The Sun. — London, England, 1847-04-16 00:00:00

Nearly ready, in 2 vols. Bvo., with Maps, &c., IR GEORGE SIMPSON'S NARRATIVE OF A. JOURNEY ROI' ND THE WORLD, PRINCIPALLY OVERLAND. Henry Colburri, Vu bli.hur. i 3. Great 3d arlbororrh-street. NEW NOVEL BY THE COUNTi SS OF BLESSLNGTON. Just ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo.. MARMADUKE HERBERT; Or. The Fatal Error. By the Countess of BL ESSINGTON,: Author of " The Femme de Chambre,"&c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington -street. "RAILWAY SHARES BY FUBLIC SALE. MESSRS. LAMOND and Co., RAILWAY SHARE AUCTIONEERS, beg to thank their Friends tad itie Public for their continued support ani4 patrosage, and to renounce that their Public Hales of Railway Shares, &c.. sate place every TrESDAT and FRIDAY. at One o'clock, at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle -street, London, to which place, favours, containing instructions (with a reference), are respectfully requested to be Addressed. All scrip end Share Certificates must be deposited, the day orevious to their being offered and alvces of results will e forwarded by the first post atter the sale, and the proceeds taupe diately disposed et according to instmctions. °Mel's. I +4l l Of Commerce, Threadneedle-street. T,ondon it ER Ni AJ I.' ST Y'S TiIEATRE. TO-MORROW EVENING will be performed Verdi's h'lghly suc. cessiul New Opera I DUE FOSCA.RI. Lucrezie, 3Lille. Montenegro ; Jacopo Foscarl, Sigr. Fraschini ; Loredano, Sigr. t:ouche ; II Doge, Sigr. Coletti. Between the %ots of the Opera will be presented the admired Di vertisement, entitled LE BACCHANTE, by Mdlle. Lucile Grains Mdlles. Casson Honore, M. Dor, and Corps de Balet. After the Opera will be presented an entirely New Ballet Diver tissement, by M. P. Taglioni ; the Music by Sigr. Pugni ; the Scenery by Mr. C. Marshall, entitled Orithia, ou, Les Camp des Amazones. Principal character Orithia. Mdlle. Luc:le Grahn; Martheria, (Le Isapathe, Mdlle. Montrort ; an d Igraine des Amazones) C° P ere ; Alceis, (Scythian Prince) M. Taglioni. A favourite Pas De Deux by Mdlle. C. Rosati and Paul Tagl ord. Mayerbeer's Opera of ROBERTO IL DIAVOLO is'in rehearsal tor the first appearance et Mdlle. Jenny Lind, who is immediately ea. pected. Mdlle. Cerito, M. St. Leon, :111. Perrot, Sigr. Vietti, and H err Standigi have arrived. and will appear forthwith* THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LA.N.E, THIS EVENING Will be performed a New Grand Opera, entitled MATILDA OF HITNGARY. Count Magnus, Mr. Berra;'; Prince Ottokar, Mr. S. Jones; George Podibrad, Mr. Harrison; Matthias, Mr. Weiss; Count Ituriz, Mr. Simmonds ; 3 fatiltia of Hungary, Miss ftainsforth. After which the New and Original Oriental Spectacle, called THE DESERT; or, The Imaun's Daughter. In which the Two Elephants, upwards of Sixty Horses, and the Camels will appear. The Imam Useph, Mr. Howell ; Ha,ez, Mr. Rafter ; Barek, Mr. W. H. P tyne ; Fuzel Oola, Mr. Harley ; Maleck, Mr. T. Matthews ; Ahabeck, Mr. Hutchison ; Enzliraga, Mr. L. Lee; Princess Ipomaye, Miss Mesisent Wilda, Miss Collett ; Girgee, Miss R. Isaacs' THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. S EVENING Will be performed Sheridan's Comedy of THE RIVALS. Sir An thony Absolute, Mr. W. Farren ; Captain Absolute, Mr. H. Hull ; Faulkland, Mr. Stuart ; Acres, Mr. Webster ; Sir Lucius O'Trigger, Mr. Hudson; Mrs. Malaprop, Mrs. Glover, Lydia Languish, Miss Julia Bennett ; Lucy, Mrs. Hamby. After which ;the Grand Astronomical Extravaganza, called THE MEW PLANET; or, Harlequin out of Place. To conclude with the Corlc Drama, called THE IRISH POST. Principal characters by Messrs. Tilbury, Braid, Hudson, Bland, and Mrs. Hamby. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. nder the direction of Madame Celeste, THIS EVENING win be performed the original Drama, called THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST ; a Gipsy Story. Cheap John, Mr. Wright ; Ishmael, Mr. 0. Smith ; the Kinchin, Mr. P. Bedford ; Leyboume, Mr. Worrell ; Cynthia, Madame Celeste ; Lemuel, Miss Woolgar ; Starlight Bess, Mrs. Fltzwilliam ; Lady Agnes, Miss Harding. To conclude with the Fairy Spectacle, founded on the Ballet of LA 6!SELLE, entitled THE PHANTOM DANCERS ; or, the Wiliz Bride. Principal characters by Mr. Wright, Mr. P. Bedford, Mr. 0. Sm th, Mr. Cullen ord, Madame Celeste, Miss Marian Taylor, 311 s Emma Harding, Miss Ellen Chaplin, and Mrs. Laws. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. J. M. Maddox. sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING Will be presented Scribe and Auber's celebrated Comic Opera, In Three Acts, called THE BARCAROLE. The principal characters by Messrs. Walton, BoAda, Leffler, and Allen; Miss E. Homier and Miss Anne Romer. By desire, Shakepere's MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. The principal characters by Messrs. H. Hughes, Ryder, J. Vining, C. Fisher, Wynn, and Compton ; Miss Winstaniey (her sixth appearance in London), Mrs. Stirling, Mrs. H. Hughes, Miss S. Flower, Miss Anne Romer, Miss Marshall, and Miss Smithson. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. Under the Manstfement of Mrs. Keeley. THIS EVENING will be performed a New Drama, ealled THE CREOLE. Characters by Messrs. F. Mathews. Leigh, Murray, Emery, Kinlocli, and Keeley, Miss Dickinson, alias May, Miss M. Keeley, and Mrs. Keeley. After which, an entirely new occasional Dramatc Sketch, called JENNY LIND AT LAST; or, Tne Swedish Nightingale. Charac ters by Mr. A. Wigan, Mr Turner, Mr. Kinloch, Mr. klellinvain. Mr. Render, Mr. Yarnold. and Mrs. Keeley. To be followed by the New Vaudeville Extravaganza, called CRUSOE THE SE' ONE,. Characters by Messrs. A. Wigan, Keeley; Miss Dickenson, Miss Tame", and Mrs. Kee!ey. To c,oaclitde with MILS. WHITE. Characters by Messrs. Oxberry Turner, Kinloch, Miss Villars, Miss Arden, and Miss Turner. FRENCH PLAYS. —ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr John Mitchell. Sixth Appearance of Mademoiselle ROSE CHERI. THIS EVENING the performances will commence with L'HOTEL GARNI. Gaillard, M. Cartigny ; Madame Sainville Madame Deltic ; Jenny, sa Fille, Mdlle Cordely. To be followed by the new Comedie-Vaudeville, entitled LA PRO TEGEE, SANS LE SAVOIR. Helene, Madlle. Rose Cheri. To coneude with the admired Flay of REBECCA. Rebecca, Mdlle. Rose Cheri ; Gitirflrt, Mdlle. Dttverger. Boxes, 6s. ; Pit, 3e. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, 3,. ; Gallery, 2s. Boxes and Stalls may be engaged at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, &I, Bond-street; and at the Box-office of the Theatre, which is open daily from Eleven till Five. ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. TO-MORROW EVENING Doors open at Eight. Day performance on Wednesday morning, April 21, commencing at liaif-past Two. The celebrated ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, Pell, Harrington, White, Stanwood, and Germon, will have the honour of repeating their inimitable EN CERTAIN MENTS at the St. James's Theatre. The evening performances will be continued every Tuesday, Thurs day, and Saturday, Boxes and stalls at Mitchell's Royal Library. 33, Old Bond-street. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Ender the patronage of the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Royal Family. Pretnletor and Manager. Mr. W. Batty. THIS EVENING, AND DURING THE WEEK, Lord Byron's Dramatic Poem of THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS ; or, THE CORSAIR, introducing Mr. Batty's numerous and highly trained Horses and Fairy Ponies, living Elephants, Camels, Zebras, and other Novelties, with magnificent Costume, Scenery, Panorama, and Appointments, forming one of the most brilliant Spectacles ever produced. Entire change in the Scenes in the Circle. Feats of Horsemanship Mons. and Madame Dumos, Mr. Bell, Mr. Powell, Herr Henrique, and Laurents Wolff. To conclude with a laughable Afterpiece. Acting and Stage Ma nager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. itox Office open from Eleve n till Four. Box Book-keeper, Mr. Sheffield. Performance commences every evening at Seven o'clock, doors open at Half-past Six. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Under the Management of Mrs. Frances Davidge, Lessee. SECOND WEEK of the truly wonderful BEDOUIN ARABS, from the Theatre Port St. Martin, Paris, their Seventh Appearance In England. THIS EVENING The performances will commence with a new Drama, called THE BRIDGE OF NOTRE DAME; or, THE PARRICIDE'S .4:IISE. Noel Champinon, Mr. Neville ; Master Legris, Mr. tleslop ; Godfrey Mervin, Mr. J. T. Johnson; Melanie, Mrs. H. Vining. After which, a grand ORIENTAL FESTIVAL in the HALLS of ABD-EL-KADER (the Emir of the Desert), introducing the won derful and novel Feats peculiar to the Native Bedouin Arab Tribes, attended by their Marabouts (Priests), &c. in their national costume. To be followed nv a now Farce, by Mrs. >t , rling, entitled KISSING GOES BY FAVOLft. Duke de Bassompiore, Mr. Tindell ; Marchio ness de Lanny, Mrs. Ware. To conclnde with (every Evening but Saturday), a New Drama, called THE DIS:)ARDED DAUGHTER. Count Caradorf, Mr. T. Fredericka ;Julia, Mrs. Ware. Boxes, 25., Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6d. Doors open at Six, commence t Half•past Six. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVNING JACK LONG OF TEXAS ; or, E THE SHOT IN THE EYE ! Jack Long, Mr. flicks; flinch, the Regulator, Mr. Searle ; Ben Small, Mr. Gardner ; Noah Gibbs, Mr. Dale ; White, Mr. Bird ; Hector, Mr, Howard; May Gibbs, Miss Vincent, &c.. &c. After which THE LORD MAYOR'S FOOL. To conclude with THE FORGER'S VOW ; or, gIDI BAROSSA, the BEDOUIN CHIEF OF JAR.RA. Principal characters by Miss Vincent, Miss Lydia Pearse, Miss Julia Johnson, Mrs. G. Lee, Mrs. Cooke ; Mr. N. T. Hicks, Mr. Dale, Mr. Gardner, Mr. Searle, Mr. Bird, Sze. Boxes, Is.; Half Price, 6d. Pit, 6d. ; Gallery, 3d. Private Boxes Parties of Four, from 103. 6d.; and Parties of Eight, it. Is. '1 WEATHE.k.—SUN OFFICE, APKIL 16. THERMOMETER, Lovvest. 29 ; Highest. 46 ; Noon. 42 BAROMETER, 33 05.—WIND, N.N.E.; fine. If l• - •rE;z AT LONDON-! ) ,ItIDGE TillS DAY. Morn;nz .. 