The Sun. — London, England, 1847-03-13 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING, Saturday, March 13, will be performed Doni zetti's Opera, LI:CIA DI LAMMERMOOR. Lucia, Mad.Castellan; Enrico, Signor Coletti; Bidebent, Signor Solari ; and Edgardo, Signor Fraschinl. To conclude with the admired New and Original Grand Ballet, CORALIA; on, Lit CHEVALIER. INCONSTANT. Corolla, Mdlle. C. Rosati; the Knight t iuliebrand, M. Paul 'laglioni ; Squire, M. Geuriet ; Bertha, Male. Petit; Page. Mettle. Vonore; Duke, M. Gosselin ; Fraisondin, M. Venefra; Fisherman, M. di Wattle. The doors *pen at Half-past Seven. The Opera to commence at Eight o'elock. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Nobility, Gantry, Subscribers, and the Public, are respectfully Informed, that a GRAND EXTRA PERFORMANCE will take place on THVIZSDAY NEXT, March lb, when will be performed llinrs Opera of LA SONNAMBULA, Ataina, Madame Castellan ; Lisa, Madame Solari ; Count Rodolfo, 431 .4. F. Lablache ; Alessi°, Sig. Giubilei ; Elvino, Sig. Gardoni. With various Entertainments in the BALLET Department. In 'which will appear Mdlle. Rosati, Madame Petit Stephan, Mdlle. Marie Taglioni, M. Paul Taglioni, &e. Also, a Selection from LUCIA DI DonizettrsLAMMERMOOR. favourite Opera, entitled In. which Signor Fraschinl will appear. To conclude with a new Ballet, in Two Tableaux, by M. Paul Tag- Dont, the mu sic by Signor Pugni , ent i tled THEA ; OLT, LA FEE AUX FLEURS. Principal characters by Mdile. C. Rosati, 3idlle. Marie Taglioni, M. Paul Taglioni, &c. The following are the prices of Boxes and Stalls for this occa sion :—Boxes on the Pit Tier, Four Guineas ; on the Ground Tier, Five Guineas ; on the First Pair, Four Guineas ; on the Second Pair, Three-and-a-Half Guineas; Pit Stalls, 218. ; Gallery Stalls, ss. Applications to be made at the Box-office of the Theatre. ROYAL IT ALUN OPERA, COVENT GARDEN, Established for the purpose of rendering a more perfect performance of the Lyric Mania than has hitherto been attained in this country. Under the Direction and Management of Mr. BEALE. The Nobility. Gentry, and Patrons of Music, are respectfully in formed 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 establigsed works of Cimaro3a, Mozart, Rossini, Meyerbeer, and others of the more modern Italian School, including Operas by Benin', Dont aetti, Mercadante, and Verdi, on a scale of the utmost perfection in every department ; to which intent the mana::ement has assemb'ed a Company embracing the greatest and most varied talent in Europe. PRIMI SOPRANI.—Madame Grist and Madame Persiani (her first appearance in London for three years), Madame Ronconi and Ifdlle. Steffanoni (of the Theatre La Scala, in Milan, her first ap pearance in this couutry). CONTRALTL—Signora Alboni (of the Theatre La Scala, Milan, tad of the Imperial Theatre in Vienna, her first appearance in this country), 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 Milan, and of the Imperial Theatres in Vienna and St. Petersburgh, his 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 irst appearance in this country), Signor Angelo Alba (of the Theatre Royal, Madrid, his first appearance in this country), and Signor P•lonlni (of the Imperial Theatre, Vienna, kb first appear ance in this country.) PRIM' BASSI COJIICI —Signor Pietro Ley (of the Theatre Royal Madrid, his first appearance in this country), and Signor Agostino Rovere (of the Theatres Royal, Naples, Milan, Vienna, and St. Pe tersburgh, his first appearance in this country). Seconde Donne—Madame Antoieetta Mollidori (of the Theatre La Scala, in Milan), Mademoiselle Amalie Llnari, Mademoiselle Luigina Bellini. Steconde Tenore—Gignor 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 Zingers will complete the Vocal Department. Chorus Master— 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 is the theatre by Messrs. Flight and Son. Organist—Mr. V. Novelle. The BILLET, of a brilliant and costly character, will close the performance 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 Elssler ; and, during the season, the following eminent Danseuses will appear —Premieres Danseuse—Mademoiselle Dutra latre (ssf the Grand Opera, Paris), and Mademoiselle Plunkett (of the Grand Opera, Paris), Mademoiselle Bertin (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 cicala, Milan), and Mademoiselle Fuoco (of the Academie Royale de Paris). Monsieur Petipa (of the Grand Opera, Paris), Monsieur Gontie (of the Theatre Royal, Madrid), Monsieur Ferdinand° 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 Mel/on. Regisseur de la Danse Mr. O'Bryan. Composer—Signor Alessandro Corral (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 B. 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 can 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 of 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. THIS EVENING . Will be performed the new Grand Opera. entitled MATILDA OF HUNGARY. Count Magnus, Mr. Borrant; Podiebrad, Mr. Rani. sen ; Mathias, Mr. Weiss ; Matilda, Miss Rainforth; LIMN Miss R. Isaacs. To conclude with a new Ballet, entitled SPANISH GALLAN TRIES. Principal characters by MM. Croce, Adrien, Tell; Mdlles, Baderna, Louise, Adele, St. Louin, and Benard. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management •f Mr. It. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVF.NIXG Will be performed the Comedy of SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER. Mr. Hardcastle, Mr. W. Farren ; Sir Charles Marlow, Mr. Tilbury ; Young Marlow, Mr. Holl ; Tony Lumpkin, Mr. Buckstone ; Mrs. Hardeastle, Mrs. Glover ; Miss Hardcastle, Miss Julia Bennett ; Dolly, Miss Weulds. During the evening the Band will perform the Overture " Les Diamans de la Couronne," " The Beaufort Polka," " Albert" Waltz, and " The Camelias Polka." After which, the Petite Comedy of PERFECTION'. Sir Lawrence Paragon, Mr. Tilbury; Charles Paragon, Mr. Moll ; Sam, Mr. Clark; Kate O'Brien, Miss Reynolds ; Susan, Mrs. Numby. To conclude with the Original Grand Fairy Extravaganza, c Cled TIIE INVISIBLE PRINCE ; or, the Island of Tranoull PrinO)al characters by Mr. James Eland, niiss P.Horton, Mrs. L. S. Buckingham, Miss Reynolds, and Miss Julia Bennett. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. Under the 31anuement of Mrs. Keeley. Last Night of PARENTS AND GUARDIANS, and the ETON BOY THIS EVENING Will be performed the Drama, TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS. In which Mr. and Mrs. Keeley will appear. After which, the Farce of THE ETON BOY. Characters by Messrs. Wigan, Turner, Keeley, Miss Dickinson, and Miss Turner. To conclude with the splendid new Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE ENCHANTED FOREST. In which Mr. and Mrs. Keeley will appear, supported by the whole talent of the Company. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. I nder the direction of Madame Celeste THIS EVENING Will be performed an original Drama, called THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST ; a (Tipsy story. Cheap John, Mr. Wright ; Ishmael, Mr. 0. Smith ; the Kinehin, Mr. P. Bedford; Leybourne, Mr. Worrell ; Cynthia, Madame Celeste ; Lemuel, Miss Woolgar ; Starlight Bess, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; Lady Agnes, Miss Harding. To conclude with, DID YOU EVER SENIY YOUR WIFE TO CAMBERWELL ? Honeybun, Mr Wright ; Crank, Mr. 0. Smith ; Mrs. Honeybun, Miss Harding ; Mrs. Crank, Airs Matthews. PRINCES3'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. J. M. Maddox, sole Lussee and Manager. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Opera, entitled THE NIGIIT DANCERS. Albert, Mr. Allen ; Gisella, Miss Anne Romer. After which, a Concert by the New Orleans ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS. To conclude with the Comedy of SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER. Principal characters by Messrs. Wynn, Granby, Vining, Compton, Fisher, Cowell, Mrs. Stirling, Mrs. Hughes, and Mrs. Fosbroke. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John 3litchell. MONDAY EVENING Will be performed TIRIDATE ; ou, Comedie et Tragedie. Du bisson, M. Cartigny ; Adrien, M. Berou ; Mdlle. Dumesnil, Farguell ; Louise, Mdlle. Vallee. After which, the Comedie-Vaudevil'e, entitled UN MARI QUI SE DERANGE. Durosel, M. Lafont ; Bertholin, 31. Cartigny ; Amelle, Vallee ; Anais, Jtdlle. Fouquet. To conclude with a now comic Vaudeville, entitled LE ROI DES FRONT' NS. Thomas, M. A. Tousez ; Marinette, Mille. Fouquet. Boxes, 65., Pit, 3s. 6d. Stalls, 35.; Gallery, 2s. Doors 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 gERENADERS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. The celebrated ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, Pell, Harrington, While, Stanwood, and Germon, will have the honour of repeat ing their Inimitable ENTERTAINMENTS, at the above Theatre, THIS EVENING (Saturday), and every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. Doors open at Eight o'clock, And the Entertainment com mence at Half-past Eight. The MOItNING ENTERTAINMENT will take placs every MONDAY MORNING during Lent. The Performances will commence, each day, at half-past Two o'clock. The Programme will be varle,d on each occasion. Boxes, 4s. ; 2e. ; Amphitheatre, 2s. ASTLET•S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Proprietor, Mr. W. Ratty. Under the patronage of the Queen, Prince Albert, and other Members of the Royal Family. THIS EVENING Will be performed Sir WaIterSiCott'sKENILWORTFI ; •or, The Golden Days of England's Elizabeth. Entire change of the SCENES of the CIRCLE. The Royal Pa geant of Francis I. And the Performance of 31. Pablo Fanque and hie highly-trained Steed. To conclude with THE ROYAL FOX-HUNT; or, Life's Course of Man and Steed. Box-office open from eleven till Ilya o'clock.