The Sun. — London, England, 1840-04-30 00:00:00

E ►~ EVEN.INS EDITION. IRELAND. : AGGREGATE MEETING OF THE PROVINCE OF LEINSTER. ( Abridge , cl from the Dubiia Evening Post.) DLTLIN, c Aellit2e --This day a great public demon stration of popular feeling was made against the Bill which was lately brought into Parliament for the disfranchisement ef the Irish constituency. The requisition upon which the meeting seas called bare the names of upwards of six handred Noblemen and. Gentlemen of the first rank and statiqp in the country. The extensive equestrian arena in Lower Abbey-street was the place selected, and the early hour of twelve o'clock named for opening the doors. Long before the time, however, an immense concourse of per sons assembled in the street, and in a few minutes after the doors were thrown open several thousand persons ap peared within the building. The gallery and boxes were appropriated to the use of ladies, and were fully occupied. At halt-past twelve o'clock Mr. O'Connell entered, and was received with three rounds of hearty applause. He was surrounded by a numerous assembly of influential gen tlemen, amongst whom was Lord Cloncurry, who moved the Hon. Mr. Ponsonby into the chair. The CHAIRMAN, on coming fcrward, was received with long-continued cheers ; wnen silence was restored, he said—gentlemen, friends, and fellow-countrymen, I re , turn you my best thanks for the honour you have done me in selecting me as Chairman to preside over this nume rous and highly respectab:e meeting. The object which has brouht us together is one of no common import ance.—(Hear, hear.) It has been stated that the Bill introduced by my Lord Stanley was owing to his hatred of the Irish people.— ' Hear, hear.) That may be the 1 Cale , but lam not one who can pry into the secrets of the human heart, and I do fesnly believe there is another mo tive, and that is the strong love of office.—(Cheers). It is well known that the main support of the present Liberal Ad ministration is derived from the men who are returned to Parliament by the Irish constituency, and it is the ob ! ject of the Tory party to destroy that constituency by every means in their power. The present Ministry de save the support of the people of lreland.—( Hear, and cheers.) The Irish people have ever felt grateful—and ' freely tendered their aid to those who treated them well; and, feeling as they do, that the present Ministry have done much far them, they have in return sent a body of independent men to support that Ministry in the English House of C o mmons—(Cheers)—and they will continue to do so so long as they deserve well of the people of Ire land.—( Cries;of..," Hear, hear," and cheers.) The object of Lord Stanley, and that party to which he has of late years attached himself, is to throw every obstacle in the way of—and, if possible, to crush—the Liberal constitu ency of Ireland, and thereby prevent them from returning that Liberal majority which support the present Ministry, laad excludes themselves from office.—( Hear.) It has been stated by the Orange party that the object of this Bill is to purify the Irish constituencies; only to defeat that fraud, perjury, and corruption, which they allege exists at pre sent. No person helds all these vices in greater horror than the humble individual who now addresses you ; but there are other means to put an end to such practices, if they even did exist, than by contracting the constituency of Ireland—(Cheers)—that constituency which is already far too limited. Yes, the obstacles which aro at present thrown in the way of freeholders who seek to register are far too great, and ought to be removed. The Members who are returned by the Liberal constituencies of Ireland are bound not only to give the ordinary opposition to this Bill, but to throweevery opposition in its way which the forms of Parliament will allow. If they do not, they will forfeit the confidence of the people who have selected them as their Representatives.—( Cheers.) Every Irish i Member should be judged by his,conduct on this question, and should be neglect the interests of his constituents he need never hope for their confidence or support again. Mr. DOLAN, one of the Secretaries, then read the requi sition calling the meeting. He also read several letters of apology from parties who could not attend. The Right Hon. Lord CLONCURRY rose to move the first resolution, and was greeted with the loudest cheers, which were continued at intervals .throughout his address. His Lordship commenced by observing that the requisition, and the names appended thereto, that this had jest head read, added to the weight of the opinions which must be entertained in reference to the subject of this meeting ; they might perceive that that question more particularly concerned the Commoners of Ireland than those persons who have been placed by accident in the House of Lords. There are very few persons of that body who take any interest in those matters which concern Ireland. He (Lord Cloncurry) was amongst those who did so, and he had upon this occasion left his privacy and his home for the purpose of promoting the interest of Ireland upon this momentous occasion ; and nothing could ever induce him not to raise his voice in defence of Irish rights when they were assailed, as they now were, in the most nefarious manner. It was his lot to be acquainted with Irish affaiLs, m,cre particularly when Lord Stanley was Secretary tlor Ireland—and even then, though Lord Stanley's hostility to Ireland was suppressed to some ex tent, it had since blazed out in the shape of a bill which no man couli read without being conscientiously and deter minatelyAposed to it. It was obvious that it would have the effect of diminishing the people's right of voting for their representatives in a most shameful manner, and that such a measure should be sanctioned by another body was what he (Lord Cloncurry) would most determinately re sist. There was atiother reason which induced him to come amongst his fellow -countrymen upori this occasion, It was lest it should be for one moment imagined that he was capable at any coriod - of his life, either young or old, to desert their interests. No I he was determined to stand by their interests—ne adamant could be more immu table than his sincerity towards Ireland—(Cheers) nothing could be more difficult and impossible than to make him swerve from the path of lose for Ireland.—(Tremen dous cheers.) They have had in Ireland for some time past seventeep or eighteen Viceroys, and amongst them there were two-thirds, if not three-fourths, Tories. The consequence was, that the country, day by day, was driven finto the comm:esion of acts of violence by the tyranny to which they were subjected, or they were left in misery and starvation, and the produce of their labours conveyed away and spent in another country. The first pamphlet published upon the subject of the Union was written by him ( Lord Cloncurry) in 1795. An attempt to answer the arguments of that pamphlet was made by Mr. Cooke, ' the Under- Secretory, and by Mr. Pitt ; he (Lord Clon curry) still maintained his opinions. After a num fther of years this country was blessed with some viceroys more tolerant and virtuous in their opinions than those who preceded them. Amongst them was the Mar quis . I • of rel That nobleman was afterwards w ra pt es s.esey up, heart and soul in the interests of Ireland, and were it not for his eeeretaxy, what would he not have been able to .do for Ireland ? With the present Government—both with the local Government aad their beloved Queen, who was repeesented in this country by a nobleman of high honour and integrity, who knew what would be of service to Ireland, and was determined to effect it—the people wore satisfied. But the determination of the Tories was to resist everything which could be of benefit to Ire land. His Lordship then adverted to the Corn-law ques tion, which, he- talc,, was a source of wealth only to the arietcrer.ey. He also briefly alluded to Lord Stanley's opposition to the education Tice -6 u. Mr. LELAND Crtos rilwere sail a resolution had been Put into his hands (which he read.) They might well complain of the small measure of reform which was granted to Great Britain, teat tliCy were, nevertheless, quiet and content with that which had been meted out to them. They Lad at least the satisfaction, if the franchise was too restricted, tint if tlse voter was once on the list he remained there for eight years—( Hear)—and might exercise the (Linchise which the Constitution gave him ; and nobly did the Irish electors exercise that franchise. The franchise was already too limited, and the Tories would narrow it yet at 11 more. Perhaps they wished to goad the Irish iii!o arts of disorder; but in that they would not succeed. The majority of the House of Lords had entered into little short o! a conspiracy against both the Sovereign at,d the people —( Loud cheers.) But he could not believe that those who sought to defraud them of their rights wauld longer rernein blind to what the con sequences must be if they continued their oppressions on the rights of the people ef Ireland.