The Sun. — London, England, 1845-03-18 00:00:00

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Bellin • Ruy Gomez, Signor Fornasari ; Dou Carlos, Signor Botelli ; Ernani, Signor Morten'. It is respectfully announced that in consequence of other novelties the highly successful Opera of ERNANI cannot he repeated until later in the Season. To conclude with an entirely new Ballet, by M. Perrot, entitled EOLUCE ; on, LA DRYADE. The Music by Signor Pugni. The Scenery by Mr. Marshall. principal Characters—Eoline (betrothed to Count Edgard), Mddlc, Lucile Gratin ; Rubezahl (le Gnome), M. Perrot ; Count Edgard, M. Toussaint ; Prince of Silesia (brother of Eoline), M. Gosselin. in the course of the Ballet the following Dances will be introduced t Waltze Selesienne, by the Coryphees of the Corps de Ballet. Pas do la Fiancee—Mdlle. Lucile Grahn and M. Toussaint. Pie de Clnq (composed bz M. Gosselin)—Mdlles. Louise Weiss, Fen dinand, Demelisse, Cassan, and Moncelet. Mazoiwka D'Extase—Mdlle. Lucile Gr lin and M. Perrot, Fourth Tableau. _ Grand Pas des Dryades by - 3 - 1 - dll --- e: - L7 . - 6 - r - ahn and the Ladies of the Corps de Ballet. Madame Anaide Castellan, of the Imperial Theatre St. Petersburgh, Is daily expected in town, and will make her first appearance forth with in Donizetti's Opera of LUCIA. DI LA3IMEII.IIOOR. Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box office, Opera Colonnade. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. It Is respectfully announced that A GRAND MUSICAL FETE, comprising tho unpublishedQMsciipts of the celebrated FELICIEN executed for the first time in this country, with the original 31c10. dies and Choruses. Grand Descriptive Symphonic Ode of THE DESERT, produced for the first time with the most enthusiastic success at the Conservatoire Royal, I'aris. Programme.—lntroductory Part-Ist. Fragment of Grand Sym phony in E flat-2d. Melodies imitative a Grand Orchestre : Les Hirondelles, sung - "by Signor 3loriani-3d. Melodic Orientate : Le Chibonque Soiree du Printemps-4th. Fragment tire des quartre Saissons de Fclicien David, executed by all the string instruments. LE DESERT. Ode, Symphonic, Orientals--divided in three parts with grand orchestra. The orchestra and chorus will include upwards of 200 per fo;mers. Solos by Sigs. 3loriani and Corelli. Part I.—Entrance to the Desert. . . . Glorification of.AlIall; grand chorus and orchestra—Arrival of the Caravan—Departure of the Caravan—Tempest in the Desert— Return of the Calm—The Caray.an resumes its march. Part .11.—Night. The Evening Star—Halt of the Caravan—Hymn to the Night : air sung by Signor Moriani—Arabian Fantasia--The Dance of the Almes—The Liberty of the Desert : grand chorus with orchestra— Evening reverie: melody sung by Signor Moriani, with chorus and orchestral accompaniments—Sleep Part lll.—Sun-rise. Call of the Muezzin; original Arabian melody, with the Arabic words—The Caravan starts once more on its Journey—The Cara van gradually disappears in the distance ; grand chorus and orches tra—Silence in the Desert—The Song of Thanksgiving—Allah. Granel chorus final. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE. FIRST NIGHT OF A NEW COMIC BALLET, For the Debut of Mdlle. POLIN and Mons. GASI'ERINI (Principal Dancers from the Grand Opera at Berlin), And of the Demßes. LOUISE and ADELE, with the full Corps do Ballet of this popular Theatre. ON EASTER MONDAY, MARCH 24, 11 be performed ROBER I' THE DEVIL. Robert, Mr. W. Har rison ; Bertram, Mr. Stretton ; Italmbaut, Mr. D. W. King ; Isabella, Miss Rainforth ; Alice, Miss Romer. After which will be produced, a New Comic Ballet, entitled BOBER I' AND BERTRAND. Dances in the course of the Ballet : Pas de Deux, by Mdlles. Adele and Louise. Pas de Deux, by Mdlle. O'Bryan and Mr. A. Webster. Grand Pas de Caractere, by Mdlle. Polin and M. Gasperini. A New Polka, by Mdlle. Polin and M. Gasperini. Bolero, by Mesdames Louise and Adele. La Esmeralda, by 31cIlle. Polin, and A MAZURKA, by the Principal Ballet Performers. The Eminent Tenor, M. DUPREZ is engaged here for Twelve Nights only, and will shortly make his appearance In his cele brated character of ARNOLD, in GUILLAU3IE TELL; and is also preparing himself for hls unrivalled personation . of EDGAR, In Donizetti's popular Opera, THE BRIDE OF LAM3IEII3IOOII, for the Performance of which, an Engagement has also been ex pressly entered into with 31dlle. EUGENIE GARCIA. The Box-office will be opened on Thursday next, as usual, under the superintendence of Mr. John Parsons, - • THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. LESSEE., N , R. B. WEBSTER. ON EASTER MONDAY, MARCH 24, Will be repe .ted a New and Original Comedy, entitled THE SHERIFF OF THE COUNTY. Principal Characters by Messrs. W. Farren, Strickland, Buckstone, Webster, Mrs. Glover, Mrs. W. Clifford, Mrs. Ilumby, Miss Julia Bennett, &c. After which, a New Grand Classical Extravaganza, entitled THE GOLDEN FLEECE. Principal Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, J. Bland, Madame Vestris, and Mimi'. Horton. To conclude with YOUNG BNGLA ND. Major Martinet, Mr. Strickland ; Mr. John James Poolcy, Mr. Buckstone ; Mrs. rooky, Mrs. Hamby ; Mrs. Smiler, Mrs. Stanley 'FIIE WEATIIHM-SUN OFEICE, MARCH 18. TIIERMOMETER, Lowest, 21 ; Highest, 33 ; Noon, 35. BAROMETER, 29.8.—W1ND, N.N.E. NOTE.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and " Highest" denote the lowest and hig,hest state of the Thermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All the other observations are made at noon. 111011 WATER AT LONDON:BRIDGE TIIIS DAT. Morning .. 8 minutes after 9 I Evening .. 50 minutes after 9. et "411 I Ig. 1 - 44 Z.. NI l• -3ECOND EDITION. _ © ~\ LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1845. The Howe of Lords met at Fire o'Clock. The Consolidated Fund Bill was read a third time and passed. The Earl of RADNOR introduced a Bill to amend the Law of Blstardy. The Nonlx EARL also brought in a Bill to prevent the opening of letters at the Post-office. The Duke of BUCCLEUCII moved the appointment of a Select Committee to consider the state of the Parochial School rnaters of Scotland, which was agreed to. In answer to a queition of the Earl of MINTO, on the subject of the publication by Government of the papers of Captain Ross, relating to the recent Antarctic Voyage of Discovery, The Duke of WELLINGTON said be had not considered the suble.ci, DIA that the Government would be willing to give die most complete information on the subject. The House then went into Committee on the Deo dands Bill. While the Bill was in Committee, the Earl of ELLENBOROUGII, in consequence of something that fell from Lord CAMPBELL, said that he was ready at any moment to defend his conduct from the aspersions of any man, treat or small, noble or mean, who chose to attack it, and that he only wished what bad been said in his absence might be repeated in his presence. Lord BROUGHAM begged to assure the Noble Earl, that whenever he had been assailed in his absence, he hal been defended by the Duke of WELLINGTON, and Dot quite so ably yet still defendel by himself (Lord BROUGHAM). The Rai of ELLENROMUGH expressed his obligation to the Duke of WELLINGTON and Lord BROUGHAM. The matter dropped and the Bill passed through CoinLuittee. The Property-tax Bill was read a second time, on the understanding that a discussion should take place on the third reading. The Companies Clauses Consolidation Bill passed through Committee, and their Lordships adjourned. The House of Commons met at Twelve. The amended report on the Railway Clauses Con solidation Bill was brought up. On the 17th clause, giving certain powers to the Admiralty to pull down railway works that obstructed the navigation or defence of the coast, Mr. HAwEs moved, as an amendment, that the Admi ralty should go before the Parliamentary Committee of Merits. Oa a division, however, the amendment was re jected, the numbers being—For the Amendment, -t ; Against it, 37 ;—Majority against it, 33. The remainder of the clauses were agreed to, and the Biel was ordered to be read a third time on Wednesday, at twelve. The report on the Land Clauses Consolidation Bill was agreed to. The Lund Clauses Consolidation (Scotland) Bill passed through Committee, and the House adjourned to Five o'clock. On the re-assembling of the House, the Jewish Relief Bill was, on the motion of Sir IL PEEL, read a first time, and the second reading was fixed for the 7th of April. Lord ASHLEY postponed the second reading of his Bill relating to labour in calico print-works until the 2d of April. The second reading of the Law cf Settlement Amend ment Act was postponed to the 14th of April. Sir It. PEEL announced that the two first measures relating to Ireland which he should bring forward were those relating to the College of Maynooth and to Acade mical Education. In answer to Mr. HASTIE, Sir R. PEEL stated that the Government intended to renew the Act for grinding corn in bond. Mr. WAKLEY gave notice of a motion on the subject of opening Mr. DUNCOMBE'S letters for the first supply day after Easter. On the motion that the Speaker do leave the Chair to go into Committee on the Customs' Bill, Mr. W. MILES moved the following resolution as an amendment—" That in the application of surplus revenue towards relieving the burthens of the country, by reduc tion or remission of taxation, due regard should be had to the necessity of affording relief to the agricultural in terest." The motion having been seconded by Lord MARCH, Sir JAMES GRAHAM addressed the House at considerable length, and concluded by declaring his intention to op pose the motion. Mr. NEWDIGATE, Lord JOHN RUSSELL, Mr. ESCOTT, Lord WORSLEY, Mr. D'IsRAELI, and several other Honourable Members then addressed the House, and were followed by Sir ROBERT PEEL. The