The Sun. — London, England, 1851-05-22 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. GRAND EXTRA NIGHT. It is reenactfully anneunced that a Grand EXTRA NIGHT will • take place THIS EVENING, May 22, when will be presented, fbr v , t h e nest time this season, Rossini's celebrated opera,lL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA. Rosin, Madame Sontag ; II Conte d'Almaviva, Signor Calzolari ; Ylgaro, Signor Ferranti ; Basilic, Signor Casa nova; Bartolo, Signor • Lablsche. In the Lesson Scene Madame Sontag will introduce Rode's cele brated Variations. "To be followed by a selection from the admired Ballet of LE ES xERALDA, including Traandaise, by Madlle. Carlotta Grist and M. Charles. The performance will commence with the second and third acts of Auber's celebrated Opera of MUTA DI PORTICI, (Masaniello). Alfonso, Signor Scotti ; Lorenzo, Signor Mercurall ; Selva, Signor Balanchi ; Masaniello , Signer Pardmi ; Pietro, M. 3fassol ; Borella, signor Lorenzo; Elvira, Madame Fiorertini ; Fenella, Mollie. on In act first, a Grand Divertissement; La Gurache et Napolitaine, y Messrs. Kohlenberg, Soto, Aussandon. Soldansky, Allegrini, Pas cales,Emma, Dantonle, and the Ladies of the Corps de Ballet ; Le Bolero, by Madlles. Mathilde, Rosa, Julian, and Larnoreux, and M. Ehrick. Finale Generale, in act third, .La Tarantella, by Madlle. Feraris, M. Charles, 3fadlles. Kohlenberg, Soto, Aussandon, Soldanaky, Allegrini, Pascales, Emma. Dantonle, Mathilde, Rosa, Julies, and Lamoreux, MM. Ehrick and Gouriet, and the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Corps de Mallet. . To conclude with a Dlvestissemert LES CO33fOPOLITES, by Madlle. Carlotta Grist, Madlle. Amalla Ferraris, Mesdiles. Rosa, Esper, Julien, Lamoureux, Aasssuidon. P asea ll es , Kohleuberg, Al legrini, MM. Charles, Ehrick, and Paul Taglioni. Tile Opera will com menc e a t Half-past Seven• Applicattfbns for Bores, Bulls, and Tickets to be made at the Box- Mice of the Theatre. THEATRE ROTA, HAYMARKT. 4 kr. R. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. THIS EVENING, Will be performed an entirely New Comsdr. entitled RETIRED FROM BUSINESS. Zachary Pennyweight, Mr. Lambert; Creep. Mouse, Mr. Buckstone ; Lieu". Tackle, Mr. Stuart; Captain Gunn, Mr. B. Webster; Pant Puffins, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; Kitty Penny. weight, Miss Annie Romer. To be followed by Mollete's Comedy of TARTUFFE. Oregon, Mr. Lambert ; Dam's, Mr. Davenport ; Vaiere, Mr. Howe ; Cleante, Mr. Rogers ; Tartnffe, Mr. B. Webste ,. ; M. Loyal, Mr. Selby; El. mire, Miss Reynolds ; Marian, Miss L. Addison ; Dorine, Mrs. Fitzwilliam. 'THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL Under the direction VENING ot Madame Cele Celeste . THIS E, WIN be performed THE GREEN BUsuEs. To b e f o llowed, by a new musical, histOrioal, Pastoral, comical A ical dry . drama, called O'.K.ANNIGAN AND THE AII4 -c'o ; Odsurnm er Night's Dream. Phelim O'Fl anb i gan or, Mary, Miss K. Fitzwitab; Mr. H udson ; . Oberon, Miss E. Chaplin; ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD -STREET. Under the Management of Mr. C. Keaa and Mr. Keeley. THIS EVENING, will be performed a new and original Comedy entitled LOVE IN A. MAZ E . dd Mea Characters by Messr s . C. Kean, Keeley, Wigan, Harley, Ame dows ; Mrs. Keeley, Mrs. Winatanley, and Mrs. C. Sean. After Which a new Farce called APARTMENTS. " Visitors to the Exhibition may be accommodated." To conclude with a new grand spectacular Extravaganza (taken from a Tale, by Washington frying), entitled THE ALHAMBRA ; or The Three Moorish Princesses. Characters by Messrs. Keeley, Ha rl ey , A. Wigan, Wynn, Cook e , Fl exmore ; Busses Murray, Daly, Vivcsh, Robertson, Leclerq, Keeley, Asdlle. Auriol, and Mrs. Keeley. Private Boxes, &c., to be had of all the Booksellers, and of Mr. Petassingham ; of whom also • revt, from Eleven till Four o'clock. places may be taken at the Box-office, Oxford-gt ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. under the Management of Madame velar* Sole Lessee, Mr. Cbarles Mathew'. THIS EVENING, Will be performed ONLY A OLOD. To be followed by A DAY OF RECKONL.IG, in which Madame Vestris will appear To conclude with THE QUEEN OF TILE FROGS Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, R. Roxby, Bellingham, Horncastle, Morris ; Mrs. Frank Matthews. Miss St. George, Miss Martindale, and 'knits Oliver. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Myren. TILL+ EVENING, Will be performed THE LADIES' BATTLE ; or, Un Duel en Amour. To be followed by the VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. To conclude with THE LOTTERY TICKET. iierLßY'n ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Glider Ms Patronage or her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. • THIS EVENING. Win be performed a grand new Spectacle, entitled ELEANOR THE AMAZON ; or, Queen of France and England. -% To be followed by new Scenes of the Circle, introducing an en tirely new Company of English, French, Italian, and American Artistes. • • To oonclade with a laughable Farce, sox-office open irom itjeven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. T. Thompson. ruricrrs PLAYHOUSE AND STRAND THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. W. R. COPELAND, Liverpool. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new Comedy, entitled KENSINGTON GAB DENS. Principal characters by Messrs. Tilbnry, A. Davies, Nor ton, T. Rogers, and Romer ; Mrs. Seymour, Mesdames E. Romer, M. A. Marshall, and Wallis. With a new Farce, entitled A CHEAP EXCURSION. An ILLUSTRATION OF THE EXPOSITION. Principal charac ters. by Mesdames Marshall, M. Taylor. C. Horawan, and Dlbdin ; Messrs. J. Reeve, Norton, J. Rogers, and Romer. To conclude with a new comedy proverb, teaching people the best method of LIVING IN GLASS HOUSES. The prices 01 admission are arranged as follow :—Orchestra stalls, ; boxes (first circle), 35.; (second circle), 2s. ; Pit, Is. Doors to be opened at Halt-past Six, and the performances to gotnmence at Seven precisely_ S. second price will be taken to the Boxes only at Half-past Nine --Arst circle. Is.; second circle, Is. Private Boxes One Guinea and a Half each. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. • Open for the -eason. JULLTEN'S GRAND CONGER r MONSTRE. The Proprietor has the gratification to announce that he has suc ceeded in engaging Mons. Jullien and the elite of his unrivalled band, and that he will continue a short season with a grand Con cert Monstr e, including Herr Koenig, M. Collioet, Lavigne, L'An glais, Mr. Lazaru3, Mr. Jarret, and other eminent soloists. The splendid bands of the Royal Artillery, 2d Life Guards, and Cold stream Guards will attend in full uniftrin, by the kind permission of their respective Colonels, in addition to the effective band of Ilsis establishment. Four Solos by Herr Koenig, M. Coilinet, Ciotti, and Mr. Lazarua, Jullien's Exhibition Quadrille with increased and novel effects ; also, Jullien's new Amazon Galop, suggested by 'the splendid piece of Sculpture in the Great Exhibition. • Representation of a gigactic modelled Panorama, painted by the Messrs. Denson, representing the Temple of Janus in the Eternal City, with a striking View of the Colosseum, Palace of the Csesars, kc. The Menagerie is both varied and extensive, including two gi raffes, two elephants, which promenade the grounds, appropriately caparisoned and attended. The band, composed of musi cians of first-rate celebrity, is conducted by Mr. Godfrey. Moored on the lake is seen a real Chinese pleasure junk, with masts tud sails complete. Also Remington's aerial bridge, and various novelties ; and at dusk will be given, on a scale of surpassing mag nificence, a representation of the Closing of the Brazen Gates of the Temple of 'JUrfus, with (for the first time ever attempted) a grand 'colossal transparent dianhonie panopticon, showing the horrors of war and the.blessings of peace, terminating with a most brilliant display of fireworks by Messrs. Southby ; and an allegorical tableau of the arts and sciences, depositing their treasures at the feet of her MeJesty Queen Victoria, the whole forming the most gorgeous spec tacle ever witnessed. ADIIISSION—ONE SHILLING. day Fithlbitloa nightd- -) ,londay, Tuesday, W e d nes d ay, Th urs d ay, and gri The FLORAL EXHIBITION'S of the Royal South London Flori cultural Society will be repeated during the Season; the First will take place on Wednesday, May 2S. EflGrf WATER. .11 LONDON BRIDGE Tare . DAT —34crntrg 29 min. lifter 6 Evening 52 adn. after 6 to gfegnow —sfozn.ng 20 min. after 7 I Evening 50 nun. attar T THE RENTHER.—Srm 021 , u3R, MAY 22. THEEXONTETEB, lii THE SHADE. 