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NOTICE. WARBURTON'S NEW ROM CE, R CALI) 11.1.•-;TINGS,_ IS PIIIILT-qIED 'I illS' In 3 vols., and may be had at all the LthrarieA, aAd of all B.)okseilers throughout the kingdom. Fleury Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Alarlborough-street. SECOND AND CHEAPER EDITION. . Now ready, In one Vol. with Portrait, 10s. 6d., bound, REVELATIONS OF THE LIFE OF pR IN CE TALLEYRAND, By M. COLM AC HE, • • P rivate Secretary to the Prince. 11 We have perused this work with extreme interest. It is a por. trait of Talleyrand drawn by his own hand."—Morning Post. . Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Harlborough-street. NOTICE.-THE N EW EDITION OF BURP E'S PEERAGE AND BARONETAGE, FOR 185 0, IS PUBLISHED THIS DAT. REVISED A".."D CORRECTED THROUGHOUT TO THE PRE ENT Tnitt, from the personal communications of the No bility, &c. In 1 vol., royal Bvo , comprising d's much matter as twenty ordinary volumes, with 1,500 Engravings of Arms, &c., 3is. bound. The most complete, the most convenient, and the cheapest work of the kind ever given to the public." —Sun. Henry Colburn, Pubisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE HON. R. DCNDAS MURRA.Y'S NEW WORK. • Now ready, in 2 vols., post Bvo., 215., T , IE SECOND EDITION OF THE CITIES and WILDS of ANDALUCIA , By the Hon. R. DUNDAS MURRAY. Richard Bentley, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. F RENCH PLAYS, ST. JAAIES'S.THEATRE. ARRANGEIIENTi AFTER FASTER. Mr. Mitchell respectfully announces that the THEATRE will be RE:OPENED during the E toter Week, for the performance of Come jo and Vaudeville, and begs to submit the following arrange ments : Engag,ements—M. Samson (of the Theatre Francais, Paris), his first appearance, Madlle. Denain (of the Theatre Francais), M Regnier (of the Theatre Francais), Madlle. Nathalie (of the Theatre Francais), and M. Lafont (of the Theatre des Varietes). The first production after Easter will be :geribe's popular Comedy of " Bertrand et Rattan ;" Le Comte Remand de Rintzau (Premier Ministre), M. Samson, as performed by hint in Paris. Subsequent performances will be selected from the following : L'Ecele des Veillards," " Un, Veuvage," and " Ma Femme et Ma Place," new Comedies by M. Samson ; " La Marquis de Senneterre ;" the two . admired Proverbs of Alfred de Musset, "Il ne Faut Jurer de Rien," and "Ii Faut qu'uhe Porte soft Ouverte on Fermee ;" " Les De moiselles de St. Cyr," " La Paix a Tout Prix," " Un Chateau de Cartes," " Le Mari a la Campange," and the new Play by Emile Angler, " Gabrielle," now'performing in Paris with unsurpassed sac- Gess, and in which Maine Regnier and Madlle. Nathalie will sus tain their original characters. Mr. Mitchell feels particular gratification also in announcing that, In the production of Scribe's celebrated Comedy of " La Camarade rie," estimated amongst the chef diceuvres of the modern stage, the principal characters will be sustained by four members of the Theatre Francais, Paris—M. Samson, in the character of De Miremont ; Mali e. Denain, in that of Cesarine; M. Regnier in that of Il e Montlaear ; and Madlle. Nathalie, in that of Zoo; presenting a corn hination of talent not to be witnessed at any other theatre in Europe, the arrangements for which have been most generously accelerated by the administration of the Theatre Francais, Paris. In addition to the present Company, and the foregoing engage meats, are the following:—_Madlle. Avenel (of the Thetire de Falcon); Madlle. Brassine (of the Theatre du Palais 110751) ; Madlle. Renaud (of the Theatre du Vaudeville) ; Madame Octave (of the Theatre du Vaudeville) ; Madlle. Constance (of the Theatre des Varietes), &c. The first performance of the eminent tragedienne, Madlle. Rachel, 1; definitively arranged for Moaday, July Ist. Subscriptions for the remainder of the season may be arranged at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. A GRAND EXTRA NIGHT • Combining the talents of Madame Sontag, Signori Lablache, Belletti, Lorenzo, Calzolari, Sims Reeves, Madlles. Parodl, Carlotta Urisi, igaria Taglionl, and A.malla Ferraris. The Nobility, Subscribers to the Opera, and the Public are respect 'fully informed that A GRAND ENTERTAINMENT • Will take place On TIIURSDAY, April 4, When will be presented amizetti's celebrated Opera of DON PASQ UALE. Norma • • ....Madame Sontag. Ernesto ........ signor Calzolari. Doctor Malatesta• • .. Signor Belletti. and Don Pasquale. • . • • • •• • • Signor Lablache. After which, A DITERTISSEMENT, In which Madlle. Amalia Ferraris will appear. To be followed by a Selection from A FAVOURITE OPERA, Combining the talents of Madlle. Parodi, Signor Lorenzo, and Sims Reeves. _ _ . To conclude with an entirely new and original Grand Ballet, M. rani Taglion!, entitled LES METAMORPHOSES. The Music emnposed by St;iar Paoli ; Has Scenery (entirely levy) by Mr. Marshall ; the Appointments by Mr. Br ;dwell ; the Cos tames by Miss Bradley and Mr. Coombes, under the superintendence of Madame Cupere. The Sprite (under the forms of 1, a Page-2, a Rustle Coquette-3, Will-of-the-Wisp-4, a Folie —5, a Domino-6, a Cavalier), Mdlle. Carlotta Grisi ; Kari (a Student), 11. Pail Taglieni ; Ida (his be trothed), Madlle. Rosa ; Monius, M. Charles ; Elves, Madlles. Rosa', Ausandon, Julienne, Lamoureux, E. Pascales, and F. Pascales. Applications foritoxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be male at the Op era Bu=-office, Colonnade, Haymarket. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. Great Attraction for the Holidays. On EASTER MONDAY Will be performed MUCEI ADO ABOUT NITIIIIIG. Benedick, 3lr• C. Kean; Beatrice, Mrs. C. Kean. To conclude with a grand new and original SPECTACULAR B' Int LESQUE. The. Box-oßice is under the direction of Mr. I. T. Archer. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELNII. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. On EASTER MONDAY Will be performed anew domestic Drama, called THE MOTHER'S D 2 EAM. Principal characters by Messrs. Hughes. Wright, P. Bed ford, 0. Smith, Madame Celeste, and Miss E. Chaplin. To be followed by a grand historical Spectacle Vaudeville, entitled PLAYING FIRS P FIDDLE ; or, Follow my Leader. Aftet which MT PRECIOUS BETSY. Characters by Messrs. Wright, Bedford, Worrell; Miss Harding, and Mrs. F. Matthews. To eoncla le with TOM NODDY'S SECRET. • ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Preptietor, Mr. W. Batty. 'Enormous Attraction for P-sssion Week. New Grand Spectacle. • Mr. BATTY has much pleasure in announcing to the Public that Ite has engaged that extraordinary artist YOUNG HERNANDEZ, the Wonder et - the World, who will have the honour of appearing Two more Nights daring Passion Week, viz.:— THIS EVENING And THURSDAY, when the Entertainments kill commence at Seven o'clock, and coin rise Equestrian and Gymnastic Performances only. In active preparation for Easter, a new grand romantic Spectacle by Fitzball, with other novelties, due notice of which will be given. Ladies and gentlemen taught the polite art of riding. Horses broke for road, or field, by Mr. R. Smith. Box-oftic open from Eleven till Four. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins <DAY Iforning 22 min. after 1 I Evening 46 min. after 1 Tu-lioaaort—llotning 7 min. after 2 I Evening 2S min. after 2 THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, MARCH 27. TagamomETzu, Lowest, 23; Highest, 33; Noon, 39 , BAROMETER, 29 . 89. WIND E.S.E.—fine sunshiny weather. N. ri - .- . . - -s f, , . :,... e . , „.,„ da, o‘f 0111 ... 44 r q4g. •,‘. •L?:•• - . )- -.. -' ;W' 4:1, :', P"'" ~ '.. . , - IF-;.• ..,..; ... , ..„.„ 4 , „.-2,i7! --..,,,,.....% ~..40,- R. ,- 77::::: . ...,i.r.L. bi}: u i 7 t - .t.. • . . 't. • ...