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HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. LAST NIGHT BUT TWO BEFORE EASTER. THIS EVr:NING, SAT UR DA Y. March 20, wil: be performed Bellinis Opera, LA SONNAmBULA, Madarn. e Castellan ; Lisa, Madam , -olari; Count Rodoifo, gig. F. Lsblache ; Aletsio, Sig. Giubilei ; Elvin°, Sic. Gardon . Betw , en the acts of the Opra, a I nyLrt!sement from the Ballet of CORA f, LA, in which will ne Introduced the adinirttl Pas de iss Nosiere, by tldlie Mare To conclude with a new Ballet, In Two Tableaux. by M. ra.u.l Tag- Roil, the music by Signor Pugni, entliled THEA ; OU, LA FEE AUX FLEETS. Principal characters by Mdße. C. Rosati, 31d11c. 31aric Tab M. "Paul Taglionl, &c. The (loon &pen at hialf-past Seven. The Opera to commence at Eight o'clock. , ROYAL. ITA.LI iPERA, COVENT G-kIiDEN . . Established :or the purposc of rendering a more perfect performance of the Lyric D-ama thin has hitherto been attained in this country. Linder the Direct on and Management ot Mr. BEALE. are respectfully in- The Nobilty Gentry, and Pat:- us of tiu , ic, tbrmed that he Royal Italian Opera will open the fir-t week in April. It is proposed to produce, in the course of the eason, some of the established works ,ilCimarwa. Mozart, Rossin., Meyerneer, and others of the more modern Italian School, including Operas by Rental, Dotu aetti, Mercadante, and Verdi, on a scale of the utrno•t perfect 7 on every department ; to which Intent the mana ement has assemb ed a Compan em b rac ing the greatest and most v aried a'ent in Europe. PRIMI y SOPRANI. --Madame Grisi and Madams Persiani (her Cyst appearance in London for three ) , ears), Madame Roncoul and Mdlle. Stettanoni (of the Theatre La Scala, in Milan, her first ap• pearanee in this country). CONTRALTI. —Signora Alboni (of the Theatre La Scala, Milan, and of the Imperial Theatre in Vienna, her that appearance in this Country), and Mademoiselle Corbarl. TENORL—Sign r Mario, Signor Salvator Lavia (of the Imperial theatre of St. Petersburgh, his first appearance in this country), Signer Tull' (ot the Theatre San Carlo, in Naples, his first appear ance in this country), and signor Salvl (o 1 the Theatre La Scala, In Milan, and of the Imperial Theatres In Vienna and St. Petersburgh, kia first appearance on the Italian stage in England). PRIMI BASSI B-A.RITONI—Signor Tambarini and Signor Giorgio Ecinconi. PRIMI BAS'q PIIOFONDI—Signor Marini (Of the Theatres San Carlo, -Naples, La Scala, Milan, and the Imperial Theatre, Vienna, ale first appearance in this country), Signor Angelo Alba (of the theatre Royal, Madrid, his first appearance in this country), and Signor Polonini (of the Imperial Theatre, Vienna, kis first appear ance in this country.) PRIMI BASSI COMIC! —Signor Pietro Ley (of the Theatre Royal Madrid, he first appearance in this country), end Signor Agostino Rovere (of the Theatres Royal, Naples, Milan, Vienna, and fit. t'e tersburgh, his first appearance in this country). Seconde Donne—Madame Antoinette Mullidori (of the Theatre La Scala, in Milan), Mademoiselle Amalie Linarl, Mademoiselle Luigina Bellinl. ..... Seconde Tenore—Signor Emmanuele Slano (of the Theatre San Carlo in Naples). Director of the Music, Composer, and Conductor—Mr. Costa. A powerful and numerous CHORUS of chosen and experienced Singers will complete the Vocal Department. Chorus Master — Signor Bonconsiglio. Prompter--Signor Monterasi. The ORCHESTRA, formed of Artistes possessing the highest executive powers, will comprise among its members Eighty distin guished professors. The Military Band of the Coldstream Guards wild bo under the direction of Mr. Godfrey. An ORGAN, of extensive compass, has been expressly erected In the theatre by Messrs. Flight and Son. Organist—Mr. V. Novello. The B tLLET, of a brilliant and costly charact , r, will close the performance of the evening, and no Divertissement will be suffered between the acts of the Opera. The Director has the pleasure to announce that he has concluded an engagement with Mademoiselle Fanny Elssler ; and, during the season, the following etn , hent Danseuses will appear: —Premieres Danseuse—Mademoiselle Duroi latre (et the Grand Opera, Paris), and Mademoiselle Plunkett (ot the Grand Opera, Paris), Mademoiselle Bertin (of the Imperial Theatre, Vienna, ner first appearance in this country), Mademoiselle Neodot (of the Theatre Royal, Madrid), Mademoiselle Marietta Baderna (of the Theatre La s:cal/I, Milan), and Mademoiselle Fuoco (of the Academie Royale de Pari , ). Monsieur Petipa (of the Grand Opera, Paris), Monsieur Gontie (of the Theatre Royal, Madrid), Monsieur Ferdinando Croce, Monsieur Delterier (of the Grand Opera, Paris), and Monveur Auguste Mabille (of the Grand Opera, Paris). Maitres des Ballets—Nlonsieur Albert (of the Grand Opera, Paris), and Monsieur Itlasis (of the Theatre La Scala, Milan). Leader of the Ballet—Mr. Alfred Mellon. Regisseur de la Dense Mr. O'Bryan. Composer—Signor Alessandro Curmi (of the San Carlo Theatre, Naples). THE THEATRE.—To render the Interior at once commodious, Elegant, and comfortable, it has bees entirely reconstructed and decorated, under the immediate direction and after designs of A. Albano, Esq., C.E., with every attention directed to its proper ventilation. The Decorations have been executed by Mr. Ponsotiby. The Management has happily secured the artistic skill of Signori Ferri and Verardi (of the Theatre Itallen, in Paris), to embellish the ceilimr and to prepare a New Drop Scene. The approaches to the Theatre will be found improved, by a carriage way being formed immediately under the Portico in Bow-street, whereby parties can leave or enter their carriages Without exposure to the weather ; and by increased facilities for ingress end egress. The Refreshment Room will be under the superintendence of Mr. J. G. Watson. Tickets, Stalls, and Boxes, tor the night or season, to lie obt tined at the Box Office, Ilow-street ; and at Messrs. Cramer, Beale, and Co.'s, 201, Regent-street. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY•LANE THIS EVENING Will be performed the new Grand Opera, entitled MATILDA OF IItiNGART. Count Magnus, Mr. I3orrani; Podiebutd, Mr. Harri• son ; Mathias, Mr. Weiss ; Matilda, Miss Rainforth; Lillia, Miss It. Isaacs. To conc'ude with the Ballet-Opera, called THE MAID OF CAiIISIERE. The Unknown, Mr. Rafter; Olifo,r, Mr. Weiss; The Jehop-Dar, Mr. Horncastle ; Leila, Miss Misseut ; Zelta, Miss Isaacs; Zelica, Mdlle. Dubignon; Fatima, ltd le. }tenant. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LINE. MR. PARSONS'S BENEFIT. Mr. PARSONS, Box Book-keeper, respectfully announces to the Nobility, Gentry, and the Public, that his ANNUAL BENEFIT is Ixed for TUESDAY NEXT, s ! arch 23. Private coxes, stalls, tickets, and places to be had of Mr. Parson!, at the Box-ottice. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYM.A.RIZET. U ailer the Management of Mr. it. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING . . Will be performed the Comely of sIIE STOOPS TO CONQUER, Mr. Hardcastle, Mr. W. Farrell; Sir Charles Marlow, Mr. Tilbury ; Young Marlow, Mr. Holl ; Tony Lumpkin, Mr. Buckstone ; Mrs, Hardcastle, Mrs. Glower ; Miss Hardcastle, Miss Julia Bennett ; Dolly, Miss Would,. After which, a new Comic Drama, called TAPE LIGHT TROOPS OF ST. JAMES'S. Master Thomas Slim Phones, Mr. Buckstone ; Maids of Honour to the Queen, Mrs. Clifford, Mrs. Seymour, Mrs. Yarnold, Miss Carre, Miss Telbin, and Mrs. Buckingham ; Jane Roberts, 3liss Reynolds. To conclude with the Original Grand Fairy Extravaganza, ca led THE INVISIBLE PRINCE ; or, the Island of Tranquil D,lights. Principal characters by Mr. James Wand, Miss P.Horton, Mrs. L. S. Buckingham, Miss Reynolds, and Miss Julia Bennett. THEATUE ROYNL, LYCEUM. Under the Management of Mrs. Keeley. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Drama of MARTIN" CIIUZZLEWIT. Young Bailey, Mrs. Keeley; Sairey (lamp, Mr. Keeley ; Peeksnlif, Mr. Matthews ; Tigg, Mr. Wigan ; Chuzzlewit, Mr. Enter) ; Mr. Meadows. To conclude with the splendid new Fairy Ext-avaganza, entitled THE ENCHANTED FOREST; or, Bear, Eag!e, and Dolphin. Principal characters Mrs. Keeler, Miss Pillars, Miss Bromley, ..diss E. Daly, Mrs. Wo. , llidge, Miss Laidlaw, Miss Howard, Mr. Keeley, Mr. Meadows, Mr. Bender, Mr. Kinloch, Mr. Bellingham, and Mr. Wigan. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. nder the direction of %ladame t eleste THIS EVENING Will be performed an original Drama, call e d THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST ; a Tipsy ivory. Cheap John Mr. Wrig.it ; Ishmael, Mr. 0. Smith ; the Kinchin, Mr. P. Redford; Leybourne, Mr. Worrell ; Cy;,thitt, Madame Celeste ; Lemuel, Miss Woolgar ; Starlight lies, Mrs Fitzw , lliam; Lady Agnes, (larding. Afrer wh!ch, the Farce of THE WANDERING MINSTREL. Characters by Messrs. Culienford, kVaye, Wright, Stoker, Mrs. Laws, Miss Taylor, and Mrs. Matthews. Tu conclude with th Fare of SHOCKING EVENTS. In which Mr. Lambert, Mr. Worrell, Mr. Munyard, Miss Harding, and Miss Chaplin will perform. PRINCESVS T'IEATRE, OXFORD -STREET. .1. M. M a ddox. 4,01 e an I Manager. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Opera, entitled THE NIGHT DANCERS. Alher, Mr. Allen ; Giselle, Miss Anne Romer. After which, a Concert by the New Orleans ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS. To conclude with the new Drama, entitled DRE \\IS OF THE HEART. Brienne, Mr. Ryder ; Clermont, Mr Hughes ; Bouteville, Mr. Vinnin4; Montaran, ~ r . Harris Hermitic, Mrs. Stirling ; Baroness, Mrs. Foshruke ; Teresine, Miga MarAhall. FRENCII PLAYS'.