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NEW NOVEL BY MRS. GASCOIGNE. In a few days, in 3 vols. post 8vo„ EVELYN HARCOURT. A NOVEL. By Mrs. GASCOIGNE. Authoress of • Temptation ; or, A Wite's Perils," &c. Henry Co'burn, Publisher, 13, Great Marn,orough-street. Just ready. in small Bvo. jorrnms FROM THE SABRETASCH OF A CHELSEA VETERAN. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING will be performed Verdi's h;ghly success Ail New °Para I DUE FOSCAIII. Between the' Ads of the Opera will be presented the admired Dl- vertlsement, entitled LE BACCHANTE, by Mdlle. Ladle Gratin Mdlles. Corran Honore, M. Dor, and Corps de Balet. To conclude with the new successtbl Ballet, in Two Tableaux, by 3f. Paul Taglioni, the music by Signor Pugni, entitled THEA ; OU, LA FEE AUX FLELTRS. principal characters by Mdlie. C. Rosati, Mdlle. Marie Taglioni. AL Paul Taglioni, &c. In the course of the Ballet will be introduced the follosving dances Le Moreska, Mdlle. C. Rosati. L'lndiffei dice. 31dIle. ROSati and M. P. Taglioni. Solo of Le Fee aux Fleurs, La Bouquet, Mdlle. Rosati. Mdl e Marie Taglioul. Mayerbier's Opera of ROBERTO IL DIAVOLO is in rehearsal for the first appearance et Mdlle. Jenny Lind, who is immediately ex peeted. Sign Vietti and Herr Staudig i have arr ived, and. will appear forthwith. Verdi's Opera " Ernani " w ill be repeated forthwith. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Nobility, Subscribers, and the rublic, are respectfully in form A NIGHT 1847. ed, that there will be an EXTR On TIRIRSDNY, A.PRIL wh en w iub e per f o rmed (first time this season) Bellinrs celebrated Opera I TURITANI. Principle Characte!s: —Elvira, Madame Casten= ; Giorgio, Signor Labßiche - Artlll,l, Signor Gardoni ; rr.d iticeardo, Signor Coletti. Between tae Acts of th Dances a Divertissement, in which will be presented the following :—Deutchen Rhein, by Corps de Ballet ; a favourite Pas, by Mdlle. Rosati ; and a new Pas, composed by M. P. Taglioni for Malle. Marie Tagtoni, entitled Posnania, or Dense Polonais. After the Opera will be presented an entirely New Ballet Diver tissement, by M. P. Taglioni ; the Music by S:gr. Pugni ; the Scenery by Mr. C. Marshall, entitled Orithia, ou, Les Camp des Amazones. principal character Orithia, Mdlle. Luc.le Gratin. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. TIII 3 EVENING Wl2 be performed the new Grand Opera of THE BONDMAN. Marquis de 'Vernon, Mr. Weiss; Floreville, Mr. Rafter ; Morilere. Mr. Horncastla; Ardenford, Mr. N. Harrison; Mal-a-Propos, Mr. Harley ; Madame Corinne, Miss Romer; Grisette, Miss P.. Isaacs ; Frivole, Mrs. Hughes. After which the New and Original Oriental Spectacle, caled THE DESERT; or, The Imaun's Daughter. In which the Two Elephants, upwards of Sixty Horses, and the Camels will appear. The Imaun Useph, Mr. Howell; Ha ez, Mr. Rafter; flarek, Mr. W. H. P y - ne ; Fuzel Cola, Mr. Harley ; Maleck, Mr. T. Matthews ; Ahabeck, Mr. Hutchison ; Kuz!iraga, Mr. L. Lee; Princess Ipotnaye, Miss Me:sent ; Hilda, Miss Collett ; Gir:ec, Miss 11. Isaacs: THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management cf Mr. It. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be rerivad, Sheridan Knowlea'4 celebrated Comedy of TILE LOVE CHASE, with new scenery, dr •°s' s, and appointments. After which the Grand Astronomic.;) Extravaganza, called THE NEW PLANET ; or, Isar equip out of To conclude tsith a Comic Dralra, called A CABINET QUES TION. THEATRE ROYAL, Under the direction of NI adame Celeste. THIS EVEN NG Will be performed the original Drama, called THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST ; a Gipsy Story. Cheap John. Mr. Wright ; Ishmael, Mr. 0. Smith ; the Kinehin, Mr. P. Be dford; Leybourne, 11r. Worrell ; Cynthia, Madame Celeste ; Lemuel, Miss Woolgar ; Starlight Bess, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; Lady Agnes, Miss Harding. To conclude with the Fairy Spectacle. founded on the Ballet 01 I.A GISELLE. entitled TILE PHANTOM DANCERS; or, the IV.II, Bride. Principal characters by Mr. Wright, Mr. P. Bedford, Slr. O. am th, Mr. Cullen Ord, Madame Celeste, Miss Marian Taylor, s Emma Harding, Miss Ellen Chaplin, and Mrs. Laws. I'RINCESA'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. J. M. Maddox. sole Lvssee and 31anager. THIS EVEN ENG Will be presented Scriba and 'tuber's celebrated Comic Opera, in Three Acts, called THE BARCAROLE. The principal characters by Messrs. Walton, Bo Ida, Leffler, and Alien ; Miss E. boner and Miss Anne Homer. After Shakspere's MIDSUMMER .NIGHT'S DREAM. The principal characters by Messrs. 11. Hughes, Ryder, J. Vining, C. Fisher, Wynn, and Compton ; Miss Winstanley (her sixth appearance In London), Mrs. Stirling, Mrs. 11. lingtes, Miss S. Flower, Miss Anne Homer, :Hiss Marshall, and Miss Smith: on. THEATRE. ROYAL, LYCEUM. rnder the Management of Mrs. Keeley. THIS EVENING will be perfJrmed a New Drama, ealled THE CREOLE. Characters by Messrs. F.Mathews Leigh, Murray. Emery, Kinloeh, and Keeley, Miss Dickiu.sen, Miss May, Miss M. Keeley, and Mrs. Keeley. After which, an entirely new eceasional Drarnat'c Sketch, called JESSY LIND AT LAST; or, Tue Swedish Nightingale. Charac ten by Mr. A. Wigan, Mr. Turner, Mr. Kln:oeh, Mr. Bellingiaam, Mr. Bender, Mr. Yarnold. and Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with the New Ykuulevilla Extravaganza, called CIUJSOE TILE SECOND. Characters by Messrs. A. Wigan, Keeley ; lf In Dickenson, Miss Tunic., and Mrs. Keeley. FRENCH PLATS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. Fifth Appearance ot Mailemoisell. ROSE CHERI. THIS EVENING, the eertormances will commence at a quarter past Seven o'clock, with a n ew Comedy entitled LE SECRET DU MENAGE. M. Dornenil, M. Langeva .; Madame Dorbeuil. son Epouse. Madile. Ange:e ; Madame Dcrcour, Cous'ne de Madame Dorbeuil, Ma tame Deltic. After which, the favourite Comedie-Vaudeville. entitled GENE VIEVE ; eu, La Jalousie I'aterneile. Cheragib4urg, 31. Cartigny ; Adrien, M. Pascal ; Genevieve, 31.111 e. Rose Cheri. To conclude with the Comedic-VaudeviPe of UN CHANGEMENT DE MAIN. Alexis Rainanouski, M. Rhozevil ; Elisabeth, Aldile. Ho: e Cheri. Boxes, 6s. ; Fit, 3s. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, 3•. ; Gallery, is. Boxes and Stalls may be engaged at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Bond-street ; and at the Box-office of the Theatre, wnich is open daily from Eleven till Five. rtC c'r. AA! I.ISIS THE ATRE. Doors open at Eight. Day performance every warnesany nryruins commencing at Half-past Two. The celebrated ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, I'ell, Harrington, White, Stanwood, and Cormon, will also give their inimitable ENTERTAINMENTS, at the Horns, Kennington, on Friday next ; at Crosby Hall, on Monday next ; and at the King's Arm's AssemWy Rooms, Kensington, on Friday, April 23. All communications in tended for " The Ethiopians" should be addressed to the St. James's Theatre. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Under the patronage cf the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Royal Family. Proprietor and Manager. Mr. W. Batty. • THIS EVENING, AND DURING THE WEEK, Lord Byron's Dramatic Poem of THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS ; or, THE CORSA IR, introducing Mr. Batty's numerous and highly trained Horses and Fairy Ponies, living Elephants, Camels, Zebras, and other Novelties, with magnificent Costume, Scenery, Panorama, and Appointments, forming one of the must brilliant Spectacles ever produced. • - Entire change in the Scenes in the Circle. Feats of Horsemanship Mons. and Madame Dumos, Mr. Bell, Mr. Powell, Herr Henrique, and Laurents Wolff. To conclude with a laughable After")lee°. gager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. Acting and Stage Ma- Box Office opeil&irileven till Four. Box Book-keeper, Mr. Sheffield. Performance commences every evening at Seven o'clock, doors open at Half-past Six. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Under the Management of Mrs. Frances Davidge, Lessee. SECOND WEEK of the truly wonderful BEDOUIN ARABS, from the Theatre Port St. Martin, Paris, their Seventh Appearance in England. THIS EVENING The performances will commence with a new Drama, called THE BRIDGE OF NOTRE DAME; or, THE PARRICIDE'S , Noel Champinon, Mr. Neville ; Master Legrls ' Mr. Heslop Godfrey Mervin. Mr. J. T. Johnson; Melanie, Mrs. H. Vining. After which, a grand ORIENTAL FESTIVAL in the HALLS of ABD-EL-KADER (the Emir of the Desert), introducing the won derful and novel Feats peculiar to the Native Bedouin Ara) Tribes, attended by their Marabouts (Priests), &c. in their n itional costume. To be followed by a new Farce, by Mrs. rling. entitlei KISSING GOES BY FAVOUR. Duke de Dassompiere, Mr. Tindell ; Marchio ness de Lanny, Mrs. Ware. To conclude with (every Evening but Saturday), a New Drama, called THE MS ARDED DAUGHTER. Count Carsdorf, Mr. T. Fredericks ;Julia, Mrs. Ware. Boxes, 25., Pit, Is.; Gallery, 61. Doors open at Six, commence at Half-past Six. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING JACK LONG OF TEXAS; or, THE SHOT IN THE EYE ! Jack Long, Mr. Hicks; flinch, the Regulator, Mr. Searle ; Ben Small, Mr. Gardner ; Noah Gibbs, Mr. Dale ; White, Mr. Bird ; Hector, Mr, Howard; May Gibbs, Miss Vincent, &c.. &c. After which, DONZELLA, THE HEROINE OF CASTILE. Don sells (commonly called the Rose of the Rock) Miss Vincent. To conclude with THE FORGER'S VOW ; or, SIDI BAROSSA, the BEDOUIN CHIEF OFJARRA.: Principal characters by Miss Vincent, Miss Lydia Pearse, Miss Julia Johnson, Mrs. G. Lee, Mrs. Cooke ; Mr. N. T. Hicks, Mr. Dale, Mr. Gardner, Mr. Searle, 31r. Bird, &c. Boxes, is.; Half Price, fxl. Pit, 63. ; Gallery, 3d. Brivate Boxes Patties of Four, from 10s. 6d. ; and Parties of Eight, 11. Is. THE WEATHER.—Strw Omcz, APRIL 13. TitzitmostzTztt, Lowest, 40 ; Highest, 58 ; Noon, 46 BARODMTER, 29.92.-WrND, N.N.E.; fine. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE TLII6 DAY. Morning .. 45 minutes alter 12. Evening .. 9 minutes after 1. ...t72_ .. 4_,T., 4, ' ...., t A ?. ' . - i* t . --,. -. \ P ~,r - • , a - . . • ,•. r ,b) - r .. , -0 Jak - 4 ' - ; *';,to. , '' .. '''''. Rorr'-." : - .4 " Aril.. ' trEu ~ ) --...-- , a 4 . . .t. —.-. -, , I , ......... facocitinff .rAnt.4 LONDON. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1847. Commons met at Four. On the mot i on that the order or the day be read for twa he second readin,, ,, of the Ed in b urgh and Perth Rail y Bill, Mr. T. DUNCOMBE moved that the Bill be read a second time that day six months. After a short discussion, the douse divided, when there appeared— For the second reading ............ 68 Against it ..... 14 Majority for the second reading... __ s4 On the motion of Lord MORPETU, it was ordered that no private Bill relating to town improvements or to public cemeteries be further proceeded with by this House before the Ist of May next. Lord JOHN MANNERS gave notice that he should renew his motion respecting the state of Greece on that day fortnight. Mr. liumn gave notice that on the moticn forgoing into Committee of Supply on Monday, for voting the educational grant, he should move for a Select Com mittee to consider the minutes of Council of August 171i:5and December last, on the subject of education, and whether the scheme therein proposed would not give - - ' the Crown too much power, and interfere with the ' M r•ostv's 1 • ous opinions ot her . , j.. . subjects. religious 4 ;.. M r . WitroLE obtained leave to bring in a Bill ...., OKi " C ' (founded* the report ®f the Committee o f l ast ...., --. sessiiko/timend the law for the R e gistration of N . ;Itoteria Mr. 4 Mul , rz moved for leave to bring in a Bill to enable the retail brewers of beer in the Midland / :: Counties to keep open their houses until twelve o'clock at night. Sir G. GREY opposed the motion ; and on a division the numbers were — For the motion 4 Aga'n't it .............. . Majority against the motion On the motion of Mr. HUME, returns for the expenses attending the building of the new Houses of Parliament were ordered to be made. Mr. CHRISTIE obtained leave to bring in a Bill to remove certain doubts as to the validity of Quakers' and Jews' Marriages. Mr. Hurts obtained leave to bring in a Bill for the taxation of costs of private Bills before the House of Commons. The Exchequer Bills Bill passed through Com mittee ; the report on the Prisons (Ireland) Bill was brought up, and the House adjourned. The House of Commons was on Monday night en gaged in making due provision for the service of the country, whether by land or sea. It is the especial duty of the representatives of the people, who are to provide the large expenditure necessary to maintain the exalted position which Great Britain has attained in the scale of nations, to examine with the most searching scrutiny every estimate brought forward, so that, on the one hand, no useless expense may be incurred, and, on the other, our naval and military establishments may be preserved in full efficiency, and full justice rendered to those who are now actively engaged in the service of their country, and to those who have devoted the best years of their life to that service, and now look for the means of enjoy ing that tranquillity and comfort in their declining years which their past exertions have entitled them to receive at the hands of a grateful nation. All ex travagance is to be avoided, so that our burdens may not he increased without good and sufficient cause, while undue parsimony shoukl equally be eschewed. The control and direction of those important por tions of the state machine, properly belongs to the Executive Government. Any undue interference would be productive of the most injurious results. But there is a constitutional mode by which the people, through their chosen representatives, are en titled to offer their suggestions as to any ameliora tions that may be required in either branch, and to curtail their proportions, if a more extensive amount is demanded thin may appear to be necessary for the exigencies of the empire, and a just regard for its honour and dignity. The Executive may move as it thinks proper the b dies placed at its disposal. It may direct the place where, and the manner in which, they shall act, but the sinews of war remain in the hands of the people, and no course of aggression, nothinz, in fact, of any description can long be carried on without their approbation being first hqd and obtained. The just and proper balance is thus maintained, and the best guarantee and security given for the continuance of our rights and liberties. It is now fully understood that the most certain way of main taining peace and.avoiding war is, to be in a constant state of preparation for any contingency—to be "Ready, aye.rea'ty for the field ;" that; it is not consistent with true economy to spare any outlay that may be required to keep our naval or military forces in full efficiency. No desire could, therefore, be entertained in any quarter, to reduce our establishments below the proper standard, but the time of going into supply on the estimates is the fitting period for directing the attention of the Government to any abases or defects in the system, and offering any suggestions for improvements and ameliorations. The present Ministry have most honourably dis tinguished themselves by the alterations they have already introduced ; they have manifested their anxious desire to improve the condition, to elevate the characters, and increase the comforts of cur military brethren. They are devoting the closest attention to many abuses and grievances, and we doubt not that many of the most ohjectionable will by degrees be re moved and a better state of things substituted. The required reforms cannot be brought into operation to moment's notice. It is a subject that requires to gring abuses - snout(' UM De suppresses—rne grievances mitigated. Those relating to the "of polloi," " the base of the pyramid," those by which the great body of the soldiers are affected, demand the speediest attention. The claims of any rank or class should not be neglected or slighted. The more helpless the parties affected, the less the power they may have of bringing forward their complaints, the more readily should they be attended to, when an advocate comes forward on their behalf. Everything that frets and teases the soldier should be banished, if not essential to the preservation of dis cipline. Many things, in themselves of trivial con sequence, are suffered to continue, that are calculated to make the soldiers uncomfortable, and thus eventu ally to produce crime. Sir CiIARLES NAPIER has well said, that "small worries will so irritate an impatient and daring, but unstable spirit, as to goad the man into deeds that otherwise would never have been contemplated. Men give way to drinking as a resource against such harassing annoyances. To make soldiers comfortable and happy is among the best means of rendering de linquency rare and punishment effectual." These are truths that cannot be lost sight of. The removal of all well-grounded causes of complaint on the part of the private soldier is the first step to be taken. Sir DE LACY EVANS on Monday night brought forward no less than eleven topics, several of which related to the condition of the private soldier, and demand im mediate attention ; the improvement of the barrack accommodation (especially with regard to the sleep ing rooms) and the more suitable and decent quar tering of the married non-commissioned officers and 1 private sis peculiarly urgent. It is impossible to sup pose that the condition of the soldiers can be ele vated until we teach them to respect themselves, and to observe the decencies of life, which cannot be regarded so long as men and women are huddled together in the limited accommodation now afforded The regulations also respecting ration stoppages should be strictly investigated. The soldier should not for a moment be suffered to think that he is deprived of that which is his right, which is pro vided for him by his country in return for his ser vices, under any pretext whatsoever. " The world moves, as was said by GALILEO, hut it moves in a circle." Upon that beautiful and once hypothetical rotation, the Westminster Review professes itself a sceptic as regards the physical, but a true believer as regards the moral sciences. Ex quisite credulity T. DOGBERRY sighed for the sexton to write him down anything but a sage. Surely the author of the " Postscript," in the Westminster Re view, must sigh too for the sexton ! We could have the heart to be