opera,; LES HUGUENOTS. Valentina, Madame Grisi ; Margarita di Valois, Madame Cas tellan; Dama d'Onore, Madile. Cottl ; Urbana Madile. de Merle ; the Huguenot Soldier, Signor Lavia ; Il Conti di San Bris, Signor Taglialico ; B Conte di Nevers. M. Massol ; De Cosse, Signor Luigi Mei ; De Retz, Signor Polonini ; Meru, Signor Rommi; Manrevert, Signor Soldi ; 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 be opened at Halt-past Seven, and the performances commence at Eight o'clock precisely. Tickets for the Boxes, Stalls, or the Pit, may be had (for the might or season), at the Box-office of the Theatre, which Is open from Ten till Five. FRENCH FLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Continuation of M. Regnier and Madlle. Nathalie's engagement rms EVENING The Performances:will commence at , Half-past Seven o'clock pre- cisely, with HEUR ET MALHEUR. After which will be produced a new Play, entitled G IBitIELLE. Julien Chabriere, M. Regnier ; Gabrielle, Madlle. Icathalle. To conclude with Alfred de Musset's favourite Comedy, UN CAPRICE. Madame de .Lery, Madlie. Nathalie. The Box-office of the Theatre is open daily from Eleven till Five ' Boxes and Stalls at Mr. 3/Itchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond street. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. THIS EVENIN , . _ . Will be presentedd (2d time) an entirely new and original Comedy,by Douglas Jerrold, ttntitlect THE CATSPAW. Captain Burgonet, 3lr. Howe ; Mr. Snowball, Mr. Keeley ; Doctor Petgoose, Mr. James Wallack ; Audley, Mr. Charles Selby ; Appieface, Mr. Buckstone ; Dust, Mr. Tilbury; Coolcard, Mr. Benjamin Webster; Duggens, Mr. Ellis ; Snowball's Servant, Mr. A. Brindal ; Mrs. Peachdown's Servant, Mr. Coe ; Mrs. Psachdown, 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. Selby; Sir Wilfrid of Ivanhoe, Mrs. Keeley; Wamba, Mr. Buck ssone ; Isaac of York, Mr. Keeley; Robin Hood, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; Rebecca, Miss P. Horton. The titer-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. Ma,or Slowman, .11r. 0. Smith ; Jemmy Tweezer, Mr. Wright ; aptain Ginger Green, Mr. P. Bedford ; Tommy Rusk, Mr. Mun yard ; IVladlle. de Tourville, Madame Celeste; Susan Pockets, Miss K. Fitzwilliams ; Dolly Duggins, Miss Woolgar. • To be followed by a grand historical Spectacle Vaudeville, entitled PLAYING FIRS l' FIDDLE ; or, Follow my Leader Principal Characters by Messrs. P. Bedford, Lambert, Madame Celeste, Miss Woolgar, and Miss K. Fitzwilliam. To conclude with MY PRECIOCS BETSY- Characters by Messrs. viz.:of,, Bedford, Worrell ; Miss Harding, and Mrs. F. Matthews. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE THIS EVENING Will be performed NOT A BAD JUDGE. To be followed by THE ISLAND OF JEWELS. Characters by Messrs. r'. M tthews and F. Cooke ; Madame Vestris, Miss Julia St. George, Miss Dickinson, Miss Kenworthy, Mrs..Macnamara, Miss Martindale, and Miss E. Homier. ro conclude with A PRACTICAL MAN. All applications for Private Boxes must be made to Mr. Aileron 15, New Mond -street. The Box-offlce open dally adjoining the Theatre, in Wellington - street , i s _ _ F. from Ten to Six o ' c l oc k, un d er th e superintendence of air. T. F. Bennett PRLNCESS'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be presented the entirely new Opera (composed expressly for this Theatre, by 'Signor F. Schira), entitled THE ()PHAN OF GENEVA. Count de Merville, Mr. Allen; Carwin, Mr. Weiss; Fontaine, Mr, H. Corri ; Picard, Mr. Latter; Levine, Mr. Wynn; Therese, Miss Louisa Pyne. After which a Is7ew Grand Tale of Enchantment, with splendid Scenery, Costumes, and Appointments; extensive Machinery, &c., entitled THE QUEEN OF THE ROSES; or, The Sorcerer of Candahar. Principal characters by Messrs. Ryder, Forman, Honey, Craven ; Miss Louisa Howard, Miss Saunders, and Miss VUlars. .ASTLEY's ROYAL AMPIIITILEATRE. Y P ro p r ietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batt Bri lli an t Career of the Ma g nificent Easter Spectacle oiEnchantment. UnequalledHlS attract ions EVENlNG in tho Circle. T The Entertainments will commence at Seven . o'clock, with Fitzball's gorgeous Spectacle, entitled THE FOUR SONS OF AYMON ; or The Days of Charlemagne. Froducci with great splendour, and introducing the beautiftil Stud of Horses, Camel of the Dessert, Zebra, and ail the vast resources of this Establishment. succeeded by an incompar able display of Batty's peerless To be Cie Arena, supp or ted by the most a ccom p lished Male and Scenes of Female Artistes in Europe. To conclude with TIIE WEAVER OF LYONS. Box-office open From Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. ,LOGICAL GARDENS. in 310NDAY NEXT, MAY 13 HE BAND. H. P. Hardy. Hughes. Hooper. ROYAL SURREY ZOO Comatencement of the Season 0. LIST OF T Sonnenberg Clarinets . Anderson. McDonald. J. Winterbettom, Grosse. Sorge. W. Hardy. McGill. Smalley Pollard. Angire Trcmbone• Horton. Hawkes. Webster, Saxophon. Sommers. 73a ssaon.c. Winterbottom T. Anderson Rossler. Rawlings. Petit Clarinets. W. Egerton. Fairlie. OYh'.clCld?. Pules. I s ta p n p_ den._ . , Wright.. Contra-13issi. Kleigel. IJ. Hughes, Timpani. Prat ten. D: Godfrey. Flageolet. Cokinet. Oboes, Crozuce. Smith. Grosse Cease. Egerl en. Cornets. Koenig. Hoet. Shearon. E. Harper. Trumpets. Irwin. Ilarrey. Corn!. Jarret. Condactor, C. Side Drums. Barker, Caldwell, T. Godfrey. Triangle. C. Godfrey, jun. Solo Players. Messrs. Koenig, Lazarus,Prospere, C linet, Pratten, Jan( t, 'Son nenberg, Sommers, and Win. terbottom. GODFAEY, Esq. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING-, MAY 10, 1850. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 2 vols., post Avo., 0 0 D. A NOVEL. " The author, we are convinced, is young, otherwise we could hardly sea displayed such fresh and enthusiastic sympathy in be half of his heroes and heroines. lie is a writer of genius, 1 pired by a hiah standard of morality and religion, and by a laudabi ,ove of the surest sort of fame. We gather this fr om the glowing lan guage in which he expresses his feelings, sentiments, and opinions on the subjects just mentioned. There are s everal cha p ters, in which links of the story are dropped, containing most eloquent essays on matters that aa - e the prima mobile of the actions which cha racterise nature's nobility. The writer evidently belongs, though he has marked per se p:culiarities, to the school of the Dis:aelis, Man ners,s, and arnythes."—Observer. " Silwood' is no ordina y work ; it contains passages g exceed ing beauty, and is written in pure and forcible language, with great good taste and power. It is one of the most interesting and en gaging novels which the present season has produced. Of the cha racter of Amelia Ross we have already spoken, and the extract we have given above is the surest voucher of the truth of what we have said. The other ladies who play conspicuous parts in the tale ar e Florence flovrard, an intellectual beauty; Jessie Gordon, a wild and impulsive genius, passionately fond of music and poetry; and Julia Maitland, the noblest and best of them all."—Morning Post. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street, Lately published, m OD . ; a Poem. By B. W. jitEsoN Price ss. • "Itis a work rf power. Thin, years ago such a poem would have made a reputation."—Ebenezer Eliot. gifted spirits besites Bailey are working a good work . . Among these we may mention the author of 'Nimrod,' a ,•• ork con taining much , ne description and exquisitely ceveloped character." —Gildllan's " Gallen of Literal y Portraits." Second Series. W. Pickering, ondon ; R. Seto:, Edinburgi. lIIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tnis DAT —3leinin;, , 33 min. after 12 I Evening 56 min. after 12 To-MORROW-51orning 18 rain. after 1 I Evening 37 min. after 1 THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, MAT 10. THERMOMETER. 49—highest since noon yesterday. 35—lowest this morning and during the night. 56—this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 30 . 07. The mercury is rising rapidly. WIND W.S.W.