The Sun. — London, England, 1851-03-19 00:00:00

MADLLE. CAROLINE DUPREZ. HER MAJESTY'S TH.EATIIE. It is respectfully announce d that this Theatre will OPEN on SATURDAY next, March 22, on which occasion Madlle, DU PREZ will make her first appearance in this country, as Luula, in Donizetti's Opera, LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. To be followed by a new and original Ballet, a Is Watteau, entitled L'ILE DES AMOURS. Composed by M. Paul Taglioni, the Music by M. Nadaud, the Scenery by Mr. C. Marshall, in which Madlle. Amalia Ferraris will appear. The grand Opera of Gustavus is in active preparation, and will be produced on Saturday, the 29th March, in which Madame Fiorentint will support the part of Madame Ankerstrom. The part of Oscar by Madlle. Caroline Duprez, and Gustavus by Signor Caizolari. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. James Anderson. THIS EVENING Will be presented by her Majesty's S2:vaata THE TURNPIKE GATE. To be followed by a petite Comedy, entitled A MORNING CALL, la which Mr. J. Anderson and Mrs. Nisbett will appear. After which, a new grand Operatic Spectacle, entitled AZIEL, THE PRODIGAL. Reuben, Mr. Vandenhoti; Azael, Mr. J. Ander son a Amenophis, Mr. Emery ; Bucharis, Mr. Cooper ; Sethos. Mr. Ratter; Jephtele, Miss F. Vining; Nette, Mrs. Walter Lacy; Lia, fi lane. Victoritte Legrain (Premier Sujet du Opera do Paris), who as been expressly engaged for the occasion, and will make her appearance e rery evening. SYNOPSIS OF SCENERY, INCIDENTS, &c. ACT I. INTERIOR of REUBEN'S TENT, Opening at the Back to the Distant Desert—Sunset. The Travellers—the Evening Repast—the Gin—Departure of Azael with the Caravan for Memphis. Camels of the Desert. ACT 11. The GREAT SQUARE of MEMPHIS. Arrival of Azael. Sacred Procession of Ap;s. The Offerings. Lia, and Troop of Almees. Grand Pas de Fascination by Madi.le. Victorine Legrain. fne ensemble by Madame Louise, Maddles. Palser, Julie , and Coryphees. The Gamester—False Diee—Azael's Prodigality—the Love Token VIEW near MEMPHIS. Reuben in sarc of his Son—the False Friend. Interior of h the TEMPLE of I SIS. Orgie. Grand Pas de Poignards by the Coryphees. &zael recovers the Stolen Scarf—the Secret Spring— Azael surprised in the Sacred Temple — th e " Human 'Victim." The Doom of the Prodigal. ACT 111. TENT of NEMROUD, the Camel Driver. Arrival of Travellers —Degradation of the Prodigal— the Slave—the False Friend—the Gift Restored —Despair of the Prodigal. The Dream. The VALE of AZAEL'S BIRTH. The Harvest Festival—Azael mourned as Dead—Return of the Prodigal. Appearance of the Spirit of the Desert. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKRT. r. B. Webster, sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompten. THIS EVENING, Will be performed the Tragedy of MACBETH. Duncan, Mr. Roge rs M ; Macbeth, Mr. J. W. Wallact ; Banquo, Mr. Howe duff, r. J. Wallack ; Lady Macbeth, Miss L. Addison ; Hecate, Miss P. Horton. To be followed by a new anu original comic drama, called GOOD FOR NOTHING. Tom Dibbles, Mr. Buckstone ; Harry Collier, Mr. Howe ; Young Mr. Simpson, Mr. Clark ; Nan, Mrs. Fitzwilliam. Titr:ATRE RU YAL, ,ADELPELL. Under the direction of Madame Celesta. THIS EVENING, Will be performed an entirely new grand Drama, in 3 acts, entitled BELPIIEGOR THE MOUNTEBANK; or, The Pride of Birth. Duke de Montbazon, Mr. Hughes ; Count de St. Cyr, Mr. Boyce ; the Chevalier de Rolac, Mr. 0. Smith ; Guillaume, surnamed Bel phegor, Mr. B. Webster; Ajax, alias Mr. Merryman, Mr. Wright ; Captain Pufferes, Mr. Worrell ; Madeliene, Madame Celeste ; Nini Flora Aphrodite Sills, Miss Woolgar. After which a new Farce called THE SCHOOL FOR TIGERS or, The Shilling Hop. C a ptain Kiteflyer, Mr. Boyce ; Major Stiff, Mr. Freeborn ; Mr. Panels, Mr. Wright ; Alexander Panels, Miss Chaplin ; Mr. Firkins, Mr. C. J. Smith ; Tom Crop, Miss Woolgar. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. C. Kea* and Mr. Keeley. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new and original Comedy entitled LOVE IN A MAZE. Characters by Messrs. C. Kean, Keeley, Wigan, Harley, Addisom, Meadows ; Mrs. Keeley, Mrs. Wmstanley, and Mrs. C. Kean. To conclude with a new Melodrama, entitlel PAULINE, in which Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean will appW.r. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame VeStria. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charles MatheWTo THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE HANDSOME HUSBAND. Characters by Messrs. C. Ma thews, 'Vining, Miss M. Oliver, and Mrs. C. Horn. Atter which an entirely new and original Fairy Extravaganza, to be called KING CHARMING, or, the Blue Bird of Paradise. Characters by Messrs. C Mathews, F. Matthews, Horncastle, Suter, Bellingham, and Donner; Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss Ellis, Mrs. C. Horn, Miss St. George, and Miss Martindale. To conclude with TILE RINGDOVES, in which Messrs. C. Mathews, F. Matthews, Basil Baker. Mrs. F. Matthews, and Miss M. Oliver will appear. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Farren. THIS EVENING, Will be oerfor ned CHARLES KING. After which SEXTUS THE FIFTH ;' or, The Broken Vow. To conclude with a new Ballet, called THE WHITE STATUE, Be which Madlle. Adele, Miss Lees, and Tom Mathews will appear. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Under the Patronage of her Majesty and his Royal Efighneu Prince Albert. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. Extraordinary series of attractive novelties. TILLS EVENING, The Grand new Spectacle of JOAN OF ARC; or the Mail of Or leans, with new and costly costumes. Together with Batty's Splendid Scenes of the Circle. To conclude with TEKELI ; or, The Siege of Mont,lats. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. T. Thompson. lIIGH WATER Al LONDON BRIDGE Tiro DAY —Morning b min. after 3 Evening 28 win. alter I TA-Akossow—Notting 46 min. after 3 I Evening 8 rain. atter 4 THE WEATHER.—Surf OFFICE, MARCH 19. THERMOMETER, C THE SHADE. 49—highest since noon yesterday. 36—lowest this morning and during the night. 47—this day, at noon. .13ARouticriva, 29'63. WIND W.—dull, hazy weather, with rain. DAILY WEATHER TABLE. State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following places at Nine o'clock yeitarday morning.—The stations a -e arranged in order of latitude. litmosTows ( ) —Wind S., gentle breeze—rain. PLYMOUTH—WInd S.W., strong breeze—overcast. POOLE—Wind W., strong breeze—overcast. BERarroN—Wind E., gentle breeze--overcast. HASTINGS Calm —overcast. k UTHAMYTON— Wind S., gen tle breeze—rain. FOLKESTONE—Wind S., gentle breeze—overcast. TUNBRIDGE—Wind S.E., calm—overcast. BASENGSTOKE—Wind S., strong breeze—rain. GREENWICH --Wind S.E., gentle breeze—rain. SWINDON__Wiud S., gentle breeze—rain. LEIGHTON—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—rain. COLCHESTEB—W hid S.W., strong breeze—overcast. CAMBRIDGE —Wind S.E., gentle breeze—overcast. l'Etymnouounti—Wind S. W., gentle breeze—overcast. LYNN—Wind S., gentle breeze—rain. CONWAY—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—rain. HoLYHEAD—Wind S., strong breeze—heavy rain. LIVERPOOL—Wind N.E., gentle breeze—rain. LANCASTER—Wind E., strong breeze—overcast. WHITBY.—Wind S., strong breeze—overcast. SHAT—Wind S., gentle breeze--rain. BEArax;K—Wind S.E., strong breeze—overcast. BattwicK—Wind. S., strong breeze—overcast. The returns from the following places indicate the state of the wind and weather on Monday morning at nine o'clock : Co StK —Wind W,, light breeze—rain. LIXERICM—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—heavy rain. KU LLINGAR—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—rain. PooLE—Wind 5.F... strong breeze—heavy rain. LEIGHToN—Wind E., gentle breeze—rain. BiEstmonam —W ind N.W., gentle breeze—rain. PETEanon.ouGH—Wind S., gentle breeze—rain. Lmatroor.,—Wind N.Y., gentle breeze—cloudy. Leans—Wind N.E., gentle breeze—foggy. LANCASTIR—Wind E., strong breeze—overcast. DARLINGTON —Wind S.W., gentle breeze— heavy fog: SNAP—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. WHITEHAV EN— Wind S.E,, gentle breeze—overcast. BEarrocx—Wind S.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean reading of the barometer in the week was 29 . 650 inches. The mean temperature of the week was 40Q.5, which differs little from the average of the same week in ten years. At Lewisham rain fell to the depth of 1.72 inches on Saturday, between the hours of midnight and five P.M. This fall is unusually large at any time, but particularly in March. -4 41) - mA i . fi. 4 6 41, • " e . 