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

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. TO-MORROW EVENING, Tuesday, March 16, will be performed - - lionizettri Opera, LUCIA 1)1 LAMM Enmoon. Lucia, Mad. Castellan ; Enrico, Signor Coletti; Bidebent, Signor Solari ; and llagardo, Signor Fraschiui. To conclude with the admired New and Original Grand Ballet, COlt.‘1,11; on, LE CIIEVAL(VR INCONSTANT. C. Rosati; the Knight t uldebrand, M. Paul Taglioni; Wire, M. Geuriet ; Bertha, Mdlle. Petit ; Page, Mdlle. Honore ; Duke,. )4. Gosselln ; Fraisondin, M. Venefra; Fisherman, M. di Mattis The doors apes at Half-past Seven. The Opera to commence at Eight o'clock. r. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Tho Nobility, Gentry, Subcribers, and the public, are respectfully informed, that a GRAND EXTRA rERFOIENIANCE will take place on THURSDAY NEXT, March be, when will be performed Bellies Opera of LA SONITA.MBULA, Amine, Madame Casteßan ; Lisa, Madams Solari ; Count Rodoifo, Sig. F. Lablache ; Alessi°, Giubilei ; Elvino, Sig. Gardoni. With va , ious Entertainments in the BALLET Department. In which will appear Mdlle. 'Rosati, Madame Petit Stephan, Mdlle. Marie Taglioni, M. Paul Tag,lionl, &c. Also, a Selectio D LUCIA D n from I nizettes LAMMElt3loOß favourite Opera, entitled . In which Signor Fraschini will appear. I • conclude with a new Ballet, in Two Tableaux, by M. Paul Tag lion?, the music by Signor Pugui, entitled THEA ; OU, LA FEE AUX FLEURS. Principal characters by 3ldfle. C. Rosati, IL Paul TaAionl, &c. 31(11.1e. Marie Taglion _ The following are the prices of Boxes and Stalls for this occa• sion:—Boxes on the Pit Tier, Four Guineas; on the Ground Tier, Five Guineas ; on the First Pair, Four Gaiueas ; on the Second Pair, Three-and-a-Half Guineas ; lit Stalls, 2 s. ; Gallery Stalls, ss. Applications to be'rfaide at the box •office of the Theatre. ROYAL, MILIAN . OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. Established for the purpose of runderimt a mere perfect perform ance of the Lyric' Drama than has hitherto been attained In this country. Under th, Direction and Manuel/teat of Mr. BEALE.. The Nobility, Gentry,. and Patrons of Music are reepeetful'y in formed that the ito ~ al Italian Opera will OPEN on TUESDAY, the 6th or April. Proepeetascs to be had et the Box•oftlee, Bow-street; at Cramer, Beale, and Co.'s, 201, Bette: t-street ; and at all the Libraries. ROYAL 'CALLA (tIERA, COVENE GARDEN, Established ler the purpose of rendering a more perfect performance of the Lyric Drama than has hitherto been attained in this country. (hider the Direct on and Management of Mr. BEALE. The Nobilty Gentry, and Patr.ns of Music, are respectfully in formed that the Royal Italian Opera will open the first week in April. It is proposed to produce, in the course of the Season, some of the established works of Cimaroga, Mozart, Rossini, Meyerbeer, and others of the more modern Italian School, including Operas by Bellini, Don:- zetti, Mercadanto, and Verdi, on a scale of the utmost perfect'on in every department ; to which intent the mane, ement has assemb ed Company embracing :he greatest and most varied , alent in Europe. riumi SOPRANL—Madame Grist and Madame Persiani (her first appearance in London for three years), Madame Ronconi and Rale. Stetlanoni (of the Theatre La Scala, in Milan, her first ap pearance in this country). CONTRALTI.— Signora Alboni (of the Theatre La Scala, Milan, ind of the Imperial Theatre in Vienna, her first appearance in this country), and Mademoiselle Qolbari. TENIORL—Signor Mario, - Signor Salvator Lnvia (of the Imperial Theatre of St. Petersburgh, his first appearance in this country), _Signer Tula (of the Theatre San Carlo, in Naples, his first appear ance in this country), and Signor Sabi (ot the Theatre La Scala, in mac. and of the Imperial Theatres in Vienna and St. Petersburgh, his first appearance on the Italian stage in England). PRIM! BASSI BARITONI—Signor Tamburini and Signor Giorgio Ronconi. 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), Signor Angelo Alba (of the Theatre Royal, Madrid. his first appearance in this country), and Signor Polonini (of the Imperial Theatre, Vienna, his first appear ance in this country.) PRIMI BASSI COMICI —Signor Pietro Ley (of the Theatre Royal Madrid, his first appearance in this country), and Signor Agostino vere (of the Theatres Royal, Naples, Milan, Vienna, and St. Pe ,irgh, his first appearance in this country).. , de Donne—Madame Antoinetta Mollidori (of the Theatre La " , ft's• Milan), Mademoiselle Amalla Linari, Mademoiselle Luigina i f t Bailin! •ore—Signor Emmannele Slano (of the Theatre San Seconde Tee Carlo in Naples), Director of thoN- A powerful and rt. Singers will complete Signor Boneonsigllo. Pro.. The ORCHESTRA, torn, executive powers, will cempriee guished professors. The Military b.. will be under the direction of Mr. Godh, An ORGAN, of extensive compass, has In the theatre by Messrs. Flight and Son. Olga,. The BALLET, of a brilliant and costly charnete._ performance of the evening, and no Divertissement evil . between the acts of the Opera. The Director has the plea. announce that he has concluded an engagement with MadC."a.. Fanny Eissier ; and, during the season, the following emieWen Danseuses will appear: —Premieres Danseuse—Mademoiselle Duthie !etre (el the Grand Opera, Paris), and Mademoiselle l'lunkett (of the Grand Opera, Paris), Mademoiselle Bertln (of the Imperial Theatre, retina, her first appearance in this country), Mademoiselle Neodot (of the Theatre Royal, Madrid), Mademoiselle Marietta Baderne (of the Theatre La Scala, Milan), and Mademoiselle Fuoco (of the Acadende Royale de Park). Monsieur Pelee (of the Grand Opera, Paris), Monsieur tiontle (of the Theatre loyal, Madrid), Monsieur Ferdinanau Croce, Monsieur Delferier (of the Grand Opera, Parise„ and Monsieur Aoguste Mabille (of the Grand Opera, parls). Maitres des. Ballets—elonsieur Albert (of the Grand Opera, Paris), an.l eloeseur Riasis (of the Theatre La Scala, Milan). Leader of the Ballet—Mr.-Alfred Mellon. legisseur de la Dense Mr. O'Eryan. Cempeser—Sienor Alessandro Carini (of the San Carlo Theatre,,Naple,i). THE T HEATII render the Interior at once commodious, elegant, and comf , vabic, it has beets entirety reconstructed and dccerated, under the iernediate direction and after designs of It. Albene, Eel., C.E., with every dttention directed to its proper Nt at ilation. Tae Deeoratioe* have been executed by Mr. Ponsonby. The Management has happily secured the artistic skill of Signori Ferri and Verardi (of Ow Theatre Hellen, in Parts), to embellish the ceiling. and to prepare a New Drop Scene. The approaches to the Theatre will he towel improved, by a carriage way beimc formed hrenedia , ely utile - the Portico in Bow-street, whereby parties can 'save of enter their carriages without exposure to the weather ; and by increased faciliCes for ingress and egresS. The Refreshment Room will be under the superintendence Mr. J. G. Watson. Tickets, Stalls, and Boxes, for the night or season, to lie obtained at the Box Office, Itew-street ; and at Messrs. Cramer, Beale, and 201, Regent-street. ' , vie, Composer. and Conductor—Mr. Costa. microns C 1101tUg of chosen and experienced .he Vocal Department. Chorus Master npter —Signor Monterasl. 1 of Artistes possessing the highest 'inoug Its members Eighty distin nd of the Coldstream Guards been expressly erected tst—Mr. V. Nonllo. will close the be suffered 'titre to TIIEATLE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. FOIL THE BENEFIT OF MR. BUNN. THIS EVENING Will he performed thenew Grand Opera of THE BONDMAN. Mania:3 de Vernon, Mr. Weiss ;.. Floreville, Mr. Rafter ; Morlicre, Mr. Borne:a:4le; Ardentord, Mr. V. Harrison ; Mal-a-Propos, Mr. Marley ; Madame Corinne, 3liss Romer; Grisette, Miss R. Isaacs ; Frivole, Mrs. Hughes. After wlnch, the Interlude of POPPING THE QUESTION. Primrose, Mr. Farrell; Thornton, Mr. Payne Miss ill:fin, Mrs. Gloves ; Bobbin, Miss l , ;sacs. In the course of the Evening r. Braham will !rug " The Death of Nelsm," " The Bay of Biscay," and " Farewell my trim-built Wherry." To conclude with the Operatic Entertainment of THE WATER MAN. Tom Trigg, Mr. Braham ; Witillielinina, Miss Isaacs. THEATRE ROYAL, HAY MARKET. 17 Oar the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING. Will be perfbrmed the Comedy of LONDON ASSURANCE. Cha racters by Messrs. Farren, Tilbury, Hon, Webster, Brindal, Buck. stone, Hudson, Mrs. Seymour, Kiss Bennett, and Mrs. Humhy. To be followed by an Entertainment of Vocal and Instrumental Music, Ly tl:e LANrum ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS. To conclude with the Original Grand Fah'' , Extravaganza, c Vied THE INVISIBLE PRINCE; or, the Island of Tranquil D.lights. Prlnepal characters by Mr. James Bland, 7.liss P.Horton, Mrs. L. S. Buckingham, Miss Reynolds, and Miss Julia Bennett. THEATRE ROYAL. LYCEUM. Under tile Management of Mrs. Keeley. THIS EVENING Will br performed the Drama of 3IARTIN CHUZZLEWIT. Young P.alley, Mrs. Keeley; Sairey Gamp, Mr. Keeley ; Peckaniff, Mr. Matthews ; Tigg, Mr. Wigan ; Chuzzlewit, Mr. Emery ; Pinch, Mr. Meadows. To conclude with the splendid new Fairy Extravaganza, entitled TIIE ENCHANTED FOREST; or, Bear, Eag!e, and Dolphin. Principal characters I y Mrs. Kee'ey, Miss Valet's, Miss Bromley, Miss E. Daly, Mrs. WoOlidge, Miss Laidlaw, Miss Howard, Mr. Keeley, Mr. Meadows, Mr. Bender, Mr. Kin!och, Mr. Bellingham, and Mr. Wigal:. TREAT:IE ROYAL, ADELPIIL ncler the direction of Maclaine l:eleste THIS EVENING Will be performed an original Drama, called THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST ; a Gipsy Story. Cheap John, Mr. Wright ; Ishmael, Mr. 0. Smith ; the Kinchin, Mr. P. Bedford; Leyhourne, Mr. Worrell ; CyLtbis, Madame Celeste ; Lemael, Miss ',Voolgar ; Starlight Pe,:s, Mrs. Fitzwllliam ; Lady Agnes, Miss Harding. Afier wh'el..; the Farce of THE WANDERING MINSTREL. Characters by Messrs. Cullenford, Waye, Wright, Stoker, Mrs. Laws, Miss Taylor, and Mrs. Matthews. To conclude with th.' Farc •of SHOCKING EVENTS. In which Mr. Lambert, Mr. Wirrell, Mr. Munyar.., Miss Harding, and Miss Ckaplin will perform. _ _ _ PRINCESS'S T OXFORD-STREET. J. Si. Maddox. sole 1..150e and Manager. THIS EVENING 1 .1 - 111 be performed the Comely of THE MIRRY WIVES IF WINTHOR. Principal characters by .Vessrs. Granby, Ryder, Vin in', Co - .veil, Walton, Compton, Flower, Mrs. Stirling, Miss A. Romer, and Mrs. Foshroke. after which, a Concert by the New Orleans ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS. To conclude with a new Pram, e,:titl:d ANGELINE. Mrs. Stirling. Angeline, FP.EYCII PLAYS. T. JAMEs'S John 7.:Pchell. . INENING. • Wiil h ' ~ . ~ i.,: . 