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After which, a Grand Divertissement of LS BAYADERE. Cha racters by Monsieur H. Vestris ; Monsieur and Madame Finart, and Mdlle. Maria. To conclude with the Last Act of LA GISELLE, In which 3ldlle. Maria, Monsieur and Madame Finart, &c., will appear. The Box-otllce is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six in the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, 1 lades, and Tickets may be had on application to Mr, John Parsons. THEATRE ROYAL, HAY MARKET. LESSEE, MIL B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING Will be repeAted a New and Original Comedy, entitled THE SHERIFF OF TIIE COUNTY. Principal Characters by Messrs. W. Farrell, Strickland, Buckstone, Webster, Mrs. Gloria', Mrs. W. Clifford, Mrs. Humby, Miss Julia Bennett, &c. In the course of the Evening Mr. John Parry will give his De scriptive Scene, " Cinderella." After which, SPEED THE PLOUGH. Sir Abel Handy, Mr. W. Farren ; Bob Handy, Mr. H. Holl ; Sir Philip Blandf)rd, Mr. Stuart ; Farmer Ashfield, Mr. Webster; M., s Blandford. 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Morning • • 6 minutes after 61 Evening • • 29 minutes after .......... 4•-• . ; , ' ( " 5 :1,t , 1,. * kv:•.4.r,‘ ' '4 3 1 . .0••_ , , , , ,, •-.. , fi 4.1. y; . . .. ,iiiiiii Lc,• ;k m , ;-•,,,. , • I:4l At ai \% '0F . ..0:7: a , ..---•_,_,e,„,..)- , 41 , K . •'il• .. ,• - W ~,,‘•'" - . 4 .., C ~4_,110h., D 4 ,, -4' d r.s, ...` ' . ' ... 1 ,-T , l ' =jail mL LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1545. The House of Lords met at Five o'Clock. In consequence of the continued indisp,sition of tho First Lord of the Admiralty, the Earl of MINTo post poned his motion on the subject of the naval force at Otaheite, until after the Easter holidays. The Fresh Water Fish (Scotland) Bill was read a second time. Lord BROUGHAM stated that he did not intend to in troduce the Bill of which he had given notice on a pre ceding evening, on the subject of the non-free traders of the city of Lcndon, and moved for a return of the number of non-freemen admitted to the freedom during the year ending April 1844. The Earl of ROSSLYN gave notice that, on Tuesday, be should put a question to the Government, on the sub ject V their intentions with regard to the Scotch bank ing system. The Jewish Relief Bill was then read a third time and passei, after a short but energetic speech in its favour by the Dull 4:4 CAMBRIDGE, and the House adjourned. The Nouse of COmmons met at twelve, and immedi ately went into Committee on the Railway Clauses Con solidation Bill. The Bill passed through Committee, and was ordered to be reported at twelve o'clock on Mondty. The House then went into Committee on the Land Clauses Consolidation Bill. The 13i1l" passed through Committee, and the House adjgarned to Fire o'clock. On the re-assembling of the House, The SOLICITOR-GENERAL gave notice of his intention to move for leave to briy.g in a Bill for the protection of property in the British Museum, and other public places. On the motion of Mr. IVANLEY the petition from Finsbury, on the subject of Post-office espionage, was ordered to be printed. Mr: G. W. I.lopE gave notice that, on Tuesday, he should bring forward a motion for papers for the pur pose (4'g:tying the New Zealand Company an'opportunity of substantiating the charges which they had brought against Lord STANLEY and the Colonial Department. A short discussion followed, in the course of which Mr. AoLioNny and Mr. MANGLES expressed their readi ness to substantiate every charge they had made ; and the latter Hon. Gentleman designated the Colonial De partment as a plague and a nuisance. will give credit?" Why, they must give credit. Busi ness could not go on a single day without giving credit, and the general stoppage of further credit woutd bring the whole country to a stand. There is a vast number of tradespeople who cannot be ready-money men. Men whose labour must be completed on certain materials before they can ask for their money. To say to such people " You must not give credit "—is equivalent to saying "You must do no more work ;" and to say to the shopkeeper, "You must not give credit,"• is equal to saying to him, " You must close your shop." The fact is that credit must be given and taken from the highest to the lowest; from peers of the realm down to peasants at the plough. Very well. If this excessive credit be essential to th e present extent of trading, give it. But don't let tradesmen insist, on the one hand, on the necessity of continuing an admitted evil practice, that they excuse on the plea of its being essential to their suc cess and prosperity ; an(l on the other, ask the Legis. lature for heavy penalties on those on whose heads the accommodation afforded by this practice turns out to be actual loss, instead of the contem plated profit of- the tradesman who has given it. When we read the list of the members of this Society, we pictured to ourselves, in reference t o their trades and addresses, sleek oilmen, in Bishopsgate-street, portly leather sellers, wealthy ironmongers, ruddy salesmen, &c. &c., of Thames street, Milk-street, Newgate-market, &c. !But we soon found our error. At p. 11 we learned they were but " shadows of their former selves," mere walking anato - miss; their natural fluids exhausted, or replaced by the atrabilious secretions consequent on bad debts and worthless schedules. " All these legal evils combine to giving credit—and yet credit mu s t be given—precarious; and to make the life of a tradesman a corrosion of care— and the conduct of business anxious and perplexing in the extreme." We had prepared other extracts from this paper; but it is hardly needful to press further such self-evi dent and post-dated appeals from the late decrees of the Legislature to the angry and interested passions of one class of the community, with a view to reinforce the absolute severity of the law upon another. The "remedial " propositions to be pressed on Parliament include one for taking the c , gnizance of all debts for sums over 201., and not above 1001., from her MAJESTY'S Courts at Westmin ster, and giving this jurisdiction to the Sheriff! Sir R PEEL had no wish to force on a discussion on the general question, but his Noble Friend, at the head of the Colonial Department, having been accused of bad faith, was desirous that the House should not separate for the recess until he had an opportunity of vindicating himself. Mr. HOME and Lord J. RUSSELL suggested that the charge against the Colonial Governnacnt should be taken on a Government night, and the charge against Lord STANLEY personalty should be taken separately on a motion night ; and on Mr. G. W. HorE repeating his expectation of being able to bring on the matter on Tuesday, the conversa tion dropped. Various questions were then asked; after which the House went into Committee on the Sugar Duties Bill. Mr. lIAwEs moved " that provi,ion be made in the Bill for the drawback of the amount of the duty re duced, on such duty-paid sugar as now remains in the QUEEN'S warehouse." After some discussion, Sir ROBERT PEEL stated that there would be, he thought, no objection to allow upon sugar in bond a drawback equivalent to the actual loss sustained. With this announcement Mr. HAWES expressed him self satisfied and withdrew his motion. Several other amendments were subsequently pro posed, all of which were lost ; and the Bill eventually passed through Committee. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at Half-past One o'Clock. 