The Sun. — London, England, 1851-04-19 00:00:00

SPORTING NOTES. - - No xkxvii. TUE NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING Conelmiud ;-•ra Ni) 36.) TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. - _ 8111 ,—Having disposed of Monday's meet Tueidal's races yesterday, I will now proceed to a consideration of the remainder of the sport at 11,?.r.1d quarters next week. There are . 7 subs. to the I). M. 50 Sovs. Stakes, run on Wednesday, for which Firebolt and Naphtha will secure the two first places. Another, sweepstakes, of 50 sous. 1 _ 40 ) 1 , over the D. M., having 4 subs., ought to be won by Crotchet. A third sweepstakes of 50 boys. each, A. P., will be contested by Giuevra and one of tee Goodwood stable, and ought to be won by the latter. For the match; I should prefer Magnes to Convulsion, if 'um; On Thursday, a sweepstakes of 100 teays. each opens the game, which will lie between Ariosto and Croupier, the former, of course , for choice; Back Sea, if he runs, third. Theo follow' the Ooe Thousand Guineas Stakes, much mere often pregnant with the late of the Oaks ttiaii is the 2,000 Guine,ta of the Derby. Per this stake a good field will await the word of command o f Pulg-Marshal Hibbard, consistirg, in all prohebility, of the kilowing .—Aphrodite, Phlegm, Turtle, Gay Lasi, C'oticula (d), Prima Donna (d), The Squaw or tuspacti, Itarctionts or Glendale. Merry -1 ) , , 41 (d), Irickstress, P titisy, Fortuna (d), Pandora, Mexilo and Iris. It does not seem probable that Vermiith be found among the starters, Aphrodit4 being quite good enough to take e%re of Sir Joseph Hawley's iatereets. Concerning the Chances of the fillies engaged in this stake 1 remain of the same opinion as expressed in Ncte No. 3, of the 23d 'January last. I tnen remarked, Out "Scott's lot con tained, in addition to Conflience sand Trickstress, Iris; the latter a very tidy daughter of Ithuriel, snowing the !dock from whence she sprang all o'er; bur, by way of 'pruning up, I think they must at give way to Sir u*Ph's flyer." lam pretty much of the same opinion nor as then; I still think that the ram will show Iris and Ohrodite in front, but, I alSo fancy that L , Rd Exeter's hlegra will be found there likewise. To this trio I 'Ward the three foremost places; and should Hernandez wilt the 2,000 guineas by any warner of chance, I 'heuld then take Phlegm as the winner of the 1,000 guineas; but, as my opinions rest at present, I am in clined to place— APHRODITE (Marston) 1 PHLEGRA ••• ••• ... :Norman) 2 IRIS (Butler) 3 d I do this in the face of a report, that Isis is not quite 4 1 ) to the mark. The only race on Friday on the list at present is that for the Newmarket Stakes, which, at seven-eighths of ,the nomi n ations (26) will be non est, is all but a certainty for Sir Joseph Hawley with TEDDINGVON or THE CON.. PEIBOII. Little or no betting took place yesterday, but a few !Pirited investments have been made this morning. The tollowing_ are the prices en the Newmarket events up to • twelve o'clock this day:-50 Sovs. Stales (Moeday),.2 to delAgit Juggernaut. 300 Sovs. Stakes — Even on 13or "eatix• 2,000 Guineas-3 to 1 each, Mountain Sylph colt and The Confessor, the former with the call; 6 to 1 , a gst Hernandez; 8 to 1 each, Glenhavk and Exeter , 20 to 1 each, Comas and Midas. 1,000 Guineas-3 to 1 tilt Aphrodite; 4 to 1 agst Iris; 6 tom I agst Phiegra; „'" to' 1 agst any other. Newmarket takes, 2 to lou 11 - Taylor's lot; 6 to 4 on Teddington Meini.—Damask is reported to here broken down. Greci an was scratched at 4 . 30 on Thirsday. Balsamo no tbeing a certain starter for the 50 Sovs . Stakes on Monday, - I should advise, in his absetce, an investment ° ll The Squaw or Juggernaut. , I am, Sir, you7s ' &c. THE SPIRIT Or 11.1 E TURF. April 19, 1851. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. - - NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING. „ Subjoined are the standing and proposed engagements l the ensuing week, an asterisk being prefixed to o rdes at Newmarket, or understoood to be en route. 561.. e • - MONDAY. or four yrs old, 7st 101 b; five, Bst 91b; six and Sw aged, 9st. Last three miles of B.C. "Patakes of 20 sous. each, for three yrs old, 7st; four, ott 9 lb ; five, 9st 21b; six and aged, sand teitp Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each, 93t h ft, &c.; for 8 we three yrs old, &c. T.Y.C. • Wakes of 10 sovs. each, fur three yrs old, colts, Bat 71b; fillies, Bst 41b. Winner to be sold for 2001 . °l e. T.Y.C. Sweepstakes of 50 soya. each, colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst • 314; those by stallions that never got a winner allowed 314 . A.F. (10 Subs.) * Lord Exeter's rhlegethon (31bs), Colonel; Anson's Christina, Lord Stanley's Statesman (31bs), *Mr. Mare's Hatherton, *Mr. W. Brook na Juggernaut, Mr. Conibe's The Trapper, Mr. Gratwicke's Squaw (31bs), (, J. Hawley's Balsamo, Duke of Bedford's Minos (pd), r. Ramsbottum's f by Charles XII. out of Queen of Cyprus (pd). oweepstakes of 200 soya. each, h ft: for three yrs old fillies, Bst 51b. Winner of sweepstakes value 500/., 51b extra. Ab. M. (5 Subs.) Lord Clifden's Cuticula. Lord Exeter's Melita, Lord Exeter's Cella, Mr. Greville's Barcelona, Duke of Bed • . ford's Arisdne (pd). Match; D.M., 2001., h ft—Lord Stanley's Uriel, sst 91b, egst *Lord Glasgow's Nondescript, 3 yrs, Est 7th. Mitch; T.Y.C., 2001., h ft—*Duke of 13-dford's Bor- - deaux, 8 t 71b, strit *Sir R. Pigot's California, 7st 121 b. Match; T.Y.C., 200/., 2001, h ft—* Duke of Bedford's Bordeaux receives 50 16 from Sir J. klardey's Merry Peal, let 71b. TUESDAY. The Queen's Plate for mares; four yrs old, Bst 91b; five, 9st 81b; six and aged, 103 t. B.C. sweepstakes of 5 aovs. each; for three yrs old colts, Bst Ist; and fillies, Bst 31b; the winner to be sold for 501. T.Y.C. Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each; for three yrs old, 7st 21b; f otw. - Bst; 71b; five and upwards, '93t; winner to be sold for 1501., &c. T.Y.C. Illuidicap Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each; for three yrs old and upwards. D.M. S weepstakes of 300 soy% each, 100 ft.; for four yrs old; colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 21b. B. C. (7 Subs.) • , * Lord E xe t er ' s N u tcracker, Lord Exeter's Ghio. * Mr. tlmbe's Tomboy,. *Duke of Bedford's Bordeaux, Lord Pontifex, Lord Clifdeu's Rabelais, Lord Or lord'a Zadoc. The Two Thousand Guineas Stakes, a Subscription of 100 soya. each, h ft, for three yrs old; colts, Bst 71b, • and fillies, Bst 41b. R.M. The second to save his stake. (31 Subs.) Mr. Blake's Exeter (late Cadcau), *Lord Clifden's Oleander, *Lord Clifden's Harpsichord, *Mr. E. R. ? ark e ' s Gl en h aw k, *L or d Eglinton's Comas, Lord Eg -I",°ll's Hippolytus, *Lard Exeter's Midas, * Lord Exe "A" Phlegethon, Lord Exeter's o by Plenipo , out o f r i i ° 3 ae Mr. E. Farrance's Grosveno r, S ir J. Ilawle y 's I 411130 , * Sir J. Hawley's The Confessor, Sir J. Haw - Breba, Mr. H. Hills's IpFus, *Lord G. Lennox na ernandez, Lord G. Lennox's 13.)o, Mr. Mare's Rather , ro• Mr. A. Nichols's Newminster, *Mr. 03baldeston's c 3' Touchstone, out of Mountain Sylph, Mr. J. Po w lleY's Larnartine, Sir R. Pigot's Alias, Duke of Rich- Buckhonnd, Mr. W. Steboings's Kossuth, Mr. Stebbings's Palmerston, Lord Stanley's Storm, Lord Stanley's Olympian, Baron Rothschild's c by Epirus, out of Emerald,' Mr. W. Edwards's Primitious, Mr. ,„,eary's Julia, Mr. Howard's Boabdil, Mr. Howard's Uyecian. WEDNESDAY. Piste of 501.; foi three yrs 'old, 7st 71b; four, Bst 121 b; five and upwards, 9st 31b; snares and geldings allowed 31 bt winner to be sold for 3004 &c. D.M. handicap Plate of 501.; for four yrs old, &c. Cesare witch Course. 44 4dicap Sweepstakes of 20 sous. each, 5 ft if declared, for three yrs old and upwards. AS. lepstakes of 10 soya. each; for three yr s old, 7st; and Tour, Bst 101 b; the winner to be sold for 100 sovs., &e. D.M. Belling Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each; for three Yrs old. First half of Ab. M. Winner to be sold for 2001., ' S weepstakes of 50 sous. each, h ft; for colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 31b. Those by untried stallions or mares allowed 31135. (7 Subs.) Bouverie's br c by Epirus, out of War Eagle's 4 ml Lord Strathmore's Show Girl , * Mr. Combe's b 4 Pbthis (31bs), ,401.(ird Orford's Firebolt, *Mr. Combe's orb c by Nob, out of Sister to Canadian (wrongtuo 41bination) (31bs), Mr. Mare's Hatherton (31bs), Sir J. Leybourne (310 s). Qo icepstakes of 50 sous. each, h ft; for colts, Bst 71b; and fillies, Bst 310 s. Those by untried stallions, So., allow ( d 31b. (4 Subs.) * `Mr. Mare's Hatherton (31bs), Lord Stanley's Crot ehet (31bs), *Duke of Bedford's B.intiago, *Mr. Payne's Gl endale. S'' g eritakes of 50 sous. each, for three yrs old; colts, Bst 710 ; and fillies, Sst 21b, not engaged in the 2,000 or 1,000 Guineas Stakes; those by stallions or out of mares that never bred a winner, allowed 4lbs. A.F. ( 5 Subs.) Mr, Gratwicke's Hesse Homburg (41bs), Duke of i ehMoud'd BUCkhOllUd (41b3), *Mr. Greville's Ginevra ) 41 b 8 ), Mr. Nevill's Artisan, Lord H. G. Lennox's 800 Match ; T.Y.C., 100, h ft..— . Lord Clifden's Mapes t t't Major Martyn's Convulsion, Bst 71b each. THURSDAY! T he Queen's Plate of 100 g uineas; for four yrs old o five ast 81b• 103 t 71b; six and aged , lOst 121 b. 8 ..._ - woopstakes of 10 soy's. each; for three yrs old colts, B st 71b; and fillies,- 83t 41b. First half of Ab. M. Dr _ Winner to be sold tor 0/. • 1411 dicap Sweepstakes of B 25 ., ova each, 5 ft if declared; Brr for three years old and upwards. T.Y.C. e epatakes of 10 soya. each, for three years old; . colts, 83 t 71b; fillies, 8 3 t 41b; winner to be sold for 1501. &c. T:Y weepstakes of 10 soya. each; for two years old; colts, 8„, Bst 61b; end fillies, Bst 31b. T.Y.C. "eepstake s of 100 soya. each, h ft; for three years old Lord colts, Bat 71b. D.M. (5 Subs.) . 