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NEW IVORY Just T'Alt AETHOR OFols. " RICHARD SAYAGE." Zce. ready, in 3 v, SMILES AND TEARS; Or, THE ROMANCE OF LIFE. BY CHARLES WHITEHEAD, Author of " Richard Savage," &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. LAST NIGHT BEFORE EASTER. Ok SATURDAY EVENING, March 27. will be revived (first time this season) Verdi's Opera, Mdme. Castellan ; Giovanna, Mdme. Solari ; Don Carlos, Sig. Superchi ; Ituy-Gomez, Sig. Bouche ; Ernani, Sig. Frasehini. Between the acts of the Opera, a Divertisement from the Ballet of CORALIA, in which will be intro d u ced the admired Pas de la Rosiere, by Mdlle. Marie Taglioni. To conclude with a new Ballet, in Two Tableaux, by M. Paul Tag lima, the music by Signor Pugni, entitled TIIEA ; OU, LA FEE AUX FLEURS. Principal characters by Mdlle. C. Rosati, Mdlle. Marie Taglionl, AI. Paul Taglioni, &c. The doors open at Seven. The Opera to commence at Half-past Seven o'clock. _ . BOYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT GARDEN, Established for the purpose of rendering a more perfect performance efthe Lyric Drama than has hitherto been attained in this country. tinder the Direction and Management of Mr. BEALE. The Nobility. Gentry, and Patrons of Music, are respectftilly In tbrmed that the Royal Italian Opera will open the first week in April. It is proposed to produce, in the course of the Season, some of the established works of Cimarosa, Mozart, Rossini, Meyerbeer, and others of the more modern Italian School, including Operas by Belliui, Doni settl, Mercadante, and Verdi, on a scale of the utmost perfect , on in very department ; to which intent the management has assembled a emPany embracing the greatest and most varied talent in Europe. PRIMI SOPRANI.—Madame Grisi and Madame Persian! (her Irst appearance in London for three years), Madame Ronconi and Mdlle. Steffanoni (of the Theatre La Scala, in Milan, her first ap pearance In this country). CONTRALTL—Signora Alboni cof the Theatre La Scala, Milan, Ind of the Imperial Theatre in Vienna, her first appearance in this Itoautry), and Mademoiselle Corbari. TENORL—Signor Mario, Signor Salvator Lavia (of the Imperial theatre of St. Petersburgh, his first appearance in this country), Signer Tull! (of the Theatre San Carlo, in Naples, his first appear ance in this country), and Signor Salvi (ot the Theatre La Scala, in /Clan, and of the Imperial Theatres in Vienna and St. Petersburgh, WA first appearance on the Italian stage in England). PRIMI BASSI BARITONI—Signor Tamburini and Signor Giorgio Ronconi. PRIMI BASSI PROFONDI—Signor Marini (of the Theatres San Carlo, Naples, La Scala, Milan, and the Imperial Theatre, Vienna, his first appearance In this country), Signor Angelo Alba (of the Theatre Royal, Madrid, his first appearance in this country), and Signor Polonini (of the Imperial Theatre, Vienna, his first appear ance in this country.) PRIMI BASSI COMICI —Signor Pietro Ley (of the Theatre Royal Madrid., his first appearance in this country), and Signor Agostino Revere (of the Theatres Royal, Naples, Milan, Vienna, and St. Pe tersburgh, his first appearance in this country). Seconde Donne—Madame Antoinette Mollidori (of the Theatre La Stale, in Milan), Mademoiselle Amalie Linari, Mademoiselle Luigina Beilini. Seconds Tenore—Signor Emmanuele Slano (of the Theatre San Carlo in Naples). Director of the Music, Composer, and Conductor—Mr. Costa. A powerful and numerous CHORUS of chosen and experienced Aingers will complete the Vocal Department. Chorus Mager— Signor Bonconsiglio. Prompter—Signor Monterasi. The ORCHESTRA, formed of Artistes possessing the highest executive powers, will comprise among its members Eighty distin guished professors. The Military Band of the Coldstream Guards will be under the direction of Mr. Godfrey. An ORGAN, of extensive compass, has been expressly erected la the theatre by Messrs. Flight and Son. Organist—Mr. V. Novelle. The BALLET, of a brilliant and costly character, will close the pirformance of the evening, and no Divertissement will be suffered between the acts of the Opera. The Director has the pleasure to Announce that he has concluded an engagement with Mademoiselle Fanny Eissler ; and, during the season, the following eminent Danseusea will appear : —Premieres Danseuse—Mademoiselle Dumi latre (of the Grand Opera, Paris), and Mademoiselle Plunkett (of the Grand Opera, Paris), Mademoiselle Berths (of the Imperial Theatre, Vienna, her first appearance in this country), Mademoiselle Neodot (of the Theatre Royal, Madrid), Mademoiselle Marietta Baderna (of the Theatre La Scala, Milan), and Mademoiselle Fuoco (of the Academie Royale de Paris). Monsieur Petipa (of the Grand Opera, Paris), Monsieur Gentle (of the Theatre Royal, Madrid), Monsieur Ferdlnande Croce, Monsieur Delferier (of the Grand Opera, Paris), and Monsieur Auguste Mabille (of the Grand Opera, Paris). Maitres des Ballets—Monsieur Albert (of the Grand Opera, Paris), and Monsieur Blasis (of the Theatre La Scala, Milan). Leader of the Ballet—Mr. Alfred Mellon. Regisseur de la Dense— Mr. O'Bryan. Compeser—Signor Alessandro Curmi (of the San Carlo Theatre, Naples). THE THEATRE.—To render the Interior at once commodious, elegant, and comfortable, it has bees entirely reconstructed and decorated, under the immediate direction and after designs of S. Albano, Esq., C.E., with every attention directed to its proper ventilation. The Decorations have been executed by Mr. Ponsonby. The Management has happily secured the artistic skill of Signori Ferri and Verardi (of the Theatre Italien, in Paris), to embellish the ceiling and to prepare a New Drop Scene. The approaches to the Theatre will be found improved, by a carriage way being formed immediately under the Portico in Bow-street, whereby parties oxen leave or enter their carriages without exposure to the weather ; and by increased facilities for Ingress and egress. The Refreshment Room will be under the superintendence or Mr. J. G. Watson. Tickets, Stalls, and Boxes, for the night or season, to be obtained at the Box Office, Bow-street ; and at Messrs. Cramer, Beale, and Co.'s, 201, Regent-street. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. W. HARRISON. THIS EVENING . - Will be perfbrmed the Opera-Serie, entitled THE DAUGHTER OF ST. MARK., Lusignano, Mr. Burdini ; Cornaro, Mr. Borrani ; lloneeulgo, Mr. Weiss ; De Courcy, Mr. Harrison ; Catarina Cor naro, Miss Rainforth. After which, A VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT. To conclude with the First and Second Acts of MASANIELLO. Wasaniello, Mr. Harrison ; liphouso, Mr. Rafter ; Elyira, Miss Missent ; Finella, Mdme. Giubilei. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. B. Webster , sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Comedy of SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER. Frineipal characters by Messrs. Farren, Tilbury, Hell, Buckstone, Brindal, Mrs. Glover, Mrs. Buckingham, and Miss Bennett. After which, Planche's new Comic Drama, called WHO'S YOUR FRIEND? or, The Queensberry Fête. Viscount Leatherhead, Mr. Tilbury ; Sir Felix Lovel, Mr. Holl ; Giles Fairland, Mr. Webster ; The Countess of Rosendals, Miss Bennett ; Lady Bab Blazon, Mrs. Glover ; Mittens, Miss Carre. To conclude with the Comic Drama, called THE LIGHT TROOPS OF ST. JAMES'S. Master Thomas Smailbones, Mr. Buckstone ; Maids of Honour to the Queen, Mrs. Clifford, Mrs. Seymour, Mrs. Yarnold, Miss Carre, Miss Telbin, and Mrs. Buckingham ; Jane Roberts, Miss Reynolds. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. Under the Management of Mrs. Keeley. THIS EVENING Will be perfbrrned the Drama of MARTIN CRUZZLEWIT. Young Bailey, Mrs. Keeley; Sairey Gamp, Mr. Keeley ; Pecksniff, Mr. Matthews ; Tigg, Mr. Wigan ; Chuzzlewit, Mr. Emery ; Pinch, Mr. Meadows. After which, the splendid new Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE ENCHANTED FOREST; or, Bear, Eagle, and Dolphin. Principal characters by Mrs. Keeley, Miss Villars, Miss Bromley, :Miss E. Daly, Mrs. Woollidgc, Miss Laidlaw, Miss Howard, Mr. Keeley, Mr. Meadows, Mr. Bender, Mr. Kinloch, Mr. Bellingham, and Mr. Wigan. _ _ To mencluae with MRS. WHITE. Characters by Messrs. Oxberry Turner, Kinloch, Miss Pillars, Miss Arden, and Miss Turner. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. rider the direction of Madame Celeste FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. WRIGHT. THIS EVENING 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 Farce, called THE MOTHER AND CHILD ARE DOING WELL. Characters by Messrs. Lambert, Paul Bedford Worrell, Wright, Mrs. Laws, and Miss Harding. To conclude with the Farce of THE MUMMY. In which Messrs. Lambert, Worrell, Wright, Waye, Ryan, Cullenford, Miss Harding, and Mrs. Matthews will perform. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING Will be pertbrmed Bellies Opera Serie, entitled NORMA. Pellio, Mr. Barker; Oroveso, Mr. Leffler ; Flavius, Mr. Wynn ; Adalgisa, Miss A. Romer; Clotilda, Miss Rourke ; Norma, Miss Bassano. After which, a Concert by the New Orleans ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS. To conclude with the Comedy of THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Principal characters by Messrs. Granby, Ryder, Yin ing, Cowell, Walton, Compton, Miss Flower, Mrs. Stirling, Miss A. Romer, and Mrs. Fosbroke. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. THIS EVENING Will be perforrasl the Vaudeville, entitled MARIAGE AU TAMBOUR. Lambert, M. Lafont ; Fleur des Pois, M. A. Tousez ; Louise d'Obernay, Mdlle. Fargueil. To eonelude with the comic Vaudeville, entitled LE ROI DES FRONTINS. Thomas, M. A. Tousez ; Marinette, Mdlle. Fonquet. Boxes, 6s. , Pit, 3s. 6d. , Stalls, 35.; Gallery, 2s. Doom opened at half-past Seven, and the performances commence at Eight. Private Boxes, Stalls, and Places may be engaged at Mitchell's Library, 33, Bond-street; and at the Box-office. ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. The celebrated ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, Pell, Harrington, White, Stanwood, and Germon, will give their Inimitable ENTER TAINMENTS, at the above Theatre, on SATURDAY, March 27 (being their last appearance before Easter). . . Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Amphitheatre, 2s. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Under the patronage of the Queen, Prince Albert, and other Members of the Royal Family. The public Is respectfully apprized, that the most splendid and effective Wovehies are in preparation for the °petting of the Summer Season, which commences on ExsTrat MONDAY, April 5, when will be presented a gorgeous Equestrian and Dramatic Spectacle, embracing the whole of the extensive rosources of this Establishment. Great care and attention will also be given to the accommodation of the public In each department of the Theatre. THIS EVENING Will be performed Sir Walter Scott's KENILWORTH ; or, The Golden Days of England's Elizabeth. Entire change of the SCENES of the CIRCLE ; and other highly attractive Entertainments. Box•otrite open from eleven till five O'clock.—Doors open at six and cortmexce at half-past six o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. W. Broadfoot. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. . Lessee, Mrs. Frances Da'ridge. THIS EVENING Will be performed NAPOLEON'S GUARD. After which, A DAY AFTER THE FAIR. To be followed by the Drama of GILDEROY To conclude with the new Drama, called RABY RATTLER ; or, The - Progress of a Scamp. Characters supported by the whole Prength of the Company. The Theatre will Re-Open on Easter Monday, with the Perform ance of the REAL BEDOUIN ARABS, twelve in number. Also three new Pieces. 'THE WEATIIMi,.—SIIN OFFICE, MAncri 25. TUERMOMETER, Lowest, 34 ; Highest. 48 ; Noon, 53. BAROMETER, 30.06.—Wind S.S.E., fine. HIGII WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 19 minutes after A. I Evening .. 2 minutes after 9 wlbientAt LONDON, THURS DAY, MARCH 9 5, 1847. Th e further intelligence whidi las just been b roug ht from America b y the packet-shipi n ezuma, down to the 6 th instant, will be perused NI ith mingled feelings of satisfaction and regret. The latter will be excited in relation to the Three Million Bill and the fate of the " Wilmot proviso ;" the former will be derived from the decision arrived at by the House of Representatives in favour of re jecting the Bill introduced by the Government for augmenting by 20 per cent. the duties on tea and coffee, for purposes of revenne. Congress concluded its session on the 4th intant. The entire purport of the Three Million Bill is to "enable the President to conclude a treaty of peace, limits and boundaries, with the republic of Mexico, to be used . .°-Y---' 1 i ) `, . 4. ea .V I At, , 1 'ti ,-----• \ \,'-:, 4 ..,i , , - • .0s :' ;.0. ' •iion 'S -W 4, Eu . , :1 , Z'' Z .. " 4 3. '4 , - ,- , ~, ,~.. _ . THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENIINIGI MARCH 26, 1847, - - _ rr by him in the event that said treaty, when signed by the authorised agents of the two Governments, and duly ratified by Mexico, shall call for expenditure." If anything could add to the disgrace which Mr. POLIO has accumulated upon himself and the Govern ment of the United States, from the very commence ment of hostilities with Mexico, it is furnished to the full by the terms of the foregoing resolution. It is nothing more nor less than a wholesale authority to second their military efforts against a deeply in . jured people by the detestable influences of bribery and corruption. The whole civilised world would re joice, should the insidious, demoralising, and shame less policy of Mr. PoLn. be signally upset by a con tinuance of the patriotic resistance which, contrary to his expectations, has been already unflinchingly offered by the Mexicans. Everybody knows that, after the opprobrious man ner in which the Texas was incorporated with the States, in consequence of which the country annexed is now subject to the curse of slavery, from which it was formerly free, the President never dreamt of carrying his project of aggrandisement beyond the Rio del Norte, which he desired that Mexico should cede and recognise as the proper boundary of the extended territory of the States ; and that when he found, from negotiations then pending, that Mexico was reluctant to conform to his views, he determined upon invading neutral ground to the south of the Rio del Norte, in the hope of extorting a concession by force, to which he could not in justice set up any reasonable claim. From that period the Mexicans have stoutly declined to entertain any overtures for peace, until Mr. POLK shall have first withdrawn his forces, military and naval, to the positions which they originally occupied. Had this laudable and spirited requirement been com plied with, we doubt not that the differences between the belligerents might have been speedily adjusted ; but as Congress has failed to compel the President to retrace his unjustifiable and aggressive steps, the wax will be necessarily protracted. Every honour able sympathy is enlisted in favour of the southern republic. It appears now, as indi cated by the tenor of the Three Million Act, that the President is intent upon acquiring some por tion of Mexican territory, and, by the rejection of Mr. WusioT's proviso, that, in any such fresh acqui sition the laws of slavery will be introduced. It is impossible, therefore, to regard these proceedings of the American Government with feelings other than those of unmitigated disgust. On the other hand, as be fore remarked, we rejoice that the principles of free trade have been preserved intact, and that Mr. rola has been unable to persuade Congress to compromise them in the way he proposed with respect to the duties upon tea and coffee. Another feature of congratula tion is presented by the magnificent contributions which have been raised for the relief of the destitute Irish. In New York the Roman Catholics have recently obtained in their churches upwards of 13,000 dollars for this truly benevolent object. From Boston, Quebec, and other cities nearly 300,000 dollars have been remitted. Such munificent charity richly merits the grateful eulogium which Lord JOHN RUSSELL paid to it in the House of Commons. Our commercial interests are implicated in the preservation or rupture of tranquillity in the Levant, otherwise we should be indisposed to trouble our selves with the slightest reference to the drawing-room squabbles of the Greek SOVEREIGN. Contemptible as the incident apparently is of a Turkish emissary being huffed at the behaviour of OTHO, on the occasion of a grand ball in the Athenian palace, it is never theless one of those trivial circumstances which have frequently before now changed thewhole destinies of a country, and produced the most disastrous out breaks. Unless these frivolous misadventures be tween kings and ambassadors are prevented from assuming importance by fomenting jealousies into abhorrence, and transforming a casual pique into an ineradicable hatred, the peace of the world would be continually endangered, and the lives of its rulers perpetually embittered. It is among the most meritorious offices of a diplomatist to destroy these germs of war on their first budding into existence. By acting as peacemakers in these almost domestic contentions of the palace, they may always invest their ministerial careers with the dignity of patriotism. Nor can the responsibility of aiding in reconciliations, after the recurrence of such petty misunderstandings, be regarded as in any manner derogatory to the elevation of their official characters. We re the ministers of the different Oriental Princes to occupy themselves by endeavouring to become the securities of national quietude, by suppressing and eradicating these rancorous emotions on their first appearance, they would be conferring more substan tial benefi6 upon their country than by abetting spoliation or encouraging rapine. England is in a peculiar manner called upon to scrutinise the behaviour of the Greek Government at this delicate juncture; it is called upon to observe the changei of her relations with Turkey, because upon the continued amity between those two empires depend the conservation of British interests along the eastern shores of the Mediterra nean. Beyond this, we have rendered ourselves, to a considerable extent, responsible for the excellence and sagacity of the government of OTRO, until it has become matured by longer existence and the wisdom acquired by the consequent experience. For these reasons, therefore, it is befitting for us to watch with a jealous precaution the progress of legislation in that still embryo dominion and the aspect of its rela tionship with the neighbouring potentates. From the correspondence which has just appeared, com prising letters between his Majesty the King of GREECE and the Sublime Porte, and others between JEAN COLETTI and ALI EFFENDI, it would appear that there is a secret estrangement between the SULTAN and his august neighbour. How far this estrangement may yawn into an abyss of animosity depends upon the external influence of friendly Governments, and upon the vacillating sentiments and precarious temperament of the supreme administrator, COLETTI. An abrupt expression uttered by the lips of royalty to the representative of an amicable Sovereign, whether that expression be pronounced in the excitement of a levee or the languid abandon of a carousal, may be productive of gigantic consequences—consequences such as may unsettle the foundations of a kingdom and convulse the whole surface of a continent. That such is pos sible, that the fable of " the parturient mountain " may, in this manner, be reversed, has been repeatedly shown in modern as well as in ancient history. There is a mythe, or historical allegory, illustrative of this, in the very commencement of the Roman records, where REMUS is butchered in a tumult arising from the fact of his jumping over the ditch traced out for the city walls, and his