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NEW WORK. ET TrER AUTHOR or « WILD'SPORTS Or THE WEST," 8(4. i and asked the Her; Secretary to fix a day for bring- NOW ready, in 2 vol.. post Bvo., with Illustrations on Steel and ing forward such measure. Wood, by Leech and G. Measom, 2h., bound. lILL•SiD6 and BORDER, SKETCHES • Sir G. GREY said that he had hoped to introduce T • - D4 of the CHEVIOTS and the 1.A.1131ER 1 the inea)ure last n ight, _ with LEGEIS for the introduction of the Bill, and would take the but he would now fix Monday discussion on the second reading. On the motion for going Into Committee on the Railway, Harb , urs, and Yier, (Ireland) Bill, Mr. ROEBUCK quoted the expremions made use of by the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER against the motion of Lord GEORGE BENTINCK a short time since and contended that this measure was the same in principle, though not in extent, and that it was brought forward at a time when there was a panic in the money market, as if to add to the monetary difficulties under which the country was labouring. The people of England, he was assured, would no longer suffer such unwise proceedings as this, of lending 620,0001. to Ireland, after they had already advanced 10,000,0001. He would therefore move as an amendment, that the other orders of the day be read. After a few words from the CHANCELLOR of the Exult EQUEN, the House divided, when there appeared— For the amendment l4 Against it 203 Majori ty for Ministers — 189 The House then resolved itself into Committee, and The CLIANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that as he had made his statement the other night on the motion for the second reading of the bill at so late an hour that very few Members were present, he would now repeat it ;. and he thought it vs ould furnish a complete answer to the assertions which had been brought forward against the Bill. The Right. lion. Gentleman at great length repeated his statement. The House was subsequently addressed by Mr. GoULBURN, Sir W. CLAY, Mr. ROEBUCK, MT. SPOONEE, Sir R. PEEL, Lord J. RUSSELL, and some other Hon. Members, when the House divided, the numbers being— For the resolution Against it X CIR. By W. H.. 31 kXWELL. Egg. Author of " Wild sports of the West," " :_zrori , s of Weverloo," &e. " These volumes are sure to be welcome alai popular. They are In the best marner of the author of ' Stories of Waterloo' "—Lite rary Gazette. •" A delightful and very attractive work; as agreeably and tho- Toughly pleasant as could be desired. It must become a favourite book."—Merning Advertiser. Richard Bentley, New Millington street (Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty). HER MAJESTrS THEATRE. The Mobility, SOscribers to the Opera, and the Public, are re lpectably Informed that MDLLE. JENNY LIND will make her first appearance in this country on TUESDAY next the 4t`•x of May HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. TEI3 EVENING, Saturday, May I, will be performed Verdi's celebrated Opera, I DUE FOSCARI. tarrezia, Madame Mo .tenegro; Jacopo, Signor Fraschini ; Lore dano, Signor Benche ; and Il Doge, Signor Coletti. After:which a DIVERTISAEMENT, in which will be presented Pas de Cinq from " Ros!da," by Alone. ('erito and M. S. Leon• as• misted by Mdiles. Cassan. Jam s, and honor e. Grand P as b y Mdlie. Graiin, supported by 3.ldlles. 11, norm, James, and Cassan. And "La Manola, by Moile. Ceri o and Leon. To be followed by a SELECTION from Donizettrs Opera, " La Favorite, by Signor Gardoni and Douche. To conclude with the admired new Ballet (by M. Paul Tagliono, entitled THEA ; on. LA FEE AUX DES FLEURS. fly Mdlie. Rosati, Mane Marie Taglioni, Casual, Honore, 31ontford. Julien, Lati,oreux, anti M. Taglioni. HER .AJES CY'S THEATRE. The Second appea-ance of JI lle. JENNY LIND in this country. The Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public, are respectfitily in formed, that an EXTRA NIGHT will take place on THURSDAY next, May 6, when will be performed Meyerbeer's Opera, ROBERTO IL DIAVOLO. _ _ Alice, Mdlle. Jenny Lind; Isabella, Made•. Castellan ; Roberto, Signor Fraschini ; unhaldo, signor Gardoni ; Sacerdote, Signor Douche ; sad Bertram, Signor htandigl (his second appearance at this Theatre). " With various Entertainments in the Ballet Divert!ssement, coin prising the talents of Mdlle. Cerito, Mdlle. Rosati, Mdlle. Marie Taglioni,Mdlle. Petit Stephan, Mdlle. Gralin, M. Perrot, M. P. Ta glioni, and M. St. Leon. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. ktsr NIGHT OF THE GRAND SPECTACLE. THIS EVENING will be performed the grand Opera of THE BOHEMIAN GIRL. Count Arnheim, Mr. Borrami ; Florestein, Mr. Harley ; Thaddeus Mr. Harrison; Deviishoof, Mr. Stretton ; Queen of the Gipsies, Mrs. Hughes; Arline, MiB3 Rainforth. Stier which the New and Original Oriental Spectacle. called THE DESERT; or, The Imann's Daughter. In which the Two Elephants, upwards of Sixty Horses, and the Camels will appear. The Imann Useph, Mr. Howell ; Figvez, Mr. Rafter; tiara, Mr. W. H. .P•yne Fuzel r/ola, Mr. lii, - itcastie ; Maleck, Mr. T. Matthews; Ahabeck, Mr. Ilatchison ; Kuzliraga, Mr. L. Lee; Princess Ipomaye, Miss Mes sent ; Nilda, Miss Collett ; Girgee, Miss R. Isaacs. Majority -133 Several other votes having been agreed to, the louse resumed, and the remaining orders having been disposed of, adjourned at Two o'clock. THEATRE ROYAL, HA MARKET. Under the Manlgernent ut Mr. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will he performed Sheridan Knowles's Comedy of THE LOVE CHASE, Sir William F-iidlove, Mr. Tilbury ; Master Waller, Mr. Howe ; Widow Green, Mrs. Glover ; Constance, Mrs. Nisbett. After which the Grant Astronomical Extravaganza. called TUE NEW PLANET ; or, Hariequin f.-ut of Place. To conclude with the Comic Drama, called A CABINET g(TES TION. Nothing but the total abrogation of that enactment which was speciously carried through Parliament in 1844. under the plea that it wai requisite to prevent further "alterations and vicissitudes in that medium of exchange which regulates the value of every article in the country"—nothing, we say, but the total abrogation or that enactment, ur the miraculous reversal of the eternal laws of Nature, can preserve the empire from a more frightful panic than has ever heretofore been experienced. It behoves the Govern ment, therefore, to be vigilant and,_active; it behoves every man in the two august assemblies of legislation to bestir himself for the salvation of that national THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. nder the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EV EN iNG Will be performed the original Drama, called THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST ; a Gipsy Stdry. Cheap John. Mr. Wright ; Ishmael, Mr. 0. Smith ; the Kinchin, Mr. P. Bedford; Leybournc, Mr. Worrell ; Cynthia, Madame Celeste; Lemuel, Miss Woolgar ; starlight Bess, Mrs. Fltiwillism; Lady Agnes, Miss Harding. After which will be produced an Opera Buda apropos sketch, called JENNY LIND. Principal characters by Messrs. Wright, paw Bedford, Lambert, Selby, Cullentord, and Miss Wockar. To conclude with SHOCKING EVENTS. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. J. M. Maddox, sole Lb.5f...3 and Manager. THIS' EVENING Will he performed MIDAUTM3IER NIGHT'S DREAM. The principal characters by Messrs. H. Hughes, Ryder, J. Vining, C. Fisher, Wynn, and Compton ; Miss Winstaniey, Mrs. Stirli ng , M rs . 11. Hughes, Miss S. Flower, Miss Anne Romer, Miss Marshall, and 31iss Smithson. After which, the new Farce, entitled, A WIFE FOR AN HOUR. Principal characters by Mears. Walton, Granby, Vining, Cowell, • Compton, Mrs. Hughes, and Miss E. Stanley. To be followed by the new Drama, entitled ANGELINE. Angeline, Mrs. Stirling. To conclude with the Farce, entitled KEEPING A PLACE. Spikespur, Mr. Granby; Crocus, Mr. Compton; Dorollisa Danvers, Mrs. Foshrdke ; idy, Silas Laporte. credit which is now vaccillating, and oscil lating, and tottering over an abyss of in volvement. In protesting against the deplorable Bank Restriction Act of Sir ROBERT FEEL, we are not cavilling as to the impropriety of seine trivial financial speculation, we are insisting upon the necessity of obliterating from the statute-book of the present legislative decade, a principle which has carried the commercial interests and the monetary stability of the country to the very limits of inse curity and disquietude. It were madness to blink the reality which at present forces itself upon the conviction of every one at all acquainted with; the opera tions of the Money Market; unless some step be taken to inspire the mercantile world with confidence, unless the Bank of England be released from those preposterous trammels which have prevented the de velopment of its financial strength, unless something be done to counterbalance the evils already effected by the Currency blunder of 1844, we must be carried headlong into a whirlpool of difficulties as great as, if not immeasurably greater than, the difficulties of 1825. The diminution in the price of the Three per Cent. Consols from 971. in the June of 1846 to 861. in this, the fourth month of 1847, shows already the suc tion of the current of this terrible Maelstrom. The per ceptible decrease of employment shows it; the con sequent diminution of wages shows it ; the state tit the canal shares, of railway shares, of the unfunded debt, and the impracticability of obtaining discount— all chow it. A serious alarm has taken possession of those engaged in banking; it is an alarm, we wilt grant it, that is scarcely- justified, inasmuch as the amount of bullion stilt retained in the cellars of the Bank of England is on the average greater than can be remembered during many preceding occasion , of pressure. Nevertheless, that there is a very con siderable degree of trepidation cannot be for a single moment questioned, and when once this trepidation has thoroughly imbued the public mind, we know by a terrific experience the disastrous consequences which ensue. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. t7nder the ManaLmnent of Mrs. Keeley. THIS EVENIN6 will be performed a New Drama, called THE CREOLE. Characters by Messrs. F. Mathews. Leigh, Murray, Emery, Kinloch, and Keeley, Miss Dickinson, Miss May, Miss M. Keeley, and Mrs. Keeley. Af er which, an entirely new occasional Dramatic Sketch, called JENNY LIND AT LAST; or, Tee Swedish Nightingale. Charac ters by Mr. A. Wigan, Mr. Tamer. Mr. Kinioch, Mr. Bellingaam, Mr. Bender, Mr. Yarnold. and Mrs. Keeley. Mr. WILLIAM BATEMAN, Vie celebrated BLACK MINS TREL, will give a Vocal and Instrumental Selection from his American Entertainments, cencluding with his greatly admired Concerto on the Piccolo. To be followed by New Vaudeville Extravaganza. called "US° F- : THE SE'X)ND. Characters by Messrs. A. Wigan, Seeley; Miss Dickinson, Miss Turne•, and Mrs. Kee'ey. To conclude with the LOAN OF A WIFE. Characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, A. Wigan ; Mrs. woollidge. - - FRENCH PLAYS. —ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell., MONDAY EVENING Will be performed (first time in this country), SANS NOM cm, Draws et Romans. After which, the popn'ar Comedie of LES DEMOISELLES DE ST. CYR. To conclude with the principal Scenes of the Petite.Comedie. en titled LE MARRIAGE FORCE. Boxes, 6s. ; 35. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, 3-,: Gallery, 2s. Boxes and Stalls may be engaged at Mr. Vitamins Royal Library, na, Bond-street ; and at the Box-office of the Theatre, which is open (tally from Eleven till Five. ETHIOPIAN ~ lERENADERS. ST.JAIREWS THEATRE. The celebrated ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, Pall. Ilarrhtaton. White, Stanwood, and Gomm, will have the honour of repeating their inimitable ENTERTAINMENTS :t the St. James's Theatre, THIS EVENING, Saturday, May I. Doors open at Eight o'clock. They will also give a DAY PERFORMANCE on Wednesday next, May 5. Boxes and stalls at Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; and at the I-lox-office. NEW STRAND THEATRE. THIS EVE ', INO 'Will be performed an Original Pictorial Drama, in Four Parts, entitled, HOGARTIPS MIRROR. Principal characters by Messrs. Darcie, H. Lea. Butler, Payne, H. Reeves, Ayliffe, Deighton; Miss Love, Mrs Grtlitiv, M as Harcourt, &c. To be followed by an Eccentric Viintlevilie, calle.l, CAPERS AND CRUSHERS. Atter which. a Screamer, in One Act, entitled, ARE TOE' COMING TO BED? To conclude with a new Ba'let, intr.xlucing upwards of 60 Cory phees. founded on an entitled, THE ARABIAN NIGHTS' EN TERTAINMENT. Stalls, 34.; Boxes, Is. 61.; lit, Is,• Gallery, 41. Halt-price ,t half-past Eight o'clock. ttox•oftlee open from Pleven till four o'clock. Applications to be m :de at the ttox•otflce of the Theatre. As was visible in the ever-memorable convulsion 01 1825,there is a growth in these pules as traceable as in any meadow cowslip. A panic seldom, if ever, starts into existence like a mushroom ; it germinates in visibly; it expand,, and sweils,.•and rises above thy► surface, and then bursts form into poisonous exube rance. 4ISTLEY'S ROYAL kJMPHITHEATRE, Under the patronage of the Queen, Prince Albert. and the Royal Family. Prf,nriPtor anti Manager !Jr. W. Batty - Extraordinary Nov.-]ties and grand Equestrian Feats every night, THIS EVENING, FoURTH WEEK OF THE SUCCESSFUL GORGEOUS SI'EC!ACLE OF What was the case in 1825 ? There was a pro Lord Byron's Dramatic Poem of THN: BRIDE OF ABYDOS ; or, THE CORSAIR, introducing Mr. Batty's numerous and highly trained Horses and Fairy Ponies, living Elephants, Camels, Zebras, Deer, !cc Entire change in the Scenes of the C , rcle, by the first artistes in Europe. Great suce,e , s of the extraordinary lofty leaner Mr. 11-m -derson in his wonderful Arab flights. Splendid Pageant by Eight Ladies and their trained horses, and other productions, only to be witnessed at this neat re. Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. W. D. Brotulfoot. Box Office open from Eleven till Four. Box Book-keeper, Mr. Sheffield. Perferman. e commences every evening at Seven o'clock, doors open at Half-past Six. tracted interval of doubt us to the capability of the banks for converting their paper issues into money. That doubt affected, as a matter of necessity, the whole variety of private and joint-stock banks in the kingdom. There was a rush for cash payments upon Sir PETER POLE'S bank, and a consequent crash ; and that, it can never be forgotten, was merely the preliminary to a vast succession of simi- ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Under the Manlgement of Mrs. Frances Davidge, Lessee. THE ORIGINAL ETHIOPIAN SF.RENADERS, CROWDS NIGHTLY TO SEE THE BUFFALO GIRLS, With Coloured Concert, Nigger Songs, BanJo, Bone, Tambourine and Violin Accompaniments, the Railway Overture, and Grape Vine Twist. All by Female Professors. THIS EVENING lar disasters. All this arose, however, mainly from the dread as to the impossibility of obtaining sufficient credit money ; and how as this great anxiety removed, and in what manner were its results to a certain extent remedied f The explanation has been very happily compressed into a sentence by Mr. JAMES WARD, in a recent pamphlet. " For tunately," says he, " some one in the Bank re membered, or stumbled over, some large pack ages of one-pound notes which had never been The Performances will commence with THE ANCHOR OF ROPE ; or, The Seaman's Star. Mr. Dunmore, Mr. Conway ; Squire liar greave, Mr. T. Fredericks; Captaia 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 FATE OF CALAS. Boxes, 25., Fit, Is.; Gallery, 6d. Doors open at Six, commence at Half-past Six. issued, and the issue of which had long ceased to ROYAL VIC lORIA THEATRE. For One Week only, the Dark Brothers and the Black Gals of Ohio, who will sing, with full Instrumental Accompaniments, all the Popular Melodies of the Day. Second Reek of the SiilP BOY, hailed with acclamations of ap plause. THIS EVENING _ _ . be considered as a necessity which could arise in rerum naturci." That was the means of salvation. The incubus was removed, and the social system was without any repetition of its monetary throes and agonies. The directors of the Bank of England, then, in 1825 restored business to its previous state of activity and confidence by circulating large quan tities of one-pound notes ! Had the ruinous enactment of 1844 been already passed they would have been as helpless as their suc cessors are at this present instant; they would have possessed the means of rescuing the na tion from a peril so imminent and appalling that Mr. HUSEISSOI4 declared the country to be " within twenty-four hours of a state of barter," and yet, with the Bank Restriction Bill of Sir R. PEEL Will be performed POVERTY; or, A Te e le of Sorrow. Characters by Mr. N. T. Hicks, Dale, Searle, Bird, Gardner ; Mrs. G. Lee, Miss Ilurroughcliffe, &c. After which, The Mississippi Dark Brothers,and the Buck Gals of Ohio. To be followed by the SHIP HOT ; or, The White Slave of Gua deloupe. The Ship Boy by Miss Vincent. To conclude with (This Evening), TILE RATS OF RAT'S CAS TLE; or. The Old Abbey Ruins. Boxes, Is.; Half Price, 6,1 Pit, Rd. ; Gallery, 3d. Private Boxes, Parties of Four, 10s. 6d. ; aad Parties of Eight, U. Is. rs r. W Mt.—Seys Orincs, APRIL 30. TRICRMObIETER, Lowest, 40 ; Highest, 55 ; Noon, 52. BA nom ETER, 29.73. WIND W.S.W.; morning, fine: afternoon, showery. !!! , 3!3 AT i,o.k . liON-Kko_i Is 4;•: THIS DAN. Sfornmg .. 23 ininutes after 2. Evening .. 39 minutes AN. 2. looming over their heads, they would have been in capable of budging one inch, or of stretching out a fi n ger. The effect of that lamentable measure, indeed, is to produce artificial panics —panics arising from no dearth of bullion or specie, but from a want of a superabundance of bullion and specie —panics produced for the gratification of a dream and the preservation of a bubble. Was ever a grand com mercial community placed in such gratuitous straits and encompassed by such voluntary dangers in mere obedience to a preposterous whim ! As it is very excellently expressed in a Parliamentary peti tion, published in another column, the real uses of credit money are absolutely reversed by the enzxt tnent of 1844, because, under the operation of that enactment, when the country is in a position to do Without the aid of the Bank credit, then the Back con "foz id money its help r furnish it most abundantly, " whereas ' hen credit . I ' B really requi re d, th e B on k i.e compelled to indicated, namely, by resc i n di ng Surely the sc a le' s o f J ust i ce must have settled uvon the ey es o f t h e Legislatut e Until the G overnment ma passed under nder c t a he & remedial movement in the law hav e direction w aesse shall continu e t o clamour un late Admi n i s t rat i on, we tion—its immediat e ahrog t c t i T inglY f " 1- its abruga cisive abrogation. n —its utter and These conditions involve tie necessity of proclaim ing an ainneAy, forming a molerAfe Ministry, and convoking the Curter, all of which will be regarded with triumphant feelings by DAs ANTAS and his patriotic coadjutors. Such are in chief the remark able phases of European politics of the year eighteen hundred and forty-seven. Madrid papers of the 22d have arrived. Senor SALAMANCA, the Minister of Finance, had furnished the Committee of the Chamber with variety of information on the suiject of his all for the sac of State propee3, and appe.