—fine warm weather. all these considerations, in fine, it must be clearly manifest that one man has a pre-eminent claim upon the attention of the Government, and that that man is Mr. JAMES MONTGOMERY. Entire strangers to him, save in regard to our know ledge of the workings of his poetic genius, seeing in him a purely English fame, a pure and venerable name, and a bright and elevated reputation, we direct the finger of journalism towards him in his do mestic seclusion at Sheffield, and call upon the Ad ministration to nominate JAMES MONTGOMERY as the Poet Laureate in the room of WILLIAM WORDS be quadrupled on the death of an old gentleman in his 72d year, and that 101 and not 41 years' pur chase was the amount really obtained. It is most probable that many parts of the Portarlington estate, those which realised 25 or 26 3relrs' purchase, are similarly situated, and that the rate for ordinarily circumstanced property, which in this country would readily command 25 or 26 years' purchase, may be taken at 15 or 16 in Ireland, or about 3-sths of the real value. The above facts show the imperative necessity of speedily passing Sir JOHN ROMILLY'S Bill, and the equal importance, as a matter of equity and justice, as well as of, policy and expediency, of extending its provisions to every description of property. We may desire to serve the owners of encumbered estates, but we should not do so at the expense of their more prudent brethren. We may desire to obtain bidders for the lands which must be brought to the hammer under the Act of last year, but in order to do so we should not render property which does not come within the jurisdiction of the Commissioners practically unsaleable. The Parlia mentary title constitutes in itself an advantage of no ordinary character. Never before was such an inducement held out to purchasers, but even that is insufficient to tempt them. Bold and comprehensive measures will alone meet the urgency of the case. The Solicitor-General has taken some ,daring steps in the right direction. Let him proceed vigorously in the path on which he has en tered. If Parliamentary titles can be conferred on the purchasers of encumbered estates, why should they not also be given to the purchasers of other pro perty ? It may be necessary to increase the jurisdic tion of the Commissioners for that purpose, but that can easily be accomplished. In like manner, let the issue of debentures secured on real estates be facili- tated, and the owner of landed property be entitled to avail himself of the privilege, as well as the specula tive purchaser. If this suggestion be fully carried out, Sir JOHN ROMILLY will earn for himself the thanks and blessings of the Irish community. which may be at variance with one previously taken t , to the Church, therefore they have written a circular to their clergy, which they enclose, com manding them that when they are taking the oath I I they are to do so under reserve, and shall consider , the oath to the constitution only so far binding and of legal force as it is administered saleis ecclesiw juribus. The Count Von LADENBERG, in his reply thereto, states that inasmuch as the oath to the constitution involves nothing that is opposed to religion, the circular of the bishops is admitted, and the Roman Catholic priests, cn taking the oath, will be per mitted to make the declaration prescribed by the bishops. The state, however, will consider itself equally bound and empowered not to leave persons making that declaration in any doubt ; that that declaration can in no wise change or set aside the obligation to which they have by oath bound themselvis to the Government. It is said that the Prince Bishop of BRESLAU has acceded to the declaration of the Bishop of the wes tern provinces, and will adopt the same in his diocese. These differences may, them efore, be regarded as settle-d. Count Leo TIME has been appointed Austrian Plenipotentiary to the Frankfort Congress. The Emperor of AUSTRIA has commanded that the golden cross of merit shall be given to the captain of the English vessel, the Brazilian packet, of New castle, John Davison, for having succoured the Aus trian brigantine, Societa Bocchese, when suffering from stress of weather. It was rumoured in Vienna that it was probable that DEAR might enter the Cabinet, without a port folio, as the representative of Hungary. DEAR was, formerly a Member of the Magyar Liberal opposition, but retired from public life in the autumn of 1848. in consequence of his jealousy of the rising power of KOSSUTIi. The Deutsch Allgemeine: Zeitung has letters from Trieste of the Ist instant, stating that, according to the last advices from Dalmatia, the city of Stagno had been utterly destroyed by frequent earthquakes ' and a sudden irruption of sulphurous springs. No lives were lost, as all the inhabitants left the city before it was finally destroyed. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TtV 0 O'CLOCK. The sites of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were about 8 000 bales., of which 1.000 Americ,sn were taken tor xport, and 1 000 on speculation. The maiket closed very firm, at full prices. The sales comprised about 6,500 American, 600 Pernam and Maranham, a, 7d. to 7P., 200 Bahia, at 7d. •to 7ft. ; 300 Egypt at 74d,; and 400 Surat.—ln Railway Shares a moderate business was done, at rather higher prices. The Corn Market is firmer to-day, with a fair demand. The business done in colonial produce this week has been of moderate extent, as regards coffee, and a' gocd deal of activity has prevailed in sugar owing to holders meeting the grocers freely. The inquiry for Bice has been more animated. Indigo sales commence next Tuesday, and the Wool sales are progressing tolerably well, although some lots hove gone off rather, lower than at the February series. Tea has been dull. There are several ship arrivals, and among other ad vices we have South Australian papers of Jan. 29. The colony continued to progress favourably. Dr. Sheridan, a gentleman well known for many years in connexion with the London press, had arrived cut safely with his family. Mauritius advices of Feb. 2 state in general terms that the island was making progress, taking into ac count the low values of Colonial staples in the European market. Caps of Good Hope papers of March 23 have come to band. The prospects of agriculture in the eastern province were cheering, and the locust bird bad appeared in great numbers, to the extreme gratification of the fanners. It may be important to state that a meeting of emigrants, sent out under the auspices of Mr. Byrne, had been held at Natal, at which several speaks rs ex pressed their disappointment at the quality of the land, ' but on the other hand, two speakers gave contrary opi nions. A committee was to be appointed, in order to take measures for the good of the parties concerned, and the local Government seemed inclined to give its aid. The Continental mails bring very little, yesterday having been a holiday. At Hamburgh, on Tuesday, the rate of exchange on London was 13 9, and steady. Not much was doing in bills. At Copenhagen, on the 4th instant, the English Three per Cent Loan was 70 to 70k. The returns of the average weekly note circulation of all the banks in the United Kingdom for the four weeks ending the 20th April, give the following re sults:— Bank of England.... £19,802,351 Private banks ... ... 3,699,886 Joint Stock ditto ... ... 2.855,122 This gives a twat for England of 26,357,3591., and an increase over the previous month of 1,299,9441., viz , 936,4471. by the Bank of England; 185,1771. by the Private Banks; and 178,3201. by the Joint Stock. Cf.m pared vsith April, 1849, the total increase is 1,282,6721. The other returns are:— Scotland ... ... £3,014,526 Ireland • ... ... 