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THE COURT OF QUEEN CAROLINEaits, Now ready, in 2 vols., pest ADY Isvo., wit SUNDON, h Portr MEMOIRS OF L AND OF TIIE COURT OF QUEEN CAROLINE, CONSORT OF GEORGE 11. Including Letters of the Mo.t. Celel,rato,d lrsons of the Tithe, Now first published from the Origlnals, By 3l} S. TROMSON, Authoress of " Memoirs of the C.,urt of Henry VTIL," &e. Henry C,lburn, publisher, 13, Great 3larl'oo:ough-street. Now ready at all the Librari A es, in 3 vols., post Bvo., Y' Or, THE APPARITION .O By Mrs. THOMSON. Author of " Widows and Widowers," " Ragland Castle," " The Chevalier," &c. " lira. Thornsen's present work fully maintains her in the front rink of our b'st female writers of fiction. Tracy' possesses excel lent construction, and continued variety of action. The characters are sketched with a masterly hand, true to nature, and yet marked by traits of inniTiduality, which throw over them an originality, and Neve how acutely the artist must have onserved."—Literary Gazette. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. lIER MAJESTY'S THEATUE. THIS EVENING, Tuesday, Jnue 8, will be performed the Opera of LA SONNAMB LA, Amina, Mille. Jenny Lind ; Lisa, 3lad.iine Solari ; Count Rodolph, Signor F. Lablache ; and Elvino, Signor Gardoni. Between the acts will be presentel' the Second Act of the admired ballet of GISELLE. Giselle, Mdllef Carlotta Grisi. To conclude with a Selection from the admired ballet of ONDINE. Comprising, the Fete de la Madonne, Pas de la Corbeille, by Mdlle. Canto and M. St. Leon, supported by Mdlles. Cassan and Honore, and the celebrated Pas de l'Ombre by Millie. ('erito. The Nobility, Subscribers to the Opera, and the Public, are re ipoctitilly informed, that there will be a grand EXTRA NIGHT on THURSDAY NEXT, on which occasion Made. Jenny Lind will appear in one of I2er favourite characters. The doors open at Half-past Seven. The Opera to commence at Higf•t o'clock. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. THIS EVENING, Tuesday, will be performed Relines opera NORMA, Norma, Madame Grisi ; Adelgisa, Mdlle . Corbari ; Signor Salvi: Oreveso, Signor Marini. To conclude with the new grand Ba'let, entitled LA SAL ;MA.NDRINE. Principal characters by Fanny ELsler and Mdlle. Dumilatre ; also Mdlles. Bertin, Neodot, De Melisse, Delechaux, O'Bryan, and M. Petipa, Tickets, Stalls, and Boxes to be obtained at the Box-office, Bow- Street ; and at Cramer, Beale, and Co.'s, 201, Regent-street. The Doors will be opened at Eight o'clock, and the performance commence at half past Eight o'clock. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. GRAND EXTRA NIGHT. (For the Benefit of 1%1:1114. Dumilatre, and her last appearance.) On THURSDAY NEXT, June 10, will be performed Roasiars opera buffa IL BARBIERE DE SEVIGLIA, Principal characters by Madame Pergiani, Mdlle. Bellini, Signor Bali, Signor Ronconi, Signor Rovere, and Signor Marini. To be followed by the third Act of LUCItLZIA BORGIA.. Principal characters by 'Made. Grid, Mdrie. Alboni, Sig. Mario, Rlg. Marini, Sig. Tagliatlco, and Sig. Tamburinl. The celebrated dance La Gitana, by Mdlle. Fanny Elssler and Dumilatre. To conclude with the popular Ballet, in Twc Acts, LA KEINE DES FEES. The principal characters by Mdlle. Dumilatre, 31111 e. P,ertili, 31dlles. De Jlelisse. Delachaux, Neodot, 31. I'ctipa (his last appear ance), and M. O'Bryan. GRAND MORNING PERFORMANCE. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN, On FRIDAY, . one 18, when will he pertormed Rossini's STARAT MATER; which occasion Madame Gr , si, Madame Persiani, Signora Corbari, Ind Mdlle. :Motu; Signor Mario, Signor Salvi, Signor Tamburini, Signor Ronconi, Signor Tagil aflc,, and Signor Marini will sing. A MIsCF.LLAN EOUs CONCERT. In the mum of the morning Rossinfs Carita, by the whole strength of the company. Beethoven's Grand Battle Sinfonia will be performed lsy the Orchestra, under the direction ot M. Costa. PRICES OF Atbatimlow. Pit and First Amphitheatre Tickets •• • • ZO 7 0 First Amphitheat:a Stalls .... ••••••• • • • • • • • 0 10 6 Second Amphitheatre Stalls .. • • .... • • .... • • 0 5 0 Grand Tier Mixes ... ••••••••••. • • • • .• • • • • 4 4 0 Pit and First Tier Boxes 31 3 6 • Second Tier Boxes , Third Tier 2 2 0 Fourth Tier Boxes .... Second Amphitheatre Tickets Gallery Tickets . •• • ••• • 0 2 6 Eits, Stalls, and Boxes, at Cramer, Beale, and Co.'s, 201, street; and at the Box-offlee, Bow-street THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. it. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be performed the new Comedy, called TEMPER. Sir Marma ' ale Topple, Mr. Farren ; Sir Charles Tempest, Mr. Hudson ; God -rey. Mr. Tilbury; Emerson, Mr. Webster; Cyril Tempest, Mr. Ewe; Lady Tempest, Mrs. Seymour ; Mrs. Herbert, Mrs. Glover ; lorence Wilmot, Mrs. Forteseue; Miss- Fi Laing, Mrs. Hamby. To be followed by a Miscellaneous Concert, in which the FOUR lUNGARIAN INnTRUNIENTAL Vth' A LISTS will give their imi ations of various instruments, with the Lips only. To be followed by an entirely new and original farce called WHO )O THEY TAKE ME FOR? Colonel Templeton. Mr. Howe ; Terence O'Reilly. Mr. Hudson ; Mrs. Herrington, Mrs. Seymour; Itise Frut•lence Plekinfri. Mrs. Hamby. To conclude with 1113 LAS I' LEGS. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the direction of Madame Celeste- Will S be performed the T original EVENlN Drama, G called THE FLOWERS OF TIIE FOREST ; a Gipsy Story. Cheap Jchn, Mr. Wright; slunael, Mr. 0. Smith ; the Kinchin, Mr. P. Bedford ; Leybourne, fr. Worrell ; Cynthia, Madame Celeste ; Lemuel, Miss Woolgar; tarlight Bess, Mrs. Fitzwilliam; Lady Agnes, Miss Harding. After which an entirely new Petite Comedy, entitled 'LYING COLOURS; or, Crossing, the Frontier. Captain Sans "Nisi, Mr. IVebster ; Margaret, Miss Woolgar ; Helen de Montereau, (*lame Celeste; Justine, Miss Ellen Chaplin. To be followed by the Opera Butfa Sketch, called JENNY LIND. srincipal characters by Mesers. Wright, Paul Bedford, Lambert, °MY, Cullenford, and Miss Woolgar. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. Under the Monument of Mrs. Keeley. (Last Night but Three of the present Management and Company.) TIIIS EVENING Will be performed PTION. Principal characters by Laws. Leigh Murray, Oxberry, Turner, Kinloch, Bellingham, and IMery ; Misses May, Bromley. Forster, and Mary Keeley. After which TILE vatlcrews DEVIL. Manrepas, Mr. Belling !<m ; Bringhin, Mr. Kinloch ; Pica, Mr. Keeley. To be followed by the new occasional Dramatic Sketch, called glq NY LIND AT LAST; or, The Swedish Nightingale. Charac ,s by Mr. A. Wigan, Mr Turner, Mr. Kinloch, Mr. Bellingham. 7rJlender, Mr. Yarnohi, and Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with the new Burlesque Extravaganza, called VIE 'OOD DEMON ; or, One Wel , ck, is which Atessra. Keeley, A. "Igan. 1. Matthew, Bellingham, Kinloch, Silver, bliss Dickinson Isa Daly, and Mrs. Keeley will appear. FRENCH PLAYS. -ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. LesAee, Vr_ John Mitchell. TO-MORROW EVENING (Fo the Licindit of 31. (71oup) Will be performed L:1:7 SE ; ou, La lteparation. 31. de Malzea, .Rhozevil; Louie, Mdlle. Vallee. After which a new vaudeville, wailed LES FLEIIII3 ANIME ES. taracters by MM. Pascal, Tourrillon, Priston, Mdlles. Ducerger, Leyder, &c. To be followed by a vaudeville, entitled L' ARTICLE 213 ; on, Mari dolt Protection -. Characters by MM. Dumery, ulgeval, David, Dorgenrt, and 1[d11,7. Duverger and Vallee. Soles, 6s. ; Pit, 3s. 6/1. ; Amphitheatre, 3 .; Gallery, 2s. BOXes and Stalls may he er.6:l4ed at Mr. :' , i itehell's Royal Library, , Wad -street; ant', at the Dux-office of the Theatre, which is open lly from Fleven till Five. ETIDOPIA:v v•ERENA.I , RS, ST. JAMES'S lIEATRE. En consequence ot the increas,hg success which attends every re- Mutation given by the celebrated ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, U, liarrington, he. Stlnwfuhl, and t;Grnion, Cley will repeat wsal ENtERTAINM ENTS at the above Theatre, TIIIi ✓ESISti, and every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday reniug. I)nors of en at Eight o'clock. They will a!so give a DAY iIiFOItMA INCE on Wednesday Morning next, commencing at af-past Tao o'clock. Thursday Evening nest will be for the Be- St of Mr. Stanwood. 13Inces and Stalls at Mitchell's Roy tl Library, 33, 011 Bond-street, dat the Pox-office of the Theatre. fuINCES.VS T:i EATRE, OXFORD-STREET. .3. M. made,-,x, ano Manager. Till* EVENING. Will be performed Shakspere's comedy or AS Y'rU LIKE IT. comes, Mr. Creswick; Touch.tow, Mr. Compton; Itosalnid, Mrs. rling ; Audrey, hiss Emma Stanley: To be foll,..wed by a new co'netlietta, in two acts, entitled 110- \NCE AND REAL FY. The Hon. Captaia Montague, Mr. J. abater; Vincent Dunbar, Mr. Vining; Florence, Mrs. Sti ling; Illy, 'Miss Emma Stanley. 'biter which a new Drama, entitled TIIE KING AND THE PER. Principal characters by Messrs. litt4hes, Walton, Barker, nn, Delavantl, Granny, miss E. Stanley, Miss G. Smithson, and se Marshall. ASTLEY'S ILOYAL Proprietor and Manager r. William itatty. let the patronage et the Queer., Prince Albert, and the Royal FAmily. %mild combination of Novelties. in addition to sshich Mr. Batty has engaged MAVe. laurit. t',e Female Equestrian. THIS EVENING VIII he performed the Equestrian Magica' Sketch, THE (OLDEN OTED STEED; or, The Charmed Horse of the Black Valley. SCENES he CIRCLE, W'T h a brilliant display of rser.anship, introttneittu the Foreign and British Artistes. 'o co,:clude with Lord Byron's Dramatic Poem of 'ME BRIDE All Y.DOS ; or, The Corsair. Stage Ma'tager, l'tfr. W. D. Broadfoot. 