-ired disposed to consent to several of the modifications proposed by the Committee, so chit it is by no mt , aliS: improbable that the measure so modified may pass. Ti.e. QUEEN has nominated thirteen new Senators, all of the Progressista party. Among them are Senor BE CERRA (one of EsrARTER.O . S Ministers), Senor GONZALES, Senor Loraz, and Senor FRIAs. It was generally believed that no Spanish armed force would enter the Portuguese territory. General i MANUEL CONCHA WiS still cloaked at 111t - uisid by the illness of hip sister and Lis daughter. Th , - QUEEN attended a bull fight on the 2.211, accom panied by her uncle and uy het cousin, the Infanta ae tt i, nhse tpic!,t Without Interest at s pe i r ; osiT t w l\rle.tdDoanlD :As 1, B for e l a % h 2 ;e rne Three per Cents. 3ear.n-its.thaet No subject can, or ought, to interest the mind of an Englishman so much as that of the na.y of his country. His attention cannot be engrossed by any matter of greater national imp o rtance. The foremost rank which we occupy among the most civilised and powerful states of the world, is attributable to out past and present naval supremacy ; and unless our We have received died on p apers y of Weiriesd a • Lord CovvLzr died on Tuesday evening. at his TUB SUN, SATURIIAY MORNING, MAY 1, i#ll4l. maritime strength. be sustained, commensurate with the guardianship which we have to maintain over the vast and numerous dependencies of the British Crown, and which can (ally he effected by augmenting its p4l cver in proportion to the relative advancement made their naval resources, by (,doer we shall in, vtt:lbiy f;rf..it the exalted distinction we have acquired over the rest of the universe. Still, though our naval affairs are thus entitled to pre eminent consideration, it is difficult to rouse the attention of the country to a due reflection as to their efficient administration. The stability of the service, con sistently with a due regard to economy, is the pre dominant consideration. Economy in the ma nagement of everything connected with our naval armament, is a point to which the Board of Admiralty should be compelled to pay adequate attf-ntion. The enormous expenditure which we annually incur for the support of the navy imparts extreme importance to the question of eco nomy. At the same time, retrenchment should not be exhibited in any niggardly spirit. Wherever economy is sought to be enforced, to be judi cious it should be also liberal. Whilst moderate estimates are always acceptable to a nation so heavily taxed as the English, yet, if it were to be ascertained that they had been framed upon a scale below what was really required for the stability of the navy, the heaviest censure would be deservedly visited upon the Board of Admiralty. With the progress of science, improvements, apparently highly valuable, and important mechanical suggestions, are being constantly made. Their merits in rela tion to naval architecture have to be tested upon a gigantic scale. It is the bounden duty of the Admiralty to encourage, within reasonable bounds, the different experiments necessary to test the merits of various scientific inventions. To this species of encouragement are we indebted, in no small degree, for the present superior excellence of our navy over those of our rivals. It is not to be expected that every experiment should be successful, nor reasonable to call that a waste of money which may have been expended without producing a satisfactory result. It is a ne gative advantage to have ascertained that any parti cular invention has not answered the contemplated end. All knowledge is based upon experience. Frequently a series of experiments is indispensable to afford a fair trial to a mechanical novelty. It sometimes occurs, that in the process of one experi ment ideas are furnished, not only of what will render the same (if defective) successful, but also of planning something else of a most useful character. Those, therefore, take a narrow-minded view who consider public money has been squandered where the original expectations, either of the inventor himself or of those who have supported him, have not been always realised. The public are undoubtedly justified in requiring that large sums of money should not be continuously laid out in furtherance of any plan of ship-building which has been persevered in for a number of years, and which, admitting that it has proved advantageous in certain respects, has never theless been shown to be equally and seriously de fective in others. Mr. Hums: on Thursday night brought forward his motion for inquiring into the state of the navy since 1832, as regards the building, alterations, and repairs of her MAJESTY'S :hips. The motion was re jected, and apparently upon the grounds, first, that the present Board of Admiralty had greatly super seded its necessity by their appointment of a Com mittee of Reference, before whom all plans or draw ings for the building of ships in future must be laid, and specially reported upon ; and next, because the House of Commons seemed disposed to place every reliance in the efficiency, honesty, and zeal of Lord AUCKLAND and his naval coadjutors. The debate, was however, interesting in many respects. We shall take an early opportunity of noticing it more in detail. residence in the Place Vendome.. This melancholy event is thus announced in Galignanis Messenger-- " We announce with deep regret the death of the Right Hon. Lord Cowley, late Ambassador from England at the Court of the Tuileries. His Lordship had been for some time ill, and the limont. d event Lock place last night. at his reiderwe in t e VP 'me, The Noble Lord w;e3 in hi. , evenly-tit: c;11, bee;, inril in 1773. His L'rd. ship „.„„ 11,,ke of AVe;iiiigt,..n, he was by f,.u, . - Th e Secret service 4\lo!ley Bill was passed in the lber of Deputies on Monday by a majority of 164, the members being—fur the Bill, 220; against it, 56. This, however, cannot be considered as indi cative of any reconciliation having taken place be tween M. GUIZOT and the Progressive Conservatives, inasmuch as they had long since publicly announced their intention of voting in favour of that measure. The Union Illonar chiq4e says—" Several Cabinet couriers arrived on Sunday evening at the lintel Courcelles, and caused two Councils of Ministers to be held, at the end of which secret agents were dis patched to Madrid, bearers of dispatches for the Em bassy. One nf the Privy Councillors of the lintel Courcelles also left on Monday, on a private mission to IsABELLA.." Algiers journals of the 224 have arrived. The Akbar states that Bou MAaA, who left Algiers on the 221, in the Labrador steam-frigate, had passed the whole of the evening of the 20th with Marshal BUGEAUD, and given him valuable information re lative to the interior of Algeria. The surrender of this chief is regarded at Algiers as one of the most important events that has occurred in the whole of the war with the partisans of ABD-EL-KADER. Bou BLIzA. arrived in Toulon on the 25th. From the accounts which have been given of the conduct of this chief, it would appear that FrenA gold had as much to do as French steel with his surrender, and that Bou MazA has to endure, not so much the misfortune of being a prisoner, as the disgrace of being a renegade. The Greek Loan Bill was voted on Wednesday by the Chamber of Deputies without a division. In the course of the discusiion, M. GUIZOT said that the Cabinet was determined to persevere in the policy it had hitherto pursued in Greece, and to say nothing calculated to embarras3 the Greek Government in the peculiar and delicate situation in which it was placed. The Three per Cents. closed at 77f. 90c.; the Five per Cents., 1151. 80c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,2321. 50e. ' • Rouen, 926 E 25c.; Havre, 6711. 25c.; Great Northern, 6211. 25c. ; Avignon. 7731. 75c. • Vierzon. 780 c.; Bordeaux, 51•61. 25c. ; Basle, 1931. 7&. ; Dieppe, 327 f. 50e. ; Paris and Stras burg, 427 f. 50c.; Tours and Nantes, 421 f. 25c.; Paris and Lyons, 436 E 25c.; Lyons and Avignon, 450 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 4451.; Spanish Three per Cents., 35 1 A.; Ditto Pas sives, 54. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE. APRIL 29. Boulogne and Amiens, 16% —Dutch Rhenish, 4—Lyons and Avignon (Conetitated), VA —Northern of France, 12% —Orleans and Bordeaux, 6A —Over Yssel, 3 dis.— Paris and Lyons, 6—Sambre and Meuse, WA —West Flanders, 4. MOST IMPORTANT FROM ST. PETERSBURGH. We hare just received from St. Petersburgh the important intelligence that the Emp-ror of Russia has, by an Ukase, dated the 12th instant, determined to invest in the Foreign funds ,30 millions of silver roubles in specie, equal to 4,500,0001. sterling, which it is intended should remain as a permanent invest ment in those securities. It was expected that the greater portion would be invested in the English funds.—Herald of yesterday. FLANDERS, HAMBURGH, AND MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. (From The Suss of Last N:ght.) There was a slight improvement in the Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday, but not sufficient to alter tteaations. Sales about 4.0(X) ba:, s, in luding 800 American en specula tion. The torsi sale •of American were 3,600 bales at 6', 4 d. to 7V. per lb. Surat sold at 4 , 1. to :id. per lb. Shares were witheut slteratiou. The Market has par; icipared in the rise in Consols, end buyers having more coutidence, prices have rallied, in some instances, considerahy. The following are a few of the principal sale: of Railway Snares to-day, by Al , esrs. Laniond and Co.:— Mai,cliteter and Southampton £0 15 6 Louvain ala Sambre De. by, Stafford, and Worcestershire 0 9 6 Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A) 3 14 0 Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock. .... „ 1 17 0 South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole 1 7 6 West Riding Union Reading, Guildford, and Reigate... 