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THE ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA , and ALL THE THEATRICAL NOVELTIES. -k, EXHIBITI ToO-N, and "RECREATIONS the WEEK. See " TLA" of mottitotr. Price S*Vettee..-6, Southampton-street, Strand. _ - - - - THE NEW PLAN of HIBERNO-CNADIAN COLONIZATION EXAMINED. By JAMES WARD, Esq. See "ATLAS" of To-stoititow. Price Sixpence.-6, Southampton street, Strand Just p u blished, 2 vols. foolscap B vo. , Twe lve Shillin g s, TILEFALL OF NINEVEH, a Poem. By EDWIN ATHERSTONE. Also by the same Author, THE LIST DAYS OF HERCULANEUM, A Poem, 2s. A MIDSUMMER-DAY'S DREAM, a Poem, 3s. THE SEA KINGS IN ENGLAND, an Histerical Romance, 3 VOL 18s. William Pickering, 177, Piccad lly. RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE MESSRS. 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HER MAJESTY'S The Nobility, Gentry, Subscribers TilEthe Opera. and the Public, •ro respectfully informed, that the Ttil,i-A,TstE, WILL RE-OPEN TO-3fOR RON% EV E. s Opera, When will be periorm L'ELISIK A Dnorino, Signor Gardonl ; Belcore, ' l ' NlO n' R iz E et . tr Adina, Madame Castellon tplec, 1 ornara, Signor Lablache (his first Signor F. Lablache ; and Dr. appearance this season). Opera will be pres ented (for the first time Between the %cts of he_rtisenaent, e ntitled LE BACCHANTE, this season) the admired Di (tier first appearance this season), Mdlles. Ity Mdlle. Lucileo rah:, and carp --: de lialet. Corr= lien etre ' 31. te 'nevi succ essful Ballet, in Two Tableaux, by Ts conclude r(1,1. e music ' by Signo Pugn entitled 31. rani Tag i l- E A OU LA FEE T AUX i, FLEURS. rooter s by Mdlie. C. Rosati , Mdlle. Marie Taglioni , TrinciPal cba 3f. rant Tao , 11°11i-th ac. e Ballet will be introd d uce thollowing dances :L -in t h e course o , more.Ake,„lMdlie. C. Rosati. L'lndlfference e , f Mdlle. Rosati and l e p. Tagliosil. Solo of Le Fee aux Fleurs, Mdl e Marie Taglioni. I,ll%Souquet,,Mdlle. Rosati. • peraits hirehearsal for the first appearance of Mall e. Jenny w t . .n hetparriral in England. • . turcLty, Aptil 17th, will be prodreed (forthe rst time ll •me in this eour'Verdi's Opera " 1 Due Foscari." ireedr perk "Ernani " will be repeated forthwith. HER MAJESTY'S ThEATRE. The Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public, are respectfully in ormed, that there will be an EXTRA NIGHT On THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1847. When will be performed (lint time this season) BeMae celebrated Opera I PURITANI. Principal. Characters: —Elvira, Madame Castellan ; Giorgio, Signor ahlache ; Artura, Signor Gardoni ; ^nd Riccardo, Signor Coletti. Between tie Acts of the Opera, a Divertissement, in which will be presented the following Dances : —Deutchen Rhein, by Corps tie Ballet ; a favourite Pas, by 3fdlle. Rosati ; and a new Pas, composed by M. P. Taglioni for 3ldlie. Marie Taglioni, entitled Posnimia, or Dance Polonaise. _ After the Opera will be presented an entirely New Ballet Diver tissement, by M. P. Tag'tont; the Music by Sigr. Pugni ; the Scenery by Mr. C. Marshall, entitled Oritbia, ou, Les Camp des Amazons. Principal character Orithia, Mdlie. Luc la Grahn. TM:A:rick: ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THI3 EVENING Will be performed the new Grand Opera of THE BONDMAN. Marquis de Vernon, Mr. Weiss ; Floreville, Mr. Rafter ; Morliere, Mr. tiorocastle; Ardenford, Mr. N. Harrison; Mal.a.Propos, Mr. Harley ; Madame Corinne, Miss Romer ; Grisette, Miss B. Isaacs ; Frivole, Mrs. Hughes. After which the New and Original Oriental Spectacle, called THE DESERT; or, The Imsun's Daughter. In which the Two Elephants, upwards of Sixty Horses, and the Camels will appear. The Imann rseph, Mr. Howell; Hafer, Mr. Rafter; Barek, Mr. W. H. Payne; Fuzel Oola, Mr. Harley ; Maleck, Mr. T. Matthews ; Ahabeck, Mr. Hutchison ; Kuzliraga, Mr. L. Lee ; Princess Ipomaye, Miss 3lessent ; Hilda, Miss Collett ; Girgee, Miss R. Isaacs; THEATRE I'OYAL, LIAY3IAI'KET. Uttar the Management et M.. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING . _ _ Will be performed thl new and original Comedy, called THE SCHOOL FOIL SCHEMING. Principal characters by Messrs. Far ren, Stuart, Buckstone, Howe, Selby, Brindal, Mrs. Glover, Mrs. Hamby, Mrs. Yarnold, 21iss Fortescue, Miss Bennett, Miss Rey nolds, &c. After which 'the Grand Astronomical Extravaganza, called THE NEW PLANET ; or, Harlequin out of Place. To conclude with THE IRISH POST. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. nder the direction of Madame 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 Kinchizi, Mr. P. Bedford ; Leybourne, 211 r. Worrell ; Cynthia, Madame Celeste ; Lemuel, Miss Woolgar ; Starlight Bess, Mrs. Yitzwilliam ; Lady Agnes, Miss Harding. To conclude with the Fairy Spectacle, founded on the Ballet of LA Of SELLE, entitled THE PHANTOM DANCERS ; or, the Wills Bride. Principal characters by Mr. Wright, Mr. P. Bedford, Dlr. 0. Sm.th, Mr. Cullen'ord, Madame Celeste, Miss Marian Taylor, Aii-s Emma Hart:Lug, Miss Ellen Chaplin, and Mrs. Laws. PRINCESS'S TUEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. J. M. Maddox, Eole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING Will be presented Scribe and Auher's celebrated Comic Opera, in Three Acts, called THE BARCAROLE. The principal characters by Messrs. Walton, Saida, Leffler, and Allen ; Miss E. Honer and Miss Anne Romer. After , hiclt, Shakspere's MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. The principal characters by Messrs. 11. Hughes, Ryder, J. Vining, C, Fisher, Wynn, aria Compton ; Miss Winstanley (her fifth appearance in London), Mrs. Stirling, Nrs 11. Hughes., Miss; S. Flower, Miss Anne Romer, Miss Marshall, and Miss Smithson. 'THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. rnder the Management of Mrs. Keeley. THIS EVENING will be performed a New Drama, ealled THE CREOLE. Characters by Messrs. F. Mathews. Leigh, Murray, Emery, Kinloch, and Keeley, Miss kdekinsen, Miss May, Miss M.:Keeley, and Mrs. Keeley. After which, the New Vandevill! Extravaganza, called CRUSOE THE SECOND. Characters by 3lessrs. A. Wigan, Keeley; Miss Dickenson, Miss Tume•, and Mrs. Kee!ey. To conclude with NEXT DOOR. Characters by Messrs. A. Wigan Turner, Kinloch, Miss Villars, and Miss Arden. . FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee. Mr. John Mitchell. Fourth Appearance of Mademoiscll . ROSE CFI ERI, and First Appear ance of Mademoiselle DUVERGER. THIS EVENISG the Performances will commence with the amusing Comedie-Vaudevi.le, entitled L'IMAGE. Le Baron de Xerandal, 31. Dtnnery ; Leopold, M. Rhozevil ; Pierre 3lauclerc, 31. Priston p.Madeline, 3idlle. Duverger. After which (tint time in this country) a new Comedy, entitled UN ROM AN I NTIM E ; on, Les Lettres Du Mari. Edouat:d Due- Stull, Mi Rhozevil ; Albertine, Mdlie Rose Cheri. .To be titlh,wed by the new Cotnedie.-Vaudeville, entitled LA PRO TGEF., SANS LE SAVOIR. Helene, Madile. Rose Cheri. To conclude with the favourite Comedie-Vaufleville, entitled 4.IENRVIEVR ; au, La Jalousie Paternelle. Cherambsurg, M. Car ; Adrien, 31. Pascal; Genevieve, 31d:le. Rose Cheri. Boxes, 6s. ; Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, 3.. ; Gallery, 2S. Boxes and Stalls may be engaged at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Bond-street; and at _;,he Box-office of the Theatre, which is open drily from Eleven till Five. ETHIOPIAN iSERENADERS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. TO-3101Z ROW EVENING The celebrated ETHIOPIAN SF:RE'NADEIIS, Pell, Harrington. White, Stanwood, and Gsrmon, will have the honour of Resuming their inimitable ENTERTAINMENTS, at the St. James's Theatre, an d will give a grand day performance every Wednesday Morn ing, commencing at half-past two o'clock. The evening perfor mances will be continued every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, And the day performances every Wednesday Boxes and stalls at Mitch Al's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, ruder the patrenage of the Queen, Prince Albert, and th e Royal FAmily. Proprietor and Manager Mr. W. Batty. This Unique and Royal Equestrian National Temple of Arts will continue its:powerfully attractive Entertainments every evening, at Seven o'clock ; presenting an unusual display of talent in all its varied branches of Equestrian, Gymnastic, and Dramatic productions; com bining Mr. Batty's numerous stud of highly trained Hertel and Fairy Ponies, with his magnificent Syrian Camels, Elephants, Wild Zebras, Deer and Oxen, rofbe brought into action in the new grand Easter Spectacle of Lord Byron's THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS ; or, THE CORSAIR AND THE AVENGER'S STEED. With New Scenery, Marine Panorama, Decorations, and Gorgeous tippointments, on a scale of magnitude unequalled in this Amplii heat re. The Scenes in the Circle will present the unequalled per:ormances o.La Petite Isabella, Madame Dimes, Mons. Dumos, M. Leonard, Herr Henrique, and Laurents Waif, first appearance of the great English rider, Mr. Powell, and popular provincial Artiste of Equita tion, Mr. Bell. A splend.d pageant, uniting the Artists of the Arena on their highly trained Steeds. led by Mrs. Patty. The Exercise as misted by the reappearance of the celebrated Hibernian clown, Mr. T. Barry, and Mr. Twist, the grotesque. For detail see full Pro gramme. Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. Box Office open from Eleven 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 MN. Frances Davidge, Lessee. THREE NEW PIECES, and the truly wonderful BEDOUIN ARABS, from the Theatre Port St. Martin, Paris, their fifth Ap pearance in England THIS EVENING The performarres will commence w.th a new Drama, called THE DIS.IARDED DAUGHTER. Count Carstlorf, Mr. T. Fredericks; Julia, Mrs. Ware. After which. a rand 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:i Tribe., attended by their Marabouts (Priests), &o. in their n itional costume. After which, a new F arce, b y Mrs. -t rlins', entitled K ISS I G . PA; FAVOUR. Duke de Bassompture, Mr. Tindell ; Marchio ness de Lanny, Mrs. Ware To conclude with a romantic Drama, named the TWO BROTHERS OF PISA. Count de Outten, Mr. Neville ; Theodora Bemanati, Mrs. Henry Vinint. Boxes, Rs., Pit, is.; Gallery, 6d. Doors open at Six, commence at Half•past Six. ROYAL VIC 1 ORIA. THEATRE. THIS EVENING, THE FORGER'S VOW ; or, g BAROSSA, the PEDOUIN 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, Mr. Bird, &c. After which, DONZELLA, THE HEROINE OF CASTILE. Don sells (commonly called the Rose of the Rock) Miss Vincent. To conclude with a Nautical Drama, in Three Acts, entitled, A REEFER'S WRONGS ; or, HE WRECK OF THE AURORA. Supported by the entire comp my. Boxes, Is.; Half Price, 6d. Pit, 6d. ; Gallery, 3d. Private Boxes or Patti( s of Four, f:om 10s. 6d. ; and Parties of Eight, 11. Is. COURT . MAftTIAL.—The sentence and finding at a district court-martial, by which a non-commissioned officer of the 95th Foot was tried at the Wellington commandingßrsomeracks ofFi da e y e a r since, on charges preferred by his I orse Guards. , e were yesterday issued from the .I,ergeant of the regiment Th e prisoner , Jose 1 Coates , a lance iorpfewntaarlrpad'y men C tioned, was ' charged u: , ter the Articles wuhout leave front the rec rui ting having absented himself lt ;ng party to which he had been attached at Feversham, to Leeds, in Yorkshire, K e nt, he and having proceeded sergeant of the 30th Foot. The charge himself up to a proven, the prisoner was sentenced t a o rge been oartptiCril,a%nce, and I T in ra g ontha' confinement in the Military Provvoasyt,j to be reduced to the rank and ate soldier. The finding was confirmed by the Conanaandor-ir, Chief, &c. ACCIDENTS AT STEPNEY FAIR. —On Wednesday afternoon two accidents of a serio us nature occurred in Stepney Fair. A man named Henry Padley, of Sea bright-street. Bethnal-green,entered one of those danger ous machines called a swing, in a state of intoxication, and while the swing was ascendiog he was thrown out and pitched on his head. He wa., rendered insensible, and conveyed to the London Hospital in a very pre carious state. A young woman, named Jane Field, residing in Virginia-row, Bethnal green, was seated in .one of the " merry go-raunds;" while it was in full play she was thrown off with great violence. Her head was cut in a most frightcul manner, and bled profusely. She liras also removed to the samo hospital, and it is feared she will not recover. The Dissenters of Bristol have purchased the Etna zn an-of-war, for the purpose of a floating chapel, and on Thursday evening last it was formally opened by a num ber of ministers. Several sailors were present, and" just before the proceedings were concluded, after an allusion bad been made to a collection, a thorough Jack Tar up, and pulling out h is purse , pushed his way towardssPrug c hairman, handed , it to him, exclaiming, Here's a shot for your locker. NEW WORK BY MRS. THOMSON. Just ready, in 3 vols. post tivo., TRACY; OR; IHE APPARITION. I " By ? . .I r s. THOMSO N. Rag l a nd Castle,'' " The Author of " Widows and Widowers , " Chevalier," &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. T HE EDINBURGH REVIEW, No. CLXXII., Will be published on W EDN ESDAY NEXT. CONTENTS :-- I. CRACOW IN 1815 AND 1846. 2. SAINTS' LIVES AND MIRACLES. 3. PRISON VISITING. 4. ARABIAN PHILOSOPHY. 5. THE EMIGRANT, BY SIR F. HEAD. 6. THE MARIAN' EXILES. 7. PRIMITIVE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ENGLAND. 8. SCHOOLS OF DESIGN. 9. THE ROCK AND THE BILLOW: HISTORICAL FICTIONS. 10. S TATUTE LAW REFORM. 11. TIIE SPANISH. MARRIAGES. 12. A PLEA FOR RAGGED SCHOOLS. -London : Longman and Co. Edinburgh : A. and C. Black. TO CORRESPONDENTS. A Subscriber at Chester" had better apply to Messrs. Wit mer and Smith, American news-agents, Liverpool. t 11±, WEATHER. —SUN OFFICE, APRIL 9. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 37 ; Highest, 57 ; Noon, 52, BAROMETER, 29 75.—WIND, W.N.W.; fine. HI , GI WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE This DAY. Worming .. 20 minutes after 7. I Evening .. 55 minutes after 7. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING-, APRIL 9, 1847 QUEEN'S volunteers had, however, repressed the aovement ; and, rendered valiant by their success, tad marched out to force Count MELLo to raise the siege of Estremoz. Their courage, however, failed - ,hem when they came in sight of Count AIELLO, and hey fled back to Yelvas, pursued by a detach nent of AIELLo's forces. The remains of the gallant volunteers re-entered Yelvas in complete disorder, ,laving lost one hundred men in their flight. The Ist and 2d inst. were kept as close holidays, Ind there was consequently no Bolsa. We have received the Paris papers of Wednesday. The rumour of the downfal of the Coletti Idministration in Greece has occasioned a great , ensation in Paris. The National, taking it for granted :hat the rumour is true, has the following furious r tic' e on the subject:— " The Ministry yesterday received news of extreme gravity. It is stated that M. Coletti, chief of the Greek Cabinet, has been overthrown. The fall of this Minister .s a striking triumph of English police. Since Mavro iordato lost power the representative of Great Britain at Athens has constantly struggled against M. Coletti, rho was considered, whether rightly or wrongly, as :paced under the influence of France. There is no sort )f embarrassment that Sir E. Lyons has not created against the Greek Cabinet si nce it h as ex i s ted ; and ,e"hilst English intriguers laboured to enfeeble the llel :enic Government in the interior, efforts were made to ,•ause it to lose consideration abroad. We still -emember the words of Lord Palmerston in open Parliament, that the Cabinet presided over by M. Coletti was only a heap of brigands. Events have succeeded to words. A miserable quarrel, excited by the Turkish Ministry, has furnished Lhe occasion so long expected. A trifling dissension, or, at least, a dissension easy to appease, has taken the pro portions of a serious rupture. The Porte, encouraged ,y England, has no longer put bounds to its exigoacies. To the offers of an honourable satisfaction, it has replied by maintaining, in its absolute terms, a pretension hu miliating for the Greek Government. At the same time tireat Britain enjoined the Cabinet of Athens to pay in totality, and without further delay, the interests of the loan contracted by Greece and guaranteed by the three protecting Powers. The insufficiency of the financial resources of a state reduced almost to misery by Bava rian administration was counted upon, and a refusal too well founded was foreseen. The calculation was just. Coletti was not able to satisfy his engagements, and he has fallen under the menaces of his pitiless cre ditor. If it be true, as is stated, that England sup ported her demands by the guns of her fleet, it is easy to understand why the Greek Cabinet has fallen. Our policy, then, has just received a new cheek. It is France that Lord Palmerston has stricken in overthrowing Co letti. Shall we submit without resistance to this new attack on our interests in the Mediterranean ? Shall we leave English domination to establish itself in the Archi pelago ? Or shall we only accompany with sterile regrets the fall of a Ministry placed under our protec tion ? Such are the questions to which the intelligence received yesterday give rise. The Chamber will examine this day in its bureau a Bill relative to the Greek loan, and will no doubt seize the occasion to ques tion M. Guizot on the conduct he proposes to adopt at Athens. And, besides, explanations on this new com plication must be made from the tribune. The English I'arliamer.t is to examine the affairs of Greece in one of its early sittings. The French Chamber will not allow itself to be outstripped, and it will, we hope, know how to reply to a hostile manifestation by a solemn expres sion of its sympathies for a Government which its feebleness, more perhaps than our interests, commands us to protect." . - In the bureaux of the Chamber of Deputies, on Wednesday, the Committee appointed to examine the Bill annually introduced for the payment of the in terest of the Greek Loan, commenced their labours. Several questions were put to the Minister of the In terior as to the truth of the rumours in circulation on the subject of Greece. He was asked