the sexton to his DOGBERRT, or the BoRRACEIIO to his VERGES. But the West minster Review not only acknowledges its faith in the alternate progression and retro gression of society in the moral sciences, and consequently in the impossibility of any decided ad vancement in that noblest of philosophies, but it condescends to explain its theoretical fancy by au illustration. According to it the world careers onwards and onwards towards the heaven of knowledge in its pursuit of the truths of chemistry, and astronomy, and geology, and me chanics, and navigation; but in its endeavour to attain something of an affinity to moral perfection, the world, according to the Westminster Review, is going tm i ngon perpetually in one prescribed orbit. The inster Review ma y b e mora lly revolving in one prescribed orbit,. but the world is certainly not. ancestors ; until Gardens illumlnateirni ' Until W e Can revive the anto-da-fes of our merlxval we can see the Surrey Zoological e by the human flambeaux of TUSSAED is transformed u' exhibition of Madame theatre , for w t e he s p i e la r l - 1 NERO ; until the or for the not formance of the Eleusynianntoll libidinous orgies of the believe that spiritually the l3a : e7 a : r ht e t ar h ni tl i i s re volve, but that, in moral as well as in ctacle as di s sciences, it rushes onwards and onwards To the imagination of the Westminster • T 0 Re view, however, society presents a sps couraging, if not as ludicrous, as that of the Green wich pensioner who, in a moment of intoxication, got the stump of his wooden leg into a water-plug, and walked round it as a kind of pivot until morning under the deplorable delusion that he was going homewards. As we have already observed, that may be the moral progression of the Westminster Review, but it i 3 decidedly not the moral progression of the civilised million. Why the very annihilation of a sanguinary idolatry, the very extinction of the creed in obedience to which, in the noble lr.nguage of Lord BROUGHAM— " Benighted nations, blood and wine In vain libations poured I" the very obliteration of the doctrines of Paganism, the very establishment of Christianity, the destruc tion of the feudal system, the emancipation of the negroes, the abolition of the penal statutes, the reduc tion of capital punishments—nay, the very establish ment of the principles of free trade, prove that the world advances as perpetually in its moral as in its physical course. As we quoted very re cently from a living poet, " the great world spins for ever down the ringing grooves of change." The Westminster Review is, nevertheless, obstinate in its hypothesis of the wooden leg and the water-plug, and it illustrates its hypothesis by the NEW FACTORY BILL ! We cannot but express our unfeigned asto nishment that our Contemporary should advance such very venerable and threadbare propositions. It is absolutely averse to any legislative interference with adult labour, because, for one reason, it is an indescrib • able sort of infringement of the liberties of the sub ject, but principally because it is fairly impossible. An infringement of the liberties of the subject ! Was ever argument so enormously and irredeemably absurd ? As well might we cha racterise the imprisonment of any ruffian who throws vitriol into the eyes of the passers-by in a public thoroughfare, an infringement of the liberties of the subject. As well might we call the imposition of a fine upon the owner of any deleterious manufactory within the precincts of a populous city, an it of the liberties of the subject. As well might we term the prevention of unnecessary death, whe ther individual or multiple, whether sudden or pro tracted, an infringement of the liberties of the subject. Rut this is not the only objection; the Westminster Review has a formidable reserve—the proposed inter ference with adult labour is impossible ! Here's a discovery i' faith. Our vaunted Legislature proves them to be after all impotent, and impotent, be it ob served, not in a remote colony, not among our anti podes the Australians, but within the narrow boundaries of these chalky cliffs. If the power of the Legislature cannot indeed extend to the factories, then it mlst. certainly can never reach the lair of coiners, or the cellars of illicit distillers. An 1 yet the power of the Executive does reach: the coiner and the illicit distiller. Why, what trash this continual rangling is, about the possibility or the impossi bility of legislative interference (indirectly) with the adult operatives in the factories ! The Legislature his capacity enough to accomplish things of immeasurably greater difficulty than this. The flash of the shuttle or the twirl of the hand-loom are not such appalling movements as to deprive a Govern. ment like ours of all energy; nor are the jaded deni zens of the cotton mills precisely the class capable of baffling the sagacity, or of eluding the penetration of an experienced and gigantic State. The W e th n i ns t e ,. Review is employing the stratagem of the ancient warrior, but the Parliament of England is not to be frightened by lighted straws ! The seat of justice ought to be preserved as imma culate as possib'e. Considering the infirmities of human nature and our complicated system of laws, owing, in a great measure, to the highly artificial state of society in which we live, the mode in which justice is ordinarily administered in this country has equally obtained the confidence and respect of the native and the admiration of the foreigner. For the excellence with which the laws are executed among us we are indebted less to the abilities (though these are, for the most part, consummate) of those who are raised to the bench than to the jealous vigi lance preserved by the public over the proceedings of the legal functionaries. If a judge goes beyond his province, or conducts himself in a way calculated to bring into disrepute the sacred trust reposed in him, he finds himself checked in his unseemly career either by the independent members of the bar, or by the full and unreserved remonstrance of public opinion, em - 1---"- -4 iT3 its acknowledged channels; and so for the Home Department, or Parham - elm melt, is oftentimes saved the necessity of interfering to rectify for the future the particular abuse that may have en gendered public discontent. Of this we had an in stance, not a great while back, when the Chief Baron of the Exchequer was made sensible of an impropriety into which he had suffered himself to lapse. The Learned Judge on the bench cried peccavi to Mr. COCKBURN, who had so spiritedly taken him to task for having, by a strong extra-judicial remark, inadvertently warped the minds of the jury in the outset of the cause. The talents of a judge should be beyond question equal to the solemn duties he has to discharge ; but he should be also qualified for his office by a suitable temper and an appropriate de meanour. Where these latter are wanting the effect is very prejudicial both within and without our courts of justice. Above all, the judge should be scrupulous in the extreme that he does not himself set an example subversive of the principles of law and equity, which he would be bound to check in others. It sometimes happens that in a prosecution counsel are not engaged for either the prosecutor or the prisoner. Under these circumstances, the duties of counsel devolve upon the judge. With the depo sitions before him, he has to examine witnesses on both sides. If he puts what are termed " leading questions" he is guilty of a practice which it would be his duty to condemn, were counsel so to deviate from the established rules of evidence. Again, if he should conduct the ex amination in so rapid and gabbing a manlier as to preclude the jury, or the public at large, from mastering the real circumstances of the case, he wantonly trifles with the ends of justice. By such a course the judge may save himself some time and trouble ; but, at the same time, he relinquishes that decorum which it is so important to observe upon the bench ; and, by flying in the face of the acknow ledged rules of justice, in the manner already inti mated, his judicial character becomes seriously affected. On Saturday last, in the Central Criminal Court, EMILY ELWOOD was indicted for stealing a watch, Sze. It appears that the COMMON SERGEANT exa mined the prosecutor and another witness in the following manner : " Well, you live in Clerkenwell ? Prjsecutor— Yes. " On the morning of the 12th February, you found the prisoner in your kitchen ? Prosecutor—Yes. " (How she came there, whether she was his servant, or an utter stranger did not appear.) " Common Sergeant—You left her there for a mo ment, while you went into your shop? Prosecutor— Yes. " Common Sergeant—And when you went back she was gone? Prosecutor—Yes. " Common Sergeant—You gave information of the robbery to the police? Prosecutor—Yes. " Common Sergeant—And they found the next day that your watch had been pledged? Prosecutor —Yes. " Common Sergeant—Let the pawnbroker stand up. "Richard Nagin then got into the box. "Common Sergeant—lt was pledged with you by a woman? Witness—Yes. " Commo❑ Sergeant--But you can't swear the prisoner was that person? IVi - ness—No. " Common Sergeant—Gentlemen of the jury, the case is quite clear ; and the jury, according to his Lordship's direction, found the prisoner Guilty." Comment on the foregoing would be superfluous. Suffice it that such proceedings are manifestly unjust and highly indecent. The public will not brook a repetition of them. It is to be feared, moreover, that the foregoing is far from being a solitary instance. We perceive that Mr. PAYS), the Counsel, last week read a lecture to the COMMON SERGEANT in open court, and severely animadverted upon the " helter-skelter" way in which cases were conducted before him. Mr. I'AYNE rewaiked, that " it was a long time since he had thought this with respect to the conduct of the Court, but that he felt obliged to say it then." We hope we shall be spared the infliction of having again to observe upon the administration of justice in the Central Criminal Court. 