The Sun. — London, England, 1853-03-10 00:00:00

-___ T. FRENCIf EMPIRE. For some time past a modification in the French Cabinet has been contemplated, but it has been Postponed till now on account of the Emperor's marriage it having been found that the retirement ,of the Ministers at the period of the marriage might oe attribut e d t o th a t even t. Th e p er i o d a pp ears , however, to have now arrived when the change actually take place. Marshal de St. Arnaud 18 to leav e th e W ar D e p ar t men t i n di sgrace , b u t his fall is t o b e disguised under the plea of bad health, it h av i ng been determined that he shall leave Paris for a tim e , and t a k e u p his reside n ce at the Hybres. It is said that very probably the de cree will appear in the Moniteur of to-morrow, by rich M. Ducos, the Minister of the Marine, will , appoint e d a d in t er i m Mi n i s t er o f W ar , till the aefi.nitive successor of Marshal de St. Arnaud shall be appointed. Marshal Vaillant is still Spoken of as the next Minister of War, but there appear to be some difficulties in the way of his appointment. It is said that in the event of Mar , soal Vaillant ultimately declining to take office, General Aupick, who has been removed from the place of ambassador at Madrid, and whose nomina tion as a senator appears in the Moniteur of yesterday, will probably be appointed Minister of War. Several other Ministers are also to retire. M. 33 ineau, the present Minister of Finance, is a mon g the number ; as well as M. de Maupas, the Minis ter of 'th e • Police. It is said that the Ministry of 13 ° 1 -ice Will be abolished, and that M. de Maupas will 'be s recompensed by a foreign embassy. He he been Off er ed one of the secondary courts, but ne is said - to aspire to that of London. All these changes will be made under the inspiration of M. de Morny and M. Fould, who continue to have the pleponderatin g .jauence in the councils of Louis Napoleon. The affair of Madame de Solms is notyet finished; it is to be brought forward in some other shape, and it is said that the parties connected with the case are in possession of some curious documents relating to the Bonaparte family and the Emperor, which they threaten to make public. M. de Solms, husband of Madame de Solms, who was recently expelled from France, arrived at Havre yesterday. He will embark at that port for the United States. It appears that Madame de Solms, who with her brother is now resident at Brussels, gives out that the English Government has made strong repre sentations to the French Government on the sub ject of their expulsion. This, however, is hardly Possible, for it appears exceedingly doubtful if they have any claim to the character which they assume f English subjects. It is certain that Mr. Wyse, the English Minister at Athens, whom they claim as their father, disowns them, and has always done He is undoubtedly the husband of their mo- Vler, but they were born long after their separa t4on ; and as respects Madame de Solms herself, it 'las never been pretended, even by her mother, that she was Mr. Wyse's daughter. After receiv ing the order of the Minister of Police—but be fore leavi ng France—both Madame de Solms and her brother wrote a series of the most insulting letters to the French Government, and the result ! v as a. peremptory .order for them to be sent to the frontier at once. e , The question of a reconciliation between the b ranch, branch of the Bourbons and the Orleans after having slumbered for some months, .7, b egins again to be spoken of. It is said that , the of the Belgians, who has hitherto taken no in the affair, has written to the Duchess of Orleans, strongly urging the necessity of a "fusion," a nd 'declaring that th e r es is tance of the Orleans f of was seriously injuring the future prospects 1 : the Comte de Paris. The exiled generals are all 1, "eeerne Fusionists. Great surprise has been created in Paris by the appearance of the name of the Dukeide Trevise 4 t he those who have recently been advanced to n dignity of senator. The Duke de Trevise not t iIY held a high office in the household of the ~,,,nchess o f O r l eans , b u t was one o f the most inti- Za to' among the friends of her royal highness. It d uke be recoll ec t e d th a t as l a t e as last autumn the °lce actually accompanied the Duchess to Switzer- Plid, and remained with her till her return to Eng- I 'd- At the period of the Emperor's marriage, he t Las still so devoted a partisan of the Orleans family 0 4 he expressed the utmost indignation against 1 . 1 . 4 daughter, the Countess de Latour-Maubourg, iL r the " treason" which she committed in accept a7, a place in the household of the new Empress ; ~71 yet, within three short weeks, he not only ji -e ePts the place of senator, but his wife, the ~Ilehess of Trevise, has consented to follow the t he of her daughter, and to accept a place in . 4 e train of the new impress. Another of the 1 , - 7,_ 4 aterial appointments which has excited general T""Prise is that of the Marquis de Boissy. M. I bPlong,•, who has a lively recollection of the an ,,oYance to which Duke Pasquier was subjected the nlithe eccentricities of the worthy Marquis in e is oup:s of_ Peers, is in a state of veritable alarm. It . said that the promotion of the Marquis is owing to the influence of the Countess Balini morganaticthe wife of the ex-King Jerome, who is very intimate with the Marquise de Boissy, for luerly the celebrated Countess Guiccioli. M. Drouyn de Lhuys, who was so indisposed the day before yesterday t hat it was found necessar y to bleed him all uneasiness as to his health has disappeared. It is now understood that the coronation of the Emperor Napoleon and the E m p ress Eu g enie will take place next month. BY an Imperial decree in the Moniteur, General ` ll Pick, Ambassador at Madr id, M. Lebrun, mem ber of th e I ns titute, and Baron Thieullen, depu t y , re appointed Senators. A. consulate is about to be established at Broussa, the residence of Abd-el-Kader. Byron Rousseau, formerly interpreter to the African army, is spoken o f for this post. The Marquis de Lavalette, Ambassador at Con stantinople, has arrived at Marseilles. „The direct transmission of messages by the elec trictelegraph between Paris and London cora , lilacs on Monday. A singular circumstance t ook vtoe on the occasion : a dispatch of forty words, Ilent from Paris at nine in the morning, arrived in ndon at two minutes before nine. This is ex tra_ ed by the difference of time existing betwee n clock s of Paris and London. iWe read in the Constitutionn,el:—" Capt. Cheva br, of the po r t o f N an t es , b e i ng last summer on e western coast of Africa, where he was in weak embarked as a passenger on board the Eng in steamer the anerald, which left on July 5, for „agland. The captain of the Emerald died a few Z vg after the departure, and his loss was felt the ~„° r e severely that none of the other officers were t 7l ) able of directing the vessel. In the emergency N ,' , 4 , e passengers had recourse to Captain Chevalier, t _. 