'We have received a copy of the " Address of the I Equitable Debtor and Creditor Association to the Members of the Trading and Mercantile Interests," the object of which appears to be to induce the great community of the latter to join the " tyrant majority" of the former in a very determined crusade against those worst of modern infidels, the men who run in debt. To say the truth, at the outset, we have not often perused a document less marked by evidences of a Christian spirit of charity for the unfortunate, or of common equity in considering the relations between those who have fallen, and those who maintain their places, in our social system. Indeed we do not remem ber to have once stumbled, in passing through sixteen well-filled octavo pages in which the " Address" is composed, on the words "charity" and "misfortune." After announcing that the adtlressers, " beine men in trade," have an "entire and practical knowledge of the evils under which they now labour. in conducting their business"—which may be supposed likely enough—" and of the legislative remedies those evils require"—a fact much more problematical, they observe, that "for thirty years last past successive Acts of Parliament have passed hostile to the interests of the creditor." They omit to notice the converse of this allegation—that for centuries before the statute-book had been loaded with "Acts of Par liament" hostile to the interests of the debtor. There are other otnis!ions of essential facts, tending towards conclmions very different from those which the " Ad dress" endeavours to establish, which we can readily ac count for. The party or parties who have framed this document appear to have been so completely preoccu pied by sensitiveness to the supposed peril of their own immediate interests under the present state of the law, that they could entertain no considerations which did not lean, like the trees for many miles in the vicinity of Liverpool, all in one direction. For the same reason, too, they rest their whole case on premises which have r.4erence to the wrongs of "tradesmen exclusively, not to these of the commercial classes, who are included merely in the superscription of the "Address." This is a species of egotism which we have often noticed in the constituency of the addressers. The course of Government on great national questions—the policy of the measures it may have adopted in vindication of the national honour— the ultimate results of so vast a disturbing action as that of the Reform Bill—these are always put in the same category with a proposition for repealing the small receipt stamp duty, or the duty on rice. "The" question with every tradesman, and the only one he ever dreams of in connexion with any measure of the kind, is—" Will it make good for trade ?" An Emperor dies, and there is a court mourning here, and there are sanguinary tumults, with fearful violence, elsewhere. The court mourning goes down to the credit of the event; the consideration for the mass of human misery which accompanies it appears nowhere on his books. A man like RONIILLY, or BUXTON, passes out of existence : there is no court mourning, but a voice of lamentation from the friend less, the indigent, and oppressed. His death, however, does not "snake good for trade," and On that account is "not" a matter of congratulation with the thrifty London trader. Eight hundred thousand of our fellow-creatures, negro slaves in our West Indian colonies, are, by a magnificent act of retributive justice and British magnamity, set free in a single day. Eight hundred thousand human beings spring, at a bound, from the lowest depths of social degra dation to the tatus and relations of freemen—a Roble spectacle, worthy of a festival holiday in its honour to be celebrated by all the races of civilised mankind in all time to come. In London it was difficult to show that this mighty manumission " would make good for trade ;" and on that account no entries are to be found in its day-book or in its ledger to record this proceeding as matter for con gratulation. The division on Mr. COBDEN'S motion for an inquiry into the cause of agricultural distress was, within a few votes, what might have been expected. The majority which Sir ROBERT PEEL can always command when he chooses to act the Farmers' Friend were at their post, and resolutely determined to look for no relief to themselves, their tenants, and their half starved labourers but from protection. They have not courage to look the evil in the face, and, like sluggards, trust to the chapter of accidents, or what is still more hopele s, to vain Acts of Parliament, for rdief Speeches like those of Mr. COBDEN and Lord Howtex, excellent as they are, are entirely thrown away on men whom experience cannot convince. Though the corn-laws have been in operation now for thirty years, and during a great portion of that period were entirely in accordance with the landowners' claims, prices have been constantly fluctuating—they are now so low, that ruin stares master and servant in the face , —yet still the monopolists continue the mad cry " More corn laws,"and " Down with free trade." The Government, however, are evidently conscious of the absurdity of these men, for, with the exception of Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT, all were silent, and had he been silent too their case would perhaps have been better. The Duke of Wfimaxe TON has long undergone the odium of having described county meetings as farces, but .there was absolute wisdom in this maxim compared with the character which the new Secretary at War has given of Committees of Inquiry. " Tell me," said he, " the politics of the majority of the Committee, and I will tell you the nature of the report." So that all inquiries are vain, honour and honesty are not to be found among the representatives of the people. Facts are set at defiance, and the Chairman of a Corn mittee delivers a report, not according to evi dence, but in accordance with his politics. We trust, however, that the enemies of the corn-laws will not be dismayed by such defeats, but persevere in the steady tenor of their way till they have, by the re petition of undeniable facts, taught even their blind op ronents wisdom. They have already done wonders. they have silenced Sir ROBERT PEEL, because ho cannot deny their conclusions without contra vening his own principles on free trade ; but they have done a great deal more, they have roused the farmers to their real interests and the cause of all their distress. The obstinate agriculturists of the old school have begun to open their eyes—they hare tried protection, till they are left without protection ; and they now believe that safety may yet be found by improvements in their system, by increased diligence and industry, and by securities from the landlord that their lab; ur and capital shall have a suitable return—in other- words, that their is no safety for them, and no hopes but in lca'es of such a length that they shall have time for realising ample returns for their outlay. This is -the foundation of all good farming. Without it neither .Sovereign, nor Parliament, nor Minister can afford them any relief. For this new light they are en tirely indebted to Mr. COBDEN and his friends ; and, instead of denouncing them as enemies, they ought to welcome them as their best friends. We cannot recur to the debate of Tuesday night, on Mr. AGLIONBY'S motion for the production of papers connected with the affairs of New Zealand and the of Captain FITZROY'S government, without a feel ing of extreme difficulty in selecting the most important features which it presents for animadversion. On the conduct of the New Zealand Company—on the unjusti fiable proceedings of its Directors—on the loss of pro perty, the disappointed hopes, the broken spirits, the ruined expectations which have ensued upon their past mismanagement—we have not been slow to express our strong opinions. We do not, therefore, in the present state of our information, feel prepared to concur with the Hon. Member for Coekermouth in the sort of case he hai inferentially assumed in favour of that Company, as a public body at once meritorious and aggrieved. We have no sympathy with the singular delusion under which its champions labour, when, in vindicating the complaints of certain settlers and colonists against the local government of that far distant possession, " that an undue degree of consideration and favour is habitually shown to the 'savages'"—as they are pleased to term the whole of the Aboriginal population;—they affect to treat the native New Zealanders as overgrown children, in capable of judging what are their own wants, ignorant of what are their own rights, and inadequate to any estimation of the means presented to them for supplying the one or establishing the other. If negotiations with the New Zealanders for the purchase of lands, or the preparation of treaties, have failed on account of this fatal preliminary, an undervaluing of the moral dispo sition and natural intelligence of the people, the fault lies in the gross ignorance and misapprehension of those who undertook the organization of such relations with them being so utterly disqualified for such a duty. So far from regarding—with some of cur friends in whose political and commercial views we have the happiness of generally concurring—the principles or management of the whole New Zealand Company concern with un qualified favour, we look upon it as one of the most ill considered, precipitate, ill-advised, and ignorantly worked experiments in colonial emigration and settlement uhich AI as ever set afloat in this country. The Company's affairs abroad seem to have been at least as much mismanaged as their business at home; and a more emphatic con demnation than this we could not pronounce upon the Association. The catastrophe of Wairau was the in evitable denouenzeht of such a melancholy series of blunders. We sincerely lament, with Mr. BULLER, the disastrous fate of Captain 'WAKEFIELD on that occasion ; but can we forget the