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Morning...... 52 minutes after 3 I Evening ~,•„ 12 minutes after 4. . 4,•',,j.,;, -4 7 1. 4 1:: : 1 . !••• 4 - 4 .t c•%" ' ~.,‘ .1., ,•• . 1 ., ,,,i- i t e . , .Or . ; • . e'' '' ..6 '.' l- tt "t 1 J. ; tl s 4;:',"•;e ‘ •% : `- t k I‘, `- ( - 1/ • ! : ‘' ' . ! i ''' i .4 - " - -...1,;,; . ,...,••• '4....?..,,...2_1 - ....- - • f),,e LONDON: SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1840. In the House of Lords the Royal As:7ent was given by Com m i ss i on to the Mutiny and several other A consid era bl e num b er o f pet i t i ons f or an d aga i ns t the rise to were again presented, though they gave n'e, to no di scuss i on, except on the part of the Earl of GALLOWAY, who denounced Corn-law agitators as re volutionising, the country at the expense of the landed interest. Their Lordships only sat till Six o'Clock. In the Commons, Lord Jour; RUSSELL stated, in answer to Mr. PAEINGTON, that he had not taken the Law Officers' opinion whether the thirty days for which the Canada Clergy Reserves Bill must lie on tire table before it receives the Royal Assent, includes the holidays, and his Lordship added that he did not mean to take any advantage, or to advise the Crown to give its assent immediately the thirty days had elapsed. In answer to another ques tiOn. ,Qf Mr. PAKINZTON, Lord JOHN RUSSELL 'stated that the Governor-General of Canada had given tl e Royal Assent to the Appropriation of Property by the Monks of St. Sulpice, in Montreal. in virtue of a clause in the Act of Parliament, introduced by the House of Lords for the preservation of seiemorial rights. The Sheriff was ordered to attend the House the 6th of May instead of the 6th of April. The Opium Committee was nominated. The debate on the Corn-laws was resumed by Mr. BROTHERTUN, who took the religious view of the ques tion, and condemned the laws as unjust, inhuman, impo litic, and contrary to religion. Mr. VERNON opposed the motion, and endeavoured to show that Mr. VILLIERS was wrong in his statistics. Mr. GREG spoke for, and Mr. ORMSBY GORE against the motion. Mr. BENETT denied that wages were 6s. in Wiltshire ; they had been Bs. and were now 9s. The only speech, however, of importance was that of Sir R. PEEL. The Right Hon. Baronet did not profess to go into the whole subject,but only to reply to arguments advanced in favour of the motion, which he said were three, that the Corn-laws had occasioned the late dis turbance in the monetary system ; that they had caused great fluctuations, and that they had caused the decline of our commerce and the diminution of home consump tion. The Right Hon. Baronet made a very poor de fence of the Corn-laws on the first point, his defence merely amounting to some assertions, borrowed from the report of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce enil Mr. JONES LLOYD'S pamphlet, that other causes had conspired to produce the derangement in the Money Market. On the second point Sir ROBERT was more elaborate, but even less successful. His main argument was, that no legislation could prevent fluctua tions in the price of food, which was the consequence of variations in the seasons ; and he attempted to prove that variations had been greater under other laws than under the present law. They were all bad. To make the comparison correct, it should be instituted with a country having the same extent of trade, command of resources, facilities of communication with all the world, as we have, and enjoying, as we have enjoyed, unin terrupted peace. Unless Sir ROBERT PEEL can show that there have been less fluctuations under the present Corn-law than ever were known before, he does not prove enough—and this he did not prove. But if laws cannot prevent fluctuations, why make a Corn-law for ' that purpose ? The charge aga i ns t t h e p resen t l aw is, that it was made to prevent fluctuations, which is im possible, and it has not done it. On the third point, Sir ROBERT was more successful than on either of the others, and proved that no actual declension had yet taken place in our foreign trade or home consumption. Again, however, he did not prove enough. There is a natural prosperity in society which increases in an accelerating ratio, and if that is not now more rapid than in former times, the Corn-law is to blame. Sir ROBERT pronounced a splendid eulogium on free-trade, demolished the arguments for a fixed duty, for both of which feats we are grateful, and resisted the Committee, because the real object of the motion was to obtain a total repeal of the Corn-laws, to which he could not assent in the present artificial and complicated relations of this country. He did not say a word of the distress or the discontent of the people. He did not deny the injustice of the bread tax, but he has so little con fidence in virtue, he is so mistrustful of justice, though he passes dreadful penal laws to enforce their observance on the people, that the Right Hon. Baronet wili not act on them, and prefers the interest of the landlords and the artificial relations of society. He sneered, too, —the religious Baronet who is for Church Extension— at the religious view of the question, as it all religion consisted in obeying and fearing the Priests. At one o'clock, the Right Hon. Baronet, who spoke for nearly two hours, finished, and Mr. WARBURTON moved that the debate be adjourned till Monday next ; the Tories said Monday se'nnight. After some little bawl ing on' both sides, and a few words from Lord JOHN RUSSELL, the House divided on the question that the debate be adjourned, which was negatived by 245 to 129 ; on which Mr. WARBURTON moved the adjourn ment of the house, which was carried, and the House adjourned at Half-past One o'Clock. In our Summary yesterday we alluded very briefly to Lord MoRPETH's speech, which particularly deserves the attention of the public. The Noble Lord is the heir to great landed property, and like the WESTMINSTERS, the FITZWILLIANIS, the RADNORS, and SHARMA N CRA WFOr, DS, he se parates himself from those landed proprietors who insist on filling their coffers by taxing the bread of the poor. In taking this right path the Noble Lord by his remarks proved that he took it from right principles. If he was not prepared," he said, "to consent to some alteration in the Corn-laws, be could not conscien tiously put up that petition, which all wore instructed to use., for their daily bread. He thought that the whole scope and tendency of the present law was at variance with the spirit and scope of the ordinary dispensations of Providence, who bad given the productions of the earth for the benefit of all its creatures." In a passage which we yesterday quoted from the 1 Quarterly Review, blasphemy wa, described as • worse than murder. .That the Corn-laws kill many bodies there can be no doubt, and if they be, as Lord MORPETH says, at variance with the scope and spitit of the ordinary dispensations of Provi dence, they are a great system of practical blasphemy, and, according to the Quarterly Review, must kill many souls as well as bodies. Be the theology of the question what it may, there can be no doubt that the Corn-laws thwart and impede the fulfilment of the command to replenish the Earth, as well as the command for nations to live in peace, and are properly reprobated, by Lord IVIoRPETH, as con trary to the spirit of religion. There is another part of Lord MORPETH's speech which deserves public attention : " 'fever there was a cry," he said, " raised to heaven that was founded in justice it was that in which the people of the country celled upon the Suereme Legislature to take measures for facilitating the access and increase in the quantity of food in the country, and the weal of its hard worked and ill-fed population." That passage, besides being a justification of a g itation, bespeaks a spirit in th e N o bl e L or d w hi c h, if it generally pervaded our legislators, might per chance, if anything could, re-inspire the population with respect for, and confidence in, the Legislature. Our class law-inakers, however blind they may be to the fact, are sapping and undermining the foun -1 clations of cur political fabric. The best system of legislation rests on a doubtful basis, but a system of class legislation, of making laws to enrich one class —and that the least worthy of wealth—at the ex pense of other classes, is an abomination which carries with it no other obligation but ' that of resisting it. To resistance class legislation is necessarily leading and necessarily provoking the people, and if anything can' arrest a progress so fatal to the ultimate peace of the empire, such sen timents as those of Lord MotteeTH may. By his conduct he best serves his own class and his own order. We are glad to see that the Anti-Corn-law Delegates duly appreciate Lord MORPETH'S lan guage, and are as sensible as we are that the Noble Lord, by still clinging to a fixed duty, does not follow out his own principles, which are as hostile to that as to the iluctuatino. scale. A fixed duty, INT have always contended, would be very inju rious to the farmer, by depriving hirn of th possi bility of expoi Ling the smallest part of his produce in very fertile seasons, till the price had sunk to what would be for him a ruinous depth. A duty gradually t o vanish, year after year, would, till the vanishing