The Sun. — London, England, 1853-04-07 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. BuCkstone. THIS EVENING, Aram 7, Will be performed ELOPEMENTS IN' HIGII LIFE. By Mesesrs.. B. Sullivan, Chippendale, Howe, W. Farren, Buckstone, and Comp ton ; Mesdames Fltzwilliam, Reynolds , L. S. Buckingham, &c. After which MR. BUCKSTONE'S ASCENT OF MOUNT PAR NASSUS. To conclude with DR. DILWORTH. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING, Arlin 7, wut be perfbrmed THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Principal character by Mr. C. Kean. After , which will be produced a new Drama, adapted from the the French of Mons. Scribe, by Mr. Paigravo Simpson, called MARCO SPADA. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestria. THIS EVENING, Aran, 7, Will be presented A STRANGE HISTORY. Characters by by Madame Yestris, Mrs. F. Matthews, Miss Julia St. George, Miss M. Oliver, Miss Rosins Wright, Miss Mason, Mrs. Horn, and Miss Wadham ; Mr. C. Mathews, Mr. F. Matthews, Mr. R. Roxby, Mr. Cooper, Ste. After which, LITTLE TODDLEKINS. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster. —Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Aran. 7, Will be presented WEBSTER AT HOME, AN ADELPHI FARE OF THREE REMOVES AND A DESSERT. Characters by Messrs. B. Webster, L. Murray, Keeley, Etc. ; Miss F. Maskell and Mrs. L. Murray, &c. After which, A NOVEL EXPEDIENT. With TO PARENTS AND GUAKDIANS. THE PRETTY GIRLS OF STILBERG. PEPLNO THE DUMB BOY, AND PUG, HIS MONKEY. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Farren. THIS EVENING, AsalL 7, Will be presented SALVATORI ; or, the Bandit's Daughter. Characters by Messrs. H. Marston, Robson, Diddear, Cooke, and Morgan ; Mesdames Anderton and H. Gordon. • After which, THE BEGGAR'S OPERA. Supported by Messrs. Farren, Rolfe, Shalders, and Cooke ; Mesdames A. Phillips, Bartlett, and Gordon. To conclude with THE LASS OF GOWRIE. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. Triumphant success of the New Spectacle, which has been nightly received with the most enthusiastic approbation.—The novel and daring Ft eta of the Horses, and the terrifiC Leap of Amakosa's Steed over the Falls of the Umtata have been hailed with thun ders of applause. THIS EVENING, Aram 7, And during the Week, the Performances will commence with the ACW grand spectacle entitled AMAKOSA ; or, Scenes of t t he W.rfare ; with magnificent scenery, costumes , and appointments. To be followed by brilliant and elegant Achievements in the ARENA, suppo ted by the most eminent Engl sh and Continental Artistes in Europe To conclude with a Laughable FORCE. B nt-ofilet open daily from zoicven to Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tim DAT ----Islorniug 30 min. after 1 Evening 48 min.aft. 1 M To-Nloanow—orning 5 min. after 2 Evening 21 min.aft. 2 DAILY WEATHER TABLE. THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1853, state of the wind and weather at each of the following places at nine o'clock yesterday morning. The stations ars arranged in order of latitude. liARTINRR—S.W. 9 gentle breeze—foggy. SOUTHAMPTON S .W., strong bre( ze—foggy. I'OLSESTONE—S.W., fresh breeze—foggy. TUNBRIDGE—S.W., strong breeze—overcast. GREENWICH—S.W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. STROOD—W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. SWINDON—W., gentle breeze—cloudy. L EIG HT ON—W. S . W . ,. strong breeze—overcast. YARMOUTH-S.W.,hard wind—overcast. The returns from the following places indicate the state of ihe weather on Tuesday morning at nine o'clock : LIMERICK—W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. MuLLINGAR—E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. - SOUTHAMPTON - S. W., gentle breeze—rain. BASINGSTOKE—W., gentle breeze—overcast. LEIGHToN—S.W., calm—overcast. LANCASTER—W. calm—partially cloudy. DARLINGTON—S.W., gentle breeze—cloudless. SHAP—N.W., calm—partially cloudy. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, APRIL 7. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 64—highest since noon yesterday. 47—lowest this morning and during the night. 59 this day at noon. BAROMETER, `29 . 84. WIND, W.B.W. to W.N.W.—Light breeze, and dull weather, with occasional sunshine. THE PUBLICATION OF " THE SUN" COMMENCES EVERY AFTERNOON AT THREE O'CLOCK, AND THE LATE OR THIRD EDITION, CONTAINING THE DEBATES IN PARLIAMENT THE SAME EVENING, With all other News arriving up to the hour of Post, AT SEVEN O'CLOCK. EXPRESS EDITIONS will be forwarded after the Post is closed by the Latest Trains. • . 4; (. i' • titri - t". ".-Arik . i LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1853. The great object of a Chancellor of the Exche quer's ambition at all times has been to tamper with the pnblic debt, to negociate changes that will effect a present saving, it matters not at what future cost. With Sir CHARLES WOOD it amounted almost to a mania; for although he never was enabled to bring forward any distinct proposition, his anxiety on the subject was thoroughly known. The Fates, however, proved unpropitious, and he was deprived of office without accomplishing his wishes. Mr. GLADSTONE, it appears, is actuated by a similar spirit. He, too, aspires to the dis tinction of effecting new arrangements with the Fundholder. The nature of these arrangements, which, it is said, have been very favourably re ceived on the Stock Exchange, will be ascertained from the notice of motion which we give in extenso in another part of this day's impression. From this it will appear that the intention is to convert the South Sea Stock and the Old and New South Sea Annuities of the 3/. per Cent. Annuities, created by the Acts of 12 GEO. 1., 1 and 24 GEo. 11., of the Consolidated and Reduced 3 per Cent. Annuities, to exchange into other forms— the proprietors being authorised to select any of three different modes of investment which they may prefer as substitutes for their present stock. The new or substituted stock which the Fund holder may obtain in place of receiving payment in money, will be--Ist, a New. Stock of 3-i per Cent. Annuities, not redeemable until the sth of January, 1894, or nearly forty-one years from the present time, of which 82/. 10s. will be given for 1001. of the existing Stock —or, 2dly, 1101. if a New 2i per Cent. Stock, not redeemable until the sth of January —or, 3dly, an Exchequer Bond for 1001., bearing interest at the rate of 2/. 15s. per cent., payable half-yearly, or some day to be named in such bond, not later than the Ist Sep tember, 1864, and thenceforth 2/. 10s. per annum, not redeemable until Ist September, 1894. The fortunate Fundholder may exchange his Stock for any of the above ; and inasmuch as the bargain will, as usual, be very much in favour of the creditor, and against the nation, its favourable reception on the Stock Exchange may be easily accounted for. There will, as usual, be a temporary saving achieved by imposing additional burdens on our children and grandchildren, with which they will be saddled for no less than 41 years, a period far beyond anything that the exigencies of the case can possibly require. It is, of course, exceedingly desirable to effect a reduction in the interest of the debt, which will not merely lighten the burden to the national Exchequer, but will also tend to render monetary accommodation cheaper and more easily attainable, and direct capital into industrial enterprises. But such advantages may be purchased at too high a price. - We may pay far more than it is worth for such accommodation. The recent gold discoveries—the unlimited supply of the precious metals which may be an ticipated from Australia and California—more especially when the different Gold Mining Com panies come into operation—afford the strongest possible belief that money will, ere many years, become much more plentiful, and, therefore, ob tainable at easier rates than at present. The Fundholders have been quaking under the idea that there would be an immediate reduction to 2i per cent., and that even that rate could not be relied on for more than fifteen or twenty y ears. Mr. GLADSTONE has, however, infused new life into the tremblers. He has offered terms far beyond anything that even the most sanguine could have anticipated--that will enable the public creditors to repose on beds of roses for more than another generation. As it is well known that money can now be obtained for a limited time on Government securities at 1i to 2 per cent., we cannot speak highly of the prudence that contracts to pay nearly double the amount for forty-one years, thus sur rendering for so long a period the benefits that may, and in all probability will, arise from the anticipated monetary plethora. In the first branch of the alteration, the parties are to receive 821. 