The Sun. — London, England, 1847-03-15 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. TO-MORROW EVENING, Tuesday, March 16, will be performed Donizetti's Opera, LUCIA 1)1 LA3131Elt11001:. Lucia, Mad.Castellan; Enrico, Signor Coletti; Bidebent, Signor Solari ; and Edgardo, Signor Fraschini. To conclude with the admired New and Original Grand Ballet, CORALIA; on, L} CHEVALIER INCONSTANT. • Corolla, Mdlle. C. Rosati; the Knight tiuliebrand, M. Paul Taglloni; Squire, M. Gouriet ; Bertha, Mdlie. Petit; Page, Mdlle. Honore ; Duke, M. Gosselin ; Fraisondin, M. Venefra ; Fisherman, M. di Matti*. The doors open at Half-past Seven. The Opera to commence at Eight o'clock. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Nobility, Gentry, Subscribers, and the Public, are respectfully Informed, that a GRAND EXTRA PERFORMANCE will take place on THURSDAY NEXT, March IS, when will be performed Bellies Opera of LA SONNAMBULA , Amina, Madame Castellon ; Lisa, Madame Solari ; Count Rodolfo, Sig. F. Lablache ; Aleasio, dig. Giubilei ; Elvino, Sig. Gardoni. With various Entertainments in the BALLET Department. In which will appear Mdlle. Rosati, Madame Petit Stephan, Mdlle. Marie Taglioni, M. Paul Taglioni, &c. Also, a Selection from Donizetti's favourite Opera, entitled LUCIA DI LAMMER3IOOR. In which Signor Fraschini will appear. To conclude with a new Ballet, in Two Tableaux, by M. Paul Tag. lioni, the music by Signor Pugni, entitled THEA ; OLT, LA FEE ALTX FLEURS. Principal characters by Mdlle. C. Rosati, Mdlle. Marie Taglioni, 31. Paul Taglioni, &c. The following are the prices of Boxes and Stalls for this occa sion :—Boxes on the Pit Tier, Four Guineas ; on the Ground Tier, Five Guineas ; on the First Pair, Four Guiueas ; on the Second Pair, Three-and-a-Half Guineas; Pit Stalls, 2!5.; Gallery Stalls, ss. Applications to be made at the Kos-office of the Theatre. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. Established for the purpose of rendering a mere perfect perform ance of the Lyric Drama than has hitherto been attained in this country. Under the Direction and Management of Mr. BEALE. The Nobility, Gentry, and Patrons of Music are respectfully in formed that the Royal Italian Opera w ill OPEN:on TUESDAY, the 6tlt_of April. Prospectuses to be had at the Ros•olllee, Bow-street ; at Cramer, Beale, and Ce.'s, 201, Regent-street ; and at all the Libraries. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENr GARDEN Established for the purpose of rendering a more perfect performance of the Lyric Drama than has hitherto been attained in this country. tinder the Direction and Management of Mr. BEALE. The Nobility Gentry, and Patrions of Music, are respectfully in formed that the Royal Italian Opera will open the first week in April. It is proposed to produce, in the course of the Season, some of the established works of Cimarosa, Mozart, Rossini, Meyerbeer, and others - of the more modern Italian School, including Operas by Bellini, Doni zetti, Mercadante, and Verdi, on a scale of the utmost perfection in every department ; to which intent the manalement has assemb'ed a Company embracing the greatest and most varied talent in Europe. PRIM SOPRAN I.—Madame Grisi and Madame Persiani (her first appearance in London for three years), Madame Ronconi and Mae. Steffanoni (of the Theatre La Scala, in Milan, her first ap pearance in this country.). CONTRALTL—Signora Alboni (of the Theatre La Scala, Milan, ,itrid 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 Sari (ot the Theatre La Scala, in Milan, and of tke Imperial Theatres in Vienna and St. Yetersburgh, his first appearance on the Italian stage in England). PRI3II BASSI BAItITONI—Signor Tamburini and Signor Giorgio Roncont. PRI3II 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, kis first appear ance in this country.) PRIME BASSI (.30MICI —Signor Pietro Ley (of the Theatre Royal Madrid, ha first appearance in this country), and Signor Agostino Rovere (of the Theatres Royal, Naples, Milan, Vienna, and St. re tersburgh, his first appearance in this country). Seconde Donne—Madame Antoinetta Mollidori (of the Theatre La Scala, in Milan), Mademoiselle -.Walla Linari, Mademoiselle Lnigina Bellini. ,Yeconde Tenore—Signor Emmanuele 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 Monterasi. The ORCHESTRA, formed of Artistes possessing the highest executive powers, will comprise among its members Eighty distin guished profesFors. 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 thentre by Messrs. Flight and Son. Organist—Mr. V..Novello. The 11 !ti.E.ET, of a brilliant and codly character, will close the performance of the evening, and no Divertissement will be suffered between the acts of the Opera. The Director has the pleasure to muounce that he has concluded an engagement with Mademoiselle Elssier ; and, during the season, the following eminent Danseuses will appear: —Premieres Dansense—Mademoiselle Dumi- Intro (ef the Grand Opera, Paris), and Mademoiselle Plunkett (of toe Grand Opera, Paris), Mademoiselle Bertin (of the Imperial Theatre, Vienna, her first appearance in this country), Mademoiselle Neodot (of the Theatre Royal, Madrid), Mademoiselle Marietta Baderna (of the Theatre La Scala, Milan), and Mademoiselle Fuoco (of the Academ!e Royale de Paris). Monsieur Petipa (of the Grand Opera, Paris), Monsieur Gonlie (of the Theatre Royal, Madrid), Monsieur Ferdinand() Croce, Monsieur Delferier (of the Grand Opera, Paris), and Mon3:eur Auguste Mabille (of the Grand Opera, Paris). Maitres des 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 Curini (of the San Carlo Theatre, Naples). TIIE THEATRE.—To render the Interior at once commodious, elegant, and cointbrtable, it has been entirely reconstructed and decorated, under ths immediate direction and after designs of R. Albano, Esq., C.E., with every attention directed to its proper ventilation. The Decorations have been executed by Mr. Ponsonby. The Management has happily secured the artistic skill of Sig nor i Ferri and Verardi (of the Theatre Italien, In Paris), to embellish the ceiling and to prepare a New Drop Scene. The approaches to the Theatre will be found i mproved, by a carriage way being formed immediately under the Portico in Bow-street, whereby partied can leave or enter their carriages without exposure to the weather ; and by increased facilities for ingress and egress. The Refreshment Room will be under the superintendence of Mr. J. G. Watson. Tickets, Stalls, and Boxes, for the night or season, to be obtained at the Box Office, stow-street ; and at Messrs. Cramer, Beale, and 201, Regent-street. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. FOIL THE BENEFIT OF MR. BUNN. TIIIS EVENING Will be performed the new Grand Opera of THE BONDMAN. Marquis de Vernon, Mr. Weiss ; Floreville, Mr. Rafter ; Morllere, Mr. Horncastle; Ardenford, Mr. ..‘l. Harrison; Mal-a-Propos, Mr. Harley ; Madame Corinne, Miss Romer; Grisette, Miss R. Isaacs ; Frivele, Mrs. Hughes. After which, the Interlude of POPPING THE QUESTION. Primroir, Mr. Farrell ; Thornton, Mr. Payne ; Miss Biffin, Mrs. Glover ; Bobbin, Miss Isaacs. In the course of the Evening Vr. Braham will sing " The Death of Nelson," " The Bay of Biscay," and " Farewell my trim-built Whet ry." To conclude with the Operatic Entertainment of THE 'WATER MAN. Tom Trigg, Mr. liraham ; Whillielmina, Miss Isaacs. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. Under the Management of Mrs. Keeley, TIILI.t EVENING Will br perfonneal the Drama of MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT. Young Bailey, Mrs. Keeley; Sairey Gamp, Mr. Keeley ; Pecksniff, Mr. Matthews ; Tigg, Mr. Wigan ; Chuzzlewit, Mr. Emery ; Pinch, Mr. Meadows. To conclude with the splendid new Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE ENCHANTED FOREST; or, Bear, Eagle, and Dolphin.' Principal characters by Mrs. Keeley, Miss Villars, Miss Bromley, Miss E. Daly, Mrs. Wo,llidge, Miss Laidlaw, Miss Howard, Mr. Keeley, Mr. Meadows, Mr. Bender, Mr. Kin!och, Mr. Bellingham, and Mr. Wigan. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. t nder the direction of Madame Celeste_ THIS EVENING Will be performed an original Drama, called THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST ; a Gipsy story. Cheap John, Mr. Wright ; Ishmael, Mr. 0. Smith ; the Kinchin, Mr. P. Bedford; Leybourne, Mr. Worrell ; Cynthia, Madame Celeste; Lemuel, Miss Woolgar ; starlight Bess, Mrs. Fitzwilliam; Lady Agnes, Miss Harding. After wh i ch, the Farce of THE WANDERING MINSTREL. Characters by Messrs. Cullenford, Waye, Wright, Stoker, Mrs. Laws, Miss Taylor, and Mrs. Matthews. To conclude with th , Farce of SHOCKING EVENTS. In which Mr. Lambert, Mr. Worrell, Mr. Munyard, Miss Harding, and Miss Chaplin will perform. PRENCESs'S THEATRE, ONrORD-STREET. J. 3f. Maddox, sole L.Scssee and Manager. THIS EVENING IV iil be performed the Comedy of THE MERRY WIVES CF WINDSOR. Principal characters by Mews. Granby, Ryder, Vin irrg, Coweil, Walton, Compton,,Miss Fljwer, Mrs. Stirling, Miss A. Romer, and Mrs. Fus , ,roke. After which, a Concert by the New Orleans ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS. To conclude with a new Drama, entitled ANGELINE. Angeline, Mrs. Stirling. FRENCII PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S TIIEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. THIS EVENING, Will be performed TIRIDATE ; ou, Comedie et Tragedie. Du hissoA, B. Cartigny ; Adrien, M. Berou ; Mdlle. Duineand, Mdlle. Farguell ; Louise, Mdlle. Vallee. After which, the Comedic-Vaudeville, entitled ITN MARI QUI SE DERANGE. Durosel, M. Lafont; Bertholin, M. Cartigny ; AmePe, Mdlle. Vallee ; Anais, Mdlle. Fouquet. To conclude with a new comic Vaudeville, entitled LE ROI DES FRONTINS. Thomas, M: - A. Tousez ; Marinette, Mdlle. Fouquet. Boxes, Gs., Pit, 3s. 6d. , Stalls, 35.; Gallery, 2s. Doors opened at half-past Seven, and the performances commence at Eight. Private Boxes, Stalls, and Places may he engaged at Mitchell's Library, 33, Bond-street; and at the Box-office. ETHIOPIAN %ERENTADERS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. The celebrated ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, Pell Harrin-ton, White, Stanwood, and Ocr mon, will have the honour of re;eat ing their Inimitable ENTERTAINMENTS, at the above Theatre, TO-MORROW EVENING, and every Tuesday, Thursday, and S.itarday. Doors open at Eight o'clock, and the Entertainment com mence at Half-pest Eight ; and repeat their DAY PERFORMANCE every MONDAY MORNING during Lent, commencing at half past Two o'clock. They iv]] also appear at the Horns, Kennington, on Friday next, March 19 ; and at Sussex-hall, Leadenhall-street, en Monday and Wednesday Evenings, March 15, 17, 22, and 21. Boxes, 4s. ; 2s. ; Amphitheatre, 26. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Under the patronace of the Queen, Prince Albert, and other Members of the Royal Family. THIS EVENING Will he performed Sir Walter Scott's KENILWORTH ; or, 'The Gohlen Days of England's Elizabeth. Entire change ot the SCENES of the CIRCLE. The Performance of M. Pablo Fanque and his highly-trained Steed. To conclude with a favourite Afterplece. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Airs. Frances Davidge. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new Domestic Drama (founded on the Novel of the same name), entitled LILLY DAWSON ; or, A Poor Girl's Story. Principal characters by Messrs. Lewi , , Johnson, Heslop, Saville, Phelps. Fredericks, Webs, Neville, Miss Terrey, Mrs. Vining, and Mrs. Saville. To conclude with the Drama of ALICE GUT, the SUSPECTED ONE ; or, The Moral Brand. Characters by the principal talent of the Company. Box.office open from eleven till four o'clock ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. Zoxes, Is., Half-price, 6d.; Pit, 6d.; Gallery, 3d. Private Boxeq, II Is. and 10s. 6d. TIIIS EVENING W Will he pe r f ormed WOM M AN'A LOVE. Clitheroe, r. Hicks; Kate ynsley, Air. D ale ; Holly:lock, Mr. Forman ; Bald w i n, M r. Searle ; Wynaiey, miss vlneent ; Lady Adeline, Mrs. Lee ; Polly Pry, MiS3 Pearce. To conclude With THE. GALLEY SLAVES OF TOULON; or, The ilidlen TreaAires of the Crws. Sit• )urt , d by the entire strength Arl , . of the coint,any. ...................._____ ittiY AL linlEttiltaLir..— Another opportunity for the extrcise of those-r enevolent feelings, which have be r, already so muniticentil,i?resme,aanifebted in behalf of our suf fering fellow countrymen, on the occasion of a ball, which is to take place at WiTiL t ! elf ° .,c 41 ) 9, on the ith of of the destitute next tr ontli, in aid of the funds fur the It, English corn Irish. Much as has already been d one l j . ',, a '' Nye have no jttihis fresh call munity to forward this most humane)-01,1e doubt tLat the public will eagerly respnodne.rt upon :heir Evtupathy. The ball is u the Patron their Royal highnesses the Duke and Duchess of C a a g e o f and same of the most exalted of our nobility, and is countenanced by some influential gentlemen connected :i4l the corporation of London. The tickets are issued at a moderate price, and there can be no doubt that, under the superintendence of the committee of management, the ar rangements will be such as to ensure to the visitors the highest degree of personal enjoyment in the practice of a refined recreation, while they will have the more grati fying reflection that in pursuing their own pastime they are assisting in a work of genuine and comprehensive charity. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. U vier the Manxvinent of Mr. It. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING • Will be performed the Comedy of LONDON ASSURANCE. Cha ratters by Messrs. Parrett, Tilbury, Hon, Webster, Brindal, Buck. stone, Hudson, Mrs. Seymour, Miss Bennett, and Mrs. Humby. To be followed by an Entertainment of Vocal and Instrumental Music, by the LANTUM ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS. To conclude with the Original Grand Fairy Extravaganza, called THE INVISIBLE PRINCE; or, the Island of Tranquil Delights. Principal characters by Mr. James Bland, :Hiss P.Horton, Mrs. L. S. Buckingham, Miss Reynolds, and Miss Julia Bennett. NEW WORK BY MISS PARDOE. Now ready, in 3 vols. Bvo., with numerous Engravings on Steel and Wood, by William and George Melsom, 21. 2s. 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. LAST WEEK. HENRY RUSSELL AT THE 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 other Popular Songs, will give his VOCAL ENTERTAINMENT THIS EVENING, AND EVERY EVENING. He will sing several new songs —The True Men of Old—lvy Green—Woodman spare that Tree—and the Demon Ship—Songs and incidents of Negro Life and Character. Mr. RUSSELL will give TWO MORNING CONCERTS, TIIIS DAY, March 15, and THURSDAY, March 18. Boxes, 3s. ; Stalls, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery 6d. ; Private Boxes, I/. Is. Box-office op, n from One till Four daily. THE WEATHER.--SI7N OFFICE, MARCH 13. TdERMOMETER, Lowest, 31 ; Highest. 45 ; Noon, 45, BAROMETER, 30.33.—Wind W., fine. MARCH 11. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 35 : Highest, 46 ; Noon, 47. BAROMETER, 30 37.—WIND, S.W., fine. WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Horning .. 16 minutes after 12. Evening .. 44 minutes after 12. ,kk'..i 4c . „. .... 1 , ..., ..,) yri .1 '''' .., 4 7. , v0'11111.74, il 4 0 1:6 i •±',.....-. Vtib mit -., irpri , - ;., ,TT - ' 74,ft\ 4-'4,u p •.,.. - i. „.. ~„....7.,,,. ,,, ,,,,,,,:.,..,,,t_. „, •,. 'taw ',. 4 ,.... lig --- -:_- -....1,..„.... IThirning ini LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 15, 184 A moral revolution has utterly subverted the social abric of Ireland : a new edifice—an edifice based upon centuries of awful experience, and proportioned to the greater enlightenment of the Legislature of these times —has to be erected upon the ruins caused by that revo lution. It was from the agony of prophecy that were born the books of Sibylline wisdom ; and it is from the very torments of her present condition that Ireland is ex tracting the sureties of her future happiness. The old and accursed system, by which one entire moiety of her population was continued in a perpetual state of des. titution, has been slowly undermined by ages of in creasing woe—it has tottered to its foundations from the shocks administered by the late visitations 01 DIVINE PROVIDENCE—its irrevocable doom was pro nounced on Friday evening in the speech of Lord JOHN RUSSELL. Richly as the proprietary of Ireland has deserved a retribution for the manifold wrongs by which they have reduced their country to a state of continual wretchedness, and rendered it at pe. riodical intervals subject to the deathful scourge 01 famine, the Government is effecting the redemption of the innocent million without sacrificing the interests of the culpable few. Ireland has hitherto been abandoned to the discretion of her landowners. Par titioned into enormous estates by the questionable munificence of successive monarchs, from ELI ZABETII downwards to WILLIAM - awarded to adventurers and loyalists in the way of either re compense or bounty Ireland has, from the re motest periods of her history, presented us only w.th one monctonous and deplorable spectacle of suffering. A cottier population has been multiplied on her soil to an extent that foreboded, from its corn mencement, some great catastrophe like the one in which she is even now involved. An overwhelming majority of her community has existed for many generations under the ban of this terrible alternative—either to subsist by sufferance under the murderous extortion of her landlords, or to infest the island like a vast army of " gaberlunzies." By this evil system the maladies of Ireland have been frightfully multiplied, and under its shadow mendicity has become the national character istic. So enormously had these woes accu mulated, and so entirely had the poison of the scheme eaten into the very substance of the Irish constitution,, that it required nothing less than an un paralleltd crisis to effect the renovation of her decayed powers, and the eradication of the numerous- diseases preying upon her vitals. It required a crisis o convulsions, for it is only by the throes of such a crisis that abuses are destroyed en masse, and the whole phy sical and moral condition of a people renewed. Thai crisis has arrived. Ireland has been stricken witl starvation : her potato-grounds have become pits o: vegetable corruption : her agriculture has been gene rally smitten by amysterious and destructive power: millions of her people—millions accustomed at the best times to fare meagerly and live upon the doles of a precarious benevolence—have been visited with famine and disease, and the utter deprivation of all the ordinary means of obtaining employment. Out of those abysses of affliction, however, are emerging not merely their present redemption, but their ultimate and permanent prosperity. Government has not only advanced manfully and generously to the salvation of the starving peasantry, but it has had the courage and the wisdom to conceive a scheme by the operation of which the recurrence of all the miseries formerly incidental to Ireland will be impossible. By the imposition of local rates proportioned to the local rental, the local destitution will henceforth re ceive a local provision. That is the secret of the measures introduced to Parliament by the Ministry. It is the secret of political economy and of legislative charity. It is the secret of the poor-laws. Grievous as has been the clamouring against the introduction of a plan like this into Ireland, it is, nevertheless, to be introduced at once, and to be universally applied. Is there not in this determination of the Legislature a forethought compatible with its reputation, a bold ness equivalent to its activity, a justice propor tioned to its extraordinary liberality ? Let any man review the course pursued by the Government since the commencement of the evils now rife in Ire land, let him consider how its