The Sun. — London, England, 1840-05-04 00:00:00

EVEN IN G EDITION. I_ 4 IIENEVOLENT FOXONIAN SOCIETY. Established Nov. 23, 1829, For 'he DISTRIBUTION of BREAD and COALS to the POOR during the WINTER SEASON ; Held at Mr. Hays's, Fox Tavern, Paul-street, Finsbury. The ANNUAL MEETING of the Officers Subscribers, and Freands of the above INSTITUTION, will ' take place the On 1' 13 dARDAT NM, May 7, 1840, at Eight o'clock ni Eve , _z, when a full attendance is earnestly requested. JOHN BEWLEY, Chairman. ------ ) FRESH NEW, FROM NEW ZEALAND. °,,, ',-: EXTitA NUMBER of the NEW ..—A.. ZEALAND JOURNAL will be published on •,rAT Afternoon, the sth instant, with copious Extracts .he Journals of Colonel Wakefield; Dr. Dieffaubach, the - dist; Capt. Chaffus, Commander of the Tory ; just re : bp the New Zealand Company. I ~..ished by LI. Ohambers , 36b, Strand; and may be had . -.. . : Nevmen. i . ci. The Extra Edition will remain on sale all the week, aria .sill Us forwarded to Non-subscribers, on recei p t of 6d. in f a prepaid letter. -- - - THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. - ;DER THE MANAGEMENT OF MADAME VESTRIS, THIS EVENING, MAY 4, Will be tpresented Shakspere's Comedy of THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. John Falstaff, Mr. Bartley ; Master Slender, Mr. C. Ma ' :s ; Ford, Mr. Cooper ; Fenton, Mr. W. Harrison ; Mrs. Mrs. Nisbett ; Mrs. Page, Ipladarne Vestris; Ann Page, • Rainforth, Mfrs. Quickly, Mrs. C. Joncs. lelude with the New Grand Comic, Romantic, Operatic, 3leiodramatic, Fairy Extra - vaganza, in Three Parts, entitled wad founded on that popular Nursery Tale, THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD. The Principal Characters by Mr. Harley, Mr. J. Vining, Mr. J. Bland, Madame Vestris, Miss Rainforth, Mrs. C. Jones, &c. 3:e. Dress Boxes, 7i. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Cir,-les, 59. ; Second Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, 23. ; Gallery. Is. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to eol , naence at Seven o'Clock. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken at the Box-of from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrews bookseller 167, New Bond-street. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. UNDIER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. BUTLER. 'I HE HOUSE OF LADIES having been received with neeuimouse applause by crowded houses, will be repeated (to -1 gc , :tor with " The Ladies' Club") every Evening until the end uf the Season. THIS EVENING, MAYr4, Will be presented, THE LADIES' CLUB. Fitzsmyth (the Chairwoman), Mrs. Stirling. To be followed by THE HOUSE OF LADIES. Mrs. Fitzsmyth (Member for Chatterton)—Mrs. Stirling. I Mortou (Member for Srnallburough)—Miss Atkinson. Mrs. Rookby (Member for Edmondsbury—Miss Treble. Mrs. Derby (Member for Melton)—Miss Fitzwalter. lies. O'Donnell (Member fer Donnybrook)—Miss Ayres. s. Bustle (Secretary for the Fashionable Department)— Miss Stephens. Mrs. Twankay (Speakerl—Mrs. Garrick. Pansy, Miss Beachamp. Time, Mr. Edmonds. After which, A ROYAL COMMISSION FROM PARIS. Monsieur Jollivet, Mr. F. Vining; Alexis Kerbout, Mr. ! Baker ; Madame Jollivet, Miss Fitzwalter ; Causette, Miss Ayres. To eonslude with the New and Original Drama (by the author of " The Ladies' Club"), called GWYNNETH VAUGHAN. Gwynneth Vaughan, Mrs. Stirling ; 1 , Owen William s , M r . B a k er ; Evan Pritchard, Mr. Holl; Hugh -Morgan, Mr. G. Wild. Boxes, 41. Pit, 2s. Gallery, Is. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. .. ... —.... - Increasing popularity and immense success of Haine's New I Village Tragedy, " The Life of a Woman," in which the I realization of Hogarth's celebrated " Harlot's Progress," i nightly elicits the approbation of crowded audiences ; roars i of laughter at " The Wet Nurse." and universal admiration et.' the magnificent scenery and effects in " The Venetian." I THIS EVENING, MAY 4, Will be acted the New Village Tragedy, entitled THE LIFE OF A WOMAN; OR, THE CURATE'S DAUGHTER. After which, a New Comic Drama, called THE WET NURSE. To aanclude with an entirely New Romance, entitled THE VENETIAN ; OR, THE COUNCIL OF TEN. I The Seenery comprising some of the most splendid Views in Venice. The two last pieces must be withdrawn after this week, for entirely new Tragic Play, in which Mr. Elton will perform. THE STRAND THEATRE CLOSES IMMEDIATELY, Mr. J. H. ANDERSON (the GREAT WIZARD of the NORTH) begs to inform the Nobility and Gentry of the 2%!etropolis, that in consequence of a sudden arrangement hav ing been made for opening the Strand Theatre for its Theatrical Season, he is prematurely eomPelled to close his SEASON of WONDER. Ho is fully aware, from the crowded state of the Theatre 'nightly, when his close is thus suddenly announced, that the ihestre will be incap a bl e o f con t a i n i ng th e num b er th a t w ill visit him during the few nights he will have the pleasure of per forming in the Strand Theatre ; he has, at the particular requent of a number of Fashionable Parties, consented to give THREE Grand Fashionable MORNING PERFORMANCES, on ZifOXIDAT 4th, WIDNISDAY 6th, and FRIDAY ' Bth May, 1840, whoa he will di s pl a y a ll hi s P ec uliar and E x t raor di nar y Wo n - I \ diva of Ancient and Modern Necromancy, introducing new and splendid Feats a la Megique. GRAND MORNING PERFORMANCES. Doers epee at One o'clock. Performances commence at Two. Carriages in attendance at Four. Boxes 35.; Pit 2s. Juveniles under 10, Half-price. rox.ofilce open from Eleven till Four, where places can be 3 esared. Private Boxes to b• had at all the Agents in London. EVENING ENTERTAINMENT AS USUAL. Niel" WATER AT LONDON B7:11143E TO-M•111•W. a1arning......31 minutes after 4 I Evening 75 minutes after 4. be Pablication of the Evening Edition of Tn Sex oom nonoed at 19 init.ates after Throe. ' LONDON: MONDAY, MAY 4, 1840. We copy the following from the Western Atlas, a • newspaper published at St. Louis, on the Mis in the belief that it will not be found un t:resting to our readers : ; Ctako.—A gentleman of this city, who has been detained a week or two past by ice at the mouth of the Ohio, has . given us some intelligence with regard to the operations at Cairo, which may possess some interest with our readers. it is admitted, on all hands, that the point of land at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi, is one of the most la.:curable situations in the western country for the este ! blisiwnent of a large city, provided the ground can be se- erred from overflow. It is open to the ocean at all seasons • r year, and provision - atscl lumber' must always be tte facilitY Or communication with the upper cc.'ntrY• The, operations of the Cairo Company, within last year or two, have been very extensive. They have fft;,- or sixty bands employed in constructing a level, which , it is supposed, be completed the present season, suffi etent tti protect the town from the floods of the Ohio. The Cr:mpsni nave an hotel 17.5 feet in length, two stories high, ••!. Contaihi443 rooms, with galleries and piazzas on the f 0..;! si,les of the building. The house is elegantly furnished, ar.:; kept in the best order in every respect. It is kept by Wade, formerly of thin city. The Company have a block of six buildings, which are occupied as stores A ci '..trious kinds, by the agent of the Company, the Post •e, the Offices of Justice, Law, Medicine, itc. Two of stores rent for 300 dollars per annum. There are two i '.. - - , -mills, one of which has been in operation about a year. I - 111, second with four saws, is nearly completed. They have I, a panting mill, 120 feet long by 30 in width. Pine lumber j of the best quality and in great abundance is obtained from ei l th., Tecnt.ssce. The foundry and finishing shop for building , tiam engines is of bEick, two storks high, and 150 feet atluare. A dry d oc k f or repairing steamboats will be corn- I i - ,, ted in May next. I n addition to those above m i'.:netl, there are f rom two to three hundred buildings, e4;)ins, shanties, f or t h e workmen employed in vario'u's bz . :mehes of bu..ir,e!s, who number at least 200. About 40 'll.lt boats and a number of steamboats were at the landin g Bad from three to six steamboats are f requently in sight ' p u , s ing up or down the rivers. About six miles from the - i Fint, the land bocomes elevated and is heavily timbered. I? the Company succeed in protecting their i , roperty from the Lodi of the rivers—if the brisk breezes which 1 ?, , zierally prevail at the point, arc sufficient to drive away 1 tke miasma of the lowlands awl th.! mosquitoes at the same time, they may yet realize their fondest anticipations, and '..,alsold a city rise into importance with a rapidity unparal , lcl , d in the west. The testimony thus borne to the rapid and sub t stantial progress of the future Grand Cairo of the t West, is the less questionable as it Froceeds from a sort of rival ; and we learn from other sources that 1 the qualifying i‘ ifs " with which the concluding paragraph is seasoned, have been already decided in favour of the Com,pany. It is .stated that the flood of last winter was one of the greatest on record, and ( •".it not only were the levels already complete found •.,; be an effectual bariicr, but that the water rose and .