63—highest since noon yesterday. 48—lowest this morning and during the night. 66—this day, at noon. BAROMXTE/4 30•29. WIND W.S. W.— d ull, close weather. Never has the truth of the old adage, " extremes meet," been more clearly exemplified than in the cases of Mr. GUSTA:VUS ROCHFORT CLARKE, the Iconoclast, and Messrs. MILLAIS, HUNT, and COLLINS, the Pre- Raphaelite brethren ; not more naturally dOes Pro tectionism, when carried out, run into Socialism (witness the speeches of BUSTEILD FERRAND and the letters of RICHARD OASTLRIL passim) than does Clarkeism run into Pre-Rapbaelism. Mr. Roca- FORT CLARRE objects to the generality of painting and sculpture, that it is either voluptuous, and calculated to excite impure ideas, or that it is blasphemous, and to give vent to his indignation he actually did public execution on a print of Idurtim.o's magnificent pic ture of the Trinity by tearing it up, amidst, as he tells us, the applause, but, as others who were pre sent tell us, the contemptuous laughter of an Exeter hall audience. At this point the Puritanism run mad of Mr. CLARK meets with and joins the Catho licism run mad of the Pre-Raphaelites ; they would have joined him in this act of wanton destruction. He upon principle objects to the represen tation either in marble or by painting of "the likeness of anything that is in the heavens above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters under the, earth." They carry out his principle into prac tice, and boast that they carefully avoid painting any such likenesses. The sublimity of IlluzlLLo being abo ye the:comprehension of Mr. CLARZE, is by him stigmatised as blasphemy ; but the picture by Mr. ~ 1141 4 .... ,, . .is entitled "The Dove returned to the Ark," Royalr.e !Al aibited this year in the Exhibition of the it represents.% g of :ir.-C.te:dem,y, is, litter of Str aw MARA ) by the same a;ti pers), cuddlin g, we doubt not, the object admiration. It is essentially Clarky; 0 children in bedgowns, standing in a (as if Noma had been packing ham a dote Again, the pictur e of MA t, would no doubt be com mended by Mr. CLARr A g „ a most unvoluptnous picture, Puritan and rigid moralist as he i s • Lord ANGELO for his desertion ofsneh a . or marvellously proper and 1 e ve n mt M o r t . a C i,ni x.a. lef a istust n hia : ee;dbe hi oub g r.e h all events, his subsequent condemnatiouMtoApit re mainder of his days in her society was , if at . Equally the slightest resemblance to the MARIAN& Mr. MuLais, quite punishment enough for 1 4 K C E Mll a d dm ha i v t e b th ee e n p g r u e i p l r ty ie . ty of kr. Ni fa r:u lt l s d o A f l w r. hi C ch La h it e HUNT'S delineation of th e " Two Gentlemen of Verona ;" they are gentlemen such as were never seen in the . flesh from the days of ADAM down.. wards, and who, should they ever appear on the stage of life, would continue single gentlemen all their days, seeing that their appearance is a perfect cure for love. Les extremes se touchent ; and here we hug the Bigotry of the Iconoclast and the Bigotry of the intra-Catholics in art uniting in a repudiation of DAILY WEATHER TABLE. -- - • • - State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following Places at Nine o'clock yesterday morning.-The stations are arranged in order of latitude. Pnvzm o • VV _uTEr-.Wind N.., gentle breeze-overcast. • 8007 "-l it Gs-Wind W., gentle b reeze - overcas t. Fotam4g e 'Wind S.W., gentle breeze-overcast. T mouutx ; -Wind W., gentle breeze-partially cloudy. goreseroka Wind W., strong breeze-partially cloudy. REENWIcH .'l 4 l S. W., gentle breeze-rain. c 0Lcut .,,,.._ ..... :: : •7 1 md W., gentle breeze-overcast. c Amß a u ;Z:_,W hi l d d s S.W., gentle breeze-overcast. - .7 • ..,49UTH-.-Willd ~...W., gentle breeze -overcast. I% ''' H ' w ind Nr.;.s.,trong breeze--rain. D A ra,nlGrorr--wi nd x v :vsy , gentle breeze -partially cloudy. the 1 ,_ :. , strong breeze-partially cloudy. The returns from the wind and vr e d it h: ll °wM,g placea indicate the state of ,e,T.,:oclt ; ,- . 4111 luesday morning at nin e - 31 utusoAn-Wind W.,. wmtio b ree ze Wit - d W.. retitle breee-partially cloudy. HASTINGS itrocg,-WLad. 5.W., strong b reeze-1 -Nrtially cloudy. LzvE W hard ' - Partiall cl y °tidy. LEEDS —Win d S. ~ . wmdPartiara• , wi t/Th y-Wind S., ,st onz breeze-claudl 14. 'Wind W., gentle b eiii. D ABLIZ {GTOX-.. ree ze-partiall , , Y cloudy. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the reading of the barometer was above 30 i n. 'nun daily Wednesday, and Thursday , and the mea n of the T uesday, 29-952 in. After Sunday the mean daily ter nner : v . e ek was below the average on every day of the week, a n d ( , - o - re wa s and Wednesday it was respectively 5" and 7o bolo who average of the same days derived from ten years. The temperature continued to fall during the first four dap ' , and en Wednesday the mean was 46' 2. 2, after which it rose abonv-e. ". The mean of the week was 50 ° 9. The wind Was • generally in the north-east. LONDON, T.außsp,, _ , MAY 22, 1351. " Let well enough alone" i s a standard maxim far 'more profitable in the observance than in the breach. A morning contemporary , whose flan];, we are b ound to acknowledge, is seldom turned, w ou l d have better consulted his own 6 5 Well as the reputation f or sagacity had he borr,e in mi n d th a t baititary doctrine, familiar dog ma o f th e D e an of St. Patrick's, relative to the effect produced by a pers everan ce in stirring what is inodorous by nature. We were among th e many who perused Nrith a smile of surprise an article which served to fill the columns of the journal alluded to not long before the opening of the Great Exhibi tion, On conning it over, a shrewd suspicion per vaded our mind thatthe Times was, as the saying is, • E R MAJESTY'S THEATRE.rregularly sold" by the 2V ew York Herald, and that suspicion r i pene d i nto certa i nty on reading, It is respectfully announced that Madlle. SOFIE CRUTELLI make her Second Appearance on SATURDAY next, May 24, in 111 the next place, the original docum en t w hi c h Beethoven's Opera, /MEMO. Leonora, Madlle. Sofia Crurelli (her 2d appearance) ; Pizarro, OUT contemporary thought fit to transfer to -• Signor Coletti ; Rocco, 'signor Balanchi ; lac q uino, Signor Mere - his . e ls ad sheet in extenso. It is true that pr *sof an extraordinary nature ap- LE riali ; MarcelUni, Madame Giuliani; 3linistro, Signor Casanova ; Florestano, Mr. Sims Reeves. To conclude with the admirable Ballet (arranged in one act) of pear not rare in the American newspapers, but DIABLE A QUATRE. dues Esper, Julien. Lamoureux, Aussandon, Kohlen t be t Ehrick, Paul Tagiloni, Gouriet, such an ignoramus as to put forth seriously a tirade rlCV'ePnasefrcala,easrldDDalltAiiantetia3l. Charles, ° tells, and Tickets to be made at the A p o p m l 1 r uf f on t s u f e o r Boxes , S Opera-colonnade, Haymarket. such as that which galled the Times into an affrighted belief in its sober import. The whole affair would, however, have passed away like every other nine days' wonder, but the English journal seems resolved to try and have the last word, and thereby, with all re spect be it spoken, to write itself down a kindred animal to honest DOGBERRY. The Herald, in the last impression which has reached Europe, announces that the effusion to which so much importance was given in Printing House-square, was—as it needed no ghost from the grave to tell us— "ana a s d li m gh ir t a m bl issile egray se it n y t fr ,b o a m i t s a i p t l s ay h f o u o l k h a a n g d, ai ' n " b f u o t with r, ano ther bite in the same quarter where it had in the first instance been so successful. And our contempo rary, with some degree of ponderous jocularity, la bours to prove himself a little less frightened than before, when (as the Herald remarks in a paragraph which our contemporary did not include in his nume rous quytations therefrom on Wednesday morning) " he treated the menacing intelligence with a terrible anxiety to be cool, and devoted his serried columns, day after day, to explanations, affecting to laugh, and appearing very much like a traveller in some great, dark forest, whistling to keep his courage up, while looking backward and forward to see some frightful spectre at every turn. " It is really "milking a ram" for a print professing to be "the leading journal of Europe," to address itself to refute such a bouncing hoax as the assertion that, when the aforesaid " playful missile" reached London, " the Prime Minister sent offs note instanter for the Duke of WELLINGTON—the Ministers ten dered their resignations—Lord STANLEY tried to form a new Cabinet in vain, and the politicians, so conservative, so grave, so self-confident in the Yeo manry and in