115,.":a.; Boxes, is.; Upper Boxes, 3 , ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. ; .pper Gallery, fal. Commence every evenin; at Seren o'clock, ROYAL SURREY THF.ATIZE. Under the Management of Mrs. Frances Davidge, Lessee. THIS EVENING fill be performed Opera of LA SONNAMBULA ; or, Village Phantom. Rodolpho, Mr. Leffler ; Elvin°, Mr. liarri- AIeSSIO, Mr. Horncastle ; Amka, Mss Ra:nforth ; Lisa, Miss saaes; Teresa, Mrs Daly; Annette, Miss Vaughan. n conclude with Shakspere's tragedy of MAC ItETII, with the le of Locke's music. Macbeth, r. Scott ; Lady Macbeth, Mrs. ry me.-, •;,., Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6d. Doors open at Six, commence altrest Six. ROYAL VIC MR IA THEATRE. THIS EVENING --- Tube presented, a drama, in three acts, caPed IRE MOI.T.N -tlg JUDGE; or, the ratriot's Grave. character; by Messrs. a, Dale, Bird, Searle, }toward, Gardner, Mrs. G. Lee, Mrs. a, &c. fter whieh WILLIAM TIIONIPSON ; or, the Sleepwalker and ) conclude with PIZARRO; or the Death of Rolla. Rolla, Mr. 3; Pizarro, Mr. Va:e. Boxes, ls.; half Price, 6d. Pit, 6d. ; Gallery, 3d. ROYAI, SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GAROENS. vier the patronage of her Majesty, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Queen Dowager, &c. Open every Monday, Tues, lay, Wednesday, and Thursday. Ad rdssicn, 0.,e 14ECOND WEEK OF M. JULLIEN'S ENGAGEMENT. First Week of tie Army QuadriLes. No Extra Charge ! On Wt.:WAY, June i. e 'Proprietor has much pleasure in announcing, to the Subscribers, tears of Music, and the Public, that he has succeeded in eve:v -.1. JULLIEN and the Principal Soto Perlormeri of his tutrivaLeft including ltichan'son, Baumann, Barret, Lazarus, Prospeie, '5l , and tier Kmilig, for a limited number of nights. Whick tnre.l G ODFREY'S Spiendid Band, aided by a sekction from _ pal harms in th e M etropo li s, w ill f orm an orc h es t ra o f O ne died Performers. 3 Proprietor begs to announce that he has, at a con , iderat•le se, erected a new a 'Entrance and it magnificent Walk, with b"ders ' Statues, and Central Fountain, in front of the Pictorial Representation of THE TOWN AND n i Menagerie contains —F GIBRALTAR. lee, &c. The Promenade jol3ll;:erttsni ens, including the Giraffe. fact ed :.y ;oft frey . A tentation of the Porcelain Tower of' Nankin. Th e (i o it i le Bridge me ,. The grand . .ni t Piesenting the SIEGE OE :r i g the commencement of the Bombardment. part i al destruc t the Town. and Wording up of the Ilatterilt.: ship; -- 7. - - --- - ESTII YE TYDVI T..—SERTOUS A cCIDRNT F° - .OSION OF G t'N' C.' •Trolv.— Several par, ies tr.,i n C. ~„ ~. Ilk ltleWbere, believirg gun cotton could be made ap r'' rock blasting, had applied to some of toe Iron-111 1 Z this place for permission to test its powers. Accord. Monday last was fixed upon for the trial to take place, I lime quarries at Morla's (astle. Several scientific nnen connected with the wori.s were invitP.l to be pre amongst whom were W. Needham, E,q.; Messrs Mar mineral agents; Mr. Rhys Watkio Rhys, of Aberdare; Wheeler and Ringer, the gen tlemen for whom th e ras to For take place. A l ulln.u , had been 6. and everything 1 of cotton was inserted 'rbored, being ready, a ,ned, the charge could not be From some cause not KI was employed, the end of .-:vtent far enough, when an A with cotton. Mr. Rhys, of was, as a precaution, c Artare, took hold cf d to ram it down, Mr. Wheeler standing near him, ane t r , xplosion, caused kman on the other side, when iron rod, took by compression or a spark from wounding Mr. Rhvs in the face so ve ry 8 ' reatly feared he will lose his sight. 47. 14 V 'MY , that at on the face in three or four places , and the heeler wa. , . 447 hurt.- WelAm an. workman THE WEATHER.—SIM OFFICE, JUNE 7. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 45 ; Highest, 62 ; Noon, 63. BAROMETER, 30. 1 6.—WIND N. N. W. ; fine. _ . iT.l—Li W , i'f•!'e AT DAY. .I%,U)rt;jhe .. 14 minutes art, 9 I Zr,ling 47 ninutcs 9. a.. atit•Mi .S g Ft'''. 7: 4401001,_ a, • mo-..;,. :4 „,,„.4. - THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY ' ~ _. LONDON, TUESDAY. JUNE 8, 1847. Throughout the whole of his Parliamentary career THOMAS SLINGSBY DUNCOMBE has proved himself to be—in word and act, in heart and soul—a Tribune of the People. Among all the distinguished Re formers of our generation he is conspicuous as about the most consi-tent and the most chivalrous. Hence it is that Mr. DUNCOMBE has acquired such universal popularity ; hence it is that in all the mutations of political partizanship, in all the fluctuations of public sympathy, and in all the changes of the supreme Government, his name has continued to be the object of national respect, and in a great measure too of national affection. Even the nickname which has fallen upon him in the excitement of electioneering enthu siasm, and which sticks to him like a burr, is in some sort a tolerable indication that he is a favourite with the multitude. " The Finsbury Pet." But THOMAS DUNCOMBE is more than the Finsbury Pet: he has, by his courageous and unflinching conduct as a liberal legislator, ensured for himself the admiration of every sincere and earnest lover of constitutional Reform. Both as a Parliamentary debater and as an advocate of those whose extreme lowliness denies them all except such generous and spontaneous assistance as that continually afforded by the Hon. Gentleman the Member for Finsbury—as an assiduous committeeman, and as one whose name is perpetually recurring in the division lists, Mr. DUN COMER is eminently entitled to the enviable consi deration he has now for a considerable period enjoyee. On Thursday evening last, in the course of his luminous and masterly speech upon Convict Discipline, Sir GEORGE GREY paid a deserved tribute at once to the judgment and the humanity of Mr. DUNCOMBE. We were ourselves particularly gratified with these observations of the Home Secretary, from a vivid recollection of the circumstances to which they re ferred, as well as from a consequent remembrance, that in regard to those very circumstances the Ho nourable Representative of Finsbury had received a rather churlish and supercilious rebuff from the Government. Indeed, the complimentary allusions of Sir GEORGE GREY can scarcely be considered as other than an act of expiation, or, perhaps, we should say of compensation, for the un merited manner in which his original proposition was received. It cannot be forgotten that we are refer ring to the terrible narrative of cruelties and brutalities detailed in the House of Commons by the lion. Member for Finsbury several months back, and which narra tive he declared to be a by no means exaggerated description of the conduct habitually practised by the subordinate officers to the wretched criminals incarcerated in the hulks. It cannot be for gotten, because the miseries depicted by Mr. DUN COMBE on that occasion produced throughout the country the liveliest feelings of horror and indigna tion, nor cannot by possibility have escaped the recollection of the public that, notwithstanding the Hon. Representative for the metropolitan borough ad jured the Government to investigate thecircumstances which he had declared to be of continual recurrence in the hulks, and to discover, by the inquiries of intelligent commissioners, whether or no his allegations were founded in truth or misrepresentation, his demand was rejected, his assurances were slighted, and it was even determined that no Hulks Committee should be constituted, because it was maintained, for sooth, that inquiry implied an anticipatory conviction of guilt! Upon these frivolous and erroneous grounds Mr. DUNCOMBE'S very rational and hu mane demands were rejected, and so the matter con tinued apparently in abeyance until her MAJESTY'S Secretary for the Home Department explicitly ac knowledged, on Thursday evening, that the fullest investigation had been made into the declarations of the Hon. Gentleman, and that after a cursory glance at the volumnious reports transmitted for his examination by Captain WILLIAMS, "he had no hesi tation in saying that there was ample ground for many of the statements which had been brought fn-warel as to the abuses existing in the hulks." With such an amende honorable Mr. DUNCOMBE must be personally satisfied ; but we doubt not but that in Ids generous estimation the parties principally aggrieved in the transaction are the convicts themselves, and that to those convicts, therefore, the administrative assistance should be immediately directed. Reflecting for a moment upon the simple words quoted from the lips of Sir GEORGE GREY, what abysses of misery are revealed by their utterance " The allegations as to the abuses in the hulks are correct," and let it be remem bered that those allegations were deleniative of the most sickening acts of inhumanity, perpetrated upon a body of helpless and manacled criminals. Nothing, indeed, could be more calculated to enli:a the sympathies of the true philanthropist in behalf of the condemned than such a superabundance of punish ment. Here, indeed, we would remind L';rd MAHON that the explanatory words of CICERO are immeasurably more applicable than to the arrange ments expounded by the Home Secretary. Here, indeed, we are very far from discovering that the in tentions of penal legislation are being carried itro operation—Ut poem in pancos pervenial, metus in omnes. According to the execrable system hitherto adopted on the hulks there has been a snpeifluity of the pcena in poucos, but the very revelation of that circumstance has rendered the metug in omnes as the sentiments which might under ordinary regulations have been those of awe and trepidation naturally merge into those of wrath and abhorrence. The transition is inevitable, and it is as morally de structive as it is inevitable. Thanks, however, to the comprehensive reformation proposed by her MAJESTY . S Ministers in reference to the treatment of criminals, there is now every reason able hope that such grievous abuses of authority as those recounted by Mr. DUNCOMBE will be henceforth prevented. Instead of