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ant—the whole 30,000, by-the-bye commanded by A Lal Singh, whom a modern Siekh historian has r:-..resented as being in league with the British ge- If so, defend me from my friends ! With an instant's hesitation, Lord Gough gave crjers . for movements of hone-artillery and cavalry to 13,th flanks ; and it was in this movement to repulse the Siekhs, that the Queen's 3d Dragoons commenced series of remarkable achievements which have3ince dyed them as the noblest cavalry regiment that ever went to India. The repulse was complete on both flanks. Oil 47 artillery and cavalry went through the enormous iirc of the enemy, and got into its rear, so as to become an object of the deepest anxi#ty to Sir Hugh Gough. It was then that he turned to his aide de-camps, and com manded two of them to recal the flank detachments back to their own line. I was one of them, and I leave you all to judge whether the duty was a plea sant one. It was performed, however, and I shall carry the memorial of it to my grave, in the shape of a ball through my thigh. Such, gentlemen, was the introduction into military life which I received from my earliest patron in India—Lord Gough. I recovered from my wound in time to serve as his Lordship's aide de-camp again at Sobraon, the closing battle of the Sut'ej war—a battle most complete in its result, from the circumstance of a broad and rapid river at the back of the enemy's position, into which they were driven. A young soldier could not have re ceived a more instructive lesson than was displayed to him in that magnificent battle ; and I well remember fancying at the end of it that I could move 10,000 men if call, d upon next day. The campaign thus closed. Lord Gough recommended me to the Governor• General for promotion to the political staff now required for the Punjaub ; and to this great step in life I am mutually indebted to those two great men. But while expressing my gratitude to those powerful friends who gave me these great opportunities, let me not forget the master who taught me how to use them—Sir Henry Lawrence, who, at this very moment but a captain of artillery, has made himself, by his high purposes and indomitable energies, the foremost ma❑ in India, and a bright example to every Indian soldier. He it was who, through three years of British protection of the Pun j aub, was my public master and my private friend ; and it was sitting at his feet, amid great political events, that I trust I learnt that noble lesson, to live notc' or myself but for the state." IFE-ERUPTION by blte. VESCEIEUVIUS; with COAL-PIT DEATH EXPLOIONS--ro OUR. RIVER AWN •f FISH. Memo. for J. 1111 W, (charred-black, alas, t aided), at Wigan, &c.—Keep up the isolation of the bony-fabric t ' Inhalation of the pure white flame Wl* lett ye'—refilling hourly tl3 nostril air-vase exhaust cylinder-vacuum, for the Lungs' heart • t expulsion to the sulphurous tire-damp—in the skin-vescicles, r pcm. regeneration of fleshy rib-coverimr. This Vesce'ceuvelan ' -giving system by " Captain," ACKERLEY has providentially r ~13 citated eight (including " the man with his dog"), of the ina rs "blown" with gas and charred by the late disastrous o!lie ry explosions near Stourbridge, Chowbent, and Wigan, as et••rized in. February, on the 9th to 13th inst. Thus proving (as i Lanced in '49 at Iladleigh, Dudley Port, and St. Giles's) that pr a^t tical utility belies—tl:• Government talking drones- Ms im is on-ers ; and that his usefulness, taro' God's gift,' altho' at e f-expense [Sce the Captain's, " Savoy'n Blanch Charabrlaynre de rand'son ; fact. 'l3rks R.F."] verifies the old ' shalbe '* that Where there's A will there's a way' for alleviating this dira calamity the working classast —found Drs.-scare'd, dying like dogs at bay.' " Wit bath wonder, that reason cannot scan p.m. The model's M aid; how 'L',od, is'eQaod.l.man." To the New Exchange Coar..-niasters, &c.', under Queen Eleanor Savoy's (niece of Esx., Peter Earl of Richmond, of Suss., in 'Stew ollego, ' niagn re Alike,' Oxford) : now vae'covv'm' in St. Katherine's Jck and East Smithfield Charity, A.D. 1273, to 1399, ic 1849 -" till ' ziagna' posterity requires 'em, for the ribs of the Common-weal.' ' Exodus 2, L'ebrew prectext future for hope In " I am that shalbe" zainst Woolwich-mrsh. grin:, and Windsor-sta: explode, 'scatter- I n•Z of the salmon rry from Thames fishermen, for scotch " Park" : as adjunct, with the crafty im-moral obey' under the Church sc.e, marriage-trap (signature 6 Edw. VI.): set in place, of the • . - •; , is sacrinental bond " to cherish, be bonnie and buxoule, till !eatli as depart ; ♦ide, L'bre-ritualis, Secundum usum Sarum." t On " th'e 'Quorum" Certifl,ato, each sufferer is entitled on loss in ltf , or limb to Q. Ann's pension.or smart from the Greenwich Chest " (;snoolidated Fund." (inverted, with L-bevel, and I-sqr. inch iinenl Standwd equatuplex, with 10 brs', Truck Acts"),— ordained for the ancournement of Trade, Navigation, and Naval strength. [Nf lc m.its r ilreonor iv.yr.lo2] /ix SALIC-',CULLIPD ...code Edw. ii we Izabe;ea de oal.l tal. de l'lmp.'Rom.' ....castn.w.•ti iii. k:d'aLionlie=.. (C.AlortinirMout'agueAtkime A.) Ric. iii.,—....loatlat of Ed. i F RENCH PLAYS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, ARRANGE NI ENTi AFTER EASTER. Mr. Mitchell respectfully announces that the THEATRE will be RE-OPENED during the Ester Week, for the perionnance of Come , ie and Vaudeville, and begs to the following arrange- Lients:— Engagements—M. Samson (of the Theatre Francais, Paris), his first appearance, Madlie. Denain (of the Theatre Francais), M, Itegnier (of the Theatre Francais), Vadlle. Nathalie (of the Theatre Francais), and M. Lafont (of the Theatre ties Varietes). The first production after Easter will be Scribe's popular Comedy et' Bertrand et Batton ;" Le Comte ltertrand de Rantzau (Premier Mintstre), M. Samsun, as performed by him in Paris. Subsequent performances will be selected from the following : —" L'Ecole des Veillards," " VeuYage," and " Ma Femme et Ma Place," new Comedies by M. Samson ; " La Msrqule de Senneterre ;" the two admired Proverbs of Alfred de 3lusset, "Il ne Faut Jurer de Rien," and " Ii Faut qu'uae Porte soit Ouverte on Fermee ;" " Les De moiselles de St. Cyr," " La Paix a Tout Prix," " Un Chateau de Cartes," " La Mari a la Camuange," and the new Play by Emile Angier, " Gabrielle," now performing in Paris with unsurpassed suc cess, and in which Madlle Reviler and 31adlie. Nathalle will sus tain their original characters. Mr. Ilitche - 11 reels particular gratification also in announcing that, in the production of Scribe's celebrated Comedy of " La Camarade rie," estimated amongst the chef d'oeuvres of the modern stage, the principal characters will be sustained by four members of the Theatre Francais, Paris—M. Samson, in the character of De Miremont ; Madl e. Densin, in that of Cesarine; M. Regnier in that of De Itentincar ; and Nladlle. Nathalie, in that of Zoe; presenting a com bination of to ent not to be witnessed at any other theatre in Europe, the arrangements for which have teen most generously accelerated by the edininistration of the Theatre Francais, Paris. In addition to the present Company, and the foregoing engage :nedts. are the following :—Madlle. Avenel (of the Ther ire de l'Oieon) ; ltrassal , (of the Theatre du Polak Itojial); Ita.l Ile. Renaud (ot the Theltre du Vaudeville) ; Madame Octave (of the The;dre du Vaudevil.e) ; Madlle. Constance (of the Theatre des Varietes), &c. The first performance of the eminent tragedienne, Madlle. hei 1; definitively arranged for Monday, July Ist. - TIER MAJESTI"S THEATT:E. The First Appearance of jr.% Sims Reeves. The Nobility, Subie,ibe:s to the Opmt, and the Public arc respest. f ally Informed that EVE , TTN'G. It being the Lest Night before Easter, on which occasion MR. SIMS REEVES Will make his appearance in Yerirs Opera, EltgANI. Ernanf . Mr. Sims Reeves ; Puy Gomez, gig. Belletti ; Carlo V. Sig. Lorenzo ; Elvira, Parodt. Between the acts of the Opera will be presented a Divertissement, in which Madlle. Amelia Ferraris will make her appearance in a grand l'a= de I)eux with M. Charles. After which will be presented an entirely new and original Grand Ballet, by M. raul Taglioni, entitled 1. ' METAMORPHOSES. The Music *lmposed' Signor Pugh' ; the Scenery (entirely Bow) by Mr. Marshall : the Guintments by Mr. Br ,d : th• Cos. tunes by Miss Bralle 11r. Coann"'es, ander the sup.Jintendenee of Madame C.,pere. The Sprite (under the forms of I, a Page -4, a Rustic Cogitette-1, Will-of-the-Wisp-4, a Folic-5, a Domino—ii, a Cavalier), Mdlle, Carlotta Grist ; Karl (a Student), M. Paul Taglioni ; Ida (hie be imthed), lladlle. Rosa ; Mourns, M. Charles • Ylves, Madlles. Ito3a, Ausandon, Julienne, Lamoareux, E. Paecales, and F. Pascales, Applications for Boxes, Stalls, atyl tickets to be mania at the Opera Lux -office, Colonnade, Haymarket. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. The Directors of the Royal Italian Opera beg most re , pectfelly to inform the Nobility, Gentry, iiubscribers, and the rablis that THIS EVENING. Will be prey ntei Weber's Grand Opera of DElt rrsEisellUTZ, Witt entirely sew Scenery, Costemes, and Appointments. Agate, ISlaclame Castel:an ; Annetta, Mdlle. Vera ; Cna Peraninfa, Cotti ; Giulio, Sig: or Enrico Marulti; Chiliano, Mons. Massol; ynuo, Signor itomml ; Ugo, Signor Llligt Bel; Eremite, Signor Gregorie; Zamlel, M. Diiering; Gaspar, Herr ronnes. Composer, Director of the Music, and Conductor, Mr. Costa. The Sicenery ty Messrs. Grieve and Teibin : the Dresses by Mrs. Bailey and lime. Marzio ; the Appointments by Mr. Ela mire ; the Machinery by Mr. Allen ; the Spectacle arranged by Mr. A. Harris. The Doors will be opened at Half-past Seven, and the performances commence at Etght o'clock precisely. Tiekets for Boxu, Stalls, or the Pit, may be taken for the night Or season. N.B. Subscribers for the Season will have the option of paying their Subscriptions in advance (as heretofore), or by monthly in stalments. The ter►as may be obtained at the Box-otric• of the Theatre (cor ter of Hart-street and Bow-street), which Is open trom Eleven. till Floe o'clock. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee and Manager. r. JAMES .iNDERSON. THIS EVENING, Will be presented, by her Majesty's Servants, The Comedy of THE ELDER BROTHER; or, Lova at First Sight, Lord Lewis, Mr. Diddear ; Miramount, Mr. Emery Erisac, Mr. Davidge ; Charles, Mr. James Anderson ; Eustaee, Mr. Mon tague; Angelina, Miss Vamleaboff ; Sylvia, Miss A. Lonsdele. To be followed by A DIVERTISSEMENT, in which Maine. Palsar and Madame Louise will appe 4 r. To conclude with MARY STUART. Yri•ata Wails, 21. as., V. lie. 6d., ii. 25., 11. Ils. 6d., and 11. Is. Stalls, ss. each. d. FIRST PRICE. Boxes - 4 0 pit - - 2 Lower Gallery - 1 Upper Gallery - 0 6 Box-book-kcepei a. d. SECOND PRICE. B oie , - - 2 0 Pit - - - 1 0 Lower Gallery - 0 1 ; No Ralf-price to Upper Gallery. r, Mr..l. Povey. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, Soli , Lessee and %fa=ger, Old itrompton. THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE WIFE'S SECRET. Sir Walter A lnYott Mr. Charles Kean ; Lady Eveline Amyott , Mrs. C harles Ke an. To be followed by a nev, - Comedy, entiled THE SERIOUS PA. MILLY. Characters by Messrs. Webster, J. Wallack, Buckstone ; lizo W. Clifford, Miss Reynolds, and Mrs. Fitzwilliam. To conclude with THE THREE CUCKOOS. The Box-office Is under the direction of Mr. I. T. Archer. THEATRE. ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the direction of Madame CoWatt, THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new domestic Drama, called THE MOTHER'S DREAM. Principal characters by Messrs. llughes, Wright, P. Bed ford, 0. Smith, Madame Celeste, and Miss E. Chaplin. - Atter which MT PRECIOUS BETSY. Characters by Messrs. Wright, Bedford, Worrell; Miss Harding, and Mrs. F. Matthews. To be followed by GOING TO THE DERBY. To conclude with THE DANCING BARBER. !LOYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Managerneut of Madame Veatria. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mathe ws. THIS EVENING. Will be performed Wily DID YOU DIE To be followed by THE ISLAND OF JEWELS. To conclude with TWO IN THE MuENING. Dress Boxes ft,. ; Upper 80x.% as. ; rit, as. ; Gallery, 11 — NO half-price to any part of the house. Alt applications for frlyate Boxes must bo made to Mr. Aileron, 1 8 '_yew Bond-street. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AbiI.IIITEIKATRE. Prcprtetor. Mr. NV. batty. An entire chango in the Scenes of the Arena. New Grand Spectacle. TII IS EVEN MI The performance will commence at a Quart er to Seven, with a n3w Grand Spectacle of THE CORSE DE L: . :u).7; or, the Brigand of Savoy. To ha tollowed by a brilliant display of Batty', peerle4 Ecenes of the Circle, supported by the accouiplished artistes of the establish- Went. To conclude with a favourite Atte' piece. no.-cac. Ope., trum 1 - .1040n ttil Your. Sta‘u Manarer, Mr. W. West. THB CASE OF ANN MERRITT.—Mr. Sheriff Nicoll, accompanied by Mr. Under-Sheriff Millard, and Mr. Raly, of the Middle Temple, alended at the Home Office on Thursday, and had an interview with the Under• Secretary of State. Is was understood that the male of Ann Merritt, now lying under sentence of death in Newgate, formed the subject cf their visit. After their departure 'qr. Maule, the Treasury Solicitor, had a lon,g consultation with the Under-Secretary 'NOTICE. 114 R. WARBURTON'S NEW ROMANCE, REGINALI) HASTINGS, WILL BE READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES On TUESDAT, March 26. Ircury Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. No ' w ready, in 2 vols. demo Svo., price 285., THE PILLARS of HERCULES; A. Narrative of Travels In Spain and Morocco. By DAVID IJRQUIIAitT, Esq., M.P. " Full of originality and talent. These volumes give the fullest and best account,we have yet had of3loroceo. They.are most valuable and interesting."—Daily News. " An entertaining production, adapted for every taste."—Literary Gazette. " Throughout Interesting and instructive."—John " ?.bounds in interesting and picturesques descriptive passages. He gives us a panorama of Cadiz transparent in its details, and by a few massive touches bring the scenes distinctly before us."—Atlas. Richard Bentley, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING-, MARCH 23, 1250. 11GLI WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins I)AY —Di 4ming, 11 min. tout 9 I Evening, 57 min. after 9 To-4011110w— °ruing, 41 min. after 10 I Evezing,:24 ann. caw 11 THE WEATHER.—Sun OFFICE, MARCH 23 CHF.nmosivrEn, Lowest, 31: Highest, 47. Noon 36. BAROMETER, 29'52. The mercury has fallen more than half an inch since yesterday. WIND N.W.—Morning, a heavy fall of snow; afternoor, cloudy, with occasional sunshine. ~,... NFL : ~......- ---4-,, ,----b-1:-.41.1. ' 4 r• in 0 . •-,.-'. ... , ~_ - 1 1 4 V ...._, , . 3 • - . , ' irt --it Vao' ' `.O , -011 . ' t ..,,.,_.,. • .4: , li tr'-' vning Ant LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1860. Slowly as the Australian Government 13111 pro gresses through Committee, there is really some chance of the Ilonourable Gentleman the Member for Exeter finding his prediction realised. The present ses sion may, according to the present rate of progress, have elapsed before even this instalment of justice to our colonists can have been imparted—a circumstance over which we should deeply lament, seeing the ne cessity for a series of such large ameliorative enact ments. After exciting the hopes of the population of Australia, it would be deplorable for the Legislature to damp the ardour just now evinced by the Government for colonial re form by an unnecessary and captious procras tination, not, of course, that we would desire to witness anything at all approximating to precipitate legislation upon a matter requiring such profound preparative meditation. What we are solicitous to observe in the conduct of the Parliament, in re gard to this bold and in many respects most excel lent measure, relating to the future administration of affairs in Australia, is that laudable and attainable blending of caution and rapidity in its acceptance which may best promote the intsrest of our colonists and afford at the same time the best stimulus to the co lonial reform movement now at length adventured upon by the Cabinet. So earnest, we are satisfied, is the general solici tude in this regard, so real is the interest felt in the advancement of the reasonable ambition of our co lonial dominions, so sincere is the popular goodwill to ward this particular step, now promising to confer a constitution upon the Australians, that a large share of public curiosity will be directed, has already been directed to the perusal of last evening's proceedings in the House of Commons when the Bill in question was under examination in Committee. Even with the strong rival attraction of the discussions in the House of Peers, we are con vinced that the usually dry and tedious business of the Committee in the Commons will be turned to with peculiar relish by the more reflective portion of the community. Lord OVERSTOISL'A very successful de4i2t as a speaker, being his first public appearance since his recent elevation to the Peerage, and the brilliant and entertaining altercation between my Lord BROUGHAM and my Lord STANLEY—two of the most distinguished orators in the British Parliament—will of course demand the notice of the more attentive observer (..f* tile reported sayings and doings of the Legislature. But even, we repeat, with these power ful distractions for public attention, the inquiring gaze of the people will be turned immediately and searchingly upon the progress of the proposed boon fur Australia. Unhappily the advance movement in the way of colonial improvement has hitherto been slow, de plor4bly slow, resembling in this, as in other respects, the inductive pace of the " Traveller :" " Ri mote, unfriended, melancholy, slow." Remote it unquestionably has been from imparting any advantage to the unfortunate colonists. Un• friended it has been until now, saving by one or two staunch philanthropists, such as the Honourable R , - presentative of Southwark. Melancholy it has been, too, melancholy and forlorn as JACQUES himse;f— doomed to a lonely and almost unnoticed existence. That its progress, even in its best moments, has merited the epithet "slow," we rather conjecture to be tolerably well demonstrated by the course pursued last evening in the Committee of the Commons. Hours were exhausted in wrangling and hag gling over the tendency and phraseology of the two first clauses—over we should say, most strictly speak ing, the second of the two first clauses, the first having been agreed to without opposition. According to that preliminary enactment, it was decided that the district of Port Philip should form a separate colony, and be known as the colony of Victoria. Coinciding, how ever, as the house did, in the reasonableness of that, the first proposition, the Members were by no means disposed to become unanimous upon the second, every one having some crotchetty notion as to the advisability or non-advisability of the mode of constituting the legislative councils of New South Wales, and of the new colony of Victoria. Some were for this decision, some for that, and some for another altogether different. One person advo cated two chambers, and a second was earnestly in favour of one. So wide and various were the fluctuations of opinion upon this point, that one of the more conscientious Members, the Noble Lord, the representative of Arundel, fairly acknowledged that be had gone down to the House strongly pre possessed in favour of a second chamber, but that his opinion had been entirely changed from all he had listened to during the course of the discussion. Upon this head, we conceive that the argument is reduce able, as it was nearly a couple of years ago in France, to a single inquiry. If you say that an upper chamber is necessary, where would you find the materials fur its formation ? In France, ith the debris of three aristocracies scattered prodi gally throughout the country, the parvenu peers of the Orleans dynasty, the nobles of the empire, and the ancient aristocrats, tracing back their pedigree to a period in some instances anterior to the rise of the BOURBONS—in France, we say, with the ruins of three aristocracies visible in all directions, the ques tion proved altogether incapable of a response indi cative of the possibility of such a fabrication. 'Consequently, such being the case in France, in Prance, we repeat emphatically, of all the countries of the earth, how much more obvious that the diffi culty should prove insurmountable in the new and scantily populated provinces of Australia ! Happy would it be for our unfortunate colonists if our Legislature, upon such features of their new consti tution, would prove a trifle more . quick of apprehen sion. Were such the case the country would no longer be distressed by witnessin g the exhaustion of a whole evening in a debate as futile as it was irk some and protracted. - It is impossible to estimate too highly the import ance of the motion brought forward by the Hon. Gentleman the Member for Esst Surrey, on Thurs day evening. There are, perhaps, no subjects on which the feelings of the middle classes are more deeply concerned than on the two branches of Mr. LOCKE KING'S proposition. The points, toc, are so intimately connected with each other that the second, at least, could not well be carried out without the adoption (f the first also. It is only astonishing that, considering the altered circumstances of the nation, and that England is now eminently a canmercial country, no regular or organized agitation has ever been made for the substitution of a more just and equitable system in place of that now in existence. It is to that circumstance alone that the rejection of the motion can be attributed. Mr. KING should not, however, be discouraged thereby. Few reforms of any real importance have been carried on thQir first introduction. They must be brought prominently under the public consideration, and fully canvassed before a favourable result can be autici pated. If the Hon. Gentleman should persevere zea lously and energetically, we have no doubt that he will be rewarded by eventual success, and by the pleasing reflection that he will have materially contributed to the welfare and prosperity of uia country, and to the happiness and independence of thousands of his fellow-subjects, who would otherwise have been left unprovided for through an absurd ad• herence to the principles of the feudal law. The first point alluded to by Mr. KING refers to the restrictions affecting the free transfer of real estates. The tedious delays and enormous expenses attending a close and accurate investigation into title, and the doubt and insecurity to which the purchaser is exposed, notwithstanding the adoption of every possible precaution, act as a virtual prohibition to the subdivision cf landed property, or to the acquirement of small estates, and these delays and expenses are enormously increased at every additional dealing or transaction to which the property is subjected. It is true that, as stated by Sir EDWARD SUGDEN, " in forty-nine cases out of fifty, the present expense in regard to titles is superfluous," but still it is no less certainly incurred. No man will advance his money, either by way of purchase or on mortgage, until every matter connected with the property has been thoroughly investigated and considered by a con veyancer of his own selection, in whose soundness of judgment and competency he entertains full confidence. The most willing purchaser will insist on the clearest and most satisfactory evidence with re spect to every point in the vendor's title. Every fact, though undisputed, must be affirmatively proved, and that proof must be repeatei de novo on every new transaction. The result is, that to use the language of the Society for Promoting the Amendment of the Law, in their admirable report on Registry, " the time is fast approaching when the expense of any dealing with real property will be so great as utterly to preclude the poorer classes from the acquisition of land. Practically speak ing, small properties cannot be dealt with ex cept as matters of luxury the large proprietor is de , barred from selling, and the poor man from buying, by the expense of the transfer. Retrospective titles, then, are not merely a legal inconvenience, but a great social evil." Mr. KING desires to grapple with this " great social evil," to establish what Mr. JAMES STEWART, the eminent conveyancer, happily termed " a free trale in land," and to enable every man to dispose of his savings in the purchase of real property, without the certainty of himself or his children being " fleeced," if it should be necessary to bring it again into the market. A greater boon could not be conferred on the owners of real estate than the carrying his proposal into full and practical operation. The Honourable Gentle man did not enter into any details ; he did not specify the means by which his object could be effectuated, he merely called upon his brother legislators to declare " that it is expedient now to adopt measures for diminishing the existing restric tions on the free transfer of landed pro perty;" and that almost self-evident propo sition they thought proper to reject by a majority of 68, the numbers being in favour of the motion 52, against it 110. 'We trust that the several consti tuencies will closely scan the division lists and see how their representatives have voted on the occason. The names of the supporters of the present system, of those who think the restrictions affecting the transfer of land beneficial, and that no measures should be adopted for their diminution, should be well known to the public. The second point referred to by the Honorable Gentleman must appeal directly to the heart of every parent. By the present law, if he should be suddenly or unexpectedly called away from this transitory scene, if he should die without any will being discovered, or if there should be any flaw or technical error in that important document, the eldest son would inherit all his real estates, while the younger children, who have equal claims on his consideration and affection, might remain totally unpravided for, in a state of the greatest poverty and destitution. His daughters, brought up in the enjoyment of every comfort and luxury, might be driven to earn their daily bread as governesses, or reduced to the hu miliating condition of becoming dependents upon the charity of the " heir," or of other relatives. It is impossible to contemplate a situation so painful without the deepest regret, and yet such cases are of almost daily occurrence., and there is, perhaps, not a single person in the entire community who could not mention specific instances of such a character which have occurred within his or her own knowledge. Mr. KING, following in the footsteps of Mr. EWART, who fifteen years since brought the subject under the consideration of Par- ILment, desires to correct this anomaly, and to place real estate upon the same footing as personal property in cases of intestacy. This just and salutary principle