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THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. nder the direction of Madam• 'ideate. ON EASTER MONDAY Will ha performed the original Drama, called THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST ; a Gipsy Story. Cheap John, Mr. Wright ; Ishmael, Mr. 0. Smith ; the Kinchtn, Mr. P. Bedford ; Leybourne, Mr. Worrell ; Cyiithia, Madame Celeste; Lemuel, Miss Woolgar ; Starlight Bess, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; Lady Agnes, Miss Harding. To conclude with the Fairy Spectacle, founded on the Ballet et LA GiSELLE, entitled TILE PII.A.NTOM DANCERS ; or, the Wills Bride. Principal characters by Mr. Wright, Mr. P. Bedford, Mr. 0. Smith, Mr. Cullen Ord, Madame Celeste, Miss Marian Taylor, Miss Emma Harding, Miss Ellen Chaplin, and Mrs. Laws. TRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. Mr. Mitchell begs respedfully t• announce that Ma,lemolsell, ROSE CHERI will make her First Appearance on EASTER MON DAY, in the Comedie-Vaudeville of UN CHANGEMENT DF MAIN ; and In an entirely new Comedy, entitled LA PROTEGEE, SANS LE SAVOIR. Boxes, 68. , Plt, 3s. 6d. , Stalls, 3s. ; Gallery, 2s. Doors opened at kalf-past Seven, and the performances commence at Eight. Private Boxes, Stalls, and Places may be engaged at Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Bond-street; and at the Box-office. ETHIOPIAN gERENADERS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Re-engagement of the Ethiopian Serenaders. The celebrated ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, Pell, Harrington, White, Stanwood, and Gwrmon, will give their Attractive EN cER TAINMENTS, at the above Theatre, on EASTER TUESDAY, and will be continued every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday Evening ; and a MOUSING PERFORMANCE every WEDNESDAY, be ginning on Wednesdy in Easter w.,ek. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 7r. ; Amphitheatre, 2s. akiTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, l'roprietor, Mr. W. Batty. ,nder the patrensfe of the Queen, Prince Albert, and other Members of the Royal Family. Wlll open, for the Summer Season, with Lord Byron's Equestrian Dramatic Poem of TILE BRIDE OF ABTDOS ; or, THE CORSAIR AND THE AVENGER'S STEED. 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Containing Four large Engravings on Steel, and Two Wood-cuts of the Cathedral of Glasgow, with au Historical and Descriptive Part 11. will be published on the lst of May. William Blackwood and Son., 45, George-street, ildiriburgb, and 37, Paternoster-row, London. Preparing for publication, AN ATLAS to ALISON'S HISTORY of ErROPE, illustrating, In a systematic series of One Hundred Maps and Plans, the Campaigns, Battles, and Sieges during the Period embraced by the History. Constructed and arranged under the direction of Mr. ALISON, from the materials used by him in the composition of the Work, by ALEXANDER KEITH JOHNS I ON, F.R.G.S., Author of the " Nati , nal," and Editor of the " Physical Atlas." To be published in Monthly Parts, containing Five Plates, carefully coloured, accompanied by a Table of Contents, referring to the several editions of the History; and the Plates will be so ar ranged that they may either be done up as a separate volume in 4to. of Bvo , or inserted in any edition of the work. The price of each Part. containing Five Plates, will be Two Shil lings and Sixpence, and on Large Paper Three Shillings and Six pence. Part I. will appear on the lit of May. William Blackwood and Sons, 45, George-street, Edinburgh ; and 37, Paternster-row, London. The Trade are informed, that Prospectuses for circulation, and specimens of the Maps, may be had through their London corre spondents. ROYA.T, ITALI.kIi OPERA, COVENT GARDEN, Established 'or the purpose of rendering a more perfect performance etthe Lyric Drama than has hitherto been attained in this country. Under the Direction and Management of Mr. BEALE. The Nobility Gentry, and Patr.ns of Music, are respectfully in- Ibrmed that the Royal Italian Opera will open the fir , t week in April. It is proposed to produce, in the course of the • eason, some of the ,stablished works of ClinaroAa, Mozart, Rossini, Meyerbeer, and other.; al the more modem Italian School, including Operas by Bellini, Doi sett!, Mercadante, and Verdi, ou a scale of the utmost perfect'on la very department ; to which Intent the mana:ement has assembled a company embracing the greatest and most varied !Went in Europe. PRIM' SOPIIANI.—Madame Grisi and Madame Persiani (her first appearance in London for three years), Madame Ronconi and Mdlie. Steftanoni (of the Theatre La Scala, in Milan, her first ap. pearanc• in this country). CONTRALTl.—signora Ilbont (of the Theatre La Scala, Milan, and of the Imperial Theatre in Vienna, her first appearance in this Country), and Mademoiselle ('orbari. TE`!kntL—sigii.r Mario, Signor Salvator Lavia (of the Imperial theatre of St. Petersburgh, his first appearance in this country), Signor Tulli (of the Theatre San Carlo, in Naples, his first appear tense in this country), and Signor Salvi (ot the Theatre La Scala, in Milan, and of tke Imperial Theatres in Vienna and St. Petersburgh, his first appearance on the Italian stage in England). PRIMI BASSI BARITONI—Signor Tamburini and Signor Giorgio Itonconl. PRIMI BASSI PROFONDI—Signor Marini (of the Theatres San Carlo, Naples, La Scala, Milan, and the Imperial Theatre, Vienna, his first appearance in this country), Sl,lnor Angelo Alba (of the Theatre Royal, Madrid, his first appearance in this country), and Signor Polonini (of the Imperial Theatre, Vienna, kis first appear ance in this country.) PRIM' BASSI COMIC' —SignorPietro Ley (of the Theatre Royal Madrid, his first appearance in this country), and Signor Agostino Rover* Of the Theatres Royal, Naples, Milan, Vienna, and St. Fe tersburgh, his first appearance in this country). Secondi Donne—Madame Autohaat& Moilldorl (of the Theatre La Seilia, hi Milan), Mademoiselle Alaslla Linari, Mademoiselle Lulinua Second. Tonere—Signor Emmanuel. Slane (of the Theatre San Carlo in Naples). Director of the Music, Composer, and Conductor—Mr. Costa. A powerfal and numerous CHORUS of chosen and experienced lingers will complete the Vocal Department. Chorus Master— lignor Bonconsigno. Prompter—Signor Monterasi. The ORCHESTRA. formed of Artistes possessing the highest executive powers, will cempri.e among its members Eighty distin guished professors. The Military Band of the Coldstream Guards will be under the direction of Mr. Godfrey. An ORGAN, of extensive compass, has been expressly erected In the theatre by Messrs. Flight and Son. Organist—Mr. V. Novello. The BALLET, of a brilliant and costly character, will close the performance of the evening. and no Divertissement will be suffered between the acts of the Opera. The Director has the pleasure to announce that he has concluded an engagement with Mademoiselle Tanny Elseler ; and, daring the season, the following eminent Danseuses will appear : —Premieres Dansense—Mademoiselle Dumi nitre (et the Grand Opera, Paris), and Mademoiselle Plunkett (of the Grand Opera, Paris),- Mademoiselle Berlin (of the Imperial Theatre, Vienna, her first appearance in this country), Mademoiselle Neodot (of the Theatre Royal, Madrid), Mademoiselle Marietta Badema (of the Theatre La scale, Milan), and Mademoiselle Fuoco (of the Academie Royale de Paris). Monsieur Petipa (of the Grand Opera, Paris), Monsieur Gonde (of the Theatre Royal, Madrid), Monsieur Ferdinand(' Croce, Monsieur Delferier (of the Grand Opera, Paris), and Monsieur Auguste Mabille (of the Grand Opera, Paris). Satires des Ballets—Monsieur Albert (of the Grand Opera, Paris), and Monsieur Blasis (of the Theatre La Scala, Milan). Leader of the Ballet—Mr. Alfred Mellon. Regisseur de la Dense Mr. O'Bryan. Composer—Signor Alessandro Curmi (of the San Carlo Theatre, Naples). THE THEATRE.—To render the Interior at once commodious, elegant, and comfortable, it has bees entirely reconstructed and decorated, under the immediate direction and after designs of R. Albano, Esq., C.E., with every attention directed to its proper ventilation. The Decorations have been executed by Mr. Ponsonby. The Management has happily secured the artistic skill of Signori Ferri and Verardi (of the Theatre Italica, in Paris), to embellish' the ceiling and to prepare a New Drop Scene. The approaches to the Theatre will be found improved, by a carriage way being formed immediately under the Portico in Bow-street, whereby parties can leave or enter their carriages without exposure to the weather ; and by Increased facilities for ingress and egress. The Refreshment Room will be under the superintendence of Mr. J. G. Watson. Tickets, Stalls, and Boxes, for the night or season, to be obtained at the Box Office, Bow-street ; and. at Messrs. Cramer, Beale, and Co.'s, 201, Regent-street. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LINE. ON EA 3TEft MONDAY Will be performed the Opera of MARITANA.. After which the New Grand Oriental Spectacle, called THE DESERT; or, The Imaun's Daughter. In which the Two Ele phants, upwards of Sixty Horses, and the Games will appear. