The Sun. — London, England, 1845-03-29 00:00:00

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In distant parts of the cAentry, the Third Edition contains news TWELVE 11011113 I n ADVANCE, a matter of importance to those who want early intelligence. in those places where the evening mail arrives in the middle of the night, the " MORNING SUS'," containing ALL the Debates, &c. &c., will answer best, and Subscribers can suit themselves accordingly. Respectable Agents will always supply the proper paper; but where any wilful neglect is experienced, we recommend parties to write to " The Sun" office, 112, Strand, where prompt attention will be paid to their representations. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. In consequence of the expressed desire of a great number of the Subscribers, and of its increasing success, THIS EVENING Will be repeated (fifth time in this country), Verdi's new Opera, ERNANI. In Four Part3—lst , The Bandit ; 20., The Guest ; 3d., The Pardon; 4th., The Mask. With new scenery by Mr. Marshall. Elvira, Madame Rita Borio Giovanna, lldlle. Bellin ; Buy Gomez, Signor Fornasari ; Don Carlos, Signor Boteni ; Lrnani, Signor Morian!. To conclude with an entirely new Ballet, by M. Perrot, entitled EOLINE ; on, LA DRYADE. The Music by Signor .Png,ni. The Scenery by Mr. Marshall. 'rmcipal Characters—Eoline (betrothed to Count Edgard), diddle. Lucile Gratin ; Bubezahl (le Gnome), M. Perrot ; Count Edgard, M. Toussaint ; Prince of Silesia (brother of Eoline), M. Gosselin. In the coarse of the Ballet the following Dances will be introduced Waltze Selesienne, by the Coryphees of the Corps de Ballet. Pas de la Fianceel—Sldlle. Lucile Grain' and 3f. Toussaint, Pas de, CM(' (composed bat M. Gosselin)—Mdlles. Louise Weiss, Fer (inland, Demelisse, Caisan, and Moncelet. 3fazaurlia D'Extase-3ldlle. Lucile Gr hn and M. Perrot, Fcurtli Tableau. Grand Pas des Dryades by :Wile. L. Grahn and the Ladies of the Corps de Bane% Doors open at Seven; the Opera to commence at Half-past Seven o'clock. Madame Anaide Castellan, of the Imperial Theatre St. Petersburgh, has arrived In town, and will make her first appearance on Tuesiay next, April I, in Donizetti's Opera of WJCIA 1)1 LAM3IERMOOK. Edganlo, Sig. dloriani ; Ashton, Sig. Forna.sari ; and Lucia, A. Castellan. HER MAJESTY'S TIIEATRE. It is respectfully announced that a Second GRAND MUSICAL FETE, Comprising the unpublished manuscripts of the celebrated FEL IC lEN DAVID, Will be presented on MONDAY WEEK, APRIL 7, With the original Melodies and Choruses. Grand Descriptive Symphonic Ode of THE DESERT, produced for the first time with the most enthusiastic success at the Conservatoire Royal, Paris. LE DESERT. Ode, Symphonic, Oriental—divided in three parts with grand orchestra. Tile orchestra and chorus will include upwards of 200 per formers. The whole under the Direction of Signor Costa. Solos by Sigs. Moriani and Corelli. PROGRAMME. Part I.—Entrance to the Desert. Glorification of Allah ; grand chorus and orchestra—Arrival 01 the Caravan—Departure of the Caravan—Tempest in the Desert — Return of the Calm—The Caravan resumes its march. Part IL—Night. The Evening Star—Halt of the CaraN'an—Hymn to the Night : air sung by Signor Moriani Arabian Fantasia—The Dance of the Alines—The Liberty of the Desert : grand chorus with orchestra— Evening reverie : melody sung by Signor Mcriani, with thorns and orchestral accompaniments—Sleep ! Part I I I.—Suri-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—Alleh. Grand chorus final. Introductory Part-Ist. Fragment of Grand Symphony in E fiat-2d. Melodic imitative a Gran I Orchestm, Les Hirondelles, sung by signer .11oriani-3d. Melodie Orientale : Le Chibouque 4th. Soiree du I'rintenips Fragment tire des quartre Saissons tie Felicien David, executed try all the string instruments. hoses, Two, Three, and Four Guineas each. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Pit Tickets to be made at the Opera-office, Colonnade, Haymarket. . . Doors open at !light o'clock ; to commence at Half-past Eight. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE, O.' _MONDAY, MARCH 31, Will be p‘mformed RORER r THE DEVIL. Robert, Mr. W. Har. rison ; Bertram, Mr. Stretton ; Itaimbaut, Mr. I). W. King Isabella, Miss Itainforth ; Alice, Miss Romer. After which will be repeated, a New Comic Ballet, entitled ROBER . O AN D BERTRAND, The Eminent Tenor, M. DUPREZ is enaged here for Twelve Nights only, and will make his appearance on Monday, April 7, in It's celebrated 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 LAMMEIIMOOR, for the Perform nee of which, an Engagement has also been ex pressly entered into with Mille. EUGENIE GARCI The Box-office is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six In the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, I laces, and Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. LESSEE, MR. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING Will be repelted a New and Original Comedy, entitled THE SHERIFF OF THE COUNTY. Principal Characters by Messrs. W. Farrell, Strickland, Buckstone, Webster, Mrs. Glover, Mrs. W. Clifford, Mrs. Humby, Miss Julia Bennett, &c. After which, a New Grand Classical Extravaganza, entitled TIIE GOLDEN FLEECE. Principal Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, J. Bland, Madame Vestris, and Miss P. Horton. fe. To conclude with THE THIMBLE RIG. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New and Original Drama, entitled TIIE GREEN BoSIIES ; 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 ; Malame Celeste. After which, will be repeated a New Grand Epereal Exposition, called ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON. Principal Characters by - Messrs, Paul Bedford, Wright, John Saunders, Selby; Miss Woolgar, Miss Brooks, and Miss E. Chaplin. To conclude with MOTHER AND CHILD ARE DOING WELL Mr. Snngsby, Mr. Lambert ; Lieutenant O'Scupper, R.N., Mr. Paul Bedford ; Mr. Felix Fluffy, Mr. Wright ; Emily, Miss Fortescne. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. . LESSEE, MR. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, Will be performed FAZIO. Giraldi Fazio, Mr. Graham ; Bartolo, Mr. Oxberry ; Bianca, 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 conclude with a New Grand Oriental Melo-dramatic Burlesque Extravaganza, in Two Acts, called TIMOUR THE CREAM OF ALL THE TAIITAR.S. Timour, Mr. Oxberry ; Zorilda, Miss E. Stanley. Stage Manager, Mr. 11. I. Wallach; Stage Director, Mr. Emden ; Machinist, Mr. Edmund Bradwell. Superbly decorated, and with extensive alterations! forming ene of the most Elegant and Comfortable Theatres in the Metropolis ! THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. THIS EVENING Will be perfbnned MARTIN CHUZZLiEWIT. Old Martin Clnizziewit, Mr. it. Younge ; Mr. PeesnifT, Mr. Frank Matthews; Mrs. -Sairey Gawp, Mr. Keeley ; Halley, Mrs. Keeley. After which, a Now Farce, entitled LOWTHER ARCADE. Characters by Messrs. Keeley, Meadows, F. Matthews ; Miss Dawson, and Miss Grove. . Tv conclude with a. Burlesque of English History, Ponrtraying Olden Ideas and Modern Notions—lnvested with all the Pomp and Display of Scene-Painters engaged expressly —Costumes according to Fancy—Mechanism, Ballet, Music, and Novel Stage Arrange inents—to be called, WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT! Dick Whittington, Mrs. Keeley; Muley Mbloch, the Lien Tamer of the Dessert, Mr. Kedey ; the Cat, Mr. Collier, supported by Messrs. Emery, F. Matthewi,.and Wigan ; Miss Fairblother, and Mies Grove. The Box-office is open daily, under the direction of Mr. Grogan. FIRST APPEARANCE OF. MDLLE. PLES SY, Sr. JAM ES'S THEATRE-FREXCII PLAYS. 3dr. MITCHEL!. begs resp,caully to announce th.t the above TnEATRE WILL BE lIE-OPENED ON MONDAY, MAUCH 31, When willl be produced, commencing at Eight o'clock precisely (First Time in this Country), a New VaudevEle, in One Act, by SI. Scribe, cntitled LES SURPRISES. Mathildc, sa petite Fine, Mdlle. Ozy, her First Appearance in this Country. To Conelock with the popular and admired Comedy, by Casimir Delavine, entitled L'ECOLE DES VIELLARDS. Danville, ancien Amateur, M. Oudinot ; Bonnard, sett Ami, M. Cartigny ; Le Due Delmar, M. Pascal ; Madame Danville, Mdlle. Plessy, her First Ap pearance this Season. On Wednesday, April 2, MARIE; ou, LES TROIS EPOQUES; and LA SUITE D'UN PAL MASQUE. On Eriday, April 4, LA DAME ET LA DEMOISELLE, and LE BOUQUET DU UAL, in all of which Mdlle. PLESSY will appear. 