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13, Great Marlborough-street. SIR GEORGE SITIPSON's OVERLAND JOURNEY ROUND THE WORLD, 1, NOW YU BLIsIiED, In 3 vols evo., with Map, Portrait, &v., price 31s. 6d. bound. Orders received by all Booksellers. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough -street. NEW NOVEL BY MRS. GASCOIGNE. Now really at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. post Bvo., E vELYN HARCOURT, B. Mrs. GASCOIGNE. Authoress of " temptation; or, A. Wife's Perils," &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great arlborough-street. HER ~ A JESrY'S THEATRE. TOMORROW EVF.SING, Tuesday, May IS, will be performed Balllura Orin, atigad LA SONNAMBULA, Amino, Millie. Jenny Lind ; r Ma, Madame Folari ; Count Rodolph, Signor Ti. Lablache ; and Elvino, Signor Gardonl. To be followed by a DIVERTISSEMENT, in which will be pre. sented the Pas de la Couronee, by Mdlle. Cerito and M. St. Leon A new Pas de Deux (by M. Perrot), by Mdlle. Rosati and M. Perrot. And Pas Styrienne, by Vadlle, Cerito and M. St. Leon. To conclude with the admired Ballet (by M. P. Taglioni), entitled CORALIA, (Omitting the two :first Tableaux). Coralia, Mdlle. Rosati; Huldebrand, M. L'Dor ; the Squire, M. Houriet ; Bertha, Mdme. Petit Stephan ; the Page, Mdlle. Honore ; Duke,; M. Gosselin ; Fraisondin, M. Venefra ; Ulrich, M. Di Mattia, The Free List is suspended, the Public Press excepted. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public, are respectfully in- Ibrmed. that a grand EXTRA NIGHT will take place on THURS DAY EVENING, May 20, when will be performed Meyerbeer's Opara, entitled ROBERTO IL DIAVOLO. Alice, Mdile. Jenny Lind ; Isabella, Made. Castellan ; Roberto, Signor Fraschinl ; Rambaido, Gardoni ; Sacerdote, Signor Bouche ; and Bertram, Signor Staudlgl. To be followed by various Entertainments in the BALLET DE PARTMENT, combining the talents of Mdile. Cerito, Mdlle. C. Rosati, Mdme. Petit Stephan, Mdlles. Cassan, Honore, James, Julien, Lamoureux, and Mdlle. L. Grahn. M. Perrot and M. St. Leon. . _ ----- The doors open at Seven. The Opera to commence at Half-pas Seven o'clock. Pit Tick ets may be obtained, as usual, at the Office of the Theatre, price 10s. ad. each. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. GRAND EXTRA NIGHT, combination of talent, THURSDAY next, May 20, when will be performed the Opera of LTJCREZIA BORGIA. The principal characters by Madame Grisi, Signora Albeit!, Signor Mario, Signor Marini, Signor Tamburini, Signor Ley, Signor Po!onini, Signor Lavia, Signor, Tall:, Si ;nor Piacentini, and Signor Tagßatko. To be followed by the Second Act of the Opera of L'ITALIANA IN ALGIhRI. The Principal characters by Signora klboni,lle. Angelini, Mdlle. Signor Salvi, Signor Rovere, Signor Polonini, and Signor To conclude with a new grand Bonet, in three Tableaux, entitled LA SAL kMANDRINE. In which Mdlle. Fanny Elssler and ;Mlle. Dnmilatre will appear ; also Mdlles. Baderna, Bertin, De Melisse, Delechanx, M. Petipa, M. Mabille, &c., will dance. The ballet by M. Plasis, the music by Signor Curio!, the scenery by Messrs. Grieve and Tclbin, and the costumes by M. Bailey. The Doors will open at Half-past Seven o'clock, and the Opera will commence at Eight. Tickets, Stalls, and Boxes to be obtained at the Box-office, Bow street ; and at Cramer, Beale, and Co.'s, 201, Regent-street. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. It. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new Comedy, called TEMPER. Sir Marma duke Topple, Mr. Farren ; Sir Charles Tempest, Mr. Hudson ; God frey, Mr. Tilbury; Emerson, Mr. Webster ; Cyril Tempest, Mr. Howe; Lady Tempest, Mrs. Seymour; Mrs. Herbert, Mrs. Glover ; Florence Wilmot, Mrs. Forteseue; ➢firs Fielding, Mrs. Humby. After which, the FOUR HUNGARIAN INSTRUMENTAL VO CALISTS wilt give their imitations of various instruments, with the Lips only. To conclude with the Astronomical Extravaganza, called THE NEW PLANET; or, Harlequin out of Place. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. • THIS EVEN&NG Will be performed the original Drama, called THE FLOWERS • Cl' THE FOREST ; a Gipsy Story. Cheap John, Mr. Wright Islimael, - Mr. 0. Sthith ; thelClnchin, Mr. P: Bedford ; Leybourne, 41r.. Worrell Cynthia, Madame Celeste; Lemuel, Miss Woolgar ; it•irtight Bess, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; Lady Agnes, Miss Harding. - To be followed by the Opera Buffo Sketch, called JENNY LIND. Principal characters by Yesers. Wright, Paul Bedford, Lambert, iSelby, Cullentord, and Miss Woolgar. To conclude with the Farce of SHOCKING EVENTS. In which Chr. Lambert, Mr. Worrell, Mr. Munyard, Miss Harding, and 31Iss ilaplin will perform. VRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Play of THE HUNCHBACK. Master Walter, Mr. Creswick; Sir Thomas Clifford, Mr. J. Webster ; Lord Tinsel, Mr. J. lining; Julia, Mrs Butler; Helen, Mrs. Stirling. After which, the new Farce, entitled A WIFE FOR AN HOUR. Principal characters by Messrs. Walton, Granby, Vining, Cowell, Compton, Mrs. Hughes, and Miss E. Stanley. To conclude with the new Farce, entitled A SLEEPING DRAUGHT. "Vincolcr, Mr. Granby ; Bruno, Mr. Walton ; Rinaldo, Mr. Fisher ; Popolino, Mr. Compton ; Gabriotte, Mr. Cowell ; Yaldo, Mr. Smith Signora Francesca, Mrs. Hughes ; Nonna, Miss Stanley. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. Under the Management of Mrs. Keeley. THIS EVENING Will be performed the new Drama, called THE CREOLE ; Sr. Love's Fetters. Damiton, Mr. F. Mathews ; Alphonse, Mr. Murray, Hyacinthe,. bliss Dickinson; Bokes, Mr. Keeley; Latour, Mr. Emery; Virginie. Miss M. Keeley ; Louise, Miss May ; Bellona. Hiss Daly. Af er which, the entirely new occasional Dramatic Sketch. called JENNY LINT) ATILAST ; or, The Swedish Nightingale. Charac ters by Mr. A. Wigan, Mr. Turner. Mr. Kinloch, Mr. Bellingham. Mr. Bender, Mr. Yarnold, and Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with a new Burlesque Extravanza, called THE WOOD DJEMON; or, One o'clock, In which Messrs. Keeley. A. Wigan, F. Matthew:, Bellingham, Klnloch, Silver, Miss Dickinson, Miss Daly, and Mrs. Keeley will appear. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee. Mr. John Mitchell. THIS EVENING Will be performed the comic Vaudeville of LA DOT D'ALv- VERGNE. Pierre, M. Dumery ; Jerome, M. Pagenler ; 31adeleine, Mdlle. Follquet ; Felicite, Mdme. Dumery. After which, the new Comedie, UN COUP DE LANSQUENET. Desrousseaux, M. Regnier ; La Marquise du Puzy, Mdlle. Denain. To conclude with the popular Comedy of OSP 'AR ; on, Un Mari qui Trompe:sa Femme. Oscar, M. Regnier ; Juliette, Mdlle. Denain. Boxes, 65. ; Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, 34.; Gallery, 2s. Boxes and Stalls may be engaged at Mr. Mitchell's lboyal Library, 23, Bond-street ; and at the Box-oftice of the Theatre, which is open daily from Eleven till Five. ETHIOPIAN iERENADERS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. CLOSE OF THE ENTERTAINMENT. The nobility, gentry, and th, public are respectfully Informed, that the popular Entertainment given by the Ethiopian Serenaders, Pell, Harrington, White, Stanwood, and Germon, will be positively ter minated at the enl of the ensuing month of June, previously to the fixed departure of the Company for the Continent, on the sth of July. Since the commencement of this Entertainment, more than four hundred performances, public and private have been given in London ; and, notwithstanding the numerous vulgar imitations which have been tecently attempted in the metropolis, the unapproachable superiority of the above party is established by their undiminished popularity and success. During the few remaining weeks of their engagement, the performances will be continued every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday evenings, and a Morning Performance will take place every Wednesday. The entertainments of the Thursdays during the month 01 June will be appropriated for the separate Bene fits of each member of the Company. And, in order to produce an agreeable souvenir of the unparalleled popularity of these perform ances, it is intended to present to every visitor of the private boxes and stalls a portrait of the beneflciare in his private appearance, and also in his professional capacity, illustrating some favourite melody. Such portraits will be executed from the life, in the finest style, by H. Maguire, Esq., and are already nearly completed. The benefits Will be arranged in the following order : Thurgday, June 3, for the benefit of Germon (tamborine), Thursday, June 10 ditto Stanwood (accordion), Thursday, June 17 ditto White (banjo), Thursday, June 24 ditto Harrington (banjo), Thursday, July 1 ditto Pell (bones) ta . evlonsly to the last Farewell Performance, on Saturday Evening, July 3. Be=es and Stalls at 3fitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street, and at the Box-office of the Theatre. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Proprietor and Manager, Mr. William Batty. Under the patronage of the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Royal Family. Last nights of the grand Equestrian and Dramatie Spectacles, pre vious to the Whitsuntide splendid productions. THIS EVENING Will be performed Lord Byron'S Dramatic Poem of THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS ; or, The Corsair. Unequalled SCNES in the CIRCLE, with the performances of the Arabian horse, Diamond of the Desert ; the four Mexican Antipo dean Artistes ; and the celebrated Clown. Mr. W. F. Wallet. To conclude with ZARAII ; or, The Gipsy Tribe of Bohemia. Stage Manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. Stalls, ss. ; Boxes,4s.; Upper Boxes, 33 ; Pit, 2s. ; ,Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, 6d. Commence every evening at Seven o'clock, ROYAL VIC LOMA THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be performed RU FH ; or, The Lass that Loves a Sailor, Bernard, Mr. Hicks ; Ruth, Miss Vincent. After which, the Farce of the LOTTERY TICKET. Wormwood, Mr. Gardner. To conclude with THE WIZARD OF THE WAVE ; or, The Ship of the Avenger. Captain Faulkner, Mr. Hicks. Boxes, Is. ; Half Price, 6d. Pit, 6d. ; Gallery, 3d. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. tuder the patronage of her Majesty, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Queen Dowager, &c. WILL OPEN THIS DAY, May 17, And every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. The Proprietor begs to announce that he has, at a considerable expense, erected a new Entrance, and a magnificent Walk, with flower borders, statues, and a Central Fountain, in front of the grand Pictorial Representation of THE TOWN AND BAY OF GIBRALTAR. The Menagerie contains many specimens, including the Giraffe, Gazelles, &c. The Promenade Concerts, conducted by Godfrey. A representation of the Porcelain Tower of Nankin. The Gothic Bridge of Statues. The grand Pyrotechnic display, representing the SIEGE OF CilßltA c-TAR. Showing the commencement of the Bombardment, partial destruc tion of the Town, and Blowing up of the Battering Ships. During the season, M. JOLLIES will give a series of Concerts; the Band will consist of one h••ndred Performers. Adalission, the Shilling. The Royal South London Floricultural Society will hold their Grand spring Flower Show, on Wednesday, May 26. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, MAT 15. TIIERKOMETER, Lowest, 50 ; Highest, 65 ; Noon, 66, BAROXETEIt, 30 02.—WIND ill .S.W.; one. MAT 16. THX/IMOMETER, Lowest, 52; Highest. 66; Noon, 66 BAROMETER, 29.65. WIND S.W. ; occasional squally showers and sunshine. RIGR WATER AT LONDON-lit THIS DAY. Morning •• 29 minutes after 3. ETentng .. 49 allnut, s .!, !te! 3. . , ~ . ~741 ~_, .I,R___,,4 1 . e Nrf 4. V,, -- '`" ' . A ' 1 \ l •kl s r; a •,., 6i, ,imillC:4ll4 :' t ' a Ti.fra,".,, - • , : 11 4 0 - 7- - +j,: -.. r . ;;; . .t- . W-7-4104:. 07 / 14 . ,77 . 44,1,11 . • - ,1," ;I, _ ' , 5 - . 46 '''.. -". 'l.• ..... ,1 4,' n . n ' y ~ ' 1,; . , .. .___llll ..,:"/".. . AA , 7 ozz v •'m . 1 A , ' ••••• *e l . ... .• .. 1 .••'...." -.it 0 ...,..- ~. itilnAixix L.oNDON, MONDAY, MAY 17, 1847. Their Lordships have evinced their wisdom a n d discretion—they have re-considered their former deci4on, limiting the duration of the most important clauses of the Irish Poor-law—they have escaped from the incongruities and absurdities in which they had been involved by the temporary success of Lord MONTEAGLE'd amendment. The measure is now permanent in all its parts, and the great experiment will receive a fair trial. Of course the same power will exist in the Legislature of altering or abolishing any of its provisions, which may in practice be found to work badly, or to di,appoint the expectations that Lave been entertained with respect to them that it possesses in all other matters. It will still retain its power of revision, but will not be forced to enter into the consideration at any particular period. 'We do THE SUN, LONIiON, MONDAY MORNING, MAY 17, 1847. not entertain the fears by which the Irish landlords have been haunted—we are convinced that so soon as they adapt themselves to the altered circumstances of the country—so soon as they take the neces sary steps for giving adequate employment to the myriads of able•bodied labourers, whom they must otherwise support in idleness, and convert those who now are weighty burdens on the re sources of the nation, into producers of national wealth, hard-working men, earning their daily bread by the exercise of their own honest industry, they will find themselves the greatest gainers by the change. Had the limitation still continued, they would not have made the necessary exertions. They would have contented themselves with the vague hope, that all the mischief that would have been occasioned by their own neglect and apathy, would have induced Parliament to suffer the law to die a natural death, and perhaps to provide a portion of the expenditure out of the National Exchequer, or, in other words, out of the pockets of the English tax-payers. These hopes are now taken away. They must rely on their own activity and energy. They must meet the difficulty by their own strenuous exertions. They will not be unaided in their efforts; every reasonable assist ance will be afforded. British capital will be applied to the improvement of their properties, money will be advanced—repayable by easy instalments—by the judicious application of which their waste lands may be reclaimed, their fields brought to the highest degree of cultivation and fer tility, their produce more than doubled, and all the natural capabilities of the country fully developed. If they do not take due advantage of the proffered benefits, they will have themselves alone to blame, they will become the first victims of their own culpable folly and blindness, and cannot hope for sympathy in the ruin which their wayward ob stinacy may occasion. Although we have to congratulate the public on the prudence thus manifested by their Lordships, we regret to say that no effort was made to restore the 11 th clause, which was expunged from the Bill on the motion of Lord STANLEY, or to get rid of the clause declaring that the occupier of more than a quarter of a statute acre shall not be considered as a destitute poor person within the meaning of the Act, and that it should net be lawful to afford relief to any such person either in or out of the work house unless he shall have surrendered to his immediate landlord whatever right he had to the occupation of such land over and above the extent of a quarter of an acre, at least ten days previous to his application. On Wednesday we pointed out the dangerous tendency of this enactment, that it enables the landlords to gratify their clearing propensities, to get rid altogether of ejectment proceedings, and, by a more certain, although less apparent, modus operandi, to banish the wretched cottiers from their holdings. There would be no necessity for the overt act, which would call forth the public indignation at the inhumanity of the perpetrator. They have only to refrain from taking steps for employing their tenantry, and they will attain their object, while the strongest inducement is held out by the absence of the 11th clause to the landlords to bring their powers into full force. The clause added to the Bill, on the motion of Lord LIICAN, "That no person shall be deemed to have been resi dent in an electoral division, unless he shall have occupied some tenement, or usually slept within such division for the period of thirty calendar months out of the three years preceding the period of his re ceiving relief," although it may be of some slight service, will by no means prove a sufficient substi tute. It introduces, too, the vexata quastio of "settlement," which, it was understood should form the subject of a separate enactment, and opens a wide field for litigation. We trust that the representa tives of the people will fully consider the probable results of these clauses before they finally sanction the amendments introduced in the House of Lords. If they omit doing so, we are thoroughly convinced that ere long Parliament will have to legislate anew on the question, and that many scenes of misery and suffering will be enacted in the interim. The Hydra of civil war is beginning to hide its diminished heads in Portugal. Concessions are taking the place of military reprisals, and negotiations are proceeding in lieu of bombardments. However much the Royalists may be solicitous to mince a discreditable reality into a specious and flattering fiction, it is undeniable that Queen MARIA DL GLORIA has been driven to these measures of conciliation by the valorous bearing of the insurgents, and that the latter were originally incited to a popular movement by the unconstitutional policyadopted by their deluded SOVEREIGN. British mediation is, however, at length proving successful. The propositions communicate by Colonel WYLDE to the regal councils of Lisbon have been ultimately accepted, and that Plenipoten tiary has consequently proceeded to the insurgent forces for the purpose of preventing, if possible, any further bloodshed. So far our last dis patches had already afforded us authentic in formation, but the intelligence which has just arrived recounts the reception of the English pacificator, and the questionable success of his chari table endeavours. Despite the distinct acquiescence of the Portuguese Monarch in all the terms pro pounded by Lord PALMERSTON, there was manifestly a disinclination on the part of the revolted officers to yield so readily and peacefully to the offers of recon ciliation. The effect of this disinclination has, un• fortunately, proved disastrous and sanguinary. After shunning any definitive answer to the proposal of Colonel WYLDE, SA DL BANDEIRA pushed forward to St. Übes, where a murderous conflict with the QUEEN'S troops resulted in the discomfiture of the assailants, and the butchery of three hundred soldiers, under the banners of the revolution. Those, how ever, who would asperse SA DA BANDEIRA, as having wantonly provoked this slaughter, should remember that the population of Portugal has received the most startling lessons of inhumanity from the sup porters of MARIA DA GLORIA. They should remember the brutalising spectacle of Torres Vedras and the general savageness by