The Sun. — London, England, 1847-04-19 00:00:00

NEW WORE SY THE ACTIIOR OF " RICHARD SAVAGE." Now ready. at all the Librarie s, in 3 vole. post Bvo., ! SMILES A ND TE ARS I •I Or, THE ROMANCE OF LIFE. BY CHARLES WHITEHEAD, 1 - Author of " Richard Sa va g e," Ste. Miebard Bentley, New Burlington-street. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE, TO-UW=OW XVlt-YING will be performed Verdi's celebrated Opera YBIQ~~i I. Niue, Maim (lestalles ; falevanna, Mdlits. Solari ; Don Carlos, G a p e rcui ; Buy-Gems, Sic. Douche ; Ernani, Sig. Fraschini. Between the, acts a Divertissement, in which will be introduced the eelstbrated Pas de:Quatre, from La Lue des Fees, by Mdlle.:Cerito (her first appearance this season), 3.1. St. Leon, Mdlles. Cassan and Lenore. A new Pas de Deux, composed by M. Perrot, Mdlle. Rosati and M. Parrot (Ms first appearance this season) : and the admired Spa nish dance La Mavola, by Mdlle Canto and M. St. Leon. To conclude with the new successful Ballet, in Two Tableaux, by M. Paul Taglioni, the music by Signor Pugni, entitled TiIEA ; OU, LA FEE AUX FLEURS. Principal characters by Mdlle. C. Rosati, Mdlle. Marie Taglioni , Paul Taglioni, &c. It is respeetfullyannounced that Mdlle. Jenny Lind has arrived, smd will shortly:appear. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Nobility , ;Subscribers, and the Public, are respectfully in formed, that there will be a GRAND EXTRA NIGHT ou Thursday Next, April 29, when will be periormed Donizetti's Opera, L'ELISIR D'A3IORE. Adlna, Madame .Castellan ; Nemorino, Signor Gardoni ; Belcore, bignor F. Lablache; and Dr. Dulcomara. Signor Labiacbe. In the course of the evening a Divertissement from the favourite Ballet of tails Rookh, in which will appear Mdlles. Cerito, Rosati, Irett, Taglioni and L. Grahn, M. St. Leon and M. Perrot. After which, the Third Act of I DUE. FOSC To conclude with ORITIIA. THEATRE ROYAL. DRCRT-LANE. THIS EVENING WIII be performed a New Grand Opera, entitled MATILDA OF zuNGABT. C oun t biagnus, Mr. lierrani ; Prince Ottokar, Mr. S. Jones; George Podibrad. Mr. Harrison; Matthias, Mr. Weise; Count Hurls, Mr. Simmonds ; Matilda of Hungary, Miss Rainsforth. After which the New and Original Oriental Spectacle, called THE DESERT; or. Theme un said In which the Two Elephants. upwards of Sixty es, the Camels will apputr. Ihe Imaun Useph, Mr. Howell ; Ila:ez, Mr. Ratter; Barek . Mr. W. H. Payne; ir . gzig 0.1, Mr. Harley ; Maleck, Mr. T. Matthews ; Ahabeck, Mr. Hutchison ; Ruzliraga, Mr. L. Lee ; Princess Ipumaye, Miss Messent ; wilds, Miss Collett ; Girgee, Miss R. Isaacs. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. 13. ►Vebster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING will be revived, Sheridan Knowles's celebrated Comedy of THE LOVE CHASE, with new scenery, dress, a, and appointments. Sir William Finedove, Mr. Tilbury ; Master Waller, Mr. Howe ; Widow Green, Mrs. (.lover; Constance, Mrs. Nisbett. After which the Grand Astronomical Extravaganza, called THE NEW PLANET; or, Harlequin cut of Place. To conclude with a Farce, by J. R. Pltuiche, Esq., called SPRING GARDENS. THEATRE ItOYAL, .DELPHI. Under the direction of Sladame Celeste THIS EVENING Will M performed the original Drama, called THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST ; a Gipsy Story. Cheap John. Mr. Wright ; Ishmael, Mr. 0. Smith ; the K:nchin, Mr. P. Bedford Leybounie, Mr. Worrei! ; Cynthia, 3laciante Celeste ; Lemuel, Miss Woolgar ; Starlight Bess, Hrs. Fitzwillnam ; Lady Agnes, . - .llse Harding. After which will be produced an Opera !infra apropos sketch. called JENNY LIND. Principal characters by 3l estirs. Wright, Paul Bedford. Lambert. Selby, Cullotiord, and 'Miss Woolgar. To conclude with SHOCKING EVENTS. PRINCES,I'S TrIEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. .1. M. Maddox. sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING Will be presented Scribe and Auber's celebrated Comic Opera. in Three Acts, called THE BARCAROLE. principal characters by Messrs. Walton, Bodda, Leffler, and All en; Miss E. Runner and Miss Anne Romer. By desire, Shakapere's MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. The principal characters by Messrs. H. Hughes, Ryder, J. Vining, C. Fisher, Wynn, and Compton ; Miss Winstanley Mrs. Stirling, Mrs. IL Hughes, Miss S. Flower, Miss Anne homer, Miss Marshall, and Miss Smithson. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM Under the Management of Mrs. Keeley, THIS EVENING will be performed a New Drama, ealled THE CREOLE. Characters by Messrs. F. Mathews. Leigh, Murray, Emery, Klnloch, and Keels) , Miss Dickinson, Miss May, Miss M. Keeley, sad Mrs. Keeley. . _ After which, an entirely new occasional Dramatic Sketch, called JENNY LIND AT LAST; or, The Swedish Nightingale. Charac ters by Mr. A. Wigan, Mr. Turner, Mr. Kinloch, Mr. Bellingham, Mr. Bender, Mr. Yarnold. and Mrs. Keeley. To be followed by the New Vaudeville Extravaganza, called CRUSOE THE SECOND. Characters by Messrs. A. Wigan, Keeley; Miss Dickenson, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley. And other Entertainments. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. Sixth Appearance of Mademoiselle ROSE CHERI. TNIS EVENING the performances will commence with LES HIRITIERS ; on, Le Nefrage. Antoine Kerlebon. M. Dumery; Jaequets Kerlebon, M. Cartigny ; Henry, M. Betou ; Duperron, M. Masquillier ; Madame Kerlebon, Madame Dumery; Sophie, Mdlle. Cerdely. After which a new Comedy, entitled UN ROMAN IN - TIME ; on, Les Lettres Du Mari. Edouard Dusseuil, 31. Rhozevil ; Albertino, Mdllo Rose Cheri. To conclude with (first time in this country) IRENE ; on, Le Magnetlsme. M. pe Brienne, 31. Langeval ; Le Vicomte de Cler mont. M. Rhozevil ; Irene, Millie. Rose Cheri. Boxes, 6s. ; Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, 3.. ; Gallery, 2s. Boxes and Stalls may be engaged at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 311, Bond-street; and at the Box-office of the Theatre, which is open daily from Eleven till Five. ETHIOPIAN gERENADERS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. TO-MORROW 3VENING Doors open at Eight. Day performance on Wednesday morning, April 21, commencing at Half-past Two. The celebrated ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, l'ell, Harrington, White, Stanwood, and Gannon, will have the honour of repeating their inimitable ENTERTAINMENTS at the St. James's Theatre. The evening performances will be continued every Tuesday, Thurs day. and Saturday, Boxes and stalls at Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, TJader the patronage of the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Royal Family. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. THIS EVENING, THIRD WEEK OF THE SUCCESSFUL GOZGEOUS SPEC :'ACLE OF Lord Byron's Dramatic Po.ln of THE Biti DE OF ARYDOS ; or, THE CORSAIR, introducing Mr. Batty's numerous and highly trained Horses and Fairy Ponies, living Elephants, Camels, Zebras, Deer, &c. With brilliant feats of Horsemanship. First Sight of Mr. iiender-on. the Loftiest Living Leaper, with ether productions which this Theatre can alone produce, and for which It Is so justly celebrated. Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. Box Office open from Eleven till Four. Box Book-keeper, Mr. Sheffield. Perfermame commences every evenin at Seven o'clock, doors open at Half-past Six. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Under the Management of Mrs. Frances Davidge, Lessee. FIRST APPEARANCE. OF THE BUFFALO GIRLS, ETHIOPIAN SERENAD'.'.:IIS, With Coloured Concert, Nigger Songs, Batt/-,, Bone, Tambourine and Violin Accompaniments, the Railway Overture, and Grape Vine Twist. All by Female Irofei,sors. THIRD WEEK, and Last Nights, of the truly wonderfu BEDOUIN AitABS THIS EVENING The Performances will commeneo with THE ..-t - ..TC.TIOR OF r 7 or.:: or, Th• Seaman's S:ar. Mr. Duliniore, Mr. ti.mi ay ; Squ re Hat greave, Mr. T. Fredericks; Captain Walton, Mr. Tin.lel; Mary Wheatly, Mrs. Ware. After wh•ch THE BUFFALO GALS; or, Female Ethiopian Sere• naders. To be followed by THE BEDOUIN AR IBS. To conclude with THE BRIDGE OF NOTRE DAME; or, THE PARRICIDE'S CURSE. Noel Chainpin,n, Mr. Neville; Mater Legria, Mr. It:slop Godfrey Mervin, Mr. J. T. Johnson; Melanie, Mrs. H. Vining. Boxes, 25., Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6d. Doors open at Six, eotumenee t Half-past Six. ROYAL VIC: ORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING JACK LONG OF TEY:A.ti; or, THE SHOT IN THE EYE : Jaek Long, Mr. Hicks; Hmch, the Kegulator, Mr. Searle ; Ben Small, Mr. Gardner ; Noah Gibbs, Mr. Dale ; White, Mr. Bird ; Hector, Mr, Howard ; May Gibbs, Miss Vincent, &c., &c. Aft-r which TAE BLACK DOCTOR. Fabian, Mr. Hicks ; Pau llne la Rayneire, Miss Vincent. To conclude with THE HOUSE TURNED UPSIDE DOWN. Boxes, Is.; Half Price, 6d. Pit, 6d. ; Gallery, 3d. Private Boxes Parties ef Fear, from 101. 6d. ; and Parties of Eight, 11. Is. IHE WEATHER.--Strys Oincz, APRIL 18. THRBIIIOXETER, Lowest, 31; Highest. 47 ; Noon. 49. BAROX£TER, 29.90.—Wind N.N.E.; fine. APRIL 19. VlZAKomEncit, Lowest, 35 ; highest, 51 ; Noon, 50 BAROMETER, 29.8.—W1ND, W.; fine. HICIII WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. horning .. 29 minutes after 4. I Evening .. 50 Tanntes st , et 4. . Wt.. ' fo , ' I fr it , % ...,,,v.u. 1 .4,. ‘ ~ , - -4 1 , , , 4 ili4 i - -•,-- r . A11 ....i/,,,a 000 TZ - ... : A I.: 4 Z c ,.:. # . Avh . \ 'ti. - .....-,,,,, - - - k ,, .." i•z. :::11Ifai f 1 1 . 1t;5 4 . 47 , • li 0 .. 4,l;:tig' • ' iIT .