brother is thereby raised to the undisputed dignity of being the commander of a little cluster of vagabonds. At the opening of the nineteenth century a still more remarkable proof of the magnitude of results flowing from insignificant incidents was afforded by the abrupt departure of the English Ambassa dor, Lord WHITWORTH, from Paris in consequence of a few words addressed to him in the Tuileries by the First Consul. The insult offered to the Turkish Envoy by the King of GREECE may, therefore, if allowed to extend and ripen into a national grievance, become at once injurious to the future prospects of the Greeks and to the immediate safety of English merchandise in the Levant. It is incumbent upon us, therefore, to observe nar rowly the course pursued by the different Courts in this singular correspondence. The preservation of friendship between the Grecian and Turkish Govern ments is intimately blended with our commercial prosperity. Among the many complaints that have from time to time been brought forward against individual Irish landlords, few have had greater effect in exciting the in dignation and disgust of the English people than the statement that many--notwithstanding the misery and destitution existing at their very thresholds, the ago nies of their neighbours, and dependents, suffering under protracted famine, and dropping into untimely graves from wan t o f t h e common necessar i es o f life—had retained large sporting establishments, and devoted to the support of horses, dogs, and other animals of an inferior class, quantities of food which might more properly have bean applied to the wants of human beings, and by which the acknowledged deficiency would have been diminished, and many of their countrymen nourished and sustained, and their lives preserved to their wretched families. The I charge was a serious one, and was considered sufficiently grave to occupy the attention of the Legislature ; and one of the gentlemen inculpated in a manly and straightforward manner , came forward and declared that he had parted with his dogs, and since the urgency of the famine had not kept a single useless dog. The defence was re ceived with cheers in St. Stephen's, and there was not a single Member in the House, or individual out of it, who did not approve the act, and believe that the gentleman had only performed his duty, and that, had he acted in any other manner, he would have justly merited the gravest censure. Cannot the argument be carried further ? Is the question of humanity one to be decided on by geo graphical situation ? Can a person justly and pro perly do that, if removed a few miles or a few hours' journey from the scene of distress, which would be criminal on the part of another in its more immediate vicinity ? If the Irish landlord can justly be required to part with some ten or twenty greyhounds, because they would consume a sufficient quantity of food to maintain an equal number of human beings, should English noblemen or gentlemen preserve an inordinate quantity of game on their lands, to consume the crops and blight the hopes of the hard-working farmers, to demoralise and lead from the paths of honest industry many labourers, the staff and support of humble but contented families, who, but for the temptation thus afforded, might have maintained upright characters, to people the county gaols and houses of correction, to increase the county rates by the expenses of prosecutions, and the parish rates by the support of helpless and ruined families deprived of their natural guardians and protectors, and cast upon the tender mercies of the union workhouse for a wretched subsistence ? Even if these frightful re sults were not the natural consequences of the super abundance of game, if no evils or grievances could be traced to the operation of the game laws, were they as harmless and innocent in themselves as they are universally admitted to be injurious and mischievous,—do pheasants and par tridges, hares and rabbits, devour so small a quantity of food as to render it a matter of trifling importance whether it should be added to the national stores ? Is the condition of the English labourer so desirable that no addition to his humble comforts are required? It is unnecessary for us to answer these ques tions. The voice of public opinion will make the responses in a louder and more commanding tone than any we could assume, and the outcry of the people, the firm but temperate appeal of millions, will demand from the Legislature redress for their wrongs and a remedy for the enormous evil. A small pamphlet, containing a few brief pages on this important subject, published under the name of " Homo," strongly depicts the injurious workings and the obnoxious effects of the game code, whether to the farmer, the tradesman, or the labourer ; but the mischief is not limited to these classes ; in fact it would be difficult indeed to point out any portion of society that is not injuriously affected. And, cui bone, for what use or purpose is this monster nuisance tolerated and supported ? Simply that my Lord A. or Squire B. may have in their power to send an ac count to the local press of the enormous quantity of game destroyed in a few days or a few hours at some battue on their estates or manors. These butcherly exhibitions are far removed from fair sporting. They want all the elempts thereof—the healthful exercise, the necessity of exertion, the excitement of the search. You might as well pride yourself on the number of domestic fowls you could destroy in a farm-yard. We should not desire to debar our country gentlemen from a fair day's sport, but it is the frightful abuses that have crept into the entire system to which we object. " Property has its duties as well as its rights," is an axiom now universally conceded, and is it consistent with the fitting exercise of that responsibility to do such public injury for the gratification of some feelings of paltry vanity or ridiculous ostentation ? Even within this week a man was tried for his life, and bad a narrow escape from expiating his offence by an ignominious death on the scaffold, for a homicide committed during a poaching excursion ; as it was, he was banished for ever from his family and friends, and from his native home, while his victim, or rather the victim of the game laws, was hurried into eternity, leaving a numerous family to deplore his fate. How long will these things be tolerated in a civilized and Christian land ? A St. Petersburgh letter of the 11th says—" There are still large quantities of corn and flour here, and large supplies are expected for exportation by the White Sea, the Black Sea, and the Sea of Asoff. St. Petersburgh alone can furnish 1,600,000 sacks of rye flour for exportation." We read in the Swabian Mercury of the 21st : " The rumours v‘hich have been current respecting the actual position of Prussia, as regards the European policy, have induced the King to order his Minister for Foreign Affairs to convey to the Courtsof Vienna and St. Petersburgh the most positive assurances that Prussia has not varied in the system hitherto pursued, and that the fundamental prin ciples which have influenced her in her international rela tions remain unchanged. The highest interest of Prussia, says the King, is to adhere strictly to the alliance which binds it to the two Courts. M. de Canitz has already exe cuted this order of the King." Accounts from Stuttgardt of the 17th state that a report had been current there for several days, that the Emperor NICHOLAS was expected on a visit to the Princess Royal, the Grand Duchess OLGA. The King of WURTEMBERG had been indisposed for several days. Accounts from Turin represent the King of SAR DINIA to be seriously ill. • On the 17th his physicians found it necessary to apply leeches to him twice in the day, and he remained so little relieved by them that, on the 18th, they were compelled to take a considerable quantity of blood from him by the lancet: Prince OSCAR of Sweden arrived at Rome on the 9th, travelling under the title of Count DR TULGARN. It was expected he would stay a week in Rome, and then proceed to Leghorn, where a Swedish ship was to be in readiness to receive him. A letter from Leghorn of the 13th says—" Arrests continue to be made in Tuscany. Amongst the pri soners are MM. Blunaxasts and GEoacusi, and M. Gaossi, a physician." At a political banquet given at Porte Molo, an individual, who had been received at Rome as a political emigrant, and treated with the greatest sympathy, rose and addressed to the assembly a most seditious speech, urging them to strike at once for Italian emancipation, and producing a tri-coloured flag. The guests immediately seized the fellow and conveyed him to the police-office, where he was at once recognised as an agent of Austria. We are without any intelligence from Spain. The Bordeaux meil, which arriTed in Paris on Tuesday, did not bring the mail from Madrid. We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday. The Ministerial journal., the Di.bats, is evidently annoyed at the result of the election of Vice-Presi dent. It does not attempt to disguise the importance of the election of M. LEON DE MALLEvILLE ; on the contrary, it rather exaggerates it, in order to produce union among the Conservatives, who, it is evident, are at present anything but an united party. Like Sir ROBERT PEEL, M. GUIZOT has ruled his party with a rod of iron, haughtily demanding from them not advice, but implicit and unreasoning obe dience, and, as in the case of Sir ROBERT PEEL, so in the case of M. GUIZOT, the non-beaureaucrats are falling off from him, and looking out for another leader, and some fine day M. GUIZOT will find the great Conservative party shivered to fragments, him self the leader of a miserable minority, and his oppo nents in power. The Daats thus betrays the fears of its master. It says— " The Chamber bad to nomimate yesterday a Vice-President in the room of M. Hebert, who has become Keeper of the Seals. The candidate of the Conservatives