The Sun. — London, England, 1850-04-27 00:00:00

ill,: had -1 that j,ords, VO S j,ge d n d elr r e of t stnd ;era W. 35. state' . riot ju4" itomel iiag Ifs' “.!bar“ he pr°' ad to giro , oder' n attire g tc d nd I rtow o r )5 , pre [bastion, sh oh 0i ,awil ned • ago lEl thug". aid o' ir. jeoc-' C hdel rePr l br a , I bu t l a of 01" o " uati belief° F.irg", l ( l VP - o f Woo ds ; ed bo e r ) o c 0 ,9 pub lic re , 0 0 - ; bee ° , e refo r° to:Jur PO' IP sti r4 s - P f , I l r,) r w ith i u dg' ' te 'ro c ' de e:f rhea" nittO 19 itel‘el3. 1110 ~. '' Tr ii - e -.....„ _ — __....... f lt it L. the Pre l „,,, 4 4 3 duty to differ with their Lordships on n ....1, occasion b if was entitled to a I tcquittal , because a party might e ili , lit ou the ground alleged, many rrsona re. /N e d b 4 ; fe leay and, by this new rule of law, be p Poop ed bei ng brought to justice. When a felon c,. wr4 .tott would be an ahr,urdity if the ruks of pleadin ,„ kr. BPrevent a.conviction being obtained. ar°o, ALDEnsow—The conviction is quashed. Cov r ,,, k '44ON PLEAS. —(THIS DAY .) ib , - ."se of thewON came before the Court this m(n :n -s either at ittings in Banco or at Nisi Prius. 13 0 A - STREET.--(THIS DAY.) . I.4t:.''qatittl. Irish woman, a well-known prom . Ante, ellt..nel!Nerning - placed at the bar, before Mr..o .enry , , 4 p:slleCi ',kith chloroforming a gentleman, and assn oiling Polies e 3 n 8 table was sti clute-!onstable 140 F division, deposed that I to It tai Y ill '3Ow -street last evening, when a reap actable e.r in Ll n eanre to him and told him that he was ri led r, end f ctltitt tet,°ll-Court, Long.. acre . He went thith e . a hnik:“. Prisoner and another prostitute drag. g r in g_ PeareVirt through the court against his will. :.I,edara trick; BtuPifiec, as if chloroform had been app l'Eiutes 1 '115,, 1 4* generally resorted to by the low pro! t f i an , he ii ,,keli this powerful agent in a handkarehu , d (th e vut it in the face of those they wish to ro b. He I rut the Ko.oartable) went to release the gentleman, ttt bfer rushed on him with such force, and ha pt him 1 r , , n ma l'aNi t . 80 tong a time, that the other wem- , n. Aetlibleesollpe with the gentleman, who was qc ite t r. 4tl%,„.ait rPquired the assistance of anothe r " , sr es 311! g_entleraarr to ' convey her . to the a lotion t vq. i ~_' ?onstable's face was much bruibed by the h e, li ,"•(41 sae struck him.- as conamitted for a month. "P.:4i.„,„. - I .'' AT 1,---------------; Dc Ar 2 or 14, ,„ 1 A• IcENsED VICTUALLER S.— , i i , oe.: uzlt.lEs.--Tb is morning (Saturday) etensi,ve 7t."- k teae r a l (-1 . t lhe ale stores in Shoreditch, n o l p i p e c :, site the tfeur`-'o,:i.Mties Railway station. It broke out abc .nt _hall4., te •`' in et on the first floor, and in the row r s atove ki.., latPeltlseyeral.persons, who were aroused to by t i tl.t4p o o t - , attlyettiltzir vn e. i e t? al Society fire-esc a p e was brought I great difficulty, they reached the str eet ‘ with t 4 eglantinclothes on. Several of the brigade and Yes In ngeiee llgalee arrived, and in an hour the flames were t he b • ed, bee • property and damage k t m ai , a considerable loss of . • r 'Ala, ng were the consequences, How. the fire origi l• 43 not t, , 1 ,,, keesi oe L -l in . % u. Great assistance was ren . rendered on . Nrig baci.eY eailway men and police of the G division, in b i . ' a inost numerous ar,d disorderly mob. ts e :TaXsafee, OCCURRENCE tt, t oss or e vcCURRENCE IN CONNEXION WITH i i ;: o iti i t , 3 ;2 1 E ROYAL At dtLAIDE.-011.3 of um unfortu er was tt l , l l. Lean farmed'' toe , wreck of the above-named want a he ) Nate, Caaavan, who had been a set in . el e bete near Passage • 'ais loss was ren,dered still ir ilh rto hi e ., f 9 ' . ti 4 t . eatiB,l h . n ottunate family from the circumstances ti e 4 teees " P ./Ito be in the v essel on the night she was :` this, ha' n :'''t 'who belonged '.,e) a regiment lately ordered off k, 3 4 ' Pretty. i N e ,g seen this po . Jr man's daughter, wao was a 114,11 i°4clar7ati'eni,'it enveitil; s -, e -.., set about his babe purposes e . vith Itt•'d Plac e l''r• iminedia• • ip.ersuadetlhershtoe a,, ceel h er ~, .e yon hearing. g i o i a o ci ff l - w ef i t t h w h h i e m r e . ;el be? perslit. ~, ,In , Ark, understanding where she ,went, "Ai ' -r • Th„„ - ,- ' ie. :, and lost his life in endeavouring to oit tit°lPfatitile - '''"e r-oralact of a " gentleman" has plunge 8:44 fin TV4I I and disgrace. It is mournful to think e a Set t ee , 48 unhappy girl herself.—Corh _Examiner. 1 4i tb jr IWO S g—A tragedy of a most 4 t o4 o4,. tare . oLD!ER_. . . . t; 'NIA 4 .04 d E clok place in the militare barracks . of this ''llr e ;' a -e a 43- e•,ening last, the particulars of which are 1 tail' etr e ''' r , Private soldier of the 74th Highlanders, .sta a .:ge,a},,7anvel Williaia Williams, a native of the, county ' I,' eP ' • se 'lab • lit ' of temporary insanity, ee irad t _ . ourieg under a ii,l7,td, the 0 bis existence by Shooting t 4 teii, ett "e ball Di nt. , himself through in at the temple and quite through i t, err etee tat tb, ' h ad other aide. The horror of this awful . 14 ,pings bell"' scaecely b -*d d when on the following were " 4 , 'o'.'. ; r a e;. ll , t ,,a. qua' rter-p * a .n st s s i ee e, en, whilst the men on d t ok place, the 't "tiliat,'B.-len of the same dreadful dee 0 .„, i e ',b elt ~ Ineide this instance being another p ,Cate of it ls , lege/tem a 411 tail or , ecotchinan, named DuncanLrolv:ae, his 41 ' ein e* , who also drove a musket-ball through Two ! 4 i N laiire g ; i tie side and passing out at the other. . I 11 4 i: j a tli---°'Y occurrences - faking place in th . te , same regi 'll . ie l; ere, ' BPa Ce of a few hours, is, we belie\ e, without ~.I ' ll' e tW e el iT what taal•es the matter strange is the fact that ; 4 i t i Are - e rtn e nate Ule ' ll had no acquaintance with each er).l e h - eauerstand Blet . one of them was a men part!- Cr s • •4 acteri s :sh a u ld• nadi f i o : r_ o s rl o ev b ig r e i : e i t e3y -, au geed conduct, and mill tittl, it 4 '' ClOVnei Chronicle. hfi tIIN'A ME ETINGs.—The following is the list 4 ,, p. 4 ,111 I,l;2di9n_i.tii liii,nitgieisittetaro,ta_k, .e . place, nearly the whole of which will Missionary, April 29 ; ti (1 40 , ch gre j3: .1-hble, April . 29; Church Missionary, 1k 1. 1 ; n r • . e Missionary April, 30 ; Chinch Instruction, I: l :i .s e c e rlie , 1 t Pi I t l Y i i ti :te t , ,. ay I Bible, May 1; Prayer. book ; Colonial Church, May 1 ; London City i l .' ," 2 1 , lila - 1'; Irish Steciety, May , 2 ; Sunday School N '-'. I ' Loan' Church of England ' I oung Men' Society, i:. ill er ' ' Y e ' r „..lre3 4 3 B n se niety for Jews, May 3; Religious Tract ' Z • emeti e ~, voluntary School Associa . tioe,.MaM ay kl, `islet ar e i ai t' Aea,Ylurn i May 4 ; London Hibernian, t i ;tee 6 " eoreign F.chool May 6; Church Pastoral sr lc ;1 4 0 1 , 14 Y 1 ; L il i doa , I',Ss - ionit ' ry, May 6 ; Church Pastoral Ittee Ils e , reventicn of Cruelty to Animals, May 7 ; , ek. eri eso itl , . 11 dou Missionary, May 8, f' i! '0,15114,41'18,411,1:11'11 a •ter B ip ' ture nn Readers', May 9; London S,,' .1' I s Unio n -;. 9 ; London Missionary, May 10 • Ragged ' i , : 1 '-,' $ 3 ' j " ,i s 'av . 14; British and Foreign' Sailors', 1 1:' ' 4li vn 211 '.4-- " at , d P . c z ailors' Mar 15; British Re. - S , 14 'le' e - '3' 16; ]4:.r•l'-'ll of Son's of Clergy, May 16 ; I,iltatioi,"ro°f P-du cation -t , w illay 20; Foreign Aid, May 21; hir t Nee tt . the Gospel, June 19. te k . kg e C l,t ' Stil s „C t l-4 , l sEs FOR YOUNG MEN.—We have i h la,„ . he ei t ,. "s e eing able to announce that the co . rpora- : t4lheZ 'll i er. tt Vrz Lond.on have presented . the committee of t e Pr ( 01 1(4 ~,, the k xmduct of the evening classes for the (1 - ' 4 ),, 1 ',Nti 0 ,,,,ng inen, with the sum of 50 guineas, for 's% Ate e - ?I their.' excellent intentions. The giant was ee l 4ht red in te,',' 4%'vh : Ql tet lie , - most ha . ndsome . terms to the Rev. Itt - 'zert' ' -4*A" the indefatigable hon. secretary, q , 4 net t d I nns these most useful means of instruction k 4 Ne e ,, 14;t1gIvili,4.1tT I NTERMENTS BILL.--On Monday a t ht t'lb erk a " '. Place at the British Hotel, Cockspur-streat, ) qi -ofib (44.,,!•1104 arliament, fentlemen, and others, to consider . 11) t - '''tet al) l e clauses and provisions in the Metropolitan r th e '11' ; I set, N it , , Preparatory to a public meeting being held . ll i btt e. et E ' e °f adopting steps for their modification in iN e rtk., —The f l, 4° l ,r11,,,:,°14. COAL AND IRON COMFANT. h Ni°tie /,ng of this company was held yesterday te k 'c it „aners-lane, City; Mr. R. W. Kenuard in the a oetiretii the s ad that the company was now making h 1 tt a „, e reduction in the cost of management and t e t k:s: 4 eii-'o.l'oWer insteed of horses, which_ ha . d hitherto 4,'11" 1 1111 ' i t T " cost to the company. The inspectors, 4 .l th ' til l r ":11:. h eeleY, and tit; ries, consented to act till the teatr. tangs n ' , the retiring directors, M e rs Radford, i tl ~ 4 : . itigb e ll n ,' in e n-, a'ad West were re-elected. ns The v'. , C za4 a,c,r, a "eiv.ed, a vote of thanks was passed to dal 'S . 4 eo ll , '-' u n'ee.cors, and the officers of . the company. t - lli i'',ll-epo',,tir!s A-PlllL' 25.—The bark Lillias, of It ti t i ° Ne„ - , - -J- ees, which left this port on the 12th inst., ti eel4o our it s, laden with coal and passengers, was hkee t ally • k , laden lest night by No. 13 pilot boat, having 'tta (118 10 p ' t i t t ti Se es. „eited on the 19th inst. un er '41, 4 h. 4 NO_ Ihe weather was comparatively moderate, ett k l . l 'llet ot ren the vessel became enveloped in the force '', 4 l , re' l 4 , eajennd in stantaneously the bowsprit and every tit N et,l l v - 4," Ba ils, Yards, rigging, &c., were carried away tk:l' 4 'k'i,, 4 la Per e s na e r d• Although all the crew and slightspasserer plp a - I ) t t c , ( 17, 8 ) eve on deck at the time, not he the k.Nt h s. tS e l° 'aecurred. The Lillias, by rigging ' 4 te l e•to l a ~ Nests with a few spare, sails, was enabled A - 'ei t, ''' 'anti' fallen in with by the pilot boat before It !