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NEW WORK IT THE AUTHOR OF " RICHARD SAVAGE." t 14 ow ready , at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. post Bvo., SMIL Or ES E A ROMANC N E b TE AR S; , T HE OF LIFE. BY CHARLES WIIITEHEA.D, Asthor of " Richard Savage," Etc. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. _ _ , . HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. TO-MORROW EYENING will be performed Verdi's celebrated Opera BBNANI. )idaia. Castilian ; Gioyanna, Mdae. Solari ; Lou Carlos, szs. Saperebi ; Rny-Gioniez, Sig. Bouche ; Ernani, ii g. Fraschini. Between the acts a Divertissement, in which will be introduced the celebrated Pas delQuatre, from La Lae des Fees, by Mdlle.:Cerito (Der drat appearance this season), M. St. Leon, Maas. Cassan and lionore. A new Pas de Deux, composed by M. Perrot, Mdlle. Rosati and M. Perrot (his first appearance this season) ; and the admired Spa nish danee La Mavola, by Mdlle Cerito and M. St. Leon. To conclude with the new successfhl Ballet, in Two Tableanx, by 31. Paul Tagließi, the music by Signor Pugni, entitled THEA; OU, LA FEE Atfi FLECTRS. principal characters by Sidile. C. Rosati Zane: Marie Taglioni, N. Paul Taglion!, &c. It is respectfully announced that Willa. Jenny Lind has arrived, and will shortly:appear. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Nobility, 'Subscribers, and the Pnbllc, are respectfidly In firmed, that there will be a GRAND EXTRA NIGHT on Thursday Reit, April 22, when will be performed Donizetti's Opera, L'ELISIR D'AMORE. Adina, 3fadtune ;Castellan ; Nemorino, Signor Gardoni ; Belcore, Signor F. Lablache; and Dr. Dulcomara, Signor Lablache. In the course of the evening a Divertissement from the favourite Ballet of Lalla Rookh, in which will appear Mdlles. Cerito, Rosati, Xirett, Taglionl and L. Grahn, M. St. Leon and 3S. Perrot. After which, the Third Act of I DUE FOSC To conclude with ORITHA. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LA.ti E. THE 3 EVENING Will be performed a New Grand Opera, entitled MATILDA. OP HUNGARY. Count Magnus, Mr. Borranl ; Prince Ottokar, Mr. S. R e rrisen ; Matthias, Mr. Weiss; Jones; George Podibrad, hir. Count Intriz, Mr. Simmonds ; Matilda of Hungary, Miss Rainsforth. After which the New and Original Oriental Spectacle, called THE DESERT; or, The Dnecin's Daughter. in w hich th e Tw o El ephants , upwards of sixty Horses, and the Camels will appear. The Imo= Doeph, Mr. Howell; Hafex, Mr. Rafter; Barek, Mr. W. H. Payne; Final Oola, Mr. Harley ; Maleck, Mr. T. Matthews ; Ahabeck, Mr. Hutchison ; Nuzliraga, Mr. L. Lee; Princess Ipomaye, Miss Messent ; Nilda, Miss Collett ; Girgee, Miss R. Isaacs. .:-------___ THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. under the Management of THIS Mr. B. We G bster, sole Lessee. EVENI Will be revived, Sheridan Knowles's celebrated Comedy of THE LovE CHASE, with new scenery, dresses, and appointments. sir William Fondlove, Mr. Tilbury; Master Waller, Mr. Howe ; Widow Green, Mrs. Glover ; Constance, Mrs. Nisbett. After which the Grand Astronomical Extravaganza, called THE NEW PLANET ; or, Harlequin out of Place. To conclude with a Farce, by J. R. Planche, Esq., called SPRING GARDENS. THEATRE. ROYAL, ADELPHI. Urfeter the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING Will ba performed the original Drama, called THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST ; a Gipsy Story. Cheap John. Mr. Wright ; Ishmael, Mr. 0. Smith ; the Kinchin, Mr. P. Bedford; Leybourne, Mr. Worrell ; Cynthia, Madame Celeste ; Lemuel, Miss Woolgar ; Starlight Bess, Mrs. Fitzvrilliam ; Lady Agnes, Miss Harding. After which will be produced an Opera Buffa apropos sketch, called JENNY LIND. Principal characters by Messrs. Wright, Paul Bedford, Lambert, Selby, Culleniord, and Miss Woolgar. To conclude with SHOCKING EVENTS. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING Will be presented Scribe and Auber's celebrated Comic Opera, in Three Acts, called THE BARCAROLE. The principal characters by Messrs. Walton, Bodda, Leffler, and Allen ; Miss E. Runner and Ni" Anne Reiner. By desire, Shakspere's MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. The principal characters by Messrs. H. Hughes, Ryder, J. Vining, C. Irisher,Wynn, and Compton ; Miss Winstanley Mrs. Stirling, Mrs. H. Hughes, Miss S. Flower, Miss Anne Romer, Miss Marshall, and Miss Smithson. THEATRE RoiAL, LYCEUM. Under the Management of Mrs. Keeley. THIS EVENING will be performed a New Drama, exiled THE CREOLE. Characters by Messrs. F. Mathews. Leigh, Murray, Emery, Kinloch,, and Keeley, Miss Dickinson, Miss May, Miss 31._KeeleY, sad Mrs. Keeley. After which, an entirely new occasional Dramatic Sketch, called JENNY LIND AT LAST; or, The Swedish Nightingale. Charac ters by Mr. A. Wigan, Mr. Turner, Mr. Kinioch, Mr. Bellingkam, Mr. Bender, Mr. Yarnold. and Mrs. Keeley. To be followed by the New Vaudeville Extravaganza, called CRUSOE THE SECOND. Characters by Messrs. A. Wigan, Keeley; Miss Dickenson, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley. ♦nd other Entertainments. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. Sixth Appearance of Mademoiselle ROSE CHERI. VHS EVENING the performances will commence with LES HICRITIERS ; ou, Le Nefrage. Antoine Kerlebon, M. DumerY ; Jeeques Kerlebon, M Cartigny ; Henry, M. Berou ; Duperren, M. Masquillier ; Madame Kerlebon, Madame Dumery ; Sophie, Mdlle. Cordely. After which a now Comedy, entitled UN ROMAN INTIME ; on, Lea Lettres Du Mari. Edouard Dusseuil, M. Rhozevil ; Albertine, Mdlle Rose Cheri. To conclude with (first time in this country) IRENE ; ou, Le Magnetism.. M. pe Brienne. M. Langeval ; Le Vicomte de Cler mont, M. Rhozevil; Irene, Mdlle. Rose Cheri. Boxes, 6s. ; Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, 34.; Gallery, 2s. Boxes and Stalls may be engaged at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, U, Bond-street ; and at the Box-Mace of the Theatre, which is open daily from Eleven till Five. . ETHIOPIAN iERENADERS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. TO-MORROW BVENING Doors Open at Eight. Day performance on Wednesday morning, April 21, commencing at Half-past Two. The celebrated ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, Pell. Harrington. White, Stanwood, and Germon, wil' have the honour of repeating their inimitable ENTERTAIN3IENTS at the St. James's Theatre. The evening performances will be continued every Tuesday, Thurs. day, and Saturday, Boxes and stalls at Mitchell's Royal Library, 3:1, Old Bond-street. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, rider the patxenage of the Queen, Prince Albert. and the - Royal. Family. Proprietor and Manager, 31 , *. W. Batty. THIS EVENING, THIRD WEEK OF THE SUCCESSFUL GORGEOUS SPECTACLE OF Lord Byron's Dramatic Fount of THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS ; or, THE CORSAIR, introducing Mr. Batty's numerous and highly trained Horses and Fairy Ponies, living Elephants, Camels, Zebras, Deer, &c. With brilliant feats of Horsemanship. First Night of Mr. flender:ort, the Loftiest Living Leaper, with other productions which this Theatre .eau alone produce, and for which it is so justly celebrated. Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. Box Office open from Eleven till Four. Box Book-keeper, Mr. cxErott , , it _ rfarwm .,„,,----. every evening at Seven o'clock, ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Under the Management of Mrs. Frances Davidge, Lessee. FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE BUFFALO GIRLS, ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, With Coloured Concert, Nigger Songs, Banjo, Bone, Tambourine and Violin Accompaniments, the Railway Overture, and Grape Vine Twist. All by Female Professors. THIRD WEEK, and Last zu Nights, of the truly wonderful BEDOUIN ARABS. THIS EVENING The Performances will commence with THE ANCHOR OF HOPE ; or, The Seaman's Star. Mr. Dunniore, Mr. Conway ; Squire Har greave, Mr. T. Fredericks; Captain Walton, Mr. Tindel ; Mary Wheatly, Mrs. Ware. After which THE BUFFALO GALS ; or, Female Ethiopian Sere naders. To be followed by THE BEDOUIN ARABS. To conclude with THE BRIDGE OF NOTRE DAME; or, THE PARRICIDE'S CURSE. Noel Champinon, Mr. Neville; Master Legris, Mr. Heslop , Godfrey Mervin, Mr. J. T. Johnson; Melanie, Mrs. H. Vining. Boxes, 23., Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6d. Doors open at Six, commence t Half-past Six. ROYAL VICIORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING • JACK LONG OF TEXAS; or, THE SHOT IN THE EYE : Jack Long, Mr. Hicks; Hinch, the Regulator, Mr. Searle ; Ben Small. Mr. Gardner ; Noah Gibbs, Mr•. Dale ; White, Mr. Bird ; Hector, Mr, Howard ; May Gibbs, Miss Vincent, &c.. &c. After which THF, BLACK DOCTOR.. Fabian, Mr. Flicks ; Pau line la Rayneire, Miss Vincent. To conclude with THE HOUSE TURNED UPSIDE DOWN. Boxes, ls.; Half Price, 6d. Pit, fid. ; Gallery, hi. Private Boxes Parties of Fnur, from 10i. tid.; alid Parties of Eight, il. Is. THE WEATHER.—SIIN 011ICX, APRIL 18. TilEnmomETEn. Lowest, 31: Highest. 47 ; Noon, 49 BAROMETER, 29.90.—Wind N.N.E.; fine. APRIL 19. THERNO3IETER, Lowest, 35 ; highest, 51 ; Noon, 50 BAROMETER, 29.8.—W1ND, W.; fine. AICkIi WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE TillB DAY. orning 29 minutes after 4. Evening .. 50 mMnteq efter 4 .... . , 4-Fe,..e. . 0 : 41.4 i, ''',A,,,,..• 1 , - ' l't ''',o:4-:;•;,,, ' 4 Y: 4 ~\. wo *'t 0 16 le4.'"r- 'r.,,,.*,. -• . 4 ,lik tt !.. ,43: • ''. ,' i a , A 1:<, j,.. '°` -'- ' -' ) . F -- , ,4. l._ . 9 % ." —' -•-• -,, 7 -el ~.',-,.., ~-,- .1.- , .,,, , ,„,, ~--. __ , - „,.., e f.. , .. . i Ew, - ; • - • ; :k.'S. '"" -,,, i'1.5. , .. h .- ' 'VIII '.) .