The Sun. — London, England, 1845-03-24 00:00:00

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If you will but be firm, another month will make them worth 171. WHISPER. In the press, in 3 vols., post Bvo. S YBIL. By B. D'ISRAELI, M.P. AUTHOR OF " CONINGSBY." " The commonalty murmured, and said, there never were so many gentlemen, and so little gentleness."—Bishop Latimer. Henry Colbum, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Orders received by all booksellers. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public are respectfully informed that this THEATRE WILL RE-OPEN TO-MORROW EVENING When will be repeated (fourth time in this country). Verdi's new Opera, ERNANI. In Pout Parte-Ist., The Bandit ; 2d., The Guest ; 3d., The Pardon ; 4th., The Mask. With Kew scenery by Mr. Marshall. __. Elvtra, Madame Rita Boric); Giovanna, Mdlle. Bellin ; Ruy Gomez, Signor Fornasari ; Don Carlos, Signor Botelli ; Email!, Signor Moriani. It is respectfully announced that in consequence of other novelties the highly successful Opera of ERNANI cannot be repeated until later in the Season. To conclude with an entirely new Ballet, by M. Perrot, entitled EOLINE ; ou, LA DRYADE. The Music by Signor Pugni. The Scenery by Mr. Marshall. . . Principal Characters—Eoline (betrothed to Count Edgard), Mddle, Lucile Grahn ; Rnbezahl (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 do la Fiancee—Mdlle. Liebe Grahn and Toussaint, Pas de Cing (composed bY M. Gosselln)-3ldlles. Louise Weiss, Far. dinand, Demelisse, Cassan, and 3foncelet. Mazourka D'Extase--Mdlle. Lucile Grahn and M. Perrot, Fourth Tableau. Grand Pas des Dryades by Mdlle. L. Grahn and the Ladles of the Corps de Ballet. Madame Anaide Castellan, of the Imperial Theatre St. Petersburgh, is daily expected in town, and will make her first appearance forth• with in Donizetti's Opera of LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. Ipplications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box- MSc°, Opera Colonnade. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. It is respectfully announced that A GRAND MUSICAL FETE, Comprising the unpublished manuscripts of the celebrated FELICIEN DAVID, Will be executed, for the first Hine in this country, ON THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 27, With the original Melodies and Choruses. Grand Descriptive Symphonie Ode of THE DESERT, produced for the first time with the most enthusiastic success at the Conservatoire Royal, Paris. LE DESERT. Ode, Symphonie, Orientals—divided in three parts with grand orchestra. The orchestra and chorus will include upwards of 200 per thrrners. Solos by Sigs. 31oriani_and Corelli. PROGRAMME, Part I.—Entrance to the Desert. Glorification of Allah ; grand chorus and orchestra—Arrival of the Caravan—Departure of the Caravan—Tempest in the Desert— Return of the Calm—The Caravan resumes its march. Part ll.—Night. The Evening Star—Halt of the Caravan—Hymn to the Night : air sung by Signor Moriani—Arabian Fantasia—The Dance of the Alrues—The Liberty of the Desert : grand chorus with orchestra — Evening reverie : melody sung by Signor Morlani, 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 gradually disappears in the distance ; grand chorus and orches tra—Silence in the Desert—The Song of Thanksgiving—Allah. Grand chorus final. Introductory Part—let. Fragment of Grand Symphony in E fiat-2d. Melodies Imitative a Grand Orchestre : Les Hirondelies, sung by Signor 3loriani-3d. Melodie Orientale : Le Chibouque 4th. Soiree du Printemps Fragment tire des quartre Saissons de Felicien David, executed by all the string instruments. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Pit Tickets to be made at the Opera-office, Colonnade, Haymarket. Doors open at Eight o'clock ; to commence at Half-past Eight. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE. FIRST NIGHT OF A NEW COMIC BALLET, For the Debut of Mdlle. POLIN and Mons. GASPERINI (Principal Dancers from the Grand Opera at Berlin), Aud of the Demlles. LOUISE and ADELE, with the full Corps de Ballet of this popular Theatre. THIS EVENING Will be performed ROBERT THE DEVIL. Robert, Mr. W. Har rison ; Bertram, Mr. Stretton ; Raimbaut, Mr. D. W. King ; Isabella, Miss Rainforth ; Alice, Miss Romer. Atter which will be produced, a New Comic Ballet, entitled BOBER r AND BERTRAND. Dances in the course of the Ballet : Pas de Deux, by Mdlles. Adele and Louise. Pas de Deux, by Male. O'Bryan and Mr. A. Webster. Grand Pas de Caractere, by Mdlle. Polin and M. Gasperinl. ♦ New Polka, by Mdlle. Polin and M. Gasperinl. Bolero, by Mesdames Louise and Adele. La Esmeralda, by Mdlle. Polin, and A MAZURKA, by the Principal Ballet Performers. The Eminent Tenor, M. DUPREZ is engaged here for Twelve Nights only, and will shortly make his appearance in his cele brated character of ARNOLD, in GUILLAUME TELL ; and is also preparing himself for his unrivalled personation of EDGAR, in Donizetti's popular Opera. THE BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR, for the Performance of which, an Engagement has also been ex pressly entered into with Mdlle. EUGENIE GARCIA. The Box-office will be opened this day, as usual, under the superintendence of Mr. John Parsons, THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. LESSEE, MR. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New and Original Comedy, entitled THE SHERIFF OF THE COUNTY. Principal Characters by Messrs. W. Farren, Strickland, Buckstone, Webster, Mrs. Glover, Mrs. W. Clifford, Mrs. 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 Veatris, and Miss P. Horton. To conclude with YOUNG ENGLAND. Major Martinet, Mr. Strickland ; Mr. John James Pooley, Mr. Buekstone ; Mrs. Pooley, Mrs. Hamby ; Mrs. Smiler, Mrs. Stanley THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING will be repeated a New and Original Drama, entitled THE GREEN BUSHES; or, A Hundred Years Ago. Connor O'Kennedy, Mr. Selby ; George, Mr. Hudson : Wild Murtogh, Mr. 0. Smith ; Muster Grinnidge, Mr. Wright; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Bedford; Geraldine, Mrs. Yates ; Nelly O'Neill, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; Miami, Madame Celeste. After which, will be produced a New Grand Epereal Exposition, called ST. GEORGE AND TIIE DRAGON. Principal Characters by Messrs, Paul Bedford, Wright, John Saunders, Selby ; Miss Weolgiu - , Miss Brooks, and Miss E. Chaplin. To conclude with MOTHER AND CHILD ARE DOING WELL Mr. Snugsby, 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 be performed the Play of TILE STRANGER. The Stranger, Mr. Graham ; Baron, Mr. Archer; Count Wintersten, Mr. Courtney ; Mrs. Haller, Miss Cushman. After which, Mr. SANDS and his INFANT BROTHER, MAURICE, will appear in their Pleasing and Wonderful Entertainment, DE SALON, FREAKS OF FANCY. To eonclude with a New Grani Oriental Melo-dramatic Burlesque Extravaganza, In Two Acts, called TIMOUR THE CREAM OF ALL THE TARTARS. Timour, Mr. Oxberry ; Zorilda, Miss E. Stanley. Stage Manager, Mr. 11. I. Wallack ; Stage Director, Mr. Emden ; Machinist, Mr. Edmund Bradwell. Superbly decorated, and with extensive alterations ! forming one of the most Elegant and Comfortable Theatres in the Metropolis ! THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. This elegant THEATRE WILL RE-OPEN THIS EVENING, MONDAY, MARCH 24. The Performances will commence with a Comedy called THE RECRUITING OFFICER. Supported by Messrs. Vining, F. Mat thews, Emery, Meadows, Bellingham, Wigan, and Keeley ; Mrs. Keeley, Miss Villars (her first appearance in London), Mrs. Wigan, and Miss Dawson (her first appearance). Atter which, a New Farce (never acted), entitled LOWTHER ARCADE. Characters by Messrs. Keeley, Meadows, F. Matthews; Miss Dawson, and Miss Grove. To conclude with a Burlesque of English History, Pourtraying Olden Ideas and Modern Notions—lnvested with all the Pomp and Display of Seene—Paintors engaged expressly—Costumes according to Fancy—Mechanism, Ballet, Music, and Novel Stags Arrange ments—to be called, WHLTTINGTON AND 'ITS CAT ! Dick Whittington, Mrs. Keeley ; Muley Moloch, the Lien Tamer of the Dessert, Mr. Keeley ; the Cat, Mr. Collier, supported by Messrs. Emery, F. Matthews, and Wigan ; Miss Fairbrother, and Mine Grove. • The Box-ottlee is open daily, under the direction of Mr. Grogan. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. (Under the Direction of Miss Davenport.) THIS EVENING Will be produced THE GAME COCK OF THE WILDERNESS. Colonel Mereville, Mr. H. Mellon; Roderick, Mr. Binge ; Samson, Mr. Marble ; Mabel, Mrs. Griffith. After which, THE PLAGUE OF PLYMOUTH. To conch de with THE SEVEN CHAMPIONS OF CHRISTENDOM. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. PROPRIETOR, MR. W. BATTY. The Public is respectfully informed that this Establishment, having undergone various Embellishments, WILL RE-OPEN THIS EVENING. The Performances will commence with a Grand Military Equestrian Drama, entitled THE MAID OF SARAGOSSA. Scenes in the Circle, introducing M. and 3ldme. Dumos, the cele brated French Equestrians. To conclude with THE SLEEPING DRAUGHT. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. GREAT ATTRACTION FOR THE EASTER HOLIDAYS. THIS EVENING Will be produced a New Drama, called MARGARET CATCH POLE: Supported by Messrs. 11. Hughes, Hicks, Fredericks, R. Honner, 8. Cowell, Ilealop, Lewis, Mrs. Daly, Mrs. Lewis, and Mrs. R. Honner. After which, TIIE IRISH TUTOR, In which the Infant Power, Miss Heron, will appear. To conclude with THE MOOR MAIDEN, in which Messrs. Ilicks„ Neville, Fredericks, Lewis, Mrs. Hughes, 3liss Martin, and Mrs. 11. Vining will perform. Places and I'rivate Boxes to be lull of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box office, from Eleven to Four. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING \trill be produced MARGARET CATCIIPOLE, The Female Horse stealer. Onega and Pechuana (Red Chieftain.), 3lesers. Cony and Blanchard ; Margaret Catchpole, Miss Vincent. After which, HERCULES, KING OF CLIMB. To conclude with TILE KNIGHTS OF THE CROSS. THE GAME NUISANCE. —At the Nottingham County Hall Petty Sessions, on the Ist inst., all the penal cases, in number four, were under the game-lawa, and in ea ch case the accused were unable to pay the penalty and costs, consequently sent to prison ; and thus becoming a charge upon the county purse, and probably one or more of a family thrown upon the parochial rates. Does not this tell another "great fact" against the game-preserving system and the game-laws ? THE PENITENTIARY CATASTROPHE AT EXETER. — The bodies of the ill-fated women, who perished on Monday, were consigned to one grave, in the Cemetery. One of them was not sixteen years of age. Had it not been for Mr. Garton's presence, and active exertions, the number of deaths would have been much greater. — Western Times.—At the inquest, held on Tuesday, the jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death." THE WEATHER.--SUN OFFICE, MARCH 22. THEIINOMETEit, Lowest, 33 ; Highest, 42; Noon, 45, BAEOMETEB, 30.48.—Wpm, W. Nom.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and " Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the Thermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All the other observations are made at noon. HIGII WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 10 minutes after 2 I Evening .. 29 minutes after 2. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, MARCH 24, 1845. condemnation of the free corps by six to one ; and ex pulsion of the Jesuits by four to three. A letter from Zurich of the 16th gives a statement of the population, military force, and revenues of the different cantons ; distinguishing those against and for the Jesuits, from which it will be seen that the strength and numbers of the former far predomi nate :-- " Cantons which demand the complete expulsion of the Jesuits :—Berne (Vorort Canton), population in January last, 451,000 ; Zurich, 245,000 ; Vaud, 198,000; Argau, 192,000 ; Tessino, 120,000 ; Thurgau, 89,000 ; Grisons, 88,000 ; Soleure, 67,000 ; Schaffhausen, 33,000; Glaris, 30,500 ; Bale Country (half Canton), 45,000 ; Inner Appenzell (half Canton), 44,000. Total, 1,602,000 souls. These ten Cantons and two half Cantons furnish for the Federal army a contingent of 46,007 men, and contribute to the Central Treasury, 752,0001.—Cantons opposed to the Jesuits, but whose instructions hitherto have gone no further than that a recommendation should be sent to Lucerne :—St. Gall, population, 164,000 ; Geneva, 64,000 ; Bile town (half Canton), 25,000. Total, 253,000 souls. These two Cantons and one half Canton furnish a contingent of 4,455 soldiers, and 140,000 f. to the Federal Treasury.—Cantons opposed to the expulsion of the Jesuits, or wishing to call them in : —Lucerne (Vorort Canton;, 127,000 souls ; Friburg, 95,000 ; Valais, 76,000 ; Neufchatel, 66,000 ; Schwytz, 41,500 ; Unterwald, 23,000 ; Zug, 15,800 ; Uri, 14.200; Outer Appenzell (half Canton), 9,850. Total, 468,350 souls. These eight Cantons and one half Canton furnish to the Federal army only 13,517 men, and their contri. butions to the Central Treasury amount to no more than 150,000 E" THE BOURSE- , -THIIRSDAY, MARCH 20. First Highest Lowest . Last Price. Price. Price. Price. r rene hri ve percents...••• 117 70 .. 117 70 .. 117 55 .. 117 55 Fours..•• •••••• •• •• 106 5 0 .. 106 50 106 50 .. 106 50 Three per Cents.•• •• 85 60 .. 85 60 .. 85 50 .. 85 60 New Loan .• •• •• 86 40 .. 86 55 .. 86 40 .. 86 50 Bank of France 3lBO ..3180 ..3180 ..3180 Gouin Bank, I,ooof.Shares • lO9O .. 1090 ..1090 ..1090 Belgian Bank. .........•••• 652 50 .. 652 50 .. 652 50 .. 652 50 Belgian Fives. 1840•••••••• 105 % 105% .. 105% .. 105% 1842•••.•••• 107 .. 107 .. 107 .. 107 Two-and-a-Half.... 62 30 .. 62 33 .. 62 30 .. 62 30 Spanish Active •••••••••••• 39% •. 39% .. 39% •• 39% Threes•••••••••••• 41 .. 41 .. 41 .. 41 Passive Neap01itan...•......... .. 101 75 .. 101 75 .. 101 75 .. 101 75 Roman •• • RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain....•.•.•. 1190 ..1190 ..1190 Versailles, R. 8....... 670 • • 670 .. 665 .. 665 L. 8.•• •• •....... 400 .. 415 .. 400 .. 412 50 Rouen •• •• •• ..........1172 50 ..1177 50 ..1172 50 ..1172 50 Rouen to Havre.. ..... ...,. 977 50 .. 985 Orleans .•• • • • • ............1335 .. 977 50 .. 985 ..1340 ..1330 ..1330 Strasburg to .. 347 50 .. 347 50 .. 346 25 .. 347 .93 Avignon to 315r55U1e5......1150 ..1150 ..1142 50 ..1142 50 Bordeauxto.Teste ........ 235 .. 235 .. 230 .. 230 Paris to Sceaux RAILWAYS FOB THE ACCOUNT, APRIL 3. St. Germain 665 .. 675 .. 665 665 . 4OO .. 420 .. 400 .. 410 Boner Rouen to Havre... . Orleans • • • . Strasburg to 8a1e.......... 346 25 .. 350 Avignon to Marseilles ......1150 ..1155 Bordeaux to Teste .. • - a"., 1 " tt, . . A...... ;V . l, • o ..avi•At A l -.J A, : '' illpic,_ ,t • ~.r, ,• 6 4,- , ____.-.31.........._1,.. ~....__•;/•\ 1 1 - ,;e 4 , , -t'r -- " - " ~-,. i '', l iik., i• ‘..:Lic_..ri•Ap ii It k..,.. - ~, NA" ; % :-- - - - i t 4auP.., o'ciii \ • ~' • . Ali * , -w.! 4 4zr r. - , -..,...-tr •xco , „ 4lCravir .rt 1.. ::---- Mina E iy LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1845. The Established Church of this country appears to have fallen, in our times, upon evil fortunes. We are sorry for the fact; but we still more sincerely deplore the aggravation of her mischances, which she must experience in the knowledge that they are almost exclusively visited upon her by the misconduct of her own ministers. It is our profound respect for her doctrine, our grateful recollection of the signal occasions on which she has nobly identified her own independent existence and action with those of civil liberty, that have caused us to view the progress of Puseyite innovation, bigotry, and contumaciousness with so much apprehension and disgust. Civil and religious liberty is too noble a " birthright," God knows ! to be sacrificed for " a mess" of ceremonial mummery. Yet there are scandals more disgraceful to the character of the Church, so far as this is to be collected from the deportment of her ministers, than the wildest follies, the most solemn impertinences of that ecclesiastical coxcombry, which is now vexing her peace and compromising her welfare. Of these scandals none are so flagrant, or so offensive to all the common sympathies of our nature, as the ebullitions of intolerant bigotry which certain country parsons appear to be given to, from a self-consciousness, one might almost infer, of inability to attain dis tinction in their calling by any more le gitimate means, such as the orthodoxy of their doctrine, the purity of their lives, the extent of their learning, or the superior Christian charity and humility of their bearing. We read in the Wiltshire Independent a case of " Clerical Bigotry Extraordi nary," stated to have recently occurred at War minster, which would have seemed scarcely credible to us had it been told even of some remote village in the heart of Spain,—the head-quarters of priestly domination and of lay ignorance. An aged and re spectable female, whose parents were Members of the Established Church, and she had been herself bap tized a member of it, married, many years ago, a member of the Unitarian Church of the same place, and with him had since attended its service. After being afflicted with many years of ill health, she was seized with a sudden affection on the 6th of this month, which next day