The Sun. — London, England, 1847-05-05 00:00:00

POOR-LAW RHTURNS. he FERRAND gave notice that, on Thursday next, should With p m oo o r v -alirs. e l for a number of returns, in connexion The Ilox. MEMBER also n.ave notice that, upon the order of the day being read fo'r the second reading of the new Poor-law Bill, he should move that the Bill be read second time that day six months. LORDS OF SESSION (SCOTLAND). Mr. lIIJME moved for a return of the salaries re -I•Fiveil by each of the Lords of Session in Scotland since ._ L le year 1837 , i n each year; stat i ng also a ll emo l umen t s 11 od fees each have received in each year in addition to beir f " L arY, exclusive of the moneys received by them ~or a rbitrations undertaken by them. Also for a return ti i r°ro each of the Lords of Session of Scotland. of the 4, 1 ,, b of arbitrations undertaken by them, or of pri or%v suits or matters referred to them for their decision award, in each year since 1837, with the names of t he Parties and of the places where the same were re tf"ti''fely heard, the time occupied about the arbitra °,l4 together with the amount of fees or money re red or charged for or on account of such arbitration, orree, or award; and also with the amount of all sums or i n° oo y charged, demanded, or received, for travelling theoLthzder r o penses in or about such matters, by each of a greed to. f Session, in each year since 1837.—Motion R EVENUE OF THE ISLAND OF MALTA. te , B OWRING moved for an account of the gross t h:!P,ts, under their several heads, of the revenue of r e ls tand of M a lt a , for the year 1846 ; and a similar t urn of the m anner i n w hi c h t h e sa id revenue has been e z I'l:Wed.—Agreed to. tt POOR REMOVAL ACT. Re ANKES postponed, for a few days, bringing in be loin of which he had given notice, to repeal the Poor . 11 raoval ADM L N AlSct of 8 and 9 Victoia. ~.r TRATION OF T THE POOR-LAW. f ut al r• FERRAND gave notice that he would, upon a o f l e stage of the New Poor-law Bill, ask the Law d e l cer s of the Crown, by what authority power was ti r , e gated to any body of men to make rules and regu f a a 41 2 equally as binding as Acts of Parliament, and no t l i lle u Statute existed, then be wished to know, whether . ei:de;_persons who had been committed to prison for dis- Ina ` fl ee of those regulations had not been illegally Prisoned. t, GENERAL POLICE BILL M IL • I , OLTVERIE wished to ask the Hon. and Learned a• - ember, th e L or d Ad vocate , w h e th e r there was any in etiti°n to i ntro d uce a Bill f o r general police purposes , licabl e to Scotland, similar to the one for England. he he LORD ADVOCATE, who was very indistinctly ard in the gallery, was understood to say that such a 4111 was in contemplation. JOINT STOCK BANKS. Mr. NEWDEGATE wished to know if the Govern jtient shortly intended to introduce a Bill relating to oint stock companies. Mr. M. GIBSON replied that such a Bill was at pre sent under the consideration of the Lord Chancellor, as to certain points of law which were rather complicated, *lid that as soon as the legal features of the measure was settled, it would be introduced without delay. Mr METROPOLITAN BUILDINGS ACT. „ DUNCOMBE then proposed the appointment of iitrSelect Committee to inquire into the operation of the petition Buildings Act ; and also to move that the r ite `‘ t ltion of John Todd .llerrick, paper-stainer and mann the u rer, New Oxford -street, which was presented on Initt29th of March last, be referred to the said Com te ei e, to report their opinion thereon, with the evidence, ford (Moe Rouse. He said, as he understood the Noble 2 r e a (Wreath) intended to introduce a Bill to jc_lo)_.nd t i h o e w l i l h e d tr r o a p w ol i i t t . an Buildings Bill, he had no ob but i ',;” MORPETH said it was his intention to do so; s hape had no objection to bring forward the Bill in the Isi Pe ° fan amendment to the Hon. Gentleman's motion. 4: ' iee e tio said 1 5. 4. to a 1 When he cause into office, he found that ob as prevailed against this Bill, and it was referred , iss earned counsel, under whose supervision an 1 : L'iended Bill had been rared ; and he, therefore, 4 , 1 t 7gqed to move, . . Istiropolts as an amendment, that leave be given 1 .! li lla to introduce a Bill to amend the Act for regu ting the construction and the use of buildings in the and its neighbourhood. tr ues t. ' DUNCOMBE then withdrew his motion, and j ec 'd that the amended Bill would remove the ob 'l,o2l`°las of which the persons mentioned in his motion if ta . ,Pl ined. The petitioner was a paper-stainer, and b e w e provisions of the Act were carried out, he should T h n e ° ll Y unable to carry on his business. brought motion was then withdrawn, and the Bill was in and read a first time. r _ FEV,S IN THE COURTS OF LAW. to_I_I"..WATSON moved the appointment of a Select ik :u t rci a Committee to inquire into and report to the House on Ils_ ation of suitors in the courts of law and equity thethe mode collection of fees, and the amount thereof, and ill all of collection ; and the appropriation of fees Several inferior courts, and in the courts of special and Zevaercal sessions in England and Wales ; and as to the al :, ies and compensations and fees received by officers ._c! retired officers of those courts ; and whether any .I",„_a superintending means couli be adopted, with a view of `lrintending and regulating the collection and appro priationr_ thereof. He said the question was one of the latest importance to all classes of suitors, but particu arty to .. , children and married women ; but as he under -417t9 that little or no objection would be offered to the k r l anv he should briefly confine himself to the object. A t :hich he sought the appointment of this Committee. ofs4 e rY step a suitor was called upon to pay fees which had si w ere not levied for any specific object . , but which and lam Ply grown up and tolerated from time to time, Per this way the greatest injustice was frequently Petrated. Over the four hundred or five hundred Persons allowed to collect fees in Westminster Hall, 110 Check or c on trol was placed. Often they were col l~te by the parties for themselves, but in some instances they were handed over to the Consolidated Fund. At any rate there was no efficient check, and • ly knew for what they were atiitors often scarcely paying. in the Court o f The moment a person set his foot Chancery he was compelled to pay fees, and he was comnelled to do so at every stage he took, and they had no proportion to the amount which was sought to be recovered. In the equity courts there was a suitors fund, and the suitors' fee fund, out of which the officers of the different courts were paid, and the amount col lected in 1845 for the first was 95,2751., and for the se cond 155,5101., making a total of 250,8071. collected in the Courts of Chancery. The salaries of the Lord Chancellor, the Vice-Chancellors, and other officers, Were paid out of the Consolidated Fund, but the enor bleats sum of 250,000/. was expended in the payment of t he salaries of persons connected with those courts, and as there was no check, the officers were allowed to col lect the fees, and to pay themselves and others just what ' a lma they pleased. In 1846 a considerable reduction W as made i n t h e f ees , b u t still the fee fund amounted to 137,9951, and the suitor's fund to 112,2761., still making a total of 250,0001., which was spent upon the officers, a great proportion of the money being extracted from the POckets of i suitors. Fees were also collectei in the c r otarnon law courts; but more were levied than were required to pay the expenses for which they were Z:ovvedly collected, and to such an extent had this sys ttbmt: Proceeded, th a t there had been collected, over and tx , 5 , 0 all the exp enses , i nc luding salaries, and other de mands, and p a id to t h e C onso lid ate d Fu n d by the Queen's bench, for the three years ending in 1843, 50,1281., by 4, i . lt‘ 4 checluer, 46,1271., and by the Common Pleas, making 100,986/. in the course of three years.— Hear '3od hear.) Yet they had not a greater number of e i " riow than during the reign of Elizabeth; and the h at these large sums were collected and expended in cumber he had pointed out, they had not a sufficient business of judges to dispose of the great quantity of tness which came before those courts. The suitors but paid these large sums, had a right to speedy justice, nt they were now denied it. Then the question naturally Pu rse l how far it was right and proper to levy fees for the a w rid r pose of carrying out the administration of justice, qt, whether it was not the duty of the nation to dis charge the cost of dispensing it. To him no principle satio : n nie d so obnoxious as taxing the suitor for the dispen sation justice. Another part of his motion proposed al l inquiry into the fees and salaries of the various onicers in the courts of justice. He considered that they should have necessary officers, but he deprecated the Paying of enormous sums to persons who held Useless offices, or those who were enormously utie re s: re munerated for the performance of orderthat t the duties d insignificant Inquiry was therefore necessary in of the different officers in the various courts might be all easily defined, and specific salaries fixed for the du ties they had to perform. At trials by jury, criers and other o ffi cers of the court levied fees. In his opinion these could be no more objectionable thing than paying officers in the courts ofjustice by . —(Cheers.) If be were to refer to the salaries paid, and the fees re ceived by marshals, criers, and judges' clerks, the . House Would be astonished. Fees were also collected in the Court of Session, and the criminal courts, and as abuses existed in them all, inquiry was absolutely necessary. lie had, on a previous occasion, brought forward the question of compensation, but many objections had been raised to the appointment of a committee to inquire into the mode in which persons who had been employed in connexion with the courts of law were compensated. On that occasion he brought forward an outrageous Ca se of compensation—namely, the receiving of 7,5001. a Year by a person for simply taxing costs ; and also that between 70,000/. and 80,0001. a year was paid in the ath,aPe of pensions to parties whose ages were bet wee n thirty and forty. The Hon. and Learn e d G entleman co ncluded by proposing the appointment of the Com baittee. , Mr. ROMILLY seconded the motion. It is a corn -",eatt thing to suppose that those who received the benefit t. ", 1 courts were to be the only parties benefited. It was th e country at large who derived the greatest . benefit the ',"? cheap and accurate administration of justice. If -t i l 'ieet were searched into, they wonld find the benefit a ' such by the improvement to which it would lead by tb