House then divided, and the motion of Mr. MILES was re jected by a majority of 136. The House then went into Committee on the Customs Duties Act, and after several items had been agreed to, the House adjourned at a Quarter-past Two o'clock. The discussion on the motion of Mr. MILES, last night, led to no result, though it gave rise to an interesting de bate, and to at least one important speech, which told with effect on the Conservative party, because it was founded on fact. The object of the Hon. Member, who is the mouthpiece of the farmers' friends in the House of Commons, was to obtain a portion of the large surplus revenue for the relief of agriculture, but why did he apply so late ? All the spare funds had already been appropriated ; the reduction of the sugar duties, glass duties, auction duties, and the abolition of customs' dues on more than four hundred articles of foreign produce, has been, it may be said, irrevocably fixed, and no rea son, no argument, or even threat, could induce the House of Commons to retract its resolutions, and adopt other financial measures for the purpose of putting money into the landlord's pocket. The proposition was utterly absurd. The whole country, of course excepting one small class, are crying out for the abolition of the corn-laws ; the Minister refuses to listen to the general voice, and in the midst of the disappointment Mr. MILES comes forward with a bold front and " asks for more." Never was there a more ill-timed demand, and the House treated it according to its merits, for they re jected it by a majority of 135, the Honourable Member having only 78 supporters. The arguments which he adduced, too, were of the most flimsy description ; he did not make one good point, or establish anything like a claim on the sympathy of the House, or a necessity for lengthened refutation on the part of the Govern ment. Sir JAMES GRAHAM, however, entered into numerous details, and showed most satisfactorily that the landed interest had no just claims to relief from the burdens of which certain persons complain. " I admit," said ho " that the landed interest is entitled to protection, but at the same time I feel that these burdens are rightly placed, and lam opposed to their removal. The landed interest derives a certain protection on account of these burdens, and Ido not think it should attempt to throw them off." The House was of the same way of thinking, and the short speech of Sir ROBERT PEEL would, therefore probably not have been made but for the rene wed attack made on his flank by that skilful partizan and plain-spoken orator, the Hon. Member for Shrewsbury. The conclusion of his speech was admirable. It galled the Premier, because facts cannot well be denied, and it made all the monopolists who, in 1342, were so full of joy almost melt into tears. They were convinced, when too late, that their fate was sealed ; that they had been betrayed by their enemy under false colours ; and that their favourite Government, to obtain which they had shaken off the Whigs, and spent vast sums of money, was in fact only "an organised hypocrisy." The epithet will stick to it. Here is the vivid picture of Conservatism drawn by one who had been behind the curtain. " Such," said Mr. D'lsus.ELT, "is the fate of th.! great agricultural interest—that beauty which every body wo ed, and one deluded. There is a fatality in such charms, and we now seem to approach the catastrophe of her career. Protection appears to be in about the same condition that Protestantism was in 1828. The country will draw its moral. For my part, if we are to hare free trade, I, who honour genuius, proper that such measures should be proposed by the Hun. Member for Stockport, than by one who, through skilful Parliamentary ma noeuvres, has tampered with the generous confidence of a great people and of a great party. For myself, I care not what will be the result. Dissolve, if you like, the Parlir.ment you have betrayed, and appeal to the people, who, I believe, mistrust you. For me there remains this, at least—the opportunity of expressing thus publicly my belief that a Conservative Government is an or ganised hypocrisy." England is called a free country. Liberal institutions have been established for centuries, the law protects the psor as well as the rich, a man's house is his castle, justice is even-handed, the Habeas Corpus Act secures all against imprisonment without trial; these and twenty other set phrases are constantly in the mouths of senators and politicians, while in reality there is not a country in the world where the eyes of justice are so open, where the law-makers are so favoured and the poor are so utterly destitute of protection. A certain class of senators every session seem to exult and riot in discovering some new scheme for improving public morality, while their only object, if these contemptible beings halle any object at all, is to oppress gee poor and the unrepresented. The rage this session is to shut up all public-houses on Sunday. Great numbers of petitions have already been presented to this effect, they are still pouring in, and come in such numbers, and are presented by Members with such eager zeal, that a stranger wauld suppose that drinking beer on a Sunday is the most heinous crime. But even this remedy is not enough. Sunday travelling by steam is also to be put down ; and Mr. PLUMPTRE, on whose shoulders the mantle of Sir ANDREW AGNEW has fallen, is exerting himself to rival and even outstrip that Pha risaical and, happily, defunct le g islator, in making in roads upon the established customs, the innocent amuse ments, and the only recreations of the poor. No opposi tion is made to to these wicked schemes. They evidently come from high qusrters—from the country clergy, the squires, the justices of peace, and the selfish landlords, who would not only monopolise wealth, but happiness and comfort. If a labouring man is not allowed to take refreshment on a Sunday—if he is not to visit his friends, to spend thessnly day he has to him self in rational employment and amusement, what is he to do ? Most of his class are without education, thanks to our wealthy Church ! They have little enjoyment in books, even if they can read ; they may go to Church, hoar a sermon from a Puseyi'e clergyman in a surplice, listen to the prayer for the Church militant, and see money collected while the offertory is recited, but what is to become of them afterwards ? Would it not be better to chain them up at puce, like wild beasts, than curtail—nay, destroy—every source of harmless gra tification, and render the Loillis day the most mi serable day even of their painful week of labour ? The Home Secretary, who is supposed to watch over the totals of tin community, has set his face against this tyrannical interference, and some two years ago said he saw no harm in taking cakes and ale at a road-side inn on a Sunday forenoon ; but this session he is silent, while these attempts are made to bring the lower classes down to the very depths of degradation. The party, too, he has to contend with are indefatigable—they are also unscrupulous—they manufacture petitions, clothe their wicked policy in the garb of religion, and by per severance may accomplish their object. Forgetting the Divine doctrines of the Book which they constantly hold up as the guide of their conduct, they neglect the education of the poor, and trust only to punishments, to coercive acts, to imprisonment, and death. Never was any class of beings so cruelly treated as the poor of England, by men who call themselves their re presentatives ; and no argument could be brought forward by the Chartists, so strong arid so irrefragable, as this constant meddling with the rational amuse- ments of the people, who have none to take their part. Sir ANDREW AGNEW however has been defeated—nay, disowned by his religious countrymen—the Member for Kent and his bigoted colleagues may try to follow in his footsteps, but if there is any spirit left in Englishmen, or any virtuous spirit in the English press, they also shall meet with the same just retribution. We regret to state that accounts have been received from Lisbon, dated the 12th inst., of a serious disturb % ance in the wine country on the Douro attended with the loss of many lives. This melancholy affair took place in the district of Felguieras, in consequence of an attempt of the tax-gatherers to levy a new impost on wine. The farmers had resolved to oppose it, and they were aided by a vast number of the country people who collected in the district of Pena-Cova, ringing the church bells, and calling upon the inhabitants of the place to arouse from their lethargy, vociferating " Death to the Contractors !" " Down with the Taxes !" It was with the greatest difficulty that the contractors, through the protection of the administrator of the district, together with the aid of a few other indivi duals, were enabled to escape with their lives . They afterwards returned with an escort of 30 infantry, but in the meantime a great number of men, heat:ed by the MonoADo MAGALAES, a, country gentle man of the district, had assembled at St. Afartinho, armed, some with fowling pieces, but most with pikes or scythes. The soldiers seeing this array, retraced their steps, and took up a defensive position on a neighbouring height, from which, however, they were soon dislodged by the people, who pursued them, by firing a few shots at them and abusing them as robbers and oppressors of the poor. Next day a detachment of eighty infantry and some dragoons, under the command of Captain GUEDES, at tacked the insurgents, who stood their ground for some time, but at last fled and dispersed, leaving . ten of their number dead on the field. The official journal of Oporto states that the disturb. ance had been completely put