4 °) notwithstanding the state of his health, con „ented to take the command. The passage was a for t`', ate one, and on August 8 the Emerald cast an- Llor before Plymouth. It would be difficult to give 17 idea of the gratitude expressed to Capt. Cheva cn both by the inhabitants of Plymouth and by the t i l 'lnPany of Lloyd's of London, which had insured 4r , e 'vessel. This latter company tried to make him t i'eePt some present, but not being able to overcome d e c ,. disinterestedness of the French captain, they t h ,nained to send him a piece of plate to signify sense of his conduct. Accordingly, Captain b lu er lately received from Lloyds a magnificent ti l v er cup, having on it an inscription mentioning e motive of its being presented. The form, or vltaents, and chasing of this cup are fully equal to 1,2 81 France can produce in the same kind. The Halm oil, steamer had on board a valuable cargo of oil, ivory, tortoiseshell, and gold dust." 2 8 nart inique journals have been received to the. 44 ' 4 of January, and Guadalopue to Feb. 3. They (3 0,ounce a great amelioration in the sanitary state % e el e islands. The crops presented a very satis e,oll7l7 appearance. The Bank of Martinique was ti Pletely organised, and' had commenced opera -41 to the great satisfaction of the colonists, who to long wished for such an establishment as likely e4 der great services to agriculture. The mea sure of livrets w hi c h h a d a t fi rs t e xcited considera ah „ a gitation, now begins to be better appreciated, t ei Ve good effects of it are felt. On the 31st De ka; r, .1852, the number of livrets delivered at r tle „,'lnique amounted to 39,000, and the engage r,' ,Es for labour comprised 9,000 individuals. get. ' - fe Stock Market was firm yesterday, and in 4,",.al prices have advanced. The Four-and-a -,,,,per C en t s. are 10c. lower, at 104 f. 90c., an d of V - hree per Cents. 15 c . hi g h er , a t 81f. 15c. Bank those of the 'art_ te ll:t ea& Bank 12f. 50c. hi g h er . F ore i gn F un ds th e d p i nearly as th e y were , with the exception of llaedmontese Fives, which are 75c. lower. fr o ,,,Y Shares are all higher, the difference being h 0 sf: to 10f. a share. Exchange on London )) 25f. 71c.; ditto (90 days), 24f. 900. ITALY. Milantiert,..... citizens a re f or bidd en t o approach the th,"'es• M. Bernardi, having failed to observe 8e,,, hei Nulation, received a bayonet wound from a 14 . c -Parliam cn t o o f th e sth s t a t es that an Eng e4a3)9l;f6i_cer had been expelled from Tu scany f or rx , C s uhig a revolutionary committee. 4 21 , e Proceedings of Austria have already effected ati t i cia , chang e o f op i n i on, not on l y i n Piedmont ?ndi' lvit zerland, but in Lombardy itself. The adheation recently felt against Mazzini and his Th e flits is rapidl y t urn i ng agains t t h e A ustrians. toge: ei gil of terror which has been es t a bli s h e d , iti of iticr with the expulsion of many thousands of Tessinese, has excited commiseration for the oppressed, at the same time that it has forced the neighbouring countries to prepare for resistance. The Swiss Federal Council has voted a law by which 25,000 men of the army of the Con federation are to be called out. The Piedmontese Government has resolved to make a representation to the Austrian Government in favour of Lombard emigres who have become Piedmontese subjects, on the ground that the sequestration of the property of these persons is contrary to the law of nations. Switzerland is, on ita side, to make similar repre sentations, so that there is every probability of some serious political complications in that quarter. The Piedmontese Governnient denies, through its constituted organ, that any restrictive change in the laws regulating the press is intended. Political executions continue to take place in various parts of Italy, and Austria appears to be ruling the people with a rod of iron. The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa of the 4th an nounces that the refugees of Lombardy who have been naturalised in Piedmont have applied to the Sardinian Government for protection against the effects of sequestration decreed by Austria. The same paper adds, that the Government, after taking the advice of eminent lawYers, has remonstrated at Vienna on the subject, and communicated this step to the British and French Governments. Count Toggenburg, Imperial Lieutenant of Venice, has continued, until further orders, all the prohibitions concerning the press, which were in force in .1852. AUSTRIA. A telegraphic dispatch from Vienna, dated Tues : day, states that the Emperor of Austria had gone out a second time in a carriage, and was still more improved in health. We read in a German journal :—" When the Archduchess Sophia, mother of the Emperor, received the news of the execution of Libeny, she burst into tears, and exclaimed, God grant that this may be the last victim of seduction.' She then sent money to all the churches of Vienna for masses for the repose of the soul of Libeny, and said, ' I know that no other person would think of performing this act of religion. It is for me, the mother, grateful to the Almighty for the preserva tion of the life of her son, ,and whose heart has been most deeply affected by the rage and folly of the convict, to accomplish this pious duty. Every year during my life I will renew it at the anniver sary of the death of this unhappy man.' " We extract the following from an article on the Emperor of Austria in the Constitutionnel " The Emperor Francis Joseph is of a tall and grace ful figure ; he has a high and open forehead, penetrating blue eyes, and a smile the sweetness of which does not exclude the supposition of great firmness ; his gait is dignified, and his manners are distinguished by great elegance. Although fond of pleasure, as young men of 22 usually are, he never sacrifices business to it ; he makes his duties a law from which he never deviates. He rises regularly at five o'clock in 'the morning to de vote himself entirely to affairs of State. Sporting and riding are the only recreations which he allows himself. He may be seen every day leaving the Palace at two o'clock to take his accustomed promenade, in the winter on foot on the ramparts of the city, and in the summer on horseback on the Prater, the Champs Elysees •of Vienna. He is scarcely ever accompanied except by one aide-de-camp, andis always dressed in a military uniform. Being one of the best horsemen in Europe, he is fond of leaping the ditches and barriers of the Prater, and he every day tires out three horses in this dangerous exercise. No thing can be more curious than the manner in which he travels. Whether in winter or in summer he always uses an open carriage. His hand, which from his earliest age haa been accustomed to manage a sword, has never carried an umbrella ; he contents himself in bad weather with merely throwing a soldier's cloak over his shoulders. The sport which he most delights in is shooting the black-cock, which is carried on at night, and' principally in the month of February. At that period the Eilaperor usually goes to the mountains of Styria, and passes several nights in the open air, a bed of dry leaves under the naked branches of the trees replacing the luxurious beds of the Imperial palace of Vienna. His hardy con stitution braves with impunity privations of every kind ; he can equally support heat, cold, and hunger." A Vienna journal states that in commemoration of the happy