particularly if it was true that the Government was in possession of information of the fall of M. COLETTI'S Ministry, and of the appearance of five English ships of war at the Piraeus ? M. DUCHATEL replied that the Govern ment subject, jaedetreceived no information of any kind upon , and that he had no reason .to think that there wa, any truth in the rumours. He acknow ledged, however, that the affairs of Greece were in a very delicate position, but he gave an assurance that the French Government knew how to act with pru dence in that affair, but also with firmness, in the event of there being any reason for the display of that quality. Whether the rumours be true or not, we hope that this article in the National will open the eyes of the Greek SOVEREIGN and the Greek nation to the true character of AM. COLETTI. It is evident that COLETTI is the Minister in reality, not of Greece, but of France. "It is France that Lord PALMERSTON has stricken in overthrowing COLETTI," says the National. " Shall we submit," At asks, without resistance to this new attack on our interests in the Mediterra nean ?" How could the dismission of COLETTI be construed into an attack on French interests, if he were not the Minister, not of Greece but of France. Wetrust that these avowals will rouse a national feeling in Greece, before which the anti-national Afrancesados will be compelled to give way. The Ministry have consented to the prise en con sideration of M. REMUSAT'S proposition for excluding placemen from the Chamber. The Bill for aug menting the effective force of the army f or h ome service by 10,000 men, passed the Ch am b er o f P eers on Tuesday. _ _ The Nemesis, a new sixty-gun frigate, is to be launched at Brest on the 14th instant; on the 15th the Tage, of one hundred guns, is to be launched ; and on the 28th, the Faune, of sixteen guns, will be launched. It is said that several Chinese labourers have left Amoy for the Island of Bourbon. They receive a sum of money in advance, with a promise of monthly wages. The Spanish authorities have also authorised the hiring of Chinese labourers for the Philippine Islands. On the Bourse, on Wednesday, the Bears circulated a rumour that the KING was ill, and that Marshal Souvr was dead. There was no foundation for these rumours. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Wednesday at 78f. 50c. , the Five per Cents., 116 f. 50c.; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,235 f.; Rouen, 880 f. ; Havre, 675 f.; Great Northern, 628 f. 75c.; Avignon, 790 E; Vierzon, 565 f. ; Bordeaux, 512 f. 50c.; Boulogne, 430 f ; Troyes and Montereati , 300 f. ; Basle, 210 f.; Di eppe, 335 f. ; Paris and Strasb.urg. 430 E; Tours an d N antes, 425 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 427 f 50c.; Lyons and Avignon 4551 . : Cette, 447 f. sbc.; Spanish Three per Cents., 34%. , ; BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 1. Boulogne and Amiens, 163‘, Dutch Rhenish, 4—Northern of France, 12% --Paris and Lyons, sA—ltouen and ILtvrc, 26%—Sambre and Meuse, 6. RUMOURED ILLNESS OF LOUIS '.. i . , it 4-74) xdi e , . , ...,- A O ON 1 l ir : , ~ ~, s 11' 711 *" . ; , t , ' ..- i Lt. ?'...., -* ' ' .• , , ' , .. , , ~ -. : - ,=., ••• • .40.11 ..e a -. A, • -$. i - 4' .. %',- ',... „,,,,, sr . u 0 .% • 1 "-„,,..,.;', '''. 'Ault • '-.'4, - - ~ .‘• ^ 0, <1,., : DIET, , ‘,1' , .,,,,N,.. ~ • , 1, tL a ,..--,. ..,,..„., 1' 1.- ___ ,it , • SECOND EDITION. $§1t11; LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 1847. Being the recognised leader of the Young Eng landers, Lord JOHN MANNERS is rather naturally re garded as a day-dreamer. Every proceeding of his, whether it be the promise of a statement respecting the present condition of Greece, or the insertion of a lyric in the Oxford and Cambridge Review, is re garded by the Dogberries of political life with a sort of supercilious suspicion. Can there be any as• tonishment at the ridicule thus cast upon the intended revivers of " the golden prime" of middle-aged Al bion ? There is ample opportunity, no doubt, for parodying the principles of the gentlemen in white waistcoats. But it would be indicative of a total lack of generosity, and of a singular ob tuseness of perception, to deny that there is an earnest philanthropy at the bottom of their fine-spun theory, a yearning for what Mr. DISRAELI calls a " theocratic equality." Among the most brilliant evidences of this sub -current of bene volence must be considered the Birmingham Athenic Institute. Although we hare already occasionally referred to this establishment in terms of high eulogium, we consider it incumbent upon us to com ment upon the fifth anniversary of its foundation, which was celebrated on Wednesday evening, with be coming ardour and cordiality. Much as we may other wise differ in opinion from the Noble President and his coadjutors, it would be an erroneous expression of our sentiments to speak otherwise than in language of profound respect of their practical exertions to in spire a feeling of brotherly affection among all classes of the community. The Birmingham Athenic Institute is, to our thinking, the model of a system of social federation which it were 'ad visable to carry into operation throughout the various municipalities of the United Kingdom. Under the auspices of such an institution the intellects of the neglected artizans are cultivated and developed during their salutary leisure, their hearts are opened to a consciousness of their own innate capacities for good, their limbs are recreated by agreeable and bracing pastimes, their very blood is purified by the inhala tion of purer air than is generally respirable in tlu workshop, and they become impressed at once with the majestic power of knowledge, and the lovely influences of morality. From being merely the " vile mechanicals" of the state they are elevated to a position commensurate in some measure with their divine origin. From an existence whiCh appears to be comprised in the refrain of the popular poet— " Ever to toil, Ever to moil, That is your social charter 1" from this barren and stunting drudgery the artizan becomes promoted under the shelter of these Athenic Institutes to a higher grade in society, to a grade COM patable with his unnourished aspirations, to a grade on a parwith his natural and tardily -recognised rights. The encouragement afforded to honest industry by such associations is astonishing in its immediate results, and the effects of that encouragement are of an irre fragable permanence. It imparts vigour to the:frame, serenity to the disposition, inquisitiveness to the mind, and universal good- will, in terra par hominibus. We are not delineating the hypothetical fancies of a one-eyed philosopher of the flying-islands. We are enume rating the advantages which have actually accrued to the working men of Birmingham from the aid of the Athenic Institute. Supposing, however, the picture were flatteringly over-coloured, supposing the bene fits derivable from associations of this nature were scarcely so remarkable as those we have mentioned, we should still feel ourselves necessitated to com mend them as the ollspring of a gentle generosity, and as establishments calculated to enhance the moral, intellectual, and corporeal strength of the pire. It is not, moreover, in its direct operation upon individual localities that this system of combining study with amusement is alone admirable ; it is more especi.:lly so in its ulterior results upon various legislative efforts for the improvement of the multitude. Besides the nutritious banquet prepared fur the surrounding denizens of Birming ham, or wherever else they may be situated, these Athenic Institutes afford food for the nourishment of the collective million. As the Welsh parson saith in SIIAKSPERE— " There be pippins and cheese to come yet !" Upon the construction of public baths and wash houses, upon the railing in of parks and pleasure grounds, upon the advancement of street architecture, upon the progress of the educational question, and upon the application of a well-digested sanatory system, establishments of this character directly and materially act. In this respect we regard them as at once preservative and progressive : preservative of whatever might have formerly rendered this " merrie old England," and progressive towards whatever can effect the spiritual and bodily exaltation of the people. Besides, it is undeniable that harm can by no means arise from associations so peculiarly innocent; it is scarcely probable that the harmony of races should be destroyed by the contentions of cricket, that the liberties of the subject should be injuriously affected by the rod of the scientific lecturer, or that civilisa tion should in any particular be retarded by the gyrations of the polka. For so small a man the Bishop of EXETER is un doubtedly a great actor. All his public performances savour of the dramatic art. The turn of his mind is strikingly theatrical. Once before the footlights, the energy of his acting speedily renders the spectator oblivious of the diminutiveness of his figure and his general deficiency in respect of other personal advan tages If a principal actor on the stage receives a mortal thrust from an adversary, he never thinks of appearing to resign life without a violent struggle. He knows very well that simply to fall on his back and stretch out his legs would be considered by the audience as a vulgar and insipid feat. Accordingly, he puts his body through a variety of powerful contortions; and frequently, at the very moment when everybody con siders he has made his last effort, he will be observed effleetuhal tslihrautstteraetd tsoe.rzaels7.himself on the elbow, give an awful grin, player generally fold'sish' manner for scenic cif , tails of the histrionic his victim. This finished, another tihne is level in the most approved In all these minute de ' is thor oug hl y versed, art the Bi s h op of of E XETER the public with ample proof:bill n o he furni s h e d Ilia which h e recently provkthe sharp con- Mayor of Exeter. Af ter the first ::.los i with the prevailing impression w as th a t the wrangling ght, the Prel a t e bad got his quietus; but all were mistaken Panti ng with enveno:ned feelings, HARRY PuiLLeorr a s n o ti e ng more aimed his luckless goose-quill at hi s cool and intrepid antagonist. The Mayor parried the im potent thrust, when, as a matter of course, the Bishop immediately rolled over utterly exhausted. 