down, and the district was tranquil. The Chambers had been occupied during the week in discussing the remaining articles of the project for the establishment of savings banks, all of which had been adopted. Intelligence has been received from Madrid to the 10th inst. The debate on the Church Property Bill, which was to commence in the Chamber of Deputies on the following day, was looked to with interest. General ARAOZ, who was said to have been implicated in a con spiracy against NARVARZ, had been brought before a court-martial, and acquitted. The Three per Cents. closed on the Madrid Bourse on the 10th inst. at 35 5.16 for cash, and 35:1 at 60 days ; the Five per Cents. at 26i at 60 days ; and the Debt without Interest at 8* at 60 days. The Paris papers bring no news of importance. The funeral o f M. ETIENNE, who seems to have been greatly respected by all parties, took place on Sunday morning at eleven o'cloek, in the Cemetery of Pere la Chaise. The chief mourners were M. ETIENNE, son of the de ceased, a Member of the Chamber of Deputies and his son-in-law, M. PAGES. The pall was supported by the Duke DECASES, M. TRIERS, M. Durni, and M. VILLE MAIN. Count MOLE was to hare pronounced the funeral oration, but owing to indisposition he was unable to at tend. The melancholy duty was performed by M. VILLEMAIN. Admiral MACEAU and Count SALVANDY were present at the ceremonies in the church. The re mains of the deceased were interred close to the grave of Mdlle. DUCHENOIS, and at a very short distance from those of General FOY, BENJAMIN CONSTANT, and LAFFITTE.—On Saturday a lengthened discussion took place on the motion for abolishing the stamps on newspapers. Several !amendments to the Bill sanctioned by the Committee were proposed and rejected, when M. MONTLAVILLE, who had intro duced the Bill, said it had :been so altered that he must withdraw it altogether. The Bill was accordingly lost.—A dreadful calamity is said to have taken place at Algiers on the 10th, by the explosion of a powder maga vine. In the journals which we have received, no men tion is made of such an accident, but we find the follow ing in the' Times of this morning, no other English jour nal alluding to it : " Letters from Algiers, of the 10th instant, contain the details of a frightful event which took place there on the Bth—namely, the explosion of the powder magazine of the park of artillery. The entire building, and several others in its vicinity were utterly destroyed. with the loss of an im mense number of lives, including upwards of 100 officers and soldiers." At TORTONI'S, on Sunday, the French Three per Cents. were at 85f. Sc., but little business was done. A great deal of business was done in the Spanish Internal Debt, at 34+ I o GIBRALTAR. (FROlf A CORIZESPONDF,NT.) On the 28th February her Majesty's steam-vessel Flamer arrived with the news of E. W. A. Drummond Hay, Esq., late Political Agent and Consul-General at Tangiers, having expired that morning. The following morning the Flamer left again for Tangiers, to convey the remains of Drummond Hay, Esq., to this garrison for interment. She arrived during the night, and the funeral took place on the following morning, Sunday, March 2, at nine A.M. When the procession left her Majesty's steamer Flamer, the Scout and Flamer, and foreign ships of war in the bay, fired eleven minute guns. The funeral cortege proceeded from the dockyard (which had its flag half-mast high) to the cemetery. The pall-bearers were—Captain Sir John Gordon Sinclair, Bart.; Colonel G. I. Harding, C. 8., R.E. ; Mr. Carstensin, Danish Consul-General ; Mr. Ehrenhaf, Swedish Consul- General; Don Antonio Beramendi, Spanish Consul-General; and Mr. G. do Martino, Sicilian Consul-General. The chief mourners were—Mr. John H. D. Hay, son of the deceased; Mr. Mauboussin, Gerant:of the French Con sulate, and son-in-law of the deceased; Mr. Murray, British Vice-Consul ; Captain the Hon. J. R. Drummond, of her Majesty's steamer Scout; and Lieutenant Charles J. Postle, Commander of her Majesty's steam-vessel flamer. All the officers from the ships of war in the bay, both Eng lish and Foreign, also the officers of the garrison not on duty, attended as mourners, as well as the Foreign Consuls from Tangiers. Every sympathy on the part of the foreign representa tives, the )sloorish Government, and the inhabitants of Tan giers, was evinced on the sad occasion. About noon the Flamer started for Tangiers, with Mr. John H. D. Hay, Mr. Manboussin (Gerant to the French Consulate), Dutch Con sul-General, and Mr. Murray. The Danish steamer-of-war Hekla followed, with the foreign Consuls, having also on board the Swedish Commodore Ulner, who came over to attend the funeral. Half an hour ero poor Mr. Hay departed this world for a better one, he quietly sent for his Vice-Consul (Mr.Murrav), and said, " Murray, you will take charge as Consul; my ;on John will do the political duties. Good bye; God bless you. We shall meet again." The feeling at Tangiers by one and all of the Chargi d'Affaires and Consuls-General, is that the late Mr. Drum mond Hay lost his life through a deep devotion to the cause of his Queen and his country, at the same time taking a great interest for the welfare of Morocco The Amazon man-of-war, Captain Stopford, arrived here yesterday, five days from the Cove of Cork, and proceeded to Malta. The Fantoine, Sir E. Nicholson, is at. Cadi2h. The Scout, the Hon. Captain Drummond, and Flamer steamer, Lieut.-Commander Postle, are at Gibraltar. ADVICE TO THE CONSUMERS OF SUGAR. The reduced duties on sugar have been taken at the Cus toms : on yourselves depends whether you buy sugar at low price or not. Exercise that economy which you have re cently so laudably displayed, anti you may set favouritism to the West Indians at naught, whether it be decreed by an Act of Parliament or by the cunning of a particular set of 11Iinisters. The game is in your own hands; contrive to use a less quan tity of British sugar than is imported, and you will have good lump sugar at sixpence per pound, and good moist at fourpence, sold throughout the empire. But if consumption exceed the importation of British sugars, wholesale dealers will be driven to purchase foreign sugars, and to pay a duty of 235. 4d. per cwt. on them, and the enormous re duction of I Is. 3d. per cwt. will be dwindled down to Is. I Id. being the difference between what the duty was, 255. 3d. the cwt., and what it will be, 235. 4d., if the wholesale dealer is compelled, by your eagerness, to buy foreign sugar. Ab stain, therefore, as much as practicable, and you will pur chase British sugars at 345. per cwt., duty paid —you will then ensure to yourself and families lump sugar at sixpence, and moist at fourpence. Already the accumulation of the stock of British sugars is unprecedently large, and most alarming to the importers, and this accumulation entirely arises from your commendable habits of economy: persevere in those excellent habits, and the Gazette average price of British sugars will be under 20s. per cwt. before Christmas day next. On the other hand, if you heedlessly rush into the markets, the average price will be higher than ever— perhaps 365. or 375. per cwt.; and you will not obtain sugar a fraction cheaper than you bought it before the reduction of duty occurred. Ever bear in mind that the income-tax is imposed upon you to make good the deficit in the duty on sugar. The income-tax you cannot avoid, but you can avoid putting your money, in the price of sugar, into the pockets of the West Indians, by exercisieg a prudent atten tion to economy. DEATH OF WILLIAM HOWELL'S WlFE.—This un happy woman, the wife of William Howell, who was lately executed in this town, expired yesterday week at Ilulver. Report stAtes that she died of a broken heart.—lpswich Ex pr-ess. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 18, 1845. THIS DAY'S NEWS. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool was fiat yesterday, owing to the large receipts at the American shipping ports. Sales, 100 Pernam, at 5 3 Ad. ; 150 Maranham, at 4%d. to 5 1 / 2 d. ; 80 Egyptian at 6d. to 614 d. ; and the rest Ame rican at 31,4 d. to 6 1 4d.-There was a firm market for shares, and a large business was done. Aber deen, 3 ; Belfast and Ballymena, 3% ; Birkenhead, Man chester, and Cheshire Junction, 8% 9 1 4 ; Birmingham and Gloucester, ex div., 133%; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 33 ; Bol ton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 8% ; Caledonian, 9% 6s. 3d. 9%; Cambridge and Lincoln, 6%; Chester and Birken head, ex div., 44 1 A 45% ; Ditto, Half Shares, at 5 dis count, ex div., 24 ; Ditto, New Shares, at 33 discount, 36% 37 3 4 ; Chester and Holyhead, Chester and Pres ton Broo l k, 4 3 / 5; Churnet Valley, 6% 61. 18s. 9d. ; Direct Northern, 4% 11s. 6d.; Dublin and Belfast, 6; Dublin and Cashel, ex new, 11% ; Dundalk and Enniskillen, 21. 16s. 3d ; Dundee and Perth, 2%; EasternCounties,ex div., 214 22 1 / 8 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, ex div., 611 x3 ; Ely and Bedford, 2% ; Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 20s. 6d. ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, 17 ; Grand Junction, Quarter Shares, ex div., 45% ; Ditto, Eighths, 20 1 4 ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 3% 3 3 / ; Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 51. Is. 3(1 ; Lancaster and Carlisle, 35 ; Leeds and Thirsk, 5:4 3 4 ; Leeds and West Riding, 7 ; Liverpool and Manchester, ex div., 207 ; Ditto ' Quarter Shares, ex ' div. 103 ; Ditto, New Shares, 38 3 / ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 3% 6s. ; London and Bi rm i ng h am , ex div., 232 ; Ditto, Shares, 30 1 4 % • London and Brighton, ex div., 64% 65; London and 'York, 3% ; Manchester and Birmingham, ex div., 65; Ditto, Quarter Shares, ex div., 12; Ditto, New Quarter Shares, 5 5% ; Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, ex div., 165% ; Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale, 14% ; Manchester and Leeds, ex div., 144, 1441% ; Ditto, Half Shares, ex div., 63%; Midland Stock, ex div., 140 139% ; Ditto, 401. Shares, ex div., 13% ; Ditt o, Birmingham and Derby, ex div., 108% ; Newcastle and Berwick, 13 3 4 ; Newry and Enniskillen, 2% ; North British, ex new, New Shares, 4% 1,4 ; North Union Stock, ex div., 79 ; North Wales Mineral, ex new, 13% ; New Shares, 4% ; North Wales, 2% •, Oxford, Worcester and Rugby, 4 3% ; Preston and Wyre, 30 1 4 ; Sheffield and Li nco l n , PA ; Sheffield and Manchester, ox int., 108 109 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, ex int., 13%; Shrewsbury and G ran d J unc ti on , ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 3% %; Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and Birmingham, 614 5 3 / 4 ; South-Eastern, ex new, 43 ; Ditto, New Shares, ex new, ; 113 ; Ditto, New Shares, No. 3, 8 3 / •, South Wales, 614 Trent Valley, 16%, ex new; York and North Midland, Half Shares, New, 14% ; Northern of France (English), 6 1 ,E ; Paris and Lyons (English), 41. ls. 3d ; Paris and Lyons (Gan neron's), 21 11,; Paris and Orleans, ex int. 50 3 / 4 ; Paris and Rouen, ex div., 44; Paris and St. Qiiintin, 2!. 6s. 2 1 4 ; Sambre and Meuse, 6 ; Toulouse and Bordeaux, 2%; Verona and Ancona, 21s. The late intelligence by the steamer from Halifax set at rest, in a great measure, all further anxiety respecting the annexation project, and, comme de consume, we may expect it to pass off quietly. The friends of peace have indeed much for which to be grateful to the Senate of the United States, in repressing the war fever of the House of Representatives. Trade was expected to open rather briskly, but produce in return for imports are likely to be in abundant supply. Respecting the Quebec timber trade our accounts state that within the last few days the quantity of snow that has fallen in New Brunswick has been such as will seriously im pede all operations there, and many have been compelled to abandon all thou,ght of getting their lumber to market; and should the snow in Upper Canada, which has fallen this month, tend to interfere even in part with the operations there, prices in Quebec will be good probably till late in the season. The quantity of deals and staves that. were culled last year. is as follows :-Pine deals, 1,686,648 std. ; spruce deals, 1,201,372 std. ;- standard staves, 1,063,962 pcs.; West Indies, 2,710,963 pcs. ; barrel, 81,579 pcs. And the shipments were, by the Custom-house returns :- Deals, 3,087,001 ; standard staves, 1,533,517 ; puncheon staves, 3,325,636 ; barrel staves, 556,946. The Funds are not quite so firm to-day, Consols being 9934 % for Money, and 100 to 100% for Account. Exchequer bills have been marked 635. to 665. premium, and East India Bonds, 70s. to 725. premium. Bank Stock for Account is no higher than 216. The Foreign Investments have been very quiet, but Spanish Bonds are firm ; the Five per Cents. at 30% 3 4, and the Three per Cents. at 40% to 41. Portuguese Converted have been 68 1 4 to 69, being also higher, although the Lisbon letters announce that the financial plans had not been brought forward, and that there was a bad feeling in certain provinces against further taxation. Illexican Stock has been rather higher, viz , 36 5 ,E to 3 / 4 . Chilian Deferred has been done at 54, and Brazilian, Old, at 92%. Dutch Four per Cents. are 99 to 1 %. The Share Market is decidedly quieter; 'but this is partly the result of lassitude, after tire recent extensive, and we may justly add, excessive, speculation. ONE CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. 3 per Cent. Consols ... 99 3 / 4 % 99% India Bonds, 1,0001. Ditto under 1,0001. Bank Stock for Account... ... 216 216 Consols for Account..... Exchequer Bills, 1,000/., 11,4c1.... 66 65 pm. 63 Ditto 500/._ . Ditto Small Ditto Advertised ..... ..... pm. ONE CLOSING PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent .. ...... Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent.... • •••••• Ditto, Deferred 54 Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent Wit Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 ...... - Ditto. Account ... . 36 / 4 %% Ditto, Deferred Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto, Account 6 B IA 69 Ditto, Converted ... Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Account _ 30% Ditto,lB44 24% Ditto, Coupons ...... 294 /.• Ditto, Passive Ditto, Deferred Ditto 3 per Cent. 4, Ditto, Account ...... .. ..... ... .. .. ..... 0 1 . - - I_l 40p s 40';A Venezuela Bonds, 2 p r e A r l C D en . t . . 1 . Ditto Deferred Belgian Bonds, 4% per Cent.....,, 13 3 / 4 Dutch, 2% per Cent . CLOSING Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 9914 PRICES OF RAILWAY SHARES O'CLOCK. Aberdeen _. Armagh, Coleraine, and 2 3 / 4 Portrush l% ...... 134 .. — Birming. and Gloucesterloo .....134 133 135 Ditto % Shares --- ••• Bristol and Exeter.... 82. 70 ...... Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ...... 59 Caledonian Cambridge and Lincoln 1 4 / 2 ...... 6%3/ " 9% Chester and Holyhead... 5 ...... /4 8 4 Cliurnet Valley 7 Cornwall r Diss, Beccles, Yarmouth 1 1 ,x ...... 2 ••• 2 3 / 4 Direct Northern Dublin and Belfast Junc. 2% ...... 6 Dublin and Galway..... 2% _ ...... 2% 3 Eastern Counties 25 ...... 22% 23 22 %... Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1—.41. 13s. 4d....... PA Ditto ditto, No. 2...... las• 4 d••• 0 3 / 4 Eastern Union ............ 10 .. ... _ • Ditto Extension ...... 1 % ...... 3 %NIA - Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... 62 % 62 Ditto New % Shares... 2% 5% - Ely and Bedford ...... ... 1 ...... 2%% 4 2 5 a / 2 " 46 Great Grimsby and Shef- . field ...... 2-Y.i ...... Great South. and West. (Ireland) ............... 5 ...... ..... 8 Great l o ( h t:r f isz t 3. o a . ....... ... o r ............ Ditto New Ditto Now ............... 2 Great Western ...........• SO ...... Ditto I' 5hare5.. ....... 5 0 /2 --'l, Guildford, Farn'in,Ports. 5 Harwich .................. 1 Hull and Selby ............ 96 50 I :5 12 1 / 4 - 201: Ditto Quarter Shares - ,2•••••• .-A; Kentish Coast l% - Lancaster and Carlisle... 15 Lincoln, York, and Leeds 1% London and Birminghm (5t0ck)...232 234 233 Do. New Thirds ...... 2 Do. Quarter 5............ 2 London and Blackwall. 16/,135.4d _7l/2% 'A t/ L London ondon and an d Croydon; .Bright o n 13 5°15 /.;. ... • 6 18 5 4 " 1 1 2 ' ~ 18% London and S. Western 4116 s 10 d 79 % 80 Do. New London and York ...... ... 2%...... 35 % 314 Lynn and Ely Manchester and Leeds... 73 144 , 14 146 Do. h Shares Manche:ter and Birmin. 40 — Midland 100 l4O 141 — Do. New Midland,Birm., Derby-100 106% lOB Newcastle and Darling ton Junction Do. New Brandling... 10 Newcastle and Berwick 1V,...... 14 1 / 4 1 ,f 1 4 3% Newark and Sheff i eld ... 1 q...... 2% / 4 2 — North British Do. New Northern and Eastern... 45 - 21 A% — - .. ~..) • .4 '''''' Norwich and Brandon lO 4;4 Do., New ......... ..... 1 Richmond and West End Junction Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1 cottish Midland l l4 Shrews., Wolverhamp., Dudley, and Birm 2 14- 43 i 1 6 % 434 '' 41 4 18% South Devon... lO ...... 17 1 South Eastern & D over 33/ 2 s 4d... 44 A 43% D0., No. 2. D0., No. 3 South Wales 2 14...... 6 1 6 .. 5 3 / 4 Trent Valley ............... 2 West Cornwall PA..— 41 4 — Yarmouth and Norwi c h. 20 York and North Midland 50 lOl Ditto 1 4 5hare5........ 25 ...... 51 Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 20 Do. Extension ......... 1 1 4 I 4A FRENCH RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens... 4 Bordeaux and Toulouse 2 Bordeaux, Toulouse. and Cette Great North. of France.. 4 Lyons and Avigno n Orleans and Bordeaux... 2 Orleans and Vierzon ... 2 ...... 17 3 % lB Paris & Lyons, Laffitte's 2 Paris and Lyons, Gan neron's' ... .. ..... 2 52 Paris and Orleans ......... 20 Paris and Rouen . ........ 20 Tours and Nantes, Mae kenzie's ...... 2 ...... MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 16.—The sales are :—Lancaster and Preston, New Shares, 7%; Manchester and Birmingham, 57 ex new and ex div. Ditto, Quarter Shares, 9% ex new and ex div. ; Ditto, New Qutrters, 5 prem. ; Preston and Wyre, 30 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 108% • South-Easte rn , No. 2, 12 1 ,4 ; Ditto, No. 3, 8 1 4 9.16 ; Barnsley Junction, 7 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 3% ; Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction, 8 3 / 4 ; Blael:butn, Darwen, and Bolton, 4%; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 8%; Cambridge and Lincoln, 6 1 / i 3 ; Churnet Valley, 6% ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 18s. 6d. 19s. ; Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 4 1 / 2 ; Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 3 1 ; ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 6 15.16 ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 31 ; London and Worcester, Oxford and Rugby, 4 ; London and York, 3 3 A ; Manchester and Buxton, 1% 11-16; Newark and Sheffield, 1 13. 16 ; North Wales, 2 1 4 ; Scottish Central, 4 1 /4 % ; Sheffield and Lin colnshire Junction, 255. ; Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester Junction, 31,4 ; Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton. Dudley, &c., 5 1 % ; Southport and Buxton, 3 1 A ; Trent Valley, 16% lA . ex new ; Waterford and Kilkenny, 3 ; West Yorkshire, 1 / 1 . ; Caledonian, 9 1-16 N. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, MARCH 18.—Northerly, fresh breeze and cloudy, SHEERNESS, MAncif 17.