The Sun. — London, England, 1847-03-03 00:00:00

-- - HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Nohility, Gentry, Subscribers too the Opera, and the Public, arc respectfully isaformed, that on SATURDAY EVENING next, March 6, will be performed Verdi's celebrated Opera, entitled NIN O. Ninus, Signor Coletti ; Idaspe, Sig - .,0r Corelli ; Arotasphe, Signor Boucle ; Fenena, Mdlle. Fagiani ; ALigail, Mdlle. After which, a new and original grand Ballet, in five tableaux, by M. Paul Taglioni, entitled COKALIA ; on, LE CHEVALIER INCOIZSTANT. Coralia, Mdlle. C. Rosati ; the Knight bnidebrand, M. Paul Taglioni; Squire, M. Gouriet ; Berths, Mollie. Petit; Page, Mdlle. Honore; d Duke, 31 Gosselln ; Fraisondin, M. Venefra; Fishermen, M. l Mattis. Verdi s Opera, " Idne Foscari," is in active preparation, and will shortly be produced, for the first time in this codun will shortly appear. Signor Fraschini is daily expected. Donlzetti's Opera, " La Favorite," will be repeated as soon as other arrangements will permit, The doors open at Seven. The Opera will commence at Half - past Seven o'clock GRAND EXTRA NIGHT. On Thursday, March 11, a variety of Operatic Entertainments will be presented, combining the talents of Mesdames Castellan, Fagiani, Solari, Itiascio, and 6ancbioli ; Signori Fraschinl, Superchi, Coletti, Bouche, Corelli, F. Lablache, and Cardoni. The Entertainments in the Ballet will comprise the talents of Mdlles. Rosati, P. Stephan, Banconrt, Honore, Cassan, and M. Taglioni ; MM. P. Taglioni, L. D'Or, and the whole of the Ballet Department. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT GARDEN, _ PRIM! BASSI PROFONDI—Signor Marini (of the Theatres San Carlo, Naples, La Scala, Milan, and the Imperial Theatre, Vienna, his first appearance in this country), Signor Angelo Alba (of the Theatre Royal, Madrid, his first appearance in this country), and Signor Polonini (of the Imperial Theatre, Vienna, his first appear ance in thi4 country.) PRIMI BASSI COM ICI —Signor Pietro Ley (of the Theatre Royal Madrid, his first appearance in this country), and Signor Agostino Revere (of the Theatres Royal, Naples, Milan, Vienna, and St. re tersburgh, his first appearance in this country). Seconde Do le—Madame Antoinetta Mollidori (of the Theatre La Scala, in Milan, Mademoiselle Amalia Linarl, Mademoiselle Luigina Benin!. Seconde Tenore—Signor Emmannelc Slano (of the Theatre San Carlo in Naples). Director of the Music, Composer, and Conductor—Mr. Costa. A powerful and numerous CHORUS of chosen and experienced Singers will complete the Vocal Department. Chorus Master — Signor Bonconsiglio. Prompter—Signor Monterasl. The' ORCHESTRA, formed of Artistes possessing the highest executive powers, will comprise among its members Eighty distin guished professors. The Military Band of the Coldstream Guards will be under the direction of Mr. Godfrey. An ORGAN, of extensive compass, has been expressly erected in the theatre by Messrs. Flight and Son. Organist—Mr. V. Novello. The BALLET, of a brilliant and costly character, will close the performance of the evening, and no Divertissement will be suffered bet Ween the acts of the Opera. The Director has the pleasure to announce that he has concluded an engagement with Mademoiselle Fanny Eissler ; and, during the season, the following eminent 4 Danseuses will appear : —Premieres Danseuse—Mademoiselle Dumi latre (ef the Grand Opera, Paris), and Mademoiselle Plunkett (of the Grand Opera, Paris), Mademoiselle Berlin (of the Imperial Theatre, Vienna, her first appearance in this country), Mademoiselle Neodot (of the Theatre Royal, Madrid), Mademoiselle Marietta liaderna (of the Theatre La Scala, Milan), and Mademoiselle Fuoco (of the Academic Royale de Paris). Monsieur Petipa (of the Gre'id Opera, Paris), Monsieur Gontie (of the Theatre Royal, Madrid), MooSielle Ferdinand° Crose, Monsieur Delfcrier (of the Grand 'Opera,'PariS), and lloinieur Auguste Mabille (of the Grand Opera, Paris). Meares dew Ballets—Monsieur Albert (of the Grand Opera, Paris), and Monsieur Blasts (of the Theatre La Scala, Milan). Leader of the Ballet—Mr. Alfred Mellon. Regisseur de la Danse— Mr. O'Bryan. composer—Signor Alessandro Curmi (of the San Carlo Theatre, Yaple,). THE THEATRE.--To render the Interior at once commodious, elegant, and comfortable, it has bees entirely reconstructed and decorated, under the immediate direction and after designs of B. Albano. 'Esq., C.E., with every attention directed to its proper ventilation. The Decorations have been executed by Mr. Ponsoesby. The Management has happily secured the artistic skill of Signori Ferri and Verarill (of tha Theatre Italien, in Paris), to embellish the ceiling and to prepare a New Drop Scene. The approaches to the Theatre will be found improved, by a carriage way being formed immedia:ely under the Portico in Bow-street, whereby parties can leave or enter their carriages without exposure to the weather; and by increased fin:Hales for ingress and egress. The Refreshment Boom will be under tl:o superintendence of Mr. J. G. Watson. Tickets, Stalls, and Boxes, for the night or season, to he obtained at the linx Oftice, Bow-street; and at Messrs. Cramer, Beale, and o. , Regent-street. THEA.TitE ROYAL, DRITRT-LANE. TS EVENIG ;Will be performed th e new Grand Oper N a, entitled MATILDA OF lIUNGARY. Count Magnus, Mr. Borrani; l'odiebrad, Mr. Ilarri• son ; Mathias, Mr. "Weiss ; Matilda, Miss Rainforth; Lillia, Miss R. IFaaci. "To conclude With the O pera of DER FREISCIIITTZ. Adolph, Mr. King; Caspar. r. Stretton; Zamiel, .Messent ; Rose, Mi ss Isaacs. Mr. Payne; Linda, Miss THEATRE ROYAL. HAYAIAREET. ender the Mag:agement gr Mr. it. NVebster, sole Lessee. TAIL EVENING Will be perforined a new and original Comedy, called THE SCHOOL, FOll SCHEMING. ' Principal ch►racters by Meesrs. Far ren, Stuart, Huckstone, Howe, Selby, Brindal, Mrs. Clover, Mrs. Humb::, Mrs. Yartiold, Miss Fortescue, 311ss Bennett, Miss Rey nolds, &c. linring the evening the Band will perform the Overture, " Lac des Fees," " Plantagenet" " Rose," and • Melee Polkas; Waltz, by Lanner ; Galop, hY Strauss ; and the " American Polka." To concludi with the Original Grand Fairy Extravaganza, called the INVISIBLE PRINCE; or, the Island of Tranquil Daligats. Principal characters by Mr. James hand, .Liss P. Morton, Mrs. L. S. Buckingham, Miss Reynolds, and Miss Julia Bennett. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. • ' Under the management of Mrs. Keeley. Tuts EVENING WM be performed the Drama, TO PARENTS AND GUARDIAN: 7 4. - In n hich Mr. and Mrs. Keeiy will appear. After which, the Farca of THE ETON BOY. Characters by Messis. IVigan, Turner, Kee'ey, Miss Dickinson, and Miss Turner. To conclude with the splendid new Fairy Ext7avaganzi, entitled THE ENCILI\TEU FOREST. In which Mr. and Mrs. Keeley will appear, Pupported by the whole ta:ent of the Company. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. nder the direction of Madame Celeste THIS E VEN fNG Will be perfo•med the celebrated Drama, called THE GREEN BUSHES; or, A Hundred Years Ago. Murtogh, 3lr. 0. Smith ; Dennis, Mr. Culleng,rd ; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Grinnidge, Mr. Wright ; Captain Dartois, Mr. Worrell ; Madame St. Aubert, Madame Celeste; Cerald.ne, Mrs. Yates; telly O'Neil, Mrs. Fitz- Itler which the Comic Drams. called THE MAID WITH THE 31 ILKING PAIL. Lord - Philander, Mr. Culleniord; Algernon, Mr. Boyce ; Diccon, Mr. Wright ; 31111 y, Mrs. Fitzwilliam. To conclude with DID YOU EVER, SEND - YOUR WIFE TO CA 31 BER W ELL ? Honeyhun, Mr Wright ; Crank, Mr. 0. Smith ; Mrs. Honey bun, Miss Ilsrding ; Mrs. Crank. Mrs Matthews. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. J. U. Maddox, sole Lustsee and Manager. THIS EVENING r ill be performed the Comedy of THE MFRRY WIVES CF WINDSOR. Principal characters by Messrs. Granby. Ryder, Vin ing, Cosve!l, Walton, Compton, Miss Flower, Mrs. Stirling, Miss A. Ramer, and Mrs. Fosbroke. After which. a Concert by the New Orleans ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS. To cm - winch: with the new and original Musical Romance, entitled THE SEVEN MAIDS OF MUNI JlI ; or, The Ghost's Tower. Bertrand, Mr. Fisher ; D'Armincourt, Mr. Barker ; Bellejambe, L r , I I B; p"I4 4 P I P I IPAN 44 ftAII ;4 1 4; 04, 103 1 ,414r, Vsnuptqlb.srltristle v,:. Re . 3fi War nog Bunt" Ms, HArthci; itevetulMalchst oil MuMels, Missei Flower, I:ourke4ll,diinstno Wicks, Millar, L. Marshall, and w i ttaßicief; 4 1 111 44 : -Ust4 1 .404• 1 44 , MadAtne Groutz,l4s.!Fashroke. J.l3lEt , 'S,tfiEA:r4E: " .si.iessie c kltt.:konn•y/i:chelLt ta.,llk: Ivi f.1111110111(1.1.tilliG„,: - :;`;: 04* ~19,th9iiperialinIPthr.BorpodiraV4izitotilie of 4114. 4 £MhilDE4*ii, T a Jalousie. M. Darbert, M. Lafont ; 3lathildc, rlitillg. NaNahif,' Lxqvcigge r nsittlikticis. Vitu,lool,lo,,eopttlaii; ilaaitan}TOr, Mink. Poulin t: Boxes, tls., l'it, 3,. tics.. Stabs, 3s:; Gallery, 2s. noors opened at half-past Seven, and the performances commence at Eight. Private Boxes, Stalls, and Places may be engaged at Mitchell's Library, 33, Bonti-street ; and at the Box-office. ETHIOPIAN gERENADErt.s, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. The celebrated ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, Pell, Harrington, IVhite, Stanwood, and Germon, will have the honour of repeat ing their IniinitAhle ENTERTAINMENTS, at the above Theatre, TO MORROW EVENING, and every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Doors open at Eight o'clock, and the Entertainment com mence at Half-past Eight. The MORNING ENTERTAINMENT will take place every MONDAY MORNING during Lent. The Performances will commence, each day, at hal-past Two o'clock. The Programme will be varied on each occasion. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Amphitheatre, 2s, ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Proprietor, Mr. W. !tatty. Under the patronage of the Queen, Prince Albert, and other Members of the Rey-at Family.