65.; Pir, 3s. 64. ; Amphitheatre, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. Doors will be opened at. half-pa ;t Seven o'clock, and the Pefformances commence.at Eight. Boxes and stalls may be secured at Mr. Mltehel,'s Royal Library, 33, 01,1 Bond-s Wet ; and at the Box•oftice of the Theatre, which is pen Daily, from Ele.vrn till Five. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE, (Untitr the Direction of Miss Davenport.) THIS EVENINU Will be repeated THE GAME COCK OF THE WILDERNESS. Colonel 3Terevilt., Mr. H. _Mellon; Roderick, Mr. Binge ; Samson. Mr. Marble ; Mabel, Mrs. Griffith. After whleh,. TH E SEVEN CHAMPIONS OF CHRISTENDOM. To conclude with THE PLAGUE OF PLYMOUTH.. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHVATRE. PROPMETOR, MR. W. BATTY. • THIS EVENING. The Performances will continence with a Grand Military Equestrian Drama, entitled THE MAID OF SARAGOSFA. Scenes in the Circle, introducing M. and Mdme. Ramos, the cele brated French Equestrians. • To conchile with THE SLEEPING DRAUGHT. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. GREAT ATTRACTION FOR THE EASTER HOLIDAYS, THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New Drama, called MARGARET CATCH POLE. Supported by M05r, , ..,. IL Hughes, Hicks, Fredericks, R. Honner, S. Cowell, Heslop, Lewis, Mrs. Daly, Mrs. Lewis, and Mn.s It. Honner. Alio* which, TILE tRISII TUTOR, in which the Infant Power, Mica llo*on,willappear. To conclude wr li THE MOOR MAIDEN, in which Messrs. Hicks, Neville, Fredericks. Lewis, Mrs. Hughes, 3liss Martin, and Mrs. 11. Vining will perform. • Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box oMce, from Eleven to Four. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING Messrsci Will be repeated MARGA RET CATCIIPOLE, Th e F . Cony and hier se stealer.' Oneia and Pechtiana (Red Chlrains), Blanchard ; Margaret Catchpole, Miss Vintent. After which, HERCULES, KING OF CLUBS. To conch4le with THE KNIGHTS OF THE CROSS. TUE WEATHER.--SUN OFFICE, MARCH 28. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 45 ; Highest, 57; Noon, 55. BAROMETER, 29.74.—W1ND, NOTE.—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. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 22 minutes after 5 I Evening .. 44 minutes alter 5. THE APRIL NUMBER OF COLBURN's .Dimr MONTHLY MAGAZINE AND HUMORIST Contains the following Interesting Articles :- 1. Passages in the Lives of Celebrated Statesmen of Europe. NO. 3. Baron Bulow—Pi•ussia—and Sketches of Colleagues in the Great Conferences of 1831 and 1840. 2. What we're Doing, and What we're Corning to. 3. The Left-Hand Glove. A Tale of Circumstantial Evidence. 4. The Talleyrand Papers. No. XI. 5. Kate Wilson, A Tale. By Agnes Strickland. 6. The Lion and the Four Bulls GEsop Illustrated.) By the Author of " Peter Priggins." 7. Lights and Shades In the Life of a Gentleman on Half-Pay. By W. H. Maxwell, Esq.:—Secret Revelations—The Midnight Con ference—The Ranger's Return—A False Alarm. 8. A Field Day with the Portuguese. 9. The Robertses on their Travels. By Mrs. Trollope. Chapters 31, 32, and 33. 10. An Excursion up the Oronooko, and Ramble through Venezuela. 11. Conversations in the National Gallery. No. 2. 12. M. Tillers' History of the Consulate and Empire, &c., &C. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlb.nough-street. THE NEW NOVEL. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., M AIDS OF HONOUR; A TALE OF THE COURT OF GEORGE I. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. : FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS Bif LEECH AND ALFRED CROWQUILL, AND A PORTRAIT OF THE REV. SIDNEY SMITH. The APRIL NUMBER of BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY ; Prime Two Shillings and Sixpence, Will contain : THE MARCHIONESS OF BRINVILLIERS. A Romance of Old Paris. By ALBERT SMITH. With an Illustration by Leech. Chap. X. What further befel Louise in the Catacombs of the Bievre. Chapter Xl.—Maitre Picard prosecutes a successful crnsade against the Students. Chap. Xll.—Exili spreads the snare for St. Croix, who falls into it. The Siege of Hensburgh. By John Ryan, M.D., L.L.D. How to serve out Cupid. By the Irish Whiskey-Drinker. Sketches of Ross, Tintern Abbey, Chepstow. By Louisa Stuart Costello. The Labourer's Song. By William Jones. The Wet Blanket. By Paul Prendergast. With an Illustration, by Leech. The Halifax Murder. By an Infantry Officer. A Glance at the Drama. Glimpses and Mysteries—The Author. Outlined by Alfred Crommill. Literary Retrospect of the Departed Great—Sir Thomas Lawrence, Sir David Wilkie, and Sir Francis Chantrey. - By a Middle-aged Man. Memoir of the Rev. Sidney Smith, with a Portrait. The " Newspaper Man," and the Right Hon. George Canning— Party and the Press—Mr. (row Lord) „Jeffreys and Printer Willi son—The Gaol Chaplain ; or, a Dark Page from Life's Volume. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. SPANISH PASSIVE BONDHOLDERS! CAUTION. Do not be tempted by the trifling rise in this Stock to sell. Your Stock is now scarce, and remember M. Mon, the Spanish Minister of Finance, has pledged himself to propose to the Cortes a settlement of the whole Foreign Debt of Spain. Is the Active Stock, then, only to be converted, and our interests be neglected ? Believe it not. Your 100/. Bond is now worth but 71. If you will but be firm, another month will make them worth 17/. WI! ISPE R. ___ _ _ _-- , 4 OR 1 0 4 1 .4, ~,.... _ . s r, , 1._ , ....•/,..., t ,..,. e ', C - --,,,- -- t - , , ‘.: *' ' 6 _bi t , , ,—\.. - , •4' A' , •mo ,4 . blitrr , _ THE _ SITN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, mArtcn 29, 1845. ørnkiw 2/111t. LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1845. The inaugaral address of the new President of the United States contains some passages that should not be allowed to pass unnoticed at the period of their first promulgation to the British Public. In the rapid notice we have already taken of this document, such passages have been, perhaps, too lightly touched upon, not to make it desirable to subject them to a more particular notice, before dismissing the paper from our view. It is but too probable that the " Ad dress," however humble its pretensions as a State Paper, tried by our European standard of political criticism, may hereafter be found to possess an ad ventitious value and notoriety, from its shadowing forth of events that are in rapid progress to develnp ment, to which its intrinsic merits would never en title it. " I cannot," says Mr. POLK, " disguise the diffi dence with which I am about to enter on the dis charge of my official duties." This mealy mouthedness is really pretty well for the head magistrate of a Republican Government, who proceeds to announce such schemes of territorial spoliation, and to become the apologist of such wholesale aggressive encroach. ments on the rights of independent States, as have probably never been publicly preached since the days in which SAPOR or GENGHIS KHAN used to exhibit the ferocious courtesy of dispatching heralds to the remote monarchs whose dominions it had occurred to the mighty conqueror (after the fashion in which similar projects suggest themselves to JAMES K. Por.K) that it would be highly expedient to unite to his own—on what day of what month and year, and in what city of the world, they w ou ld d o well to be prepared to surrender their sceptres and their lives into the hands of the all-conquering King of the Kings of the Universe. This diffident gentle man, accordingly, begins with a measure for taking from Mexico, against her consent, a portion of her dominions, about as large as Great Britain, and an nexing it, contrary to the protests of its own de facto Government, recognised by " J. K. P." himself as an "independent one," to the overgrown dominions of the Union. He proceeds, in a parenthesis, to assume for granted—in defiance of history and fact, prior right of discovery, and stipulations of treaties—and with about as little recognition of the purposes and objects of the British Minister, Mr. PAKENnAm's mission on the subject, as his predecessor had shown of the reclama tions and protests of the Mexican Minister against the fraudulent attempt upon Texas—to assume forgranted the title of the United States " to the country of the Oregon," as " clear and unquestionable." Such an impudent perversion of facts could never have entered the mind of a State officer who had not, from the habit of dealing with, for, and in slaves, acquired the bad habit of supposing it unnecessary to consider what amount of qualifying truth ought to be infused into any statements he might vouchsafe to make. As to the annexation of Texas, it had been clearly shown, as we remarked in a former article, by the best authorities in the American Councils, that