4 14 0 North Staffordshire Great Northern Buckinghamshire ... 5 6 0 Eastern Counties, York Extension ..... -.. 5 8 0 South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4 4 18 0 North British, Extension 0 19 6 There are accounts of March 3 from Graham's Town, Cape of Good Hope. The Thunderbolt steamer was likely to be a total wreck, but her stores and rigging had been saved. Sir Henry Pettinger had arrived at Graham's Town. There had occurred nothing of importance on the frontier. There is a meeting of merchants and others to-day at the Hall of Commerce, to consider the present state of monetary affairs, but at the hour of our writing it had not terminated. The meeting has been kept rather private, and is convened by circular, we understand. There has been a further marked improvement in the tone of the Money Market to-day, which is likely to extend in all directions, as the reports in cir culation prove correct, and it seems to be generally be lieved that the Russian Government intends to invest a large amount of the 30,000,000 roubles in stock here. The sum is not ascertained. but even one or two millions in the precious metals, or supplied partly by value in grain —which we must have, and pay for in bullion, if drawn from America or other countries—would prove an immense relief to us. Consols have been up to 87% for Money, and to 87% for Account ; but sales have been pressed since, and the quota tion is now down to 87 1 4 3 for the former, and to 87% % for the latter. Exchequer. bills have been quoted 2s. to ss. discount. The Consols Scrip has improved to 2 and 2 1 1 discount. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been marked 87 1 to 88%. Bank Stock has realised 189 to 191. The Foreign Bonds have been quiet again. Spanish Five per Cents. have realised 24M, and the Three per Cents. 35 1 A. Portuguese Four per Cents. have been 34 to 34 3 / 4 . Grenada Bonds have been 19 3 A, and Equadur 2,1 1 . Dutch Two-and a-Half per Cents have been 58%. Railway Shares have been rather better. illtrfi: , /f 1 , 131•41);i. ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK. PRO:ES. liank Stock .. .. 189 191 191 Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 86% 86 86 Three per Cent. Consols Annuities 86% 87% 1 ,4% 871 k New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anns. 87%% 88% 38 87% Lung Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 9% Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 9 5-16 South Sea Stock .. t'' soli; for May 27 .. •. Three per Cent. Consols, Scrip .. Elehequer ts;ils. Ind. 1,0001._ 500/. Ditto, Small .. .. 867 877 i% si% 2% dig 2% dis 2d. 3 2 5 dis 2dis par 2 1 dis ONE CLOSINt , DEICES. FOREIGN FUNDS. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. Ditto, New Bonds, 1829 and 1839 .. 82 Chilian Bonds, G per Cent .. . 91 Ditto, 3 per Cent .. .. • • • . 52 Equador Bonds 2 Ti 2% Grenada, 1 per Cent .. . 19% 19% Mexican Bonds. 1846, 5 per Cent .. 20 Ditto, for the Account • . 204 Portuguese Four per Cent 34% 34 34 Russian Bonds .. 109% 110% Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. Ditto, for the Account .. .. 24% 24U Ditto, Three per Cent .. Ditto, for the Account. .. 35% 35% Dividends on the above • payable in London. Dutch Two-and-a-lialt per Cent .. 58% 58% Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 88% 89 BUSINESS PRICES OF CLOSING DONE AT RAILWAY SHARES. PAID. PRICES, ONE O'CLOCK. Aberdeen.. .. .. 30 .... 25 25 Amber., Notting., Boston, and Eastern Junction 2% .. • . .. • Birmingham and Oxford Junction 10 .... 17% .... • • 17% Binning., Wolver., and Dudley.. .. 10 10% Buckinghamshire 61. 45... .. 1 dis... 1 dis. C dodonian 30 .... 23% 24% .... 24% Chester and Holyhead .. 27% .... 21 • • 21 Eastern Counties .. 20 .... 18% % 19 lA 19 19% Do. rerpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1.61. 13s. 4d. • ....• •• Ditto, ditto.. .. No. 2. 6/. 13s. 4d. %p par par Ditto, York Extension 61.4 • 514 East Lancashire .. .. • • .. 17 • • • • 17 • • • .. • • • • 17 The present year is already singularly fraught with vast political movements which augur favour ably for the progress of popular influence amongst some of the European states. In Prussia a grand step has been taken by an enlightened monarch in furtherance of constitutional government, which, though it was long expected,, will, nevertheless, from the mode in which it had ; 'been initiated, always secure for FREDERICK WILHELM IV. the admiratioo and gratitude of the present and future generations. Such a voluntary act on the part of an absolute sovereign, such a kingly concession at a moment when profound peace reigned in his dominions, such a splendid and graceful tribute to the moderation and loyalty of his subjects, is without its parallel in history. For the sake and value of the noble example which the King of Prussia has herein set to those in w ho,e bands the sceptre may hereafter be placed, to be swayed in other portions of the civilised world, we sincerely trust that the firm re liance which he has evinced in the w iaiom and allegiance of his people will be fully justified by the legislative conduct of the United Diet; and from the manner in which its members have already entered upon their solemn functions our aspirations are not likely to be disappointed. If we turn ceir eyes to Spain and Portugal, we observe a very different state of things. In both of these kingdoms the cause of popular government is discernible as being pro gressive, but only as making its way through the fiery ordeal of intestinal commotions and national con vulsions, to which every country must be sub ject wherever despotism attempts to retain it, grasp beyond the period when the enlighten ment of the people justifies their being emanci pated from its thraldom. Spain has just succeeded in throwing off a vast incubus of tyranny, corruption, and foul intrigue, and her youthful QUEEN is manifesting the most ardent de sire to acquire and to retain the love of her subjects. To restore to her people the rights of the Constitution wrested from them at the period of ESPABTERO'S downfal, is appa rently the patriotic aim which Queen ISABELLA and her present Ministry have in view to effect at the earliest possible moment. In Portugal, on the other hand, we observe a youthful Queen who has been struggling to deprive her people of their constitutional liberties. The consequence is that she has alienated the affections of her subjects ; that the horrors of civil war have infested her dominions, and that she has only been saved from absolute defeat, which would have subjected her to the degradation of imprisonment, or the disgrace of compulsory ex patriation, by the joint remonstrances of England, France, and Spain against her insane policy. But for the timely presence of British ships of war and marines, Lisbon at this moment would, in all probability, have been in the possession of the Junta. As it is, we collect from the most recent advices from the Peninsula that MARIA DA GLORIA has consented to the terms of arrangement proposed to be carried out by the mediation of our Government between that of Por tugal and the insurgents. DUTCH MAILS. BRUSSELS. APRIL 23.—The correspondent who lately repres, cited the visit of the Emperor Nicholas to France as probable, informs us to-day that this visit will not take place at present. A contract, dated April 3, has been concluded for a line of sailing vessels between the ports of Antwerp, Galatz, and Odessa, between the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Mr. Frederick fiarkort. The contract is from the year 1847 to 1851 inclusive. On the 21st oF April the prices of corn in the market of Lisle continued to rise. This rise has been 2E. 6c. in the course of one week. The hectolitre of the finest wheat was 42f. 720. We learn from the Journal du Commerce d' Anvers that the Minister of Finance has given orders, dated the 14th April, to the Custom-house, with necessary directions, to prevent the importation or trade in the port of Antwerp under the name of Molasses and at the duty to which that article is liable by the tariff. BRUSSELS. APRIL 27.—The average price of wheat in the week ending on Saturday, April 24, was 39f. 98e., “nd that of rye 29f. 21c. per hectolitre. These prices are coudderably above those of last week, namely, 3f. 14:.. on wheat and of V. 27c. on rye. BATAVIA.—We have news from Batavia of the Ist March, which is not very interesting. The Govemor- Gen.ral of India hai taken anetuttreA for the executi , n the articles of the treats concluded on the 29th July with Belgium relative to the expel t.tion of 4,000 lasts of colonial produce. A letter ;rum Singapore, dated March Bth, praises in the highest terms the efforts o: the Dutch Government in favour of a more liberal colonial system, a. well as ef i.he enlightened views of the Governor-General of Dutch India, who it is hoped will open the Molueea !shreds :430 to the trade of ml nations. The authorities of Java and Singapore are on the most friendly terms, and a com mission from ~ tacassar had arrived at Singapore to ar range several points relative to trade. The Journal de Lisle says, the accounts from the markets all announce a decline in the prices within these ten days—wheat has fallen everywhere on an average from 21. to 61. per hectolitre. We were yesterday informed that the prices are more lavourable to the seller. _ _ East Lincolnshire .. 6% .... 814% • ... Edinburgh and Glasgow .. .. 50 .... 70 70 Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% .. • • 17% Ely and Huntingdon .. .. 15 154 . •• .. 15% Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester .. 2% .. Great Northern .. •• 3% yi, ........ 2% Do., London $t York Extension .... Great North of England . ..100 .. • — Ditto, New .. .. 