'r ( l Stanley's Croupier, "Colonel Peel's Black See , * 1 1 r, Greville's Ariosto, Mr. S. U rtleres bc be Slane, out of Odes sa; D u k e o f B..:dford's Bargeman (paid). "e One Thousand Guinea Stakes, a Subscription of 100 sovs, each, h ft, for three yrs old fillies, B.t 7in e Seb;,, the secon d t o save hi s s t a ke. D.M. (33 Subt.) . „„ AIL.. Ba s t ar d' s G a y L ass , M r . J. G. Dix on 's Abbess, „ Delamere's Fortune, *Mr; W. Et ward's Prima T uri nu. Lord Exeter's Cilia, Lurd Exeter's Mt-lita, *Lord ~ e ter's Phlegra, Mr. Freeman's Olivia, Mr. Gratwitkeht Her Squaw, Mr. Gratwicko's Anspach, *Mr. Gm vine's celuna, "Si r J. Hawley 'e Aph ro d ite , Si r 3. Hawley's hel lo). Peal, "Mr. Payne's Glendale, Sir B. Pigot's h ell " ) . Sir. J. Hawley's Breba, Sir J. Hew e r!! Vermuth, Lord Clifdeu's Galaxy. Lord Glenochty, *Lord Clifden's Cotieula, u t Harrison's Trickstress, Mr. H. Hilt'.. Epira, Et• Howard's Christina, Mr. Henry's Juli a , Mr. so I ,trYs Pussy, Mr. jaqs Heirlooth; 11 Confidence, Lotcl LIMAIIQZ'O Tuttle, "Air. fThUrs i",nsstei this o,t, e t City , ' , t PanP ook opsf egiected to t° sing al to t , e se cr aPeArea e 14 reh P older :v t die prior to I tained bigot Vice-O W:l ,j lea ies had be ,:so d that it' , 0 0. f av twelve r - v oto at the u ti bi tios A res°j o sol; and NV .l4 ,§ o ' with th e ft RV r r esolotilio proce e es Ole to exPel' s cola 1. After $ LllLuw - ;t le exc--eioi.:, rutnouro lat M r ' pt . ' Hicks, Pr iir ot . ,ting . bi 9 s cli ? ep: 1% in Sad be ell , o e, o c Led to 116 ' 0 W :cotn, o f stree6oo l ' ,ly felt. 4a s wild 91 1 tie r° ehensi°%ose l ' shortly ..- 136 A 'mass. or ; f meld , w bee i t , b , abnut ; T c!lc rles Lee' larg e ial. 10 /1 and, by " un try O r e , : paup er ;0 n g Pi d orte )ridge al 2.dir discovory . erno 010 . Ted to peat ne,to be, c or ,t 30, fair '- i°° 4 r the $ x bibitieg to o Aber $ 6 A ° liar si ze. ba t l iver. 41; b0 1 , able in tb~ aide ° b ites , isieb 4 t atS i ,' 14 to ts) , 10,62 1 ..; 05 11 rease • Atilt li the t' f bere s, • , P ? 1110 l or .1 3 deu e0 joint;age D ! 11 1 .7, r ptit adman 010 earSP i y# t 404(° al so div E , ),11 o 0 • r bre° 10 0 bout I' d the entered The viorin. n the cloyed t IpfsP",?:; was, a rt, oP of th e th e itatedlload xtril ,fllO 6 01 e4 r 0.3.0 u,, THE 'SUN, LON DON, Mare's Panders, - Lord ,o;4;,rd'd f by Arundel, Out of Mangosie_en,_!Lord Stanley's-Irity-Mr.- -Payne'b Citadel (dead), Mr. A. Nichol's B-atrice (dead). FRIDAY. Handicap Sweepstakes ufl3sovs. each; fur -three -aEd f air yrs old. D.M. Sweepstakes of 10 sous. each ; fur three yrs old, 7st ; four, 61b ; five .ix, and aged, 94. D. 11. to be fold fur 10d, Sweepstakes of W sovb. each ; for two yrs 011 Est 71b ; and three, Bst 71b ; mares and geldings allowed 3lb. _ . First half of Ab. M. The winner to be sold for 501., &c. The Newarket Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h ft; fOr three .yrs old ; colts. Sit 71b; and fillies, 8-it 21b; the, second to save his stake. .D.M - . (26 Subs.) Colonel Anson's b c by Touchstone, out of Ellipsis, Mr. •W. Beresford's Vagab , nd, S.,Ford's: Do La Rue, Mr - . Gordon's 800, Mr. Greig's b c by Earl of Rich mond, out of Miss Deiphine, Mr. fi. Cap tain Lowther's Boyne, Sir J. B. Mill's E.irtu, Lord Al ford's Alboni, Mr. Payne's Gle. , .dak, Lund Stanle,'s Storm, Mr. Wigram's Napauk, *Mr. Batson's Abda roaman, *auk- of Bedtoro's Santiago, 'Lord Clifden's Liarpsiehord, *Lord Exct,-q's Midas, Lord Exeter's Ben More, *Lord Exeter's P••legethon,*Sir J. liasv;e)'s Ted : - dinvus, !Sir J. Huwi.-y's Conf.s.or, Sir J. Haw lej'a Ba qtr. Irwin's Lord Edward, Mr. fl.iwafd's Grecian, Mr. 13astaro's Pavilion (paid). Mr. Payoe's Citadel (dead). Colonel Anion's Pots nt (dead). Match-100, A.F.—Mr. Barrie's Suiterly, 6 yrs,'Bit 101 b. agst Doke of Bedford's Bordeaux, 4 yrs, B,t 6th. and Scutt's hones had not arrived on Friday night. _ . . The following horses were struck ont of their engage meats in this meting on Thursday:—Grecian, Boatuld, Julia, Epira, Cbristme, Yrimitious, Confidence, and Pa' RAILWAY ARRANGEMENTS.—In consequence of a re gular Express train having been put on from Bishops gate to Newmarket, startiog, at 8 A.M., and arriving be tween ten and eleven o'clock, the only special train next week will be on Tuesday (the 2,000 Guineas day), leav ing at 7 A.M., and returning at 7 P.M.; the fares will be very low. As the last ordinary train now leaves New. market at four o'clock, a train vv , ll leaie un Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, at 7.20 P M., in connexion with the train due in London at ten O'clock: On'Sunday (to-morrow) there will be-a train from Chesterford in connexion with the 1.30 PM. down train. The directors have set a very good example by advertising their ar rangements not only in English, but in French and Ger man, and will no doubt succeed in inducing many.fc reigners to visit the metropolis of the turf. MINING INTELLIGENCE. (From the Mining Journal of this day.) A steady business has been done in several of the lead ing mines, but the aggregate of transactions is not large in comparison with the desire shown to possess sound mining securities, and evidenced by the offtrs made being 5 to 10 per cent, wide .of the prices asked, and thus showing increasing confidence and stability in our market. In addition to transactions on the Mining Exchange, and. registered, the brokers and dealers are active out of doors, both in dividend and speculative mines, but chiefly the latter, which occupy a fair share of attention, and we rejoice to sue amongst much that is to be reprehended a considerable amount of enterprise, coming forward, which will be gradually introduced to the ordeal of the new institution, whilst all inferior, or even,doaletlul .pro jects will be rigidly excluded therefrom. In the Metal Market, Copper finds a steady sale, at the quotations.-Lead and Tin with Out alteration.- Spelter continues depressed. Tamar Consols Mines sold, on Tuesday, a parcel - of silver-lead ore to Messrs. Pontifex and Wood-96 tors, at 181. 15s. per ton. Allt-y-Crib sold 20 tons of lead ore, at 121. per ton. Tywarnhayle and Nancekuke Mines sold, at Truro, on the 9th inst., 5 tons of silver-lead ores at 291. 16s. 6d. per ton, and 11 tons at 171. 10s. Black Craig Mines sold, on the 10th inst., 52 tons of lead ore at 101. 4s. per t0r.,=530/. 4s. • Merllyn Mine sold 10 tons of lead ore, on the 10th inst., at 11/. 14s. per tOllll7/. The lead course has increased in size, and value, and is very favourable for sinking. The lode is valued at 35/. per fan At Court Grange, tenders for 55 tons of lead ore will be received till the 19th list. (this day). The profits for the two mouths' raising will, it is expected, be from 3501. to 3751. At Wheal Friendship about 190 tons of ore will be sampled this month. At Chyprase Consols on the llth inst., N. F. Bassett, Esq., the mayor of Truro, laid the first stone of the new engine-house with the usual ceremonies. The agent reported to the adventurers present the gratifying intelligence that in the south cross-cut he had met with a kindly lode, and from the favourable strata in the north cross-cut he expected to cut the tin lode shortly. At Levant Mine meeting, on Tuesday, a dividend of 800/. was made, being 5/. per share. At Wheal Seton meeting, on Monday, the accounts, for January and February, showed-Balance from last account, 3291. 13s. ld.; ores sold (less dues), 3,912/. 11a, 9,1=4,2421. 4s. 10d. Costs and merchants' hills, 3,0091. - 1 s. 4d.; dividend of Si. per share, 9901.: leaving balance in favour of adventurers of 2431.38. 61: the profit being 9031. 10s. sd. At Stray Park, Camborne Veen, and Wheal Francis meeting, on the 11th inst., the accounts showed-Tut work cost for January, 2911. 15s. 9d.; February, 1691. 17s. lid.; merchants' bills, 3361. 15s. Id.; tribute subsiet and pay, 2671 24. ld.; lords' dues. 311. Is. Bdea- - --1,0961• 12s. 6d. By copper ore sold, 6th February, 7461.; prelit en Wheal Francis, 31. 19s. lid.: leaves loss, 3461. 12s. 7d.-deduct balance in hand last account., 162/. 13s. Si., leaves balance against the adventurers, 1831. 19s. 2d., against which is copper ore sold, 31 inst. 6761. 9s. 63. The average gettings of the miners in January and Feb ruary, had been-tutworkmen, 11. 19s. 9J.; and the tri haters, 11. 14i. 93. per month. At Dolcoath meeting, on Monday, the accounts for January and February showed-Balance last account, 2,5941. 2s. 53.; costs and merchants' bills, 3,238/. 6s.= 5,832/, Bs, sd. By ores sold (less dues) and carriage, 3,3551. ls. 9d.: leaving a profit of 1161. 15s. 9d., and balance against the adventurers of 2,4771. 6s. 83. At East Pool meeting, on Tuesday, the accounts for February and March showed-Balance last account, 2631. 15s. 7d.; costs and merchants' bills, 1,3 321 . 3 s. 6 d. =15951. 19s. Id.--By ores sold (less dues); 1,337/.118.7d.; water drainage, 1201; leaving a profit of 125/. 88. Id., which, with the improved prospects below, led to an in quiry for shares at an advanced price.. The balance against adventurers was 138/ 7s. 6d. At Wheal Mary meeting (Redrutle), on Tuesday, the accounts showed-Balance last statement, 155/. 91. 103.; cost for January, 3611. 188.4 d.; February, 3741. 14s. ld.; merchants' bills, 341/. 15e. 8d.5ee1,2331. 17s. 11d.-By copper ores sold (less dues), 543/. 14s. 5d.; call 18th Feb., 4951.; leaves balseate to next account, 1951. 3s. 6d. A call of 10.3. per share was made. At Wheal Arthureneeting, at Pswey Consols account house, on the 7th inst., the accounts showed-Balance from last account, 5681. 3s. 11d.; costs for seven months, ending with Dec., 1850, 6351.,103. 5d 5ee1.2031, 14s. 4d. -By call of 41. per share 31st August, 1,2001. (leis three shares not pail, 12/.); received discount, 155.23.: leaves balance to next account, 14/. 113 s. 7d. At Tamar Genet& meeting, recently held, the accounts showed-Baiance in hand 31st Augast, 2,8381. 91. 5 1. ; returns of silver-lead from September to end of Feb., 8,3581. 2i. I Id. = 11,1961. 124. 43. By amount of costs from Sept. to end of Feb, 8,5541. 19s. 6d.; interest and discount. 431. 191.2 d. ; directors' salaries, 1751.;" manage ment, 1201.; auditors, 61. 6s.:leaving balance now to hand, 2,296 7s. 83. At South Tamar Consols meeting, on the Bth inst., the accounts showed-Balance from last account, 7791. 19s. 63.; sale of 66 tons of fluor-spar, 141. 175.; silver lead, 90 tons 1 cwt., at 161. 18s., 1,521/. 16s. = 2,316/. 12s. 6d. To paid cost-sheet, Jan., 661/. 