the project was contrary to the federal Constitution positive in fringement of express and declaratory articles in that instrument. Mr. PoLx, who is of that faction among his countrymen who are for " going the whole hog,'' throws that ugly recollection overboard, and sets up a false colour in its steal. " It will be his first care," he observes, " to administer the Government in the true spirit of that instrument, and to assume no power not expressly granted or clearly implied in its terms." This was already done to his hands by that very honest person, Mr. JOHN TYLER ; and he adopts and gives operation to TYLER'S act. We pass over the large demands he makes upon the good na ture or simplicity of mankind, for all credit to the manifold practical as well as theoretical excellences of the form of government enjoyed by the subjects of the Union. These paper virtues have been fur some time past at a considerable discount in all other parts of the world, like the Pennsylvanian bonds ; and we , see no likelihood of J. K. Polaes patting them on any better footing, as to foreign circulation, than had been effected by J. TYLER. "In some sections of our country," says Mr. Polac, " it is a source to me of deep regret to observe that misguided persons have occasionally indulged in schemes and agitations whose object is the destruction of domestic institutions existing in other sections—institutions which existed at the adoption of the constitution." Would any honest man believe that this stout Republican, who freely invokes the blessing of GOD upon his admi nistration, and talks glibly of the mercy of PROVI DENCE, was in these set phrases disguising so atrocious a practice as negro slaveiy; and excusing, in this boasted ark of human liberty, forsooth, the damning pollution of wholesale, natural slave-trading? Why, we shall look to the next overland mail for a me- morial to the Governor-General of India from the per secuted " Thugs" of Mysore or Rajhpootana, pray ing that their highly respectable "institutions " may not be put down, in compliance with the wishes of other " sections" of the Penersales. But this hypo-, crisy is of a piece with the colouring at tempted to be given to the Texas affair. " The Republic of Texas has made known her desire to come into our Union —to form a part of our confederacy, &c. Fortunately for the truth, President TYLER had " made known " the " desire of our confederacy " to filch and kidnap Texas from Mexico at any hazard ; and it will require a better casuist than J. K. POLK to show that it was not the United States' Government which took the initiative in the matter, and resorted to such means for the at- tainment of its object, as will for ever reflect infamy on that Government, and, in all probability, at no distant period, dissolve this perfidy-cemented " Union." We know that in Washington a man taking office would sometimes, without scruple, commit himself to parties who had avowed in the heat of party and elec tion contests very extravagant designs, but we never did expect to find a President prepared to maintain from his official chair, as courses to Which his •1 _ .....•.• 11.1.•• Govern M - A meat would feel itself pledged, the wildest and most monstrous fallacies that had ever been spouted to credulous mobs from municipal hustings. Of this kind, however, was his grave reiteration of the over and again explcded notorious fallacy that Texas had ever formed part of the Federal Union. But really the most impassable medium we have ever heard of is a new PRESIDENT'S conscience. It is impervious to any given set of recollections which might inconve niently disorganize a preconceived statement shaped to a particular end. But recollections, on the other hand, which if they escaped would blow away the whole effect of such a statement, it smothers sub ino pectore." The PRESIDENT, talking compla cently of the enterprise which American citizens have shown, under the auspices of their free Go vernment, in exploring the wild countries about the banks (,f the Mississippi and the Missouri, says, " The titles of numerous Indian tribes to vast tracts of country have been extinguished." Why did he pause at that point, and forbear to touch upon the " tribes of Indians," as well as their "titles," ex tinguished by the exterminating operations of the force employed by the United States ? But enough of this sorry composition, in that character. The inferences it suggests are of a nat ore so grave, that we cannot trust ourselves to follow them out to the point they seem to tend to, lest we should seem to desire rather to insist upon than to mitigate the mischievous construction which pro jects thus crudely enunciated are necessarily lh.ble to. If the political morality upon which it is sought to justify the annexation of Texas, were to be acquiesced in by this country, we cannot see how we could dispute its application to Mexico. Does the PRESIDENT imagine that the United States will he permitted to absorb into their Federa tion the Empire of the Aztecks ? If Great Britain could be induced to tolerate the execution of the de signs of the States on the Oregon territory, with what reason could she resist the incidental passion that the model republic will assuredly conceive for the pos session of Canada ? If the PRESIDENT finds Texas on the southern boundary with such happy pre dispositions to join the Union, wi:l he be at any loss to discover similar longings equally evident in Ca nada on the northern frontier? But be the intended future march of territorial avarice what it may, it must be stopped in these first steps of its actual l ro gress. We begin greatly to fear that the moral foible of the natural character of America, her intolerable passion for buiserous vaunting, must be checked by something more than a great moral lesson. But how ever much we shall deplore the necessity, whenever that may arrive, we have nothing, thank God, to fear for the result. It wig be the felicity of Great Bri tain to put forth her irresistible, power in the most disastrous issue that may follow these portentous indications, in vindicating the triumph of her un sullied character and her indefeasible rights, authority, and possessions. Madrid journals of the 20th have been received. The Cortes had adjourned their ssttings for the holi days, and the Bourse was closed, and the entire popu lation were occupied with the religious ceremonies of the Holy Week. On Thursday the young QUEEN washed the feet of twelve poor men, and administered to them food, with a sum of money to each. The Court also visited in procession several churches, ac companied by persons ef rank, among others the French Ambassador. The weather, however, was very unfavourable, as rain or snow fe.l during the greater part of the day. At the Puerta del Sol the Three per Cents. were done at 34i for cash, and 35 at 60 days. The Paris papers are chiefly occupied with the discussions in the Chamber of Peers on jobbing in railway shares, and on the Customs' Bill in the Chamber of Deputies. Great opposition is made to the Bill brought forward by Count DARU on the former question, and among others Count D'ARGOUT, Governor of the Bank of France, and General CA BRERES spoke against it. The latter would willingly support any feasable measure for putting an end to gambling in shares, but he could not concur in the present Bill, because it tended to strike a mortal blow at the industry, commerce, and prosperity of the country, The Governor of the Bank whose authority stands very high in France, spoke in equally strong terms. The Bill, he said, infringed on the common right of all— full liberty of transacting business ; for let the Chamber look at what was done lay any company in endeavouring to obtain the concession of a railroad, and judge if there was in the plan pursued any ille gality. First of all, some scientific men, bankers, and capitalists, met, and came to the determination to form themselves into a Committee on the matter in hand. There was certainly nothing against the law in that. Next they announced the provisional for mation of the company, and offered shares to the public in case of success. On these offers of shares they received money, for which they gave receipts. All this was perfectly legal, since the money was given back in case of non-concession. The objection to this proceeding was, that the acknowledgments for the money paid in were mere bits of paper, without value. He must avow that he could not comprehend this exaggeration, for the re ceipts, in place of being bits of paper without value, were the acknowledgments of sums duly paid and to be duly repaid in certain