5 .... 59 ..... 59 Great Western .. 85 .......... Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 123 .... 17% • • .• .. 17% Ditto, Fifths .. 20 .... 26% 26 ...... 26 Ditto, Xew 4% .. • • 7% 7% Leeds and Think . • .. 22% .... 20% .... •.. 20% Ditto, New .. • • .. . .. 10 .... London, Brighton, and S Coast.. 50 •• .. 51% % ........ 51% Ditto, Consol. Eighths .. .. 10 .... 11 .......... 11 London au North-Western ..100 .•172% 173 172 173 173 Ditto, Quarters L. and B. 7 .. 22 Y 4 2.2% ' Ditto ditto New Shares • • .. 2 .... 11% • . ll% Ditto, 101. Shares M. &D. (C) 1 .• .. 6% 6% London and South• Western —4ll. 6s. 10d... 62 63% 6254 62% Ditto, Scrip.. 5 .... 4N % • 4% Londonderry and Coleraine 20 ... 9% Lynn and Dereham 20 .... 21 ••• • • • 20% Manchester and Leeds .. .. 82 .• • . ..... Ditto. Quarter Shares .. .. 12 .... 15 .... l5 Ditto, Fifths .... 9% 95% Ditto, Thirds (Keg.).. 71. 45..... %% p % p Manchester, Buxton, & 3latiock 428. •• •• .... • Slaneliestet and Southampton .. 2 .... 14 m Kumla..loo —.11554 116....•• 116 Ditto, New .. .. 36 39 38% 3954 394 . . Ditto, New .. .. .. .. 2 .... 4i4ji • ..... 4% NeNcastie and Berwick .. •• 20 .... 25% N ...... 251 Ditto, New .. • • • • 5 .... 6% 7 • ...... 7% Norfolk .. • • .. .. • • ..100 .• .. .. • • ...... 125 Ditto, Extension .. .. .. 10 .... ..... ..... 9% Northern Counties Union .. .. 4 .... .......... 1 4 North British .. .. ~ .. .. 25 .... 31 .. ...... .. 31 Ditto, I lal , Shares .. .. • • 12% .• • • 14% x int. ... 14 ki Ditto, Quarter Shares • • .. 2% • ... • • ........ 3 Ditto, /tot tension .. • • .. 4.... 1 4.......... 1% Ditto, Thirds .. .. • . • • 1 .... 2 3 4 ....... 21 North .siaitortishire .. • • • - 5 .... 6% 7% 6%.. 6% North Western • • .. .. • • 4 .. • • 2 ...... 2 Oxford,Worcest.,& Wolverhmptn. 22%.... 13% .. •• • • .... 13N Shrewsbury and B•rmingliatn .. 3% .... 3% % ........ 3% Shropshire Union .. .. . -125..... 11 • • ...... •• 134 dis. South Eastern Ana Dovor .. • • 33 q.. •• 37 ••••.. .. • . 37 DIM,. New (iss. at 321.) No. 1. 20 ~. 21 . ..... •. • . 21 80., Sew (do 151.) .. No. 4. b .... 4% •• .. • • .... 4% S• ,uth Wales .. .. .. .. 10 .... 7k ..... ...•• 74 South Yorkshlr,, Doncaster, and - - THE HAGUE, APRIL 27.—We have received, by the overland mail, Java papers np to the Ist March. BATAVIA., FEB. 19.—During the afternoon his Ma .d in the Roads of ght arrive 15th, and brou e r this port by the j tß e i y al acersh steamer, aavniand gplae t i l z e d ir ae a ps p toi i rt , leeudo r ti r European overland mail, which left London on the 24th December. The arrivA ('f the mail was delayed in consequence of the Lady Mary Hood, British steamer, Which brings it from Ceylon to Singapore. and further lo China, having been surprised in the Gulph of Ben gal b) very stormy weather and a high sea, by which it required eleven days for the voyage from Ceylon to Penang, which is usually performed i n 137 or 140 h ours . ou the same day his Muj , :sty's steamer the Batavia, ar• rived fr( m the Cape of Good Hope. This vessel is Singapore, and there to There have been very of the country, in con sequence jureieeeanttdtinundations m oi u nv e n sr i e c i va s ti t ,tr e da w lm i r t aa h irl t 3. of heavy rains in the interior. iIAMBURGII BORSENIIALLE, APRIL 27. Bills. Money. 1 Vale of Neath .. 4 .... .......... 2). 2 N't est Riding 4/. 25... .. y a 34 p . p Windsor. Staines, &S. Western.. 425..... p...... • • 34 l Vora and Nevi - castle .. 25 .... 14 ...... ... 34 Ditto, New.. .. 10 11 1 4% ...... 1414 Ditto, Preference .. 4 .... 7 York and North Midland .......... Ditto, Extension .. 25 .... 40 •• .. ••.. • • 40 Ditto. Preterencc • • .. .. 2 .... •. • • •. 10N Do. E. and W. Riding Exten. • • 10 •• . 20N ••• • • • .• • 20N FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Northern of France •• 8 .... 12 • .... Orleans mid Itourdeaux .. 6 .... 6% • ........ Paris ail,. Lyons .. .... Paris and Rouen .. • • .. 20 .... 36% .......... Rouen and Havre .. 20 .... .. JOINT-STOCK BANKS. London and Westminster .. .. 20 .... 2614 .......... Union of Australia 25 .... MINES. Real del Monte. trrirecistered .... 3 M COURSE OF EXCHANGE. Amsterdam ......C.F. 12 7 kustrian 5 per Cents • • • • • • Bank Shares • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1590 -- Anglo-Russian Loan •••• • • • ...... Russian 5 per Cont.. limb. Certificate 1063 106 Ditto Ist series Inscription.... „ Ditto, Nope and Co., 3d and 4th series • . 97 Ditto, in Certificate • • • • • • New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. llB Ditto Stleglitz • •• • Spanish New 5 per Cent • • Ditto 3 per Cent 2836 Anglo-Portuguese Loan. 234 per Cent • • Dutch Actual Debt, 2% p er C ent -•• • • 57% 56 Ditto 3 per Cent. • • •• • • Polish New 4 per Cent. loan, 1844 •• 7 8 Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent ...... 83% National Bank Shares— .............. BELGIAN FUNDS.—Baysms, Anuz Actual Debt, 23i per Cent .......... .... Rothschild's Loan, Fire per Cent ........ Loan of Thirty Millions, lour per Cent • Ditto Three per Cent.. Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto Dltto,ditto, 1840.. • •• • •• • • ••• • • •• • 100 Ditt0,di5t0,1842...... Ditto, 1844. ...•••• ••..• • ~ • ..• .. • 96% Ditto, 1836.. ......... Ditto, 1838 • • . • • • • —Brussels Papers. April 29. HEALTH OF THE LORD LIEU- Ditto, at sight •• .... 12 4 SoUtldnut ...... 2U. 12 7% TENANT. DOILIX, APRIL 28.—The bulletin issued this morning was extremely unfavourable, aial, notwithstanding the san guine notice of the state of the noble patient's health which appeared in the Government journal of last night, there is every reason to apprehend a fatal termination to his Excel lency's malady. After post hour yesterday, and up to three o'clock this morning, the atswer given to the numerous in quiries wai, that there was no change in the symptoms, and that the Noble Earl was not worse. This day, however, the proscects of recovery have further decreased, as will be seen by a copy of the bulletin issued at nine o'clock a.st.:— " April !8, 1547. " his Excellency continues in a very precarious state." A little before three o'clock a fresh and equally unfavour able bulletin was issued. It is as follows: :t I oisu rExcellencyo'clock to half-past two o'clock." continues in a very precarious state up here was no change, and it is not expected there will be another bulletin published before seven o'clock this evening. - Antwerp • ...... . 26 21 Hamburgb ...... M.D. 13 13 Paris. 3 days' sight 28 80 Ditto, 3 months 26 15 Marseilles • • • • - . 26 2 Dourdeaux . • . •. 26 20 Frankfort on Mains 122% Petersburgh, 3Us .. • • Gibraltar • • • • • -- Leghorn . . • • .. • • 30 70 Genoa ............ .... 26 25 Milan .. • \iaples ......... 40 Palermo, per oz • • • • • • • 119 34 Lisbon ..... .... • • • . • . 53 Oporto • • • • • • • • • • • 64 Rio Janeiro • • ...... • • 26 )4 Bahia . Buenos Ayres .. • • .. .. New York, 21 days' sight Philadelphia .... • • .... TRIM OF BULLION, pal 03 Foreign Gold in bars.. £3 17 9 New Dollars ...... 0 0 I Portugal Gold Coin .• 0 0 0 Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0 Silver in bars ...... • . 0 0 0 Berlin •• - • . — Vienna. effec.ilo •.. • • • 10 12 Trieste. ditto ...• • • .. 10.12 Madrid •• .. ...... .. .. 47 4 Cadiz • • •.. : ........ 473 j Bilbao.. ...... Barcelona • • •• ........ Seville• • • • •• .• •• • • • • •• MEETING OF MERCHANTS. I SHOCKING ACCIDENT AT WINDSOR CASTLE.- OH Wednesday morning, whilst a number of labourers were taking Clown the houses of the military knights in the, lower ward of Windsor Castle, the wind at the time blowing furion.sly from the north-west, one of them, a poor fellow n a med Michael Saunders, standing, on a :tack of chimneys l i n t g tut w fi i i t i t a u e t, a l l u - l o d u e r t - i gust of wind caused him to stagger, and he sought to steady h a On pi t c l k ;e ax t himself by clinging to a mass of brick wor . k to . aommg, however, way, and carrying him with it, ted into the basement floor of the building. - The poor fellow fractured one of his thighs, and t.!.e leg on the opposite side, a coif pound fracture in each instance, besides dislocating his right wris , and receiving a severe laceration of the scalp, ac,atin partied by a ctaicussion of the brain. In this state he way carried on a shutter to the Windsor limo t, a distance of nearly three miles, when there nothing could be done for him until the arrival of the district surgeon, and a mes senger on foot was sent Ibr hits to Eghatn, where he residas, at least three tittles further, so that the poor fellow had to endure his agony fur several hours unattended to. It is a curious fact that a town, a royal borough, of such pretensions as Windsor, should be without an infirmary, notwithstanding all the talk there has been on the subject. It is said that his Royal Highness Prince Albert has repeatedly suggested the establiihment of an infirma:y for the reception of cssu-dties like this, and ha , offered to sii.,cribt , liberally toward, its support; but that the interminable squabblinqs of the worthy burgesses have hitherto prevented it from being carried into effect. A meeting of merchants and bankers was appointed to take place at the Hall of Commerce yesterday, on the subject cf the state of the money marker. After waiting some Lime, a message was brought from an influentia' banker, that in consequence of the debate that would take place in the evening in the House on the subject, and the large purchase of stock by the Emperor of Russia, the meeting had better stand adjourned for a few days. Among the parties present were several members of the most influential houses. THE WESTMINSTER ELECTION. MEETING OF Ma. C. LUSHINGToN'S ComatirrEn.