01U Pi le et Tr. geale. Du- Beroit ; Ihnnestia, 31(111e. A.) !;:11 kik ; I Atter Qv: (70,11,... 3 - 1 E RAN G E. La. 0 1 ,,, SlZre. Val ei Fourtlet. To cenwlvata'ottli a (taw Yandeviile, entitled LE ROI DEA FRoxIIN:4; homas, M. A. Tonsez ; Marioette, 31(111,. Pouquet. Boxc.;, As. , :is. od. , stalls, 35.; Gallery, 2s. Doors opened at half-past Sewn, and the performances commence at Eight. I'.l'.'rztte Rome., Stalls, and Places may be engaged at Mitchell's Library, 33, Bond-street; and at the Boz-oftice. 'lie (tattled ITN HAITI QUI SE ISerthulin, M. Cartigny ; Amel!e, ETHIOPIAN fiERENADERS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. The celebrated ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, Pell, Harrington, White, Stanwood, and 41prmon, will have the honour of repeat ing their Ittimitaiile .ENTERTAINNIENTS, at the above Theatre, T 0441011110117 EVENING, and every Tuesday, Thursday,. and Saturday. Doors open at Eight o'clock, and the Entertainment com mence at Half-past Eight; and repeat their DAY PERFORSIANCE every MONDAY MORNING during Lent, commencing at bait- Past Two o'clock. They w.ll also appear at the hones, Kennington, on Friday next, March 19 ; and at Sussex•hail, Leadenhill-street, 011 Monday and Wednesday Evenings, March 15, 17, 22, and 24. Boxes, 4s. ; I'it, 2s. ; Amphitheatre, 'A. AS MET'S ROYAL* AMPHITHEATRE, Proprietor, Ale. W. Isattr. Under the patronage of the Queen, Prince Albert, and other Members of the Royal Faintly. THIS EVENING Will be performed Sir Walter Scott's KENILWORTH ; or, The Golden Days of England's Elizabeth. Entire change of the SCENES of the CIRCLE. The Performance of M. Pablo Famine and his highly-trained Steed. To conclude with a favourite Afterpiece. ROYAL SUlticEY THEATRE. Lessee, Mn./ Frances Davidge. TIT'S EVENING Will he performed a new Domestic Drama (founded on the Novel of the same name), entrilled LILLY DAWSON ; or, A Poor Girl's gtory. Principal charac:ers by Messrs. Lewl , , Johnson, lleslop, &male, Phelps. Fredericks, Webb, Neville, Miss Torrey, Mrs. Vining, and Mrs. Saville. ' To conclude with the Drama of ALICE GRAY, the SUSPECTED °NE: or, The Moral Brand. Characters by the principal talent of the Company. _ _ _ Boz•ofice open from eleven till four o'clock. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. /loxes, Is., Uhl(' price, 6d Pit, 6,1.; Gallery, 3d. Private Boxes, - . II; Is. and Pis. 61. II I S EVENI Will be performed WOMAN'S LOVE. N C G litheroe, Mr. Mail ; Wynsley, 11r. Date ; Hollyhock, Mr. Fo r man ; Baldwin, Mr. Searle ; Kate Pearcey Ina ; Lady Adeline, Mrs. Lee ; Polly Pry, Miss To conclu,le with THE GALLEY SLAVES OF TOULON; or, The Hidden pany. Treasures of the C ross. supported by the entire strength o C late debate in House of In consequence of the I Gammons tTon the treatment 'of the cna te into the Sir George tirey has appointed Clptai'n'V ut NV , otr t. ;_, In spector of Prisons, as Commissioner, toanilit.ialorire • charges then made by Mr. T. Duncornbe, the general' treatment and cypiiition of the prisoners hulks. The inquiry commedoo on Friday last on b r o a ar ir c i l the h J us titia hulk, Mr. T. I) u ncombe bein g in dail y attendance for the purpose of substantiating his charges, and Mr. C. A I. Babington, the surgeon, is employed as medical referee. It is expected that the investigation will occupy some time. The Chancellor of the, Exchequer acknowledgeshe receipt of 63/. from "G. IL 1." tor " years' income-tax, ending April, 18-18." The amount will by paid into the re ceipt ofthe Exchequer. STATUETTE OF OVONNELT..--WO understand that the celebrated Count D'Orsav has just executed a beautiful statuette c.f he LiVratnr ; it is an exquisite specimen of the nobleartist. and will be ,old in this country, and t he pro e appropriated to the fund 3 fcr re.lizi of the Irish poor.— •"Fikrary Free Press. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 15, 1847. In 3 vols., post Bvo., DISRAELI'S ; NEW WORK, TANCRED OR, THE NEW CRUSADE, WILL BE READY ON WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlhorough.street. Orders received by all Booksellers, and at all the Libraries. NEW WORK BY MISS PARDOE. Now ready, in 3 vets. Bvo., with numerous Engravings on Steel and Woed, by William and George Measom, 21. 2s. neatly bound, LOUIS THE FOURTEENTH, And the COURT of FRANCE in the SEVENTi:;ENTII CENTURY. By JULIA PARDOE, Author of the "City of the Sultan," ke. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. LAST WEEK. lI E.NRY RUSSELL AT TIIE STRAND THEATRE. Composer of Woodman spare that Tree—lvy Green—The Gam bler's Wife -The Manlae—Ship on Fire—The Life Boat—l'm Afloat — Newfoundland Dog—and ether Popular Songs, will give his VOCAL ENTERTAINMENT THIS EVENING, AND EVERY EVENING. He will sing several new songs—The Trite Men of Old—lvy Green—Woodman spare that Tree—and the Demon Ship—Songs and incidents of Negro Life and Character. Mr. RUSSELL will give TWO MORNING- CONCERTS, THIS DAY, March 15, and THURSDAY, March IS. !tomes, 3s. ; Stalls, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery 6d.; Private Boxes, IL Is. Box-office ot., it from One till Four daily. EAST INDIA HOUSE, Minot 15, 1847. THE COURT of DIRECToRS of the EAST INDIA :COIiPANY do hereby give notice, in con formity with the bye-law of the said Company, chap. 7, sect. 6, that the following Proprietors of East India Stock, qualified agreeable to law, have signified in writing to the Secretary their desire of be coming CANDIDATES at the ensuing ELECTION of SIX DI RECTORS, on WEDIVESDAT, the 14th of April next, viz., William Butterworth Bayley, Esq. Russell Ellice, Esq. Major-General Archibald Galloway, C.B. Sir Richard Jenkins, G.C.11. John Masterman, Esq., M.P. Major-General James Caulleild, C.B. William Joseph Eastw:ck. Esq. Roes Donnelly Mangles, Esq., M.P. JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary. PROVINCIAL AND GENERAL CEMETERIES COMPANY, afflliating with the METRO POLITA-N and SUBURBAN CEMETERIES SOCIETY. First Capital 250,000/., in Shares of 201. each. Deposit 2s. per Share. TRUSTEBS. BENJAMIN BOND CABBELL, Esq., M.P., F.R.S. LUKE JAMES HANSARD, Esq., &c. Soucrroas—Messrs. Bourdillion and Sons, 30, Great Winchester- . . street. PARLIAMENTARY AGENT —James Coppock, Esq The Committee give notice that, hiving Allotted the Shares of the Metropolitan and Suourban Cemeteries Society, and as they must in three days be informed what Amount of Shares in the Provincial Cemeteries Company those Allottee3 will claim, they will next we-It be prepared to consider the applications of others. By order, E. HOARE, Secretary. 6, Broad-street-buildings, March 15, 1847. HE WEATHEIL—SUN OFFICE, MARCH 14. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 35 ; Highest, 46 ; Noon, 4 BAROMETER, 30 37.—WIND, S.W., fine. 111Ancu 15. TAERMOMETER, Lowest, 32'; Highest. 49 ; Noon, 49 BAROMETER, 30.24. Wind S.S.W., fine sunshiny weather. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-lIRLDUE THIS DAV. Nforning .. 16 minutes after 12. I Evening .. 44 minutes after 12. thus inexorable. The Government merely requires that the Irish landowners shall in future provide for the destitute population by a judicious imposition of poor-rates. The Government sees that it is but fitting that the men who are deriving their incomes from the muscular exertions, from the toil, and drudgery, and ill-remunerated strug gles of the peasantry, should be called upon tor assistance, when that peasantry has been brought down to a condition bordering upon starvation. Hence it is that Lord JOHN RUSSELL proposes the introduction of the poor-law into Ireland, and there upon 107 Legislators adjure the Government to pause before that measure is forced into an enactment. They are averse to out. door relief to able-bodied labourers. Why, what in the name of Common Sense has the Government been doing for the last six months but giving out-door rand to able-bodied labourers ? And without doing so, upwards of 3,500,000 Irish must have died in their cabins, and their decaying holies, must have bred a plague that would have ravaged the survivors. But the Irish party, speaking together to the number of 107, express their abhorrence of all out door relief to able-bodied labourers ! Now that clamour either means that 4,000,000 men shall be abandoned to death, or that the Government shall continue to drain its revenues by pampering their iniquitous and extortionate avarice. Either con clusion is as disgraceful as it is criminal and mon strous. It has frequently been our duty to direct the public attention to cases in which individuals have been subjected to serious expense and inconvenience, to a prolonged imprisonment, and the demoralisation con sequent upon the intercourse and communication with the most abandoned characters, while detained in custody, and to the odium and disgrace necessarily attendant upon a public trial, through the culpable negligence of the committing magistrate, who too often receives the informations, and sends:parties for trial, without having such evidence before hint as to afford any reasonable prospect of a conviction. The Senate has rung within the last week with the in dignant remonstrances of Lord BROUGHAM on the conduct of one of the metropolitan justices, who committed a child of five years old to prison on a charge of felony; and on another occasion of another, who sent three boys, under twelve years of age, to stand their trial also on a charge of felony, for having taken the cap from the head of another boy and flung it into a piece of waste ground, manifestly in boyish sport. At Chelmsford, on Friday, we find two persons, a young man and a woman, Flaced at the bar on a charge of wilful murder, in its most terrific and horrible form—by poison ; when the first witness, the medical man who opined and examined the body of the de ceased, at once established the fact that there was no proof whatsoever that the deceased child had died from any other than natural causes, whereupon the Chief Justice, as a matter of course, at once stopped the case, and directed the jury to acquit the pri soners. In this case the cause of the child's death was investigated before the Coroner and a jury, who returned a verdict, "That it died of convulsions." The body was opened, and no trace of poison was