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I A AOV . fe' 1 - r •.A r, _.-c ~.,. : ---_-__,L.a,.... , s. , v . ; , ..,,,,,,,--,...,__ -- , letter from Vienna of the 18th, addressed to the 1 Independance of Brussels, says that the rumours that have been current of the intention of the Government to place a forced loan of 120,000,000 flerins on the 4fiere2nt provinces is not uufuunded, it being con sidered impossible to obtain a loan abroad, except on most unfavourable conditions. The 120,000,000 florins are destined, in addition to what may be realised by the issue of the reserved shares of the Bank, to enable the Bank to resume payment in specie. The letter adds, that the amount of paper money_ at present in circulation in Austria is , about 350,000,000 florins, cf which 244,000,000 florins have been issued by the Bank. All this paper has a forced circula tion, but is below par. The Government, after de ducting the payments recently made by means of the new loan and the Sardinian contribution, owes 170,000,000 florins to the Bank . According to the Swabian Mercury, negotiations have lately heen entered into begs een Austria and Electeral Hesse, for the accession of the hitter' to a federal state, on the basis of the treaties of 1815. At Vienna cn the 16th some disturbances took place in one of the fnubourgs, but they mere promptly quelled by the armed force. They _arose in consequence of the people having attempted to introduce provisions into the barracks of a detach ment of Hungarian honveda and their fs milies on passage through the city, • w h o h a d cried out, on being lodged in the courtyard of the barracks of the faubourg, that they were in want of fUod. At one time large crowds of the wee Iting po pulation had assembled, and their attitude was rather giit-t--4.,-* 1 , ~ .--z i p J -rAi t i 4. ---t_,` - - A 1 1 11 21 ) 1850, pr;\b,ol v ric. ET- 3 E r% j r " N°. 1,966.] LOND, WEDNESDAY , ii l / 4 ,z '7 ON Ea id [PIIICE SD. LAND DEBENTURES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Haring just • reeeived from my friend Mr. Bowen The Sun of the 17th inst., and having therein perused with much Batista:jun your leader on the Prussian landshaft scheme, as applicable to this .unfor tunate country, I feel tempted to send to you the en closed, which a few days previously I had written to the editor of the Dublin Evening Mail, vlatise to tl:e Solici.or-General's Bill f,r repayment of advancer, &c., .struck as lam 'with the extraordinary coincidence of opinion pat forward in your leader and of the suggestion con:a:lied in my letter. I am happy to be Ale to add, that at lart this subject seems to be gaining that amution which its importance deserves in this country, and which the advocacy of some of the English pfcss vv , 1114 ensure f.ir it on your lido of the . Chatitiel; and as The Sun has taken the lead, perhaps you will not consider the enclosed accidental trstimopy in favour of your s:l:laments as altogether anceptable. • I am, Sir, your obedkut strennt, EDWARD WHAOT CIIETWODE, Woodbrocle, Per' wlington, Ireland, April 20, 1850. P.S.—I ne«l not add that the suggested clause con tains the spirit, not the words, requisite to ingraft it into the Bill of tle Solicitor-General.' THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. ‘gOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WATER COLOURS. The FORTY-SIX TH ANNUAL EXHIBITION WILL OPEN, at their Gallery, 5, TALL-MALL EAST, on MONDAY, April 29. Admittance, One Shilling. Catalogue, Sixpence. GEORGE FIIIPP, See. GREAT CENTRAL GAS CON- '3 I HE ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. LECTURES on 31751 C by Sir HENItY It. 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Sir,—As you hive rtir, ady commented so iibly on the B:II pro , oSed by the English Solieitof-GLnerel fur ficili ta irsh the working, of the clogge (1 wheels of the Irish en , :umberz. , (l estates machinery, may I be reimittid , through you columns, to a,k whetbOr the introduction of a el luse to the following eff,(l could injure tie inOrcsts of any . of her Majesty's subjects, whist it would some wha,tt iintrove the proposi(kn of the Solic;tor-General by rendering it wore like its Prusiian ", laudshaft watt- • , _____.- dt Ne g. . furth er e d tb 34 C A - N T:Ert IMPLY SETTLEMENT. La D Ot 0, , A CoMmittee cf the Canterbury Association sits daily at '' ° " l eek all mr , b; ttivg 11 be happy to communicate personally . with . 9)- r r e it .T. l . t4 , t;.,); infOrtnation, who may prefer this mede of in e ,ary 10 I w • : ‘ ,';',e Le Canterbury Papers, Nos. 1 and 2, published by I'ark& r, [ S i f ig [ a A '' , i• Mrand, price Gd. each. sho p. BY order of the Committee of Management, nt 11. F. ALSTON. [ eerer "lee of the Canterbury Association, 41, Charing-cross, ; :e. .-------_ April 20. 1850. ON GLASS DAMAGE BY HAlL.—Glens Insured 1" ...1,4 „. !I”inst Danyige by Hail at 20.5. per Cent.. in the ROYAL sue7„ L IW AND GENERAL FIRE, LIFE, AND lIAIL IN ] at the 0,-,C,;•.'eld IN STITUTION. Established 1840. Capital, 500,00 C/. --ices, Straed, London. air. on b ' WM. SHAW, Managing Director. r r , torrae 080 : .:n (hies one ~ 0 , ,ikfrani e r ic. a a,i ,k , ,ti,p/T ALT sTs...._,A first-rate opportunity ~ 11,34 0 3 elf to any Gentleman of standing and business habits rive old established concern, by which a position bray at )35 4°. and a certainty of large return on capital realised. ~ sititg required 'would be 10,000?. to 12,0001., and might be con in vill l s ne rther as an investment than as embarked in trade. • kqL - on P4is In aeY apply to Messrs. Jenkinson, Sweeting, and Jen , . geau* w 29, Lonabard-street. b a .......___ sis te , r , lor e '., SANITARY REFORM.-CEMETERY. holt' weni.,.. u . heawiful FREEHOLD SITE, Twenty Acres in extznt, we beer ric , ?; t Pa rliamentary obetacle, with gravelly soil, perfect drainage, be he eiu u e l [[ Jitadded with evergreens, shrubs,' and timber, within four Y , he isl i :....° L ...London-bridge, three of Westminster, and two of Battersea, OCM , Cl, ' a uF F OFFERED for SALE. The locality is off the west side of 0 9 boo PrieS te in e ''' olll Mon, and there are two approaches by pictualsque and „itr,„_oads to It. A more central situation relatively to the mO -- , i 13 0 t., , th r s n3, or one equally adapted to the purposes of interment, within distance does not exist. le °'. I.ol2.°raertieulars of sale apply to Messrs. Winstanley, Paternoster ,ed t ' ~ London. . o f :-- r - - )g. t T, V a • 1. 41 °,x,G JOHN'S BEN-NEVIS WHISKY. refe rl' o fatly I , -. r. JOAN ItPDONALD, of Ben-Nevis Distillery, respect- Ile hasif°rßis the Spirit Trade of England, Wales, and Ireland, that e 1 • ) ° L , tries i _ x c onfldecl the s wle of his celebrated Whisky over these cram ikb., 4,,,,,, e _ clolyely duty-free BETTS and Co., may, ,t 3 bw.- . "u. in whose warehouse the same be inspected. s itting —...--.. 0 8 T ,tee R E GENERAL LIFE AND PIER ASSURANCE COMPANY, Established 1837. Empowered by Special Lets of Parliament. fc , . 62, Ring Willi am - s t re et, L ndon-bridge:London. Wlli ' And 21, St. David-street, Edinburgh. . Th TI Capital, One Million. . "ly Pre ~ , e . ..re etors. give notice— ' IV piiipat the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the PRO. • ..-• tits , l ° lts will beat Twelve o'clock precisely, on SATURDIY, Stet' th day of May next, iit the Office of the Company, 62, King 't • b e aring villia ni .„_, 2. T, '` , -et, In the eitref London. 0 ° sh we tat at such Meeting the Prdpeetcrs who then hold ten or more w w s ww., iota ' hick they have possessed six calendar months, may attend sOl 4 . f ' 3. '' o 4e. edY l a f ° 4., That three Directors, Jacob George Cope, Esq., Thomas Viper, 11 , ' ' Es q ' e a Tt Edward Wilson, Esq., and one Auditor, George Meek, IC C" 5111. ~ ili.,ftire, all of whom are re-eligible to their respective appoint 4t.'t•H or which they will be accordingly proposed. . le °3 ; That any Proprietors duly qualified, who shell be desirous of aOO e o n , Canddates]tor any of these situations, must give written n a 0 w e a ,- eatheir intention, at the Office, to the Secretary, at least t e n J. Previous to the time of such meeting, is d e' , April 23, 1850. By order of the Directors, 0 o p TUOMAS PRICE, Secretary. itl l - 0 of IltiP C a th ° in R AT IONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSU by di RANCE SOCIETY. ;eatTi CB' ' 26, ,Coruhill, London. sill • Capital £500,000. ail . , This T . Empowered by Act of Parliament. o' aide Pi w ith , nstitution embraces important and substantial advantages the is,,,CPeet to Life Assurances and Deferred lunatic's. Oa ° tte,, ~['.." lasued by this Society have a twofold advantage t—provi :o -it • se., ' the family of the Assured, and an augmenting pecuniary s r the I,ase.ahle resource to himself, if neadfal, whilel lying. The Assured ' fdt,,," 1 1 l essions, the third to borrow, without expense, or for fiee aufl, •,. gr A ' ..