—Doors open at six and commence at half-past six o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. W. 13roadfoot. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessen, Mrs. Frances Davidge. THIS EVENING Will he performed a new Domestic Drama (founded on the Novel of the same mune), entitled LILLY DAWSON ; or, A Poor ClA's Story. Principal characters by Messrs. Lewi,, Johnson, Ileslop, Saville, Fhelps. Fredericks, Webb, Neville, Miss Terrey, Mrs. Yining, and Mrs. Saville. To conclude with the Barletta, called NICHOLAS NICKLERY ; or, Doings at Do-the-Boys Hall. In which Messrs. Lleslop, Johnson, Wilkinson, E. Stirling, Webb, Fredericks, Vining, Mrs. Williamson, Mrs, Saville, Miss Richardson, Miss Terrey, Miss Barham, Mrs. Daly, :cc., will appear. Box-office open from eleven till four o'clock. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. loxes, Is., Half price, 6d. ; Pit, 641.; Gallery, 3d. Private Boxes, 1/. Is. and 10s. 6d. THIS EVENING Will be performed WILDFIRE, THE GIPSY HORSE-STEALER ; or, The Fortunes and Chances of War. Characters by Messrs. Hicks, Dale, Searle, Bird, Raymond, Forman, Howard, 3liss Yin cant, Mrs. Lee, • Miss Pearce, &c. After IT bleb, THE 3IAGIC HARP OF ALTENBERG ; or, The crave of the Old Abbey Ruins. In which Mr. Hicks and 31iss Vin cent wtll pertorm. To conclude with BL.kCK WHISKER ; or, The Demon of Seven GREAT WES -- On Thursday legit EARN RAILWAY.—TRIAL OF SPEED.— of the Great Wes'teir. Gooch, the locomotive supe r i n t en d en t nq line, and Mr. M'Connell, the loco motive superintendent of North-W estern, or L ondon and Birmingham line, while riding upon the en g i ne " G reat Western," with th e twelve o'clock up express t ra i n f rom Exeter, tested th e t ruth on the broad gunge, the load being of the locomotive agent ap pears that up to the 30th milepostn sixty-five tens. It nine inches, the stroke being t Nent _ the steam was cut off at keeping his ordinary time. WithYth9nr' and the driver was the speed was found to be sixty.fourisinwer on the engine, power was subsequently increased, and the e s a t an hour. The off, when the speed increased to the rate of sixty-nine further cut per hour. The next quarter of a mile was 3'-nine miles performed at the rate of upwards of seve nt y miles p er hour, and the following mile was accomplished i n twelve seconds, th e wl:ole being at a velocity of seventy miles an hour. It is, indeed, a lii os , unnecessary to add that this is the greatest speed ever at tained by a locomotive engine. At the conclusion of the last-mentioned quarter the power was reduced to its ordintoy rate of working. It should be stated that the trial was made on a falling gradient of four feet per mile. The power of the engine was tested a second time, while passing over a level. The steam was cut off at 13i inches, and the rate was found to be 60 miles per hour. It is expected that a greater speed will be attained with the eight-wheeled engines, which are now being constructed by the Great Western Company, at their Swindon establiehmeut. COMPANIONTO THE PEERAGE, Now ready, complete in 2 vols., royal Bvo., beautifully printed In double columns, price 21. 10s. bound, and also in course of publica tion in Ten Monthly Parts, price ss. each, BURKE'S HISTORY OF T HE LANDED GENTRY: A GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY Ot the WHOLE of the UNTITLED ARISTOCRACY of ENG. LAND, SCOTLAND, and IRELAND. " A work in which every gentleman will find a domestic interest, as it contains the fullest account of every known family in the Unitcd Kingdom."—Messenger. Henry Colburn, Publisher , 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready, Vols. 111. and IV., Completing the Work, of THE HISTORY OF THE C APTIVITY OF NAPO LEON, AT ST. HELENA. By GENERAL COUNT MONTROLON. "These volumes conclude this very interesting work. The most valuable portion, although net, perhaps, the most interesting, is that in which the Count records the opinions of Napoleon upon events in which he had himseh been a prominent actor. These records are most valuable, as elucidations of the conduct of the Emperor in posi tions in which history has either misconstrued him, or been at fault to assign the true motives of his actiuns."—sa eekly Chronicle. Henry Culburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. LAST WEEK BUT UNIL H ENRY RUSSELL AT THE STRAND THEATRE. Composer of Woodman spare that Tree—lvy Green—The Gam bler's Wife —The Maniac—Ship on Fire—The Life Beat—l'm Afloat —Newfoundland Dog—and ether Popular Songs, will give his VOCAL ENTERTAINMENT THIS EVENING, AND EVERY EVENING. He will sing several new songs—The True Men of Old—lvy Green—Woodman spare that Tree—and the Demon Ship—Songs and incidents of Negro Life and Character. Boxes, 3s. ; Stalls, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery id. ; Private Boxes, I/. Is. Box-office opt n from One till Foer daily. THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, MARCH 13. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 31 ; Highest. 45 ; Noon, 45 BAROMETER, 30.33.—Wind W., fine. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BIUDGE Tills DAY. Morning .. 25 minutes after 10. I Evening .. S minutes after 11 1 - t „,. SECOND EDITION. triening AitlL LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1847. The Lords met at Five o'clock. The Earl of RIPON presented a petition from the Bir mingham and Worcester Railway Company, complain ing that the London and North-Western Railway Company had bought up the Birmingham and Oxford Railway, in order to defeat the policy of the Act passed last session. Lord LYNDHURST thought the petition should be re ferred to a Committee. The North-Western Company had purchased 38,000 shares, out of 50,000, in this com pany, in order to defeat its rival company. A short conversation ensued, in the course of which, the Marquis of LANSDUWNE suggested that the petition should be referred to the Railway Board. The further consideration of the subject was post poned to Tuesday, on which day Lord LYNDRUEST will move for the appointment of a Select Committee to in vestigate the allegations contained in the petition. Lord BROUGHAM, in presenting a petition from Black burn, complaining of the influx of Irish paupers, stated that paupers were sent over from Ireland by the land lords, who paid 2s. 6d. a head for their passage. The Earl of DEVON complained of this statement, as a reflection upon a highly-respectable body of men. Lord BROUGHAM was prepared to produce his inform. ants before a Select Committee, where they would on oath confirm the statements which they had made to him. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE defended the conduct of the Government in relieving the Irish poor in their pre sent state of extreme exigency. They had already in troduced a poor-law, the object of which was to impose as far as possible the support of the poverty of Ireland upon the property of Ireland. The subject then dropped. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, in answer to Viscount STRANGFORD, explained the present state of the nego tiations between her MAJESTY and the King of HANo vErt with respect to the jewels claimed by the latter Sovereign as heir looms. Their Lordships then adjourned. The Commons met at Four o'clock. In answer to Mr. H. BAILLIE, Lord Join; RUSSELL said that the Government did not intend to prohibit the exportation of corn from this country, for if the mer chant had a security that if he brought corn to this country he could re-export it, if he thought proper, he would bring it here, but if he were prohibited from re• exporting it, if he thought proper, he would avoid this market. The Custody of Offenders Bill and the Prisons Bill were respectively read a first time. Mr. SUEIL, in answer to Mr. HUME, stated that the authorities of the Mint would do their best to put a stop to the practice of giving policemen double pay when engaged in Mint prosecutions. On the motion for the reading the order of the day for the House going into Committee on the Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill, Lord JOIIN RUSSELL stated generally to the House what had been the proceedings of the Government with respect to the calamitous state of affairs at present existing in Ireland. The sum expended in relief to the destitute (luring the month of February, had been 944,1411. The number of persons employed had greatly increased; dur ing the week ending Feb. 6 Government had given em: ployment to 615,051 ; during that ending Feb. 27, to 780,268. The amount of task-work exacted from per sons in a weak state had been reduced, and some of the able bodied had endeavoured to take advantage of this arrangement, which had given rise to some irregularities. Anuther evil had been, that those labourers who were able to earn Is. 6d. a day were averse to the cultiva tion of the soil. The Government had therefore deter mined, as the season for ploughing and sowing came on, to reduce, as far as possible, the number of those em ployed on public works ; from the 20th of March they would be reduced 20 per cent., and orders had been given to take off the public works all persona receiving rations of soup or food. The Noble Lord then alluded to the memorial which bad been presented to him from the landlords of Ireland, and declared, amidst loud cheering, that he could not agree to the resolutions which those gentlemen had adopted, and which went to preclude the House from entertaining at all the question of out-door relief. He admitted that there was a great deal bestowed in private charity in Ire land, but it was by the poor on the very poor ; but there was no burden whatever imposed on the large ab sentee proprietor, who did not choose to contribute to private charities, and might avoid altogether any pay ment towards the support of the destitute ; and he knew of no way of providing for their support but