The Sun. — London, England, 1847-05-06 00:00:00

cond Edition, Revised. Now ready, in Three handsome Bvo. with Portraits, price only 365. bound. IIORACE WALPOLES MEMOIRS of the REIGN of GEORGE the SECOND. Edited with a Preface and Notes, By the late Lord HOLLAND. "We are glad to see an octavo edition of this work. The pub lisher has conferred a boon on the public by the republication." — Britannia. • Few historical works that have appeared can equal those volumes, either in amusement or instruction."—Sunday Times. Henry Colburu, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. MRS. TROLLOPE'S NEW NOVEL. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., T HE THREE COUSINS, A NOVEL. BY MRS. TROLLOPE, Author of " Father Eustace," " The Barnabys," Sze. Heury Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready, in 3 vols., SECOND EDITION OF TANCRED. By B. DISRAELI, 31. P. henry Colburn, Publisber, 13, Great 3larlborough-street. NEW NOVEL BY MRS. THOMSON. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., post Svo., B. • Or, THE APPARITION. 'Y ; A By Mrs. THOMSON. Author of " Widows and Widowers , " " Ra g land Castle," " The Cher lier," &c. Richard Bentley, New Eurlington-s" • TESTIMONIAL TO CHARLESXOCHEAITE' ESQ. IN accordance with the undefflfrttioned itesolution, a PUBLIC DINNER will b e given to CHA RLE S CDC lIRANE, Esq., at the Freemasons' Tavern, on MONDAY, the 10th of May, at .t-ix o'clock.precisely. B. BOND CABBELL, Esq., M.P., will preside on the occasion. At a numerous and highly respectable meeting, held at the Free masons' Tavern, Great Queen -street, on Thursday, April I, 1847, It was resolved —That this meeting. feeling a deep sense of obli gation towards Mr. Charles Cochrane fer his powerful and disinter- ested aaveeacy of the cause of sanatory improvement and social ad vancement, consider it their duty to invite that gentleman to a public dinner, as a slight testimonial of their appreciation of his great services and large pe3untary sacrifices. It was also resolved—That, for the purpose of carrying the above object into effect, the following gentlemen do form a Committee, with power to add to their number :- Luke James Hansard, Esq. J. Crawford Bromehead, Esq. Charles Ireland Sheri iff. Esq. Richard M. Preece, Esq. Rev. Mr. Mangin, M.A. Rev. James Carlile, D.D. Caley Shadwell, Esq. J. S. Buckingham, Esq. John izandolph, Esq. B. W. Gardiner, Esq. James Burt, Esq. Mr. W. •Stevensi-- , S. P. L.Hesley,,Esq, Joseph Rogers, Esq. W. Carpenter, Esq. Mr. Charles Ireland H. F. Richardson, Esq. A. W. Hod,:ins, Esq., LLB:, Charles J. B. Aldis, Esq., 41. D. Mr. James Homo Rev. M. W. I.u,i4nart, ile,lry, Woolley, Esq. • Captain Houghton, lt.N. Henry Pointer, ESn- . Greig Thompson, Esq. Thomas H Rice, Req. • James Harvey, Esq. Peter I;orthwicic, Esq., M.P. John Morrison, Esq. J. B. Heeler, Esq. George F. Roper, Esq. Di nner Tickets One Guinea each, to be had of all the Me mbers o f the Committee, and at the Freemasons' Tavern. . Each Gentleman will have the privilege of bringing two Ladies, who will be admitted to the Gallery, and be supplied with refresh ments. • Gentlemen having surplus Tickets in possession will be pleased to return them to the Hon. Secretaries by Twelve o'clock at noon, on Friday, May 7th. HYDE CLARK, Esq. JAMES HOLMES, Esq. Hon. Secretaries. J• B. Serny, Esq., M.D. Thomas E. Johnson, Esq Captain Clark, Hon. E.LC.S. Rev. G. H. Stoddart, M.A. William Marsden, Esq., M.D. Mr. Robert Cooke Mr. W. Nittingale Mr. Robert Ellis J. Evans Riadore, Esq., M.D. Frederick Yates, Esq. W. Johnson, Esq. Foster Reynolds. Esq. H. L. Smale, Esq. Mr Harry Bacon Mr. John Binmore Thomas Dean, Esq. Sir Charles Aldis, M.D. "rkman Lane, Esq. S. Carter Hall, Esq., F.S.A. John Edward Panter; Esq. John Carter, Esq. Rev. Stephen latiaellyn, F.S.A. Mr. T. H. Dunk l ey Mr. A. J. Joseph Rev. J. T. Cumming Reuben Salomans, q. Es F. Whishaw, Esq., C.R. John James Moore, Esq. Henry Kayler, Esq. HER AJAJESfY'S THEATRE The Second appearance of lidlle.iENNY LIND in this country. 'the Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public, are respectfully in formed, that an EXTRA NIGHT will take place THIS EVENING. May 6, when will be performed Meyerbeer's Opera, li0B1:RTO IL DIAVOLO. Alice, Mlle. Jenny Lied ; Isabella, Made. Castellan ; Roberto, Signor Fraseliini • Rambaldo, Signor Gardoni ; Sacerdote, Si g nor Boucirt ;• and Bertram, Herr btaudigl (his second appearance at this Theatre). In the Second Act a - z. Incidental Divertissement, in which Mdlle. Rosati wdl appear. To conclude with a Divertissement, UNE SOIREE DU CARNIVAL. In which will be introduced a Grand Pas by Mdlle. Grahn, supported by Mdlles. Cassan, James, and Honori ; and " La Manola," by tulle. Cerl'o and St. Leon. .The Free List is suspended, the Public Press excepted. The d,iors open at Seven. The Opera to commence at Half-past - Seven o'clock. TII EATRE . ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will he performed the Comedy of THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. Pri,cipal characters by Mr. W. Farren, Mr. Tilbury, Mr. Stuart, Mr. Hudson, Mrs. Glover, and Mrs Nisbett. After which the Grand Astronomical Extravaganza, called THE NEW PLANET; or, Harlequin cut of Place. To conclude with the Comic Drama, called THE IRISH POST. Principal characters by Messrs. Tilbury, Braid, Hudson, Bland, and Mrs. iiumby. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPUI. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. TIIIS EVEN ,NG Will be performed the original Drama, called THE FLOWERS OF TIM FOREST ; a Oipsy Story. Cheap John. Mr. Wright, Ishmael, Mr. 0. Smith ; the Kinchin, Mr. P. Bedford; Ley bourne, Mr. Worrell ; Cynthia, M a d ame. C e l este ; L emue l, Miss WoOlgar ; St %eight Bess, Mrs. Fitzwgliam ; Lady Agnes,_ Miss Harding. After which the new Opera Buffa Sketch, called JENNY LIND. Principal characters by' Messrs. Wright, Paul Bedford, Lambert, Selby, Cullenlord, and Miss Woolgar. To conclude with the Farce of A NABOB FOR AN HOUR. Mr. Frampton, Mr. Worrell; Sam TiObbs,. Mr. Lambert ; Dick Dumpy, Mr. Monyarti; Miss Leslie, 11.1sSilarding ; Nancy Scruggs, Mrs. Matthews. TIVEMit, OXFORD-STREET. J. M. Mande., sole f:.ssee ant Manager. THIS tVEICING Will be performed the Comedy of THE HYPOCRITE. Principal by )lessrs. Ryder, Vining, J. 11 , eli,ter, Granby, Fisher, Foslzoke.. Mrs. Il;ighe and Mrs. Stirling. . which, the Comic Opera, called THE BARCAROLE. In ,t Ito' `r4. Walton, Bodda, - L . effler, Allen, Miss E. Harmer and .4- - :lime Romer will appear. '" • To conclude with the Farce, entitled A WIFE FOR AN HOUR. Pr - h&c:pa; characters by Messrs. Walton, Granby, Vining, Cowell, Common, Mrs. Hughes; and Mils E. Stanley. ch Compton Af THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. Coal' the Mtutagetnent of Mrs. Keeley. THIS EVENING Will he performed the new Drama, called THE CREOLE ; er, Love's Fetters. Demi; on, Mr. F. Mathews ; Alphonse, Mr. Murray, IV:win-Cie, Miss Dickinson; Bokes, Mr. Keeley; Latour, Mr. Emery; Virginie, Miss M. Keeley ; Louise, Miss May; Bellona. Mrs. Keeley. At' er which, the entirely new occasional Dramat'c Sketch, called JENNY LIND AT - LAST ; or, Time Swedish Nightingale. Charac ters hy Mr. A. Wigan, Mr. Turner, Mr. Kinloch, Mr. Bellingham, Mr. 11i:tiler, Mr. Yarnold, and Mrs. Keeley. To conc'ildc with - a new Burlesque Extravanza, called THE WOOD !LEMON ; or, One o'l 1.,c1t, In which Messrs. Keeley, A. Wigan, F. Matthew., Bellingham, Kinloch, Silver, Miss Dickin son, Miss Daly, and Mrs Keeley will appear. FRENCH. PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. TO-MORROW EVENING Will be performed the Vaudevi le, entitled LINAGE. De Re . andal, M. Dutnery ; Leopold, M. Rhozevil; Mauclerc, M. Priston ; Madeleine, Mdlle. Du - verger. After which, the Comedie of LE MARI A LA CAMPAGNE. Colembet, M. Re2r.ier ; Ursule, Mille. Denain. To conclude with the principal Scenes of the Petite-Comedie, en titled LE MARRIAGE FORCE. Pancras, M. Regnier ; Dorimene, Mille. Angele. Boxes, Gs. ; Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, 3t.; Gallery, 2s. - Rolm., and stalls may be engaged at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 23, it:ma-street; and at the Box-office of the Theatre, which Is open daily f:Orll I.leven till Five. V.TIITOPIAN SBRENTADERS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. The celebrated ETULOPIAN SERENADERS, Pell, Ilarrington, Stanwood, and Oarmon, wir have the honour of repeating their inimitable ENTERTAINMENTS at the St. James's Theatre, TULA EVENING (Thursday), and every Tuesday, Thursday, and Dvors opeixat Eight o'clock. They will also give aDAY PERFORMANCE om'Wednesday Morning next, May 12, coin- Inenehig at Halt-past Two o'clock. BoNes and stalls at Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; and at the llox-office. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITIIEATRE, Procrl ,- , , trir and Manager Mr. William Batty. Under the patranage of the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Royal Family,_ THIS EVENING Will be performed Lord Byron's Dramatic Poem of THE BRIDE OF ADVDOS ; or, The Corsair. rti-ewilled SCENES in the CIRCLE, with the performances of also 3lessrs. Jameson, Stev..ns, Thorn, and with Mr. Betts. with his trained Steeds, Firefly and Harebell. To conclude with ZARAII; or[ The Gipsy Tribe of Bohemia. Stage Manager, r. W. D. Broadfoot. Stall.. is.; Boxes, 4s. • Upper Boxes, 3i ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is.; UPPer Gidlery, 64.1. ' Commenee every evening at Seven o'clock, ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. 