—(Loud cheers.) He would not ben. ve that Sir Robert Peel and persons of his statnip would cement to lower the British empire from the fleet rank among nations to the second--( flear)— and suesir, Unfortunately, must be the consequence, if they continued co purse° the line which they had, unfor tunately. too much foltlowed of late years —( Hear, ' he=r.) Me could no lover trespass on them ; again he said, let nothing tempt them to any acts of violence ; lel nothing disnnite tbem.--( Hear, hear, and loud cheering.) Let liberalism and constitutional liberty, under their gra cious Sovereign, be the rallying point for Irishmen.— (Cheers.) Let notiakig 4eirn one Liberal Irishman against another; if such be their course, they would be num qaerable.—(Loud cheers.) The resolution was then put from the chair and carried by acclamation _ The nextreselution, proposed by Mr. NANGLE, and se conded by M r . CO/WALLY ' was put and ' earried. Mr. TUOMAS FrrzeKaaup,Merrioi - quire, said that he l INt a high h onour an d pr i v i lege to have: ' a resolution con e to him. It was lamentable to consider that the p st e ase o a p dt le hoef w i:lis e ri re gisik noLr tb resn ananeile ; : l a , o d t and, nii u that their object was, in t.beronesx,4l callin g for what axon :- f the suffrage lir nd a rester number of reps eaenta w t e iv r e e , ; com i hese just and fair d , rn eling to the wretched ands, they narrow franchise whi t e ' ll 'ere of the bill was, however, , s , ,e , ad of making was on left ly t t o o t , o productivec them. The introduction of one great alvantage, for it was calculated together all those who had any regard for electoral legcs—te uni:c them against the suicidal class which ; P vou v l i d . draw demon destruction and a common ruin on us. But they should not succeed.—( Hear, hear.) The measures whist!! were adapted would not only save the people but that vile class itself frcm the conscluences of their tyran nical measures.—( Great applause.) Mr. .11. CCRBALLY, M. P., in seconding the resolution, sal—Or all the blows levelled against the liberties of Ireland this was ono of tile greatest, and the English Mem bers were not acquainted with the workings of the registry in this country—with the array of landlords and cf attor neys aa!embled for the purpose of intimidating the claim ant from attending to seek the franchise ; they were not aware of all these things or they would have made short work of th e BI N in its first stage, and thrown it out. It was from ir,norance on this subj e ct that the Liberal Mem ber.shad not atte n d e d i n t h e i r p l aces.— (H ear .) NI r. M.Kase proposed and Mr. BARRETT seconded the fourth resolution. GIitTTAN, Esq., M.P., next came forward—his reception was most enthusiastic. He never would consent to a separation from England, but he would never consent to be her serf.-Cheers.) It was unnecessary for Mr. O'Connell to waste his talents in agitating Repetl—it was \tisitisisirior the Liberal press to argue in favour of that mea sure, - for Lord Stanley had substantially Repealed the Union, yes, the Union had been Repealed by the Tories. If this Bill passed, Ireland would become instantly estranged from England, and inst ea d of being the first power to Europe, she would be reduced to the lowest. He spoke at much length, and concluded by proposing the fifth resolution. W.M. BARON, Esq., occonded it, and it pas se d with ac. alarnsticn, Some ether resolutions having been severally put and carried, Mr. O'CoN:vrfx, came forward. He was received with !east enthusiastic shouts of applause. He began by ay nig they should not make the people of Ireland slaves— they lied in their teeth who said they would.—( Cheers. ) He defied Stanley and his gang. There was nothing of which Lord Stanley so reminded him as of the bust of the tyrant Nero, and they should call him " Nero Sta ley," if they had not already christened him, by giving him the appropriate appellation of " Scorpion Stanley."— ( Cheers and laughter,) He could not help that burst— ( Renewed cheering)—the manner iu which he had been received had almost overpowered his heart—he was going to say his aged heart ; but no, it was as young as ever it was.—( Hear and cheers.) Did any man ask him what brought him there? No person did so, and he would himself answer the question which they did not ask, and tell them what brought him there. Ho came there to declare that he would obey the advice as implicitly as if it were a command given by their respected chairman, when he said it was the duty of the Irish representatives to op pose the bill, and to impede Lord Stanley in every way they could. Now that the people of Ireland were aroused in defence of their franchises, they would not only seek to drive back their assailants, but they would stand together, and demand, in a firm and energetic manner, equal fran chises and equal rights with Great Britain. He concluded by moving John Power, Esq., of Harcourt -street, to the chair, and the thanks of the meeting to the Hon. Mr. Ponsonby, whit was seconded by Mr. Collis, and passed amidst the warlliest applause. The meeting then adjourned. WAR WITH NAPLES. THE SULPHUR QUESTION. ( From the Semaphore of Marseilles of the 25th inst.) The English and Neapolitans are at open war, and measures of reprisal, on the part of England, there is every reason to believe, have had a commencement. A report prevails here that several vessels, with the flag of the Two Sicilies, had been captured by the British ships of war ; and it is even said that as many as 50 have been taken. This number no doubt, much exaggerated, because authentic inforrzation is not given ; one thing only is certain, and that is, that the Hydra chased the Maria An toinette, and would have retained her if the captain of the Maria had not proved that his was a Tuscan, and not a Neapolitan vessel. The packet-boat of the Levant, the Sesostris, has brought this account. She came in here last night at seven, having taken on board, at Civita Vec chia the despatches of the Maria Antoinette. In the absence of other more important news, we give the following cir• cular of the French Consul at Naples, addressed to M Miege, a foreign agent ;--. " Naples, April 18. " Monsieur le Consul,—l have the honour to inform you that the attempts made to conciliate the difference which has arisen between the Courts of Naples and Lon don having hitherto failed, Mr. Temple, the English Minister, yesterday gave orders to the English vessels of war the Bellerophon two-decker, the brig Jaseur, and the steamer Hydra, to commence measures of reprisal, and to take possession of vessels navigating under the Neapolitan flag, which are to be carried into Malta and detained. The Hydra is cruising at this moment for that purpose at the entry of the Bay of Naples. You are aware that you are in a position to give guarantees of French property to merchandise on board Neapolitan vessels ; but these gua rantees, although they will prevent the confiscation of merchandise, will not prevent the seizure of the vessel. If you have in your port any Neapolitan vessels ready to sail for Africa, in virtue of charters with the French Government for the supply of our army, you have only to give them certificates of property of the trench Govern ment, which are to bear the visa of the English Consul at your residence. It has been agreed upon with Mr. Temple that the English Admiral is to allow these ves sels to pass. " Viscount d'HAUSSONVILLE," (From the Malta