-7- '" Oltening 2int LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1850. An interesting but desultory discussion enlivened yesterday's proceedings in the House of Commons, in _consequence of a motion made by the Honourable Member for Montrose with a view to obtain cer tain, accounts relating to the receipts and expenditure of the Royal Academy. Although several of the re presentatives, and among them the Prime Minister, objected that it was scarcely reasonable to expect that a private body like the Royal Academy would publish to the world the particulars of their own secret affairs and pecuniary position, we cannot but think with Mr. HOME that such a demand is, nevertheless, both comprehensible and judicious in reference to the particular association Teferred to. Let it be remembered that the Royal Academy, though to a certain extent a private asso ciation, occupies one of our public buildings, at very great inconvenience to the nation—at such inconve nience that a valuable national property like the Vernon Collection is doomed to an untimely burial in a cellar, while the marries from Nineveh are equally treated with contempt, being jumbled together in some of the inaccessible recesses of the British Museum. Let it be remembered, moreover, that these paintings left to the nation by Mr. VERNO N , and these curiosities forwarded to this country by Mr. LAYARD, might all be distributed in' appropriate places of shelter and exhibition but for the inconvenient occupation of at least one-half of the National Gallery by the so called private body referred to, the Royal Academy. Let these particulars be borne in recollection, and then we are satisfied that no one will be rash enough to assert that the request made by the Honourable Member for Montrose was in any respect injudicious, unreasonable, or unjustifiable. For, again, it cannot be forgotten that while the Royal Academy is permitted to monopolise a large portion of one of our most important, though, at the same time, it must be confessed, one of our most. unsightly public buildings, we, the people, obtain from the-members of this academy no compensative advantage whatever. We have no free ingress to the examination of the annual collection displayed upon the walls of this public edifice! On the contrary, a . paltry collection of another sort is made at the doors before any one is per mitted to inspect the pictures hanging there for purchase. The incongruity of this arrange ment, not to say it 3 pitiful evidence of econo mizing, was too apparent to be passed over in silence yesterday by the Prime Minister of England. The Noble Lord acknowledged that, upon this matter, he bad already himself spoken to the President of the Academy. The reply made by Sir Meanie ARCHEI SagE is as miserably evasive as it is contrary to the attestations of all experience. He, the President of the Royal Academy,: objected against the free ad mission_ of the public, because, of what ?—be cause many of the pictures would be injured, and some of them stolen! Why, what a gross and enor mous insult is this to that public which has free access to the inestimable collection of paintings in the National Gallery itself, in Hampton Court, mad in others of the palaces of England! Are the pictures at Hampton Court stolen ? Are they injured ? Are the pictures in the publichartrnents of the National Gallery stolen ? Are they injured ? Is this wanton destruction, is this popular larceny, exhibited in such matters elsewhere ? No. And yet we conceive that the collection of paintings displayed, for example, in the large rooms of the National Gallery are a trifle more tempting than those shown for the charge of one shilling in the rooms allotted to the Royal Academy. There are larger temp..ations to cupidity in the CLAUDES and the CORREGIOS, the TMANS and the DA VINCIS, the GUIDO 3 and the PIOMBOS, the CUTPS and the VANDYKES, the RuuENs and the CARE ACCIS, the MuxiLLos and the PAEMEGlANo3—than—but it is unnecessary to be invidious. These illustrious masters are displayed in all their glory, unharmed and unstolen, as the little boy says in one of LEECLI'S caricatures, "free, gratis, for nothink." Yet the President of the Royal Acadcroy objects to resign the dole of a shilling a head through fear that the pictures of the associates and members of the academy should get robbed or damaged ! Now, we would see this matter definitively adjusted. We would see the Government assume the position which, for the sake of the public, we conceive to be demandtd under the circum stances. It should be officially intimated to the Royal Academy, —Unless you admit the public gra tuitously to your annual exhibitions that public will not consent henceforth to supply you with room for those exhibitions. At the very least, it is assuredly but reasonable on the part of the population to ex pect a ready and untaxed access to the collection of the Royal Academy, when that academy is permitted to monopolise a very considerable portion of a national building to great public inconvenience. Then again it is pretended that the public can hardly be justified in prying into the affairs of a private body like the Royal Academy, as desired by the Honourable Gentleman the Representative of Mont rose. As if the public had any morbid curiosity to satisfy, after the fashion of Mr. Paul Pry in the farce, in reference to the private affairs of that private body called the Royal Academy ! As if any thing but a regard for public convenience would actuate Mr. HUME in his demand yesterday. " What's Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba ?" or rather " What's the Royal Academy to him, or he to the Royal Academy ?" But enough of this. We shall look for a re-organization of the management of the Royal Academy, private body though it be, through the assistance of the Le gislature, if not with the aid of the Government, at least if the Royal Academy is still to be allowed to occupy one-half of the National Gallery. The Bill introduced by the Solicitor-General on Monday evening for the purpose of providing more simple and effectual securities for advances to pur chasers of the encumbered estates in Ireland, the discussion of which was brought to a premature ter mination by the counting out of the House, is one worthy of the most serious:and attentive consideration. It is of a mixed character, and if fully carried into oper ation, would afford many unquestionable advantages to the purchasers of property under " the Commis sion," and as a natural consequence to the proprietor's of such estates, and persons having charges affecting the sane, by materially increasing the purchase money. It cannot, however, be denied that it appears to be strongly opposed to the principles on which recent legislation for Ireland has been founded, and that, to a certain ex tent at least, it is calculated to perpetuate the greatest social evil by which the sister kingdom has been affected—an embarrassed and encumbered pro prietary, who would be unable to discharge effi ciently the duties incidental to the possession of their estates. The gOod and evil are, in fact, so nicely counterpoised, that it will require no ordinary care to discover to which side the balance will ultimately incline, and whether it will prove beneficial or the reverse for the great body of the Irish people, for it is their interests that must be chiefly regarded in any future enactments that may be sanctioned by the Imperial Parliament. By some persons it will be regarded as a retrograde movement, likely to retard and neutralize the good effects of the Act of last year, while by others it will be looked upon as the necessary corollary and supple- ment of that measure, without which it could never be fully and fairly carried into practical operation. Whatever may be the ultimate decision on the point, it should not be rashly or hastily rejected until its real merits be fully canvasse3, and the public gene rally' have time to make up their minds on a question of such magnitude, on which such conflicting views may be fairly and reasonably entertained. For our selves, we must say that on the superficial examination which we have been enabled to bestow upon the provisions of the Bill, we are disposed to regard it favourably and to believe that its results will, on the whole, prove advantageous to the best interests of the sister kingdom. The great end and object of the Act for facilitating the sale of encumbered estates in Ireland was to afford the blessings of a solvent and unembarrassed proprietary—men who were possessed of resources sufficient to enable them to develope the natural ca pabilities of the soil, and to bring the land into a state of the utmost fertility and productiveness. At first sight, however, the present proposition appears to be diametrically opposed to such a result. The Legislature solemnly decided, in 1849, that if the yearly interest on the encumbrances and other annual payments (if any) in respect of charges payable out of the income of any land or lease, exceed one-half the income after the payment of all tithe rent-charge, such part of the county cess and poor's-rate as is payable by the owner, and all Crown, quit, and head rent, .the pro prietor is no longer qualified to perform his duties with benefit to himself and advantage to the commu nity, and that he must therefore be contented to make way fur better men, who could come into the full enjoyment of the rents, issues, and profits of the lands and tenements, and not be the merely nominal owners thereof; while the present measure provides that the new blood thus infused may be affected with the same taint as that necessarily removed, and that the only change will be one of men, the.new corners being but little better in their circtilmitances than those for whom they are substituted. On the other hand, however, it may be said, that the Legislature go as► far as possible in providing for a change ; and that it would not be consistent with the rights of property to impose any obstacle or• impediment in the way of purchasers dealing with, or disposing of, their estates as they think fit. By the former Act a Parliamentary title is conferred upon the pur chaser, and if he deem it advisable, he may, the very next day, charge or