terminated her existence. She had brought up a family of fifteen children. Four of these lie buried in the parish church-yard of Warminster, one of them having been interred there only last year (the victim, we infer, of some distress ing casualty.) Of the survivors, many are respect ably settled in life. Iler widowed husband, mourn ing for his aged partner, to whom he had been united for fifty-seven years, applied to the parish sexton to re-open the grave which had so lately closed upon their daughter, with whose remains it was her wish that her own should be deposited. The Vicar, Mr. FATE, interposed his written veto, in a notice addressed to the widowed husband, in its tone so unmanly, so unchristian, so inhuman, and withal so insolent, that we should com promise our duty as public journalists were we to abstain from holding up this precious document to the public indignation it so richly merits. The old man, bowed down with years and humbled by his recent affliction, was overwhelmed at finding himself;at such a time, and under such circumstances, the object of animosity and accusations which he knew to be so unfounded. But his present anxiety being to fulfil the last wishes of his wife, by laying her bones near those of their daughter, he obtained and exhibited a certificated copy of the entry of her baptism from the parish-church register, concluding that—as we we are fully prepared to contend it legally was—this document would be sufficient to obviate the difficulty which had been raised to the burial of the deceased according to her instructions. But all further nego tiations were fruitless; and he was at last compelled to commit the body to unconsecrated ground, apart from the mortal relics of the children and family with whom, in life, she had been so fondly con nected. The matter has been since brought under the notice of the Bishop, who has promised to insti gate inquiries into the facts. We now come to the letter itself of this Reverend Vicar. It is a production, in point of style, feeling, and expression, evory way worthy of the persecuting spirit and paltry bigotry which dictated it, and though as a composition it be absolutely beneath criticism, it is not the less expedient to analyze it, paragraph by paragraph. The time has arrived at which, if the Established Church is to retain its former influence over the attachment and respect of its flock, the high-dying pretensions of these " chur lish priests," must be distinctly and permanently put down. If the superior: olergy, the diocesan or the spiritual courts will not or cannot interfere with effect for such a purpose, the Legislature must do so by express declaratory enactments, for nothing short of these will satisfy the growing impatience of the public for the repression of these offensive outbreaks of petu lant intolerance and spiritual tyranny. Let it not be objected to us that we are prejudging the merits of the case before us, pending the result of investigations which the Bishop of the diocese has promised to institute. No investiga tion can alter the admissions of this amiable Vicar', own letter to the ancient widower. We assume that the Wiltshire Independent has not been imposed upon by a forgery, and we, therefore, without hesitation, denounce the language we are about to quote as equally presumptuous and cruel. What says this minister of peace—this servant of Him, whose Divine mission it was to proclaim " on earth, peace and good will towards men "—to the aged and sorrow-stricken parishioner, desiring to have the remains of his wife committed to the same grave which had formerly received those of her daughter ? He commences his letter in a strain of unornamental address, such as— out of the Church—we apply rather to dogs than to men. From the " ILsisEs" which " leads" the papers all margin of pity, recognition, or concern, in respect of a suffering fellow-creature, is carefully cut off. His pointer Ponto, instead of his parishioner, might be the animal addressed by this meek Vicar ; but a touch of the odium theologicum, in its full intensity, soon shows itself :—" HAINES—I understand your wife has died as awfully suddenly' as others of your f am ily." The purport of this in uendo developes itself in the next sentence—" She has died in an awful and damnable heresy" Humane, gentle, considerate, soothing, Christianlike pastor! Just the topic this, and just the time to discuss it, for a wounded spirit. If the reverend writer conscientiously believed that his Unitarianism was a " damnable, awful heresy" —and just the happy selection of the moment for this pal pably hinting that the "awfully-suddenly" departings of the deceased and of her children before her were the judgments of an offended Godhead on the form of religious faith which they had adopted, or on them for that adoption—" which renders it impossible for her to be buried in the church-yard ? I refits, her burial there." The italics are this humble-minded parson's ; and so is the law announced in this passage ; his law is as worthless as his divinity, and his logic still worse than his law. For what has the abstract criminality of a profession of " damnable heresy" to do with the physical " impossibility" of burying in the churchyard the dust of her who professed it? It might make it impossible for his exalted consent to given, and that was probably what this man of double adverbs and a triple armour of folly, bigotry, and in humanity meant to say. "If you choose to have her buried, without any service, you may do so." Gentle spirit! Permission freely given for what he had it not in his power to refuse. This, however, is but a little gratuitous impertinence. Let us now mark how far a bigot's gratuitous insolence may carry him. To this old man, for seven and fifty years the husband of the respectable woman deceased (themselves and their children having been reared and nurtured as parishioners of Warminster), he adds, " Or lest I should appear to deal harshly with you" (never suspecting, holy man, that his harshness was an obdurate, strong, heart-tearing fact), " I will pay the ("barge for her burial, in the unconsecrated ground at Townsend ; but in the church-yard, with the burial service, she shall not be buried." He pay the charge of the poor woman's burial ! Had the widow's husband submitted to such contume lious charity, he would have been guilty of a " heresy" to domestic affections, to the cause of those civil rights, to the vindication of which every man is bound by the condition of their enjoyment, more " damnable" than we shall trust ourselves to describe. Least of all could we trust ourselves to the calmness necessary for such a purpose, after the miserable hy pocrisy of the sentiment which follows :—" I trust Almighty GOD may open your eyes to repentance" — (of what crime ? The not having attended this Mr. FARE'S Church, to be edified by his personal ex ample of meekness, charity, and love ?) He proceeds, " if such a thing may be, but I fear you have sold your Saviour for thirty pieces of silver." This metaphor is utterly inexplicable to our dull apprecia tion. If it have anything to do with some fancied analogy in the treason of JUDAS ISCARIOT to the con duct of Mr. HAINES, Mr. FARE may be in posses sion of the application ; an exclusive secret, we should say, likely to remain as long undiscovered as that of the composition of the Whitby Doctor's nos trums, but by no means calculated to prove as profit able to the discoverer. The humane and lowly parson, who had so abruptly hailed his widowed parishioner as plain " HAINES," concludes as drily and abruptly by writing himself " ARTHUR FANE," without one " of any sort, or one addendum of any kind to his own designation ; but for the Wiltshire independent we should never have discovered that the letter had been written by a clergyman. But we have a little" vale " for the Reverend Mr. FANE. He may take our word for it or not, as he pleases, (we grant him as unlimited a leave in this matter as he gave about burial in unconsecrated grounds and for just the same reason—namely, that we cannot help it); that he will find, in the :event of any legal proceedings against him, it is every difficult matter to sustain, on the grounds upon which he rests his denial of HAINEs'S application—the refusal to bury in his churchyard a once baptized member of the Church of England. The law of these cases was most laboriously argued in two or three great cases before the late Sir JOHN NicisoLL, and has been still more recently affirmed by Sir Hint- BERT JENNER FUST. We state this, be it observed, in the absence of all allegation that the deceased was ever a relapsed or abjuring member of the Church of England. Her baptism seems