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a E NEW WORK ON NINEV EH. By the 11.4 v. J. P. FLETCHER, Illinister of St. Saviour's Church, Ilaverstock Including TRAVELS IN MESOPOTAMIA, ASSYRIA, &c. IS NOW READY AT ALL THE BOOKSELLERS. In 2 vols., post 8 vo., 215., bound. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Immediately, in 3 vols., SECOND EDITION of AIR. WARBURTON'S " REGINALD HASTINGS ;" AN HISTORICAL icOMANCE. OPINIONS OP THE PRESS. *. As an historical romancist Mr. Warburton takes a first wrangler's ary Gazette. " Reginald is a nigher approach to Scott's marvellous creations than we have read."—Critic. " In manliness of style and mastery of subject Mr. Warburton comes nearer to Sir Walter Scott than any writer of modern times." — Atlas. " The characters are delineated with admirable distinct ness."—John Bull. " Developed with wondrous power."--Bri tannla. "No historical tale of greater power has been written Race gir Walter Scott."—.Messenger. " The tattles are strikingly powerful, with a high military air."—Naval and Military Gazette. . Without losing one jot of historical accuracy, the work abounds with all the startling wildness of romance." —Morning Herald. Henry Colburu, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. [ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.' if _IL A , ;rand Classical, Dramatic, Miscellaneous Concerted lIIISICAL ENTERTAINMENT will be given early in the month of MAY, selected from the following admired authors :—Weber, Spohr, Purcell, M. Locke, Spontini, Paesiello. Meyerbeer, Cima rosa, Haydn, Beethoveh, Rossini, and embracing several highly interesting novelties. On this occasion will appear Madame Sontag, Mdlle. Parodi, Mdle. Giuliani, Miss Catherine Hayes. Mdlle. Ida Bertrand, and Madame Frezeolini ; Signori Calzorali, Sims Reeves, Baucarde, Coletti, Belletti, Lorenzo, and F. Lablacha. Herr %Muller and Signor Lablache, supported by all the Instrumental and Choral resources of the Theatre. The whole under the direction of Mr. Balfe. Amongst other novelties, Madame Sontag will bave the honour to sing the " Swiss Airs," by Eckert, and the variations on " Ah Yong dlrai-Je," by Adolphe Adam, as sung by her with the most enthusi astic success at the Concerts of the Grand Conservatoire of Paris ; 'ln addition to which will be presented a Trio for three Tenors, a Trio for three Basses, and a Trio for three Sopranos. • Full particulars will be shortly announced. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. GRAND EXTRA NIGHT. Comprising the talents of Madame Songtag, Signori Bancarde, Sims Reeves, Colettl, Belletti, and Lablache ; Mdlle. Carlotta. Grist, Marie Taglioni, and 3ldlle. Amapa Ferraris, Will take place THIS EVENING, When will be presented (for the first time this season) Be eele bratetl Opera. LA SONNAMIIIILI. amine, Madame Sontag ; Lisa, Mdlle. Malporate ; Count Ro diolpho, Signer Belletti ; Elvino, Mr. Sims Reeves (for this occasion only). In the course of the evening - will be presented (for the first time) a new and original Grand Pas do Trois (composed by M. Paul Teglioni, the Music by Signor Pugni). entitled LES GRACES, Euphrosine, Mdlle. Carlotta Grisi ; Thalia, Mdlle. Marie Taglioni ; Egle, Mdlie. Amatia Ferraris. After which selections from Rossini's celebrated Opera. GUGLIELMO TELL. Arnoldo, Signor Baucarde ; Guglielmo Tell, Signor Celetti; Walter, Signor Lablache. To conclude with the last scene of the admired Ice Ballet, by M. I'. Taglioni, entitled LES PLAISIRS DE L'HIVER ; ou, Les Patineure Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box Office of the Theatre. On Saturday next, May 4, will be presented Verdi's celebrated Opera, I Duo Foseari. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING A GRAND EXTRA NIGHT Will take place, on which occasion will be performed (for the first time this season) Meyerbeer's Grand Opera, LES HUGUENOTS. Valentina, Madame Grisi ; Margarita di Valois, Madame Cas tellan; Dama d'Onore, .Madlle. Cottl ; Urbano, Madile. de Merle ; the Iluguenot Soldier, Signor Lavia ; 11 Conti di San Bris, Signor Tagliafico ; II Conte di revers. M. Massol ; De Cosse, Signor Luigi • lei ; De Retz, Signor Polonini ; Meru, Signor Rommi ; liattrevert, Signo; Seidl ; Capitano della Guardia, Signor Talamo ; Marcelo; Herr Formes . ; and Baal di Nangis, Signor Mario. Composer, Director of the Music, and Conductor, Mr. Costa. The Doors will be opened at llalt-past Seven, and the performances commence at Eight o'clock precisely. Tickets for the Boxes, Stalls, or the Pit, may be had (for the night season), at tha Boa-office of the Theatre, which is op en from Ten 111 Five. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Positively the last appearances of the eminent comedlens, M. Samson and Widile.l)enain, and the second appearances of Mons. Regnier and Madlie. Nathalie. TO-MORROW EVENING The Performances will commence at Half-past Seven o'clock pre cisely, with lIEUR ET MALHEUR. After which (for the last time in this country) Scribe's ce'.ebrated Comedy, in Five acts, entitled • L, CAMARADERIE ; on, La Courte-Echelle. Le Comte de Miremont, M. Samson ; Bernardet, M. Regnier; Esarine, 3ladlle. Detrain; Zoe, Madlle. Nathalle. The itox-ottice of the Theatre is open daily from Eleven till F " lye Boxes and Stalls at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond street. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee has great pleasure in stating that the growing attraetion of the Gram" Easter Spectacle of the DEVIL'S RING, Together with the urgent recommendation from all quarters that it should be continued, has induced him to make such arrangements as will Meet the general wish, and supersede, for the present, the necessity of closing the Theatre. THIS EVENING, Will be presented. by her Majesty's Servants. The Tragedy of HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. James Anderson ; Ghost, Mr. Cooper ; Claudius, Mr. Diddear ; Polonius, Mr. Baker ; Gertrude, Mrs. Ternan; Ophelia, Miss F. Huddart. After which THE DEVIL'S RING ; or, Fire, Water, Earth, and. Air. In Three Acts and Four Elements. TNLEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. "Hl, EVENII,4I, Will be performed a new drama, called TILE YICAIt OF WAKEFIELD. Dr. Primrose, Mr. Webster ; Squire Thornhill, Mr. H. Vanden hod' ; Mr. Iturchill, Mr. Stuart ; Moses, Mr. Buckstone ; Mrs. Prim rose, Mrs. Keeley ; Olivia, Miss :Reynolds ; Lady Blarney, Miss Dorton; Miss Skeggs, Mrs. Fitzwilliam. To conclude with the Last Edition of IVANHOE, with all the newest improvements. Cedric the Saxon, Mr. .T. Bland ; Sir Briant de Bcre Gullbert,Mr Selby ; Sir Wilfrid of Ivanhoe, Mrs. Keeley; 19stubs, Mr. Buck ssone ; Isaac of York, Mr. Kee!cy; liobin Hood, Mrs. litzwilliam ; Bobecca, Miss P. Horton. The 'UAL-ana2 is under the direction of Mr. I. T. Archer. THEATRE ROYAL, .DELPHI. Under the direction (4 . l4:lda:lie Celeste. THIS EVENING, • Will be performcd the ccicbratesl Comeay of PAUL PRY. Harry Stanley, Mr. Boyce.; Witherton, Mr. Cullentiord ; Colonel Hardy, Mr. Lami , ert ; Paul Pry, Mr. Wright ; Eliza, Miss 11 . Coveney ; Mari an, 3F53 E. Ilard.ng ; Fticetie, Miss Woolgar. To be :ollowe.l by a grand historical Spectacle Vaudeville, entitled PLAYING FIRSP FIDDLE; or, Follow my Leader Principal Characters by Messrs. I'. Bedford, Lambert, Madame Celeste, Miss Vtoolgar, and Miss K. Fitzwilliarn. To conclude with MY PRECIOUS BETSY- Characters by Messrs. W:.g'ot, !Set:Joni, ‘Vorrell; Miss Harding, and Mrs. F. Matthews. ROYAL LYCEUM' THEATRE THIS EVENING Will Le performed CHARLES THE TWELFTH. To be followed by THE ISLAND OF JEWELS. Characters by .14e6;A:s. r'. Matthews and F. Coo%e; Madame Vestris, Miss Julia St. Geor.re, Miss Dickinson, Miss Kenworthy, Mrs. Macnamara, Miss Martindale. and Miss L Honner. lo con , hide with A PRACTICAL MAN. A'.! applications for Private Poxes mast be made to Mr. Allcrott 15, New Bond-street. 'Tito Box-otlice. wijoinlng the Theatre, in Wellington-street, is open daily from Tea to Six o'clock, under the superintendence of Mr. T. F. Bennett PRINCESS'S THEATRE. fi Po EVEN I NO, Will be repeated (la its complete form) Auber's Opera of - GUSTAVUS THE THIRD. Gustavus. Mr. W. Harrison; Oscar, Miss L. Pyne ; Ankastrom, Mr. Wetets nit, Mr. G. , ),trker ; He Horn, Mr. R. Latter; Christian, /fr. Wynn ; C,d.oitess Ankastrom, Jidile. Nan ; Arvedson, Madame Macfarren ; Principal Folie, Mdile. Celeste Stephan. After which a New Grand Talc of Enchantment, with splendid Scenery, Costumes, and Appointments; extensive Machinery, &c., entitled TILE QUEEN OF THE ROSES; or, The Sorcerer of Candahar. Principal characters by Messrs. Ryder, Forman, Money, Craven , Miss Louisa Howard, _thss Saunders, and Miss Villare. .ASTREY's ROYAL AIII'iIITHEATRE. rroprietor and Manager, Mr. w. Itatty. Triumphant success of the new gr..nd Easter Spectacle of Enchant ment.—Reappearonce of that extraordinary anu talented Artiste, Gardoni, on the Tight Rope. THIS EVESING The Entertainments will eommtnee at Seven o'clock, with Fitzhall's magnificent Spectacle, entitled THE k'OUR SONS OF AYMON ' • or The Days or Charlemagne. Trectucer., with great splendou r, and introducing the who e of the vast resources of this 'Establishment, includirg the beautiful Stud, tozether with the Camels, Zebras, &C.. &e. To be succee d, • • y the talented Male and Female Artists of the To conclude with the interesting Melodrama of MEG MURDOCK ; or, the Fatal Glen. Box•oftice open From Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. MGR WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tans DAY -- limning 20 min. after 5 I Evening 41 min. after 5 To-Moitßow—mn ; -"1. -- 4 I min. after 6 I Evening 25 min. after 6 TEIE WEATHER.