The Sun. — London, England, 1853-04-02 00:00:00

SUN LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, London. SHARE OF PROFIT INCREASED UR-FIFTHS. FROM ONE-HALF TO FO The Managers beg to rem!nd the public that persons effecting Po- Ncies with this Society now or before Midsummer, 1853, will PARTI CIPATE IN FOUR-FIF LUIS of the Net Profits of the Society :t the next Division, in proportion to their contributions to those pro fits, and according to the conditions contained in the Society's Prospectus. The Premiums required by this Society for insuring Young Lives are lower than in many other old-established offices, and Insurers are fully protected from all risk by an ample guarantee fund, in ad dition to the accumulated funds derived from the investments o Premiums. be obtained at the Office in Thre adneedle-street, ProspectUSeS may London, or of any of the Agents of the Society. CHARLES HENRY LIDDERDALE, Actuary. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, APRIL '2, Will be performed UE SHERIFF OF THE COUNTY. Cha racters by Messrs. Til T bury, William Farren, Henry Corri, Buck stone. A. Payne, Compton, and Rogers; Miss Stanley, Poynter, Miss Ellen Chaplin, &c. After which MR. BUCKSTONE'S ASCENT OF MOUNT PAlt- NASSUP. To conclude with THE TWO QUEENS. ROYAL PRINCESS'S TIIEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Manazement of Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING, APRIL 2, Will be performed the new and original Oimeiy, in three acts, by Douglas Jerrold, entitled ST. CUPID; or, Dorothy's Fortune. Principal characters by Menrs. w right, W. Lacy. liar ey, J. Via Ing. Terry, F. Cooke, Everett, and Chestrr ; Mrs. W. Lary and Miss Dinner. After which will be produced a new Drama, adapted from the the French of Mons. Scribe, by Mr. Pa:grave Simpson, called MARCO SPADA. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestrts. THIS EVENING, Arait 2, Will be presented A MANGE HISTORY. Characters by b Madame Vestris, Mrs. F. Matthews, Miss Julia St. George, Miss Robertson, Miss Rosina Wright, Miss Masot., Mrs. Horn, and Miss Wadham ; Mr. C. Mathews, 51 r. F. Matthews, Mr. R. Rozby, Mr. Cooper, Mr. J. Bland, Mr. Belton, Mr. B. Baker, Mr. Rosiere, &c. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPIII. Pro2rietor, Mr. B. Webster. —Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, APRIL 2, Will be presented WEBSTER AT HOME, AN ADELPHI FARE OF THREE REMOVES AND A DESSERT. Characters by Messrs. B. Webster, L. Murray, Keeley, &c.; Miss F. Haskell and Mrs. L. Murray, &c. After which, A NOVEL EXPEDIENT. With TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS. THE PRETTY GIRLS OF STILBERG. PEPINO THE DUMB BOY, AND PUG, HIS MONKEY. ffilvs, LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1853. The present Government has had its " quar ter's trial." What can we divine of its future from its brief past ? Will it be strong enough for its place ? What truth there may be in the occasional rumours of a split in the Cabi net no one can tell while the thirteen secret voters keep their oaths. Likelihood was, no doubt, father sometimes to the thought, but sometimes it might have a better foundation in the known personal preferences of the contrasted but united Ministers. The Puseyites stomached as they best could the appointment of a Low Church Bishop to Lincoln, and have consoled themselves by compelling Lord JOHN to beat a retreat on the Clergy Reserves Bill, and obtaining an honorarium for Episcopacy at the cost of our Consolidated Fund. Radicals and Tories remained faithful, however, to their liaison. The Tories voting in the majority to make a clean sweep of Canadian Church matters, and even Sir WM. MOLESWORTH complacently giving his " aye" to the expunging of the all-important third clause. In like man ner, the Liberals in the Cabinet were equally prompt to support Mr. GLADSTONE in staving off " good resolutions." Whether Mr. HUME proposed to pledge the house to an early abolition of all protective duties, or Mr. WILLIAMS to the self-evident justice of subjecting all succes sors of property equally to Legacy and Probate Duties—whether it was to deprive the Exchequer of monopoly gains, or to enrich it by the most equitable and least oppressive of taxes—it was all one ; Radicals and Tories were equally steady un der the fire of Reformers. They kept an un broken front. Nothing would make them yield to a " good resolution." It reminds one in-Vo luntarily of Butler's satire on the Presbyterian theologians— "What makes morality a crime The most notorious of the time ? Morality—which both the saints And sinners too, cry out against." Attacks from the Opposition they have also got over very wtll—Lord ABERDEEN, by imperturb able silence, and Sir CHARLES WOOD by confes sion of his errors. The main question, there fore, emerges—What have they done ? Has the amount of work been proportioned to our fair ex pectations from such a working Cabinet ? Much, certainly, was not promised—it was only stipu lated that a small amount should be efficiently completed. How has this engagement been kept ? Three of the most important items— India, Education, and the Budget—have all been deferred till after Easter ; so have University R e f o rm, measures on Transportation Abolition and Secondary Punishments, a prospective mea sure on Bribery at Elections, and the whole affair of the Ecclesiastical Courts. Money, in the anti- Gallican panic, was voted, of course, as fast as it was asked for ; indeed, like CLIVE, in the pre sence of vast Indian native treasure, they may very well boast of " taking no more" when the House was so ready to give. On this point we thank them for doing the least they could. The Jews' Bill they have pushed to its third reading nearly; but for a too good-natured concession to Sir R. IL INGLIS, it might have now been in the House of Lords. Report says it is to be treated there as its predecessors have be en . If so , we s h a ll thi n k it a most discreditable piece of mismanagement. It i 4 acknowledged on all hands that there is no actual legislation to exclude Jews from Parlia ment. The form of an oath accidentally excludes them, and nothing but the most inveterate Red tapism would have gone beyond a vote of the House of Commons to authorise Jews to take the oath in the form most binding on their conscience. Lord GEOWENOR'S Bill t o limit the polling in counties to one day is got clean through both Housg EWSWIPUhnot a Government mea )e said of Mr. AIILNER which is advanced as the vigorous aid, how- On the subject of our G fa ,a e#3, .11t• e•-• \ s ,<2-1. ,,- . • k_J _ N. n. S Mercantile Marine ground has been broken ;—and this is all ! all that is yet done. Two-thirds of a Canada Bill, and a Jew Bill, with a list of mortify ing exclusions appended, both nearly through the Commons, is all yet done. The LORD CHANCEL LOR has, indeed, promised, some years hence, a digest of our Statutes ; and has introduced a mea sure for the Registration of Deeds, but Lord ST. LEONARDS, and Lord BROUGHAM appear to more than vie with the Woolsack in the work of Law Reform. Indeed, it has been frequently remarked that the House of Lords has been unusually active this session, and that its debates, while there is so little practical work • before it, has several times equalled in „interest those of the House of Com mons. If we look forward to the recommencement of Parliamentary work, the prospect is rather dubi ous. On the great question of India, the Govern ment is evidently in a very difficult position. There is no doubt, we think, that both Whigs and Tories last Session intended to have made a quiet job of it, and to have gone to sleep for an other twenty years. That is now impossible. Un less prepared to abolish the Court of Directors and the double Government at once, it will be impossible to meet Parliament with any measure which will be successful. It will not be endured, now that the Indian Committee having repoAed on one point only out of eight, an act to continue substanti ally the present enormous abuses should be smuggled through the House. Lord ELLENBOROUGH has told his tale, and told it well. The natives and British residents in India have sent their instructive pe titions. 