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

THE FRENCH EMPIRE. The subject which excites by far the greatest at tention here at this moment is that of the very -serious differenceri which have arisen between the Court of Turin and the Cabinet of Vienna, in addi tion to those already existing between the latter Government a - nd Switzerland, on which all are fully informed. These differences, as will be readily surmir ,ed, have originated in the late decree of the Austrian Government, sequestrating the whole prope. rty, real and personal, of the political emigrants !irom the Lombardo-Venetian States. The latest c ;ommunicationsbetween,thetwo Cabinets have been of a most angry character, and it is feared that an it ,terruption of friendly relations may ensue involving very ugly possibilities. It seems that there is- some doubt as to the course which may eventue sly be followed out by Austria, the Cabinet be ing e iivided on the question of the expediency of a ma lerate or an extreme policy ; the former I Tlale I consist in the appointment of a commission of in quiry to examine into the culpability of the pert ions mentioned in the decree, and to regulate its application accordingly ; the other would carry 'cc .t this iniquitous measure in the true Austrian 67.,Arit of undiscriminating severity. The Emperor j. 3 supposes not yet to have declared his opinion. On the publication of this decree the Sardinian "Minister at Vienna was instructed to remonstrate host strongly against its provisions, and to demand explanation of the intention in which it had 'hen issued. He was especially to urge that the vuasure of confiscation could not in any way apply to the Lombardo-Venetian émigrés who had been Xatura.lised as Sardinian subjects. Count Buol- Schauenstein not only gave no satisfactory answer ou this point, but, it seems, scarcely condescended to confer with M. de Revel, preferring to commu nicate with Turin through M. d'Appony, the Aus 'trian, Minister at that Court. The following are wae principal points in the instructions, dated 9th Xarch of which, in pursuance of this course, M. I ,' 4 l:Tony has been directed to furnish a copy to Dabormida, the Sardinian Minister for Foreign ifairs; The Austrian Minister states that the imperative :Motives of the proclamation on which explanations lave been required are sufficiently indicated in that i fsirument itself. He is willing, however, in order to show the full intentions of the Imperial Cabinet, - te afford some supplementary expositions. He recals the events of 1848 and 1849. He enlarges on the x . uod erat i on and clemency shown in the restoration of Austrian d(rminion in the Lombardo-Venetian pro vinces. Re accuses the emigres of having taken ad vantage rif their position, and employed their revenues winces up a mischievous agitation in these pro- Ito de c l ares th a t th ey h ave su b s idi se d th e reyo 1 utionary press, and have assisted Mazzini with funds ; that they have been accessary to the 'teefint outbreaks ; that it would be most unjust to Vi sit the guilt of th ese on th e qu i e t po p u l a ti o n of -"),lnbardy, while the authors of mischief should. remain secure under the protection of the Sardi- Z a n Government, which now raises its voice in fa anr Of. the Lombard-Venetian nobles, in address ? t he Government which they have so grievously 112,1 u'red. "'L. de Buol further complains that the Sardi lulail Government has failed to take measures against the Radical Press ; schemes that, knowing the es of the refugees against the Austrian au- thority, it has not communicated them to the pro the per quarter ; that, having had pointed out to it most audacious and the worst of the refugees, it, up to th e out b reak at Milan, declined to expel 'hem ; and that it has peremptorily refused the ex tradition o f refugees accused of high treason, which Vienna considers to be an obligation under existing treaties. After a full exposition of the circumstances which . 1 L his opinion c omp l e t e l y j ust if y t h e measure, M. e Buol declares that the Imperial Government g Cl o ea not recognise the right of any foreign Govern anent to require the production of special proofs as to 'the degree of culpability of individual emigres, since the execution of no judicial sentence is in yolved, but simpl y the application of a measure based on notorious facts, and relating to property situated within the imperial territories. M. Dabormida replies under date of thin 20th March, in a dispatch which M. de Revel was in structed. to lay before Count Buol-Schauenstein. This document is divided into two parts, the one ielleling the legality of the measure, as it affects thg,i interests of Sardinian subjects ; the other re tilig the accusatim brought by M. de Buol against t he good faith of. the Piedmontose Government. A° l l the firs;;point M. Dabormida maintains that u tiroclf,,mation of Marshal Radetzky of 12th of fi t, 1849, was a special provision of the treaty Pea .ce of 6th August ; that, under this procla raj,. °la, the absolute right of demanding legal per- W' lkh IX) emigrate was extended to all the émigrés, ct ee ‘-'""‘ k power of refusal; that the imperial de of 29th December, 1850, divesting all the re jects,%?!.„the rights and duties of Austrian sub aalisatioa' saleh as had obtained Sardinian natu ,A,,a al the legitimate subjects of that kingdom, 'A - 17 s such, not amenable to a measure levelled Y us tria against political refugees accused of 'enthesalspir,,acy against her authority. The rights of era e i subjects, M. Dabormida consid , Sardinian be incontestible, under the treaty of Win ce of 1851, and to be such as must them beyond the reach of the decree of tofiscation, unless their personal culpability the a rds Austria should be legally proved. On .th e , "et - Pad point, M. Dabormida protests against a - Jousations of the Austrian Government, looking at the • dignity of the King, his 'urAster, he declares that nothing would have tierapted him to answer, except the desire to de lArive Austria of all pretext for persisting in an illegal decre e against Sardinian subjects, which she seeks to justify on political grounds. He denies the whole of these charges, defends the conduct of the Sardinian Government with regard to the press, and affirms that the treaty of extradition referred to has never been held to apply to political offences. 3le concludes that the Court of Turin has been ir reproachable in its relations with Vienna, and re peats th a t l a t e l y , i n t h e matter of the Milan out break-, it - has given the strongest evidence of its good faith. Finally, M. Dabormida relies on the justice and sagacity of M. de 'Buol, and continues to hope that the Imperial Ministry will be disposed to admit the justice of his remonstrances, so that the friendly relations which have hitherto existed between the Governments of Austria and Piedmont 3: na rn Y yet be maintained. he Piedmontese Government has communi- Zted these protests to certain Cabinets—that of f „ r t ?at Britain among others—of whose support it is nets assured. It has been notified to these Cabi 6,'S that Turin can in no degree admit the preten i:ns of Austria, and that should they be persisted foreign powers, leaving to the Imperial Govern -Li-Lent the, responsibility of the consequences. I t will he seen from these facts that the situation f a • aolicff• ° l :ars on this question has become very serious, _ t -rat may probably call for the most careful euanideration and intervention of the great Powers. 