17 minutes alter 2 ; Fvenine• .. 40 minutes atte, 2. j t;-- . ... ~ ..... ~.., .., , ,c1 61, n p M.l, , ~ f r —l '-' , 6;-/..-. .' - =;...- , r -, P. 4.• -9 ' - .:Ye ... ..N.... , J .. 4 -.,..:. ....„,., E.);..,n . 2 ,,... ~,,, • - ~ - .• , •;;;x4. - •l E u,. )4 .r . ".., 1 7jr',0t.... ' DROM - ':- . 07 —.. , :. , .„. ... _ • -....--, ?, • ?.-.--:, _ SECOND EDITION- Iteidins LONDON. FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 1847. The monetary state of the Bank of England is every day provoking new observations. The remark able and successive fall in the Funds, and the constant depreciation in other dividend-paying securities, are in themselves sufficiently alarming. People in general, guided by the lights of former experience, are at a loss to divii.e the cause. We have seen in former times, when the bullion in the Bank became reduced to a low figure, that panic and al prehension has suc ceeded ; but the bullion now in the Bank is higher than the average of the last twenty years, and the state of things which prevail cannot be attributed to that cause, since the Bank possesses more than half its circulation in gold. Not many years since the r~nin the Bank was reduced below 3 , 00 0,000/., and y e t no panic prevailed. Neither does there now exist amongst the public any mistrust whatever. The stability of our internal credit, so far as the public is concerned, never appeared to be better founded. The present is purely a panic amongst bankers and merchant.. It is a curious anomaly that those who are most interested in putting the best face on things should, contrary to their nature, be the first to suspect our unsoundness. What seems still more strange is, it was asserted, and we believe with truth, that there is an entire absence of speculation. Prices of produce and manu factures are not inflated. Large quantities of corn have, no doubt, come in and been paid fur, as the reduction in the bullion shows. At least 3,000,0001. to 4,000,0001. more m‘y still be required. A loan has been contracted for Irish famine, yet in the state of the revenue and the activity of consumption and employment, can this be assigned as the cause of this state of things ? All these points have been carefully examined and weighed separately, one by one, and i viewed collec tively, y e t, s t range as it ma y a ppear n this world of 9,449,7601. 3,699,7101 . It is this situation o f the Bank that causes all the alarm, that works such won derful effects on the stock and produce markets, that raises the rate of interest, that makes discount almost impossible, and cramps the energies of trade. The Bank owes to private depositors above 9,000,0001., and to meet this all the ready money it possessed on the 3d of April last was a little over 3,500,0001. It cannot pay out its bullion to depositors, as this is pledged for its circulation, and the only manner in which the Bank can meet such demand upon it is by a sale of its securities and the refusal of accommoda- E tion. What effects this effort will produce can be easily imagined; we have felt it in former times. Will, therefore, the Bank be forced to decrease its securities, and thus, by a violent effort, right its financial position ? Should the Bank attempt to do so, it will deserve the severest censure for having, in the first instance, yielded to the pressure, and by a foolish and criminal attempt to regain its position, add tenfold to the disaster, of having, in the first instance, by its liberality induced a false confidence it only inspired to destroy. The motives of such management will become more than suspected. The remedy pointed out by Mr. LAMIE MURRAY appears to us, under the present circumstances, the only practical one. It is to the law of 1844 princi pally we owe the embarrassment of the Bank. Let the law, therefore, provide the remedy, and so let the country be saved from a new calamity, which is otherwise inevitable—a financial crisis. We quote the plan proposed by Mr. LAMIE MURRAY in the letter alluded to : " It must be borne in mind that, although the sum of 14,000,000/. is all the Bank is permitted to issue on securi ties, yet the capital of the proprietors is actually, on the 3d of April, 1847, 18,544,333/., including the proprietors' capital, 14,553,500/, and the rest of 3,991,333/. The amount of this rest is admitted on all hands as too large. It is equal to near four years' dividend, at seven per cent., on the pro prietors' capital; while the principle seems now to be ad mitted, even in the oldest establishment, that a reserve fund equal to two years' dividend is quite sufficient. Railway bodies in general admit of no reserve fund, asserting, with apparent reason, that each proprietor is the best guardian of the profits on his own capital. " I think, however, a rest not exceeding 2,000,000/., or one seventh the capital, would be amply sufficient for the Bank. The suzgestion I would therefore make to the Government is, that in order to overcome the exigencies of the present moment, and enable the Bank to meet the future inevitable demands upon it, a short Bill should be passed in Parliament, enabling the Bank to capitalise 2,000,0001. of its rest, and, with the 533,000/. surplus capital over the 14,000,000/. to advance as a loan to Government, at two-and-a-half or three per cent., the sum of 2,500,0004 ; or, in case the Government should not require such loan, to empower the Bank to pur chase 2,500,000/. Government securities, and to fix the arbi trary point of issue on securities at 16,500,0001., instead of 14,000,0004, as at present. " Against this plan I know of but two arguments that can be used, and they are so weak that I have thought it scarce worth while to notice them. The one is, Is it prudent to increase the issues of the Bank at the moment when the bullion is expected to flow from that establishment ? The other is the illiberality that would deny a bonus to the Bank proprietors, in allowing the Bank to add two millions to its capital from the rest. This last deserves no special reply. " To the first argument I would simply answer, that the present is not a Bullion Panic., but one founded on the re duced amount of the reserve, and the inability of the Bank to aid the public." A glorious festival has been held in the capital of Prussian Germany—a festival more glorious and propitious than any which has ever before gladdened the hearts of that heroic people. About midday of Sunday, the 11th of April, 1847, the United Diet of Prussia was solemnly inaugurated in the White Saloon of the Castle of Berlin. It was by a beauti ful and appropriate selection that the Chambers of the new Parliament were convened upon a day peculiarly consecrated to the religion. The constitution just given by FREDERICK \b ILHELM IV. to his subjects was thereby sanctified as it were—sanctified as as ,uredly as the head and the hands and the bosom of FREDERICK WILHELM IV. were anointed with the sacred chrism at his coronation. " That man is little to he envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plains of Marathon, and whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona." Such was the exclamation of our greatest moralist when treading the shores of the Hebrides. Such would be our exclamation now, as applied to the venerable hall in Brandenburg in which the hereditary princes and the popular representatives of northern Germany were welcomed by their paternal and enlighted SOVE REIGN, but that we are satisfied the heart of every true lover of his kind will thrill with a sympathetic enthusiasm. Never before was a spectacle more remark ible witnessed, whether we look to the days of incient heroism or of the most recent civilization. King FREDERICK WILHELM IV. has offered a tribute to his people such as monarch never tendered spon taneously before. Without the physical influence of a reyoluti,on, without indeed any direct moral influ ence such as would have been visible in a pacific agitation, the Prussian SOVEREIGN has granted his kingdom a representative constitution —un asked and unexpected ! He has rapidly lo wed up his original announcement by opening the liberal Legislature in person, by opening it with an harangue most auspicious in the policy VA hick it unfolds, by opening it with a pageantry befitting an occasion so unprecedented and memorable. Among the almost innumerable advantages which the United Diet will confer upon the population of Prussia, there are three which cannot be overlooked. They are proclaimed in the inaugurative address de livered by his MAJESTY. There is to be a perfect religious toleration to persons of all creeds and deno minations, and FREDERICK. WILRELm utters that great principle while he avers his own belief in the GOD of Galilee. Standing up before the assembled multitude, with his right hand raised to Heaven, the KING, in one sublime sentence, declares his unalter • able adhesion to the faith of Christianity : " I AND SLY HOUSE, WE WILL SERVE THE LORD !" Those words remind us of the solemn and condensed language of MARTIN Lc - FILER ; they testify that there may be a complete faithfulness to the creed of our forefathers, without a bigoted and unbending fanaticism. Beyond religious freedom Prussia is to witness the immediate emancipation of the press, and the secrets of those civil and criminal courts of jus tice, which have hitherto been concealed from general ii,pection. What vast power is hereby conferred upon the people ! what enormous authority is con fided to their keeping! Truly, as King FREDERICK \VILHELM said to them, on the ever-memorable 11th of April, his MAJESTY has intrusted to the nation " the costly jewel of freedom." Such generosity, such magnanimity, such a deliberate and willing resignation of those prerogatives of his Crown which have hitherto been regarded as prescriptive and in• alienable, cannot but elicit the admiration, the gra titude, and the affection of the Prussian race. King FRFDERICIC WiLnELNI has strengthened the founda tions of his throne by those magnificent concessions; he has ensured to himself admiration, gratitude, and affection in perpetuity. Moriamur pro Itege No 8 tr o ! will henceforth be the watchword of his people, and it will be the watchword, not