10s. of a New 3-i per. Cent. Stock, not redeemable until 1894. The dividend on this account will be 21. 17s. 9td. in place of 31. as at present. For the present saving of 2s. 21d. oa every hundred, we bind ourselves to pay that rate until almost the close of the present century. There can be but little doubt that the Fundholders would rejoice to accept so great and so unexpected a boon, even if there were not greater benefits to be received from the second branch of the alterations. The 1101. New Two-and-a-Half per Cent. Stock offered will give a present interest of V. 15s. in place of 31. The guarantee of payment for 41 years would, however, be accepted as more than a full equivalent for the present reduction ; but a bonus of 101. on every 1001. is most gratuitously and unnecessarily given, which our descendants will have to pay, and the capital amount of the debt will be considerably augmented. We had hoped that the system from which the country is now suffering so deeply, of creating a higher de nomination of stock, had been altogether exploded. Mr. GLADSTONE, however, it appears, is about to revive the objectionable principle, and that at a time when there was no cause for any urgency. The third branch of the proposition—the crea tion of Exchequerßonds, bearing interest at 2/.155. for 11 years, for we may assume that the Ist Sep tember, 1864, will be the time specified in each bond, and then until 1894 at W. 10s., and then subject to redemption at par at the option of the holder, or of the Lords of the Treasury, is even more objectionable than either of the others, in asmuch as it will bind the nation not only to pay the stipulated interest for 41 years, but then to redeem the capital debt at par, a matter that may create a great difficulty to the then Financial Minister. The amount of this species of security is to be limited to 30,000,0001., inasmuch as it is supposed that they will be in great demand. We do not, howeyer, think that such improvident arrangements will receive the Legislative sanction. They are not such as Mr. DIsxAELI would have proposed, nor would they have been listened to with common courtesy. The moneyocracy have had their turn long enough. It is time that the tax-payers should look to their own interests, and not permit the greediness of the tax-eaters to be again satisfied at their expense. The views of Government on the subject of Education are now before the country; the details of their measure will probably furnish repeatedly topics for discussion, and we shall certainly defer consideration of them till another time, but the chief points demand immediate attention. After reviewing the progress of Educational efforts for the last half century, and showing that the results were so large that it would be most inexpedient to disturb them, and much more so to adopt a sys tem wholly new, Lord JoHN RUSSELL made two propositions in aid of what is now doing. The first, to enable Corporations to levy, by a majority of two-thirds, a rate for Educational purposes ; the assistance to be given only to such schools as complied with the Government conditions, and to be granted in augmentation of the amount raised by the children's pence. His Lordship suggested, that for instance the rate might be applied to pay ing 2d. per head for the children, provided 4d. or sd. were raised from other sources. The second, to make a better use, for Educational purposes, of the very numerous endowments scattered all over the country, which are now in so many instances wholly or partially inefficient as free schools. As a pendant to these projects for the million, our great National Univer sities were admonished to set their house in order voluntarily, in accordance with the Report of the Commissions, or to expect, and very shortly, too, a decided intervention of the Government. May they profit by the warning The Nation as well as the Government is quite determined that its Universities shall be as national in fact as in name. We expect, however, that this will never be accom plished except by the nation taking the matter into its own hands. There will be surely but feeble opposition to his Lordship's first proposal. It is permissive merely. It is as free from centralisation as is possible consistently with some guarantee for the quality of the instruction. It might seem indeed that the Town Councils which vote the money should be made the judges also of the efficiency of the schools to which they vote it; merely securing the schools against their religious interference, and we think it not unlikely that in Committee the powers of the Corporation will be somewhat enlarged in this direction. Nothing, however, can be more un sectarian, and better adapted to its object, than the present Government machinery for ascertaining the deserts of the schools to which the grants are voted. It would seem as if the pure Voluntaries of Mr. BAINES' school were the only party which could oppose the levying of a rate by a Town Council. Their objection we perfectly compre hend. They reject all compulsory support for teaching religion ; they believe with the vast ma jority of Educationists that religion must be more or less included in the instruction of the young, and hence logically conclude that any educational rate is objectionable. Now, without discussing the merits of these arguments, it surely suffices for a statesman to reply as Lord JOHN RUSSELL did, that the party which employs them is in a very small minority : that it is not one of those cases of conscience in which no majority whatever can be justified in demanding the peaceful acquies cence .of the minority, that even the minority can in every town make its voice heard in the Town Council ; and that the proposition, therefore, of such a municipal rate in aid, is the one which bears least hardly of any upon those who are opposed to it. The secularists can have no rea son to complain. They will be quite free to try their plan, and receive the aid also ; and if they find the people generally preferring their schools, from which all religious instruction is excluded, it will then be for them to seek, by every fair means, the extension of their system. The Voluntaries, indeed, will be better off, if we understand the proposition aright, than they now are, since at present they cannot hinder any school from asking and receiving Government support ; but if they wish to do so they may, by defeating a rate in the Town Council, prevent any school in the borough from receiving Government support at all. We should not be surprised, however, to find schools in Leeds, Bradford, Manchester, and other similar places, petitioning that, in case the Corporation will not levy a rate, they may continue to receive their accustomed Government grants. Respecting rendering the endowed charities of the country more available to the general good, and redeeming them from the abuses which almost neutralise the intentions of the founders, there can be amongst disinterested parties but one opinion. Their aggregate income, at least that of 2-8,854/. on which the Commissions have reported, is 1,209,3951., of which 312,000/. is specifically appropriated to education by the trusts. A very large part of the remainder is wasted in the most trivial and useless manner, " such as giving six loaves at Christmas, and things of that kind ;" boons rather to the idle and dissolute, than really charitable benefactions. In cases of abuse of trust also the expenses of suits at present would frequently swallow up the charity itself ; and it is a fact disgraceful to us as a nation that, for ten years at least, efforts have been made to remedy all this, but hitherto in vain. It is now proposed to constitute a permanent judicial au thority to declare whether these trusts have been abused ; and that the Committee of Privy Council should have power, with the consent of the trustees, to vary the application of trusts; and, when the trustees wil_ 1"; consent to what is reasonable, to present suitable bills to Parlia ment to effect the same object. Suits respecting all charities below 301. are to be brought before the County Courts—a truly needful provision, when it is known that there are 17,972 charities under 101. a-year, 13,331 of them under 51. a-year ! Those above 301. per annum are to be brought before the Master of the Rolls. We most earnestly hope that no patrons of vested abuses in either House will hinder the utmost being done to apply the sums thus fruitlessly dissi pated to some more worthy use. A more worthy or rational one than that of Education is not to be easily imagined. Such are the chief features of the Government plan. It would be easy enough to find fault with it. Secularists and Voluntaries, Churchmen and Dissenters, might all like some things different, and each party can carp as