e o ult irnitted by Pase protection of the suitor. Cases in which there a belief that there was no moral wrong them, and it was not till the legal opinion h il ss th e question was obtained, that parties saw it in its was pro p e r light. It necessary to have in this country. th minister of ju s ti ce t o look after the administration of ss e law ' and to see from time to time such reforms as improvement. necessary ; f or t h e s y s tem would always require he described, He considered that an officer, such as described, who would devote all his energies to the I. l , l s biQct would carry the law into effect properly. si rYers were not competent to make laws on this their . and that was an evil that was incident to that ays3e ation--(Hear, hear.) It was a notorious fact b i — aPon ; the death of an officer of the Chancer Cour . t, thaesUccessor was in the habit, without any increase in . business of the Court, of handing in a considerable io ille n e , as e in the fees t o t h e C onso lid a t e d Fund. tent ae ATTORNEY-GENERAL—It was not his ins offer any opposition to the motion of the Hon. "( 1 L n to Le arned Member, though he did not wish it to be tindersto d li on 0 that he assented to the principle of the • I°l4 ' , tamed Member in reference to the feels, • •••\ • , • ; I , `ll •••• Mr. HUME considered that great benefit would re sult from the proposed inquiry. The motion was then put and agreed to. SMITHFIELD MARKET. Mr. ORMSBY GORE moved that the following lion. Members be nominated for the Select Committee on Smithfield Market :—Mr. Ormsby Gore, Viscount Mor peth, Viscount Mahon, Mr. W. B. Baring, Mr. Sidney Herbert, Lord Seymour, Mr. Thomas Baring, Mr. Bur roughes, Mr. Bramston, Mr. Alderman Copeland, Mr. Beckett Denison, Mr. Masterman, Mr. William Miles, Mr. Stafford O'Brien, and Mr. Eliot Yorke. On the motion being put, Colonel WOOD moved the following amendment : that Lord Robert Grosvenor, Sir Charles Napier, Sir De Lacy Evans, and Mr. Antrobus, be members of the said Committee. Mr. HAWES did not consider that the eastern por tion of the metropolis was represented on the Com mittee. The Rouse then divided, when there appeared — For the original motion 25 Against it 19 Majority There not being 40 Members present, the House stood adjourned till to-morrow at twelve o'clock. WESTMORELAND SOCIETY. This benevolent society, for the maintenance and education of children of Westmoreland parents, or of a Westmoreland parent, born in or near London, held its one hundred and first anniversary, last evening, at the London Tavern. After an excellent dinner, at which about 100 persons sat down, the usual loyal and national toasts were drunk. Lord Lonsdale presided. Alderman TeromrsoN proposed the health of the Pre sident, and congratulated the society on a patron so liberal, and who for forty years had maintained the interests of the society. He also adverted to his conduct as Lord Lieutenant of the county, where his services were so beneficial to the county. Lord LONSDALE briefly returned thanks. Alderman TuomrsoN, in returning thanks for the health of the county members, took occasion to advert to the fear that was entertained that the Bank would stop payments. He ridiculed the thought, and said that the " old lady," was never so comfortably situate in her life —(Cheers)—nor ought they to grumble if food was dear, so that there was enough, which, he was quite sure there was for the whole world. Lord LONSDALE, in proposing prosperity to the county of Westmorland, observed, that they had now a great opportunity of elevating themselves in the scale of counties, by reason of the railway which had recently been opened.—(Hear, hear.) The NOBLE CHAIRMAN intimated, during the course of the evening, that it was his intention to renew his subscription of 501. for this year. Several other toasts, appropriate to the occasion, were then given and ade quately responded to. The amount of subscriptions for the day was announced to be 6001. --------- THE LONDON UNIVERSITY. On Saturday the distribution of prizes in the medical department of this University took place, and on the occasion the hall was filled with the students and their friends. Lord Brougham, as President of the University, occupied the chair, and the proceedings opened with the reading of the annual report by Mr. Liston, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. From that document it ap peared that the number of medical students who attended classes during the past year was 290, the number of the preceding year being '292. Their general conduct and attention was spoken of in the most favourable terms, and it was stated that several of them who had taken part in other academical competitions had gained a fair share of distinction. At the first examination for the degree of M.B. in the University of London, gold medals were awarded to Mr. Thomas Littleton for proficiency in anatomy and phy siology; to Mr. Thomas Armstrong Cammack for che mistry, and to Mr. Joseph Burgon for Materia Medics; and both the gold medals annually conferred on success ful competitors by the Society of Apothecaries were gained by students of this college, namely, the medal for botany by Mr. James Morris, and that for Materia Medics. by Mr. Thos. Park. The report further stated the retirement of Dr. Taylor from the professorship of clinical medicine; the appoint • ment of two assistant physicians and one additional as sistant surgeon to the hospital from the alumni of the college; and the extension of the accommodation afforded in the hospital by the erection of a new wing to the building. The report concluded by a reference to the success of Mr. Benjamin Hobson, M. 8., as a religious and medical missionary in China, and his efforts to establish a college at Ilong-Kong for the instruction of Chinese pupils in medicine and the physical sciences. The following is a list of the prizes awarded, and the names of the successful competitors: — CLASS OF MEDICINE. Gold medal and Ist certificate—Thos. Park of Lincoln. Ist silver medal and 2d certificate—H. Briggs, llalifax. 2d silver En( dal and 3d certificate—J. Bailey of London. CLASS OF ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY. Gold medal and Ist certificate—James Morris, London. Ist silver medal and 2d certificate—Archibald P. Childs, of Bungay. 2d silver medal and 3d certificate—Daniel Badcock, of Sheffield. CLASS or CHYMISTRY. Gold medal and Ist certificate—Nathaniel Clement Wood, of Norfolk. Ist silver medal and 2d certificate—George Hewitt Bailey, of London. 2d silver medal and 3d certificate—W. M. G. Hewett, of Swindon. _ _ Essay Prizes.-Ist silver medal—Joseph Lister, o Upton. 2d silver medals (equal)—J. Russell Reynolds, of Halstead, and William Payne, of Ilorselydown. CLASS OF ANATOMY. Junior Class.-Ist silver medal and Ist certificate —J. W. Saunders, of Aylsham, 2d silver medal and 2d certificate—W. M. G. Hewett. Senior Class.—Gold medal and Ist certificate—Wil liam Bayldon, of Royston. Ist silver medal and 2d certificate—James Morris. 2d silver medal and 3d certificate—C. D. R. Symons, of Devonport. CLASS OF COMPARATIVE ANATOMY. Gold medal and Ist certificate—Bhola.noth Bose, of Calcutta. CLASS OF MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS. Gold medal and Ist certificate—James Rigby, of Hull. Ist silver medal and 2d certificate—William Squire. 2d silver medal and 3d certificate—Thomas Limbery, of Appledore, Devon. CLASS OF MIDWIFERY. Gold medal and Ist certificate—Francis Cornelius Webb, of East Stonehouse, Devon. Ist silver medal and 2,1 certificate—William Bayldon. 2d silver medal and 3d certificate —Henry Briggs. CLASS OF SURGERY. Gold medal and Ist certificate—Thomas Park. Ist silver medal and 2d certificate—Francis C. Webb. 2d silver medal and 3d certificate—C. D. R. Symons. CLASS OF DENTAL SURGERY. Silver medal and Ist certificate—William Bayldon. SUMMER TERM, 1846. CLASS OF BOTANY. Gold Medal and Ist certificate—Bholanoth Bose. Silver medal and 2d certificate—W. D. Wilkes, of Sa lisbury. CLASS OF MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE. Prise and Ist certificate—Thomas Park. CLASS OF PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY. Gold medal and Ist sertificate—W. 11. Ransom, of Cromer. FELLOWES CLINICAL MEDAL.—G old medal—W. 11, Ransom. PRIZE OF 40/. FOR GENERAL PROFICIENCY.—W. H Ransom. Lord BROUGHAM, when the distribution of prizes had been effected, rose and said, that it gave him sincere pleasure to witness the proceedings of that day, over which he had had the honour of presiding ; and no small portion of that pleasure arose from witnessing the great and just affection shown towards the professors by their numerous pupils.—(Cheers.) It was also to him a very great satisfaction to observe the continued prosperity of that great medical school, great as compared with any other in this country, and he would say, having seen some of the greatest on the continent, and among them the celebrated school at Montpellier, equal to any that he knew of abroad.—(Cheers.) It gave him the greatest satisfaction to observe the truly catholic spirit evidenced so remarkably among them that day. He did not mean Roman Catholic, because he was as strenuous a Protest ant as any man in this country, though he felt great toleration for his erring Roman Catholic brethren. — (Laughter.) Not only had members of every religious denomination won honours, as, for instance, the son of his friend Mr. Childs of Bungay ; not only were there among the list members of the Society of Friends, a body who had very successfully cultivated chymical science ; not only had members of the Church reaped honours, but there were some there who were not in the fellow ship of Protestant or Roman Catholic of sect, or creed, and who belonged to no Christian community at all. — (Cheers.) He meant our brethren in the east, to whom no less than eight different medals and honours had that day been awarded.--(Cheers.) Nothing could to him be more satisfactory than this evidence of the complete success of this fundamental principle, that we ought to communicate instruction, to impart learning, to bestow the inestimable blessings of a refined education in letters, arts, and sciences, on persons of all denominations. whe ther Jew or Gentile, Churchman, or Dissenter, whether they were Christians or those who yet wandered in outer darkness.