1 - rder Ulu Maimgement of Mrs. Frances Davidge, Lessee. Engagement of the original and celebrated Tableau Vivants and Poses Plamique Male and Female Artistes, for six nights only ; and last slx nights of the female Serenaders. THIS EVENING W1:1 be performed— a Nanticat Drama; called AMY, TIIE SKIPPER'S ; or, The Lilly of Devon. Supported by the whole Itrengt h of the G.,:ompany. After wh ch THE BUFFALO, cars ; or, Female Ethiopian Sere- natters. To be followed by the TISLL OF ROME, by the celebrated Tableau Vivants and Poses PlaAtone. To conclude with. THE ROVER BRIDE. Poses, 25., Pit, Is.; • Gallery, tid. , Doors open at Six, commence at Haif•past Six.. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVE SING Will be. performed a new Romance, entitled THE QUEEN OF POLAND ; or, The Hunters of Moldavia. Characters by Messrs. Hick,, Dale, Searle, Bird, Howard, Raymond, Gardner ; Miss Yin ctnt; Mr. Ilicks,:Mrs. Cr. Lee, Mi-s Burrougheliffe, &c. After which, THE MILL OF BEKEZI.NA.; or, The Deserter of 81,.ek Fore.. T‘) conclude st. with JACK AND JACK' I BROTHER ; or, The mug;:ler i , 'rmer of Kent. ' Suppor.ei by the entire strength of the Comp — iny. - Bdxes, la. ; Half' Price, 6d. Pit, 6d. ; Gallery , 3d. WEATHER.—Surf OFFICE, MAY 6. TonanostEinn, Lowest, 40 ; Highest; 56 ; Noon, 60. :'...1.1 ,- 2BIE.TER, 29 S S.W.; fine. ii - krEtt AT TAIPIDO;I4-BRIDGE TII I:4 DAY. 23 miuuteß after 5 j "Evening .. 45 minutes after 5 ilk * i C 1 4 1 .-. , ~., .* ,4, -..•. ..„ ;r l.'. . 'l t ' ;' ' '' '. M 14 ' . '''''''' - 4/,, ;' ,., !- 't•;i 0 ~ '“.'''' '' \ ?•fre ,y i e . 1Z6 . :.,..04.,, 1,..i1•L nOrf -- - , 411 . ; _. , LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY er, 1847. rnittee. • On the motion for the second rea.ding i ' i of 'the Re gistration of Voters Bill, 2r Mr. WALronu expressed a desire thatiome enact ment should be introduced to prevent the making of other thar,l bona frxl? objections to registered voters. • r oetA dW Atn The Commons met at Twelve. The report of the Committee of Supply was brought up and received. The Police Clauses Bill was ordered to ber referred to a Select Committee. The Drainage of 'Ands Bill pwsed through Com- TILE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 6, 1547. Sir G. GREY hoped no objection would be offered to the second reading of the Bill. After a short conversation, in which Mr. BRIGHT, Mr. NEWDEG ATE, and some other Hon. Members took part, the Bill was read a second time. Sir H. HALFORD moved the second reading of the Hosiery Manufacture Bill ; and if the motion were carried, he would move that the Bill be referred to a Select Committee. Mr. WYNN ELLIS considered the Bill would aggra vate the evils it professed to remedy, and would I therefore vote against it. Mr. GISBORNE said this was a corollary to the Fac tory Bill. They had entered upon a course which they could not carry out, and all such attempts to regulate wages by law must eventually prove not only unsuccessful, but positively injurious. At the suggestion of Mr. MILNER GIBSON, the de bate was adjourned to to-morrow (this day.) On the motion of Mr. WAKLEY the second reading of the Medical Registration Bill was postponed to Monday. Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD postponed the second reading of the Tenants' (Ireland) Bill to to-morrow (this day). The County Buildings Act passed through com mittee. The Naval Service of Boys Bill passed through Committee, and the House adjourned at six o'clock. the country the various abuses that still exist in our Courts of Law, with a view to their correc- 1 tion and amendment. Much has of late years been Muret de Bord. The indignation was too general, and the scandal too flagrant, to permit the Ministry to remain silent. M. Dumon accordingly announced, in a solemn tone, that the facts should be legally investigated. Messrs. L' Herbette and Cremieux contended that the Ministry should not confine itself to a mere judiciary prosecution, and that more signal reparation was required. They, however, ob served that flip Administration had itself excited those cu pidities, and tb a certain extent justified those suspicions, by professing and practising the doctrine of 'material interests.' • Ministers,' said M. Cremieux, 'had voluntarily exposed po litical men to temptation, to distrust, and to calumnies, when they rejected a proposition having for its object to exclude members of both Chambers from all participation in enter prises within the gift of the Government.' After having do quently dwelt upon those premises M. Cremieux deposited the following proposition in the hands of the President : No member of either Chamber shall be lessee or adminis trator of any railroad concession or any other concession, made in virtue of the law or by the Government.' " The Presse makes this accusation one of the grounds of a violent attack upon the Ministry. The Debats thus drily announces the intention of the Ministry : "As to the incident which occurred at the commencement of the sitting with respect to the letters of General Despans CubiZres, Miniiter of War, of the Cabinet of Ist of March, we shall content ourselves by indicating it. These letters were produced in a process still pending before the Tribunal of First Instance. The infamous imputations they contain will be cleared up. The guilty parties, whoever they may be, will not escape the punishment they merit. The Ministry has taken an engagement to bring these dark intrigues before justice— it is all that it can do, and it will do it. We congratulate the lion. M. Muret de Bord on having elicited the explanations of the Government." The National and the Courrier Francais have also articles on the same subject. The article in the latter journal concludes with the following address to the done ; extensive and valuable alterations have been introduced, and each succeeding year has seen some of the remaining impurities swept away and abolished. But much still remains to be effected — there is still a wide field and ample opportunities for the labour of legal reformers. It is not merely in the principles of the law that these changes are required. There are many points in the practice, in the manner in which its machinery is brought into operation, apparently of trivial importance in themselves, which practically are productive ofconsiderable inconvenience, and which, in many instances, amount to a denial of justice to the suitor. The number and amount of J- the fees demanded in every stage of the proceedings —both at law or in equity—may be enumerated as among the more prominent of these grievances No matter how well-founded may be the claim of the injured party, he is prevented from seeking redress unless he is prepared to advance large sums for the payment of those fees, which he must, under the most favourable circumstances, be satisfied to lie out of for a considerable period. The poor man's progress is arrested at the very threshold of the temple of justice. There is no entrance for him unless he ~ is prepared to pay heavy perquisites to the greedy janitors by whom the portal is guarded. But this is not all ; there are many bars, at each of which a heavy toll is demanded before the seeker for justice is suffered to proceed on his journey. Even if dragged before the tribunals by unjust and un warranted claims, he is not permitted to defend himself unless he is prepared to comply with the extortionate demands made upon his purse. If he does not appear he is condemned by default, and perhaps deprived of his property, or made to expiate faults of which he was never guilty. If he appears he must pay, and that heavily, before he is allowed to answer the charge. It is- not merely an amount sufficient to pay the ex penses attendant on the administration of justice that is levied from the pockets of the suitors, but considerable sums are each year paid into 'the na tional exchequer. in the Court of Chancery alone no less than a quarter of a million sterling is annually abstracted from the litigants ; while from the other law courts, in the three years ending in 1843, after payment of the salaries of officers, and the amount of compensations, more than 100,0001. sterling were ap plied to the general purposes of the country. Surely such a state of things should not be sanctic,ned or tolerated. A sweeping and efficient measure of re form should promptly be enacted, and the entire system of fees forthwith abolished. Every British citizen surrenders a certain portion of his natural liberty in return: for the protection afforded by the State to his person and property—he submits to many restrictions for the common weal— he contributes according to his means to the general expense—is taxed in almost every possible manner, but the moment he calls upon the nation to perform its part of the contract to afford him redress, he is totally denied that protection, unless he pays largely for it. The justice that should be open to every claimant, to the poor as well as to the rich, is withheld until it is purchased by the suitor. These fees are relics of the olden time, when jobbing pervaded every portion of the State machine. Friends, relatives, or dependents of the leading members of the predominant party were to be provided for. Sinecures were created, new fees were levied from the public to make up the necessary amount. A payment by fees was always preferred to a fixed salary. There were not in those bygone days so many prying and inquisitive legislators who would find out the aggregate amount of those much loved fees. It would not do to have a prothonatory or clerk receiving, for trifling duties, a certain sum, exceeding the amount payable to the chief judge of the court o f which he was an infe rior officer ; but let him be remunerated by fees, and it could easily be managed. There need, then, be no assignable limits to the amount which he might extract from the pockets of the people. This prac tice, of late years, has been materially checked ; almost all the officers are now paid by fixed salaries, but still the fees are levied and