'We have received the Paris papers of Sunday. The National has a long article on the alleged understanding between England and Spain for the settlement of the affairs of Portugal, which of course it rep resents as an attack upon the interest of France, thus admitting b y implication that it is for the in terests of France that the affairs of Portugal should remain unsettled. As we know from experience that the French Government is not over scrupulous as to the means it employs to forward what it ima- THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 14, 1847. gines to be its interest, we may easily guess who were the intriguers who first excited these troubles. The National thus concludes— " Our interests, our fricnishipz, our legitimate action in the Mediterranean are attacked on every point—in Greece, at Tunis, at Lisbon, and in Spain. This might hive been expected. The press had often warned the Government against such a contingency. What has been done to ward off the blow ? measures have been adopted to avert it ? It was known that England intended to demand by force the pa) went of the Greek debt, and our Government, every where so prodigal, ner , r thought of giving to C o l e tti the money necessary to deprive Lord Palmerston of all pretext to commit that act of vioh:nce. Thus, every fo reign state protected by the system fells to ruin ; Chris tina weep; over her sins; Isturitz will shortly s ee k a re foge in Paris; and nothing now remains Of the Iriiliant exploits which had raised so high the glory of M. Gualt. We are mistaken; there remains a dowry, and another signal illustration of the fact that the dynastic interest is necessarily the national interest." The Pre...ye has an article on the recent changes in the Palace of Madrid, which, from its style and its violence, must, we should imagine, have been a ritten by CIIRISTINA herself, complaining bitterly of the conduct of the Spanish Ministry, " which begins by ridding the Queen of SPAIN of her most faithful servants, because they have opposed the pretensions of the Engliih embassy, and asking how it occurred that at such a crisis France was no longer seriously represented at Madrid"—a compliment which will . no doubt be properly appreciated by the Due DE GLUCKSBERG, the French Ambassador in Spain, and also by his father, the Due DECAZES. The Journal des Debuts says— " The importations of wheat and flour in March ex ceeded those of the preceding mouth. The importations at the ports on the Atlantic were 358,874 hectolitres, at those in the Mediterranean 637,797 hect ilitret, by the land frontiers 76,577 hectolitres, making a total of 1.073,248 hectolitres. The importations tro - n July to December were 2,465,069 hectolitres ; in January and February, 1,377,896 hectolitres ; making a total since the last crop of 4,916,213 hectolitres. This is .the largest importation there has ever been in France. During the same period the exportation of wheat and flour to Algeria and the French and other count' i , 2s, has been—of flour, 8,074 quintali ; wheat, 1,621 hectolitres; meslin. barley, and r)e, 42,811 heeto- Indian corn, 82,014 quintals." Notwithstanding these importations, the price of flour has risen in the Paris and flavre markets. The Inflexible, of 90 guns, has been ordered to sail immediately from Toulon for the Levant. Lett , rs received in Paris on Sunday stated that Mr. O'CONNELL (who had not yet, on Thursday last, reached Lyon)) had been unfavourably affected by the journey and the wintry temperature. The Minister of Finance has given notice, that from the 12th instant the interest on Treasury Bon is will be as follows :-4 per cent. per annum on bonds at from three to five months' date; 4i per cent. per annum on bonds at from six to eleven mAiths' date; and 5 per cent. on bonds at one year's date. This was hell in Paris to indicate that no loan would be required, and checked the fall in the funds. The Madrid mail of the 6th inst. had not reached Paris on Sunday. The Three per Cents. were done in the Passage de I'Opera, at 77f. 92ie. 11 .75c 1 ; AR N s o R r I t L i L ie r r :s n , , , 6 1 2 P 7 t i T 5 , 0 1. —Marseilles and Avignon, 78Sf. Lyoxs, APRIL 8 —Paris and Rouen, 873. 75c.; Avignon and M .rseilles, 793 f. 75c. ; Northern, 628f'. 75c.; Paris an:l Lyons, -13 If. 25c. ; Orleans, 1,235 f. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Aram 12. Boulogne and Amiens, 16 Demerera, 3:14 Dutch Rhenish, 3; 7 4—East Indian, A—Namur and Liege, 4 t4 — Louvain a la Sambre, I',a—Northern of France, 12% — Orleans and Bordeaux, 6'h' —Paris and Lyon?,and 11 tin,3s-11ouen and Havre, 26—Sambre and Meuse,6 LATEST from the UNITED STATES A\l) MEXICO. LIVERPOOL, MoNDAY 11;;;;;;;s.—By the arrival 0 . the Speed from Savannah, and the Princes* R from N,w Orl ans, we have later advices from both these places. The former is dated March 12, and the latter .March 13. A conflict had been fought between the United States troops in New Mexico and the native soldiers. As usual, the arms of the former were victori ous. They had taken a mule-load of powder, besides several horses and mules. From New Orleans we find exchange on London was quoted so low as 2I to 3i per cent. premium. All kind bread-stulTi bad experienced a decline, and freights remained without any variation. The low receipts of cotton at the si veral landing ports had caused this article to be firm in value, arid in some instances prices had ad vanced, particularly at Charleston, where an advance of u W 10 goUll ' artztauta by taao•' ytavE ao $B3 95e., and exchange on sterling bills, having sixty days to run, 3i per cent. COURT MARTIAL. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY.—A court•martial was held this morning, at nine o'clock, on board the Vic'ory, in Portsmouth harbour, on an able seaman of the iron brig Recruit, named James Smythe, for deserting from that ship on the 24th of last November, when in the harbour at Devonport. The following cfficers composed the Court : —War- Admiral Parker, President; Captain Pasco, of the Vic tory; Captain Chads, of the Excellent ; Captain Codring ton, of the Thetis ; Captain Milne, of the St. Vincent ; and the Judge-Advocate, George Greatham, Esq. There was no evidence to prove that the man had deserted on the day laid in the charge, but direct ' and however, the por the charge f evidence to show that he was on boa r d t h e s hi p an d oen, m attending to his duty on the 25tb, th e d a y a ft r the c w h a a s rg d e e i c a l a l laid—in thefully face proved," f e d which,,' adjudged to receive fifty lashes, to be imprisoned twelve months in Winchester Gaol, and to forftit all pay due to him by time of service. " MR. DISRAELI'S " TANCRED." We are requested to state that a Second Edition of " Tattered ; the New Crusade," by B. Disraeli, M . P ., A ut h or of Co ningsby," , &c., is published this day by Mr. Colburn ; and those who have been hi..herto disap pointe d in ob:ainiztg the work may now procure it of all Booksellers. MYSTERIOUS CASE GF DROWNlNG.—Ye s t e rday an itiqw.,t was held, by adjournment, at the Quccn'sqlead, lligh-street, Poplar, before Mr. W. Bak e r, res p.. c ti ng 'he death of Deedrich kendrap, xho was found in L on d on, on ain the Bl ac k wa ll Basin of the \Vest I n di a Docks. I. Appeared th a t the deceased was a native o f B remen, i n Germany, and had latdy arrived plea sure excursion. He took lodgings at the C7:stlo public h ;use, in Whitechapel, where he remained until Tues d,ty morning last, when he left the house, and at twelve o'clock the same morning his body was discovered flat ing in the Blackwall Basin, quite dead. Ile was searched by one of the dock constables, who found on him a small book, in whi c h wa s written his name ani address, and a watch guard, but the watch was missing. The constable said it was very unusual for bodies to float when they had only been in the vi ater such a short time. The d , ceased soon after his arrival in London was knocked down it: the streets, and robbed of 131. Since that period he had been principally supported by the landlord of the Castle, and the master of the brig Dorothea. In the absence of any conclusive evidence, the jury returned a verdict of "Found drowned." DREADFUL ACCIDENT IN THE BELVEDERE-ROAD. —Yestt relay afternoon, between four and five, an acci dent of a most deplorable character, and which it is ex pected will be a'tended with fatal consequences, occurred in the Belvedere -road to a y oung man, about twenty, named Joseph Cox, who aas engaged for the Wood in the above road, tr here some work- Carving Compa ny, shops are being constructed. The unfortunate man had asc,lided a ladder to a height of upwards of forty feet, when suddenly lo s i ng his hold he fell to the bottom, and was eicked up and conveye d to t h e Ch ar i ng - cross Hos in pital a frightfully mut il ate d state. Mr. Steghall, the house-surgeon,said that he had received, besides a broken leg, a severe fra cture of the skull an d ot h er i n j ar i es , th a t rendered . his recov ery a l most h ope l ess . He remains in a dreadful state of suffering at the abave institution. .REPRESENTAT ION OF W I NCHESTER.