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13. Great Marlborough-street. NOTICE. —THE SUPPLEMENT to BURKE'S LANDED GENTRY being now in astate of great forwardness, it Is earnestly requested that these iamilies to whom circulars have been sent, will reply AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE ; and that all who are desirous of contributing information, to ensure the correctness of this important national undertaking, will address the Authors (care of Mr. Colburn, 13, Great Marlborough-street), without loss of time. N.B.—No communications will be availa , ,le attar the 15th of Bay. Now ready, in 2 vols. Bvo., with Map, Sce., 313.6 d. bound, NARRATIVE OF A _ _ JOURNEY the WORLD, PRINCIPALLY OVERLA).M. By Sir GEORGE SIXESO).T. Govornor-in-Chief of the Hudson's Bay Company's Territorles in _ North America. The great novelty of this expedition arises from its having been principally performed overland. The position and influence of the author, his enterprise and scientific attainments, have enabled him to make extensive additions to our limited knowledge of the various interesting portions of the globe which he traversed. The contributions to the geography of the great American continent in particular, over which he proceeded from Canada to Vancouver, will be found extremely valuable, as well as his notices of the various tribes of the aborigines with whom he came in contact —his residence at Sitka, and account of the Alentian Archipelago--his descriptions of Kamschatka and Siberia—and his journeys over those vast regions of the Russian Empire, concerning which we have hitherto received such scanty information. Henri' Colburn, Publisher, 13 Great Marlborough-street. GOVERNMENT PLAN OP EDUCATIOK. This day is published, price Sixpence. A VERBATIM REPORT of the SPEECH of the Right Hon. T. B. MACAULAY, M.P. for Edinburgh, in the House of Commons, on Monday Evening, April 19, 1847, on tb.e Motion of Lord John Russell, that a Vote of 100,000/. should be 'taken, to defray the Charge s of carrying out the Minutes of Council on Education. London: Chapman and Hall, 165, Strand. LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY. CHESTER RACES. SP ECIAL TRAIN OF FIRST CLASS A CARRIAGES will leave Euston-station for Chester, at Half past Ms 011. WEDNESDAY morning, the 28th April, for the conveni ence of Gemtlemen attending the Races. By order, General Manager's Office, April 26, 1847. MARK HITISIT. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public, are respectfully in formed, that an EXTRA NIGHT will take place on THURSDAY NEXT, April 29, 1847, when will be performed Bellini's celebrated Opera, I PURITANI. Principal Characters : —Elvin, Madame Castellan ; Giorgio, Signor Lablache ; Arturo, Signor Gardoni ; and Riccardo, Signor Coletti. In the course of the evening a Divertissement, comprising the talents of Mdiles. Cerito, Rosati, Maria Taglioni, and:Lucile Gratin; M. Perrot, M. St. Leon, and 31. P. Taglioni. After the Opera. the first Tableau of the Ballet of LALI.A. BOOKH, in which Mdlle. Cerito, 31, St. Leon, and M. Perrott appear. To conclude with the admired Grand Ballet (emitting the two first Tableaux) of :CORALIA, and comprising the Moonlight Scene, the Garden Scene, and the celebrated Aquatic Palace of ttba Ondines. Principal characters by Mdile. Rosati, Mdlle. Maria Taglioni,Mdile. Petite Stephan ;:31cilles. Vonore, Cassan, Jullien, La mereux, 31. Gosselin, and 31. P. Taglioni. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT GARDEN. !'" The Nobility, Gentry, and Subscribers, are respectfully informed, that on THURSDAY NEXT, an EXTRA NIGHT, not included in the Subscription, an which occasion will be performed Bellinrs Opera I PURITAN". In which Madame Grisi, Signor Mario, Signor Tamburini, and Signor Marini will appear. To conclude with a new grand ballet, LA REI).4 — E DES FEES. Composed by M. Albert ; music by Signor Curini. Principal cha racters by Madlle. Dumilatre, Madlle. Berth', Madlle. Neodot, and M. Petipa (from the Grand Opera, Paris). Tickets, stalls, and boxes to be obtained at the Box-office, Bow street ; and at Cramer, Beale, and Co.'s, 201, Regent-street. The doors will be opened at Half-past Seven o'clock, the perform ance to commence at Eight. PRICES OF ADMISSION. First AmphitheatN Stalls, First Row ...... 0 14 0 Ditto, Second and Third Rows... ..... ...... 0 12 6 Second Amphitheatre 5ta115.........• ••.. 0 7 0 First Amphitheatre ...........• ••• • . .• 0 8 0 Second Amphitheatre ............., ...... 