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Mantiement of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. ON EASTER MONDAY Will ha performed the new and original Comedy, called THE SCHOOL FOR SCHEMING. Principal characters by Messrs. Far ren, Stuart, Buckstons, Howe, Selby, Brindal, Mrs. Glover, 3lrs. Ilumby, Mrs. Yarnold, Miss Forteacue, 3liss Bennett, Miss Rey nolds, &o. Aftiar which the Grand Astronomical Extravagarimi, Galled THE SEW PLANET ; or, liAr.equlii .ut of Place. k ln s 29, 1 t347. LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH Dangers of an immediate and extraordinary e h,_ racter threaten the young Queen ISABELLA. The intrigues of the French SOVEREIGN and of the ignobl e panders to his avaricious turpitude are approaching their ultimate realisation. The pear is almost ripened. After being bargained away by those who were responsible for her happiness and for the purity of her existence before GOD—after being forced into a detestable alliance—after being driven into a royal captivity with as little regard to her own inclinations as was the unfortunate BRYSIiIS---the Spanish QuzzN _Ell l 4 TT L N has now been abati &Tied to an unpropitious destiny and a suspicious multitude by the ruthless destroyers of her tranquillity. Queen CHRISTINA has glutted her Ina of wealth by conniving at her daughter's in veiglement into an unh.ly and unblessed marriage— she has fled with her quondam paramour to enjoy the fruits of her atrocious policy in quietude, and to drain the last polluted dregs of her existence in an infamous obscurity. M. DB BRECSON has executed the most odious commissions of his master; he has acted with all the callousness of a Borgian Minister and with all the heartlessness of the minions of FRONTDEBCEUF. Having consummated his treachery, he has likewise departed from Madrid, and, together with the minor actors in the late deplorable scenes, has abandoned the Ibe rian SOVHREIGN to her fate. What must be the consequence of their proceedings it is impossible to ' conjecture, but that they will prove most disastrous and speedy is beyond denial. The independent course recently pursued by Queen ISABELLA is serving to precipitate the doom originally reserved for her by Louis PuiLIPPE. She is evincing more confidence in herself than could have been anticipated ; she is becoming troublesome to her august relatives in the Tuileries; something must be done to terminate her anti-Gallican struggles ; the imagination of M . GuizoT must be taxed to conceive some channel, however tortuous, through which to conduct the policy of his Cabinet intact; the guile of his anointed superior must be consulted to discover the readiest means of extrication from this embarrassing labyrinth. Rumours are naturally rife as to the intentions of France towards the Peninsular Government. It is actually whispered that ISABELLA is to be despoiled of her crown and all her consequent prerogatives, and that the destinies of Spain are thereupon to be re resigned to a Regency, consisting apparently of the KING•CONSORT and the Duke DR MONTPENSIER, but actually concentrating the power of the State in the grasp of Louis PHILIPPE. Whatever may be the course adopted by the latter personage, it is certain that that supreme directorial power cannot remain much longer in the bands of ISABELLA. She is asserting that power in a manner inimical to the Afrancesado interests; she is maintaining the right conferred upon her by the Constitution, of selecting her Ministers at her own irresponsible discretion ; she is virtually avowing her determination to throw aside for ever the shackles of her guilty mother and the influences of her faithless uncle. Can there be any doubt that ISABELLA will be compelled to abandon her throne, or to yield, at least, to the inclinations of the Orleans patriarch ? Can there be a moment's hesitation in any mind as to the result of such unexpected evidences of independence in a mind so docile and conceding heretofore ? Her Spanish MAJESTY is betraying a partiality to the views of the Progressistas, if she is not looking benignantly upon the Moderados. To her jealous ears the very name of Afrancesado has become a subject of abhorrence. How far will Louis PuiLirps permit this to con tinue ? When will the reins be tightened ? Soon ; that is inevitable. And how will the Spaniards themselves allow of further encroach ments upon their nationality by a premature usurpa tion of the diadem by the Duke DE MONTPENSIER ? These conjectures are forced upon the mind irre sistibly by the circumstances now transpiring in Madrid. They demonstrate still more plainly the exe crable nature of the French interference in Peninsular affairs ; they show how deeply the GuizoT Adminis tration has plunged into blachiavellism ; they prove, beyond denial, that the extrication of Spain from the difficulties with which she has been surrounded by Louis PHILIPPE is almost hopeless, without a con vulsion disastrous to the Spanish community; they illustrate what we have all along maintained, that the Peninsular policy of King Louis PHILIPPE has so far been germinated in a depraved ambition, that it can not by possibility be consummated, excepting by the commission of enormous crimes. On Saturday we alluded to the enormous expense ,hat would necessarily be attendantupon any system of emigration sufficiently extensive to reduce the popu lation of Ireland to the amount contended for by its advocates as absolutely necessary for the salvation of the country, and to make the proportion of the agri cultural labourers to the land under tillage equivalent to that in this country. That expense, amounting at the lowest calculation to from sixty to seventy-two millions of pounds sterling, would alone prove an in superable bar to the scheme, and render its general aduption perfectly impossible. The removal and location of even 50,000 families, a number so incon siderable as to occasion little perceptible difference in the numbers of the destitute poor, and not more than equivalent to tb annual increase, would cost no less than from 5,000,0001. to 6,000,0001., a sum equal to the entire produce of the income tax. But there is another and a higher ground on which our opposition to an extensive and organized system of emigration is based; it is not to be regarded as a mere question of pounds, shillings, and pence. Before such a plan can be sanctioned by the Legislature, or ap proved of by the public, it must be satisfactorily shown that the population is greater than can be adequately supported by the country, or than can be usefully employed in it. Until these points are clearly established it is vain to demand the public assent to the wholesale deportation. All authorities, however, go to prove the converse of the proposition. Sir It. KANE contends that the soil of Ireland is fully adequate to the support of not less than seven teen millions of inhabitants, or more than double the present number ; while Ausom, in his celebrated work on population, contends that it is abundantly sufficient for even a still larger number. There is, however, one practical fact that proves far more than the speculations of any gentlemen, no matter how talented or ingenious they may be—lreland is a food exporting country. Every description of edible is annually borne from her shores to the English market, and that in quantities sufficient to provide for additional millions. Coupling this well-authen- ticated fact—which, indeed, no one can be found with sufficient hardihood to deny—with that, which i s equally indisputable, viz.,—that the lands of Ireland have not been brought to the greatest degree of fer tility, and that increased produce would reward a better state of cultivation—it is manifest that Ire land can maintain her children at home. The first ground is thus taken away from the supporters of the system. But there is also an ample field for the profitable employment of their labours. Regard the almost unbounded waste lands, more than 4,000,000 acres of which might be reclaimed, and converted from barren wastes into smiling and productive holdings, and that not merely without expense to the national purse, but yielding a dividend on the outlay beyond any that has been obtained from the most judiciously selected railway. As a mere speculation to the ca pi!alist, the project for the reclamation of Irish waste lands would hold out inducements of no ordi nary character. The estimated cost of that reclamation would amount on an average (including the purchase-money to the proprietor, estimated at twenty-five years' purchase), to ten pounds per acre, while the land thus obtained would he well worth fr(,m 20s. to 303. per annum. Taking even the lower amount—and we believe that no person competent to form an opinion will say that we have underrated the first cost or the improvements, or esti mated too highly the value of the reclaimed land — it will yield 10 per cent. on the principal money, an amount more than double that which can be ob tained by the capitalist. Indeed, so well was this known, that in the Public Works Act, 1 and 2 Will. IV., c. 33, which has been taken as the basis of the new enactments, it was provided that no advance could be granted unless the applicant produced the certificate of a competent engineer or surveyor, stating _ _ that the improvement would be equivalent to at least ten per cent. per annum on the amount of the outlay. What a field is there here for the employment of the people, and that in the most desirable manner, in in creasing the fertility and annual produce of the country. The proportion of English agricultural labourers to the acreage cannot be taken as a just criterion fur our sister island, at least in her present condition. In this country the land has been improved and brought into a high state of cultivation. Although its natural fertility is less, an acre of English ground produces sixty per cent. more than a similar qusntity o f Irish land. Much labour would quire to be impended on bringing the latter e- Q I**T. - Into equal heart and condition ; and until that is