collected, and mani fold opportunities for peculation are still permitted to exi*t. AVe trust that the Select Committee, list night conceded to Mr. WATSON, will by their report exposé all the abuses of the system, and tend to its otal and permanent abolition. Intelligence is arriving now with such rapidity, and of such an extraordinary character, from the different quarters of the habitable globe, that it can neither be uninteresting nor unprofitable to take a comprehen sive but cursory glance at its peculiarities. Recent alterations in the Legislatures of Foreign countries have assimilated, or are gradually assimilating, so many millions of the human race with ourselves, that it is with peculiar emotions we take into consi deration the liberal institutions which have recently sprung into existence. Our sympathies are conse quently enlisted in an especial manner in the relations subsisting between the kingdoms beyond our shores. When Prussia is obtaining an elective Parliament from the sagacious generosity of its en lightened SOVEREIGN, and when the inhabitants even of the Papal States are receiving the boon of a species of representative Conclave from their illus- I trious ruler, we may, without affectation, con gratulate ourselves upon the progress, both politi cal and social, of our own generation; and we may be permitted, without subjecting ourselves to ridi cule, to speak with something like exultation of the progressive regeneration of mankind which is being effected under the auspices of Christianity. Although we are startled by the account of ap palling butcheries in the Chinese empire—butcheries of such a frightful magnitude that we should be dis posed to regard the rumours with incredulity but for our recollection of the sanguinary temperament of the Budhists and the extraordinary numerical strength of the subjects of the Celestial EMPEROR — although we are told of the massacre of 1.30,638 individuals in the departments of Chang-Chao and Tseven-Chao, we must acknowledge that the in formation received frmi the Asiatic dominions is generally of a more bloodless character than hereto fore. The dispatches just arrived from India, in anticipation of the Overland Mail, are almost of a kind to cause exultation and gratitude, even in the sudden and mysterious death, already mentioned, of the in famous AKBAR KHAN. Reports are divided as to whether that ruthless chieftain has fallen a victim to his own inordinate intemperance or to poison, admi nistered to him at the instigation of his parental enemy. No individual among his contemporaries was held in such universal and merited execra- Ministry : " Ah, you who are accused of having sold your support for forty-five shares in a mining concern, what would you I not do at this rate if your support was put up to auction, to deliver your country to a foreign Power? Do - "on forget that venality on so mean a scale is more ignominious than treason ?" Several of the journals have rather long leading ar ticles on the Russian investment in the foreign funds, which the Riforme quaintly characterises as a new invasion of the civilised world by Cossacks in the shape of metal. According to a" return presented to the Chamber of Deputies on'Munda.y by the Minister of Marine, no fewer than 111 sailing ships of war had been built in France from 1830 to 1846, namely,. 6 ships of the line, 24 frigates, 28 corvettes, 24 brigs, and 34 smaller vessels. The number of steamers constructed during the same period amounted to 70, namely, 4 large frigates of 450 to 540 horse-power, 14 frigates of 450 ditto, 2 corvettes of 300 to 400 ditto, 13 of 220 ditto, 30 of 160 ditto, and 7 of 120 ditto. In the course of the debate in the Chamber on Monday the Minister of Marine, in allusion to the French fleet in the Mediterranean, said— " At no former period has France sent to sea a squadron in which the least of the ships is a 100-gun ship, a squadron which reckons three three-deckers, that is, three ships of the greatest power, and to which we took care to attach as many steamers of 450 horse-power as there are ships; so that, at the same instant, the Commander.in•Chief of that naval force can employ a 450 horse-power steamer to tow each of those large ships. Thus, the most imposing float . ing mass, a 120-gun ship, was never rendered more efficient, more adapted to resist all the difficulties of the sea and weather, and better able to proceed with rapidity to the points where it might be necessary to make a demonstra tion." General NARVAEZ is expected in Paris on Friday. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Tuesday at 78f. 15c.; the Five per Cents., 1151 95c.: the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,233 f. 75c; Rouen, 946 f. 25c.• Havre, 667 f. 50c ; Great Northern, 615 f. ; Avignon, 767 f. 50c.; Vierzon, 581 f. 25c. ; Bordeaux, 512 f. 50c.; Basle, 193 f. 75c.; Paris and Strasburg, 426 f. 25c. ; Tours and Nantes, 417 f. 50c. • Paris and Lyons, 432 f. 50c.; Lyons and Avignon, 450 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 442 f. 50c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 5. Anglo-Belgian, 3 Central of France (Orleans and Vier zon), 14%—Northern of France, 12—Paris and Lyons, 4% —Paris and Strasbourg, 1%. THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO. tion as the deceased Wuzeer, and no one will be so totally devoid of persons to bewail his disappearance. Among the significant cir cumstances which are now transpiring in our Oriental possessions, or in their immediate vici• nity, must be mentioned the reformation already vi sible in the behaviour ; f his Highness GROOLAB SINGH. At present he, is described as enacting the part of a reformed rake ; he has apparently sown the last handful of his wild oats, and is now engaged in weeding out the tares and thistles. Besides this sin gular phenomenon in the physiology of Eastern princes we must record the question which has recently been agitated in the provisional government of Lahore, namely, whether or not the young Maharaja DHILLEEP is to receive, the advantages of an English education. Unhappily the proposition has for the time been abandoned in consideration of certain reli gious prejudices prevalent among the inhabitants of the Punjaub, and likewise in consequence of a defi ciency of revenue. Travelling in imagination from this metropolis, in a totally opposite direction, we discern in the ac counts arriving from the United States a vague pro bability of a conclusion to the warfare that has been so long desolating the provinces of Mexico. The usual exaggeration is of course perceptible in the braggart narratives of native prowess anclgeneralship contained in the Yankee newspapers. According to these vain glorious scribblers, SANTA ANNA has yielded to the inferior numbers but the superior determination of the men commanded by old ZACHARY TAYLOR ; accord ing to them, also, the disturbances which recently prevailed in California have been suppressed ; Vera Cruz and the Castle of San Juan d'Ulloa, with a gar rison of four thousand men, have been delivered into the hands of the American assailants, under General SCOTT, and the capital of Chihuahua has at last capi tulated to the division of Colonel DONIPHAN. Not to mention the circumstance of these incredible assurances having been preceded by a hiatus of nine days alto gether unaccounted for, we must observe that the statements received from New York are so flagrantly contradictory, and so ludicrously incongruous, that it is impo s sible to place any reliance whatever upon the accuracy of the American dispatches until they shall have been confirmed by others coming directly from the Mexican frontier. While these remarkable events are presumed to be occurring on the opposite shores of the Atlantic, a very fortunate change is visible in the political tem perament of the Iberians. Scarcely has Queen Is 1- DELLA scattered the Afrancesado faction derisively to the winds, and invoked the loyalty of the Spanish multitude than Queen MARIA DA GLORIA releases herself from the thraldom of her evil adviser. The propositions forwarded to Lisbon by Lord PALMERSTON have at length met with the cordial ac ceptance of the Lusitairian SOVEREIGN. All differ ences are, by the English intervention, to be amicably arranged between the AloNAßcn and the people of Portugal. Civil war in that kingdom may already be counted among the bygones, and there is every. reasonable probability that the Junta of Oporto will waive all exorbitant demands for the satisfaction of granting tranquillity and constitutional freedom to their countrymen. Not merely is the Saldanha Ministry dismissed, but an entirely new one, under the direction of ILDEFONSO LEOPOLDO BAYARD, as head of the Department for Foreign Affairs, has been formed by the personal exertion and selection of MARIA DA GLORIA herself. A termination to the woes that have been during so many months inflicted upon the Portuguese through the obstinacy of the Court party may, therefore, be confidently antici pated ; and it must never be forgotten that whatever a ivantages arise from the settlement of the late ani mosities will be attributable, first, to the justice of the popular clamour; secondly, to the decisive conduct of the Junta of Oporto; thirdly, to the courage, the ardour, and the perseverance of the insurgent commanders DAS ANTAS, SA DA BANDEIRA, and their subordinate assistants, and, finally, to the well-timed and judicious interposition of the British Government. Before dismissing the consideration of the state in which the various foreign dominions in the two he mispheres are placed, it must be recorded that matters continue quite as unsettled as ever in countries bor e d‘ers:urinlgidmoeenrlttaohuretderiniavgnedrstPiiill remains liang OTRo. ta.ln u TnUardEkjueffysot,ret d moreover, between arreeOyer, making the Sublime for the tr anqu illi sat i on of Kurdistan, but ctherwise the Ottoman Governsumdeußussian. Consolator y news is t . e ncompassed with difficulties, both Grecian opposite character sh ores of arriving, however, from the thanthe Levant,—news of a more consolatory that of territorial aggrandisement or diplomatic suc cess—the apprcaching corn and rice harvests o; Egypt promise to be unusually prolific. With this encouraging announcement we conclude our summary. ____-........