—sr. JAMES'S TkLEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John 31itchell. THIS EVENING MONDAY EVENING Will be performed the Com,tdie-Vaudeville of 31 A TIIIL DE ; ou, La Jalousie. 31. Darbert, M. Lafont ; Mathilde, 31dre. Fargueil. Atter which, the Comed e Vaudevil e, entia'd MAKIAGE AL TA.3IBOIIIt. Lambert, 31. Lafont; near des Pols, M. A. Tousez ; Louise d'Obernay, 3ldlle. Fargucil. Boxes, Is., Pit, 3s. 6d. , Static , 35.; Gallery, 2s. Doors opened at half-past Seven, and the pertbrmances commence at Eight. Private BoxeA, Stalls, and Places may be engaged at Mitchell's Library, 33, Bond-street; and at the Box-Ake. ETHIOPIAN' s4T,ItENADERS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. The celebrated ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, Pell, Harrington, White, Stanwood, and (Sermon, will have the honour of repeat ing 'heir Inimitable ENTERTAINMENTS, at the above Theatre, THIS EVENING (Saturday), and every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Doors open at Eight o'clock, and the Entertainment com mence at Halt-past Eight. Their next DAY PERFORMANCE will take place on MONDAY MORNING, March 22. The Performance will commence at haf-past Two o'clock. The Programme will be varied on each occasion. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 29. ; Amphitheatre, 'ls. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Pronri ',tor I.lr. W. Batty. the 'etre/lane of the Queer., Prince Albert. and other Members of the Royal • .tinily'. THIS EVENING I Übe rerti:rrne,i Sir Walter Scott's KENILWORTH ; or, The olden Days of England's Elizabeth. Antire change of the SCESEA of the CIRCLE. The Verformatice of H. Pablo Fanq ue and his hight,-•trained Steed. To conclude with a favourite Afteroece. Box-0.11;e ope.. 'rout eleven tilt w. o'clock.—Doors one t an i c)rr-nettzt at half-past six o'clock.—Stage Manager, M:. W. Broadfoot. ROYAL SU N. it Y T k; E. Lessee, Mrs. Frances Davidge. THIS EVENING Wlll be performed a new Domestic Drama (founded on the Novel of the same name), entitled LILLY DAWSON ; or, A Poor ..irl's Story. Principal charac , ers by ►Messrs. Lewi,, Johnson, Heslop, Saville, Phelps. Fredericks, Web), Neville, Miss Te.rey, Mrs. Vining, and Mrs. Saville. To conclude with the M..lodrami of THE MILLER AND MEN. Characters by Meisrs. Tindell, Johnson, Saville, fiesiop, Hawkins, Phelps, Webb, 3'rs. Saville, and Miss Richardson. flux-office open from eleven till four o'clock. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. boxes, Is., Half-price, 6(1.; Plt. 6(1. Gallery, 3d. Private Boxes, 1/. Is. and 10s. 6d. TEili EVENING Win be performed WOMAN'S LOVE. Clitheroe, Mr. Hicks Wpmley, Mr. Dale ; Hollyhock, Mr. Forman ; Baldwin, Mr. Searle . Kate Wynsley, Misa Vincent ; Lady Adeline, Mrs. Lee ; Pony Pry, Mies Pearce. After which, a variety of SIYGING and DANCING. To emiclude with THE GALLEY SLAVES OF rOULON ; or, The Hidden Treasures of the Cross. Supported by the entire strength of the Company. FAST-DAY.—BILLS of EXCHANGE. We b.r to remind the public that, in virtue of 7 and $ Geo. IV., c. 15, all bills of exchange and promissory notes falling due on the fast-day, Wednesday, the 24t!, inst., will become due and payable on the preceding day, and, in case of non-payment, will be noted and pro tested on such preceding thy, and every such day of fast shall for all other purposes as regards bills of exchange and promissory notes he considered as a Sunday;" and it is nut nec-scary to give notice of dishonour until the day after the fast day. The bankers will not open on Wednesday, the 24th. All the Government offices, the Excise, the Customs, Stamp-office, and Treasury, &c.. Stock Exchange, East I n di a and South. Sea Houses, the St. Katherine, London, West and East India Docks will be closed to business. The P ri st-offic e will open as usual, &c., remain closed. except tho Money-order o ice . will The theatres, British Museum, National Gallery, Mr. O'Connell's health is daily improving a t Hastings. He walks daily on the Esplanade, and lsr. tak ita . carriage exercise. The Earl of Shrewibury visited O'Connell on Monday ; Sir Jas. Murray visited Mr. O'Connell on Tuesday. Mr. O'Connell, on Tuesday, drove to Battle Abbey.—Brighton Gazette. AWICL DEATH OF AN OLD LADT.—Thursday an NEW fip nest was held by Mr. Higgs, the Coroner for the Duchy ~.‘4 0 neuter, at the William the Fourth, Clapham, on the .of Mn. Sarah Platt, aged 72. Onl3it Sunday three Cr; :., 1 - ads, u the dinner was about to be placed on the table, she ..._ ,! suddenly fell on the fire, and was burnt in a very dreadful Z, -. Manner. She lingered in r ( great until torture Sunday last, ' l. • ""ta " oxfirt \tort:tic:4" Aceitivutsd death." - j , ~~ 1 s Second Edition, Revised. Now ready, In Three handsome Bvo. Vo lume! with Portraits, price only 365. bound. f V C : E RE I ( ‘ lr lr s A of I G 4 F P O l(I)G LIt,h'eS‘ECAO.I\E_D'MOIRS o Edited with a Preface :aid Cotes. By the late Lord HOLLAND. 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I Evening .. 30 mtnntas Vt. , 4. 4 A IA • hi a4 4 tj ;left 4.0 : N .: NI,. 7.4 - .441161 . A • • V A • ; .r•MON s MIL 0 .421,. 1••• : ceer, ew. THF SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNINg. MARCH 20, 1847. Monti LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1847. The Lords wet at Five o'clock. Li the course or a conversation which arose out of the presentation of a petition by the Duke of RICH MOND, complaining of the unjust opera ion of the Poor R.-moval Act, Loral PORTMAN entreated the Govern ment to introduce some tne.tsure to amend that Act without delay. The .Marquis of CONYNCHAM complained that his nature had been improperly inserted in the list of the deputat;on of Irish landlords who heel waited upon Lord JOIIN RUSSELL. Ile mentioned the circumstance in order that he might not he supposed guilty of the absurdity of appearing as a member of a deputation in favour of a measure to which he was opposed. Lord MONTEACLE explained, that the Noble Marquis had attended the meeting at which the deputation had been agreed to, but had left the room before the pro ceedings were over, and that his name had been inad vertently handed in ag a member of the deputation. Their Lordships then adjourned. The Commons met at Four o'clock. Mr. BOUVERIE asked for some explanation on the subject of the wholesale objections which some of the railway companies had made to the lists of Members to serve on Committees which had been drawn up by the Committee of Selection. The Great Western Com paoy, he understood, had objected to three hundred Members. Sir J Y. BULLER said that the Committee of Selec tion had communicated to all the principal railway companies a list of the Members appointed to serve on Railway Committees, in order that the parties lute rested might object to any names they found in the list. They had only received answers from the Great Western and the South-Western Companies, and the Great Western had certainly objected to a much greater extent than the South-Western Company. Mr. ELLICE, as one of the members objected to, begged to say he had not the slightest interest in either of the companies, and he thought the Committee of Selection ought not to have entertained the objectionit unless the objectors had stated their reasons in each case. Mr. WiLsoN PATTEN defended the Committee of Se lection. A long conversation followed, in the course of which it was stated that the objection was not to Mr. ELLICE personally, but to the place which he repre sented. After which, the subjecr dropped. In answer to a question from Mr. BORTHWICK, Lord PALMERSTON said that the Government had re ceived no official information of any intention on the part of the French Government to establish hospitals and coal depots at Port Mahon, and that the tendency of such information as they had received induced them to believe that such a report was unfounded. On the order of the day for the House going into Committee on the Pour Relief (Ireland) BA!, Mr. CALLAGHAN. on the part of the gentleman re siding at Mallow, who, it had been stated, had 10,0001, a year and kept hounds, arid had yet refused to sub3erib , to the relief fund, denied the statement that had beer made. He certainly was indignant at the conduct or the Rev. Mr. APCARTHY, and had not sent his subscription to him, but he had employed the people around him, and had given the Rev. Mr. BALDWIN 10/. for the reh, f of the p rof M Mow. Sir IL lieu, had ma le his statement on the authow:, of the H. v, Gentleman whose name he had mentioned lie n.gretted that anything he had said should hay.• anno..-d Mr. COURTENAY, the gentleman to whom 11r. ('ALLAGEIAN had allud,.o. Mr. CALLAGHAN said that the gentleman had not, for the last six months, kept one dog. After a few words from Mr. SHAW, Mr. J. °Vox NELL, and Sir. W. BARRON, the subji ct dropped. After requesting Mr. P. SCRoPE, who had notice of a motion on the paper, not to offer any opposition to the house going into Committee, Lord J. RUSSELL said, I wish to avail myself of this opportunity to state, that 1 have observed with great pleasure and satisfaction the munificent subscriptions that have been raised in the United States of America for the relief of the destitute poor in this country and in Ireland. I think it is not improper in this House for me, a British subject, to state I that I am extremely gratified to find that the United States have not forgotten their common origin; and that, actuated by charitable feelings, they are making great exertions to collect large sums of money for the relief of the existing distress. The House tiien resolved itself into Committee ou the Bill. Oa the first clause being put, POULETT CROPE objected to limiting out-door relief to tho permanantly disabled, and moved as an amendment, the omission of the word " permanently." This amendment was opposed by the Government, and afier some discussion was withdrawn, and the clams , vvas agreed to. On clause 2 being proposed, Mr. SHAW objected to the unlimited power the clause gave to administer relief to the able-bldied poor. Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIEN moved an amendment, vesting the power of giving out-door relief solely in boards of guardians, which amendment was opposed by Sir G. GREY, and ultimately withdrawn. ,fir. SHAW proposed the omission altogether of the clause authorising the giving out-door relief. Lard JoHN RUSSELL baying addressed the House at some length, ;and Mr. SHAW having replied, the CUM mittee divided, their numbers being— For 'he Clause 242 Against it 36 Majority -206 The House than resumed, the CHAIRMAN reported progress. and obtained leave to sit again on Monday to consider the rimamning clauses of the Bill. The Prisons' Bill, and the Custody of Offenders' Bill were read a second time, and ordered to be committed. The other orders having been disposed of, the House adjourned at a Quarter before One o'clock. An absentee-tax is among the most equitable in its motive, but it is among the most unjust in its opera tion and among the must injurious in its consequences. Theoretically it appears to be about the surest means for enforcing that wholesome circulati )n of money which can alone conduce to the national welfare. Practically it would be destructive to all enterprise, subversive of all mutual reliance, and an infringe ment upon all the liberties of the subject. No one can feel more disposed than ourselves to sym pathise with the indignation so temperately ex pressed against the habitual non-residents of Ire land by the Honourable Gentleman the Member for Limerick. To the systematic selfishness of that por- tion of the Irish proprietary is attributable, we are satisfied, the principal amount of the wretchedness by which that unfortunate country has been in cessantly desolated since the Legislative Union at the commencement of the nineteenth century. Drawing from their Irish possessions incomes which amount, according to the estimate of Mr. BMITII O'BRIEN, to the enormous sum of 4,000,0001. sterling; deriving this, let it be moreover remembered, from the toil and sweat of their tenantry, they nevertheless deprive that tenantry of the advantages conse quent upon the local expenditure of their individual rentals, to which advantages they are fully entitled both by the principles of our Constitution and the laws of Nature. The effects of this unnatural and indefensible deprivation are obvious. From the withdrawal of the landlords the fecundity of their estates remains, of course, hut partially developed ; the energies of the agricultural population are al lowed to lie dormant, or to arouse themselves to a feeble and isolated excitement at the pleasure of the neglected peasantry ; all competition is blighted upon its first budding into existence ; the field-labourers receive just sufficient to maintain a precarious balance between poverty and destitution, or are abandoned to the doles of a fluctuating benevolence. Those are the immediate consequences of this atrocious and ruinous system. The ulterior consequences are more enormous. They reduce the nation to a multi tude of paupers, they bring upon the land a periodical famine, they foster discontent, they hold out lures to insubordination, they dwarf the vigour of the island, they deteriorate the general property, they excite the poorer classes to decrease the sureties of our national prosperity by emigration. And let the absentees re member this significant and undeniable fact, that they furnish by their cruel and insane conduct the most rational argument to the irratioual_scheme of a Repeal of the Union. It is they who have sharpened the sword of famine ; it is they who have lit the brand of agitation ; it is they who have imparted its most deadly and deleterious influence to the potato mur rain ; it is they who have stunted the capacities of the empire, by pampering their own indolence and consult ing their own convenience; it is they who have ren dered Ireland a Lazar-house and her inhabitants beggars. Look at Ireland in its present condition ; look at the dearth and disease by which it is ravaged ; look at its people dying by dozens, by scores, by hundreds ; look at its fields unsown, its markets empty, its fisheries almost forsaken, its pea santry penniless, workless, and foodless; look at it as it now is, the pensioner of the State, the receiver of the alms and the broken bits of its neighbours—and see in all that misery, in all that degradation and want, the criminal effects of absenteeism. When Queen MART, better known by an exqui&itely brutal soubriquet, was (13 ing, her clamour was, " Calais ! Calais ! Calais !" When Lord NELSON was chasing the French fleet in the Mediterranean, before his immortal victory at Aboukir, his.cry was, "Frigates! Frigates! Frigates!" Could Ireland give voice to her woe, could Erin again sing her lamentations, her cry would be, , " Absentees ! Absentees ! Absentees !" Regarding the system of nonresidence with such unmitigated abhorrence, we are, nevertheless, opposed to the proposition of the Honourable Member for Limerick, first, because we regard the imposition of an absentee-tax as contrary to the liberties of the individual and as opposed to the interests of the com munity, and, secondly, because the resolution of Mr. SMITH O'BittEsi has been entirely forestalled by the extension of the poor-laws throughout Ireland. From being so perfectly self-evident and from being so fre quently repeated, it has almost grown into a proverb, that the establishment of an effective poor-law is virtually the imposition of an absentee-tax. For it must be remembered that the poor-rates will be levied, nut upon the annual incomes pent in certain localities, but upon the annual incomes derived from certain localities. By this arrangement a per-centage will be drawn fron. the absentee landlords, and consequently the neces sity for a separate taxation upon the rentals squan dered out of the island is altogether removed. Besides this enactment, there is another measure calculated to effect the most salutary changes in Ireland—% e moan, of course, the Bill introduced by Government for the facilitation of the sale of estates. " Amongst other benefits likely to accrue from them"—meaning the last-mentioned measure and the Poor Relief (Ire land) Bill—" I hope," says Mr. LABOUCHERE, " that they will have the effect of obliging proprietors of land in Ireland to contribute their fair share to the expenses of maintaining the poor." Let the con scientious advocates of an absentee-tax tarry there. fore until the operation of those enactments can be properly estimated. The present session will be remarkable in Parlia mentary annals for the extraordinary amount of business, partly achieved and partly initiated, which has been brought under the consideration of the houses of Lords and Comnhons previa*.to the Easter holidays ; and altogether the current session promises to be more fruitful in legislation than any preceding one for many years past. Not only have (he measures introduced into Parliament since its commencement been not few in number. but, in regard to their nature, they have been of the most important character. The expedition with which some of the Bills have already obtained the assent of the Crown is undoubtedly attributable to the severity of the national emergencies which they were designed to mitigate; and the celerity with ! which these have been engrafted on the statute-book augurs satisfactorily for the ultimate success of the others, which are meant to ex ercise a permanent influence upon the socia! condition of Ireland, and to prevent a recurrence of the fearful crisis in which that country is now in volved. Independently, however, of these measures, we have already ample evidence afforded us by °ther. of the extreme activity which has pervaded the dif ferent departments of the State, demonstrative of the earnest desire of their several chiefs to obtain for the Government the honourable distinction of having, in a peculiar degree, promoted the social progress of tht• _ . empire. From the tenor of his address to his consti tuents in assuming the reins of power, it was mani fest that Lord JOHN RUSSELL desired his administra tion should found its claims to the gratitude of pre• sent and future generations by a provident attention to the social and moral wants of the nation. Accord ingly, we perceive already that public health, public education, and the reformation of criminals, are all matters upon which they haVe bestowed great atten tion. Lord MORPEYII has the first rubject under his immediate cognizance, Lord LANSDOWNE the second, and Earl GREY the last. Besides which, we have had gratify in.; and convincing proof, durin g the present week, by his eloquent speech on the Fac- _ . tories Bill, that, to subjecti of a kindred nature to the foregoing, the Premier has faithfully devoted the powers of his mind. To those who consider that " the great mass of the people are only born to work, eat, drink, sleep, and die," the chronicles of Lord J. Rus sELL's Cabinet will be greatly devoid of interest; hereas to those who believe that the duties of the statesman extend to objects of a far more elevate.] chiraeter, they may be consulted delectando pariterque monendo. Whilst the Government are endeavouring their utmost to improve the mental and physical condition of the population other public associations are work ing laudably and effectively in the same direction. We published yesterday a report of the fifth