Times of the 15th of April.) HOSTILITIES WITH NAPLES. The Hydra war steamer returned from Naples and Palermo (at which latter port she called to communicate with the British Consul) on the Bth inst., after staying two days and a half at Naples. By this arrival we learn that his Sicilian Majesty persists in his refusal to break his con• tract with the sulphur monopolists, insisting that it is not, as pretended, in violation of the commercial treaty with Great Britain. Preparations to resist any British naval force are making upon a graad scale, as far as regards the manning and fitting out of gunboats, and a very large force of cavalry and infantry has been marched through Calabria, and thence conveyed by steamers to various parts of Sicily. In Messina alone, it is said, 16,000 men have been added to the garrison. It would appear that France is understood with Great Britain in the point at issue, for it is stated that the French Charge d'Affaires at Naples has pointed out to the King the irregularity of his pro ceedings, and the consequences which may result from a rupture with so strong a naval power, whereupon his Ma jesty observed, " That there had been one Napoleon in the world, and he saw no reason why another should not start up." On Saturday last the following notification was pub lished by the Government of Malta : " MINUTE BY HIE EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR. " The Governor is pleased to publish, for the informa tion of the merchants and others concerned in the trade between this island and Naples and Sicily, the following communication made to him by his Excellency Admiral Sir Robert Stopford, G. C. B. G. C. M. G., Commander in- Chief of her Alajesty's Naval Forces in the Mediter ranean:— "4 Sir, " H 4 P av r i in ng ce r s e s c2 h ve a d rlo d t i t r e e , ct lV io la n ita f ,.Ap t r h il t i ?, r 1843. ra.. 1 s Co tnissioners of the Admiralty to place myself in comnauni_ cation with her Majesty's Minister at the Court of Naples, and when called upon by that Minister to do so, to pro ceed myself, or send some other officer to Naples with a sufficient force, and cause all Neapolitan and Sicilian ships which may be met with either in the Neapolitan or Sicilian waters to be seized and detained until such time as notice shall be received from her Majesty's Minister at Naples that the just demands of the British Government regard ing the monopoly of the sulphur mines in Sicily, in viola tion of the treaty of 1816 between the two Governments, have been complied with ; and having received despatches from the Minister at Naples, acquainting me that his Sicilian Majesty refused compliar.ce therewith, I have the honour to acquaint your Excellency, that I shall proceed with all possible despatch in prosecution of my orders, that your Excellency may make the same known to all concerned, in such way as your Excellency shall think proper. I hare the honour to be your Excellency's mos obedient humble servant, " ROBERT STOPFORD, Admiral." " ' To his Excellency Lieut.-General Sir H. F. Bouverie, G. C. M. G., K. C. 8., Governor of Malta, &c.' " " By command of his Excellency, " • H. GRE IG, Chief Secretary to Government."' Palace Valetta, April 10, 1840.'" In the evening of the 10th instant the Hydra towed out the Bellerophon, which vessel, in company with the Jaseur, immediately made sail for Messina, Palermo, and Naples. The Hydra was suddenly despatched in the same direction during the night. His Excellency the Admiral in the Princess Charlotte, with the Tyne and Phcenix, will follow as soon as the Prometheus arrives from Mar seilles with the London overland mail of the 4th instant, which arrived on Monday night. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, APRIL 18.—The celebrated English quaker, Mrs. Fry, has been here for some days. She is accom panied by Mr. Allen, who enjoyed the favour of the Em peror Alexander, on account of the service he rendered to the administration of the Russian prisons by Mr. Gurney, and several other respectable members of the English So ciety of Friends. The King has given orders to show them all possible attention on their visit to the Russian prisons, houses of correction, work-houses, &c. They have already visited all these establishments, both here and at the Spandau, and given proof, as well of their liberality to sick prisoners, as of their knowledge and good judgment, and also of their touching eloquence. Mrs. Fry is said to have expressed particular interest and satisfaction in her visit to the Institution for Destitute Children, directed by the worthy Mr. Kopf ; but not to have been so well satisfied with the prisons of Berlin. Those are, in fact, on account of the want of room, and too crowded state, not so well ordered, and especially less furnished with the recent improvements in their system of management than many similar establishments in the provinces. We hear from several quarters that the Russian expe dition on the Emba is not reduced to such a state as was at first reported. General Molortoff states in his last private accounts, published in the Breslaw Gazette, that the expedition had not given up the hope of releasing the Russians, who are in slavery at Khiva, and putting an end to the robberies of the Khan. • ---____ VIENNA, ATRII. 20.—N0 price of Funds given.—Allge. meins Zeitung, April 25. MARRIAGE OF THE DUKE DE NEMOURS. The marriage of the Duke of Nemours and the Princess Victoria took place at St. Cloud on Monday evening. The following is the official account published by the Moniteur : MARRIAGE OF THE DUKE DE NEMOURS AND THE PRINCESS VICTORIA OF SAXE COBURG. The marriage of the Duke de Nemours with the Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg was celebrated at nine o'clock yesterday evening, in the Palace of St. Cloud. The Ministers of State, the Marshals of France, the Chan cellor, Vice-Presidents arid Secretaries of the Chamber of Peers, the President, Vice-Presidents, and Secre taries of the Chamber of Deputies, the Officers of the ' Household s of the King, Queen, Princes, and Prin cesses, and other persons invited, were assembled in the King's apartments. The Vice-Presidents of the d C e ha nt m s b o e of P of the Chambere Peers, and 0 the f D ePresident e and re t h e V i c w e i - t n P e r s e s s e i . n se i sl Duke t e e c r t e da d ne d b N y Be t m h a ero Baron King nrsd; o a ; and us Marsh als Countsie r e s, thei.,S e o h u 01 Saxon n : a n t h d e Gerard Minister, B e lia n b y 1 ‘t for the Princess Victoria. when the hour arrived the King gave his arm to the Princess Victoria ; the Queen took an that of the Duke de Nemo urs ; the King of the Belgians led the Duchess of Orleans ; D u k e Ferdinand, Madame s the Princess Adelaide ; and thus, followed by the other Princes and Princesses of the Royal Fawmhiliy:htwheaslanftaanbtlee and Infanta of Spain , Duke Alexander of Wurtemburg Prince Augustus of Saxe - Coburg , and the invited guests,' bearing th e t ortehgei gallery, register of the in the Eta middle .0 ivi of At a centre point were placed the bride and bridegroom. On the right of the Duke de Nemours stood the King his father and the King of the Belgians, o t n he th Qu the left of of ofthe Princesswernendnutkho Duchess e Ferdinand the French, The rest of the circle w as fill ed by of her Orleans. tathe r, the other Nustrieus guests, except the point immedi ate l y Opposite the bride and bridegroom, which was occupied by the Chancellor, having on his right th e Pr esident of the LONDON: THURSDAY, APRIL So, 1840. The House of Commons met yesterday on the termination of the adjournment for the holidays. After the presentation of petitions, which were not numerous, the report of the Cambridge Election Committee, which voids Mr. SUTTON'S return, was brought up, and the evidence, taken before the Committee, on the motion of Mr. WARBURTON, was ordered to be 'Hinted. We do not understand the anxiety betrayed by the Committee to exonerate Mr. SUTTON from a knowledge of the practice, which the Committee, nevertheless, held to be suf ficient to turn him out. Hawks they say will not pick out hawks' eyes, which may perhaps account for the Members of the Committee not picking a hole in Mr. SUTTON'S coat. Had his Jury been com posed of another class, we doubt whether he would have escaped so