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The Committee of Management have the very high gratification of ant - mincing to the Governors and Friends of this useful and interest ing Charity that her Majesty the QUEEN has been graciously pleased to take the ROYAL ORTHOPEDIC HOSPITAL under her Royal PATRONAGE. By order of the Committee of Management, H. GILLETT GRIDLEY, Hon. Secretary. B. MASKELL, Secretary. RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. MESSRS. LAMOND and Co., RAILWA.T SHARE AUCTIONEERS, beg to thank their Friends bid the Public fer their continued support and patronage, and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c., sake place every Ttiatnay and FRIDAY. at One o'clock, at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London. to which place, &vows, containing instructions (with a reference), are respectfully requested to be addressed. AIL Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited, the day Drevious to their being offered ; and advices of results will be brwarded by the, first post after the sale, and the proceeds Imme diately disposed of according to lastrutions. Offices. Hall of Commerce. Threadneedle-street. London. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE, The Nobility, Gentry, Subscribers to the Opera. and the Public, ase respectfully informed, that this Theatre will OPEN for the SEASON TO-MORROW EVENING, Feb. 16th, when will be per formed Donizetti's celebrated Opera of LA FAVORITA. Fernando, Signer Gardoni (his first appearance in this country); Alfonso XI. (King of Castile). Signor Superchi (his first appearance) ; Baldassari, Signor Bouche (his first appearance) ; Leonora, Mdlle. Sanchioll; Ines, Didlle. Nascio (her first appearance in this country). The" National Anthem" will be sung by Mdlles. Nasio, Solari, Faggianl, and Sanchloli, Signors Gardoni, Bouche. F. Lablache, Superchi, and other Artistes of the establishment and Chorus. After which a new and original grand Ballet, in firs tableaux, I,y Mr. Paul Taglioni, entitled - CORALIA ; or, THE INCONSTANT KNIGHT. Coralia, Mdlle. C. Rosati (her first appearance) ; the Knight Va. debrand, M. Paul Taglloni ; Squire, M. Gouriet ; Bertha, Mdlle. petit; Page, Mdlle. Honore; Duke, M. Goaselin ; Fraisendin, M. Venerra ; Fisherman, M. di Mattis. DANCES.—Second Tableau—Scene Daniante des Caprices, by Mdlle. Rosati. _ Third Tableau—Pas de la Nymphs des Eaux et de Sea Compagnes, by Mdlies. Rosati, Montfort, Cassan, and the Corps de Ballet. Fourth Tableau—Pas de la ltosiere, by Mdlle. M. TagDOW (her first appearance) ; Pas de Deux, by M. P. Taglionl an Mdlle. Rosati ; Deutche Rhein, False des Pages et des Demoiselles d'llonneur, by the Corps de Ballet. Fifth Tablu—Pas de Trots, by Mdlle. Wauthier, M. d'Or, and /Lille. C. BaTrEourt ; Ballabile des Halbardiers, by Mdme. Stephan, Honore, Cassell, Thevenot, Berth), Julienne, L'Amoureux, and the Corps de Ballet ; Bas do ITheonstance, by Mdlle. Rosati, Mdme. Stephan, and M. Taglioni. Doors open at Half-past Seven ; the Opera to commence at Eight. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. FIRST NIGHT OF THE NEW OPERA. THIS EVENING Will be performed the new Grand Open', entitled:MATILDA OF HUNGARY. Count Magnus, Mr. Borrani; Podiebrad, Mr. Harri son ; Mathias, Mr. Weiss ; Matilda, Mica Romer ; Lillie, Miss It. Isaacs. After which the new Ballet, called THE PRETTY SICILIAN. Count Amede, M. Croce; Rosella, Mdlle. Baderna. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. R. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVF.SING Will be performed a new and original Comedy, called THE SCHOOL FOR SCHEMING. Principal characters by Messrs. Far ren, Stuart, Buckstofte, Howe, Selby, Brindal. Mrs. Glover, Mrs. Humby, Mrs. Yarnold, Mica Forteacue, Miss Bennett, Miss Rey nolds, &c. During the evening the Band will perform the Overture, "Lac des Fees," " Plantagenet," " Itose," and " Helen" Polkas. &e. To conclude with the Original Grand Fairy Ext ravaganza. called the INVISIBLE PRINCE ; or. the Island of Tranquil Delights. Principal characters by Mr. James Bland, Miss P. Horton, Dirs. L. S. Buckingham, Miss Reynolds, and Miss Julia Bennett. THEATRE ROYAL. LYCEUM. Under the ManagementENlNG ot Mrs. Keeley. THIS EV __ _ _ Will be performed a new Comic Drama, called £oo9 REWARD. qr.:eters by Messrs. A. Wigan, Meado ws, Emery , H. Butler, Miss Mars, and Miss Forster. Atter which a new Farce, called THE WIGWAM. Characters by Messrs. Matthews, o:berry, Keeley, Miss Arden, Miss Turner, Miss Foster, and Miss Mary Keeley. To be followed by the Farce of THE ETON BOY. Captain Popham, Mr. Wigan ; Dabster, Mr. Keeley ; Miss Fanny Curry, Miss Dickinson. To conclude with the Farce of MRS. WHITE. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. Ills EVENING Will be performed t celebrated Drama, called THE GREEN BUSHES; •r, A Hundred Years Ago. Murtogh, Mr. 0. Smith; Dennis, Mr. Cullenford ; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Grinnidge, Mr. Weed ; Madame St. Aubert, Madame Celeste ; Geraldine, Mrs. Tates; Nelly O'Neil, Mrs. Fitzwilliam. To conclude with the Fairy Spectacle, founded on the Ballet of LA OiSELLE, entitled THE PHANTOM DANCERS; er, the Willa Bride. Principal characters by Mr. Wright, Mr. P. Bedford, Mr. 0. Smith, Mr. Culleurord, Madame Celeste, Miss Marian Taylor. Miss Emma Harding, Miss Ellen Chaplin, and Mrs. Laws. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING Will be performed Beßini's Opera Serie, entitled NORMA. Pomo, Mr. Allen; Oroveso, Mr. Letter ; Plavius, Mr. Wynn ; Adelgisa, Miss A. Romer; Clotilda, Miss Rourke ; Norma, Mse Hassan°. In the course of the evening Professor lIEM NIING and his ta lented CHILDREN will go through their wonderful performances. Previous to the Pantomime the Band will perform " The Ame rican Polka," introducing "The Railroad Overture." To conclude with the Grand Comic Christmas Pantomime, en titled The ENCHANTED BEAUTIES of the GOLDEN CASTLE ; or. The One-eyed Geni. Harlequin, Mr. Bologna; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ; Columbine. Miss Burbidge Sprite, Mr. 11. Marshall ; Clown, Mr. Flexmore. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. THIS EVENING. Will be performed a new Drama, entitled MARIE JEANNE ; ow, La Femme da Peuple. Bertrand, 31. Langeyal ; Marie Jeanne, Mdlle. Clarissa. To conclude with the Play of I:AI:BERGE DES ADItETS. Robert Macaire, M. Lemaitre ; Clementine, Mdlle. Fouquet. During the piece, M. Lemaltre will dance " La False de Faust." Boxes, 6s. , Pit, 3s. 64. Stalls, 30.; Gallery, hs. Doors opened at kalf-past Seven, and the performances commence at Eight. Private Boxes, Stalls, and Places may be engaged at Mitchell's Library, 33, Bond-street; and at the Box-office. ETHIOPIAN gERENADERS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. The celebrated ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, Pell, Harrington, White, Stanweod, and Germon, will have the honour of repeat ingl their Inimitable ENTERTAINMENTS, at the above Theatre, TO-MORROW EVENING and every Tuesday, Thursday, and Sataday. Doors open at Eight o'clock, and the Entertainment com mences at Half-past Eight. The Programme will be varied on each occasion. Their next DAY PERFORMANCE will take place on Monday Morning, Feb 22. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 25.; Amphitheatre, 2s. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Yoder the patronage of the Queen, Prince Albert, and other Members of the Royal Family.—Mr. BATTY's Fox-Hounds meet every Evening at Half-past Six, during the week. THIS EVENING Will be performed TIIE ROYAL FOX-AUNT; or, Life's Course of Men and Steeds. Entire change of the SCENES of the CIRCLE, by the double Company of Foreign Artistes. To conclude with the succ essfulComicltquestrlanFairy Pantomime entitled THE FORTY THIEVES ; or, Harlequin and Ali Baba and the Robber's Cave. Clown, Mr. Roehez ; Harlequin, Mr. W. Har vey ; Pantaloon, Mr. Laffarini ; Columbine, Miss Louisa Waite. BOX-Office open from eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at six and commence at half-past six o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. roadfoot. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mrs. Frances Davidge. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new Drama, entitled BABY RATTLER; or, The Progress of a Scamp. Characters supported by the whole strength of the Company. After which, the favourite Ballet of LA STATUE BLANCHE. To conclude with RAYMOND AND AGNES. Itoz-office open from eleven till four o'clock. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. Boxes, Is., Half price, 6d.; Pit, 6d.; Gallery, 3J. THIS EVENING Will be performed THE CASTLE OF ST. ALMO. Principal characters by Messrs. Hicks, Dale, Forman, Searle, Bird, Miss Vincent, Miss Pearce, &.. After which, BURIED ALIVE; or, The Illustrious Stranger. Benjamin ilowbell, Mr. Forman. To conclude with THE RUINED HOUSE AT MILBANK ; or, The Murder at the Lonely Creek. THE WEATHER.—Stiti 0771C11, FEBRUARY 14. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 27; Highest, 40 ; Noon, 42. BAROMETER, 29.70. Wind W.—A brisk thaw, with rainy thick weather. FEBRUARY 15. TIIERHOMETER, Lowest, 41; Highest, 45 ; Noon, 30. BAaOIIETER, 29.42.—W1ND W., hazy. MGR WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE TIIIS DAY. Morning minutes after 1. Evening .. 