- , - -n, ,' • ,, ,, , „7.:. . ~;'„,..„:"..... • ot' ..-_,- SECON D EDIT lON. ottotniag LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 19, 1847. At a moment when the subject of national educa tion is occupying so large a space in the public mind, it is reasonable that we should revert not merely to the general neglect of which we have been guilty towards the nation at large in regard to its intellec tual culture, but likewilie to every act of positive injustice that can be laid to our charge in relation to this important topic. And, perhaps, there is no point upon which the British Legislature could nowa days be more prominently and successfully assailed, for not having acted up to the requirements of an enlightened age, than that presented by the refusal it has continuously given during the last seventeen; years to sanction the admission of Dissenters into our Universities. That the Parliament, previous to the Relief Bill of 1829, should have maintained the pro hibition, as enforced by the Universities, against the Roman Catholics and Dissenters, is not so much a matter of astonishment ; but its perseverance in the same course, after the Roman Catholics had beer admitted to a participation in the highest civil privi leges in the State, and after the passing of the Reform Bill, which caused its spirit of improve ment to light upon all the corporate bodies of the empire, the Universities excepted, redounds neither to its honour, wisdom, justice, nor liberality. Owing to the right which was claimed on behalf of the State to impose civil disabilities upon subjects whose religious tenets differed, in par ticular forms, from those of the Established Church, and Owing to the apprehension entertained that to abandon this right would weaken, if not subvert, the religion of the State, the Relief Bill was kept in agitation for half a century before it became the law of the land ; but, although opposed to the opinion of the Legislature, public opinion continued steadily to rise, till at length its full tide set in, and forcibly swept away the main barriers of religious persecu _,4 ton. Without troublin g them selve s to deny it in the - bstilmt, the people at fjustlyw forward as that the right, rhich had been p as being in berent in - the State, had, in the nineteenthr century, ~it d in respect to the Roman Cath o li cs , Practical l y warn/ i ota itp p olitic and unjust ezer4,se-of ' power, and they generously repudiated the notion that, by opening the portals of the Constitution to millions of their fellow-countrymen, against whom they had so long been closed, the religicus welfare of the com munity would be in any wise affected. And thus was a great advance made in the cause lof religious liberty. The idle fear which was suffered to infect the mind of the Legisla ture, that the people could not be intrusted 1 with a large increase of political power, without en dangering the balance of the Constitution, unjustly deprived the middle classes for half a century of i those rights and privileges which, it may almost be said, were wrested from the aristocracy to be finally embodied in the Reform Bill. Our modern Magna Charta and the Relief Bill owe their success entirely to the " pressure from without." .As Lord MEL BOURNE said, in 1837, " every institution is unwilling to reform itself ;" and this remark is peculiarly ap plicable to the Universities. Nevertheless we are persuaded that the same external influence which ' secured the two great measures to which we have adverted will, whether the Legislature shall choose to act promptly and judiciously or not, suffice before long to induce Parliament to take into its own hands the reformation and improvement which is so much needed in the leading Universities of the empire. The House of Commons will this week have an opportunity of reconsidering the whole question, and of determining whether it is right to permit the system to continue of excluding Dissenters from the honours and privileges which Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin are empowered to confer. On Thursday next Mr. CHRISTIE will re-open the discussion. We heartily wish him success. He ought, and, no doubt, will feel emboldened in persevering with an object which, for its benevolence and enlightenment, entitles him to a large share of public gratitude, when he remembers that the present Prime Minister and other eminent statesmen have seconded his past exertions for rendering our ancient and influential seats of learning really worthy of the British nation. Cer tainly, at no time so much as the present, could the undoubted grievances of the Dissenters, so far as sound policy is concerned, be more opportunely re moved. Rightly, or wrongly, the Dissenters are just now strongly excepting to the Government plan of education, and mainly on the ground that the patronage to be created by it will not be inconsider able, and that the Church will come in for the lion's share. Whether, under all the circumstances by which the vexata qucestio of national education is environed, the objections to Lord LANSDOWNE'S scheme be well or ill-founded, yet, seeing how un justly the Dissenters have been treated by the Univer sities, whose authority is wielded almost entirely by clerical members of the Established Church, and seeing also how much the Dissenters have done for education, despite of ° the frowns of power and the existence of miserable and narrow-minded prejudices, it assuredly is not unnatural, to say the least, that they should look with no favourable eye upon any plan of education of which they conceive the tendency would be to impart additional strength to an institution that has hitherto proved itself so inimical to the progression and development of their civil and religious liberties. Neither is it to be ex pected that this feeling of hostility will abate till full justice shall have been meted out to the influential religious communities that exist in this country with out the pale of the Church. Our Universities should be forwith re-organised, and have their laws re modelled in accordance with the rights of con science and principles of religious freedom. Talk as we may about the advisability of pre venting the corruption of our populous cities by the poisonous systems of intermural interment, of ne glected drainage, and of forgotten ventilation, there are other causes of corruption--of social and moral corruption—which call yet more loudly for a legisla tive interference. Sanatory measures, however corn prehensive, cannot affect these causes. National education, however liberal in its distribution of knowledge, cannot sufficiently counteract their bane ful influences. Poor-laws, however generously de vised, cannot tend to their eradication or even their abatement. We mean, of course, the brood from which come juvenile offenders—those swarms of young creatures which infest the rookeries of this vast metropolis—children in years, but aged in wretchedness, and poverty, and ignorance, and vice, and degradation. You may see them blessed sunshine and warm air, misery itself will sing, dashing in and out of these closes, careering over the open ground, engaged in their rude games, arrayed in hying drapery, here a leg out and there arm." " Their thin faces," continues the same writer—one who has watched the brood with a heart melting in his bosom with compassion, "their thin faces," he says, " tell how ill they are fed ; their fearful oaths tell how ill they are reared; and yet the merry laugh, and hearty shout, and scream of delight, as some unfortunate urchin, at leap-frog, measures his length upon the ground, also tell that GOD made childhood to be happy, and that in the buoyancy of youth even misery will forget itself." The name of this deplorable class is Legion. Visit the poorest districts of any large town, but especially of the capital, and you will see this crowd of chil dren—the spawn of poverty and vice—sprawling in the gutters, crouched on the doorsteps, clustered in the car riage road, and scattered over the pavement. They are bloated with unwholesome living ; they are emaci ated with want ; they are ugly, sallow, dirty, ragged, wretched, sickly, despicable. Here is one of them, taken at random, and sketched with the truthful pencil •of the benevolent writer we have already quoted :—" Poor fellow ! it is a bitter day ; he has neither shoes nor stockings ; his naked feet are red, -wullen, cracked, ulcerated with the cold; a thin thread-worn jacket, with its gaping rents, is all that protects his breast ; beneath his shaggy bush of hair he shows a face sharp with want, yet sharp also with intelligence beyond his years." That is no in dividual portrait, it is the portrait of an entire species —it a faithful delineation of those deplorable atoms of humanity that are warmed into life in the foulest corners of our larger municipalities. They are as plants that sprout up into noxious and poisonous brambles if neglected—but which, if transplrnted and tended, would flourish, would bloom, would give a whole some and abundant fruitage. What we have here remarked is applicable o England, to Wales, to Scotland. How :mmeasurably more applicable, therefore, must It be to the famishing and miserable millions ~f Ireland. When it is proved by statistical evidence that such is the multiplicity of those abandoned children, can we be amazed at the fre quency of crime, at the crowded state of our penal ,ettlements, at the thriving trade in justice carried on in our criminal courts, at the busy occupation of our turnkeys, and the practised skill of our hang men ? With such plentiful supplies of seed strewn so lavishly over such a congenial soil, can we be in any manner surprised at the extent and