The Sun. — London, England, 1847-03-12 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. TO-MORROW EVENING, Saturday, March 13, will be per formed Donizettl's Opera, LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. Lucia, Mad. Castellan; Enrico, Signor Coletti ; Bidebent, Signor Solari ; and Edgardo, Signor Fraschini. To conclude with the admired New and Original Grand Ballet, CORALIA ; on, LE CHEVALIER INCOY:STANT. Coralla, Mdlle. C. Rosati; the Knight Unliebrand, M. Paul Taglionl ; Sqrars, M. Gouriet ; Bertha, Mdlle. Petit ; Page. Mdlle. Honore ; Duke, M. Gosselin ; Fraiso:►din, M. Venefra ; Fistn-man, M. di Mattis. The door.; open at Half-past Seven. The Opera to commence at Eight o'clock. TIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Nobility, Gentry, Subscribers, and the Public, are respectfully informed, that a GRAND EXTRA PERFORMANCE will tak need place on THURSDAY NEXT, March IS, when will be or ßellini's Opera of LA SONNAMBILLA, Amina, Madame Castellan ; Lisa, Madame Solari ; Count Rodolfo, Sig. F. Lablache ; Elvino, Sig. Gardoni. With various Entertainments 1 the BILLET Department. In which will arpear Rosati, Madame Petit Stephan, Mille. Marie Taglion', M. Paul Taglioni, Also, a Selection from LUCIA DI DonizettiLA3I3IERMOOR 's favourite Opera, entitled . In which Signor Fraschini will appear. To conclude with a new Ballet, in Two Tableaux, by 3f. Paul Tag- Boni, the music by Signor Pugni, entitled LA FEE AUX FLEITIN. Principal characters by Mdl;e. U. I:osati, 31t11ie. Marie Tag and M. Paul Taglioni. "ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT GARDEN, Established tor the purpose of reinfering a more perfect performance of the Lyric Drama than hag hitherto been attained in this country. Under the Direction and Management of Mr. BEAD'. The Nobility Gentry, anti Patrons of alwic, 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 Cimaro , a, Mozart, Rossini, Meyerbeer, and others of the more modern Italian School, including Operas by Bellini, I)onl ;setti, Mercadante, and Verdi, on a scale 01 the utmost perfecton It every department ; to which intent the mina. ement has assemb col a Company embracing :he greatest and most varied 'Went in Europe. PRIME SOPRAS I. —Madame Grisi and Madame Persiani (her first appearance in London for three years), Madame Ronconi anti Mdlle. Ste:mini (of the Theatre La Scala, in Milan, her first ap pearance in this country). CONTRALTI.— Signora Allan' (of the Theatre La Scala, Milan, Ind of the Imperial Theatre in Vienna, her first appearance in this eountry), and Mademoiselle Corbari. TENORL—Signx Mario, Signor Salvator Lt, - ,via (of the Imperial Theatre of St. Peteraburgh, his first appearance in this country), Signer Tall! (of the Theatre San Carlo, in Naples, his first appear ance in this country), and Signor Sale (ot the Theatre La Scala, in Milan. and of the Imperial Theatres in Vienna and St. Petersburgh, his first appearance on the Italian stage in England). PRIM( BASSI BARITONE—Signor Tamburini ana Signor Giorgio Ronconi. PRIME BASSI PROFONDI—Signor Marini (of the Theatres Sall Carlo, Naples, La Scala, Milan, and the imperial Theatre, Vienna, his first appearance in this coantry), Signer Angelo Alba (of the Theatre Royal, Madrid, his first appearance in this country), and Signor P4,10'1.311 (of the imperial Theatre, Vienna, kit first appear ance in this country.) rittmt BASSI COMICI —Signor Pietro Ley (of the Theatre Royal Madrid, Ws first appearance in this country), and Signor Agostino litoeere (of the Theatres Iti)yal, Naples, Milan, Vienna, and St. Pe tersburgh, his first appearance in this country). Seconds Donna—Madame Antoinette Mollidori (of the Theatre La Scala, in Milan), Mademoiselle Amelia Llnari, Mademoiselle Lutgina Bellini. Seconde Tenore—Signor Emmanuele Slano (of the Theatre San Carlo in Naples). Director of the Music, Composer. and Conductor—Mr. Costa. A powerful and muntrotti CHORUS of chosen and experienced Singer: will complete the Yocil Department. Chorus Master— Signor Boncon:igiio. rrompter —Signer Monterasi._ - - 7 the !conned of Artistes possessing the highest executive powers, will c.,empri.e among its members Eighty distin guished profevors. The Military Band of the Coldstream Guards will be under the direetim of Mr. Godfrey. . An ORGAN, of extensive compass, has been expressly erected in the theatre by Messrs. Flight and Son. Organist—Mr. V. Novella. The B aLLET, of a brilliant and costly character, will close the performance of the evening, and uo Divertissement will be suffered between the acts of the Opera. The Director has the pleasure to ennotmce that he has concluded an engagement with Mademoiselle Featly Elssler ; and, during the season, the following eminent Dsnseuses will appear : —Premieres Danseuse—Mademoiselle Duml latre (ef the Grand Opera, Paris), and Mademoiselle Plunkett (of the Grand Opera, Parts), Mademoiselle Bertha (of the Imperial rheatre, Vienna, her first appearance in this country), Mademoiselle Neodot (of the Theatre Royal, Madrid), Mademoiselle Marietta Baderna (of the Theatre La Scala, Milan), and Mademoiselle Fuoco (of the Academie Royale de Part.). Monsieur Petipa (of the Crawl Opera, Paris), Monsieur Contle (of the Theatre Royal, Madrid), Monsieur Ferd:nande Croce, Monsieur Delferier (of the Grand Opera, Paris), and Monileur Auguste Mabille (of the Grand Opera, Paris). Maitres des Ballets—efonsleur _Albert (of the Grand Opera, Paris), and Monsieur Blasts (of the Theatre La Scala, Milan). Leader of the Ballet—Mr. Alfred Mellon. Regiesear de la Dense Mr. O'Bryan. Composer —Sigaor Alessandro Curtni (2f the San Carlo Theatre, Naples). THE 'MEAT/ire—To render the Interior at once commodious, elegant, and comfielable, it has bees entirely reconstructed and decorated, tin ler the inenediate direction and after designs of 14. Albano, Esq., C.E., with every attention directed to its proper ventilation. The Decorations have been executed by Mr. Ponsotiby. The Manaeement has hapailv secured the artistic skill of Signori Ferri and Veraeli (of the Theatre Italics, in Paris), to embellish the ceiling and to prepare a New Drop Scene. The approaches to the Theatre will lie lomat ienirovial, by a carriage way being formed irnmedia ely meter the Portico in Bow-street, whereby parties can leave or enter their carriages without exposure to the 1 - .•eathee ; anal by increased faeliities ler !tigress and egress. The Refreshment Room will be under the superiatendence of Mr. J. G. ilration. Tickets, Stalls, and Boxes, tor the night or season, to lee ohtlined at the Box Olney, )tow-str et ; and at Messrs Cramer, Ilea e, and Ce.'s„ 201, Reeeerestreet. THEATRE ROYAL, DIWRT-LANE. Tilts F,Y1.7.N INO Will be performed the new Crawl Oilers, entitled MATILDA. O} 1117NDAttY. eonnt Mfigtitt,, Mr. Itorrani Porliebratl, ?Mr. 113 " 1 " son ; Mathias, Mr. Weiss; Matilda, Miss ltainforth; Li!lia, Miss R. Isaacs. To conclude with the Opera of DER. FitEISCUUTZ. i+dolph, Air. King; Caspar, N>r. Stretton; Zamiel, M. Payne; Uinta, Miss Messent ; Rome, Miss Isaacs. THEATRE ROYAL, IIAYMAMET. Cruder the MAristgerneht •f Mr. it. Webster, sole Lessee, Tlll* EVENING Will be performed ,a nnv and original Comedy, Called THE SCHOOL FOR SCHENIING. Principal characters by Messrs. Far rell, Stuart, Buckstone, Howe, Selby, Brindal. Mrs. (Hover, Mrs. Humby, Mrs. Varna', Milli Fortescue, Miss Bennett, Miss Rey 7V3IIPt, After which, the Farce of UNCLE JOHN . . Uncle John, Mr. Farrell ; Friend Thomas, Mr. Tilbury ; Edward, Mr. Howe ; Hawk, Mr. Rogers; Anflrece, Mr. Clark ; Mrs. Ilawk, Mrs. Clifford ; Mrs. Comfort, Mrs. Stanley; Eliza, Miss Telbin. Miring the evening the Hans will perform the Overture " Lea Dimming de la Couronne," " The Ileaufort Polka," " Albert' Waltz, and " The Camelias Polka. 7 To conclude with the Original Grand Fairy Extravaganza, elled THE INVISIBLE PRINCE ; or, the Island of Tranquil Mdights. Principal characters by Mr. James Bland, Miss P.Korton, Mrs. L. S. Iluckin4ham, Miss Reynolds, and Miss Julia Bennett. ROYAL, LYCEUM. Under the Mahazement of Mrs. Keeley. Last Two Nights of PARENTS AND GUARDIANS, and THE ETON BOY THIS EVENING Will be performed the Drama, TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS. In which Mr. and Mrs. Keeley will appear. After which, the Farce of THE ETON BOY. Characters by Messrs. Wigan, Turner, Keeley, Miss Dickinson, and Miss Turner. To conclude with the splendid new Fairy Extravaganza, entitled TIIE ENCHANTED FOREST. In which Mr. and Mrs. Keeley will appear, supported by the whole talent of the Company. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHL nder the direction of Madame Celeste THIS EVENING Will be performed an original Drama, called THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST ; a Gipsy gtory. Cheap John, Mr. Wright ; Ishmael, Mr. 0. Smith ; the Kinckin, Mr. P. Bedford ; Leybourne, Mr. Worrell ; Cynthia, Madame Celeste; Lemuel, Miss Woolgar ; Starlight Bess, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; Lady Agnes, Miss Harding. To conclude with, DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMBERWELL ? Iloneybun, Mr. Wright ; Crank, Mr. 0. Smith ; Mrs. Honeyban, Miss Harding; Mrs. Crank, Mrs Matthews. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. J. M. Maddox. sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING Will be performed Bernal's Opera Seria, entitled NORMA. Polito, Mr. Barker; Oroveso, Mr. Leffler; Flavius, Mr. Wynn ; Adeigisa, 3ltss A. Romer; Clotilda, Miss Rourke ; Norma, Miss - Bassano. After which. a Concert by the New Orleans ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS. To be followed by the Ccmedietta, entitled THE WIDOW BE WITCHED. Furnival, Mr. llarris ; Lorimer, Mr. Granby; Mrs. Lorimer, Mrs. Stirling. To conclude with the Farce, entitled KEEPING A PLACE. Spikeapur, Mr. Granby; Crocus, Mr. Compton; Dorothea Danvers, Mrs. Fosbroke ; Tidy, Miss Laporte. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. THIS EVENING, Will be performed the admired Comedie-Vaudevillc, entitled LA LECTRICE ; on, Cue Folie de Jenne Homme. Le Capitaine Sir Cobridge, M. Carti2ny ; Caroline, Wle. Fargueil. After which, the Vaudeville of I. i4EUR DE JOCRISSE. Jocrisse, Mons. A. Touscz. To conclude with the favourfle Van eville, entitled LES DEUX BRIGADIERS. Ramt..andor, M. Lafont ; Francine, Mahe. Fouluct. Boxes, Gs., Pit, 35. Gd. , Staite, 38.; Gallery, 2s. Doors opened at half-past Seven, and the performances commence at Eight. Private Boxes, Stalls, and Places may be engaged at Mitchell's Library, 33, Roma-street; and at the Box-office. ETHIOPIAN SiERENA DERR, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE, The celebrated ETIHOPI.4N SERENADERS, Pell, Harrington, White, Stanwood, and Gcrinon, will have the honour of repeat ing their Inimitable ENTERTAINMENTS, at the above Theatre, TO-MORROW EVENING, and every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Doors open at Eight o'clock, and the Entertainment com mence at Halt-past Eight. The MORNING ENTERTAINMENT will take place every MONDAY MORNING during Lent. The Performances will commence, each day, at half-past Two o'clock. The Programme will be varied on each occasion. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Amphitheatre, 2s. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Under the patronage of the Queen, Prince Albert, and other Members of the Royal Family. THIS EVENING Will be performed Sir Walter Scott's KENILWORTH ; or, The Golden Days of England's Elizat,eth. Entire change of the SCENES of the CIRCLE. The Royal Pa geant of Fran, is I. And the Performance of M. Pablo Fatigue and his highly-trained Steed, (his first appearance in London). To coneude wit't THF. ROYAL FOX-HUNT; or, life's Course of Man and Steca. Box-otticc open fr,in eleven till eve o'clock.—Doors (men at six an ; commence at half-past six 6'dt:wk.—Stage Manager, Mr. W. Broadfoot. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mr:. Frances Davidge. THIS EVENING Will be perihrmed a new Domestic Drama (founded on the Novel of the same name), entitled LILLY DAWSON ; or, A Poor girl's Story. Principal characters by Messrs. Lewi Johnson. HesloP, Aavdle, Phelps. Fredericks, Webb, Neville, Miss Te:rcy, Mrs. Vining, and Mrs. Saville. To conclude with the Burletta, called NICHOLAS NICKLEBY ; or, Doings at Do-the-Bova hail. In which Messrs. Weslop, Johnson, Wilkinson, E. Stirliag, Webb, Fredericks, Vining, Mrs. Williamson, Mrs. Saville, Miss Richardson, Miss Terrev, Miss Barham, Mrs Daly, Bz.c., will appear. Box...office open from eleven till four o'clock. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE, Boxes, Is., Halt' price, Pit. 6d . .; Gallery, 3d. Private Boxes, IG. Is. and MS. THIS EVENING Will be performed WI L !WI RE, THE GIPSY I lORSE-STEA ,ER ; o" The Fortunes and Chances of War. Characters by Messrs. Hicks, Dale, Searle, Bird, Raymond, Forman, Howard, Miss Vin cent, Mrs. Lee, Miss Pearce, &c. After which, TILE HARP OF ALTENBERG ; or, The Grave of the Old Abbey Ruins. In which Mr. Hicks and Miss Vin cent will perform. To conclude with BLACK WHISKEII ; or, The Demon of Seven to the law, transportation for life, or to a mere nominal fine, or a few hours' imprisonment only. That extraor• dinary power is conceded in order to provide a due and fitting penalty for cases of the worst description. The Right Hon. Baronet truly stated to the House, that although the punishment of death might still be inflicted in some other cases, yet, in point of fact, there has not been a single execution since 1841 except for murder. He might have added, that many persons convicted of murder had had mercy extended to them, and their sentences mitigated when ever there appeared any favourable circum stances, showing that it had occurred in the heat of blood, consequent upon sudden provocation, and had not been deliberately planned with malice afore- thought ; and in every such case the commutation was received with approbation. It was received with approbation by those who had a conscientious ob jection to the punishment of death in every in stance, and also by those who conceived its reten tion necessary for the well-being of society. Such a case was that of the man SMITH, who was pardoned the extreme penalty, last, summer, for the murder of his fellow-servant at the Guildhall Coffee house ; and such we conceive to be those of the un fortunate men, WELCH and MATTnEws, who were convicted at Newcastle within the last fortnight, and who are now lying under sentence of death, and are to expiate their respective offences upon a scaffold on Wednesday, the 17th instant. In either of these cases we believe that justice would have been satisfied, and the majesty of the law vindicated, had the juries taken the more lenient view. In the case of WELCH, it appeared that the pri soner and the deceased had been drinking, that sub sequently a quarrel ensued, that blows were struck on each side, and that WELCH had been knocked down twice during the progress of the scuffle; that PROUD, the man who lost his life, kicked him while he was down, and that subsequently, but be fore there was time for his blood to cool, WELCH struck PROUD with a knife which he unfortunately had in his possession at the time of the quarrel, and inflicted a fatal wound. Now it has been decid&d in the KING v. KESSEL, reported in 1 Carrington and Payne, page 437, and in several other cases, " that if parties at the commencement attack each other upon equal terms, and afterwards, in the course of fight, one of them in his passion snatch up a deadly weapon and kill the other with it, it would be manslaughter only." Now here the quarrel had been commenced upon equal terms, the parties had fought, and the prisoner had been worsted in the encounter, and had actually been kicked when lying on the ground. The weapon, too, was unfortunately at hand, and the provocation was such as to excite the unfortunate man to the highest degree ; and although we do not venture to affirm that the jury were not justified in returning a verdict of guilty of murder, yet we do not hesitate to say, that it would induce many to join the ranks of the abolitionists if the sentence were carried into execution. In the case of MATTHEWS, it appeared that there had been unfortunate disputes between the English and Irish labourers at work on the railway, the English complaining that the Irish used to work un der wages. , The deceased man, DANIEL HIVES, had been drinking on the day of his death, in consequence of which another person was sent to assist him. It did not appear in what manner the quarrel had originated, but the prisoner and his companion, HUGHES, who had a stick in his hand, were seen run ning away, closely pursued by IlivEs, whose face was bloody from a blow he had received. After running away for a considerable distance, trying to escape, MATTHEWS turned and stabbed IlivEs in the thigh, which severed his femoral artery, and caused his death in a few minutes. From the evidence of Cap tain POTTS, it appeared that the deceased was in a very excited state, and eager to get at the other par ties, who did all in their power to get away. In this case also, then, although the jury were warranted in their finding, there appears to be a total absence of that cool premeditation which would alone justify the execution of the criminal. Most sincerely do we hope that both cases may re ceive the most attentive consideration from the authorities, and that if, upon due investigation, they, or either of them, should be considered worthy of mercy—the fairest prerogative of the Crown—it may be exercised in their favour. hat we, on Wednesday, observed in reference to Portugal might be applied almost without alteration to Mexico. The prosecution of hostilities has been so protracted in both countries as to indicate either a treachery that is as yet quite impenetrable, or an in capacity that is equally beyond our comprehension. According to the dispatches just received from Acne 'rice, it would appear that the Government of the United States is endeavouring to accomplish the dis memberment of the Mexican territories by a stra tagem more dastardly than was perhaps ever entered upon by the most unprincipled legislature. It will be remembered how the soldiers of this Republican Government violated the line of demarcation between Texas and the gigantic federation of which it was originally a portion ; it will be remembered how the invaders marched triumphantly upon the Rio Grande under the banners of General TAYLOR, how dissensions were fomented by American emissaries in the capital of Mexico, how SANTA ANNA was allowed to slip through the blockade, under the expectation of his delivering up his country into the possession of its assailants, how that distinguished captain repaid their guile by the declaration of his heroic patriotism, and how a questionable victory was obtained under the walls of Monterey, and its advantages sacrificed through a contemptible timidity. These circumstances cannot very speedily be forgotten ; and it will be equally difficult to lose a recollection of the paltry prevarica tion upon these transactions inserted by Mr. President PoLic in his Message to Congress, or of the noble and emphatic proclamation written to his fellow-citizens by the first soldier of Mexico, SANTA ANNA. The conclusions which could be alone drawn from occur rences of this nature were, that by its geographical peculiarities, by the parsimony of the United States' population, and by the moral supe riority of the cause of the invaded republic, Mexico was safe from the possibility of its annexation to the already enormous dominions of its assailant. It might be conquered, it might be desolated, its pastoral scenes might be ravaged, its cities taken and sacked, and its people butchered in battues, but Mexico could never be permanently vanquished. Until the whole of its inhabitants had been extir pated, and its solitudes rendered populous by the in troduction and propagation of many thousand colo nists, that was impossible. Europe saw this—the World saw this—Mr. Pons saw this, and he acted accordingly. We repeat that expression—he acted accordingly. The forces were directed to pause at Saltillo. Cali fornia and New Mexico had already been formally transferred to the protection and direction of the United States—the embryo powers of their new Governments were placed in an apparent state of organization. General TAYLOR had been gathering laurels in the kitchen-gardens of Monterey, but the prying disposition of sundry re presentatives in Congress had prompted them to submit those laurels to a sort of distilling process in the course of the discussion, and, as is invariably the case, poison was detected in the leaves of victory— the terms of the capitulation at Monterey were inex plicable, exc?pting under the idea of something much more odious than undue precaution and a very little better than actual cowardice. The consequence was General SCOTT was nominated Commander in-Chief of the invading army of the United States. Coupled with this arrangement came a demand upon the citizens of that warlike and avaricious republic for an odd million or so of dollars to defray the expenses of the invasion. Thereupon the said invasion fell instanter into the worst possible repute. The purse strings of the nation were tied into a Gordian knot, and Mr. POLK was at a nonplus. Then comes the master-move ment of duplicity to which we would direct especial attention. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 12, 1547 scheme recently broached by the Government. This admission is the more important as it was made by a member of the Church of England who has given much of his time to the consideration of this absorb ing topic. The Rev. Dr. HOOK is far from standing alone in his opinion. It is fully participated in by the Rev. Mr. DUITON, who ably writes " that national education does not mean simply the educa tion of the poor, for the poor do not constitute the entire nation. A truly national system must be so comprehensive as to embrace every class of society. The Church cannot undertake the direction of such a system for many reasons, but most especially for the very obvious one, that the Church is not co extensive with the nation." Shall the education of the people at large be exclusively consigned to the opera tions of voluntaryism ? Like other agencies that have been at work in this field, voluntaryism has done much, but it has left much undone, and there are indisputable calculations, so notorious as to dispense with any necessity for our entering into them, showing that anticipating the most favourable progression under the auspices of this principle, ignorance and its fearful concomitants, would still continue to characterise large masses, of the people, whose rapidly increasing numbers would aggravate, to the most alarming extent, the evils by which our social system is at present beset. But, from some who were formerly among the leading disciples of voluntaryism, we have the same confessions of its inadequacy to secure the education of the people, that have been candidly made by the authorities of the Established Church. The Reverend Dr. VAUGIIAN, residing in Manchester, where voluntary exertion has far exceeded in its results,what has flowed from its adoption in any other part of Great Britain, has boldly avowed, that it is utterly incompetent for meeting the national exigencies. This we have from one who, it must be recollected, is the earnest and powerful advocate of the voluntary system in the maintenance of religion. To the same effect were the remarks of Mr. JAMES GARTH MARSHALL, of Leeds, at the meeting to which we have above alluded. lie there said— "l will yield to no one in the value I attach to the volun tary principle, rightly understood ; I trust my actions hitherto have shown me to be a true voluntary, and I am not going to change now. I hope I am entirely incapable of knowingly joining in any act of intolerance or inju-tice to• wards the conscientious religions convictions of any class of my countrymen. I do not think any such are involved in this measure. I would sincerely and earnestly entreat the voluntaries who object to this measure, for their own sakes, to reconsider the position they had taken up. They can join the rest of their countrymen in the great work of education on an equal footing, and yet maintain inviolate their prin ciple of the absolute independence of their religious com munities. That would be a strong and clearly defined posi tion ; their present one is weak and untenable." On the other side, we have Mr. EDWARD BAINES, who has taken a part more conspicuous for its ardour than remarkable for its judgment. Gratis anhelans, multa agenda nihil agens. We shall resume this subject. Chamber appointed to report on the supplementary credits demanded for that colony. The price of corn advancirg every moment. Every week for months to come 400,0001. in cash will leave France to pay for supplies of foreign corn. The Echo de rAgriculture contains the following remarks on the food question:— " During the last week the rise has made further progress in most of the markets, and the movement has all the ap pearance of a panic. Everywhere the petty consumers, who possess some money or credit, lay in a small stock of pro visions, as if we were threatened with a scarcity, and the quantities of grain thus withdrawn from circulation are very considerable. This is an evil, no doubt, but there is no possibility of obviating it; it is the evil of fear. Tee municipalities themselves, on different points, were the first to set the example, which was imitated by their subordi• nates. These stores, however, are not buried for ever, and will be again available when necessary. They form a re source which will appear at the moment when the crops in the ground can be determined. Public opinion will then recover the confidence it had lost. We should also observe, that the holders of corn take advantage of the panic to raise their pretensions, and part with only a small portion of their produce, in the hope of selling the remainder at a still higher rate. The constantly increasing augmentation in the price is, no doubt, a misfortune ; but its result must be to bring provisions into the markets, and the great question, the principal question, whether v. e shall have a sufficiency of corn to meet the forthcoming crops, is no longer a matter of doubt to us. We see no cause for apprehension ; in no department will there be au overplus, but everywhere there will be a sufficiency." The price of the first quality of flour rose to 111 f. and 112 f. per sack at the Paris market on Monday. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Tuesday at 78f. 40c. ; the Five per Cents. 116 f. 50c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,278 f. 75c.; Rouen, 872 f. 50c. ; Havre, 6901. ; Great Northern. 6301. • Avignon, 8201. ; Vierzon, 5721. 50c. ; Bordeaux, 528 f. 75c. ; Troyes and Montereau, 320 f. ; Basle, 210 f. ; Dieppe, 3301. ' • Paris and Strasburg, 453 f. 75c.; T o urs and Nantes, 4521. 50e.; Paris and Lyons, 487 f. 50c. ; Lyons and Avignon, 4801. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 451 f. 25c. Intelligence has been received from Rome of the 25th ult. On the 221 Mr. COBDEN was honoured with a private audience of the POPE, and on the 24th his lloliness granted a second private audience to the Turkish Ambassador. MARSEILLEg, MARCH 5 —Marseilles and Avignon, 830 E; Northern, 6281 75e.; Paris and Lyons, 492 f. 50c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 10. Boulogne and Amiens, 14—Dutch Rhenish, 4 —Luxembourg, 2 —Namur and Liege, 4%—Northern of France, 12%—Orleans and Bordeaux, 7 % —Paris and Lyons, 7IA —Paris and Strasbourg, 3% —Rouen and Havre, 26% —Sambre and Meuse. 6%. The Nuremburg Correspondent publishes a letter from Vienna of the Ist, which gives credit to a report that the Austrian Government, with a view to reduce Its budget of expenditure, which hai been constantly in creasing, has resolved upon a diminu:ion of the army. The Augsburg Gazette states, that in consequt nee of the importance attached by some of the journals to the protest of Sweden against the incorporation of Cracow, the Government of that country has been asked by the three great Northern Powers whe ther it really intended that the protest should be re garded as a menace, and has received in reply an assurance that the proper sense to be applied to the protest is an expression of regret that revolutionary movements should have rendered necessary an infrac tion of the treaties of Vienna, and a hope that no thing will arise of a nature to lead to further modifi cations. Advices from Lisbon to the 3d inst. have been received.. Count MENSDORFY, Sir H. SEYMOUR, and Colonel WYLDE, had renewed the offer of British mediation, but the QUEEN end the Government had shown no disposi tion to accept it. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (PROM OC R OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ACCIDENT AT HER MAJESTY'S NEW PALACE. MARCH 10.--The new rooms are all arched over. From some unexplained cause, the arch of one of the principal rooms gave way this evening, in iti fall car rying away the joists of the room. It is reported that o ne man is killed and several more dreadfully injured. Dr. Cass, surgeon to the Palace, has been sent for ex press to attend the sufferers. In the confusion the ex tent of the injury done is not known. (ANOTHER ACCOUNT.) A dreadful accident occurre I at Osborne this evenin g, The scaffolding near the to p of the Palace fell, crushing one man's head, droutifully bru sing two others, and breaking the legs of DUTCH VEGETABLF.S oSserve, on reference to the list of arrival; of cattle and provisions from the con tinent of Europe on Yondav last, that a steam-ship from Harlingen broug;it 333 bag; and baskets of potatoes, being an unusually large gnintity fr. in Holland, and that another vessel from Rotterdam brought twenty-five packages of cucumbers. 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All Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited, the day orerions to their being offered ; and advices of results will he k)rwarded by the first post after the sale, ATV! the proceeds ileum liately disposed of according to Instmctions. Offices. Hall of Commerce. Threadneedle-street. London. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Mr. A. Young should apply to the Emigration Commissioners, or to Mr. Hawes, the Under-Secretary for the Colonies. L. D. does not mention the day of the ➢leeting of Letter Carriers. HE WEATHER—Sum OFFICE, Mahal 11. TJERMOMETER, LoweAt, 20; Highest. 