encumber the lands in any manner, and he can find no difficulty in obtaining the money he may require, at any rate of interest, and on very favourable terms in other re spects. All, then, that the present measure contem plates is, to give to such persons additional facilities for obtaining such advances, by the issue of deben tures to an amount not exceeding one-half the amount of the purchase-money, of such a nature as to pass from hand to hand by a simple endorsement. Such debentures, being based on unquestionable real secu rity, would circulate freely in the money market ; they would not, like judgments, affect the person or personal property of the party, but would merely attach on the estate so purchased, and being limited to one-half its actual value, there would be no great probability, in deed, scarcely a possibility, of their deterioration, or of any loss accruing to the holder. As the Solicitor- General truly remarked, when introducing the Bill, " the great object of giving a Parliamentary title t o land was to afford a ready means, as far as possible, of making it a mercantile commodity ;" and that object would be effected in the cheapest and most unobjec tionable manner by the proposed Bill. When the debentures were issued the rate of interest and the instalments, by which the principal was to be paid off, would be arranged, and if any default was made in the payment of either interest or instalment, the holder might compel the sale of the land made liable for the payments; and even if the Commission ter minated while such debentures were outstanding, a power was to be given to the Court of Chancery to sell the lands on such applications, similar to that about to be conferred upon the Commissioners. There can be no doubt that the Bill, if it should pass into a law, will give an additional stimulus W purchasers, and make many parties anxious to invest their capital in Ireland who might not otherwise be willing to do so. An English mer chant or manufacturer might see a desirable property, the entire purchase money of which he could not im mediately pay, but which he could liquidate by reasonable instalments, paying half the amount down in hard cash. An inheritor might by the same means retrieve an estate that bad belonged to his family for eenturies, and which would, in his sight, possess a value far beyond its selling price. Are not such desires perfectly legitimate, and should not every possible facility be given for their gratification? Besides, in consequence of the late Act, an enormous amount of property is brought into the market for sale, and there is at least a danger that the supply may exceed the demand, so as mate rially to depreciate the value of the commodity, and to prevent the creditors from receiving the full amount of their claims, or the former proprietor from saving any balance out of the wreck of his affairs. Pro perty to the value of 13,000,0001. or 14,000,0001. sterling has already been brought under the juris diction of the Commissioners . , and will be sub mitted to public competition with all con venient speed, and surely anything calcu lated to increase that competition must have an operation beneficial to the interests of all parties concerned, creditors as well as owners. There is even a still more important view of the subject, into which our space will not permit us to enter at present—the effects on the general money market of the country. A new description of cur rency will be established based on unquestionable security, which will circulate freely from hand to hand, without any expense or diculty beyond a simple endorsement. There is nothing to limit the amount for which such debentures may be issued, and if given for small sums, they will constitute a valuable auxiliary to the circulating medium of the country, and a profitable mode of investment for the small capitalist. It may to a great extent counteract the pernicious operation of our present monetary code, and prove the forerunner of a currency not convertible into gold, but based upon the real property of the entire country. If this were once brought into operation, it is impossible to foresee the incalculable benefits that would result to the entire community from the change. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. The Committee on the Law of the Press has ap pointed Count Morx reporter, and M. DE LARDY secretary. The whole of the Committee appointed to consider the Ministerial measure for the suppression of elec toral meetings are in favour of the Bill. It was said to be the intention of M. DE LAROCHE- JAQUELIN to lay on the table of the Assembly a pro position that, on the Ist of lune, the sense of France shall be taken, by universal suffrage, on the question whether the republican form of government is to be maintained, or whether a monarchic form is to be es tablished in its place, and that as soon as this question has been settled in the way described, a new Consti tuent Assembly be convoked on the Ist July. There was again a heavy fall in the price of public securities yesterday at the Bourse; the fall is attri buted by some to the withdrawal of the Avignon and Paris Railway Bill, by others to a threat of M. FouLD that he will resign if the Assembly, on the third reading of the Stamp Duties Bill does not reverse its vote imposing a duty on the transfer of stock, and by others to the symptoms of insubor dination which had been manifested by the 55th Regiment at Caen, in consequence of those soldiers of the regiment who had voted for democratic can didates having been sent off to Africa. The Ministerial Pattie publishes the following for the purpose of calming the public mind :-- "The heavy fall in the French funds at the Bourse to day is not to be attributed to any political event ; the only cause of it is the embarrassment of some Lyonese speculators, which caused 'executions,' or forced sales of stock, and the abundance of stock thrown on the market by foreign speculators who have become alarmed by the vote of the Assembly placing a duty on transfers." M. FERDINAND FOY, the Orleanist rejected of Paris, seems to be in ill-luck during this present month of March. He was a candidate for the captaincy of a company in the 10th Legion of National Guards against M. RAMOND DE LA CROISETTE, a Democrat. The' election took place on Sunday, and notwith standing the prestige attached to the name of For, the Royalist son of the old Republican General was defeated, the numbers being at the close of the poll : For M. de la Croisette (Democrat) ... ... 103 For M. Foy (Royalist) .. 33 - - M. FRANgESQUE BOUVET has proposed to the Assem• bly en amendment having for its object the reduction of 24 millions of the war budget, to be realised by disbanding, on the . 13t of May next, the soldiers of the class 1843. The editor of the Temps, who had been con demned by default on the 25th of February last to 6,000 f. fine and three years' imprisonment, was on Monday sentenced by the Assize Court of the Seine to six months' imprisonment, and 5,000 f. fine and costs, for having published seditious articles in his journal. PARIS BOURSE, MARCH 26.—L ATEST Five per Cents., 89f. 85c. ; Three per Cents., 5.5 r. 40c.; Bank of France, 2,175 f. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE. MAR - C - 11 26. - Boulogne and Amiens, 6 1 4 —East -Indi;;;;si/2-71,uxem bourg, I%—Northern of France, 12—Orleans and Bordeaux, 2 1 4—Rouen and Havre. 84. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 21st have arrived. The Herald() states, after the oflicial,journal of the province of Granada, that extensive gold deposits had been discovered in that province, and a considerable quantity of gold obtained from them. The accounts given are in fact almost as marvellous as some of those from California. All the inhabitants of a village called Huetot had proceeded to the " dig gings." - The Prince and Princess DE JOINVILLE, who are at Seville, will not visit Madrid. They go from Seville to Granada and Malaga, and from thence to Cadiz, whence they embark for England. MADRID BOLSA, MARCH 21.