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TANCRED. NOW BEADY. By B. DISRAELI, M.P. In 3 vols., post Bvo., " — Tattered is a brilliant book, abounding in adventure and enter tainment, rich in:descriPtions and lively touches of character. It bears the stamp, moreover, of inAlviduality. It has entertained us more than either Coningsby or Sybil—and, we think, may stand higher in public favour. It is, unquestionably, the most brilliant and surprising novel of the season.—Atheuteu na. llenry Colburn, Publisher, l 3, Great Marlborough-street. RAILWAY SHAIIIES BY PUBLIC SALE. SRS. LAMO:•.TD and Co., RAILWAY MUM AUCTIONEEIig, beg to thank their Friends lind the reblle for their c ontinued support and patronage, and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, ke., sake place every TIIIESDAY and Fewer, at One o'clock, at the dell of Commerce, 'Threadneedle -street, London, to which place, favours. containing Instructions (with a reference), are respectfully requested to be address. All Scrip and Shareed Certificates must be deposited, the day Previous to their being offered ; and advtces o hs pr results wi Imme•ll be brwarded by the fi rst post aft er the sale, aud toceeds Stately disposed of according to instructions . Offices, Hall of Commerce. Threadr____don. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. LAST NIGHT BEFORE EASTER. TO-M ORROW EVENING, March 27, will be revived (first time this seEason) Verdi's Opera, RNANI. 3ldme Casten= ; Giovanna, Mame. SolariCarlos, Sig. -Saperehl ; Rny-Gomez, Sig. Douche ; Ernani, S!g. Fraschini. Betw. en the acts of the Opera, a Divertiseinent from the Baliet ai COUALIA, In which will be introduced the admired Pas de !a Rociere, by 3ldlle. Marie Taglioni. To conclude with a new Ballet, in Two Tableaux, by M. Paul Tag- Front. the music by Signor Prigni, entitled THEA ; OU, LA. FEE AUX FLEETS. Principal characters by MdLe. C. Rosati, :Mlle. Marie Taglloti, 31. Paul Taglioni, &c. The doors open at Seven. The Opora to commence at Half-pa:l Seven o'clock. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVEN C GARDEN, zletabilshed for the purpose of rendering a more perfect performance ofthe Lyric Drama then has hitherto been attained in this country. Under the Direction and Management of Mr. BEALE. The Nobility. Gentry, and Patrons of Mole, are respectfully in lbrmed that the Royal Italian Opera will open the first week in April. It is proposed to produce, in the course of the eeason, some of the established works of Clinarom, Mozart, Rossini, Meyerteer, and others of the more modern Italian School, including Operas by Benin% Doni tette Mereadante, and Verdi, on a scale of the utmost perfection in very department ; to which Intent the manairement has assembled a lempany embracing the greatest and most varied talent in Europe. PRIMI SOPRANI.—?Madame Grist and Madame Persiani (her first appearance in London for t hree years), Madame ROIICOIII and Mdlie. Stefianoni (of the Theatre La Scala, in Milan, her first ap pearance in this oouutry). CONTRALTI. —Signora Alboni (of the Theatre La Scala, Milan, and of the Imperial Theatre in V ienna, her first appearance in this gauntry), and Mademoiselle Corbari. TE'NORL—Siger Mario, Signor Salyntor Levies (of the Imperial Theatre of St. Petersteirgh, his first appearance in this country), Signer Tulli (of the Theatre San Carlo, in Naples, his first appear ance in this country), and Signor Salvi (ot the Theatre La Scala, in Milan, and of the Imperial Theatres in Vienna and St. Petersbargh, kis first appearance on the Italian stage in England). PRIMI BASSI BARITONI—Signor Temburini and Signor Giorgi() Ronconi. PRI3II BASSI rnoroNnr—Signor Marini (of the Theatres San Carlo, Naples, La Scala, Milan, and the Imperial Theatre, Vienna, his first appearance in this country), Signor Angelo Alba (of the Theatre Royal, Madrid, his first appearance in this country), and Signor Polonini (of the Imperial Theatre, Vienna, his first appear ance in this country.) ?RI ell BASSI COMICI —Signor Pietro Ley (of the tr Theae Royal Madrid, his first appearance in this country), and Signor Agostino Revere (of the Theatres Royal, Naples, Milan, Vienna, and St. Pe tensburgh, his first appearance in this country). Seconds Donne—Madame Antoinetta Mollidori (of the Theatre La Seale, In Milan), Mademoiselle Amelia Linari, Mademoiselle Luigina Seeonde Tenore—Signor Emmannele Slang (of the Theatre San Carlo in Naples). Director of the Music, Composer, and Conductor —Mr. Costa. A powerfid and numerous CHORUS of chosen and experienced lingers will complete the Vocal Department. Chorus Master — Signer Ilonconstglio. Prompter —Signor Monterasl. t The ORCHESTRA, turmoil of Artistes posseseing the highest distin srxecutive powers, will cemprlee amo n g its members Eighty guished professors. The Military Band of the Coldstream Guards will be under the direction of Mr. Godfrey. An ORGAN, of extensive compsss, has been expressly erected De the theatre by Messrs. Flight and Son. Organist-31r. V. The BILLET, of a brilliant and cos tly character, will close Novello. the performance of the es ening, and no Divertissement will be suffered between the acts of the Opera. The Director has the pleasure to announce that he has concluded an engagement with Mademoiselle Penny Elesler ; and, daring the season, the following eminent Danseuses will appear : —Premieres D3IIACIISC-3iademolielle Dumi tetra (of the Grand Opera, Paris), and Mademoiselle l'lunkett (of the Grand Opera, Paris), Mademoiselle Berlin (of the Imperial Theatre, Vienna, her first appearance in this country), Mademoiselle lieodot (of the Theatre Royal, Madrid), Mademoiselle Marietta Baderna (of the Theatre La Scala, Milan), and Mademoiselle Fuoco (of the Academie Royale de Itari). Monsieur Petipa (of the Grand Opera, Paris), Monsieur Collide (of the Theatre Royal, Madrid), Monsieur Ferdinand(' Croce, Monsieur Del:Crier (of the Grand Opera, Paris), and Monsieur Auguste elabille (of the Grand Opera, Paris). Maitre(' des Ballets—Monsieur Albert (of the Grand Opera, Paris), and Monsieur Blasts .(of the Theatre La Scala, Milan). Leader of the Ballet—Mr. Alfred Mellon. RegiSSCUT de la Dense Mr. O'Bryan. Composer—Signor Alessandro Curini (of the San Carlo Theatre, Naples). TIIE THEATRE.—To render the Interior at once commodious, elegant, and comfortable, it has been entirely reconstructed and decorated, under the immediate direction and after designs of 14. Albano, Eta., C.E., with every attention directed to its proper ventilation. The Decorations have been executed by Mr. Ponsouby. The Management has happily secured the artistic skill of Signori Terri and Verardi (of the Theatre Hellen, in Paris), to e mbellish the ceiling and to prepare a New Drop Sc ene. The approaches to the Theatre will be found improved, by a carriage way being formed immediately under the Portico in Bow-street, whereby parties can leave or enter their carriages without exposure to the weather ; and by increased facilities for ingress and egress. The Refreshment Room will be under the superintendence of Mr. J. G. Watson. Tickets, Stalls, and Boxes, for the night or season, to be obtained et the Box Office, Row-street ; and at Messrs. Cramer, Beale, and Co.'s, 201, Regent-street. THEATRE ROYAL DRUB Y-L AN E. THIS EVENING Will be performed the new Grand o;,e , a, entitled MA.TILD.I. OF NUNGART. Count Magnus, Mr. Borrani; Podiebral, Mr. 13arri• eon ; Mathias, Mr. Weiss ; Matilda, 31-iss Ralaforth; Lilla, Miss B. Isaacs. To conclude with a new Ballet, entitled SPANISH GALLAN TRIES. Principal chara:ters by MM. Croce, Adrlen, Tell; Mdllos. Baderna, Louise. Adele.. Et. Louln, and Benard. ,THEATRE ROYAL, lIAYMAItKET. Tinder the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVF.NIia.; Will be pertbrmed the new and original Comedy, called THE SCHOOL FOR , SCHEMING. Principal characters by Messrs. Far m, Stuart, Backstone, Howe, Selby, Brindal, Mrs. Glover, Mrs. tlumby, Mrs. Tarnold, Miss Fortescue, Miss Bennett, Miss Rey aolds, ♦fter which, the Comic Drama, called THE LIGHT TROOPS OF ST. JAMES'S. Master Thomas Smallbones, Mr. Buckstone ; Waldo of Honour to the Queen, Mrs. Clitford, Mrs. Seymour, Mrs. Yarnold, Miss Carre, Miss Telbin, and Mrs. Buckingham ; Jane Roberts, Miss Reynolds. To oonslude with the Original Grand Fairy Extravaganza, called THE INVISIBLE PRINCE; or, the Island of Tranquil Dalights. Principal characters by Mr. James Bland, :.lies P.Dorton, Mrs. L. S. Buckingham, Miss Reynolds, and Miss Julia Bennett. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. Under the Management of Mrs. Keeley. LIST NIGHT OF THE SEASON, UNTIL EASTER MONDAY. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Drama of MARTIN CIIUZZLEWIT. Young Bailey, Mrs. Keeley; Sairey Gamp, Mr. Keeley ; recksniff, Mr. Matthews ; Tigg, Mr. Wigan ; Chazziewit, Mr. Emery ; Pinch, hr. Meadows. After which, the splendid new Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE ENCHANTED FOREST; or. Bear, Eagle, and Dolphin. Yitinolpal characters by Mrs. Keeley, Miss Villars, Miss Bromley, miss K. Daly, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Laidlaw, Miss Howard, Mr. Keeley, Mr. Meadows, Mr. Bonder, Mr. Kinloch, Mr. Bellingham. and Mr. Wigan. To ocasclude with MRS. WHITE. Characters by Messrs. Oxberry Tuner, K.lniosh. Miss Villars, Miss Arden, and Miss Turner. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. 'Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING Will be perfbrmed the original Drama, called THE FLOWERS Si THE FOREST ; a Gipsy Story. Cheap John, Mr. Wright ; Ishmael, Mr. 0. Smith ; the Kinchln, Mr. P. Bedford ; Leybourne, Mr. Worrell ; Cynthia, Madame Celeste ; Lemuel, Miss Woolgar ; Starlight Boss, Mrs. FitZWillidlll; Lady Agnes, Miss Harding. After which the Farce, called THE MOTHER AND CHILD ARE DOING WELL. Characters by Messrs. Lambert, Paul Bedford Worrell, Wright, Mrs. Laws, and Miss Harding. To conclude with the Farce of THE MUMMY. In which Messrs. Lambert, Worrell, Wright, Waye, Ryan, Cullenford, Miss Harding, lad Mrs. Matthews will perform. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. J. M. Maddox, solo I.vssee and Manager. THIS EVENING be performed Bellini's Opera Seria, entitled .NORMA. Yr. Barker; Oroveso, Mr. Leffler ; Flavins, Mr. Wynn ; Adelgisa, Miss A. Romer; Clotilda, Miss Rourke ; Norma, Miss Hassan°. Atter which. a Concert by the New Orleans ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS. To conclude with the new Drama, entitled DREAMS OF THE HEAZT. Brientle, Mr. Ryder ; Clermont, Mr Hughes ; Bouteville, Mr. Vinning ; Montaran, Mr. Harris: Hermine, Mrs. Stirling; Smiles., Mrs. Folbruke ; Teresine, Miss Marshall. lIRRNCII PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Comedie of LE CAPITAINE ROQUE TINBITTE. Roqueflnette, M. Lafont ; Baron de Villebranche, 31. Cartigny ; Barone de Villebranche, 31dlle Vallee. To conclude with the Comedie-Vaudeville, entitled MARIAGE AU II'AMBOUR. Lambert, M. Laiont ; Fleur des Pots, M. A. Touses ; Louise d'Obernay, Mdlle. Fargueil. Boxes, 66.. Pit, 3s. 6d. , Stalls, 35.; Gallery, 2s. Doors opened at half--past Seven, and the performances commence at Eight. Private Boxes, Stalls, and Places may be engaged at Mitchell's Library, 33, Bond-street; and at the Box-office. ETHIOPIAN IiERENADERS, ST. JAMES'S TIIEATRE. The eelebrated ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, Pell, Harrington White, Stanwood, and G ermon, will give their Inimitable ENTER TAINMENTS, at the above Theatre, TO-MORROW EVENING, March IT (being their hut appearaace before Easter). Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Amphitheatre, 2s. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMI'IIITHEATRE, Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. ruder the patronage of the Queen, l'rince Albert, and other Members of the Royai ' amily. The public is respectfully apprized, that the most splendid and effective Novelties are in preparation for the opening of the Summer Beason, which commences on EASTER MONDAY, April 5, when will be presented a gorgeous Equestrian and Dramatic Spectacle, embracing the whole of the extensive resources of this Establishment. great care and attention will also be given to the accommtdation of Vie public in each department of the Theatre. THIS EVENING Will be performed 51r Walter Scott's KENILWORTII ; or, The golden Days of England's Elizabeth. Entire change of the SCENES of the CIRCLE ; and other h'ghly attractive Entertainments. Box-Witco open trent eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at six sad eormneace at half-past six o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mc. W. Broadfoot. mow THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, MARCH 26. TaxtusoirTuß, Lowest, 40 ; Highest. 55 ; Noon, 55. BAROMETER, 30.05.—Wind S.W., cloudy. HUM WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Mo rning .. 43 minutes after 9. Evening .. 24 rninctei sfter 10. .; iv, 4 ,` • s sow isqv A ggiEL ,- ..7fof.r-f- , vim • •,.:* k - f.t' t rs 1C•4•1F777 , • ANL - ',Afito, • mo•A or r - 0 ' ' i itniliA4 _, -, :z Ant LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1847. The Lords met at Five. The Markets an Fairs Clauses Bill, the Commis sioners Clauses, and the 'Waterworks Clauses, respee _ Lively passed through Committee. On the motion for the third reading of the Drainage of Lands Bill, The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH moved the insertion of the clause, limiting the amount of money to be expended in carrying the B:11 into effect. The Earl of MINTO opposed t he clause, w hich was negatived without a division, and the Bill was read a third time and passed. Lord STANLEY moved fur the production of certain correspondence which had taken place between the Gc- N ' THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 26, 1847. vernment and Sir LUMLEY WILMOT, the Governor of Van Diemen's Land. Charges wholly false and calumnious affecting the private moral character of Sir EARDLEY WILMOT bad been sent to the Colonial-office. Those charges had been proved to be false and ca lumnious, and, as an act of justice to Sir EARDLEY WILMOT, he moved for the production of these papers. speakers, who, not satisfied with the moderation and justice of those propositions, a triumph being given to neither party, desire that their own extreme views should be adopted. One class contend that the area of taxation should be con siderably reduced, another that it should be extended. One demands a townland, or at the utmost a parochial rating, all the larger parishes being divided into two or more divisions; while others assert that great ineonvenince would arise from any system of subdivision, that the rates should be charged on the whole body of the union, . and that there should be union settlements, and an uniformity of rating. One party objects to the number of ex officio guardians, another desires that every magistrate should be appointed. Mean while the Government pursue the even tenor of their way, and are supported on each division by the most decisive majorities. It is now perfectly manifest that an effectual poor-law is necessary, not merely for the welfare of Ireland and the support of her people, but also for the protection of English industry and the national resources. The English people freely took upon themselves the extraordinary charges rendered neces sary for the support of the people deprived of their ordi nary description of food by the visitation of PROVIDENCE. They cheerfully assented to the proposition that it should be regarded as a national calamity, and that a considerable portion of the expenditure should be defrayed from the national exchequer. They mur mured not at the burdens thereby entailed upon them. All they required in return for these sacri fices was, that the Irish people should try to help themselves for the future ; that they should adopt such precautions as would be taken by reasonable and prudent men, who knew that they had only their own exertions to depend on in order to prevent the recur rence :of similar distress and destitution in their unhappy land. This is a moderate and reasonable demand, which cannot be slighted or despised. A further appeal to English sympathies would come with a peculiarly bad grace from those who by their own apathy and negligence permitted the land to remain fallow, and unproductive, and were thus chiefly responsible for the deficiency in a nations' food. The time, however, is passing away and the lands are still left uncultivated and untilled, and there is but a scanty preparation for the coming harvest. What ever may be the causes of this untoward state of affairs, the proprietors and occupants of the soil must be the chief sufferers, if it be persevered in. The real property of the kingdom must be responsible to the utmost farthing for the maintenance of the people belonging to it, and if it be Hot made available to the utmost extent, if its capabilities are suffered to remain latent and undeveloped, all those interested therein may pay the penalty. There is no want of sufficient means for tilling the Earl GREY would not, under the peculiar circum stances of the case, oppose the motion, which was agreed to. Some unopposed returns were then moved for, and their Lordships adjourned. The Commons met at Twelve o'clock. Lord G. BENTINCK stated, in answer to a question, that he should, after Easter, move an address to her MAJESTY, praying that decisive measures may be taken for obtaining redress for the creditors of the Spanish Government, On the motion of Sir G. GREY the thanks of the House were voted to Dr. DEALTaY for his Sermon on the Fast Day. A somewhat angry discussion ensued on the subject of the dismissal of persons from the public works in Ireland, in the course of which the conduct of the Go vernment was attacked by Lord G. BENTINCK, whose attack, however, was, to use the words of the CHAN• CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, but a repetition of his speech on a former evening. In the course of the dis cussion Mr. WILLIAMS suggested that the statements of the expenditure for Ireland should be weekly laid on the table of the House, in order to show how much this country was doing for Ireland, and how little the Irish landlords were doing for their own countrymen. In answer to Lord SANDON, it was stated by Sir G. GREY that a clause would be introduced in the Vagrancy Bill, authorising the authorities in this country to re move Irish paupers to their homes. In the course of a short discussion which ensued, Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that a Vagrancy Bill for Ireland would shortly be introduced, and informed that House that from the accounts he had received, he en • tertained no apprehension of any disturbance in conse quence of the discharge of persons from the public works. In answer to Mr. COLLETT, Lord JOHN RUSSELL stated that the first Tuesday after Easter, he should bring the Ecclesiastical Commission Bill before the House. The House then ;rent into Committee on the Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill. Mr. J. O'CoNNELL moved the omission of the clause increasing the ex-officio guardians from one-fourth to one-half. _ _ _ Sir G. GREY opposed the motion, and said that it would be better to meet any evils that might arise by a special enactment. After some discussion the Committee divided, when there appeared— For the clause 154 For the amendment Majority in favour of the clause —l2B Mr. Sulw then moved an amendment, 'appointing justices resident in unions ex-officio guardians, but with- drew it at the suggestion of Lord J. RUSSELL. Mr. J. O'CONNELL proposed an amendment, the effect of which would be to make borough magistrates