escape of the Emperor from assassi nation, the National Austrian Bank has placed 20,000 florins at the disposal of the Ministers of the Interior and War for charitable purposes. On the same occasion the Archbishop of Erlau gave 5,000 florins, the interest of which is to be em ployed in the education of an orphan daughter of an Austrian officer who has fought in Italy or in Hungary in a Hungarian regiment. The Chapter has also given for the use of military invalids a large house, the building of which, only a few years since, cost 70,000 florins. Au - stria has just paid the second and last in stalment of 1,796,230 florins to Russia for her in tervention in Hungary. A letter from Constantinople of the 17th ult., in the Vienna Gazette, states that in his au dience to take leave, Prince Leiningen was treated with great distinction by the Sultan, who gave him a very friendly autograph letter for• the Emperor of Austria. TURKEY. The Vienna Lloyd of the sth inst. publishes the following letter from Constantinople, dated 20th February : "The Imperial Russian General and Minister of Marine Menzikoff has arrived here. His mission relates to the question of the Holy Sepul chres, and the Porte is said to have come to the re solution to ask the mediation of Prussia for its settlement. " Count Escarac, the French Consul at Damas cus, has come here to demand satisfaction for a breach of domiciliary rights on the part of i ike Turkish governor." • The Ottoman Government has conceded to the French Consul at Smyrna, an indemnity of 300,000 piastres, for distribution amon g such of his coun trymen as have been plundered by brigands ; the amount of the indemnity is to be levied on the surrounding villages where the depredations were committed. _ _ . There are accounts from Montenegro; in the Journal de Francjort, but they do not reach to the 18th ult., which was our last date. They confirm, however, the 'fact of a victory over the Turks by the mountaineers, and add that George Petrowitch has issued a severe order against the cutting off the heads of fallen enemies. PRUSSIA. Public attention in Germany has for some time past been fixed on a prosecution instituted by the Government of Baden against Professor Gervinus for high treason, for having published an " Intro duction to the History of the Nineteenth Century." The tendency of the work was to prove from the past that, by natural historical development, Ger many is destined to become united and republican ; but this work was of an exclusively philosophical character. M. Gervinus has just been tried by the Criminal Court of Mannheim. In his defence he denied that, as an historian treating an historical subject, he could by any possibility be guilty of treason ; but he declared his determination, what ever might be the result of the trial, to continue to write history according to his convictions. By a telegraphic dispatch from Mannheim, we learn that the Professor has been acquitted of the charge of high treason, but condemned to ten months' imprisonment for exciting to sedition : and his work has been ordered to be destroyed. Next month a new ki n d o f paper money is to be in circulation in Prussia ; the present notes are to be called in. The Cologne Gazette states that a manufactory of forged Russian bank-notes, on an extensive scale, has been discovered at Berlin. The princi pal person engaged in this affair has been arrested. The Grand Council of Basle, in its sitting of the 7th, ratified the treaty concluded with the Baden Government for the prolongation of the Baden railroad through Switzerland. In the Prussian Chamber of Deputies, on the 7th instant, the Government were defeated by 180 votes to 130 on the third article of the ground-tax law, pro vididing an ind emn it y f or the dispossessed nobility. The majority would allow of no in demnity, and the Government announced the abandonment of the law altogether. SPAIN. The Senate has under consideration a. propo sition for the appointment of a Commission to re port upon the demand of General Narvaez to be admitted as Senator. The following are the prices of Stocks :—.Three per Cents., 421. t.i; ditto Deferred, 23i ; Re deemable Debt, first class, 10i ; ditto, second. class, 52' ; Coupon Certificates, 5. Exchange spa Lon don, 51. THE SHOEBLACK SOClETY.—Yesterday the boys of the "polishing brigade," clad in their well-known red uni form, together .with 27 girls from the Female Refuge, in Dorchester-place, paid a visit to the Panorama of Ilin dostan, •in Baker-street. The museum in connection with the exhibition was also opened to the little visitors, who were much delighted with this collection of curiosi ties from our Eastern Empire. It is gratifying to find, that this mode of employing boys in the street has been successfully introduced into Dublin (where there are 26 " shoeblacks and " broomers "), Brighton, Liverpool, York, and even Alexandria, where these useful public servants appear on the pavement, as symptoms of the assimilation between Egypt and Europe. The success of the Shoeblack Society:as a reformatoryinstitution, maybe 6rned front) the evidence concerning its operation con- bained in. the Blue-book lately issued by the committee on uvenile delinquency. At the end of the second year of is existence, the total receipts of the society are found ;0 be. 1,500/. THE STN, LONDON, THURSDAY EV ENING, MARCH 10, 1853 TILE S T ~3. BRITISH RAILWAYS, RAIL WAYS. Paid Aberdeen ....... Ambg. Nottusr. Bost & Eastn. June....... Birmng. Wolverh & Stour Valley .. Birkenhd. Lancsh & Cheshire Junet...... Do. C'nesh. & Birk., £5O & £25 M 5.... Do., £20....... ....... Bristol & Exeter Caledonian. Chester & Nolyhead Cork and Bandon Cork, Blaci 8:. Pass Dublin&Belfast June Dundee Perth &Aber deen Junction 25 25 St. 50 I all 11i 100 111 all all all East Anglian (£25 L. & E. & L. & D.)..... Do., (.LlB E. & H ).. Eastern Counties ...1 Eastern Union, Class A. late E. U. 5h.... Do., do.. Do., B. & C........... East Lancashire East & West Ind. Dk. & Binning. June Edinburg% & Glasgow Edinb. and Peebles Edinb. Pith. &D undo , Clasgow & S. Western Great Northern Stk DO., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Gt. Sth. &West. (Ire.) Great Western Irish South-Easters. Lancaste & Carlisle Do., Thirds Laneash. &Yorkshire 'Do., Fifths Do., Wst. Riding Un Leeds Northern__ 100' 100 4V, 171 Liv. Crsby. & So uthpt. ' London & Blackwall Loud. Til.b. & Sthend. ronci.Bright.& S.Cst. London &N. Western, Do. Fifths London & S. Western Do £5O £40... Lndnd.rry.&Coleraine LrdndriT. & Ennisk. Mar ch.S'lef.&Liucln. Do., Man. &Lin. Un. Midland Do. Binning. & Derby Midland G. West. (Ir.) Do. a Sha7es .......... Newcastle &Carlisle.. New ;nark et............ 3 Do. Bury Extensions 16 Newpt.Aborg.&Htfd n Newry & Enniskillep all Newry Warreupoint' &Itostrevor 100 Norfolk. . • 100 100 100 100 Do., New Northn. Count' es Un North British . ...... (North Devon, N 0.1.. Do., No. 2............. Do., A Deferred ... Do., B Guaranteed North Staffordshire North Western.. N. & S. Westrn. June. Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton..... Scottish Central ...... Scottish Midland. Shrewsbury & Birmg. Do., L. & N. Westn. Guaranteed Stock... 100 20 11 100 Shrewsby. & Herefd. Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W. Do. Halves, do Do. Oswestry Sh.