annual meeting of the Early Closing Association, held in Exeter Hall, where the Marquis of WESTMINSTER presided. When we find that important towns like Liverpool, Birmingham, and Manchester, have given in their adhesion to the principles of this benevolent movement, we may be certain that before long both employers and employed throughout the kingdom will become convinced of the advantages of not continuing their daily toil beyond the limits of reason. It is clear that commercial prosperity is quickened by mental energy, which rises or droops with the strength or lassitude of the human frame, and that, therefore, any system which taxes the bodily powers too much is detrimental and vicious. We think the moral benefit would be great, if the thousands who are parents of families, and who are now kept up to a late hour in the shops and warehouses of the metropolis and other leading towns, were allowed to repair to their homes at an early period in the evening. The Association recommend that no purchases should be made after seven o'clock. This is a reasonable suggestion ; we shall rejoice to see it universally adopted. During the past session many of the restrictions by which commerce was fettered and impeded were abrogated, the great principles of free trade received the legislative sanction, and the strongest guarantee was given to the country, that vi ith all convenient speed the remaining shackles should be struck off, that the industry of the nation might flourish with out let or hindrance, and attain the highest degree of vigour and efficiency. A gigantic monopoly was prostrated, never again to embarrass the producers of national wealth by its baneful influence; but, although it wasswept away, many miner enormities, deeply injuri - ous to the mercantile interests still remain, to which •atensive and sweeping measures of reform must be applied. Among the more conspicuous of the still toler.ted grievance. , , the quarantine laws may be enumerated. Thee laws are almost singular in this respect, that no class, not even an individual in the kingdom, save the employer paid for carrying them into execution, is benefited in any the slightest degree, and yet by their operation the free dom of intercourse between nations is materially impaired, the feelings of humanity are outraged, those requiring every comfort and assistance are cut oar from the aid they would otierwise receive, and a heavy and onerous burden is imposed on the trading part of the community, which of course is levied with additions from the people generally. They were originally founded on mstaken views of the law of contagion, which the ligit of science has, in a great degree, dispelled within the last few years. The able and elaborate report of the Commissioners appointed by the Royal Academy of Medicine in France, and the valuable body of evidence on which that report was based—the facts collected extending over a period of several centuries—incontestably establish that the beat means of protection against the ravages of the plague, that fearful scourge, for the prevention of which the quarantine laws ware originally enacted, and have since been continued, are to be found in the increase of ventilation and drainage, the improvement of the habitations, and the promotion of the cleanliness of the million ; the removal of all impurities calcu lated to taint the atmosphere, of decayed animal and vegetable substances ; a sufficient supply of plain and wholesome food ; and generally of everything cal culated to improve the moral and physical condition of the people, and not in the establishment of a cordon sanitaire, intended to prevent the entrance of the dreaded foe. In America and in the East Indies there are neither quarantine establishments or quarantine laws, and yet the plague has never made its appearance in either of these coun tries. With the full knowledge of these facts, then, why is it that the objectionable system is still re tained ?—that an actual cost of 140,0001. sterling is annually incurred for its maintenance, which, ac cording to Nlr. flustE—an excellent authority on such questions—is not a tithe of the expense that the country is put to by the delays and loss thereby im posed on our commerce? "Cessat ratio, cessat lex," a sound maxim ; and it having been ascertained that the reasons for which the law was established no longer exist, the law itself should be immediately abrogated. But there is another peculiarity connected with the code, that renders it impossible to deal with it in the summary and expeditious manner that would be de sirable if Great Britain alone was concerned. If the laws were abrogated without the assent of other na , tions where the erroneous impressions are still re tained, a greater degree of delay and inconvenience might be occasioned than at present exists. It is, there fore, by enlightening these kingdoms,,by negotiations and treaties that the object can alone be attained. The Government has, we believe, been exerting itself most creditably, and the prompt and ready manner in which the motion of Dr. I3owaiNG, Thursday night, for copies of the correspondence on the subject, since the returns granted during the last session, was acceded to, affords. the most satisfactory evidence of their anxiety to render the operation of these laws as little injurious as possible to the country. Dr. BOWRING, too, has entitled himself to the best thanks of the community For the able and temperate manner in which he brought the question before the House, and fur his continued exertions to enlighten the public mind on the subject—exertions which, we doubt not, will eventually be crowned with well-merited success. The Berlin Gazette of the 13th states that the frost and snow, added to the great speculation, had caused the prices of corn to rise, and, that in addition to this, very small quantities had been imported. The Frankfurter journal states, that in the pro vince of Starkenburg the population of four villages, one containing 1,400 inhabitants, has demanded per mission from the Government to emigrate to the United States. This disposition has also been parti cularly perceptible in the Grand Duchy of Hesse- Darmstadt. The Cologne Gazette states, that in the town of Bocholt, in Westphalia, the fourth part of the inhabitants are making preparations to emigrate in the beginning of spring. Madrid papers of the I2th have arrived. A motion was brought forward in the Chamber of Deputies on the 11th for an extension of the am nesty. In opposing the motion, the Minister of the interior said that if an unlimited amnesty were granted it might tend to foment civil war, but that no individual applications had been refused. The :notion was rejected by a majority of 98 to 71. Senor PacnEco has been re-elected !or Cordova. Large quantities of wheat have been imported into Cadiz since the permission to that effect has been ‘ ,-.;iven, and it is said that the stocks of grain in the province of Seville are large. MADRID BoLSA, MAlicti 12.—Three per Cents., 30i ; Five per Cents., 19i- Exchange on London, 374. \V have received the Paris papers of We Inesday. The Journal des Debais, in noticing the refusal of Lord Jour RUSSELL to prohibit the export of corn, makes the following sensible observations on the subject:— "In the countries in which the harvest has been bad, you prohinit the e xportation of grain, and of certa i n d escr i pt i ons et flour, because the populations are agitated, and the emo tion of the population arises from an increase in the price of wheat of 50 per cent. in certain provinces, and of 100 per cent. in others. What think you, then, has passed in the ports of the Baltic, at Dantzic, at Riga, at St. Petersburgh, or in those of the Black Sea, or in those other commercial metropolises bathed by the Atlantic in the United States? Precisely the same thing. This advance of 100 per cent., which afflicts you in certain of your provinces, has been re peated in the ports of Russia. At New York the advance ties been .50 per cent., exactly as in some other parts of Europe. If this increase in the price of corn be a misfor tune in the west of Europe, can it be taken as a matter of indifference by the populations of eastern Europe, or in the regions of the New World? Now, what would be thought it the Governments of those countries, placing themselves at t he same point of vie w as ourselve s , were to interdict the exportation of - ra in, as the Pacha of Salonica, political chi e f of one of ttie regions rich in corn, has just done, in conse quence of a riot ? A violent clamour would be raised in all parts of Europe. We should accuse the Russian Govern ment of barbarity. We should say to the Congress of the r , e i ri t as o hhe E e United States, that history would apply infamous epithets to it. From Washington and St. Petersburg, however, the that they had done nothing but that they had followed the ex ample' h hr id dP e t d a o l n' o e e r i l trouble li i le h r e bseeif been influenced by the same reasons as those by which she was inspired. 