because they regard him magnifyingmdi i i n im hi of a " isnth e p tr iv m in o e s i t ti i g l h lu t s : : but thro because e t they recognise trious benefactor, because they see in him the realisatijn of that patriot KING whose bare ideal fascinated the imagination of the great BOLINGBROKE. Yes, the Prussians are grateful, and, as the KING says, " Noe to him who shall dare to dash their thankfulness with I bold , opinion and bolder assertion, no one has blamed any one or all of them for the present posture of affairs. Our eyes are turned towards tne Bank of England, our attention is awakened, and our sensibilities pain fully excited, as we contemplate the sapid changes taking place in that establishment from week to week. The Bank is powerless in presence of the law of 1844. If, to arrest the drain of gold and the effects of a demand for corn, it has attempted to interpose its credit, it does so at the risk of its own security ; nor is the public helped by the process. The public suffers from the exhaustion of the Bank and the ca price of the law. There is no doubt the banking re sources of this great establishment are reduced to the most feeble and alarming amount. This is a fact un disputed, and becomes at once an hypothesis on which we can reason with common accord. Is this exhaustion then the result of imprudence, or the state of the law ? This is the real question. On this subject we entirely agree with the views contained in an able letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, by Mr. I,AmrE MURRAY. The Barak has not acted on the law of 1844. It has increased its securities above 6,000,0001. since the 29th of August last, in the teeth of a drain of bullion to an equal amount. It has, therefore, reduced its reserve of notes in the banking department, or, in other words, its power of affording accommodation from THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY The intelligence from the United States and Mexico, which reached Liverpool yesterday morn ing, by the royal mail steamer Hibernia, is very im portant. A series of engagements took place be tween the forces under Generals TAYLOR and SANTA ANNA on the 22d and 23d of February, at Bueno Vista, about six miles south-weAt of Saltillo. Owing to there being no official report received from General TAYLOR, consequent, as it is presumed, upon his dis patches having been intercepted by his enemies, no precise opinion can be formed of the positive losses suffered or advantages gained by the respective com batants in the above conflict. There is an American account of the battle given by Dr. TURNER, an officer of the United States army, which is evidently too highly coloured to be relied upon. He estimated the loss of the Mexicans in killed and wounded to amount to 4,000, that of the Americans to 700 - - This officer makes no mention of General TAYLOR having lost any pieces of artillery ; but he speaks of " the discomfiture of SANTA ANNA'S army." On the other hand, we have an account of the battle from SANTA ANNA himself, written from his camp near Bueno Vista, on the 23d of February. This General gives 2,000 as the number of dead left by his oppo nents on the field, and states that he carried five of their positions, and secured three pieces of artillery as well as two of their fi'ags. He praises the soldiers under his command for having " done their duty and covered the honor of the Mexican nation with glory." It will thus be seen that the two accounts are quite at variance. Sufficient, however, is to be collected from the different sources of intelligence to indicate that the slaughter on both sides must have been considerable—that the loss of General TAYLOR was, perhaps, not less than 1,100 men, and one which he could ill afford to sustain, considering the superiority of the Mexicans in point of number—and that, though SANTA ANNA rejoices in his " trophies of war," they were not gained without a heavy loss of men. Indeed, had he not suffered in this respect the General would not have omitted in his dispatches any allusion to his own loss, when he was computing that of his adversary. Subsequent to the engage ment SANTA ANNA retired to Agua Nueva, a dis tance of ten miles, to secure provisions, with the intention of renewing, as soon as possible, his attack upon General TAYLOR, who, it is said, had retreated to Monterey. The American General's position was not a very enviable one. The entire open country surrounding him was occupied by the Mexicans, cutting him off from all communication, whilst General URRSA was represented to be in the rear with 5,000 men. As a whole, we view the above intelligence with satisfaction. In the engagements above alluded to the Mexicans were the attack ing party, and they have shown themselves to be a brave people. They first compelled General TAYLOR to retreat from Agua Nueva to Saltillo, and thence to Monterey; and though, when the American forces assumed the offensive in their turn, they succeeded in destroying a great number of SANTA ANNA'S troops, the ardour of their enemies appeared, notwithstand ing, to remain unabated. The Mexican people seem to be determined to prosecute the war to the utmost ; and there can be no doubt that the longer it continues the better able will their soldiers prove themselves to resist the unprincipled invaders. By the next mail we may expect to receive some decisive intelligence relative to the menaced attack upon the city and castle of Vera Cruz. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the (Miele( List.) Bank Stock .• .. 195 193 Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 86% %)6 Three per Cent. Consols.Annuities .. • . 17% )6 New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anne. 07% 84 87 36 88 Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1160 .. 98% Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 .• 8% 13-16 Ditto, 30 years, Jan .5, 1860 .. 9 South Sea Stock .. .. • • • • • . Ditto, Old Annuities • • • • 643( Console for May 27 .. • • •• • • 87%16% 67 Three per Cent. Consols, Scrip:. .. • • 2% % dis Exchequer Bills. I%d. 2d. 1,0001. .• ..•• par 2 dis 1 p 5001. .. • • .. •• • • 2 die 1 p Ditto, Small .. 1 2p 1 dim PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Chillan Bonds, 6 per Cent. •. • • 9136 Mexican, 1846, 5 per Cent •• .. 20 36 Portuguese Four per Cent .. 34% Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent. .. Three per Cent .. .• • • 36%12 Dividends on tiie above payable In London. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 54% Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 90 89% BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK, AAILWATS. PAID. PER SHAWL Amber.. Notting., Boston, & EastmJn. 2%.... 2ex int. to Birmingham and Oxford Junction .. b 13% .... to Buckinghamshire .. .. • • .. • • 6/. 45..... par .... to Caledonian •• •• •• 30 253 43(x .. to Eastern Counties • . .. • • • • 20 .... 18% .... to 19 Ditto, York Extension . ..• • • 6N( ... .. to East Lancashire .. •• . 17 . .. • • to Ditto, New .. . • .. 7 36 .... 854..,. to Edinburgh and Glasgow .. • • .. 50 .. •• 72 .... to Great Northern .. .. • • • • .. 3% .... .... to Great Southern and Western (Ir e l an d) 30 .... 25 .... to Great North of England .. • • IQO • • .41,1, ...• to Great Western - Ditto. -.- Half Shane' .. ~ to Leeds and Bradford •• .40 • •• 83% .... to Leicester and Bedford • • • • • • 165..... % dig. to Liverpool, Mauch, and Newc. Junet. 234 .... 74 .... to 1% London and Blackwell .. 161. 13s. 4d. •• • • •• . • to Ditto, New, No. 2 11. 13s. 4d..... p.. to -- London, Brighton, and South Coast .. 50 52% %.. to London end .North• Western • • • • 100 .. 174 •. • • to Ditto, Quarters .. • • L. and B. 7 .. •• .•• to Ditto ditto New •• • • • .... 13 ..... to Ditto, Fifths • • • • •• • • • • 2 •• 16 .... to London and South-Western 411. 64.. 10d. ..•• 63 6434. to 63% Ditto, Tenths (Consolidated) . .. 50 .. • • 5336 .. • . to Lynn and Ely • • •• .. •.20.. • . 21 34 .... to Manchester and Leeds • • • .. $2 ....NI •to Ditto, Fifth:, • • • • • • •• .. 5 .... 9%% %to Manehester, Buxton, and Matlock - • 424. •••• ;fi p-- to Manch , ster and Southampton .. •• 2 .... 1% .... to— Midland •• •• " •• •• ••100 ....115 .... to 116 Ditto, New • • • • • • • • • • 36 .... 39%.... to Ditto, New • • • • • • • • • • • 2 .... 4 36 .... to 5 Newcastle and Berwick .. •• •• 20 .... 26 ... to 2.5% Ditto, New • • • • • • • .. 5 .... 7% .... to Newmarket and Chesterford 10 .. • . 9% .... to Northern Counties Union • • .• • . 23 11 .... %..•. to North British • • • • • • • • •. 25 .. • • 32 .... to Ditto, Quarters • • • • • • • • 2%.... % to Ditto, Extension • • • • • • • • • 1 .. •.to Ditto, Thirds • • • • .• • • • • I .... 336 to North Staffordshire • • • • • • • • 5 .. • . 7%34 .. to Preston and Wyre • • • • .• • •• 25 .... 34 .... to Reading, Guildford, and Reigate • • .. 4% .. to Shrewsbury and Birminghtun (A) .. 3y4 „ 4 t o south Eastern and Dover .. • - • •331. 2.1. 4d. 36% •.. to Ditto, New (las. at 321.) No. 1 .20 20% .. ••to Ditto, New (do. 151.) No. 4 .. .. 5 .. • • 5% •. to south Wales .. • • • • • • • • 10 .. • • 7) 2 .. to Waterford and Kilkenny •• 13% 6%.... to West Riding Union .. .. • • • • 4/. 25....• 1 p.... to York and Newcastle • • • • • • 25 .... . to Ditto, New .. •• • • •• .. 11) •• • • 14% .. to Ditto, Preference • • • • • • • • 4 . • 7% .. ••to York and North Midland • • .. • • 50 .... 81% .... to FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Demerara .. .. • • • • • • • • 2% •• .• 3 %.... to 4 Northern of France . • • •. • • 8 •. • • 12% .... to Paris and Lyons Sambre and Meuse • • • • •• 12 .. 6 .. ••to MINES Madrid journals of the 9th have arrived. The authorities appointed to investigate the charges against General SERRANO have declared his conduct to be blameless ; and the QUEEN has issued a decree suspending all further proceedings against him, and declaring that no imputation has been cast by them on his reputation. A Carlist band has been destroyed near Mules de 'Paredes. MADRID BOLSA, APRIL 9.