13s. 33.; Feb., 7271. 123. 11d.; paid discount, 9/. 12s. 5J.; , Duchy of Cornwall, for dues to 3d Jan,, 196/. 103. 33.; London office, secretary and assistant, one quarter's salary, 15i; rent, stationery, postage, and printing, 151. 135.: leaving balance to next account, 6901. 10e. Bd. Estimated pay ments before next meeting, June 10:-Costs for March and April, 1,4001 ; dues, 216/. 18s.: leaves a balance of payments over receipts, 9261. 7s. 6d.,• then add moiety of stamping, due 26th June and 3d Dec., 780/.; against which are the ores raised in Feb. and March, 1,5001.; April, 7001.: leaves balance of assets over liabilities, 4931. 12s. 61.. At 'East Tamar Consols meeting, on the Bth instant, the accounts showed-Balance last account, 837/. ss. I Id.; received for 200 tons of fluor-spar, 531. 103.; silver lead ores, 65 tons 1 cwt. 1 qr., at 14/. per ton, 910/. 16s. Bd.; on account of call duo 23 Novemcer, 151w1,816/. 12$. 7d. To paid Jan. cost-sheet, 557/. Bs. 6d.; Feb., 476/, 13s. 13.; discount, 3/. Ils. 6d.; office expenses, se cretary and assistant, one quarter's salary, la; rent, stationery, postage, and pleating, 10/. 18s. 6d.; leaving balance to next account, 753/. Is. ,Estimated pay ments before next meeting, June 10-Cost-sheet for March and April, 1,0001.; dues, 281/. 19s. Bd.; leaving a balance of payments over receipts, 528/. 181. Bd.; then add liabi lities, dues on lead, 40/.; credit assets, Jan. and Feb., 58 tons of lead, 8401.; March, 860/.; leaves balance of assets over liabilities, 1,1311 Is. 43. At Morvah Consols meeting, on Tuesday, the shares (180) were principally taken up by the shareholders in the Levant Mine. A call of 2/. per share was made. At Kircudbrightshire meeting on Tuesday, the ac counts showed-Lead ore sold, 11th of March, 41 tons 12 cwt., 446/. 2s. 6d.-By March • cost 4371. 19e. ld.: leaving profit; 81. 3s. 53.; debtor balance- from last ac count, 181. 4s. 2d., leaves balance to next account 10/. Os. 93., independent of lead ore sold 2d of April, 41 tons 13 cwt. value 4511. 18e. A cargo of about 40 tons of ore will he ready for sale about the 23d inst. At Drake Walls meeting on Monday, the 'accounts showed-Balance last account, 1,4131. 91. 7d.; coat of twelve months' working to end Deceneber; 11,2161. 6s. 43.; interest, discount, and petty cash disbursements, 1051.8 e. 7 d.= - 12,735/. 4s. 6d.-By 223 tone [8 cwt. 2 qrs. 211 be. of tin ore sold, 9,632/. 12s. 113.; ninth inJtalluentt j ba ti l n a u n a c ; t O an n d ex li t e ac br e u o m u ry nn a ca l o ,B u 2 n 2 t le t d i 1 1:4 6 . 6 7 5 d i. T l,2 l3 B e (4 o . o : st le s av fo e r s e 3s. 31., and the tan sold for those months 2,044/. 'ls. 5d., s h oe ing a profit of 378/. 18s. 23., reducing the balance against rho mine to 1.443/. 133. sd. At Wheal nendolph meeting a call of 1/. per share was made, to liquidate the cost already incurred, and for the further proeecutien of the m i ne . At the Tresavean meeting, on the 29th March, the ac counts showed-Labour coat for Jan. and Feb., 1851, 1,3501 9s 2d.; merchants bills b o i f l Icsopdpi copper and n 6 4 77 1i / n0 . 17s. res 2 a d ord, 2 14 0 0 2 v 8 . /. and6s.(le By m (less lord's dues. 73/. 63. 91), 1,393/. 10s. 53.; by sni , dry credit', 489/. Bs. 41.. showing a loss o f 1451 7s. 73.; add balance against the adventurers last . account, -9/ 32 Ms. 93., leaves a balance to the next ac count, 467/. 18s. 43. The Tywarnhayle and Nanc ekuke Min e s a cco u n t for January and Febrpary shows • •-By copper ores sold from Tywernhayle,.3,4oo. 1,59- 3d.,;.dittOire .Nance 3k2u4ki, 15. 61 e,16 1 4/.1L5 30 . 4530 i is, d lead-a.t:tylvwear n f ii ro a m e Nan cekuke m 3,4 a 18s.;;Nancekuke. ditto, 4461. 18s. 14d. t shOsvinT a profit or - 4441M; 7d.1 add baladce from last account, 1031. - 3s. 21., leaving balance- to next-account, 1471. 143.94. At Wheala Uay meeting, ois Saturday, the accaunts bh4)Wea:::ay . eall in Jan., 1,0241.-Less .costs _and mer chains' k o ala 1641. 165.: leaving balance at the bankers, 8-591. 45., Which is estimated to carry on operations until Alidsumrner. The claw 50 inch cylinder- engine is con-• traced for,lite delivered in three months, aud•prepa rations made for,the engine-house. At a meeting of shareholders in the Merllyn Mine, on. Thursday,jhe accounts showed a balance in band. of 212/. Be. 7d., and a balance of, assets over liabilities of 305/ 2s. - - At Daathiew Copper and. Lead Mine (Breconshire) . second hi-monthly meeting, on • Thursday, the account showed -Deposit on 3,000 ahares, at ss. each, 7501.- : Total outlay to this time, 2371. 17s. 104.; leaving balance to next account; 512/. 2.4: 2 1. At stanettiag of the South of Scotland Mining Com pany, on Tuesday, a call-of 2e. 61. pershare was made, pa) aide immediately. At Wheal _Mary Emma raesaing, on Thursday, t! - ,e accounts saosaaf -Balance in.hand last account, 501 133. 11d. ;. call of ss. in Jan, 2561.; sale of 2 tons 1 .cwt. 1 qr. `lB3s: of tin, 1041. 75.=4111 03. 11d.-By Jar. cost 401. 45.-14 ; F; t .brUary, 43/ 18a 41.; merchants' bills, 151. Os. 33.; leaving balance to next account, 311/ 173. 31. At Boiceannieeting, -on Wednesday, tha accounts sho d -1331auce , last account,, .1.3551..123. 93.; wages from Oet,.to end of Jan. 772/. Is. ii.; merchants' lolls,- 458/. 65.; ourriagg,, 181. 10s. 23.; lords' dues, 21/. 14s. 31= - 2 626 t 4s. 34.' lly Call, 1 2001.; tin sold, 5121. 55.; sale of erfeine, 4131 19..: leaving to next account, 5001. A call of 21. 10s. per share was made. At the Catvadnack meeting, the accounts for six months ending February, shcoaed-Mine costs and mer chants' bills, 4714 ss. 11d.; call made in October, 2501.: leaving balance against adventurers, 2211. ss. 11d.-A call of 103. per share w as wade. - ,At.theßaswidden and Wheal Castle meeting,"the ac counts for November, December, and January, showed --ll:dance from last account, 230/. 14s. 31.; costa and merchants' bilk, 7241. 4s. 4d. = 954/. 18s. 7d.-By ores sold, 7721. 6s. 84.; sundries, 6/. 13s. id.: leaving balance against the adventurers, 1751. 18s. 101. ,At the West Wheal Towan meeting on Tuesday, the accounts for six months, ending February, ,showed- Balauce from last account, 8001. ss. 8d ; costs and mer chants' bills, 2,7141. 53..61. 3,514/. lls. 2d.-By ores sold (less dues), 81. 10s.; three. calls, 3,0001.: leaving balance, against adventurers, 506/. ls. 2d. . At Wheat Gill meeting, at Exeter, on Menday, the acceants,.ahowed-Cash received 1.000/ ; paid -cost sheet, Dec. 661. ss. 91; Jan., 761 6e. ld.; Feb., 111/. 25:44.; - commissions, 2501; advertising and printing, 211. 63. lease's on account, 96/.; on accout of engine purchase (1,1500 530/. 3e., leaves debtor balance to next account of : 151/. as. 2d. A call of 11. per share was made payable in two instalments of 103. on the 28th instant, and-10s.. on the 28th of May. The shares in Devon Consols North were-.,issued on the Bth instant, and having all been fully paid on, and, in the bands. of bon& fide, holders, bear:a premium. The men are pniceeding satisfactorily with the costeaning, and the lodes, as they are opened on the backs, present features of 'high promise. Shares have changed hands this week in Vary Ann, South ; Tamar, East Daren, West Caradon, Trelawny , Harodsfont,'Merrilyn, Alfred Consols, Garreg, Venton, Eleignstoa Downs. . In Foreign Mines, transactions have taken place in Cobra ::at advanced prices; in Copiapo, Santiago, St. JOin del Rey, and Ihited Mexican. CHELMSFORD ,AND MOULSHAM.—In 1801 the po pulation of Chelmsford amounted to 3,755 ; is 1811, to 4,649; in 1821, to 4,994; -in 1831, to 5,435; in 1841, to 6;781; in 1851, the present census,, to 7,795; increase, 1,006. It may_ be remembered that when 'the ce nsus was taken in 1841, nearly 500 labourers were located in this town, and 'the house of correction and the old gaol con tained 48 prisoners, so that the actual increase may be said to be about 1,500. The following is &summary for 1841 and 1851, showing the increase and decrease 1841. 1851. Tncrease.Decreuse. In Chelmsford {Males, .1,884 1,883. ... 71 Females,'l,999' 2,088 89 ... Ia Moulsham Females, 1,297 . 1,897 . Males , 1,358 1,668 63100 Males, 99 201 102 In Union-house / rema 128 than t 2 h 4 ere were in There are 442 more hous e e s s ' in l t o h i e parish 1841, but in that year the number uninhabited was only 22, whereas we have now 134. Some curious statistics are de veloped by the details of these returns. The number of inhabited houses is 1,552, which, compared with the popu lation, shows an average of nearly five inmates to each house. The excess of females above male s, under 16' years of age, is 1.25 th, whilst between the ages of 16 and 70 the excess is 1-sth.. 'ln Chelmsford there is a majority of 305 single per sons above those in a married state, the numbers being 1,1,23 and 1,118; but in Moulsham the married have the majority, being 1, l4B,`whilst the single muster only 1,031. The grand total, however, shows that the Benedicts are in a minority, the nuMber of ma ried persons being 2,266 ; single (not in cluding children), 2,454. The Chelmsford population (ex clusive of the union) is 36`: more than the Moulsham, yet there are 30. more married persons in the hamlet, and 26 more ehildren than in Chelmsford.. The raarried couples in the town and hamlet are 1,133; children under 16, 2,746; being less than three children to each family. There are 154 more widows than widowers in Chelmsford and Moulsham. It further appears .that there are natives of every county in England and Wales, except Monmouth and Westmoreland, resident: in Chelmsford.-- Chelmsford Paper. TEls CENSUS AT ABERDEEN. —Persons who abode within the Parliamentary boundary, on the night of the '.oth of March, 'lB5l :—Males, 30,500; females, 39,5•.0; total, 70,00 J. The numbers who abode within the same limits on the Gth of June, 1841, were—males, 27,590; females, 35,67 !•, total, 63,262. Increase last ten years, 2,920 males, 3,828 females : making a total of 6,748. In 1841 it was estimated that 2,000 absent seamen should be- added to the total, and the number cannot be less now;_ so. that the population of Aberdeen may be set down at 72,000. The great :prepon derance of females—nearly 33 per cent.