54 minutes after 1 'A A : fj At IV 41 04 1 4 2741 b , ti -"`"", , R 0 T • • •., • nevi/bag, *int LONDON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1847. From the extraordinary majority of IG4, i n a house of only 332, it would appear that our ob servations as to the subserviency of the French Cham bers to the will of their SOVEREIGN are confirmed. On Friday the obsequious Deputies of France re sponded favourably t 3 the Royal Address of King Louis PHILIPPE, 248 voting for that response, and merely 84 discountenancing its expressions. It only required this consummation of the recent proceedings In connexion with the Montpensier alliance to brim THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY .EVENING-, FEBRUARY 15, the cup of the political degradation of France to overflowing, and to prove that the Legislature of that country has become essentially parasitical. Talk of the Mountainist portion of the Convention during the dictatorship of ROBESPIERRE, talk of the Conseil des Cinq Cents during the first months of the Directory, talk of the obedience of the legis lative bodies at the most potential moments of the Empire—they are barely to be counted in comparison with the excessive loyalty evinced by the majority of the present Deputies. While Europe is ringing with execrations at the fraudulent and dis courteous acts of Gallic diplomacy in reference to the Princesses of the Peninsula—while every honest heart revolts at the ignoble prevarication and quib bling practised by M. GUlZOT—while the solid foun dations of international friendship are crumbling from beneath the throne of the Tuileries, solely in conse quence of the political offences of the present Admi nistration—the dutiful Deputies are reiterating their felicitations in the ears of his MAJESTY. This, too, is just simultaneous with the protestation against the effects of the Spanish marriage from the Court of Berlin, with the dignified retirement of the English Ambas sador at Paris, with the cordial approbation expressed towards Lord PALMERSTON by the British Parlia ment, and the exposure of the double duplicity of the French Minister by the Marquis DE MiaArLoaus. Could any time be more inopportune for the transmis sion of a congratulatory address to LOUIS PHILIPPE from his faithful Chambers, upon the security and the propitious aspect of his foreign relations ? The security of his foreign relations forsooth ! The very phrase is at once an anomaly and a satire. But that matters are assuming a somewhat serious complexion it would be amusing to contrast these meek and most infelicitous felicitations at Paris with the various troubles which have originated in different portions of Europe from the very occurrences rejoiced at by the French Le gislature. In Spain itself we find the Government abandoned to the discretion of an embryo and incon gruous Cabinet after having suffered every species of political vicissitude. In its sister kingdom, Portugal, we discern a civil war waging between MARL DI GLORIA and her subjects, partly from the oppor• tunity afforded by,the misunderstandings between the Courts of England, France, and Spain, and partly from the principles of oppression infused into the hearts of the rulers of Lisbon through the insidious agency of DIETZ and his anointed patron. In Eng land, again, the position of affairs in regard to France nes been for a considerable period ominous and un satisfactory. The indignation expressed from the bureaux in Downing-street has received the emphatic accordance of the popular representatives at West minster. Lord PALMERSTON has announced to the Marquis of NORMANDY the "perfect confidence" reposed in his Excellency by himself and his col leagues; and in his turn Lord PALMERSTON has been greeted with the plaudits of the House of Commons. Throughout the whole of this lamentable transaction, indeed, there has been visible the same perpetual hypocrisy on the part of France, and the same un swerving honesty and rectitude on the part of Great Britain. Perfide Albion sounds, especially at this juncture, like a masterpiece of irony upon their own country, from lips of the least patriotic Frenchmen. Whatever may be the result of the interviews which have taken place within the last few days be tween the Prime Minister and the Count ST. AuLaian, and subsequently between the latter and Sir ROBERT PEEL, the memory of the opposite policy pursued in London and Paris cannot very speedily decay. History will tell how the reputation of a great King, and the character of a great statesman, were lost from the lust of a Penin sular dotation, and the pandering of a heartless courtier; it will say that the hand of an Infanta was gained for a stripling Prince, but that, in gaining it, a venerable monarch was deprived of the respect of millions. But, above all, it will prove England, in her diplomatic discomfiture, to be worthy of all admiration, and France in her triumphant in trigues to be entitled only to opprobrium and ' abhorrence. The greatest enemies to the Established Church have been found within its pale; and, generally, those from whom there was the best right to expect the emanation of every improvement for its welfare, have been discovered to have chiefly retarded the progress of ecclesiastical reform. The ministers of the Church, from the prelates downwards, who have been pampered with wealth, and who, by reason of their educational acquirements, must have speedily discerned, and been fully conscious of, the existence of heavy abuses throughout the establishment of the hierarchy, and who ought to have taken the initiative in proposing remedies for enhancing the spiritual well-being of the people at large, have, for the most part—and to their shame be it said-- been the last to step for ward and aid in the removal of unquestionable griev ances. This scandalous torpor has been readily attri buted by their opponents, both in the doctrine and forms of religion, to worldly-mindedness. It must be admitted that the imputation has not been made without reason. Had the appointed guardians of the Church evinced, from time to time, the like zeal for eradicating the chronic evils besetting the admi nistration of spiritual affairs, which they have always so actively manifested whenever their per sonal-ihteresta have been concerned, the grave charge of bet* actuated by sordid views would never have been preferred against them with any effect. Precept and example have not been in unison ; and this glaring discordance on the part of the clergy, between their ghostly counsel on the one side, and their public conduct on the other, bas deplorably weakened the influences of religion. For the great and beneficial changes wrought within the Established Church during the last fifteen years, to whom and to what are we indebted ? To the ministers of the same ? Assuredly not. The rapid growth of dissent, and the great power and influence acquired by different bodies of Dissenters, engendered and cemented by virtue ofthe remarkable and favourable contrast which their respective ministers presented in their ministrations, as compared with what was afforded by non-resident and neglectful pluralists and fox-hunting parsons, was one great lever by which reform was materially advanced ; the force of public opinion, germinated by such discreditable exhibitions, constituted another. Thus, from compulsion, were the mitred order and the subordinate ranks of the clergy found reluctantly acquiescing in concessions demanded ,by the spirit of the age. But, notwith standing the sharp lessons which have been read to them ever since Earl GREY advised the Bishops to " set their house in order," we have occasionally painful instances of reproachful indifference to the solemn duties attached to the clerical vocation. Lord STArmay has recently, in Parliament, brought to light an example of this nature. The Dean and Chapter of Manchester hare for some time grasped nearly 6,0001. a year, leaving all the heavy and serious parochial duties to be performed by the clergy of the district, who are miserably remune rated ; and the answer they give to the accusation is, that they are no worse than their predecessors ; and that they are privileged, by ancient charters, to ab scond from their work, provided they pay a daily fine of sixteenpence! Here's morality with a vengeance! But they have gone even further. They have dispatched two redoubtable canons to this metropolis to watch Lord STANLEY'S pro ceedings in the Upper House, thus manifesting that the Dean and Chapter of Manchester are not the men quietly to put up their swords, but are prepared to fight to the last. How ever, Lord STANLEY is not the man to be thus bearded with impunity. His Lordship has already intimated that he will move for a Select Committee to inquire whether the law is insufficient to reach these sacred truant,. Should this turn out to be the case, the Legislature will not be slow to bring the rebellious to their proper senses. e(im T m he un imp icat o i r o t n ance of se for our r cuing a u colonial r dependencies andexpeditious mother-country cannot be exaggerated. We are, therefore, delighted to find that Lieutenant WAGITORN, to whose genius, courage, and enterprise, the nation is already so much indebted, has addressed a letter to Earl GREY, calling his Lordship's attention to the plan for establishin g a regular steam communication with our Australian colonies, which has now been for some time before the public. To that letter, which we republish, in extenso, we would direct the especial attention of our readers. It is a document, not only to be read, but to be studied, by all who have the interest of the country at heart. We will ) not here repeat the (to our minds) incon trovertible arguments which have been so well put by Lieutenant WAGnoRN ; but we will add that the importance of establishing a regular steam communication with Australia is vastly increased by the discovery, since the plan was first proposed, of the great mineral riches of those colonies—riches so vast that the time cannot be far distant when the price of metallic ores in the Australian market will produce a great effect on the metal markets of the world, and when it will be as important to our com mercial interests to obtain speedy intelligence of the state of the Australian metal market as of the state of the metal market in Cornwall. In a political point of view, also, it is more important than ever to open a speedy communication with our Australian colonies. A new constitution has just been given to New Zealand, and the success or failure of the great political experiment which is about to be tried in that colony must depend in a great measure on the close ness with which the home authorities can watch its workings. By the proposal of Lieutenant WAG.' HORN, New Zealand will be brought as near to Eng land as Jamaica was thirty years ago. Is it going too far to affirm, that if steam communication had been established between England and her Aus tralian colonies six years ago, we should have been saved the loss, the pain, and the humiliation which the blunders of successive Governors of New Zea land have caused us, and that the colony, in stead of being in its present miserable con dition, would have been one of the most flourish ing dependencies of the British crown ? A sum of 100,0001. per annum is all that is required by Lieut. AG Hoax from the Government to carry out his plan ; so that even in an economical point of view its immoiiate adoption is desirable. It will cost the nation more than 600,0001. to remedy the disasters which have occurred during the last six years in New Zealand—disasters the occurrence of which would have been prevented, bad the home Govern ment possessed the means of speedy communication with the colonial authorities. 