111 r. NORTON has unveiled the details of unheard-of abuse of justice in the Courts, the Press and Independent Members are getting quite alive to the whole question, a vigilant Opposition has given up its apathy now that the field appears so promising, and the strong Government which hitherto spoke most superciliously of its " pre paredness to legislate," plainly begins to quail. Make-shift measures will bring down upon them a powerful antagonism of Tories and Independent Liberals. Strong measures, we fear, Sir CHARLES WOOD is utterly unprepared for. Here is their first great difficulty. On Monday, Lord JOHN is to announce his educational plans. Here, too, we have much misgiving. The Canadian business shows how powerful the Exeter party is in the Cabinet, and how he should at once propitiate that party, and the immense body of Dissenters of every kind too, we confess we do not see. Nothing would more rejoice us than a really unsectarian, comprehensive measure, but we fear Lord JOHN RUSSELL, especially when trammelled by a coali tion, is not equal to that. At the same time, the day for revealing the mysteries of the Budget is to be announced. That, of course, is to give satisfaction to none. An equal Legacy and Probate Duty would have enabled the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER to abolish protection duties, and part of the taxes on knowledge, too ; but he refuses to tax lords and landholders like shopkeepers and free holders. The Tea Duties and Income Tax he must do something with. What the compromise between his crotchetiness and the demands of the public will be no one can tell. We fear Mr. GLADSTONE will use his financial abilities to save the wealthy, to continue protective duties, and to do his utmost for property as distinguished from trades and professions. The most stirring part of the business done in the House of Commons has been quite irrespective of the Government. The Election Committees have been busy enough, and certainly done gene rally their part. They have already unseated six teen Members, nine Conservatives and seven Libe rals, and declared ten duly elected; and, as a pen dant to the usual disclosures, a Select Committee on the Norwich petitions has instructed us in the " batch" system and other election mysteries. All this we are, of course, to take as a substitute for a Reform Bill. It is preliminary evidence ; and if its impression has not vanished before 1854, we may expect some good to come from it then. All then that we can-learn-from three months' trial of our All-Talents and strong Ministry is, that the Tories, Liberals, and Radicals in the Cabinet vote well together—that they have done hitherto as little as they could ; that all the great and embarrassing questions are yet before them ; that on one occa sion already, Canada, they have been saved by the Tories from their own supporters ; that on India they must yield or be beaten ; and that on the Budget we have more fears than hopes. A movement is at length being made towards the more effectual abolition of the system of In tramural Interments, by the establishment of an adequate number of extramural or suburban Cemeteries. Sometimes, we believe, the same as sertion has been made before, but never we really believe with so much reason or with such a fair and rational prospect before us of seeing our hopes in this matter at last (however tardily) realised. What encourages us in this opinion is the remem brance that the question so long and pertinaciously set aside as of little importance, or at any rate as of very secondary consideration, has been reso lutely taken in hand by one of the most gifted and energetic of our administrators—meaning, of course, in this no other than the Right Hon. the Home Secretary, Viscount PALMERSTON. Since the Noble Lord assumed the head of that most honourable and responsible department, under the present 011a-podrida, or Happy Family, or Coali tion, or What-you-will Administration—a vigor ous effort, the first vigorous effort, the only vigorous effort yet made, has carried dis may amongst those great public offenders, who until now have flourished upon their evil doings with uninterrupted impunity. An order in Council has been selected as the only rational weapon for the punishment of the criminal sup porters of a monstrous and stupendous abomina tion. The determination of Lord PALMERSTON to adopt this decisive course was announced to the House of Commons, it will be remembered, in answer to an inquiry put to the Noble Viscount by the humane and indefatigable Representative of the Borough of Marylebone. Subsequently we have had agreeable intimation that other orders in Council will at intervals follow this preparatory one as applied to the burial-ground in the Strand, until gradually one by one the whole of those odious pits of corruption are closed, and closed permanently. Remembering how very shame full all our hopes of redress have been disap pointed by the Sanitary Commissioners—recol lecting how egregiously we have been deceived by the Legislature when looking to it for any such improvements—we cannot but hail with unusual rejoicing the resolve which has now been evinced by the Home Secretary. Without some proceed ing like that promised by Viscount PamiEßsTorr, we might sit down, not under our fig tree, in peace, but under a sort of moral upas, in despair, and in the midst of the clustered manufactories of pestilence. It might not unreasonably be asked by the generality of the public interested in such mat ters, What, during all this time, is being done by the originator of the whole of this terrible dead.- man's question, and, as such, of course, the vir tual originator of the entire sanitary movement. We don't here allude to Dr. SOUTHWOOD SMITH. Neither do we refer, by any means, to Mr. EDWIN CHADWICK. Neither do we speak of any other member of the vaunted commission estab lished in Gwydyr House. We mean a very dif ferent man from all these eminent philanthropists. We moan a man no less benevolent, but one rather more practical than theoretical. We mean necessarily and obviously, Mr. G. A. WALKER. It may be asked, we repeat, what Mr. WALKER is doing all this while in the prosecution of his generous and impor tant enterprise ? Surely the answer to any such inquiry must to any reasonable observer be at a glance sufficiently apparent. He has toiled in the cause year after year—he has written book after book, he has distributed pamphlet after pamphlet--in fact he has exhausted the subject and worn it threadbare. What more at his hands can be in reason expected ? Nothing can now enforce his arguments except—cholera or some other dreadful visitation. Doubtless in profound. chagrin at the indifference manifested by the gene ral community in a matter so wonderfully affeet ing their interest, their health, their eery lives, he is leaving the question to the impulse of some such terrible enforcement. If the torpor of our autho thorities can be exchanged for activity, it can only be speedily effected, we fear, by some fright ful and decimating devastation. Gradually, as we have said, the good work is even now being accomplished by the orders in Council decided upon by Viscount PALMXRSTON. But only gra dually. To have the alteration accomplished speedily, we must look with a sort of horrid fasci nation upon the on-coming of some inevitable plague or pestilence. The Indian difficulty is, after all, not so very formidable as to lead to a well-founded supposition I, - tit may prove insuperable. The whole ques tion resolves itself into one of patronage—nothing but patronage ! The simple point to be decided is, whether the disposal of the various situations of honour and emolument connected with our Oriental Empire is still to be vested in the Leadenhall-street potentates, to be by them dis tributed among their own friends and relatives, or in redemption of canvassing promises, among the friends and relatives of the proprietors of East India Stock who by their strenuous support had insured the election, and consequently the posses sion of patronage by the several Directors. The appointments are, with few exceptions, made without any reference to the fitness of the parties or the advantage of the country. The remunera tion is of the most liberal character—in many in stances far beyond the value of the services rendered. But it is maintained at the high rate, simply because the Directors are more interested in the well-being of the highly-salaried officials than of the myriads of .human beings whose comfort and happiness are confided to their charge. Every complaint of the native inhabitants is disregarded, because the accused party is known to possess a friend and protector in the COW . 