—is partly to be ac - counted for by this absence of seamen. The increase, 10t h per cent.; is, considering the stagnation which occurred two or three.years ago in our manufactures, and which has not been got over yet, nearly as much as could have been antici pated.. Within the Parliamentary boundary, there are 5,500 separate houses, and upwards of 15,000 separate occupants. It speaks well for the 'future' prospects of Aberdeen, that whereas there . were only twenty-one houses building in 1841, there are sixty-one building . in 1851—not fewer than fifty one of them being in Old .slachar, and of a superior cha racter. -The- religious and educational schedules have, we believe, been very generally and very faithfully filled , up.— Aberdeen Herald. - - ROYAL MUSIC HALL, ADELAIDE GALLEEY. — The concerts at this Hall continue nightly to attract crowded audiences. The Apollonicon, since our last visit, has had an addition of another an p (the Tuba Mirabilis), making it the most wonderful piece of mechanism in the world. 'There were several-splendid pieces of music played on it, including the overture to Masartiello, which were rendered in a mas terly style. The Collins Family are also engaged here, and their various performances elicited the most rapturous ap plause. We would recommend that a larger number of nutnber ,of seats be placed iuthe body of the Hall, as those who are not fortunate enough to arrive at the opening of the doora are obliged to stand the whole of the evening. APOTHECARIES' HALL.—Names of gentlemen who passed their- examination in the science and practice of medicine, and received certificates to practice, on Thursday, April 17 Edward Evans, tsardiff, Glamorgan; Lewis Newnham, Uckfield, Sussex; George May, Reading; James Backhouse B ndloss, Manchester; Edward iliggon Evans, Treffgame , Hall, • Haverfordwest ; Hugh Norris, South Pe therion ; William Johnson Rowland; John Hebden, Scar borough ; Charles Morton Shiley, Leicester. 'TRADE OF NOTTINGII4.IIL—The lace trade is in a :most unsatisfactory state, and most persons engaged in it complain bitte,ly of its condition, as they think the portion of the year wherein they commonly make the greatest re turn of sales is passing away with a more diminished inquiry for theits productions than: has been experienced for a great Many 'years at this season. The principal exceptions to this rule are a few considerable orders for Mechlin dresses (made from double tier. machines, worked half the regular guage), principally fer the South American markets. In hosiery we have a few more Orders for America, and a slightly improved amount of Sales for the home market, yet on the whole our business is far from being in the healthy state that we could desire to see it at this season, and we regret to state that many of the workmen are entirely without employment, and many others are stinted. The American orders hitherto re ceived fail very much short of what had been anticipated, still there is time for the receipt and execution of 'them to their usual extent. The sale of yarn is diminished, but former prices are yet fully maintained. —Nottingham Joarad. TaADE or GLASGOW.—The borne trade in this city has been decidedly dull of late. Manufacturers have gene rally large atocks - of goods on hand, which in many cases they are already beginning to " job" off. One manufacturer this week sold the large quantity of 1,200 jaconets, for, print ing, at 4s. 6d., which were recently worth 65., and cannot be made for the former price at tbe present high value of, the raw material.—North British Mail. MEETING OF BALLAST.IIEAVERS.—On Tuesday evening a public meeting-of the ballast-heavers of the port of London was held at Mr. M'Carthy's, Ship and Whale, . Wapping-wall, for the purpose of receiving the report of the deputation appointed to wait upon the Right Hon. H. Labou chere, President of the Board of Trade. Mr. Thomas Flinn was unanimously appointed to take the chair. The Chair man having,- in a neat and effective speech, explained the object of the meeting, called upon Mr. Henry Barthorp, the secretary of the Ballast-heavers' Association, who observed that their cause, within the la'st twelie months, had made rapid progress. The day 'of their redemption .was close at hand—their 'distressed condition had been brought before the House of Commons hi the most prominentmanner by Sir J. Duke, in addition to which petitions had been presented to the Hon. Corporation of the Trinity-house upon the subject, deputation's from which, and from their own body, lied waited upon , the Right Hon H. Labouchere, the - result 'of which wag, that the Right Hon. Gentleman had most hu manely and distinctly pledged himself to bring in a Bill in the present session 'of Pa-liament for the establishment .of a public office for the employment of ballast-heavers. After the Usualavote of thanks to the Chairman, the meeting, which was of the moat orderly deScription, quietly dispersed. • THE qODIVA paocessioN.---According to the prac tice of some time. past, this ,being the third year since the last Godiva procasion, the pageant will be revived at our approaching_greist fair in ;June next., Subacriptions are now in course of collection for the purpose; and as the undertaking is warmly encouraged, waunderstand it is intended to carry it into effect on a scale of - splendour hitherto unequalled. The Grand Exposition in the " Crystal Palace" will by that time have brought a vast multitude of foreigners into this king dom, who have heard the famous story connected with our local history, and we hear it has been determined to make the procession of 1851 an - event of more than ordinary in terest, and Calculated to.be second only in point ofattraction to the Great Exposition itself. —Coventry Herald. Two men, named . Mery and Lacolley, appeared before the Tribunal of Correctional Police yesterday on several charges of 'swindling. The prisoners had opened a pretended commission-house, and obtained from different wholesale houses large quantities of goods, which they im mediately-sold for any price they could get. They were both found guilty; Mery was condemned to five years' im prisonment and 50f. fine, and Lacolley to the same, fine and three years' imprisonment, and both to five years' surveil lance.— Galignani. • • A shoal o f -porpoises were seen disporting i n the sea yesterday. morning off the town within gun-shot of the shore. So numerous a shoal ,has not been seen off Brighton since the openingef the Chain Piere—Brigiiton :Gazette, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 19, 1851. AMERICAN NEWS. ARRIVAL OF iTt - 11 , ; FRANKLIN. SOUTRAMPTON, FRIDAY, APRIL 18. The United States mail steam-ship Franklin, Cap tain J. A. 'Wootton, arrived off Cowes this afternoon, at three o'clock, and after transferring the mails for England to a small steamer, proceeded on her voyage to Havre. The Franklin had on board 101 passengers, of whom about 20 landed at Southampton. Her freight list comprises 78 pack sges of s pecie, value 500,000(lolls., for Havre ; also 300 bales of cotton, and 100 packages of sundries. The Franklin has encountered heavy westerly wea ther during the entire passage. On the 16th inst., in lat. 49 50, long. 14 30, she saw the French brig Francais, from Cette, hound to Havre, showing signals of distress. On communicating with her, she found that she was short of bread, and an ample supply was immediately afforded by the steamer. The American mail steam-ship B iltic arrived at New York on the 3J, after a passage of twelve days eight hours. By the Franklin we have accounts from New York to the sth inst. Tne negro excitement still continued at Boston, in consequence of the continued arrest of fugitive slaves. On the 4th inst. Mr. Fletcher Webster, son of the Hon. Daniel \Whiter, was arrested and im prisoned at B iston. The following telegraphic dis patch in tlh.. Anew York Herald explains the parti culars : _ " BOSTON, APIVI. 4. " At a late hour last night a fugitive -slave, named Thomas Sims, was arrested while passieg Endicot-street, by a Deputy United States Marshal, assisted by mem bers of the police and wa . ch. lie at first :supposed that he was arrested for thunkenness, but as be reached the Court-house the true nature of the case was made known, when the cry of • Kidnapper!' was raised, and the prisoner drew a knife and stabbed officer Buckman in the groin. He was, however, safely lodged in the Court-house. At about ten o'clock an Abolition lawyer, named Samuel E. Sewell, met Deputy-Marshal Riley in the street, and was so violent and abusive, that he was sent to.the watchhouse, where he remained for an hour. Late in the night, Mr. Fletcher Webster found a watchman ringing the bell of Stone's chapel, and supposing an alarm of fire had been raised by the Abolitionists in order to collect. a mob,- he -ordered the watchman to desist. Mr. Webster attempted to _drag the man from the rope, and afterwards assaulted him. The officer called for assistance, and Mr. Webster was taken to the watchhouse and thence to the gaol. " This morning the Court-house is completely sur rounded by Marshal Tukey and his police force, who had drawn a chain completely about it. There is a large crowd about the place, tew of whom are blacks. Sims came to this city about the 7th of March last. He is 23 years of age, and has a wife and several children in Savannah. " The examination of the fugitive slave was com menced this forenoon, at nine o'clock, before Commis sioner G. T. Curtis. Seth J. Thomas appeared for the claimant; the Hon. Robert Rantoul, Charles G. Loring, and S. E. Sewell, for the fugitive. The complaint was then read, alleging that Sims escaped from James Potter, rice planter, Chatham county, Georgia, on the 22d of February last. Several depositions of persons in Savannah were read, to the effect that they knew Sims as the slave of James Potter. Some deposed that Sims had confessed that he was the slave of Potter, and also that his mother had acknow ledged that both she and her son were the slaves of Potter. " Edward Burnett testified that he lived in Savannah, and that he knew Thomas Sims, the prisoner at die bar. Sims had worked with him at