—Mr. BAT i'Y has formed an ar rangement (for twelve nights only) with JI. Pablo Fatigue ; his first appearance in lAnnien with his highly-trained teeds. The Fox-hounds meet every Evening at Ilalf-past Tills EVE rox-N INOI Will be performed THE ROYAL riuNT ; or, Life's Course of Men and Steed. Entire change of the SCENTS of the CIRCLE. Box-oirce open from eleven till fly* o'clock. --Doors open at s'a irnmence at half-past six o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. W. Broadfoot. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Airs. Frances Davide*. MIL MASQUE AT THE SURREY. For the Benefit of Mr. E. STIRLING, Stage-Manager. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Barletta, called NICHOLAS NICKLEBY ; or, Doing.; at 10-the-Boys Hall. Principal charact , rs by Messrs. iiosion, Johnson, Wilkinson, E. Stirling, Fredericks, Vining, Mrs. Saville, mi. Richardson, Ansa Terry, Miss Barham, and Mrs. Daly. After which Mr. Stirling's Farce, entitled THE RIVAL STARK. To conclude with the popular Drama of GUSTAVUS. In whi..l) the Stage will be decorated, for the accommodation of Visitors to the BM Masque. . . liox.Affce open from eleven till four o'clock. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. Boxes, is., Hall-price, 6d.; Fit, 6d.; Gallery, 34). THIS EVENING Will be performed the MAGIC HARP OF ALTENBERG • or, The Grave of the Old Abbey Ruins. In which Messrs. Hicks, Dale, Fortran, Searle, Miss Vincent, Miss Pearce, &c., will appear. After which, T/PE" MOCK MARRIAGE ; or, The Blacksmith's Dau3hter. Kerrisbn, Mr. Hicks; Cia - a Anderson. Miss Vincent. To conclude with THE DUKE OF SHOREDITCH, Supported by the entire Comic strength of the Company. ROBBING Or PLATE AT THE WHITE HART HOTEL, WINDSOR.—On Sunday evening, between 10 and 11 o'clock. two persons, very respectably attired, entered the coffee room at the White Hart Hai Windsor, and ordered supper. They were supplied with catneat and the usual et ceteras, of which each partook most heartily. While they were at 8 1 32n0r they called for their bill, which they paid with a Z o v v e r i e n i , gu, receiving the difference. The waiter, after re joint of meat, e n t ere d th e room w i t h t h e cheese tray, Whenhte entlem lie was so mew h a t surpr i se d to f i n d that the two g en h ad taken their departure ; but from the silver spoons and forks being perfectly safe en the supper table no Suspicions, at thpeii moment, were excited. It should be ob served that the for the use of there:Z:l portion of the silver plate required -room during the day is placed in the drawer of a sideboard, and left, perhaps somewhat incau tiously, unlocked ; and upon the waiter going to the drawer to remove the plate to hadthe h ir s o e n n s s a ate for the night, he disco vered that the whole bean spbosotracted, consisting of 12 us and 3 dessert fork., table spoons, .5 forks, 4 de weighing between 40 and 50 ounces. the T fol lowing notice was issued throughout the metropo lis and environs :—" Notice is hereby given, that in the notification in the supplement to the London C azette 0 , the sth of February instant , t h at the New County ' curt Act will come into operation on the 15th of March next, no further sitting of the Courts of Requests in London will Le held after that date, and no summonses or executi ons will be issued after Tuesday, March 2, but the offices of the Courts will continue open as usual, for the receiving and payment of money until Wednesday, the 10th of March. Public notice will be given of the commencement of the operation of the New County Court under the Act of 9th and 10th Vie., cap. 95." Established :or the purpose of rendering a more perfect performance of the Lyric D ama than has hitherto been attained in this country. Under the Direct on and Management of sir. BEALt. Th 2 Nobi ity Gentry, and Patt, ns of Music, are respectfully in formed that the Royal Italian Opera will open the fir.t week in April. It is proposed to produce, in the course of the -eason, some of the established works of Cimaro.a, Mozart, Rossini, Meyerbeer, and others of the more modern Italian School, including Operas by Bellini, Dont zetti, Mercadante, and Verdi, on a scale of the utmost perfect - on 1 , 1 every department ; to which intent the mans ement has assemb'ed a Company embracing the greatest and most varied (Cent in Europe. PRIMI SOPRANL—Madame Grisi and Madams Persiani (her first appearance in London for three years), Madame Ronconi and Mdlle. Stellanoni (of the Theatre La Scala, in Milan, her first ap• pearanee in this country): CONTRALTI.— Signbra Alboni (of the Theatre La Scala, Milan, and of the Imperial Theatre in Vienna, her first appearance in:this country), and Mademoiselle Corbari. TENORL—Signor Mario, Signor Salvator Lavia (of the Imperial Theatre of St. Petersburgh, his first appearance in this country), Signor Tulli (of the Theatre San Carlo, in Naples, his first appear ance in this country), and Signor Salvi (ot the Theatre La Scala, in Milan, and of tke Imperial Theatres in Vienna and St. Petersburgh, his first appearance on the Italian stage in England). PRIMI BASSI BARITONI—Signor Tamburini and Signor Giorgio Roneoni. tt. _ _ poor. mittee. state that he had been requestedbv several noblemen! gentlemen to issue a thi r d e dit ion o f his pamphlet, "A tence of the Landlords of Ireland," which had run throtl, two editions since 1844; and in the iiirthcoming one it his intention to add a postscript, explanatory of his vier to that which the Government were called up"' t° 7 , 4 order to d eve l ope the resources of the country .—"- Evening Packet of Tuesday, Feb. 23. HE NAVY ESTIMATES. (From the Times.) Sir Charles Napier led the van against the Adm i d rl ! estimates on Friday night in true family style' wa s without bound to say that his annual onslaught wa_s, et without a degree of success. Architects, censtrue` l engineers, artificers, First Lords, and secretaries', received the fire of the gallant Admiral, as be pass steadily along the line, and it was not at every Poi" that he was answered with equal spirit. Mr. Cu n i v, remark, that the arguments had been heard before was more accurate than his ( " c is tiun that they had been as frequently r_ e t f se to. There is no doubt whatever that the comnlniu i je not new, but the periodical reports of our mi", o , telligence leave very considerable doubt whether 5 ,, of them are not just. The speech of the Secretary; the Admiralty was a good exposition of the duly of getting things without paying for them, t d feeble objections offered to the present and ro a r - s I the ) " increase or the estimates showed how completely blow, terest taken in this arm of our deli Mei can overpo even the ht reditary economy of the nation. , Tb e he v s ments in use were highly characteristic. At the sent day an orator has nothing to do in the ee , or English Chambers but to point to the P r 7, l :: frequerst, ings across the Channel, and the reciprocal riV a the nations will do the rest. France has just U l u ipli vote of five millions and a halt for the year "'oil and the demand of the English Minister l es s ' sci six. The sum was evidently below the tntisrL"ts Mr. Ward began to deprecate the anticipate- o is upon his spiritless parsimony, by a gratuitous eoT e to s of his shortcomings. While we had done nothing bu t vey Dover Harbour and build blockhouses at Portso fr o our neighbours had garnished their whole seaboard atif north to south with magnificent works of which thi4 House had no conc eptiun." There i s really sotu e i parl perfectly stag ger i ng i n t h e i dea that the smither y n' 011 contains 127 fires,. while that a t P ortsmou th bas 48. Fancy a F renc h P r i nce -errant with a no:Pti 79 furnaces a ga i nst us at a t i me when the wor ld Wi ll oil ruled by steam and iron ! The ladies of Suss es never be able to sleep in their beds till 11 , e d, match the French, bellows for bellows. Seri()-1111 t we make n o o bj ect i on to the demands itLtt public s erv i ce , nor d o we see anything but right spirit in most of the minor reforms seem to be projected. No person grudges the s' l d e dl lions ; the only question is, how is it to be exP en , ei ro The money is none too much, but is it certain ' * c i e le going to get th e most f or i t ? No answer was 03sif-cot the main c h arg o s o f Si r C harles Napier, that 136 0 ol vote was wast e d i n exper i ments. The fate o f jit " Albion's bulwarks " is most distressing. A bg e isin launched into h er " nat i ve element " amidst the d of admiring thousands ; next week she is laid th orl ordinary, where s h e l angn i s h es for 10 or 1 5 Ye 4 I she is then t a k en out and cut down to s'''o'S new fashion, or a fresh demand ; aft t4 boo degradation she is again sent up th e ,„ s rii out of sight, a nd a f ter a second interval of obi. oo h is at length broken up or t urne d i nto a hulk le'icsotte ever having carried a pennant throughout th A e term of her exist ence . Th e most contented Sli"-t gent contrib u t or to t h e pu b lic burdens may ask ,/,, beo authorities should first know their own minds, 60 10' 1 go to the cheapest market, but we seem to P ut s seo e. !ilium upon extravagance and caprice. When 5 , t om' is fairly launched her cost may be said to have s ite( menced. First her stein, then her stern is - „pto' and when these unfortunate extremities have ben. - ero duced in every variety of contour, she is eu ti s n oti: amidships and lengthened some s i xty feet. yse ginal craft is entirely lust —pars minima est ipso ;, ; sp ats sui—and som e ex t raor di nary chimera is the as fabulous and as monstrous as a mermaids of the length of' a three•decker and the i bea m 7 4 ' sloop, th e b ows o f a cutter and the stern °, l ogr Mr. Hume p u t t h e matter in a form bePtiu went. " There never," said the lion. Member', Slips been so m an y i nstances of ships cut down ans",oll enlarged as d ur i ng t h e last few years, and iP e t i ct ilot no instance of an y vesse l b uilt for any' P ut ' s pe° purpose whi c h was f ound fit for that Ptioolif when the necessity