-- (BY SPECIAL EXPRESS.) LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY MORNING, 6 o'CLocrc Since the departure of the mail last night, at:eight o'clock, we have had two arrivals from the United States—the Prince Albert last night, and the Arcole Captain Foodless, the former with papers to the 9th, and the latter to the 14th. The news brought by the Arcole is of great importance, and details the bombardment and capture of the Castle of San Juan d'Ulloa, with the loss on the side - of the Mexicans of 1,000, and 15 Americans kill 4 and 5 .O wounded. The character of the commercial-:news is not ma- terially changed since the forrner:advices were re ceived. Money was easy, freights were lower, business very brisk, and the people of the Union full of activity and good humour, at the prospect of realising a large amount of dollars, and of their trade with Europe, and the glory obtained in their conflict with the republic of Mexico. Intelligence has been received from Lisbon of the 29th of April. The QUEEN has accepted the terms proposed by the British Government, and Colonel 'WYLDE left Lisbon on the 29th for St. Übes, to put a stop to further hostilities. A complete amnesty is extended to all, so that not only the leaders of the Junta forces but the prisoners of Torres Vedras will be enabled to return to Lisbon. If the terms are net accepted there will be an armed intervention by England in support of the QUEEN. The following Ministerial appointments have been made : Finance and, ad interim, Marine and Colonies— There had been several arrivals out at New York and Boston, with later intelligence from England, and although the accounts conveyed out reported a declining market in grain, holders seemed disinclined to press sales till the arrival of advices by the Cam bria, which was anxiously looked for. The Hudson was quite open, and large quantities of flour and grain were passing down from Albany and the west to New York, for exportation to Europe. Large amounts of bullion continued to ar rive out at New York, and advices of further ship ments had been received at the chief commercial cities of the Union. Count TOJAL. Interior—FRANCISCO TAVARES DE ALMEIDA PROENCA. Justice and Ecclesiastical 6 Affairs MANOEL DUARTE LEITAO. (From the Times.) Foreign Affairs and, ad interim, War—ILDEFONSO LEOPOLDO BAYARD• There remain two places to be filled up. This is a coalition Ministry. TOJAL, one of the old Ministers, has always been in favour of accepting the terms proposed by Lord PALMERSTON ; BA YARD is not of very decided political opinions. LEITAO is a moderate Septembrista; and PROENCA, a moderate Chartist. The news from Oporto is to the 29th. All was quiet there, and SALDANIZA had not moved from his old quarters. CABAL and his troops have definitively evacuated the province of Tras• os-Montes. A corvette, of twenty guns, belonging to the blockading squadron, had surrendered to the Junta ; she is called the Eighth of July. The Falcon steamer was load- ing with wine for London, intending to force the blockade. The capture of the Royal Tar by the Junta's steamer Mindello was known at Oporto. It is said that the Junta will not accept any terms of accommodation unless their troops are allowed to garrison Lisbon and Oporto as gua rantees against any future coup d'etat. The troops of the Junta occupy the provinces of Tras os-Montes _ _ and the Minho: The Jackal steamer has been sent to Viana to release the British shipping detained there by the Governor of the Castle. The Oporto Bank has been compelled to make good by monthly instalments the remainder of the forced loan of 200 contos. Madrid journals of the 29th ult. have arrived. A deputation, consisting of OLOZACA, MENDIZABAL, CORTINA, and other Progressista leaders, waited on the QUEEN on the 28th, to petition her MAJESTY to extend the benefit of the amnesty to ESPARTERO. The QUEEN replied that personally she desired union, but that the question must be referred to the Council of Ministers. The dignity of Grandee of Spain has been conferred, together with the title of Duke of SARAGOSSA, on the son of General P.A.LAFOX. The Committee in the case of A VIRINETA and Cuico have determined to recommend the Chamber to pass the Bill of In demnity demanded by the Government, abstaining, however, at the same time, from giving any opinion as to the legality of their arrest. MADRID BOLSA, Aram 29.—The Three per Cents. were done at 31k, for cash; the Five per Cents. at 19 ; the Debt, without interest, at si; and the Coupons at 16. We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday. In the Chamber of Deputies, on Monday, a letter of General CUBIERES was read, accusing the Ministry of corruption. This letter had been produced in the course of a process still pending before the courts of law, and the attention of the Chamber was directed to it by M. AIURET DE BORD. On this subject the Siècle says— " We quoted yesterday a correspondence, in which a Peer of France, a Lieutenant-General, a former Minister (General Cubieres), and, subsequently, a shareholder in a mi n i n g com pany, declares that' the Government is placed in c orru p t and rapacious hands ;, it had' that been necessary to ob tain the ' in order to insure th e success of a legitimate claim secure that inte rested support of one of the members of the Council;' and chat ure to the t (th s e upp G or e t nera if l) th ' e had com it pan i y n w h o is uld powerth ec consent to sacrifice fifty _ shares.' That fact was denounced Chamber I Deputies on Monday by M. Mr. WT A TSON deserves much credit for the persever 4nee and energy he has exhibited in bringing before The Philadelphia correspondent of the Journal of. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. tcr t a l „. e sc a e i t : I c, : a ianned before ilad u n t: e i r. HOUSE l,heHotise sOaFto-dLayOatßteD. So,c.--10,k( Commerce writes as follows : CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. -11 and " The illumination next Monday will be on the most The sales o f c o tt on i n th e Liverpool market yesterday Scotch appeals. The Peers present were the Lord Chafe._ extensive scale. All the districts have followed t he lead were 4,000 bales, including 3,000 'Wei of Ameei . ean on spe- celior, len d Brougham, Lerd Campbell, and the Earl of of the city, and made appropriations for the purpose. culation at 6 1 4 d. to eie s d. per lb. The market was very dull Clancartv. ( a l n ee d li t e i ne l e t g o a ? n. d. per lb. lower than on Friday last. Shares We have bad no general illumination here sine% La TIIE TAFF VALE RAILWAY COMPANY V. taxoN. TtolheisSr EDnglAis Y.) Fayette's visit, twenty odd years ago." The further arguments in this The accounts from America note a rise in the exchange, pointed to be resumed to-day. . but corn was high and cotton firm. The New Orleans Commercial Times of the 7th Lordships upon appeal from the decree of ultimo, has the following late intelligence from : There is rather an important statement made in the City 11 Fviand. The fll ' the facts of the case ce or of en e owing are this morning, MexiCo : viz., that the Bank of England has acceded to out of which the appeal arises : the representations of an influential deputat' nf m M Mr. W. Nixen was a railwav lr' c l o re n t the pli e , a c l i ce were .c ; a ae p i ,l - r.. "We have been permitted to peruse several private chester, and acknowledging the importance of m infusing ' altilfe- taken part of the works of the - Taff Vale Railway for that letters, of a very late date, from the city of Mexico, into our textile manufactories, as a means of promoting the company for the sum of 7,395/., subject to*deduction trials}'.- written by persons of the highest respectability, and execution of the orders received from America, has deter- crease proportioned to the work to be done. . Even.. whose . sources of information are ample. They state as mined to afford reasonable and legitimate assistance to the becoming short of cash to carry cut his contract, he aPP i l l ' ee, a a matter of positive certainty, that negotiations for traders of . that district. Thie, in contradistinction to David Storm, another railroad contractor, for assista_ a... peace between the United States and Mexico are under to il the policy" observed generally 'towards Liverpool, where which was accorded, upon an agreement and a powdernotf 50 t j advisement, and that the return of Santa Anna, who quarters of th e cotton speculation being fixed, torney to Storm, appointing him his superintenl , ! ted, " the e casions 1 unceasing a nxiety to the Bank, is a line of con , director of these works till they should be comp e all sums was hourly expected, would be the signal for the com- duct which, supposing it to have been resolved upon as his attorney to demand and have of the company tun mencement of overtures." stated, would give very general' satisfaction here. It is et mono • which should become due to Nixon from the con" The New Orleans Della of the same date adds— further said, that a largeamount of the merchants' bills li eine un 3 dr the nt t ith an alwance of 51. per cent. "La Patric has received a letter dated Tampico, held by the Batik haying run out, anti been ex - liquidated, there is more disposition n March 24, 1847, from which we make the following grant discoupnutnaccucoani3-' to theTaff n V e a s le Rail: e a )any on the Bth of Deceinber, parts on :111 adzee c " Th r e ac circumstancesceiu were formally notified tract:— modation on fresh paper. 