'What would Europe have to reply ? To such an answer from Washington and SL Petersburg there could be no reply. The eysrein of exclusive supplies in corn, when examined with sore attention in relation to ethers as well as to oneself, cannot be sustained, and consequently, the prohibition toexport is a bad measure, a grave fault. People must admit this, must persuade themselves of it, and re member it in future. The pretension to receive and to give nothing is contrary to equity, contrary to good sense, con trary to the interest well understood of each state. It may succeed once by chance, but the secret is soon discovered, and when once made public, may be turned against us. As the late Mr. Huskisson said in Parliament, on another sub ject, the trick is found out, the patent has expired, and we must give it up. For merchandise as for corn, which no thing can replace, which nothing can dispense men from con suming, there is not a nation that can flatter itself that it will not have need of others to-morrow. as was seen in when England helped to feed the United States. With respect to grain it is therefore not permitted to any one to isolate himself, but it is especially when one demands the assistance of another that it is dangerous to set the ex ample of shutting oneself up at home. Lord John Russell was right then : the only system that is tine, that is humane, that is useful, that can supply a scarcity, or soften its rigour, is diametrically opposed to that of the national markets being reserved; it is that of one single market for all civilised people, of a market without obstacles on which every one may place his excess of corn, or come to take what he wants. Beyond that there are only false or equivocal notions, specious for 'the observer who does not give himself the trouble to investigate, but disastrous in the opinion Of every one who renders to himself an account of the situation and of the comparat i ve wants o f n ations, and as well as of th e di fficulties which surround different Governments. Thi s thought of ent er i ng i n com munication, without admitting any barri er at any time, with the genera l c orn mark e t o f t h e world, is th at to which, after long de lib era ti on , a great na tian, our near neighbour, has ranged itself, and yet it would have seemed th at she ha:i in her terr i tor i a l organizati on more motives than any other for acting differently. It is impos sible for the sane idea not to obtain, that of which it is worthy—the assent of all nations, which, as much as Great Britain, are proud of their enlightenment, and flatter them selves that they understand their interests." In the saute journal we find the following state ment with regard to the recent riots at Pisa : " We hav e rece i ved l etters f rom It a ly, which en a bl e us t o complete, and in some respects correct, what we said yester day with regard to the event wh i c h t h rew t h e c i ty o f Pi sa into comm ot i on. The Prince w h o was t h e o bj e ct o f a f oo li sh and wicked attempt is nut, as was stated, brother of the Emperor of Austria; he is the Archduke Ferdinand of Este, distantly related to the Emperor, and uncle of the reigning Duke of Modena, and consequently of the Duchess de Bor deaux also. Ile inherited from his mother, the Duchess. Beatrice of Este, some considerable estates, called Agnano, situated at a short distance from Pisa. To visit this property he goes from time to time to Tuscany, and, as the house of Este does not enjoy great popularity in Italy, it had already happened for a brother of the last Duke of Modena to be re ceived during a visit to Pisa in anything but a favourable manner by the inhabitants. The events in Gallicia, in which it was supposed, rightly or wrongly, that the Archduke For- dinand of Este had taken an active part. increased on this occasion the animosit♦ of the people. Crowds assembled i❑ the streets, and, in the miost of the effervescence which pre vailed, one of these individuals, whose presence is inevitable in every tumultous gathering, conceived without doubt the woject of the criminal attempt which we announced yes terday." On this statement the Ministerial journal comments after a fashion which clearly demonstrates that M. GUIZOT is adopting the foreign policy of the restora tion, and that as long as he shall possess power France will be the advanced guard of despotism instead of the leader of civilisation. The Constitutionned has a very ably written, but uncommonly severe, article on the financial state of the country. It attributes all the difficulties under which France is labouring to the incompetence of the Ministry. With regard to the scarcity of corn it says— " What must cause astonishment is that the Government, formerly so lavish of its circulars, now observes the most complete silence. After having held the country in deceitful hopes, when, on the contrary, it was necessary to appeal to its foresight, it now is silent when it is a matter of so great importance to know the real state of things. It is, in fact; in circumstances like the present, when the apprehension of the evil adds to the evil, that it would be useful and advis sable to re-assure the population. It is evident that, how ever terrible may be the present crisis, the public is inclined to exaggerate its consequences. The Government has, there fore, everythiHg to gain by telling the truth to calm the general terror. Yet, at the present period, we have still to learn the precise deficiency of the harvest." There is a reason:for all this. At the time the Government was Bo " lavish of its circulars" the Montpensier marriage was on the carpet, and the Ministry, finding itself in the presence of an adver sary, did not feel it incumbent to tell the whole truth" as to the scarcity, and therefore it deceived the people. Now the marriage is completed, and the next step is to create some excuse for assembling troops on the Spanish frontier, to be used as occasion may require, and the fear of bread riots affords as good an excuse to M. GUIZOT as the fear of yellow fever did to M. DE VILLELE, when he formed his celebrated cordon sanitaire ; therefore it is now for their interest to exaggerate the scarcity, and to make the most of every entente; hence the disappearance of the circulars. On Tuesday the Marquis of NORMANDY gave a grand dinner at the Embassy to all the members of the French Cabinet, and the principal members of the corps diplomatique. Marshal Soult, M. Guizot, Count Duchatel, M. Lacave Laplagne, M. Mallon, M. Cunin Gridaine, and Admiral Mackau were present, es well as the Count d'Appony, and other ambassadors. A good deal of interest was attached co this entertainment, from the fact of its being con sidered the gage de reconciLdion between the English Ambassador and the French Minister of Foreign Affairs. It being one of M. GUIZOT'S reception days, ne was obliged to leave Lord NORMANBY'S party shortly before ten o'clock. COURS AUTHENTIQUE.—PAsts, MAnctt 17.—French Five ;,er Cents., 115 f. 60e., 65c., 70c. ; Three per Cents., 77f. 65c., 70e., 75e. ; Bank of France Shares, 3,2401., 3,2451., 3,250 E, 3.2401., 3,250 f. ; Treasury Bonds, 4 1 4 2 m.; Ohl. of the City, 1,315 E ; Neapolitan ( Rothschild's) Detinitives, 1011. 30c. ; Romans, '.01f.; Belgian Five per Cents. (1840), 101',4f.; Ditto, (1812 . 102 f. ; Spanish Three per Cents., 31N ; Exchange on London—one month, money, 25f. 25c. ; three months, money, 25f. 7 1 / 2 c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Maaen 18. Boulogne and Amiens, 13% —Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette (Constituted), I% —Namur and Liege, 4% -Northern of France, 120 —Orleans and Bordeaux, 6%—Yarns and Lyons, 6%—Sambre and Meuse, 6%. CABINET COUNClL.—Summonses were issued on Thursday, from the Foreign•office, to the Ministers, in attend a Cabinet Council this afternoon, at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. COURT - CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert honoured Drury-lane Thea tre with their presence yesterday evening. The Royal Suite consisted of the Countess Desert, lion. Miss Murray, Earl of Morley, Colonel the Honourable Charles Grey, and Colonel Bouverie. His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yesterday af ternoon at a meeting of the Commissioners for promoting and encouraging the Fine Arts, in the rebuilding the Palace of Westminst The meeting was held in the New Palace. The Prince arrived at halt-past two o'clock attended by his Equerry in Waiting, Colonel Bouverie. The Commissioners present were the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Lincoln, the Earl of Aberdeen, Viscount Morpeth, Viscount Mahon, Lord Ash burton, Lord Colborne, the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, tto. Right Hon. Sir James Graham, Sir Robert H. Inglis, Mr. toger, Mr. Wyse, and Mr. Vivian. Mr. Eastlake, the Secre tatty was in attendance. Mr. Barry, the architect, conducted. the Commissioners through several parts of the building. The meeting broke up at five o'clock. Che Royal Family took their &accustomed walks and rides yesterday in the gardens of Buckingham Palace. Her Majt.sty the Queen Dowager, attended by the Hon. %As Mitchell, took an airing yesterday in a carriage and four. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Fanny Howard, Sir George Couper, and Lord Jam,s Murray, honoured the perfOrmance of the French plays with her presence yesterday evening. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited Bar tholomew's t ospital yesterday. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge visited the Duct:e4s of Gloucester yesterday at Gloucester House. Mr. C. K. Murray had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday, at hisofficial tesidence in Downing-street.. The Lord Presideot of the Council and Viscount Morpeth, attended by Mr. Kay Shuttleworth, received at the Council-office a deputation, consisting of the Rev. Dr. Hook. the Rev. William Sinclair, Rev. \V. A. Wicksteed, William Aldham, Esq., M.P. ; Ben. Galt, Esq., James G. Marshall. Esq., and Hamer ttansfeld, from a mecting held in he Court-house, Leeds, in favour of the minutes of the Committee of Council on Education, of August and De cember, 1846. Mr. George, with a Deputation from the Tower Hamlets of the Willow Trade, had an interview with the Right lion. 