arose for its use." S° rer thol and certain, indeed, are these di appointmer ll P o ur perhaps it might be worth while to try the rul e s ill' gested by Sheridan for matrimony,—to begu! o blei a little aversion, as a speedy change was so ine vi oio, or to make the same allowances for contrarines s a y. , ' experience has shown to be judicious in the shilld s al Irish pigs. Possibly, if the Scourge had been lai d o pal' as a royal yacht she aright have come out a good fie vessel ; and the Cyclops might positively have re d to sail with out h er guns, if she had never been r e t hiOf for any. Except some such experiment a; up Ss we hardly s ee w h at resource we are to fall bn e • so o unless, indeed, all vessels should be built in th e after a single pat tern, like policemen's Cher or more particularadaptation for the service a s t!t hero being left to the ingenuity of the owner —a cEiglll which would certainly not be more costly, e at p re perhaps be more convenient, than that in vogue at sent. Every science has the accidents of nt . but our Admiralty never seems to get out of theli, ov s we had just eschewed the oracles of the ancient 130' we could hardly he more perplexed at our neXt te d. , r e Sometimes we despise experiments altogether, deer frequently we make an experiment of the entire an clothes, r tl e ug uire d taking ; but in no case does an induction folio Nobody blames the authorities for not intuitivelY c ; o l ceiving that a shot would sink an iron steam er ': us they might a t l east have brought the fact to l o o t before they built th ree an d thirty of them. E ven rot' we do not know that we can confidently assume f ; igo ie withstanding th e exper i ence of the past, that Is 50, or built for 800 ton s o f coa l s w ill carry more than 3 ,. tio poi that some specul a ti ve L or d w i l l not order an ad". l , on hundred hors e -p ower on a vessel without re flectinboo the consequent demand for tonnage. When a ship t he according to calculation and answers her purP°' e t ; te fol occurrence is thought - worthy of special and ,g,, r bsless record, arid some such pieces of luck we may u ° ;„ get, but caution and experience must teach us , a - fi sht. !sect 20 Penelopes for one 'Thetis. En it r e ; however--to refer all these matters to th eir cognised critsrion---the French marine is " e i, e tfe r by the people of that country to be 11 0 from managed, whatever we may think of it discus ; ' our more comm an di ng po i nt of view. The , los t , ions upon the grant to the Minister of 3far'lli the summer disclosed th e f act t h at in the opini°,ll; , eit h er .tiseople,t,he Aryse t h saavy ; wa s .so f ar , from being tor the millions lavished on- it, that it was O' tor e i 'Niorse,.arid•that it had slowly and .§teadily,begu" 0 ' 1 i " rogradea faCt which; t 0 every:.:ireie-born,Dri,t ( L .. 5 511 (loubtl e A s - inexpressibly cheerful . and. eonsdh"scorl. may. supply an argument, perhaps, for 'acqufese'll e stif :entedly in the ac c id en t s an d di sappointments aP PI inseparable from naval administration. THE SCA', LONDON, Now ready, in OWE VOLUME (comprising as much matter as twenty ordinary volu mes), illustrated with 1,500 Engravings of Arms, &c. 38s. bound. B URKE'SPEERAGE and BARONETAGE, FOR 1847. :11Ew and REVISED EDITION; Corrected throughout to the present time, from the personal com munications of titeNobir ty,&c., and CONTAINING all the NEW CREATIONS. " The most con iplete, the most convenient, and the cheapest work of the kind ever offered to the public."—Sun. Henry Colbarr, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. riow ready, in 3 vels. Svo., with numerous Engravings on Steel and Wood, by William and George Ideasorn, 21. 2a. neatly bound, LOUIS THE FOURTEENTH, And the COURT of FRANCE in the SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. By JULIA PARDOE, Author of the "City of the Sultan," &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. - ET ENRY RUSSELL AT TH STRAND THEATRE. Composer of Woodman spare that Tree—lvy Green—The Gam bler's wife —The Maniac--Ship on Fire—The Life Boat—l'm Afloat —Newfoundland Dog—and ether Popular Songs, will give his VOCAL ENTERTAINMENT THIS EVENING, AND EVERY EVENING. He will sing the Song of the Shirt—Paupers. Drive— Gambler's Wife—Ship on Fire; &c. &c.—Songs and incidents of Negro Life and Character. Boxes, 3s. ; Stalls, 2s. ; Pit., Is. ; Gallery 6d. ; Private Boxes, IL Is, Box-of See op. n from One till Four daily. OFFicig, MARCH 2. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 36; Highest. 43 ; Noon, 42, BAROMETER, 30 53.—WIND E., fine. HUAI WATER AT LONDON-iitt.ltitlF. "FBI:, DAY, uorn 7 mr .. 53 mtnrtes after 2. I Evening .. 8 minutes after 3, made by the Plenipotentiaries of Northern and Western Europe in 1815, those two great divisions have since then perpetually regarded each other's movements with jealousy and suspicion. As in a compact body of water, wherever there is a depression on one side there is a correspondent elevation on the other, and the reverse; so in the political movements of Northern and Western Europe there has been a continual oscillation. In those movements, arbitrary and constitutional Governments have incessantly striven to counteract the proceedings of each other, though hitherto under the mask of friendship, and the delusive guise of apparent compensation. Never until the year 1846 had either side perpetrated crimes so naked and enormous since the termination of the Napoleonian wan. And the cause of this open rupture is attributable to what ? To what ?—The question is plain; the answer is still plainer. The evils of this malign dissipation of the peace of thirty-one years' duration is solely, and wholly, and entirely attributable to the French Government. Clothe these occurrences with all that is specious in diplomacy, with all that is wily in Ministerial casuistry, with all that is in genious in argument and dazzling in eloquence— that is the one con-.Ausion which can alone be arrived at. To the guile, the selfishness, the avarice, and the ambition of the French Government, the rupture of this protracted peace is exclusively attributable. And the lures which tempted that Government on to the commission of this great legislative sin—what were those lures ? Let us have a truce to all the trumpery delicacies of speech in reference to this odious breach of all that is ho nourably and really courageous. The French Government has blown to the winds of heaven the bonds of amity, the restrictions of justice, and the spirit of that illustrious charter which in 1830 was sealed with the blood of her heroic citizens. Let us then blow to the winds the paltry forms of conventional politesse, and speak a language that can be understood by all. Speaking that plain language— the language of truth—we aver that the lures which tempted the French Government on to the perpetra tion of this arch-sin against the constitutional liber ties of a free people, and against the peace of the en tire world, were these : I.—THE VANITY OF CAJOLING THEIR ALLIES. II: THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE POWER OF THE ORLEANS DYNASTY. lII.—T H E OTENING OF ♦N ENORMOUS MARKET TO FRENCH MANUFACTURES ACROSS THE PYRENEES. W.—THE CONSEQUENT EXTENSION OF THE VIRTUAL DOMINIONS OF LOUIS PHILIPPE. V.—THE EFFECTING 01' A MORAL REVENGE FOR THE DISASTERS OF 1814 AND 1815, AND THE FINAL CATASTROPHE OF WATERLOO. VL—AND, FOREMOST AMONG THE MISCELLANEOUS ADVANTAGES WHICH MIGHT POSSIBLY RE SULT FROM THE SPANISH ALLIANCE, THE OCCUPATION OF THE BALEARIC ISLANDS, AS AMONG THE APPANAGES OF THE FRENCH CROWN. Talk as they may across the channel in extenua ion of the conduct parsued by the Cabinet of the Tuileries, those are among the principal incitements to the transaction. And it is entirely upon this insane venture on the part of 'he French Government that have resulted the rupture of the entente cordiale, the discersion of even all the appearances of cor diality, and the invasion of the Cracovian Republic. One among the Liberal nations of Western Europe has, therefore, for the gratification of its unholy lusts aided in the development of the cause of Northern Europe—a cause which is directly oppDsed to free dom and civilisation. To the French Government, then, these things are alone owing; but will the con sequences be.* disastrous as might have been at first anticipated ? Our reliance upon the omnipotence of the spirit of Liberty, and our conviction that civi lization has exceeded the bounds of barbarian con quest, assure us that they cannot ultimately prove disastrous in diminishing the one and obliterating the other. .From the shameless proceedings of the French Goiernment may come a temporary shock to the power of the people. Northern despotism and eastern ignorance may at first be aroused to efforts injurious to the,great and sublime cause of civilised nations ; but ultimately- the reaction will produce more than a merely brilliant compensation. Already has that reaction incited the King of PRUSSIA to pay a homage to the intelligence of his subjects in a manner unparalleled in ancient or modern history. And that reaction is being marvellously aided by the liberalis ing innovations of Pope Pius IX., innovations which must tend not merely to the subsersion of Austrian tyranny in her Italian possessions, but to the enlighten tient and regeneration of the more southern terri tories. Despotism can no longer embrace an entire continent : its magical sceptre, like the wand of PROSPERO, is broken. '.