bricklaying. Had told him that he was the slave of Potter. Also heard his mother say that she and her son were the slaves of Potter. " John E. Bacon, the agent of the owner, testified that he had known Thomas Sims well for a long period of years. Ha had resided in Savannah, and was the slave of James Potter. Had lived within 60 yards of his mother, and the prisoner passed witness's house twice a day going to his work. Was positive that Sims was the man. Had seen the mother of Sims pay over his wages to Potter in Sims' presence. " There was one other witness, but his testimony was not put it. " Defendant's counsel prayed for delay until Tuesday, but the Commissioner only granted a postponement for 24 hours. The counsel fur the defence stated that they believed Sims to be a free man, even under the laws of Georgia. •' The case was then adjourned until to-morrow, and the Court• house cleared. - - - " APRIL 4, 1 30 P.M. " The following notice has just been issued from the Commonwealth office, and pasted about the streets:— " PUBLIC MEETING—KIDNAPPERS IN BOSTON. " Men of Boston ! One of your fellow-citizens was last night seized by slave•hunters. He is in most immi nent deadly peril. The citizens of Boston and its neighbourhood are earnestly invited to assemble, without arms, in front of the State-house, at half past two o'clock P.M , to consult for the public good.' The Court-house is still surrounded with chains, and guarded by a large body of police-officers. " The fugitive is in a roosn'in the third story, which is secured by six two-inch bolts upon the inside. " Several military companies are at their armories, in readiness for action in cas•3 of any disturbance or at tempt at rescue ; indeed, every precaution has been taken to prevent a second Shadraeh affair. " The city remains in an excited state. The square around the Court-house has been cleared once or twice of the crowd collected by detachinents of the city watch, and one or two who refused to stir were taken into eustoly. The square, however, is again half full Sixty resolute men guard the Court-house upon the in side, and others are ready at the different watch-houses upon the least alarm. " No blacks are to be seen abroa,l, but knot; of white men are collected all over the city discussing the matter. The great majority are in favour of obedience to the law. " The agent of the owner refuses to sell the slave; his orders are to take him out of Massachusetts, to test the law." The Herald also publishes the following : " GOING TJ THE WORLD'S FAIR.—A portion of the Irish Directory of this city—at least a slievegammon slice of it—has engaged state-rooms in one of the Oeeau steamers which is to sail for England in the latter part of April. Queen Victoria had better look out fdr her Crown, if not for her salary." The subjoined extracts convey all the items of in terest received by the present steamer : " The mild weather of spring has broken upon New York, and the public promenades abound with fashion able pedi , strians anxious to enjoy the genial atmos phere. The spring trade has set in very fairly, and, as some of the more northern cities have been deserted by southern merchants, the present season will be very beneficial to New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, the merchants of these cities holding the principal cor respondence with southern houses. The Bill for the completion of the enlargement of the canals of this state was discussed at great length, and finally carried, in the Assembly yesterday. The friends of the measure were determined, according to all appearances, to fore: it through, although its unconsti tutionality was clear. Its advocates evidently resorted , to the higher law' for the accomplishment of their purpose. s. Th e Senate of this state yesterday passed the Bill for the bridging of Lake Champlain at Rouse's Point, a subject which has been debated at great length for some four years. " Postal arrangements of a reciprocal character have at length been perfeoed between the United States and the Canadas, the postage ta be 10 cents for half-ounce letters under 3,000 miles, and 15 cents for any distance over that. Such an arrangement as this has long been wanted, and we have no doubt it will be; attended with good effects. All that is wanted now to make Canada , virtually a portion of the United States is the passage of the reciprocity Tariff Bill. When that measure is passed we shall be as intimately connected with Canada as would be desired. " We learn by telegraph that American vessels are daily passing through the Welland Canal, thus proving that, up to this time, at all events, that branch of naviga tion has not been closed against us. It would be folly in the Canadians to shut out our commerce, for, in this age of the world, when free trade is the ruling principle, it would be suicidal in them to do so. Such a policy they cannot but know would injure them more than it would us, and postpone, indefinitely, the Reciprocity Act which they are so anxious of entering into, and which, pro bably, will be passed by the next Congress. The history of this country shows that it cannot be driven into any treasure." COMMERCIAL NEWS. NEW YORK ' A PR IL 4.—The activity of the St oc k Market is well sustained, and the prices still show an upward tendency, although the advance is not so re gular as it was at the commencement of the movement. Canton, however, continues to advance with rapidity, and went to 71, a further improvement of 21 per cent. Har lem was active, opening at 711, going to 72, and closing a t 714, an improvement of per cent. Reading shows an advance of I per cent. Erie is I better than yester day, closing at 844 ., bid. New Jersey was firm at 16, with sales. Norwich fell off per cent. at the First Board, but improved / per cent. at the Second Board, closing firm at 64i bid. Morris is per cent. better. Hudson River improved 1 per cant. Farmers' was more active, and improved per cent. Portsmouth was rather heavy, and went to 12g. Edgevvorth fell off per cent. Mohawk was in demand at 94k, an improvement of 2 per cent. Rochester and Syracuse also improved 2 per cent., and Utiea.and Schenectada were also better. The largely increesed receipt on this whole line of road is calling oct 3 demand for investment. There are a con siderable number of shorts in Mohawk, whi c h i ccre:o „, the demand for that stock. Stonington was not very firm. A sale of 59 shares was made at 46, buyer twelve months, 21 per cent. over the cash price. A similar sale of Farmers' was made of 300 shares at 70, being 21 per cent. above the cash price. A seller six months sale of Morris was made at 181. Long Island was steady at yesterday's rates. Madison advanced per cold. There is more movement in North American Tract, which has been dull for some time past. Indiana Pre. ferred Fives improved per cent., and the special were held at higher prices. Erie Securities were firm, and convertibles with considerable titles went at 9111- per cent. Second mortgages improved 4 1 per cent., and incomes / per cent. There were no transactions in Government . or State stocks, but higher prices were demanded. In Exchange there is no activity, but rates were, firm for Sterling at 10 to 101; Franca are heavy, ;it 5,10 to 5.071; lismburgh, 37 to 37A-; Bremen, 791 to 791; Amut-I.dam, 411 to 42. Freights real Ada unchanged. About 1,00) bales cot ton wero engaged at 3-16 to 7-323 ; 1,000 obis. flour, 12d.; 1,000 bb!tk. turpmtiae, 151.; 700 bbl:, resin, 9d.; and dead, weight at 12s. 6d. to 15s. To Cuba two vessels were ertg,aged at 21. aad 21. 7s. 6d. for Europe. To California there is a moderate amount of business doing at 403. to 60c. Cotton— rile unexpected advance, by the Baltic, of -II to 11, instead of a decline of abort that line, has not stimulated our market as much as was anticipated, from the great desire evinced by holders to make sales at a small improvement on previous rates. The transactions were reported at 4,000 bales, at ic. advance, say on the basis of 1 lie. to 111 c. for middling Upland. Feathers—Within a day or two 5,000 lbs. live geese changed hands at 40c. cash. Fish—la dry cod there was rather more doing, and the market was v‘ry firm. A cargo of 1,100 quintals, ju=t arrive 1, vi OA taken from first hands. at 3 dolls. 12c. Of mackerel 300 hblv. sold at 10 dolls. 120. to 9 dolls. 12c. for 1 and 2. Nothing new in herrings. Freighta—There was wore cotton .)ficring for Liver pool; about 1,000 bales were engaged at 3-16 d. to 7-32(i., with some Pmalt lots at i. There was no change in rates to London or Flays. To Caiifornia the clipper Eureka had completed cargo, at about 70c., while ordi nary sailers were obtaining 40c. to 502. There was rather more offering. Fruit—Since our last there have been sales of 1,000 boxes Mollt2a ritAns, at 8 dolls to 8 dolls. 12c.; 200 ditto halves, at 1 doll. Breadstuff,—biour —There was a firmer feeling in the market for the low and medium grades of State and Western, and with a better Eastern and local inviry; 7,500 bbls. domestic changed winds at 4 dulls. 25c. to 4 dolls. 31c. for No. 2 super. ; 4 dolls. 50c. to 4 dulls. 621 for ord. to choice State ; 4 duds, 56c. to 4 dol 6. 75c. for Indiana and Michigan ; 4 dulls. 680 to 4 dolls. 87c. for New Orleans, and 4 dol s. 94c. to 5 dolls. for pure Geneses. Other brand: sold to a fair extent at unchanged rates. Canadian was inactive, and nominal, at dolls. 4 62c., in bond. Fo Southern flour the market was more buoyant, and prices have advanced. Transactions add up 4,500 barrels. mostly for shipment, at 4 dolls. 68c. to 4 dolls. 81c. fur common; and 5 dolls. to 5 dolls. 56c. for fancy. Of ry.- flour the sales reached 100 bbls., at 3 dulls. 37c. to 3 dolls. 50c. Meal sold to a limited extent at former quota tions. Wheat was held with more firmness, while the demand was fair. The sales, however, were confined to a parcel of ordinary Canadian in bond, at 96c. Rye was scarce and quiet at 75c. Barley was in request. with sales of 1,500 bushels, at 7 dolls. 6e. to 1 dolls. 