•opshire Union South Devon South Eastern.. South Wales.. S. Yorksh. River Dun Stockton & Hartlepl. Thames Haven Dock and Rai1way......... Vale of Neath......... Waterfd. & Kilkenny Waterford&Limeriek West C0rnwa11........ Wmbledow&Croydon Woodford York Newctl. &Berw Do. Extensions Do. G.N.E. Purchase York & N. 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New Union of London Union of Madrid par 51 53 77 78 SA 9 3IISCE: NEOTTS i 35 Australian Agricult. 4 Australsn.Pcific.Mail 5 Australn. Jtoyal Mail 3N Brit. American Land 32.1 Canada 5 Crystal Palace . _ . _ _ 2 Crystal Pal. of France 1 Eastern Steam 1 Electric Teleg. of Ir 14 Gen. Steam Navigat 50 General Screw Steam 2} Irish Beetroot Sugar all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel 2 Netherlands Land..., 2A Nrth. ofEuropeStea m all Peninsular & Oriental 25 Do. Do. 60 Royal Mail Steam 25 South Austral. Land 1 Submar. Telegraph 2 Univeral Emigration and Colonization 28A Van Diemen's Land 29,1 45 5 64 i 70 51 5 li 2 2t 1 14 4 ig 3i 4k4 f 6i 7 12 1 3 i i 55 i N 11 21 77 i 9 110 1115 [ex Peel &xd x(.l 109 6 15x Peel [and zd t:;i 57* - 59 is = ii 5656 17a a 19i MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.) GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISII CORN For the Weekended March 10,1853, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wa per Imperial Quarter. WHEAT. 'BARLEY. •ATS. RYE. BEANS. PEAS. •• 45a 9d 3ls 7d 18s 3d 30s 911 34s 8d I its Gd DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. WHEAT. BARLEY. I OATS. I RTE. I BEANS. I FEAR. Is Od is 05 Is Od Is Od is Od Is Od QUANTITIES OF GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK. Wheat, 84,548; Barley, 74,882 ; Oats, 21,951; Rye, 51 ; Beats, 7,996; Peas, 2,795 quarters. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, Si 5s to 4/ 15s ; clover ditto, 4/ 5s to 5/ 5s ; and straw, 1/ 8s to 11 16s per load. A full average supply, and a steady demand. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 3/ 8s to 4/ 16s ; clover ditto, 4/ 5s to Si Os ; and straw, 1/ 8s to 11 17s per load. Supply tolerably good, and trade rather dull. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 3/ 5s to 41 15s ; clover ditto, 4/ 5s to Si 5s • and straw, 11 S s t o 11 16 s p e r l oa d. Trade steady, at full prices. MEAT MARKETS. NEWGATH AND LEADENHALL.—The general demand was in a very sluggish state, yet prices wore supported. Beef, 28 6d to 38 6d ; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 6(1; Veal, 38 itd. to 48 4d ; Pork, 2s 6d to 4s per Blbs, by the carcase. SOUTHALL, MARCH 9.—The supply of stock at this market to-day was tolerably good. The general demand rulen heavy, as follows :—Beef, 3s Od to 4s Od ; Mutton, 3s 8d to 58 Od ; Veal, 3s 6d. to 48 3d ; Pork, 33 Od to 38 10d per 81bs, to sink the offal. ROMFORD, MARCH 9.—Our market ruled heavy to day, and the prices of this day week wero barely supported. Beef, from 3s 2d to 4s Od ; Mutton, 4s Od to 58 2d ; Veal, 3s 6d to 4s 2d ; Pork, 3a Od to 3s 10d per 81bs. Quarter old Store Pigs, 20s to 25s each. HAILSHAM, MARCH - 9.—The general demand ruled steady for all kinds of stock at this market to-day, at full prices. Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 2d ; Mutton, 4s Od to 5s 4d ; Pork, 3s 2d to 3s 10d per Blbs. . . _ ARUNDEL, MARCH B.—Our market is firm, at full prices. Beef, from 3s 6d to 4s 2d ; Mutton, 4s Od to 5s 2d ; Pork, 3s 2d to 3s 8d per Blbs. CHICHESTER, LARCH 9.—The demand for each kind of stock at this market to-day was steady, at full prices. Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 2d ; Mutton, 4s Od to 5s 2d ; Pork, 3s 4d to 3s 8d per 81bs. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DA Y.) S., light airs, Noon, and LONDON, fine elear M arch weath lo er .— . Liverpool from Sydney, N.S.W., to the 4th o f D ecem b er. They state that the Sydney (s) was to leav e th e f ollow i ng day for England. 10.—Wind n Lettersd atthNavoe been received at DEAL, March 9.—Wind, S.S.W., light airs and thick fog. Arrived from the River—Ann Ingate, for Geelong. SOUTHAMPTON, March 9.—Wind, B.W. Sailed—Severn (s), Brazils. FALMOUTH, March 9.—Wind, variable. A rr i,,,,d_ Haeti, Aux Cayes. The Markland, of Walderborough, water. logged and abandoned, was passed on the Bth list., in lat. 34 N., 71 W. - - 60;'VE . i, March 9.—Wind, S.E. Arrived—Bortha, Hro► vannah. ____ _ ... _ . --. LIVERPOOL, March 9.—Wind, S.S.W. A rr i ved _ union Eew Orleans ; Affghan, Mobile ; Meridian, do. ; Je ss i e: Charleston ; Neptune, Madras ; Adventure, Bonny, War lock, Valparaiso ; Thane of Fyfe, Buenos Ayres ; Wan derer, Demerara ; Janet, Laguna; National Eagle, New Orleans ; Desdemona, do. ; Sulley, Mobile ; Po r tl an d , d o. ; Windsor Castle Apalachecola ; Matilda, Savannah ; Ala bama, Charleston; Telegraph, St. John's N.B. S a il e d— E. Z., New York ; Emma , C alcutta ; Philo, Lima • Wal ter, Valparaiso ; Naparina, Coquimbo ; Atlanti c (s), New York ; President, Boston. Off Port—Thomas Miller, Charles Watson, John Cum min g , Richard Battersby, Alcoste, Johnston, Allw ton, and Australia. Dundee, ON Ar ZS g T o O t F F i n con tact with the Lady Barri e d a ls ( s ) , an d E ' March 9.—The Sovereign, Lo n d on t o D rec eived very considerable damage. y, Liverpool to Bonny, at the latterhehLy W place sle on the 15th of January, and was abandoned b y the crew, who took a por tion of the carg o to Fernando Po. She w as subsequently wentPLYMOUTH, got off, with los s of rudder onl y , and a nchored at New ashore March 9. Calabar. GRIMSBY, March 9,—The Placedia, London to Shields, the Morgana, London to Hartlepool, and the James and Ann, London to Shields, on shore near the Spurn Light, have keen got off 7 the latter melee water, London & N. West. Gt.Westn ,Do ........ ALINES. Closing Prices this day. LIT E I? A TURC. Life and Campaigns of the Duke of Wellington. D. M. Aird. A really splendid and beautiful contribution has here been added to our cheap illustrated literature. Its subject, as indicated on the title-page, is one eminently calculated to command for it immediate popularity—though many will naturally be dis posed to conjecture that it is a subject by this time tolerably well exhausted. For ourselves we can not but acknowledge that we have had quite enough, in the shape of portraits and memoirs, at least for a little while yet to come, of his Grace the late Duke of Wellington. Every conceivable, and sometimes one might fancy it almost inconceivable, term of eulogium has been employed in reference to that remarkable man by the " thousand and one" commemorators on his extraordinary career, who, instead of recounting a history, have seemed lite rally to have been celebrating an apothebsis. It has been said of the great Napoleon by one who has failed to appreciate his character, we mean by no less a writer than M. de Lamartine, that, since the period of his demise at St. Helena, his features have been flattered in stone, and bronze, and marble—by the brush of the artist, and the needle of the engraver, and the chisel of the sculptor. But whether or no this be the case (which we don't at all conjecture, seeing that the countenance of the Conqueror of Europe has been described as emi nently beautiful in