4 • - eireilkwa gAklnt LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1851. L the House of Lords, last night, Lord ToßancoToN gave notice of a motion for Tues day week on the affairs of Ceylon, and stated that he should take that opportunity of refuting the calumnious misrepresentations of which, as Governor of Ceylon, he had been th e victim. THE SUN, to injure or insult the people of this country, and there fore he opposed the Bill. Sir RALPH LOPES would support the measure, al though he should have been better satisfied had it been of a more stringent character. moreover, it must be observed, have generally speak ing been planned by their originators upon a scale of corresponding magnitude. In scarcely a single in stance have they been restricted to merely national limits, embracing all races indiscriminately, and holding out inducements for co-operation so large and impartial as to excite the sympathies, we doubt not, of every genuine cosmopolite. It is surely needless to remark that in all this we see reasons for entertaining sentiments of very earnest satisfaction. The ardour displayed on all hands is about the best assurance that could have been afforded that the Great Industrial Exposition is not calculated to prove fruitless. On the contrary, we may now very reasonably rest assured that the Crys tal Palace will turn out to be in plain matter of fact (fanciful though the phrase may seem) a gigantic hot-house for the development of emulation. Among the various enterprises commenced almost simultaneously with that suggested by his Royal Highness the PRINCE CONSOR7, it may possibly be re membered that on a former occasion we especially alluded to one of a rather novel and attractive species, now tolerably well known by the title of the Grand Chess Tournament. Mr. WALTER considered the establishment of the hierarchy a violation of the compact of 1829. He re joiced at the letter of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, and at the agitation which it bad occasioned, as it showed how deeply-rooted was the Protestant feeling of the country. He had, howeier, no desire to see the provisions of the Bill extended to Ireland. Mr. ANSTEY opposed the Bill. Lord ASHLEY denied the right of the POPE to make any spiritual organization be might think proper in this country, and considered that in his recent proceedings he had violated both the law of nations and the law of the land. The Bill was not sufficiently stringent, but it was valuable as a protest against the encroachments of Popery, which had become so enormous on the con tinent, that in Austria the rights of the Crown had been infringed upon, and in France the Protestants were per secuted, their churches and their schools were closed, and they were in a worse condition than they had been since the time of Louis XIV. Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT saw no cause for alarm, and should opposo the Bill. He could not imagine why Protestantism should be in more danger because Dr. WISE MAN called himself Archbishop of West minster, than it was when he called himself Bishop of Melipotamus. He believed the Bill would be absolutely ineffective. Lord PALMERSTON treated the question merely as a politidal one, and considered it the more necessary to repel the aggression, because wherever, as in Spain and Austria, the Papal power acquired influence, it was used to control and undermine the civil authority. He did not think this was a case for negotiation, neither could he approve of the warlike recommendations of Sir R. INGus; but he considered this Bill, which was not a measure of persecution, but merely an enforcement of the provisions of the Act of 1829, would meet the ne cessities of the case ; and at; he could not bring himself to believe that the Catholics would wilfully violate the law, he did not consider it would be inoperative. The debate was then, on the motion of Mr. HENRY BERKELEY, adjourned to Thursday. A fortnight longer and the documents relating to the recent government, or rather we should say the recent misgovernment of Ceylon, will be at length in the hands of the various Members of the Imperial Parliament. Until then no clear notion can possibly be arrived at in reference to the policy of Lord Ton- RINGTON. Any premature decision upon a question of such extraordinary importanci would be unfair not only to the Administration condemned, but also, and In an especial manner, to the Legislature pronouncing the sentence of condemnation. Judgment must con sequently be deferred, no matter how vexatious the delay, or otherwise the estimate formed by the House upon the matter at issue might be very inconveniently contradicted by the subsequently printed papers and correspondence. Therefore it is, upon these con siderations, that we must, perforce, acknowledge the reasonableness of the course pursued by the Ho nourable Gentleman the Member far Inverness-shire, although to ourselves, as well as to the rest of the community, this further procrastination of the debate on Ceylon is an exceeding annoyance. Had Mr. BAILLIE adopted any other line of proceed ing he would have jeopardized his own character, that of Lord TORRINGTON, and that also of the Commons House of Parliament. He finds himself, to employ his own expression, placed by the Prime Minister in the invidious position of a person ob structing the business of the country at a period when the popular patience is already very nearly ez hausted by a succession of impediments to the labours of the Administration. He perceives at the same time that the official documents, which are alone capable of throwing light upon the difficulties in volved in his particular motion, are reserved yet a while for later publication. Embarrassed, therefore, by these very serious reflections, he comes to the only conclusion consistent with his duties as an honest representative. He refuses to hurry the Ceylon question before the House prior to the appearance of those documentary evidences which common sense assures us are alone capable of enabling its Members to arrive at a judicious decision. He objects, moreover, to place himself in the situation of one creating new stoppages in the way of her liAansvr's Government—and therefore he naturally, we might even say inevitably, determines to remove his motion from the notice book, reserving to himself, of course, a full and perfect right to bring it forward whenever he may deem himself justified in so doing. What we insist upon in reference to this delicate point of Parlia mentary etiquette is—that the Hon. Representa tive of Inverness-shire was compelled to adopt the course already specified by the curt and peremptory announcement made by the First Lord of the Trea sury, to the effect that the financial measures of the session should not be brought forward so long as the motion respecting Ceylon remained undetermined. Startled by this rather remarkable declaration, Mr. Burma objects to stand before . the community as the stumbling-block of the present session of the British Parliament. *treacly the country has been sufficiently irritated by the consciousness that this same session is flitting rapidly away, and that as yet absolutely nothing whatever has been done, not merely in the way of wholesome legislation, but actually in refer ence to the carrying out of the annual projects of ad ministration. The Budget is still ws nubibus—the multitude remaining in the most profound ignorance as to the nature and amount of the supplies. What taxes are to be remitted and what to be retained, are still left as puzzles for the conjectures of the popula • tion. The manes know no more now than they did on the 3d of February of the chances of anything like financial retrenchment. They continue still, as they did up till that period, doubtful as to the possi bility of relieving themselves of the miseries of suffer ing taxation under the Schedules D and E. Nothing has happened as yet within the walls of the New Palace at Westminster to relieve the popular mind from its prolonged uncer tainty. To the Chancellor of the Exchequer, there fore, the public still look with unabated, or rather inflamed curiosity ; and those who appear, however unwillingly, to interpose between the nation and the long-desired financial statement, call down upon their heads the accumulated vengeance nurtured by pro crastination. As admirers of that most noble and most venerable of all intellectual pastimes, in its nature less a Game than a Science, it was impossible for us to observe the first crude announcement of the jousts to be held in its celebration without referring to it, however in cidentally, in terms of encouragement. Now that it appears to be advancing steadily towards its realisa tion, we may be forgiven for alluding once more to a scheme which promises to aid in regulating the whole mass of the chess laws, a labour of revision so long and earnestly desired by its votaries. According to the very expressions used in the Prospectus, it appears indeed that the promoters of the undertaking look to it, and not unreasonably, for "an authoritative decision upon the differences existing between the chess code of Italy and that of the rest of Europe, and the establishment