was, however, construed into an attack upon . the law of primogeni ture, as if it was a revolutionary attempt to disturb the existing settlements of property, and to prevent a man from " doing as he wished, with his own," as a covert blow, directed against the territorial aristocracy. Never was there a greater mistake or a more erroneous interpretation of a perfectly simple and intelligible proposition. Mr. KING did not de sire in any degree to interfere with the full con trol which every man should exercise over his own property. If any man was so im bued with the absurd ambition of "founding a family," that he was willing to disregard the interests of his younger children that the elder might wallow in wealth, while the others were sunk in poverty, he might do so with impunity. All that was required was, that his wishes to that effect should be clearly and explicitly declared in due form of law. He might make any disposition or settlement he pleased by deed or will, and no impediment or ob stacle would be interposed to the perfect realisation of his fancy. But if, through any negligence or accident' his desires with respect to his real estate could not be known, then, and then only, could the resolu tion, have any effect ; and we venture to say that the distribution which would take place under the new law would meet the wishes of ninety-nine per- SODS Olt of a hundred who possessed the ordinary feelings of humanity, or who were imbued with the natural instincts of parents. Away, then, with the specious sophisms by which the resolution was op posed. Away with the ridiculous pretext that it was intended as a heavy blow and great discouragemen t ' to the territorial aristocracy, or to produce a social revolution, and a change in the depository of power in the country. The law arraigned is, as the Hon. Member for Montrose truly observed, "impolitic, unnatural, and disastrous in its effects," and as such it cannot long be sanctioned and tolerated by the British Parliament. CABINET COUNCIL (THIS DAY).—A Cabinet Council was held this afternoon, at two o'clock, at the Foreign office. There were present Lord John Russell, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Earl of Minto, the Earl of Carlisle, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl Grey, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Mr. Labouchere, Sir Fcancis T. Baring, Sir John Cam Ilobhouse, and Mr. Fox Maule. The Lord Chancellor was absent through indisposition. The Ministers will dine this evening with the East India Directors, at the grand banquet to be given to Lord Gough. CORN, CURRENCY, CONSOLS, AND TRADE.—The fluctuations in these, between the years 1790 and 1839. are cleverly and compactly indicated in a " fly sheet," just published, by Mr. Wyld, of Charing cross. The sketch must prove inestimable to every mercantile man in the United Kingdom. _ . ST. JAMES'S TPIEATRE.—The — season of French comic opera was brought to a close last evening, when Auher's Diamans de la Couronne was performed, with Charton us the heroine. A brilliant house rewarded the enterprise a the lessee. After Easter the theatre re opens for laudeville and general dramatic performances. The first piece will Le Scribe's Bertrand et Eaton, in which Samson will sustain the chief character. The , j i : je / r .si t i, .: r w in iffii i . l :t e ips o c t ri f tnigg 1 ethyl. principal artists engaged are Mdlle. Denuin, Iddlb . Nathaliv, M. Regnier, a , d M. Llama. The re pertoire ir,cludvs some very attractive pieces; amongst which, the more prominent will be Scribe's comedy La this society, at Exeter Caincraderie. Rachel appears on the Ist of July, SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY.—Last evening the st s m a c c etfu m /, u tre h by all beinc crowded to ex name exhibited more variety than llaydn's " Third Service," Mendels mum , sobn's " Praise Jehovah " (Lauda Sion), and Spar's Last Judgment." The solo performers were—Miss IM Miss J. Hayes, Mr. Lockey, and Mr. IL THE AGAPEMOISITES.—it is said that there is a Phillips. b3 ' llis Birch, M. olita conducted. general split amongst the deluded sect at their abode near Bridgewater. Many, seeing their folly, and dis gusted with their course of life, have intimated their in tention of returning to their homes and families.— Wor cester Chronicle. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. Although the Assembly has consented to take into consideration the demand of urgency made by the Minister of the Interior for his repressive Bills, it is not by any means certain that he will be enabled to carry them. It is clear that there is a schism in the camp o the mliority ;: M. LATIOCIIEJACQUELIN against the Ministerial measures on Thursday, and should the section of the Whites of which he is leader make common cause with the Reds, as they did on the question of imposing a stamp duty on transfers of stock, they will most assuredly again beat the 'niers.- Mole-Berryer coalition, of which the Ministers are the tools. The journals have all declared, with wonderful unanimity, against the law on the press , and notwith standing the statement of the CorirrierFrancois, that the editors of the principal journals of the Moderate press had had an interview with the Minister of the interior, it would appear they were never consulted. That statement, and the official contradiction of i', are so curious that we give them : The C ourrier Francais says _ . " Tl.e editors of the principal journals of the moderate press had yesterday a conference with the Minister of the Interior on the Bill which a as to be presented on the press The Minister of the Interior, in the absence of the Minister of Justice, informed them of the principal provisions of the Bill. The gentlemen of the moderate press observed to the Minister that the Bill would pro duce an affect altogether opposed t the desire of the di - fiinders of order, and various arguments were adduced in support of that affirmation. The Minister expressed his regret that these observations had not he pre sent, d before it had been drawn up in council. It was replied to the Minister that the press bad not considered it right to interfere before being consulted, and that it hal Waited to the very last moment to be applied t The committee of the moderate press who were present. were, M. Bertin (Debat6). M. Veron (Conslitutionnel). M. Lubis (Union), M. Forcade (Patric), M. de Valette e), Latour Dum o ulin (Coors icr journals of the moderate press, iu their (1-raisB meeting necna) l in e.e th iVT c hu m iej o ° rning had declared unanimously that they cuu!d not support a measure on the press opposed to the object which the moderate press desired to attain. The result of this deliberation was stated to the Mi nister. It is to be hoped that the Bill will be submitted to a new examination." Surely M. LATOUR DumouLni, who it was said re- C -, • presented the ourrzer Francais at that interview, must know whether or not any such interview took place, and whether or not what is stated by his own journal as having passed at that interview is correct, yet the fact is officially denied by the minister in a "communication" contradicting of the comments made by the National on the statement which appeared in the Courrier Francais. The following is the "com municated" note which appears in the Patrie and the Aloniteur du Soir:— •' The National of this day states that the Minister of the Interior convoked yesterday the editors cf the prin cipal journals of the moderate press to communicate to them his new Bill on the press. The National then er.- ters into a long comment upon what it calls this truly polite attention. The statement of the National is com pletely incorrect. It is not true that the Minister or any pther member of the cabinet convoked the editors of the journals or made any communicatio❑ to them. The truth is as follows :—Yestorday et the commencement of the sitting the Minister of the Interior was informed that some memb , ,Ta of the moderate press cf P.iris wore desirous of speaking to the Minister of Justice, or in his absence with the Minister of the Interior. The Minister of Justice being absent, the Minister of the Interior went to the editors who were desirous of speaking to him, lie met these gentlemen in one of the lobhi,s of the assembly, where a sort of conversation took place. The Minister listened to the obEervatiuns which were presented to him, and promised to transmit them to his colleagues, which he did inmeliately. The laws which were presented to-day would have been presented yester day, if the entire sitting had not been taken up with the discussion of the Swap Bill." The Consiiiutionrel, the Ministerial organ par excellence, has merely the following relative to the proposed law on the press : " Some journals pretend that the Government con sulted the different organs of moderate opinion before it prepared the new law upon the press. The story is com pletely inexact. Several proprietors or editors of news papers went esterday to the Chamber to make some ob.ervations concerning the new measures ; but the Minister to whom they addrt ssed themselves