every feature, and in the whole contour of that majestic head, by the unanimous opinion of his contemporaries), there can be very little doubt but , that the memory of the vic tor of 'Waterloo has been hugely flattered since the hour of -his memorable departure. The great qualities observable in that remarkable cha racter we have altays recognised, but we never could induce ourselves to believe that in it were to be found what has never yet been discovered in mortal—perfection. Hence we haVe shrunk with sentiments not very unlike those pro duced by disgust from the over-laying of panegyric in so many recently published bio graphies. Among these we rejoice to believe that the memoir before us cannot be enumerated. Nevertheless, it gives all due honour to the fame of the illustrious hero. Besides the letterpress, which is stated to be from the hand of a popular author, the book is adorned with a profusion of spirited and most attractive embellishments. Among these embellishments are pictures of battles, sketches of notable incidents, and a variety of equestrian portraits—comprising amongst the latter, engraved likenesses of Marshal Junot, and of Lord Paget, and of Marshal Massena, and of Lord Gough, and others—conspicuous on the title-page, of course, being the effigy of the Duke of Wellington. The publication altogether is a marvel of cheapness, as the fruit of no inconsiderable enterprise. 'The London Clubs : Their Avecdotes and History. One volume. Henry Adams. By a curious coincidence, the little volume before us came into our hands a, very few days before the appearance of that pleasant introductory article on " Clubs and Clubbists " in the current March num ber of Blackwood's Magazine. By a curious coin cidence, we say, because the writer of that paper laments at the very outset of his gossipping lucubra tions, the non-existence of any work of the very character by which the book here under notice is actually distinguished. It must be confessed, that a publication of this character had really for a long time been required, as the writer in Maga has re marked with some show of interest in the charm of its ultimate production. As a preliminary to a work somewhat larger and more elaborated, the volume issued from the press by Mr. Adams must be regarded as welcome to more than the contributor to Blackwood. It will be hailed, we doubt not, with satisfaction by the vast majority of those town men—whose name is legion—having a personal interest in the origin and doings of such establishments as those conspicuous by their architecture among the shops or private dwelling-houses of Pall-mall and Piccadilly. Whoever has compiled the agreeable narrative here presented to the public, must be allowed to have acquitted himself delightfully enough, even if his pages be submitted to the hy percritic, or (which is pretty much the same) the curmudgeon. A glorious jumble of chit-chat in troduces the reader to the general history of the Clubs of London a history rendered probable throughout by the circumstance of its being pro fusely intermingled with appropriate and illustra tive anecdotes. First of all, in this amiable gossip, we have mention of the • famous " Mermaid, in Friday Street, founded by Sir Walter Raleigh, who then introduced to the English the extraordinary and delightful novelties of—the po tato and tobacco ! Delightful, we say, with all submission to those who regard the former as having proved the bane of Ireland, and with all respect for the enthusiastic horror entertained for the latter by our excellent and merry George Cruikshank—himself, once upon a time, according to his own acknowledgment, a habitual dallier with the meerschaum. Another club of the same match less ago of poetry and good fellowship was—Ben Jonson's own—the "Devil Tavern," near Temple Bar. Here it was that, assisted by the learning of Selden, that rare humorist penned his celebrated Leges Convivales. Overleaping a considerable in terval in our national history, we come to the clubs of the days of Dryden—clubs witl'i such whimsical titles as the " Club of Kings," and the " Club of Ugly Faces." Contemporary with ;these was the " King's Head, or Green Ribbon Club," described amusingly by Roger North in his " Examiner." Subsequently, towards the middle of the last cen tury, was established the " Beefsteak Club," a resort of some celebrity. Another club, founded about the same time, and of a similar character, though described by the writer of the present volume as perhaps of a " more refined order," was the " King of Clubs," the members of which as sembled at the Crown and Anchor, in the Strand, every Saturday. Having duly mentioned the fore going, and some few others of lesser importance, our anonymous author arrives at last at the more magnificent system of MODERN CLUBS—the subject more immediately under consideration. Speci mens of this system—such as the Albion, and the Clarence, and the Cocoa Tree, and Graham's, and Watier's—although of comparatively recent origin have already become extinct, and most of them nearly forgotten. Not so those which are found afterwards enumerated. Twenty-four of these are sufficiently remarkable to be particu larised White's. Boodle's. Brookes's. The Union. Alfred. Arthur's. Senior United Service. Junior United Service. The Army and Navy. Traveller's. Oriental. Carlton. Reform. Conservative. Athenaeum. Senior University. Oxford and Cambridge. Wyndham. Parthenon. Arectheum. Garrick. The Law. City and Gresham. Whittington. Sevesal of the anecdotes related in connection with some of these clubs are highly amusing, but the so-called " witticisms " of Selwyn are, to ours thinking, in the very last degree abor tive and abominable. If these be examples of his wit, surely the man must have been the most intolerable of bores ; and when we remember that he was not of our time, we can dilly be grateful for being spared such an infliction. What a melancholy notion of wit they must have had in those days, if Selwyn was ranked foremost among their Dii Majores ! Besides these twenty-four clubs above enumerated, there is another the name of which does not appear in the catalogue, and which is only mentioned at the close of the volume quite incidentally—the " Coventry " in Piccadilly. As an appendix are given the rules and regulations of four of these great establishments—the Army and Navy, the Oxford and Cambridge, the Conservative, and the Athenaeum--selected for that purpose by the writer, because they may reasonably be said to, represent the four orders making up the entire system, namely the Military, the University, the Political, and the Literary. Altogether the little volume is quite a repertory of entertaining anecdotes. Giving the history of clubs—it is the vale mecum of clubbists. Villette. By Currer Bell. 3 vols. Smith and Elder. The fame of " Jane Eyre" has placed its author in the somewhat hazardous position of those from whom great things are expected—whose writings are anticipated with anxious curiosity, and are sub jected to the test of severest scrutiny. In many . respects " Villette" will not disappoint the ad mirers of " Jane Eyre," but the general feelings in spired by the perusal of this book will be those of surprise rather than interest, and of admiration rather than