—. I ()Hey, twos of the Premiums paid. Thee , DIVISION OF PROFITS. lei a l l co.- tt o,„' Aitinned prosperity of the Society has enabled the Directors idl 11;; ; ;:; A rinutri Meeting, held on the 10th of May, 1848 , to declare a , Ctil le ea ~,,ch ""''ttlw r.arylg from 27 to G 5 per cent. on the Premiums pail •, ' r °lie)" effected on the profit scabs. V ; i e--- e __ EXAMPLES. Forma- mum the er a ,, 1- z 3 Animal Policy Bonne in vent Re- A'•, it -I NP' ‘;i :-• Pre- taken addition Bonus in Auction o may bor iis r alixt• out la to Sum Cash. Annual row on en ter' ........„....-- ....., fissured. Premium . Polic y . ed 114 --- -- -- n s. A. £ s d. £ s. d. £ s. d. a r.,ee 1817 276 14 3,128 14 8 21 7 2 593 6 8 eY IP o f IEiIS 251 18 10,115 1 i 0 18 12 8 543 17 8 g r 0 t .c 143'4 220 6 0 102 15 1 16 2 f 194 8 10 ri l- t e dili c t i • 6 - 1000 •i 4 s i d i, 1810 178 00'8214212 14 11 145 0 0 Y , 82 : 1 , tbe I) *----, . ' 1 15 8 4 12 1 1 1 7 47 4 4 0 0 2 ' 1 7 65 8 15 3 10 4 12 10 3 2 4 0 1 19 46 5 1 2 1 3 1 1843 90 15 4, 44 8 4 G 15 1 • 196 13 4 •_,-, er • 1844 62 6 ill 27 13 4 4 4 a 147 4 5 zum the A :ay bor row OTI Policy. UY the DEFERRED ANNUITIES. itr era to oPeration of the sams principles, tile Society is enabled to t , t he Public a plan of Deferred Annuities nu• more advanta trih,„,o"an any hitherto offered, whereby an individual, by the con ", eitll Of very small annual, monthly, or weekly saving , m a y se- St hi, ey it comfortable provision or himself in advanced age, or, 4, 4 ;7 o Ption, a large sum oi money, f or a policy to his family at his I krt ` o 2while by giving to the purchaser, at any time, the power. of Of fi,27. 1. Fq. two-thirds of all previous paynie,nts, it removes all risk " 4.7,iture from inability to continue premiums, besides affording it tett ' i l ,p resource during sickness and want of employment ; and Te Purchaser swill before arriving at the stipulated period, two.- , 7 k e 7,;, 111, Payments be returned to his representatives. qtqes Table is a specimen of the great and varied adv:oa ts...._____2h,o.4ihotlie! the judicious application of a small saving caa secure 11. PREMIUMS To securei I 'tattling the age of on attain- AnnnityX lo 10 0 tual Premium of ingtheage Cash •• 82 10 0 of 65, the Policy .. 97 8 6 option of F te 1" 4 on -1 by . 21 . , 128 44 . 4' , ENEFITS V VII V/ -. . a Payable Payable I Payable '-untll43? Cash. Policy. 9 c Anna- is one for Dis 't ally. sum. Ipariiy. aa 20 ty d. £B. d I.£ a. d. £s. d.'£ d. Xs. d. 20 f 194 n 0,466 0 0 29 010 11 10, 010 0 0 0 • 40 1( 201 0 0'261 0 0 30 019 616 7 1' 7 311 S 115 8 0:136 6 0 40 117 327 311 19 410 Itn te r s, kis edtate Annuities are also granted by the Society on liberal 15he, ; . 43 will be seen by the following extracts from t he T ables, Ag e 4 " o tg the annual amount of annuity upon every 1001. deposited : ', 47 8 3. I Age 60, £9 14s. 3d. I Age 70, Ogl e ; , •sinual Report, with Tables of Rates, &c.. may be had at the f o ,Lor allY Of its BrancheS In the Country; ' or, on application, will 'warded post free. W. S. B. WOOLIIOUSE, Actuary. 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T . a y e , the 0 1 1 3 :_,accluired at an early period of life ' J and mental powers, diminish and enfeeblo . th natural a which tnert 0 144._ 8 .134 exhaust the vital energies of Manhood Practical Ith t t h _ancns on the Treatment of Nervous Debility and Ind , es u ti e tra rite .! arising from these causes, close study, or the infiaen of fltri eb .„' m climates: Local and Constitutional Weakness, Syphilis, ezeti o - ‘ e, and all Diseses and Derangements resulting from Imu 11 . 1 - Ista;.,;., With Forty coloured Engravings, illustrating the 4 DlBl7,,__J' Physiology, and Diseases of the Reproductive Organs , tilinri:-Lug their strac'' nits uses, and functions, and the various tafk t i: that are produced in ' theniby solitary habits, excesses, and BY SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D.. 2., bo etoroZ . ,,IIEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON. hurgh e woine. Matriculated Member of the University of Bdin- Of h e t . oentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Honorary Member tits ondon Hospital Medical Society, &c. . 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Each pamphlet has the signature of William Gemstone, Merchant, flcrbary, 111;11c - etc, and wi:l he found at page 11, un er the copy of Mrs. Weekly's Letter to the Editor of the " Times" newspaper, 7th of August, 1846. This pamphlet IS forwarded through the post, on receiving two postage stamps. The Aromatic Regenerator can be forwarded through the pot on receiving a post-office order for 4s. Gd., 7s. Bd., or les., which in cludes the postaga with the case. The Ils. sire contains four of the 4s. A few cf its many vit tees, as thousands can prove, are published in the pamphlet enclosed with each bottle. Reader, reflect for a few minutes, and if you are 40 years of age you will remember the thousands of blind you meet with in your 'lke, others with various coloured eye-shades; indeed, such was the demand for eye-shades, that it was a business. What has re moved those sightless beings, and given place to a straightforward, clear-sighted people (the climate is the same) ? tell you the cause —the universal use of Grimstone's Eye Snuff 1 and because it cured Ophthalmia, Gutta Serena, Cater .et, Nervous Headach, and Deaf ness, the Loses of the Treasury directed it to be denominated a medi cine, and to be stamped. Although this advanced its character, 67 cases of cure being proved by the informers, still it was an act of oppression ; as in 182.5 the Solicitor of Stamps, Godfrey Sykes, Esq., altered the label, and sanctioned its sale under order of the Lords of the Treasury; the letter of protection, signed by Herrics, Fsq., to Mr. William Grimstone, bearing date 18th February, 1525. This was on account sf its curative qualities, being sold at that time in canis ters, within the reach of every poor family. But under this order of Government it is obliged to be stamped. GRINISTONE'S IsIEDICATEII EYE SNUFF, sold in canisters, inclosed in a pamphlet of medical and other testimonials, under the Government order, at Is. lid., 2s. 9d., and 4s. Gd. each. tir.e Panaphlete sold at Id. each. If through the post, Is. Bd., 3s. 6d. and ss. 81., including postage , &c. The following letter is one out of the many thousand proofs. mead the following Medical Testimony to the cure of five cases of Gutta Serena, from G. 11. Bente% l'rofessor of Galvanism:— " Sisal:sea, near Portsmouth, Ilants, sth Nov., 1848. " Ma. W. GRIMSTONE.—Sir—I must in justice to you send the fol lowing Testimonial with regard to the extraordinary efficacy of your Eye Snuff in cases of Gutta Serena. I have used it in five cases with the most astonishing benefit and cure. Sir, you may advertise this or make what use you please. The cures have wholly astonished me and thousands of ethers.—l am, Sir, &c., G. li. BOUTELL, Professor of Galvanism." All letters to Mr. William Grimstone, Herbary, Highgate, near London, at which establishment he continues to manufacture his far-famed HERB TOBACCO, so much esteemed In all foreign parts. The following letter, in testimony of its delightful qualities, is from the author of tke " Pleasures of Horne :" " Springfield Cottage, Honiton, Devon, 15th August, 1848. " Str,—l cannot deny myself the pleasure of stating how highly I esteem your Herb Tobacco. I have now found in it a substitute for the choice leaf, hitherto obtained by me from a friend in Constanti nople. lam sure that lovers of mild, fragrant Tobacco would find yours a great and acceptable gift, at a very reasonable price. " I am your obeclientservant, " STUART FARQUHARSON, D.C.L. " To Mr. William Grimstone, Herbary, Highgate." This extensively-famed Tobacco is sold by all chemists and drug gists, and ethers, with W. Orimstone's signature attached, at 7 , 4 d., Is. 04 A. 2e. 9d., and 4s. Ed. each, including the Government stamp. - MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1850. Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ••• *l7l Diseases of Uncertain Scat 55 Tubercular Diseases ... ... 161 I iseascs of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 113 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 3' Diseases of the Lunis, and other Organs of ... 