The Sun. — London, England, 1847-05-03 00:00:00

" This became the purp , se of her life. The morn ing sun shone down upon the faded house, and found the resolution bright and fresh within the bosom of its soli tary mistress. Through all the duties of the day, it animated her ; fur Florence hoped that the more she knew, and the more accomplished she became, the more glad he would be when he came to know and like her. Sometimes she wondered, with a swelling heart, and rising tear, whether she wag proficient enough in any thing to surprise him when they should become corn. !miens Sometime, she tried to think if there were any kind of knowledge that would bespeak his interest more readily than another. Always : at her books, her music, and her work: in her morning walks, and in her nightly prayers : she had hnr engrossing aim in view. Strange study for a child, to learn the road to a hard parent's heart " There were many careless loungers through the street, as the summer evening deepened into night, who glanced across the road at the sombre house, and saw the youthful figure at the window, such a contrast to it, looking upward at th. stars as they began to shine, who would have slept the worse it' they had known on what design she mused so steadfastly. The reputation of the mansion as a haunted house, would not have been the gayer with som,, humble d.'•ellers elsewhere, who were struck by its external gloom in passing and repassing on their daily avocations, and so named it, if they could have read its story in the darkening face. But Florence hid her sacred purpose, unsuspected and un aid. d : and studied only how to bring her father to the understanding that she loved him, and made no appeal against him in any wandering thought. " Thus Florence lived alone in the deserted house, and day succeeded day, and still she lived alone, and the monotonous walls looked down upon her with a stare, as if they had a Gorgon-like intent to stare her youth and beauty into stone." The repetition of the last sentence is a clever con trivance, and it is the more effective as the sentence has a sort of rhythm about it that is bewitching. The description of the lonely dwelling is a companion picture to the " flaunted House," by Thomas Hood —both delineations singular for their exactitude and Daturalness. PL( I OUGH. This useful periodical c as usual, a consider able quantity of valuable information to the class to 'here is a good which it is especially directed and another The natural history graving of a " Scotch Galloway en of " the Kent two rest plough. of the potato is given with details re, abbs:itution pearances observed in the progress mdeysterious of s r t ' h ee e ting the ap. disease that has occasioned such fear , f i t and misery in the sister kingdom. cul ture" gives some valuable hints for the cultivnonO this useful le:zetable. In "domestic fires" th e appli cability of chalk to the purpose of combustion is ad vocated, and its economy explained, there are the usual accounts of agricultural meetings in various parts of the country. BRISTOL StIGAR•MARKET, APRIL 30.—The sugar market has been dull this week, and the transactions comparatively unimportant ; but prices are again evi dently lower, the determination shown to sell, and the pressure for money will, it is expected. prevent the market recovering itself at present, and the dealers, coniequently, buy with caution, and only for their im znEdi.:e wants. A meeting of Members of Parliament took place on ,Saturday, at the residence of Lord Robert Grosvenor, Park-street, on therttibject-Cf Mr..Spooner's Bill for the sup pression of trading in induction and prostitution. In con sequence of the death of Lord Cowley, Lord Robert Grows 'Pr Rai not present on the steps, creaked and shook. Keys rusted in the locks of doors. Damp started on the walls , and as the stains came out, the pictures seemed to go in and secrete them selves. Mildew and mould began to lurk in closets. Fungus trees grew in corners of the cellars. Dust accu mulated, nobody knew whence nor how ; spiders, moths, and grubs were heard of every day. An exploratory black-beetle now and then were found immoaable upon the stairs, or in an upper room, as wondering how he got there. Rats began to squeak and scuffle in the night time, through dam galleries they mi ne d b e hi n d t h e panelling. " The dreary magnificence of the state rooms, seen imperfectly by the doubtful light admitted through closed shutters, would have answered well enough for an enchanted abode. Such as the tarnished paws of gilded lions, stealthily put out from beneath their wrappers ; the marble lineaments of busts on pedestals, fearfully revealing themselves through veils ; the clocks that never told the time, or, if wound up by any chance, told it wrong, and struck unearthly numbers, which are not upon the dial ; the accidental tinklings among the the pendant lustres, more startling than alarm-bells ; the softened sounds and laggard air that made their way among these objects, and a phantom crowd of others, shrouded an d h oo d e d, an d ma d e spectra l o f share besides, th ere was th e grea t sta i rcase , ef But, his little where the ' the place so rarely set his foot, and by which child had gone up to Heaven. There were other stair cases and passages where no one went for weeks to gether ; there were two closed rooms associated with i i dead members of the family, and with whispered lections of them ; and to all the h()use but Florence, there was a gentle figure moving throughhno. a touch of i the solitude and gloom, that gave to every lifeless z present human interest and wonder. " For Florence lived alone in the deserted house, and day succeeded day, and still she lived alone, and the cold walls looked down upon her with a vacant stare, as it they had a Gorgon-like mind to stare her youth and beauty into stone. The grass began to grow upon the roof, and in the crevices of the basement paving. A scaly crumbling vegetation sprouted round the windowsills. Fragments of mortar lost their hold upon the insides of the unused chimneys, and came dropping down. The two trees with the smoky trunks were blighted high up, and the withered branches domineered above the leaves. Through the whole building, white had turned yellow, yellow nearly black ; and since the time when the poor lady died, it had slowly become a dark gap in the long monotonous street. " But Florence bloomed there, like the king's fair daughter in the story. Her books, her music, and her daily teachers, were her only real companions, Susan Nipper and Diogenese excepted : of whom the former, in her attendance on the studies of her young mistress, began to grow quite learned herself, while the latter, softened possibly by the same influences, would lay his head upon the window•ledge, arid placidly open and shut his eyes upon the street, all through a summer morning ; sometimes pricking up his head, to look with great significance after some noisy dog in a cart, who was barking his way along, and sometimes, with an ex asperated and unaccountable recollection of his supposed enemy in the neighbourhood, rushing to the door, whence, after a deafening disturbance, he woulelcome jogging back with a ridiculous complacency that be longed to him, and lay his jaw upon the window-ledge again, with the air of a dog who had done a public service. " So Florence lived in her wilderness of a home, within the circle of her innocent pursuits and thoughts, and nothing harmed her. She could go down to her father's rooms now, and think of him, and suffer her loving heart humbly to approach him, without fear of re pulse. She could look upon the objects that had sur- I rounded him in his sorrow, and could nestle near his chair, and not dread the glance that she so well remem bered.. She could render him such little tokens of her duty and service, as putting everything in order for him with her own hands, binding little nosegays for his table, changing them as one by one they withered and he did not come back, preparing something for him every day, and leaving some timid mark of her pre.ence near his usual seat. To- day, it was a little painted stand for his watch ; to-morrow, she would be afraid to leave it, and would substitute some other trifle of her making not so likely to attract his eye. Waking in the night, perhaps, she would tremble at the thought of his coming home and angrily rejecting it, and would hurry dawn with slippered feet and quickly- beating heart, and bring it away. At another time, she would only lay her face upon his desk, and leave a kiss there, and a tear. " Still no one knew of this. Unless the household found it out when she was not there—and they all held Mr. Dumbey's rooms in awe—it was as deep a secret in her breast as what had gone before it. Florence stole into those rooms at twilight, early in the morning, and at times when meals were served down stairs. And al though they were in every nook the better and the brighter fur her care, she entered and passed out as quietly as any sunbeam, excepting that she left her light behind. " Shadowy company attended Florence up and down the echoing house, and sat with her in the dismantled rooms. As if her life were as enchanted vision, there arose out of her solitude ministering thoughts, that made it fanciful and unreal. Sh e i magined so often' what her life would have been if her father could have loved her, and she had been a favetrite child, that sometimes, for the moment, she almost believed it was so, and, borne on by the current of that pensive fiction, seemed to re member h ay they had watched her brother in his grave together; how they had freely shared his heart between them; how they were united in the dear remembrance of him; how they often spoke about him yet; and her kind father, looking at her gently , told her of th e i r com mon hope and trust in God. At other times 'he pic tured to herself' her mother yet alive. And, oh! the happiness of falling on her neck, and clinging to her with the love and confidence of all her soul! And, oh, the desolation of the solitary house again, with evening corn ing on, and no one there! " But there was one thought, scarcely shaped out to herself, yet fervent and strong within her, that upheld Florence when she strove and filled her true young heart, so sorely tried, with constancy of purpose. Into her mind, as into all others contending with the great afflic tion of our mortal nature, there had stolen solemn won derings and hopes, arising in the dim world beyond the present life, and murmuring, like) faint music, of recog nition in the far off land between her brother and her mother: of some present consciousness in both of her: some love and commiseration for her: and some know ledge of her as she went her way upon the earth. It was a soothing consolation to Florence to give shelter to these thoughts, until one day—it was soon after she had last seen her father in his own room, late at night—the fancy came upon her, that, in weeping for his alienated heart, she might stir th e s pi r i ts o f the dead against him. Wild, weak, childish, as it may have been to think so, and to tremble at the half-formed thought, it was the impulse of her loving nature; and from that hour Florence strove against the cruel wound in her ereast, and tried to think of him whose hand had made it, only wish hope. " Her father did not know—she held to it from that time--how much she loved him. She was very young, and had no mother, and had never learned, by some fault or misfortune, how to express to him that she loved him. She would be patient, and would try to gain that art in time, and win him to a better knowledge of his only child. MktO:bi NEW WORK BY THE AUTHOR OF " RICHARD SAY AGE." Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. post Avo., MILES AND TEARS; Or, THE ROMANCE OF LIFE. BY CHARLES WHITEHEAD, Author of " Richard Savage," Ecc. " Humorous, witty, and clever. The author rattles through his pages with a lively sparkle that is quite exhilarating to the reader." —Weekly Chroniele. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. F EMALE AMERICAN SERENADERS. On itO T T E l S S DA (l y ate an C d ro l c lr k ,E fo p r x d z 's s ) . , These distinguished Artistes will have the honour of appear lug at the T. JAMES'S THURSDAY MORNING. On DICES- SptA.YJNmoersn'si-nsctraeenta, Evening),T is Ev ; d o T , ASSEMB an L d T DAY EVENING at the BEAUMONT INSTITUTION, Beamont-square, Mile-end. On FRIDAY MORNING at the ST. JAMES'S ASSEMBLY ROOMS. On FRIDAY EVENING at CitOSBY HALL, Bishopsgate street. On SAITRDAY (Morning and Evening) at the ST. JAMES'S ASSEMBLY ROOM'. Morning Performance at Half-past Two; Evening Performance at Half-past Eight. Doors open at Two and Eight. Admission, 2s. 6d. ; party or family tickets, to admit three, 65., to admit six, 105. 6d. ; to be had of all respectable Music-sellers. N.B. An the New Songs and Music sung by t h e F emale American Serenaders are published by Dalmaine and Co., Soho-square, the firm having purchased the copyright. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. TrIE FIRST APPEARANCE OF MDLLE. JENNY LIND IN THIS COUNTRY. TOMORROW EVENING will be performed Meyerbeer's cele brated ypera (with new scenery, dresses, and decorations, the scenes by Mr. C. Marshall), entitled Alice, Mdlle. Jenny Lind (her first appearance in this country); Isa bella, Made. Casteilau ; Roberto, Signor Fraschini ; Itambaldo, r•ignor Gardoni ; Sacerdote, Signer Bouche ; and Bertram, Signor Staudigl his first appearance at this Theatre). T• conclude with a Divertissement, UNE SOIREE DU . In which will b e prey fitted Pas de Cinq from CARNAVAL " Rosida," by Mdlle. Cerito and M. S. Leon, assisted by Mdlles. Cassan, James, and Honore. Grand Pas by Mdlle. Grahn, supported by Mdlles. Honore, James, and Cassan. And "La Manola," by Mdlle. Cerito and St. Leon. The Free List is suspended, the Public Press excepted. HER NIAJESCI"S THEATRE. The Second appea• ance of Jidlle. JENNY LEND in this country. The Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public, are respectfully in formed, that an EXTRA NIGHT will take place on THURSDAY text, May 6, when will be performed Meyerbeer's Opera, ROBERTO IL DIAc'OLO. Alice, Mdlle. Jenny Lied ; Isabella, Made. Castellan ; Roberto, Signor Fraschini ; Rambaldo, Signor Gardoni ; Sacerdote, signor Bouche ; and Bertram, Signor Staudigl (his second appearance at this Theatre). With various Entertainments In the Ballet Divertissement, corn prising the talents of Mdlle. Cerito, Mdlle. Rosati, Mdlle. Marie Taglioni,Mdlle. Petit Stephan, Mdlle. Gratin, M. Perrot, M. P. Ta glioni, and M. St. Leon. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. The Subscritoers are respectfully informed that Mdlle. FANNY ELSSLER will make her second appearance TO-MORROW EVEN ING, May 4 ; and that Signor Marini haying recovered front Ms illness, the Opera of " L'ltaliana ix Algeri" will be repeated. Mdlle. Dumilatre will also perform in the popular Ballet of " La Reine des Fees." _ . . ...,.... Notice is also given, that the performances of next Thursday, May 6, will be included in the subscription. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. TO-MORROW EVENING, May 4, Rossini's celebrated Opera Run, L'ITALIANA IN ALGERI. Principal characters by Signora Alboni, Mdlle. Angelinl, Mdlle. A. Bellini, Signor Salvi, Signor Rovere (his second appearance), Signor Polonini, and Signor Marini (his secondlappearance). A new Divertissement, in which Mdllo. Fanny Elssler will make her second appearance this season, entitled LA BOUQUETI ERE LA VENISE. Principal characters by )tdlle. Fanny Elssier, Mdlle. Baderna, Mdlle, Demelisse, Mdlle. Auriol, Jl ade. Delachaux, M. Petipa, M. Croce, &c. To coaclude with the Second Act of the popular Ballet, LA ItEINE DES FEES. In which Mdlle. Dumilatre and M. Petipa will perform. Tickets, stalls, and boxes to be obtained at the Box-oilice, Bow street ; and at Cramer, Beale, and Co.'s, 201, Regent-street. Doors open at Half-past Seven o'clock, the periormastce to com mence at Eight. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. FOR THE BENEFIT OF 3IR. HARLEY, STAGE MANAGER. THUS EVENING ( Will be performed the Musical Play of GUY MANNERING ; or, The Gipsy's Prophecy. Principal characters by Messrs. Rafter, Harrison, Harley, Ho , ncastle, Weiss; Misses Itainforth, Romer, It. Isaacs, and Mrs. Hughes. Meg :derrilies by a Lady (her first ap pearance in London). After the Play, Mr. F Irren will sing " The Fine Old English Gen tleman," and Mr. Braham " The Death of Neison " In the course of the evening Mr. Bunn will address the audience. After which the Operatic Entertainment of THE WATERMAN. Tom Tug, Mr. Braham ; Bundle, Mr. Horncastle ; Robin, Mr. Harley ; Mrs. Bundle, Miss Somerrille ; Wilhelmina, Miss Isaacs. To be followed by an Entertainment by the NEW ORLEANS ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS. To conclude with the Original Oriental Spectacle, called THE DESERT; or, The Imaun's Daughter. In which the Two Elephants, upwards of Sixty Horses, and the Camels will appear. The Imaun Useph, Mr. Howell; Hafez, Mr. Ratter; Barek, Mr. W. H. Payne;. Fuze! O•Ia, Mr. Herncastle ; Maleck, Mr. T. Matthews ; Ahabeck, Mr. Hutchison ; Kuzliraga, Mr. L. Lee; Princess Ipomaye, Miss Mes sent ; Nilda, Miss Collett ; Girgee, Miss It. Isaacs. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. It. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be performed Sheridan Knowles's Comedy of THE LOVE CHASE, 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 the Farce, called SPRING GARDENS. THEATRE ROYAL, _DELPHI. tinder the direction of Madame Celeste. FOR THE BI - NEFIT OF 31155 WOOLGAR. THIS EVEN.NG Will be performed the original Drama, called THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST ; a Gipsy Story. Cheap John, Mr. Wright ; Ishmael, Mr. 0. Smith ; the Kinchin, Mr. P. Bedford; Leybourne, Mr. Worrell ; Cynthia, Madame Celeste ; Lemuel, Miss Woolgar ; starlight Bess, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; Lady Agnes, Miss Harding. After which, the Burletta of THE PRETTY GIRLE OF STIL BERG. Ernest, Mr. Wright; Bob, Mr. Lembert ; Popplewig, Mr, Munyard ; Margin, Madame Celeste ; Christina, Mist Woolgar. To concludd with tie new Opera Buda apropos sketch, called JENNY LIND. Principal characters by Yessrs. Wright, Paul Bedford, Lambert, Selby, Cullcntord, and Miss Woolgar. PRINCESS'S TiIEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING Will be performed Shakspere's Tragedy of ROMEO AND JULIET. Prince Scalu,, Mr. Walton; Paris, Mr. A. Harris; Montague, Mr. thinner; Capulet, Mr. Granby ; Item olio, Mr. C. Fisher ; Romeo, Mr. Creswick ; Meraatio„ Mr, J. Yining. Jul•et, Mrs. Butler (late Miss F. Kemble) ; L iy c-etimlet, Moe Winatanley. After which, the new Farce, entitled, A WIFE FOR AN HOUR. Principal characters by Messrs. Walton, Granby, Vining, Compton, Mrs. Hughes, and Miss E. Stanley. To conclude with THE TWO RAINBOWS. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. Under the Management of Mrs. Keeley. THIS EVENING Will he performed the new;Driuna, called THE CREOLE ; or, Love's Fetters. Damiron, Mr. F. Mathews; Alphonse, Mr. Murray, Hyacinthe. Miss Dickinson; Bokes, Mr. Keeley; Latour, Mr. Emery; Virginie, Miss M. Keeley; Louise, Miss May; Bellana, Mrs. Keeley. Ater which, the entirely new occasional Dramatic Sketch, called JENNY LIND AT LAST; or, The Swedish Nightingale. Charac ters by Mr. A. Wigan, Mr. Turner, :%Ir. Kinluch, Mr. Bellingtiam, Mr. Bender, Mr. Yarnold. and Mrs. Keeley. To be followed by the New Vaudeville Extravaganza, called CRCSOE THE SECOND. In which Messrs. A. Wigan, Keeley, Miss Dickinson, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley will appear. To conclude with the LOAN OF A WIFE. Principal characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, ♦. Wigan, and Mrs. Woollidge. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. THIS EVENING Will be performed (first time in this country), SANS NOM, ou, Dramcs et Romans. After which, the popular Comedic of LES DEMOISELLES DE ST. CYR. To conclude with the principal Scenes of the Petite-Comedie, en titled LE 3IARRIAGE FORCE. Boxes, 6s. ; Pit, 3s. 641. ; Amphitheatre, Gallery, 2s. Boxes and Stalls may be engaged at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Bond-street ; and at the Box-office of the Theatre, which is open daily from Eleven till Five. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING. himself a servile minion in his hands for the sustentation of Gallic influence in the Court of Madrid, we have new proof strong as holy writ. The intelligence recently received from Spain amounts to this :—that the KING-CONSORT dictated terms for his consenting b be reconciled to her MAJESTY equivalent to the full restoration of the Afrancesado party, the Ministry ;o be modified accordingly, and himself to have a direct, and of course, therefore, a most unconstitutional voice in the governance of public affairs. These insulting conditions he directed to be communicated to the QUEEN by the party who was endeavouring to ter minate the royal estrangement, and a threat was held out that, in the event of the above terms being refused, an appeal would be made to the army, and a manifesto issued to the nation. The result showed that FRANCISCO DE Assis had reckoned with out his host. The QUEEN sent immediately for the Chamberlain, and had the whole of the KING'S furni ture, &c., removed from the palace to the apartments occupied by the Duke of MONTPENSIER subsequent t. his nuptials with the INFANTA, believing that there was the most appropriate locality for the residence of one who showed himself to be completely led by the insidious agents and spies of the French Court. The QUEEN, also, met the threat of an appeal to the military with a spirit truly Elizabethan, and boldly declared that if the contingency were forced upon her, alone she would head the first battalion she met, anl appeal herself to the sympathies and allegiance of the whole Spanish nation. The de nouement justified the wisdom of this high-minded response of the QUEEN. The KING and his French cabal' recoiled from this unexpected burst of royal indignation. The craven crew were startled at the dignified attitude assumed by the SOVEREIGN. The KING, though not without difficulty, subse quently obtained an interview with Queen ISABELLA, and is reported to have begged for forgiveness in the most suppliant manner. His MAJESTY, it seems, suc ceeded in some measnre in his peccavi mis3i.o. The concordia discors, however, still remains. Unfortu nately, the existing Administration is so far beset with political difficulties as to render their efforts to support the QUEEN, and crush the Afrancesado intrigues, much less service able than could be desired. We trust the Mo. derados will evince their patriotism, and not need lessly embarrass the Government, pending the critical struggle which is now going on for preserving the nationality of Spain from the grasping designs of the KING of the FRENCH. Letters from Rome announce that Cardinal Grzzit on the 19th ult., addressed to the governors of the Roman provinces a declaration that his liouNEss desires to unite around him an assembly of men of note, delegated by the principal towns in the Roman States. A letter from Civita Vecchia informs us that this declaration of the Pontifical Government excited in that town the liveliest demonstrations of joy. It was generally believed that the proceeding would produce the same impression throughout all the States of the Church. We read in the Tessineo of Bologna of the 22d ult..— " If the intelligence we receive from Tuscany be correct, the Grand Ducal Government, following the example of Pius IX., is disposed to adopt a liberal system, awl enter on the path of progress. It appears that the Tuscan Govern ment occupies itself with two important laws ; one mode rating the preventive censure of the press, the other esta blishing a Council of State, which the Prince will consult in all important matters." The Le van t ma il b r i ngs intelligence from Malta of the 23d, Athens of the 20th, and Constantinople of the 17th ult. • The Moniteur Grec publishes an ordonnance signed by King OTuo, and dated 16th April, making the following modifications in the composition of the Greek Ministry : " M. Coletti, Minister for Foreign Affairs and President of ;he Council. "M. Rigas Palamides, late President of the Chamber of Deputies, Minister of the Interior. " M. Corphiotaki, Deputy from Sparta, Minister of Finance, in the room of M. Ponyropoulos. "M. Constantine Colocotroni, Deputy from Caritena, Minister of Justice. " M. Glarakis, Senator, Minister of Ecclesiastical Affairs and Public Instruction. M. Boulgari, Senator, Minister of Marine, in the place of Admiral Canaria. "General Tzavellas retained the Department of War." These alterations are not of much importance. The French Proconsul Couvrrt still remains at the head of affairs, and so long as such shall be the case, the interests of Greece will necessarily be sacrificed to those of France. In the Constantinople journals the only thing► of interest is an assertion that the last dispatches from the British Government to the Ambassador at Athens contained instructions for him to inform the Greek Cabinet that the English Ministry disap proves highly of the conduct of Greece in the affair with Turkey. The French ship of the line Inflexible arrived a . he Pyrreus on the 17th. Aludrid journals of the 25th and 26th ult. have arrived. The reconciliation between the KING and the QuEEN was the great subject of conversation in Madrid. Their MAJESTIES had again appeared to gether in public. A meeting of the members of the Mon and Pidal party was held on the 25th. There were about 70 Deputies present. It was determined to offer every opposition to Senor SALAMANCA'S Bill for the sale of the national property, but not to offer any systematic opposition to the Pacheco Ministry on other matters. The appointment of General NARVAEZ to the Presi dency of the Council was talked of. Should NAR YAEZ come into power SALAMANCA would continue Finance Minister. A letter from Barcelona of the 26th says— " An encounter took place yesterday between a band of about a hundred rebels and a detachment of the Queen's troops, at Bavella, near Solsona. In this combat the rebels had twelve killed or drowned, and twenty-three were made prisoners: the rest escaped. Another baud has been beaten at Serdanolas, and several prisoners have been brought to Berga." MADRID Born, APRIL 26.—Three per Cents. 31% 1 / 2 money, 31% paper; Five per Cents. 194 money, 19 1 , paper. Debt without interest 5'A money, 6 paper. Coupons 16 money. We have received the Paris papers of Friday and Saturday. The Journal des Debats of Friday has the fol fowing : " We announced that, in consequence of the demand of mediation made by the tiovernment of the Queen of Portu gal, English forces and a detachment of French forces in the roadstead of Lisbon had been disembarked to protect the person of the Queen and the safety of the capital. This intelligence was premature, and is ~ lot confirmed by the later information which we have received. It is only known that the Queen had adhered to the conditions which she had been invited to propose to the party of the Junta." Saturday was the birth-day of Louis PHILIPPE, and there were great rejoicings in Paris in conse quence. The National commemorates the anniver sary by the following article : ...... "The press has sometimes spoken of the formidable pre parations displayed each evening to the eyes of the popula tion f o r the guard of the Tuileries. The imprudence of a sentry, who allowed his musket to go off when in his hands, and so threw the chateau and all the posts into confusion, again called public attention to these precautions, as ill-con ceived as exaggerated. Is it not strange that the Tuileries are transformed into a citadel, studded with nightly patrols, and surrounded with official and non-official sentries, with arms charged and password given. Each day the château is, in fact, occupied, by a battalion of infantry, without speaking of the two posts of the National and horse Muni cipal Guards? By night there may be reckoned as many as sixty sentries, exclusive of half-a-dozen special guards of the château, who walk up and down in the garden, armed with loaded blunderbusses, and from others who are on service under the Pavilion de I'llorloge. What is most worthy of remark is, that the muskets of the line arecharged, but of th e National Guard not. Thus, therefore, in full peace, in the midst of the capital, there exists a permanent camp, armed, and established on a war footing, as if an enemy was in sight. It is not without danger to thus confide loaded arms to the h an d s of sentries, an g d to place citizens at the mercy of soldiers, often ignorant, who do not always evince the necessary discernment and forbearance in the execution of their orders. We may well be permitted to manifest our uneasiness on this subject; fiir it cannot be forgotten that one night, about halt-past ten o'clock, after some altercation, a sentry in the garden of the Tuileries behind the gates of the chateau, fired at a man passing along the footpath of the Rue de tivoli, and killed him, without any formality, and with out the murder being reasonably justified by the necessity of legitimate defence." - It appears that some modification is about to be made in the composition of the French Ministry. The National says— " The most active and most suppli ca ting steps have been forty-eight taken within the last fort • lit ho u rs - with M. N 11. Passy to induce him to accept the finance department, in the place of M. Lacave Laplagne. It is now a long time since M. Guizot has nourished the idea of getting lid of his colleague, but lie has in particular felt the neeesAity of it since the strange justification which M. Lacave•Laplagne presented two or three days back in the Tribune. Should 111. Passv consent to accept the portfolio of Finance, M. Lacave Laplagne would be sent Without any great ceremony to the Court of Accounts." The Union 2lfo . narchique has the following on the same subject : "M. ',nave Laplange, abandoned by his colleagues ETHIOPIAN iERENADERS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. The celebrated ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, l'ell, Harrington, White, Stanwood, and Germon, will have the honour of repeating their inimitable ENTERTAINMENTS at the St. James's Theatre, TO-MORROW EVENING, and every Tuesday, Thursday, and Sa turday. Doors open at Eicht o'clock. They will also give r DAT PERFORMANCE every Wednesday Morning, commencing at Half past Two o'clock. Boxes and stalls at Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street and at the Box-office. NEW STRAND THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will he performed an Original Pictorial Drama, in Four Parts, entitled, HOGARTIPS MIRROR. "Principal characters by Messrs. Darcie, H. Lee, Miller, Payne, 11. Reeves, Aylitre, Deighton; Miss Love, Mrs. Griffiths, M iss Harcourt, &c. To be followed by an Eccentric Vaudeville, callel, CAPERS AND CRUSHERS. After which, a screamer, In One Act, entitled, ARE YOU COMING TO BED? To conclude with a new Ba'let, introducing upwards of 60 Cory phees, founded on and entitled, THE ARABIAN NIGHTS' EN. TERTAINMENT. Stalls, 35.; Boxes, Is. Gd.; Pit, Is,: Gallery, 4d. Ilalf-price at half-past Eight o'clock. Box•offlce open from eleven till four o'clock. Applications to be made at the Box-ofrice of the Theatre. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Proprietor and Manager. Nir. William Batty. Under the patronage of the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Royal Family. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. W. BATTY. THIS EVENING Will be performed Lord Byron's Dramatic Poem of THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS ; or, The Corsair. Unequalled SCENES in the CIRCLE, with the performances of Messrs. Jameson, Stevens, Thorn, and Hemmings; also Ir. Betts. with his trained Steeds, Firefly and Harebell. To conclude with ZARAII ; or, The Gipsy Tribe of Bohemia. , . Stage Manager, Mr. W. D. Broadfoot. Stalls, ss. ; Boxes, 4s. ' • tipper Boxes, 3s ; lit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is, Upper Gallery, 6d. Commence every evening at Seven o'clock, ROYAL SUItREY THEATRE. tinder the Management of Mrs. Frances Davidge, Lessee. Engagement of the original and celebrated Tableau Vivants and Poses Plastiqma Male and Female Artistes, for six nights only ; and last six nights of the Female Serenaders. THIS EVENING Wit be performed a Nautical Drama, called AMY, THE SKIPPER'S DAUGHTER; or, The Lilly of Devon. Supported by the whole strength of the Company. After which THE BUFFALO GALS; or, Female Ethiopian Sere naders. To be followed by the HALL OF ROME, by the celebrated Tableau Vivants and Poses Pla'tique. To conclude with THE ROVER'S BRIDE. Boxes, 25., Pit, 15.; Gallery, 6d. Doors open at Six, commence at tlalf•past Six. LOYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will he performed a new Romance, entitled THE QUEEN OF POLAND ; or, The Hunters of Moldavia. Characters by Messrs. Hicks, Dale, Searle, Bird, Howard, Raymond, Gardner ; 3tlss Vin cent, Mrs. Hicks, Mrs. ti. Lee, Miss Burroughcliffe, &c. Aft r which the Tragedy of HA3ILET. Hamlet, Mr. Hicks ; Ghost, Mr. Osbaldiston. To conclude with JAN NE= TER BEEN; or, The Dutchman's Daughter. Boxes, Is.; Half Price, 6d. Pit, 6d. ; Gallery, 3d. POST-OFFICE NOTICE.—On Saturday notice was issued and affixed at the General Post-office, St. Martin's-le- Grand, that on and after Tuesday, the 4th instant, the re ceiving -houses in London will be kept open from half-past rive to six o'clock P.m., for the receipt of late letters intended for the general post, whether inland, foreign, colot.ial, or ship letters, on payment of the late fee of ld., provided the postage as well as the late letter fee of ld. on such letters t)epai d by attaching th e requ i s it e num b er o f s t amps ; any letter not bearing which will be detained till the next dis patch. app / r. o l iiit. / T 41- Consul H n3u rcl G, , n, N r 'i ,, c l e Consul at at sA A y l r o e n s. te T V h id is eo g , ,,n i! Lord Aberdeen n t publics, but who c is ot Mr. Hood, who was appointed by tloman is the so settle the differences of the rival re ho in England.—Observer. BETII..HOLIM in committee of the Beth •Holim Hospital 17avaeczesented Mr. John Dias with a handsome testimo n i a l tion of his valuable Fiery casion of the late ball given in n a " ir o inices aso,hAoledgrnent of their apprecia amount paid over to the treasurer of tlLseticretary Joieph Seborg, the chairman of the board 482/., afcer deducting all the expenses of the bal. on the cc hnoestt i c t ta t i r o i t n y b . T m b r e . stewards was FIVIENT FOR THE t'ItINCE or WALES. The beaut i fu l mi,k-white pony introduced in the spectacle at Drury lane, and so much admired by the Prince of Wales and the Royal Family on Thursday, will be presented to his Royal, .1-Ligtinesa- by. Mr-.Hugbes._Thelittle.animaelrzitrl ind scarcely eighteen Inches' in height , and is most p form. THE WEA 2 HER.—Stni OFFICE, MAY 2. TUERMOMETER, Lowest, 44; Highest. 56 ; Noon, 57, BAROMETER, 59.67.—Wind S.W.; showery. MAY 3. THERMOMETER, 1,,,W113t, 36 ; Highest, 59 ; Nooll. 46. BAROMETER, 29 86.—WIND W.; showery. IfPill WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. &forning .. 29 minutes after 3. I Evening .. 47 minutes xf%[• 3. 4 . 4 434: id7x-:.veil nu r , . I -c - 77 •"' - nit -a , • azjit t • m. 0.4 • ROIL - • • -I.' SECOND EDITION. Itening 2int A.ONDON, MONDAY, MAY 3, 1847, Education is now occupying so much of the atten - ion of the Government, that we are fearful lest the present Parliamentary session may terminate with out any active movement in regard to a sanatory refor mation. To the Chief Commissioner of her MAJESTY'S Woods and Forests we are indebted for the intro duction of a measure calculated to effect a very considerable improvement in the social condition of the people. Still the mere introduction of the mea sure, and its subsequent neglect for the furtherance of other enactments, can in no manner tend to the dis sipation of those manifold grievances which infect all our populous municipalities, and materially increase the average mortality of the population. The voices of miserable millions—emaciated millions—dying millions--adjure the Legislature to interpose with its majestic and authoritative influence, for the salvation of the health and lives of the community. Often as we have insisted upon the necessity of some exertion on the part of Government for the better cleansing, drainage, and sewerage of the metropolis and the provincial towns, we cannot induce ourselves to dimi nish either the frequency or the urgency of our de mands in this particular, because we should regard ourselves, if silent, as to no trifling extent responsible for the lives of those individuals who must inevitably perish through the dilatoriness of the Legislature, or the procrastination of the Ministry. Not only is it the bounden duty of every individual in the empire, but it is especially the 'bounden duty of the Press, to agitate with zeal and assiduity for the passing of some comprehensive sanatory enactment. Lord N OR ANBT —honour to the Noble Marquis for the utterance of his eloquent and argumen tative harangue !—Was the.first individual to bring this important question under the considera tion of the Senate. Since then a multitude of labourers have arisen both within and without the walls of Parliament, labourers actuated by a spirit of the purest philanthropy, and incited to perpetual exertion by the increasing wretchedness of their fel low-creatures. During the last Administration Lord LINCOLN re newed the discussion in the House of Commons, and within the past few weeks Lord MORPETH has again exposed the culpability of preceding Governments in allowing such physical and moral degradation to continue unchecked. To these admirable but interrupted efforts must be especially added, in our enumeration, the eminent labours of Dr. SouTuwoon SMITH and the industrious activity of the Health of Towns Association. A variety of mis cellaneous advocates of the proposed alterations have appeared in all directions, and have tended equally to the elucidation of matters that had hitherto been in explicable, and to the continual revival of the subject whenever it apparently dropped into forgetfulness. No plea whatever can justify the Executive in delaying the investigation of a question which in volves, not merely the comfort, but the bodily health, not merely the cleanliness, but the moral elevation, not merely the happiness, hut the very lives of the poorer members of the population. In comparison with this great question all others sink into obscurity. The modification of our fiscal arrangements, requisite as it is to ensure the facile action of the machinery of the State, is secondary to the removal of those pestilential and execrable evils which decimate our cities and tend to the depopulation even of our rural locali ties —even, we repeat it, of our rural lacalities! In those elevated and open districts the natural advan tages of which have acquired for them a species of local and sometimes of general celebrity as salubrious places of residence, the utter absence of proper management has placed the lives of their inhabitants II jeopardy, and contaminated the atmosphere with the most villanous exudations. The exudations of vegetable and animal corruption, nay, the mere exudations of badly ventilated drains, have frequently proved as pernicious and as poisonous as the fetid exudations of the metropolitan graveyards. As a circumstance in point we would direct attention to the facts recounted in an admirable pamphlet, just published by Mr. CHARLES F. J. LORD. That gentleman has enforced the necessity of sanatory reform with an extraordi- nary array of facts accumulated in his immediate neighbourhood; and he has recounted the deplorable statistics deducible from those facts with a ♦ery praiseworthy ardour. According to Mr. CHARLES LORD, the want of due ventilation, of moderate sewerage, of care in domestic architecture, and of an ordinary amount of cleanliness, has produced a nest of wretchedness and disease in the very centre of Hamp stead—a suburban village usually considered as re markable for its invigorating influence. We are almost inclined to despair of the enforcement of one simple truth upon the comprehension of the pub lic —namely, that society, as well as cultivated land, demands a certain amount of irrigation. From the splendour and magnitude of the ancient aqueducts one would literally be disposed to consider that this truth was much more appreciated by a Roman generation than by us English in these times of vaunted civilization. Again, in our short sighted economy of space we were unques tionably