generosity has vied in its increase with the extension and development of those evils, let him remember that whereas 30,000 only were at first employed on public works, the number had risen, on the 27th of February last, to no less than 708,228 ; that whereas the amount expended upon relief works was in September only 54,8781., it reached in February to upwards of 944,000/. ; that arrangements were made under its direction for the purchase of seed to the value of 50,0001., and for the elevation of the provi sions in store to the extent of about 10,000 tons—let him remember the ardour, and the energy, and the incessant toil of the Legislature in behalf of Ireland from the very opening of the session, and then de signate this Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill a rash Bill, an onerous, or an injudicious Bill. The accusation is impossible when the measure is consid ere d i n con nexion with the various arrangements making apart from this proposition itself. The drainage plan, the recla mation of waste land, the improvements of the fisheries, of the ports and of the harbours, would be severally palliative—if the matter were considered as requiring anything like palliation—of the introduction of the poor-law into Ireland. But the introduction of that system of relief to pauperism requires no extenuation, as it is only synonymous with the rights of the Irish peasantry. Much might be written upon the philosophy of the arguments in favour of the Government measure which were advanced candidly and simply, and yet most earnestly and most impressively, by Lord JOHN RUSSELL. Such an extension of our remarks, how ever, is altogether superfluous. We shall turn from the consideration of that speech to one of the numberless schemes which have latterly presented themselves as cal culated to assist the Irish multitude in redeeming their own condition. While the zeal of the agriculturists is directed to the irrigation, and ,manuring, and drainage of the soil fur the purposes of growing crops of a nutritious and profitable character, it is most desirable that one branch of agricultural enter prise shall not be overlooked. The branch to which we allud e is of a peculiarly national description, and its prosperity would in a great measure ensure the ptfahreentsupreesrryis f t s 3; emo of the agri cu lt ur i s t s an d t h e manu atilerelacnutvatiNoVn o flax. We fmean,ax. At of co u p r r s e e : sent we have not an oppportunity of entering more into the enumeration of the advantages certain to accrue from the culture of flax than by extracting The Railway Commissioners have published their first report, in pursuance of the resolution of the House of Commons, " that all railway Bills shall be referred to the Commissioners for their report to the House upon certain points, previously to such Bills being considered in Committees of the House." In the present instance the projects of the South-Eastern Company, are eight in number, five of which are placed in Group No. 1, and the remainder in No. 3, form the subjects of the report. The Commis • sioners state the impossibility of their being respon sible for the correctness of the information that could only be obtained from the companies themselves, but at the same time do full justice to the company in the present instance, for the great readiness they ex hibited in supplying the requisite answers to their inquiries, and state that they see no reason to doubt the accuracy of the information so given. In consequence of the above resolution, every existing company applying for fresh powers to Par liament, must render a complete account of its stewardship, and show in what manner, arid to what extent, it has executed the powers granted by any former Act or Acts, and the report is to state the opinion of the Commissioners thereon, and also as to any special provisions with which it may in any case be expedient to accompany the grant of any new powers. A salutary check will thus be held over the several companies, as there are few, indeed, that will not have occasion to apply to the Legislature at some time or another, and the expose to which they will necessarily be subjected will prevent any abuse •of the ;rusts reposed in them. These inquiries, however, appear, in the present report, to have been restricted to the pecuniary affairs of the companies; ar , d we should gladly have seen them further extended to the nature and sufficiency of the accommodation provided for the public, in return for the virtual monopoly con ceded to them, the el eapness and moderation of their fares; tolls, and charges; the number of trains running every day ; and whether any and what addktional number would be required for the public convenience, and the giving of every due facility to the traffic, whether of passengers or goods, particularly the number of third-class trains so dispe.tched ; the speed attained, and the goodness of the carriages provided for the poorer classes. We conceive that information on all these points would be extremely useful, and that special provisions may fairly be in troduced into the Acts of any of the comps pies who have hitherto failed in their duty to the public, re quiring them to amend in any of these paz titulars where they have been found in fault, before tiny new powers are conceded. The eight Bills now applied for will, if sanctioned by the Legislature, enable the South-Eastern Corn. ' puny to raise additional capital to the e3:tent of 3,025,7501., and to borrow 1,007,8101., while by the former Acts, twenty in number, it had p3vver to raise a capital of 6,415,0331., and to borrow 2,218,710/. Of their capital money there :has been received 4,290,0751. Bs. 10d., and 3,656,420 i. ss. re mains to be paid, showing that the company have sustained a loss of 244,5042 Gs. 2c1., in conse quence, it is stated, of the forfeiture of sora a of the ear:iest shares, which, when sold, in many ilistances did not realise the amount of the calls due upo: a them. Another singular circumstance connected si ith the company is, that on various occasions they issued to their proprietors shares of a lower pecuniary amount than their original shares, but whic 5, never theless, were entitled to equal dividends. lWe find, therefore, shares of 501., 251., 321., 331. Gs. Bd., and 301., all of which participate equally in the pr ofits of the company. The Commissioners, however,. are of opinion that, as these new shares were issued to the holders of the original shares, the interests of Ova pub lic will not be materially affected by these tr ansac tions, provided that in any future calculati on of profits, with a view either to the revision of fares, or the sale of the railway, under the provisTnns of the 7th and Bth Vic., c. 85, the different shin, as are reckoned at the amounts at which they wt:i:e re spectively issued, and not as 501. shares, a s they have been erroneously termed in share lists.. The different dealings of the company, either by ti /ay of purchase or loan, are set forth, and a particu4lar re ference is made to the purchase of Folkstone Har bour, which, if the transaction were now pendi t , g, or if the arrangements were to be authorised by : any of the present Bills, the Commissioners would ti: ink it their duty to report specially on. They now„ how ever, only allude to it as an example of a trans action to which in future the attention of Parliament ought to he specially directed. The Commissionersi most justly reprobate in the strongest mane er a custom which has extensively prevailed, and • which may be considered as having received the tacit per mission of Parliament, and for which, therefor •e, no peculiar blame is ascribable to the company. It is the custom of directors signing the subscriptioz con tracts for large sums on the understanding tho. it is solely on behalf of the company, and that the y are not to be called on for the sums for - which they appear liable upon their contracts. Troi i the Commissioners state to be a violation of the real spirit of the standing orders, although it may be con- sidered a technical compliance therewith, and w,e _fully admit the sufficiency of the reasons adduced foir that opinion : they also question the propriety of corn pa _ _ _ nies making the Parliamentary deposit out of funds _ . authorised to be raised for other purposes. We would gladly have seen some allusion to the ..--,--- - TJEIF SUN, LONDON, MONDAY _ MORKING, MARCH 15, 1847. la brief, but signlficant, calculation from Mr. Dics• SON ' S work upon this important commodity, page 167. That gentleman there mentions the circum stance of a tenant of the Dean of Dromore growing on three statute acres flax to the amount of nearly 120 stones, which, sold at the mode rate price of 15s. per stone, would give a return of 901. Under all circumstances, however, says the writer quoted, this farmer " has a certainty of 100 stones, which will realise him 751." Here are inferences from that calculation which cannot be treated lightly, and the more especially at this juncture : " This flax is now in process of conversion into cambric pocket-handkerchiefs, is capable of being spun to 30 banks to the pound, and is to be spun by hand. Mark, now the employment this will give. "It will give constant employment for twelve months to 132 women to spin it ; 18 weavers will be occupied a like period in weaving it; and it will employ 40' women a year to hem-stitch (or vein) the handkerchiefs; thus giving constant employment for twelve months to 190 persons. "It is curious to trace the result of the process which this flax is now undergoing. It will produce 210 webs of cam bric, each web containing five dozen handkerchiefs; each dozen will be worth 403., and the entire, when finished, will be worth 2,1001. open third-class carriages, exposed to all the incle mency of the weather, and without seats for the passengers to sit down, the impropriety of which has been exposed by our correspondent "VIGILANS" on a formeroccasion. There is no notice either of the increase of fares adopted