1 Respiration tell ••• Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion... ••• ••• . ••• ••• Diseases cf the Kidneys, &c. •• ..• Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. ... Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles Diseases of the Skin, &c. ... ••• ... Malformations... ••• ••• ... Premature Birth •4 4 ••• •• ••• Atrophy ••• ... ••• ••• ••• Old Age ••• ••• .•• ••• ... Sud !en ... ... ••• ••• ••• ••• Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemporanea Causes not specified ... ••• ••• ••• DEATHS FROM ALI. CAUSES ... Population Deaths in corre- Deaths Enumeratel, Pponding week in the. 1841. of 1849. Week. West Districts... 301,189 .. 176 ... 123 North Districts.. 376,568 .. 207 ... 206 Central Districts 374,199 ... 197 ... 143 East Disiricts ... 393,C67 ... 254 ... 167 South Districts .. 503,346 ... 255 ... 227 Totals... ..... 1,948,369 Males Females 1,089 866 ~. 434 ... 432 BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. M4les ... Ft males ... 755 ... 7t6 Total ... 1,471 *ln this number ere ineluled 19 by Scarlatina, 35 r Typhus Fever, and 19 by Diarrhoea. At the Westminster Police•ccurt, William Neale TV as fully committed fer trial, cLarged wits feloniously as saulting and wounding a young woman named Ann Heifer. man wits a hatchet. SUMERS' COMPANY. The interesting ceremony of laying the first stone of the extensive works of this company on Bow -gammon took place at two o'clock yesterday,with all the imposing formalities usual cn such occasions. The works are in tended to be of vast event, covering an area of more khan six acres, and are bounce l by the Litn - ehousse Canal on the one side and by the Blackwall Railway on the other. Though the proceedings of - yesterday were termed "laying the first stone," a considerable portion "of the 'buildings have already been, raised far above the foundations, and the great block of Portland ttone,which attracted so much interest among the visitors on the occasion, instead of being deposited, as enerally hap pens in such cases, in the foundation cf the building, was honoured with the far more prominent and conspi cuous position of being placed as a lintel over the central doorway. The centre of the ground is occupied by the retort house, coal stores, and purifying house, the firet-r amed being nearly 300 feet long and upwards of 60 feet wide. The stores are calculated to contain 10,000 tons of coals, equal to nearly three months' consumption, and great advantage is expected to be derived from the circurn sturce that the adjoining. railroad is at such a height above the ml/fire as to allow of the coals being deposited where they are to be used directly from the railway waggons, while at the same time the junction of the rail way with the Eastern Counties line will give the company the option of procuring either sea or landborne cea's. There are four large tanks, each nearly 400 feet in eir , cumferk nee, and intended to be provided with etsholdees, capable of containing nearly two millions of cubic f. et. _The groued conteins sand, clay, - and gravel in abundance for the works. • The contracts have he ea taken by the Meesrs. Rigby ; and ss 200 seen are actively employed on the work:, it is sinticipattd tl at the consumers will be supplied - with gas f.om the new weskit before the end of the ensuing summer. . • TUOMAS Damien Esq., the chairman cf the company, officiated on tie cccasion, and was supported by the board of directors, and by several hundred shareholders and other influential Mends of the company. There was also a large c:ncourse of the inhabitants of the neighbourhood. who seemed to take a lively interest in the proceedings. _ _ _ The CITAIIIMAN having come forward to the front of the platform, proceeded amid Laid era to address the assemblage. lle said—Whilst I foci the honour conferred upon use in the oppertunity now given we of laying the first stone of tte building of the Great Centrel Gas Consumers' Company, I cannot help experieeciug sorne regret that it has not fellers ,upon an individual mere able to address you upon so interesting en occasion. This is an event prig . . nant as I believe with consequences most beneficinl to the great community of which we form a past. The eletac at next in importance to the air we breoehe is light, which is in its first great source alrno,t equally essential to the existence of all animated being, discovering beauty of form, giving the raliance and lustre of colour, tied ?gladdening the face of universal nature; and when the great source of light retires, and the curtain of night Ms armed, the Great Author of Vie universe seems to have put it to the ingenuity of his creatures to produce artificial light, to rescue scone of the hours r f the night :rum oblivion, and to nrake them available for the pur poses of industrial occupation, of necessary recreation, or of mental labour. When we consider, adopting the words of our great epic poet, that whilst " Light and darkness in psrpetual round - Ledo and dislodge by turns, which makes on earth Grateful vicissitude of day and night, Light issues forth, and at the ether door Ohs , quious dat kness enters"— the hours of darkness being mere than is nteessary to refresh efer the labeurs of the day, the inference is char that the farms of matter were placed at our dfspoial, end the intellect and ingenuity of man were expected to extort from them their tribute of useful ministration to his a aits in this respect. Accordingly we find in all ages the means through artificial light of shortening the night and lengtheeing the day, so as to adjust the necessities of the one with the demands of the other. To the rude torch of less civilized life, and the various applications of oil and wax in more modern times, until the close of the last century, society was indebted for its artificial light; in all these cases forming gas extem poraneously at the time of burning, and cone( (ineptly encumbered with the residuum, as well as being expensive in its formation; and it was not until near the close of the last century that any approseh was made to the sew rate formation of gas for the purpose of burning. Peilo sephers had observed, in coal pits and other places, what was called elastic inflammable air; but it was not until the year 1798 that Mr. Murdoch first erected al apparatus for the production of gas, at the manueactory of Messrs. Boulton and Watt, Seho; and in 1807 some ex tensive cotton mills at Manchester were lighted. Its 18C9 the first application was made to Parliament to in corporate the London,. and _Westminster -Goa Light and Coke Company. In 1815 Guildhall was first lighted by gas; and by the year 1822 gas lighting in the metropolis was extensively carried on, amongst others by the two monopoly gas companies which now divide the supply of the city of London between V - em, and who e conduct in refusing the just demands of the eitizsns of London, temperately expreasee, bas given rice to the edifice we are now inaugurating.—(Hear.) The inscription to be placed upon the steno now before me will aptly usher in the few remarks I ehell feel it incumbent on me to offer on this eceasion—remarks which shell, on the one hand, shortly place before you the circumstances under which we were called into being at your bidding,- and the pre sent position of your affairs; and it shall be my entica your to do this without departing from the laws of good temper or good taste, which I am sorry to observe our opponents do not always regard; bat, in their present guerilla Tsai fAro, they seem to me, avoiding the nobler Wea pons of truthful appeal and correct argument, to be using the little sting of would-bo- wit and personal attack, and publishing statements devoid cf truth. Your din eters feel their case is before ycu, and, instead of stooping to answer amusing dialogues, are bent on makinx up for line unavoidably lost, and giving form and substance to heir care. This is the proposed inscription— COMMEMORATION OF THE PUBLTC SPIP.IT AND FIDELITY WITH WHICH 10,000 OF THE CIT.ZENS of LOND N SUPPORTED THE DIRECTORS OF THE GREAT CENTRAL GAS CONSUMERS ' COMPANY, IN THEIR STRUGGLE TO SECURE FOR THE COMMUNIT I GOOD AND CHEAP LIGHT, THIS STONE WAS LAID ON THE 23D DAY OF APEIL, 1850. The Cinz .us' Company was called into being at tt.it end o IS4B, when the directors of the two monoply companies firmly re fusel any reduction of 63. per 1.000 feet, the then price. When this was found to be the case—when, having found that smaller communities