surpassed of yore. In the days of idolatrous ignorance (?) no such spectacles were visible as are unhappily to be discovered in this rich and flourishing city in this enlightened and elevated age. It was this reflection which caused ------ THOMAS CARLYLE to exclaim in that most bitter sentence, which has been selected as the test of the pamphlet referred to—" The old Romans had their .Edile9, who would, I think, in direct contraver sion to supply and demand, have rigorously seen rammed up into total abolition many a fou cellar in our Southwarks, St. Gileses, and dark poison -lanes. " Much as we vaunt our superiority over our ancestors, these considerations should assuredly induce us to form a more humble estimate of our comparative social improvement, and to imbibe some advantage from the experience of a despised antiquity. Government must remember that significant observation of the Edinburgh Review, that England owes its greatness to" its miles of crowded streets," and it should take the condition of those streets into consideration ; it should, moreover, bear in constant recollection the appalling fact that every day that sanatory reformation is delayed costs, on an indisputable calculation, no less than one hundred and thirty-six jives in England alone 1 Those, there. fore, who would wilfully procrastinate the passage of Lord MORPETH'S Bill will, in effect, be abettors of wholesale homicide. The proceedings at the Court of Madrid, which have just been brought to light, evince more than ever the abominable policy pursued by Louis PHILIPPE, respecting the marriages of the Queen of SPAIN and her sister, and establish more than ever the propriety and wisdom of the remonstrances which our own Court presented against their contraction, especially in reference to that of the Duchess of AIONTPENSIER. However wide may be the differ. ences in the personal characters of Queen ISABELLA and her Consort, such as to preclude the probability of their ever mutually realising the blessings of do mestic happiness, no doubt can now remain that the primary cause of the lengthened rupture between them, sprang from the desire of FRANCISCO DE Asses to render, as far as in him lay, the Government of completely subservient to the influence and dictation of the KING O f f the Funtica. That Louts PHILIPPE never one ewnitlycoannsaultuendseethmelypeersoornts of or alfel h i i c s ity e o il f her, by moment the Qu een o f SPAIN, but looked only efforts to forcing upon v and corrupt agents, a husband, who would prove MA Y 8, 1847 during the discussion on the Secret Service Money Bill, is be ginning to feel that his post as Minister of Finance is no longer supportable, and has manifested a desire to resume his former office of Attorney-General in the Court of Ac counts. M. Cunin Griclaine cannot remain in the same Cabinet with M. Ducha el, who every day submits to the Council reports from his prefects, showing that the Minister of Commerce has been, and is still, in complete ignorance of the situation of the country. The retirement of M. de Mackau is also much talked of, and, if those three Ministers are not immediately replaced and offered as victims to the voungConservative Deputies, it is because Messrs. Guizot and buchatel are afraid the dislocation might become general, and turn to the advantage of the seceders from the Minis terial ranks." The Courrzer Francais announces that the Count DE JARNAC has been summoned to Paris by M. GUIZOT. The Count, it is said, by no means approves of the arrangement by which the Munich Embassy is to be conferred upon him. Boy MAzy arrived at Marseilles on the 27th ult. The Sud of Marseilles of the following day says— " We learn that the news of the approaching depar- ture of Bou MAZA for Paris was at least premature, and that this remarkable prisoner will be first sent to the Château de Pomervi, in the Pyrenees, which is appointed for his residence." Marshal BuGEAui) is, it appears, determined to per form a military promenade through Kabylia, in spite of the provisions of the treaty just entered into be tween the Kabyles and the French. " Notwithstanding the semi• official announcement of the submission of the Kabyles, published in theJournaldesDebats, a few days ago, we have (says La Reform) received Algiers letters (and they are from a respectable source) informing us that the expedition to Kabylia has been decided upon. Mar shal Bugeaud will command it in person, and the corps of observation will consist of 15,000 men. It is from Badgia that the expedition will rapidly move. The rumour was also current at Algiers that Abd-el-Kader had once more sud denly appeared at the very heart of our possessions, and that he had surprised and put to the sword one of the posts of the new town to which the name of Aumale ' has been given. The Government prints make no mention of the Emir's movement." Mr. O ' CONNELL arrived at Avignon on the 27th ult. Saturday being the fete-day of King Louis Puix, JAPE, the Bourse was closed, but in the Passage de l'Opera some. business was done in the Three per Cents. at a trifling improvement, namely, at 78f. 2ie. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 1. Boulogne and Amiens, 16 1 / 2 —Dutch Rhenish, 3Y B —lta- Ilan and Austrian, 2—Lyons and Avignon (Constituted), 2% —Northern of France, l2l B —Paris and Lyons, 53—Paris and Rouen, 36 3 / 4 —Tours and Nantes, 13/4. OLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY. IN RE HARPED. V. JONES. This was the petition of John Francis Rogers praying for the taxation of a solicitor's bill of costs. The bill to which objection was made was delivered on the 9th of November, 1844, and the petition was not presented till twelve months afterwards. The respondent set forth that the bill was paid, or deemed to be paid, twelve calendar months befor the peti tion was presented, and therefore that if there were not any special circumstances the bill should not be taxed. The plaintiff in the suit out of which the transactions arose was possessed of large property, but was under considerable diffi culty, and was obliged to have recourse to the assistance of the respondent. Some objection having arisen as to the amount of his bill he offered to refer the sum to the brother-in. law of the plaintiff, and it was ultimately agreed that the bill should be reduced to 4,3001., for which the plaintiff gave a promissory note, together with a lien on all his real estates. The petitioner stated that the promissory note was obtained by threats and intimidation. His LORDSHIP gave judgment this morning, and decided against the petitioner. The petition was dismissed, but without costs. IN RE MINDER. This was a petition praying that it might be referred to the Master for a further taxation of a bill of costs. The petitioner was a solicitor, and alleged that the taxation of the Master, by which his bill had been reduced considerab!y, was not equitable, and certain charges which had been dis allowed being justly due. The facts of the case were quite uninteresting. His LORDSHIP gave judgment to-day, confirming the finding of the Master, and the petition was dismissed with costs. SMITH O. LORD EFFINGHAM. The question at issue in this case was whether or no an , adverse party was liable to pay for the costs of a special re tainer, short-hand writer's notes, &c. His LORDIIIIIr gave judgment to-day. A decree was made in this Court, and the respondents petitioned the Lord Chan cellor, who confirmed the decree and dismissed the petition with costs. Upon the taxation cf the costs of the suit, the master disallowed 1331. 14s. 4d., and the present petition prayed that it might be referred to the Master again. In the taxation of such costs, it was proper to allow only those that were necessarily incurred by the de fendant in sustaining his rights, and the order of the Court directed that all charges of such a description should be disalloWed. The charges disallowed by the Master in the present case were for two counsel at the rehearing of the cause, a special retainer, shorthand writer's notes, and a con sultation fee. He (Lord Langdale) was of opinion that two counsel should not be allowed on a rehearing, and that the Master had done what was right in disallowing that charge. With respect to the second item which had been disallowed, a plaintiff had aright to incur the expense of a special re tainer if he considered that it was necessary to his case; but should not be allowed the cost of such against the ad verse party, for every bar was sufficiently provided with counsel competent to conduct any cases that might be entrusted to them. With regard to the short-hand writer's notes, it was well known of what importance such notes were, and of their accuracy; but the question here was not one of what was merely useful, but whether or no an ad verse party ought in addition to retaining counsel have to pay for the transcript of such notes. The counsel who at tended for the case could take notes, could give a more con densed report, and his abstract notes would be more likely to be useful than the short-band writer's detailed notes. If the counsel or the solicitor could not attend, and therefore could not learn what was done in this case without the short-hand writer's notes he would be justified in obtaining those notes, and he could recover the cost of the same against his client ; but certainly the adverse party should not be obliged to pay for the absence of the other party's counsel and soli citor. With respect to the consultation lee, it appeared that only two counsel were retained by plaintiff in the original hearing, and he (Lord Langdale) was of opinion that the retaining of a third counsel was unnecessary, because he was not engaged in the original cause. Therefore, in the absence of any sufficient reasons being assigned for this charge, he must consider that it was unreasonable. The petition was dismissed with costs. BLOOMSBURY COUNTY COURT _ - - (THIS DAY.) PATTERSON v. BATEMAN. The plaintiff, a wine and spirit merchant, residing in the west-end of the town, sought the payment of the sum of 2/. for goods sold and delivered. The defendant stated that he bad never ordered or received the goods i❑ question ; he therefore pleaded non liability. Mr. Patterson stated that