they will. Others, again, will complain, it may be, because we have not some great and bold plan swallowing up all the rest. We must confess, however, that as much as could be carried i$ now proposed, and it were useless proposing more than that, to drive the whole question out of Parliament for years to come. Indeed, it remains to be seen whether what is now proposed will be easily carried into effect. Crabbed trustees, with a Bishop or two at their head, will not be unlikely to make a deal of noise in behalf of some mischievous misused cha rities ; and the Voluntaries will not be silent about compulsory rates for teaching religion. The Government has certainly exercised a sound discretion in attempting no more. It is quite sufficient to impress every one with the necessity of moving cautiously, of neither changing one system hastily; nor of relaxing voluntary effort by superfluous aid, to recollect the magnitude of what is now doing in Education. The number of scholars in the books in public day schools alone in 1851, was 1,407,569; and the number of schools 15,473. The amount provided for their maintenance was 1,100,0001., and of this nearly 500,0001. was raised by the children's pence. The number of private schools at the same date was 29,425, and the number of scholars 700,904. We shall return ere long to the subject, only remarking, that the greatest difficulty of all is yet left untouched—the education of children whose parents will not send them to a school at all. With exquisite delicacy and refinement the Edinburgh for the current quarter " falls foul" of two of the most notable men of our generation. The manner in which this is done we conceive to be so remarkable as to be entitled to particular observation, and to no fletting remembrance. It cannot be said, we fear, that by the course pur sued in these instances by our contemporary, the position of the reviewers has been very appreci ably elevated, or that the journal itself has very considerably enhanced its reputation. There is a certain line of demarcation, we believe, between the vigour of the boldest criticism and the imper tinence of the shallowest personality. It were well if that boundary were never passed over— well, we mean, for the honour and respectability of literature. Political partisanship, however, is one of the most terrible goads to the perpetration of this species of ostentatious virulence and erudite indecorum. Take the two articles here referred to by way of illustration. Nothing could by possibility, we venture to assert with the most positive distinct ness—nothing could by possibility be more vile in taste (rather, perhaps, in want of taste) or more paltry in spirit (rather should we say in spleen) than the style adopted in both of these cross grained and intemperate compositions. They are evidently intended by the Edinburgh as critical grenades destined to destroy the influence of two persons of no feeble or restricted popularity. Whether these amiable projects will eventually be realised may be conjectured at a glance with tolerable accuracy. It would require, we fancy, rather more detonative capacity than that dis played by the spiteful antagonism of our blue and-buff contemporary to ruin the intellectual authority exercised at least upon the pre sent age by ARCHIBALD ALISON, the laborious and gifted historian of Europe, and by BENJAMIN DIFIR AF.m, the brilliant and versatile ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer. Common sense, we take it, is quite enough to assure any rational observer that nothing can pos sibly result from all this contemptible petulance and ill-conditioned flippancy but the degradation of the high character hitherto sustained by the Edinburgh. Judging of these two deplorable arti ' des with regard to mere consideration of style, they might, for all we could reasonably suppose to the contrary, have been written by Dr. SLOP, at the dictation, say, of the ghost of MARTINI:TS SCRIBLERUS. What dignity of tone, for example, there is in that stately allusion to the annalist— " He seems resolved to hold the place in literature which Colonel SIBTHORP has so long and chival rously filled in political life !" What gentlemanly feeling there is in that graceful reference to the administrator—" Dr. JosxsoN has remarked that there are persons so besotted with the love of notoriety that they will roll in the gutter rather than not be looked at or talked about. Mr DISRAELI is, or was, a striking specimen of this class : the quod monstrer digito pratereuntium was his master passion ; and, when he had no other means of gratifying it, he would stoop to make people stare by the extra vagance of his dress and demeanour, or by the calculated display of a half-genuine and half simulated self-conceit." Dress has here, it will be perceived, so very much to do with a man's administrative capacities or political principles. The colour of a waistcoat is so intimately allied with skill in Statesmanship or ability in literature. Why, as far as that goes, it mat ters about the value of a straw whether Mr. DISRAELI wore velvet trousers during the time when he was sowing his " wild oats," or whether he delighted overmuch in the ripening colour of his meerschaum. Every schoolboy has heard of the unlucky little whelp belonging to ALCIBIADES—even those who have never parsed half a dozen -sentences of PLUTARCH. And when the reviewer in his comprehensive animosity dreams of assailing the mental powers of the ob ject of his ridicule by sneering at the peculiari ties of his costume, he in reality opens up a side path to the admirers of that very personage for the institution of certain exalting or dignifying comparisons. It would seem, in deed, that the writer in the Whig Quarterly had never borne in mind the account of CESAR in his youth, while addressing the Senate, toying with his ringlets like the veriest fop of an empty headed patrician. It will be insinuated next, in spite of every more serious argument, that the present imperial ruler of France cannot in any way be presumed capable of conducting the affairs of a great nation, because some years ago he smoked cheroots while sauntering over the pave ments of Bath, or encased his limbs in the master pieces of " HOBY " and " STULTZ," for the occa sional gratification of those who lounged about the shady side of the Quadrant. 0 the profundity of these critical deductions ! Granted that Mr. DISRAELI was in error—ac cording to our judgment, according to our convic tion, according to our conscience—in advocating so long and pertinaciously the now abandoned principles of Protection. Granted that Sir ARCHI BALD ALISON is, to our thinking, very grievously mistaken in still clinging to the last, blindly and pertinaciously, to those same habits of thought which have happily some time since fallen into desuetude. Nevertheless, while we coincide in these and other kindred opinions to the full with the Edinburgh Reviewer, we cannot but conceive that it derogates miserably from the excellence of our position to comment upon the course pursued by two of the most eminent of our political adver saries in language of the vilest slip-slop, rising at times almost to the rant of rhetorical Billings gate. Is it not slip-slop--the veriest, vilest slip slop—to talk of the History of Europe (p. 269) as " a cold rechauffee and tedious iteration of theories a hundred times refuted," and to speak of its sequel (p. 301) as " a perfect museum of obsolete opinions—an old curiosity shop ' —a very Refuge for the Destitute and Abandoned ?' " Is it not slip-slop, the veriest and the vilest slip-slop, to say of the ex- Chancellor of the Exchequer (p. 421), " his p or- THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 7,185 a trait was taken by one fashionable artist, his bust was taken in marble, cere perennius, by another. . „ „ . His career has been altogether an exceptional one ; none but himself can be his parallel," to say, in' reference to the charge of political inconsistency, as if it could not just as well (not to say better) be observed in English, " Les extremes se touchent" (p. 430), to observe in another part (p. 433), " a blot is not a blot till it is hit" (ti// it is hit !) or, in another, to remark very elegantly (p. 435) that " the ex- Premier acted on the drunkard's maxim of ' a hair of the dog that bit you I' " If these be not slip-slop, what is ? But as a conclusive testimony of the pervading unfairness of this attack in the Edinburgh, take the following really remarkable paragraph : t , In 1837, Mr. DISRAELI obtained the long-coveted object of his ambition. He was elected member for Maidstone. The effect of his maiden speech in the House of Commons is well known. It was cat short [what a phrase !] by an irrepressible burst of laughter, and he