—We (11amp share Chr on i c l e ) are authorised exp li c i te ly to contradict the rum our o f Sir James East's intention to withdraw from , the repres entat i on of Winc h es t e r. CORONER'S IN(luEsT.—Last evening Mr. Jose p h Payne, d e p uty coroner, held an inquest at t h e Bl ue L ast , Broadw a y, Ludgate -hill on the body of Elizabeth Max well,, aged 44, who was burned to death at her residence , No 5, Broadway. B ar b ara Hill, o f 6, S.ar-street, Edge ware road, s a id t h at the deceased was her sister. About half -past si x o ' c l uek on Saturday n i g ht she sent witness to Coger' s H a ll , Bride lane, to see it her husband was there. She returr.ed in about a quarter o' an hour, and on entering the room found the deceased lying in front of the grate, and on going to feel for her head, the flesh came off in her hand. She was most dreadfully burned over the head, face and neck. When she went out deceased appeared very weak and odd in her manner, as if she had been drinking. In answer to the Coroner, witness stated t h at deceased was in the habit of eating very little, but drinki ng a great deal. She (timid not tell how the oc currence took place. ltosina Jenkins, a little girl ten y ears o f age, w h o first made the disc very, was called into the Court, but her answers rt specting the obligations o f an oat h being unsatisfactory, the Coroner refused t o exam i ne her. George Maxatell, a tailor, said, that h e saw hi s wife alive for the last time i on Saturday. at noon. She was then sob , r, but . unwell. She had been ill f or some months. Mr. John atchinottd (the landlord of the house) said, that tht . , tteceacd had lodged with hitn for three years. His impression was that she was intoxic a t e d, and fell into the .fire. There was no alarm given by the deceased herself, or he must have heard it, as he was in the shop the whole of the evening. A juror said, that ten minutes before the alarm was raised, one of his lodgers, living opposite the house, sent to know if be was burning any thing, as there was such an unpleasant smell? No doubt th e deceased's body was burii:g at that period. Verdict— 1 Accidental Death, MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. (From The Sun of Last Night.) The Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was ani mated ; sales 8,000 to 10,000 bales, at kd. per lb. advance in prices. The sales consist of about B,COO ba!es : American at 6id to ;id., 400 Pernams at 6id. to 70., 100 Egyptian at U. to 8, 500 Surat at 31d. to d. per lb. Railway shares were heavy. The market for shares was dull and inactive to-day. We sutjoin a few quflations of the principal sales by Messrs. Lamond and Co.:— East Indian Great Western of Bengal 0 6 0 Manchester and Southampton 1 2 6 North British Extension Li verp. Aland]. and Newcastle-unon-Tvne 0 19 0 Shrewsbury and Birmingham (8).......,, 0 17 6 Taw Vale Extension and Dock .. Ipswich and Bury Extension Newport and Abergavenny 1 5 0 Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham . 6 5 0 Ambergate, Nottingham, & Boston, ex int. 1 17 6 Eastern Counties, York Extension..— 4 3 0 Great Northern Buckinghamshire . South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole 1 16 6 An improved feeling is apparent in the mercantile and monetary circles again to-day. It is true that the value of money keeps high, and that it may possibly ruse more against those who require acommodation, oven upon what are held but a shade below first-class securities. But it cannot be doubted that matters will soon tight themselves. People begin, in fact, to think for what reason has Conscls gone back so low as is the case. Public credit is good. Trade is good, though not 'peculatively active (and so much the better for ulterior results), and the demand for manufactures for exporta tion and home consumption has recently been on the in crease. Taking then all things into consideration, we think we are justified in representing that the recent monetary and other difficulties have passed their perihe lion, and are lowering to a more steady and safe con dition. A considerable degree of interest is taken in the in tended Commencement of railways in the East Indies. Yesterday the first general meeting of the scrip holders in the East India Railway Company was held, end a most favourable report was presented to the subscribers. But it is still thought that over four per cent. ought to be guaranteed by the East India Com pany, and for a longer period than fifteen years, for the really immense advantage which will inevitably accrue from a train of rapid communication, per rail, in the lo calities marked out for this bold, and undoubtedly neces sary enterpriz:. The amalgamation of the East Indian Company with the Great Western of Bengal Company, hinted at yesterday, is considered a m )st wise and s3und point to be accomplished. Tho scripholders in the ]sitter projected line are to meet on Wednesday next, to consid r the mode in which the amalgamation is to be made, which, without dcubt, will be carried into full and entire effect. In the City there are no late arrivals announced this morning. A very considerable amount of business has been transacted in the public Securities this morning. Con cols both for Money and the Ace:nint opened at 86k, and sub.equently receded to 85i- for the Account. For Money the prices improved subsequently to 86 and 84. The Scrip of the New Loan has been s')ld ht 3,-+, discount. Exchequer-bills were at 4 discount, and E ist India Bonds at 7e. discount. Bank Stock is down 192, a fail of 6 per cent. since the Ist instant. In the Foreign Stock Market the Four per Cent. Portuguese Binds have improved to 35. Spanish Five per Cents. have been sold at 25i ; the Spanish Three per Cents. at 36:1 ; Brazilian for the Account at 83 ; the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 58, and the Four per Cents. at 90. The Railway Share Market has not been very ani mated to-day. There was, it must he stated, symptoms of weakness in many of the lines completed, and, in operation as well as those in progress, still, upon the whole, there is a better feeling apparent. BRITISH FUNDS. ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock .. •• .. 194 193 195 192 192 fhree per Cent. Reduced Annuities 85 114% 85 1 4 854 'lime per Cent. Consols Annuities 86 1 i 85A, 88% 86 86 1 ,i, Sew Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Arnie. 86WAi 86.14 Long Annuities, Expire Jan. N 1860 .. 98S Ditto. 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 .. 8 13-16 8 13-16 India Bonds, 1,0001. die 7 dis Ditto, under 1,0001. .. par par Consols for Account •• 86 1 ,i 85% 86 Three per Cent. Consols, Scrip .. •. • 3 dis dis c.schequer Bills. t %d. 2d. LOOM .... par 4 die Ditto, Small .... par 3 dis ONE O'Ci.OOK. CLOSING PRICES. FOREIGN FITITDS. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. Ditto, Small .• • • 83 Portuguese Four per Cent 34% 35 Ditto. for the Accetuit .. .. .. 3534 34% 3434 Russian Bonds .. .. .. .. .. 110 S.)anish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. 2534 25% Ditto, for the Account .. .. 26 Ditto, Passive Bonds .. .. .. 5 1 Ditto, Three per Cent .. .. .. 3614 34 3634 Ditto, for the Account .. .. .. 37 37 Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent .. .. 3934 Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian Four-and-a-Halt per Cent .. 96% 96% Dutch Two-and-a-Halt per Cent .. 58 5s Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 90% 90 90 BUSINESS CLOSING PAID. DONE AT PRIM>. O.lL' O'CLOCK. • PRICES OF RAILWAY SHARES. Aberdeen.. .. .. .. .. .. Amber., Notting., Boston, and Eastern Junction .. • • 2%.... 1% . Birmingham and Oxford Junction 5 .... 1314 1 4 ••.. • • 13% Birming., Wolver., and Dudley • • 5 .... 10% • • .... •• .. 10% Caledonian .. 30 .... 24% 24% Eastern Counties .. .. 20 . 18% % • 18% Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1. 61. 13s. 4d. %IA I, Ditto, ditto.. .. No. 2. 61. 13s. 4d. %p par .... jar Ditto, York Extension 5% ... • 4% ..... •• • 44 East Lancashire .. • • .. 17 •• .. Ditto New .. .. 75.. •. g 54 Ditto, ditty New Scrip . • .. • • East Lincolnshire .. 4 .... 6 6 • • .. Edinburgh and Glasgow .. .. 50 .... 70 ••• • • • ... 70 Ditto, Quarter Shares • • .. 12% 17% • • ........ 17% Ely and Huntingdon 15 .... 15 .......... 15 Great Northern .. 3% 3 .......... 3% Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 30 .... 21% 25 24.... 24 Great North of England . ..100 ....23134 23034 •• .. 231 Ditto, New .. .. 20 .... 58 Great Western .. 85 .... 114 115 .• • • .... 115 Ditto, Quarter Shales 12% .... 17% 17 ...... 17 Ditto, New .. •• 73434 7. 7 Hull and Selby .. •• 50 •• .. 103 .. •....... 103 Ditto, Halt shares ••25 .