fatuity or the misfortune which makes him so largely responsible for the incredible proceeding, on the part Of the settler-band, of surrendering up their arms, without a struggle, to the sanguinary followers of the implacable chief to whose spears and clubs they may be said to have presented themselves a voluntary sacrifice ? But we dismiss the particular case of New Zealand, and even of the extravagant mal administration of its interests by the Government ap pointed under the Colonial Department, in order to ex press our unqualified thanks to Mr. AGLIONBY for the masterly exposition he gave of Donning-street dog gedness and folly in elealirg with the must vital inte rests of cur fellow-subjeets in our remotest possessions. It is high time, as the Hon. and Learned Gentleman, who followed Mr. BULLER in a speech of congenial ability, said, " that the attention of the Legislature should be solemnly directed to the unsatisfactory management of colonial business by the Minister for that great department, and the melancholy exhibitions of in capacity and wrong-heatedness uhich its selected go vernors to fre.Tiantly exhibit, to the amazement of the public. To judge from the official acts of Captain FITZROY, which are of an eccentric extravagance, on the statements of these gentlemen, we are left to hesitate under what phase of intelligent respectability we are to consider him as acting. We must not call him a pon juror—we do not believe him to be one. But he seems as Tofound an adept in hazarding measures of suicidal temerity as the " medicine man" in a camp of Mandan It is really pleasant to contemplate the emotions of resentment with which the Address adverts to the statutes that have ameliorated the severity of the old penal law against debtors. " This hostility consists in the furnishing of increased facilities to the debtor to Fet rid of what is mildly and tenderly termed ' his difficulties.' " Of course these could not possibly be the result of " his misfortunes." These latter-day evils of mitigation are attributed, among other causes, to the Insolvent Debtors' Court, the abolition of arrest on mesne process, and Lord BROUGHAM'S late Act "until, at length, the creditor is left without any power" ! !—(there are no writs, no judgments, no ex ecutions, no costs, no imprisonments, now, then ?) " and lags (lies) entirely at the mercy of his debtor." That is, we suppose, the debtor can proceed against his creditor for giving him credit, and only abstains from so doing as an act of mercy ! " Formerly the debtor was at the mercy of his creditor." Now, there's the rub. NVhy should the Legislature have ever taken away from the creditor the useful and delicious powers of ingeniously tormenting ? Alas, for the good old times when a creditor was armed, like a cat, with strong legal talons and unescapab!e eyes, an 1 paws and mouth, to frighten, toss, worry, agitate, wound, mutilate, and destroy his victim, for his wholesome sustenance, as well as for his pleasure and amusement! In 1845 we could not have anticipated that one hand would be raised agaip, as it is here, stealthily,in favour of the arrest on mesne process, and that we should hear a Jeremiad over the days that are gone of swarming prisons, with broken-hearted unfortunates herded up together with fraudulent and felonious swindlers, knaves, and cheats. Why, we know that in the eighteen months subse quent to the peace of December, 1825, produced by one of the many convulsions which Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Currency Bill of 1819 has already occasioned, and, alas ! is still destined to generate; no less than 101,000 writs for debt were issued from the Courts in England alone. Is it to this wise and humane and politic state of things that this " Equitable" As sociation would desire to force the country back ? We know that in the year ending sth of January, 1830, to the several prisons of London alone, 7114 persons had been committed for debt, of whom 1547 on that day were still confined. Is this the standard number of hecatombs which the Association's pro pensity to victimize would still demand ? The As sociation seems to rely for a confirmation of its amiable views on a very foolish speech attributed to Mr. Commissioner Evart, who, if ever he pronounced it, was guilty of a strange excess of judicial indecorum so to express himself of the very Act of Parliament, the provisions of which he was sitting expressly to administer. The spirit in which the address is con ceived may be further inferred from this passage : " The workhouse has been rendered as repulsive as possible, to induce persons to support themselves by their own industry and conduct; but the Insolvent Courts have been rendered as traractive as possible to people in difficulties;' and,then comes the ugly argu ment for tin propriety of the new legislation which the association deprecate so much. Bat it is s%id "That these increased facilities f..,r debtors getting out of their difficulties should have made creditors more cautious in giving credit;" that" they have the power of withholding credit, and that if they will give credit, they must 410 the consequences." "If they TRI4I SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 15, 1845. or Scioux Indians. It was well observed that the ques tion of New Zealand was that of our colonial govern ment at large ; its history only a striking illustration of the entire ignorance of the whole subject of colonial government, which pervaded the whole colonial adminis tration abroad and at home. And what can be the cause of this singular administrative anomaly in a Go vernment generally of so much intelligence and sagacity as our own ? We answer that it is mainly the re sult of the very defective system of education which prevails in our Universities and public schools Captain FITZROY, it must have been imagined, was, by descent and family connexion, a born legislator. His blunders are only one more example to prove the rule of favouri:ism and party connexions in the bestowal of such appointments, and to illustrate their melancholy but inevitable consequences. Now and then a man like STANFORD RAFFLES starts into place without any of these adventitious advantages, and establishes the empire of his country's political force and renown in Java, or gives marvellous concentration to her co nmercial energy and greatnesss at Singapore. He is only a " practical" man, of no connexions but great natural talents, expanded by observation, sharpened by necessity, and matured by experience, into statesmanlike wisdom. He is a brilliant exception ; but one of such ncte and mark as should at once override the rule. We might in that event look for colonial secretaries appointed in virtue only of their extensive knowledge of colonial affairs, their dispas sionate judgment, temper, and patriotic disregard of personal prepossessions or prejudices. We might then hope for colonial governors, nominated on account only of their talents for administration, their local know. ledge, their ability to reconcile the legitimate c!aiins of individual interests with the paramount demands of the public good ;—men distinguished alike fur being con versant with the business of government, and gifted with a knowledge of human character. On this last point we are pleased to avail ourselves of the implied reflection on the inistaktn policy which inexperience or ignorance of the character of the New Zealand Abori gines has induced English functionaries of all kinds in that island to adopt, that was conveyed in the remark of an lion. Tory Member, with whom it is rarely our fortune to side. But we do acquiesce, to the letter, in these observations by Sir ROBERT INGLIS:—'•From the moment that we thus recognised them, all our pro ceedings in reference to them should have proceeded on the footing of equal rights, ant of equal power, for that was not possible. But, on the contrary, the case, as it actually stood, was the clue of a company of persons, and the individuals composing that company were men of character as high and principles us just as any who are to le, found in any part of the empire, the binding prin ciples of whom, it could not be der.ied, were principles of pecuniary interest." Madrid journals of the 6th have been received. In the Chamber of Deputies, on that day, the report of the Committee on the restoration of Church property had been presented. The majority are in favour of the Government proposition, but a separate report was given in by the minority, in which it is recommended that further guarantees should be given to the purchasers of national property, and that the property about to be given to the clergy should not be placed at their absolute and uncontrolled disposal. The editor of the Espectador, charged with publishing a libel on the Government rela tive to the execution of Zurbano, had been acquitted. AIADRID BOURSE.