concluded with the memorable words : I have , begun several times many things, and I have often suc ceeded at last. I shall sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me.' When WOODFALL told SHERIDAN after hearing his maiden effort that public speaking was not his line [here's another phrase, that might have thrown CHESTERFIELD into hysterics !], the future rival of PITT and Fox replied, after leaning his head upon his' hand for a few moments,—' I have it in me, and by G— it shall come out.' This was the in stinctive consciousness of latent power, and in the same category of sayings may be ranged NELSON'S, when, finding his name omitted in the dispatches [qucere despatches], he exclaimed, Never mind, some time or other I will have a Gazette to myself.' But Mr. DISRAELI'S threat, vow, or promise was simply one of his characteristic ebullitions of assurance." Why ? The reasoning of this, we take it, is rather obscure. Why SHERIDAN'S remark should have arisen from " the instinctive consciousness of latent power," and why NELSON'S should be ranged "in the same category," and Mr. DISRAELI'S be pooh-poohed as " simply one of his characteristic ebullitions of assurance" is not rendered quite as , clearly apparent as would be desirable under the circumstances. Are we to take the bare assertion' upon the ipse dixit of the Reviewer ? Before we can consent to that, we must see his judgment a , little less warped by prejudice, a little less jaun diced by jealousy, and a little less fired by the heat of what one might almost suspect to be a personal, and certainly a most bitter animosity. SHE.Banirr was prophetic when he said—" I have it in me, and by G-- it shall come out." It did come out. NELSON was right when he said, " I will have a Gazette to myself " for he had afterwards. Mr. DISRAELI, again, was not very far, we believe, from being correct in his pre diction when he told the House of Commons, in 1837—" The time will come when you will hear me." We rather fancy that time did come at last, and that the House of Commons, just' once or twice perhaps, has heard him. Yet forth comes this blundering Edinburgh Reviewer, main taining that the two former exclamations were indicative of the " instinctive consciousness of power," whereas the last was, on the contrary, only a simple "ebullition of assurance." Why this is the mere absurdity dr fatuity of spitefulness. Everything considered, as Free-traders, as Liberals, or as admirers of impartial criticism, we cannot but lament the indecorous, and even at moments vulgar, passion displayed in the pre sent instance by our usually sedate and dignified contemporary. COURT. CIRCULAR. Her Mejesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Princess Royal and the Princess Alice, took a drive in an open landau and four yesterday afternoon. The Equerries in Waiting, Major-General Buckley and Lieut.- Colonel F. H. Seymour, attended on horseback. Prince Albert rode out on horseback yesterday morn ing, attended by Lieut.-Colonel F. H. Seymour. The royal dinner-party at Buckingham Palace last evening included the Duchess of Kent, the Princess Adelaide of Hohenlohe, the Marquis and Marchioness of Breadalbane, Lord John Russell, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Baroness de Speth, Major-General Sir George Bowles and Colonel Wylde. - The Queen's private band attended in Buckingham Palace after dinner on Tuesday evening and performed the following compositions : Overture, "Le Cheval de Bronze" Auber. Duo brillante, two harps, "Les Hugue nots," Messrs. Wright and Oberthur Meyerbeer. Selection, " Faust " Spohr. 'Fantasia, three harps, Messrs. Oberthur, Wright, & Trust. The Duke and Duchess de Nemours - visited the Duchess of Kent yesterday at her residence, Clarence house, St. James's, The Earl of Roseberry had an interview with the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday at his official residence in Down. ing-street. Dispatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial office to the Governors of Australia and to the Governor of Gibraltar. The Queen has been pleased to confer the honour of a Baronetcy upon Dr. Henry Holland, one of her Majesty's Physicians Extraordinary. In consequence of the death of Lord Skelmersdale, the meeting of Conservative members ♦f Parliament which was to have taken place at Lord Derby's on Monday next, has been postponed until the, ensuing Saturday. The Earl of Winchilsea's motion, in reference to Maynooth, has been postponed from the 14th to the 18th inst. POLITICAL REUNION. Mrs. W. E. Gladstone held her first reception last even ing at the official residence of the Chancellor of the Ex chequer in Downing-street. The following members of the corps diplornottique were present :—The Austrian Minister and the Countess Col leredo, the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer, the Prussian Minister and Madame and Mademoiselle Bun sen, the Peruvian Minister, the Hanoverian Minister, the Bavarian Minister, the Greek Minister, and Madame Tri coupi, the Sardinian Minister and the Marquis Massimo d'Azeglio, the Swedish Minister, the Turkish Minister, and Madame Musurus, the Brazilian Minister and Made moiselle Macedo, the Minister for the Netherlands, the Danish Minister and Madame de Bille, the Spanish Minister, Count Flemming, Colonel T. B. Lawrence, Count Louis Corte, the Marquis d'Oldrini, Count Castigliane, Baron de Geer, M. Maurice Delfosse, M. and Madame Figaniere, M. and Madame Comyn, Count Alfred Reventlaw, &c. The general circle comprised, among others—The Countess of Ellesmere and the Ladies Egerton, Earl Jermyn, the Earl and Countess of Airlie, the Earl and Countess of De von, the Countess of Clarendon, the Earl of Lincoln, Vis count and Viscountess Canning and the Ladies Emily and Margaret de Burgh, Viscount Emlyn, M.P., Viscountess Stratford de Redcliffe and the Hon. Miss Canning, Lord and Lady Ly ttleton and the Hon. Miss Seymour, Lord and Lady Monteagle, Lord and Lady De Tabby, Lady Stanley of Al derley and the Hon. Miss Stanley, Lord Harry Vane, M.P., Lady Rendelsham and the Hon. Miss Thellusson, Lord and Lady Alfred Hervey, Lord and Lady Lovaine, Lady Mary Wood, Lord Robert Clinton, M.P., Lord Sey mour, M.P., Lord Elphinstone, Lady Graham and Miss Graham, Lady Weir Hogg and the Misses Weir Hogg, Ad miral the Hon. W. Gordon, M.P., Col. the Hon. C. Grey and Mrs. Grey, Captain the Hon. C. Hardinge, M.P., the Hon. Mrs. J. Stuart Wortley and the Hon. Mrs. Law less, the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. S. Lyttelton, the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. F. Neville, the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Bou verie, the Hon. Mr. Egerton, the Hon. G. S. Smythe, the Hon. G. Byng, M.P., the Hon. P. W. Talbot, the Right Hon. E. Strutt, M.P., and Mrs. Strutt, the Right Hon. H. Tufnell, M.P., and Lady Anne Tufnell and Lady Louisa Primrose, the Right Hon. W. G. Hayter, M.P., and Mrs. Hayter, the Right Hon. C. Villiers, M.P., the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, M.P., and Mrs. Cardwell, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, M.P., and Mrs. Milner Gibson, Mr. Fellowes, M.P., and the Hon, Mrs. Fellowes, Mr. Lewis and Lady Theresa Lewis, Colonel Lockyer Freestun, M.P., and Mrs. Lockyer Freestun, Colonel Malcolm and Mrs. Malcolm and the Misses Johnstone, Captain Clifford, Captain Inglefield, Sir Robert Peel, M.P., Sir Robert In glis, M.P., Sir Stafford and Lady Northcote, Sir John Shelley, M.P., Sir John and Lady Harrington, Sir William and Lady Clay, Sir Frederick Smith, Sir Walter James, M.P., Sir John Hanmer, M.P., Mr. Christy, M.P., and Mrs. Christy, Mr. Hodgson, M.P., Mr. H. Drummond, M.P., Mr. Seymour, M.P., and Mrs. Seymour, Mr. John stone, M.P., Mr. Heywood, M.P., Mr. Grenfell, M.P., and Mrs. Grenfell, Mr. F. Peel, M.P., Mr. Stafford, M.P., Mr. Hume, M.P., and Miss Mary Hume, Mr. Lowe, M.P., and Mrs. Lowe, Mr. H. A. Herbert, M.P.,. and Mrs. Herbert, Mr. Bowyer, M.P., Mr. Fitzgerald, M.P., Mr. Rich, M.P., and Mrs. Rich, Mr. Wilson Patten, M.P., Mr. Townley, M.P., Mr. Raikes Currie, M.P., Mrs. Raikes Currie, and Miss Raikes Currie, Mr. Phillimore, M.P., and Mrs. Phillimore, Mr. Walter, M.P., and Mrs. Walter, Mr. Adderley, M.P., and Mrs. Adderley, and the Hon. Miss Leigh, Dr. Locock and Mrs. Locock, Mr. Forbes, Mr. G. Smith, Mrs. Henry Baring and Miss Baring, Mr. and Mrs. Stephens, Miss Gladstone, Mr. Drummond, Mr. Rickards, Mr. Heneage, Mr. Alexan der Wood, Mr. Trescott, Mr. W. Vernon, Mr. and Mrs. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Munro, Mr. Severn, Mr. Clifford, Mr. Arthur Russell, Mr. Bankes and Miss Bankes, Mr. Swinton, Mr. and Mrs. Cox, Mr. Vyner, Mr. H. Roberts, the Misses Clifford, &c. SILVER.