of one con sistent and uniform system of notation for the whole chess community." Added to all which advan tages, it must be remembered that, for the first time in the annals of the game, a general congress of its most distinguished players will be convened—the year of the Great Exhibition affording them, in fact, the first available opportunity. Besides the pleasure experienced among themselves in personally making acquaintance with each other, we are sanguine that more substantial benefits may be derived from the circumstance of their competition. The world will then be enabled to judge correctly of their proportionate abilities, and without mush trouble to decide as to the relative value of their reputations. In all this we cannot but perceive matter for real gratification, coinciding cor dially as we do in the opinion expressed, that, of all intellectual exercises, chess is indubitably " the most sharpening and bracing to the calculating powers of the mind." Its excellence as a means of cultivating those powers to a very lofty pitch of mental adroit ness has been attested not merely by the professed masters of the game, but by some of the most illus trious warriors and statesmen whose names have been emblazoned on the scroll of history. It is thus that in the annals of chess we can trace its incomparable merits by its twiny glorious illustrations—and this, we repeat, not merely by, so to speak, technical illus trations, such as the great PHILADOR or the greater DE LA BOURDONNms, but by others of a more exoteric renown, from BADSAILET to NAPOLEON. Bearing in mind the dignity assured to itself by the major of games and the minor of sciences, we must be permitted to direct public attention towards the progress made in the carrying out of the Grand Chess Tournament. It is satisfactory to find, after the lapse of a comparatively brief interval, so much accomplished in en enterprise surrounded from its very novelty by such numerous difficul ties. Intimations of the sincerest sympathy have directly or indirectly been received, it would seem, already from the majority of the most distin guished players on the European continent. KIR' BERITZE.I4 has not only expressed his readiness to aid in the development of the project, but has undertaken in Paris the duties of a secretary to the Co-operative Committee established in that metropolis. From the great Hungarian player SeEN communications not less satisfactory have emanated. JAENISCU has ex , pressed his willingness to participate in the enterprise from his distant residence at St. Petersburgh, and has been the medium of transmitting a imilarly gra tifying announcement on the part of Pautori, the first of Russian amateurs. Vox OFFEN likewise has intimated from Berlin not merely his own ready acquiescence in the scheme, but that also of HIDE DRANDT VON DER LASA, the Prussian Secretary of Legation at Frankfort, and one of the most illustrious chess-players in Christendom. When it is borne in recollection that we ourselves, as a nation, are repre sented in London by the greatest master of the game now living, we may look forward with eager anxiety and with no small degree of confidence to the opening of the future Tournament. Happily the funds already collected in furtherance of the scheme more than justify its originators in promot ing the labour of its completion no less than 3.501. sterling having been subscribed among the members of the managing committee alone. With the celebrity of HOWARD STAUNTON as an en couragement, with the enterprise of its originators as a perpetual incitement, and with the munificence displayed among the members of the managing com mittee as an example to subsequent promoters, the brilliant enterprise we are ; alluding to cannot but close with the happiest consequences. After deduct ing all necessary expenses, it is proposed that the residue of the money collected shall be divided into seven; graduated portions, the first one-third, the second one-tenth, the third one fourteenth, and so on to the seventh one-sixtieth, and that a supplementary prise consisting of a set of ivory chess-men, with a suitable chess-board, inscribed with the winner's name and victory, shall be played for by the pCncipal competitors. These wo have already shown will include some of the greatest chess-Opera of our generation, and, acting with a liberality deserving of every imaginable praise, the committee have decidedthat . the Tournament shall be open to all parties without distinction, either in regard to country or association. Under such auspices as those we have indicated, we are sanguine that the enterprise will turn out in the highest degree satis factory, and this in spite of the most shameless calumny and the most ungenerous opposition. Raw*" South NV les .. As to the objection raised by the Prime Minister against the line of conduct pursued in the present in stance by the Hon. Gentleman the Member for In verness.shire, namely, that he is unfairly holding the Ceylon question it terrorem over the occupants of the Treasury benches—that is surely a most preposterous quibble, seeing that Ministers have been able to manage the affairs of the empire during the last three years unembarrassed by the threatened in. vestigations in Lord TORRINGTON'S govern ment all along looming down heavily upon the Cabinet. A sword of Damocr.es, the in quiry may still be, but it has hung quivering over the leader of the Administration during three years past, and the nerves of the statesmen trembling under it may be presumed to be no weaker now than for merly. At any rate Mr. BAILLIE cannot be charged with the continuance of the Ministerial dilemma in this particular matter, seeing that he is only induced to remove his motion from the notice-book by reason of the threat held out to himself, and through him to the country at large, that the financial statement shall be made subsequently to the period of its settlement. Acting as the Member for Inverness-shire has done in regard to the Ceylon inquiry, he has provoked the complaints of the First Lord of the Treasury. Had he decided, nevertheless, differently he would have infallibly excited against himself the indignation of the entire community. Embarrassed for a moment by finding himself between either branch of the alter native, Mr. BAILLIE has judiciously decided upon selecting the lesser—thereby enabling the public to n et . Meanwhile arriv e somewhat earli e r a t som e d e finite notion as to the ch aracter o f t h e fi nanc i a l statement of the Go th:aaranhtileanintoucantremotenbtut madehe glarsattiefyveinng. Go vernment, observe m ing e in the Upper blouse of Parliament by Viscount ToRRINGTON, to the effect that the Noble Lord would now himself bring the matter at as early a date as possible under the serious consideration of the Le ' lature. Their Lordshll;;hortly afterwards adjourned. In the Commune, The Ckuricaia.oB, of the EXCEEWER stated that he should not make his financial statement on Friday. Mr. SADLEIR then moved the following resolution:— " That it is expedient t o substitute for the existing the amou nt o f tithe rent-charges in mod© of varying Ireland a self-acting system, whereby the amount of all tithe rent-charges i n Ireland shall b e i ncreased or dimi nished every year , according advertisement, tO theaverage in pr a icesof corn, as ascertained by p ublic man ner similar to the existing method of varying t h e tithe rent-charges in England and Wales." Sir GEORGE GREY suggested that the n on. Gentle man should bring in a Bill on the subject, which he would not oppose; but he hoped the resol u tion would not be pressed. After a short conversation, in which Mr. G. A. HAMILTON, Mr. FRENCH, m . Crawitonn, and Sir 11. W. BARRON took part, the motion was withdrawn. Mr. ANSTEY proceeded to call attention to the al leged obstruction offered to the claims of the infant ltsja of SA.TTARA, in the denial of a hearing before the Court of Privy Council, complained of in the petition to the House of Commons of the next friend of the said infant, presented on the 14th instant; and movedspo re solution to the effect that the grave matters contained in the petition referred to deserve the serious attention of the House. The motion fell to the ground for want of a seconder. The adjourned debate on the Pcelesiastical Titles As- IlUmptlon Bill was then resumed. BLEWITT did not think the POPE intended either Thanks to the stimulus imparted to the enterprise classesof all by the approaching Exhibition, diversifiedunder of all s chiracter h ave been a d ven t u red upon iin all di rect i ons. The se e ff orts , the melt At the late audit at -, in Bedfordshire, the landlord returned 20 per cent. to his tenants. A farmer of the olden days thus expresvd himself :—" Thankey, Sur, for duing as you du, and I hopes ye'll allus du as ye du du:" GREAT ANTI-PAPAL LEAGuE.