immediately after the termination of last session, after they had pressed the moderation of their former charges on the Committees as a reason why further powers should be granted. These are subjects well worthy the attention of the Legislature on thepresent occasion. We shall, on an early occasion, give the report in extenso. HONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. (From The Sun of Sa,tnr.lay Night.) The Cotton Market at Liverpool has been flat this week. and American sort; have been 4d. per lb. lower. Sales of the week, 18,100 bales. Stock now, 453,380 bales, against 835,370 bales at this time last year. Accounts of September 12, from Hobart Town, state that some excitement continued to prevail on the subject of trans portation, and that Lord Stanley's dispatches had excited much disaatisfaction. From Sydney there are dates of October 3. A long debate on the Crown lands seemed to be the principal subject of interest in the colony, and a more equitable holding thereof was still the object of the parties interested. Trading affairs were steady. An arrival from the Cape of Good Hope furnishes infor mation of January 9. The troops were marching into the Kafir country to chastise the chief, Pato. who was still re fractory. The eastern province was freed from the maraud ing parties of the enemy The English Securities have been extremely heavy. Con sols are worth 88 1 /, for Money, and 88% 1 4 for Account. Exchequer-bills have been Is. to 4s. premium. The Spanish Bonds have been very quiet. The Three.per Cents. realising 34 to 34 1 / s . Mexican Stock has being heavy at 21% 5 / 6. Brazilian is firm at 87. In Shares there has been a good deal doing, but at lower rates generally. LIRI T 1 Sl.l FUNDS. A Vienna letter, of the Ist, announces the arrival of the Queen of BAVARIA in that capital, with the inten tion of making a long visit. Her MAJESTY alighted at the Palace of the Archduke ALBERT, who is her son in-law. A letter from Constantinople, of the 18th ult., in the Augsburg Gazette, says :—" The letter which King OTHO has written to the SULTAN relative to the difference that has arisen with respect to M. MUSSURUS, is said to be couched in the most con ciliatory terms. King OTHO assures the SULTAN of his most friendly intentions, but at the same time complains strongly of the conduct of M. MUSSURUS, which he attributes to malevolent intentions. His MA JESTY adds that, in testifying to M. MUSSURUS his dis pleasure at his conduct relative to Colonel KARATASSOS he had no intention of offending either the SULTAN or the Divan." ONE O'CLOCK. Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. .. 88% New Three - and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anns. Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. • • 9 3-16 9 3-16 Bank Stock for April 14 .. .. .. .. 204 Consols for Account, April 15 .. .. 88t,%% 88% Consols, Scrip .. .. .. • • • • • 0% % die A, dis Exchequer Bills. I%cl. 1 1 4 d. 1,0007... .. .... 41 pm. I p 5001.. — .... I— pm. 1 p Ditto, Small .... 31 5 pm. S p CLOSING, PRICES. 88 1 4 88% While the Government is taking a comprehensive survey of the capacities of the Irish soil and of Irish industry, the cultivation (Jf flax should by no means be disregarded ; it should form one of the accom paniments of the Poor-law introduction. By later intelligence received from America, it would appear that the dissensions excited in the Senate by the 3,000,000 Bill give little promise of immediate termination. One proposition for the amicable settlement of the Mexican warfare is suc ceeded by another in quick succession, and all of them equally calculated to effect their avowed object. Mr. CALHOUN, at one moment, proposes a most extravagant scheme for bringing the adja cent republic to its senses, namely, the establish ment of a continuous line from the mouth of the Rio Grande, by the river, to El Passo, and so westwards towards the northern extremities:of California. By this plan it is presumed by Mr. CALHOUN that the coun trymen of SANTA ANNA will be very solicitous to enter into a cordial alliance with their invaders. Most probable inference ! The filching from them of their roost valuable boundaries would render a people ex ceedingly solicitous for a friendly alliance with their robbers ! Mr. CASS, on the contrary, is ambitious of be holding the valorous SCOTT and the indomitable ZA CHARY TAYLOR marching triumphantly into the centre of the Mexica n f e d era ti on . Th e wrang li ng of the Senate is answered in a somewhat contemptible man ner by the soldiers of the United States. General TAYLOR still continues comfortably located at Mon terey, while his successor tarries at Brazos Santiago, waiting the arrival of transports, troops, and ammu nition. Among the defenders one fresh movement is alone reported, namely, that SANTA ANNA, at the head of 15,000 men, had withdrawn from San Luis Potosi, a'nd proceeded inwards towards the capital. From such unaccountable fluctuations as these, the war between Mexico and the United States gives every indication of being protracted and blood less. If the latter characterist!c be only visible in the strife, we shall not have to mourn the former with so much earnestness. Madrid journals of the 6th instant have arrived. The Herald(' state!, that henceforth a monthly report of the operations in the Finance Department of the Go vernment is to be published in the Gaceta, showing a report of the receipts and expenses of the Treasury, the general balance, &c. In the Chamber of Deputies the debate on the Address still continues. The Barcelona Foniento, of the sth, publishes another most ferocious " Bando" of the Captain-Grneral of Catalonia, BRETON, against such as may assist or connive at the Montemolinist movements. MADRID BOLSA, MARCH 6.—The Three per Cents. closed at 30% for cash ; the Five per Cents. at 194 ; the Passives at 5%; and the Coupons at 17. We have received the Paris papers of Thursday. The Journal des Debats has a long article, written for the purpose of allaying the alarm which prevails in consequence of the continued increase in the price of corn. It says— " The prices of corn have been rising generally and con tinually throughout Western Europe. In two-thirds of France the hectolitre (22 imperial gallons) is at about 40f. ; but the price is still greater in Belgium. It is also very nearly the average price in England. It is asked if this high price is at its utmost reach. and, if it should continue, to what point it will attain. Everybody asks what is to be done to prevent a recurrence of such extreme dearness of the most necessary of all the provisions of life. The increase at this moment N caused from the stores in the entrepOts having only very limited quantities left in them. It is by Mar seilles, Havre, and Bordeaux that we receive the supply that is indispensable. No one has any doubt of the existence of this supply. Nature this year has performed this act of com pensation which she never refuses ; penurious towards several regions, one of which unfortunately is ours, she has been liberal towards others. Therefore bread-corn will not fail. However, at this period of the year, the transport from abroad is exceedingly difficult, and indeed, almost impossible. Corn cannot be brought in, at least in any great quantities, from Americi, because the internal canals of the new conti nent, by which it must be brought to the ports, are frozen. From a similar cause, the present is not the period at which the port of Odessa draws from the country from which it is supplied the quantity of corn it exports. We have in our granaries and stores enough to enable us to wait for arrivals, however long they ,may be delayed. But the absence of large quantities of imported corn in the entrepats is not the less felt, and nothing more is necessary to cause a rise in price. As long as this cause subsists it cannot be expected that the rise should stop. Such is the rule of trade. Whenever the demand exceeds the supply in a large pro portion, the prices increase. Nevertheless, if there be dis turbances to aggravate the state of things, and the effect of which would be to convert into an absolute dearth what is now only a rise in price, but against which every precaution' has been taken by the Government, and which the good sense of the citizens would immediately put down, there is every reason to hope that the probability of large arrivals at the end of April will moderate the rise." The Debuts concludes by arguing in favour of free trade, as one of the greatest remedies for the calamities of bad seasons, as it tends to keep up such an intercourse between nations as to enable them to rely upon each other for the mutual supply of their CLOSING PRICES. FOREIGN FUNDS, ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 87 Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent .. • • • Ditto, Deferred •• .. • • • • 5 1 Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent .. 21% % Portuguese Four per Cent • Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .• • .. • • Ditto, Deferred l6 Ditto, Three per Cent .. 34% Dividends on the above payable in Lendon. Belgian, Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. 52 53% Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. 