\, ••3- . •Ditv 0 • • 'ft. iTtamiit LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1847, The Lords met at Five o'clock. The Duke of RICHMOND moved for the appointment of a Select Committee to inquire into the operation of the law of settlement. After a short conversation, in which the Marquis of LANSDOWNE, Lord BROUGHAM, Lord CAMPBELL, and Lord BEAUMONT took part, the motion was agreed to. Earl FITZWILLIAM, in presenting a. petition from the grand jurors of Wicklow, in favour of Irish railways, took occasion to express his opinion that the public grants ought to be made to carry out Railway projects in Ireland. The Noble Earl likewise defended the con duct of the Irish landlords. Earl GREY reminded his Noble Friend of the measures which had been proposed by Government for the relief of Ireland. He believed there was a •ast amount of capital in Ireland, of the existence of which few were aware. Lord MoNTEAGLE fully concurred in the statements of the petitioners. The petition was laid on the table, and their Lordships adjourned. The Commons met at Four o'clock. Mr. C. BULLER brought up the second Report of the Committee on the law of settlement. Mr. E. DENISON postponed his motion for a Com mittee to inquire into the working of the ecclesiastical commission for a fortnight. Dr. BOWRING postponed his ruction on the public accounts to the 16th of March. Lir G. GREY having stated that in his opinion Messrs. LYON and STUBB, justices of the county of Lancaster, had improperly convicted flier working men for leaving their employ, and that the four men were entitled to take advantage of the informality in their conviction, Mr. T. DUNCO3IBE withdrew the motion, of which he had given notice, on this subject. Mr. BOUTERIE moved for a Select Committee to in quire into the circumstances under which certain pro prietors of land in Scotland had refused to grant to the members of the Free Church, sites for the erection of places of wor,hip. Mr. EWART seconded the motion. Sir GEORGE GREY was ready to assent to the inquiry. Sir. R. INcus, while opposing the measure, admitted that no proposition had ever been advocated in a manner more calculated to gain for it friends. Sir J. GRAHAM—Although he regretted that the pro prietors had refused sites, felt bound to oppose the motion. Lord G. BENTINCIA opposed the motion. Wherever ,he members of the Free Church had been refused sites, Lt was because they wished to build their churches in tpffensive situations. Mr. F. MAULE defended the conduct of the members of the Free Church. Mr. S. WORTLEY considered the motion based on a most dangerous principle, and xould, therefore, op- use it. Lord J. RussELL supported the motion, and as they had no hesitation in interfering with the rights of pro- perty to form a railroad, so they ought to interfere with those rights, if necessary, to provide for the people places of worship. Mr. Sc'or opposed, and Colonel MORE supported, the motion. On a division, there appeart d For the motion for inquiry B9 Against it We inserted on Monday a long letter, headed " Small Measures for Ireland," which was addressed to us by a landlord in the county of Donegal. At this painful and critical period for ' that afflicted country—painful from the horrible destitution to which millions are hourly subjected—critical, inas much as, according to the nature of the measures of a permanent character, which the Legislature may pap during, e_present session, will either the wel fare eirliri )17rficit placed upon a foot-4W progressive —ase - .. -- regentFieeis4, orel4er miseries becorne*geetetted to (at an4e4t - If& tr4ible extent—at sublia,tat;uke.l4-wc °' otA T igar - iiiiiYh tthose who, by tii.en . ' ' _kr a , esitionsoh‘tvjegivictieeply inter es t e d irillhflik - iik . aiieetifirectid alasorbibg the attentioreAelsver'y class , throughout the United Empirei,and who, haye, begt e , ntr iturriatzto ,- anderiviirt - filigfreene to solve the perplexities, political and social, of Ireland, should have an opportunity of bringing their respective views under the notice of the public. The author of the letter in question, in the earlier portion of it, A momentary retrospect as to the relative position passes a warm eulogium upon, and herein only renders a and complicated intrigues of the Continental Cabinets simple act of justice to, a numerous body of Irish cannot be altogether unprofitable. It may enable us lacdlords, whose conduct, in these perilous to accumulate some additional confirmation of our times, has entitled them in every respect to original conjectures as to the motives which have patriotic commendation. On the other hand, actuated the presiding geniuses of those Cabinets in the writer passes some very severe, and well-merited their nefarious and tortuous machinations. The time strictures upon the past improvidence, folly, and which has elapsed since the first development and rapacity of an extensive class of Irish proprietors, final consummation of these occurrences is so fsr who have recklessly augmented and precipitated advantageous, inasmuch as it will enable us to take " discontent, poverty, and outrage." He clearly in the matter into consideration in its totality. Our in- dicates that had their conduct been regulated by the .ention is by no means to review the voluminous cor- philanthropic spirit of " Live and let live," the pre respondence laid upon the tables of the Legislative sent disastrous aspect of Ireland would never have Chambers of France and the Parliament of Great been witnessed. To the weak-minded and grasping ;3eitain. Th e wrang li ng o f h os til e diplomatists has policy of extorting heavy fines, in the first instance, do peculiar fascination fur us at this moment; neither from every moderate capitalist, who was inclined to are we disposed to make any further commen- invest his means in the cultivation of a farm of de taries upon the kidnapping of a Spanish sirable dimensions, to the extravagant prices at Princess, or the larceny of an avaricious despotism. which the proprietary fixed their rents, is to be Already there have been sufficient observations upon mainly attributed the number of small holdings the invasion of popular rights in the incorporation of into which estates have been gradually subdivided, the Cracovian territories with the en ormous d o - a system w hi c h , more than any other, has constituted minions of Austria, and upon the adroit interference a prolific source of the agrarian evils by which Ire with the constitutional privileges and national land has, for, years, been discreditably characterised. liberties of the Spanish population. So much has, The farmer, in th e va i n h ope of redeeming himself indeed, been written upon those infamous infrac- f rom th e t h ra l dom of the incumbrances incurred by tions of the treaties of Utrecht and of Vienna, that the unreasonable terms which his landlord had ime we should be loth to refer to them again, otherwise posed on his first taking the land, lent himself in turn, than as the media through which we may estimate the to exact conditions, proportionately harsh, from those future fortunes of Continental Europe. It is simply who agreed t o t a k e sma ll a ll o t men t s un d er him, till and excltvively upon the consequences of these mea- at last the cycle of selfishness being completely run sures, therefore, that we are induced to take a retro- through, nature is found in the end vindicating the ;poet o f s u c h an un attractive character. With th e or i ginal infraction of the principles of justice, consideration of th ose con sequences is intimately and and the deplorable result Ls evidenced of men inextricably blended the consideration of the inten- and land being involved in one common ruin. tions of the principal ac t o r s in these strange and al- Men, wh o m i g h t h ave b een comparatively affluent, are most unprecedented transactions. seen steeped in bankruptcy by the wholesale; and It is impossible to di ves t th e m i n d o f the notion the soil, which should have teemed with produce, lies that the marriage of the Infanta and the seizure of fearfully barren. Mr. Tonn recommends an imme- Cracow are bound together by a secret animus—that diate abandonment of the system of small the former was the incitement to the latter ; that the holdings. We have over and over again urged latter was the compensation of the former. When the same couns e l, and we believe that the measures Lisbon was engulphed by an earthquake, the subter- of the Government will be shaped with the view of ranean convulsion produced by that catastrophe tra- gradually eradicati ng the existing diminutive and yelled noiselessly under the ocean and bubbled up in vicious divisio n of land. Other suggestions are made the hot-springs of Clifton. The almost simultaneous by the above -mentioned gentleman, which are con ebullition of these internal commotions of the gl obe tes- netted with questions of the utmost gravity, tified that there was an immediate connexion between and which would, therefore, demand considerable the two occurrences, that they were either the simul- space to expatiate upon them with the ampli taneous results of the same latent motor, or that the tude they would require. The propriety of int one was the exciting cause of the other. Precisely ! posing a tax upon absentees is a qw.stion of this u w p e on ha the same speci es of evidence it is obvious, as ' nature. It is one th a t h as b een moote d w i t h grea t just observed, th a t th e se i zure of Cracow I earnestness at different periids during the last three and the marriage of the Infanta were either correla• ' quarters of a century. Weighty objections have re , N o t w ith s t and i ng the solemn ena five or sequ en ti al. I tpe aax .te d ßl y ab e w e h n a u t r e g a e n dn o a tg a b i en s a to nt h e e i i la odi rsit i e o c nt, o suchf may a 8 gements of amity be, Maj-irity Mr. BANK ES th, n drew the attention of the House to the report of the Committee on the settlement and poor removal Acts, and complained that the Go vernment had determined to postpone for the present the consideration of the w orking of the measure as it affected the comforts of the poor. Hti believed the abo- Lut of settlements would be most prejudicial to the Mr. C. BULLER defended the conduct of the Com- Atter a long discussion the motion Alitawiltdratudri ! .., Lord G. BENTINCK then brought L . lwai.l l his relative to the expense of English ra4aya":; The tithla Lord entered at great length onAirecaubjedtizi ortiOt i4 prove the erroneous calculations of the late hancellOr of Agt.144441F4-9A411445140.