being shipped off in hundreds and conveyed to penal settlements in the very ripeness of their in famy, criminals will be reserved at home until their characters have in some measure been cleansed from their moral leprosy, until, in short, by a wholesome plan of reformation, they have been dril:ed into so briety and self-respect. Then, and not till then, of tenders against the laws wid be deported to our colo nies, not to enhance the atrocities of their predecessors at Sydney, at Botany Bay, or at Norfolk Island, not to pollute our antipodes with coneregated crimes, such as in Gomorrha drew down the flaming thu i derbolts of Heaven, but to swell the rumbers of an orderly and industrious population in some embryo state, presided over by the accredited agents of the British Legislature. Already we have indicated the advantages which must accrue from the scheme of probation chalked out by the Government, whereby the persons ersen condemned in the criminal courts will be trans ferred to such establishments as the model prisons cf Milbank, cf Pentonville, and of Parkhurst, until by the evidences of good conduct they have entitled hemselves to the lenities of the judicial power, and ire employed upon certain descriptions of puhjie , vorks, remunerative or otherwise. Coupled with the atension of the blessings consequent upon national - ..ducation, these heneliant arrat , gements cannot but effe c t a visible. and marvellous improvement in the character . of the c o m mun ity. I ns t ea d o f b e i ng ex peditiously and econom i ca ll y struc k d own b y the avenging brand of the law, the criminals will be comforts sd o a f n s d oc r i e g s l toredi n an elevated condition to the Instead of being ab ruptly strangled b y the existence. hangman,dier whipped by the re brutalising t turnkey, or tortured by the medical inspector of . the hulks, or worked to death in fetters at tl to il o f Norfolk Island, they will b e l ured to orderlyas'ng h:haviour by instruction, they will be tempted 'to virtue by rewards ar.d immunities, they w ill he afforded an opportunity of expiating th e i r p re .. viougly atrocious procee d i n g s b y their subsequent subordination and propriety of demeanour. In ail this there is apparent on the part of the Administra- 1 tion a very ennobling aspiration—an aspiration to become corrective, instead r.f continuing, as hereto fore, destructive. And, v►hat increases our satis faction at the endeavours of tl.O present Government, these aspirations are proved tc be cap.ble of actual realisation by the practical and admirably consecutive explanation of Sir GEORGE GREY. Government is hereafter to be characterised by that amenity and gentleness which time out of mind have been its antitheses. Ultimately the hornbook and the grammar must, we are satisfied, supersede the manacles and the tread-mill. Nay, before a very long period has elapsed we are persuaded that the schoolmaster IA ill be receiving the salary which was formerly among the perquisites of the gaoler. Until these vast alter ations, however, have been definitively accomplished we shall be satisfied with the promising indications of our general moral progression ; such indications as are daily being afforded by the innovations upon the criminal system, and the humanizing tendency of each of those innovations. Beyond the gratification, therefore, that must be exp?rienced by the lion. Gentleman the representa tive of Finsbury, at the prospective prevention of the cruelties inflicted upon those unfortunate wretches whose temporary homes are the hulks, must be the consolatory reflection that in time those hulks may be altogether tenantless. Earnestly, then, do we congratulate 111 r. THOMAS SLINGSBY DUNCOMBE upon the eulogistic remarks which fell on Thursday evening from the lips of the Home Secretary. Those expressions embodied in their very brevity and sim plicity a panegyric upon the: Parliamentary career of the Member for Finsbury; and in such a panegyric we are certain that the multitude will coincide with cordiality, for THOMAS SLINGSBY DUNCOMBE is—and deserves to be—a national favourite. The Society for Promoting the Amendment of the Law held their second anniversary meeting on Saturday, Lord BROUGHAM presiding. As is usual with all public bodies associated for the reformation of public abuses, this society has not escaped censure; but, inasmuch as the charge preferred against it was wholly groundless, the effect has been, as is generally the case where public societies are carped at in an ungenerous spirit, to impart increased vigour to its constitution, to elevate its character in the public eye, and to lead to a wise appreciation of the importance of the objects for which it was embodied. The society has been accused of encouraging hasty legislation. This is a bare assertion, without a fragment of proof to confirm its veracity. Supposing, however, the allegation could have been partially supported, to what would it have amounted? The society does not pretend to the art of divination and of infallible foresight. Laws framed under the auspices of the most talented legal advisers of the Crown, and which have subse quently passed through the ordeal of legislatorial inquiry, have been frequently found to be seriously defective, within a short period of their enactment. But this society not only stands free from the impu tation thrown out, but it has already established its merits to public approval for the good it has actually accomplished, as well as for the beneficial course in which it is progressing. " In consequence of the efforts of the society," observed Lord BROUGHAM, at the meeting on Saturday, "some important measures had been introduced into Parliament for the improve ment and amendment of the law ; some of those measures had been completed, and others were in progress." A mere glimpse at some of the names of those who take a prominent interest in the welfare of the society will suffice to satisfy every dispas sionate mind that precipitate legislation is a result the least likely to flow from its laudable endeavours. Lord Brougham, Lord Lyndhurst, the Earl of Devon, Lord Ashburton, Mr. Bethel], Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Mr. James Stewart, the Duke of Richmond, Lords Radnor and Ebrington, Mr. Hume, M.P., Mr. Evart, M.P., Mr. Wyse, M.P., Mr. Roebuck, M.P., &c., besides many gentlemen of distinction in the various branches of the legal profession, take un active part in furthering the objects of the society. The evils of the enormous expenses attendant upon the transfer of land we have frequently alluded to; they were expatiated on at great length at the meeting in question, and facts were stated which show the science of conveyancing in this country to be both disgraceful and oppressive to a civilized community. In France and Italy, and other parts of the continent, land was worth lforty-five years' purchase, which in our country would not realise more than thirty years' purchase, by reason of the vexatious expenses incidental to its transfer. The expenses, moreover, are not ad valorem. In one case it cost a party 5501. to come into an estate of 1,5001. The system tells most severely upon the capitalist of slender means, for, if he desires to purchase a small property, he is subjected to as heavy an expenditure for its acquisition as the man whose purchase money for an estate amounts to 150,0001. This is a social evil of a most disheartening character. It is a leading object of the society we have no ticed to emancipate us from this vexatious thraldom of legal prolixity. Another is, to suggest the means for having our Acts of Parliament drawn up in a uniform and intelligible manner. The loose and confused shape in which many of our laws are passed is truly reproachful. The judges of the land are themselves among the first to be constantly adverting in terms of merited severity to the lax method in which laws are concocted fur their admi nistration. Respecting the criminal law, the atten tion of the society has been drawn by the Duke of RIChMOND to the question, iv hettier "its principal object should not be the reformation of the criminal, and not be confined to the deterring from crime." A more philanthropic inquiry could not be entered upon, and happily, too, it is one which we rejoice to think is just now engrossing a great deal of public attention. We congratulate the country upon the prosperous manner in which the Society for Promot ing the Amendment of the Law is proceeding in its searching and unbiassed investigations into the evils and anomalies which have so long and so per niciously characterised our legislation. ,The account of the meeting of the Royal Agricul tural Improvement Society of Ireland, which will be found elsewhere in our columns, will be perused with melancholy interest. It proves that the gloomy fore bodings with respect to the potato crop have been but too well founded. It establishes incontrovertibly the fact, that the fatal disease—which, by destroying the article chiefly in use for the national food, subjected the great majority of our Irish brethren to the horrors of famine, and subsequently of pestilence, induced by the previous destitution—has again set in, that we can indulge no flattering h: pcs of an exemption this year from a visitation similar to that which has de populated the Irish shores, and paralysed British in dustry—that has led to distress and monetary embar• rassments in every class in either kingdom—that has quadrupled the interest of money, and forced the State to become a borrower of no less than 8,000,0001, sterling, after a prolonged period of profound peace and tranquillity, and of great national prosperity. It is, however, in one respect satisfactory to know that we are forewarned in good time, that the disaster is not altogether remediless. The indications by which the existence of the taint can be recognised are clearly pointed out. It appears "that it is chiefly to be found 'n that part of the stem 1N hich lies under ground, and that it may exist, although the leaf appears perfectly healthy; that it is shown some times on that portion of the stem near the surface of the ground,.but more frequently near the seed or set, and presents the appearance of a bruise or dark mark upon the surface." It is more than probable that similar appearances were manifested at an equally early period last year, but that an equal vigilance was not exercised, and that consequently tke sad discovery was not made until it was too late to obtain a sub,ti tute for the infested crop. This is, fortunately, not at present the case ; there is yet tune to sow Swedish or Aberdeen turnips, mangel wurzel or cabbage plants, which may be placed in the drills between the potato stalks without any additional manures and at a small, expense. Wherever the disease has manifested itself prompt and vigorous action therefore is essentially necessary. 