57% % 57% Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 90% •91 91% 91% PRICES OF RAILWAY SHARES. BUSINESS PAID. DONE AT CLOSINO ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. wants. The Constitutionnel has the following on the Bill before the Chamber of Deputies, authorising the employment of steam frigates in towing ships laden with corn "The committee, charged to examine the demand of 1,037,3861., for the keeping up for six months of steamers to be employed in towing vessels laden with corn, has ter minated its labours, and the Bill will be discussed to-mor row. The committee proposes to accord the credit asked for. However, the report does not omit pointing out certain objections that may be brought against the Bill. First of all, astonishment is expressed that the royal navy is not in a position to effect from its own resources the towage of vessels laden with corn. The Chamber is by no means sparing of funds when the object is to develope the re sources of this department, but it is on condition that it will be able to suffice for all eventualities, and that so simple an incident as towing vessels in the Dardanelles, the Straits of Gibraltar, and the Channel, shall not take it unawares, and cause it to ask for fresh aid. Secondly, the motive cannot be understood which has caused a preference to be givon for this duty of towing to large frigates of 450 horse-power, over steamers of from 160 to to 220 horse-power. The latter burn less than half the quantity of fuel, and they can tow several vessels together; they, in fact, do .this daily in Al geria. They are, no doubt, less 'rapid; but, OR the o th er band, it is easy to increase their number. Th ese steamers of 160 horse-power are more useful for this ser v i ce than a frigate of 540, such as the Vauban, which is to b e so employed, a much moment several steam co rvettes less quantity .of coals. B es id es, there of from 160 to 2 20 horse - power, lying unempl oye d , to make use of which would effect a great e conomy. Is it not to be n d a they are e consume at the present a feared that the desire to give high commands has had much to do with the choice of vessels, of from 450 to 540 horse power?" It is not alone the desire to give high commands that has had to do with the choice of these large steam frigates as tug boats. Under pretence of tugs, France will have a large fleet of steam frigates in the Darda nelles, ready to take advantage of those hostilities which her Ambassador, M. PIS CAToRY, is endeavouring to excite between Greece and Turkey, and to aid the Bey of TUNIS against his liege lord ; while, at the same time, by having a similar fleet, under a similar pretence, in the Straits of Gibraltar, the Mediterranean will, for a time, be completely blockaded, in fact turned into a French lake. We trust that the movements of these steam tugs will be narrowly watched. "It is rumoured," says the Courrier Francais, that the suppression of the native regiments forms part of a complete plan for re-organising the army of Africa, which is to be carried into execution at the beginning of spring." The Chamber of Deputies held no public sitting on Thursday. The Peers were occupied with the consi deration of various Bills recently passed in the other House, but which only possessed a local interest. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Thursday at 78f. 10c. ; the Five per Cents. 1151. 90c.; the Orleans - Railroad Shares, 1,273 f. 75c.; _Rouen, 8661. 25 c . ; Havre, 685 f: ; Great Northern , 623 f. 7 5 c. ; Avignon, 817 f. 50c. ; Vierzon, 5701. ; Bordeaux, 520 f.; Boulogne, 4001.; Basle, 2051. ; Dieppe, 3301. ; Paris and Strasburg, 446 f. 25c.; Tours and Nantes, 445 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 480 f.; Lyons and Avignon, 4801. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 451 f. 25c.; Troyes and Montereau, 305 f.; Domestic Debt, 2914. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Menai 12. Boulogne and Amiens, 13% —Namur and Liege, 4%—Orleans and Bordeaux, 7—Paris and Lyons, 6% —Sambre and Meuse, 6% —West Flanders, 2M We are rejoiced to learn that John Penny, Esq., of Sherborne, the proprietor of the Sherborne Journal, and a gentleman to whom the Liberal party in Dorsetshire are under great obligations, has been appointed to the uffice of Distributor of Stamps for the county of Dorset, vacant by the death of the late E. H. Keasberry, Esq. Amber., Notting., Boston, and Eastern Junction .. .. • • 2% .... 214 Birmingham and Oxford Junction 5 13% %14 • Birming., Wolver., and Dudley.. 5 .... 10 .... • Birming., Wolver., & Stour Valley 5 Birkenhead, Lancash., & Cheshire Junction Bristol and Exeter .• •. Ditto, New .. .. • • .. ... Buckinghamshire .. •• 61. 45.... .. N p. Caledonian . .. 30 .... 2631 Ditto, Half Shares .. .... 2 1 4 Direct Northern Scrip ..•• 214 N . Eastern Counties .. .. 20 .. 19% % • Ditto, ditto.. .. No. 2. 6/. 13s. 4d. Ditto, York Extension .. 4 .... % East Lancashire .. .. • • .. 17 .... 183 Ditto New • 7% .... 9 • • ..., Ditto, ditto New Sc r ip 13,1 East Lincolnshire .. .. • • • • 4 • • 6 14 %• • Edinburgh and Glasgow .. .. 50 • _ 741¢ Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 10 .. 20 1 4 Great Northern (London, & York Regd.) 2%. . . . 2 %% % % 2 Do., do (Direct Northern Regd.) 33 4 ••• • • • Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 27 1 % .... 23% • • Great North of England . .. 100 .. 233% • • • • Great Western .. .. • • •• 85 •• • • 1 1 1 ••• • • • Ditto, Half Shares .. .• .. 50 66 Ditto, New • • • • 4 34 •• • • 732. •" • • Huddersfield and Manchester .. lb • • Ditto, ditto, Extension H • • 5 • ••• • • • Hull and Selby .. .. • • 50 ....102 .• • Ditto, al f Shares .. 25 .. . 51% . Ipswich awl Bury St.Edmunds .. 14 .... 11% ... . . Ditto ditto, and Norwich .. 5 .... 2% • • Lancaster and Carlisle .. 50 .... 63% .. Leeds anal Bradford .. • • .. 35 Leicester and Bedford .. 165..... 1p dis, Leeds, Dewsbury, & Manchester 2712 33 .... Leeds and Thirsk .• 223( .... 1932 20 Ditto, New .. .. 10 _ 9%.. • • Ditto, Preference 6 per Cent.. • 312 •• •• London and Blackwell .. 161. 13s. 4d. Ditto. New, No. 1 .. 4 .... • London, Brighton, and S Coast.. 50 .... 82 1 % 53 Ditto, Guarant. Five per Cent. 9 .... 9%%s London and Greenwich .. 121. 15s. 4d. 9%.. London an North-Western ..100 ...• 178 176 Ditto, Quarters . .. 2 .... 1812 ••• • • • Ditto ditto, New Shares .. .. 2 .... 12% Ditto, 481. Shares M. &B. .. 40 ... 683;1 London and otith•Western . • 41/. 6s. 10d... 62 .. Ditto, New .. • • . 22% .... Ditto, Tenths (Consolidated) • • 50 .... Ditto, Scrip.. .. • • .. 5 .... 5 London and York Extension Scrip 2% Lymi and Ely Lynn and Dereham .. • . •• 15 .... 16% Manchester and Leeds .. .. • • 82 Ditto, Fifths .. . 5 .... 10 9% Ditto, Thirds (Reg.) .. • • 71. 45..... 2p.. Manchester, Buxton, & M a tl oc k 425.... • Np„ . Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .... •• • • Midland .. .• ..100 ... 116 115 116% . Ditto, New .• .. 30 33 1 % % 33% . Ditto, New • . .. 2 .... 414 % Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 100 .... 89% Newcastle and Berwick . •• 20 .. • • 323/ N 33 ... Newmarket and Chesterton" • • 10 .. • 9% 10% ... Norfolk .. • • ..100 .• ..134 135....... Ditto, Extension .. • • 6 ....... Northern Counties Union • •2% 34 ... . . North British .. .. • . 25 .. • • 33% Ditto, Half Shares .. .. • • 12 1 .• . 16% Ditto, Quarter Shares .. .. 2IA 43% Ditto, Extension .. •• • • % • • 1 1 4 •• ••• • • • • Ditto, Thirds .. .1 • • 1 .. • • 3% Northern and Eastern .. .. 50 .... ......... Ditto, New . .. 14 .... ......... North Staffordshire .. • • • • 5 .... 7% North Western .. • • • 4 .... 4 . Oxford,Worcest.,& Wol ver h mptn. 17% Preston and Wyre • • • • 25 .... 34 Ditto, Ralf Shares (A) .. 81 , { .... 12 . .... Scottish Central .. . .. 15 .... 22% Scottish Midland .. • Shrewsbury and Birmin g h am . . 3 .. • . .. Ditto. Class 11 • . • • I'h . • 14 % ..... Shropshire Union .. 425..... 1% dis . South Devon .. . • • . .. 40 .... 31 .... South Eastern and Dovor .. • • 33 1 .•• 37 .. ... . . .. ... Do., New (do. 15!.) No. 4. 3% % ...., South Wales ... • South Yorkshire, Donca s t er , an d Vale of Neath 2 .... West Riding Union .. • • .. 4/. 2S ..... 154 % . . York and Newcastle .. .. • 25 ..„ Ditto, New.. .. .. • • .. 10 Ditto, Preferenc e 15% • . .. • • • . 4 .... 7% it 8 . York sad North Midl an d 5 0 85 84 • ,.•.,,, Ditto, Extension • • .. .. 20 .... 36% Ditto. Preference . • .. 2 ... 10 7 / 8 11 • . ... . . Do. E. and W. Ridi ng E a t en.. • 10 .. ••. 21 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens .. .• 18 .. • • 13% • • •• •• Orleans and Bourde aux 6 . .. . Paris and Lyons .. .•.. 8 . % Paris and Orleans .. .. • • .. 20 .... ..... ... 48% Paris and Strasbourg .. . • .. 5 .... -- - 4 .... 4 ••• • • • JOINT-STOCK BANKS. London and Westminster .. .. 20 .... Union of Australi a .. • • .. 25 ... ........ . 24% ........ Real del MINES. Monte, TJnrezistered --. 214 3% 2344 233y2 63y,; 77 1.4 dis. HAMBURGH MAIL. BRUSSELS, MARCH 9.—The average price of wheat during the preceding week ending on the 6th inst. was—wheat, 36.94, rye, 26.03, being an advance of 4f. 12c. on wheat, and of rye, lt. 99c. At the opening of the sitting, the Chamber of Representa tives voted the project of law presented yesterday by the Minister of Finance, and which was seconded by Mr. Bra bant. This project of law exempts from the right of ton nage all vessels importing grain, and interdicts the distilling of potatoes and the feculte of the potato. The Minister who spoke on this subject argued that it would be the best to adjourn the discussion on the measures relative to subsistence which the Government has taken. The Minister of Finance stated that the Government was the best judge of the appropriation of the funds intrusted to it for subsidies, &c. 111. Melon, in reply to a ques tion from Mr. Villeges, stated that notwithstanding the most active surveillance the exportations of provisions in our southern frontiers, which had been fraudulently made, could not be less than from 12,C00 to 14,000 hectolitres. The Minister of Finance declared that the infringements of the law of custom on exportation of provisions are punished with all possible rigour. The neral discussion of the project relative to the alte rations in the selections of the the number of members for the Chamber was resumed. Mr. Lehon, the Minister of the Interior, and M. de Broackere successively addressed the Chamber, and the latter member declared that if there were anybody unconstitutional in what they proposed it was not, as M. de Theaux said, th e H on . M em b er M. Castian, but M. de Theaux himself. He then entered into a rapid political discus sion against the Minister, and denied that any member of the Opposition could be accused of having entered the assembly with an imperative mandate since the electors had no means whatever of being assured of the execution of the orders which they might give to a deputy. M. Dumotier resumed the discussion. After a few words exchanged between M. Rogier and M. de Theaux on electoral reform, the discussion was terminated. The Minister of the Interior, in reply to 31. Bronchere, de clared that, according to his own showing, the amendment of M. Castian was unconstitutional, because contrary to the re gulations of the C ons tit ut i on ; he had regard to another object than the census alone to confer the name of elector. At the close of the sitting, AL Donay spoke in favour of the amendment proposed by M. Cless, which tended to in clude the districts ofFurnes, of Dixmunde, and Ostend, in the privilege of sending two members. M. de Breyne opposed this amendment, which was replied to by the Minister of the Interior. The communal elections which are taking place this day at Brussels have presented a very remarkable fact. Two political associations have been formed ; the success of either the one or the other will have a decisive result; the victory depends on the preponderance which the two associations dispute. Both have made great efforts, and have called forth all their resources and all their influence. What will be the result of this double agitation in the midst of an electoral party in our capital ? 