4,488,785 The increase in Scotland during the past month, and compared with March of this year was 20,905/., and the decrease in Ireland, 1,539/. Compared with April, 1849, the Scotch Banks increased 106,6111., and the Irish 111,964/. The English funds are better this morning. Consols have been 954 to 96 for Transfer, and 96 to 96A for Ac count: The effeect of the account is now over, and the French Le eis has less influence, though very little would make it "'tell" again. This is pay-day," and the limited speculation recently entered into renders the operation easy to all parties. The New. Three-and-a Quarter per Cents, are 964 to 974, and the Three per Cents., 944 to 95. Bank Stock is 2054 to 2064. India Stock has improved to 266 and 2674. Exchequer-bills are 68 to 71 premium. In Foreign Stocks there has been a little movement. Spanish Bonds are better, the Five per Cents. being 174 to 1. Portuguese Converted have been done at 33. Mexican Stock is 284 to 29, Peruvian 70, Equador 34 4, and Venezuela 334. Danish Scrip has touched 64 premium. Belgian Four and a-Halt per Cents. aro 874 4, and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 551 4. Railway Shares have been rather more in request, and are improving in a few instances. We notice an advance in Brighton, Great Northern, Caledonian., South-Eastern, York and Berwick, and York and Nor th- Midland. Foreign shares are quiet. Royal Mail Steam not quite so good. QUARTER TO THREE. ... 954 96 ... 96 964 . ONE CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS O'CLOCK. PRICES.: caws, 'Stock. ...... ....... 206% 205% 205`k per Cent. Reduced Anna ..... 94% 94% 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities... - 74 96 95 r R NAP 3 1 4 per Cent. Anna 97 97% 96% 97 Long Anna. to expire Jan.lB6o 8 3-16 8 1 4 81 Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 — 8 India Stock 266 267% 267 1 ,4 Tana Bonds, 1,0004 Ditto under 1,0001.. 9l 89 p 89 p 3onsols for Account 96 % 1 /4 96% ~chequer Bills. ' es 2d 1,0001. June 500/. June Small. June 7l 68 71 p 71 p ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK. PRICES. Consols ... ... •• Ditto, Account, Jane 12 ... PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. Danish Bonds, 1825,3 per Cent. — Ditto 5 per Cent. Ditto, Scrip Equador Bonds Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons . 23% Peruvian Bonds, 4 per Cent Ditto, Account Ditto Deferred Portuguese 6 per Cents. Ditto, Ccnverted, 1841 36 ... 33 ituemian Bonds „,„ • Ditto, 4 1 4 per Cent Ditto Scrip 2 % p 2 3 , E p Spau;sti 5 per Cult. 1840 Ditto, Account ... Ditto, Passive Venezuela Bonds, 2 1 j per Cent ... 33% Dividends on the above payable in (Ando', 6% 37/8P 28 70% 70) 17t,a 1/ B A 17X 335* Beligan, 43( 2 per Cent. .......•- 87 32 LA ex d 87 1 A ex d ~titco. 2% per Cent., 12 it3ruild. 55%% 56 Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certifieatep... 85t,f, 85% PRICES OF P AID. BUSINE SS DONE CLOAN RAILWAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICE: ,oerd.eou 5O — Do. Preference. - Bristol and Exeter 100 ...,.. 64 o 3 Ditto, Thirds - Caledonian Cgetter and Holyhead... 50 ...... ...... Ditto, Preference I.astorn ConNties... ..... 20 ...... 7 7 1 / 2 .... ..... Do., New Pr.-. f. rer ce, 6 Her Cent..... lO Ditto,Extension, 5 per Cent., No.l 6/. 13s. 4d.... % p Do. North. & Eastern, 6 per Cent .. Ditto. 5 per Cent 5O Eat Lincolnshin, guar. 6 per Cent. ' 25 great Northern Do., !Ai l A Deferred ' ... 12 1 4...... 2 v 1 / 2 Do., 1 / 2 B 6 per Cent... 91 4. 4 . Do., 5 per Cent. Pref. 12 1 / 2 ...... 104 , rest South. and West. .. (Ireland) .......• ....... 50 ...... .... ..... ..... .thrsat Western 100 Ditto. New 171._ .. .. 15 ... ...... .. Lancashire & Yorkshire 100 Do. Fifths Leeds and Bradford beads aria Thirgk ...... 50 London, Brighton, ,ald South Couto:— .. 100 - 7 91 / 2 1 4 3 4 Do., New, guaranteed • 6 per Cent ..........100 135 ...- IFS Do.4suarant. 5 per et.. 9 ...... ••• • London and N W e.tern 100 lOl l4 l l /2 lO2 Ditto, New Quarters 12 hit.o..E'iftil. Midland . Do., 50/. Shares ..... 30 .. ... 1A, 1 4 .. . ..... Norfolk .... 100 Do. New 20/. .. . ls Dv. Extension ... North oritisk, . . .... ... 25 tiesding, Guildford, and Reigate l5 .. 15 Shrewsbury and Birns... 13 1 4 ..... dis. .. ....... Ditto ditto. Class B. 9 Ditto, New Guaranteed 8 i0U...11 ii:33t,!tr 13%A% Wilts, Somerset, & Wey- 11 3 / 4 ••• ••••••-•••• 113/4 dis I % mouth V ork, Newcastle, and Berwick. Do, Newcastle Exton. 20 D:. Preference 8 ... York. Ana North lAidiand 50 #4 tie Pretortnei. FOREIGN RAIL WA Y Boulogne and Amiens... 20 East Indian ...... ....• 5 Sambre and Meuse 2O ..... ..... West Flanders 8%..... 1% MINES. United Mexican ......2816 1:6% Colonial :25 LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) LOND,N, MAY 10.—Wind, this day at noon, S.W. to W.S.W., light breeze awl fine, but cloudy at times. PoaTsalouTu, MAY 9.—Wind variable.—Sld. Maria ►lobart Town. LERWICK, MAY 2.—A clog with a collar on, with "Caledonia. of North 13Liiields, William Young, Mas ter," on it, has been, washed on shore at North Maviiie. THESTED, MAY 2.—The Frederickke, Lisbon to Memel, on shore on the Agger Strand 19th.ult., has been got off. _ _ A ship, under jury masts, coppered nearly to the bends, and anchors on the b ows a coc kb e ll , apparent l y abandoned, was passed 29th April, lat. 46 V., long. 13 W. ELSINORE, MAY 4,—The Elsinor, Lebau to Maas, has put in here leaky, and to repair. Helena; Cleopatra, Demerara; Palmyra, ditto; Index, St. Kitt's; pi.tht, Jamaica; Mary Montague, ditto. COWES, MAY 9.—Wind W.—Arrd. Amicitia, Ray!, Batavia; Terpsichore, Heystrom, Pernambuco, from Morkioping. SALCOMBE, MAY 9.—ArrU. Henri, Harris, Clyde, from St. V alery, Owed in, totally dismasted, having bean in contact, us reported yesterday in Dartmouth paragraph. STAVANGER, APRIL Thekla, I.lunbUrgli to Norway, has been wrecked at Idersn, near Haar, 1-111 i, expec.e , l to be saved. I IDEAL, MAY W.S.W. to N.N.W. andN.N.E. —Arrd. John Bunyan, Thiimps.,n, Shanghae. Arr from the River and aid. Fanny, Ce), tun, &e.; F ame , Sierra Lynne; Octavia, Valparaiso; 114034(1ot z j Secret, Antigua; Apolline, Jamaica; Dagier, ditto; Slupner, Berbice ; William Inglis, Bermuda; Amy, New York. Sid. Henri Joseph, Singapore; .111edera, Wit,; • ,..Pi4.1' , ''' 7 -, , : . 1 ,...04.. 4 liff.• ' t. 4 ' 16.1 r ' stx--,. .1 , g r, , • , - . , 410, .A. ...).; . 2 .!.. 44 tira i, ..,„.., Z ~ ~,; it . M:, 6.. -- :.,,. 1 ,- 4,, ;_''''' r tiiiii°7l•7:loo4:s...., : fi,.,••,: Syr 4''' WORTH. Our readers will find in our columns to-day the annual report of an institution, the National Loan Fund Life Assurance Society, which from its commencement we hailed, and during its progress constantly encouraged. We have done this hereto fore from an intimate conviction of the stability of its principles, and from the high moral character and eminent attainments that characterised its managers and actuary ; and as we have had from time to time closer opportunities than the general public before to day of examining its annual transactions, we have done so unhesitatingly. _ _ The opportunities which we have had are now common to the public, who will see in the published accounts of this institution/enough to show how much may be really and solidly effected by great per severance and strict economy. Since last year as we gather from the able speech of the Chairman, while the amount of business has marvel lously increased, the effect of such increase in lowering the average ages of the lives in sured, has given greater strength to the insti tution, and largely increased the reserve of future profits. In this way insurers in the National Loan Fund are entitled to look forward to results which can alone be produced by that popularity which attracts considerable numbers towards it. This principle has been well illustrated on the year's transactions, as while those who were insured at this period last year have, in the course of nature, become one year older, they have obtained an advantage, from the influx of new insurers, which could not be- long to them, from the return of their own individual payments. If such momentum can be kept up, it will neither be difficult or hazardous to predict what may be predicated of an institution progress ing so rapidly. We have always been ready to lend our aid to similar societies, and encourage the exertions of those wbo lend themselves to the promotion of habits of foresight amongst all classes ; and if some of them do not attain to eminence, it