— SUN OFFICE, MAY 2. TmiamomorEn. 48—highest since noon yesterday. 2 —lovest this morning and during the night. 46—this day, at noon. BAnomETEn, 30.2.6. WIND N.E.—light breeze and fine. A 1.................- f. -- G M ‘gVS: ---------- ....)`-.., - ' the 4 .9 2 ..at" ~„ Itilt A... ' '''''%).!;- .IML- . 0 , t .,/ •,_•,,,x:5 ~ , , W ) ,--- f p ... ' .* - •41 ,1, 7i- ---------0 --- ..., .--e • LSlj LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 2,,1850. We :lad fondly hoped that no such relic of the " good old times" had de scended to these da i s .. of economy and retrenchment as the case of the R Q bl- St:arship of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, alluded to by the Honourable Baronet the Member for Marvlebone on Tuesday evening, and again yesterday, in the House of Commons. Many similar instances formerly existed in our law courts, but steps were taken calculated ;a3 prevent their per petuation. The Lord of Southam is still in the en joyment of two snug pensions, bestowed upon him as cornpens ,, Cea for the abolition of sinecure offices to which he had been appointed by his father, when LorUChief Justice of the Queen's Bench. For one of these, having been chief clerk of the above court, his Lordship receives the small sum of 7,7001. per annum, or within 3001. of the sum allowed to the Lord Chief Justice, and 2,7001. more than is paid to any of the puisne judges, who are compelled to devote their entire time to the performance of their arduous and important duties. But this is not all. The same nobleman is also in receipt of the further sum of 1,0441. 183. Bd. as his share of the compensation for the office of Custos Brevium, which he held jointly with a brother peer, who, lixe himself, was so fortunate as to be the son of a former Chief Justice; and as 8,8441. 18.. Bd. would be quite inadequate fur services such as pia 'Lordship has been enabled to render to bis grate ful c ountry, he also receives a retiring pension as a Cable at Minister, President of the Board of Control. But t ge will pass away with this Noble Lord, and at ter Eis death it will no longer be remembered that IP rcE, things have been. We need not now allude Six Clerks' Compensation Bill, under which four gi !ntlemen receive no less than 30,0001. per annu ai„ with reversions to the surviving members of their : families fur seven years after their deaths. anwei ier rank these jobs, there is at least so me time when they will be brought to a termination. But the Ecclesiastical Courts ha ve hitherto escaped all notice. The Reformer's be lan has not yet penetrated into their snug recesses, an .d there are extravagant salaries and enormous sip secures still existing that exceed in iniquity any ti ling that prevailed in our legal or equitable tri te anals before an attempt was made to cleanse these eugean stables. Ex uno dine omnes—from one e sample learn the nature and character of some of :these well paid offices. There is, then, it appears, a situation denominated the Registrarship of the Canterbury Prerogative Court, the income of which, derived from fees and emoluments of various kinds, amount to the insignificant sum of 12,0001. sterling per annum. We have not been enabled to learn much of the duties required of the fortunate official. They cannot, however, be very arduous or irksome, as the present registrar (Mr. ROBERT IVIOORE) is enabled to hold a plurality of Church pre ferments therewith, and to be at the same time a prebendary of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury ! Rector of Latchington ! Rector of Henton !! ! both in the same diocese of Canterbury—and Regis trar of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury I ! ! ! From these various institutions this excellent gentleman receives no less than 14,9631. per annum, or 9621. more than the emoluments received by the Lord Chancellor of England, includ ing his salary as Speaker of the House of Lords, and 4631. per annum more than the aggre gate of the salaries received by the First Lord of the Treasury, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Pre sident of the Board of Trade, and the Postmaster- General, and within 371. of the salaries of the three principal Secretaries of State for the Home Depart ment, for Foreign Affairs, and for the Colonies. Or, to go to another country for an illustration, rather more than the amount paid by the American Re public to its President, Vice-President, Secretary of State, Secretary at War, Secretary of the Navy, Postmaster-General, Attorney-General, and Pay master-General 1I ! A case so extraordinary may well excite the public curiosity, and occasion a desire to know how it was that this Reverend Gentleman obtained such exceedingly comfortable situations; and whether there is a pros pect of any other or others succeeding to similar per quisites. We find, then, that the Archbishop of CANTERBURY for the time being has the power, whenever vacancies occur, of nominating one person to the office, and two others in succession to the reversion. When Arch bishop Mooav filled the archiepiscopal see of Canter bury, two vacancies occurred in the reversions, and, as it was too good a thing to be sent out of his own family, he appointed his two sons, Messrs. JOHN and Ro- BERT Dlooge to the vacancies. The elder brotherJonet came into the enjoyment of the emoluments of the office by the death of the then holder; when Dr. MANNERS SUTTON was Primate of all England, who nominated hisgrandson, the present LordCersrearwar, then a youth of 10 or 12 years of age, to the vacant reversion. In 1845 JOHN MOORE died, and ROBERT his brother became Registrar, and Dr. Howeer became entitled to present in accordance with former precedents. That pious and amiable Prelate, how ever, with a disinteredness that reflects the highest credit on his memory, refused to avail himself of the privilege. He felt that he could ,not con sistently with his high position act in a manner that would be so derogatory to the interests of the Establishment. He accordingly made a communication to the then Premier, and, subse quently it appears, to Lord JOHN RUSSELL, to the effect that he could not, in the conscientious discharge of his duty, fill up the vacant sinecure. His state ment was, however, disregarded, and no step was taken either for the abolition of the office or the re duction of the emoluments to something that might be considered a reasonable remuneration for the ser vices rt quired from the holder. Matters remained in this state until the death of that amiable prelate, when Dr. SUMNER, the then Bishop of Chester, was translated to the vacant see. The new Archbishop did not, however, consider himself bound to follow the bright example of his respected predecessor. It might easily have been stipulated that he should also forbear to fill up the office until Parliament should deal with the matter, but no such condition was made, and his son, a student at the Temple, was appointed to the reversion, which would eventually yield him an income higher than any which the greatest success in his future profession could pos. sibly bestow. There is however "many a slip twixt the cup and ip." The glittering prize, although almost within ,he young gentleman's grasp, may yet be beyond at- taiament, and his most reverend father may have brought discredit on his own high office, with but little advantage to the object of his favour. By a for tunate accident it was provided by the 9 and 10 Vic., c. 98, sec. 9, that any person who should after the passing of that Act be appointed to the office of " Judge Registrar, or other officer of any , cclesiastical court in England, should hold the same subject to all regulations and alterations that should be made by authority of Parliament; nor should any person by his appointment to any such office acquire any claim or titlu to compensation, in case the same should be thereafter altered or abo lished by Act of Parliament." After the exposure made by Sir I.3ENJAmIN lIALL and the blushing confession of the First Lord of the Treasury, who with shame acknowledged the luau; of his Ministry, it is certain that some l eg i s l at i ve enactment will speedily take place on the subject, by which not only the Registrarship of the Canterbury Prerogative Court, but all similar situations throughout the entire kingdom will be placed on a new foundation. Who, after perusing the above state m9nt, will sly that the " careful revision of the salaries and wages paid in every public department, with a view to a just and adequate reduction thereof," is not required, and that it is not sufficient to leave such questions in the hands of the present Government ? An oration of extraordinary ability, and replete wi:h the most perspicuous argument, has recently been delivered in the House of Assembly, Nova Scotia, by the Ilonourable Josern Howe, the Pro vincial Secretary. Aware that however brilliant such a speech may have been, it cannot by possibility in fluence the opinions of the population of the mother country without obtaining some special reference from English journalism, and