effected a larger proportion of labour to the acre• age will be required to develop its capabilities. It is not, therefore, to get rid of the labourers that is the desideratum, but to direct their strength into salutary channels, to bring the gigantic power into full and profitable operation. The bus;ness of the Senate is to discover and remove the causes that have hitherto obstructed and retarded this great result, and until fully convinced that profitable employment of the many is impossible, they should not entertain any proposition for their removal to other climes. It is impossible to review the recent prcceedings in different parts of the country, in connexion, first, with the criminal law itself, and next, with its administra tion, and not to be convinced that both the one and the other are seriously defective. We are accustomed to praise the purity with which justice is adminis tered in this empire, and not without reason ; for in no other country do the judicial functionaries, supe rior and subordinate, possess so high a character for integrity of conduct as the English. So far, there fore, as the well-being of society is dependent upon the good intent with which our legal authorities discharge their functions, we have no ground for complaint, but much for congratulation. Much of the prevailing dissatisfaction, in regard to the crimi nal laws and their incidents, is attributable to the incompetency of the parties who are placed on the bench. We speak not of the superior judges, but of those whose ministration lies in the courts of inferior, but, nevertheless, of extensive jurisdiction. One grievous consequence of their notorious incapacity for the judgment -seat is the gross inequality of punishment that is awarded for the same offence. We admit the necessity, for the sake of mercy, of intrusting the dispensers of the laws with a certain degree of dis cretion, so that where extenuating circumstances present themselves, and which it is impossible to de fine by the letter of the statute, the prisoner may be dealt with in the most lenient manner. But we have a right to expect that those who are invested with this salutary discretion should be persons of undoubted ability. Capital punishment excepted, some of the sentences which are passed at the quarter-sessions Equal in severity those which are inflicted in the highest criminal courts. We have observed that far heavier punishments, for crimes of the same class, are awarded by the former than by the latter. Extensive attainments and enlarged humanity generally go hand in hand. The English Judges, as a body, have ever been remarkable for the benevolent spirit with which they temper the painful duties they have to perform. A chairman of quarter-sessions is empowered equally with a judge of assize to trans port a prisoner for a very lengthened period. Should he not, then, be a person of superior and peculiar qualifications for so responsible an office ? and, in case of illness, should not his place be filled by another in whom the public could repose equal con fidence ? We know, however, that chairmen of quarter-sessions are not of this class, and that if they are necessarily absent, prisoners are tried by the first country ignoramus who happens to be senior on the magisterial bench. So imperfect and ricketty a machinery for such solemn purposes ought not to be suffered to exist. However, the evils of the system tell more against the poor than the rich man, which constitutes an additional reason for its prompt altera tion. At the Middlesex Sessions, last week, the As sistant-Judge remarked that he thought the wit nesses for a female prisoner, convicted of stealing a leg of pork, had committed perjury; he sentenced her to imprisonment with six months' hard labour. The counsel for the defence boldly denounced the harshness of the sentence. The Judge justified himself by reiterating that " the prisoner's wit nesses had perjured themselves, and the Court would use its discretion in consequence !" The counsel most properly rejoined, that " it was not the system in this country to punish prisoners for the defence, but for the offence, and such dealing was not consi dered justice in this country or in any other." The Judge asserted he would act perfectly independent of the opinions of the Learned Counsel. Hereupon the jury remonstrated, and urged that the sentence should be dimininished two-thirds, a recommendation in which the bar, generally, expressed their concurrence. In the end the Assistant-Judge promised to review the case, and write accordingly to the Secretary of State. Nothing could be more irrational than the ground upon which this sentence was attempted to be upheld by the head of the Court; yet this was an error proceeding from one who has shown consider able ability and had great experience on the bench. Seeing, then, how liable most men are to err, even those who have established a general claim to the confidence of the public, the desirableness is rendered all the more apparent for the judicial functions of the inferior courts being consigned to men of first-rate We publish to-day, in another column, for the con ♦enience of our readers who are interested in rail ways, an account of the Groups appointed by the Select Committee for the classification of Railway Bills, to sit after the Easter recess, together with the names of the Bills contained in each Group, and the week in which they will commence sitting. A letter from Berne, ot* March 22, says— " The opening of the first ordinary session of the Grand Council for the year 1847 took place to-day. In the absence of M. Tillier, whose health is indifferent, the President's chair was occupied by the Advocate Iliggeler, one of our most noted Radicals. In his open ing address he enumerated the different Bills which were to be submitted to the sanction of the Grand Coun cil, and also adverted to another mutter, which, he said, was to be brought forward for examination, namely, the numerous petitions sent in against the appointment of Professor Zellur, of Tubingen. These petitions, it may be remarked, demand the annullation of an act alto gether within the competence of the Government. but which the Opposition is making use of, in order to pro v(,ke a reaction, like that produced in Zurich in 1839, by the nomination of Dr. Strauss. I have this moment learned that the Government has suspended several pastors for having refused to read, yesterday, in their respective churches, the proclamation of the Executive Council, on the subject of the agitation produced by the nomination of Professor Ziller." We read in a letter from Bak of the 21:I: " The Constituent Assembly has terminated its la bours. The last paragraphs of the new constitution were discussed in the sittir.g of this day, and the measure itself adopted by 90 votes to 2. The dissentient votes were given by M. Lichtenhahn, the head of the Chan. cellor's office of the canton, ,and M. Bourcard, president of the Criminal Tribunal. The measure produced by the committee has not undergone any very important modifications, and there is cause for congratulation that the matt, r has terminated so quietly. In a few days the people will be called on to vote, and there can be no doubt that the constitution will be accepted by the great majority of the citizens." A correspondent writes from Copenhagen to the German journal of Frankfort, that the King of DENMARK entertains the intention of granting to his people constitutional institutions. The assemblies of the States will be convoked separately for three days. They will each have seven delegates, making in all twenty-eight, wh) will meet at Copenhagen, and discuss in concert the proposed constitution, and co:ne to a mutual understanding upon the interests of the kingdom and the duchies. The Prussian Universal Gazette publishes a royal decree, declaring that all the members of Communist societies shall be prosecuted, according to the existing laws against high treason, if found to propagate doc trines subversive of those laws. The Official Gazette of Vienna publishes an impe rial ordonnance, granting the exclusive concession of the railway between Vienna and Gloggnitz to a com pany for a term of fifty years. At the expiration of that period, the line is to revert to the State without its paying for it anything to the company. Letters from Breslau of the 20th state that Aus trian Gallicia continues to be much agitated, in con sequence of the distressed condition of the labouring classes. There are several bands moving about de manaing food, and in some cases they have committed depredations, which rendered it necessary to call out the armed force. Intelligence from Lisbon to the 22d has been received. SALDANHA has bee❑ reduced to inactivity fur want of money and recruits, neither of which he can procure. The Junta have sent artillery from Oporto to Viana, to reduce the Castle cf the latter place. A LNIARGEM, a Junta guerilla chief, destroyed a 11liguelite guerilla, near Braga, on the 10th. On the 18th SALDANHA was at Larnego. It was expected that British mediation would eventually be accepted by both sides. jl4 el, MARCH fat, 1847, ait*4 On the 22d the discount on Bank of Lisbon notes was 37 per cent. The court-martial for the trial of General SER RANO has been appointed by the Minister if War, and he has been officially cited to appear within 30 days, or he will be considered as contumacious. General MANso has been dismissed from the office of Captain-General of Madrid, for having facilitated the escape of General SERRANO. In the Chamber of Deputies, on the discussion of the paragraph in the Address relating to