frequency of the harvests ? Alas ! it is the parable of the tares and the thistles again —neglected in the spring -time, and torn up only when they have effectually choked the barley. For the diminution of evils which are at length re cognised to be so enormous, strenuous efforts are now being made by every earnest and practical philan thropist. Ragged schools are starting into existence in many despised localities, and, honour to those fentle and intrepid women, honour to those ardent and self-denying men, who for the sake of our com mon humanity brave all the filth, all the stench, all the noise, all the suffocating and sickening in fluences of those wretched dens where the forlorn and callow young are gathered under the wings of a benignant knowledge! Reformatory establishments are rising into life simultaneously, and still wiser and still better establishments (if that be possible) are distribut ing blessings among the poverty-stricken of Glasgow and Dundee, in the shape of those Industrial Schools, where the outcast children receive bodily as well as mental nourishment. These advantage-s have been and are still being effected by private and unassisted enterprise; they are springing spon t ,neously from the charity of the popular heart. Beautiful as the endeavours a re therefore, they are necessarily weak and, to a very consid era bl e extent, ineffective. It requires the potent and con centrated impulse of Government to give efficacy to , these struggles against ignorance. There is a ne cOoity • for the stretching forth of the trna o f the Executive to the help of whatever ragged schools, and reformatory schools, and industrial schools, have yet dared to raise their redeeming heads, and to show forth their plenary benevolence. England present:, a gigantic field for those Governmental labours— Ireland, a profound abyss. We want the diminu tion of the sources:of our physical contamination, and GOD knows we are sadly in need of a diminution of the sources of our moral and social corruption The Prussian Diet held a short sitting on the 12th, at which it resolved that an address should be sent in answer to the KING'S speech, and it appointed a committee to draw it up. The members of the Prussian Diet were presented by their marshals to the KING on the 12th, and after wards had the honour of dining at the palace with his MAJESTY and the Princes of the Royal Family. The Ministers were also present. During the dinner the KING proposed a toast to the country and the United Diet, and expressed a hope that the labour of the assembly would be useful to the nation. The toast was received with enthusiastic acclamations. The Post-Ampt Gazette of Frankfort publishes a letter from Berlin, stating that the effect produced there by the speech of the King of Paussie, on open ing the Diet, was so favourable, that the funds rose nearly one per cent. We find in the Augsburgh Gazette a letter dated the 10th instant, which states that the five great Powers had instructed their ambassadors in Vienna to adjust the difference which has arisen between the Porte and the Greek Government. Letters from Rome of the Bth instant announce that Cardinal Gizzi, the Secretary of State, had ten dered his resignation on the 6th, but the PorE had refused to accept it. Madrid journals of the 11th have arrived. The Government, it was said, had received positive assurances that it was not the intention of Queen CHRISTINA to return to Spain, but that when she quitted Paris she intended proceeding to Marseilles, to embark from thence for Naples. General SERRANO left Madrid on the 11th. Pre viously to his departure he was visited by Senor Ras DE OLANO and by Senor DE LA VEGA, the private secretary to the QUEEN. The Carlist Generals Elio and ZAVALA have entered Navarre and joined General ALzse... The Carlist insurrection, however, is, it is said, rapidly dying away. Senor OLOZAG A was expected in Madrid on the 11th. He will be speedily followed by General OSORIO, the friend of ESPARTERO. Osouso has received a full pardon, and is reinstated in all his honours. The Madrid mail of the 12th had not arrived in Paris when the post left on Saturday. We have received the Paris papers of Friday and Saturday. The Journal des Daub announces, in what may be considered an official form, the appointment of the Duc DE BROGLIE as Ambassador to the Court of London. The Bill authorising the Bank of France to issue notes of the value of 200 f. has passed the Chamber of Deputies by a large majority, the amendment of M. LEON FAUCHER (proposing to authorise the issue of notes of 100 E) having been previously rejected. The announcement which appeared in the Paine of Wednesday, of the execution of the three persons convicted of rioting at Buzangais,was, it appears, pre mature. The execution was to be delayed until Friday, according to the National. The Siecle ex presses a hope that this delay may be favourable to the convicts. It says— " The evening journals of Wednesday announced posi tively, and one of them, the Patrie, with the most cir cumstantial details, the execution of the three unfortunate persons condemned to death for the affair at Buzancais. This news has been repeated as certain by most of the morning journals. The Debate itself, which ()light to have been better informed, reported that the execution took place on the 12th, in the public market-place at Buzancais, amidst a prodigious concourse of people from the environs, adding that there was a great display of military force from Bourge, Nevers, and Chtiteauroux. Notwithstanding all this, the magistrates, who have seats in the Chamber, and who, by reason of their special posi tion, have been called upon to follow all the phases of this deplorable affair, declared yesterday that the sen tence upon the condemned men at Buzancais had not been executed. We hope that this happy delay, which has allowed the Government time to appreciate the unanimous feelings of the public, will save these un fortunate men, who certainly were very guilty, and who would have no claim to pity, if their crime had not, in a - „ apprehension of famine: — olll l llllZiiiitinTa:l4Vet& our readers, will conceive, is not to extenuate the crime of murder, which has been committed. We have respected, even in all its rigour, the decree of justice. But can the shedding of blood on the scaffold expiate the blood of the victim?" The Moniteur publishes a royal ordonnance ap pointing in the department of Public Works a general committee on railways. This committee is divided into four sections : first, that of lines of di rection ; secondly, the working in a scientific point of view; thirdly, the working in a commercial point of view ; and, fourthly, the regulations. Each sec tion is to be consulted, according to the nature of its attributions, on such questions as belong to it. The Speech of the King of PRUSSIA on the opening of the States-General is the subject of comment in almost all the Paris papers of Saturday. The Con stitutionnel draws the following curious parallel be tween the opening of the States-General of France in 1789, and those of Prussia in 1847: " Prussia gives at this moment a curious and solemn spectacle to the rest of Europe. The States-General have just been opened at Berlin, as the States-General of France were opened in 1789. There, too, is a King beloved by the nation, who, influenced by the liberal movement of his century, takes the initiative of this con vocation. The Assembly is also divided, in nobles, who for the most part believe in equality, and in citizens, who have the sentiment of their rights. The first questions propo ed by the royal power are questions of finance ; but the Assembly seems pre-occupied above all by the desire to assure and develop the liberties of which it takes possession. Around the States a nation of writers, of controversialists, of thinkers, discuss natural and histo rical rights, the origin of the powers, and the best con stitution. These similarities, although they are more apparent than real, and although there are very profound differences between the two nations, the two periods, and the two sovereigns, do not the less appear to have caused a very profound impression on the mind of the King of Prussia. The speech which he delivered on the opening of the States seems altogether inspired by aversion for liberal French principles, by the ter rible remembrance of the Constituents and L , ,uis XVI. The King declares twenty times in his speech, and with the greatest energy of language, that no power on earth will be strong eaough to induce him ever to change the natural relation between the Sovereign and his people, into a conventional constitutional one, gua ranteed by charters, and sealed by oaths.' Never will he permit that a written sheet shall place itself forcibly between God and Prussia to g,vern that country with its paragraphs.' The natural relations between the King and the people are founded on the royal omnipotence;' and the people owe obedience, not servile, but dictated by God and the conscience. The States are instituted in virtue of the historical German law;' the Deputies represent neither the people nor opinions;' they exercise their proper rights, those which they enjoy in vii tue of an cient laws, and those which the Crown has recognised;' the Crown must reign according to the laws of God and the land, and to its own free will, and not according empty e ; s o h u e n d complains y h Kin i p n a g r t e x o p f e t c h t e s p s r a e d x a p h e d to the will o f ma j or i t i es, i f Prussia is not soon to be an Europ b e t e of Prussian Liberals; he counts on his people, who will not see the absolute power' of their kings broken, and who will second him in his strug g l e