1838. The works were y carrie l d out and completed, par e "'Private letters from the capital, written on the night We have received from Messrs. J. S. Tripp and Co. some under a new centract, when Nixon and storm becam of the 18th, state that General Santa Anna has just ar- remarks upon railway matters, which seem to deserve atten- joint contractors with the company ; Nixon having tio , i , e T They observe that— rived in that city. It is also stated that the revolution against the administration of Gomez Ferias had at length o form a correct estimate of any particular railway, it acting all money matters with the company, the management of the working part, Storlinvhetrraenus: been terminated in a favourable manner to the Govern- is essFinial that the half- . 3 early accounts should be made tinned to pay him various sums on account of work done. ment, and that Generals Pena, Barragan, and Sales, out in the fullest, simplest, mid most distinct manner, In Decembele 1840, Storm became bankrupt, and four of e , without any concealment or mstification. who were the heads of the opposition to Gomez Ferias, " Each half-yearly statement should recapitulate sepa had been shot. Ido not know if this last information rarely and eistit , ctl capital y the authorised to be raised by r e_ e g s a p i e n ' s ' t deut the s . T b( a c tr am ß e ail h l i v s. a ,as C 4 o g n i- r, e a s n . • and Ni" thenti filed gbnits'es hiltnf be correct. We are anxiously awaiting the mail to con- shares, and by loan—the capital already raised by shares and the contract, but that he had not receive , ' any part o • that Storm, stating that he ) and Storm i had received 9. 7.3241. ~,. : firm or negative the report.' " by loan—the suns expended, the sum on hand—the amount since become payable for work done by the Com Pa -e - rill The subjoined intelligence respecting a State loan and rate of interest received from and paid to bankers for he had, on finding, on the 16; ii December, 1840, that S t° is from the correspondence of the Journal of Com-f the balances—protit and loss upon the sale and purchase of was embarrassed in circumstances, given notice to the Coln shares and securities with the company's funds—particulars pant merce :—, mottes of reserved shares on hard, and those disposed of; length of contract; and also to render him an account of rel nom . not to pay him any more money on account 0 ,_ " WASHINGTON, APRIL 14. miles open, date when opened, and cost per mile; revenue paid since April 11, in respect of the contract. The ' ad been account; expenses ditto; dividends, balance, and reserved PanTlatter since fund. asserted that a larger sum than the 9,236/. h paid to Nixon, or Storm, or the assignees of the an. _, " Reasonable as it is to insist upon such statements and his bankruptcy, and that little remained due on acco e. __t u o r i easy as it would be to furnish them, we have yet to learn the contract. This Nixon denied, or else alleged a tb d t " " after why they should in any instance be withheld. It is noto- such greater sum was paid in their own wrong, n _ an , rious large balances are left in bankers' hands, and the in- notice not to pay anything more to Storm. The ComP __-,.. terest chargeable upon these balances is not sufficiently ex- put in their answer to this bill, denying they had a nd plained. Companies purchase and sell shares, the profit and loss nexion or privity with the accounts between 1"2". 1 1 their upon which transactions seldom appear in the accounts. For Storm ; nor were those parties, or any one or more ia it example, the Great Western holOhares in the Oxford, Worces- right entitled to institute a suit in equity contract' example, ter, and Wolverhampton, the Wilts, Somerset, and Wey- the appellants in respect of the allege.d cf e n . eas e, mouth, South Devon, and South Wales Railways, all ofof t.e. The Vice-Chancellor of England, upon hearing the h which are now at a large discount, and many of which the thought there was nothing to take this case 0 debt,t, _nd Great Western Company sold in 1845 at a considerable pre- ordinary one of a person making a mortgage of his el, at mium.' The Bristol and Exeter Company at one time.hav- ordered that it should be referred to the Master to see ;l in ing raised more money than was sufficient for their imme_ sum was due to Nixon, and what works were ilon e b ,.. Y :fied diate wants, invested a portion of this temporary surplus in the purchase ef'their vsVn shares, which were then at a large under the contract, as well extra as those therein sPes" t his further directions and costs being reserved. - An fr.:l -r '. decree the present appeal was brought.. - , iye e edflY discourit, and which they afterwards resold at a good profit:" ' The Funds have been decidedly better 6-day, and the ad- Sir F. KELLY and Mr. SItAltT wer'Theard o,l l .. f i iit had vance is 14 1 to % per,cent., though with a good .of flue- last on behalf of the appellants, Intendconning that iv . , o der t uat ion. Consols have realised 87% to 86'A for transfer, and taken place was, at the utmost, a egal liabilitY,t ef. ;t 87 3 4 to 4 for time. Exchequer-bills have been. as. to Bs, a contract, and furnished no ground for equitable ;ant for discount. New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have was against 'all principle of equity that because tw e p v ; ; , , sc . been 884 to 87 3 4. Bank Stock is worth 188 to 1.88%. contractors or partners had a dispute as te' The Foreign Bonds have been neglected again. Mexican are 19 1 /, to 20; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been made defendants theire t i o n rs a s s h u o i t ul i d n b e e tiu t i h t e y r t h e y s r e e t n a d e e p r l s ed r h t ei n liab ler ers ;:d t i b u s: 57q/ 4 . Railway Shares still follow in some respect the movement partners had been made by Mr. Robert Stephenson, We' , p artners ; and finally, that though an award, by desire. o_ i re. eo. in the Stocks, but are not so susceptible of the rallying in- ference had not been impugned by the bill in sonny e' fluency which has been exerted upon the latter. DRITISII FUNDS. ONE CLOSING to the reference and award. • 11 15 t CI'CLOCK. PRICES. Mr. BETHELL was about to address there Lordships Bank Stock 189 morning on behalf of the respondents, when . Lo rdships Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. .., 88% 85% 86% 86th The LORD CHANCELLOR intimated that their _ _... Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. .. 87% 86% 87 87% th o ught it unnecessary to hear the Learned GentleeMa" Three per Cent. Annuities, 1726 .. .. 85% New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anna. 88 1 , 4 87% 88 f the t 0 New Five per Cent. Annuities ... .. .. 117 recommended their - Lordships to affirm the judginen 8 8 5 8 % The Learned Lord, after going through the facts of th ca se ' 117 Court below with costs. Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 8 15-16 9 1-16 9 1-16 Ditto. 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 .. 8 3 4 Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. • • Lord BROUGHAM and Lord CAMPBELL agree 9 1-16 opinion expressed by the Learned Lord on the India Stock .. .. • •• •• , •• .. 242 Consols for May 27 .. •• .. .. .. 87% 3 4 %4 % 87% WOOD v. YOUNG. Exchequer Bills. lie d. 2d. Judgment of the Court below affirmed, evith costs. 1,000/... .. fore them 5001. -. .. ing with the arguments in this case, which carne beef the fist; Ditto, Small .••• _ Their Lordships were occupied the remainder of the Morn' upon appeal against an interlocutor of the Lorda disallowed a es, division of the Court of Session, by which they u ," en t of , doorsaitc..-I•the —•••,,,, , bill of exceptions taken by the appellants to a j 0 1 .6_" . .. tr i a l, Lord Robertson pronounced in the course of a a k la n r i ; by to whereby his Lordship sustained an objection n t .,,... . on the respondent to a witness tendered by the app-w ground of interest. _ DAY)' ROLLS' COURT. — ( THIS MARSHALL V. LYSTER. ,_ M a ster ' s This cause came on for further directions on tuee_ mar ried report. It appeared that Sir Thomas Elmsley r Cr _t ei r ts ,l o t a ward of Chancery, and upon her attaining he .., t h w ich it wa.e year, a marriage settlement was executed, by r ue es tate for covenanted that 5,000/. should be charged on e",. eno eiated Iris wife, and that a sum of 10,000/. should be si- eared that as a provision for the younger children. It all Thomas Lady Croft married twice after the death of P .... tr iaae ,, eta Croft, and that one daughter by her first insu e 'ef s eriage also married. The plaintiff was the trustee to the interest settlement. There was nothing of any pub 'after sane in the cause, which was ordere d . to stand over ( _, nex t of the arguments had been h ea rd) till the third day e" term. .----.