pleasure—surprise and admiration at the power which it reveals rather than interest or pleasure in the story or the sentiments. " Jane Eyre" was a book that one could hardly lay down until it was finished, so breathless and absorbing was the interest which it excited ; and " Shirley, though less powerful, arrested our warm sympa thies in behalf of the gentle Caroline and the fitful heroine, but in " Villate" the peculiar tempera ment of the narrator and heroine (for they are one) exerts its influence over the reader. All manifes tation of feeling is kept down with rigid determi nation. There is, however, an under current of interest excited by the strong emotions, guessed at rather than revealed, which smoulder beneath the placid manner of the quiet and insignificant Lucy Snowe. Never was her o i ne act • uncgemomotisly, BO sineag thu day. - - treated by novelist. Fortune herself was not a more cruel step-dame to this friendless, homeless girl than is this arbiter of her imaginary destiny. Never are we rightly introduced to Lucy— " Who was her father —who was her mother ? Had she a sister—had she a brother ?" We are even now ignorant. Quietly, unostenta tiously, she makes her appearance, without any in troduction ; and speaking of others, not of herself, we at first were inclined to believe her some mere nobody who was going to relate to us the history of those around her, like the " Old Man" of Mrs. Marsh's tales. The first chapter takes us to " my godmother's house at Bretton," and makes us acquainted with sensible, respectable Mrs. Bretton, and her good-hearted, somewhat self willed son Graham, and a little visit or , Paulina, a delicate, clever, " old-fashioned" child. The scene changes. Troubles, which are never revealed to us, have passed over the head of Lucy. Estranged from her godmother's family, bereft of friends and fortune, though of what friends and of what fortune we are ignorant, she resides for a time as companion to a wealthy, irritable invalid, some distant rela - tive—Miss Marchmont. After a painful, wearying attendance upon the fitful moods of the invalid, Lucy is again left solitary--Miss Marchmont dies, but before her death occurs one beautiful scene. When relieved from pain, the irritable mind be comes tranquil, and the old lady relates to Lucy the love-story of her youth, and her life's sorrow, drawing therefrom a moral until then neglected. She would make others happy, and begin "to-mor row" with Lucy. But to her that " to-morrow" never comes. Once more alone, with the world all before her,, some chance circumstances induce Lucy to venture across the Channel. She lands at Bone marine, and having on her passage made acquaint ance with Miss Ginevra Fanshawe, a pupil of Ma dame Beck, who keeps a Pensionmit des Demoi selles at Villette, Lucy is induced to proceed to that town, the capital of Labassecour, and at Madame Beck's establishment, in the Rue Fos- Bette, she is engaged as English governess. Ma dame ‘Beck and her establishment form an lteresting study. They are portrayed with a mas _ erly touch, and give occasion to no small exhi tion of the writer's sarcastic power. Madame Beci is a model schoolmistress (after her fashion). Hap. piness and order prevail in her domain. No re. proaches are heard from her lips, no officious inter. ference annoys her subalterns. The system of Madame's government is secret espionnage. With gentle movement and noiseless tread Madame, un discovered herself in most cases, discovers all things. Tb Lucy this secret becomes known on her first arrival. When she has retired to rest in her appointed place in the dormitory, she observes a figure by her bedside, and, feigning sleep, takes cognisance of Madame Beck's movements. Every article of Lucy's apparel is turned over with a care ful hand, her pockets searched, and everything, after examination, returned to its original place with scrupulous exactitude. Lucy has no secrets, 'and therefore submits with good humour to the system and with a certain admiration even recog nises Madame's skill. The sketches of character in this book are admirable. Madame Beck is a mas terpiece of 'portrait-painting. Excellent, also, is Miss Ginevra. Fanshawe, the type of a some w h a t numerous class of would-be delicate and sentimen tal young ladies, who are in fact selfish in feeling, and anything but refined in conduct. Very dif ferent is Pauli a. The exquisite delicacy with which her very peculiar character is delineated proves that Currer Bell is equally felicitous in the finer and more graceful branches of art, as in those broad outlines in which she pourtrays a Madame Beck, or a Miss Ginevra. Graham Bretton, or Dr. John, as he is often called (who, with his mother is residing at Villette), is a character more generally met with in real life than in novels. Not quite so perfect as the ordinary heroes of a fiction are generally represented, hb is, nevertheless, a very excellent and attractive individual, for a while " made a fool of", by Miss Gi uevra , but afterwards raised to his true level by the nobler influence of Paulina. One other character we must mention, and that not the least important. In the PCM sionnat of Madame Beck, M. Paul Emanuel is the Professeur de Litterature ; and being related to Madame, and a frequent visitor at the Pensiomult, he exercises considerable influence in the establish ment. He is the most impetuous and excitable of men, self-willed and domineering ; but, withal, kind-hearted and benevolent to excess. " Vif comlne la poudre" himself, he abuses poor, quiet, reserved Lucy for that very characteristic. But through all the abuse and bitterness so bountifully lavished on her devoted head, the real feelings of the Professeur for the English governess are easily discovered. In the third volume of her history Lucy acquires new interest in our eyes (for at first, Booth to say, we find her a very uninteresting person age)—her natural emotions, stimulated rather than repressed by the very unjustifiable interference of Madame Beck and other friends of the Profes seur, at length - bid defiance to that iron hand with which she was wont to repress their every manifestation. M. Paul has accepted some mission to India ; he has quitted the Pensionnelt. Will he leave the country without a farewell or explanation to Lucy ?