against democratic efforts, and the wicked desires of the cen tury. Our readers will understand that we shall not here discus, these theories, which are so much in con tradiction with our ideas in matters of natural right, of political right, and of liberty. The King of Prussia, with great warmth, praises the English nation, whose constitution, he says. is the work of centuries, and of incomparable hereditary wisdom. It would be easy to us to show that the English nation, since it founded and developed its liberty, has never considered royal omni potence the basis of constitutional right, that the writ ten text of the law reigns supreme over the people and the Kings of England, that the political institutions 01 Great Britain are guaranteed by charters and scaled by oaths. But instead of opening 5, useless controversy, we prefer to follow the King of Prussia and the nation which he gove'-1:s in each step that they make towards to applaud their generous sentiments, and honour their patriotism, even its exclusiveness. When King Frede rick William recognises in the Diet the right of voting the taxes—when he accords to the courts of justice public and oral trials—when he proclaims liberty of con science in religious matters, and the civil character of marriage —when, in short, he seems to regret that the laws of the Germanic Confederation do not permit him to concede the liberty of the press, what matters it that he has discovered all that in the German historical law, or that he has involuntarily received the inspiration of the great principles which the French revolution promulgated in the world? There is there a movement towards liberty, and we pardon King Frederick William for being in his speeches less just towards France than he appears to desire to be in several of his acts towards his own country. One thing, however, strikes us in this speech—the declaration of a sort of rene , al of the Holy Alliance. Alter having spoken in general terms of the friendly relations:which exist between Prussia sad Uer 4eighbourip the Zing fifids j 9 t 4 "r"4", THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 19, 1847. whom we formerly aided in making Germany free, and upon whose blessed concord with us depends the main tenance of the peace which has now reigned for thirty two years, our relations are firmer and closer than ever.' In these words are grave symptoms of the disposition of Europe towards us, especially during the last few months." The Journal des Debats gives the following account of the effect produced by the Royal speech on the auditory : _ " The strange impression which the Royal speech produced on the auditory was depicted on the counte nances of all. The assembly was thrown into great st;itation. A considerable number of Deputies had de. termined on immediately quitting Berlin and returning home, but the counsels of prudence and moderation prevailed, and the excitement by degrees subsided. The correspondent of the Cologne Gazette properly observes that the King's speech had placed from the onset the deliberations of the Diet on a ground widely different from that which the Members, in their preparatory meetings, intended to assume." The Union Monarchigue thus sums up the objects of FREDERICK WILLIAM in assembling the States, and the means he has adopted to obtain those objects : " This Prince, whom some have called philosophe, but whom we shall call wise, has comprehended all the dangers of rendering the royal authority too feeble. He does not think that it ought to be infringed by too hasty concessions; he wishes to make use of his own words, that his crown which he has received without a blemish shall pass untouched to his legitimate successors. There is one point, in fine, upon which the speech of Frederick William leaves no doubt or equivocation. He has an antipathy to written charters; he rejects them with energy, we may even say in rather a military style. On the whole this speech clearly analyses, and without any mental reservation, the real object of the Monarch—to reconcile by a judiclous measure the representative with the monarchical principle, favouring the first without taking anything from the i ntegrity of th e secon d ; con ecrating their growing alliance by pacific means, with out any violent efforts likely to pr o d uce a s h oc k . T h i s is a grand spectacle, exhibited to revolutionary schools, which have hitherto refused to admit of such a union. It is a great problem to be salved, and we hope that it will be solved without collision, with ou t any a b rupt shocks, without any rebell ion. If this great undertaking be brought to a good end it will be a most forcible demon stration of the truth of the dictum, that enlightened liberty is the holy.daughter of monarchy." The Bill establishing a line of steam-packets between Havre and New York has passed the Cham ber of Peers. The Prince DE JOINVILLE, having under his com mand the line-of-battle ships Souverain, Jena, and Jupiter, sailed on the 1 1 th, from Toulon, for the islands of Hyeres. The health of Lord COWLEY has considerably improved. Letters from Lyons, dated the 15th, announce that Mr. O'CoNNELL had recovered from the fatigue of his journey, and was considerably better. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse, on Saturday, at 77f. 80c. , the Five per Cents., 1151. 45c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,221 f. 25c.; Rouen, 897 f. 50c.; Havre, 6721. 50c.; Great Northern, 621 f. 25c.; Avignon, 767 f. 50c. ; Vierzon, 5621. 50c. ; Bordeaux, 508 f. 75c. ; Troyes and Montereau ' 297 f. 50c. • Basle, 190 f. ; Dieppe, 325 f.; Paris and Strasburg , 428 f. 75C.; Tours and Nantes, 4211. 25c.; Paris and Lyons, 426 f. 25c. ; Lyons and Avignon, 4501. ; Cette, 443 f. 75c. ; Belgian Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 53%. MARSEILLES, APRIL 13.-Marseilles and Avignon, 772 f. 50c. ; Northern, 622 f. 56c. LYONS, APRIL 15.-Paris and Rouen, 876 f. 25c. ; Avig non and Marseilles, 771 f. 25c. ; Northern, 6211. 25c. ; Paris and Lyons, 430 f. ; Orleans, 1,222 f. 50c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Aram 17. Boulogne and Amiens, 16%-Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette (Constituted), 1%-Demerera, 3%-Dutch Rhenish, 4 -East Indian, %-Louvain a la Sambre, PA-Namur and Liege, 4 1 ,4-Northern of France, 13-Paris and Lyons, 5 - Paris and Rouen, 35. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. Accounts from the Cape of Good Hope of Feb. 12 have just come to hand. They bring news of the loss of H.M.S. Thunderbolt while entering Algoa Bay. No lives were lost, and it was hoped the stores would be saved. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE-MONDAY. The arrivals of all kinds of Grain of home produce up to our market last week, especially those of Barley, Oats, Beans, and Peas, were on a very limited scale; while those from Ireland and Scotland were unusually small. However, the imports of foreign Barley and Oats were on an extensive scale ; those of all ether articles being trifling in the extreme, even allowing for an importation df 4,450 quarters of Wheat. The receipts of English Wheat fresh up front Kent were moderate. Those from Essex, Cambridge, &e., small. The stands being scantily supplied with samples, arising from a good clearance being effected on Friday last, and the attend ance of buyers, several of whom were from France, large ; the English Wheat trade was very brisk, at an improve ment in the quotations obtained on Monday last, of from ss. to 6'. per quarter, and at which the whole of the sam ples were disposed of. The tradsactions in English Wheat, for shipment to France, consisted of nearly 9,000 quarters, or, at least, a moiety of the supply of that article brought forward. The whole of the reported arrivals of foreign ini‘t'it'S , erjrii Atha eitisitntaybrmAlit-TIA) - ; -- &rwaytewrie sumption a Inoderate business was doing, while for export to France about 3,000 quarters were disposed of, at an im provement in value of fully 3s. per quarter. A larger business would, doubtless, have been concluded had the supplies been on a more liberal scale. Not withstanding the large arrival of foreign Barley last week, the actual supply on sale this morning was by no means good. All kinds, owing to the dealers being very short of stock, moved off briskly, at is. to 2s. above last Monday's . prices. With Malt we were rather scantily supplied, yet the demand was by no means active. In prices we have no alteration to notice. Although upwards of 30,000 quarters of Oats came in from abroad last week, the trade was active, and the currencies improved from ls. to 2s. per quarter. The few parcels of English brought forward sold at high rates. The show of Beans being trifling, there was a decided im provement in the demand, at Is per quarter more money. There was only a moderate inquiry for Peas; yet they were mostly held at higher rates. Indian Corn, for arrival, was is to 2s per quarter higher. The Flour trade was firm, and some of the millers would not sell except at higher rates. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE Wheat—Essex & Kent, Malt—Chevalier.... • 7Es tO —I Red, New •• .. 79s to Hs Oats— Yorkshire and DI tto,White, New 815 895 Lincolnsh., Feed. 30s 338 Norfolk and Lin- Potato • • • 315 34i coin, Bed. •• .. 75s 80s • Youghal and Cork, Ditto, White ••• • • • 808 868 Black . 255 28s Irish, Red • ••• • • • — ll Cork, White . .• 285 315 Ditto, White ••• • • • — II Scotch, Feed. .. .. 335 368 Ryi—Old 8 Beans-:-Tick •. .. 421 45s New. .. 485 543 Pigeons • . . 50s 525 Barley—Grinding. •• .. 425 45* Pease—Grey....... • • 80s 54s Malting . 495 345 Maple . ........ 815 84s Chevalier 545 563 White . ... • .... 