• '.' .., •• ''''..., 7 e ~,,,,,, A ' O. Itettlag LONDON, MONDAY. APRIL 19, 1847. At a moment when the subject of national educa tion is occupying so large a space in the public mind, it is reasonable that we should revert not merely to the general neglect of which we have been guilty .towards the nation at large in regard to its intellec tual culture, but likewise to every act of positive injustice that can be laid to our charge in relation to this important topic. And, perhaps, there is no point ipon which the British Legislature could now•a days be more prominently and successfully assailed, for not having acted up to the requirements of an enlightened age, than that presented by the refusal it has continuously given during the last seventeen years to sanction the admission of Dissenters into our 'Universities. That the Parliament, previous to the Relief ib. Bill o f 1829, should have mainta i ned t h e pro tioni as enforced by the Universities, against the Roman Catholics and Dissenters, is not so much a matter of astonishment ; hut its perseverance in th seine course, after the Catholics had b e en admitted to a participation inthe th highest ci v il privi leges in the State, an d after s posing of th., its Reform Bill, which caused pir it of improve ment to light upon all the corporateted bodies a U the empire, the niversities excep neither to its honour, wisdom, justice dound' liberality. Owing to the right which was Claimnor on behalf of the State to impose civil disabilities upon subjects whose religious tenets differed, in p ar .. titular forms, from those of the Established Church, and owing to the apprehension entertained that to abandon this right would weaken, if not subvert, the religion of the State, the Relief Bill was kept in agitation for half a century before it became the law of the land; but, although opposed to the opinion of the Legislature, public opinion continued steadily to rise, till at length its full tide set in, and forcibly swept away the main barriers of religious persecu tion. Without troubling themselves to deny it in the a b s tract, the people at large justly conceived that Lhs right, which had• been put-forward as bei ng in herent in the State, had, in the nineteenth century, and in respect to the Roman Catholics, practically teetived Itself into an impolitic and unjust exercise of power, and they generously repudiated the notion that, by opening the portals of the Constitution to millions of their fellow-countrymen, against whom they had so long been closed, the religious welfare of the com munity would be in any wise affected. And thus was a great advance made in the cause of religious liberty. The idle fear which was suffered to infect the mind of the Legisla ture, that the people could not be intrusted with a large increase of political power, without en dangering the balance of the Constitution, unjustly deprived the middle classes for half a century of those rights and privileges which, it may almost be said, were wrested from the aristocracy to be finally embodied in the Reform Bill. Our modern Magna Charta and the Relief Bill owe their success entirely to the " pressure from without." As Lord MEL BOURNE said, in 1837, "every institution is unwilling to reform itself;" and this remark is peculiarly ap plicable to the Universities. Nevertheless we are persuaded that the same external influence which secured the two great measures to which we have adverted will, whether the Legislature shall choose to act promptly and judiciously or not, suffice before long to induce Parliament to take into its own hands the reformation and improvement which is so much needed in the leading Universities of the empire. The House of Commons will this week have an opportunity of reconsidering the whole question, and of determining whether it is right to permit the system to continue of excluding Dissenters from the honours and privileges which Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin are empowered to confer. On Thursday next Mr. CHRISTIE will re-open the discussion. 'We heartily wish him success. He ought, and, no doubt, will feel emboldened in persevering with an object which, for its benevolence and enlightenment, entitles him to a large share of public gratitude, when he remembers that the present Prime Minister and other eminent statesmen have seconded his past exertions for renderitig our ancient and influential seats of learning really,wortby,of the . British nation. Cer thinly, at no .time so, much as the present, could the undoubted grievances- of the Dissenters, so far as "ound policy is concerned, be more opportunely re moved. Rightly, or wrongly, the Dissenters are just now strongly excepting to the Government plan of education, and mainly on the ground that the patronage to be cleated by it will not be inconsider able, and that the Church will come in for the lion's share. Whether, under all the circumstances by which the verata queestio of national education is environed, the objections to Lord LANSDOWNE'S scheme be well or ill-founded, yet, seeing how un justly the Dissenters have been treated by the Univer sities, whose authority is wielded almost entirely by clerical members of the Established Church, and seeing also how much the Dissenters have done for education, despite of the frowns of power and the existence of miserable and narrow-minded prejudices, it assuredly is not unnatural, to say the least, that they should look with no favourable eye upon any plan of education of which they conceive the tendency would be to impart additional strength to an institution that has hitherto proved itself so inimical to the progression and development of their civil and religious liberties. Neither is it to be ex petted that this feeling of hostility will abate till fu justice shall have hem meted out to the influential religious communities that exist in this country with out the pale of the Church. Our Universities should be forwith re-organised, and have their laws re modelled in accordance with the rights of con- science and principles of religious freedom. Talk as we may about the advisability of pre renting the corruption of our populous cities by the poisonous systems of intermural interment, of ne glected drainage, and of forgotten ventilation, there are other causes of corruption—of social and moral corruption—which call yet more loudly for a legisla tive interference. Sanatory measures, however com prehensive, cannot affect these causes. National education, however libeial in its distribution of knowledge, cannot sufficiently counteract their bane ful influences. Poor-laws, however generously de vised, cannot tend to their eradication or even their abatement. We mean, of course, the brood from which come juvenile offenders—those swarms of young creatures .which infest the rookeries of this vast metropolis—children in years, but aged in wretchedness, and poverty, and ignorance, and vice, and degradation. You may see them whenever you so list, " on a summer day, when in the blessed sunshine and warm air, misery itself will sing, dashing in and out of these closes, careering over the open ground, engaged in their rude games, arrayed in flying drapery, here a leg out and there Ari arm." " Their thin faces," continues the same w.iter— one who has watched the brood with a heart melting in his bosom with compassion, "their thin faces," he says, " tell how ill they are fed; their fearful oaths tell how ill they are reared; anti yet the merry laugh, and hearty guilt, and scream of lelight, as some unfortunate urchin, at leap-fro 6, measures his length upon the ground, also tell that GOD made childhood to be happy, and that in the buoyancy of youth even misery will forget itself." The name of this deplorable class is Legion. Visit the poorest districts of any large town, but especially of the capital, and you will see this crowd of chil dren—the spawn of poverty and vice—sprawling in the gutters, crouched on the doorsteps, clusteredin the car riage road, and scattered over the pavement. They are isloated with unwholesome living ; they are emaci ated with want ; they are ugly, sallow, dirty, ragged, wretched, sickly, despicable. Here is one of them, taken at random, and sketched with the truthful pencil of the benevolent writer we have already quoted :—" Poor fellow ! it is a bitter day ; he has neither shoes nor stockings ; his naked feet are red, swollen, cracked, ulcerated with the cold; a thin thread-worn jacket, with its gaping rents, is all that protects his breast ; beneath his shaggy bush of hair he shows a face sharp with want, yet sharp also with intelligence beyond his years." That is no in dividual portrait, it is the portrait, of an entire species —it is a faithful delineation of those deplorable atoms of humanity that are warmed into life in the foulest corners of our larger municipalities. They are as plants that sprout up into noxious and poisonous brambles if neglected—but which, if transplanted and tended, would flourish, would bloom, would give a whole some and abundant fruitage. What we have here remarked is applicable to England, to Wales, to Scotland. How immeasurably more applicable, therefore, must it be to the famishing and miserable millions of Ireland.ri Wheat it is proved by statistical evidence thrtt! stichuis the multiplicity of those abandoned cbildren, 'can we be amazed at the fre quency of crime, at the crowded state of our penal settlements, at the thriving trade in justice carried on in our criminal courts, at the busy occupation, of our turnkeys, and the practised skill of our hang men ? With such plentiful supplies of seed