well. The Chairman of the Com mittee, on being asked, said that he did not mean to move for a new writ. Sir JOHN WALSH in sisted that there wls no sufficient reason fur treat ing the borough with severity, but Lord JOHN RUSSELL reminded the Hon. Member that, as in the case of Ludlow, a notice would be ex pected before the new writ was moved for, and the Hon. Baronet did not move nor give a notice. Mr. MAULE stated, in answer to Mr. GLAD STONE, that the seamen who lately arrived from China in the Diana, had been sentenced by a Court, constituted by Capt. ELLIOT, to a period of imprisonment in this country ; but the law offi cers were of opinion that it was doubtful whether Capt. ELLIOT had power so to sentence them, and they were discharged. In answer to Lord MA 'Lox, who asked whether the intelligence received yesterday morning from Naples were true, Lord J. RUSSELL said he cer tainly was not aware that any such account had been received. He had met the Secretary for Foreign Affairs two hours before, who had not then received any, though it was possible he might since have done so. The Noble Lord declined to give Mr. HumE an answer as to the present state of the Boundary Ques tion till this day. The Juvenile Offenders Bill was committed, on the motion of Sir EARDLEY 'WILMOT ; and after a division on an amendment moved by Mr. BARNEBY, to put it off for six months, had been lost by 70 to 20, in the Committee several amendments were proposed, but before the Bill could be passed through the Committee, the House was count e d ou t. I n the course of the discussion Mr. WAKLEY took an opportunity of revenging the Coroner of Middlesex on the Magistrates, by describin g the Justices generally as the most in competent body of men which could be found. r. G. PALMER'S ex post facto motion on China was fixed for some day after the recess. It is a THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1840. Council of Ministers and the Keeper of the Seals, and on his left the Grand Referendary and the Keeper of the Ar chives of the Chamber of Peers. The Chancellor, at the command of the King, read the civil act, and received the required declarations from the Duke de Nemours and the Princess Victoria, and then pronounced them to be man and wife. The entry in the register having been signed by the parties and all the witnesses, the bride and bride groom, accompanied by their Majesties and the whole of the august and illustrious company, proceeded to the chapel, where the nuptial benediction was given by the Bishop of Versailles. 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Sir John Falstaff, Mr. Bartley ; Master Slender, Mr. C. Ma thews ; Ford, Mr. Cooper ; Fenton, Mr. W. Harrison ; Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mrs. Page, Madame Vestris ; Ann Page. Miss Rainforth, Mrs. Quickly, Mrs. C. Jones. After which will be repeated, the entirely New and Original Grand Comic, Romantic, Operatic, Melodramatic, Fairy Eximaragansa, in Three Parts, entitled end founded on that popular Nursery Tale, THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD. The Principal Characters by Mr. Harley, Mr. J. Vining, Mr. J. Bland, Madame Veetris, Mies Rainforth, Mrs. C. Jonas, Sm. he. Brass Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Cirelos, be. ' • Sooond Price, 2s. 6d. ; Pit, 3 5.; S econ d P r i ce, 21. • esilery, Is. Doors to be opened at half-put Six—the performances to mammas at Seven o'Clock. Tisk,le and plates for the Ilexes to be taken at the Box-0- es, fres Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had apoeapistiaation. Privisie Sews to be kad solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 1117, New Bard-street. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. EMIR THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. BUTLER. THE HOUSE OF LADIES having been received with unanimouae applause by crowded houses, will be repeated (to gether with " The Ladies' Club") every Evening until the end of the Season. THIS EVENING, APRIL 30, Will he presented, for the Fifty-first time, THE LADIES' CLUB. Fitnemyth (the Chairwoman), Mrs. Stirling. To be followed by THE HOUSE OF LADIES. Mrs. Fitatewayth (Member for Chatterton)—Mrs. Stirling. Mrs. Morton (Member for Smallborough)-3liss Atkinson. Rookiiy (Member for Edroondsbury—bliss Treble. Mrs. Derby (Member for Melton)—Alias Fitswalter. Mrs. O'Donnell (Member fer Donnybrook).—Alias Ayres. Mrs. Natio (Secretary for the Fashionable Department)., Miss Stephens. Mr.. Twankay Garrick. Fancy, Miss Beachamp. Time, Mr. Edmonds. After which, THE BUDGET OF BLUNDERS. Dr. Snugface, Mr. Wild ; Dr. Daidaneour, Mr. 11. Barnett ; Bridget, Miss Ayres. To mole& with the New and Original Drama (by the author of " The Ladies' Club"), called GWYNNETH VAUGHAN. sawynneth Vaughan, Mrs. Stirling ; OWN& Williams, Mr. Baker ; Evan Pritchard, Mr. Hell; Hugh Morgan, Mr. G. Wild. Boxes, 4s. Pit, 2a. Gallery, ls. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. The Theatre has been entirely Re-Decorated, and embellished in a novel and tasteful styli, during the Recess. The Three New Pisces have met with tumultuous approbation from erowded audiences, and will be repeated every evening. THIS EVENING, APRIL 30, ITTII be sated an entirely New Village Tragedy, illustrating Horerth's eelebrated " Harlot's Progress," entitled TIE LIFE OF A WOMAN; OR, THE CURATE'S DAUGHTER. After which, a New Comic Drama, sailed THE WET NURSE. Ts eaushide with an entirely New Romance, entitled THE VENETIAN ; OR, THE COUNCIL OF TEN. The Seenery comprising some of the most splendid Views vs Venice. NISH WATER AT LONDON , BRIDGE Tlll-11•KROW. Morning 17 minutes after 1 1 Evening 45 minutes after . lit. Paidiosoi on of tho Evening Edition of TNE $v Can amused at 10 aniLatos after Throe. - 3,4*. Zbt -ianx. curiosity in its way, and ought to be engraven on a brick from one of the Pyramids of Egypt, to be pre served among the mouldering treasures of the So ciety of Antiquaries. Mr. PALMER does not propose to ask the House of Commons to express any opinion about either the morality or the expe diency of the traffic in opium. His motion says nothing about discouraging the growth of the poppy ; or about placing Liles name on the Pen sion List while he lives, and in the Rubric after his death, to figure, not with martyrs or confessors, but with saintly conquerors and heroes. All Mr. G. PALMER wants the House of Commons to do is simply to resolve that if payment for the confis cated opium be refused, the refusal is not to con stitute a justification for hostilities against China. When Commodore ELLIOT, at the head of a Bri tish squadron, arrives in the Chinese waters, Mr. G. PALMER does not object to his asking for the money in a civil fashion, He may pen a respect ful Memorial to the Commissioner, transmit it to LIN through the humble agency of the Hong, wait in the outside waters for three months for an answer from Pekin, and, on receiving a refusal, make his best bow to the nearest Mandarin, and quietly return home again. Should the gallant Officer have acted differently, and by a few hard knocks have compelled the EMPEROR to pay the money, Mr. PALMER, by implication, has the modesty to pro pose to pledge the House to refund it, leaving our merchants to pocket the loss of their millions, and the Government to defray the expense of the Chinese expedition I That the proposed motion is purely factious is known by looking at it. Mr. PALMER and his party know right well that the justification of a war with China rests not upon the question whether she shall pay, or refuse to pay, for the illegally confiscated drug. That is but one item in a long catalogue of grievances. The Hon. Gentleman must also know that the question will be settled, so far as regards war or peace, long before any decision of the House of Commons can reach China ; so that any vote on the part of the House, at so late a period of the proceedings, would be exceedingly preposterous. The cant of the pretended morality-mongers in • the House of Commons, and in the public press, about the opium traffic, begins to excite general disgust. The importation of 40,000 chests of opium into China in one year, is to be regretted, as indicating the general use of a pernicious stimulant ; but, surely, the inhabitants of a country which imports annually