6 of Directors, to whose influence or nomination he owes his posi tion. This is the more conspicuous in the CiNil Service, from which the most lucrative and, also, the most onerous and responsible situations are filled up. The value of a writership, the nomi nation of which is worth, at least, 10,000/. ster ling, averaging more than 2,0001. per annum while in employment, with a retiring pension of 1,0001., is so well known, that none but the nearest relatives of the Director whose turn it is to appoint can reasonably anticipate so great a boon. From these favoured class are selected the residents at the different Courts, the collectors, local judges, and assistant-col lectors. Whether the party be efficient or other wise, he must be employed ; and. that which is really the most important branch of all—the ad ministration of justice—is that for which the most incompetent and least-qualified men are selected. The revenue of a district cannot be placed in jeopardy by the continuance in office of an ineffi cient collector; but in place of getting rid of such a man, or finding some situation the duties of which he is capable of discharging, he is pitch forked on to the Judicial Bench, and the, lives, liberties, and fortunes of the wretched inhabitants are placed at his disposal. It is at all times bad enough to entrust such almost unlimited power even to the best-qualified person, when exempted from the check afforded by a practising Bar and full publicity. What, then, must it be when placed in the hands of men ignorant of the com monest principles of law, and without experience or mature judgment to guide or direct them ? It is said that "a tree may be known by its fruits ;" and certainly, if the statements contained in the petitions of the Native Associations of Madras and Bombay, to which we have already repeatedly di rected the public attention, be at all warranted by the facts, nothing can possibly be worse than the existing system. When we find vexatious delays, and heavy expenses, exceeding those of our own inkreformed Court of Chancery in its worst phases, amounting, in fact, to a total denial of justice, coupled with a total ignorance and disregard of the law by the presiding Judge, who - delivers his decrees according to his mere will and plea sure—when we find a Judge ( !) sentencing a plaintiff to pay to a defendant more ' than five thousand pounds as a fine for not establishing his claim to the satisfaction of the Judicial Dog berry, although ou the same evidence he ob tained a favourable decision from • a superior tri bunal, and ascertain that men have been actually sentenced to death (1) for acts which the Court of Appeal only considered sufficient to have them held to bail for 50 rupees or 5/. (! ! 1), we cannot wonder at the unenviable general character of the Company's judicial service, or the common appel lation bestowed on it in the country, as a " re fuge for the destitute," " all persons who are too incompetent for the revenue department being transformed into judges and dispensers of the criminal and civil law of the Mofussil."* Anything would be better than this. Aye, better that the situations should be pUt up and sold by public auction to the highest bidders. But it is to perpetuate this abomination that at tempts are about to be made, and as it is supposed under the auspices of the Ministerial leaders in both Houses of Parliament. A -id why ? On the stale pretext that it would be unsafe to entrust the Government for the time being with the dis posal of so much patronage, amounting to more than a quarter of a million sterling per annum (being nearly £ll,OOO worth a year to each Director). Surely, ample precautions might easily be adopted to guard against undue influences, and to find, if not the best, at least fully qualified men, for all vacant situations. Our legal appointments in this country, or in the Colonies, are not conferred upon incompetent per sons. If there be real danger in allowing the Minister of the day to fill up the judicial appoin+- ments, why might not the power be given to the Judges of the Superior Courts of Law and Equity of the three kingdoms in fair proportions ? Then, indeed, we might be certain that the prizes would be gained by deserving persons. Why, in like manner, might not the collectors and assist ant-collectors be chosen from those who had prac tical experience in the revenue departments in the United Kingdom ? A fair proportion should also be given to the natives—all should not be dis posed of among comparative strangers. It is needless to expatiate on the advantages of obtain ing tried and experienced men in place of raw boys for such situations. Vetter judges may be selected from Westminster Hall, the Four Courts, or the Courts of Session id Edinburgh, than from Haileybury ; better tax collectors from those engaged in the collection of the Inland or Cus toms revenue ; and there can be no question that the Horse Guards, or the Ordnance, or the Admiralty, could dispose of the commmissions in the Indian army and navy, as well as for her MAJESTY'S service, military or naval. Away, then, with the absurdity. Whatever may be the ulti mate decision on the various points, the Courts of Directors and Proprietors of India stock must be wholly and completely abolished ; or, at least, their only duty must be limited to receiving the high dividends for which they have bargained until the year 1874. * See Petition from Members of the Madras Native As sociation, p. 25, section 68. THE MINISTRY.—The Britannia, of this day, in a third edition, states that Sir W. Moleswortb, Mr. Cardwell, and Mr. Lowe, retire from the Ministry. RETURN OF THE AUSTRALIAN MAIL TO THE GENERAL POST-OFFICE.—This morning (Saturday) the whole of the bags (made up since the Melbourne mail) which were dispatched from the General Post-office, in St. Martin's le-grand, for the purpose of conveyace to their destina tion, vl4 Plymouth, were returned to the establishment in London, by special command of the Postmaster- General. The reason of this course being taken by his lordship was, that it was discovered, when a considerable mail was collected at Plymouth, that it would be some time before a vessel would be in readiness to convey the mail from that port. Consequently, with great and praiseworthy promptitude, the Right Hon. Viscount sent a dispatch to the Plymouth postmaster, authorising the immediate return of the bags to London. There are about twelve portmanteaus full of correspondence, and being placed in the great hall of the building in S,';. Martin's-le-grand, guarded by a police constable, they attracted much attention, probably in consequence of the recent disaster which has befallen Australian letters and newspapers. The reporter was informed by the authorities, that as no packet would be dispatched from Plymouth on the third proximo, the Postmaster-General has treated with the proprietors of the screw steam-ship Osmanli, by which, vid Liverpool, the returned bags will be forwarded on the 7th of April, ROYAL OLYMPIC, THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Farren. THIS EVENING, Aran 2, Will be presented SALVATORI ; or, the Bandit's Daughter. Supported by Messrs. H. Marston, F. Robson, and W. Morgan (their 6th appearance here), G. Cooke, Milled], and Clifton; Misses Anderton and H. Gordon. To be followed by the Farce of CATCHING AN HEIRESS. To conclude with the Ballet of THE DUMB RECRUI P. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. Sixth Night of the New Management.—New Dramatic and Eques trian Company.—New Spectacle and New Stud of Horses. THIS EVENING, Arum 2, Will be produced an entirely new grand spectacle, in three acts, by Fitzball (founded on principal recent hostile events in Kaffraria), entitled AMAKOSA ; or, Scenes of Kafir VVurfare ; with new scenery, costumes, and appointments. To be followed by SCENES of the ARENA. To conclude with a POPULAR FARCE. B n-oftlm open daily from .Eleven to Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. MIS DAY —Morning 9 min. after. 8 Evening 54 min.aft. 8 To•Morcxow—Morning 43 min. after 9 I Evening 31 mama& 1G THE WEATHER.-Sux OFFICE, APRIL 2. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 60--highest since noon yesterday. 3S--lowest this morning and during the night. 54 this day at noon. BAROMETER, 29 . 78—f01l during last night to 29 . 58. to W.N.W.