discovered; and yet, notwithstanding these facts, a magistrate was to be found, who sent two manifestly innocent persons to a common gaol, on the most serious charge known to the law, either from gross ignorance of his duty, or for some unaccountable reason. !And in another similar case, tried the same day at the same place, the evidence of the medical witness entirely negatived the fact of any poison or corrosive substance being the cause of the death of the infant, and stated that, according to his opinion, it might be accounted for by perfectly natural causes. Under these circumstances the counsel for the prosecu tion most properly withdrew from the case, saying that he could not ask for a conviction. Surely cases such as these to which we have just alluded are de serving of the most grave reprehension. The liberty of the subject is not to be disregarded in such a reckless manner by persons clothed with an authority, for the due and discreet exercise of which they are manifestly not fitted. Every member of society surrenders a certain portion of his natural liberty ; he binds himself to submit to certain restrictions, and to contribute to certain expenses for the general benefit; in return he obtains protection for himself and property, and the entire power of the State is bound to be exercised on his behalf to protect him in the en• joyment of his rights. In every case of grave sus picion he is subjected to arrest, to be brought before one of these public functionaries, whose duty it is fully to inquire, and if there should be sufficient grounds, to remand the prisoner for further evidence, but if that evidence should not be of such a character as to afford a fair and reasonable prospect that a jury will be thereupon satisfied of the guilt of the accused party, he should at once be discharged from custody and restored to his family and friends. Injustice is seldom committed in the final result. Eminent men, selected for their learning, hold the scales of justice, who, recollecting the benign principle of the British law, " That it is better that ninety-nine guilty per sons should escape the consequences of their crimes, than that one innocent person should be subjected to undeserved punishment," instruct the juries that if they entertain any reasonable doubt of the prisoner's guilt they should give him the benefit of that doubt ; and if, from poverty or other cause, a prisoner should be unable to obtain professional assistance, fur his defence, he always finds the presiding judge ready to act as his advocate, and anxious to discover and lay before the jury any favourable or mitigating circumstances. In the earlier stages, however, the principle appears to be reversed. The momeat a party is brought before a magistrate he is treated as if he were actually guilty; even before he is com mitted for trial he is subjected to treatment fitting only for criminals; he is not allowed free intercourse with his friends, nor full opportunity of preparing for his defence; he is lucked u p i n hi s ce ll at the same hours and under the same circumstances as those who are suffering the punishment due to their crimes; he ;s nut permitted to obtain, although willing to pay for them, the comforts to which he has been accustomed. If he wants to write on the most private matters to his friends his letters must be Inspected and read by the prison authorities before ,hey can be forwarded or received. fie, is treated as a criminal and punished be- 'ore there is sufficient evidence to warrant an investigation before a jury of his country. The law authorises his detention and nothing more, but the regulations of the visiting justices turn that detention into a serious punishment. Surely there should be reguations for untried prisoners wholly different from those to which we have referred. Another magisterial practice has come to light within the past week which has elicited the just and indignant reprehension of the Learned Judge : it appears that a policeman was disguised and locked up in a cell with a prisoner at Warminster, in order to enter into conversation with him, and to report any statement which might be extracted from him to the superintendent. There is something so repugnant to every manly feeling in this abominable spy system—it has been already so often anirnad- verted on by many of the judges of the land— it holds forth such a temptation to per jury, and takes such unfair advantage of the accused, that we had hoped it could not have obtained the sanction of any English gentlemen at the present day. We regret to find that we were mistaken. Most seriously, however, do we hope that a full and searching inquiry may be directed by the Home office or the Legislature, and that a warning may be held out to other occupants of the magis terial bench, that they cannot with impunity outrage the public feelings by a repetition of such unconsti tutional conduct. A !Etter from Berlin, of March 5, states that the trial of the Poles compromised in the events of February, 1846, is shortly "to -commence. The in dictment divides the prisoners into three- categories, the first of which comprehends all that were led away_ by the idea that the Government menaced the Catholic religion. Against this class of persons the law officers call fur no pimishment, considering the imprisonment which they have undergone as a suffi cient expiation of their conduct. It is, consrquently l against the other two divisions that the proceedings are to be directed. The Frankfurter Jouirnal contains a letter from Lemberg, of the 25th ult., which states that a conflict had just taken place between the peasantry and the soldiers. Great distiess exists, and several bands of peasants were going through the country armed. It was with one of these that the armed force had come to a collision. Notling is said in the letter as to the result. The Augsburg Gazette publishes a letter from Posen, of the 2d, a . ating., on the authority of some persons who had juit arrived from Warsaw, that the reports which have been mentioned of the movements of Russian troops towards the frotitier of the kingdom of Poland, and which have been contradicted by a Vienna journal, were well founded. We learn from Warsaw, 2d inst., that an imperial ukase has been pub ished there for the formation of a Council of Commere and Manufactures. The Manheim Jounal gives the following account of the loans contracted by the German States during the last two years :—Grand Duchy of Baden 14 mil lions of florins; Electoral Hesse, 114 ; Hanover, 84 ; Austria, 98 ; and Wurtemberg, 12 ; amounting in all to 1444 millions of florins (296,250,000 f.) To this must be added loans contracted by Anhalt, Proe then, Hamburgh, and Frankfort. As to Austria, her loans since 1830 are these :—in 1830, 20 milhoni of florins at 4 per cent., at 97; in 1832, two five per cent. loans amounting to 94,644,000 florins ; in 1833 , 40 millions of florins at five per cent., taken at 89i ; in 1834, a five per cent. loan of 25 millions at par: in 1835, a three per cent. loan of 40 millions at 75 ; in 1839, a five per cent. loan of 30 millions at par ; in 1841, a five per cent. loan of 38,461,000 florins at 102 ; and in 1847, the late loan of 80 millions ; mak ing in all 368,105,000 florins. Madrid papers have arrived. Another Ministerial crisis has occurred. The Minister at War, General ORA.A, having determined with the consent of his colleagues to dismiss General BRETON from the government of Catalonia and to appoint General PAVIA, Governor of Old Castile, in his room, at the same time conferring the Govern ment of Old Castile on General MANUEL DE LA Cots- CHA, presented to her MAJESTY on the 6th, decrees for the purpose of carrying out these arrangements. .Her MAJESTY refused her signature to these, as she did not approve of the appointment of General CON CHA, On the 7th the Duke of SOTOMAYER is said' to h.itve waited on the QUEEN with the collective re signation of the Cabinet. It was stated that NAR VAEZ ama . Mors and PIDAL would be the chiefs of the new Admi L 'istration, and that BRAVO MURILLO would retain his of:lice of Minister of Justice. The following document, addressed by Don ENRIQUE to the Cortes, is published in the Herald° : "Don Eenriq ue n e e Bourbon, with the profound respect for the Cortes which th ei r . national mission and noble and elevated character inspires, says that, considering himself as isolated and cast into obli v i on si n ce the marriages of Queen Isabella 11. and her aug us t s i s t e r with two illustrious princes, he has himself the obligati on o f n o t pk' decided in this case , and e xercising his free right, to follow in all things the di c t a t es o f IL's own soul, has imposed upon icing his affections upon any but a Spanish lady. Th e r e q ues's be has addressed to her Majesty the Queen h av i ng rest':te,.l in obtaining the verbal . permission, with all th e ass urances he could desire, for con tracting a marriage with Donna Elem.. Castellvi Shelly Fer nandez de Cordova, daughter of their E bn eellencies the Count and Countess del Castellvi de la Villaneuv.a.v Garces, with the t of the capital, sole condition of remaining for some time (A' he had decided upon having the public and St.demn contract drawn up, submitting to ad the consequences Of this mar riage. But ore the morning of the 7th, although .li:v health had been suffering since the end of the autumn, and had been ill on the preceding evening, he was arrested Isty ,sur• prise, and carried in his bed with all the apparatus of force; and surrounded by bayonets, to the palace of his father, and without having obtained permission to take leave of their Majesties and present his homage to them, was sent off under escort for Barcelona, where orders had already been given to allow him only the time necessary for his meal. He was there charged, in the name of the Minister of Marine, with a mission for Naples, which would - have been an ho nourable one if he had been permitted to prepare for it, and if the means employed to remove him from the capital, his family,' and his country had been milder, and less public— a mission which would have been honourable if he had been allowed the suite befitting his rank in the navy, and still more au as an Infante of Spain, and if he bad been furnished with the elements indispensable for such mi*sions, and for the labours, investigations, Wens, models, &c., which have to be addressed to the Government as the result of them—an honourable mission if he had not been allowed too