515 67. Slalt—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers ....• • ... 57. 595 folk 7115 755 Flour—Town-made... 60s 625 Brown ... . • 6T5 69s Suffolk .. Kingston and Ware 755 785 Stockta & Norfolk 49s 525 SIVEITEPIELD. Since Monday last the following imports of live stock have taken place into London : From whence. Oxen. Cows. Sheep. Calves. Rotterdam Hamburgh 23 Harlingen N eudiep Flushing Total ...... 84 820 920 112 At the outports the arrivals have been moderately good, viz., about 400 Oxen and Cows, 200 Sheep, and 40 Calves, nearly the whole of which have come to hand in excellent condition. There were on sale to-day only 120 Oxen and Cows, 142 Sheep, and 16 Calves from abroad, w hi c h move d off slowly, at barely late rates. The arrivals of Beasts from our own grazing districts, fresh up this morning, were, the time of year considered, very large, viz., nearly 4,000 head, and of most excellent quality ; indeed, we may state that at least three-fourths of the supply were above the middle quality. Notwithstanding the attendance of both town and country buyers was numerous, the Beef trade was in a very sluggish state, and the few inferior animals on offer sold at an abatement of 2d per Blbs ; but the value of the primest Scots, Devon, Herefords, and short horns was mostly supported. The very highest figure for the former kind did not exceed 4s 2d per 810 s, and at which a clearance was not effected. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire we received about 1,200 Scots, homebreds, and shorthorns; from the midland and western districts, 900 Herefords, runts, Devons, shorthorns, &c. ; from other parts of England, 800 of various kinds; and from Scot land, 220 horned and pulled Scots. With Sheep we were I fairly supplied, while the quality of all kinds was excellent. On the whole, the Beef trade was steady, but by no means brisk, at prices about equal to those paid - last week. At the conclusion of business a fair clearance had been effected. The primest old Downs, in the wool, sold at 5s 4d, those out of the wool, 4s 8d per Blbs. From the Isle of Wight the ar rival of Lambs was very small, but from other quarters a full average number of that description of stock came to hand. The Lamb trade was tolerably firm at late rates. Although the supply of Calves was small, the Veal trade ruled heavy, at FrWay . 's depressed rates. The Pork trade was heavy, yet prices ware mostly supported. 6UPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts. I I Sheep. Galva. 3,843 1 21,500 lO3 NEIXTGATE AND Jr.:6ADENE3AL'L. During the past week the arrivf.ls of Scotch and country killed Meat up to these markets have consisted of about 100 carcasses of Beef, 400 ditto of Mutt on, 200 ditto of Lamb, 180 ditto of Veal, and 430 ditto St Pork. The supplies on offer slaughtered in the metropolis have been seasonably good, yet the genera l demand has been tolerably steady, at but little variatiim in prices. About 60 carcasses of Foreign Beef, 80 ditto of Mutton, and 30 ditto of Veal, have ap peared on sale. I figs. 512 Beef, inferior...... A 2 t p lo er st:neo Mutton b y the ut interior . •. 3 8 8 10 -- m ---- 8. d. to s. d. s. d. to z. iddling .... 30 3 2 to C n a , rc in sse ter . middling.. 4 0 4 prime large 3 4 a 6 -- prime • • 4 4 4 4 prime small .. a 6 3 $ P o rk, large ••••• • • • 3 E 4 6 "1• ••••••••• • • • • 4 0 5 0 --- small .• •• 4 6 5 • Lamb. 53 4d to 63 241 norwucic AND SPITALPIELDS. The supply of potatoes being unusually small, the amount of business passing is trifling, at higher rates. 730StouGEI HOP MARKET. Selected parcels of hops in pockets are in steady request at fully last week's quotations. In all other kinds, next to nothing is doing, with a full average supply on offer, WOW.. About 1,000 bales of wool have been imported since this day se'ennight. In the private contract market—notwith standing the supplies on ()tier are by no means extensive—a very limited business is doing, yet we have no alteration to notice in the quotations. TALLOW. Although the stocks of Tallow continue small, the demand both on the spot and for forward delivery, is heavy, at the late decline in the quotation,. TOW Tallow ia in good Supply, 444 emewhitt lower. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton in the Liverpool market on Satur day were about 4,000 bales, the market being quieter. A larger quantity was on offer, and prices were more in favour of buyers. Surat, 300 bales, sold at 4d to sd; 50 bales Egyptian realised 7/d. to 8d; and the rest was American, at 6fd. to 71d. per lb. Railway Shares were dull, and generally drooping. A most important feature has prevailed in the Corn market this morning. The purchases on French and Belgian account have been immensely large. Nearly all the stands were, in fact, cleared off. The price of Wheat was fully 6s. per quarter in advance of the rates of last Monday ; Oats are ls. to 2s. per quarter ; and Barley, 2s. per quarter dearer. There was in truth a positive rush to purchase from the mo ment the market opened until all was cleared off. Such an active and brisk demand, while it lasted, has not been seen for very many years past. For a season at least this extraordinary advance must have an influence on the operations of the Court of Directors of the Bank of Eng land. The steamer which leaves Liverpool to-morrow for the United States takes out some amount of specie again, but there is reason to believe that as Messrs. Rothschild and one or two other firms have received a large amount in bullion from the continent, within the last few day-, there has been application made to them by exporters of coin, rather than to the Bank of England. The latter, it is stated, has declined to buy the specie imported by the firms alluded to at a higher price than usual, and this may induce them to ship it to America and foreign parts on their own account. Under any circumstances the receipt of this money must afford present relief, and it would be scarcely of any use for the Bank to be a buyer at a premium, when the whole might soon again be withdrawn at par by the holders of its notes. The wisest plan seems to be to let the bullion operators make their own arrangements. The Funds have been higher this morning, and there has been rather an increased demand for stock. Consols for transfer to-morrow have realised 86* to 87, and for May 864 to 87*. The Reduced Three per Cent. An nuities have been 851 to 86*, and the New Three-and-a- Quarter per Cents. 87* to 871. The value of Exchquer bills has been Is. premium to 2s. discount. East India Stock is at 245. The Foreign Investments have varied but little. Portuguese Bonds are dull at 344. Spanish Five per Cents. have been quoted 25-4- k ; and the Three per Cents., 36i 4. Brazilian Stock has been marked 82k, and Mexican, 201 to 20i. Austrian Bonds have realised 109*, and Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 584. Railway Shares have been steady, although they were flat at Liverpool on Saturday. Great Western New are quoted 74; North-Western, 172 to 173; South- Western, 64 ; South-Eastern, 36* to 37 ; Brighton, 52 to 4 ; Midland, 1141 to 115 ; Eastern Counties, 18i to 19i ; Aberdeen, 27 ; York and North-Midland, 82 ; Scottish Central, 244 ; Northern of France, 124 ; Demerara, 34 ; Paris and Strasburg, 2 to 2k ; and Eas Indian, BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the official List.) Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 85%% 86 1 4 Three per Cent. Console Annuities 86% % 87 New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anne. 87%%% 54 Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 9 8 15-16 India Stock • • • • .. South Sea Stock Ditto, New Annuities .. .. 8654 Consols for May 27 .. 86%% 5754 86% Exchequer Bills. I%d. 2d. 1,0001. • • .. •. •• I dis Ip2 Cs 5001. • • • • .. 1 p PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent. • • • • 109% Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent • • .. 8254 Citilian Bonds, 3 per Cent. • • 53 Mexican, 1846, 5 per Cent •• .. 20% Ditto. for the Account • • .. 20%% Portuguese Four per Cent • .. Ditto, for the Account .. 3454 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent. • • .. 25 %, Ditto, for the Account .. 2554 54 Ditto, Three per Cent .. • • • • 36% Ditto, for the Account .. • 36%% Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 58% Ditto. 4 per Cent. certmeates 89% 90 BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. ZAILWATI. PAID. Pitt MUSE. Aberdeen • • • • • 30 .• •• 27 to Birmingham, Wolver., and Dudley • . •• • • 10%.... to Cheltenham and Oxford • • .. • • 2 •• • 14 •• to Eastern Counties • • • • • .. 20 ..,. 19 18% to 1954 Ditto, York Extension . • • • • • 6% •• .• 4%54.. to East Lancashire • • • • • • .. 17 .. • • .... to .. 7%.... 8 .... to 7% East Lincolnshire • • • • • • • • 4 •• • • 6% to Ditto, pitte N dl e t w to, ' N . ew .. Scrip . .. • • .. 1% .. I% .... to Edinburgh and Glasgow .. • • •• 50 .• •• .... to Ditto, Quarter Shares • • • • • • 1254 .. • • 17% • ... to Ely and Huntingdon • • • • • • • 15 .. • • 15 54 .... to Great Northers .. • • • • • • .. 3% •• • • 3% %.. to 3 Ditto, London and York Extension.. 2% .. • • 2 •• .. to Great North of England • • • • • • 100 •• • • 231 .. •.to Ditto, New .. 24 .... 61% to 62l Great Western • • • • • • .. • • to, Ditto. New • •• •• •• • • .. 4 34 • • 7%.... to Hull and Seiby • • • • • • .. • 50 ....103;4 .... to 103 Ipswich and Bury St. Edmunds .. 14 •• • • •• • • to Ditto, ditto, and Norwich— .. • • 8% -• • 4 54 •• .. to Leeds and Thirst, •• •• •• -- 2234 •• to Do.. do., Preference, 6 per Cent 34 9 . •• • 454 •• .. to Liverpool. Manch, and Newc. Junct. 234 .... 1 .... to London and Blackwall 161. 13s. 4d. •• • • 7% • ... to Ditto. New, No. 1 .• • • .