by the measure before the House. His proposition was that if a person were starving he should be relieved in the workhouse so long as there was room in the workhouse, but out of the workhouse if be could not be afforded proper accommodation within it. With regard to the composition of the board of guardians, if ho thought the ex-officio guardians would use their power to annoy their Roman Catholic fellow-subjects, he would alter the com position of the board, but he entertained no such fears. He believed that they would see Tory, Whig, Radical, and Repealer, differing, as they no doubt would continue to do, on political questions, yet blended together in social compact, prepared to act together for the common weal, and to distribute justice without any bias from political feeling. He emphatically denied that the Irish proprietors, who were members of the Cabinet, had in fluenced its deliberations favourably towards property. They were prepared to bear the burden which might be imposed upon them, and it was with their sanction that he asked the House to go into Committee on the Bill. The House was subsequently addressed by Mr. Staf ford O'Brien, Mr. Gregory, Mr. D. Browne, Sir W. Molesworth, Mr Shave, and Sir B. Hall. The debate, on the motion of Sir W. CLAY, was ad journed till Monday. The report on the Drainage (Ireland) Bill was brought up, and the Bill ordered to be read a third time on Monday. The House adjourned at a Quarter-past One. A moral revolution has itterly subverted the social fabric of Ireland : a new edifice—an edifice based upon centuries of awful experience, and proportioned to the greater enlightenment of the Legislature of these times —has to be erected upon the ruins caused by that revo lution. It was from the agony of prophecy that were born the books of Sibylline wisdom ; and it is from the very torments of her present condition that Ireland is ex tracting the sureties of her future happiness. The old and accursed system, by which one entire moiety of her population was continued in a perpetual state of des. titution, has been slowly undermined by ages of in creasing woe—it has tottered to its foundations from the shocks administered by the late visitations of DIVINE PROVIDENCE—itS irrevocable doom was pro nouncedittusstt. last evening in th e s p eec h o f L or d J onN Richly as the proprietary of Ireland has deserved a retribution for the manifold wrongs by which they have reduced their country to a state of continual wretchedness, and rendered it at pe riodical intervals subject to the deathful scourge of famine, the Government is effecting the redemption of the innocent million without sacrificing the interests THE SETrif. of the culpable few. Ireland has hitherto been abandoned to the discretion of her landowners. Par titioned into enormous estates by the questionable munificence of successive monarchs, from ELI ZABETH downwards to WILLIAM - awarded to adventurers and loyalists in the way of either re compense or bounty Ireland has, from the re motest periods of her history, presented us only with one monotonous and deplorable spectacle of suffering. A cottier population has been multiplied on her soil to an extent that foreboded, from its com mencement, some great catastrophe like the one in which she is even now involved. An overwhelming majority of her community has existed for many generations under the ban of this terrible alternative—either to subsist by sufferance under the murderous extortion of her landlords, or to infest the island like a vast army of " gaberlunzies." By this evil system the maladies of Ireland have been frightfully multiplied, and under its shadow inendicity has become the national character istic. So enormously had these woes accu mulated, and so entirely had the poison of the scheme eaten into the very substance of the Irish constitution, that it required nothing less than an un paralleled crisis to effect the renovation of her decayed powers, and the eradication of the numerous diseases preying upon her vitals. It required a crisis of convulsions, for it is only by the throes of such a crisis that abuses are destroyed en masse, and the whole phy sical and moral condition of a people renewed. That crisis has arrived. Ireland has been stricken with starvation : her potato-grounds have become pits of vegetable corruption : her agriculture has been gene rally smitten by a mysterious and destructive power : millions of her people—millions accustomed at the best times to fare meagerly and live upon the doles of a precarious benevolence—have been visited with famine and disease, and the utter deprivation of all the ordinary means of obtaining employment. Out of those abysses of affliction, however, are emerging not merely their present redemption, but their ultimate and permanent prosperity. Government has not only advanced manfully and generously to the salvation of the starving peasantry, but it has had the courage and the wisdom to conceive a scheme by the operation of which the recurrence of all• the miseries formerly incidental to Ireland will be impossible. By the imposition of local rates proportioned to the local rental, the local destitution will henceforth re ceive a local provision. That is the secret of the measures introduced to Parliament by the Ministry. It is the secret of political economy and of legislative charity. It is the secret of the poor-laws. Grievous as has been the clamouring against the introduction of a plan like this into Ireland, it is, nevertheless, to be introduced at once, and to be universally applied. Is there not in this determination of the Legislature a forethought compatible with its reputation, a bold. ness equivalent to its activity, a justice propor tioned to its extraordinary liberality ? Let any man review the course pursued by the Government since the commencement of the evils now rife in Ire land, let him consider how its generosity has vied in its increase with the extension and development of those evils, let him remember that whereas 30,000 only were at first employed on public works, the number had risen, on the 27th of February last, to no less than 708,228 ; that whereas the amount expended upon relief works was in September only 54,878/., it reached in February to upwards of 944,0001. ; that arrangements were made under its direction for the purchase of seed to the value of 50,000/., and for the elevation of the provi sions in store to the extent of about 10,000 tons—let him remember the ardour, and the energy, and the incessant toil of the Legislature in behalf of Ireland from the very opening of the session, and then de signate this Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill a rash Bill, an onerous, or an injudicious Bill. The accusatio❑ is impossible when the measure is considered in con nexion with the various arrangements making apart from this proposition itself. The drainage plan, the recla mation of waste land, the improvements of the fisheries, of the ports and of the harbours, would be severally palliative—if the matter were considered as requiring anything like palliation—of the i troduction of the poor-law into Ireland. But the introduction of that system of relief to pauperism requires no extenuation, as it is only synonymous with the rights of the Irish peasantry. Much might be written upon the philosophy of the arguments in favour of the Government measure which were advanced candidly and simply, and yet most earnestly and most impressively, by Lord JOHN RUSSELL. Such an extension of our remarks, how ever, is altogether superfluous. IVe shall turn from the consideration of that speech to one of the numberless schemes which have latterly presented themselves as cal culated to assist the Irish multitude in redeeming their own condition. 'While the zeal of the agriculturists is directed to the irrigation, and manuring, and drainage of the soil for the purposes of growing crops of a nutritious and profitable character, it i s most desirable that one branch of agricultural enter prise shall not be overlooked. The branch to which we allude is of a peculiarly national description, and its prosperity would in a great measure ensure the prosperity of the agriculturists and the manu facturers of Ireland. We mean, of course, the systematic cultivation of flax. At pre sent we have not an oppportunity of entering more into the enumeration of the advantages certain to accrue from the culture of flax than by extracting a brief, but significant, calculation from Mr. Dicz. SON'S work upon this important commodity, page 167. That gentleman there mentions the circum stance of a tenant of the Dean of Dromore growing on three statute acres flax to the amount of nearly 120 stones, which, sold at the mode rate price of 15s. per stone, would give a return of 901. Under all circumstances, however, says the writer quoted, this farmer " has a certainty of 100 stones, which will realise him 751." Here are inferences from that calculation which cannot be treated lightly, and the more especially at this juncture : " This flax is now in process of conversion into cambric pocket-handkerchiefs, is capable of being spun to 30 hanks to the pound, and is to be spun by hand. Mark, now the employment this will give. "It will give constant employment for twelve months to 132 women to spin it ; 18 weavers will be occupied a like period in weaving it; and it will employ 40 women a year to hem-stitch (or vein) the handkerchiefs; thus giving constant employment for twelve months to 190 persons. " It is curious to trace the result of the process which this flax is now undergoing. It will produce 210 webs of cam bric, each web containing five dozen handkerchiefs; each dozen will be worth 405., and the entire, when finished, will be worth 2,1001. While the Government is taking a comprehensive survey of the capacities of the Irish soil and of Irish