-Absided without making the slightest impression :n the worlit. The embankments are carried severa .et beyond the level of the highest fl oo d k nown, i aLd in a short time Cairo will be as secure against t he periodical inroads of the river as New Orleans biyelf. As for miasma and mos.quitoes, experience, w e ar told, has shown that the place, even in its pre ; se i i nt state, is far more healthy and habitable than many of the most populous towns on the river ; and graining and cultivation, aided by the brisk cur . 055ejegimming00mAir„,„„„„,,,,,„„,,,,„,,,,,,,,N,,,„„,,,„,,,,,,,,,,,....., rents of air which two such vast bodies of running water necessarily create, bid fair to raise it at no long time hence beyond the average of salubrity. Cairo is situated on the alluvial delta, formed by the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio, and at the extreme southern point of the State of Illinois. From New Orleans to this point the United River is navigable at all times for vessels of any burden, and already no less than 300 steamers ply continually between those limits. Beyond, the navigation is occasionally obstructed by ice, fresher or other impediments, and there are consequently frequent detentions at this spot, as well as tranship ments into lighter craft more adapted to the shal lower waters of the upper rivers. Nature and cir- ' cumstances seem therefore to have combined in marking out the site of this rising city:for a great river-port and an entrepot for the trade between the Central and Northern Provinces of the United States and the Gulph of Mexico. Nor is this all : for Cairo is also the southern terminus of the railroad running through the whole length of Illinois. This railway again is connected with the great canal, which has its terminus at Chicago, on Lake Michigan ; and thus an un broken chain of communication will be established from Canada to New Orleans. On these two im portant works, which are already far advanced, the State of Illinois, confessedly the most thriving State in the Union, is now wisely concentrating its efforts ; and it is unnecessary to point out how great will be the benefit resulting from them, when complete, not only to the United States, but to our own possessions in North America, which will thus obtain access into the heart of the Continent, and even find an outlet in the Gulph of Mexico. We publish these facts at the request, and on the authority of a Correspondent ; and we do so the more readily, because we know that a portion of the funds required by the Cairo Company, for carrying on their works, has been raised in England, and because it has been of late too much the fashion to decry indiscriminately all investments made by the capitalists of this country in aid of public enterprises in the United States. That there has been much improvident outlay, and over-san guine calculation of profits, it is impossible to dis pute ; and we in common with all sincere well wishers of our Transatlantic brethren, desire to see the spirit of speculation reduced within more prudent bounds. But we cannot discover the jus tice or the policy of therefore disparaging all Ame rican securities as worthless, or at best doubtful ; and thus diverting surplus capital from channels of useful and profitable employment. Operations based on reasonable data, undertaken because the want exists, and is felt, ought not to be confounded with the schemes of sanguine speculators, over running the real demands of the community, and depending for success on an imaginary future. A port at the confluence of the two rivers was wanted, and the present enterprise, therefore, if conducted with reasonable prudence, cannot fail to be suc cessful. Indeed, the credit of the Company al ready stands high both in the United States and in England ; and the opinion seems to be fast gaining ground in America, that Cairo is destined to be, not only a great city, but at some future day the metropolis of the West. We copy from the Carlisle Patriot, a Pro-Corn law journal, a somewhat curious statement con cerning the high price of cattle in 1840. We rea dily adopt, as perfectly correct, the assertion that the price of cattle in Cumberland is now higher than it has been since the spring of 1825, but we are constrained to assert that many cf the assigned causes for this rise of price seem to us little likely to have the effect ascribed to them. In general, it may be said of them, such as the conveyance of cattle by steam from the Highlands of Scotland to London, that their effect must have been to supply the markets, which used to be supplied through and by Cumberland, with cattle at a less cost, to diminish, pro tan?o, the demand on Cumberland, and so ' lower rather than raise the price of cattle there. We, however, are less solicitous to trace the causes of this high price than to record the fact, because it is a general practice in estimating the amount which the bread tax levies on the people to consider only the amount of wheat con sumed, whereas all the products of the soil ought to be included ; and the rise in the price of cattle is an index to the sum which that tax levies on the consumers for other things as well as for wheat. It is also an index to the present gains of the breeders and fatteners of cattle, and to the increased rents which they will be willing accordingly to levy on the people, and pay to those who make laws to tax our bread. At the close of the article it is properly observed that this high price of cattle is coincident with great distress amongst the working classes, who now command only a very small portion of animal food ; and the writer is anxious to know where a supply can be obtained when the now-stinted arti zans receive better wages, and population shall again go rapidly ahead. He does not see, appa rently, in this statement, what a terrible blow h e gives the Pro-Corn-law theories of the Carlisle .Journal ; for he shows, without at all meaning to do so, that it is not merely corn, but also meat, which the country cannot supply for our increasing population, and that the laying land down in grass —which the Corn-law advocates deprecate as a terrible evil, is really reluired to provide the neces sary quantity of meat for our people. The writer shows, too, by the high price and want of cattle, that au adequate remuneration would be obtained for turning arable land into pasture, and that the dreaded evil of land going out of cultivation, only means a change from one species of cultivation tc another. We should be sorry to put our half-in formed suppositions into competition with the ac curate knowledge of a writer on the spot, but had we not seen the reasoning of the writer, and been aware of the facts, we should have attributed the " thinning of the stocks of cattle" to the extended cultivation of bread corn caused by its increasing price, and we should unhesitatingly have ascribed the rise in the price of cattle to the rise in the price of wheat, which made men cultivate the latter in preference till the customary relation of price be tween corn and cattle was restored. In short, we should have traced the high price of cattle in Cum berland wholly to the Corn-laws, which, like a deadly blight, enhance the price of all the products of the land. Some time ago a Correspondent of the Standard, backed by the Editor of th at j ournal, attacked Th; Sun, for being overwilling to attribute the faults of Dr. LA RDNER to the Church, by describing him as .‘ the Reverend," which, in fact, he is. Now, if we were animated by any very furious hostility to the Church, further than regarding it as a political insti tution which has completely and totally failed to answer the end proposed, and, now claiming a holi ness and sanctity which do not belong to it, pre sumptuously thrusting itself forward as a barrier to all political improvement, we should have seized hold with eagerness of the case of bribery at Cam bridge, we should' have pointed jeeringly to the grandson of an Archbishop, and the son of a Tory SpEaker, deprived of his seat for bribery, carried on amongst the High Church party at Cambridge, and under the influence and countenance of members of that celebrated University. But we have taken no A- 1 r>, ,4„0If ,;(1/. l k. _ 0 ' t - ' l 4 'IV 4 1 , e - • r.:,ln ,74111. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 4, 1840. notice of the subject, till the weekly press and the - provincial press, by their remarks, in the above sense, have warned us that we have neglected cur duty, by not pointing out, in the prostitution of Cambridge, an additional proof of the influence which the Church exercises over the morals of those who are most imbued with her principles. Where can we expect to find the influence of those principles so strong as in the neighbourhood of a College, the abode of the fathers of the Church, and the instructors of the priesthood ? We be lieve that influence is perceptible in gross cor ruption and bribery, carried on to seat Mr. SUTTON, because the practice of the whole body of the clergy continually teaches the people to dis regard honesty, to set at nought the principles of the Gospel, in order to obtain wealth and power. As the whole Church is corrupt, so are the electors of Cambridge under its influence. Cause and effect were never more distinctly connected or more beauti fully illustrated, and the gloss corruption amongst the electors of the High Church party at Cambridge is precisely what we should have anticipated from the influence of the priesthood. There is another aspect under which the Report of the Cambridge Committee may be viewed. The higher the situation and dignity of those who com mit offences, the more pernicious is the influence of their example in the community. Of the Hon. Mr. SUTTON the Norwich Mercury remarks : A new exposure of those infamous practices we have so often denounced, has just taken place in the Cambridge Committee, which has unseated the " Honourable Mem. bet," the Hon. John Henry Thomas Manners Sutton, son of Lord Canterbury, who rose to that title through the Speakership. Here is another and a flagrant instance of the sons of men most dignified by their country's honours and their own deserts—here is another instance of the sons of such men, implicated, nay convicted of the constitutional crime of corrupting the fountain of public morals at its very source, by bribery. But the Hon. Mr. SUTTON, who was turned out of his seat for treating and bribery, was by the Committee anxiously exonerated from all blame. The conduct, therefore, of this exalted gentleman, sanctioned, almost praised by the Committee, is placed on record as an encouragement for others to try the same sort of bribery and treating at Cam bridge, taking care to avoid the fixing of agency on the dirty tools (and the dirtier they are the better) who are employed to do the dirty work. Undoubt edly, as the example of Ludlow, Cambridge, and other small boroughs, denote, corruption has got to a fearful height ; but as corruption sup poses a corruptor, the gentlemen who fill this honourable office at various places, must be each of them a concentration of all the corruption they cause. They who buy the votes of the constituents to sell them for a party purpose —who are under no temptation from poverty, are much more guilty, though the House of Commons shields them, than the poor, ignorant, and deluded voters whom they corrupt. For the gentlemen of England, however, this is a most dangerous course. Such corruption must weaken and destroy the authority of Parliament. It will equally make the electors and the elected despised. It vitiates legis lation at its source. But it is by the authority of Parliament that the so-called National Church exists, that much of the property of the aristocracy exists (Mr. SUTTON'S father's pension, for ex ample, and the sinecure connected with the Eccle siastical Courts which is in his farmly)—that the Army is kept up, the throne maintained, and the taxes levied—and, consequently, to destroy that authority by corrupting the electors, and so making the Parliament despised and contemptible, is to overthrow the power and property of the aristocracy. If the Church and its followers—if the Hon. Mr. SUTTON and his friends, care nothing on principle for the honesty of the electors, good policy requires that they should not corrupt them, and so strike at the root of the authority of Parliament. The practice of annoying respectable publicans by the intrusion of police constables into their houses, under the direction of the Police Commis sioners, at twelve o'clock on Saturday night is again revived. One of the grossest instances of this kind was brought before the sitting Magistrate at Bow-street, on Saturday. An inspector of the name of 'MuscutAvE, informed against a publican who had kept a house in the parish of Covent Garden for forty years, and stated that the house was open after twelve on Saturday, the 25th of April. The publican admitted the fact ; and, at the same time, said that he had turned every one out at the hour prescribed by the Police Commis sioners, and that he had opened his door solely to afford refreshment for a few minutes to the mu sicians of Covent Garden Theatre, who could not possibly come before the theatre was closed. No one could deny that the house was properly conducted, that the statement was consistent with fact, that there was no noise, and that the publi can, and those who applied for refreshment, were highly respectable, yet the Magistrate, Mr. JARDINE, with great reluctance, was obliged to inflict a nominal penalty. He signifi cantly added " that there might be hardship in the case, but it was his duty to administer the law," and added something more, for which we refer our readers to our police report. We are now convinced that the Police Commissioners are chiefly to blame for the annoyance which the public have suffered by the New Police Act. They summon publicans before Magistrates for offences which all the Magistrates now decide are, at the utmost, nominal offences ; they shut up thoroughfares on Sundays without any legal authority; they, in fact, are taking steps to establish a system of military control over the innocent amusements and daily occupations of a free people, which, if not checked by the Govern ment, will make this police force detested by every Englishman. The effect which these proceedings will have on the next elections for the metropolitan boroughs will not be for the benefit of the Govern ment, or the present representatvies. In a letter from Constantinople of the Bth ult., published in a German paper just received, we find the following paragraph : . - - - A serous difference between the Turkish Ministers threatens new difficulties. While Chosrew Pacha is de cidedly in favour of the intervention of the European Powers, the others would negotiate directly with the Viceroy without Foreign intervention ; and Redschid, fatigued with the exertions that he has lately made, hesi tates between both parties, and threatens to resign. This will doubtless lead to important consequences. Either an attempt will be made to come to an agreem en t w i t h t h e Viceroy, or to ascertain the ground of this sudden change in the opinions of the greater part of the Divan. In the last case, there will be probably many persons dismissed or banished ; for every body sees that something extraordinary must have occurred. In the Brussels Papers received this morning we find the following intelligence relative to the Belgian army, which may interest our military readers : BRessELs, MAI 2.