• •• _s_• • • • 5% .... to London, Brighton, and London and Greenwich .. 12/. 152. 4d. •• • • 9 r.... to London and North-Western • • • • 100 .. 17254 173 to 172 London and South-Western 411. 6s. 10(1. .. • • 64 .• .. to Lynn and Ely .. • . • • 20 •• • • 21%.... to Manchester and Leeds • • . • • 82 •• .. •• .. to Ditto, Thirds (Reg.) .. • • • .71. 45....• p.. to Maneliester, Buxton, and Matlock . 425. •• • • par • to 1A p Matich..ster and Southampton .. • . • • I %.... to Midland •• •• •. .• —lOO •• —114% .... to 114 tto, - New • • • • •• • • •• 36 •• • • 39 % % to Ditto, New • • .. .. • • • • • • 2 .. • • %• • to Ditto, Birmingham and Derby • • 100 .... 9154 -•• to Newcastle and Berwick .. .. •• 20 .... 26 ... to 25% ?4 Ditto, New • . • • . • • .. 5 .... 7%4.. t o . Norfolk • • .. • • • • .. • • • .100 . • • .. • • to I)itto, Extension .. • • • • • • 6 •• .. 534 .... to Northern Counties Union • • • • • • 4 •• • • 1% •• • . to -.- A orth Staffordshire • • •• •• •• 5 •• 7 % to oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton 2254 .... 1454 to Preston and Wyre • • • • • • • • • • 25 .... 34% .... to Reading, Guildford, and Reigate .. 5 .... .... to Scottish Central .. • • • • • • • • 1734 .. 24% ••.. to Shropshire Union • .. •• • • .• 425..... dis. to South Staffordshire • • ..... • 21.125... % dis.. to outh Eastern and Dover .. •• • • 331.28.4 d. 3654 to 37 Ditto, New (do. 30/.) No. 3 .. •• 15 •- • . 15% .. to Ditto, New (do. 151.) No. 4 • • •. 5 •• •• 5% to South Wales .. .• •• 10 .... 734 .... to South Yorkshire. Doncaster, & Goole 2 .... .... to Vale of Neath .. • . .. 4 .... 254 .... to West Riding Union .. .. • .41. 5i..... % % pto York and Newcastle . • .. 25 .• 33%.... to 34 Ditto, Preference • • • .. .• 4 .... 7% % ... to York and North Midland .• .. 50 •• .. 82 .... to Ditto. Extension .• • • .. 25 .• •• 40 .. ••to Ditto, Preference • • • • • • 2 .... 11 •• .• to 10% .. .. .. 245 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Demerara .. • • 2% •• • • 3% •• ••to Dutch Rhenish • • • • • • .. • • 7 •• • • 4s •••• to East Indian • • .. •• • • •• 5 8. •• • • •• .. to Madrid and Valentia • • • • • • • • 2 •• • • if •••• to Northern of France • • •• •• • • • 8 •• • • 12% Nth to Paris and Lyons Paris and Strasbourg • • • • • • • • 5 •• • • 24 •• •• to 2 Sambre and Meuse .. • . • • 12 •• • • fi ••• to West Flanders • • • . .. • • 8 to JOINT-STOCK BANKS. London and Westminster •• • • •• 20 •• • • 26% •••• to MINES Real del Monte. Unregistered • • • • •• •• 3% .. • . to LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, APRIL 19.—Wind at Noon N.W., moderate breeze, and tine. DRAT APRIL Ig.—Wind N. to N.N.W.—Arrd. Clipper , River (cambia ; Mary Bibby-, Archibald, Cuba. Sid. Young England, Batavia ; Lady Flora Hastings, Wetherall, New Orleans ; Mary Caroline, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Ganges, Sydney, New South Wales ; Morning Star, Ceylon ; Brahmin, Bombay; Semiramis, llavannah ; Victoria, New York ; Cottingham, Richibucto. OFF DARTMOUTH, APRIL 18.—Wind N.—Barham, Gimlett, Calcutta, left Ist of January; Enchantress, Cape of Good Hope. CARDIFT, APRIL 14.—Sid. Isabella, Quebec. PWLLHXLI BAY, APRIL 15.—Sid. Agnes, Quebec. SHIELDS, APRIL 17.—Wind S. to S.E., fresh.—Sld. 16th, Carron, and Bessy Dryden, Quebec; 17th, Vansittart, ditto. Put back, Wilhelmine, for Copenhagen, very leaky. The John brig, of Poole, in the river, pricked upon an anchor, and now lies near the Brandling Drops, lull of water. FALMOUTH, APRIL 18.—Wind N.E. OfF port, 16th, Southampton, Bowen, Calcutta; Grange, Ross, Quebec. 17th, Frau Autns, Charleston, for Copenhagen. PLYMOUTH, Aran. 17.—Wind W.S.W.—Sid. Emma, Que bec ; Joseph Campbell, Batavia. Off port,l6th, Fortuna, Han sen, St. Croix; Walter, Nassau. Cosiß, Arm. 16. Wind S.W, Arrd. Prospect, Kent, Philadelphia. 16th, Lalli. Rookh ; Martha, Callao ; Almera, Curling, New Orleans; Forrester, Andrews, Norforlk Island; Napoleon, Chesebro, Baltimore; Newhaven, Downes, New York; Elizabeth Churchill, M'Gilvary, ditto. Sid. 15th, Governor, Douglas, Baltimore; Mary Ann, New York; Fanny, ditto ; Bee, Quebec. YARMOUTH, APRIL 18.—The Morina brig, of Memel, has been towed in here to-day dismasted and a derelict. LIVERPOOL, Amu. 17.—Wind S., moderate.—Arrd. Cas tries, Hinds, St. Lucia; Coils, Steward, Porto Rico; John Fehrman, Davies, New Orleans; Rackall, Foster, New Orleans ; Windsor Castle, Patterson, Mobile ; Rankin, M‘Bride, Mobile; Glasgow, Cook, Savannah ; China, At tridge, Savannah ; Dolphin, Sullivan, Charleston ; Village, 111'13urnie, Charleston ; Rover, Purdy, New Kyrie,? Delia Walker, Gai(lrov, Boston. 18th, Arrd. Groacte go n er, Antigua; Frisk, Smith, Porto Rico ; Zuleika 1n Porto Rico • Liverpool, Seawright, Jamaica; Totnkin son, Hutchinson Manzanilla ; North_ _t , Watt, New Orleans; Schoodiac, Griffin, Mobile; Robert Watt, Johnson, Apalachicola; Junior, Ellis, Savannah; Sarah, Broomhead, Virginia; Rowland, Watts , ditto; St. W a d s worth, Philadelphia. Sid.li)uctb Loch Lomond, Cal_ me-not, Rio Grande cutta ; Ann Bridson , Bom ba y ; CHrmencita, Havannah ; Hope an ' d i dmund Perkins, New ; Orleans; J. M. Williams , Vir g inia; Bletokee, Adam Lod g e, and Pacific, New York; Akbar, Boston; John, Queb ec Loosethank, Quebec ; Traveller, Newfoundland ; Flora, New foundland. 18th. Monarch, St. Lucia ; Eurigacta, Ha vannah ; Morman, St. Martha ; Lapland, New Orleans ; Shannon, New Orleans; Olezaba, New York; William Ward, Staten Island ; Invermore, Halifax. MILFORD, APRIL 17.—The Atalantic, Evans, from New port to Conway, with railway iron, is on shore near St. David's Head ; should the weather be moderate, the vessel and cargo may probably be saved. WATERFORD, APRIL 16.—The Sarah, of Falmouth, was passed dismasted near Lundy Island, by the Zulus, Howell, arrived here. CLONAKILTY, APRIL 15.—The Kate, Nicholas, of Tenby, from Bantry to Cork, was totally destroyed by fire yesterday, off the old Head of Kinsale. HARTLEPOOL, APRIL 16.—A boat about 12 feet long, painted black, and marked " Elizabeth of Goole, James Chester, master, has been picked up near here to-day. TOTAT LOSS OF THE BRIG CANNING BY FIRE. A dispatch has been received at Lloyd's from the Foreign 4ce, iLICIOL4I3g rl< copy of a ciispatrt her tak;iegtY'6 Charg4 des Affaires in Chili, announcing the merchant brig Canning having been destroyed by lire in the Straits of Magellan, 16th December last; carpenter anal two men sup posed to be drowned ; vessel sunk in i fathoms water. QUEEN'S BENCH.-.(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco, before Lord Chiei Justice DENMAN and a full Court). IN RE GARBETT. Mr. PARRY applied for a writ of habeas corpus, ou behalf of Edward Garbett, now a prisoner in Newgate, in order that he might be brought up and admitted to bail. The Learned Counsel stated, that the prisoner had been committed by his Lordship at the Kingston assizes for forgery; and he had to submit to their Lord ships, that from the mode and manner of his committal, never having been taken before a magistrate, he was placed in a position of peculiar difficulty as regarded his defence. Lord DENstAN—Ile placed himself in that position by his own statement. He could not have been taken by surprise, for he went fully into the history of his having forged the bill, although he did not say that he forged it in so many words. Mr. PARRY—That was your Lordship's opinion, sitting as a magistrate; but a committal by a magistrate is not conclusive against the party comm►tted. He was com mitted on suspicion, to take his trial for forgery, and the difficulty I wish to point out is this—a true bill has now been found against him for forgery, and that circum stance places him in a position of still greater difficulty than before. There may be witnesses on the back of the bill of whom the accused knows nothing whatever, and he is not entitled to a copy of the bill. There were no depositions taken, and he has, therefore, no warning of what the case against him may be, except the admis sion he made—namely, although there are no precedents to cite to your Lordships, yet, in this instance, justice will not be defeated by allowing the party to be bailed. Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN—Is it usual to bail a person against whom a true bill has been found, and upon such a charge as that of forgery ? Mr. PARRY—I admit that it is not usual ; hut this is an extraordinary case. and the accused is in a position entirely different from that of ordinary prisoners against whom bills have been found, and who know the charge and the witnesses against them. But in this instance the prisoner is quite in the dark. He swears that it is his desire to meet this trial, and to bring witnesses who can prove his innocence. Mr. Justice WrGwrmAN—How does any person know what witnesses are brought before the grand jury ? Mr. PARRY—A prisoner may not know what wit nesses are brought before the grand jury; but by statute he is entitled to a copy of the depositions, at a very mo derate charge. llere there are no depositions, but the statement of the accused—an admission made under cir cumstances of surprise and agitation. Lord DENMAN—I have bound over the short-hand writer to appear as a witness. Does he swear that in his agitation he has stated that which is not true? Mr. PARRY—IIe says that in his agitation—for he was surprised at the mode of cross-exa‘nination of coun sel, and at the questions asked, that he does not know what he did state. Lord DENMAN—Does he state that he did not forge the acceptance ? Mr. PARRY—He does ; for he says that he is not guilty of the crime with which he is charged. Mr. Justice PATTESON—I thought you said that he did not know the crime with which he was charged. Mr. PARRY—He