strewn No lavishly over such a congenial soil, can we be in any manner surprised at the extent and frequency of the harvests ? Alas ! it is the parable of the tares and the thistles again—neglected in the spring-time, and torn up only when they have effectually choked the barley. For the diminution of evils which are at length re- L ugriised to be so enormous, strenuous efforts are now •Deing made by every earnest and practical philan thropiat. Ragged schools are starting into existence in many despised localities, and, honour to those gentle and intrepid women, honour to those ardent and self-denying men, who for the sake of our com mon humanity brave all the filth, all the stench, all the noise, all the suffocating and sickening in fluences of those wretched dens where the forlorn and callo w Young are gathered under the wings of a benignant knowledge! Reformatory establishments are rising into life simultaneously, and still wiser and still better establishments I.l if that b e p oss ibl e ) are distribut ingand Dundee, i n the shaeptP°ovfetrthY-stricken o f Gl asgow blessi ngs among where the out cas t children re c e e ive Indust r i a l S c h oo l s, mental nourish ment , bodily as we ll as These c advantages have been ve and are still being effected yini vete and unassisted enterprise; they are b springing. taneously from the charity of ep heart. Beautiful as the endeavours are therefore , 11ar they are necessarily weak and, to a very considerable extent, ineffective. It requires the potent and con centrated impulse of Government to give efficacy to these struggles against ignorance. There is a ne cessity for the stretching forth of the arw of the Executive to the help of whatever ragged schools, and reformatory schools, and industrial schools, have yet dared to raise their redeeming heads, and to show forth their plenary benevolence. England presents a gigantic field for those Governmental labours-- Ireland, a profound abyss. We want the diminu tion of the sources:of our physical contamination, and GOD knows we are sadly in need of a diminution of the sources of our moral and social corruption ! The Prussian Diet held a short sitting on the 12th, at which it resolved that an address should be sent in answer to the KING'S speech, and it appointed a committee to draw it up. The members of the Prussian Diet were presented by their marshals to the KING on the 12th, and after wards had the honour of dining at the palace with his MAJESTY and the Princes of the Royal Family. The Ministers were also present. During the dinner the KING proposed a toast to the country and the United Diet, and expressed a hope that the labour of the assembly would be useful to the nation. The toast was received with enthusiastic acclamations. The Post-Ampt Gazette of Frankfort publishes a letter from Berlin, stating that the effect produced there by the speech of the King of PRUSSIA, on open ing the Diet, was so favourable, that the funds rose nearly one per cent. We find in the Augsburgh Gazette a letter dated the 10th instant, which states that the five great Powers had instructed their ambassadors in Vienna to adjust the difference which has arisen between the Porte and the Greek Government. Letters from Rome of the Bth instant announce that Cardinal Gizzi, the Secretary of State, had ten dered his resignation on the 6th, but the Pori had refused to accept it. Madrid journals of the 11th have arrived. " The Government, it was said, had received positive assurances that it was not the intention of Queen CHRISTINA to return to Spain, but that when she quitted Paris she intended proceeding to Marseilles, to embark from thence for Naples. .General SERRANO left Madrid on the 11th. Pre viously to his departure he was visited by Senor Ros DE OLANo arid by Senor DE LA VEGA, the private secretary to the QUEEN. The Carlist Generals ELI° and ZAVALA have entered Navarre and joined General ALZAA. The Carlist insurrection, however, is, it is said, rapidly dying away. 1 Senor OLOZAGA was expected in Madrid on the 11th. He will be speedily followed by General OSORIO, the friend of ESFARTERO. OSORIO has received a full pardon, and is reinstated in all his honours. The Madrid mail of the 12th had not arrived in Paris when the post left on Saturday. We have received the Paris papers of Friday and Saturday. The Journal des Dibals announces, in what may be considered an official form, the appointment of the Duc DE BuoGLIE as Ambassador to the Court of London. The Bill authorising the Bank of France to issue notes of the value of 2001. has passed the Chamber of Deputies by a large majority, the amendment of M. LEON FAUCHER (proposing to authorise the issue of notes of 1001.) having been previously rejected. The announcement which appeared in the Paine of Wednesday, of the execution of the three persons convicted of rioting at Buzangais, was, it appears, pre mature. The execution was to be delayed until Friday, according to the National. The Siecle ex presses a hope that this delay may be favourable to the convicts. It says— " The evening journals of Wednesday announced posi tively, and one of them, the I'atrie, with the ma s t cir cumstantial details, the execution of the three unfortunate persons condemned to death for the affair at Buzangais. This news has been repeated as certain by most of the morning journals. The Debats itself, which ought to have been better informed, reported that the execution took place on the 12th, in the public marketplace at Buzangais, amidst a prodigious concourse of people from the environs, adding that there was a great display of military force from Bourge, Nevers, and Chateauroux. Notwithitanding all this, the magistrates, who have seats in the Chamber, and who, by reason of their special posi tion, have been called upon to follow all the phases of this deplorable affair, declared yesterday that the sen tence upon the condemned men at Buzangais had not been executed. We hope that this happy delay, which has allowed the Government time to appreciate the unanimous feelings of the public, wi!l save these un fortunate men, who certainly were very guilty, and who would have no claim to pity, if their crime had not, in a degree, sprung from the popular agitation excited by the apprehension of famine. Our intention, as we trust our readers, will conceive, is not to extenuate the crime of murder, which has been committed. We have respected, even in all its rigour, the decree of justice. But can the shedding of blood on the scaffold expiate the blood of the victim ?" The illoniteur publishes a royal ordonnance ap pointing in the department of Public Works a general committee on railways. This committee is divided into four sections : first, that of lines of di rection; secondly, the working in a scientific point of view; thirdly, the working in a commercial point of view ; and, fourthly, the regulations. Each sec tion is to be consulted, according to the nature of its attributions, on such questions as belong to it,. The Speech of the King of PRUSSIA. on the opening of the States-General is the subject of comment in almost all the Paris papers of Saturday. The Con• stitutionnel draws the following curious parallel be tween the opening of the States-General of France in 1789, and those of Prussia in 1847: " Prussia gives at this moment a curious and solemn spectacle to the rest of Europe. The States-General have just been opened at Berlin, as the States-General of France were opened in 1789. There, too, is a King beloved by the nation, who, influenced by the liberal movement of his century, takes the initiative of this con vocation. The Assembly is also divided, in nobles, who for the most part believe in equality, and in citizens, who have the sentiment of their rights. The first questions proposed by the royal power are questions of finance ; but the Assembly seems pre-occupied above all by the desire to assure and develop the liberties of which it takes ssractipn caused differencesptdauual controversialists, srtteirhedoinegnth.atttw hs:Toa between htrsehyeotrewsve eeapeo o rl err, sovereigns, aig tgnithinkers,nduhsnoedfalthoughd simi l ar ities,oth twone d impressiono i nations, powers,uel t ttt u hhhi s eo eosrnulesegnaturalshsot and the and b possession. Around the States a nation of writers, of est hi c s o t n o : arehn appeart h e v e t e th r y w y e, :p r m i t ; nr o t do U ac more i n vos d i the King of Prussia. The speech which he delivered on the opening of the States seems altogether inspired by aversion for liberal French principles, by the ter rible remembrance of the Constituents and Louis XVI. The King declares twenty times in his speech, and with the greatest energy of language, ' that no power on earth will be strong enough to induce him ever to change the natural relation between the_ Sovereign and his people, into a conventional constitutional one, gua .ranteed by charters, and sealed by oaths.' Never will he permit' that a written sheet shall place itself forcibly between God and Prussia to guvern that country with its paragraphs.' The natural relations between the King and the people are founded on the royal omnipotence;" and the people owe .obedience, not servile, butdictated hYpod • and the t bnscienee. The States are instituted in virtue of the historical German law;' the Deputies represent neither the people nor • opinions;' they exercise their proper rights, those which they enjoy in virtue of an cient laws, and those which the Crown has recognised;' the Crown must' reign according to the laws of God and the land, and to its own free will, and not according