circumstances. After some further remarks, he said on calculation he found that the sums required to be lodged by com panies for the working of railways, would amount to nut less than 290,000,000 f. (11,000,0001.), the with drawal of which from the market would cause great confusion. Besides the plan would tend to withdraw the capital of foreigners from railway speculations. The mere fact of taking the measure into considera tion had already induced many foreign capitalists to sell their shares ; and he would mention, in support of this assertion, that last month three thousand shares in a Belgian railroad, deposited at a banker's at Paris, had been taken in two hours by French capitalists, and that at a moment when so many French lines demanded their support. He concluded by observing that, before deciding on any mea sure it would be desirable to have a Committee of Inquiry appointed to examine into the matter, to ascertain the gravity of the abuses and the excesses which had taken place in the last few years, and to draw up a Bill in accordance with the result of their examinations. This speech has settled the question. Count DARU replied to it, but without effect, and the general belief is, that the Bill will be rejected by a large majority. The debate on the Customs' Bill was still going on in the Chamber of Deputies at the hour of post on Wednesday, but it possessed no public interest. Nearly all the Opposition jour nals make attacks on the Ministry for yield ing to the Chamber on the Belgian tariff; and adduce the fact as another instance of the utter abasement of M. GUIZOT. Marshal SOULT presented a Bill for an additional grant of 18,000,000 f. for the fortifications of Dunkirk, Soissons, Lyons, Besancon, Sedan, Toulouse, and St. Etienne, and to extraor dinary works which are to be executed by military engineers in the ports of Lorient, Havre, and Henne bon. On the same day Commissioners were elected for examining the Railway Bills fur the lines between Paris and Lyons and Lyons and Avignon, seven uf whom are favourable to the plans proposed by the Government. THE BOURSE'-WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26. First Hish.st Lowest Last Price. Price. Price Price Frccch Five per Cents..... 117 90 .. 117 90 .. 117 85 .. 117 8; Three per Cents.... 85 80 .. 85 85 .. 85 75 .. 85 85 Loan .•• • • ••• • • • 86 GO .. 86 65 .. 85 GO .. 86 65 Bank of France • . • • ... 3115 ..3120 ..3110 ..3120 Gouin Eank I,ooof Shares 1090 .. 1690 ..1085 ..1085 Belgian Bank . ...... ••• • •. 665 .. 665 .. 665 .. 665 lie gian Fives, '840........ 105% .. 105% .. 105% .• 105% 1842.....••• 107 .. 107 •• 107 .. 107 Four-and-a-Half ... 1C 1g .. irsg, .. 103% .. 103% Two-anti-a-Half... 62 65 .. 62 65 .. 62 G 5 .. 62 65 Spanish Active .. .• • ... 4') 40 .. 4) • . 40 Threes.... 41% .. 41%.. .. 41% 41% Passive .• •.•.. • . 7 .. 7 % .. 7% Portuguese Five per Cents.. 68 • • 68 • • G 8 .. 68 Neapolitan.. • ....• •.• .. 102 .. 102 .. 102 .. 102 Roman ............... •• • . 106 .. 106 .. 106 .. 106 RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain ....••.• •••.1192 50 ..1200 ..1192 50 —12, - 0 Versailles, R.B•••• •••• •••• 655 .• 650 .. 655 .. 68 L.B•••••••••••• 410 . 412 50 .. 410 411 ,:, Ronen•• •••••••• .. —.1160 . 1165 ..1160 —1165 Rouen to Havre.... 9BO .. 982 50 •. 980 .. 982 50 Orleans • • 1325 —1335 ..1325 ..1335 Strasburg to Bale •....... 343 75 • • 245 .. 343 75 .. 345 Avignon to Marseilles.. —ll4O ..1140 ..1140 . 1140 Pordeaux to Teste •• .... —2 0 • • 239 .. 230 • • 232 50 Paris to Sceaux .—• • • • •••• 710 • • 710 .. 710 .. 710 RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, APRIL 3 St. Germain . .1190 ..1210 ..1190 —l2lO Versailles, R. 8...... .. 665 .. 657 50 .. 660 L. 8.. .......... 410 .. 412 50 .. 410 .. 412 50 Rouen.. •• ................1165 ..1170 ..1165 ..1167 50 Rouen to Havre ..• ........ 9 2 50 ~ 985 .. 977 50 .. 985 Orleans .•... ...• •• • ..• 133 f) ..1340 ..1327 50 ..1338 75 Strasburg to Dale— 343 75 .. 345 . • 343 75 .. 345 Avignon to Marseilles • • —.1140 — . 1152 50 ..1138 75 ..1152 50 Potts to sceatuc NEW PROJECTED RAILWA YS. (From the Gazette of last Evening.) RAILWAY DEPARTMENT, BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, MAncri 27,1845. Notice is hereby given, that the Board constituted by the Minute of the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade, for the transaction of railway business, having had. under consideration the under-mentioned railway schemes, have determined on reporting to Parliament in favour of the Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction, Chester and Birkenhead Extension, Blackburn and Preston — Alterations, Extensions, and Bran h, Coventry, Bedworth, and Nuneaton, Eastern Counties—Finsbury- Extension, Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, Lancaster and Carlisle—Deviation in parish of Kendal, Lancaster and Carlisle—Branch to Newcastle and Carlisle Railway, Lancaster and Carlisle—Scotforth to Slyne, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and North Shields—Tynemouth Extension and New-quay Branch, North Union Extension to the river Ribble. Sheffield and Rotherham—Branch to the Sheffield and Manchester Railway, Norwich and Brandon—Extension into Norwich, York and North Midland—Bridlington Branch ; against the Liverpool and Manchester—Paiuforth and Liverpool Branch, Chester and Preston Brook, Eastern Counties—Thames Junction and North Woolwich Great North of England—Clarence and Hartlepool Junc tion—Extension and Branches, Grand Junction—Friar's Park to Dudley Branch, London and Gravesend, via North Woolwich; and recommending the postponement until a future period of the Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, Southport and Euxton, Preston Brook and Runcorn Junction, Epping, Grand Junction—Potteries Branch. DALHOUSIE. C. W. PASLEY. G. R. PORTER. D. O'BRIEN. ISLINGTON PARISH, ADJOURNED MEETING. ELECTION OF TRUSTEES. The rate-payers of this parish held an adjourned meeting last evening, in the Parish Church, for the pur po,e stated by the Vestry-clerk, namely to declare the names of the trustees who had been elected to serve for the next three years. The Vestry-clerk read the notice, which set forth that certain " meetings were to be held on certain days, for the purpose of a ballot taking place, by which to elect the trust( es for the ensuing three years, and that the result of the said ballot was to be declared at an ad journrd meeting to be held in the Parish Church, on Friday evening, the 28th inst., at six o'clock." The CnuncuWARDEN then read the list of names, and the number who had voted for each, and then declared the names of those who had the majority of votes, and were consequently elected; whereupon Mr. EDE observed that those were the same old clique agiin, and that they were, in fact, sll nominated by themselves.—(Loud cries of " No, no.") The CHURCHWARDEN then put the question, " That this meeting do now adjourn," which was met by ex pressions of strong dissent from different parts of the church ; and amidst which the Churchwarden and Ves try-clerk left their places ; and while they were in the act of doing so, Mr. RAE exclaimed—l call on the trustees to refund the—(Loud cries of "Certainly net," and clamour). Mr. Rae was then understood to say he would follow up the prosecution of which he had given notice in the fol lowing letter : "Newington Green, March 27, 1845. " Sir,—ln consequence of the trustees of Islington parish having admitted at the vestry meeting, last Tues day, that they had paid the damages and costs in the action brought by James Elliot against Allen and ethers, amounting to 9001., out of the rates raised for the relief of the poor of that parish, which is clearly an improper application of the parish money—and of their having determined to persist in such proceeding, although it was at such meeting objected to by myself and several other rate-payers--I beg to inform you, that unless you, on their behalf, state publicly at the vestry meeting, on next Friday evening, that the trustees will restore the money so illegally applied, I shall at once (on behalf of myself and the other rate-payers) file a bill in Chancery against them for a breach of trust, and, in that case, I will thank you to give me the name of the gentleman the trustees wish should be made defendant under the 27th section of the Local Act, and also to inform me if you will accept service of subpcena. " I am, Sir, your obedient servant, "J. J. RAE." " To Robt. Oldershaw, Esq., Vestry Clerk, Islington." Soon after the disappearance of the Churchwarden and Vestry-clerk, the , rate-payers left, Mr. Rae announcing that he would persevere. MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.