—The dollars and bar silver brought by the last West India packet were sold yesterday at the former rates—namely, 59id. for the dollars, and 61gd. for the bar silver. OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITIES.-It appears, from a return to Parliament, just issued, that the ex pense of the Oxford Commission defrayed last year was 1,2201. 45., and of that relating to Cambridge, 4001. THE COAST DEFENCES.-A Board of Ordnance, com prising Lord Raglan, the Master-General, Sir John Burgoyne, Inspector-General of Fortifications, &c., visited Portsmouth and Gosport yesterday, and made an inspection of the batteries and outworks connected with the port of Portsmouth. KAFIR WAR, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.—The estimate of the further sum required to be voted towards defray ing the expenses of the Kafir) war, beyond the ordinary grants for army, navy, ordnance, and commissariat ser vices, to the 31st March, 1851, is 200,0001. _BIRTH OF A PRINCE. BUCKINGHAM PALACE, APRIL 7. At a quarter past one o'clock this day the Queen was safely delivered of a Prince. There were present on the occasion in her Majesty's room his Royal Highness Prince Albert, Dr. Locock, and Mrs. Lilley, the monthly nurse. In the adjoining apartments, besides the other medical attendants (Sir James Clark and Dr. Fer guson), were her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Lady in Waiting on the Queen, and the following Officers of State and Lords of the Privy Council, viz. :—The Earl of Aberdeen, Earl Gran ville, the Duke of Norfolk, the Duke of Welling ton, the Duke of Newcastle, the Marquis of Lans downe, the Marquis of Breadalbane, the Duke of Argyll, Viscount Palmerston, and the Lord Chan cellor. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at 8,000 bales, of which 2,000 American were taken for export and on specula tion, with a firm and steady market. The sales comprised 7,000 American, 240 Pernam and Maranham, at 6d. to 7i-d. ; 80 Bahia, at 6d. ; 200 Egyptian, at 6d. to ls. Id. ; 200 Surat, at nd. to 4d. ; and 100 South Sea Islands, at ls. 9d. to 2s. 2d. per .lb. Railway shares were very dull. The six weeks' average price of wheat is 455. 2d. per quarter. It is reported that a treaty has been concluded between England and Egypt for facilitating the transit of goods en route to India, and otherwise of a very favourable character. Further information, of a character which may be considered official, has been received concerning the intentions of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the matter as it now stands assumes rather a different complexion. The saving to the country would appear, upon analysis, to be about per cent., and this is, no doubt, quite as much as Mr. Gladstone could venture upon at once. The amount involved is so very moderate, 30,0001., that it may be considered as being merely the preliminary to a future and larger ope ration. Most parties consider that, properly brought forward, there can be no doubt of the success of the scheme, and it is seldom that we have seen anything of the kind more popular, consider ing that various questions are affected in an injuri ous manner, and consequently that there would very naturally be some opposition. With regard to the stock held by trustees and corporations, there may be no voluntary contribution, because it re mains invested for a very long period ; but bankers and others who might calculate upon having their money idle for a month or two will probably re ceive the new debentures with alacrity. The English Funds have been particularly buoy ant, and an extensive business has been transacted. The Ministerial project is exercising thus far an important influence. Consols have been 100 i to for Transfer, and 1001 to 101 for Account. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents, have been 103 to 4, and the Three per Cents 99 to 100 k. Exchequer Bills of March are 6s. to 10s., and India Bonds 435. to 48s. premium. India Stock is firm at 262. The bears being out so'largely is perhaps a main cause of the immediate rally. Foreign Stocks have been rather largely dealt in. The news just received from Turkey is very favourable, the Russian Minister having had a more favourable understanding with the Porte, and the army of the Czar being ordered to retrograde. The firman relative to the establishment of the new bank had been published, and already a Turk ish functionary had left Constantinople for Paris with a mission relative to the indemnity on the loan. There have been no bargains in the scrip this morning. Greek Bonds are still in demand, and have been done at 94 and 94 ; the Deferred Stock is 11i Equa dor is worth 6. Brazilian 41 per Cents, have been quoted 981 to 99. Mexican Bonds are the same as yesterday, being 271 Peruvian Scrip has risen to 41 pm. Spanish Certificates are steady, at si I per Cent. ; and the New Deferred Bonds realise 24i and 25. Dutch 4 per Cents. bring 974 to The last week's railway receipts ascertained up to this day, are in round figures as under : 1853. 1852. Great Western ' £19,087 £16,784 North Western t 48,694 43,246 South Western 10,940 9,680 Brighton 10,382 9,755 Midland South Eastern 14,244 10,882 Caledonian Great Northern Lancashire and Yorkshire 17,442 15,608 York and North Midland Newcastle and Berwick 15,077 14,226 A large business has been done in Railway Shares, and they are all decidedly higher. Caledonian have advanced 11., Great Western' /. to 2/. , North-Western 1/. 10s., to 21., South-Western 11., Midland 11. to 21., North British 11., and Oxford, an d Wolver hampton 21. South -astern are up 21., York and North Midland 21. to 31. All the others are pro- portionally higher. French Shares are all better, the advance in Lyons being to and in Stras bourg 1. Gold Mine Shares are rather duller, but gene rally firm. The Land Companies have been at rather fuller rates, and British American especially are in de mand at a rise of 1/. to 21. › In the shares of the Australian Banks there is very little doing, and the Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, have rallied to 11 premium, in consequence of the statement that they did not receive the letter sent to some of the other banks, referring them to the colony for a charter • conse quently it is presumed th a t th e y w ill obtain one from the Home Government. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY. (Fran the Official List.) Business done. 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities... ....... lOO i 99i 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities, 1726 New 34 per Cent. Annuities Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 6 India Stock India Bonds, £lOOO — Ditto, under £lOOO 43 8 Consols for Account Exchequer Bills, lid. June. March. £l000 £5OO 6 10 6 10 Small 6 10 6 10 PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. __ x d Ditto New, 1852, 4i per Cent 9B 9 Danish Bonds, 5 per Cent. Equador Bonds 6 Grenada Bonds, Deferred , ‘0 . Greek ex over-due Coupons Mexican 3 per Cent.. Ditto Account April 15, 27k 8a 7k Peruvian Bonds, 1849, 4a per Cent. Peruvian Scrip ~ Ditto Deferred, 3 per Cent 64 Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent. ...... Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 97 Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 4B Spanish Now Deferred, 3 per Cent..— .._. Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup. not Swedish Loan ll d Venezuela Bonds 3a per C en t . Dutch Exchange 2 . 4 per Cent 66 Ditto 4 per Cent. Certifi ca t es ~. Consols.... Ditto April Account , THREE O'CLOCK. 100 i 100 THE MADIAIS.—The King of Prussia has offered the Madiais an asylum in his country, but it is thought that they will prefer proceeding to England. BANK OF ENGLAND.—A court of proprietors of the Bank of England was held yesterday, at the Bank, for the election of 24 directors for the ensuing year, when the following gentlemen (forming the house list) were duly elected :—Henry Hulse • Barons, A. E. Campbell, E. E. Chapman, Robert Wigram Crawford, William Cotton, Bonamy Dobree, Benjamin Buck Greene, Charles Pascoe Grenfell, Henry Hucks Gibbs (new director), Thomson Hankey, jun., John Oliver Hanson, J. B. Heath, Kirkman D. Hodgson, Henry L. Holland, Thomas Newman Hunt, A. Latham, James Malcolmson, James Morris, Sheffield Neave, G. Warde Norman, John Horsley Palmer, Henry J. P. Prescott, Alderman William Thompson, and Thomas Tooke, jun., Esqs. DIVIDEND DAY AT THE BANK OF ENGLAND AND SOUTH SEA HOUSE.—Notice was issued yesterday at the above monetary establishments, that the April dividends will be in course of payment to the public on and after to morrow morning, the Bth inst. ; and that the transfer books at the Bank of England, &c., for the following annuities, duo the sth inst., will be openedoonedthTehurene dermentioned dates, viz. :—Bank Stock, Reduced per Cent. Annuities, Long Annuities, and Annuities for Terms of Years, on Friday, the 15th inst. and Three and-a-Quarter per Cent. Annuities, on Tuesday, the 19th inst. At South-Sea House the tr ans f er books nSouth- Sea Stock will be opened on F r id ay, t h e 15th inst. FOREIGN RATES OF EXCHANGE.