and worse pay ing districts were charged considerably less—and, as perhaps was natural, those who had long grasped a rich pr'z declined to relax any of the force with which they extracted their revenue—they th,r, in the largest public meeting ever known in the London Tavern, de termined to round their own establishment to have some share in the preelection and management of what had become en article of necessity ; and even when the com panies which had long denied any change, finding the rich priz..s about to slip from their bands, reduce d to 53., and then to 43 , the citizens, being appealed to in a public meeting, said, " No, we have lost our confidence in you ; • we will not have the price' stereotyped at 4Q., knowing that with increased demand diminished price ought to follow, which you would not give, we will have our own company." This is briefly the history ; this is the battle you have been fighting, and which remains to be still fought out. Shall wealth gained by monopoly (50,0001. a year, being now remitted)—shall influence and the sympathy of capitalist with capitalist rob you of this opportunity of some management in what mainly concerns you ? If you allow it you will never have another chance; and another quarter of a century may roll away without it, and leave you at the mercy of the present directors and tbosa who may succeed them. I have now to place the stone in its final resting-place —long may it remain there to tell its noble story I Will you answer by your cheers " Success and Prospe rity to the Great Central Gas Consumers' Company. (Great cheers.) The trowel and mallet provided for the occasion were then handed to the chairman who proceeded to arrange the mortar for the reception of the stone s and the huge bit ck was lowered in safety to its final resting place. Three rounds t f cheers were then called fo-, and_ re sponded to with most vehement enthusiasm by the as semblage. Mr. BENNOCIE came forward, and, after a thor: at'- dress from him, the assemblage separated. ••• 7 THE DINNER. The directors and shareholders and °Vier friends of the company again assembled at six o'clock at the Lon don Tavern, where a sumptuous banquet was provided in the usual first-rate style cf 'the establishment. About 200 gentlemen tat down to dinner. Thomas Dakin, Esq., the chairman cf the company, presided, and was supported on either side by Mr. Charles Pearson, M.P., Colonel Dunne, M.P., Mr. F. French, M.P., Mr. C. Anstey, M.P., Alderman Sir W. Magnay, Mr. James Wyld M.P., Deputy Harrison,, Common Councillors F. I3ennock, Blake, and T. Hall. Messrs. W. F. A. Delane, J. Bredbury, T. Gabriel, J, Rigby, J. Massey, G. Bovell, J. Rstford, D. W. Wire, J. Biyden, A. A. Croll, and J. Stevens. The usual loyal toasts having been given, The CHAIRMAN gave " The Army end Navy." Colonel DUNNE returned thanks. The CHAIRMAN then gave "The Lord Mayor and Prosperity to the City cf London," and joined to the toast the health of Sir William Magnay. Sir. W. MAGNAY returned thanks, and bore testi- mony to the anxious efforts of the magistracy of the city of London on all occasions to temper mercy with justice, and to promote the interests of the cit's ns. Mr. D. %V. WIRE proposed in eloquent terms the health of Mr. French and tLe Members of the House of Comte ons. Mr. FRENCH, M.P., returned thank-, and said that the countenance of the ciCz ns of London, combining as they d d with so much of energy, capital, and intdli gsnce, was the best sanction.tbat the House t f Com mons could have at any time fJr their proceedings. Mr. C. FEARSONS, M.P., proposed the next toast, and was receiyed with loud cheers, lie said he had to propose to them,wh at had been truly deecribcd by the toast-matter as a bumper toast. It was, " The Great Central Gas Consumer's Company, and prosperity to it, end to those who had the courage to embark in it."-:-(Cheers.) Ho prectede I to describe the progress of the company since its origin. Ile had the honour, with afew hien& then in the room, to be among the originators of the project, and h.e would endeavour to put in a popular lease a tew of thereasons which tal induced them to come forward. He had. fur many years contended th , t the nibs:: us of London .were eutitled to receive their gai at a much lower rate than they had. been pa) ing, on the ground, as he had demonstrated, that the chief expense of gee was not in the rnakieg but in the distrihu. than. Ile had shown that they should have : received their gas thirty-three per cent. cheaper than in provincial towns, a here a small supply is spread over a large surface of country, just as a roan with a thric irg business, who turns his capital two or three times in the year, may be content with smaller profits than a man whose business is of a more-precarious nature, and who has to gise long credits to :his curtemers.—(llesr.) N e tioeal taxation he regarc'e 1 as a necessary evil;- mu nicipal taxation ho had long objec ed to; but now that his own salary was paid out of it his dislike to the impest had been lightened—(4 laugh)—but, of all taxes, he thought the worst was monopoly taxation.— (Hear ) Thu gas consumers of the city of London numbered be tween 8,000 and 9,000, and they used 500.000,000 cubic feet of gas ein the year. Now, a reduction o! 2s. per 1,000 feet in the cast of that unapunt was equal to 50,0001. a year, An that there was a difference betwesn the amonat paid by them in April, ; 18 - 50, and in April, 1849, of fully 50,000/. in fay. ur of the_,presera year. (Cheers.) (A, gentleman he:e the_, that he had paid. 7s. for gas in 1847.) It was quite true that up to 1848 they had tesn pa yi ng 7e per thousand feet. so thet conspa• el with that year they had saved 75,000 L Teata was what they had paid in asonoeoly taxation. Now, ht them compare that sum with their municipal taxation. The whole amount pant for the well-organized and disciplined army ef police that guarded their live; and property was but 27,0601. (11ear, hear.) It had been said that their company is odd add to the paving-rate by . digging up the streets; but the whole amount of the paving rate, including the expense of paving several new tre , :is, was but 17,0001. yew, while the whole sum paid for sew erage, including the expense of 36, miles of new see eta in the last twenty' ye are, of lighting rate, which was 10,0001. a year, and of paving-re ts was only 39.0001.—(Hear, he ea) Ile would next c .mparc this monopoly taxation with the national taxation. His fiend Mr. And( rton had given notice et' emotion in the Common Council, for a petition to Par liament against the odious wiudew•tax. But Mr. An derton . was an opporent of cheap gas, to that while he con. ured an impost that taxed the light of day, be sve , s in favour of taeieg the Ifeht of night.— (Hear, hear.) What he ,( Mr. Pearson) w anti d wes, that the poor me chanic hold be able to have as good a light ut night at a cheap tato as any of them had.—(Llear, hear.) It was said that the window-tax was injurious to the sani tary state of large towns, but he should Ile to know how the saritary coedit-ion of Loud. n wee improved by hav ing those gee at gas works, vidahtte Mr. Anderton sup ported, sxistittg in the most crowded and poorest part of the City.—(llear, hear) Tao whole window-tax of the i of Lon d on was 6 9 6201., while be had already told them a the sum . whieni t 5 y paid in monopoly taxatior. Again, he found that the 2,200,000 ic.habi - ants of the metropolis were supplied with flesh naa far 10,000,0001. so that this gas monopoly tax ie the city of Lndon alone amounted to the 200th part of the whole expense of supplyin,g the entire metropolis wish beefeeed mutton. —(Cheers.). Their opponents heel manufactured waste fully and dietributcd badly, and yet they divided ewe - meus gahts. It was said teat this company were confis cating theirepto; ery; bet there W, .re teen conn ected with the mgnagement of the Central (Ins Company who would be incapable of embarking in any seenufe tion that would confienate. hard-craned means. If these munipelists had reduced_their price in tae first instance as low as they had reduced it latterly, this company would never have been called into existence.—(ilear, hear.) Shakspere said that " theme is a d iv i nit y that hedges a king," but those gentlemen seemed to think that - there was also a divinity that hedges a gas cora tany. —(Loud laughter.) In their return to Pailiament of their profits they put their dividends down at 10 per cent. This was to be sure the truth, hut it was not the w hole truth, or else how could their churns, on which 81. had .bsen paid, be selling at 300 ger cent. ? - (Hear, Lear.) They attributed their large dividends to the fact of their having purchase I the shares of two ruined com panies at half their original value,. but it that were so ho would like to know who had the best title to the term "confiscators."