'There is little of importance or interest in domes 'll.9 news. It has been announced, however, that • Paul Dubois is appointed accoucheur to her lajesty the Empress, a fact - which may, perhaps, b e considered not without a certain significance o The Moniteur of yesterday announces the recep tion by the E mperor of M. de Paiva, Envoy Ex traordinary and rlinister Plenipotentiary of the queen of Portugal, with the reply of her Majesty to the letter of recal of the Count Marescalchi. The MoTbiteur publishes the average price of wheat in th e principal markets o f Fr nce for the last month. The highest • was 19f. 38c. p er hectolitre in the marts of Tou louse ,Gray, Ly ons , and Marseilles, and th e lowestlaf94e. in th ose o f Metz, Verdun, Charleville,a isnd 18f2 Bensons. The average for the whole of France undergone.vriuda o c a . f sud a d r en The weather in Paris has and remarkable change. The c o ld g r eat part ch ceased on the last day of the month, and a warm rain began to fall. It rained during a of the night of Thursday, and there waxa great deal of rain on Saturday. This change must be 'highly beneficial to the interests of agriculture. The statistical returns of the mortality of P ar i s, made up at the Prefecture of Police, have just been published for the month of February. The number of deaths was 3,491. The number of males and females was nearly equal. Of these deaths, 422 were from pulmonary phthisis ; 279 from pneu monia ; 293 pulmonary catarrh ; 286 enteritis ; 585 typhus fever ; 133 brain fever, and 109 from apoplexy. On Saturday night the splendid ball at the Hotel de Ville took place. The Emperor was received with enthusiasm. The Empress looked charming. The English deputation were present. At the Bourse on Saturday Rentes and Bank Stock were active and generally advancing. The Three per gents. for cash advanced 30c., while for the account they fell sc. The Four-and-a-Half per Cents. for cash rose 30c., and for the account 70c. Bank Stock further advanced 15f. At the close of business prices stood thus quoted : For cash : Three per Cents., 79f. 70e. ; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 103 f. 30 c. For the account : Three per Cents., 79f. 65c. ; Four-and-a-Half per Oen'. I_93f. ,60 c. ; Bank Stock, 2,675 f. The Railway Share Market exhibited a good deal of fluctuation, and closed at the following prices :—Orleans, cash, 1 ,077 f. 50 c . , account 1,050 f. Rouen and ravre, cash, 515 f.. Strasburg and ; Bale, cash, 362 f. 50c.; 0 'them, cash and account, 902 f. 50c • Strasburg, ca h, cas h , 836 f. 75c., account 840 f ; Paris" and Lyons, e. and. account, 953 f. 75 c . ;* Lyons to Mediter ranean) cash) 815 f .) account, 817 f. 50c. 3,95 0 ; arket; me oi in the 3 4 0 , 4 6 4 6 4 nas o f Lug, *4 1.60 (4 ; ntNllO+X , n abroa d 30 fro„, 01 50 f f°— ho tter dolls • ire a° . ' 169 n sales 1 1 ' 3hearil, r deeisl fi ion. The ,end, , le s e s ci e t l i: 4l l 494 4SS 155 105 .`" Os „ 510 2105 2105 doil nea ll " ,n upV, g at ! 4 ), net o' 31,5' C, a 2 9 as 9cl x 2,41. , g, 41 4 i 6 4 95 , r 2 1 , 0 A 46A• SPAIN. A letter from Madrid of the 28th ult. says : "'Yesterday Mgr. Brunelli, Archbishop of Salo nica, and- Nuncio of the Pope at the Court of Spain, received in the Royal chapel, from the hands of Queen Isabella, his Cardinal's hat. Her Majesty congratulated the Nuncio on his new dig nity. The Chamber of Deputies is to resume its sittings to-morrow, and it is said that the Ministry will at once present to it, first, a bill authorising the loan to be contracted, and next, a bill for con stitutional reform. In conformity with Art. 36 of the law of January, 1845, the provincial deputa tions are convoked for April 20, to transact their ordinary business." A letter of the 29th, received by express, says :--The Government presented to day to the Cortes several bills, relating to the ex tinction of the floating debt—to the creation of 30 millions of annual rente in 3 per cent. stock — to the recognition of IA per cent. on the uncon verted coupons—to constitutional reform—and to the consecration of the principle of substitution in the transmission of family estates to the eldest son." GERMANY. A letter from Pesth of March 27, in the Cologne Gazette, states that the day before, a battalion of grenadiers having been marched into the prison yard, ninety-seven Magyars who were in confine ment for revolt were brought out, and informed by the Governor of the prison first in German, and then in Hungarian, that the Emperor had granted them a free pardon. A telegraphic dispatch from Vienna, dated Fri day, says :—" We learn from Constantinople, 22d ult., that, in a circular addressed to the Ambassa dors to announce his nomination, Prince Mens chikoff expresses the hope of a good understanding between Russia and the other powers." The Vienna Gazette, in its number of the 29th ult., publishes a decree, which removes M. de Weiss from the direction of the police of that city. M. de Maltz has been appointed in his place. This change produced a certain sensa tion in the Austrian capital, and as M. de Weiss was noted for his arbitrary acts and general severity, it is thought that the new appointment intimates that milder measuresare forthe future to be adopted. The honour of the change is given to General Kem pen, the present Governor of Vienna. M. de Weiss has been named Inspector-General of Prisons, but the situation is inferior to that which he lately filled. Some rumours were afloat at Vienna of ministerial changes, it being said that M. Bach, the Minister of the Interior, was to become President of the Council of State, the vacant place being given to M. de Krauss, formerly Minister of Finance. M. de Ku beck, who now holds the place of President of the Council of State, desires to retire, it is said, on ac count of his advanced age. Dispatches from Vienna state that Field-Marshal Radetzky had published a decree nullifying all mort gages made by the Lombard refugees on their landed property since 1847. Dispatches srom Vienna announce the reception of an official note from the Russian Court, dis avowing any intention on the part of Prince Men schikoff to disturb the integrity of the Ottoman Empire, and stating that the immediate object of his mission - was to exact the due fulfilment of a treaty made with Turkey two years ago. With respect to the Holy Places, Russia was equally bound, with the other interested Powers, to a set tlement of this important question. The following telegraphic dispatch, dated the Ist, has been received from Berlin :—" A minis terial dispatch has just been sent from Berlin to the Federal Council of Switzerland. The dtpatch declares that after the re-establishment of his authority in the canton of Neufchatel, King Fred erick William will give no guarantee as regards the railroads which may be immediately constructed at the expense of the canton." A letter from Hamburg, in the Weser Gazette, says :—" It is now known that the large amounts of gold which the bankers sent here during the winter, were destined for Russia, and not for Austria, as at first supposed." Tbn Berlin journals announce that, among the papers lately seized by the police, there has been found a proclamation of the German Republic. In Mecklenburg-Schwerin a conspiracy has been discovered, of which Rostock is the centre • it was in correspondence with the refugees in London. Arrests have taken place in consequence. ITALY. The Pariamento of Turin announces that on the 27th ult. the Sardinian corvette San Giovanni, 28 guns, Captain Juccia, arrived at Villafranca, to take the refugees on board who are to be conveyed to America. They are 82 in all. The Piedmontese Government gives them free board and passage, and 70f. per head on landing. In the sitting of the 30th ult. of the Piedmontese Chamber of Deputies, M. Lanza moved that the sale of a villa named Montalto, formerly belonging to the Jesuits, and now to the State, might be post poned, in order to see whether it might not be use fully applied to the purposes of education ; but, on the observations of the Minister of Finance, the motion, after an animated debate, was withdrawn. The Chamber then proceeded to discuss the Slavery Repression Bill, Art. 1 of which declares every slave to be free as soon as he touches the Piedmontese territory, or sets his foot on board a Sardinian vessel. The discussion was adjourned to the following day. We have received accounts from Rome to the 24th ult. The labours of the Consulta of Finance had been concluded some days before. After having given the most scrupulous attention to the exami nation of the budgets of the different branches of the Administration, they have proposed various reductions which have been approved of by the Pope, and which together amount to 830,000 Ro man crowns a year (the crown is a trifle more than 5f.) As however the amount of certain receipts might vary, the saving is set down at 630,000 crowns. Another operation, not only important, but absolutely necessary, has also been under con sideration—namely, the calling in of all the paper money. This operation will, it is said, be effected by means of a loan of seven millions of crowns. The amount of the paper money in circulation has been calculated at only six millions, but it now appears to reach seven ; and as the amount of paper money already paid off and replaced. by the conso lidated rente created three years since will be in cluded in the present operation, the 600,000 crowns devoted annually to the paying off the paper money by means of that consolidated rente will be applied to the payment of