ex-Qfileio guardians as well as county magistrates. This amend ment was likewisß negatived on a division by a majority of 112, the numbers being, for the original clause, 133 ; for the amendment, 21. Mr. SHAW postponed the amendment of which he had given notice, until the bringing up the report. Clauses up to 17 were agreed to, and the House resumed. The other orders of the day were disposed of, and the House adjourned at a Quarter to Seven o'clock. land, save, perhaps, in the case of the cottier. The occupiers of farms of 20 acres and upwards are as well able as ever to take all the necessary steps, and to incur all the usual expense. The high price of corn and the fair amount of the crops fully compen sated for the lamentable failure of the potato, which fell with such crushing force upon the smaller holdings. They have dispensed with the la bourers, to whom they were accustomed to give employment in other years ; in many, indeed we believe the majority of instances, the landlord's rent has been withheld, while the deposits in the savings' banks and the private hoards both of money and corn have been considerably augmented. And yet they still hang back, in the vain and ridiculous expectation that the Government will not only supply seed, but will also send men from the public works to till the lands; while the occupiers, looking on in listless indolence, will have every necessary preparation for the harvest made for them without either labour or expense, and be permitted to reap where they have not sown, to enjoy fruits for which they have not toiled. That such has been the motive it is impos sible to doubt. An outcry has been raised against the Government for employing the labourer on un productive works, and it has been asserted that a sufficiency of labour could not be obtained by the farmers for the necessary cropping of the lands—and this notwithstanding the regulation that any farmer requiring men could obtain them by making applica tion to the inspectors. A certain proportion of the labourers have been discharged, in pursuance of the recent Treasury minute. A new clamour is excited for sending them away, while there are such quantities of lands afford ing such ample occupation. We had hoped that the decisive and energetic statement of the Premier would have awakened the people from their delusion so soon as it was fully promulgated; but it appears there is another ground which is not without its effect in keeping the land uncultivated. The landlords are not willing to give a single shilling un less secured that the advance will be applied to the contemplated purpose, and that they will be repaid the amount out of the produce, while the tenants hang back lest the future crop may be made liable for the arrears of rent. The public generally cannot suffer from these petty squabbles. The Poor-law will com 'pel a maintenance from the land. The English will, not again interfere to avert the destruction that is actually courted, and both landlord and tenant will be involved in one common destruction if these dis putes are not speedily and amicably arranged. The inauguration of the Prince ALBERT as Chan cellor of the University of Cambridge cannot be re garded by any reflective man as a merely idle cere monial. By the investiture of his Royal Highness with the dignities and prerogatives of that venerable office a splendid Geld is opened for the display of those acquirements and of that natural capacity which his Royal Highness is said to possess, and for their direct application to the advantage of the nation in a manner honourable to himself and profitable to Great Britain. Besides which, the interests of the illustrious Consort of our SOVEREIGN are thereby more intimately interwoven with the general interests and institutions of the population. Considering the youth and the acknowledged abilities of Prince ALBERT, and re membering that it has been the immemorial custom of our academical seats of learning to elect to the Chancellorship some personage whose elevated rank and distinguished character may afford them something like encouragement and protection, it is impossible to deny that the authorities of Cambridge have made a most becoming selection. Not but what scholar ship and philosophy may flourish without being fostered by the presidence of royalty; not but what individual eminence in the acquisition of classical lore, or in the mastery of the abstruser sciences, may be attained without the interference of sovereignty. The advantages which must accrue to Cam bridge, from the installation of his Royal Highness as Chancellor, are of a nobler character than that of merely establishing an immediate connexion between the college and the palace. Those advantages will be of a kind similar to the benefits conferred upon the renowned universities of Continental Europe by the patronage of enlightened rulers and the counte nance of patriotic dignitaries. The incitement con sequent upon the supervision of any august per sonage, particularly when that personage is so directly associated with the head of the Constitution, has invariably proved beneficial not merely to the cause of learning itself, but to the cause moreover of national education. In our two noble institutions, the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge—Universities rendered illus trious by the glory of the minds which they have cultured—we find the most appropriate channels for the employment of the talents of our Princes in a manner calculated to aid in the intellectual im provement of the people. Otherwise royal personages are debarred from the opportunities of turning their moral and mental endowments to the common ad vantage; otherwise the gifts conferred on them by GOD are deteriorated by the very splendour of their position ; they are rendered merely the ornaments of a Court or the means of obtaining distinction in the pastimes of the field. In times of feudality the chieftains of the nation acquired renown by partici pating in the fantastic chivalry of the crusades, or in leading on their serfs to the conquest and spoliation of adjacent states. In an age of civilisation, it is but right that the Consort of the SOVEREIGN should be enabled to acquire a somewhat more creditable dis tinction, by emulating the promoters of erudition, and gaiding the youth of England in the benignant cam paigns of scientific research and literary investigation. With Cambridge and Oxford arc peculiarly blended the names and memories of our immortal country men. In a particular manner they are ren dered the sacred depositories of our national genius, by the antiquity of their foundation and the renown they have acquired. Before the munificence of Cardinal WOLSEY had been evinced towards Oxford, the sister Universities had rendered themselves the particular objects of monarchical and ministerial regard. Since that period they have developed their powers in a ratio proportioned to the advancing spirit of the times, and consequently they are more than ever entitled to the consideration of the State and to the benefits arising from the intellectual capacities of our Princes. Now, that his Royal Highness the Prince ALBERT has been formally installed as the Chancellor of Cambridge, he possesses the means of asserting the enlightenment of his character, and of confirming the accuracy of those rumours which have mentioned him as a man of unusual endow ments. By the on Ails which have become familiar to the multitude, in spite of the impenetrable secrecies of the royal household, Prince ALBERT is reported to be profoundly versed as a classical scholar, to be a proficient in living languages, to be an ingenious artist, a skilful musician, and an un affected enthusiast in the natural sciences ; he is de scribed by those competent to form an estimate of his capabilities to be familiarly acquainted with the various departments of literature and the multiform phases of philosophy. An opportunity is now afforded his Royal Highness of employing those talents and ac quirements in a manner which may elevate him to the dignity of being a promoter of education, a bene factor of the subjects of his August Spouse, and a patriotic Prince of that England in which he can never be regarded as a foreigner. The affairs of Ireland continue to occupy the almost undivided attention of the Senate, to the ex clusion of other matters. Each succeeding clause of the Poor-law for that country is contested with a desperate energy, and the propo3itions of the Govern ment on each point are opposed by the different up the case, " condemned the conduct of the counsel, in producing a newspaper report for the purpose of prejudicing the minds of the jury. He really con sidered there was too much liberty taken by some of the Learned Counsel in that court, which was not allowed in any other, and which took up unnecessarily the time of the public." In the first place, we must remark that we are infi nitely more inclined to take our lesson of what is most conducive to the pure administration of justice from the lips of Judge COLERIDGE than from those of Mr. J. W. FRESIIFIELD ; and in the next, we must inform this gentleman that, in the Superior Courts a reference to a newspaper report is not con sidered irrelevant or impertinent, where the case is ef so recent a date as to have precluded its appearance in the usual professional reports of legal proceed ings. Under such circumstances, the newspaper report is always received quantum valeat ; and the Judge, so far from taking umbrage at the reference, feels indebted to counsel for inviting his attention t , ) the latest opinions of his Learned Colleagues. 