—(Cheers.) He was the more anxious to state this as the corner-stone on which their struc ture rested, because he was living at a time which he thought till lately was the 19th century and not the mid dle ages. He had, however, recently heard things stated which made him doubt whether they were living in the year 1847. He would not give any opinion on the controversy which had recently spread over the country and reached the town. He would not say whether his old and excellent friends, Mr. Baines and Dr. Hamilton, were right, or Lord Lansdowne, who was one of his oldest friends, but he had seen such things mooted by certain sects, one trying to exclude or include the other —(Laughter)—that, as he had mentioned in another place, he was obliged to look one day into the Almanack to see whether he really was living in 1847, for he thought ttluievrri snneg dtdiffusionh in oe u h r otet e hf bewN was living te s oshawernl Aeol ;aue?: among inne: gnd lck, te 7 L h. froml up(ge whichLh 0 hoped to p eu therefore eoti laughter.) It f l uo i l a r s ci t e u e c t ke nh h da mat ters % n a t • i t a i - ae s e e more complete and effectual common education, and that the same progress would be made in the inferior branches as was now made in the higher and more exalted branches of learning.—(Cheers.) At the conclusion of his Lordship's address the meet ing closed. Sir William Pym had an interview yesterday with Sir George Grey at the Hume Office, OVER LAND MAIL 1 N D 1 A. (From the _Herald.) We have received by extraordinary express, in anti cipation of the Overland Mail, our files of papers from Bombay, April 1; Calcutta, March 23; Delhi, March 22. No later dates from China. We subjoin ex- tracts : (From the Bombay Times of April 1.) SUMMARY.—The only news worth noticing that has reached us from the Punjaub is corrective of the errors into which our north-western and eastern brethren had fallen in reference to the state of Seikh affairs in general, and the conduct of the Resident in particular. No at tempt on the life of Tej Singh seems to have been in tended to have been made. The Hazareh people have never resisted the government of Ghoolab Singh; they took up arms, on the other hand, against the Seikhs of the plains, and had all but vanquished them when rein forcements were sent from Lahore a twelvemonth since, just before the transfer of the country to Jamoo. Mr. P. Vans Agnew and Lieutenant Lumsden had been sent to make peace, not to maintain war—to use arguments, not force. Ghoolab Singh does not seem a worse or more unpopular ruler than the bulk of the chiefs around him. Since our connexion with him began we have had no fault whatever to find with him. He has at our suggestion cleared his dungeons of state prisoners, restored lands un justly escheated, and abolished suttee and female in fanticide. No attempt to prevent the Durbar meeting on Sunday had been made, or to restrain the movements of the Queen-Mother or her son. No commemoration of any of our victories had occurred in the Seikh capital. Everything throughout the country was tranquil; trade and cultivation were everywhere advancing as the public confidence increased ; and a stern system of in quiry into the state of the finances of the country had been entered on with a view to retrenchment. In Sinde the hot weather advances apace, but the country con tinues healthy and tranquil. A good deal of marauding had occurred just beyond the frontier, where the robbers had on one occasion the worst of it ; having been taken by surprise by their intended victims, from five to six hundred were left dead or severely wounded on the field. Two hundred and fifty horses formed portion of the spoil. The remainder of them are hemmed in by Jacob's Irregular Horse, and will, it is supposed, bo starved into submission. It is now admitted by the Government official, that the Indus —formerly proclaimed open to the trade of all nations—will not admit of the navigation of vessels drawing so much as three feet of water. Shifting sand-banks, violent eddies, and rapid currents, make the progress of these tardy and perilous! So severe continues the pressure in the money market that discounts have been raised by the banks to from eleven to twelve per cent. About three millions sterling have been raised by the Five per Cent. Loan, which will, it is understood, be kept open for at least twelve months to come. Our expenditure for the past seven years has exceeded our income by above a million and a quarter annually; at this moment the sum just named is yearly absorbed by Sinde. From four to five millions are at present understood to be required by Government. To meet this we have the revenues of the lately-acquired Seikh states, half a million sterling—the saving by the reduction of our armies, about 300,0001. — increased duty on opium, 100,0001.—and the indemnity promised by the Seikh Government during our occu pation of the Punjaub, 220,000/.; to which we must add a saving of about 120,000/. from the improve ment of the customs produced by the suppression of smuggling on our new frontier; this will give a grand total of 1,240,0001., leaving a deficit to be pro vided for by future retrenchments of 210,0001. a year. The death of Akbar Khan, of Caubul, has been confirmed. It was at first stated that he had died of delirium tremens; it is now asserted that he has been poisoned at the instigation of his father, Post Ma homed! The Governor-General and Commander-in- Chief have by this time reached Simla. The disturb ances in the Goomsoor districts, and disorders in the Nizam's dominions, continue as formerly. With these exceptions, India in general continues tranquil. The Criminal Session in the Supreme Court of Bombay terminated on Tuesday last ; it occupied eight days, and was the heaviest, both as to the number of prisoners and nature of the crimes, ever known in Bombay. The Parsee, who so cruelly murdered a Hindoo lad for the sake of his ornaments a couple of months since, has been ordered for execution on Saturday next. The seaman Cole, after having been tried by a navy court martial at Bushire for the murder of an Arab, and found guilty of manslaughter only, was indicted the second time for murder on Monday last, but owing to au omis sion in the indictment the trial was quashed by Sir E. Perry, and the man set at liberty. Ile bpd been in con finement nearly eighteen months. The case of Lieu tenant E. Bowles, of the 23d Bombay Native Infantry, who was tried for an aggravated assault on a native policeman in the execution of his duty, and sentenced to three months' imprisonment in the common gaol, and to pay a fine of 501., has given rise to a considerable amount of discussion—the sentence of the Court being universally condemned as unnecessarily severe. The ship Mars, bound for Dundee, was totally destroyed by fire in the Calcutta river on the 19th ult. Within the past month nearly 6,5001. have been subscribed in the Bombay presidency for the relief of the destitute Scotch and Irish; 2,400/. were sent home by last mail, and that of to-day takes 3,000/. more. Sir J. Jejeebhoy has given a second donation of 5001. The Calcutta sub scription, opened about the same time, amounts to 5,000/, 4,0001. of which have been transmitted home. At Madras the amount subscribed has reached the sum of nearly 2,000/. By May 1, it is probable not less than 20,000/. will have been sent home from India. The Mussoorie Asylum for the reception of the children of European soldiers, which owes its existence to the Resi dent at Lahore, has met with the most cordial counte nance and support from the Court of Directors. Its founder has contributed to it 1,000/. as an original sub scription, and gives 2001. a year as a donation—a princely sum for a Major of Bengal artillery. The steamer Queen, with the London mails of the 24th February arrived yesterday afternoon; she has been eleven days, on her passage from Aden. The Victoria with intelligence to the Bth March, is expected this day week. MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. Casualties by death in the armies of India reported since the departure of the mail of 15th March : Her Majesty's Troops Ensign Smith, 95th Foot, at Ceylon ; Lieutenant Chapman, 84th Foot, drowned on pas sage to England. Bombay—Major J. St. C. Jameson, 18th N. 1., at Bombay on the 23d March. Madras— Lieut.-Col. C. F. Smith, Ist Native Veteran Battalion, at Madras, on the 9th March; Lieut. W. C. Law, 21st N. 1., at Malacca, on the 3d Feb. Bengal—Major-Gen. J. Alexander, commanding the Be nares Division, at Benares, on the 11th March ; Col. A. Spelrs, resident at the Court of Nagpore, at Janina, on his way to Bombay, on the 18th March ; Lieut. D. M. Shand, 54th N. 1., at Lahore, on the 7th March. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EIVENING, MAY 5, 1847. effect notwithstanding the continued high rates of frei g ht to England, and prices are high. On Saturday, the 20th, there was a Government sale at the Custom-house of 500 bales of cotton, the growth of the Southern Mahratta country and cleaned by American Saw-Gins,—part of a lot, going home by order of the Court of Directors, which was sold here at the recommendation of the Chamber of Commerce in order more immediately to ascertain its value—and the prices brought ran from rs. 107 to rs. 124 to 125 per Surat candy of 7841 b.—one parcel of 42 bales from the Khandeish Col lectorate having brought as much as rs. 132 per candy. These prices, having in view the present high rates of ship freight, must be considered very encouraging to Govern ment and the native growers. Ordinary market prices are as follow : Broach and Jumbooseer, New, rs. 96 to 98 per candy ; ditto, old, 72 to 80 ; Surat, new. 98 ; ditto, old, 73 to 80 ; Dhollera, new, 86 to 88; ditto, old, 72 to 74; Oumrawutty, new, 88 to 89; ditto, old, 70; Compta, old , 68. offee—Nothing doing. Opium—No alteration since our last. Freights—These are again firm at 7/. per ton to Liverpool. Since our last as much as 7/. ss. has been paid, but this very extreme rate has not been sustained; au engagement or two having been made on the arrival of two or three vessels at once at 6/. 17s. 6d. To London, engagements have been made at 6/. 10s. to 6/. 