1 We hare recei►ed the Madrid papers of the 6th and 7th instant. The QUINN had refused her consent to the marriage of Don Emmaus with the sister of the Marquis of CASTELLANI. Notwithstanding this the marriage took place, and the day after Don ENRIQUE was arrested by General PEZUELA, and conducted from Madrid under a guard. A telegraphic dispatch has, according to the Constitutionnel, been received in Paris, which states that he has received orders to embark at Barcelona ; but adds, that this is not connected with his marriage, but the consequence of some intrigues in which that Prince has been engaged in conjunction with an Englishman named MULE; who has been conducted to the frontiers of France. According to the Tiempo, orders hare been given to organise an army on the Portuguese frontier. On the motion of Senor CORTINA, the papers relating to the Spanish marriages were ordered to be laid on the table of the Chamber of Deputies. Orders have been given to prevent General FLORES from entering the Spanish territory. _ _ Senor ARETA mad Senor SARTORIUS have been elected to fill the vacant Vice-Presidentships of the Chamber of Deputies. MADRID BOLSA, FEB. 6.—The Three per Cents. 22 1 ,E money; Five per Cents. 20% money; Debt without interest 6% money. We; have received the Paris papers of Friday and Saturday. In the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies of Thurs day, the amendment of M. DE MALLEviLLN, which was in effect a direct vote of want of confidence in the Ministers, was negatived by 243 to 130, being a ma_ jority for Ministers of 113. On Friday the Address wa s agreed to by 248 to 84; and on the evening of that day it was presented to the KING at the Tuileries. The fol lowing is his MAJESTY'S answer:— " Messieurs les IMputes,—lt is with a very lively satisfac tion that I receive this address. I thank the Chamber for the loyal co-operation which it gives to my Government in the general interest, and, thanks to this co-operation, thanks to our union, and the strength it insures to us, we have every _right to rely . upon the maintenance of that policy, which guarantees internal order and the peace of the world. Thanks also to this co-operation, we are enabled to lessen the sufferings which weigh upon a part of our population, maintaining at the same time public order and the security of commercial dealings. I am much affected by the cor diality of the congratulations which you offer me on the marriage of my son, the Duke de Montpensier. lam no less so by the confidence you express in the feelings with which we are animated, which are mine as well as yours, and which ale also those of my sons—they will prove, as I have done, that on every occasion their lives are devoted to France." - - The Chamber, on Friday, passed a Bill, authorising foreign vessels freighted with corn and provisions to take part in the coasting trade of France, between the ports of the Atlantic and those of the Mediterranean. In alluding to the report that the Emperor of RUSSIA had closed the ports of his dominions against the export of grain, the Journal des Delmer says— "A report has been current for some days that the Emperor of Russia had closed the ports of his empire against the ex portation of corn. The most recent letters from St. Peters burg do not in any way confirm this news." The dispatch of the Marquis of NORMANBY on the subject of M. GUIZOT'S speech, and the reply of Lord raLmEasTost-thereto, was known in Paris on Thursday and produced a great sensation. It is said that the Marquis was to quit Paris on leave of absence on Monday. Meanwhile, according to the Slide, the French Government is driven to its last shifts to restore the entente cordiale with England. To obtain this object it would not hesitate to sacrifice M. GUIZOT, but no one can be found willing to be his successor. "It was sub sequently suggested," says the Sleek, " to dismiss Lord PALMERSTON and M. GUIZOT, but letters from London give no encouragement to that plan. It is now sug gested to sacrifice the Count DE JARNAC and Lord WIL LIAM HARVEY, but the British Government haughtily rejects such an idea. An additional incident has aggra vated the position of affairs. Marshal SOULT has de clared his intention to resign the Presidency of the Council. In fine, the prediction of M. GUIZOT is being realised. Positive intelligence has been received of the adhesion of the King of PRUSSIA to the interpretation given by the British Government to the Treaty of Utrecht. Thus the Cabinet is realising its programme, to maintain the British alliance, and to bring France into the European concert.' " On the subject of the adhesion of Prussia to the views of England with regard to the Montpensier marriage, we find the following very pertinent' remarks in the Constitutionnel " Prussia has positively declared against the eventual rights of the children of the Duke de Montpensier to the throne of Spain. That Power no sooner entered on a more liberal policy than it formed an alliance with England against us, and separated from France in a permanent manner on a question which can only be solved by futurity. Would any one have supposed, a year ago, that the promulgation of a constitution in the most enlightened states of Germany would be accompanied by a rupture with France? Is not that event the most severe condemnation of the conduct of our Govern ment? Will Prussia alone adopt that course? It is probable we are told, that one of the other two great continental Powers will also declare against the eventual rights of the Duchess de Montpensier. Tkere is one thing certain— namely, that our Government is constantly menaced by Austria, and placed in the alternative of either finding itself alone against four—that is, altogether excluded from the y fic o es un t c h il a s t of th l e u m ro en p a e— ce boreobntoat executed. inhgbyth In thismostodioluasstscaacsrie: Switzerland and Italy, after Poland, will be left, without pro tection and defence, at the mercy of the Absolutist Powers. Our Government must either be completely isolated, or the accomplice of some attempt against the independence of nations and liberty ! Such is the situation in which the pre salt Ministry has placed France." But it is not Prussia alone which has joined England in her views of the nature of the treaty of Utrecht. The UnionMonarchipte (formed by the junction of the France, the Quoticlienne, and the Echo de Paris, and the avowed organ of the Legitimatists) says-- "The Presse announcers that the Cabinet of Berlin has given a favourable answer to Lord Palmerston's note, on the succession to the crown of Spain. We believe we may assert that this answer, which cannot yet have been officially transmitted, will be collective; for the three Cabinets of Vienna, St. Petersburgh, and Berlin have agreed t o ac t i n concert. Our information authorises us in saying, that the answer will first call to recollection that, as the three Cabinets have not acknowledged the Government of Isabella, they did not intend to depart from the reserve they had adopted and hitherto kept ; but that they saw with Lull satisfaction, that the English Cabinet had , come to a reso lution, the object of which is to induce Spain, as to the question of succession to the crown, to return , to the same ios VII."n iti(titi which she stood before the last will of erdi• nand ------ --- The same paper states "that the Court of Madrid has expressed a desire that the Duke and Duchess DE MONTPENSIER. should shortly return for a time into Spain ; but it is said that M. BitEssoN has advised that this visit should be adjourned. The negotiations on this subject are still going on." Great activity prevails in the dockyard at Toulon, where three line-of-battle ships are fitting out besides frigates The business in the Chamber of Deputies on Satur day was confined to the monthly organization of the bureaux. The Conservatives have the majority 111 the appointments of presidents. COURS Auninrriclux.—Paais, FEB. 13.—French Five per Cents., 118 f. 20c. 25c. 30c. 35c. 54c. 50c. ; Four-and a-half per Cents., 109 f. ; Four per Cents., 104 f.; Three per Cents., 77f. 60c., 65c., 60c., 77c., 75c., 70c.; Bank oDitto ( f ie F u ra ) n , ce lo S 2 h l,4 ar i es, 3,255 f. ; Obl. of the City, 1,320 f.; N lo e i t\p:l l, ilan t 2 f ( . l ; tot ß hsc elg h i i a id n 's) Fi ll ve etin p i e t r ive ce s, n l t o s. lf ( . l 7 B s 4 c o .;; , l i t o om o r f. s : Ditto, Dank, 903 L; Spanish Active, I 33%; Exchange on London—one month money, 25f. 20c. ; three months, paper, 25f. 5c.; money, 25f. 24c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, FEBRUARY 13. Boulogne and Amiens, 14% —Dutch Rhenish, 4!A—Namur and Liege, 2%—Northern of France, 1 2 1 4—Paris and Lyons, 7% Rouen and Havre, 26 4 ex dlv.