process were at an end, paralyze agriculture, and be: injurious to all connected with the land. There i no mode so just and so safe for all parties as totally and immediately to abolish the taxes on food, and allowing, or even, if necessary, compelling all Those whose pecuniary contracts may be altered by the alteration of the law to revise them. With .Lord MortPETH's benevolent, just, and religious sentiments we have no doubt that he will, by and bye, co me to this conclusion, and be as desirous as we are to abolish totally all the taxes levied on Food of every kind, which are not levied exclusively for the sake of the Revenue, and to supply the rieeetsitie s of the State. dignity L rd tAosn s peak,BU RT O in N t h did e Hu notthink oseo r it Peers, o f Anti-Co rn -l aw Delegates as a Joint-Stoc k Com pany of A g i tators. The Tory journals have beneath thehis sounded the same note. The Delegates are de scribed as getting up a sordid artificial agitation to answer their own purposes. We think it due to those gentlemen, therefore, without condescending to take particular notic e of the ribaldry, conceited to be wit, with which they are assailed, to remind the public of some of the circumstances which led .to their agitation. The harvest of 1858 was a very short one, and tl.ne price of wheat rose as high as 88s. per quarter. The harvest of 1839 was not better, though the supply of foreign wheat, and the very inferior- quality of much home-grown wheat, have pre vented the average prices of last winter fr om being so high as those of the preceding winter. No writer, though he may be as ready to coin falsities as the Editor of the Standard, will presume to say that the Delegates contributed to produce those two calamitous seasons. Those reasons have been combined with great distress and great discontent amongst the masses. The agitation for the repeal of the Corn-laws was not the cause of either the distress or the discon tent. Both existed in the summer of 1838, and when we first began in that year to denounce the Corn-laws, we were accused, in common with other writers, of wishing, by promoting a Corn-law agi tation, to draw away the people from their fiercer agitation for the Charter. The language of the Spectator and other Radical journals, was that the Corn-law agitation was a tub thrown out to the whale by the Whigs, and the people were exhorted not to go for a repeal of the Corn-laws, but to unite and demand the Charter. Our opponents were much more successful with the people than we were ; Corn-law repeal was derided, and the Con vention formed. The Corn-law agitation of 1839 was feeble and unsuccessful, but the distress and the discontent widened and deepened. Parliament, in its wisdom, at the same time refused to institute an investigation, though most earnestly invited by the most intelligent of our manufacturers. The people lost their patience as their food grew less, and the germs of insurrec tion were scattered over the community. Out breaks actually took place, or were threatened, in most of our manufacturing towne, which the Corn law delegates deplored and firmly resisted. Had they wished to promote agitation for its own sake —had they any ulterior objects in view, as their enemies allege—what could have been more - easy for them than to have nourished the Charter agita tion—to have united themselves with the Chartists to have organized and tempered their movement, and made themselves formidable to the aristocracy? They might have commanded their own terms. They might have given the law to the landowners. Far from so acting, they stuck to the Corn-law agitation, forced on them as that was by their own decaying trail?, and the distress of their workmen ; and, to the utmost of their power,. they discouraged the Charter agitation. Do the Tories, do the Aristocracy, reproach them with this ? Foolish Aristocracy ! the agitation for the repeal of the Corn-laws, which was neither hastily nor lightly taken up, has probably saved them from destruction, and they ought to be filled with grati tude to the Corn-law agitators. Their agitation was founded in necessity ; it grew from the obsti nate and profligate adherence of the landlords to wrong ; it aims at a noble and a just object, and will, we are sure, never be laid down till the Corn laws be totally abolished. To lose sight of the interest of his country in the gra tification of his revenge—to exhibit his zeal for the fac tion he has joined by foully vilifying the party he has betrayed and deserted—are among the necessities to which the abandonment of principle dooms the political apostate. Even the wretched shreds of his former rc puta•ion he is himself compelled to fling to the winds, that he may enter the arena destitute of all that made him before appear respectable in the eyes of the world. What was best and wisest in his former public conduct —what was truest and soundest in the principles which ne held, in the doctrines which he advocated, and in the measures which he supported—he is compelled, by his disgraceful and unhappy position, to be the first to exe crate, if fortaing the link of his connection with the party he has deserted. Look, by way of illustration, et the conduct of Sir JAMES GRAHAM upon the China question. The apostate ;Baronet does not profess to care a straw about the interests affected by the conduct of the Government either in England, in India, cr in China. if he did he would propose some remedy. Bat Sir JAMES is to propose a vote of censure upon the Government, on the alleged ground that Mi nisters could have prevented hostilities with the Celes tial Empire. To avoid the possibility of misconception upon this point, we quote the motion as it is entered among the notices of motions, printed by order of the House of Commons : " That it appears to this House, upon the consideration of the papers relating to China, presented to the House by command of her Majesty, that the interruption in our corn mcrcial and friendly intercourse with China, and the hosti lities which have since taken place, are mainly to be attri buted to the want of foresight and precaution on the part of her Majesty's present advisers with reference to our re lations with China, and more especially to their neglect in not furnishing to the British Superintendent at Canton powers and instructions calculated to provide against the growing evils arising from the contraband traffic in opium, and adapted to the novel and difficult situation in which the Superintendent was placed." Let us examine for an instant the moral effects of this vote, if carried. In the first place, it would not prevent the effusion of one drop of blood which may be shed in the war with China. This is self•evident from the fact, that long before the vote could be known at Canton, the fighting part of the bu siness will be over. But.if it would neither prevent nor modify hostilities now, it would sow the seeds of future strife by exoneratine. the Chinese Government from all blame, and affording it a Parliamentary jus tification for subjecting our merchants and the Representative of our Sovereign to still more shameful indignities, of which it wou'l'd not be slow to make a terrible use. So far, them, as regards the hu manity of the motion, nothing can be worse ; so fur as concerns it patriotism, nething can be more remote from that virtue. If blame is attributable to the appointment of a Superintendent of the Trade with China, by whoni was that appointment rendered imperative upon the present Ministry ? Why, a by the very Government of which Sir JAMES GRAHAM was himself a member—by the Government which abolished the East India monopoly, and regulated by Act of Parliament the form of con ducting the trade at Canton. To pretend that the Government could do more than appoint a Superin tendent—to argue that h:s conduct was to be as con- i scantly controlled by instructions from the Cabinet at home as if he were a Governor of one of the West India Islands is too absurd to be listened to for a mo ment. Such a Superintendent could only be lett to exercise his own discretion, subject to an observance of a few guiding principles. His immense distance from the scat of his own Government, the Cabinet of which was liable to be every day changed, and with every change to adopt opposite views of foreign policy, and his intercourse with a people whose peculiar habits ren der inapplicable any change of system, demonstrate the absurdity of fettering the exercise of the Superinten dent's discretion. S.r JAMES GRAHAM WAS therefore a party to the creation of an office, the person which, from the very nature of his functions, the )tight Hon. Baronet knew co Government could control, and yet he is to move a vote of censure upcn Ministers for not having controlled him ! The appointment, it is true, might have been an unfit one. Tee intention of the Legislature most undoubtedly was, that the gentleman appointed to superintend the trade with China should be a person properly qualified for the faithful discharge of the most onerous functions. But whether the appointment of Captain ELLIOT was or was not the best that might have been made, Sir JAMES GRAHAM was One of those who silently ac quiesced in the Ministerial propriety of making it ; and it is now too late in the day to call it in question. We are ourselves uo admirers of the conduct of Captain