various bottles of wine had been ordered by the defendant's butler, and had been left at the residence of Mr. Bateman. The butler ordered them for the defendant's use. Mr. Ilateman (on oath) stated that he had never autho rised his servant to order the wines, neither had he received them. The JUDGE dismissed the case, and recommended the plaintiff to give the butler (who, it appeared, had left the employment of Mr. Bateman) in 'charge of the police, if he could tind him, for obtaining goods under false pretences. MARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY.) Ann Pa!field was charged before Mr. Bingham with steal ing a table cloth, value 65., the property of her mistress. Charles Keep, assistant to Mr. Charles Greave, pawn broker, No. 8, Bulstrode-street, stated that on Saturday even ing last, about six o'clock, the prisoner cause into his em ployer's shop, and offered the table cloth now produced in W pledga. Witness asked her if the property was her own. She replied it was, and that she wanted 3s. advanced upon it. In consequence of his suspicions he looked at the corner, and found the name of Gowan, 38, Howland-street, marked upon it. He therefore detained it, and gave the prisoner into custody. lie afterwards sent to that address, and in formed the prosecutrix of the circumstance. Mrs. Charlotte Gowan, No. 38, Howland-street, Fitzroy square, said the prisoner had been in her service for about' a fortnight, during which time she (witness) bad missed seve ral articles, and amongst them the table cloth produced by last witness, which she identified as being her property. ,She never authorised the prisoner to pledge it. Police-constable 89 E, proved receiving charge of the pri soner, and conveying her to the station, where she was searched, and ten duplicates relating to various articles of wearing apparel and table linen found upon her. He subse quently informed the prosecutrix of the prisoner being in custody.—The prisoner was remanded. In the discount market things are decidedly easier, bough accommodation is still much limited, and very high rates are paid. For first-class short paper six, and a quarter per cent, has been freely paid to-day, and for other kinds of good paper rates up to eight per cent. have been given. The Bank has, however, been discounting pretty f ree ly f or t h e last two days, and at has infused more confidence into other quarters. It is also understood that the directors have determined to continue their discounts on the same, or ev en a mere liberal scale early in the week. There is no doubt that much of the increased ease felt in the market to-day is attributable to the operations of the Russian Government. Beyond this, however, a considerable amount of gold has conic from Paris during the week, amounting, as near as we can ascertain, to 200,0001., and on the whole, therefore, the accounts of the Bank, made up till to-night, and which will be published next week, must show an increase of bullion. The high state of the exchanges, although caused by the great scarcity of money, will have the effect of bringing gold from Holland, though not to a great extent, but these im ports will at least serve to set off against the shipments by the American steamer on the 4th. A considerable quantity of silver is also in London, and more is on the eve of arriving, which, owing to the proportion which the Bank is permitted to hold with gold being full, is quite unsaleable here, and must be sent to the Continent, and be drawn against or geld received in return for it. If our demand for corn were now nearly or quite satisfied, the exchanges and our stock of bullion would be quickly adjusted, as circum stances all begin to work to that end; and we hope as it is that for a month or six weeks much more ease and confidence will be experienced.-- Chronicle, City article. SUICIDE AT NOTTINGMAIq.—Mr. Duplex, a gen tleman of high character and extensively connected with the lace trade in Nottingham, committed suicide on Friday last, by cutting his throat with a razor. The deceased re sided on Short hill. and was of very recluse habits. Trade having been remarkably flat, and having continued so for a considerable time in Nottingham, he became unusually de pressed in mind. An inquest was held the same evening— Verdict, Insanity. MR. O'CoNNEI.L.—A letter from Valance, dated a A r p ri r l i , l ea 24 l , le in re t .) ll .e e st G er og y tte de Lyon, says ;_ 44 Mr. O'Connell gatly f aigued f rom the heat otattthe weather not h av i ng b een fine enough to a ll ow hi m t o re main he fou ca r b i in n o t f he th a e ft s e t r e n a o m o - n b , ot r t e , on deck. A number of ecclesiastics and other personages waited upon him at his hotel, but he was obliged to decline receiving them." A Paris paper says that a rumour prevails that Mehemet Ali, i n imitation of the Emperor of Russia, has offered to exchange two millions Sterling worth of corn against French Treasury Bonds, MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO TB ''EE. The Cotton market at Liverpool on Saturday was quiet. Sales 7,000 bales, including 3,000 on speculation. Atnet lean realised 6 1 4 d. to 7%d. per lb. Prices were firm, and Ame rican id. per lb. higher. The Share market was closed. The advices received to-day from Harn burgh notice a de cided rise in the exchange, viz., to 13 4 3 / on LDildon last Friday. This is h better. The price of gold was 4321, and the article was becoming scarcer, owing probably to exports to England. At Amsterdam on Saturday money continued easy, but the funds were not buoyant owing to the arrange ments for the settlement of the account, although the news of the intended purchases for Russia had transpired. There are late accounts from the Brazils by her Ma:esty's packet Penguin. The dates from Rio Janeiro are March 18 ; and Buenos Ayres, Jan. 23. At Rio no political events of importance had occurred, but a change of Ministry, upon the opening of the Chambers this month (May 3), was rather anticipated. Trade was tolerably active as regarded ex ports, and shipping was scarce, so that freights were at higher rates; as much as 65, and 70s. being asked fur the channel. Sugar and coffee bad been in brisk demand. Im ports, on the other hand, had not apparently been in niuch favour. Exchange 29d., with bills to the amount of about 150,000/. done. The Buenos Ayres papers state that Oribe had invested Mercedes, Colona, and Maldonado. The French vessels of war off the coast had fired several shots, with a view to embarrass the operations of the Argentine forces, but with out much effect. The blockade had lasted 483 days. There has been rather a fluctuating market to-stay for the Public Securities, . and soon atter the commencement of business, there were parties selling, with an indication of going to some extent. The advance of nearly 6s. per quarter in wheat, since this day week, had an unfavourable effect upon the market, and the uncertainty as to the value of money also operates still, especially seeing the continued speculation in cotton, and the limitation of production in the manufacturing districts. Consols have been 87% 7 X 3 for transfer, and down since to 87. For time they have dropped from 88% 14, the advanced rates at which they opened, to 87 1 / 2 N. The New Three and-a-Qnarter per Cents. have realised 88 3 / to 87%, and the Three per Cents. 86% to 86, an instance of the fluc tuation in the market. Bank Stock has been 191 to 188%, and India Stock 244. Consols Scrip is 2 discount. Ex chequer-bills have been 3s. to 10s. discount, and India Bonds 6s. discount. The Foreign Investments have been very flat. Spanish Five per Cents. 24 to 24%, and the Three per Cents. 35. Portuguese Four per Cents. have realise 33% to 34%. Gre nada Stock is marked 19 1 % to 19%. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been quoted at 58 to 58%. Railway Shares have fluctuated generally with Stocks, and are nearly all lower. BUITISLI FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. • (From the Official List.) Bank Stock .. •• .. 190 189 191 188% Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities • • 86% 86 Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. • • 87% . % 87 New Three-and-a-quarter per Cent. Anna. 88%% 87% 88% Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. Ditto, 30 years, Jaa 5, 1860 .. 9i India Stock • • • • .. .. • • 244 India Bonds, 1,000/. • • .. .. Ditto, under 1,0001. • • • • 6 dis Bank Stock for May 27 • • • • • • 192 Consols for May 27 ••• .. .. ~ 88%14 87% Three per Cent. Consols, Scrip.. .. 2 dis ExcLequer Bills. I%ti. 2d. 1,0001. .. .. • • 73 10 die 500/. .. •• • • 3 dis Ditto, Small .. 1 3 8 dis PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds. 5 per Cent .. Ditto, New Bonds, 1829 and 1839 83 Granada, 1 per Cent. • . .. • • 19% Portuguese Four per Cent .. .. 34i 33% Ditto, for the Account .. • • 34 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto. for the Account .. 24t. 24 Ditto, Three per Cent 4. .. Ditto. for the Account .. • . 35 Dividends on the above.payable in London. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 58% 58 Ditty, for the Account .. • . 58 Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates ..' 88 BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE. Amber., Notting., Boston, & Eastrn dn. 2% %.. to Birmingham ai'd Oxford J auction .. 10 17% .... to Caledonian .. • • • • •• 30 .. 24% .. to Ditto, Half Shares .. •• • • • • 2% 2% .... to 2 Chester and Holyhead' .. • • .. 27% .. • • 21% .... to Eastern Counties .. • • • • • • 20 .. 19y. %% % to Do., Perpetual,s per C.,. Nt 1,6/. 135. 4d Ditto, ditto .. .. N 0.2, 6/. 13s. 4d % p.. to Ditto, York Extension .. • • • • 64 East Lancashire • . .. • • .. •• .. • • to Ditto, New .. .. • • .. 7% 7% •• • • t• Ditto. ditto, Yew Scrip .. • • .. 1 u East Lincolnshire .. .. • • • • 6% B% •• .. to Ely and Huntingdon • • • • • 15 Exeter, Yeovil and Dorchester 2% l4 .. • . to Great Northern .. •• • • • • .. 3% •• • • 2% .. to Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 30 .. • • 26 .... to Great Norta o 7 England • • • • • • 100 •• to Ditto, New.. .. • • .. • • 5 .... 59 .... to Ditto, New .. • • • • • • 1% .... 16%.... to Great Western • • •• • • • . .. 