the business population, did not even dare to venture on a general election, to form a new and reliable Government. England trembles from top to toe, and even the QUEEN, who has considerable nerve, was so much frightened, that Prince ALBERT regretted that an American newspaper con taining such alarming suggestions should have reached the shores of happy Albion ! Apprehensions of this character scon begat worse fears, and with the speed which an emergency only can create, thirty thousand brilliant bayonets bristled in the neighbour hood of Hyde-park, besides we know not how many parks of artillery were ready at a moment's call." Our contemporary has given the benefit of the im mense circulation which he enjoys to a full elucida tion of the marvellous treasures which are piled within the crystal walls of the matchless Palace of Industry, and that in a free and cordial spirit. It is, moreover, mairly, if not altogether, owing to his powerful pen that a check has been applied by the Commissioners of Police to that excessive nuisance the cab-extortion system, which, if permitted to riot un checked, would be found materially to interfere with the comfort and accommodation of a great number of visitors to the metropolis during the present memorable season. But we must be per mitted to say that a worthier occupation might be found than giving currency to humbug, which may leave an ineffaceable and alarming impression on t the minds of many respectable aged females, besides affording a hearty laugh in New York at the capacity of gullet which exists in this instance on the part of the foremost journal of "the Britishers." We shall not enter now into a consideration of an article entitled " The World's Fair in London. Its Objects and Effects," published also in the New York Herald of the 6th of May. We regret and pity the uncandid tone in which a string of fallacies, which may go down with the unthink ing or prejudiced among our Transatlantic kinsmen, are couched. It is much to be ap prehended that there is just a /cede spice of envy or disappointment lurking at the bottom. It is notorious to the world that the display of contributions in the American department in the edifice at Hyde. park is far behind that furnished by any other country ; in fact, to speak the word plainly, it is unanimously voted "shabby." Who , e fault is this ? The great Republic is amply supplied with sources, natural and artificial, sufficient to have rendered her a proud corn•! petitor with the states of the Old World at the " Fair of the Universe." And we confidently believe that it would have diffused a sincere and wide-spread pleasure amongst our own people had our Co luinhian kinsmen, or, as we may justly term them, our Anglo-Saxon brethren, come out with a little more strength and effect on such a great occasion. But there is no use in assum ing the airs of a discontented child, and scolding us in such terms as the following, which we extract without a further word of comment, trusting that we shall hear no more of a paper warfare which reflects no credit on either of the parties con cerned, both of whom, and one in particular, ought to know better than to make such an ado about nothing : " The British see that their supremacy is gone—that the glory of Ichabod is departed, and the cowed bully becomes the abject sycophant. England sees that her destiny is under our control." (!) e * " Our opinion, then, of this great show is, that it originated in selfishness; that it will not tend to advance peace throughout the world, as it was intended it should ; that it is a Yankee trick to make the rest of the world contribute to England's wealth ; that as far as arts and manufactures are concerned, it will be a failure ; and that, on the whole, it looks like a gigantic humbug." (! ) LONDON, the lovely, the graceful, ind the beautiful, and in a worship of the hideous, the awkward, and the un natural. How this league of the extremes of folly against common sense is to be carried out remains to be seen; whether Mr. CLARKE will give up hi s Puritanism to join the Pre - Raphaelites in their ultra-Catholicism, or whether, giving up their ultra- Catholicism, and deriving their inspiration from Mr. ROORFORT CLARKE, they will found a new second commandment school of art, in which beauty shall be deemed blasphemy, and the least approach to nature sin, is as yet uncertain ; but that Clarkeism and Pre- Raphaelisrn are but different stages of the same disease, is, we think, abundantly evident. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC, we have received the Paris journals of yesterday. They all contain long articles on the question of the revision of the Constitution, one of the most re markable of which is by M. DE LAMARTINE. In that article he distinctly states that it was the Legitimatist Deputies who, on the 24th of February, 1848, urged him to conclude his speech by proposing a provisional Government, and that having precipitated the monarchy of July into a republic, they now seek to plunge the republic into anarchy ; and he significantly reminds th e B ERRYERS, the DE FALLOUX, and their clique, that on the 18 Fructiclor, when the Legiti matists were intriguing and conspiring against the first Republic, the Directory crushed the treasonable conspiracy by seizing 52 of the conspirators, with PICIIEGRU at their head, and deporting them ; an act which was approved of by all France. He concludes by recommending the PRESIDENT to propose a repeal of.the Electoral Law of the 31st May—that is, a return to universal suffrage, and to appoint a really Repub lican Ministry. M. EMILE DE GIRAEDIN bas a long article in the Presse on the intrigues of the Monarchists, which ,he concludes in the following terms : " The Republic will not be overturned, for to be so, monarchy should be re-established. But it is all over at present in France with the monarchy, for it could not there resume its course, four times interrupted, except in going back at least to 1750. A whole century fallen to ruins does not spring again into life. If Charles 11., brought back ty Monk in 1659, could again raise up the throne in the place of the block on which the head of Charles I. fell in 1649, the reason was that in England only a king fell. The institutions remained standing ; the British aristocracy, the inequality of property, the rillime of substitutions had survived the protectorates of Oliver and Richard Cromwell. But is it so in France, where the right of the eldest son has been abolished, where equality of division in the property left has become part of the system, where the hereditary aristocracy has disappeared? The impossibility of re-establishing the monarchy is equivalent to the impossibility of over turning the Republic. No, it will not b e overturne d , because it could not be replaced." CLOT BEY, chief physician of the Pecas of Egypt, has just arrived in Paris from Alexandria. The Bourse was feeble, with very little business doing. The Five per Cents., opened at 90f. 65c., and closed at 90f. 35c.; the Three per Cents. closed at 56f. sc. Orleans Railroad Shares, 8201.; Havre, 245 f; Great Northern, 472 f. 50c.; Avignon, 220 f.; Vierzon, 4301.; Bale, 1451; Bordeaux, 3981. 75c.; Paris and Strasburg, 363 f. 75c.; Tours and Nantes, 271 f. 25c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TEE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 21. Boulogne and Amiens, 94 2 —Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 17 1 1—East Indian, 16—Northern of France, 143 / 4 —Paris and Strasbourg, 10 1 / 2 —Rouen and Havre, 91i — Sambre and Meuse, VA. , SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 16th have arrived. The elections are over, and the majority returned are Ministerialists. It is said that the Government will propose Senor MAYANS as President of the Chamber of Deputies. The Narvaez party will propose Mom. PORTUGAL. The Madrid Herald° states that SALDANHA has addressed the following proclamation to the inhabi tants of Lisbon : " Inhabitants of Lisbonl—The flag which I have had the honour to unfurl is so eminently national that as soon as it was known that fag was adopted in all parts of the kingdom in the most sincere, frank, and decided manner. Let us consolidate the throne of her Majesty the Queen Donna Maria IL and her dynasty; let us re form the constitutional charter; let us have really free elections, in order that we may be enabled to have a truly national representation, and justice, . liberty, morality, and economy, in the place of the immorality, corruption, and robbery that have been proclaimed as the theory of Government. " In a few days I hope to be among you : I know that the agents of a corrupt and corrupting Minister await