short a time to become acquainted with the modern ame lioration of so vast an arsenal as that of Toulan in all its branches, and with the present system of organisation of the French navy, which must be studied with care in order to be able to prepare a proper report, and if he had not been required to remain an unlimited time at Napl e s, fr om which is expected the important information which is to raise our navy from its present low state, and our arsenals from the ruin and oblivion in which they have been left-- - -an honourable mission it any importance were attached to the results which would ensue from an examination of the arsenals of England, the great maritime nation of which no mention is made—an honourable mission, in short, lithe mu- tive of an exile long prepared for could have been better con cealed from the nation ; and if, in thus removing Don Henry de Bourbon from i i :s mother country, his family, and his affec tions, an Infante of Ca t ;!ille, the:near relation of kings, had not been compelled to present himself in foreign countries with out any suite, and without ai.Y other resources than those which in a moment of confusion Atifl surprise, and of very natural regret for his family, his august tii'Oter bad been able to procure for him for his arrival at Barcelow, and his first exigencies. Reduced as Infante of Spain, anti as commo dore, to his sole person this order itself proves the impos sibility of ary good result, and places it in a grave position, for it is there said that her Majesty feels confident that he will fulfil his mission as he ought to do. It is therefore far from being honourable. It is thus that he has been torn from his mother country, from his family, and from the person whom he had chosen to form his domestic happi, ness, without having fallen into any fault which bad tarnished his honour, and which deserved the application bf measures so little honourable, so severe, and so far from conciliatory. Strongly convinced that his enemies alone could hope for a retractation of his public and sacred oaths, in order that he might lose his influence in the face of the world, and be regarded as unworthy of his position, and exposed, from weakness, to every ungenerous and unworthy action, firm in his noble design, faithful to his word, re solved to seek in domestic life the calm of which he is so much in reed, and of which he has been for a long time de prived; disengaged from the superstitions of past days, which are in opposition to the Constitutional system, he has the honour to make known to the Cortes and - to the nation, that conforming himself to what is prescribed by the laws and Royal pragmatic, he is decided as a man of honour to so. iemnize his marriage with the above -named lady Dona Elena de Caste:lvi Shelly Fernand. z de Cordova. ENRIQUE MARIA DE BOURBON. " Toulon, Feb. 24." On the 7th, TRIS TANY, at the head of a Carlist possession of Tarassa, a sma ll town , from Barcelona. Ile w as , h owever , e b i a g n h d t , l g e a a g i t il l e e d s shortly afterward, driven out by the QUEEN'S troops' with the loss of 15 men. The followir.g is an extract from a letter from the frontiers of Catalonia, dated March 5 : " It is now impossible to disguise the fact that the Carlist party seriously intend again to raise the standard of civil war in Spain ; a great movement may, therefore, be speedily expected. It appears that it has only been hitherto delayed by the severity of the weather and the deep snow w hi c h still covers the mountains. The Carlist chiefs have decided that their troops shall all be clothed alike; their dress is to be the blouse, pantaloons of olive velvet, with caps of grey felt. A merchant of Cerdagne, whose name remains no longer a mystery, has entered into a contractfor their supply. A number of packages of caps have already been rent to the Carlists. I only state facts to you, which I might multiply, 4nd which are of incontrovertible exactitude. The great expenses into which the party enter make it to be supposed that they have abundance of money; and the resolution to which they have come to have a regular uniform leads one to suppose that they intend to carry on the campaign openly." We have received the Paris papers of Friday and Saturday. On Friday Marshal SOULT announced to the Chambers the death of M. MARTIN (du Nord), Keeper of the Seals, and Minister of Justice and Re ligious Worship. He is succeeded in his offices by M. HEBERT. The high price of bread continues to produce considerable alarm in Paris. On this subject the National says " At this moment it would be useless to dissemble the gravity of the state of the country. The crisis has become general, and more than two months must elapse before any reduction in the prices of corn can restore activity to busi ness, or security to its dealings. On every side the rise continues to go progressively on. From the end of January to the end of February, in different regions, this rise was from 2f. 79c. to 61. 9c., being upon the average 3f. 86e., or more than double the increase of from December to January. The average price of corn at the end of February was 33t. 78c. the hectolitre. Since the beginning of March this rise has been universal throughout France. In the circle of Paris, during the first week, wheats have reached from 41f. to 43f. ; in the Nord from 38f. to 41f.; in Nor mandy from aBf. to 40f.; in the West from 32f. to 36f. ; in the Centre from 40f. to 41f. In the East, in Alsace. Franche Comte, Champagne. and Lorraine, it is still worse. In the Vosges, at Raun l'Etape, wheat has been sold at 45f. 80c. the hectolitre. There has been no fall except at Marseilles, and there it cannot last. At Dijon there have been no va r i a ti ons o f pr i ces . Si nce th a t period the stat e o f the markets h as b ecome st ill w o r se. At Paris, flour, which was sold at 107 f. to 108 f. the 157 kilogrammes from Satur day to Mond a y rose between 3f. and 4t, and on Wednesday the dealers demanded from 116 f. to 117 f. Certain choice marks were even held up to from 118 f. to 120 f. the 157 kilo grammes; thus the rate tor the assize on the 10th was 671. 27e., which makes bread come to ,7c. the kilogramme, or nearly it: 15c. the 2 ki'ogrammes, or 41b. loat, being four centimes higher than for the present fortnight. Out of Paris, but at our very gates, as in Champagne, for instance, the price of flour is from 1201. to 1221. the 157 kilos. In the Allier, at the last market of Montlucon, rye was quoted at • 41f. the hectolitre and wheat at 49f. and 50f. And this is the case in all other parts. W hat should most particularly occupy our attention is the fact, that we can no longer rely upon the home produce fur the general supply. Our harvest (4 1846 is consumed, and if there be any reserves at all, they are in very small quantities, purchased by individuals at the beginning of the winter for their personal wants.... Private granaries are exhausted, and the dealers have no resource but foreign countries. As we have often observed, the nature of things will not permit us to hope that the arrivals will be .sufficiently numerous, and the wheats im perted considerable enough to put at once a stop to the rise, and then cause a fall before the middle or perhaps the end of June. Two days ago bargains were made at Havre for ' the delivery of American flour, at the period we have mentioned, at 52f. the barrel, while in January the price was from 46f. to 48f. London follows in the same progre:- sion. In Belgium we are forestalled, the northern store houses are inadequate to the demands upon them, and as long as this f 'reign competition shall keep up the prices, it will be impossible to stop the rise here. Nevertheless, the arrivals are becoming multipli e d, an d t h e M ayor o f davre has just published an encouraging list of ships laden with corn shortly expected in that port. We eagerly accept these promises, but we must not delude ourselves in the anticipa tions of their consequences. The wants of France are un questionably very great, though they may be exaggerated by fear. Many municipalities and private associations, more alarmed for public order and security than frightened at an apprehended dearth, have formed themselves into mercan tile corn comparlies, and make purchases at the ports. From this it results that the quantities of wheat imported, though presenting an important mass, disappear the moment they are landed and disseminated throughout the country. Hence arises a natural consequence ; speculation not being affected by the importations, as it would be if the corn re mained for a time at the port of its arrival, the prices do not give way, the demands are made in quick succession, and the high price continues. This clearly explains why, notwithstanding the numerous arrivals, the prices have not been reduced, nor probably will be reduced yet. In the last case the population is fed, the imported corn i 3 brought into general consumption, only it is paid dearly for, more dearly even than it is really worth. We have a pro found conviction that there is no real danger of a Jerrth—it has, indeed, become impossible; but we may expect that the prices will become excessively high. - In a word, the country will have all the wheat necessary for its 3U stenance„ but it will cost enormously dear. Let it not be said, that it did not depend upon any one to save France From these sacrifices. If the operations which have been practised within the last one or two months had been commenced in October or November, we should have received ',before the seas were shut up by the ice all the corn we lia•re need of, and even more, instead of being embarrassed and distressed in March and April, and even until June, and them a find our selves in July encumbered with a superabunda nee. The dealers would have had enough to supply all demands, and the prices could not have risen beyond a certain limit. Corn would have been undoubtedly bold at a high price, but to the natural causes of the demness there would not have been added that panic wlsic.h creates factitious prices, and deceives all !foresight. • If the Ministry, better informed or more sincere, bad not kept ui p too long, by imprudent circulars, a deceitful security—if it : had taken the initiative in such energetic measures as provic lent minds advised them to take, the evil would have been CO nsiderably alleviated. It is its inexcusable want of care and! its igno rance which have brought on the crisis. Nothincr now re mains for the country