'l'. Milner Gibson yesterday, at the offic! of the Board of Traci,. Mr. Campbell had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yasterday, at his offkial residence in Down ing -street. - Mr. Turner had an interview with the Right Hon. E Strutt yesterday. at the offi,:e of the Commissioners of Rail ways in Great George -street. IMPORTANT CONVENTION BE TWEEN RUSSIA. AND THE BANK OF FRANCE. The Moniteur Parisien of Wednesday evening con tains the following article : " An arrangement has been concluded by the Bank of France for the disposal of a portion of the Go vernment stock of which it is proprietor. On the 27th of February last the Emperor of Russia gave, through Count Nesselrode, orders to M. Kisseleff, his Charge d'Affaires in France, to present himself to the Minister for Foreign Affairs (M. Guixot) to inform him that the Russian Government was ready to purchase the French Government stock of which it wished to dispose at the medium price of the day (March 11th instant) to the extent of 50,000,000 f. (2,000,0001. sterling). This sum will be placed in cash at St. Petersburgh, at the disposal of the Bank of France. " The Minister for Foreign Affairs immediately put the Charge d'Affaires of Russia in communication with the Minister of Finance and the Governor of the Bank. " The propositions submitted by the orders of the Emperor have been discussed and accepted, and a con vention to that effect was signed yesterday, the 16th of March, between the Governor of the Bank and the Charge d'Affaires of Russia. This convention has been approved by the Council-General of the Bank of France at its meeting of this In the Passage de l'Opera the funds upon this an nouncement rose rapidly from 77f. 80c. (the closing price of the day) to 791. sc. ALGERIA.—The Moniteur Algirien publishes the following statistic of the European population of the French possessions in Algeria at the end of the last year : The total of the populution in the provinces on the coast h 107,168 souls, of whom 47,274 are French ; 31,528 Spaniards ; 9,440 Anglo-Maltese and English : 8,175 Italians; and 5,386 1 Germans. Of t h e 107,168 co l on i s t s , 40,575 are men. 25 ,089 women, and 41,404 children. Of the 40,675 men, the much greater proportion are in the towns, as not more than be tween 4,000 and 5,000 are employed in cultivating the land. In the army there has been an increase during the year of 14,079 souls, of whom 3,858 were added within the last quarter of the year. Of this proportion of the population, on the coast, 102,816 are under the civil government, and 4,352 under the military auihorities. The total amount of the population in the inner provinces is 18,925; of whom 12,589 are French ; 11,022 are under the civil, and 7,903 under the military government. It comprises 10,872 men; 4,071 women ; and 3,982 children. The same total, therefore, of the European inhabitants of Algeria, at the beginning of the present year, was 125,083, of whom about 12,000 only are employed in agriculture. In the Court of Excise, Thursday, Samuel Edwards, a brewer, of Liinehouse, was convicted in the mitigated pe nalty of Sol, for having in his possession articles for the adul teration and colouring of beer. AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS.—A Bill has been pre pared and brought in by Mr. M. Gibson and Mr. Parker, to i'alte provision for the collection of agricultural statistics in iti, ; latul and Wales. At Enfield Petty Sessions, Thursday, Mr. G. Dun combe, tiamerlv a chemist, at Poplar, but who has latterly been occupying a cottage and barn in Enfield Chase, was con victed for having an illicit distillery on his premises, in which were six large stills. The penalties imposed were 2001. as the landlord of the premises, and 2001. for each of the stills; making a total penalty of 1,4001. From experiments lately made at the Agricultural Institution of St. Germain, it appears that a sheep which in creased in weight a kilogratnino and a half a mouth, increased double that amount in the same space of time, when three grammes of silt (about the tenth of au ounce) were added each day to its food. We do not attach much importance to the ap pearance of the wheat on the ground thus early; b u t we be lieve we may safe].) say , with very few ex ce p t i ons i n this county, it never looked better than this spring, and certainly a finer time for the spring sower never was known.—Bri g h. Oen Gown*. • MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. (From the .0 Ni--ht.) The Cotton market ar Liverpool yesterday was without alteration. The demand was very and prices hail a downward tendency. Sales 3,506 bales —lu Railway Snares there was not much doing. The sale of Railway Shares to-day, by Messrs. Lamond and Co., went ~fr with much more spirit, and shares sold readily at full quotations. The following arc a few of the principal sales : tyreat Western of Bengal C 0 East Indian . . Louvain it la Sambre 1 3 0 Vale of Neath 0 15 0 Eastern Counties, York Extension ... 312 6 Manchester an d Southampton 1 2 6 Leicester & Bedford, Exchange Certificate 0 12 6 Shropahire Union and Canal 1 4 6 Reading, Guildford. and Reigate, ex int 4 17 6 London and York Extension Shrewsbury' and Birmingham (B) 1 8 6 North Staffordshire Taw Vale Extension and Dock .. South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4 Great Northern (London and York Reg.) 2 9 0 As the season for emigration is at hand, we cannot suffi ciently caution the nearly destitute individuals who may leave Ireland more especially against the frightful risk of disease and death which they incur. A party at New York gives the following account of the privation endured upon the voyage out:— " We have been shown a specimen of the food which the Irish immigrants usually bring with them to support lite while crossing the Atlantic. In colour it resembles guano, but in form it presents more the appearance of coarse meal. We were unable to learn the name by which it is known, hut we understand that it is a kind of berry, which is first dried in the sun and then ground up for use. The flavour is quite offensive, and the food, as we understand, is unpalatable in the extreme. About the only article of food besides this, which the immigrants use, is the common sea biscuit. The first article which they call for on reaching our almshouse is the potato, sehich they prefer to the best of meats." Again, as to the disease - engendered on the voyage, we arc told that— " Ihe character of this disease is proving itself to be much more fatal than it has heretofore been considered. One of the visitors of the almshouse, Mr. Thomas Middleton, who had been among some of the recently-arrived paupers, caught this fever a few days ago, and died from its effects on Satur day last. Three of the best physicians in this city at tended him, but they could not master the disease. We are also informed that two Custom-house inspectors, who lately visited the Pontac, have since died from a fever which they contracted while performing their duty as inspectors. There is, indeed, much cause for alarm on this subject. It this disease is to get a foothold in our almshouse and hospitals, we have reason to apprehend the most melancholy consequences." The favourable statement made yesterday at the Bank of England, and the dissipation of further alarm that the Bank of France would be compelled to throw a large amount of stock on the market, have conduced, with the brilliant weather, to create a far better feeling in the City, and there is a probability now of matters going on progressively towards improvement, unless the crops are endangered, or there is any political result to follow the financial alliance between the Emperor Nichols aed Louis Philippe. After recent events in the French Court nothing would surprise us, especially when the debt due to the Bank of England shall have been liquidated. Consols have been 89A, to 89 for Transfer, and 891 to 89 for the Account. The scrip has ranged from 11 4 discount to 1% premium. Exche• quer-bills are Is. to ss. pietnium, and India Bonds have iouched ss. to 7s. premium. The Foreign Securities have been also rather higher Spanish Three per Cents. have risen to 34% %, and Alex teat. Bonds to 219 %. Dutch Two- and-a-Halt per Cents. hay been quoted 58 to 584 For Railway Shares the demand is but slack, althougi holders are not inclined to sell at lower rates. The Freud. lines are all better, but Sambre and Meuse continue flat. BRITISH FUNDS. oNk. CLOSINC O'CLOCK. PR[: ES Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. 89% 89 89 Sew Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anus. ex dly 89% Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5,1860 India Bonds. 1,000/. .. .• •• .. 5 7 Bank Stock for April 14 Commits for Account .. •• •• •• 89 1 414 89 Consuls, Scrip •• •• • 1 4 p .1( 3 dls i..xeliequer Bills. IN& 2d. 1,0001... .. •• •• 3 1 5 pm. 5 p 5001. . •• 3 5 pm. 5 Ditto, Small ...• 3 5 2 p ONE CLOSIN% O'CLOCK. PRICES FOREIGN FUNDS. Mexican Bonds, 1846, b per Cent .. Ditto, for the Account • • • . 21% % Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent. .. • • 38 Russian Bonds 10111, Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto, Three per Cent .. .. .. Ditto, for the Account .. • • 3 4 % Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian, Two-and-a-Half per Cent • • 53 Dutch Two-and-a-Dalt per Cent .. 58 Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates 92 BUSINESS CLOSING PAID. DONE AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES OF RAILWAY SHARES. •• •• ". .tmber., Notting., Boston, and Eastern J unction . .. • • 2% 2; •••• • • • • Birmingham and Oxford Junction 5 .... 13% %%•• • • • • Boston, Stamford, & Birmingham 5 •• • ..... • • Bristol and Exeter .. • . .. 