was M. Duprat; but M. Lion de Maleville, Member of the Left, was elected after three ballots, lie having cbiitained 179 votes, whilst M. Duprat had only 178. Our readers will think, perhaps, that we deceive ourselves, and that we take ono name for another. In nowise; it is really M. Leon de Maleville, Member of the Left, who has been nominated. It is true that the Left could not believe its ears, and that BC Leon de Maleville himself appeared quite surprised. How - did this happen ? We know not; we only form conjectures. Perhaps a certain number of Conservatives who do not like M. Duprat, and who would have preferred M. Debelleyme, thought they played a clever trick against their own party in electing M. Leon de Maleville ; perhaps, for we must say the truth to everybody, the Ministry did not give itself enough trouble to rally its friends, and to conduct all wishes to the same object. We have the soi-disant progressist Con servatwes, wile may have veled for M. Leon de Maleville, after having authorised the reading of M. Duvergier de Hau ranne's proposition. We have the impartial Conservatives, who would not have been vexed to give a gage of their im partiality in electing the bitterest of their adversaries to the Vice-Presidency. We have the young Conservatives, who try their talents at Parliamentary government by following merely their own caprices. We have, moreover, what is called the majority of the majority. This majorii yof the ma jority is not numerous; but in separating itself at a certain time, and in carrying its votes to the lett, it may cause un expected events and coups de theatre such as the election of yesterday. That always gives importance ; and they are not less Conservatives, and very good Conservatives. Only let danger arise to the monarchy and you will see! In the meantime they amuse themselves. What is certain is, that M. Leon de Maleville could only have been nominated with the assistance of a certain number of votes belonging to the majority ; what is certain is, that with these fine tactics the proposition of M. Duvergier de Hau ranne has not been buried in the bureaux,' as it ought to hate been ; what is also certain is, that we have gone on for some time from check to check; the Opposition feels aston ishment at its success; its members only are nominated re porters on all the committees; and who knows if the propo sition of M. Duvergier de Hauranne will not be taken into consideration? Impartiality is such a fine thing! Be it so. But the young Conservatives, the Progressist and impartial Conservatives, all kinds of Conservatives, who desire to be distinguished by a particular name, must know well that it is in this way that majorities dissolve. Is that the object to which they tend ? It is without doubt impossible that the different minds which compose a majo rity shall always see things with the same eye; but does it follow that every one shall vote according to his humour? If so, at each vote, parties, so to speak, dissolve themselves, and we must no longer talk of majority and of opposition. Instead of having a Parliamentary Government, we should have a Government of chance, the worst of Governments! We engage Ministers also to reflect on this. Little things, when multiplied, will finish by becoming great. Some Com mittees made choice of Members of the Opposition fur their reporters; no attention was paid to it. Three bureaux were formed to authorise the reading of the proposition of M. Duvergier de Hauranne ; it was then said, Bah ! it is no thing—the Chamber will reject the motion for taking it into consideration !' Yesterday M. Leon de Maleville was nomi nated Vice-President. This blow will be more felt. To awake we must not wait for another; we should awake per haps too late !" The Constitutionnel thus accounts for the Ministerial defeat. " This vote," it says, " proves, first of all, that the Chamber, which for the last three months has not taken any part in public affairs, and has been a simple observer of the Government, begins to judge this Government as we do. We have not, for our parts, seen with displeasure this Parliamentary vaca tion, and this desertion of the public sittings. In order that a majority so powerful as that which the Ministry had obtained at the late elections should perceive the vices of the Government which it sup ports, it is good to let it have some leisure, and to allow it, in place of acting itself, to see the Administration perform its functions. Dis order in the finances, political isolation, and a deficit, are sad results, and in the end must enlighten those who do not wilfully shut their eyes. In the second place, large majorities are easily irritated against a power which appears to impose on them scandal and violence. Nominations like that of M. DE CARNE, an opposition to all progress such as the Ministry at present evinces, excite distrust and call forth dis content. When the majority is turned to improper uses, it is near being lost. In fine, the favourable vote of M. LEON DE MALEVILLE is an excellent pre liminary to propositions of reform. No one has more ably and more cuttingly branded corruption with reprobation than M. LEON DE MALEVILLE. Several of his sayings remain engraved in all men's memories. The votes which he obtained are the first testimony of the sentiment which is almost unanimous in the Chamber, and of which M. DUVERGIER DE HAIL RANNE was yesterday the eloquent organ." _ _ The National thus describes the effect produced on the Ministers by the announcement of the num bers : " The Ministry was beaten, and congratulations poured in on the new Vice-President from all sides. The confusion of the Ministers cannot be described. M. Guizot could not stand it; he went off; M. Ht bert's fierce eye was injected with blood ; M. Duchtitel felt himself all over with a stupid air, in order to assure himself that he was not the dupe of some hideous dream ; all the others remained nailed to their seats. M. Lacave Laplagne alone (the Minister of Finances) showed the resignation of a man accustomed to deficits." After the election on Monday the Chamber heard the explanations of the Minister of Foreign Affairs on the additional credits required in his department. They approved of the appointment of a Consul at the Cape of Good Hope, and of an increase in the salary of the Chinese interpreter. The debate on the proposition of electoral reform, brought forward by M. Duvitaciza DE HAUZANNE, was commenced on Monday, and resumed on Tuesday. It was still pro ceeding when the post left. The disturbances in the Loiret still continue, and all convoys of grain and flour are henceforth to be escorted by soldiers. A detachment will be placed in each boat, and another detachment will accompany it. It is announced that the Duchesse DE MONTPEN SIMI is enceinte, and that she will shortly return to Madrid, accompanied by her mother, as it is deter mined that the accouchement shall take place in the country " over which her children" are to rule. It was rumoured in Paris that the Sotomayor Ministry had resigned on the 20th. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse, on Tuesday, at 781. 85c.; the Five per Cents., 116 f. 90c.; Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,270 f.; Rouen, 8631. 75c.; Havre, 667 f. 50c. ; Great Northern, 6221. 50c.; Avignon, 800 f. ; Vierzon, 5671. 50c.; Bordeaux, 5171. 50 c . ; T r oye s a n d Mon tereau, 2901 .: Basle, 203 f. 75c.; Dieppe, 330 f.; Paris and Strasburg, 442 f. 50c. ; Nantes, 430 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 447 f. 50c.; Lyons and Avignon, 480 f.; Cette, 450 f.; Spanish Three per Cents., 34k. MOSEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. , CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. I The Cotton and Share Markets were closed yesterday at Liverpool. We have received from a correspondent a letter in re ference to the analysis of the Bank of England cir culation, given under this head on the 20th instant. We did not intend to infer, as the writer supposes, that the circulation of notes was diminished to the extent of the re duction in notes issued, otherwise we should not have given the items in tabular form, taking special care, likewise, to insert the decrease of notes in the banking department, and append our remarks at the conclusion of the table, and not after any particular item; and most City 'Article readers are aware, that in order to judge of the actual decrease of circulation from week to week, they have only to make allowance for any increase or decrease in the " notes" un employed in the banking department, and balance it against the alteration in the notes issued. As there may be some general readers, however, who do not rightly understand this, we subjoin the explanation, drawn up for them by a correspondent, who writes from Bristol, under the signature of " Cosmopolite" : " The notes issued are not by any means a criterion of the notes in circulation; if they were so, then the comparison between the notes issued in the last returns, say 24,786,340, and those of March 14, 1846, 27,117,8051., would exhibit a decrease of 2,331,4651., whereas the actual deficiency in the circulation is not more than 173,4851. between these two returns. " To ascertain the exact amount of notes in circulation, you must subtract the notes remaining in the banking de partment from the notes issued, and then you will find that the circulation for the week ending March 13th, 1847, was 19,232,200 L, and that on the 14th March, 1846, 19,403,685/. "The amount of bullion and securities in the issue depart ment being 24,786,340/., to which must be added 663,1211. gold and silver coin in the Bank, and you have 25,449,461/. ; deduct therefrom 19,232,2001., the notes in circulation, and it would appear that the Bank has still a large sum of bullion (say 6,217,261/.) at their disposal before there can be any lawful necessity for reducing the circulation below the pre sent returns ; and as the silver loan of one million will doubtless be repaid by the bank of France It the end of this month, which, together with the large Sums expected from South America and China, and the Siberian gold from Russia (now that the exchanges are improving), will all tend to place the Bank of England in such a safe position as to its bullion, that further apprehension on that head should cease, and confidence be speedily restored." The accounts from the United States, given in another column are to the 6th inst., and are satisfactory in respect to the supply of food available, although the high rates paid are not likely to be maintained. The state of Maryland was about to resume payment of the interest on its debt. The markets in America were tolerably active. There has been scarcely any business doing, and prices have been heavy in the Stock Market. Consols are 8914 to 89. The Scrip is 1 4 discount. Exchequer-bills have been again marked par to 2s. premium. The Foreign Securities are equally dull. Spanish Five per Cents. have been 22 3 /, and the Three per Cents. 