has not been our fault. We feel, however, that, like all other affairs of life, success is not reached by all, but reserved to those who join to a perfect knowledge of their business indefatigable perseverance and heartiness of purpose. The Commissioners for the Sale of Encumbered Estates in Ireland have been compelled to adopt a new rule on their own responsibility, in order to prevent the fearful sacrifices that were taking place on the occasion of every sale of property under the new tribunal. They have ordered that henceforward purchasers may be permitted to lodge one-half of the purchase. money, retaining the remainder until the Security for Advances Bill is finally disposed of. This is a wise and prudent regulation, for which these Learned Gentlemen are entitled to the marked thanks of the community. It is an act of justice to the puisne encumbrancers, and also to the owners of property that may be submit ted for public competition. In the former it will afford a fair prospect of payment, while the latter will have a chance of some residue remaining for their own use, after liquidation of all fair demands. It must be manifest to the most superficial observer that the effect of a sale, during the pendency of the mea sure introduced by the Solicitor-General, offering un precedented advantages to all future purchasers, must necessarily be to depreciate prices for the time being. Capitalists who were inclined to invest their money in the purchase of real property in Ireland, would naturally wait until the Bill had received the Legislative sanc tion, or until it was decisively rejected. They would husband their resources until they could see their way clearly before them, and nothing could induce them to come forward but sales at prices so clearly inadequate as to more than counterbalance the bene fits to be derived by the great privileges about to be conferred by the new enactment. • Tne biddings that had been obtained sufficiently proved that this view of the case was taken by in tended purchasers. During the preceding week a small property producing a rental of 691. id. was withdrawn, the only offer being 6501., or about nine and a half years' purchase. Another producing 951. 7s. lid. per annum, was knocked down for 9501., or less than 10 years' purchase. In like manner, 2011. a year was sold for 2,4001., or for less than 14 years' purchase, and 1281. per annum, for 1,6001. The above lots were disposed of on the 30th of April, the purchasers becoming en titled to the half-year's rents falling due on the following day. Matters were still more gloomy on the next day of sale, the 3d of May—estates yielding a clear annual income of 6001., and situated in the barony of Fermoy, a favourite part of the county of Cork, the Yorkshire of Ireland, were submitted to pub lic competition. The two first lots were passed over sub silentio ; not a single bidding could be obtained, notwithstanding the inducements of an immediate conveyance, HO delay or investigation being necessary, a Parliamentary title being offered to the purchaser ; but all in vain, no person could be induced to come forward, For the third lot there was one offer, but it was so clearly inadequate that the Commissioners refused to receive it, and ad journed the sale until the lath of June. One lot, and one only, of that property changed hands, and for that, which yielded 25/. 13s. per annum, 2601., or just ten years' purchase, was obtained. The Beerabridge Mills, situate in the county of Down, were sold the same day. This property, with the machinery, had for merly realised 1,3001., and without the machinery 600/. per annum ! And yet they were knocked down for 5,500/.!! Under such circumstances no alterna tive remained but either to suspend the operation of the Commission, so far as sales were concerned, or to afford an option topurchasers of retaining a moiety of the price until the contemplated measure should be finally decided, and the Commissioners, who have much to do, and cannot afford to waste some months in compulsory idleness, judiciously determined to adopt the latter course. The results were immediately perceptible. On the next day of sale property to the amount of 54,0001. changed hands;, and, although prices still ruled low, there was a marked improvement on previous quota tions. The D'Arcy Estates, situate in the counties of Meath and Westmeath, were first disposed of. The prices realised were as follows :-Ist Lot, 4,000/., or 14 years' purchase ; 2d, 2,4001., or 16 years' pur chase; 3d, 1,800/., or 131 years' purchase; 4th, 1,1001., or 10 years' purchase ; sth, 3,5001., or 51 y e ars' purchase ; 6th, 2,5001., or 17 years' purchase. The last lot produced 18,500/., or nearly 20 years' purchase. Ten houses in the city of Cork were also,, sold, producing an average of 4401. per house. We believe a t h n e n y u m pdu . ro Fr c o e a From this g r i o t s s income w ounlcdo appear of p pe a r n t e h a a r t ly ti fi ,e o y o/ w. perwere dispos p e o d rt o i f on fo o r f about ther 07r*tay:ianton r eEstates were thens' purchase. A p pu ri t nc u el p y income .This ro perty, producing altogether the circumstanced in every respect, has long at t ract e d p public attention. It has been visited by persons from every part of the country—from England and Scotland as well as from Ireland. The part now sold was situated in the counties of Meath, Kildare, Kil kenny, and in the Queen's County. It was dis tributed in seventeen lots, and produced alto gether 17,100/., or about twenty years purchase. on the entire, the lots varying from 16 to 25, and in I i n tbo one nmys instanceuoosnft ttnot,hh eis pa( property however, w a eg ,re v ti v e yn z oi s i bl o m lei d a pf l ro l or lbgo probably leases.b)t tl , ye2n6i It hct y ra e cet a aa r ns s en' certainopc tourcsibpdaoesrre:. there fore, be regarded as affording a fair example of average prices. We have already shown bow little foundation there was for the joyous paeans announc ing the sale on the 16th ult. of the lands of Duncor. muck and the Hill of Bellany for 41 years' purchase On investigation it turned out that the rental would ebet' ItTIT -'471111; LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1850. Whether or not it may be advisable to abolish the old office of the Poet-Laureateship remains of course a matter of consideration for the Government. No system so entirely harmless in its operation, and at the same time so honourable by its antiquity and its associations, can be abruptly foregone, and this, too, merely at the flippant behest of those whose sympathies are impervious to the charms of literary celebration, without exciting among the multitude some sentiments of regret, or, at the least, of sub dued disappointment. The people at large, and especially the more reflective portions of the community, are sensitive to the last de gree in regard to the diminution of the means of publicly honouring their intellectual benefactors, those means, surely, even now, being suffi ciently restricted. It is, moreover, altogether beside the question to talk of the particular office referred to, as of one only comparable to that of the King's Jester. To speak of the Poet-Laureateship as leading to the degradation of a man of letters by his acceptance of such an appointment is, in fact, to talk sheer non sense. Was BEN JoNscee, we should like to know, degraded in this wise ? And were not the exquisite " Masques," perhaps the most precious of all his poetic effusions, in a great measure the result of that nomination ? Was Jour; DRYDEN degraded after a similar fashion ? And was the royal coronation of him in the Gazette detrimental to the play of his superb and resplendent genius—a genius which possibly shone the most brightly in his inimi•- table " Hind and Panther ?" Was the conference of the Poet-Laureateship on ROBERT SOUTHEY, again, one step made in the way of his degradation ? Or was there any degradation visible—any degradation moral, personal, or intellectual—in the selection, as his successor, of WILLIAM WORDSWORTH ? In the estimation of his individual ad mirers, and of his countrymen generally, Mr. Wounswowra