—The Jane Easson, Bomress, from London to Newcastle, got ashore near the Garrison Point this morning, but came off in the afternoon without damage, and has proceeded. HARTLEPOOL, MARCH 16.—The Pilgrim, White, of Lon don, slipped her anchors at the entrance of the Te2s last night, and went ashore on the beach, north of Seaton Snook. OFF WATERFORD.—Oxford, New f ork. KINSALE, MAnefr 15.—Ruby, St. John's, New Brunswick. HAftwicir, MAncit 15.—A brig, with topmasts about four feet out of water at two hours' flood, lies sunk in ten fathoms in the Swin, the sunk bearing S.W. lA, S. about PA miles. CROOKHAVEN, MAncat 13.—Arrd. Asia, Gascoin, Cuba, 14. Champlain, Miller, New Orleans. HULL, Minot 17.—Wind N., moderate.—Arrd. St. Thomas's packet, Peterson, St. Domingo, for Hamburgh. WAINFLEET, MARcit 17.—The Ann, Rhodes, of Hull, from Lynn to Wakefield, ashore on Wainfleet Sand, is discharging her cargo with damage, and is likely to be got off. YAnmount, MARCH 17.—The Findlater, Dunn, from Shields to London, was totally wrecked this morning, off Palling—only the mate saved. HAnwfor, MAncir 17.—The Eagle, Page, of and from Ramsgate to Seaham, was in contact to-day, in the harbour, with the Sarah of South Shields. CLAY, MARCH 15.—A quantity of wreckage, consisting of a mast, bowsprit, sails, rigging, &c., some of the sails marked "Taylor, Newcastle," have been picked up near here. SUNDERLAND, MARCH 16.—The William Dobson, of this port, in putting to sea, 14th inst., struck the Bar heavily, and has put into Shields leaky. RAMSAY, ISLE OF MAN, MARCH 15.—The Margaret and Ann, of Douglas, ashore near here, has been got off without damage. The John and Margaret, Cowan, is ashore behind the south-pier, but expected off with little damage. MARKET NE Nl' S.-(THIS DAY.) SCAT 71a4LXILET13. SxrritFlF.LD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 8s to 4/ 5s ' • use ful ditto, 4/ 6s to 4/14 s ; fi ne Upl an d ditt o , 4115 s t o 5/ 3s; Clover Hay, 4/ 8a to Si 16s; Oat Straw, 1/ 16s to 1/ 18s; Wheat Straw, 1/ 18s to 2l per load. Supply but moderate, and trade rather dull. Prices about stationary. CommurAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ 8s to 4/ 8s ; useful ditto, 4/ lOs to 4/ 18s; fine Upland ditto, 5/ to 5/ 4s; Clover Hay, 4/ 10s to Si 15s; Oat Straw, 1/16s to 11 18s ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 18s to 2/ per load. A fair average supply, and a steady demand. WurrEciinrEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 lOs to 4l 10s ; useful ditto, 4/ 12s to 4/ 18s ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ to 5/5s ; Clover Hay, 4183 to 5/ 188; Oat Straw, 1/16s to 11183 ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 18s to 2l per load. Trade on the whole dull, at the above quotations. COLONIAL. SuGAn.—The market for British Plantation has been very heavy, very littl e b us i ness h av i ng b een d one pr i va t e ly, b u t with those sold by auction, about 500 casks have been disposed of. The public sales have only offered 408 casks 137 barrels St. Lucia, 1,857 bags East India (chiefly Madras and Bengal), and 476 casks 1 case Ma nilla (admissible at the new duty of 23s 4d). The St. Lucia and East India was chiefly sold at lower prices for the inferior descriptions, but being mostly in small lots and of low quality, affords little guide to the market ge nerally, as the better sorts brought higher rates. All the Manilla was taken in at 15s to 22s for very low soft brown to good (clayed) yellow, but subsequently 60 casks of the latter description have been disposed of forrefining at 21s. The only transactions which have taken place privately worth reporting consist of 200 chests white Bahia (of old importation), which have been sold, for export, at 22s 3d, anti 300 boxes white Ha vannah at 34s 6d, being for the former the previous value, and the latter considerably dearer. The quantity of British Plan tation landed last ;week at the East and West India Docks was 120 hhds, 8 tierces, 12 barrels, and there were taken for home consumption 144 hhds, 5 tierces, 29 barrels. The stock in the same places is 9,051 hhds, 695 tierces, 1,770 barrels. RUM.—The quantity landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 104 puns, 188 hhds. There were taken for home consumption 170 puns, 28 hhds; and ex • ported, 128 puns, 4 hhds. The stock in the same place is 9,352 puns, 1,987 hhds. SALTPETRE.-3,077 bags Bengal at auction were chiefly taken in at 25s 6d to 27s 6d for 9% to 3 3 / 4 per cent. refrac tion, being rather above the value. TALLOW.—P. Y. C. was at 39s per cwt. on the spot, and Town at 425. per cwt. TEA.—The market is steady, and the deliveries last week rather increased, being 495,000 lbs. _ SHERIFFS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) Several causes were heard this morning, but none of them possessed any point of interest whatever to the public. BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner SHEPHERD.) AN AcruEss IN TROUBLE.—This day Miss Prescott Ward, the well-known comedian at the metropolitan and provincial theatres, applied for her interim order. She described herself as Eugenie Bass, commonly called Eugenie Prescott Ward, for merly of Ash Cottage, Old Brompton, and late of 36, Half moon-street, Piccadilly, comedian, out of engagement. The resolvent was opposed by a fashionable milliner for having obtained a dress in the name of Miss Johnson, the creditor swearing that if he had known that she was Miss Ward, the actress, he would not have trusted her. Her debts in the whole amounted to 217/. 10s. 2d., and she claims excepted ar ticles of the estimated value of 19/. 18s. She has no assets what ever. Her insolvency is ascribed to her having been for a lengthened time out of an engagement, during which time she states that she was supported by gifts from her brother in-law, :111r. Elderton, Secretary to the Commissioners of Police, and other members of her family. The Court granted her an order, but intimated that her petition would be dis missed when she came up for her final order if it was proved she had obtained goods by fraudulent representations from the opposing creditor. The case excited a good deal of in terest, and numerous theatricals were in atttendance. CLERKENWELL.-(THIS DAY.) As might be expected, there was a great muster of the sons of the Emerald Isle at this Court this morning. The districts over which this Court has jurisdiction includes St. Giles's, and' those happy regions bordering upon Saffron hill and Smithfield; and recollecting that yesterday was the festival of Ireland's patron saint, the number of candidates for the House of Correction this morning was not at all won derful. There was no case of extraordinary violence, how ever, and the only sufferers seemed to be the prisoners them selves, some of whom had black eyes, others broken noses, and not a few with their clothes torn to ribbocs. Mr. COMBE humanely discharged all, except a few who assaulted the police, on whom he imposed trifling fines. MARLBOROUGH-STREET (THIS DAY.) Johanna Moriarty, a good-looking girl, between sixteen and seventeen years of age, was placed at the bar charged with robbing her mother, a poor widow, and also with com mitting a brutal assault upon her. The prosecutrix stated that the prisoner had for some time past been leading a life of the most shameful profligacy. Yesterday she stole a quilt from off the bed and pawned it ; and last evening she came again, and wanted more money; and on her (the prosecu trix) saying that she was unable to procure her any, she at tacked her, knocking her down, and beating and kicking her. The poor woman added, that she did not wish to press the charge of felony against her own child. The prisoner, when asked what she had to say, replied sul lenly that her mother had not stated the truth. Mr. MALTBY said he should fine her 40s. for the assault, or one month's imprisonment to hard labour. She was committed accordingly. Maly West, a very decently': dressed elderly woman, who stated that she was married, and the mother of a large family, was committed for trial on a charge of stealing a set of fire irons, value 68., from the shop-door of Mr. Wm. Lark, of No. 127, Tottenham-court-road, pawnbroker. She was detected in the fact, and the stolen property found on her. RAILWAY COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) LONDON, CHATHABI, AND:NORTH KENT RAILWAY. The Committee on this Bill met this morning at twelve &clock, Sir W. Heathcote in the chair. Mr. BondE appeared for the petitioners against the pro posed line, and called a witness to prove that no notice had been given to one of the petitioners, Mr. West, the owner of property on the line—n ame l y , in Bermondsey. The allegation was sustained. The Coxiimittce was occupied the rest of the morning in discussing allegations of inaccuracy in the markings on the plans, the particulars of which were so minute and technical, that it would be quite hopeless to attempt making them in telligible in a newspaper report. DARTMOUTH ELECTION COM- MITTEE-(THIS DAY.) FOURTH DAY. The Committee sat at Eleven o'clock. Mr. Joseph Somes, jun., having been sworn, made deposi tions to the questions put him, which were in substance quite similar to those of his brother. Ile recollected that his uncle told him, about two months before the election, that he in tended to become a candidate, and should therefore part with his contracts, ships, &c., and said he would part with them to witness and his brother, which he (witness) was very glad of. The transfer took place, and certainly was not a colourable, but a bona fide transaction, and was to hold good, whether his uncle lost the election or not. _ _ Mr. Jackson, accountant, sworn—Has been employed by Mr. Somes for two or three years. He was the largest pri vate ship-owner in the world. Has also kept the books of Messrs. Somes, jun. They commenced on the Ist January of