—The number of deaths during the week, ending Saturday, March 22, was 1,197, exceeding the average by 158, and that of the previous, week• by 128. The excess is still chiefly among diseases of the lungs and other organs of respi ration, chiefly bronchitis, asthma, and consumption. Violent deaths, also, are very numerous, amounting to not less than 42, of which 16 were from burns and scalds, 3 from poison, and 4 from suicide. The deaths from small-pox occurred at the following ages .—six under 1 year ; eight 1-3 ; ' three 3-5 ; fi ve 5-10 ; one 12 ; four 20-30 ; and one 0 years. MINISTERS AND THE FACTORI ES ' BILL.----We learn from very good authority that it is not the intention of Ministers to oppose Lord Ashley's Bill for diminishing the hours of labour of children, and young persons em bcealatsuer mAar.r,blAeloboanst ployed in factories.—Church and state Gazette. FIE J. L I D OY S. A — L O I n ,O I N v D cd o n N es O da P y nT ia II s A tLaMI was erected to the from the chisel of Weekes, the successor of the Cunningham Saunders, Esq., lateme mory S o i Sir Francis tlielate C j l e ta b n n t rey-, in the principal room of this institution, on which occa sion a dinner took place, whi c h was attended by the medical officers of the institution and about 20 gentlemen, members of the Committee. Mr. Saunders, whose name is probably little remembered now, except by his con temporaries in the medical profession and a yearly lessen ing circle of warmly attached friends, was the founder of the institution, the parent of all others of the same description, which was opened to the public on the 25th March, 1805. He died sho r tl y afterwards, and was denied the satisfaction of witnessin g th e prosper i ty of this his favourite offspring. A f t , w , of his early friends presented his bust to the institution, as a tribute of respect to his memory. The justness of ta s t e an d b eauty of execution displayed by the scu l ptor el i c i ted from the company N Dp ur Ar bpublicity the iß3,A,piEnthe tc warmesti expressio ns o f appi oval. rumourl h as ga i ne d very exten sivetmore particula r ly amongst those engaged in the India trade —that th e we ll-k nown house of Evrington and Graham, whOse extensive deal ings in the Eastern markets have obtained for them a high name, had removed to other premises. It is but justice to those gentlemen to state that such is not the fact, the more particularly as premises have been opened in the immediate neighbourhood, the title of which stablishment has a tendency to mislead the public. CUSTOMS' SEtzuaEs : —A9 order has been issued by the Ctratoms authorities !nth reference to th e p ract i ce ;Dods which hhas have preva beeniledofseng overtime g oo d s (b e i ng dallowed by the owners to remain in the baggage warehouses, &c., without being cleared beyond the time allowed by law) when rummaged for sale at the Queen's warehouse and the several docks, on the ground of illegality of importation, or for not having been included in the report of the master of the vessel at the time the goods were imported; that such goods, if not detained by the officers at the time of land ing', are not subsequently to be placed under seizare, but sold for payment of the duties, and dock, or other charges, and the overplus (if any) paid to the importer or proprietor of the goods, in conformity with the pro visions of the 17th and 25th sections of the Act of 3d of William IV., chap. 52, and the 14th section of the Act of the 3d and 4th of William IV., chap. 57 ; and direc tions to that effect have been given to the several depart ments accordingly. At the meeting of the Proprietors of the South Sea Company, the report of the Directors appeared to give general satisfaction, and was agreed to nenz. con. The abolition of the duty on glass, and reduction of that. upon sugar and other articles of consumption, will have the effect of dispensing with msny officers of the excise department, but they will be entitled to half-pay on retirement. Letters to this effect have been addressed to the excite districts in Ireland, from the London Board. The beautiful steam-yacht Black Eagle, Master Com. mender B. Cook, is ordered from Woolwich to Ports mouth, with a view, it is said, of conveying her Majesty and Prince Albert to the Isle of Wight. The Ten Town s ' M essenger , a Kidderminster paper of High Tory politics, contains an announcement that the paper is for sale by auction. Toryism seems at a discount in he Midland Districts. On Thursday morning several of the battalions of the household infantry, for the first time this season, commenced field -day exercise in Hyde Park. The first and second regiments of Life Guards will also commence theirs on Wormwood Scrubbs in a few days, for the purpose of drilling recruits to their proper exercise, pre paratory to several grand reviews. DIFFICULTIES OF DIFFERENTIAL DUTIES.—The new sugar duties, which were intended to come into operation on Friday, the 14th inst., through some blunder in the wording of the resolutions, were not permitted to take effect until Saturday; upon which day several par cels were taken out of bond in this town. The work of legislation, however, seems to have been somewhat fragile; —Sir Robert Peel and his colleagues being evidently no ,grocers. So mysterious are the definitions and descrip tions of the different qualities of clayed, muscovado, raw and refined, that not a Custom house officer in the town was capable of saying what amount of duty was required to be paid upon the samples pre sented to them ; and, on packets being forwarded to Liverpool, with a request for aid and counsel, the answer returned was that the authorities there were in precisely the same predicament, and had been com pelled to send off to London for instructions. This ap pears to us to be but a commencement of difficulties The question that has arisen, and which has been set at rest for the moment by directions to take the lowest rate on the particular sorts submitted for decision, is a mere trifle to some that are likely to be mooted.—Preston Chronicle. EXECUTION OF JOHN TA WELL. AYLESBURY, FRIDAY MORNING It having become known in London, and in the districts around Aylesbury, that this morning the wretched criminal Tawell was to expiate on the gallows hia dreadful crime, a large number of persons flowed into the town the evening before. The London down-trains were more crowded than usual, and besides a considerable number of representatives from the metropolitan press, he who was to perform the last office for the prisoner—the executioner Cal craft, came down also. There was nothing in the appearance of the town yesterday evening to indicate that an execution—and one, too, which has raised so much excitement in the public mind—was about to take place, save that it was somewhat more crowded than ordinary. The reporters for the London press, immediately on arriving at Aylesbury, called upon Mr. Sherriff, the Governor of the County Hall, who handed them the letter of Mr. Sub-Sheriff Tindal, nephew of the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, informing them that none but those officially concerned would be admitted into the Hall. A letter was forthwith addressed to Mr. Tindal, remonstrating on so un usual a course, but the reply was, "No answer." After a lapse, however of some three hours, Mr. Tindal wrote, stating that the reporters seemed to misappre hend the scope of his letter to the governor ; that it was not intended to exclude the reporters " per' sonally," but that all persons not officially concerned were to be excluded. Another communication was forwarded to Mr. Tindal, in reply to which he stated, " I have no other answer to give than that addressed to you and your colleagues, and you must consider that as conclusive against all persons not officially concerned I am acting simply in the performance of my duty, and of the direc tions given by my superior, which I intend strictly to di: charge, irrespective of all consequences." With this answer a verbal message had been sent, " that Mr. Acton Tindall had locked up his house for the night." Thus the reporters, and consequently the public, are excluded from that which to them personally would be but a painful and distressing duty—namely, witnessing the conduct and behaviour of the unfortunate criminal at his last moments. But the public will expect and ought to know all those things, and on public grounds the execution of a great criminal should not be left to a few officials. Mr. Ewing, an artist from Nottingham, who came to town for the