that moment to give utterance to seditious cries. If this should be done I shall seise the first who shall be bold enough to do so, and deliver him up to the au thorities, that he may be punished. I am fully con vinced of the nationality of the banner which I have displayed; persuaded as I am that my countrymen of Lisbon know me, I feel certain that they will do mu the justice to believe that I will employ every means in my power to cause the city to be respected. " The Duke of " Head-quarters, Oporto, May 9, 1851." SALDANIIA. The same journal contains the following account of SALDANEA'S movements : "On the 6th the Marshal went, with the 9th and 14th Regiments of Infantry, a battalion of the 13th, and the 3d Chasseurs, to Coimbra, where he was received with enthusiasm. On the 7th he was at Agueda, and on the Bth at Carvalho, and the same evening returned to Oporto. On the 9th be commenced embarking troops for Lisbon. The corps that will accompany the Duke are the Ist, sth, and 7th Chasseurs, the Ist, 2d, and 6th Infantry, and the Queen's Grenadiers. The Duke is to embark on the 10th, and will probably enter Lisbon on the 12th." GERMANY. On the 18th an imperial rescript was issued al Vienna restricting the amount of paper circulation and ordering the adoption of measures for the gra. dual withdrawal 'of Government notes. GREECE. The .Augsburgh Gazette has the following from Athens, dated the 6th :—" The Minister of Finance presented to the Senate a Bill, demanding a credit of 113,420 drachmas, to increase the salaries of the Ephores and other employe.: in the finance depart ment, wbich measure was rejected. The father of the Minister voted against him, and the Minister then, tendered his resignation, which was accepted. His colleagues told him that they must seek a better support than he was able to give them, since even his own father toted against him. General TzsvaLLus, who also voted against the Ministry, has had his pay reduced by one half; it is stlid that he will be sent into Acarnania, to fight against the brigands." ITALY. A letter from Rome says that every day brings a new event. On the 11th a French soldier was stabbed in one of the most populous quarters. General GEMaAU has published a proclamation, of which the following is the analysis. After mention ing the different attacks upon French soldiers, the General suppresses all permissions to carry arms. Fire-arms, swords, and poniards, were to be given up before the lltb. After that date domiciliary visits were to take place, and every inhabitant found in the possession of arms is to be tried by court-martial Owners of houses are to be held responsible for the arms which may be found in them. Persons carry ing sword-canes are to be arrested by the patrols, and kepb in prison until they have paid a fine of IS Roman crowns. On the day when this proclama tion was issued a person was assassinated at the cor ner of the Vie Condotti, only 100 yards from the residence of General GEMEAU. The Piedmonfese Gazette of the 17th publishes the law on the accumulation of offices. By this law a functionary canno t fill two offices paid by the state, unless in the following cases :—When the salary of a public office does not amount to •,000fr., an office depending from the department of Public Instruction may be added to it, provided it does not encroach upon the time allotted to the former one. Professors may enjoy two offices belonging to the department of Public Instruction. In such cases the smaller salary is reduced by one-third, when the sum total of the salaries exceeds 15,000 f. .The Members of the Sani tary Corps may also enjoy two offices on the same conditions. Non-commissioned officers and soldiers of the corps of veterans and invalids are not subjected to any restrictions with respect to the places they may have in the various public bureaux. No func tionary in active service is allowed to enjoy, besides, a life interest or pension payable by the State for fon:her services. Professors' fees, however, are exempted from these restrictions, as well as salaries attached to theo rder of St. Maurice and Lazarus, and other orders, DEPARTURE OF THE COURT FOR THE ISLE OF WIGNT.—(THIS DAY.) —Her Majesty and the Prince Con sort, accompanied by their illustrious children and the Reign ing Duke, and Duchess of Saxe Coburg Gotha, and attended by the Viscountess Jocelyn (Lady in Waiting), the Hon. Miss Byng (Maid of Honour), the Hon. Lieutenant -Colonel Charles Grey (Equerry), Lieutenant-Colonel F. H. Seymour _ e (E xptel q uel u ves e; ecal y to the Prince), the Master of the Household (Ge ' neral Bowles), and the usual domestic suite, left Buckinghase Palace this morning at half-peat twelve o'clock for Gosport, en route to Osborne Palace, Isle of Wight. The august party Proceeded to the sine Elms terminus, escorted by an officer's Party of W t u l i a : e hrie B ttuh th Hussars and her Majesty was conducted tior:teFisearlr,,iiatghe g by re t a h t e great officers of State and the Lord in received (the Marquis of Ormonde). The royal party were l u to su t a o l wn holou T rs ues a d t a t y he ne C z l t a . rence-yard t er _ iot_wes, unn(dlereabluarteksedir•oinin t s la h e ips F i a n iry ha r r ot o a u l r. ste T am he -y e a e ch urt t for is for Promoting eh mined upon closinri4vl-a-il Ple asure reos it o ve r ye altogether c t , the e T S hu oc rs i d e a ty y h w o e l e id k a , y_ a n a d tt k examplee epg ." lire Knowledge have this year deter r east of the Ascension a close Guardian , ' ffel3 °Pe to see extensively followed.— ct 3, To ,4'.\coll CYf NA., • -z I y „, • 1 44 k — 1* • ;fr -A 4 r • 510 T , THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 22, 1851. THE S .RKETS Pald. Nominal Prices. Bus.in' Is don, lay. done ARUNDEL, MAY 20.—The general demand has been by no means active, yet prices are well supported. Beef, from 3s 2d to 3s 10d; Mutton, 3s to 4s; Lamb, 4s 10d to 5s 8d; Veal, 3s to 3s 6d per 81bs. CHICHESTER, MAY 21.—0 n the whole, the trade has ruled firm, at full quotations. Beef, from 3s to 3a 10d; Mutton, 3s to 4s 2d; Lamb 5s to 5s 10d; Veal, 3s 2d to 3s 6d per Bibs. Milch Cows, with their small Calf, 151 to 181 each. BULWER LYTTON'S NEW PLAY• NOT SO BAD AS WE SEEM . : or, MANY SIDES TO A CHARACTER. A Comedy, in Five Acts. By Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart. Chapman and Hall. Under ordinary circumstances, our attention could not fail to be attracted by a new dramatic composi tion from the hand of this illustrious author, the poet novelist of our genera ti on. P roduce d as t h e present comedy is, however, un d er ausp i ces so remar k a ble in their character, and so beneficent in their tender)* it is impossible for the critic to do otherwise than r welcome it with a ver y pecu li ar earnestness . After reading through the whole of this singular produc; tion, it rem a i ns no l onger a matter o f uncer t a intz . n to whom i n di v id ua ll y wr i ters an d pa i nters are alike f or t h e suggest i on, and altimately a l so f o r tp l e l foundation, of the Guild of Art and Literature. many generous sentiments,in many touching allusion: in many e l evate d ideas, relating to the condition , . the un s u ccess f u l labourers at the desk and at the easel—sentime n t s , a ll us i ons, an d id eas scat t ere d Pr° . fusely through the peges here under consideration -- : we may rec ogn i se the pulsations of that noble heart, in which thi s sc h eme of magnanimity may be said, in may have first i ns t ance, to h ave originated. Whatever 1 10 1 . have since been accomplished in the way of its pro s motion, w h a t ever may henceforth be achieve d w ith view t o it s u l ter i or and perfect development, to Sir BULVIER LYTTON w ill b e l ong theglory having e li cited these timely tributes g o l fal ra : pathy, and somet i mes too of admiration. As to elusive t es ti mony of this, we refer not so much his grant o f l an d to the projected institution, or to the circum s t ance o f his having proposed the under taking to se vera l o f hi s distinguished contenepore' „ies . at a time when th ey were partaking of his hospitalit.lo at Knebworth, as to the internal evidence afforded the brilliant effusion just published. Without any' thing beyond a merely cursory allusion to the T its that the comedy before us was acted a few nig if since at Devonshire House (as the title-page. eD i records) in the presence of her Majesty and hie - 1 “ ) -T Highness the Prince Albert, we shall restrict out tic ob servations entirely to an examination of its dram a efficiency and of its general characteristics all ti literary performance. Charles Dickens and his elf, ll d teur company w ill, we are rejoiced to think, mai, adequat e