was, we are bold to say, as esti mable, as venerable, as worthy of veneration after his acceptance of the office as ever he may have been prior to the appointment. Yet we must not be mis taken. Far be it from our intention to imply that in the maintenance of the Poet-Laureateship—there is involved any prerogative or title of the slightest im portance to the higher and nobler cultivators of our literature. The honour in this respect redounds alone to tho " powers that be"—not, in the most fugitive particular to the rank of Authorship, and, least of all, we would herein imply to that loftiest which partakes somewhat of the character of a Priesthood. While, therefore, we are resolute in the opinion that the Poet-Laureateship should not be lightly abolished, we argue in favour of its mainte nance simply because of that narrow capacity for the encouragement of intellectual achievements which is retained in the possession of the Government, and of the diminution of which, in every respect what ever, the Government should be most chary and jealous. Satisfied, therefore, that the office, in it self a ,sort of court trifle, and one invest ing the recipient with a merely honorary distinction, should not be carelessly abandoned, the only consideration remaining is as to the most suit able party to be selected for the appointment. For. tunately, in the making of this selection, there is, apparently, at the outset much reason for embarrass ment. Fortunately, we say in spite of those individuals who perversely and foolishly proclaim the present age to be one decidedly unpoetical. Among the young poets of the present generation the partialities and predilections of the many may disport with an amusing diversity of opinion : but there are happily, left to us a few ve terans of that poetical phalanx in the almost post humous homage of which the intellect of the country may recognize the means of exciting the truest appre .. ciation of genius, and the noblest source of emula tion. It is true that the lovers of English poetry may still exult in those propitious abilities from which have emanated works like that fantastic " Prin. cess," which abounds with so much of idyllic beauty and lyrical inspiration, as that meditative " Paracelsus," which is fraught with strains of ethic eloquence and metaphysical harmony, or as that eccentric " Festus," which reveals the riches of a most daring and precocious imagination. It is true that among the many gifted men whose reputations have already ripened into large and permanent celebri ties, we may enumerate with a feeling of natural, and we may add, too, of even national pride, the names of BABINGTON MACAULAY, the bard of the impassioned and classical " Lays of Ancient Rome," scarcely less highly reputed through them than through his labours as an essayist and an historian ; of BULWER LYTTON, the poetic celebrant of the glories of "King Arthur," hardly less admired for the variety of his scholarship than for the ardour, the industry, and the versatility of his Protean ambition; and of SAVAGE LANDOR, the writer of th e e l egant and refined " H e ll en i cs ," barely the l ess i n d e b ted to them for his literary g e t n i o i o n u s s . It Iris s excellence true, t a h u a r t pr i i n sin t g he andhale, the - renown than to the moreover, ofllis more the eloquent Christophe r sa • " •" Imaginary Conver we can recognise the wise, the gentle, and "Island. A'or of h f ~7 elß l from all and p o et of the f u r apa th rt e APamlnibrso''s'iarawsthe " Noctes others not enumerated, there are three men to these,hom we in stinctively turn as the most appropriate successors of SOUTHEY and WORDSWORTH, the venerable relics of the last poetic generation. C an • it be doubted for an instant that our allusion • is made to the author of the "Irish Mel d' " o les, to the author of the " Pleasures of Memory," and to the author of the " World before the ilood"—to THOMAS MOORE, to SAMUEL ROGERS, and to JAMES MONTGOMERY ? From the known generosity of his character, the wealth of Mr. ROGERS would alone be sufficient to preclude him from the acceptance of an office which might be more acceptable to some poet not similarly surrounded by the gifts of opu lence. From the unfortunate debility with which years have a t last damped the phy sical and intellectual animation of Mr. MOORE, and which threatens even to terminate in the total decay of his constitution, it is certain that his appointment to the vacant post would be little less than a mournful and miserable mockery. From ITALY. RooTUAN, the general of the Jesuits, has arrived at Rome. _ _ Austria has forbidden the granting of any of those reforms which it is said Pro NONO is so anxious to carry into effect, and the POPE has been forced to submit to the behests of the Austrian agent, ANTO.. NELLI, and to abstain from giving those organic laws which he had promised. The French army will not evacuate Rome until the Austrians shall have withdrawn from the Lega tions and the Marches. GEE E.CE. SUBMISSION OF KING OTHO. Letters have been received from Athens of the 28th ult., which announce that negotiations between Baron GRos and Mr. WYSE having been broken off, coercive measures were immediately renewed by Ad miral PARKER, and, after a blockade of 48 hours, and it is said, a menace to bombard the Pirmus, the Greek Government struck and yielded on every point. Further accounts from Athens announce that Mr. WvsE had returned to that capital, and that the country was tranquil. It was believed that the British fleet would shortly depart. THE SAILOR BOY'S GOSSIP. (From Eliza Cook's Journal.) You say, dear Mamma, it is good to be talking With those who will kindly endeavour to teach, And I think I have learnt something while I was walking Along with the sailor boy down on the beach. He told me of lands where he soon will be going, Where humming-birds scarcely are bigger than bees, Where the mace and the nutmeg together are growing, And cinnamon formeth the bark of the trees. He told me that islands far out in the ocean Are mountains of coral that insects have made, And I freely confess I had hardly a notion That insects could work in the way that he said. He spoke of wide deserts where sand-clouds are flying, No shade for the brow, and no grass for the feet ; Where camels and travellers often lie dying, Gasping fur water and scorching with heat. He told me of places away in the East, Where topaz, and ruby, and sapphire are found; Where you never are sate from the snake and the Least, For the serpent, and tiger, and jackal abound. • He declared he had gazed on a very high mountain, Spurting out volumes of sulphur and smoke, That burns day and night like a fiery fountain, Pouring forth ashes that blacken and choke. I thought our own Thames was a very great stream, With its water so fresh and its current so strong ; But how tiny our largest of rivers must seem To those be has sailed on, three thousand miles long! He spoke, dear Mamma, of so many strange places With people who neither have cities nor kings, Who wear skins on their shoulders and paint on their faces, And live on the spoils which their hunting field brings. lie told me of waters, whose wonderful falling Sends clouds of white foam and a thundering sound, With a voice that for ever is loud and appalling, And roars like a lion for many leagues round. Oh! I long, dear Mamma, to learn more of these stories From hocks ihi.t are written to please and to teach; And I wish I could see half the curious glories The sailor boy told me of down on the bench. ELIZA CooK. M. DE KONTSKI —This inimitable and renowned violinist has arrived in town for the season. M. de Kontski last performed at brussels, where he gave, at the Royal Grand Theatre, four concerts (the last produced the enormous sum of seven thousand francs), and created such a sensation, and e'icited such enthusiasm, that, since the great master Paganini, nothing can be compared to it. We have not the space to give the details of that gentleman's performances as they appear in all the Belgian journals, but they are quite unanimous in their praises, and declare