—(lice'.) The toast was drools with great cheering. The CHAIRMAN again rose, and in elequent terms pro posed the " Health ef :dr. Pearson," describing in detail the great services which that Honourable Gentleman had rendered to the company. On concluding be presented Ihrer:TeErsere - wide a magnific Out silver flsgon and dish, as a mark of esteem from the directors personally. The flagon bore the follow ing inscription:— " Presented to Cheeks Pearson, Eeq., M.P., late Chairman of the Great Central Gas Consumers' Com pany, by his late colleagues, John Bradbury, Erq.. G. H. Buvill, F. Clemow, Esq., Thomas Dekin, E!q., W. F. A. Delano, Ell., Thomas Gabriel, 13 ! .q., T. H. Massey, Rel., .J.Vyld, Fact, M.P., and A. A. , engineer, in testimony of their eetimation of his able sex - vices. in assisting to form - the company, thus destroying the gas monopoly that had existed in the City fur thirty years, and, by reducing the price, effecting a saving to the consumers of nearly 50,000/. annually. The director s have gr.( at pleasure in recording their sense of the unvarying kindness of their late chairman whilst joined with them in their arduous eautier, by which their labour was lightened amidst opposition and difficulty of no ordinary kind. And they desiro to express their fervent wishes for-his health, happiness, and prosperity, and a long career of public usefueness.—April 23, 1850." Mr. PEARSON acknowledged the high compliment paid him in suitable terms. Mr. 13ENNOCH proposed the health of the counsel, soli• citors, and Pa tliannertlry eeent of the company. Mr. BRYDEN, the Parliamentary agent, returned thanks. Mr. GABRIEL proposed the health of Mr. Anstey and their ether visiters not members of the company. Mr. A NETEY returned thanks. The CHAIRMiN proposed the halt ::1 of Mr. Croll, and dwelt et some lergtlt on the great services rendered to the company by that gentlemen. Mr. Catiaa returned thanks. Ile said:-4 will not eil , ct to conceal the pride and satisfaction with which I regard the expression of the sentiments in which this toast has be n proposed, or the manner in which you have be en pleased to receive P. It is the well-merhei c h a racter of the wnius of this country that it felicitously combines tl - e most prolhund attainments in abstract science with the most useful, profitable, and practical Ap plication of those physical laws which rule the material e lements with which Providence has surrounded.us. We are met this day to celebrate the progress of scientific discovery applied to the convenient purposes of : civilised those mechanical and chemical combinations which add lustre to the halls of kings and erobelash with economical cheerfulness and freoeal light the workroom of the artisan and the cottage of the peasant. •I do not pretend to to above that infirmity of our common rature which guides us by mixed motives. Ido not think, in deed, that even our selfishness to as given to us eithei: to serve ourselves alone, or to exelule advantage to society. The prospect of the fair material rewards of industry arid genius at mulates etch of us to toil for the whole. The desire to own the good opinion of' mankind stimu lates us piton to postpone the mere sordidness of avarice to the interest and happiness of the community. It is the unmixed advantage of an undertaking such es that of which we are assembled to celebrate the establishment that it combines the excellencies of a substantial, cer tain,and profitable commercial undertaking, with the promotion of the domestic comfort, and the elevation of the social habits cf tho people—that it consults at once the material interests of the producer and the sav ing of Vie consumer —that like mercy, but in a more di rectly mercantile and tangible shape, "it blesses him that gives and him that takes." My part and lot in this matter is known to most of you. lam a practical man. Ido not pretend to the mere vision of the trans cendental philanthropist. I am not led away by the dreams of the mere inventor. My calculations have been previously tested by extensive practical experience —they are corroborated by the virtual testimony to their accuracy, to be derived from the contracts on which my estimates arc founded, being all taken by eminent ex perier ced and purely practicsl contractors. I believe, I am confident, that I am serving the public. I am surel am se curing safe profits to the shareholders. Ido not pretend to deny that I rem certain of aiming rnysalc. If lam mistaken, I shall be the chief sufferer; fur I have not hesitated to peril the gains of an active and successful life upon the result.—(Rear, hear.) But I have pre viously tested by a mple practical results the safety of the experiment; and I can but say this, that you have only to be true to each ether and the pledges you have given to your fellow-citizens, in order to realise every promise you made to yourselves, and every pros pect you held cut to the community.—(Cheers.) in this as in every effort to benefit the public by new in ventions and fresh discoveries, we have brought down upon ourselves the vengeance of vested interests and the fury of vast capitalists. We are resolved to meet their unmeasured opprobrium with perfect good temper and equanimity, and their heavy attempts et levity with the old proverb, "let them laugh that win." I aga i n thank you Gratefully for your kindness in this notice of my name, and can only say that it will be to me a froth stimulus to deserve it.—(Cheers.) Mr. WYLD, M.P., proposed the hearth of Mr. Rigby and the officers of the company. Mr. RIGBY returned thanks. Some other toasts were proposed, and the company separated at a late hour. THE CASE Ol" POISONING AT EDINBURGEI.—We understand that the circumstances elicited during the exa mination of the case have been considered by the authorities sufficient to warrant them in fully cr:mmitting Benni,on for trial. Since his apprehension the accuscd has been in a state of great nervous excitement, and is now much worn out. The contents of the stomachs of the two dogs, which were taken to the Surgeons' Hall, were yesterday analysed, and found to contain.a quantity of arsenic. ITO "other - facts of importcnce have been brought out in addition 0 those-de tailed aboye.—,Edinburgh,Advertiser. ... 4 866 type Al dame to the following efftct would not curtail the full Lounty held out by the English Solicitor-General to the encumbered estate's proprietor and t 3 the money lender, whilst it would afraid a boon to the struggling propritt,r who was not yet in the hands of the Encum bered Es . rit.cs Commissioners. As Mr. C. Bowen has so clearly &tailed the Prussian landahaft scheme, I only venture to propose this very simple method of its pr‘t.w.ical adoption. The S.,lieitor-Generat's Bill thus amended, would give to Irish estates (encumbered t )• more than half their vAue) the full bent fits of the Encumbered Estates Commission, by providing for them " land _debentures," to the amount of hall their purcLase, for the mutual benefit of the money-lender, and • the pro prietor who is " sold up." But, further, gate advan tages Would net to confined to those two classes: in the case of esta'es not so highly encumbered as to qualify them for the Encumbered Estates . Ccmaiission, their proprietors might raise money, by "land debentures," 'to the amosint of half their value, similarly guaranteed iu the former case. And thus all classes dependent on land in this country, as well as the trail i ng public gene rally, would derive the benefits of a system which should not cost the state one shillirg, nor even interfere with any existing prejudice, save by the substitution of land for gold as a security for the currency. I am, Sir, your very obedient servant, EDWADD WILYOT CIIETWODE. Woodbrook, PortarlinAton, April 13, 1850. Clause suggested to be introduced into the Solicitor- General's Bile, &c., to providr, &c. And, whereas it is tieeessary that ea estate should to encumbered to one-` alf its estimated value, in order to qualify for the mlnagement of tle Eneumbtred Estatt s Cummitsion, and whereas a sum amountirg to unc-half the amount cf the purchase of ouch (state !luny be rais:d by la%d debentures thereon, f,r facilitating and eirryirg into effect the purputes of the sill-, he it further enacted that, in the case of estates not ercum b e I to n:tc-half their estimated value, and therefore excluled from the opecation r f the Encumbered Estates Commission, that lind debentures' may in I.lre man n, r be raja( d :hereon to the amount of one-Irtlf the estimated value, for the purpose c f clearing such estt:tes of other incutnbrsncea, or of enabling their proprietors to improve the agricultural condition of their estates, now overwhelmed by poor-law taxation, and f;reign ,etition." UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. CAMBRIDGE, Arum 22. At a Congregation holden on Saturday last, a grace for the adoption of the petition upon the subject of National Education rassed the senate without opposition. CORPUS COLLEGE.