finances, Senor BERMUDEZ DE CASTRO proposed an amend. meat in favour of free trade and an alteration in the tariff. The amendment was negatived by a majority of 116 to 83. A conspiracy had been discovered among the Afrancesado military chiefs, for the deposition of the QUEEN, and the appointment of her husband and of the Duc DE MONTI' ENURE Regents of the kingdom. They had already made attempts to se duce the troops of the garrison from their allegiance. General NAItVAEZ, it is said, was the person relied on to strike the blow, and the signal of action was to come, it is said, from Paris. MADRID BOMA, MARCH 22—The Three per Cents. were done at 30 for cash ; the Debt without Interest, at 5 3 A ; the Coupons, at 17; and the Five per Cents, at 19 for paper. We have received the Paris papers of Friday and Saturday. The proposition of M. DUVERGIER DB HAURANNE 7 on electoral reform, was rejected on Friday, by a majority of 98, the numbers being for the motion, 154 ; against it, 252. M. GUIZOT addressed the Chamber at great length, and spoke very bitterly of the seceders from his party. The Presse thus de scribes his speech : "M. Guizot was neither more happy nor less feeble when he had to explain himself as to the views that he cock of the word progress, and to eLumerate the acts of progress due to the Ministry of the 29th of October. He spoke of immense reforms, and cited four, viz., the liberty of public instruction, penitentiary or penal re form, the reform of the colonial regime, and reforitis in the Customs. But of these four reforms, three are still in the condition of projects; the fourth, that of the colo nial regime is the only one that has been effected, and we all know what that is worth. The Ministry pro poses to stop here. Those of the Conservatives who think that these reforms will not suffice, have only to change places, and go over to the Opposition. This M. Guizot has said without ceremony. We had supposed that he would use a language different from that of M. Duchatel. It was, however, the same language, but more harsh and explicit." In another article in the same paper M. GUIZOT is thus tauntingly reminded of the deception he prac tised on the electors by his promises at Lisieux : " All parties promise progress; but the Conservative warty alone will give it to you.' This is what M. Guizot said solemnly in August last before electoral France as sembled and attentive. Our confidence in these words was such that we hastened to place them under the title of our journal. We now efface them. They would be a lie on our part if they were to remain, for after the speech of the Minister for Foreign Affairs yesterday, we confess with pain that no illasion is any longer pos sible, no hope can any longer be permitted." Mr. O'CortztELL is staying at the Hotel Windsor, Rue de Rivoli. Dr. Ourrs, who is i n attendance on him, has given it as his opinion that Mr. O'Cox- NELL is sound in every respect, but low and debili tated from fatigue and over-work.. ONE O'CLOCK. CLOSING PR Et ;ES. Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities ex div 88 Three per Cent. Consols Annuities 89 89 88X, Bank stock for Acril 14 205 205,„ Consols for Account .. • • 89 IA 89 89 Consols, Scrip •• •• • • • • • par 1 /, die 34, dis r.xchequer Bills. d. 2d. 1,0001... .. .... 3p 1 dis 5001. .... par 3p 1 die Ditto. Small 4 p 1 dis 3 p ONE O'CLOCK. CLOSIN( PRICES. FOREIGN FUNDS. Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent .. Equador Bonds .. .. .. „ - - Mexican Bonds, 1846, h per Cent .. 22% 21% 21% Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. 84% 84% Ditto, 4 per Cent .. .. ~ .. 33% Russian Bonds .. .. .. .. .. 110% 110% Vanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. 22%% 22% Ditto, Three per Cent .. .. .. 34 1 4 Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent .. .. 40% 40% Ditto, Deferred .. .. .. .. .. 12 12 Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch Two-and-a-Halt per Cent .. 594 5914 Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 93% 93% BUSINESS CLOSING PAID. DONE AT pmcEs ONE .O'CLOCK. The numerous arrivals of foreign grain had caused prices to decline in all the markets of France. The Union Monarchique states that the Marquis de PASTORET (a well-known Legitimatist) has paid into the subscription for the relief of the poor of Paris the sum of 10,000 f., as the donation of an anonymous contributor residing abroad. This anonymous contributor is, it is said, the Due DE BORDICAVX. PRICES OF RAILWAY SHARES. Amber., Notting., Boston, and Eastern Junction . • . 2%.... Birmingham and Oxford Junction 5 .... 13% • Rirming., Wolver.,& Stour Valley 5 . ........ . Boston, Stamford, & Birmingham 5 .... 67 .. • • • • • Buckinghamshire ..61.45..... 56 p........ Caledonian Eastern Counties .. 20 .... 19% 76 54 ...... Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. I. 61. 13s. 4d. 4 p........ Ditto, ditto.. .. No. 2. 61. 13s. 4d. p • • • • •••• East Lancashire .. • • .. 17 .• 18% ....... • • East Lincolnshire .. 4 .... Edinburgh and Glasgow .. .. 60 .... 71 • • • • • •• Great Northern (London & York Regd.) .... % • • 2% Do., do (Direct Northern Regd.) 3% .... 3% • • • • • • .• • • 3 % Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 30 .• 26 Great North of England. . 100 ....232 .... Ditto, New .. .. 5 GO 60 Ditto. New .. . 20 57%........,. 57 1 % Great Western .. 85 ....117 119-- 119 Ditto, Quarter Simms 12% .... 18 18% Ditto, Fifths .. 20 .... 27 Ditto, New .. • • • • 7 % Huddersfield and Manchester .. lb .. lB% Hull and Selby .. .. • • 50 .... 102 Lancaster and Carlisle .. 50 64 . 63% Ditto, New Leeds and Bradford • • • • .. 35 ......... • 78% Leeds and Thirsk 22% .... 20% .......• I)it to, New .. 10 • ..... Ditto, Preference 6 per Cent. .. 3% .... 4X Liverp., Manch., & Newt. J unct. 2% .... 154 154 London and Blackwell .. 16/. 13s. 4d. .. • • • . Ditto. New, No. 1 .. 4 .... 4% • . Ditto, New, No. 2 .. • • 1!. 13e. 4d. 1 p....... • p London, Brighton, and S Coast.. 50 .... 52%34 5214 London an North-Western ..100 • • .. 178 179% . . 179% Ditto, Quarters . 2 .... 19 194 London and South-Western 41/. Gs. 10d... ...... • Ditto, New Consol. Eighths .. 40 .... 47% • 47% London and York Extension Scrip 2% 2!y .. • • • • • • • • 2% Lynn and Ely .. 20 .... 21% ..... • • Lynn and Dereham .. 15 .... 16% % ........ 16% Manchester and Leeds .. .. • . 82 • • .. Ditto, Quarter Shares .. • • 12 • • • • • • • • . • ... 16% Ditto, Fifths .. .. 5 .... 10 1 ,E .. Ditto, Sixteenths .. • . 6 1 .4 • • • • .....• 8 Manchester, Buxton. & Matlock 425. • • • • % p • ...... % p Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .... % 1 56 Midland .. ..100 .. • 116% 1174 116 116 Ditto, New .. .. 30 .... 34% • • .. 34 Ditto, New .. . 2 .... 5% 5% Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 100 .... 92 .......... 92 Midland Great Western (Irish) .. 20 .... 8 Ne.vcagle and Berwick .. •• 20 .. • • 28 .4 . • 2814 Ditto, New .. • • . • • • 5 .... NorfOlk .. • • ..100 ....135% ...... 136 Northern Counties Union .. ........ North British .. .. • . 25 .. • • 33 1 ,4 ..... 33% Ditto, Halt Shares .. 12% .... 1614.. 16 1 4 l)itto, Quarter Shares 24 .... 4 % ......... 41 4 Ditto, Extension .. • • .. % 1% • • Ditto, Thirds • • .. • • • • I .... 3% 3% Northern and Eastern .. .. 50 .... 55 .......... 55 North Staffordshire .. • • • . 5 8% 8 ...... • • 8 Oxford,Worcest.,& Wolyerhmptn. 22% .... 15% ........ • • 15% Preston and Wyre 25 ...... Ditto, half Shares (A) .. • • • • 12% Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 5 .... ---• • • • • 5 Scottish Central • • . .. 15 .... 234 Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 3 .... 4% 4....... • 4 Ditto, Class B .. • • • • 1 4 1 4 . Shropshire Union .. 425..... 1% 4 dia.—. I% (Hs. South Devon .. .. 40 .... 31% • • .. . • .. 31% South Staffordshire Junction ..21.145.td % 4 p........ p South Eastern and Dovor .. • • 33% .. • . 37X 37% South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole 9 .... 2% 214 Trent Valley and Midland Junc. 425..... t 4 p . • . .• • • p Vale of Neath 2 .... ...... 1 4 West Riding Union .. • • .. 41.2 s IX p York and Newcastle .. 25 Ditto, New.. .. •. .. 10 ... 15%•• • . . 15% Ditto, Preference .. .. 4 York and North Midland .. 50 Ditto, Extension • • .. 20 36% 36% Ditto. Preference • • .. 2 Do. E. and W. Riding Exten.. • 10 .• • - 21% • • • • • • • • • • 21% Galignani's Messenger publishes the following statement : " We have received a letter from Mr. Thompson, the British Vice-Consul at St. Malo, contradicting in the most positive terms an account given in a letter from that place by the Debuts, and copied by us from that journal. It was stated in the letter in question that Mr. Thompson had created a disturbance in the corn market at St. Malo, by offering 35f. for a hundred weight of flour, when the market price was only 32f. The truth appears to be that, so far from Mr. Thompson's having raised the market price he resisted an attempt by some of the dealers to make him pay 35f., solely, as he says, because he is an Englishman ; and one of these persons. after an investigation by the authorities, was arrested, and has been cotovelled to deliver over the flour to Mr. Thompson at the market price of 30f., and not 32f., as stated by our contemporary." The Senanelle de Maurice, of December 27, an nounces that the French Government, convinced of the insalubrity of the settlement of Nossibe, on the Madagascar coast, has decided upon abandoning it. Two-thirds, and sometimes even three-fourths, of the troops stationed in this fatal climate have died. The island of Mayotte, therefore, will be come the only military position retained by France in these seas. The Three per Costs. closed on the Paris Bourse on -Satur day at 79f. 35c. , the Five per Cents., 1171. 