(i r tl litte e , r , oit '4l, LET ---' kilt ARCED WITH SENDING A THREAT -1 k i '' il s-ctre•—,.. A few days since an anonymous letter, li tr e i , thei Halsted post-mark, was addressed ~t o Mrs. P at teosfield tt , ti rta t ,•adY of Mr. E. G. Barnard, M.- '' • tlr L a ted i , e 4t) g to come from labourers who, the writer said, t i`e 0-6 for w antofwork, n I had agreed to meet one 1,.1,4.1_ rum . a te 'it h ,p ea g ,, a , , to break into the mansion and murder 4 1. 4 h t y - ,‘, air. Barnard being from home at the tie, ll Ztr,;'4l re el*aatnrally alarmed, and the gamekeeper with tell ritetna n - In tio ma i 1 1 , 8 . ear the house during the night. 1,,, ,, 5e t ~ since indefatigehly exerted himself to dee th lh o to ; ' a nd on Tuesday last had obtained such 4 ‘:15 z , 1 7 ,seeicitnPlicate John Ward, the walking postman be tePe,, beforeaead Halsted as the author, that on laying - I Q : , t t ot ,, air. G. De IL ' Vaizey, that magistrate granted . A ;; 11 tee d `,,45 apprehension ot Ward, who is now . in cus e ket ) e ' aritil to - morrow.— Chelmsford Chron i cle. 14 1: 4 til, ot j ox 1/ l 'o l i toant,.... L-- Con Wednesday last a youngman : 11 ti t i t . Pop '• shcoeeded in baffling and punishing il % P hil, '4 POgr, llB 4 gang of sharpers by whom he Iwith Lo sell, and, i he . was . b .n eset after a good deal of wrang ing,. Ihe o u se nte men for 131. 10s. They requested him ll l 'ei . ' t dicl —een- ard, Stamford, where they would pay t t Le t ! u , 5 , , , 441,1),,..nal one of th® part counted out eleven Valle out thets,l,lve him the money; he said, "I want th the sold the et,4 lee i n , h, iello w s persisted in saying ,a eti, l44 te:N'ete i 'he rhea then insisted on having the_ horse, tleketit,,,,e,l'egp:l7lzritirhefimusifniF from the give up possession, a scuffle ;14sit0ettp,;,t'Ing last bold of °the i h m e rs s els dd h le Ld b . ut s h o e m g e a p v e e op a l n e ''le e : ea win nra the young man stated his case, and as . !- s, l ,te c lSri a n a rl t °nee rendered to him. He mounted . his 11,-`tsieittneelee-tcan.ahsoon as' he saw a favourable . opportunity, Vets` id th e tuard as be could go, with the 111. in his N t ,' eg ahi e eorse in his possession. He had not been ',, " I lnie b - , e °a Wednesday night, SO,. that the sharpers 41 ''''ne, '‘'wl.l."-- Linciabishir e Chronicle. 1 0 h' WA t "di —4B R AILWAT.—Mr. Brunel, with seve- Of ' Cp h , •lre et 4 th e ''ey ed L em of this line, arrived at Cardiff on Friday eL t ilie,We tks t'Y a locomotive direct to Newport. The who e Fo es re d „la the immediate neighbourhood esent a most ~ 1 1 nat ,s id a speedy._,, 4.11 .413ktitr:e4-..ranuceer,zlng. --. 1 1/nniouthsliire opening eiertzra sit sin , ae, b ee , ,„ of the 41 ' ''• b A 1 . - - the popular steamer Albatross, qhletZt7hti,X4oerblienson, arrived tq Cincinnati a few days 11 4 ,eas t ,• k i tes 4 1. ans. During his trip up (says the Corn- At N i ler t o p i t ross had occasion to stop at the mouth of itl4 %11 at night out tw o hogsheads to es 4 fieod—no lighttebe seen—and river was ie tee "Ills-- reached e e Ott •• s 1:41, ne a p nito! cried the captain, " who keeps this e a at? -c k th e '° Yourself, and be darned ' to you," sang a Pt i h o e thidst ot the darkness, " Where's our wharf et, te w a lipht e et, eT h e , we've got freight for you,' crie the ee e ± - • 11 . 4 ,1You e o Z n i ; t ar i f boat's drifted off, there ain't no lights sete trik e i . and no freight," was the categorical a iet us ilil; ir).'' 4 gilts" Shouted the captain, to t tIN . -..wca" Show a light yourself, and let me see ‘;', a tl t ' i tgl l e t ` l o a v n e i c r : ar,e , y , ou ?" cried the captain. " Up a tree . hi rt 4 11(1, 1 • +(le boat sent in her yawl, and sure sste e, e th e rissi_aall - with a bundle under his arm perched in ng watts stealing slowly upon his resting- V 4 li 1;1 1 r.,4,, 1 6 . the 'k RAT o i 'vim ) aPpeara '—"AIRIOSt every person is familiar Zi - er B ~ (I N ._ _nee of the common brown rat, and with his g,‘;l.ltitin rat e list habits ; but it is only known to those r ,rl3- e ,r!lt of ‘ l i ( _rY of the quadruped that he is not his al r Str, A n tirlet , havi?! British islands. The real animal is 0 , e se gth e nd fa t been almost rooted out by the supe ...aelv4 ',.bitaot ern n'tY of his foreign invader. One of the , irey tO us Cau g h t • day, His the hold of the ship, was I n ; h e i the ether ta, 4l l'ea r " 'hailer • His colour is a sleek, blackish a ta a anee as in Size, and by no means so unpleasant i l •hd fu the brown rat. illuffon's summary of the f h . 11 ,_. lle te tit qllit ar ittS h a i t, B °I the old English rat •is curious. He ste., 7 • 4 '''' t e e; Pierce s gn aws 'wool, cotton and linen clothes, and 4,11 z.t_h( e i ,lao,,lrls avtu'ociali,orntahk e esholes in the walls, lodges of the timber work likeet4ll ea te .,: e nt• It comes vacuitiesforth only to look for food, l ot ea h litti4 e toy_its retreats whatever it can drag thither, 4 1....:2^ 4 , P a store ot provisions, especially when ernes* Courier. THE SUN, LONDON, - SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 27, 1850. LITERATURE. TIE FOREST AND THE FORTRESS. 3 Vols. By Laura Jewry. Already has the authoress of these beautiful volumes celebrated her abilities by the charming fiction of " Kirkholme Priory," and, still more, by the exquisite romance of " The Ransom"—a work conceived in that lofty school of Anglo-Oriental fable, of which Sir Walter Scott's "Talisman" may be regarded as, at once, the originator and the repre sentative. Had Miss Laura Jewry never again ad ventured upon any enterprise as a novelist, she would still have maintained, to our thinking, her high posi tion in contemporary literature, through the honour redounding to her from that solitary production— " The Ransom," revealing the sweetness of her sensi bilities, the graces of her composition, and the rich ness of her versatile and comprehensive imagination. Happily, however, for all those who rejoice in the perusal of this department of literature—a depart ment not mere bewitching in its beauty than bene ficial in its influence when presided over by one of the master minds of a generation—our charming romancist is proving herself as industrious in the cultivation of her great powers of fancy, and of her remarkable capacities for delineation, as in the development of her genius and in the extension of h er rePutatian- flaying depicted with a m ost felicitous pencil the domestic scenery of Englan d in one narrative, and the voluptuous land scapes of Palestine in another, she has here broken h . e „ ground for the display of her icven thm, re's-ouzel hitherto untouched by the imaginative Vi . r i* ,ers of Great Britain, but such as will not, we c'enceive, be henceforth overlooked by novelists in search of arenas of incident, unhackneyed in descrip tion. Through "Thaddeus of Warsaw . ' the English' readers of romance acquired a familiarity with the aspect, the manners, and the customs of Poland and the Poles. Through " Gisella" they obtained an in timate acquaintance with the topographical peculiari ties of Hungary, and with the social characteristics of the Hungarians. Through the " Forest and the Fortress" they will obtain a delightful knowledge of the appearance of Servia, and of the many noble and admirable qualities distinguishing its heroic popula tion. What Miss Porter had accomplished in refer ence to the children of the land of Sobieski ; what Mr. Simpson has more recently accomplished in regard to the valorous but unfortunate Magyars ; Miss Jewry has effected in behalf of that portion of the great Slavonic multitude who acknowledged as their leader, the terrible Kara George—a hero re nowned as their ill-fated but illustrious Gospodar. Kara George has been here daringly selected as the principal personage in the romance; and of all those wonderful men whose careers are recorded in history, not one could have been chosen more peculiarly suited to the requirements of the historical romancist. For the whole story of the life and death of the great Servian chieftain consists of a rapid succession of vicissitudes, startling in their suddenness and marvellous in their character. To the Servians, Kara George was le hat Wallace was to the Scots, what Tell was to the Swiss, what Hofer was to the Tyrolese—a hero born from the national cala mities, clad in homespun apparel, but crowned like the warrior-monarchs of the middle ages with a diademed helmet, and elevated as a sovereign from the ranks of the people on the buckler of a revelation ! Such was the extraordinary being who rent asunder the manacles imposed upon his fellow-countrymen by the Government of Con,tantinople, who displayed in time of war the genius of a great soldier, and in time of peace the genius of a great statesman, who di rected with his own masculine intellect the whole effeir3 of the state although personally illiterate, and who, although destroyed in the midst of a military commotion, left behind him a memory so replete with awe end glory that his influence was thereby ren dered hereditary—insomuch that the child of his loins is at this very day wielding the sceptre of the Servians, adding or.e name more to the list of the ruling princes of Christendom. It is this /wonderful adventurer, the hero of Servia, who is the hero of " The Forest and the Fortress." Miss Jewry hae been wise, we repeat, in her selection. For, while recounting to her readers the memorable struggles between the crescent and the cross in that pro• viace of the Danube, and reviving to popular recollection the singular career of the Gospodar George, she has best enabled herself 'to impress upon their imaginations the prominent features of Servian society while enhancing thereby the attraction of whatever is fictitious in her narrative. From the opening chapter the story is invested with an enthral ling atmosphere of attraction, the interest excited in behalf of the principal characters exercising its fasci nation uninterruptedly to the conclusion. Driven from their native land by the grinding domination of the Moslem conquerors of Servia, George Petro vich and his aged father, Petroni, are disclosed to us at the commencement of the narrative, hastening to the banks of the river Save, to, escape from the pursuit of a party of Bosniaks into Slavonia. The terrible in cident which transpired on that occasion is recounted in a strain of simple and touching eloquence, the young patriot, in an agony of bewilderment at the sudden refusal of his parent to cross the frontiers and by that means evade the cruelty of their antagonists, killing Petroni with a pistol shot, and disappearing immediately after the perpetration of that tremendous act of parricide. When next we are introduced to the unfortunate hero, the future Gospodar of the Ser vians is acting as forester on the domain of a monas tery of Benedictines situated near the southern borders of the Danube, hard by the town of Mohacs in Hun gary.