about seven millions of gallons of ardent spirits, exclusive of immense quantities of wine, and the intoxicating produce of almost countless distilleries and brewe ries, ought to look to the state of morality at home before travelling so far as China. According to the Parliamentary Returns, there was imported into the British isles in 1838 of rum 4,612,416 gal lons, of brandy 2,088,452 gallons, and of gin 290,862 gallons, exclusive of the whiskey, gin, and malt liquors brewed and distilled in England, Scotland, and Ireland. Now the extract of the poppy is quite as natural, and not a jot more perni cious as a stimulant to the inhabitants of China, and the adjoining nations, as is a glass of gin to a denizen of Wapping, or a glass of whiskey to a Dublin coal-heaver or a Scotch drover. It has, moreover, been calculated that 40,000 chests of opium would not afford one whiff in the day to the opium smokers of China ; whereas, in moral Eng land, what limit is there to the indulgence of the drunkard save the emptiness of his purse and the want of credit ? He may drink himself blind, morning, noon, and night, if he bring himself to disregard the physical consequences following the action of intoxication upon himself. Heaven knows we are bad enough without adding hypo crisy to the catalogue of our national vices. While there is such a place as BELLAMY'S at the door of the House of Commons—while the very roof of that House covers a tavern, where, if there is no opium smoked there is brandy drunk—and not un frequently in rather immoderate quantities by our le gislators—let us, in the name of common honesty and consistency, avoid canting, and the indulgence of our fancies in drawing caricature represen tations of the abuse of opium. A corresponde nce h as b een sen t t o us f or publi cation, which has taken place between the Home Depaitment and the Secretary of the London Committee for procuring the pardon of Messrs. FROST and WILLIAIis, relative to policemen being sent to watch their proceedings ; but as it is of considerable length, while the facts it states are few, we must decline publishing the correspondence, while, for the general information, we feel bound to state the facts. The first letter, is written by Mr. DYSON, the Secretary of the Committee, to Lord NORMANBY, stating that on March 17, two policemen, in plain clothes, entered the Committee-room in the Arundel Coffee-house, Strand, and refused to give their name and address, which every ether person present gave, and were then requested to withdraw, which they did. On March 31, the same policemen at tended in uniform, and requested permission to be present as witnesses of the proceedings of the Com mittee. They stated that they acted under the direction of superior authority. The sense of the meeting was taken on the propriety of acceding to their request, which being favourable, they were allowed to remain. The Secretary, after stating these facts to Lord NOBMANBY, added that the Society was conscious of pursuing a just and legal object, and requested that the Noble Lord would not permit them to be further annoyed by the surveillance of the police. They also ap pointedfANß ;and the lettdeputationerPHlLLlPS , wait answer oft ill;. to this letter of Mr. Dysori, is politely to decline seeing the deputation. The Secretary again wrote to Lord NORMANBY on April 21, stating that the policemen had again obtruded themselves on the meeting of the Com mittee, when it was resolved that the Committee objected to the presence of the police, who with drew ; and that it was then further resolved, in order to avoid being entrapped, that no person should come to the meeting with any offensive weapon whatever, and whoever did should be ex pelled. The Secretary also described at length the objects of the Committee, quoted the address it had issued to the people of England, and again requested that the Noble Lord would receive a de putation from the Committee. The second letter from the Home-office, signed by Mr. MAIILE, said Lord NORMANDY was unable to appoint any time for receiving the deputation. Such is the substance of the correspondence. We cannot blame the Marquis of NORMANDY for not receiving the deputation, for the Secretary of State might have nothing else to do were he to receive every person or deputation wlio applies to him. He must be left to the exercise of his discre tion as to whom he will receive, and only on sow. very sufficient reason will we question that exercise. We quite exonerate the Noble Marquis also from any knowledge, till informed by the communication of the Secretary, that the Committee was placed under surveillance ; and when informed of it we can readily suppose that the Home Secretary might not conceive it his duty to give positive instructions to the Commissioners of Police to abstain from sending the policemen to the meeting;; of the Com• mittee. The Home Secretary must confide to a great extent in the discretion of the Commissioners, and he cannot give them precise directions as to every meeting which is held. We blame the Commissioners, or those who employed the policemen, though at the same time we must state that, as they are made re sponsible for the preservation of the peace, they must be allowed the means of accomplishing their task. Chiefly we blame the system, which, being founded on a want of confidence in the people— which, essaying to regulate all the parts of the com munity, as if society, the creation of the Almighty, were like a regiment of dragoons or the etiquette of a Court, the creation of man, must meddle with every p art ; and men in authority can never for one moment be satisfied that all is right unless they or their servants are everywhere. For a long time the country has prosecuted war successfully, and great masses of the popula tion, particularly of the aristocracy, have been drilled into military habits. Her statesmen have been taken from among her Generals, and the in fluence of the soldiery in her councils has caused the establishment of a military police. Now every part of an army—an instrument for a General to work with—must be regulated and controlled by him ; but society is not an instrument for either a General or a Legislator to work with, and it is a fatal mistake to dream of applying the principles of military life to;any other part of society than the army itself. The consequences are obvious in the facts we have stated. The Commissioners of Police being military men, and imbued with military ideas, must be informed of and must control everything ; hence the employment of spies, hence a general system of surveillance, hence the rural gendarme rie, and hence, as the necessary consequence, a system of passports, which will come next. It will be most unjust towards the rural police to make the few men who are scattered through the agricul tural districts responsible for the security of pro perty or persons, unless they be authorised to question travellers as to whence they come, End whither they are going, or require them to prove by a passport that they are good and true men. At present it is only a Committee to procure the remission of the sentence on FROST, WIL LIAMS, and JONES, which is exposed to 'the surveillance of the PolicO and as they are very generally condemned, the unusual and un constitutional proceedings taken as to this Commit tee, are not likely to be censured—or they may even be approved of. But if Colonel ROWAN and Lord NORMANBY be justified in sending policemen as spies into this Committee, why should not Sir JAMES GRAHAM, were he in office, send spies to a Committee of Anti-Corn-law Delegates ? Or why may not Lord STANLEY, or Sir H. HAR. DINGE, or Sir E. KNATCHBULL, when either of them shall be in office, send spies into meetings or committees to promote household suffrage, pro cure the reduction of the Army, or oppose the ex tension of the Church ? The blow is now aimed at the Chartists, but it strikes at the professors of every political opinion. It is levelled against the lower classes, but, prostrating them, it will prostrate every other class before the police. There was a time when such facts as we have stated, and such consequences as we have shown flow from our present Frenchified military central izing system, would have aroused the man hood of the empire. Two-thirds of the