------e-------- ____, " The loan was rated yesterday, and the bidders notified of the acceptance of their proposals. Con coran and Riggs, of this city, obtained fourteen millions and seven hundred, thousand dollars, at one-eighth of one per cent. advance. Elisha Riggs, of New York, obtained one million four hundred thousaed dollars, at the same rate. Of the remaining sum nineteen hundred thousand dollars about two hundred thousand dollars was taken in this city, at about a quarter of one per cent. advance. The rest is scattered among individuals, trustees, &c.. at a quarter, half, and one, and even two per cent. The premium does not average half of one per cent., nor even a I quarter. The New Yorkers bid at par, or less than one-eighth advanCe, except Mr. Elisha Riggs, as above stated. Conccran and. Riggs have sold some pertion of their stock at two-and-a• half per cent advance. The secretary of the Treasury will call in the whole of the , loan, but at such times as the money may be Wanted ; thus saving interest, and avoiding any disturbance cf the money market by the sudden withdrawal of such an amount in specie. If there should be peace with Mexico, in the course even of thirty days, still the expenses of the war will be continued for at least two or three years. If we do not retain the military possession of the country, with a very 1 trge force, we shall soon find that we shall have the whole work to do over again. The revenue harvest, now so rich that it will yield by estimate 30,000,000 between Ist December last and Ist December next, may not be so good the next year. There is reason to suppose that the present halcyon times will not continue for ever. So, after all, the New Yorkers may have been right in declining to bid above par for the loan. The Secretary of the Treasury calculates, as I learn, upon a revenue of $15,000,000 from the "military contri butions" imposed upon Mexico, for the first year, after the opening of the Mexican ports to trade. I consulted one or two men here, who were, for a long time, resident mer chants in different parts of Mexico, as to the prospects of revenue from the system lately adopted, and was assured that, by the Ist of January Next, the imports into Mexico, under the rates of duty fixed by the Trea sury order, would, in all probability, amount to 6,000,000. Should the war continue, this sum will help to defray its expenses. Even should it cease, I presume it wilt be stipulated in the treaty that we shall continue to collect and retain these revenues for a certain length of time—during the whole time that we may be obliged to sustain a military force in Mexico, with a view to enforce the fulfilment of the terms of any trt aty of peace. In New Jersey the grain and hay crops are healthy, and instead of being frozen up as reported, the wheat and rye fields present an unprecedented appearance of fertility. At Boston, on the 14th, the ship Morea cleared out with breadstuffs valued at 21,500 dolls:, for the relief committee at dasgow. 8 3 8 dim 8 3 8 dis 8 3 8 dis ONE O'CLOCK. 9 dis 9 dis 9 dis CLOSIN() PRICES, FOREIGN FUNDS. Danish, 3 per Cent •• • • • • Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent .. 19% Ditto, for the Account .. 19% 20 Portuguese Four per Cent .. . • THE MARKETS. NEW YORK, APRIL 15. Flour—Sales, 2,000 Gennessee, in lots, at 7 dolls. Mc. ; 500 Buffalo, at 7 dolls. 69c.; 500 Michigan, at 7 dolls. 62c. Corn-4,500 bushels northern yellow on the spot, 95c. Ditto, for the Account .. Russian Bonds Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto, Three per Cent Ditto, for the Account Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch Two-and-a-Halt per Cent .. 57 3 4 Ditto. 4 Der Cent. Certificates .. 8734 14 PRICES OF BUSINESS CLOSING PAID. DONE Al' PRICES. RAILWAY SHARES. ONE O'CLOCK. .. .. 109 Amber., Notting., Boston, and Eastern Junction .. .. 2% .. • . I% .•••• • •• " Birmingham and Oxford Junction 10 .... 17% 17 ••• • • • Binning., Wolver., land Dudley.. S 10 .. •••• • • • • Caledonian .. 30 .... • • -••• • • • Ditto, Half Shares 2% •• .. 2 1% •••• • • • • Eastern Counties .. .. 20 .... 19 19% 185 3 .. Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1. 61. 13s. 4d. 14 % p •.. • Ditto, York Extension • . • • 6 k•• • • - •• • -" • • East Lancashire ~. 17 ••• • ••••• • • • • Ditto New .. • • •• .. • • 7 %• • • 5 % 633 •••• • • • East Lincolnshire .. • • • .. 6% .. • . ... • • Ely and Huntingdon • . .. 15 .. 14% ...... Exeter, Yeevil, and Dorchester .. 2% .. 1 ',4 ••• • .. . • Great Northern • • • • .. -• 3% •. • . 2%1 .. ••.• • • Do., London & York Extension 2% .... .• .... •• • • Great North of England . ..100 •••••• • • • • Ditto, New. . .. 25 .... .. •••• • • • Great Western ..........85 ....111 .. ••• - • • Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 12% .... 16 .• •••• • • • • Ditto, Fifths - ... • . .. 20 .... 26 .•••• • • • • • Ditto, New •. 7% • • • • •• " • • • Hull and Selby 50 ....102 .• •• ••• • • Lancaster and Carlisle .. 50 ... 59% 60% .• Leeds, Dewsbury. & M anc hester 32% •••• " • • Ditto, Branch Hall Shares .. • • 7%• • .. Leeds and Thirsk • • .. .. 26 .• •• •• • • • • • • • • Ditto, Preference 6 per Cent... 3% •• • • 381 ••••• • • • • • Liverp., Manch., & Newc. J unet. 2% .. • . %• • ••• • • • L o ndon and Blackwell .. 161 . 13 s. 4d. ••••• • • • • • Ditto, New, No. 2. • • • • 11. 13s. 4d. p.. •.• • • • London, Brighton, and S Coffst • • 50 .... 51 507; 51 1 A Ditto, Consol. Eighths .. .. 10 10% .... ••• • • • Gordon an North-Western ..100 .•.•171 172% .• •• .. Ditto, 401. Shares M. &B. • . 40 .... 66 .. ••• • • • • Ditto, 101. Shares M. &B. (C) 1 •• .. 6% .. ••.• • • • • London and South-Western 41/. 6s. 10d.. • ••••• • • • • • Ditto, Scrip... .. • • .. .. 5 4% .. •••• • • • • Lynn and Dcreham .. 20 20% • • • • • • . • . • Manchester and Leeds .. .. 82 •• .. —.........— Ditto, Ilalf Shares .. • . .. 38 .... 44% 44% Ditto, Fifths 5 .... .. g a d Ditto, Thirds (Beg.) .. 71. 48..... p•• •• •• •• % p Manchester, Buxton,- & Matlock 425. •• .. dis. •• • • ...14 di`. Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .• • %••••• • • • • • Midiard .. • • ..100 116 ••• • • .... 115 Ditto, New ~ .. 36 .• 38% •• • • 38% Ditto, New 6 8% 714 8.... 8 Newcastle and Berwick .. .. 20 .... 25% 24% • • 21% Ditto, New .. • • • .. . 5 .... 6% ••• • • . Norfolk .. •• .• .. —lOO ....122 124. •.• • • Northern Counties Union .. 4 .... 1 % ••••• • • • • • IIA North British .. .. 25 .• 30% .• ••• • • Ditto, Half Shares .. . 12% —•• • • Ditto, Quarter Shares •• .. 2%.... 3 1 / 4 .. •••• • • • -3% Northern and Eastern .. 50 .... 55 .. •. • • North Staffordshire .. 5 .• 7.••••••• Ditto Scrip (late Churnet and Blythe) . . • .. 2 •• North Western • • • • .. .. 4 .. •• • • Oxford,Worcest.,& Wolverhmptn. 22 % .... 13 .. .. 13 Preston and Wyre .. 25 .... ••••• • • • • Ditto, Half Shares (B) ••.. i —••••• • • • • • 1% Scottish Central •• .. . 17% .... 23 1,4 •% •• • • • • • • • 1,3% Shrewsbury and Birmingham • . .... 3 •••• • • .. 374 Ditto, Class B .. • • .. 3 •• .. 2% %••• • • • 2% Shropshire Union .. 425. .... dis. • • • dis. South Eastern and Dovor 33%.... • 35% 36% .• • . 36% Ditto. New (iss. at 321.) No. 1. 20 ... •• • . •• • . 20% Do., New (do. 151.) .. No. 4. 5.•..4%••• • • • • • • • 4% West Riding Union • • .. .. 41 . 2 s 1,4 r York and Newcastle .. • . .. 25 .... 34%% •••• • • .. 34 % 1 Ditto, New.. • • .. .. 0 14 Ditto, Preference • • • . .. 4 .• 6% .. • ..... York and North Midland .. 50 .. •••••• •• Ditto, Extension ....... 25 .... 40% ••..•• • • • • Ditto. Preference • • .. .. 2 .... 10% .....• •• • • Do. E, and W. Riding Eaten -• 10 •• .- %a.• • • • • FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens .. t‘O ••••• • • • • • Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon) • • • • .. • • 12 .... 1134 .•• • • • Demerara • • . .... D u t c h Rhenish .• • . .. 7 .... 3% • • .... •• • . Namur and Liege • • •• .. 10 •• .. .. ••••• • •• N or thern of Franco •• • . .. 8 .... 12 11 % -•• • • • Paris and Lyons • • • • .. 8 .... 4 .. •••• .. • . Tours and Nantes .. .. • • West Flanders .• • • • • Whisky dull, at 28c. Pearl Ashes better, 60 barrels sold at 6 dolls. 50c.; pots, 5 dolls. Sterling crowds up ; the rate is 5 dolls. to 5% dolls.; and some 5% dolls. premium ; francs, 5 dolls. 42ic. to 43ic. Freights quite dull ; plenty of ships. but no produce. P.S. P.vening.—Holders of cotton are firm, and yet buyers are off almost entirely. Good brands of Gennessee flour sold at 7 dolls. 88c., and extra 8 dolls. to 8 dolls. boc. Northern rye brought 91 cents, delivered ; some 10,000 bush yellow northern corn sold at 95 cents; a parcel of southern mixed at 90 cents, to a distiller ; 2,000 bush barley at 74 cents; river oats at 49 cents; Corn. , meal is cheaper ; sales at 4,75 dolls., and some at 4,69 dolls. Fish-550 qtls cod fish sold a little over 3,88 dolls. ; a parcel of green dried hake brought about 2,62 dolls. ; pickled cod, 3,50 dolls. ; small sales of_Halifax mackerel at 10,75 . dolls, 7,12 dolls., and •5,12 dolls. There are buyers of old pork at 12,75 dolls. and 14,75 dolls. There is some demand for beaus at 1.:5 to 150 cents, and for peas at 100 c. to 150 c. Small quantities of butter are coming in—winter-made sells at 22c., prime fresh at 28c. Freights are in confusion. A London vessel, to fill up. took flour at 4s. a barrel, and corn was engaged for Liverpool at 1541.; flour was shipped for Havre at 125 c. Letters were received to-day, later from Havre, though only to Dlarch 13. They mention a sale of 1,500 barrels of flour at 60f., and say that cotton had declined materially. PHILADELPHIA, APRIL 15. We have had a dull, chilly day, but the flour market has been active at improved prices. Sales at 6 dolls. 87c. and 7 dolls, for shipping hands, and at the close nothing but the highest price accepted. The sales at 7 dolls. will amount to about 25,000 barrels. Sales of 12,000 bushels of wheat at 1 doll. 57c. for white, and 1 doll. 50c. to 1 doll, 51c. for red. Corn is in request at 95 to 97 for Pennsylvania. Meal meets steady sales at yesterday's quotations, 4 dolls. 62c. There is no variation in cotton. Light sales of Upland at 12L, 131, and 13. ALBANY, APRIL 14. Flour—Market firm, on the spot the sales very small, and confined to the filling of orders and to the trade. Range for Gennessee and good brands, Michigan and Ohio, 7 dolls. 62ic. to 7 dolls. 75c. ; and mixed brands, 7 dolls. 50c. to 7 dolls. 62ic., with small sales. Sale of a parcel of rye flour at 5 dolls. 25c. Grain—Demand limited. Buyers and sellers are principally engaged in shipping former sales. Sales of 450 bushels of rye, 80c. for 601 b. on the spot, and 450 bushels of corn, 95c. per 601 b. at the railroad. Seeds—Sales confined to the retail trade. 