—will the manoeuvres of Madame Beck be successful ? The chapters in which this problem is debated recal to us the vivid power of " Jane Eyre." We enter into the agonising suspense of Lucy as she listens to every foot-fall, until her sus picions are aroused to certainty by Madame Beck's summons for the English governess to her chamber to write a letter for her ! We can fancy the strain-` ing nerves with which that dictation is listened to, until the noise of an arrival in the class -room is heard also ; and Lucy, with quiet determination, tells Madame that she must see what it is, and Ma dame accompanies her, and even then proves more than a match for her. The sequel we will leave to the readers of " Villette." We have said enough to give an idea—but a very faint idea—of the ad mirable collection of sketches of character here grouped together. The story, excepting occa sionally, as in the instance just alluded to, pos sesses no very powerful interest. The loves of Graham and Paulina are feelingly described, and the manner in which the happiness of their lives is spoken of forms a beautiful and refreshing contrast to the general tone of the book—for the tone of feeling which runs through " Villette" is 'bitter rather than tender. With a - skilful hand human passions and actions are analysed, but the analysis is conducted on such a principle that the worst qualities only of those passions and actions are brought to the surface. All the alloy which min gles with human motives becomes manifest at the test of Currer Bell ; but the pure gold, which, in a greater or less degree, is infallibly to be found side by side with that alloy, is passed over in the scrutiny, and not taken into account. To this rule there are occasional exceptions, some of which we have particularised ; but those exceptions are, as we have said, only the more refreshing by reason of the arid nature of the philosophy with which they mingle. The following passages will give some idea of the power of the writing and the force of the sentiments : DISCIPLINE. " These struggles with the natural character, the strong native bent of the heart, may seem futile and fruitless, but in the end they do good. They tend, how ever slightly, to give the actions, the conduct, that turn which reason approves, and which feeling perhaps too often opposes ; they certainly make a difference in the general tenor of a life, and enable it to be better regu lated, more ,equable, quieter on the-surface ; and it is on the surface only the common gaze will fall. As to what lies below, leave that with God. Man, your equal, weak as you, and not fit to be your judge, may be shut out thence. Take it to your Maker—show Him the secrets of the spirit He gave—ask Him how you are to bear the pains He has appointed—kneel in His presence, and pray with faith for light in darkness, for strength in piteous weakness, for patience in extreme need. Cer tainly at some hour, though not perhaps your hour, the waiting waters will stir in some shape, though not per haps the shape you dreamed, which your heart loved, and for which it bled, the healing herald will descend. The cripple, and the blind, and the dumb, and the pos sessed will be led to bathe. Herald, come quickly ! Thousands lie round the pool, weeping and despairing, to see it through slow years stagnant. Long are the times' of Heaven ; the orbits of angel messengers seem wide tQ mortal vision ; they may enring ages ; the cycle of one departure and return may clasp unnumbered generations, and dust kindling to brief suffering life, and through pain, passing back to dust, may mean while perish out of memory again, and yet again. To how many maimed and mourning millions is the first and sole angel visitant—him easterns call Azrael." SUSPENSE. "I think if eternityheld torment, its form would not be fiery rack, nor its nature despair. I think that on a among those days which never dawned, and day among an angel entered Hades—stood, shone, certain wilt no d t smiled, delivered a prophecy of conditional pardon, kin dled a doubtful hope of bliss to come, not nove, but at a day and hour unlooked for, revealed in his own glory and grandeur the height and compass of his promise — spoke thus, then towering, become a star, and vanished was suspense —a worse into his own heaven. His legacy legacy than despair. * . " I always, through- my wh *ole le, like to to the real truth ; I like seeking theif goddess in penetrate her tem ple and handling the veil, and daring the dread glance. 0, Titaness amongst deities ! The covered outline of thine aspect sickens often through its uncertainty, but ~ define to us one trait—show us one lineament clear wit ' h awful sincerity, we may gasp in untold temerity. Cur heart gasp we drink in a breath of thy divinity. _ n l ift e d by heart shakes, and its currents sway like r e i n v ji 6 i. T o sFe earthquake ; but we have swallowed am f e a r her main and to know the worst is to take fr I advantage." No mockery in this world ever hollow as th a t o f b e i ng CULTIVATE turrixEs s sounded t me so t o ld to cultivate happinesso . 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Happmegs is a glory shining far down upon us out of heaven. Sh e is a divine dew which the soul, uncertain of its summer mornings, feels dropping upon it from the amaranth bloom and golden fruitage of Paradise." FLOWERS. " I only had no bouquet. I like to see flowers grow ing; but when they are gathered they cease to please. I look on them as rootless and perishable—tkeir likeness to life makes me sad. I never offer flowers to those I love." Amabel • or, the Victory of Love. By Mary Eliza beth Wormeley. 3 vols. Smith and Elder. There is a deep meaning in this tale, although it may appear at first sight but a simple fiction to while away an idle hour. The, authoress has evi dently a purpose above amusement, and a design beyond edification. The characters are exceedingly well drawn, that of the heroine in particular—she is described in all her various stages of early exist ence, for the narrative terminates while she is still young. She is entirely the creature of the extra ordinary circumstances in which she is placed—an ordinary routine career would never have produced such results, or witnessed such emotions. The only drawback to this style of composition is, that it cannot be so pleasing or so gratifying to the taste as a more unassuming but less masterly class. Instead ofsoothing, it stirs; instead of calming, it excites); but then it rouses the spirit in a noble cause—that of devoting passion to principle, sensibility to reason, self to oth ers . Amabel's faults are evident : she studied her own pleasure, her own convenience too much at first. With no friends to take an in terest in her, and with a mother who had almost cast her off; she did not feel herself bound to give up her opinions, whatever they were. Hence arose many of her mistakes, her engagement with Felix, when he had no position to offer her, and when she was ignorant of his character ; and, subsequently, her imprudent marriage with Captain Warner, con tracted with a view to interest and policy, not with a feeling of regard, much less of affection. The authoress shines conspicuously forth in her delineation of such a union. The structure based on that false foundation, never yet could hold fast against the storms of fate. The only safeguard in the perilous course would be to preserve caution, and exercise self-denial; but that is not to be expected from those who can sacrifice their affections, and shut out their convictions of right and wrong. Still, as human beings will per sist in trying the experiment for themselves, in defiance of the answer given to others by Fate— " Where its whirlwinds have answered no," it is desirable that such a casualty should be considered by novelists. Admirably is it depicted here, Amabel married t o ma k e h erself happy. In escap ing from a wretched family, she never considered that she had undertaken to please her husband, and exert herself in his house, in consequence of which she gave nothing but dissatisfaction. Cap tain Warner was very much to blame in his way of acting, for he did not consider the difficulties of her position, or make enough allowances