75 .... 77 .... • . Buckinghamshire .. 61. 45..... p.... • • • • C.tledonlan Ditto, Half Shares 2%.... 2 1 4 Eastern Counties . .. 20 19 .. • • Do. I'erpet., 5 per Cent. No. I. 6/. 13s. 4th Ditto, ditto.. .. .. No. 2. Cl. 13s. 4d. %p••• • .• • • — Ditto, York Extension .. 5 4 .... s ij 5 • • East Lancashire .. 17 • • • • • Ditto New .. . • • ••••• • • • • Ditto, ditto Now Scrip • • .. 1 h .... 234 • . East Lincolnshire .. 4 .... 7 ••••.. • • .. Ely and Huntingdon 123{ .... 13 .... •• • ... Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester .. .. 1% •• • • ...... Great Northern (London & York Regd.) .. 2 .... 214 % Do., do (Direct Northern Regd.) 3.4 .... 3% .. Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 27 Great North of England . ..100 ....231 • • Ditto, New .. .. 5 59h 60 , 1i -eat Western 85 ......... . Ditto, Half Shares 50 .... 60% Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 12% .... 17% % Ditto, >•ew 4 .... 7% sa .. • • .... Huddersfield and Manchester .. 16 Ditto, ditto, Extension .. 5 .... .......... Leeds and 8radf0rd......3.5 .... 77% ... • Liyerp.. Manch., & Newc. Junct. .... • • ........ London and Blackwell .. 161. 13s. 4d. •• • • ...... Ditto, Now, No. 2 .. • . 1/. 13s. 4d. ; p.... ••• • •• London, Brighton, and S Coast.. 50 • 54 • .. London and Greenwich .. 12/. 15s. 4d. 8% x d . . 8 Do. Prefer. or Privilege 181. 17s. 2d..... 21 .......... 21 London an North-Western .... 177 179........ 179;. Ditto, Quartere 1) tto ditto, New Shares .. .. 2 .... 13 Ditto, 401. Shares M. &B. • • 40 .. • .......... Ditto, 10/. Shares M. &B. (C) 1 .......... London and South- W estem • 41/. 6s. 10d... 63% 63 Ditto, New .. 22% .... 25% 25 ...... Ditto, Scrip.. .. • • • • .. 5 .... 5 Lynn and Ely .. 20 .... Lynn and Dereham .. • • 15 161. .......... manchester and Leeds .. .. • • 82 .......... Ditto, Thirds (Iteg.).. . • 71. 45.....234 p...... Ditto % (late Iludders.& Sheff.) 23 ...• 26; •• • • ...... Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425..... sw p........ Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .... ily 1 • • midland .. —lOO .. • 116% 110 Ditto, New .. .. 30 .... 34 34 ...... 34 Ditto, New .. • • • .. 2 .... 5 i‘pdiand, Birming. & Gloucest.• • 100 .... 124 Midland Great Western (Irish) .. 20 .... 8 . e weastle and Berwick .. •• 20 .. • . 2934 ...... • • 29: Ditto, New .. . . 5 .... 8 , Newport and Abergavenny .. 4 Northern Counties Union 2% ...... North British .. 25 .. • . 33 x div Ditto, 1 tali Shares .. 12% 10 1 4 . Ditto, Thirds • • .. • • • • 1 •• • • Northern and Eastern .. 50 .... Ditto, Quazter Shares .. 12% .... 14 14 North Sintfor,khire .. • • • • 5 •• • . 8. •••• • • • 8 Preston and Wyre .. • . 25 .... 34 .... • . 34 Ditto, Half Shares (A) .. ••• • .. Ditto. ditto (B) .. • • 1 ,4 ... Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 5 .... 4•74 5 x int Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 3 .... 4% ........ • • 4 1 4. Shropshire Union .. 425..... 44 die.— dis. South Eastern and Doyor •• 33% .... 38 % 38 Do., New (do. 151.) .. No. 4. 33i .... 4y, iy South Wales .. .. 10 .... 7% .. • • .... • • 7 south Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Vale of Neath .. • • • • 2 •• • • Ye N 3 •••• • • • • 3 York and Newcastle .... 35% ........ • • 35 1 ,, Ditto, New.. .. 10 15%%.. 15!, Ditto, Preference .. .. 4 .... 8% 8. York and North Midland .. 50 .... 84 85 .. •84 Ditto, Extension .• .. 20 .... 36 Ditto. Preference • . 2 .... 11% ... • 11 , Do. E. and W. Riding Exten... 10 21 j n FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens .• .. 18 ... 14 ........ • . 14 t. Nainur and Liege .. • • .. 10 4 • • 4 Northern of France .. .• • • 8 131 A 1 ,9 . • Orleans and Bourdeaux 6 bye.......... Paris and Lyons .. .. • • .. 8 .... 6•34 X • • 6 Sambre and Meuse .. • . .. 12 .... 35 •..... •• • 6N JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Australasia 40 ...... 22 Colonial • • .. .. • • • • •. 25 .. 15% .... . . . . 15 1 A London and Westminster .. 20 .... 27 z all ...... 26 x al. MINES. 207 891 i, par P 27N, 2'4 19.73 2 Ve 26% Real del Monte, Unregistered .••:-- .... 31, .......... n, Errata in Yostarday's List—Bead York and North Midland 831.. 84% instead of 83N 84% 83. COURSE OF EXCHANGE.-(YESTERDAY.) Amsterdam ...... C.F. 12 3%1 Gibraltar... •. . Ditto, at sight Kotterdarn .... •• 2 U l2 4 GeMOM ........,. .. .... 25 85 Antwerp ••...•• • •• • • • • 25 80 Milan ... .. ....... Hamburgh .... • • M.B. 13 10% Venice.......... • • .... Altona .. Paris, 3 days' sight Dittb, 3 months...... 25 75 Lisbon.. Marseilles • • .......... 25 85 Oport 0... 80urdeaux......... .. 25 80 nio Janeiro • • ...... • • 26 Frankfort on Maine..'„ 121 itahia ..... ..... Petersburgh, 3 U 5.... • • Buenos Ayres ........ Berlin .. . Vienna, effec. tlo ••• • • • 10 3 Philadelphia .......... Trieste, ditto • • .... 10 3 rarczs OP MULLION, PLR OE. Madrid .. .. . • ........ 36 Foreign Gold in bars.. X 3 17 9 Cadiz • . •.. : .....• • • 36% New Dollars ...... 0 4 10), Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 ieville .. . ..... .. .. .. __ sti'iplavnerisihsilLoubls.o.o.n.s 0 0 ...... Barcelona ••• • . • ...... 0 g 0 In the stomach of a heifer lately killed at Shiffnal six pounds weight of pebbles were found. APPALLING INCREASE Ok FEVER AND DEATHS I . DUNDEE. During the first two months of this yeal death and pestilence have been ma ki ng f earful ravages i this town. In January and February last year, the death, were 137 and 135, while in the corresponding months t hi s year, the numbers are 250 and 232, and in the fir,week of March, 63. The two extremes of old age am , young children have been the principal victims cut off and it is presumed, as reported by the physicians of th Infirmary. at the quarterly meeting of the govern,' held on Monday last, that numbers of these have perished from a want of proper nourishment. The following extract from their report may convey some idea of tti, misery and wretchedness of this town :—" Many of those who have been recommended as out-patients, as well as thoa who have been admitted into the infirmary, have evidently long suffered from insufficient nourishment, and not a tew deaths are, iu our opinion, mainly attributable. to this cause, Many of the patients who are sent to the infirmary are, when convalescent, prevented leaving their beds, and, when cured, are prevented being discharged for want of clothes." This is a most deplorable account of destitution, anti calls for the sympathy of those who plead so much in behalf of the desti tute Highlanders. Strange, indeed, there is to be a sale of ladies' work during three days of next week, in aid of the Highlanders, while there is nor a voice lifted up for these heart-rending scenes at their own doors. The number of out-patients suffering from fever in January, amounted only to swen, in February they have increased to 113, while every ward in the infirmary is crowded with patients, in cluding the directors' hall, and the physicians' kindlyconsulting room. All ,use in an adjacent street has also been placed at the disposal of the directors, which is also 11 and many have been refused for want of roots.--Curreipougent Of the Edinburgh Wieldy Register. SPORTING'. INTELLIGENCE. LEAMINGTON MILITA RY STEEPLE CHASES. FRIDAY. The Welter Stakes of 10 each, h ft,l3st 71b Lieut. J. L.kilio's Charon (Owner) Lieut. H. Johnstone nd Seven Stars ••••• Captain W. Allen's Ploughboy Captain Gatrilii,r's Goff 2 t 1 each against Ploughboy and Charon. Won eesY b 9• three lengths. clis• The Handicap of 5 soya. each, Ift One mile and S tance, 8 subscribers, was won in two heats by Mr. Neu . ' Lopez, llst 71b (Owner), beating Colonel Wynclham's Cecil lOst 71b (Captain Little), itajor Boyle's Water Lily (Lop B. Cecil), Lord B. Cecil's Mortgage, lOst 71b (Mr. Dennl toun), and Captain Gambier's Gob, 1 Ist (Li eu t e nant 13120 1611 easily. GREAT WILTSHIRE PICruRF, COURSING MEETIO. THURSDAY. The Beacon ill Scakes —(Continued.) Mr. Miller's Magician beat Mr. Morant's Minstrel. First Ties. Varna beat Magician 1 Eaglet beat Woodlark Royal Consort beat Hector 1 The Druid Stakes.—(Second Ties.) Seidlitz beat Phcebe I Camlet beat Sherwood The Deptford Stakes.—(Second Ties.) Twilight he it Wildfire 1 ~. Mischief beat Lord Go 2 ' The Stonehenge Stakes.—(Second Ties.) Bakseesh beat Windfall Smuggler Bill beat •-• 11 I Industry Everleigh Stakes.—(Second Ties.) Helen beat Rushlight I Wyandotte btThoretrWa, HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Her Majesty's staghounds meet on Monday, at Littletl Thurs., Woking Station ; Sat., Bear H o t e l, M a id e nhead-- 1 ! , ,. Holderness lids., Mon., Catwick Mill ; Tues., Ketlll os ' Thurs , Bessingby Hall ; Sat., Arras-- 1 A to 11. Worcestershire lids., Mon., Monk Wood; Thurs., Croy/ lel Sat., Chadbury, near Evesham-14 Lord Redesdale's lids., Mon., Great Tew ; Tues., TarWuc' d ; Thurs., Sturdy Castle; Fri., Eyf x ord-101„ Ledbury lids., Mon., Clench er ' s Mill ; Fri , Acton Gre e ,.. ll. Herefordsh.ire bds., Mon., Canon Frown Wharf ; Lacy-10 1 / 5 . Ludlow lids., Mon., Staunton La c y ; S a t., B uc knall ttreoiL Shropshire lids., Mon., Acton Reynard ; Wed.,Pettou; Pitchford Village—} to 11. Wheatland lids., Tues., Billingsley ; Fri., Tickwood.