—A Royal decree of the Ist of Ja nuary last reduced the pay of Colonels of the army to 6,300 francs, of Majors to 4,500, of Captains to 2,500; and another recent decree revokes this reduction from the officers above-mentioned, and raises their pay to 7,100, 4,600, and 2,800 francs. No augmentation has been made of the pay of Lieutenants and Sub-Lieutenants, who, how ever, are the greatest sufferers by the reduction of their pay. A Ministerial regulation of the 16th of April reduced the battalions of infantry to 300 men under arms. All the rest are sent home on furloughs. This measure, re solved on by General Willmer two days before be left his office, leaves only the conscripts of 1838 under arms, who were called out on the Ist of March. This class is like wise the only one that remains in active service in the Dutch army. Thus an import an t s av i n g will be made in the War u partment. Other retrenchments will be made in the cavalry, the hospital service, &c. The Paris Journals of Friday and Saturday, the whole of which have been received, contain very little news of interest. In the Moniteur of Friday, the following telegraphic despatch appears, which confirms the tiew3 published in the London Jour nals of Wednesday last : " Government has received a telegraphic despatch, dated Naples, April 26th, announcing that the King of Naples had accepted the mediation of France. The cm b ergo laid by the King on English vessels had prevented Mr. Temple from ordering the immediate suspension of hostilities. It is announced that several Sicilian vessels had been already captured." The KING'S birth-day was celebrated on Friday with extraordinary pomp. The diplomatic body, the Chambers of Peers and Deputies, the Muni cipality of Paris, and the Presidents of numerous Institutions, presented congratulatory addresses to his MAJESTY. These addresses were more cordial than usual, and in all the KING was congratulated on the marriage of the Duke DE NEMOURS with a Princess so worthy of the love and admira tion of France. We pass over the bulk of these addresses, and the answers to then, as our readers will find the spirit of them all in the following ex tract from the address of the Chamber of Deputies, presented by the President, M. SAUZET, with his MAJESTY'S answer thereto : 44 SIRR, " This day is a day of both joy and hope for all. Your Majesty has another daughter worthy as her whom the Prince Royal had previously given you. Both are dear to the country, because they bring happiness into the bosom of the Royal family, whose virtues are the pride of France and the admiration of Europe. Both, Sire, have had their first steps on the soil of France bailed by acts of your in exhaustible clemency." After some observations complimentary to the Royal Duke's readiness to share the labours and dangers of the army, M. SAUZET added— " France, Sire, ardently wishes for peace, so dear to all the world. She is anxious for it in order that she might give full force to all her powers, and activity and intelli gence. She wishes for it that she may render productive that tendency to civilization which excites animation with out creating disturbance, and enriches a country without enervating it. But while it abandons with confidence the direction of these pacific labours to the wisdom of the King and the Chambers, France also turns her eyes towards her children, who are fighting for her, and repeats to herself with pride that none of her energies have become dormant, and that time has not disinherited her of any of her an cient glory." The KING answered— " I am much affected by the sentiments which you have expressed to me in the name of the Chamber of Deputies. It is grateful to me to find the zeal of my children in the service of their country appreciated as it is by you. Ani. mated with the purest and most interested devotion, they will at all times be ready to shed their blood for France, and fight in the ranks of her brave army, in support of the honour of our flag, and for the maintenance of our institutions—the guarantees of both order and li berty. You know that such is the constant object of my endeavours, and that my whole life is devoted to secure to France the enjoyment of that calm security of which your President has given so satisfactory a pic ture. lam happy in being able to put the seal of ob livion on the past by a new aet of clemency. May it ex tinguish old animosities, and calm those passions which are perhaps the only danger we have now to fear. It is a genuine source of happiness to me to have been able to efface the last traces of those days of grief, which I hope will never more re-appear on the soil of the country. This has long been the wish of my heart, and I thank you for participating in it. I take a pleasure in repeating that, having no other object of ambition than the happiness of France, no sacrifice, no act of devotion for her shall ever be wanting on my part." Loud cries of " The le Roi !" followed his Majesty's reply. The attendance of Deputies was very numerous. No disturbance of any kind interrupted for an in stant the tranquillity of the capital. The Duchess of ORLEANS has been ill of the measles, caught from her son, tHe Infant Count de PARIS. Her Royal Highness is recovering, and it was rumoured that on her restoration to health she would publicly renounce the Protestant for the Catholic religion. Five of the nine Bureaux of the Chamber of De puties to whom M. REMILLY'S motion for exclu ding public functionaries from the Chamber was referred, had on Saturday declared in favour of it. This will create a great stir among the placemen on both sides of the channel. The following extracts are from the papers : The Courrier du Bas Rhin mentions that a report was in circulation at Strasburg, that the Prince of the Asturias, son of Don Carlos, who had been closely watched for some time by the police of our city, had been arrested on his ar rival at Strasburg. We know positively that a young Spaniard arrived last Saturday at one of our principal hotels, and that the police considered it their duty to keep him prisoner at the hotel. It is stated that a telegraphic despatch communicated orders to have him sent under an escort to Paris. On Monday afternoon this young man was put into the mail to Paris, and left our city attended by a Gendarme." The Sentinellc des Pyrenees, of the 28th of April, had announced a renewal of hostilities by the Carlists in Navarre. The Phare des Pyrenees, in a second edition of the 29th, has the following article " The Liberal Guipuzcoan says, that on the 25th, in the morning, the Commandant-general went with his staff to Tolosa, where reports were soon circulated of a rising already commenced, or on the eve of taking place. This journal confirms the news of the imprisonment of Garro, and adds, that it is probable that officer would soon he shot. Lastly, it says, on the credit of a confiden tial account, that 14 armed individuals had attacked the receiver of the provincial duties, on the line from Irun to Navarre, plundered him of all he possessed, and ill-treated him, with horrible threats if he continued to exercise his functions. P. S.—We just learn officially that Garro was shot on the 27th. The Commandant has published, on this occa sion, an order of the day. TOULON, APRIL 28.—The Volage brig, and the Etna steamer have put to sea. It is said that the Volage is gone to ascertain the presence of an English frigate, which the guard stationed on the coast think they have seen cruising between Toulon and Marseilles, doubtless with the intention of capturing Neapolitan ships. The Etna is supposed to be gone to Naples with a telegraphic despatch. The Ocean is still in the roads ready to sail. —Le Commerce. TOULON, APRIL 27.—The Grondeur steamer cast anchor to-day in the roads. This vessel left Algiers in the night of the 24th. The news was generally spread that the Marshal-Governor had captured a large herd of cattle, and then taken his revenge on the tribes which lately carried off the cattle near the Maison Carree. Mi litary operations have commenced. —Le Constitutionnel. BOURSE.—PAMS, SATuRDAT MAY 2. , . first Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price. Price French 3 per Cents ll3 95 ... 114 15 ... 113 90 ... li3 90 4% per Cents IOS 50 ... 108 50 ... 108 50 ... 108 50 4 per Cents.— 3 per Cents 54 40 _. 84 50 ... 81 15 ... 84 15 Bank of France 3350 —.3350 ...3350 _3350 Latfitte Bank I,ooof. SM lO9O _lOOO ...1190 _1 90 5,000 f. SO 5200 —KM ...5200 —5200 Belgian Bank 9 ,0 ... 907 50 ... 903 ... 907 50 5 per Cents New York Spanish Active 2 9 5., ... '29%....... 29y4 ... 297.,. ,' Passive 7% ... 7 % ••• 7 % — 7% Neapolitan Roman lO5 ... 105 ... 104% ... 105 RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain Versailles, R. 13 6CO ... 605 ... 600 ... 605 L. 13 390 ... 391 25 ... 390 300 Orleans . 5lO ... 515 ... 510 ... 513 75 Strasburg to Bale 415 ... 425 ... 415 422 50 Niulhausen to Thann 485 ... 485 ... 485 ... 