—Yesterday the foundation was laid of a religious league, which promises to become the greatest of the kind which modern times have witnessed. A number of noblemen, gentlemen, clergymen of the Church of England, and Dissenting ministers, of va rious determinations, met in Osborne's Hotel, Adelphi, for the purpose of consulting together as to what ought to be done by evangelical Protestant denominations, with a view to resist the aggressions of Popery. Among the noblemen and gentlemen present were—the Earl of Ducie, Lord Ash ley, Sir Culling Eardley Smith, the Hon. and Rev. Monta gue Villiers, the Rev. W. W. Champneys, the Rev. Edward Auriol, the Rev. T. R. Birks, the Rev. Dr. Morison, the Rev. Dr. Campbell, the Rev. Dr. Bunting, the Rev. Dr. Beecham, the Rev. Dr. Steens, with a great number of eminent lay men. The meeting lasted tines hours, and was characterised throughout by the greatest naanimity and cordiality. It was resolved that duly organised and most energetic measures shall be forthwith adopted in order to enter the arena with the hosts of Popery. Advertiser. To-morrow (Wednesday) we shall have the highest tide of the year. 7 -.Lieerpool Standard of yesterday. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—Last night a performance took place at this theatre by the members of the Western Dramatic Society, in aid of the funds of the Dispensary for Consumption, MaTaret- strcet, Regent-street. The per formances commenced with Colmaa's admirable comedy of the Heir at Law, in which Me , srs. Fawdon, J. H. Emery, Spicer, Edwards, Chester, and G. Harrison sustained the principal parts in capital style. Mrs. Newbery made an excellent Lady Duberly, and Miss Sydney a very pretty Cecily Home spun. The farces of the Day after the Wedding and the Turned Head concluded the evening's entertainments. Taken as a whole, the acting of the gentlemen last evening was the beat amateur lerformance we have witnessed for t ome time, and we consider we pay them a high compliment when we say they equalled the ladie4, who are always the best performers on these occasions. ,It was to be regretted the house was so thinly attended. THE FUNERAL OF THE LATE SIR ALEXANDER HOOD, BAIT., M P., OF WOTTON Efousz, SOMIIIRSET.-- Yes terday morning the mortal remains of the late Sir Alexander Hoed, Bart., M. P., were removed from his late town resi dence, No. 43, Witupole-street, Cavendish-square, to the Great Western Railway, where the body was conveyed by special train to his late country seat, Wotton House, Somer set, whence it was removed to its final resting-place in the family vault of the parish church of Made. Among the principal mourners were Sir Alexander Bateman, Perian Palmer Acland Hood, Bart., Lieut. Arthur William Acland, R.N., Sir P. Arland, Bart., and several of' the nobility and gentry of the heighbourhoed. LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 19, 1851. TIIE SHARE MARKETS. BRITISH RAILWAYS. Aberdeen.. .. • • • • Amber ate. Nottingham, Paid. Nemlial Prices. 17% to 111 1 4 3% 3 dls. Business d ono to-day. .17% % 15% [lc% 5% 4% Boston, ac E. Juncion Belfas and Courty Down Birm -, ig., IVA NethaMp, arn !'tour ItallBY •• Bitkon:l., Lan., & Chesh Jur ~ late 3ZI. 6s. Bd.. Do. Chest. & Birkenhd., SU. & `sl. Consolidated Do, do., 201. • • • • • • Bristol arid Exeter • • • Caledenlah • • • • • • Chester and Holyhead .. Direct Lond. and Portsm. Dublin and Bellast Junct. Dublin aud Kingstown.. Dundalk and Doris - Allen I East (23/. L. & E. and .) • • Do. (18C, E. & E.) •• 1 Eastern Courties .• .• Eastern Union, CNN A, late E. IT. sban • • 13 14 0 Do. do. Do. do., 3 & shares' East Ls c ca?l:Are • • • • Do. rew quarte:s Edinbu:Jii era Clas:o% Min., Pei th, and Duilee Do. N evk ecrt .. • • Exeter and Exmon.:l Glasgow and south-West, De. do. G. L. & C. stock Great Northern Do. halves, A., deferred Do. halves, E, 6 per et. Great Southern ane Western, Ire.:and Great Western .. Do. New, 171; Lancaster and Carlisle .. Do. thirds „ Lancaster and Preston .. Lancashire and lorkshire Do. qbtarter stares Do. fi.ths ;;I Do. West itldstg uni en Leeds and Thirsa Liverpool, Crosly, and' Southport London and Blaelwall Do., Tilbury Ex; Script London, Brighton, and South Coast London and N.-Western Do. do. new quarters .1 Do. fifths Do. 101. eh., M. 1613 (c) London and 8.-Western Do. new 50/. .. Do. new 401. Londonderry & Coleraine Do. half thares .. .. Londonderry and Bulls killea... • • • • Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock • • .. Manchester, Sheffiell, Lincolnshire • • .. Do. Manchester and Lincoln Union .. Midland • • • • • • • • Do. censelideted pref. Do. 501. shares • • A. Do. Binning & Derby Midland (It. West. (NJ Newcastle and Carlisle.. De. quarter shares Newmarket • • • • e . Newport, Abergavelay, and llereford • • '• • Newry an d Nt. wry, War enpoin Ai Rostrevor .. • • Norfolk Do. New 201. shr rec., Northern Counties theliA North British.. North Staffordshire .. North-Western .. North & Sth.-West.Jult. Oxford, Worcester ..a4 Wolverhamoton.. Scottisl.l Centritl Scott.3ll Do. new .. • • Sire:•Soury & Cla.9 3 A. .. Do. C,Jass 8.. • • .1 Shrewd. & eford., Do., to., 3. , :ert S!ue. - . - rstary Chesta, (Nor,. W. L'n.) bo. Do. t..lwe. 173( 100 F'JI7 Shropr-li - a Un'oa.• Do., A, B, C, D, fur paid up at per cent South Jievon South-Eastern .. South York!h. and Rive theft., Po and Gael Soath 1 1 0 100 6 6 g 25 12.7 i 11 13 4 4 ' 16 lel i& w 11 6 3 100 42% 4 2 0' ICO 100 100 4:' 100 50 25 25 221,1 t 3 5 Z 912 4 4 paid np paid up 6 :i 50 • 30 50 10% -11% 84 —B6 1b -15% 24 .- -- 25 •• •-•• •• 20 —lB dis, 4%( -5 % 3).. - 4 7i -7% 6% -7% -5 17 - 17% -3% 28 -39 9 -10 I'- 18% - 18% 63(- 616 12% - 12}4 43 —45 x.d 90 —9l 23 2 dis. 84 —B7 x.d 11 —l2 p x.d 29 —3l p x.d 6234 63% x.d 9 d.xd 64 dia. 5% 54 dad 19% 2034 B% 8% sd % —%p 96% 974 13034 —131 1 4 5% 6 p. 514 6 p. 2 90s, W — 9 '554 4 di'. 45 —33 y 3% —2% d.xd 36 -33 3M —2% die. 68 —65% 13 —l2 dls 37 —39 •• % -- •• 89 5 —4% die 2$ —SO 13 —l2 die. 1034 11 6 —5% dis. %-fiP Is3j - 19 18 - 18% 10% - 113 7% -834 4 —3% Es, aye —2% Ws 2 iK 18 -20 9 -10 13% - 1434 -2% 20% 21% 27% 2711 x.d 35% 3 6 % j Stockton anal Hartllpool tawansea & Loaghor, &c. raw Vale Extensicn .• Thames Haven Deck and Railway .. •• Vale of Neath .. •• I l% —3( dis.x.d 16% 10 , vs 3- 6 •-• 5 lib, Waterford End Kilkenr,v Waterford and Limerie Waterfoi d, Wex., nd Dublin West Cornwall .. West London .. .. • • Whitehavea and Furness York, Newcastle, & Ber wick „ Dub and Newcastle) a —3% 4 a d. 6 7 19% 17% •• .... •• • .• --0 • 8 -7% 2114 -99 x.rl Extension Ditto G.N.E. pu.rehnsi (14% 1546 14% 15 24 X 23X, 26 25 b 4% % 34, 7 % % 5; 4% 17% g 3l 38 37% 9 % 8 % % 1 8 34 li li t`i S 124 NI x d 89% 88% 89% 14% % . 62 6154 62 61 [l4 62 x.d 5 4% 18% 18 If% [lB% 9G 3 4 97 9634 130% 12954 23% [38%% 895c90 88% 36% [B9 2% lji 2 36% 37 36 [35% dia. 64 633( 63 22 % 21% 3% 3 dl.s.x.d or prelarenco • • • • York and No:th Midland 8 % % % —1% dis x.d 27% 28%, 1 11% 1% % % I [lO% 19%%% 9% 11% s, % 19 18% % 19 17% % 17 lio4 4 as ii die. a% % % dis• 'IXED RE: 20% 20 19% 2 74006% 3.5% 35./4 i 3 b% 3' 211‘%,414 16% % 7% '7'.&X.S. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Twelve o'clock. CH ARING-CROSS-BRIDG E BILL. This Bill was read a second time. KENSINGTON IMPROVEMENT BILL. This Bill was read a second time. PETITIONS. Mr. BROTHERTON presented a petition from Ire land praying for a remission of the paper duty. General LYGON presented a petition from Leicester against the hop duty. Sir E. FILMER presented severs' petitions from different places in Kent against the duty on paper. A large number of petitions were presented against the establishment of a Roman Catholic hierarchy in England, and among them one by Mr. HENLEY from Oxfordshire, praying also for the repeal of the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829, which excited animated and ironical cheers from both sides of the House. Lord DUNCAN presented several petitions against the window duty. Mr. WAKLEY presented a petition very numerously signed from Northumberland praying for a modification of the income-tax. He also p-esented petitions from Finsbury and Lambeth. Mr. WAKLEY also presented a petition from the coach-builders of Kensington praying for a reduction of the tax upon carriages. Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD gave notice that be should, when the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill went into Committee, move that it should not extend to Ireland. LEAVE OF ABSENCE. On the motion of Mr. MORRIS, Mr. John Martin was excused attendance on the House for a month, in consequence of the death. of a near relative. On the motion of Sir ROBERT FERGUSON, Sir Denham Norreys was excused attendance for a fortnight, on account of the dangerous illness of one of his family. MINES LEAS: HOP DUTY BILL. On the motion for the second reading of this Bill, Mr. FREWEN said that before the Bill received the approval of the House he hoped it would consider deli berately what it was about to do. He had received seve ral deputations from the growers of hops, and from the representations of them all he found that the law was in jurious to every class except those who were most im mediately benefited by it. Whether their representa tions were correct or not, it was plainly evident that the hop duty was oppressive and unjust.