which the Royalist soldiers have latterly been so peculiarly characterised. Subsequently to the engagement at St. Übes, Colonel WYLDE, accompanied by the Marquis DE ESPANA, proceeded ;o the head-quarters of the insur rection at Oporto. Through the moderation of the Junta, and especially through the sagacity of the Com mander-in-Chief, Count DAS ANTAS, it is presumed that the pacific anticipations of the Commissioners will in the end be realised. Curiously enough, the French representatives at Lisbon and Oporto have taken no part whatever in these momentous negotia tions, so that the honour of having mediated effec tually between the people of Portugal and the SO VEREIGN of Portugal will belong almost as exclusively to England as the odium of the original outbreak is traceable to France. Whatever, indeed, may be the consequence of the pending communications, it will remain perpetually to the credit of the British Government, that it interposed with its diplomacy for the sole purpose of effecting a satisfactory compromise, while the Government of the Tuileries has remained designedly aloof from all conciliatory correspondence with Portagal, after having been principally instru mental in embroiling its inhabitants. Inuendoes are prevalent that Queen MARIA will evince her indignation at the recent battle of St. IThes, by denying the benefit of the intended amnesty to the popular chieftain, SA DA BANDEIRA. Heartily do we trust that her MAJESTY may display no such paltry or disgraceful inclination to gratify a revenge ful spleen. The conduct of Si DA BANDEIRA, though by no mea ns j us tifi a bl e on th e groun d o f h uman it y, is certainly very conce i va bl e i n t h e t h en pos i t i on of affairs in the Peninsula. He acted with the inflexible decision of one who was guiding . is insurgent coun rieays;cnesst adherents military adher atrogtthe compensation i, of their many social and The oaf c s r s u jo e n iti ; es th p e erp d et e r m at o e c d rat b i y c brokenin the c o a p e p e o i i t m l a ? a , n wd MAuza had steeled 'where the prison of Li coexhconvicts liberated, Intthrhpolitical e tn ir ehin o t disturbances w as popular rrehensible coam. had inspired him with a very p I hence in the strength of the ! t a rdy but complete acceptanc e o f the British;aie a n d the tion by the SOVEREIGN , assured him that thenledtita r w as aware of her own weakness. Actuated by thesee reflections, SA DA BANDEIRA was anxious to drive matters to a triumphant consummation. Hence came the battle in question. SA DA BANDEIRA was worsted, i although not absolutely defeated, and rumours at once became prevalent that the Royalists were about to gratify their animosities to the insurgents generally by wreaking vengeance upon their distinguished leader. Call you this magnanimity ? Call you this, indeed, common decency? It is assuredly not in accordance with the generous character of a consti tutional monarchy. Germany has a monument to GUTTENBUEG, why should not England have some such commemorative testimonial to WILLIAM CAXTON ? So has thought Mr. H. H. MILMAN : and the suggestion arising from that generous reflection has embodied itself in a letter published by us on Saturday, and addressed to Viscount MORPETH. The document to which we are thus directing especial attention is most honourable to its writer, and it is in itself a deserved tribute of homage and gratitude to one of the noblest benefactors and patriots of this our England—this " precious stone set in the silver sea." Earnestly do we express our obligations to Mr. MILMAN for the beautiful project he has revealed to our fellow-countrymen, a project which happily occurred to his imagination in those cloisters from the vicinity of which the first beneficent labours of the great innovator proceeded. Beyond all question the grandest boon ever conferred upon this island was the introduction of Christianity among our idolatrous forefathers; and beyond all question the most eminent benefaction after that religious blessing ever performed towards this nation was the introduc tion of the sublime discovery of Printing. Ancus- TINE and CAXTON are thereby entitled to lasting reverence and distinguished commemoration. Surely every one who can sympathise with the divine generosity and ineffable beauties of civilization will combine cordially and spontaneously in the erection of the proposed monument. Excellent, however, as is the suggestion of Mr. MILMAN, that the memory of WILLIAM CAXTON should be honoured by England, we cannot coincide with him as to the manner in which our admiration for this immortal man should be displayed. The hydraulic toys of Trafalgar-square have shown the absurdity of anticipating either elegance or splendour in the shape of a London fountain. No : we should be loth indeed to insult the illustrious memory of CAXTON by the erection of a squirt and a lamp-post. Let the monument be chaste in style, grand in proportion, durable in material, and imposing in its general aspect; otherwise the wish had better have remained unexpressed. A colossal statue would be the most fitting memento to WILLIAM CAXTON—accompanied, if you will, by a fountain of " living water" by day, and lights burning upon tripods or antique candelabra, by night. Such a monument would be worthy of him ; not a piece of misshapen masonry like the figure that once dis graced King's-cross, or the dumb-waiters that still disfigure "the finest site in Europe." It is one (and that one not the least) of the many evils of the present dearth and famine with which it has pleased Providence immediately to afflict Ireland, and mediating, through the failure of the crops in that unhappy country, this, comparatively speaking, more favoured island of England, that the attention of the Legislature and of the public has been so completely absorbed in attempting to devise measures to mitigate the horrors of this appalling affliction, as to render it necessary to have unredressed and even uninvestigated many abuses which call loudly for reform, and which, had they occurred in times of greater material prosperity, would have at once deserved, and have obtained the immediate attention of Parliament. Foremost among these, as placing in jeopardy the personal liberty of every one of her MAJESTY'S subjects, is the Law of Lunacy ; the neces • sity for a sweeping reform in which is demonstrated by a trial which took place in the Court of Queen' s Benchin the course of last week. The case to which we allude, is the case of " CUMMING v. INCE," which was tried before Mr. Justice ERLE and a Common Jury, a full report of which will be found in another column. The plaintiff was the unfortunate Mrs. CUMMING, to whose case as an illustration of the necessity of an alteration in the present state of the law we have, on more than one occasion, directed the attention of the readers of The Sun. The action was brought by Mrs. CUMMINC to recover possession of certain title-deeds detained by the defendants, in consequence of an arrangement entered into not to prosecute a Com mission de Lunatico against the plaintiff; one of the conditions of which arrangement was that the plain tiff should make a certain disposition of her pro perty in favour of the two . defendants. The circum stances of the case, as stated by Mr. COCKBURN, the counsel for the plaintiffs, and admitted by Mr. WATSON, the counsel for the defendants, were these : " Mrs. Cumming, the :plaintiff, was a woman entitled to certain freehold property. She was a person considerably advanced in life, and was perhaps rather irascible and im patient. Between herself and her two daughters, the wives of Messrs. Hooper and Ince, differences had arisen, and these persons had thought fit to apply a commission of lunacy against their mother. This commission issued on the 29th of July; it lay for some time without execution, but towards the middle of August the parties proceeded to put it into execution. The plaintiff had been put into a lunatic asylum as early as the 13th of May, and she was brought up from that place to be examined under the commission. On the 29th of August the investigation began, before Mr. Barlow, the Commissioner, and after continuing for four or five days, an arrangement was entered into. In consequence of that arrangement, the title-deeds of the plaintiff were delivered up. It was to set aside this arrangement that the present proceeding had been instituted." She now sought to recover the possession of those deeds, because the consent she had given to this ar rangement was not a free and voluntary consent. She was under duress, while the existence of re straint and the fear of continued abode in a lunatic asylum imposed upon her. Mr. Justice ERLE, in his summing up, told the jury that an agreement derived all its force from the mental consent of the party who made it. It might be valid as to externals, and yet void in law if the mind of the party making it had not gone along with it when nude. Where there was an appa rent consent and an apparent execution, still if it was shown that it was obtained under duress, and not by the free will of the party, the agreement would be void. His Lordship, therefore, put this question to the jurors —whether the plaintiff's apparent consent for Mr. PETERSDORFP to sign the agreement on her behalf was obtained by the effect of the restraint she was under, and without the exercise of her free will? If the arrangement had not been made the inquiry would have gone on. The jury was empanelled, and the plaintiff knew that a verdict must be taken. If the jurors now thought that the plaintiff had con sented to this agreement without any exercise of her free will, they would find for