recompense for their exertions, not so much in the appl ause accor d ed to the display of their is' trionic abilities as in the remembrance that they were the forem os t among t h e supporters of the sc h e me submitted to th em f or acceptance or refusal by °ufet, gifted dramatist. Were any tribute wanting to L' c l' b exalted patri c i an w h o h as already evinced so 1131 L solicitud e f or t h e f urt h erance of the undertaking, "'. yond that fl ow i ng f rom h i s own conscience and ire „, ; the appreciati on o f t h e more discerning mult itude, it would b e di scovera b le in the aspiratl°o so gracefully expresse d b y Sir Edwar d his simple but suggestive Dedication—" May ea ch loftier Cultivator of Art and Letters, whom the er r stitution establi s h e d un d er your auspices may s h e lte r from care and penury, see on its cornerstone princely name, and perpetuate to distant times t'e affectionate homage it commands from ourselfes' e With such emph a ti c ac k nowledgments of the sh!lird taken by ot h ers i n the organization of the GO.; does its auth or pre f ace the dramatic work whic h to destined to b e th e germ of i ts resources. Nothinio we are bold to say, could by possibility be more od a mirable than the conception of the eorneciL l and the manner i n which that conception bah been b o di e d f ort h i s in a very great mesa °e of co mmensurate excellence. Those who 0' erroneously imagine that the same masterly delirle, A ; tion of f ema l e character which has embellished t"' previous dramas of Sir Bulwer Lytton may be .11 ceived in th e compos i t i on now lying under review, vg" of course, as it were by necessity, meet only with distil ) " pointment. In extenuation of this should be remell 3 ; bered the circumstance that the play has been pence" for the es p ec i a l a d vantage of a body of amateur come . diens, and that consequently but little opportunity presented itself for the gratification of this skill la poetic portraiture. The various abilities of the play" wright have, neverth e l ess , i n no other particular f a lle' in their most complete and most satisfac' tory manifestation. Upon the principal personage,. among the very numerous and motley dramal perrono, an extraor di nary amount of energy, , e passion, and o f wor ld- knowledge has been expendscie The constructio n o f th e p l ot reveals an undiminisheo facility of invention, or rather, we might Bey, en in genuity of contrivance which practice has perfected to an adroitness absolutely incomparable. L on don has been wisely selected as the scene of the incidents , and those incidents are comprised within the narrol , but ample compass of little more than from afternoon to afterncon. By choosing the reign of King George I. as the date of his comedy, the dramatist has enabled himself to depict one of those literary unfortunates who were the objects alternately of Steele's pity and despair, or of Pope's contempt and indignation. David Fallen will rank henceforth among the most memorable creations of that Genius who has called into being, among a multitude of others, such ideal existen ces as Z anon i the Rosicrucian, as pith' bard the Schemer, as Brandon the Man of Ambi tion, and Pelham the Man of Fashion —minds like those of the eccentric Warner, the reckless Clifford, the vulgar Copperas, and the dreaming Maltravers. The lesson which Sir Bulwer Lytton has undertaken to teach in the five acts of this admirable comedy it/ of a nature as humanizing as the indirect pur pose of the comedy is benevolent. He endea vours—and his endeavour is charmingly successful throughout —to show that we, the people of society, the units in an artificial aggregate, the children of an elevating but often effeminating civili zation, are AO so Bad as.)Ve Seem, or, as the second title more directly and emphatically intimates, that there are Many Sides to a Character. Like this globe, of ours on w h ic h we li ve , rolling through space half in light and half in darkness, the circle of our own na tures is chequered by peculiarities as arresting in vi vidness, and the consideration of which is as inte resting to the humanitarian as that of the former iO to the student of ethics and astronomy. Inspired by this beneficent reflection, Sir Bulwer Lytton has contrived to reveal in the most despised and appa rently the most despicable those traits of goodness which are in each of us the rem nants of that divine talisman, blurred and broken it may be, our Similitude to the Divinity. Affording in this manner a new and exquisite illus tration of the power by which the true poet, like the bee, CORN AVERA GES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the Week ended May 15, 1851, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in Eagland and Walcs per Imperial Quarter. WHEAT. BARLEY.' OA TS. RTE. BEAN S. PEAS. PRICE .. 3BB 2d 124 s 2d I 18s 11 d 25s 9d `2Bs 104 1273 2d DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN". ',ls HEAT. I BARLEY. I OATS. I AYE. I BEANS. I PEAS. Od Is Od Is Od Is Od i s Od Is Oci QUANTITIES OF GRAIN SOLD IN THE PAST WEEK. Wheat, ;5,271 ; Barley, 13,319 ; Oats, 14,269 ; Rye, 112 ; Beans, 4,837 ; Peas, 341 quarters. SHERIFFS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Under• Sheriff BURCUELL V. LOFTUS. This was an action brought to recover of the defendant, Major Loftus, the sum of 5161. 18s. 3d., as premiums paid by the plaintiff on policies of insurance on the life of the defendant, which had been assigned to plaintiff, defendant consenting to pay the premiums as they be came due. Evidence was adduced to show that arrears were due to the amount claimed and bad been paid by the plaintiff. The jury gave a verdict for the amount claimed. FALSE IMPRIS ONMENT—GRAFTON P. WILTON. This was an action to recover damages for false im prisonment. Defendant having suffered judgment to go by default, the present was for inquiry to assess damages. It appeared by the evidence that plaintiff was a ser vant girl, in the service of a gentleman named Burgess, who was residing at plaintiff's house, at Kingsland, until a house which ho had purchased opposite was com pleted, arid during the time defendant, who was of eccen tric habits, frequently complained of being robbed, and had made allegations against many persons. Few per sons appeared to have given much credence to her state ments, or accounted for the loss by the defendant invit ing water-cress girls and others into the house. Mrs. Burgess, who was called, proved that defendant had given the girl in charge for stealing a shawl and some trinkets, but as she (Mrs. Burgess) did not doubt plain tiff's honesty, she retained her in her service notwith standing the charge; but on a previous occasion she (Mrs. Burgess) had discharged a charwoman, who de fendant alleged had robbed her. Plaintiff had said that defendant stole the witness's coals, and that appeared to rankle in defendant's mind. The plaintiff was taken before the magistrates, and discharged immediately after her father's house had been searched. The jury, after a short deliberation, gave a verdict for 101. damages. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY ) George Colli ns and William Collins, William Stapleton and William lioldsworth, Henry Fame, John Darke, and John Gore, who were severally convicted of common nuisance, by keeping wharfs in the parish of Padding ton, for the collection and accumulation of dust and manure, &e., were called on their bail to receive judg ment. But after a few remarks from the Learned Judge, sentence was deferred further to nest sessions. William Enser, a middle-aged man of respectable ap pearance, was convicted of corraptly taking a reward for the restoration of a stolen dog, and was sentenced to three months' imprisonment under the late Act. The other cases tried this morning were destitute of interest. " with sense so subtly true From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew." Thus in the Grub -street Author, laden down by calamities, steeped to the lip in squalor, grey in ignominy, spat upon in all men's estimation as the hireling traducer, the venal satirist, and the mer cenary pamphleteer, he has disclosed inexhaustible springs of virtues the most pure and elevated, of endurance, of forgiveness, of self-sacrifice, of amenity, of hope even in the jaws of despair, of courage is the agonies of destitution and abasement. David Fallen, as painted by the master-hand of Sir Bulwer Lytton, David Fallen, hitherto generically regarded as the outcast both of society and of litera ture, may henceforth, we believe, be in some measure loved if he be not actually respected, his conquest of temptation may secure sympathy if it do not abso lutely command reverence. Here is his own sorrow ful but bitter epitome of the miseries he bad endured while sinking from the heights of the sublimest aspira tions down to the depths of a penniless obscurity-- Hardnian.