—(Hear, hear.) That duty was imposed as a war tax during the last cen tury, and an expectation had always been held out that it should in the time of peace be remitted altogether. With respect to the imposition of an excise duty he would say but little, but what he would say was that where there was a difference made between one part of the country and another, the tax imposed was evidently unjust and must of necessity be injurious. He did not hesitate to say that it was to the operation of this duty it was owing that the growth of hops had been reduced from 56,323 acres, in 1837, to 43,125 acres during the last year. In Herefordshire there had been a reduction from 10,603 acres, in 1837, to 5,125 acres, in last year. In Sussex the reduction was from 12,068 acres to 11,7811 acres. In Essex a great breadth of land devoted to the cultivation of hops had been reduced to . 125 acres. In Lincolnshire the acreage had been re duced from 607 to 260; in Wiltshire, from 1,222 to only 5 acres; and in Worcestershire the reduction was from 1,888 to 1,031 acres. In fact the only places where there had been no reduction was about Farnham and in Kent, where the growers enjoy peculiar advantages. He did not mean to say that if a man took a good sample into the market he should not get a good price for his goods, but the advantages were altogether on one aide, and as the law as it at present stood was not only op pressive but calculated to encourage trickery—(Hear, hear)—he trusted that the House would take some mea sures to protect the public. In order therefore to minis ter to that object he should move the second reading of the Bill before the House. Mr. DEEDES said that the Hon. Gentleman below him (Mr. Frewen) bad complained of the unequal ope ration of the hop-duty. He did not mean to defend the imposition of an excise duty on hops, for he himself had frequently waited with others upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with a view to obtain a remission of the duty; but his Hon. Friend had mixed up two subjects of a totally different character. It he had divided his Bill into two parts, he should very gladly have supported him ; but tho Bill as it now stood was altogether injurious, and would practically work great mischief. He stated that his object was to protect the public. Now it should be remembered that hops, when prepared for the brewer, were a very delicate article and required much judgment to distinguish a superior from an inferior quality, and, therefore, every assiatatice ought to be rendered to the public, in order to ascertain the quality. The best guide that they possibly could have was the amount of duty paid upon the article. For this reason he should move that the Bill be read this day six months. Mr. H. DRUMMOND bad .very great pleasure in seconding the amendment. Everybody knew that Farn ham hops were the best in the country, and that Sussex hops were the worst.—(Hear, hear.) It was utterly im possible to protect the public without some legislative interference. Ile had no objection to the Hen. Member for Sussex getting ,up a little Parliamentary capital in the face of a general election, but he did protest against imposing his own advantage on the shoulders of the public, and he should therefore vote for the amendment. Mr. FULLER said that, seeing the great opposition which the :Bill had met with, and was likely :to meet with be should advise him to withdraw the Bill. Mr. BASS said that being a large buyer of hops he might be permitted to say a few words on this subject. —(Elear, hear.) He merely wished to observe that hops were an article which it required great judgment and experience to estimate. There were many hop mer chants who knew very little about beer, and many a great brewer who knew very little about hops, so that he was not surprised to see this Bill in the House; but he hoped that this would be the last they should ever hear of it, for he was quite sure that the public required every pro tection that it could obtain. No greater facility could be afforded to the ignorant and inexperienced than the amount of duty paid and the marks which were placed upon the several bags; and he should, therefore, vote against the Bill. After a few words from Mr. HODGES, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that without wishing to throw any imputation on his Ho nourable Friend the Member for Sussex, he could not help saying that it appeared to him that the Bill was brought in to serve ens object, while it in effect professed to aim at another. With regard to the remission of the hop duties altogether, he thought that a fair subject for discussion, and when the proper time came he should be ready to enter:into it; but this was altogether a matter of a different character, and feeling that no Bill ought to be brought into the House in the way in which this Bill had been introduced, he should vote for the amendment. Mr. PLUMPTRE said that if the differential duties were equalised no reliance whatever could be placed on the marks on the bag, and, therefore, they would be come perfectly useless. Mr. CUM EIS said that the Government bad already lost much of their popularity in his part of the country, and he warned them that their opposition to this mea sure would tend greatly to increase the dislike with which they were regarded. Mr. FREWEN, in reply, repudiated the charge of unfairness which had been thrown out against him, and stated that the hop.growers in different parts of the country ought to be placed precisely in the same po sition as the growers of wheat. Each took his sample to market, and let each in like manner depend for his price upon the quality of his goods.—(Hear, hear.) There was no reason for showing more favour to one grower than to the other, and he should, therefore, notwith standing the taunt of seeking for popularity, persist with his Bill. Mr. A HOPE having briefly supported the_ B t inlol to the ground that th e g r o w e rs on poor lands ou g h be placed at any disadvantage, The House divided, when there appeared—. For the Bill ... 131 Against it ••• •• --122 • Majority .• • ••• •• The Bill was consequently lost. SUNDAY TRADING PREV ENTION BILL. Mr. B. WALL presented a nuuibe r of p etitions a g ainst n s h e n c r o g n e d f r e a t t d i a n t g t h o e f this Bill. tithsheconstituents, but as this Ms Bill.r. . H lS' o 'lL ha L d lA nn M de S rt m ah o e v n ed O h o Bill of last sess i on , h e i r: q w u c e s s t ro o a f te a ria g l r l e y a t t h n e u s in am b t e r a o : t ra ding was passed in the reign of should not go at lengt h i n t o the details of it. The fir s t Act to prevent Sunday h : offor that Bill was vidence which the Commit teeresent Bill. The e Charles the Second , much the same as the p disclosed a state of circum autdhet seupbrjieicictipbl had been taken on stances which calle d for some le g islative in terference. of the Lor ds There were many s hopkeepers who did not open their shops , by their own will, b u t were forced to it by th e compet i t i on within • neighbours, and a few hundred yards of of their no that House there were no less than 7uo shops opened on a Sunday, and that not for the common necessaries of life. It had been acknowledged by every age and nation that an intermisaion of labour at least one day in the week was absolutely necessary for the moral, physical, and social welfare of mankind, even in countries and times where the Christian religion was not known, and where the Sabbath was not a Divine command. It was not his intention to go into the provisions of the Bill, and if the Hon. Member for Salisbury would consent to the se cond reading of the Bill he (Mr. Williams) would propose that the Bill should go into a Select Committee and all its provisions be thoroughly considered. With regard to the principle of the Bill, he could not see the slightest objection to it; any one who read the evidence which had been taken on the subject would see that this system of Sunday trading entailed upon its victims a slavery mole rigorous and severe than any other which could be imagined. His object was not so much to secure the religious observance of the Sabbath as to allow a day of rest to an overworked popu lation. Mr. BARING WALL thought the Hon. Gentleman who had just sat down had treated the matter in a very fair manner, but he contended that be had made out no case for legislation. He did not place much reliance on the number of petitions which had been presented, because he knew how they were manufactured, and they proceeded most from people who really had not the deepest interest in the existence or non-existence of Sunday trading. But if they legislated for London, why should they not le gislate for the whole country, if Sunday trading was to be prevented? (LEFT SPEAKING.) The Council of King's College, London, have elected Mr. Rickards, the counsel to the Speaker, to the Pro felsoubip of LAW i n that college, SECONDARIES'.