—Three per Cents., 28 13-16 ; Five per Cents., 12} both paper. Ex change on London, 50 25. GERMANY. The Lower Chamber of the Erfurth Parliament elected, on the 25th, M. SIMSON as President, and Messrs. SCHENK and RUDER as Vice• Presidents. Baron HUGEL, the Wurtemburg Minister at the Prussian Court, has asked for his passport. The Staats-Anzeiger publishes the Prussian note, by means of which that diplomatist was informed of the revocation of the Prussian Ambassador from the Court of his Majesty the King of Wurtemburg. The note is couched in the following terms : Necessity compels me t discharge a disagreeable duty in expressing to the Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of his Majesty the King of Wurtemberg the astonishment which the Government of the King my master has felt on the occasion of the speech from the throne, which his Majesty the King of Wurtemberg delivered to the estates of his country on the 15th instant. This official oration con tains accusations against Prussia, and aspersions thrown upon the motives of action of our country, against which his Majesty's Government mast protest with the profoundest indignation. His Majesty's Government cannot condescend to discuss or refute such accusations, which are the more unexpected, coming as they do from such a place and from a German Fede ral Government. His Majesty's Government does not think it compatible with its dignity to continue its di plomatic relations with a Government which has not scrupled to place itself in such a position; and his Ma- Majasty's Ambassador at the Wurtemburg Court has consequently, :by the express order of his Majesty the King, been instructed to. leave Stuttgard, with all the members of his embassy. While I communicate this measure to you, I leave it to you what steps you will think proper to take in consequence, and " I remain, &c. " Berlin, March 22." " SCHLEINITZ. A latter from Berlin, of the 24th, states that the . Prussian Minister at St. Petersburgh had made known to the Government that its policy at 13 efurth, and in the Schleswig-Holstein question, is disap proved of by the Emperor NICHOLAS. It was ru moured that England had encouraged Denmark to reject the propositions of peace made by the Prussian Government. A. letter from Berlin, of the 24th, in the Colog ne Gazette, says—" W e h ave j us t l earne d f rom an au thentic source that the Cabinet of Berlin has already replied to the collectivenote of Wurtemburg, Bavaria, and Saxony by a categoric refusal of all negotiations on the basis of the propositions made to it. Hanover has ceased to maintain its isolation, and its adhesion to the southern league may now be considered a fait accompli. The affairs of the two duchies of Meck lemburg have, it is said, been arranged." In the Saxon Chamber of Deputies on the 21st, the Minister Bass announced that he would on a future day make propositions respecting the treaty. of Munich. The Breslaw Gazette states that the Austrian Go vernment, notwithstanding the embarrassed state of the finances, is making extensive military prepara tions. The Silesian Gazette says that it was in tended to increase the army on the frontiers of Bohemia to 120,000 men, and to concentrate a large army round Prague. GREECE. The Weiner Zeitung of the 21st publishes the fol lowing telegraphic dispatch which had been received at Vienna that day, from the Fodesta of Trieste, dated March 19, 1850: " TO lIIi EXCELLENCY PRINCE VON SCHWARTZENBERG, "The Imperial Ambassador writes from Athens on the 12th of this month:—' On the 9:h the first intelli- gence from St Petersburgh arrived here; the impression is most favourable. The captured war-ships of the line are still kept as hostages by the English squadron, and the blockade has hitherto been only partially raised.' " ITALY. The Riforma of Lucca, of the 9th, says that some cries of `• The French Republic for ever! The Reds for ever ! " &c., were heard on the preceding night in the streets of that town, on receiving the in telligence of the probability of the Paris elections being carried on the Red party. Several arrests had been made in consequence of these cries. The Giornale di Roma, of the 16th, publishes the minutes of the ceremony of burning a quantity of notes of the late Republican Government to the amount of 400,000 francs of nominal value. An equal sum of Papal treasury bonds has been put into circulation. The Costituzionale of Florence, of the 19th, states that in consequence of circumstances that have come to light in the course of the examination of GUER RIZZI, Advocate LORENZO GUIDI RONTANI, formerly Prefect of Florence, has been arrested. The same paper gives some information concerning the ex change of notes that has lately taken place between the British and Tuscan Governments on the subject of indemnities due to divers British subjects on account of losses experienced during the late events at Leghorn. According to this account, the Tuscan Minister answered the :first note of the British Government by alleging that the present Go vernment of Tuscany could not be held responsible for what had taken place at Leghorn. To this note Lord PALsinasToNreplied by a second, refuting the allegations, and citing the principles of international law, in virtue of which the British Government is en titled to demand payment of that of Florence. The Tuscan Minister then proposed another course ; that of referring the dispute in question to a meditation. This has been consented to by Lord PALMERSTON, who has proposed the Sardinian Government as a proper mediator. THE UNITED STATES. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) The packet ship New World, which sailed from New York on the 7th inst. with two days' later ad vices has just arrived. In the Senate, on the 6th, Mr. Cooper attacked the letter of Sir H. Bulwer re garding the duty on iron, and said that the Foreign Minister failed in his duty when he attempted to make suggestions in relation to the domestic policy of that Government, and characterised his remarks as obtru sive and impertinent. Several other members express ing the same opinions, Mr. Clay rose and said he dis• agreed with what had been said by those who had pre ceded him, and complimented Sir H. Bulwer in high terms; and, after some further discussion, it was re ferred to the Committee on Commerce. The cotton.market continued inactive, buyers an ticipating a decline on the arrival of the steamer from Liverpool. No change in prices. Breadstuffs-5,200 barrels of flour sold at 4 cloth. 87ic. for common to 5 dolls. 62fe. for prime ; 24,000 bushels of Indian corn sold at 53c. to 54c. for mixed, 52ic. to 561-c. for white, and 56c. to 561 c. for yellow. Freights in fair request at id. per pound for cotton, and b. 6d. to 2s. per barrel for flour to Liverpool. Provisions—Beef was steady : 100 barrels sold at former rates ; 4,1 e. to 61: 7 0. were the current rates for hams, and 4c. to 41-c. for shoulders. Lard dull. Cheese firm. The Stock market has been dull and heavy United States Sixes declined ie. NEW ORLEANS, MARCH 5. The sales of cotton reached 2,500 bales. Markel quiet, and prices unchanged. WEST INDIA MAIL. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY MORNING. The Thames arrived this morning. The freight on board consists of 1,997,809 dollars, 91,597 of which are on account of Mexican dividends. Some slight intrigues and disturbances have taken place in the interior of Mexico, which have been promptly suppressed by the G - Jvernment. Jamaica dates are to the 21st of February. The Jamaica Dispatch states that the season has been propitious, and the country prosperous. There has been some severe weather in some parts, but the canes in the favoured parishes look well, and promise an abundant harvest. The steamers from America and Europe continue to flock in at Port Royal. The gold diggers, prepared for the return of spring, are returning to the diggings by hundreds, and every packet brings from a million to a million and a half of dollars. From Demerara we have news to the 18th ult. A special meeting of the combined Court took place on the 7th ult., with the view ofidetermining the objects to which the loan which was confidently ex pected from the mother country should be devoted' and for enacting the necessary ordinances for secur ing its re-payment. It was resolved that the colonial duties on wines and spirits should be pledged to pay the interest, 4 per cent., and that a sinking fund at the rate of 2k per cent. should b • formed for the li quidation of the loan, amounting to 250,0001., in twenty years. The railway is getting on most prosperously. At Cuba plenty of rain had fallen throughout the island. The crops of sugar and other products have been large, and the vessels in the harbour were taking in full cargoes of the produce of the island. Sugar was selling at 2 dolls. per cwt.; and coffee at 15 dulls., with a further advance in price. ' DESTRUCTIVE FIRES.—Last night, shortly after seven o'clock, a fire, attended with great loss of property and jeopardizing the lives of not fewer than 15 persons, broke out in the premises belonging to Mr. Mackerell, steam-baked potato-dealer, No. 7, Vinegar-yard, nearly facing the upper gallery entrance of Drury-lane Theatre. The premises, which were five floors high. including the basement, were adjoined by numerous similar erections on either side, whilst the space between the burning property and the theatre was not more than a few yards. It appeared that Mr. Mackerell, having experienced a strong smell of gas, went below to ascertain the cause, when, on entering the kitchen, he noticed a flickering light on the ceiling, and was instantly forced down. Having regained his feet, he ra n u p st a i rs an d gave an alarm, but fore the inmates had time to escape the flames were running up the staircase, threatening de struction to every person in the house Mr. Merryweather's escape, kept at the police-station, was immediately taken to the spot, but during the short interval that had elapsed Mr. Mackerell and several other persons had, at the risk of losing their own lives, ventured to the upper rooms and fortunately suc ceeded in bringing down the whole of the women and chil dren in safety. The flames by that period were extending completely over the yard, and were within a few inches of attacking the theatre. Numerous engines of the London Brigade, Messrs. Combe and Delatield (the brewers), the West of England Insurance Company, and those of St. Cle ment's and St. Mary-le-Strand), attended with all prompti tude, but notwithstanding a plentiful supply of water was obtained the flames continued to spread, and the whole range of premises in which they commenced were burnt out, and those adjoining severely damaged, before the fire was extinguished. Another fire took place yester day morning at an early hour in the premises of Mr. Ward, a fruiterer, 19, Londo:.