• His companions are a little child named Vanda, subsequently the heroine of the romance, and a wolf hound called Lasar, whose value has attracted the in terest of a Magyar nobleman, one Count Wessolim. Several veers have elapsed after the introduction of these. personages before the tale is resumed, and then, Vanda, having grown into a beautiful maiden under the guardianship cf her adopted parents, the Count and Countess of Wessolim, and George, her previous protector, having gradually acquired the leadership of the insurgent population of Servia, the vicissitudes of the novel are entered upon in earnest. From this moment the charm of the book increases in proportion to its advancement, carrying the reader on with an ever-extending curiosity until the last terrible and mournful catastrophe. Our obligation to Miss Jewry for the deep and peculiar pleasure she has afforded us by spiriting our fancy into a realm of singular loveli ness, half historical, half fictitious, would of itself be sufficient in the present instance to preclude us from marring the beauty of her narrative by giving a dry epitome of its events and of their bewitching alterea tion, even were such a custom not already one totally averse to our ideas of judicious criticism. Under ordinary circumstances we are disinclined to interfere thus perversely with the aim of every novelist, namely, that of exciting the anxious solicitude and the, earnest inquisitiveness of whosoever may adventure upon the exami nation of their compositions. Especially, therefore, are we indisposed to strip, from " The Forest and the Fortress" the spell which our gifted authoress has thrown around them from the riches of her fruitful imagination, and from the glow of her delicate and contagious sympathies—knowing well that we could give no compensation for so doing by mapping out the labyrinthine trails through the Forest, or by drawing out a sectional plan of the windings of the Fortress. Before a syllable of the present notice was penned we had devou.red the volumes of this brilliant fiction, and we are the more explicit in this intimation, from perceiving that such does not appear, in its instance, to have been the course adopted by the mass of its reviewers. Having derived ourselves extreme gratification from the last effusion of Miss Laura Jewry's fancy, we regretted to observe one of our contemporaries, after the fashion of a certain eccentric worthy in the me tropolitan corporation, pertly and flippantly putting down" The Forest and the Fortress," as a very so-so attempt at an Hungarian romance ! hereas,hed the critic Only troubled himself sufficiently to glance through the work upon which he pronounced this very peremptory condemnation, he would have found that it was about as much a romance of Cockaigne as it was a romance of Hungary. Servia, and not Hungary, is the land upon which all its interest is con centrated. Servian leaders,and pot Hungarian leaders, are the prominent characters involved in its succes sion of vicissitudes. Venda, its :lovely heroine, is a Servian. Kara George, it is needless to say, so far from being a Magyar, is not only a son of the soil of Servia, but its Gospodar and its Liberator. A bril liant variety of other characters, almost all of them, with scarcely an exception, Servian, add an additional merit to the story from its revelation of the workings of the human heart, and of the versatile and volatile capacities of the human intellect. Erfrem Petro vich, the brother of Kara George, is the principal villain of the work until he is succeeded and exceeded in rascality by his son Lasar (curiously enough called by the same name as the wolf-hound of his uncle, when the latter was a forester to the Benedictines). Milan, the Knes of Rudnik, a most lovely and love able character, especially enlists the sympathies of the reader ; and the mournful episode of poi Helena' clings to the recollection with a peculiar and almost painful tenacity, even after her history has become eclipsed by the more conspicuous history of her friend and companion Venda. Of the whole description of Rudnik we must speak in terms of admiration, conveying, as it does, a vivid and life-like idea of the aspect, the manners, and the domestic economy of a beautiful Servian village. We rove through the plum orchard with Liubitza and her lover Milosh—we watch the good Wishnia superin tending the , arrangements of her household—we sit by the hide of Helena's blind old grandfather—at the potent bidding of the novelist. Again, we are com muning in the solitudes of the forest with the mystic phantom of a Wili—we are reclining by the side of Shirine in the gorgeous apartments of the Pasha of Belgrade—we are storming the citadel in the ranks of the Servian patriots, led onwards by the heroic Gos podar—we are mingling in a conclave of the Woiwodes, or singing a street ballad with the Golu bitza, or gossiping with the barber Jowan, or writing dispatches with the priest-warrior Luka Lasaravich —we are at one moment in the midst of a troop of Momkes and at another surrounded by a tur baned band of the Osmanlis—according as the ro mancist wills us to direct the current of our imagina tion. All her scenes are painted in language as fluent as descriptive. Her powers in dialogue, moreover, are singularly conspicuous ; and the abounding glitter of incident, wild, horrible, or astounding, imparts to the entire fiction a charm of peculiar and commanding fascination. It must consequently be apparent, from what we have already observed, that the work before us is one of no ordinary ability, and that its excellence is raised far above the dead level of a meritorious mediocrity. As an historical romance, illustrative of the Servian revolution, " The Forest and the For tress" must hold a high, and anything but evanescent popularity in this beautiful department of literature. If it fails to eclipse in our estimation the brilliant merits of the "Ransom," at any rate it immeasur ably surpasses in ability the still charming and agree able fiction of " Kirkeholine Priory." While we acknowledge that we expect yet greater successes from the hand of Miss Laura Jewry, we can felicitate her on not having caused her admirers any disap pointment whatever, but on having brought to a feli citous conclusion a romance which will tend greatly to the enhancement of her reputation. DIARY and CORRESPONDENCE of JOHN EVE LYN. Vol. .1.1. English history, English travel, English criticism on Arr, English custoa.s, English literature—are all aided, 2dvanced, and illustrated by the estimable diaries of the good and garrulous Evelyn. We turn to them ever with an increasing zest, conscious that in examining, even in our most :idle moments, the apparent lumber of all this gossip, we are safe to light upon some precious curiosity or other, stored up fur posterity in the midst of its confusion. In reading most writers upon matters political, historical, literary, biographical, or critical, we feel, as it were, seated beneath the rostrum of a lecturer, listening to the staid and rounded periods prepared for our im provement after long and careful deliberation. When we are reading, on the contrary, the diaries of such Men as the excellent Mr. John Evelyn, or even, as friend Dogberry would call him, of that " naughty varlet," Mr. Samuel Pepys, we are transported away from all sense of mere perusal, over the gap of a century or two—and find ourselves, so to speak, sauntering through the reigns of the last Stuarts with the hand of the narrator on the lappel of our coat. The effect of the mere style is be witching—so conversational and familiar, yet pointed into occasional wit, and glittering . with frequent anecdotes. Compared with " Pepys's Diary," "Evelyn's Diary," it is true, has none of the at tractions of a most humorous eccentricity. Yet it has other qualities that make it equally agreeable, end some characteristics that compel one, however reluctantly, to yield it the preference. With all our predilection for the cdd, comic, and ultra-grotesque confessions of Mr. Pep3s—his secret licentiousness of temperament, his quarrels with Mrs. Pepys behind the bed curtains, his epicurean particularity in de scribing his dinners, his abominable little peccadil loes in ogling pretty girls in church, and getting pricked with pins in the fleshy part of his thigh by way of recompense, his ostentation in his carriage, his vanity in his dress, his miserly affection for his gold pieces —we are yet forced to regard the Diary of Mr. Evelyn as immeasurably more deserving a frequent examination. The extent of his numerous joureies through the continental countries, the natl- tiplicity of his acquaintance, and those acquaintance, too, among the foremost men of his generation, the variety of his parts, the versatility of his talents, the distinction of his numerous correspondence, his fami