the interest of the new loan. The question of railways was also brought under the consideration of the Consulta by order of the Pope. The ministers had already en tered into engagements with the representatives of two companies, one for the grand line from Ancona and Bologna to Rome, and the other for that from Rome to Ceprano, in the kingdom of Naples. The latter is the old Via Latina, revived after getting rid of the old directors and shareholders. The re presentative of the new company has offered 25 per cent. to the holders of the old shares, and if his offer be accepted, he will be authorised to make the line as far as Frascati, and he will then hate two years to decide as to whether he will continue it on to Ceprano. It is thought that these advantages will be conceded to him, as he demands n• subven tion from the government. It is not, however, thought that the shareholders of the old Via Latina will be disposed to accept the 25 per cent. offered to them. Great doubt are entertained as to whether the line from Ancona and Bologia to Rome will be executed, particularly as Bologna will be hence forth less interested in the question, as the Central Italian line will put that place in free and rapid communication with Trieste and Leghorn. The suspension bridge which has been constructed by M. Rodin, and which will form a communi cation for the inhabitants of the two banks of the Tiber will be opened to the public in a very short time. The works have been very much re tarded by the state of the weather, which for the last two months has been a constant succession of Mun ster rain and storms. The Bishop of Munster, who is now at Rome, is talked of as the probable succes fiuxtef ser to the metropolitan see of Breslaw, the holder of which lately died. It is to the Bishop of that the Pope sent the palm which he carried at the procession of Palm Sunday. Nothwithstand amounted to stra avourable state of the weather, the in- The New z u pwards of 35,000. n u gers into Rome during Easter week Barne of the A r l i l e which says Gazette contains a letter from commissioner in the canton 'The federal to the federal council of Ticino has announced now be apprehended, that_ , no new troubles need three companies quari r r t that consequently the ordered away. He adds, tha a t t Locarno had been had taken place from the Auatri numerous desertions had been a source of expense t a e n service, which h Ticino. The council has given orderst the canton thecanton of com missioner to guard, as m uch as possible, against inconvenience in question. That w ill ' beth the difficult inasmuch as the commissioner has no direct re lt, lation with the Austrian authorities. This week k the Government of Ticino received the first delivery of salt from the Lombard stores of Maragno ,,, ts., I REPORTED SHOCK OF AN EARTHQUAKE AT PORTS MOUTH.—A shock of an earthquake is said to have been felt at Portsmouth, between 11 and 12 o'clock on Friday night. It was, it is said, of about two minutes dura tion ; those who experienced it stating that their beds were sensibly shaken, whilst the walls of the rooms ap peared to crack. The phenomenon was not, however, of such a character as to procure for it any general ob seryations. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY E AUSTRALIA. ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT BRITAIN. LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY. This magnificent vessel arrived in the river this afternoon, amidst the enthusiastic rejoicings of the thousands who had assembled on the pier-heads to welcome her re-appearance in the waters of the Mersey. Her news from the gold regions, generally, has, of course, been anticipated by the overland route. The Great Britain left Melbourne, Jan. 4 ; Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope, Feb. 20 ; was off Holy head at 6 a.m., April 2 ; and reached the bar at 12.30. Here sfie was detained 3i hours for water ; and the Steam-tug Company's boat Albert, which had been dispatched to meet her by Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co., came alongside. She brings 205 passengers, and 500,0001. in specie. For some weeks past she has been anxiously ex pected ; and. rumours have frequently been abroad that she was " off" the port. This morning, how ever, all doubts were set at rest s -for the telegraph announced that she was " off Holyhead " at six o'clock, and the news rapidly spread through the town. It being expected she would reach the river about three o'clock, the landing-stage and pier heads were crowded long before that hour, by thou sands anxious to witness her arrival, and the same feeling of enthusiasm in her favour was apparent as when she took her departure for Australia. About a quarter past three some guns were heard, and thousands rushed down the streets towards the river, thinking the Grearßritain had arrived. The guns, however, were fired by the America mail steamer, which had just received her outward mails, and put on " full speed." It will be remembered that the Great Britain sailed from here for Melbourne on Saturday, the 21st of August, 1852, about 2 o'clock in the after noon, and as she has returned on Saturday, the 2d of April, her voyage out and home will have occu pied exactly 32 weeks. This includes all stoppages, which, on a first voyage, were unavoidable. Capt. Matthews ordered steam to be put on at 3 o'clock, and the Great Britain was steered up the channel towards Liverpool. She passed the Rock Light at 3.30, and fired a number of guns to denote that she had come into the port. As she steamed up the river, thousands relieved their anxiety for her safety by gazing on her noble proportions, and hearty cheers welcomed her arrival. There was a biith and a death on board—viz.: At sea, on board the Great Britain (s.s.), on her passage from Australia, on the 25th ult., the wife of Mr. Win. Cross Yuille, of a daughter.—Died, at sea, on board tho Groat Britain 01.14.), on the 4th of February, Mr. Matthew Heath, a native of Truro, Cornwall. The passengers speak in t t he highest terms of the qualities of the ship, and also of the courteous and gentlemanly conduct of the commander and offi cers towards them. It is the intention of the owners of the Great Britain to dispatch her again to Australia in a short time. We subjoin the log from the day of her departure from Melbourne. It tells better than we can the progress of the vessel from her sailing till her ar rival : Jan. 4—Wind W.S.W. Fresh gales. s—Wind S.S.W. Spoke American ship Harriet Scott. Thick weather. „ 6—Wind E.S.E. 120 miles. Strong winds. „ 7—Wind E. 205 miles. Light winds. „ B—Wind S.S.W. 220 miles. Light winds. „ 9—Wind S.W. 178 miles. Fresh and strong winds. „ 10—Wind S.W.S. 180 miles. Moderate. PP 11—Wind N.E. 192 miles. Light air. ~ 12—Wind N.N.W. 237 miles. Fresh and strong winds. „ 13—Wind W. 158 miles. Light and fresh u Inds. „ 14—Wind S.S.W. 215 miles. Moderate. „ 15—Wind S. 208 miles. Light winds. „ 16—Wind S.E. 201 miles. Light winds. 17—Wind E.S.E. 193 miles. Light winds. 18—Wind E.S.E. 185 miles. Light winds. 19—Wind S.S.W. 198 miles. Light winds. 20—Wind S.E. 210 miles. Light winds. 21—Wind S.E. 191 miles. Light winds. 22—Wind E. 216 miles. Spoke Lanark, of Boston. Light winds. 23—Wind S.E. 200 miles. ,Spoke Vesta4Russia.n. Moderato. 24—Wind E.S.E. 203 miles. Light winds. 25—Wind E. 203 miles. Light winds. 26—Wind N.E. 192 miles. Light winds. 27—Wind N.N.W. 211 miles. Light winds. 28—Wind W. 204 miles. Light winds. 29—Wind S.E. 187 miles. Light winds. 30—Wind E.S.E. 207 miles. Light winds. 31—Wind N.N.E. 206 miles. Light winds. I—Wind N.W. 193 miles. Light winds. 2—Wind S.S.E. 197 miles. Light winds. 3—Wind N. 210 miles. Light winds. 4—Wind S.W.S. 206 miles. Moderate. s—Wind N.N.W. 169 miles. Light airs. 6—Wind S.W. 167 miles. Came to anchor at Algoa Bay. , B—Wind W.N.W. 8 p.m., left Algoa Bay. „ 9.—Wind W. 113 miles. „ 10—Wind S.E. 170 miles. Spoke No. 7,618 dis• ting pennant, midnight. Anchored in Si mon's Bay. „ 19—Wind calm. Arrived in Table Bay. „ 20—Wind S.S.E. 66 miles. Strong winds. „ 21 -Wind S.S.E. 247 miles. Moderate. „ 22—Wind S.S.E. 248 miles. Moderate and fresh. „ 23—Wind S.S.E. 241 miles. Fresh breeze. „ 24—Wind S. by E. 207 miles. Moderate and light winds. „ 25—Wind S.E. 232 miles. Strong and fresh winds „ 26—Wind S.S.E. 221 miles. Fresh winds. „ 27—Wind S.S.E. 227 miles. Light airs. " 28—Wind S.S.E. 217 miles. Air moderate. Mar. I—Wind S.S.W. 218 miles. Light airs. „ 2—Wind S.S.W. 217 miles. Light airs. „ 3—Wind S.W. 210 miles. Light airs. „ 4—Wind W.S.W. 214 miles. Light airs and hot weather. „ s—Wind W.N.W. 197 miles. Light airs. „ 6—Wind W.N.W 182 miles. Moderate wind. „ 7—Wind N. 174 miles. Moderate. „ B—Wind N.N.E. 164 miles. Moderate. „ 9—Wind N.B. 173 miles. Moderate. „ 10—Wind N.E. 206 miles. Fresh breezes. „ 11—Wind N.E. by E. 192 miles. Fresh and strong breezes. „ 12—Wind N.E. by E. 184 miles. Moderate and light. „ 13—Wind N.B. by E. 202 miles. Moderate and light. „ 14—Wind E.N.E. 193 miles. Light winds. „ 15—Wind E. 193 miles. Light winds. „ 16—Wind W.N.W. 180 miles. Variable winds. „ 17—Wind N.W. 190 miles. Variable winds. „ 18—Wind S.W. 181 miles. "Variable winds. „ 19—Wind E.N.E. Variable winds. 