'Where the point raised happens to be one of an exclusively legal character, and such as could not be well under stood except by those thoroughly conversant with the law, none but a strictly professional report would have much weight with the Court ; but, in the case before us, those " who run may read," and it were almost impossible for any one of ordinary capacity to mistake the purport of Judge COLERIDGE'S obser vations. Mr. FRESHFIELD should remember that " he is a wise man who speaks little." Some disturbances, caused by the dearness of pro visions, took place at Prague on the 14th. The mob broke into four bakers' shops, and plundered them. Troops were ordered to be in readiness, in case of their services being required, and the wealthier jobs tants have taken measures for supplying bread to such as may be in want. The Senate of Frankfort has suspended the duty upon the import of rice until September next. Most of the other states of the Zollverein have already taken the same measure. A letter from lt.)me says— " Monsignor Grassellini, Governor of Rome, had just adopted a liberal reform for the police, of which ho is Direc tor-General. The police is for the future to occupy itself with actions, and not with opinions, and will thus have liberty to the development of social life. M. Grassellini has also occupied himself with prisons. Ile lately visited that of the Palazzo Madama. On seeing its horrible subterranean cel 7 s, he caused six prisoners who were confined in them to be set at liberty, and then gave orders to put the prison in a better state. Investigatious are going o❑ previous to the trial of the persons accused of having taken part in the plots dis covered here, at Ancona, and at several other places. The King of Naples, who was expected at Rome at the coin• mencement of Lent, has not arrived. This has caused some disquietude, because it is supposed that Austria will endea your to prevent the visit." _ _ Letters from Ferrara state th't the Legate, the director of the police, and other employes, disliked by the population, had taken their departure. It is also stated that, in compliance with a summons from the municipal authorities, the Austrian garrison had quitted the Mura degli Aygioli, of which it had taken possession as an exercise ground. The Levant mail brings advices from Constantinople of the Bth, and from Athens of the 10th instant. The differences between the Governments of Turkey and Greece still continued. The English and French Ambassadors had remonstrated with the Turkish Ministry against certain concessions which they proposed to make to Russia in the treaty of commerce which the Porte is at present negotiating with that power. The news from Athens announces the recovery of King OTIIO from his late illness, and the capture of several bandits—among others of the notorious THOM& MELLISSOVA. Madrid journals of the 19th have arrived. General SERRANO still remained concealed, and as no steps have been taken to bring him to a court-t martial, it was supposed the Ministry would let the matter drop if the General would abstain from inter fering in politics. The QUEEN has signed several decrees which have recently been presented to her by the Ministry, and her MAJESTY and the President of the Council appear to be on the most perfect terms of intelligence. Rumours, however, were still cur rent in Madrid of the probability of the speedy advent to office of a Pacheco and Miraflores Ministry, al though the friends of those gentlemen assert tha neither of them is at present prepared to take office. In the Chamber of Deputies, on the 17th, a long discussion took place relative to the decree prohibiting the exportation of corn. The Minister of Marine defended the measure, by urging that it was neces sary to adopt it, owing to the present situation of the country and the alarm felt by the people. But he hoped it would only be temporary, and he promised that the Government would present a law on the subject. A Deputy proposed a vote of censure on the Government for having issued the decree, but the Chamber decided against the motion by a majority of 142 votes to 40. On the 18th Senor CORTINA. moved that the petition of Senor OLOZAGA should be taken into consideration. The Chamber, however, con tented itself with referring the petition to the Elec tion Committee. The English Ambassador had an interview with the QUEEN on the 18th. It was reported in Madrid on the 19th that the Ministry intended to withdraw the Bill for a new loan, on the assigned ground that the state of the country is not sucli as to render any new military expenditure necessary. There are per sons however who attribute this reported intention to the distressed state of the public funds, which is de cidedly unfavourable to a new loan. The prices of food in Madrid are every day in creasing, and it is said that very great distress exists in the Balearic Isles. Sooner or later the force of public opinion gains its righteous ends. There is, however, a body of men, necessarily armed with considerable authority, whose services are indispensable, from the nature of the duties which they are called upon to perform, and whose remuneration for the same constitutes a heavy item of public expenditure, upon whom the weight of popular censure, with respect either to the adminis tration of the system under which they are embodied, or the personal delinquencies of which so many of them have of late, from time to time, been proved to be guilty, appears to produce but little impression. We allude to the;police force. Notwithstanding that, in common with other journals, we have felt our selves constrained, from a regard to the liberty and general welfare of the subject, to offer some severe strictures upon the conduct of the police, in its different grades 7 -notwithstanding the sharpri:ebukes which their grave errors have met with from some of the magistrates, and even from the judges themselves, the police authorities seem to treat with consummate indifference the just reflections which, from different influential quarters, have been cast upon their abuse of the im portant functions with which they are entrusted. We are, nevertheless, convinced that their obdu racy will be speedily mastered. We have recently had an assurance in Parliament from the Master of the Mint, that the reprehensible practice of remune rating policemen who give evidence on trials affect ing the coinage will be abandoned. We are indebted to the Lord Chief Baron for this salutary alteration, made in consequence of the sweeping condemnation which he passed from the bench upon the obnoxious practice ; and there is a great probability that the public will have reason to feel grateful to Mr. Justice COLERIDGE for the relinquishment of another practice of a most atrocious character. At the Cambridge Assizes a man was indicted for the orim2 of arson. An inspector of police came forward to depose that, having listened outside the cell, he had overheard the prisoner make certain statements of an inculpatory character. Justice COLBRIDGB rtjected the testimony—first, because "such evidence as this ought always to be looked upon with great distrust and jealousy by a jury, who might well doubt the sources whence it arose." Hereupon the inspector declared that he had fre quently been blamed by his superiors on former oc casions for omitting to obtain such evidence. The Judge at once rejoined, "that, if that were so, there was no wonder that remarks were made on the testimony of policemen," and condemned the practice as one which ought to be discontinued for the future. Unless, indeed, the police authorities be desirous, as it would appear they are, of acquiring the unen viable reputation of a VIDOCQ, they had better lose no time in profiting by this trenchant reproof of an English Judge. One word to the Chairman of the Surrey Ses sions. An inspector of the Guildford police gave evidence, yesterday, in support of an indictment of precisely the same "eaves-drop- I ping" description with that to which we have above I referred. On this evidence the counsel for the prisoner commented very severely, and read a report from the Times of the refusal of Mr. Justice COLERIDGE to re ceive such testimony. The Chairman, in summing A letter from Barcelona of the 16th says— " General Pavia took possession of his post on the 13th, the day after his arrival, and received at once the felicita tions of the officers of the garrison at the palace of the Cap tain-General ; General Breton was still residing there, to whom the new Governor of Catalonia has always shown the greatest deference. On the 14th the principal authorities of the town, and the foreign Consuls paid a ♦isit to General Pavia, and took leave of General Breton. As the two steamers, the Volcano and the Blasco, which General Breton was waiting for, in order to proceed to Port Yendres, have arrived at Barcelona, with troops, it is probable that he will soon take his departure. General Pavia, on taking posses sion of his post, has addressed a proclamation to the Catelo nians. I have read this document, which appears to me somewhat insignificant; it is, however, exempt from any monstrous enactments, impossible to be carried into execu tion, and which, in threatening every one, cause apprehen sion to none." MADRID BOLSA, MARCH 18.