'The closet scrutiny should at once be made by every one who has ventured to plant the precarious and treacherous root in his lands into the condition of the tubers. If they should be found marked with the plague-spot, not an hour should be lost in having recourse to the must active measures. By so doing a great portion of the mischief add matrßifi otberwiii inevitable will be avoided, and MORNING, JUNE 8, 1847. free-trade principles by France. It is a homage .to the truth, and a proof of the correctness of the principle of our free traders, '11 , 4 the adoption of free trade by England would tome other nations either to becothe free-traders, or to cease to be traders at all. " We must admit (says the Journal des Debats) that the adoption of free trade by Englaud influences neighbouring nations, and France more than any other, to adopt the same system. In fact, England, where the prices are high ; is about to Ipcome the receptacle of the overplus of all pro. dining countries. It is - always to her that any overplus will be sent, inasmuch as she pays better, and is able to consume the whole. Thus the free trade in corn in England is a guarantee against too great a tali in prices in other markets. Still more, we believe that a part of the grain from our north-western provinces will be cxported to England. In that respect likewise we shall sutler a loss, and as France on an average produces scarcely sufficient grain for her coueumption, we must apply to foreign coun tries fora supply, and we must attract. t e , -in by eetablisl:ing freedom of commerce, and not repel t em by the slit nig. scale. With respect. to the stock of corn to be derived from countries denominated productive, we must remark that we experience much disappointment with respect to :he United S;atis. We flatter d ourselves that the opening of the Erie canal would bring a considerable quantity of e heat and flour t.) New York, but as yet we have been dins; pinted. We read in a circular issued by one of the most eiethent houses in New York, Prime Ward and Co., (Wed loth of May, that at Buffalo, which is the harbour of Lake Erie, notwithstanding • the facilities afforded by the season to col lect large supplies—notwithstanding the attraction of Mich prices in New York—notwithstanding it was known thst several ships were waiting in that city to load corn for Europe. there was but a trifling supply of wheat and flour arrived. The boatmen on the canal who had assembled at Buffalo in expectation of finding a good freight for New York were offered a reduced price for heir labour. Wheat. was quoted at a high price at New York ; and a barrel of flour, which generally sells at 4 to 5 dollars, was worth 8 dollars. Thusahe experience of this year gives every day a formal contradiction to all the fears manifested on the stinject of the competition which might be raised against our agricul turists by toreign produce it it was admitted free into our mar kets. On the one hund,it has become evident that the quantity to be drawn from countries termed productive is limited ; on the other hand, it has been ascertained that when the markets of' the great states of western Europe were brought into tree communication with the productive countries, it was not our price which was reduced to theirs, but theirs, on the contrary, which was raised to ours. The experience of this year is, therefore, perfectly conclusive in favour of the system of free trade in provisions, but it demonstrates particularly that the system by which we would endeavour to prevent that liberty provisionally during the entire probable duration of the scarcity, and to extend the same system of prohibition ge nerally to all articles of food, admits of no excnse." The Committee of the Chamber of Deputies ap pointed to examine the project of law for renewing, until the 31st of October, the authorization to import freely into France all sorts of grain, had, with the consent of the Government, extended it until the 31st of January, 1848. The report of the recal of Marshal BUGBAXD from Algiers is confirmed. The Duke of MONTEBELLO took the oaths of knee as Minister of Marine on the 3d instant. General Don JOAQUIN JULIAN DE ALZAA, whose arrest has been mentioned, has been sent, by order of Government, to Litnoges, where he is to reside. We find the following in the Courrier du Havre : "According to information, which comes from a sure source, the Committee charged with the examination of' the Cusroins' Bill has been struck, like every one in ,the com • mercial world, with the insignificance of that work, and not being willing to join in a measure without effect for the shipping inter•ist, has, on the proposition of one of its members, whom we are assured is M. Thiers, adopted almost unanimously the following series of measures:- 1. A reducti nin the duty on coffee. 2. A reduction in the duty on all kinds of sugar, indigenous and cols ni:11. 3. A reduction on the over-tax on foreign sugar; and 4. The establishment of a duty on English copper ore, in order to encourage that coming from South America. In support of these propositions, M. Thiers, e are informed, dwmonstrated the necessity of doing something worth speaking of for the seaports and the merchant shipping, the basis of tke state navy; in fact, the adopti , in of these measures w9uld give nearly 80,000 tons of freight to our vessels trading to a distance, employing 200 vessels of 400 tons each. The Com mittee, by a msjority of 7 to 2, requested M. Titters to draw up the report; but M. Thiess, for private considerations, declined that honourable task, promising, however, to defend with energy in the tribune the views of the donnuittee. The report will be presented this session, to be discussed in January." Namur and Liege, WA—Northern of France. 12—Paris and Rouen, 38—Paris and Strasbourg, 4A—Rouen and Havre, 25A—Sambre and Manse, 734. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. (From The Sun of Last Night.) • The Cotton-market. at Liverpool on Saturday was firm. Sales, 3,000 bales. American, 2,500 bales, realised 6d. to 7%d. per lb.; and Surat, 4d. to 4%d. per lb. Railway shares were firm, with a tendency to advance. Heavy stock was in good demand. Wheat is up Bs., per quarter, some say more, in Mark-lane this morning. The quantity brought to market is small, and such of the holders of home grown as are known to have large quantities in hand still evince a determination to defer sales. Later accounts have come to hand from the Cape of Good Hope, viz., to April 6. There had been no fighting on the frontier up to the latest date; but at Natal Umzlinculu had been defeated with decided loss. by the settlers. The plan for the campaign against the Kafirs was evidently being laid in a very business like and steady manner, so as to strike the ettemv. when we do begin, with a due sense of our power and resources. There were cotnllaints of the scarcity of money at Cape Town, and the Governor had been requested to penile. cominisAariat drafts to circulate as a legal tender. His Excel lency declined, however, and stated that specie would no doubt sh - ile received out. A failure which has occurred in the sugar trade is not expected seriously to affect. other parties, because, although the dtbts are between 40,0001. and 50,0001., the assets will cover nearly the whole amount. The following is a satisiactory statement from Aria's Bit ininyhant Gazette, upon the subject of the iroa trade :T . " tieu . ..iLi imp,ovement will necessarily have im mediate effect (item the iron trade than many others, y t it has participated so slightlyin the general depression, that. its interests will not remain unbeeetited. Prices have all along been well maintained, and if the ironmaster's capital has not realised so liberal a per centage of pi otit as formerly, and, a, in the opinion of some, might again have been obtained at the close of the last veer, still a steady remuneration has been returned through the increased quantity of business d and the punctuaity with which pas ment has been obtained. Thus provided with the means of meeting present neees,it tea, and influenced by the better tone of feeling in the com mercial world, as well as the encouraging prospect of fur ther improvement, few would be found dispated to undersell, even should the briskness of demand be suspended till the renewed activity in railway enterprise again calls forth the full energies of the trade. But it; on the other hand, any considerations of our relationship with other countries and the state of foreign competition, should force upon us the policy of a temporary reduction, the low prices of provisions which will follow an abundant harvest will aflord ha opportunity for such an equitable adjustment of wages as would ultheately prove rather bensflcial than other wise to the interests of the trade, and might be establieed without exciting bitterness of feeling among the work men, or distress in their families. The limestone getters, who were standing for an advance, as we ventured to predict, have already seen the unreasonableness of their conduct, and have returned to their work. The arrival of ord:trs has not varied much during the last month, and sufficteiit are now on the books, and on hand at almost every work, to ate rd full employment for a longer period than is generally the case at this season. A rumour had reached us that the chain-makers in the neighbourhood of Dudley and Stour bridge are endeavouring to enforce higher wages; but an understanding has been entered into between their masters and the merchants that their demand, shall be resisted —the wages now given being more than thirty per cent. higher than they were a short time since." There - has teen a flatter market for Consols this morning, as usual, when corn takes an upward course. The business done has not been large, but prices range about % per cent. lower than on Saturday, and there have been a few money sales. Consols for transfer have realised 88% to 87%, and for July 88% %. Exchequer-bill s h ave been 6s, to 44. pr emium, being firmer. The New Three-and-a -Quarter per Cents. have been marked 88% %, and the Three per Cents. 