15s. To China, rs. 23 to rs. 24 per candy continues the rate. MONEY-MARKET. The Money-market is becoming exceedingly tight, and ac cordingly there is a slight decline in the late nominal values of public funds. This tendency is yet on the increase. We quote as follows :-5 per cent. Loan of 1825-26, Rs. 103 per 100 Sic Rs.; 4 ditto of 1832-33, Rs. 92 per ditto; 4 ditto of 1835- 36, Rs. 87 Co.'s Rs. per 100 ; 5 ditto of 1841-42, Rs. 99 per ditto; 5 ditto of 1842-1843, Rs. 87 ditto; 5 ditto of Transfer Loan, no quotation. Bank of Bombay, Rs. 35 to 36 per cent. pm. Oriental Bank, 21 Rs. ditto. Agra Bank, 50 Rs. exclusive of the bonus divisible on June 30th, 1847, of 40 is. per share. Divi dend for the half-year ended Dec. 31st, 1846, to 12 per cent. Commercial, 4 to 4 1 / 2 pm. Exchange—The rate of six months' bills on England is down to 2s. o%d. to 2s. 0 3 i d., at both of which rates trans • actions have had effect. The fact of the Government an nouncement of their intention to make large advances on India produce this season consigned to Englandi has not vet been well ascertained. It Ivould seem to have caused a decline in the rate of exchange already. Price of Bullion—Sovereigns, each 11 rs. 1 anna; Bank of England notes, per ea , b, 10 rs. 8 annas. THE CALCUTTA MARKETS. (From the Bengal Hurkarre of March 20.) Our budget of commercial intelligence is of rather more than usual interest. The news brought by the last mail from home of an increased demand for rice, and the in tention of Government to permit and encourage the use of sugar in brewing and distilling, caused considerable activity in the market for those very staples, which was checked only by the very scanty supply of tonnage and consequently high rates of freight. The Government has announced its intention to extend its advances on the hy pothecation of goods from 800,0001. to 1,255,0001., during the current official year and the next, with an additional sum of 600,0001. for the supply of the ensuing year, as far as its requirements are at present known. The advances are, until further orders, to be made as before at 2s. per rupee. Exchange has still, however, had an upward tendency, and may be quoted at 2s. lid. to 2s. l id. The money market has again become exceedingly tight, and the banks have raised their rates of interest on private bills to 12 per cent., the legal maximum, and on Govern ment acceptances to 8 per cent. per annum. This state of things has, of course, a depressing effect on company's paper of all kinds; and even the paper of the New Five per Cent. Loan is to be bad in the bazaar at a discount of about 1 per cent. Freights are still rising, and there being little likelihood of a large or early accession to the amount of available ton nage, will probably yet go up. As much as 81. lOs to 81. 15s. have been given for sugar and rice to England. CAPT. WARNER'S LONG RANGE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sift,—Finding that much comment is made on an alleged admission of mine, that the recent experiment to exhibit the powers of Captain Warner's long range was a failure, I beg leave to enclose you the copy of a letter I wrote to Lord John Russell, shortly after that experi ment, which will show that my deliberate opinion is of a very different character, This will perhaps be sufficient for me to say, until an opportunity is afforded me of delivering my opinion in Parliament. Your obedient servant, INGESTRE. May 4, 1847. " Curraghmore, Carrick-on-Suir, Dec. 12, 1846. "iffy Lord,—l am in receipt, by post this morning, through Lord Anglesey, of the report of the officers appointed to examine into Captain Warner's inventions, and avail myself of the permission given me to offer a few remarks upon it. "In the first place I am bound to say that the course adopted by the Government in this matter has been open and straightforward, and every reasonable facility for arriving at a proper decision has been afforded. " Not having the journal by me kept by the committee, I can offer no observations upon it; but there can be no doubt that it is a correct history of facts as they occurred. "As regards the conclusion arrived at by the committee, that the trial proved a failure, I must say I cannot concur. It is perfectly true that Captain Warner had the choice of the place of operation, and that a certain direction was pointed out as the one mo st desirable, as affordin g the fur thest scope; but that he ever p retended he could send the missile in that direction , unles s the wind p roved favourable, 1 must entirely deny. " The secrecy necessary to be o bserved, the vast amount of personal labour, the imme n s e wei g hts to be moved, the lateness of the season for continued out-of-doors operations, all concurred in making the task one of considerable diffi culty, which was not diminished by having little more than two points of the compass in which the desired range of five miles could be obtained. None of these difficulties would occur in real service, where you would operate from a steamer, and choose your time and your position, and, more over, would have all the necessary ingredients always at command, instead of having, as in this case, to erect a large and heavy battery, from which to make the necessary gas. " In the late experiment the day was nearly a calm—once or twice in the course of it pilots had been sent up, and indi cated that the current of air was in the desired direction Captain Warner had the day before received a communi cation from the committee, urging him to go on with the experiment, or to move everything (an obvious impossi bility) to some other place, where be would have a scope with all winds. This made him most anxious to operate, and he summoned the committee, and said that if a pilot, which he would send up immediately before the main machine, went in a proper direction with sufficient range, he should start the machine, and asked if ho could not get the entire range, if that would be considered sufficient. It is capable of proof that the pilot was so started ; that the wind proved to be north-west instead of north, as was wished ; that Captain Warner, at the time, asked what range there was in that direction ; was answere d t h a t there were four miles, and accordingly let the machine go, having first arranged the fuse for that distance. terribleeten ded power to d o o f . " I regret very mu c h t h at the Comm i ttee did not stay to y, "Seeing, in N g i : a t r h n e e n r , etvheerpr satisfy themselves th a t t h e number of she ll s — n amely, 30 of 101 b. weight each—h a d b een sent, and that t h e y had been sent at time proper int erva l s in a direct l i ne , w hich was all Ca t h ese missiles, I would humbly suggest to yo ur Lordship thatp ro of be called for of the facts I have alluded to, that Capt. Warner s h ou ld be directed to show that he can send these mac hi ne s one after anoth er in a steady uniform li ne , and that lie can move one of con siderable size about i n any direction, so as to ens ure having p a favourable wind, and that he hold it over the place to be attacked, till it has dischargedcan. its missiles, and also that he can measure the force of the wind, and set his fusees cor rectly, so as to drop the shells at the right moment. All this can be done without further expense, and almost at any place that might be sel ected, and with very l i tt l e l os s of time. Without trespassing further upon your Lordship' s time, I may add that Captain Warner would, I am sure, readily give the required proofs or attend any summons you might wish to make, it a personal interview is thought expedient, and that I shall return to Ingostre by the end of this month, where I shall be most ready to attend to any directions you may think proper to give me. Your most obedient humble servant, INGESTRE. P.S.—I have sent this to Captain Warner, for transmission, and that be may subjoin any comments of his own. The Lord John Russell, & c ., Downing-street. DECIMAL COINAGE. -- . TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Pertnit me, through your pages, and in answer to many communications with which 1 have been favoured, to state the outlines of the plan which I submitted to the House of Commons for the introduction of a decimal system 40i currency and account. It was my object to interfere as little as possible with the names or values of the existing coinage, and to show that, by dividing the pound sterling into 1,000 farthings, and issuing two silver coins, one representing the 1-10th of the pound sterling-100 farthings—the other the 1-100th-10 farthings—a pei ;bet gold and silver de cimal coinage would be ready at our hands. The only alteration of value would be to the extent of four per cent. in the copper coinage, by making the farthing the 1-I,oootb, instead of (as now) the 1-960th part of the pound sterling. As the new coin, which I propose to call a Queen, is about to be issued, representing 25.-24d.-1-10th of the pound sterling, the only additional coin required is the 1-10th of the 25.-2 4-10 d.—to complete the decimal currency, which will stand as follows : In Present value. Farthings. account. Gold Sovereign £1 0 0 representing 1,000 1,000 Half ditto 0 10 0 Silver ChLolsfvtinitt.o... 0 0 0 6 Copper. The Queen,new 0 2 0 Shilling... 0 1 0 Sixpence.. 00 6 •• • ... • • • .. • • . • • • • Victoria,n. 0 0 2 4-10 ... Half ditto 00 0% ... 500 500 250 250 125 125 100 100 50 050 25 025 10 010 4 004 2 002 PePnennlylYwou..l.d poroboablyl la e hereafter superseded by a Farthing•. 00 0 t/4 ... coin of five -farthings• atheneum, May 3, (queen will lay the foundation 1 001 undation of a sound _...1 am, Sir,.. your obedient 3,1847. JOHN BOWRING. ------------. a t o e f in t . he decimal h n lea issue s S s 'i v se meetingesmenof this town, con and on the best means of of bankers, A trad vened by Mr. T. C. Salt, was held in the committee-room to the Town Hall, on Friday last, W. Scholefield, Esq ,in the chair, for the purpose of " advising on the present derange ment averting the calamities which have invariably been the mel‘rcih°aNnEts,T AmßaTnufaSetYriSreTrEsi'le:n—d con sequence of such a state o Messrs. D. Le3sain, S. A. God d ard, J. Marlow, G. Edmonds, E. Blyth, A. Middleton, Captain Hopkins, R.N., G. V. Blunt, J. Webster, F. Matrett, E. Taunton, T. C. Salt, F. of our monetary system,c Blyth, E. M. Martin, W. Barris, T. Barker, 11. Knight, and several other gentlemen,. _The meeting was addressed by the Chairman, Messrs. T. C. Salt, S. A. Goddard, and J. Harlow ; and resolutions were passed c on d emn i ng th e pre sent m onetary system , and advocating th e necess i t y o f for a society to be called ' the Birmingham Currency Re form Association. " A committee was then appointed, and the meeting w as dissolved Birmingham Gazette. Among the many discoveries that characterise the prese nt age, nothing has contributed so much to the comfort and case of the community, nor conferred such a boon upon suffering humanity, as that important discovery and never failing remedy f or gout and rheumatism, Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills. Thousands would join in the observation of an elderly female, as made to Mr. Fogget, the agent at Thirst:—" that she would rather be without butter to her bread and sugar to her tea, than Blair's Pills." This im portant medicine is sold by all medicine venders. Price 2s. 93. per box. Observe the name of " Thomas Prom, 229, on 0 Strand, London," HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Mademoiselle Jenny Lind made her debiit here last even ing, and has surpassed—far surpassed—the highest expecta tions that could have been formed of her powers. As early as four o'clock, persons began to assemble around the pit and gallery doors of the theatre. At five o'clock the passage through the Opera Arcade was completely blocked up by the crowd (among whom were several ladies) assembled around the pit door. Minute by minute that crowd con tinued to increase, until half-past seven o'clock, when the doors were opened. The crush was terrific, and those who had waited for hours, thought