—Edward Henry Browne, 11th Junior Optime, first Classic, and Chancellor's Medallist, 1850, has been elected a Fellow of this College. ST. J 011 1 ,1% COLLEGE—Voluntary Classical Exami nation 1850—First Oast: J. F. Bateman, E. Calvert, Gautiltor, C. F. Ho!inc.', Ilutehitoon, Langley, Mayor, Morley, W. Oven, John Shaw. Second Class: Btu tt, Chambers, F. G. Holmes, Kompson, Patch.: r, Tutbam, F. A. White, Whittle. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. rOPTSDIvIITIT, TUESDAY.—Cartiiii Jamts, RE., the Director of the Admiralty Works in this dockyard, has esigned hie appointment, we hope for something, better, which has talents and perseverance eminently deserve. The Birkenhead steam-frigate,_ Commander J. A. ' Stevens cm:balked the 23d Itoyal Welsh Fusiliers at the dockyard to-day, and failed with them this afternoon 'or Plymouth. The Coldstream Indianan sailed from Spithead at 6 30 this morning . , The Victoria, American line-of-packet ship, arrived at Spithead at 11 o'clock this morning. Teo great steam-ship Simoon, 2,000 tons, built by the Messrs. Napier, of Glasgow, hes been fittsd and lined by Commander Lord Amelius Beauelerk, of the Strom boli. On Wednesday last she made her first trial trip down the Clyde, when she was fund to answer remark ' ably well, but on returning up the river the feed pump rod carried away, and another slight accident hiving happened to the engine, Lord 'Beau:3l(l . k deemed necessary to have a second trial la fore reporting her ready for her Majesty's service, which was to take place yesterday. - - We aro hi rmed the sgradron of evolution under Commodore Martin is coming to rcnoezvous at Spit lit..fsd for a short time, and that a court. mc.rtial will be hell on a Captain who has disagreed with the Corn medore. APPOINTMENTS. Wooawrcu, APItIL 23.—Midbbi:nnan Louis Gencste to the Excellent gunnery-ship, at Pot tsnaouth. Clerk Franck M. Wright to the I.l4stinge, 72, fl- - ship c n the East India and China station. Boatswain John May to the Resistance, fitting for the Arctic expedition. Commander Thomas A. B. Spratt (1849) and Lieut. Charles F. F. Bcughey (1846) have been appointed to study steam ut the factory in • IVoolwich dockyard, acd Commander Spratt joined to commence Ins studies to-day. CAPTAIN AUSTIN'S ALCTIC EXPEDITION.—At the Ro) al Artillery mess, on Monday night, there were about 120 officers of various tanks of the corps assem bled, to meet the officers of the Artie expeditions. The officers of the Royal Marine MesS, at Woolwich, enter ta'ned tie officers of the Ate is squadron last niAllt. The ships are progressing rapidly. 'lle best feeling prevai:s amongst the officers and crews of the four shipi— a spirit of emulation pre-eminately distingishes all elasse=. Oa Thursday afternoon the Reloluta and Assiitarn e will be towed to Greenbithe ; but, it is said, the Intrepid scren..schooner, pill act leave Woolwich before the 30th must. - The vacancies in the squadron are almost all filled up ; but the Resolute requires a musician to complete her crew. We trust tnat some enterprising fiddler of good eatificates will apply early to the gallant and popular first lieutenant fir the vacant rating Cap tain Sir James C. Rues and Captain Bice', the com a antlers of the late expedition, visited the ships at Woolwich ye:At-Testy. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, APRIL 23. STOCK EXCRANGE.—The market was not so firm to-day, and th'e sales were principally confined to. Great Western Quarters Shares, which closed at . l2 l A. In other stocks there was no variation in value. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 23. STOCK EXCIIARGK. Business on our Stock Exclarge was dull to day, and prices bad a tendency downwards. The transactions were as follow :—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, 10 1 4 c. dis.—London and North-Western, 101% — Ditto, New Quarters; 335. td. dis. Caledonian, 71i Manchester, Sheffield, and Uncolnehire, 12—Midland, —Ditto, Halves, 27% dis.—Shewsbury and Chester, 7%7 South-Eastern and Dover, 13—Ditto, Con 01. (No 3), 1 1 —York, Newcastle, and Berwick ( Original N. and B), G. N. E. Purchase, 6 per cent. t ill 1850, 7 1 4 dis.—Nor:h Staffordshire, 10% dis.—Belfast and Ballymena, 17—Dutch Rhenish, 6 1 ,4, dis. MANCEJESTER, APRIL 23. STOCK EXCIIAIMR.— Our share market was - very dull to-day, and prices have declined , e s r eciall y East Lancashire and Lancashire: and Yorkshire stocks. Toe transactions were as follow :—East L a ncashire, Preference, 6 13-16 Leeds Stock, 31- Ditto , Fi fths, 10% ditto, Preference 11 1 4—London and Ncrth-Western, New Quarters, 1 13-16, —Ditto, Manchester a nd Birmingham, Quarters (C), 7-16 c p.— Midland, :321,4 —South-Eastern and Dover, 127 ii - Ditto, (No. 4), 4 5-16 —North Staffordshire, 10 746 Eastern Counties, Perpet. 5 per OcRK, ent, (No. 1), 7% . , Y APRIL 22 &roux. EXCHAXGE.—The transactions to-day wore as fol. low :—Eastern Counties, 7—Midland, 33 1 4 —York,Newcaatle, and Berwick, 12. SUDDEN D2ATII or TDOMI3 LYONS, EfQ.—Just as we were going to press the melancholy intelligence readied this office of the sudden death of Thomas Lyons,who harl expired a few minutes before in the counting-house of his establishment in this city. We could scarcely credit the intelligence, having seen Mr. Lyons on Saturday seemingly better In health than we remember' to have seen him for years; but authentic information places the matter beyond all doubt, and assures us too truly that one of the best and worthiest and kindest of men has passed from amongst us Mr. Lyons had been out a short time before, and had con versed with several friends—all who knew him were his friends—and on returning he complained of a pain in his head ; he then sat down, as if to rest, and in a few moments after he expired. We simply announce this melancholy in telligence to-day, and reserve to our next such allusions as his character and public position call for. Already we have heard of the intention of the citizens of Cork, who deeply mourn their loss, to offer a public tribute to its memory... — Cork Examiner. corn IVe have received the'faris journals of yesterday. In the National Assembly on Monday the discus sion en the Transportation Bill was renewed, and an amendment proposed by M. MINTRA, declaring that the wives and . children of the transported shoud bo. allowed to share the exile of their husbands and fathers, was rejected by 361 to 302, notwithstanding an eloquent eppeal by M. LAMARTIN ato the Assembly in its fevour. The Minister of the Interior, Beecona, is sorely galled at his defeat on Saturday. Neither M. BER RYER or M. Tn's:as voted on the occasion ' - and among those who abstained was General D'llauT- Tona l the President of the Council, between whom and BAIWCHE a violent scene took place at a Cebitret Council held on the following day. M. BAIVCHR has, it is said, tendered his resignatior, and the I'RhSIDENT will, - if he be wise, at once accept it ; for if we are to take the conduct of M. BAteocuE in regard to the sale of the evening journals' as a test of capacity, a man of more damaging; inccpability can not be connected with any Ministry. It seems that it is necessary for the vendors of the evening jeurnals in Paris to have a licence from the Minister of the Interior; all these licences have been revoked by M. BABCCHE, and new ones issued, authorising the sale of the Ministerial journals Paine and Moniteur du •S'oir, and of the Legitimatist Gazette de France only, and every vendor of a journal Who shall presume to Sell the Evenement (the journal of M. VICTOR Hun°, and the first which proposed the candidature of Louis NAPOLEON BONAPARTE for the Presidency of the Republic), or the .Estofette (s journal of Moderate RepulAcan principles, but op- Lamed to Socialisni), is threatened threatened' by hi. autocue with a suspension of his