-terrace, Hack ney-road. So fiercely did the flames spread that the several residents narrowly escaped being suffocated. The en gines of the London Brigade, parish, and West of England Company succeeded in subduing the tire, but not before Mr. Ward's premises, together with the stock in trade, furniture, wearing apparel, and other effects were destroyed. The total loss is considerable. but fortunately the sufferer was insured in the Phcenix Fire-office. --- A PLANTATION ON FlItE.—A very fine piece of plantation, extending over 10 or 13 acres, belonging to the Duke of Sutherland, was consumed by fire on the evening of the 19th instant. The place where this conflagration took place lies north of Drummuie, at the upper base of the hill of Benvraggie. It t riginated in the burning of whine on the immediately adjoining farm of Culmailie, and a smart breeze of wind from a westerly direction had accelerated the pro gress of the flames from the farm to the forest. The burning of the plantation commenced about six o'clock, and conti nued during the night ; a little after sunset the blaze was ' terrific, the whole country side was illuminated, and from the elevated position of the scene it might be viewed fr,im Ross, Moray, Banff, and part of Aberdeenshire. Owing to a partial abatement of the wind, the commendable activity and tact displayed by parties on the spot, the progress of the de vouring element was at length arrested at a vacant space in the plantation.— Edinburgh Courant. DEATH OF COLONEL CAMPBELL —On Saturday , this cavalry officer, who had very recently arrived in Eng land from India, died after a short illness. The late Colonel Campbell entered the army as a cornet in the year 1806. At the memorable battle of Sobraon, on the 10th of Fe bruary, 1846, he commanded the 2d cavalry brigade. In 1846 he received the hrevet rank of colonel. MERCHANT SEAMEN'S CORPORATION.--4. general court of the above body took place yesterday at the dices Birchin-lane. Mr. G. Lindsay was in the chair. A state ment of the income and expenditure for the year 1849 was submitted. It showed that the latter had been 24,125/. I4s, 9d., and left a balance of 2,813/. 15s. /od. Thu draft of the Bill now before Parliament for regulating the Merchant Seamen's Fund was laid before the meeting. The claims for relief were then considered, and pensions and tern • porary assistance granted to a number of applicants. It appeared that since December last 282 applicants—viz., disabled seamen and widows of seamen, had received relief. A vote of thanks to the chairman closed the business of the meeting. A correspondent informs us that the Earl of Stradbroke, at his late audit, reduced his rents ten per cent. SCOTTISH CENTRAL RAILWAY.—The hoard of di rectors of this company, who were outvoted at the meeting in January last, have resigned their seats, with the excep tion of the two members who represent the Caledonian Com pany at the board, and the vacancies have been filled up by the election of gentlemen from a list submitted by the Mar quis of Breadalbane. WATERFORD AND LIMERICK RAILWAY.—Sir W. Clay reported from the Select Committee on this Bill, that the objects are to enable the company to rain new shares in lieu of certain forfeited shares, and to extend the time limited by their existing Act for the purchase of land, arid to give them effectual powers for that purpose, in accordance with those contained in "An Act to authorize the advance of money out of the Consolidated Fund to the Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland Company." The Committee had exa mined :he allegations of the Bill, and found the same to be true, and made several amendments. NAVIGATION OF THE ITUALTIER.—The Gazette of last night contains a proclamation from the Admiralty, stating that " Whereas we, as Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom, have found it necessary, for the protection of the harloour or haven of the Humber, and of the shores and banks thereof, to prohibit the taking of any ballast or shingle from the shore or banks hereinafter specified; and we do, therefore, order, that no person or persons shall take any ballast or shingle from the shore or banks, or any portion of the shore or banks, at Spurn Point, front the Low Light-house south ward to the extreme of the point at low water, and north ward two and a half statute miles on both sides of the Spurn Point." SUICIDE.—About seven o'clock yesterday morning an old man, named Evans, who was lodging at Mr. Whit more's, a greengrocer and fruiterer, in Charles-street, West minster, committed suicide by shooting himself through the heart with a small pocket pistol. The deceased, who was a carpenter by trade, had been in a very desponding state of mind for some time past, in consequence of his being unable to obtain any employment. DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.—THE ONLY SON OF BARON LANGEN KILLED.-0a Tuesday evening last, an ac cident occurred near to the village of Hungarton, which was attended with a fatal result. On the evening in question, the Baron Langan, who has for some time past occupied time Hall at Ratcliffe, and is, we believe, attached to the Pru sian embassy in this country, was taking a drive with his family in the neighbourhood of Hungarton. The party consisted of the Baron, his Lady, and her Ladyship's fa:her, in an open carriage. A groom was in attendance on horseback, and with him, rode on his pony, a fine little boy, nine years old, the Baron's only child. Near the entrance to Hungarton, and on the road from Quenby, the pony took fright at a man on horseback, which passed the party rapidly, and started off suddenly at full speed. The child soon lost his seat, and, falling to the ground with great force, was dragged in the stirrup for some distance, his head striking with violence against the hard road; and the groom believes that the poor little fellow was also struck more than once by the hind feet of the animal. On being taken up, the only signs of life were occasional breathing, and a very feeble action of the heart. Medical assistance was immediately sent for, and attended wi h all possible expedition, but without avail, as the little sufferer ceased to breathe within half an hour after the oc currence of the accident. " There were two separate fractures of the skull, either of which, taken singly, must have been inevitably mortal.—Leicester Journal. ,NUNS IN CAMBRIDGE.—After a space of more than 300 years, nuns are again stationed in the University town of Cambridge. On Monday, the 11th instant, the schools of the Roman Catholic Mission were re-opened under the su perintendence of two nuns of the order of the Infant Jesus, from tile convent of Northampton. On the Wednesday fol lowing, mass was celebrated by the Rev. Thomas Quinlivan, the pastor, for the special invocation of the Holy Ghost on the labours of the sisters, after which the children went in procession to the schools.—Cambridge Chronic'e. WHALE FOOTS.—Some importations have recently taken place at the port of Liverpool of an article called whale foots from the United States of America. The article is considered to come under the general term of grease, and therefore admissible under that head duty free. THE MACKEREL FISHERY.—On Monday many of the boats came in with their nets gone, they being carried away by the heavy "strikes." of the fish. The George and l i William (Swain), of Hastings, out of 101 nets only saved 19; the Ellen Nancy lost 72 out of 127; the Favourite (W. Browne), of Eastbourne, lost all, 90 in number; as did the Fame (J. Hide), but they were picked up and brought in by a Plymouth mackerel boat, the Mary Ann. To make up for these losses, however, the catches of fish by those whose nets held were most extraordinary. The British Queen G. Hutchins), of Hastings, brou g ht i n 31 , 150 ; the Friends (J. Swain), of Eastbourne, ,had 24,000; and several other boats brought in from 5,000 to 15.000. Prices have ranged about as follow: —Sunday, from 15s. to 7s. 6d. per six score ; Monday and Tuesday, 10s. ; Wednesday, 9s. to 10s. 61. ; Thursday, 9s. to 103. Yesterday no fish was brought in Some wonderment may be felt at the variation in the price of the mackerel, as fur example that on Sunday, from 15s. to 7s. 6d. This, however, is easily explained. If the fish can be brought in and packed in time even for the last rail way train to London, the prices keep up, and is not materi ally affected, though the supply be ever so large. But the moment the whistle denoting the departure of the mail train has sounded, mackerel becomes comparatively a drug in the market, and its value ranges accordingly, fbr it would be probably unfit to send to Billingsgate the next day.