themselves fortunate if they could secure standing room within sight and hearing of the stage. Her Majesty, accompanied by his Royal High ness Prince Albert, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and their respective suites, entered the Royal box before the commencement of the over ture, and when Mr. Balfe entered the orchestra, there was not a place is the house from which it was possible to get a glimpse of the stage unoccupied. The opera was an Italian version of the chef-cl'cruvre of Meyerbeer, Robert le Diable, or, as it has been Italianised, Roberto Il Diavalo, with the following cast : Alice Mademoiselle Jenny Lind. Isabella Madame Castellan. Robert --Signor Fraschini. Bertram Herr Staudigl. Rambaldo Signor Gardoni. Sacerdote Signor Bouche. The overture was magnificently given, as was the opening chorus of cavaliers, one of the finest compositions in the opera. Rambaldo then enters, and the reception of Gardoni was most flattering. It was not until after this period that the audience recognised Staudigl, who of course had been on the stage from the commencement of the opera, but the instant his clear rich bass tones were heard, the applause was enthusiastic. Then came the beautiful air, "Regnava un tempo in Normandie," which was most tastefully given by Gardoni, and which would, doubtless, have been honoured by an encore but for the impatience of the audience to hasten forward the great event of the evening—the debut of Jenny Lind. At the conclusion of this air, Jenny Lind, undoubtedly the prima donna of the world entered. She was re ceived with shouts of applause, and with waving of handkerchiefs, that lasted several minutes. Of her personal appearance the recently published portraits, which are to be seen in every print-shop window, convey as good an idea as portraits can convey, of the personal appear ance of any living being; but there is an intellectual beauty in her animated countenance, a mobility of feature, and a beauty of expression about the eye, which set the limner's art at defiance, and to which words cannot do adequate justice. So highly had Jenny Lind's musical powers been praised, that we went almost prepared to be disappointed. We ex pected to find her a second Sontag from the descriptions we had read, but we certainly were not prepared to find, as we did find, the beautiful tones of a Sontag, united to the powers of a Grisi, the compass of a Malibran, the more than flexibility of a Persiani, and the correctness of intonation of the most perfect of musical instruments. It is impossible by language to convey any idea of what the voice of Jenny Lind really is, because it is so surpassingly beautiful—so superior to any other voice, uniting, as it does, the perfection of all voices, that there is no standard to which it can be compared. It is, in fact, itself the standard, as being the nearest approach to perfection of any voice ever heard, and hence the difficulty, nay, the absolute impossibility of doing justice by description to the powers of Jenny Lind. Truly has she been called the nightingale, for she possesses in the utmost perfection the " jug " note of the bird, and also that marvellous power of throwing, as it were, the warble into distance—now dying away, and now swelling again, even as an organ does—a power possessed by no other human voice that we have ever heard. She first brought this marvellous power into play in her scena d in trata " Vanne desse al figlio mio," and the audience were hushed into admiring silence—they seemed almost afraid to breathe ; and at the conclusion there was one loud burst of enthusiastic applause. This possession of this marvellous power was still more distinctly manifested in the second act, in the far-famed Quand Je quittais La Nornsarsdie, the Quando lasicar la Normandia of the Italian version. Never has this, perhaps, the c,spo d'opera, been so exquisitely given. Those who have not heard Jenny Lind sing this air can form no idea of what it really is. The beautiful nightingale-like richness and clearness of her tones the immense power and compass, and the marvellous flexibility of her voice—the lavishness and exquisite taste of her fioriture—the perfect purity of her intonation are such, that it is impossible by words to convey the remotest idea of the reality. In her manner of reading the prayer to the virgin, with which this air concludes, there is some thing indescribably beautiful. It is as though a nightin gale were endowed with the power of warbling in articulate syllables. Jenny Lind is far and away the greatest singer who has ever yet appeared, and loudly as fame has spoken in her praise, fame has in this instance been guilty of no exag geration. We wonder not at the enthusiasm she has ex cited, wherever she has appeared. She was called for at the conclusion of the first act, and also at the conclusion of the opera. It is a works of supererogation to praise the Bertram of Staudigl. It is one of those performances which have be come classical, and which are ranked with the Coriolanas of Kemble, and the Sir Giles of Edmund Kean. Madame Cas tellan was in excellent voice, and sang and acted Isabella exquisitely. Never has the far-famed " Oh, Robert ! oh toi que J'aimie," (Roberto o to the adorn of the Italian version), been more correctly, more feelingly, or more beautifully given. Henceforth that aria (at least in this country) is Madame Castellan's. Fraschini was the best Robert we have seen in England. His fine,:powerful, and rich chest tenor is excellently suited to the part, and he acted it admirably. The dining song in the first act has never been better given. Gardoei's Rambaldo is beau tiful. We have already alluded to his scena d'intrata in which he was much applauded. His duet with Staudigl in the second act was also exquisitely given, in fact, Gardoni has made the character of Rambaldo. The cho ruses were splendidly given, and the manner in which the music of this, perhaps the finest opera in the world, was given by the orchestra, was a perfect triumph for Balfe. The opera has been put upon the stage in the moat perfect manner possible. The scenery, by Marshall, is superb. The effect of the resurrection of the nuns was quite novel, and was admirably managed. The mysterious and gradual appearance during the incantation was quite dioramic. Carolina Rosati was the principal nun, and if anything could excuse Robert's sacrilege, it would be the fascinations of such a tempter. A divertissement, embracing the talents of Cerito and St. Leon, and Lucile Grahn, concluded the evening's enter tainments. The Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert were present. They were accompanied by her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent and his Serene Highness the Duke of Leiningen. The Royal suite included the Countess of Desert, Lady Augusta Bruce, Hon. Miss Kerr, Hon. Miss Cavendish, Lord Waterpark, Hon. Colonel Phipps, and Col. Bouverie ; her Majesty the Queen Dowager, acc ompanied by his Serene Highness Pr ince Edward of Saxe Weimar, and attended by the Earl and Countess Howe, Viscount and Viscountess Barrington, Hon. Miss Wheatley, and Captain Somerset ; and her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cam bridge, attended by the Ladies Augusta and Honoria Cadogan, and Baron Knesebeck, were also present. Amongst the general company were the Prince Louis Napoleon, the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort and Lady Blanche Somerset, the Duke and Duchess of Montrose, the Duke and Duchess of Cleveland, the Dec de Melfort, Marquiss and Marchioness of Ailesbury, Marquis and Marchioness of Douro, his Ex cellency the Baron de Brunnow, the Baroness Brunnow and Sidlle. Olga de Lechner, his Excellency the Hanoverian Minister, Marquis of Huntley, Marquis of Conyngham, Marquis of Donegal, Earl Cadogan, Earl of Strathmore, Earl and Countess of Wilton, Earl of Warwick, Earl of Arundel and Surrey, Countess of Jersey and Lady Clemen tine Villiers, Earl of Munster, Earl of Chesterfield, Earl of Falmouth, Countess of Blessington, the Misses Power, Earl of Cardigan, Earl and Countess Granville, Countess Dowager of Essex and Miss Johnson, Earl of Belfast, Countess of Dalhousie, Earl and Countess of Powis, Countess Grey, Viscount Cantalupe, Viscount and Viscountess Maidstone, Viscountess Falkland, Viscount Canterbury, Viscount Ra nelagh, Viscount Castlereagh, Viscount Clifden, Lord and Lady Willoughby de Eresby, Lord and Lady Macdonald, Lord and Lady Ernest ' Bruce, Lord Alexander Gordon Lennox, Lord and Lady Seymour, Lord Brougham, Lord Brooke, Lord Gardner, Lord Sandys, Lord ,Saltoun, Lord A. Fitzclarence, Lady Glentworth, Baron and Baroness Roths child, Baron and Baroness Lionel Rothschild, Baron Re hausen, Baron Nicolai, Baron Koller, Count d'Orsay, Count de Berke, Count de Courcy, Count de Blacas, Hon. G. L. Smythe, Hon. R. Curzon, Hon. W. Willoughby, Hon. J. Mac donald, Hon. Mrs. Dyce Sombre, Hon. R. Lawley, Hon. Mr. Dillon, Sir R. and Lady Peel, Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Sir George Talbot, Lady Palmer and Miss Palmer, Sir Loftus and Lady Otway, Sir Alexander and Lady Wood ford and Miss Woodibrd, Sir Fitzroy and Lady Kelly, Sir Charles Lemon, Lady Colbourn, Sir Wm. Fremantle, Sir Henry Webb, Sir H. Willoughby. Sir Andrew Barnard, Sir George Wombwell, Sir Bellingham and ,Lady Graham and Miss Graham, Lady Slade, Sir Henry Ihd Lady and Miss Meux, Lady Douglas, General Upton, Colonel Tynte, Colonel Merrick, Mrs. Colonel Powell, Colonel Bowers, Major Butler, Major Baring, Major Colgreave, Captain Reynolds, Captain Greville, Captain Smith, Captain Laing Messon, M. C. De Koudriaffsky, Mr. and Mrs. Hodgson, Mr. and Mrs. Hubert de Burgh, Mr. and Mrs. Trelawny and Miss Trelawny, Mrs. Cunningham, Mr. C Packe, M.P., Mrs. Packeißeading, Mr. Leader, M.P., Mrs. Grote, Mr. Barry Baldwin, M.P., 151 r. G. Delafield, Mr. W. Delafield, " Mr. J. Hankey, Mr. Hucksley, Mr. W. Williams, Mr. Montagu Gore, Mrs. Capel, Mr. and Mrs. G. Phillips, Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler, Miss Gyles, Miss Gee, Mr. Clarke, Mr. 11. Villebois, Mrs. Matheson, Mr. H. Barclay, Mr. Amory, Mr. Howard, Mr. Holford, Mrs. Perry, Mr. B. Lindo, Mr. Roberts, &c. (From the Times.) We have had frequent experiences of the excitement ap pertaining to " first nights,' but we may safely say, and our opinion will be backed by several hundreds of her Majesty's subjects, that we never witnessed such a scene of enthusiasm as that displayed last night on the occasion of Mademoiselle Jenny Lind's dealt as Alice in an Italian version of Robert le Diable. The uproar which followed her entrance is some. thing to be remembered, not described. The whole crowded mass displayed a power of lungs truly astounding, and hats and handkerchiefs waved from all parts. It was not like the encouragement given to a debutante, but the welcome given to an