the present year. The cash-book was then produced, and the several entries read, and witness said that since the Ist of January last no entry had been made in those books to the credit of Mr. Somes,sen., or if there had it would be a mistake. Cross-examined—The transfer of the entries from the small books to the large ones took place about the 25th of January. Mr. Somes, sen., said to witness that he had parted with all his Government business, and instructed him to commence the accounts in the name of his nephews. Mr. TALBOT then rose and said, he was happy to announce that this part of the case had closed, and in the observations he would take the liberty of addressing to the Committee he would confine himself to comments on such points as he might have thought had been omitted by his Learned Friend, Mr. Colturn, and such other new ones as might have s i nce arisen ; and would conclude, by endeavouring to speak by anticipation to the last words which he knew his Learned Friends opposite would have. He would commence by calling attention to a case now before him, which was quite analogous to that of Mr. Somes. Ho then read the case, which was in substance that of an army clothier having transferred his contract, and an action having been taken against him for non-fulfilment of his contract, it was decided that the party liable was he to whom the contract had been transferred. lie then went on to say that there was no evi dence of Mr. Somes being a contractor at the time of his election, though he was an owner of ships, but that would not disqualify him. It had been relied upon by the Learned Counsel opposite, that this transfer was an occasional trans action. Why of course it was, but there was nothing illegal in that; for though an occasional qualification of a man to a vote would not be legal, yet a man could be qualified as a candidate for a place in Parliament upon the day c f the election, and though lae had that qualification in his pocket, with ink still wet upon it the day he went first upon the hustings, it would be as (good in law as if it had been made out fifty years before. - But all question as to Mr. Somes being au owner of the ships even, was now set at rest by a part of the release which he would now read, andwhich appeared to have been overlooked by his Learned Friend opposite. The Learned Counsel then read the part, which was to the effect that the ships had been released as well as the contracts. In addition, there was the fact of the nephews having been bound to fulfil those contracts, and to pay to their uncle a certain sum in consideration. It had also been suggested by his Learned Friend, that the nephews might have got into partnership with the uncle; but that was im possible, for there was no evidence of any document in which the nephews and uncle had undertaken a joint risk. But even if Mr. Somes had given over all those con tracts and ships by a valid instrument to his ne phews for no consideration at all, he was perfectly at liberty to do so, and could do so legally ; then there was the other additional fact, that the nephews were the parties against whom ati action would be taken by the Admiralty, in the event of any breach of any one of those contracts. The Learned Counsel then proceeded at great length to contend that it was impossible for the Committee to believe that this was a colourable transaction ; and having gone through the whole of the evidence, and commented upon it, he concluded by saying he now left the case in the hands of the Committee with great confidence, but he could not avoid saying, with some anxiety for his clients, but whom he felt assured the Com mittee would never pronounce to be perjurers, or parties to a fraudulent transaction by their decision. Mr. Sergeant WRANGHAM replied. He said that although appeals had been made by some of his Learned Friends to the compassion of the Committee, by alluding to the ages, and position, and respectability of their clients, yet he knew the Committee would totally disregard that; and be in his pre sent address would endeavour to discharge his duty firmly, no matter how painful it must be to him to do so. The question then, for the Committee, and the only question was this, was Mr. Somes a Government contractor on the 27th of Decem• ber 1844? He contended that it lay upon Mr. Somes's counsel to show to the satisfaction of the Committee that upon the 27th of December, " he did not derive any benefit or emolu ment whatever, directly or indirectly, from these contracts," for these were the words of the stature. He not only denied that they had failed to prove that ; but he hoped to be able to show the Committee, by and bye, that the converse had been established by the evidence, First, be begged to re mind the Committee, that his Learned Friend, Sergeant Kinglake, had stated from authority, that where there was a deed inter parties, or between parties, no release could be given by any who were not parties to that deed, and this was a fact that had not been attempted to be met by his Learned Friends opposite ; but that s% as undoubted law and unquestionable authority, and therefore Mr. Somes, not being a party to that deed, could not sue or be sued, or could not give a release, or take one. (The Learned Gentleman was proceeding when we went to press.) COLLEGE OF MAYNOOTH. (THIS DAY.) A meeting was held in the large room, Exeter-hall, this morning, "for the purpose of petitioning Parliament against the new endowment of the Roman Catholic College of May nooth." Though several days' notice had been given, the room, at the time fixed for commencing the proceedings, was scarcely half filled, and the meeting altogether presented a striking contrast to the great Protestant gatherings which preceded the overthrow of the late Government, and helped to usher in the present Administration on their accession to office. Amongst those who had seats on the platform were the following :—The Hon. and Rey. Baptist Noel, Sir Cul ling Eardley Smith, Bart., the Rev. E. Ilickersteth, the Rev. Mr. Prest, the Rev. J. Burnet, the Rev. Dr. Holloway, and the Rev. J. Blackburn. The chair was taken a few minutes after twelve o'clock by J. P. Plumptre, Esq., M.P. The Rev. Dr. HOLLOWAY offered prayers on behalf of the assembly, and the object for which it was convened. The Rev. J. BLACKBURN, Independent Minister of Clare mont Chapel, Pentonville, read the 46th Psalm. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the meeting, commenced by saying that the post which he occupied was not sought by him, but being called upon to fill it, he felt that he should be shrinking from an important duty if he did not consent to take the chair. He was surrounded, on that occasion, by Protestant Christians of every denomination ; and ministers belonging to each would address the meeting. There was amongst them great difference of opinion on minor points, but they all agreed that there was one Book which was above every other, and that was God's Book.—(Loud cheers.) They were, at all times, called upon, as Christians, to protest against error; and that duty especially devolved upon them at the present period, when the Government pro posed to make a considerable increase in the grant which they had paid for some years with the greatest reluctance to the College of Maynooth. They were required to contribute out of the public purse to a large and liberal increase, as it was termed, of this obnoxious grant. As Protestants, they felt that their highest and holiest feelings were deeply wounded by such a proposal—(Hear, hear)--and they further felt that an insult was offered to *heir reason and common sense, if it were proposed by this means to conciliate those who had not been conciliated by similar measures in times past, and who, they had every reason to believe, were not to be conciliated by such means.—(Hear, hear.) It was one of the boasts of the Church of Rome that it was unchanged and unchangeable. They believed that truth was unchangeable too. By their love for the truth they were called upon to oppose this grant. For the truth for which they had Met to contend their fathers died ; and if their fathers could speak to them now their language must and would be, " Sell it not ; cleave to it with full purpose of heart." However in other matters they might differ amongst each other, he hoped they would all endeavour, in the spirit of union, con. cord, and love, to effect the object for which they had assembled. That it was their duty to do so did not admit of doubt. Events did not rest with them, but with Him who was above; and they must persevere, in the assurance that " the Lord reigneth and will reign." The representatives of the different denominations would now proceed to address the meeting in reference to the important subject for the dis cussion of which they had met on that occasion. —(Cheers.) The Hon. and Rev. BAPTIST NOEL, on rising to propose the first resolution, said that if he had perceived in that meeting any intention to embarrass her Majesty's Government, he should have hesitated to appear on the platform.— (Hear, hear.) Whatever objections be might entertain to the proposed grant, he felt that no exclusive blame at tached to her Majesty's Ministers; for they were sustained in their proposition by enlightened and able statesmen of all parties.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) In assembling there they were not actuated by any dislike towards their Roman Catholic fellow-subjects.—(Hear, hear.) From his heart he wished them every kind of real prosperity.