liarity with the events occurring in the reigns of the first and second James, and of the first and second Charles, and of the Commonwealth with all its illustrious soldiers and statesmen, his protracted and industrious career extending almost to the vene rable age of ninety, qualify him eminently for the office of an instructor of posterity. As such h 3 must always be regarded. Meanwhile, the amenity of his disposition, the goodness of his heart, the purity of his life, the gentleness of his manners, the earnest ness of all his friendships, and the tender devoted ness with which he clung to the ties of family, must perforce secure to him the sympathy, the love, and the admiration of all those acquainted with his personal history. To us there are few characters in the records of English literature more winning in every essential particular than that of the good and learned John Evelyn. His venerable name always possesses for us an irresistible attrac tion. If for no other consideration, he wou!cl be en titled to respect as one of the founders of the Royal Society. His exquisite work on forest trees, entitled, if we recollect rightly, " Sylva," is about the best tes timony of his genius, both as a cultivator of .science and of literature. But the composition which has preserved fur him, up to the present day, a very wide and per snanent popularity, is the one here being republished in a cheap and beautiful form by Mr. Colburn. The enterprise evinced in this regard by that distinguished publisher is deserving of all eulogium and encourage ment—the cheapness of the re-issue being as re markable as its beauty and compactness. The work in its present form is a necessary companion to the popular histories of our country, to Hume, Hallam, and Macaulay, to Lingard's " England," and Car lyle's "Cromwell." Its elevation to the book-shelf, as among the best diaries and correspondences in our .language, cannot but serve to adorn any library, no matter how fastidiously selected. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) COWEF, FRIDAY.—The English barque Spartan, Brown, from Jamaica for London, put into this port on Tuesday last with the losi of her mainmast, having encountered a severe hurricane on the 2d inst. near the Western Islands, and was thrownion her beam ends, which obliged the master to cut the mast away ; in this almost disabled state she reached this port. The master on his arrival proceeded to London for the advice and assistance of the concerned, and the steam-tug Copeland has been sent down here to tow her to the river. As soon as the weather moderates the barque will proceed to London with the tug, which arrived here yesterday afternoon. Married, at St. Mary's Church, West Cowes, by the Rev. J. B. Atkinson, on the 24th inst., Captain Tatnall, 92d Highlanders, to Diane, youngest daughter of Thomas Williams, Esq., of Ivy House, Cowes. ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE. The secretary has sold the Flirt yank, of 155 tons, the property of Sir Bellingham Graham, Bart., Vice- Commodore of the Royal Yacht Squadron, to Sir Charles B.PLeod, Bart. ; the price is said to be twenty-three hundred pounds. THE MESSENGER BALLOONS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Stu,—ln the Morning Herald of Wednesday last, Mr. Shepherd, the messenger balloon projector, makes a proposal to the subscribers of that paper to raise a sum of 801. to defray the expense of constructing 15 balloons, with apparatus for filling them with gas, printing the dispatche, &c., and to be sent out with Captain Ross's expedition. A number of these mes senger balloons have already been sent out to the Arctic regions, and from the statements which have at different times appeared in the papers respecting the experiments made in London, much is expected from them by the Admiralty and others. It is proposed to dispatch these balloons from the vessels when they arrive in the Arctic regions, and by means of them to scatter over the ice or water a quantity of slips of parer and silk, having printed on them, for the information of those who may find them, a statement of the position occupied by the parties who dispatched them, and their object in doing so. New I cannot see of what use these messenger bal loons will be if employed in this manner. We are told that these messenger balloons are to assist in dis covering Sir John Franklin ; how is the discovery to be made by Mr. Shepherd's plan ? We will sup pose that Sir John Franklin fails in with one of the paper slips which informs him that parties are in search of him, and where they are to be found ; of what value will this information be to him ? If he is alive he will naturally suprrse that search is being made for him. By picking up the slips he would certainly be made acquainted with the position of the searching vessels, but how is he to get to them? If he could do this, one would Euppcse that he would, not remain where he is. Thus it appears that Sir John Franklin is to find the vessels in search of him, and not they to find him. Now, these passenger balloons would have been of great value to Sir John Franklin, if he had adopted the plan proposed by Mr. Hampton, ,the aeronaut, in 1845, at the time the expedition was being fitted out. _ _ _ Mr. Hampton proposed that Sir John Franklin should take out a number of these balloons in case he should be locked up in the ice, or otherwise prevented from proceeding on his voyage ; then dispatches could have been sent off with the balloons stating that he was unable to proceed, where he was situated, &c. These would have proceeded to a considerable dis tance, and being picked up by other parties either at sea or on land, measures might have been adopted for the relief of the sufferers. The only thing that now remains to be done with balloons that appears to be of utility is in adopting the plans of Mr. Hampton, or of Lieutenant Gale, in sending out an aeronaut with a large balloon to make surveys. Much might be done in this manner, for an immense circle of view would be laid before the aero naut, and with powerful telescopes objects could be more distinctly seen from a balloon than from a ship on the surface of the water. This is certainly the best plan yet proposed for assisting in the discovery of Sir John Franklin, but unfortunately it has been re jected by the Admiralty and a useless one adopted. Before I conclude I may state that these balloon projects, generally supposed to be new ones, are not so. As early as the year 1785 Cavallo proposed the use of balloons in carrying letters from ships that could not safely land, dre., and, in 1826 an anonymous writer in the Mechanics' Magazine suggested that ballcons might be employed in releasing whalers from the ice.—l am, &c. CHAS. HY: BROWN. Meanwood-road, Leeds, April 28, 1850. BANK OF FRANCE. The following is a return of Vac situation of the Bank of France on April 25: ASSETS. Cash and ingots ... Ditto in branch banks Bills past due ••• Bills falling due in Paris, of which 14,610,626 f. 50e. were received from the branch banks ... Bills in the branch banks f. 340,003,838 0 . . 130,336,436 0 84,875 35 ... 41,396,551 7 ... 64,710,864 0 Advances on coins and ingots... ..• 844,300 0 Ditto by the branch banks ... • 437,544 0 Ditto on French public securities ... 18,141,919 85 Ditto by branch banks... ... 2,211,771 0 Ditto to the State on Bons du Tresor... 50,000,000 0 Ditto on the loan of 150 millions 50,000,000 0 Rentes of the reserve fund ... 10,000,000 0 Rentes, disposable funds ... 42,394,488 13 Investments of the new branch banks in the public funds ... Hotel and furniture of the Bank Real property of the branch banks ... Interest in National Discount Bank . Ditto branch banks Bills protested at Paris Ditto at the branches . Expenses of administration of the Bank Ditto of the branches Miscellaneous ... 12,826,541 39 4,000,000 0 3,421,721) 0 200,000 0 :230,000 0 1,125,285 16 1,445,072 0 315,826 94 3 45,545 0 ... 307,544 36 r. 774,783,122 LIABILITIES. Capital ... Ditto of the Branch Banks Reserve fund ... f. 67,900,000 0 ... 23,350,000 0 ... 10,000,000 0 Ditto of the branch banks 2,980,750 0 tteserve-imneobiliere 4,000,000 0 Notes to bearer, in circulation ... ... 414,896,500 0 Ditto of the branch banks 69,307,80,0 0 Ditto to order (post-bills) ... 1,641,775 80 Account-current with Treasury creditor 39,746,933 74 Various accounts current 94,609,183 65 Ditto in branches 23,986,966 0 Bills payable at sight ... 5,319,500 0 Ditto at branches ... 1,440,069 0 Bills of the branch banks payable by the Bank ... 6,415,371 37 Ditto of the Bank payable by branches.. 3,038,392 0 Dividends payable Liquidation of the Algiers Bank Discounts, interest, and expenses Ditto branch banks ... Expenses anticipated ... Re-discounts of the last six months Ditto in branch banks .. ... Miscellaneous ... 295,845 25 ... 15,520 0 ... 2.531,495 16 ... 1.202,996 0 ... 256,152 40 ... 263,317 26 ... 285,208 0 ... 1,299 346 48 f. 774,783,122 25 Certified by the Governor of the Bank of France, IYA RGOUT. We find by the foregoing account that the cash in band has increased within the week by 2,600 ; 000f. The amount of eommercid bills discounted remains nearly the same. The protested bills have decreased by 60,000 t. The baldt-nutos in circulation remain nearly as at the date of ;he previous account. The balance t) the credit of the Tr7.asury has increased by 3,000,000 t. Tire sundry credits have decrt ased by 4,000,000 f. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF FRIDAY. DOWNING-STREET, APRIL 25, 1850. The Queen Lai been pleased to ;44 °int Edward G , if- Gibs, Eq., L:f utenr.nt in the Royal Nary, to be Super intendent of Lihrraied Afi leans at St. Helena. WHITEHALL, APRIL 26. _ _ The Qicen has bz•en pleased to present the Rev. Robert b.,eivart to the church and parish f Trapent, in the presbytery and county of liaddingtun, vacant by the deatn of the John Ilerderson, late minister thereof. IVAR-OFF ICE, APRIL 26. 