—The Three per Cents. were done at 32} for cash; the Five per Cents. at 201; the Debt without interest at 6 ; and the Cou pons at 17. We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday. The mission of General CONCHA is, it is said, to arrange with Louis PHILIPPE and with the British Government for armed intervention in Portugal. He is to leave Paris for London immediately. In allusion to the announcement of the Presse of the approaching visit of the Emperor NICHOLAS to Paris, the National says— " A morning paper of yesterday, in its privet* correspon dence from St. Petersburgh, informed its readers that the Emperor of Russia contemplated coming to Paris this sum mer. That that journal should look on such a journey by the Emperor Nicholas, under exising circumstances, as being au event of the highest importance, one can well understand, since it is friendly to a Russian alliance. But Heaven be praised its opinion is not that of France. We have not bar tered our sympathies for Poland, or been strangled with the rentes of the Bank of France. Now, a. 3 hitherto, all hearts shudder at the Warsaw murders. The purchase of oblivion of so many crimes committed during the last sixteen years over a conquered nationality, for 50,000,000 f., was surely not a high price. We do not accept this bar gain. The presence of Nicholas at Paris would be an in sult to our feelings, to our i,eas, and if the Czar were to dare to come and face amongst us the unfortunates who have been doomed to exile by his despotism, the cheers of a few scattered flatterers would not cover the loud voiee of public malediction. This would not be the first time of a Russian Emperor being at Paris. The last was called Alexander. At the period he visited us Frauoe was invaded by foreigners. The people remember well the Cossacks bivouacking in the Champs Elysees, and tb e presence of Nicholas, by reviving the recollection of that fatal period, would revive the hatred and horror with which the invaders of France will ever inspire us. If the journal in which we find the article wished to feel the pulse of public Opinion, and sift out the feeling in respect to Nicholas, it may tell its correspondent that France repels all contact with the annihilator of Poland, and Paris would nut imi.:tate the silence of London." Real del Monte. Unregistered 334 • • to The following was is-ued at the Discount-office just before the Bank closed yesterday atternoon:— " The minimum rate of interest at the Bank of England is 51. per cent." Th«•re is no limit assigned for bills, and the merchants think that this indicares more liberality; others appre • hend more restriction. EPSOM RACES. (THIS DAY-BY EXPRESS.) The Trial Stakes. Gabbler Rob Roy 2 Tragical 3 THE GREAT ME TROPOLITAN HANDICAP. The Chamber of Deputies commenced on Tuesday the discussion of the project of law authorising the Bank of France to issue notes for 2501. (101.) The report of the Committee on the Bill recommended that the amount should be reduced to 200 f., and 111 LEON FAvcnua proposed a reduction to 100 f. The discussion was adjourned. 'We find the following in the Courrier Francais : "A letter from St. Petersburgh, dated the 2d, announces to us that the Emperor of Russia is seriously ill, and that his journey to Warsaw is indefinitely postponed. The fact is certain, but it is kept within the walls of the winter palace but has no doubt already come to the knowledge of M. Kisselef., Thic news, the authenticity of which we guarantee, directly contradicts the letters in the Press-, which l announced th e approaching arrival of Nicholas i n Paris. Clermont Wolhlog Brother to Stitch 3 Won by a neck. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, APRIL 16.—Wind N., fresh breeze and fine. Dr:AL, APRIL 15.—Wind N.E. to N.N.E., strong and heavy squalls.—Sid. Cambria, Ceylon ; Sir John Rae, Reid, St. Kitts; Flora, Muir, Jamaica ; William Forrester, Nassau; Fear sot, ditto; Argyle, River St. Lawrence; Margaret, Halifax; Margaret, West, Batavia. KINSALE. APRIL 12.—Wind N.N.E.—SId. Bon Accord, Davis's Straits. DovErt, APRIL 15.—The Kroon Princessan, Amsterdam to Gran, was brought in here to-day with considerable da man e, having been in contact with a steamer last night. PORTSMOUTH. APRIL 15.—Wind N.N.E.—Off port, Ata !ante, Hansen, Monte Video, for Antwerp. The Luctor et Enisergo, from Rotterdam to Boston, arrived here to-day with I ° 3 °' of sails, ecc., got aground entrance of the harbour; is ex pe,;:ted off next tide. WEXFORD, APRIL 14.—The Rochester, Trueman, Liver po of to New York, struck on Blackwater Bank yesterday ml wiling, and is full of water. The greater part of the pas se' alters have been landed, and the remainder are expected to be. saved. Wind N.E., and a rough sea on the bank. aIUNA, PENTLAND FRITH, APRIL 10.—The Salirna, of rt f o n tLy, por APRlL tree , Glasgow, and not the S e li n a, as reported, foundered off De nnet H ea d, B t h i nstant. c;i l lo ‘° llea ßz 1 - :::4t1: ult.—crew sav e d. asimmer GRANGEMOUTH, APRIL 13.—The Isabella, of Montrose, f i c i u .— nd T er h e e d to Ke t t h " e '' East of a o n f d tl for ie Scalp, Loeh from Shields to Leith, toundered about 57 miles off Tyne mouth Bar, 9th inst.—crew saved. 11ARGATE, AFAIL 15.—The Societe, of Bayonne , from Sunderland to Nan, es, was totally lost on the Kentish Knock Sand yesterday —crew saved. LivEnrooL, Arun. 15.—The France , Marshall , for London , was on shore below Baltimore, 2 7 th ult. , with four feet water in her hold. The Grans Uile steamer , hence to Drogheda, took fire yesterday morning to the eastward of Lainbay .Island, and burnt to the water's edge; part of crew and 'passengers saved by a fishing smack, and taken to Dublin. Dam., Arainls.—The John Bartlett, for Adelaide, S. A., and the John Pink, fur Jamaica, are supposed to have p asse d through the Downs during the night. LIMERICK, APRIL 14.—Wind s.--Acrd. Champion, Mas oey, New Orleans; Rosr, Stevenson, Now York ; I nez, Vrvard, Baltimore. Sld. Niman and Primrose, Quebec; Ce leste, New York : Thonias Worthington, Barbadoes. Mr. O'CONNELL arrived at Lyons on Sunday. It was said that there was every hope of the differences between Greece and Turkey being satis factorily settled. The Three per Cents. closed at 771. 90c., the Five per Cents., 115 f. 80c.; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,22/it. ; Rouen, 885 f ; Havre, 671 f. 25c. ; Great Northern, 623 f 75c. ; Avignon, 777 f. 50c. ; Vierz,m, 562 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux, 5 Wt.; Basle, 1911. 25c.; Dieppe, 522 f. 50c.; Paris and Strasburg, 428 f. 75c.; Tours and Nantes, 423 f. 75c. ; Paris and Lyons, -1321 5Uc. ; Lyons and Avignon, 450 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 44'f. ; Spanish Actives, 324 ; Spanish Passives, 5. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, A PIIL 15. Boulogne and Amiens, 16%—Demerera, 3 1 /i Dutch Rhenish, 4—E as t Indian, 1 4—Louvain it la Sambre, 1 —Northern of France, 12:% —Paris and Ruuen, 35—Paris and , Strasbourg, 214. ALARMING EXPLOSION IN THE ST RA ND.—Last night a serious explosion of gas occurred upon the premises known as the Globe Tea Warehouse, situate at No. 20, Strand, the corner of Hungerford-street, belonging to 515.- Marshall. It appeared that about eight o'clock some eN the inmates experienced a strong smell of gas, and ix , order to ascertain whetlitr or not a le .kage had taken place in any of the pipes, a young matt, named Arthu.: Fuzzey, incautiously lighted a piece of paper, which b a was passing over the floor behind the counter. The moment the light came near one portion of the !loot-ling an explosion resembling the discharge of fire-arms oc curred; the young man was knocked down as if shot, and svitt und er h ploas : rewun: fl sfgoi : n , o uda r ntr i , : ei l lea g etiftabLkasetlni e basement the u uo s r h i shattered tons to the piece -, eee doers and the glassNshi bent flying to the other side of the road. The firemen I y"?:bd'eurt:httattoint'ehethga:4-tip. ga s -pipes h e a s d ex b p 3 :d so a n ;l e d t a n c e c a u n • i undated below in Cue basement. The young mau Fuzzey I e f e►co 114 to require surgical as3idansv, '6I4NY OMNIBUS.—SeVerai Dew ounnibus , es were yester ,d av exhibited in the metropolis, the property of the Econk or re Conveyance Company. and which will, on Mon day r ext. commence rowing from St. Paul's to the Bank, and t' pence w the Brikhtim, Dover, and Greenwich Railway Stati , pa, London-bridge;_lite farerfor each passenger outside being; ply otie peony. care or to turn it into ingratitude 1" It is impossible MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. not to sympathise to the uttermost in the aspirations indulged in by the Prussian Monarch in greeting his dear and well-beloved orders of Nobles, Burghers, and Commons. The joy with which his bosom is inspired in gazing round that ancient chamber, and remem bering that he—the KlNG—has summoned a nation to Freedom, assures him that the blessing of Ost- NIPOTENCB will be secured to the young Constitu tion. " Out of our unanimity," he says, " out of our unanimity it will descend on the present and future generations, and I hope on all our glorious German fatherland in one broad stream, beside which we may dwell in peace and safety, as by the shores of the blessing-bringing waters that encircle the earth." With that golden and almost Epicurean future dawning upon Prussia, and guaranteed, so to speak, by the lips of her patriotic SOVEREIGN, we may con tent ourselves with the simple record - of this noble and august ceremony. CITY, tivARTER TO THREE. The Cotton market at Liverpool was very animated yes tenlay, and the sales amounted to 10,000 bales, including 3,000 bales of American and 3,000 of Surat on speculation. The quotations for American were Id. to 4d. per lb. dearer. There were 3.500 bales Surat sold at 4d. to 5(1., and 6,000 bales of American at 6 1 -Ad. to 734 d. per lb.