2,000 electors were called together to take part in the voting; 1,004 electors only replied to the call, and of these 1,004 electors 60 re fused to pass under the standard of either one or the other association. They proposed either to give no vote at all or to waste their votes on those candidates who had no chance whatever of success. 994 electors only obeyed the word of command which had been given them. Thus in the very heart of the mg at populous section of our city, it is very evident that above half of the electoral body (1,066 out of 2,000) h ave h e l d b ack from this contest, andby their silence have protested against the yoke which those associa tions wished to lay upon them. This result is a decided evidence which ought not to remain without its effects. We are assured by a person who is well informed that the Belgian Government has given orders that a large quantity of grain shall be immediately purchased in London, to be carried to Belgium, and there sold at very reduced prices. The Government has thought to adopt this plan while waiting the arrival of 102 vessels which the merc h an t s o f A ntwerp are expecting from the Black Sea, and which have been under sail three months. A good east wind will enable them to come up in a few days with this con s id era bl e supp l y of prov i s i ons , an d will causs an immediate fall in the pric e o f p rov i s i o ns of every . kind. A letter from G overnment, d ated M arc h 8, states :—Already, yesterday afternoon, a report was circulated in the townthe that the market en th e f o ll owing d a y wo uld be the theatre of most serious disturbances, and that the people-would seize and steal the wheat and potatoes. This morning, besides the buyers and sellers, a large concourse of people assembled at an early hou r . Up on the exorbitant demands of the sellers, who asked as much as 62 sous for a ginner of wheat (rather more than the seventh pt ota ai p to t f nes a , hectolitre), an d 24 s ous for a high, , and quarter notwithstandingof potatoes, the the murmurs rose very presence of the police and gendarmes, a basket of potatoes was scattered on the ground, and the whole, in an instant, gathered up by the crowd. A sack containing two or thre e quarters of wheat was seized, and carried off, without an at. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. THE LATE ACCIDENT AT HER MAJESTY'S NEW 1 PALACE. MAyen 12.—1 t is stated that some men were employed removing a centre under one of the arched passages of the principal building now in progress when the arch gave way, and fell on the scaffold below, precipitating that and the men on it to the ground, a distance of nearly forty feet. The principal foreman of the bricklayers, who was on the arch at the time giving directi ons to his men, fortunately escaped unhurt, but three of the men on the scaffold were injured very seriously; indeed, James Blake was thought to be dead ; he still remains in a very dangerous state. Clement Gale's leg has been set, and he is going on favourably, Jacob Norris had two of his ribs fractured. In consequence of the heavy fall of snow, the men employed on the building were taken off in the morning, or the loss of life might have been very serious; there has often been a hundred men em ployed on this part of the work. On hearing of the accident her Majesty and the Prince gave directions that every assistance should be rendered the sufferers. Drs. Cass and Hoffmeister, her Majesty's surgeons, have been attending on the unfortunate men. ye Tr to ho t z a ss H abye o ,e N n . i sv S ne t or very EDWARDbbetter s v v e e t G e a E r r a x e n E h ß o a tn; ‘ , l p c' The Court leaves Osborne on the 17th. seriouslyr than iPil al h IE e Tt h' h eG a sw. G.C.8.--This beenl3te.—r winter, for Tbhu i a t: long period. For some time past, Mlle. Mars, the celebrated actress, has been seriously ill, and her malady has now be come so alarming that her friends have not the slightest hope of being able to save her.—Galignani. It was erroneously stated, on Friday, that the building adjoining the royal dairy in the Home-park, at Windsor, is intended for the slaughtering of cattle for the supply of the royal household when' residing at WiWinds or Castle. The tr u th i s, that the building in quest i on is simply a boiling house, for the purpose of boiling Swedish turnips and other vegetables for feeding cattle and poultry; and, in stead of now being in course of erection, it was erected last autumn, and has been in use these four months. FRENCH PLAYS. —Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by the Ladies Fanny and Mary Howard, Lord James Murray, and Sir George Couper, honoured the French Plays with her presence on Friday evening. tempt to stop the , 1(1,70,,f 0r , 9f , veral ennntry p w h r , had come to sell, left the market with their goods, but at last the sale went on with 1055 disturbance, and wheat was sold in small quantities at 51. 27e, the quarter, and rye at 43. A great fermentation was, however, remarked among the people, and serious apprehensions for the future were entertained. Menaces were thrown out against certain individuals who are suspected of purchasing grain on the account of monopolists, and it is asserted that even in this town there are several magazines amply stocked with grain, while there is a great want in the market. THE GOVERNMENT PLAN OF EDUCATION. The following letter, containing explanations important to Dissenting congregations, has been addressed by Mr. Kay Shuttleworth to the Rev. Robert Eckett, the Secretary of the Wesleyan Association : " 38, Gloucester-square, Hyde Park, March 12, 1847. " Rev. read in the Patriot newspaper this evening a letter, to which your name is attached, addressed on behalf of the Committee of Privileges to ministers of the Wesleyan Association, requesting them 'to use their best efforts to get a petition from every congregation in their circuit,' in order to induce 'the House of Commons not to vote any further sum of money to be placed at the disposal of the Committee of Council on Education,' and to entreat the House to petition the Queen to dissolve the Committee by whom this pernicious scheme' (the minutes for August and December, 1846) has been recommended, and to declare that the in terests of the nation will be best promoted by the non-inter ference of the Government as to the education of the people. A form of petition is appended to this letter, and intended to be sent to every congregation connected with your asso ciation. •' For this purpose the letter commences with the following representations :—' Her Majesty's Ministers having recently brought before Parliament certain minutes of the Committee of Privy Council on Education, proposing that provision should be made by Government for training, supporting, and pensioning schoolmasters and mistresses, and for creating and supporting a widely extended system of education, by which it is intended that the instructors of masses of the rising generation should become Government stipendiaries, and expectants of Government pensions, to obtain which purposes they will have to secure the approbation of an inspector appointed by Government, but who must also be sanctioned by one of the Archbishops, and who is to re main in office only so long as such sanction is continued.' " If such was your interpretation of the intentions of the Government, I cannot wonder that you should have used your utmost efforts, in conjunction with the Committee of Privileges, to arouse the congregations of the Wesleyan As sociation to defeat so gross an injustice. But if you have misunderstood, and unintentionally very gravely misrepresented the plan developed in the recent minutes of the Committee of Council, observe the consequences. "Every superintendent minister placing confidence in your Committee of Privileges; every local preacher, acting in obedience to the suggestions of his superintendent, and every congregation which may rely on the representations of its minister, will receive from your letter the impression that no school connected with the Wesleyan Association can partake of the grants offered by the Committee of Council in their recent minutes, unless this school be subject to the visits of an inspector appointed with the concurrence of one of the archbishops, and liable to be dismissed by the withdrawal of the archiepiscopal sanction. They will believe that no Wesleyan pupil teacher can be apprenticed; no master can receive a gratuity; no teacher can be pen sioned; no apprentice can be elected to a Qteen's scholar ship; and no candidate in a Normal school, connected with the Wesleyan Association, can obtain a certificate, and the consequent augmentation of salary, unless he be examined by an inspector appointed, with concurrence of an archbishop, and for whose continuance in office his Grace's sanction is requisite. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Alpert, accompanied by the Princess Royal, took a drive to Newport on Friday afternoon, in a carriage and four. On Saturday her Majesty and her Royal Consort drove oat in an open sairriage, the Prince driving. The Royal Children took their usual airings on SatardsP and yesterday morning went to the sea beach. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, and the Ladies and cier." tlemen of the Royal suite, attended divine service yesterd4 morning in Whippingham church. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent attended divine service yesterday morning in the Chapel Royal, St. Jarnee• The prayers were read by the Rev. Mr. Helmore, the lasso by the Rev. G. Rept on , an d t h e commun i on service by the Rev. Dr. Sleath. The sermon was preached by the Bisho of Bangor. The anthem was " Wherewithal shall Young Man" ( Boyce). Mr. Turle presided at the Orge n o i Lady Fanny Howard was in waiting on the Duclosl of Kent. Among the nobility present were the Marqu. A Anglesea, Lords St. G ermans , D evon , Li s t ow ell, Colville, Cl' Castlereagh. His Royal Highne ss th e D u k e o f Cambridge vial Christ's Hospital School yesterday afternoon. attended bf Her Royal Highn ess th e D uc h ess o f Kent, es Lady Fanny How ar d, Si r G eorge C ouper , an d Lord 1- Murray, honoured the Italian Opera with her presence Saturday evening. A Cabinet Council was held at three o'clock on Satt irdi r l d afternoon, at the Foreio . n.oflice It was attended bYI4OII. John Russell, th e Lord Chancellor, the Mavis o f 1 1)4- downe, the Earl o f 'Tinto, Sir George Grey, viscount sir merston, Earl G r ey, th e Ch ance ll or o f t h e Excher„ a e r ' t John Hobhouse, th e E ar l Auckland, Lord Campbell , Viscose, the E ar l o f Cl aren d on, the Marqu i s o f Clen...," An. g, the Right Hon. T. B. Ma cau l a y, an d the Right "'"-- isabouchere. The Council sat an hour and a half. m I'4 A deputation, consisting of Mr. Benjamin itt lee4 tari a —. 4l( Mr Coward, Mr. Akerman, and Mr. Grey, had an i O 4O . of with the Right Hon. E. Strutt on Saturday, at the u t. the Comn issioners of Railways, in Great George-stre e f Mr. Plumptre, M.P., and Mr. Rodwell, had an intern 4 with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Satardato' official residence in Downing -street. A deputation, consisting of M r . M as t er man, E r ido li es, r‘ Pattison, M.P., Mr. Lyall, M.P., Mr. Atcheson, Air Mr. Phillips, Mr. Williams, Mr. Saunders,Do membrancer, had an interview with Lord John Be es Saturday, at his official residence in Downing-Street . • Lord Lansdowne had an interview with the Earl of don on on Saturday, at the Office of the Board of Trade. pith Mr. Masterman, M.P., had an interview on Saturday the Chancellor of the Exchequer. to w' Mr. William Evans, M.P., had an interview on Pa with the Right Hon. E. Strutt. oleo and the City On Saturday, Lord Campbell gave a dinner at Strti of House, to Lord John Russell, the Earl of Lincoln, th e Lord Hardwicke, the Earl of Clarendon, Earl Granville,jos Stanley, Lord Lyndhurst, Lord Brougham, Sir Of' Graham, General F ox , M r. L ockhart, Mr. Two'' , Danvers. Dispatches from th e G overnor o f New South W.. 1.8 received at the Colonial Office. ter The Duke of Welli ng t on a tt en d e d the early servieecseslel day, in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Rev. Or' officiated and preached the sermon. halmrived Lord Chief Justice Wilde, and Lady Wilde, rived at Far rance ' s Hotel, Upper Belgrave•stree t, Chelmsford. HER MAJESTY'S THEATitir e Lucia di Lammermoor was repeated for the thi r j ," - , lPi te this season on Saturday, and never has this chef l io let of Donizetti been so perfectly represented, as 1 . 14 0 101 in this ccuntry - . To equal the performance of Sufr., i$ evening would be exceedincdy difficult—to surP' - el' would be impossible. Madame Castellan was in e r icis lent voice, and acted exquisitely. She is the very -toy of the author—pathetic, gentle, guil e l ess . Her rr-°, o f , tion of this character is so true tir nature that sh, e , - 00 passes all her predecessors, simply because she wakes of apparent effort to do so. She trusts to the imit at ed her own heart, and she is perfect. Frwchini has to himself his position as the first of modern tenors' the the scene of the ma l e di ct i on h e i s unapprea chsib ie vio scene was, of course, encored), and the ••Tu cite 9 left was given with a tenderness and pathos $ ll9 / 6 0e. nothing to be desired. C o l ett i, as E nr i co, wa s "0 that His voce psnsses, in a marvellous degr e , e ,:„ - toue power which is vanchsaftli to but few ni l tbis, voices—the power or expression. Never, Wi t ". 01 season, did we fully appreciate the chorus e : o o%, this opera. ewe are now acted as well as e e - se. and this adds greatly to the vraisemblance of the "i se lle The new ballet of Corolla tollowed, with Mad e°3(l- asti Carolina Rosati as the heroine. Mademoisellegsler is a great acquisition. She is now what Fanny bee was fifteen years ago, and never in the zenith " id ies powers did the delightful Fanny surpass the perforf or ic of Caroline Rosati in this ballet. The youthful,: her Taglioni, t o o, i s wort h y o f t h e name she b ears . 'iegs. pas in Co ra li a s h e i s the i mpersonation of graceul-, The house was filled in every part. " Such a conception of the intentions of the Committee of Council would justify the appeal of the Committee of Privi leges to the congregations of the Wesleyan Association, and such a representation is likely to rouse the Superintendent Minister, the local preachers, and their congregations to the utmost activity, to petition the House of Commons to with hold the Parliamentary grant for the promotion of so perni cious a scheme.' "Accordingly, as your letter suggests that ' it is important that the petitions should be numerously signed," it is pro bable that on the ensuing Sunday, March 14 (as your letter is dated March 4), the form of petition appended to your letter will be signed by great numbers of persons belonging to the congregations and Sunday-schools of the Wesleyan Association. All will feel that a plan of education, which thus imposes the interference of an ecclesiastical authority as a condition of grants from the Committee of Council to dissenting schools, is an intolerable injustice. " You will rejoice to learn that the danger which you ap prehend to be impending over, the schools connected with the congregation of the lfesleyan Association is a delusion. " The Committee of Council never made any grant to a dissenting school on such a condition as you have supposed. They have never acquired, either as a consequence of their grants or otherwise, power to authorise any inspector ap pointed with the concurrence of an archbishop, to enter any British or dissenting school. The order in Council of the 10th of August, 1840, makes the approval of an archbishop an incident in the appointment of. in spectors of Church of England schools alone. Six other Inspectors have been appointed, in whose nomination the Archbishop has in no respect interfered, and three more of this class are about to be appointed. "Their Lordships have agreed (vide Minutes 1842-3, page 537) that they will not proceed to recommend any candidate to her Majesty as an inspector of schools connected with the British and Foreign School Society until they have con sulted the committee of that society, and found that the can didate has their approval. "In like manner their Lordships have agreed to consult the Education Committee of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland as to the appointment ofany inspectors of schools which are by law, or by their constitution, connected with that church. (Vide Minutes, 1839.40, pages 19 and 20.) " The Committee of Council have been of opinion that unless each inspector possessed the confidence of the religious communion with which the schools visited by him were connected, he would not usefully co-operate with the school managers. Their Lordships have, therefore, in proceeding to I nominate inspectors, been ready to consult the Central Board, watching over the interests of any distinct class of schools, in order to avoid the appointment of any person who especially on religious grounds did not enjoy their confidence. No in spector is employed in the visitation of other schools than those for the examination of which he is appointed, except on the direct and formal invitation of their managers, which rarely occurs. "Schools connected with the Wesleyan Association would not therefore ever be entered by any Church of England inspector, nor by any inspector who did not enjoy the confidence of the Committee of Privileges. If the managers of such schools desired the aid of Government to enable them to apprentice pupil teachers—to procure for these school assistants exhibitions to Normal schools at the close of their apprenticeship —or an, augmentation of the salaries of their masters, the principle on which the instectors of schools are appointed would oppose no obstacle to their appli cation for such aid, for no person would be so employed who did not enjoy the confidence of the Committee of Privileges. The opposite conception is a delusion which the proceedines of the Committee of Council as recorded in their minutes from the year 1839 to this date disprove. Those minutes contain abun dant proof that the Committee of Council have with un wavering impartiality endeavoured, on all occasions, to pro tect the interests of the minority from civil injustice, while they have paid due respect both to the rights of conscience and to the religious institutions and convictions of all classes of her Majesty's subjects. " I am, Rev. Sir, your obedient humble