does not know except it is a charge of forging the bill. If it be the charge of forging a particular acceptance, then he does not know what witnesses are to bring home that charge to him. Lord DENSIAN—Why, it is trifling with justice to sup pose that a man who, by his own statement, admits that he forged the acceptance of a bill, should not be con signed to prison to take his trial for his crime. It ap pears to me to be absurd. Mr. PARRY—I would not continue to press anything against your Lordship's opinion, but you must forgive my reminding you that the prisoner never stated that he forged the bill. Lord DENMAN—No, not in set terms, but he said it in effect, as clearly as if the words were uttered. It is trifling with common sense to suppose that such an ap plication could be granted. The prisoner knows very well that it is only a wish to try the chance of the Courts allowing him to escape from the consequences of his crime. Here is a man, himself an attorney—in order to shield a defendant—stating in open Court, that he him self forged the acceptance. Ido not know what expla nation can be given when the trial comes on, but to attempt any now is merely trifling with justice, and the application cannot be granted. BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.) The cases heard in this Court possessed no feature of public interest. EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) SHARP V. CHAPLIN. This was an action tried at the last sittings before the Lord Chief Baron, when a verdict was entered for the plaintiff for 1001. Sir F. THESIGER moved for a rule to show cause why a nonsuit should not be entered, and also why a new trial should not be had, on the ground of the aawission of improper evidence. The action was brought to re cover the sum of 1004, the amount of a deposit paid by plaintiff on 20 shares in a projected company, called the London and Westminster Water Company. The plaintiff had, in 1841, applied for shares in this company, and in accordance with that application an allotment of 20 shares had been made to him. The Learned Counsel contended that the receipt produced at the trial, the eiidence.===it4Yaw:t.9""t to have been nroduced in COMMON PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) GOODLEY V. RIGG. This was an action on a promissory note for 51., which was tried at the last sittings before the Lord Chief Jus tice, whe❑ the verdict went for the plaintiff. Mr. Sergeant TALFouaD moved for a rule to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside and en tered tor defendant, on the ground that the debt was barred by the Statute of Limitations. The promis sory note was given on the 30th September, 1835, pay able six months after date. There were several pleas, but the only one on which stress was laid was the one pleading the Statute of Limitations. On the 7th June, 1843, a letter was written by defendant to plaintiff, and it was maintained that this was an evidence of the ac knowledgment of the debt, but he contended that this letter was not such an unconditional acknowledgment or promise to pay as invalidated the plea of the Statute of Limitations,—Rule granted. SOUTHWARK.—(THIS DAY.) John Male was placed at the bar, charged with shooting on the river Thames, to the imminent danger of the inhabitants of Whitehall-gardens. An inspector of the Thames police said, that about eight o'clock the previous morning he saw the prisoner in a boat near the gardens of the Duke of Buceleugh's mansion, Whitehall. He several times pointed a gun towards the mansion, and fired it off, consequently he went towards his boat and took him into custody. ➢ir. COTTINGHAM inquired whether any person re ceived any injury from the shot ?—The inspector re plied that he believed not, but the firing of the gun was a great annoyance to the inhabitants of Whitehall gardens. In answer to the charge the prisoner said he had no intention of injuring or annoying any person. He had been told there were plenty of rooks in the gardens of the Duke of Buccleugh, and he borrowed his brother's gun for the purpose of shooting a few of them. He had only fired twice when tha officer took him into custody. Mr. COTTINGLIAM ordered him to pay a fine of 205., and in default of payment to be imprisoned one month. CLERKENIVELL.—(THIS DAY.) Charles Maded and Henry Edwards, two middle-aged men, of respectable appearance, were charged with fraudulently obtaining from Mr. Samuel Elliott, fancy dealer and dressing-case maker, of No. 68, Jewin-street, Aldersgate-street, a number of dressing-cases and en velope cases. It appeared from the evidence that, last Saturday, the prisoner Made!l called at the warehouse of the prose cutor, and representing himself to be a fancy cabinet maker, said he had a very good customer for him in the person of a gentleman named Whiffen, who carried on extensive business at Chelmsford, and was now staying at his (Madell's) house, in Baltic-street, St. Luke's, and wished to make some large purchases in the way of dressing and writing-cases and workboxes. As Mr. Whiffen did not wish to go out, he requested that samples might be sent to Mgt of the articles, and the prosecutor accordingly sent his son with several, having first eautb*ned him an no account to part with them without the money. The lad accompanied Madell, who told him that Mr. Whiffen was at the Sir John Falstaff public-house, in Baltic-street, and they had better take the goods there to him. On entering the par, lour " Mr. Whiffen" was there , and turned out to be the prisoner Edwards, and upon the boy laying down the goods, they made him drink so much as almost to stupify him, but he still retained sufficient rec o ll ec ti on of his father's order as to bring back a portion of the goods. Mr. Wonter appeared on behalf of the prosecution, and said that there were numerous charges of a similar description to be preferred against the prisoners, he, therefore, requested that they might be remanded. The prisoners were accordingly remanded. DARING RollßEpoßle of ti ,e fol l owing iicES.- ollrddaayriiilngfroorbmbeartiieosn was received by the From Mr. Currie, Catnden•row, Camden-town, a silver watch, maker's name " David Gill, No. 29,248," a guard, gold seal, and keys, by two men, who attacked him near the Eagle Tavern, City-road.--From Mrs. Grey, Kingsland road, in the City, a purse, containing 51. 16s. 6d.—From Mrs. Campion, 12, North-street, Islington, a double bot tomed silver watch, jewelled in eight holes, No. 5,481, maker's name, " Froome, Nelson-street, City-road," by a woman, about twenty-eight years of age, who snatched the watch from Mrs. Campion in the Boundary-road, and escaped; and from Mr. Levy, in Size-lane, Bucklersburv, a gold watch, and 71. 10s. in gold. THE BRITISH ARMY IN CANADA.—The reserve 2d battalion of the Rifle Brigade, at present stationed at Quebec, will proceed to Chanibly in the early part of the summer, and be replaced at Quebec by the 71st Light In fantry. The 77th Foot, at present at Laprarie, will relieve the 46th Foot at Kingston, and the latter marching to Toronto. The 52d and the 81st Regiment of Foot are ordered home. _ MR. O'CoNNELL.—A letter has been received in Paris, dated Lions, the 13th instant, conveying favourable intelligence as to the state of Mr. O'Connell's health. The llon. Gentleman has already recovered, in a great degree, from the extreme fatigue consequent on the length of his journey from Paris, and increased by the extreme inclemency of the weather. RAILWAI COMIVIIITEES. (THIS DAY.) MOUSE OF COMMONS. GROUP LXVII. _ This Committee mat for the first time to-day. Members present—Sir J. Y. Buller (Chairman), Lord J. M.inners, Hon. G. H. Cavendish, Mr. Newdegate, and Cap tain Plumridge, to whom have been referred the following Bills: Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, and Glasgow, Paisley, 1.61- marnock. and Ayr (No. 1). Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, and Glasgow, Paisley, I'l marnock, and (Ayr (No. 2). North British (N 0.2). Caledonian (Branches to Canobie, &c.) Caledonian (Lease of part of Glasgow, Dumfries , and Car- lisle Raillay). Ayrshire and Galloway. On inquiry it was found that the only Bill in a go forward was the position to AYRSHIRE AND GALLOWAY. It being the only one in which the Railway Commissioners had as yet reported. This being an unopposed Bill, it was agreed by the COTI; mittee to refer it to the Chairman of Committees , and t Members who brought in the Bill. After entering the appearances on behalf of the other Bills with the petitions against them, it ii The Committee adjourned till Thursday next, wh en expected all the reports will be ready. GROUP V. tri► The Committee met this morning at twelve. Prese Gore, Lord H. Vane (chairman), Hon. M. Sutton, Hon. Mr. Mr. Rice, and Sir E. Fi,lmer. LONDON AND SOUTH—WESTERN (W121311'-. ING THEREOF, ETC). Counsel for this Bill, Mr. Austin, Mr. Hill, and Mr. 1 1 °P °; agMr. ents, A Messrs. Dorrington and Co. 