-(au 6 ariiitifitiefealb 1116 - Noble Lotd. The Consolidated Fund (8,000,0001.) Bill went through comrnittt e, and the 'House adjourned at Halt past Twelve o'clock. SDAY MORNING, MARCH 3, 1817, to a great extent, effecter ted in an indirect manner, and we conceive that an efficient poor-law will ope rate advantageously in reminding absentees that pro perty has its duties as well as its rights, and in con vincing them that tfieicannot, with impunity, con tinue to neglect residing upon the estates from which their incomes are derived. With respect to the Irish fisheries, and a scheme of emigration, they are both of them subjects under the consideration of the Go vernment. Emigration to the North American colo nies, or elsewhere, must be a work of time, before it can be sufficiently encouraged to produce any sub stantial effect upon the surplus and unemployed labouring population of Ireland. For the present we must content ourselves with deviting and pressing on measures which will he more immediate in their results. What is wanted in Ireland, is rather a judicious migration within her natural boundaries, than without. Reclaim the waste lands, destroy the small holdings, and transpose the tenants of the latter to become the occupiers of the former, would savour far more of sound policy, as well as be in better keeping with the interests of patriotism. Besides, with regard to emigration, it is ever found that those who are most inclined to embark for distant lands, are of the class the most desirable to retain upon their native soil. The revenue police of Ireland is at once an expensive and vexatious force. Happily, however, the develop ment ot farof the it an t principles of f ree tra d e renders the day n when Engl an d, equally with Ireland, distant will be enabled to dispense with the necessity of maintaining these Treasury sentinels : cessante ra tione, cessat The remarkable contest for the Chancellorship of the Cambridge University was brought to a close on Saturday, when Prince ALBERT was elected by a majority of 116 votes over those given in favour of the Earl of Powis. From the vast number of votes polled on either side, this memorable election must be regarded as highly creditable, not less to the nobleman who his been placed in a'rninority than to the distinguished personage who has gained the pre ference with the sons of Alma Mater. Nothing could have been more graceful than the manner in which the Prince declined, in the first instance, to give his personal consent to be started as a candidate. It was, however, notwithstanding, perfectly and fairly open to those members of the Senate House to register their votes for his Royal Highness, who conceived that in the person of the Prince Consort they discerned most eligible qualities for filling the highest dignity which they are empowered to confer ; and now that their wishes have been consummated, so far as the election is concerned, we doubt not that Prince ALBERT will accept the Chancellorship. The elevated and honorary office will, under the circumstances, be presented to the Royal Consort as a signal acknowledgment of his public and private virtues; and can, at the same time, be assumed by the Prince with satisfaction to all parties, considering the extreme delicacy with which he responded to the original requisition. The attempt that was made to invest the election with party and acrimonious feelings, has turned out to be exceedingly futile. It• may be that a spirit of colle giate rivalry animated a few, more or less, as to which of the candidates they should support; but, we re peat, that a review of the contest, regarded in all its elements, cannot, and ought not, to result in a feeling of disappointment on either side. On the one hand, the maj3rity is sufficiently substantial to engender sentiments of satisfaction to Prince ALBERT; and, on the other, the minority must be esteemed highly complimentary to the Earl of Powis, ,when, apart from the private virtues which adorn the cha racter of his Lordship's illustrious rival, fa 4 allow ance is .made for the attractive influences derlivable from the enjoyment of the highest position whitih can be occupied by a subject of these realms. When public attention was first drawn to the proposal for electing his Royal Highness Chancellor of the University, we conceived there were some public reasons why it would not be altogether de sirable that the Prince should be selected to fill the vacant dignity, particularly as it appeared that..the election would not pass off with unanimity. But; the contest having terminated in the mode to Which we have adverted, our minds are chiefly relieved!from the objections which we were originally displsH to entertain, and upon which we are, therefore, not now inclined to enter. It is sufficient to observe that obvious advantages are likely to be realised by both Alma Mater and the pub lic from the election of the Prince Consort to the Chancellorship. His Royal Highness cannot but feel a lively interest for the future welfare of the University. Both Oxford and Cambridge require to be extensively reformed in their academical insti tutions. The chief depositaries of learning in this country, they necessarily exercise considerable in fluence with regard to the education of the highest and most affluent classes of the community. For a lung period past the system pursued at the Univer sities has not been commensurate with the require. ments of the age. In the ecclesiastical as well as the secular culture of the human mind, in regard to, morals, in the extravagant expenditure of the youth . committed to their supervision and control, and the needless cost at esatetvproesnesntfiiiinctihdeen:luti:o6:rc;llreggainati: career, the glilversitiel AUf 4 ailifoit of the legitimate chaUies al"P"*(xl ( a i s4l 6 icid 'for,- awl 3404t4inki i s , ic : ivcll et / me . Te sleo '4 ll— alti*thesVbei e c ffi et c ign ick4s l 1) ; L2l Wro*t personiili t w ith' 'Mtlobaisii d . • " weyersao if th - e intelleetual, economical, which prevail in Universities abroad, Prince ALBERT, as the future head of Alma Mater, will become intimately acquainted with the defects by which our own are impaired, and, discovering them with feelings of re Bret, as h e assuredly will, may e ffi c i ent l y i nterest himself in promoting the reformation desired. His elevated station will contribute much to strengthen his hands in so good a work ; and it is, therefore, in this light that we are exhilarated with the belief that the consequences of the choice of Prince ALBERT for their future Chancellor, will alike subserve to the nt in terests of atlarge. oftlte University of Camb r id ge , apreidnnthanoseeofthe country The King o f BAVAItIA has commissioned Prince IMETTINGEN WELLER/MEIN to form a new Ministry, in the room of the Ministry which has resigned in con. ~equence of the determination of the KING to confer Crown lands and the title of Countess on his latest fa vourite, the Spanish danseasc, LOLA MONTER. There have been reports circulated that it is not improbable the Crown Prince may be proclaimed Regent, and the KING himself put under rtstraint as incapable of managing his own affairs, and it must be confessed that the KING has, throughout his whole career, exhibited more tccentricity than wisdom. Madrid papers of the 23d ult. have arrived. The Minister of War has laid on the table of the Chamber of Deputies a Bill authorising the Gcvernment to raise 50,000 men whenever, it may be deemed expe dient so to do ; and tbe. Minister of Finance a Bill for a loan of 2,000,0004, at 3 per cent., with liberty to allo cate any portion of the public revenue that may be deemed expedient for payment of the interest. MADRID BOLSA, FEB. 23.—The Three per Cents. closed on the Madrid Stock Exchange, on the 23d, at 31 cash; the Five per Cents, at 20 cash ; Coupons, 17 cash ; Passive, 6% cash. We have received the Paris papers of Sunday. It appears that the differences between M. GUIZOT and Lord NORMANDY have been arranged through the intervention of Count D'APPONY, the Austrian Ambas sador, at whose residence they met on Saturday. According to the National, this arrangement was brought about by the intervention of the superior Powers. " The superior Powers," says the National, " have in terfered, and it is said that the affair is to be arranged. In the mean time Lord PALMERSTON pursues his course. The SULTAN'S Envoy, commissioned to summon the Bey of TUNIS to return to his allegiance, has arrived at Malta, on board an English vessel. It is probable that an English squadron will accompany him to Tunis. It is now contemplated to act against Tunis as Egypt was treated in the year 1841—that is, a new treaty of July with the four Powers against us. M. FORNARI has brought us back to the restoration, and England to the coalition. We are in a course of progress. Matters are not more favourable in Spain. Carlist bands are be coming more numerous, and considerable anxiety pre vails at Madrid, where a general insurrection in the name of the Pretender is every day expected. In order that no doubt may remain respecting our isolation, Lord PALMERSTON has announced to Count ST. AULAIRE that the treaty of the quadruple alliance no longer "Ids. The Alcutpeusier marriage portiou bears iu- principal and terest, and we shall have t0M737 )0 0 1 the the arrears." The M. FORNARI alluded 330v0 is the PorE's Nuncio, the protector of the esuits, and the petted of the Passe, who has just overruled the wishes of both M. GUIZOT and the KING, and prevented the appoint ment of M. HEBERT to the Ministry of Justice. Is France prepared again to see her Government taking laws from the parti prctre, as in the time of the restora tion? It would seem as if the days of the Corbieres, the Peyronnets, and Frayssinous, had returned. M. DUVERGIER DE HAURANNE has laid on the table of the Chamber cf Deputies a Bill for electoral reform. He proposes that— "l. Every Frenchman in the enjoyment of his civil and po litical rights, having completed the age of twenty-five years, and paying MO francs of direct contributions, shall be an elector, if he fulfils the other conditions of the law. 2. If the number of electors in an electoral arrondissement does not amount to 400, that number will be filled up by adding the names of those who pay the largest amount of direct con tributicns under 100 francs. 