—Stunbre and Menu, G%. MONEY and COMMEDIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTAR TO THREE. The Cotton market at Liverpool on Saturday was quiet. ryas in Sh p ar ri e e s es. were very inactive. Sales 3 ,000 bales, including There 00 e r w 1,000 on speculation. There have been no arrivals with late news, if we except the usual Continental mails. The price of corn is stilton the advance here, and it will be seen by the market report in another column, that there is a decided rise in wheat, &c., as compared with last week. The recent severe weather has no doubt contributed to this. The necessity of an alteration in th e l aws re l at i ng t o Bankruptcy and Insolvency has been generally admitted, and there is some force in the following suggestions, which are a portion only of those submitted by a merchant here to the consideration of high legal aathorities, and of the Com missioners of the Bankruptcy Court. The writer proposes ,. That if an insolvent could, with the consent of two-thirds or three-fourths of his creditors (both as regards the number of persons, and the amount of their claims, and proved to be boncifide creditors), effect a compromise, this majority should bind the whole to accept . the same. This would prevent a vindictive creditor bringing the estate to a bankruptcy, and thereby causing an unnecessary expenditure and sacrifice of the property; such an arrangement is now applicable to insolvents not being traders. (Vide 7 and 8 Vic. cap. 70, for facilitating arrangements between Debtors and Creditors.) -That a bankrupt be allowed from 21. 10s. to 151. per cent., on the dividend his estate pays ; thus :-If the dividend of his estate be from 3s. to 55. in the pound, the bankrupt to receive 2% per cent.; if from ss. to 7a. 6d., 3% per cent. ; if from 7s. 6d. to 10s., 5 per cent. ; if from 108. ty 12s. 6d., 7% per cent.; if from 12s. 6d. to 155., 10 per cent. • if from 15e, to 17s. 6d., 12% p er cent. ; and if from 17s. 6d. to 20s. 15 per cent., provided he has not practised fraud, eith er by obtaining goos within a given time of his stopping payment, (unless he can show that at the time of taking suchicredit, he had no cause for antici pating a failure within the given time,) or otherwise render ing himself amenable to the several clauses of the proposed Act, which provide against fraud. The above return to be granted, and delivered to the bankrupt, immediately after the amount of dividend has been ascertained; until which time, the bankrupt to receive a moderate allowance from the estate, if no fraud has been proved against him. It is further suggested that the court should have an ap pointed accountant for bankrupts, to be paid, like the official assignee, by a per centage on the assets, and that any cre ditor seeking an undue preference should forfeit all claim. The value of the public securities has been enhanced to day, and matters wear a more cheerful appearance in the Stock Exchange. The price of Consols for transfer has been 90 3 / 4 to 91, aed for the Account-day, the 25th, at 90% to 91. It would appear that the Bear party are making arrangements for the settlement, and that this has an in fluence, because it indicates that they are not certain of prices ruling lower than at present. The improved tone of the Paris Bourse has also had a favourable effect. Exchequer bills have been quoted Gs. to 9s. premium. The New Three and-a-Quarter per Cents. have realised 93 3 A to 92%, and the Three per Cents. 91 to 914. East India Bonds are Bs. to 13s. premium, and Long Annuities are 9%. The foreign bonds have been rather firmer also, but there has not been much doing. Spanish Active Stock has re alised 24% %, and the Three per Cents. 35 354. Portu guese Four per Cents. have been dull at 35. Mexican Bonds have realised 21% to 22%. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been at 584. Railway Shares have been rather firmer. Aberdeen, 22 1, to 23; Caledonian, 26% 3 A ; Birmingham and Oxford, 13 to 14; Eastern Counties, 21% %; Great Western, 123 to 124; Blackwell, 8% to !,4; North Western, 184 to %; South-Western, 64; Midland, 120%; Newcastle and Ber wick, 324; North British, 34% to 35; North Stafford, 8% ; Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 3% to 4% ; South-Eastern, Ne. 2, 134 ; York and Newcastle, 35 3 4 to 364 ; and Northern of France, 12%. BRITISH FUNDS. ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK. PRICES. Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9116 91 914 914 Three per Cont. Consols Annuities 90%4 91 90% New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anna. 924 % 93 9% 8 13 p 13 p Consols for Accent • • •• .• •• 90 7 s 91 90 % Exchequer Bills. d n i g a A Bonds, ui IQ l s t , ' 00 14d. 114 d. E o x l. pire .. ..1 an ... 5, . 18 . 60 .. 9N : 1,0001... - •• 6 9 pm. 6 5001. . - •• •• 6 9 pm. 9 Ditto, Small - 69 - pm• 9 ONE CLOSING FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent • • • • - 85 I.l.m.can Bonds, 1846, per Cent 21% 22 22 Ditto, for the Account .. 22% 221 4 Portuguese Four per Cent .. • • 35 35 Ditto, Small . • • 36 14 3614 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 244 24% Ditto, for the Account • • • . 24% 24% Ditto, Passive Bonds .. • . • • 5 36 5 15 Ditto, Three per Cent .. • • •• 35% 35% Ditto, for the Account ......3 5 4 35 35 Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch Two-and-a-lialt per Cent .. 584 58% Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 924 RUSIN. ESS PAID. DONE AT CLOSING ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen.. .. 25 .... 22% 23 ...... 23 Amber., Notting., Boston, and Eastern Junction .. .. 2% 234 . ...... 9% Birmingham and Gloucester.. ..100 ....123 ex div. .... 123 z .d. Birmingham and Oxford Junction 5 14 13% . 13% Birming., Wolver., and Dudley.. i .... 10% ...• ...... 10% Birming., Wolver., & Stour Valley 5 7 . 7 Boston, Stamford, & Birmingham 2 2 5. •• • • •• • Buckinghamshire .. .. • • 8 4$. • • 3a14 p. exint..•3{ t pz.int. Caledonian 30 .... 26%34.... • • 26% Ditto. Half Shares 216 . . 2% Direct Northern Scrip 254 .... 2% Dublin and Belfast Junction .. 434 • • ...• Eastern counties .• .. 20.... 211616 %az dir 21% Do. Porpet., 5 par Cent. No. 1.61. 13s. 4d. ••..• • .• „ Ditto. ditto, •. .. —No. 2. 61. las. 4d. •• ••• • •• % Ditto, York Extension% .. .. 4 .... 4 • • .... • ... 1% East Lancashire .. • . .. 14 .• • • Ditto New .. .. 5 .. • • • 63G East Lincolnshire .. 4 6% 6% Edinburgh and Glasgow .. 50 .... 76 75 . . 75 Edinburgh and Northern .. 15 ••.••• • • • • .......... Ditto, .... 3% .. • • 3% Ely and Huntingdon .. .. 12% .... 13% ••••• • • • • • 13 % Great Northern (London & York Regd.) .. .• .. 254.... 2%%.• 2% Do., do (Direst Northern Regd.) 3% 3% ••• • • • • • 3 % Great North et England . ..100 . 232 .. •• .. 232 z Ditto, New .• .. • • .. .. 5 •• • • ••••• • • • • • 5 9 Ditto, New .. • • • • • • • • 1 % 17% ex div 17% x. d. Greet Western • • • • • • •• 85 • • ..124 123.... • • 123 Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 50 •• • • ..... ••• • • 72 Ditto, Quarter Shares • . 1234 •••• 19 %•••• • • • • • 19 Ditto, Fifths • • • • • • •• 20 28% %.. 2B Ditto, New • • • • .. .• 414.... 9% % • ••• • • • 834 H u ddersfield and Manchester .. 16 •• • • • Ditto, ditto, Extension .. .. 5 •• • • 61 , 4 • • • •• • 634 Ip s wich and Bury St.Edmunds 14 •• • • ••• • . . Ditto ditto, and Norwich .. 5 _ •••• • • • ~,, Lanca ster and Carlisle • • .. 50 .• • • • • •• • • • •• 65 ° 74 Lee d s , Dewsbury, & Manchester 2714 35 • 35 Ditto, Branch Half Shares .. 5 •• • • 10%14 lO Leeds and Think • • • • • • • . 22% •••• 19% ••• • • • 19% L on don and 121ackwall .. 161. 13s. 4d. 814% 8 34 Ditto. New, No. 1 .• .. 4 .... 474 • • Ditto, New, No. 2 .• • • •• _ 10% p • . Ditto, Extension • • • • 7% •• • • 5 •• • . 5 L on don an.i North-Western . • • 100 • •...164% div. 1843 Ditto, Quarters .. • • • 2 19 Ditto ditW, Now Shares • • • • 2 •• • • 14 13% .. 3 / 13 Ditto, Fifths • • • • • • • • 2 •• • • 17% d • • 17+ Ditto, 451. Shares M. &B. 40 • • 71% x 4.... London and South - Wes tern • • 411. 6s. 10d.. • 64 • ' 64 Ditto, New ... • 25% Ditto, Tenths • • • • •• • • a •• • • 5% •• •• Ditto. Tenths .. • • • • • • 4 •• • • 4% •• •• •• • • • V., Ditto. Scrip • • • • •• • • • • • 5 •• .. 5% • • •• •• • • ' s q l London, Salisbury, anu Yeovil 134 •••• Lynn and Ely .. .• 20 • • •• • 22 % Manc h es ter and Leeds • • • • •• 82 • •• Ditto Extension • • • • • • 42 e• •• •• 1 p •••' Manc h e ster and Southampton .• 2 .... 1% • •• • • • •• •• Midland . • • • • • • • • • " 1 1, •• • 128 % x dir..... 122% Ditto. New •• • • • • • • • • 34 % cliv••••• 34% Ditto, New • • "' • • • •••• 5 % x div..... Ditto, Birmingham and Derby • 100 • • •• _ Newcastle and BerWiek ▪ 1 3 2 16 9 2 % 4 ( : 1 : 7 : : .. 1 35 2 3 , : 2 14 ' Norfolk • • • • " • • North British • • • • •• • • • • 25 •• • • 34% 35 Ditto, Half Shares Ditto, Quarter Shares • • • • 2 % •• • • 4% •• • • •• • • •• ' 4 1 % Ditto, ExtenSlo ll • • • • •• ,%• • • • 1 % •• • ..... • • 136 Ditto, Thirds • • •• " •• •••• 3 %%• • • • • • • 3% Northern and Eastern .. •50••• • •• _ Ditto, New • 14 23 x N or th Staffordshire • • • • • • 5 • • 8% 81,4 • • • North Western • • • • •• 3 •••• • • • • • • 2% Preston and Wyr • 6t4 Ditto, Half Share s (A) • • •• • • ••••• • • • • • 10% •• 17%••.• 22 .. • Scottish Midland • • • • 36 Shrewsbury and Binning „„„ % 4 South Eastern and Dovor • • ▪ "m•••• . Do., New (do. 331. 63.8 d.) No. 2. 12 ••• 13 133( Do., New (do. 151.) .. No. 4. 3% 4% ...... • • 4% South Wales .• • • ••. •• • 10 •• •• 7 34 ...... 734 South Yorkshire, Doncas ter, and 2 2 Goole .. • • ' • • • • • . 42s : : ••• • • • % West Biding Union •• • • ~ P••• • • • I% p York and Newcastle .• • • ▪ 35% 36% 36% Ditto, New.. • • •• •• .. • • ' 1 1 1 , % % ii • •• Ditto, Prefercnco • 50 .... 88 zd 87xd . York and North Mid land .• . 2 .... lly •• Ditto. Preference • • • • • Do. E. and W. Riding Exten.•• 10 •• • 'l2 s ••• ••• 1 1,% % FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amleir, .. 18 .... 14% % 14% Bord., Toul., & Cette (Mackenzie) 2 •••• • • • • •• Ditto, ditto (Espolete) .. 2•• • • X ••• • • • A i Dutch Rhenish • • ••• • • • .... 4s Italian and Austrian • • • • • • Luxembourg • • • • • • " - .• •- • • 12% ..... ••• • • 12 Northern tit France . • Paris and Strasbourg .. • • • • Rouen and Havre.• ... .. 20 ..— • • ..... 26% xil JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Provincial of Ireland .. • 44 % 44% PRICES OF RAILWAY 51IARES. MINES. Real del Monte, Unrezlstered —•• • • 3 Y' • ***** • • LLOYD'S SHIPPIN.G.—(THIS DAY) LONDON, FEB. 15.—Wind S., light breeze and hazy, with rain. DIAL, FEB. 13.—Wind N.W. to W.N.W. ; 14. W.S.W., strong.—Arrd. New Zealand, Smith, Calcutta ; Sovereign, Stuart, Madras ; Britannia, Coulthard, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Amazone, Stein, New York, for Bremen. Sid. Jessie, Cuba ; Beaufort, ditto. Arrd. from the River, Atlantic, Honduras ; Jane, Rio Janeiro ; Brontos, Charleston, Posthumous, Cuba. PLYmount, FED. 14.