lacenee. Mea sures such as these cannot suppress the publication of opinion, and only show on the part of those who adopt them an irritability of disposition conjoined with a stupid and narrow-minded incapability which cannot fail to be most damaging to any cause which may be burdened with their patronage. M. BAROCHE is more dangerous as .a friend than as an enemy. The Credit says— " We are authorised to declare that General Cevaig nee has not giT. - en to any cm° the right of representing hire Its receramendiro; or patrorising any candidateship whatever. In his opinion all pretensions ought to diz rppear in presence of the name of the ienerable men whom he considers as the hononrable reptesentative et French democracy." M. CHARLES B: wise has been removed from the office of Director of the Beaux Arts by the Minister of the Interior, who has appointed M. DE GUIZARD to succeed him. M. DE RAYNEVAL has been appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to home. Count ZAMOYSKI has arrived in Paris. The Napoleon has the felidwing on the visit of the President of the Republic to Angers :—Arriv ing at Angers. in the night, the President went the next morning to the hospital, accompanied by the Minister of IVar, General Castellane, the Prefect, arid the Mayor. On his passage there, all the uufertunate men who had been taken into the houses of the inhabitants endeavoured to see him. Those who could not walk were brought out on chairs by the people who lied treatedthem with such kind hospitality. - The President stopped at every step, and lavished consolation and assistance, and never qaitted any of them without leaving behind him some mark of the most lively in terest. It was at the hospital that the most painful spectacle awaited him; the wounded were there very numerous. He approached the bed r f each, and interrogated the sufkrers with the kindest solicitude. To one he promised a leave of absence ; to another, a guarantee-for the future welfare of their fatnilies ; and assured them all of the protection of the government. Before quit ting .the hospital, the President, collecting around 'him the members of the council of administration, the medical men, and the sisters of charity, thanked them in the name of the country and of the army. He then presented the decoration of the legion of honour to the director, and to Dr. Meronan, and the cross of officer to the military intendant La Calinii:re, who, for 48 hours, had been incessantly oc cupied in one of the mast pait,ful duties, that of watch ing ever the preparing the bodies for interment. The President afterwards went to the barracks, occupied by the 4th Regiment, where he was received with the loudest acclamations. Officers and soldiers were moved even to tears in finding the chief of the state hasten into the midst of them, and thus protest against the malevolent insinu etions of, which they had recently been the object. A sergeant, who had by his exertions saved several of his com rades, was so affected when he received the cross, that he could not utter a word of thanks; and fainted. After this vi it the President repaired to the scene of the disaster, and demanded to have an exact detail given to him of the sad event ; he examined the suspension chain, and re marked with sorrow that they were for the most part oxydised, and that a more careful surveillance would have prevented such a misfortune. He ordered a searching inquiry to be entered on. The presence of the President on this spot attracted towards it all the inhabitants of Angers, who, as well as the soldiers, testified by cries a thousand times re peated of a Vivo Napoleou l" their feelings at his thus participating in their griec. At the moment of the disaster, and in the midst of all the diffi culties attendant on the saving of the men, the prefect remained constantly in one of the boats, at the risk of his life. The cross of commander has recompensed his noble devotedness, and the decoration of chevalier the conduct of M. Delatouches mayor of Angers, and representative of the people, who worthily seconded the prefect. The same favour was granted to a man of the people, a hairdresser, whose intrepidity - was the subject of admiration to the whole town. Half an hour before the accident, two battalions of the line and a squadron of - hussars • had crossed the bridge without anything occurring to give an idea of danger. This bridge is the ordinary one used by the troop-, es it is the direct road to the castle. The General was waiting there to review the battalion of the 11th. How could party spirit so f.r pervert a simple fact, as to represent it as a premeditated design to isolate the reg:ment, and to preserve it from any contact with the inhabitants of the fau bourgs ? Hstred always imputes to others what it would be guilty of itsele." A jeurnal of Angers says At the moment when the President. of the Republic commenced his round of visits, no one being aware of his arrival, there were few persons in the streets. The cries of the getters-up of provo cations equalled these of the peaceable citizens, but the former gradually disappeared, until the immense crowd assembled at the terminus completely drowned every other cry by exclamations of Vive la Presi dent !' " PARIS BOURSE, Aram 23.—Latest prices.—Five per Cents , 89f. 45c. ; Three per Cents. 55r. 60e. ; Bank of France, 2,100 f. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGNIIAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCLIANGE, APRIL 2.3. Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), IVA—Namur and Liege, 6% —Sambre and Meuse, 2A. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 18th have ar r i ve d. The Boca punishes a letter from Elinburgb, stating that some Spanish Carlists yore prPparing to send an e xpedition from Aberdeen ! B an k no t es o f 35,000,000 !Tills, for the bank of San Fernando, had been received from England, where they had been en graved. GERMANY. A telegraphic dispatch from Berlin, dated yester day morning, states that the final propositions of the Prussian Government for a settlement of the affairs of the Duchies were not likely to be accepted. The dispatch adds, that the efforts made by the Prussian Government to obtain a prolongation of the ad interim Commission of Frankfort had failed ; but that the negotiations of Austria for assembling a Congress of Plenipotentiaries to replace it were likely to be successful. The Chamber of States cf the Parliament of Er furt terminated on the 20th the revision of the Con stitution, and adopted the additional Act. It decided that the electoral laws shall be brought into effcct in all the States of the Union on the 20th. A letter, however, says that it was doubtful whether the Peo ple's Chamber would a there to this law, and still more doubtful whether the different States would allow it to be carried into execution. A letter from Cologne, of the 20:1), s t a tes that a rather sharp discussion had taken o!ace 13:ttween tha Princ3 of PRUSSIA and th2l3lEhop o TBEVES, relative to the 'oath of th 2 C )nszitution required to be taken by the Catholic clergy who hold situations. Th e Prince formallY d,.clared that the Catholic c'ergy would be required- to respect the Constitution, an d the Bishop formally asserted that they would no allow the Constitution to encroach on its rights and privileges. In t1..3 co urse of the inter v i ew t h e Prlnee intimated that the Holy See would be ap plied to, to regulate the relations bAween the Prussian Government and the Catholic clergy. A. Vienna letter of the 18'.h states that the corona tion of the Rnperor of AUSTRIA is to take place on th e 18th August, the Anniversary of his birthday. The Piedmontese Gazette quotes a letter - from Rome, of the 7th, stating that a second instalment of the Rattpichild loan bad arrived there, consisting cf hullicn and napoleons to the amount of a million and a half of. franc% Fire prelates, according to this account, are to be raised to the dignity of csrdinals, namely : Alons7gnor Fonari, the Ro man Nuncio at Paris ; Monsignor GrassEAllini, late Governor of Rome; Monsignor Savelli, Minister of the Interior; MonAgnor Morichini, late Treasurer ; and Monsignor Roberti. The Pontifical State is to be divided into fire departments, each under the direc tion of a cardinal ; the provinctts, included in each department, to be governed by lay presidents.. Monsignor Gonella is to be named Papal Nuncio at Brussels. The statement cf the Augsburg Gazette about an explosion cf combustibles at Rome was not. altogether unfounded ; bat there was a great error in the date. It was stated that the explosion took place shortly after the Pons had passed on the 12th. It occurred on the 10:h, two days before his arrival. A letter from Rome of the 14th, in the Constitutionnel, say:.