86% to 87. East India Bonds have been 3s. premium for those of I,ooa. In the Foreign House transactions have been again very limited. Spanish Five per Cents have been 22 to 21:r e and the Three per Cents. 33% 1 4. Portugu ese F our per Cents. have been quoted 32. Grenada Bonds were at 19%, and Venezuela. 38%, Russian Stock brought 111 ,• Belgian Two and-a-Half per Cent s . were 52% ; and Dutch Four per Cents., 89%. The business done in Railway Shares has been limited, and prices have gone back a little with the funds, although sellers du not press upon the market. tsttllthit FUN ONE CLOSING 'K. Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities OB6CLOC% Pia 'ES. 87 86 Three per Cent. Consols Annuities 88% 88 87% 87% New Three-awl-a-Quarter per Cent. Aims. 88%% 88% New Five per Cent. Annuities .. 113 113 Lung Animates, Expire jail. 5, 1860 .. 9 1-16 8 15-16 8 15-16 India 13wutn4 1,0001. .. • • • . . 3 p 3 p Ditto, under 1,0001. .. •• .. 5 1 p 1 P Consols for Opening, J u l y 16 .. .. 8836% 88% Exehequi,r Bins. 114,1. 1 • ° "• • • • • .... 56 4p 3p 5001. 6 9 p 9p , Ditto. Small 2 p 12 p ONE O'CLOCK. PitlOEN 834 191 v 204 36 1 FOUL IC IN FU DS. 'Rrtmlllan Ronde. 5 per Cent •• •• Grenada. 1 per Cent .. • • " ' 19% Mexican Iton,le, 1846, 5 per Cent .. Peruvian 130nd4 6 per Cent. . 7 •• Portugueso Bondi, b Far C° ll % " * The leiforme'has the following on the subject of French intervention in Portugal. " What," it asks, " Was the result of the French intervention in Spain? What did it found, maintain, or protect in the country? The monster it era- intended to defend was enabled to glut at bis will the blood of the noblest victims. Riego was dragged to the scaffold in a basket. The most generous pa triots were offered as holocausts to the Royal hy. ofi. To this very moment Spain is a prey to factions; revolutionary ideas are still all powerful, and Royalty is more feeble, mote degraded, and more detestei than it was u 1823. What the restoration achieved in Spain the juste milieu is anxious to repeat in Portugal. We will not charge M. Guizot with be traying the dynasty be serves and driving it to its ruin. That is there own look out. But, being attentive spectators of events which crowd upon us, we find the history of the future written beforehand in that of the past. and, instead of seeking to predict, we contioe ourselves to narra•:e. When foreigners attempted to interfere in the intestine struggles of France, their intervention was fatal to royalty. When French royalty intervened in the intestine struggles of Spain it lost itself. The road to Madrid brought Charles X, to Cherbeurg. Has M. Guizot inquired whither leads the road to Lisbon ?' The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Saturday at 791. 15e. ; the Five per Cents., 1171 25c.; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,2651.; Rouen, 9731. 75e. ; Havre, 6621. 50e.; Great Northern, 6071: 50e.; Avignon, 747 t. 50e. ; Vierzon, 596 f. 25c.; Bordeaux, 5081. 75c. ; Boulogne, 405 f.; Basle, 190 f.; Dieppe, 317 f. 50c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 4271. 50c. ; Tours and Nantes, 413 f. 75c. ; Paris and Lyons, 4401 ; Cette, 4471. 50c.; Spanish Passives, 4%. LYONS, JUNE 3.—Paris and Rouen, 960 f. ; Avignon and Marseilles, 7561: 25c. ; Northern, 610 f. ; Paris and 1y0u5,4351. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JuNa 5. Ditto. 4 per, Cent .. .. • • T;ltto. for the Account .• • .. 32 uss,i4n nonds 11l .• _ lU•,i~k S;,an,s - , 1 , ...tt3. 5 per I %tat .. .. 22 21:4 21N oiti,. 11:rce ror Vent .. .. .. 33 , i, % 33% Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent .. .. 38k, 38% I::viAlentLa on the above payable in London. Belgian Four-and-a-Halt per Cent .. . .. Liao, Two-and-a-Half per Ceut .. 52% 52% Dut,n Two-id - id-a-Hall per Cent .. 58%% 5S Ditto. I per Cent. Certificates .. 89% 84% Ditto, Bonds .. • • • . • • .. 89% PRICES OF BITSTNESS CLOSING PAH). DON F. AT PRICEs RAILWAY SHARES. ONE O'CLOCK. Aberdeen.. .. .. .. .. .. 35 .... .• .. • • .... 297 Amber., Netting., Reston, and _ _ ... Eastern Junctioft .. 2%.... 1%.. •• . . Caledonian 35 .... 29 .... • • 29 Eastern Counties .. .. 20 .... 19% ...... • • 19% Do. t'erpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1.61 139. 4d. %P••• • • • •• % P Ditto, ditto.. .. .. No. 2. 61. /3s. 4d. . • 1 ,4 t, Ditto, York Extension 7%..,. 6 % •• •• •• •• 6M East Lincolnshire 61,4.... i ••••• • • • • Edinburgh atin troggow 50 .. • •••• • • • • Ditto, Quarter Shares • • .. i 2 16 ..... . Ely and Ilinitingdon IS .. 14;4 .. •• . • Great Norther n .• 314 • 2 Do., Loudon & York Extension .... 1;4 Great sc , atiiern & West. (Ireland) 30 .... 23;4 23 Great North of England . ..100 ....232 2:31 231 (It eat Western tift 113 114 114 Ditto, Ilal i Shares 50 .... 67 68 Ditto Quarto' snares .. 12k, .... 1714 % Ditto, cc' ' 41,4 8 Leeds and Thirsk • • .. .. 26 .... •• •• ••• • • • Ditto, I'reiereiiee 6 per Cent. 334 .... 3t. 4 London An. i ;id e s ••• nil .. 14!, lsr. 3d . 714 .. .• • London. Brighton, & ('ca=t 50 •••• 13% .......... 5 Ditto, Guar. -tut. Five per Cent. 9 .... b!f., ••..• • .. • 94, .London 1.0. NOTtil-Western .. ,00 170 175..,,.... 175 Ditto, Quarter." L. and 11. 7 .............. Ti tto ditto, New Shares .. 2 .... 12 .... • • 12 Ditto, 10/. Shares M. & 13. (A) 5 .... 10%.. .•••• .. 10% LOl JllOll and icontn•Western 411. Os. 10d... 65 .. • • ...... 65 Ditto, New Consol. Eighths .. 40 .... .. • • .... •• 47 Ditto, Tenths (Consolidated) •• 50 55 51;4 •• •• •• 54 Lynn and Ely .. .. 25 .... 25!4 .. 24 Lynn and Dereharn .. •• 20 .... 195x4 ••••• • . . • • 18; 4 Manebester and Leeds • ........ Ditto, Fifths .. .... 8% • • 8 ;•,., Ditto, Thirds (!teg.).. • 45..... % % di, Manchester ,old southarnpton 2 .... 44, .. ....... 'Slidland .. —lOO ....119 118_y ....... 118 t A , Ditto, New ~ 36 .• .. 39 1 40 ..... • 40 Ditto, New „ 6 .... tsji,% 9 8 .. 8 • Ditto Birmingham and Derby 100 .... 93 .......... 93 Newcastle and Berwick .. -.. 20 .... •:•• • :: Nortt.lk —lOO ....12G 127 .... 127 Ditto, Extension .. .. 10 .... .. 10 `Sol - them Countie3 Union .. .. 4 .... . North British ••' .. • • •• 2) .• .. 31% ... .... 31g Ditto, Half Shares .. .. • • 12% •• -- .. •• • • .... 15; F Ditto, Thirds .. .. 2% North Staffordshire .. .. —7% .. • • 93 rk it ••• • • • 9., Preston and Wyre— .. .. .. 25 .... ........ 36M Scottish central .. .. . • • 171, 2 .... 24% ........ • • 24 k I Shrewsbury and iinniancharn .. 3N .... 3 !,i 3.• • • .... 3 Ditto. Class B .. • • • • • • 3 .... 2 .... —..— '44 • , ,,.tith W.les .. .. . • • . .. 10 .... 7L, .... ••. • • • 7 West Riding Union .. •• ..4/.25..... 14 11, di; York and Newcastle2s .... 371 , 2 37 .... • • 37 Ditto, Preference 4 .... 6 , 4 % ...... • • 6% Ditto, Extension.. 25 .... 42 ••••• • .. • • 42 Do. E. and W. Hiding Eaten • • 10 •• • .. •••. .. • • 20 FOREIGN' ltA Namur and Liege .. 10 ... 377 Northern or France .• •• 8 ..... li% 11% Paris an:l Lyons 8 5 IA JOINT-ST(I(X' BANKS. Colonial .. .. • • • • •• 25 .... 1514 .. •••• • • • • 151 London Joint• Stock 1(1 lti ►a Union of London .. 10 ...... 12k Rost del Monte, Utireaistered 314 • 3 HA MBURGH and FLANDERS MAIL. SURICP.,--BELGIU M . MAY 30.—A most fearful thundm • storm visited tee COMMUIIe of Surice and its environs or. the 29 h, at 5 o'elcck in the evening. Masses of dyes, clouds • travereed the bore et fren west to east, with astouishing rapidity, accumiteee.d by vielent cl a p s w ;launder . which seemed to rend the neavens, and vivid flashes of lightning darted across the sky, suddenly al wes soil, which cawed the great( st alarm among the in habitants, when ateeit half pest ix, torrente 01 rain ae completely inundated Surice and its environs that it was literally converted into, a vast lake, The wind was s, fearfully high that many a, the largest tiers were up rooted, the houses were unroofed, aid every window broken, and enoerrous masses eud large branches el trees were carried througla the air. Such was the vio lence of the wind, that it even cuinpell,d the carriage al tog the streets, the losses sir,tained in the country e. immense.. ,Te e crops have :mitered exceedingly. Seve ral places were completely deetroy, d, and the fine pro wising wardens are converted into !eine. 'these revagi seem the more deplorable at the very moment when ail are linking forwent to an abundent tartest. The cot' sternteion of the inhabiter' , s is very great, and et et those who are little acenstornael to recognise the soveleig power of Ged are humfaling themselves in prayer. The appioeching 4 lec.i n in Belgium givcs rise e continued pelereies delet?, the last few days in the vari elm journals. The Ministerial press cornhata the nee- cation of the libtra!s with great violvece, if we may judge from the article published in the Courrier d' Anvers BAVARIA. MUNICH. • MAY 29.