—Three per Cents, for cash 33i, for account 34 9-16 ; Fire per Cents. for account 251: The intelligence in the Paris papers is not important. The Chamber of Deputies had resolved unanimously to take into consideration the Bill of M. MURET DE BORT, for the Conversion of the Five per Cents. The Finance Minister said he had no objection to the measure being brought forward for discussion, and pledged himself to bring in 'a Bill on the subject next session. A tele graphic dispatch, dated the 10th, had been received by the Government on Tuesday from the Maritime Prefect of Toulon, announcing that the strike by the workmen of the . Arsenal had ceased, and that the men had re sinned their. labours. The Paris papers contain some additional particulars respecting the late fatal duel. It appears that M. DUJARRIER, who was killed, had the first fire, but missed his antagonist. M. BEAUVALON, in returning the shot, sent his ball through the right eye into the brain of his adversary, who was immediately put into his carriage to be conveyed home, but he expired before it reached the house. The duel, it appears, arose out of a dispute at a party of cards. The Droit says, "A writing stained with blood, found in one of M. DUJARRIER'S pockets, dated Monday night, twelve o'clock, and addressed to his testamentary executor, begins in these words:—' At the moment of going to fight a duel, on the most futile and absurd of causes, I intrust to you my last will.' Then follows an enumeration of the legacies, one of which is eighteen shares in the Theatre of the Palais Royal, to an actress of the Theatre of the Porte St. Martin. The Procu reur du Roi has named an examining magistrate to in vestigate the circumstances of the death, and an autopsy of the body has been ordered. Warrants for the arrest of M. BEAUVALON and his seconds have been issued." MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, FRIDAY EVENING. Consols closed precisely the same as in the morning, being 99 3 % % for Money and 100 to for Account. Exchequer bills were firm. The Foreign Investments realised full prices. Spanish Three per Celts. were 40% %. Portuguese Converted rallied to 66% and 67. Colombian were 14% to % premium. Peruvian, 323 to 33%; and Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cents. 101%. The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been these :—The Birmingham and Gloucester 31% to 31 ; Ditto, Half, 1 ; Bristol and Exeter, 11 1 ,E ' • Caledonian, 3% 3 / 4 ; Churnet Valley, 4% to 5; Dublin and Galway, %; Eastern Counties, ; Perpetual, No. 2, %; Union Extension, 2%; Great Southern and Western (Ireland) Extension, 4%; Great North of England, 89 ; New, 19 ; Guildford, Fareham, and Portsmouth, ; Harwich, ; Hull and Selby, Half, 16% •, London and Birmingham, 231 ; Ditto, Thirds, 42 to % ; Brighton, 13% ; South-Western, 38%; Croydon, 4% to ; Ditto, Guaranteed, 1.; London and York, % % ; Lynn and Ely, 2% ; North British .. 7 7 I ,q ; NotViern and astern, Scrip, 19% ; North Kent, 1 1 ,E ' • Richmond and West-End Junction, 2% ;- Scottish Midland, I/ 2 ' • North Wales, % ; Di rect Northern, 13; ; .Chichester and Brighton, %; Shrews bury and Birmingham, 3% : South-Eastern, 9%; Ditto, New, No. 3, OA . ; South Wales, 3 3 / 4 ; Trent Valley, 20%; Waterford and Kilkenny, 2 1 / s ; York and North Slidland, 51 to 53 ; Ditto, Half, 26 ; Selby, 46 ; Boulogne and Amiens, 7%; Orleans and Vierzon, 15%; Orleans and Bordeaux, 8% ; Paris and Orleans, 31 ; and Paris and Strasburg, % premium ; Lincoln, York, and Leeds were % discount ; Real Del Monte Mine, Unregistered, were 5. There has been an advance in the rate of Exchange on Hamburg, Paris, and Trieste; but on Antwerp bills were taken at lower rates.' (From The Sun of Last Night.) The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was flat. Sake, 5,000 bales, including 500 American on speculation. There was no alteration in prices; 100 bales Pemain went at 5%d. to 1 , 6d. ; 100 Maranham at 54d. ; and 300 Surat, .at 2%41. . t 3d.—Shares were firm, and a large business was done. Barnsley Junction,3% ; Birkenhead, Manchester, and Ches ter, 8 1 ,4 ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 8 % ; Caledonian, 7% %; Cambridge and Lincoln, 6 %; Chester and Birken head, 41% ; Ditto, New Shares, 33% ; Ditto, Half Shares, 20 1 2 ; Chester and Holyhead, 8 %; Churnet Valley, 7%; Cork and Brandon, 4 ; Dublin, Mullingar, and Athlone, 2; Eastern Counties, 21 % ; Ditto, Perpetual, No. 1,5/. 13s. 4d. ; Ditto, No. 2, 245. 2 is. 4d ; Ely and Bedford, 2%; Grand June tion, 224 ; Do., Quarters, 55 3 % 56 ; Do., Eighths, 19 % • Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 3 1 / 2 4; Huddersfield Canal and Rail way, 5%; Lancaster and Preston, 53 ; Liverpool and Man chester, 207 ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 63 61 ; ondon and . Birmingham ; 233 234; Do., 321. Shares, 43%; Do., Quarter Shares, 30% 31 • London and South- Western, 79%; London and York, 3% %; Direct Northern, 4%, 4/. 18s. 9d.; Leeds and West Riding Junc tion, 7 7%; .Lvnri and Derehaa - i, 295. ; Manchester and Birmingham, e 6 65%; Do., Quarter Shares, 11s. %; Manchester, Billy, and Rossendale, 14%; Manchester, Bol ton, and Bury, 160% 165 ; Manchester and Leeds, 142%; Ditto, Sixteenth Shares, 7%; Midland Railway, 140% 140%; Ditto, 40/. Shares; 13%; Ditto, Fifths, 33q ; "Ditto, Consoli dated Birmingham and Derby, 109 ; Newcastle and Berwick, 14; Newcastle and Carlisle, 125; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 31% ; North Union, 79 ; North Wales, 2 3 /; Preston and Wyre, 30 %; Sheffield • and Manchester, 104 1 ,1 2 105, Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and Birmingham, 3% ; Shrewsbury and Grand Junction, 5% ; Shrewsbury, and Chester, 2%; South-Eastern and Dover, 421'4 ; Ditto, "New, No. 1, 16%; Ditto, New, No. 3 , 8% %; South Wales, 5% 1 ,4 ; Trent Valley, 22 3 / 4 ; West Yorkshire, 3% ; Worcester and Tring, 3% ; Bordeaux and Toulouse (Mackenzie's), 2%; Bordeaux and Cette, 2%; Boulogne and Amiens (English), 10s. 16s. Bd. • Central of France, 17 ;Northern of France (English), 6 ; Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux (English), 974 ; Paris and St. Quentin, 7 %; Sambre and Meuse, 6%; Verona and Ancona, 255. There seems to be now no doubt but that all the sugar in bond, subject to 245. and 5 per cent., will be realised at the uniform duty of 14s: per cwt., without reference to quality. We shall have - a busy day to-morrow at the docks and Custom -house. _ _ . _ There arc deplorable accounts from Prussia of the state of the inhabitants of several districts. In the circle of Cletzko it is stated that there were four thou sand families without food or work, and in Fried land one-third of the houses are described as being un inhabited and shut up. The mortality among the people, owing to starvation and the severity of the winter, was per fectly awful; and from the 9th to the 16th ult. the deaths were as 6 to 1 to the births. During the winter three• fourths of the cattle are said to have p( rished for the want of proper shelter and nourishment, and the people were reduced to such a state that in numerous instances they preferre.t remaining in bed half the day to avoid the cold, and console themselves for their scanty supply of food. The agriculturists had not even the requisite seed to put in the ground for the ensuing crops, and there was little hope for them but from immediate assistance by Go vernment. All this is given in a communication horn Co logne, and yet it appears extraordinary th at if matters are so bad the Berlin Cabinet should not, ere this, have inter posed. The Funds are firmer again, Consols having touched 99% and . par for illone.y. Nothing has been done in Bank Stock. Exchequer-bills Bite been 665. to 68s. premium. The value of Portuguese Stock- has further receded, the Converted being 65 1 / to 6616. A reaction is to be expected. Spanish Five per Cents. are up to 29 3 / 4 and 30 1 4. The Threes are 40 3 / 4 . Mexican Bonds bring 36 1 4 to %. Dutch Two and- a-Half per Cents. are 6312. Shares are rather fluctuating. South-Eastern have been better, Churnet Valley rather lower, Direct Northern firm, and London and York steady. Brighton are quiet. • ONE CLOSING PRICES OF DITITIS2I FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. 3 per Cent. Consols South Sea Stock Ditto New Annuities . . 9 8 3 /4 98 3 A Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., 1 1 ,4 d.... 66 68 pm. 68 Ditto 500/. . Ditto Small ... 67 68 pm. 68 Ditto Advertised pm. ONE PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 43 Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela 14% Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837... 