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. James Campbell, St. Andrew's, New Brunswick, for Liverpool. Sld. 12th, llelban, Batavia. CLYDI, Fan. I3.—Wind W., hard.—Arrd. Mogul, Oli phant, Batavia ; James Hunt, Simons, Antigua for Belfast ; Charlotte, Faulds, St. John's, New Brunswick. Sid. Emi grant, Price, Mobile. HULL, FEB. 13.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. Lanark, New York. FALMOUTH, FEIL 14.—The Susan , H eal y , St. John's, New Brunswick, to London, put in here yesterday, with part of cargo thrown overboar4, loss of boats, bulwarks, and having been on her beam ends. The Souvenir, London to Limerick, put in here yesterday, with damage to bows and cutwater, having been in contact with the James, Salmon, St. Andrew's to Liverpool, which had been previously dismasted. A barque, waterlogged and abandoned, with foremast and bow sprit standing, was passed 30th ult., iu lat. 45 lon. 11, by the Sedulous, Levie, since arrived here. C4)11.K, FEB. 12.—Wind Northerly.—Arrd. Ann Carr, Carr, Maracaibo; Chatham, Bears, New York; Wilhelmina, Lawson, Callao. Sid. Malabar, Mobile. 1111u - oitn, FEIL 13.—The Eden, Mariglia, Venice to Cork or Falmouth, on shore near Broadhaven 26th ult., has been got off and brought iu here. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 13.—Wind S.S.E., light; 11, W., fresh. —Arrd. Anger, Bell, Bombay; Ann Martin, Martin, Bom bay; Dryad, Hanson, Lima; Potentate, Lima; Centaur, St. Blanchard, G eorge. Rio Janeiro ; G o ld en Fl eece , Palethorp, Macao; Rowland, N i e lu w tein O h rle so an n, s; Harmony, Jamieson , New Orleans; New Orleans ; Lord Seaton, Fitz simonds, New Orleans ; Denmark, Andrews, Virginia ; She nandoah, West, Philadelphia; Leonora, Dale, New York; Islam, Shackford, New York; Glen, ~i`Nulty, Newfound land; London, Michael, Calcutta; Kelby, Carte r , N ew Orleans; Arabian, Hawkins, New Orleans; Glenarvon, Guy, New York; Frederica, Atkinson, New York; Patna, Pon- iouby, China; Tory, Sharp, Savannah; Euplaealia, Hi cks, St John's, New Brunswick. Std. Jeremiah, Garnett, Shanghae. DEAL, FEB. 14.—The John, Rice, from Charente to Leith, ran foul of the Jane, Stanley, from London to Rio Janeiro, whilst at anchor this morning; the former lost mainmast, bowsprit, rudder, &c., and the latter lost anchor and chain, sustained considerable damage, and is leaky ; both vessels remain in the Downs. LIVERPOOL, FHB. 13.—The Jane, of Bristol, from St. Andrew's to Liverpool, dismasted, but not in want of assist ance, was passed 4th inst., in long. 12, by the Ann Martin, Martin, arrived here. 14. The Stephen Whitney, Popham, from New York, and the Anjer, Bell, from Bombay, were in contact last night in the river; the latter lost mizenmast. RELATING TO THE LOVELY MARY, OF ST. stable had died in consequence of the injuries he had received from the male prisoner. It appeared that, on Saturday right last, a numerous body of Irish labourers entered the Castle Tavern, Holloway-road, when their conduct was so riotous and disorderly, that the landlord, Mr. F ranc i s, re f used to serve them, and several left in consequence, but the prisoners remained and insisted on being sell-ed. Finding that they would not leave, Mr. Francis turned off the gas, when Edward Burke stooped his head, rushed at him, and butted him in the face, by which ho broke his nose. He then knocked him down, and kicked him several times, and Mr. Francis's son coming to his assist ance received such severe injuries from the prisoner, as to compel him to keep his bed, and be placed under surgical treatment, and he was now unable to attend to give his evi dence. The prisoner was at length ejected, and the door shut, 'but they broke it in, attacke4, Air. Francis again, fractured one of his fingers, bit, and otherwise injured him. Several policemen having heard cries of murder, hastened to the spot, when it required no less than ten of them to remove the prisoners to the station-house, and on the way there Ed ward Burke seized Constable 291 N, and knocked him down, and upon his getting up gave him a tremendous kick in the lower part of the abdomen. The policeman immediately ex claimed, " Oh dear, I am a murdered man 1" and fell quite senseless to the ground, when he was removed to Guy's Hospital, where he lies in a very dangerous state. The female prisoner, on her way to the station-house, threw off her bonnet and cloak and fought like a fury, spitting, scratching, and biting at every one who came within her reach. ➢lr. GRIENWOOD committed the prisoners to Newgate for trial at the Old Bailey, but ordering them to be again brought up on Saturday next, when, it was hoped, the con stable and Mr. Francis, jun., would be so far recovered as to enable them to attend to give their evidence. WORSHIP-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) Chores Lewis Sauchey was charged with obtaining the sum of 31. is. of William Arnold, an ex-waiter, and a pair of boots of George Arnold, brother to the latter, so long ago as July of the year 1843, under the following circum stances:— William Arnold stated that at the above time he was a waiter at the White Lion, Whitechapel-road. The tie fendant, whe stated that he was head engineer to Mr. Steven , son, used the house at the time, and was in the habit of dis playing some very unique tools, which ke said he used in his business. The prisoner's hands had the appearance of those more of a lady, and the small instruments he produced induced the belief that he had been accustomed to the more scientific part of engineering than what is called hard work. The prisoner subsequently, under the promise of procuring prosecutor a situation as stoker on one of the railways, obtained of the latter, in the course of four weeks, the amount of 3/. 1.5., besides eatables and drink ables which prosecutor had himself paid for. The prosecutor was also induced by the prisoner to leave his place at the White Lion, as there was a situation ready for him at the Camden-town Station to enter upon immediately, but on going to that station he discovered that no such person as the prisoner was known upon the line, and he never after wards saw the prisoner until Saturday last, when in company with his brother, and he was given into custody. George Arnold, who said that he was a boot and shoe maker, stated that the prisoner called upon him at the above time, and represented that he had interested himself on be half of his brother William, and he believed bad succeeded in obtaining for him a situation on the railway. Witness solicited of him an order for a pair of boots. The prisoner replied, that if he gave him one he should not be enabled to pay him for them until his governor arrived in town, which would be in a week or two. Witness, however, made the boots, but never saw the prisoner until Saturday last as above described. Mr. Bum:cm - I.ON said he should hold the prisoner to bail for his re-appearance, himself in 251., and two sureties in 20/. each, in order to give time for other inquiries respect ing him. Her Majesty conferred the honour of knighthood at the levee upon Sir Henry Edward Fox Young, Lieutenant- Governor of the Eastern District of the Cape of Good Hope. Sir Henry Young embarks for his destination per the Pot tinger steam-ship to-morrow morning. ERRATUM.—In our report of the conclusion of the proceedings in the House of Lords on Friday evening, an error inadvertently crept in. It was the Sugar Brewery Bill, and not the Sugar Distilleries 13111, which was introduced into the House of Lords in the evening. The Sugar Dis tilleries Bill was not read a third time in the Commons until late in the night. GAME.—It is generally believed by the farmers in the Isle of Wight, that one twentieth of the produce of their farms is destroyed by the game ! while their labourers cannot obtain half food enough for their families! The cottagers are in want of fowd and firing, having only from 9s. to I Os. per week to subsist on, everything is so dear that their miserable pittance will not hold out, there is little hope of their being able to crop their little gardens, seeds are beyond their reach, garden beans are double the price they were two months since, and to mend the matter, the Rector has put a tithe this year on their little gardens. Mr. Standish, M.P. for Wigan, lies dangerously indisposed, and but slight hopes are entertained of his re covery. REMOVAL or THE LIBRARY OF THE LATE RIGHT lioN. T. GRENVILLE TO THE BRITISH WSEllM.—Saturday the concluding portion of the library of the light Hon. 'l'. Grenville, according to his bequest was deposited in the British Museum. The time occupied in the removal was five `days, the number of books being 20,300 volumes. In value, ou account of their excellent condition, magnificent binding, and extreme rarity, they are estimated at 100,0001. To give only a slight idea of the value of this acquisition to the Bri tish Museum, for which a special room has been provided, a notice of one of the books will suffice. The first is the "Biblia Sacra Latini," upon vellum, the first edition of the holy Scriptures, and the first book printed with moveablo metal types by the inventors of printing. This book was printed at Mentz, by Guttenburg and Faust, between the years 1450-5, and is executed in double columns, in imitation of the choir books of the period. The cost of getting up this work was so great that SchOeffer, the son-in-law of Faust, states in " Trithemus's Chronicles" that 4,000 florins were expended before twelve sheets wore finished. This Bible is known as the Mazarine Bible, on account of a copy having been discovered in the library of Cardinal Mazarine. It is so scarce that but four copies upon vellum and fourteen upon paper exist, nearly all of which are in public libraries. With regard to the value of the book, it may be stated that one upon paper, fetched, at the sale of the library of the Duke of Sussex, 1901. We regret to announce the death of Captain Dillon, whose voyages and adventures among the natives of the islands in the Pacific are familiar to every reader, and who, it will be recollected, discovered and brought to France the remnants of the Astrolabe, the sole relics of the unfortunate La Peyrouse and his companions. Captain Dillon died on Tuesday almost suddenly.