21 }Lying 'at anchor in the bay of St. Michael's. 22—Wind S. 100 miles. Strong winds. 23—Wind S.S.E. 257 miles. Fresh and moderate winds. „ 24—Wind E. 203 miles. Fresh and moderate winds. „ 25—Wind N.E. by N. 163 miles. Light winds and fresh gales. „ 26—Wind N.B. by E. 137 miles. Fresh gales and squally. ~ 27—Wind E.N.E. 205 miles. Strong winds. 2 2 1 }Lying off the town of Vigo, in Spain. „ 30—Wind W. 53 miles. Light and moderate winds, and squally. „ 31—Wind S.S.W. 230 miles. Strong gale and squally. April I—Wind W.N.W. 247 miles. Fresh breezes. 2—Wind W.N.W. Channel at noon. S to pp ed at " Bell Buoy for water. Feb. LIST OF 14SSENGERS: From Sydney.—Mr. and Mrs. aigh, Mr. H ant MTS. Solo. mon, Miss Solomon; Mies Anna Solomon, Miss Selina Solomon; Miss Esther Solomon, Master Moss Solomon, Master Samuel Solomon, Master Solomon Solomon, Mr. Francis Solomon, Elizabeth Wheeler (servant), Mr. G. R. Griffiths, Mrs. Griffiths, Miss. Griffiths, Miss Letitia Grif fiths, Master Neville Griffiths, Master Cecil Griffiths, 31as. ter Russell Griffiths, Master Algernon Griffiths, Master Stanley Griffiths, Master Llewellyn Griffiths, Emily Gib bons (sextant), Mr. Anderson , M r . Rawson, Mr. Macnab, Mr. F. W. Ploomer, Mr. Wm. Griere, Mr. John Inches, Mr. Edwin Husley, Captain Spence, Mr. and Mrs. Robley, Mr. Parrott, Mr. Lewis Wilson, Mr. John Matson, Mr. John Tulley. From Metbottrne,—Rev. Archaean Davies, Mr. Peppers, Mr.R.Macredie, Mrs. Macredie a nd infant, Miss Margaret C. Macredie, Susanna Seeley (servant), Mr. G. Turnbull, Mrs. Turnbull, Mr. W. J. Sterland, Mrs. Sterland and in fant, Miss Tolmie, Miss Margaret M`Kay (governess) , Mr. Tolmie, Mesta John Tolmie, Master D. K. Tolmie, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Master Fyfe, Miss E. Taylor (governess), Mr. G. Roughton, Mr. H. S. Chapman, Master Chapman, Mr. G. Webster, Mr. F. Spiers, Mr. Zuilli, Miss Betsy Zuilli, Miss Ann Zuilli ; Miss Ruth milli, Master George Zuilli, Master William Zuilli, Master James Zuilli, Master Archibald Zuilli, Miss Ruth Burchell; Mrs, Letherin, Miss Lemann, Miss Eliza Lemann, MarY - Aiiii Millwood (servant), Captain Conran (11th), Mrs. Conran, Master L. W. Conran, Master H. L. Conran, Mrs. Wills, Miss Sarah Adams (go verness) Mrs. Dill (servant) Mr. and Mrs. Donald, Master Colin D. Donald, Mas ter William Donald, M. A. Bur r roughs (servant) Mr,. and Mrs , liobd, and infant, Miss Alice Band, Miss Louisa Bond, Master William Bond, Master Henry Bond, Master Charles Bond, Rachael King (servant), Mr. Fleming, Mr. and Mrs. Stevens, Miss Fanny M. Stevens, Miss Hannah Stevens, Master Charles Stevens, Master John F. Stevens, Master Joseph N. r. George Gorton, M r . Martin, Mr. and Mrs. Elmes, Stevens,'Mr. H. limes, Mr. and Mrs. Nathan, Miss Es ther Nathan, Master Sam uel Nathan, Master Lewis Nathan, Master Hyam Nathan, Miss Rachael Nathan, Mr. J. F. Bennett, Mr. H. Feldheim, Mr. J. S. Levy, Mr. R. Pemberton, Mrs. Benson, Mr. and Mrs. Dickenson, Mr. H. Trevethen, Mr. Cortiesos, Mr. Simeon Cohen, Mr. John Shields, Mr. Alex. Warke, Mr. C. and Mrs. Spratt, Mr. D. and Mrs. Knight, Mr. E Winks, Mr. G. Cherry, Mr. J. Campbell, Mr. R. Russell, Mr.W.Carter, Mr. Featherstonaugh, Mr. M. and Mrs. Greenwood, Mas ters H. and T. Greenwood, Mr. D. Lury, Little, Mr. Vaughan, Mr. Harrison, Mr. D. Hopkins, Mrs. Charl ton, Miss C. Charlton, Mr. D. M`Kenley, Mr. Walter Allen, Mr. Vickers, Mr. Bevan Mr. Cr. Gill, Mr. A. Street, Mr. W. H. Rodden, Mr. '3. Britton, Mr. George Rebecca Murray, Mr. T. Taylor, Mr. N. M`Donald, Mr. Richard John Cun C n ulin in Johnson, Mr. John Jones, Mr. George Wilkinson, Mr. R. Mitchell, Mr: W. Powell, Mr. and Mrs. Clarke, Mis Sarah Clarke, Master Rowland Clarke, Miss M. A. Martin, Mr. Blythe and n Mrs e un n n ngh g m Cunningham,Miss Miss Elizabeth AnnA nn a C u nningham, Cunningham, M iss Anna s J. Dut'ch3tr,M. W. W. G . r ß ah ur am k e ' w Co o x o , d, Mi m s r s . V i a o oeb_ Cunningham, Mr. m M e r a . ra ll , e mr nry . L C . u ßo nn b i e n rt gh s 7 3l m, r. M ja a m ste e r s Mr. r Or dis h Cumming,M Mr. C. Mr. C o G x e , o M r g r e . Nisbea, Mr. W. . Clay, r. W. West wood, Mrs. Monk, Master Monk, Mr. G. Ro binson, Mr. E. Strike, Mr, J, Enwood, Mr, M. M. Murray, Mrs. Rigby, Master John Rigby, Mr. J. James, Mr. R. M. Thomas, Mr. F. Brown, Mr. C. Warner, Mr. W. Dennis, Mr. Isaac Asher, Mr. C. Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. Peterson, Mr. Chumanox, Mr. Rowles, Mr. James Hunter, Mr. William Hunter, Mrs. Col. Cooper, Dr. Morgan. From the Cape.—Mr. J, C. Hunt, Mr. W.„Burgess, Mr. N. Maurice, Mi. P. Moore ' Col.. Cooper, Miss Smith, Mr. Jarvis and falai, Mr. Nichols, Captain Salmcnd, Mr. H. Watson, Mr. J. Behrren, Mr. . From the Cape of Good Hope.—Sir Rolsert Stanford, Capt. W. R. King (74th), Lieut. J. C. King (74th), Hon. H. Annesley, Madame Caulett, Mr. W. Davis, Mr. Thos. Crowdy, Mr. D. Cowie, Mr. Crown, Mr. G. Holland , M r . James Curdie, Mrs. Bilston, Mrs. Newman. From St. Michael's.—Mr. A. Cohen, Mr. J. Benshaw, J. A. Putron. From Vigo.--Mr. Jose Maria Marco. AUSTRIAN TYRANNr. The important correspondence, of which a summary will be found in our Paris intelligence, will show that the position of affairs between the Governments of Piedmont and of Austria has in no degree diminished in its impor tant and threatening aspect. There can be no doubt that the utter injustice and ini quity of the measure levelled by the Cabinet of Vienna against the property of Sardinian subjects is such as to justify the most determined resistance on the part of the Piedmontese Government, and to call for the most cor dial support of the enlightened Governments to which it has appealed. To England especially it is impossible that such an appeal should be addressed without awakening the liveli est sympathy, and we have no doubt that the sentiments which, as the House of Commons learnt from Lord John Russell, have been already expressed on this subject to the Austrian Ministry will be vigorously and judici ously carried out under our present director of Foreign Affairs. To us, as the stronghold and leading example of con stitutional principles, it is most important to secure fair play and justice to the only State in the South of Europe which can be said to be maintaining those prin ciples with anergy and wisdom. It is to be hoped, on the other hand, that the chronic blindness of Vienna may, in this instance, be so far mitigated as to induce that most disastrously unwise Court to abandon the course of dishonesty and persecution which she has initiated against her former subjects, now naturalised, in accordance with her own treaty and guarantee, under Sardinian rule and protection. It is difficult, indeed, to conceive the persistence, even of Austria, in demands and in measures which have aroused manifestations of opinion so decided, so general, and so successfully maintained as those which have in every instance fol lowed her unjust and untenable demands on the ques tion of political refugees, driven by Austrian oppression to take refuge in foreign lands. —Morning Post. ,0 all a all IA all it. 100 'it. 100 !O 12 L 0 it. 100 50 42 tO 34 all ;5 all 3t. 100 88 4i ;t. 100 ;t. 100 '0 473 ;5 17:3 )0 all . ;t. 100 6 $ ?,5 16 all it. 100 5 all ;t; 1007 L 6 13 L 6 8 'all 8 5 !0 all . .0 - 10 it. 100 ;t. 11.00 ;t. itoo. ROO [0 8 . ) ,6 i all 3i all !O all O all! it. 100 O all !O 15 ?0 5, 163 19 GOVERNMENT SCHEME OF EDUCATION. 