—We learn from an an themes quarter, that soon after the opening of u Bruchausen baths, it is , he intention of his Majesty to make a stay or several weeks there. VIENNA, MAY 29.—Yesterday the Court left the capital for the summer palace of Schonbrunn. Accounts from Parma seve, that her Royal Hiehne , e. the Archduchess Maria Louisa will not come tail tea 11th of June. We regret to state that the prevailing sickness still continues here ; all our hospitals are sn full, te , at command of his Majesty, two large private lantves have been hired for the nception of the si,k. The prevailing disorder among the military is fever. FOREIGN C(..)11N 'MARKETS. BRUSSELS. JUNE 4.—At th., Antwerp market this .day, while there is a general tali in all the markets it, the country, scone. speculators sin er.d the report that the stock of corn in the hands of our farmer:, was almost exhausted, in order to maintain the high prie,s. Their objet was however frustrate4i ; as the falsity of the report was but, too evident. Every week brings us in creasing supplies of con), and on tifft day, our nntiket were even better stocked than heretofore. Rye, csre cially, was more abundant than it hies been for a who!, year, prices did nit however fluctuate much. Wheat was sold by the sack at 32 10 per hectolitre, and rye a: 23 to 25. There was a good supply of oats which fel 50 cents. per hectolitre. Everything that was effeeed for sale found ready purchasers. As new crop of PotiL• toes is now brought in increasing large q to market, there is a decrease in the supply of the old stock, which has, in consequence, risen about a franc per sack. The price of butter fell 9 OA' hitt'es. DORDRECHT, JUNE 3.—The fat ie other markets ha, also caused a reaction here in spite of the small erriva!s Wheat fell 50 cents., winter barley 70 cents., and suns tcer barley 60 ents. HAMBUKOH BORSENHALLE, JUNE 4. Bills. Money. !Lesbian 5 per Cents .. • 107 Bank Shares •• •• •• •• •• ••• • • • ...... 1590 -- Anglo-Russian Loan .. ••••••••• • • • .. I 0% lON Russian 5 per Cant., 'lamb. Certificate. 102 101•34 Ditto Ist series Inscription .• 102% Ditto, /lope and Co., it and 4th series.. 97'4 Ditto, in Certificate.. ••••••• • • • • • • • 98 93 New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. •• •• • • 884 Sg Ditto Stieglitz . • . ......... 'BB 60; Spanish New 5 per Cent •• • • •• • ... 6% 16% Ditto 3 per G'ent ••••••••• • • • • • • • • '2B Anglo-Port liguese Loan, 2% per Cc' It •. Dutch Actual bent, 2 1 4 per ... • • 57% liltt 0 .-1 per cent. .... • • • • - Polish New 4 per Cent. '4 - i:in, 1814. • 771( Anglo-It:wish Loan. 3 per Cein. 83 National Bank Shares.. • • BELGIAN FUNDS -ISRCi,ELS, JUNE 5. Actual Debt, 2i per Cent • • •••• • • • • • Rothsehil'l's Loan, Fire der Cent •••• •• •• - Loan or Thirty Millions, Four pereent -• • • Ditto Three per Cent •••.• • • • • ..... • • Ditto Thirty-seven Millions. ditto •.• • • • 840 • • •••••••• • • •• • • • • .• • 100% - • •• • • ••• ••• .• • • • 100 ti Ditto, 1838 , • • • • • .. 68,7 i Ditto ot the. City, 1832 • • • • • • • • . • • ..... Itank or Belgium ••-• • • • ••- •••••• •• .. -Brussels l'aPers. Julie 6. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, MAY 29. 5 per Cent. NI eta11ique5.......... 106 W 4 per t7ent. tiltto• ••••••••••••• • • • • • • • • •• 91 3 per Cent. dttto•• •••• •• •... •• •••••• •• •• 68% Loan, 1834. 154 Ditto, 1839 •• .• •• .• •• •• •••• •• •• •• •• li9 Batik Shares .. •........... ........... 1596 Es wheel's Loan .......... RAILWAYS. The Northern, or Ferdinand .......... trs% Vienna—Milan ............. •• •• •• 109% Leghorn .• •••••••• •• •• •••• •• •• •••• •• •• 87 1( Sienna •• •• •• •• .• •• •• •• •• •• •••• 71 1 4 Orosetto •• • •• •• • •• •• .• •• •• •• •• 96 Oldenburg •• .• •• Pest Oa .• .............. •• Pestli Brik'e .. •• • • ••••••.•• • • • • • •• Apennine!, • PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BaRLIN, JUNE 2. Bills. Money. St.Schuld Sch., 3% per Cent .• • • ••• • • Pruss. English Bonds, 1830,4 per Cent.... •• Foreign Exchanges .. Exchamze on London, .£1 Sterling, 3 Months. 6 21% SURREY THEATRE. TO Tllb. hDITOR 7.1111 SUN. SIR,—A ktaterneu t havir ' r appear( el in your paper that the r oo f of the titirr,y - Tto tare h:.s beer injured by the fire which ciolc place at. the tay.rn I ()join ing, this morning, I .hull n 1 obliged by your corn wing the error into which your reporter hai fallen. Neither the roof, nor any other portion or the theatre having sustained the slightest damage, and, consequently, the performances proceeding as usual. • Your nhe'lient servant, J. KERSCHNER. Aging Manager. Royal Surrey 'rbeatre. Ju , t , 7, 181.7. LLANELLY RAILWAY and DOCK COMPANY. The annual meeting of the proprietors of this ccm pany was held yesterday, at their offices, 9, OM J owry . chambers. City, but reporters were not. adtnitterl, the reason assigned being that matters were to b.! dtscuihed which were not intemb.d for publication. LORD CASTLEREAGII'S TRAVELS. —We are re quested se 3 u l ;,. C o lburntill..ug 11,:'$;1189>ttl,114N12:i.:1,u6Alircatial qu A est j e o d ur t n o e ;t t a o te p t , post Bvt-., ustra wt t name. ous Petrcea, Palestine, and Syria, bytelrdiciotitrt Castlereagh, M.P., in two vols, En gravings, e 'r from original drawings t.kon on th e spot. jr Ul v h i nril has a's., just published the Tenth V o l ume of Miss Strickland's " Lives of the Queens of England:" anti, 3, " Memoirs of Lids , Sundon, and of the Court of Queen Ca roline, Consort of i;eo,ge II.," by M rs . Th omson, two post five., with Portraits. CONTINENTAL COMMUNICATION.— The South- Eastern and Continental ;Steam-packet Company's steam ship the Lord Wmrleti let Folkestone for Boulogne on Friday, at 1.5 0 , P lt, with fifty passengers ; and the Prin cess Helena arrived at Folkt•wone truin B ulogn e a t '3.35 P.m. THE LATE FIRE AT ,VIESSRS. MAUD , LAY AND FIELD'S FACT itN. —Or; :,,:ttril4y mortlir,g the tollowlog notice was ex hibAed ;cy the t ntrahee give .—•6 in eoilsupolte, of the coulto..-d Gate +•f the tii.thulaetorv, the following wo rk he are Hammed that tt-u•ir s rvice-: • will not be roquiieo until nine o'cioek un listi 1• in , .rni .g;—Carpenters, vice toe,, turner., In on. moulders, bras fow l ie titters. punching 6hop men, fireman whose torges are n•'irjitreti. tie whole of the yard labourers. tireettt•and moulders, boilermakers, and ilatteuert will not, be required 412 Monday." COURT CIRCULAR. Her Royal Dii n: visited the Queen and Prince Ebert yertekddv, at Bcckit,gham Palace, and remained to luncheon will bcr 31+stY and his Royal Highness. Lord John Russell had an audience of her Majesty yesterday. The Queen took an airing in an open carriage an d four yesterday, attended by her ,Lady in Waiting. the Viscountess Jocelyn. Lord Alfred Paget (Clerk Mar shal) Equerry in Wahine, attended on horseback. - His Loyal Highness Prince Albert rode out'on horse back yesterday, attended by his Equerry in Waiting. Their Royal Highnesses the Princess Alice and the Princess Helena, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelion, took an airing yesterday in an open carriage and four. ils Koval Highness Prince Albert visited her Roy al INA nese the iheliess of Kent yesterday at her residence, Clarence o Huse din , St. James's. The ro)diner p:.rty at Buckingham Palace yester" day, included her Royal Highness the Duchess es Kent, his serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen. Lady Augusta Bruce, Baroness de Speth, Lady Alfred Pager, Viscount Jocelyn, M r . G. E. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, end Sir George Courer. The band of the Scots Fusilier Guards was in attend ance during dinner. Her Alejest . i's private band afterwards attended in the Palace. His Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen visits to her M,jesty the Queen alwager yesterday, Aarlborougn Reuse ; to h e r Royal Ilighness vie to Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester House ; ea d , their Royal Highnesses th e D u k e a nd Duchess of t' a-- :ridge, at Cambridge House. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty the Queen 1)o eager . yesterday, and al,:o her, ileyal Highness the Dache, , s of Gloucester. The Rripr Duchess fej.il a visit to the D u ke a nd Duchess of val" hridge, at Cambridge House. Prince William of Hesse Philippsthal arrived at steel rough House, Pall-mall, at twelve o'clock Yell er — . ore lay, from the C on t ineu t, on a v i s i t to her Majesty - . , Queen Dowager. His Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Consta nti n % of Russia, attended by his suite, honoured the 4 16111 7i 0 • ,nd Marchioness of Lond un d err with his conW an Y dinner yesterday at Holderness 1-louse. The biarchtoaess Londonderry had afterwards an evening party. Of Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Dneh e93 Cambridge, attended by L a dy A ugu sta Cadogs n an a t Baron Knt-sebeck, honoured the Austrian Ambits° ind the Count ess Di e t r i e h ste i n w i t h th e ir company, a dinner,esteda eirenin Gr and Their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Duke and Grand Duchess of Saxe Wtim' r the Duke and Du c h ess o f C am bridge, at Ca ni ; -ridge Hous e , an d t h e D uc h ess - o f Gloucester, ad Gloucester-house. Yesterd a y the Hereditary Gr t n he Duke visited and inspected St. Paul's Cathedral. spi n , fternoon his Royal Highness, arcomnanied Ira William of Philippsthal, and attended by Earl Howe Baino count de Beast, went to the House of Lords , and • tiseratted the new Palace at Westminster. mi n isteri Count Schimrnelpeenincli, the Ne:herlands visited Viscount Palmerston yesterday, at the uffie n ~h? Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Mr. Thornton transacted business at the Foreign. office on Friday. es- Earl Cathcart had an interview with Earl Grey 1- erday at the Celoeial-office. Mr. Welman hal an interview with Sir Georg e Grey ;esterday at the Hone-office. famine, with all its attendant evils, will be driven ! from our shores. Happily, too, this year a greater portion of the sail than heretofore has been devoted to cereal products, and there has been a corresponding diminution in the quantity applied to the growth of the potato. The class of persons, too, by whom it has been planted are those who will be better enabled to bear the loss, and who can more readily provide a substitute in the in fected fields. For these reasons, therefore, there is little cause to dread a repetition of the har rowing scenes of the past and of the early part of the present year. We can depend on the energies of our countrymen, when fully apprised of the nature, extent, and character of the emergency they have to encounter and the diffulties they have to overcome. The real evil is generay fearfully aggravated by any undue panic; that should chiefly be avoided. There is not the slightest occa sion for any such fear; we are no longer dealing with a secret and it sidious foe; we know his strength ; let us nerve ourselves for the contest ; let us not cast away a chance from apathy or negligence, but boldly and manfully face the danger, and there can he no doubt of the final success of our efforts. In the meantime we trust that the Agricultural Improve ment Society will continue to instruct the public as to the course to be adopted, and that all competent persons will furnish the result of their investigations. A letter from Hamburgh dated the 29th ult. states that the dearth of provisions has occasioned a frequent interchange of notes between the states composing the German Customs Union, and that delegates are named to meet in congress at Berlin, to agree upon new re gulations, and a new tariff of duties upon corn and the other necessaries of life. The Treaty of Commerce and Navigation be tween Naples and Prussia, acting in the name of the Zollverein, which was concluded the 27th January last, has just been ratified. It establishes perfect reciprocity, and enacts, first, that merchandise ' and products coming from Prussia and the states of the Zollverein shall pay 10 per cent. less than the merchandise and products coming from other states now pay according to the Neapolitan tariff; and next, that Prussia engages itself to obtain the consent of the Zollverein to the importation of oil in casks to the states of the Zollverein at 20 per cent. less than it pays at present. A letter from Rome of the 221 ult. says— " I should in vain attempt to tell you the painful effect caused here by the intelkence of the death of the Li berator of Ireland, Mr. O'Connell. From the Sovereign Pontiff himself down to the lowest inhabitant (1 the Queen City, all hearts are profoundly sad. On 15th June a solemn mass of requiem will be celebrated in one of the principal churches of Rome, and the first of Italian preachers, the Rev. Father Ventura, will pronounce the funeral oration of the great man who has rendered so many Pervices to the Catholic world. The heart of O'Connell is now placed in the ancient church of St. Agatha, which is served by the priests of the Irish College. They are to celebrate a solemn service for the illustrious deceased next Monday, and it will be the friend of O'Connell, the veherable Dr. Cullen, superior of this pious and learned community who will officiate " . _ _ . Cardinal AIICARA, Dean of the Sacred College, died on the 24th ult., at the age of seventy-two. Madrid papers of the 30th and 31st ult. have been received. M. BnuNELLT, the Pope's Nuncio, arrived in Madrid on the 29th. Senor PACHECO has given his sanction to the pro tocol agreed to in London between the representa tives of the four powers, authorising intervention in Portugal. Count MELLo, it was reported, had separated him self from SA DA BANDEIEA, and retired towards the Spanish frontier, where he was organizing a force for the renewal of hostilities. The rumour of the restoration of ESPARTERO to all his honours has been revived. MADRID, Burs,►, MAY 31.—The Three per Cents. were done at 294 for cash ; the Four per Cents. at 18 ; the Five per Cents. at 181 ; the Debt without Interest at 51; and the Coupons at 15. We have received the Paris papers of Friday and Saturday. The affair of the Chamber of Peers and of M. EMILE DE GIE.AnniN is the great subject of comment. The nature of the charge made by M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN, and for the bringing of which M. DE Powrots moved that be be summoned to the bar of the Chamber, ap pears from the following article in the Coma tutionnel "It is this day that the Chamber of Deputies will examine in the bureaux the decision by which the Chamber of Peers has summoned to its bar M. de Girardin, Deputy, the respon sible editor of the Presse. Before according or refusing the authorisation to proceed against that gentleman, the Cham ber of Deputies ought to be informed of all the facts which may affect its vote. The Chamber is guardian of the in violability of all its Members, and oug,t not on slight grounds to deliver them up to any tribunal whatever. The higher the tribunal which summons a Deptvy to its bar, the more circumspection ought the Chamber of Deputies to exercise in the previous examination which it makes of the case. This is the state of the question. The Presse as serted that the Epoque had existed by the traffic of promises of peerages, which were sold for 80,000 f each. It was asked in the Chamber of Peers whether that could be considered an insult to the Chamber, and whether consequerely, art. 15 of the law of March 25,1822, was applicatie. It is certain that there is something otheure, and which ought to be cleared up, in the assertion of the Presse. If we are well informed, M. E. de Girardin said on Thursday in the Chamber, in the midst of a numerous group of his colleagues, that he had in his possession proof that a sum of 80,000 f. had been paid ,nt, the office of the _Epoque, in exchange for the promise of a peerage—such promise being besides made with the knowledge of a Aliniste, I However the individuals who treated with the Epoque did not, it appears, obtain a return fur their sacrifice, the complete execution of their bargain, since they were not afterwafds-en , minated peers. It the facts have passed in that Way—it M. E. de Girardia can give proofs of it, or even if thole are strong presumptions in favour of his allegation, it is impo-.sible that the Chamber ~t D: nnies can authorise the proceedings. In fact-Ist, the consideration of the Chamber of Peers is not involved in the question, since no:Le of its Illhinhers is designated, even in directly by the journalist; 2dly, the true culprit, in that hypatliesi, is the Minister who was aware of the shameful bargain, and not the journalist whodenounced it. If it is true that a journal was able to sell ptivil , ges of theatres, titles of nobility, premises of peerages, &c., the offence consists in having authorised such bargains, and not in revealing them to the world. We can ' therefore, only c ons id er t h e resolution of the Chamber of Peers as the beginning of an investigation. The Chamber of Deputies has the matter now before it, and it has a right to interrogate that one of its members who is concerned in the matter, and to arrive at the truth." From a long article in the Presse we quote the following : "Did the Presse say that the peerage has in its ranks peers who have ourehtised their nomination by money ? No; the rresse said 'nothing of the kind ; it only said that pro mises of the peerage were sold for 80,0001. I It said nothing more. The Chamber of Peers admits the peers, but does not nominate them ; and it only admits them atter an investiga tion into their litres and conduct. Thu.:, as Vice-pre,ident Willie and M. C. Dupin justly observed yesterday, in no case can the enunciation of the Press. be considered as ad dressing itself to the Chamber of Peers. Far from seeing in that enunciation an offence, the p.erage, on the contrary, should have considered it as the cry of a sentinel watct ing over its honour, especially when it. was uttered by the only journal which has constantly defended it." After alluding to some analogous cases iu which st different course was pursued, the Preve says— " Would net M. de Girardin, as a deputy, have had the right, in the sittieg of the llth February, to ascend the tri bune after M. Gustave de Beaumont, and to say : The lion. Gentle - min who has just en umerated several teas relative to the publication of a journal has declared to you that lie would not add others because the Chamber is too much fatigued. Let me, however, add one: a promise of the peerage has been made to a person worthy in every respect to be promoted to that dignhy but that promise was made on the coralition that he would assure the prolongation of the existence 4,f a Ministerial journal ab',ut to die, by means of the payment of a sum of 80,000 francs?' Would M. de Girard* in expressing such a feet at the tribune, have been more exposed to be called to order than were M. Dupin and Luneau in speaking of places in the Cour des Comptes sold for money, or than M. Gustave de Beaumont in recount ing how much the concession of a certain privilege for a theatre had brought to the cash-box of a certain journal? Would not M. de Girardin have been in the pleni:ude of his right? Assuredly. Explain then how a fact, which he would have been allowed to declare at the tribune without being called to order, can transform itself into an offence, because he printed it before saying it, instead of saying it before he printed it ? The Chamber of Peers, which at first had only tile desire to enlighten itself