replied it was too late, as the Council had already decided. Thus was not only the moderate press not heard—it was not even consulted." Not one word in defence of the measure does the Ministerial journal venture to offer. The Journal des Debats declares, that all chiefs of parties equally dislike the press, and would, if they could, fetter it ; and with regard to the proposed measure it adds— " We believe that the measure proposed will be more than inefficacious, and that it will produce the very contrary effect to that intended by Government." The National describes the introduction of these measures as the commencement of a solemn duel. " On the one side is Paris—Paris, the capital of the revolu tion, Paris, the brain and the heart if France, PariF, the sanctuary of the genius of progress, Pal is, the city of the States General of 1789, of the Convention, the city which, by a mere gesture, sent fourteen armies to victory on the frontiers, and at the same time crushed in the interior the rebellion of the partisans of the past—Paris, ,A hich triumphed over the restora tion and over the monarchy of July ; on the other side is the chief of the executive power, M. Louis BONAPARTE, not alone, but worse than alone, for he is not strengthened but weakened by the assistance of those men of fatality and of misfortune, who have been successively the ruin of every cause in which they have been engaged, who brought about the fall both of legitimate and of quasi-legitimate royalty." The article then goes on to describe M. Louis 13uNA PARTE as "Engaging his responsibility in a crud against the press and the :right of meeting—arming him self with the sophisms of M. Polignac and M. Guizot, and me eting for adversary a people firmly resolved not to quit the ground of the law, or t) ask for ether vic tories than such as may be afforded by the consti tution." _ " The street is calm," says the National in another part of the same article, the " feelings are calm, the press is calm. Who then is creating an agitation ? The executive power, and no one but the executive power. instructive contrast, which will not escape the clear-Jighted observation of the country, and which enables us to judge and to condemn the means by the end, and the end by the me ans ." Having described the proceedings in the Assembly, the National terminates : " Such has been the first skirmish. But be it under stood that the struggle begun today will not termi nate with the vote for the proposed laws, supposing the assembly to vote tlwrn. This struggle wilt be pro longed without intrcnission, inr-xorable, and implacable to 1852. A challenge is thrown clown to universal suffrage which universal suffrage will take up in due time." The journals of all shades, even the Bonapartist Dix Decembre, condemn the ministerial measure which the Univers pronounces will be inefficacious. The Commission formed to tali e into consideration the measures to be adopted in the interest of French manufactures, with regard to the E x hibitiO n t o take days pla ago, place in l:ngland in 1851 , held its first w h e n the Minister of C ommerce maderst sitting two known the preparatory measures adopted by the Royal Commission of England. lle stated that the Ministers Plenipotentiary of France, Prussia, Belgium, and the United States, had been called on to form part of that Commission, and French interests would conse• quently have a vigilant and enlightened organ in it. Several important measures as to the in structions to be given to the Chambers of Commerce, and to the Consultative Chambers of Arts and Menu• facture!, were proposed by the Minister, and immediately discussed and decided on. The topogra phical plan, and the conditions of the competition for the building destined for the Exhibition, which was opened to the architects of all countries, is to be sent to the Chamber of C o mmerce of Paris, where a n y French architects w h o m ay wish to compete may in spect it. The Ge nera l C o mmittee was afterwa r d s di vided into six speci a l co mmittees, as foll ows :—Com mittee of Administrative Affairs and Correspondence; on Arts connected with Agriculture; on Mechanical Arts and Philosophical Instruments; on Chemical and Metallurgical Arts; on IVove Good!, and on the line Arts. At a subsequent meeting, the following gentlemen were chosen as Presidents of the above Committee§ respectively CIIAS. DUPIN, M. HERICHARD THURY, M. COMDES, M. LEGENTIL, and M. FONTAINE. . A letter from Brest of the 18th inst. announces that the steam -corvette Espadan had sailed from that port for Senegal. A letter from Toulon of the 18th inst. states that the steam-frigate Mogador had sailed thence with ammunition and provisions for the French fleet :at Naples. The Valmey three-decker and the ship-of the-line Ocean had received orders to proceed to rein force the fleet under the command of Admiral PARSE.. VAL DEiCIIENES. The Municipal Council of Dieppe has appointed a committee to organise a packet service between Dieppe and a port in England. PARIS BOURSE, MARC II ".—Latest Prices—Five per Cents. 90r. 85e.; Three per Cents. 56`.; Bank Actions, 2,2121. 50c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE L9NDON STOCK-EXCHANGE. ALtucn 22. Boulogne and Arniene, OA —Namur and Liege, Northern of France, 12,i4—Paris and Rouen, 204. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 17th have been received. The Gaceta publishes a royal decree, uppointihg a committee, composed of men specially versed in coin mercial affairs, to prepare a modification in the customs tariff. It Li to be presided by the Minister of Finance, and the Duke of 'VERAGUAS is to act as Vice-President, and M. 13ARZANOELLANA as Secre tary. [be Boles was closed. PORTUGAL. Advices have been received from Lisbon to the 11th. Tire country Was tranquil. The Count DE TimmAu we's suffering from indisposition. The dehtite on the law for gagging the press cGmtnented on the 11th in the CirteF. GERMAN Y. OPENING CF THE GERMAN PARLIAMENT.—A telegraphic dispatch from Erfurt, of the afternoon of the 20th inst., announces the opening of the Ger man Padiament. The first sitting took place in the Government house. The members of the Adminis trative Council tool: their seats at half-past 2 P.M. Baron RADowrrz, who opened the proceedings by commission, addressed the Assembly in a speech, in which he gave them an historical account of the events which preceied and led to the German Parlia ment. He dwelt on the duty which the united Go vernments had of granting a constitution. The pre sumption that all the Governments would accede to the League had turned out to be unfounded. Holstein and Lauenburg (Baron RADownz said) are prevented by the Danish war. Hanover and Saxony differ in their views from the united Governments. The former has declared its intention to secede from the the League. An impeachment has been brought forward against Ilanover as well as Saxony. The united Governments must not allow themselves to be deterred by obstacles. The Co;ltnissioner then adverted to the Bills which the Government intended to submit to the Parliament —such as the charter of the constitution and the memorial, the electionary law, and the additional act. Baron RADOWITZ exhorted the House to subject these Bills to a strict and patient examination, and to ad vance the alterations on which they might agree to the notice of the Administrative Council. He further asked for powers for the Presidency (Vorstand) of the Empire to enter into negotiations on the subject of the immunities which had been granted to the Hanse towns. After informing the Parliament of the ap pointment of the other Commissioners, Baron RADO• wiTz concluded his address by declaring, in the name of the united Governments, that the Parliament was opened, whereupon the members withdrew to consti tute their Houses. The Austrian L•oyds announces that the coronation of the EMPEROR will take place during the course of the summer. GREECE. Letters from Athens, of the Bth, state that Baron Gatos had recommended King Ortio to admit the validity of the English claims for compensation, leav ing the amount open for subsequent discussion, and that the Greek Government appeared disposed to ac cede to his recommendation. ITAL Y. Litters from Rome of the 12th state that General BARAGUAY D'IIzLLIEas has issued an order of the day commanding all the officers and soldiers who have been decorated by the POPE to wear to.eir decorations. The Gazctte of Genoa announces that during the trial of the accused of the 15th of May at Naples the government prosecutor had demanded that sentence t,f death.should be pronounced against the ex-depu ties POCRIO and SETTEMIIRINI, who have been in pri son for many months. THE BRITISH IVILDITERRANEAN FLEET. It was reported at Trieste on the 18th, that one half of the Briti..h fleet had sailed for the Darda nelles, the other half remaining at Salamis. LLOYD'S z7. , 1 - ill'Plisti-I'l'lllS DAY.) LONDON, MARCH 23.—There was a heavy fall of rain during tle night, with snow this morning.—Wind at noon N.W., moderate breeze and cloudy. CLYDE, MARCH 20.—CAm.