M. de Kontski to be, without question, the greatest living violinist, equally versed in the modern and brilliant style as in the classical. The same immense success attended that most eminent artist at the Grand Philharmonique Concert in Paris, and a tew days ago at Leeds, York, Sheffield, and Shrewsbury, where our contemporaries scarcely find words sufficiently strong to express their delight. We received our correspondent's letter from Paris, and the evening papers of Wednesday, at 5 minutes after 6 A.M. yesterday, by special express, via Boulogne and Folkestone. Several gentlemen left London at 4 A.M. on Wednesday by that route, and arrived at Paris at 2.20 P.M. The return party left at 8 P.m. with the mail, which was due at London-bridge station at 10.30 A.M. Thy went with it as far as Amiens, where they arrived at 11 P.M, and pro ceeded thence to Boulogne by special train. They reached the Boulogne station at 1.10 A.M. and, from its bei ng l ow water, had to embark in a small boat to go to the steamer, lying off in the roadstead. This was easily accomplished, notwithstanding a fresh wind from W.N.W. blowing right on shore. They had to disembark from the roadstead in a boat at Folkestone likewise, and reached the station at 3.50 A.M., and London-bridge station at 5.55 A.m. This is pro bably the first instance of the journey from London to Paris and back having been performed so rapidly. Deducting the five hours and forty minutes spent there, the time occupied in travelling the 560 miles there and back was only twenty hours and a quarter; and the return journey was accom plished under ten hours, notwithstanding the contrary wind, and the use of boats to embark and disembark on both sides. —Times. SUDDEN DEATH.—It is with regret we have to announce the sudden death, under painful circumstances, of Mr. W. Johnstone, well known as a scenic painter. He had been busily engaged for some time past in preparing the scenery for. Douglas Jerrold's new play, the Catspaw, produced last night at the Haymarket. After witnessing its performance, he was returning home with Mr. Sterling Coyne, and when in Chandos-street, he was observed to stagger and fall. Some friends had him conveyed to the Wrekin Tavern, for the purpose of ascertaining his address. The case being considered dangerous, Dr. Baxter promptly attended, and applied the most skilful measures, but with out avail, Mr. Johnstone being beyond human aid, and he breathed his last in a few minutes. Ihe cause of death is supposed to be apoplexy. Mr. Garret, the landlord cf the Wrekin, in the kindest manner, proffered every assistance in his power. THE COMMISSIONERS OF LUNACY.—Yesterday a Parliamentary paper was printed, showing the expenditure of 13,747/. 16s. 7d. on account of the Lunacy Commissioners in one year. They made nearly 100 visits in six months; they saw about 40,000 patients, and travelled somewhere about 25,000 miles in the period. The salaries of the Commissioners (six) were 9,0001., and the secretary 8001. The Commis sioners' travelling and personal expenses in the year were 2,355/. lls.lld. KILBRICKEN MINING ComrANv.--Yesterday Mr. Crockford and other contributories to the winding up of this undertaking, attended before the Master in Chancery (Richards), who had levied a call of 1/. 10s. per share on 1,300 shares, and contended that having paid more than 10/. per share, the sum paid by the general body of shareholders, they were entitled to credit for it to be deducted from the call. Mr. Ilariss, for the estate, . contended that there was no legal liability to pay more than 10/. per share, which was the extent of each shareholder's liability, and beyond that any payment was voluntary. His Honour took that view of the case, disallowed the objections, and confirmed the call, which is fixed for payment this day (Thursday). LONDON HIBERNIAN SOCIETY. —The annual meet ing of this society, which has been established for the purpose of aiding the Church Education Society in Ireland, was held onVednesday in the Hanover-square Rooms, at twelve o'clock ; the Marquis of Cholmondeley in the chair. Near the Noble Marquis on the platform we observed the t ord Bishop of Cashel, Lord Viscount Bernard, Lord Teignmoutb, the Rev. Dr. O'Sullivan, Mr. J. Napier, M.P., &c. It ap peared from the report that the number of schools under the patronage of the society amounted to 1,870, at which children of all religious denominations were per mitted to attend. There were in all attending those schcols 111,952 scholars, of whom 58,533 were chil dren of the members of the Church ; 15,562 the chil dren of Protestant Dissenters, and 37,657 the children of Ilcman Catholics. The receipts of the society during the past year exceeded those received during the preceding year; and the committee congratulated the meeting that the society was pursuing a career of usefulness and prosperity. The report was unanimcusly adopted, and resolutions in furtherance of the objects of the society agreed to, after which the meeting separated. YORE, NEWCASTLE, AND BERWICK RAILWAY. The Committee of the House of Commons on this company's Bill for making arrangements as to payment for the purchase of the Great North of England Railway, have at length de cided on pasting the preamble for that purpoae. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of yesterday The new E l _ectoral Bill has excited the deepest dis• gust in the minds of the people of Paris. They will not, however, give to the reactionaries the opportu• pity they so ard en tly desire of drowning the Republic in the blond of its supporters by any premature at tempt at outbreak ; they are at present in the right, and their leaders are unceasing in their warnings to them not, by any imprudent act, to put themselves in the wrong. The National publishes the following warning : "A man who is not, and who never will be, either an orator, a diplomatist, or an administrator — who is as ignorant us a petty officer under the old regime, but who has, nevertheless, managed to assume a high position in the political world, and who aims at a position even still more exalted—a man, in short, to whose existence a state of political calm would be annihilation, and who, in order to mount higher, has need of popular troubles, has for the last few days been in the habit of openly saying— ' The impatient must be forced to come out into the street ; if the Electoral Bill will not provoke them, other projects must be presented which cannot fail of effect it. We want an emeute, for the sake of carry ing measures requisite for the safety of society, and we will have it.' We give this as a warning to the people of Paris." The most obnoxious part of the Bill is that which requires three years' residence, and which, with regard to workmen not assessed to the personal tax, renders a certificate from their employers necessary. The Voix du Peuple says— " This three years' residence, which is to be proved by inscription on the personal tax role for those who pay this tax, cannot, with regard to domestics, workmen, &c., be proved except by the certificates of their mas• ters, who thus dispose as absolute sovereigns of the electoral rights of their clerks and workmen. Now amongst the few workmen who are domiciled three years in the same commune how few again are there who work three years under the same employer, so that the effect is to strike off from the electoral lists nearly the whole working population. The same observation applies to artists, artisans, small dealers, and other moveable sort of professions, who, not paying the personal tax, will have no means whatever of proving domicile. In feet, one-half of the whole body of electors will be cut off." M. ODILOX BistaoT and his friends have deter mined to support the Government measure. This important adhesion is thus announced in the Ordre, the organ of the Barrot party : " The committee and the Government have wisely disdained both the suggestion of those who would have them tear up the Constitution and the menaces of anar chists who pretended to interdict any sort of modifica tion of the confused, ab,urd, and dangerous