—Variable and cloudy, with occasional sunshine. THE PUBLICATION OF "THE *SUN" COMMENCES EVERY AFTERNOON AT THREE O'CLOCK, AND THE LATE OR THIRD EDITION, CISINTAINING THE DEBATES IN PARLIAMENT THE SAME EVENING, With all other News arriving up to the hour of Post, AT SEVEN O'CLOCK. EXPRESS EDITIONS will be forwarded after the Post is closed by the Latest Trains. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 2, 1853. MONEY AN. 'CIAL NEWS, CITY; TWO O'CLOCK. There was not so much activity in the cotton market at Liverpool yesterday, but it was toler ably steady. The sales were estimated at from 8,000 to 10,000 bales, of which 4,000 were taken for export, and on speculation. The Railway Share market opened heavily, but closed with a better feeling. The period of the quarter is now attained when the balance to the credit of the Government is at its height. The Bank of England weekly state ment to the 26th ultimo, exhibits, therefore, a fur ther increase in public deposits. The other de posits were diminished, duties being paid and the loans and discounts increased, as is ordinarily the case when the transfer books are closed. The amount of bullion was rather smaller, but probably not because of exports, but of an increased internal demand. Compared with the previous week, the changes have been has follows : Active circulation.. , £21,793,695 Increase 328,855 Bullion 19,122,996 Decrease 40,150 Rest Increase Public Deposits Increase 265,203 Other deposits Decrease Seven-day and other Bills Decrease 1,390 Government securities Other securities Increase Notes unemployed 10,790,310 Decrease 341,785 Bills of Exchange upon some of the Continental cities were at barely such high rates yesterday afternoon. Paris was at 25 27i to 30 for 90 days' paper ; Amsterdam at 11 181 to 19 ; Hambtirgh at 13 8 to 8f ; and Trieste at 114 to 11 8. The determination of the Honourable East India Company not to allow gold coin to be henceforth received at its Calcutta treasury, or by its depart mental officers, has raised a very important ques tion, similar in part to that which sooner or later must force itself upon public attention here. Gold has not for many years been a legal tender in India, but the mohur has, nevertheless, passed current, and been received at its intrinsic value, even by the Government officials. To place a sudden interdict upon this, is to occasion no small inconvenience ; India, from its position, being now likely to carry on an extensive commerce with Australia, which would pay chiefly in gold. The result evidently will be to cause the re-transmission of the precious metal to England, a process which strikingly illustrates the risk we run, supposing other countries are right in refusing to admit it as a legal tender. The tokens of South Australia, being intrinsically more valuable than the rate at which they are coined, will speedily leave the colony, and add to the curious admixture already in the Bank of England coffers. The amount of gold exported from London, direct, during the week to Thursday last, was 18,620 ounces. The total of silver was 15,360 ounces. All went to the Continent. The Great Britain steamer has arrived, but no letters are in town yet. The La Plata, with the West India and. Mexican mails, has 914,569 dollars on board, of which 10,566 dollars are for the dividends. The Funds are very dull, but not lower. Con sols bring 99i to par for Transfer, and are about par for Account. Exchequer Bills of June realise 6s. to 10s., and those of March 435. premium. _ _ _ An extensive business has been done in Mexican Bonds, at a rise of 1 per cent., viz., to 27 and 27k, owing to a statement that Santa Anna will adopt free-trade, and make due provision for the debt. Peruvian are rising also. Brazilian Old Stock is worth 1004 ex div. Spanish Certificates are at Bg, and quiet. Dutch 2i per Cents. are at 658. The Railway Share Market is very quiet, but prices are firm. The Gold Mine Market is steady. Banks are lower. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY. (From, the Official List.) Business done. 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities India Bonds, £lOOO — Ditto, under £lOOO 43 Consols for Account Exchequer Bills, lAd. June. March. £l000 £5OO — 10 Small ll 6 PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. B - ...zilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. lOO4 x (1 Ditto New, 1852, 46 per Cent 9B Ditto New, 1813 Grenada Bonds, Deferred, Greek ex over-duo Coupons Mexican 3 per Cent.. Peruvian Bonds, 1849; di per Cent. Ditto Scrip Ditto Deferred, 3 per Cent 64 Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto, 41 per cent lO3l Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent. .. Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent.. 241 Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun 8 p c Swedish Loan lO d Dutch Exchange 2.1 per Cent 6 %4 TWO O'CLOCK. Consols Ditto April Account NEW SPANISH LOAN.—According to intelligence from Madrid it appears that some Spanish capitalists are com peting with Messrs. Baring for the new Spanish loan. Such a competition, however, in any serious form, seems very improbable. The terms of their proposal had not transpired. MAIL TO AUSTRALIA.—In consequence of the failure of the Australian Alail Packet service no mail will be made up at the Post-office this day Saturday, the 2d instant. The Postmaster-General has, however, entered into a contract with the owners of the Osmanli screw steamer, appointed to sail from Liverpool on the 7th instant, for the conveyance of mails to the Cape of Good Hope, Cape de Verd Islands, Southern Australia, Victoria (Port Philip), and Van Diemen's Land. All letters, &c., for these places arriving at Liverpool before the departure, not specially addressed to be sent by any other vessel, will be dispatched by the Osmanli. Letters will be charged is. the half-ounce. Newspapers go free, except the Cape de Verd Islands. Letters, is. 10d. the half-ounce ; newspapers, 2d. each. EMIGRATION FROM CALIFORNIA TO AUSTRALIA.— According to private letters received in London yester day from San Francisco, emigration had again com menced from the State of California to the Australian colonies on a great scale. On the 16th of February a large screw-propeller, called the Monumental City, of about 1,000 tons burden, was to sail for Sydney and Port Philip, with 120 passengers; and a fortnight after wards another steamer, the New Orleans, was also ex pected to leave with a large number. Several sailing vessels were also advertised, and seemed to be filling up rapidly, although every effort was made by the press to discourage all departures. The Monumental City is to be offered in Australia for sale, or, if there should be sufficient inducement, she will ply on the coast. None of the vessels proceeding from California to Australia were taking much freight. GALE IN THE IRISH CHANNEL—It blew a gale of wind in the Irish Channel on Wednesday night. There are rumours in Liverpool of considerable damage on the coast, and much anxiety is felt respecting the Ebba Brahe, a large and fine emigrant ve•mel, which sailed from Liverpool for Australia the previous day. It ap pears, from the following notice, which was posted up in the Exchange News Roo - ns yesterday (Friday), that she struck on a bank- on the Anglesea coast and sus tained serious injury. She had been got off, but it was not known what had become of her. She had from 700 to 800 passengers on board :—" The ship Ebba Brahe got on shore near the East Mouse, three miles from Point Lynas, yesterday, but got off at two p.m. this day very leaky. One of the crew and a passenger landed. Considerable anxiety was felt during the day as to the fate of this fine ship, as she had about 800 souls on board, bound for Australia, and was one of the the largest vessels afloat, being nearly 1,800 tons re gister. Happily, however, this feeling was allayed by her appearance in the Mersey this evening. The ship Ebba Brahe forms one of John S. de Wolf's Australian line of packet ships." THE ARMY.- - -SAPPERS AND MINERS.—The detach ment at Shoeburyness, having completed the batteries, &c., returned to head-quarters at Woolwich yesterday , uner the command of Lieutenant Lempriere, Royal Engineers. The 22d Company, under the command of Captain Gibb, Royal Engineers, is placed under orders to embark for a passage in the Chevy Chase, freight ship, to the Cape of Good Hope, to relieve the 9th Com pany, under the command ofCaptainTylden, the company having been stationed at the Cape since 1845. As yet no orders have been issued for the supply of Mini 6 rifles, or some better description of small arms, which they will surely take with them to Kafirland, instead of their pre sent comparatively useless carabine. The Ist Company, under the command of Captain George Ross, Royal Engineers, proceed to Chatham on the sth inst., for the purpose of being instructed in field fortification, &c. DISASTERS AT SEA.