— Plymouth Times. Mr. A'Beckett, the magistrate of the Southwark Police-court, yesterday directed that S. E. Croft, late junior clerk in the service of Messrs. Marten, woollen merchants of Bradford, and Joseph Croft, his father, who resides in Lon don, should be sent before the Bradford magistrates for exa mination, the son on a charge of stealing 2641., the property of his masters, and the father on a charge of receiving Si. of the money, knowing it to have been stolen. John Carrington, who murdered his father and mother about a fortnight since, at Little Eversden, in Cam bridgeshire, by dashing their brains out with a spade, and who had been long known as a mischievous idiot, has been acquitted on the ground of insanity. At Ruthin, on Monday. Mr. Justice Cresswell sentenced George Jones and Mary Jones to seven years' transportation for a highway robbery, committed on John Jon a. The female prisoner met the prosecutor in the streets of Llangollen, and inveigled him into a bye place, where the male prisoner and another man rushed upon him, and while the one pinioned his arms the others rifled his pockets. TESTIMONIAL TO A MAGISTRATE.—A meeting was held at the Shire-hell, Gloucester, on Tuesday, which was attended by Earl Fitzhardinge (the lord-lieutenant), Lord Ellenborough, and several other ;magistrates, for the pur pose of opening a subscription to present Mr. Purnell, the county chairman, with a public testimonial for his conduct in relation to private lunatic asylums, for which a vote of thanks was passed to him at the last quarter sessions. A committee was chosen for carrying out this object and re ceiving subscriptions. This testimonial has been most de servedly earned by Mr. Purnell, for his unwearied exertions to ameliorate the treatment and condition of private lunatic patients, who are too frequently totally neglected.— Chelten ham Journal. DIABOLICAL OUTRAGE.—At Curra4hashoge, near Abbeyfeale, on the night of Wednesday last, a house belong ing to Mr. Richard Collins, was maliciously set on fire, and before any assistance could be procured, the house, together with all it contained, including seven valuable cows, an ex cellent horse worth ISI., a large number of dairy vessels, a quantity of timber, deals, and other property, were totally consumed. On the following morning, a person named Roche, who lives in Abbeyfeale, came forward to give in formation against his own father and brother, w ho were im mediately arrested and committed for trial as the perpe trators of the wicked and unprovoked outrage.— Limerick Examiner. John Rowe was yesterday committed for trial, from the Guildhall, charged with having embezzled upwards of 1001., the property of his employers, Messrs. Brett and Co., woollen drapers, Wood-street. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 25.—The Wilhelm galliot barque, Captain F. N. Flint, of and for Amsterdam, was off this port yesterday, and landed here Mr. B. C. Van Darn Ende, passenger for London. The barque is laden with sugar, from Surinam, left the 3d of February, and has been twenty days in the chops of the Channel, contending in unusually cold weather against contrary winds. At Surinam there were from 15 to 20 Dutch ships, and say five American. The English ship Lacoresse left for London two weeks before the barque's departure. About the 20th of March the Wil• helm spoke at the mouth of the Channel the packet-brig Nickerie. Captain Holker, of and from Nickerie, for Amster dam. The emigrant-ship Boyne, of London, Captain Sabiston, sailed this afternoon for the Australian colonies. She has in all 142 passengers, viz., 9 cabin, and 133 inter mediate. Of this number 22 were engaged at Plymouth. Wind N. by W.; cold with snow. POISINING AT CASTLE CAMPS.—The trial of Elias Lucas and Mary Reeder, charged with administering arsenic to Susan Lucas, the wife of the male and the sister of the female prisoner, took place at Cambridge on Monday. It appeared that Mary Reeder lived with Lucas and his wife, and that the former had been frequently heard to declare that he wished his wife was dead, in order that he might marry her sister. The arsenic was traced to the possession of the male prisoner, and it was proved that it was adminis tered to the unfortunate woman (who survived its adminis tration only a few hours) in a bread mess prepared either by the female prisoner or by the deceased. The defenc-t was that the deceased had poisoned herself. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty against both prisoners, and Mr. Justice Wightman sentenced them to death, without hope of mercy. The male convict is 24 and the female only 20 years of age. THE WFATHER. LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY. - Last night a heavy fall of snow took place, covering the ground to the depth of some inches. SPURIOUS FIVE FRANC PIECES.—The Moniteur states, that the Committee of the Mint of France has re ceived from M. Monteaux, jun., several spurious five-franc pieces, similar to those to which public attention was drawn by M. Monteaux, sen., money-changer in the Palais Royal. These false coins, bearing the date of 1e47, and the mark " A," are made of an alloy of silver and copper in the propor tion of 640-thousandths of silver. Their weight is the same as that of genuine sf. pieces, and their intrir sic value is 3f. 53c. Compared with the genuine coins they are of a dul ler white; their diameter is a little greater; the engraving of the effigy is very soft and less salient; the eye, the mouth, and the nose have neither the same form nor the same cha racter; the letters which encircle the head are generally more meagre, are placed at uneven distances, and do not form a regular circle ; the name of " Dotnard," placed be neath the neck, inclines much less to the right; the figures and letters forming the inscription, " 5 francs, 1847," are less salient and less sharply struck off; there is evidently a larger space between the beading and the wreath of the reverse. With respect to the edge, the letters of the spurious coin are less salient, less regular in shape, and the distance between the words is not the same. These differences between the true and the false coin will easily allow the latter to be de tected. BUCKINGHAMEIIIRE RAILWAY.-Mr. Bernal re ported from the Committee on this Bill that the object is to finable an existing railway company to make a deviation of their line of railway by means of capital which they are al ready authorised to raise. The steepest gradient is lin 203, and the smallest radius of a curve 40 chains. The length of the proposed deviation is 5 5 4 miles. The deviation is to cross one turnpike road and four highways on the level; but the Railway Commissioners may require a bridge to be erected in lieu of level crossing, if necessary fur the public safety. The land required will be 57 acres. Mr. R. 13. Dockray was the engineer examined hi support of the Bill, and no engineer was examined in oppositi n to it. They had examined the allegations of the Bill, and found the same to be true, and had gone through the Bill, and made several amendments. A glorious action triumphantly won at Westminster, and a gtirious victory achieved at Waterloo, look wonderfully fine until the bill is sent in and the costs are paid. —.Eiiza C'ook's Journal. • TESTIMONIAL TO BRITISH SEAMEN.—Mr. May, the consul-general of the Netherlands, has made a represen tation to the Lords of the Treasury, requesting the de►ivery duty free of a package forwarded to him from the Govern ment at the Hague, containing a silver cup and two snuff boxes, intended as presents to Captain Moir and part of the crew of the English vessel Minerva, for services rendered to the crew of the Dutch ship Gertruda, which was lost, in August last, off the Cape of Good Hope. THE WEATHER.—During the last week we have had a second edition of almost the severest part of the late winter. The frosts have been very sharp, and being accom panied with a biting wind, the cold has been felt keenly. The early vegetation and forward fruit trees must have been much injured,--211aidstonc Journal. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER 10 THUF,'E. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were about 5,000 bales, of which 300 American were taken oa spe culation, and 500 for exports. The market closed heavily.