— jh o e n ß d o t u h rse at Paris is dull without any assi gne d cause tion of a great number o f new schemes y being introduced e anticipa upon the market. Gold cont i nues to arrive fromon Lon don, but in very small quantities, as its importation scarcely leaves the sli g ht est profit. The St. Petersburgh advices mention that the rates of exchange were again more favourable for this country, the quotation being 381 d. The opening o f th e navigation was expected to be late, owing to a continuance of cold weather. THE NATIONAL DEBT REDEMPTION ACTS. The following are the resolutions to be proposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in Committee, on Acts relating to the National Debt, to-morrow evenin g • " 1. That the capital trading stock of the Corporation of the Governor and Company of Merchant of Great Britain, trading to the South Seas and other parts of America, and for encouraging the fishery, which is called and known by the name of South Sea Stock : the capital stocks of the 31. per Centum Annuities, called and known by the name of the Old South Sea Annuities and by the name of the New South Sea Annuities : the capital stock of the 31. per Centum Annuities, created by an act passed in the twelfth year of King George the First, intituled, "An Act for granting to His Majesty the sum of 1,000,0001., to be raised by way of lottery," called and known by the name of the Bank Annuities 1726: and the capital stock of the 31. per Centum Annuities, created by an act passed in the twenty-fourth year of King George the Second, intituled " An Act for granting to his Majesty the sum of 2,100,0001., to be raised by annuities and a lot tery, and charged on the Sinking Fund, redeemable by Parliament," called and known by the name of the 31. per Centum Annuities 1751, Oral be paid off and redeemed. " 2. That every person, body politic and corporate, who now is, or hereafter may be, interested in the capital stocks of any of the said 31. per Centum Annuities, who shall, in manner hereinafter directed, give notice at any time on or before Friday, the 6th day of May, 1853, of his assent to receive other government securities in lieu and in place of the said capital stocks of the said annuities, in stead of being paid in money, shall, at the option of the said parties, receive for every 1001. the r e o f, 821. 10 s . i n a a New Stock of Three-and-a-Half per Centum An n cities, which said annuities shall be paid at the rate of 31. 10s. per centum per annum until the sth day of January, 1894, from and after which day the said annui ties shall be subject to redemption by Parliament • or for every 1001 . of the said c a pit a l s t oc k s o f annuities the sum of 1101. in a New Stock of Two-and-a-Half per Centum Annuities, which said annuities shall be paid at the rate of 21. 10s. per centum per annum until the sth day of January, 1894, from and after which day ' the said annuities shall be subject to redemption by Par liament ; or for every sum of 1001. of the capital Stocks of the said 31. per Centum Annuities, an Exchequer Bond for the like amount, payable to the bearer, and carrying interest at the rate of 21. 15s. per centum per annum, payable half-yearly on the Ist day of March and the Ist day of September in every year,. until the Ist day of September in a year to be named in such bond, and not later than Ist September, 1861, inclusive, and thenceforth 2/. 10s. per centum per annum, payable half-yearly in like manner, until and including the Ist of September, 1894, and thereafter to be subject to redemption at par, at the option of the holder, or at the option of the Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, as shall be named in such bond. "3. That the dividends and interest payable on such New N. 10s. per Centum Annuities, on such New 21. 10s. per Centum Annuities, and on such Exchequer Bonds, shall be charged and chargeable upon the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. " 4. That the dividends now payable by law on sth July and sth January in every year on the said Capital Trading Stock and on the said capital stock of New South Sea An nuities, annuities 1726, and annuities 1751, shall continue payable until the sth January, 1854, inclusive, and no longer. " That the dividends now payable by law on 10th Octo ber and sth April in every year on the said capital stock of Old South Sea Annuities shall continue payable until sth April, 1854, inclusive, and no longer. " 5. That if the Corporation of the Governor and Com pany of Merchants of Great Britain trading to the South Seas and other parts of America, and for encouraging the fishery, shall at any time on or before Friday, the 3d day of June, signify to the Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury their assent to commute and exchange the said capital trading stock, or any part thereof, into any one or more of the said 31. 10s. per Centum Annuities, New 21. 10s. per Centum Annuities, or Exchequer Bonds, the said corporation shall be permitted to make such commutation and exchange upon the same terms, and subject to the like conditions, as are granted to the person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, interested in, or entitled to, the capi tal stock of 31. per Centum Annuities now proposed to be paid off and redeemed. " 6. That all and every person or persons, bodies politic or corporate, possessed of any part of the said 3/. per Cen tum Annuities, and who shall desire to signify his, her, 'or their assent to receive the said New 31. 108. per Centum Annuities, New 21. 10s. per Centum Annuities, or Exche quer Bonds in lieu thereof, shall on or before the 6th day of May, 1853, but within the usual hours of transacting.busi ness at the Bank of England, or at the South Sea House, by themselves or some agent or agents for that purpose duly au thorised, signify to the Governor and Coinpany of the Bank of England, or to the Governor and. Company of Merchants of Great Britain trading to the South Seas, as the case may be, such assent in writing under his, her, or their hand or hands or the hand or hands of his, her, or their agent or agents, together with the amount of his, her, or their respective share or shares in the said 31 . p er Centum Annuities, and which said assent shall be entered in a book or books to be opened and kept by the said governor and company of the Bank of England and by the said governor and com pany of merchants of Great Britain trading to the, South Seas for that purpose ; awl, in case of any transfer of such share or shares of such annuities, or any part or parts thereof, after such assent, the, part or parts of such annuities so transferred shall be entered in the said book or books separately from the 31. per Centum Annuities, in respect of which no such assent shall be signified, and every such person or persons so assenting, or his, or her or their assigns, or the executors or administrators of such assigns, under any such transf er , s h a ll b e en titled for every 1001. capital stock of the said 31. per Centum An nuities to $2/. 10s. of the capital stock of New 31. 10s. per Centum Annuities, or to 1101. of the capital stock of the New 2/. 10s. per Centum Annuities, or to an Exchequer Bond of 1001. bearing interest as aforesaid : provided always that if any person or persons holding any such 3/. per Centum Annuities, shall not be within the limits of the United Kingdom at any time between the Bth day of April and the 6th day of May, 1853, both inclusive, but shall be in any other part of Europe, it shall be lawful for such per son or persons to signify such assent at any time before the 30th day of July, 1853 ; and if any such person or persons shall not at any time between the Bth day of April, 1853, and the 30th day of July, 1853, be within any . part of Europe, it shall be lawful for him, her, or them to signify such assent at any time before the Ist day of February, 1854, such person or persons proving to the satisfaction of the Governor or Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, or to the Governor of the South Sea Company, his, her, or their absence from the United Kingdom, or out of Europe, as above specified, and that his, her, or their share or shares of such 3/. per Centum Annuities stood in his, her, or their name or names respec tively, orin the name or names of any one or more trustee or trustees, on his, her, or their behalf, in the books of the Gover nor and Company of the Bank of England, or Governor and Company of Merchant Traders to the South Seas on the 6th day of May, 1853 : provided also, that such person or per sons so absent from the United Kingdom, or out of Europe, shall signify such his, her, or their assent, within ten days after his, her, or their return to the United Kingdom. "7. That every person or persons, body politic or corporate, who now is, or hereafter may be, interested in or entitled to any part of the capital stock of the Consolidated 3/. per Centum Annuities, or of the Capi tal Stook of the Reduced 31. per Centum Annuities, payable at the Bank of England, or at the Bank of Ireland, and who shall at any time before the 10th day of October, 1853, signify to the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, or to the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ireland, by an entry to be made in books to be opened for such purpose, his desire to commute and ex change any or all,of the said annuities to which he may be entitled, into any one or more of the said New 31. 