18A P VA _---- .- MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) tt.9 Eliza Johnson, who was found guilty yesterday of a Pe, - - act of felony, and - who stated that that she was indricea tO commit 'the crime merely through the hope of getting tran sported, as the melancholy and degraded life she r s f . ~ me m o compelled to follow here, to enable her to get's victuals," was such that she would gladly meet any c hanc a : that might present itself to her in another country, w brought up for judgment. . .7 looking at the The Learned ASSISTA NT -J U DGE said that, position in which the prisoner stood, and the wishes she ex pressed, perhaps, the most merciful cours e would be to grant her request. ~At the same time, rhe ,ohould make a represen4 tation of all the facts under whien,the sentence was passed to the proper authorities. The prisoncr was then sentenced to seven years' transpor tation. The case of Madanie de Souza was adjourned to the bail day of the next session BOSTON, Arm. 14. Ashes, stock of pearl extremely light, with a moderate demand ; prices well sustained ; sales, 6ic. to 6 1-3 e. ; pots, 4% 8 c. to sc. Sheathing copper at 22 1 / 2 c. to 23c. Coffee in fair demand, 5,000 to 6,000 bags Rio at 7 1 / 4 c. to 3 / 4 c ; prin cipal sales at 7 1 / 2 c. for southern markets; St. Domingo, 6 1 4 c. to 64c. ; Java, 9 1 / 2 c. ; Sumatra, 6 3 / 4 c. to 7c. Cotton, sales of the week very trifling, market closing unsettled ; a few sales at 1 4 c. per pound below quoted rates. No change in domestics. Flour Market dull; the decline is very trifling; sales of Gennessee at 8 dolls. ; Ohio round hoop, 7 dolls. 62c. ; demand moderate for Southern ; sales Phil., 7 dolls. 37c. to to 7 dolls. 50c.; Howard-street, 7 dolls. 37 1 / 2 c. ; sales of white corn pretty large at 90c. to 911 c. per measure, market closing at the former; stock of yellow light, sales s mall, at 1,03 dolls. to 1,05 c. Pork-sales of the week, 2,000 b a rrels old prime and mess, principally week, 2 , at 12 dolls. to 1 2 dolls. 50e. f or prime, and 15 dolls. cash, for mess • and 3,000 new, in lots to t he trade, and for export at 13 dolls. 50c. to 14 for prime, mess at 16 dolls. IG, 50c. to 17 ; and clear and extra clear at 18 dolls. 18, 50c. to 19,. 4 mos., being an advance of full 50c. Mess beef in fair de mand, and with a light stock prices are fully sustained; sales, common and good, at 12,50 to 13,50. Large quantity of pickled hams lately bought up for export makes holders firmer for smoked; considerable sales of smoked at 10c. cash, and 10 1 / 2 c. to 11c , 4m.; pickled ditto, 9c. per pound, cash. Lard firm ; barrels and kegs at 10 1 / 2 to 11. Rice in fair de mand, sales 300 casks for exports at 4%c. to 4%c. Sugar in good demand; sales, Cuba brown and yellow, at 71 1 e. to 8 1 / I c. ; Muscovado Cuba, 6 3 / 4 c. to 7 3 / 4 c., 6 months, for com men,and good; late import Manilla sold previous to arrival on private terms for refining. Tallow rather more doing; sales of the week 40,0001 b., at 8 1 Ad. to 9c. 40 hhds. Ken . tucky :tobacco leaf at ne. to 4c.. Wootin steady demand for domestic, prices firm; Smyrna, '9c. to 13c., 6 months, as to quality. MINES. BALTIMORE, APRIL 14. Sales of Stocks-1,0b5 dolls. United States Mill Treasury notes, 102 3 / 4 ; 1,500 dolls. ditto Sixes ditto, 102%; 3,000 dolls. Dlaryland Sixes , 85 ; 2,300 dolls. ditto, 85'A ; 5,000 dolls. ditto, 85%; 25 shares Firemen's Insurance, 17%; United States Sixes, '67, closed 102% asked, 102 3 / 4 bid; ditto Sixes, '56, 103 1 % bid, none in market; 5 2-5 United States Treasury notes, 1021. Stocks—First Board-10 Bank of Pennsylvania, 290; 5,000 States. Fives, 5 days, 72i ; 5 North Bank of Kentucky, 96 3 / 4 ; 75 New Orleans canal, 65 ; 100 Morris, 21 1 A • 59 of S us quehanna Canal, 65 ; 500 County Sixes , 99 ; 14 dank of Kentucky, 76 ; 100 Susquehanna Bonds, 53 ; 100 Girard, 11%. Second Board-4,000 Texian Ten per Cent. Bonds, 25 ; 84,500 ditto Eight per Cent. Bonds, 24%; 1,100 ditto, 24 3 / 4' ; 1,100 Navigation Sixes, '65, 89% • 400 ditto, '56, 76 1 A • 3,500 Unit e d States Fives, '53, 95 ; 100 United States Bank, 4 4 ; 20,000 State Fives, 72%; 100 Morris, 21 3 / 4 ; 812 Sus quehanna Canal Bonds, 53 ; 200 Reading, 30. Real del Monte, Unrezistered 3IA .......... APPALLING DISCOVERY.—This morning the col lector of assessed taxes, with his broker, was proceeding to levy for land and property-tax on the premises, situate at No. 10, Cannon-street, City, from which the furniture had been previously removed ; after taking the counter, &c., below, they proceeded up stairs, when, to their horror and surprise, they discovered the corpse of a woman laid out in a middle room on the second floor. Whether it be the body of Mary Ann Bobbett, who had been keeping the house, which was a beer-shop or not, the jury this evening, no doubt, will decide. The churchwardens have given the barman and servant-girl into custody, they having calla at the house some time after the discovery was made. A DETERMINED SUICIDE. —Yesterday afternoon alarm was excited by a strong sm ell of smoke and sulphur from a house in Greyhound-court, Water-lane, Strand, oc cupied by a shoemaker named Daviss. Two engines instantly on the spot, and several parties forced open the room whence the smoke escaped, when they beheld Davias lying insensible on the floor, enveloped in a dense smoke which emanated from a pot close by him. filled with brimstone and charcoal. The unfortunate man had closed the chimney, and covered every cranny with paper. He was taken to the hospital in a hopeless state. Domestic quarrels e h l i s m and o at dis tress- are alleged to be the causes w • inducedqu tempt the rash act. " shop-market lt is proposed to establish at Maid obtain support for the stone, and steps have been i tak t en be realised. The example project, which appears like y . of Lewes is in favour of . o the plan. ..--1 - t . seems that grass is allowed ItOYAL 1-IATLYEST. to grow along the fortifications of Paris, and that it is cut l every year. Louis Philippe is determined to mako hay as long as the ALM gailaeA".4l43Ch. /6 P 51 1 ,4 10!. 406 10% 204 MARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY.) Ann Maria Scott, a woman of colour, was p l ace d before Mr. Hardwick, charged with stealing from the person of William Cameron, servant, No. 23, Grosvenor•square, a purse Oil" taining a sovereign and ten shillings in silver. The complainant stated that on the preceding night, ahnti.t.'": eleven o'clock, he was walking along North Audley-s.treetro when the defendant came u to him and requksted stand something to drink. lie told her he baCtlot go! , o_ui f. change, but would give her a penny to get half a pl o l . ° o beer. She said " That* not enough, give me some snore. He refused to do so, when she made use of an thatinclelcthe epithet and followed him for some distance. Seeing ci -.40 prisoner was determined to follow him, he stopp.ed an . sp; . _ to her, and eventually took out his purse, containing ._1•;-'04; and gave her a shilling. He had no sooner defendant put purse in his trousers pocket than the defendsn! bands a he i f _ ...gt , her arms round him, and putting one into his pocket, pulled out the purse. Complains:l),cl', a hold of her, and taxed her with robbing n?_, stoutly denied. Whilst he was struggling came up, and endeavoured to hustle him and het .. tn . e;;;T e nt away ; but, fortunately, a police-constable a,l that the prisoner. came up, into whose care he at once consigne 3 Of its contents, The purse was subsequently found, emptie— close by where the prisoner had been standing- _ o f t s- Police-constable 19 C', said he received c harr e sbe was prisoner, and conveyed her to the station, 11 LAVW ;be W I ' S !!... Witt ue.r,_t_if.flnerit searched, but no money was found upo n ov.• the ..,..gb, notorious thief, and had been repeatedly before '4'"'' trates at this Court for a sirriler offence. she a ll ege d t o . ed w aS The prisoner, denied the charge, which „ trumped up by complainant in consequence of her refits" comply with his wishes. heard Wl° h t c h oem l e d i c mi r d o ' i n tn k s i o t h A a te b itD rs l e e fno w , .c a as t e th t e o m a id j d u i r e y s . ex rdh r te c tr it ilti a lhe s o a u i dg,h thought hhaet should afte after wnhoatt beh edho doing his . f at Clerkenwell ., WORSHIP-S TREET. --(TH I S .) This morning a middle-aged woman was charg, ed W rii it e li t being concerned, with four other fe m al es, named P' 1 : 1 " • t ie Young, Jane Samuels, Mary Anne Simmons', and Ca .l7, e p ri re • High-stree t, in i ,didg, Stone, ,itivae. i :tn. according propertyo oroen w red, t i i n u r 3iga c suo Anne t dxsotictostooedhnnj,? noises of Ma secutrix, who, upon coming down stairs in the tees° bad found that the shutters at one corm* of the prenc i the. been forced open, and a large portion of the stock I . _ Wa x warehouse abstracted. From si communication whicn.Aa. made to witness, he proceeded to a house in 13 0 740 man's-alley, where • were found upwards f our 0 Los discovered rt l t nh d eea ddntaTes oomobbfnywuet statement o g t l e7 r fptoawfsei and trenilhsersddgeeeoesrsfae Wednesday s b i D ° r b b b n c o ea . a e l l oc) ' n r nt l o y s d ti l nns a , i ° o l l ;: t n nufba y h fdtti:hbei of e t l ictori e r i gr ei, of boots and shoes, and the above P. be were taken into custody. The present prisoner, who ni_ ',;s - . 4 landlady of the house, was at the time abgent, byteup9n_.,6 sending an o ffi cer there last evening,she 'had arriv d . p_ur o b, and upon being questioned as to her knowledge of tPe_. t it. , berg, she replied thatidae knew nothing The parties had obtaint-d'of her a lodging for the night .1_1,:i., svhateeer.o!")