press would then have breathed words of fire, and kindled the nation almost into rebellion. But we live in other times, when fear of the masses overweighs every sen timent of confidence, and will make the middle classes, we are afraid, approve of spies, approve of every meeting being subjected to surveillance, and will make them submit to the employment of passports, whenever that shall be proposed, as necessary to the proper working of our police system, intended for the protection of life and property. We say intended, for with the vivid recollection we now have of several murders committed in this metro polis since the police was established, the authors of which have not been detected, we cannot say that it protects life, but to this system intended to protect life and property, liberty, which "lends to life its lustre and perfume," will, we are afraid, be sacrificed. We copy the following paragraph from the Times of yesterday, which inserts it as from its own Dublin Correspondent : "The Rev. Mr. Smithe, assistant chaplain of the Molyneux Asylum, preached last night upon the crucifixion of our Saviour, what he suffered and why he suffered, the atonement and its final cause. The Rev. Preacher, after expatiating upon the bene fits resulting to society from the dissemination of pure Scriptural Christianity, and showing that such a religion was the best basis of rational government and social freedom, proceeded to comment upon the close connection between infidelity and treason. The man who rebelled against his God was always ready on the first pretence to rebel against his King. The Rev. Gentleman then, after an apology for in troducing the shocking anecdote he was about to state, yet said that if it should go forth and con vince one unhappy Chartist, who had not as yet renounced his Saviour, the anecdote would not be told in vain. When the three late convicts were on their way by sea to the port where they were to ' he put on board the convict ship, they were over taken by a storm so great as to excite apprehensions of danger, during which time Jones, the convict, was loudly expressing his anxious wish that they might all go to the bottom together. This might be the frenzy of despair, but the worst remained to be told. Among the papers of Frost, the leader of the Chartists, was found one, a coloured print, re presenting our Saviour upon the cross, and at the bottom of it this blasphemous inscription-.-" This is the man who was hanged for stealing an ass." Mr. Smithe gave as his immediate authority an of ficer of the 19th Regiment, a stated member of that congregation, and who had he ar d it f rom a brother officer of the same regiment, who had the conduct and custody of the three Chartists to the convict ship." We can comprehend why a zealot—for a zealot has no reason, and no discretion—should, on the mere assertion of one officer, who heard it from another officer, be utterly careless how he calum niates and injures an absent, a very unfortunate, and, we think, a guilty man ; but cannot either comprehend why a newspaper should give insertion to such a paragraph, except to show its baseness, or excuse its insertion. If the Rev. Mr. SMITHE could have produced some authority for the story better than hearsay, we should have blamed his zeal in throwing dirt on a banished man. If the Times possessed undoubted evidence of the correct ness of his statement, instead of its being the as sertion of a zealot, believed on hearsay at third hand, it would have been cruel to publish such an assertion of Mr. FROST. Even were the person of whom such a tale is told present and capable of explaining or refuting the statement, it would be criminal to raise such a pre judice against him, for the refutation might not fall into the hands of all who read the insinuation. But to publish such a hearsay statement of an absent man, already suffering a severe punishment, and very generally condemned by the public, seems to us wholly inexcusable. If it be intended to fix on Mr. FROST by such evidence the stigma of un belief, and trample on him, now down-stricken and helpless, such conduct in the clergyman and his abettors, the writer and editor, in our judgment, ' justly deserves the name of infamous. The Tories exalt, we see, at having in one or two places carried the election of a Churchwarden, an officer whose peculiar duties make many con. scientious Dissenters decline to vote for him, and an officer who has, in general, heretofore been exclusive ly appointed by Churchmen. There may have been now and then a contest between the two parties in the Church which shall elect the Church warden ; but, in general, his election has not been considered as a political contest, and that the Tories can draw consolation from such a success is a sure sign that their cause is at a very low ebb. But they not only rejoice in being able to elect a Church warden, they triumph at the success of the Chart ists. The Halifax Guardian chuckles at resolti tions for Universal Suffrage and the Ballot having been passed at some meeting, in opposition to the Anti-Corn-law Whigs ; it reprobates a Whig master, who dismissed from his employment the son and daughter of a man who had attended the meet ing, and was in favour of Universal Suffrage. The Standard quoted the paragraph yesterday, and called it " Revenge of the Whigs." To elect a Churchwarden, therefore, and to share the triumphs of the Chartists, are now the chief souree of consolation f , .? the Tories. We are not disposed to deny ....at there is much political apathy just now amongst the middle classes ; there is no enthusiasm, we admit, in favour of the Whigs ; there is great zeal amongst the Tories to get office, and this zeal and apathy give an appearance of advantage to the Tories. Many of the people when not excited by political enthu siasm fall into their Loid tracks ; they go with the gentry, they follow the clergy, and the result is, the Churchmen are Able to elect their own Church warden. In some small boroughs, too, by the aid of bribery, as has been distinctly proved at Cam bridge and Ludlow, they can return a Tory Mem ber, and these small successes are driving out of the Tories the little discretion they had. Let us suppose that they succeed according to their heart's desire, what would be the result ? We will admit that, repudiating the Whig policy, and carrying things with a high hand, they should steadily and successfully resist the demands for further reform ; that, adopting the principle to which Lord J. RUSSELL has given the name of finality, they should succeed in arresting the pro gress of political change, and of course of political improvement, and this consequence would follow. Time will not stop for them nor society either. They would hold fast old institutions, and new circumstances would arise. For a short period, complaints would be unnoticed or sup pressed by the law; motions to extend the suffrage or to repeal the Corn-laws would be derided or scornfully rejected ; grievances would accumulate ; complaints would be multiplied ; motions for redress would be repeated ; the opposition would increase in strength ; the Tories would be compelled on some such points as extending the suffrage or mo difying the Corn-laws, as they were compelled to yield the repeal of the Test Act and the emancipa tion of the Catholics ; their defeats and the hope of further success would again revive the enthusiasm of the masses ; we should have the Charter, or something like it, demanded from one end of the empire to the other, and again the Tories would scud from office before the storm they had evoked. Between the Whigs and them there is this dif ference. The policy of the Whigs may be erro neous, may be mischievous, but it pretends to have the public welfare for its object ; no man can say that for the policy of the Tories. The utmost merit that it claims is to hold fast by institutions which have existed for a considerable period, and are supposed to have been the causes of the na tional prosperity. The Tories avow that their ob ject is to benefit themselves ; the Whigs profess to benefit the public. The latter may really mean to do the same thing as the former, but, at least, they profess something different. Tho Tory per sists on ruling the people in spite of themselves, for his own purposes ; the