84%. alexican Bonds are 2154. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been 5834. Railway Shares participate in the general quietude. BRITISH FUNDS. ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK. PRICES. Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. 89 89 89 New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Amts. ex div 89% Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5,1860 ex div 9 1-16 Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. 9 5-16 9 5-16 Consols for Account 8 9 89 8914 Consols, Scrip .. .. • . • . . i dis % dis Exchequer Bills. 1 d. 20. 1,0001... .. .... 3 p par 5001. 3 p par pm. Ditto, Small .... 3 5 1 p ONE O'CLOCK. par par 1p CLOSING FOREIGN FUNDS. PRICES. Mexican Bonds. 1846, 5 per Cent .. Ditto, for the Account .. 21%% 21% Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent. .. 39% Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. 84 84% Ditto, 3 per Cent .. 38 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. Ditto, for the Account .. 22% 2244 Ditto, Three per Cent .. 34% 34% Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent .. 40 40 Dividends on the above payable In Landon. Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cent .. 96% Dutch Two-and-a-Halt per Cent .. 40 40 Ditto. 4 Der Cent. Certificates .. 92 % % 93 PRICES OF BUSINESSCLOSING RAILWAY SHARES. PAID. DONE AT PRICES. ONE O'CLOCK. Amber., Notting., Boston, and Eastern Junction .. 2%.... 2 34 % .. Birmingham and Oxford Junction 5 .... 13% . 13% Boston, Stamford, & Birmingham 5 .... 6% .......... 6% Buckinghamshire 81. 45. •• • • 14 P• ••• • • • 34 Caledonian .. 30 .... 2734%........ 27 Ditto, Half Shares .. 236 .... 2 31 2 31 Chester and Holyhead .. 27% .• ........ 24% Direct Northern Scrip .. 2 31 .... 2% 234 Eastern Counties .. 20 .... 19% 20 .. • • Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1.61. 13s. 4d. ..... • . Ditto, ditto.. .. .. No. 2. 61. 13s. 4d. 34 p•••• .. • • 34 p Ditto, York Extension .. 534 .... 5 East Lancashire .. .. 17 •• .. 18% 18 31 Ditto New .. 7 31 .... 9% 9......•• 9 East Lincolnshire .. 4 .... 6% 7.... •• .. 7 Edinburgh and Glasgow .. .. 50 .... 7131 ex div. • • —71% xd. Ely and Huntingdon .. 12% .... 12% • ....• 12% Great Northern (London & York Regd.) 231 .... .......... 2% Do., do (Direct Northern Regd.) 3%.... 3 34% ••. • .. Great Western .. 85 ....115 11514 Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 50 .... 68 . • Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 12 31 .... 17% 17% Ipswich aad Bury St.Edmunds .. 14 .... ...... .. Ditto ditto, and Norwich .. 5 .... 2%••........ Leeds and Bradford .. .. 35 .... 78% 78% Leeds and Thirsk 2 2 31 —..........— Ditto, Preference 6 per Cent. • • 3 34.... 5 •• • • ...... 5i4 London and Blackwell .. 161. 13s. 4d. . • . Ditto. New, No. 1 .. 4 .... .......... Ditto, New, No. 2 .. • • it. 13e. 4d. %p•• • • • • % Ditto, Extension .. 5 • 5 London, Brighton, and S Coast.. 50 .... 5334 53% London en North-Western • .100 ....17931 178% .. • Ditto, Quarters - . 2 .... 10 Ditto ditto, New Shares • . 2 .... 13 .......... 13 4 Ditto, Fifths 2 Ditto, 401. Shares Id. &B. • . 40 70 1 % 69 ...... 69 London and South:Western —4ll. Cs. 10d. • • 6331 64 64 Ditto, New Consol. Eighths .. 40 .... .......... 46% Ditto, New .. 2234 .... 2534 2531 Ditto, Tenths (Consolidated) 50 .... 543 54 ...... 54 London and York Extension Scrip 2%.... 231 .. ••• • • Manchester and Leeds .. .. 82 Ditto, Thirds (Reg.).. .. • . 71. 45..... p........ p Ditto % (late Rudders. & Shell.) 23 .... 26% 26% Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. • • .. 31 p.... Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .... I% %•• • • .... 1 34 Midland .. ..100 .. • 11831 118.. •• .. 118 Ditto, New .. .. 2 .... 5% .. • . 5% Midland, Birming. & Gloucest... 100 ....123 .......... 124% Ne eicastie and Berwick .. •. 20 .. • . 294 % 29 Ditto, New .. • • • • • • 5 •• • • 8 %•••• • • • • • • 8 Norfolk .. ..100 ....137 .. •• • ... 137 North British .. .. • • 25 .• • • 33 %'4 .. • • • • 3314 Ditto, Extension .. • • .. %•• • • 1% ••••• • • • • • 1% Ditto, Thirds • • .. • • • 1 331 ..... 3% North Staffordshire .. • • • • 5 •• .. 8 •• •• • • .... 8 Ditto Scrip (late Churnet and Blythe) • • • .. 2 •• .. 4% ... • Oxford,Worcest., & Wolverlimptn. 2231 .... 16 .......... 16% Preston and Wyre .. • . 25 .... 3431 35 ...... 35 Ditto, Half Shares (A) .. 831 .......... Ditto, ditto (B) 134 .... 1 % .. 1 % Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 5 .... 5 Royston and Hitchin . • . 1% .... 2% 234 Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 3 .... .. • • Ditto, Class B 1 134 . • .. • • 114 Shropshire Union .. 425.. 4 ... 1 dis. •• • dis. South Staffordshire Junction .. 2/.145.1d p.. •••• • • • • 44 p South Eastern and Dovor 33%.... .. • • • . • • • • 384 Ditto. New (iss. at 321.) No. 1. 20 ... 2231 ...... • . . 2231 Do., New (d 0.33/. 65.8 d.) No. 2. 12 .... 13 Do.. New (do. 301.) .. No. 3. 15 .... 16 3 Do., New (do. 151.) .. No. 4. 3%.... 41, 4 .... • • 4% South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole .. .. • .. 2 .... 2% •••• .. • Waterford and Kilkenny 133! .... 6 •. 6 West Riding Union .. .. 41.25..... 1% %p• • .. 1% p York and Newcastle .. 25 .... 35% 35 . . 35 Ditto, New.. .. .. 10 15% % •.. 15% Ditto, Preference .. .. 4 .... 8%• . • ...... 8 34 York aad North Midland .. .. 50 .... 8534 85 .•• • .. 85 Ditto, Extension • • .. 20 .... 36 31 •• • • 36 31 Ditto. Preference • • .. .. 2 .... • • ........ 11% Do. E. and W. Riding Exten... 10 ...- 21% 22 • • • • 22 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens .. 0 .... 16% .. •.• • .. 16% Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon) • . • . .. 12 .. 1434 ••.. • ..... 1434 Dutch Rhenish. • • .. 7 .... 4 % ...... • ... 434 East Indian . ss. .... % .... • • Northern of France • • .. • . S .... 12% .. • .. 13 I'aris and Lyons • • .. 8 .... 6 5% Paris and Rouen .. 20 .... 34 1 / 34% JOINT-STOCK BANKS. London Joint-Stock • • .. .. 10 .... 16 MINES. Real del Monte, Unregistered 331 ..... 331 LLOYD'S SHIPPIN G--(THIS DAY.) LONDON, MARCH 25.—Wind E. light breeze and fine. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 23.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. La Belle Alliance, Vandervord, for Adelaide, S. A., put back from long. 18 W. with damage to masts, sails, and rigging; Ynmachi, Canfield, Norfolk, V. The Kenelue, Davies, New York to the Clyde, was abandoned 7th inst. lat. 39, long. 9, in a sinking state; crew saved. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 24.—The Sarah Berelley of Port land, New York to Cork, was abandoned in a sinking state 7th inst., lat. 47, long. 28 ; captain, first and second mates, and two of the crew taken off by the Cambridge, arrived here. The Pictou and Boston Packet, New York to Belfast, was spokes 28th ult. off the High lands, putting back in distress. CLYDE, MARCH 22.—Std. Indian, Pernambuco ; Isabella, llerens, Calcutta; John Willis, Demerara; Isle of France, New York ; Erromango, Montreal. Arrd. Cynthia, Gate worthy, Pernambuco; Gypsy, Taylor, Demerara; Eglinton, Muir, Savannah. BRISTOL, MARCH 24.—Wind W.N.W., fresh.—Arrd. Gol conda, Lay, Calcutta; Glenelg, Cother, Demerara; Sir H. Pottinger, Crowell, St. John's, New Brunswick. MUMBLES ROADS, MARCH 24.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Wil liam Niaholson, Rees, Cuba ; Underleg, Bowden, ditto ; Cobre, Cody. ditto; Arietta, ditto. COWES, MARCH 24.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. Campbell, Campbell, Porto Rico; Condor, Hohlmar, Valparaiso. SCILLY, MARCH 22.—The Premier, Nevis to London, drove on St. Mary's Roads 20th inst., and struck on a ledge, was assisted off and ran for New Grimsby. The Emily, of Boston, for Limerick, was spoken 17th inst. lat. 40, long. 36, with part of crew washed overboard, and steering for Fayal. Arrd. 19th, Duchess of Northumberland, Withers, Calcutta. WHITEHAVEN, MARCH 23.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. Jane Anderson, M'Kellar, Savannah. FALMOUTH, MARCH 24.—Arrd. Commerce, Greia, Ha vannah ; Carl and Therese, Peck, Cape Haytien, for Ham burgh; Lucile, Young, Port-au Prince; Margareta, Jorgen, Monte Video; Waldemaar, Schmidt, Havannah. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 23.—Wind W.N.W., light.—Arrd. Constitution, Charleston ; Hudson, New York. 24. Renown , Bombay ; Princess Victoria, Maranham ; Martin Luther, Demerara ; Islam, Barbadoes ; Limena, Porto Rico ; Monarch, St. Lucia ; Edward Perkins, New Orleans; Looshtank, ditto ; Trenton, ditto; Hope, ditto; Seraphine, ditto; Olianer, ditto; Miracle, ditto; Niagara, ditto; Clifton, ditto; Manco, Savannah ; Mountaineer, Charleston ; Burrell, ditto ; Adam Lodge, ditto; Diana, Philadelphia ; Akbar, Cambridge, Pacific ; Ann M'Kinn, Elizabeth Porter, Metoka, and Harriet, all New York; Montezuma, ditto. DEAL, MARCH 24.—Std. Sophia Winke, Baltimore; Vice- Admiral Gobius, Batavia. Arrd. from the River, Asia, Ho bart Town ; James Duncan, St. Lucia; Mary Anne, Balti more; St. Vincent, Compton Roads; Lesmoyne, New York; Imogene, ditto; Luconia, ditto; Ives, Chesapeake Bay; Aca lin, Halifax ; Sophia Moffatt, Quebec. SUNDERLAND, MARCH 23.