with respect to a fact, when once on the incline, allowed itself to follow without clearly perceiving it, the attraction of an unreflecting sus ceptibility. That is what will certainly be shown to it by the discussion which cannot fail to take place at the ibune of the Chamber of Deputies, which M. de Girardin is impa tient to ascend, not to excuse himself; but to reject indig nantly the offence done to his character, his principles, and his convictions, by those who have supposed that he could have for one single moment the intention to cause the slightest iejury to the consideration of the peerage and of its members." ' On Saturday the Chamber of Deputies met in the Bureaux, to appoint a comm ittee to decide on the ex pediency of acceding to the request of the Chamber of Peers for the appearance of M. EMILE DE GIRARDIN at their bar. In the first bureaux M. DE GIRARDIN declared that he intended no disrespect to the Peerage, his only object being to unmask the Ministry. The Committee chosen consisted of MM. PAILLET, LEON DE MALEVILLE, LAVELLE, MARRY, GILLON, DELANGLE, ST. AIGNAN, COE STORE, and D'HAUSONVILLE. Of the-e all, except the two first, have declared that the request of the Chamber of Peen; should be granted. The Journal des Deba:s has a long article demon strating the necessity of the immediate adoption of SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTEItSALL'S-I'f- STEBDAY. a le The Ascot ,ettling, sltb,ugh on a much smaller than u%iiat, wai to 4 at all satt,factory, money haring boreeo uncommonly scarce, and complaints frequent- I t ea t Aso a mat ter of r.orpri-e and comment th at se': 04 of whose abili-y to pay, no doubt is en tertain ‘re still in ar7ear for the Derby—exp osu re is threaten ed.o rhe betting, ye,terday, commenced late, and e%e c i P t oo d wo or thme of the leading favourites •or the Goo"'N„t, '`up and Doncast e r St. Leger , was of no great inter-- rile last quota ions were as follows NORTHUMBERLAND PLATS. 6 to 1 agst L , ,rd Glssgow's Conspiracy 12 to 1 .gst Mr. S. L. Fox's Executor 12 to 1 ag4t I.lr. Meiklant's Inheritress 12 to 1 ug , ,t . r. Clermont. GOODWooD CUP. 10 to 3 atist Mr. John Dtiy',.Thr Hero 4 yr 4. 9 ' l 61 " 1b agst to 1 ast Mr. G. H. Moore's Wolf-dog, 5 yrs, 9i lll —taCen 111 b • 10 to 1 agst Sir J. Hawley's Mendiclnt, 4 yrg , 12 to 1 agst Lord Er ltuss. ‘r ll's Sting, 4 vrs , 9,tn ob 12 to 1 agst•L.rd E. gossell's Ditlet-t, 5 yrs, 1 "j 1 : 1 .- 0 • 12-to 1 agst. Mr. Aurnont.'s Ft4z Einilius (bre R, 5 ys, ist Ib --taen 15 to 1 a ance ., ,) w.t Mr. r Issauc s D k ay's Sir Tatton Sykes, 4 Y rs ' • 9st 3lb 20 to 1 agst - Mr. Whaley's Burgundy, 4 yrs, 9,t 1”' 41 20 to 1 agst Duke of Ri. hi:pond's Halo, 3 yrs, 7st b--- taken 20 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Eryx, 3 yrs, 7st 411)--tS t 20 to 1 agq Mr. Gully's Mathematician , 3 yrs, " 131 b—taken 25 to 1 ugst Sir J. Gerard'A Grimston, 4 yrs, 9st 31b ---t• 3 to 1 agst Mr. Pt , dley's Coss :clc—t. and aft. offered 6to 1 apt Lord Eglinton's Van Tromp—do. do. do' 11 to 1 (IRA Mr. Mostyn's Mr Martin—do. do. do. 12 to 1 -11.?..5t Mr. Etsihry', Foreclosure—do. ( 10 do. 17 to 1 ago Mr. St, ph-ttson's 111,c1C DA-Arf—t:ikOn 20 to 1 agst. - Duke of Maroon l's Itedlisrt—taken an d aftrrwar s offered 30 to 1 ,14-t Mr. L. Fox's-Executor—t.ken 30 'o I ag,t Mr. Merry's Lim, s7, , ne--!akr.n. 33 to 1 agst Lord Stradbroke's Coningsbv—t. kC aft. off,. 980 to 70. and 12 to 1 to 1001. apt Red Hart, lialo, a nd Lime:tone—taken 500 to 400 on the field agst Cossack, Van Tromp, and Mr. Nlartin—taken 500 t. 400 on the field sgst Cossack, Van Tro m p , and Fureelosuro—talun In consetpunce'of Ham ton Inces, there is not likely to be any attendance at " I he Corner" on Thursday. YORK, 1847. Mr. Collett's Chatterbox agst Mr. Hill's B,t 7.b. One mile; .51'0, h ft. SOU HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE—The Queen • 0 0 , his Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured the perfornattnrty. with their presence on Saturday evening. The roy'al 11 1 ; o f were accompanied by her Royal Highness the Duchel'his Kent, his Royal Highness Prince Oset,r, of Sweden, an suit o Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen. In the roYal,.eiva, were the Duchess of Sutherland, the Vi-countesede Lady Caroline Cocks, Lady Augusta Bruce, the Baroneni_r_ Speth, Hen. Miss M. Paget, Earl Spencer , Viscount P3l Fran, Lord Carrot's, Lord Alfred Paget, Lord George Lel,nrnii"ers Colonel Druminoed, and the I Captain Gordon- t he were also present hi- Hovel High,ess Prince George. v Duke of Wellington, the Duke and Duchess of Montrose, 114 Duke of Leed4, the Duchess of Semerset , his E xcelleac Russian Minister, the Baroness Drummer and Manchu ilex , Olgar de Lechner, the Marquis and Marchioness of bury, the Marquis of Denegal, the Marquis, of IN or j i e ter, the Marquis of Huntley, the Marquis of Granby, the Marchioness of Clanricarde and Lady Emily De Burg h. tarquia of Sligo, the Marc:Moue:4S of Blandford, the 11141 0 of Douro, the Earl of Falmouth. the Countess of Bless,i"e'j - o f and the Misses Power, the Earl of C a rdigan, the 1 0 ,-% Munster, the Earl and Countess o: Wilt on . t h e Earl of va hp housie, the Countess of Powis and Lela , Lucy H er bert. Earl of Bee tive, the Earl of Grenville, hi s Excellency t'; Sardinian Minister, the Swedish Chargé d'Affaires, Vi.aa'" : n : Cantilupe, Viscount Can.erbury, Viscount Somertoe, j t 5 • count (Alden, Viscount Ratielagh, Lord Brougham, Lei' Adolphus Fitzclarence, Lady Brougham, Lady Fitzroy ?. Trimelston, Lord Ly merset and Miss Somerset, Lady F o ulis, Lady Ahinger' Lord Gardiner, Lord and Lad ton, Lord F, 'rester, Lady . leux, Lady Smyth, " tth - La' l ): Clay, Lady Wilmot, Sir Geor ge and L a d y Painter, D'Orsay, 'Hon. J. Macdonald, Hon. G. S. Byng, Sir IL WIN loughby, Sir Arthur Clifton, Sir Willi am `Massey Stuty l ; Colonel :Myrick, Colquel T. Wood, Major Baring. 01 ,i Martin, M.P., and Mrs. Martin; Mr. Huthon, M•P. , Mrs. Hudson; Mr. Packe, M.P., M. C. de Koudriatnky, Mr. B. Baldwin, ALP., &c. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.—The Queen Dowager; her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, his Irnperi l U. Highness the Grand Duke Censtant ;ne of Russia, and their Serene Highnesses 'he Heredita r y Grand Duk . and" Grat., , Duchess of Saxe Weimar, honoured the Royal Italian Opera' Covent-garden, with their presence on Saturday evening: The Queen D o wager was attended by the Earl and Courit,es.i. Howe, the Hon. Miss Seymour. the countess Brownlow. &el neral Sir Andrew Barnard , the Hon. Mr. Ashley, Co.lone Cornewall ; her Royal Highness the Duchess of dam br_a'le:, by Captain Mildmay ; his Imperial Highness the Constantine, by Admiral Lutke and Rear-Admiral a, and Heyden ; their Serene Highnesses the Grand Duk_,,s. Grand Duchess of Saxe Weimar, by the Countess a .A.7: 10 burg, Baron Brunt, and Baron Zigezar. There were present the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort A nd s od Blanche Somerset, the Duke and Duchess of Cleveland to Lady Augusta Poulett, the Marquis of Winchester , 151 ,,1 of 'of Douglas Marquis and Marchioness of Douro, the , 01 : 1 of Liverpool, Earl of Strathmore, Earl of Zetland, the Da',d Euston, Count Potochay, Viscount Viscoun t f ;;s, Lady Maria Alford, Viscount Templet o wn, Viscount C A li Dadf Lord F. and Lady Caroline L eveson G ower , Lord An" L oy Charles Wellesley, Lord Otho Fitz g erald, Lord an d Lord Blantyre, Lord Earnest Bruce, Lord George Manners,„..ron Midleton, Baron Koller. Baron de Freedericksz, it, Paravicini, the Hon. Sir Edward and Lady Butler , 11° 1‘iy. , Carew, M.P., Hon. F. Byron Hon. Henry Liddell, wy Hon. Henry Yo r k e , H on . john Fortescue, Hen. Fitzroy, Hon. Geoffrey Browne, Hon. Miss Copley , L a dy N. E. Grant. Hon. Colonel, Mrs. and Miss Fitzgibbon , ~,r e y Antrobus, Sir Henry Paulet, Sir R. I3lussa, Sir -Vit.. Shelley, Sir Henry % Sir William de Bathe, Sir La dy iiam Slassev Stanley, L a dy J o d r ell, L u dy iNl a cfarlane. a std Scott, Sir Peregrine and the Misses Aeland, Sir W• Sir Lady Moltsworth. Sir John and Lads. Yarde A ban. John and Lady Campbell, Sir Philip Broke , S ir Ir. Ton. Vyvvan, Sir Hebert.Bruwitrigg, Sir Jasper and Lad,' F., , on, Sit. Thomas Wiiiningtos, Mr. George Mr. Henry Baring, M.P., Lady Pollock, Mr .H gr. M.P., Mr. W. 11 il s h e re, M.P., and Mrs. Wilshere, John Dennistoun V • 9 andP Mrs. Dennistoun, Mr. on, ...‘ M.P., &c. cade nt ALARMING AccIDENT.—A most frightful >•cc took place on Saturday rimming, attended, we are ar Icf with loss of life, as not the s!ightest hopes are entertraeianke be, the coachman, who was thrown fro m the box of a b longing to Mr. Barnes, the j,,b master of Oxfordoa,..,, re While driving the break through iaivendish-square, •n.uty, pair of free!' horsea, the horses stinted off, became quit e„,o, manageable, ran the break on th e p avement just baT the sh;el Thomson'a Hotel; the wheel cam e in contact ~ettn hors-- lamppost, threw the driver wit h yio'ent force, thew, ' both starting off with the poll till they die. rigagc u . orie of selves by both falling at the end of Henrietta etreeitirame. them, starting up at a nest turiaus rate, ran dovi r .:','4, t it cloen t:o t : e ie een la N n .e i a l, r i , n o t f itzi . i!:g w by, much bruPed; be horse was almost immediatel... be that it dot l'ivitilicahnishteakketniliki;:od adts'‘t%aillilaeria'clris"s„).,petl by the stableman, -Ithongli so much cut about oit ol'a lithe vain, it. the owie.r. The other puree was - secured without much damage. It is moat d n!.!`'Close Harley-street by a cabman half cnssing the road public satety to aliuw young norses to be exta ci • d t" a neighbourhood. • of the v 00C • We regret to state that Dr. Wtitie. _ vet ou ght district surgeons, died yesterday trot.? _typhus .to in the dicharge of his protenaional duties.-Zitterrwrm i,otaz oc.l„,•,:i3ses '