65 11434 to Ditto, Quarter Shares • • • • • • 12% Ditto. New .. .. • • • • .. .... to 8 Lancaster and Carlisle .. .. 50 .. • • 60% t• Leeds and Bradford .. .. 40 .... 83% t• Leeds and Thirsk 22% .... 21 4 .. • • to Do., do., Preference, 6 per Cent • • 3% •• • • 4 .... te London and ISlackwall .. 161. 13s. 4d. •• • • 7% •• .. to London, Brighton, and South Coast • • 50 .. -. 52 4 .. to 51 London and North-Western • • • • 100 • • ..174 .. . to Ditto, Quarters .. • • L. and B. 7 .... to Ditto ditto New .. •• • • • 2 .... 11% .... to Ditto, 401. Shares •• M. and B. .. 40 .... 66 1 % .. • • to Ditto, 101. Shares .. M. and B. (8) 5 .. 10% •• ••to London and South-Western 411. 6.... 10d. .. • • 63% .• • • to 63 Ditto, New Consolidated Eighths • • 40 .... 48 .... to Lynn and Ely .. .. 25 .... 26%%.. to Manchester and Leeds .. . 82 .... to Ditto. Quarter Shares • . •• .. 12 .... 15% ••.. to Ditto, Fifths 5 9504.. to Ditto, Thirds (Reg.) • • • • . • 71. 45... 1 p.... to Ditto % (late ladders. & Sheffield) 28 29 ~ to Maaehester, Buxton, and Matlock -. 425. %lb 015. to Manchester and Southampton ' .. 2 •• • • %••• • to % Slidland .• • • •• • • • • • •too —.116 117.. to 115% Ditto, New .. .. 36 •• • • 39% ..L, 4 • • to Ditto, New.. .. • • •• • • 6 •••• 8 504% to Ditto. Como'. Bristol & Birrningh. 6 per cent. 100 24 , .... to Newcastle and Berwick .. .. 20 .... 26%4 .. to 26 Ditto, New • • • • • • • .. 5 •• • • 7% 4..t0 Norfolk • • .. •• .. 100 . • • 123% .. • • to Ditto, Extension .. .. • • .. 10 .... 10 .. • • to North British .. .. • • .. • • 25 .. • • 31% i 4 .. to -- Ditto, Half Shares • • .. • • 12% —14% % x int to Ditto, Quarters .• • • .. .• • • 2 •• .. 343 x.. to Ditto, Extension •• .• • • • %•• ,• to Ditto, Thirds .. .• 1 3 • •• to 2% North Staffordshire • • • • • • 5 .. • • 74% • . to 6% Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton 22% 13% .... to Preston and Wyre . • . 25 .... 354 .... to 35 Reading, Guildford, and Reigate • • 5 •• .. 4% •• to Royston and Ilitchin . • • . •. • • I%li .. to Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A) •• 3% .• .. to— south Eastern and Dover .. .. ..831.25. 4d. 36% 37 to 36% Ditto, New (do. 30/.) No. 3 .. .. 15 •• • 15% .• ••to Ditto, New (do. 151.) No. 4 .. .. 5 .... •• to 5 South Wales .. • . •• • • 10 •• • • 7% to West Riding Union .. .. • • • • 4/. 25.• •• • % p to York and Newcastle .. .. 25 •• 34 •• to Ditto, New .. .. 10 .... 144 •• .. to Ditto, Preference .. . • • • 4 ..7% %344 to York and North Midland •• .. • • 50 •• .. .... to Ditto. Extension .. .. 25 •• • • 40% .. • • to Ditto East and West Riding Extension 10 .... 21 •• .. to FOREIGN RAILWAYS. .. .. 2%.... 2%.... to Demerara . .. .• • • Dutch Rhenish . .. .. G .... % ... to .. .. .. . 10 .... 4 !7 .. to .. .. S ...•• 1206 to 7 3 / 8 - - - - - to Louvain ala Sambre . Namur and Liege Yorlhen► of France .. Strasbourg and Bale • • •• •• •• 14 .. • MINES Real del Monte .Unregistered • . .. •• •• 3 1 ,4 .. • • to West Flanders LLOYD'S SHIPPING--(THIS DAY LONDON, MAY 3.—WindN.N W.. light breeze, and cloudy. PORTSMOUTH, MAY L—Wind S.W. by S.; 2, N. to S.S.W.—Arrd. her Majesty's ship Alert, Sierra Leone. Off port, D'Auvergne, Honduras. Sld. Independence, New York; Seringapatam, Madras and Calcutta. FALSIOUTII, MAY I.—Wind S. to' N.W., stroing; 2, N. to N.N.W.—.Arrd. Penguin packer, Rio Janeiro—left 18th March; Royal Sovereign, Bird, Pernambuco—left 11th of March; Urania, Kammega, New York for Liverpool, leaky, and part of cargo thrown overboard. Sid. Hatnetto, Valpa raiso; Emma, New York. LiveftrooL, MAY 2.—Wind N., moderate.—Arrd. Sword fish, Green, Bahia—sailed 18th March, Maceo Ist ult., Per nambuco, 3d ; Treasurer, Porto Rico ; Leander, Lawton, New Orleans; Wild Irish Girl, Graham, Bombay; Rafael, Brown, Pernambuco; Mary Jones, Stephenson, Porto Rico; Vir ginius, Austin, New Orleans; Henry Duncan. Kent, Sa vannah ; Portland, Salker, Charleston ; Lehigh. Young, Phi ladelphia; Gunga, Bowman, Adelaide. South Australia; Blounge, Banks, Calcutta; Harrison Chilton, Key, New Orleans; Anfitute, Reera, Havannah; Henry Woodis, Chant berlain, Virginia; Dublin, Skalfield, Philadelphia; West. keay, Bartlett, ditto ; Rochester. Mansen, New York Clydeside, —. 1. Sid. a large fleet of the outward bound The Luna, from Cuba, has been assisted off shore to-day and docked. PLYMOUTH, NAY 2.—Wind N. by W.--Arrd. 30th, Borneo. Huntingdon, Baltimore. Sld. H.M.S. Philomel, coast 4)1 Africa; Pioneer, Newfoundland ; James, Cork and Boston. DEAL, MAY 2.—Wind S.E. to S.S.W.—Arrd. 30th, Ferax, Godfrey, Charleston, Antwerp. 2, Schilde, Manilla, Ant werp; Eifpunses Van Orange. Kaleshaek, Batavia; Jean. nette, Kallweg, ditto; Maees Nymph, ditto; Johanna, ditto, all for Rotterdam; Adolph Van Nassau, ditto, Amsterdam; Monarch, Walker, Calcutta; Clifton, Cox, ditto; Potsdam, Walff, Monte Video. Sid. Brightman, Sydney, New South Wales; Duchess of Leinster, Singapore; William Shand. Calcutta; Sylph Barbadoes; Mary, Cuba; James Turcan, Havannah. Arrd. from the River, Blunet, Boston. Arrd. Adolph, Eikman, Havannah, for St. Petersburgh ; Margery, St. John's ; Hong-Kong, Canton for Hamburgh ; Candidate, Fowle, Ba r b a d oes; D'A uvergne , Smith, Honduras. Sailed the whole of the outward bound. —Arrd. John DurILLN, APRIL 30.—Wind N.W. to Packet, Norfolk; Knox, Sinclair, Barbadoes ; Canton, k. M ay I.—The Mon terey, New York. Sid. Franklin, New Y Sunderland, was lost St. Patrick, of and from Liverpool for ; two of the crew on the 17th ult., after being in el9ntis'ord. lost, the remainder landed at Car ing " W Std. Nonpareil, Demerara; CLYDE, MAY S. Quebec and Montreal. Put Superb, Dalhousie; Cherokee, back. St. Vincent , fo r D m eDemerara—one officer washed over board ; Maid of the Montreal,Mi leaky. real, with loss of main mast, &e.; Mary, for 0 8 —The Fisher, Liverpool to B O WMORR, IsLAY, APRIL • Newfoundland ; the and the Mary Ann,Henderson, Oli ve Branch, Liverpool to Bally shannon ; Ayr to Lochindaul, went on shore at the latter place during a heavy gale, and C must 'ne New Orleans discharge. 29, The onri , into Lochindauldi yesterday Koster , with material to Sligo, put damage. K ILRUS H, Amu , 30. The Dewdrop, Storm, Sligo t o has put in here leaky, Etc. The May, for Arch angel,New York, in Scattery Roads last night. went on shore 0 The Charles, of Belfast, Coleraine PORTRUSR, APRIL -4.- 1 g 1", and the Fanny, went on shore in Skerries Roads. !A G , latteraso‘ a total wreck, and the former is very much is damaged ; crews saved. BELFAST, M AY I.—The Sophia, Liverpool to St. John's, Newfoundland, put in here to-day distnasted and leaky. SUNDERLAND, MAY I.—The Ellen Cook, for Hull, has been abandoned off this coast in a sinking state ; crew saved by the Dorothea, arrived here. STontrawmr, APRIL 27.—The Tornessal, from Drontheim to Liverpool, hes arrived here with damage, and must dis charge. SHIPWRECK AND FRIGHTFUL LOSS OF LIFE. LOWLANDBIAN'S BAY, ISLAND OF JURA. APRIL 29. The William Carson. of Belfast, for this port from New Orleans, and the schooner General Von Thirmo, of Stralsund, from Liverpool for Stralsund, have gone on shore near here, but expected off after discharging. A large brig, from Londonderry, with 165 passengers, has been totally lost near Islay ; all on board peri • shed but three of her crew. Lloyd's agent at Islay has humanely directed the Rev. Mr. Dewar and another gentleman to watch the dead bodies as they came on shore, to provide coffins, and have them decently interred. Miss Cushman has been lying very dangerously ill at Seaforth Hall, the residence of James Muspratt, Esq., where she arrived a few days ago from Rolando—Notting/Ic% Review ➢ . MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) ' CORN EXCHANGE—.IIIONDA Y. Miring last week, up to Saturday evening, the arrivals of English Wheat wet e, the time of N ear co,,sidered, moderate; but tbese of all other kinds of grain of Inure pr. duce, includ ing flour, were exceedingly small. The receipts front Ire land and Scotland were quite unimportant. From abroad the receipts of Wheat, Barley, Oats, Beans, and Peas were on a much more limited scale than we have had to report on, many previous occasions, but the imports of flour exceeded 10,000 barrels, mostly front America. Fresh up to -(ray a very limited quantity of English Wheat came to hand, either coastwise or by land carriage ; hence the show of samples of that deseriptions of produce was trifling. This circumstance, together with the presence of several buyers from France, caused the. English Wheat trade to rule very: • brisk, at an advance in the quotations paid on Monday las' of from 5s to, in some instances, Gs per quarter, and at that amount of improvement the whole of the supply was sP eedilY cleared off without the slightest difficulty ; and we may ob serve that we never witnessed more excitement in the market than was the case to-day. The quantity of foreign Wheat on offer was very trifling ; hence the sale was ex tremely brisk at arise in the currencies of last week of from 43 to os per quarter. The transactions for shipment were-extremely confined, owing to the home buyers outbidding the foreigners. With Barley, both English and foreign, we were scantily supplied, and the sale was active, at '2 per quarter mo re money for all description,. In Malt an improve d business was doing, at a rise of Is to 2s per quarter. The quantity on show was small. There was a very brisk sale for all kin of Oats, at an advance of quite 2s per quarter, and at at a good clearance w as e ff ecte d. B eans m o ved off readily' , at a rise of from Is to 2s per quarter. Peas were v er y firm ' and is to 2s per quart er dearer. The Flour trade was active, at . 7s per sack mo r e m one y, th e b est town-made producing 7as per 2801bs. Barrelled qualities were is to 2s per barrel dearer. Indian Corn, 2s per quarter above previous rates. CUILILENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE '7016t0 . ' 1 reheat—Essex & Kent, 91 alt—Chevaller• • •• •• •-- Red, New.... 84s to 90s Oats—Yorkshire and 335 3374: Ditto,White, New 90s 95 5 L i nco l ns h., Feed. Norfolk and Lin- P o tato .•••• • • • " Sis coin, Bed.— • • 82s t 6, Youghal and Cork..s, 210 Ditto, White• ... • • 87s 91s Black. ••• • •• ••• - . Irish, Red.. .... • • —s — s . 