'cl tbe WSTIN in opening the merits of the Bill , gal object of it was to widen that part of the South - W e ',Lo line extending from Nine Elms to the .iti nc ; t e with the Richmond line at Falcon-bride tit on th e hat hand, and to Hungerford-bridge on the other , so c i four lines of rails might be laid down to meet the gliTe increase of traffic which would press upon that portio n of the line. The cost of that would be about 24,0001., and the offiY opposition likely to be made to it would arise from two pre. prietors in the neighbourhood of Falcon-bridge. Mr. Locke, the engineer of the company, his examination proved the amount of estimate for the miles of two additional lines of rail to be 24,8001, an", ii to property about Falcon-bridge interfered with by the /3 1 0 be of no other importance than to give the owners a xed c lai ta t for compensation. The York-road Station was estim in the course:of 78,000/. land cost, and 40,0001. cost of erection. Mr. 13oviLt., onithe part of the proprietors at Falcon; bridge, cross-examined the witness; but immediately on wards intimated that he would not persist in his opPos'" . to the general Bill. ad The CHAJaMAN then declared the preamble proved; s b the Committee proceeded to go through the clauses, Igh,' c it ; with some amendments, were agreed to; and the Chai ri ` -- announced that he would report the Bill to the House. MURDER AT NCRWOOD. , ii /, MURDER OF A WIFE AND CHILD, AND P l ' CII)E OF THE MURDERER. t si% Yesterday (Sunday) morning, about half-pas ,v, o'clock, the quiet inhabitants of Lower Norwood, Sii t '" ii d were thrown into a state of alarming consternation:ller, excitement in consequence of a most frightful rea r n g, which had been committed by a man named John l' eti in aged 21 years, an artificial flower-maker, riesidieg.og High-street, Lower Norwood, who succeeded in ts ; k t i ted the lives of his wife and child, a nd a fter wa rds com ic- , self-destruction with the sa me i ns t rumen t, under citeu''''° stances of the most painful and awful character. her e It appears from the subj o i ne d p ar ti cu l a rs which ' - 5 0 been gleaned from an auth en ti c source , that th e his Young, who is twenty-one years of age, lived withered wife, Jane Young, aged twenty, and an infant a a ,;ll Jane Bolton Young, aged only two months, at . 5 1 - e igil shop in the High-street, where they exhibited ail l bs ee flowers, &c., for sale. The murderer Young ha d o ften of weak intellect for some time past, which ha u o i s get attracted the notice of the tradespeople in the /,,. oe re who were frequently speaking of his peculiar antics. an d is no doubt that they had suffered great privatiiT ts p• distress, from the state of the house and the gen et.- pearance of the victims and the inurdeter. Shortly after six o'clock police-constable ji,esiteePll e, Armstrong, 278 P, was going off duty to his resiuetirue near the scene of the dreadful tragedy, but at 032 ' s ing nothing attracted his attention, but whilst and rcs i o lid himself he was alarmed at the cry of "Murder an and screams. Ile instantly ran out partially dres sed ' saw another constable named Robert Archer , they hastening towards Yun's ,house. By the tino had reached the place several of the immediate ou'oboj, bours were running from the front of the prem ises ' se er' A as the officer Archer proceeded to the doorway t o C'o to Lain the cause of the alarm, the man Young Carne a nd the threshold, with his hands covered with h ioeci r ' e la° table knife in the left hand, also smeared wit h r t he con. for a moment stood transfixed to the spot, an u ' d f e ar stables, seeing him armed with such a weapon, tine -ledge ing what had taken place from their previous k° to of him, they drew their truncheons and followed 1 , w ho the house. He rushed upstairs to the first floor , anti 1111 the officer reached the first landing-place a most :Imo. spectacle presented itself. The lifeless body of J .,. Young lay with her head almost severed from her bosi.t_ she was lying in a pool of blood, which ha d strea. eeild from the wound completely down the stairs. Het he was on the top step and her feet were in the e,. room. They pursued him into the front room, and be tore they had time to secure him he sharpened the knife by rubbing it up and down the stonewoto. round the fireplace, and stood before the looking &Set where he drew the knife across his throat, inflicting most frightful and extensive wound. When the officers position t , Melilla door, and bleeding rrom the woull he had inflicted on his neck. Whilst he was lying e t l the floor the officers rushed into the adjoining room, an there discovered the lifeless body of the poor inf ant . ctt the bed, with its head cut completely off, only hang i:lisg by a small piece of skin at the back. The scene at e a period was one at which the officers felt much alarm came and horror-stricken. Several persons by this time w to the aid of the two constables, who, seeing th e u ite Young still alive, and the other unfortunate victirassibio warm, instantly dispatched a messenger with all po. o d, speed for the aid of Mr. Chapman, surgeon, of Nor a c hef who attended with promptitude, but when he re s roo the house the mother and child were quite dead. in' man was still alive, but when the surgeon sa w the uld juries on his person, he was of opinion that b e d, not survive many minutes He was placed on te' co uld but notwithstanding everything medical skill o f ea devise and suggest, he died in about a quarterin .the hour afterwards. A knife was found on the be t d cve wns front room, and the stone work round t he , sharpened smeared smeared and covered with blood, where he h a " the deadly weapon. , e ad t beir As soon as the officers found the man young a t I s pec' immediately forwarded information of the tacle and deed to the Brixton stati o n of the 11,Fcford a t ' d and in a very brief spa ce o f t i me I ns pector " o f the a small body of officers repaired to the Be ene d by at murder, which, by eight o'clock, was surrourt„, we; least 500 persons, who were with great difficiV es and back by the police, who took charge of the he i t`, o scot' the premises. A constable was also dispateh e ",,': a ffair , land-yard with the particulars of the horrihw which cast a gloom over the whole Tillage. ,b e Ma tt From subsequent inquiry it appeared that Young had been under the care of his friends adj3ut ney, owing to his mind being somewhat imPairef refs, on Saturday afternoon he returned in the car e 0 Nor tive, who had great trouble with him on the w a y to nigh t wood in the omnibus. The whole of Satur dsY f cool - Mrs. Young sat up at work for the purpose on i B ' plating a small order, and the general suPP ° ; - cloth e !. that Young laid down on t h e b e d w ith part of i on, and at th e ti me o f t h e mur d er hi s wife, I L ° he rt h i e with labour, w en t to sleep by the side of hi m, dreau" awoke at the time ab ove named and committ ed the 80c1 ful deed. The fire in the grate was still burning' 000 the few articl es on th e table w hi c h stood in th, e _ A t hat were two cups and an old tea-pot, which indicat'b-cjies they had only recently partaken of tea. Th e left w ere A were removed into the front room, where they _uteree in the charge of police-constable 202 I), who first e the place. ood, lo s Towards noon the High. street, Lower Ntrwpoured iu most impassable, and hundreds of Pei's° lastives of the from all the surrounding districts. Th e r d e it was st ated ' murdered woman are very respectable, en rather strang reside in Brunswick-square. It seem s id have alloWe a that the friends of the man Young that be vo s him to go at large when they were aware _, w as labouring under some aberration ofeintellect, intellect, ari_ului lung suggested by his relations to get him into soon asylum. 3 o n the Upon further search of the bodies the finger, „ h t in left hand of Mrs. Young were much cut, no O N : the shou endeavouring to save herself from his grasp, and in frota struggle. Her death must have be en i nstan t a neous at the appearance of the injuries, and th e p oo r little Lo t t, must have died in a few seconds. There is little d 011" but that he meant to make his escape; but w h e n he 514/ : the police so near he retreated back again into the holls" where he committed suicide. At ten o'clock last night large crowds of persons were round the house, and the greatest sympathy seems to prevail for the murdered female, who bore a most eP' emplary character for cleanliness and industry. THE OPERATIVE BAKERS.—On Saturday night very fully attended meeting of the masters and journeYrabel: bakers of the metropolis and environs took place at t" Crown and Anchor Tavern, Strand, on behalf of the Operf.4; tive Bakers' Society. Lord Robert Grosvenor, ALP , I cas n a i r the chair. His Lordship having spoken strongly in fav r of the objects sought by the society, and of the " early by ing movement " in general, the meeting was addressedie several other gentlemen. It was stated that tbeeat were in London 2,000 bakers and 9,000 journeymen , the ups majority of whom were favourable to a limitation of the "„0 of labour. It was now the general custom for journert7c-x to work from five o'clock in the evening till eleven 0 the next morning, and have vary little rest oa SuadaY' solutions deprecatory of the system were carried un aain ln after which thanks were voted to the Noble Lord the chair, and the meeting broke up. ANGLING.—The first clean salmon of this seaso°ll:l taken from the Ness, by rod-fishing, was caught in the 11° Pool last Wednesday, by Charles Woodmas, Esci' nerei;eo in most of the northern rivers, the spring fiostbsipnegnitlafivsZ.stobst very unproductive; but from the quantity have gone down the rivers in February and March, it 1 la pected that the late fishing will make up f or the early. and the Beauly Lord Lovat has taken three clean seitia„"h u ss, the Master of Lovat six. From the Blackwater, 11. Esq., landed the same number within the last fortnight_.t fact t t i f t ; r THE GAME NUISANCE.—It is a notorious gamekeepers, when they have got a poacher in i tf of snare," in the way of conviction worry for hi" for penalty. The half-penalty system is a direct premaiLT:beir perjury, and that it has been committed by keepers a shocking men (who are mostly ignorant and impude nt) t° a ' s liciiY extent is also a notorious fact. These, and a multip evils more, through the game nuisance, galue - P gentry area scourge to the country.