1 A glance at the continuation of the correspondence between the Mayor and the Bishop confirms what everybody thought before,—that the latter is n match for the former. In his Lordship's letter of the 3d inst. he struggles to explain away the awk ward fact of his having patronised a charity ball 1841. He affects to have been ignorant at the time that a ball was intended to wind up the festivities which took place in that year in support of the Devor, Hospital. The Bishop, however, Jets out that he sanctioned a dinner on that occasion. Bishops, by the way, are notorious for their love of dinners, at which we presume they suppose—(at any rate HARRY of EXETER does so)—it is quite impossible that any thing in the shape of "revelry" should occur. But the diocesan of pamphleteering celebrity seems positively to wince under the intimation that he eve] suffered his name to figure among the steward, of a ball. 'We do not ourselves appreciate the niceties of distinction to be inferred from Pull..LrozTs' writings between dinners and balls. We admit, how ever, that he would not look well at the latter Nature never cut out the Bishop for a ball, whirl, should be an enlivening scene, and attended only b) persons of a lively and agreeable cast of countenance, of the truth of all which we have no doubt the Bishop must be painfully sensible. There can be no ques tion, we should think, that, whether he knew of the ball in 1841, beforehand or not, the Bishop became shortly after acquainted with the fact of one having taken place. Did he then mount the pulpit and ful minate against the " miserable frivolity" which con cluded that festival ? We take it the Bishop did nothingof the sort ; because be now observes with com placent arrogance, " I consider that ball to Lave been of a very different character from the one which is about to take place." The Mayor of Exeter was not the man to let the Bishop fly off at a tangent. The following extract from the answer of the former, dated the sth instant, will best enable the public to judge how the Bishop, throughout this controversy, only went farther and fared worse :- 6- I am unable to understand the difference in the distinction which your Lordship draws between the proceedings of 1841 and those now in contemplation. I cannot connect the ball of the 6th of April with the day of the fast and humiliation of the 24th of March. Doubtless all visitations great and solemn lessons —should have their future and continuous effect upon the thoughts and conduct of men ; but it is not, it cannot be said that all amusements are to cease, and if not, and if the amusement of the hour may be legi timately coupled with a more abiding purpose of charity, then the ball of 1847 is as blameless as the festivities of 1841, and is equally entitled to your Lordship's ir dul gence. The one raised funds for the relief of sickness and distress in our immediate neighbourhood, the other is de signed to obviate the miseries of famine at a distance. Gall either of them what you will, they are identical inform and purpose." Those who run may read. The mace has shivered the crosier. The common law wisely made a distinction be tween animals that were ferce nature and unre claimed, and those which were reclaimed and con fined, and might serve for food : in the former cam no larceny could be committed. It was justly felt that there could be no such property in animals suffered to remain in a state of nature, who might one day rest on the lands of one proprietor, and on the follow ing day visit those of another, as to justify a convic tion for larceny. Indeed, if such animals could fairly be termed the property of an individual or body of individuals, it would be of the farmers, whose crops are eaten down, and too often almost wholly de stroyed; so that frequently, in place of a fair return for their labour and capital laid out in the cultivation of the land—in place of an abundant harvest—no thing is to be seen but fields laid bare by the devas tating influences of game and vermin ; but even this is not the case, the animals are still in the enjoyment of their natural liberty, they are free to go where they think proper, and according to the principles of natural law, become the property of the first person who can cap rure them, who can take them either dead or alive, and bring them into a state of subjection, and by the same kw every person would have a just ,right to exercise the dominion originally accorded to man over all other animals. In the earlier stages of so ciety hunting was almost the only means by which a livelihood could be obtained ; and to this day many tribes of Indians and others look to it as their only support. A passion for the chase appears to be an instinctive feeling in the human mind, and no argu ments can convince a poor man that in killing a hare on his own land, which he sees eating the food that should belong to his hungry children, he is guilty of any moral crime. A great tempta tion is held out to him, and should he yield in a moment of weakness, his future doom is sealed; he is sent to a prison and becomes a marked man. The very name of poacher is sufficient to ensure his destruction. He can obtain no employ ment. The game-preserving landlord denounces him, and woe to any tenant that shall afterwards give him work, or suffer him to gain his living by his own honest industry. He becomes an outclist ; and in turn his hand is against every man, until he finishes his career by some act of violence or bloodshed that consigns him to the hulks or the gallows. It is manifest that the taking of game is not con•• trary to natural law, and that the only punishment that could fairly be imposed would be for the trespass on the property of others in the pursuit; but, unfortu nately, our legislators are directly interested in the question. No person can sit in Parliament unless he is actually a landed proprietor. No matter how highly qualified he may be in other respects, how great his natural or acquired endowments, hovi inde pendent his circumstances, the possession of real estate to the amount of 6001. per annum for a knight of the shire, and of 3001. for a citizen or burgess, is an essential requisite. The game-laws are consequently a landlords' code, framed by landlords themselves. The only object appears to be to enact the most stringent provisions for the punishment of those who interfere: with them. Magistrates (who are also compelled to possess real estate to a certain amount as a qualification for their office) are entitled to convict parties in a summary manner, and to inflict imprisonment, with hard labour, without the intervention of a jury. Such a person may actually be himself the complaining party and the person to adjudicate on the complaint Any owner or occupier of land, or any person having a right, or reputed right, of free warren or free chase thereon, or the lord of the manor, or reputed manor, or any gamekeeper or servant of such persons, or any person assisting such gamekeeper or servant, are authorised to seize and apprehend any person entering at night on any land, whether open or enclosed, for the purpose of taking or destroying game; and if such person should resist his capture he is subjected to transportation therefore, as he will be in like manner for his third offence even without any violence, and if he should have two or more associates armed with any gun or offensive weapon, he may, even for his first offence, be transported for 14 years. Surely such iniquitous and unjust laws should not be permitted to encumber our statute-book ; they have been already condemned. Of late years we have had less of class legislation, and there is a disposition to do justice to all. Inquiries have taken place before Committees in btoh Houses of Parliament as to the effects of these laws, and there are ample materials on which to ground a comprehensive reform. Let us hope that it will not long be postponed. Mean time the public should not be idle ; petitions should be sent forward. A general election must speedily take place, and if the desired ameliorations should not be obtained during the present session, there can be no time more favourable for directing the attention of aspirants to senatorial honours to the question than when they are seeking the suffrages of the several constituencies. The Madrid Gacqa ot — the 2d instant, the only journal published in Madrid on Good Friday, has been received. It contains decre€s accepting the re signation of General MANso as Captain- General of New Castile, and of General SALCEDO, as Captain- General of the Canaries, and appointing Senor Esco• sung, Political Chief of Madrid. General REQUENA, fiscal in the case of General SERRANO, has declared that the tribunal was incom petent, and that the whole case should be submitted credential s nti D al u s ke to to the d e lib erat i on an d sen t ence o f th e S u p reme Tri bunal of W ar an d M ar i ne. T of QUEEN, hG"jcKsßu as sGII Ambassadorhas for the h s KING Of the FILENCII. Intelligence has been received from Portugal that an attempt laad been made to induce the inhabitants of Yelvas to pronoun ce in favour of the Junta. The PHILIPPE. Last night a letter, of which the following is a transla tion, was deivered at our office:— " South-Eastern Station, April 8, Bridge Hotel. " Sin,—Yesterday, about four o'clock, the King was suddenly attacked with illness. Fortunately M. Pas quier, his M.tj ,,, ty's surgeon, happened to be at the Palace of the Tuileries. HP saw that the face was dis torted, and deemed it necessary to proceed without delay in bleeding the patient copiously. The state of the King having become worse, M. Pasquier ordered two consecu tive operations of cupping. At halt past five, the time of my departure by the special train, there was no change in the alarming condition of his Majesty, who had not then recovered his consciousness. The members of the corps diplomatique were arriving at the Tuileries in order to ascertain the real state of the King. " I have the honour, &c., * At 77 whi c h l e f t Paris at five, The writer o f t h e letter adds hi s name , b u t it is one with which we are totally unacqua i nte d. O ur own ex press, silent on th e su bj ect; and on inquiry at t h e F renc h Em bassy at a late hour, we 'were informed that no intelli gence of th e sort had arrived there. We su b mit the communica tion, neverth e l e ss, to our readers, because we do not f ee l justified i n su pp r essing it, though we have no means of ve r if y i ng the statement it contains.—Post. An exict copy of the above letter was left at our office at half -past two o'clock yesterday afternoon. We immediately instituted inquiries in various quarters, and having iticertainul that no special train had recently arrived at the South-Eastern station; and that the various authorities, who must have been aware of the fact of the illness of the King of the French, had such an occurren ce ta k en place, had received no information on the subj ect, We either a stup i d attempt at a hoax or a fraud concocted for stock-jobbing concluded that the whole affair was purposes, and therefore took no notice whatever of the letter or its contents.—[ED. Sun]. A SNARE FAN CIER...— . We were not a little sur prised on Saturday last to see a man with a bundle of ' snakes which he had tamed to a singular state of (loci lity. Ile spread them out s - at a table and took every kind of lib,rty with th, na, twisting and turnivg them about at pleasure without the animals appearing to be in any way annoyed. It did not appear that the sting of the reptiles had been extracted, and we are informed that the person is a regular snake fancier, and that he has some secret by which he has obtained the command over thc4e reptiles,.. P or t Philip Gazette. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 3,000 to 4,000 bales, 500 bales being American, and taken on speculation. The prices for American were sp. to 7jd. per lb. Railway Shares were dull. It is scarcely possible to form any correct opinion upon the ultimate results of the Bank notice, which we gave yesterday afternoon under this bead, by which the minimum rate of discount was raised to 5 per cent. per annum. In all, but a few interested quarters, the course of operations adopted by the Bank of England is held tenable upon the main points which should regulate the transactions of the cur poraion. Inconvenience to some, and, doubtless, large losses to others, must occur. But these will prove but a drop in the bucket, as corapared with placing the cur reecy in a safer position. It is denied, in many quarters, that there are any large Corn bills out, which awaited renewal in the course of the present month, at least to any alarming amount. Time will show whether such is or is not the fact.' There is a very strong opinion, very strung indeed, that at least two, if not three fines of influence have out such bills, but if so, they have ample resources to meet them. Probably, it may, without any very material stretch of the powers of divination, be asierted that though the secrets of the Bank parlour are not known, the Directors have ample sources of information at their command to form a correct opinion as to the most prudent course to be adopted, and have due discretion to use the power placed in their hands with benefit to the public, and of course with all due advantage to the proprietary body, whom they represent. As will be seen below, the Stock market continues heavy. After the regular hours of business yesterday afternoon, there were some private bargains made in Consuls. fur Account at 861 This morning the second instalment of 121 per cent. on the eight millions loan has been in the course of payment. The recipients of the interest upon the na tional debt have mustered in rather full force this morning. There are not any late colonial arrivals announced in the City this morning. The fluctuation in Consols for the Account to-day has been limited to about 4 per cent., viz. from 861 to 861, the tendency of the prices, as will be observed, being still downwards. At the regular close of the market yesterday afternoon, the last quotation was 868 to 87. Some few sales of Money Stock have been effected at 868 ; in the Reduced Three per Cents. at 851 ; in the New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. at 86 4 1 (now the price is 87*); and in the Consul Scrip at 21 1 dis. Bank Stock has dropped from 200, the opening value of yesterday, to 1951, the price paid for a pretty large sum just now. Exche quer bills are at par to 2s. discount, and East India Bonds at ss. discount to 2s. premium. The quotations just noticed will tend to show very clearly how sensitive the market fur all public securities is. The report, unconfirmed though it be, of Louis Phi lippe being attacked with sudden and severe illness, has led to a fall in the French Rentes to 105 f. Exchange, 25f. 50c. The report of the illness of the King is nut et all believed in the most influential circles connected with French affairs here; many think it was an attempt to deceive and alarm the public, and thus to aid Bear speculations. Spanish Stuck is at 241; and the Three per Cents. at 351 ; the Dutch Two-and a-Halt Cents. have been done at 58 and Ssi ; and the Fcur per at 90 for the Account; Braz lian new, at 84 fur Account; and Danish at g 6. The Railway Share Market is certainly h, avy, espe cially for London and Brighton, for London and North , . Western (Mtiands are now steady), for Suuth-Eastern and Dover, and for York and Newcastle investments. illaTl6ll FUN Ds Tills I►AY AT USE O'CLOCK (Front the Otheiai List.) Bank Stocx 198 195y4 ex div Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 85%1 % ex div Three pa Cent. Consuls Annuities • • .. 861 4 is 5 /s New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anus. 8714 86% 87 xd Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, WO .• 8% 9ex div India Bonds, 1,0001. .. • . s .. dis 2 p South Sea Stock .. • • .. 953 Consols !or Account .. • • • • .. • • tsb% Three per Cent. Consols, Scrip • • • • • • 2% 4 ;4 dis bli.ci.equer tsllls. i d. 2d. Loon!. • • .. • - • • par 2 dis 500/. • • • • .. .• • • par 2 dis Ditto. small . • .. par 2 d.s PRICES OF _FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent • • • • Ditto, Small .• • . .. • • 84 Danish Bonds, 3 per Cent .. 80 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cont. .. • • Ditto, for the Account • • .. 24% Ditto, Three per Cent .. .. • • Ditto, for the Account •35% Dividends on the above payable in London. French Reni;es, 4% per Cent... .• 105 f. —c. Exchange • • . 251. 50c. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 58% 58 58% Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certincates .. 90 BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE. Amber., Notting., Boston, & Eastrn Jn. 2%.,.. 2 % .... to Birmingham tiod Oxford Junction • • 5 •• • • 13% 13 to 13% Buckinghamshire • • .. • • .. ..6/. 45....• dis. to Caledonian .. .. • • • • •• 30 .- .. 24% .•..to -- Eastern Counties •. •• • • • • •• 20 18% %.. to Ditto, York Extension • • • • 5% •• • • 4% •• • • to East Lancashire • • • • • • • • • • 17 •• .. • • to Ditto, New .. .. • • .. .... 