—LOSS or LIFE.—The Ebba Melling, which sailed from the Mersey on Thursday afternoon, went on shore on the East Mouse, between Point Lynas and the Skerries, at ten o'clock the same evening. She got off at two o'clock yesterday, but very leaky. One passenger and one of the crew landed. Con siderable anxiety was felt during the day as to the fate of thit t ,fine ship, as she had about 800 souls on board bound for Australia, and was one of the largest vessels afloat, being nearly 1800 tons register. Happily, how ever, she made her appearance in the Mersey yesterday evening. It blew a regular hurricane from west to south off Holyhead yesterday. A small s chooner went aground off the Head. Three of the c rew took to the boat, which were e h n m d t i e e n n r themwTe The assistance. upset drowned n h e n The sight e s a c r h e e neared personsthen edr Nyshore,asDomestic,ftr ne. Ni striving ngt and oefdt et Bideford, with efo rd; sc h o oners Mary Ann an awkwardly in the bay. A vessel, name unknown, went b ra o i t l h wa d y i sbabolaetdc,aamndbitionwrecdpoirtn Holyhead Bay vessels and h rid ; ingvterye down off Puffin Island, yesterday ; crew rayed. ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT BRITAIN. We learn that the Great Britain was telegraphed off Holyhead this morning at six o'clock, and it was expected that she would reach Liverpool by four o'clock this afternoon. She has on board 700,0001. worth of gold. WEST INDIA MAIL, (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY. _ _ -- - The steam-ship La Plata, with the usual West Indian mails, arrived this morning at half-past seven. She left Jamaica on the 13th March, and St. Thomas's on the 20th. The La Plata brings with her $914,569 in specie, of which $10,566, are on account of the Mexican dividends ; together with forty-nine passengers. The Royal Mail steamer Trent arrived at St. Thomas on the 17th of March, having on board General Santa Anna and suite. A grand ball was given in his honour at St. Thomas, and he was about to proceed to Vera Cruz by the next British mail steamer. The La Plata's news from Mexico has been an ticipated by arrivals vici New York and Liverpool. Accounts from Jamaica state that the House of Assembly had sanctioned the abolition of tonnage dues, with the exception of 3d. per ton, retained as a light-house tax. The produce market was quiet without being firm, especially as regards sugar and rum. There was no pimento at market, and coffee came in slowly. The import markets were heavy. The island was healthy. In St. Lucia the weather had been unsettled and a good deal of rain had fallen. Two smart shocks of an earthquake had been experienced. The island was healthy. The sugar crop hi,d fairly commenced, but labour was scarce. Gold was reported to have been discovered on the windward side of the Island of St. Lucia. The yellow fever had abated at St. Vincent ; at Tobago also the scourge was disappearing. Barbadoes papers contain no news. A gale of wind had done some damage to several plantations in the Christ Church district. From British Guiana- our accounts are to the 10th ult. The Combined Court had been in ses sion, and had progressed with public business with a rapidity and unanimity lately unexampled. The weather had been very dry, and was likely to con tinue so, but the crops do not appear to suffer materially. An extraordinary plague has, how ever, made its appearance in the shape of swarms of rats, which were doing an immense amount of injury to the standing canes. Provisions of every kind were scarce and dear. The fever had disappeared on shore, but still lin gered amongst the shipping. GREAT EARTHQUAKE IN THE INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO. The Singapore Free Press of the 4th of February last quotes from the Java Bode the following account of a terrible commotion of nature, which commenced on the 16th, or probably the 26th, of November, and lasted un til the 22d of December last : " On the 16th of November, about 20 minutes to 8 o'clock in the morning, a heavy vertical oscillation of the ground was felt at ILnda Neira, which soon changed into a rapidly increasing undulation from the N.E. to the S.E., which lasted for more than five minutes. Every one left his house • to remain standing was impossible ; people were obliged to take a firm hold of something, or throw themselves on the ground. In the morning a slight shower of rain fell, but• otherwise the weather was not unfavourable.. "At the first shock nearly all the houses were thrown down or very much shattered. The Government build ings, the church, the officers' houses in the encampment, and the warehouses, suffered the greatest injury ; the Chinese quarter was a heap of ruins—the native village on the Zonnegat was laid waste. The Papenberg fell partly in, and two bamboo houses upo n it di sappeare d , and on Great Banda the Eouses of the park-keepers, their out-houses, and smokirg-bouses for the nutmegs, underwent the same fate ; everything there was also thrown down, or greatly injured. Nothing is visible of the village Lonthoir but a heap of ruino. Saru was ter ribly shattered, while detached pieces of rock lay every where scattered around. There were no deaths, how ever, to lament, and only some persons were slightly bruised or wounded. " But the misfortune did not stop here. About eight o'clock a disturbance of the sea (zee-beving) occurred, which filled every heart with fear and dismay, and caused every one to fly to the highest ground. In quick suc cession the bay filled and emptied, and at times appeared to be only a little river. " The - ship Atiat-al-Rachman, laden with rice, lying in the roads twice touched the ground, after—like his Majesty's brig De Hani, whtch had anchored the day previous—having been backwards and forwards a num ber of times ; but this seaquake increased in a frightful manner, and thrice overwhelmed Great Banda and Neira with the largest rollers ; on the last place they reached several feet high in the houses, and burst the door open. These huge wave s formed in the Zonnegat, and in the channel of Lonthoir, and ran so high that they beat over Fort Nassau, and reached the foot of the hill on which Fort Bel gica is. built, carrying everything with them in their reflux, but at the same time leaving behind a quantity of fishes. The prahus in the roads were driven among and against each other, and carried to and from the shore. They foundered or drove in the Zonnegat, where they struck on the shore ; only a few could save them selves by flight. These prahus belonged to the Saru and Key Islands and Ceram, and a part of their crews, find ing themselves oa shore, sought shelter in one of the sheds on the old pler, but they could not withstand the force of the rollers, and in a moment they were torn out of their place of Lhelter and drover seawards, there miserably to perish. It is e3Limatcd that 60 men lost their lives in this way. " Miserable was the condition of the inhabitants, who saw the waves, 20 feet high, rolling so irresistibly to wards them, threatening 4,0 engulf them ; the ground continually rocking under their feet; the atmosphere echoing with loud reports like cannon shots, filling their hearts with fear; and this all-destructive, indescribable state of things, lasted not merely for five minutes—an hour—a day—but for succe.sive days ; for these fright ful natural phenomena only ceased on the 22d of Decem ber, while all that time scarcely an hour passed that the ground did not heave and shake, now in the heaviest manner, and then lighter, but always so that distrust and fear remained imprinted in the hearts of the inha bitants, who, partly or wholly ruined, without habita tions, sheltering in little bamboo huts, looked forward to the gloomiest future, and will perhaps never be able to recover the blow which they have received. "During these earth and sea quakes—which last, however, did not extend beyond the north side of Neira• and to the south side of Great Banda— Gunong Api was quiescent, and no alteration was observed in the smoke proceeding from it. "The accounts from the islands of Rossengein and Ai were even more tragical, and the destruction there not less