485 Madrid papers of the 25th ult. publish a Roya decree, appointing Count DE CLONARD Minister] of War. News received from Aragon, of the 29th ult., states that General Van HALEY had obtained a complete victory over 21 Carlist battalions. In the engagement one of the Christino commanders, General A SPIROZ, was killed. Van lIA LEN'S victories are inexhaustible. It was only on Friday last that we announced, on the authority of the French journals, that the Aragonese rebels were all defeated, and that, beyond the walls of Morella and Cantavieja, there were not twenty-one Carlist bat talions in all Spain. But it is time that we should cease to be s ur p r i se d a t an y intelligence from the Peninsula. The Cortes were sitting on the 25th, talking about Municipal Reform, but doing nothing. On the bourse a good deal of business was done. The five per Cents. active were iu demand at 2 9 fo cash. TRAFALGA R SQUARE,—Great alterations are about to be made in this square under the direction of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests. This morning a number of workmen commenced the operations by taking down the wood-work around the site intended for Nelson's pillar ; and by removing the fence on the south side of the square, for the purpose of extending it about 80 or 90 feet into the open space ; about half way between the square and the equestrian statue. The present foot pavement will be stopped, and another formed in a curved line from ;Morley's Hotel, towards Cockspu r - s t reet. T h i s part o f t h e pl a n appears ob jectionable, as it must narrow the carriage way so much in front of Northumberland House. No preparations are vet made for laying the founda tion -stone of the pillar, but it is said the work will be commenced forthwith. We 'nave heard that still further alterations arc intended in the square, and that it is to b e l evelled all round the p i l l ar, an d on the north side about h a lf way from the site o f t h e pillar to the road, le av i ng Gallery. F our large granite bloc k s, a b ou t four feet a high t errace i n front of the National high, arc prepared, and will be placed at certain dis tances in the curved lin on the south side. Sir Ale xan d er Grant, ex-Chairman of Com mittees in the House o f C ommons, is mentione d as the Tory can didate for C am b r i dge when the H ouse of Commons allows a writ t o b e i ssued. MR. FIIZIVILLIAM'S BENEFIT. --This performer, so well known for the humour and spirit with which he sings a comic air, take his benefit this evening at the Haymarket Power will represent the Irish Ambassa dor, and Fitzwilliarn will exhibit his talents in the con cluding piece, which has the euphonious title of llubbs, Dobbs, and Stubbs. THE MARKETS—(THIS nAt.) CORN EXCHANGE. Last week's arrivals of English grain were moderate, but of Foreign Wheat and Barley considerable. The fresh supplies were moderate. The finest parcels of English Wheat wore taken off at rather higher prices ; other qualities sold slowl y at former rates. t. or Barley little demand, and again Is. per quarter cheaper. Beans and Peas Is. per quarter dearer. Good Oats being scarce advanced Is. per quarter. Flour dull sale. The duty on Foreign Wheat will probably rise again on Thurs. day to 16s. Bd. per quarter. PRICES ON B(, Wheat, Red (old) ----White (old) —s. —s. —Red 1839) 565. Gls. - Fine PGs. fiSs. Superfine ;Os. 725. -- White (1839) 625. ------- Fine 68s. '74s. --Superfine — Gs. '785 —Foreign free (302. 60s. Ryt• 465. 40s. Barley 303 386 • Grinding 30s 345. Malting 38s. 435. Malt sfis. fiss. Fine New (ids. 725. Pease, Grey, New 965. 335. -- Maple New . 42s. -- White 38s. 40s. --- Boilers 40s. 425. ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LC Wheat. R English Irish ....... reign A RD OF SFIT Beans, Small knew) 449.48 s (old) Tick (new) 37s 40.. (old) 425.44s Harrow (new) 405.42 s -------- (old) 44%46g, Brank Oats, Feed —s.—s. New 0 4 , 2Bs Poland —s New ' 7 ,29 Potatoe 30 335. No w 30'.33 5. - Scotch :30..325. Irish 225. ... .27t . Flour Town (per sack).— 593.6 . 2+. Seconds 54%56s North Country 50s 32 Bran lO .11 • INDON DURING LAST WEEK (Ml,. r r. ,2111 qrs. 5,310 qrs. 7,922 snit, 308 8,t,8 t ,263 1,0.0 3,233 rls. SMITHFIELD. A brisk trade in general, at the currency of last market day. The salesmen, as on Friday last, sheered a disposition to pur chase to some extent. The inferior descriptions of Beef and Mutton were about 2s. lower, but other sorts unaltered. Veal steady, but Lamb and Pork declined 4d. per stone, for the in ferior, and 2d. for the finer kinds. Price per stone, Sibs., sinking the offal :—Beef, 3s. 4d. to 4s. 4d. ; Veal, ss. to ss. Bd. ; Mutton, 3s. 10d. to 4s. Bd. and ss. ; Lamb, 6s. Bd. to 7s. 2d. ; Pork 4s. to 58. 2d. Head of Cattle at Market— Beasts, 2,167 ; Sheep and Lambs, 20,010 Pigs, 545 ; Calves, 96. BILLINGSGATE MARKET. Supplies good, and so was the demand. Prices steady.— Turbot, ss. 6d. to 18s. ; Cod, 2s. 6d. to Bs. ; Soles, 6d. to 3s. 6d. per pair; Lobsters, Is. to 4s. ; Salmon, 2s. to 2s. 6d. Whitings, 3d. to 6d. ; Haddocks, 4d. to Bd. ; and Mackerel, 4d. to Bd. BERMONDSEY WATER-SIDE POTATO MARKET. The market heavy, and prices on the decline. The supply abundant and the quality fair. Kent, 525. to 545. ; Wis beach, 50s. to 555. ; Scotch Red, 525. to 555. ; York Red, 575. to 61s. HOP MARKET. No change in the value of any kind of Hops, and the mar ket dull; the little business done being confined to the best colory dessriptious. SEED MARKET. The season being now nearly over, and nothing doing worth notice in any description, the prices are merely nominal. TALLOW: MARKET. The market very still, the season being about over. The nearest quotation for P. Y. C. was 50s. The Stock was 16,200. COLONIAL MARKET. Nothing done either by public sale or private contract. The business advertised for the week is not heavy by any means. Imports continue light. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY. DEAL, MAY 2.—Wind N.E.—Sailed the Spartan, Butchard, for Sydney ; Dovecote, Bull, Port Philip ; Treasurer, Hutchings, Bermuda; Saniton, Sturges, New York ; Roxburgh Castle, Boucheer, Madras ; Catherine Baland, Wylie, Cape Coast Castle. LIVERPOOL, MAY. 3. —Wind S. S. E.—Arrived the Alliance, Paley, from Mobile; Atherspool, Scales, Cal cutta ; Thomas Battersby, Bahia ; Sarah Sheafe, Grey, Charleston; Janette, Collyer, Mobile. Sailed the Ann Baldwin, Hay, Lima ; Roman, Hopner, and Cherokee, Simmonds, Havannah ; Margaret, Appleby, Halifax ; Vir ginian, Harris ;jAlhambra, Davies ; Franconier, Brad. tree; and Tammend, Borland, New York; St. Andrew, Storer, New Orleans ; British American, Pritchard, St. John's, New Brunswick; Osprey, Donkin, Newfound land; Superb, Gatchell, Charleston; Jessie, M'Lellan, Quebec; Sir H. Parnell, Airtb, St. Thomas; John Brooks, Smith, La Guayra ; Carina, Heyden, Calcutta; Zephyr, Powell, Africa. Off port, the John Marshall, from Virginia ; Thomas Mellor, Paraiba. PLYMOUTH, MAY 3. —Wind E.N.E.—Off port, the Jeune.Bertrand, from Guadaloupe. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, SATURDAY.—The sales of this day aro 3,800 bales at yesterday's prices. We have a late delivery of letters and papers from the Post-office, it being double post day. Arrivals this morning.—Two French Mails, two Ostend, one Dutch, and ship letters from Madeira. We have received the Hamburgh Papers by the mail of Ist May, which brings the exchange on London 13 4, half schelling lower than the last arrival. Gold 429 ; no alteration. We have receive Port Philip Gazettes to the 213 o November. SOUTH AUSTRALIAN NEws.—A numerous and respect able meeting of gentlemen and others interested in agricultural pursuits, was held on Monday evening at the Court-house, for the purpose of forming an Agricultural Association. By the Abeona we have letters to a recent date from Port Lincoln. The settlement was progressing satisfac torily, and every one was delighted with the place and the country round. We are authorised to state that Mr. Marshall, the emi gration agent, has advised his agents in this colony, that before March next ho will have sent to Sydney, via Port Philip, eight ships of every description of emigrants. VAN DIEMEN'S LAND. —We understand that the de clared value of the exports from this port, during last quarter, was double that of the corresponding quarter of last year, or nearly 90,0001. It may be presumed that this, in a great measure, is to be ascribed to the difference of the value of colonial produce. Accounts from South Australia state that the Murray River natives have lately been committing depredations on the sheep. A private letter from Port Philip states that the natives had been spearing the cattle, and loud complaints were made of the want of protection afforded to the settlers in the interior. By the last arrivals from Sydney we had as late dates from Port Philip as we received this morning, conse quently they do not bring any news of consequence. THE FUNDS. By the late delivery of the letters this morning from the post-office, we anticipated numerous arrivalg, in which we have been deceived, for there are very few for a double post day, and those are of little importance. Up to the present time there is not a feature worth at tention in the British market. Consols opened this morning at the leaving off price of Saturday, 9014 for Money ; and 904 91 for the Account; Eichequerißills, 25 27 premium ; India Bonds 4 6 pre mium ; Bank Stock, 1755 ; India Stock 2495 2504. In the Foreign market Spanish Active is a shade lower than they left off OR Saturday, owing to the accounts of disturbances in the Basque provinces. Deferred, 145 4 ; Passive 71 4 ; Portuguese, 351 36; Three per Cents., 241 25 ; Colombian, 265 ; Mexican, 284 9 ; Brazili an , 754 76 ; Dutch Two-and-a-alt per Cents., 534 54 ; Five per Cents. 