ELLIOT. Indeed we think be has demonstrated his total unfitness for filling such an office. But this neither we nor the Government could have known without the trial he has had. Experience acquired in any other service or in any other part of the world could no:. have availed him here. Lord AUCKLAND has proved himself one of the ablest Governor-Genera:s that ever set foot in India, and yet what appointment, I when it was first made, appeared less defensible on the ground of his Lordship's past experience ? Had Sir JAmEs GRAHAM wished to prevent a war with China, 1:e would have brought on the motion of which he has given notice, when the news of the rup ture with that country first reached England, so as to prevent the Government from sending out vessels of war to redress the injury sustained by our merchants, and to exact reparation for the insuit offered to our Sovereign. But the political JUDAS cunningly waited till hostilities could not be prevented, and now makes his appearance, not as the champion of peace—not as the advocate of negociation—but as the tool of faction, to cast a stain upon the honour of Great Britain, and to try to obtain for the Tories, almost starved in opposition, some chance of sharing among them any plunder which may accrue from the Chinese expedition. Could they only get into office, the war would be quite a God send to the Tories. Instead of lasting for a few weeks, as it is only likely to do now, they would keep it going on for a quarter of a century, always taking care to packet the plunder themselves, and to charge the expense upon the taxes and the credit of England. It is, therefore, of the utmost importance that the House of Commons and the country should see this Tory trick in its true light. It is, farther, of the in most importance that the effect of being deceived by such a trick should be well weighed, especially us re gards its influence upon our future relations with the Celestial Empire. Any resolution or vote come to now, condemnatory o( the conduct of the Government, will most assuredly be regarded by the Chinese as an approval, not only of the opium seizure , but of the effec tual means taken, so contrary to the law of civilized nations and to the rights of humanity, to effect that seizure. The consequences of such an impression would be indeed deplorable ; and in a very short time would leail to a war, horrible from the bad passions which feelings of revenge would enlist on all sides. To prove, as regards the Ministers, that the war with China is just and necessary—as far as any war can be said to be just or necessary—it is only required to call attention to the fact, that so sudden was the collision that it was quite out of the power of the Government to have fore seen, much less prevented it. Even Superintendent ELLIOT was made a prisoner by surprise, it never having entered into his bead that the Chinese authorities would have dared to violate the person of the Repre sentative of the Sovereign of Great Britain to enforce • tn custom-hou se a iitoone persono r regulation. party.T Nor t he surprise o a c :Tot were astonished, as were every one of the pre- tenders to a Chinese second-sight, who have assailed the ! conduct of Lord MELBouttNE's Government upon thi,. I question. Nor was this other than natural, seeing that for thirty-night years the traffic in opium had been ab solutely prohibited by the Chinese Government, and that during the whole of that period it had continued to flourish by the connivance of the Chinese authorities, front the EMPEROR at Pekin to the lowest Mandarin on the Canton River. Every succeeding Governor of Can ton, for the whole'of that long period, entered upon his office by denouncing the opium traffic only to ascertain the amount of bribe by which the dealers were disposed to purchase his connivance. At last matters came to that pass that a regular arid invariable tax was levied upon every catty of the drug, and a moiety of the produce thereof as regularly handed over to the Imperial Trea sury as the duty upon tea and the Imperial poll-tax. Under such circumstances the conduct of the Commis sioner LIN did take not only all parties in England, but all Europe by surpr.se, amounting, as it did, to one of the grossest violations of the law of nations that ever was perpetrated. For ourselves we think the war with China needs no defence ; but as there are some who think otherwise, whose prejudices their good intentions incline us always to respect, we shall show the advisabi lity of it before Sir J. GRAHAM shall have an opportu nity of venting his spleen against the Whigs at the 'ex pease of the honour and the sllety of England. 11 ,-. Yttv There is no political news of interest in the French Journals of Thursday. On the 10 t h i ns t., A m i ra l RosamEes squadron will convey the Duke of ORLEANS to Algiers, after which it will proceed to the coast of Morocco to keep the Emperor in check. The Journal des Debats denounces as a gross blun der the motion of M. DE REMILLY for excluding court pensioners from seats in the - Chamber of Deputies. the Debats is right so far as regards the interests of the faction of which M. DE REMILLY is a member. We trust, however, that the blund er w ill be persistedin, and that the President . of the C ounc il w ill recog nize the importance of at once alopting it, and thus taking one essential step . towards th e rea li z ation of the great measure of Electoral Reform. The blow thus aimed by faction at the Minister will completely establish his power by the perman en t triumph of the principle of the Revolution of July. It is stated in the Paris Journals that several Cailist officers of high rank hare been arrested in un attempt to re-cross the frontier, to raise the standard of Don CARLOS in the Basques. Letters were found upon them from CABRERA, in which he stated that unless they made some diversion in that quaiter the cause of Carlism was utterly hopeless. Another statement b>ss credible appeals in one of the papers—namely, that Russia has remitted a million of francs to Don CARLOS, which has been conveyed to Cam:ERA. and that one of CARLOS'S sons is to head the Carlist insurgents in the ensuing campaign. 1.30 URS E.-PA KIS, THURSDAY, APRIL 2. . , I.lra Highest Lowcst Last Price Price. Price. Price :tench 7 , per Cents ll3 15 ... 113 40 ... 113 15 ... 1 3 15 4 per Cents lO2 5o ... ,t 2 50 ... 102 5. , ... 1(.12 5 , 1 3 per Cents B3 40 .. 83 50 ... 83 40 ... F.:l 50 hank eh enclICC I.arritte thank 1010 f. 81, 1 i)tis ... I 065 _1165 ...1 , 1)5 5,000 f. .bh .',,90 ...5190 ...5190 ...519 i *,•!elgian Bank 1 , 50 .... 87 7 50 ... 545 ... 575 5 , ,,er Cents I.Tnited Stairs Bank Loan_ Ico ... 11 , 01 i ... 100 ... 1 1 11 , Ohio__ Sp..l.!sh IV" ••• ,8 !•4 Passive,. 714 ••• 71 ,i ••• ."!si Neapolitan 11'4 ... 154 ... 104 154 RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain Versailles, 11. B 560 ... :6 ... SCO ... st;ti L.B. 37.2 50 ... 312 53 ... 3:2 50 ... :371 50 Orlelns .. 45 ... 50,) ... 495 ... 5 1, _ __ Alulhausen to '1 hann 4 ,5 497 5) ... 487 50 :•tra.e , Uurg to Bale :360 ... 4j Z9O 41)5 EXCHANGES 0.4 LONDON. HAmisuan, MARCH 31.-13. —Two months, 13 5. sTocKnot.m, lIAItCH tl.—Seventy-five days, 12, I', LeiPsie, I‘l.tacii 27.—Two mo ths, P. 11. VIENNA, MARCH 21.—Three months, 9. ;My. AIIsTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, MARCH 21 l'lve per Cants. Mataniques • Fem . per Cents Three par Cents. Bank. Sharon :83) —Allgentezne Zettung, March 29. THE POOR-LIENS' FitiEND.—The Morning Herald claims to be the especial friend of the working classes It rejects the repeal of the Corn-laws, because that would lower wages. Yesterday, however, it quoted long accounts of the extreme distress of same French workmen to justify the submission of cur people to si milar distress. Say any thing against impressment, and the assertion is made that others than sailors are liable to be balloted for the militia. So one monstrous injus tice is defended, or bolstered up by some other in justice, and the Herald teaches patience to our impo verished, degraded, half-starved labourers by showing that the French are also suffering and half-starved by a Corn-law. If the French choose to be slaves to a bad system of legislation, why should wd? JONATHAN'S OPINION OF THE LONDON "STANDARD." —The New York Express of the 19th of March, in tro• duces a story of our Contemporary, with the important heading—" Rumoured Resignation of the Ministers," in these words We insert the following from the Stan dard, with a thorough belief there is not a word of truth in Ir." . After quoting the news from the West End Cor respondent of the Standard, the samo Paper adds— " The Ministry on Thursday were defeated on an un important vote respecting the pension of Sir John New port, the vote being 240 to 212—majority against Mi nisters 28." THE MARKET S.—(THIs DAY.) COVENT GARDEN. There were very good supplies of all kinds, and a fair trade was done. Prices, except Grapes, Peas, and Strawberries, re main much as they were. Foreign Grapes, Is. to 3s. per lb ; Rhubarb, 9s. to 15s. per Cozen ; Pines, Bs. tu 20s. per lb. ; Hothouse Grapes, 20s. to 30s. per lb. ; Asparagus, 6s to 83. per bundle; Strawberries, Is. to 2s. 6d. per oz. ; Sea Kale, 2s. to 3s. per punnet ; Old Potatoes, Whites, 70s. ; Scotch, 60s. to 655. ; Devons, 655. ; Yorks, 70s. per ton ; New Potatoes, 2s. 6d. per lb. ; French Beans, 2s. 6d. to 3s. per 100. ; Peas, 30s. per sieve ; Spinach, 2s. to 25, 6d. ; Cu cumbers, 63. to 85. per brace ; Applcs, ss. to 40s. per bushel ; Lemons, 6s. to 10s. per 100; Oranges, 4s. 6d. to 12s. per 100; Turnips, lid. per bunch; Brecoli, ls. to 7s. 6d. bundle ; Carrots, 4s. 6d. to 6s. per dozen bunches ! Onions, 4s. 6d. to 7s. per sieve ; Celery, Is. to 3s. 6d. per bundle ; Plants, 4s. 6d. to 6s. per dozen. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS. A good supply, a brisk demand, and prices rather higher. Beef, to ds.; Mutton, 2s. 10d. to 3s. 10d.; Veal, 3s. 10d. to 4s. 10d. ; Pork, 3s. 2d. to 4s. 10d. ; Lamb, 6s. 6d. to is. 6d. per stone. The supplies of Poultry were large, with an improved demand, but no variation in prices. HUNGERFORD MARKET. Fair supplies and a good business done. Turbot ss. 6,1 to 20s. ; Cod 2s. Ed. to I3s. ; Soles Is. 6d. to 4s. 6d. per pair ; Lobsters ls. to 4s. 6d. ; Salmon 2s. 6d. to 3s. per lb. ; Beef 7d. to Bd. ; Mutton 74d. to 8 d. ; Veal Sd. to 9d. ; Pork 7,1-d. to tad. per lb. Vegetables in good supply, and prices lower. BILLINGSGATE MARKET. _ The supplies were good, and demand. brisk. Tuibot, ss. to 20s. ; Cod, 2s. to 1.95. ; Salmon, 2s. to 2s. 61 per lb. ; Lob sters, ls. to 4s. 6d. ; Soles, 9d. to 4s. (dl per pair; Mackerel, 4d. to 10d. ; Whitings, 3d. to 6d. ; and Haddocks, 6d. to Is. TALLOW MARKET. The market quiet, and the price of P_ Y. C.. was 525., and that in town 535. 6d., with wry little doing. HAY MARKET. The supplies moderate, hut the demand was good—prices stationary. Hay 60s. to 935. ; Clover 90s. to 120 s. ; Straw Vs. to 425. per load. TZA AIMIKET. This department slowly improves, and the trade arc in much better spirits. The price of Company's Congou is non• cur rently 2s. 4id. to 2s. sd. per lb. cash, aid short prompts. Free trade sold at 2s. 3d. to 2s. 31sd. cash. THAMES TUNNEL.—This morning, at low water. in consequence of a depression of a loose bed of gravel over the excavation of the Thames Tunnel, on the north shore, a settlement took place. It was filled up by the usual means before the tide rose over it. We are happy to state that no in crease in the influx of water into the Tunnel took place at the time, nor since, and it is quite safe. LUDLOW ELECTlON.—Yesterday at the usual hour the Committee resumed their labours, and several of the witnesses were subjected to a long, as well as rigorous examina tion and cross-examination, with the result of which the Tory newspapers affect to be mightily well satisfied—their lo Artois, be they real or simulated, are equally ludicrous. After the resolution, as before reported in our paper, the fol lowing are the words to be added :—" But the Committee re serve to themselves the power, upon' the especial application of e o of publicGra n t o . counsel, to proceed with any case which tend to inculpate any agent or principal, the knowledge of which case has been brought out before the committee in the progress of the inves tigation, and of which the parties could not have been reason ably supposed to have been previously cognizant." .. d ll e a fy ste th r INVERNESS-SHIRE ELECTION. —On Tuesday last Mr. H. Baillie was elected Member of Parliament for the in the room of the late county of Inverness without opposition, effort, and energy of action are all that are necessary to . early success. No ministry can hope to withstand the industrial in- Tun CRISIS.-Constancv of purpose, union of terests of this commercial nation. No government can longer _of life and death. My Lord Melbourne may dare to beard the unemployed industry and famished masses of this vast . com munity; but he may not reasonably calculate on a servile en pinion upon a question of health and disease Idurance of the insult by the bread-eaters w ho will have bread, the hone s t operatives who will not submit to be needlessly idle, and the t ra d esmen, manufacturers , and merchants , wh o decline being con sent i ng parties to the i r ow n ruin and to the commer cial degrad at i on o f their cl untry. The handw ritin g is on the wall. —The Tey ease to shut their eyes and clo-e their nhanas llichmonds, I 3 ucki n g hams, and Mel bournes under standing to th e so l emn warn i ng ; yet there it is--and the stolidity of landlo r d ar i stocrats w ill not protect th em a g ainst the per sona l consequences of the i r w ilf u l and perserve injustice. ' may please —Anti- Corn-law Circular. FICTIONS OF THE STANDARD. —We have received a l et t er f rom the S ecre t ar y of the Anti - Corn . law Association of Briciport, con t r adicting the " fa lsehoods and misrepresentations" of the Standard, relative to the petitions for the abolition of the Corn-laws from Bridport and the neigh bourhood. It states that the Bridport petition received 1,500 signatures in four or five days, that not more than twenty boys under ten years of age signed it, that the statement of the correspondent o f our contempetary that inducements had been held out to sign the Burton petition, is " a base fabrication ;" that the inhabitants of the villages of Powerstock and Milton were warned by the clergyman rgainst signing a petition, and 1 in consequence no signatures were received, and tha t th e as . sertkin that th e petition afterwar..:s got up was signed by chil dren without th e consent of the i r pare nts " is without founda tion." We h ave rece i ved a l e tter on the same subject from . Macclesfield, d eny i ng the statements of the Corn - l aw Journ al of that town, with regard to t h e pe tition presented by Mr. Brocklehurst on Monday, and at the same time adding that it received the soluntary signatures of 3,000 persons in two days, inel'iding ninety of the most wealthy manufacturers, four Ma gistrates, and twenty of the Town Council. FALMOUTH, APRIL 2.—Wind E. to S.E., fresh breezes.— Arrived the Ann Elizabeth, Cockereli, from Odessa. Sailed the Princess Victoria, Gray, Miramichi ; Alchymist, Wills, Cadiz and Newfoundland. Mt ISOILD APRIL 2.—Sailed the Effort, Da v ies, for Quebec; Chevi,t, Wade, ditto. - DUBLIN'. A rR.IL 1.- Arrived the Adder, from St. Michael's. Sailed the William and Jane, Matthews, for Quebec. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.—The Britain, Leith to Lisbon, 6th ult., lat. 47, lon. 27 ; Lochinvar, of Montrose, for Tri nidad, 17th, lat. 44, lon. 19; Rokebev, Bristol to Quebec, 27th, by the Ceylon, (.:ox, arrived off Scilly ' • Queen of Britain, of Bristol, for Liverpool, 24th u lt., l a t. 49, lon. l 5 ; Romulus, Liverpool to Algiers, 10th ult., lat. 40, lon. 11 ; Amity, Lon don to Jamaica, 12th, lat. 42,10 n. 16, by the Fides, Crathorne, arrived at Falmouth ; Fredk. Louise, Rio Janeiro to Copen hagen, Feb. 29, lat 24, lon. 42; Wm. Shand, 27th ult., lat. 49, lon. 11, by the Randolph; Bilton, arrived at Falmouth; Caribbean, Mauritius to Cork, Jan. IS, lat. 32, S., lon. 33, E ; Heywood, Bombay to Liverpool, Feb. 9, lat. 2, N., lon. 18, W., by the Thos. Lee, Wolf, arrived at Liverpool; Hebe, Mexico to London, sth ult., by the Marqurets, Green, arrived at Cork ; Harvest, of Plymouth, Bth ult., lat. 44, lon. 40 ; Great Britain, of Portsinou.h, 25th, lat 49, lon. 12, by the l i Underwood, Moffatt, arrived in the Channel. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. " ARRIVALS.—The Janet, Kerr, from the Cape of Good Hope, arrived in the Downs, sailed from Table Bay 6th Jan. ; Joseph Storey, Spencer, from the Cape of Go o d Hope, off Falmouth, sailed from Table Bay 4th Jan. ; Thomas Lee, Wooff, from Mauritius, at Liverpool, sailed 30th Dec. ; Sala din,. M'Kenzie, from Mauritius, in the river, sailed 6th Dec., Table Bay 6th Jan. ; Kingston, M'Lean, from Bombay, at Liverpool, sailed sth Dec. ARRIVALS AT ST. HELENA.--The Orient, Wales, from Manilla, sailed 10th Feb. for Cadiz and Bombay ' • Farley from Bombay and Ceylon, and to sail, 11th F e b., f or London. ARRIVALS AT MAURITIUS.—Jeune Evenor, Bonier, Dee. 20th, from Voliemar ; Christopher Rawson, Smellie, from Cal cutta; Malabar, Dunlop, from the Cape ; Mary Ann, Steven • son, 22d, from Port Philip ; Thomas Blyth, Hay, from Ports mouth, and to sail 15th Jan., for London ; Richard Blount, Longridge. '23d from Bombay; Venerable. M'Crag, 25th, and Juliana, Parker, 27th, from London ; Fifteen, Dangerfield, previous to 28th from Marseilles ; Thomas, Snook, from the Cape. DEPARTURES FROM MURITIUS.--liattiOt, Mullens, 18th Dec., for Moulmein ; Syria, Cirrie, 19th, for Calcutta ; Ed ward, Zillwood, for Bourbon ; Ganges, Aidlie, 22d, for Muscat ' • Freak, Smoult, for Calcutta; Dorothy Gates, Ban ton, for London ; Reform, Beaumont, for Algoa Bay ; Victo ria, Potter, 23d, for Madras • Antoinette, 23i, for Pondi cherry ; the Westbrook clear ed the 24th, for Sydney. ARRIVAL AT MAURITIUS.—Ruby, Myhill, and Calypso, Smith, previous to 30th December, from Marseilles. SHIPS LOADING AT MAURITIUS, DEC. 24—Pantaloon, Earl Powis, Tartar„ Onyx, Ophelie, Anne and Thomas, and Snook, all for London ; Helen and Jane, for Liverpool. ARRIVAL AT MADEIRA.—Potter, Hawthorn, March 5, from London, for New South Wales. ARRIVAL IN TABLE BAY (CAPE OF GOOD Hora).--John, Carder, Jan. 13th, from Bahia. DEPARTURES FROM TABLE BAY.-ViCti= ' Isemonger, Jan. 11th, for Calcutta; Sabina, 12th, for Cadiz ; Orissa, for South Australia; Alexander, Liddell, 13th, for London. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Halifax papers to the Bth March, Havannah to the 22d February, and Mexican to the 14th January, have been re ceived at the North•and South American Coffee-house. LIvERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, FRIDAY.—We have had again a large business doing this week, both speculators and exp.irters, as well as the trade, buying freely ; the supply of American descriptions in the market at full prices being at the same time equal to the demand, save for better classes in bond for export. In the middling and lower qualities h advance had been obtained, and for the better our extreme quotations of last week. Brazils and Pernams, owing to the very limited stock on hand, are telly *per lb. higher ; and Egyptian also improved. The Sea I.land at auction to-day sold steady at full rates. Speculators have taken 5,000 Americans and 150 Per nams; and exporters 3,500 Americans, 50 Pernanis, 100 Bahia, 450 Egyptian, and 320 Surat. The sales to-day are upwards of 5,000 bales of all kinds, market closing steadily. The only arrivals this morning are the French mail and the Great Western steamer from New York, which arrived at Bristol early on Friday morning, by which American papers have been received to the 20th ult. LLOYD'S DEAL, Arm'. 3.—Wind E.N.E., fresh breezes.—Arrived the Portia, front Palermo. Sailed the Etheldrid, Hood, for Jamaica ; Bustal, Lawson, and Stately, Neagle, Quebec ; King Alfred, Kniell, St. Michael's • Post Boy, Lowring, LIVERPO3I, APRIL 3.—Wind S.E., fresh breeze. —Ar rived the Superior, Sherris, from St. Alichael's ; Idima, Odessa. Sailed the Livingston, Salkeld, for New South Wales; Globe, Oliver. New Orleans; Cordova, Omer, ditto; Britannia, Oliver, Halifax; Scotland, Robinson, New York; Dit-on le Gros, Caraquet, N.B. ; Ambassador, Tate, Prince Edward's Island; Ariel, Robinson, Montreal; Lavinia, Brown, ditto. CREEK, APRIL 3.—Arrived the Hebe, Todd, from Laguna ; Wiliam, Allen, Othssa; Kilda, Catharina, O'Ronning, Tar ragona. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 3.—Wind E. S. E. Arrived the Isabella, Cunningham, from Rio Janeiro. PLYMOUTH, Aran. 3.—Wind E.—Arrived the Victoria, Voight, from Rio Janeiro; Sans Souci, Dupont, Guadalope. Sailed the Premier, Wire, Spinev ; Alcwa, Barrett, Prince Edward's Island • Industry, Lbkeman ; Syl v ia, Rollins ; and Edward, for Qu ebec. OrF THE GALLOPER, AFkIL 3.--The Zwigger, Batavia. SALCOMLE, APRIL 3.—Arrived off, the Monarch, Wilson, from St. Lucia. ILFRA COMBE, A PAIL 2.—Arrived the Celerity, Pentreath, St. Michael's. CLYDE, Aran. 3.—Arrivecl . the Abogun, from Mobile. Sailed the Mary Ann, Simon, Tobago; Renftewshire, Hutchin son, and Edward Thorn, Ray, Quebec. WORKINGTON, APRIL 2.—Sailed the Barnes, Johnston, for Quebec ; Denmark, Purdy ; and Triton, Groves, ditto. SHIELDS, APRIL 2.--Sailed the Herrings, Thompson, for Quebec; Anna, ditto. .'"'SUNDERLAND, APRIL 3.—Sailed the Union, Spark; Radi al. Anderson ; Brqwne, Hopper ; Winslevdall, Croft ; Orus, Bell ; Hampdon, Gibson ; and Staindrop, Walker, Quebec. Balsror., Aran. 3.—Arrived the Great Western, steamer, Hoskin, from New York, lest 19th ult. Sailed, the George Guildford. Reed, Montreal. TEIE FUNDS. Consols opened this morning at the leaving off quotations of yesterday, 90i 1- for Money, and for the Account 90 91. Exchequer Bills, 21 23 prem. ; Bank Stock, 178 179; India Stock, 249 250: India Fonds, 1 3 prem. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active, which left yesterday at 274. 28, is not so good, owing to a report of a Spanish Loan being on the tapis, and may be quoted at 274 ; Deferred, 131 14*; Passive, 7,4 ; Portuguese same as they closed, 34-* *; '1 tiree per Cents., 24* ; Columbian, 244 25 ; Mexican, 28* ; Brazilian, 75a 76* ex. div. ; Dutch Two and-a- Half per . Cents., 53% % ; Five per Cents. 98* 99 ex dividend. Pitichs 01' sTocK3 'BUIS Stank Stock , 3 per Cent. BRO. 3 per Cents. COD. 9O tier Cent Ditto Red. New f . 1.4 t.et Cent 99% Now 5 per Cent. ---- Sank Long Annuities: toexpire Jan 5, 1860 ....... • - Oct. lit, li.15 1 ) J.n. 5, 1543) . Jan. 5, IS!'11 April 5,194 i. Jan. 5.1h71) intlC Cis OF FOREIGN FU N DS Austrian Bonds Belgian L'onds Ditto Account ilrazi ha .1 Bonds DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. India Stock Ditto Bonds South Sea Stock Old Annuities New Ditto 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 - Ex6i. Bills, .E.1,c00... 21 2; pro Ditto 500 . 2; pm. Ditto Small 2l 23 pm. Ditto Commercial dis. Ditto Advortiseil pin. Bank Stock for Account ... - India Stock for Account .. - Consols for Account 1:1 - 11S DAY AT ONE U CLOCK. Peruvian ton,/s Ditto Account Portuguese Bonds Ditto New Bonds ... . Ditto Account 3ueno3 !tyres Bonds Ditto Acca - ant• ......... ~ — I , itto Account Chili= 'laid I — Prussian Bonds Ditt3 , 1,::c., nt — Itii,ian Bends, 1821 — ..:07.urntian B. ids — Ditto Account — DU) 1,: --, lit Columbian 3 - t1e.,159.4 - — 1.: r.:: 1c.:3 - olt ....... ....... 15 Ditto Account. ,-.. 7%14 . :anish Bonds Ditto P.:.t.t • nt — Del-tred l4 tired: Bonds — French, 5 per cent....... —l'.—c, Ditto Rondo, 1825 - -- 4 prr cent —l. —r. Ditto Account — -- 3 per cont. --4. --,, Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent — ----- Exchange. —f. --c, Ditto Account Ditto, 6 per Cent. Ditto Account Neapolitan — Mao Account ...... .., ...... 90% PttiCha 01. SHARES THIS DAY A I ONE 01,1.0 k K. Paid. Per Share. British Iron Company London and Westminstur.Bank :?•214 HALF-PAST ONE. We have received New. Brunswick Papers to the 6th March. WoonsrocK, Fee. 29.—An officer, said to be Colonel Wellesley, (son of the Duke of 'Wellington) passed through here yesterday, on his way from Canada to Frederickton. He is said to be the bearer of despatches, of what purport we have not heard. This gentleman stated at the hotel that the mail carrier had been fired at on the Temisquatta portage, and that the ball had passed through the back part of the neck. He succeeded, however, in carrying the mail in safety to his station. The British vessels of war are getting into trouble with the American whalers on the iFrth-east coast. Captain Putter, of the whale ship Pacific, arrived at New Bedford on Thursday last, states that he was informed py the inhabitants -of Kink George Town that the ship Tuscaloosa, which was at Two People's Bay in June last, had been ordesed off by the British ship of war Herald, which threatened to ahlther unless he got under weigh in twenty-four hours. Captaritqintler further states, that the inhabitants of Hobart Town and 'swan River had petitioned far a man-of-war to be stationed on the coast to prevent American ships from whaling in their bays. Not a bargain in Consols for the Account has taken place to the present hour, and most of the members are returning to their homes. The untoward division in the House of Common last night, on the Corn-law question, has greatly surprised our City politicians, and it is generally anticipated it will die a natural death. _ G.nsols for Money 904 ; Exchequer I3ills improved 21 23, prem. ; India I3oncli., 1 prem. In the Foreign Market Spani: , h Active 27 4 ; Portuguese Colombia 9. 25 ; Mexican 29 1 / 4 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half nothing done ; Five per Cents. 984 ex div. PRICES. i, 1 FUNDS India St Jek — Ditto Bonds 00000 a•••••• ••••• :3 tin° Old Annuities — Ditto New Annuities Ex. Bills, 1,0001 2d .23 pm Ditto sill'/ .23 pm Ditto Small Bank Stock fOr ( ;;ig. ..... „ i ;8 i 4 India Stock for Acct — Consols for Acct. .... 'N FUN DS Portuguese 3onis,sper cent. Ditto, New Ditto Prussian, 5 per cent — Russian Booth, 5 per cent ...... Ditto, Metallic — Spanish, 5 ;ter ( ent 2B Ditto, Delo - rat French, 5 per cent. — r. —c EXCII3W,Te —f. —c Ftench, 3 per cent —r. _„, Dutch, t2v, per cent.... ........• 53% , Ditto, 5 per cent. SHARES London and Brighton Railway 2 1 14 Londan and Bifiniiiiiham Railway I% Ditto Qua - 'er Shares Ditto New Shares Manchester and Leeds PnilwaY Ditto New Shares Manchester and Birmingham hail way — Ditto ditto Extension 2'l4, North Midland Railway South Eastern and Dover C% CLOSIN , DK rris Bank Stock 3 per Cent. lied 3 per Cent Cc us. 3!.., per Cent. Red New 3,4 per Cent P.N New 5 per Cent L^ng Annuities to expire Jan. 184;0 Oct. 1859 Jan 1860 The R evenue A ccounts , w hi c h ore mad e up to this evening, are as favourable as could be Expected. Of course, the Post-office shows a deficiency. FOREIO' Austrian, 5 per cent BLdgian, 5 per cm* — fir. (1111:111 Bonds — riii , nos Ayres, 6 per cent — Chili:di, f. per cent Coloinb,aii, 6 or cent — Ditto, 15 , 4 — Danish, t per cent ... Greek Boinis, 182;), 5 per ct. Mexican, 5 per cent — Ditto, ti per cent., 1535 — Peruvian ,1823,6 per cent — PiLitidA :WEN TARY Dl v' L310.N. ( From the rotes and Prscerdings of the House of Common .) FRIDAY, A.ritit. 3. CORN IMPORTATION. Order read for resuming adjourned Debate upon Amend ment [2d April] proposed to the question I lst April], " That this House will immediately resolve itself into a Committee of the whole House, to take into consideration the Act regulating the Importation of Foreign Corn,"—(Mr. Villiers,)—and which amendment was to add, at the end of the Question, the words, " with a view to the reduction of the average prices specified in the Table to that• Act annexed, according to which the respective Duties are imposed :"—(Mr. Pryme:)—Ques tion agsin stated :—Debate resumed :—Motion made, and Question put, " That the Debate be now adjourned :"—(Mr. Warburton :)—The house divided. 