to the will of majorities, if Prussia is not soon to be an empty sound in Europe.' The King expects sad expe riences; he complains bitterly of part of the press, and of Prussian Liberals; he counts on his, people, who will not see the absolute power' of their kings broken, and who will second him in his struggle against democratic efforts, and the ' wicked desires' of the cen tury. Our readers will understand that we shall not here discuss these theories, which are so much in con tradiction with our ideas in matters of natural right, of political right, and of liberty. The King of Prussia, with great warmth, praises the English nation, whose constitution, be says, is the work of centuries, and of incomparable hereditary wisdom. It would be easy to us to show that the English nation, since it founded and developed its liberty, has never considered royal omni potence the basis of constitutional right, that the writ ten text of the law reigns supreme over the people and the Kings of England, that the political institutions of Great Britain are guaranteed by charters and sealed by oaths. But instead of opening a useless controversy, we prefer to follow the King of Prussia and the nation which he governs in each step that they make tcwards liberty, to applaud their generous sentiments, and honour their patriotism, even its exclusiveness. When King Frede rick William recognises in the Diet the right of vpt.ing the taxes—when he accords to the courts of justice public and oral trials—when he proclaims liberty of con science in religious matters, and the civil character of marriage —when, in short, he seems to regret that the laws of the Germanic Confederation do not permit him to concede the liberty of the press, what matters it that ha has discovered all that in the German historical _ . of the great principles which the French revolution i law, or that liell;slnVoluntarily received the inspiration promulgat e d n the world? There is there a movement towards liberty, and we pardon King Frederick William for being in his speeches less just towards France than he appears to d es i re to be in several of his acts towards the decl ara ti on of a sort of renfii t his own country. O ne t hi ng, h owever, str ik es us i n this speech— of the Holy Alliance. After having spoken in general terms of the friendly relations:which exist between Prussia Ind kw 46 ighboury, the vuag Ws, ' 40 wit); our shies, THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENfNG , APRIL 19, 1847. whom we formerly aidcd in making Germany free, and upon whose blessed concord with us depends the main tenance of the peace which has now reigned for thirty two years, our relations are firmer and closer than ever.' In these words are grave symptoms of .the disposition of Europe towards us, especially during the last few months." The Journal des Debats gives the following account of the effect produced by the Royal speech on the auditory : " The strange impression which the Royal speech produced on the auditory was depicted on the counte nances of all. The assembly was thrown into great aoitation. A considerable number of Deputies had de termined on immediately quitting Berlin and returning home, but the counsels of prudence and moderation prevailed, and the excitement by degrees subsided. The correspondent of the Cologne Gazette properly observes that the King's speech had placed from the onset the deliberations of the Diet on a ground widely different from that which the Members, in their preparatory meetings, intended to assume." The Union Monarchique thus sums up the objects of FREDERICK WILLIAM in assembling the States, and the means he has adopted to obtain those objects : " This Prince, whom t.ome have called philosophe, but whom we shall call wise, has comprehended all the dangers of rendering the royal authority too feeble. He does not think that it ought to be infringed by too hasty concessions; he wishes to make use of his own worth., that his crown which he has received without a blemish shall pass untouched to his legitimate successors. There is one point, in fine, upon which the speech of Frederick William leaves no doubt or equivocation. He has an antipathy to written charters; he rejects them with energy, we may even say in rather a military style. On the whole this speech clearly analyses, and without any mental reservation, the real obje c t of the Monarch—to reconcile by a judicious measure the representative with the monarchical principle, favouring the first without taking anything from the integrity of the second; con •ecrating their growing alliance by pacific means, with out any violent efforts likely to produce a shock. This is a grand spectacle, exhibited to revolutionary schools, which have hitherto refused to admit o f suc h a union. It is a great problem to be solved, and we hope that it will be solved without collision, without any abrupt shocks, without any rebellion. If this.great undertaking be brought to a good end it will be a most foicible-demon stration of the truth of the dictum; atilt enlightened liberty is the holy daughter of monarchy." The Bill establishing a line of steam-packets between Havre and New York has passed the Cham ber of Peers. The Prince DE JoiNviu.s, having under his com mand the line-of-battle ships Souverain, Jena, end Jupiter, sailed on the 1 1 th, from Toulon, for the islands of Hyeres. The health of Lord COWLEY has considerably improved. Letters from Lyons, dated the 15th, announce that Mr. O'CoriNELL had recovered from the fatigue of his journey, and was considerably better. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse, on Saturday, at 771. 80c.; the Five per Cents., 115 f. 45c.; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,221 f. 25c. ; Rouen, 897 f. 50c. ; Havre, 672 f. f.oc. ; Great Northern, 621 f. 25c. ; Avignon, 767 f. 50c. ; Vierzon, 562 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux, 5081. 75c. ; Troyes and Montereau, 297 f. 50c. ; Basle, 190 f. ; Dieppe, 325 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 4281. Mc. ; Tours and Nantes, 421 f. 25c. ; Paris and Lyons, 426 f. 25c. ; Lyons and Avignon, 4501. ; Cette, 443 f. 75c. ; Belgian Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 53 1 4. MARSEILLES, APRIL 13.-Marseilles and Avignon, 772 f. 50c. ; Northern, 622 f. 50c. LYONS, APRIL 15.-Paris and Rouen, 876 f. 25c. ; Avig non and Marseilles, 771 f. 25c.; Northern, 6211. 25x; Paris and Lyons, 430 f. ; Orleans, 1,222 f. 50c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 17. Boulogne and Amiens, 16%- Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette (Constituted), 1%-Demerera, 3k-Dutch Rhenish, 4 -East Indian, 4 1 -Louvain it la Sambre, 1 1 4-Namur and Liege, 41 ,4-Northern of France, 13-Paris and Lyons, 54-Paris and Rouen, 35. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. Accounts from the Cape of Good Hope of Feb. 12 have just come to hand. They bring news of the loss of 11.11 LS. Thunderbolt while entering Algoa Bay. No lives were lost, and it was hoped the stores would be saved. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY. CORN EXCHANGE—MONDAY. The arrivals of- all kinds of Grain of home produce up to our market last week, especially those of Barley, Oats, Beans, and Peas, were on a very limited scale; while those from Ireland and Scotland were unusually small. However, the imports of foreign Barley and Oats were on an extensive scale; those of all ether articles being trifling in the extreme, even allowing for an importation of 4,450 quarters of Wheat. The receipts of English Wheat fresh up from Kent ware moderate. Those from Essex, Cambridge, &e., small. The stands being scantily supplied with samples, arising from a good clearance being effected on Friday last, and the attend ance of buyers, several of whom were from France, large ; the English Wheat trade was very brisk, at an improve ment in the quotations obtained on Monday last, of. from ss. to 6e. per quarter, and at which the whole -of the sam ples were disposed of. The tradsactions in English Wheat, for shipment to France, consisted of nearly 2;000 quarters, or, at least, a moiety of the supply of that article brought forward. The whole of the reported arrivals of foreign Wheat were taken afloat last week for Havre; however, we had a very limited quantity on offer to-day. For home con sumption a moderate business was doing, while for export to France about 3,000 quarters were disposed of, at an im provement in value of fully 3s. per quarter. A larger business would, doubtless, have been concluded had the supplies been on a more liberal scale. Not withstanding the large arrival of foreign Barley last week, the actual supply on sale this morning was by no means good. All kinds, owing to the dealers being very short of stock, moved off briskly, at is. to 2s. above last Monday's prices. With Malt we were rather scantily supplied, yet the demand was by no means active. In prices we have no alteration to notice. Although upwards of 30,000 quarters of Oats came in from abroad last week, the tradd was active, and the currencies improved from is. to 2s. per quarter. The few p trcels of English brought forward sold at high rates. The show of Beans being trifling, there was a decided im provement in the demand, at is per quarter more money. There was only a moderate inquiry for Peas; yet they were mostly held at higher rates. Indian Corn, for arrival, was is to 2s per quarter higher. The Flour trade was firm, and some of the millers would not sell except at higher rates. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE Wheat—Essen & Kent, Malt—Chevalier.. Red, New. •.. 79s to s6s Oats— Yorkshire and Lincolnsh.. Feed. 30s 33s Potato coin, 864 Black • ...... 25s 25 5 Irish, Red • ...... • --s —s Cork, White..... 28. 31 s -s Scotch, Feed... 33s 363 Beans—Tick ......... 425 45s NorfolkD % i ßnt d * L 8 7 8 5 0 1 se s 5 fins 0 DI t o°, h Youghal and Cork. ht.. 4Ss 54s Pigeons .• • . 500 525 ttarley—Grinding. 425 455 Pease--Grey......... 805 54s •• . : • : • : 5 4 9 4 s 8 5 5 6 4 s it Map1e........... 815 84 5 'White . ... •• . 51s 87. Chevalier Malt . tlalt—Sutfolk and Nor- Boilers ....• 575 59a 73s 75s Flour—Town-made... bus 625 Brown . ....... ..• 675 69s Suffolk .•• • .. 48s 52s Kingstonand Ware 75s 78s Stacktn & Norfolk 495 its salrrurziaa). Since Monday last the following imports of live stock have taken place into London : From whence. Oxen. Cows. Sheep. Calves. Rotterdam Hamburgh 23 Harlingen Nieudiep Flushing Total . ............ 84 820 920 112 At the outp or t s , the arrivals have beez moderately good , viz. , about 400 Oxen a n d C ows , 200 Sh ee p, and Calves, nearly the whole of w hi c h . h ave come to h an d in ex-6:lent- condition. 142 There, were on s a l e t o -d ay on l y 120 O x en arid Cows, Sheep, and 16 Calves. fro m abroad, which moved off s low ly , at barely l ate rates . ' T he arrivals of Beasts from our own 40 ' grazing dist r ict s , f res h u p t hi s morn i ng, were , the time of year considered, very large, viz., n ea rly 4,000 head, and of most excellent quality; indeed, we ma y state that at least three-fbtirths of the supply were above the middle quality. Notwithstanding the attendance of both town and country buyers was numerous, the Beef trade was in a very sluggish state, and the few inferior animals on offer f sold at an abatement of 2d per 81b3; but - the value ' of - the primest Scots, Devon', HerefordS, 'and short horns was mostly supported. The very •bighest figure for the. former kind did not exceed 4s 2kter , 'Slbs, and at - -.which iiAlearanci3 was not effected. Fioni Norfolk, Suffolk, I Essex, and Camliridgeihire we received about 1,200 Scots, homebreds, and ahorthorns ; 'from the Midland' '.and western districts, 900 Irlerefords, runts, Devons, slioith9rns, &c. ; from other parts of England, SOO of various kinds; and from Scot land,. 220 horned and polled Scots. With Sheep we were fairly supplied, white the quality of all kinds was excellent. gnor of -that very On the whole, th e B eef trade was steady, b ut b y no means brisk, at'pricea a b out equal to those paid last week. At the ve a conclusion of busi ness a f a i r c l earance h a d b een e ff ecte d . fullra The primest old D owns, i n the wool, sqld at 5s 4d, those out of the wool, 4s 8d per 81b s . F rom th e I s l e o f Wi g ht th e ar rivala of Lambsem n umbe r sin de a se ll k p b t u io t n f o r f o o m too o k th na e m r q o u t a o rr ao rs d The Lamb a trade was tolerab' y firm at late rates. Although the supply of Calves was small, the Veal trade ruled heavy, at Friday's depressed rates. The Pork trade was heavy, yet pricia were mostly supported. . Beasts. carcasses of B SUPPLY AT MARKET. 3,843 I i Sheep. 1 Calves. 1 Pigs 21,500 I 103 512 Nsstir ,-. . —-- GATE AND xaujapleN3l.lll.l.. vuring the past week the arrivals of Scotch and count killed Meat up to these markets have consisted of about 100 180 ditto of Veal, and 450 ditto ef Por k. The supplies on offer slaughtered in the metropolis have been seasonably Beef 400 ditto of Mutton , 200 ditto of Lamb, Pod, yet the eneral demand has been tolerably steady, at but little variation in prices. About 60 carcasses of Foreign Beef, 80 ditto of Mutton, and 30 ditto of Veal, have ap peared on sale. 10 —. s. d. to a 3 . d 0 . a , d. to I. Beef, inferior... 110 M u tton, inferior •. 3 11 II - middling ~ ~ At per stone by the C arcase. a 0 3 2 ----- middling •• 4 0 4 I - Prime large .. 2 4 2 6 .---- prime •• •• 4 4 4 6 - prime small .• 2 6 3 3 Pork, large .. .. 311 4 6 Veal ** •"• • • ...... 4 0 5• --. smell •••••••• 4 4 i• Lamb. is 4d to 6s 2d B°ROII7GU AND SPITALTIZZDS. The supply of potatoes being unusually small, the amount of business passing is trifling, at higher rates. ZiOnouGs sop 11i8la8 3 W r . Selected parcels of hops in pockets are in steady request at fully last week's quotations. In all other kinds, next to nothing is doing, with a fall average supply on offer, WOOX•. About 1,000 bales of wool have been imported since this day ae'ennight. In the private contract market—notwith standing the supplies on offer are by no means extensive—a very limited business is doing, yet we have no alteration to notice in the quotations. Although TALLOW. , A the s tock sof Tallow conthuts PIPPI, the demand both on the spot and for forward deliVerjr, - iiheavk, at the late decline in the quotations. Town Tallow is in good supply, and ininerbilt 10/rer. MONEY and COM MERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton in the Liverpool market on Satur day were about 4,000 bales, the market being quieter. A larger quantity was on offer, and prices were more in favour of buyers. Surat, 300 bales, sold at 4d to sd; 50 bales Egyptian realised 7id. to 8d; and the rest was American, at 6kd. to 7id. per lb. 'Railway Shares sere dull, and generally drooping. A most important feature has prevailed in the Corn market this morning. The purchases on French and Belgian account have been immensely large. Nearly all the stands were, in fact, cleared off. The price of Wheat was fully 6s. per quarter in advance of the rates of last Monday ; Oats are ls. to 2s. per quarter ; and Barley, 2s. per quarter dearer. There was in truth a positive rush to purchase from the mo ment the market opened until all was cleared off. Such an active and brisk demand, while it lasted, has not been eeu for very many years past. For a season at least this extraordinary advance must have an influence on the operations of the Court of Directors of the Bank of Eng land. The steamer which leaves Liverpool to-morrow for the United States takes out some amount of specie again, but there is reason to believe that as Messrs. Rothschild and one or two other firms have received a large amount in bullion from the continent, within the last few day-, there has been application made to them by exporters of coin, rather than to the Blink of England. The latter, it is stated, has declined to buy the specie imported by the firms alluded to at a higher price than usual, and this may induce them to ship it to America and foreign parts on their own account. Under any circumstances the receipt of this - money must afford present relief, and it would be scarcely of any use for the Bank to be. a •buyer at a premium, when the whole might soon again be withdrawn at par by the 4olders of its notes. The wisest plan seems to be to let the bullion operators make their own arrangements. The Funds have been higher this morning, and there has been rather an in c reased demand for Stock. Consols for transfer to-morrow have realised 864 to 87, and for May 864 to 87a. The Reduced Three per Cent. An nuities have been 854 to 864, and the New Three-and-a- Quarter per Cents. 871 to 874. The value of Exch,quer bills has been premium to 2s. discount. East India Stock is at 245. The Foreign Investments have ♦aried but little. Portuguese Bonds are dull at 344. Spanish Five per Cents. have been quoted 254 4 ; and the Three per Cents., 364 4. Brazilian Stock has been marked 824, and Mexican, 204 to 204. Austrian Bonds have realised 1094, and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 584. Railway Shares have been steady, although they were flat at Liverpool on Saturday. Great Western New are quoted 74; North-Western, 172 to 173; South- Western, 64 ; South-Eastern, 364 to 37 ; Brighton, 52 to 4 ; Midland, 1144 to 115 ; Eastern Counties, 184 to 194 ; Aberdeen, 27 ; Yurk and North-Midland, 82 ; Scottish Central, 24.2 ; Northern of France, 124 Demerara, 34 ; Paris and Strasburg, 2 to 24 ; and Eas Indian, 4. BRITISH FUNDS;, ON - E CLOSING O'CLOCK. PRICES. Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. .. 85N% 86% 86% Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. .. 86 %)t 87 87 New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anns.' 87% i t % % 87% Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 9 8 15-16 8 15-16 Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. .. 9 3-16 India Stock .. .. . .. .. !.. .. 245 245 India Bonds, 1,0001. .. .. .. .. .. par south Sea Stock .. .. .. .. .. .. 96% Ditto, New Annuities .. .. .. 86 ti 86% Consols for May 27 .. •• .. .. .. 86N% 87% 86% 87% Exchequer Bills. I%cl. ' 2d. 1,0001... .. .... 1 dis 1p 2 die 1 p 5001.:. •• —.. 1 p 1 p Ditto, Small .. 1 dis ONE FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto, Small •• • • • • Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent .. . Ditto, 3 per Cent .. •• • • • . 53 Mexican Bonds, 1546, S per Cent .. 20% Ditto, for the Account • • .. 20% Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. Portuguese Four per Cent Ditto, for the Account 34g Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent r. .. 25 % Ditto, for the Account • • .. 25% % Ditto, Three per Cent .. 36% Ditto, for the Account .. 36% % Dividenth on the above payable in London. French Rentes, 5 per Cent .. • . —t. —C. Exchange .. .. • • • • .. —f. —c. Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cent .. Dutch Two-and-a-halt per Cent .. 58% Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 89% 90 O'CLOCK. • 109% • b 2% CLOSING 109% 82 1151. —c. 251. 