120 , a decline. Oats have not varied. Corn has been pretty active, without marked alteration in value, SOM3 18,000 bushels yellow. New. Jersey and Southern, changed hands at 68c. to 68ic. Coffee had a drooping tendency, with sales of 500 bags Rio at 10-la.; 150 ditto Java, at 12ic.; and 200 ditto St. Domingo, at 91c. to 9i3. cash. Wool-The stocks have materially decreased, and there is now a good supply in the market. Prices gene rally are a shade lower; - below we submit a revised list of current prices. Sales during the week were made of 200 bales Smyrna and other Meditterranean unwashed at 13c. to 16c.; 100 bales Smyrna washed at 24c. to 26c., six months, and 50,0001b5. fleece, of low and medium qualities, at 45c. to 46c. cash. American Saxony, fleec( , per lb., 50c. to 55c.; American, full blood Merino, 44e. to 48c.; American, and a Merino, 39c. to 43c.; Amer can, native and Merino, 35c. to 38&.; superfine, pulled. country, 40c. to 43c.; No. 1, pulled, country, 36c. to 380.; superfine, pulled, city, 38c. to 39c.; No. 1, pulled, city, 36c. to 37c.; Peruvian, washed, 263. to 35c.; Valparaiso unwashed, 11c. to 13c.; South American, washed, 18c. to 20c.; South American, unwashed, 10c. to 12c.; South American Cordova, washed, 24c. to 25c.; . South Amen. can Cordova, unwashed, 12c. to 13c.; East India, washed 28c. to 30c.; African, unwashed, 10c. to 18c.; Africa!, washed, 27c. to 35c.; Smyrna, unwashed, 14c. to 17c. Smyrna, washed, 25c. to 28c.; Mexican, unwashed 16c. to 17c. WEST INDIA MAILS. ARRIVAL OF THE CLYDE. As we announced yesterday, the West India mail packet Clyde, Captain F. E. Moss, put into Falmouth on Thursday morning, at 8, A . M. , short of fuel. Her dates of sailing are as follow :—Tampico, March 8 ; Jamaica, March 17 ; Porto Rico, March 21; De merara, March 16 ; Tobago, March 16 ; Trinidad. March 17; Grenada, March 18; St. Lucia, March 19 ; Barbadoes, March 19 ; Martinique, March 20 ; Guadaloupe, March 20 ; Montserrat, March 21 ; St. Thomas, March 21 ; Fayal, April 7. The Clyde brought home 928,777 dollars on mer chants' account, 8,182,876 dollars on account of Mex ican dividends, and 8,460,504 dollars value in gold dust. Her cargo consisted of 144 serons of cochineal, 9 serons of indigo, 33 serons of jalap, 12 hhds. or coffee, 5 bales of sarsaparilla, and 67 packages of sundries. Her Majesty's ship Bermuda was at Grey Town ; the Imauw, Alarm, and Persian, with the steamer Alban, were at Jamaica; and the surveying ship Scorpion, with the Spanish man-of-war Solon, at St. Thomas's, when the Clyde left. The Company's ship Conway was en route to Ha vannah; Derwent, at St. Thomas's, March 22 ; Eagle, at Barbadoes, March 28 ; Great Western, at St Thomas':, March 22. The Trent arrived at St. Tho mas's on the morning of March 18, and was coarint, when the Clyde left. Tne following is the list of passengers who cam , - home in the Clyde: — Mr. Caillavet, lady, and child, from Greytown; Mr. Bertrand, Mr. DesplaLque, two ladies, and three chil dren, Mr. Baney, lady, and two children, from Chogre.,; Mr. C. Matinez, Mr. A. Haupois, from Carthagena; Mr. Pcgenhandt, two ladies, three children, and servant, Madame Ribousch, Count Reglas, Mr. Monziles, Mr Blumenkron, Mr. Gutman and servant, Mr. Jose Pojal Mr. C. W. Duck, from Vera Cruz; Mr. and Mrs. East. Mr. Forster, Mr. and Mrs. Jaffnay, three children, and two servants, from Jamaica; Mr. Woppumann, two ladies, fire children, and servant, Mr. Smith, Mr. Cun ningham, Mr. Irvine, Mr. Chambers, from Demerara: Mr. Johnson and son, Mr. Cockerton, from Trinidad; Dr. and Mrs. Swanston, Mr. G. Swanston and servant. from St. Kitt's; Mr. and Mrs. Cameron, three children. and servant, Mr. B. Cohen, Mr. P. Garcia, from St. Thomas; Captain Taylor, from Fayal. JAMAICA MARKETS. Sugar sold at 21s. 63., 19s. 6d., and 198. SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY EVENING. The Clyde steam-ship arrived here this afternoon about five o'clock. --- INTERESTING FROIII THE WEST INDIES. By the arrival of the B.oyal Mail steam-ship Merlin, Captain Samson, we have received dates from Sr. Thomas to the 221 ult., and from Bermuda to the 27th. The drought which had prevailed for several week , ' at Bermuda had been somewhat relieved by some heavy showers; but no continuous rain, sufficient to replenish the exhausted tanks, had visited the islands. Vegetation had improved, but the want of water was much felt. On the 7th inst. the Legislature meets for the dis patch of business, in accordance with a proclamation of the Governor. Vice-Admiral the Earl of Dundonald arrived at Bermuda on the 231, in his flag-ship Wellesley, from a cruise among the West India Islands. His sue eessor, Sir George Seymour, is expected early this month. The Trinidad papers, in noticing a rumour that the Pitch Lake hid been granted to the Earl of Dun donald by the Government, expresses a hope that their rulers "have nut made any concession without s o guarding it that the Pitch Lake may not become an injurious monopoly in the hands of a few indivi • duals." This grant is supposed to have connexion with some experiments lately made in this city rela tive to the value of mineral pitch for producing gas for lighting cities. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, FRIDAY, APRIL 18. The Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert took their usual morning walk. The Royal Family took walking exercise in the grounds around the Castle. Her Siaj , sty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, her Royal Highness the Princess Royal, the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court, and the domestic Household, attended divine service in the private chapel in the Castle, Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent al so attended the service. The Hon. and Rev. Gerald Wellesley 018 ciated, and administered the Holy Communion. Dispatches were sent off yesterday to the Governor of the Canadas, and the Governors of the other North American Colonies from the Colonial Office. STEAM TO THE CAPE.---.PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY. The mail steam-packet Propontis, Captain Glover, which arrived here this morning, left the port with the outr mails on the night of the 17th of January, arrivat St. Vincent on the 30th, reached Sierra Leone on the 4th of February, and left again on th arrived touched at St. Helena on the 16th of February, and at the Cape of Good Hope on the 28th. Her outward passage thus occupied 42 days, and was considerably lengthhened by ed heherr fresh go out water t a nks baying proved leaky, whic compell to Helena. On the homeward of her course, and cal l at St. passage she left the Cape o h n te 7th of March, arrived at Sierra Leone on the 23d, and sa iled therefrom on the 24th ; called at St. Vincent on the 30th, and left on the 31st. She arrived at Falmouth on the 16th, and Plymouth on the 17th inst., thus making the homeward passage to Falmouth in 40, and to Plymouth in 41 days. Although there have been lately such severe gales in the Channel, the Propontis ex ,e -rienced only fresh easterly breezes, but these were accom l2 .a nied by tremendously heavy seas, which caused her to i;ch stem down, and frequently threatened the loss of h o er l i p i s la ' sts sign ' aliusehd -a casualty which greatly retarded her prog , re s s h s e . Sun day, the 13th, in lung. 10 52 W., lat. 44 N the large Bremen ship Obers, of 1,000 to 1,20 . 3 tone, outward bound,pt h e pennant n alnstt 15th, and,e signalised i num bereeel asecond emigrants. distinguishing ath S fe a u me day a large Dutch ship, blue flag, No. 905, 9iaetrhn-dbound, and passed through a heavy fleet of ships bark i2oni6e, with receptions announced to take place at the will ' not commence until after the opening of bound m aTn shi eo u n p . h C o h u a s n e n the Great Exhibition, the Lord Mayor being desirous not only of receiving at them the literati and scientific men of this country and of the Continent, but more especially of imelaartktinogthhiiss epochwarrn i p n ar t t h i e ciation in the general wish to give historyi Mansion-house i t o h n e . hou set industrial o the world by offering the hospitality of the foreign commissioners,' as well as to those contributors who may re ceive marks of distinction. PLAINNESS. (From Eliza Cook's Journal.) Plainness is a sort of half-way stage between beauty cn the one hand and ugliness upon the other. Teat some critical persons may perhaps say does not amount to a definition, and they are right, but then we should reply that it is not our business to define but to describe and paint, and so to make more clear than can be accomplished by the aid of a definition. For in truth these definitions are not often very manageable or understandable things, and besides being very difficult to construct they are not half so graphic as a description, which is a picture done in words, showing us what a thing is to our senses. Dai our readers ever try their ha n d s at a defini tion ? If not, we would advise them to make the attempt, and if they succeed they will perceive at once how hard, coll., dry, and unsatisfactory a thing it is; how undescriptive and how ineffectual for conveying a mental image. In order to define, it. is absolutely necessary that there should he a standard an d a measure, and that positive qualities and unvarying quantities, shou'el be the bases, but if we were to endeavour to apply such a rule to beauty for example, we should be completely at sea. There is no cast of features in which beauty nem:- eerily resides, nor any proportion of face or person which necessarily insures the possession of that quality which we call beauty. A man or woman may he either handiorne or ugly, with a Jewish face a Ilmnan orofiie, or Grecian contour, with an Eastern s%,.llow nesa of complexion, or an Italian sunniness of skin, Or .vith red and white Saxon cheeks. The beauty unly on either tall or short, voluptuously full or gracefully thin of figure, a Jano, a Minerva, a Venus, *or a 4ylpb. In fact, beauty has as many qualities as there are minds to contemplate it, and while there is an absence of any universally authorative canon, there are thousand 4 of individual standards of opinion, and while this makes it impossible to give a catholic de tinition which all may receive, it enables us to appeal co each man's instinctive feeling of that