—" On the evening of the 10th, the enemies of order who for the last few days have been en gaged in covering the walls or Rome with placards insulting to the Church, to its venerable head, and to the French army, have attem. pted to alarm the people by spreading sinister reports and by causing the explosion in the Via delta Vignuccia of a box full of projectiles. Fortunately, at the late hour at which it took place, the detonation did no mischief beyond breaking some windows, and arousing . the people from their sleep. In the morning of the 11th similar placards were distributed, but they did not present the illumination at.night. The same evening a soldier on duty near the Quirinal saw about twenty individuals assembled around tve gate of the palace, opposite the convent of the Adoration. He gave tba alarm, and they fled in the directions of the Quattro Fontane, leaving behind them pickets of matches and two bottles of spirits of turpentine, which leads to the supposition that they were about to attempt to set fire t. the palace." IIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Il Den Gin vanni was announced for last night at Ler Majest3's Theatre; but in consequence of the sudden indisposition of Signor Coletti, who was to have sus tained the cha-acter of the Don, the chef d'oeuvre of Rossini wrs substituted for the chef d'oeuvre of ticz and we had II 13a;biere instead of 11 Den Giovanni. The Resits of Madame Sontag was es exquisite, as graceful, as perfect, as ever. The " Una voco poco fa" ear, as usual, a perfect marvel of florid vocalization, and the Rode's air, in the singing loosen, excited even a more inten.e furore thin on any former occasion. Madame Sontag was called on to iepcat the last variation twice, and a magnificent bouquet was thrown to her from one of the boxes. Immediately after this Lablache as Bortolo gave his rich and inimitable parody of -' the sentimental and florid style," and at the conclu acknowledged the applause a •/a Sontag, and looked routd at ',Le hexes us for hia ougutt, hrn Madame Sontag advunced - to him aad offered, in the most gracefully espe;gle manner imaginable, amidst shouts of laughter and applause, the beuquet which had • been thrown t) her. Beletti (the Charles Mathews of tho Italian stage) was tl a meet mercurial and rillrvorcing of Figaros, and Cal zobri gave the music of C jut t Alrnaviva with great taste, care, aad correctnesr. The principal performers were called on at the conc!usion of each act of the opera. Between the acts Carlotta Grisi dauced the Truandaise, which, as usual, WtB encored; and after the opera we 110 Les Plaisirs d' River. wikh Carlotta Grisi, Marie TegVoni, and Amelia Ferraris. The theatre was crowded. Her M,ktty's box was occupied by htr Royal High ness the Dachtsiof Kent (accompanied by his Serene Highness Pi inee Edward of Sa.xeWeimar), R ho honoured the performances with her presence. Her Royal High ness was attended by Ipdy Anna Maria Dawson and Sir George Coupwr. Amongst tho company were his Serene Highness the Duke t f Brunswick, the Puke of Wellington, his Excellency the Russian Minister, his Excellency the Swedish Minister, his Ex cellency the Belgian Minister and Msdatne Van de Weyer, the Marquis and Marchioness of Ely, the Marquis of Hnntley, the Marquis of Done gal, the Earl Spencer, the Earl of Lonsdeie, the Earl of Essex, the Earl of Falmouth, the Count, es Fluhault, the Baroness de Rothschild, the Countess of Lichfield, the Count de But ke, Viscount Cantilupe, Viscount Dupplin, Lord Adolphus FitzJlarenee, Lord George Paget, Lady Fremantle, Lady Quentin, M. de Berg. M. do Krehmer, Lady Vincent, Lady Palmer, Baron Wachmeister, Lion. C. 11. Neville, Hor. A. Wrottesley, Hon. Misses Somer set, Hon. G. Barrington, Hon. Claude Lyon, Hon. Major Needham, Hon. Mr. Willoughby, Sr John and Lady Campbel', Sir William and Lady Clay, Sir John Low ther, Sir George Wombwell, Sir William Abdy, Sir Themes and laly Barrett Lennard, Sir Richard and Lady Jenkins, Sir Loftus Otway, Sir George St tunter, Sir M. Shaw Stewart, Sir Henry and Lady Blake, it Jol.n arAl Lady Kirkland, Lsdy Fitzgerald, C:tptain Sutton, Mr. Gembi. r, Mr. Mogan, Mrs. Stewart, Col :net Frecstuu, M.P„ and Mrs. Leckyer Freestur, Mr. C. W. Parke, M.P., and Mrs. Packs R adilly, Miss Belli r, Mrs. Dennistoun, Mr. and Mrs. Attwood, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Palmer. Mr. C. Barry Baldwin, M.P.. Mr. Holford, Mr. Balfour, Mr. Dash rood, Mrs. Francis Wali.ole, M N . Fraser, M rs. w. Johnstone, Mr. and Miss Norris, Mr. 11. Foley, Colonel Percival, M.P., Mr. B roa dley, M.P.. Mr. "Parnther, Mr. ray Drummond, Mr. W. Diafield, Mr. John Foley, A!.P., FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF TUESDAY. WHITEHALL, APRIL 9, 1850. 'rho Lard Chat cellor has aipoint:d Francis Twigg, of Burden), in the county of Stafford, Gent., to be a !Halter Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, APRIL 22. Royalli-giencnt of Artillery—Sergeant- Major Thomas Hassell to be gnat termatter, vice Porter, retired, April 12. Corps of Royal Engineers—Fir s t Li e utenant Charles John Gibb to be Second Captain, vice Miller, retired; Second Lieutenant Francis Horatio Do Vere to be First Lieutenant vice Gibb, April 16. BANKRUPTS. William Walden, brush manufacturer, Park-place. t) surrender April 30, at eleven, and May 31, at half past twt lye, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Staus feld, official assignee; Finney, Furnival's Inn. Samuel Browning; nurseryman, Farringdon, Berk shire, May 2, at half- past one, and June 1, at twelve, at the Court of Pankruptcy. Bell. officiel assignee, Cole man-street ; IN bits, Eyre, and Co , Bedford -row. James Poole and Walter Poole, builders, Booth-street, Spit alfields, May 2, at two, and June 6,. at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, ° assignoe, Cole mem-street-buildin.gs ; Holmer, Ch;:tiiapceiaiete-1 t twelve, John Richard West, block and niast,mahcr, Mill-wall, Poplar, May 4, at half - past o ne, and May 25, a at Mc Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Guildhall-chambers; Stovens and Satchel!, Qceen-street, Cheapside. D av id Williams, victualler, Bangor, Carnarvon, May 3 and June 7, at eleven, a t the Liverpool District Court. Turner, official assignee, Liverpool; Evans, Li ver p oo l. Wi l li am Sh a rman, bui lder, H ulme , Lancashire, May 9 111 1 01 th 3):Oact 00 , 01, at the M a nchester District Court. ial assigner, Manchester; Slater, Manchester. LITIES OF TUE LAND-TAX.—On Monday theibcoEQnuunAittce of the commissioners of land-tax, for Mid dlesex,appointed at a general meeting cf the commissioners, the Sessions 11Quse, Llerketwell, on Tuesday, the 2 1ela c t March, to take the necessary steps to induce the Government to introduce a measure into Parliament, decla ratory as to the powers of the commissioners to equalise the laud-tax throughout the county--held a meeting at the hoard-loom of the Holborn division, in Red Lien •square, when it was determined that a deputation should immedi ately wait upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in . further. mice of the putpme fur which they were appointed, and the reputation was nominated. THE SWILLLY ROCKi. - A strong push is about t be made by the Welsh and Lancashire Members to induce the Government to lend their assistance to remove these natural obstructions, which render the navigation of the Menai .Straits so dangerous. All the ports and the marine insurance offices should join in this effort.—North ll'alcs Chronicle. A GALLANT VENTURE.,-- On Thursday two eight oared out-riggers fouled each other near Itliey-leek, when both boats were upset, and their crews, consisting of 18 r er sons, were thrown into the water, which was vet) , high, end running rapidly at the time. Three of these could not swim, and were saved by Mr. Ilsmber, of Oriel, who was in one o the boats, and swam to their aid, end with great presence mind, and with almost superhuman strength and tact brought them all three safely to lantl.,—OxfordChroxic • CIANTERBURY SETTLEMENT; oilc of the Fist Body of intended Colonists aft-nd daily at their rooms lA,Adelphi-tertace; from Ten to Five o'clock; and a Meeting of the Boiy is held on Tuesdays and Thursdays at Twelve o'clock. S!rangeri desirous of con: nunicating personally with gen tlemen at,cut to emlgree, are inviled to visit the rooms.