35c.; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,2831. 75c.; Rouen, 873 f. 75c.; Havre, 6801., Great Northern, 641 f. 25c. ; Avignon, 828 f 75c.; Vierzon, 5731. 75c. ; Bordeaux, 521 f. 25c.; Boulogne, 4151. ; Troyes and Moutereau, 2801.; Basle, 206 f. 25c. ; Dieppe, 3301. ; Paris and Strasburg, 4431. 75c. ; Nantes, 430 f.; Paris and Lyons, 443 f. 75c. ; Lyons and Avignon, 465 f. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCII 27. Boulogne and Amiens, 16 —Namur and Liege, 4%—Northern of France, 134—Paris and Lyons, 6—Sambre and Meuse, 6%- 1 /Vest Flanders, 2%. PUBLIC ENTRANCE OP THE MAMMOTH TROUPE OF HoasEs, ELEPHANTS, AND CAMELS. —At half-past twelve this morning this monstre establishment of quadruped and biped performers, the most extensive assemblage that ever paraded the metropolis, made a tour of the principal streets, and the fineness of the morning attracted a vast assemblage of persons in the neighbourhood of the New-road and Eus ton-square terminus, that being the commencement of the announced route. In the interior of the Terminus, the preparations f or caparisoning the Burmese ele phants, camels, and the numerous stud, commenced early in the morning, and to a stranger the scene resembled an Asiatic cortege of a military character, so various were its hues, costumes, and appendages. Afew minutes after the time named as above, the gates of the station were thrown open by the police, who were most actively employed in keeping back the crowd which had assembled in front, and the procession issued in the following order, accompanied by the cheers of the multitude :—No. 1. The leader on horse back, the horse richly caparisoned in blue and gold, with yellow and scarlet trimmings. 2. The magnificent dragon carriage, drawn by four camels, with burnished gold orna ments, and the panels painted with appropriate de vices, which, with cupola, stands twenty-one feet high. In this were placed the band, twelve in number, playing an Eastern march. The housings and trappings were in Egyptian, in keeping with the carriage, which was driven by Mr. Wyld, the ma nager. 3. Two richly-ornamented travelling carriages, each drawn by two camels similarly harnessed, the drivers in costume. 4. Four large vane, termed dressing-room car • riages, drawn by two horses each. 5. The grand Burmese elephant carriage, with the two elephants in full Eastern costume, the driver being similarly attired; the carriage was one mites of Oriental splendour. 6. Mr. Hughes's private carriage. in which were Mrs. Hughes and family. 7. Eight horsemen, single file, the animals in new and rich h ous i ngs . 8. Eight ladies on horseback, similarly arranged, and ele gantly attired in riding habits. 9. Ten luggage vans, two horses each, in single file. 10. Mr. Hughes, the proprietrr, in a curricle and pair, built in the the form Of a Nautilus. 11. A large parade carriage, drawn by four horses, and driven by Mr. Webb, the curator. 12. Eight Burmese ponies with appropriate trappings of blue and gold, led by grooms. Last. One camel, habited as the former ones, and led by four attendants, made up the caval cade. From the enormous number of persons who lined the streets, the procession moved at a slow pace, and by the time it reached Piccadilly the crowd was immense: notwithstand ing, the most perfect order was preserved throughout. From Piccadilly the route taken was along Pall-mall, Charing-cross, Westminster-bridge, Lambeth-road, and Blackfriars- bridge, to the premises prepared for the troupe in Farringdon-street, where it reaches; its destination. MADEMOISELL E JENNY LIND. We understand that Mr. Lumley is now on his way to Munich to meet this celebrated vocalist and bring her to London. Tun AMATEUR PERFORMANCE FOR THE IRISH AND SCOTCH ON THE 2 7TEI APRIL, AT THE ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. —We understand that the applications for boxes and places at Mitchell's Li brary, to witness this performance, in which Mrs. Butler is to take a part, have been so numerous that very few tickets remain unappropriated. TAXES POUNDAGE.—A deputation from Manchester has waited upon Government relative to the meagre pound age allowed to assessors and collectors of land, assessed, and property taxes. A movement in earnest has now commenced upon this subject. Those officers, as well as surveyors of t a xes, and clerks to commissioners, are (we are informed on authority upon which we can fully rely) most miserably paid for the performance of their various irksome duties. We are informed on good authority also, that commissioners of taxes in many districts have expressed their strong dissatisfaction on account of this treatment of surveyors, commissioners' clerks, and assessors and collecto rs . Hi g h time that they were more reasonably and more fairly treated. THE GAME - LAWS.—To the utter disgrace of some a their he ownr of the game preservers in the country, when men are con victedandtheir own keepers, labourers, o r poaching,ser v ant are evidence inthecase on w estates, they stop their wages for the time occupied by them, and require the amount to be included in the costs against the party convicted. This is most shameful, and it is a dis grace to any magistrate to allow such a practice. What shall we hear of next in connexion with the odious game preserving and the infamous game-laws ?—.From a Corre spondent. THE WEATHER. —NEW ROMNEY, MARCH 23.—The late mildness of the season has proved most favourable for the graziers in this neighbourhood. The fall of lambs is unusually good, and, at present, unattended with loss.— Kentish Observer. MASTER IN CHANCERY.--.The lucrative office of one of the Masters of the High Court of Chancery is now vacant, Master Lynch having sent in his resignation in con sequencs of , ill-health. FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens .. _0 163 .. • • • • • • •• Dutch Rhenish .. 7 44, 4 •• .• Namur and Liege .. 10 4% .. • • • . • • • • Northern of France 8 .... 13% -• •• • • Orleans and Bourdeaux .... 67's 7•••• • • • • Paris and Lyons .. 8 5% G.... .• Paris and Rouen .. .. • • .. 20 34% .. Sambre and Meuse .. .. 12 .... .......... JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Australasia .. .. • . • • .. 40 .... 2214 British North Anaericau .. 50 .... .......... Colonial • • • • • • • • •• 25 15% ........ London and Westminster .. .. 20 .... .......... National of Ireland 22% .... 193 i MINES. Real del Monte, Unregistered LOYLD'S SHIPPING-(TIIIS DAY.) LONDON, MARCH 29.—Wind W. by N., pleasant breeze and fine clear weather. OFF THE NORTH FORELAND, MARCH 26. Andrew, Mark, Charleston. DEAL, MARCH 28.—Wind W. S. W., strong.—Arrd. Charles Ferdinand, Fetchter, New Orleans, fur Bremen P • Joseph Somes, Thompson, Manilla ; Princess:Veldemaarschalk, Veld thover, Batavia, for Rotterdam; Marie Laure, Moore, Mauritius; Louisa, Donraille, Pernambuco; Swift, Davis, St. Kitts; Otto, Angostura; Independence, Braglish, New York; Pilgrim, Hertz, New York, for Rotterdam; Ina, St. John's, New Brunswick. Arrd. 25th, Bromleys, Knox, Barbadoes ; British Queen, Wise, Antigua; Frankland, Cooke, New York ; Matrumkeag, Fisher, New York. 26th, James Cochrane, New York. Arrd. from the River and sailed, Victoria, Valparaiso; Rideout, Cuba; Malcolm, Mauritius. Arrd. from the river, Mary, Quebec; Symmetry, ditto; Britannia, ditto; Hymen, ditto. OFF THE LIZARD, M•RCII 25. Anne Eliza, Ccok, St. Domingo. YOUGHAL, Mattel! 23.—Rebecca, M'Grath, for New York, put back with both masts sprung. BRICTOL, MARCH 28.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrd. British Queen, Jaro, St. John's, New Brunswick ; John Thomas Carr, Wilkins, Mauritius. Off port, Barbara, Baker, Cal cutta. Sld. Collins, New Orleans. PORTSMOUTH, 111Ancit 28. Wind N. by E., squally.— Arrd. Anna Maria, Taylor, Calcutt a , w ith deck swept and part of cargo thrown overboard in a hurricane, in lat. 44, long. 20. Std. her Majesty's steamer Rattler, Monte Video. CORK, MARcH 26.—Wind S. S.W.—Arrd. Coquette, Evans. Demerara; Greenock, M'Kay, Porto Rico; Pallas, Going, Norfolk ; John Clifford, Staples, New York ; General Green, Snow, Boston ; Baltic, Spear, ditto. Sld. Isabella, and William, Large, Trinidad; St. Lawrence, New York. Off port, Barbara, Menkee, New Orleans, and sailed for Galway; Alexander Wise, Couther, Ayr, for New York, leaky. The Ellen Scott, Scott, for Constantinople,_ op. shore off the Lighthouse, and will - become a total wreck A small sloop, grain laden, is sunk near the Middle Spit Buoy, off this place. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 27.—Wind S.S.W. to S.S.E. ; 28, N.E.—Arrd. Elizabeth, Moffatt, Callao ; Celt, Lindsay, Bonny ; Penrith, Grullet, Brazil ; 'Andover, Ileaton, Ceara ; Jamaica, Selkirk, Pernambuco; E.scaldina, Meuerite, Porto Rico; Workington, Windsor, Porto Rico; Wallace, Sunmer son, Savannah ; J. M. William, Baker, Virginia; Minstrel, Doane, Boston; Wm. Ward, Scaullan, New Orleans. Ski. Danzig, New York ; Jane and Barbara, New York ; Janet, Staten Island; Conqueror steamer, Shediac ; Charles Jones, Quebec ; Syria, Montreal. OFF PLYMOUTH, MARCH 27. Semeramis, Calcutta ; Ealing Grove, Falconer, Dominica. lavaitroDli bLan . cit 28.