— Galignani. BATTERSEA PARK.—On Saturday the surveyors were busily engaged taking the levels for the bridge to cross the Thames to the new park about to be formed in Battersea fields, from near the Chelsea Waterworks, having di r e c t ap proaches on the Middlesex side from Sloane-street and the Commercial-road. The park will extend from the Southwark Waterworks to the Battersea Bridge-road, inclosing all the ground between the Thames and the Wandsworth-road, and a promenade and carriage drive to be formed on both sides of the river, to extend on the Middlesex shore from Vauxhall bridge to Cheyne-walk, Chelsea. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT WANDSWORTIL.-011 Sa turday evening, between seven and eight o'clock, the pre mises belonging to Mr. Bell, lucifer match manufacturer, in Garrett's-lane, Wandsworth, were discovered to be on tire. The flames commenced in the steam-engine boiler house, and very speedily they penetrated the roof, and rose a consider able height, threatening destruction to the principal portion of the spacious works. With all possible expedition an engine belonging to Mr. Bell, and another from Messrs Watley, the distillers, were got to work, which prevented the fire from spreading. The brigade engines arrived from London. The fire was extinguished before ten o'clock, but not until considerable damage had been done to the premises. How the fire originated could not be ascertained. CORN TO CAVALRY HORSES.—In consequence of the present extraordinary high price of oats, occasioned by the general scarcity of all descriptions of grain, an order has just been issued from the Horse Guards to the colonels of all the cavalry regiments in her Majesty's service, for a consi derable reduction to be made in the supply of corn to the troop horses. Heretofore the regulation was for each horse to have 101 b. of oats per day, generally averaging, from the excellent quality of the corn contracted to be supplied for cavalry horses, about two gallons. According to the new regulation ordered to be carried into effect by the Commander in-Chief, the quantity is to be reduced from 101 b. to 71b. per day, making a diminution in the consumption of nearly one third. In a cavalry regiment of 800 horses, under the new arrangement, the enormous saving of upwards of 50 bushels of oats will be the daily average, and nearly 18,000 bushels in the twelvemonth. DEATH Or VICE-ADMIRAL YOUNG.—Died at Denmark-hill, on Thursday evening, after a short illness, in the 68th year of his age, Vice-Admiral William Young, an officer better known tv the mercantile marine of the country, when Captain Young, for many years in the Transport-office, Deptford, than any other officer in the navy. Vice-Admiral Young was one of the few surviving original directors of the Dreadnought Hospital Society, which, with the Marine Society, he designated his " pet children." Lord John Russell and Count Alexander Mensdorff visited Count St. Aalaire last week. Sir Robert Peel called on his Excellency at the Embassy, Manchester House, on Saturday last. COLONIAL APPOINTMENT. —We understand that Christopher Rawlinson, Esq., ;of the Western Circuit, and Recorder of Portsmouth, and who was one of the intended Judges under the Small Debts Act, has ju st been appointed by Sir George Grey to the R ecor d er ship of Penang. The appointment is worth 4,000/. per annuli.. SALARIES ON THE GREATWEST . Saunders, locomotive the secretary, gets 2,500'. ar-ygarr;k, Mr. Gooch, lir superintendent, 1,0001.; M t . nt 5502.; Clark, the Bristol and Mr. Pyke, head accorin a b of Exeter 325/ • and gets 5501.; Ash et, 9 • , superintendent, Graham, of Gloucester, 180L—Herapath's Railway Magazine. EXTENSIVE B URGLAR Y.—On Saturday the police extensive robbery having been inf•rmation of an received k on Friday night and seven d between twelve o clock committo o'clock that morning, at the house of Mrs. Wallis, No. 188, S l oane . s t reet,lll,6htsbridge. It appears that M rs . IV a lli s was sitt in g up during the night attending a sick child, whi c h slept in the kitchen. While doing so she h ear d no no i se i n the house, but, on going up stairs after seven o'clock on Sa turday morning, she found the rooms in disorder, and on exa mination found that eight silver table-spoons, a dozen silver tea-spoons, a pair of silver sugar-tongs, a gold watch with gold chain attached, a silver watch, a pair of gold ear-rings, a mourning ring, two 20/. Bank of England notes, two 10/. ditto, and two Si. ditto, with 1201. in gold, had been carried off by the thieves, who left behind them a bunch of picklock keys, an old pair of stookings, and a screw -driver. The Duchess of Inverness had a dinner party last evening at Kensington Palace. The Earl of Auckland, Vis count Melbourne, and Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston were among the guests. SHOCRING ACCIDENT ON THE GRAVESEND AND ROCHESTER RAILWAY.—On Thursday evening Benjamin Ballard, ono of the l a b ourers emp l oye d i n thi s un d er t a ki ng , left his barrow filled with chalk, and on resuming his labour on Friday morning proceeded towards the opening, for the purpose of shooting his load, when, it appears, from the intensity of the frost the mass had become frozen together, and adhered to the barrow, which drew hint headlong down the shaft, a depth of 160 feet, by which he was killed on the spot. Deceased was a single man, about 23 years of age. The body was conveyed to the North Aylesfurd Union workhouse, at Strood, to await a coroner's inquest. ARREST FOR DEBT.—(IRELAND.)—The Bill just laid before Parliament " To limit arrest for debt in Ireland." provides, that arrest in all actions for debt, not exceeding 20/. and costs, shall be abolished. The Moniteur Algerien of the 30th ult., in giving an account of the last razzia of General Cavaieac, which has already been mentioned, states that Abd-el-hader him. self had but a few hours before been in the same neighbour• hood committing a raz.,ia upon a tribe which WO itiAttle to j _--~. ~~~ JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND. A dispatch was received at Lloyd's this morning, an nouncing that Commander Caffer, of her Majesty's steam sloop Scourge, had fallen in with the brigantine Lovely Mary, Stanton, of St. John's, Newfoundland, from Water ford, lst of January, under jury masts, riding at anchor about two miles to the southward of the Dants Rocks. The Scourge brought up into the Cove of Cork. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE-MONDAY. During last week the arrivals of English Wheat, Barley, Malt, Oats, and Peas up to our market were on a very limited scale; those of Beans and Flour moderate. Very little Corn of any decsription reached us from Scotland, but from Ireland the receipts of Oats were considerably on the increase, though, comparatively speaking, trifling. The im ports of foreign Grain were small, but we had a fair arrival of American Flour. Fresh up this morning, coastwise as well as by land carriage and sample, the arrival of Wheat of hone produce was very small; hence, as the supply of that article left over from Friday was unimportant, the show of samples was by no means adequate to meet the wants of the dealers, whose attendance was good,especially from the county y. We have, therefore, to re p or t a b r i s k d eman d f or a ll kinds, at an advance on last Monday's quotations of from 4s to 5s per quarter, and at which most of the parcels offering changed hands. As was the case on this day se'nnight, there were several orders received for English Wheat from the northern ports, and one or two French speculators were bid ding high for middling qualities. However, several of them were unexecuted. With Foreign Wheat we were scantily supplied. Most kinds moved off readily, at is to 2a per quarter above last Monday's prices, being the same amount of improvement as noticed on Friday. Holders generally were very firm. We had a short supply of Barley on show, owing to which, and to the altsters being short of stock, the sale was firm, at a rise in value of from Is to 2s per quarter. At the close of the market very few parcels re mained unsold. For superfine Malt there was a steady sale, at a trifle more money; but all other kinds were a slow inquiry, at late currencies. The quan tity of Oats being somewhat on the increase, the Oat trade was rather inactive ; nevertheless, all selected parcels realised full prices without difficulty. In Beans, the sale was slow ; but we have no alteration to notice in the quotations One or two cargoes of Peas were taken for Ireland. The trade was firm, and prices were well supported. Most of the Indian Corn which arrived last week has sold at from 66s to 72s per quarter. The Flour trade was very firm, and prices had an upward tendency. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE in:teat—Essex & Kent, Malt—Chevalier— • • 811 to 65s Red, New.... 688 to 818 Oats—Yorkshire and Dltto,White, blew 71s 87s Lincoinsh., Feed. 324 371 Norfolk and Lin- Potato, 3Bl 401 coin, Red..... 66s 758 Youghal and Cork, Ditto, White.. 708 796 81ack....... 34s 37s Irish, Red ...... • . --s —1 Cork, White ..... 36s 39s Ditto, White • ... —8 —s Scotch, Feed. —35 s Rye—Old ....... •• • —8 s Beans—Tick ......... 458 49s New. ••••• • • • • ... 48s 58s Pigeons Barley—Grinding..... 478 51. Pease—Grey . ........ 52a 551 Malting . ........ 58s 62s Maple...—. 618 555 Chevalier .... ... 62s 63. White ....• .... —55 s Malt--Suffolk and Nor- Boilers folk • • .... • ..... 788 80s Flour—Town-made... 624 68g Brown ........... 698 718 Suffolk .. ..... ... 501 52s Kingston and Ware 79s 82s Stockta & Norfolk 51s 638 srarrsrzcza". The past week's imports of lire stock into London havebeen as under : From whence. Oxen. Cows. Harlingen Sheep. . 233 .. . 30 . 123 87 Calves. llotterCfam — Ditto Ditto Ditto 000000 .•• .. 7 ...... 50 ..... 5 .....• 14 Total 27 ...... . 