10th Regiment ef.Light Dragoons—Lieutenant George Webb to be Captain, without purchase, vice Lloyd, de ceased; Cornet Robert Clements to be Lieutenant, vice J. Percy Smith, appointed Adjutant; Lieutenant John rcy Smith to be Adjutant, vice Webb, promoted, Jun. 29. 10th Regiummt of Foot—Major Thomas Miller to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without purchase, vice Young, de c.aied; Brevet Major Henry Errington Lorgden to be Iti:jor, vice Miller; LieuterAnt John Robert Grnhsm Mattison to be Captuin, vice Lougden; Ensign John Edmund Wilhite to be Lieutenant„ vlc4 reason, Feb. 21. 24th Foot—Ensign Lord Frederick Montagu to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Mowbray, deceased, Feb. 17; Ensign Francis Freeman Wbite, from the 73d to be Ensign, vice Lord Frederick Montagu, April 26. 49th Foot—Ensign John Augustus Conolly to to Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Powell, who retires, April 26. 50:11 Foot—Ensign Parr William Kingsmill to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Mullen, deceased, April 16. 73.1 Foot—Captain Wyndham Edmund Bevres, from the 45th Foct, to be Captain, vice Murray, appointed to the 83d Foot, April 26. 78th Foot—Lieutenant Hamilton Douglas Gordon to be Captain, by purchase, vice Caldwell, who rotires; Ensign Henry Bagslia‘Ne Harrison Rocha to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Gordon, April 26. 83d Foot—Captain James Florence Murray, from the 73d Foot, to bo Captain, vice Douglas W. P. Labalmon there, who retires upon haif-pay. 45th Foot, April 26. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. EASTER TERM, 13TH VICTORIA. 26th April. This Court will, on Thursday the 9th, Friday the 10th, and Saturday the 11th days cf May next, hold Sittings, and will proceed in disposing of business then pending and undecided. BY THE COURT. The motion in re Berber (part heard) will Le the only business taken et the Sittlegs after Term. BANKILUi"TS. William Chittenden, draper, Paddington, to surreoder, 1114 y 7, at twelve, and June 7, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, efficial assignee, Basinghall street; Cooke, King-street, Cheaptide. Charles Veneer, builder, Tonbridge Wells, Kent, May 7, at two, and June 4, at eleven, at thu Court of Bank ruptcy. Eawards, official assignee, Sambrcok-court, Basinghall-street; Smith, Steuuing, and Croft, BAsing hall-street; Stenning and Carvell, Tonbridge. John Pattinson, grocer, Liverpool, May 10 and 31, at eleven, at the Liverpool INF-trice Court. Bird, official assign: e, Liverpool; Tyrer, Liverpool. John Stanford and Henry Bannisb r, brickmakers, Titford, Ha towen. Worcestershire, May 13 and Julie 3. at cloven, at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy, officiA assignor, Birmingham; Smith and James, Bir mingham. Alexander Speers Corrck, timber dt aler, Bristol, May 8 and June 5, at e:even, at the Bristol District Court. Act-urn:in, official assignee, Bristol; Brittan, Bristol. John Powell, cattle dealer, Upper Cabalva, Radnor shire, May 8 and June 5, at clever, at the Bristol Dis trict Court. Miller, othcial assignee, Bristol; Pugh, Hay, Breconshire; Britton and Sons, Bristol. DIVIDENDS. At the Court, Basinghall-street. J. Weeks, Hyde, Isle of Wight, grocer, May 17, at eleven—J. H. Gandell, East Challow and Harringdon, brewer and corn merchant, May 17, at half-past eleven— LT. TheAtald, Colchester, coal merchant, and J. Church Deptford, coke manufacturer, May 17, at eleven—J Bermondsey-street, Southwark, hop merchant nay 17, at eleven. In the Country. B. Lord, Blackburn, Lancashire, coal dealer, May 27, at twelve, at the Court, Dlanehester—T. Proctor, Pres ton, spindle and fly maker, May 27, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester—H. Rotherham, Chesterfield, plumber, May 27, at twelve, at the Court. Manchester — J. Y. Ashton, Liverpool, builder and scrivener, May 20, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—G. Evans, Talyllyn, Merionethshire, cattle dealer, May 17, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—W. Miles, Worcester, stock and Elan broker, May 23, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester. PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS. J. Ilannen, Little Britain, tallowmelter, on Thursday, May 2, and Iwo following Thursdays, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Stansteld, Basing hall-street. Walley and Hardwick, Oxford-street, linendrapers, 28., on Thursday, Alay'2, and two following Thursdays, be tween eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Stensfeld, Ba singhall-street. R. West, Fleet-street, medicine vender, 7d., on Sa turday next and three subsequent Saturdays, between eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Groom, Abchurch- at one. lane. D e vonshire, grccer, 9?d., T. N. Hayward, Torq Y' on any Tuesday, between u e l leven and three, at the office of Mr. Ilirtzell, Exeter. J. Hodge, Cioyton, Devonshire, currier, 45., on any Tuesday or Friday sfier 30th i instant, between elev en an d three, at the cif= of .r. I ernaman Exeter. T, Trelisstca, Cornwall, copper smelter, 2a. 81., on any T uesda y or Frida y a f ter April 30 , be tween eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Hernaman, Exeter. J. Alizekleston, jun., Shrewsbury, Shropshire, grocer, 2s. 4d., on any Thursday, between eleven aad three, at the office of Mr. Whitmore, Birmingham. H. B. Burton and G. Bulpin, Dublin, drapers, 4s. 93., on Saturday, April 27, and three subsequent Saturdays, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Edwards, Sambrook-court, Basingliall-street. J. Wright, Pendleton, Lancashire, dyer, 2s. 5 d., on Tuesday, April 30, or any subsequent Tuesday, between eleven and one, at the office of Mr. Pott, Blanchester. G. Ilesketh, Manchester. straw-bonnet dealer, a se cond dividend of Id., and 2,7 d. on new proofs, on Tuesday, May 7, or any subsequent Tuesday, between eleven and one, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Manche: ter. W. Hague, S. Hague, and W. Shatwell. Manchester, commission agents, a first dividend of Is. 3d. upon new proofs, on Tuesday, May 7, or any subsequent Tuesday, between eleven and one, at the office of Mr. Fraser Manchest' r. NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES. At the Court, Basinghall.street. 11. J. Stacey. Crosby-row, Walwortla-road, grocer, May 17, at half p.:lst eleven—J. Slater, Friday-street, Cheapside, v. arehouseman, May 18, at twelve —H. C. Cawston, Upper Dorset-place, Clapham-road, grocer, May 21, at twelve—W. Woodridge, Mincing-lana , lonial broker, May 21, at eleven — T. Ellen, Victoria stre( t, Holborn-bridge, and Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury, coal merchant, May 21, at one. In the Uoubtry. W. Wallace, Sunderlatd, butcher, May 17, at twelve, at th , ,, Court, Newcastic-opon-Tvne—l'• B. Choftin, Bristol and Bath, hoAseller, May 20, at eleven, at the Court, Bri,tol— f. S. Sleightholm, Scarborough, York shire, painter, May 27, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds— J. Goulde!brough, Manchester dealer, May 17, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester —R. Savory, Hereford, plumber, May 18, si eleven, tit the C9urt,,Birmingliga.. Lucy Perrers, Ilolsnor,hr, Devonshire, innkeeper, Nlety 29, ut eleven, at the Court, Exetcr. CERTIFICATES GRANTED. J. Crisp, jun., 13c-ccles, Suffolk, corn-merchant—D. Slater, Preston, Rutlandshire, cabinet-maker, certificate of the first class—H. J. 'Tyrer, Newcastle-place, Clerken watchmaker—S. Nelson, New Bond-street, ,ic•seller—J. Bonnie, jun., Brompton. builder, certi ficate of the third class—H. Loweeck, Tborverton, Da. vanshire, dealer in artificial manures, certificate of the first class—J. 0. Culyer, Edmonton, Middlesex, gas fitter, certificate of the second class—J. Lucas, Aldgette High-street, licensed victualler, certificate of the second class—S. Wilson, Weetbrolawich, Staffordshire, draper, certificate of the first class. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. R. Ord and R. Ord, jwn., Stockton-on-Tees, Durham, curri,-rs and leather merchants—J. Hutton, J. Langley, end J. Saxton. Sheffield, engineers and millwrights (so f.:r as regards J. Saxton)—T. Hine and C. B. Hine, Bury Saint Edmunds, cutlers and haberdashers—T. Hull and R. Hull, Kirktiale, Lancashire, millers—J. Finch and B. D. Wood, Dudley, Worcestershire, fire-iron makers—S. Audih4irt and C6,fiie Laurin, Gracechurah-street, re stauraunt-keepers—J. Bottomley and J. Farrar, Hud dersfield, manufacturers—H. Chadwick, J. Chadeick, aid W. Niggle, Heywood, Lan cas hi re , cotton-svin ners—C. G. Webter, J. J. Forrester, W. Offity, F. Cramp, a nd C. Ofilay, London, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Oporto, and elsewhere, wine and spirit-merchant—C. Waudby and J. Waudby, York, sculptors and marble masons—J. Wild and B. Hepworth, Whitley Lower, Yorkshire, scribbling-113V lers—M. Jacobs and A. S. Oppenheim, Leman-street, Goeclman'r.-fields and nem, Covent-garden, cigar manufacturers—Anne Edgar and G. Clark, Ilowtord buildings, Fenchura-street, printers—J. Miller and M. J. Reilly, Great Tower-street, City, wine and spirit brt kern—D. King and J. Jones, Heywood, Lancashire, grocers—W. Clark and B. Wolstenholme, Ramsbottorn L-Nrcashire, grocers and tea-dealers—J. Cox and J. R: Nicholson, Liverpool, gss-fitters and brass-finishers—H. Brown and R. Rhodes, Pemberton, Lancashire, miners and coal-merchants—J. Anderson and J. Ingram, Liver pool—J. A. Lloyd and T. Ringer, Bath, surgeons and apothecaries.____ INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. Abraham Ward Rhodes, Birmingham, fire ironmonger. Tolley, Deepfield, Staffordshire. plumber. David Green, Newton-in-Mackerfiekl, Lsncasi:lre, butcher. Join Oakley, Westßromwich,Staffordshire, boot-mftker. William Wilkinson, Beeston, Lear Leeds, Yorkshire, butch: r. Theophilus Knowhs Ridlcy, Pcncombe, Herefordahire. taPincr. Richard Beeson, Nettkhan, Lircolnshire, butcher. Thomas 11Priry Eves, Birmingham, brewery agent. Benjamin Thiggot, Birmingham, iron button•maker. William .Tarver, Thrming,har±g, road-maker. William Swadkin. Birmingham, greengrocer. WiLi,:rnitussell.ColehiN, Warwickshire, huckster. (;hatlrs Baker, l'e7ry Bar, Staffordshire. Sotham, Henley -on-Tlimmes, Oxfordshire. William Alinnitr, Noct.)n, Lincolnshire, le.bouror. William Adams, Caldieut, Monmouthshire, farmer. illia.ci Marro ln t, patow,tow, Monmouthshire, innkeeper. James WorrelL jun., Wolvorhamrton, Staffordshire, re tailer of beer. J:111 e 13radicy, Widverhampton, St2fferdshire. Thomas Wright, Wolverhginpton, Stoffirdshire, butcher. SCOTCH SEQUEST_RATIONS. P. Ri'ehio. Wocol:ads, by Perth, farmer. to meet within the Glisgow Chophouse, Perth, May 1 and 30, A. Mcldrum. Dundee, merchant, to meet within the Royal ll(.lA,Dundee, May 2 and 27, at twc. J. NAnian, Edinb , ..irgli, spirit dealer, to meet within Graham'., Tavern, Edinbugh, May 3 and 23, at (lie. A. Christie, Rana!lnch, Abcrdeenshite, farmer, to meet within the Committee-room of the Advocattl,'-hel!, Aberdeen, May 4 and 24, at tvtelye. J. Spence, Edinburgh, tavein-kceper, to rnect within Doweit's Rooms, Edinburgh, April 30 and May 21, at two. J. Angus, Cuminegtown, Aberdeenshire, merchant, to me,t within the Lvmon•tree Tavern, Aberdeen, May 2 and 22, at twelve. S. liatbbone and J. Rathbone. Portobelle, potters, to meet within Ferguson's Ship Ho:el, Edinburgh, May 3 and 30, at two. THE PEISINSULAIt MAIL. SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 27.—The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam , ship Jupiter, Ciptain Meel - an ' arrived this morning, at three o'clock, with the mails, in charge of Lieutenant Langton, Admi ralty agent. Her dates of sailing were—Gibraltar, April 18th; Cadiz, 19th ; Lisbon, 21st ; Oporto, 22d ; and Vigo, 23d. The freight of the Jupiter consists of 14 packages of specie, 10 tubs of leeches, 221 i chests of oranges, 1 case of silk, 1 horse, and l 1 packages of sundries. A large quantity of cargo, intended for the Jupiter, did not arrive in consequence of the vessel being un able to descend the Tagus in time for shipment. Off the Burbinges, April 18.—The screw-steamer L...vantine had fallen in with the barque Amphitrite, of Ipswich, abandoned, with loss of mizenmast. Sent the first officer and four men on board, who bad con veyed her to Lisbon. The Amphitrite has received trifling damage. Arrived at Lisbon April 20. On the outward and homeward voyage of the Ju piter she was admitted to pratique at Cadiz, and on her return voyage at Vigo. There is still a doubt whether the ships from England will not be in qua rantine for the next two or three voyages ; still some assert the contrary. THE GoILBAM CASE.—We this day report the judgment of the Queen's Bench on the Bishop's last move. The venerable Prelate, it appears, has found a mare's nest ; with not even a single egg in it. We venture to express a hope, as a friend of the family, that the bishop will now put himself into a decent state of obedience to the law, and set that example of submission to authority which he has been paid so handsomely to teach. We desire to say nothing further to the distinguished Prelate on this point. We hope, that having fought the question now through all its stages with unexampled tenacity, be will display that re signation under deleat, which becomes the religion he teaches, and the office he holds.— Western Times. AUXILIARY EXPEDITION IN SEARCH OP SIR J. FRANKLIN.—We are enabled to state that the devoted Lady Franklin has just purchased the ketch Prince Albert, of 90 tons, of the Messrs. White, of Cowes, to proceed to Prince Regent's Inlet, and send parties across from Brentford Bay to the western side of Boothia, which will explore to the Strait of James Ross; whilst another party will explore the eastern side of Boothia as far as Lord Mayor's Bay, in search of her Ladyship's gallant husband. The Prince Albert will be im mediately fitted out at Aberdeen, and will leave that place in about three weeks. By permission of the Admiralty, who answered his request immediately it was received, Com mander Codrington Forsyth, an experienced surveying officer of the royal navy, will command this expedition.— Herald. THE TWISTED TOWER AT PISA.—Mr. l'Anson makes the following remarks on- the campanile at Pisa : This is usually called the "leaning tower;" but this name does not convey a real notion of the bearing and form of the building. It is not a leaning tower, but a contorted or twisted tower. Like a tree, which, springing out of the shelving side of a ruck, strives to become perpendicular, and bends its trunk by the force of vegetation,— so similarly have the architects, as they proceeded in the work, after the first sink ing, endeavoured to right the building. The consequence has b . een, an irregula r c u rvature in this great trunk, and an irregular connexion of this irregular curvature with straight lines, which no perspective view can represent satisfactorily, and which could not be shown in a model, without the great est attention and nieety.—Builder. 1 p-ibt+ ot,„ GERMANY. Committees of tie two Chambers of the German Parliament of Erfurt met on the 23d, to arrange the dissension which had arisen between the Chambers with respect to the vote on the budget—the People's Chamber, it will be remembered, having inserted clauses in the constitution reserving that right en tirely to itself. The Committees decided that the budget when voted by the People's Chamber should be transmitted to the Chamber of States, which should have the power to make observations on and modifications of it, but not to change the total amount. It was also decided that, in the event of the two Chambers not being able to agree on the same vote, the vote of the Poeple's Chamber should prevail. The Vienna Gazette announces officially the re sumption of diplomatic relations between Austria and the Porte. It then gives a summary of the negotia tions on the question of the refugees. -In demand ing that Kossuth and his fellows should be given up, Austria, says the Gazette, relied on the treaty of Belgrade, but the Sultan having addressed representations to the Emperors of Austria and Russia, it was agreed, in conformity with the Sul tan's offers, that the refugees should be removed to a part of Turkey, in which they could undertake nothing either against Austria or Russia. Then arose the question, says the Gazette, as to the dura tion of the detention. Austria proposed five years ; this was not accepted ; whereupon Austria declared that it would not admit any limitation as to time, but would interpret the treaties rigorously and literally. This declaration, the Gazette adds, drew from the Porte a note, " written in a 4pkrit satisfactory to the Imperial Government." POLAND. A letter from Warsaw of the 20th, in the Post Gazette of Frankfort, states that a conspiracy had been discovered among the Russian and Polish youth, and many students, employee, and officers had been arrested in consequence. ITALY. T'ne Concordia of Turin states that on the 21st a pa doral letter of Monsignor Franzoni, Archbishop of Turin, in which he excited the clergy to refuse obedience to the law of the land, was seized by order of the Government, both at the printing=office and at the Archbishop's palace. It also mentions a rumour that the Archbishop, having attempted to resist the order, had been placed under arrest in his own palace. THE ARMY AND NAVY. (From the United Service Gazette of this day.) THE NEW FLAG-SHIP FOR . CORK.—We may with some confidence announce that the Ajax, screw two decker, 60 gun: , , 450 horse-power, will be commis siorrtd at Portsmouth on the lit proximo, and manned and fitted to 'receive the flag of Rear-Admiral Manley Hall Dixon, the Commander-in-Chief at Cork. ENTERTAINMENT OF THE OFFICERS, 30TH REGI MENT.—Captain Charlewood, R.N., of the Coast Guard, has obtained permission of the Admiralty to use the rooms of the Royal Naval Hospital at Chelsea for the purpose of entertaining the officers of this regiment. We understand the inhabitants of Portsmouth in tend giving Major-General Lord Frederick Fitz clarence, rl-.C.H. the Lieutenant-Governor, a dinner on a most magnificent scale, in acknowledgment of the interest his Lordship has always shown to pro mote their welfare and prosperity, more particularly as regards the improvements made on Southsea Com mon at Lord Frederick's sole expense. Benjamin Gamble, Esq., the Mayor, has consented to preside on the occasion. Mejor-General John Slessor has succeeded to the unattached pay of twenty-five shillings per diem. The Major-General served at Waterloo. He was formerly in the Royal Irish Artillery, from which he retired on the full pay of a captain, and was after wards a major in the 35th Foot. latsu STArr.—Lieutenant-Colonel D'yle, Assist ant•Adju!ant«ΡGeneral of the Limerick District, has returned to Limerick from Dublin. Captain Bruce will take the command of a convict guard of enrolled pensioners, now forming at Tilbury Fort, for embarkation to Australia. Captain Laye, formerly of the 25th, the King's Own Borderers, has been appointed barrack-master at Berwick-on-Tweed. _ _ _ . Colonel Fitz Gibbon, late of the 49th R.gimcnt, and subsequently of the Canadian Parliament, has been nominated by Sir George Grey, Secretary to the Home Department, to fill the vacancy amongst the military knights of Windsor. Major Stisted, who has succeeded to the Lieu tenam-Colonelcy of the 78th Highlanders, by pur chaee, entered the army in December, 1835, and purchased the whole of his commissions. He served with the 2d Queen's Royals in the campaign of Aff ghanistan and Beeloochistan, under the command of Lord Keane ; was present a the storm and capture of Ghuzaee, where he was wounded, and at Khelat. DEPOTS FOB, ENGLAND. —The following are the first on the Roster for embarkation from Ireland to England :-95th, 66th, 34tb, 79th Cameron High landers,' 38th, 73d, 6th Royal, 26th Cameronians, 38th Connaught Rangers, 19th, and 59th. MINING INTELLIGENCE. (From the,Mining Journal of this day.) The mining share market has not been so brisk this week as wo have had it for some time past, although several shares in our leading mines have changed hands. The advices received from the great mining districts of Cornwall and Devon are generally of a gratifying character—the miner, on the who!e, looking remarkably There are several new adventures, which have recently been brought before the public, which appear to corn- Ingrid some attention from the parties who have not be fore been much engaged in mining matters; and, from the highly-coloured reports produced, we fear aro apt to captivate the inexperienced. We would not venture an opinion on their assumed merits, but recommend the public generally to be satisfied of the correctness of the representations made before they become involved. At the Wheal Trehane hi-monthly meeting, the ac counts produced showed a balance of 5921. 