but to bear the consequence of the faults committed by its Government. May this be at least a profitable lesson to all ; and when the evil ders have paszed may it please Almighty God to teach us ,to seek from an experience so severely taught to take all due means to prevent their return, which would be worth more than incessantly talking of repression. It is legitimate, no doubt, to take precautions against disturbances, but the first duty of a Government is to prevent the causes which provoke them, and sometimes ,give them the ssetnblance• of justification." • From the. provinces the accounts of the scarcity are deplorable. At Bayonne fire bakers have been compelled to shut up t h eir shops, from inability to procure flour. Queen CHRISTINA, Wilo arrived at Bayonne on the 11th, was to leave for Paris on Sunday. The Moniteur publii.shes a dispatch of Marshal BUGEAUD, dated AumAle, the Ist inst., confirming the previous account of the submission of the cele brated califa of Abdel Kader, Thaieb Ben Salem, of Bou Chareb, of Meder.h, Sid Abderrehaman, former chief of Dellys, Bel Kassem and his brother Ahmed Ben Salem, 6cc. " The: amen claimed by those chiefs who had hitherto given proofs of the greatest fidelity to the Emir, cannot fail,." says the Marshal, " to pro duce a strong moral effect over all the native popu lation, who must now renounce the hope of seeing ABDEL KADER again at their head. The eastern frontier of the province .of Algiers was but 18 leagues distant from that city; it is now removed to 50 leagues." Don ENRIQUE remains, at Toulon. The Three per Cents. close a on the Paris Bourse on Satur day at 77f. 70c.; the Five per Cents., 115 f. 65c. ; the Orleans Rallroad Shares, J,2631: 75e. ; Rouen, 857 f. 50c.; Havre, 672 f. 50c. ' • Great Northern, 613 f. 75c. ; Avignon, 810 f. ; Vierzon, 560 f.; Bordeaux, 5l:Of.; Boulogne, 4001 ; Troyes and blontereau, 300 f .; Basle, 200 f. ' • Dieppe, 325 t. ; P a ris and Strasburg. 443 f. 75e.; N yftes, 442 f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyonii, 455 f .; Ly ons an d A v j ipla. 475 f.; Cette, 451 f. 25c. MAnsEn.r.E.s, MARCH 8.--DiXst . illes and Avignon, 825 f.; Northern, 622 f 50c.; Paris and L.vons, 4901. RITSINESS DONE: IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TrIE • LONDON STOCK EXCHA AI ARCM 13. Boulogne and Amiens, 13%—Orleans and Bordeaux, 634—Paris and Lyons, 7—Paris a n d O r l eans, 4 8 % — P A ris and Strasbourg, 2%. AILWAY COMALETTEES. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. GROUP I. • The Select Committee app o i n t e d t o cons id er t f r% merits of the Bills comprised in this group, re-assembled in X 'one at the usual hour this morning; Lord Granville Some, -set iu the chair. TUE NORMS KENT MrANTZ. Mr. Thomas Philpott, town-councillor ot.Canterbury, gaits general evidence in favour of this line. As to the idea of competition, it was preposterous. The lines would never pay, and in the end an amalgamation would throw the 1 cost of the railway upon the public. The people of Canter bury suffered from an instance of that nature during the old coach system. There was once a severe competition in coach travelling between Canterbury and London, but eventually a union of interests took place, and the public had to pay, in the shape of increased charges and reduced speed, for the former folly. Besides, Kent had nothing to fear from mono poly, because, should the railway company misbehave them selves, there was still the old river communication open to them. Mr. M. J. Knatchbull, son of Sir E. Knatchbull, the late Member for the county of Kent, and Mr. Cooper, alderman of Canterbury, gave con oborative evidence. VICE-CHANCERY-(THIS DAY.) (Adore Sir L. SRADWELL.) BIRCH v: JOY. This cause came on for futher directions on petition. It appeared that the plaintiff entered into an agreement with a Mr. Colquhoun for the puchase of certain leasehold and free hold estates in the county of Norfolk, which were liable to certain incumbrances. One of the incumbrancera was the present defendant, who was the personal representative of Mr. Colquhoun. The plaintiff was put in possession of the property ; but Mr. Colquhoun having become embarrassed, was obliged to leave the country before any conveyance was executed, and in two years afterwards Joy filed a bill, in which he alleged that the purchase-money, instead of 95,0001., the sum paid by the plaintiff in the present suit 110,0001., and that he (Joy's) annuity of 300/. per annum, was not redeemable; therefore that he was entitled to its payment, together with the interest which had accrued, which was resisted by birch. The bill of the defendant came before the Court in 1830, and his Honeur decreed that his annuity had ceased in 1824. In 1831 this decree was con firmed by the then Lord Chancellor, but in 1836 was altered by the House of Lords, who directed that Joy should have a reference to the Master, to ascertain what lien or claim he had on the purchase money. The BLister's report, in 1841, found that the estate was liable to certain incumbrances, among the rest, to the annuity of Joy, and 5,600/. also due to hint. Mr. Bethell, Q.C., and Mr. Parker were heard to-day for the plaintiff. MARLBR.O'-STREET-(THIS DAY. Rester Baggett and Joseph Baggett, tier son, were place it before Mr. Bingham, charged with obtaining the sum of 201. by means of a forged order, from the Provident institution Savings' Bank, Saint illartin's-place. Joseph Baggett, butcher, No. 7, Market-street, Newport• market, stated that the prisoners were his wife and son, and that his wife had been in the habit of drinking to excess. On Wednesday last he was informed that his wife had lost eleven pounds, and knowing that she could not, from her habits be possessed of eleven pence, he made inquiries, which led him to search for his savings' bank book. On finding it, and referring to it, he was astounded to find that she had been to the bank and drawn 201. out without his consent or knowledge. The prisoner, after obtaining the money, absconded. lie then gave information to the police, who took her into custody last night. Mr. Edward Boodle, comptroller and secretary to the Provident Institution Savings' Bank, St. Martin's-place, said that on the 26th ult. a female came to the bank and apiled for the payment of 201., and the same time producing an order purporting to be signed by the prosecutor. Through some informality in the wording of the order, he refused to pay the• money. On the 6th in stant, the female prisoner, accompanied by the boy, came to the bank, and brought a letter purporting to have been wntten by the prisoner's son, by his authority, which stated that the prosecutor was, in very ill health, that the bearers were his wife and son, and requested that the money might be paid to them. The money was paid, the female prisoner giving him a receipt for the same. In reply to Mr. Bingham, the prosecutor said that he could not write, and that he never gave his son any autho rity to write the letter and order produced for him, or to his wife to draw the money from the bank. Mr. BINGHAM remanded them till Wednesday next. SOUTHWARK.-(THIS DAY.) Thomas Harding Faith, a powerful man, was charged with assaulting a police constable. The defendant forced his way into the station-house, and smashed the windows, in consequence of being refused ad mission, and bit the policeman' s leg. It was further stated, that previously to his being locked up he went into a public house, and, being a man of great strength, insisted on drinking out of the glasses of all in the room, without con tributing to the payment. In answer to the charge, the defendant said he must have been mad at the time, or he would never have insisted on being taken to the station-house. He regretted all that had occurred. _ _ . Ile MAGISTRATE said, that he should fine the defendant 205., or 21 days' imprisonment. - ---------- ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY, REGENT'S PARS.—At a meeting of fellows held on Saturday, at the gardens of the society, George Bishop, Esq., in the chair, a [allot took place, and the following ladies and gentlemen were placed upon the list of the society :—Viscount Templeton, Wm. Sewell, Esq., H. Bl an chard, Esq., H. Wilson, Esq., Wheen, Esq., W. Thornthwaite, Esq., Henry Goodford, Esq., Lieut. Fletcher Compton Hayes, Mrs. Levein. Mrs. Cafe, W. Hutt, Esq., M.P., J. Tullock, Esq., George Chapman, Esq., J. 11. Peele, Esq., B. Kennedy, Esq., c, Morgan Smith, Esq., Joseph Sykes, Esq., C. J. Shou bridge, Esq., Mrs. Gruniog, Miss S. E. Amory, A. J. Valpy, Esq. J.. Fergusson, Esq „ E. Bu dd, E sq.. W. Fin nelly, Esq., ' Ed. Cane, Esq., S. Kennedy, Esq., E. Bilke, Esq., J. BilkP Esq , George Paton , Es q ., J. Williams, E sq. , Mrs. George Hill, and Mrs. Basch. The most interesting fea ture of the gardens, and, indeed,• a novel one in the me tropolis at this season of the year, is the :large conserva tory, which throughout the winter hie- exhibited a con stant succession of flowers, and has proved a most agree able resort for the fellows. A .PuzzLE.