'MINORITY—AYES, 129. Athercromby, G. It. —Stirlingshire Johnson, W. Augustus—Oldham Adam, Rear-Adm. Sir C.—Clack- I-about:here, Right Hon. Henry— manner' Taunton Aglionby, H. A.—Cockerrnouth Langdale, Hon. C.—Knaresbo- Alston, Rowland—Hertfordshire rough Archbold, Robert—Kildare Lister, E. Canliffe—Bradford Bainbridge, K T.—Taunton Loch, James—Kirkwall Baines, Edward —Leeds Lushington, Rt. Hen. S—Tower Baring. F. T.— Portsmouth Hamlets teamish, F. B.—Cork Macauley, T. B.— Edinburgh Berkeley, Hon. F. H.—Bristol M.Taggart. John—Wigton, &c. Berkeley, Hon. C.—Cheltenhan Marshall, Wm.—Carlisle Bewes, T —Plymouth Marstand Henry—Stockport Blake, Wm. J.—New i ort, Isle of Martin, John—'Tewkesbury Wight Melgund, Viscount —Hythe Blewitt, Reginald—Monmouth Morpeth, Lord—Yorkshire rtowes, John—South Durham Muntz, G. F.—Birmingham Briscoe, J. I.— Wesi bury Muskett, George A.—St. Alban's Brocklehurst, J.—Macclesfield O'Connell, M. J.—Kerry lirotherton, J.—Salford Oswald, ..ames—Glasgow Busfield, W.—Bradford Palmerston, Viscount—Tiverton Callaghan, D.—Cork City Parker, John—Sheffield Campbell, Sir John—Edinburgh Parnell, Sir H. Dundee Cavendish, Hon. C. C.—E. Sussex Pechell, Captain—Brighton Chapman, Sir M. L.—Westmeath Pendarves. E. W.—W. Cornwall Clay. William—Tower Hamlets Philipps, Sir R.—Haverfordwest Collier, John—Plymouth Philips, Mark—Manchester Collins, W.—Warwick Philips, G. IL—Poole Cowper, Hon. W. F.—Her tf or d Phillpotts v John—Gloucester Craig, W. G.—Eclinburghshire Pinney, W.—Lyme Regis -. urry, William—Armagh Price, Sir R.—Herefordshire , , Oalmeny, Lord—Stilling ' Protheroe, Edward—Halifax Dash wood, G. H.—Wycombe Pryme, George—Cambridge , J'Eyncourt, Right Hon. C. T.— Rice, Edward Royd—Dover Lan 'Jett: Rlppon, C.—Gateshead • Duke, Sir James—Boston Boone, W illiam —Lim e rick Duncembe, T. S --Finsbury Rundle, John—Tavistock Duatias, i. W. D.—Flint Russell, Lord John—Stroud Hondas, Frederick—Orkney Salwey, Lieut.-Col.—Ludlow Dundas, Hon. J. C.—Yolk Sanford, E. A.--Somersetshire Eliot, Hon. J. E.—Roxburghshire Scholefield, J.—Birmingham Ellice, Edward—St. Andrew's Seymour, Lord—Totness Ellis, Wynn— Leicest,r ~•helborne, Earl of—Caine Evans, Sir G. De Lacy—Westmin- S imerville, Sir Wm.—Drogheda ster /Standish, Charles—Wigan Evans, William—North Derby Stanley, E. John—North cheshirr Ewart, William— Wigan Stanstield, W. R. C.— Huddersfield Ferguson,Sir R. A.—Londonderry Strangways, Hon. John—Dorset Pielden,,John— Oldham S trut t, Ed war d —D er by Finch, Pra-cis—W,lsall Stuart, (Lord J.—Ayr I leetwood, P. H.—Pres'on St, le, Sir Clzarles—,varborougli Gillon, Win. D.—Linlithgow . Taliered, H. W.—Banbury Wsbo:ne, 'Thomas—Carlow Thornely,Thos.—.Wolverhampton Gordon, Robert—W imisur Townl,l,' U. G —Cambridgeshire Greg, It. et.—Manchester !Turner, W.—Blackburn Grey, Sir Charies Edwarn—Tyne-: Vigors, N. A.—Carlow Co mouth • • I Vivian, John Henry—Swansea iirey, Sir George—Devoliport Wakley, 'Thomas—Finsbury Hastie, Archibald—Paisley Walker, 11.—Bury, L incashire Hawes, B. -Lambeth Wallace, Itbbert—Greenock iawkins, J. H.—Newport, Isle Of Wart, H. G.—Sheffield Wight 1 Wemyss, Captain—Fifeshire riayter, W. G.—Wells Williams, William—Coventry Hill, Lord A. M. C.—Evesham Wilshere, William—Yarmouth Hindley, Charles—i—hton Winnington, Sir T. E. —Bewdley Hobnouse, T. Benj.—Rochester Wood, G. W.—Kendal Howard, F. J. Youghall (Wood, Benjamin--outhwark Hutt, W.—Hull Hutton, Hobert—Dublin TELLS:U. James. Williarn—Ctimberland Villiers, C. P.—Wolverhampton Jervis, J.—Chester Warburton, H.—Bridport MAJORITY AChind, Sir T. D.—.N Devonshire FiCland, T. D.—West Somerset Captain—Tamworth A re Lord—GLanorganshire Alford, Viscount—Bedfordshire Alsager. It.—Surrey NOES, 245. riotlgson ltd.—lierwick.on.Tweed Holmes, Hon. W.—lsle of Wight Holmes, W.—Berwick-onTweed Hope, Charles—Linlithgowshire Hope, G. W.—W,ymoutli AtllU - till - lot, General—Kincardine! shire . . Hoskins, K.—Herefordshire - ouldsworth, T.—Nottingriamsh. Howard, Hon. E. G.--Murpeth Hughes, W. B.—Carnarvon Hurt, Francis—South Derby Ingestre, Viscount—Staffordshire 1r Sir It. H.—Oz. University i to Samuel—Cumberland John—Antrim Co. .Arehtiall, Gen. M.—Fermanagh Ashley, Lord—Dorsetsl lire ___ liagge, W.—West Norfolk ILtgot, Hon. W.—Denbighshire Dailey, Joseph—Worcester Bailey, J. ll.—Sudbury Baker, Edward—Wilton Baring, W. R—N. Statfordghire Barnety, Joh A—Worcestershire Barrington, Lord—Berkahire Barry, G. S.—Cork Co. Ri , set, John —llelstone Bell, Matthew—S. Northumber. land Jacks;4ll,lllr.Serj.—Bandon Bridge James, Sir W. C:—Hull Jenny'n, Earl—Bury, Suffolk Johnstone, J. IT —l`eirfriesshire Jones, John—Carmarthenshire Jones, T.—Londonderry Co, Kelburne, Lord—Argyleshire Kemble, H.—mast Surrey Bcnett, J.—South Wiltshire Berkeley, Hon. G.—Gloucestersh. Blackburn°, Ireland— Warrington Blackstone W. S.—Wallingford Blair, J. Blackstone, Blake, Martin J.- Galway Blakemowe, Richard—Wells Blannerhassett, A.—Kerry Bolling, W.—Bolton Brabazon, L rd—Dublin Co. Bradshaw, James—Canterbury Brarnston, T W.—Essex south Broad ley, Henry—East Yorkshire Broadwood, Henry—Bridgewater Brodie, W. B.—Salisbury Brownr gg, J. S.—Boston Bruges, N. H. L —Bath Buck, L. W.—North Devonshire Buller, Sir J. Yarde—Devonshire Cantilupe, Viscount—Lewes Castlereagh, V isct—Down Co. Cavendish, Hon 3. 11.—N. Derby Chetwynd, Major W.—Stafford Cholmondeley, Hon. Hugh—Den bighshire Christ‘pher, It A.—Lincolnshire Chute, W. L. W.—West Norfolk Clayton, Sir William—Marlow Clerk, Sir G.—Stamford Knatch hull, Sir E.—L ast'Kent Knight, H. G.—Nottinghamshire Knightley, Sir C.—Northampton shire Knox, Hon. Thomas—Dungannon Lascelles, Hon. W. S.—Wakefield Law, Hon. C. E.— CambridgeUni v. Lemon, Sir Chas.—\V. Cornwall Lincoln, Earl of—Northampton sh,re, South Lockhart, it. M.—Lanarkshire Long, W.—North Wiltshire . . -.- Lowther, Colonel—Westmoreland Mackenzie, Thomas—Ross-shire Mackenzie, W. F.—Peeblesshire Mahon, Viscount- Hertford Manneis, Lord C. S.—Leiccstersh. Martin, Thomas—Galway Co. Marton, Geo.—La►.caster Matthew, G. B.—Shaftesbury Maunsell, T. P —Northampt- nab. Meynell, Captain H.—Lisburne Mildmay, P. St. John —Winehes. ter Miles, William—Somersetsh ire Miles, Philip W. Skynner—Bristol Miller, W. H.—Newcastle under. --Lyme _ . Clive, It. H. South Shropshire Cochrane, Sir T. J.—lpswich Codrington, C. W.—Gloueestersh. Compton, H. Combe—Hampshire Coybally, Matthew Elias Corry, Hon. H. L.--Tyrone Co. Crewe, Sir George—South Derby Criops, Jose,h—Cirencester Currie, Nail:es—Northampton tieorge—East Sussex D.irlington, Earl of--Shropshire De Horsey, S. H.—Neweastle under Lyme Dick, Quintin—Maldott • _ Mithes, It. M.—Pontefract Honypenny,.".Q.-Rye MoreLiunt;Bir John—*arwick3h Morgan, C. M. R.—Brecon Necrd, :Joseph—Chippentiam Neeld, John—Cricklade Nod, William M.—Rutland ! O'Connor Don—Roscommon Co. Os..ndston,Lord—N or LllNorthurn. berland Owen, Sir J.—Pembrokeshire I'acke, C. W,--Leicester, South Pakington, J. S.—Droitwich Palmer, Robert—Berks Parker, Montagu—Devon Parke , , It. T.—Preston Peel, Rt. Hon. hir It.—Tamsvorth Peel, Col. Jonathan—Huntingdon Pemberton, Thomas—Ripon Perceval, olonel—Sligo Co. Perceval, J G. West Surrey Pigot, Robert —Bridgnorth Pitnptre, John P —East Kent Polhill, Frederick—l3e.dford Power, James— Wexford Co Powerscourt, Viscount —,Bath Praed, W. T.--4 Ives • Doui,:';, Sir C, E.—Warwick Dow°, Alarquis—Norwich Dowdeswell, W.—Tewkesbury Drummond, H. H.—Perthsnirc Duff; James—BaniTsliire _ _ Duffield, r lunnas Abingdon Dugdale, W. S.—Warwickshire Dunbar, George—fielfast Duncombe, 1-lon. W.—Yorkshire I luncombe, lion A —East itetford . Du Pre, Gcorge—Buck East, liinee huller— NVlnchester Eastnor, Viscount Reig,te Eaton, IL J.—Cannit icigeshire Egerton, %V Tattoo—Cheshire Egerton, Sir P.—Cheshire _ . 'Price, Richard—New Radnor Pusey, Philip—Berk hire tt,ght Hon. Sir Wm.—Bute aedington, T. N.—Dundalk !tein, Sii Rae—Dover Easton, Ear: —Thottord F.:rothim, Lexestershin Fcctor, John '.linet —Maidstone Felhtt W. J.--Biac•kbnrn Richards, I(ichard—lteriencthsh, Rid:ford, W.—Aylesbury aolleston, Col.—S. Nottingiiam 'tole, Sir Ge , krge—Christ;hurch Mound, Charles Gray —Essex N. ~ i.ounci, John-- Maidon _ _ Fel:owes, Edw. - litntingdonshir, Fifin2r, Sir E.—West Kent , Fitzroy, Pion. henry —fences Nicholas—King's Co. Fleming, John—Hampshire Forester, lion. ,; —Wenlogic Fox S,tekvii!e Lane—Beverly Frc hlh Id , Jame, Wm —poilryn Gaskell, James Milnes—Wenlock Wynne, Sir S. IL—Flintshire &a - don, Ilon. W.—Aberdeenshire Gore, 0. J. R.—Carnarvonshire (lore, Ormsby—Salop Goring, li. I).—New Shoreham Goulburn. Right I-lon. IL—Cam. bridge tinnier: ity Graham, Right Hon. Sir J. R. G Bt.—Pembroke itilibrooke, Colonel—Su/Polk lushout, Geo. ilowles—Evesham Fussell, Lord C. J. F.—Bedfordsh ;andon. Lord—Liverpool icarlett, Hon. J Y.—Guildford Thaw, flight lion. F.—Dublin Un. Sheppard, Thomas--Fromu Shirley, E. J —Warwieluhlre Sibthorp, Colonel—Lincoln Smith, Hon. IL—Wycombe Smyth, Sir G. IL—Colchester Spry, Sir S. C.--B,:tnin Stanley, Edward—Cumberland Staunton, St r George Thomas Slurt, Henry Chasi—Dorsetshire Sutto.), J. H. I'. M.—Cambridge Talbot, C. R. M.—G iamorgansmre Talbot, J. 11.--New Ross Teigumouth, Lord --- M2.rylebone 'fhomas, Coonel—Kinsale Grimsditch, T.—Macciesfield rimstov, Viscouut —HertE,rd, ::shire T-Tii;;sion, Hon. E. H.