125 2 ( From the Time& ) The measure for the extension and improvement of the education of- -the people of England, which Lord John Russell is this evening to submit to the considera- tion of the House of Commons, is the first important original proposition of Lord Aberdeen's Government. For this reasen, as well as from the interest 'of the sub ject, the statement now about to be made on behalf of the Government is expected with more than common solicitude ; and, although we shall not anticipate the details of Lord John Russell's proposition, we may ven ture to offer some remarks on the spirit in which it has been conceived and the support to which it may be en titled. About fourteen years have now elapsed since the Committee of Council on Education began its la bours, and assumed the control of the Parliamentary grant annually devoted at that time to the instruc tion of the people, or rather to the erection of schools. Although the participation of the State in this moment ous duty is still here and there regarded with suspicions approaching to hostility, there is, we may safely assume, no statesman, and probably no prelate, of those who went up in 1839 with white staves to the foot of the throne to address her Majesty on the unconstitutional powers of that Committee of the Privy Council, who would not now acknowledge that the fears of a great many eminent persons got the better of their reason on that occasion. The Committee of Education has been suc cessively conducted by its original founders, by the Go vernment of Sir Robert Peel, by Lord John Russell's Cabinet from 1846 to 1852, and even by Lord Derby's Administration last year, with no important deviation from its course of policy. It has not only caused many thousands of schoolhouses to be erected, by stimu lating and assisting the liberality of parochial authori ties, but it has materially improved and raised the cha racter of the instructors and of the instruction given throughout the kingdom. It has enabled the great educational societies to support training establishments for teachers, and to introduce the important class of pupil-teachers and Queen's scholars to the work of public instruction in the country. It has to a great degree superseded the imperfect machinery of Bell and Lancas ter's monitorial system by increasing the supply of more competent masters. It has demonstrated by example, and it has regulated and advised by inspection. But, though a more enlarged and practical character has been given to many branches of popular instruction, the entire experience . of the system and its results proves that the influence of the State has never in any case been employed to lower or to weaken the religious element in these schools, or to oppose the just authority of the parochial clergy ; and we are confident thrt the true principles of the National So ciety for the education of the poor in the principles of the Established Church have never been more effectually and beneficially applied than since that society has ac cepted the direct assistance and co-operation of the Go vernment. After this term of experience, sanctioned by the approbation of all that is most eminent and bene volent in the Church, in the State, and in the nation at large, we hope the time is come when we may dismiss the unworthy suspicions which have hitherto been at tached to the views of the Queen's Ministers, and that their scheme, whatever it may be, will be judged as far as possible on its own merits. Lord John Russell already told the House of Commons, on retiring from the Pre miership in 1852, that in his opinion the country would ere long be ripe for a more complete measure of education than had yet been brought forward and he has since repeated that this siakisot, arid that of Parlia mentary reform, arc the two matters that principally engross his interest. It is a fortunate circumstance that the present Administration and the present Committee of Council for Education are so constituted as to give a pledge against any extreme policy on either side, for no body will imagine that a measure to which dr. Glad stone and Mr. Sidney Herbert have given their active assent can be unfriendly or dishonest to the Church, or that Lord Aberdeen and Lord John Russell have sacri ficed the Dissenters, or the cause of secular education, to the exclusive pretensions of the clergy. The truth is, that it cannot be the intention, for it is not in the power, of any Government to alter the nature of the instruction given to the poorer classes of the Englisg people, and we conceive that nothing can be done to interfere at all with that part of the subject. The nature of the instruction given is already conformable to the predominant feelings and convictions of the nation. It is based, in all cases, on religious education ; it is closely connected with the offices of the church or the ministrations of other religious denominations ; and no doubt can be entertained that an attempt to weaken this connexion, and to dissolve the tie between religious and secular education, would be received with aversion, and would prove fatal to the Government proposing it. We entertain no apprehensions whatever that any such measure or tendency will be found in tad John Rus sel's statement to-night ; and, although it is to be hoped that the schools for the children of the English people will continue to improve, as. they have improved in the last few years, We see no reason to suppose that any such improvement is to be purchased by the sacrifice of that which has hitherto obtained for them the respect and , gratitude of the public, The chief advantage to be derived from the interposition of the Government and of the legislative authority in Parliament in this under taking appears to us to consist in the application and control of the funds necessary to support an efficient system of national education. It is, therefore, to these objects that we expect to find the Ministerial proposal principally directed. Although the sums of money annually voted by Par liament are still small, there is probably no country in the world in which larger private endowments exist for 10 the purposes of education than in England, though, in 25 very many instances, their application by no means cor -10 responds with the liberal intentions of the founder. 1 .0. ( These charities, which are scattered through almost 20 6 every parish in the land, are, for the most part, far too small in amount to defray the cost of a Chancery St. suit, where that is needed to check misappropriation or to amend the application of such funds. Their 17 amount has been roughly calculated at 700,0001. or 25 800,0001. a-year—a sum amply sufficient to give a very powerful stimulus to ed ucation throu g hout the country. But in their present condition these funds are at least partially wasted, and it is very seldom indeed that they can be said to afford to the class for which they I were intended the best education that the present age requires. It is said, therefore, that one of the principal features in Lord John Russell's plan is to connect the 4 , administration of these educational endowments and charities with that department of the Government which is already charged with the distribution of the Parlia mentary grant. Provision must of course be made for the cheap and prompt solution of the legal questions arising out of these small charities, and this may be done either by conferring an equitable jurisdiction to a certain amount, for this purpose, on the judges of the County Courts, or by the appointment of judicial commissioners expressly empowered to settle these diffi culties without expense to the fund itself. But, in most instances, it is probable that a small amount of adminis trative assistance and control, co-operating with the trustees and managers of these endowments, would suf fice to give to them the same impulse which has al ready been so powerfully felt in the common parochial schools. If this be a part of Lord John Russell's scheme, we hope that it will be most cautiously guarded against the suspicion, which will of course be raised, that it is the intention of the State to exert a centralised au thority over the local institutions or property of the country, or that it is proposed to employ its authority for the furtherance of any particular views on the subject of education. The Government can have no such intentions, unless it is prepared to bring round its ears a swarm of adversaries who have twice succeeded in defeating similar proposals ; and there is still a powerful party in the country, both in the church and out of it, who regard the intervention of the State in this whole question with extreme jealousy and dissa tisfaction. The difficulty is to do what the exigency of the case and the wants of our increasing population re f rwesh causehi heoxrhave a plosion dveet emr r oeodrfe the eea than n ablestot o n l c e e ire, nce nainisters from touchi n g it. withoutandba ctkhe t hc prejudices rc h au n rues i un h a ig o whole ae s THE SHARE IVAIIKETS. BRITISH RAI] 1.4 W &YS. RAILWAYS. CIO sing Prices :Saturday. Bas , ness done I 51 this day. ;hr. Paid' 1. 