—Railway Shares were sready, but not brisk. The advices from the United States have enga _ed almost exclusive attention to-day, and there has been much discus sion as to the construction to be put upon them. Some regard the improvement in the rate of exchange as being merely temporary, and not likely to prevent the continued exportation of specie from the United Kingdom, in the face of the immense supplies of provisions which we have yet to expect. Others, on the contrary, anticipate that the purchases of goods here, even at the reduced limits generally given, will go far to ease the . balance against u s , p rov id e d our manufacturers can be uhluced to keep their mills going with cotton at such high rates. The scarcity of shipping was still felt, and the continuance of the Mexican war will cause full employment for a large number of vessels which otherwise would be free for commercial purposes. In Toronto the flour trade had been firm, and sales of 2,000 barrels, lying at Kingston, were last made at over 6 dollars. A statement of the liabilities of the Bank of Montreal, for the month ending Feb. 28, makes the amount 846,5241., in which promissory notes stand for 519,0821., and cash deposits for 244,0001. The assets were 1 ,596,850/., the coin amounting to 137,9001., and the notes and bills discounted to 1,370,0001. Respecting the weather, we are advised from Montreal as follows :—" Daring the whole of last week very fine weather has prevailed, and the sleighing, where the roads are not broken, in cabots. by the now returning use of the old-fashioned trains, are very good. An im mense quantity of produce has, consequently, found its way into, and the streets are more thronged with country people from a distance than they have been this winter. The snow is lying very deep, having fallen late, and there having been few thaws in the winter months," so that whenever spring sets in we may expect it to burst on us with unusual suddenness. At Kingston warm days and cold nights were the order of the month. The sap is running, and the farmers were making sugar, the first labour of the year. The crossing on the ice still remained good, arid the sleighing was yet good. The Toronto Colonist says—" la anticipation of the East India mail for Britain, the Canada Company received appli cations from all parts of the province for exchange for remit tance. No lens than 250 bills, amounting, in all to about 2,5001., were granted; and it is highly honourable to the Irish character that we are able to record that of this large sum nineteen -twentieths was remitted to Ireland, by the Irish in Canada, in sums varying from one pound and up wards." The Court of Directors of the Bank of England are evi dently impressed with the difficulty of acting in the present crisis so as to retain their bullion, and yet not unduly to dis tress the mercantile interest; otherwise at their parlour meet ings they would be likely sooner to come to a decision. Yesterday they sat until late in the afternoon, and came to the determination of keeping the rate of interest at five per cent., but of leaving themselves at liberty to decline or accept bills of three months' date. The con sequence is that money is dearer to-day with the discount houses, especially upon any but first class bills. We have even heard of 8 per "cent. being refused upon paper presumed to be connected with specula tion. In the meantime the price of grain is on the advance, and the decrease in the note circulation of the United King dom during the mouth to the 27th ult., compared with the previous four weeks, was upwards of 700,000/. The Stock :tiarket opened this morning with some appear ance of buoyancy, Consols having touched 874 to % for present transfer, and 871,4 for May 27. Since then sales have been again pressed; and the quotation is about 87 to % for both. Exchequer -bills are rather higher, via., 2s. dis count to ls. premium. Bank Stock is worth 193 to 195. The New Three-sod-a-Quarter per Cents. have realised 87% to 88. The Foreign Bonds have been dull. Portuguese Four per Cents. are 34 3 / 4 , and Spanish Three Cents. 36% to %. Mexican are 20%, being flat still. Dutch Two-and-a-Halt per Cent!, realise 58%. Railway Shares have been tolerably steady, though with but little doing. EVENING, APRIL le, 1847. MARKET NEWS.--(THIS DAY.)I CORN EXCHANGE-FRIDAY. Although the arrivals of English Wheat for our market since Monday have been moderate, the show of samples here was very small. Owing to a demand having sprung up for France, the sale for wheat of home produce was active, at an advance in the currencies obtained on Monday of quite 2s per quarter, and at which a good clearance was effected. The imports of foreign Wheat have been small, viz., 4,200 quar ters, nearly the whole of which were disposed of afloat for the French markets at is to 2s per quarter more money. Many of the holders refused to sell even at that amount of improvement. Nearly 14,000 quarters of foreign Barley have arrived this week, the finest qualities of which met a ready inquiry for grinding and malting purposes at is. per quarter advance in the quotations. Malt was in fair request at very full prices. The supply of foreign Oats was great; yet a good business was passing in them at 6d per quarter more money. Beans, Peas, Indian Corn, and Flour were quite as dear. English ...... Irish. ........ k' reign Wheat. 4,410 qrs. 4,201 ARRIVALS. I Barley. 740 qrs. 13,820 I Malt, 2.530 qrs. Oats Flour . 200 qrs. 1,120 sks 870 I -- 22,550 SMITHFIELD. Notwithstanding the supply of Beasts here was large, or upwards of 1,000 head, we have to report a steady though not to say brisk demand for that description of stock, at fully Monday's quotations. There were in the market 310 Oxen and Cows, 630 Sneep, and 75 Calves, from Holland and Ger many. The numbers of sheep were comparatively small. Most breeds moved off freely, but the highest figure for the best old Downs, in the wool, did not exceed 5s 4d per 81bs. From the Isle of Wight the arrivals were small, viz., 20 Sheep and 18 Lambs. Although the total supply of the latter was large, the trade was firm, and in some ins'ances the rates had an upward tendency, the best Down qualities producing 6s 4d per Blbs. Calves here a sl.,w inquiry, at barely late rates; but Pigs were quite as dear, with a full average number on offer. Mach Cows were dull at from 161 to 19/ each, including their small calf. Per Sibs. to si ink the offal. s. d. to s. d. s. d to s. d. interior Beasts..... 3 0 3 2 Second quality ditto 4 0 4 4 second quality ... 3 4 3 6 Coarse-woolled ditto 4 6 4 8 Prime large Oxen.. 3 8 310 Southdown IVetter . 410 6 4 Prime Scots .. .. • 4 0 4 2 Ditto out of the wool Large coarse Calves 4 0 4 6 Large Hogs ••• 3 8 4 4 Prime small ditto .. 4 8 5 0 Small Porkers .. .• 4 6 5 0 , tickling Calves .18 0 29 0 Quarter old Pigs ..16 0 19 0 Inferior Sheep •3 6 310 Lambs ..... •••.. 5 4 6 4 SUPPLY AT MARKET. • Resets. I Sheep. Calves. I Pigs. I 1,132 5,430 2ll 310 NEWGATB AND LMADENBAL L. There was a steady business doing here, at full prices. At per stone by the Carcase. s. d. to s. d. s. d. to s. Beel, inferlor.• .• 210 3 0 i Mutton, inferior .. 3 8 310 - middling .... 3 0 3 2( middling.. 4 0 4 2 - prime large 3 2 3 4 i prime 4 4 4 6 - prime small 3 6 3 8 York, large.... • • 3 8 4 i V e x' ........ ••• • • • 4 0 5 0 - small . ...... . 4 8 5 0 Lamb. is 4d to 6s 2d BOROUGH HOP IYZARICET. There is a slight improvement to notice in the demand for the best Hops, both in pockets and bags, at fully last week's quotations. Otherwise, however, the trade is heavy, at barely late rates.—Sussex pockets, 3/ 18s to 4165; Weald of Kent ditto, 414 s to 41 18s ; Mid and East Kent ditto, 4112 s to 6110 s. RAILWAY CONDIMEES. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. GROUP V. The Committee on this Group met for the first time, this morning, at twelve o'clock; present, Lord Harry Vane (chairman), Hon. M. Sutton. Mr. Rice, and Sir E. Filzrer. The appearances on the several Bills were taken, and some other merely formal business transacted ; but at the close of that, as the absent Member, Mr. Trail, was unable to Lie present through illness, and the .Member who was appointed to succeed him had not received intimation, further proceed ings were stayed, and the Committee adjourned till twelve o'clock, on Monday. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY, EADE V. BLAME. This was a petition of the trustees of the Leeds Free Gram mar School, praying fur the apdroval of the Court to certain alterations in the constitution of the charity, the disposal of a pvion of its funds, and directions to the Master to frame a Bill to Parliament to enable the petitioners to carry out their views. It appeared that in 1552 Sir Robert Sheffield bequeathed certain lands to the sustentation of this school. By several inquisitions of the Commissioners of Charitable Uses, held in the reign of James 1., Charles 11., and George 11., it appeared that there were certain funds applicable to the purposes of this charity. The case has been before the Court for some time, and had been referred to the Master, who found that the total funds of the charity amounted to 2,0771. 10s. 2d. per annum, which, after deducting 300/. for necessary expenses per annum, lett a net annual sum of 1,7771. ths. 2d. for the purposes of the charity, and that 2,3001. Consols, &c, were in Court to the credit of the trus tees of the charity. The Master further found that it would be desirable to erect a new schooi-room, &c., the present being too small to accommodate the increased number of scholars. Mr. TURNER was beard in support of the petition. The prayer of the petition, with some modification, was granted. QUEEN'S BENCH.--(THIS DAY POI LOCK v. STAIiLES. Mr. BAINtS stated that in this ease, which was tried at York before Mr. Baron Alderson, a verdict was given for the plaintiff for 21. 10s., with leave being given to him to move to add the sum of 851. to the amount• given by the verdict. The action as originally brought for money paid, and for commission as a ,iireloirulies-- , the only plea being non as sumpsit. Tim plaintiff in the case was a sharebroker, at Leeds, and the defendant was an attorney and share broker residing at the same place. On the 3d of September, 1845, the defendant instrusted the plaintiff to purchase for him ten Huddersfield and Manchester railway shares. The plaintiff accordingly purchased the ten shares on the same day, and in accordance 1% ith the universal practice, he entered into the contract in his own name. The price of the shares was at that time 28/. per share The plaintiff purchased the shares at the Exchange of the Leeds Sharebrokers' Asso ciation, from two persons named Serley and Cooper. On the sth of September the defendant wrote a letter to the plain.. tiff, stating that the party for whom the ten shares had been purchased had neglected to come and take them, and regret ting the inconvenience to which this neglect put all parties concerned. The person for whom the shares were intended did not come down, and they were accordingly sold out against the plaintiff at 191. 