36; Noon, 31. BAROMETER, 30.32.—Wind W., fine. lIIUU WATER AT LONDON-Bitlittik, Tll►D LAI. Horning .. 58 minutes after 8. I Evening .. 42 ratnutes aft, 9. - # 11SAI S • 4 4),R oTT '' 4 .P!.- .7 • • ALOT Mir 1" uTh , LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1847. In cqnsequence of the press of matter, we are com plied to omit our usual summary of the Parliamentary proceedings. We stated, on Wednesday, our reasons for agreeing with the Home Secretary " that public opinion, so far from being in favour of the entire abolition of the punishment of death would be greatly shocked and outraged by the remiziion of that punishment." One of the few cases in which it may not only sagely be retained, but in which the great majority of the people would in the strongest manner object to any alteration in the law, is that of wilful, deliberate; and cold-blooded murder, when the criminal coolly and with premeditation deter mines on depriving a fellow-creature of his existence, and hurrying him from thin world without a moment's preparation for the awful change. There are, however, many caseF, which although, in the eye of the law, they may be re- garded as w ilful murder, yet so closely approach the line of demarcation between that offence and the more mitigated one of manslaughter, that a jury would be fully justified in bringing in either verdict. There is no crime for the punishment of which su wide a discretion is allowed to the presiding judge as that of manslaughter. He may sentence the de linquent to the highest secondary punishment known Nothing, be it observed—nothing whatever which could be dignified with the term of success, has yet illustrated the American feats of arms on the Rio Grande. And although Mexico herself has gained no single battle in the conflict, her position is, if pos sible, stronger than it has been since the commence ment of hostilities. Precisely at this moment it intimated to Congress that peace must be made at once with Mexico; that Mexico must indemnify (!) her invaders by making over to the United States the provinces of California and New Mexico; that the United States, in consideration of this arrange ment, must pay into the exchequer of Mexico the sum of 3,000,000 dollars, and—which is the very heart and vitality of the stratagem--that the Presi dent of the United States vouches for the fact of having received secret information from a high source that Mexico is prepared to enter at once into this ne gotiation. The meaning of this magnificent inuendo is obvious. But upon whose authority are we to believe this incredible statement? Upon whose? UPON THE VOUCHER OF MR. PRESIDENT POLK Surely the fair name of patriot never before depended upon thread so brittle ! The fame which SANTA ANNA'S recent conduct (his voluntary resignation of the Presidentship, his march, sword in hand, to the van of the protecting army of Mexico, his memorable words on taking the command of that army) has acquired cannot, however, be whispered away by a whole generation of Polks. Upon the personal and ascertained acts of SANTA ANNA himself can alone depend his eternal glory as a patriot, or his lasting infamy as a traitor. We have seldom risen from the perusal of a publication with greater pleasure than has been afforded us by the Rev. JOHN Diaroses pamphlet, re cently published, on National Education. Two things are aimed at in this publication ; first, to exhibit the character and extent of national education at present existing in this country ; next, what it ought to be come to render it worthy of the designation it bears. Great credit is due to the writer for the matter he has adduced, and the style in which he has accomplished his twofold object. No one can read the essay with out finding his judgment improved upon a subject to which the public mind is at length beginning to turn with feelings of the deepest interest. Mr. DUTTON'S views are given with clearness, his facts, Kith due fidelity, from authentic sources, and his reflections with correctness and moderation. His preliminary pages are devoted to an exposition of the fallacy of using the term " uneducated" in connexion with the human mind. Abstractedly considered, non-educa tion does not exist, idiots excepted. We are born with minds which have been well compared to blank sheets of paper. It is the duty of parents and guardians, either of themselves, or through the instrumentality of competent instructors, to become the means whereby the cardinal outlines of religious and moral principles shall be carefully traced out on the virgin soil of the infantile intellect. If this duty be neglected, the child of tender years will take the initiative on himself, and become the architect of his own mind ; the almost in variable consequence of which is, that prone by nature to what is evil, unaided by the lights of experience, unassisted by wise counsels, and influenced by bad example, he is hurried headlong into vicious courses, and carries with him the seeds of his ultimate ruin. Upon this subject, Mr. Durrort appropriately intro duces the anecdote of a lady once telling Archbishop SHARPE that she would not communicate any reli gious instruction to her children until they had at tained years of discretion, when the shrewd prelate replied, " Madam, if you do not teach them the Devil will !" The mistake, then, is a palpable one which many people inconsiderately fall into, of imagining that the subject we are writing on resolves itself into the alternative of education or none at all. The human mind will not stand still any more than the earth will cease to range in her accustomed orbit; hence, in the matter before us, the choice simply lies between good education on one side and bad on the other. Mr. DUTTON next adverts to the statistics which we possess relative to the education, or otherwise, of those who have been inmates of our prisons ; and, though these are some what meagre at present, yet, as far as they go, he incontrovertibly establishes that the effect of even the most elementary knowledge has been to exercise a salutary influence in restraint of crime. Having settled the point that universal education ought to be promoted, as well in furtherance of individual happiness and prosperity as of national greatness, we are led to the considera tion of the means by which the end desired can be best attained. By whom, and upon what principles, shall this grand object be undertaken and developed ? Shall it be by the Church alone, by the principle of Voluntaryism alone, or.by the State alone? Not by the first, for, though the Church some time since stoutly put forward her claim to sole governance in this respect, yet it is notorious that she now completely waives it. This was acknowledged by the Rev. Dr. Hoof, the Vicar of Leeds, in the speech which he addressed to the large meeting held in that town on Monday last, to canvass the merits of the SALDANIIA had arrived opposite Oporto, and was waiting for CASAL, LAPA, and VINHAES, to effect a junction with him before undertaking further opera tions. Oporto was perfectly tranquil, and abun dantly supplied with provisions. DAS ANTAS had resizncd the chief command of the troops to General PovoAs, n ho had entered Oporto with a reinforcement of 2,000 men. The QUEEN'S troops had dispersed a small guerilla of 70 men in the neighbourhood of Coimbra. On the 26th Count DE MELLO had attacked Estremoz at the head of 1,080 men from Evora, and had been repulsed. It was reported, however, that he had on the next day renewed the attack, and succeeded in capturing the place. Should this turn out to be the ease, it will be a heavy blow to the cause of the QUEEN. The Duque d'Oporto, steamer belonging to the Junta, was wrecked on the bar of Oporto the day after the loss of the Tiber, and all on board perished. Her Britannic MAJESTY'S ship Superb has been ordered to Vigo to watch the proceedings of the Spanish authorities. Madrid papers of the 4th have arrived. The Gactta of that date publishes the royal decree appointing Senor IBTURITE Ambassador to the Court of London. The discussion on the Address still continued in the Chamber of Deputies, the Ministers carrying all before them by large majorities. MON and riDAL both dis tinctly declare that the Spanish Government had no participation whatever in the expedition of General PLGUEs. Mr. BULWER had announced to the Duke of SOTo- MAYOR that England was desirous of concertir , mea sures with Spain to prevent the return of Dom MIGUEL to Portugal. Connected with this object probably is the journey of her Royal Highness the Infanta Donna ANNA w ho on the 6th pas se d t h roug h Bayonne, of Portugal, en roLte to Madrid and Lisbon. There is reason to that she is charged with a diplom a ti c • • suppose mission to certain personages in the Spanish an d P ortuguese capitals. During her sojourn in London she had seve ral interviews with Dom MIGUEL, and highly disapproved of his attempt to dispossess the Queen of PORTUGAL. ner Royal Highness travels incognito, under the title of Countess DE BARULLO. The Heraldo declares that the force of the Carlists in Catalonia has been greatly exaggerated. By the following extrilct from a letter published in the Phare de Bayonne, it would, however, appear that affairs there are be coming serious. It is dated the Ist March, and the writer says— " The day before yesterday the Carlist Burgo entered Lampourdan, with about twenty officers of Don Carlos's old army. They were all armed with muskets with percussiou locks. To-day proclamation has been issued at the Jun querie, calling on the inhabitants to take arms at the fourth sound of the tocsin. It is probable that this pub lication is the result of the return of Burgo, and that it has been circulated throughout the whole of Lampourdan. In Upper Catalonia nothing is spoken of but the return of Cabrera; the rumour was circulated that the whole country between Tarragona and Barcelona was for him, and it was added that a party of Carlists had beaten the Queen's troops at ten leagues from Barcelona. If this be true, the-demon stration by which the insurgents succeeded in drawing General Breton into Upper Catalonia was very able. A few days will show us the result of all this. We shall then know whether Cabrera has disembarked or not. It is abso lutely necessary to keep a good look out on the coast. It is only from abroad that real danger is to be apprehended. Carlists in the interior may cause some disturbance, but nothing beyond." MADRID BOUM, Mancit 4.