3 6 14% Ditto, Deferred — 15% Peruvian Bonds d per Cents 331,4 33% Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto, Converted Ditto, Account 67 66% 67% Russian Bonds 11 6 14 117 Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Passive Ditto 3 per Cent. . .. 40% Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent — Ditto, Deferred Belgian Bonds, 4% per Cent — 101 1 4 Dutch, 2% per Cent Ditto Account Ditto, 4 per Cent., Cerufic 9 9 14 99 PRICES OF CLOSING RAILWAY SHARES PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK. riticEs Binning. and Gloucesterloo 13 2 1 /4 Do. New Ditto % Shares Bristol and Exeter Bristol and Gloucester... 30 Cal.tdonian ,. Cambridge and Lincoln 1 1 / 2 ...... 6 i i fi % Chester and Holyhead... 5 Chichester and Brighton 5 Cliurnet Valley Cornwall Direct Northern Dublin and Galway..... 2 1 / 2 2 % 8% Eastern Counties 25 ... .. 21 1 / 8 20% Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, 'No. 1...•41. 13s. 4d l l /8 1 ... Ditto ditto, No.'2. l3s. 4d — .. Eastern Union lO .. ... Ditto Extension Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 Ditto New 1 4 Shares... 2% 5% ••• Ely and Bedford Grand Junction ' 100 Ditto Quarters Great South. and West. (Ireland) Ditto Extension Groat North of England..loo l9O Ditto New Ditto New - : 2 Great Western . ..... ••••• 80 ......176 1 / Ditto 1 ,4 Shares Ditto Fifths - • 20 Guildford, Farn'in,Ports. 2%..... 4' l 7 i , Harwich . 1 Hull and Gainsborough 1% l% Hull and Selby , 5O Do. Half Shares Lincoln, York, and Leeds 1% London and Birminghm (5t0ck)...234 Do. New Thirds London and Blackwall. 16/. 135.4 d 7%%, London and Brighton... 50 ...... 63% Do. Consolidated Bths 16 London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. 18 1 4 18 ... Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. " 4 London and S. Western 4116 s 10d 79% Do. New London and York - . 2% . . 3 1 / B A% Lynn and Ely ...... ...... 2 1 ,4 5 14... Manchester and Leeds— 73 145 Do. % Shares Midland • 100 139 138 Do. New Newcastle and Darling ton Junction 24 ...... 47% Newcastle and Berwick 1 1 / 1 3 1 A 3 /4 North British Do. New - • . 1 Northern and Eastern... 45 Do. Scrip Do. Quarters 1 2 14.— 181 / 8 North Kent North Wales Norwich and Brandon... 10 Richmond and West End Junction Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1 Scottish Midland • 1 %...... Shrews., ‘Volverhamp , Dudley, and firm VA.._ 64/0% moi t .. South Devon... lO .... 174 1 ,4 South Eastern & Dover 33l 2s 4d... 42% 43 . D0., No. 2. Do~ No. 3 South Wales 2% 6: 37; 61 A% 6 % West London,Old Shares 20 Waterford and Kilkenny 1 ...... ...... Yarmouth and Norwich. 20 York and North Midland 50 lOll% 102 Ditto % Shares 25 . ... Do. Selby • 20 Do. Extension FRENCH RAILWAYS. Boulogne and A miens... 4 Bordeaux and Toulouse 2 - , ... Bordeaux, Toulouse. and Cette ..... .... . ... ..... 2 Great North. of France.. 4 Orleans and Vierzon ... 2 ...... 17 EA ... •• Orleans and Bordexix... 2 earis & Lyons, Laffitte's ' Paris Lied Lyous, Gan neron's, ... .. 2 21 / 2 %' Paris and Orleans 2O Paris and Rouen Strasbourg and Bale ... 14 MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 1 3.—Th a sales are :—Eastern : Counties, 21 20%; Ditto, Per, aetuit, No. 1, 5/. 13s. 6d. ; Ditto, ditto, No. 2, 255. ; London a ad _Birming ham, 235 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 57% ex flew and ex div.; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 9 1 4 11 1 / cum r, - ;:ow i; Ditto, New Quarters, 4% 15-16 prem.; Manchester, B. _ tr y, and Ros sendale, 13 3 4 ; Midland Railway Consols, 1391 4 ' . [WO, 401. Shares, 13% ; North British, New Shares„.74% ; zo -th ... CLOSING PRICES. The accounts from Switzerland are favourable, and strong hopes are entertained that the disputes will be amicably settled by the withdrawal of the Jesuits front Lucerne, and the disbanding of the free corps. The Di rectory of Zurich has addressed a proposition to the Diet, the object of which is to put down the free corps in all the cantons, and the following note on the same subject has been sent by M. G EMT to the French Ambas sador, the Count DE Poxrurs, which be had communi cated to the Vorort on the 7th. It is dated the 3d inst.:— " Monsieur le Comte,—l have just received your dispatches of the 28th ult. It is with the most lively satisfaction that I perceive in them proofs of a complete accord between you and your colleagues—an accord so necessary in the presence of the embarrassments of which Switzerland is the theatre, and which corresponds so well with the entente cordiale that unites all Cabinets. The formation of the free corps is, without contradiction, one of the most serious events of the present state of things; and already, more than once, I have apprised you of the anxiety that I felt as to the eventualities with which, not only the repose but also the existence of the confederation, were menaced by this organised anarchy. The imperative necessity of putting an end to such abuses, and preventing a recurrence of them, is not contested in Europe by any of the true friends of Switzerland. In Switzerlaod itself it cannot be a question of doubt for enlightened minds. At the moment when the Diet is about to deliberate on the free corps, I expressly re commend to you to call the most serious attention of the Pre sident to the radical illegality and incalculable danger of such an institution. Announce to him in the most formal terms our Lull and entire conviction on this subject. Let the Diet before it separates, be th on e c mo v s i t n e c n e e d rg of et t i h e e m n e e a c s e u s r s e it s y t o o f p a re d v o e p n ti t ng the recurrence oPthe attempts which have compromised the repose of Switzerland. Insist on the enormous responsibility which, in the eyes of Switzerland and the whole of Europe, would fall upon such of the cantona l go vernments as should, in contempt of the rights of nations and the stipulations of the federal compact, tolerate, or not take means of preventing, the violation of the public peace. You are authorised to communicate this dis patch to the President of the Diet, and to furnish him with a copy of it." The amount of business done on Wednesday in Rentes on the Paris Bourse was trifling. The Three per Cents. had not varied in price; the Fives had slightly advanced. the forrnerleaving off at 85f. 10c.; and the latter at 118 f, for the end of the month. The market closed as follows s —Five per Cents. for cash, 117 f. 65c.; for account,llBf. Three per Cents. foi cash, 85f. 5c.; for account, 85f. 10c. Bank of France Shares, 3,175 f. Neapolitan, 1041. 50e. Spanish Five per Cents., 391. Spanish Threes, 403. Paris and Orleans Railroad, 1,315 f. Paris and Rouen Railroad, Railroad,lsOf. 1 ,lof: Rouen l and Havre Railroad, 960 f. 40 3 / I 81% 83/4 5 3 / 4 7 40 4,4 3 211/4 ..... 21/i 7 1 4 189 18y MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS —The number of deaths last week was 1,141, being 111 above the average. The excess is still almost entirely confined to diseases of the lungs and the other organs of respiration, especially bronchitis, and pneumonia. Deaths from small-pox are on the decrease, though still rather above the average. The number of deaths from burns and scalds is enormously large, amounting to 22 cases. There are 4 suicides. _ _ - - MAIDS or HONOUR.—A new historical novel is announced as immediately forthcoming, under the above title, which will afford, we understand, a most extraor Binary picture of the Court of England in the last cen tury. The scenes of Court life introduced to the reader are said to convey the most singular revelations respect ing the various royal and noble personages who form the dramatis personce. Among them are the Court Beauties, who give the title to the work, together with the Royal Family, the Ministers, and the various great officers of the Palace, and some of the leading characters, fashion able and literary, of the period, which is perhaps one of the most striking in our social history. Much curiosity has been excited respecting the authorship of the work, which, f,r obvious reasons, has been studiously con cealed. THE UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE.—The following is a correct list of the Oxford crew:— st. lb. I. Haggard, M., Christ Church lO 3 2. Stapylton, W. C., Merton 3. Mihnan, W. H., Christ Church 4. Lewis, Ii , Pembroke ll 7 5. Buckle, W., Oriel 6. Royds, F. C. Brasenose ll 5 7. Wilson, F. M., Christ Church ... 12 3 8. Tuke, F. E., Brasenose l2 2 Richards, F. J. Merton (coxswain) ... 