—The Three per Cents. were done on the 18th at 31k for cash; the Five per Cents. at 19; the Debt without Interest at 51; and the Coupons at 17. The Bourse remained closed on the 19th, it being the feast of St. Joseph. We bare received the Paris papers of Wednesday. It is evident from the following article in the Dames that the split in the Conservative camp, a 3 indicated by the election of M. LEON DE MALTZ VILLE to the Vice-Presidency of the Chamber, is of a more serious nature than had been imagined. " How will the debate on M. DUVERGIER DE HAURANTIR'S proposition end ?" asks the Journal des Debats. " Two days since the question would, we confess, have caused na to smile. After the vote of Monday, it appears doubtful. Those who have elected M. de Malleville re joice loudly over what they have accomplished. They as sume the airs of masters with the Ministry and the majority; they dictate their conditions; they menace to unite with the Opposition to carry the resolution, as they coalesced to carry the election of M. de Dlalleville, should the Ministry not engage to grant them, before the conclusion of the pre sent Legislature, the adjonction des capacites (which would give the members of the liberal profession the right to vote at elections). This is their ultimatum. It is not, let it be well understood, the adjonction des capacites in which they find an interest, but the desire they feel to increase their importance, and to insure themselves the advantage of a trifling suc cess b y compe lli n g the Government and the Chamber to pass under their Caudine Forks. They are not 20, and they pretend to impose their law on 200 Conserva tives I We are convinced, however, that neither the Minis try nor the majority will consent to suffer such a humlia tion. We must incur the risk; we must ascertain whether we are at the mercy of twenty pretended Con servatives, who join our ranks for the purpose of betray ing us to the enemy. The Ministry would commit an unpardonable fault, not only by entering upon such an engagement, but by not refusing with determination to entertain it: the Ministers would alienate their dignity and independence, and would deserve that all honourable men amongst the majority should desert them. What, more over, would such an engagement signify but that our elec toral law requires to be reformed, and why, therefore, refuse to take M. Duvergier de Hanranne's proposition into consi deration ? If the breach is to be opened, why not to all systems? You have your ideas of electoral reform, but who told you that we had not ours? Each person may sacrifice his differences and his particular views to the necessity of maintaining what exists; but if we destroy wh , is, each person ought to po ssess the right of presenting eas, and il ii if in that case the p ro position of M. Duvergier de lauranne merits consideration as well as another. Is it because M. Duvergier is not a Progressist Conservative ? Ask himself." The number of seceders is, according to all ac- counts, considerably underrated by the Debuts. They have as their leader one of the most bold and reckless of political adventurers, one of the most cunning of Court intriguers, M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN, a gentle man not altogether unknown in the courts of justice, the proprietor of the Prene, which, as the organ of the new party, has put forth the following ma- nifesto : " The famous cry of alarm of ' Unfortunate France ! nn- Fortunate King uttered by the Journal des Debuts, may still be remembered. Yesterday the same journal sends forth the following cry of distress not less plaintive. ' An other blow must not be waited for to awake , or perhaps it will be too late.' What then has happened? Has M. Gifizot been sacrificed to Lord Palmerston, as formerly M. de __..... Chlteaubriand to M. de Villele ? Has M. Thiers, ;rho is to the Revolution of 1830 what the Prince de Polignac was to the Restoration of 1815—the danger which threatened it— been called on to form a new Cabinet ? No, nothing of all that has occurred. What has happened is of a very different gravity ; M. Leon de Maleville has been elected President of the Chamber, when opposed to M. Duprat ! That is not all ; there have been found amongst the majority- a certain num ber of undisciplined members, who refused to urge the spirit of intolerance to the point of excluding systematically from every committee all the Deputies of the Opposition. That is still not all ; three burea s ux out of nine — authorised the reading of M. Duvergier de Ilauranne's proposition, being unwilling that the Conservative party could be reproached with what it never fails to upbraid the Opposition, namely, to have buried in 1840 the proposition of M. de Remilly. It is easy to be seen, therefore, that the majority is dissolved, that France is undone! if any one doubts it, let him read the article of the Debuts. (Here the Presse gives the article in question, and then continues.) But let that journal set its mind at rest; if there is any danger to be feared for the ma jority, it is not an impartiality, but an intolerance. The im partiality which the Debate rallies so agreeably has swelled the ranks of the majorities, but never dissolved them. W hat ruined the Restoration was not an excess of toleration ; if the Restoration had been less exclusive, it would not have given the Debate the triumph and the grief of beholding the verification of its prophetic words—Unfortunate _France Unfortunate King I" The Court, in the meanwhile, is steadily pursuing its reactionary policy. One of the boasts of the French nation was, that by the revolution of 1830 they had freed themselves from the yoke of the old nobility. The King of the Barricades, however, is preparing the way for the restoration of that yoke. On this subject we find the following curious article in the Conslitutionnel :— "Some time before the death of M. Martin (du Nord) it was reported that he had been made a Count. It was even supposed that this ennoblement was a consolation accorded in extremis to the fallen Keeper of the Seals, for the loss of health and power that he had sustained, a sort of plaything given to the sick man to amuse him in his sufferings. This supposisition was an error; it is now certain that M. Martin had been a Count two years, but that he had not dared to decorate himself publicly with his new title. That is not all; it is said that there are at this moment a great number of counts, of marquises, and even of dukes, of more or less recent creation, of whose existence no one dreams. All these nobles in petto await with impatience a favourbble oc .asion to prouuce ostensibly their ridiculous titles; but public opinion does not yet appear to them sufficiently well disposed, or rather without doubt the Government interdicts them for some little time longer from giving themselves this joy. They appear then in the world as simple roturiers, having secretly the consciousness of their greatness, like the princes of fairy tales, who live metamorphosed in beasts during a certain time of trial. Thus no one is certain that he has not among his friends some one of these nobles houteur who have had the courage to demand a title of nobility in our time, but who have not the courage to tell it to their friends, who would blush at their ridiculous vanity, and dare not dress themselves out in the tawdry ornaments they have had the stupidity to make an object of ambition. And not only do people become noble in these days, but they obtain advancement in this hierarchy according to their merits. M. de Salvandy, for example, glorified himself for a long time on being a Count. All at once—on the very day on w hich a Marquis entered his family—we saw his title of Count disappear, and his signature affect everywhere a strange simplicity. It is said that the explanation of this fact has just been made—it is that M. de Salvandy has thought that be could not have a Marquis for son, and remain only a Count—he has been created a Duke, and impatierrty awaits the day on which he can produce this new parchment to the open day of publicity. Such, at least, is what every one said in the Chamber yesterday. We laughed the other day at M. Lacave-Laplange, who stuck up so stoutly for the title of excellency, and one called bins ' Marquis du De ficit.' Who knows? M. Lacave-Laplauge is perhaps also a Duke of the recent batch ! At all events he certainly deserves to be." The Journal des Debats has the following from the Island of Bourbon : " The colony of the Island of Bourbon has for some time been in a state of anarchy. It has not been the blacks who have risen in rebellion or the mulattos and other men of colour, always, according to the creoles, ready to bring fire and sword into the country, who have taken up arms and given the signal of revolt. r No! the example has been set by the authorities; it was the colonial council which com menced the deplorable proceedings which render all govern ment impossible. It had appeared that the colonies, not withstanding all the complaints they laid through their or • gans, had resolved not to contend against the spirit of the Government, but, on the contrary, to endeavour to act in con cert with it. Several symptoms indicated this disposition, and particularly the modifications to which the colonial councils subjected the composition of the councils of dele gates which represented them in the Government, and which are nominated by a plurality of votes. In France the new nominations were favourably received, and we ourselves ex pressed the pleasure we felt in the election at Bourbon of M. Sully Brunet, a man of sense and moderation, of enlightened and conciliatory opinions, and who, after having betore been invested with the colonial representation, was deprived of it because ha was suspected of entertaining too liberal and pro gressive ideas. We hoped, however, to find in his renomi nation a pledge for a sincere return to right reason, and for a renewal of a good understanding between the mother country and the colony. Unhappily our hopes have been but too quickly disappointed, at least at Bourbon. Scarcely recovered from a momentary stupor, the pasions were awakened in all their former vividness, and, as their first gratification, they determined to obtain the annulment of the election of M. Sully Brunet. The only means of attain ing this was to induce the Governor to dissolve the Colonial Council, because the powers of the delegates cease with the existence of the political body which nominates them. A redoubtable minority, consisting of 14 of the Council, un dertook to force the Council to this, and succeeded by sys tematically