cognizant of the re markable value of the truths embodied in the harangue alluded te, we are eager at the earliest op portunity to direct the attention of the British mul titude to those admirable remarks with which ar. Howe refuted the statements made not long. since, in the shape of certain Resolu• at Halifax, b y tions introduced of the Opposition. to the house of Assembly i obtain a hearing for thbueriluri. the l O lon. J. w. JOHNSTON, the leader solicitude, Provincial in e r c e r s e p t e a c r t y , to s I materially enhanced advanced byphriensyenarte illustrative of the system the reflection that the argu mentsof Government at the affairs of our North system of government which, or obsolete, has been subjected to a adopted 4 in the direction of of f ica l n l possessions —a calumny,the most inter ' others existing minable abuse, the most detestable tathe most rancorous misrepresentation and Know ing that it was against this the whole of the recent movement policy among t h e Canadians was directed , every ~n, mill recognise the importance of a matter intimately connected with the maintenance of our authority i n that portion of our trans-oceanic dominions. All these riotous proceedings, which have reflected so much disgrace upon a large and hitherto estimable portion of our colonial fellow -subjects, all these burn ings of official documents, pillaging of Parliamentary libraries, and destruction of the abodes of the Legis lature, all these miserable insults levelled against the representative of our august SOVEILEIGN—owe their origi n to the misapprehension of the system of go vernment now in operation throughout the Canadian put of our North American territories. It must, consequently, be with no small degree of curiosity that the reflective politician in England turns to an oration like that of the lion. Provincial Secretary at Halifax—an oration in which the mis representations of so many factious antagonists are categorically exposed, and in which the character of the policy pursued towards the two Canadas by the local administrators, and by the supreme authority in Downing .street, is very earnestly, and, to a certain extent also, very successfully vindicated. In refuting the specious and sophistical ac cusations condensed into the " Resolutions" of the honourable leader of the Opposition, the Pro • vincial Secretary, on the 20th of March, displayed to the derision of his colleagues, and of the majority of the Canadian representatives, the inconsistency with which, in the preamble of his " Resolutions," Mr. JOHNSTON described the Executive power as at pre sent constituted to be one altogether uncontrolled, having asserted almost simultaneously, in so many words, that " a Governor might arrive who would obstruct the party obtaining power, holding opinions contrary to his o wn." Well might the Provincial Secretary inquire how two statements so diametrically opposed to each other could by any possibility be reconciled. Well did he, in the exordium of his very masterly oration, cast ridicule upon this factious and contradictory mode of forcing embarrassments at once upon the local and the supreme Governments. Recognizing the strange and perverse ignorance displayed:in this manner by Mr. JOHNSTON, as to the structure of the British Colonial Constitution, the Members of the House of Assembly might reasonably ask themselves if a man like this—a man as ill-informed as he is glaringly disingenuous —could be reasonably entrusted with all the serious and heavy responsibilities devolving upon the prin. cipal leader of the Opposition. But the Provincial Secretary had anything but done with this redoubt- able assailant of himself and his Ministerial col leagues. A little further on, referring to the •miser ably erroneous and whining remonstrance incorporated among the " Resolutions " against the notion that " a Minister of the Crown may hold himself free to disallow what a predecessor in the exercise of his official functions had established," Mr. Hover could no longer conceal his mingled sentiments of scorn and indignation. His comments upon the paragraph arc altogether so felicitous that we must gratify ourselves and our readers by transcribing a few sentences ver batim. He exclaims, therefore, in regard to this particular— " What arrant want of all constitutional knowledge the learned (I) leader of the Opposition displays, if he really penned this r mane in a spirit of querulous com plaint. Why, Sir, what are Ministers of the Crown for, under our admirable system, but to advance with the spirit of the age, and to change, in accordance with that spirit, what their predecessors had established? Are not Ministries changed, and Cabinets reconstructed, for this especial end? If what was once established could never be changed—if extravagance could never be re trenched—or a man once in office removed, we should be living under a despotism, and not under a constitutional monarchy." Upon the second recital, to the effect that " the Lieutenant-Governor has been denuded of all power," Mr. HOWE observes that the accusation is wholly in exact ; and upon the continuation of that recital, that "so long as the Lieutenant-Governor is to be viewed as the head of the Provincial Administration, he must either sink into insignificance or become the instrument of Executive obstruction," he gainsays the truth of the declaration that in any respect whatever the Noble Lord in question can be re garded as the head of the Administration. " Lord ELGIN," he observes, with a sententious and decisive brevity, "is Governor of Canada, and Mr. LA FONTAINE is the leader of the Administration. As to the amount and nature of the authority exercised over the affairs of the Canadian Government by the Noble Earl, her Britannic MAJESTY'S Principal Co. lonial Secretary, the Honourable Canadian Adminis- trator insists that that supreme power is not only judiciously apportioned, but also, and in an especial manner, judiciously exercised. " I admit," says he, " that Lord GREY, having frankly yielded the principles of Responsible Government, has left them here, as in Canada, to their natural and appropriate development; giving us good counsel when be thinks us wrong, and husbanding his great powers for great occasions; he does not control our free action in questions purely provincial, or irritate and obstruct by needless inter ference." The admirable and argumentative harangue from which we have made the foregoing • extrac's proved altogether as successful in its influence upon the judgment of the House of Assembly, as it was eminently successful as an oratori- cal display : the .Resolutions introduced by way of amendment by Mr. How's being carried by a majority of twenty-six over fourteen. Those resolutions declared, among, other things, the implicit confidence reposed in the integrity and ability of the Noble Lord the Governor of Canada, by the House of Assembly of Nova Scotia, and the entire satisfaction with which the same provincial Cham ber viewed the character of the political, admi- nistrative, and legislative institutions of the province. From what has already been observed by ourselves, it will be seen that the speech of the lion. Provincial secretary at Halifax, to which we have here directed public attention, is one sufficiently remarkable to deserve a very careful and serious ex amination. The Ministers of the French Republic, MM. BA ROCHE and CARLIER, are bold men ; they have ven tured to do that which even CHARLES X. shrunk from attempting in his most bigotted moments,—he contented himself with establishing a censorship of the press; they have ventured to prohibit the sale of every newspaper that is not opposed to the con tinuance of that Republic of which they are the sworn servants. Taking advantage of a doubtful decision of the Court of Cassation, which relates solely to the sale of books by persons not booksellers, they have at once jumped to the conclusion that this de vision will also apply to the sale of newspapers, and accordingly have prohibited newsvenders from sell ing any but Royalist journals, and, to make assurance doubly sure, they send police to all the shops to seize any journal which is not Monarchical. There can be no excuse made for this conduct on the ground of the necessity of stopping a Socialist propaganda (not that we admit for the moment the validity of such an excuse) ; th e l aws are a l rea d y sufficiently strin gent —th ey empower t h e Mi n i ster to se i ze an d prose cute any journal which may contain an article offen sive to the powers that be ; and tthe journal to which this stringent measure was first applied, the EVC7lC meet, has always been opposed to Socialism. It is the property of M. VICTOR H uoo, whose name is a suffi cient guarantee that nothing subversive of society will be found in its columns. It was the first journal that advocated the claim of Louis NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, to the Presidency of the Republic, and on every oc casion in which he has acted independently, as, for example, on the occasion of his letter to M. EDGAR NET, it has strenuously supported him, but, unfortu nately, M. Louis NAPOLEON BONAPARTE has of late chosen to govern by and for the parti-pretre, and the clerical party hate VICTOR liroo as theologians alone can hate ; hence all former friendships and services rendered by him are as nothinis