330 At least two-thirds of the above have passed direct into the hands of the butchers. Aboat 300 head of foreign stock have been landed at the outports from Holland. The number of forei,..n stock on offer to-da was small, viz. :-64 Oxen and Cows, and 220 Sheep, in fair average condition, while the sale was inactive, and prices were not supported. With home fed Beasts we were seasonably well supplied, both as respects number and quality; indeed, we have not seen a finer collection of short horns, Devons and Scots, than was exhibited this morning. Owing to the change in the weather, and the absence of the principal country buyers. the Beef trade was exceedingly dull, at a decline in the quotations obtained on Monday last of quite 2d per Sibs. The extreme figure for the best Scots, and which was paid in very few instances, was 4s 4d per Bibs., and a clearance was not effected. The droves from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire consisted of 1,100 Short horns and Scots, from the Northern Counties, 800 Short horns--from l the western and midland districts, 600 Herefords,:-ROA, Devons, &c., from other parts of England, 400 .-of iariatuir breeds; and from Scotland, 120 horned and polled Scots: With Sheep, we were very scantily sumlied, and the quality of that description of stock was by nomeans first rate. All kinds moved off slowly, and last ykeeVs prices were with difficulty supported. The numbef ()Waives was small ; yet the Veal trade was in a very..shigkish state, at an abate ment in value of 2d per 81b3. ',ln — Pigs, comparatively little business was transacted, atlate rates. Per albs. to sink the offal. ■. d. to s. d. s. d. to s. d. inferior Beasts.— 3 2 8 4 Second quality ditto 4 0 4 2 iscond quality 3 6 3 8 Coarse-swooned ditto 4 4 4 2 Prime large Oxen.. 310 4 0 .BouthdownWetber 410 5 0 Prime Scots .. ••. • 4 2 4 4 Ditto outof the wool Large coarse Calves 4 0 4 6 Large Hogs • .. 3 8 4 6 Prime small ditto .. 4 2 Small Porkers .... 4 8 410 Suckling Calves .• IS 0 29 0 Quarter old Plgs ..16 0 19 0 Inferior Sheep . 3 6 310 Lambs •• • ....... 0 0 0 0 MARKET. Beasts. 3,354 I Calves. 97 I Pigs. 315 SUPPLY AT I sheep. 18,770 NZVIGATE AND LEADENRALL. Although the weather during the whole of the week has been cold, the receipts of country-killed Meat to these mar kets have been by no means large, while the supplies on offer slaughtered in the metropolis have been but moderate. Generally speaking the demand has ruled firm, and, in some instances the quotations hare had an upward tendency. About 40 carcases of foreign Beef and 200 ditto of Sheep have appeared on sale. At per stone by the Carcase. s. d. to s. d. I. d. to a. Beef, inferior 2 6 2 8 Mutton, inferior .. 3 6 3 8 - middling prime large .. 8 2 3 4 - prime . 4 2 4 4 - prime small .. 3 6 3 8 Pork, large.. 3 6 4 6 Veal. • ••.• .. 4 4 5 2 - small .. 4 a 410 Lamb. Os Od to Os Od. BOROUGH AND SPITAILLWIELDS. The imports of Potatoes in the past week have amounted to about 300 tons, in good condition. Coastwise, the receipts have been trifling, while the demand is heavy, as follows : French Whitee, 100 s to 180 s; York Regents, 200 s to 2205; ditto Reds, 200 s to 2205; Lincolnshire and Cam bridgeshire Regents, 150 s to 190 x; ditto Kidneys, 140 s to 160 s per ton. Bpstouas HOP MARKET. Although ohly a moderate business is doing in any kind of Hops, the supply of which is seasonably good, no alteration can be noticed in the quotations.—Sussex pockets, 41 to 418 s ; Weald of Kent ditto, 41 5s to 41 16s; Mid and East Kent ditto, 4115 s to 6110 s. woos.. The imports of Wool since Monday last have amounted to about 380 bales, chiefly from Belgium and the Cape. There is a fair demand for English combing Wools, at full prices. In all other kinds exceedingly little is doing. TALLOW. On the whole the market may be called inactive, yet we can report no material alteration in prices. The recent quo tation for P.Y.C. on the spot is 50s per cwt. For forward delivery very few contracts have been entered into. Town Tallow, the supply of which is by no means large, is 50s net cash. HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY., The House sat to-day to hear appeals. The Lords pre. sent were the Lord Chancellor, Earl Somers, and Lord Wal , singham. WILSON V. WILSON. The further arguments in this part-heard appeal, the facts of which we have already given, fully occupied their Lord -ships the whole day. PRIVY ; COUNCIL.-(THIS DAY.) The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat again to day, for the purpose of hearing appeals. The Lords present were--Lord Brougham, Lord Campbell, Lord Langdale (Master of the Rolls), Sir Herbert Jenner Fust, and the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall. Their Lordships were occupied the whole morning with appeals from the Court of Admiralty. VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY. (Before the VICE-CRANCELLOIt of ENGLAND.) His Honour the Vice Chancellor of England was occupied the whole morning with the arguments in the case of HafTenden v. Woods, which came before the Court upon ex. ceptions to the Master's report. The case presented no fea ture of interest except for the parties concerned. (Before Sir J. K. BitucE.) His HoNoun was occupied during th e morn i ng i n hearing bankrupt petitions, none of which were of any importance. The remaining proceedings were equally unintereqing. QUEEN'S BENCH..-(THIS DAY.) The sittings here terminated this morning. As many as twelve causes were set down for trial; but some were with drawn, and others could not be proceeded with in conse quence of the absence of attornies and witnesses. Therefore the court rose before eleven o'clock, from not having any business to proceed with. Lord DENMAN said ho had taken one day from the city sittings, in order to facilitate the trying of causes at West minster, and that it was too bad the public time should be trifled with in this way. The cause "Richards v. Lord Maidstone," was amongst those withdrawn. The court will sit at Guildhall to-morrow. BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) John Loch yer, a powerful-looking drayrnan, was placed at the bar, before Mr. Ilall, charged with inflicting on his wife a wound in the sid e o f h er h e ad, whereby her life was en dangered. Policeman F 85, a b ou t half-past three o'cl ock this morning, heard a cry of •" murder " from a house in Rose stree Long-acre, where he found the prisoner and his wife in their own room, the woman having a severe cut on the side of the head, and being exhausted by loss of blood. She said that the prisoner gave her the wound with the poker. Site was taken immediately to the Charing-cross Hospital, where she then lay . Mr, J o h n stegliorn, house-surgeon at the Charing Cross Hospital, described the nature of the wound. lle considered that she was iu danger, and could not give any positive opi nion on her case at present. The prisoner said that his wife quarrelled with him, and struck him several times, and he threw his shoe at her. lie had not had the poker in his hand at all. Mr. HALL remanded the prisoner for a week, and desired the surgeon, in case he should bud that death was approach ing, and that the woman was aware of her early dissolu tion, to send for him, and he would take her evidence in articulo mortis. CLERKENWELL.--(THIS DAY.) Edward and Ellen Bourke, brother and sister, were charged before Mr. Greenwood with the following murderous assaults, when the court was much crowded with persons resident in Holloway, owing to its being rumoured that a police-cou- THE ARMY. We are sorry to hear that the use of the beat-skin cap, hitherto worn by Fusileer regiments, is to be discontinued so soon as the caps now in posse sion of those corps are worn out. The old colours of the Nth Regiment have been received at Chelsea College, to which establishment they were trans mitted by Lieut.-Col. Ashmore, the commanding officer of that excellent corps, with a request that they may be der sited there, and guarded by the old veterans of the army with the same jealous care and zeal as protected and defended the= when nntbrled before the enemy. A report prevails that Major-General the Hon. Charles Gore, who was promoted in the last Brevet, has been ap pointed to the command of the eastern district of Canada, in succession to Major-General Sir James Archibald Hope, K.C.B. We learn from a friend in India that the gallant veteran, Lord Gough, is in the enjoyment of excellent health and spirits. He never fails to take his daily walk of seven miles, and hence his continuance in such robust strength, for exer cise in India has always proved the best preventive to sick ness. His Lordship will not return to this country until the expiration of his full term of service as Commander-in-Chief of the Forces stationed in the East Indies. The. Bill relative to limited enlistment, intended to be laid before the House of Commons, will probably provide that for the future those enlistments shall be confined, for Infantry to ten years, for the Cavalry to twelve, and for the Royal Ar tillery to fourteen, with the option, if fit for further service, of enlisting for a renewed period, at the expiration of the first, or of becoming enrolled for occasional duty, upon the same plan as the present embodied out-pensioners, receiving a pension two years for one of such enrolment, added to their service as soldiers. The men already enlisted are, we be lieve, to a certain extent to be allowed their discharge under the same regulation.— United - See vice Gazette. SENTENCE OF THE COURT-MARTIAL ON CAPTAIN BULL, 57TH REGIMENT. (EXTRACT FROM GARRISON ORDERS, FZB. 12, 1847 Field Marshal the Commander-in-Chief having had the honour to lay before her Majesty the Queen the proceedings of a general court-martial, held at Chatham, on the 10th December, 1846, and continued by adjournment to the 21st of the same month, for the trial of Captain John James Bull. of the 57th Regiment, who was arraigned upon the under mentioned charge, viz.:— For conduct prejudicial to good order and military disciP• line in the following instances :- Ist Instance—ln having, on the 9th of July, 1846, on board the barque Mary Anne, then at anchor at Simon's Bay, Cape of Good Hope, ordered Major Shadforth, 57th Regiment. then being his commanding officer, into arrest. 2d Instance—ln having, at the same time and places without authority, assumed the command of the head-quar ters of the 57th Regiment, by ordering Lieutenant Sweeten Grant, the acting adjutant to the corps, to place Capt. Stan ley in arrest. 