—St. Al, ban's Hale, 13. R.—Gloucestershire It,Word, Henry—Leicestershire Huci!ton, Lord C. —':'crone Hawilton, Charles J. B.—Ayles bury Handley, ll•ienry—Liucolush're Harcourt, G. G. V —Oxfordshire Harcourt, G. S.—llucks inornhill, G.—Huntingdonshire Tyrrell, Sir J. T.—North Essex. Verner, William—Armagh Co. Vernon, G. H.—East Itettiqd Villiers, Viscoun'—We) mouth Vivian, John Ennis—Truro Waddingtrm, H. S.—West Suffolk Welby, Glynne Earle—Granthain Westenra, Hon.ll It.—Monaghan Westenra, I-lon. J. C.—King's co White, Andrew—Sunderland Whitmore, 'l'. C.—l ridgenorth Williams, T. Peers—Marlow Wilmot, Sir J. E.—Warwickshire Vsinnington, H. J.—Woreesterh. Wodehouse, Edmond—E Norfolk Wood, Colonel T.—Brecon Right Hon. Sir H.- I.aunceston Harland, William C.—Durham Hawkes, Thomas—Dudley Hayes, Sir E.—Donegal Ileathcote, Sir W.—Hampshire Heatheote, G. J.—Lincomshire leneage, . Edward—Grimsby lleneage, G. W.—Devizes Aenniker, Lord—East Suffolk I I epburn,Sir T. Iladdingtonshire Herbert, Hon. S.—South Wilts /ferries, lit. Hon. J. C.—Harwich hillsborough, Earl of—Down !lodges, T L.—West Kent IWood, T. J.—Middlesex Wo,bley, Lord—Lincolnshire IYoung, John—Cavan So, Frederick-1-13.17n - staple l TELLERS. Raring, H. B.—MarlhDrough Fremantle, Sir Thomas—Bucks NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY. —This great line will be open from Derby to Sheffield, forty miles, in the first week in May. The celebrated station at Derby for the three Companies, the North Midland, Midland Counties, Bir. mingham and Derby Junction—which, it is raid, will be one of the finest railway stations in the kingdom—is in a state of great forwardness.—Railway Magazine. COVENT GARDEN.—Every mat,-,in th e d ress circle, and every private box, hisbeelftaken for next Tuesday evening, when Mr. Charl Imble appears in the character of Benedict. The n ox-book-keeper, in the room of Mr. Nutter, was uctantly obliged to refuse the Duke of Beau fort, who, as a personal friend of Mr. Kemble, was anxious to engage one of the proscenium stage-boxes. It is rumoured that the honour of knighthood will be conferred on Mr. Kemble at the close of his engagement. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN MANCHESTER.--A most alarming fire broke out last (Tuesday) night in a large building situate in Little Lever-street, near to Stevenson square, in Manchester. The building, which is five stories high, and about thirty yards in length, was occupied by Messrs. Elce and Co., and by Mr. Jones, both of whom carried on the business of machine-manufacturers or. an extensive scale. A portion of the basement story was in the occupation of Mr. Johnson, wiredrawer. A little after ten o'clock the flames were observed issuing from the windows of the third story, be longing to Messrs. Lice and Co. An alarm was immediately given at the police-yard, and the engines were on the spot shortly after half-past !en o'clock. So rapid had been the progress of the flames that they were then breaking out of the building in various places ; and it was at once evident to Mr. Rose, the conductor, that his services could only be of use in cutting off the connection with the other buildings. To effect this object four powerful engines were stationed near the building, and were worked with such skill and energy that the adjoining buildings were completely re s rued from injury, except of the most trifling character. "'his is the more astonishing, as the street in which the blazing pile was situate is not more than six yards wide. The interior of the budding was completely destroyed, and the roof and floors fell in about an hour after the engines commenced playing. The flames were got under command about one o'clock, but the engines were obliged to be kept at work until ten o'clock this morning. A considerable portion of the front wall fell about ball-past five o'clock, and four of the firemen narrowly escaped being buried in the ruins. All the occupiers were insured in the York and London Office; their aggregate loss is estimated at 3,5001., the whole of which, or nearly so, will be covere d by insurance. Th e b u ildi ng was insured in the Sun ; it was a very old one, and has ben on fire two or three times before; the damage done to it is estimated at 2,0001. Nothing is known of the origin of the fire. The School . for Scandal was played last night at Covent-garden, Charles Kernble taking the part in which he has always been so eminently successful. The stage of course supplies no such Charles Surface as his. Madame Vestris was the Lady Teazle, and Farren gave us Sir Peter to the life. The house was full, and the comedy was splendidly got up, as well as admirably played. StissEx.—No less than half the number of pri soners contained in the calendar at the late Assizes were eight ac quitted or discharged by proclam a ti on . Of t h ese prisoners;o_ one was committed i n S eptem b er, one in October, ht in No vember, five i n D ecem b er, two in January, three in February, and ten in March. • The Queen held a Privy Council at two o'clock yesterday afternoon at Buckingham Palace. It was attended by the Lord President, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home and Foreign Departments, the First Lord of the Adrni ra'ty, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the Chief Co:omissioner of the Woods and Forests, the Chief Secretary for Ireland. the Secretary at War, the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, and the Master of the Horse. Mr. C. Greville was the Clerk of the Council-in -Waiting. Her Majesty gave audience to the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Erroll, and Viscount Melbourne. The Court was attended by the Marchioness of Normanby, Lady-in-Waiting, the Earl of Listowell, Lord-in -Waiting , Lord HiIL/Gold Stick in Waiting; Mr. Rich, Groom in Wait ing; and the Hon. Colonel Cavendish (Clerk Marshal), Equerry in Waiting. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by the Countess of Sheffield, visited the Queen yesterday afternoon at Buck ingham Palace. Her Majesty afterwards visited the Duchess of Kent. The Royal Dinner Party at the Palace last evening ;oolu ded the Marquis of Normanby, the Earl of Erroll, the Earl of Alia" marle, the Earl of Mulgrave, Viscount Melbourne, Sir George Anson and Colonel Wylde. The Band of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards was in attendance at the Palace during the evenirg. The Queen remained at the Grand Ball at Lansdowne House until half-past two o'clock yesterday morning, when her Ma jesty and Prince Albert took their departure. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge left Lansdowne House at the same time. The Duchess of Kent took an airing yesterday in a carriage. The Duke of Cambridge left town yesterday morning on a visit to the Duke of Richmond at his seat, Goodwood, Sus°, 1 ' Her Royal Highn ess th e P r i ncess Augusta v i s i te d t h e Duones e of Gloucester yesterday, the Princess having 'previously ho noured Mr. Venables with a fi na l s i tt i ng f or a f u ll l eng th pos t of her Royal Highness. Mr. John Dixon, Mayor of Carlisle, ac .ornpanied by s r. Philip Howard, M.P., ant Mr. William Marshall, M.P., pre sented an Address of Congratulation from the corporation 01 the City of Carlisle, to his Royal Highness Prince Albert, 0 0 Thursday, at Buckingham Palace. Sir Astley Cooper and Dr. Yelloly, had an interview.' with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday, at the Home Office. Lord Audley had an interview with Viscount Melbourn e yesserday, in Downing -street. The Mayor of Birmingham, Mr. Muntz, and a Deputation , had an interview yesterday, with the Marquis of Normanby, at the. Home Office. Despatches fro m M a j or -G enera l N ap i er, Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, were received at the Colonial Office, yesterday. The Duke of Beaufort, Mr. Andrew White, M.P., Mr. Lefevre, and Mr. Oswald, hart interviews yesterday with the Marquis of Normanby at the Home Office. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE' • ARRIVALS. Sir Rowland Hill, the Earl of Northesk, and the Hon. Cat: tain Carnegie, R.N., at the Burlington Hotel; Sir . 1 n Rogers, at St evens ' s H ote l ; t h e E arl of Winchilsea, the D4l_,_ of Dunraven, at the Burli ng t on H o t e l ; th e M arqu i s o f How fort and th e L a di es T ay l or, t h e M arqu i s of Chandos, F re d e ric" Frederick, Esq„ at Long's Hotel; Major-General Harnii r4rtr at ditto ; Mr. Stanley, at the Clarendon Hotel. ; Sir Willisnal Maxwell, at ditto; Sir Thomas Hoare, Colonel. Hoare, Col° ne Eden, the Chevalier de Woestyne, the Hon. William Fraser': the Hon. Mr s . Cunliff Offiey, and the Hon. Miss Annab e l,: Crewe ; the R ev . M r . M‘N e il , at. the Burlington H ote l ; George Talbot, tne Earl of Wicklow, Sir Kingston Jav 3es ' Bart., Sir John Walsh, the Hon. Percy Ashburnharn, at Tho mas's Hotel ; Lord Carrington ; Sir John Edwards, Ba rt " M.P., at Fladon,g's Hotel, from Greenfields, Montgomery: shire t ' at ;W. H. A s h urs t , Esq. Lady Mills, and Misses Asbu rs _. at ditto, from O x f or d s hi re; W. Wells, Esq.. at ditto. fr`7,,, Redleaf, Kent ; W. P roctor, E sq., Captain Rawlinson, CaPt."