PRESIDENT has bound himself to do the behests of the parti g pretre: they demand the confiscation o f t h e property of M. - VICTOR ELGO, and those Is ho boast sincthem selves the especial defenders of th e r i g h ts thisof property iticoonffistchaate sale et ofa accordin gly . Since any similar prohibition has been extended against the sale by newsvenders of the National, the Presse, the the Voix du Peuple, indeed of all, except the Minis terial and Monarchical journals. Never were men snore mistaken in their lives than have been MM. BARocuE and CARLIER, if they imagined that by this attack upon the liberty of the press they would succeed in preventing the circulation of the prohi bited journals. On the first night that the sale of the Erenement was prohibited the persons who could procure the journal mounted on chairs and read it aloud in the public streets, and already a plan has been organized for ensuring the presence of a number of each of the prohibited journals in every wine shop, cafe, and place of public resort in Paris, and for sending a number of each regularly to every workshop. The only effect there fore of this blunderin g attempt to interfere with the liberty of the press will be to turn the casual pur chasers of the various journals into constant sub scribers, and to increase their circulation enormously. In the mean time it would be well that both the PRESIDENT and his Ministers should remember that they are responsible to the Republic for their acts that 1852 is approaching; and that Ministerial responsibility under a Republic will not probably be the farce it was under Constitutional Monarchy. M. BAROCHE is exceedingly anxious to hurry the Transportation Bill through the Assembly. It would be curious if, PHALARIS like, he should be the first to suffer by his own contrivance. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. The returns from all the polling places have been received and examined, and they give the following as the complete result of the gross poll : M. Eugene Sue 128,071 M. Leclerc • . ... 119,626 The Presse has the following on the subject of the recent elections : " On both sides, the electors voted with equal emula tion and equal ensemble. The most perfect order and calmness was preserved in all the sections. This is an impertatit fact, for the calm and order are the most con• vincing condemnation of the alarm, whether feigned or real, entertained of universal suffrage, and of all the at tacks, tither direct or i n di rect , w hi c h m i g h t b e pro posed against it. At a time when France had a very smell number of electors, two hundred thousand at the utmost, England possessed relatively a very great num ber—more than three millions. Now France has eleven millions of electors. Let a comparison be drawn be tween the manner in which the elections are carried on in the two countries with regard to order and calm, and it must be admitted by every impartial mind that the advantage will be on the side of France, although she bad a very much shorter electoral experience, and has three times the number of voters. Nothing can be more tranquillising for commerce and for the cause of peace than this fact, and it cannot fail to rapidly raise France iii the esteem of all people, and even of all na tions whose attention is directed to what is taking place at Paris. The people, we do not doubt, at this election, as well as that of the 10th March, were anxious to pre serve the sirname which they bad merited. That name, already proved, is that of the Party of Order. On the 2d May, as on the 15th March, the people will abstain from going to : the Place de l'Hotel de Ville, in order not to furninsh any pretext or any opportunity for collision. They know that it is by the maintenance of order that they will regain the plenitude of their liberty. The order of which the people persist in giving such a praiseworthy example tends to unveil the weak ness of which the Government continues, to present such a sorrowful spectacle. The co operation of time is secured to all that is true and to all that is just; if Justice and Truth have not yet universally triumphed, it is because man has been want ing in patience; he has wished to outstrip the action of time; he has not known how to wait, and has too often preferred victory to progress. Progress is victory with• out the battle. That which is acquired by forceis always uncertain; what is gained by patience is never so. The liberty which is enjoyed by the English is a proof of this; it was gradually acquired, and has never gone back, but, on the contrary, has continued to advance. Let us know how to imitate them. The French have amply paid their debt to chance. They possess the right of showing themselves prudent without any risk of being called pusillanimous. The people have just proved a second time that they form the real majority; let them leave intoxication to those who govern them, and let them conduct themselves as sovereign. Majesty is impassable. It is thus that the people showed I hem selves on the 15th March; it is thus that they will be on the 2d May." It has been semi-officially notified that the publica tion of the Napoleon will be discontinued. The Mi nisters, it is said, declared they would resign en masse if that journal again appeared. M. PASCAL DUPRAT has presented the following proposition to the National Assembly : " The dispositions of the law of the 27th July, 1849, relative t,.) the distributors and hawkers of printed papers are not applicable to sellers in their own houses, or tradesmen possessing shops, The authorisation required by the law of 16th February, 1834, for the sale of newspapers in the streets can only be accorded in a general manner, without privilege or exception for any re espapers." M. BERRYER has been appointed President of the Committee on the Budget of 1851, and M. Gonna, Vice-President. The Archbishop of PARIS bas directed that a Te Drum shall be performed in all the churches of his diocese on Saturday, the 4th of May, the anniversary of the promulgation of the Republic. It is said that there will be no change in the Minis try for the present, but that a propositio❑ for modify ing Universal Suffrage (a proposition which, accord. ing to the Constitution, it is not competent fur any Legislative Assembly to entertain) will be brought forward by the Ministry. Tne Ev - enement states that the Ministry of Marine has received news from Senegal, announcing that an attack was made by the natives of the Terra Firma on the residents of St. Louis during the absence of the Governor, Captain BAUDIN. The Sentinelle de Toulon announces a severe colli sion between the crew of the Friedland, at Naples, and the lazzaroni. Three shots were fired on the ship's pinnace, and one of the seamen was stabbed with a stiletto. The French sailors threw into the sea four Neapolitan soldiers who took part with the lcznironi. The French Admiral caused an inquiry to be instituted into the affair. M. CRETON hAS given notice of a motion in the Assembly for a repeal of the laws banishing the BOURBONS Cf the elder and of the younger branch. Th‘e Patric is ludicrously savage in its denun ciations of the 128,000 electors who have voted for M. SUE ; it speaks of them as "ferocious hordes," and calls upon its 'own partisans " to charge the enemy." Will M. BARocas direct the Ministerial journal to be prosecuted fur "endeavouring to sow hatred between citizens, and for publishing an incitement to civil war?'' PARIS BOURSE, MAY I.—Latest Prices—Five per Cents., 87f. 503. ; Three per Cents., .54f. 50c. ; Bank of France, 2,080 f. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 25th ult. have arrived. The semi-official Popular announces the approach ing resumption of diplomatic relations between Eng land and Spain. The same journal says that the KING had had a conference with one of the Ministers, in which he showed great regard for him personally, and admitted the right of the Cabinet to exercise its mission freely. It also states that the negotiations with the Holy See were proceeding satisfactorily. It was reported that the administration of the palace was to be restored to the KING, or at least to be taken by the QUEEN. A decree of the 25th October, it will he remembered, invested it in the hands of the Minister of Foreign Affairs. AIADIIID BOLSA, APRIL 25.—Ti, Three per Cents. were done at 30il, fur paper ; the Four per Cents., at 1 9 -g-; the Five per Cents., at 12 9.16; the Dzbt without Interest, at 3 15-16; and the Coupons, at GERMANY. The Administrative Council has sent a message to the two Houses of the Erfurt Parliament, informing them of the conclusion of the present session. In the message the Parliament is thanked for its resolutions respecting the revision, and a promise is given of an immediate communication with the Governments. It is not stated at what time the Parliament is to meet again. A letter from 13,-irlin states that the Austrian am bassador in that city had presented a demand that all the Hungarian refugees, who had not satisfied the military service,, should, in virtue of the treaty of 1834, be given up, and that all the others should be expelled. The Prussian Cabinet replied that all the refugees of the former category had already left, and that so long as the others should not disturb order, it would not expel them. The German Reform says that the Austrian Go vernment intends to convoke at Vienna a custom's congress for all Germany. The Vienna Gazette of the 25th contains the decree for regulating the relations of the Catholic Church with respect to public instruction. It gives consi derable powers to the bishops. The military authorities of Vienna have notified to the booksellers of the city that if " dangerous works" be found in their shops they will not be allo we d to continue their trade for all the duration of the state of siege. Several of the journals continue to express much dissatisfaction at the concession made to the clergy, and in some of the suburbs of the city the strange sound of charivaris has been heard. ITALY• the T G he ov ßso er e nm rg er t i 'i t n o er f it i o )a O r r m T i rnf thehia:sum 26th states that monedthe t ax - gatherer of Pontr.