absenting themselves from the sittings. The illness of two members of the majority rendered it impossible for the labours of the Council to be continued, and the Go vernor was under the necessity of making a new appeal to the electoral colleges. Tlu accounts we have received from Bourbon come up to December 22d—the day after the new session was opened by the Governor in person, M. Graeh. They give us no hopes of seeing a speedy termination to this crisis, or rather they snake us fear that the anarchy will be prolonged. Out of the thirty members of which the Council is composed, fifteen have determined to give their votes for M. Sully Brunet, and the other fifteen are as resolute in their determination to oppose him. Where then is a majority to be found? But this is not all. It appears that, in imitation of the example set by the minority which caused the dissolin tion of the last Council, the members of the two parties have entered into an engagement with each other to do as has already been done, and by seceding from the Council render all further proceedings by it impossible, in case their opinion should meet with a check." The Reforme states that the prohibition of the ex portation of grain by land or sea from Spain had created a panic throughout the south-western de partments of France. "Prices," it says, " imme diately rose at Bayonne, Bordeaux, and Toulouse. In this last town the advance was 4f. to 6f. per hectolitre. The wheat called bladette ' reached the enormous price of 36f. to 37f. the hectolitre. In ordinary years it sells for 18f. All that country drew its supplies from Spain. The rise is conse quently general throughout the south. Lyons, where a calm prevailed during the last month, receives no longer any provisions from Marseilles, on account of the shallowness of the Rhone. In the meantime numerous purchasers from Auvergne, Burgundy, the Jura, and the Vosges, allured by the comparatively moderate prices, have repaired to that market, and al ready caused an augmentation of from lf. to 2f. per 100 kilogrammes. The markets of Paris and its vi cinity continue calm. Flour has fallen from 2f. to 3f. per sack since Saturday." In the north-western departments, however, prices have fallen, and the price of flour fell 4 francs per sack ' of 157 kilogrammes at the Paris market on Wed- nesday. The stockbrokers of Paris have divided among the charitable boards of that capital the sum of 45,000 f., the amount of commission allowed them for the pur chase of Rentes made by the Emperor of Russia from the Bank of France. Intelligence from Algiers of the 16th had been re ceived. Marshal BUGEAUD had suffered a relapse, and his illness continued to in - crease in spite of the most energetic treatment. The Chevalier RusTo has arrived at Marseilles on a mission from the Bey of Toms. The Courrier de Marseille of the 20th says-" We are enabled to state that the struggle which has so long existed between the Marseilles and Trieste routes is at last terminated. The English Govern ment has given orders that the steamer Ardent, which had been placed at the disposition of Mr. WAGnoux for his different trials, should return to Malta, and it arrived there on the 15th. The Eng lish Government has definitively adopted the Mar seilles route." The debate on M. DUVERGIER DB HAunsaccE's proposition for electoral reform was resumed on Wed nesday, and had not concluded when the post left. The Pattie says-" The Duke DE GLucnsnEnG has been appointed Minister Plenipotentiary at Ma drid, in spite of the opposition made to this choice by Count BRESSON. This appointment has taken place on the reiterated request of Queen CHRISTINA, and according to the advice of M. ISTURITZ." The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Wed nesday, at 791. 10c.; the Five per Cents., 1161. 95c.; Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,275 f.; Rouen, 870 f. ; Havre, 668 f. 75c.; Great Northern, 6281. 75c.; Avignon, 807 f. 50c.; Vierzon, 570 f. ; Bordeaux, 5171. 50c. Boulogne, 405 f.; Basle, 205 f.; Dieppe, 325 f .; Troyes and Montereau, 29 01 .; Paris and Strasburg, 4421. 50c. ; Tours and Nantes, 430 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 4451.; Lyons and Avignon, 475 f.; Cette, 4501. LYONS, MARCH 22.-Paris and Rouen, 8701.; Avignon and Marseilles, 808 f. 75c. ; Northern, 6251. ; Paris and Lyons, 455 f. P.I.76INESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TILE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Maur' 25. Boulogne and Amiens, - Central of France (Orleans and Vlorzon), 14% -Dutch Rhenish, 44-East Indian, %-Northern of France, is-Paris and Lyons, 53 -Paris and Rouen, 34%. ti , ,ns, except Paris and Lyons, which aro down to 6 and s; 7 l ' i , owing to the increased capital required. BRITISH FUNDS. ONE O'CLOCK. Three per Cent. Consols Annuities 894 tong Annuities, Expire Jan. 3.1860 .. Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. 9 5-16 India Stock .. . 248% 247% Bank Stock for Arril 14 .. .. 20516 Consuls for Account •• •• •• 89 % 1 4 Consols, Scrip .. Exchequer Bills. 1,0001... .. 5001. . Ditto, Small tsAd. CLOSING PRICES. 89% 9 5-16 247 'Ai 205 1 , 89 1 A par 3 p 1 dis 2 p 1 dis 3 p par par par 4 p 4 p ONE CLOSIN(, FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent .. 22 21% Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 22% 22% Ditto, Three per Cent .. 34W, 34 , 4 Ditto, for the Account 31 i 3414 Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch Two-and- a-llalf per Cent .. 59 59 Ditto,l per Cent. Certificates .. 93 t 3 BUSINESS CLOSING PAID. DONE AT PRICES. ONE O'CLOCK. Aberdeen.. .. 30 .. 28 np . ..... •. • • 28 1 ,-i Amber., Notting., Boston, • and Eastern Junction .. •• 2%...• 24.. ••• • • ... 2 Birmingham and Oxford Junction 5 .... 13%%........ 13% Birming., Wolver., and Dudley• • 5 .. . . •.... • . . . . 10% Boston, Stamford, & Birmingham 5 .... 6% 7...... 7 Eastern Counties . .. 20 19% . 20 . . . . . . 20 PRICES OF RAILWAY SHARES. Ditto, York Extension .. • . 5 % •• • • s :i •••• • • • • East Lancashire .. .• .. 17 •• • • ..... •• • • Ditto New .. %.. • • 9 % • .... 9 % Ditto, ditto New Scrip • • .. 1 1 ,4, •• • • 2% - • 2% East Lincolnshire .. 4 .... 7 ..... • 7% Edinburgh and Glasgow .. 50 ....71% ex div 71% x.d. Great Norther. (London & York Great Western 85 ....116 114 115 Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 50 .... Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 12% .... 17% 18 Ditto, Fifths .. 20 .... 27 Ditto, New 4% .. •• 87% Huddersfield and Manchester .. lb .... 1914 Hull and Selby .. .• 50 103 .... Ditto, Half Shares .. 25 .... 51 Leeds and Bradford .. .• .. 35 .... 78% Leeds and Thirsk 221 .• • • Ditto, Preference 6 per Cent. •• 35 .... 5 London and Blackwell .. 151. 138. 4d. .. • Ditto, Extension .. 7% • .... London, Brighton, and S Coast.. 50 .. 53% 4 Ditto, Consol. Eighths .. .. 10 .. •. ........ London and Greenwich .. 121. 15s. 4d. 9q,.. • • London an North-Western • • 100 • ... 179 Ditto, Quarters . 2 .... 19 ...• Ditto, 401. Shares M. &B. • • 40 .. •• 70 .. ••• • • • London and :South. Western • . 41/. 6s. 10d... 61 63% Ditto, New Consol. Eighths .. 40 .... 48 47% Ditto, New .. • . 22% 2534 Ditto, Tenths (Consolidated) • • 50 55 Ditto, Scrip.. .. • • • • • • 5 .... 5 London and York Extension Scrip 2% .... 2% . Manchester and Leeds .. .. • • 82 Ditto, flat(' Shares .. • • • • 38 .... 47% ...... Ditto, Quarter Shares 12 .... 16%14 .. Ditto, Fifths .. • • • • • • 5... 10% . Ditto, Sixteenths • • • • • • GM 7% 8........ Ditto, Thirds .•71. 45..... 2 p.„ Manchester and Southampton .. 2 y, . Midland .• ..100 .. • 118 117........ Ditto, New • • •• 30 •• .. 34% ..... Ditto, New .. .• • • .. 2 .. 5% Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 100 .... 92 .. Midland s Binning. & Gloucest.• .100 .. —123% ... Newcastle and Berwick .. • • 20 Ditto, New .. • • • •• • 5 .... 14% Norfolk .. • • •• •• ..100 • • ..137 135 ... . Ditto, Extension • • .. 6 .... 6%1 4 6 ...... Norm British .. • • 25 •• • • 33% .. • • .... Ditto, Half Shares .. 12% 1614 . Ditto, Quarter Shares • • .. 2 1 4 4 Ditto, Thirds .. 1 31% ..... North Staffordshire .. • • • • 5 •• • • 8% 'A • • Preston and Wyre 25 .... 34% . Ditto, Half Shares (A) BY, .. • • ••••.. • • • • Ditto, ditto (B) .. 1 1% Scottish Central . 15 .... 23 .. • • Scottish Midland .. 17% •••• • • • • Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 3 .... 4! % Ditto, Class B .. • • .. 1 .. • . .. Shropshire Union .. 1 dis ..... South Eastern and Dovor .. 33% 35 .. •••• • • • • Ditto, New (iss. at 321.) No. 1. 20 ... 23 ...... •• • Do.. New (d 0.32.1. 68.8 d.) No. 2. 12 .... ••••• • • • • • Du., New (du. 151.) .. No. 4. 3% .. •••• .. • • South Wiles .. 10 ••••• • .• • • South Yorkshir,, Doncaster, and York and Newcastle .. .. 25 .... 35 1 4 Ditto, New.. .. .. 10 —. 15% .. ......, Ditto, Preference .. .. 4 .... 8% 8. York and North Midland .. .. 50 .... 85 1 ,,1 • Ditto, Extension •• .. 20 .... 36% % Ditto. Preference ......2 .... 11% ......., FOREIGN RAILWAYS, Boulogne and Amiens .0 .... 16% Bord., Toul., & Cetto (Constituted) 4 .... 1 . .... . . . . Northern of France .. .. 8 13% 13 -•. . • • Paris and Lyons .. ~ 8 „ 68% West Flanders . 6 .... JOINT-STOCK BANKS. London and Westminster .. 20 .... 26 MINES. 2% 115 68 Real del 31onte, Unregistered •• • • •• -. • • 10 , 4 103 179 63 47 9 251 2% P 118 123 , „i R% 135 203 , 4 44 I d:s. 16% 1 3 A 1 1 ,4 135, 5 25i LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, MARCH 26.—Wind E., light breeze and cloudy. DEAL, MARCH 25.—Wind S.W. to S.E.—Arrd. Andro mache, Hunter, Charleston ; Mary Carolina, Kidd, St. John's, New Brunswick; Orator, Tagh, Calcutta • Lady Helena, Bonner, Barbadoee ' • George Delius, Herrickson, Valparaiso, for Bremen. Sld. Asia, Hobart Town •, Acadia, Halifax ; Talisman, New York ; Sophia, Moffat, Quebec, and the rest of the outward bound. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 25.—Wind S.E.— Off port, Vic toria, Stark, New York. LivanrooL, MARCH 25.—Wind S.S.W., moderate.—Arrd. Buenos Ayres, Brown, Calcutta; Arizaba, Old Calabar; Mary and Ann, Valparaiso; Reliance, Hill, Savanilla ; Margaret, Best, New Orleans ; William and Elizabeth, ditty ; Alabama, Apalachicola ; Caledonia, Wishart, Savannah ; Noble, Booth, Baltimore; He rmita g e, Forrest, ditt o; Gar rick, Trask, New York ; P omona, Colb y , ditto ; Lapland, Simpson, Boston; Harriet Humble, Bevis, Calcutta; Roke ley, ditto ; Formosa, Maranham ; Mary Redpatb, ditto ; Delaware, Patten, New Orleans ; Anne, Means, ditto ; Oregon, Heron, Savannah ; Harkaway, Virginia ; Sir Charles Napier, Tier, Charleston .; Bersilia, Buxton, New York ; Sirampore, Lovett, ditto. Off port, Liverpool and Wallace. Sld. Lahore, Calcutta; Mary Woods and Templernore, Val paraiso ; Jersey Lass, Monte Video ; Delhi, Belize • Feroze pore New York; Java , ditto; Ariana. ditto ; iuphemia Newf oun dland. The Georgiana, from N ew Y or k to Belfast,' was spoken with, 21st inst., in lat. 51, lon. 13, with loss of fore-top-mast, fore-yard, and two men washed overboard, by the Montezuma, Lowder, arrived here. LimF.nach:, MARCH 24.—Acrd. Old Fellow, Warner, New York; Mary Broughton, ditto. MARKET NE WS.-(T HIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE-FRIDAY. The present week's arrivals of English Wheat having been on a inoderate scale, the show of samples of that article here was limited. Selected parcels of both red and white sold at Monday's quotations, but all other kinds were very dull, and prices were with difficulty supported. In foreign Wheat comparatively little was doing, but we can notice no altera tion in value. All kinds of Barley moved off slowly at barely the late depression in value. So little was doing in Malt that prices were almost nominal. Oats, especially the best sam ples, were held firmly at full prices. Beans, Peas, and Flour very dull. Wheat. 3,220 qrs. ARRIVALS. Barley., I Oats I Flow. 1,412 qrs. 2,100 qra. 2,920 sky. 1,700 -- 4,000 -- English •• •• • • Irish. Foreign 12,000 Malt, 2,120 are. The supply of Beasts on sale being larger, and the attend. ance of buyers limited, the Beef trade was exc eedin g l y dull , at barely Monday's reduced Sgures. There were on offer 2,100 MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. 120 Oxen and Cows, 40 Sheep, and 19 Calves from abroad. CITY QUARTER TO TIIRE,E. The numbers of Sheep were by no means large, yet the Mute , I The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 10,000 ton trade was in a sluggish state, at about stationary prices. bales, including 3,000 bales American on speculation, and 500 Lambs were a slow sale, at from 5s to 6s per 81bs. In Calves Egyptian for export. There was an active market, and very little was doing; but we can notice no alteration in value. The Pork trade was heavy at late rates. Milch American sorts were I(4d. to inds thereV. r lb. hi -her than on Cows were a slow inquiry, at from 161 to 19/ each, including Friday last. In wasother kinds an advance of about V. per lb. The sales comprised 8,000 bales American, at their small Calf. to 7 5 8 , 1,200 Egyptian at 7%d. to Bd., and 500 bales Surat at 4 3 %d. to sd. per lb. Railway shares were quiet, but firm. There is considerable attention paid still to the state of affairs in Ireland, and the extraordinary features presented by the somewhat contradictory accounts sent over quite be wilder City people. It is admitted that in parts of the sis ter kingdom the farmers are exhibiting not only apathy in respect to the cultivation of the soil, but positive criminality as regards the hoarding of money and food, which might be made to yield a rich reward to themselves, and be productive of blessing to those around them. Our capitalists look with manifest concern at such an anomalous state of things, and stern as the necessity may be, the course of Government in throwing the people on the land for employment is considered to be the only one sanctioned by humanity or policy. Even as matters are proceeding, the loan of eight millions would soon be absorbed, and a recourse to increased taxation would not only be excessively unpopular, but seriously detrimental to the interests of commerce and the status of the money - market. Apart front Ireland, there is nothing that excites particular uneaeines in the mercantile world, and in the exercise of firmness by the Executive, it is conceived that there is more to be hoped for than in lavish expenditure. Some remarks upon the currency by a party at Liverpool, under the signature of "Tristram Trye,' allude to the cir cumstance of the Bank of England holding a large amount of bullion than at anytime previous to 1844, although, as he remarks, with too much truth— ' " The commercial fabric is at this moment shaken to its foundations by the rumoured possibility of the reduction or re-absorption of the circulation. The contingent fall in the prices of all articles is a sufficient motive to the delay of mercantile operations. Public assurance that arrangements (of what kind soever) had been effected to keep up both the stock of bullion, and the usual issues of the Bank of Eng land, would at once restore confidence. Business would proceed without material curtailment or inter ruption; and the afflicting visitation of famine, instead of being aggravated by supernumerary evils, would be almost neutralised by an abundance of remunerative employment. That things should at once take this course, is obviously the interest of the general community. But in what direction lies the interest of the Bank? Directly opposite. Its private interest, just now, is, by means of cen!racting the circulation, to enhance the value of money, and raise the rate of discount. The loss of a fee/ mil lions of bullion from its coffers, the mere possibility strikes dismay into the hearts of all beside who have trade or employment, or property to lose, is, paradoxical as it may appear, the ripening of her golden harvest. To one who complains, the answer is, The Bank is a private institution merely;' which, of course, is the tact, whenever her private interests is not parallel with that of the public; and being under no public obligation to act otherwise, it would be about as reasonable to expect that the Bank would exert herself to prevent the increased value of money as it would be to count upon a combination amongst the growers or importers of grain to keep down the nrice of food." To a certain extent tliere is force in these reflections. but' there is ever a difficulty in providing remedies. National banks, connected with Governments, have frequently an in fluence working on them even stronger than private in terest, and it should always be remembered that the directors of the Bank being themselves merchants, and in many instances private bankers, cannot have a permanent interest in shaking credit, or keeping money at a higher rate than safe business will warrant. They do err often in this respect, we admit, but not usually from interest alone ; and the evil is, as the writer quoted seems to imply, that the Bank is too powerful. We may thank Sir Robert Peel, in part at least, for this. There is a firm market for Consols, but there is very little doing. Money bareeiins have been effectenl at 8914 to 7 s ', and time operations at 89 1 4 %. Exchequer-bills have realised 3s. premium to Is. discount. East India Stock is worth 247 1 ,4 to 248 1 %; and Bank Stock, 205 1 ,4. The Foreign Bonds are merely nominal. Spanish Five per Cents. have been quoted 22%, and the Three per Cents 34 5 4 to 344. Mexican Bonds have been quoted 22. The Market for Railway Shares, although firmer, is stil dull. The French lines have been done at improved quota e. d.tes. d. Second quality ditto Yll 4 0 Coarse-woolledditto 4 2 4 4 So:,thdownWether 4 6 410 Ditto out of the wool Large Hogs .. 3 6 4 4 Per Sibe, to sink the offal. s. d. to s. d. Inferior Beasts 2 6 2 8 ,iicorici quality 2lO 3 2 Prime large Oxen 3 4 3 6 Prime Scots .. Large coarse Calves 4 0 4 6 _ _ Prime small ditto .. 4 8 fi 0 Suckling Calves ..I3 0 23 0 Interior Sheep .. . 3 4 3 8 mall Porkers .... 4 6 4 1• Quarter old rigs —l6 0 18 0 Lambs .• b 0 6 0 I Pigs. 320 SUPPLY AT MARKET. Roasts. I Sheep. I Calves. 1,008 2,210 1 131 ItTENISTGATE AND MILEIDENBALL. We had a very dull trade here on the fcllowing terms At per stone by the Carcaae. s. d. to s. d. s. d. to a. Beef, inferior. ••••• 2 4 2 6 Mutton, inferior .. 3 4 3 6 - middling •• •• 2 6 210 I middling.. 3 8 310 - prime large .. 3 0 3 2( prime .... 4 0 4 4 - prime small .. 3 4 3 6 Pork, 1arge........ 3 4 4 4 Veal• ••••••••• • • • • 4 0 50 I- small •• •• 4 0 410 Lamb. 5s Od to 5s 10d BOROUGH HOP MILAMMET. On the whole, the demand for the best Hops is firm, at fully last week's quotations. In other kinds—the supply of which on offer is good—comparatively little business is doing, yet prices rule about stationary. Sussex Pockets, 41 to 4/ 8s; Weald of Kent ditto, 41 5s to 41 16s; Mid and East Kent ditto, 41 15s to 61 12s. COLONIAL. StieAlt.—The market for West India sorts has been dull, and the limited supply causes prices to rule too high in pro p:,rtion to other descriptions, of which there is a sufficient quantity on offer. REFINED.— Standard lumps have been 65s 6d to 66s per cwt. EAST INDIA.-285 bags 36 trcs Bengal at auction partly sold, Benares mid to fine white 50s to 52s 6d, fine sound yellow 50s to 503 6d, and fine strong grainy yellow 53s to 56s ; 11,671 bags 216 casks 37 trcs Mauritius only partly found buyers, fine yellow 49s 6d to 51s, good 48s to 495, low 46s to 46s 6d, fine brown 44s 6d, and low to fine grey 46s 6d to 515.: FOREIGN.