— (Cheers. ) Neither did he blame the Roman Catholics of Ireland for asking of the Legislature of this land perfect civil and religious equality with their fellow-subjects. He agreed with Qrattan and Burke that the penal code, which our an cestors passed for Ireland, could only be accounted for by the fact, that in those days the doctrines of a sound toleration, taught by the Gospel, were not un derstood because the medieval doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church had taught the countries of Europe generally that such toleration was inadmissible. He lifted up his voice that day, not against the enjoyment of secular and civil privileges by the Roman Catho lics, but against a proposed grant, the effect of which would be simply to endow and sanction the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church. He drew a distinction very plain to his own mind between any encou ragement of the secular interests of Roman Catholics, and this sanctioning of their doctrines.—(Cheers.) On the civil ground alone, believing that the Gospel of their Lord did not sanction their endeavouring to propagate the truth by means of penalties, he had nothing to say against the Roman Catholics; but he protested against the Legislature interfering to sanction doctrines which, as Protestants, they were bound to condemn. To do the first Minister of the Crown justice, he must state that the ground on which he proposed the grant was that Parliament had en tered into an engagement to provide for the domestic educa tion of the ecclesiastics of the Roman Catholic Church. It was represented that the Legislature were bound to furnish the means of education for the whole Catholic priesthood of Ireland in proportion to the wants of the country. Now, if the engagement could be made out, there might be some reason for pausing ere they refused to sanction the increased grant.—(Hear, hear.) But if that engagement were wholly fictitious, as it might be proved to be, then the Protestants of this country ought at this juncture to protest loudly against an increased grant. A slight reference to the history of the College of Maynooth would give instructive information re specting the nature of the alleged compact. Mr. O'Driscoll, an honourable and able Roman Catholic, stated that the endowment, iu the first instance, arose from the fact that the State, having declared war against the French Government, the Catholic students were prevented from finding an education on the continent. An act of the State did them a mischief, and the Government of this country consented to indemnify them. Gif ford, in his " Life of Mr. Pitt," accounted for the grant by a desire on the part of the Ministers to prevent them from imbibing a mischievous education abroad; and to this view Mr. Gladstone assented, in his work on the relations of the Church and State. If this were so, the grant was made with a certain specific object, and there was not the slightest intimation that it was meant either to be permanent or co-extensive with the Irish priesthood in every future generation.—(Hear, hear.) The giant should cease when the reason for it existed no more. It was not to be supposed that in 1845 there had suddenly arisen a necessity for an increased grant ; yet they found that up to that time Parliament had steadily refused any augmenta tion of the grant. The House of Commons had never, until that day, seen the grant in the light in which the first Mi nister of the Crown now saw it. The idea of an engagement came to them as a perfectly new principle; and if the engagement were, as lie contended, wholly fictitious, the ground upon which,Sir Robert Peel justified the proposed grant, of course fell to the ground.—(Cheers.) The tact that some Roman Catholic priests were paid in the colonies, in Australia, and Canada, was owing to the circumstance of its being so small that it had not attracted the attention of the constituencies of Great Britain, or they would long ago have loudly protested against it. The fact that Mr. Gladstone, on the proposal of this grant, had felt it his duty to retire from the Administration, showed that in his mind it was the introduction of a new principle for Protestant legislators to sanction the propagation of Ro man Catholic error. Upon the same principle on which this vote was granted, they might expect, a short time hence, a proposal for the payment of the Roman Catholic clergy of Ireland.—(Hear, hear.) Let them not deceive themselves with the idea that this was a final measure ; it was only a prelude to that of the payment of the Roman Catholic priests of Ireland.—(Hear, hear.) The reverend gentleman then referred to the sacrifice of the mass, the worshipping of images, and several of the ceremonies and tenets of the Roman Catholic Church ; and contended that Protestant senators were not justified in voting public money for the propagation and maintenance of such errors. The proposed grant ought, he said, to be resisted, on the ground that it was calculated to bring down the judgment of God on all who were concerned in it. He concluded by proposing the following resolution " Resolved,—That this meeting, recognising the Holy Scriptures as the only unerring rule and standard both of faith and practice, and convinced by the testimony of that word that the doctrines of the Church of Rome, as defined by the Council of Trent, embodied in the Creed of Pope Pius IV., and exemplified in its general practice and teaching, are `superstitious and idolatrous,' and opposed to the best inter ests of society, and to the welfare of immortal souls, must re gard all support and countenance given to such a system by the State as calculated to bring down the judgments of God upon this Protestant country." The Rev. C. PREST, of the Wesleyan denomination, se conded the resolution, which was put and carried. The Rev. E. BICEERSTETH, of the Established Church, proposed a resolutii n, in substance, denying that any com pact existed by: which the Legislature were bound to take the course proposed by the Government. Mr. EvArzs seconded the resolution, which was put and carried. Another resolution was proposed and agreed to, recom mending the Protestants of the country generally to adopt measures to prevent the grant from receiving the sanction of the Legislature. WORCESTER STEEPLE CHASES.—In consequence of the fall of snow on Sunday, those races were postponed until Wednesday and Thursday-4 bets standiug good. -- ....--..., PARLIAMEN TAR Y DIVISIONS' (From the 'rotas and Proceedings of the HMO et C °7l/fiMll'w MONDAY, MARCH 17. ,„ 0 0 , CUSTOMS ACTS. floe in"' Order foil fog Committee red; Motion made, and Q ues- n dwa_lo, " That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair :"- -41 .th e " Quel'...t" posed, to leave out fro.n the word " That" to the end of the ~ ,„ g o sa,,p‘ in order to add the words "it is the opinion of Lao ~,:bttl, „ A in the application of surplus Revenue towards relieving `'„, refsfi of the country, by reduction or remission of Taxation, duo should be had to the necessity of affording relief to the I nio Interest," instead thereof:—Question put, " That the wol,' t ; . d:-- to be left out stand part of the Question." The House di va ' MAJORITY—AYES, 213. Sir em Orland, T. D. Entwisle, William; Napier, ..t. Adderley, C. B. Escott, Bickham Neville, !!coma Ainsworth, Peter Estcourt, T. G. Newry , 1 0 1 1,0 Aldan, William Ewart, William Nichol ], Ja r 1 )„1. Antrobus, Edmund Fitzroy, Henry Norre9s , iiaand er Arkwright, George Flower, Sir J. Oswaido„,T an al Anindell, Earl Forbes, William Paget' ‘,•.-__,- t Baillie, Colonel Forster, Matthew Pagel' Lc a 7 . g. Baillie, 11. J. Fox, C. R. pakingi'll , Baird, William Gaskell, J. M. p a rker, ~/, Barelayavid Gibson, T. 31. Patten, J. ~i . a , u C3P ip— _, Baring, F. T. Gladstone, W. E. r.--e ' Robe , . Baring, Thomas Gordon, Captain p e ,o, 51r ~o ,„ Baring. W. B. Gore, Montague Fee l, jontit ion g 'laniard, E. G. Goulburn, Hairy Pennant, i,..u.',,. Beckett, William Graham, Sir J. Plamptre,Je4to Bellew, R. M. Greene, Thomas Plumridgeed licit iientinck, Lord G. Grey, Sir George. Bodkin, W. H. Grimsditch, T. Boldero, 11. G. Grim Borthwick, Peter Hamilton, Bt°n Botfleld, Beriah Hamner, Sir J. Bouverie, E. P. Harcourt, G. G. Repton, sirs to J Bowles, Admiral R r e u i se d, Y A ill ' ' Tj ° , I V, I. Hawes, Benjamin Bien , ' '. oa r J. Bowring, Dr. Hayes, Sir E. Russell, J., rd .5. Bright, John Hayter, W. G. Russell, l' ° D , W. Broadwood, H. Herthcote, Sir W. Russell, J.p. Vws.coLan t Pliil'ithZilille,il: r ii e l : ilip(suidot Brotherton, Joseph Hepburn, Sir T. Ryder, (I. f ilch ai d Brace, Lord E. Herbert, Sidney Sa nders } h r Bruce, C. L. C. Hinde, John H. & rope, Bruges, W. H. Hindley, Charles Buller, Charles Hogg, J W. Buller, Edward Holland, Robert smytbe, ° s° , i ' Busfeild, William Hope, Charles Smollett, ",,,• Lord 0., C tmpbell, Sir 11. Hope, G. W. else , " - OM Cardwell, Edward Horsman, Edward Sorn - ....,.,, lit 4 Carnegie, Captain Howard, C. W. s a ineJ...r. , sir ‘," er otic, , r,. c. Chelsea, Yiscouot Howick, Viscount Sni t ' id lir • Childers, J. W. Hume, Joseph Stanstle" t d J. Clayton, R. R. Hussey, Thomas Stuart, IA Y. SsSimlleiiriltlhey,n,T. E.1:13._.J:,,..,,.. Clerk, Sir G. Hutt, William Stuart, V. dvi 0 1 Clifton, John T. James, Sir W. C. Struts, E Clive, Viscount Jermyn, Earl Sutton, 11..t..:4,. n dF. Clive, R. H. Jocelyn, Viscount TanTencredot., i,i.rt,.. Cobden, Richard Jolliffe, Sir W. ,$ 1 as Cockburn, Sir G. Kemble, Henry Thesig er ooni Colborne, W. R. Collett, W. R. L L a a m bo b u t c o h ij e p r u e,.Henry T T o h w era ne cl- Z,' , , J . o s lii . l Trelaarill, •.'5. Collett, John Langston, J. H. Coote, Sir C. H. Legh, G. C. Trevo r ' John Copeland, Alderman Lemon, Sir C. Trot ter ' t . 1 , Craig, W. G. Lennox, Lord A. Turtle'', ...Zan. Crippa, William Lincoln, Earl Turn r, thuariee , Darner, Colonel Lockhart, William Vill iers ' visco us Deedes, William Lowther, Sir J. Villiers , ~,h oo ts Denison, J. E. Lowther, Colonel WakleY. il ic hard r, Denison, E. B. Mackinnon, W. J. Wa ll ' e c B. Dennistoun, J. M'Geachy, F. A. 