10s. per Centum Annuities, New 21. 10s. per Centum Annuities, or Exchequer Bonds, shall be permitted to make such com mutation and exchange upon the same terms and subject to the like conditions as are granted to the person or per sons, bodies politic or corporate, interested in or entitled to the Capital Stocks of 31. per Centum Annuities pro posed to be be paid off and redeemed as aforesaid. " 8. That the Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury be authorised and empowered to issue at any time between. the sth of April, 1853, and the sth of April, 1854, Ex chequer Bonds, payable to bearer, upon the like terms and conditions as hereinbefore described, and after public no tice in the London Gazette, from time to time to sell such Exchequer Bonds, or any part thereof, and to apply the proceeds in redeeming any part of the capital trading stock or capital stock of annuities now proposed to be paid off and redeemed, or in purchasing and cancelling any Exchequer Bills, or in exchanging such Bonds for Exchequer Bills, upon such terms as the said Commissioners shall think proper, or in purchasing and cancelling any of the Consolidated 31. per Centum Annuities, or Reduced 31. per Centum Annui ties, p a yable at the Bank of England or at the Bank of Ireland, as the case may be. " 9. That the interest on such Exchequer Bonds shall be charged and chargeable on the said Consolidated Fund. " 10. That no amount of such Exchequer Bonds shall be issued exceeding in the whole the sum of thirty millions. " 11. That it shall be lawful for the Accountant- General of the Courts o f Chancer y in England. and Ireland respectively, and for the Accountant in Bankruptcy in in England, at any time before the 6th day of May 1853, to signify to the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, or to the Corporation of the Governor and n Conl y of the Merchants of Great B ritain tradin g to t he Com pany Seas and other parts of America, and for encou raging the fishery, on behalf any suitor or suitors, or others interesting 3/. per Centum Annuities hereinbefore referred to, standing in the names of such Accountants-Ge nera l an d Accountant respectively , their assent to accept and receive shares in the said New 3 /. 10 s. per Centum Annuities, or New 2L 10s. per Centum Annuities, or Exchequer Bonds, in lieu of all such 3/. per Con tuna Annuities standing in their names respectively ; and the said Accountants-General and Accountant respectively shall be fully indemnified against all actions, suits, a nd proceedings for and in respect of any action, matter, or thing done by them respectively in pursuance thereof. " 12. That all executors, administrators, guardians, and trustees interested in or entitled to any part of the capital stock of the Old South Se a 3/. per Centum Annuities, of the New South Sea 3/. per Centum Annuities, of the 31. per Centum Annuities created by the Act 12th George the First, of the 31. per Centum Annuities created by the Act 24th George the Second, of the Consolidated 31. per Cent= Bank Annuities, and of the Reduced 31. per Centum Bank Annuities , whether payable at the Bank . of England or at th e Bank of Ireland, as the case may be, who shall signify their de s i re t o conver t th e A nnui ties to may be which they respectively interested into any of the New 3/. 10s. per Centum Annuities New 21. 10 s. per Centum Annuities, or Exchequer Bonds, shall be in demnified. THE NEW CASTLE AT BALMORAL. — The contracts for the mason work of the new castle to be erected at Bal moral for her Majesty bas been obtained by Mr. Alex. Stuart, Peterhead. Arrangements are being made to commence the work forthwith . .. 7. -Edinburgh, Courant. THE SEPARATE SYSTEM IN WORICHOUSES.—In conse quence of the refractory conduct of the females in the Marylebone Workhouse, who, although supplied with situations as domestic servants, leave their places in a few days, and return to the workh ouse , w h ere they inoculate the other females with their evil propensities and vices, the house rota have recommended the board of guardians to adopt the separate system as regards those characters by keeping each in a cell by herself. EXTENSION OF THE SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.—Yester day the Submarine and European Telegraph Company commenced laying down their wires in Pall-mall, St. James's-street, and Charing-cross, in- order to lead branches into the principal clubhouses at the West-end, the Government offices, Admiralty, Houses of Parlia ment, and Buckingham Palace, so that instant and direct communication may be made, without dsipatching mes sengers to the central office, with all parts of the Euro. plan Continent reached by electric telegraph, SPORTING NOTES.—No. OCOOVL My anticipatory remarks on the events decided yester• day at Cheltenham and Croxton Park were almost re' alised to the letter, for I named the first and second horses (Oscar and Sir Peter Laurie) for the Steeplechase, and Tom Gurney, the winner of the Hurdle Race, a t the former place ; and pl ace d Grapeshot first and Begunl colt second, the exact positions they finished in, for the Belvoir Castle Stakes at the latter place. The only in" stance in which I was at fault was in giving the prefer ence to Gladiole (who ran third) over Caurire (the win' ner) for the Gold Cup. EPSOM SPRING MEETING.—The sport on the Downs to-day will be of a first-class description. I wish I could say the same of that portioned out for to-morrow ; but steeplechases never did, and seemingly never will, thrive at Epsom. The principal event on the card for decision to-morrow is the Great Metropolitan Steeplechase, which has only obtained an acceptance of eight. The BRITIS YEOMAN, although carrying the top weight, if meant, will dispose easily enough of his antagonists, the steeple' chase course being in that heavy state which favours ills peculiar qualities. The Free Handicap Hurdle Race, I presume, will not attract Caurire to the post ; in his absence THE HO° will do the veni, vidi, vici business. The Selling Steeplechase, if not a "sell," will, in all probability, terminate in favour of Gulnare or Trust-me' Net. Nom de Guerre, taking his running on T u esday at Cheltenham into c ons id erat i on, ought to run we ll here. The horses on the spot this morning for the foregoing races are the following :—British Yeoman, Q u i c kstep, Shinrone, The Hero, Sam Hood, Gulnare, Trust•me' Not, Seven and Sixpence, The Brewer, the Slashing Painter, and the Trojan. Nom de Guerre and another or two expected. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. WORSHIP-STREET-(THIS DAY). ANOTHER BRUTAL ASSAULT ON A WOMAN. George Bevan, 29, described as a cigar maker, residing at 11, Satchwell-rents, Bethnal-green, was charged, be' fore Mr. D'Eyncourt, with an aggravated assault upon Ann Gisby, by which her life is in danger. It a ppeared from the evidence of Marsh, 215 11, that this morning, between four and five o'clock, while on duty, he heard cries of distress contiguous to the prisoner's dwelling, and found the complainant outside the house bleeding from wounds in the head. She was in such a state of exhaustion as to state with difficulty that prisoner had assaulted her with a shovel and poker, upon hearing which witness forced the door, and found the pri soner in a partial state of intoxication. At the station-house complainant made a statement to the effect that she was engaged to the prisoner 0 - 5 a general servant, but was cohabiting with him. lier, upper lip was cut open, an d h er l e f t c h ee k an d upper pa r` of the head presented wounds of no ordinary character' It was deemed necessary to send her at once in a cab to t the London Hospital. A cer tifi ca t e was now pro duced from the house sur g e on th ere, purport i ng that her We was in danger. Prisoner - denied having assaulted her beyond striking with the hand, but the constable informed the magistr a !: that he had noticed the shovel in the apartment bent nearly double. men ir Mr. D'Eyncourt desi re d th e weapon should be ve,--, care of, and produced o n W e d nes d ay next, to which clk, he remanded the prisoner. THE BOOMERANG PROPELLER. LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.