10s. per share. BT the action the plaintiff sought to recover the difference of price which he had had to supply, and his commission on the purchase. The verdict was given for the amount of the commission, with permission to move for leave to add 851. to the verdict. —Rule granted. Till QUEEN V. THE MAYOR AND ALDERMEN OF BATH. Mr. PHLNN moved fur a rule to show cause wby a man damus should not issue, directed to the mayor, aldermen, and assessors of Bath, commanding them to receive a vote ten dered for Mr. Robert Crutwell as town-councillor. The circumstances under which the motion was made were these the usual election for the two vacant offices of town-councillors, Mr. Archer, Mr. Lutman, and Mr. Crut well were the candidates. MrArcher. polled 212 votes, Mr Lutman 212, and Mr. Crutwell 210. "It appeared afterwards upon examination that Mr. Lutman had polled three per sonated votes, and Mr. Crutwell had polled one, making both numbers 209. Subsequently one of the par ties who was personated in voting for Mr. Lutman came forward and wished to vote fin Mr. Crutwell, The mayor, alderman, and assessors refused to receive the vote, on the ground that be hao already voted. It was in vain that they were reminded that he had only been per sonated : they persisted in refusing to receive his vote. Mr. Lutman had since been removed by a quo warranto, and the mandamus was sought for to compel the mayor to receive the vote for Mr. Crutwell and declare him elected. Rule nisi granted. BAIL COURT.—(THIS DAY.) No case of any public interest occurred in this court during he day. EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) JENKINS AND OTHERS V. MORRIS AND OTHERS. Mr. COWLEY moved for a rule to show cause why a new trial should not be had in this case which was tried at Liverpool before Baron Rolfe. It was an action for a bill of exchange for 34/. Is. and the verdict went for the de fendant. lie did not complain of the direction of the Learned Judge, or the finding of the jury, but contended that there should have been a joint interest in the bill as far as the de fendants were concerned, and this was not the case, therefore the acceptor of the bill had no right to bind the defendants who had no interest in it. The Learned Counsel cited several cases in support of his argument, and submitted that in point of law his rule should be granted. The COURT would take time to consider. MASON ti. OWEN. This was an action on a policy of insurance on the ship Johanna, which was tried before the Lord Chief Baron at Guildhall, when a verdict was entered fur the plaintiff. The ArronxF.Y. GENERAL moved for a rule to show cause why the verdict should not be entered for defendant, or for a non-suit, or that a new trial should be had. There had been a former policy of insurance effected from 26th of October, 1844, to September, 1845, a time policy at ten guineas premium, and the policy in question was to com mence from the expiration of the former policy, tilt the arrival of the ship at Memel. Thetis were several pleas to the declaration. Ile first was non aasumpsit, the second fraud and misrepresentation, and the third deviation. at T th h e e Learned Counsel contended, at ccnsiderable length,th policy was not a time policy but a voyage policy. The Court would take time to consider. COMMON PLEAS.---(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) COR V. 111:133ARD. This was an action brought to recover the price of a bolt ing drum and a wheel for a threshing machine, and was tried before Baron Parke at the last Coventry assizes, when a verdict was entered for plaintiff for 20/. Mr. KNoWLI moved for a rule to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside, and a new trial had, on the ground of the misdirection of the Learned Judge, lid the verdict being against evidence. The COURT took time to consider. SECONDARIES.--(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Secondary Pon'F.a.) CLAY V. TID3IPSON. This was an inquiry to assess damages in an action brought on a guarantee, defendant not having put any plea on the record. The plaintiff's ATTORNEY said that the action was brought on a guarantee given to stay proceedings in a previous action. In August, 18-13, the plaintiff advanced a sum of money to a person of the name et Akehurst, on mortgage of some pro perty, but as the money was not repaid an action Wag brought, on which the present defendant applied on behalf of Akehurst for an extension of the time, guaranteeing the payment of the mortgage debt and costs then due, with into : rest thereon, in six months ; that time had now elapsed, and as the defendant' s guaran t ee h a d b e en br o ken it was neces sary to to bring the pr e sent action, not to increase costs, butand better secure the plaintiff. The sum claimed was 100 L, interest. The SECONDARY said the interest amounted to a little more. The ATTORNEY—We leave the income• tax out of the ac count; he can pay that, fur we have not yet got the incomQ, and don't wish unnecessarily to debit ourselves. The SECONDARY asked whether the guarantee was set out on the record? It not, it would be necessary to prove it. When a defendant neither pleaded nor attended, it was very necessary to have strict proof. The plaititiff Asr =NAY gaid that the declarAtiOn 4ot forth DESTRUCTION of the DROGHEDA STEAMER, G RANA IJILE.-LOSS OF FORTY LIVERPOOL, TEtt7III3DAT. We de(ply regret to announce that the steamer Royal Albert, at this port this morning, from Dublin, reports the destruction of the steamer, Grana Uile , plying be tween this port and Drogheda, by fire, on Wednesday morning. _ _ The Grana Uile left this port on Tuesday night, at nine o'clock P.M., with about eighty souls on board, and had not proceeded more than a third of her voyage, when she was discovered to be on fire ; and so rapid were the flames, that she was burnt to the water's edge, and sunk before 6 A.M. About forty lives were saved by a fishing-boat, which fortunately came to their assistance ; nem ly as many more were lost, including her commander, Captain Bowden, who has left a wife and four children. We exp. , ct to receive further parti culars this evening. TilE RIVAL OPERAS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—When in the autumn of last year, the musical corn. munity was rife with the then newly-projected Italian Opera at Covent- gamen Theatre, it was announced that a great re duction would take place in the price of admission ; it was trempeted forth that the opera would be on a scale of perfec tion hitherto unknown in this country, and that the ballet would be equal, if not superior, to that at her Majesty's Theatre. I certainly admit that there is nothing to be said on the score of the opera, but all has turned out nothing better than moonshine ; a bait to catch at pop u l ar i ty ; a p l e d ge which, I insist, has not been redeemed. The prices are not one penny less than at the rival house, except for a few of the boxes on the fifth and sixth tiers. These are sold at two guineas, which, by the bye, except on extraordinary occasions, is the same as in the Haymarket. The stalls are the same; the pit a trifle lower, it is true ; but this reduc tion is more apparent than real, for we all know that the two extra tickets reserved out of each box by the booksellers, and there are upwards of four hundred of these, when all the boxes are sold, are always to be had at eight shillings and sixpence. The am phitheatres are an improvement, 'but the prices are too high, being twelve and seven shillings, and not better than the gallery stalls at the opera, sold at five shillings ; and they are badly constructed and obscure ; on the third seat one is obliged to stand up to see over the beads of those in front. The same may be said of the gallery, it is not one-third, nay one-fourth, the size of that of the other house, and on the back seats the stage is quite invisible. Evidently this theatre has been constructed to run down the other house, and oc cupy its position with all the exclusiveness attached to it. If, as I pretend, this be the object in view, I predict a most lamentable failure. The aristocracy will not abandon their habits and their old haunts, their fashionable lounge and 'their admirable ballet, their affections are not for music as an art, they prefer a caper to a roulade, and the Pas des 'Messes to the best over ture that ever was written. If the ballet is not worth caring for, let it be abandoned; if, on the contrary, it be considered indispensable, spare no care or expense to induce the public to stay to see it, tbr at present no sooner is the opera over than the theatre is almost empty—such was the case last Saturday, when the only good dancer they have, Mademoiselle Baderna, made her debut. In my opinion the managers have been led away by a false idea; they want to overthrow the old dy nasty; they will not succeed ; let them, on the contrary, apply to a different public—the middle classes--the million, who really love music as an art; let them lower their prices to suit the pockets of these, and success is certain. A LOVER OF MUSIC. Her Majesty the Queen has been pleased to give a donation of OW. in aid of the funds of the Royal Orthoi ce.lic Hospital. Mr. George Edward Anson, accompanied by his brother Mr. Frederick Anson, visited the hospital yesterday, k , nd expressed himself highly gratified with its internal arrangements. His Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured the Exhibition of the New Society of Painters in Water Colours, at their Gallery, 53, Pall-mall, with a visit yesterday after noon, immediately after her Majesty's drawing-room. His Royal Highness expressed much interest in the steady pro gress of this society. He was accompanied by the Hon. Captain Gordon. ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.— Shortly atter the express train, which left Bristol for London at forty-one minutes past one o'cloc'c yesterday, passed the Pa , ,gbourne station, the spring of the driving wheel broke, and the train had to be stopped until it was repaired. While it was thus detained the approach of another up-train, which it had passed at the Didcot station, and which was on the same line, was announced by the engineer's whistle. The dread of a collision operated so fearfully upon the passengers of the express train, that they jumped out of their carriages, and immense confusion was the result, which was, however, calmed when they found that the other train had stopped, and would be detained until the injury to their engine was repaired, which was effected after the delay of half an hour, after which both trains proceeded on their way, and reached the Pad dington station without further interruption. SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF FOREIGNERS IN Dismiss. —The friends and patrons of this praiseworthy in stitution celebrated their annual festival last evening, when about one hundred gentlemen sat down to an excellent dinner, at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street. In the absence of the Duke of Cambridge, whose inability to attend from indisposition was a subject of much regret, H. Labou chere Esq., occupied the chair. After the cloth was drawn, the chairman, in pro sing thelootat, of,. the caching . " Pro- , sperity to the society," stated that, since its establishment, which is nearly forty years ago, the funds of the charity had been applied to rescue a great number of distressed foreigners from the destitution into which, without its aid, they would have been plunged, and that at the present moment there were no lees than eighty pensioners receiving regular relief from its funds, besides is considerable number of individuals who were receiving occasional relief. The subscription list, which included a donation of 100/. :from her most gracious Majesty the Queen, 2001. from the directors of the Bank of En_land, &c., amounted to nearly 1,3001. AMERICAN RELIEF F')lt IRISH DISTRESS.--The United States ship-of- war Jamestown, arrived in Cork on the 12th instant, laden with bread stuffs and provisions for the relief of the distress in Ireland. She sailed from Boston on the 26th ult., but the news of a political nature which she brings is superseded by that of a more recent date, which will be found in another column. NAVIGATION LAWS.—The Select Committee ap pointed to inquire into the operation of the navigation laws resumed their sittings yesterday morning in Room No. 2, the members present being the Right Hon. Mr. Milner Gibson (chairman), Admiral Dundas, Sir G. Clerk, Mr. Liddell, Mr. Macarthy, Mr. Lyall, Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Hume, the Hon. Mr. C. P. Villiers, and Sir Howard Douglas. The only witness examined was Mr. John Breysler, director of the customs in the port of London. Our space to-day does not allow us to give the evidence in detail. Y-srerday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when the new directors elected on Wed nesday last, viz., William Butterworth Bayley, Esq., Rus sell Ellice, Esq., Major-t3eneral Archibald Galloway, LB., Sir Richard Jenkins, G.C.8., Ross Donnelly Mangles, Esq., ALP., and John Mastetman, Esq . Al. P., t-ok the oath anti their seats. Henry St. George Tucker, Esq., was chosen chairman, and Lieutenant-General Sir James Law Lushint:- ington. G.C.8., deputy chairman, for the year ensuing. DEATH OF THE HON. JOHN ItiODNEL—We have to record the demise of this venerable gentleman, who for 80 many years filled the office of Chief Secretary to the Govern ment of Ceylon. He died at Boulogne on the 9th instant, at the advanced age of 82. .d(RforMsuAgßarKEdTu,rinAgPEthleL wlese.k7aTnhderneeahralys Ra fairT o L de S m U a G n been the whole of the West India supply has been taken all at a reduction of one shilling per cwt. £he remaining sales con sist of 1,200 bags Bengal, and 2,000 boxes Havaunah, at about the same reduction. Further supplies of West India sugar may be shortly looked to. No inquiries for rum.— Bristol Gazette. • INDIAN AND CHINA PRODUCE —That perfectly mirrored casket—Everingtoa's. upon Ludgate- hill—perhaps never displayed a more gorgeous arrangement of almost un attainable excellencies, than at the present, the extended front exhibiting to wondering eyes the rarest of foreign workmanship—splendid to a degree! Amongst these are the shawls commissioned by the Queen, and many rare scarfs and dresses, each of which of the value of a little fortune. Those who affect connoiseurship in fabrics of this high class pronounce these specimens to be the richest ever imported in Englard ; and the pilgrimage daily made by the titled from the West may be presumed a corroboration of such judgment. The display in the window, it may be ob served, is in perfect harmony with the whole of the establish ment ; what, then, must be the notion of those who have not the entrée into aristocratic life of the riches, magnificence, and luxury.ot our country, if, in the house of a mere shopkeeper, evidence of this wealth is to be met with in such extraordi nary profusion? DEATH OF COLONEL FULFORD.—Our obituary this week ri cords the death of Colonel Fulford. Without ndulging in any lengthened pan , gyric of his manyex cellent qualities we may venture to say of him, in brief, that as no man was more respected in his lifetime so no man will be more regretted in his death. Estimable and exemplary in all the relations of private life—indefatig able and forbearing, in the discharge of hi s pu bli c d uties —unpretending in ' his manner, conciliatory in his dispo sition, and unostentatious in his charities—he was a good neighbour, a good landlord, and a warm friend. Colonel Fulf Td's nawe was held throughout this county in uni versal respect. Ile was for many years Lieut.-Colonel of the East Devon militia, chairman of the quarter ses sions, and chairman of the Exeter turnpike trust. From these more prominent positions he had for some time retired, but he continued to attend to public business down almost to the very period of his decease. The family of Fulford is of Saxon origin, and held Folefort, as it is written in Domesday Book, from which place the name is derived. Here, as it appears by records, as by registries in the College of Arms, in the time of Richard 1., and have continued itnerrupted posses sion of the same name in the male line, by uninterrupted 600 years. descent, during the long period of more eth for Charles I. they were asw seated e Their mansion house was once garrisoned m in Decemuer, and was taken by a part of Fairfax's 1645. Many knights of the family them selves in the Holy BaldwinLand—Siuriforwas one of the knights particularly. Sir Thomas , F rd army, Fu fd in the ear 1497. In NI, sr beck, when besieged by Perkin it may with truth be said we who went up with the Earl of Devon to relieve Exeter, the death of this gentleman the .‘ Worthies of Devon."— ' indeed, I , st or.e o ve, in We..tern Luminary- MELANCLY S: Mackenzie, Tll bou n d t o I s l ay U RSO, APRIL 9.-- AI The brig Sa l em ( a pt aiu Invernes s, with barley, came into Thurso Bay on t h e morning 0 froni I- of the Bth, and brought up in a b a d p l ace. The wind blew 4rong from the south-east, but at ten A.3f. it veered round to the west, or rather W.N.W., and blew a perfect hurricane. The vessel stood out well till the evening, when she unfortunately parted from her anchors, and drifted towards the east of the Dunnet sands, where she struck, and almost instantly went to pieces, all hands having perished.— Edinburgh Witness. NATURALISATION OF TIIE DUKE DE RIANZAREB. On Monday last the letters patent whereby the Duke de Rianzares ( Munoz) has become a naturalised Frenchman, under the title of the Duke de Montmoro, were enrolled in the Cour Royale. M. Moreau de la Rochette was also ad witted to take the oaths prescribed by the_ charter on his being created a baren.--Galignani. all the facts, which, of course, defendant admitted by not pleading. The jury gave a verdict for 717/. damages. There was only one other case, an undefended inquiry, "Beaver v. Price," for money lent. A verdict was given tor 37/. 10s., the amountclaimed. THE PARCEL POST DELIVERY COMPANY. l w ho A case of considerabl e h ar d s hip t o a poor girl, can ill-afford the loss, relating to the defunct Pa i r , Post Delivery Company, was brought under the notice . of Mr. Elliott, the sitting magistrate, at Lambeth. It appeared that about the middle of March last, , young woman, named Mary An n Mit c hell, who bad lived lived servant in the vicinity o f t h e Wandsworth-rod being about to remove to Tottenham-court-road, watt: her box, containing all s h e p ossesse d i n the wo„r,t: except the clothes then on h er b ac k, t o th e s hop of Jur, Neill, "l, an oilman, to b e f orwar d e d b y t h e Parcel Po Delivery Company to her new place. The box, hc.'w:, ever, never reached its d es ti na ti on , and after making every effort to get her b ox , t h e young woman app 9 this Court on the sth inst an t, an d o b ta i ne d a sumnion_. against Mr. Neill, in wh ose c h arge s h e h a d placed 11 7 box. Mr, Neill, upon attending to that summon" admitted that as the agent of the Parcel Post Dei livery Company he h a d rece i ve d i t, b ut sa id tb b t, by the first opportunity h e h a d f orwar d e d it one of the Company's ve hi c l es , to b e d e li v ered el. cording to the address, and added that it was no fault, of his that it had not b e e n p ro p er l y d e li vere d . M r . EIJI ° , finding that the unlawf u l d e t ent i on o f t h e pro perty.l the defendant could not b e p rove d , as h e h a d, in P in • of fact, parted with it, h e di sm i sse d t h e summ ons, but at the same time feeling th a t th e case was one o f e xtreme hardship upon th e p oor g i r l, grante d a fres h sun o 0 against Messrs. Henry Owen and George Hill, two, Of the directors of the co m p an y, ca lli ng upon t h em to enc'" a cause why they detained the property in question, Wednesday