—Arrd. Idni, Trinidad; Edward, twiny and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. - The sales of C o tt on ' at Liverpool on Saturday were Madrid papers and letters a the 20th, 2lst, and 7,000 bales, including 2,000 on speculation and 1000 for 22d have been received. export. The market was steady. Railway Shares were firm, though quiet. The reports from the Dublin and other corn markets, conic to hand to day are of an encouraging nature, and here there is a fall of 3s. to ss. per quarter this morn ing in the price of wheat. There are two or three arrivals off the coast from the United States, and the intelligence reaching to the Bth inst. from New York has been expressed to the North. and South American Coffee-house. The Corn Market appears to have been rather dull. The exchange on London was 105. It is reported that on the 6th inst. the New York markets were mostly quiet, and presented little change since yesterday's report. The uncertainty about freights tended to check operations. The large number of vessels which arrived a few days since, which, it was believed at first, would have reduced the rates of freights, it seems, from the fact of many of them being engaged previous to arrival, the expected decline was nut realised. Within a day or two easterly winds have again prevailed, and a number of vessels being due, it was supposed many were off the coast, ready to enn r the harbour on a change of wind to the south. In this state of uncertainty, the rates to Liverpool, though no minally the same, were rather heavy. Small sales of Genesee flour wero made at 7 dolls.; Southern was quiet at 6 dolls. 50 cents to 6 dolls. 75 cents. A sale of red wheat was made at 1 doll. 50 cents. (km was less firm, and sales were freely made at 90c. to 92c. for Southern white, and at 95c. for Southern yellow. Prime Northern yellow sold from 95c. 98c. to 99c. Provisions were quiet at yesterday's rates, with some sales of lard and clear middles of pork. Groceries wire steady, with a fair amount of sales, if we except coffee, which continued dull. Adverting to the. Stock-market, one writer states:— " We have no confidence in an advance in the face of the present state of things, and believe what improve ment takes place will only be temporary. The Money market is tight and must remain so, so long as the de mand continues so large and the banks move along so cautiously. A slight reaction may take place from time to time, as the shorts come in, to fill up their contracts, but there is nothing to put up prices of fancy stocks per manently. The good, sound, solid stocks, are firm at our quotations, and in demand, and the prosperity of the country is increasing so rapidly, and has become so firmly established, that these stocks are daily improving in value." The English Funds have been heavier to-day, with very little doing. Consols bring 89 to 89k for money and time. Bank Stock for Account is at 205 i. Consols Scrip is at par to i discount. Exchequer-bills have realized ls. discount to 3s. premium. 'This flatness is contrary to precedent when corn has declined. The transactions in the foreign market have been also very restricted. The unfavourable accounts from Madrid, and the ap prehension of another political crisis are sufficient to deter speculation in the bonds, while w ith respect to Portugal the chief hope appears to be in an arrange ment with the insurgents. The old Bonds have been at 84g. Spanish Five per Cents. have been quoted 22i 22 , 1. Mt :clean Bonds are marked 214 to Chiliau 95, and Venezuela 401. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. bring 59 to '94-, and Russian 1101. In Railway Shares the dealings have been limited. The settlement of the Account takes place to-morrow. Prices are a shade lower generally. HICITISII FUND:, Baltimore; Shannon, Nore, New York. Put back, Liver pool, Wright, New York, leaky, Bie. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY. CORN EXCHANGE-MONDAY. During last week the arrivals of English Wheat, Barley, Oats, Beans, Peas, and Flour were on a very moderate scale ; but the bulk of the supply of the former article came to hand from Kent. The receipts from Scotland were very trifling; while from Ireland only 100 quarters of Oats reached us. From abroad we received an increased quantity of Wheat, and a very extensive one of Oats. The imports of all other articles were by no means large. Fresh-up, coastwise, as well as by land-carriage and sample, only a moderate quan tity of Wheat of home produce came to hand; hence the stands were by no means heavily supplied. The attendance of buyers was limited; os‘ing to which, and more especially to the large arrivals of Grain and Flour at Liverpool, and in most of the Irish ports, A DECIDED PA.NIC TOOK PLACE IN THE =ADE. Through out the day the dealers refused to purchase, except at a very considerable fall in the quotations; and, in the few transactions concluded, the currencies must be considered from 3s to, in some instances, 5s per quarter lower than on Monday last. At that amount of depression the market closed very dull, with at least a moiety of the supply undis posed of. A single parcel of 300 quarters of English red Wheat was sold for shipment to France at 76s per quarter. This was the only transaction fur export. There was an increased quantity of foreign Wheat on show. This artiC was excessively heavy, and, to effect sales, an abatemem of from 3s to 4s per quarter must have been submitted to by the holders. Ho wever , so li tt l e was do i ng, that prices must be considered almost nominal. With Barley, both English and Foreign, we were rather scantily supplied; nevertheless, the trade was exceedingly dull, and prices declined is to 2s per quarter. There was only a moderate show of Malt, all kinds of which were very dull, and h to '2s per quarter lower than last week. The import of Foreign Oats having been very large, the Oat trade to-clay was in a very depressed state; and we have to notice a fall in value of from 6d to Is per qr. Beans of all kinds commanded very little attention, and the rates declined is to 2s per quarter. In Peas next to nothing was doing, at is to 2s per quarter less money. To sell, a fall of 5s per 2801bs, and 2s per barrel, must have been submitted in the quotation of Flour, but our rates must be considered nominal. Indian Corn might have been purchased at a de• cline of 5s per quarter. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE Wheat—Essex & Kent, Malt—Chevalier • • 79s to 84s Red, New ... • 7? sto 76s Oats— Yorksliire and Ditto,White, New 74s 80s Lincolnsh., lewd. 28s 34E Norfolk and Lin- Potatoe 37s 39s coin, Red... • • 715 77s Youghal and Cork, Ditto. White.. 748 78s Black . ...... 30$ 34s Irish, Red ...... •• —s —8 Cork, White . .... 30s 34s Ditto, White .... • • —s --s Scotch, Feed..... 338 373 Rya—Old .......• ••• • —5 a Beans—Tick New. Barley—Grinding ... • . 40s -12 d Pease—Grey. ...... • . 508 538 Malting . .... •• .. 52s 56s Maple . .......... 50s 53s Chevalier .... • —56 s White ... ..... ... 558 59w halt—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers • ... 588 645 folk • ..... ••• • • • 76s 77s Flour—Town-made... 60s 65s Brown ... .. .• • ... 683 708 Suffolk .......... 52s 548 Kingston and Ware 778 79s Stocktn & Norfolk 525 54s SMITIIPIELD. • The imports of live stock into London during the past week have been as under:— From whence. Oxen. Cows. Sheep. Calves. Rotterdam Harlingen Nieudiep — Total ...... 116 370 500 19 The arrivals at Hull and the various other oatports have been comparatively small, viz.-120 Oxen and Cows, 150 Sheep, and 25 Calves; the general quality of which has been good There were in the market to-day about 120 Beasts, 80 Sheep, and 20 Calves from abroad, the whole of which found buyers, at higher rates. The numbers of home-fed Beasts were considerably less than those exhibited on Monday last, the falling eff being one thousand head. This circum stance, together with an increased attendance of both town and country buyers, caused the Beef trade to rule very brisk, at an improvement on last week's quotations of from 4d to 6d per tdlbs, and at which a clearance was speedily effected. The general quality of the Beasts was by no means first-rate. From Norfolk, Sufiblk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, we re ceived about 900 Scots, homebreds, and short horns; from the northern, western, and midland districts, 800 Herefords, runts, Devons, and short horns; from other parts of England, 800 of various breeds; and from Scotland, 220 Scots. There was only a limited number of Sheep on sale, and which com manded a ready inquiry at an improvement in value of quite 6d per Blbs. From the Isle of Wight 20 Lambs came fresh to hand; but from other quarters the receipts of that de scription of stock were small. The Lamb trade was brisk at 4d per 81bs. more money. The Veal trade was active at a rise in value of 4d per Blbs. In Pigs, the supply of which was small, a steady business was doing at 2d per 8 lbs. more money. Per 81bs. to sink the offal. s. d. to v. d nferior Beasts,— 3 0 3 4 iscond quality - • • • 3 6 3 8 Prime large Oxen 3 10 4 2 rrime Scots Large coarse Calves 4 4 5 0 grime small ditto iuckliag Calves lB 0 29 0 Interior Sheep .. s. d to s. d. Second quality ditto 4 2 4 6 Cosrse-woolled ditto 4 8 410 Southdown Wether b 0 5 4 Ditto out •f the wool Large Hogs •••• • • 3 8 4 6 Small Porkers •• :. 4 8 5 2 Quarter old Pigs .. 16 0 20 0 Lambs ••••• • • • .. 5 4 6 4 lieaste. 2,417 SUPPLY AT MARKET. Sheep. I Calves. I 17,380 I 68 I Pigs 290 NZWICILTE AND LEAD N sar ELL 16 . Tke arrivals of country-killed meat for our market, since this day se'nnight, have been tolerably good, viz. about 250 carcases of Beef, 800 ditto of Mutton, 90 ditto of Lamb, 120 ditto of Veal, and 1,100 ditto of Pork. From Scotland about 700 carcases have come to hansl in moderate condition. With meat killed in the metropolis we have been heavily supplied, owing to which the general demand has been in a very depressed state, and prices have tended downwards. The number of carcases of Foreign Meat on sale has been only 90. At per stone by the Carcase. e. d. to s. d. i s. d. to s. Beet, inferior ... .