regime created by universal suffrage without rule or limits. The new law may be amended in its details, but, taken alto gether, it bears the character of a serious aiid necessary reform, while the preamble protests honestly against all idea of attacking the Constitution. This is enough to enlist our support; as we fieely expressed our scruples before we knew the resolutions of the committee, so do we, now that the character of the reform is declared, offer our firm and sincere concurrence. If it be true that the factious are working in their secret clubs, and that they pretend to intimidate the Assembly,, they will find the majority resolute, the two powers united, and the nation ready to repress anarchical attempt directed against their representatives—that is to say, against the nation itself." The Bulletin de Paris of Wednesday had the fol lowing : " The President of the Republic intends to visit Fon tainebleau in the course of the week. A special train has been commanded on the Orleans Railway, and verbal invitations have been given to several members of the Assembly, and to some superior officers cf the army, through the medium of one of his aides-decamp. The hour of meeting is fixed for twelve o'clock precisely, at the Elyets." It was, however, yesterday officially announced that the intended visit to Foutainbleau had been post poned. The Presse states that five of the regiments com posing the garrison of Paris, that were to have quitted the capital on Wednesday morning to occupy other quarters, received a counter order as they were preparing for their march. The troops were con signed to their barracks. Yesterday was observed as a holiday at the Bourse, but the following fluctuations in the price of stock took place on Wednesday evening, in the Passage de l'Opera :—Upon hearing that the previous question had been rejected, and urgency voted by large majo rities, the Five per Cents. rose to 88f. 80c. ; when the evening journals, however, gave particulars of the new Bill, with a report of the discussion that followed, they ran down to 88f. 25c., but soon after got up to 88f. 50c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, MAY 5. Orleans and Bourdeaux, 2A —Paris and Orleans, 2914 — West Flanders, 114, SPAIN• Madrid journals of the 4th inst. have been received. It is said that Senor ISTURITZ Will not take his de parture for London until the Spanish Government shall have received the intelligence of the appoint ment of an English Minister to the Court of Madrid. MADRID BOMA, MAY 4.—Three per Cents. 30i, Five per Cents., 12 5-16, both paper. Exchange on London, 50 45. GERMANY. two days ,the Princes' A letter from Erfurt of May 6, p ublished in t he Cologne G aze tt e , . sa ys :- 111 Congress will commence its sittings. The policy of Cassel is decided; the ELECTOR will attend. Thus all the princes are now expected, and each will be accompanied by a responsible Minister. After the Congress a conference of Ministers will be held. The attitude of Austria is meanwhile expectant. No one thinks she will concede a single point. The right of one state to transfer its mandate to another, and the right of this state to represent its neighbour in the Diet, and exercise delegated powers, is indeed r o e n g e u t u ic o h ns.t f usttrhiea Diet made 30th Oct., 1816, and. deny. In the preliminary confirmed 14th November of the same year, the fol lowing passage occurs : —"Every plenipotentiary who holds the plenary votes of several states of the con federation shall give them singly and in the specified order." Thi s "specified order" is laid down in the, 4th article of the Bun desacte, on which Austria takes h er s t an d in ca lling the present as se mbly. Prussia contends, it is true, that this order is abro gated, lout only in the sa me sense in which she de clares th e o th er portions of the Act t o b e so , and thus demonstrates the position of Austria to he utterl y un tenable. She will only hear of a treat y of a new congress at which each state shall present itself, ar.d where all may approach to an cgreement from lode.. pendent positions. This is the only ground on which and its publication is thus Prussia can stand : concede but a finger-breadth to the Diet and the union falls to the ground. A form al princesprotest aognaitnhsitsthseuci,iii:cut:ar note is prepred. It ht s, Archbishop of however, been determined to take the votes of the of Trieves ; Daapp aa , t d h e e la w ye e d ste ti r i n l t p h reov a il : c e e n s ) ..... b ll : 7 lt h A e ss C l o : A re r s e s h . The Prussian Stoats Anzieger publishes a declara tion, signed by the four Roman Catholic bishops of Cologne; ARNOLD!, Bishop Bishop of Padderborn ; and MULLER, Bishop o f Munster; and addressed to the Minister for Religious Affairs, relative to the taking the oath to the Consti tution by those public functionaries who are ecclesi astics. The bishops state that they cannot permit the priests to take any oath to the Government ---,-...F . " .. FALMOUTH, MAY 9.—Wind N.N.W. Christie, B h" ti la. Or uEr ,ClLLY.—Sarab, of Sunderlsnd, Ceylon ; patch, of GUPrzisey, ditto; Amphitrite, Janson. g of lavEitroot, MAY 9 —Wind N.--Slil. Counles Ai N e w Yo. , P e : Selior, Lim,; Az..11 . , Havanna; Dyfenee, IM:nv(ly, "toll; 'Maid of Athens, CenstantialeP" --Arrd. Digo ; arils, Quebec; Maichmont, ditto. PLYMoUTIL—SId H.M.S. Archer, Coast of A n fri t ° a Ott port, Stratford, Squire Mauritius and Cafe of "o I Hope ; Elgin, Adelaide, SIA ; Berjamin Elhin9e . , , SCILLY, MAY 5. Wind W . . to F. N.E. and D. S . strong gale.—Sld. Saperior Malagar. • d 1 0 QUpENTOWN, MAY B. ' Wind N.N.W.-- •1/ of Jime . ,,Larenvi, Caminha. Sla. Princess Royal, -' 3l' ton. .06 port, foria; Baftimore,Trom I TORQUAY, MAY B.—The Gratitude drove si; 141°d pier-head in running from thi.‘ place during the u 8 g od the 6th, and carried away • her W m ' - ' bowsprit, stove sustainA other damage. d i-, fJU I SUNDE'R ' LAND, MAY 9.—The Milo Stetlll3-ttlg 6-t Belfast. the with the. Jane and received considerable dam e; s o n' B RIDL I N GTON, MAY B.—The Johns , of and °" 1. rot derland, from Boulogne, drove behind last night, and remains with loss o f b W it ' crt OW saved. • ' ~ y ) MARKET NEWS.—(THIS PP'-''. _.. the South it CORN EXCIIIINGE--FR IPII' ; tb ij ke , _ The arrivals of English Wheat fur our arP WO' week, u coastwise, have been confined to 1,91 0 tl,° s Tv d y land carriage they have materially fallen White 0 0 ay the show of s amples of both red sod white stle e trifling, and the few parcels offering sold at .so ild , fl otts the quotations of Monday last of from ls, to ,7 0 igs instances 2s per quarter. Only 3,030 quarters 0 1 ' ° i y of Wheat have reached us since Monday, and the suPP o lgle ruled t d article on sale was comparatively small. "%rt. I firm, at an improvement in value of is Pe!V o t li Arley was in short supply and steady lucl i l,r' osu° per quarter more money. ' Scarcely any t a lc , Eng h t" show. We had an improved demand for , tt o es. ptices of which was well supported in The quantity of Oats was small, considering; h ., st eve/ 111 . 4 1 ;jote extensive importations. All kinds moved olf ' tee / 'diso a rise of quite 6d per quarter. Beans, re, - : Corn, and Flour, were held for rather more 0 1 ° ° ' . ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. 3tal t ' Oats. pe ti. Qrs. 4 31° 3,030 Baxley. Wheat. 1, Qrs. I Qrs. 910 English • • • • • • Scotch.... • • • • Irish .... .• • • Foreign lió I 1,370 3,030 5,190 SMITHFIELD. bes/ii_iii For the time of year our market to-de //1/5 for supplied with Beasts, in full average condition. er6 O . breeds, owing to the limited attendance a b q n ststO demand ruled exceedingly inactive, at, in 50 030 ,'"„ e r SI a decline in the prices of Monday last of 2u m r bers A and a clearance was not effected. The nu ,',o l ' Sheep were not quite so large as those 0,101 Friday last. The Mutton trade was soraevies 01 at full ra es of currency—the primest old Deiviiii% by e , ° the wool selling readily at 3s 1 0 d per 8110. tood, steady sale for Lambs—the supply pf wh ich via'neo " rate—at full last week's quotations. In Calves foltle: nothing was doing, at barely the late decliael"0001 Pigs were very dull. Milch Cows were almeet_ill at from 141 to 181 each, including their small C ilh ,J, Per Sibs. to sink the offal.a. 0 'lO s. d. to s. d, 11. 