being appointed for the hearing, the conl; plainant was in attendanc e , b u t ne i t h er M r . Owen no r Mr. Hill were present. English, the officer in whose hands the summons° had been placed, stated that on the preceding after' noon he went to the h ouse , N o . I T , Soho-square' „h serve the warrant, and wa s s h own i nto a room , in wi •' he was told he sho u ld fi n d M r . Hill . Ad d ress ing th e gentleman who he found there, he mentioned the P,° l ;•. port of his visit, and asked if his name was not Bil l ed. The gentleman, without answering his question, obser ve d; that the summons was addressed to Mr. Owen, ', 3 , • sent him up stairs to another office. On enteringM latter, he found a gentleman whom he addressed as 1111 ,:' Owen. but that gentleman seemed to evince the eat' indisposition to declare his real name as him in the 1 0 / 1 :1 office, and both seemed to treat the matter with ow — apparent indifference. H e , E ng li s h , h owever, ' e ft the' summons with Mr. Owen, as h e un d erstood his name ,,, be, and said that unl ess it was attended to, a warn ' would be granted. One of the former servants of the defunct con3Panl' said, he recollected very well taking the box of the ell plainant's to the principal office in Fleet -street, of w,in Mr. Hill had th e n th e management, but what ha d an' l wards become of it he was unable to say. Mr. ELLIOTT observed, that it was quite clear, ire,. the evidence of th e l ast w it ness, t h at he had no jurien;L: tion in the m a tt er . Th e b ox, f rom all that cou ld P t : learned about it, was l as t d e li vere d of Fleet.strel• where the city magistrates alone had jurisdiction. . • (Mr. Elliott) w as mos t anx i ous to assist person s like the i, complainant in every way h e cou ld , but owing tol d ' . present state o f th e l aw re d ress b y summary means "70 most difficult, and he had not the power to do so. 0 was an extraordinary fact, that any person or Per s° , l might set up as carr i ers, w i thout the law plac i ng a n y ° with resp ec t to t h e non deliverance of goods upi there, or affordin g any redress to the owners of 1 ; 3 1 ;0 %h i goods beyond th a t g i ven b y the Police Act, •` unlawful deten t i on ." I n this case, however, it "".0-' be necessary to prove that at the time when the 0 ,, 4 mons was heard, th e d e f endants had the goods i n w ile possession, and f ee li ng i n th i s there was a n end to S O maeistrate's juriscl'ction and power to give redress' (Mr. Elliott) hoped th a t th e cases connected with„ p s's, company complained of wou ld d raw public attentan-he the glaringly defective st a t e o f t h e law, and lea d to t , t much called-for remedy. or, It having been stated that th e poor g i rl ha d bees Ai proved of her little property, amounting to about and had nothing but what she then appeared in, ha Mr. ELLIOTT said that though the poor-box W ig lf if was sorry to say, very low, he would order that Ins r y sovereign be given to her to provide her with a nee° change. THE COUNTRYMAN IN LONDP st I On Wednesday J o h n S m i t h , a b aker, who has - is arrived in London with nis wile from A3lesbule Buckinghamshire, for the purpose of emigratiogi of America, and who has already paid 5Z on aec enn hlab their passage to New York in the ship Victories 1 7 . sailed on Thursd a y, came b e f ore Mr. Yardley k a ; e d of Thames-o ffi ce, to complain that h e h a d been r°,,,% two 351., all the money h e p ossesse d i n t h e wor ld s London sharpers, who have lately taken in maul P a ts the neighbourhood of the docks. The applicant, who looked th e pi c t ure of dega i o r f , stated that he was leaving the L on d on D oc k s on .1 ,1;, day, and stopped to look at s ome post i ng bill s rea d to the departure of the emigrant ships, when a " e Henan "also commenced reading the same bills, and e b tered into a conversation with him about the vessels. it., informed the strang er h e was a b out to emigrate with 1/ L wife to America, and hi s new acquaintance said he w'''r quite delighted to hear that, for he was going to send 6 10 2 1 nephew, 13 3 ears old, to join his parents in New Tor. and asked him to takeebarge ot the boy, for 4 hich seriin. he promised - him a very handsome compensation. applicant consented to do so, and after walking a shop distance with his friend, who particularly cautioned hint against London sharpers, invited him to partake of sow malt liquor in a public-house, where the conversed* about America and the lad he was to take charge of Of renewed. Their conversation was interrupted by " another gentleman," who appeared very much al servant out of place, who was s e a t e d i n anot h e r pa r t the room they were in. He s aid, "A s y ou are taletv, of America, I'il tell you how to make a fortune th,,:„ I was along with an old gentleman sixteen years itl United States, and he h a s di e d an d l e ft me 1, 6 and some property there, and I have come to Loam; don to settle my affairs." The conversation ;7 Ire'pt up for some time, and the last person he was T o o dived to said he should return to New York in iioo , months. A walk was then p ropose d , an d hi s cuelPati 0 1) took him to a funny pl ace un d er t h e Th ames , lighle; 10 , with gas, and afterw ar d s i n d uce d hi m to v isit auto. uhlic-fetuse in Wapping, called the Globe, where th e c ri d p rn he last met wit!. talk. d very largely about his ddre e e dons in Am. rice, and pr om i se d to give him his a 0 411$ h eh was 16 miles from Nt a vY .rk, where he said& 00 rein tin until h;s (the stranger's) arrival, when he i l ia dint hint einployan,•nt. Atter that his dinterensei no we t)eral friend said it he wanted money he would:: Agit it= 50/. or 1001., and he would accommodate tie 05,- 1 man, who by this titne had described 1102 „7„ pir. Yorkshire tailor, with the same sum. 1. "`',1 - 0 11 ' cant said he would give him no security, as ;want going to Atte-rice. The stranger said h e did t ri i zoo id any, and would intrust such an honest Wan * ley " 8 _,, g1 goal; that all he required for the loan of the ra w - base on stamped receipt, and begged of him top ll- b e tal l 7,_ without delay. The Yorkshire tailor as a OW himself, said he would take biln tO before he where he could buy a stamp, tol d , w hat or did so took from his pocket a roll 01 , them with peered to be Bank of England notes, and le z L h i a in the other man, who promised to take care o f till his return. The Y o rk s hire tailor then 'ptle• the applicant to leave his money with t he . ...b - d o ing man, who would think the better of bim tor hit° , so, and he took all the money b e h a d about of is 351. in notes and gold, and deposited the who with the stranger, who bade him return as spee°" ic h possible. He went out in search ot a bill state? 1 1. 4 . the Yorkshireiran; but he had not gone far Deiewes a suspicion crossed his mind that all was l , o l right, and he suddenly recollected the tales 1.10',„ read and heard of London sharpers , and detikrnune make and by various devices delayed him f of it was all r ight , communicated a I. possible as ss ; us t p e ic b io u n c s k totobitshceompupbalnicio- hi:us:he:o somegentleman who had made such large promises was pa" time. On his return to the Globe he found the and his money was gone too. While he was makin 1 , 3 ; quiries about him the other man disappeared, ana . A. oiscovered, when it was too late, that he had been 0 17 0 1 the victim of two scoundrels, who had left him wig' s a penny in the world. Mr. Yardley—You have be en tak en i n by the " I s t common trick in existence. I thought that a man e'iiefi most ordinary intelligence could not have been del l an by such a stratagem. I am sorry for you, bu t , n t ay s r a dt syu h_ p e py w o o a a s ut ba havems t s r e a n ot gn or ry r hy i i n os u L wr o i fneod.wOnut dbe afraid your 351. is irrevocably g one . hid no l<o m B m m r o . i i m p thank for that. Y ou have trusted your money ° b e so strangers yo u never saw before. H o w could yen ? foolish to give credit to the promises of two shall y r It is the m os t pa l pa b le tr i c k ever played off upo n man. America, turn t ° pr imed to Ameri begged for and his native vale or to pr some assistance. could do nothing for the spplican s sa id he Smith said he was not in a condition now to re Mr. Yardley but advised him to make his case immediately known r the po li ce , who would look after the sharpers. Smith then quitted the Court in the utmost despair of mind. BIRTHS. e of On the 28th of March, at R ome , th e Hon. Hester, w if Sir George W. Craufurd, of a son. On the 7th inst., a t t h e Rectory, Bow, D evo nshire, the WI/ of the Rev. Fred er i c k V an Der Meulen, of a son, still-born. On the 10th i ns t., at I m herhorne, near East Gr i ns tead, t he lady On of th F.e I Wloth rslein y st., at Esq., of a daut Woodfor ght d,Northamptonshire, tba lady of Captai n J . B . W oosnam, of the Bombay Artillery', of a daughter. On the llth inst., at Meadow Lodge, Brixton-hil l, M r°. Edward B. Sutton, of a daughter. On the 13th i ns t., M rs. 11 ack b lock, Denmar k-bill, of a s°ll' On the 13th inst., Mrs. J. E. Saunders, jun., of a son. On the 13 t h i ns t. , in New Bond-street, the wife of ile'" Powell, of a son. k th e On the 13th i ns t., at H e l m i ngham Rectory , Su-- ff °1 wife of the Rev. J. C. Ryle, of a daughter. ARRIED On the Bth i n st., a t St. M Michael ; s, Limerick, Comm and er Thomas Fisher, R.N., to Anne, eldest daughter of th° is Major-Gen era l Hamilton, C.B. lE. On the 13th inst., in Hill-s D tree D t, the Dowager Lady Br ol4ll# low, aged 91. oR del; ri the 9th inst., at Boulo ne-sur-Mer, the Hon. j• On the 9th ist., at W g alcot-terrace, widow of the late Edward Wetenhall, formerly of the St u Exchange, aged 93. the Sussex , On the 10th inst., at Felpham, near Bognor, Rev. John Bishop Beed, aged 76. On the 11th inst., Mrs. Osbaldeston, the wife of Osbaldeston, Esq., of Upper Phillimore-place, liensin Kennington, A•,,,c): go London: enrited .ind Publisned by AtIIRDO YOUlick, of ~ " •:1 0' I et ~ t raud, Printer, at The Sun Office, Nu. 112, Str a nd, in the ie. M U of the SA in U. County Or Mithilceez, Friday, ./ifi".• 1847. `~.