• • 2 4 2 6 i Mutton, Interior .. 3 2 3 4 - middling .. .. 2 8 210 i middling.. 3 6 3 8 - prime large .. 3 0 3 2 prime .. •• 310 4 0 - prime small .. 3 4 3 6 i Pork, large.... •• .. 3 4 4 4 Vial., - siblll .....• •• 4 6 410 Lamb. 5s Od to Os 10d BOROUGH AND SPITALPIELIDS. The supplies of Potatoes from Lincolnshire and Came bridgeshire, as well as from some other quarters, having been on the increase, and the dealers being unwilling to pay the high rates demanded, the sale for all kinds of Potatoes is heavy, and last week's quotations remain next to nominal. York Regents, 180 s. to 2205. per ton ; Do. Reds, 180 s. to 2155.; Do. Shaws, 1703. to 1905.; Lincolnshire and Cam bridgeshire Regents, 170 s. to 200 s. ; Do. Kidneys, 160 s. to 170 s. BOROUGH HOP MARHET. The few parcels of really tine Hops disposed of since our last report have produced full prices; otherwise the demand is in a very sluggish state at barely late figures. WOOL. Since this day se'nnight the imports of Foreign Wool have been small, viz., about 800 bags and bales. Although the stocks of the article in warehouse are smaller than far some years past, the demand is heavy, at barely late rates. Eng lish Wools are tolerably firm, but not dearer. TALLOW. A very inactive demand has been experienced for P. Y. C. on the :pot, and prices are quite 3d per cwt. lower than on Monday lest. For forward delivery next to nothing is doing. Town Tallow, the supply of which is good, is in moderate request, at 49s Gd to 50s 3d net cash. HOUSE ; OF LORDS.—(THIS DAY.) The House sat to-day to bear appeals. The Peers present were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, and Lord Campbell. THE PROPRIETORS OF THE EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY V. THE 3 IAGISTRATES AND TOWN COUNCIL OF LINLITHGOW. The arguments in this part-heard appeal were resumed this morning, and occupied their Lordships the whole day. The following are the short facts of the case upon which the appeal is founded :—The town of Linlithgow enjoyed under several charters, confirmed by Acts of Parliament, the right to take tolls on goods and car riages passing through the town. The town also enjoyed the right to take tolls on Linlithgow-bridge. In the year 1838, an Act of Ist and 2d Viet. c. 68, was passed for making a railway between Edinburgh and Glasgow, to be called the Edinburgh and Glasgow Rail way, which railway was to pass through Linlithgow, and to cross the River Avon between West Bridge and its mouth, by means of a viaduct or bridge above Linlith gow-bridge. By the 237th section of the Railway Act, it was enacted that " nothing in this Act should extend to take away a bridge, or diminish any rights, privileges, jurisdictions, or powers which at present belong to and are enjoyed, or which are claimed in virtue of Acts of Par liament, royal charters, immemorial usage, or otherwise, by the magistrates and town council of the burgh, or by the magistrate, or by any of them, to demand, take, re ceive, or levy customs upon any cattle, carriages, goods, or any other thing whatsoever, passing, led, drawn, or carried over the water of Avon, Torphican Mill, or at any other part of the said waters of Avon by any ford or bridge, or by any vi a d uc t or other bridge that may be built or erected across the water of the Avon by the company." The railway was opened in the month of February, 1842. The provost, bailies, and council of the burgh claimed toll on goods carried through the town by the railway, and also certain bridge tolls in re spect of goods carried over the viaduct, as if such via duct must be treated as the old town bridge for tho pur pose of these tolls. The directors of the railway com pany insisted that no toils were payable for the mere transit through the town of goods carried upon the rail way, nor for goods carried over the viaduct, which could not in any way whatever be treated as a town bridge. On both points the Lord Ordinary, Lord Wood, decided in favour of the magistrates of Linlithgow, and sup ported their claim of tolls. His interlocutor was sup was heard ported by the Court of Session, and from their decisi on the present appeal was brought. the op a e p , pe o l n la t n h t e s, same side, an i a lr p . r ß ev e i t o h u e s ll d , a o y n b a eh n a d lf mr of . u occupied their Lordships the whole morning. 22; 1 151 26% 19N VICE-CHANCERY —(THIS DAY.) (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR Of ENGLAND.) His Honour the Vice• Chancellor of England was oc cupied the whole morning with motions and cause peti tions of no g eneral interest. MARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY.) Richard Alearal.ider, Henry Gl a d 3tone, George Smith, and Thomas Collier, four y oung b oys, were charged with a tt e mpting to pick pockets in Berwick -street, on Satur day night. rolice-constable Wills said he was in plain clothes on the alert in Berwi c k- street, because of repeated rob beries having been reported from that neighbourhood olaftedlyief.,earnendt ns h p e er s s a o wt , he four p r i soners attempt the pockets and nearly succeed in their purpose on a lady who had just come out of a shop near St. Luke's Chapel. The father of one of the prisoners, seemingly an honest, hard-working "man, stated that his boy was ap prenticed to a tradesman, in whose employ he had been most attentive and regular, and he could not but be sur prised at the charge. Mr. BINGHAM said his experience for the last three years at Worship-street, was consistent with all that being tr ue ; f or h e f oun d young men well situated for trades and every necessary, w h o s pent their evenings on the streets picking pockets. He therefore remanded the prisoners for further inquiry. EXTRA PAY TO POLICEMEN.—One of the constables on this district haying applied to have his expenses at s ; I t the sessions allowed him, was informed by Mr. 13114G 11 that he had h a d a l etter this morning from the Hon?! Secretary, reminding him of the order of the 31st Ap . l l: 1830, disallowing all extra payments to constables, will; the Home S ecretary requested might be hence forth strictly observed. BOW - STREET.—(THIS DAY.) Jane Hickman Was charged with an assault upend Catherine Ryan. It appeared that the prisoner lodg ed with the moth e r o f t h e prosecutrix, and this morning the mother and daughter had a quarrel, in which some reference was made to the prisoner, whereupon the latter snatched a flat iron n ear ly re d h ot out of the fire, On the prosecutrix upon the head, inflicting a deep cut,,V l ,s burning the scalp and nec k i n a f r i ghtful manner. In prisoner, in exctve, said that she had told Mrs. BY"" and her daughter the night before that they might quer; rel as they c h ose w i t h one anot h er, b ut must not use her name; and th a t w h en C at h er i ne, notwithstan di ng that caution, dared to s p ea k o f h er to -d ay, she took t h e ir°- r , out cf the fire and struck her with it. The MAGISTRATE expressed his astonishment st t ho brutality of the assault on such slight provocation. 110 ; recommended the pros ecu t r i x , w h o was sa i d to be 1: great suffering, to be k e p t i n t h s h osp i tal for a f ew He sentenced the prisoner to pay a fine of 605., or be ""' prisoned one month with hard labour. isle I WORSHIP-STREET.—(THIS DAY') Joseph Davis, an ex-p o li ce consta bl e, was cherg with obtaining money and goods from several trades/Ile' under the following fraudulent circumstances : Sergeant Torch, 27 K, deposed that the defendant' • who was formerly a constable in the Metropolitan PO - Force, but was discharged, had subsequently bee g re-appointed. Havin g b een recogn i sed as an ex - po lice ' man, he was again discharged oa the 25th ult., as it Wes the practice of the Commissioners not to employ fi n f man again in that capa c ity w h o h as once b een ex pelled from the force. Witness, from the information be r e, ceived, took him into custody. Among the number whom the prisoner has victimised are the following:—Mr., Tongman, a licensed victualler, in the Commercial-road, from whom he obtained half-a-crova h Under pretence that it was for Sergeant Torch, and that no notice should be hereafter taken of Sunday trading. Fro m a butcher, named White, in Rat c liff e -hi g h way, b e o bt a ined . piece of beef amounting to 75., stating he was a police' constable in plain clothes, and would call again and Psi t him. There were other cases aga i ns t t h e pr i soner , w ho, I A appears, has been most active i n hi s ne f ar i ous pract i ces , a n d at the sup gestion of the police he was remanded in order to give time for further inquiry. CLERKENWELL.