8% •• • • to East Lincolnshire • • • • • • • • • • 4 •• • • 6%% •• to Edinburgh and Glasgow • . • • •. 50 .... 71 to Ditto, Quarter Shares .. • • • . 12% .... 17% .. ••to Great Northern • • • • .. 3% .... .... to 3 Ditto, London and York Extension.. 2% • • 1% .• • • to Hull and Selby .. • • .. 50 •• .• •• to Ditto, Half Shares .. • • • .. 25 .... 51% .. ••to Lancaster and Carlisle .. 50 • • •• .. to Ditto. New • • •• • • • • 5 .• 5%.... to Leeds and Bradford .. 35 .. • • 78 .... to Leicester and Bedford 16s. .... % die. to Leeds and Thirsk • . 22% .. • . 19 • • to Do., do., Preference, 6 per Cent • • 3% •• • • 4% •• .. to London, Brighton, and South Coast • • 50 .. • • 51% • • to 50% Ditto, Consolidated Eighths .. • • 10 •• .. 10% •• • • to London and North-Western • • • • 100 .. 174 173. to 175 Ditto, Quarters .. .. L. and B. 7 .. • • 23 .. • • to Ditto ditto New .. • • .. • 2 .... 12 .. • • to Ditto, 40/. Shares M. and B. .. 40 .... 68 .. • • to Ditto, 10/. Shares .. M. and B. (II) 5 .. • • 10% • • to Ditto, 101. Shares • • M. and B. (C) 1 .... to London and South-Western 411. 10d. .... 62% to Ditto, New • • • • .. • . 27% 30 .. •• to Ditto, Tenths (Consolidated) . .. 50 .... 52% • • to Ditto, Scrip .. • • .. .. 5 .... 4%.... to 5 Lynn and Dereltam .. • • .. .. 20 . • • 21% .• ••to . Manchester and Leeds • • • • • 82 •• • • •• .. to Ditto, Thirds (Reg.) • • • • • • 71. 45..... 2p. to Ditto % (late Rudders. & Sheffield) 23 .. 25% •... to St anehester, Buxton, and Matlock -. 425. .. • • par.... to Manchester and Southampton .. .. 2 I • • to Midland —lOO ••..113 112.. to 114 Ditto, New • • •• • • • • • . 36 39%.... to 39% Ditto, New ............2 .... 4%%% to .• Ditto, Birmingham and Derby • • 100 •• 91 ••• to Ditto. Consol. Bristol & Birmingh. 6 per cent. .• • • ..100 ....123 .... to •• • • •• ••100 . ..134 •• .. to No i r , t i ottlok,;ten N o rthern Counties 'Union .• • . .... t o E •. c • Ion •• ••: 6 .• 5% •••• to 6 North British .• • • • • • • 25 •• •• .. to Ditto, Quarters .• • • .. •• ... 2 t/ • . 3% t o Ditto, Extension • • • • • • • • • • .• 18 to t Ditto, Thirds • • • • • • • • • • 1 •• • • 3% •••• to Northern and Eastern .. .. .. 50 .... 54.. • • to North Stanordshire •• • • • • • • 5 •• • • 7% %•• to Preston and Wyre • • • • •• • • • • 25 .... 34%..., to Ditto, Half Shares (A) • • • • • 8% .. •• 12 .... to D.tto, ditto (13) .• •• 1%.... to— Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A) .• 3% •• .• to Ditto, ditto (B) • • • • .. 1% 1 •• .. to Shropshire Union • • • •. 425..... dis. to :outh Eastern and Dover .. • —331.23.42. 35% -•.. to South Yorkshire. Doncaster, & Goole 2 .• 1% ••- to Waterford and Kilkenny 13% .. .. to West Riding Union .. .. • • ••4/.25..• •• p• • to York and Newcastle . • • • -- .. 25 •• • • 33 Is, •• • • to 33 Ditto, New • • • • .. •• .. 10 •• • • 14 .... to— Ditto, Preference • . •• •• .. 4 •. • • 7 .. •• to 6% Y, rk and North 'Midland • • .. • • 50 ••.. •• • • to Ditto. Extension .. •• 25 •• •• 40% .... to Ditto, Preference • • • • .. .. 2 .... 10%.... to FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens .. .. 20 .. • . 16%..., to Dutch Rhenish • • • • .. •• 7 .• 3% •.• • to 4 Northern of France • • •• .. • • 8 .• • • 12%% ••to Paris and Lyons Rouen and Havre .. 20 26 •• • • to Sambre and Meuse • . •. .. 12 ...• 5% •• • • 0 MINES Real del Monte, Unregistered .. —3%.... to LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, APRIL 9.—Wind W.S.W., fresh gale and squally. OFF MARGATE, APRIL B.—Oriental, Wilson, Calcutta. OFF RAMSGATE, APRIL B. Susan King, St. Lucia. DEAL, APRIL B. NA , ind W., strong and squally.— Arrd. Alice, Jamaica; Sarah Birkett, Puddow, Porto Rico. Arrd. from the River, John, New York. Put back, Isabella, Quebec. COWES, APRIL B.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. Claudius Civilis, Ingeman, Batavia. PLYMOUTH, APRIL B.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrd. John Bull, Crawford, New Zealand and Cork; James Camp bell, Graham, London—crew in a state of mutiny. LIVERPOOL, APRIL B.—Wind N.W., fresh and squally. —Arrd. Isabella, Watson, Thompson, Calcutta; Sera phina, Taylor, Paraiba, sailed 7th ult.; Reliance, Bed ford, ditto; Walton, St. Domingo; Albama, M'Bride, Laguna; Belinda, Kelly, New Orleans • Sisters, Christen, Mobile; Mersey, Coffin, Apalachicola; Marmion, Ed wards, New York. Off port, Lord Ashburton, New Orleans; Henry Gardner, ditto ; Queen Pomare, Ara minta, and Prince of Waterloo. MARGATE, APRIL B.—The Baptiste Marie, Charente to London, got on the Margate Sand this morning, but assisted off, very leaky, &c.,,after partly discharging. LIMERICK, APRIL 7.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrd. Car mely Farahan, Brumholm, New York. LERWICK, MARCH 24.—S1d. Resolution, Davis's Straits ; Joseph Green, ditto. SHIELDS, APRIL B.—Wind W.N.W., strong gales:— Sid. Eustace, Hong Kong. 11ARTLEPOOL, APRIL B.—Wind W., strong.—sie. Emma, Montreal ; Percy, Quebec. CLYDE, APRIL 7.—Wind S. Arrd. Medora, APPlierson, Trinidad ; Mary, Harrison, Havannah. KINGSTOWN, APRIL 7.—Wind Arrd. Glammis Castle, Duncan, New York. HARTLAND QUAY, APRIL B.—The Native, of Cork, went on shore last night a mile to the westward, and is expected to become a wreck. Crew and passengers saved. LEITH, APRIL 7.—Sld. Prince George, Quebec. HULL, APRIL B.—Wind S.W.—Sld. Ross, Quebec. FALMOUTH, APRIL B.—Wind W., squally.—Acrd. Rio Packet, Harry, P. rininbuco, sld. 18in I , ebruar) ; Ellen Bry son, Jones, Honduras, sld. 16th February, with foremast sprung, &c., boasts stove, and Loss of bulwark , BRISTOL, APRIL B.—Arrd. Brilliant, Evans, Porto Rico. Std. 6th, Reliance, Boston. HARTLEPOOL, APRIL 8.-1 be Ellen Murrray, of Jersey, has put in here, with loss of foremast, &c., har ing be M contact this morning off Whitby. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE-FRIDAY. We have to report the arrival of a very moderate supply of English Wheat during the present week, and the stands were scantily filled with samples of both red and white. Owing to the thin attendance of buyers, the demand for all descriptions was in a sluggish state, at unaltered quotations. Exceedingly little business was doing in Foreign Wheats, yet the holders refused to accept lower prices. Most of the lute large arrivals of Foreign Barley having been cleared off, the trade was steady, at late rates. There was rather more doing in Malt, 'and most of the factors refused to sell, except at a tr►flr more money. Oats, Beans, Peas, Indian Corn, and Flour wire exceedingly dull, but not cheaper. ARIt I VA Wheat. 3,180 qrs. liarl 3'. oats ~ 10u, 2,370 qrs. I 980 qrs. 12,940 sks. 611 -- .5,420 -- English •• •• (r:sh. •• • • •• • . Foreign ...... 3,670 4,430 Malt. 4.150 ars. EkTVIITEPIELD. For the time of year the supply of Bests on offer here was good, and of full average quality. Although the attendance of buyers was small, a f a i r amount o f . business was transacted Beef ; yet in some instances the quotations were a trifle lower than on Monday last. There were in the market 139 Beasts, 100 Sheep, and 21 Calve,, from abroad. The Lumbers of Sheep were moderately extensive, while the trade was firm at fully the late advance in the prices, the prunest old Downs selling at 5,6 d per 81bs. Lambs, the supply of which was largo. moved if bettril), at a decline in value of 4d per 81bs. The V, al trade was heavy, and the rates de clined quite 2d per 81bs. In Pigs very little was doing. Mitch Cows wore held at from 16/ to 18/ 5s each, in cluding their small Calf. Per albs. to sink the offal. s. d. to s. nferior Beasts..... 2 10 3 second quality ... 3 4 3 Prime large Ozen• • 3 8 4 l'rime Scots .. •• • 4 2 4 Large coarse Calves 4 2 4 Prime small ditto .. 410 5 , "Auckling Calves .18 0 29 Inferior Sheep .. . 3 8 4 Peasts. 1,107 d • s. d to s. d. 2 Second quality ditto 4 2 4 6 Uoarse-woolled ditto 4 8 5 0 O southdown Wether 5 2 5 6 4 Ditto out or the wool 8 Large Hogs .. 3 8 4 6 2 small I'orkers .. 4 8 5 0 O Quarter old ['igs 16 u 19 0 O Lambs .. SUPPLY AT MARKET. I Sheep. I Calves. 5,550 160 Pies 280 IWZA,VGATE AND LEADEZTRALIL. We had a fair demand here, at our quotations. At per atone by the Carcase, s. d. to s. d. i s. d. to s. Beef,infertor•—• •• 2 8 210 i Mutton, Inferior .. 3 6 3 8 middling ——2 10 3 0 1 middling.. 310 4 0 prime large .. 3 2 3 4 pr i me .... 4 2 4 4 prime small •• 3 4 3 6 1 Pork, 1arge........ 310 4 6 Veal.. .. .• .•••• • • • 4 2 5 0' small .• •• •• 4 8 5: 0 Lamb. 5s 4d to 6s 2d BOROUGH HOP MARKET. We have had a very heavy demand for all kinds of Hops during the present week ; yet we can notice no decline in the quotations. The supply on offer is good. COLONIAL. SUGAR.—The market has been fairly supplied with West India samples, and prices have ruled accordingly. New Barbadoes has been sold at 46s to 49s 6d for low to mid yellow, and 50s to 52s for good ; Berbice has been taken in at 43s to 45s 6d for low to good brown. EAST INDlA.—Mauritius, 9,390 bags partly found buyers, low and mid yellow at 45s to 47s 6d, gcod and fine at 483 to 51s, and good and fine brown 42s to 465, fine white 57s Gd to 68s per cwt. Some Madras sold at 39s to 39s 6d for low damp. some being taken in at 40s. Bengal, 1,261 bags, partly found buyers at 48s to 53s for good and fine yellow, and at 57s Gd for mid white. FOREIGN.