3. Besides these, the following to be eketors :—Members and correspondents of the iasti tute, officers of the army and navy having pensions of 1,200 francs or more, j u d ges o f courts and tribunals, whether in active service er retired, titular professors of the faculties of law, medicine, and sciences, and those of the colleges of France and the Garden of Plants ; advocates of five years' standing, doctors of medicane after five years' residence in an arrondissement, notari‘ s and Groves after five years're sidence ; members of the Chambers of Commerce, of the councils of manufacturers, arid of the councils EP fprzahitnintes, and members of the municipal councils of the capital of the arrondissement, or where the population exceeds 3,000. The Chamber of Deputies to consist of 538 members, which is an addition of seventy-nine to its present number. It is sup posed that the Government will oppose this proposition, ab initin, and endeavour to get it strangled in the bureaux." Orders have been given to fit out the steam frigates Vauban and Eldorado, at present in dock at L'Orient, with the utmost possible expedition. Two ships of the line, the Friedland and the Jena, were to sail for Brest from Toulon on the Ist inst. The Moniteur Parisien states that the interest on Treasury bonds is to be raised from the Ist instant to 3 per cent. on bonds which have from three to five months to arrive at maturity ; to 3i per cent. on bonds at from six to eleven months' date, and to 4 per cent. on bonds at one year date. The French Three per Cents. were done in the Passage de l'Opera on Sunday, at 78f. 70c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, 31Aacit 1. East Indian, 16 —(treat Western Ben g al, %—Luxembour g , 214 Namur and Liege, 5 ex div.--Northern of France, l3lA—Paris and Bowen, SlN—Rouen and Havre, 27!* —Sambre and Meuse. 6%. --- Great Western .. _ • • .. 85 •• Ditto, Half Shares • .. 50 .... 69 ex 69 x.d. Ditto, Quarter • Shares .. 12% —.19 1,34 cx div.. 18% x.d. Ditto, Fifths ▪ . 20 .... 27% cx div.. 27% x.d. Huddersfield and Manchester .. lb .... 19% ...... 13 .... 12 • • Lancaster and Carli s l e 50 ...• •••••• •• •• Ditto, New Leeds and Thirsk .• • 22% 21 '4 ••••• • • • • • Ditto, New. 5 4; 5.... Ditto, Preference 6 per Cent... ...• 5'4 London and Ithickwall • • 16/. 13s. 4d, 8% Ditto, New, No. 2 .. • • 1/. 13s. 4(1. I '4 p• • ...... London, Brighton, and S Coast.. 50 .• . 56 55% x all .. Ditto, Guarani - . Five per Cent. 9 .... 9% %.• • • • London 3/1 North-Western ..100 .185 i 4 186% 185% 186 Ditto, 481. Shares M. &B. .. 40 72 Ditto, 10/. Shares Al. Sc it. (11) 5 —•••••• • • •• London and zSotith•Western 411. Os. 10(.1.• • 64% x d • .... Ditto, New C onsol. Eighths .. 40 . •• •••• • • • • Ditto, New ... .. .• • • .. 22% .... 25% x • Ditto, Scrip.. London and York Exte,isi ▪ _ 51/ .......... on Scrip 2% ...• 2; •••••• • • Lynn and Ely _ Lynn and Dereharn • • .. 15 17 .. • • ...• Manchester and Leed s .. .• • • 82 •• •• •• • • Ditto, Fifth s Ditto, Thirds (Reg.). • S 11 11 ▪ 848. .... 3p• • ••. • • • 3 P Manchester find Southampton .. 2 _ 1% •• •• Aliitand •• _lOO 30 •• •• •• •• Ditto, New 12134 Ditto, Itirinhigham Slat Derby 100 .... 96 .... Ne.yeastiv and Berwick .. •• 20 .. • • 32/ 34 33 1 i .. 33 1 4 Norfolk .. • • •• 100 .• .. 139 141 x dl r ... 140 Ditto, half Shares .. .• .. 10 . 13% x • 13% Ditto, Extens!en • ••.. 6 ...• 6% • ••• • • • 6 Northern Counties Union • 2%.... 1 1 ,4 i • ..... North British .• •• • .• 25 .. • . 35%....• • . 35% Ditto, Half Shares .• • • 12% •.••17 6% . 16% Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 2 1 ,4 .... 4 % . 4% Ditto, Thirds • .. •• • . .• 1 .... ... • • 3% Northern and Eastern .• .. 50 .... 58 North Sienlordshire . • • Oxford,Worc es t.,& W olverhmptu. 1734 .... 11% .......• • • 11% Preston and Wyre .. ••• . 25 .... 35 34% 15% Reading, Guildford, an d R e i gate 5 .. • • 5 .. ...• • • 5 ...• • • 11 Sheffield, Rotherham, & Goole .. .... 2% • • 2 %a Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 3 .... )4 • . • Shropshire Union .. •• • • 425..... dis . • ...... • • South Staffordshire Juncti on clip ..11.1 , 5.4 d South Eastern and Dovor .. • • 33)4 ...• 39 38•1 - , •• •• • • 39)4 Do., New (do. 151.) .. N o. 4. 33i .... 4%34 4)4 South Wales •• •• .. 10 .... ......•• South Yorkshire, Doncast er , and Swans. & Loughor & Cameron's.. 2 3 Vale of Neath .. .. • • 2 .... . % Waterford and Kilkenny .. 11 .... 4 West Riding Union .• •• 423. 2 p.. Windsor, Staines, &S. Western.. 425. York and Newcastle .• • .. 25 .... • Ditto, New.. .. .. • • .. 5 .... 11% --• Ditto, Preference • .• 4 ... . .. • York sad N or th Midland .. 5O .... 86% 871,4• . • •• •• Ditto, Extension .. 20 .. • FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens .. 14 %34 •• •• •••• Louvain la Sambre . •• 6 .Northers • France .• •• 8 ... 13 .. .... ... • • .Rouen £lll4l Havre . .. • . .. 20 .. 27% ... • Sambre and Meuse .. • . . 12 .... 7% MINES. Real del Monte, Unregistered • •• • ..... •• •• 331 COURSE OF EXCHANGE. —(YESTERDAY.) Amsterdam •12 334 Gibraltar....... ...... . Ditto, at sight ...... 12 1 Leghorn • ••• • • • 30 21) !totterditin •• 2U.12 4 G enoa ••••.. 25 85 25 80 Milan .. ..... ....... • . Hamburgh .... • • M.B. 13 10;', Venice. .... Altona. . Paris, 3 days' sight ...• 25 45 l'alermo, peroz Ditto, 3 months...... 25 75 Lisbon.. .• .• 53 Marseilles •• 25 85 Oporto,. .••• .. • • Al% 80urdeaux.......• • • • •25 85 Rio Janeiro • • 25 Frankfort on Alaino.... 121 Bahia ... ...... ... • Petersburgh, 3 Cs— ' Buenos Ayres Berlin •• • • New York, 21 days' sight Vienna, effec.f10.....• 10 3 Philadelphia •• Trieste, ditto.... • • 10 3 MOBS OF BULLION, PER OZ. Madrid Foreign Gold in bars...£3 17 9 Cadiz ••• • . : •• • . 364 New Dollars .... •• 0 4 103 Bilbao.. •. • • ..... Portugal Gold Coin .•0 0 0 Barcelona •• •••• •• •• Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0 •• •• •• •• "•• Sliver la bars ••••0 5 0% SALE OF FEE -SIMPLE ESTATES IN THE COUNTY OF KEIU Y. On Thursday last Mr. W. W. Simpson, of London, offered for sale by auction, in several lots, at the Commercial Buildings here, valuable freehold estates, situate in the county of Kerry. At one o'clock the sale was opened by the particulars and conditions being read, when Mr. Sitnpson said—Gentlemen, there are observations which I request to make, and probably I may ,say more tha n you may deem expedient, b ecause so many of the gentler, n present are intimately acquainted with the locality of the property which I have the honour to offer to you for competi tion this gas . You are also conversant with the condition of Ireland in general, as well as the prospective indications touching the well-being of this country; if, therefore, I trespass on your endurance, my apology must rest on that of duty towards my employer, width may engender a zeal beyond knowledge. My sincere desire is to avoid misrepresentation, not alone for my own sake, but also for that of the gentleman for whom "I have this time the honour to act. On these occasions the auctioneer is vir• lushly bound by certain limits, at the same time he has a certain license for bringing the subject treated of before the " mind's eye," through the intervention of that varnish which will throw its best pointa into relief without altering the pic ture. For the last thirteen years I have had the honour, at short intervals, of addressing myself to Irish proprietors and capitalists; and I trust that those ..gentlemen who have known and heard me during that period will - do me the jus tice to say, that it I have been guilty of sins they have I been venial, an d p arta ki ng more of those of omission than of commission. 1 will first, gentlemen, touch on the circurn et:instance of a Bill recently passed in Parliametit, relating to free trade in corn, and in doing so will take the liberty to read a small portion of a speech made by me to a very large assemblage of gentlemen and highly influential per sons (the majority of whom were Protectionists), at Nor wich, in the month of April last. On that occasion I said, that," although I had been a thorough-going Protectionist, I was proud to say that sliding and all other scales had now fallen from my eyes," and that it was my honest convic tions that rents which have been fixed on fair and liberal principles within the last seven years will be permanent; also, that the years' purchase on such rentals has risen within the last six months, and ix all probability u ill continue to rise; the increase of population (viz. 1,000 per day) will, no doubt, form a counterpoise for any iniportation, present or prospective, and thereby insure in ordinary seasons, nut excessive, but steady and remunerating prices fOr the cultivator, as well as ample revenue to the landed proprietor; and the assumed addition of sixty millions annually to the actual wealth of the country, will contribute to a higher years' purchase on the sale of land—the only property, indeed, which can be considered essentially permanent under adVerse circumstances and political events. Instead, therefore, of the motto--" Agitate, agitate," it will be better policy to substitute that of—" Cultivate, cultivate." And let landlords assist improving tenants by making advances of that additional capital which may be required, in the nature of drainage and other improvements, charging fur the seine at the rate of 5 ... Per cent. on "such outlay and expenditure which may be judiciously applied. Hence the tenant farmer will reap a benefit in litany instances 0/ 25 per cent., and a permanent improvement in rental, quasi landlord, will super vene." I further observed that, "in adopting free-trade