10 10 The Cambrid ge crew arrived at Putney on Wednesday after. noon, arid are staying at Avis's, the Bens Tavern, for the purpose of paying the utmost attention to their training, as also to...practise over the course selected for the aquatic struggle. They took a tour up to Mortlake immediately after their arrival, which they repeated on Thursday, shortly before dusk. The wind from the north was so severe that they could with difficulty grasp their oars, and where the slightest damp touched their clothes they became frozen whilst they were rowing. They appear in the finest possible condition and spirits and average eleven and a half-stone per mari. The Oxford were expected on Thursday, and much cu riosity was manifested to see them at work, but they had not arrived late yesterday evening. W. Harrison, Esq., the Com modore of the Royal Thames Yacht Club, has Consented to be umpire on the occasion. The race will be started upward, the distance being from Putney-bridge to Mortlake church, and will take place at about five in the afternoon. 44% 633/4 49 4 3'7/ 21/8 42% 8 3 4 6% 3% 11% 2% 17 4 201,4 Union (B), 78 ; Preston and Wyre, 29% ; Sheffield and Manchester, 107 ; South-Eastern. No. 3,7% %; York and North Midland, 105 ; Birkenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction, 8% ; Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 5% ; Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 3 15-16 ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 8%; Caledonian, 7 3 / 13-'l6 ; Cambridge and Lincoln; 6% %; Churnet Valley, 7 %; Ely and Bedford, 2; Great Grimsby and She ffi eld Junction, 3% .3 / 4 ; Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 5 1 % •, Leeds and Wrest Riding Junction, 6 3 % •, Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 3 1 / %; London and Worcester, Oxford and Rugby, 3% ; London and York, 3 % ; Manchester and Buxtor, ; Newark and Sheffield, 2 % ; Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver hampton, 21,4 ; Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, 20s. 225. 6d. ; Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, Dudley, &c., 3%; Trent Valley, 17 16% ex new; Great Northern of rance, (English), 5% 3 / 4 ; Sambre and Meuse, 6%; Union Bank of Manchester, 10%; Rochdale Canal, 53 ; Manchester Fire and Life Assurance, 11%. COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—(YESTERI . Anuterdam CF. 12 81 Gibraltar.. . . ..._... Ditto, at sight l2 61 Leghorn ... ...,..,. Rotterdam 2U. 12 9 Genoa Antwerp 26 20 Hamburgh 11.8. 14 0 Altona l4 0 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 20 Ditto, 3 months 26 15 Marseillas 26 20 Bourdeaux 26 25 Frankfort on Maine 123 Petersburgh, 3Us 37 Berlin 7 Vienna, offee. fl. 3 M lO 4 Trieste, ditto Madrid 36/ Cadiz Llilbao 36 Barcelona 36 Seville COURT Milan ..... ....... Valk() .. 47 Naples ....... t'allvrtno, 0z.... 118 i Lisbon Oporto _ _ Rio Jantirri Bahia Buenos f• -t 23 Newl'og k .1 tlys Philact?. , ri • ...... MULLION, TER OZ Forei•.v.: .1":1, bars. .£'3 17 9 Port Coin 6 17 5 New D • .00n5..... 0 Nc.w . s 4 91 Silva 'lnrs . 4 11A The Queen and. Prince All royal gardens of Buckingham His Royal Highness Prince meeting of the Commission foi the Fine Arts in the rebuilding IRCULA.R. Bert walked yesterday in the Palace . - Albert presided yesterday at a r promoting and encouraging g the Palace of Westminste.r. His Royal Highness arrived at Gwyder House, 'Whitehall, at a quarter before three o'clock, attended by Major-General Sir Edward Bowater. The Commissioners present were the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord Colborne. Lord Mahon, the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, Sir Robert Harry Inglis, Bart. ; Mr. Benjamin Hawes, M.P.; Mr. Henry Hallam,Mr. Rogers, and Mr. lhomas Wyse. The meeting broke up at five. Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal was taken en airing in the royal gardens •yesterday. The royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace esterday included her Royal Highness the Duchess' of Moucester, their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz, the Austrian Ambassador and the Countess Dietrichstein, the Prussian Minister and Madathe Bunsen ; Mr. Barnard, her Majesty's Charge d'Af• faires in Cobourg; the Earl and Countess Clanwilliam, Viscount Canning, Lady GeoNiana Bathurst, the Right Hon. Thomas Pemberton Leigh, and Sir George Anson. The Band of the Grenadier Guards attended during dinner and performed the following pieces:— , Overture—" La Clemenza di Tito" Waltzer—" Loveley Rhem Klailye" Strauss. Potpourri—" Belisario" • Donizetti. Polka—" Kratky" ............. Galop—" Parisina" _ Kiihner. The band was directed by Mr. Schott. Her Hoyal Highness the Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden visited her daughter the Marchioness of Douglas yes-• terday, at her residence in Connaught place. Many of the Nobility called yesterday to learn the state of the Mar chioness. The answer given was, " The Marchioness is going on favourably." Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam bridge, accompanied by the Princess Mary, and the Heredi tary Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, at tended by Mr. Edmond Mildmay, visited the Royal Ex change yesterday and were conducted through the different parts of the building. The Duke of Cambridge attended Divine service yester day morning in Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley-street. A deputation from the Steam-ship Owners' Association, consisting of Mr. Wilson, Mr. Anderson, and Mr. Shadbolt, the Secretary, had an interview with Sir George Clerk yes terday, at the office of the Board of Trade. Mr. Bell, Mr. Hutt, and Mr. Metcalfe, with a deputation of dealers in bottles, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Down ing-street. Mr. P. M. Stewart, Mr. Lockhart, and Mr. Bouverie, with a Deputation of Sugar Refiners, consisting of Messrs. Davis, P. Martineau, Fairrie, Hodgson, and Lucas, of London ; Messrs. Macfie, R. A. Macfie, and William Macfie, from Scotland and Liverpool ; and Mr. Eales, of Plymouth, had an interview with Sir Robert Peel and the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at the official residence of the Right Hon. Baronet, in Downing street. A Deputation from the Leather-trade, consisting of Messrs. Boutcher, Meek, Drake, Kearby, and ox, had an interview with Sir George Clerk yesterday. Mr. Dean, Chairman of the Customs, and Mr. John Wood Chairman of the Excise, had interviews yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. A deputation on the subject of the South American Mails, consisting of Messrs. Kendal, Alison, Dickson, and Wheel wright had an intervi :w with the "Earl of Dalhousie yester day, at the offide of the Board of Trade. The members of the aisputation were introduced by Lord Abisig,er: OLYMPIC THEATRE Latta night was the last night of the season. The perform ance!' were f.r the benefit of our old friend Rayner, and we were glad to see that the lovers of sterling acting rallied round him on the occasion. The house was crowded from the rising of the curtain. The first piece was Clari, with Miss Daven port as the heroine, and Rayner as Rolamo. In the character of Clari there is that b autiful mixture of simplicity and pathos, in the depicting of which Miss Da venport stands unequalled. Never have we seen a more beautiful—a more interesting performance. Rayner's Rolamo was a fine, energetic, manly piece of acting. The scene in which he curses his daughter was terrific. After Clari we had the School of Reform, with Rat nee as Robert Tyke. To all playgoers the announcement of the part is suffi cient—the character of Tyke is Rayner's own, and has been since the death of Emery, and we never saw him act Tyke better than_ he did last evening. It was a perform ance worthy of the character and of himself. The comedy was gat up with a very strong cast - there was James Browne as Ferment, acting as lightly and looking as young as ever, witk a smack of the Eiliston style about him, which was quite deliglatil.—(By-the-bye, Mr. Browne. do not, for the future, place the accent on the first syllable in the word consideration—it savours considerably of the other side of the Atlantic). And there was Miss L. Mel ville as Mrs. Ferment, the most lady-like and coquettish of actresses; with Waldron as Lord Avondale, and pretty %liss Martineau as Shelah. The comedy, altogether, was excel iently got up. There then followed a concert, the most amu'- ing feature of which was Rayner's song in the gal lery, the gods joining in chorus. The performances concluded with A Rowland for an Oliver, with James Browne as Alfred Highflyer, and Miss L. Melvil!e as Maria Darlington. Miss L. Melville was excellent in this character—ga y , espi 'gle, lively, yet genteel withal- never since the days of iss Foote have we seen such a Maria Darlington as Miss L. Melville. It is needless to add that she was rap 4 urously applauded. SPORTING INTELLIGErt.CE LEAMINGTON CUP STEEPLE• CH ASE-Tu ESDAY. Sweepstakes of 10 soya each, with a Cup added, 12st each. (20 Subs.) Captain Windsor's Major A • (Owner) 1 Mr. E. Nnnn's The Fr iar....... ........ 