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Secondary POTTER. NKw jußy.—This morning the panel for new jurors for the ensuing quarter wzis called over, and the Learned Secontial was vccupied in hearing several excuses against service.. In ore case a person appeared, and stated that the party sum' t he moned resided at Shf.ffield, - and was a magistra te of county, and only carried on business in London by an agent. The Learned SECONDARY said that was no excu , O, an d the party must attend on another jury or he might baput on ne at the Central Criminal Court. His being . a inag u ._ l9 n " trate might entitle him to be put on the grand jury, c f every one who held a place of business in the Cit y was boo to serve, although he did not attend or reside there. • In a second ca e the excuse was that the party was only lodger, and did not carry on any business —he was only a collector for one of the gas companies. The Learned SECONDARY said that was no excuse; b e held an office from which he gained prodt s, and by which be gained his livelihood, and was,therefore bound to seret. Th e secretary of a company was also liable. MIDDLES 1::X SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) Nary Ann Bure, for stea LO yards of ca lico, the property ofJacob k Bell, from lin his g shop, was sentenced to.sit month? hard labour in the House of Correction. SURREY SESSIONS —(THIS DAY') „ a ced The March sessions for the county of Surrey coin this morning, at the Sessions House, N e w ington - causeway,ates be' fo'e Thomas rookie, Esq., and a full B ench of Magistr. d o p er . The calendar contained the names of twenty-three pris for felony, and two for misdemeanour. Daniel Washbrunk, 19, was found guil t y of stealing apiece of mutton from the shop of Mr. Legg, a butcher in Su' New -cut. , u r at The CouRT sentenced him to three months' hard ntoo Brixton House of Correction. _ _ BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY,) Mr. Thomas O'Shea, a retired officer, in the enjoyment of a pension, was charged before Mr. Henry with committing an outrageous assault upon Daniel Sullivan, a little boy und er ten ears of age. The complainant stated that last evening, as b e fraa lc turning from school through Wyld -street, the prisoner, ils passing him, took off his cap and struck him with it on the head. The prisoner then put the cap into his own hat, and proceeded into Queen-street. The boy followed him into Holborn, crying and praying for bis cap. In 1 1 °I ber i n ' Thomas Hicks, 66 F, who recognised the prisoner, ; terposed, and, hearing the child's complaint, prisoner to give up the cap ; but he bad no sooner d o ne .9 than he struck the complainant a frightful blow with I;t i l. , chiselled fist upon the face, which bore severe marks of 1 violence. of a parcel of " blackguards" compelled the The prisoner's defence was that the complainant, ws c i , ff a s a il f n " ing • him as he passed through the streets, and be was pe fectly justified in chastising him. is al- Mr. liflßMY—i will teach yu that you are not to b lowed to beat a child of th t o tz in such a brutal manner. who were in the habit r r. You shall pay a fine a shillings, to H of forty shillings, or go teen days. prison for fonr• MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY') CORN The arrival: of grain up to last evening were 1111 ,1" the morning's market was thinly attended, but towe i . es o f close we experienced rather more demand for fise quee tl l a st. Foreign Wheat, which realised thefull prices a monde In English we observe no alteration. All dericriptions t; spring corn are held 1, mly at our quotations. Fil 3ur rnee DNSDIIA• thltie rather an improved inquiry, but cannot be quoted higher. ARRIVALS TR'S WEEK. ARRIVALS TR'S WEEK' pearl Wheat. LlarleLy. ........_____Ost r : ... ........--• 00 • Oa • Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Q ' WO 440 English ...... MO 1,360 2.530 sa Irish •••• •• •• ....._ 2 sso Malt. 2,7 10 1)4 Foreign •• • . • • 830 2,040 EASTERN COUNTIES RA ILwAY • (THIS DAY.) STATE OF THE POLL AT ONE O'CL°CiL Margrave *** 3 ' 185 80yd... 342 Smyth Geach Waddington... Whalley ... 2, 625 3,067 497 f-4 btrb Vattion WARWICK RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPO4 The Castle Stakes. Knight of the Thistle ... Souffli ... ... Sweepstakes of 5 sous. each. Hazy ... Captain Parry ... 1 ••• ••• Two-Year•Old Stakes. A dead beat between Poetess and Mr. Grerille's SIS" filly. Sunrise ... Warwickshire Handicap. Bushranger ... ••' BETTING AT LEAMINGTON—TUESDAY NIGIIT' WARWICK HANDICAP. 3 to 1 agst Mark Tapley. 5 to 1 agst Clothworker. 5 to 1 agst Unity. 6 to 1 agst Sunrise. 6 to 1 agst Zadoc. CHESTER CUP. 30 to 1 agst Nancy. DERBY. 6 to 1 on the geld. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sia,—Your leading article of this day alludes to mi d having rpoken on the Papal Aggression Bill on hi° t he night. I beg to assure that I have not spoken at all 19r1 question. I am, Sir, &c., HENRY KER SEVIER' Carlton Club, March 18. General Sir Charles Napier arrived in London th i s worn' ing at a quarter-past one o'clock, having travelled fror Dover by the South-Eastern Railway. On arriving i t . 1 d i London-bridge terminus the Gallant Genera l was recet/ers with three hearty cheers from the railway officials, Wh cs Ire drawn up to receive him. , be- FigEs YEsTEllDAY.—Yesterday tnorninms, •se a tween four and five o'clock , a fire bro k e out in the prein%ric. belonging to Mr. Frederick Richard Boulter. licensed ' tuad tra de, er, the Bell Tavern , situa t e a t No . 5, Leiceeter• street, Leicester-square. Mr. Bo ulter's p remises, stock , a i. The furniture, and wearing apparel were nearly all destroya! a., premi,es of Mr. W. Addis , ironmon g er, are also seriensiY__"_r. triaged. The property o f Mr. Medlicott,:coffee-housel7s,. was likewise damaged. The caus e of the fire i auri known. Fortunately M r . Bo ulter was insured in the ks?.t. Fire-office, and the building, which belongs to Messrs. WP.I„. bread and Co. , the brewers, was insured in the Hin d Hand Fire - office; M r . W. ddis was also insured ; but ,°: fortunately Mr. Medlicott was not. In the course of the morning, the family of Sir George Beresford were grestif alarmed, in consequence of a fire breaking out in his resr, deuce, No. 5, Beaumont-street, High-street, Marylebone. P., commenced in the third-floor front room, and was occasioned by a person reading in bed, when a spark flew from ash hten candle and set the bedding in flames. Timely a.s a ,l having arrived, the fire was soon extinguished, but not Ol t the bed and furniture were destroyed, and the building mi ne dam aged. s7a,ett p uegr Ei aly T A :i tsha o ey, Y 185: t T i :l ,, i E n T s h t Ee a n Av t ße , Lordshi venerable G o a brrleeatE MEATHarlMalvern,of3 _—The s 1e anhgeiland np / V di. r. e e „i t; iu .r oc g h., p *as in Lis 80th year. The Noble Earl Is `,... ceeded in his title and estates by his eldest son, Lord Bre'" son, now Earl of Meath." Lora OFFICIAL APPOINTMENT.---Lord Truro, the eu , e . Chancellor, and the Marquis of Salisbury , t he Lord-Lri oia. nant, have appointed Donald Nicoll, Esq. , one otb.eriir of c 0 sty's Commissioners of Lieutenancy , and late ii`caltiti London and Middlesex, to be a magistr ate for the of Middlesex and liberty of Westminster. rt ' th A uleris k The project of the European and Is, or Nrti ev"` ' Railway appears to excite much interest in Nar ~.d:passed and the Bill to incorporate the company hAs a lready w bich of t his '. 11 the Colonial Legislature. The completion Nov Scotia, will is to connect New York with Halifax and . , ween the New effect a great saving of time in the transit Doe!' ~,Azot ficent harbour. and the Old World. llalifax, pith it s " -- 1 b l e diverted to it must feel the benefit of the traffic which wil should the line be completed. wh e n it WWI MOULTING OF THE CANARr• —• t, ac cording " moults," which is generally in July or AugaB to keep bird, to the heat of the weather - all you need do is, i, lively bird. quiet and free from draughts. Being a cheerfu not let hint there is no need to have him covered up, but do city ot " Vi be unduly excited. Give him a very small quail a week; beef, scraped, and moistened with cold water, once_ ow an d occasionally, a little yoke of bard boiled egg ; and " iii full then a piece of sponge-cake, and ripe chi .kweuerupt with lower. Nature will do the rest; and present yo nee," a nd a handsome new coat, that will keep him " BPwrben they last him a full year. Mind and trim his clavi . _ ever . la are too long. Use sharp scissors always; a knfle:_' ths t your handling him, let him lie as passive as possible; l itt l e buds'. tof hi' 1, arid hand may not operation, nduly on any par , 1 * bout I After the first he will understand a , iialp ii-idd, ifs cheerfully submit to be so " trimmed.' *--- W il the Gardener's Chronicle. __--.....