—A letter last week passed throug h the H a lifax post-office, directed to " Mr. John hieCabege lane, ale. fackes." Notwithstanding the novelty of the orthography, the letter was drily deli vered—according to ths di/ edict. -• MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CF'FY, QUARTER TO THREE. There was a lull market tor Cotton at Liverpool on Satur day; sales abo , it 2,000 bales. Buyers had an abundant choice, and pric es were rather in their favour. The Railway Share Market s ras very flat. The account .s received to-day from the Continental grain markets, none ,e continued purchases for exportation to Eng land, with m. ach firmness in prices. Up to the 9th inst., the weather was milder, and the ice was breaking up, but the navigation ' ,a not expected to be free again for some time. In Belgium . about 100 waggons laden with grain had been seized_ by the authorities wh en a b ou t to pass t h e front i er r' into ran• se, contrary to the recent law prohibiting exports. Neve: thtile as, a large quantity was known to have been con veyed sine e the law came into operation. The C , an Market does not appear to have assumed any very de sided feature this morning. Some parties call it a shade f tearer for wheat than on Friday, but at least it may be quoted firm, in the absence of extensive dealings, for which the. qt deter state of the markets at Liverpool and in Ireland will .y artly account. &e :coma! s from the fair of Frankfort-on. the-Oder, dated the :2d inst., stated that the quantity of goods brought there w: is 75,000 cwt. The market falling earlier in the year than um ua,', and the scarcity of money and dearness of food being felt also, caused business to be rather slack. The chief ta ansactions were in Berlin calicoes, mousselines de laine, and sitagle dyed woollens. In cloth, buckskins, and other xticles, there was not much done. Silks were dull of sale, as also iron and steel fabrics, porcelain, glass, &c. In raw products, such as skins, furs, bristles, &c., a fair business was done. There is no news yet of the steamer from Boston, but she is hourly looked for. The fineness of 'the weather was expected to have operated favourably upon the English Stock Market, and at the opening there was rather a firmer appearance, but buyers do not come forward freely, despite the impression in some quarters that the operations for a decline in pricts have been carried too far. The continued export of the precious metals and the firm state of the corn market act very injuriously still upon the value of funded property, because few can predict the extent of the drain or the rise that may take place. Evidently from the increase shown in its "other securities," the Bank of Eng land was tolerably liberal in its discounts up to the 6th inst. Consols after being 88i,' to !4, have just dropped to 87% for transfer to-morrow, and time bargains have been effected j at 88% to 88. Consuls Scrip has been done at Ito 1% dis count. Exchequer-bills are par to 4 premium. The Foreign Market has been very dull, and there is no speculation going on. Spanish Five per Cents, realise 22 3 / 4 , and the Three per Cents. 34%. The Deferred have been 16. Brazil Stock is marked 85 1 / 2 , and Mexican 21%. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are 57%. Shares are affected by the heavy condition of the Stock Market; but the sales have not been to any extent, and thus the decline is rather checked. The settlement is going on favourably. t3ltiTiSll FUNDS CLOSING FRIO ES.- Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities :. .. Cx div 87 1 A 'fhree per Cent. Consols Annuities .. .. 88% 1 A 87% 88% New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Amis. ex div 89 Long Annuities, Expire Jan. S, 1860 .. Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. •• 9 3-16 9 3-16 Consols for Account, April 15 .. .. .. 88% %88 88% 88 1,4 Consols, Scrip .. .. .. •• • • • 1l % dis 1 dis. Exchequer Bills. ili d. 1 k 6 d. 1,0001..: .. •• • . 4 p par pm. " par 5001.. .. .... 2 4 1 pm. 1 p Ditto, Small .... 2 5 pm. 5 p ONE CLOSINt, FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. 85% 85% Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent .. 21% 21% Ditto, for the Account .. .. .. 21 ' NI ._ . Portuguese Four per Cent bpanish Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto, for the Account .. .. Ditto, t'assive Bonds .. .. .. Ditto, Deterred .. .. .. .. 16 Ditto, Three per Cent .. • . 34% Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch Two-and-a-11 all per Cent .. 57% Ditto. for the Account .. .. .. Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates ONE O'CLOCK. •• •• •• • 22% PRICES OF RAILWAY SHARES. - „ • t-t Airlg AltalliOtl ito r 111, 'Oh ifoti* • • A.. nt ,I.ONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1847. A comparison of the entreaties addressed to Lord JOHN RUSSELL by the deputation of 107, and of the schemes of the Government for the relief of Ireland, presents to us a spectacle more repulsive than any thing we can just now remember. Men could not by possibility evince a greater degree of callousness to the sufferings of their fellow-creatures than did these sixty-four Peers and these forty-three represen tatives. In the contrast of their resolutions and of the acknowledged wretchedness which is now rife in their afflicted country, there is something absolutely hsrrible. Hundreds of thousands of able-bodied men would at this moment be in a state of hopeless desti tution but for the lavish assistance of the Govern ment. But for that extraordinary assistance from the Executive those hundreds of thousands of able bodied men, and the families dependent upon their labour for sustenance, amounting to a frightful aggregate very nearly approaching to 4,000,000 souls, would have to perish like rats in their cabins. Upon the munificence of Government these 4,000,000 are subsisting. For the time being, (luring the first paroxysms of hunger consequent upon the existing dearth, the State advances man fully for the rescue of its children; it takes the whole burden of their sorrows upon its shoulders ; it opens the veins of its ots n vitality, and lets the blood by which it subsists flow freely into the impoverished system of the starving millions; it does everything that a loving parent and a benignant guardian could do to prevent the evil consequences which, but for its gigantic and cordial exertions, would have been in evitable. It appropriates a magnificent grant of 10,000,0001. for the exclusive use of Ireland in her present aifitction. It has been so far from extorting from the pockets of the Irish proprietary the contri butions which were, on the Jutbreak of the calamity, most imperatively necessary for the salvation of the lives of the peasantry, that it actuslly undertakes to become the lender of additionol money to that proprietary, at the insignificant interest of 31 per cent. It establishes an enormous commis sariat throughout the island ; it accumulates corn in the stores for a possible increase of the emergency ; it awards a sum of 50,000/. for the purchase of seed for the ensuing spring; it taxes all its combined intellect, all its time, all its energy, all its pecuniary strength, all its moral and physical influence, to conquer the dread Demon of Famine, and to ward off the javelins of its follower, Pestilence. Under the /Egis of the Government Ireland has been sheltered in its extreme desolation and helplessness. Through the sole exertions of the Executive 3,500,000 of our fellow-creatures have been preserved from a terrible and inevitable death. But for those exertions on the part of the Government these 3,500,000 souls would have died long since, and GOD knows what might not have been the mortality which would hare fol lowed thereupon ! Meanwhile the proprietary are remaining on the wlsde inactive. They take an interest in the struggles of the Government officers against the local destitu tion which is growing and growing, and widening in all directions over Ireland—but their interest is passive. Nor is this all. Instead of taking a rigid supervision of the manner in which the charities of the State were being distributed, they look upon that distribution with the utmost indifference ; insomuch that the agents of the Government have been very largely swindled by the sons of the more affluent agriculturists. That is the difference of the labours of the Government and of the Irish proprietors in regard to Ireland. A more splendid munificence could hardly have been displayed by any administration—a more hardened and inflexible in difference could not have marked the conduct of any body of landlords similarly situated, than that which has been evinced by a considerable number of the landlords in the afflicted provinces. In honesty, in justice, in self-defence, and for the general safety of the empire, it was incumbent upon the Government, however, to put a limit to its enormous charities. Without the purse of FORTU-• NATUS, or the lamp of ALADDIN, it was impossible for any power en earth to keep fountains of gold playing perpetually. A barrier must be marked up, beyond which no further disbursements of this kind should proceed from the Exchequer. By its generosity on the original appearance of the dearth, time had been gained for a calm deliberation of the plans to be adopted under the circumstances. That time has been gained, that deliberation has taken place, these plans have been adopted, and the skeleton of those plans is the establishment of an extended poor•law for the relief of povertY - und, starvation in Ireland. It is a notorious fact, as demonstrable as the concen tric revolutions of the planets, that the present woes of that portion of the British islands are floWilig entirely and directly from the criminal conduct of the Irish proprietors themselves. For the result of their sins we have been paying enormously—we are still paying enormously—and have promised to pay ye t t more enormously, both in loans., in grants, in therefore, gtiioti: tf , in m anua l t o il, i n t axa ti on , an d i n t h e exhaus the hulk of our l eg i s l a ti ve energ y. It, we regarded this matter mere ly its integrity, name ly, u p on ,tie principle that every he penalty of hi s own offencies culprit must pay guilty proprie tary of Ireland w ou ld be compelled th and e ed by the E xecu ti ve to liquidate all those expe nses have been incurred - through the malignwhich payments operation of their own evil-doing*. But the Government is not .. 91 m % ,if f ; BUSINLSS PAID. DONE AT C, 1 „ 1 8 „, 1 ,.. N : 1 ONE O'CLOCK. Amber., Notting., Boston, and Eastern Junction . .• 2% .. •• •• • • Birmingham and Oxford Junction 5 .... 13% Caledonian Ditto. Half Shares .. 2% .... 2%.......... Direct Northern Scrip 2.. • • ... .. Eastern Counties .. • • 2O 19% . Do- rerpet ., 5 per Cent. No. 1.61. 1311.. 4d. . . • • .. Ditto, ditto.. .. .. No. 2. 61. 13s. 4d. 5b P• •••• • • • Ditto, York Extension .. .. 4 .. .. I A East Lancashire • • • . 17 .... Ditto New •• .. 7% .... 9 Ditto, ditto New Scrip • • • • 1 •• • • 214 % East Lincolnshire .. 4 .... 6% ...... 6 Edinburgh and Glasgow .. .. 50 .... 7414 74 Ditto, Quarter Shares • • .. 12%.... 104 ..... _ 10 , Great Northern (London & York Regd.) .. .. • • • • • • 2 •• • • 2 54•• • • • • • • 2 1 4 Do., do (Direct Northern Regd.) 314 .• • • .... Great Seuthern. & West. (Ireland) 27 1 % •••• • • • . 23% Great North of England . 100 _ _232 .. ...... 232 Ditto, New .. .. 5 .... 60 .. •• • . 60 Great Western .. .. 85 .... I 1 1 110.. • . 110 Ditto, Half Shares .. 50 .... 65 .. •• .. 65 Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 12%.... 17% % • • 17 Ditto, Fifths .. 20 .... 25% • • ....• • . 26 Ditto, New 4% 7%%.• •• 7% Hull and Selby .. .. •. 50 .. Ditto, Halt shares .. 25 .... 5l ........ 51 Lancaster and Carlisle .. .. 50 .... 63% 64 . • .... 64 Leeds and Bradtord -• .; 35 .... 77 ........ • • 76 Leeds and Thirsk 223 20 2 , London and .. 161. 