1100 !O 84 A I all 11 ► 28 71 all ft. 100 it. 100 all O all O all 50}45 ;5 MI Z all 15 all i; `all ;13 1 all ":6 t all 15 8?-i 15 it. 100 A Aberdeen nabg N0 . t . t ... ..... .. O . st & Eastn. June 13irrong. Wolverh. di Stour Valley__ irkenhd. Lanesh. & Cheshire Junct Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O & £25 Cons Do., £20........... Bristol & E:_eter : Caledonian—. •• • • .. • .• Chester & Holyhead Cork and Bandon.._ Cork, Black. & Pass. D üblin&Belfast Juni:. Dundee Perth &Abeil , - , deen Junction ....._ ,Do. New ...... ........ F I l ast Anglian (.525 L. J ' A E. & L. & D.) Do., (£lB E. & H.) Eastern Counties Eastern-U.2l°n, Class A. late E. L. S 1 1•••• & C... ...... ;East Lancashire East & West Ind. Dk & Binnin g . June Ed inburgh & Glasgow Edinb. and P.-:ebles i Edinb. Prth. &Thinclee Glasgow & S.West.srn Great Northern Stk I Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Gt. Sth. &West. (Ire.) Great Western Irish South-Easters. Lancaster & Carlisle Do., Thirds Lancash. &Yorkshire • Do., Fifths Do., Wst. Riding Un 1 Leeds Northern ..... , Liv.ersby.&Southpt London & Blackwall Lond. Tilb. & Sthend. Lond.Bright.& S.Cst. London &N. Western Do. Fifths Do. ,10/. Sh. ,M&B .. . CI London & S. Western Do., £50...•••••• •••••• Do., £4O Landrry.&Coleraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk. Manch•Shef.&Lincln. i Do., Man. &Lin. Un. i Midland . Birming, Derbyl Midland G. Westar.) 'Do. Sha-es Newcastle dr Carl Newmark et .. Do. Bury Extension: Newpt.Aberg.dratfd Newry & Enniskillen Newry Warrenpoint & Rostrovor Norfolk.- ..... Do., New Northn. Counties Un North British . North Devon, No.l Do., No. Dc., A Deferred Do., B Guaranteed North Staffordshire North Western.. N. & S. Westrn. June. Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton Scottish Central Scottish Midland.- Str caVSbury & Birmg Do., L. & N. Westn Guaranteed Stock Shrewsby. dr Herefd Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W. Min.) Do. Halves, do Do. Oswestry Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern South Wales... . S. Yorksh. River Dun Do. Stockton & Hart101)1. ,Thames HaTen Dock and Railway 17 !Vale of Neath all IWaterfd. & Kilkenny all I Waterford&Limeri ck 13 ;West C0rnwa11........ 21s. Wmbledon &Croydon 1 Woodford 100 York Newctl. & Berw 20 Po. Extensions 116 Do. G. N. E. Purchase 100 York &N. Midland 8i 58 i 28 - 29 - 2-1 10.1 , 7i 6 d 211 22 2i d LO3 105 623 63 22 ILBii 193 ..• - •.. - lip g - 9 51 -- 5 i 3 4 12i- 1n 10 - 11 74 - 8 72" - 73 55 - 57 73 - 75 - •• • 32 - 34 61 - 63 - 48 122 - 107 - - 108 124 904 -- 91,E 92 6t - 74 13 - 1341) 741 - 751 4 - 401 3g - 16 - 16 9 - ?i - 1 -- .034 -- 1 / U4i Ll 7 --1181 2 3 P 1 -11 p 904-- 9 1 54 -- 4Ad -- Sid 10i -- 11 291 - 30 3- 3I 73' - 74. 42 - 44 50 - 52 sq - : - _. :id - Bi' 51 - 5 3 2 - 2B .1 35 -36 ... - ... d' 8 —84 id 2i Si p 514 —52 i 98 100 62 - 64 64 66 70 75 ... dis 18 -- 20 9 -- 10 14 -- 15 8$ -- Sid 20A -- 21 74 -- 754 364 -- Se 12i -- 135 4 -- 44 19 -- 21 1 15 —15 i 9 9i 29 31 9,1 9i ,id par • 68j -- 21 -- 20 58 -- 59 52 i 75i 5 I 1 1.1 9i I PREFERENCE SHARES. St. 100 [Aberdeen — 5 all Do., No. 2,7 p. e••• ••• St. 100 Bris. & Ex. A, p. c. St. 106 11: 20 5 Do. 4p. c. Kares ... ... ..• St. 100 Caledonian .210 . .... 104 106 15 all :Chester & Holyhea o, 1 Guar. 5a per cent... 18 19 x d 61 3 } ICork&Bandon 5; p.c. g (.1 a 61 i ll , Dundee Perth&Aber -3A all East Anglian( - 3g 5 all Do. (E 5) 7 per cent.. ' 3 g 4-t i n A n J g u i n in c n tio ( 2 3 . . 1 08 .. )1 6 64 6 per cent. 7g 2 Do. (i. 7 17s) 7p. ct.. i la . Gear. 6 per cent. .1 18i 19 5a per cent.. guar. 5 per cent ... ... pm 6.6 all t=4 l . l =l 1g —l4 • 65 all Do., No. 2........ .... 1i —l4 10 all Do., New 6p. c. 'St.. 144 15 144 15 pm 20 all Eastern Union, Scrip, -5 -4 an ftra ti f i f-gM - ga t i l id ------ --- - -••- St. 100 Glasgow &S. Western S . 100 Great Northn. sp. c. 126 — . 128 127 64 ,t. 100 Do. sp. c., Redeem., at 10 p. c. prem .... 110 112 64 all Gt. Southn. &Westn. (Ireland) Eighths... 8. 84 50 6 Gt. Westn. (Berke 4 Hants Ex. sp. c.).. 64 —7/ St. 100 G. West. fixed 44 pc. 1.05 107 ad 16 6 Lan.& York. F. £2O Ad A St. 100 Do., 6p. c., Stock... 1.50 152 St. 100 London and Brighton Guaranteed sp. c... ... xd St. 100 Do. Pref., sp. c. St. ... xd 50 all Do. Convertible, sp. c., 1852. ". St. 100 Do. New Chian 6 p.c. 150 153 50 5 London &8. Western, Con. Thirds Si —34 p 8i 12 10 Londonderry& Coler i Shares 124 all Londy. & Ennis. 4Sh 131 134 25 all Manch. ,Shef., & Lin., 1 Shares, No. 1 8 9 10 all Do. New, M 0....— lO4 114 1 6 3 Do., £6 . ... . . ...... 12A all Marypt. &Carl. 4p. c ... ... 121 all Do. 44 per cent.. .. .. 12 81 Do ... St. 100 Mid. Consol. 6 p.c. St. ... ... St. 100 Do. Consol. Bristol & Birm. 6 per cent.... 148 —lsoxd 149 16i 5 Do. Pref. 44 per cent. i p 20 all Norfolk Extension... 22 —23 5 all Do. Guar. 51 per ct.. 5 61 2 all Do. Way. - Val. 5p c 1— 2 1 2 I St. 100 North British lO6. —107 i 20 all North Staffordshire 2SA —26 i St. 100 Oxford Worcester & Wolverh. £15,6p. c. ... 15 9 D... l4 2 4p 141 8 all Shrews& Birm. N. G. 104 11/ 10 all Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor.W.M.in),B p. c. 17A 184 10 10 Do. 5 per cent.. i-- lip 25 all South Devon 144 154 10 14 Do. New par i 1) 1.0.6 all S. Eastern (Reading Ann.,) of £1 Os.6d. 254 261 20 all S.Yorksh.4p.c.Guar. 104 —20 A 6 3 Waterfd.&Kilk.6p.c. ad 4par St. 100 York Newcastle and Berwick,4 p.c.Pref. 101 103 17 5De 6 —5/ 25 10 York& N. Midland H kS. Purch . - ir FOREIGN. .0 3 5 3 ?,0 all !ICI 6 20 8 20 all N 1 5 all 20 7 0, 1 4 1N 5 1 15 LO 10 5 2 5 3 10 S N 7 ;0 all 'Oiall l 6 al' !,0 al' Antwerp&Rotterdaml i Ad BelgianEastn. Junct. 1 1. Charleroi & Erquelin. 15A 16 Dijon and BesauQon... 2 2i PI Dutch Rhenish ...... 21 2 dis " East Indian Do. Extension .. . 1 1 p l i Gt. Indian Peninsul a 2 2p Gd. Junct. of F ranc ,. 1 1 p Gt. Western of Canada Shares Lucca & Pistoja sp.c prof . • .. Luxembourg.. Do. (Railway) Do. Do. (Canal) Do. 6p. ct. pref , Lyons & Meditcrran Madras Namur & Liege (with interest) Do. (ex interest) 'Northern of France Do. 201. 3 p. c. Bds (fmy. B. &Ams. Shs ) NorwegianTrunkPref Paris and .Lyons Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg ParisCaen & Chorbrg. Quebec &Richmond Rouen and Havre Sambre and Meuse Do. 5A p. ct. pref Southern of France.. Upper India Scrip... West Flanders Do. 5A per c. Pref Western of France West. of Switzerland 4Zea1and............... .0 all :0 10 ?,0 all !CI all .?.0 all 0 5 !CI all ;0 all LO 4 30 4 \ 1. ? ) ./ all ?.0 10 LO 2 X/ 3 I -I 4i 4i 1 2 par I p 9 11 p 2 2i p 71 7 i 5 6 35i 36 14 -- 15 8i -- 18 -- 18/ 9/ 13 421 -- 431 41 -- 42 33 -- 338 4 -- 5p -- hp 21 20 9 s 41 - ip I - P 4 -5/ idis p 9A —10 p 1 -id 63k x d 12i 13 72 I J ' 32~ S~ 91 90A 2 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Shr. I Zaid.l RAILWAYS. Leasing mpans. i 0 1 all 8.)1f , .! - (1 :nd Bletcl ilex & Oxfd. guarantee Do. witboutgr Birm. Virolv. & Dudley guar. Do.wtht guar. Buckghamsh. Clydesdale Jc. E. Lincoln gr. 6 per cent. Glstr.& Dn. Fr, Hrt]pl. Dk. k Railway 6,1 i all '.Ol all at all ;04 all it. 100 i 0 all it. 100 5 all 00 all ?,5 all 12i all 3 all !O all all Hull elby Do. ? Shares. Do. Shares. Lon.&Greenw Do. Preference Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Du: 6 per et. Mauch, BArt. and Matlock Middlesbr.' & Redcar .0 all 51 all Midld.Bradfd. Northern and Easternsp.c. Do. Fi per et. Do. Fixeds p e, Prest. & Wyrel London &I N. West., io all i 0 all 5 all 2 i1. 11 00 .00 5 18, .2 9i i 0 all it D o o y . s i tn ita H re i s t Do. Shepth.St Shef.Roth.and Goole g. 5 p. c. S. Staffordsh. Wear Valleygr 6 per cent Do WiltarSomrst, 5 I all it. 100 !GLlVestn Do bo Do. L. &N. W Caledon Gt.Nrtlin. Gt. Westn Yk. Now. & Berw. Y. &N Do 'S. Eastern 1110 Norfolk Do & N. IT. & Midi& Stekton & Darlingt. IE. Count 'Do Closing Prices '.Saturday. 104 - 106 52A -53 i 151 - 153 32i -33 A 111 -- 113 55A -56 A 27A -- 281 13i -- 144 25A --26Axd 19 -- 19} 2G -- 27 2i - 3- 105 - 106 Business this day. L. & N.W &Lti&Yk' Do Gt Northu Do .l 64 - 66 Ixt y n o c r a k s B let M.3lClean Stockt. & Darlingt. Do ,GtWestn. 149 - 151 148 - 150 *i -- .4.-ci 32 - 33 1102 1 -103 i 1051 ---. MINES. ----z----- 1 all Agua Fria .... ........ • 11 1 ,1 P 2 A 10s. all Anglo Californian - t P li I 10 2 Australasian 1 — l 3 P 3 20 5 Australian 5 6 p 1 all Australian Cordillera 4 . 