•• • 51 ••• . • • .... 51 Lancaster and Carlisle .. .. • • 61% • • • Leeds and Thirsk • • • . 22% • 18 Ditto, Preference 6 per Cent. • • 3% •• • • ••••• • • • • . 4 London and Blackwell .. 161. 13s. 4d. 7% Ditto. New, No. 1 5 5 34 London, Brighton, and S Coast •• 50 .. 51% 51% Ditto, Consol. Eighths .. .. 10 .... 11 1 4 .. ......., it % London an North-Western ••100 •• •• 173 172.• 17254 Ditto, Quarters - L. and B. 7 .... .......... tto (.4itto, New Shares • • ~ 2 .... 1 % % Ditto, 401. Shares 31. &B. • • 40 .. • • 66% ........ „ Ditto, 101. Shares 31. &U. (B) 5 .... 10 1 4 .......... Ditto, 101. Shares M. &B. (C) 1 .• 6% London and South. Western • 411. Gs. 102... 63% . . Ditto, Tenths (Consolidated) • . 50 .... 52% ........ Ditto, 5crip................. .. • • .. .. 5 .... Lynn and Ely .. .. 20 .... 21% Lynn and Denham .. 20 .... 21 .......... tancliester and Leeds .. 82 •• .. .... • • .... Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 12 .... 15% Ditto, Sixteenths 6% •.••• • • • • • Ditto, Thirds (Reg.).. ..71. 45..... % p.... Manchester, Buxton, St.. Matlock 425. • par........., Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .... 1% 1 ..... Midland .• •. —lOO ....112 113•. ...... Ditto, New .. 2 .... 4 .• Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 100 .... 90 _ Newcastle and Berwick .. •• 20 .. •• 25 24% 25% Ditto, New .. • • • . 5 .... 76% 714 Norfolk .. ........,,100 .• „„ 1 3334 Northern Counties Union .... 34 ..... North British •• 25 • • 31% 32 • • 32 4 Ditto, Half Shares • 12% ••• • 15 .• ....... 1514 Ditto, Thirds • • .. •• • 1 .... 2% 3.. 3 Northern and Eastern .. 50 .... .......„ ~ 54 North Staffordshire • . • • • • 5 •• • • 7 %•••• • • • • 7% Preston and 'lVyre .. • • •• 28 .... 33% 34 1 4 . .. 34 Ditto, Half Shares (A) 814 •• • • • ... _•• •• • • .11% Royston aril Ilitchla • • .. 1%.... 14....... 1% Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. ........ 3% Shropshire Union .. 425..... 13434 di5...... 1% dis South Eastern and Dovor •• 333 .. • . 35% Do., New (do. 33/. 65.82.) No. 2. 12 .... 12% 1)0., New (do. 151.) • • No. 4. 5 .... 54% • • 4% South Yorkshiv, Doncaster, and West RidingTJnion • •• •• ••41.28.••.. h I p York and Newcastle .• • . 25 .... Ditto. New.. • • • • • • • • Ditto, Preference .. .. 4 .... 6%34 • • .... York and North Midland 50 Ditto. Extension .. 25 .... 39% • • Ditto. Preference •• •. 2 .... 9% • • ..... FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon) • • • • • • •• 12 .. • • 11% Demerara .. . • • • • • • 2 % •• • • 3 % %•• •••• • • • Dutch Rhenish •• • • .. .. 7 .... 4 .. „ East In Han . 55. % „ Northern of France • • •• • • 8 .• .. 12% Paris and Rouen .. • • • • • • 20 .... 35 % % „ „ Paris and Strasbourg • • • • • • 5 .... „ Sambre and Meuse .. • • •• 12 .... JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Union of London .. • • • • .. 10 •• • • 12%...... • • . 12% Union of Australia • • .. .. 25 .... •• .. ••• • • • 24% MINES. Real del Monte, I7nretrietered .. .... 3%...... ... COURSE OF EXCHANGE.-(YESTERDAY). Amsterdam ......C.F. 12 5% Gibraltar ••••••• Ditto, at sight • • .... 12 2% Leghorn . . Rotterdam ...... 2U. 12 6 Genoa .•• .. 26 10 Antwerp •• . ...... 26 5 Milan ilamburgli M.B. 13 113 Venice... . . . Altona • • .... ••••• • • • • • Naples •••• • . • • .... • 40% Parts. 3 days' sight .. • . 2 5 70 Palermo, perm.. ....• . 120% Ditto, 3 months.. .. .. 26 Lisbon 53 % Marseilles ............26 10 0p0rt0.... • ..... • ... • • 54 34 80urdeaux......... • . 26 5 Rio Janeiro • • 27 Frankfort on Maine.... 121% Bahia . Petersburgh, 3 Us • • Buenos Ayres Berlin ....... . Vienna, effec.ffo ••• • • • 10 6 Philadelphia ........ „ Trieste, ditto.... • • .... 10 6 PRICkB Or BULLION, PER OZ, Madrid ••.. • • ........ 36 Foreign Gold in bars ...f3 17 9 Cadiz • • •.. : ........ 36;4 New Dollars.. 0 4 10% ••" _ _ Bilbao..•• • . Barcelona .. ..... ..... Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 Spaniiii Doubloons .. 0 0 0 5eri11e........... ..... Silver in bare ...... . 0 :- - BREAD FROM OIL CAKE.—A person named Polak, residing at Vienna, has just-discovered that the oil cake made from culeseed. after it has been pressed for ex tracting the oil, may be made into a palatable and nou rishing bread. The process is, to grind the cake into flour, then to put water on it, and to stir it about vio lently. The water, which is charged with the bitter parts of the substance, is thrown away after the flour has subsided, and the flour is then kneaded and baked like ordinary bread. The new bread has been employed in the houses of rich and poor at Vienna, and the Arch. duke Stephen has ordered a large qu mtity to be sent to the mountaineers of Bohemia.—GalOani. VAN DIEMEN'S LAND AGAIN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Silt,—Having read in your journal of the 10th inst. a reprint of a letter addressed to the Editor of the Times journal, signed " Audi .Alteram Parton," in relation to the recall of Sir Eardley Wilmot from the government of Van Diemen's Land, accompanied by your own edito rial observations upon the measures adopted towards that gentleman (as worthy of admiration as they were cha ractetistic of that independent spirit which has estr distinguished your valuable print), I am induced to bring under your notice another case connected with the same colony, invAving, I will venture to say, circumstance; no less grievous in their features, and no less ce!culeted to produce ruinous consequences to the individusl prin cipally concerned than those which have already evoked the well-earned mead of your condemnation. I allude to the case of Mr. Syeney Stephen, late a practising barrister in Van Diemen's lond, %here he had, for many years prior to 1842, enjoyed an unsullied reputation, and an almost un.xampled professional success. In the above-mentioned year, Mr. Stephen was called upon by the Judges of the Supreme Court of that colony to answer to a charge of having acted in some specified case at Nisi Prius in the twofold capacity of counsel and attorney. There 'was something in this accusation calculated to produce ill-natured ex citement, the facility of stimulating which is pro verbial in all small communities, and criminatory affidavits were readily supplied, for the purpose of heaping condemnation upon this gentleman. A judicial investigation succeeded, the result of which was, that Mr. Stephen foul d himself deprived of all the honours, privi leges, and emoluments of the colonial bar, for which he had many years before resigned those of a practising barrister in England ; deprived by a sentence of dismissal pronounced by the two Judges who composed the Su preme Court, and pronounced, so far as relates to Mr Justice Montagu, in language so redundant of invective. as to call for the severe reprehension of my Lord Brougham in pronouncing the judgment of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in reversal of the sen tence, declaring that there was no colour whatsoever, for the charges so preferred against Mr. Stephen, and stating that that gentleman's character, professional or otherwise, stood unimneachcd by that unjust decision. By the Act of the Imperial Legislature, 9th of Geo. IV., cap. 83, the laws of this colony were declared awl regulates', the 24th section thereof enacting, " That all laws and statutes in force within the realm of England at the time ot the' pa , sing of that Act not being iticon sister t therewith, or with any charter or hitters patent, or Older of Council, which might be issued in pursu ance thereof, should be applied in the admini.tration ot justice in the courts of New South Wales and Van Die men's Land respectively, so far as the same could be applied within the said colonies. Pity it were that the Imperial Legislature did not at the same time declare and enact that all the rules and regulations which moral obligation and common decency suggests and enforces in this couutry should be maintained and observed at its antipodes. Had such been the case, the colonists of Van Diemen's Land would still have reaped the benefit of Mr. Stephens's unexcelled judgment, ability, and great practical experience, that gentleman and his family would still be in the enjoyment of that ample and honourable independence which was the just reward of his merits and high legal attainments. and of which, by the recent decision of her Majesty in Privy Council, it now lies beyond the reach of controversy to deny that he has been illegally and unjustly deprived. In this country the duties as well as the privileges of those to whom the public confide the conduct and management of their legal affairs are separated and distinctly defined. Not so in the colony of which lam now speaking. There the practitioner is permitted to exerci e conjointly the accumulated functions of barrister, solicitor, proctor, attorney, &c., &c. Here no solicitor or attorney ever thinks of usurping the peculiar province of the advocate, there the profes sions are, as it were, thrown into what the lawyers term " hotchpot." Is it not, tt . erefore : an irresistible con clusion that Mr. Stephen has become a victim to "the delusion, the mockery, and the snare" of this disgraceful system? And will it not be readily conceded that, e , en supposing he had been guilty, though pronounced to have been innocent by the unanimous