10041. The mama in the Share Market still continues. The following are the favourite speculations : Brighton, 6 discount ; Blackwell, 2 premium; South Eastern, 51. per share. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per share Bil mingham and Gloucester Railway Company 80 70% Ea%tern Counties Railway 2l 11 ji tlreat Western Railway Company 65 LB9 Ditto New Gosport Junction 25 29 Brighton Railway London and Blackwall Railway 2O "22 I% A, London and South Western ... London and Croydon Railway Company l4/. 18s. 6d. 11%4 Ditto Scrip. 9 114 , anchester and Leeds Railway Company 6O 82% Manchester and Birmingham Railway ....... Northern and Eastern Railway Company N,,rth Midland Railway Company 100 107 8 South Eastern and Dover Railway Company lB h 4 54 5 Provincial Bank of Ireland 25 44% HALF-PAST ONE. A report prevails that intelligence has been received by Government from Ch i na, that two Indiamen, the Thomas Coutts and Royal Saxon, had been burnt by the Chinese, and the crews murdered. To the present hour we cannot trace the above report to any source to be depended upon. We have seen Sydney papers to the 22d December, containing dates from Port Philip of the 23d of November. They do not contain any news of consequence. Consols have somewhat improved since the early part o the morning, and may be quoted at present 91 i i for the Account, Money 91 ; Exchequer Bills 25-27 prom, ; India Bonds lower, 6-4 prem. ; Bank Stack nothing done; India Stock 250. . _ In the Foreign Market Spanish Active has also rather improved, 29 to k; Passive, 71; Portuguese, 35i firm ; Colombian 26, 1 ; Mexican 281 ; Brazilian no thing done; Dutch Two-and•a-Half per Cents. 53i; Five per Cents. nothing done. Railway Shares :—Shares are still improving, Brighton 51 discount; Blackwall li i prem. ; Great Western, 52 to 53. CLOSING PRICES. BIIITISII FUNDS Rank Stock 175 India Stack 250 3 per Cent. Red 3 per Cent Cr its 01 Ditto Old Annuities 87% 3 per Cent. Red 08% Ditto New Annuities New 3X, per Cent 09% Ex. Bills, 1,00(1 2d `,7 pm New 5 per Cent Ditto 50 0 / ‘ ). 7 inn Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small •27 pm Jan. MI 0ct.1859 Jan 1880 FORF.I 0 N FUNDS A•istrian, 5 per cent 110 1 4 Portuguese Bonds, sper cent. Belgian, 5 per cent Ditto, New Ditto Brazilian Bonds — Prussian, 5 per cent — Buenos A yrt•s, 6 per cent l6 ltussiau Bonds, 5 per cent.... 1136 Chilim, 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic Cobinbiati, 6 er cent — Spanish, 5 per , eat 29% Ditto, 1824 Ditto, Deferred Danish, 3 per cent 78% French, 5 per cent........., —f. —c Greek Bonds, 1825, 5 per ct — Exchange —f. —c Mexican, sper cent — French, 3 per cent --r. -,. Ditto,6 y,or cant., 1825 2J Dutch, 2% per cent. 53% Peruvian ,1825.6 per cent — Ditto, sper cent. — SHARES. ql Birmingham ~.nd Derby Railway 7 Birmingham and Glouce s ter Railway 17 0% Bristol and Exeter Railway Cheltenham and Great Western Raiway lB Eastern Counties Rail wa y Great Western Ra i l way 'mt. New Shares Gosport Junction Railway London and Bri g ht on R ai l way 24% 22 London and Blackwall Railway 53% London and S out h W estern R a il wa y 11 London and Croyd on R a il wa y (Trunk) 34 Ditto Scrip Manchester and Leeds PailwaY Manchester and Birmingham Railway 23% 96 Midland Counties Railway Northern and Eastern Railway lB% North Midl and Railway Ditto New Sh ares South Eastern and Dover 5% CAMBRIDGE ELECTION. P 3 CORRESPONDENT.) At length the Tories hat'c a►tcceeded in rocuring a Candidate for the ensuing election, in the person of Sir Alexander Grant. A meeting was held 00 the Conserva tive interest on Saturday last at the Eagle, Tibia was very numerously attended ; but the greater portion of the company consisted of the Undergraduates of the University. Mr. Fisher (the individual who fainted and was seized with convulsions while giving his evidence before the Com mittee of the House of Commons upon the merits of the petition against the return of Mr. Sutton) took the chair. His appearance was hailed with loud cheers. Numerous speeches were made on the occasion:; among others a vio lent one by Mr. Manners Sutton, who introduced Sir Alex. Grant, and recommended him as a fit and proper person to represent the borough. Sir Alexander then ad dressed the meeting and said, if they returned him as their representative they might depend on his energies to up hold the dignity of the Constitution, the supremacy of the church, and the interests of the agricultural community. QUEEN'S BENCH-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) The Court was crowded long before their Lordships took their scats on the Bench, by persons anxious to hear judgment passed on Mr. Feargus O'Connor. It will be in the recollection of our readers that on this day week it had been arranged that Mr. O'Connor should be brought up for judgment this morning. At the rising of the Court on Saturday, Mr. WATSON made an application to the Court for a further postpone ment, on the ground that Mr. Feargus O'Connor's health still continued in such a precarious state, that in the opi nion of his medical attendant it would not be proper he should be brought up for judgment this day. It was ultimately arranged that the judgment on the de fendant should again be postponed until this day week ; consequently those persons who had assembled in Court for the purpose of catching a glimpse of Mr. Feargus O'Connor, were doomed to be disappointed. The COURT having heard one or two motions of no public importance, proceeded with the cases in the pc remptory paper. COURT OF COM3IOIN. PLEAS. (THIS DAY.) The Court was occupied the whole day in the renowned case of Attwood v. Taylor. The arguments:can only be interesting to the parties themselves. EXCHEQUER COURT-THIS DAY (Sittings in Banco.) The Court was occupied the whole morning with the special case of Mortimer v. M'Ca lum. The arguments of Counsel were not concluded when we went to press. COURT OFREVIEW.-(THIS DAY MR. HAMMOND'S BANKRUPTCY. This morning was specially appointed for the hearing of the petition presented by Mr. Fisher, of Doncaster, against the fiat issued against Mr. Hammond, the late lessee of Drury-lane Theatre. The case appeared to excite a good deal of interest, and was expected to occupy a considerable time, it was, however, soon settled. On the suggestion of Mr. SWANSTON, counsel for the petitioner. . _ ?fire - BETHEL said he had no objection on the part of the assignees. The COURT assented to two issues, and a form was drawn up by Sir George Rose, that the first question to try was whether the fiat was properly issued on a proof of trading and an act of bankruptcy, as also as to the petition ing creditor's debt. The next question was whether it was a fraudulent proceeeding. A considerable discussion occurred relative to the pro ceeds of the case. It was arranged that the property should be sold under the direction of Mr. Commissioner Fane, and that the official assignees should hold the funds until the: issues were tried. Another discussion:arose as toathe Court to try the matter. Sir John Cross thought they should try it, but it was eventually settled that the Court of Queen's Bench should try the issues, the as signees to be plaintiffs in the first, and defendants in the second. The petition was ordered to stand over sine die. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. (THIS DAY.) A young man of fashionable appearance, who gave the name of W.[Smith, was fully committed by Mr. Long for stealing two pairs of gold spectacles, from the shop of Ross and Co., Regent's-circus, oa Saturday. He had ordered some spectacles to be sent to a Mr. Jones, of Jermyn street ; and the shopman, as the prisoner left, thought he missed a pair, and went in pursuit. The shopman watched him into a public. house close by, where he went into a parlour, and called for a glass of ale. He then looked through a window communicating from an adjoining room, and saw the prisoner examining a pair of gold spectacles, and wiping them with his pocket handkerchief. The prisoner was then given in charge to a police constable, who, on searching him, found one , pair of gold hand-frame spectacles in his handkerchief, and another pair in his hat, both of which he had contrived to abstract from the tray, unper ceived by witness. The price of them is seven guineas. The prisoner declined saying any thing in his defence. IRELAND. LORD STANLEY'S BILL.