13s. 7d. in favour cf the adventurers, and a dividend of 11. per share was declared, which will leave a balance of 3361. 13'. 7d. in hand. The balance is lessened, in conse quence of the payment of 3001. on account rf new engine and crusher. There has been a slight falling off in her returns, but the agent's report is rather encouraging than otherwise. Eighty-fire tons were to be sampled this week. At a special general meeting of the shareholders in East Birch Tor, the report of Captain Carthew was read, and considered highly satisfactory, and power given to the directors to carry out his recommendations, by rais ing the necessary capital, according to their discretion. At the Wheal Bawden hi-monthly account, a call cf is. per share was made for the further prosecution cf the works. The balance in hand is 8/. 17e. At the Wheal Henry meeting 'the account; were allowed, which showed-Ores sold. 1,0191. 13s. 4d.; sundries, 121. 12s. 6d.- - - - - - 1,032/. 52. 103. By balance last account, 125/. ls. 9d.; labour cost, three months, 6181. 18s. 5d.; merchants' bills,'l29l. 3s. I Id.; dues, 671. 19s. 7d.; lAA dice water charge, 601.-leaving ba'ance in favour of ad venturers, 31/. 2s. 23. - At a meeting of adventurers in Tregorden, held at Liakeard on Friday last, the accounts were presented, showing--Balance end Lf 13.,cember, 3071. 155. Ild.; costs and materials for January and February, 441/. 9s. 34.; for loan of engine, 81 ..757/. 55. 23. By ores sold and computed fur sale (it es dues paid), 147/. 55.; call made in February, 3361,=.4831. 5 showing balance against the mine, 2741. 6s. 2d. A call of 21. per share was made. _ _ _ - . At a matting of adventurers in East Pool, held on the 16th instant, the accounts for February and March were presented, showing—Balance from last account, 5921. 3s. 6d. ; costs and merchants' bills, 1,1511. 10s. 1d.=1,743/. 13s. 7d. By ores sold (less dues), 7301. Is. ; two mouths' water drainage, 120/.850/. Is.: showing balance against adventurers, 8931. 12s. 7d. At the annual meeting of the Deep River Company, in consequence of the non-attendance of a sufficient number of adventurers to constitute a meeting, it was adjourned until the agent returned to England, who has received instructions to dispose of the property, and abandon the adventure. fEShares is the following Mines have changed hands during the week :—Devon Great Consols, East Wheal Rose, North Pool, South Basset, South Francis, Stray Park, North iloskoar, Alfred Consols, Trelewny, Tre hane, Mary Ann, Wheel Treville, Bedford United, East and South Tamar, Grambler, Tavy Consols, West Tolgus, Telant, Treviskey, Tincroft, Wheal Languitad, West Caradon, Penzance Consols, Wheal Tremayne , Condurrow, East Gunnis Lake unction, Heignston Down Consols, Tolcarne, East Buller, Cook's Kitchen, Runnaford Coombe, &c. In Foreign Mines the shires chi , fly dealt in have been St. John del Rey, Imyerial Brazilian, United Mexi can, Copiape, Linares, Barossa Range, and National Brazilian. The Alten Mines report, from the 19th Feb. to 22d March, has been received. The estimated produce for February is given at 124 tons; and although the produce for the fast month has fallen short of the average re turns. arising from the fluctuation in the several lodes, and the severity of the season, it is expected, from the improvements that have taken place, that the deficiency will be made up during the next montb. The Linares weekly report confirms the last advice, that they bad cleared the mine to new ground; and that the lode in the shaft, which is in course of sinking, is worth 6 tons of lead per fm.; and the prospects brighten as they proceed. Arrangements are being made for sending 100 tons and upwards to Seville, for transmis sion to England. AN EFFECT or WAR.—The Cologne Gazette an nounces that the manufacturing firm of Grunion, of Elbing, which employs mere than 1,000 workmen, had been obliged to suspend payment. The liabilities exceed 1,000,000 thalers, but the creditors had accorded six months' tune, and the authorities of the town bad solicited an advance from the Government. The failure is stated to be one of the conse quences of the war with Denmark. At Memel, also, houses engaged in the timber trade have greatly suffered from the same cause.—Liverpool Times. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. CURRAGII APRIL MEETING—THURSDAY. The morning was wet and disagreeablos and the at tendance equally bad as on Wedmesday; the course ht avy from the quantity of rain which tell on the pre vious night and this morning. The racing was poor, both in quantity and quality. The Queen's Plate ex cited a good chat of interest and much speculation, in consequence of the St. Leger nag, Chatterbox, coming out ; he was backed Moro starting at 6 to 4 agst the fluid, but got a bad start, and was not even placed, Blucher, the winner of the Plato on Tuesday, again pro.ving victoriouf. The challenge of the Madrids was won easily by Captain Grant, St. John having been drawn, for the purpose of running for the Second Class this day. Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas for horses, &c. Three yrs old, 7st lib; four, 9st 41b; five, 9at 131 b; six and aged, lOtt 41b. Red Post. 31b allowed to mares and gelding •. •• • .. Mr. Kelly's ch h Blucher, by Hark away,s yrs(Dawson) Mr. Murphy's ch c Brother to Dough, 3 yrs (Dunn) Mr. Watt's b c Chatterbox, 3 yrs (Fallon) Mr. Disney's be Victory, 3 yrs (Keegan) Mr. Wallace's b c Sir Simon, 3 yrs (Monahan) Mr. Cullen's ch g Hark Over, aged (Farrell) Mr. Farrar's bl c Viscount, 4 yrs (Owens) Mr. Davies's b e Launcelot—Penelope, 3 yrs (Taylor) Ee:ting-6 to 4 on Chatterbox, 3 to 1 agst Blucher. After one false start the lot got off well, with the ex ciptioa of Chatterbox, who lost fully a dozen lengths be for ehe could be got on his legs. _Blucher immediately took the lead, and made the running at a slapping pace all the way, with Brother to Dough and Victory in his wake; Chatterbox tried to get up at the turn, but could not rt ach the leader, who won in a canter by a dozen lengths, Brother to Dough second, Victory came up third, testing Chatterbox by about a neck. Blucher is in the Chester Cup with the light weight of 6st 131 b. Challenge of the Madrids of 25 80Y8 each, and 5 sem. ft. Mr. Disney's oh c Captain Grant, Bst 91b...(Wynne) 1 Lord Watet ford's Bro to Johnny, 7st 41b (Doyle jun) 2 Mr. Knox's br c St. John, Bst 41b dr Betting-2 to 1 on Captain Grant. Brother to Johnny made the running, at an indifferent pace, to the distance, where Captain Grant collared and passed him, winning easily by half a length. Selling Sakes; sweepstakes of 5 sea's. each, with 25 soya, added ► for all ages; three years, 6st 41b; four yrs, Btt 41b ; five yrs, Bst 131 b; six yrs and aged, 9st 51b. One mile and a quat ter on the Peel Course. Mr. Mangan's b f Portia, 4 yrs-501.... (E. Keegan) 1 Mr. Irwin's ch g Pio Nono, 3 yrs-1501.... (Lynch) 2 Mr. Watts's b f Poosey, 3 yrs-50/ ((hillier)) 0 Mr. Bvli's eh c Ormsby, 4 yrs-501 .(Jones) 0 Lord Waterford's br h Duc-au-Durras-150/ (Doyle) 0 Mr. Quinn's oh h Farewell, 5 yrs-100/ (Magee) 0 Mr. Peel's ch g Poor Yorick, 5 yrs-50/.. (Doyle) 0 Betting-3 to 1 agst Portia, 3to 1 agat Ormsby, 4to agst Pio Nono, 5 to 1 asst Due-en:Durras, 5 to 1 agst Farewell, 5 to 1 asst Poosey. Portia made the running, with Farewell and Pio Nono elm() in her wake; the latter made a fine rush apposite the Stand House, and was only defeated by barely half a length. Poosey threw her jockey at the hill, and ran all the way with the leading horses. The winner was sold by auction, after the race, for 1051, the surplus over 501. to go to a race this day. BETTING AT MANCHESTER—FAIDAY. Two THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES,-6 to 4 apt Pits ford, 35 to 20 agst Beehunter WO to 1 agst Hardinge, 12 to 1 egst any other. DERBY. 5 to 1 agat Bolingbroke, 7 to 1 agat Clincher (t), 9 to 1 agst Mayors, 10 to 1 agst Ghillie Cullum, 12 to 1 apt Voltigeur (t), 14 to 1 agst The Nigger, 15 to 1 agst The Italian, 20 to 1 agst . Knight of Avenel, 23' to 1 agst Mildow,2s to 1 agst Cyprus. t a o gs l t egst Eisedat ius, (take Peep-o'-day Bo y (t), 13 to 1), 13 to 1 agst Glauca, 17 to 1 ao'st Ellerdale, 12 to C; li i: s . — A 9 nn, to l2 l "18 to 1 apt Chanticy. 20 to 1 agst John Cosser (t), 20 to 1 agst Roland, 20 to 1 agst Cossack, E 1 S a T; li t , 20 to l agst &Tiernan (taken freely), 33 to 1 agat Woolwich, 40 to 1 agat The Knout, 50 to 1 asst Captain Grant, 1,000 to 15 agst Fern (offers to take). TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUE. Sin,—Did Lord George lientit.clE ever stars the ilorses for the Doncaster St. Leger. and whcn?—Yours, WILLIAR THACKRAH. Saddle Hotel, Briggate, Leeds, April 22, 1850. [Yes; Sept. 17, 1845, when The Baron won.]—En. Sun. RETURNS RAirArAti wing are the Total Receipts of Ref TRBAAn!I:__WTh - keys for the past week—that is to say, up to the elate to which the respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same week in the previous vear:-- eAfollYo t ;,..0 Week Last i 1 o ' l ending NAME OF RAILW AY. week. O te 0 . 