—On Wednesday even ing, at eight o'clock, a meeting of Mr. Charles Lushington's general committee was held at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, Strand, to receive the report of (t s fthe i gen t. tl A em n z who and had undertaken to canvass the parish upon other business. Mr. Geesin, of St. James's, in the chair. Mr. G. Huggett, the secretary, read the report, which showed that of the electors who had been seen the promises were for General Sir De Lacy Evans, 259 ;for Mr. Ch ar les Lushington, 246 ; and for Mr. Charles Cockrane, 28. The chairman observed that the report was highly flattering, and he had no doubt that the canvassing of the other parishes would be attended with similar results. Messrs. Lewis, Briscombe, Bailey , Kittrick, Robinson, Childe, Guthrie. Prout, and other gentlemen addressed the meeting, all agreeing in opinion that in every other district similar results would be found to that just reported from St. Anne's, and that Mr. Cochrane had but trifling support beyond that of his paid agents. Arrangements having been made for further proceedings the meeting separated. ROYAL COLLEGE OF CHEMISTRY.—The usual monthly meeting of the College of Chemistry was held on Wednesday evening at the institution. 16, Hanover-square; the Marquis of Northampton, president, in the chair. The attendance was not very numerous. Mr. Apsley Pellatt de livered a lecture on the mode of manufacturing simple and compound glasses. and on the several arts of cutting, en graving, chasing, and enameling them. He illustrated his subject by ingenious diagrams, and exhibited many curious specimens of Roman and Venetian glass, with the view of ill:owing that the ancients were more deeply versed in the mystery of making and beautifying that elegant than fab ric modern artists and authors are usually disposed to admit. In the course of his observations the learned lecturer mentioned a fact not vi ry generally known, but nevertheless very in teresting, namely, the existence at Nap l e s of an ancient va se similar in shape to the ce!ebrated Portland vase, but more elaborate in its designings, and , if p ex quisite workmanship. It wa s exhumed from the ruins of Pompeii in 1827, and is still in an admi rable state of preser vation. The lecture, though ou a subject now . rmewhat firtri, was interesting, and aff orded evident grati fi cation to the auditory. The tl..n. Mrs. Erskine an d s i ster arrived inLon-don early yesterday morning by the General Steam Navi gation danpanes Wilberforce, from Him* burgh, after a hue passage. ~,, I eits,4,,,- ~. , 'I :, s . ' , 4 .?'„,,--.6-7-r,„ ' s .-i.- _ .. •,. ...,- k,.. ‘. . , r.,.. , :0;..... -... , 1- 4._ - . , '*•„... 1 - - -.... , __ ~ „ •.- ~ ... ... , ; ~ 4, • vo,. ..-- - x.- . ' --- .- 4 11 aritiniX quit. AVA4e 44,14,4 LONDON, SATURDAY. MAY 1, 147. The Lords met at Five o'clock. Lord ST &ISLET expressed a fear that the operation of the Poor-law (Ireland) Bill would be to give a power to Cm; tenant, when rated at the nett rent, t 4, charge his landlord a poundage on the gross rent. He did not approve of interfering in this way between landlord and tenant. _ The Marquis of IVEsrmEarn gave notice that he should move the insertion of a clause in this Bill to facilitate proceedings in the Master's Office, by al lowing evidence to be given vied wee, instead of by affidavit. On the motion of the Earl of EGLINTON, a Select Committee was appointed to take into consideration the existing laws and regulations which relate to the election of Representative Peers for Scotland. Their Lordships adjourned shortly after Six o'clock. The Commons met at Four. Mr. FaRAND complained that no measure for the amendment of the Poor-law had been introduced, COURT CIRCULAR.. The Queen and Prince Albert h ..orlour,A. the k:.1!:'•. ,•! the Royal Academy- with a visit yesterday. Her and his Royal Hienicss arrived int afal:ar Sql,at e twelve o'clock, attended by the Mist ft ,s of the DUCIMSS of Sutherland, and the Master of the 11. Duke of Norfolk; the Lady in Waiting, the Cowitess of Charkmont ; the Maids of Honour, Hon- I.lliz , ses Kerr Cavendish; and the Lord Chamberlain, the &al '•;Ftt.o'. _occupied anothec„ carriage. And the Lord in Earl of Morton; the Lard in Waiting to Prince Ail, rt, George Lennox; the Groora in Waiting, Major the lion. Robert Boyle; . the Equerry in Major-General Wemysa; and the Equerry in Waiting to Prince Albert, Col. Bouverie, followed in two carriages and four. Her Majesty and Prince Albert rode out on horseback 'vesterday, attended by the Hon. Mits Stanley, M a j ur -G en t. Vemyss, and Colonel Bouverie. His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yeste7-day afternoon at a meeting of the Commission for Promoting and Encouraging the Fine Arts in the Rebuilding the Palace of Westminster. His Royal Highness arrived at the new Palace at, a quarter past. three o'clock, attended by Mr. G. E. Anson, and Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. C. 13. Phipps. The Conunissioners present were Viscount Morpeth, Viscount Mahon, Sir Robert H. Inglis, and Mr. Hallam. The secre tary, Mr. Eastlake, was in attendance. The meeting broke up eta quarter past live o'clock, when Prince Albert proceeded to Westminster Hall, and afterwards returned to Buckingham Palace. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, took an airing in the royal gardens yesterday. Their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred, the Princess Mice, and the Princess Helena, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, took an airing yesterday in an open carriage -and four. Her Majesty and Prince Albert honoured the performance of the French Plays with their presence yesterday evening. The royal suite cc , nsisted of the Countess ofCharlemont, Hon. Miss Kerr, the Earl of Merton, Major-General Wetnyss, and Colonel Bouverie. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent (attended by Lady Augusta Bruce, Baroness de Speth, and Qeneral the Hon. Arthur Upton), and her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge (attended by Baroness Hammer stein and Mr. Edmond Mildtnay), also honoured the per formance of the French Plays with their presence last evening. Her — Royal Highness the Duchess cf Kent visited her Ma jesty the loieen Dowager yesterday, at Marlborough House. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge honoured the Nobleman's and Gentleman's Catch Club with his company at dinner last evening. Tickets to view the two Royal pictures by Winterhalter, in the Banqueting-room in St. James's Palace, will be issued from the Lord Chamberlain's Office, from twelve to tour o'clock. Each ticket will admit the lady or gentleman whose name will be inserted in it, and five other persons. All applications must be made personally, or through a responsible agent, as it will be impossible to send tickets, or to answer written applications. Ladies and gentlemen receiving tickets, will be required to leave their names and address on their cards, at the Lord Chamberlain's Office. Among the visitors to view the royal pictures were the Bavarian, Brazilian, and Netherlands Ministers • the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, the Duke an d Duc hess of St. Albans, the Marquis of Exeter, Marquis of Douro, Marquis and Marchioness of Worcester, Earl Delawarr, Earl Auck land, Count d'Orsay, Lord Fitzroy- Somerset, Lady Sondes, Lord Colville, Sir George Couper, Sir John Hobhouse, Mr. Bannerman, M.P., and the Hon. W. Ashley. A deputation from Glasgow, including Mr. G. W. Muir, Mr. Abercromby, Mr. M'Cann, Mr. Drew. and Mr. Craig had an interview with the Right Hon. Edwsrd Strutt yes terday, at the office of the Commissioners of Railways, in Great Georgesstreet. The Rev. Dr. Smyth had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday at his official residence in Downing-street. The Bishop of Tasmania had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial-office. Lord James Stuart had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday. Lord Charles Fitzroy had also an interview with the Right Hon. Baronet at the Home-office. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a Con'rnittee meeting yesterday. The Chairman of the Customs had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official resi dence in Downing-street. The Marquis of Westmeath had an interview with the Earl of Clarendon yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. A deputation from Norwich and Lynn, consisting of the Mayor, Mr. Colman, and the following merchants :—Messrs. Bank, Chamberlayno, Nogate, Carter, Hulton, M oves , Fowell, and CoateF, ha d an interview with the Right Hon. E. Strutt yesterday. . Dispatches were received yesterday, at the Colonial-office, from the Governor of New Zealand and an Diemen's Land. Dispatches were sent off last evening from the Colonial office for the Governor of Van Diemen's Land. LITERATURE. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE ROMAN PATRICIAN ALEXi.i — B;iiile; (Gerald Keon. One of those exquisite little works with which, after the perusal of only three consecutive pages, the reader becomes fascinated. Biography is perhaps the most en thralling kind of prose composition, and Mr. Keen is an eloquent and impassioned biographer. The life of Richard Savage, written by Samuel Johnson, so seized the ima gination of Sir Joshua Reynolds, on his accidentally meeting with it in a road-side tavern very shortly after its first publication, that he read on and on, leaf after leaf, with his elbow resting upon the mantelpiece, until he closed the volume at the " finis," and discovered that his arm had become paralysed. And yet the life of Richard Savage is the life of a bad reran, the life of a homicide, a profligate drunkard, a man who perished ignobly in a debtor's prison at Bristol ! Mr. Keon has selected a nobler theme, and, what is more, he has treated it with the skill of a rhetorician and the fervour of a poet. The life of the Roman Patrician Alexis is a sublime and affecting life, the life of a very wonderful and admirable mortal. To the Roinanists he is a saint ; while to every right-minded man he presents the spectacle of a splendid and immacu late character. The book is tinged of course with, the peculiar views which its author is already known t vacate ; but it is on that account by no means addr' at exclusively to religionists. As the very dedication in dicate., the volu:ne is characterised by an enlarged and philosophic liberality—being inscribed, at once, to Pius IX., the Honourable George Sydney Smythe, and the New Generation. In purpose, if nut in principle, we cannot but regard Mr. Keon as in a great measure iden tified with that new generation, the importance of which he thus commemorates ; 'and as a fresh testimony of this identification may. be mentioned this beautiful biography of the Patrician Alexis. DEATH OF LORD COWLEY. We regret to announce the decease of the above respected nobleman, who expired at Paris cn Tuesday last, after an illness of some duration. The deceased nobleman, as our readers are aware, filled the office of British Ambassador at the French Court up to a recent period; on his Lordship's retirement from that offiee he came to England, in company with Lady Cowley; but, after a short stay in this country, returned to Paris, where, about six weeks since, he was attack' with the serious ill ness which has just terminated in his death. The deceased Peer, Henry Wellesley, Baron Cowley of Wellesley, county of Somerset, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, G.C.B. and P.C., was the fiitth and youngest son of Garnett first Earl of Mornington, by the eldest daughter of the first Earl of Dungarvon, and was consequently brother to the Duke of Wellington. the lete Marquis Wellesley, and the late Earl of Mornington. lle was born January 20th, 1773, and was consequently seventy-four years of age. His Lordship's widow is a sister of the pre sent Marquis of Salisbury. He has had issue three sons and two daughters, viz., the Hon. Richard Charles Wellesley, Secretary of Embassy at Constantinople (now R Lord Cowley), born in 1804 ; the IL , n. William, Captain the Hon. Charlotte, born in 1807, and marries to Lord Hon. Grosvenor; the Hon. and Rev. Gerard; and the o. took a prominent part in the intern Georgiana Charlotte Mary, born in 1817. Lord ff C a 4 i 7 s l o ey f sel domthis internal ir a el rendered country. His services have been almost In Y this many latter c a h b a ro ra a c d te m r, th in e de V h ca e paclty distinguished o f a h i diplomatis t.mseltelo'n occa sions. For many years he was the British Ambassador at the Court of Vienna; and on the accession of Sir Rfkert Peel to power in 1841, he proceeded in a similar capacity to Paris, where he remained during the whole of that Right Hon. Baronet's administration, and on retirement was tic ceeded by the Al arquis of Normanby. In politics the de ceased held opinions similar to those professed by his illus trious brother the Duke of Wellington, who held his proxy in the Upper House. In 1828 he rceived his Peerage by patent, the Duke being at the time Premier. He was a Privy Councillor of 1829. The son and successor of the deceased, the Hon. Henry Richard, already mentioned, married in 1833 the Hon. Olivia Cecilia de Roos, second daughter of the late Henry Fitzgerald and Charlotte Baroness de Roos. The re mains of the deceased nobleman will, it is expected, be brought to England for interment. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. A morning performance, en event, we believe, unprece dented in the annals of this theatre, took place at Drury lane onThursday. The object was to afford thejuvenile mem bers of the Royal Family an opportunity of seeing the gorgeous spectacle, The D eser t, an d M r . Hughes's Mam moth establishment. The theatre was lighted up as for a regular evening performance. At half-past two her Majesty, accompanied by Prince Albert, the Prince of Wale., the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, entered the royal box. Her Majesty the Queea Dowager also honoured the performance with her presence, and occupied her usual box. The performance commenced with the second Act of theßohe noon Girl, supported by Miss Rainforth and Messrs. Borrari Stretton, Harley, and Harrison. This was followed by the grand Oriental spectacle of the Desert, in which the wonderful per. formances of the artistes, both biped and quadruped, elicited audible expressions of intense delight from the beautiful children who crowded every part of the theatre. Everything went off with the greatest eclat, and the royal party, wh o seemed greatly delighted by all that they had witnessed, remained until the curtain fell, when they were attended by Mr. Bunn to their carriages. The crowd in the street cheered them heartily as they passed along. Amongst the company present were the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, Duke and Duchess of Montrose, Marchioness of Douro, Lord and Lady Howe, Lord Denbigh, Lady Graham Captain Lang Meeson , Colonel Phipps , Colonel Knox, Col. , l3ouverie, Colonel Weals's, Lady Wotnbwell, C ountess of Charlemont, Lady A,lnes Duff; Lady Simpkinson, Sir John and Lady Campbell, Captain Mildmay, Colonel Desvcelix. Sir Alexander Duff, Mrs. Fitzgerald, Hon. Captain Etz v maurice, Baroness de G oldamid, Lady Charles Welle s l e y Mr. Hussey Packe. Baron de Lord James Stuait ' Major Sandwith , Miss Wynnes Wynne, M a d ame Murrietta, Lady Caroline Barrington, Coutites:: E igd.n. M a j or at 1 Mrs. Euston, Lady Carrington , G. Rickards, Esq.,Hoo. Mi 6 n 3 Stanley, Lady Meux, Hon. Mrs. Filzgtbbomi, LORD LINDSAY'S LETTERS ON THE HOLY LAND. --A Fourth and Cheaper Edition of t h e a b ove work, re vised. and complete in one volume, price 10. Gd. bound, is published this day by Mr. Colburn, and may now lie had of aII Booksellers. The following interesting work s have also j u st been published by Mr. C o lb urn• Narrative O f a n Overland Journey Round the World, by Sir Georsx Simpson, Governor in Chief of the Hudson's Bay Compfiiv's f c.reito ries, 2 3. A Second Edition et " Tancr i ed,'' by 1.. D.,- raeli, M. l'., 3 vols.-4. A 'null Edition or Mr. Wai-burtoit's Hoctielaga or, England in the New World," 2 vols.-5. Revelations of Portugal, by the Author of " Revelations of Spain," Second Edition, 2 vo:s., 253. ✓ EXTRAORDINARY VERDICT. —A n inquest was held the other day at. the Old Swan, on the body of a your g• now who, on returning from Liverpool with a miik cart, was un fortunately killed by falling under the cart, the wheel of which passer( ever his head The facts having; been clearly proved, tile ti.renian of the jury announced a v •rdict of manxlaughter againJ the cart-wheel and be:mr, convinced that tile wheel, and the wheel only, was in mutt, persisted in tbat verdict, despite of all the explimatious of the coro ner. --Liverpool paper. .PORT!:. ( cEI .EsTER NA GI: ( ~ ANcLuDsp). ..• 5 , , , vs each, al:11 :,,:aril; wiutof t° ;." I • GrOSTeher CC.ll,F‘', (6 , Lit , • l •) r kor syis,sst 311) ... ........ o ' .s amour-the-ra:lors •2 0 0 ' 4 v . ............... 30 0 t.t6l:avt,l, 41t) ................ ~!~ h`s••li~~r .................... dr tif a neck, and the beeoac, JUNG (N TiMitSDAY NIGHT. • DERISY I I tf) 2 slot R Sir, Pigot's Coop)4llant-6 to .1 fakes 11 to 2 agst Mr. Pedie, C.)SS ck—taken 8 to 1 agst Lord Egiinton's Van Tromp 10 to 1 ago Mr. Mostyrei Mr. Mattin 14 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Glentilt 16 to 1 apt Mr. Mostyn's Planet 20 to 1 agst Lord Caledon's Wanota 40 to 1 agst Mr. Guliv's Mathematician 40 to 1 twat Duke of • Itichrtoolid's Re, dart 40 to 1 agst Mr. Worley's Old Port 45 to 1 agst Mr. A. Johnstont's Ulysses , 1000 to 10 agst Lord Orford's Zipporah colt—taken 2000 to 40 agst Bowe.'s Epirote— taken 1001) to 15 asst Mr. E. 1. Irudn'e 1-I ,, ru of Chase 1000 to 10 a - gq, Mr. Alien's Not tit:gbam 2000 to 15 agst Mr. L. Fox'. Philosopher—taken OAKS. 4 to 1 agst Mr. Payne's Clementine 8 to I agst Mr. .1. Day's Farm, r's Daughter 15 to 1 ag-t Mr. Mee. el's t: oat of Quilt Arnold's don' FRIDAY. three The Eaton Stakes of 13 cove. each. 5 ft. with 30 added ; „ year phis Est 101 e, four vrs Bst 101 b, flities and geluifle* allowed 41b ; Grosvenor Course. (6 Sobs.) Mr. I'. Dawson ed St. Leon, 3 VIS... ........ A Free Handicap Stakes of 11 ;ties each. b ft, w ith 50 ad Three querters ot a mile. (32 Subs.) „ ee , e ) I Mr. Worthington's Sharston , 4 vre 6st I Ilb (rr"" ' -' 2 Mr. Walter's Retcliffe. 6 erre, 7et slb ....... .......... The following also started but were not placed :--sl in ee The Cur, Spithead, The Jolly Begggr,an-ffu rras, in-kindness. Elizabeth, Banana, Brown Fly, Dipthongt " -.Walked odvedez. die), Lady Luewell, Jlie, The Megnet. e 1 Betting— r 7to 2 agst u Sharstote 7to 2 eget Spith eme to agst Evt'nus, 6 to 1 agst The Cur, and 8 to t agst Vac- Durres. fourth Won by a length ; Spithead third ; the Magnet fin' and Abdiel fifth. Run in 1 min. 20 sec. The Cheshire Stakes of 25 sons. each, 15 ft, an d only 5 if e" elated, with 50 added ; the second to save his stake° . ea.) mile and three furlongs. (49 Subs. , 22 of whom deele''', e . Mr. Gully's Mendicant, 4 yrs, Bst ...... (F. But ler/ 2 Mr. Meiklam's Godfrey, 6 yrs, Bst 6!1e........ ..... Mr. Mostvn's Sagacity. 3 yrs, sst 21b .......... 