the plaintiff; if they thought she had consented of her own free will they would find for the defendants. This question was , entirely for them. Our readers will recollect that at the time the ar• rangement was entered into, we expressed an opinion that the arrangement was, upon the very face of it, invalid, because if Mrs. CUMMING were insane, she was incapable of executing any legal document ; and if sane, the arrangement, as having been entered under duress, was void, and it is with some gratifi cation that we find that opinion supported by so high a legal authority as Mr. Justice ERLE. The jury re turned a verdict for the plaintiff; thus invalidating the arrangement, and restoring to Mrs. CUMMING full control over her property. Thus after a lapse of twelve months; after an incarceration in an asylum o four months ; after all the anxiety and all expense attendant upon an action at law, • Mrs. CUMMING has obtained a tardy remedy, but she would have escaped all this suffering if the law rendered, as it ought to render, a public preliminary inquiry into the sanity or insanity ef any alleged lunatic necessary before authorising the de tention of such alleged lunatic in any asylum. We shall be told again as we have been told before, that the law renders; it necessary to have the certificates of two medical men to authorise the keeping of a lunatic, to detain any alleged lunatic, and that the commissioners of lunacy are appointed to see that this provision of the law is strictly complied with. We have already demonstrated the utter worthless- news of such certificates—certificates which may be purchased in the market at the rate of 10s. each. But is even this requisition always complied with ? What is the evidence as to that point given in the present case. We quote from the report of the trial : Mr. Justice Erie accordingly took from the statement of Mr. H a i nes t h e f o ll ow i ng d eta i l of the c i rcums t a n c es of the case. The plai n tiff was a person 69 years o f age, the de fendants were her two daughters, and their two husbands. Julyct ( u i e n . g a it commissionwas jv o inn ituhnea2cy2d She was taken to a lunatic asylum on the 12th May, 1846. On the 19th July the plaintiff's husband died. On the Ofth / to a madhouse on the opinion. mmedi al " clf one man. This last sentence is cunningly and cautiously worded.• lAy t taken es August. out. The i N ea o pl t i i am c i e : o niff f — e u x o. a e rs - What does it mean —that there were the certificates of two, but the opini on ofwoousnf that she was received into the mad-house on the authority of a single, and detained after her recep tion upon the authority of a second—or that she was detained upon the authority of one certificate only ? It may mean either of these. How comes it that the Commissioners did not elicit by their inquiries the fact that she was taken to a madhouse on the opinion of one medical man ? Is the law even less careful of the liberty of the subject than we have hitherto supposed it to be ? Does the law authorise a person to be taken to a madhouse, upon the opinion of one medical man ? If it does this, is it not more than ever necessary that such law should be altered, and; that no alternative short of a public preliminary inquiry previous to incarceration can be satisfactory, is demonstrable from the fact of this very important case, as we propose to prove on some future day ? Madrid Papers of the Bth May have arrived. The KING lives in a perfect state of seclusion in the Palace, where he is to be joined ere long by his younger brothers and sisters. The QUEEN, with her uncle and her sister-in-law, is at Aranjuez, and is daily giving proofs of the energy and determination of her character. Her MAJESTY is, it is said, in favour of an immediate dissolution of the Cortes. We find the following in the Tiempo on the subject of the recent alleged attempt on the QUEEN'S life : " On reaching the Palace after the detonations in the Al cala street, the Queen sent for the President of the Council, and apprised him of the occurrence, expressing the suspi cion that two firearms had been discharged at her. This suspicion was next day corroborated, when it was discovered that the border of the bonnet she wore at the time was slightly burnt. During the conversation the Queen e*iced the same composure as at the moment th e d etonations took place, seemingly caring but for the g rea t a l arm of her uncle and cousin. It required most earnest entreaties to make her go to the circus in a closed carriage and w i t h an escort. The inquiry into this affair has commenced, and the first re sult has been the arrest of M. Angel Lariva, an advocate and journalist. All that is known of his character and life renders the accusation a very improbable one. His conduct is re gular, his political opinions moderate, and he appe ars inac cessible to any sort o f fanaticism. He enjoys, to the highest degree, the esteem of all who are acquainted with him, and they consider him utterly incapable of having de signed or executed the crime imputed to him. Yet some fatal circumstances are said to be adduced against him. It would result from the investigation that Lariva hal hired, on Tuesday, the coach whence the detonations issued ; that on the same day he fired some pistols at a shooting gallery, that he caused two of those fire-arms to be loaded with particular care; and that on his return from the shoot ing gallery, he stationed himself at the place where the de tonations took place. It is also said that a paper written by him has been seized, filled with sinister and mournful pre dictions, though without any visible connexion with the at tempt. We know not what truth there may be in all these and the other rumours current on the subject; public curio sity, the exaggeration natural to our southern character, the very mystery of the affair, and the contradictory and irre cencileable circumstances between the fact and the presumed author of it, everything is calculated to produce more or less founded comments. Justice will no doubt get at the truth, for this is a crime affecting the honour of a whole nation." The Senor LARIVA alluded to by the Tiempo is the editor and proprietor of the Clamor Publico. According to the Leo del Comercio, the Carlists are gaining ground in Catalonia. BENET, the Carlist Chief, has notified to the QUEEN'S officers that if any more Carlist prisoners are shot he shall make reprisals. The Foment° of Barcelona of the 3d inst. states that the Mexican privateer Unico, mounted with one gun, and armed by 33 men, had captured off Ivica, and conducted to Barcelona, the three-masted ship Carmelite, Captain Edwin, coming from Ponce and laden with coffee for Trieste. The Unico had sailed 34 days before from Vera Cruz. MADRID BotsA, MAY B.—The Three per Cents. were done at 31% for cash ; the Five per Cents. at 19 1 4 ; the Debt without interest at ; and the• Coupons, at 16. We have received the Paris papers of Thursday. General TREZEL, the new Minister at War, was sworn into office on Wednesday. M. JAYR arrived in Paris the same day, but has not yet been sworn in. He was at the Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday, accompanied by M. DusioN, who pointed out to him the principal Deputies of both sides of the House, for M. JAYR is so completely a " Provincial" that he knows not the leading political notabilities even by sight. M. LACAVE LAPLAGNE, who was a dead weight on M. GurzoT while in office, seems likely out of office to prove a thorn in the side of the Minister. In the Chamber on Wednesday M. LECOUDRAIS brought up the report from the Committee on the Budget upon the Department of General Inspection of the Finances. In this report it was stated that in several recent instances the Exchequer had suffered in con sequence of the defalcation of the receivers of the re venue, and the reporter suggested a more stringent supervision for the future. M. LACAVE LAPLAGNE, construing this report into an attack by his former colleagues (M. LECOUDRAIS, the reporter, is a de voted partisan of M. GuizoT), immediately rose, and challenged M. LECOUDRAIS to produce a single instance in which such an occurrence had taken place. M. LECOUDRAIS was unable to do so, and the Chamber referred back this Ministerial report to the Committee for the purpose of having struck out of it these calumnious accusations against the fallen Minister. The Patrie says—" This afternoon, at three o'clock, an Aide-de-Camp of the KING went to the Chamber of Deputies, and delivered to the ex-Minister of Fi nances, M. LACAVE LAPLAGNE, a letter inviting him to go to the Palace at the close of the sitting." The Courrier Francais says that the Count DE JARNAC will go to Naples as Charge d'Affaires ad interim. The Committee of the Court of Peers on the im peachment of. General CuBIERES called before it on Wednesday M. PARMENTIEnt who was under exa mination for more than four hours. At a quarter past six o'clock, M. PARMENTIER, on the termination of the examination, left the Luxembourg, although the summons for his attendance was a warrant on which he might have been detained a prisoner. The Committee adjourned till to-morrow. Bou MAZA, accompanied by Captain RICHARD, has been received by the Duke DE NEMOURi. He expressed to his Royal Highness how sensible he was of the hospitality with which he had been received in France. Two of the sons of DENDRIZ, Prime Minister of the Emperor of MOROCCO, had arrived at Marseilles, on their return froth a pilgrimage to Mecca. The Government had ordered a steamer to be placed at their disposal to convey them to Gibraltar. Thursday (Ascension) was a holiday on the Bourse. The magnificence of the weather and the races of Chantilly had drawn away most of the spe culators from Paris. One bargain only in the Three per Cents. was done in the Passage de I'Opera that day, and at a trifling improvement—namely, at 77f. 95c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 14. Dutch Rhenish, 3%—Namur and Liege, 4—West Flan ders, 33/4. THE LORD-LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND. Dlll3Lnr, MAY 13.