—Sld. Magellan, Singa pore; Ocean, Boston, United States. LERWICK, MARCH 19.—Wind RufuF, and St. George, Greenland. A quantity of casks and some staves and flour in barrels and sacks have come on shore; a piece ut wreck is marked •' Jane, of Montreal.' DEAL, MARCH 22.—Wind N.W.W.—SId. Maranham, Philadelphia. Arrd. Maria and Louise, Smith, Man- Cuba. Arrd. from the River, Diana, San Francisco; Canada, and Vivi f, Montreal. Arrd. from the River and Sid. City of Ilatnilton, Montreal. The Acorn, London to Guernsey, struck on the inner part of the Brakc-,:atel, and has anchored in the Downs. LIVERPOOL, MARCU 22.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. Gene veeue, Pernambuco; Mary, M'Lean, Mobile. Sld. Can dace, S . John's, Ni-wtoundiand and Valparaiso. STORNAWAY, MARCH 16.—The Lawrence O'Connor, Doyle, vi tucks sank on Skeunoe Rock, Will inst., has beers towed into a creek near the Isle of Glass lighthouse, with hull and si ars very much damaged. PENZANCE, MARCH E.—Arrd. Earl of Devon, James, Rio Grande. BRISTOL. MAncu 22.—Wind W.N.W., fresh.—Sld. Feliza, Tr iaide. MONEY any' t_,t..iviAtEttc.;lAL NEWS. CITY. QUARTER TO THREE. The sal. sof Cotton - at Liverpool yesterday were 5,000 bales. The was dull and heavy.--ItAilway Shares rtlnain without alteration. The return mule by the Bank of England fir the week t.) the 16th inst. is favourable in every rospeet. With an increase of assets there has been an extension of business, and the Government balance continues stesdily to rise. The comparison with the previous week is as follows: Notes bsued Increa:.o ••• 30 486.570 ••• 139.190 ... 3,597 959 2,328 ... 8 ; 542.182 381,977 ... 10,260,861 ••• 75,861 ... 1,051,558 ••• 43.546 ... 14,418,854 ••• 878 .. 11,322.296 ... 458.499 ... 11,477,695 Decrease 41,740 Bullion 17.273,285 Increase ..• 139 929 Active Circulation 19,008,875 Increase 180,930 The negotiation of Bills of Exchange upon the pi in cipal continental cities was ttrected yesterday, on the following terms for 90 days paper:—Paris, 25.70 to 77i; Antwerp, 25.75. t 80; Amsterdam, 12.3 to 34; Ilan burgh, 13.13 to 134; Frankfort, 1211; and Trieste, 11.52 to 55. Rest I ere ise Public Deposits ... Increase Other Deposits Increase ... , Seven Day and other Bills Delrease Government Securities 11, crease Other Securities Increase Notes The following has come to hand by the Overland Mail, and is interesting in the present state of the Coffee market:— Co Per Spectator, clea t ed Jan. Coffer. 1850, for Liverpool . lombo, Feb. 15, 1850. u, Gilmore, London, Jan. 18 ... .. 667 „ 3 496 ~ Kulunan Finlay, London, Jan. 22 383 „ Lydia, Liverpool, Jan. 3() 248 „ 4,490 „ Abyssinia, London, Feb. 6 Conda de la Barbanoir, for Bor deaux, Feb. S l9 brie 2,391 „ City cf London, London, Feb. 9 265 cks 2,735 „ Madeira, London, Feb. 14 Beel, London. Feb. 14 British Tar, London, Feb. 1 l9O „ 2,902 „ 3,757 cks 24,188 bgs The exports of the precious metals from London dur ing the week to Thursday last, were about 70,000 ounces of silver. of which 4,975 were sent to Mogadore, and the rest to Rotterdam, and 40 ounces of gold to Mugadorr. The accounts from the manufacturing districts repre sent trade as being dull, but the Indian advicea may give a little more animation. Sydney advices of Dec. 2 report unfdvourably of the market for textile goods. The Fun's have been extremely quiet, but rather tending upwards. Consols 95i for Transfer, and tor Account. The premium on Exchcquer•bitls is 625. to 65 and apparently on the advance. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Acti4e Bonds realise 161; Portuguese Four per Cente., 33i; and Brazilian, 89. Mexican Stock has been at 29i Peruvian De ferred are 28i to i; Dutch Two-and-a-Halt per Cents. realise 55. Ddnisn Scrip is 2i premium; and Russian, - premium. Railway Shares have been dull, but generally maintain previous iates, and in a few instances are belt ?r. ONE CLOSING PRIQRS OF BRITISH FUNDS O'CLOCK. PRICES. 3 ~,i utsat.Gon,,ols AunuiLioa... 9 5 1,k,V A1 95% , .ousols for Account 95 54 . :!i% 95 5 / e -, xchequer Bills. 146. IliN2d 1,000/. June 62 63 p 65 p 5001. June Small. June 62 65 p 65 p ONE CLOSLNG PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. firazi Ilan tilmiriN Ditto, Small Ditto, New, 1843 Danish Bonds, 1825;3 per Cent. Ditto 5 oer Cent. • Ditto, Scrip Grenada Beads, 114: ; per Cent l7 17 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. Russian Bonds .. Ditto Scrip P/ 2 14 P 1 , ~, p Sp.noth 5 per (I,,nt. 1840 — Ditto. Account Dividends on the above payable iu London Dutch 214 por Cent., 12 Guild. .. 55 55 PRICES CF BUSINESS DONE Cf,o& IN RAI .14 AY SLURPS P A ID. AT ONK o'CLOCK. PRI( E 4 Csledonian Ditto, New IC?. Pref... 10 - -• " 6;i3 Cl. , ter and Holyhead. c 0 Ditto, Preference l5 ...... 7% Ea't Anglian, 251., L. & E. and L. and D...... 25 ...... 1 1 / 4 ...... ...... ..• Eastern Cow., tim... ..... 20 ... 7 1 / 4 ... ......... " Do., New .Prt f.rei ce, 6 per Cent .... . lO Eastern Union, Class A (late E. U. Shares) 25 ... Do., Class 13 & C 25 — 7% 1 1 4 7 Ni 11% East Lancashire Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... 24t, , , x.d. Gloucester & Dean Forest 12 1 7 g ...... ...... 8 Ureat Northern Do., % I B 6 per Cent... 9% 5 treat South. and West. (Ireland . Ditto, Eighths ...... 11A...... , re et! Velli 100 Ditto, New 171 l5 null and Solbv 50 ...... Lanesthire & Yorkshire 100 ..... x.d. Ditto, ditto ICO 36 ... Do. Thirds . .• Do. New, Gua. 6 per ct Leeds and Bradford 6O L .ndon, Brighton, ..x. d South C0ut...... 100 Do., New, guaranteed G per Cent . ........100 L - mdmi and N ion 10 5 14 ... Ditto. New Quarters 12 '' l to. Fat, London .t S.W.-stern ..ICO 63 62 7 ~ / 4 .•. .. . 14 57 --- x.d 98 1 ,4 2 vl3 105 121/s Do. New 401. Vanchvster. Sheffield. and Lincolnshire lOO no. New 101. Pref lO ... .. _. Midland . llO ......:^,9 3)% ... Do.. 50/. cthar.q D. Consolid. Bristol and Birming., 6 per et 100 - gorfolk - 100 Do. Extension .. vertli Staffordshire ... 17% 7% 7 7% - 7A Preston & Wvre . ..... ... 25 ... - ' 41 xd. Reading, Guildford, and Reigate l5 ..... 16 .. Royston and Hitchin ... 4 %..... - ...... ....-- _ Rena F.a.t.mri no., N 0.2. ... Do., No. 3 ....... ..... . 30 ...... 14% Do.. Registered No. 4 10 A'il L. , Somersot, & Wey mouth York. Newcastle, and 184 39 1 4 4Na 15% Berwick..... Do. Newcastle Exton. 20 ...... x.d... ... BV I x.d Do. G.N.E.Preference 8 ..... t,. 4 ',;. York and North Midland 50 04'... 16 7 ,, x.d U ttt... Preferenc. •• 6% FOREIGN RA.ll.w A YN. Boulogne and Amiens...l'o .: G% Namur and Liege ...... 20 ... .. Bte Northern of France...... 16 MINES. Brazilian Imperial ...... 244 — Cobre Copper United Al exican ...... ... 28 1 ,6 6 5% 33 MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) GOVEINT.GIiIit.D 76241 . The supplies of vegetables, to-day, were small, and a steady business was transacted, at higher rat3s. I❑ fruit, very little doing. English Fruit—Pine Apples, 10a to 14s; Hot-house Grapes, 123 to 15s per lb; Pears, 20s to 30s; Eating Apples, 5s to 6s per half sieve; Apples for cooking, 2s to 4s 6d per bushel; Fil berts, 7os to 753 per 1001bs. Foreign Fruit—Black Hamburgh Grapes (forced) 3s 6d to ss; Portugal ditto, 9d to is per ib; Spanish Nuts, 4s to ss; Bra it ditto, 3s to 43 ; Barcelona ditto, 5s to 63; Almonds, 5s to 6s; and Spanish Cheenuts, 3s to 3s 6d per peck; Lemons, Ss to lOs ; and Oranges, 34 to lOs per 100 ; Spanish Onions, 14s to 20.3 03 per box. Vegetables— Cape Brocoli, 6s to 8s per dozen bundles; Turnips, is 3d to is 6d; Carrots, 2s 6d to 4s; Greens, is 9d to 2s; Leeks, is to is Gd; Parsley, is 63 to 23 03; and ..'age, 2s 6,1 to 3s per dozen bunches ; Horse-radish, 2s to 3s per bundle; Onions. 3s 03 to 3s 6d per bushel; Savoy Cabbages, Gd to 8d; Red ditto, 2s Od to 33 03; Red Beet, Is to is Gd; and Parsnips. 4d to Gd per dozen; Endive, Is 33 to 1s 6d per score; Mushrooms, 9d to is per pottle; Brussels Sprouts, 6d to is Od; Spinach, Is Od to is 6d; Jerusalem Artichokes, is to is 6d; and Common Salad, is 3d to I s 6d per half-sieve ; Small Salad, 2* 01 to 2s 6d per dozen punnets; Shallots, 3d to 4d per lb; Potatoes, 75s to 1004 per ton; ditto, 3s 03 to 4, Od per bushel; Sea lCail, is 6d to Is 9d per punnet; Asparagus, 58 to 7s per 100; Rhubarb, 4s to 61 per dozen bundles; Corns all White Brocoli, is 3d to 23 per dozen heads; Celery, 93 to Is per bundle ; Cucumbers, 5s to 7s 6d per: brace; Turnip Gri ens, 60 to 93 per bushel; French Beans. 3s 63 to 5s per 100; Radishes, is per punnet; early York Cabbages, Is to Is 63 per doz. n. NEWGATE AND LESDENISAT4I.. Turkeys, 4s Od to 9s Od; Gee, , , 4s to 6,6 d; Ducks, 2s to 3s Od; Tame Rabbits, Is 4d to la9d; Wild dit o, 8d to Is 2d; Pigeons, 6d to 8d; Roasting Pigs, 4s to 7s each; Surrey Fowls, 7s to 9s; ditto Chickens, 4s to 6s; Barn-door Fowls, 3s to 6s; Capons, 4s to 7s per couple; Fresh BUtt,r, 8d to Is 2d per lb.; English Eggs, 7s to 8s Od; French, 6s to 7s 3d per hundred; Hares, 2s to 3s Od each; Wild Duck ,, , Is 6i' to 2s 3d per couple. NEWPORT. Beef, from 2s 6d to 3s 4d ; Mutton, 2s 10d to 3s 6d; Lamb, 5s 2d t..) 6s; Veal, 3s 2d to 3s 10d; and Polk, 3s ad to 4s per 81b3.____ I,73IITECHAPZL. Bref from 2s 4d47l3;ll7Sititlor7, 2i 8d to 3s 6d Lamb, 4s 10d to 5s 10d; Veal, 34 to 3. 