—You servo both Whig and Jacobite; do you care then for either ? "Fallen.—Sneering politician ! what has either cared for me ? I entered the world, devoted heart and Joni to two causes--the throne of the Stuart, the glory of letters. I saw th em b oth as a poet. My father left me no heritage but loyalty and learning. He sold all he had to levy troops for King Charles, and buried his gold in the red field of Marston Moor. Charles the cond pvsrayiiisiejadwriLyipproasses Second praised ray verse, and I starved; James the Se- King , ed an vi d at l in s p ta r r i v so ed n I ; the reign of " liardman.—But the ministers of Anne were gracious to writers. "Fa//en.—And offered rae a pension to belie my past life, and write Odes on the Queen who had dethroned her own father. I was not then disenchanted—l re fused. That's years ego. If I starved, I had fame. NOW came my worst foes, my own fellow-writers. What is fame but a fashion? A jest upon Grub-street, a rhyme from young Pope, could jeer a score of grey labourers like me out of their last consolation. Time and hunger tame all. I could still starve myself ; I have t o h b e e m rt . -- He six child ren at h ome — they must live. * 4 hal dman.—Thi s man h as gen i us —he mi g h t hAyo been, F ,aagllern._ace tpoiqhdisaiangseietlt'emrs_peripieexed ;renounced pays services like th ese . W e ll—l serve hi m . Leave me; go:" v Sir Robert— " Well may Hardman, the rising Member of Parlia ment, exclaim after these declarations of the —Not so bad a s he character:seeres—ano pamphleteer— this ,moves ma ; I've been a• Hardman t ( h r e isin y) veriPr myself. But the remedy A state s ee , h ot humble by alms; a rriuk;.rr corrupt by a bribe? what Patron than for LeAtrrel—The public?_.JPs, for the Author, wbPro talents the Public may chamcft to appre ciate. And tot those who, with toils. as severe, but win th wi genius ls shaped to the t as t e of the many, can not tbe ear of the day, why perhaps in some far distant age, when-h eaen enough of the strong have dropped to death brorted, and enough of the weak (bowed down by the tyrant Necessity,) have veiled in shame and despair the eyes that once looked to the stars; these rival children of light may learn at last, thnt the tie they now rend should be the bond to unite them, and help one another." In a subsequent scene, where Wilmott, disguised as Curl], the booleseller, endeavours to bribe David Fallen to part with a calumnious manuscript by pro mising to hand over to him three hundred guineas— one of the Most artistically conceived And exqui sitely written portions of the comedy—the unfortunate bookman vindicates the innate goodness ItRITZSR RAILWAYS. Aberdeen.. .. Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston, & E. Juncion Belfast and County Down Birming., %Voiverharap., and Stow . Valley .. Birkenh., Lan., & Chesh June., late 331. 68. 841_ Do. Chest. & Birkenhd., 501. & 251. Consolidated Do., do., 201. .. Bristol and Exeter.. Caledonian Chester and Holyhead Direct Lond. and Portsm. Dublin and Belfast Junct. Dublin and Kingstown.. Dundalk and Enniskillen Dundee, Perth, and Aber. deen Juucticn Do , New .• 6. .. East Anglian (251. L. & E. and L. & D.) Do. (181. E. & H.) Eastern Counties .. Eastern Union, class A, late E. U. shares .. Do. do. do. _ Do. do., B & C shares East Lancashire Do. New quarters .. Edinburgh and Glasgow Edin., Perth, and Dundee Exeter and Exmouth .. Glasgow and South. West, De. do. G. D. &C. stock Great Northern .. Do. halves, A, deferred! Do. halves, B; 6 per ct. Great Southern and Western, Ireland .. Great Western .. Do. New, 171. .. Lancaster and Carlisle .. Do. thirds .. „ Lancaster and Preston .. Lancashire and Yorkshire Do. quarter shares .. Do. fifths Do. West Riding Union Leeds and Thirsk Liverpool, Crosby, and, Southport .. London and Blackwall Do., Tilbury Ext. Scrip London, Brighton, and South Coast London and N.-Western Do. do. new quarters . Do. fifths .. Do. 101. sh., 31.& 1S (c) London and S.-11 eatern . Do. new 501. Do. new 40/. .. Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock • . • • Manchester, Sheffield, k; Lincolnshire • • .. Do. Manchester and: Lincoln Union Midland • • • • •; Do. 50/. shares De. Binning & Derby Midland Gt. West. (Ire.) Newcastle and Carlisle.. Do. quarter shares .. Newmarket .. Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford Newry and Enniskillen Newry, Warrenpoint, & Restrevor Norfolk .. Do. New 201. shares.. Northern Counties Union North British.. North Staffordshire • North-Western .• • • North & Sth.-West. June. Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton.. .. Scottish Central Scottish Midland Do. new .. Shrews. & Myra., Class A Do. Class 8.. .. Shrews. & Hereford., Old Do., do., New —1 Shrewsbury and Chesterj (Nor. W. Min.) Do. Halves Do. Oswestry Do. New.. .. Shropshire Union .. Do., A, B, C, & D, fully paid up at per cent .. South Devon South-Eastern .. • • South Wales., South Yerksh. and Biter Dun &theft., Both., and Goole, South Division Stockton and Hartlepool Swansea & Loeghor, &e. raw Yale Extension Thames Haven Dock app Railway Vale of Neath • • -• Waterford and Kil kenny Waterford and Limerick, Waterford, Wex., Wick, and Dublin .„ West Cornwall .. West London .. Wh itenaven and Fumes* York, Newcastle, & Ber. wick .. Ditto and Newt Extension .. Ditto G.N.E. pnrel York and North MINES LEAS: Paid. 17 100 39 SI la so 9 13 4 47% 100 14% $2 11 p. 45 1014 7% bit 14% Zallwayu. AT 40% 82)4 8. 65% 67 661( 7% dia. 4% 4 ±?4 d. 7% - 8 % --3iP 60 95 —96 95% 9, DO 121% —122% 122 123 17 3 —3% p. 20% % 12 3% 4 p. 1 2 — 9 % 1 1 . DO 32% $3% 12% 9 —3 411. 14 7% —6% dis. 6% 3% —3% 11. 3% at 113 21 2! Asturian .... • ..... • • • • Australian .... •• —•• .. Barossa Range .. •• .. • • Blaenarvon Iron and Coal Bolanos Scrip ........ British 1r0n.......... Brazilian Imp. (is. 51. p.) Do. Cocaes and Cniaba Do. St. John del Rey.. Cobre Copper ..... Coplapo ....• • • .... • General.. Mexican & American Real Del Monte, Unreg. 3% 4 Do. Black Debentures. 2 % Do. Red Debentures Santiago de Cuba ...... Tin Croft .......• • United Mexican-- JOINT Nominal Prices. 13i/sinew' done to-day. Australasia ............ British North America.. Colonial ..... ....... Commercial of London.. London Joint Stock .... London and Westminster National Provincial Eng. i 7 Do. New National of Ireland .... Provincial of Ireland.... rib '4 Union of Australia 4 Union of London tlulon of Madrid - IVIIE Canada .......- Gen. Steam Navigation . 18 Penin. & Oriental Steam. Ditto ditto Royal Mall Steam . ..... (We cannot be answer: will not be influenced by 63 83 able for t] interes Consols ••• „ Ditto,Accoun►, June 10 ... I+(- 2% 3 %- 3% 32% - 32 16% - 17% 39 31 - 39 32% 6%- 7% 13% - 14 3% -4% - 7% —6% 4% 8 4% ssi ItANKS 33 32% 42% 4334 Io —l2 25 25% 18% 17% 27% 2S 18% 20% 42 —43% 15% 15 35 33% a —3% 12% —13 Ni 13 .. CELLANEOITS. 32% 42% —4G 14 26% 28 all GS% 69 11 —ll% 60 75 —7B 27N 2' 68S to errors of the Oficial Lists, an 1 correspondents.] MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. seu The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were es ( 66% tirnated at 5,000 bales, of which 1,000 American were taken for exportation. The sales comprised 4,000 American, 300 Banana and Maranham, at 64d. to 200 Egyptian at 7d. to *lid., and 600 Surat at 31d. to 4id. per lb. The mar k e t was h eavy at previous rates. X —ln the Railway Share Market there was an alarming panic, and prices of all the leading stocks fell 4 to S 95S per cent., but i mprove d towards the close at better prices. 