servant, "JAMES PHILLIPS KAY SHUTTLEWORTH "Rev. Robert Eckett, 6, Argyle -square." WILSON IN PARIS. (From Galignani's Messenger.) Mr. Wilson, who has long been distinguished among his vocal brethren of the other side of the Channel, for the admirable manner in which he gives expression to Scottish song, whether serious, pathetic, or comic, •has commenced in Paris a series of musical soi ees, intended to illustrate the beauties and peculiarities of the musical compositions of his native country. The first of these entertainments was given on Monday evening, in Sax's Rooms, Rue Neuve St. Georges, when the vocalist fu ly supported the high reputation he has long enjoyed in Great Britain. Mr. Wilson is an accomplished musician, possessing a tenor voice of the finest quality and great range; his style, which is the simplest and least ornate perhaps of any public singer of the day, is evidently fashioned on the simple ballads of Scotland, and confers on these beauteous gems of song a pathos and sweetness which would in vain be sought in the more elaborate kinds of vocalisation now generally indulged in. But what more particularly distinguishes Mr. Wilson from his brothers in Apollo is, that he is equally at home in the serious and the comic, the sad and the gay, the grand and the ridiculous ; so that on Monday evening, after melting his audience to tears by the touchingly pathetic " Land o' the Leal" and "The Flowers of the Forest," he exhibited such a fund of native humour in his " Mime cam our Gudeman at E'en" and " Get up and bar the Door," as absolutely to keep his brethren of the North, of whom we noticed a tolerable sprinkling present, in a roar from beginning to end. It was something new in this classic land of song to witness an individual do the honours of an entire soiree unaided and alone ; and what was not the least novelty on the occasion was his prefacing the various specimens of his " native wood notes wild" by a variety of anecdotes and explanatory observations, which largely aided in rendering the antique specimens of Scottish song intelligible to modern English ears. The impression created by ..Mr. Wilson's debiil before a mixed Parisian and liritish audience was highly flattering for that gentleman ; and it is scarcely to be doubted that he will gain in public estimation the more generally his taste and talent as a vocalist become known. ENMy LIND.—The director of the theatre Ander- Wien, at Vienna, has had a medal struck in honour gf " The Swedish Nightingale." It contains on the one side her por trait, and on the other a star, with the motto "Nescit occa sum." (It knows no setting.) The medal is to be presented to 11Idlle. Lind with an address, signed by the elite of the society of Vienna. ROYAL -MATERNITY CHARITY.—Her Majesty has been pleased to intimate that she will become the patron of this charity, which, since its foundation in 1757, has afforded essential relief to 346,357 necessitous married women, by assisting them in their accouchement at their own homes, and supplying them with medicines, &c. TREASURERS AppoiNTßl ) UNDER I'HE SMALL DEBTS ACT' Coe° The following a pp o i ntments of Treasurers of Local in the va r i ous di str i cts under the Small Debts Ac t bs' been finally settled : NORTHERN DISTRICTS. ! s od. Anthony Lambe r t, E sq., Al nw i ck, Northum ber' Robert Bendle, Esq., of Carlisle. Johnson Atkinson Busfield, Esq., of Bradford. John Peele Clapham, Esq., of Burley, near Oder. George Croft, Esq., of Richmond. George Park, Esq., of Liverpool. John Trever, Esq., of Chester. EASTERN AND MIDLAND DISTRICTS William Edmund Ferrers, Esq. Jonathan Townley, Esq., of Norwich. Thomas Sharp, Esq., of Northampton. George Ebenezer Foster, Esq., of Cambridge Thomas Heath, Esq., of Warwick. William Blow Collis, Esq., F of stourbridge. Jonathan Elliott Gou g h , of Hereford. WALES. Richard Harrison, Esq., of Holyivell, Flintshire. Robert Kingscote, Esq. SOUTHERN AND METROPOLITAN DISTRICT S. Thomas Gripper, Esq., of Hertford. Frederick Mangles, Esq., of Guildford. William Frederick Augustus Delane, Esq. James Hoskins, Esq., of Portsmouth. WESTERN DISTRICTS. Edwin Nicholetts, Esq., of Bridport. Harman Visger, Esq., of Bristol. James Terrell, Esq., of Exeter. We believe the salaries of the respective treasurers are flat yet finally settled; and whatsoever amount may be prorT t it will be on the understanding that the whole arrang foe of the districts, and the duties and emoluments ig eient treasurers shall be subject to revision, after eg. ' of the period has elapsed to afford the means of ili t dr a n r t o neut working of the Act passed in the last session 01 HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—HeY Royal I Lad,' the Duchess of Ke n t, a tt en d e d b y the Baroness de Speth O , mar i, Fanny Howard, Lady Mary Howard, Lady A ueli c o uper , Dawson, Lord James Murray, and Sir GeorTgehea tree: honoured the perfor mances at h er M a j esty ' s Saturday evening w ith h er presence, and occupied her oi and jesty's box. In th e Q ueen A dela i de ' s box were the Bar ne y, Countess of Sheffield, L a d y M ary Li ndsay an d pa rty. were also present the Duke and Ductless of Moritr e l s s . d Marquis of Aylesbury. the Maiquis and Marchit,e,, A o Douro, the Marquis of Sligo, his Excellency the 0, l de Minister, the Baroness Brunow, and Mademoiselle u i t'teri Lechner ; his Excellency the French Ambassador, th e n the of Falmouth, t h e E ar l o f M unster, the Earl of Cardig,lor Earl of Abayne, Viscount Maidst one , L or d an d Lea4roo' donald, the Vi s co u nt C an til upe, hi s Excellency the l' f i t y verian vinister, the Count Kensinffsky, Lord 2 i ' es tel: clarence, Lady Augusta W en t wort h , L ady Char l es !yellh sea Lord NVard e , L a dy W ood f or d , H on. G. Bvng, Sir Lady Carroll, Sir P. B roo k e , Si r H . Webb, Sir T. 11a29jot W. and Lady Freemantle, Sir G. Wombwell, Bart., Le e Baring, Colonel Wildman, Mr., Mrs., and Miss Br"' Trelawney, Mr. Herbert De Burgh, &c. pd DRURY-LANE THEATRE. —We , are happy to 0 ,, that every prospect p resents i tself of this theatre being the pletely crammed to-night, in compli ment to M r . Bunn~Q ® ' IS lessee, for whose b ene fi t t h e entertainments are give"' ton addition to all form er exert i ons, it must never be forgeafol that Mr. Bu nn i s t h e author of three highly ailece7hia operas, produced within the short space of five months , season. b l 9. Sir Robert and L a d y P ee l' s di nner party was to " the Excellency the American Minister and Mrs. Bancref% o o Marquis of Chandos, Lord Hcwden, th e S pea k er , the.„v of Westmi ns t er and Mrs. Buckland, M r . H arcour t, Mr' l'aift Mimes, Mr. Wm. Hamilt on , M r. Pickersgill, Mr B it Mr. Edwin Landseer, Mr. Panizzi, Mr. E. Smirke, &C. • f a it BRISTOL SUGAR - MARKET, MARCH 12.-- i bis amount of business has b een d one i n our sugar-market Mamie week, ,;nil prices are rath er d earer, part i cularly for Woe ties, of which the assortment offering has been good. refined market is very quiet.—Bristol Mercury. There is a lady residing not a thousand miles fry Brighton. well conne c t e d an d i n i n d ependent circumat•—en'S who purchas es a t a ti me f our or fi ve pounds ' worth of °As shirts, collars, and oth e r ar ti c l es o f t h e ki n d , w hich _ .16 gives to a poor woman to sell, and, in order to assist the M e , she gives the woman a letter signed with her own trier which she is instructed to t a k e to var i ous persons. The on begins thus :—" In the name cf Jesus," and it then goes_, to state that the b earer i s a person i n humble life i n distill; and that any person purchasing the collars which she ( on lady) " has made herself," they will confer a favour aP her (the said lady.) Thus armed and instructed, the ,P7 O , woman commences her t ra di ng and charitable operet.l°lo. The collars, &c., which th e l a d y b ought at 6d., Bd, e' or e each, she marks a price on herself. The sixpenny onaes 00, to be sold f o r 25., the eightpenny ones a t 2s. 6d., and so 7,1 If the woman sell above 30s. worth i n a d ay , s h e is P'"o2. 12. by ber patroness f or h er d ay ' s work; if she sell a l ess 0 tot ber she is p a id on l y s i xpence a day, and she complains she is not sufficiently remunerated ; and this is how facts became 'known. In this lady's character there ! B _ oo mystery which ought to be cleared up. Are the profitag" to some charitable institution ?—Brighton Herald The PROVISIONS FROM THE U NITED STATES.."`"'" — d Henry Clay from New York, Richmond from Charleston, an John Garrow from New Orleans, which were reported at L1.9a,.. verpool or the 10th and 11th i nstant, b r i ng 2,105 bane flour, 7,254 ba gs an d 2,290 quarters Ind i an corn , 1,277 'l— rak Indian corn meal, and 23,294 bushels rice. WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, FRIDAY.---.1...e ar rivals this week are very limited. An advance of Is. to t r; per quarter is demanded on w h ea t, b ut b uyers ar e cautious, and only a small exte n t o f b us i ness i s d one . O a ts and she ll ' ing in fair reque s t a t ra th er more money . B ar l e y is more readily sold than of late, and makes full prices. In beans 11, alteration. THE LACE TRADE.—The weekly amount of sales does not increase; things remaining here much in the sere e state as at our last report. A good number of buyers have been to market, but their purchases, though tolerably' ge neral, havenot been large. The home and foreign business are alike conducted with much caution. Insertions, both single and double warp, if of good patterns, meet with fair sale, at reasonable prices. Fine plain nets are offering at lower rates, by a house which has put its machinery of this class to work longer hours. Other things remain at about the same prices as for some weeks past. Yarns are, if anything, heavier. Several manufacturers, holding in the aggregate a large body of machinery, are shortening the time of work ing their mills very materially.—Nottingham Review. 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