clearly proved. The Rev. Mr. FANE may yet have to learn that he has done " awfully foolishly," as well as cruelly, in ne glecting the injunction of a layman and a poet, whose divinity really seems to us of a higher strain than his own—in his prayer—(we quote it from memory) Let not my weak and erring hand Presume thy bolts to throw, Or deal damnation round the land On each I deem my foe." We direct the attention of our readers, and espe cially those who are bent on closing public-houses on Sunday, to a letter of Mr. BUCKINGHAM, in another part of the paper. Mr. BUCKINGHAM has studied the question—possibly he is a living example for tee totallers, drinks no spirituous liquors, and never enters a house of refreshment on Sunday. He is a sincere friend of the lower classes, anxious for their improvement, and his opinion on the subject, therefore, is entitled to consideration. But really he advances no argument against drinking beer, and gin, and wine, which might not be urged against the blessings which have been bountifully provided for rational beings. Before he can gainsay our argument, he must have recourse to a postulate which the wisdom of ages has rejected. No man in his senses will grant that wine and beer are poisons, or even admit that they are injurious to health, if taken in moderation. We have the highest autho rity for the use of wine. Sr. PAUL, recommended it to young TIMOTHY ; and one of the most remarkable miracles on record was the turning of water into wine. Grave moralists, therefore, can only blame the abuse, and to that we are as much op posed as Mr. BUCKINGHAM or Father MATIIEW. But to punish one man for the crime of another—to prevent the sober from drinking three glasses of wine, or one glass of gin, because drunkards will swallow three bottles of the former, and one of the latter—is the very perfection of tyranny. " But," say the new moralists, using the most offensive epithets for houses of refreshment—" the gin-shops, beer-shops, and taverns, into which so many thou sands who have homes of their own, congregate on the Sundays, are not necessary for such refreshment, and may therefore fairly be put on the same footing as all other shops where provisions, goods, or wares are sold." This is mere assertion, for others can reply that they are necessary. A man cannot carry his home with him if he goes with his family to see the green fields and bright flowers at Putney or the environs of Gravesend, and if he carries re freshment he makes a toil of a pleasure, without serv ing one good purpose. Punish the guilty, but let the innocent go free. The law, as the poor know to their cost, is sufficiently strong, and the distinctions between them and the rich are already sufficiently odious without these new-fashioned schemes for making men reli gious by Acts of Parliament, and sober by forbidding them the rational enjoyments of life. Accounts from Madrid, of the 14th inst., state that the court-martial, held at Vittoria, on the prisoners implicated in the conspiracy at that place, had deli vered its judgment. Several of them were con demned to imprisonment for ten years, but none had been capitally convicted. We, therefore, hope the reign of terror is passed, and the law is to be admi nistered as in civilised states. The Three per Cents. closed at 35 at GO days ; the Five per Cents. at 25f for cash, and 26k at GO days ; and the Coupons at 28i at 30 days. The articles in the Paris papers relate chiefly to the Bill for preventing abuses in the formation of railway companies, and the abolition of vote by ballot. The Bill on railways, which has been con siderably mcdified in Committee, does not appear to give very general satisfaction, but its object is good, and, if carried into effect, will check fraudulent schemes. According to the Bill, any number of spe• culators may issue prospectuses and deliver shares, but these must be genuine, and not got up for frau dulent purposes, otherwise they become liable to im prisonment for not exceeding twelve months, and a fine of from .500 f. to 10,000 f. The new mode of voting in the Chamber took place on the annual grant for military pensions, when the PRESI DENT announced that the vote on the ensemble of the Bill would be made by the new plan of division. An usher then ascended the tri bune, and placed a black urn (for rejection) on the marble ledge on the left, as the Members generally ascend for the purpose of voting, and laid a white one (for adoption) on the opposite side. The two urns were thus separated by the whole length of the tribune, or by a distance of about eight feet. The Members then crossed the tribune to vote. As each passed the Secretaries, he received a ball which he dropped into one of the urns. The result of the division was-238 votes for the Bill, and 4 against it. This new plan is generally approved of. The ballot will be resorted to only on particular occasions. The intelligence from Zurich is to the 18th instant. It appears from the New Zurich Gazette of that date, that the Committee appointed by the Diet to examine the questions respecting the amnesty, the Jesuits, and the free corps had made their report. They were unanimous as regardel the amnesty, and came to the following resolution :—" The cantons of the Valais, of Tessino, Argovia, and Lucerne, are invited to rant an amnesty to the authors of political offences committed of late years." With regard to the Jesuits they were divided, and proposed that th• Commissioners should be deputed to address a friendly invitation to Lucerne, for the reception of which the Grand Council of the Canton should be convoked before the termination of the sittings of the Diet. Upon the question of the free corps the Com mission are agreed, with the single exception of M. DRUEY, who, contrary to the opinion of the majority., maintains that the Federal Act is sufficient of itself to repress any illegalities which they might commit. The result is unanimity with regard to the amnesty; SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Public ptnton. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. The Copenhagen Gaziiik confirms the account given by the Madrid journals relative to the arrangements of the chief points in dispute between Morocco and Den mark and Sweden, and adds that all the minor points are likely to be settled in an amicable manner. In the French Chamber of Deputies, on Wednesday, M. Lasny and Boissy d'Anglas laid the following Bill on the table :—" From the next general election, no person can be named a Deputy, or remain a Member of the Chamber of Deputies, if he be interested in any contract treaty, or sub-treaty, posterior to this present law, for any supply or undertaking, or any other service which may Eg►ve rise to any payments or accounts with the State, or with any Administration having at its disposal any part of the funds of the State." Tfitt health of M. Latour Maubourg appears so deli cate, says the Revue de Paris, that it is feared that he will not he able to support th e journey from Rome to Montpellier. The Minister of Commerce and Agriculture has placed at the disposal of the Royal and Central Society of Agriculture a prize of 1,500 f. for the best paper on the contagious typhus of horned cattle. The prize is to be awarded in April, 1847. A new Company, at the head of which is Vice-Ad miral de Rosamel, has just been formed, to tender for the railroad of the North, from Paris to Lille, Valenciennes, Calais, and Dunkirk. The Bishop of Nancy and the Archbishop of Sens, and all the Bishops of bis province, have signified their assent to the pastoral letter of the Cardinal Arch bishop of Lyons. The Bishop of Rennes has also sent his declaration of assent. A Vienna letter of the 14th states that Prince Au gustus of Saxe-Coburg, the husband of Princess Cle mentine, will, in the course of the summer, visit London and Lisbon, with the Princess. The Universal German Gazette announces that the Prussian Government intends to lay a tax on the receipts of the Prussian railroads, but says it will be of small amount. Letters from Rome leave no doubt upon the marriage of Count Trapani with the Queen of Spain. The King of Naples was expected in the Roman capital to an nounce the fact to his brother, and to prepare for the ceremony. LAW AND POLICP. Mr. Baron Platt sentencanal7llamed Walker, who was convicted at Stafford of manslaughter, to six months' imprisonment. The prisoner and the deceased, who worked for the same master, had a quarrel, and in a fit of passion the prisoner rushed at his unfortunate victim and cut him down with a sickle. At Carmarthen, a man named Theophilus Thomas was convicted of highway robbery. Thomas Bull, an agricultural labourer, was indicted at Huntingdon for setting fire to a stack of haulm on the Gth of March. The prisoner, it appeared, had frequently invited persons to assist him in firing the prosecutor's premises, in order to get sent out of the country, as transports lived better than he did, and he also stated that he should stop till a little while before the assizes, as then he should not have to be long in prison. He was convicted, and sentenced to twenty years' transportation. COURT-FASHIONABLE. Viscount and Viscountess Jocelyn have gone on a visit to Earl and Countess Cowper, at Pansanger, near Hertford, for the holidays. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston left town on Thursday, for Brockett Hall, Herts, on a visit to Vis count Melbourne. Lord and Lady Beauvale have also gone to Brockett for the Easter recess. The Countess De Grey has left St. Jame's-square, for Pansanger, on a visit to Earl and Countess Cowper, who are entertaining a large circle at that beautiful seat dur ing the recess. The Earl of Minto and Lady Elizabeth Elliot left Lady Hislop's on Thursday last, on their return to join the Countess and family at Minto House, N.B. Lord and Lady Melgund are staying at the family seat for the present, but it is expected that the Noble Lord and Lady will come to town towards the close of next month for her Ladyship's accouchement. The Earl and Countess of Powis and the Ladies Her bert are expected to leave Powis Castle, Welshpool, about the Bth of next month, for town, for the season. Viscount Clive, M.P., has gone to Wales for the Parliamentary recess. The Earl of Yarborough has arrived at Appulder combe, Isle of Wight, from town. Lord and Lady Worsley have arranged to remain in town during the holidays. The Duke of Devonshire has returned to Devonshire shire House, from visiting the Earl and Countess of Granville at Brighton. The Noble Earl is much better, MISCELLANEOUS. It will be interesting to the antiquary and the lover of art to know that the exertions of Mr. Doubleday, in the restoration of the Portland vase, have been so successful, that it will in the course of a short time again be sub mitted to public inspection very little blemished by the effects of an injury which at first seemed to be irreparable. Sir Henry Ellis and other antiquarians have expressed their approbation of the neatness with which the work has been completed, and of the ingenuity of the at fists employed. Edward Lloyd, the author of the mischief, left London immediately on his discharge, and returned to Dublin, and it is understood to be intention of the Duke of Portland to institute proceedings against him for the damage done to his property. On Good Friday morning, the Brighton and South- Eastern Railway terminus at London- bridge was literally besieged by the holiday folks, the Directors having an nounced their intention of running at half fares. The first trains took to Brighton nearly two thousand per sons, and to Dover about nine hundred. The Greenwich Railway also took great numbers the first thing in the morning, and at twelve o'clock nearly one thousand people were waiting for the starting of the trains at one o'clock. The Greenwich steamers were exceedingly crowded owing to the fineness of the weather. The case of the Rev. Mr. Oakeley is, we hear, to be brought before the Arehes Court, by letters of request, some time in the course of the next term. The Rev. Gentleman has been during the week paying a visit to the Rev. Mr. Newman, at Littlemore. Viscount De Vesci has been appointed Custos Rotu• lorum of the Queen's County, in the room of the Earl of blornington, deceased. • It is expected that the new Customs Bill, which came into actual operation on Saturday, will make a great difference in the mode of doing business at the docks, the greater portion of the articles relieved from payment of duty being cleared direct by free entry from the side of the importing vessel, instead of being housed in the bonded warehouses, by which means the duties of the landing department will be considerably increased, and those of the in-door or warehousing department proportionably lessened. The Right Hon. George R. Dawson, Commissioner of Customs, paid a visit to the St. Katherine Docks on Thursday afternoon, visiting the several departments of the establishment, and inspecting the official books, &c. He also inspected the sample of sugar furnished as the standard by which the sugars in bond were to be tested, and future importations of the article regulated, under the provisions of the New Sugar Bill, making in quiries as to the mcde of the same being carried into operation. It is expected that the New Customs Bill, which comes into actual operation to-day, will make a great difference in the mode of doing business at the docks, the greater portion of the articles relieved from payment of duty being cleared direct, by free entry, from the side of the importing vessel, instead of being housed into bonded warehouses, by which means the duties of the landing department will be' considerably increased, and those of the in-door or warehousing de partment proportionably lessened. On Good Friday the Licensed Victuallers round Smithfield were allowed to keep open their houses throughout the whole of the morning, for the accommo dation of the dealers. Last year the question was raised as to their right, and although none could be distinctly shown, the necessity was evident, as so many persons ar rived from the country, and some summonses heard be fore Sir Peter Laurie were dismissed. The departure of Mdlle. Rachel for Italy is, according to the latest French papers, decided . upon definitively, in consequence of the serious illness under which that great tragedian is at present suffering. The perfect quiet and rest that have been so long recommended and enforced by her medical attendants, have only proved, as it would appear, palliatives, and not remedies for the ailments ; consequently, she has been ordered to go at once into the south. Dr. Woodhouse, Senior Fellow of Gonville and Caius, Cambridge, died on Thursday, the 20th, at his rooms in that college. The deceased gentleman took the degree of Doctor of Medicine many years ago, but never prac. tised as a physician. He chiefly occupied himself in painting, and in the portrait line was such an excellent artist that the likenesses which he has painted from time to time of many of his distinguished contemporaries would form of themselves an interesting gallery. THE ARMY. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) The 15th Foot is to embark for Ceylon this spring, to relieve the 90th Regiment, ordered home. The 16th Foot is to embark in the autumn for Gib raltar, from whence the first battalion of the Royals goes to the West Indies, to relieve the second battalion of the Royals, which is to come home. The 34th Regiment is to embark in the autumn for Corfu, to replace the 19th Regiment, which goes to the West Indies, to relieve the 85th, ordered home. The 54th Regiment is to embark in the autumn for Gibraltar, to replace the 38th Regiment, which proceeds to Jamaica, to replace the 77th Regiment, which em barks for America, to relieve the 43d Regiment, ordered home. The 66th Regiment is to embark in the spring for Gibraltar, to replace the Reserve Battalion 45th Regi ment, which goes on to the Cape, to relieve the Ist Bat talion of the 91st Regiment, ordered home. The 73d Regiment is to embark in the spring for the Cape of Good Hope, to relieve the 27th Regiment, ordered home. The detachment of the 53d Regiment, on board the Hasti tgs, arrived in Calcutta on the 28th January, and remained at Chinsurah on the 6th February, waiting the arrival of the chip Nith with the remainder of the corps. The head quarters of the regiment were marching for Agra, from whence it is probable they will go to Allahabad or Meerut. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. (From The Sun of Saturday Evening.) The Liverpool markets were clo;ed yesterday, nut to re-open until Tuesday next. The features in the Bank of England's transactions, to the 15th inst., were these:—The circulation was 29,148,060/, or more by 107,9851. ; the bullion was 15,944,5811., an increase of 68,1431.; the rest 3,579,4291., an augmentation of 2,162/. The public deposits amount to 6,451,2531., an augmentation of 571,530, but the private deposits have fallen off' by 385,038/. There is also a small decrease in the seven day and other bills. A packet arrival from New York brings accounts of a less recent date than those previously come to hand. The East India intelligence is still of a less favour • able character than might be desired, but it certainly presents no more unsatisfactory featutes than the last received, and, with proper caution on the part of shippers here, an improvement may be looked for. There are not any colonial advices of interest to-day. The Consol Market is rather firm this morning. The Three per Cent. Consols have only been quoted at 99i to par, and for the Account at 100. Exchequer-bills are at 595. to 60s. premium, and the small Bills closed at 595. premium. In the Foreign Funds there have not been many trans actions. Brazilian have been quoted at 914, Colombian at 14* I, the Mexican Five per Cents. at 36,i, Portu guese at an advance to 381, Spanish at 30* 1, and the Dutch Four per Cents. at 991. A good deal of business has been transacted in the Railway Share Market, but prices have not altered to any extent. ONE CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. a per Cent. Consols Consols for Account.... lOO% 10C 1 / 3 Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., 1 1 / 2 d 59 60 pm. 61 Ditto 5001. . Ditto Small Ditto Advertised — pm. CLOSING PRICES. 91 3 / 4 103 141/4 ONE PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent Colombian Bonds, ex Venezuela 1484 Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 — Ditto. Account ... ......... .. 36 3 / 4 37 Peruvian Bonds 6 per Cents — 33% Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto, Converted.... 6 7 3 /4 68 1 A 68 1 A Ditto, Account — 68 Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto Account Ditto, Passive Ditto 3 per Cent. Dutch, 2% per Cent Ditto, Account . 63 5 Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific.... 99 1 A% 991/2 PRICES OF CLOSING PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK. nucEs. it AMWAY SHARES Aberdeen Birming. and Gloucesterloo 134 133 133 Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cambridge and Lincoln 11/ 6 3 /4 7 Chester and Holyhead... 5 Churnet Valley . - 7 t l A3 Cornwall ... . 5%1.4 ...... ... 5.4 Diss, Beccles, Yarmouth 1% 2% Direct Northern Dublin and Belfast June. 2 1 4 6 l/04 6 ...... 6 Dublin and Galway..... 2 1 / 2 3 Eastern Counties 25 ...... 21% % 3 / 4 22 ... 22 Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1....41. 13s. 4d l% Ditto ditto, No. 2 l3s. 4d... 0% Eastern Union lO .. .. Ditto Extension Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 Ditto, Quarter Shares 12%...... 15% Ditto New 1 4 Shares... 2 1 /. 2 Great Grimsby and Shef- field 3% 61% 15" 1 . 33/4 : r 4 Great South. and West. (Ireland) Ditto Extension Great North of England..loo Ditto New 2 23 Great Western ... 80 ... ..180%... Ditto % Shares 5O lOl% Hull and Selby 5O Ditto Quarter Shares 12% — Do. half Shares Kentish Coast 1%...... 1% 8 Lancaster and Carlisle... 15 Lincoln, York, and Leeds 1% London and Birminghm (Stock) 233 Do. New Thirds Do. Quarters London and Brighton... 50 London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d l B l4 Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. London and S. Western 4116 s 10d 80 79% Do. New London and Y0rk...... •.. 2% 3 M % Lynn and Ely Manchester and Leeds... 73 Do. 1 / Shares Do. 4 Shares Do. Sixteenths 2 14 7 14% Manchester and Birmin. 40 23 179% 1011/2 19 1 / 2 18% 2 35% 1 1 A 234 Do. Quarters ... 4 ..-.. 11 Midland... 100 l4O 139 Do. New Midland, Birm.,Derby...loo lO7 107 1 / 2 Newcastle and Darling ton Junction ... 24 Do. New Brandling... 10 Neweaßtle and Berwick 1 1 /, 1414... Newcastle and Carlisle...loo • Newark and Sheffield ... 1 1 / 2 ...... 3 1 4 3 4 North British .17 1 / 8 17 Do. New Northern and Eastern... 45 Do. Quarter Shares... 12 1 / 2 North Wales Norwich and Brandon... 10 Do., New ......... ..... 1 Richmond and 11' est End Junction Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1 t,-cottish Midland l l / 2... 2% Shrews., Wolverhamp., Dudley, and Birm 2%..... 4 1 / 2 %... ..... .. South Devon lO 20 19% 21 20 1 4 20 South Eastern & Dover 3312 s 4d. 43 Do., No. 1 8 Do., No. 2. Do., No. 3 South Wales Trent Valley :,'.2 ... 17 1 / 2 . Waterford and Kilkenny 1 _ ..... 314 West Cornwall .... 14.- 4 1 / 2 5 1 4 Yarmouth and Norwich. 20 — York and North Midland 50 Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 20 Do. Selby 2O Do. Extension FRENCH RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens... 4 Bordeaux and Toulouse 2 Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette Great North. of France.. 4 Lyons and Avignon Orleans and Vierzon ... 2 ...... Orleans and Bordeaux... 2 Paris & Lyons, Laffitte's 2 Paris and Lyons, Gan neron's, ... Paris and Orleans 2O Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg ... 2 Paris and St. Quentin ... 2 Rouen and .Havre Sambre and Meuse ..... 2 Strasbourg and Bale ... 14 Tours and Nantes, Mac kenzie's Ditto, ditto, Levevres... 2 JOINT STOCK. BANKS. British North American 50 .. London Joint Stock..... 10 107% 47% 32 144 123 31 A 16N 6 1 / 2 17N 3 1 4 5 1 4 28 41 1 / 68 45 3 / 4 1414 SOCIETY OF BRITISH ARTISTS. The twenty• second exhibition of the Society of British Artists was opened this morning for private view at the Suffolk-street Gallery, Pall-mall East. The exhibition of this year is of a higher general character than that of the last ; and comparing with the exhibitions of ten years since, it is gratifying to mark the great pro gress which has been made in art during that period. Genius then, as now, made itself felt, and understood, and appreciated, but mere talent was not then cultivated to such a high pitch of excellence. We had then a few first-rate pictures, but an immense number of bad ones. The number of bad ones has now decidedly diminished; and if the pictures of the present day do not exhibit re markable genius, they seldom offend against the rules of good taste. We are glad to say there are not many portraits The historical pictures, too, are few and far between. The best of these is, perhaps, the " Abraham dismissiug Hagar and Ishmael," by E. Latilla, and the " Happiest days of Mary Queen of Scots," by J. E. Buckley. By far the greater number of pictures are landscapes, of various degrees of merit some excellent, some mediocre, none decidedly bad. Of these, the best are " A View of Edinburgh, from Arthur's Seat," by T. M. Richardson, senior; " Heine's Tower, Arundel Park," with a coursing match in the middle distance, by W. J. Baker—a picture of great merit; "The Straw Yard," by J. F. Herring, which looks like a bit of George Morland ; " The Grand Canal, Venice," by T. E. Amery]) who has evidently studied the works of Canaletti, and become thoroughly imbued with the spirit of that master. " A Summer View on the Beach of Hastings," at low water, with a warm, rich sunset glowing in the background, by A. Clint ; and, though last, not least a view of the vale of Neath, in Glamorganshire, by J. P. Pyne : this last is a very beautiful picture, There is an exquisite picture by Herring, " Hebe and Vulcan"—a chubby faced little maiden pouring out a cup of ale for a blacksmith. The smith has his back turned to the horse, who is waiting to be shod, and who eyes the smith as if he had half a mind to kick him. The expression of the horse's features is capital—it says, " I would if I dare," as plainly as any words could have expressed. " Naval Intelligence," by 11. J. Pidding, is a very excellent picture in the early style of Wilkie. The subject is a group of old pensioners, in the yard of Greenwich Hospital, listening to one of their mesamates reading the paper. We must now close this hasty sketch, hoping that we may have another oppor tunity of speedily revisiting the exhibition. DEATH OF LADY GAM BIER.—We have to record the demise, at an advanced age, of Lady Gambier, which took place on Monday last, at Iver, Bucks. The deceased lady, who was second daughter of the late Mr. Daniel Matthew, married, in March, 1788, the late Lord Gam bier, Admiral of the Fleet. HIGHLAND SOCIETY of LOND°, ll '' This convivial Society held, on Saturday, a t Freemasons' Tavern, their anniversary festivolo commemoration of the victory of Alexandria, in w h o so many Highlandm had distinguished then' toni on the 21st of March, 1801. Good Friday having $ year fallen on that day, the gathering took Phi ce t to the 22d. It is usual for the Society to invite sv'it officers who had been present with the orgli do i Egypt under Sir Ralph Abercremby, but the ban ea time has made sad havoc amongst those brave °o f and the present long and severe winter has been 1 1 means of confining several of them to their homes to indisposition, so that only a few of these v eter j o l, were present, viz., Col. Sir John M. Wilson,,,y, Elwin, Capt. Kelly, R.N., and Capt. Feud, Dt, The Gallant President of the Society, Lord Son was prevented from attending in consequence olviot, death, on the previous day, of his brother, th e Wm. Frazer. The chair was, however, very s ir filled by The Chisholm. Amongst the general °n o pany present we observed Major-General D 1 . 