industry, the cultivation of flax should by no means be disregarded ; it should form one of the accom paniments of the Poor-law introduction. By later • intelligence received from America, it would appear that the dissensions excited in the Senate . by the 3,000,000 Bill give little promise of immediate termination. One proposition for the amicable settlement of the Mexican warfare is suc. ceeded by another in quick succession, and all of them equally calculated to effect their avowed object. Mr. CALHOUN, at one moment, proposes a most extravagant scheme for bringing the adja cent republic to its senses, namely, the establish ment of a continuous line from the mouth of the Rio Grande, by the river, to El Passo, and so westwards towards the northern extremities'of California. By this plan it is presumed by Mr. CALHOUN that the coun. trymen of SANTA ANNA will be very solicitous to enter into a cordial alliance with their invaders. Most probable inference ! The filching from them of their most valuable boundaries would render a people ex ceedingly solicitous for a-friendly alliance with their robbers ! Mr. Cass, on the contrary, is ambitious of be holding the valorous SCOTT and the indomitable ZA CHARY TAYLOR marching triumphantly into the centre of the Mexican federation. The wrangling of the Senate is answered in a somewhat contemptible man ner by the soldiers of the United States. General TAYLOR still continues comfortably located at Mon terey, while his successor tarries at Brazos Santiago, waiting the arrival of transports, troops, and ammu nition. Among the defenders one fresh movement is alone reported, namely, that SANTA ANNA, at the head of 15,000 men, had withdrawn from San Luis Potosi, and proceeded inwards towards the capital. From such unaccountable fluctuations as these, the war between Mexico and the United States gives every indication of being protracted and blood- - LO , NDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARC fl_ 13, 1847. less. If the latter charactristic be only visible in the strife, we shall not haveto mourn the former with So much earnestness. The Railway Commissioners have published their first report, in pursuance )f the resolution of the [louse of Commons, " that ill railway Bills shall be eferred to the Commissioners for their report to the House upon certain points previously to such Bills being considered in Commitees of the House." In the present instance the projects of the South-Eastern Company, are eight in numbe, five of which are placed in Group No. 1, and the remainder in No. 3, form the subjects of the report. The Commis sioners state the impossibility of their being respon sible for the correctness of the information that could only be obtained from the companies themselves, but at the same time do full justice to the company in the present instance, for the great readiness they ex hibited in supplying the requisite answers to their inquiries, and state that they see no reason to doubt the accuracy of the information so given. In consequence of the atove resolution, every existing company applying for fresh powers to Par liament, must render a complete account of its stewardship, and show in mhat manner, and to what extent, it has executed the powers granted by any former Act or Acts, and the report is to state the opinion of the Commissioners thereon, and also as to any special provisions with which it may in any case be expedient to accompany the grant of any new powers. A salutary check will thus be held over the several companies, as there are few, indeed, that will not have occasion to apply to the Legislature at some time or another, and the exposi to which they will necessarily be subjected will prevent any abuse of the trusts reposed in them. These inquiries, however, appear, in the present report, to have been restricted to the pecuniary affairs of the companies; and we should gladly have seen them further extended to the nature and sufficiency of the accommodation provided for the public, in return for the virtual monopoly con ceded to them, the cleapness and moderation of their fares; tolls, and charges; the number of trains running every day ; and whether any and what additional number would be required for the public convenience, and the giving of every due facility to the traffic, whether of passengers or goods, particularly the number of third-class trains so dispatched ; the speed attained, and the goodness of the carriages provided for the poorer classes. We conceive that information on all these points would be extremely useful, and that special provisions may fairly be in troduced into the Acts of any of the companies who have hitherto failed in their duty to the public, re quiring them to amend in any of these particulars where they have been found in fault, before any new powers are conceded. The eight Bills now applied for will, if sanctioned by the Legislature, enable the South-Eastern Corn. pany to raise additional capital to the extent of 3,025,7501., and to borrow 1,007,810/, while by the former Acts, twenty in number, it had power to raise a capital of 6,415,0331., and to borrow 2,218,7101. Of their capital money there has been received 4,290,075/. Bs. 10d., and 3,656,420/. 55. re• mains to be paid, showing that the company have sustained a loss of 244,5041. 6s. 2d., in conse quence, it is stated, of the forfeiture of some of the earliest shares, which, when sold, in many instances did not realise the amount of the calls due upon them. Another singular circumstance connected with the company is, that on various occasions they issued to their proprietors shares of a lower pecuniary amount than their original shares, but which, never theless, were entitled to equal dividends. We find, therefore, shares of 50/., 25/., 321., 331. 6s. Bd., and 301., all of which participate equally in the profits of the company. The Commissioners, however, are of opinion that, as these new shares were issued to the holders of the original shares, the interests of the pub lic will not be materially affected by these transac tions, provided that in any future calculation of profits, with a view either.to the revision of fares, or the sale of the railway, under the provisions of the 7th and Bth Vic., c. 85, the different shares are reckoned at the amounts at which they were re spectively issued, and not as SOL shares, as they have been erroneously termed in share lists. The different dealings of the company, either by way of purchase or loan, are set forth, and a particular re ference is made to the purchase of Folkstone Har bour, which, if the transaction were now pending, or if the arrangements were to be authorised by any of the present Bills, the Commissioners would think it their duty to report specially on. They now, how ever, only allude to it as an example of a transaction to which in future the attention of Parliament ought to be specially directed. The Commissioners most justly reprobate in the strongest manner a custom which has extensively prevailed, and which may be considered as having received the tacit per mission of Parliament, and for which, therefore, no peculiar blame is ascribable to the company. It is the custom of directors signing the subscription con tracts for large sums on the understanding that it is and that they ar e sums for which t This the solelytnhoety tappear behalf liable ocif on no e n company, fortheir contracts.the sums Commissioners state to be a violation of the real spirit of the standing orders, although it may be con sidered a technical compliance therewith, and we fully admit the sufficiency of the reasons adduced for that opinion ; they also question the propriety of compa nies making the Parliamentary deposit out of funds authorised to be raised for other purposes. We would gladly have seen some allusion to the open third class carriages, exposed to all the incle mency of the weather, and without seats for the passengers to sit down, the impropriety of which has been exposed by our correspondent " VIGILANS" on a former occasion. There is no notice either of the incr ease of fare s adopted immediately after the terminatio n of last session, after they had pressed the moderat ion of th eir former charges on the should be granted. These are subj ec t s we ll worthy the attention of the Legislature on thepresent occasion. extenso. We shall, on an ea rl y occasion, give the report in A Vienna letter, of the Ist, announces the arrival of the Queen of BAVARIA in that capital, with the inten tion of making a long visit. Her MAJESTY alighted at the Palace of the Archduke ALBERT, who is her son in-law. A letter from Constantinople, of the 18th ult., in the Augsburg Gazelle, says :—" The letter which King OTLIO has written to the SULTAN relative to the difference that has arisen with respect to M. Mussunus, is said to be couched in the most con ciliatory terms. King Orrro assures the SULTAN of his most friendly intentions, but at the same time complains strongly of the conduct of M. MUSSURUS which be attributes to malevolent intentions. His MA JESTY adds that, in testifying to M. Mussunus his dis pleasure at his conduct relative to Colonel KARATASSOS, he had no intention of offending either the SULTAN or the Divan." Madrid journals of the 6th instant have arrived. The Hera/do states, that henceforth a monthly report of the operations in the Finance Department of the Go vernment is to be publikhed in the Gafeta, showing a report of the receipts and expenses of the Treasury, the general balance, &c. In the Chamber of Deputies' the debate on the Address still continues. 01113,•PIIIIffe The Barcelona Fomento, of the sth, publishes another most ferocious "Bandu" of the Captain-General of Catalonia, BRETON, against such as may assist or connive at the Montemoliaist movements. MA)Rrn BOLIA, MARCH 6.—The Three per Cents. closed at 3 . 