—Tbe Irish papers of last Sa turday, which we received this morning, are filled with reports of public meetings held for the purpose of denounc ing the attack upon the franchise involved in Lord Stan le3's Bill. Queen's County, the County of Longford, with several other counties, have sent out requisitions for meet ings to petition the Legislature against the measure. Ulster met on Thursday at Belfast. The Dublin Even * Post, speaking of this great provincial meeting, says— " Since the glorious era of the Volunteers of Ireland, Ulster never shone more pre-eminently. The requisi tionists and the speakers are the first men in the North. The Charlemonts, Gosfords, Cremornes, Leitrims, Lur gang, fifty Deputy-Lieutenants and Justices of the Peace— four Roman Catholic Bishops—several Rectors of the Established Church—several members of the different Presbyterian communities—the leading mercantile men of Ulster. Of these and of the Liberals of the North was the provincial :assembly composed." On Thursday the great provincial meeting of Connaught was held at Bal linasloe. MR. DRUMMOND. (From the Dublin Evening Post.) The admirers of Mr. Drummond will read with melan choly satisfaction the following tributes to his memory, especially the letter of the Marquis Normanby, with whom he had so cordially co-operated during the arduous period of that Nobleman's Administration in Ireland : . - - Copy of a letter addressed to Sir John F. Burgoyne, with a draft for 100/. " Hill-street, April 29th. " MY DEAR SIR have just seen the account of a meeting, at which you presided, for the purpose of erect ing a monument, upon Irish ground, to poor Drummond. I lose not a moment in forwarding the enclosed con tribution. " To you, who were in Ireland during the whole of. my administration there, I need not add any thing of my own feelings on this sad subject. Every one who has• at any period enjoyed the same opportunities I for so long had of daily intercourgo with high trinst share in that affliction felt at the untimely ross of so single-minded and warm-hearted a friend ; but no one else can so thoroughly estimate, its I do, the justice of this tribute to his memory from the Irish people ; because no one is so thoroughly aware of the untiring industry with which he unceasingly devoted his powerful intellect to what he honestly believed, with me, to be the true interests of that country during all those years when my Government had the inestimable benefit of his constant assistance. " Believe me, my dear Sir John, very faithfully yours, " NORMA NBY." Althorp, April 28. Sir,—l take the liberty of requesting you to put my nun° down as a subscriber to the monument of my lamented friend, Mr. Drummond. I have by this post directed my banker to pay 1001. into the hands of Messrs. Coutts, the amount of my subscription. I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient humble servant, Leland Crosthwait, Esq. SPENCER. April 28. Sir,—l beg to enclose 501., as my humble tribute of un feigned respect and gratitude to the late Mr. Drummond. I never more deeply lamented the death of a public man ; and it is a consolation to me to asvist in commemorating his spotless name and services. How well has it been said that be was only faulty in the neglect and sacrifice of himself. I remain yours faithfully, Leland Crosthwait, Esq. LURGAN. GREAT HARDSHIP.—At the Hereford Police Court an order was Dade fer the removal of Emma Porter from the union workhouse to her husband's parish. The hug band is a Chelsea pensioner, and the woman left him some years ago and lived with a man by whom she had several chil dren ; the poor pensioner cannot prove their illegitimacy, and, under the new Poor-law Bill, his pension will be attached for th 3 support of the children of another man. —Hereford Journal. On Tuesday the three Chartists, Lewis, Evans, and Jones, who were convicted of sedition, and sentenced to transportation at the last Brecon Assizes, were removed from the gaol of that town, for the purpose of being placed on board the Justitia hulk at Woolwich, prior to their being sent to the celonies.—liereford Journal. This morning, at nine o'clock, the mortal re mains of the late Countess of Burlin g ton were removed from her Ladyship's residence, West-hill, Wandsworth, for inter- ment in the family vault at Streatham, in Surrey. The hearse was drawn by six horses, and followed by four mourning coaches, each drawn by four horses, containing tha relatives, and by about forty noblemen and gentlemen's carria g es. On Saturday the Members of the Royal Aca demy, gave their anniversary dinner at their apartments in Tra falgar-square,which was attended by a numerous assemblage of guests of the first rank and talent. CHARING-CROSS HOSPITAL.—On Saturday last the friends and patrons of this institution, to the number of about 100, dined together at the Freemasons' Tavern, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambrid g e in the Chair. On Sunday afternoon, the whole of the exten 'ire farmin g premises, homesteads, farm-house, sheds, and cot tages, at Court Barten, near Newton, St. Cynes, were burned to the ground ; a lar g e quantity of cyder, p.,tatoes, g rain, and live stock., fell a prey to the flames. The property belonged to John Quick, Esq., of Newton House, who is partly insur e d against hi s great losses. The origin of the fire is involved in mystery. —Exeter Post. MISS KELLY'S NEW THEATRE, SOHO'-- This theat re i s now upon the verge of complet i on . The pit will contain upwards of 500 persons, but there is no g allery. GR AND REVIEW A T WOOLWICH.—His Royal Highness Pri nce A lb ert , accompan i e d by his brother, Prince Ernest lh Royal o the e Hereditary re andF Prince..ot Artillery Saxe at eobu N r v g o a o n i :v 1 i h Gotha,this y. will review EVENING EDITION: COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied, by the Hereditary Prince of Saxe Cobourg Gotha, honoured the Italian Opera with their presence on Saturday evening. The Royal suite included the Marchioness of Normanby, Hon. Miss Spring Rice, Lord Byron, Baron de Lowenfels, Baron de Gruben, Frederick Sto%On. Honourable Colonel Grey, Colonel. Wylde, and Mr. Francis Seymour. The Duchess of Kent attended by Lady . Anne Maria Dawson, visited the Queen on Saturday, .at Bucking ham ?elem. and remained to lunch with her Majesty and Prince .Albert. Viscount alelbourne had an audience on Saturday, of the Queen - , Her Majesty and Prince Albert drove out on Satur day in a pony phaeton. Prince Albert, the Queen Dowager, and the Duchess of Kent, attended Divine Service yesterday aitornoor in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Rev. Mr Haden officiated. The Bishop of Norwich and the Dean of Hereford, the Clerk and Deputy Clerk of the Closet, were in waiting. Prince Albert was attended by the Earl of Morley, Colonel Wylde, and Mr. Francis Seymour. The Dediess of Kent was attended by Lady Anne Maria Daw con. The Queen .Dowager attended Divine Service yes terday morning "re the Chapel Royal St. James's. The Sermon was preactl'ed by the Rev. Dr. Hook from the Acts, chap. 1, verse 11. The Prayers were read by the Rev. Mr. Hade h, the Lessons by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, and the Communion Service by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, and the Rev, Mr, Haden. The Anthem was " 0 Lord thou bast searched me out" (Croft). Mr. J. B. Sale presided at the organ. Her Majesty was attended by Frances Lady Clinton. Among the nobility present were the Duke of St. Alban's, the Marchioness of Ailesbury, Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby, Marquis of Lothian, Earl of Bandon, Earl and Countess Wilton. The Duchess and the Princess Augusta of Cam bridge attended Divine Service yesterday in St. James's Chu! ch. The Duke of Cambridge attended Divine Service yesterday morning in the Chapel of the Royal Military Asylum, at Chelsea. His Royal Highness was attended by Baron Knesebeck. The Queen Dowager, accompanied by the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar, and the Princes and Princesses•o f Saxe Weimar, and attended by Frances Lady Clinton and the Hon. Miss Anne Gore, left town soon after ten on Saturday morning, for Bushy Park. The Royal Party remained at Bushy Park to dinner, atAl in the evening returned to Marlborough House. The Princess Augusta visited the Duchess of Glou cester yesterday, at Gloucester House. Count and Countess Reuss had an audience of the Duchess of Kent yesterday, at ingestre House, Del grave-square. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon , at the Foreign Office. The Council sat two hours, and a half. Mr. John Abel Smith, Colonel M'Arthur, and Deputation, had an interview with Lord John Russell, on Saturday, at the Colonial Office. Mr. Lloyd, High Sheriff of Merionethshire , Poltimore, Mr. Plunkett, (Dunsany Castle) and Mr ' Lemaitre, had interviews with the Marquis of Nor manby, on Saturday, at the Home Office. Mr. F. Elliot had an interview with Lord John Rus sell, on Saturday, at the Colonial Office. Lord FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE• ARRIVALS. The Marquis of Salisbury, the Duke of Rutland, Vis count Lowther, the Marquis of Bute, Lord Da!mem', Viscount Strangford, the Earl of Verulam, the Dowager Lady Waterpark, Lord and Lady Seymour, Lord and Lady Worsley, the Marchioness of Westminster, Colonel Gore Langton, M.P., the Earl and Countess Rosebery and Ladies Primrose, Sir Henry and Lady Emily Ile dinge, Lady Charles Somerset, Count Stroganoff, the, Duke of Newcastle and Lord Robert Clinton , t he Ear' and Countess of Durham, Lord Ingestrie, Sir Charles and Lady Mary Monck, Mr. Bethell, Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Edward Anson, Mr. and Mrs. Edwart Stewar t and family, the Hon. W. N. Irby, Lord Kensington, Lord Sandys, Lord Lake, Colonel and Lady Alice Peel, the Earl of Digby, Lady H. De Blaquiere, in Bryanston street, from Hampton Court Palace • General Sir Fre derick Robinson, at the Carlton dote!, Regent-street, from Paris ; his Excellency Mr. Hamilton, her Majesty's Minister at Rio Janeiro, and Lady, at ditto, from Paris; Bonham Carter, Esq., at ditto, from Hants. Sir Robert and Lady Peel arrived at their man sion in Whitehall-gardens, on Saturday last, from Drayton Ma nor, StafiOrdshire. Earl and Countess Bruce left town on Saturda y for Savanache Lodge, Wilts. The Earl of Jersey left town on Saturday last for Newmarket. The Marquis of Douro, M.P., left town on Sa turday to visit his constituents at Norwich. The Marquis of Waterford will leave the Caven dish Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Ardrossan, at the close of the week, to attend the annual races in the Earl of Eglintoun's Park. Lord James Beresford is on his passage home from Ceylon, where he was stationed with This regiment, the 90th light infantry. The Duke of Wellington dined with Sir Mar: tin Archer Shee and the Royal Academicians on Satu rds: evening. The Dowager and Lady Louisa Craven will come to town for the season the week after next. The Marquis and Marchioness of Do%,„shire and Lady Charlotte Hill arrived last evening in asmover square from Ireland. Lady Stanley, with her family, arrived in James's-square, on Saturday evening. Her Ladyship le ft Lady' Sketmersdale improving in health. a F n ri d - The Marquis and Marchioness of Angles e y , the Lady Adelaide Paget, arrived at Uxbridge Douse on day evening from Footscray, Kent. The Marchioness t on Lady Adelaide Paget take their departure this we ek for a on the Continent. His Royal Highness Prince Albert wi ll rev iew his regiment (the (llth hussars) after the issue o f their new e! clothing, which will take place early in June. THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR'S GRAND BA).t; QuErr.—M. Guizot's grand entertainment in place natal day of his Majesty the King of the French to °k evening at Manchester House. The following • were persi sent :—The Baron de Cetto, Count Bjornstjernaf G,! fi . n d Alava, Lord Holland, Baron Brunow, Nourri E ff enu l Secretary, Prince Illavrocordato, Baron de Nieurnsum. o f Hummelauer, Baron Bulow, Baron Moncorvo, the Marcsif honour of lastth Lansdowne, the Earl of Clarendon, Count Mandelsloh, .0 06 ' n Munchausen, M. Gersdorff, Count Pollen, the Earl of Minfe' Mr. Stephenson, the Marquis of Normanby, the Duke to Wellington, Viscount Melbourne, Lord John Russell, Viscount Palmerston, Count de Chabot, Count de Banneville, M. de Vanduel. M. de Rabaudy, Dr. Belinaye. The dinner took place soon after eight o'clock. The whole frontage of the man sion was brilliantly illuminated. The band of the Coldstrea m Guards played during the evening. THE LAND CONTENTED E N s T T;, E T R E,4. ES_T Th 7 e GHT TO BE principle-upon which the owner of an estate can be held to pOO - more than that estate. It cannot be pretended that in any case whatever the original grantee acquired with his land .right of taxing his fellow , subjeth for his ow`n personal "The land, and nothing but the land, was granted to hi m --- - hi s successor can have no more. In the name of the Working Classes, and in defence of the " Rights of Industry," and 10 behalf of every man who has no land, 1 call upon the Landed Interest to be consented with their estates—is that an We l ' sonable demand ?—A Voice from the Board of Trade. Prince Albert has purchas e d, an d pl a ced in his, collection, the very fine pen and i n k d raw i ng of his Bcla . highness by Minasi. THE QUEEN AND PRINCE ALBERT'S VISITS TO WOOLWICII.—It has been intimated that her Majesty in tends, in the early part of the month, to review the royal artillery. horse brigade, royal marines, and the 29th foot, en brigade, with the batteries, more particularly the rocket troop which so dis tinguished itself at " Leipsic," as it is understood, at the expres s desire of her illustrious consort, who is most anxious to witnes 4 the evolutions of a body of men whose actions in the German war gained an imperishable renown. The most magnificent preparations are in contemplation to give eclat to the affair, as well as the entertainments proposed, should her Majesty and th e Prince honour the royal artillery mess-room with a visit. NELSON MONUMENT.-THE The erection of the Nelson monument in Trafalgar-square, All the preliminary arrangeme nt ' have this morning. have been completed. The column is to be built by Mr. Rail ton. The new plan for laying down the sq uare is at length settled. The work commence. 4 tht smorn i n - direc tiong, un der the of Mr. Barry. GERMAN OPERAS.—The Pr ince's Theatre ha s been visited during the past week by her Majesty, Prince Al bert and Prince Ernest, her Majesty the Queen Dowager, the Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Cambrid e Prince George and the Princess Mary, the Dukes of Br g and Re g ina tnswick the Alarchic ness of Lansdowne, the Marchioness of Normanby, the Ladies Jersey, C. Villiers, Mary Christopher,De Dunstan ville, Miss Burdett Coutts ; the Lords Wilson, W. Lennox Boscawen, Howe, Byron, Lovelace; Barons Knesebeck and Anslan ; Sirs H. Wjbb, A. Barnard, F. Steven, the fan. Major Maple, Mr. Maule, and a long list of fashionable patrons. gemen t, ADMISSION TO THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS ON SUNDAYS.—It is, we understand, the intention of the Zoological So c i e t y t o pass a resolution, by which tiekets of ad missiono for Sund ays shall be issued by the of fi cer of the ciety on the preceding Saturday, upon a written applicationcoor the members. Thi s w ill b e a gre at convenience both to h members themselves and visitors. crned SWINDLING IN WINDSOR.—A person n---- Robert Shepherd has very recently been doing some few 0 • f i the " natives "in a very complete style. It is believed nd son of the once celebrated and respected Jockey Shepher d ed in that he has himself been a jockey, having been ern that capacity m in A t G he lS E T as E t i ln: AL Indies by A tl p ie p l o at i e N ll T o A n t . NEW Alaolitlbsy,ataorbdaar3r,iasstear, sw orn in , iis torict co n junction . H e satfoji with sh A o i r r t , t im e on Broughton, Saturday a o t m lV h o e rsh w i a p s - W ors hip intro duced by Mr. Hall, the Chief Magistrate of B ow-street, and ►3 expected to attend at that Cou r t i n the prese nt wee k, i n stead of his Mr. Grove, whose ill state of health has totally prevented attending to any of the magisterial duties during the last two months. Woollen mills have been lately established jo Italy, and the cloth workers of Yorkshire with their families are emigrating to a considerable number in order to manse/ the works and instruct the natives of that country.--/ful Paper. The inhabitants of the parish of St. Georg e, Stamford, went, as usual, to Church at eleven o'clock on Sun day morning, but no Rector or Clergyman appeared; and after the congregation had remained for more than an hour, they walked out of Church without receiving any explanation of the strange event.— Stanthrd Mercury. ~` • a n d Pro Qua tre an, dot 'lva,