for her • at last he quite ne g l e at e d h er, w h en she really liad done nothing wrong. Her subsequent follies and faults are too numerous to clW:ell . on here ; suffice it to pass over the causes, and trace the effects. Amabel was discarded by her husband, and had to return to her stepfather's home. He had lost her fortune for her (which her husband had generously returned on their separation), and it was therefore necessary for Amabel to exert herself in every way for the benefit of the family. Here she showed her true character, here she displayed her right disposition ; she was still a girl when consigned to a widow's fate, but the feelings of a noble-hearted and up right-minded woman, abeyant in prosperity, deve loped themselves in adversity, and gave life and vigour to her state th a t h a d seeme d worse than death. Her energy sustained a drooping circle, her talents kept together a decayed family, and, above all, her patience, her charity, and her reso lution prevented discord from reigning in a con fused and disorganised household. In the latter portion of the work the interest is of the highest kind, in the pourtraying of Amabel's now natural regard for her husband, whose merits she too late had discovered, and whose love for her had made him over susceptible and jealous, in the struggles pride had to encounter, the work patience had to perform, the suffer- • ings newly awakened feelings had to endure, and, above all, in the unequal contest that a weak woman, lovely and unprotected, had to wage against a piti less world, the authoress rises to the height that is due. Amabel committed nothing but folly— crime was far from, her—but the appearance of evil was her ruin for a time. In the end she met her husband through the intercession of friends ; but again doubt came between them, and he went to Africa. Amabel was staying at Portsmouth when his ship returned • the plague raged on board ; all were forbidden to approach . the deadly neighbourhood. Then the forsaken wife aroused herself, she felt she could be of service, and the consciousness of that enabled her to be strong in virtuous pride. She bribed the boatmen in the dead of night : they conveyed her on board—that ship, so neglected and deserted, the grave of many a gallant heart, shunned by all who beheld it, was her forlorn hope of life's happi ness, her land of promise after an awful desert wandering. The storm increased, the ship drifted down the coast, till at last they were inveigled by " wreckers" on the shores of Brittany. Captain Warner, who had been seized by the plague, roused himself in the danger, and contrived to save himself and Amabel. Then, tried in the furnace of affliction, he recognised his wife. Pre vious explanation had cleared away his doubts as to her conduct, and he now acknowledged " that which could brave pain, fear, and death" could be no dream nor delusion. Tins was the victory of love. In sorrow, in suffering, and in shame Ama bel fought.well and bravely—it was but meet that at last she should win the spoils of triumph, and in her long-desired home she should rest—" her warfare o'er." The characters of the subordinates in this tale are ably given, and it will, doubtless, become a favourite with many. If in the com mencement it may not appear attractive, it gains on the attention, and the force and pathos of its final scenes are enough to entitle the authoress to consideration and eulogium of the highest order. Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn. Vols. 3 and 4. Colburn. The two first volumes of this very excellent edi tion of Evelyn's famous diary have already 'ap peared. The third and fourth, which are now before us, complete the work, and furnish us with much interesting correspondence never before pub lished. Among others are many letters from Jeremy Taylor—one of the most delightful of English writers, as well as one of the greatest of Anglican. divines. Added to the correspondence of John Evelyn is a collection of the letters of his excellent .and accomplished lady, who, according to the char acter here given of her by Dr. Bohun, must have been a most loveable and admirable woman. The private correspondence between Charles I. and Sir Edward Nicholas, and between Lord Clarendon. (when Sir Edward Hyde) and Sir Richard Browne, are also given, and the whole has been edited (from the original SS. at Wotton) by Willia inv i iia g rba: Esq. These four volumes, beautifully printed and well arranged, will be treasures to those who de light in genuine curiosities of literature, while to the student of history they will be Now, on the completio n o f th e entire work., -w e must congratulate both editor and publisher en th e very excellent manner in which they hav e present e d it to the public. RAILWAY TR AFFIC RETURNS. LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY.TraffiC Teo. week last year .................... 16,477 8 3 turn for the week ending March 6, 1853 ...... 21.8,133 Corresp•nding CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY. —Traffic return for railway and steam-boats for the week ending March 6, 1853 ................. . . .................... 23,194 4 6 Corresponding week last year ..... 2,489 19 8 Increase in 1853 ............................. £m 4 1 0 GLASGOW A ND SOUTH-NPUSTERIC RAlLWAY.—Traffi c sre- Corres p on ding Week 1a5 24,120 i„ 11 turn for th e Week ending march 5, 1853 3,746 t year u Increase in 1853 £374 16 6 al o " n e° der for the' . ...-uQ, -, Exhibition Majesty'share th entered upon e occupation of this and other houses on the estate recently ~ purchased at Kensington, and have permitted the Department of Practical Art to hold the next exhi bition of the works of the students of all the schools of art there in the month of May, as the space at Marl borough -house is already fully occupied. The same oc casion will be used to make an exhibition of cabinet work for the benefit of the students in the furniture class ; and it is said that her Majesty has been pleased to allow examples from • the Royal palaces to be placed in the proposed exhibition. THE FORGED ORDER ON SIR BENJAMIN HEYWOOD A ND CO.—The young ma n charged with forging an order on Sir Benjamin Heywood and Co., bankers, Man chester, for 3001., formerly a clerk in their employ, who was remanded by the magistrates yesterday week, was a gain brought up yesterday. Mr. Cobbett then stated for the prosecution that the case would be abandoned unless the magistrates insisted on their proceedin g direct They could carry the case ver y littl e further by evidence, and the instrument called a confession of disclosures made to Mr. Wright, probably consisted understanding they would not be given on the tion ; and Heywoods did not wish t to the proseeu magistrates said it was a case not f 0 use th em. Tho evidence was not given they m or them to deed • 1 e—if He was accordingly discha must discharge the prisoner. THE CONSERVATIVE rged, LAND Soo, chase of the society was made SOCIETY, —The s i x th pur- Hertfordshire, betw een the yesterday (Tuesday) in towns of Ware and Hertford. St. St. St. St. 133 20 20 50 j 20 20 50 20 lIGN. 33 ii ni i 1 1 127 i 2og i idis lgt; • 2i p lidis 6:tp 1p 2p 2p i P 7 1 4 d 11 p 2/1p 14i 9 1811) 43i 42s 34 fib 51i 121 f 3i xd xd xd xd Do Do 151.