-moli to refund upwards of 1 6,000 f. hich he had paid to various persons by order of the TuQcan Government, at the time that the province of Lunigiana was under its sway in 1848. The tax gatherer is threatened with the sale of his property and that of his brother, if he does not obey the in junction within 30 days. The Nazionale of Florence, of the 23d, states that the example of the municipality of Massa Marit timr., in petitioning the GRAND DUKE in favour of the Constituti on , is about to be followed by several others. It publishes a petition, addressed by the in habitants of Montecarlo to their Municipality, recom mending them to petition the Grand DUKE for the same object. The Roman Minister of War, C42neral KALBER“ MATTEN, has addressed an order of the day to the troop, offering those soldiers, whose engagements have expired, a new engagement in the guards of the Minister of the Interior. Their former years of ser vice are to be counted in their new engagement. _ The intrigues of Austria and :11•+ aples against the tranquillity of the Piedmontese States have been uncelsing. At first they sought to render con sfitutional government in that country impossible, by. sending Socialist agents to endeavour to excite dis turbances. Warned by the events cf last year, the Piedmontese turned a deaf ear to the entreaties of the Austrian spies, who were ignominiously exposed and expelled. The Austrians then endeavoured to excite the bigotry of the priests against the constitutional order of things, and in this they have been more suc cessful. The Archbishop of TURIN, acting under Austrian influence, has addressed the following letter to his clergy, commanding them to disobey the laW : " TURIN, APRIL 18.—Very Reverend Sir and Bro thcr,—As the civil lade carnot dispense the clergy from the special obligations to which they are subjected by the laws of the church and by the concordates or cnn ventions with the holy see, which, regulates the appli cation of them, I charge you, very reverend sir, to in timate to tLe tccletiastics of your parish the following prescriptions:— " 1. That if called upon to appear as witnesses before a lay judge they must, as hereto'ore, address themselves to the archiepiscopal authorities to obtain the preicribtd permissior. " 2. That, if cited to appear before any lay tribunal for such civil causes as by the tenor of the existing con cordates, should be of the exclusive appurtenance of the episcopal jurisdiction, they must address themselves to the bishop, for the opportune directions which the case may require. 3. That if they should be proceeded against Bally by a Icy tribunal, in cases not contemplated in the convention of the 27th of March, 1841, they must, in like manner, have recourse t) the bishop, and if they have not the time or the means of so doing, and appre hend serious damage from a rifest,' to answer the inter rogatories made, they will have to oppore the incompe tency e f the jurisdiction, and protest that they yield only to necessity, without prejudicing the right they have to personal immunity; otter which, in consenting to answer the questions put them, they will incur no culpability or blame. "4. A similar protestation shall bo mado by the parish priest of any church, every time that an act con trary to the local immunities of his church or right of asylum shall take place. " 5. That if an ecclesiastic or a religioua establish. ment should have to proceed against another ecclesiastic or religious establishment, each respectively must have recourse previously to the bishop for the directions to be followed in each case. "6. In fine, that such prescriptions are to be con sidered as temporary, and to subsist until such time as the apostolical see shall have made known the ulterior instructions which have been solicited. "Not doubting in the least, Very Reverend Sir, but that, knowing the importance of the matter in question, you will display all possible zeal, in order that such pre scriptions may be strictly observed. I deem it useless to add any special recommendation, and will only note that, if it should come to your knowledge that any one should infringe them, I expect to be immediately in formed of the same. (Then follows an order for public thanksgivings for the return of the Pope to Rome.) (Signed) " 1;4 Louis Archbishop." The people of Italy are, perhaps, less bigotted than those of any other Catholic country • they are by birth Roman Catholi cs , but if Papacy becomes in their mind identified w ith atrian obscurantism, they will soon cease to be such. The Italian priests are play ing a dangerous game in thus lending themselves to Austrian intrigue. THE LONDON COFFEE-HOUSE AND EATING-HOUSE KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION.—This excellent institution cele= brated its anniversary last evening lay a dinner at the Free masons' Tavern, Mr. Masterman, M.P., efficiently dis charging the duties of the chair. In proposing the health of her Majesty the worthy chairman alluded to the interest ing event of the morning, and congratulated the company upon the increase that had been thereby occasioned to the Royal Family.—(Cheers.) After giving the other loyal and, routine toasts, the chairman proposed the toast of the even ing, "Prosperity to the London Coffee-house andEating-house keepers' Association," passing a high eulogium on the excel lency of the Humphries announced a list of subscriptions, which included 10/. 108. by their chairman, 21/. by the president of their association, and various contri butions by the proprietors of the public journals. The number of coffee-houses, he observed, in the metropolis, was about three thousand ; many of them took •in three or four of the daily p a p ers , and a cons id era bl e num b er of them received as many as forty or fifty papers per day. It was a source of gratification to their proprietors to lay before the almost innumerable visitors of their establishments the good and sound information that the press placed before the public.—(Hear, and cheers.) In reply to a toast, the treasurer of the society observed that their object was to provide for their'poorer brethren, and to institute almshouses for the orphan children of members of the trade.— (Cheers.) In acknowledging the toast of the committee and auditors, Mr. Humphries said that amongst the many strange changes and vicissitudes of life it had oc curred that among the first applicants for the assistance of their association was one of the most well-known men in the metropolis. He should stand excused for not mentioning his name, because poverty had always difficulties enough to con tend against without the ,disadvantage consequent upon the publication of that adversity.—(Hear, hear.) The object of their association was t o assuage distress, and he was per suaded that it was conducted in a manner iu unison with its object. Various other toasts followed, and the result of the festival was announced to be a handsome subscription in aid of its funds. The - entire arrangements reflected the highest credit upon the Freemasons' Tavern, and the company sepa rated highly gratified with thievents of the evening. SPIRITS.—A return printed by order of' the House of Commons, gives the number of gallons of proof spirits dis tilled in England in the year ending the sth January, 1850, as 5,573,411. The number of gallons distilled in Scotland was 10,846,634. In Ireland the number of gallons was 8,355,083; making a total for the United Kingdom of 24,775,128. The number of gallons made in the same period, for proof spirits, on which duty was paid for consumption in England, was 9,053,676; in Scotland 6,935,003; in Ireland 6,973,33! gallons; making a total in the United Kingdom of 22.962,012 gallons. The number of gallons of proof spirits imported in the same space into England from Scotland was ,651,529; and the amount of duty, at 75. 10d. per gallon, 1,058,5151. The number of gallons imported into England from Ireland was 890,021; and the amount of duty, at 7s. 10d. per gallon, 348,591/. The number of gallons ins-, ported into Scotland from Ireland was 12,580; and the num ber of gallons imported into Ireland from Scotland, 766,405. NAUTICAL ALMANACK.—An account relative to the expenses incurred in the publication of the Nautical Almanac has been returned, from oshich it appears that in 1847-48 10,000 copies of 1851 were printed, and 8 638 of various years were sold by John Murray at ss. per copy, the per-centage allowed amounting to 15/. The expenses of pre paration, printing, and sale, amounted to 3,677/. 25., and the amount produced was 2,159/. 