13s. 4d. 7% ..... London, Brighton, and S Coast.. 50 .. 531 2% • Ditto, Consul. Eighths .. 10 .. • • 12% London au Norlh-Western • .100 •• •• 177 176.... .. .• Ditto, Quarters 2 .... .......... Ditto ditto, New Shares .. 2 ~.. 12% 13 12%.. Ditto, Fifths .. 2 .... .......... Ditto, 40/. Shares M. &B. •• 40 .. 69 .......... Ditto, iO/.. Shares M. &B. (A) 5 ... •• 11 10% 11... Ditto, 101. Shares M. & ii, (B) 5 .... 11 10% 11.. Ditto, 101. Shares M. &B. (C) 1 ..•• 654 .ondon and South-Western • 411. 6s. 10d... . , Ditto, New .. .• 225! Ditto, scrip •• • • • . 5 .. • • Loudon and York Extension Scrip 2% •• •• 2% ........ vnn and Ely .. .• •• .. 20 .... 21% ..... Bfa •ichester and Leeds .. .. • • 82 .• .. 107 .......... jr) , 'to, Ilalf Shares .. .• • . 38 .. • • 47% •• •• Ditli Fifths 5 .... 9% 10 9%.., Ditto; . Thirds ( iie g•)• • • • • • 71 . 45..... 2r4 1 ) •• • • •• • ". Buxton, & Matlock 428. p...... Mancheste. and Southampton .. 2 .... % . ...... Manchester Midland .. .•• •• •• •• ..100 .. • 116% 115...... Ditto, New •• •• •• •• 30 •• • • 33 IA % 33% .. Ditto, New •• •- •• .. 2 .... 4 1 4 % ..... 1 Ditto, Binning]] a. and Derby 100 .... 88 Newcastle and Bet sTI. • • • • 20 .. • • 33 32% ,tc-ford .. 10 .... .......... Newmarket and Che. Newport and Abergave.nn; .. 4 .. Nortolk ,•• .. 100 ....135% 134...... Northern Counties Union .. • • 21 / 2 •• • • si ..... North British.. ••• 25 •• • • 33% Ditto, Quarter Shares •. 2% ...... .... D‘tto, Extension .. • • • • %•• • • 1 % -• •••• • • • • Ditto, Thirds .. • • .. 1 •• .. 3% North statfordshire .. • • • • b d••• •. 8........ North Western • • ... .. • • 4 .. • • 3% Oxford,Worcest.,& Wolveriunptn. 17% .... 20% .. Preston and Wyro .. • • .. 25 2,3 N I UDitto, Half Shares (A) .. 8% .......... 'Ditto, ditto (B) .. • • .. I .. Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 5 •• • • 434 % Scottish Midland .. . •• 17 1 4 .......... Sheffield, Rotherham, & Goole .. 2% .... 2% • ......... Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 3 .„ „ Shropshire Union 425..... 1% 1 di5..... South Devon .. .• • • .. 40 .... 31% 32 ...... South Eastern and Dovor .. • . 33 1 4.. • • 36%.......... Do.. New (do. 301.) .. No. 3. 15 .... 16 South Wales .. .. • • • • • • 10 South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Trent Valley and Midland June. 425..... % p ........ Vale of Neath .. • . .. 2 .... .... West. Itiditlg Union • • •• .. 4/. 25..... „ „ Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth 15 .... R .... Yolk and Newcastle 25 .... 31% Ditto, .New.. .. 10 ... 15% 3 4 . Ditto, l•relerence .. 4 .... 7% %.• York awl North Midland .. SO .... 84 .......... Ditty,, Extension • • .. .. 20 .... 36% ...... Do. E and W. Riding Exton.— 10 21 FOREIGN' RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens 18 .... 13% % ........ Dutch Rhenish .• .. 7 .... .......... Namur and Liege .. • • .. 10 .• 4% .......... `o or France • • .. •. 8 .... 12% Orleans and Bourdeaux 6 .. • . 6y,% • • • ..... Paris and Lyons .. 8 .... 6% .......... Rouen and Davie . .. 20 .... 244 West Flanders . 6 .... .. JOINT-STOCK BANKS. British North American 50 .... 44 .. ••• . .• London and Westminster .. .. 20 .... • ...... MINES: Real del Monte, Unrerlstered LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, llLimit 15.—Wind S.S.W., light breeze, and fine clear weather. DEAL, MARCH 14.—Wind S.W., fresh.—Arrd. Boadicea, Warland, Satnarang; Vulean, Patrick, Patagonia; Anne Mary, Stevens, Mauritius; Tunate, K o pp e l, B atav i a, and sailed for Amsterdam; Claudia, Reile, Bombay; London, Gunton, Mauritius; Token, Cheyne, Mauritius; William Money, Buckley, Mauritius; Governor M'Lean, Mayo, Africa; Clio, Rio Janeiro; Puller, West, Honduras; Mediator, Chadwell, New York; General Taylor, Baker, Boston. Sld. Zuider Zee, Havannah ; Duke of Norfolk, Grenada; Israel, Port Philip; Aqua Marina, Port Philip; Henry Woolley, Havannah ; Alexander, New York; J a m es Scott, Singapore; Douglas, New York; Esther, Havannah ; Wilhelmina Lucia, Batavia. FALMOUTH, MARCH 14.—Wind S.S.W.—SId. her Ma jesty's steamer Etna, Batavia. Off Port, Clarendon, Hon duras, and sailed fur Greenock. GLoUCESTErt, MARCH, 14.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. The Caro line, St. John's. DUBLIN ' MARCH 13.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. Zephyr, Hare lock, Barbadoes. Sid. Helen, Munro,New York. RAMSGATE, MARCH 13.—The Eugenia, Bangor, to Lon don, has put in here to-day leaky, having been on shore near the South Foreland. ' 14th. The schooner Yalmar, of Goole, was fallen in with yesterday thirty miles to the northward of the Gallope a derelict, and brought in here ; appears to have been in contact, but to have received only trifling damage. Mem. The above was reported on Saturday as the Fame. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 13.—Wind N.W. to N.N.W., F res h . 14th, S.W„ Light. — Arrd. Dennison, King, Antigua ; Robert Burton, Deacon, Philadelphia; Adcronduck , Skiplev, New York;aoslarwood, China; Mary Holland, -Valpa isessurier, Cuba; Henda, H on d uras; Caro line,Galona, Dennis, N ew York; AH , rSuperb , Doroth ro m p ' arms,WMyamloanneYN,'NewewYoYrkor;k. Off port, Elizabeth Thompson, Princess Charlotte, and Hums. Sld. Ellen Ilightield, Rio Grande; Marquis of Normanby, New-York; Stir lingsbire' Maranham ; Anglo-Sax on , H avre; Rocking i t em, P or tsmouth, N. H. ; Corsair, Halifax Zions, Hope, Calcutta; Columbus, Pernambuco; Ada, Cuba; H. H. Boody, New Orleans ; Martha, Swatara, Philadelphia ; Wyoming, ditto; Barlow, New York; Sheridan, ditto ; South erner, ditto. SHIELDS, MARCH 13.—Wind W.N.W., strong. Sld. Briton, Brest and Quebec; Picton, Boston; Stirling, Havre and Quebec ; Radford, Paimbocux and Quebec ; Hewson, Copenhagen and St. John's, New Brunswick ; Margaret, Cadiz and America; Luue, Rumbou and Quebec; Sylvanus, Corunna and Quebec. Coax, MARCH 12.—Wind Easterly.—Aral. Ann Smith, Bownes, New York; William Morgan, B ston. LOUGH FOYLE, MARCH 12. —Arrd. Madonna, for New foundland, with loss of topmasts. SOUTHAMPTON WATER., MARCH 15. —A rrd. 3fontro!, steamer. LI3IERICK, MARCH 12.—Wind W.—Arrd. John Caskie, Bray, Boston. VISCOUNTEFS PALMERSTON'S ASSEMBLY.—Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston received the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, the 31;:qiii;a ' n — d . illarchioneas of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto and Lady, and a distinguished circle to dinner on Saturday last, at their mansion in Carlton-gardens. Her Ladyship, at a subsequent period of the evening, opened her salons for the reception of a brilliant circle of the corps diplonzatique and aristocracy. On Saturday Lcri Campbell gave a dinner at Stratnedon-house, to Lord John Russell, the Earl of Licc in, the Earl of Hardwide, the Earl of Clarendon, Earl Gran iille, Lord Stanley, L ,rd Lyndhurst, Lord Brougbatn, Sir James Graham, General Fox, Mr. Lockhart, Mr. A nd 14. Dauer& 2% 13% 26 1 4 2% 191/i -- i MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DA 1 , ' ) AY CORN EXCfIANGE—MONDI- -I:erk rhe arrivals of English Wheat up to our market la!!!' qo r were on a very moderate scale, white the receipts °fai r l y !: o f articles of home produce were scanty, Malt and Peas. From Ireland and 'Scotland scarcely Grain came to hand. The imports of Foreign W he . ll ~sod. especially r ° _.... unusually small, those of Barley and Oats tolerabifss.:,,, Fresh up a fair average quantity of Wheat Kent, but that from Essex, Cambridgeshire( he r . '', c i &c., was rather limited. On the whole, the disPtv ar ., lana samples—a portion of which came to hand by pas riage—was seasonably good, and of full arcrair, O , et her lity. The favourable change in the weather, tog to g" with the unwillingness evinced by the French buy - 0, 1 6010 to reachedot.tr: the asking prises, caused the demand for all descoriphi coo „ bs less active than was generally expsct«l ;vita t I _, us t bs mencement of business. Still, however, the tradenorter considered Jinn, and, in some few instances, /s Pe r 1 and inure money was paid for selected samples of both JR - 1, _„ n t white Wheat of home growth; but this considered general. The market closed firm, and we dsi the . prices Is to 2s per quarter higher than o i x , not semight, but at which a total clearance Was red effected. There were about 500 qua rters sort er ' disposed of Mr shipment to France at 80 6 p er t ' Os advaoce esscproio We had a very scanty show of foreign W h , e _ s r b • s ntie s article was in good request, at an improvement m tor te. obtained on this day se'nnight of front 2s to 3s P er r l Oat The total sales-4,000 quarters being fa - France_ >~ Of a 7,500 qua , tern, mostly red. The quantity of l'A , re l;;flat ie l„ full average, including the foreign arrivals ; yet `„,, a rted . ,l trade was firm, and last week's quotations were surr osa l ' every instance. Notwithstanding the show of Mehr a mar the sale for that article was very dull, and prices h eu „ ni iitiel• ward tendency, particularly those of the secondacY,44 oar Wifh English Oats we were scantily - supplied, Init'" u alifP tity of foreign was fair, though by no means goa d 'V o i ce is it A large business was doing at 6d to is per qu arter s t iot a Monday's prices. The sale for Beans was Al , 4 605 P it t, .late rates. Maple I'eas, f or see d , so ld u s high , fist , quarter. In other Peas very littl e was doing. ',-,,, r 5 0' trade was firm, at extreme cur renc i es . Indian u'" very dull, and 3s to 5s per quarter lower. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASLE S . 795t0 50 Wheat—Essex & Kent, . Malt—Clievalier.• ••' ' Red, New.... 77s toB3s Oats—Yorkshire 8 7 290 3•5 2 g Dltto,White, New 795 87s Lincohish., Fes": 3 7, Norfolk and Lin- Potatoc .-.•• •• ~ . ~. coin, Red... • • 73s 78s Y oug hal andCor7 0 1 30 ;48 . Ditto, White...... 745 8•1 s Black .••• • •• , _ q l Irish, Red .... •. —5 --s Cork, White. •• • pg :, Ditto, White .... • - —8 —s S co t c h, Feed. ••" 40 1. 1 ; Rye--01d.......• •••• —8 - s B eans —Ti c k .••• • - . bos s ps New. .......• •• • • 50 8 58 s Pi geons .• • • '''' 50$ b y Barley—Grinding ... • • 41e 45s Pease—Grey. ••• • '• .., 50 800 Malting . ........ 52 8 54 , ,, Map1e ....... . .. 0 , , Chevalier .... •• • 56s 57 8 Whi te ... • • ..... : 580 l iro Walt—Suffolk and. Nor- Boilers •••• • • ' • 60 08 folk .. ••• . • . 768 778 Flou r —T own - n utde ;•• oc di • Brown . .. 68s 70s Suffolk • • ..... • • 531; '- Kingston and Ware 77s 79s Stocktn &Norfolk, SMITHPIELD. I. . t .