9 3 3 8 4 4 Inferior Beasts-- 2 2 2 4 Inferior Sheep '' 2 0 2 Second quality —.. 2 6 2 8 Second qual. Sheer - 4 1 0 Prime large Oxen.. 210 3 2 Coarse-meolledditto3 8 0 p Prime Scots ......3 4 3 6 SouthdownWether,g -2 ° Large coarse Calves 210 3 0 Ditte out of the WO' I 4 0 Vrime small ditto 3 2 3 4 Large Hogs • • •••• i 6 0 inckling Calves ..18 0 23 0 Small Porkers •• • • 4 '2' 0 .- Lambs • •• • •... 4 6 6 8 Quartar out Pio •''- TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET. I 2 rlg s ' Beasts. I Sheep. I Calves. 1° 1,088 4,900 240 FortEIGN SUPPLY. 1 ,43. I Sheep. Calves. I ," 220 90 SCOTCH. I iISI Beasts. I Sheep. I Calves. ...' 280 90 _ N381.17G.8.T1L AND 3LEADENSIO' .. .. I 8 00" , i A moderate business was transacted in these Y- Beasts. 205 to-day, on the following terms:— At per stone by the Carcase. 0 d. -9 s. d. to s. d. 2 4 ticei,inferior.• •• 110 2 0 Mutton, inferior ". 2 8 •, --- middling .... 2 2 1 4- middling' . 3 I 1 primelarge .. 2 6 2 8 prime •• 2 10 4 -- prime small .• 210 3 0 York, large •••••• '• a 6 Veal•• •••••••• •• •• 2 8 3 4 small .. ...... Lamb, .18 4d to 5s 6d. 3307ROUGEIT BOP 2rZAR.3IOr• Although the holders of most kinds of 1 - 1 0 1: 1 °' t oe ally old parcels, have somewhat lowered their ` l , sions, exceedingly little business is doing ill;ft o f ket. The nearest quotations are as follows : Weald, and East Kent pockets, 61 to 101 5s ; new N. Kent ditto, 61 to, 81; new Sussex ditto, " r 61 103 ; new Farnhams, 121 to 131; yea rli° „ g ia tie r 31 to 41 ss; yearling Sussex, 21 8s to Be 20; 11 to 31 per cwt. 0 1.1 COLONIAL. SUGAR.—The market for British Plantstio ll h b leb e s o t° about 6d per cwt lower this week, but there -I:oDet fair sales made at this reduction, and the ton e bpf i within the last two days. The grocers have b e- 405, e Barbadoes by auction has realised 34s 6d to v eo 4l one lot of very fine went at 41s 6d. Crn 0 ystali. 4 .4 rara brought 37s to 41s 6d for yellow, slid 4 2 $:,,yer 6d for greyish white. Refined brown lumtPs at 48s to 48a 6cl, and grocery lumps at 49 3 to 0d de , " EAST INDlA.—Bengal, 4,400 bags went at. si ng t 3 fur brown soft yellow, other sorts nlaintele7s, 6 v o i the previous value. White Benares brought Ps, 39s 6d, soft yellow 34s to 36s 6d, brown 28i S ti n - ist ipi yellow 42a to 435. Mauritius, 5,900 bags - fi e- d to " to t to 89s for fine yellow, at 30s to 333 6d for to 569' brown, at 33a to 38s fur grey, and at 35s 6d t low grainy yellow. r ico FOREIGN.—Bahia has been sold at rather loweto1;41 low and mid brown washed 14a to 163 6d. P r e a ° low and mid 35s 6d to '37s 6d, and good 5 0 , f e, to 41s. - - - via tit" d COFFEE.—The market is firm though Ye t i 410 , 0 0 1 Good ord native Ceylon has been' sold at 4 03 t ° o lll sib at the former price there are buyers, and gen e- 6 010 many sellers. !Imitation Ceylon has been sob 60 40 1 for fine, 478 to 52s for low mid and mid, coloer/Ld 61s, to low mid and mid, 44s to 48s, for fi0 e 4 ;4 09 (11 fine ord, 40a to 43a for good ord, and 39 6 6 , ; 1 , - 1 16 triage. Mocha has been rather cheaper, 0. 4 P' and common 51s per cwt . In other sorts ' done. " 0$ COCOA.—This article has remained sten- - A • v • A oil former rates. 0 0 0, 0 1, brlcEs.—Not much has beta done. rie, t id mid bus been sold at 44d to Sid for good L e s Bengal Ginger has been taken in at 17s to '„ - bs , 'Begs have realised 2a 7d to 2s 101 PePP e ' _„eig steady. yaoa RlCE.—Holders are firm, and an inereas7 3 op opio has been dune at 3d to 6d advance, with no ` l B l , t o , to press sales. Bengal has been taken 10 6$ and Madras at 8s to 9s. 1114 Rum.—The demand has been limited. OA COTTON. —A moderate business has bee n col' prices are firmer. ;ng 005 P er .SALTPETRE.—Very little has been for - cults of good quality has been taken in at 2 66 cent. retraction. he or I 0 0 TALLow.—P.Y.C. is firm at 37s per cwt TEA.—At auction 19,600 packages po w, - rot 4,100 sold, the sale going off very heavily. „ T ea, OC GREEN FitUlT.—The market has 1 03 1 / ," ar ein,ia Or.,ngee, two cargoes ex " Mina" and " 1• 1 °„blio 5 0e St. Michael, sold by Keeling and Hunt at „.?" 0 0 06 1 0 went at an advance of 3s to 4s per box. .v e ,io l °ll o coming scarce, and but a limited quantity relatlis,iti first hstids. More inquiry for Nuts of 5 11 .., Laokward state of vegetation in this countr/ r for favour of the consumption of Nuts, and OW fruit. EXCHEQUER.--(THIS J"" ' (Before the Lord CHIEF BARON and a SPe C i s o.,of THE ATTORNEY -GENERAL V. somi.-1 1 A 11- Att°' - This was a proceeding on the part of the 4 th e ;o f o' General to recover a p ena lty o f . 100/. agal n ",,a tcndant for ill. gaily abstra ct i ng a certain' c l - uoi' tobacco from un outward-bound v es sel at Liv e r' AO ° whicih duty had not been paid. jeci P t The Solicitor-General and Mr. Watson c°11,141 - a u. case for the prosecution, but the defendan t pear either by himself or by attorney. a Ot l , It appeared from the evidence of witnes s— d d . 00 0 0 defendant was a tide waiter, and that he ‘ 1 " .tide-waiter, named Kenrick, were placed ° la , Ir, t) ;0 7 „ board a vessel called the Anlaly , which I f % oarbir the Queen's Dock, Liverpool. The vessel rit o f bound for Malta, with a general cargo, Pt r ,, - 0 d e ,:t - 11 2 11 consisted of tobacco, and it was the duty ct 'L4 av a - e1 . ," ant and his fellow-officer to remain on b°,70 0 "0" sailed. A few days before the departure cf„tirlusellf,jo . seemed that a porter of the name of 1 47 '1' 0 8 0 '0 0 i walking on the quay, about seven o'clock ia i rds o4 l°_,; and while doing, sot e was accosted by the del e nie t,liigroiv, requested him to c,)me on deck, as he had ac P ciute°, n him. Wilkinson had previously been 1101 %0 7,/i O 7, the defendant, and he agreed to acconapeq, o .l o , o o o ' v. see', and on reaching it he was introduce d After some conversation it was arranged 0 15 f ed 0 0 , and Kenrick should go down into the 11 ° k " e PP' t away some tobacco. The hatching was kaa c w aiol o on the, two parties proct eded below, Barker =t o o 0 0, the side to give an alarm in case any one s. j,ghtif on deck. While in the hold Kenrick with the assistance of Wilkinson knocked °, o seorpor, one of the hogsheads which had been st 9 w e loy I ) took from it about 60ibs. of tobacco, wil nr e. in a canvass bag, and brought oni 11 '_;r0,, was then called, and the three parties procee ag" ( 11 , „ tobacco to the house of Wilkinson, where it 11 of proPe r :d P .d e until the next day, when the stolen posed of at 2s. 61 per lb., to a person 0t,115)37,1y, Burn, who was the foreman in a tobacco e" - bst 0- p red t 'el e in Tithebarn-street, Liverpool. It stPPet, h e ve B , 6 ti°l morning after the robbery, the captain of (1 0 ` ,ekl oc i e covered that the cask had been opened, an"; 6 00/0,,, ing th.. officers on the subject, they said thej e P ri' must have been done by a wa t c hman, w o ,_ ell2 l l , 3 be 03,4 4 at nicer , and t o ad them h e h a d b e en sent °- 1. idll" Ore tors f the vessel to see that all Ras not '1,011:0,01 had gone to b. d, as they thought his a c- !. hos - o" , rect. The capt4in told them it wa s tbel pl' i°t tt d ; guard the ship, and threatened to make a cci d l i iio l3o ,ot il l Customs on the subject, but. Kenrick begg ed to 80 03 t - ioti k i so, as he was already in trouble with resP e— j u tinet' e e matter. The vessel sailed without anY bu t l e d the robbery being made to the Cust om, tp ) cap ain returned from his voyage he co lo r o it ci)carnstance to the authori ins, and the r dae dd the presentinformalioF. was ed agai?s the at the instance of the Attorneyl-General.t ofia',9lr $P The CHIEF BARON having summed uP for The jury found a nerd et for the Crow amount of the penalty. 3 A P 26% !d% 4 10iAi 29V, 53 - OA' 79 3 / 4 13 1 ,4 12% 7% OA) 6i 5 1 4 2 1 4 179 TE Thifi infi thq part vi above, and QUEE (Siltings ii MN L---, : Ti la g i resu Stiro f etel oil ba g co u vet bru