established favourite—a declaration of an existing sympathy. For a moment Mademoiselle Lind was a little overcome by her immense reception, but it was for a moment only, and as a singer and an actress she had perfect posses sion of all her powers throughout the evening. If the ex pectations were great, we must say that they were more than realised. People came prepared to admire, but they admired beyond the extent of their preparation. The de licious quality of the organ—the rich gushing notes were something entirely new and fresh. The auditors did not know what to make of it. They had heard singers over and over again, but here, that wondrous thing, a new sensation was actually created. The conversations in the box-lobbies were all indicative of the highest gratification and the highest wonder, were all variations in the o neo theme of " Did you ever heir such a thing in your life of our readers who were not in the house may fancy we are rhapsodizin,. but all that were there, and had an oppor tunity of joining in general conversation, know that what we pure unexaggerated fact. The sustained are statini is a notes, s welling with full richness, and fading down to the softest piano, without losing ono iota of their quality, being delicious when loud, delicious when whispered, dwelled in the public ear, and reposed in the public heart. The shake mezzo voce with which she concluded the pretty air " Quand jo quittai ma Normandie" was perfectly wonderful for its rapidit ith y the and equa t lityh usia . T sic s ic a ir was rapturously encored w mos ent Waving of hats and bandkerdliefa. Lyea 614 way iu which she uttered the first two or three notes of her Romanza "Va dit-elle" so completely took thelaudience by surprise that they interrupted her progress, and forced her to stop by their impetuous applause. While Mademoiselle Lind raised her audience to enthusiasm by the exquisite nature of her organ, and by her per fect execution, the impression she made on them as an actress was no less profound. There is no conventionality about her, no seizing the strong points of a character and letting all the rest drop. She acts thoroughly, and whether she is singing or is confined to by-play, her histrionic exertions are the same. Hence a perfect naturalness, and an infinite variety of gesture. All seems dictated by the moment, and yet all is graceful. There is no stereotyped form for love, anger, or what not ; but all has the impress of immediate inspiration. As striking points we may mention the clinging to the c ross, when attacked by Bertram, and the expression of rapture just before the final descent of the curtain, when she feels that she has saved Robert from perdition. We just set down these points almost at random, and would not have our readers imagine that they jut out like pyramids from a desert. Her whole conception of Alice is a fine histrionic study, of which every feature is equallj , good. On the fall of the cur tain the burst of applause showed that the expectations of the audience had been more than realised. Three distinct times was Mademoiselle Lind called upon the stage, and it was a certain hearty " one cheer more" sort of feeling, which we have never seen so strongly manifested. (From the Morning Herald.) No sooner was Jenny seen than a hurricane of welcome sounded through the house, lasting for so long a period that the fair object of it was well nigh overcome with its violent and enduring heartiness. It was a considerable time before she recovered her self possession and was enabled to pro ceed with her part. Without having the ghost of a preten sion to beauty, there is a charm encircling her to which few could be indifferent. Her fair hair, her blue eyes, and her slight figure, are facts to be jotted down ; but the intelli gence and child-like goodnature which overrule everything else are less tangible, and it would be hard to define the sensibility, the benevolence, and the innumerable little graces reflective of feminine worth and guilelessness which play over her visage, producing an effect ineffably special, amiable, and engaging. When Miss Bremer, in the novel which first made Jenny Lind's name known to the English public, de scribed her as " captivating," it is clear she was not wrong ; and the estimate of Andersen, the Danish poet, who pro. nounces her " pure-hearted, pious, and kind—a noble woman and a faithful friend"—the sympathies at once justify, though no one can tell wherefore. Notwithstanding the amount of large and unfair expectation in which the public had indulged—a perilous expectation to face—disappointment did not follow; on the contrary vast was the delight. Her voice, a true soprano, is rich, full, and mellifluous— clear, distinct, and voluptuously bell-like—while there is a charming evenness of texture throughout. It extends to D in alt, a point she reaches without loss of power or tone. Her capacity to execute volant passages seems to be similar to that of Sontag, every note being accurately and separately articu lated with the nicety and finish of an instrument ; but, unlike Sontag, her merits do not stop here, for these me chanical arts are entirely , subordinate to the poetical ex pression, and the hearer is not so much surprised as in tensely gratified. That she is an excellent musician there are proofs in her taste, her modes of phrasing, her exquisite sostenuto, and her rare judiciousness. The first air was therefore a triumph in the consideration of the audience, who were moved to admiration as much by the delicate earnestness of the delivery as by the pure and un affected style of singing; and its consummate cer tainty. Her execution of the pretty pastoral, " Quand je quittai Normandie " was inexpressibly naive and win ning, disclosing the specific qualities we have noted still more perfectly, and meeting with an encore to each sepa rate verse. In the unaccompanied trio, " Ses yeux sent bst tact, hirooen u lastgbhet t were wsche o eee f nrne t hpeet withhr f h eo i g n nßp h r io e s abnn t eccr v ie stp a l a u n e B b e u r t t r h a e m r t r h a n e d typical ff r t basses," the justness of h er intonation, and her artistical principles g :t c id d w an it d h e e x v t il ra — ord w in h a icn wcoaslliin ry triumph and eclat. Altogether the first hearing of J enny Lind has been satisfactory in the extreme, a n d we don n e t now wonder at the criticism of Mendelssohn, who Mil s with generous emphasis, that he has nowhere " met with such a genuine and true artist—nowhere found natural capacity, study, and deep sensibility, so perfectly united ; and that, although here or there one of these qualities may have appeared much more prominent, he believes the combi nation of all these to such a degree has never yet oc curred." In common, therefore, with others, we can but congratulate her upon achieving such a complete success here, in the teeth of expectation the most enormous and the most exigent. The enthusiasm of the audience knew no bounds. They called her three times before the curtain, and s h owe red flowers upon her in abundance , w hile handkerchiefs were waved in all parts of the house with unmitigable zeal. And Jenny received all these honours with the modest grace that so well becomes her. (From the CAronicle.) Of the Swedish Nightingale there can be but one opinion. She is a most delightful artiste. She is careful and con scientious. We did not find any novelty in her cadenza grace, or groupetti indicative of an inventive faculty; but what she did was charming. Her talent has been carefully trained, and, with a voice not remarkably sympathetic in the chest tones, she has, by industry, acquired great facility in the management of her upper register. Her shakes are well prepared, articulated, and terminated. The few notes above the line up to B natural are brilliant, and by far the best part of her vocal organ. In acting she identifies herself with her part and is remarkably intelligent, but in the lofty passion of lyrical portraiture, musical impulse, and purl method of Italian vocalization she must only be considered as inferior to her It ailian rivals. We are convinced that she never can be dignified or heroic enough to sustain Norma, Semira mide, &c., or passionately impressive to be a Donna Anna or a Desdemona. In timbre of voice, beauty of method, genius in pathetic delivery of cantabile, she does not approach Al boni, nor in mastery of all the graces, and refinements so richly cast in the mould of nature, and perfected by the traditionary art instruction of a great master, Tacchis nardi, to his gifted daughter, Persiani. Still, Jenny Lind is a talent of the highest order. We cannot point out its speciality, but there is a freshness and an exquisite naturalness about her with which one is pleased and de lighted. Pasta was sublime, and by a single note electrified an audience. Grisi, like in the finale to Norma, reproaching the faithless Polito, thrills an audience. Malibran bewil dered her public with her exuberance in musical fancies, and ravished the audience by the intensity of her dramatic deli. neation. Sontag surpassed all these singers in facility of execution, and equalled all of them in purity of intonation, taste, and truthful reading of characters suited to her voice. Alboni imparts to the simplest melodic forms an irresistible charm, that at once attests the possession of a superior faculty and beauty of voice. Persiani leaves all her predecessors and contemporaries in the shade in distinctness of articulation and phrasing of the most fascinating, novel, tasteful oroupetti. Jenny Lind has not one of these special excellencies of the above eminent singers, and as a dramatic vocalist must rank below them; but with Lind one is delighted if not asto nished, charmed if not ecstasied. Her Alice is engaging but not overwhelming. Hear her in the upper octave and her notes are pure, limpid, and resonant ; below, husky, veiled, and ineffective. Her shake is perfect, in the pianissimo it is deliciohs, her chomatic scale is admirably articulated. We do not effect to render an account of encores, callings for ward, showers of bouquets, &c., for we have seen these honours conferred on artistes whose claims by the side of Lind are contemptible. What she obtained she merited, and that is the highest compliment we can pay her. (From the Post.) Never did any theatrical event within our memory create such a sensation, both without and within the walls of a theatre, as the &Nit last night of Mdlle. Jenny Lind. But the most important fact is, that never was expectation so gloriously realised, Surrounded by the highest aristocracy of the land sat the whole o f the Ro y al Family, including the two Queens. The reception of Jenny Lind was most enthu siastic, and as the performance proceeded this enthusiasm grew into a perfect furore. Each time she sang, the whole house—pit, stalls, boxes, and gallery—applauded