• este ° During the past week, the following imports of.ir-,. have taken place into London:— ' - -.` aft' From whence. Oxen. Cows. Sheep. ,3 Rotterdam Ditto - 5O ...... ,-- •••"' ...' Ditto ...... .. 10 - ...... 6 ...... --- "" -•"' Ditto ........ ...... 40 - ....... ~,, _-- Ditto Ditto Nieudiep — Harlingen Ditto 1 Total ...... ....... 65 333 306 S it heel h At the outports about 300 Oxen a n d C o ws, 50 ~,.,,„,u o s 20 Calves have been received, chiefly f ro m H o lland. .."LOP i j of Foreign Stock on offer was comparatively small , "" . , OW, 100 Oxen and Cows, 90 Sheep, and 5 C a l v es. D e , : _,,SS IP quality of each description being by no Means.)7l progressed slowly, at barely last week's quotatie r t i pplt, our own grazing districts a full avenge time of_ye s , r tk its 7, Beasts came fresh to hand. The Devon and l' 4ol l °* .affi l ,.!, were in excellent condition, but those from otherpalbar a„,"" land were not to say first-rate. Although the icet ova become mild, and the attendance of both town se" r buyers was not to say large, the finest Scots, e, pe . runts, and Herefords, , were in fair req a t uests at Ls' ''. about equal to those paid on Monday P - 'ld "- quotations for the former breed ranging from 4.5 toted dater 81bs ; but the middling and inferior kinds of Beef rt to LI and to effect sales a slight abatement was subtait_, Y risidr, the salesmen. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and CeR a slisi r shire, we received about 1,200 Scots, homebreds, B .,,a ti fie rr . horns ; from the western and midland counties 4 f, t hstoi, fords, runts, Devons. &c. ; from the north, 300 sl iu* :„411 0 : from other parts of England 600 of various kinds; P- 0 fel Scotland 220 horned and polled Scots. With Sheep 7,,,,j, got on a comparison with former seasons, scantily suPP'sot .at t'' their quality was_ very good. On the whole the berfa trade was steady, at fully, b u t a t no thi ng quotith.,e i 5 is: last week's prices. Th ere were a f ew D orse t Lan" p fi'F' t a 10n trod. market, but the sale for them was very heavy, Although the supply of Calves was small, the `P, was in a very inactive state. at a b ou t stationari gi o Prime small Porkers moved off steadily, other q uaint Pork slowly, at unaltered quotations. s. d.l°4 Second quality ditto 4 10 °, Coarse-woolled d i t t o 4' l g Aouthdown Netter 4 Ditto out of the woo l 4 ; Large Hogs ••• • • • .l Small Porkers •• • • • ; 19 . Quarter old Pigs • .16 • w Lambs 0 0 rer 8lbs:to sink the offal. s. d. to s. d anferlor Beasts-- 2 8 210 •;econd quality .•• 3 0 3 4 Prime large Oxen.. 3 6 3 8 Prime Scots ... • • 310 4 2 Large coarse Calves 4 4 410 ['rime small ditto .. b 0 5 4 -zi:e.tlinx Calves ..18 0 29 0 Inferior Sheep . 3 6 310 SUPPLY AT MARKET. rift yeasts. I Sheep. I Calves. I 29t , 3,390 21,270 103 zazturozvrs AND xasitamrcru k la nd From Scotland and the north and west of Eng t 1i average time-of year supplies of slaughtered m_e t . yieM been received up e to these markets during the p i a:w o gad while with that slaughtered in the metropolis We „ 11 „„i, tolerably well supplied. Prime Beef, Mutton, Yr' 00 , " Pork were in fair r equest , at full prices. In all oth er r te& of meat exceedingly littl e was doing, at b are ly lat°„,l-P About 90 carcases of fo re i gn B ee f, 30 ditto of Aluttoat'" ditto of Veal have appeared on sale. At per stone by the Carcase. s. d. to s. d. I s. t° S . Beef, inferior.... 2 6 2 8 Mutton, inferior •• 3 .7, i - middling .... 210 3 0 - initialing ••X 1- 4 - prime large .. 3 2 3 4 -- prime .• 4 3 4 prime small.. 3 4 3 6 I Pork, hirfe• ••• .. 3 6 ~ ea 1...... . •• •• 4 2 4 4 1 --- small .• • • .... 4 Lamb. Os 0(1 to Os Od BOROUGH AND SPITAUMCELDS. onoll The arrivals of Potatoes, coastwise, hale been ve b l o ;or during the past week; but about 120 tons l i g?! descrilr, ported from Germany. Although the supplY y o rkshi , ' tions is trifling, the demand is heavy, a:, follo,"aigro Sba ws ' e , g u e s s ; oire Regents, 180 s to 2206; ditto Reds. 180 s to 22 By 180 s to 200 s; Lincolnshire and Cambrid 170 s to 200 s; ditto Kidneys, 160 s to 180 s; Fr 160s 160 s to 180 s. BOROUGH HOP IV/ARBS I. • 06°1 • t teg cliO There is not the slightest alteration to notice' 4 . otea features of this market. The best Hops move ,°„ — n . in nee. at full prices, but all other kinds are very .41 5s - Sussex Sussex Pockets, 41 to 4/ 8s •, Weald of Kent Gilt" .11 16s; Mid and East Kent ditto, 41 Iss to 61125. WOOL. 1. ., fel The imports of Wool s in ce M on d a y l a st have 7,4 0 fru.", small, viz., 35 bales from C ons t ant i nop l e , and 10 0 Alp A- Hamburgh. There is a fair inquiry for 'English 1 " - t bi0% lull prices. In foreign and colonial qualities next to is doing. TALLOW. 'CIS I There is still a full average amount of business cle no l rg ecl• this market, and the quotations are firmly / 11 ,1 r- srCe IS „, P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted at 51s 3d, and for sow P 46O P, of very tine 516 6d per cwt. For arrival, the price is n ly o 46s 6d per cwt. Town Tallow is in moderate suPr ii fair request at 50s 6d net cash. Rough fat is no"' " per 81bs. • • THE ROYAL SOCIETY.—O H Saturday n i — ght President of the Royal Society had his third conver t oft at his Lordship's residence in Pi cca dilly. As at the,. ° o o o o reunions which bare prec e d e d i t , th e atten d an ce of 'Laid and members of the different literary and scientific IbllO was exceedingly numerous, for on this occasion not W s : c i 600 individuais honou te d th e N o bl e M arqu i s w ith thq, pally. Among th e genera l v i s i tors we observed 005 lency Count Schemmelp e nni c k, hi s E xce ll enc y N r % A rlr, croft, the Duke of St. Alb an ' s , the Earl De Grey, the " Ranfurley, the Earl of Devon, the Earl of Sheffield, 06 0 0 Grey, the Earl of Roseberry, the Earl Somers, 17pod'' Mahon, Viscount Courtenay, the Earl of Morley, Le,,'"' o l,o; ley Stuart, Lord Campbell, Lord Beaumont, Lord A , r o am ley, Lord Byron, the Lord Mayor, the Vice-Chan ce CO!, England, Count Valerian Krasinski, Chevalier Ribeirevor waiter de Berardi, Lord John Manners, the Bishop e! f isil• wich, the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.P.,. the,: the Sir George Rose, the Right Hon. Sir Frankland Le , ll.oo' Dean of Hereford, the Dean of Westminster, the Rig" Sir John Beckett, &c. „,1 3 POISONING AT BEDFORD.—BEDFORD, MAn jt —An inquest was concluded last night, at the Gener all tbo tirmary, Bedford, on the body of Sarah Adams, toucliiefoo , cause of her death. It appeared she had been in the Of of George Sharp, Esq., of St. Peter's, but, being ti teaf alarmingly ill, was removed to the institution above • r t oo when it was discovered that she was labouring ned e oi le eflects of an irritant poison. The poor girl died on Tb u edi tO morning. On the inquest it was shown that the deceasre' live months gone in the family way, and that she haV o s: viously borne a child, a young man named H o ward, an founder, of Bedford. being the father; and that the „J O it! had applied to one Newman, who had caused her to ta' - iOO gin a large dose of cantharides, and that Mr. Howaild be requested Newman to set the girl to rights, and he vicl i gor a friend to him. The jury returned a verdict of Willf,T tec tfer der against Charles Newman, and he w as f u lly comin"A' 0 10 trial. The deceased was a fine ha n d some woma n, an d 22 years of age. np THE LATE FATAL COLLISION ON THE RIVES. . et Saturday an inquest was commen ce d b e f ore Mr. Ler, h of, the World's-end Tavern, Tilbury Fort, on the pe uie fsbe, James Emmett and Henry Shillebeer, two of the crew gas; Rose, who perished through the late collision with the• Victoria steamer. The principal witness examined TOLs o ti' Webber, the master of the Rose, who recounted the P o p culars of the accident as the have already been made P t he The proceedings were then adjourned until the return °, O OO Royal Victoria from Scotland, for the evidence of her on' and crew - tbil° The Universal German Gazelle announces t ba Prussia has just concluded a treaty with America f or reciprocal extradition of:criminals. ANOTHER DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT GRAVESS i c;bIS' GRAVESEND, SATURDAY EVENING.-- Shortly after tweets' to morning the town was again aroused to a state of alarm , t he the outbreak of a fire in Harmer-street, in a line vit oft Terrace-pier, originating on the premises, No. 13, sit""use• the east side, occupied by Mr. Powis's fancy toy war iu It was discovered by a person who observed a great li g h to the front shop. He lost no time in giving the ala rtut •0g arousing the inmates, who effected their escape by .itonP„ o o' out of the windows at the back. On the arrival of the bf corporation engines no one seemed to have any knowledge,, their proper management, and the greatest contention veiled among the firemen as to who should have pri°4 l lo At one period there was a fight to obtain possession 0 ' o e branch pipes. To render the confusion worse, no water base • procurable until the premises were in flames from the 1015`to ment to the roof. The Custom-house engine was brough t the spot with equal alacrity, escorted by a strong detachineilt of soldiers from the Gravesend barracks, exerted themselves most energetically. The inhabitalleris fearing the conflagration would extend to the 3 di ac t o. houses, which at the height of the fire, seemed very P„ bable, dispatched messenrs to Chatham and Dartford I°` the assistance of fa ebrigade forces and engines, which the ceeded in reaching Gravesend in about an hour. la meantime water was obtained, when the Custom-bou se , gine was brought to play on the adjoining houses, by wo!_, s they were preserved from injury. The fate of Mr. Pow_t d who throughutoo, premises was very different—the whole were destroyed , a d l ' er.. the contents consumed. The fire was not finally et la h. till near jour o'clock. As to the cause, not the slightest formation could be gleaned. 127 15} 9 69 9. 4 2IA p N dis. P P 8 31! 2 15 3 4 7 7. 361, -.....1111L__ soy TUT Cut fa Put it it ° Mee of thYrn efl 0 4 pm Wilte rta' to break 411 e. 4 tred etedi n l flati • g 13 us I . !itri pi h bcla3 Whic Witter, fo mall b t 1141 / 1 4r ; ~op moisten • 6141 one a boil till to 'Pet in t hyme, qtuirter p ounce of 1 of rice, at one ounce UP Six pc add to th eceordini timely a the salt. The fol 1 11 the vai been final' Anth Robe John Joh n Greor i ohn Rich, Q UUTI Thon Fred, Willi Jame oi e ,, — •4e unti will li Jo n T h , e 0 Tb on Willi jona,