1v22% The quantity o f h ome - grown Wheat sold in the D English markets last week was 74,271 quarters. Private advices from Rio Janeiro say —" The Go vernment is perilling its very existence in its efforts to suppress the slave trade. The once notorious slave steamer the Serpente (now the Golfinho of the Brazilian navy) has made several captures. Last week she car- IS ried of 200 newly-import e d negroes o f Marawbaia. They are supposed to have belonged to Joaqmin Breves, the well known and opulent slave-dealer. This man is ; If the owner of ten l argo f aren d as, and the master of some is% 2,400 slaves. His large possessions give him great po litical influence, and the seifure of his slaves shows plainly the energy and determination of the Govern ment." Accounts from the Sandwich islands state that the volcano Kilanea, the great crater of Mauna Kea, has recently had a strong eruption, and is still unusually active. The Oregon accounts announce the discovery of a vein of' coal on the Cowlitz river, eighteen miles from , x 8% its junction with the Columbia, and about one mile from the main Cowlitz. The vein is two feet thick and about half a mile in width, fifteen feet above high water mark. and about forty feet below the surface of the bluff 'X mountain. Governor Ogden, of the Hudso n B ay Com pany, at Van couver , sent a boat and crew to bring a quantity away, that it may be fairly tested. d i s. Many of the citizens of Oregon had gone to the dia. Klamath and other mines in that vicinity. We see from the Oregonian that gold mines have been discovered north of the Columbia river, near the coast. The editor had seen a letter from a respectable source, stating that the Indiana had brought in a considerable quantity of gold dust, and represented that there was much more left. But this wants confirmation, as the Oregonians have discovered gold before in this way. Indian gold stories are not the most reliable. The market for Public Securities has been very % buoyant, and, contrary to the rumours circulated yester day, the Directors of the Bank of England have made no advance in the rate of discount. Consols have advanced about per cent., and parties are buying for the divi dends payable in July. The quotations for Transfer have been 974 to 97i, and for Account, 97} to 974. The news from France is again of rather a satiatactory cha racter. Bank Stock has been firm at 210 to 2104. Ex chequer-bills have been quoted 41s. to 455.; and India Bonds 535. premium. Consols now are 974 for Money, and 97i 4 for Account. Scarcely any business has been done in Foreign Se curities. Peruvian have been heavy, at 804 to 814. Spanish Five per Cents, are also fiat at 194 to 20, and the Passive at 54 to 4. Parties are realising profits, 9% 906 26 and the possibility of a change in the Ministry is an 05% 4 inducement to mak e sure i n t hi s respect, although there % is 14% 634 may subsequently be a stronger Cabinet formed. Dutch isk%.3 ' Four per Cents. have been marked 891 to 4. Railway Shares are looking better, but the aggregate transactions are not large. Lancashire and Yorkshire - have rallied about 21., Great Western 21. to 21. 10s., North-Western 14 to 21., South-Eastern 11. to 1/. 10s., and others in proportion. Foreign Shares are com paratively quiet. A severe gale was also experienced on the 26th January on the leeward side of Hawaii. Tho last week's Railway Receipts, ascertained up to this day are in round figures as under:- 1851. 1850 Great Western.... £19,037 £17,618 North-Western .... 48,041 ... 46,992 South-Western Brighten ... 9,273 M idland South-Eastern North Stafford 4,708 .. 4,746 Caledonian QUARTER TO THREE. ... 974 ... 974 ONE PRICES OF BRITIsfI FUNDS O'CLOCK. CLOSINGPRICES. Bank stock 3 per Cent. Reduced A nus . 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 97', %% 97 !i i Kew VA per Cent. Anna. 97% 98 Long Anna. to expire Jan.lB6o 7% 7 5-16 7 5-16 Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 7 %8 India Stock 259 India Bonds, Consols for Account p 97A% 97% Exchequer Bills. 1,000/. 500/. ••. ONE PRICES OF FOREIGN FUND S. O ' CLOCK. PRICING Buenos Ayres Bond s , 6 per Cent....... 57 Equador Bonds Grenada Bonds, 1% per Cent....... Ditto Deferred Mexican, 5 per Cent.lB46, with Coupons--; Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons Ditto, Account Peruvian Bonds, 5 per Cent......, — Ditto, Account Portuguese 5 per Cents. Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840 ......... Ditto Acc0unt.......... ..... ..... 20 19 3 / 4 Ditto. Passive 5% Ditto. 3 per Cent. Ditto. Account Venezuela Bonds, 2', 4 [ per Cent Ditto, Deferred Dividends on the above payable in Loudon. Dutch 2% per Cent. 12 Guild — Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates 3476 35 81 1 ,4 --- LLOYD'S SHIPPING( THIS DAY.) LONDON, MAY 22.—Wind at noon W.N.W., light airs. QUEENSTOWN, MAY 20.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. Mary Harrington, Moulmein, and sld. for Ardrossan; Reli ance, Mauritius, and old. for the Clyde; Lady of the Isles, Pernurnbuco; Industrious, Barbadoes. BRISTOL, MAY 21.—The Greek brig Falcon, and the Russian barque Vesta, have come up here from Penarth Roads to repair, both vessels having been on shore there. DEAL, MAT 20.—Wind N.W. to N.N.W.—Arrd. Henry Pratt, Calcutta ; Alvarado, Mauritius; Ranger, Bahia; Adelaide, Havannah; Delphy, ditto; American Eagle, Now York. Arrived from the River, Emma, Colvin, Hong-Kong ; Thomas Snook, Fernando Po ; Index, St. Kitts ; Blanche, Jamaica ; Grecian, ditto. Arrived from the River and sailed, Thetis, Adelaide, South Australia; Argo, St. Croix ; Ayo, West Indies; Helen, Quebec. Ora COWES, MAT 20.—Stephane, New York, for Bremen. LIVERPOOL, MAT 21.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. Christians, Singapore; Queen, Corisco ; Margaret, Callao; Savage, Porto Rico; William Sprague, New Orleans; Castilian, New York; De Witt, Clinton, ditto; Elisabeth, Calcutta Helen, Savannah ; President, New York. Sid. John Bull, Bombay ; Zillah, Valparaiso ; Princess Victoria, Para ; Alice Jane, Jamaica ; Robert Kelly, New York. Off port, Renown, Maranbam ; Warbler, Irene, May, and Belvoir Castle. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) NIMGATII AND IMADZNMALL. The supplies of each kind of meat on sale today were small. Generally speaking, the demand ruled steady at our quotations. Beef, from 2s 4d to 3s 6d; Mutton, Is 8d to 3s 10d Lamb, 4s 8d to 5a 10d; Veal, 3a to 3a 10d ; Pork, 21 6d to 3s 8d per Sibs. by the carcase. ZIAY INLAMICZTIS. BMITIIIIELD.—Meadow Hay, 31 Os to 4161; Clover, 3/ as to 41 10s; and Straw, 11 Is to 1/ 101 per load Supply moderate, an d trade dull. C d7...,571142LAND. Meadow Hay, 31 Os to 4l 8s; Clover, 3/ Os to 41 88; and Straw,l/ 35 to 1/ 111 per load. I full average supp l y, and a eluggish demand. WmaTEcir=l.Prz. Meadow Hay, 31 05 to 41 it..J; Clover, 3100 to 418 s; and Straw, 1/ Is to 11 103 per load., Trado rather dull. MEAT MARKETS. SOUTHALL, MAY 21.—Our tuarkvt to-day has been but moderately supplied with each kind of stock, in which a steady business has been doing at very full prices. Beef; from 2s 6d to 38 8d; Mutton, 3s to 4s; Lamb, 48 10d to Ss 8d; Veal, 3s 2d to 3s 8d; and Pork, 3s to 3s 6d per Blbs. to sink the offal. ROMFORD, MAY 21.—Prime Beasts and Sheep sold freely at an advance of 2d per 81bs. In other kinds of stock only a moderate business was transacted.—Beef, from 2s 10d to 3s 8d; Mutton, 3s to 4s; Lamb, 4s 10d to 3s 10d; Veal, 3s to 3s 8n1; Pork, 3s to 3a 6d per Blbs . Milch Cows with their small Calf, 14/. to 18/. each, Han.sffAu, MAY 21.—.0ur market has ruled tolerably firm, as follows :—Beef, from 3s to 48; Mutton, 3s 2d to 4s 2d; Lamb, 08 to 5s 8d; Veal, 3s 3d 10 as 6d per albs. Nossiial Prices. I 131 11 to 11}4 1 iui 3% - 4 IN - 10% 77 -79 4 3% 20 1N 2013 - 21 Nt 21 —l9 dla. -- .43 2% 1 6% 6% 4% IS IS •• •. 31 -a s 112 u- % 17% - li 1 18 % I 2 - 1234 112% 15 4 1 13 0 13 5 24 • . -*Or 26 - 27% 4 2 0 •• •• 63 dL. du. [5; z4g - 4 564 U 17 - 16% dr. 18% 30 -32 Ki - - - •• !I 6% 18% 3 3 , i 3 dir. 6 —4% &Li 22 24 11 % 12% db. 3 — 2 % db. 7% 11 % 7 1i 7%db. 10 9% 11 % die. %-1 p 14 - - 15 14% 15% 153 dig.• 4 54 Ms. .11( —4% Sic 4 2% 2 dls. 1% 17 —lB 1% 9 12% 13% % 4 1 , - 334 3 d. 16 -18 [24 28% - 244 24% 273 -28 27% 16 2-3 2 1 dia. 17% 111 •11 4U -4% 10% - 10 7 - 6X W. 9 160 16 —l5 dia. 6 -- 5 d. •• ...... •• 5% 434 dis, •• .... •• • • ••••• .. 1934 - 634 - 2 5i - SI% - FXZZD MINTAX.S. Leath --- 7 -- ', • ----- ------- 7 ...._ 1 after, 1 . Hallways. Paid. Nominal Prices,Companies. done to-day, 1.. ~.---____ e BerkOand Ha n t s —. „,. )f ---......-_____..... .___ Ex. 5 per Cent. Gt. Western 6 34 - 1 p . Bir. and Oxford o Junc.,callsduly ~. paid, or with a . ' guarantee •. Do •• •• all 28 % •••• 29 % Do., withou a guarantee .. Do .. .• all 27 —23 liirm., WoL, & L Ditd.,calls duly ' paid, or with a guarantee .. Do .. .• l5 834 934 p Do., without a guarantee •• Do • • • . 15 7 —8 p Buckinghamsh. Lon. &N.I.P a ll 17 3 ( 17% 1734 Clydesdale Jun Caledonian , all 41 —43 E. Lin., Guar. 6 per Cent. •• G. Northern all 3234 31% 33 Gloucester and Dean Forest /Gt. Weste rn 20 ii 1 % Hull and Selby Yk. &N. 2/, all 101% 102% P Do. 34 Shares, Do .. .. au 5034 513( Do. % Shares 'Do .. „ all 213 i 2334 Leeds and Brad. Midland .• ' all 9834 99 % Lon. and Green. S. Eastern .. all 11 ii I Do., Pref. .. Do .• .• . all 2334 —34 Lowestoft, Gd. 4 per Cent. •• Norfolk .. a/1 15 —l6 De., 6 per cent Do .. .. .all •• —' • Middles bro' and ltedcar, 6p. ct Stoat& Dar all N. & East, 5 • • —• • per Cent. • • I E. Counties . all 54 — 5 4 Do. New .. IDo .. 43 4 6 p Preston and - 1 L. &N.W. ' Wyre •• •• i &La.& T.} a—n 42 —44 ~ Do. 34 Shares ADo .. 