—The Three per Cents. were done at 3O for cash ; the Five per Cents. at 19 ; the Debt without Interest at 6; and the Coupons at 17. We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday. The Debats has a long article on the financial state of the country, in the course of which it admits that the uncovered debt amounts to 26,240,000 1 . sterling, which is to be covered by:a new issue of Exchequer-bills ; that this deficiency is constantly increasing; that last year the expenditure exceeded the revenue by 19,000,000 f. ; that this excess of expenditure over revenue is the ordinary and constant state of the French finances, and yet, in the face of these admissions, it contends that France is at the present moment more rich, more inde p,.,ndent, and more prosperous than she ever Las been—all which is attributable to the admirable system of M. G trizoT. In consequence, however, of the financial working o f this " admirable system," a great portion of the public works, including the railroads, for the construction of which money has actually been voted, will have to be suspended during the present year. M. lin.isnaT has been appointed Minister of Justice— the official announcement was to appear in the Moniteur of Tuesday. A petition, signed by the Bishop of Nancy and nine litindia , d of the clergy of France, praying for the total and immediate abolition of slavery throughout the French colonies, was presented to tha Chamber of Peers, on Tuesday, by the Count DE MoNTALEMBERT. M. DuratraE, whose opposition to the system of the Ministers fer the government of Algeria is well known, has seen chosen President of the Committee of the Sln,—Permit me to suggest that committees of manage ment of soup kitchens acquaint the inhabitants of their towns that the contribution of the bones of the joints of meat from their tables would be acceptable as a means of improving the soup for the poor. I would then recommend that they either hire or provide a horse and neat light cart, to be lined daily with clean white cloths, and that it traverse the town at a slow pace, and that a person immediately precede it with a bell, in order to announce its approach, that servants may be prepared to make delivery without delay. I feel confident that scarcely a butcher's shop Will be passed with out some contribution, trimmings of meat, &c. being made, which will be found of great assistance. T he produce of these bones, &c., on being stewed, will be a valuable ground work for the soup; to which should be added meal, vegetables, &c., as recommended by M. Soyer. I am inclined to believe that by the sale of the bones for the purposes of manure, after having been used, a sum of money would be raised fully equal to the cost of all the in gredients added to the soup. Thus the soup itself may be made more nourishing and the expenses of the kitchen re duced to a mere trifle. Householders should give strict injunctions to their ser vants to use the knife and fork only at their meals. Should any committee of management be disposed to make an experiment, which may be done at little cost, perhaps they will be kind enough to communicate to you the result of their experience. They must not be deterred by one or two days failure at the commencement, as some parties might be bashful in offering what appears such a trifle, who, when they found the contributions general, and Do quizzical remarks made, would unhesitatingly order their servants to contribute, when the collector of bones should pass their houses.—l am, Sir, yours, &c., March 10, 1847. ILFRACO 31 BE. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S.—TnunaDax. Tery few horses were backed yesterday for anything like sums," still, bad as the bluiness was, it led to some changes in the Spring Handicaps. Doleful became first favourite tor the Northampton Handicap, and Lynceus and Vanish first and second fur the Newmarket; the Euclid colt, although not backed, was also in higher favour. The Liberator was in demand for the 2,000 Guineas, and all the money that could be got on Antler for the Chester Cup at 20 to 1 was invested ; the final offers did not exceed 17 to 1 ; there was no other alteration of any consequence in the betting on the last-mentioned race. The Derby bets were 6 to 1, in ponies, agst the favourite, 11 to 1 in fiftie , i, and 10 to 1 to 2001. agst Planet; 600 to 50 agst Enirote, 28 to 1 to 200/. agst Horn of Chase, 2,000 to 40 agst Old Port, 1,000 to 15 agst Oxonian, 50 to 1, in ponies, agst War Eagle, and 1,000 to 10 agst Philosopher. Closing prices— I.E.VOINGTON STEEPLE CHASE. 9 to 2 agst Mr. Ouseley Higgins's Pioneer—taken 9 to 1 agst Mr. Preston's Brunette—taken NORTHAMPTON HANDICAP. S to 1 agst Mr. Gratwicke's Doleful—t. and aftds. offd. 10 to 1 agst Mr. Gregory's Euclid colt 10 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Halo—taken NEWMARKET HANDICAP. 9 to 1 agst Lord Stradbroke'a Lynceus— taken 10 to 1 agst Sir C. ..aonck's Vanish—taken 13 to 1 agst Mr. Gregory's Euclid colt—take 14 to 1 14 to 1 agst Lord E. Russell's ,Sting—take 15 to 1 25 to 1 agst Crozier—taken THE PORT. 100 to 40 agst Mr. W. Scott's Sir Tattoo Sykes) laid 90 to 30 agst Lord E. Russell's Sting in one 90 to 30 agst Colonel Anson's lago bet METROPOLITAN HANDICAP. 8 to 1 agst Mr. Stephenson's Sheraton—take 9 to 1 20 to 1 agst Mr. Pedley's Pink Bonnet—taken 20 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Devil-me-care—taken TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STARES. 6 to 1 agst Sir R. Pigot's Conyngham—taken 8 to 1 agst Mr. O'Brien's Liberator—taken 10 to 1. 11 to 1 agst Mr. Payne's Sister to Cobweb colt—taken 11 to 1 agst Mr. S. Conway's Christopher—taken CHESTER CUP. 17 to 1 agst Herbert's Antler—taken 20 to 1 freely 26 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Camera Obscura 1000 to 30 agst Mr. Irwin's Mickey Free—taken 45 to 1 agst Captain Pettatt's Newcourt—taken to 501. 50 to 1 agst W. Scott's Sir Tattoo Sykes—taken 50 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklarn's Inheritress—taken 2000 to 30 agst Lord Eglinton's Plaudit—taken 1000 to 10 agst Mr. Payne's Queen Mab—taken Offers to take 30 to 1 about Punch. DERBY. 6 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Van Tromp 10 to 1 apt Mr. Mostyn's Planet—taken and aft. off. 12 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Epirote—taken 20 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Glentilt—taken 28 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's Horn of Chase—taken 35 to 1 agst Mr. O'Brien's Liberator—take 40 to 1 40 to 1 agst Mr. Payne's Sister to Cobweb colt—taken 2000 to 40 agst Mr. Worley's Old Port—taken 1250 to 25 agst Mr. Bouverie's War Eagle—t. and aft. off. 1001) to 15 agst Mr. Fuller's Oxonian—taken and aft. off. 1000 to 10 agst Mr. Fox's Philosopher —taken. NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER MEETING, 1847. FRIDAY. —Lord E. Russell's Reminiscence, agst Mr. A. W. Hill's Will-o'-the-Wisp, both three years old, 84t. 71b. each. A.F. 200 h. ft. ACCIDENT TO MR. GUNNING.—We are exceed ingly sorry to state that this venerable and highly esteemed gentleman, who is now in his 93d year, and has held the office of Senior Esquire Bedel for more than ha.l a century, met with a very serious accident on Tuesday evening. Ile bad written a letter at the Philosophical-rooms, and was pro ceeding with it to the post-office, when opposite Mr. Mutton's shop in All Saint's-passage, he happened unfortunately to tread upon a piece of orange peel, and fell with considerable violence upon the pavement. It was feared at the time that he had either dislocated the hip joint or fractured the thigh bone; but the precise character of the accident had not been ascertained when we went to press. He was removed as soon as possible to his own residence, at Newnham, accom panied by his friend arid relation, Dr. Thackeray.-- Cambridge Advertiser. FATAL ACCIDENT AT AN ENGlNEER ' S. — Yesterday afternoon Mr. Baker held an inquest at the Mason's Arms, Poplar, on the body of John Smith, a labourer, aged 40 years. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased was in the employ of Messrs. Seward and Co., engineers, illiilwall, Pop lar. On Tuesday last lie was engaged with several other labourers in raising a brass screw propeller, weighing up wards of six tons, from one part of the factory to another. They had succeeded in raising it four feet from the ground by means of the crane , when the chlaLinasnudd:,ehnelny rased, broke, a l n ir cl e was ase f d o uonnd h t o e b b the ponderous mass fell with great violence, striking the de iit?iticatn.tlyn fell, must ha ve b een in • a e c k ; i quite i e e x stan t a neous. Verdict—" Accidental death." ceased t A new three act melodrama from the pen of Mr. Buek stone, entitled Flowers of the Forest, a Gipsy Story, was pro duced here last night, with the most complete success. The scene opens in a wood near the Cumberland hills, and we find Lemuel (Miss Woolgar) a poaching gipsy, gun in hand, looking out for game. He is met by Captain Lavrock ( Mr. C. J. Smith) the Lord of the Manor, and horsewhipped by him. However Lemuel manages to kill his hare E nil sells ir. The next scene is the boudoir of the Lady Agnes (Miss Emma Harding), the sister of Lavrock. She is engaged to be married to Alfred (Mr. Boyce), and this is the eve of her wedding day. Alfred arrives accompanied by Lavrock, but Alfred is out of spirits. He relates to Lavrock a romantic adventure which had occurred to him in Italy. Ile bad been attacked and wounded by brigands, had been found by a gipsy tribe, and had been tended and carefully watched by the (laughter of the gipsy chief. The remembrance of this was still fresh in his recollection, and that remembrance made him unhappy. We are next introduced to the gypsy camp near the Lakes, and we find Starlight Bess ( Mrs. Fitzwilliam) a warm-hearted basket-maker, ballad-singer, and fortune-teller, who has so long told fortures, which have so