0% for c.ish; the Five per Cents. at 19,4; the Passives at 5%; and the Coupons at 17. We have received the Paris papers of Thursday. The Journal des Debuts has a long article, written for the purpose of allaying the alarm which prevails in consequence of the continued increase in the price of corn. It says-- " The prices of corn have been rising generally and con tinually throughout Western Europe. In two-thirds of France the hectolitre (22 imperial gallons) is at about 401. ; but the price is still greater in Belgium. It is also very nearly the average price in England. It is asked if this high price is at its utmost reach. and, if it should continue, to what point it w ill at t a i n . E ver ybody asks what is to be done to prevent a recurrence of such extreme dearness of the most necessary of all the provisions of life. The increase at this moment is cawed from the stores in the entrepOts having only very limited quantities left in them. It is by Mar seilles, Havre, and Bordeaux that we receive the supply that is indispensable. No one has any doubt of the existence of this supply. Nature this year has performed this act of com pensation which she never refuses; penurious towards several regions, one of whi c h un f or tunately is ours, she has been 1 liberal towards others. Therefore bread-corn will not fail. However, at this period of the year, the transport from abroad ia ezceedingly difficult, and indeed, almost impossible. Corn cannot be brought in, at least in any great quantities, from America, because the internal canals of the new conti nent, by which it must be brought to the ports, are frozen. From a similar cause, the present is not the period at which the port of Odessa draws from the country from which it is supplied the quantity of corn it exports. We have in onr granaries and stores enough to enable us to wait for arrivals, however long they may be delayed. But the absence of large quantities of imported corn in the entrepits is not the less felt, and nothing more is necessary to cause a rise in price. As long as this cause subsists it cannot be expected that the rise should stop. Such is the rule of trade. Whenever the demand exceeds the supply in a large pro portion, the prices increase. Nevertheless, if there be dis• turbances to aggravate the state of things, and the effect of which would be to convert into au absolute dearth what is now only a rise in price, but against which every precaution has been taken by the Government, and which the good sense of the citizens would immediately put down, there is every reason to hope that the probability of large arrivals at the end of April will moderate the rise." The Debats concludes by arguing in favour of free trade, as one of the greatest remedies for the calamities of bad seasons, as it tends to keep up such an intercourse between nations as to enable them to rely upon each other for the mutual supply of their wants. The Constitutionnel has the following on the Bill before the Chamber of Deputies, authorising the employment of steam frigates in towing ships laden with corn:— " The committee, charged to examine the demand of 1,037,386 f., for the keeping up for six months of steamers to be employed in towing vessels laden with corn, has ter minated its labours, and the Bill will be discussed to-mor row. The committee proposes to accord the credit asked for. However, the report does not omit pointing out certain objections that may be brought against the Bill. First of all, astonishment is expressed that the royal navy is not in a position to effect from its own resources the towage of vessels laden with corn. The Chamber is by no means sparing of funds when the object is to develope the re sources of this department, but it is on condition that it will be able to suffice for all eventualities, and that so simple an incident as towing ♦essels in the Dardanelles, the Straits of Gibraltar, and the Channel, shall not take it unawares, and cause it to ask fur fresh aid. Secondly, the motive cannot be understood which has caused a preference to be givon for this duty of towing to large frigates of 450 horse-power, over steamers of from 160 to to 220 horse-power. The latter burn less than half the quantity of fuel, and they can tow several vessels together; they, in fact, do this daily in Al geria. They are, no doubt, less rapid; but, OR the other hand, it is easy to increase their number. These steamers of 160 horse-power are more useful for this service than a frigate of 540, such as the Vauban, which is to be so employed, and they consume a much less quantity l of coals. Besides, there are at the present moment several steam corvettes of from 160 to '220 horse-power, lying unemployed, to make use of which would effect a great economy. Is it not to be feared that the desire to give high commands has had much to do with the choice of vessels, of from 450 to 540 horse power ?" It is not alone the desire to give high commands that has had to do with the choice of these large steam frigates as tug boats. Under pretence of tugs, France will have a large fleet of steam frigates in the Darda nelles, ready to take advantage of those hostilities which her Ambassador, M. PIS CATORY, is endeavouring to excite between Greece and Turkey, and to aid the Bey of TUNIS against his liege lord ; while, at the same time, by having a similar fleet, under a similar pretence, in the Straits of Gibraltar, the Mediterranean will, for a time, be completely blockaded, in fact turned into a French lake. We trust that the movements of these steam tugs will be narrowly watched. "It is rumoured," says the Courrier Francais, "that the suppression of the native regiments forms part of a complete plan for re-organising the army of Africa, which is to be carried into execution at the beginning of spring." The Chamber of Deputies held no public sitting on Thursday. The Peers were occupied with the consi deration of 'various Bills recently passed in the other House, but which only possessed a local interest. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Thursday at 78f. 10c. ; the Five per Cents. 115 f. 90c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,2731 75c. ; Rouen, 866 f. 25c.; Havre, 685 f. ; Great Northern, 623 f. 75c. ; Avignon, 817 f. 50c. ; Vierzon, 5701. ; Bordeaux, 520 f.; Boulogne, 4011 f. ; Basle, 205 f. ; Dieppe, 330 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 4461. 25c. ; Tours and Nantes, 445 f.; Paris and Lyons, 480 f. ; Lyons and Avignon, 480 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 451 f. 25c. ; Troyes and Montereau, 305 f. ; Domestic Debt, 291. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Malicial2. Boulogne and Amiens, 133 —Namar and Liege, 4%—erleans and Bordeaux, 7—Paris and Lyons, GA —Sambre and Meuse, 6% —West Flanders, 2%. We are rejoiced to learn that John Penny, Esq., of Sherborne, the proprietor of the Sherborne Journal, and a gentleman to whom the Liberal party in Dorsetshire are under great obligations, has been appointed to the office of Distributor of Stamps for the county of Dorset, vacant by the death of the late E. H. Keasberry, Esq. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. (RECEIVED THIS DAY. ) MOLECOMB HILL RACES.—FRIDAY. The Molecornb Cup of 301., added to a Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each ; for hunters; gent riders. Mile and half. (8 Subs.) Lord A. G. Lennox's The Sledge, 4 yrs (Owner) 1 Mr. S. G. L. Fox's Black Bess, aged 2 Five others started. Won by a length. Sweepstakes of 3 soya. each, and 15 added. One mile and half. (7 Subs.) Lord A. G. Lennox's Barnaby Budge, aged (Owner) 1 Mr. C. Goring's Fiddich, aged Four others started. The Scurry Stakes of 2 soys. each, and 10 added, half a mile, 8 Subs., were won, in two beats, by Mr. Wy a tt's Bertha, 4 yrs, beating Mr.i Mitchell's Miss Lucy, Mr. H. Forth's Beauty, and three others, in a canter. The Beaten Handicap was won by Black Bess. BETTING AT MANCHESTER—FRIDAT. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES.-70 to 10 agst Doleful (taken)-80 to 10 agst Halo (taken)-90 to 10 agst Euclid colt (taken)-100 to 3 agst Camera Obscura (taken). NEWMARKET HANDICAP-10 to 1 agst Vanish (taken). CHESTER CUP.-20 to 1 agst Mendicant (off.)-100 to 6 agst Antler (t. 20 to 1)-25 to 1 agst Camera Obscura (t.)- 27 to 1 agst Punch (taken)-40 to 1 agst The Lamb-40 to 1 agst The Flitch-45 to 1 agst Sir Tattoo Sykes-45 to 1 agst Inheritress-45 to 1 agst Crim. Con.-50 to 1 agst Princess Alice-1,000 to 15 agat Fitzallen--1,000 to 15 agst Plaudit (offers to take). THE DERBY.-600 to 100 agst Van Tromp (taken)-10 to 1 agst Epirote--10 to 1 agst Planet-20 to 1 agst Glen tilt-26 to 1 agat Conyngham-30 to 1 agst Liberator (taken) —35 to 1 agst Allertonian-50 to 1 agst Red Hart-50 to 1 sg4 Oxonian-50 to 1 agst Black Dwarf (taken)-50 to 1 agst Will-o'-the-Wisp (taken). The betting upon the Metropolitan Handicap was not worth mentioning. 3IARKET NEWS.