67%c. 96% 58% 90 PRICES OF BUSINES S CLOSING RAILWAY SHARES. PAID' DONE AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen.. .. .. 30 .... 27 .... • ..... 27 Amber., Notting., Beaton, and Eastern Junction . -• 2% Birmingham and Oxford Junction 10 .... .......... 18 Birming., Wolver., and Dudley• • i .... 10% •• 10 Caledonian .. .. 30 .... Ditto. Half Shares .. .. • . 214 •• .• •• • • ...... Cheltenham and Oxford .. 2 .... ..... Dublin and Belfast Junction .. 15 .... .......... Eastern Counties .. 20 .... 19 18X 19% .. Ditto, 'York Extension 4 X East Lancashire ~. .. • • .. 17 .. • • .......... Ditto New .. 7X . 8 7jy ........• Ditto, ditto New Scrip • a • •..• IN ••.. • ..... East Lincolnshire .. 4 .... 6 4 ... Edinburgh and Glasgow .. 50 . ......... Ditto, Quarter Shares • • • • 123.... 17 3 4 Edinburgh and Perth .. .. • • 2 .... ..... 2% Ely and Huntingdon .. .. 15 .... 15% ..... . 15% Great Northern .. .. • • 3%% 3.. • ... 3 Do., London & York Extension 2% .... 2 .........• 2 Great North of England . ..100 ..:.231 231 Di tto, N ew . 25 .... 61% 62U, • ... 62 4 Great Western 86 Ditto, New 4%.... 7%... .. . 7% Hull and Selby .. .. 50 ....103% 103...... 103 Ipswich mad Bury SLEdmunds .. 14 .... Ditto ditto, and Norwich .. 836 .... 4 36 • • ........ 43j Leeds and Thirsk 22% .......... Ditto, Prefereace 6 per Cent. . • 3 .4 .... 43 .......... 4% Livery.. blanch., & Newc. Junct. 2%.... 1 . 1 London and Blackwall .. 161. 13s. 4d. 7% .. • • 7 1 ,4 Ditto, New, No. 1 .• 5% London, Brighton, and S Coast.. 50 .... 52% 82% .... 53 Ditto, Consol. Eighths .. 10 .... 11 3 e . . London and Greenwich .. 12/. 15s. 4d. 9 .......... 9 London an • North-Western • • 100 ....1723( 3 173 172.• 172 Ditto, Quarters L. and B. 7 .... .......... Ditto ditto, New Shares • • .. 2 .......... 12 Ditto, 481. Shares M. &B. •• 40 .. •• .. •.•• • • .. 6734 London and South• Western• .411. 6s. 10d. • • 64 .......... 64. Lynn and Ely .. 20 ....• 21% .......• 21% Manchester and Leeds.. .. • • 82 . . Ditto, Thirds (Reg.).. .. -.71. 45..... 1% p.. • • ...• 134 p Manchester, Buxton, & MallOck 425. •• .. par % p.... p Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .... 1% 1% Midland .. ..100 ....11434 115...... Ditto, New .. • • • • •• 36 •••• 3 Nt 34 • • •• •• 36% Ditto, New .. .• 2 .... 4U %..... ... Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 100 .... 91% .. Newcastle and Berwick .. •• 20 .. •• 26 2514 % Ditto, New .. • • • • • • 5 .... 7%3 .... Ditto, Extension • • • • .. 6 .• • • 6% .• .. 6% Northern Counties Union 4 .... 1 34. • .... . , 1 % North Staffordshire • • • • 5 —• . 7 1 4 %• • ... • • 7% Oxford,Worcest., & Wolverhmptn. 22% .... 14 4 ..... ... 14 4 Preston and Wyre .. • • .• 25 .... 34% . 35 Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 5 .... .......... 434 Scottish Central .. . . 17%.... 24N ...... •• .• `A4 3 4 Shropshire Union .. . 425. .... I 'a dis • .. •• • • 19i die South Staffordshire • • .. .. 21. 125... % eds.• ••• • • % dis South Eastern and Dovor 33% .... 36% 37 .... • . 37 Do.. New (do. 301.) .. No. 3. 15 .... 15% •••• .. •• . 15% Do., New (do. 151.) • • No- 4 . 5 • • 5 % ••••• • • • • • 5 % South Wales .. lO .... 7%••• • • • • • 734 South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Vale of Neath • • .. .. 4 .... 2;4 •• .. West Riding Union • • • • .. 41. 25. • . 16,•p York and Newcastle 25 .... 333 34 •..•.. Ditto, Preference .. .. 4 •• • • 7 % York and North Midland .. 50 .... 52 •••• • • Ditto, Extension P . 25 .. 40 10 • ..... .. • • Ditto. Preference FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Demerara •. • • .. ..• 254 3 Dutch Rhenish •• • .. .. 7 .... 4% • East Indian .. . 55. ..... „ Madrid and Valentla •• 2 ... Northern of France • • .. • • 8 .... 12 34 % - Paris and Lyons • ••• 8 .... 5 ••• • • Paris and Strasbourg .. 5 .. 2 1,4 2 . Sambre and Molise .. 12 .... 6 „ „ West Flaxiders . 8 - JOINT-STOCK BASICS. London and Westminster Jo —.T134 .......... 263 MINES. Real del Monte, Unreestered btrb 20% 20% 83% 34% 254 254 36 36% 4;, 91 , 2 26 7% 2g ii P 34 7% 82 VE:bitttm NEWMARKEP:, RACES. (THIS DAY-BY EXPRESS.) Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, for three yrs old. T.Y.C. R e d w ing...................................... 1 Veronetz ....................... . .............. ... . 2 Four ran. Handicap Sweepstakes 'of 20 sovs. each. T.Y.C Bishop of Romford's Cob African .......... . ..... . ..................................... . 2 Cocoa Nut .. 3 Seven ran. MATCH, 200, h ft, Bst 71b each, T.Y.C.—Duke of Bedford's Eiithen beat Sir J. HaMey's Piccinino. Sweepstakes of 50 sous. each, for three yrs old. A.F. King of Morven walked over LLOYD'S SHIPPIN G—(THIS DAY.) LONDON ' APRIL. 19.—Wind at Noon N.W., mo d era t e breeze, and tine. DRAT APRIL IL—Wind N. to N.N.W.—Arrd. Clipper, River G ambia;' Mary Bibby, Archibald, Cuba. Sld. Young England, Batavia; Lady Flora Hastings, Wetherall, New Orleans; Mary Caroline, St. John's, New B runsw i c k ; Ganges, New South Wales; Morning St ar , C e yl on ; Brahmin, Bombay; Semiramis, Havannah ; Victoria, New York ; Cottingham, Richibucto. OFF DARTMOUTH, APRIL 18.—Wind N.—Barham, Gimlett, Calcutta, left let of January; Enchantress, Cape of Good Hope. CannurgArint. 14.—S1d. Isabella, Quebec. CORK, APRIL 16.—Wind S.W. Arrd. Prospect, Kent,' Philadelphia. 16th, Lalla Rookh ; Martha, Callao; Almera, Curling, New Orleans; Forrester, Andrews, Norforlk Island; Napoleon, Chesebro, Baltimore; Newhaven, Downes, New York; Elizabeth Churchill, M'Gilvary, ditto. Sld. 15th, Governor, Douglas, Baltimore; Mary Ann, New York; Fanny, ditto; Bee, Quebec. TOTAT LOSS F, THE. BRIG CANNING BY FIRE. A dispatch has Veen received - at-Lloyd's , trod the Foreign office, iucloeing 11 copy of dispotcl3 (rim bet Majesty's Lord DENMAN—Does he state that he did not forge the acceptance ?_ Mr. PIRRY—He does ; for, he says that he is not guilty of the crime with which he is charged. Mr.. Justice PA±TESON—I thought you said that he did not know the crime with which he was charged. Mr. PARRY—Hs does not know except it is a charge of forging the bill. If it be the charge of forging, a particular acceptance, then he does not know what wiine6s.es are to bring home that charge to him. Lord DENMAN—W hy, it is trifling with justice to sup pose that a man who, by his own statement, admits that he forged the acceptance of a bill, should not be con signed to prison to take his trial for his crime. It ap pears to me to be absurd. Mr. PARRY—I would not continue to press anything against your Lordship's opinion, but you must forgive my reminding yuu that the prisoner never stated that he forged the bill. Lord DENDIAN—No, not in set terms, but he said it in effect, as clearly as it the words were uttered. It is trifling with common sense to suppose that such an ap plication could be granted. The prisoner knows very well that it is only a wish to try the chance of the Courts allowing him to escape from the consequences of his crime. Here is a man, himself an attorney—in order to shield a defendant—stating in open Court, that he him self forged the acceptance. Ido not know. what expla nation can be given when the trial comes on, but to attempt any now is merely trifling with justice, and the application cannot be granted. BAIL COURT.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Boaco betbre Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.) The cases heard in this Court possessed no feature o public intt.rest. EXCHEQUER. --(THIS DAY.) (Sittings i❑ Banco.) SHARP V. CHAPLIN. This was an action tried at the last sittings before the Lord Chief Baron, when a verdict was entered fur the plaintiff for 100/. Sir F. THESIGER moved for a rule to show cause why a nonsuit should not be entered, and also why a new trial should not be had, on the ground of the admission of improper .evidence. The action was brought to re cover the sum of 1001., the amount of a deposit paid by plaintifron 20 shares in a projected company, called the London and Westminster Water Company. The plaintiff had, in 1841, applied for shares in this company, and in accordance with that application an allotment of 20 shares. had been made to. him. The Learned Counsel contended that the receipt produced at the trial, the advertisements, &c., ought not to have been produced in evidence.—Rule granted. COMMON PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) GOODLEY V. RIGG. This was an action on a promissory note for 51., which was tried at the last sittings before the Lord Chief Jus tice, when the verdict went for the plaintiff. Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD moved for a rule to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside and en tered for defendant, on the ground that the debt was barred by the Statute of Limitations. The promis sory note was given on the 30th September, 1835, pay able six months after date. There were several pleas, but the only one on which stress was laid was the one pleading the Statute of Limitations. Oa the 7th June, 1843, a letter was written by defendant to plaintiff, and it was maintained that this was an evidence of the ac knowledgment of the debt, but he contended that this letter was not such an unconditional acknowledgment or promise to pay as invalidated the plea of the Statute of Limitations.—Rule granted. SOUTHWARK.—(THIS DAY.) John Male was placed at the bar, charged with shooting on the river Thames, to the imminent danger of the inhabitants of Whitehall -gardens. An inspector of the Thames police said, that about eight o'clock the previous morning he saw the prisoner in a boat near the gardens of the Duke of Buccleugh's mansion, Whitehall. He several times pointed a gun towards the mansion, and fired it off, consequently he went towards his boat anti took him into custody. Mr. COTTINGILAM inquired whether any person re ceived any injury from the shot ?