purpose of taking a cast of Tawell's head, was refused a similar request. It seems to be the opinion that Mr. Sub-Sheriff Tindal is de sirous of sparing as much as possible the feelings of the culprit, but though one can appreciate such feel ings, it is not easy to find any reason for making an exception in this case. The prisoner also has been allowed several privileges in the prison, which have been refused to others under similar circumstances, on account of his excellent conduct since his con viction. At an early hour this morning, about five o'clock, the drop, from which the prisoner was to be sus pended, was arranged ; and even at that early hour there were persons anxiously looking on. Every moment the crowd was augmenting. Numbers of persons had come in from the country about seven o'clock, and they were not at all confined to the lower orders. Several most respectable persons were trooping in at all points of the town, and notwith standing the badness of the morning several hundreds of persons were congregated before the County Hall, in front of which the drop was placed, shortly after seven o'clock. The County Hall is rather a low structure, built in a low situation, in front of which the ground rises gradually, and as there is a large open space before it, in which the market is held, it was calculated to afford a most excellent view to the spectators, who, as the fatal hour approached, manifested intense expecta tion and anxiety. There could not have been less than between 4,000 and 5,000 persons, present at the time of the execution, and amongst them were several respectable-looking females. The large space in front of the gaol was well nigh filled. Before the large window in front of the gaol was a balcony, within which the drop was erected, the lower part of which was curtained. There were placards carried about in several parts of the crowd, announcing, in large letters, "A Full Account of the Last Moments of John Tawell," which could not fail to be seen by the miserable man. THE EXECUTION. The hour announced for execution was eight o'clock, but about a quarter of an hour before eight a sudden motion of the crowd showed that the moment had come—the last fatal moment when the prisoner was to be launched into eternity, to meet his Creator. It was an awful movement, that move ment of the crowd. The most intense silence pre vailed—not a word escaped after the crowd had said "He is coming." The wretched man was greatly moved when he saw the crowd ; he trembled ex ceedingly, and was scarcely able to stand as he stepped on the platform under the drop. Calcraft, the executioner, and one of the turnkeys led him out of the goal, and Mr. Sheriff, the Governor, stood immediately behind him. The nightcap having been immediately drawn over him, he knelt down to pray, which he did with the most apparent fervour. After he had been praying for about a minute or a minute and a half he was assisted to rise by Calcraft, who proceeded to place the rope round his neck. Here, however, there seemed to be an un necessary delay, which might have been avoided by a little forethought. There being no chain from the cross beam from which to fix the other end of the rope, a considerable time clasped between the rope being placed round his neck and the tying it to the cross beam, at which considerable dissatisfaction was manifested by the spectators. Calcraft made taco or three turns of the rope before it was properly and firmly fixed to the beam. This performed, the drop fell, and the wretched man became at once violently convulsed and his whole frame quivered—his arms and legs contracted—they fell again —were again contracted —fell again, again contracted—and he hung a mo tionless corpse, save that he oscillated to the motion of the wind, which was blowing strongly at the time. Probably five minutes elapsed between the appear ance of the criminal and his death. Some say more, some less ; but five minutes was about the time. From the first his hands were tightly bound to gether, and he kept his fingers locked in each other as if he still prayed, and had his mind directed to wards heaven in spite of his bodily suffering. II was expected that the wretched man would be re ceived with groans and execrations by the crowd, but we are pleased to be able to say that no such dis graceful proceeding took place. On the contrary, a most decorous and becoming silence was observed, and not a word escaped to distract him in his last moments. This conduct of the people is highly creditable to them, and contrasts most favourably with the behaviour of the crowds who assemble at Newgate on similar occasions. The body was allowed to hang for an hour, and was then taken, but not cut, down. He was executed in the Quaker's dress. The body was immediately interred in the precincts of the gaol, though up to last night his friends had hopes, from the strong applica tions that were made on the subject, that his body would be delivered up to them—the grave, however, was dug two days ago. TAWELL'S CONFESSION. In consequence of the exclusion of the reporters we entirely depend on the liberty allowed to Mr. Sheriff of stating what took place previous to the ' execution. Mr. Sheriff Las throughout shown the greatest courtesy to the gentlemen of the press, as far as the latitude allowed him ex tended, and the following particulars from him may be relied on. It appears that Tawell drew up a confession some days since, of which he made a copy at a quarter before five o'clock this morning. This statement he placed in the hands of the Rev. Mr. Cox, the chaplain, which he begged of that gentleman to keep, but said that he had no objection to the substance of it being made known to the public. The statement will be so far satisfactory to the public that it takes away all doubt as to the guilt of the deceased. He confessed that he was guilty of the murder of Sarah Hart, and also that he was guilty of the attempt to murder her on the previous occasion, in September last, as stated on the trial, He also confessed that he did not commit the murder from pecuniary motives, but from the dread that the relation in which he stood towards Sarah Hart would transpire and come to the ears of his wife. The following brief statement of the manner in which Tawell conducted himself was handed to us by Mr. Sherriff— " John Tawell passed the whole night Kith almost unabated firmness, only giving way to a few tears, and emotion occasionally. He listened with be coming attention to many portions of Scripture, and read many himself, joining with propriety in observa tions arising from them, and not only did he listen to and unite in the prayers which were offered for him, but he several times retired into his sleeping cell, and, falling on his knees, prayed aloud and most fervently and penitently. His firmness never forsook him to the last." Mr. Sherriff stated that the prisoner made a hearty tea last night with the chaplain. He took breakfast at three o'clock this morning ; after which, he asked of Mr. Sherriff if he might go to bed for a short time, desiring, if he fell asleep, not to be allowed to con tinue in that state after five o'clock. He 'fell into a profound sleep, which lasted about half an hour. He then awoke, and dressed himself. He desired Mr. Sheriff to leave a few shillings to some of the pri soners, and made a few trifling memorandums. The following letter, addressed by the prisoner to Mr. Sheriff, will be read with interest, and is highly creditable to Mr. Sherriff. Ile had written it some days ago, but made a fresh copy, which he gave to Mr. Sherriff at five o'clock this morning. The letter indicates a good deal of gratitude on the part of the prisoner, and though written only a few hours before his execution, it is astonishing with what a bold hand it must have been written, for the characters exhi bited no weakness of nerve whatever. "Aylesbury, March 28, 1845. " Dear and worthy Friend, Mr. Sherriff—lt is not less my duty than great pleasure, as well as from feelings of deep and sincere gratitude, that I can thus offer my poor but unqualified thanks to both thyself and poor Mrs. Sherriff for the continued and :narked kind attention which has been shown so uniformly to myself and my dear and valuable family and friends since my unfortunate confinement in this prison, by allowing us all the access which urbanity and philan throphy could suggest, under such circumstances, to the participators in this their severe affliction. "And now their deeply distressing probation is nearly concluded, I have to desire that this may be accepted as the most grateful acknowledgment, both on account of