Whig professes to rule them by their consent for their own advantage. The Whigs, therefore, are always ready to go with the people, the Tories always to resist them. They actually, from the determina tion to achieve their own selfish objects, try that as long as possible ; they persist in endeavouring to coerce society back into submission to their Utopian ideal of perfection—the institutions of some past age--till society, tired of submission to their broad, barefaced selfishness, rises against them, and then they vote the men back into office, who' by going with, can guide the people. If the Tories were to get into office, and to adhere to Tory policy, in much less, we believe, than ten years we should have a counterpart of the events of 1828 and 1829, ending, however, in a change much more extensive, if not more violent, than the Reform Act. In the Paris Journals of Tuesday we find nu merous communications from Naples, the substance of which will be found in another column. The marriage of the Duke of ORLEANS, which was solemnized at St. Cloud on Monday evening, was rendered popular by the following Royal Ordi nance, extending the amnesty of the Bth of May, 1837, to all political offences committed anterior to that date. Political refugees may now return to their country : " Sire, —An amnesty, three years ago, signalised the marriage of the Heir to the Crown. Yielding to the dictates of your own heart, and to the counsels of an en lightened policy, your Majesty desired that an event which fulfilled the wishes of France by ensuring perpe tuity to the dynasty of July should be an occasion for a great act of clemency ; and it restored liberty to all who had been condemned, and were then detained in the prisons of the State, for political crimes and offences. The marriage of your second son, Sire, spreads through your august family a joy in which the nation partici pates. Your Majesty is desirous that it should become a new occasion for manifesting your Royal clemency. Your Ministers give themselves up with eagerness to the execu tion of your orders by proposing to complete the amnesty. and extending it to every individual condemned for political crimes and offences previous to the 18th May, 1837, whether they are or are not detained in the prisons of the State. This measure will efface the last traces of events which are already far from us, and of which we have no reason to apprehend a return. Clemency belongs to the Government of your Majesty—for thereby it is ho noured without being weakened. A power which knows how to pardon, acquires the right of being inflexible when its generosity has been bestowed upon ungrateful and rebellious hearts. 44 I am, with the most profound respect, your Majesty's most humble and most faithful servant, " The Keeper of the Seals, Minister Secretary of State for the Department of Justice and Worship, " VIVIEN." ME ROYAL ORDONNANCE. " Louis Philippe, King of the French, to all present and to come, greeting : We have ordained and do ordain as follows:—Art. 1. The amnesty granted bv our Ordon nance of Bth May, 1837, is extended to every individual condemned previous to the said Ordonnance for political crimes and offences, whether they are or are not detained in the prisons of the State.—Art. 2. (This is the usual direction for carrying the Ordonnance into execution.) Done at St. Cloud, 27th April, 1840. (Signed) " LOUIS PHILIPPE. ( Countersigned) "VI VIE N, " The Keeper of th 2 Seals," &e. Letters from Alexandria of the 6th inst. an nounce that the PACHA has appointed ACHMET PACHA. Grand Admiral of the Turco-Egyptian fleet. With reference to the rumoured misunder standing between MEHEMET ALI and the Eng lish Consul-General Colonel HODGES, we find the following in one of the letters before us :—" Co lonel HODGES had some days since an angry inter view with the Pacha; the particulars have been much exaggerated, and many reports, which I know to be untrue, are in circulation, which will doubtless find their way into the papers. The Colonel asked him whether he intended to give up the Turkish fleet, and received a decided negative, until the present question was disposed of. The desertion of the Turkish crews being alluded to, Colonol HODGES told him he not only was not sur prised at their deserting, but wondered they did This,not all desert and take their ships with t he m. and some subsequent angry r s at io HODGES n e r has given rise to a report that Colonelcve presented himself as authorised to give protection T',VEN ENG ED to any of tile Turkish crews who wished to return to Constantinople. So absurd a report I s hould not mention, even to contradict it, were it not likely to be cireulatPd by other parties." We receive from all quarters the most bitter complaints against Marshal Vallee ; the Colonels and the army arc ab solutely indignant at the manneriin which the military °Pe' rations have been conducted since the invasion of th e plain of Mitidja. It is impossible that the present Ministry should leave things in this situation. The recal of the Governor-General of Algeria has become indispensab le; t the safety of the colony an d th e h onour o f o ur army are s stake; for an army which has no confidence in its coy' mander is in a state of d anger . Th e sen timents preys'', ing at Algiers m a y b e j u d ge d o f b y a l etter d a ted the 1 8 t" of April, which we have received from one of the most te; spectable inhabitants of the colony. He says, "re ar e so dissatisfied with ou r p resent G overnor , t h a t we a t . c) the point of requ.iring that he shall be brought to ris! The arrival of the P r i nce h as pro d uce d a ver y good effe l e ': but our conversations w ith hi m conv i nce U 9 that the e e° , nists are sacrificed. Consternation will preva il in our se colony till we shall k now t h e o bj ect of an ill-directed ex pedition, which is a r ea l a b sur di ty if i t i s i nten ded tore us to a restricted occupation." An energetic repre sen t a ti on was ma d e t o the Prince °ll, the very day of his arrival. About two o'clock in the ted ternoon the civil and milit ar y aut h or i t i es wer e pro ° re to his Royal Highness. The unhappy colonists eer, placed in the back ground, when the Duke of Orleans ceiving them, as it were, out of his reach, advanced t e rds er'' the Major of Algiers, a dd ress i ng to hi m so me w°rd s consolation. But the energy of B ar o n Vi a l ar an d t h ose who seer; panied him, the co m pl a i n t s w hi c h t h ey ma d e to the p r ess , against the Governor, wer e suc h t h at hi s Royal Highsb; ' f perceiving the emotion which was caused around I, Ltt ear the presence of Marshal V a ll ee , w h o en d eavo ured te.," to what was said, interrupted th e co l on i sts, i nv iting th,, e 7 00 - repair to his apartments at 5 o ' c l oc k, w h ere he ceu tu tr e. verse with them at his ease. The colonists were duced at the appointed hour. Baron Vialar read A ria , favourable representati on , b u t t h o answer o f the P has not raised our hopes. Wo have always Prod 0- without result ; expeditio ns w hi c h en d i n not hing, ee We stricted occupation, and the ruin of the colonists. i j o g cannot help pitying the sit ua ti on o f t h e P r i nc e, Po i u t i i i - ea to speak frankly, to list en t o a ll comp l a i nts , and - obliged to use evasive expressions. is' I regret it ; th e co l on i sts are i n consterna t i on ; word, we are ruined if the present Governor roes° sot longer.—Le Commerce. BOURSE.—PARrs, TUESDAY, APRIL 2 8 ° L ist First Highest Lowest rice., Price Price. Price. . 113 F o French 5 per Cent' ll3 85 ... 113 90 ... 113 " ". 10 9 ' 4% per Cents ...... lOB 50 ... 108 5 0 ... 103 50 ... l os . 4 per Cents...— lO4 ... 104 ... 104 " g 4 I" 3 per Cents B4 65 ..... 84 35 ... 84 10 .... 30 Bank of france 3385 ...3385 _3350 ....lig° Lattitte Bank I,ooof. Sh lO9O ...lOW ~,1090 ... 5 00 5,000 f. Sb 5200 ...5200 ...5200 Belgian Bank 9 ,0 ... 900 ... 900 ". 101 d 5 per Cents lO4 ... 104 ... 101 " 74 .' 3 per Cents 74 85 ... 74 85 ~. 74 8.5 " 103 Ohio lO3 ... 103 ... 103 " 911 State of New York 99 ... 99 ... 99 Spanish Active 2 9% ... 29% ... 29% '.' 7* Passive 74 ... 74 ... N ." g 45 Portuguese 3 per Cents 24% „. 24S ..., 24% ••• 3li Don Miguel 3% ..• 3 % ... 3 3t ." 10 3 N Japolt tan R ,man lO5 . ... 105 ... 