811.......... The following were not plac e d :—Pam, 5 yrs. .11 - 1110 Sweetmeat, 5 yrs, Bst 101b—Vanish, 4 yrs, Dart, 5 yrs, 6st 91b. h tot Betting-6 to 4on Mendicant, 3to 1 apt Vanish city eget The Dart, 7 to 1 agst Godfrey, and 7to 1 apt eds Won in a canter, by three lengths. Run in 2 nun 7 1- oro The Wirral Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 30 added, fo r , ee s e. year old colts Est 121 b, three 9st ; fillies and geld:r e bel lowed 31b ; the second to save his stake; T.Y.C. i Mr. Mee-son's Jovial CallowaY 2 Lord Stanley's Abdiel ..................... ........... . Mr. Osbahleston's Buckstone ........................................... Mr. J. Lillie's Tory Ban .................... . • 3• •te Betting: 5 to 4 agst Jovial, 6 to 4 agst Abdiel, and eee. agst Buckstone. Won very easy. Run in 1 min. 20 - 01 11 ROYAL MATERNITY CI - L." — FESI IVAL. The ninetieth anniversary of this excellent cha rit y ,seb tab was instituted in the year 1757, for the purpose of aff ord';or medical assistance to poor married women dunng their the in at their own habitatio n s, was ce l e b r ated yesterday London Tavern; Sir Georg e L ar p en t, Bart.. in the chair. so - Upwards of 200 gentlemen sat down at six o'clock t' i ' e o f excellent dinner, which w as serve d u p in the best 2° Y The those admirable caterers. M essrs . Bathe and Breache. Tar musical arrangements were under the direction of Nfre Tar ner, and during the course of the everting several seVeers. glees were admirably given by Miss Thornton. a nd Young, Turner, Sporle, F. Smith, and G. Buckland.ooo, Farquharson Smith presided at the pianofortes Mr ' officiated as toast- master. ok, The usual loyal and national toasts having been &l ets of The CHAIRMAN rose to propose the health of the v" - , The Wellington, the President of the Society.—(Ch eers : / roe Duke had, on two occasions, presided at their arluteetoog festivals., and as a proof of the interest which his G ra held in the society he would mention, that he at that metope being in his hand an autograph of the Doke of Wellingi o the a recommendation which his Grace had written g ri f the see last five days for a poor woman as a patien t ° cietv.—(Cheers.) Drank with three times three. Quartette—" See the Conquering Hero Comes" o f the The CHAtamew then rose to propose the t oo ' evening. "Prosperity to the Royal Maternity Chew... too (Cheers.) This society wvs peculiarly worthy of 9 0 the support, inasmuch as its object was to administer t the necess.ties of the most interesting par t of the crecion,a,lhis most interesting period of the i r existence; and it Ilse e ed especial and distill , uishing characteri-aic, that it relln ‘e the sufferings of the p oor without depriving them ot 1, : to comforts of home. — ( Hear, hear.) It did not ce p s husband and wife—(Cheers) —it did not deprive the childre, of the poor man of t he p resence o f their mot her.--( 14 f e !pawed cheering. It had greatly increased its 50.7. o f usefulness . During the first y ear o f its ex ' s . : ence it had afforded relief to thirty-five p erse %; (tiring the last year the number of Pers' us 3 too. had been relieved by the societv, amounte d / fettle's bY s a ti n t d uti s o i n n , ce 36 j o a , n oo u o ar.) Fe la‘ rs s o t in th h e ad bee" re f - c oons S tl i i n e c a e oc it i s ety i . n , relieved amounted to 900, and the' !icy of these wereas inhabitants of the poorest districts of the'n'ae,eopolis, aachth. Sou , Spitaltields, Houndaditch, Bethnal Gr een, Shoreditcho wark, and Bermondsey. He regretted to ma. nu mberP say during there had been a great falling off in the funds of the society. durinf the past year, but the committee, notwithstanding, ba e teed. termined to enlarge the sphere of its usefulness, bY tow s ing its limits to th e w h o l e di s trict included with in the delivery of the Ge nera l P os t. On these ground s he the friends of the c h ar ity t o be liberal in their subscripL_ ed os• and concluding by calling upon all present to drink perity to the the Royal Maternity Charity. Drank with three times three. Song—e Now or Never"—Mr. Sporle. w hich The SECRETARY then read the list of subscriptiotts,,re included the names of Sir G. Larpent, 20 /. ; the Lord ellhi; 101. ; Earl Ducie. 101. ; Lord Robert Grosveno r, 10/. ; the ve l:r of Buccleucb , 251. ; Sir I. L. Goldsmid, 5 guinea s. sti subscriptions amounted altogether to a considerablearitred Several other toasts were drunk, and the company s a p at about eleven o'clock. Ge A ne m rs o l n , g Al t i h red ose S p m r e e e se , Saunders, E q., Comptroller of the City ; l E it sci ze F. o ß b . s s erv ., eDdr.tßheinuTdueritispr.C.s; Francs f o r many, Esq. ; Greenway, Esq. (who returned th X g th e e nt i e i m ee e - n Pr o e f si g d re en a t t .) em ; ni ß ne ev n . ce M i r n . t J h o e h c eso ity n . , ne but 13f : had promised to honour the festival by his Pr e " - e ' ace 0 . Lordship was prevented from attending in conseque the sitting of the Court of Common Council. ON IN THE AMERICAN SQUA re , D , II a T ii h d e s voerrda lx.,ostyhoe THE GULF OF A1E .2 ", - , "...corrected list We understand that the following entra ting of the United States naval forces now C"II in the Gulf of Mexico. They furnish afbo rinr ar went on the seaside to cover the • troops and to assist in taking the Castle:— akiadtlble Qtr G a nt de Line of battle ship Ohio , Captain S trin g ham ....•• •• 74: Frigate Potomac, Captain Aulick Frigate Raritan , Captain Forest Sloop of war John Adams, Commander M'Cluney 94) „„ Sloop of war St. Mary's, Commander Saunders ..... 0 Sloop of war Albany, Captain Breese ........ . Sloop of war Germantown, Commander B ...... '- o d t er H P on inc Pinckney kn uc ....... ......... ... .. Sloop of war Saratoga, Commander Faragut Lt in ut m en a a n S B l r o l o g p o o f twwaiirrpllorepcostisuer: 10 Schooner of war, Bonito, Lieutenant Bet.n-h-a.m.. Schooner of war Reefer, Lieutenant Ste a t .... I Steamer Schooner tteeaammee rr war pm o r f iisnsci sestiop P np. e i te rel, Lieutenant Shaw rr t • - Commander Commander E Adams ngie ............ x . h . a . I 9: Steamer Spitfire, Commander Tatnall . Steamer Vixen Commander Sand s Steamer Maclean, Captain Howard Steamer Union, Captain Rudd .................................... -g Steamer Hunter, Lieutenant M‘Laughlin Steamer Scorpion, Commander Biglow, 64-pr ...... . Steamer Scourge, Lieutenant Hunter ............ r Stoteship Relief, Lieutenant Bullus .................... „ Storeehip Supply, Lieutenant Colhoun Storeship Freiionia„ Lieutenant Chauncey Bomb ketch Stromboli, Commander Van Brunt, 93. pr e Bomb ketch /Bela, Commander Walker, 93• Pr• .... S Bomb ketch Vesuvius, Commander Magruder, 93 /" . 1 Bomb ketch Heels, Lieutenant Fairfax, 93-pr.......--. 1 Bomb ketch Electra, Lieutenant Hunt ................ 6 Cutter Forward, Captain Nutted.......................... The 1 according o Total n number under o guns.of guns ..... ........ ...... ................ the ships enumerated, is 353—which is less, sic"' nog than the actual number. This enumeration d° es , o l, include several sm a ll vessels ctured from the e l3 lthe and tak-n into service by Commodore Con n " . ...ode r brig Wa.shim: ton (one gnu), Lieutenant C"u l m w ex ico. S. P. Lee, al,O destined for the Gulf of S will sail in a few days ; and the Perry ( "„ - o gas uu Lieutenant Commander Barron, will sail negim il f crew can be obt a i ne d f or her. The straine r i rt - ini 14r (10goi..$). Lieut enant W . W . H unter, i s colePr for O a ' •qo.ptmlit at Memphi., and will soon be rea d y.. de• 14 of the vcsels nautili, have been purchaS' " iv ) eW ?unit-lent since the commeneeatent of the w sr." — Tribune. ,ordil ALARMING FI RE Yell. _ ....0 NEAR SOllO-SQUARE. --- i _out in the immense pile of premises occupied by tle. brokemorning, shortly after one o'clock, a fire of a serious us t:ir. ~a ( '' ,.gan. '', a picture. frame maker, and Messrs. lievin ,t ,iniv b a leton, an emery and glass. paper manufacturer, oAli gtol. the milders, situate in Bramwell's-yard, Rose-street, °.'i__.. the _ r , 4 , the a r r o t t y li ' ll li nd square belongiet to the .. The limes origh ated in the upper story hrst-nained p d •••• d until the, had penetr t 4.1 we ii r . Illeii succeeded iii contihin ' g the confligration to to er, upper p,..-ti, nof the pr,tnises. The damage done, howe!, . is very • '',, 1•1 for consi,..erti—,, the greater portion of Mr. t , 1011 . ' a stuck ill • t; ad is destro I dthe lowe r Workshy!). dißscyovgereare t exertiol: yet ,an , au and their L • onients are severely damaged by water. 'I he c of the disaster c , nat not be learned. dint' 'The queition of admitting the metropolitan) en, stock hanks to the privileges of the clearing house, no* .. jo)ed exclusively by the private bankers, has been nics_r. "loted. The necessity for both the private and thejol.r., stock banks lt,e+ing • res. , rves of bank-notes in their ti;&,a_. undo . , xisiing .1. rangements, nich as would 1:10t otherrer tie requisite, appears to have led to the revival of the subj t• : In connexion with this matter, it has b een mentioned, ti_. considera'ion of some nt Inetit, that, ;sere the joint.st c..: h a nk s pzr t niTied to hay, acees , to the cleari n g boos: !Li': conini..ii :vitt; the private ha . iks, the re serve of notes i the 100 tb-p dillig rtineiit of the Bbe frank of Englan d would the ,,,w intt,qiaily s'rengtheoed. Such would und oubtedly ,„. case, and the private, as well as the joint-stock banks, 0 14 possibly feel it to be their interest to promote any ther,,, u t . thAt nay seem calculated t., have so beneficial tal e u Lt Public confidence would be in a degr ee restored, but an a= of the dr-iin f bullion is to be pr,duced throug h the tnedlubl ofthe excha ,, ges alone. The Lotes to beAispensed with bY•t I: ,ll:.ralisstion of the clearing system m a y be considered_Ato have ii,en so la - ,ticia an 41T0)1.111t 1)1 the circulation abstract!! to a :-..p.•ci;•c purl) rm.. (In "n...:t it; released, they would, in b e first han.h.ce, be iield at Call ill orposo, ..t the Ban, t° withdrawn tNeutu.iliy, periitys altogethec, its superfigo * Post. / , 8 dis 8 dis 8 dis 12% 6 % 5% 36% 26% ~, ,!