01,0 111‘Leod, Major-General Briggs, Colonel Sir do M‘Ra, James Matheson, Esq., of Achany, M•r", te v, wore a magnificent Highland dress, Lora Reidboto Colonel and Major Burns, sons of the poet; c a 1 3,40 Maitland, R.N.; Captain Rigmaiden, ; i nR.N. Irt i o Lamont, RN.; Captain Kelly,Capta l i n pf• R.N.; Captain Charles Forbes, Captain Kincaid' p t , Power, Captain Tulloch, W. Spratt BoY cl ic ''et ; Stewart Chisholm, R.A. ; Robert Coates, s,„; W. W. Scrimgeour, Esq.; Thomas Lawren ce, D. C. Guthrie, F,sq.; J. Gordon puff, Esq.; 11 '94(( loch, Esq.; J. Masterman, Esq, ; Geo. Bain, dust John Burnee, Esq. ; John M'Gregor, Esq.; . I. ` J. Cameron ; W. Judd, Esq • ' T. Archer, I: 3 CP Before dinner the Society held a general COnlbet which the proceedings of the Society, and ° dill matters of business connected therewith, were nol before the Court by Mr. G. Bain, the fl°, l3 m ° no ne Secretary, after which the company proceeded n o de banquet in the magnificent hall of the Freerfir.of Tavern, preceded by her Majesty's piper, Mr. Mackay, and his brother Donald, the Society Porty formerly in the service of his late Royal Elighnes Duke of Sussex. About one hundred gentlemen sat down to u' l iff sg el i the majority of whom were attired in full Hie ce costume. This gave a most picturesque apps 11 :0 1 to the gathering. It looked like a tableau from Sir Walter Scott. The gallery was oen/L ce l , by ladies. During the dinner, which was an e g os! lent one, and which included most of the na`.. t )l dishes of Scotland, in addition to the most rech'4l of the products of the cuisine of France, and the roast and boiled of 01(1 England, the band oc t t he Fusilier Guards played several popular air& 1;00 conclusion of the dinner, the pipers paraded the el playing a Highland national air, which was recood by the company with shouts of enthusiasm. m et' having been said, the cloth was withdrawn, time master Toole, the Toole, proclaimed silenc to otv The Cmsnor,m, who in proposing the firstt..olo briefly alluded to the circumstances under vtule the had been unexpectedly called upon to son° ll3 o chair. Their President, Lord Saltoun , I t ' o f avoidably absent in consequence of the death..., to brother, the Hon. W. Frazer, and in al lua lg that melancholy event, he could not forbear poiloef passing tribute to his memory.—(Cheero),4 B s l , had not only to regret the loss of his valn,°,l"beersi vices to that Society, but to the world.--(vbe In consequence of that unexpected calamity been called upon to fill the chair. He wre,y re ig sl , ask their indulgence on the occasion, as th°' baud imply a presumption on his part, on the one to the that any exertions of his might co ntribut e , 4 11 11 hilarity of the evening, or on the other tr ot be short-comings might damp it--(Cheers) tog would ask them all cordially to unite in onn is pass the evening with true Highland feeloo4 true Highland enthusiasm.—(Cheers.) 1-je had 04 to propose a toast, dear to them as British O l e o. most dear to them as Highlanders—" Th e Qu Drunk with all the honours. " God save the Queen,"—By the band. a tol l . The CuisHoLm, in proposing the health of thence Dowager, Dowager, alluded to the well-known bene“)...,entil that respected lady, and stated that on being I; ls titO applied to for her patronage for a benevolent : of he t A tion at Inverness, the capital of the Ilighl a bo tb l : Majesty had not only granted her patronage, de also sent a liberal subscription. The toast w e ' s of with three times three. 'Nit° ) The Cnisnor.m then rose to propose the -005 Wales and the rest of the Royal Family.--( „ o r", He proposed that toast under peculiar clretle;ie lie could not but recollect that this was eon '4s.—(Cheers.) A hundred years ago the let of some of those present would have told $ ' o t tale.—(Cheers.) But what brought them „ 0 '4,5 ? In what character did they appear r appeared as the gallant subjects of their Slick', It was their loyalty that made them take the .e #5, (Loud cheers.) It was to support that Pri fic orr was the lineal representative of the heir to the ge lY, Crown that their ancestors went to the battle-Pool' (Cheers).—and that same feeling of loyalti o d induce them now to stand up as firmly ' l O 7 dauntedly in support of those who now occuP,'erg e' ser in 180 throne.—(Cheers.) They were row, rounded by English officers, but he coul d not f :, t err or that their ancestors, in 1745, met them on othe' p at Preston Pans.—(Cheers and laugh oft 011.4 from forgetting it, the remembrance of 1 05 101 excite in them the spirit of emulationas tow" 404 best serve their Sovereign and their countrYt" e ilee 105 et cheers. As the descendant of one of those c 0 0 11 . , had been out in '4,s—(Loud cheers). —he r be ashamed to do or afraid to suffer in the eau se do - 091 Sovereign anything that his ancestors halo or e , suffered for the sake of the Stuarts. He ? I : t he them heartily to respond to the toast of " -L'icheev . of Wales and the rest of the Royal Family: l ' l / 4 # The toast was drunk enthusiastically...„ it h of ',i3 O The Cuisuorm next proposed " The yeast of hh ," Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Presidealt Highland Society."—(Loud cheers.) Fr ° ' - g ellu - / they had heard in high places and seen, it vi ll ' reg ent• be that true Highland feeling reigned there at S ho uld (Loud cheers.) He proposed the toast 5 ' bit drunk with Highland honour s. place j ble• The toast having been drunk, each ma n ' t he ts t o left foot on his chair, and his right foot on „ 00 0 5 , 0 and waving his plumed bonnet, gave that ent; ci 0 0 n' and inspiriting shout which is so often hel l battle-field, when the clans " Like reapers descend to the harvest of d e : 0 61 4 The appearance of the Hall at this mionle e n t t be 1 1 4 4 0 picturesque. The magnificent costume °' ~rieb landers, the animation of their features hea' t h viL e ig delight as they cheered, the enthusiasm 1 / 4 V siv str e , the sound of the bagpipes which immediat L 401 1 ;4 up was greeted until impelled, as it were, " d 'heg s dell sistible force, they rushed to the dance, an t ool t o Highland reel, contrasted forcibly with th° ss matter-of-fact manner in which the iniffaiane v o ol evening is usually gone through at EOM The Cuisnorm then proposed " The • e feet; the Navy," a toast never omitted at any 1 3111 "„i a ted 'L I O but one which was more peculiarly appr o P' gigh'"Je , present military festivity, inasmuch as the .„ t ime had devoted so many of her gallant sons fence of their country in both services. Drunk with three times three. o to ei Sir J. APRA, on the part of the ar rn i , o thanks in Gaelic. the P it the Captain KELLY, in returning thanks nn On t he the navy said, that he was proud to believe' thatoet manner in which the toast was always receiv e hea t he services of the members of his profeasi el l r , in, iy /with the approbation of their countrYnaereuill effort which they had made to protect this ..„) land from the invading foe.—(Loud e h rit t ime o f the attempts of the French, who at that w hole or extended their tyrannous grasp over the This re, Europe, had been ineffectual.—(Cheers.) be en F i ) cred isle had by the efforts of the Wi ll a elieeje served from violation by the foe.—(l)% to 7 0 0 And if an enemy should again be indn ee w hich s oh the attempt, that same patriotic feeling . 0 00%0 slumbered in their breasts would be afr i r obat i° o s9 and again would the navy deserve the af:_P, t hat , r e , the country.—(Loud cheers.) He thougnLibeel"ipet now growing up would find, if necessiLo eg! ti gli quire it, that the navy would protect i n ,. 14 0; 4 40 any inroads which an enemy might be I ° l ,, 00 0 ,4 to attempt.—(Cheers.) He believed that t he PL e cl came after us would be as well protected P i(gea e ty as those who went before us had beenr_ o he °deo cheering.) He returned his grateful torfia,bien,oo, Highland Society of London and to the 11 ;00 re , of Scotland, of whom they were the reP r c f been for the manner in which the toast b a t hei, ceived.—(Loud chsaid, eers.) hiePo The Cnisitorzt that the last toast' .„Toft pj had drunk was " The British Army an d i P in it of there was another army which comprise(! s ices roe ° rv i British soldiers and officers, whose se the se 0 0 , late years been no less remarkable than lie„ e rt of the Queen's regiments.