great. The spice parks Kelie and Noorwegen, on Great Banda, the last which remained standing, also at length fell in, and at present there are not more than two habitable houses in Neira. The residency house has suffered much. Rock and earth slips from the Papen berg occurred there for a length of time. • "The same diasastrous accounts had been received from Ceram. An earth and sea quake had also occurred there on the 26th of November, and caused grettk damage. The heavy rollers of the sea had swept away the houses on the beach, and thrown more than 10 prahus on shore, of which a number had been destrOyed, w hil e many persons fell victims to this terrible commotion of nature. "From Amboyna we also learn I)ltit on the morning of the 26th of November, about half -past eight, the earth was felt in a directisn from N.E. to W.S.W , with a duration of abo ut five min utes. This waspre ceded on the 10 th by some slight shocks. Th e dis turbance, of the sea also took place, but not to such a destructive and heavy extent as at Banda, although on the same day. Very little damage was caused. The accounts from the islands near Amboyna are not so unfavourable. Nearly all experienced the extraordinary commotion both of sea and land. The houses at Saparua and many native boats were seriously injured, and very heavy loss has been caused. A t T er nate as well as Ba,chian two heavy shocks of earthquake were felt on the 2m of November, at eight in the morning, and at the last . place they wer e repeated for some days afterwa r d s , but without doing any damage at either place. The weather was generally calm, and although the mo un t a i n at T ernate did not give out more smoke than usual, a subterranean noise was heard in it, but not very loud. " The earthquake which occurred at Batavia and Bui tenzorg on the night of the 20th of December was also felt in the residences of Krawang, Magela ng, Banta m Banyumaas, Tagal, and Peka lon g an, and in the Lam pong dist r i c ts. Cholera had bro ken out at Padang, a n d a number of persons had died. G ENERAL SANTA A N NA.—In a communication f rom Messrs. M. de Embil and Co., of Havannah, dated the 12th of March, they mention the receipt of a lett er f rom General Santa .A nna, announcing his intention to pro ceed to that place by the British steamer of the 24th of March, and that lie is about to accept the Presidency of Mexico. They add, also, that he intends to adopt the system of free trade, i 7.nd that a proclamation to that effect will shortly be issued, which will likewise state that provision will be made from the revenue for the p a yment of the principal and interest of the Converted Debt. These professions must, of course, be taken acc ording to the value of promises from new rulers, but it is probable that the intercourse of S an t a Anna with British merchants at Jamaica may have led him to coin. prebend the true principles of commercial progress, and that he may thus really have resolved upon the only course by which the regeneration of his country can ever be achieved. HUDDERSFIELD ELECTION.—The Liberal electors of Huddersfield have invited Lord Goderieh, who was un seated for Hull, to stand for that borough. His lord ship has so far acceded as to visit Huddersfield, for the purpose of ascertaining whether his standing would be of any material Eerviee to the Liberal cause in that neigh bourhood, COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen held a Court and Privy Council at three o'clock yesterday afternoon at Buckingham Palace. At the Court the Prince di Carini bad an audience of her Majesty, and presented a letter from the Duke of Parma, terminating his functions as his Royal Highness's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at this Court. Senor Isturiz had an audience of the Queen, and pre sented a letter to her Majesty from the Duke of Parma, accrediting him as his Royal Hi g h ness ' s E nvoy EXtra ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at this Court. Their Excellencies were respectively introduced by the Earl of Clarendon, K.G., the Queen's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Colonel Cornwall, her Majesty's Assistant Master of the Cere monies. The Queen gave audience to the Earl of Aberdeen. Earl Granville, Lord President, had an audience of her Majesty. The Privy Council was attended by Prince Albert, Earl Granville, Lord President ; Lord Cranworth, Lord Chancellor ; the Duke of Argyll, Lord Privy Seal ; the Earl of Aberdeen, First Lord of the Treasury ; the Earl of Clarendon, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ; the Duke of Newcastle, Secretary of State for the Colonies ; Sir James Graham, First Lord of the Ad miralty ; the Duke of Norfolk, Lord Steward ; the Mar quis of Breadalbane, Lord Chamberlain ; and the Duke of Wellington, Master of the Horse. Mr. C. Greville was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting. Her Majesty was attended by the Marquis of Angle sey, Gold Stick in Waiting ; the Earl of Mulgrave, Treasurer of the Household ; Lord Waterpark, Lord in Waiting ; and Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. Robert Boyle, Groom in Waiting. Prince Albert rode out on horseback yesterday morn ing, attended by Capt. the Hon. Dudley de Ros. The Duchess of Orleans visited her Majesty yesterday afternoon. d P Alb - took dr;-- - ' onen The Queen an. rince )ert took a drive in an ope. landau and four yesterday afternoon. Major-General Buckley and Captain the Hon. Dudley de Ros were in attendance on horseback. The royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace yester day evening included the Duchess of Kent, the Princess Adelaide of Hohenlohe, the Earl of Clarendon, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Baroness de Speth, and Sir George Couper. The band of the Ist Life Guards was in attendance in the Palace during dinner, and performed the following selection : Overture, "Kriegcrische Jubel" Lindpainter. Glee, "Illynheer Vandunck" Sir R. H. Bishop. Grand Valse, Lille" J. Strauss. Potpour "Lucia di Lammermoor" Donizetti. The Holyrood Schottische Labitzky. March, "Bellona" Leutner. God Save the Queen. Major-General Buckley has relieved Colonel Bouverie in his duties as Equerry in Waiting to the Queen. The Hon. Matilda Paget and the Hon. Mary Sey mour have succeeded the Hon. Eleanor Stanley and the Hon. Beatrice Byng as the Maids of Honour in Waiting to her Majesty. The Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Princess Adelaide of Hohenlohe, and attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson, visited the Duchess of Gloucester yes terday at Gloucester House, Piccadilly. The Duchess of Orleans visited the Duchess of Kent yesterday at Clarence House, St. James's. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. After one or two postponements, the season at this temple of the lyric drama commences to-night. Masaniello is the opera selected to lead off with, and as it is an universally popular and favourite opera, a better choice could not have been made. Tamberlik is the Fisherman-hero, the part in which, it will be recollected, he made his first appear ante in-England three years ago. Madame Castellan is to be the Princess ; and a Madlle. Melina Marnet makes her appearance as Fenella. To strengthen the caste, Formes takes the part of Pietro. The remainder are the same as in former years. In the divertissement, Madlle. Besson and other artistes chorlographiques make their first appearance, in accordance with the announce ment that great improvements are this year to be made in the ballet department—a promise certainly looking at what was its state in former years, not very difficult of fulfillment. THE POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. Among all the Easter attractions, none has been more attractive and interesting than the Polytechnic Insti tution. Throughout the week it has been crowded with holiday folks, and the numerous attendance at the lec tures has showed that mere amusement, without care for instruction and profit therefrom, was not the only object of the visitants. The newest feature is a repre sentation, by means of dissolving views, of the principal scenes in "Uncle Tom's Cabin," which are made the foreground, as it were, to views taken from nature, of the actual localities in which they are supposed to have occurred. The lectures, delivered by Messrs. Pepp r, Bachhoffner, and Crispe, comprise "Half-hours with the Modern Chemists," a discourse on the "Mechanical Properties of Ariform Bodies," and an "Explanation of the properties and construction of Ericsson's Caloric Engine." They are full of useful and practical infor mation, conveyed in a simple popular style, and easy of comprehension by the most every-day intellect. The galleries and vestibules exhibit no diminution of the stores of mechanical art, with which they have always been furnished. The diving-bell, the lectures, the opti cal experiments, the models, and the numberless objects illustrative of English ingenuity and industry which are to be met within the walls of this popular establishment, are fertile and unwearying sources of amusement, each day suggesting matter for reflection, and highly pro fitable as knowledge. The institution supplies a great void in our list of national exhibitions, and we are glad to see that the efforts of the management are appreciated by the public. THE CITY ADDRESS TO LOUIS NAPOLEON. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—The delaration of certain persons, professing to speak in the name of the Merchants, Bankers, and others of the city of London, which has been presented as an Address on their behalf to Louis Napoleon, scarcely deserves more notice than it has received at your hands. But I beg your permission to give publicity to the fol lowing facts, which may in some degree neutralize the effect of a proceeding liable to be misrepresented in France, and likely, I fear, to lower this country in th e eyes of world. This Address was not votrd or adopted at any public meeting ; the attempt to get up such a meeting failed, for it was ascertained that any such proposal would have been met by decided opposition on the part of the mer chants and bankers of London, not inferior in position to those who have lent their names to this document. The signatures were therefore obtained by private cir culation, solicitation, and, to some extent, misrepresen tation, for many of those who signed had no idea of the object to which it was to be applied. Indeed, there is nothing in the wording of the document to show that it was to be used as an address at all. Lord J. Russell was asked, as one of the members of the city, to head the list, but declined to do co and it has been justly re marked in Paris that the deputation was not introduced to the Emperor by the British Ambassador. I believe, moreover, that it will be found, if the secret history of this transaction is ever brought to light, that while some members of th e d epu t a ti on jo i ne d it as friends o Peace Soci e ty, o th ers ' are a l rea d y l a rgely interestedf the in are at various com merc i a l speculations in France, and patron age d re this very time s o l ic iti ng further concessions a from th e F renc h G over nment for their servility to the "august throne" of Napoleon 111. a c!rcuni SCRlP.stance which, in some deg ree , acc ounts - ------ * Mr. Mastelman's name a ppears already as one of those to whom the new railway from Bordeaux to Lyons h as been conceded. ----- T HE CONSTANTINOPLE NEW BANK.—From Constanti tinople the s ta c t a em pi e ta n i t c is raepcaabteaednditcotahrbaeet tithoeoog.oootlia.,titotands fel. the establishment of is a new__ _ almost concluded. The t is to mortgaged . as a security for 15 hoped, however, that not a shil lingthe t b hls country unless the engagements hu s. u te de rl o l d f tisi E esd g t y ion p can be of the last bank are previously fulfilled by an ample in demnity to the holders of the loan. NEW YORK MONEY MARKET. —The additional intelli gence from New York describes no further alteration in the money market. The lowest rate of discount'was 7 per cent., and the pressure was still sufficient to cause a supplye and of bills upon England t o b e f orce d on the mar ket, prevent for the present any remittances of specie. After the publication of the quarterly accounts of the banks, facilities, however, would be extended usual, and a rapid recovery in prices was likely to take place. Meanwhile, it is quoted as a proof of the general soundness of the trade of New York, that not a single failure has oecurrPd in that city. At Baltimore some provision-houses have stopped, the chief of them being that of Lewis and George Cassard, whose liabilities are alleged to amount to a sum nearly equal to 200,0001. The details of the last news from California had been received with great satisfaction, the amount of gold ship ped from San Francisco, exclusive of sums in the hands of passengers, during the first two months of the pre sent year having been equal to 2,160,0001. against 935,000/. in the corresponding months of 1852. CUSTOMS. —Mr. Culling C. Smith, one of the Commis sioners of Customs, and the oldest existing member of the board, is oarc v l, er has ta iig s l r ily retired from connected frn t , h e public service. Mr. mar riage, with th e l ate Duke of Welliiniaglioinig, baneednhsiso,dabuyghters being the present Dbchess of' Deaufoi 5. It is believed that the vacancy caused by the late retirement of Mr. Cul ling Smith, and also that by the late retirement and sub sequent decease of Mr. Lushington, will not be filled up; thereby effecting a reduction of two in the number of the board as formerly constituted. DISSATISFACTION AMO.NG RAILWAY SE R VAN TS. —A feeling of dissatisLetion With the present rate of wages has been manifested by the servants of the railway companies centring at Manchester, and something like a combination exists among them to raise the scale of remuneration. At present, we believe the managers of the various companies are in conference as to what steps shall be taken, and we cannot, therefore, say what will be the decision. The men connected with the Lancashire and Yorkshire ask for an increase of 15 per cent. DR. PUSEY.—This well-known priest has lately visited Exeter. The reverend doctor has administered religious consolation to divers ladies with whom .he is a favourite confessor. .Dr. Pusey appears to hair° kept Lent with great strictness—he looked very meagre indeed.— West ern Times. TIM MAGAZINES FOB APRIL. Colburn's New Monthly.—The chief feature - in this magazine is the continuation of the editor's story of " The Flitch of Bacon." The fourth part is entitled." The Haunted Chamber," and is f u ll of mysterious rom ance f or th e benefit of the lovers of the supernatural, from the first chapter, which tells hoW the room came to be haunted, to the last, which chronicles the appearance of " Phantoms." The first pm of the tale of " The Unholy Wish," promises to convey an impressive warning of the sin committed in desiring that evil niay befalothers. The first number of " American Authorship" gives a - sketch of the writings of Washington Irving. " Oriental Archteolog,y" is an interesting article, founded on M r. Layard ' s " Second Expedition to Nineveh." "Un Poisson D'Avril" is a comic tale, relating the fortunes and misfortunes of Mr. Ship grave, butler to the Dean of Dronesford. No. 7 of "Literary Leaflets" is entitled " Causeries du Lunch," and is a criticism on a work by M. Sainte Bettye de l'Academie Frangaise. "Up the Hudson" gives us an account of all the chief towns in that neighbourhood. The poetical con tributions consist of " .Ea.ster Morning," a dream by Mrs. Bushby, and t wo li ttle poems, by J. E. Carpenter—" The Fairies Home," and " The 'Mother's Farewell." Bent!cy's Miscellany.