—This day's bulletin is as follows : " His Excellency passed a quiet night, and feels somewhat stronger this morning." --- REPRESENTATION OF MARY LE BONE. The following letter addressed by Admiral Sir Charles Napier to C. Flood, Esq., the vestry clerk of Mary lebone, was read at the meeting of the Marylebone vestry on Saturday : " May 15, 1847. " My dear Sir—Will you be so good as to present my compliments to the vestry, and say that it was my de termination to have attended to-day, and thank them for their kindness since I have been the representative of the borough of Marylebone, and to solicit their sup port at th e next election—(Laughter)—but I am obliged to go to Portsmouth and hoist my flag. " C. Flood, Esq. " CHARLS NAPIER." BOSJESMAN'S, ATRICA. OR BUSH P EOP LE, FROM SOUTHERN specimens of a most extra ordinar y race of hu —lnteresting man beings have been landed in our port, they are the Bojesmans, or Bush People f ro m the interior of South Africa, of whi c h so much has been written by the Mission aries, and the few who have travelled to that far distant rogion. They are natives of the country bordering the Great Orange River, 1,200 or 1,400 miles from Cape Town. They exhibit almost as striking an absence of the intellectual or higher faculties as is observable in the scull of that mockery of humanity, the Baboon, while the preponderance of the animirl is almost eq ua ll y as great. In ever y res pect they are calculated to excite the gmeatest astonishment, and to con firm with the full those "'Pales of Travellers" which we have certainly been inclined to look upon with suspicion. We could scarcely have credited that such a race could be in ex istence on the earth. Th a t t h ey are genuine AO one can doubt, in proof of whi c h we give the following extract from a Cape Town Paper of the 24th of December, which we have just received ;—" We understand the brig Fanny,' Captain Wheeler, which recently left Table Bay for Liverpool, had on board an unusual kind of exportation, viz., two males and two females of the genuine Bushman species, they are in charge of a Mr. J. G. R. Bishop, who has been at consider able trouble and expense in procuring them from the interior. They are authentic specimens of this diminutive and rapidly decreasing tribe of aborigines, found only in Southern Africa." —Liverpool Standard. THE UNITED STATES AND 111 EXIC U. LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY. By an extra of the New York journals we have im portant advices from Mexico:— VERA CRUZ, APRIL 13. An express has come down from General Twiggs to the effect that Santa Anna was before him at Cerro Gordo, with 15,000 men, as near as could be judged from a reconnaissance made by Captain Hardy and other officers of dragoons. Lieutenant-Colonel J. E. Johnson had been severely, but not mortally wounded while examining Santa Anna's works, which appeared to be a succession of breastworks, on an eminence in the vicinity of Cerro Gordo. Everything would go to show that Santa Anna is determined to make a bold stand. A dragoon, who had been sent down expressly by General Twiggs, was yesterday found shot by the road-side, just beyond this; his papers had not, been touched. The Mexicans are playing a bloody, and at the same time a bolder game than is usual for them, as it is thought they have killed no less than fifty of our men within the last three days on the road. Major-General Patterson :left here with two brigades of volunteers on Friday, and he has no doubt reached the advance before this hour. General Twiggs had between 2,500 and 2,700 men under his command, and I entertain little fear for'his safety. General Patterson marched with Shields' and Pillow's brigades, and all the force except the garrisons of the town; and Quitman's brigades are either at the scene of action or on the road to it. An intelligent Mexican told me to-night that there would be no fight, rend that Santa Anna had with him four prominent members of the National Congress, with the aid of whom he hoped to negotiate a peace. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. (From The Sun of Saturday Night.) There was more activity in the Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday, and it is a good sign that the trade were the buyers, taking 7,000 bales, or nearly that quantity. We hope this is the consequence of greater activity in the manufactur ing districts. The sales of the week were 28,290 bales, and the decline in prices has, on the average, been 1 / B d. per lb. The stock is 518,410 bales, against 781,430 bales at this time last year. Railway Shares were rather flat. Later accounts have again come to hand from the Cape of Good Hope, viz., to March 20. Sir Henry Pottinger intended to proceed from Graham's Town to Fort Peddie, in the Kafir country, where he would be enabled to judge better for him self of the character of the natives. The Australian advices to Jan. 9, from Sydney, and Jan. 20, from Van Diemen's Land, state that the subject of immigration and transportation still occupied a good deal of attention. The want of shepherds was great, but still the introduction of convicts was objected to. The production of wool was increasing greatly every year. The letters from America are calculated to allay entirely any apprehension that might be felt upon two points. In the first place we shall have liberal orders for our goods, and it will not pay at 106 or 107 to send out specie. In the next place, America can supply us with more food than we are likely to want, seeing the surplus we may expect from Rus sia, &c. The improvement in the affairs of the Bank of England is steady, though gradual. The following are the leading alte rations in the weekly balance sheet to May 8, compared with May 1 : Notes issued ... £2:2,788,855 Increase ... ... 239,715 Public Deposits ... ... 2,870,109 Increase 570,955 Other Deposits, decrease ... 381,720 Other Securities, increase ... 199,105 Notes unemployed, increase ... 455,455 Bullion ... ... 9,588,769 • Increase .. ... 251,043 Active circulation, decrease ... 173,185 Government Securities, decrease... 419,178 The English Funds have been rather dull this morning, but there•is very little doing. Consols have realised 86% to 87 1 / s for transfer on Tuesday, and 87 to 1 / 8 for Account. Ex chequer•bills have again been at a discount of Is., and range from that to Is. premium. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 87i to 1 ,4. Bank Stock is 189 1 1, to 191 1 A. India Bonds are 2s. discount to 3s. premium. The Foreign Bonds are quiet, but Mexican have improved to 20% lA. Spanish Three per Cents, have realised 34 to 34 1 %. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been 57% to 57 3 4. Shares are l ather flat again. BIUTISIL FUNDS. ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 189% Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities 86 85% Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. 86% 87% New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anna. 87% 4 Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. • 8% Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. • • India Stock .. . 242 240 India Bonds, 1,0001. .. .. 3p 2 die Ditto, under 1,000/. .. 2 dis Consols for May 27 .. • • .. 81 87 Exchequer Bills. IN d. 1,0001. 5001. . Ditto, Small CLOSING PRICES. 1894 85% 86% 874 8 15 i 0 9 3-16 240 2 dis par I p I dis I 2 p 4 5p ONE O'CLOCK. 20104 FOREIGN FUNDS. Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. Ditto, Four per Cent .. .. 34% Russian Bonds •. .. • 108% Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. Ditto, for the Account .. 23 Ditto, Three per Cent .. .. .. Ditto. for the Account • • 34% Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch Two-and-a-Halt per Cent .. 57% -% 57% PRICES OF - BUSINESS • CLOSING RAILWAY SH PAID. DONE AT ARES. RICES. ONE O'CLOCK: Aberdeen.. .. .. 30 .... 24 .... Birming., Wolver., and Dudley •• • 6 .......... Caledonian .. 30 .... .......... Ditto, Half Shares .• .. 236 .... Chester and Holyhead 273 ......... Eastern Counties .. .. 20 18% ...... Ditto, York Extension 6 • • • East Lancashire .. .. • • .. 17 •• •• • • ••• • • Ditto New .. .. • 5% • • • • Ditto, ditto New Scrip .. 1% 1% ••. . • • • • Edinburgh and Glasgow .. .. 50 .... .......... Ditto, Quarter Shares .. .. 123 •• .. • Ely and Huntingdon .. .. 15 .. 15 .......... Great Northern 3% .. Great Western .. 85 ....110 111 109% Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 50 .... . ..... Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 123¢ .... 16% .......... Ditto, Fifths .. .. 20 .... Ditto, New .. .... 7 . ..... Huddersfield and Manchester .. lb .... ..... London and Blackwall .. 16/. 13s. 4d. 7% Ditto, New. No. 2 .. .. 2/. 13s. 4d. p.. ....... London, Brighton, and S Coast.. 50 .... 51% 1 4 London an North-Western ..100 ....171% 172 171.. Ditto, Quarters L. and B. 7 .. -- •• • London and south. Western 411. 68. 10d... .......... Ditto, New ConsoL'Eighths .. 40 .... Ditto, Scrip.. • .. .. • • .. 5 .... 4% .. •.. . 4 36 Lynn and Ely .. 25 .. .......... 26% Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. • ... 34 dis. ....... % dis. Manchester and Southampton 2 .... %.... • • .... Midland .. :000 ....114 .......... 