10s., giving a balance against the public of 1,517/. 12s, In 1848.4910,000 copies of the year 1852 were printed, and 8,776 'of various years were sold. The expenses amounted to 3,035/. ss. 4d., and the amount realised was 2,1944 making a loss to the public of 861/. ss. 4d. In the year 1849-50 the usual number of copies of 1,853 were printed, and the various copies sold amounted to 8,8951. The expenses were 3,475/. 7s. 3d., and the produce of the sales 2,223/. 155., the loss to the public being 1,2511. 12,. 3d. In 1847-48 the sums disbursed as rewards, &e., for scientific purposes, amounted to 3131. 9s. ; in 1848-49 they amounted to 748/., the principal item being 500/. paid to Mr. Charles Brooke for his apparatus for the self-registration of magnetical and meteorological pheno mena. In 1849-50 the sums so expended amounted to 100/. COURT OF . INLAND REVENUE.—SaHIueI Genese, proprietor of the hotel and coffee-house, 125, Jermyn-street, was yesterday fined• in this Court in the sum of 1201., for retailing wine and malt liquor without a licence. Slanderers are; at all events, economical, for they make a little go a great way, and rarely open their mouths except at the expense of other people. Eliza Cook's Journal, HER MAJESTY'S TEIEATRE.---The Queen's box at her Majesty's Theatre was on Tuesday evening occupied by the Countess Grey, Lady Mary Wood, Miss Copley. Sir Jo seph Copley, the Hon. 11. Grey, Mr. Bogus, Mr. Grey ano party. Among the visitors were—His Serene highness Charles Duke of Brunswick, his Excellency the Russian Mi nister, M. do Berg, his Excellency the Turkish Ambassador and suite, his Excellency the Swedish Minister, the Priuce Louis Lucien Bonaparte, the Marquis anti Mar chioness of Kildare, the Marquis of Huntly, th e E ar l o f Falmouth, th e Earl Bruce, the Countess Flahault and Miss Flabault, the Earl of Cardigan, Viscount Clifden, Prince Tamahama and suite, the Viscount Anson, the Viscount Cantilupe, the Viscount and Viscountess Dupplin, Lord Gardner, Lord Adolphus Fit zcl arence , L or d G. P aget , Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Augustus Gordon and Lady Gordon, Lord and Lady. Dalmeny, Lord A. Hay, Lori Sandys, Lady Rosé Lovell, Mr. and Lady C aro li ne Sand ford, Lady flenrietta Somerset, Comte Ferdinand Pergin, the Count Jules B. de Richebourg, Lord Kilmorey, the 110. nourable Fitzroy Stanhope, the Honourable Mrs. Dudley Ward, the Baroness de 'Rothschild, the Baron and Baroness Lionel de Ro.hschild, Sir Anthony de Rothschild, Bart., the Hon. Augustus Chichester, the Marquis d'Azeglio, the lion. A. Upton, the Hon. C. R. Neville, Sir George Carroll, Sir James Clark, Sir Isaac Goldsmid, Sir Thomas Barrett Lennard, Bart., and Lady Barrett Lennard, Sir R. Lopez, Baroh de Krelimer, Baroness de Schertz, Sir George Wombwell. Bart., Lady Thorold, Lady Shirley, Lady Gordon, Sir J. and Lady Atkinson, Lady Davey, Mr. W. Pinney, M.P., Sir Cha r l es M ans fi e ld Clarke, Bart., and Lady Clarke, the Count de Civry, Mr. and Dirs. Ewing, the Hon. Major Needham, Hon. Gran tley Berkeley, M.P., Hon. Claude Lyon, Major ldountjoy Martin, Colonel Lowther, &c., &c. - - ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.—Her Majesty's box at the Royal Italian Opera was occupied on Tuesday evening by the Earl and Countess of Listowell and Lady Augusta Hare and party. The general audience included, among others, the following members of the fashionable world : The Mar chioness of Westmeath, the Earl and Countess of Talbot and Lady Victoria Talbot, the Earl and Countess Cowper, the Earl Granville, the Countess of Beauchamp and party, the Coun tess of Malmesbury and party, the Earl' of Darnley, the Countess of Glengall and party, the Countess of Cadogan and Lady Augusta Baring, the Countess Dowager of Essex and Miss Johnson and party, the Earl of Gifford, Viscount Sydney, Viscount Exmouth, Viscount and Viscountess Tem pleton, Viscount Macdowall, Viscount Maldon, Lord and Lady Mandeville, Lord Alfred Paget, M.P., and Lady Alfred Paget, Lady Camoys and the Hon. Miss Stonor, Honourable Francis Stoner, Lady Stanley and party, Lordand Lady Montcagle and the Hon. Charles Spring Rice, Lord Adol phus Vane, Lady Augusta Gordon Hallyburton and the Misses Erskine, Lady Louisa Molyneux, Hon. Charles Pepys, Lord Arthur Hay, Lady Suffield, the Hon. Miss Tracy and party, the Count and Countess de Jarnac and the Hen: Adelaide Foley, Hon. Fitzgenild Foley, General Count Ca brera and party, Lady Webster and party, Lady Flint and party, Lady Templemore and the Hon. Miss Chichester, Hon F. Chichester, Lady Morgan and party, Sir William and Lady De Bathe and Miss De Bathe, Sir Henry Webb, Sir George Armytage, Lady Vernon and the Hon. Miss Vernon, Sir Thomas Hare, Mr. Towneley and Lady Caroline Towiteley, Hon. George Milks, Hon. John Fortescue,. M.P., Sir John Bailey, General Meade, the Hon. Mrs. Meade and Miss ,Made, Mr. Henry Greville and Miss Greville, &c. WALWORTII LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTI• TUTION. —The fifth annual soiree of members and friends of the above institution was held yesterday evening, in the New Lecture Hall, Walworth ; the Right Hon. C. T. d'Eyncourt, M.P., presiding. After a few general observations on the advantages of literary institutions, Mr. D'Eyncourt con cluded by stating that the erection of the handsome hall in which they were assembled had exhausted the funds of the institution, and that a balance of 2001. remained yet due on the builder's account. Mr. G. Cruickshank, Mr. Parry, the Rev. Messrs. Statham and Rogers subsequently audressed the company, and at intervals an excellent selection of songs and glees were sung by Miss E. Lyons, Mr. Seguin, Miss Thornton, &c. We should not omit to mention that the walls were decorated for the occasion with some excellent copies of the great masters, the production of a lad nut more than 15 years of age, a Mr. Watkyns. The hall was fully attended, and the company seemed highly satisfied with the entertainment provided. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. cur); QUARTER i 0 THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti mated at 14,000 bales, of which 1,000 Brazil were taken for export. and 3,900 American, 59i , Bahia, 1,000 Surat, and 1,000 Egyptian on speculation. The market closed with an upward tendency.—Railway Shares were dull, and generally at lower quotations. The six weeks' average price el Wheat is 375. 10d. per quarter. IVe have received from Messrs. M‘Yair, Greenhow, and Irving, of Manchester, the following leport upon the trade of their district : " Excitement and quiet may again be said to have been the alternate characteristics a this market during the month. Since the date of our last circular its progress has not only been very changeable, but very perplexing, occasioned mainly by .the different arrivals from the United States, all concurring as to the mate rial falling off in the supplies of Cotton at the different ports, es compared with the same periods in the preceding year, the effect of Which has been to raise the price of that article since the 28th ult. nearly Id. per lb. it we are not mistaken, the date given was the period when Cotton had reached the lowest point of this year. This advance, and the receipt of more favourable accounts from India and China, have caused the transactions of the month to be of considerable magnitude in both Cloth and Twist. "A nude; ial advance has been realised up, n 7-8 and 9-8 printing cloths, 36 • and 40 inch shirtings, maddapol4ms, water and mule twist, in both of which the transactions have been enormously large. Stocks, with the exception of cer tain descriptions of domestic, T, and long cloths, are now exceeding light. Purchases have again been chittly fur ex port; those for the home trade, considering the season of the year, having been of a limited character." Accounts from Brussels state that no parties had pre sented themselves before the Council for the re-adjudication of the railway from Louvain to la Sambre (towards Namur and Charleroi). The undertaking, therefore, must be done away with, unless an arrangement is made between the Government and the Luxembourg Company. At Amsterdam the Funds were more animated on the 30th inst., owing to the settlement of the account. The - Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. were 55 3 16. Foreign Stocks generally were more feeble. The Frankfort Bourse on the 29th ult. was flat. Austrian Metallics, 77%. The last week's railway receipts ascertained up to this day were as under : 1850. 1849. North-Western... £42,883 18s. 2d. £40,572 12s. 11d. South-Western 9,386 ss. Bd. 9,538 6s. ld. Brighton. . ,Od. 7,468 Os. Od. 22,038 17s. 6d. 21,255 6s. 7d. South-Eastern Caledonians North Stafford ... The English Stock Market has been 'firmer this morning, but the business is still rather limited. The speculative dealings are influenced a little by the Paris election, but many augur favourably of it as a whole some check upon the reactionists. Consols have ruled at 05% to y 3. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 96% to 97 1 / 14 . Bank Stock is worth 206 to 207. India Stock is at 265. Exchequer-bills have been marked 675. to 695., and India Bonds 90s. to 935. premium. Consuls now are 95 5 g • In the Foreign. Market the transactions have not been of any moment. Mexican Bonds have been quoted 26% :A, and Peruvian 69 1 / 2 to 70. Brazil Bonds are 86 1 /.. l'or uguese Four per Cents. have been 33 1 4, and Spanish Three • per Cents. 