2 Colonel Wellingham's The Queen of Trumps ... 3 The following also started but were not placed:— Mr. E. H. Clarke's Whitenose, Mr. H. 11. Faze kerley's Vixen ; Mr. J. Bruce's The Curate ; Mr. Hobson's The Prince ; Mr. Maddocks' Oakstick; Mr. Maddocks's Liaertv (owner); Sir A. Chichester's Chem • pagne (Captain gutton); Mr. Gardener's The Countess (Mr. H. Storey); Sir Wm. Russell's Pussey (Mr. I3ushe); Mr. Carew's Waverley (Mr. Gage); Mr. H. M'Calmont's Magicienne, 7lbs extra. (Mr. Ricardo) • Mr. Owen's Char ley (owner); Mr. J. Wilson nd. Grey dater (Mr. Rlcardo); Mr. Bradshaw's Celarius (Mr. Bright); Mr. Bright's Em bassy; Mr. M'Alpine's Life Guardsman; and Mr. P. Ben nett's Martingale. The race which was over, last year, Southern Course, was run in a snew storm, and was won by six lengths; Whitenose was fourth. • TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. perceive that the Board of Trade have de cided in favour of certain railways, which will connect the metropolis with the mouth of that large river, the Humber, at Grimsby. Now, in case of war, all experi • enced persons are of opinion that the Humber must be protected by Government steamers; and 'would suggest that land at Grimsby should be secured for a Coal Depot, before the proposed improvements have increased its value. I am, Sir, your obedient servant. Woolwich, March 12, 1845. W. It. CHARGE OF FORGERY.—The inspector of police of Rochester received instructions from the Board of Customs to apprehend Mr. Frederick Janes, the collector's clerk, at the Custom-house, Rochester; the officer proceeded there on Wednesday afternoon and apprehended the young man whilst he was attending to the duties of his office. The pri soner is the son of Mr. Janes, a respectable coal merchant, who has resided in Rochester for many years. The charge against him is for obtaining from the comptroller, William Sawyers, Esq., 121. 10s. on producing a receipt with the sig nature of Mr. Simmons, a blockmaker, residing at Graves end, who had sent in his account to the Custom-house for payment. It is stated that there are other charges against the prisoner. ALARMING FIRE IN THE C ITY.—Yesterday morning, about half-past one o'clock, a fire burst forth from the lower part of a large pile of buildings occupied as warehouses on the ground and upper floors by Messrs. A. and S. 111‘Lauren and Mr. G. Clapham, both stuff merchants, situate behind the General Post-office. A valuable quantity of stock is destroyed, and the premises much injured by the fire and water. AIETROpoLITAN IMPROVEMENTS.—The whole of the old Fleet Ditch, so long allowed to remain open as a prolific source of miasma and fiver to the crowded districts in the neighbourhood of Cow-cross, on the line of the new street from Farringdon-street, has been covered over, so that not a vestige of the old river now remains. Great activity pre vails in the formation of the new street from Spitalfields to the London Docks, the whole of the houses in the line being pulled down, and the ground made ready for the erection of new buildings. The part between Whitechapel and Spital fields has been paved, the road is being made, and the gas lamps have been erected. An appropriate site, near Went worth-street, adjoining the line, is spoken of fur the erection of a new district church. At the upper part of the line form ing Leman-street the road is traversed by the. Blackwall Railway, over an iron bridge. In Leicester-square, the last house iii the new street is levelled with the ground, and it is expected the road will be opened for traffic in about another month. THE SHAPwICK MURDERS.—Sarah Freemn, the woman charged with these frightful atrocities, and now in the gaol of this town, is not likely to live until the approach ing assizes, a series of epileptic fits having daily led to the expectation of her dissolution —Taunton thuriar. FLIGHT OF SEA-GULL3.-111ursday afternoon some curiosity was excited in consequence of au unusual flight of sea- gulls, of the largest size, hovering near Bankside. A Mr. Johnson, of Baukside, succeeded in shooting one of them, when, under the wing was discovered a small bit of paper, with the words, " From Dagenham, in Essex, 1831." It is pretty evident friim the flight of these birds to London that the weather must be very severe below bridge. GIVING GIN TO INFANTS.--At a Coroner's inquest held on Thursday before Mr. litggg.'on the body of a child aged three months, it was stated that the mother of the infant, a young woman who sings at 0 011 e -house concerts, had been often observed to give it gin, she being herself in a state of intoxication. Mr. Leonard, surgeon, stated that spirits to a n infant are as poisonous as arsenic to n adult and that upwards of a thousand children annually lose their lives from that cause s d the neglect of drunken parents combined. SUVOARY OF NEVIS AND Vttiiitc 'F pt " )Vito runs way read." FOREIGN. On Monday evening their Majesties the King elgiruffie of tee French received the Turkish Ainhassack,r, the .00 4 guese and Netherlands Ministers, the Dukes d'Estt il i 0 4 , d'lstrie, the Prefect of the Seine, the Counts dllautri-:site Langrange, M. de Bacourt, French Minister to the States, Baron d'Andre, and Generals de Berthoia,Beint and T Marchand. 'll lbl The Duke de Nemours, says one of the journals ' ° of" occasion of the vaccination of his two sons, the Coon,„ 1 t he and the Duke d'Alenfon, has had himself vaccinated second-time. Instrl ctio°' The Count de Salvandv, Minister of Public it,,,da has been re-elected to the Chamber of Deputies soul 2 11 Electoral College of Lectoure. M. de SalvandY be of 2i5 votes. The Anti de la Religion states that the Arch hies' ° s! Rouen, some of his Bishops, and the 13ishops o f Alltel:;riets gres, St. Claude, Grenoble, Dijon, and St. Flour, to the Cardinal Archbishop of Lyons, approving 0" toted e H letter. t 151) Thavre journals state that on Sunday last ago Englishmen made up a purse of 100 E, and, divitlings„osl selves into equal parties, agreed to pass the leisure.ll:ll them by their suspension from work on the railroatl, ;to. coma (tithe day, by a pitched battle on the Pleine ee , ien ce villa They me: and fought with much courage and 1 1 0 °, 1 0. but the authorities arrived at the height of the fray pa t rated the com. sir The remarks made in the French Chamb ers on tboo°ilie ject of the quotation of the Spanish Interior Deht ud ott Paris Bourse h the C or ave give tes by n great offence at Madrid , referred in M. Egana, who accuse , o of being, in a great measure, the cause of t b e.. Pese Spam .0 . 1 06' The Madrid journals announce the arrest of a .aal, co gaud, named Jose Sastre, who is charged with havitit" nutted 117 murders. lers t"' . Isidore Leine, condemned to death for parricide, Wi t ,' t oo his punishment three diets back at Aleneon. H e bed I,r,stAtt time back exhibited every mark of repentance, eto'i, having ascended the scats Id, lie addressed the a° ; 0 4 daring that his punishment was just, an d that he v; sorry A for his rime. Berlin le c tter of the 6th informs us that the n' eg ';a ri tio ° the oldest persons does not furnish them with the fern fallen of a winter in which so large quantity of sn o pads t it tl l ° in Germany as during the present. The ra ilr Harz and siltsia, and those of Madgeburg to LelPs'e' depth the date of this account, covered with snow to the three feet, and terefore impassabletabet The - dispute between the ewer of . the nobles and! 0 orders of the State in Sweden seems to be increaslefea learn, by a letter from Stockholm, that the Coln' t '' , i , tt tr es I • ll , , er e Constitution has come to a resolution to propose that in future no noblemen shall be allowed top re d,st t" the electoral assemblies of the agriculturists, acid, the bind privilege possessed by the nobility of accorapanvinh when lie visits the Hall of the States shall be ;th' il es . ea& %es. a,...1.46. • OOP r e s . At the Maidstone Assizes, a farmer named Nam • e°" - r , d , vered 8001. damages from the Svuth-Eastern • ho e a l se pang, being the value of a certain stack of fan n eon ie tired by sparks from the chimney of one of the "tle ° locomotives. -log eb • U'l ese d John Wells, alias Orchard, charged with ha, lice money by means of forged orders, from seitee• victuallers, was committed for trial from Mallen- • T„Z• 0 51 COURT - FASHION . - - • IVO bA The Lord Chancellor, Lady Lyndhurst, and the for 10 Copley, will leave town early in the ensu ie g the Copley, seat, Turville Park, near Maidenhead, r ood Easter recess. o f C°'n t his The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House ht, will give his last Parliamentary dinner to -01g mansion in Eaton-square. cneo ndr -2,11 , Viscountess Palmerston