281 3.18 Cork, White. •• • •• 36$ Ditto, White.... • . —s —s Rye—Old ••••—— • • •• —s - s Beans- - •'•** •• -2' 458 Barley—Grinding ..... 4 48 4 as 4 5 7 4 : lick . • 0 , 52$ Peas —Grey •.: ::• : T s ::: Scotch, Feed. • • • • 4 33 s Malting ...•• • • • • 490 54s Maple. ••••• • • ' • 51 , 670 Chevalier • 540 56s Nlalt— f Suffolk and Nor- White .•••••• ... , - 1. 59 , Boilers ••••• • • • • - 751 Brown ........... 6773:.. 700 60, cu. 69575 s Flour —Town-made. Suffolk •• • • .... ca . 60c Kingston and Ware 75s 78, stoats &Norfolk v" - ' L ol T n, rdhooem nfollowingwhence.t h i me pastpoo r x t e s SIVCITTIPIZI.D. 1 t into wn o .e f ek liv :..... e c s o t w oc s k . havetaken pa m c—aires. Sheep. Antwerp 6 Harlingen Hainburgh - ...... Rotterdam ---- • 354 ..... . 13 ...- -- 22 • Total At the outports, about 130 Oxen and Cows, 200 Sh"T' • and 10 Calves, have been lauded, chiefly from otterdael! nl good condition. There was a very large number of fore Beasts here to-day, or nearly 700 head ; but that 0 1 '7 O l l and Calves was small, viz., 120 of the former, and 18 of 8. latter. Nearly the whole found buyers, at very fa Pne e ,., From our own grazing districts the arrivals of Beasts fre.s." • up this morning were mode rate ly ex t ens ive; but the quAlitY was not equal to that exhibited on this day tolerab yc attendance of both town and country was numerous; while the Beef trade was steady, though r, to say brisk, at fully, but at aothing quotable beyond f!li11: week's prices. A few of the veiy pritnest Scots sold at 4s at,' but the more general figure did not exceed 4s 6d per 0 1 7 se'nnight. Tr Previously to the close of busines a good clearancewaseffecteu The arrivals of beasts from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cam bridgeshire, consisted of about 1,100 Scots, homebreds, sg; shorthorns; from the western and midland di s tricts ; • Herefords, Devons, runts, & c . ; f rom other parts of Engli ln l 500 of various kinds; and f ro m S co tland, 300 h o rned all: polled Scots. With Sheep we were fairly supplie dement ~ Mutton trade was very firm at Friday's value of 4d per 81bs, the primest old Downs, in the wool, P.r .. e ., ducing 6s per 81bs. The supply of Lambs was large, 01 en' to which the trade was heavy, at a decline of 2d p the highest figure being 6s 2d per 81bs. Calves moved 0 : freely at fully the late improvement in value, with a n'ef i suc rate number offering. There was a fair demand for Pigs , ' impro r . we can notice no improvement in value. of .. A statement and comparison of the supplies and prieel__ fat stock, exhibited and sold in Smithfield Ca on Monday, May 4, 1846, and this day, Monday , 2 ' lB Y 1847: ale Alaracz 1 847 May 4,1846. May 3► , 3, 4 d Coarse and inferior Beasts 2 s 6d to 2s 8d 3s 2d £0 .. 8d Second quality, do. ...... 2s 10d to 3e 4d 35 6d t 0 Os As 2d Prime large Oxen Prime Scots, &c. _ , Coarse and inferior Sheep 3s 6d to 4s 2d 48 2 d to 46 tn Second quality, do. t" Prime ooarse-woolled, do 43 6d to 4s 8d 5s 2 d to Os `5 Prime southdown, do 4s 10d to 5s Oil 5s 8d to 6s Lambs 5s 4d to 6s 4d 5s 2 d to 65 21 Large coarse Calves Prime small, do Large Hogs 'l' Neat small Porkers 4 s 8 d to 5 s Od 4 s 6 d t o 5s Beasts Sheep and Lambs Calves .. B6 Pigs Per Albs. to sink the offal. s. d. to e d 5. d. to i. d. A 8 5 0 tnferlor Beasts..... 3 2 3 4 S econ d quallo l9t° 5 6 Second quality ... 3 6 Coarse-wool l e d ditto 5 2 Prime large Oxen.. 310 4 2 Southdown Webe r 60 , Prime Scots ...... 4 4 4 6 Ditto out or the woo. — a 4 - 4 Large coarse Calves 4 4 5 0 Large Hogs '• • 3 4 8 2 Prime small ditto .. 2 5 6 Small Porkers -• • • Suckling Calves •• 19 0 30 0 Quarter old rigs —l6 ° 21 Inferior Sheep 4 2 4 6 Lambs •••••• • - ~ 5 2 6 2 SUPPLY AT MARKET. 1 9 1 74 P 0 I C alve s . NDAVGATE AND XOLIADENNAZI. Reasts. 3,733 I Piga 410 The arrival of country killed meat for our markets since Monday last have been on a very limited scale, while the sup plies on sale slaughtered in London have been comparatively small. The attendance of buyers having been large, the general demand has ruled active, and the quotations have ad vanced from 2d to 4d per 81b, at which good clearances have been effected. About 2.00 carcases of foreign meat have ar peared on sale. At per stone by the Carcase. s. d. to s. d. 1 I. d. to s. Beet, interior...— 3 2 3 4 Mutton, inferior .. 4 0 4 4 middling •• 3 4 3 6 ( middling.. 4 6 4 g prime large .. 3 6 3 f 4 1 prime .... 410 5 0 prime small •• 3 8 310 1 Pork, large •• •..„ 4 04 $ Veal• •••• • • • . -sinsil .... 410 6 2 Lamb. 55 2d to 65 2d BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. Coastwise, as well as from abroad, the arrivals of Potatoes have been on the increase during the past week. All kinds are in heavy request, at barely stationary prices. BOROUGH HOP IMARKEiT. A few speculative purchases have been made in the best Hops, at full prices; but for immediate consumption the demand is in a sluggish state, at last week's quotations. TALLOW. Exceedingly little business is doing in this market, * although the stocks are small, and the late depression in the quotations is barely supported. WOOL. Rather extensive arrivals of Wool have taken place in the port of London since Monday last; viz., 700 bales from Ho bart Town, 600 ditto from Sydney, $OO ditto from Adelaide, 500 ditto from Algoa Bay, 71 ditto from the Cape, 300 ditto from Hamburgh, 42 ditto from Monte Video, and 400 ditto from various other quarters. On the whole, a Lair amount of business is pass►ng in most kinds of Wool, the prices of which are generally supported. THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY. This company have completed satisfactory arrangements in the northern and midland counties, by which all the towns situated in those parts of the kingdom will receive the benefit of a telegraphic and instantaneous communication with each other. As far as we can judge, the system appears to be to connect the different exchanges together by the ex tension of the wires from the railway station, by means of pipes laid under the ground. This principle has been adopted in London, from the Nine Elms station of the South-Western Railway to the Telegraphic Company's Offices in the Strand, and from thence to the Admiral*? in Whitehall, so that the authorities are enabled to trans mit messages and receive intelligence from Portsmouth instantaneously. We regret to say that at present WO shall be denied the benefit of this rapid means of com munication with the metropolis, on account of the extra ordinary apathy of the North-Western Railway ComPa!V , who, we should have thought, would have been amongstw: first to have adopt e d a pl an o f no l ess a dvantage to them selves era selves than the public at la r ge. In fact, till the telegraphl erected between London and Rugby, the whole of the com munication to and from the north will have to be sent that distance by train, thus causing, as a contemporary says, months great and vexatious delay." We understood o ago that a contract had been entered iz ered or i t n h t virofoersttehren li n es, and er ection of the telegraph on the whole of caereedtehderweijothre._thmeamnocrheesstuerrpTriismedes.at its not having been pro have taken offices in d their telegraphic wires. They T u e l l cl e i g n r g a s p , h to C w om hi p c an h i y t We are informed that the o e min El e e: c t i r a iic . b is their intention to eat en and various the vhaarvieouasls,o,ticioemr townspleted f a o rra r o ng e e s m am en e ts p i u n rp ti s a e n . che w st e er, be li he ne u v ll e , th th e e w ex hol c e ep o t f io t ne e f xis th t ; nEngland, erected withn g telegraphlineso isf railway alre ady North-Western.—Leeds Mercury. IRELAND. THE LORD-LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND. DUBLIN, MAY I.—Of the recovery of the Lord-Lieutenant there is not, we regret to learn, any reasonable ground of hope, but his Excellency continues free from pain, and enjoys tranquil rest. The following bulletin was issued this morning : " Hi% Excellency passed a perfectly tranquil night, and his breathing is much relieved this morning." The Evening Post of this afternoon contains the follow ing -•-` The crisis of his Excellency's illness may be prolonged to a period into which it is impossible for human skill to penetrate with any degree of accuracy; and be the event near or distant, or be the causes proximate or remote, by which a chasm shall be created in the Besborough family which nor time nor circumstance can ever fill, we feel assured that the sympathetic interest dictated by this painful subject will hardly be repaired. The painful sympathy excited in the public mind is one of the most remarkable incidents of the kind we remember. One thing, however, is certain; his Excellency is not worse to-day than he was yesterday or the day before, and much as we should be desirous to delude ourselves with hopes of his recovery, the sad reality dills physical depression forbids the indulgence. Every profes- sional and mechanical means of alleviation, every conceivable stratagem and contrivance' which could have their spring in feminine tenderness and filial affection, have been devised and skilfully applied by the members of his Excellency's family, with all the solicitude of childhood, in worship of a beloved and devoted father." The Commander-in-Chief has presented a cornetcy - without purchase in the 14th Light Dragoons to the Hon. R. W. Chetwynd, brother to the Lieutenant the Honourable W. G. Chetwynd, of the 73d Foot, who, our readers may or collect, was killed in June last during a skirmish with the Kafirs. The Hon. Rev. Robert Eden, vicar of Battersea, is appointed Bishop of Sodor and Man.--Observer. Saturday last, being the birthday of his Grace the Duke of Wellington, the tradesmen employed by his Grecs assembled at the Albion Tavern, Aldersgats-streett where an. elegant entertainment was provided for the OCC/111013 by Messrs. Staples. Dir. Glues t'Sciatecl se clieitinfa. F I 400, /'rol ratb 1 4 $ g 111 g °Nil T t en , Fit t an tai Alan tit Alan So Proc, Prot, two, vtai 414 Clair Se of th that tao tra m m lbsed rvi,lw•l 1 9uant butte Evi ~ Thi " 4 3P ii %La ~~ . Iva; *fie" NVo cut th e th e ing Sep, th e age( 400 Th( b 4,. ilao l # '', 4 ; .. ; ', l i 4 . Vol 4 , ' ~.. 5 , , , ...' r s 4 ; 4••••, , ' . .