—The inspector re plied that he believed not, but the firing of the gun was a great annoyance to the inhabitants of Whitehall gardens. In answer to the - charge the prisoner said he had no intention of injuring or annoying any person: lie had been told there were plenty of rooks in the gardens of the Duke of Buccleugh, and he borrowed his brother's gun for the purpose of shooting a few of them. He had only fired twice when tha officer took him into custody. Mr. CoTTitiatimit ordered him to pay a fine of 205., and in defaultof payment to be imp r i sone d one month. CLERKENWELL._(THIS DAY.) Charles Maded and Henry Edwards, two middle-aged 'len, of respectable appearance, were charged with fraudulently obtaining from Mr. Samuel Elliott, fancy dealer and dressing-case maker, of No. 68, Jewin-street, Aldersgate-street, a number of dressing-cases and en velope cases. _ It appeared from the evidenCe that, last Saturday, the prisoner. Made!! called at the warehouse of the prose cutor, and representing himself to be -a fancy cabinet- Maker ? said he had a very good customer for him in the person of a gentleinan named Whiffsn,. who carried on `extensive businestr-at Chelmsford, and was ,now staying at his,(Madell's) house, itr I)altic , street, St. Luke's, and wished to make some large purchases in the way of dressing and writing-cases and workboxes. As Mr. Wh'iffen did not wish to go out, he requested that samples 'might be sent to him of the articles,. and the prosecutor, accordingly sent his son with several, having first cautioned him en no account to part with therd without the money.. The lad accompanied Madell, who told him that Mr. Whiffen was at the Sir John Falstaff public-house, in Baltic-street, and they had better take the goods there to him. On entering the parlour, " Mr. Whiffen" was there, and turned out to be the prisoner Edwards, and upon the boy laying down the goods, they made hilt drink so much as almost to atupify him, but he still retained sufficient recollection of his father's order as to bring back a portion of the goods. Mr. Wonter appeared on behalf of the prosecution, and said that there were numerous charges of a similar description to be preferred against the prisoners, he, therefore, requested that they might be remanded. The prisoners were accordingly remanded. DARING ROBBERIES.—On Saturday information was received by the police of the following daring robberies : From Mr. Currie, Camden-row, Camden-town, a silver watch, maker's name " David Gill, No. 29,848," a guard, gold seal, and keys, by two men, who attacked him near the Eagle Tavern, City-road.—From Mrs. Grey, Kingsland road, in the City, a purse, containing 51. 16s. 6d.—From Mrs. Campion, 12, North-street, Islington, a double bot tomed silver watch, jewelled in eight holes, No. 5,481, maker's name, " Froorne, Nelson-street, City-road," by a woman, about twenty-eight years of age, who snatched the watch from Mrs. Campion in the Boundary-road, and escaped; and from Mr. Levy, in Size-lane, Bucklersbury, a gold watch, and 71. 10s. in gold. THE BRITISH ARMY IN CANADA.—The reserve $1 battalion of the Rifle Brigade, at present stationed at Quebec, will proceed to Chambly in the early part of the summer, and be replaced at Quebec - by the 71st Light In fantry. The 77th Foot, at present at Laprarie, will relieve the 46th Foot at Kingston, and the latter marching to Toronto. The 52d and the 81st Regiment of Foot are ordered home. MR. O'CormeLL.—A letter has been received in. Paris, dated Lyons. the 13th instant, conveying faVourable intelligence as to the state of Mr. O'Connell's health. The Hon. Gentleman has already recovered, in a great degree, from the extreme fatigue consequent on the length pf his journey &out Paris, and increased.by•the extreme inct!niency ciao wasttisii: - . Chargé des Affaires in Chili, announcing the merchant brig Canning having been destroyed by fire in the Straits of Magellan, 16th December last; carpenter and two men sup posed to be drowned ; vessel sunk in 7i fathoms water. - QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco, before Lord Chief Justice DENMAN and a full Court). IN RE GARBETT. Mr. PARRY applied for a writ of habeas corpus, on behalf of Edward Garbett, now a prisoner in Newgate, in order that he might be brought up and admitted to bail. The Learned Counsel stated, that the prisoner had been committed by his Lordship at the Kin ton assizes for forgery ; an d h e h a d to submit to their Lord ships, that from the mode and manner of his committal, never having been taken before a magistrate, he was placed in a position of peculiar difficulty as regarded his defence. Lord DENMAN—He placed himself in that position by his own statement, lie could not have been taken by surprise, for he went fully into the history of his having forged the bill, although he did not say that he forged it in so many words. Mr. PARRY—That was your Lordship's opinion, sitting as a magistrate; but a committal by a magistrate is not conclusive against the party committed. lie was corn mitted on suspicion, to take his trial for forgery, and the difficulty I wish .to poiot out is this—a true bill has now been found against him for forgery, and that circum stance places him irr a position of still greater difficulty , than before. There may be witnesses on the back of the bill of whom the accused knows nothing' whatever, and he is not entitled to a copy of the bill. There were no depositions taken, and he has, therefore, no warning of what the case against him may be, except the admis sion he made—namely, although there are no precedents to cite to your Lordships, yet, in this instance, justice will not be defeated by allowing the party to be bailed. Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN—IS it usual to bail a person against whom a true bill has been found, and upon such a charge as that of forgery ? Mr. PARRY—I admit that it is not usual ; but this is an extraordinary case, and the accused is in a position entirely different from that of ordinary prisoners against whom bills have been found, and who know the charge and the witnesses against them. But in this instance the prisoner is quite in the dark. He swears that it is his desire to meet this trial, and to bring witnesses who can prove his innocence. . .Mr. Justice WIGRTMAN—How does any person know what witnesses are brought before the grand jury ? • Mr. PARRY—A prisoner may not know what wit nesses are brought before the grand jury; but by statute he is entitled to a copy of the depositions, at a very mo derate charge. Here there are no depositions, but the statement.of the accused —an admission made under cir cumstances of surprise and agitation. Lord DERNAN—I have bound over the short-hand writer to appear as a witness. - Does he swear that in his agitation he has stated that which is not true? Mr. PARRY—He says that in his agitation—for he was surprised at the mode of cross-examination of coun sel, and at the questions asked, that he does not know what be did state. RAILWAY COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. • GROUP LXVII. This Committee met for the first time to-day. bo b Members present—Sir J. T. Buller (Chairtnan), ca :nners; Hon. G. H. Cavendish, Mr. New degate, and r M foligi vi ! g tam Pluinridge, to whom have been referred the Bills: Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, and Glasgow, Paige-' marnock, and Ayr (No. 1). Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, and Glasgow, paisley,' marnock, and (Ayr (No. 2). North British (No. 2). Caledonian (Branches to Canobie, &c.) CAP Caledonian (Lease of part of Glasgow, Dumfries, a g- A lisle Railway). Ayrshire and Galloway. On inquiry it was found that the only Bill in a position t° go forward was the AYRSHIRE AND GAZZOITINZ ors It being the only one in which the Railway Con had as yet reported. he Colt' This being an unopposed it was agreed by t-_„ - d the mittee to refer it to the Chairman of Committees, Aiernbers who brought in the Bill. er After entering the appearances on behalf of the otb with the titions aainst them, when it j S The Co petitions mittee adjourned till Thursday n ext, expected all the reports will be ready. GROUP V. Pres ent ' The Committee met this morning at twelve..., G o re? Lord H. Vane (chairman.), Hon. M. Sutton, Hon. . 2 " 1. Mr. Rice, and Sir E. Elmer. viro oll - .-1 LONDON 11. ND SOUTH-WESTER N ING THEREOF, ETC). gor Counsel for this Bill, Mr. Austin, Mr. Hill, and fi r ' agents, Messrs. Dorrington and Co. Said 616 Mr. AUSTIN in opening the merits of the Bill, wo o object of it was to widen that part of the Setit b ". u petirti l line extending from Nine Elms to the the eee with the Richmond line at Falcon -bridge 013 0 thi i hand, and to Hungerford-bridge on the other , l ,,, e fees four lines of rails might be laid'down to meet increase of traffic which would press upon that PIOOOO the t he ON line. The cost of that would b i about 24,00 0 4 an vie e V opposition likely to be made to t would arise trout prietors in the neighbourhood of Falcon -bridg e. 01 0 of Mr. Locke, the engineer of the company, m tu g !, the Ito, his examination proved the amount of estimate r• - 0 4 te• miles of two additional lines of rail to be 2- 1 0 ° Th.131 1 _ . 11 2 property about Falcon-bridge interfered with by . ..L .— , en • be of no other importance than to give the evin e r inis ted.'" for-compensation. The York-road Station was es " ..