simultane ously, amidst waving of hats and kerchiefs, and such irre pressible laudatory exclamations as baffle all description. Whatever had been anticipated of the vocalist who has filled the journals, and supplied the topic of conversation for many months past, she surpasses all expectation. Whatever had been hoped of the splendour of the cast, that likewise was more than fulfilled. Mdlle. Jenny Lind, as Alice, in that tender and sublime cavatina known as " Va, dit-elle," exceeded, indeed, all that has been said of her; well might an electric burst of applause follow its conclusion. We have never heard a voice equal to hers in sweetness and flexibility ; her ornaments, unlike the stereotyped style of the old artistes, are so fresh and so chaste that they seem to be the spontaneous impression and inspira tion of the moment. Then her faculty of imperceptibly swelling and diminishing her voice is quite unequalled in all modern singers. We would say that in this respect her voice resembled an instrument, were it not for the extreme sensibility and wonderful power of expression displayed in all she accomplished with so much true artistic finish. She is indeed a consummate artiste, com bining all the harmony of the German school with all the purity and taste of the most finished Italian style. Her shake is the most wonderful we ever heard. Each note, as well as each word, is as distinct as a coup de marteau. We must add a few words as regards Mdile. Jenny Lind. Her acting is equal to her singing to the least word she gives importance and intensity ed of ex ispression. Wher4 Bertram asks u h N er u ll if a I sh n e u h li a a s t d,,ethecutdehpth 4: pf wh ie e e r l e i a n b g ou, and ta the answer of truth surpassing anything we ever witnessed. But when she clasps the cross, defies her awful persecutor, and exclaims, " Heaven is with me!" the effect is of a most soul-stirring nature. The encores spun out the performance to so late an hour that we must despair, with our fatigued attention, to do justice to so extra ordinary and exciting a performance as that of last night ; in a word, the termination was, that the chief performers were thrice recalled with the most vehement plaudits we ever heard, and when we left the house the spectators bad been for more than twenty minutes demanding the pre sence of the proprietor of the theatre to thank him for their enjoyment. THE END 01 THE WORLD.—THE NEW PLANET: We give the following from the New York Sun :—" If it be true that this planet, which could not once be clearly seen by ordinary telescopes, can now be seen almost by the naked eye, it certainly is rapidly approaching the earth, and is, therefore, a comet, not a planet. It is said to travel towards the earth at the rate of a million and a half miles in twenty four hours. We believe that this announcement, now goiiig the rounds of the papers is not verified by actual observa tion. It seems to be an idle story, circulated by soipsyr, who might have made it more alarming by addicg—t Philo sophers express apprehensions of its coming in con tact a_ n a a a c i t h w ita it t l: oar earth, and, being a very large boFly, „ We make this suggestion for the benefit of ed s itoß oyes, the our globe, and thus fulfil the predictions o it f the ala Millerites.' SUDDEN DEATHS.—On Sunday was being mother of Mr. Frederick Noyes, the maTig r er . , neared her residence driven home from chapel, when, as she bserved by two ladies of the postal department on the South-Western Railwa y , . residence in the Wandsworth-road, she was. n o a fit . Ir. Statham, who accompanied her to drop as t unfor tunate lady; he directed her spee dyarr ival, On the same day, at who was passing at the momen,wi was removalcalled h t e o m t a h , e andsh expired immediately after her m i n o rnr G eorg u m tn g. eyp a re . 1 aLnizes‘dys, seen keeper o about ni f ne th o e ' to drop suddenly into the ditch by the side of the road. He o'clock k ate m g t a h t e e was picked up by the police in a lifeless state, and conveyed in a cart to the surgery of Mr. Shillito, at Putney, but was pronounced dead on his arrival. Deceased was eighty years of age. LORD ARRUTHNOT.—We have pleasure in stating that, at a e t y a al g H en o e t ra el l h m er e e et o i n ng Th of ur h s i d s Lordship 's Thursday last , a proposal creditors, wa held at sub mitted by Mr. Christopher Kerr, of Dundee, on behalf of the Hon. the Master of Arbuthnot, and other members of the family, offering such arrangements as will afford a reasonable security to the creditors of full payment of all their claims. The proposal was considered highly satisfactory by the meet ing, and is very creditable to his Lordship's family. It is new, we understand, in progress of being carried inte effect. —Aberdeen Herald. LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY.—The Royal Mail steam ship Britannia, Captain Harrison, sailed yesterday for Hali fax and Boston, with a fair complement of passengers, and 150,000 i, in specie. COURT CIRCULAR. His Royal Highness Prince Albert visited the Royal Col lege of Chemistry, of which his Rcyal Highness is Presi dent, yesterday afternoon. 'The Prince arrived at the Labo ratories at three o'clock, and was received by the Vice-Pre sidents and Council. After inspecting the whole of the new Laboratories, which have just been completed, his Royal Highness presided at a meeting of the Council, at which were present—the Mar quis of Northampton, the Earl Fitzwilliam, Earl Dude, Viscount Ebrington, Viscount Newry and Morne, the Right Hon. W. B. Ba r i ng , M r. R . Blakemere M.P., Mr. Philip Pusey, M.P., M r . VV. Ewart, M.P., Dir. B. Bond Cabbell, M.P., Sir J. Clark, Mr. Tite, Dr. Arnott, Dr. Daniell, Dr. Reid, Mr. Leslie, &c. o c n e i t o e n s e s an w tse i i t srp h tead t r h k( e ),f i r Lthi p eeu res LC .o e c n u The Queen and Prince Albert., accompanied by the Prince of Leiningen, honoured th e performance at Her Majesty ' s yesterda ythel f ensa r e nt v : e c n i n oß g n s h T he s Phi p ps,RKoaeinrardl, Colonel Bouverie. Her Majesty the T L suite a t . c v e o Queen Dowager, accom panied by Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, honoured the performance at Her Majesty's Theatre with her presence last evening. Her Majesty was attended by the Viscountess Barrington, Hon. Sophia Wheatley, and Earl Howe. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of tent (attended by Lady Augusta Bruce), and her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge (attended by Lady Augusta C a d ogan, and Baron Knesebeck) , also honoured the performance at her Majez-tv's Theatre with their presence yesterday evening. The Countess of Desart has succeeded the Countess of Charlemont as the Lady in Waiting to the Queen. And Lord Waterpark has succeeded the Earl of Morton as the Lord in Waiting to her Majesty. Their Royal Highnesses the Princess of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took airings yester day in the Royal Gardens. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager visit ed her Royal High ness the Duchess of Kent yesterday at Clarence House, St. James's, and also visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester House. Among the visitors to view the Royal Pictures in the Banquetting-room, St. James's Palace. were the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, the Dowager Countess of Charleville, Earl of Fingall, Lord Sheffield, Lady Lyndhurst, Lady Cottenham, Lord Sondes, the Countess of Arundel, Lady Ormande, Lady Barrington, Marquis of 'Westmeath, Lord Frederick Fitz clarence' Viscountess Glentworth, Lord Colborne, Lord Somers, Sir J. Yarde Buller, Lord Aylmer, Lord J. Stuart, and Lady Charlotte Egerton. A deputation, consisting of the Lord Provost of Glasgow, Mr. Anderson, Mr. Lumsden, Mr. Turner, and Mr. Dennis toun, M.P., had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing street. Count Kielmansegge, the Hanoverian Minister, had an interview with the Earl of Clarendon, yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. _ _ _ The Governor of the Bank of England, and the Deputy- Governor, had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Lord Seymour bad an interview with the Right Hon. E. Strutt yesterday. Mr. Learmouth bad also an interview yes terday.with the Right Hon. Gentleman at the office of the Commissioners of Railways in Great George-street. Lord Sandon, M.P., Sir Howard Douglas, M.P., and a deputation from Liverpool, had at interview with Sir George Grey, yesterday, at the Home-office. Lord Sandon, Sir H. Douglas, and a deputation, had also an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Portuguese and Turkish Ministers transacted business yesterday, at the Foreign-office. Mr. Hudson, M.P., had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday. Mr. Wynn Ellis and a deputation from Leicester had an interview with the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. Major General Sir Harry Smith had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial office. A Deputation of the Commissioners of Sewers for West minster and part of Middlesex had an interview with Vis count Morpeth yesterday at the office of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests in Whitehall-place. The Deputation consisted of Messrs. E. Willoughby, T. S. Donaldson, H. Harrison, and T. L. C._ Hertslet (clerk), and Mr. Wyke Smith, S'olicitor to the Commissioners. A deputation of Yorkshire millowners on the Factories Bill, consisting of Messrs. W. Rand, W. E. Forster, John Fielden, jun., and W. Walker, had an interview with the Earl of Clarendon yesterday at the Board of Trade. Mr. Barkly and Mr. Osborn had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday. Mr. Freshfield had also an interview yesterday with the Right Hon. Gentleman. MAGAZINES—(CONTINUED.) TAIT'S MAGAZINE. Upon the Government scheme of education, our tardy friend of the northern metropolis pronounces a decisive and unmistakeable opinion. Tait is altogether averse to the scheme propounded by the council of which Lord Lansdowne is president; he denounces the plan as one unconstitutionally commenced, frivolously advocated,. and preposterously developed. He looks upon one part of the arrangement as affording an irresistible loophole for jobbing and imposition, another as precluding those who really want State assistance towards the acquisition of knowledge, and another as rendering those who are already by their position independent of Government uid, the peculiar favourites of the executive and the recipients of its superfluous bounty. Such in effect is the point of view in which the Ministerial proposal is regarded by Tait. Now, although we by no means regard the scheme explained by Lord John Russell as in any striking manner approximating to perfection, we would remind all those who would league themselves among the antagonists of the present Administration that we should feel rejoiced that the State has at length acknowledged the necessity for any interference whatever. Let but the people get their wants in this particular acknowledged, and the improvements of the plans by which those wants are to become satisfied will follow in due succession. Sir Thomas Dick Lauder has taken a hint from a contributor to the Dublin University Magazine, and has herein commenced a series of delightful pap. rs—discursive and facetious — upon the rivers of Scotland. The half inspired, half deranged opium-eator, Thomas de Quince•, has another eccentric article, called " The Nautico-Military Nun of Spain." William Thom has an earliest poem, in which be chaunts one noble verse about the ripening corn : We saw it wave in stately ranks Our gowden fields aroun ; Each stem a styrdy warrior To bat/ie./amine doun." There is the average variety of miscellaneous fragments of metre and criticism. -- ----= - -=---_ STEAM NAVIGATION OF THE II UMBER.