strangely come true, that she more than half believes in her supernatural powers. Kinchin (Paul Bedford) a rejected lover of Starlight Bess, and Lernue.l the Poacher, her accepted suitor. In this scene therie three sing a gipsy trio, full of spirit and humour (the composition of Mr. ltd ward Fitzwilliam) which was deservedly encored. Then comes the scene of the wedding. The scene represents the ex terior of a country church ; groups of rustics are scattered around, awaiting the approach of the marriage pro cession of Alfred and Agnes. - As the procession is about to enter the church, Cynthia, the Ziugana -(Madame Celeste) rises from behind a tombstone and confronts Alfred. It is the Italian gipsy who has saved his lite. It is in vain that her father, Ishmael (Mr. 0. Smith) reproaches her with his treason to her race ; it is in vain that Lavrock orders her to be removed; she will approach Alfred; not that she has any claim on him—not that she wishes to interrupt the mar. iage cerem ny—not that she desires that he should love her—but she ae.ores him as a superior being, and she rushes towards him, falls at his feet, and worships him. Lavrock, in indignation, orders the marriage ceremony to be stayed, and challenges Alfred to meet on the morrow morn. The two meet alone at the foot or Skiddaw. It is in vain for Alfred to urge any excuses, Lavrock insists on fighting him at ten paces, produces pistols, and as Alfred discharges his pistol in the air, Lavrock falls dead from a shot from the gun of Lemuel, who had watched the whole scene, and who shoots him out of revenge for the horsewhipping of the day before. The report of fire arms brings around them the peasants from the neighbourhood. Lavrock, with his (lying breath, declares he has been killed by Alfred, who is arrested on the charge of murder. Ishmael, who has seen the whole transactien, comes Ibrward and praises Lemuel for his daring, and solemnly swears that he saw Alfred murder Lavrock. The scene then changes to a country wake, where we find Cheap John (Wr;ght ) an itinerant auctioneer, selling goods by Dutch auction, and unheard-of low prices, which he is enabled to do by being in league with Kmehin, who steals the golds which Cheap John sells. Bess arrives at the fair with Cynthia, and induces Cheap John and Kinchin to navigate a boat on the lake under the walls of Lavrock Hall, to aid in the escape of Alfred, of whose inno cence Cynthia is convinced; in fact, she suspects her father to be the murderer. The escape is effected, and Alfred is in the gipsy encampment, from which, however, he is retaken. The opening scene of tee third act is in Bess's tent. Lemuel is sleeping, but his sleep is disturbed. Bess wakes him, and at length, unable to bear the to. tires of conscience, he con fes's that he has committed the murder for which Alfred is to be tried. That confession is over heard by Cynthia, who rushes from her concealment, seizes Lemuel by the throat, and, with superhuman strength, drags him to the assize, court, and delivers him up to justice just in time to save Alfred, who is acquitted, while Lemuel is condemned. On her return she is cast out by her tribe. her father uttering imprecations on her head. Bess, who has returned heart-broken from the assizes, finds her exposed to the pelting of the storm, takes pity on her and leads her back to her tribe. They agree to receive her on one conditioe, thet she shall stab a Gentile who has taken refuge in their tent. That Gentile is Alfred, who, on being released, has sought the gipsy tents to rescue Cynthia front the vengeance of her kindred. She accepts the conditions, takes the fatal knife, and with it stabs herself: At this moment Alfred's friends, whb"iiave traced him out, arrives, and the curtain falls upon tine tableau. Nothing could exceed the intensity of the acting of Madame Celeste, as Cynthia; and Mrs. Fit zwilliam, as Bess, sung her snatcher of ballads, and acted with that mixture of naivete, humour, and pathos, which no actress saveherself can infuse into a part, She can compel tears and smiles at pleasure: In facti:Buck stone has admirably fitted every member of the Adelphi company in this new melodrama, which bids fair to rival in popularity even The Green Bushes The principal artists were called for at the csnclusion, and there was a loud call for Buckstone, who appeared and bowed his thanks. The piece, which is admirably mountei in every respect, was an nounced by Madame Celeste for repetition every evening, amidst the unanimous applause of a house crowded to the ceiling. CAFTURE 01 A GIIOST.—For some weeks corn . - plaints have been made to the police that several persons had been sadly frightened at the awful appearance of some supernatural monster in the neighbourhood of Bloxwich, having a huge pair of horns, and enveloped in white. In structions were given to the police to use all diligence to effect his capture, but somehow or other his ghostship became aware of the attention paid to hiM by the "men in blue," and "started like a guilty thing upon a fearful sum mons." Nothing more was heard of him until the night of Monday, the 22d ultimo, when he was seen traversing, with " martial stalk," the neighbourhood of Bloxwich-green, ex hibiting, as on former occasions, a huge pair of horns. After frightening one or two persons, who fled at the top of their speed, he came in contact with a "field carpenter," a young man, named Wm. Adams. Adams, it appears, was return ing from his work, having his tools on his back, and not. liking the ways of his ghostly acquaintance (who, by the way, became more pressing than pleasant), sought to free himself by means of a bradawl which he had in his hand, and with which he dealt a severe blow at the left thigh of the ghost, who immediately fell upon his knees, roaring piteously. Adams then proceeded to dismantle him of his masquerade dress, when the unfortunate hero of the night's adventure turned out to be a young man named John Perry, a stirrup-filer, of Bloxwich, well known to Adams. Several persons were premptly on the spot, and conveyed the ghost to his home, where he was put to bed, and a surgeon sent for to dress his wound, which, fortu nately for him, though a severe one, was not considered dangerous, but he has been confined to his bed in conse quence nearly ever since. As soon as he was sufficiently re covered Perry procured a warrant against Adams for stabbing him, and had him apprehended. The accused was brought before the magistrates at the Guildhall on Wedneolay last, but the complainant did not appear, and Adams was dis charged.— Wolverhampton chronicle. SCOTCH CHURCH INTELLIGENCE.—To be freely presented to a free kirk congregation in the Isle of Sks e, the use of a free church, situated in a rematka;le fine, deep, dry, commodious gravel-pit, capable of holding two hundred persons. The proprietor of the pit, in his Christian tender. ness towards the spiritual wants of his fellowsmen, of his own will grants the above site for a place of worship ; a place is no manner disfigured by the Popish mummeries that, to the shame of the age, have latterly been creep ing in upon the land ; but a church of the true primitive beauty of the churches of the early fathers, inasmuch as it has the sky for a roof, the earth for seats, and all the winds of heaven for visitors.— Apply to Lord Macdonald, proprietor. In Canobie, Dam ! friesadre, a remarkably fine piece of heath, commodiously situated on the south side of a hill, capable of containing a congregation of five hundred persons on their legs and with out umbrellas. The proprietor believing in the primitive meaning of the word " church "—ghat it signifies not a building, but a congregation, does, in such sense, graciously permit the erection (that is, the congregation on their legs as aforesaid) of any number of churches on his Scotch estates; testifying thereby his gratitude to Providence that has endowed him with the same.—Apply to his Grace the Duke of Buccleuch. N.B. All letters prepaid.—Punch. FOREIGN PRODUCE.—The following arrivals of cattle and provisions took place at the port of London, from the continental states of Europe, on Monday last :—The Har lequin steamer, from Boulogne, brought 17 cases of eggs and several of poultry; the Rainbow, from Rotterdam,' brought 268 packages of butter, 1,700 of cheese, 301 baskets of yeast. 366 baskets of fish, 2 baskets of potatoes, several of pickles and poultry, and 95 packages of garden and other seeds ; the City of London, from Rotterdam, 248 packages of butter, 6,523 of cheese, 11 baskets of poultry, 65 baskets of fish, 25 packages of cucumbers, and 36 oxen and cows; the Attwood, from Rotterdam, 686 bags of barley, 3 calves, 51 oxen and cows, and 31 sheep ; the Matilda, from Svendborg, 523 quarters of oats, and 50 quarters of tares ; the Thelma, from Rotterdam, 308 quarters of oats, and 371 quarters of beans ; the Margaretta, from Amsterdam, 789 quarters of barley ; the Columbine, from Havre, 548 packages of clover and other seeds, 15 cases of eggs, and other articles ; the Rapid,fromNieu Deipe, 53 cows, 2 horses, 6 calves, 123 she e p, and 16,575 cheeses ; the Marchiena, from Rott er d am , 480 quarters of oats; the Olive Cecilia, from Assens (Denmark), 950 quarters of barley and 70 quarters of oats; the Belfast, from Calais, 24 cases of eggs, and some of poultry ; the Soho, from Antwerp, 199 packages of seeds, 80 baskets of smelts, and 19 cases of butter; the Union, from Etnden, 6 , lasts of oats, 1 of barley, and 5 quarters of beans ; the Vrunw Aiske, from Harlingen, 125 quarters of oats and 260 quarters of barley ; the Magnet, from Harlingen, 385 baskets and bags of potatoes, 625 of cheese, 7 baskets of poultry, 1 bull, 17 oxen, 104 cows, 1 calf, 100 sheep, 1,970 casks of butter, 21 lasts of oats, and 212 bags of beans; the Lord John Russell, from Harlingen, 664 casks of butter, 100 quarters of oats, 240 cheeses, 13 sheep, 94 cows, 2 oxen, 284 bags of peas, 41 bags of beans, and a variety of other pro ductions; and the Ondernuming, from the same port, 540 quarters of barley, and 700 quarters of oats. It will be ob served, on reference to this list, which comprises Monday's arrivals, how large a proportion of the supplies were the produce of Holland. WILSON'S ENTERTAINMENTS IN PARIS. Last Monday Mr. Wilson gave his first entertainment in Paris, when the Scotch songs were received with marked enthu siasm. Those in the form of dialogue, such as " Saw e my wee thing," " Hame cam our gudeman," &c., which he gives in such a graphic manner, seemed to give great pleasure and amusement; while the Jacobite songs roused his audience quite to a fureur. Inunedialely on Mr. Wilson's arrival he was engaged for several of the nobility and gentry's soirees. It is Mr. Wilson's intention, we understand, to resume hi• entertainments for the season in the Music-hall, London, cn Eas' Sr Monday. ROYAL MARINER INSTITUTION FOR BOYS.