114 Ditto, New •. • • • • • • 36 •• • • 383{ 3$ NlDitto, Birmingham and Derby 100 .... 89 ...... • • iDo., Consol. Bristol and Birm. Six per Cent. ..100 ....1233{ 124 127 Newcastle and Berwick • . .. 20 • • 24 % 25 % • • Ditto, New .. .. • • 5 •• • 6 36 ••••• • • • • North British• 25 Ditto, Extensicni • • • • • 0 % •• • • %••••• • • • • • Ditto, Thirds .. 1 •• 2% North Staffordshire .. 7% ..'• • 9% Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 5 .... „ Scottish Central . • • 17% 22% „ Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. ......., Shropshire Union .- 4 .... 2 1% ...• • South Eastern and Dovor 33% Do., New (do. 301.) ~ No. 3. 15 .... 14 1/0., New (do. 101.) .. No. 4. 5 .... .......... South Wales 10 .... 7 1 .......... South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole .. . .. 2 .... IM4 ........ West Riding Union . • .. .. 4/. 25..... p York and Newcastle .. .. 25 .... • • 34 Ditto, Preference .. .. 4 .... : . York sad North Midland .. .. 50 . . .... „ Ditto, Extension .. 25 .... 403 g, ........ • • 4014 Ditto. Preference ......2 .... 10% .. • . .. 10% FOREIGN RAILWAYS. MINES. CLOSING PRICES. Ceylon .. Real del Monte, Unrerlstered .......... We understand that the Commissioners of Customs have at present under their consideration some rather exten sive alterations in that department of the public service, with a view to giving greater facilities to trade. It is said that one of the first changes will be the earlier attendance of such in. door officers and clerks as at present attend from ten to four, summer and winter; while the officers connected with the outdoor appartments attend from eight to four in summer and from nine to four in winter (viz., from Ist Nov. to Ist March). An addition to these hours was contemplated, but is said to be abandoned, as were such carried into effect, the time that would necessarily be required in the middle of the day for dinner would so much interfere with business, par ticularly on the silk or examination. floors, where all the fancy and high-duty goods are cleared, it hasbeen considered that the facilities for passing entries, reporting and clearing ships, two hours earlier than at present will meet the views of those of the public more particularly interested —viz., the w harfingers, who represent the mercantile community upon the present occasion. This will prevent an addition to the bur dens of the country by an allowance to any more officers than are necessarily required (for extra attend ance ) ; b es id es, t h e present high prices of all descriptions of human food meet preclude the possibility of the labouring classes from pur aiming sustenance requisite to enable them to bea- up under the extra fatigue lengthened hours would entail upon them. Few persons unacquainted with the lock or wharf and quay work can form the slightest conception of the dreadful labour which the poor ill-clad, half-fed classes who are thus employed have to endure—a visit to that great butter mart, Brewer's Quay, Lower Thames-street, during the unlading of a butter-laden ship, will convince any one, however obdurate hie feelings may be, that in doing away with slavery in the West Indies, we have left untouched the subject of white slavery at home.—Herald. CAUTION.—IRISH BANS BILLS.—It would be well that the public should be extremely cautious in receiving 10/. Bank Bills, as a number of bills of that amount which are supposed to be in circulation at present, have been stop ped at the Bank of Ireland, Dublin, under the following circumstances, Some bills of that amount were lately is sued in favour of a person named M. S. Persse, but were never received by him. Two of them, one of which had been received by a gentleman residing near Ballinhassig, the other by an establishment in the city, were cashed at the bank here, but when sent up to the bank in Dublin, it was found that they were already stopped there. These two notes were indorsed in the name of Mr. Persse, their date is the Ist of January last, and their numbers - 42,148 and 42,149. Th e entire matter was made known before the magistrates on Friday, by head constable Condon, in order that the public might be cautioned against receiving them.—Cork Ex. aminer COURT CIRCULAR. Their Excellencies the Austrian Arnbas=aclor and the Sicilian Minister were prevented from attendirg the Queen's Ball, in consequence of the death of his Imperial highness the Arch Duke Charles of Austria, father of the Queen of Naples and Sicily. Me- Royal Highes the Duchess of Kent visited the Queen and Prince Albert on Saturday. His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horseback on Saturday, attended by the Hon. Captain Gordon, The Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, took an airing in an open carriage and four on Saturday. Prince Alfred, the Princess Alice, and the Princess Helena, took their usual walks and rides on Saturday. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Leiningen, honoured her Majesty's Theatre with their presence on Saturday evenirg. The Royal Suite consisted of the Countess of Charlemont. Hon. Miss Dawson, Lord Waterpark, Sir Edward Codrington, Lieutenant-Colonel Hon. C. B. Phipps, and Captain the Hon. A. H. Gordon. Her Royal Higness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce, also honoured the performance with her presence. - Her Majesty and Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent, the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court, and the domestic house hold, attended divine service yesterday in the private Chapel Buckingham Palace. The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courte nay officiated. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager attended divine service yesterday in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Mar chioness of Ormonde and Earl Howe were in waiting on her Majesty. The Duke of Cambridge attended Divine service yester day morning in the chapel of the Foundling Hospital. Sir William Davison and Major Stephens were in waiting on his Royal Highness. The Queen Dowager, attended by the Marchioness of Or monde and Earl Howe, honoured her Majesty's Theatre with her presence on Saturday evening. The Duke and Duchess of Cambrid ge , attended by Lady Augusta Cadogan and Baron Knesebeck, also honoured the performance with their presence. The Duke of Cambridge and Prince George visited the Queen Dowager on Saturday. His Royal Highness Prince George had an interview with Sir George Grey on Saturday at the Home Office. A Cabinet Council was held at half-past two o'clock on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign Office. It was attended by Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Ch ance ll or o f t h e E xc h equer , the Earl of Auckland, Sir John Hobhouse, Lord Campbell, Viscount Morpeth, the Earl of Clarendon, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Right Hon. T. B. M acau l ey , an d t h e Ri g h t Hon. H. Labouchere. The Council sat an hour and a half. Major-General Sir Harry Smith had an interview with Earl Grey, at the Colonial Office, on Saturday. The following Members of the New Bishopricks Commission, attended a meeting in Whitehall-place on Saturday : The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord John Russell, the Earl of Powis, the Bishops of Durham, Winchester, Lincoln, and Chester, Sir George Grey, and the Chancellor of the. Exchequer. The Turkish Minister and Princess Callimaki, attended by Osman Bey and M. Zohrab, had the honour of being present at her Majesty's ball on Friday evening. Captain Moreno, Military Attache to the Argentine Lega tion, had the honour to attend the Queen's state ball at Buckingham Palace on Friday evening. Higharn, Secretary and Comptroller-General to the Commissioners for the reduction of the National Debt, and Mr. Tidd Pratt, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday at his official residence in Downing street. Dr. Paris had an interview with Sir George Grey on Satur day at the Home-office, and presented the annual report from the National Vaccine Board. Lord Kinnaird had an interview with Mr. Strutt on Sa turday. Viscount Duncan, M.P., had also an inter view with the Ri2lit Hon. Gentleman at the office of the Commis sioners of Railways in Great George -street. Lord John Russell had a dinner party, on Saturday, at his residence in Chesham- place. Dispatches were received, on Saturday, at the Colonial office from the Governors of the No r th A mer i can P rov i nces, and also from the Governors of New South Wales and New Zealand. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE 23% 15U 2% 109 t, 19 7% 14 P 51% 171 21% 614 ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. COVENT GARDEN. Donizetti's opera, Lucrezia Borgia, was produced for the first time at this theatre on Saturday evening. Grisi ap peared as Lucrezia; Alboni as Orsini; Mario as Gennaro; and Tamburini as Alfonso. The character of Lucrezia is one which Grisi has long since made her own. It is one of her greatest, if not her greatest character, and never did she act or sing more magnificently than she did on Saturday; albeit, it was understood that she was suffering from the effects of illness. , Mario, as Gennaro, was in excellent voice, and sang deliciously. The great feature of the evening, however, was the appearance of Alboni in the character of Orsini. She more than divided the applause with Grisi during the early portion of the opera, and when in the banquet scene in the last act she gave the far-famed drinking song, "Il segreto per ester felice," her triumph was complete. Her rich deep contralto tones told with immense effect in this beautiful air—the audience listened in silent and breathless delight until the conclusion, and then there was a burst of hearty applause, loud and long-continued, accompanied by an universal call for its repetition. This call was, of course, complied with, and she was again called on to repeat the air, which she did with, if possible, increased effect. Alboni has made the part of Orsini. In this part she is far and very superior to any of her predecessors in this character. Tamburini, as the Duke, had little to do, but that little he did excellently. His acting was very fine in the scene in which he caused Lucrezia to administer the poison to Gen naro. The principle artistes were all called for at the con clusion of the opera. Her Majesty's box was occupied by Colonelandliir L s. o r rd . Drummond, Honourable Miss Fitzroy Somerset and Clarence Paget. There were present TheeWmuarrtgeumisbearngdMknairs: ter, his Grace the Duke of Beaufork ehioness of Woacester, the Dowage,c. viailriciehriso,ncesosuonftDessowonfsThairne., the counte of Jersey and Lady kerville, Earl of Sandwich, C o un G i' le E n i t n w si o e r tl t e h l : E v a is r e l o G u r n a t nv a il n le d , Viscount Gage, Viscountess Viscountess Falkland, Viscount Clifden, Viscount Temple town,Lord ffi C a r d n g () Ladyn, s L o o u r t d h c p h t o i b n a , , d a St ea Lord Bridport , Manners, Lady Cecili a D es Maur, Lord S iet h t arn L , o L rd ord G S eo u rge e William Pou , Vieux Wood, Mr. Vaughan and Viscou n t ess Forbes, Lady Mary , Lady Caroline Lennox, Lady Augusta Lennox, Lord Henry Lennox, Lord Alexander Lennox, lion. Robert Lawley, Hon. T. Tollemache, Hon. George Mulles. Hon. John Fortescue, Hon. F. Bpon, Hon. A. D. Willoughby, Hon. Colonel Upton, Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Fitzgibbon, Hon. Mr. Duncombe,., Hon. F. Chicheiter, Lady Macfarlane, Lady Joddrei;^ Lady Thorold, Hon . Edward and Lady Butler, Lady a n d m iss Domville, Sir W. and Lady Molesworth, Sir W. d e Bathe, Sir Henry Webb, Sir Ch arles Kent, Sir Thomas Cullam, Sir R. Vivian, Sir Philip Broke, Sir W. Galway, Sir. George Wombwell, Sir Bellingham Graham, Sir James Cartniehael, Sir W. Abdy, Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P., Admiral and Mrs. MitfOrd, the Chevalier de Paiva, Lieut.-General Sir Loftus and Lady Otway, Sir Clayton East, Hon. M rs. G odsal, James Pattison M.P., and Mrs.Pattison, Captain H oo d , Captain Baillie, (J ap t a in de Bathe, Colonel Browniow Ki Ox, H on . Mrs. Milner Gibso n, T. us .0,, be E sq ., xp.,. 14 2% 9 5 . A 3 3 1% THE CR ors • —A letter fr om A lexandria of the 28th ult., states that the corn harvest in Upper and Middle E • - yPt had been got in, and th at t h e produce is very abun dant. .The Viceroy, says th e wr i ter, estimates that there will be about 4,300,000 hectolitres of corn for exportation about the month of July, at the rise of the waters of the Nile. —A Vienna letter of the sth represents the growing crops throughout the Austrian States to be in the most promising condition, but the potatoes have not come forward, and maize has in many parts been substituted for that tubercle. This corn brings a return of from eighty to ninety for every grain sown. A high price is d emanded for provisions of all kinds in Stamford at the present time. The 41b. household loaf is lOid., fine, llid. ; mutton, lid. and Bd. per lb. ; beef, 7d. and 7id. • bacon, 9d. a n d 10 d, per lb.; potatoes, Is. Bd. per peck.—Lincolnshire Chronicle. MILL STOPPAGE IN WALEFIELD.—We regret to learn that the extensive worsted mill of Mr. Samuel Lee, Thomas-lane, Wakefield, suspended operations on Tuesday last. We hear that about 200 hands will be thrown out of employment by this unexpected stoppage—Doncaster Chron. Again were there crowds assembled in the early part of the evening, anxiously awaiting the opening of the doors of her Majesty's Theatre on Saturday evening; again was there a terrific crush as soon as the doors were open ; again was•every part of the theatre crowded to suffocation within ten minutes after the doors were opened; again were large numbers, who were anxious to obtain admittance, disappointed, for the absolute impossibility of crowding any more persons into any part of the theatre, for which it was possible to hear a note of the voice of Jenny Lind. She repeated the character of .Amina on Saturday, and excited, if possible, even greater enthusiasm, than she did on Monday. Voltaire says, that to • write a critique on Racine, it is only necessary to write at the bottom of each page—beautiful, exquisite, perfect ! So with regard to the Amine of Jenny Lind, we can only say it is, beautiful, exquisite, perfect! to say less would be injustice, to say more would be impossible. The Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, accom reified by her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent and his Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen, honoured the per formance with their presence. The royal suite comprised the Countess of Charlemont, Lady Augusta Bruce, Hon. Miss Dawson, Lord Waterpark, tir Edward Codrington, Lieut.- Col. the Hon. C. B. Phipps, and the Hon. Capt. Gordon. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, accompanied by his Royal Highness Prince George and his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, and at tended by the • Earl and Countess Howe, the Mar quis and Marchioness of Ormonde, Hon. Miss Hudson, and Captain Somerset, occupied her own box. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, attended by Lady Augusta Cadogan, Lord Frederick Fitzclarence, Baron Knesebeck, and Mr. E. St. John Mildmay were also present. Amongst the general company were—The Prince Louis Napoleon, the Duke of Wellington, his Excellency the Russian Minister, the Baroness Bruunow and Mademoiselle Olga de Leaner, the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort and Lady Blanche Somerset, the Duke and Duchess of Cleveland, the Duchess of Northumberland, the Duke and Duche-s of Montrose, the Marquis and Marchioness of Douro, the Marquis of Clanricarde. the Marquis of Huntley, the Mar quis and Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Marquis of Donegal, the Earl and Countess of Wilton, the Earl of Jersey, the Earl and Countess Bruce, the Earl Ducie, the Earl of Lonsdale, the Earl of Shelborne, the Earl of Belfast, the Earl of Munster, the Earl of Falmouth, the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, the Countess of Pembroke, the Earl of Euston, the Earl of Cardigan, Earl Granville, Viscount Cantalupe, Viscount and Viscountess Villiers, Viscount Lascelles, Viscount Somerton, Viscount Clitclem, Viscount Cahterbury, Lord and Lady E. Bruce, Lord B. F. Howard, Lord Forester, Lord Saltoun, Lord A. Fitzclarence, Lord Macdonald, Lord Sandys, Lord C. Bruce, Lord Foley and the Hon. Miss Foley, Lord 0. Fitz gerald, Lord Dunkilling, Lord Gardner, Lady Fonds, Lady Grosvenor, Lady Palmer, the Right Honourable the . Lord Mayor, Lady, and the Misses Carroll ; Baron L. Rothschild, Baron and Baroness Roths child, Baron Mislai, Lord G. Fitzgerald, Lord Redesdale, Count De Berke Count G. Revel, Honourable S. Lyttelt on , Mr. and Lady d. Sandford, Lady M. Wood, Lady C. Town ley, Sir W. and Lady Fremantle, Sir G. Wombwell, Sir T. Hare, Sir J. Lowther, Sir A. Woodford, Sir A. Barnard, Lady, and the Misses Barnard ; Sir J. Campbell, L a d y T yrwhitt, Hon. Mrs. S. Herbert, the Hon. D. Darner, Colonel I'. Wood, M.P., Lady Meux, Capt. the Hon. C. Forester, M. C. Le Koudriaffsky, General Upton, Captain Wildman, Major Buckley, Captain and the Hon. Mrs. Ryder Burton, Captain Lyon, Mr. B. Trelawny, M.P., Mrs., and Miss Trelawny; Mr. Packe, M.P., Mr. and Mrs. Hubert De Burgh, Mr. Hurley, Mr. Shaw, .Mr. W. W. Williams, Mrs. Montefiore, Mr. and Mrs. M. Martin, Mr. and Mrs. E. Phillips, Mr. I'. Bolt, Mrs. E. Johnstone, Lady Grant, Mr. B Baldwin, M.P., Hon. Captain'Foley, M. De Canofaine, M. De Kremer, Hon. C. Lawless, Sir W. Massey Stanley, &c. &c. LITERATURE. THE PARLOUR LIBRARY. No. 111. WOOD LLIGH TON. By Mary Howitt. Caring not only for the intrinsic value of their periodical but for the general variety of the publica tion, the proprietor of the "Parlour Library" have here followed up the romances of Carleton and Dumas with the simple, homely, and thoroughly English fiction by Mary Howitt. "Wood Leighton' has long since become familiar to the lovers of this sp , ecies of literature, and with many " Wood Leighton has become a favourite. As a portraiture of the inland scenery of still beautiful and still merry England it is singularly agreeable. We remember our America' author has somewhere said that we who are now living are the true ancients—not the people of cell• tulles bygone. Hence may this country be called, with more reason now-a-days, than it was in the eye of Elizabeth—" Merry Old England," for it ius many a score of years older now than it was then. and, we trust, a very great deal wiser by experience. Merry Old England then let it continue to be called, and Merry Old England it is shown to be, b y Mary Howitt, in her story of " Wood Leighton ; or, a "Year in the Country." In the very commencement of " Pick wick," Charles Dickens described the as pect of the good old city of Rochester, and he judi ciously selected that s p o t for descripti o n at the outset of his car eer i n au th ors hip, because, we believe, the good old city of Rochester was his birthplace, or, the least, wa s a l oca lity i n ti ma tely blended with th° associations of his boyhood. Mary Howitt, doubt! less, selected " W oo d L e i g ht o n " from a s omewha! similar motive, for around the place which is depicted under the soubriquet of " Wood Leighton," are en twined most of h er