which is to him the most beautiful. But though there is a variety of thought and opi lion, there is also some sort of agreement. For ex ample, what one calls beautiful, another seldom calls plain or ugly. They may not recognise in what ap pears perfection to others the highest point of attrac tiveness to them, but they feel that it is far from re pulsive, that it is anything but ug l y . The portly sturdy farmer, for.example, might look upon one of Rubens's fresh-coloured wide-spread dames as the re alization of his highest dreams of loveliness, while the courtly connoisseur actuated by a more delicate taste, would call such a specimen of womankind a "fine woman," and turn for a higher embodiment of beauty co a Venus by Corregio or Titian, or a Madonna from the brush of Raphael—forms which the aforesaid farmer would perhaps be content to designate as " pretty." Though one might dissent from the other's opinion of beauty he would not call its visible expres sion ugly. That is the amount of agreement which links together all men's perceptions and sensations, and blends the Protestantism of individuality into the Catholicism of universality. This sort of agreement, too, goes to indicate that there are some common qualities entering into every idea of beauty which prevents any one's loveliness from being any other persons repulsiveness ; but what they are we have not found out; and poets, fiction writers, painters, and sculptors, seem from the diversity of their descriptions and representations to be equally in the dark. There is, indeed, one statue to which all bow down as the visible realize don of the highest beauty of the female form, the Venus de Medici, but unfortunately that does not mond the matter, for if the philosophy of the brain is to be trusted, such a form and such an expression could not be blended together in life, for the head is so small that it could only belong to an idiot, and if the sculptor, Pygmalion-like, had fallen in love with the inanimate production of his chisel, and animated it with the Promethean fire of life, the expression of mind would have vanished from its countenance, and the beauty of the face have faded into the listless look of repulsive imbecility. We will not therefore attempt to deane beauty or ugliness, nor try to make them comprehensible, ex - cept by referring them to the attractiveness or repul siveness which they exercise over every one; nor will we attempt to mend our definition of plainness which is the mid point between everybody's idea of beauty end ugliness—that which neither repulses violently nor attracts powerfully. Beauty is a good, no doubt, because we all invo luntarily admire and love it, and ugliness is also cer rainly an evil because we all involuntarily dislike it. In these respects we not only cannot command our feelings, but we have not the opportunity of doing so, because they act before we have time for thought. If a man were placed between two strangers whom tie had never seen before and wished for convereatien, he would be prompted to turn from the least agree able looking to the most attractive, as naturally as he would leave the thistle to feast upon the bright J °lours and the fragrAnce of the ruse; but while the dowers never deceive him—while they, instinct with the truth of nature, al ways are what they seen to be, tie would °flea find that among men and women ap pearances are very dt-ceptive, and that behind the beautiful mask might be concealed a disagreeable -pirit or on empty head, and that the coarse, ill tCrmed visage was the title-page of a benevolent neart, and a capacious and well-itored mind—that the good of the one had bee❑ a source of evil, the evil )f the other had been a fountsin of good—that when the pleasant rill had dried up, the solid ruck had opened and gushed forth in crystal waters—that the beauty, trusting to mere appearance, had let the spirit run to waste, and its power wither away, while the less favoured child of nature bad sought another staff to lean upon, and unblessed by beauty of form had illuminated his mind, and made that radiant. More frequently, however, both the good of the one and the evil of the other, as extremes are said to meet and blend, produce from opposites precisely the same results. Beauty is, strange as it may sound, as preg nant with repulsiveness as ugliness itself. The fine face with its carnation lip 3 and delicately cut nose and radiant eyes, has existed in the region of flattery and adulation till the proud haughty smile, and su percilious stare, and cold, indifferent expression be come its habitual companions and freeze up the in. stinctive feelings which would draw us towards it; while hideousness, pointed at, laughed at, scorned, sneered at, and despised, has wound round its heart the dark veil of misanthropic hatred, and knitted its unattractive brows in a malicious frown which ren • ders repulsiveness still more repulsive. Bath beauty and ugliness wither a great deal of natures goad, and perhaps are equally to be dreaded, the one as a daa gerous gift, the other as a melancholy affliction ; the ane as the burning sun which scorches up immature fruis, the other as the cloudy, cold, bleak atmosphere which forbids the buds and blossoms of the heart to open into ripeness and beauty. In the midst then of these extremes of the good and evil of form--dangerous because they are extremes — comes the safe mediocrity of plainness, destitute of !tie attractiveness of beauty, but without the repul siveness of ugliness. It is to perfect loveliness what the mild summer of the temperate zone is to the burning heat of the tropics, and it is to hideousness what the genial, bracing healthfulness of an . Englishits winter is to the frigid cold of the arctic circ t . m i t. possessor is unassailed by the lofty and yet con . e free ible vanity which beauty so often fosters,. and is tr . ee from the dark shade of misanthropy which the satire and scorn of the world so often casts around the ugly. The plain man is like the man who is " passing ri c h," whose wealth does not suffice to give him a false im portance, and is yet too great to suffer him to fear the grinding hardship and the withering degradation of poverty and want ; he ha s the ha ppy medi um , and we are disposed to look upon him as one of the favoured mortals whom nature has framed for calm happiness and knowledge. Whether this be the sole cause or not we are not dogmatic enough nor sufficiently presumptuous to sa y , but if we look at the portraits of great and wise and good men in alleges, we shall find that the vast ma jority belong to the class whom we call plain people; an d when they have had anything of that quality which men would consent to call beauty, we shall find that it has been, as a rule, the beauty of expres sion and not the beauty of form—that it has been owing to the character which the mind imparted to the face, and not to the hue of the complexion or con tour of the features. The English are such a practi cal people that they think "an ounce of fact is worth a ton of theory," and a fact like the one we have just mentioned is likely to weigh with them far more strongly than a book full of learned argument, When, then, they direct their attention to the faces of such men as Luther, Cromwell, Johnson, and Sir Walter Scott, they will have a better notion of the power which plain men exercise than any we can otherwise give them. far Certain it is, too, that plain people aregenerally more lovable than either handsome or ugly people. We .. need not give examples of this, because t he y co in every Lady's experience ; a few minutes o t f f sideration will convince our readers oft truth over , h any lady or gentleman doubts the fact lob him run the list of his best and dearest friends, and onserve whether the majority are net plain people. We d o not, of course, write this for lovers, because they cat c h the blindness which is on e of the attributes of their tutelary deity. "Lo v e 's blind, they lovers are not quit e blind t h ey a., say;" am', if e afflicted, or ble-sed.—it is hard to ' . say which—with a sor t of a morous ophthalmia , which makes them very short sighted indeed. Their love actually mak es bl e mishes into beauties; and perhaps they have so associated the imperfections of the object of their affections with his or her personal identity, that, to take away the deformities would be to change a beloved individual for an indifferent stranger. In a Swiss tale, for ex ample, there is a beautiful little episode, which is so true that we fancy it must have been copied from na ture. It Valid of a YQVUIR WNW gtr l WhQ wag be' I trothed to a young peasant natsh club feet ; and on. Annette being asked whether she did not wish tlnat Wilhelm had not club feet, she answered, "No ; for then he would not be Wilhelm; and it is Wilhelm whom I love." Love always makes the loved. one beautiful whatever his form and colour. Desdeunona thought the swarthy hue of Othello the beau ideal of beauty; and as it is with persons, so it is with qa,ali ties—we gild those whom we like the best. If we were as illogical as lovers we should call plainness beautiful ; that would be such a paradox as a lover might well deal in; but we take a more consistent course, and only call plainness lovable. No doubt our opinion will be disputed by those who pin their faith upon works of fiction, the authors of which seem to be under a sort of prescriptive obliga tion, imposed upon them by custom from time imme morial, to mould their heroes upon the model of the Apollo, and to compound their heroines out of a mix ture of the Venus and the Medonna : and, in addition to their corporal perfections, to endow them plentifully with all the genius and all the virtues of humanity but we place no great relio.nce on such authorities, potent as they unqueetionably are ; ne regard their Personages generally as very pretty paintings of what men and women ought to be, rather than what they are, or even may be. They are something like card board model s of impossible edifices, which hold to gether by reason of the lightness and flimsiness of thi , ir materi a l, b ut which, in granite, would prove t he power of th e law. of