1 all Australian Freehold. dis— . i 1 all Ave Maria 1 all Baden (Gd. Duchy of) par P 1 all British Austrin. Gold i fi P 20 13.5 British Iron 7 - 9 35 24 A Brazilianlmp. (issued at £5 pm 4l 30 all Do. Cocaes & Cuiada 61 4 6i 6 20 15 Do. St. John Delßey 30 —3l 1 4 Carson's Creek par IP 4 i 40 all Cobra Copper 46 48 5 1 Colonial Gold 24 2i ..,, 14 Copiapo St, all Copper Min. of Eng BO P 25 all Do. Pref. 74 p. cent 8 9 p 5 all English and. Austin Copper Smeltg. Co l4 1 d 434 20 all General. l7 —l9 2 all Great Nugget Vein 2 2 p 4 4 4 3 all Great Polgooth . 1 —l4 • 1 all Lake Bathurst.. i die— par 1 all Liberty 4 - g p 1 all Land. &Californ. Gold Quartz Crush. Co — 4 d 1 all Mariquita d— par 10 9 Mexican&S.Americn. 8 84 1 all New Granada - 4 p 1 all Nouveau Monde 1 lip 24 5 1 Port Philip i ? p 1 all Quartz Rock par t p 50 all Rhymney Iron 24 —26 p 15 Do. New 7 8 30 104 Santiago de Cuba 7 8 1 all South Australian 4 4 p 10 7 Tin Croft . 11 13 284 all United Mexican 64 64 1 all Waller par —4 p 1 all West Granada 4 i p 1 all West Mariposa par i p 1 all Yuba — p JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 40 all Australasia 92 94 92 50 all British N. American ... ... 60 20 2 Chrtd. Bnk. of India, Australia, & China 1.8 —14 p 4 100 25 Colonial — ... 100 20 Commercial of Lond ... ... ... 10 'English Scottish and Australian 2 —24 p 20 124 Lond. Chart. Bk. of Australia 44 —44 p 50 20 London and County ... ... 50 10 Lo idon Joint Stock ... —, ... 100 20 Lond. & Westminster ... ... 20 2 Lor eon Bank of Aus tra'ia and India 50 ' 224 National of Ireland _ _ 25 all Oriental Bank of Corporation. 554 563 25 5 Do. New — ... 100 25 Provincial of Ireland ... ... 10 all Do. New — ••• 5 1 Royal A.ustraln•Bkg & Gold Imp Co Pis 4 p 25 all South Australia 5O 52 25 all Union of Australia 7B 79 78 74 ...24 Do. New Bl 94 50 10 Union of Loudon ... ... 40 all Union of Madrid ... • ... , MISCELLANEOUS 100 35 Australian Agricult. 100 103 'lOO 20 4 Australsn.Pcific.Mail ... ... 10 5 Australis. Royal Mail ... ... 44 ... 384 Brit. American Land ... _ 100 32 4 Canada ... ... 5 5 Crystal Palace . ... 64 . 4 2 Crystal Pal. of France ... _ 20 1 Eastern Steam — ... 1 1 Electric Teleg. of Ir _ _ 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat ... _ 100 50 General Screw Steam ... ... 20 22 Irish Beetroot Sugar ... ... 1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel ... _ 10 2 Netherlands Land— ... ... 20 26 Nrth.ofEuropeSteam ... ... 50 all Peninsular& Oriental ... ... 50 + 25 Do. Do. ••• ••• 100 60 Royal Mail Steam 25 25 South Austral. Land 52 54 1 1 Submar. Telegraph ... ... 6 2 Univeral Emigration and Colonization ... ... 100 284 Van Diemen's Land 28 24 23 LLOYDS' SHIPPING-(THIS DA 7.) LONDON, April 4.—Wind this day at Noon, W., light breeze, and mild weather ; cloudy at times, but barometer rising. DEAL, April 3.—Wind, S.W. by W. fresh. Arrived— Lord Hardinge, Cochin ; John Wickliffe, Bombay ; Diana, Porto Rico, for Copenhagen ; Colonist, Calcutta ; Governor M`Lean, Africa ; Newport, Cape Coast Castle ; Reaper, Berbice ; Lucy, West Indies ; Tally Ho, New York. Arrived from the River—Unicorn, for Melbourne ; Midas, do. ; Wanderer, Adelaide, S.A. ; John Knox, Shanghai ; Granite City, long Kong ; Kossuth, Madras ; Princess, Bahia ; Princess Victoria, Melbourne ; Ann, Madras ; Princess Helena, Valparaiso ; Catherine Greene, St. Kitt's ; Arena, Jamaica. The Jersey, London to Berbice, has been got off shore, and will repair at Sandwich. PORTSMOUTH, April 3.—Arrived—H.M.S. Persian, Ber muda. DOUGLAS (Isle of Man), April 2.—The Prineder, of Ply mouth, was totally lost at Langness this morning ; master and four men drowned. FLEETWOOD, April 3.—The Success, of and from Fowey, is on shore, and one man drowned. LIVERPOOL, April 3.—The report of the Daring, from St. Domingo, having made water all the passage, is in correct. - _ _ LISBON, March 28.—The Lady Rowena, Alexandria to Liverpool, was burnt to the water's edge, and took the ground near Lagres, on the 16th ; crew and 160 bales of cotton saved. ABERDEEN, April 2.—The Duke of Sunderland (s), Lon don to this port, was totally wrecked off the point of the pier last night ; about twenty lives lost. MILFORD, April 3.—The Liberator, of Arklow, drove on shore on the Haven, and is a total wreck ; master's son drowned. FALMOUTH, April 3.—The Clemence, Antwerp to Liver pool, put in here on the Ist inst., with eight feet of water in her hold, and is discharging. WEXFORD, April 2.—The Acor, St. Michael's to Liver pool, came on shore on the rocks at Kilmore, last night, and will probably become a wreck ; crew saved. VIOLENT COLLISION ON THE MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE RAILWAY.—A very long heavy goods train, proceeding on the above railway from Manchester to Grimsby at 4 o'clock last Friday morning, came in violent collision with a cattle truck that was standing crosswise on the main line within 200 yards of the Worksop station on the Sheffield side. The train was drawn by a very powerful engine, the Erebus, and was running at a quick pace. So great was the shock that seven of the foremost trucks were thrown off the line, and two of them, with the engine and tender, were pre cipitated violently down a very steep embankment, a depth of 30 feet. The driver and fireman, not having had time to leap off, were hurled down the steep descent, and had a narrow escape of being crushed to death by the ponderous engine and tender that accom panied them in the fall. The cattle trusk that caused the obstruction was shi vered into fragments, and two of the goods waggons were smashed to almost the same extent. The freight consisted of salt, bales of cotton, and miscellaneous m erchandise. An immense e quantity of salt, as wel l as a great many bales, scattered about, but, without having sustained much damage, the dispersed commod ities were recollected and forwarded to their destinatio n in fresh trucks together with the rest of the train. The rails were cleared and adjusted with all possible dispatch, but the main line could not be reopened till half-past three o'clock in the afternoon. The truck that caused the mischief had advanced from an adjacent siding. The wind, which was very strong, might have propelled it upon the main line, but one of the company's servants states that on the previous evening he secured it on the siding by blocking the wheels. There is evidence that at one o'clock in the morning the truck was at the terminus of the siding with one corner projecting towards the main anonthooerntagooto withtrain proceeding line,towards for atSheffield that h pro minenti angle rent th e pane l s o f the wagg i o t n , s and o n one its side as they passed it. Several articles of merchandise from this train, including a basket of butter, were afterwards found scattered about on the scene of the subsequent Had collision.the conductors of the former train done their duty, they would have pulled up and taken mea- SAFETY OF MAEZINI.- —We learn from good authority cures that would have prevented the su b sequen t mishap. that not only was Mazz ini in safet y , at the date of the On Saturday afternoon th e displaced engine and tender latest advices from Italy, notwithstanding all the vigi were towed up the embankment by a steep branch line lance of the Austrian police, but that he might be ex,' constructed for the occasion, the motive power being p etted in En g land in about a fortnig ht.—Morning' another engine and an army of labourer& Bits of Turf. By Priam. " Racing Times" Office. published. A comical little work under this title —consisting obser vant sketches which originally appeared in the Racing Tines—has within the last few days been They will be found on perusal replete with fun, and a source of much innocent amusement. : t he e n o enough—and and a nd " Priam is evidently a droll fe f ll ro o vant ! He has drawnto the the life, and his limnings are none the less true to the reality (certainly rea ty (certainly they are none the less humorou s ) because they occasionally run into the extravagance of cari cature. In sporting regions he seems to be übiqui tous. He is en " The Racecourse ff e is in the thick of the ~ at cockcrow." Races." He penetrates into the " Training St bl Stables," and lets us into almost as many secrets t a sanctuaries as the re B about these same equine Princess told tales to the Com mander of the ,, a Faithful—one He tells usthing eist o , r , two" d (worth knowing) about the " Betting —an we say this having a wholesome fear before our eyes of George Cruik shank. He conducts his reader tothe " Sporting Bar ( Parlour," and affords him a delectable glimpse of " The Settling." He is equally at home at " Newmarket " and at " Tattersall's." Then he enlivens the less imaginative portions of his narra tive with two laughter-moving incidents—one re counting to us the history of " The First Bet," being an occurrence in the life of Mr. Wriggle Snake—and another acquainting us with " How Mr. Wigsby Botham sweated the Favourite." The volume will be welcome to all admirers of the Turf and all lovers of the humorous. LITERATURE. The Longwoods of the Grange. By the Author of " Adelaide Lindsay." 