c hildi s h recollections. With the exception of a littl e over - co louring and exaggeratios; as for example in the delineation of the house, o rather palace of the Nabob General Dubois, the tale is clever and natural. CO WPER'S WORKS. Vol. L Edited by the Rev. T. S. Grimshawe. The superiority o f th ese collected writings e t. William Covvper, both in prose and poetry, collection formerly published, has been admirably and significantly expressed by the avidity with whie? the previous edition was purchased. We are esPeL l " ally gratified, therefore, that the intelligent e ditor Deo over the again undertaken the revision of the work in a che s P o and popular edition of this character. We are n n. idolators of the genius of William Cowper; we C ° o fess our incapacity, indeed, to recognise A ny gel° whatever in his poetical compositions ; but we rere rence the name of William Cowper notwithsta nding ! we see in him a pure and lofty, and richly cultivated intellect—an exquisite and almost feminine sensers ibiliti —a good and enthusiastic Christian. v the moreover, though tame and wearisome to us, are limpid outpourings of an unblemished heart ; they are occasionally adorned with the graces of a felicitel diction, and are i nvar i a bly inculcations of a "Iblet morality. Beside s thi s , Cowper has the ind is p utable credit of having u s h ere d i n a ne w and healthy selw`" in metrical literature. As he himself exclaims-- " Give me the line that ploughs its stately course Like a proud s wan , c onquering the stream by force; That, like some cottage beauty, strikes the heart , Quite unindebted to the tricks of art. When Labour and when Dulness, club in band, Like the two figures at St. Dunstan's stand, Beating alternately, in measured time, The clockwork tintinnabulum of rhyme, Exact and regular the sounds will be; But such mere quarter strokes are not for me!" f „ It is solely as an epistolary writer that Cowper is to delightful reading. His letters are scarcely surpaseT by the most elegant and accomplished correspondents in the language ; and in this department Cowperaleri be classed with his brother bard Gray, with Lek. Chesterfield, and even with Horace Walpole. sP ea , ing of the letters of Cowper, it was observed ula Robert Hall that "to an air of inimitable grace a n carelessness, they unite a high degree of correctness, such as could result only from the clearest intellect; combined with the most finished taste." Morel On . two hundred of these admirable letters are comPe' in this edition than were originally contained in the celebrated life by llayley. This account, therefore, as well as on account of its extraordinary eh ea P nea l and extreme elegance, the present issue must 00120— a large circulation. MURRAY'S HOME and COLONIAL LIBRARY. No. XLV. Sketches of German Life. Part IL The conclusion of these scrambling and confurpect sketches, is as miserably imbued with prejudice as the commencement. Sir Alexander Duff Gordon has transferred the original b 7 Varnhagen Von Ense into agreeable English ; but in doing so, he has pre. sented to England a partizan writer—a being with whom few can have sympathy. A history written by a partizan is nothing better than the die of a medal. lion ; it furnishes materials from which future nar rators may compile more valuable and enduring works. Among such materials must be classed these sketches of what is called • the war of Liberation in Germany. THE CHRISTLANIN PALESTINE. Part XIL. It were impossible to exaggerate the interes t whic h this periodical inspires in its on each successive appear' ance, Mr. W. H. Bartlett has Selected the different scene ! ' in the Holy Land, with the discrimination of an artist and the precautions of a poet influenced by the geniu s ( of Christianity. He has here Pourtra,yed the "I' ool f, Hezekiah," a pool as mystic in its solitary limPia i kt — i in its biblical associations ; a " W e ll a t Nazareth," Wi l t most reverent village ; the interi or o f the magaifi e l Greek Church at Bethlehem," a spot sanctified as ten region of the Nativity ; and a view of Ramieh," ing towards the indi s ti nc t hill s o f Judea. E ve ry care i s evidently taken to ren d er this publication as little an " worthy of its theme as possible. SUPPLY OF SALT.—ST. MIES, MAT 7.--The stock of salt appropriated to foreign ships is reduced by late art' vats to about 8,000 moys, or 5,600 tons, but there is a further quantity of about 10,000 mot's reserved for the native shir pin g : as these have no where to take it, most of t hat quill' tity will be distrib u t e d t o f ore i gn ships. FURTHER ADVANCE th lN rou T g li ho E ut P t ß he iC m ß metropolis mad e FridayTllEß the bakers o the further advance of one h a lf penny and ene pen ny in price of the 41b. loaf. The best bread is now per qu artets from Is. old. to Is. 2d., an d t h at o f a secon d quality lo in 11d. to ls. day DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT BETHNAL-GREEN. — F iI night, shortly betbre eleven o'clock, the inhabitants residing in the immediate vicinity of the Bethnal-green-road were aroused frcm their slumbers by cries of "Fire!" and the springing of policemen's rattles, which for some time cau s ed the utmost confusion in the neighbourhood. In the space of a few minutes flames were to be seen issuing from the premises belonging to Mr. W. Miller, cabinet and musical instrument maker, carrying on business at No. 5. Fuller. street, in the above•named thoroughfare. The inmates at this time were perfectly unconscious of the disaster, but having been apprised of it, they made an attempt to ex tinguish the flames, which were then raging amongst the stock, by pouring buckets of water upon them. Owing, however, to the firm hold they had previously obtained, they defied the exertions of all present; and Mr. Miller, who had entered the back workshop, was so overpowered by the heat that he nearly lost his life in endeavouring to subdue the flames. The engine of the parish, with those of the London brigade, from Jeffrey-square and Whitecross-street stations, promptly attended, and, under the superintendence of Mr. Fogo, the chief officer of the district, the firemen set to work, and, by dint of great perseverance, they succeeded, by half-past twelve on Saturday morning, in getting the fir entirely extinguished. By that period the whole of Mr. Mil lees stock in trade and his men's working tools were de stroyed. That part of the premises where the fire began was burnt out. The contents of the adjoining house, acc u " pied by Mr. Lingwood, fancy trimming manufacturer, are also severely damaged by removal, as is the stock of s silk weaver over Mr. Miller's premises. The cause of the fire is unknown. The whole of the property destroyed as uninsured. ALARMING FIRE AT TRINITY COLLEGE, CAM: B RIDGE.—CAMBRIDOE, FRIDAY.—Last night the town of Cambridge was th rown i n t o a st a t e o f the utmost alarm an d confusion by the sudden outbreak of a fire, which at one period threatened destruction to Trinity College. The flames originated from some cause which cannot at present be ascertained, in the kitchens belonging to the college, a! were, it appears, fi rs t discovered by Mr. Hudson, the cook. At that time th e y h a d obtained such a strong hold, that. it at once became apparent that the fire would not be eab.1.13!.. extinguished. The necessary intelligence was prompt l y forwarded to the proper authorities, and assistance hai r! been obtained, every person set to work most vigorou_slY) but, notwithstanding, the flames continued to spread tetr:: fully, and a deal ot time was lost before any unPreseirell could be made upon them. The water was judiciously scatt . over the burning property, which at length had the desert. effect of conquering the destructive elemen t . B y that p r. the roof of the kitchen was burned off, and considerable cla. al t 10,0001. was done to the interior of the premises. The Pr ° . perty is insured in the Sun Fire - office for , it is un dersto, .5 10,000 i. The exact amount of the damag e done 1 present unknown ; but, had the tire not been so 013PiLi,, • tunely discovered, the loss would, doubtlees , h a ve been mo st fire serious. It is impossible to describe the exc itement and con.. outbreak o f the . fusion which prevailed upon the first The report at first was, that the whole of the college enveloped in flames. !PRAGUE, MAY 2d.—Private letters state that r tbfl have been riots in Kommotan, and also in Eg0...1!: Leitmeritz, directed against foreign corn dealers. s The: ' were pursued out of Eger with showers of stone 'Li' as Waldsassen ; and in Leitmeritz a speculator to had bvth hia ors cut oft; HISTORY OF EUROPE. Vol. V. By Archibald Alison. Clearness and animation are acknowledged to be the prevailing characteristics of Mr. Alison's history'. At this particular point in the narrative, those quail' ties are more than even requisite, and happily, too, they are more than even perceptible. Perhaps the sublimest spectacle witnessed in the last seven centuries was that of the youthful and beleagured republic of France rising proudly and predominantly through the dark• ness of its internal anarchy, and its external strifes led on from victory to victory, over the greatest gene' rals of Christendom, under the banners of a youth, who scarcely a dozen months before had been sub' sisting on the charities of his comrade Junot in one of the most miserable bye streets of Paris. The fifth volume contains the account of the immortal campaign of Italy in 1796, when General Bonaparte at once rose from obscurity into a renown that floated over Europe, over the ocean, to the most remote regions of America and Polynesia. r, I E s