„ Brighton hrrs., Mon., Patch= ; W ed.,. Racecourse; ~ _ Dyke- 1 ,4 to 11. Brookside hrrs., Mon:, Newmarket, Hill ; Thurs., Tar combe-tye-104. Findon lids., Tues., Roundabout. Thurs., Washing ° Common. Eastbourne hrrs., Mon., Lighthouse, Eastdean ; Thera Snap Hill; Sat., Wiliingdon Old Mills-4 to 11. rs , g Crawley and Horsham hds., M on ., W est G r i ns t e d; Plaw Hatch; Fri., The Fox. Three Bridges-1/, to 11. Suffolk lids., Mon., Apley H ea d ; T ues ., S tree tly 1, " „, Thurs., Wadworth Woodhouse; Fri., Finningley Park. _ l ., Rufford hds., Mon., Park Hall; Th ars., Blidworth Sat., North Budby Forest-10 1 / 2 . Lord Yarborough's Ws., Mon., Uslby House; W m lendale Lodge; Fri.. Cadney Bridge- —ll. Lord H Be'itinck's lids., Mon., S,kellingthorpe; Linwood. by Rasen ; Thurs. Scopwick ; Sat. Stapleford 0 1 7. , Sir Tatton Sykes's hds., Mon., Settri.agton House; l'hornton in the Clay ; Fri., Scampston .B ridge. Cheshire lids., Mon., Durham Massey T - Tues., Witberirlt. t•bn ; Thurs., •stamford Bridge ; S a t., Tilsto n-11. , s ; Sir W. W. Wynn's lids., M o n., N e s c liff ; T u es., Wynn" Fri., Llangedwin ; Sat., Sell ittyn-10. N .rth Staffordshire lids., Mon., Darlastot t Bridge; -- Draycot ; Fri., Walgherton Lodge, Doddington-10i. „ 1 ., Cott esmore lids., Mon., Cottesmore; Tees,Aston; I,lriinsthorpe Castle; Sat., Knossington- 1 4 to 11. Earl Fitzwilliain's lids., Mon., Sawtry Gorse ; T uel4 ~ong Orton; Thurs., Oundle Wold-10. , F Agd efi Cambridgeshire lids., Mon., Sandy \V arras; to 11 ' Quorn lids., Mon.. Beeby ; Tues., Brooksbsr Mr. M. Ingram's lids., Mon., Cublev 'toll-bar; u" — llrettry Park; Sat., Blithefield-1/ to 1 1 1. Dorrington lids., Mon., Kegworth Station; Fri., B elt °ll Village; Sat., Staunton Daly—i to 11. „v o okl; Mr. Hellier's hds., Mon., Muckton ; Tues., Turnby - [burs., Ilainton ; Sat., Welton Wood-14 Mr. Farquharson's hds., Mon., Giant's Head ; Tues., I:inir .ton Russell. Crewkerne hrrs., Mon., Kennel (a deer)-11. Devon hds., 11on., I'eamore-11. Mr. A. Smith's hds., Mon., Wilston Wood; Tues., " s o ton, near Marlborough ; Thurs., Vernham Gate ; Fri., on Firs • Sat., Speery \Veil-11. deb, Duke Of Beaufort's hds., Mon., Siston ; Thurs., The P o2 ' 9 ' Kinston St. Michael; Sat., Rowdaford. Mr. Locke's lids., Tues., Elston ; Thurs., New CopPi e tc Burton Vale hds., Tues., Ilainmoon Bridge; I llw " Chesilbourne Down-11i. RELIGIOUS TOLERATION IN RUSSIA. (From the Church and Stute Gazette.) o.ulr We have lately publishHl a sketch of the new reb n if Lions by which the aut ocra t o f R uss i a proposes uot e" a to preserve the Chur c h o f w hi c h h e i s t h e s i r wular se despotic h ea d, b u t to exten d i ts boundaries andincregise the number of its votaries. era The sketch we gave was only an abridgment from & r e bu s detailed account which we found in a Paris Me l. ' i n c, irief as it was, it was full of very significant meatij. It served most substantially to prove that, in Ruoia th e ation has safeguard either in public opinion or io of constitution of the Government. It is nothing more fl °f than w h a t th e Marquis de Custine long since des i r e ,sted it—a f a v ou r conceded by one man (" une g l i a t o ctroyee par un honne")—by one man who may' 0 be wn tree will or caprice, withdraw to-morrow what Wows to-day. It is the object of the military synod which, under : Cza- Patriarch, ru l es t h e Ch urc h o f R u ssia, to con 9. he influence o f th e na ti ona l pr i est h oo d ove r the peoP 'hat is, over the nobility as we ll as ove r the losrel irJers), to obtaining from them signs of the cross sou ~nuflections. All other matters connected with th a . . ;!hurch the imperial Gover nment takes upon it 6 e'i tunsian policy has constituted o b e di ence as i ts first gri t :owns. It orders the Russo-Greek religion to be pro' essed, but not taught. Russian prayers are as brief ss' t is said, wit ought to be ; anti a Russian sermon neer Aloe(' beneath the ro-f of a Russo-Greek churc' 'here is no preaching in Russia ; the Spirit of th t : ;ospel would reveal liberty to the ;'Slaves. The lattA!; .re taught to win heaven by obeying the Czar. The l ,/ Jradise is constructed of very small "properties_ hich cost nothing, but which may be supposed t° Jript a people who are sedulously taug ht that . _ ant for nothing. Their Eden, in short, is as easi : a onstructed as that of a Persian, which is poetically • eor.sist of little, if anything else, vesicle black ey e ' id lemonade." old —of In the new regulations, as indeed in the Russian vhich the former re - e but the ratification w hen w hen 'lnject is duly inqrueted to fix his thougmae eato r, ycaying, more upon his Emperor than upon his (1, Free fl Phis fact ss as pleasartly commented upon by a r tee pf •rnbossador, who telt himself growing irresistibly s al be ith the monotony of the imperial .Liturgy at whi b i d eas—in foreign phrase— ass i s t ing . e I will W u to vou (said he to his neighbour), I will trouble y ou to :eke me as soon as you begin to think of praying ire Almighty." a id But it is not on account of anything w e have yet 5 a r hat we have thought it worth while to trolfhl e i lh -viers with comments upon th e me th o d by " -- to 'ditical Christianity is taught from KolgotineY t of tganrog. Our reason for reverting to the shtl e ' o ll O. Greco- Russian religio n i s th a t, i n t h e decree -sued by the Emperor, and the c hi e f o bj ec t of vi bl io as declared to be the prevention of proselYt i f 3 , a tef svour of any other religion th a n th a t o f the PL .. ;c h ~ere exists a clause which we h a d ov er l oo k e d, and nish ~ay be made to affect all English chaplains, and -e "men generally, who may be vi s iti ng or r esiding - Russie. to.' clause to which we allude runs as folloW s ito - Any ecclesiastic of anot h er re li g i on (t h an that ;0 :ear), teaching that religion to persons under age,, , e o r without intenti on to cause t h em to abjure the Wpl& Russian faith, i s t o h e suspen d e d f or one or sev`-r4 rears; and, in ca e of a second offence, to be impriS ° h 7 o rum one to two years." By thi s c l ause , w o g lirects itself to any e c c l es i as ti c , o f any nat i on , res , ",; c o n Russia, a zealous English clergyma n , w h en he .asses Cronstadt, is placed, unless he be discreet, in g,ceil !eopardy of being compell e d to p ass th e Obi, the lea;ii. r the Lena, also. He c annot even taik of his oven I :: t ir ion to a Russian subject—for to talk is to teach-- 4 ' 9 4 .ut incurring the penalty of visiting VarposkeP t he .im, however innocently, interpret if he can d he • Thirty-nine Articles " to Russian curiosity, al l , 7,blif uns the risk of being sent to fish on th e inhostalot -bores of the lake of Baikal. It may, indeed, be said I ce , neither the susptnsion of office for the first A h i r n li ,or the heavier penalty of imprison me nt ("“ 0 0 evolves banishment) threatened for a reiter, a ;;io P . it, is ever likely to be visited upon an y eccles`li who is a subject of England. This assertion is pro !d :ed possibl e ; b u t th a t th e R uss i an G overnme nt I v° to rave the right, after the due warning it has give o f. oflict the penalties named in the d e cre e aga inst s' l be riders is unquestionable. The power may never iii, .xereised ; nevertheless, there it is : and its very ° o re rice is a singularity worthy of record—the r ef' orthy, perhaps, that we have in Russia som e t he ant ecclesiastical geologists, we believe, ex ploring t o, etrren fields, fertile to th em i n roc k s o f var i ega ted to ;; , nd of primary, s e c on d ar y, an d tert i ary or d ers . 1" 01 entletnen must confine themselves to the exereitlit ji f their profession, but o f th e i r r e l a x a ti on ; for, str o je hey inculge too repe a t e dly i n the t o rmer , their' fr'4,erof twaiting them by happy English hearth s m ay h e- a - u t, eem as breaking stones on the Government ac c° l 4jes nd not their own, in some of the agr eea ble loci"' -tween Petropavlosk and the Gulf of Juiginski. I'S ELECTION of a RE PRESEN TATI PEER FOR SCOTLAND. a Yesterday being the day appointed for a t eclear :l tepresentative Peer of Scotland, in room of the ~I . cl Lord Rollo, the Principal Clerks of Session, the ' - ;1, i'rovost and Magistrates, the Deans of the Chapel li 'rid other officials, assembled for that purpose in thel, Picture Gallery of Holyr.:od House. As usual on 811° ,1 ,casions, the galleries erected for the accortmdati°l3.l;• ie public were crowded. Principal Lee, one 0 , .' • ) ,, ins of the Chapel Royal, opened the proceedlllEe 'ith prayer. The union ro'l having been called , t i : 4 , .'allowing Peers answered to their narnes:—Earl of fill; 'ington, Earl of Lauderdale, Earl of Leven and Melville' l.: .r 1 oF sl ilkirlr Lord Grimy. L. , rri Rollo, Lord Colville, Lord Polwarth, Viscount Stormont. the auove•aanued iiuuivuieu 113% mg taken the oaths eh Allegiance, &c.. their names were called over, when 04 ,f them gave his vote for Lord Gray. Signed lists were then read from the Earls of Mortolil Moray, Airiie, and Balcarres, VircJunt ArLuthnott, t; i,,,rd Ssit..iii , ---all of whom voted for Lord Gray, Thu" were no proxies. Lord utray was accordingly declared duly Representative Peer of Scotland ; and the neces 4r documents having been signed and sealed, the procel f ings were closed w ith p ra y er by D r . R o b e rt Lee, 0 0 , c) „ 1 , , , T) •--, of the Chapel Royal.—Caledonian Afercuig of Thursday. elected A ....- Dispatches for the Governor (A itong•Kong and Ce: 7 - 1 °! and for the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian 18110 4 ' were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-die% nu): 110 -- The Lorna 1 Itt Five ( „ 4.1 ST. G a ” , in ti Po le co Or 1t,,, 0va Itttletuent. The Bisho Petition from I r lYing for a Petition froi Of t hel aw f The Earl o the d enunty c t.tor relief, at (3, 1 ., e g in tht b -iernmen t 6r lttlun 4ieh Was Y e t fully e c ," ,' 11, 411d b Lutt e gtv, it)r th e pgetnents truprovem The The f 13 ingt, /si„:lujitiNairn t: Worth I e'Ver Collecto ‘ll iner( agains t ~tilr, 1 Itttn t pouted tqle r t . Mr. I.° Brio; °lir a ri , Sir tne cit. M. tion,r fi