1/1•N0... ••••........1M•M•.•.........M.••••••• ••••••••......... .. X X April 20 Aberdeen .. ••• • „, ....... ..... ••• • • 1,028 500 21 Amiens and Boulogne •••••''• • •• • • • • 1,283 1,370 20 Belfast and Ballymena ...• • and • • • ** • • • 2 • 518 4 , 1 21 Birkenhead, Lancashire, Chesh Y • ire 1,07 791 - Bolton, Blackburn, Clitheroe, and IV* - 402 21 Bristol and Exeter •••••••••• • • • • • • • • 3,851 - 2141 ChesterC a led ni an a n d ... H . . o . ly . . h . e . a . d .. : . .. •• .. .• "•• .. 2,346 •• • ..... • • 6,100 8 , 024 • 1,361 18 Dublin and Drogheda. ••• • • ...... .• • 940 854 23 Dublin and Kingstown ...... •••• • • " 795 643 2 0 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen• •••• • • • 581 476 21 East Anglian.... • • .... ..... ••• ••• • • • b 94 704 21 Edinburgh and Glasgow .••••• • • •' '' 3 . 867 3,632 20 Edinburgh and Perth ••. ... •• • . 2,191 1,892 21 Eastern Counties and North Eastern • • 14,176 1 5,066 21 East Lancashire •• .. ..... ... •••• " • • 2, t 68 2,784- .. • 21 Eastern Union .. ............ •••• • • • • 2,060 1,115 20 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ay r • . .. 2,925 2,600 20 Glasgow and Greenock. ••••••• • - • • • • 923 984 1 ,14 Great Northern and E. L.. • ...... • • 3.187 1 , 989 20 Great Southern and Western •••• • • • • 4 , 656 4,090 21 Great Western, &c •• .. ..... .•••• • • • • 20,016 21,287 21 Lancashire and Yorkshire.... •••• • • • • 11,622 11,474 14 Lancaster and Carlisle • • ••• •• • 14 Leeds and Thirsk ••••••••• • ' • - • • • • 788 248 '2l Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport" l3B 87 20 Londonderry and Enniskillen •••• • • • • 148 136 21 London and North Western, &C. 21 London and Blackwall. ..... •••• • • • • 737 605 20 London and Brighton . .... 21 London and South Western. •••• .. • • 9,340 8 , 996 21 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 5.302 3,617 21 Midland, Bristol, and Bir mingham •• • • 20,450 20,8.98 21 Midland Great Western (Irish) ••• • • • 1,230 1,370 781 840 21 North British .... ......... ....... .. 3,105 2,8;6 20 Paris and Rouen .•••••••• • . • • • • " • • 5 . 977 5,652 20 Roueu and Havre .• ••••• • • • • • ."• • • 2,280 2,458 21 Scottish Central •••••••••• • • • • • • • • " 1 . 269 1,064 20 Scottish Midland ••..•••••• • • • • •• • • 418 276 21 Shrewsbury and Cheater •••• . • • ... .• 1,440 1,433 21 Shropshire Union . 14 South Devon ........ . •••••••• 450 -- 20 South Eastern and Branches .. ••• • • • 10,160 7,610 .• ............ 2,124 1,769 20 Taff Yale ••••• • • • • • ................ 2,129 1,881 881 747 - Waterford • and • Limerick. ...... •• - _ - Whitehaven Junction .•••••• • • • • •• • - - 21 York and Newcastle .•• • • .... ..... 2 1 York and Borth Midland.. . _ 7,324 7,242 .___ PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com puted from returns made in the week ending April :13 4 exclu,ire of Cust: m Ditties pa=d tr payab!e thereon on the importatiin thereot into Great Britain:— From the British possessions in America 2 , 18. - Id. per cwt. From the Mauritius 13s. 11 d. „ From :he East Indies 235. Sid. „ Average price of the three foregoing de scriptions of sugar, jointly, computed as Above, and exclusive of duty ... 245. 91c1. " • By authority of Parliament, HENRI- BICKIi ZIA, Clerk of the Grocers' Company. Grocers'-hall, April 26. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. The Orphan of Genera, one of the prettiest operas that has been produced at this theatre s was performed last night with complete success for the first time. The music is by Signor F. Schirha, who has made a rapid stride in the favour of the public, and the libretto (which is a drama of intense interest,) is by Mr. Charles Jefferys of Soho-square, who has dis played great judgment in taking the familiar story of Theresa as the foundation for his work He has accu rately followed the development of the plot of that most interesting of melodramas, and has most judi ciously preserved the old familiar names of the various personages. Miss Louisa Pyne sustained the part of the heroine Theresa ; Mr. Allen was the Count de Merville ; Mr. Weiss, Carwin ; and Miss Villiers, the Countess. The subordinate characters being well sustained by Messrs. Corti, Latter, and Wynn. The words of the songs are very beautiful, and are not only calculated for dramatic purposes but for teach- , irg, and we predict a great run, for many of tha ballads, which are really charming. During the evening there were several encores ; the overture, which is nicely put together, and effectively instrumented, was Encored. The sweet me lody, " A poor unfrierded outcast," was given by Miss Louisa Pine with the greatest feeling, and an unanimous encore was the consequence. This song is very much in Balfe's style. One of the most effective and original pieces in the opera is the sestette, "What fearful mystery is this ?" the staccato of the male voices responding to the female has a very novel and good effect, it was rapturously encored. The same honour was awarded to the song, "My young days are o'ershadowed," which is a flowing, pleasing, and very original melody. The duet between Weiss and Miss Louisa Pyne, "I know not of my noble birth," is highly dramatic and was well acted by Mr. Weiss. The duet, " Turn not from me those lovely eyes," between Allen and Miss L. Pyne, was charmingly given, it is artistically instrumented, the wind instruments being introduced. with charming effect. The cadenza at the conclusion was novel, and sung with a perfect ensemble, a rapturous encore followed. In the third act the harp accompaniments in the scena, " Let me soar on the wings of the wind," produced a very pleasing effect. This was, indeed, most sweetly given by:Miss L. Pyne, who is now an established favourite , here. But what shall we say of the finale, " Ah, yes, twos with prophetic power ;" it was a blue of brilliancy, and was executed a la Sontag by Miss L. Pyn . e a wi . th all that elaborate facilte for which she is so distinguished. In fact we might say every piece in the opera is good, and again we repeat we are su re it will have a long run. Mr. Allen, as the Count de Merville, sang two solos with his usual artistic fini sh ; the exquisite melody " Unhappy maid, her reason wanders," was the acme of pathos and good taste; he wlis rapturously and unan imously encored. Mr. Weiss, although he had a very disagreeable part to play, was, ate he always i s , excellent; his fine voice came out with fine effect in the morceaux densemble. Mr. Wynn was enc ore d i n a very clever comic aria, " She was once s o d emure ." He is daily improving, and is a capital buffo when he does not outstep the bounds of prop r i e t y . Th e prin cipal artistes were called before the curtain to receive the unanimous greetings of a very full house, and the talented composer received a triple salvo of applause. CRIMINALS OF PARIS.—We read in the Paris journal the Pays :—" During the last fortniglitthe police have arrested 1,489 thieves of the worst .;'des' A who are classed as thllows :—Escarpes "„ Grecs (black-le gs ), 12 ; ti r ancheurs (thieves wlfis r f .on , operations at the fairs), 25; voleurs it la fermiere (then who sell false jewellery to the country people), 17 ; voleurs as mailechort (men who sell counterfeit plate), 10; serinettes ou chanteurs (these are the infamous wretches who extort, money by threatening to divulge real or supposed offences). 17 priests ; 17 ; briseurs, 50 ; voleurs la confrerie 5; pitancheurs a la tirsge (keepers of low lottteorniessw.7th droguers la haute (men who collect subscrip 1. false tales of calamities), 19 ; roulleti?rs (sham ; ern pilliers de puquelins (sham commercial travellers). robberies), porteurs (men who frequent estarninets to commit ° lay wait tar 150 ; voleurs I la bonne franquette (men l r an ‘ ciers (men who carriers), 5; country people to rob them), 35; 111; cambrio)eurs steal trunks), 18; voleurs a la ca . :7 * . a i) : rooms), 189 ; sans. (thieves who get into houses andmr postors who pretend to chagrin, on batteurs de dig tdeigrPde it (thieves Mier cffer have epileptic fits), 9; u-CpiiiileiUTmell d r a pes ) n , 1 2 c e n u; wr voleursd e r o b b o w uat a s ai na h c e goods at low prises), 55,. voleurs la location women of linen) 19 ; trimbe ~hops), quarter -day when they suppose 133; voleurs aux (thievesctdi ligencee I: ewhow (robbersh o enter rob l oi rooms od n ni - sg r ae a ut p c e qe r us . pays door),th e2r;envto)i r d- (persons who have goods brought to them, and w rent), la limace, on a d: u e:leul orx m e a lidisappear°s n u t im ee os u n , r3 l bl i ayida voleurs bbya et: au bunj our, 9; voleurs a la tire, ; avale-tout-cru (thieves andwho 11 r s s ; a 2 l 7 lc ; ,w anmn diamondsrs, 4 and other precious stones), 7 ; voleurs A la detourne , 110 ; voleurs au poivrier (thieves b t r a o k q e u who rob drunken men), 51; charrieurs, ou voleurs a l'Ame ricathe, 100; and voleurs si la tire (pickpockets), 101." THE WINDOW TAXING OF LODGING-DOUSES. As at present regulated, the window-tax falls particularly heavy on model lcdging-houses. A house having less than eight windows is exempted from duty; a house having eight windows pays nearly 2s. ld. for each window,. beyond that number not only is each window chargeable, but the rate of tax per window increases with the number; thus a model lodging-house having 100 windows would be charged 291.85. Gel., that is, at the rate of no less than ss. 10d. per window. The immense produce of the window-tax is the objection to its repeal ; but in the spirit of the Act itself, lodging-houses on a large ~Cale for the labouring classes, should be exempted from duty. Distinct chambers in the inns of court are so, so are those in universities and in public hospitals, as also houses divided into different tenements, being distinct properties.— , Bui der. ABERDEEN, APRIL 25.—Wind S.W.---Sid. LOON Quebec. i ~s I II -44 R I i.