10d; and Pork 2s 10d to 43 per 81hF. 333LLINGSGATZ. Turbots, 4s to 148 ; Brill, 2s to 8s ; Cod Fish, 18 3d to 6s; Whitings, 4d to 6d; Lobsters, 10d to 2s Gd each; Soles, 6d to 2s 6d per pair; Eels, 4d to 1s per lb.; Haddocks,4d to 9d each; Fresh Herrings, is to is 2d per dozen; Oysters, 108 to 42s per bushel ; Flounders, Gd to Is; Smelts, is to Is 4d; and Bloaters, 10d to 18 per dozen; Mackerel, 3d to 5d each; and Salmon, is 4d to is 9d per lb. BREAD. The prices of Wheaten Bread in the Metropolis are from 6d to 7d; of household ditto, 4d to Sid per 41b loaf. EIDE M.AR.KET. Market hides, 5610 to 641 b, 14d to lid; ditto, 641 b to 721 b, 10 to I'-1.1; ditto, 721 b to 801 b, '2d to ditto; Bulb to 881 b, 2id to 2441; ditto. 881 b to 961 b. 3d to 34r; ditto, 96th to 1041 b, 3d to 3-1; ditto, 1041 b to 11216, to 4d. Calf Skins, light 2s 3d to 3s 01; ditto lull 5a o.i to 5 , ; 6:1; 114 , rn Hides, 63 to Gs 6d; Polled Sheep, 5s 8d to is 3d ; Bents and Halt-breds, 4,4 d to 5s 4d; Downs, 4s 3d to 4s 10d; Shearlings, Gd to 7d. fIAY 1111.A.N.11.1i7r . SmunFlELD.—Nieudow [lay, 21 103 to 31 12s; Clover ditto, 31 Os to 41 12s ; and Straw, 11 is to it 9s per Trade dull, at barely stationary CUMBERLAND.—MeadoW flay, 21 lU cu 3114 i; Clover ditto, 31 08 to 41 Si; and Straw, li2s to lOs per load. A full average supply, and a heavy demand. WHITECIIAPEL. Meadow Hay, 21 8s to 31 12s ; Clover ditto, 31 05 to 41 12s; and Straw,ll Is to 1/ 8, per load. Supply good, and trade dull. BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) A poorl3 -clad woman, with a child in nor arms, was cl;a:geti with Legging in the E t ree . . Police-constable 88 F stated that he wks on duty in Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, last night, between six and seven o'clock, when he saw the prisoner accost several gent:tmen, two of whom gave her money. A third party, to whom she spoke, turned ber away roughly, and complained to witness of her conduct. He accordingly took ber into custody, as :in impostor, and when he reached the station he found that she had been there sonic three or four minutes before, on a charge cf stealing a pocket handkerchief from a lady, near Charing cross. The theft, however, could not be clearly proved, and she was therefore liberated. The prisoner told the inspector on duty that she was innocent of the thtf., tut admitted the charge of begging, as the wants of he r children forced her to do ti_ at or starve. Mr. JARDINE asked her what she had to say in answer to the charge. The prisoner replied, that having been unsuccessful in procuring employment during the last week, she had no alternative but to seek a living for her children, of whom she had two Lesides the one iu her arms, in the streets. Mr. JARDINE said that could not be allowed; there were workhouses open for the reception of the suffering poor, and lugging in the streets, which bad latterly be come quite a nuisance, must be put a stop to. He had reason to believe that the prisoner was a pr(fessed men dicant, and he should commit her to the House of Cor rection for 21 days. The prisoner, who had entreated the magistrate to let her go fur this once, seemed perfectly astounded at the sentence, and became very violent iu ber manner, de manding in a pussior ate manner to know what would become of her children while she was in prison. Mr. JARDINE ►aid they would be taken care of. The prisoner declared that she would not leave the dock until she was satisfied that her children would not be allowed to die of starvation, when Mr. JARDINE again Old her that they would be pro , vided for in the workhouse. The prisoner still protested that her children must starve in her absence, and clinging to the side of the duck, she vowed she would not It ave it until her chil dren had been sent for. The officers of the court were therefore compelled to remove her by force. INTEL AND TAVERNREEPERS' PROVIDENT INsTI TUTI.N.—The anniversary of this excellent institution was held at the London Coffee-house, Ludgate-hill, last evening, when upwards of seventy gentlemen sat down to an excellent hangar t. 'The object of the society is to afford permanent assistance to hotel and taverr.l reapers, proprietors of club.house!, confectionary establishments, cooks, and waiters, being members, an d their widows, and temporary a s si s t ance o f members, their widows and children, when in necessitous circumstances. The Right Hon. the Earl of Yarborough pre:ided on the occasion, and E. Brewster, Esq., officiated as vicc-chairman. The subscriptions of the evening amounted to 2604 It'IYAL CALEDONIAN A S YLUM. — Tire quarterly General Court of this asylum was held in the Scottish Hall, Fleet-.street, on 'Thursday. The Duke of MorL rose presided. The proceedings were of a very stormy character, but ultimately the meeting confirmed the pro positions made to them by ,the directors. There was no statement of the accounts of the charity laid before the meeting. BURKE's PEERAGE AND BARONETAGE FOR 1850.--- We are requested to state that Mr. eulburn has this day published the new edition of "Burl:e's Peerage and Bat one•age" for 1850, corrected throughout to the pre -011.11., from the personal cr , mmunications of the &e., in one volume, royal Bvo., with 1,500 engravings of Pllns, &e., price 385., bound, which Lisa now be had of all booksellers. Also, jut I uirlished •‘l3urke's History of the Landed Gentry" for 1850, cor rected to the present time, and comprising pal ticulars tf a companion to the P eera • 100000 per sons, f. ar c i ng coin pit to in two vottte, price 11. 9 b nod. WHEcK OF A AIL-BOAT ANDLoss OF - s " T. The cutter Exi erionet.t, trading and carrying the m a il between Guer nse y and Alderney, was wrecked on some rocks about two miles from the eastern coast of Guernsey last Saturday night. The cutter left. Guernsey at three P.M. on that day for Alderney. She had a full cargo, consisting of fl ur, drapery. salt, and clothing for the de tachment of the IGth ri , gimeut, quartered at Alderney. Besides the crew, there were twenty-sevini passengers. The vessel neared Alderney at eight o'clock, but the wind freshening, the captain put back to Guernsey, and while returning, the cutter struck on a rock at eleven o'clock on Saturday night. The darkness of the night, the violence of the wind, and the cries of distress ,froin the passengers, were dreadful. The first boat that watt launched a as swamped and the captain and five men were , 'row•nerl. The tide ebbing, all on board got oa a rock, which is covered at high wcter. They there burnt their clothes to make signals, but no assistance could get near them. As the tide ro►e, they were obliged to leave the ruck and get on to the rigging of the wreck. Four of them, while clinging to the rigging, were paralysed by the cold, and, relaxing their bold, perished. The sur vivors were rescued at six o'clock on Sunday morning, manly dead from hunger and exhaustion. Those who perished were Peter Le Cock, commander of the cutter; Elizateth Baker, of Sark; Avard, a French cattle dealer; John Stark, Peter Buckley, and John Scarlor. of K. , rry, Ireland; Mrs. Harris, and her daughter, aged six years. and a man, name unknown; total, nine. The mail ly,g was washed ashore. OLDS — WINFORD LAND SOCIETY.—This society has now purchased land sufficient to allot sha: es to all the members. The last piece of land was purchased by M. S. Hipkins, who has kindly consented to receive the per' chase money by instalments convenient to the society, and was taken possession of ou the 11th inst., when the then remaining shares were allotted.— Worcestershire Chronicle. TILE SNUFF-TAHING STATUE.—An English officer in Venice, walking one day from the Doge's 'Wo e ' thought he observed one of the figures on the clock toner of St. Mark's stoop down and take up something! He looked again, and he p)sitively saw the figure take * pinch of snuff ! The officer confessed he was apprehen sive he was losing his senses, or that his vision was de ranged ; when an old woman, observing his consterna - Lion, soon explained the seeming miracle, by telling hut that one of the figures that struck the hour being out of repair, her nephew, Jacopo, was engaged as a substitute till the machinery WAS put in order. TRAVELLING IN 1671.—1na debate in the House of Commons in the reign of Charles 11., relative to Put ney•bridge, Sir Henry Herbert spoke against such inno vating projects, and said, "If a man were to come to the bar, and tell us that ho proposed to convey us regul alf to Edinburgh in coaches in seven days, and to bring us back in seven days more, should we not vote him to Bed lam ? Or if another told us that he would sail to the Elm. Indies in six months, should we not punish him for playing on our credulity?" Poor Sir Henry !—what would his vexed shade feel were it in a coupe, expressing in ten hours to Edinburgh, or careering by the lodise mail from the Ganges to the Thames within a month! Inverness Courier. EMBARKATION OF Taoors.