10% $ 9 $• Read., Guild., .. and Reigate .. S. Eastern ~ all 21 2134 21% Roy. & Ilitchin G. Northern , s,li 7% $ o. Shep. Ex.. D o .. •• 4z 1% I%P. Sher., Roth. a n d i se '..t , Goole, 5 per ct.; Lanc. & York 111114 •.. • South staffords.Mr. Al'Clean , 9% • . 3 34 3 ill ' Wear Val. 6 per Cent. gua. .. Stoek.& Dar. all' ''24 2434 Do. do. .. Do .• •• all ' '`,.• Wil— •• Do. Sodo. & .. Do .. .• au ••• —•• ts, m. Weymouth .. Gt. Western all 45 4934 SZCAMMX. Railways. Aberdeen • • .. Caledonian 181. •• Chester and Holyhead .. Dund. Per. & Aber. June, East Anglian (31. 10301 6 per cent. .. Eastern Counties Eaten., 5 per cent. Ne. 1 Do. No. 2 .. • • •• Do. New 6 p. cent. Stock Eastern Union, Scrip guaran. 6 per cent. Do. 10/. Deben. Shares . East Lancashire, 6 per cent. quarter shares .. E. & W. York. Junc. stha Edin. Per. & Dun. 51 p. ct. Glasgow & 5.-W. Conaol Gt. Northern, 5 per cent. Great South. &• Western (Ireland) eighths .. • • Lancashire and York shire, F. 20/. Do. 6 per ct. Stock .. Leeds and Thirsk, 6 per cent., No. 1 .• Do. quarters, 1848 London, Brighton, and South Coast guar. 5 per et., late Croydon thirds De. pref., b p ct. Stock, 1851, from 501. share. E Do. new guar., 6 per et. London &S.-W., new Londonderry and Ennis killen, half shares .. Manch., Sheffield, and Line., guar. ohrs., No. I Do. new, 101. .• ••1 Do., 61. ~. Midland Con. 6 p. c. stock Do. Como'. Bristol & Binning., 6 per cent... Do. Bristol & Gime& Norfolk Extension .. Do. guar. 5% per cent. Do. Wavoncy Valley .. North British .. .. Oaf. Wor. &W 01.157.6 p.c . Shrewsbury and Blrm. New Guaranteed .. Shrews. and Ches. (Nor. W. Min.) 8 per cent. South Devon .. South-Eastern, 454 p. ct. Water 4 ord&Kilkenny,Bl. West London, st Cl. (101.) Do. 2d Class de. (par) York, Newc., and Berw., Gt. N . of E. Pur. York and North Midland sad S. Porch. Bonlo c zne and Amiens •• Central of Franco (Or. leans and Vierzcn) • Demtrara Dutch Rhcnich • • • East Indian Do. do. do. Great Indian Peninsula. Ditto ditto .. Louvain a la Sambre Luxembourg .. Ditto .. Madrid and Valentia Maria Antonia Ditto, New .. Namur and Liege .. Northern of Franco .. Orleans and Bordeaux .. Paris and Orleans .. Paris and Rouen .. Paris and Strasbourg .. Rouen and Havre Sambre and Meuse .. Tours and Nantes •• Tournay, Ju rbise, Lan_ den, and }7 and West Flaadora , •• P 115( ...- 11; 16 - 16}i •• .• .. • • •••• • • .• .• %dia. par 13% la% —X P• .. p k• p •• - •• 134 -137 2 % - D• 1 -12 15i - 12 %- ii p .." • • LIN -13334 •• -- •• I6M - 1714 4M -4% 5 -5% !i - %P 10%-11}( 14 - 115% I -14 •••• •• 16%-16% 4% —4% tk —l% ca. 70111tEtEntr. all - 17% - 17% 511 = 4 dl s. 2 ••••• p. % - %P• • - if- ix 2%-3 7 8 2 3 14% 14% 4% 4 36 db. 31 33 24 204 b% a db. 9X 3%. 3% 94-9!4dis. ;.;3 %—.Mdlaz,d 16 164 di , . 234 • • —• • dia. 100 11 6 8 Paid. Mg. IS % all all all 100 all 12 LE% 4% 5 4% X ST` 1; 2% % t 2% % 4)Pi '% 24% 10% 3s; a% % .28 2 11% ' STO4 ~ :ii.titri3 Vattton EPSOM RACES. (THIS DAY. -BY EXPRESS). The Durdans Stake,. Theorem Joe o' Sot Flare-up Estafette •• • ••• ••• The Two Years old Stakes. Adino ... .. Lady in Waiting Galipoli filly .. Dorothea ... Won by a length. OAKS BETTING. 5 to 1 agst Payment 6 to 1 agst Ilesse•Homburg 7 to 1 agst Iris 10 to 1 agst Breba—takQn 10 to 1 apt Apbrodit6 II to 1 agst lanthe 12 to 1 agst Merry Peal frourtliXbition The Grand Stand Plate. Ballet Girl Narcissus Clothworker Won by a head. The Cobham Plate. Dulcet ... Tees water Coola ... -- - Won by a head. LATEST OAKS BETTING. 7 to 2 agst Breba 5 to 1 agst Hesse Homburg 6 to 1 agst Iris 6 to 1 agst Payment 10 to 1 apt lanthe WOOLWICH, MAT 21. The Master-General and Board of Ordnance have approved the erection of new schools to be constructed two stories in height in front of the Royal Artillery Arms Tavern, at the north-west gate of the bar racks, for the instruction of EOO boys and 250 girls, sons and daughters of the non - commissioned officers and men of the Royal Artillery and Royal Sappers and Miners. The quar ters of the schoolmasters will be on the right, and of the schoolmistresses on the left, and on an elevation in the centre will be placed a clock. The officers of the Royal Artillery intend giving a grand ball on Wednesday, June 11; and the officers of the Royal Marines intend giving their third soirée this season on Wednesday, June 18, in the mess-room of their spacious barracks. SEIZURE OF AN ILLICIT DisriLLEßT.—Yesterday morninz the detective officers of Inland Revenue, Messrs. Scott, Elmy, and Pargeter, proceeded to a house, No. 7, St. James's-place, Chapel-street, Shoreditch. They found ' , the front door open, a female being engaged cleaning the steps leading thereto. Having entered the house, they soon discovered that they were on the right scent, and in a back room they discovered a copper still erected, and charged ready for commencing the process of distillation. Another copper still was in the room, but this was unset, and was evidently intended for the purpose of rectification of the spirits produced from the other still. Upon going into the place they discovered a man engaged in setting molasses wash for working, who was immediately taken into custody, and who gave the name of Henry Montague. The officers found a small quantity of spirits forty per cent. over proof, about a hundred gallons of molasses wash, that was destroyed, and the usual description of utensils. A communication for the discharge of the waste wash had been made from the cellar to the common sewer, in a very ingenious manner, by means of a surreptitious pipe, and the whole place was ad mirably adapted for carrying on the trade. The whole was conveyed to Broad -street warehouses. The following paragraph, from the Southern Cross (published at Auckland, New Zealand) of the 31st of De cember, illustrates the effect of the Californian traffic in altering the route of communication with the Austrian colonies. The vessel alluded to is owned by a Liverpool house, and had previously performed some remarkable voyages. In the present instance, as the sailing distance between San krancisco and Auckland is estimated at not less than 6,000 miles, she must have kept up a speed of 207 miles a day throughout that passage :—" On Saturday last our citizens were startled by an extraordinary 'Novelty,' the barque of that n a m e h av i ng arr i ve d in port from San Francisco in the short apace of twenty-nine days, and bring ing London news of the 2d and New York news to the lath of October. Here i s ano th er an d a remar k a ble testimony to the change in our geographical position which the Panama route is certain eventually t o effect, since with all the circuits and delays of American and Californian transmissions, we have been put in pos sess io n o f European intelligence inthe hitherto unprecedented space of eighty-seven days." The Lord Mayor wee, on Wednesday, elected a Director of the Union Bank of London— the bankers of the Corporation. A FAT •FRENCHWOMAN.—A few days since a .ob in e . s h lt e. Y:. female, only 25 years of age, died at the Hotel Dieu, Anna rently from no other complaint than her extrem e Without any known cause, and without t any change usual regimen, which, moreover, be very nourishing she became so fat in four years as to be incapable of moving' about. She weighed nearly 4501bs.—Galignaxes Zessever. GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY. with Gr rim the s3,, a a n r committee on this company's Bill for communicationnan chester, Sheffield, anc . l Lincolnshire. bour branch and station at Sheffield, have declared the pre amble proved. WATERFORD AND KILI "Nzir RAILWAY.—The p p ow ersreambisle p ro of ved this Bill for ale or 4 msTgamation and °that. CORI AND WATENPORD AND KILLARNEY JUN C crON RAILWAY.S.—The preambles of the:* Bills are declared proved. TUB LATB RIOT AT BIREEMIEAD.—Peter Fitz - simons, one of the prisoners tried and convicted at the Chester assizes of taking part in the riot at Birkenhead, was discharged from custody last week, Mr. Justice Williams, who tried the prisoner, having certified to Sir George Grey that the conviction was against evidence.— Chester Courant. INCENDIARIsx—The Dowdstown National School (county of Louth), of which Mr. N. Callan is the patron, was burnt maliciously on Sunday night, between the hours of twelve and one. The house and every article it contained, including books, maps, desks, and forms, were totally con sumed. No reason can be assigned for the disgraceful act. Mr. Callan is a gentleman of kindly disposition, and gives a great deal of empl o y men t t o th e rura l population of h is neighbourhood, and for many years has expended a good deal of money to provide the children iu education, and Con- which the regent act i 3 A poor return.—Drogheda Conl acrvative. 0, t