has issued cards for s t6 ° on Satur Maday evenin. The March g ioness of Douglas continues, wi th berinflis .cti to go on very favourably. a n t es , 'soot!' At the Queen's levee on Wednesday, in St. Ar lo k the Marquis of Westminster was presented to -, t o on succeeding to his title, by the Earl of Wilton. xn ecte e ,di on The Dowager Marchioness of Westminster. i 4 111,90' arrive at Moor Park, Rickmansworth, from W 01 4 after Easter. o d 0% 0 4' The Earl and Countess of Desert have returf t „ st A' Castle, from a visit to Mr. and Lady Louisa 'rig"' el stock, Kilkenny. le° o f tea t The Earl and Countess of Albemarle are pec Berkeley-square, for their seat in Norfolk, in the ac il , the ensuing week, fur the Easter recess. The Austrian Ambassador has renewed the 135,e5 and nt' dos House, and is making considerable alteratlo.o D o` P o t provements therein. It is said his Excellency °oar° pose to give any diplomatic entertainments durb'g season. „ 5 0°4 miscELLAramotig• give",, dir The Bishop Of Exeter, says the Post, 035destita* towards supplying,church r es and schools in te,i3ti to tb ve tricts o iocese f hie' d. The report of Messrs. Faraday and LYell r- Dst a u sir cause of the explosion in the Howell collier'', „ c ow ; ,,e was referred to a speci. , l Committee of the Unite save !or of the coal trade in the north of England , t made' heir report. It is unfavourable to the 1 0 04 t 0 so mended by Messrs Faraday and Lyell , for Y en ,ider coal• mine goafs," which the Committee coee impracticable. _ t her°A tbo for - We understand, says the Maidstone jourxzw, sir pie no foundation whatever for the report tbiretase of, dia° Knatclibull is about to be raised to the P -c 'd e clAr The Right Hon. Baronet, we are informed, et ag e, bicli bO/ he was never offered. and never sought a P • A Dublin paper alludes to a recent elopero e %bear b r„ss as been the subiect of conversation in the ne!: 4 ,,i gen t 'isll; Kinestown. The lady claims affinity to a nied l ‘,, o oo/. sits and is, it is said, entitled in her own right to ` 2l l,ll;inC e ere' pears that, on Saturday evening the lady wa' s 'f le r sesiS en iee her companion or governess in the vicinity 0 1 _, s cot" 01 when a covered car drove up, out of t,7,; car , A catne forth. The lady was then hurried into re oa rti :ce lo driven off, and no mere has been heard of 1, 1 ,', 0t ` it : fo g great uproar was created in the lady's family L' t 0 131 , 0 4te she is of age, and it is more than probable I n r h e fot o ' „ol l ' has ere now rendered all regrets unavailiug• r c 0 P ° , Or e bridegroom is the son of an alderman of the 0 7, 0 0'1 prei At the county of Down assizes twenty.elo;;goose iir`f found guilty of taking part in an Orange -r 11' fine more, and f three others of a similar offence o ps A sentenced each to a month's imprisonment' 205., and give bail to be of good behav iour. o istscs, it rp i An abstract of returns of the number of co nvicts (p rim' in prisons throughout the United Kingdernt„oe, of transportation, &c., moved for by Mr. Ws ared .4 ` 1 10. 51j 1 that there are altogether 2,397 convicts i1 1,1 ,,n - lo s ij jere' s prisons of the three kingdoms, of whom 1, 9 ° 9 10 ,1th Is 428 females. The number of convicts whos e t . w hort he re them unfit to be removed amonnts to 13 3, ° wa les gfr males, and 47 females. In England and , u i re lsn 2,053 convicts in prison, in Scotland 71, an 10 1' A • . telt MEETING OF TILE ASSki OF GENERAL MEDICAL-PRACTI,ii Al; the A Pubic Meeting of the members 'of twoos, the was held last night at the Hanover-square 00450130 r transaction of business, and to consider the / C h yie e 0 NeW Bill for regulating the Profession of gery, lately introduced nto Parliament. .1000,54 On the motion of Mr. MOORE, R. R. pe n°o s ei called to the chair. Oa the chair 's ent' sif Mr. PENNINGTON, who on taking _p. .0 red with considerable applause, said, that-tsbiewagebveert,cloolol t em had,but recently awakened from their three months since they had set &bout s , to f i lek r lf scattered elements of strength together, an d al it to the formation of that Association. kJ° P.7„te's however, in noticing the great -pi-egress which ot a7,,e'r been made; for he might state, that daring, onee,e7 long professional life, he had never w itoesse,%iget In,. pre and unwearied exertion than had been ez pp: g oers' r l ing out the present organisation of the 6 4, fe titioners.—( Cheers. ) pe e. 2 , le _ I The minutes of the last meeting , h eld then read and confirmed. , the fer rth el j The SECRETARY then read the repoef fit o stied It sto t : t , Committee, a long and elaborate document t oe. 0 , 0 4 ; 0 progress of the Association up to the preset o saab a e o ser i o that already the Association numbered 3, 'hich P. -4 e s si. tered over every county in the kingdom , re e pro „ still increasing, and fully justified the Assae l3 ,.,i s of e t.r o f a national one. It also entered into afull anaT io ata s '", , ii nce lo sions of the new medical Bill, which ieconderane' t he Lv ro tst l tial particulars, especially the constitutionropr Health, which it held to be a violation of th e et o f th_ s : c an iili principle, and ought not to receive the suPr„ the •'!76ea s( ,,,i practitioners. It concluded by recommend:Test san', h cf` , o strenuously to oppose the new Bill,. and t i n wh ri o tt eet t nothing short of a charter of incorporation; five ye . e o bi general practitioner who had been enrolled for d for i t ' o f f lij .j, have a vote. The amount of funds subscrineu n s,, _ Ol 4 , of the Association was stated to be 1,269/. Irts'ind 2881. ss. had been expended • 1201. still _7 8 50/. which, when deducted, left a balance in hand 0 ' The report having been received, - ost and f°rtb° Mr. J. BOWLING moved that it be ado printed. .1 the - 1 de s , . Mr. WALLER (of Cirencester) secon do idon , joy, On the Chairman rising to put them oti'f,,, r o, 11 0 _, t h 0, i t Dr. LYNCH stood up in the body of a1 . 1,e r n r eed 411 11 :mt the liberty of making a few remarks. tie a e l ii ity !n r er i that was contained in the report, and e: ie ntoa l f o r D'ti! stated respecting this being the most In'!_ res oon .4 10;i1 had arisen in the history of the medical Prw e ffortf: (t vi , century. Hence it was that every energY : o ,rstin of J ment, should be made use of to ensuoreneta li r e nei spe c o s ...o o%) opponents were felicitating themselves be ° r ts sion at that meeting—an event which unity 0 4) 0 i d s f oe , averted on this occasion by every oppor` i • t h the full and fair discussion. While agreeing he obi' i eo e r f at of the report, there were two points to vrll, l ' rpercartitmioennedrastoioinfitihtaeetnnoyneearssh,oist Ignie4l,igoirblieesse:flootil74Jecctirtoorore;re° except they had been enrolled five Year s ' ors stems(olol4 an amendment, that that portion of the r a ep_ i _ is the ir Considerable interruption took pia' , e t x r.. es sing„„t sei r ee ° ,i ceedings, the great Majority present. e i A . l,v - eo rt dissent to the course pursued by Dr. b f the ' l ,4l l "ose t r nation ot binfdrotmhethAe Association to tthoat theth the uagdgo petsitoionoo; e:toso s f i o ri to , . 00, „ &tat t re ° A,Fol that they would be fully considered i in the amendment ws ithdrawn. Tl A ia l t r. th ß e ° l l tion, in doings hich he made a few era Pi t ' he as °"" leo ' s te s ev i , a t o i o f Brent shal o b o e d , enmtoitvieedd :11113.!itoieng;1;pthtio01010. of extent of the Association fully warran te d e the th e that title. seconded sl' Mr. WOOLRIDGE, of Southampton, unaptmeetorl which was put to the meeting and carried de larl y bs " 1 1 ,, Mr. FULLER then moved a rese l at i s"!: c o os p oi r ou , great advantages which the then rill (erred on the profession. and thanking e titl oe Sel elti l e4 e t terested conduct towards the general pra„,_corr-_ante„,., d F e u a l v le o r u , rs i no support u t p h p e toefratoe ortaoiinutai:nh,arptoeirnoty:o4totroattheeioficorvi, the advantages which had resulted from to oott° of 18,15. The resolution being seconded by Mr• Croydon, was unanimously agreed to. _ n rot ° , o oa o f , Mr. CLIFTON then moved a resolution? e so n e .tor i the proceedings of the College of Surgo co ns o rtera ,of ei carrying out their recent charter, and / ,9 0 ' constitution of that body. Mr. C °l‘ t ev Alli te s • The resolution was seconded by - 0 to., Dorking, and carried by exclamation: _, a nd P: i tt Resolutions were then severally pr0c 05 .7„„ , I P ,or meeting. censuring any course of legisla"! s s issi l l,o , ' to degrade the general practitioner', and esy . ` - cgea .- 1 ,1 sure introduced into Parliament by Si r 0 0" underwent extensive alterations. A petition, embodying the ;:entiments ferl then agreed to, and the meeting, which and influential one, separated. -: 31 •26 20 I Ipl ~.,, ,`