--(THIS DAY.) COVENT-GARDEN. Pine Apples, 5s to 8s ; Hot-house Grapes, 5s to 85 per Ib ; L'essert Apples, 20s to 26s ; and Kitchen ditto, Cs to 105 per bushel; Oranges, 8s to 15s; and Lemons, 105 to 14s per 100; Filberts, 1103 to 120 s per 100 lbs. ; Savoys, is to 2s 3d per dozen ; Greens, 4s to Cs 6d per dezen bunches ; Brocoli, 2s to 55 per bundle; Forced French Beans, 2s to 3s per 100; Potatoes, 6s to 12s per cwt; Turnips, 3s to 5s ; and Carrots, Cs to is per dozen bunches ; Horseradish, Is 6d to 6s per bundle; Rhubarb, is 6d to 23 6d per bundle; Brus sels Sprouts, 2s 6d to 4s per half sieve; Mushrooms, 2s to 4s per pottle ; Turnip Greens, 2s 64 to 3s per bushel ; Leeks, 2s to 4s per dozen bunches; Parsnips, 6d to Is 6d per doyen; Onions, 7s to 9s per bushel ; Celery, Is to 2s 3d per bundle. HUNGERPORD. Although the supplies of most articles on sale to-day were by no means large, the general demand ruled heavy at barely last week's quotations. MEV/GATE AND X.EA.DENHAX.X.. We bad a fair demand for the pritnest Beef and Mutton at full prices. Otherwise, the trade was in a sluggish state : Beef, from 2s 6d to 3s 6d ; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 4d ; Veal, 45 2d to 5s `2d; and Pork, 3s 64 to 43 10d per 81bs by the carcase. Turkeys, 4s 6d to 8s 6d ; Geese, 4s 6d to 6s 6d; Ducks, is 6d to 23 6d; Tame Rabbits, Is 3d to Is 9d; Wild ditto, ell tols 4d; and Pigeons, 64 to 10d each ; Surrey Fowls, 6s to 8s; ditto Chickens, 45 to 65; and Barndoor Fowls, 3s 6d to 6s per couple. Eggs, lOs to 14s per 100; Fresh Butter, Is Id to Is 3d per lb; Hares, 2s to 33; and Wild Ducks, le 6d to 2s 6d each. NEWPORT. Beef, from 2s 8d to 3s 8d ; Mutton, 3s 84 to 4s 6d ; Veal, 45 6d to 5s 4d; and Poek, 4s 8d to 53 2d per Blbs. WHITECHAPEL. Beef, from 25 8d to 3s 64 ; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4a 4d; Veal, 4s to ss; and Pork, 4s to 55 per 81bs. BILLINGSGATE. Turbots, 8s to 17s ; Brills, 2s 9d to 4s 6d ; Cod-fish, 2s 3d to 7s; Haddocks, 84 to Is 4d ; Whitings 4d to 8d; and Lob sters, Is to 3s 3d each; Soles, 44 to 3s per pair; Eels, 6d to is ; and Crimped Scate, 8d to 10d per lb ; Mackerel, 14s to 26s per 100 ; Salt Fish, 2d to 8d per lb. BREAD. The prices of Wheaten Bread in the metropolis are from 10d to 101 id ; of Household ditto, 8 1 / 2 d to 9 1, A 1 d per 41bs loaf. MARI. Market Hides, 5 61 b DE to 641 b, 2 3 d to 3 d LE per lb ; do. 641 b to 721 b, 31id to 3 1 4 d ; do. 721 b tc 861 b, 3 1 / I,d to 3:4d ; do. 801 b to 8810, 44 to 4 1 -4 d ; do. 8810 to 961 b, 414(1 to sd; do. 961 b to 10410, 51i l d to 6d ; Calf Skins, each, 4s 6d to 63 6d; Horn Hides, 13s ; Polled Sheep, 4s 7d to 5s 7d ; Kent and Half breds, 45 4d to 5s 2d ; and Downs, 3. 6d to 45 Bd.; Shear hugs, 6d to Bd. HAT M.AREETB. SMITIIPIRLD.—Meadow Ha y 8 28s 8s to 31165; Clover ditto p! 8s to 41 16s ; and Straw, 11 lOs to 11 14s per load. Trade dull, at barely late rates. CUMBERLAND. —Meadow Hay, 218 s to 41; Clover ditto, Si 55 to 41 14s; and Straw, 11 12s to 11 163 per load. A full average supply and a steady demand. WitrrEcturaL.—Aleadow Hay, 21 5s to 3/ 165; Clover ditto, 3/ 83 to 51; and Straw, 1/ lOs to 11 15s per load. Supply good, and trade dull. FA - -- TAL WAGGON ACCIDENT.—Last evening an in quest was held before Mr. Baker, at the London Hospital, on the body of Mary Welch, aged 79 years. On Tuesday, the 2d inst., the deceased was crossing High-street, Stratford, and, being very infirm, she did not perceive a waggon, be longing to Messrs. Ruffold and Co., carriers, proceeding to wards Essex. She was knocked down by the front horse, and both the off wheels of the waggon passed over her legs. Her screams alarmed the driver, who was walking on the near side of the horses, and the waggon was immediately stopped. The poor old woman was found lying under the wheel, and when removed both her legs were discovered to be broken. She was conveyed to the hospital, where she expired on Wednesday last. Verdict, "Accidental death." WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, FRIDAY.—The ar rivals this week are very limited. An advance of Is. to 2s. per quarter is demanded on wheat, but buyers are cautious, and only a small extent of business is done. Oats and shell ing in fair request at rather more money. Barley is more readily sold than of late, and makes full prices. In beans no alteration. LIE LATE EXTENSIVE FORGERIES AT LEEDS.-- A reward of 5001. is offered for the apprehension and convic tion of Frederick, Robert, and William Glover, late of Leeds, woollen manufacturers and merchants, who stand charged with the perpetration of divers extensive forgeries, and with having absconded with the property of their creditors; and in case of the apprehension and conviction of any one of them one-third of the amount will be paid. The amount of the forgeries is variously stated, as exceeding 30,000/., and even 50,0001. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool has been flat this week, and American sorts have been Ud. per lb. lower. Sales of the week, 18,100 bales. Stock now, 453,380 bales, against 835,370 bales at this time last year. The sale of Railway Shares yesterday, by Messrs. Lamond and Co., was fiat, and the quotations were again a shade lower. The following are a few of the principal sales : East Indian ... Great Western of Bengal 0 6 6 Madrid and Valencia Great Northern (London and York Reg.) 2 6 0 Manchester and Southampton 0 17 6 North British Exteniion Shrewsbury and Birmingham (B) 1 10 0 North Staffordshire Leeds and Thirsk, Preference .. 414 0 South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and G001e... 9 0 6 Leicester & Bedford, Exchange Certificate 0 12 6 Eastern Counties ...... ..... ...... 19 19 0 Reading, Guildford, and Reigate, ex int... 4 13 0 Newcastle and Berwick Derby, Stafford, and Worcestershire .... 0 9 0 Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston Accounts of September 12, from Hobart Town, state that some excitement continued to prevail on the subject of trans portation, and that Lord Stanley's dispatches had excited much dissatisfaction. From Sydney there are dates of October 3. A long debate on the Crown lands seemed to be the principal subject of interest in the colony, and a more equitable holding thereof was still the object of the parties interested. Trading affairs were steady. An arrival from the Cape of Good Hope furnishes infor mation of January 9. The troops were marching into the Kafir country to chastise the chief, Pato, who was still re fractory. The eastern province was freed from the maraud ing parties of the enemy. The English Securities have been extremely heavy. Con sols are worth 88 - % % for Money, and 88i, 1 4 for Account. Exchequer-bills have been Is. to 4s. premium. The Spanish Bonds have been very quiet. The Three per Cents. realising 34 to 34 1 ,x. Mexican Stock has being heavy at 21% 5 / s . Brazilian is firm at 87. In Shares there has been a good deal doing, but at lower rates generally. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. 88 34 % Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1660 .. Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. 9 3-16 Consols for Account, April 15 88 34 % Consols, Scrip .. .• •• • . 0% % dis Exchequer Bills. 150. 134 cl. 1,000/. 4 1 pm. 5001. •• •• 1— pin• Ditto, Small 3 1 5 pm. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. 87 Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent. .. •• "Ditto, Deferred .. 51 Mexican, 1846, 5 per Cent .. • • 21 %% Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto, Deferred .. .. • . .. 16 Ditto, Three per Cent .. .. • • 3434 Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian, Two-and-a-Half per Cent. 52 Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 5714 % Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 90% 91 91% BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILWATS. PAID. PEE MARL Amber., Notting., Boston, & Eastrn Jn. 2% 2 % .. to Birmingham and Oxford Junction .. 5 .... 13% %14 to Birmingham, Wolver., and Dudley .. 5 .... 10 .... to Birkenhead, Lancashire, & Chesh. Jn. 4 .... 4 .... to Buckinghamshire .• .. 6/. 45..... % p.. to Caledonian .. .. • • .. .. 30 .... 26% .. ••to Ditto, Half Shares .. • . .... .. to Direct Northern Scrip .. 2% .... 2141,E .. to Eastern Counties .. . • .. .. 20 .... 19% 34 .. to Ditto, York Extension .. 4 .... 314 %.. to East Lancashire • . •• • • .. .. 17 .... 18% .... to Ditto, New .. .. • • 7 34 9 ...• to East Lincolnshire .• • • .. 4 .... 61. %.. to Edinburgh and Glasgow • • • • • 50 .... 7434 .. to Ditto, Half Shares .. • • • • .10 .... 20% ...• to Great Northern (London & York Regd) 234 2 .. to 2 Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 27 34 23% .... to Great North of England .. .• • • 100 .... to Great Western •• • • • • .. 65 —lll .. •.to Ditto. Half Shares • • .. .. • • 50 .... 66 .... to Ditto, New .. • • • • • • .. 4 36 .... 7%.... to Hull and Selby .. .. • • .. 50 .• • • 102 ... to Ditto, Half Shares .. .• • • • • 25 .... 51%,... to Ipswich and Bury St. Edmunds .. 14 .. 113{ .... to Ditto. ditto, and Norwich •• • • • • 5 • • 23¢ •.•. to Lancaster and Carlisle .. .. 50 .. • . 6334 .... to Leicester and Bedford .. • • • • 16s. % dbl. to Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester .. 27%.... 33 .... to Leeds and Think .. .. • • 22% •. • • 1934.... to 20 Ditto, New .. .. 10 .... 9 1 % •• • • to London, Brighton, and South Coast • . 50 .... 5234 .... to 53 Ditto, Guaranteed Five per Cent... 9 .• • 9 34 %•• to London and Greenwich .. 12/. 15s. 4d. •• • • 9%.. ••to London and North-Western .. 100 .. 178 .. • • to 176 Ditto, Quarters .. • • .. • • • • 2 •••• 18%..•. to Ditto ditto New .. • • • 2 .... 12% .... to Ditto, 401. Shares .. M. and B. .. 40 .... 68% .. • • to London and South-Western 411. 6s. 10d. •• •• 62 .... to Ditto, Scrip .. .• .. • • • • 5 .. • • 5 •• • • to Lynn and Ely .. .. 20 .... 22 .... to Lynn and Dereliam .. 15 . • • 16%.. •• to Df anchester and Leeds • • • • •• 82 ••• • ••.. to Ditto, Fifth:: 5 .... 10 -... to 9% Ditto, Thirds (Reg.) 45..... 2% p.. to Manehester, Buxton, and Matlock • • 425. •• • • P.. to 34 p Midland •• .• •• •. •• "100 116 115.. to 11634 Ditto, New .. .. 30 .... 3354 %.. to 33% Ditto, New .. •• 4% yt 54 to Ditto, Birmingham and Derby • • 100 •• • • 8934 ••• to Newcastle and Berwick .. .. 20 .... 32% % to 33 Newmarket and Chesterford .. 10 .... 9%.... to 10% Norfolk .. • • .. • • ..100 . ..134 •• .. to 135 Northern Counties Union. .. % .... to % North British 25 .... 33%.... to Ditto, Half Shares • . 1234 .... 16 % .... to Ditto, Quarters .... 4 .... to 3% Ditto, Extension .. % 1% .... to Ditto, Thirds .. 1 .... 3%.... to North Staffordshire .• .• • • • • 5 .. • • 7% .. ••to North Western .. • • .. 4 .. •• 4 .. • . to Preston and Wyre .• • . •• 25 .... 