—The market for Railway Shares closed with a gloomy appearance, and generally at lower quotations. The Grain Market is firms to-day in hlark•lane for Wheat, bct rather dull for Oats, which are in fuller supply. tee Continental mails furnish the quotations from the different stock markets, and in some cases there is an improvement. At Amsterdam, on Monday, the ten dency of Durch Stock was more favourable, and the Two-and-a-Half per Cents closed at 55 7-16. Peruvian Active Bonds were 71k. Spanish, Portuguese, and Brazil were in request. The Vienna prices on the 23d inst., were 294 for Austrian Metallics, with the ex change on Frankfort at 115. The Thames steamer, with the West Indian and Mexican mails, has arrived at Southampton, but up to the pre(ept time we have only a summary of the intelligence which she brings. The weather in Jamaica was favourable, and the canes looked well. A great many American vessels were in the harbour of Port Royal, and there was a prospect of an active trade with the United States under the operation of the amended navigation-laws. Demerara, in expectation of a loan from England, was devising the means of meeting the interest, and the colonial duties on wines and spirits were to be hypothecated, arrangements being likewise made for a sinking fund. The Cuba advices are encouraging. The feeling in the City appears to be somewhat more cheerful to-day, and there is a hope that atter the holi days business will become a little brisker. At present we can record no actual change. We simply notice a little more firmness. The Stock Market is a little firmer this morning, but with an extreme paucity of business. Consols have realised 91i for Transfer, and are nearer 95i for Ac count. The rally of 1 per cent. in the Freuch funds has given a somewhat better tone. _Exchequer-bills have been marked 625. to 655., and India Bonds are about 86s. to 88a. premium. Bank Stock for account has been done as high as 210. South Sea New Annuities have been sold at 95k. The Foreign Securities have been fluouating accord ing to the progress of the settlement, and Mexican have recovered to 29k in consequence of the remittance of 91,000 dollars on board the Thames. A party in the house, who was of good standing, has been iu difficulties, and affords another instance of the necessity of some measure for repressing speculation by brokers. This individul was a large dealer in Mexican on his own account, and al though his differences have bet n made good, it is ham possible that the Committee can suffer the steady going , eerebers of the house to be placed in such jeopardy when they deal with parties whom they suppose to be acting for principals, but who are, in reality, dealing for themselves. Clients also are injured by such a course, and the jobber is placed in a most disadvantageous position. Peruvian Active Stuck has been 724, and the Deferred 274 to 28. Equador Bonds are 3k. Brazilian Old Stock has realised 89. Danish Scrip has been firm at 3 premium, and Russian has been done at 11 premium. Spanish Five per Cent% have been flat at 164, and Portuguese Four per Cents. at 314 to 32. Dutch Four per Cents. have bee❑ 864. Railway Shares have been lower, and with sales in some lines rather pressed. The disheartening report upon the Caledonian Company is " telling" seriously upon public confidence, though it should hardly be said to bear upon railways, the affairs of which have already been thoroughly investigated. Shareholders, unquestion ably, have been to blame in most cases, but in none more than the Caledonian, where they have blindly main tained in office a reckless or inc mpetent set of men, who have by their guarantees and contracts reduced he company to a condition of absolute bankruptcy. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) 2 per Cent. Consols Anna 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1726 South Sea Stock Ditto New Annuities Bank Stock for Account 210 elonsols for ♦ccount R,xchequer Bills. lid- 2d. March. June 65 62 65 p 65 62 65 p aaa ` , nll] PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Braziiidu Bonds, 5 per Cent B9 Ditto New 80nd5,1829 and 1839 87% Ditto, New, 1843 Dan;sh Bond s 1825, 3 per Cent — Ditto, 5 per Cent Ditto, Scrip ... .... ......... 3 p Equador Bonds 3% Nlexican iioniis, 1846,5 per Cent., Coupons Ditto Ex Jan. Coupons Ditto Account Peruvian Bonds, 4 per Cent — Ditto for the Account ... ........ Ditto Deferred Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent — Ditto 4 per Cent. Ditto Account Russian Bonds. 1822,5 per Cent — Ditto Scrip ll4 p Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent. ...... Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 2 1 / e per Cent., 12 Guild Ditto 4 ner Cent. Certificates BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONR O'CLOCK RAILWAYS. PAID. PEI. Azusa. Vberdeen Ditto, Preference , ?Abu., Notting., Boston,&c. 7 1 ,E — .... . to kvrshire and Galloway 8 :fast ard County Down .. 30 .. .. ..... 3erks and Hants Extension (Gt. West. Perpet. 5 per ct.) 6 . tun ingnam & OxfordJunct., calls duly pd, or with guar. 20 . 27 %.. ... to 27 Do., without a guarantee... 20 , — Birmingham,Wol.,& Dudley, calls duly pd, or with guar. 15 ..... —. Do., without a guarantee... 15 . ..... 204-- to iirming., Wol., & Stour Val. 131.145.... ;trkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshir 4 Junction 23 ristol and Exeter. Do., Thirds ...... ... ..... ... 33i , tekinghamshire.. Jaledonian Do., New 10/. Preference lO ... .. 5% ... .. to 6 Ditto. Clydesdale Junction 50 ;heater and H01yhead......... 50 ..... 8 3 / 1 1 4 to Ditto, Preference - )irect London & Portsmouth 54 to )ablin and Belfast Junction.. 40 undalit and Enniskillen ... 30 ...... EEst Anglia, 251. L. & E., find L. & D Ditto, I el., E. & H lB ....• Do, 31. 135.,6 p. Ct. Pref. 3% — Do, 71. 175., 7 per Ct. Pref. 2 Er.astern Counties ...„ Do. New Pref., 6 par Cent.. 10 Du. Exten.,s par ct. No. 1,6/.135. 4d Do., do N 0.2,61. 133.4 d... p to Do., Northern & Eastern... 50 Do., 5 per cont. Ditto, New . tststern Union, Class A. (late E. U. Shares) ...... ... .. 25 ...... ...... to Ditto, ditto, Class A, ditto 6 , Ditto, New Ditto Scrip (gua. 6 per ct.) 20 ...... -.ast Lancashire ..... Do., New Quarters Do., 6 per Cent. Preference Quarter Shares 6 1 4•....• ..- aitt Lincolnshire, guar. 6 per Cent. ... . 'dinburgh and Glasgow ..... 50 - to Ditto, Half Shares " , :dinburgla and Northern ... 25 I )itto, New port xeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 2% — to —• Exeter and Exmouth... _ ... 2I s. kasg., Dumfries, & Carlisle..BL 6s.Bd — .. ... to dassgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50 Do. Preference Consolidated Gloucester and Dean Forest.. 12% — ...... to sireat Northern Do. % A Deferred ..... ... 11% — ...... to Do. 1 .4 B_6 per Cent. Do., 6 pe - r Cent. Pref. ...... 12 1 / 2 ...... to .t. South. & West. (Ireland) 50 — to Di to, Eighths ... .. 1% ..... Ireat North of England 100 Lotto. Now 404... ..... .. - 40 Ditto, ditto .... Ditto, I\ ew 301. Ditto, New 151...... ..- Great W Obttrn D itto, II al f Shares...-. ..... 50 Ditto, Quarter Shares Ditto, Fifths Do. New 17/ - ... 74 to -. - lull and Selby 5O - Ditto, Half Shares .. ...... 25 ...- — ...... to -- Ditto, Quarter Shares ... 12% — ...... to .4A master and Car1i51e ........ 50 Do., Thirds ancashire and Yorkshire...loo - Ditto, ditto Ditto Half Shares ..... 50 ~.... to Ditto Quarters Ditto Fifths lO .... 711 ° /4-*• to Ditts.Thir4s lig ...•.• . 0 Do., New Guar. 6 p er ce nt to Do. (Rudd I d Sheff.) 50 J• t tiudders. an, ..,neff.) .. Do., West Riding Union 11 1 4. • •••••• t° .ends and Bradtord 6O ..... ...... to .eeds and Thirsk ........ .... D0.,d0., Prefer., 6 per Cent. 3 ;4. ...- — t) .... Ditto, ditto... Ditto, ditto ..... ... No. 3 5 Do. Pref. Quarters.. 1848... 9 Liverpool. Crosby, andSouth port. . London & Blackwalf. . ..... . .... 61 8- 0 3 d...... 33 /i (Arid., Bright..& South Coast loo Do., New it., gua. 6pr CLIO° 134 .... . to ..., Do. Guaranteed sper Cent. 9 ...„ _ to —. Do. Preferential, 5 per Ct., 50 — to .... Ditto, ditto 1852 53 ..... ..... ...... to —. London and Greenwich... 12 4 15s. 4d... ...... to Di t t o Preference London is North Western.....loo ......105 105% to 1044% Do. N ew Quarter 5........... 12 ...... 11 , 4 to Do. Fifths l2 ..... 12 i 40r. Shares... ..L. & M 35 to ..... Do. 101— M. and B. (C.) 1 London and'. " Western .......100 . • 63 ••• ••• to •—• i '.. itt o. New 501........ .. ..... 42% • ... •••.. —, - Ditto. New 40/. ............ .. 34 Do., New Preference Londonderry and Coleraine... 25 Londonderry HalfnderrySahnid res Enniskillen .... 5 25 ... -- to —. » ... to o —__ t Do., Half Shares lawastoff. _, guar. 4 per ct...... 20 Ditto (guar. 6 per cent. ... 13 ...... Manch Buxton, & Matlock 5 Ilinchr, Sheffield, and Linc.100 Ditto !i Shares (No. 1) ... 25 —...— .. t o Ditto, ditto (No. 2) 25 Ditto, % *ham (1i0.3)... 12% — ~.. ,-- iiiitto. New 101. Preference 10 ...... 7 - Ditto, Grimsby & Sheffield 50 - ...... to - Ditto, ditt0........... ...... 