—Wind N.W.—Sld. Spartan, New York ; Venture, Philadelphia. MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OP A FEMALE.-- A widow, named Ann Penn, left Glasgow on Wednesday, the 24th of February, by the Viceroy, for Liverpool, with the intention of proceeding to London by railway, and has not since been heard of, although the vessel arrived safely in due course. lier friends in Lor.don have made inquiries respect iiNg her of the master of the vessel, and he, as also some of the p a ssengers, say that i t would have been impossible for her to have fallen overboard without being observed. The police at Liverpool and in London have been informed of the mysterious circumstance, but up to this time have received no satisfactory intelligence. Mrs. Penn is between 60 and 70 years of age, and dressed in a black gown, blue cloth cloak with cape, black scarf and coloured flowers, black bonnet and crape. HOUSE OF LORDS.---(THIS DAY.) The House sat to-day to hear appeals. Tie Pet,rs present were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, and Lord Campbell. E VANS V. SCOTT, The arguments in this part-heard appeal were resumed and concluded to-day, and Their LORDSHIPS reserved their judgment. THE EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY COMPANY V. LINLITHGOW. The arguments in this Scotch appeal occupied their Lord ships the remainder of the morning. VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) His Honour the - VicE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND took 'notions to-day, none of which possessed any points of interest except to the parties concerned. His Honour rose at an early hour, to attend the inaugura tion of Prince Albert as Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, at Buckingham Palace. (Before Sir J. WIORAM. COSTOBADIE V. COSTOBADIE. This was a suit to enforce the execution of the trusts of a will, and to obtain certain accounts of the rents and profits of an estate of 11,000/. a year. The plaintiff was the daughter and the defendant the widow of the testator. The cause turned upon the construction of the will with respect to one of the trusts which was worded as follows :—"That my wife shall receive and take all the rents and profits of my real and personal estate, for the use and benefit of her self and my children." Mr. Romilly was heard for the plaintiff to-day, and Mr. Rolt for the defendant. SHERIFFS' COURT.--(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BURCHELL.) POTTER V. JOHNSON. This was an action to recover the sum of 91. 10s., the balance of an account for musical instruments sold to the defendant, who pleaded that he was never indebted. On the part of the plaintiff, however, a Mr. Lilly white was called, and proved that defendant requested him to select two trombones, two clarionets and flutes, and afterwards saw them at defendant's house. The UNDER-SHERIFF stopped an examination as to whether defendant had used the instruments, considering the .order and delivery sufficient to meet the plea. The value of the articles was 231. or 241. The jury gave a verdict for the amount claimed. S3IITII V. WHALEY. JOURNEYMEN'S WAGES.—This was an action to recover the sum of 2/. 55., the balance of an account for work and labour done. Mr. PETERSDORFF, who appeared for the plaintiff, said the plaintiff was a journeyman cabinet-maker, and the defendant kept a shop in the neighbourhood of Goswell-street. He (the Learned Council) could not conceive what defence there could be as the defendant had actually offered to pay part of the amount if time was given for him to pay the rest. From some cause or other, however, he did not pay any thing, and it therefore became necessary to bring this ac tion. There might be some little difficulty in making out the claim, as the plaintiff charged by time 6d. per hour, and part of that was overtime, and even on Sundays, so much was defendant in want of the work. There was also a plea of set-off on the record, one item of which was, " Board and lodging of two canary birds."—(Laughter.) He thought that such a ridiculous set-off would not be admitted after a direct admission from defendant. Witnesses were called, but could only prove that the plain tiff was in the employ of the defendant. Mr. Ashley, a cattle dealer, was called, and gave evidence that he was at the " Protective Tavern," and in August last he was present when a conversation took place between plaintiff and defendant, and the latter said he would pay a sovereign on the Monday, and the remaining 255. on the next Saturday, or Saturday afterwards. Defendant was em barrassed at the time, and never denied the debt, and fre quently did not pay the men in full. Mr. CROUCH submitted that there was no evidence to go to the jury as to the time the plaintiff had been employed or the sum to be paid. He said that if each master was held responsible on such evidence as this, no master would be safe unless be took receipts on every occasion, for the plaintiff's particulars claimed 101. 15s. 9d. Mr. PETERSDORFF said it was for 111. 7s. 3d. Mr. CROUCH said there was no evidence of time or value ; a part of the, claim was I Is. 6d. for money lent, but of which not a word of evidence had been given. The UNDER-SHERIFF held there was sufficient evidence to go to the jury. Mr. CROUCH then said that he should call evidence to show that there was an agreement that the plaintiff should be paid 4s. 6d. a day, and that defendant had been summoned to the Court of Requests, but the case had been dismissed for want of evidence. John Watts, a tin-plate maker, was called, and deposed that he was present when plaintiff applied to defendant fur work, and defendant said he would give him 4s. 6d. a day, and plaintiff replied, then the society must know nothing about it. The witness said, that he had understood that this action was brought by the Cabinet-makers' Society. He had heard plaintiff borrow money of defendant. He made up de fendant's book from plaintiff's book, but a book produced was not plaintiff's. According to plaintiff's book every farthing due bad been paid. Denham, the defendant's apprentice, deposed that the book now produced as the plaintiff's time-book was not the real one. Plaintiff never complained that money was due to him. Witness kept the men's time. Plaintiff was to be paid 4s. Gd. a day. Mr. Cnoucll wished to put a question, whether the Com missioner did not throw the book at plaintiff's head, and say that be perjured himself. Mr. PETERSDORFF objected. Mr. CROUCH said it was a matter of fact. The UNDER-SHERIFF said it was a very irregular question. Mr. Ciroucir asked whether the Commissioner did not give defendant a protection against further process in the Court ? The UNDER-SHERIFF held that this was also an irregular question. Mr. PETERSDORFF replied The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff for 21. ss. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) John Crouch was indicted for stealing three sovereigns and seven shillings, the property of Richard Bray. The prosecutor, who was a fish salesman, residing in Bed fordshire' and the prisoner slept in the same room in a public house in St. John-street on the night of the 18th instant, when the prisoner took the money out of the pockets of the prosecutor's clothes, which lay beside his bed. A verdict of Guilty was returned, and the prisoner was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, with hard labour. In the case of Jeminia Stodart, a child under thirteen years of age, who was remanded from the last sessions on the charge of stealing some trifling articles, ThC Learned AssisTANT-JUDGE said he should order the child's father to enter into his own recognizances for her ap pearance at any time when the prosecutor should decide upon following up the charge. It was too often the case that parents sought to cast upon the State the discharge of those duties which they were bound to perform themselves towards their offspring. On Tuesday last there were no less than four cases of parents ridding themselves of the respon sibility, by prosecuting their children, and in one instance in the last session it seemed as if the money had been thrown purposely in the way of the child by its parents, in order that they might get rid of his support. Major Beniowski appeared in court this morning, in ac cordance with the terms of his bail, and ;said he protested against the postponement of the hearing of the charge pre ferred against him of assaulting Mr. Urquhart at the late Polish meeting at the Freemasons' Tavern. He had three newspapers, all of which stated that the. Learned Judge re fused to give a definite answer to the application for a post ponement of the trial in his (the defendant's) absence, but the terms of the recognizances into which he entered only required his presence in the court on this day. The ASSISTANT•JUDGE said the intervention of the Fast day threw the business which would have been transacted in trying felonies over to this day, so as to compel the bail cases to stand adjourned till to-morrow. After a few further observations it was decided by the Court that the case should stand over to the Bth of April, being the day appointed for hearing the bail cases at the next sessions. SURREY SESSIONS.