-149 hhds 132 brls St. Croix only partly sold at 47s to 51s for low to mild yellow, and at 52s 6d to 57s for good and fine ; Porto Rico has been taken in at 51s ; and Pernambuco has been sold at 44s to 45, for low to mid brown, and 46s for good ; Bahia has been taken in at 43s to 45s 6d for low to mid brown, at 46s to 47s for good and fine, and at 46s 6d to 50s fur low to mid yellow. _ MOLASSES.—DPmerara have been taken in at 23s to 25s 6d St. Croix at 293, and Porto Rico at 29s per cwt. COFFEE.—There has not been a great deal doing. Jamaica has been sold at 706 to 107 s tor superior sam ples. Ceylon has been taken i❑ at 41s 6d to 425., and si me parcels have b, en sold at 356 to 70s percwt. Mocha has been sold at 80s to 81s 6d. Mauritius has been taken in at 34s to 426, and Java has realised 32s to 366 6d per cwt. CocoA.—Trinidad has been sold at 50s to 60s per cwt. SALTPETRE.—CaIcutta has been sold at 283 for Si lbs retraction, the rest being taken in at 27s 6d to 2Ss for 64 and 71 lbs refraction. RICE —Bengal has declined, having been sold at 16s to 18s per cwt, and Madras has realised 11s 6d to 17s Itdian 18s to 18s 6d. SPlCES.—Pimento has been sold at qd per lb, and in Pepper, &c., there is nothing particular to notice. Hum —There has not been much doing. CorroN.—The business done has been rather larger, and at higher rates. 'TALLow.—P.Y.C. has been 49s 6d to 50s per cwt on the spot. TEA.—Tbe market is quiet. BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE.) IN RE WOOD. This bankrupt, who had carried on business in Grace church-street as an ironmonger, came up this day for his certificate, and was opposed on behalf of a creditor, Mr. Hinton. It appeared that he was first bankrupt in 1844, but the fiat was superseded on his pay iug in the pour.d. Since then he had speculated in houses, and wines, and merchandise, in all which he had lost money. During the last two years his losses had been 1,29 , 11., and during the same period his house expenses had been 1,0001., and the trade expenses 9001. The present assets were little more than sufficient to pay the costs of working the fiat. The official asiignee said that the assignees were per fectly satisfied with the books and accounts of the bank rupt, and he had been even complimented by the Learned Commissior er. His HONOUR said that the only complaint which ap peared to bear against the bankrupt was the excessive expenditure over the profits, but the bankrupt had stated that he only knew of one thing in which he had incurred disproportionate expense, and that was iu the education of his children. His Honour said that item would cover the excess, and although it was one which was the most justifiable, yet traders must not injure their creditors to educate their families. Under all the circumstances, he thought the suspension of the certificate for three months would meet the justice of the case.—His Honour granted protection. An application was made in this case under peculiar circumstances ; it was for the costs of the foriner fiat to be first paid out of the present estate, as in 1844 there were no assets, but it was necessary for the Learned Commissioner to give leave to move the Court of Review. His Hosoun said he could not do so—he did not see why this court and its officers should not be paid before any one else. lie had seen a paragraph in one of the papers that this court was paid from the Treasury, but it did not receive one shilling from that source, and was the only court in the kingdom which did not. BIRMINGHAM AND BOSTON DIRECT RAILWAY. To-day was appointed for the last exam i nat i on under the fiat issued for winding up the affairs of this company, but the accounts not being yet prepared the case was adjourned. SECONDARIES.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. secondary JAMES.) CRIM. CON.—WOUDGATE V. ALLEN. The plaintiff in this action is a law stationer in Coleman-street, arid the defendant is a news a;_ - ,ent in Goswell-street-road. The action was brought to recover compensation for criminal conversation with the plain tiff's wife. The defendant having suffered judgment to go by de fault, the present was an inquiry to assess damages. Mr. Tnostas appeared for the plaintiff, and said that the defendant having suffered judgment to go by default, had admitted the allegations contained in the declaration, and it would, therefore, be unnecessary to call witnesses to prove the facts, and as the plaintiff did not seek for heavy damages, in consequence of the defendant (who is a near relation by marriage) being in humble circumstances, it would be only necessary to show that until Mrs. Woodgate formed her improper intimacy with the de fendant, she and the plaintiff had lived on happy terms. The plaintiff's wife had a child by him, but since this occurrence a separation had taken place, and Mrs. Wood • gate had taken away the child, the loss of whose society was very painful to plaintiff's feelings. Mrs. Jane Taylor was called to prove that the plaintiff and his wife were married about four years ago, and lived apparently happy together till the intimacy took place between Mrs. Woodgate and the defendant. Mrs. Woodgate left her husband's house with the defendant. The Learned SECONDARY said that the jury had only to consider what amount of damages the plaintiff was entitled to. The Learned Counsel bad told them that the defendant was in humble circumstances, and that the plaintiff did not seek for heavy damages. The jury gave a verdict for 201. PARRY V. COCKBURN. This was an action brought to recover the sum of 331. ss. 6d., for the insertion of advertisements in the Shipping and Mercantile Gazette and the Journal of Commerce. The defendant is a stationer in Aldgate. Mr. J. Stone, clerk to the plaintiff's attorney was called, and proved that a letter was written to defendant for the amount of advertisements, which were for the cure of ringworm, and for beautifying the complexion of the fair sex. Defindaut answered the letter, stating that it was not convenient to settle the account, but would give a bill at two months, but did not. The jury gave a verdict for the full amount claimed. CRIMINAL COURT.--(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. (Before the COMMON-SERGEANT.) FORGING A CHEQUE.—James Jenkins, aged 28, a milk man, and Frederick Williamson, aged 32, a painter, were indicted for uttering a forged cheque on Messrs. Ran som, the bankers, of Pall-mall, purporting to be signed by Mr. Charles Kinnear, with intent to defraud Mr. Benjamin Prew, a clothier, carrying on business in Hot bore. Mr. Brairee appeared for the prosecution; Mr. Bal lantine for Williamson, and Mr. Charnock for Jenkins. It appeared that the prisoners came into the shop of Mr. Prew, and the one having purchased a coat and a pair or trousers, and the other simply a pair of trousers, hey tendered in pa3ment the cheque in question. Mr. l'rew however, do clink d to part with the things, •hich came to four p.Junds, or to cash the cheque, mill he had sent it to the bank. He sent his ihopman with it, but as it was found to have been urged, payment was of course refused. Williamson gave tits address at 31, Grays' Inn lane, which was found to fictitious. The prisoners shortly after cams in for the change, but they were banded o'er to the pollee. Jenhins gave hi< card, stating that he was a milkman carrying on at 5, Churen,trter, Chelsegh 11;at he t‘us a respect,.ble man. T addrrss found to be correct. Mr. Jackson, a ult-t k in Messrs. Raniom's, proved•gr• Prew's shopman presenting the cheque and refusing payment. Mr. Kinnear kept an accrAint at the bank► but his signature was forged. lioirLar stated that he kept an account at the bank, and that his signature to the cheque was forged' The signature was not at all like his. The cheque pro•. duced and seven others had been abstrac ed from big cheque hon-k. He did tn,t know either of the prisoners. Mr. BALLANTINE declined to offer any observations to the jury on beh,ll of his client. CHARNOCK 8,41 JvrikiriS was a respectable mart at d tido ne h ,41 eto ri on ti-ices in Church-stree t, Chel-es. f'or several years The prisoher owed him some in“riey, and he acc:dmoaniett him to the shop and ()ought the trhus, rs in the hope of receiving the-in, and ~:pie money d m•lotrge of Cie debt. several will-less,. gave J, ski ns a good character, and described him as a respectable tradesman. The jury found Williamson Guilty, and Acquitted Jenkins. Williamson and a man named Benjamin French, ag. ed 40, arid Beset ibed as a carpenter, were then indicted for Moni.,usl) forging an order for the payment of 171. 