20 - •..•.. to - Ditto, ditto .. .. - ...mt. to -• Ditto Sheffield and Linc. 25 ...••• - Vitt°, Grimsby Dock ...... 25 - to —. 1 3itto. Man. & Lin. Union 41. 25.... - dig to -, Midland ... .. ........ ..100 ill dip.nd, Consol. Bristol and Birmingham, 6 per cent.... 100 - ...... to -- Ditto, 501. Shares ..... ...... 80 I:rid:and, ',firm., and Derby...loo ..... - -, Ditto, Consol. Preference...loo Midland, Bristol and Gl ouc . 42 ... - Ditto ditto 22/. 78. ... .. - Ditto,ErewashVal., Pref... 50 ... Midland, Leices. and Swan sington (8 per ct.gua.)....100 .... . - Eilidld. Great Western (Irish) 47% - •.•••• to .... 15faddlesbro' and Redcar. 6 p:ir cent. guar. 5O - - Newc Akio and Carlisle lOO ...... - Ditto Quarter Shares . ... 25 ... .. - •••••• to •-• Newmarket - to - Ditto Extension Scrip... 21. 12s - to - Newport Abergy., and Heret. 6 ...... - to -- Newry and Enniskillen ...... 7 ...... - to -- Newry, Warrenpoi n t, ana Rostrevor ..... ..... -...... .. 20 Norfolk - ... .. to -- Ditto New 201. 100 ...... - ..•... to - 15 - •.•••• to --, Ditto - Extension ..... 2O - ... s. to ..'.. Do. Do. .5% per cent 5 re v. ... Do. do. Waveney Valley... 2 , ...... - Northern Counties Union ... 4 - to - North Western .... 13 3 / 4 -. ...... to 6 North British .. .. ... ...... . 25 - E;itto Vali Shares ..... ...- 12% - to - D. Quarters • N..... - - Ditto Thirds ..... - Ditto, Preference ...... 5 - North 8 tadordsh ire... .. ...... 17% xford, Worce s t er , an d Wol verhampton 5O - Preston and Wyre - Do. Half Sharer__ (A) 10 - Reading, Guilcitd., & Reigate 15 -....15%!4 x.i to -- twyston and Hitchin ..... .. 4%...... - ... .• to - 'O. Shepreth Extension... % ....• -- - (3 , ttish Central .•. •,, - c ttish Midland ...... ..... .... 25 •- •••• to -,- Dltto,New - •• ...... to - : hrewimiry and Birmingham 13 1 4 — die ... to --. Ditto, ditto, Clae s B. S - - Ditto, New Guara n teed 8 - ••••• to -- • hrewt.nury and Hereford .. 5 - •• .. to - Shrewsbury and Chester (Nor. W. ~ ; in.) - ...... to •-• Ditto 8 per Cent. Pre-._ 10 - .. ... to - Ditto Halves. Ditto.. :10 ... •• - •••••• to -- Ditto, Oswestry 18%...... 4% to - Ditto (New)... - - I .roosbo, ' , mon 6%..... - - South Devon ... . ••... 50 .....• -.-••• to - Ditto, rreterence ...... ... ... 25 - B..utti i7ttaffordghire B% - ... to -..• South Eastern ..... ... 33 1 7 4 ...14% 1 4 13% to 14j [Mao, No. 2.'. -, i , to. No.l - Ditto, Registered No. 4.... 10 - South Wales . 47 - South Yorkshire, Doncaster tyul goole. . ---- 13 — Sheftield,Rotherham. and Goole Isl . .D) Gua. sperct. 18% — ..... to --- Do. do. (South Div.) 5 NMI -wanis. and Loughor and Ca meron's Stns. Coal 8 Caw Vale Extension names Haven Dock ana Railway ..... 17% — to Vale of Neath ... ........... ~. 10 Waterford and Kilkenny 2O ...... , Vaterford and Limerick ... .. 47%..... -- Waterford, Wexford, Wieklw, and Dublin 3 ...... -- •••• • to •••• Wear Valley 6 per Cent. Guaranteed . .. Do. do. do. • • •... to Do. do. do. - West Cornwall 7% — Whitehliven and Furness.... 18 ..... Windsor, Staines, and South Western...... .... . 14 Wilts,Sornerset,&Weymouth 50 t ork, Newcastle, and Berwick 25 ...... 13 1 / 04 X to --. Do.:and Newcastl e E a t en. 20 ... •••••• to —• Do. G. N. E. Par. or Prof. 8 De. Hartlepool 1/k. & Rly. 100 0 ork anu North Midland .. 50 ..... 16 4 1 1 , t i Ditto, Preferenc e - FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Anglo Italian (late Italian and Austrian) 6 1 ,0 — ...... to --. Boulogne and Amiens 2O .• gee 6%%••• to - Central of France ( Orleans and Vierzon) ..., Demerara. ......... ........ ... 17%. -• Dutch Rhenish 8 ...... Ewa Indian Ditto ... Great Indian . Peninsular ..... 6 ...... to -- Do. Do ..... .... ....... ... 1 - Louvain ala Sambre ........ 7% — ...... to --• Luxembourg Ditto 10 .. ... - Iladrid and Valentia - . .. to --- IsTI-mr and Liege......... 2O ... . .. ... to •-• Northern of France l6 ...... 121 .. to --. Uritiam and Bordeaux ... • 7 ... .. - Pans ana Orleans Paris and Rouen P iris & Strasbourg ..... ..... 13 Rouen and Havre 2O Sambre and Manse ttrasburg and 8a1e...,, ...... 14 Tours & Nantes ... ... .. 13 Cournay, Juroise, Landen, and Hassell ... ...... ...... .. 20 West Flanders B% — •..... to JOINT STOCK SANKS. Australasia ... - iritish North Amer.can 'olonial ..... .. .. 25 ....• --- .. •• to C )(nrnercial of London - „ondon Joint Stock ~........ 10 1....mi0n and Westminster... 20 N ational Provincial of Engld. 85 ...... Ditto, New , :ational of Ireland .....»..... 221,E Provincial of Ireland ... 25 Ditto, New Urion of Australia ....... - Ditto, New •• 2%...... Union of London ........ ...... 10 Union of Madrid ......... ...... 40 - MINES. Anglo aexican ••100 VIM ••• •••• Asturian Australian ... Barrossa Range ....., .....• to —• Blaenarvou Iron mid Coal ... 50 Bolanos Scrio - British Iron , l2 - Brazilian Imperial ..... ..... 24U i ...... Ditto Cocaes and Cuiaba... 3$ Ditto St. John Del Rey ... 15 , 13% to C)bre Copper ueneral ...... 2$ .....• -- •••••• 1° Real del Monte, Unregistered . .. ••• to Do. Black Debenture5...... Do. Red Debentures ..... .... Santiago de Cuba lO —....— ..... to United Mexican .. 28% : ...... W 4.... COURSE OF Amsterdam ...... • 12 2% Ditto, three months .. 12 35i Rotterdam .... .• .. • . 12 4 Antwerp .......... .... 25 85 Brussels ....• 25 85 Haw burgh • M.B. 13 14 Litona.• ••• •• Paris, 3 days'sight .... 25 65 Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Marseilles 25 85 Bourdeaux.... • . ... • Frankfort on Maine.... 122 Vienna, effec. do •.• • • • 11 56 Trieste, ditto.... • • .... 11 56 retersburgh, Sil. Rble .• 37% ' Madrid .... • • 49 % Cadiz •• •••••••• • • •• •• 49% Barcelona •• •• .• . • • • •• • . • • • • • • .. EXCHANGZ. Gibraltar.. • Leghorn 30 7 5 Genoa .. ••••• • • • • • 26 /0 Venice— ........ Naples .. ............ 40,1 Palermo, per0z........ 171 I n Messina 121% Lisbon.... • • .......... b 3 S Oporto 5 3 '41 Rio Janeiro .• •••• • • • • Buenos Ayres .. New York, 21 days'sight Philadelphia .... • • .... moss or BULLION, PIM OA 'Foreign Gold in bars.. £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 G., New Dollar ••• • • • 0 4 10% Silveri' bars ........ 0 0 LLOYDS' SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, MARCH 27.—Wind at noon E.S.E., light breeze and fine clear weather. The frost continues. DEAL, Alarm"( 26.—Wind N.W. to N.E.—Arrd. Sir Henry Hardinge, M'Donald, China; Edmondsbury, Rid" path, Calcutta; London, M'Lellan, Callao; Emilie, Bas ter, Porto Rico. Arrd. from the River, Mary Shepherd. Bombay. Arrd. from the River and sailed, .Plantagens. Madras. Sld. Lady Lilford, Valparaiso. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 26.—Wind N.W. to SAW., squally.—Sld. American Congress, New York. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 26.—Wilid S.S.E., heavy fall of snow.—Arrd. New World, Knight, New York. Sld. Eel. Rio Janeiro. Off port, Queen of the Isles, Islay. The Tagus, for Lisbon, which was yesterday in contact with a steamer, was also in contact in the River .with the Theresa Jane, for Maranham, which lost some stanchions and bulwarks. PLYMOUTH. MARCH 26.—The Daunnaris, Bristol to Trieste, was fallen in with, 16th inst., lat. 47, lon. 12, dig ' masted, and with part of cargo thrown (*inboard. Was towed in here today. OFF QUEENSTOWN, MARCH 24.—British Merchant, Arica, and prozeeded for London. Bremen, Manilla. TODERMORY.—The smack Neb, Montrose to Liver• pool, struck upon a sunken rock in the Sound of Mull, and tilltd, but is expected off; crew saved. COWES, MARCH 26.—Wind W. to S.W.—Arrd. Skeold Clausen, Santos; Juno, Floren, Charleston. Sld. Valleanaria, Cape of Good Hope. OFF SALCOMBE, MARCH 26.—Wind variable.- - Viscount Sandon, Shanghae. YARMOUTH.--AlTd. Triton, with loss of bowsprit, SC.. from contact with the Mungo Park, of Newcastle; Cols, F, camp, from Blyth, with damage from contact. SCILLY. —Th e Herbert, from Cardiff, has put back back leaky, and w i t h f ore f oot knocked off, having on a sunken rock. in OFF THE WlGHT.—T uicar , Th om p s on, 112 days; Hull, C ana d a; Willi ams , Manrig Bombay, ul an. —Th• SOUTHASIPTGN WATER, MARCH 27 at 9 Thames steamer, West Indies. ht. —AT N., lig M. FALMOUTH, MARCH 25. Rio for Pernambuco, for Stetten. Ranee, Boyd, Calcutta. Off poWrt.inbadinna2Linan, B uena Altona; Preciosa, Rees, Pernam Ayres, for Antwerp ; H e l en a, Irverson. Janeiro, MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE—WEDNESDAY Since Monday the arrivals of English Wheat coast wise, as well as by land carriage, have been on a very moderate scale. To-day the show of samples of both red and white was small, and a moderate business was transacted, at about stationary prices. The imports of Foreign Wheat have been confined to 2,290 quarters. Fine parcels moved off steadily, at full rates of currency. In the middling and inferior qualities very little Wu doing, We were heavily supplied with Barley, especial'y foreign parcels. That grain met a dull inquiry, at barely Monday's decline in y§lue. hials wgi jig 994 suPPli, MARCII 27, 1(1.10