3676. 'Belgian. Your-and-a-Half per. Cents. have been 86 1 / 2 , and Dutch Two-und-a-lialfper Cents. 55 IA . Railway Shares wear still a heavy appearance, and there is not much doing. North-Western are scarcely so good. South-Eastern firmer-; Great Western steady ; Northern of France higher. ' ' • ONE O'CLOCK. 206 207 CLOSING pit ICES. 207 PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS Rua 6toca < 4.e:- Cent. Reduced Anna ... 90.4 4 4% 94% 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities......... . 95 %74 95; 1 / 4 .4.ve 34 per (lent. Anna.............. 963 k 97% 97% New 5 per Cent. Annuities -una.Anns. to oxpireJan.lB6o -16 86 Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10. 1859 8 Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 — 'lndia Stock 265 India Bonds, 1,0004 .... ... 4outh S'ea Stock Ditto Old Annuities . )onsuls tor Account 95. %% ' xchequer Bills. 1 1 4. , % to 2d 1,0001. June 67 69 p 500/. June Small. June 67 60 p 8 7-16 265 90 p 105 jg 94 3, 95 ONE PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. ,raziliari isonds Danish 80nd5,1825,3 per Cent. Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons— Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons ... Peruvian Bonds, 4 per Cent Ditto. Account Ditto Deferred Portuguese 5 per Cents.' Ditto, 4 per Cent. ttuAsian Bonds „," Ditto, 414 per Cent Spanish 5 u=u- Cent. 1840 — 17% Ditto, Account ..... l7 17% . 17% Ditto. 3 per Cent Ditto, Account Dividends on the above payable in Lend°. CLOSING PRICES. 86 1 h 703 A _ . BeEgan, 4 1 / 2 per Cent. ... B 6 l /2 cx d 86 1 / 2 ex d oaten 2 1 / 2 per Cont., 12 Guild. .. 55% 1 , 2 55 1 4 Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificate? 85% 1 / 2 85 . 851/2 PRICES OF PAID. BUsiNEtis DONE CLOEIR, itAI , I,WAY SILARES. AT ONI , O'CLOCK. PRICES berdeen ... 50 Do. Preference. Bl ...... - dia.. ..... drrningham and Ox ii•rd Junct., calls duly paid, or with a guaran. , 20 - , trlstol and Exeter 100 ...... 64 .. ....... ...... 64 Ditto, Thirds ..- 33i ‘'aledonittn C eltor and Holyhead-. 50 - -...... ...... Ditto, Preference l5 ...... 8 1 / i % astern Counties........ 20 ...... 71A 3 7.. Ditto,Extonsion, 5 per Cent., No.l 6/. 138. 4d.... - p Ditto ditto. No. 2...61. 13s. 4d... IA p.......,... Do. North. & Eastern, 6 per Cent. .... ..... 50 ...... - Ditto. 5 per Cent.... 50 ...... - eastern Union, Class A (late E. U. Shares) 25 - Do Scrip (6 per cent.) 20 ...... 16 1 4..... ...... .. East Lincolnshirf, guar 6 per Cent. dinburgh and Glaagow 50 .._.. 24 LA -neat Northern Do., ly2 A Deferred ... 12 1 4 1 D0., 1 ; i B 6 per Cent... 9 1 ,4 4 Do., 5 per Cent. I'ref. 12%...... 10% 10 treat South. and West. (Ireland) 3reat Western 100 Ditto, New 171— .. .. 15 ... Lancashire & Yorkshire 100 ...... 34 Leeds and Bradford Leeds and Thirek London & Blackwall...ll/. 68. 3d 3% .. 3% London, Brighton, and South Coatt... —lOO ...... 78%..... .. London and N Wcitern 100 1011 A % 101 101% 101 k. Ditto. New Quarters 12 ...... 97/s ... 9 7 4, Ditto. Fift:‘, Dn. 101. (kt. & B.) C 1 ...,.. 1 %.-••••••• — 1% London & :..W. , storn __lCO .., 58 its 58 ........ 58 ilaucheAer.Buxton,and Matlock 11.1noheiter, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire...100 Do. New 101. Prof.-- 10 ...... - ; . j,-; / 67 , 13 Midland .................1( 0 ...... 32 ...... - ... Do., 501. Shares ..... 30 .. ... ...... ..... Do.Birtn.. and Derby HO Do. Consolid. Bristol & Birm:ng., 6 per ct.... 100 ..... 119% 119% NTorth British ........ ... 25 ..... •—• - Ditto Preference ,ti )rth Staffordshire ... 17 1 / 2 7% 3i heading, Guildford, and Reigate l5 Scottish Central .... ..... 25 ...„, 11 m 1, 2 ....... .', :atli I , ,a. , teri ... B3 W I l4 13A Wear Valley 6 per Cent. Guaranteed ... .- .... 50 -.... - Do. do. do, 25 14 1 l - 5 g 13% 24% 39% ..•n Niitt,Somerset,g; Wey mouth 'C ork, Newcastle, and Berwick. Do, Newcastle Exten. 20 Dc. G.N.E.Prettrcnce 8 ... 1 ti t i' f 4 • 1 1 / a (ork and North Midland 50 ...... 14 5 / R h ...... Ditto: Prefercnen FOREIGN RAILWAY,. Central of France (Or leans and Vierzon)... 20 Dutch Rhenish ......... 8 6sst Indian Northern of France Paris and Rouen 2O ..... 191/ 2 ... .. ........ JOINT STOCK BANKE, ,ustralasia Union of Australia - . Union of L0nd0n......... 10 ... ...... 12%. ..... ........ .„....... 1244 5 1 4 12 1 4 19% 2514 30 1 4 12%3 MINES. Santiago de Cuba... IC) United tgexican 13 3 ,4 5 LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, MAY 2.—Wind at noon N. to Isi.N.E.; light breers and fine weather. NEWPORT, MAY I.—Wind N.B.—Sid. Monmouth, Grenada. QUEENSTOWN, APRIL 30.--Arrd. Amelia, Hurd, Isigney; John, Willis, Mauritius. Sld. Victory, Balti more; British Queen, Boston, United States. BELFAST, APRIL 30.—Wind N.E.—Sld, Reliance, New York. DEAL, MAY 1. -- Wind N.E., fresh and squally.— Arrd. Cbartley Castle, Owen, Callao ; Allen, Walker, Jamaica. Arrd. from the River and sailed, Prince Charles, Swan River; City of Poontib, Calcutta; Ipswich, Buenos Ayres ; Santiago, Buenos Ayres ; Cy press, Montreal ; Hendrick Hudson, New York ; Sydney, Montreal. PORTS3IOUT/i, MAY I.—Wind N.E,—Arrd, her Ma jesty's ship Sealark, Sierra Leone, Sid. on the 22d cf March, with 200 ounces of gold-cbast on board. TEIGNMOUTIJ, MAY I.—Wind N.E.—Sld. Mersey, Maramichi. FALMOUTH, MAY I.—Off port, Garland Grove, Ma theson, Ceylon and Cape of Good Hope. LIVERPOOL, MAY I.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. Tinamarn, Ceara; Adolph Werner, Honduras. Off port, Hannibal, ship; Elivsbetb, ship. Sid. Hugh, Monte Video; 10, Trinidad; Jos. Badger, New Orleans; Euphemis,New York; Clde, St. John's, New Brunswick . ; Charlotte, Qucb(c. JERSEY, APRIL 30.—SId. Emma, Eden, Canada. MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY.) NEWG.&T AND LEADZNIZAZZ. Our markets were heavy to-day, at barely stationary prices. Beef from Is 10d to 3s ; Mutton, 21 4d to 35 6d; Lamb, 48 4d to 5s 6d; Veal, 2s 8d to 3s 4d; and Pork, 2s 10(1 to 4s per Slbs, by the carcase. =EAT MARKETS. SOUTHALL, MAY I.—Our matte: was heavy to-day, and prices were not supported. The supply offering Was extensive. Beef, from 2s 6d to 38 6d; Mutton, - P % p 56% C 9 p 69 p 69 p 367 6 1 ,4 33 to 41 ; Lamb, --------_----- "-- ---- A , tO 3 6 "' and i Pork, 3s to 33 6(1 per 8lbs; to sink the ow' ri ot . lODIFOIID, MAY I.—The general &Do° 1 64 4s 8:1 to 5s 6d ; Veal, 3s ,I. 11,:a.vY, at drooping price. Beet, from 23 8d to S ire g , 203; and Mulch 33 to 4s 4d ; Lamb, 4s 8d to 5 s 8 ,1',..k1ig 3 11 s tu tO t‘)", 3s 4d; and Pork, 33 to 33 61 per 8110. P u j o . is C 'hos, 18s to 245; Quarte.r•old Store ng s , , A4l to with their 11 Caos ' Cows, 18/ each.verl 66 LEWES A 3 au, mutton 3s 6d to 43 4d; Lamb, , , rim 30.—Euch kind of stock fro oa t o .. ..y. on the followi (r • BfWM g J. $ , n ,. _ terms:— ee . Veal, 3s ' '2dto 3s 4d per 81hs. ____........1.4s 8d to 5i 4 1 CORN AVERAES' cOg s ne For the Week ended April 25. IESO made Op from the, _ .d old t; a id AVERAGE PRICES OE BRITISIIOOOIIO Inspectors in the different Cities and Totals in Eltdi'' , " e , , per Imperial Quarter . . P- J 1 I WHEAT. I SARLIT.I OATS. I NTS • 1 5., 1 . 4 s dl IS ?RICE .. I 37s Id 122 s Id I 15s Od 21s 8d 20 5 i lf, DUTIES ON FOREIGN oOrt s I ; 1 i ow. I re 'TREAT. I BABLET. I OATS. IS Od is Od IOdI ' is BYE. O s d I Is Od ..'-'-''••••-,-s.....................••••••"'"... , y . ) QUEEN'S BENCH.--(THIS. D'' of 0 (Sittings in Banco, before Lord Chief Jostic9; " v - 31 8.) end Justices PATTESON, WIGHTMAN , and -ItL CONVICTION UNDER TEE FACTORY AcT. to o f Mr. PAsIILEY said he had to apply for a rule : eOP t° cause why a certiorari should not issu e to br' c i 5,43, this court a conviction cf Messrs;.llopreeod and ix ensive manufacturers, near Blackburn, fur 9/1 , 4 10 0 infringement cf the Factory Act. Thcs ° ge l 4 O lt carried on business at a place called Ne va Scal„,o,sittcci Blackburn, where they had a large mill, "'b leb s .; t he / I ' of seven buildings, five of which were ose , cl ' .1 cot t l rious purposes connected with the s‘pion a l ° m ite yarn, and the other two exclusive) y for.th e W e " or° cotton yarn into cloth. 1,300 ~ a g ih .. 0. employed at the mill; and sixteen engin es w- e re 'rl o . 97ll E 'each si engine having a separate en ineer, The i erf eet ° sited of two partners, itefathe h r ag a n n d d s' so otfl t at:: h e e i:11 ' .11. whom was far advanced in life, and did not ra tic tos i l l to the business, .end the latter bad been ebs e9 ; 4l6d" particular occasion from ill health. Thep ~ri P LD ' ee '' f ',, - frequently. given directions to their 1 ° 2. 71, 6 ''' ' t superintendents to work only witbia ~e- r ls l 're never r y ns hours. 