—(THIS DAY.) (Before J.W. )E'RESIIFIELD, Esq., and a Bench of Magistrates.) William Tucker, an innkeeper of Walton-on-Thames, who was found guilty on Monday of stealing some fowls and a bushel of peas, the property of the Earl of Ellesmere, which appeared in The Sun of that day, was again indicted for receiving fourteen fowls the property of John Johnson, of Walton-on-Thames, well knowing them to be stolen. Mr. Locke conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Charnock defended the prisoner. It appeared that on the night of the 3d of February last an outhouse on the prosecutor's premises was broken open, and the fourteen fowls stolen therefrom. On the following day the prisoner was seen in Guildford, with the fowls in his possession, quite dead. In answer to the constable who de tected him, he said that he purchased the fowls of a man on the road, but that he could not find him. nollington, inspector of the Guildford police, said, that while the prisoner was in his custody on a previous charge, he heard him tell a man to go to his house at Walton, and tell his wife to put the fowls out of the way. Hide, another constable said, that he went to the prisoner's brother's house, on the 4th of February, and there found a basket containing fourteen fowls, which were indentitied by the prosecutor as his property. Frederick Egan, another constable, said that about seven o'clock on Wednesday evening, the 3d of Fe bruary, he was in a coffee-house at Chertsey, wh ere he saw the prisoner. He was boasting that he could akin a sheep better than any man—especially if the sheep wa s stolen. He also defied witness or any constable to take him into custody should he commit a felo n y . Th e prisoner left the house about a quarter of an hour afterwards, and pro ceeded towards the prosecutor's premises. The witness underwent a cross-examination by Mr. CHAR- Nom, in which he said that he had not given evidence on any former occasion against the prisoner, but that h e was ca ll e d upon by the prosecutor. He was not paid, like the Mint witnesses, 7s. a day. He had only 3s. a day, which he con sidered not sufficient. He should have no objection, how ever, to receive 7s. a day.—(Laughter.) Mr. CamsNocx, in his address to the jury, commente d i n sever e terms on the, evidence of Halli ng t on, t h e " eaves dropping co nstable;' who he cons i d ere d unworthy their be lief. He read a report from the Times in which Mr. Justice Coleridge, at Cambridge, refused to receive the evidence of a constable who overheard som e conversat i on said to have been uttered by a prisoner whil e i n hi s custody. The Learned Judge publicly . condemned such evidence. He therefore called on the jury to be cautious how they receive the sole linsupported evidence o f suc h a man. Several witnesses hav ing been called to the prisoner's character, the Chairman summed up, condemning the conduct of the Learned Counsel for the prisoner, in p ro d uc i ng a newspaper report for the pur pose of prejudicing the m i n d s o f t h e j ur y. H e rea ll y con sidered there was too much liberty taken by some of the Learned Counsel in that Court, which was not allowed is any other, and which t oo k up unnecessar il y t h e ti me o f t h e pub lic. So much stress should not be laid upon the evidence of the police, who, he believed, in the present case, had given their evidence in a fair and straight forward manner. They had heard the whole of the evidence, and it would be for them to Say whether the prisoner was guilty or not. The jury consulted for a few minutes, and returned a ver dict of Guilty. Egan, the constable, was called by the chairman, and said that he had long suspected the prisoner of being concerned in various robberies committed in Walton and the neighbour hood. The license of his house had been suspended in con sequence of his bad character. The CHAIXMAN sentenced him to six months' . imprison ment for the former indictment, at the expiration of which a further term of six months' imprisonment , for having pos session of the fowls belonging to Mr. Johnson. The prisoner wished to address the Bench, but Mr. Char mck, his counsel, advised him not to do so, as the Court had acted very leniently with him on both indictments. EXTRAOUDINARY MODESTY. — The amiable Master of Trinity has been lately heard to say, "Let Who-will be neat :ball be satisfied."—Punch. WORSHIP-STREET.-(THIS DAY) THE FAST DAY.—The attention of the Court was 0c 01 :, pied nearly the whole of this tbrenoon in disposing (trunk ), charges and rows consequent thereupon, which viete unquestionably far greater in number than are usuaill brought to this court, even at those periods of the ye° when our greatest festivals are held. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Twelve o'clock. The following reports were agreed to:—The Cheltes' ham Waterworks, the Darwen Waterworks and Bee' voirs, and the Shipley Gas Bills. SECOND READINGS. The following Bills were read a second timer marnock and Ayr Direct Railway, and the Nor th British Railway (No. 2). NAVIGATION LAWS. An Um MEMBER presented a petition from ovtba against the repeal of the navigation-laws. EDUCATIONAL GRANT. Dr. BOWRING presented a petition from Bci t°ll against the proposed educational grant. THE RAJA OF SATTARA Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN presented a petition ' fro; several inhabitants of Dublin praying for an inilw r i into the circumstances which had led to the deth rolir meat of the Raja of Sattara. IMPEACHMENT OF LORD JOHN R USSELL'' The HON. MEMBER also presented a petition from Rev. Mr. Maberley, complaining of the conduct of Government iu relation to the destitution in Ireland, calling for the impeachment of Lord John Russell. I'6OFt• LAW RATING. • Mr. J. O'CONNELL presented petitions fro, number of places in Ireland, against the mode of rialgo proposed in the Poor Relief Bill of Ireland; and sL i s against the clauses for increasing the ex-officio glistd i '' THE REPEAL OF THE CORN LAWS. Mr. HAWES presented a petition fiom a friend of !lje 0 whose name did not transpire, complaining of the 0 1, in which his interests had been affected by the esis c r merit of the corn-law of 1842, and praying for dress. EDUCATIONAL GRANT. Mr. FORSTER presented a petition against the pr o ' posed grant for education. SCOTTISH REGISTRATION ACT. Mr. LOCKHART presented a petition from the 59 t sion clerks of Scotland against this measure, wh ic : they stated would, if passed, injure their interests 10 " most serious manner. The HON. MENDER also presented several petitions 03/ the same subject fr m dlfferent parts of Scotland. SCHEME FOR GENERAL EDUCATION. Mr. S. O'BRIEN presented a petition from Keerici against the education plans of the Government. SMALL DISTILLERS OF LONDON. On the motion of Lord G. BENTINCK, it s vas or dered that the petition of the small distillers of London should be printed and circulated with the votes. SCHOOMASTERS OF SCO I'LAN retur D.n of all Ou the motion of Mr. FOX MAULE, a the parochial schoolmasters in Scotland, who held al other office, together with the return and emo luraen thereof; was ordered. POSTPONEMENT OF MOTIONS. Sir GEORGE GREY, on behalf of his Noble Frie"6 at the head of the Treasury, requested that all thouila Members who had notices of motion on the paper w? postpone them, so as to enable the House to go s Committee on the Irish Poor-law, and he would hilp,x give the example by postponing his own motion "- Mon Mr. SHAW next. s°. cl sl then withdrew his motion, as di Dr. Bowring and several other Members. SPANISH BONDHOLDERS. Dr. BOWRING said that as the Noble Lord ( 1 ""% o ttl Bentinck) had withdrawn his motion for inquiring I v the relations of the bondholders with the Spsni sb „ded vernment, he wished to ask him what course he inters to pursue. . 0 0 Lord GEORGE BENTINCK said that he hat i v:4 poned his motion out of courtesy to his Noble % s tet the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, but that after •L' t bs; he should move an address to the Queen, pray l &eo decisive measures might be taken for obtaining for the creditors of the Spanish Government. CHINA. The following Members were appointed a 5816' 6 ,910 mittee to investigate the state of our commercial relj o r with China:—Mr. Francis Baring, Mr. Beckett, Dr. go, ring, Mr. Brown, Mr. Cardwell, Lord Courtentl: Ewart, Mr. Harcourt, Mr. Matheson, Mr. Moffsti c i Sheil, Mr John Abel Smith, Mr. Spooner, an George Staunton. GENERAL FAST. f On the motion of Sir G. GREY the thanks 0 ,6 t, House were given to Dr. Dealtry for his sermon groi Margaret's Church yesterday, on the subject of General Fast. PUBLIC WORKS (IRELAND/. t iet ° , Mr. J. O'CONNELL, before the House we e : a dft Committee, begged to draw its attention to the 0 0 __: pg evils that would result from putting the laboure7suifl, the public works in Ireland, the doing of which 1 5 0 10 he believed, be only consigning them to misery and a speedy death. In order to show 'Prue' tent of the evil that was likely to ensue the tlemsn read several letters from clergymen and °- 110 officials in Ireland stating their apprehensions c c ,,,:ott subject. The Hon. Member then read several es l , -- the from the Freeman's Journal, giving a description c' distress in Cavan, Longford, Kildare, Waterford , r ne other parts of Ireland, stating that persons holding "'",!, Ron' o ther two, three, and four acres of land, were reduced Wet,great destitution as those who had no land wh ate .o These poor people had to t his m oment borne ti!ori, sufferings with the greatest patience and res iguatl t o and he thought this should give them a ! o stronger claim on the Governme nt to preserve ttnr, from starvation. He implored the Government to into , fere even now, and exert themselves to avert the Ow annihilation of the people of Ireland. ble Mr. S. O'BRIEN concurred with the Honour.s,, Member for Kilkenny, that the mode the W u n.s the disbanding of the labourers from she P orks was proposed to be carried into thong effect ht "tub, ~, produce the greatest mischief. He s „, Bilk relief Committees, to be appointed under the ne t o should have commenced their labours long S O „set the transfer from the one mode of relief to theri e s could be brought about rive effectively, and wit; the suffering to the people. He hoped the appeal f t of Hon. Member for Kilkenny would have the en t he inducing the Government to come forward nos , at eleventh hour, and do something to avert the wb° destruction of the people. Mr. LABOUCHERE said, that the greatest cscortris was necessary in removing the labourers from the w e or and though twenty per cent. of the labourers oc iis cre dered to be struck off on the 20th inst., a great t se; tion was left to the Irish Government to aPP l ioie li order as it might think advisable. The accounts 10 0 1 . 