34 to Ditto, Half Shares (A) •• .. 834 .... 12 .... to Scottish Central .. .• •• • . 15 .. • . 2234 .. • • to Scottish Midland . • • • 17g .... 241 ,4.... to shrewsbury and Birmingham (A) .. 3 .• • • 3% • ... to Ditto, ditto (B) .• 1%.... %.. to Shropshire Union • •• •• 425..... Ws. to South Devon .. •• •• •. 40 ••• 31 ..•• to ionth Eastern and Dover .. •• • 33/.25. 4d. 37 to Ditto, New (do. 15/.) No. 4 .. •• 3% •• • • 4% %• • to South Wales .. .. • • • • • • 10 .. • • 7 •• .. to South Yorkshire, Doncaster, & Goole 2 .... 2 • • to West Riding Union .. • . 4/. 25... . • 1 34 %pto York and Newcastle .. .. .. 25 ••• to Ditto, New .. •• .• .. 10 .... 1534 • to Ditto, Preference •. .. • • • • 4 ... • 7% 3t .. to 8 York and North Midland .. .. • • 50 .... 85 .... to it Ditto, Extension .. 20 .. • • 3634 %. • to Ditto, Preference .. .. • . • • 2 .... 10% to 11 Ditto East and West Riding Extension 10 .... 21 .... to FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens .. •• .. 18 .... 13% to— Orleans and Bordeaux .. .. 6 .. •• 6% ••• to Paris and Lyons .• •• .. 8 •• 6 3 0 to Paris and Weans .. 20 •. • • 48%.... to JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Union of Australia .. .. .. .. 25 .... 21%.... to MINES Real del Monte. Unregistered .. •• .... 3%.... to - COURSE OF EXCHANGE.-(YESTERDAY.) Amsterdam .. .... C.F. 12 334 Gibraltar.. ............ Ditto, at sight Rotterdam .... •.2 U. 12 4 Genoa ................ 25 85 Antwerp.............. 25 80 Milan ... . • Elamburgh .... • • M.B. 1310% Venice........ — &Rona .. .. .... .. .... .. Naples ............. 403* Paris, 3 days' sight .... 25 45 Palermo, pe r oz ....... 121 Ditto, 3 months .... .. 25 75 Lisbon.... Marseilles •.. . . Bourdeaux.... Frankfort on Mains.... 121 Bahia . . Petersburgh, 3 U 5...... Buenos Ayres .. ...... Berlin .... .... .. .. .... New York, 21 days' sight Vienna, effec.f10...... 10 3 Philadelphia .......... Trieste, ditto.. .. .... .. 10 3 PRICED OF BULLION, PER OZ. Madrid .............. 36 Foreign Gold in bars .£3 17 9 Cadiz •• •.. : ... . Bilbao.. Barcelona .. • ...... devil's — Silver in bars ...... •. 0 5 051, LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, MARCH 13.—Wind W., rght breeze and hazy. DEAL, MARCH 12.—Wind N. to W.N.W., fresh and fine. —Arrd. Dido, Mauritius ; Rosebnd, Winn, Algoa Bay ; Fanny A. Garriues, Lee, Cape Coast Castle ' • Rosina, Gales, Callao ; Eliza Keith, Scott, Callao ; H e rald, Bahia. The Perseverance, Harris, went on shore to-day, near the South Foreland, expected to become a total wreck. Cargo saved in a damaged state. LOWESTOFT, MARCH 12.—The Royal Albert was assisted in to-day, with loss of bowsprit, having been in contact with a large vessel oft Conchithe. SUNDERLAND, MARCH 11.- The Union, of Newburgh, was in contact to-day off Holy Island, and received damage. Two vessels were seen on their beam ends on the N.E. coast. Sld. Staindrop, Hammond, St. John's. YARMOUTH, MARCH 12.—The Thames, of Selby, was in contact with the Mill Hall this morning--was abandoned, and has not since been heard of; crew saved by the latter, which received considerable damage. Arrd. Jane, of New castle, leaky, having been on shore. ALDBOROUGII, IVI4RCH 12.—The Agenoria, London to Westwash, struck on the Whiting Sand yesterday, during a snow storm ; got off leaky, repaired and proceeded, making a little water. DOVER, MARCH 12.—The Henry and Sarah, of Swansea, to Newcastle, went on shore this morning, and sank; crew saved. BELFAST, MARCH 9.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrd. Archimedes, Buckmann, New York. Sid. Sultan, New York ; Massa chusetts, New York. RAMSGATE, MARCH 1 2.—The Fame (schooner) of Goole, was seen off the North Foreland this morning, a derelict. CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) ATTORNEY-OENF.RAL V. THE MERCHANT ADVENTURERS OF BRISTOL. This was an appeal from the decision of the Master of the Rolls. The facts are as follow :—Edward Coulston left cer tain estates in trust with the Corporation of the Merchant Adventurers of Bristol in 1705, to be devoted to the erection of an hospital or almshouses in that city, for the reception of 100 boys, who were to be supported, educated, and provided with trades. The question at issue was, whether or riot the trustees were entitled to any beneficial interest in the trusts, and turned upon the technical construction of the deed vest ing the trusts in the defendants, who laid claim to th e sur plus that had accrued since the foundation of the charity, to indemnify them against certain stuns which they had ad vanced, but which on the other side it was cont en d e d were provided fur from casual sources specified in the deed. The Attorney-General opened the case, and was followed by Mr. Twiss on the same side. BANKRUPTCY.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner GOULLORN.) IN nit RAINICY. This day having been appointed for the bankrupt's last examination, Mr. FRAMPTON, solicitor for the bankrupt, requested that the matter might be postponed, as, although they had been busily engaged with the accountant (Mr. Wright) for some days past, they had been unable to make a statement of accounts in such a complete state as would warrant them in producing it in Court. They requested, therefore, that his Honour would grant them a postponement for two months. This would give the bankrupt an opportunity of bringing his accounts up satisfactorily, and enable them to send them in to the official assignee at the end of six weeks, giv ing him thereby a fortnight to examine into their correct• ness. He might inform his Honour that they had already progressed in some degree, for they had delivered in accounts to the amount of 4,0001.; but there still remained about eighty to examine_ Mr. Payne (the trade assignee) had a claim to prefer relative to one of these accounts, in connexion with some pr"perty lodged with Coutts and Co.; and, until that question was decided, it would be folly for them to make up the statement in a hasty and imperfect manner. The official assignee ( Mr. Green ) concurred in the applica tion. He conceived that time was necessary to furnish a satisfactory statement. After some further conversation, the final examination was adjourned to the 14th of May. 'lhes questions olicitorfor t on ( hetofe bankrupt.th creditors (Dr. Ogle) wished to put a few M n n o C o ° b objection t s i a o i n d to t urge h a the aZ ' a a i s n against retainedth that g gentlem an's e A m i a r. n l2 ,s a e i x n .a ey rn . ini H ng e had the baukropt, and therefore he wished it understood that he . did not interfere with his right of doing so, but as Rainey did not come prepared for any exam i na ti o n in con equence of the imperfect state of his balance-sheet, be trusted that any question, excepting in the matter of pl?: perty, and with a view to such property being made avaP - 0 able, would not be pressed. He would therefore p ut it to tb Learned Gentleman whether he would not referp to le ave the matter in the hands of the assi proper g nees, or wa it the bine when the subject would come in its course before his Honour. After some further remarks his Honour permitted the solicitor to put his questions, at the same time requesting him to confine these to matters important to the estate. Mr. COOKE suggested that the cash book of the bankrupt would furnish every information desired by Ur. Ogle , b l t ° this course not being deemed satisfactory by that gen tleman solicitor, he proceeded to subject the bankrupt to exam ins' tion. The Solicitor then began a very objectionable course of examination, which was, after some little time stopped by _ His HoNous, who said that he did not me what then questions had to do with the estate. The object seetne u 0 i lilt,/ rather to be to show up the bankrupt as a man ot breach of trust. The proper period for such a cours e amination would be when the bankrupt came up for his tificate, when these questions might be put with great P' priety. The Solicitor proceeded to put another question, when His HONOUR said that it was quite plain what the etrt of the examination was, that these questions prematuretio asked should be the means of holding Mr. Rilingap no reprobation. He (the Commissioner) considered tbs.• creditor had in that stage any right to put such questo;h The law did indeed give the creditor power to a sk s ter questions, when the bankrupt came up for his certl e d but it never contemplated that the bankrupt should be astbs a series of questions not with the view of bettering tie estate, but of holding him up to scorn and continuelP could not therefore allow this course of examination to es3/1 thine. Mr. COOKE was proceeding to address the Court, teb ell b e r His HoNouri desired that he should hear nothing on either aide. He thought he had sufficiently marls sense of the impropriety of the course of examination, he desired that the matter should be dropped. A letter , Mr. PAYNE then put questions relative to papers an - A nd still in the possession of the bankrupt or his solicitor, the they were ordered by his Honour to be delivered oP official assignees forthwith. MARLBRO'-STREET_(THIS DA Y' ) es idin James Byrne, who was said to be a medical man , -r b g st in the neighbourhood of Oxford-street, was placed at Of ~, before Mr. Hardwick, charged with th e f o llowing outrage" freak I hone The servant of Mr. Taunton, shoemaker, of Mars to street, etated, that his master' s car t was s tanding °Pr - oo n, the door, about half-past three o'clock yesterday aft e ased when the prisoner, who was quite drunk, jumped in , , the the whip and reins, and drove off a t a f ur i o us rater L o dro ye great affright and danger of the passers by. nearly an i round the neighbouring streets in this way for 11 et'inte hour, when he was with difficulty stopped, and gv Ai e- m ige custody, the cart having, in the meantime, sustained '" to the amount of upwards of 21. at of The prisoner, who had no excuse to offer beyond Woo having drank too freely, was sent to the House of Cort s ! Au ti for fourteen days, and ordered to pay the cost of the done to the cart. 411 The Magistrate was occupied the res t o f the morninu g , hearing charges of begging, chi e fly aga i ns t I r ish perse n ' WORSHIP-STREET.