-- Thurston, Benjamin Jones. Esq., at ditto. DEPARTURES. Sir Richard and Lady O'Donnel and family, for KingstoWll; Mr. and Mrs. Vernon, for Clonlaif Castle ; the Bishop of Dr: more, for Dublin ; Lord and Lady Byron, and, the Hun. 3" . Byron, for Brighto n ; Si r D av id an d L ady Scott, for clitt% Col. and M r s. H unter Bl a i r, for Leamingtou Sp a ; Sir D avid and Lady Ki n l oc h, f or di. to ; the Hon. Capt. and Lady Da llas ' for Leamington Spa. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRE,PONDENT.) ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGEN' YACHTS CHANGED OWNERS THIS WEElC cht The Secr e ta r y h as so ld M r. N e il' s new schooner IT de Louisa, of 123 t ons , t o Si r H y d e P arker, Bart. • Sir Louisa, t9`; Parker's cutt er y ac h t T urquo i se, of 77 tons, to LordLovm°-, and Colonel Ma r kh am ' s cutter yac h t Antelope, of 901 01:19 'W Vis. ount Powerscourt. to Mr. Horner has sold his cutter yacht Heron, of 45 O u ', oo Captain W. B. Ponsonby, of the Royal Fusileers. 1.-- will sail in a day or two for Gibraltar. •MA ne n 31.—Vis coun t E xmout h' s schooner yacl not erot to Yarrow, passed C owes on h er passage from P lyni°u" . Portsmouth. the APRIL 3.—Sailed the E ar l o f Desart in his cutter yac h t Owen Glendvvr, 113 tons, for Cherburg and Ireland. :u his Arrived same day f rom L on d on M r . E . N . Hart ' r, o rl schooner yacht Gitana, and sailed in company wit' n the of Desart. Mr. F. P. Delme R a d c liff e w ill s h ort l y sa il i s t his Cotte r yacht Fanny, for Norway and St. Petersburgh. h the Mr. Wm. Lyo n was a t F a l mou th Harbour. Jarnaliest o p last accounts; f rom th ence h e wou ld proceed to Net ; Yor ost. his way to England. On his passage out he touel ied e t , rool Domingo, when he received much civility and hospa tality the First Mini s t er o f H ay ti, General Jugalac, and the ii „. ll ' the tants generally. M r . Ly on o b ta i ne d t h e pr i v il e ge fre-drou llaytian Gover nmen t f or vesse l s o f t h e R oya l Y ar Sous to enter their ports on the same footing as men of war. Lord Corry has t a k en one o f th e West Cliff Col ;titge s for the season. DON STEAM COMMUNICATION BETWEEN AND THE ISLE OF WIGHT. On the opening of the Southampton Railroad: .steamers will arrive and depart from Southampton with ewoy train. The first steamers are to leave Cowes and Southampton at the same hour, six in the morning, and the last at seven in the evenin' making six passages front each place in the day • so that per' sons in London may take a trip to the Isle of Wight, e' e . w spend three or four hours in it, and yet. 'return to tovill same night. Persons from the Isle of Wight m ay run ape town, pay a visit o f t h ree or four hours, rod sup in the islao 4 say breakfast and su p i n th e I s l e of Wigl•Lt. and clinic Londor o How this i s t o b e d one w i t h the present; steam vi tssels eA naa to be seen ; but c l one i t must b e, and _ will be, by the Lireo ge and the Gem. OLYMPIC 1-dEATR,E. at Another new and " or i g i na l" d rama has beem proann ad ,th this elegant littl e es t a bli s h ment, under the titlf, of Gel.Vn'ay Vaughan, front the prolific p en o f Mr. Markldcmon, and 1 fairly be ranked among the meat successful effo its of his muse. It is full of inter es t, b u t we h ave not space to give a detail the plot, and 'it was exce ll ently acted thr out shout. ,sio, Wild, Baker, and Brookes support the print lipal male c A e lc racters with great spirit ; an d M rs. Stirling* and Mrs. Ga b " o " se the females. The p er f ormance of the first-t lamed of t the ladies was deeply a ff ec ti ng, an d made a gr eat is , pression o n an d audience. Alr i . G arr i c k p l ayed in her very best style, ie that is no mean praise. Miss Atkinson sang a :song, the by Blewitt, delightfully. She also took part i'sn a duet all Wild, the words by lieuler, and in both was enthusiasts tiff encored. It would be injustice to pass ove r the he au „ " e scenery introduced; it is painted by a young art ist of the n e - o i :cl of Wilson, oho gives promise of becon a, t . te t - is Stanfield. The grouping also for picture fque effect df admirable. The piec e wen t o ff w i t h the grea test eclat, ti n , together with the L a di es ' Club, th , e attracts, in of whi ch : - e mains unabated, will, in all probalirlity, draw crowdea b on till the conclusion of the season. The manage Anent of thil tablishment is deserving of the highest praise f oL• the many e lf ceilent novelties produced by Mr. Butler, an d we ' n-lc i j i , e .ed trust he will find his account, in the liberality b a has disl ha t ibit since the theatre has been in his hands. Nor can we qu it of subject without noticing the attention paid to the n unu r ieit of stage effect in ever'. respect. The mere st ipernunler a bi g who in other theatres 'are rather encumbrance ; than anY t, t per else, are here convected into useful and effective adjuncts, '-are ing up the life and bustle of the scene. The' house, we happy to obs.erva, is nightly graced by the i.a oat elegant 931 diences. 11 bi Earl Howe, the Countess of Sheffield, and Ott Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, :attende . Mitchell and Eden, honoured Covent-garden T heatre with ~.d.., presence, on Thursday, to see the comed of th e Double L i , lout. The Queen Dowager was attired in a black silk. 'ir e. ' with a black velvet hat and feathers. .-- • Ev Ihe Duke of Wellington will entertain his t a g ir l cellency General Alava, the Spanish Min;,ster, and. party, at dinner, tomorrow (Sunday) evening, at Ps th e. liouse. The Noble Duke has invited asmall " party - Hon.l-lre: t , , Stra fieldsaye to pass the Easter recess. l ire' The Duke of Devon s hi re w ill leave Devv° s3 ,, us house early in th e ensu i ng wee k , attended by a inuine-E°ol suite, for Paris, wher e , a f ter ma ki ng a short vis i t 1 ~ th tom and Countess of G ranv ill e , hi s G race i ntends mak i ng • * t Germany of several weeks. , • L---- ~,,dvs1111) THE COUNT ESS OF CORK.—Her 14-- -- Lor. ; on Wednesday, was announced to be slightly bettt tl ''' oou se, Cork and Lady D ungarvon h ad returned to Marsttat l ad beer from a sho r t v i s it t o B at h . Sir Courtenay Bo) le, Ache' 1n fur some weeks on a visit at Marston, had left for twin. 10 i n Earl O'Neill is staying feeble health. A rumour of hi Lordship's' °3ll cite°. deatA . is u lated yesterday, but we are fotti , de n d c . happy to learn the reyort at Shares Cias 4t. ' u . LATE EARL OF ENNISKILL'Eri. -aver estimabledaenauthmeorfotx.ihsicsirele. johNnobvvlei igorenc e ' ad, , Ihe m llo a u n g v ib il y l c c as o t le, a d E eey ri g l o ci f l o ini 9 o i u Mar t e F h e , killen, Viscount Enniskillen, and Baron Moe s .e . was born the 2.13d C 0 0 f orence Court o f Irela " he rmanagh, in the Pee: age r t' 1768, and . succeede i• his fathe first Earl, the 22d of May, 1803. In October, 1805' he IL" rid Lady Cha r l o t te Paget, daughter of the ' fate Earl °- - a i e bridge, and si s t er o f the Marquis of Anglesey vibe di r ed , c ho e l 20th January, 1817 , leaving issue five chialre t, t hree a ' -- 1 Of are still living —namely, Viscount Cole, M. ?. (new '& a u - tale Enniskill en ) , b orn January 25, 1807; tl se Hon. Ho gs. Henr LowryCo of the 7th Drao-oons born in 18119, an d the_ _ tea., a John C 1 b • " ' y oe, orn in 1815. The late Hari was cr ea te P _,aron of the United Kingdom in 1815, by the title 0 4 Lord Grinstead, of hr ns'eal, County Wilts. Hisg.Lot dship v4 1.5 . .,,h, s Lieutenant a n d C is; os Rotuloruin of the Comity of rerma 11 :l ic k. Represe n t a ti ve P et r f or Ireland, and K n l: g ht of St. Rr aiu ilf 'Viscount Colt., M.P., succeed ing Isis father in the i ‘ vigil honaurs, c auses a vacancy in the repreaf nta tion of Fer ro , f o ur , gout, y, for which his L. r.iship has been' Member In o pts Parliaments. His Lordship is aF. R.. S., and his attainic, lot in science are considerable, being quite a proficient in g_e_ e ; `,..,T1 and mineraLgy. He is Colonel of - the Alilitia and 1 ) , 1,7„,, Lieutenant of the county. The Gallant General the I l ady Sir G. Lowry Cole, G.C.8., the Countess I.'e Grel' i s,. _ a re Florence Balfour, and the Hon.. A r th ur H. Cole, 1 ‘ 1 ;,,, • )a ut " placed in mourning by the der.th o f t h e i r brother. I Cole, M. 1"., left town on Monday for Florence Court. S e - THE . °' THE SOUTHWARK ELECTION. —'In - t he gr. condaries Count on Friday an action was brought by ilh .. Beverley, the lessee of the Victoria Theatre, againt e sure Walter, the late candidate for Southwark, to recover t_, id o: 121. 165., for the use of certain boxes and places in ''', , sa le theatre on the 15th of January last, &c. The Secones ~ , ,a d Walt 0 ;cuts. summing up said, the question was whether Mr. incurred any responsibility—if so, were these people his 14 ', en d and if they considered they were, then what had they do. lei_ em' for what was Mr. Walter liable? They must judge for ', l ' e d, selves whether the agency was proved, for it could not be flen .i a e d as could the services of a clerk or servant. If they CO esi"tabral it proved they would give the plaintiff what dams Ps th,V. thought he was entitled to, and if, on the contrr hry, ..: thought it was not p rove d , they would find for the d g alen aa. • , The Jury found fo r th e plaintiff—Damages, nine gull leas. r ag 0 111111 1 - .siaaaassastapa..•s,..asiias.a,aiisi.s...-..aaimsssspstmogkf'"""''''...l.' • ' -,.....,. . ~...,..., ii .„,„ 2 , .. vir girt 1 iki.l COURT CIRCULAR.