3d Instance—ln having, on the 10th July, on board the barque Mary Anne, without authority, assumed the command of the head-quarters of the 57th Regiment, by issuing regi mental orders, and relieving himself from duty as captain of the day for which lie had been detailed. 4th Instance—ln having, on the said 10th of July, and at the same place, refused to sign a pass-order for calling • meeting of the officers which had been issued by Major Shad forth, then being his commanding officer. sth Instance— In having, on the said 10th of July, after he had been detailed in regimental orders as captain of the day, left the said barque Mary Anne, although express orders had been given by Major Shadforth, then being his com manding officer, to him, Captain Bull, that no officer was to Days the said barque without his, Major Shadforth's, per• mission. Upon which charge the Court came to the following de• cision :-- The Court having maturely weighed and considered the evidence in support of the prosecution, together with what the prisoner has urged in his defence, is of opiuion that he, Captain John James Bull, of the 57th Regiment, is guilty of the charge upon which he ii arraigned in each of the five instances. The Court having found the prisoner guilty of the charge preferred against him, which being in breach of the Articles of War, do sentence him, Captain John James Bull, of the 57th Regiment to be cashiered. The Uourt having, by its finding and sentence, pro • nounced the strongest condemnation of the conduct of the prisoner, Captain John James Bull, cannot but remark upon the total want of judgment an 4 energy evinced by the prosecutor, Major Shadforth, under grave end trying circumstances that called for that degree of firm• ness and decision which alone could check and supprea such an outrageous violation of military discipline as oc• curred on board the Mary Anne on the night of the 90 1 July, 1846. The Court having passed sentence upon Captain Bull, the prisoner, commensurate with the serious offences 9 , which he has been found guilty, begs to recommend log case to the favourable consideration of her Most Gracious Majesty, on account of the high character he has re ceived from his colonel and the officers with whom he hal served. Her Majesty was pleased to approve and confirm the find; ing and sentence of the Court ; in consideration, however, of the recommendation of the Court, and the ground of that recommendation, her Majesty was further pleased to extend her most gracious clemency to the prisioner, and to coniunl that he be restored to the functi ons o f hi s comm i ss i on , removed to another regiment o f th e li ne, an d seriously *dal°• niched as to his future conduct. (Signed) J. MACDONALD, Adj,•Gener&l. Lieutenants the llon. Percy Fielding and Plunkett Burton. were presented on Friday, at the l e ve e , on th e i r appointment to the Coldstream Guards, by his Ito} al Highness the Duk• of Cambridge. r VISCOUNTESS PALMERSTON' S SOIRE-•—Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston received the Couftesshleofjao% kerville, Viscount Melbourne, Lord a nd Lady As Dudley Stuart, the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, the Right lion. h. J. and Mrs. Stanley, the lion. W. Cooper, the Hon. MisS Eden, Mr. B. Sheridan, and a select party to dinner on Saturday last, at their mansion in Carlton-gardens. Her Ladyship at a more advanced period of the evening had au assembly. Among the guests were his Excellency Count de St. Aulaire; his Excellency the Austrian Ambassador and the Countess Dietrlchstein, his Excellency Count Kielmans segge, his Excellency Baron d e Beust, his Excellency the Brazilian Minister and the Marchioness di Lisboa, his Excel lency Mr. Bancroft, his Excellency Count Schimmelpeninck, his Excellency the Prussian Minister and Madame Bunsen, his Excellency the Danish Minister and the Countess Re ventlow, and the Countess Hilda Reventlow, Count Potocki, Baron Koller, Baron Brenner, Baron and Baroness de Lin den, Baron Nicholay, the Marquis de St. Aulaire, Count de Noailles, Prince Lowenstein, Baron and Baroness L. Roths child, Count and Countess de Jarnac, the Princess Callimaki. the Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne, the Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Marquis of Villafrancar the Earl and Countess Grey, the Earl and Countess of Listowel, the Earl of Minto, the Earl of Auckland and lion. Miss F. Eden, Viscount and - Viscountess Mabee , Viscount Anson, Viscount and Viscountess Melgund, Viscount Folkestone, and Lady Jane Bouverie, Viscount and Viscountess Falkland, the Earl of Clare, the Lord Chancellor and the Hon. Misses Pepys, Lord Monteagle, Lord Foley and the Hon. Miss Foley ; Viscount Goderich, Lord Campbell and the Hon. Miss Campbell ; Lord and Lady Beauv a le, LadY Brougham, Lord John Manners, Lord and Lady Beaumont , Lord Seymour, the Lord Advocate, Baron and Lady Parke and Miss Parke, Lord Brooke, the Lord Chief Justice and Lady Wilde, Lord Harry Vane, Lady Seaford and the MisseS Hardy, Lady William Poulett, Sir Stratford and Lady CO' ning and giss Canning, Sir Augustus and Lady Clifford, Sit John and Lady Charlotte Guest, Sir A. and Lady Dun Gordon, Sir R. J. Murchison, the Hon. Mrs. Norton, Sit Benjamin Hall, the Hon. W. Ashley, the lion. J. Howard. Sir D. J. Norreys, Mr. Samuel Rogers, Mr. Panizzi, the Misses Drummond, Mr. and Miss Clifford, Hon. Col. Keppels sir. 11. Vyner, lion. Spencer Ponsonby, Mr. Grenfoll and Miss Grenfell, Mr. and Mrs. John Townley, Hon. Captain and Lady Charlotte Berkeley, Mr. and Mrs. Addington, Hon. R. and Mrs. Eden and Miss Eden, Hon. Mr. Duncan, Mr. Harcourt, Mr. and Lady C aro li ne Maxse, Mr. S. O'Brien, Mr. R. M. Milnes, Mr. Tufnell, Mr. Macdonald, Mr. E. Denison, Hon. Charles Howard. Captain F. Seymour, Mr. Matheson, lion. Mr. Grey, Mr. 11. Sullivan, itc. THE SPEAKER'S DINNER.—The Right nom the Speaker of the House of Commons entertained at his Par liamentary dinner on Saturday last—Lord Seymour, Lord Harry Vane, the lion. Charles lioward, the Right lion. Ed ward Ellice. the Right Hon. Francis T. Baring, the Hon. Colonel Anson, the Right Hon. Edward Struts, Sir T. E. Colebrooke, Sir Thomas Troub r id ge , Si r B en j am i n Hall, Si t Denis Le Marchant, Sir William Clay, Sir Andrew Leith Hay, Major-General Fox, Mr. John Rotnilly, Mr. Wise, Dir. E. Rice, Mr. Ricardo, Mr. Morgan John O'Connell, Mr. Hume, Mr. Rosa, Mr. Tuite, Mr. Warburt on , M r . T ancre d. Mr. E. Denison, Mr. Lo c h, and Mr. Hastie. HEALTH OF THE QUEEN OF PRUSSIA.—We are happy to see by the last bulletin of the health of her Ma jesty the Queen of Prussia, published at Berlin on the Bth of this month, that she continues to improve. The cough has become less irritating, and the fever is moderated. STOCKINGS FOR THE ROYAL INFANTS.— The Clare Journal says—" We feel great pleasure in recording an instance of her Majesty's wish to encourage by her pa tronage the native manufactures of Ireland. Two girls, sis ters, of the name of Davies, living in Corofin, in this county, having long enjoyed a well-deserved reputation for the taste and skill evinced by them in the knitting of stockings, were advised to present a pair of them to her Majesty, who was so pleased with the beauty of design and execution dis played in them, as to order four and twenty pair for the royal infants." A GOOD EXAMPLE.—The Constitutionnel publisher; the following letter, dated Berlin, 31st ult. :—" A few days since M. Braconier, a stock-broker, was condemned to hard labour for nine years fur having gambled with the property of his clients and having ruined himself. M. Braconier 13 a member of one of the most wealthy families in the capital, and every effort was made by offering to pay his debts to save him from disgrace, but it was too late. ft is hoped that his fate will have the effect of preventing other speculators from risking property confided to their care." NOVEL SPECIES OF BALLooN.—A balloon con structed on a principle by which the longest aerial voyages can be performed, and by which all danger is avoided by the expansion of gas, and all waste of gas prevented, may now be seen in the Montpellier -gardens, at Camberwell, by per sons_ connected with sc i en tifi c i nventions and pursuits. The invention is that of a Mr. Gale, a gentleman of some repu tation in science, and well known on the continent as An aeronaut, and as a pupil of the celebrated Arnaud Robert. The improvements on the old lumbering machines, which have hitherto done little beyond collecting an idle, gaping mob at tea-gardens, and by the ascent of which science has received no information whatever, consist in elastic tubes, pipes, or what is called hose, by which all the gas which escapes from the lower part of the machine is received and conveyed into large bags or receivers attached to the middle of the balloon, so that let the expansion of the gas be what it will from heat, or other causes, the gas can be let off and preserved, and no danger of bursting incurred. The car is also differently constructed from the old method; and the aeronaut can without trouble lower beneath the car another car, to any distance he may please, in which scientific experiments can be carried on, or fire made use of, without danger to the balloon. The cars aro very light, being made of prepared cork and Indian rubber. This balloon is nearly as large as the great Nassau balloon, and is made of silk ma nufactured by Blessrs. Merciers and Vauner, of Spitalfields- The designs for the external painting are very good ; they are by Mr. D. Roberts. The whole apparatus, grapnel's, &c., are improvements on the heavy and clumsy things hitherto used for aerial voyages. THUNDER - STORM AT LINDAL.—On Tuesday night last this neighbourhood was visited by a tremendous storm of thunder and lightning, which continued without intermission the greater part the night. About nine o'clock the storm broke over this neighbourhood with extreme violence, vivid flashes of lightning succeedlag each other in quick succession, and illuminating the w sky in all directions, were succeeded by heavy peals of thulder. A slight fall of snow accompanijd this extraordinary and unseasonable tem pest. 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