—TiIe recent additions to the number of steam-vessels and the celebrity which the builders of Hull have attained in their building, has induced us to lay before our readers the total number employed in the navigation of the Humber. There are at present upwards of 74, which may be divided into three classes, viz., foreign traders, coasters, and those en gaged in the river and towing trades. Of the first-mentioned class there are 15, most of them tine sea vessels and fast sailers, with a registered tonnage of 4,730 tons, and the crews of which number about 280 men. Seven of this class are built of iron, and five of them are propelled by the Archi medean screw. Out of the number of foreign trading steamers only eight are British, the remaining seven sailing under a foreign flag. The second class, or coasters, number about 20, two of which are built of iron. Most of these vessels are of a large class, and possess first-rate aCCOIIIIIIO - ion and superior sailing capabilities. We may mention this as being particularly the case with those engaged in the Hull and London and the Hull and Leith trades, which, in point of speed, are not inferior to any boats on the coast. Of the last class there are about 38, chiefly employed in con veying goods and passengers, and in towing on the Humber and its tributary streams.—Hull Advertiser. ST. JAMES ' S ASSEMBLY Rooms.—This fashionable resort, which was once exclusively reserved for the gay aristocracy, is now opened as a place of entertainment, and certainly every visitor will be astonished with the grandeur of the establishment, and the excellence of the entertainment. The Female American Serenaders are a great attraction, and sing the principal airs—which have been rendered so popular by the Ethiopian Serenaders—with much humour, just feeling, and good taste. The " Railroad Overture" was excellently well executed, and elicited hearty applause. In deed, many of their songs called forth an enthusiastic encore. There are few establishments where those who have a little leisure time can enjoy more agreeable recreation and amuse ment. To those who have not before visited the place, the splendour and elegance with which it is fitted up, will amply repay their trouble. There is a day performance by the serenaders, a table d'hote in the afternoon, and a ball after the evening concert , in the magnificent room up stairs. The refreshments and wines are of the choicest kind, served by attendants whose obliging and polite attention is sure to give s atisfaction. So long as the establishment is conducted in the same orderlystyle as atpresent, it is sure to be patronised. A COOL PROCEEDING. —An actor named Flemming, of the theatre of Wurtzburg, in Bavaria, lately met in the street M. Usterwagen, editor of the Wurtzburg Gazette, and complained of some bitter criticisms which the newspaper had made on him. M. Usterwagen replied in a railing tone, which so irritated the actor that he struck him. The editor, in the calmest possible manner, drew a pistol from his pocket and fired it at the actor. Fortunately the ball passed by isithout touching him. M. Usterwagen then went into a restaurant, and calmly ordered breakfast, but the police came in and arrested him. HUMANITY It EWARDED.—We are happy to find that Mr. Thompson, the stationer, of Southampton, who lost a cargo of fruit in consequence of an act of humanity on the part of the captain of his vessel, in saving a shipwrecked crew, has received the. sum of 2001. from the Government, which has been awarded to him because his loss arose from the act of saving human life.—Hampshire Guardian. The final balance-sheet of the Newcastle meetitng of the Royal Agricultural Society of England t wa e s p e re w sen ed at a recent meeting of the council, showing, on h N of 7:13 meeting account, an excess of payments over rece i p ts 7 Newcastle Journal. NATIONAL GALLERY. —A slight rearrangement of the pictures has t a ken place, but it is merely a change of pos ition of some , which are now better seen. a none the ad ad of March, 18 45, a t a meeting of thewas re from the executors of her late Royal Highness the Princess Sophia Matilda, forwarding the copy of a codicil to her will, in which she bequeathed a picture by Salvator Rosa, to be placed in the National Gallery. The offer was accepted, perhaps from respect to the rank of the testator; but on examination it was found to be of so inferior a quality, that it has never been hung, and remains in an apartment be neath. On the same day a picture by Francis Wouters, of "Nymphs and Satyrs," was offered as a gift by Mr. M. Forster. The trustees having viewed it agreed that it should be received. That it h as not yet been hung in the gallery is said to have arisen from an opinion subsequently forme, that its exposure would offend the delicacy of many visitors. The newly purchased Raffaelle will not adorn the 'collection until a suitable case, with plate glass, is ready to enclose it— such as those which protect the Corregios and some other valuable works.— The Art- Union Monthly Journal. EXPECTED ARRIVAL OF GENERAL SIR JOSEPH THACKNVELL.—One of the most distinguished officers who contributed to the victories of last year in India is expected to arrive at Southampton, by the Oriental, on the 21st inst. We refer to Sir Joseph Thackwell, K.C.8., K.H. Sir Joseph was one of the heroes of Waterloo, where be lost his arm. He arrived in Calcutta in 1837, and commanded, during his service in the East, including the campaign! in Affghanistan, Gvralior, and the Sutlej, nearly every regiment of cavalry of the Bengal army, very many regiments of infantry, and a great portion of artillery. The Calcutta Englishman, in speaking of Sir Joseph, says—" We may safely say he is one of the most popalar generals who ever served in India. Able and judicious in the field, cool and collected under the hottest fire, kind and hospitable in quarters, and at all times and under all circumstances a perfect gentlemen. He did g ood service at Sobraon, a cavalry exploit never surpassed by any recorded in history, which, notwithstanding his un just exclusion from the list of honours conferred for the ' Waterloo of India,' will hand down his name "-- as ir one of the noblest and worst requited of Engli s h soldiera.Banarsho Advertiser. TILE BOMBAY MARKET. (From the Chamber of Commerce Overland Price Current.) BOMBAY, Arita. I.—The import market manifests con tinued and increasing dulness. The scarcity of money generally felt has checked business, and there seems to be very little inquiry for transmission to the interior, while local wants would appear to have been satisfied by the purchases made in February last and in the early part of March. The offers for nearly every description of goods are consequence, huelonwczr are they a a n c t t u h ally w r e e r f e us l i a n t g e 1 y, to a s n h d ow m t a h ny parties, eirstocks in hand. Metals—Any sales in these during the past fortniglu would be within the range of our quotations; but we are only informed of a sale of 200 boxes of tin plates at 15 1 4 rs. per box, and have only heard of a sale of some British bar at 31 1 / 2 rs. per candy. Sales altogether must have been to a very small amount, partaking of the general dulness. cotton Manufactures—The absence of demand in the Bazaar, and the approaching termination of our business season, make dealers reluctant to increase their stocks, and there now seems almost no inquiry from without. The sales of the fortnight, therefore, are limited in amount, and show a general decline in prices. Grey Jacconets and Madapollams of low quality, upon which a slight advance was obtained in the early part of the month, have again receded in price, and indeed, with the exception of Domestics, particularly 40 inch widths, which are still saleable from the presence of a few Persian buyers in the market, there is scarcely an article in either staple of fancy goods that can be sold so as to remit the present manufacturing costs. The Marwarries are stir buying nothing, and in their absence we can only expect very limited inquiry for lappets, mulla, book muslins, kc. Indeed for the present such fabrics are almost unsaleable. Turkey red goods also are in a depressed state, the regular demand having been lately more than sufficiently supplied. Woollens —Nothing reported, and it is believed nothing doing in these. The Bazaar is well supplied. Cotton Yarns—ln these we are only advised of the follow ing sales :—Mule Twist, No. 20, 7,5001b5. at 6%; No. 20, 14,0001b5. at 6'4 ; No. 50, 15,0001b5. at 10 ; N 0.50, 12,9001b5. at 9 3 / 4 annas per lb. Water Twist, No. 30, B,ooolbs. at 8,1 4 ; No. 20, 10,2001b5. at 7 1 4, ; No. 30, B,ooolbs. at 8%; No. 30, 10,5001b5. at 8 1 / 2 ; No. 20-26, 64,0001b5. at 7 3 / 4 annas per lb. Other sales in these, if there have been any, would be within the range of our quotations. A sale of orange, Nos. 40 and 50, the bundles being of full weight and sold as 3,0001b5., is reported at 1 1 / 2 rs. per lb. Beer—llave nothing to report, none of the new having yet arrived. Spirits—A sale of 15 lihda brandy, at 3 1 / 2 rs. per gallon, is reported to us; but the inquiry for this article continues to be very limited, and only trilling sales can consequently be effected. Some gin in cask is said to have been sold as low as 1 1 / 2 re. per gallon. Marine Stores—Without changs as respects prices, and generally in very limited demand. Saffron —A sale of 441b5., rs. 17 per lb.,' is reported, and that is the market price of good quality at present. There is still a considerable quantity of inferior at market. Cochineal —The remainder of the parcel that arrived early in the month has been disposed of at rs. 4 3 / 4 per lb., and the market is again quite bare of the article. Cotton—Transactio ns in this staple are daily having be el- Let by cite ,be nst %de )Cdr and )ra ,uld ()rt. 'ide. L or 3 of the lic3, irty r. J.