—Wed nesday the anniversary festival of the above institution took place in Freemasons' Hall, when about two hundred gentle men attired in full mariner costume, sat dow n to dinner. Rowland Alston, Esq., presided, and amongst those present were B. B. Cabbell, Esq., M.l'., Sir R. B. Phillips, M. A. Hoare, Esq., the Marquis de Melne, &c., and also a very nu merous collection of ladies in the gallery. The Postmaster-General had an interview, yesterday, with the Chancellor o the Exchequer. ASSOCIATION FOR. THE REVIVAL OF SACUED MUSIC. Dowager. Fr e i° _.; o ty Patine meetings were held tlY'aistiiinNotinijinßgCralind tl%'lsllA.;ecygeeni;c9b.°l; in the Music ball, of the classes of this association, tY,OO' 41 patronieed by the Queen, the Queen D bert, and a number of the. Scottish nobility. Th be sw vien e eels instnutd in November, 1844, principally with teaci.em of nein:nine Church psalmody, of instructing a " en precentoss, and the children of schools of a ll denonitra pr in the prieciples of vocal music, and to prepare andpa.)....ust7r persons to invest these principles; and althougb ported by the community in an adequate ma nner a n s doon a tisnal institution, capable of exercising a benig n . i wa s over those sections of society far whose benefit it soa p signed, it has nevertheless demonstrated its efficien c Y le s of value. Hundreds of children have acquired the prinTP ee ; e r an art, calculated to afford rational amusement an_anes ment, as a substitute for the gross and demoralising.gntts lions which the want of purer and more elevatedt:ratas naqueed ly induce. Dr. Mainzer , the musical classes-direr "i'ona asseciation, who has gratuitously taught its e ulta s their formation, not only teaches his p upils to .ne ear , ja the eye and voice in reading and singing, but alio 5" are go' listening to melodies, so that on hearing a tune, thelnototota &sled to translate and to write it down in Inus ic h a ols.ristes to - masterly Every one acquainted with the science will admit t W er t aaa ing capable of effecting this must be of the m ost masterly description; the appearance made by the ppotes cad day, however, fully established the fact, for on sonla to P r ' airs from Mezert being handed, from the auditonan„fte, sae .nairizer, and lie having played them on the pianc l en ed th e advanced pupils very readily and successfully Ono' Ted noes, although they had never heard the airs befell'oaiel te principle of mutual instruction has been b ea utifallY,. o o„ on in these classes. Dr. Mainzer teaches the children an all the exercises to a certain page in the elemental hie:Real, which many of them then .communicete to ether oaf , or numbers of the boys and girls having ten, twenty' ° tau ght eighty pupils; one girl, of Mr. Dunn's school, ba s in otion more than two hundred children, and on era it has been feund that children taught by these . nhg by are as well iostrected as the. elementary classes tani r i n d Dr. Mainzer himself. Having adverted to the p o d n iog steps by wh ch a great national movement f or hart Ailedo the humbler classes has been began, we shall ne: dee on ( more perticularly to the proceedings which came e" Dr' notice in the Music-hall. With the exceptionspanotts Mainzer, who presided at the pianoforte, th e , oily" ) : orchestra was occupied by 700 children, whose haPPa e ar" minces and neat appearance formed a most interestrnsaeasin The children were first examined in their 61001102000 rises, the advanced classes singing. counterpoint anu ee being the notes of different intervals, and musical :bras n olo' mentioned, they then struck the musical sounds; or b/ dies from flee-den, Handel and other masters being Pl u nend Dr. Maiezer, the superior classes, even when theY he . ., s eers heard them before, announced the notes of vhfork,teari: se strro composed. These pupils, on sounding a tuning ° • any note and chord of any key of the scale of sixteal,* sharps or flats, and sing, with little trouble 1 ,1 leatt the c enpositions of Marcel's!, Handel, Al lic " 180 4 Mozart, mud other great corn , osers. Where all ats.P en tsris.' and well performed, it is almost invidious to Par i a bildrl The modulations and cadences were observed by t" , e , 007 in a manner that would have done credit to sen,t ° ' Ob i ; but it was when the full chorus of 700 voices Was e ,",: e the effect became truly grand and imposing. a"a", -e e luck about the house" had a most powerful inn c e e- „l•e n ' the auditory. whose plaudits where spontaneous alta n a - ;Cht the " Rowan Tree was also a favourite; as .W'r e , oboe rubini's " March of the Night-Patrol," and Luther o f To educate not only adults but children in the P. oihtl( of music is an advance in civilisation, the pracriecfieocenn, a !licit has been 'sunny demonstrated in ..the el ec t tor n this society, which it will be the honour of Scottannotienr petua:c among her most efficient and invaluable Os'. 5 W I A CHEAT DINNER FOR THREE BISO°F-,, Creir book 'tele by the bends of Oxford, at the time wi l l s /AO; Learner, and Rialey were in custody mar, ing entry occurs of the bill of fare and expenees °floe's% for the three prisensrs on the Ist October, 155 4 n nig , faln re ) there, t.beeioo7l ale, 2,1.; oysters, Id.; butter, 2d.; eggs, 2d. ; d P e- of piece of fresh atimon. 10d. ; wine. 3d. ; cheese f lo rae 0 2d. ; the whole three dinners, 2s. fid. What W a a l ' tal l our modern Right Rev. Fathers in God saY t 0 s ? ne st% : Alf DEATH FROM AN EXPLOSION OF by o_ 4 'o —The following melancholy accident, Whic'' 0 la n, • scientific and much esteemed French gentler° f ... a rs 40 d'Ancet, lost his life,. is related in the newsp a p er n the Janeiro recently received. The Baron, it appea r e ' DO to establish at Rio a laboratory on a grand s e a le9 fr ierid*, be 18th of December last, after entertaining a fe W e tilbtlds went to bed, and placing a portable gas-lansP Olaollt_ e nait drew it to his bedside and took a book to read. or dered t he night, the lamp not giving sufficient light, be °10036/10 servant boy to bting him soma more gas. At this n,jr fo s a boy began to execute the order, and a current on . . bents door. left open carried the gas in contact with til a da t ri i s lamp; an explosion of the gas in the tin tne e l o l ,,o,s, / al. greater part of whiell fell on the unfortunate b a ron, a 1; the bed sheets on fire, with the curtains and P i d plit o f Baron d'Ancet was scalded from head to foot , a° uaniser directly into a cold• bath, where he remained 10' 5 .1 clot an hour, and then dressed his wound himself, . I , l , n eS e to and would not consent to have any medical assts be titan in until the next morning, confident nothing awn nog r e erf save him. Under this impression, and in exc ra lael 0 0 surrounded by his physician and friends, wbo a fest ° 0 means to alleviate his sufferings, he expired in. re n eot after. His attention was directed more to bis 5 e es `" - wer e to himself; the. boy was seriously burnt, but bnnanne. tertained of his recovery ; without the use of 00;0 tilf, ALARMING ACCIDENT ON THE 8 0161° 4 0° e re CHICHESTER RAII.WAV.—On Tuesday evening.% was into past six o'clock train from Brighton to Chichesteretweetles ceedieg, at the rate of thirty miles an hour , . ) n d 0 1 i e Ationeriug and Little Compton stations, the ht si et 0 %, of the tender gave way, and threw the back nn t ee tender upon the ground. The consequence waStannanf7A. fur a coesinerable distance were literally plough: eat f ° the carriages behind sank deep into the ear t "% e nger e aS keepingnat not theiro ti eseoaftst,heez escaped ds unhurt. and the 1 1 8 1;fis t b ris l The gu n ar rw " war ee le off with considerable violence, but receive d injury. The accident caused' a delay of about a f av ",l)!l s of hours, there being only one line of rails at this,. sl ? 4) ;O S the rails have since been restored, and the passag e 15 :I d open. ecP,he SACRlLEGE.—Yesterday information we.' by the police that on the morning of the Bth in c i n riO n tH VA church of ilirtle-cum-Bamford was sacrilegiouly V a le inj e , and the following property stolen therefrom. lain aa_tat linen surplice, fastened - at the neck with one P 18 1 5 0 ,70 and marked on the face with the letters I. LI. S. fe e lf,x da made of Orleans cloth, lined on the body and very thick cotton ; two scarfs, one of which lin-fneri silk about four inches broad and three yards loog t i,_ be, at the end, and the other made of Otleans cl on n ; sati fourteen inches wide, doubled, and three yards Li s s, s , a white twilled cotton sheet, three small prayer p, T oo Of which contained the name "Beery," six PSe. lnl , the W of taming the old and new version, two haval ) it e horynoti " 'Effie Church" written therein. The pen:L bso get l jot Donington, in the county of Lincoln, W O alsottles of W entered, and a white communion cloth, three 19 4# with a communion plate stolen therefrom. r h a s. As ExrEissivE SLIP.—An extensive s b IP mitred at Shakeprare's Cliff, which seeps to i e fi Ti to breaking up its establishment and leaving Eng l and sPliff gust. This may be in consequence of the little d t ot e scare hes lately had upon his native country; ° n it boil t ale piobable, is only crossing the Channel to see k e sqlli f e ntila more congenial lands. Whither will it go to? ' 7 It t' hoe ra on the . French coast, or sail direct for New Igo " - c (dr he curious to find Shakapeare's Cliff at Calais ; in " tb ° stuck up, " Remove.; from over the way. Ou ght "' t fident that Shakepeare himself would be tontaa tbstiniO more of if he had a firm footing in France, s n t ee PLO , drama and his cliff would rise much higher 1 0 ,be Ft estimation when pieces of it could be taken from Punch. • n b it ble, A CORK AND NEW YORK.