11 „ they had of late from Ireland were 133U 0 u, cheering. —( Hear , hear.) Provisions were flow n :0! the country in great abundance. Thus provil 3o the Government, in leaving the providing of l' o e s lic!: visions to private enterprise, were correct in that „ro'', and in the anticipations they had formed of its 5- 0 147, In the port of Limerick alone he had accounts ° joie', that 23,000 tons of bread-stuffs had been import e el ity September last, and there were 150 vessels at PO the Shannon laden with provisions. eh e le I Mr. SHAW thought it unsaf e to remove t "f bourers from the works by any strict rule—et e i , s # tr till the relief committees were appointed, as ; L s' e' means the transfer from the one mode of relic' other would be less felt. t lem j! Sir GEORGE GREY said if the Hon. Gel i d 0 would refer to the papers which had been furnish e id morning he would find that the relief works 0" . 00 i 0 Id be discontinued until the relief committees wer e - se , operation ; he would also find that an lucre ° C O' l 250,000 men had recently taken place I°4 nexion with some of the works. From t b " o', report of the Board of Works it appecT i p,l the farmers had experienced some di ffi culty in ewirie, h ." persons to work at field labour. What his Roth je had stated was not that a simultaneous reduction viel persons employed on the public works would talc e e 'o o in every locality, but a gradual reduction. Itslit p ; when such reduction should take place, and the h 0 0.4 being left to the Board of Works. There 045 ,,,d1 1° ' employment now in field labour for those who '1" 1)0 the public works. e Lord G. BENTINCK said he could not a l l- pe last observation of the Right Hon. Baronet the 0 6 tars- of State for the Home Department to pessZ l isro; some notice. That Right Hon. Baronet had 1 ",,i0X 0 the House that, although cultivation might heg,,w il eaj in some parts of Ireland, yet it had been disconnt k y r other parts from causes over which the Govern be no influence ; but when the House recollected 0°4,1 ing letter of the Earl of Besborough, in Janus7 s pf o f to Lord John Russell, urging him to cause ;to of seed to be sent to Ireland, and statitt e li there were many parts of Ireland in 1 ".;i0 ° ,,0' was not possible for the farmer to obtain seed the assistance of the Government. When the 10 9 0 also recollected that Captain Wynn sent a lettero de 4 same effect, and then that the Government 0 03 . 0 , em,i, to that House in the first fortnight of the sess' ° 4o ,ro announced that it was their intention to advance 1,0 0 , 4 for seed ; and further, that it was not till the e' re ye,r, hoar—till they had given the whole Irish peoP r ig , s e to believe that they would receive assistance ir t ;', J' 4 l o Government ; and further still, that at t 'es I tbe e 0 moment the Government bad disappointed - rod D~ was perfectly justified in saying that the G oi , oa e , B O / 00 0 had exercised a most pernicious influence over tR i vation of the soil. ,Why, when there wer e tO e d farmers in Ireland who, thinking the Governed, bed prepared to make the advances they had prortst when they recollected that the Lord-Lieut ee— oec r o pressed the Government not to furnish gree t 1 0 ,/ but corn seeds, and that th e farmer s f el ii led to believe that they would plied with corn s ee d, an d w h e n tu e l I ) " induced the farmers to purchase gcc eo P r i,4l l out of their own funds, the Chancellor of th e ei c e‘ quer now came down to the House and told th o l) people, in this place, that the 50,000/. was to hero t b not for corn seed, but for the green crop, w, „ i b 0' would not require till the summer, and wict" Tbe," only be useful for turnips, parsnips, and grass. igh sty fore, he (Lord G. Bentinck) wanted to kn e ° l9 , o oll# under these circumstances, her Majesty's ut co o l were not most blameable with respect to they had taken with regard to the Kg of seed. Then he could not allow 0 0 of the observations of the Right Hon. Gen tled 1 1 3 , Secretary for Ir e la n d t o p ass without observa tt e had glori fi ed himself and the Government to ' re having supplied various places in Ireland w ith lions. [LEFT SPEAKING.] MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) HAY NLATIZETs. SMITIIFIZLD. — Meadow Hay, 215 s to 31 165 ; Clover ditto 31 5s to 31 15s ; and Straw, 11 lOs to 11 14s per load. A full average supply and a heavy demand. CUMBERLAND. — Meadow Hay, 318 s to 41; Clover ditto, 31 5s to 41 14s; and Straw, 11 12s to 11 Ms per load. Supply but moderate, and trade firm. WHITECHAFIL.—Meadow Hay, 21 5s to 31 15s; Clover ditto, 31 5s to 51 ; and Straw, 1/ lOs to 11 14s per load. Trade dull, at the above quotations. MEAT MATCHETS. LEWES, MAncti 23.—We had a very slow inquiry here to-day, at barely stationary prices : Beef, from 2s 6d to 43 2d; Mutton, 3s Gd to ss; Veal, 4s 4d to 4s 8d; and Pork, 4s to 4s 6d per 81bs. No other reports have come to hand. ra-z1VG.a.713 AND LEADENHALL. We had a very dull trade here to-day on the following terms :—Beef, from 2s 4d to 3s 6d; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 4d ; Lamb, 5s to 6s ; Veal, 4s to 4s 10d ; and Pork, 33 4d to 4s 10d per Sibs by the carcase. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the Week ended Ifareli 25, 1847, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales per Imperial Quarter. WHEAT. BARLEY. BARLEY.' OATS. I I RTE. REINS. I PEAS. PRIGS • • I 1 758 10,1 ils ltd 311 3d 66s Sd 1 51s 11 d i7s 2d The Duties on Foreign Grain are new suspended. FIRE AT THE WESTMINSTER FRENCH PROTESTANT CllURCH.—Yesterday forenoon, shortly after the commence ment of divine service in the Westminster French Protes tant Church, Bloomsbury-street, St. Giles's, the congregation was thrown into a state of considerable alarm, by a report, being raised that the sacred edifice had taken fire. It ap pears that for some few minutes a strong smell of burning wood was experienced, but nothing particular was thought of that circumstance, until dense bodies of smoke commenced issuing from under the flooring boards. It then became ap parent that a fire was burning under the floor of the Wilding. The service was immediately stopped, and several persons having procured buckets of water, they were discharged upon that portion of the church on fire. At the same time intel ligence of the outbreak was sent to the engine stations. Numerous engines of the brigade quickly attended, and the firemen, upon removing some of the flooring boards, found that the joisting, &c., had become ignited, owing to a defect in the hot air flue used for warming the building, and there is no doubt that had the outbreak taken place at night, after the church was closed, that it would have been destroyed. As it is the damage is not very considerable. One of the fire men was left to watch the spot and the service was resumed. THE ARMY.-D EATH OF COLONEL LINDSAY, LATE OF TILE. 78T11 H ICUILA NDERS. —lntelligence has been re ceived of the death of this distinguished officer, which took place a short time before the departure of the last mail at Kandy, in the island of Ceylon. He entered the service as Ensign in 1794, but was for some years subsequently em ployed in home and minor services. In 1811 he proceeded to Java, and was present in the actions of the 22d of August and 16th of September. In the latter he commanded eight companies of the 78th Highlanders, and for his conduct on the field received a medal. In 1814 he served during the campaign of Holland, and took part in the bombardment of Antwer. His commissions we re thus dated—Ensi g n, ' Jul y 3, 1794; Lieutenant, August 22, 1794; Captain, November 22, 1801; Major, January 4, 1810; Lieut.-Colonel, Nov. 25, 1813; and Colonel, July 22, 1830. Although retired from the army for some years, he was specially allowed to retain his rank. REPORTED CONFESSION OF PLATT'S, THE MURDERER. —During Monday it was currently reported that Platts, who was on Saturday last convicted of the murder of Collis, at Chesterfield, had freely and unreservedly confessed to having been a direct party in that horrible tragedy , . It will be re collected that there were three individuals concerned in it, Matta, Morley, and a person at present unknown ; and that Morley died before the body of Collis was discovered, and, of course, before Platts was taken into custody; no clue having yet been obtained as to the name of the third man. 'We immediately instituted an inquiry into the truth of the statement respecting Platts' reported confession, and we are inta-med that, in the presence of several magistrates, Platts made a statement which, although of a very rambling de scription, left on their minds no doubt whatever of his guilt. We are not enabled to say more at present; but it must be very satisfactory to the public to know that the verdict of the jury has been so early admitted to be just. Platts' con duct during his trial showed an almost entire insensibility to the position in which he was placed ; and we understand that since then his behaviour has not materially improved. We believe the execution is fixed to take place on Thursday week, April I.—Derby Mercury of yesterday. LOSS OF A rRENCII GOVERNMENT STEAMER.- We learn from Captain Guird, of the French brig Irma and Thomas, arrived at this port yesterday from Senegal, that the French Government steamer Charade was wrecked off I that port on the day he left, and from 25 to 30 of her crew I were lost.— Charlton Courier, Feb. 25. tAST A quarter ‘24 this corny India Housi BPecial for t bon of the c orresponds t error-Gene 4 aia of Sat of this Corm I st of July, Commons, prietors ma tpondence i delay." _At twelrc n ogg, the tors, enterei havin g been this " T c h o a u t r , t h i Sattara, ai have b een fully rept( Control for the Comm' Pondence v and the Go' the ex. 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