myself and them. " I can, for myself, desire that the Divine blessing may largely rest on thyself, and Mrs. Sherriff, and your family; and my own valuable family will last ingly have to re-echo this poor but sincere benedic tion of thy faithful but afflicted friend, "JOHN TAWELL." This letter was superscribed " Mr. Sherriff, Aylesbury," with the words " From J. Tawell, March 25, 1845," in the corner—the date being altered in the body of the letter. During the whole time that the body was suspended, the crowd manifested no desire to retire, and had even increased considerably, the execution having taken place earlier than was expected— earlier even than was announced. The body pre sented a very livid appearance, and the swelling of the veins was visible from the ground. When the body was taken in, the spectators began to disperse gradually, but only to talk over what they had seen. In a short time the Market-place presented its usual appearance, and nothing remained to indicate that an awful lesson had just been read to humanity._ There were even some persons who amused themselves in scrambling for some papers that were thrown amongst them. Men were "turning a penny" by the sale of " the ex ecution of John Tawell this morning ;" but a scene was presented which will not soon escape from the memory of the inhabitants of Aylesbury. As a proof of the interest which this execution excited be yond even the neighbourhood, we may mention that there were representatives from some of the Liver pool and Manchester papers present at it, and where ever the up-trains stopped inquiries were made re specting " the doings" at Aylesbury. We might close here, but it may not be out of place to make a few remarks on the extraordinary character of John Tawell. The annals of crime may furnish more atrocious criminals, but there was that in the organisation or mental constitution of this man, which distinguishes him from all others. his Live of a good reputation, which all men are anxious to preserve unstained, seemed to him so valuable, that he stopped at no crime to uphold it. He seemed so careful of what appeared to be valuable, that he shrunk from no deed however really criminal. Ile distributed money in charity with the very hand that but a moment before attempted murder, and actually committed it that he might not be considered un faithful. lie was a forger twice, and we may say a murderer twice • and yet this ma n , after his forgeries, had conducted himself so well that he obtained his liberation, and, for sixteen years, pursued a long and prosperous course of trade, by which he obtained ample wealth. Respected in the colony by his fellow-townsmen, he returned to England, where he became respected, if not liked, and obtained in marriage an excellent and amiable woman, whose situation all must deplore, and to save whose feelings he committed a deed which has plunged her in the deepest misery. In whatever point of view his character is beheld the most glaring contradictions stare us in the face. We only know that in him the desire of being thought good, which argues the possession of goodness to a certain extent, was strongly blended with carelessness of the com mission of crime and its dreadful consequences —that he was a man of violent and irrepressible passions, with all the exterior of the quietiest, and one whose conscience was at ease; and we leave to the psychologist and the mental anatomist the reconcilia tion of those inconsistent qualities of his mind. There can be no doubt that he furnishes an ex ample of hypocrisy, a parallel for which would in vain be sought for in the criminal annals of any country. An Italian, writing the epitaph of Pietro Arretino, said that he abused everybody except God, and did not abuse him only because he did not know him. Might it not, with equal justice, be said of Tawell, that he b e t raye d every one except God —and let us hope that at least he has not betrayed him in his last hour, but that his penitence was sincere as his conduct was exemplary, and that he, upon wh om the world has closed this morni ng , will receive that favour in the sight of heaven which law and justice made it impossible could be extended to him on earth. It will be seen from the following letter written by the Under-Sheriff to the 'paler, that all persons not officially concerned were excluded from the County Hall cn the occassion of the execution. " TO JAMES SHERRIFF, ESQ., GOVERNOR OF THE COUNTY GOAL. • " Aylesbury, March 27, 1845. " Dear Sir,—l saw the High Sheriff yesterday in London, and consulted him upon the application which had been made to him by persons desirous of being ad mitted to the County Hall, on the occassion of the exe- cation to-morrow, and I am directed by him to give strict orders that no persons whatever (except thos2 officially concerned) be admitted to the hall; but he de- sires me to say that you may exercise your discretion after the execution in giving such particUlars to the porters of the public press as you may think proper. " I am yours faithfully, " ACTON TINDAL. The following facts and corrections of some few errors which have gained currency, relating to the past life of John Tawell, our informant has obtained from a gentleman who was on the medical staff at Sydney': and who resided there at the period to which they refer : Great stress has been laid (in order to show the sin cerity of Tawell as a teetotaller) about his having, in the year 1836, caused the contents of seven hogsheads of rum and gin to be emptied into Sydney Cove, amounting to 608 gallons, and worth 1001. Our in- „ formant, who wasat Sydney at the time, and wit nessed this ” tremendous sacrifice of property," states thlt the contents of only two small barrels, said to be rum or gin, were thrown away, and that the quan tity, at the utmost, did not exceed 50 or 60 gallons. This affair was spoken of afterwards at the table of the gover- • a•Mrligair nor, in the presence of our informant, and the Pre ;° c o , opinion, at the time, both there and throughout the..k, luny was, that it was merely done for effect, for the of notoriety, and to endeavour to gain the favour 'N , ue tain influential persons in th e co l on y. The ruse, ~"0 0, ever, was clearly seen through, and the Quaker too" e i thing by his motion. At thi s ti me T a w e ll had reto r 4l to Sydney from England (long after he had receive ( ' free pardon, of course) on a trading visit. , tis l A report has lately been circulated i n Engitul - 0 Tawell, shortly after he arrived the first time at SYr ee • (to undergo his sentence of transportation), hod, 0 0 whipped through the town for stealing a watch to , of the convicts. This is not true ; had it been t?!, • cumstance would have prevented him ever obtatowe ticket of leave, much more a free pardon. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NE (From The Sun of Last Night.) w aif The was a quiet market for Cotton at Liverpool tet o leo and prices had rather a downward tendency. . l e, e 40) were all to the trade, and amounted to 3,000 bales, v' l "gr Egyptian at 61d..jt0 sid. ; 100 Pernam at Sid. to 6d.; luvol, ranham at 4id. to 51,-cl.; 100 Bahia at 54d. ; 120 Surat At s o to 3d. ; end the rest American at 3ial to Sid per lb. Ther s o. a good demand_for Railway Stock, and prices vier s o _ s l it Aberdeen Railway 665. 3d. 3% ; Ba rns l e y J u nction, 77A chs e Ditto, Half Shares, 68s. 6d. 68s. 9d. ; Birkenhead, A 1 51 1 , 324 ter, and Cheshire, 9% ; Birmingham and Gloucester, L K , 134 ; Ditto, New Shares, 34. 13s. 6d ; Blackburn, line 4 and Accrington, 6/. 18s. 9d. 6% ; Blackburn, 1: 1 ;tra re1 110 Bolton, 4% • Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, I ° oer Caledonian, A ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 6% 7%; Gh P and Birkenhead, 46 1 /, ; Ditto, New Shares, 38% D ; , s ed Half Shares, 23% 1 / 2 - ; Churnet Valley, 7 7A ; ( neer Bandon, 41., 78s. 93. ; Dublin and Belfa s t Junction, 7; v der dalk and Enniskillen, 2%; Eastern Counties, 21%; - "'v e o' burgh and Glasgow, Quarter Shares, 15 1 4 ; Ditto, ",idr, Quarter. shares, 5% ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Gre en prr 18 1 / 5 / 8 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 9% ; Ditto, ~It y , ference Shares, 425. ex div. • Grand Junction , 2 14111 Ditto, One-eighth Shares, 18 1 18% ; Great ' s ed of England, 30/. Shares, 22%; Great Souther/160 Western, 15 1 4 ; Ditto Extension, 10% ; Els; Western, Fifth Shares, 40%; Goole and Doncast er ' s Hull and Selby, Half Shares, 22% %; Jamaica , :', ; Lancaster and Carlisle, 36 ; Lancaster and Preston , „,f o r Ditto, Three-quarter Shares, 32 3 4 ; Limerick and v"' 6 ,1,; ford, 4% 4% ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 3% 76 14 1 / 2 ; London and Birmingham, 233; Ditto, 32/. Shares' te rif, Ditto, Quarter Shares, 31% 5 8; London and South-W3'es,,t ; 79 80 ; London and York, 3% ; Direct Northern, 4A ' OOO ,. Leeds and Thirsk, 3 1 / 2 ; Leeds and West Riding Ploy 6% ; Manchester and Birmingham, New Shares, 575; Ditto Chester and Buxton, 2%; Manchester and Leeds, 1 47 ; 4 01.' Quarter Shares, 19% ; Midland Railway, 145 146 Shares, 15% 16 ; Ditto, Consolidated 13irminght n i , ; r a tt Derby, 110 113 1 /, ; Newark and Sheffield, 4%; s o rtll British, 17% ; Ditto, Half Shares, 4% 1 ./ ; N e rll l Wales Mineral, 13%; Ditto, New Shares, sq) , f ah Wales, 2%; Oxford, Worcester, and Woh-erhaln i s itt e, I/. 