—It seems Cork is to become a port in connexion with i'le-tteeds.,Self ship of 450 tons was launched at that port 00 f e ata ietenned es care of a line of ships to run to an" Of York. fess ienloa Darby, or as he is P r° , g known, Mr. Pablo Fanque, is a native of Eng'nent thsetS, been born in the city of Norwich, somewhere O a ; 040 • 1812. Ile wee left: an orphan at an early ag`i'isprieatl/6 apprenticed to Mr. Batty, now the well-know n lantley's Atnplatheatre, who was at that time tta fiolo:do country with an equestrian company, whorraZiete; sit served during his apprenticeship, and afterWant s p a r or J:oaa member of that g st aleman's com p a ny a nuln, ro w - n etbltel He is entirely proficient in his pr o fession, !iavio 4 a m blioitoi,,O the usual routine of rope-dancing, posturing , and is also considered a very good equestrian., the lst if Mr. Batty, he joined the establishment. " — Pi n ; 01 ' . , Ducrow, and remained with him for some thn e t n earr'ne, joined Mr. Betty; and, in 1841, began„" aes fte' his own account, with two horses, shad that time, by his own industry and ma d d r ig nii together as fine a stud of horses n t - 'v ' a sp ' as any England, his establishment is at Pres e tneolete in Lancashire, in which county Mr. Pablo is W o " e a tb e n'reli a great favourite; in fact, to use the langulgeeine se a t tessiort, he has made Lancashire and Yorknoost:o s him own. His stud of horses and ponies 6 0 0 forty. he black mare, with which he isipety patine pet forming, was purchased by him of Mir. e d 0 01 ; three years since, who had previously obtain do the le res the Queen's Mews, Mr. Pablo has trained her to 00,0' extraordinary feats of the menage,_ an art hitheatno of ref/ to belong only to the French and German pro Olt tation, and her style certainly far exceeds any th e ever yet been brought from the continent. P a n; t. f It is stited as a positive fact that not ipor t : r of peek and a half of pees was gathered from i.""„ a Senate House after the memorable proceeding s s ao' week.—Cambridge Advertiser. SOI, O O I A I CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY, MARCH 10.'" 1 r . , Ast —The Plumian Professor's lectures on Practical - Jo, no' and Astronomical Instruments commence on ge n Fo l, 19; they are to be foll o wed by a course on OPP ietal,4o statics, and Pneumatics, commencing on MondaYto DARING OUTRAGE.—A few days ago, da yst a d unceremoniously entered a house during the t haf gss gonie Castle, and seeing no one but a Vi° M , an' ader , t° l3l lB rudely demanded money from her; when, in „" o ssib' c ' t asi rid of such unwelcome visitors as quickly e° r w hich stn consented to give each of them a few copperst, e „esisig c eri o . scornfully rejected, and with threatening l'nfeuid; sa tempted to compel her to yield to their unjust denote], of the villains at the same 'time produced .P o ther b eS the e:4 , ea ft , sternly demanded a 1/. note from her, while complice seized a gun which was in the aPart ni f e%t e ia • tiol ° 0° boils gave vent to fearful threats with the Vo ir ° ing the above-named sum. The woman by this s ees A there 610 great terror. Iler husband was absent, and p 0 Ri g one within cry of her to lend assistance in sac k . aear t i A g to thei r call moment. She was just about to submit nd ly demand, when a stratagem occurred to her of l e n:s ee d to ett with energetic impatience on some one she f tg: dee ssra dress front the window of the room. The Pinit e d scsnn, seeing this fled, without waiting for their object, entten pored Olin full speed, nor have they been Intimation was without delay conveyed to til b e eil P el e i S e ae tat alr lailti at Mara inch, and ever since a careful search has tl` r. for the merciless depredators. —Ediriburgh AdvertwnifistiO A FOUR-FOOTED POST RUNNER.--Otber ab be idle, good fer-nothing, or mischievous, are run, a _d_o_g a t t.h; the village havieg no other avocation but b Innltt no n ta g ; passengers or biting one another, but not so e t , "n w r f o e n lr se b elt ,il +44. of Dalswintoe. What is that the littl got in his mouth ? Something in a bags; teeth a s WV; to opfn it and see, and he will Show e tec St the r any of the snarling curs around. lie has b ee r 0$ 0 1 ! I.OA-office and got wh It he required, and dl e th m e oe itl with any canine comrade on the road. He is i faith & of her Majesty a i 's Sappers n d Miners, and sXS tif o f tP, a l' ivied as any biped in the corps. A P er ,: beigt' regitneht hate been ior slim time stationed ondta the d "' at Dalswinton, taking observations, and every 8 i , e t s the goes for then regularly to the village post -0 6 soldiers' letters, anti then returns with them to 0 00 on the hill. We suppose he pre-pays the letter's ' 4l _'l Or off - also, but on this point we cannot speak wit h I ' l '7 , fiderice.—Dumfries Standard. _. ~. . COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, walked in the plantations of Os borne House on Wednesday afternoon. Mr. G. E. Anson arrived at Osborne House on Wednesday. His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar and Mr. Anson joined the Royal circle at dinner. Yesterday morning her Majesty and her Royal Consort, ac companied by Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, took their ac customed early walk. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, walked out on Wednesday afternoon. Yesterday morning the Royal children walked and rode on ponies on the beach. His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, left Osborne House yesterday morning, crossed is the Fairy to Gosport, and proceeded to Winchester. Lady Caroline Somers Cocks, Maid of Honour in Waiting, left Osborne House yesterday for town. On Wednesday afternoon, about half-past four o'clock, a sad accident occurred at the new building at Osborne. It appears that some workmen were removing a centre under one of the arched passages of a very consider able portion of the building now in progress, and it is sup posed that owing to something slipping, one end of the centre or framework on which the arch was formed acted as a lever under the arch, and raising it, caused the displacement of the materials of which it was composed, and the weight of which falling on a scaffold below it, precipitated the whole to the ground, together with some of the workmen who were engaged upon it. The principal foreman of bricklayers, who was on the arch at the time giving directions to his men, for tunately escaped ; but we regret to learn that three of the labourers are injured• L-one man named Blake very severely on the head, a second named Gale has his leg broken, and the third named Morris has two of his ribs fractured. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, on the alarm being given, hastened to the spot, and gave immediate direc tions that the best surgical assistance should be sent for, and everything possible to alleviate their sufferings should be provided tbr them. Mr. Weedon, of East Cowes, and Mr. Cass, of West Cowes, quickly arrived, and did all they thought the cases admitted of. We regret that the report of the medical men yesterday morning was, 'that then con sidered Blake is in considerable danger, but that the other two men are doing well. The Governor of the Bank of England and the Deputy- Governor, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, yesterday, at his official residence in Downing street. Mr. Robert Gordon had an interview with the Earl of Cla. rendon, yesterday, at the Office of the Board of Trade. Mr. Bagshawe had an interview with the Right Hononra. able Edward Strutt, yesterday, at the Office of the Commis , sinners of Railways, in Great George-street. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a gene. ral meeting, yesterday, at their Office in Whitehall .place. AN ATTEMPT TO IMPROVE M SOYER'S SOUP FOR THE POOR. 70 THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Last night was the first "long Thursday" of the season— the first of those extra performances which are always so dA lightful, and always so crowded. The performances last night were Lucia (I! Lammermoor, iu which Fraschini, es Egardo, more than sustained the high repwatioa which his performance on Tuesday had acquired for him. A dire.-- tissement, in which a new pas. entitled La Sl' wonian, was produced, for Mademoiselle/ Rosati and M. Paul Taglioni, and which bids fair to rival the Cracovienne in popuiaiiry the last act of La Fa'orita, with Gardoni and Sanchioli ; and the superb ballet of Corolla. The house was crowded to excessia every part. Among the elit e of th e b eau mon d e p resen t we observed H.R.H. the Duchess of Cambridge, attended by Baroness Hammerstein, Mrs. de Burgh, and Baron Knet-ebeck ; Baroness Brunow and Madlle. Olga de Lechna, his Excellency the Baron Hugel, the Baron and Baroness de Linden, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Earl of Fa'thouth, the Earl of Munster, the Count de Courcv, the Earl Grenvilb., Lady Brougham, the Vi scoun t Dune r annon, Lord A. Fit zclarence, M. de Coulter, Hon. Wm. Well sley, Mr. Hubert de Burgh, Sir W. Ball, Mr. and Miss Brereton Trelawny, Captain Grc ville, Captain and Mrs Townley, Major Barinc, &c. &c. ADELPHI THEAME. ~+t... ~. Th e 844 she to at; advic e ai Ce amiss gestions ' t hat he t additions readin g . Wd b rini 16 be ru e Th e 13 Of Sever . Lord 'corporal ~attention Which ha t b e Poor, i ; ,town, in Lec flint •it was that thei law if o u Letter wi i zig that Pariah of 6 ,000 act kot pay 'Which w , Which NVI other chi • Lord 4So:ust t This i This The fi The C The IS The C The The Lordshii The E The I fad tuts! The f e►ad the Th e i The lioadThs. e Sir Pr eston ( 1 41W8 rel Intints i Capt.!' o f the 1 Dr. / Chelse a erbitrat the Sabi Mr. 1 Mr. E habita n turer s t he grel tensio n iblouse ... Fi Mr. ' 101 9 En I ) ] lille nt 01 n 0 ke iati tt a c Mr. Aortoll Mr. petitioi Phiee s 4t4 Yed the te, Mr. so n . wished Itlirted hon t b it so, Mr: ITerch Lion, a li Roo Cern Wh o; Iver( nut Al dt lY bu .1] in mQn !Wei ti Rua, Pool dist Pitt S o y. thei ton