'Wall, • J,13. wAsh, S ir gem D'Eyncourt, C. T. 3PNeill, Duncan - rtirt °s ' Dickinson, F. H. Manners, Lord J. IN a ~ 1 1, 6. „, Dodd, George Marsham, Viscount Wan 'o Jou i; c, Duff, James 3larsland, Henry Wav e l . 4 ~, Loni. Duncan, George Martin, John well a , VIP' . Williaing,,. Duncombe, A. Martin, C. W. wa s here , v o i Dundas, Admiral Marton, George , a jo . Dundas, Frederick Masterman, John Wn`" calen ds .s. East, J. B. Matheson, James 1 V ( """ Jeli n ' Ngortiel, i ' B. Eastnor, Viscount Manes, R. M. Egerton, W. T. Mitcalfe, Henry yorlie,;;;oss. Ellice, lit. Hon. E. Mitchell, T. A. , Jon' . , Ellice, Edward Morison, General yoully, eau Ellis,Wynn Mundy, E. M. Boring , '''' MINORITY—NOES, 78. Vol'crt Alford, Viscount Fitzmaurice, W. rainier, ~,,,rd Allix, J. P. Fuller, A. E. Palmer, (~7:10 . Bagot, William Goring, Charles Rendlt a rLich O li Bankes, George itichar u° ' colo — Granby, Marquis - n Bell, Matthew Gregory, W. H. Wiest° c : . 0, Beresford, Major Grogan, Edward RO, jouo 1, Berkeley, Craven Raiford, Sir H. Roun d ' xe, C ' ° Blackstone, W. S. Harris, Captain R ound' Brivaston, T. W. Heathcote, G. J. shays, F R . P•., she ridall , 0 ,01 , • laroadley, Henry Henley, J. W. Brownrlgg, J. S. Henniker, Lord BibtorP,_. ith, . 00 0. Burrell, Sir C. Howard, Henry Sin , air Chetwode, Sir J. Ingestrie, Viscount Sin3rt"' I. 1 : 1 ; i 4 Christopher, R. A. Long, Walter Sotheron,,ic Codrington, Sir W. Lygon, General SPN9t"'c''. Cif". Colvile, C. R. • Mackenzie, T . Vati c ': phi'7,o Darby, George Macnamara, Major To l ' 4 'l6 •"..iter Denison, W. J. Manners, Lord C. S. Tolleol 00.0,01, jet Dick, Quintin Maunsell, T. P. Towe r odiT, D'lsraell, B. Miles, PW. S. Tur n °,," 6ir i' , Douglas, J. D. S. Morris, David Tvrre." 4 ~.„(0. Du Pre, C. G. Neeld, Joseph Vane, 11° 0 , b'''' wode hou , Eaton,Neeld, John Farnham, E. B. Newdegate, C. N. Fellowes, Edward O'Brien, A. S. B;o ies rslAif ori ll s ' Ferrand, W. B. Ossuiston, Lord Milner, Sir E. Packe, C. W. March, P ,T ._,, c A MOST AWFUL OCCURRE-11 EXETER. .O).A FIVE LIVES LOST. t r .i oror (From Besley's Devonshire Chronicle and P e e g 0 t bii Pc in MONDAY AFTERNOON, Two o'CLocK.—W occurre d cool, one of the most frightful accidents which hee, ioc c the o ble' city for many years past. At half-past one str eet, ost e rs il l mittee of the Female Penitentiary, Hollows} si r on "00 to transact the usual business, and several trade_ c ote, f o r attendance to receive orders. At these ti mes it i: ro cide' ll of for the inmates to retire into an apartment p ith s o l f tit e the purpose, so as not to see or communicate t ons p oe t the male sex. In the midst of the &fibers' t he the —4 bY • g ( Committee, they were all at once alarm. , •0 0 10 0 o r 0 A i( awful and heart-rending screams. On i the 'I its r 'i direction whence they came, they arrived a se rite", 10. the room before alluded to, when a scene P,„,idet ,ros sufficiently frightful to daunt the hearts of the. on , l'A i lli which defies altogether our powers of dese rl P ep ` b i lagdAeil l at once evident that the floor of the aPer tln b e r, l'` l l , o cle r i away, and the occupants, twenty- one in nuni ten deci t i e sl precipitated into a tank of water, which e 2r _ time at neath to the size of the floor, an d at the tio te. d mt ten feet deep. In this awful well were the 1 0111 te st 01 . it iof , struggling for life, and it was only by the prol o Pl t gl sixteen could be extricated from their P er t ] bat O v a c o i The remaining five were soon a ft er taken e ll ; ,a r the „10, 0 to say life was extinct. The time beingm o r e p artie: o f 0 publication precludes our giving any t he vaio e " this sad affair, nor can we at present give sufferers. _ # A liov.7ot, EXTENSIVE FIRE AT A LUNATIC 1. ' 5 . fi rd , °f ,ltio'' about nine o'clock yesterday morning the inhabit tie P. 7 0 11' tingham were alarmed by a report, that the L i 8oa i) Wo / which is erected just outside the town, 00 , t h h , e rata, tlr so b. ",, road, was on fire. On hastening to the 50 "7. 0 0 e'„ br e " found to be correct ; but happily the conflagrat it bs" ap e dued before any fatal accidenfloecurred, althp.°l.uopgerto,AllloB. attended with a considerable destruction of pears that at about twenty minutes pot e as i t r i tna e c rso ° female domestics went into the laundry , a rt , to f et a ie t „ s ; dious building at the west end of the asYltl'""A' cifig -. 1 1 " - r chips which had been placed near the stearo-tt tbe a or tus, and found that they had ignited, an d „ t 0 0;04! was fall of flames. The alarm being go re r: ta nce p e rb7, was instantly dispatched to the town for 9 0 `,,,' aye po 6 "' a short time the engine of the Nottinglia""by oft! ol' m ho e r n s c e ed s. p l i t ay w in as g, immediately shire Fire-office arrived on the spot, dra w° w a 06 se er ebdyiaitteslymetaaknse,n up the la µ'p the s e t; getic exertions of a large body of &oleo, and fir ' c o o tingham police, who were in attendance, the Wa s li i 1 v cons en 1C t he o f under by ten o'clock. The scene after the Are ra fters w 0 to extreme desolation ; large heaps of half-burot the lA d dia , cheerless contrast with the snow which la3' 7f1e3 3 b° 1 1 " 5. the thickness of several inches; and the. ro, 4t beiribe with its blackened walls and windows deprveq:werst• 010, proved that the devouring element had don' Greeted Dr ip he proved asylum is an extensive range of buildings,,,,,natieot9'abol and at the present time contains about 2‘-"Wirneill4,l:sle!. laundry and other buildings which have bee ll 7„ r a, IV, c00 . ,'" recently added from designs furnished by consist Messrs of 00,„'" and Jalland of this town, architects. TheY a nd t is i orw h ; 61 feet by 24, in which is the drying aPPa rat“ ,n li ' of siitiael the apartments, that would make together a room 01, "titY 8 mensions. The drying room is completely* g a ge qui° TV; other rooms are considerably damaged; a lar t roye cl. tlis t 1 clothes, which were being dried, were also des_ do, to ot ° buildings are detached from the patients' those utiff t i be 110 : 8 was not considered necessary to remo e thought OP „ e nc o persons • but had the wind been east, it is c o l ., Wo e would h ' ave communicated, in which ease t 4 ill ° n ip' tt i,l; must have been dreadful, as the part neare.,"aos•• .derP,,, occupied by the most dangerous of the lu' s ca rol 01 0; diately after the news had become publi c, s pot, t o ° oll o , number of the committee assembled on the Ara oeg 1 1, tii i inquiries into the circumstances of the case., sout hele tb we 0 , present were Mr. W. Hodgson Barrow, 01 ,)/ Se ou titi:, High Sheriff; the Rev. T. Coates Cane , , t i l e o i V; chaplain to the High Sheriff and magistrate 1 , 11 ,, , tiO c r e A to Messrs. T. Close, J. Braithwaite, W. P i t t l a wsol l, old° Williams, magistrates of the town ; Arr ..; ki Lpil, tbe o r r e f the borough magistrates ; and Dr. ro"Thd the 1,111 oi- ft physician. Having examined the buildings, 0 .. ,,, was ,, they came to the conclusion that the oc curre4 t ' a i n ed,l d ia F accidental. The damage cannot now be ascertain hot' Tr must amount to several hundred pounds. ert'r ly understood to be uninsured. rovi l) , t he 0 HOTEL AND TAVERN...KEEPERS' _ tg 0, he erfi STlTUTlON.—Yesterday the sixth annual roeutoedorails scribers to this Institution was held at the i _ jr. _ o f tP . , Mr. Pagliano, of Leicester-square, i n the e,o_ . ` e ' oue ces' o eotA congratulated the members on the progressivot yeo e r ep sec Institution, there having been during the P had b of Id. 0 tinned increase of funds. The total receiP ts uo doce a til l, 14s. 11d., and deducting the expenditure, a_ _ u 7 a. hA 5, 61 0 120. 10d. remained. The sum a 326/. lus4 oltB to / added to the funded property, which now nal' 0 5 ' e 3 18s. 2d. Vi rt DSO ......, .ettS rf 'do i FANCT FAIR AND BAZAAR L'' - • , tile 0 00 - c , Yesterday there was a fang fair and bazaa r 1 1 t be ° 1 ., 5 d, B Tunnel, which was brilliantly illuminated 01 0 51W,.. pla and the shafts on the Rotherbithe and Waltntb°rrote; corated with flag , , banners, and Chinese _, 1 .,00 ~ c ol, stall counters in the recesses between the Tr tit l ilt' ) 8 eV:, roadway of the tunnel were tastefully Is out In a c° 0, , e inN lo pressing works of art, and people wer toi „ tea . r joi . a g pg manner by several individuals to :11 t hei„,, o pp . ,, under water, while others were as clarnoronsini. t he _." of In tions to be electrified for a shuft a large booth is fitted up for "1 ? th a r/a tb etlil t ll6 pe nny each. exbi bitio t e t Joe iP tbo of legerdemain by the Wizard of the 1\ oF_ i ho $0 _ o f ~,, splendid cosmorama and a saloon of arts Itttraetieet, t ie shaft, which appeared to be the leadingl.fter socoocl4oB inate . tivo._,, of place. When the shafts were illum effect was novel and brilliant. There are the ga t music, and various amusements, for visitors. -----------"."------- so'. f Ill ° In Lansdown-erescentß, IC.RheftHenBh.ara, the 11141 : nt otf ,11.e' Joshua Watson, of a son. Kite ocr On the 11th inst., at Mount Carteret, so , ro • land, the lady of J. P. Armstrong,y.gl, l' f i l i - iggt e ' der On the 13th inst., the wife of Mr. T. "• of I fil(13 gate-street Without, of a daughter • tleV Eq. 'Too' On the 14th inst., the lady of J. Ben . , acs( street, Belgrave-square, of a daughter. .„,.tou On the 15th inst., at Albealplace, Ml3°l''' Mrs. Charles Deinhard, of a daughter. Arc' ifr•f : c lO O. 111.21BRIED. Lice, On the sth inst., at All S ou l s , Lang/1011w O' Meyer, of Leipsie, to Therese David. Duleken. ___,-------- ler, DIED. fdg el cl On the 14th inst., at Cambridge-street, ~,4 . vec tor Major-General Sir T. CorseWs, K.C.8., 9 ,, g .... 01 . . ; ' e o, ' b et, On the 13th inst ., the Rev. 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