101 ," RAILWAY SHARES, 140 50 St. Germain ... Ma 5 0 ''' 0 50 L.B. 385 ... 386 25 ... 385 •'''' 4Yu 50,1 Orleans . Mulhausen to Thann 490 ... 4 90 ... 49J Strasburg to Bale 4lO ... 410 ... 405 ". 407 ASPHALTES AND BITUMENS. "' 450 Yarn (Maberly's) ....... 0 8 BELGIAN 1 , UNDS—Bituessui, Men.. • Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent l O3 9en. Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per'Cent i4 % ---- 3 per CenL ..... .... ..... Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent. llO Society of Commerce, 4% per Cent 98% Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ........... National Society - ... Exchange on London (short) ..... ..... . . ... ... i- 1 97% —Brussels Papers, April 21. . DUTCH FUNDS.—Amentaaast, Ann. 2 5 •0. Money. .2% Actual Debt, C.% per Cent 52% Po Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. , 1 914 A mort Svadic,4% per cent ..... . ....... Ditto, ditto, 3N per cent. 75% 'F a Commercial Company, 4!-', per cent 1314 'log Ditto (1832 and 1833) 5 per cent. Ditto 1837, 5 per cent. 4014 ye% Loan 1837, 5 per cent. 97 .. Exchange on London, One month ll 1 ' Two months —Dutch Papers, April 29. HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, ATRIL 21 -roue' , Bills. Plot Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Shares l S i l e ls 1 1 00 0534 A nklo-Russian Loan 1 104 Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate Inscription, lit Series .. 10934 Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th 934 Series Ditto in Certificates t...- 42 -9 0, ..... .- Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent Ditto 5 per Cent 933 .-- .... Polish Bonds New ticket Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 75 10 1 % /09 Norwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cent............-.• 4 •••' Spanish, New 3 per Cents. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.-13sumN, APRIL 24 ' gond* ,5,,, W 103% St. Schuld. Sch., 0.,, per cent. - ...... ........"' i" 1027$ Prussian English Loan, 1830.4 per cent. 103% h;xchange on London, three months ... 5 2 —Prussian State GazettetZApill IL LLOYD'S SHIPPING-.(TIT DAY DEAL, APRIL 29.—Wind E.—Sail e d th e Tar, -- g °3 for the Mauritius; William, Allan, Miramichi. ate' LIVERPOOL, APRIL 29.—Wind var i a bl e and motlearov —Arrived the Bengal, Hicks, from Miramichi; mond, Russell, New Orleans ; Virginia, Talbot, o i ; s ei, ton ; Robert Isaac, Trueman, Mobile; Birtnil o wss Robinson, ditto ; Ch amp i on, W arren, St. initto; Castlereagh, Kellar, St. Michael's; Laganthil i F N e lea Pire, Dawe, ditto; Corynthia, ditto. Sailed th c o bec; Jane, M'Dowall, for Jam a i ca; L ean d er , Phelant i w roi ret, Ralph Vrylam, M'Kenz e l, M on t rea l. The a e f nest Branscome, from Lima t o thi s p ort , struc k on sre k....cr f Ferando do Cara Noronh a , B t h F e b., and " save in the boats and lded. ilea 08 FA d LMOUTH, APRIL 2 an B.—Wind variable.--- S a Enchantress, Binckley, for Malaa. no es, BRISTOL, APRIL 29.—Arrived g the Margar et, from Odessa ; Charlotte, St. Michael's. No °. Poor.; APRIL 29.—Sailed the F ame , Thom, .°- r foundland. vo l O rt LANCASTER, APRIL 24.—Sailed th e Thomas ' Ramsay, for Quebec. fOt HARWICH, APRIL 29.—Sailed the Mecklenburg, Riga; Catharine, Claasen, Baltic. oat YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGH T , APRIL 29.--The Fr it on Bloomfield, from St. Michael's to Southampton, Ag"00'00 shore this morning on the s hi ng l es , b ut i s e xpecte' - the flood. frie s, VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.—Tho Diana Of De w ot ter for Quebec, 24th inst., lat. 50, long. 13, by the Cal lt ; to arrived at Cork; Carl H enr i tc h V a l ent i n , Hamb h u v r 'tbe Monte Video, 27th ult., l a t. 43 N , long. 13 WI "„ j doill Goede Venvaehing, arrived at Hely . oet Dart, of ti e " ; ,,,t,, for Madeira, and Alexand er , o f Yarmouth, 21° ia the lat. 47, long. 8, by the Ellen, Gillman, arrire.a Downs • Eliza, of Whitby, from B r i s tol, 20th Incs ins; 49, long. 11, by the Mary A nn , arr i ve d i n the 'l ) ,t 6 0 ' Mary Pope, Bristol to Ne w f oun dl an d, 15th inst. , — l Bll l long. 17 ; Sir F. B. Head, Bristol to Quubc, e ' the inst., lat. 49, long. 12, by th e A m i c i t i a , arrived O. Wight ; Artimes of Workington, 20th inst., lat. 49 ,' Ist' „ 7 ; Harriett and Jessie, Liverpool t o Ch a rleston, 49, long 8, by the Brilliant, Crocker, arrived 'II Downs. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DO') HUNGERFORD MARKET. 2 "i ; to Good supplies, and a fair d eman d. T ur b o t, h'• t o -5. Cod, 2s. 6d. to Bs. ; Salmon, 3s. per lb.; Soles, I W O' per pair; Lobsters, Is. to 4s. Beef, 7d. to 80.; 7id. to Bd. ; Vegetables rising in prices. BILLINGSGATE MARKET. Supplies good, and so was th e d eman d. Turbot ,b :;e: 20s. ; Cod, 2e. 6d. to 8 5 .; Sol es ,6d. t o 4 s . p e r pair to 10' 10d. to 4s. ; Mackerel, 4d. to 6d. ; Haddocks, °U. and Whitings, 4d. to Bd. HAY Fair supplies of most kinds MA RK ar at mket ETS ,. and no alter ;JO to prices. TEA MARKET. ff real 526 chests, for export only, at public s a le, Wen' Pfie fairly, at prices equal to those obtained at the last Xu; oo arel' t for export. For consumption very little doing. I ' price given was 2s. 4d. for Company's Congou. COLONIAL MARKET. ast 5° Business very limited, but prices firm. B.P. '-'°' leo ° slowly, mid. at 645., and fine at 70s. 6d. No publicYs Sugar. There were one or two public sales of IL r• rft i. Coffee, and pric es were a lt ere d were lower. 2-' 44 bl es t Trinidad Cocoa so ld a t b4 s . t o 60 s , 540 bags ,o s. Du" 24(1. for fine quality. 300 b ags B enga l Ri co abou t for fair quality. , . A new grand ballet, founded on Le Lac de lk s sustain e A r i t u oR b , r ht , she, esi principal i Le n ws a t c d A t a i n v cps e rehearsal ehßuasrleaL,c t2he character. a arrived the from p Opera-house' h 3 o i ! s a e; - B some German journals, respect; s d bi ( 4,000 shares in the Ithe • h iron g • en tireli . 0 1 nis railwa are B oer polled. Yesterday the Senate adopted unanimously ta e cti of law relative to the convention. whi" s---tThehaefffaeirarosf te.hePPruer-egehljedi - BRUSSELS, APRIL 2$ The temperature nourb we have had for some days past is without example i n the 0 01 of April, and with a constant north wind. NVell reg oi 9 1 thermometers indicated the day before yesterday degrees and a half, and 19 in the shade by A (about 80 degrees), and 74i Fahrenheit. 0 OSTEND, APRIL 25.—Yesterciay -- f gentleman and lady, both English, were arrested on a n i neJ a satien of having by means of a forged letter of credit t . w h ' e a y . w ere merchant at Brussels out of 18 or 20,000 francs. ready to set out for England, and have been thrown in t o - , t heir It seems that only a third part of the sum was foul:*; w ere possession, and that two other persons, with wham % Is bell° . closely connected, have escaped the pursuit of the 13russ The late Earl of Ranfurly, Viscount Nor". t he and Baron Welles, all of Dungannon, county Tyrone , h in ot lis , peerage of Ireland, and Baron Ranfurly, of B a s in s g o o °S., county Renfrew, in that of the United Kingdom , w th i a nd 0 " the sth of August, 1751, succeeded as Viscount Nori ue von , Resume r the sth Nov., 1818, and married, 2d June, 1711.5, tt. c i n otla Diana Jane Pery, eldest daughter and co-heiress of the Sexton, Viscount Pery, by whom he had issue Tbomain'oth present Viscount Northland (now Earl of Ranfurly) , April, 1786, and married, 28th February, 1815, Iv/ J sto rt, eldest daughter of the late Hon. and Most Rev. William es by Lord Archbishop of Armagh. There are several ehildl;,%lo, this marriage, the eldest of w h om , the Hon. Thos. . (now the Viscount h N of p Northland), rth u l a n n g d an ), no b n. orn 13th Nov., 1816, i, for f t he BENDABLE STONE.--In the Museum o beg ol• Asiatic Society at Calcutta, one object of curiosity is a. . it ing, or elastic stone. This stone is aparently of granite ciab th an d brea en j about two and a half feet by six inches in len and about an inch thick. This stone, beiug lifted at ° ll° it - i yields to the pressure, and from the half begins to bend a 'ac hes lifted, and as the lifted end is raised, the bend aPP.„oliolf, nearer to the further extremity. On the lifting power De.' ,„, r , relaxed, the stone reverts to its former level.—Calcutta I