—There embarked yes" terday on board of the ship China, bound for Madras, 2U3 artillerymen, six sappers, and 13 women and ehil di ea. belonging to the Honourable East India Corn' pony's service. Tho whole of the troops stationed at the depot at 'Parley, Essex, amounting to about 800, , were inspected by the Court of Directors on Saturday lekt, and were addressed by the chairman, Sir Archi bald Galloway, who congratulated the officers, non•coro missioied officers, and privates on their efficient, cleanly' and suldierhke appearance, and recommended in the strongest terms abstinence from intoxication liquors, which had, he said, killed more men than the war bad. After inspecting the whole establishment the directors retired to the White Hart lon, Brentwood, where splendid collation was prepared fir them. TERRIBLE .itCCIDENT.-11. melancholy occurrence took place on Friday morning in the Greyhound-yard , Friar gate, Derby, which has caused a very painful sensation, There is a row of cottages on either side of the Greyhound yard, which is very narrow; in one of •the:e ini:erable abodes a family of the same of D.kin t e been residing. The husband, we understand, i 5 employed at Bre a d sa ll, an d hi s w if eew orks in the Bold' lane mill. On Friday morning she went to her occups don, I. avieg a girl seven years of age in charge of two ocher children, a girl about 12 month, and a boy OAS three years old. In order, as she stated, to prevent the neighbours' children besting her own, as they were ac customed to do, she locked them in the house, B e tween ten and eleven o'clock a man, who was employed re' pairing the roof of the Greyhound public-house, ob served smoke 'issuing from underneath the door, which he immediately burg open, and a most horrible sight presented itself. The house was full of smoke, and' two children, the eldest and the youngest, were found literally burnt to a cinder. The little boy was found sitting upon a chair in a corner, where he seemed to have gone for photection, with his hands be fore his face, in a state of suffocation. He was lope" diately carried out and saved. From the position of the elder girt'' arms, it is conjectured that she was nursing the youngest. From the statement made : by the little fellow, who bas been literally snatched imp the jaws of death, it appears that the e ld er g i r l wietkrear the file , and that her clothes ignited, and she was instantly in blaze. She appears to have rushed to the window to make her escape, but did not succeed; and she and the infant seem to have fallen into the cradle, which was un derneath the window, and which was mush burnt. Tbe house was in a filthy, miserable state, and contained very little furniture. On the mother arrieieg s4ta'ved against the neighbours, accusing them of being the ( oust , of her children's death, by rendering it necessary 10 lock them up out of their reach. The remains of the poor children presented a horrible appearance. Mr. Greaves, surgeon, was called in, and paid every atten tion to the little boy, who would have been dead ins few minutes had not the discovery been made when it - was. What is singu'ar is, that the neighbours &shire they did not hear the children BCI ea m.—Derbj Me; curg. ELECTION OF COAIMON SERGEAr.T..-.011 Thurs day a Court of Common Council was.held for the pur- - pose tf electing a Common Sergeant fur the City of London, in the room of,the late Mr. Sergeant Mirehouse, who n Mr. Bullock, the present Judge of the Sheriff.' and Small Debts Court, and Commissioner a the Central Criminal Court, was unanimously elected to the vacant office. A resolution was then passed, that' Mr. Bullock be requested to continue the offieea he now holds until a successor or successors be appointed. It was then resolved that it be referred to the Officers and Cerks Committee to inquire lets the nature and duties "-lc of the several offices of Judge of the Sheriffs' Court tiPaf , k Commissioner of the Central Criminal Court, and Judge of the Small Debts Court, and to report thereon W this Court. The Court then - adjourned. THE FIRE AT WACKIRBRATII'S SUGAR FACTORY* —Yesterday morning, about two o'clock, another out' break occurred on these premises, the smouldering fire amongst the ruins having burned into one of the sugar' houses which were 'preserved on the previous day. A considerable time elapsed before the firemen succeeded in suppressing the flames, and not until much damage was done. The origin of the first outbrt ak continues in a state of mystery. As yet the firm have been unable to ascertain the exact amount of property destroyed ; it Us however, upwards of 50,000/. FIRE AT HOMERTON.—Yesterday morning a firer of a very destructive character, broke out in the premises belonging to Mr. J. J. ll'lntosh, the patent ink mane' facturer, situate in Church-road. Lower Homerton, near four miles from town, and bef ire the London engines reached the tome the entire building was burned down. The fire was occasioned by the boiling over of apa of oil. INCENDIARY FIRE IN KENT.—Yesterday (Friday) morning, soon after eight o'clock, a fire took place in the village of Southffeet, Kent, at Scodbury Farm, in ti?e nccupaticn cf Mr. F. Andrews, on the estate of Sir it , bert Price, Bart., M.P. for Hereford, which unfortu• Li.tely &strop cl all the corn-stacks, barns, and other buildings, the dwelling, stables, and oast-house bring with difficulty saved. Mr. Andrews is much respected by the labourers in the parish, bat as the the broke out iu a large wheat stack on a frame, there cannot be °O r doubt of its t eing the act of an incendiary. REPu&TED DEA TII OF SIGNOR GARDONI.-- 1 1 Monittur du Soir states that a letter has been receive? from St. Petersburgh announcing the death of Gardonh the celebrated tenor. SUICIDE AND CHARGE OF NEGLECT AGAINST THU AUTHORITIES OF KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL.—Ye ster. day, the adjourned inquest on Ellen Ryan, who cow' muted suicide by swallowing opium, and whose death It was alleg,d had been accelerated by her removal "rota King's College llospital to the police• station. was held before Mr. Bedford, at the Plough public-house, Caren street. The inquiry was adjourned for the purpose of having the opinion of Mr. George A. Walker, an d oil the jury re-assembling y ester d ay , M r . W a l ker sa id the treatment adopted by Mr. S tee l was qu it e cor r e ct up SO a certain period. The dece ase d w ou ld h ove hal a better chance of recovery if she bad not been removed from the hospital. Mr. Staibroa, deputy chairman of the h9s pita', said the house-surgeon had no other alternative but to send the deceased from the hospital. There were upwards of 120 patients in the house, and if the deceased had been kept walking about the corridors cf tee dif ferent wards, the patients would have been disturbed and their lives endangered. The jury, after consulting for short time, returned a verdict " That the deceased died from the effects of opium, administered by herself while in a state ef temporary insanity, and that her death was accelerated by her removal." BIRTH On the 15th in s t., Mrs. William & Pocock of Cold Harbour road, Brixton, o f a d aug h ter. , On the 16th inst., at Donnington Priory, near NewburY the wife of N. J. Senior, Esq., of a eon. On the 18th inst., the wile of W. W. Johnson, Esq., of Limehouse, of a son. On the 19th inst., at South Ferriby-hall, Lincolnshire, the lady of Cap•ain W. J. Symons, of twin daughters. On the 20th inst., at Street-end-house, near Canterbury, the wife of E. Foss, Esq., of a son. MARRIED. On the 19th in s t., at West Mailing, Thomas H. Lowry, Esq., M.D., Royal Navy, to Mary Ann, widow of the late G. L. Perfect, Esq.. M D. On the 20th inst., at Grafton Regis, Mr. Daniel H o p kins, of Bloomfield, Tipton, to S ara h, youngest daughter of the late Mr. T. Gall e d, o f G ra f ton -l o d ge, N ort h a mptonshir e. On the 20th i ns t., at B e l per C hurch, Derbyshire o t Eleanor, illiam, eldest son of W. Ed gar, E sq., Cl ap h am - com mon, eldest daughter of T. I ng l e , E sq . , , W On the 18th inst Isleworth, William DIED M.D., f ourt h son ' of the late Captain Ema nuel Hutchin son, aged .58. Hutchkson, Esq., On the 19th inst, at Bath, Henry Armstrong, Esq., late of the borough of Southwark, aged 42. On the 15th inst.. henry Goldsmid, Esq., of Windsor terrace, City-road, aged 58. On the 20th inst.. at College-house, Hammersmith, Ann, relict of the late J. Goodwin, Esq., aged 85. On the :,oth inst.. Elizabeth, tte wife of Mr. T. Ruseoe, of Quality -court, Chancery. lane. On the 2(th inst , at the Westminster Hospital, Edward Neville, Eq., youngest son ct W. H. Nev.lle, Esq., of Esher, aged 23. On the 19th inst., at the Rectory, Avot St. Peter, He rts, aged 18, Emily, 3 oungest daughter of the Rev. E. Prodgers. On the 19th inst., Mrs. Sarah arltin, aged 59, the mother of Mr. G. Larkin, of Pratt-street, Lambeth. On the 14th inst., in Upton-road, Kingsland, aged 28, Oetarius, youngest son of the late Mr. J. Newman, of Lans downe-terrnce, London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, cf No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 115' r qtrand, in the Precinct of the smvny, in th e county • a Middleton Saturday, March 23, 1850.