— : There is a good deal of variety met with in this month's number. "Aspe n Court" is continued in three chapters ; it is an amusing tale. " The Siege of Cabezon" is a ballad describing the generous conduct of Peter, who sent some of his bravest knights to succour his adversary when betrayed by his own followers. " The Tuilieries till 1815" gives minute details of their ancient history, reserving the more modern arrangements and changes till a future occas i o n . It is remarked th a t the French vary greatly from the English in their institutions. " They have no Windsor and no Westminster, and no spot in either town or country kept sacred as haunt, as resi dence, or as temple, by the family of sovereigns no spot hallowed by recollections of g l or i ous, of feudal, of chivalric time." " The Last Years of the Emperor Charles the Fifth" presents an account of that monarch preparing to relinquish his mighty empire for the seclusion of a cloister. It has ", been said that he soon grew weary of re tirement, and again that he lived a most austere life. Both these assertions have been dip proved by the discovery of authentic documents. He never wished to return to active life ; but, on the other hand, he lived a calm, temperate life, and to the last interested himself in the concerns of his relinquished empire. " The Imperial Four, Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and Napoleon," are continued. It is remarked, as worthy of atten tion, that Egypt was conquered in turn by three of these mighty warriors. " Eighteen hundred and forty years passed away be tween the time when Omar fought his war of barricades against the last Ptolemy for the sake of Cleopatra's eyes, and the time when Napoleon left his Josephine to invade Egypt. More than twenty-one centuries had intervened between the foundation of Alexandria, by the great King of Macedonia, and the restoration of its fortifications by the French engineers under General Buonapai Z;e's rections." The United Service commences with an article on " The Austrian Occupation of Central Italy," with all.usicins to British commercial interest. It consists of a brief sketch of the condition of Central Italy before and after the Austrian occupation. The writer states, from the experience of six years' residence in that country, prior to the events of 1848, the great injury that Tuscany has sustained' in a commercial, social, political, and religious point of view, from the tyranny and injustice of Leopold the Second. " The Deviation of Projec tiles in Naval Firing" must prove useful both to those about to ent the navy and to those who take an interest in the theory of projectiles, which has lately engaged so much public attention. The first two chapters of "A Cruize in. the Ida" give promise of an interesting tale in its continuation. Captain Spencer, in his remarks on the Turkish question and its connexion with European politics, gives a clear account of the intrigues of the Austrian and Russian Cabinets with regard to that fast decaying Ottoman dynasty in Europe. "A French Account of the War with China" is continued. " Observations on the Mental and Moral Status of Kafir and Hottentot Races," by W. T. Black, assis tant surgeon in South Africa:, are interesting, and his comparisons between wild and domesticated animals, and savage and civilised races of mankind, are novel, but certainly not without a semblance of applicability. MISCELLANEOUS. Tait's Edinburgh Magazine opens with a paper on " The Character and Modifications of Slavery." " Norman Hamilton" is at length concluded. There is an article on " The Story of Ruth," re cently published by the author of "Mary Barton." " The Governments of Continental Europe" has reached Chap. XIII., and is devoted to Tuscany. " The Poets and Profits" is an amusing satire, which professes to believe that most of the poems of the present day are written with the intention of exciting amusement and not admiration. The two plates of The Sporting Review re present " Joe Miller," the winner of the Ches ter and Ascot Cups last year, and " A Rat !" The three little terriers looking into the water at their victim, are particularly well done. There is a variety of subjects of sporting -interest. TM Ladies' companion has its general assortment of tales and verses. " The Work Table" an d the " Child's Corner" occupy their usual place. It forms a light and pleasing miscellany to amuse all idle hour. The Farmers' Magazine gives us two engravings, one of "A North Devon," and the other of " Levity," the property of J. Cockerell, Esq. The first subject is " Peat Charcoal ; its Peculiar Applicability." Th ere i s an article by Cuth bert Johnson, F.R.S., on " The Connection of v Meteorology with Agriculture."?. gin ; There and e are the the usual reports of mee ti ngs , a sheet of agricultural biography is contn eth u Fe ed og . leincte T r h ah e laas C n h lto u bu i r • n c e h et io e sff this Englandmo month theologicalt Magazine a a g e z o in accompanied containsam et information.t elegant plates, one of which byrepresents a bride. It for embroidery. MARKET NE TYS—( THIS DA Y.) COVENT GARDEN. The supplies of both If nit and vegetables were 13 t 1 moderate. On the whole th e general demand ruled steady, at F o n ur ul gTu.—Pius apples,nz Cs Oct t o 10 s O d ; hot-house grapes ,. 20s to 255; Hambro ditto, is to is 6d per lb ; apples, d es sert, 10s Oct to 13s Od ; coo ki ng ditto, 69 to 12s per bushel ; peas g, per 103 ; p omegrana :, es, 4d to 6d each is 6cl to 4s per 'dozen ; l emons, i s to 2s Od ; orange' 4s to Os 5s per p ec k ; B arcelona nuts, 20s per bush e l ; cob-nuts , 110 s per I Wlbs. ; che snu t s, 8 s ; almond-0, to 20s per bushel ; straw' berries, 3s per ounce. V EGETABLES. —Cabb ages is to 2s (kl ; B russe l s spro uts, 2s Odto 3s Od p er half sieve ; brocoli, 33 to 48 ; greens, 18 Od to 2 s per d ozen bunches ; French beans, 2s to3s per 100 ; asparagus, 5s to Os per bundle ; sea-kail, 2s Oct to 2s Od per basket ; rhubarb, 9d to is 6d per bundle ; flowers, Od to Os per dozen ; potatoes, 103 to 170 s per ton ; turnips, 3s Od to 4s Od - carrots, 4s Oct to. 6s Od per dozer , bunches ; cucumbers, is Cd to 3s Od each ; celery-, Od tO is 6d per bundle ; spinach, 2s Od to 2s Oct per half sieve onions, 4s Od to 5s Od per bushel ; beet, is Od to 1 04 `' per dozen ; leeks, 2d to 3d per bunch ; shallots, 6d to--4!" endive, 2s 6d to 3 s Oct per score 1 d b s g m ar a l l i l c 'saTacr, - 0 8 1 per punnet b ; p l lmnet ; horse-raddish, le Od t o 3 s Od umlle ; mushrooms, per . ls Cd to 2s Od per b o ttl e ; parsley, 2s Od to 3s Od per dozen bunches ; turnip green; 10 per bushel. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Geese, 48 0(1 to 8s 0(1; Turkeys, 4s to 8s each ; ;Duexal 2s Od to 3s 6(1; tame-Rabbit s , i s Od ts 18 9(1; wild ditto, 84 ` to is; Pigeons, 7d t o 10d eac h ; roasting Pigs, ts 6d to 8s Od each; Surrey Fowls, 6s Oci to 103 Od; ditto Chickens, 5 5 Oil to 7s Od; barn-door Fowls, 3s Od to 6s Od per couple; Pheasants, 4s Od to 6s Od; Partridges, is 3d to Os Ocl; Hares, 2s Od t o 2 s 6(1; Leverets, 2s Od to 2s 6d; Woodcocks, 280 to 3s 6d; Grouse, 2s to 3s Od; Snipes, 9d to is 6d; Toll Gd to 9(1; wild Ducks, 18 3d to 2s Od ; Widgeons, 9(1 to is ld; and Plovers, Gd to is each. English Eggs, 8 5 Od 00s 0(1; French ditto, 6s Od to 78 Od per 100; fresh Buttery, is Od to is 2d per lb. BREAD. Tho prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are frees 7d to 8(1; of household ditto, 5(1 to 6id per 41b loaf. NEWPORT. Beef, from 2s 8(1 to 3s Gd; Mutton, 3s 8(1 to ts 6d; Tea l ' 3s Gd to 4s 8(1; Pork, 33 8(1 to 4s 4d per 81bs. WHITECHAPEL. Beef from 2s Gd to 3s 6(1 ; Mutton, 35 6d to 4s 41 -I Teal, Ss 4(1 to Is 6(1; Pork, 2s 8d to 4s 4(1 per 81b°' by the carcase. • BILLINGSGATE. Turbots, 7504 to 12s Od Brills, is 64 to 5304 ; Cod Fl 4 l l i 4s 04 to 8s Oct each; Salmon, 1s 64 to 2s per lb. ; Soles, °" to 2s 3d pe r p a i r ; Eels, 6(1 to is per lb ;_ Lobsters, 8d t° 2s 04 ; C ra b s, 6d t o i s 101. Whitings, 3s Od to 6s p©r doz.; Doreys, 2s 6d to 12s 04; Mullets, is to 5s each ; Como°, Oysters, Vs Od to 12s 04; Natives, 3es Od t o 2 s 04 pe; bushel; Mackerel, 4(1 to 84 each; Smelts, is 6d p e r dozen , Scato, 64 to 0,1 per lb; Shrimps, 18 6d t o 2 s 3d per uall°„,l Bloaters, is 14 to 2s 3d per dozen; Fresh Herrings,"• to is 64 per dozen ; Haddocks, 6(. to 180,1 each ; plaic e t 4s to 6s per 100 ; Caili, is 0,1 to 2s Od each; Tench, is o't to 2s Od per brace ; Gurnets, 64 to is O c t eac h ; 64 per lb. HIDES AND SKINS. Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, 2d to 2id; 641 b to 721 b, 2 , to 3d; 721 b to 801 b, 3d to 34d; 801 b to 881 b, 3id to 3 0 1 ; 881 b to 961 b, 3 i ld to 44; 96.4) to 1041 b, 4,1 t o 40 ; 10 4, ; to 1121 b 0,1 to 04. Hom hides, 5s Od to 6s Od; c alf ski°, light, is 04 to 3s 04; ditto, full, 5s 04 to Os 04; P ° l o sheep, Os 04 to lls 6d; Keats, 8 s Od t o 10 s 0d ; Half-bre v ; 7s 6d to Os Od • Downs, 5s 94 to 7 s 34 ; L am b s , 20 3e 2s 9d ; and Shearlings, is 4d to is 6d. HAY MARKETS. SIIIITIFIELD.—Meadow h a y, 3/ 8 s t o 4 1 13 s ; ver ditto, 3/ lOs to 5/ 5s ; and straw, 1/ 8s to 1/ 16s per I°` Supply but moderate, and trade fir m . , ve r j CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 31 5 s t o 4/ 16 s ; etof. ditto, 3/ 5s to 51 5s ; and s t raw, 1/ 7 s to 1/ 1 4 s per i°- A fair average supply, and a steady demand. e l o per, WHITECIIAPEL.—Afeadow hay, 313 s to 4112 s ; ditto, 3/ 8s to Si 5s ; and . straw, 12 78 to it 14,0 per loai - Tatde oteacly, at very lull, prices, pei sta sib rou prc clo 11i1 "x( bei all Al tie an( prf doi tra