—(THIS DAY.) A diminutive boy, only eleven years of age, who said his name was King, but who was found to be the son of a most respectable draper and haberdasher, of the name of HeHier, residing not far from the Court, was c harged with stealing five loaves of bread from the shop of bir Manning, a baker, in Gray's Inn.lane. clock, It appeared that this morn i ng , a b out e i g ht 0' , the prosecutor missed a num b er o f l oaves f rom his Wl °• dow, and, upon looking into the street, saw the prisoner carrying away five of them. The prisoner's father, who had all the appearane c e i and manner of r es p ec t a bili ty, was present, an d a pps ar e deeply affected. He said he did all he could to reform his son, but in vain. He had locked him up to keep him from his bad associates, but although the room well secured and a t th e top o f the house, the youii rascal got through the windows upon the roof, and es caped over several other houses, and he had not see ° him now for upwards of three months before to-deP He had, amongst other asylums, tried to get hiss into the Refuge for the Destitute, but was refused, becauge the boy had not been previously convicted. Mr. GREENW OOD sa id, no d ou b t that the gover° ors might have good grounds for such a rule, but it save,. him as rather an extraordinary one. He should catna p the prisoner for t r i a l, as h e t h oug h t this the on l y mo de to save him from destruction. it Captain Marryat's far-famed " Phantom Ship or to form the new vol ume o f t h at unr i valled collect ion fiction " The Standard Novels," and will be published y t Wednesday next. All those who have been delighted ion "Peter Si mp l e " w i ll be glad to avail themselves of t'; opportunity of posse ss i ng i n a s i m il ar neat and cheap is:).; , the " Phantom Ship." Wh at would readers a few year stiTs have given to hav e h a d t h e opportunity of acquiring Illsies cheap and portable form the first novels and romances o' to age ? We envy those who have to read the " Pha n — Ship" for the first time. The funeral of Mdlle. Mars took place on Frider; in Paris. The service was performed in the church of th e Madeleine, and w a s a t ten d e d b y all the company of nie Theatre Francais, femal e as we ll as male actors, and ntA of the performers o f th e ot h er theatres. Four hun dr e d places were reserved roun d t h e catafalque, and the rest by the church was compl ete l y fil led. The pall was borne forM. Keratry, vice-presid en t o f t h e special comm i ss ion the Royal theatres ; M. Viennet, M. Leadierea, B sl.°- ` Taylor, M. Auber, and M. Samson, of the Comedic Fran" guise. Atter th e serv i ce was fi n i shed, the process i o n pro' ceeded to the cemetery of Pere La Chaise. When the boll had been dep os it e d i n t h e vau l t several orations were deli vered vered over it. No p er f ormance too k place on Friday nig ht at the Theatre Frangais. THE MURDER AT DAGENHAM.—It Was stated a fee days ago that the gran d j ury at t h e E ssex ass i zes b a d foun d a true bill against Sergeant Parsons and Hickton and 10 0 P.; ton, the constables, for perjury, and conspiracy to comm i t to of ia Parsonss; t ,u t d i a n y b d t b h u e i t i t i a c hle s t i z o o perjury before the coroner, at the inquest upon the body 0 ' G appeared C r e s e. called, K i O i n n n :o p r t d t o l l e n r e . seen just previous to the assizes, were not to be'found• su the police have not yet been alle to apprehend either 0 ' them. The bail required for the appearance of Kimpton 4001., wa which, not being forthcoming, he was - convoyed Ilford Gaol, where be now remains. EAST SOMERSET ELECTION.—The High Sheriff, Mr. John Matthew Quantock, has, in consequence of the arth e o vf og " § county assizes, altered the day originally intended for the nomination, arid has issued his proclamation fixing Saturday. nenslythe thrto: the 10th of April, for that purpose. No candidate has as yet appeared in opposition to the returns of Mr. Pinney, and it is the general impression that be will be allowed to walk over the course, although there are still rumours that a gentleman in the Protectionist interest will be brought forward, and for which it is said there is still ample time. It is said, however, that it is the general wish of the Conservative party in the present state of public affairs, and the near approach of a dis solution of Parliament, that the county should not b e dis• T SEPTENNIAL ACT.—The Act, commonly k n own as the Septennial Act, by ent is limited to seven turbed by a contest at the presen t time. EXPIRATION OF PARLIAMENT. HE which the duration of each Parliame nt which it was enacted— " That this present Parliament and all Parliaments that shall at any time hereafter be called, assembled, or held, shall and may respectively have continuance for seven years and no longer, to be accounted from the day on which by t he writ of summons this present Parliament laath been or any future Parliament shall be appointed to meet, unless this present or any such Parliament hereafter to be summone d shall be sooner dissolved by his Majesty, his heirs, or 6u_c cessors." The last Parliament was dissolved in June, 184 1 , , upon Sir Robert Peel obtaining a majority want of confidence. The present Pa r liament met for b ., . first time on the 19th of August, 1841. It would appr_ therefore, that there is no legal necessity for the dissolutio n of the present Parliament until th e sum mer of 1848 Sunday paper. on a motion of THE NAVIGATION-LAWS.—On Saturday evening. a meeting of masters o f vesse l s and sailors engaged in the coasting trade, was held at the Admiral Tavern, WePln u t for the purpose of taking such steps as might be deemed . o_ . cessary to prevent any alteration in the present nirbigatisoult laws. John Blyth, captain of the Emerald coasting ve was unanimously call e d t o th e c h a i r, and severa l resole Lions embodying the sentiments of the meeting were adopt ed THE MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 28 Peninsular and Oriental Company's steatn-ship Iberia, Cap' tain Mecham, arrived h ere l ast even i ng from Gibraltar, lag" landed the mails under charge of Lieutenant Ray , 11. 11 r which were forwarded by t h e 2 A.M. train this day. T . -- ; e 4 dates are—Gibraltar, th e 18th i nst.; Cadiz, the 19t h ; bon, the 22d ; Oporto, the 23d ; Vigo, the 24th ; runna, the 25th. The o Iberia, among others, brings the follove ing passengers :—Mr. Layburne, Mr. Klug and family, Cap tain Stephens, R.N., M r . D erraz, Mr. Sturge, ?dr. Moult, Mr. Larigo, Mr. Jose Jobuado, Mr. Ruiz, an d five dla tressed seamen. The Iberia's cargo consists of a few dries from Gibraltar, including 6 boxes of leeches, 980 bo; of cranges from Lisbon, 80 cases of eggs from Vigo, 21s0 e s • packages of specie. The same company's steani•l 33 da y Montrose, Captain Burney, left the docks at 3 p.m. yesterday for Gibraltar and the usual ports with the Peninsular b ale Mediterranean mails, 14 passengers, and a fall cargo of i goods. The East India and China mails, by the Oriental packet, Captain Brookes, is hourly expected at the Mot"' —. bank. THR MARQUIS Or LANSDOWNIL—We are }AV to state that the N o bl e M arqu i s i s progress i ng f avo urab,)l but it will take s ome d ays b efore hi s Lordsh i p will b e e nabled to take any acti ve p art i n pu bli c b usiness. The Noble/11OP; is able to recei ve communications, and, in a measure, I rs u act the lighte r d ut i es attached to his office in the Govern' ment. I MILITARY SAVINGS' BANKS.—A return presented to Parliament pursuant to Act shows that the balance due by the public ou the 31st of March, 1846, to depositors in military savings' banks, amounted to 47,938/ and the mull" ber of depositors to 4,177. lIER MAJESTY'S BUCKROUNDS.—In consequence of Easter falling :this year at least a week earlier tha n usual, and of the l ong cont i nue d frost and snow w hi c h. put an entire stop to the sports of the field during the latter part part of the last and th e b eg i nn i ng of the present year, at s l t has just been dete rm i ne d b y E arl Granville, t h e noble master, that the hunting season w i t h the royal packs in the neighbourhood of Windsor, is n o t t o c l ose until at least s fortnight or three weeks beyond Easter Monday. The hounds will then, it is expected, be taken to Lyndhurst, '. ll Hampshire, for the purpose of having a week's hunting i n the New Forest. West BRISTOL SUGAR MA RKET .--The sales o f • • , India during the week h ave b een li m i ted to a b ou t 200 hhu g ' of newly landed Demeraras, and for which a further decline in prices was accepted; good middling clean refining de.scrir tions 465. to 475. In Mauritius, the business has been con ' fined to some second-h an d parcels at easier rates. No trans' actions reported i n Bengals. The rum-market—Regn e goods fully support the late advance. TUE ROYAL SOCIETY.—The Marquis of Nom' ampton, as President of the Royal Society, gave his soiree this season on Saturday evening, at his residence ni Piccadilly ; and on that occasion was honoured by far t he largest number of scientific friends that we have hitherto noticed, for not less than 800 persons congregated in bis Lordship's saloons. his Royal Highness Prince Albert, at tended by Viscount Ciifden, Colonel Bouverie, and Captain Francis Seymour, arrived at twenty minutes to ten o'clocka and was duly received by the noble president, who can' ducted his illustrious visitor to the principal drawing-ronro• The different rooms afforded considerable pleasure to those interested in scientific pursuits, and in the arts, by the variety of objects submitted for the inspection of the midi. ence. The Noble Marquis, previous to the reception, sult a ' tained several of the members of the council of the RoyAl Society at dinner. - HUNGERFORD SUSPENSION-BRIDGE STEAM-BOAT PIER.—On Saturday, all that part of Hungerford Suspen sion-bridge, situate between the market termination and the north turret was divided by an iron railing, the west side of the bridge, on and after Easter Monday next, being to be thrown open to the public landing or embarking in steam boats, free of charge. The directors of the Bridge Company have ordered a toll-house to be placed at the north turrets for the convenience of persons wishing to pees over to Lam.. bath, t "Al punish more, drills would log o f Certaill did bel dreade Serj lion ai rusal attach many could prejud TliE ART RE(