judgment of the Privy Council, that the system and not the man would have been chiefly answerable for the coruequence, nay, rather I would ask, would it not be matter of surprise that any class of men surrounded by the seductions of so vile a system should have maintained the fortitude to resist contamination? So far forth as the professional character and reputa tion of Mr. Stephen has been assailed by the judgment so pronounced against it. He has at length, by in domitable spirit, energy, and perseverance, rescued it from the damning influence of this colonial adjudication, but whence is he to seek a sufficient reparation for all his mental sufferings and anxiety—for that enormous sacrifice endured (at least to a certain extent) for a period of nearly five years of that untainted reputation which is the one thing needful in the estimation of every honourably-minded man? Where is he to seek repara ' tion for that pecuniary sacrifice which compelled him and his family to abandon the home of their adoption, with all its surrounding comforts and affluence, in pursuit of the restoration of that peace of mind, that spotless reputa tion, and that well-earned wealth, through the dangerous and troubled ocean of expensive and protracted liti gation? Thee relative positions of Mr. Stephen and Sir Eardley 3'KApnt s ere?trictly4arallel. The former con his character to the judgment of the only tribunal com petent to pronounce its re- establishment ; so likewise did the latter, so far as lay within his own power, and in each case the parallel has still been maintained, and the principal objects of each have already been triumphantly achieved. Sir Eardley Wilmot had no means of sub mitting the accusations preferred against him in his official capacity through the medium of the Colonial Se cretary's public dispatch, to the consideration of an appel late jurisdiction; to this extent the breath of the Colonial Minister was omnipotent, but so far as his moral cha racter was assailed by the private letter of the same functionary, he promptly and voluntarily submitted it to the protection of the most competent authority, viz., to that of a tribunal chosen and sea: cted by the Executive Council of the colony as well as to the scrutinising ordeal of public opinion, and from each has he received the confirmation of his most sanguine wishes and expects tions, testified as it has been, by the voluntary signature of all the good and the virtuous of that community to an address which expresses the high sense which they have at all times felt, and still continued to feel, for his moral character, but still more powerfully testified by the continuance of that friendly intercourse which had never fur one moment been suspended or disturbed. Sir Eardley Wilmot, in his private capacity, still continues to reside amongst that community whose esteem and friendship he has so justly earned, awaiting the an nouncement of that retribution which he appears so amply entitled to expect will be accorded to him by the present successor of that moral mirror in which the Co lonial Secretaries for ages yet unborn must henceforth delight to view themselves. He awaits the rr stilt in con fident reliance on the irresistible strength of a just cause and the healing influence of that glorious maxim— .' Audi alteram partem."—l have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, A Colonist and an Impartial OBSERVER. MR. DOUGLASS and THE BRITISH AND NORTH AMERICAN ROYAL MAIL COMPANY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. regret to find that a letter signed Frederick Douglass" has been published, in which my name is mixed up in a manner that appi arsto me to be very ex traordinary and unjustifiable. Having been absent f rom Liverpool for a week on business, I had not an earlier opportunity of noticing this, which I shall flaw do as briefly as possible. The first time Mr. Frederick Douglass saw or met with me was not, as he states, before, but after he had agreed with my people to arrangements and accommo dation for his passage on board the Cambria, with which he expressed no dissatisfaction to me, but the contrary. Mr. Douglass had no conversation whatever with me except in the presence of three or four other individuals, and the whole point of my remarks amounted to this— that he (Mr. Douglass) when coming from the United States some months ago in the same vessel, the Cambria, as a steerage passenger, was , invited by some of the cabin passengers to enter the saloon, and was the cause, whether intentionally or unintentionally on his part, of producing, by the observations he made use of, serious disturbance on board, which required the authority of the captain to quell, in order to restore peace and safety. Under these circumstances I told Mr. Douglass, aat had he not entered into the arrangements which had been completed. I should undoubtedly have considered it my duty to re quire of him, before allowing him to embark, a distirct pledge that he would neither of himself, nor at the desire of others, follow such a course as was likely to lead to a repetition of such scenes of confusion as had formerly occurred. I added that, from the conversation that had just taken place between us, it was unnecessary Ilshould act or say mcre upon the subject. I moreover told him that 1 should have taken the same course had his name been John Jones, or anything else, instead of Frederick Douglass, or had he been the whitest man in the world. These were my words. All I find fault with is, that Mr. Frederick Do ug l ass has withheld the entire conversation which took pl ace between us, and by suppressing the most material facts and giving a spurious version has misled the public. I admit, to the fullest extent, my acco untability for what was actually dote, or actually said, to M r . D ouglass by my people ; but, he having so com mence d b y misre presenting the conversation I myself had with him, I shall nut discuss, through the press, either now or again, his al'egations as to what took pla ce w i t h others.—l am ' Sir, your most obedient servant, CHAS. MAC IVER. British and North American Royal Mail Company, Liverpool, April 12, 1847. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. SIR,—My accidental absence from town for a couple of days l has the occa7th sione au m l y s dseeing at the s ame t i me your journa of Bth inst., the former of which contains a letter from Mr. F. Douglass, and the latter some observations of your own on the subject of that communication. You are pleased to speak " of your intense disgust at the conduct of the agents of the Cambria;" expressions, i n my opinion, equally unmerited and strong. Allow me, as one of the principal proprietors in the Cunard Company, and as the person responsible for the directions given to its subordinate agents in this country, to place the matter fairly before your readers. So far as we ourselves are concerned, it is really a matter of perfect indifference whether the passengers conveyed by our vessels are black, white, or c:Tper coloured. Non olet nummus ; the fare of one man is . as good a s th at o f another. But if there exists, ail dis tinctly affirm that the re d oes , an absolute disgust OU the part of a great majority of white men, and particularly of white women 1, not less in England than in America, to come into clot e contact with blacks mores, are we the proper parties t a be blamed for this aversion and loathing? Can it be expected by any ref.- sonable being that the proprietors of a mere carrying trade shall utterly annioilate, not tt eir profits only, but their very business, by oppoeteg the feelings or the tan cies, whatevcr they iaay bc, of aver y great prtipot Lion of their customers? It is no longer !amok than the 7th of November last that 43 first class berths having been en gaged on board this very easel, it so happened that the 44th and 45th were taken by a blaelc gentleman and his wife, also a black woman. On this circums awe becom ing known only three days before I,he ship sailed, and on the London agents, who were without specific instruc tions on the matter, having ref .iserf to cancel the two last issued tickets, no less than 2;1 out of 43 berths were thrown up, and the company su stained a loss exceeding 1,1001. Of the parties thus throwing up their berths, I took the trouble to ascertain that 10 only were American, and the remaining 19 English. Are we, I repeat it. to blame for refusing to renew Ole co,tly txperinunt ? When the sight and smell of the n:7=jority of your coun trymen are so much altered a., that t near eyes can regale upon the colour, and their n ts,s agi'eeably imbibe the odour of a negro, we shall gladly welcome the change. Until then we are compelled ny our own interests as a commercial company to place upon the issue of tickets to blacks such restrictions and conditions as were specifi cally stated to Mr. Douglass. Of Mr. Douglass's letter I do not wish to say a word in disparagement. He has stated the matter plainly. simply, and without exaggeration ; though he ought, I must add, not to have omitted menttoninc , that the ticket was originally issued by a mere le.d in tee absence of the senior ckik, and that the instant the circumstance was discovered he was pressed to receive back the money which had been thus improperly taken.