3 vols. Hurst and Blackett. This is a very interesting novel—not perhaps so pleasing as the former works by the same author, but more powerfully written. It is told by an old relation of the family in her diary: she is the sister of the heroine of the novel. The once famous race of the Longwoods fell into decadence, and were obliged to part with their ancestral hall, their family plate, their luxuries, and grandeu rs , t o re tire to a simple dwelling called the Grange. The elder brother, Philip, was a wretched head of a fallen house—indolent and ignorant, he was obsti nate and self-satisfied. Glad to retaliate on his sister and aunt, he married a perfect tyrant. Esther was the plague of the house ; she ruined all the comfort of th ladies, and left the young brother to commit all sorts of follies, under the pretext of being independent. It would be out of place and unjust to the author to tell the subse quent events here. Suffice it to say that a new character appeared, who superseded even Esther in being a torment—Mortlake, the son and heir of the Nabob who had purchased the old ball. He contrived to exercise great power over the whole family, and ill did he wield his sceptre. Two im portant errors in conduct are well described in this work, and the glaring evils they cause in the social .There are ably shown forth. Parents have no right on their death beds to sacrifice one child to another. Far wiser and more Christian-like would it be to commend all alike to the care of the only One mighty to save, than to endeavour to shield their loved object from the storms of fate, by exposing those they do not so much affect. A still more egregious fault is that of marrying for expediency, which never can be justified by any combination of circumstances. It is well exposed here. To what afflicting horrors did Edith's fatal decision give rise, ten times more appalling than if the worst threatened evil had occurred. Misfor tunes self-created are the hardest to bear, and the longest to surmount. When people take their fate into their own hands, they must not expect relief or rescue. It is true that such did happily occur in this case ; but the probabilities in real life are, it is to be feared, few and far between. Aunt Dorothy is th e b es t character in the story, and true life.to ln her veneration for her ancient and ho nourable f am i l n her punctiliousness concerning re quisite decorum and exactitude in the members of ehold, she app ears a mo d e l o f th e " days the tha thaorucs Bleak House. No. XIV. By Charles Dickens. A wonderful incident is recounted in the new instalment of Bleak- House— : and one that cannot but startle even the most far-seeing reader into astonish ment. Excellent Mr. Jarndyce—John Jarndyce of Bleak House—the Jarndyce in the great cause of Jarndyce and Jarndyce--proposes for the h an d and heart of Esther Summerson ! That is extraordi nary enough, but even that is not the most marvel lous part of the incident—for his offer is accepted ! Yes—in spite of the flowers left at poor Miss Flite , s, the flowers presented by Caddy Jellyby, now Tur veydrop, the flowers that Ada Clare thought "very like that sort of thing," in spite of those flowers hoarded up so tenderly even when they were withered, in spite of them and of their donor Allan Woodcourt. Yes—John Jarndyce is accepted by Esther Summerson. But will they ever be mar ried ? Within half-a-dozen numbers we shall know, for by that time the whole narrative will be com pleted. In a worldly sense, Mr. Jarndyce's offer is, everything considered, to say the least of it, magnanimous. The very heart's blood of his chosen is tainted by illegitimacy (but that is not her fault), she is penniless (but that is nothing), she is dis figured for life by a terrible malady (but thatis a great deal), rendered almost repulsive in appear ance, if we may judge of the effect produced by the change upon Mr. William Guppy of Pentonville. Nevertheless, in an un-worldly sense all these things are more than counterpoised by her goodness. It is a fault perhaps in the autobiographic interpola tions that we learn nothing at all of this same goodness except directly through Esther Summer son herself—her own descriptions informing us pretty plainly how very loveable, and amiable, and winning her temperament really is. Sometimes even we cannot help thinking that the heroine is just a trifle too childlike in her simplicity of tem perament—reasoning with herself, out loud, by name —and talking to her shadow in the looking-glass as if she were a doll. However, notwithstanding all this, Esther is loveable, ant Mr. Jarndyce is a noble fellow to the core—and so we look forward to the result of these occurrences with interest—in the very teeth of our amazement. Besides the fore going, other incidents really surprising of their kind are recorded in the four chapters of the present instalment. The occupants of Bleak House receive a polite and ceremonious visit one day from the haughty Sir Leicester Dedlock ! And Mr. Allan Woodcourt returns from abroad in an Indianian that puts in at Deal at the very time when Esther, attended by Charley, has gone down there to advise with Rick, who, by the way, is fast going to the dogs after selling his com mission ! And Jo turns up again among the squalid miseries of Tom-all-Alone's ! And from all we can make out from his rather dim confession, this same poor Jo was led to his sudden and mysterious disap pearance that night when Bleak House afforded him shelter, by a spectral warning—" Hook it ! ' he ses. You hook it. You go and tramp,' he ses. Don't let me ever see you nowheres within forty miles of London, or you'll repent it' " from b o y o r Jo one i s on Bucket, most dread and übiquitous of Detectives. And so s t p —" u ‘ a ‘ chivied n a itby anda another chivied" on b e yO l u g , dnx you "—till he's almost " worritted to skins and bones." Tom-all-Alone's is admirably described in the closing chapter of the number which is adorned by a clever etching of it by Phiz—in the same novel way in which he has already depicted the " Long Drawing Room " and the " Ghost's Walk" at Chesney Wold in Leicestershire. The principal feature of the number, however, is the ever delectable Harold Skimpole—the Child—whose family are all children of whom he himself is the youngest. We find him at home in his lodgings in Somer's Town, in the Polygon. It is noon, and he is reclining in his dressing-gown, on the sofa, taking breakfast— a plate of hot-house grapes, and another plate of hot-house nectarines, and a plate of sponge cakes, and coffee in china, and a bottle of claret. Mr. Jarndyce praises the grapes, and supposes they were a present. " No," says Skimpole, " No. Some amiable gardener sells them. His man wanted to know when he brought them last evening whether he should *wait for the money. Really, my friend,' I said, I think not—if your time is of any value to you.' I suppose it was, for he went away." We are introduced to his wife, once a beauty, now " a delicate high-nosed invalid," ,to Arethusa, his Beauty daughter ; to Laura, his Sen timent daughter ; and to Kitty, his Comedy daughter. His story about the two arm chairs, borrowed from a neighbour, and worn out, is de lightful, and quite delicious his remonstrance with that neighbour (who is a baker, and angry at the destruction of his property)—" We are all children of one great mother, Nature. On this blooming summer morning, here you see me with flowers before me, with fruit upon the table, the cloudless sky above me, the air full of fragrance, contemplat ing Nature. I entreat you by our common brother hood, not to interpose between me and a subject so , sublime, the absurd figure of an angry baker ! ' ' Altogether, Harold Skimpole is the best character in the work—a creation—an original. The goo , d angel of the story, in regard to ,s t the brick-makers wife, and Jo, and Tom-all-Alone 's, and even we expect in reference to Rick, will undoubtedly turn out to be Allan Woodcourt. fai; , on 4, LSS 3 sheer. 380 150 380 583 . 480 489