gravitation, by fulling down ; and we should as soon expect to see the remains of Grecian art start from their venerable repose, and walking about in all their mjesty, proving themselves gods and demigods in reality, as to meet mere mortals exhibitin g all that beauty and virtue so liberally bestowed on fictitious person ages. It is strange, too, to notice how inconsistency will peep out, end, as a natural consequence, how authors, compelled to conform to natural laws, are obliged to introduce into their tales some plain people who, if men, exhibit more intellect and firmness than the first hero, and, if women, show more self-devotion and patience than the nominal prima donna, and who, whether men or women, perform almost a ll the greatand noble actions which give interest to the tale and create its pathos. Novel readers might do worse than notice this, a n d diminish their admiration of beauty and exalt their notion of plainness, by observing how, in the well wrought fable as well as the drama of real life, plain people really play the most important parts. In short, we are quite in love with plainness, which if it cannot boast of beauty often has a charm which mere beauty can never give. Those who have seen homely countenances lighted up by intellect or softened by affection and sympathy, or warmed into life by heartfelt mirth, will comprehend the beauty which the mind sheds upon the plainest face, just as the rich sunset makes the most sterile landscape en chanting. And they will understand too, that mere per fection of form is not half so attractive as modest plainness beaming with purity and goodness. There is a great deal of truth in that vulgar and ungram matical old saying " handsome is as handsome dees," which at once illustrates our meaning and points out to our plain friends the true way of becoming as handsome as they please. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) COWES, APRIL 18, 1850. ARRIVED.—The Franklin steamship, Captain Wet ton, in twelve days and a half, from New York, with 103 passengers. The Queen steamer took, of them, out of her twenty one to land at Southampton. She proceeded with the rest at 4.15 P.M., for Havre. Wind S.W., fine summer r eather. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. The Marquis of Lansdowne and suite arrived here on Thursday; after going over Harnet-lodge and some of the other principal houses here, his Lordship took carriages to the back of the island. There has been more inquiries for houses here for tho coming season than there has been fur many before, and houses are let from much earlier periods. THE GREAT EXHIBITION.—Some enemies of this un dertaking have, for the last few days, been circulating very industriously a report that a quantity of gunpowder had been found in some maple and other foreign goods sent over for exhibition; that the intention of those who sent the beautiful ornamental work in which it was con cealed was to destroy the Queen! It is wonderful what swallows some people have, there seems to be nothing too ridiculous for them. How could the refugees now in London possibly benefit their position by destroying our liberal Queen and our liberal institutions? This is now rho refuge for the destitute, and such a one as they cannot find in any other country; then what interest can they have to destroy it? And, then, the absurdity of hiding a pound or two of gunpowder in looking-glass frames and French bedsteads, when it can be openly pur cha,ed any ehere any day. These noodles deserve whipping. IKELAND. LONGFORD ELF.CTION. DUBLIN, FRIDAY.— rho sham canter: for this county haw vircu,tly t , mrninateci, sith!Jugh, in conformity with ttlo Av. of Parliament, the bloth,i must be kept open 111)01 SAturti , ly Looming. At the.: cl,kso of the poll yea tereay the gross number stool es follows: O'Perrall ••• ••• ••• ... 622 Sica•or ... ... ... ... ... 29 SALES OF ENCUMBERED ESTAIIiB.,-,• Contrary to expectation, the Commissioners set yes terdny for the purpose of selling tome small estates in the counties uf Kilkenny, Carlow, Meath, Kildare, and Tipperary, together with some house property in the city of Dublin, the latter consisting of a profit rent of 531. 15s. a year, which produced 5051., or about ten years' purchase. An estate in the county of Carlow was set up in two lots, one of which, yielding a profit rental of 631. per annum, sold for 7001. The sale of the second lot was adjourned. A yearly profit rent of 621., arising out of lands situate in the county of Kildare, realized 820/. The Meath estate of Mr. Arthur Coates, the gross yearly rental of which was estimated at 445/. 15s. 61, but which, deducting head rent and other charges, reduced the net profit to 2781. 10s. 4d., *as knocked down at 3,6251. A net profit rent of 1081. a year, arising out of lands in the county of Tipperary, was bought in trust for the petitioner in the cause for 2001., or lest than two years' purchase. There was no very clear reason assigned fur this apparent sacrifice, but it was generally understood by those conversant with the nature of the property that it was disposed of at its full value. The Kilkenny estate of Mr. Edward Walpole, yielding an annual profit rental of 230/, pro duced 2,310/. DANGER OF LENDING BOATS TO Boos.--Yester day afternoon, a small sailing boat, containing four youths. was capsized off Coor's-road, Lambeth, arising from the youths being unskilled in the management, and the e saved himself by swimming; and the fourth, John Corringliam, living in Princes-road, Lambeth, was drowned. His body was nut recovered. trains brought down as LO VISITOR i TO GRAVESENI!.--Yesterday (Good Fri day)raasilwtha4 could conveniently convey, visitors The steam -boats The Star Company'sbeing also not withstandingin- that each train consisted of nearly a reble however, more numerous number of carriages of the the three classes. were equally well filled, . number of thera visitors were a boats creased by bot h . the companies. &; ~. t may be rem, irked Put on for the r aster holidays are, how than those of the Diamond Company. foreigners, of evidently different continental considerable numb,!,r of that a mongst the t he preponderance universally was. countries, but Great preparations for the amusementin favour . of the Fmnch. made at the Rosherville Gard of visitors are being Terrace-pier Gardens. ens, but more especially at the MONSTER EXCURSION TRAlNS.—Yesterday excur sion trains, at reduced fares, were run on all the railways. A monster train left the Paddington station for Oxford an other the South-Western for Wind or; and on the Eastern Counties, for Cambridge; the Brighton excursion train, however, conveyed the greatest number, between 800 and 900 individuals going by it. More than 4,000 persons le ft the metropolis yesterday by these excursion trains; the rate of travelling averaging three miles for one penny. A HIGH SHERIFF IN DIFFICULTIES.—SOUIe clays since, Calcraft, the hangman, received an intimation from the gaol authorities that his services would be required on Wednesday morning next, at Ipswich, for the purPo 4 se of carrying into execution the last sentence of the . law *upon Marla Clarke, but on Tuesday morning last a note •_wa!s re ceived from that functionary, stating that bi n s j) a e t fesaional g at a etlY ie e r sonal in - t r e e r c v e i i e p w t engagements elsewhere would mess e e s n d ger the t his Pr event his pre ler the iPs wick on Wednesday, as required. Imm:tic:ile I c a he replied t e l p a u n t e r h: l4 oi e je w f o i of Calcraft's note, a messenger was dispa an a from Ips - wick to London, for the purpose of b Taunton for a like with Calcraft, who was informed sewl h on Wedn presence was necessary at Ip . 1 ap_ Pl i bl e for Cater L o d for the execution at Ipswich. the purpose already lbe could find a substitute. H e re already engaged to pro s c t e a e t cl e Calcraft to come down to announcement has caused no plea- Wednesday, the day Finding that it was Ipswich, he was asked., plied he could not• surable feelings to tse who are bound to see that the exe appointed. Unless the day named for tbe e xecution be altered, or a substitute found in !craft, the Hi h • tbe place of Ca n ation takes place thet . hour g Sheriff, whose present posi tion no one, we thin]:, can envy, will have, in accordance to went state of the law, to the p.perform a duty repugnant to the feelings of thousands . of her Majesty's subjects. We believe tio a pplication was made on Tuesday last at the Home named for the execution of Maria Clarke to b e altered; but we understand that the application was ethaiacte for the day not entertained. We rejoice to be able to inform our readers that the Protectionist banquet, which is to take place in Edinburgh , on Tuesday, the 22d iust., promises to be most successful. The Music Hall in that city, one of the handsomest roans in th.s kingdom, can accommodate 650 at dinner. The tickets, which were limited to this number , wer e all p o u o r ly ch t a o s d goon after x hal l after they were issued, and there is not ° Sucu is the enthusiasm that preva ils that, .;irets is ut:, ried coulde are inibrmed, three or four times the numb er of tickets issued easily have been disposed of.— fierald. A.,CCOII lII,S have MANSLAUGHTER OF AN OFFICER. been received of the melancholy death of a gallant officer, of the Diadras Artillery. Th Captain George Symes, details are as fellows -. Oci t conduct of two men outside :—O° the night of the 14th instant h e was disturbed by the l , abutted upon the road (a public his house, which close , the town of AXIIIiOSter and Lyrae one leading between ent to the door and civilly requested. Regis), and at lengl , l yr_ t on his appearance he was immediately , them to " move or fans, one of whom (by name Garland) violen set upon by the rknelt on his chest, and beat him fearfally • with a stick about the head. From the effects of these in threw him down, juries he nev7 recovered, but remained insensible till death from his sufferings in four or five hours after. r 56 ears of age, and has left a wife 'and only lament their loss. We rejoice to add, the daughter to . . raeleeawsosed obbimoot y . i oug are in castoas'. 1