measures, Sir Robert Peel bad proved himself to be one of the most talented, tore-sighted, and fearlessly holiest Minis tc rs that ever lived in the tide of times." The present aspect of the United Kingdom fully justifies the opinion here ex pressed of the eminent talents and courage displayed by sir and it is stated by the most competent judges Wise measures of free- trade had cot been carried 4ite;-4er-pliceP of corn and produce would have risentto•4 In conclusion, I said, I cannot refrain 'front alluft opinion - of that eminent man, the late Sir Cliao Wetherell, on this subject. A high Tory and Min 1 1, Otectionist, the fears he entertained as to the probable re sults ofethe-repeal of the corn-laws induced him to deternlinp, on selling all his landed property; but his better judgirient prevailed, and he not only retained possession of it, but was in the course of making further investments when he met his lamented fate. The Protectionists —where are they? Where are now your prophets which prophesied unto you? Gen denten, you must remember I made these observations in April last, and up to the present time I have been fully borne out its my predictions. The Government are now in good earnest, and we shall see the small farmer of this country rising in the grade of society. It is not because that in this country we now see a peasantry poor, and chat, in mean hauiliments—it Is not, I say, because of this that we cannot perceive that foundation of intellect on which a noble superstructure may be raised. Bath not Shakspere said— " For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich ; And as the sun breaks through the darkest clout's, So honour peereth in the meanest habit. 1% hat : is tile jay more precious than the lark Because his kathers ate more beautiful? Or is the adder better than the eel Because his painted skin contents the eye?" Yes, Gentlemen, the hands of Government are on the plough, and they must not look back, fur whether it be a Govern ment or an individual doing so, the penalty of unworthiness must attach. The Government is now moving on with a projectile force; and I tell you, Gentlemen, with such a pa ternal Government, this country, at no distant time, wilt rise to that high scale which is her natural position amongst the kingdoms of the earth. With respect to the ten millions proposed by Lord John Russell to be lent to this country at per cent.—it has been mooted that should Government make these advances they will take precedence of the en cumbrancers, and that the present mortgagees would be placed in a false position. This mode of reasoning appears to me the height of folly; for I opine the loans contem plated by Government, instead of weakening the se curity of present incumbrancers, will place them in a much more secure position, for the value of the estates will be increased in an inverse ratio. God Al mighty, in his infinite and inscrutable wisdom, pours afflic tive dispensations on the earth; and I will venture to read some former observations I made on this subject. I said, " that the All-wise and Omnipotent Disposer of human events has visited that country (Ireland) with the potato scourge, for the purpose of stimulating the Government and landed proprietary to form plans and make such advances of money and by fur. as will immediately tend to production and repr o d uct i on, and thus at once improve the condition of millions o f t h e Irish risking poor h a p t en , peasantry and oarid the tenantry generally ; fiich wiig v e bread t o the eater'—superseding the cultivation, and feeding solely on a vegetable yielding twenty-five per cent. only of food nutri tious to the human frame—they will thus be enabled to grow and consume corn crops in all their variety —produce which, under a fair course of husbandry, does not, like the potato, exhaust the natural power of the land ; and, at the same time, the feeding and foddering, the straw of their crops will give an incalculable quantity of manure, whereas the potato plant will afford comparatively little." In con clusion, gentlemen, I will venture to repeat a few more lines from Shakspeare, as applicable to the position of the govern ment and landed proprietary of Ireland : " Come—l have learn'd that fearful commenting Is leaden servitor to dull delay ; Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary : Then, fiery expedition be my wing, Jove's adercury, and herald for a king l" Mr. Enwaap Dar &WU. observed that the present par ticular of sale was the fairest and best he had ever seen pub lished in Ireland. ! Mr. SIMI'S() —I am much obliged to you, Sir. I consider it a great compliment coining from a gentleman of so high a character, and one so intimately acquainted with the nature and circuinstances;of the estates. Some very spirited competition then ensued, when the fol. lowing gentlemen were declared purchasers of the several lots which were sold;-- John Hickson, Esq., Deputy-Lieutenant, 'The Grave, Dingle. John Leahy, Esq., South Hill, Killarney. The Rev. A. B. Rowan, Belmont, Tralee. E. B. Hartopp, Esq., Dalby House, Melton Mowbray, Lei sestershire. James Butler, Esq., Deputy-Lieutenant, Waterville, Cahir civeen. The average rate of purchase was twenty-seven years; none of the lots (whereof several appeared to be let at their full value) fetching less than twenty-three years' purchase. The sales being concluded, Mr. SPlrs , ni returned thanks for the kindness and ur banity he had met with, aud, in doing to, took occasion to 8 14 IM P 551% 186 25N s }•ii 221,4 16% 14!4 134 27 !,‘, 7% pren,l,4 HER. MAJESTY'S THEATRE, —Ther e we re yesterday evening at Her Majesty's Theatre Lady'ther',,,ilr'o? and Marchioness of Cl anricar d e, and the Lady' Burgh, who occupied her Royal Highness the P'", „.calott Cambridge's box ; th e Vi scountess Falkland, Lady Egerton, Sir Stratford Canning, and the Misses ' - ' a p ilefi c ; Occupied her Majesty Queen Ad e l a id e ' s b ox ; his l':cifsP; the Russian Mi n i s t er , t h e B aroness de Brunnow, ~ inoiselle Olga de Lechner, the Marquis ofAilesbury, th„e-„ro, tb of Sligo, the Marchioness Blandford, the Marquis of l'„ ° ,,"ocls',",i. Earl of Fahnouth,the Earl of Cardigan, the Earl of ;$ the Earl of Aboyne, the Earl of Munster, the C ° ', 1 A ri ,„0 6 , 1b ,,,, Blessington and the Misses Power, the Viscount C/„a"; a fii t .' Viscount Duncannon, Lord W. Lennox, Lord Lady Foley, Lady Grenville, Lady Lister Kay, 1 47 4 . so - Oeveaux, the Count Koudriaffskv, Count D'OrsaY , Lady Augusta Wentworth, Hon. Col. Me rick Col• t r•C Colonel Wildman, Capt. Lyon, Sir H. Webb, Sir .„" f ,.* loughby, Capt, Greville, Mr. and Mrs. TrelawnV. I t irr Mrs. Wheeler, Mrs. E. Phillips, Mr. and Mrs. - D ° Mr. and Mrs. Stuart, Mr. FortleMr. Mills, &c. ec ri , a e. h $llO /' TILE SO CIETY OF A NCIENT BRITONS.--"-vailij rersary festival of this society took place on Monday 1 1 01- 3 at the Freem asons ' T avern, and notwithstanding .t, for years have now passed over th e soc i ety ' s head, earning tbtte the character for antiquity to which its name asPir e j t 0 0g t was no want of youthf u l r i gour i n the proc eeding's. b o i o " surely be a popular fall ac y w hi c h hi storians hare driVe'„ i such pains to preserv e , th at t h e anc i ent Britons were •ijote woo into the sea by their S axon conquerors, and ex--.to-•,1 where the inaccessibl e mounta i ns o f W ales did not rindsd; a shelter. Certai n it i s , t h at l ast n i ght they aPeepttell; alarming strength, each wearing dauntlessly in his, ;c asli t i hole the l ee k, t h at t i me -h onoured badge of 113"01101 which Captain Lle we ll yn compe l led ancient Pisto l to 0 Lord Robert Grosven or p res id e d l ast night, in t he re ot it t Lord l'owis, who excused himself on the roan%fter.,!„, would be painful to hi m t o appear in public so soon TD: recent contest for th e Chancellorship at Cambridg. e• proceedings of the e ven i ng were of the usual characte':, FPO; customary loyal toasts were drunk, and then ea rne „ ot ops l3 /d perity to the Society of Ancient Britons." which the. 0134 most warmly responded to. " The Army and M' t .' o ' a stS: a "'The Principality of Wales," were also among th e ,, Ar a, tr the evening. There was a procession of the entl d ' o - r eri recipients of the Society's bonnty, whose clean an to, ,find appearance attracted general sympathy an d appropa t.nr itab ,, t, who sang with great taste an ode appealing to the c ` l a nd feeling of their audience. The Bishops of Worceste e ll ing Asaph were present, and in the course of the ev_ . ;, ;c ts of pressed the warm interest which they the charity. At the close of the proceedings a" tba 00 1 : subscription was announced by the secretary, and obic"_ pally separated highly delighted with the manner ! ci. The felt in the ,7'dotne they closed the natal day of their patron saint, Da,v,!, gallery of the Freemasons'. ball was crowded w„nZ ave spectators of the festive scene, and if they coule!__ e i o the engaged their thoughts from the temptations to alo_if o j e yea good things spread before the company, must h . o :_n she d by the spectacle of so excellent a dinner as that far:„. a uge; Mr. Bacon, the proprietor of the tavern. The othe rf e d 00 meats were excellent, and altogether the evening P"' most pleasantly. • at the commencement of the past week, and the thaw _ t w i n te . t; INFLUX or SIIIPPING.