'The great bulk of the u ,itlis °Pi been connected Employed with eth t s h t e e obf t l e t. s a mbw h a r o ec u rh r t i hours, o a s : kf ei ts c e s ee s iip : : : rr f; a we ll d y m wo il r l k w e r d ig h b e t y; . ond ob t a t at time were a lew, . s P ° 9. constable_ o lett 50 pieces of paper at the mi ll s ' ° etO dsl the Hopwood, which turned out to be summonse,,fe,,, e instance of Mr. Ewingc, an inspector 0 , f ' fi re I lle commanding them to attend next morning Pefit'gedifi' magistrates at Preston to answer for c ertain a h 'le he . friegements of the Factory Act. Mr. CIA! I t tt "-; torney of magistrate Hopwood, attended on he:eat ,° ,, fore the g, and applied for an adj 9 : l " - s - e ~.' l O the ground of the absence of a material wi tile t . oil /,' magistrates refused to grant the adjourrose9; of 5 4 i-11 ground that there was no proof of the ithe el q d ci r. material witness. ' The magistrates then , a'; e e ? ", h ," r ; Cleugh ie whether he meant to contest the e l " i ri to , ,, C eoe ugh replied that he had no instructions og: c ad y ar d "is. The magistrates thereupon A len r°c- , 1T9 ,, - 1' hear witnesses in the case of ' oci l ' i one of the hands employed at the defe cli' sl mill; and they then came to the ex trl le'4 decision that they thought the justice of the 09 " 3 /,oc w be satisfied-by inflicting in ten cases a fin ° °f c h ' ll° and in the remainder of the cases a fine. of 14 , 61 01 1 , 1 1 evidence whatever having been given in any (39r-oble';'' cases except that of Ellen Ward. /le (M r :• e - tzit' e ; , ll now s moved for the certiorari in the eve °'',,,, tio t ' S A pden, which was one of the cases where a —ll took place without hearing 109 tti Lord CAMPBELL asked evidence. . s not if the certiorari Ws a esP away by statute? ,„,eeti wt. Mr. PASHLEY said that the certiorari Was a ~,' 0 - 1 and also the right of appeal, by the 7th 'l,„, SL a O3 `• ll . c. 15, acct. 69. But he contended that t'", l , S e ei'D i n ? served upon the defendants to appear before l" - ,00 °- e i .trates within 23 hours after the service of th e r s t - be I t , - , 1 0 . was not a suflieient time within the suing 9 ; 4 10' ' That being so, he contended that the in m e agi , t rai' t ole authority to procee in the case at all. Lord.CAsteneeL said he was of opinion th ° l , il cl s° . p il oi ought not to be granted. If the magistrates cri° ll o, conducted themselves, they were liable to 9,40 0. is information b for their misconduct; but the 0,1, 11 0 9 ; w ether the Court was authorised to.revicw, _.• e e e rti'l r ; in which they conducted the trial. Besides, 0 ' JO i ) t , was taken away by the statute. The c00 103 °., /i r tb° 4 'lf risdiction i of' this Court bad been taken away ii ° e cie 'i 0 ! gis ature; and, therefore, unless it could -; jicti, ° ,4 shown that this was a proceedingwithout viursjlel" this Court bad right to iute f l.l- e rl i oo endeavoured top xcite the coin ! ere: of the - ° lO - . i a l passion rt ies, so , account of the tender age of some of the Pl„ c ,tes A . come really to a dry question of law. It Epley en' r t o - 1 0 ,, grounds; first, whether the Court was to s e oll o . as_ to the leth of the notice to begivent a9 „; 1 7 0 1/ iest Iy, whether the Court was to grant the certicte• oe' 4 h vidence was not complete. With respect t° st°!:11 istrs te O' r t j point, it was lett in the discretion of the meg whether there had been reasonable notice or 13°1‘ ( Ifr regard r to theesecoed ber th e e t r b e e p ro w oi a n w s t, it seemed . t° 'Ill.:1°1'13 shown,. ialPb e b l l e ) c a u t t • ' e a t he did not rely ou the appearance, came oe a qualified autho tsP I to magistrates wusuot wtli w be ould have had' ' . su ' e- et ji this Court at all, the ' J ur! 0 6 h , „ , ib e t ► i Or which the • yexercised their jurisdiction. •"! -e r"' 1) " 1 " w jurisdiction, and whether .they exercised it le Ai •r ,i ) , l b igly the Court bad no power * feree' s to inter i ca e other Judges concurred, and the rill charged. rrityty.teosn ° a g: w teho a sef i t i si ot regulartthaea° sdftubsireijoi!toio. oneopeloyf; ti f g COMMON PLEAS.—(TH I S n d iv' Before the Lord Chi e f J ust i ce W I LLIE. a ff - s p) CRESSWELL, WILLIAMS, and Tal ,l° " b iba f GORHAM v. BISHOP OF EXETEIIi to 11 0 0 0 Sr F. KELLY appeared to apply for a rule bb iob ; the Dean ot the Court of Arches and the Ar c , pet e gn Canterbury from calling upon the Bishop ° , : fo rd institute Mr. Gorham into the living of soe'Llfe'f the After briefly alludir.g to the proceedings r e 7 0 111, ° ;4 cause in the Qua n's Bench, and to the r e q; c ee° f ief° ru"e by that Court, the learned Counsel P 1. .00 01 1/ state the greueds of the present applicatiorlf nor 14 50 r, materially the same as those urged in hi ' i ° 1 1 : 40 w cation to the Court of Queen's Bench• A llot r eo os Henry VIII, cap. 12, sec. 1, it was ellaCt e n t aer e e• causes, matrimonial and testamentary,if theel/,olP7,loifi nit need by the Archdeacon of a diocese the aP A r r ebb_,, i 'lle r he to the diocesan, and from thence to the ''' t he P ", whose decision should be final when ;00; 6 1 1° touched a subject, but that when the Oita l b° , touching the King, there should be a fertVre the Upper House of Convocation. He WO", ftr A Court that such an appeal as this was a ver' be ri for 0 e King to chose at a time like this,,„b ' O 4! seeking fur a divorce, since it was one w,,P I ; 0, ° 011 7 have trusted more than any other. In lotailar, year, the 25th Henry VIII., cap. 19, sec 3, e q intol $" manner of appeal to all manner of causes OP OO tb l , O C; joining the same manner and form. It as (3 ' t sec. at the whole question turned, becaus7ooo-coe, tended, it enacted that the appeal ,in all Baal B f e spiritual cau s e s w hi c h t ouc h e d t h e Ki n g, the floP eo s' should be from the Archbishop to the UPP e a r l ,1 3 0 4 Convocation, whose decision .should be °, o " t ild tained . the whole question,. and be „ — o t that the interpretation which be cath ° ,„.' - ilie,: i was one held by all the highest " st it." - h or lie certainly had not alluded to these big h , P i ro - ar t ,: in his application to the Queen's Bench, t ) ", - , the Mie s now feel it his duty to obtrude them er" gd The Court of Queen's Berch had set abide ;h e 00, of the 25th H enr y VIII., cap . 19, an d In podegi°ollo' tence had disposed of the whole question , 11 ,„ ° the that the secti on w hi c h gave an appeal fre'" l ast. / I ter ° deacon's Court to the Archbishop, and from it , O li o, manner of causes touching the subject, b ,. /l a t o rof: touching the Crown to the Upper House ?A A " Tv -t ollr; had . beeu in some way or other repeet e ;'beell e il' e , section was still in force, and always boil „ti ts dared sc, he would show 'from treste s : 1 3 , 10 0 1 which could be Cited—Cuoke's he g " Abridge:eat," and Cummins' "Digest, ' ll id , in the strongest and clearest manner possib'e'i-e s 0 d e r 'I MI Mr. Justice WILLIAMS inquired whether t oes ac ef, was direct from the Court of the Bishop tt s se 01 : 0 0 1 1 House of Convocation without any interint'i tbs C -e, Sir F. KELLY said that no doubt it wag, e ll , an lob' not afi'ect the present s uit, b ecause this we" a o 0 04 from the Archbishop's Court, though be ha d that the refus a l of th e Bishop to institute was from which Mr. G or h am ', su i t o f d u plex cle" dole fed appeal. Not one authority had the slightee/ention;ol9 the appeal lay to the Upp er House of Coe ° . 0 1 %0 not to the Court of Del ega t es , w hich, in bah ow ac o tto been an appeal to the King to judge in b iB , 1 102 ° , 0 on' It appeared to him that what had always b a d te_: o3 jok uncontradicted and uncontroverted, which „ Cow l th s , urination of Lord Coke, Lord.Bacon,_ iter ° 7 4# 01e and Blackstone in express terms, could scar.heveio sanction of modern writers, but none of . fon or n g 5 from his interpretation. p t The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE—What .•*-- e- - of the Court of. Q ue en' s B enc h as to the 3-11 fleet' 0 11 ' 00 - 4 Henry VIII.? , no O r , s il Sir F. KELLY said they bad expresso a ras syt; o ib it at all, but had merely given a sort of su ns „eon ;,410. 4. that it gave an appeal from the Are 1 411301 ), • 0 Bishop, and from the Bishop to the Are"„ t hiog decision was final, just as if there were n - jcieg.,, lt ieN statute about matters touching the Long rew e el could not pass from this matter ao d oe the „to to that part of the judgment Of f t ee -, 1,0 Bench which alluded to the importance ()., sa bin o .tb° , seances of the contemporaneous bie t°r l er enee 0 0' upon the question. Now, with great de .e 0? de, Queen's Bench, this reference to l e P oteeif o biei poraueous history of the time we r. g par ved 0 th e ; lusive and unsatisfactory. The Justice had stated, i n hi s judgmen t '"hieh tm",001'" Bench without ref err i ng to that part in w 00 con' 00 te spoke of the i m p ortance o f attending to defs ren s raneous history of the times. With gr e i t o d tb„ 6 , 0 e0, 6 the Court of Queen's Bench, be , be , t he jiluatOri could show that the re!erences which 00 0 l a se' of the Court made to contemporee vor ios are were entirely delusive and erroneous • . that ot. so ret, t •te't 1%.wl the Court said in its juclgni"V i o.,bir g 0 time oe the passing of the 24th Henry _ ii d not ctrl a Catholic, being Chancellor, the s tatute . o 0 lify CO . 4 Of far as to destroy the Pope's jurisdictio n unef h iatt entirely, but only to take certain suits i o r t u s T n , o while in the following year , when the D ossed , JO, etairely destroyed his jurisdlction t he, More lied resigned, and at a time viDl4 l OO .. it 00 0 Lord A udley held the seals. _,. so d Old with erect di rust in his own researcheif,conpet„o,lo. his own senses, that he had felt hinite,. l l. D ad V' differ from the learned biographer 91 ow 263 / 4 10% liAi t ( . fix,,, kt,li tie '4 -vet Y T he w qtt i t, Sl at It 13 1 , 11 , 111.4tich.. `'^~,.,. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 2, 1850.