_4 had brought s,orne large Packages with them. or ro:fble Bray, 43 11, discovered, in a draw a jemruy and other hou r _',. ing into the _room she herself occupit.4,4tOlice,•-con .... d remainder of the boots and shoes. The jemmy produce breaking implements, and in a cupboard were discovered t h e exactly corresponded with the hol e made in the shutter. Mr. A s-Horn asked the prisoner it she had anything to sal in her defence? Th e prisoner, who replied th at she should reserve her de. " fence, was ordered to be brought up again on the same dill as the other prisoners. _ _ _ COMMISSION or LUNACY. —Yesterday a commission de lunatico inquirendo was opened at the Tyssen ArinstPsl- stoinn,ribueifroerienlNtol r.tChoem:atisesioofnemrinWdinofsloAwrthaunrdEadwsaprdecial Ply, Georg to T u mour, Esq., aged 43, late an officer in the 17th Regifeett of the llonourable East India Company's" Madras Infantr.7, now of Pembroke House Lunatic Asylum, a gentleman Evv.iiTlivarn:so,uro,toliS,ehnrlebwroskbuer3ll,uagnd, from the East sessed of property under the will of his father (the late I‘e• pang, of upwards of 10,0001. The evidence of Mr. alleged lunatic witnesses, tended to show Rouge, Dr. the had been ent since an inmate of the above establisbna . __. India Ger the 28th November, 1835, and had thrSonguistio:t'beaennd ot°t::: snakes, boa constrictors, and other reptiles, sound mind, and he la,Joured under the delusion that being Alpced in his bed-room by persons who svished to I_ , jure him; that there was a magnificent service of plate Ir% quently placed at the bottom of his bed —the heraldic ine,igtAlt of the Somerset family on the ceiling. He also imaglPeu bo n he heard voices, and that parties who conspired against At came occasionally to his bedside and pulled his whiskers.s__ the conclusion of the evidence the alleged lunatic, a ein. Ir_!!,. ably fine, healthy-looking man, was introduced, and Kit r°' were consta !:iy.. waiting for the questions of the Learned Commisioner, _?..,.,`", ceeded at a most extraordinary rapid rate, descrng efra of the most extravagant delusions. The inquiry hAdvass the unsonn been finished, a verdic t was returned dating of mind from 28:11 November, 1835. Ite r4 BELL FOR TILE IiONIAN CATUOLIC CAvisn 8 MONTREAL: —A bell, equal in size to' any, bell in ia t ir lia; except the Russian monster, and about twice as large the famous " Tom of. Lincoln," has just been completed ,A1!01'000 foundry of Messrs. Mears, W hitechapel, for the 1% . 0 of ~ Catholic Cathedral, Montreal. This gigantic speoln`,olf, casting weighs four tons thirteen hundred weight and e.: 4 , and its dimensions are as follow f —Diameter at the te feet 8 feet 7 ifiches ; height to the top of the crown , 8 fo l i o inches; thickness at the sound bow, 8 inches. The„sego' is a copy of the inscription upon thu monster ell•-•" Aro tiamini duns VCl3iO omnes spiritus.laudet Dominurn. r I , oii . Domini 1847. Fundatm Marianopolis, 206. F • i rj a the tificatus L Regni Victorire Britanniarum 10." , Ltri o, opposite side " Ex piissimo Mercatorto, it&l'cl° ArUtcunaque, Diariapop9liWulenhi tuu. " .., . . , , ' A CAPTURE OF VERA CRUZ AND SAN JUAN D'ULLOA. We have received a copy of the New York Journal of Commerce of the 16th ult., which was furnished to our correspondent at Plymouth by a pilot, who obtained it from an American packet bound to avre. The following extracts from the Journal of Com merce leave no doubt as to the capture of Vera Cruz and the Castle of San Juan d'Ulloa by the American force under General Scott, though in the absence of the intermediate papers between the 7th, the latest previous date, and the 16th ult., we are unable to furnish our readers with any details of the operations in question : " AN AVALANCHE OF VICTORIES. " On the Ist day of the present month we published the first authentic intelligence of the battle of Buena Vista, in which General Taylor, with 5,000 men, de feated Santa Anna, with 20,000. Since that date, we have announced the recapture of Los Angelos, which had risen against the new authorities in California, and the re-establishment of American rule throughout that territory. Also the defeat and dispersion of the insur gents in New Mexico. Also the unconditional sur render of Vera Crus and the Castle of San Juan d'Ulloa, with 4,000 troops, to the American forces under General Scott. And, lastly, the cepture of Chihuahua, capital of the state of the same !lame, by a force under Colonel Doniphan. Such a Succession of victories (two of them most important) is something new in our annals, and it is to bo hoped may had the Mexican Government, if there be such a Government, to treat for peace. If, however, it should beget in the minds of our people a thirst for military glory, it will prove to be the greatest calamitywhich ever betel us. Peace is our element, and without it we cannot expect permanently or long con tinued prosperity. If Mexico should now be inclined to negotiate, we trust our Government will do itself the honour to offer liberal terms, such as will show to the world that a s this war came upon us unexpectedly, and contrary to our most ardent wishes, so it has been pro secuted, not for territorial ag grandizement, nor to de press a weaker power, but because there has not been a moment since it broke out when Mexico would listen to propositions for peace, although overtures for that object have been repeatedly tendered. (From the Washington Union.) MILITARY I APPONT M ENTS . announce- The Presid e nt, as will be pereived in the ment in this day's paper, has filled the vacancies occa sioned by the d ec li na tion of General Be nton and General Cummin g t o acce p t t h e co mmand of Major-Generals in the ar m y o f t h e U n i te d S ta tes, by app gather-G enera l s P i ll ow an d Quitman, ointment of Bri of the Volunteers now serving in Mexico. They have both had the ad• yantage . of the exp er i enc e of near a yea r's active service in Mexico, and, we learn, are esteemed in the army as among the most va l ua bl e o fficers in the service. General Pillow has performed valuable services in the field, and was among the most conspicuous officers of the army in the recent bombardme n t and siege of the city of Via Cruz and Castle of San Juan d'Ulloa. He was selected by General Scott as one o f the three officers under his command to adjust w i t h the enemy thee trms of sur render. General Q u it man acted most gallantly . battle of Monterey. Thereat the is a peculiar prop ri e t y i n making promotions t o th es e important commands from the volunteer service. 'The promotion of Colonel . Cushing, who now comm ands a regim ent of volunteers in Mexico, to be a brigadier-general of volunteers, is also well d eserve d. He is a man of distin guished talents, and has exhibited great patriotism in his late exerti ons t o ra i s e the Massa chusetts re g i m e nt of volu9teers. Thus the country wi ll p erceive that the Administration is organizing the army to its full com plement of officers. It is not enough to gain a victory —w e must fully profit by it. No man will complain of the want of energy in the Administration. The war will be prosecuted with the utmost vigour until the object has been accomplished, by securing an honourable peace, eDirti tottlan NEWMARKET RACES. (THIS DAY-BY EXPRESS.) Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 sous. each. T.Y.C, Circassian Maid Oregon Five ran. Sweepstakes of 10 sous. each. T.Y.C.: Blackcock ............................. . ........................ Jieg1ep0t................................................... . Six ran. Sweepstakes of 10 sous. each, for two yrs old. T.Y.O .... Teetotum .............................................. The Sheriff ................... Dover .............. ..................................... Ten ran. NE ws,(THIS DAY.) m.AImE T --11111eiladirow riHaay,33l{.l to B 71 E1 183 ; Clover ditto, 41 Straw, 11 123 to 11 16s per load. Trade to 8 4 17771- a Meadow Hay, 31 to 4/ ; Clover ditto, 1/ 12s to 11 1 6 s per load. Sup to 3/ 18s ; Clover 31 15s to 41 Bfi lizA1a511::::;ft.t:11n d pr ices. stra rathercum ,maenaddto;dheiraayth2eri d1u51,1. and straw, ILl2sto 16s per loath , NEWGATE AND X.EADENHALL. drPlii.:lf\rolnull°l3ldaTi e v Erl e Cas r nt l e g At Yo e P 135-utiop.:---pdly, and a sluggish demand. There was an extensive business doing here, at full prices. Beef from 2s 10d to 3s 10d ; blutton, 3s 10d to 53; Lamb, 5s 4d to 6s 2d; Veal, 4s 2d to 5s 2d ; and Pork, 43 to 53 per Sibs, by the carcase. MEAT MARKETS. Souiliazi., MAT s.—Although the supply of fat stock here to-day was tolerably good, the general demand was general advance in the quotations of from 2d to from 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; Mutton, 5s to , s ss 4d to o 6s 2d; Veal, 4s 4d to ss; and Pork, 4s lOd per 8 1 bs, to sink the offal. 466 dsd ; brisk, pto ra4 a t 18sIlit ab,. Beef, Boatroup, MAY s.—There was a very active trade here to-day, on the following terms :—Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 4d ; Mutton, 43 10d to 6s ; Lamb, 5$ 8d to 6s 2d ; Veal, 4s 4d to 4s 10d; and Pork, 4s to 4s 8d per 81bs. Suckling Calves, 18s to 30s; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s to 20s; and Mulch Cows, with their small Calf, 16l lOs to 191 each. LEWES, MAY 4.—Beef, from 3s 10d to 4s 8d ; Mutton, 4s 10c1 to 6s ; Lamb, 5s 6d to 6s; Veal, 4s 4d to 5s •, and Polk, 4s 4d to 4s 8d per 81bs. A short supply, and a brisk trade. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the Week ended May 6, 1847, made.up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in Eagland and Wales pet Imperial Quarter. - WHEAT. BARLEY.' OATS. II RYE. BEANS. I PEAS. riucz •. 1795 Gd 49s 6d 20s Id 55s 6d 51s 10d 523 Ila The Dative Qa Mega Wahl ire aelY eippeaded, 3 ~ .:3<, •••••....,. ( Z !, , t.` '..4..., f i •• .'.' .4, .1 •l i ...: i'. , 7,..;, , f?' t ".. 4 ..*. ; •• clic. t, I Ilt:P.'A i ,;I 1' 11 P a , ••• • 4%t•