—The change of wind fel' lowed the lengthened and continued frost of the Past ve ssel had conjointly the effect of causing a vast infin n ____ ber fro m from all parts, including, in addition to a great cra p T i e the Dutch and German ports of Europe, very B i r 7 h , virorin; East Indies, China, and other distant parts 1 _ e L"_, ast de; This influx of shipping into the docks has caused o f the P °7 of bastle to exist, affording employment to many n t en the s h e labouring men attached to and solely dependent was MT establishments for casual engagement, and which __d inc e*: so great _ the thee needed on their part in the present time of severe pt ment weather and dearness of all sorts of pr s o A T; vc ide some of the dock establishments, pressure of business, that the discharge of i the made for t o e a Y I hours fort p permitted, rpo se, b application efore aft having h e u been u a l a s n p d eci i ; in to bring theme dispatch to trade, and enable the importers attendance of the officers of the Revenue, • chandise into the market with the least possible u tasted s"3. A correspondent says he has seen and % yaw: o , specimens of bread, made under the direction e La ttet of Tiverton, partly of carrot. Its flavour, e l x ra t _ good as that of wheaten bread, and as h less, be thinks it would prove an adn2irablo supsutu Journal. -g order to R. WEfINE COURT CIRCULAR. At four o'clock Prince Albert and the other Commissioners proceeded to the Palace at 'Westminster, and went over the New Houses of Parliament, attended by the architect, Mr. Barry. Her Majesty and Prince Albert inspected at Buckingham Palace, two medals of Lord Hardinge, the wolk of Mr. G. G. Adams. The Queen had a dinner party yesterday. The company included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, their Riyal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, his Serene Highness Prince Frederick of Hesse, their Excellen cies Baron and Baroness de Cetto, his Excellency Baron de Hugel, the Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne, Lady Augusta Cadogan, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, the Earl Auckland, and the Hon Miss Eden, Lord and Lath- Ashley, Lord Ernest Bruce, the Right Hon. Sir Robert and Lady Peel, and Mr. Edmond Mildmay. The band of the Coldstream Guards attended at Bucking ham Palace during dinner, and performed the following pieces Overture, " Leonora," Beethoven. American Polka, Jullien. • Selection from "The Crusaders." Benedict. Waltz, " Fleur de Marie," Barret. Pas Redouble, " Le Roi des Alers," Gurtner. Their Royal Hi g h nesses t h e Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary, and his Serene Highness Prince Frede rick of Hesse, attended by Baroness Hammerstein and Mr. • Edmond Mildmay, visited and inspected the British Mu seum yesterday. A deputation of gentlemen from the centre of the county of Kent had an interview with the Right Hon. C. Strutt yesterday, at the office of the Commissioners of Railways, in Great George -street. The deputation consisted of the Earl Stanhope, the Right Hon. F. C. Herries, Sir John W. LW)- . bock, Mr. John Rogers, and Mr. J. P. Atkins. The Bishop of Barbadoes had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday, at the Colonial-office. Several members of the " Short Time" Committee from Manchester attended yesterday at the Treasury, to deiiver a number of petitions to Lord John Russell. The Earl of Devon had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday, at the Home-office. Sir Robert Ferguson had an interview yesterday with the Right I-lon. Edward Strutt, at the office of the Commissioners • of Railways. Dispatches were sent off last evening from the Colonial office for the Governor of Ceylon. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. (From The Sun of last Night.) There was a quiet, but steady, market for Cotton at Li verpool y esterday. Sales, 4,000 bales. _American realised 6 , 4 d. to 734 d., and Surat 4 1 / 2 d. to 4 3 / 4 d. per lb. Railway Shares were firm, but not much was t4one. At the sale of Railway Shares to-day, by Messrs. La mond and Co., prices were steady, without much alteration. The following are a few of the principal sales:— London and Manchester (Remington's)....£o 6 6 East Indian ... 0 9 0 North Staf f ordshire ..... 6 7 6 Northern Counties Union 1 5 0 Shropshire Union and Canal 1 9 0 Leicester & Bedford, Exchange Certificate 0 13 0 Shrewsbury and Hereford Manchester and Southampton 1 2 6 Derby, Stafford, and Worcestershire .... 011 0 Boston,Stamford, andllirmingham 7 0 0 Newmarket and Chesterford. lO 7 6 However much we may regret the perhaps unavoidable necessity which exists fbr a p os t ponement of further reduc tions in import duties, but more especially in that upon 'fee,. it is at least consolatory to find that there are some intlica Lions of the. progi'ess of our trade with China, desPitd the difficulty at ,presqnt existing in the obtainment of reiturti cargoes, —, : - .ACcOrding' to the last -rAdvicee; receiVed `by the " overland mail, and which include a review of the operatione,i4if last year, it would appear ,that ~.there has been 04;:ibusiness done, and 004 ther6 is a pros .leCt.of,amincselme. What it might bee:h.wever, under a Wore Aiberal: taxi on Chinese productions imported - hei.e, it is needless to point out. According to the most recent information upon China.,!col lected by the late Colonial Treasurer at Hong-Kong, that vast country produces tobacco, coal, saltpetre, skirts, corn, drugs, silks, salt, marble, indigo, gold, tin, rice, hernpi j . sugar, copper, iron, tea, &c., and there i s n o d ou b t b ut t h at a surplus o f these articles, under fair encouragement, could be obtained for exportation in return for British mantilae . - tures. When we reflect that China has about the same number of inhabitants to each square mile as England, and that the most dense population is along the banks of the great rivers, which would serve as the highway of com merce, it is impossible to over-estimate the future importance of this market. Four hundred millions of human beings must offer a field for the exten- sion of imports, even though their resources were far less than they are. F , out the returns made by the Secretary of the East India and China Association the arrivals of ship ping in the United Kingdom during the year 1646 exhibit an increase from China of 4,792 tons, and the departures to that c;:untry of 2,986 tons. With these facts before us there is every room for sanguine anticipations. The Stock market has been rather weaker to-day, tint the sellers have not got it altogether their own way. The intelligence received this morning from Paris is considered to be in favour of the maintainance of amicable relations be tween England and France, but there has been no effect pro• duced upon the market by it. Consols have reali - sea 9 - 0 1 / 2 % for present transfer, and now are 90 1 4 . to Ij;2. 'nate bargains have been effected at 90 3 / 4 'X i , the present value being 9(0/ 2 %. The New Scrip i s at 1 1 / 2 to 1% premi um. :Bank Stock has been firm at 20:34 ; East India Bonds have fallen to a discount of 25.; and Exchequer-bills are very 'heavy at 2s. to 3s. premium. The Foreign Securities have been depressed, and there is but littledoing in them. Spanish Five per Cents, are 244 ; and the Three per Cents., 31% N. Mexican Stock is at 22. shares are rather quiet, but firm generally. 13111T1811 FUNDS. ONE • CLOSING Bank Stock O'CLOCK. P RIcES. •". •• 05 % • 205% Three per C en t. Reduced Annuities.. •••• 2 91% % 91% 1% Three per C ent . Consols Annuities.. • • 90% % 90 9 % 90% New Three -and- a -Q uarter per Cent. Antis. 'J3% 92% 93% 93 Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 • • 9% Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 97- India Stock _ • • • • • • _ .. 250 16 India Bonds, 1,0 00/. .• •• 2 250 .. die. 2 dim. Ditto, und er 1,000/. •• •• dic 3 P 3 p Consols for A ccount, April 15 .. .• • • 90% % 90% Consols, Scrip • • '' P P Exchequer Bills. • •d. 1 1 4 d. 1,0001... •• • • 23 Pm . 4 p Ti 500itto 1. Small . •• 3 P m ' 3 p , •• •• 2 4 Ditto, Ad vert i sed ...• 3p2 d pm. 4 p is. 2 p ONE CLOSINt• FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Grenada, 1 per Cent .. . 19% 19% Mexican Bonds, 18 4 6, per Cent .. 22 22 Port ibmese Four per Cent 34 Ditto, Sm a ll .• •• •• ••• —• 36% Russian Bonds 109% ex div 109% bpanish Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto, for the Account .. .• 2414 Ditto, Three per Cent .. .• • • 34% Ditto, for th e Account .. .• • • 34%34 Dividends on the above payable in Lundon. Dutch Two-and-a-half per Cent .. Ditto, 4 per C ent . Cert incates 92N )4 92j. PRICES OF BU SINESS CLOSING PAID. DONE A.T „ gums. RAILWAY SHARES. ONE O'CLOCK. Aberdeen.. . 25 24 ••••• • • • • • Amber., Notting., Ilston, and Eastern Junction . .. • • 2% .• • • 2 3 1'i •••• • • • • Wolver., & Stour Valley 5 • • •••• • • • • • Bristol and Fxeter •••• • • 2 „ %75 ..• • 78 Buckinghamshiree Caledonian .• • • • • 28% - •k Ditto, half Shares .. • • 2 ;4 •• • • 2 % %••" • • • • Chester and Ilolyhead .. • • • • Cornwell. . • • • 7% •• • • 33 41 ...... •• • • Esstent Counties . .. 20 .. 21% % Ditto, York Extension .. • • Eastern Union •• • • • • 40 .... 55 .. East Lancashire .. • • • • • • Ditto New .. _ 1 Ditto, ditto Now Scrip •• •• 14 •• • • 2 74 • • East Lincolnshire.. • • • • • • 4 •• • • 7 4 %•••• • • .. Edinburgh and Glasgow .. • • 50 •• • . 79% ....... Edinburgh and Northern .. .. 15 .• ...... Ditto, Newport .. • • . • • • 5 .• • . 4 • • Ely and Huntingdon .. • • • • 12Y 2 .. • . 14 ' • Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester .. 2% • .•• • • Great Northern (London & York • ..... • Regd.) .. • • • • .. 214 3 . Do., do (Dirott Roraima Regd.) 374 ..... Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Queen yesterday. Her Majesty, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, and the Prin cess Ali ce , wa lk e d yesterday in the Gar dens of Buckingham Palace. His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided, yesterday afternoon, at a meeting of the Commissioners for Promoting and Encouraging the Fine Arts, in the rebuilding the Palace of Westminster. His Royal Highness arrived at Gxydyr House, Whitehall, shortly before three o'clock, attended by his Equerry in Waiting, Colonel Bouverie. The Commissioners present were the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord John Russell, Viscount Mahon, Viscount Morpeth, Lord Ashburton, Lord Colborne, the Right Hon. the Speaker, Sir Robert Harry Inglis, Mr. Benjamin Hawes, Mr. Henry Hallam, Mr. G. Vivian, and Mr. T. Wyse. The Secretary, Mr. Eastlake, was in attendance. , I - a a • . 1 L• .