----' On the 16th inst , at radon Clar i. BIRTHS. OF X - hous e, Mrs. Conrad H. Pinches. On the 16th inst., the wife of the Rev. R. Parnell, assis ' tant minister of the Hon. East India Companys Chapel , PO I ' Ir. or A DAyonTsv.. On the 15th inst., f 31•11 ttl e wife of tti© Rev. Pr' a. 1 airs , 1 Bayiy. e, iiennington-road, MAREJ.ED. Se ar.. On the 12th inst , at St. Philip's, Dalston, John T. borough, of Grang e - v illas, Da.bn o n, to Louisa, eldest (laugh" ter of T. I . ing, Esq., of btonebridge-house, Kinglatl• PIED • On the 15th inst., the lion. Selena Childers. aged 77. On the 13th in st., at Montpelier-cottage,' l'wickenbarn, J. Norris, of Richmond, Surrey, aged 78. On the 15th itt-1., at Gloucester -gardens, Hyde-park, Janet. Ellis, widow of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Dih 0 the n one 1% I. C. Service, Madras Establishment . On the 15th inst., Mr. John Roberts, ot Rotherhithe, late of Bermondsey, aged 81. OI London : P r inted and Published by MU R6O T 0 V- 14 13 ; No. 112, Strand, Printer, zt The S un Office, ;0,1 .1 Stran d, in the Prec i nct of the Savoy. in the oot Wednesday, March 19, 1951. AT RallwaYs. c Le ., a " pa in n iL Paid. closing rricce. 1 1: I n n : a . Barks au•lllents Ex. 5 p.r. Cent Gt. Western 6 1 P• Bir. and Oxford Junc.,calisduly paiu, or with a guarantee •• Do •• •. 20 29 % Do., without a guirad. , e .. Do • • •• 20 27 —2B Wok, & Bud duly pa'd, or w.th a gaarantre •• Do 15 834 P Do., 11.illout a gurantae ••, Do • • • • 11 7 SP Buckinharosh. 1.011. &N. W. 1;3( 1 . 73( 17% E. Lin., Guar. 6 per Cent. •• G. Northern 25 32% —33 • hull aLd Selby Yk• &N. M 50 101 1 03 101% Do. % Shapes Do .. 25 58 —Bl Do. Shares Do •• .. ' 22% 2 3 34 Leeds and Brad. Midland .. 88 , 7 Lon. and Green. S. Eastern • _I/ 11 11% 1)o., Pref. • • Do • • •.• °0 24 —25 LowestoCZ, Gd. 4 per Cent, • Norfolk 20 15 —l6 14% N. & East, 5 p p e o r . Cent, 43 4 6 p Preston and 1 • L. & W. 50 54 —56 Wyse • • .. j &La.& y,l 25 41 —43 x.d Do. 34 Shares ADo .. „ 10% 7% P•=• d Read., Guild., and Reigate .. S. Eastern 20 21% —22 x.di Roy. &It tchin G. Northern 6, ; 8 Shep. Ex.• DIP •• •• 2 4 ; 134 13( p. South staffords. Mr. li`Clean Bi' 3% as. z.d Wear Val. 6 pal Cent. gua. Stock.& Dar 25 24 —25 Wilts, Som., & We,idaouth Waste 60 46 —46 45% mc: , itzrE: 81145.11E5. Railways. Pald._ Nominal Prices. Business dole to-day. ---- ---. ----. --_—_—. Aberdeen •• •• •• 8 6 e par —% P pm Celedonian 101. •• • • 10 6% —7 % % Chest-r and llolyhead .. 15 17 --17% 1 6 7 % %17 34 Zest Argliaa (31. 105.) 6pt•• r ;11:;. .. • • • • 3% 2% —2% 2% % % Do. (:,;.) 1 r 7. ct. Pref. 5 „ .... „ Do. ("1, . 1 "s.) ;p.c. i'ref. a .. _ .. Eastp•.l CO:1 :3 Eiten., 5r • c.2:,.1•40. 1 ••6 13 4 % % P 34 T r* Do.' - .). 2 • • • • • • 613 4 par —% P Par Do. ;.• .7 6n. cent. Stock 10 10%, —ll 10% 11 Ear -a II ''.:'J, Scrip Looret , . 5 per cer ;:. .. 20 17% 17% Da. 1(. "Jabot. stares . 10 .. —• • East Leecasl'lre, 6 per cent. q rm.: er shares .. Gr 4 .. —.. Clas;row & S.-W. Corsol 100 .• -- •• _ Gt. No •"!ern, 5 pe - cent. 1234 13% 13 % Great Soe al. & Western (Ireltod) ekih_lis .. •• 2% II —1 P. 3% Lancaslo - J end York shire, F. 20.1. •• • • 6 Ix 1% dia. Do. 6 per cent. Stock ". 100 .. —•• Leeds and Trirsk, 6 per cent., No. 1.• • • •• 9 :.. —•• P Do. 6 per cert., No. 2 • 17 .. —• • Do. 6 per cent. -To. 3.. 5 .. —• • Do. quartets, 18 0 .8 .7 9 i% 2 P London, Begh ton, and Seath Coast I,uar. 5 per ct., tete Croyden tlrrcls 100 .. —• • De. pi•ef., 4 p et. Stier ; 'B5l, tom 501. shirrs. E 101 114 120 Do. cony. 5 per ct. 18 Z. 2 0 b 7 — 6O Do. new guar., 6 per ct. 100 136 139 7% London &S.-W., new .. k 2i / 4 --2% P. Loneonderry and Ennis kiilen, half shares .. 10 • • " " Manch., Sheffield, an,l Line , guar. shrs..No. 1 25 1436 15 % Do. new, 101. .. .. l o 12 12 % 12 Do., 61. • • • • •• • • 3 % % P 3% Midland Con. 6p. c. stock to 131 133 Do. Consel. Bristol & Binning., 6 per cent .. 100 • • —• • 132% Do. Bristol & Glouces. 48 •• '—' Do. do. do. ••33 10 6 .• •-•' '" Do. Erewsrsh Talley . 50 .. -- •• Do. Leic. & Swarming, 8 per cent. guar. .. 100 Norarlk Extension ~ 20 17 — l6 Do. guar. 5% per cent. 5 4% — 4 % x.d Do. Waveney Valley .. 2 . —.. North British • . .. 5• 5% — 5% Shrewsbury and Lim New Guaranteed .. 8 10% --11% 10% 11% xA Sbrens. aud Ches. (Nor. W. Alin.) 8 per cent. 10 14% -- 15 % South Devon ..4::. p. et. .. 25 15 --16 Souar•Easterr, 15 10 • • —• ' Watcriord&K:lkenny,sl. 1 • • —'• WestLonclon,lstCl.(lCl.) 10 .. —'' Do. 2d Class de. (Par) 20 • • —'' Yoeii, Newc., and Berw. ; 17 Gt. N.of E. Pur. . 16 — l7 York and North Midland 11. and S. Pluck. ; 10 i 13 . % Cll. 9 .02..VIChrirt Boulogne and Amiens .. 20 10% 1 0 1 10 % %% % Central of France (O r - [IS 17% leans and Vierzon) .. 20 lg —183 e 34 17% Demerara .. .. ~ 17 % .. —•- Dutch Rhenish .. ~ 354 —4% dia. 4 34 3% 8 East Indian • . .. • • 14 1% —l% p. Do. do. do. .. 2 5 0 Great Indian Peninsula.. % 3 P• 134 Ditto ditto .. .. 2% 56 —% p. 2% Louvain ala Sambre ~ 7% • —•• Luxembourg • • .. .. 8 • 1 2 Ditto •• ••• • .. 10 1 — 3 % 3% 2% X Madrid and Valcatla .. —• • Maria Antonia •• .. 25 6 • 7 Ditto, New • • .. 7% 2 3 Namur and Liege .. .. 22 g.% —9% 9% 8% 9 Northern of France .. 16 15% 15 % "% % Orleans and Bordeaux .. 8 5 —4% clic 4 % % Paris and Orleans • . .. 20 37 — 39 Paris and Rouen •• .. 22 96% 21% 27% 6% % Paris and Eerasbourg .. 16 5 —4% die. 11%10%11%11 Rouen and Havre .. ~ 20 12 12% 12 % 12 % 11% Sambre and Meuse .. 20 5 — 5 % 4 % 65 ‘ 4 %%% Tours and Nantes •. • • , . 15 8% —4% dis• 6 % %.%34% Tournay, Jurbise, 1,e,;1_ den, and Basset .. " .. —.. WOOS FISICA et :2_ 3% 1% =IN 8 MINES. Paid. I Nominal Prices. Angio-Mexican(ls. 51. p.) Asturian Australian Barossa Range Blaenarvon Iron andCot' Bolanos Sell]) ........ • • British Iroa.. . • .. • • .... Brazilian Imp. (is. 51. p.) 1 13 0 Do. Ceettee end Culabal Do. St. John del Rey.. Cobre Copper •• • . Coplap° ..... • • .... • •• General ..... . • • .. Real Del Moate, trpreg. Do. Black Debentluei . Do. lied Debentures .. Santiago de Cuba ...... Tin Croft .... • • • • .....• United Mexican— • • •••• JOINT Australasia .... •• • • • • •• British North America.. Colonial .... •• .. • • .... Commercial of London.. London Joint Stock .... London and Westminster National Provincial Eng. Do. New ........ •• .. National of Ireland .... Provincial of Ireland.... Do. New .. - • • • • .... Union of Australia .. • • Do. New ............ Union of London •• .. •• Union of kadrid - MX Canada ...... Gen. Steam Navigation Penin. & Oriental Steam. Royal N all Steam Pe^inau .tr and Oriental (We cannot be answers will Net be influenced by 18 5 24% !211 2 83i STOI ',cnx.: 32% Stearn, i Ole for ti interestei 3q —a% 3% —3% 32% - 32 14% - 13% 32% - 34% 13 -1 4 -I -6% 10% -11 6% - 53( :3C. BAN] 33 - 32% - 42 9A - 12 25 - 25% 13% - 17% 27% - 2739 17% - 18 42 - 47.% 15% - 15 3.8% -23? 3 - EX, 12% - 13 ti Business don. to-day. :ANEOI7I3. 42% 46 26% 27% Gfi% 72% 73 —69 paid, has been done at 12 11% 12. le errors of the Official Lists. and d correspondents.] MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at 7,000 bales, of which 2,000 American were taken on speculation. The market closed firm at an advance of %d. per lb. on American under 74d. per lb. Other binds are without alteration in price.