- .78,000/. land cost, and 40,000/. cost of erection. t Mr. Bovii.L, on:the . part of the proprietors ise. er oft-' bridge, cross-examin e d th e w it ness; b u t immerle nn iosio wards intimated that he would notpersitt fn 13° ' to the general Bill. ved:lb • The CHAIRMAN then declared the iireamble _ . „//b1 the Committee proceeded to go through the cis us aiirOw with some amendments, were agreed to; an d the e. , announced that he would report the Bill the Hope MURDER AT NC RWOOVii• stlie MURDER OF A WIFE AND CHILD, VD CIDE OF THE MURDER'L,,,:..,,t;sis Yesterday (Sunday) morning, about halequrrei , o'clock, the quiet inhabitants of Lower Igorwood). no otta were thrown into a state of alarming consterna%rdeo excitement in consequence of a most frtghtful which had been.committed by a man named Jeh i ldipg aged 21 years, an artificial flower-maker, ra!' to High-street, Lower Norwood, who succeeded lo m et the lives of his wife and child, and afterwards enn3,,,ircettr self-destruction with the same instrument, und er . stances of the most painful and awful character.. ,100 '0 P aft Its ppears from the subjoined particulars II - t he IS": been gleaned from an authentic source, that riii b bU Young, who is twenty-one years of age, 1iv,.,.„ d t 001 wife, Jane Young, aged twenty, and an in , *" 07 Jane Bolton Young, aged only two m onths, at .. t ificis' shop in the High st reet, where they exhibited h e , : a b i etl flowers, &c., for sale. The murderer YOl ll 4 l O ofte n of weak intellect for some time past, whic h attracted the notice of the trades The tradespeople in th e Tbe'd who were frequently speaking of his peculiar ali° ;io n es is no doubt that they had suffered great Pri va er sler distress, from the state of the house and the g pearance of the victims and the murderer. g r t iseP h Shortly after six o'clock police-constable siden c e, Armstrong, 278 , P, was going off duty to his 1 : e hat tee near the scene of the dreadful tragedy, but at ' o wl nothing attracted his attention, b u t whilst on g olos himself he was alarmed at the cry of M u rder S lit s ad • screams. He instantly ran out partially dress, A d saw another constable named Robert Archeri;e. they hastening towards Young's house. BY thei s tst neigh had reached the place several of the innewrso, sow hours were running from_ the front of the prers to g oe t r .. as the officer Archer proceeded to the dooroarsme on a fain the - cause of the alarm, the man Young.c and ` the threshold, with his hands covered with hl t _ n° ,, e table knife in the left hand, also.smeared with - f r . o c on'-' for a moment stood transfixed to the spot, ita% n d fool" stables r) seeing him armed with such a weapo n, ing what had taken place from their previous kna, - .„ i ti to of him, they drew their truncheons and followed br o w the houSe. lie rushed upstairs to the first fluor, sou„,,fid the o ffi cer reached the first landing-place a t nost r e so , • spectacle presented itself. The lifeless body ch,'„„iy; Young lay with her head almost severed from her es. --- 1 4,! she was lying ip a pool of blood, which had streasi.j. from the wound completely down the stairs. lien he was' on the top step and her feet were in the b ed room. They pursued htm into the front room, and o' fore they had time to secure .him he sharpened ill!, knife by rubbing it up and down the stonewor * round the,fireplace, and stood:before the looking gh' s* . where he drew the knife across his throat, inflicting!' most frightful and extensive wound. When the ofn ce ; ,:; had entered the apartment he was standing in a e ton P' o 7 4 position behind the door, and bleeding from the sve n o ., he had inflicted on his neck. Whilst he was Vi l3g pd the floor the officers rushed into the adjoining room seo. there discovered the lifeless body of the poor infanta the bed, with its head cut completely off, only hangole by a small piece of skin at the back. The scene st lea period was one at which the officers felt much tree and horror-stricken. Several persons by this time. 0 0 to the aid of the - two constables, who, seeing Young still alive, and the other unfortunate victio 3l :ol o warm, instantly dispatched a messenger with sil l P°400 4 : 1, speed for the aid of Mr. Chapman, surgeon, of 14 °' who attended with promptitude, but whe n he ~0 the house the mother and child were quite (lest. or man was still alive, but when the surgeon saw juries on his person, he was of opin ion that hitelrbel, not survive many minutes. He was placed n n 1 cott ic k' but notwithstanding everything medical sk ter o va devise and suggest, he died in about aclu ar i n the hour afterwards. A knife was found on the bed 06 front room, and -the stone work round the stel,:eped smeared and covered with blood, where he had ebsi i" the deadly weapon. thel As soon as the officers found the man Young dead ~ac• immediately forwarded information of the awful er, se . tilde and deed to the Brixton station of t he P diviewoi and in a very brief space of time Inspector Gifford a tb e a small body of officers repaired to the scene of g o murder, which, b) eight o'clock, was surrounded l o t least 500 persons, who were with great difficulty , ; 11 ,i back by the police, who took charge of the bodies,„. Plg o. the per mises. A constable was also dispa tched to .' use, laud-yard with the particulars of the horrible -0 which cast a gioop over the whole village. ota From subsequent inquiry it appeared that the t oe. Young had been under the care of his friend s at 0.,40 ney, owing to his mind being somewhat impaired• rely on Saturday afternoon he returned in the care Of a /,/or tive, who had great trouble with him on the 'MY t° 414 wood in the omnibus. Th e w h o l e of Saturday neoo- Mrs. Young sat up at work for the purpose of. is, plating a small order, and the general su totne' that Young laid down on the bed with part of his e -- c at on, and at the time of the murder his wife, rif l3 o be with labour, went to sleep by the side of him, wil e s& awoke at the time above named and comnaittedth.t, spa ful deed. The fire in the grate was still burnolß' ro orn the few articles on the table which stood in , the.:,"thes were two cups and an old tea-pot, which W:76,110 they had only ppositie . recently partaken of tee. 'r . 4 . left were removed into the front room, t° Est in the charge of police-constable 202 Priv.' the place. Towards noon the High-street, most impassable, and hundreds of persons _ 4 t ee he relatives from all the surrounding districte, T A wa s stst' - ' murdered woman are very respeemble , Amu' it r grog reside in Brunswick-square. It -seems rat e tale/ that the friends of. th e man roling,',Jaiould have t be wee him to go at large when they were aware tli s d it 1 0 labouring under some 'aberration - Of intellect, sahuiptie mower It°llvp°o°d'urero suggested by his relations to f •to 1 00 as get asylum. th e Upon further search of the bodie s the fingers ° ,, t 'a left hand of Mrs. Young were much cut, no t he deu."• endeavouring to save herself from his grasp, and to 0 'struggle. Her death must have been instantaneous fro the appearance of the injuries, and the poor little inia4 must have died in a few secon ds. ' There is little doe'', but that he meant to make his esca p e ; but when be sow the police so near he retreated back again into the house' where he committed suicide. At ten o'clock last night large crowds of persons were,,, round the house, and the greatest sympathy seetae prevail for the murdered female, Who bore a most 13 emplary character for cleanliness and industry. r ht * THE OPERATIVE BAHERS.—On Saturday very fully attended meeting of the masters and journey ,0 at bakers of the metropolis and environs too k place a• Crown and Anchor Tavern, Strand; on beha lf of the Opero tive Bakers' Society. Lord Robert Grosvenor, bf•P, lYj ” %lour the chair. His Lordship having spoken stronglY w sio of the objects sought by the society, and of the ear ing movement in general, the meeting was sthi re t here several other gentlemen. It was stated that were in London 2,000 bakers and 9,000 journeymen, the majority of whom were favourable to a limitation of the.,an of labour. It was now the general custom for journei_7-Ag to work from five o'clock in the evening till eleven 0 W e .. the next morning, and have very little rest Oa Suodal* a lp solutions deprecatory of the system were carried tioasifir the after which thanks were voted to the Noble Lord 111 the chair, and the meeting broke up. . = g ootit ANGLING.—The first clean salmon of this se llv 100 taken from the Ness, by rod-fishing, was caught in the of Pool last Wednesday, by Charles Woodmag, Escl• lieret;eo in most of the northern rivers, the spring fishing have thilt very unproductive ; but from the quantity. of spa' , "'" e a , have gone down the rivers in February and March, it e" pected that the late fishing will make up f o r the early an d the Beauly Lord Lovat has taken three clean saltrion.hoo, the Master of Lovat six. From the Blsickwater , • Esq., landed the same number within the last fort fact% air THE GAME NUISANCE.—It is a notorious gamekeepers, When they have g6t a poacher in i 3 O 4t o "snare, in the way of conviction worryfOr. har m for penalty. 'The half - penalty system is a di r ect preni+Pibeit perjury, and that it has been committed.by keepers and Ida men (who are'mostly ignorant and impudent) to 0 eh,,.. n e rc , of extent is also a notorious fact. These , and a WAW A ' g evils, more,_ through the . game nuioalk.ee Ban - mintr7 4TI MVP t 4 04 , VW*. ~;~.