16s. ; Sheffield and Manchester, 113% 113 ; 566 0„; Quarter Shares, 13% 13% ; Sheffield and Lincoln, 11 . 4 re ee' Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and Birmingham, 5 ; °"..„,, t ett bury, Oswestry, and Chester, 4% 4/. 3s. 6d. ; Soutli-x , li re it ;Ditto' so and Dover, 42 3 4 % ; Ditto, New Shares, No. 3,3% ; ,Der Yorkshire, 3%; Austrian and Sardinian, 4s. ss. Pren l ':,d e so Beaux and Toulouse, Mackenzie's Co., 2% ; ",.., ° ,400 and Cette, 2% 21. 13s. 6d. ; Lyons and Avignon (r ,l3 e,t ; 31. Os. 6d. 3/. Is. 6d ; Northern of France (English) , V;is Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux (English), 11/, Is. 3 d•;. s sna and Lyons, Laffitte's (English), 31. 3/. Bs. 63. ; P srl oo,) ; St. Quentin, 2% 4 Tours and Nantes, (Mackenzie s 31. 3% ; Verona and Ancona, 17s. 6d. 18s. t W I The financial operations of the Dutch Governmen t .tint been very numerous of late, and it may be irateell is; perhaps to ascertain what it has all result, nerd. A pmject of law was adopted by the States-401 of Holland for effecting a reduction of 35, ,,,yeig, florins placed to the charge of the N a ti on al Debt, i11, t ,,,'"•,,e5 . ° 1 1844. The account of the negotiati on o f the 80 re , " - 13e1- florins, of Two-and-a-Half per Cents., chargeable 0 of, t gium, states that only 6,430,000 flo r i ns w ere dispe r sed the rest being taken by Messrs. Rothschil a ,,' s , bi amounting to 155,765,000 f., at 60 per cent. ITree means cf 80 millions of florins, a capital of 86 millions l _°xed and-a-Half per Cents. was reimbursed, and the State red' adifference of 44,000,000 florins by the operation. n^ls lk ci,v7,,,, ONE PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. 11l 99, 3 per Cent. Consols Consols for Account.... .„ 59 Exchequer Bills, 1,000/., 1 1 4c1 57 59 57 r: 59 Ditto 500/. . Ditto Small Ditto Advertised - Pe 3 ' a 41 59 01 0 O. ONE PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. .., i Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent........... 103% 103 l 5 lB Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela. 15% Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 36% 36 1611 Ditto, Deferred 16% 17 ..-- Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents 32% 8 ,9 Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto, Converted 65 : ?4,4 Ditto, Account 66 / 2 ..- , Russian Bonds ••• li7 1163 3 3 0 0 Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto Account Ditto, Passive - Ditto 3 per Cent. Belgian Bonds, 434 per Cent - ...-• Dutch, 2 1 4 per Cent - T O Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 99 % 14 0,0,-I's. PRICES OF PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK . pla ,, B.IILWAY SHARES Aberdeen Armagh, Coleraine, and 1' ' Portrush l% - .. ............ .„ Birming. and Gloucesterloo Do. New Ditto % Shares Bristol and Exeter 7O - ... .. ......... Ditto New Calodonian Cam bridge and Lincoln 1% 6% 74- Chester and Holyhead... 5 Churnet Valley Cornwall 4: e , s 4YR Direct Northern %. Dublin and Belfast June. 2/! 7l (Ai 8 7'A.... Eastern Counties 25 21% 3 / 4 1 A ...... Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, IN o. 1....41. 13s. 4d ••• ........... Eastern Union lO .. • Ditto Extension Ely and Bedford Great South. and West (Ireland) Ditto Extension Great Northof England..loo Ditto New Great Western 80 ......17914 10054 .180 1 ,4 1 , !: Ditto % Sharesso Ditto Fifths Guildford, Farn'm,Ports. 2 1 / 2 Harwich Hull and Selby Ditto Quarter Shares 12 1 /. 2 — .. .............. Do. Half Shares Kentish Coast l% . 2 ............ Lancaster and Carlisle... 15 Lincoln, York, and Leeds 1% 1 . .............. London and Birminghm (St o ck) 233 ............... Do. Quarters 2 -,— ............... London and Blackwall. 161. 13 s. 4d ............... London and Brighton... 50 ..., 63 62%% ••••'' London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d 17 1 / 2 ............ London and Greenwich 12l 15s 4d 11 ............... London and S. Western 41/6 3 10d 79% . . ......... Do. New Lynn .............. Londonand and York ... 2% ..... 3100/ 8 ......... Ely Manchester and Birmin. 40 Do. Quarters 4 Midland 100 .....• 1 5 4 97 4 6:1 14 .5 / 8 . 6 . ....................................... Do. New Midland, Birm., Derby 100 lll 110% ...... Newcastle and Darling ton Junction 24 ...... 46 1 h 47 •••••••"'" Newras:le and Berwick 1 1 /,...... 14 1 A 13 3 / 4 ••••••••• Newark and Sheffield North British Do. New Northern and Eastern... 45 North Wales ........ .. .. •.. .... Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1 .... s 4 ............. •• Scottish Midland 1 I /1 •• •• • • 2% 1 /, ............ Shrews., Wolverhamp , Dudley, and Birin...„ 2%. .... 4% 5% ••••• ..South Devon,.... South Easter:, & D over 33l 2s 4d — ....... ... .... Do., No. 3 Stalnes and Richmond... 1 South Wales 2%...... 6 5% 6% 8 .•••'• Trent Valley 2 ... 16 3 •••• Waterford and Kilkenny 1 ..,... 3% •• '' West Cornwall 1%... 4% ..., Yarmouth and N orw i c h . 20 Ditto, New 8 York and North Midland 50 Do. Extension FRENCH RAILWAYS Boulogne and A miens... 4 Bordeaux and Toulouse 2 Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Great North. of France.. 4 Orleans and Vierzon ... 2 ...... 17% 1812 ••••—••• Orleans and Bordeaux... 2 Paris & Lyons, Laffitte's 9 Paris and Lyons, Gan- , neron's, Paris & Lyons, (Calon's) 2 Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen - Paris and Stra s bo urg ... 2 Strasbourg and Bale ... 14 Tours aniNantes, Mac kenzie's 2 Ditto, ditto, Lefebvres... 2 JOINT STOCK BANKS. ...- .oe4 London & Westminster. 20 MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, i‘LARcn 27-- it . sbar-,.,. are :—Eastern Counties, 21 3 4 ; Hull and Selby, kt ne hest: 22; London and Birmingham, 32/. Shares, 43; 4 _ i Ti 0 ,1 0 ,." and Birmingham, 57 1 ,4 ex new an ex (ly. ,•_ ~.' .. e udr: Quarters, 5% prem. ; Manchester, Bury, and ''.,'t % ' 1.5% ; Midland Railway Consols, 401. Shares, " , 1 , ,t1y North Union (B), 88 ; Preston and Wyre, 3:3„,‘3,,,;tres a ~ I! Eastern, 42% ex div. ; B arns l ey J unet i on, Half ''" . DIA Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction, 914. • 0 , , to burn, Burnley, and Accrington, 6% ; Bolton, , ~'grpe t Liverpool, 10% ,/ 3 ; Cambridge and Li nco ln, 7 1 4 'A ; Chu A O r Valley, 7% ; Ely and Bedford, 1%; Huddersfie:id an d u erw ere• chaster Railway and Canal, 3 3K ; Kendal ar.d I ;Vir ; , e rpt ,Y 9 ' 4% %; Leeds and West Riding Junctior. 6% ; -- i c i,4 1 ,4; Ormskirk, and Preston, 3% ; Newark and. SheffiL id isadt North Wales, 565. • Scottish Central, 54,4 ; Scottish a"Z br ef' 2%; Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junct:ion, 255. 24s..i i .f.i j etli bury, Oswestry, and Chest e r Junction, 84s. ; Great No of France (English), 6%. DA V COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—(PESTER ~... Amsterdam CF. 12 8A Gibraltar..., •••••••" si Ditto, at sight l2 6 1 1 ,-. Leghorn ......•••••••• 2 6 2 0 Rotterdam 2U. 12 9 Genoa ..... .... ......... .... Antwerp Hamburgh M.B. 14 0 Venice ..... ..... ... ..... 3 91 Aitona — Naples ..... .. 1181 Paris, 3 days' sight... 25 95 Palerm o , , ie , 0z... ••• Ditto, 3 , ziontlis 26 15 Marseilles Bonrdeaux Frankfort on Maine 122/ Petersburgh, 3Us — Berlin Oporto.. ... . ... • .... .. .. ... .. Rio Jarnlio .••••...Bahia . ....... -.- Buenos y 4 ......... New Yolk •J?dyssight Vienna, etTec. 11.3 M lO 4 Trieste, ditto Madrid 36i Cadiz Pilban Barcelona Seville Philad.2i:4l;tl ......... PRWKS :;r BULLION, Foreign bars. . 0 .h 5 Portoga' q , ,ki Coin 3 0 New PoubL)otts..... 0 0 91 New z. D" ......... 0 , ioi ! ' .1 4 . 1 . 7 rer in ban ...... 0 ii i is re.s..e.rery 0 NI e o a Peasratioini°- 11 ,,ithPr the dee' isi 'Jody. II Would ge The indispo: Brodie t The tne ca, , 739' 14 01 16 11 2 0 1801/‘1 ----,/ lai 9 ....- lli 90 3/ 31 / 1 637, 5 roi ~6 10 , 4 Th Pecot Aide Jo] place alone , omi been 30,1 Assaf C'ea go he lie