—(THIS -1-1 A Ir.) A man about 60 years of age was thi s morning hrotl before Mr. Broughton, the sitting magistrate, for r e ' e 'dicell nation, charged with fraudulently obtaining goods of tradesmen in various parts of the metropolis. isoner The court was crammed with trad esmen w hom the? r tt tbe had victimised. It appeared th a t th e p r i sone r calle":"Spi• warehouse of Mr. Knight, hous e -d ecora t or , Brick-la„n`',,i s ce , talfields, on the 9th of January last, and selected 2,r a telf of stained paper, which he requested might be ifinri,. ;ii rim fir forwarded, with a receipt and invoi ce , t o th e rotor, paid vern, Shoreditch, and the amoun t would u' dir on delivery. Mr. Knight's errand-boy 11 / 8 1, patched with the goods. The l a tt er , hoice 2 sl' o oes turned after a protracted absence, and ' l3 „oh his master that he had delivered the paper to the P r :i e tied who desired him to wait for the money, but after a lengt h delay he found that the latter had made his exit pie property through the back door of the house and effecl`i es at escape. He was, however, subsequently traced by Se sol Brannan to a coffee-shop in Tabernacle-row, FinsburP there taken into custody. t, William Rathbone, a blind-m a k er , i n Clifton-eire e bury, produced the whole of the above purloined P r lr e del and which the prisoner had sold to him for 21. 10s. 013 it came into his possession. ht, stla Several other cases of a similar nature were brolig,- - , e d for evidence given against the prisoner, who was coo trial on several charges. THE GOVERNMENT PLAN 0 EDUCATION. 4 ; The following l e tt er , conta i n i ng explanat i ons . 111 .1 0 to Dissenting cong rega ti ons , h as b een addressed bi,'l4l'o.f Shuttleworth to th e R ev . Robert Eckett, the Secreto r, Wesleyan Association : " 38 , Gloucester-square , jjyde /3010 March 12, 1847. , e • g " Rev. Sir,-1 read in the Patriot newspa per this eT en . s lf letter, to which you r name i s attac h e d , adressed on Dc ' sf i of the Committ ee o f P r i v il eges to m i n i sters o f the We6Lelest Association, requesting them 'to use their best efforts "(ler tfl esBrr4ees6jes:oohff attphsbeet a petition from every congregation in their circuit , ' in Ai r e t to induce ' the House of Commons not to vote anY sum of money to be placed at the disposal of the Co n°2l , to of Council on Education,' and to entreat the 11 ° 11 ' 3e t his petition the Queen to dissolve the Committee by wh °l3l ,her, pernicious scheme' (the minutes for August and pet — . 0 • e been nat i o r recommended, o w m i m l b e e n dbeeds,t promotedandtodebcylartehetliaotalepte_lr Government ampepnetndaesdtoto t t h h e is e l ducation of Pe°- A form of d intended to letter .“ 0 . be sent to every congregation conne c t e d wit h your For this purpose the letter commences with the followinif representations:—' Her Majesty's Ministers having ra c e . 13 „,, e " brought before Parliament certain minutes of the Cono l 7 of Privy Council on Education, proposing that provil should be made by Government for training, supporting , pensioning schoolmasters and mistresses, and for creatia and supporting a widely extended system of education, 5 . which it is intended that th e instructors of m asses of th e rising generation should become Government stipendiari: and expectants of Government pensions, to n ' bta 2. l2 , "ll of purposes they will have to sec u re the aPPr°Lt—iiise an inspector appointed by Government, but who 1231.15 is to re hod be sanctioned by one of the Ar c hbi s hops, a d w main in o ffi ce only so long as such sanction is continue " If such was your int er p re t a ti on o f the intentions ofut:el Government, I cannot wonde r th a t you should ha e ' o f your utmost efforts, in conjunction with the Commit" jir Privileges, to arouse the congregations of the Wesley yo u r ot sociation to defeat so gross an injustice. B at ~..1 0 01 1 b k pt misrepresented misunderstood, and uni n t en ti o nally very " - ot misrepresented the plan d eve l o p e d in the `—ttlo minutes of the Committee of Council, °Wale consequences. ; n vOn r " Every superintendent minister placing confiden ce Committee of Privileges; every local preacher, actin g ,%0 obedience to the suggestions of his superintend en "tisaS every congregation which may rely on the repres ent : os On of its minister, will receive from your letter the i n3 Pl, - , 1 cap that no school connected with the Wesleyan Associs", — itt icil partake of the grants offered by the Committee ot u° t to in their recent minutes, unless this school be sti b i e , c e of the visits of an inspector appointed with the concutr eli j o id one of the archbishops, and li a bl e to be d igi t will by the withdrawal of the archiepis co p a l sa nction. T h k ti edi believe that no Wesleyan p u pil t eac h er can b e oPPr e° no master can receive a gra t u it y; no teac h e r c a n b eh e 0 17 1: 1 1; sioned ;no apprentice can b e e l ecte d to a Q u eens A W ith ship; and no candid a t e i n a N orma l sc h oo l , connent e ": l oo the Weyleyan A ssoc i at i on, can o b ta i n a cert ifi ca te, n13 ;04 consequent augmentation of salary, unless he be n 'f s h i sP hoP , by an inspector a pp o i n t e d, w ith concurrence o f a n orn u i, and for whose con ti nuance i n o ffi ce his Grace's s inn- requisite. • tee d " Such a conception of the int en ti ons o f the Con:n it . ° •fi' Council would justify th e a pp ea l o f th e Committee of•riola leges to the congregations of the Wesleyan Associat ion ' a pt such a representation is likely to rouse the SuPer inte to l3 tbs Minister, the local preachers, and their congregations jar utmost activity, to petition the House of Commons to i• hold the Parliamentary grant for the promotion of s e cious a :acme.' tiO "Accordingly, as your letter suggests that 'it is that the petitions should be numer ous ly s igned," t Jo tter bable that on the ensuing Sunday, March 14 (ss 9 °11 .„ 1. Oat is dated March 4), the form of petition appended `,"„iing letter will be signed by great numbers of persons btonleysti to the congregations and Su n d a y- sc h oo l s o f the Wes obin ti Association. All will feel that a plan of e ducstien o ritf thus imposes the interference o f an ecc l es i as tical sn' - ci l to as a condition of grants from the Committee of e°llll dissen g tin schools, is an intolerable injustice. " You will rejoice to learn that the dangerwit h the pre h c e o n n ci g r t e o g b a e t o i n m o p f e n fi d i e i e o s v l e e y r a n the A s schools o n c i o s n: e c d e t i e u : st : t n o • which " The Committee of Council never made any' gri t n diseuting school on such a conditionhave suPP-dietts They have never acquired, either Lla m a you co n uenec of p grunts or otherwise, power to authorise any eg insPe ctcl 5. ; to en r ter pointed with the concurrence of an archbishop, British or dissenting school. The order ill "l je o l f of the 10th of August, 1840, makes the APP rcIV , -1 *i• an archbishop an incident in the appointmen t ot bet c ' epectors of Church of England schools alone. Si % the Inspectors have been appointed, in whose nom ination Archbishop has in no respect interfered, and three mote e thi " s class are about to b apointed. Their Lordships have agreed (vide Minutes 1842-3, 1)11-4,. 537) that they will not proceed to recommend any candidP; to her Majesty as an inspector of schools connected with British and Foreign School Society until they hav e °lv. suited the committee of that society, and found that the can' didate has their approval. "In like manner their Lordships have ag reed to consult t 1): Education Committee of the General Assembly of the Gila% of Scotland as to the appointment of an y ins p ectors of schoittl Dols which are by law, or by their co n st itution, connected w that church. (Vide Minutes, 1839-40, p a g es 19 and 20.) , ‘The Committee of Council have been of opinion that unless each inspector possessed the confidence of the religious l comm union with which the schools visited by him tit er c onnected, he would not usefully co-operate with the sat° 1,4 managers. Their Lordships have, therefore , in proceeding " nominate inspectors, been ready to consult the Central 13ora, watching over the interests of any distinct cl ass of schools, l llya order to avoid the appointment of any person who especia on religious grounds did not enjoy t h e i r confidence. IC° in' Spector is employed in the visitation of other schools than those for the examination of which he is appointed, e%cePt on the direct and formal invitation of their managers, which rarely occurs. "Schools connected with the Weeleysta Arisooiation l/0"1-4 ~ ..,lElllllllllllll*m k J "Rev.. PA] (Prom the u.The foil tttedE ngel i an Omanchestuf Oxford, NI Ond 'nbur g t ureen l F the Riv e —.laol tne bc'rough n _The folly votakittet 1. That Petition, tt ell eb ez 2. That th B the Parti es That "*" tu lle f ratieArd hes rt l ett there) i M ltith an d at es ) kitte e f or t '7 ti on , 44 SPet a! o ug i Per fitte d t te i d a I table. S CE s The fol k 488 hd tiait 114terford 1 k Cl Peesrer -. 4 b rirr ., l ochne v or L e Z e. RA: a.The half ti2', kr. ii It. t th e kw. it i 11;1 te. enabled The I bI . 61 lr id'rrg'le 3i l leh o r°o:ese r ifdstbiebi Iteldrteor°rinteiisg°fie. ac tor, 1 1 I at , - accou nt lectern Cc lod —r il Ita rtition to I t hen and L on agreen up 'r4 h gt.4ll:lllcvle h tisalPett E ni t Vh-or d eedYfili At B 1 Ah d t° Joi q k propriet ha t a Parl fi ghts. Th a greement, i IRE LATI `\