65., with intent to defraud Mr. Christopher Marsh, 11 carpenter. It appeared that the prisoners went to the shop of the prosecutor, and after purchasing some deals, tenderedl cheque in payment. Tile prosecutor, however, preferre d to have one in the n ame o f th e person actua ll y deall . eg with him. Wiliiamson said he had no form with him, but at the request of the prosecutor he wrote cheque fur 171. Gs. on a blank sheet of paper, and signe 4 the name of "James E. Green " to it. The cheque vie s of course refused payment, as no person of that net s : kept an account at the bank. A person named Green kept an account, but he spelt his name different l P Williamson, it appeared, had gone by the name of Jolla Arthur Catton. French was taken into custody at the shop of Mr. Kinnear, No. 16, Ger ar d- s t ree t, S o h o , vvh°'" name was forged in the last case. F renc h was present, when Williamson signed the cheque. Williamson was found Guilty, and French Acquitted. Both prisoners were then indicted for feloniously at: tering a forged order on Messrs. Ransom, for the of went of 121. 175., with intent to defraud Mr. Henri Dearlove, a timber dealer, in th e C ommerc i a l- roa d, well knowing the same to be forged. The case was almost similar to the last. The evidenc e was also similar. Williamson said he had been the victim of some deer laid scheme, which he had been, aa yet, unable to till" ravel. The COMMON SERGEANT sentenced Williamson to be transported for seven years. DEFRAUDING THE ST. MARTIN'S SAVINGS' BAr 4O l Esther Raggett, a married wom an , age d 39, an d Joseph Raggett, 14, her son, were indicted for felonious l i uttering a forged order for the payment of 20/, wi th intent to defraud Nicholas Lord Bexley, and others , trustees of the St. Martin's Savings' Bank. Mr. DOANE appeared for the prosecution. It appear ed that the female prisoner had managed, by false re press ,?; tations at the bank with re s pect to h e r h us b an d, whotna u f stated to be in a dyi n g s t a t e , t o o bt a i n t h e pa yment °, the 201 which he h a d b een ena bl e d t o save f ro m '- earnings as a labourer, which she squandered in extra vagance. He did not, however, intend to offer any a r i; dente against the pri soners , as t h e h us b an d o f t h e fenis. did not wish the case carr i e d f urt h er. H e truste d th ta ls lenity would be a warning to the female prisoner and others. The prisoners were then found Not Guilty, and di o charged. (Before the RECoRDER.) The trial of Alexander Wl!beam, and another, w ho or e charged with feloniously utter;ng a (urged bill of e 5 change for 5001.. with intent to defraud Mr. Ric" Fuller, was postponed until next Monday. NEW COURT. (Before Mr. Commissioner BULLOCK.) iD The earlier portion of the morning w as passe- „ 0 hearing and determining Mint ca s es, w hi c h contain "- features to interest the get.eral reader. Some trifling cases of larceny having al s o been t litv pos,d of, Francis William Schultze, a respectably-attired yoecg man, who was tried some sessions ago for having e til a i bezzled a sum o f mone y ( a b out 7001 . ) from the Univets,o Lite Assurance Company, Pall-mall East, but iv- - sentence was respited, was brought up this morning,. ,b Mr. BODKIN, for the prosecution, expr e s s ed the vo s of the directors of the Universal Lif e Assurance Cod pally that the extreme penalty which the law awaru be should not be exacted. The greater amount of 1 , 6 money taken had been recovered, the relations of t, prisoner were highly respectable and connected with tb " n company, and he had himself expressed the utmost c os. trition for this his first crime. • ' Mr. CianKsoat, tor the prisoner, trusted that 10 00 sequence of the observations of his Learned Friend O l d Bodkin) this case would be held one which emillec" called for the merciful prerogative of the Crown. ef The Learned JUDGE, after enforcing upon the pris on the culpability of the crime of which he bad been gel; sentenced him to seven years' transportation, at same time adding that the case, with the recommen o f Lion to mercy, would be forwarded to the Millis ter the Crown. ErOCert EMBEZZLING PARISH FUNDS.--John Georg e , - t he aged 68, was charged with stealing 801. OS. lu'cot. monies of the guardians of the poor in the parish of James's, Clerkenwell. 1 Mr. Bodkin attended fur the prosecution; Mr, Pone for the defence. The Learned COUNSEL, in stating the case, said P ei the prisoner had been an inmate of the workhouse, 00d being rather I,n able-bodied man, had been made usefa. and one of his duties was to take sums of money to .00, Bank of England. Up to the day of this transiten ° , his conduct had been found honest • and lirt il ! t c h worthy, but having been on this occasion sent 'w i ns with a cheque to get cashed. He was instructed to notes, but instead he received gold, and never returnfus Some time on the day following h e was di s coveredl o with very little of the money left, and was there for af taken to the Clerkenwell station-h ouse , an d su bsequeo committed for trial. These were the f ac ts of the c9 ' - ( 1 which he would prove by hi s w it nesses . The Lec tlig Counsel then called Mr. John Harnett, master of the workhouse , , s „ e a that the prisoner had been an inmate f or about t'll bo years, and was employed as messenger, for Whic h received extra rations. He was occasionally told to t ; to the bank and receive money for cheques. 0 11 morning of the 24th February he was told to go to ; bank and to receive 801. Os. Id. He never return and when discovered, on the next day, in a public-bon at Acton, he had only a sovereign and some shilli t4 upon him. He was given into custody. aer Richard Moss, 195 G, was present when the prig ) e; was taken into custody. The prisoner said, " It's g c r. they'll never find it ; it's all down the leg of my P I LO sers. I'm an old man, and will soon be dead, and it " 0 do good to those who have it : let them subscribe farthing a piece and chat will make it up." 11$ Samuel Dennis, of the Bank of England, proved lo ci cashed the cheque. Mr. PARNELL contended that the prisoner was not-,the r , servant of the guardians, or of Mr. Harnett, the male or 01 Mr. Bayliss, aid other guardi a n s ( as laid in d indictment) within the meaning of the act. The Lea° Counsel cited cases in support of his position. Mr. BODKIN replied The Learned JUDGE decided that the objection i ffiS untenable. tea Mr. PARNELL then add resse d th e j ury, an d sag o the great probability that th e p r i soner, fi n di ng had lost the proceeds of th e c h ecque , was a f ra id to rettl' n . and had thererore fl e d f rom L on d on . Th e y were e;;; titled to believe this in th e abs e n ce of any proo f of to what had been done with this considerable sutra money. The Le. returne d ne !arned JUDGE summed up, and the jury - a verdict of Guilty, but recommended him to the Ine rt ' ful consideration of the Court. Sentence deferred. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) . t o ten The Court sat by adjournment this morninisP- sal o'clock, at the Guildhall, Westminster, for the d of cases of felony and misdemeanour within the itirit,sdie, c h a ir' tion of that district. Mr. Witham presided a s c"— man. dieted jdin fo L r e s ci t c e l a i ste a ling gl ladte4 The prisoner pleaded guilty, and said he conunit tie loafau o t f fifteen years of age, was i ll° the offence under the influence of pressing hunger. 1-1 ' bad been deserted by his father. •l The CHAIRMAN said this w as one o f those painful cases where want too often i n d uce d cr i me. The disego of poor children like the prisoner was, he was gissu4 say, now occupyi ng th e a t tent i on o f the Legislature, a'"„ o he hoped th e y wou ld no t over l oo k i n t h e i r d e liberati c i ;" o , the adoption of some means for punishing parents " 00 like those of the prisoner, turned their offsprings o ° l o the world with no resource to stave off starvation 60 thieving. He should only sentence the prisone r fourteen days' confinement. o ld Mary Webb was indicted for an assault upon all o t Chelsea pensioner, named Joseph Atkinson, upwar d _ ninety years of age. It appeared that the prisoner lived with the P, 0 0 ; tutor's son, and upon the old man entering the , where they all resided, the prisoner rushed upon ° d o and struck him several blows with a candlestick en" . r side of the head. The landlord found him on the k in a pool of blood. A 10 The prisoner was found Guilty ; and sentence d three months' imprisonment, with hard labour. This case terminated the business of the session. MARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS PP James Richard Smythe, a person bearing the a e ;eci ante of a gentleman, was brought up to-day, ch ar& with annoying the persons riding out in Hyde-park' n o. Inspector Btckei son, of the A division, said c' ia plaint had been lodged at Scotland-yard yesterday 111°— ; ing that a gentleman had been annoying, for Dello month past, the ladies and gentlemen riding out in hoe park, in consequence of which he went there about de yesterday afternoon to observe what passed. The, e i feudant was pointed out to him as the person cornPla'. ° e , of; he leant on the rail by the side of the Serpellt(3o close to the carriage.way, and as the carriages passe„ of thrust at the carriage windows with his cane. In °"; v g the carriages witness saw a lady fall back, as if win l sr . from the cane, but the defendant on that spat at the t e a riage and swore "Go on you b—," lie collti,°l 4 this conduct from a quarter-past five till six ocAr to making a rude noise, when witness took 111 custody. Mr. Hennwicx—Who is the defendant ; is there fa . thing knoAn of him ? aPY The defuhdant-1 deny making any thrust a. -