—ln Railway Shares a good busi ness was done at lower prices. The market closed very weakly. We noticed a few days since the general petition to Par liament of the merchants of the City, and may now follow up our allusion by a reference to a like memorial from the St. Katharine Dock Company. It is impossible to enter at length into the detail of annoyances occasioned to, and diffi culties endured by, the company, through the mistaken seal of the Customs' solicitor. The summing up of the case is in the following terms ; " That the violent and offensive attack therefore which was, as stated at the outset of:this petition, made upon the dock establishment by a large body of Custom-house officers on that day was as unprovoked as it was unexpected ; and your petitioners will venture to add was as unjustifiable as it was unprovoked and unexpected. There is, indeed. neither parallel nor excuse for it. In the cases of the proceedings by the Excise, a branch of the revenue inevitably requiring sudden visitations to discover illicit processes in the moment of their actual operation, it might be necessary for large bodies of officers suddenly to surround and enter the pre• mises, the proprietors and managers beleg in all such cases principals in the offence. While in the case of the docks it was quite impossible, as any body conversant with the prac tise and regulations of those establishments ought to have known, that any fraudulent processes could be carried on on such a scale as to require a legion of revenue officers to come upon them by surprise as the only chance of detecting them, there being, moreover, no motive for fraudulent practices of a great extent, unless the directors and proprietors were as sumed to have a beneficial interest in the result—an assump tion which was made by the Crown prosecution against the London Docks, but recoiled on the prosecutors. If, however, in the instance of the large force of Custom-house officers suddenly entering the St. Katharine Dock premises, great quantities of goods legally liable to seizure, as involving frauds on the revenue to a considerable extent, had been dis covered, there might have been a prima facie excuse for so extraordinary an exhibition; but the actual result was the discovery and seizure of a most insignificant quantity of sugar scrapings and of sweepings of other goods. "It was apparently from disappointment at a result so ridiculously small, compared with the vast means employed, that led to the further examinations, in the course of which the officers of the Customs seemed determined to make up for the insignificance of the first seizure, by seizing the very great quantities in respect of which the numerous informa tions before referred to are pending; for which seizures, how ever, your petitioners firmly believe there are no justifiable grounds; but your petitioners humbly submit that if there were sufficient ostensible grounds for those seizures, and for the imputations upon the company's officers and servants, nothing can justify the mode of proceeding in respect of them, which has been adopted by the Board of Customs. Every expedient, of the most procrastinated and expensive litigation, with the aid of the great powers possessed by the Customs' authorities, has been resorted to, and your petition ers cannot hesitate to characterize these proceedings against them as involving the charge of a flagrant abuse on the part of the Board of Customs of the great powers and privileges with which it is invested. " Your petitioners therefore pray that your Hon. House will be pleased to appoint a Committee to inquire into the constitution and manage ment of the Board of Customs, with a view to remedy the abuse of its powers, of which your petitioners have such great cause of complaint." At a meeting of the Grocers and Tea Dealers' Benevolent Protection Society the annual report was submitted. This states that the contributions of the 'Fast year exceeded those of any previous year, the annual subscriptions being 890/. 75.; donations, 553/. 2s. ; and dividends on stock,4l9l. ss.—Total, 1,862 i. 14s. The sum distributed in pensions was 8541. to 41 pensioners. many of whom were formerly subscribers to the society. The total amount distributed in pensions was 6,%63/. As. The committee had added 6001 to the capital stock of the society, which now amounted to 13,200/. Throe and-s-Quarter per Cents. The report further stated that Sir John Davis, Esq., had consented to preside at the annual dinner on the sth of May. Cei tain new rules were agreed to, having for their object the immediate relief of widows and orphans of deceased pensioners and the carrying forward the votes of unsuccessful candidates. The report was unani mously adopted. In the Amsterdam market, on the 17th inst., Dutch Stock had generally a more favourable tendency, and business was animated. The Two-and-a•lialf per Cents. were at 57. Spanish Five per Cents. were in much request. The English Funds have been steady, but with very little doing. Consols have been quoted 96 % for Transfer and, for the Account 96% %. Bank Stock is shut. Exchequer tills have realised 535. to 565. premium. There has been an increased demand for Spatish Bonds ' owing to the decided advance at Madrid. The Passive have been run up to 5%, and the Five per Cents. have touched 21 to 4. The energy of M. Gonzales Bravo, who has dis missed from the Council the gentleman who lately refused to vote in the Committee appointed to settle the debt, has given ground for hope that the creditors will now certainly have their claims attended to. Venezuela Bonds have been 32 3 ,4 to 33, and Mexican have fallen to 33 to 4. Grenada De ferred have been at 44, and Eqnador at 31 4 . Brazilian Old Stock has realized 93, and Chilian Six per Cents. have been at 105 3 4 to 106. Peruvian Four-and-a-Half per Cents. have been firm at 8 5 . Russian Four-and-a-Half per Cents. have been quoted 973 ,4 to , and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 58:yi. The Railway Market still droops, and prices are all lower. The decline in Great Western is about 2/. cheaper. North Western has dropped I'., Midland 1/. to 11. 55.. Norfolk 2. Eastern Counties are much the same, or say % worse. Aber deen are 21. to 21. 10s. lower. Caledonian are down 11. to 1/. 5s , Great Northern Is. to 7s. 6d., South-Western it., North Stafford 2s. 6d. to 55., and East Lancashire ss. Am bargate are fla - , and South Wales tolerably steady. French shares are all in favour of buyers. but there is still a disposi tion to do business in them, and many parties are taking them for investment. QUARTER TO THREE. .. ... ... 96i ... ... ... 961 4 Consols ••• Ditto Account ONE CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISU FUNDS O'CLOCK. PRICES. 3 per Cent. Consols An nuitles... ..... 96% 96!,4 I lag' Bonds, 1,000/. Ditto under 1,0001 •• C o nsols for Account 96% % Exchequer Bills. I4d. es 2d 1,0001. June 53 56 p 5001. June 53 66 p Sm 111, June 53 56 p ONE PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds 93 Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent Danish Bonds, 1825,3 per Cent. 67 p 96A Do., 5 per cent ..., Equador Bonds Grenada Bonds, 1% per Cent — Ditto Deferred Mixican, 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons— Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons Ditto, Account Peruvian Bonds, 4% per Ccnt B5 56 p . 56 p 56 p CLOsiill4 PRICES. 93 106 100 3 ,4 ex d VA Ditto Deferred Russian Bonds Ditto, 4 1 ,4 per Cent, Ditto, Small S ianish 5 per Cont. 1840 Ditto, Account ....-... Ditto, Passive 5 % 1A3% Venezuela Bonds, 2 1 4 per Cent Dividends on the above payable in Lot don. Datch 2% per Cent.. 12 Guild. Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates — 32 3 4 85 38 97% 97% 5% 33 COURSE OF Amsterdam ...... •• • • 11 16% Ditto, throe months.. 11 1744 Botterd . • .•.. • • 11 17% Antwerp • • ............ 25 25 Brussels • . Ilanzburgh •• • • M.B . 13 7% Altona • • 3 dayesight 25 2% Ditto. 3 months .... 25 20 Marsoillos .• .• •• ...• 25 27% 80urdeaux......... • Fr s nkfort on Mains.... 119 1 4 Vienna, °flee. .. Trieste, ditt0.......... Petersburgh,6lll. Rblo.. Madrid Cadiz ................ 504 Barcelona • . • &mills .• •• •• •• • • • • • • •• 58% 913/4 ' EXCHANGE. Glaraltar•••• •• •• • • • • • • •••• Leghorn •• •• •• .• •••.•• 30 60 GOIIOA ••••••••• • •• • • •• Ith 1117% Milan •••••••• • • • • •• •• Venice......-- •••••• Naples ......••....•• ralerrno,poroz.••••••. vaina . t............. hou.& • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 41% 125 125 53% 153% Rio Janeiro Buenos Ayres ........ New York, 60 days'aight Philadelphia .......... PEICIS OF BULLION, PER 0%. Foreign Geld in bars.. XII 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin •• 0 0 0 Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0 New Dollars ...... 0 4 1 1 4 Silveri■ bars 0 8 1)8 LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, ISlAncti 19.—Wind at noon S. to S.W., light breeze and dull hazy weather, with rain. L EAT., Mmicir 18.—Wind S.S.W. to S.W„—Arrd Fac tory:, Batavia for Rotterdam; Vindictive, Bahia for 11am burgh ; Don, Africa. Put back, Ganges, China ; George Dean, Cape Coast Castle. LivEttroon, MARCIE 18.—Wind S.S.E. to W.N'.W.—Arrd. Margaret Pollock, Callao ; Riverdale, New Orleans; Emma Field, ditto Ski. Queen, San Francisco; Garrow, Africa; Niagara, Montreal. Off port, Electric, Calcutta; Petrel, Africa. NEWPORT, MARCII 18.—Wind W.— Sld. Perseverance, Sierra Leone. QuEcisTowN,Mmicrt 17.—WindW.S.W.—Arrd. Hamlet, Mauritius; Dauntless, Mauritius. ABERDEEN, MARCIL 11. - Wind variable.—Sld. St. An drew, Davies' Straits. ILFlLscomits, Maneft 17.—Wind W.S.W., very strong.-- The: Dispatch, Newport to Bude, drove against the rocks, and is sunk in five fathoms off the Capstan Hill; crew saved and part of mate r ials; hull breaking UP . Muatnnzs, MARCIE 18.—The William and James and Emerald, of this purt, got in contact, and both received damage to bulwarks and upper works. OFF rux Wow', IMcLL 18.-..T1110 BlitoD, Calcutta. tr In [Ti I, • A p the Cot ear 418 • 1 84 Pilo •It a kiv E 4 Zi; reb 4 1)11 tee ' tee 44i ber 7„ %lad • It c i r ti to lil t tl di i4e i S~ A N, k t N