—l am, Sir, your faithful servant, CHARLES M. ItURROP, (Of Asgtll, Virginia, United States), Head Manager of the Cunard Company of Liners. 1 Maidenhead, Berkshire, April 8. COURT CIRCULAR. , • The Queen and Prince Albert visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough House. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were attended by Major• General Wemyss and Captain the Hon. A. H. Gordon. His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horse back yesterday attended by biaEquerry in, Waiting: ~ „ .v i rd: Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by flit - Cinn,tess of Mount EdLecumbe, Hon. Miss Kerr, Hon. Miss Cavendish, Lord Byron, Major-General Wemyss, and Captain the Hon. A. H. Gordon, honoured the per formance at her Majesty's Theatre with their presence yesterday evening, . Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge honoured her Majesty's Theatre with her presence Lst evening. The following members of the new Bisholprics' Com mission attended a meeting yesterday in Whitohall place: ....The Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord John Russell, the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Winchester, the Bishop of Chester, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Chi- , * 4 chester, and the Earl of l'owis. • Viscount Palmerston arrived in town yesterday from his seat, Broadlands, Hants. Mr. Tancred had an interview with Sir George Grey, yesterday, at the Home Office. Tho Earl of Clarendon arrived in town yesterday from his seat, Grove Park, Herts. • The Duke of Wellington has arrived in town. The Right Hon..T; Milner Gibson has returned to town. The Lord Advocate of Scotland and Mrs. Rutherford arrived at Farrance's Hotel, Upper Belgrave-street, for the season, yesterday, from Edinburgh. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BATH AND SOMERSET COUNTY MEETING• TUESDAY. The Produce Stakes of - 5 o — s - o - v;. - each, h ft. One mile. (11 Subs.) Mr. Griffiths's Lady Lift, Bst 51b (Marlow) I Mr. Herbert's Tantivy, Bst 101 b . Mr. Dixon's The Scottish Lassie, Bst 21b (carried Bst 121 b) Bto4 on Tantivy. Won by four lengths. Run in 2 min. 4 secs. The Weston Stakes - Ot 15 sous. each, 16 ft, and 25 addrd; for two yrs_ old colts, Bst 91b ; and 611ias, Bst 41b. Straight - balfmile. (10 Subs.) Mr. Dixon's Do-it-again, Bst 41b (A. Day) 1 Mr. Di itikald's Good Boy, Bst 9113 Duke of Richmond's Nectar, 84 11b The following also ran :—Mr. Bateman's Baccball! - lian, Est 91b ; Mr. Bristow's Fernbill, Bst 61b ; Mr. A. Goddard's fby Venison, or Seahorse, out of Papas' Bst 41b ; and Mr. Jones s f by Ishamaelite, out of 800 Shirley's dam, Bst 41b. Betting-6 to 4 agst 7to 2 agst Nectar, and 4to 1 agst Do-it again. WWI . by a length ; Nectar a good third. Run in 55 secs. , The Somersetshire Stakes of 25 Sovs. each, 15 ft, an d 5 only if declared, with 100 added ; the second to re ceive 50'., and the third to save his stake. Two miles, and a dis. (64 Subs., 53 of whom declared). Mr. Pedley's Miss Burns, aged, 7st (A. Day) Mr. Parr's Rosin the Beau, 4 yre, sst 21b .............. 2 Mr. Gregory's Clermont, 3 yrs, 44 6lb ............... 3 Mr. P. P. Pryse's Buscot Buck, 6 3 rs, 6st 81b......... 4 The following also ran :—Sir J. B. Mills' Miss Elio, ,Powlett's Mount Callan, . 4 yrs, 7st 81b—Mr. rimelcion NeW orest D. er, 6 yrs, 7st lib—and Sir J. Gerard's Morocco, 4 yrs, 6st 121 b. Betting-6 to 4on Clermont, sto 1 agst Miss Burns, and 6 . to 1 agst Morocco. Won by three parts of S length. Clermont a bad third. Run in 4 minutes Oa 11 teconds. The Selling Stakes race was not run when our sc° count lett the course. EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. In the United States an expenditure is incurred O educate such portions of the p e opl e as s t an d i n need °f it, which by far exceeds anything of the kind in Europe. The amount of the " school" fund in Connecticut ( 95 we find it sated in the American Almanack, for 184 7 )' is 2,070,055 dollars, or about 500,0001. a year. In Kentucky the school-fund is 1,221,819 dollars, of about 250,000/. a year. The State of New York devotes to the school fund the enormous sum of 6,374,144 dollars, or about a million and a half pounds sterling. Similar funds are raised in nearly all the States, b° in none so liberally as in New York. The new StateSi such as Texas, Illinois, &c , and some of the slave Stat e !: are most behind. In the new States the populetion is probably too scattered for public schools • in the sla ve States, the whit es are e d uc ated in schools which th e, / ., support independently of the State funds. Besides the State schools, there are in different plac ci of the Union 108 coll eges , th e stu d ents b e i ng o f va riGt ls religions. Others are supported entirely by Catholics, Baptists, Presbyterians, &c. The expense of a student at Bowdom is,—for instrne" tion, 24 dollars; room, rent, and other expenses, 22 dollars; board for thirty-nine ‘%,eeks, 58 dollars; wouut lights, and washing, 35 dollars; total, 139 dollars, or about 35/ a-year. There are, also, thirty-four theological schools, all of which are Protestants; eight law schools; sled thirty' two medical schools. There is as much religious mixture there as here. The Catholics have 675 churches; Protentant Episcopalia n* 1,232 ditto; Presbyterians (old school), 2,794 ditto; Pre g " byt. riins (new school), 1,4f.04 ditto; Regular Baptists. 9,479 ditto ; Free-will Baptists, 1,165 ditto; Reformed Baptists, 2,500 ditto; Christian Baptists (Unitarians) , 650 ditto; Unitarian Congregationists, 300 ditto. The number of church. s b. longing to the Methodists is not given; but of the various kinds of Methodists there are upwards of 13,000 nsinisters, and about 1,200,000 communicants; has been taxes, they each o called supporting a " lie;" bu t, in America, the y have acn cl mt a r s ib a u l t l e tli t e o s w ec h t a s t pay State f them p in o f i a n i t h o b f le p , erfection when any man and they are willing, iii n r :t y y s e e t t a h r I m ve s d elf at u t p h a a s t Christian love, to lend a helping hand each to his neigh bour, or to his neighbour's children, and to establish sound, secular, and moral system of education, without reference to creeds. WINDSOR, MONDAY EvENING.—This afternoon a p t ri a n e q e u a c r o t e n r s o ' r b t e , fo w r i e th th Th r e e e r o o y ' a c o c c h k i dr t e h ne Queen a ,t ham Palace. Her Royal Highness the D uc h ess ; is daily improving in health, and p urposes to remo ve Frogmore to Clarence House, St. James's Palace', on Wednesday next. Th e Q ueen, it is understood, doe a u .te e ra s n oj d th e °lio of twelve days only, left Windsor Castle for Buck;"g not intend returning to Windsor Castle before the Ist June (Ascot Races); but it is probable that her Majes t y and the Roy a l F ami l y will pass a week or two at 0151.". mont previous to the birthday drawing-room. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—The troupe has r e ; ceived anoth er access i on of strength in the perasn e` Signora Vietti, the well - known contr a lt o , wh o arrival 011 Monday night. Most contraltos having sought for nal years past to f orce t h e i r vo i ce i nto soprano notes , o peras are no longer written for them, and they find emploY: went but rar e ly— st ill i s t h e possess i on o f suc h v oice; necessary to th o com pl e t eness o f a t roupe . N ew s wa s received thi s d ay t h at Mdll e. Li n d was coin i ng d i rec t IV the most rapid conveyance. ; DRURY LANE THEATRE . — The Desert is t he greatest hit which has been made here for years PO" and is nightly filling the theatre. Last evening Pre sented one of the most brilliant assemblages ever the walls of the theatre. ----- AMATEUR PERFORMANCE, ST. JAMES'S TREATS°. —We understand that her Majesty has retained her bo l ‘ for the amateur performance at the St. James's Thes tre i on the 27th inst. Her Royal Eghness the Duchess 0 i Gloucester, and her Royal Highness the Duchess ° Cambridge, also intend to honour the performance wit '. their presence. Ps.—The plants for the coming season fir e beginning to show ; the cold weather of so long coral' nuance causes them to be a month later than last sPriy4 yet with a fine warm summer that may be overcome, '`) the well-known rapid growth of the bine soon makes OP for a late spring ; some of the most prolific seaso n, were after a severe and long winter, 1828 particulaTX The gardens have been well manurtd, dug, and clean during the last month, no better weather could 11 0 4 . . been for such operations. Poling about Farnham, ton, and villages around is becoming general ; and c o the alight hillocks from where the plant shoots, t white bine plant as well as the golden look healthy' Two or thr e e weeks' fine w arm gr o wing weather wI!" give an a greea bl e c h ange i n ever y di str i c t where t° ll ' useful bitter is grown. Extensive preparations are b e i n g made for t be t erection of the proposed spacious railway L s t a tion Monkwearmoutb. The cost o f t h e struc ture will about 8,000?. Mr. T. Moore is th e arc hitect, and coy tracts have been let to M. Wui. Tone, moron ; d Pattinaon, j Auer ; . Mfr.. Cook, painter and glazier ; at t Messrs. Diumett, &mbar& • par 3 dis 11 1 , 66% 1014 4% 2!hi 15% 7% 1 % p 4 p 113 4 90 1% lib P 14% 3% 4 12% 35% 6%