—Yesterday afternoon ; trial was made in th e wa t ers o f t h e M ersey of S 1 Thomas Mitchell's new mode o f p rope lli ng s hi ps by the boomerang, in lieu of the common screw. The trial tris was made in the Genova, one of Messrs. IVl'Sean 011 M'Klarty's Mediter ranean s t eams hi ps, t h e d i stance y e a ' ing from the Rock Light to the Crosby Lightship 0 0 back. The boomerang is used in a similar way to th e ordinary screw, but its design and construction ai '-'„ r , widely different. The or i g i na l id ea was borrowed „,•7 the inventor from th e pecu li ar gyrat i ons of the weaP % used by the nati ves o f A ustra li a i n its flight thro oP the air. That instrument is crescent shaped, but, stead of an arc, it has an elbow in the middle. I„.a, tl ; about 2 feet long, a n d a b ou t 2 i nc h es broad, a ql2aly,:vi of an inch thick, an d i s ma d e o f heavy wood. v"— thrown in the air by th e na ti ves it d escr ib es two re vola; tions, one dir ec t an d th e o th er rotatory. By the l a tter motion it revolves roun d it s own centre o f grav ity, !, enabled to su rv i ve th e di rec t i mpetus w i t h w hi c h it c l sent up, and is made to s crew b ac k t o th e s p o t when © it was thrown. This peculiarity suggested what is called " the booms" rang propeller," which, in the course of the day, NO' described by Sir Thomas Mitchell. After many exper i , of fents attaching for e a ee t n h t e p re, ur s p o o a se s o to f d m is a c k o e ve t ring hep t rt he best noipl m e ap e p a i n i s , cable to the propulsion of vessels, the various practical difficulties in the way were removed. The elbow-shaped weapon of the savage gliding through the air shows how the difficulty of the centre may b ° avoided; the cusps illustrate the mode by which engineer s may regulate the circumfer ence , w hil e th e genera l fool ° the missile, in acting obliquely on the radius of the rota: tory motion, teaches how it is possible to embrace tea columns of water at once with the least possible surfal and the least obstruction to the rotatory mo ti on , but, the same time, with the greatest effect as a' screw. The great difficulty of testing the true value of invention has hitherto lain, and still continues to lie, '7., the fact that screw- vesse l s are b u il t with apertures t°,", narrow for its appli ca ti on i n i ts entire and con? ,Plenvf form. It requi res a space equal to at least one- thirdta; the height of th e aperture. The only opportunity, inventor has at p resent h ad for testing it----and this s very severe test—is by applying only mutilated port' °- of it, relying on the more harmonious nature of its at! r ts face compared with the screw now in use, and t° i tt perfect freedom at the centre, which prevents it fr,[ r choking, and, consequently, gives it greater facility i° e rotatory motion. So great is the mutilation necessary to admit of a trial at all with ordinary steamers, that" whereas the chief advantage of the boomerang proP e 4 .be is in its embracing two-thirds of the helix at once, y r° two blades of the one used in the Genova were not 'lt s than one- seven th eac h o f t h e complete spiral, or 1` than one-third on the whole. Another advantage in the boomerang is, that from the er convexity of one blade and the concavity of the otb,' the water is prevented from being driven to the ceow e i and thus choki ng it, as i n the common screw, and dire steering is thus materially facilitated. „cl The severest t es t th at cou l d b e applied was subriv te-0 to yesterday. The pitch of the two mutilated pe rtiao was nearly double the diameter—i. e., the pitch via ° o feet 2 inches, and the diameter 12 feet 3 inches, so t''', Do the working sur f ace was f i ve feet less than that O f he common screw, a ga i ns t w hi c h i t has b een tr i e d ; aD whereas the common screw weighed 62 cwt., the 1)0 01 ' rang was only 26 cwt. t ° Notwithstanding th ese a d verse c i rcumstance s, average speed obtained in slack water was from 9 I°l :to to 91 knots, under a pressure of steam of from 61b. 00 91b. ; a speed which several scientific gentleraelL ev e board asserted was one knot faster than could ' la ,. been made by th e common screw un d er th e same P' e sure of steam. In the course of the afternoon the visitors were el l : tertained to dinner in the first-cl ass ca bi n , Mr. Larno... ol ; of the firm of Messrs. M'K ean an d M'Kl ar ty, occuPri,', the chair. That gentlem an , i n th e course of some u ij, servations made after th e c l o th h a d b een withdray e regretted that complete justice had not been done to t",. / boomerang on the occas i on , ow i ng t o th e inability ' of the engineer to keep the steam up to a fair pressure 101 b. He and the co m p an y h e re p resen t e d we re, h 0,,, ~, ever, so convinced of the great superiority of the booP'i erang over the screw, that they were having one, r their vessels prepared for the trial of the ne w propebee in its integrity. Mr. Lamont also referred t o th e Il ß e j of English anthracite, in lieu of coals. They had tri it with complete success in the last voyage of t he e Livorno, aDe having found that olr iefntv herawo in a ut s thpi m rorane o cv r iati e sne u s i e s r v v i n c y e serviceable, took up much less space. tb Livorno required 17 tons of coal, whereas she had 1 1,1 thisconsumedl9 would 12 createtons a 8 5 g r c o w a t t . a bofecfauuels,e,miuf much b h save a quarter of th h e e c ilb . : : th e ri g : 'l , inconveniencee°uld and delay would b e 'pl . vented. If the Great Britain, for instance, inste s , t e consuming 1,500 t ons of coal on her passage to P`ioji t ralia, only required 1,000 tons she could accoo 3 l 3 fo r the whol e di stance without touching at St. Helena 0, gratifying coals. Th e gain by anthracite instead of coal weelo in f s yg o in pinion, be about 35 per cent., besides having 1 0 . g fac u t st t i h on at . anthracite was not liable to sP ° taneous combustion DEATH OF LORD SHELMEESDALE.—We have to 1 ; cord the demise of this venerable nobleman, at Lathee House, in his 83d year. His lordship sat in the 11 011 to of Commons from 1795 to 1828, when he was raised the peerage. He is succedeed by his grandson Edvia,.l" eldest son of the late Hon. Richard Wilbraham, A l / 4 ` 1 ,0 1 now in his 14th year. The Countess of D er by is " youngest daughter. CINCINNATI AND ST. LOUIS RAILWAY.—The pro-L a t tus of an issue of first mortgag e b on d s on t h e imperfi'o, railway line in the course o f cons t ruct i on b etwee n 'l v cinnati and St. Louis was published yesterday ,De Messrs. George Pe a b o d y an d Co. The length of t he road is 335 miles, an d it i s un d er contract to be 154 pleted for 9,000,000 dollars by the Ist of July, 1 80 Much of the undertaking is already finished, and divisions of it are to be opened on the Ist of Jo l 'o next. The capital subscribed in the United Stateege about 6,000,000 dollars, and the bonds now offered for 2,050,000 dollars, or 410,0001. sterling. Their se, c i l rity is th a t o f a comp l e t e li en on th e ent i re wor k, an t they are t o b e re d eema bl e i n 1872, b ear i ng meanwtd,'"to per cent. interest, the holders also havin g the righ t o f convert them into stock any time before the le January, 1857. A deposit of 10 per cent, is to be Pgd immediately, and the remaining instalments o n the May and lit of September. SUICIDE BY OXALIC AClD.—Yesterday morning ti ty formation was forwarded to Mr. Langham, the Pl o w Coroner for Westminster, of the death of Ann EeP„ r tf son, aged 28 years, who resided at Old Boswell-e°W Carey-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, who committed s ;iic destruction by swallowi ng a l arge quan ti ty o f o cct i , acid. It appears that the deceased had formerly 0 00 pied a respectable position in society, having bee.,_ ll daughter of person s w h o earne d an h onest Some time since she quitted her home in a fit of P ass- O" and finally became the paramour of a cabman. Monday night the deceased obtained a quantity e' r e alic acid of the neighbouring chemists, and on bel o w turn took the , poison. Her groans attracted the em be i) tion of the inmates, who instantly raised an alarm, Dr. Digby, surgeon, was promptly on the s pot, ; cc notwithstandingA4 exertion% khe expired in xe° s 00' cruciating agony. Isl . ° cause at present has been signed fqr the rash act.