—Hear , S e a l ' 5P proud to see among them that eveningT,..o. b o a ( el officers of that serv(Cheers.) il och heard of the glorious deeds which that v The! o f) cheers') bfl° 0 service had the ,re e all read of the sufferings of the san ba at Kurrachee. He therefore propel ti t ' e atht i r di sP sure they would drink the toast wit', t he —" The British and Native Soldiers 01 .41 tv Arm Thy." Ole The ' toast having been drunk with thr ee 0. ol t Major. General M`LEob returned thalllishoin The CnisuoLm, in alluding to the ent"eivedt pre; which the last toast had been re e t to e ibsi that the one which he was abnn loos_.Li t 0 t pose was calculated to ex cite he ut e r i . different feelings. It was emphaticallY,4h le% 0 the evening— ,, The Memory of Sir at 1 - crombie and the Heroes who fell with bleieeteetitig andria." The Highland Society h ad 12 5 0 1 P l c ol anniversary of that battle for their an n t heir because they considered that on that day .. 987 50 .. 977 50 .. 985 ..1342 50 ..1320 ..1325 .. 34G 25 . 347 50 ..1132 50 ..1132 50 .. 235 .. 235 COURT CIRCULAR. Wirrnson, SUNDAY.—Yesterday Prince Albert, at tended by Major-General Sir Edward Bowater, rode on horseback in the forenoon. The Queen and Prince Albert rode out in a pony phaeton yesterday afternoon, his Royal Highness driv ing. Major-General Sir Edward Bowater attended on horseback. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken an airing in a carriage and four yesterday, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by the Countess Wratislaw and Sir George Couper, joined the Royal Circle at dinner yesterday. Major- General Wemyss had also the honour of dining with her Majesty last evening. This forenoon the Queen and Prince Albert took their early morning walk in the Home Park, and the grounds adjacent. The unfavourable state of the weather prevented the Royal Family from being taken out this morning. IlerMajesty and Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent, the ladies and gentlemen attached to the Court, and the Domestic Household, attended Divine service to-day in the private chapel of the Castle. After the service, the lloly Communion was administered by the Hon. and Rev. Charles Leslie Courteuay. THE GRAND DUCHESS STEPHANIE OF BADEN.—Her Royal Highness attended Divine service yesterday morning in the chapel of the Austrian embassy. In the afternoon the Grand Duchess paid a visit to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester House. On Saturday a dinner party was given at the Duke of Hamilton's residence in Portman-square. The company to meet her Royal Highness consisted of M. Dedel, the Netherlands Minister ; the Russian Minister and the Baroness Brunnow, Baron Gersdorff, the Saxon Minis ter ; the Duke of Devonshire, the Marquis of Douglas, the Countess of Malmesbury, Viscount Cantalupe, Lord and Lady Dalmeny, and Lord Dudley Stuart. Madame D'Eithal had the honour of attending in the evening, and of performing on the harp before the illus trious circle. Mr. Edmund Nugent, agent for Antigua, had an in terview with Lord Stanley on Saturday, at the Colonial. office. His Excellency M. Dedel, the Netherlands Minister, had an interview with Lord Aberdeen last Saturday, at the Foreign-office. Sir R. Peel left town on Saturday for his seat, Drayton Manor, Sta ff ordshire. Dispatches from the Governor of Jamaica, and also from the Governors of the West Indian Colonies, were received yesterday at the Colonial - office. The Right Rev. Dr. Hughes had an interview on Saturday with Lord Stanley. Dispatches, from the Gov ernor of Hong-Kong were received on Saturday at the Colonial-office. Dispatches were sent off on Saturday from the Colonial office for the Governors of the Mauritius and South Australia. Lords Sheffield, Ashburnham, Ernest Bruce, Belhaven, Caritalupe, Fitzroy, Wharncliffe, Somerton, and Parker ; Ladies Wharnclifie, Stuart de Rothsay, and Belhaven, attended Divine service yesterday, in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The prayers were read by the Sub-Dean, the lessons by the Rev. Dr. Wesley and the Rev. Mr. Packman, and the Communion service by the Bishop of London. The sermon was preached by Archdeacon Wilberforce. The anthem, "If we believe that Jesus died" (Boyce) was sung by Messrs. Wylde and Brad bury. Mr. Turle presided at the organ. After the ser vice, the Bishop of London administered the Sacrament ; between fifty and sixty of the nobility and gentry com municated. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, Minot SU—Wind atnoollsoutlierly, fresh breeze and showery ; weather very mild. DEAL, MARCH Ind N.N.W., light. 21. S. to S.W., Gothenburg Antigua. Sld. Santa Li moderate.—Arrd. Samarang, Batavia, f or R o tt er d am ; R a pid, New m Orleans, a g ; Rover, Dundee, for Cape of I Go si o d d a H C o rch fure;el tl a Miranda, Leonard, illa ; Pekin and Larkins, Calcutta ; Ann Falcon, Mauritius; Cleopatra, Demarara ; Ruby and Ceres, J a m a i ca ; Vixen, Cape de erds ; Loui sa Willie, Demerara ; John l'irie, Barbadoes. BitisTor., MAncii 20.—Wind E. moderate.—Sld. British Queen, Cuba. MOON, MAnot 13.--Sld. Roseanna, Aden. The Water loo, Wood, from Aberdeen to Ichabo e , w hi c h put i nto T o b er . morey 2itli ult. leaky, and with pumps choked, has arrived here to be docked. PORTSMOUTH, MA ROI 20 . -- Wind:N.N.E. 21. W.S.W.— Arrd. Her Majesty's ship Nautilus, ea s t war d an d ski. west with supplies for the homeward bound; Mediator, London, and sailed for New York. Prmiount, MARCH 19.—Sid. Louisa Campbell, New Zealand. PAL3IOIrTII, MARCIt 20.—Wind N.E., moderate. 21. Variable.—Arrd. Petrel packet, Rio, sailed Jan. 16, on freight with from 35,0001. to 40,0001. in gold and diamonds. Otl, Eliza, Abernethy, Ichaboe ; Roding, Hutchings, Calcutta, left St. Helena Jan. '22 ; Neptune, Dally, Ichaboe. CLYDE, MAncit 19.—Wind W.N.W. 20. W.—Arrd. Eliza Keith, Scott, Ichaboe. Sld. Ocean Queen, St. Do mingo; Monkey, Antigua. MARCH 21.—Wind N.W. to S.W.—The Emerald Isle steamer, Bouch, arrd. here from Helvoetsluys, was about twelve miles from the land before she cleared the ice, and has experienced a heavy passage. LOWESTOFFE, MARC/I 20.—The Barnsley, Minnett, from London to Goole, has been assisted into the roads with rud der bolts broken off, and will come into the harbour. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 20.—Wind N.N.E., moderate. 21. S.E. to S.S.W., fresh. Arrd. Montrose, Bombay ; Kestrel, Callao ; Columbia, Green, Pernambuco, 2d ult.; Leila, Wiggins, Lucinia, Porter, Champlain, Cygnet, and Leopard, New Orleans; JohnMunn, Watts, and John and Roberts, Mobile ; Oxford, Rathbone, New York ; Lady Mil ton, Sinnott, Mobile. Sld. Statesman, Africa; Arethusa, Monte Video ; Undaunted, Rio Janeiro ; Commerce, New Orleans; London, New York ; Cynthia Ann, Halifax ; Sir H. Pottinger, Quebec. 21. Thomas Lee, Calcutta; Grace, Antigua; Odessa, St. John's, New Brunswick. Off, Uruguay, China; Rochester, New York. SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 20.—Ski. Great Liverpool steamer, Malta; Pacha steamer, Lisbon, &c. ; Braganza steamer, India. CORK, MARCH 19.—Wind N. to N.W.—Arrd. Thomas and William, Flayter, Savanilla for London ; Mary, Mackie, Mauritius; Galway Ark, Davidson, and Venus, Manger, Ichaboe ; Two Friends, Prieux, Rio Grande. Off, Lavinia, Donald, Ichaboe. DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—Mademoiselle Polin, one of the most eminent of the dancers of the French school, and the principal one at the Grand Opera of Berlin, has arrived in London, and will make her first appearance, together with Monsieur Gasperini, in the new ballet of 1?obe, I of Benirand to-night. IRELAND. -- ANOTHER STATE PROSECUTION.—OUr Dublin correspondent assures us very positively that the Irish Government have it in contemplation to institute another state prosecution, and mentions, very circum stantially the facts on which the statements rest. The most material are these, namely, that the two Govern ment reportors wh o a tt en d th e mee ti ngs o f th e R e p e al Association, and the two policemen who are also in attendance to identify the speakers and corroborate the reporters, have been sent for to the Castle; and certain strong passages from the speeches of Messrs. 11. Grattan and W. S. O'Brien have been laid before the Irish law officers of the Crown; that, in the opinion of these gentlemen, there are grounds for a prosecution, if not of the association as a b o dy, a t least against some of its members; and that a commun i c ation to this effect has been forwarded to the Government in London. All this is very likely, and it is not less likely that the fighting Attorney-General s h ou ld wish to try another fall with the Repealers; but that Sir R. Peel will hazard another indeed, he on the eve of the Queen's visit , unless , he means to keep her away from Ireland, is most un likely. We say, with our correspondeat—impossible! absurdl—Liverpool Mercury. ...