—A good deal has been done in these descrip tion, though holders generally have been firm. Much inter est was excited by a sale of 140 hhds 14 brls St. Croix, which was very superior in quality, and being the first im portation comes rather into rivalry with British West India samples. Mid quality brought 53s to 54s 6d, and very fine strong grainy yellow went as high as 58s to 60s. Bevan nab, 2,674 boxes were nearly all taken in at 63s to 64s for -white, duty paid, and 31s to 34s for low to good mite in bond. Some of the good and fine sold at 50s to 535. Brazil. 50 casks 60 brls 3,753 bags, duty paid, were taken in at 57s to 60s, for good and fine white, at 49, to 52s 6d for good and fine yellow, and at 45s to 48s 6d for low and mid. Good brown and yellow, in bond, was taken in at 23s to 265. Porto Rico, 252 hhds 99 brls sold at 51s 6d to 54s 6d for good and fine, and 48s to 49s 6d for mid ; white Trinidad da Cuba, 354 boxes, was taken in, at 59s to 61s for good and fine, and '674 boxes yellow partly sold at 505 to 53s for good and fine, 47s to 49s 6d for low and mid. Java,l,2oo baskets, was withdrawn at 56s per cwt. COFFEE.—The market has been dull for British Plan tation, and prices have not varied to any extent. c e y lon, good ordinary pale native has been sold at 41 s 6 d to 425. Some parcels offered by auction were partly t aken in at 41s to 435, the rest selling at 39 s up to 86 s. Moch a good yellow long berry clean garbled has realised 7 9 s 6 d to 80s, part having been taken in at 60s to 8 5 s. Pading h as been taken in. at 27s 6d, Singapore Java at 29s to 3 1 s , an d Madras at 41s. Costa Rica sold at 37s to 445, and Brazil at 32s 6d per cwt. SPICES.—Fair heavy Malabar Pepper has been sold at 30, an white at aid to 4id. Cassia Lignea has been sold at 57s 6d to 5Ss for good old coarse. Pimento has been at about 51,, , d per lb. RlCE.—Bengal has been dull, and 5,426 bags yellow WOT 6 taken in at is to is 6d decline, viz., fine yellow 19s 6d, mid and good 19s; 1,012 bags white were taken iu at 22s to 22s 6d for mid and good mid. Runs.—Th.re is very little doing. Corrox.—The demand is rather brisker. TALLOW.—P. Y. C. is 51s per cwt. on the spot, and Town 535. TEA.—The market is quiet. Congou ord to - good ord 9d, Twankay good ord. to best mid 9d to is per lb. CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) The Lord Chancellor sat in the Old Hall, Lincoln's Inn, to-day, and heard appeal motions, but no case of the least public interest came before their Lordships during the whole morning. VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) (Before the VICE-CIIANCELLOI: of ENGLAND.) His Honour the Vice-Chancellor of England heard unop posed cause petitions, short causes, and cause petitions, to-day. MOSELEY V. ALSTEN.—THE OXFORD AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY. The application on behalf of the plaintiff for an injunction iu this case was specially fixed to-dav for Wednesday nest. (Before Vice-Chancellor Sir J. WIGRAM ) AGLE V. HANSARD. This cause turned upon the question as to whether a se verance of interest had taken place in certain properties to which Messrs. Luke Hansard and Luke Graves Hansard bad become entitled under the will of their father. It appeared that the testator left the premises, where he carried on bug' ness, as well as the implements necessary for a publishing office, to his two sons, together with certain leasehold and personal property. which was to be divided in equal parts between them. The brothers carried on the same business ae their father till the death of Luke Graves Hansard. A short time prior to the last event it was alleged, on the part of the. plaintiff, that a severance had been effected in the tenancy 01 the property between the parties. All the facts have already appeared in thi k s ,: l a o dn u a r d n et a ch l ra . e H severancei s I-100 u i h t delivered ad been agjruedegdmteon as t t o t id s a t y o ,. the tedththeare t had been a tenancy in common, except as regards the Gator head property. On the application cf Mr. ROMILLY, the case was directed to be put in the paper on Wednesday next. BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner FAKE.) IN RE FELTHOUSE. In this case the bankrupt had carried on business as builder, and in March last came up for his certificate which was then adjourned for three years. The bankrupt's solicitor now applied to his Honour to in duce him to re-open his decision under peculiar circum stances. He said his Honour in giving judgment had stated that he should adjourn the certificate for three years, one on the opposition of Mr. King, judgment creditor, and two at the instance of the assignees. Since then, however, they had been indicted for perjury, on the affidavit of debt on which the bankrupt bad been arrested. He had, however, removed the case from the Sessions to the Court of Queen's Bench, and had also aP plied for a special jury. The consequence was, that twel trial months had expired, and it was not likely that the would come on till Michaelmas Term. Under thos e circum stances, and as the bankrupt had already been in p rison for twelve months at the suit of King, he hoped his Honour would alter his decision. His HONOUR said he had no power after having once given his judgment—perhaps be might not have suspe nded the certificate for such a length of time if he had known that the bankrupt would have been imprisoned. He must refuse the application. SECONDARIES.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Secondary JAMES.) BARRY AND ANOTHER, v. COHEN AND ANOTHER.. The plaintiffs in this action are wholesale stationers il l Thames-street, and the defendants are the proprietors of the Liverpool Weekly Times. jt The defendants suffered judgment to go by default. appeared from the facts that the plaintiffs had supplied t defendants with a large quantity of stamped paper for th° publications of the Liverpool Weekly Times. Letters from the defendants were put in, admitting the delivery of the goods. Some little dn.:miry, however, arose as to the price, as the defendants had written to say the pria' should be only 9/., instead of 91. 9s. A clerk of the plaintiff's was called, and said that the price of the last orders had been reduced, the weight having fa . been reduced. A verdict was given for the plaintiff for 1661. 19s. 6d. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) The Court sat by adjournment this morning at the Guild."( hall, Westminster, for the purpose of hearing the cases ° f felony remaining undisposed at Hicks's Hall yesterday evening, and also for the disposal of the bail cases. Mr. BALLANTINE appeared on behalf of Major Beniowski" and said he was surprised at the application which had Joa n made on last Tuesday, in the absence of himself (mr. tine), and the defendant or his solicitor, and without tb e slightest communication being made to any one of thel% Mr. Beniowski had had reasons inducing him to change his solicitor, and he (Mr. Ballantine) was now prepared with al affidavit from Mr. Jackson, his present solicitor, in whic h was stated that further postponement, except it would b e extended over the 27th of May, would be ruinous to the ( l e i Pendant, owing to the circumstances of his being at pre,s ur eli engaged in the perfection of certain patents, and he (' Ballantine) now applied to the Court to have the case tall either at the present sitting or adjourned to the 27th of Ile ic May. g The ASSISTANT-JUDGE, after adverting to Mr. Clarks o ; application on Tuesday, and the statement made by Atl i . Boniowski yesterday, said it struck him as rather singl! r that no intimation had been conveyed to Major Beniowsk i e s , his attorney by the opposite parties, and this surprise the greater, for the affidavit of the solicitor stated that had called upon Major Beniowski with the result of his In quiries at the Court on Tuesday evening. He (the Lea'l; to Judge) had ordered that information should be conveyed if the defendant and his solicitor as to postponing the caset., g no application was made to the contrary by the defendr'n before this day, but if the attorney had made an applicat i g r .. to the Court directly on Tuesday evening, instead of in 4, 1 . 1 ,1 ingot one of the officers of the Court, no misapprehen ° , would have arisen. He could not think of granting tin t he plication allowing a charge like this to stand over trom 26th of March to the Ist of June, it must be taken at 5 0 " 0 more immediate sitting, and it had been already ordered come on on the Bth of April. ; Mr. BALLANTINE thought when his client had been . 13 co t tendance for two sessions ready to take his trial, it wag Tr be unfair to postpone it. He (Mr. Ballantine) should n° l ' able to be present on Thursday, so that Major g e nioso will have to defend himself on that day. The ASSISTANT-JUDGE—WeII, then, let it come oil °I3 the 22d. Major Beniowski, who occupied a seat behind his count said, " No, no, no, my Lord, that day would not at suit me."• The ASSISTANT-JUDGE—The case must stand, a . ously arranged, for the Bth of April. SURREY SESSIONS.—(THIS DO' ) (Before J. W. FILESTIFIELD, Esq., and a Bench of Magistrates.) in dict John Clements, a respectable-looking man' was in- 1 o f for feloniously stealing five hundred bricks, the property - Thomas Morris, at St. Giles's, Camberwell. he P r ' Prosecutor said, that on the 12th of February last o r chased twenty loads of brick of Mr. Parry, bnclonake r ' i be Peckham, and employed the prisoner to cart them. On day in question the prisoner only delivered twenty loads, er though he was charged for twenty-one. On Sunday of t n i noon, the 14th, he went with a police-constable to se! ~,,'- o after the prisoner, who said, when they met him, " I otIPCd you have been waiting for me about those bricks. It is ni ", job, but I have the money in my pocket to pay you for t . be be sooner than have any bother about it." Witness said could not think of compromising the felony. 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