0 5 0 THEATRE EOYA LDECRY-LAN E. The Last Night bat Five of tha New Grand OrientilSpectacle, and of Mr. Hughes's Mammoth Establishment. THIS' EVENING The Performances will commence with MASANELLO. Masaniello, Mr. W. Harrison ; Don Xlphonso, Mr. Rafter ; Lo renzo, Mr. Hodgcs ; Pietro, Mr. S. Jones ; Rattino, Mr. llowell ; 3lorano, Mr. Horncastle. Finella Made. Giubilei ; Inis, Miss Collett. After which the New and Original Oriental Spectacle, called THE DESERT; or, The Imaun's Daughter. In which the Two Elephants, upwards of Sixty Horses, and the Camels will appear. The Imaun Useph, Mr. Howell ; Hafez, Mr. Rafter ; Barek, Mr. W. H. Payne ; Final Oola, Mr. Harley ; Maleck, Mr. T. Matthews ; Ahabeck, Mr. Hutchison ; Kuzliraga, Mr. L. Lee; Princess Ipomave, Miss,Mes sent ; Nilda, Miss Collett ; Girgee, Miss R. Isaacs. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will be performed, Sheridan Knowles's celebrated Comedy'of THE LOVE CHASE, with new scenery, dresses, and appointments. Sir William Fundlove, Mr. Tilbury ; Master Waller, Mr. Howe ; Widow Green, Mrs. Glover ; Constance, Mrs. Nisbett. After which the Grand Astronomical Extravaganza, called THE .NEW PLANET ; or, Harlequin out of Place. To conclude with a Farce, by J. It. Planche, Esq., called SPRING GARDENS. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the direction of Madame Celeste. 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 will be produced an Opera Buffa apropos sketch, called JENNY LIND. Principal characters by Messrs. Wright, Paul Bedford, Lambert, Selby, Cullenford, and Miss Woolgar. To conclude with SHOCKING EVENTS. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. .1. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager. Mrs. BUTLER, late Miss FANNY KEMBLR, is engaged for Twelve sights euly, and will make her first appearaaee this Evening, X. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 25 minutes after 11. I Evening .. 55 minntes ii " :4 l. ) ' 4 MT • __ in 1 .4 t. 4 « . . , k . "`,..l'' x ' .' . . s aZSz:z__.k ~ : op '- - ''' ,- r, 4 'Ail .11"---..zy Z A . o bi . ilk ' FO- „4..., _.., , --/ ~ .t. ,- -,.5. 4- 'if,, ? 7!: "" -,,, 1 '' ihErrrii. 17-.., 4 'r • m°''' .e,‘ , --.. 7 41Tr0 - li. - "---,,:-.„ SECOND EDITION. THIS EVENING The Pertormances will commence with THE HUNCHBACK. Master Walter, Mr. Creswick ; Slr Thornas Clifford, Mr. J. Webster ; Lord Tinsel, Mr. J. Yining ; Julia, Mrs Butler ; Helen, Mrs. Stirling. To be followed by the new and original Musical Romance, entitle THE SEVEN MAIDS OF MUNIJH ; or, The Ghost's Tower. Bertrand, Mr. Fisher ; D'Armincourt, Mr. Barker ; BelleJambe, Mr. Delavanti ; Adolphe, Mr. Wynn; Grosdos, Mr. Cempton ; Bristle- Misses Flower, Bourke, Honner, Mucks, Millar, L.. Marshall, and Laporte ; Uriel, Miss Marshall • Madame Groutz, Mrs Fosbroke. To conclude with THE TWORAINBOWS. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. Under the Management of Mrs. Keeley. THIS EVENING‘wiII be performed a New Drama, called THE CREOLE. Characters by Messrs. F. Mathews. Leigh, Murray, Emery, Kinloch, and Keeley, Miss Dickinson, Miss May, Miss M. Keeley, And Mrs. Keeley. After which, an entirely new occasional Dramatic Sketch, called JENNY LIND AT LAST; or, The Swedish Nightingale. Charac ters by Mr. A. Wigan, Mr. Turner, Mr. Klnloch, Mr. Bellingham, Mr. Bender, Mr. Yarnoid. and Mrs. Keeley. With the performonce of Mr. William Bateman, the great Ame rican Mimic, Vocalist, Lecturer, and Musical Performer. To be followed by the New Vaudeville Extravaganza, called CRUSOE THE SECOND. Characters by Messrs. A. Wigan, Keeley ; Miss Dickenson, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley. And other Entertainments. FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S TIIEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. Last Night bat Two of the Appearance of Madlle. ROSE CHERI. THIS EVENING the Performances will commence with the amusing Comedie-Vaudeville, entitled L'IMAGE. Le Baron de Kerandal, M. Dumery ; Leopold, M. Rhozevil; Pierre Mauclerc, 31. Priston ; Madeline, Mdlle. Duverger. After which (second time), an entirely New Comedie-Vaudeville, entitled LA BELLE ET LA BETE. Antoinette, :Mdlle. Rose Cheri ; Ernistine, Mdlle. Duverger. To conclude with the popular Comedic-Vaudeville of LA MERE DE FAMILLE. Alfred de Varennes, M. David; Etienne, M. Pris ton ; Therese Gauthier, Mdlle Rose Cher!. Boxes, 6s. ; Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, 34.; Gallery, 2s. Boxes and Stalls may be engaged at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Bond-street ; and at the Box-office of the Theatre, which is open daily from Eleven till Five. ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. The celebrated ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, Pell, Harrington, White, Stanwood, and Marmon, will have the honour of repeating their inimitable ENTERTAINMENTS at the St. James's Theatre, TO-MORROW EVEXING doers open at Eight o'clock ; and will give a grand DAY PERFORMANCE on Wednesday Morning next, April 25, commencing at Half-past Two o'clock. The evening per formances will be continued on Thursday, and Saturday. They will also appear at the Town Hall, Oxford, this Evening and To-morrow, and at the London-bridge Hotel, Southwark. on Friday next. Boxes and stalls at Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, old Bond street ; . - and at the Box-otilce. Boxes and stalls at Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Under the patronage of the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Royal FArnily. Proprietor and Manager. Mr. W. Batty. Extraordinary Novelties and grand Equestrean Fetrs every night, THIS EVENING, FOURTH WEEK OF THE SUCCESSFUL GORGEOUS SPECTACLE OF Lord Byron's Dramatic Poem of THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS ; or, THE CORSAIR, introducing Mr. Batty's numerous and highly trained Horses and Fairy Ponies, living Elephants, Camels, Zebras, Deer, &c. Entire change in the Scenes of the Circle, by the first artistes in Europe. Great success of the extraordinary lo.ty 'caper Mr. Hen derson In his wonderful Arab flights. Splendid Pageant by Eight Ladies and their trained horses, and other productions, only to be witnessed at this Theatre. Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. N. D. Broadfoot. Box Office open from Eleven till Four. Box Book-keeper, Mr. Sheffield. Performance commences every evening at Seven o'clock, doors open at Half-pant Six. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Under the Management of Mrs. Frances Havidge, Lessee. FIFTH APPEARANCE OF THE BUFFALO GIRLS, ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, With Coloured Concert, Nigger Songs, Banjo, Bone, Tambourine and Violin Accompaniments, the Railway Overture, and Grape Vine Twist. All by Female Professors. THIRD WEEK, and Last Four ?tights, of the truly wonderful BEDOUIN ARABS. THIS EVENING The Performances will commence with TIIE ANCHOR OF HOPE ; or, The Seaman's Star. Mr. Dunmore, Mr. Conway ; Squire Hay greave, Mr. T. Fredericka; Captain Walton, Mr. Tindel; Mary Wheatiy, Mrs. Ware. After which THE BUFFALO GALS ; or, Female Ethiopian Sere naders. To be followed by THE BEDOUIN ARABS. To conclude with TIIE BRIDGE OF NOTICE DAME ; or, THE PARRICIDE'S CURSE. Noel Champinon, Mr. Neville; Master Legris, Mr. Heslop ; Godfrey Mervin, Mr. J. T. Johnson; Melanie, 31rs. H. Vining. Boxes, 25., Pit, Is.; Gallery, 6d. Doors open at Six, commence at Half-past Six. Dark Brothers an all the Week only, the t Accompaniments, ROYAL VICTORIA THEAT d R For Onethe Black Gais of Ohio, who will sing, with lull Instaurnen a l Popular Melodies of the Day. Second Week of the SHIP BOY, hailed with acclamations of ap plause. THIS EVENING, AND DURING TII O F, F. In Three Acts, POVERTY ; o r, A TALE C haracters by Mr. N. T. Hi c k s , D a l e , Searle, Bird, Gardner ; Mrs. G. Lee, Miss Ilurroughcliffe, &c., &c. After which, The Mississippi Dark Brothers, and the Black Gals of Ohio. To be followed by the SgIP BOY ; or, The White Slave of Gna daloupe. The Ship toy by Miss Vincent. To conclude with (This Evening and To-morrow), TIIE RATS OF RAT'S CASTLE; or. The Old Abbey Ruins. Boxes, Is.; llalf Price, Gd. Pit, 6d. ; Gallery, 3d. Private Boxes Parties of Four, from 10s. 6d.; and Parties of Eight, 11. Is. BRITISH AND FOREIG N INST T The seventh INSTITUTE.—The rooms of this in able interest was last, and considerable soirée of the season was given at the e l l stitute on Friday evening excited by the presence of a party offiun: a r picturesque national costume, who have just artists in the country, after a brilliant career in Paris, and whoarived in this the honour, it is said, of performing before her are to have the Palace this evening. They possess the peculiar talent at 1 imitating by the vo,ice different wind instruments, so tTa t t o l person hearing and not seeing them would imagire the sounds to proceed from a select military band. The oboe, clarionet, horn, and trumpet, were are all admirably imitated; and their performances, which were loudly encored, were received with the most enthusiastic applause. Gardoni, Miss Rana ford, Miss Salmon, Mr. Darrell, Mr. Hancock, Mr. Muhlen feld, Mons. Lavigne, Mr. Oberthur, Mademoisselle Stop, Signor Marra& Mr. Whitworth, Signor Casati, Mr. Bennett , and others contributed a variety of vocal and instrumental pieces. After the concert the proceedings of the evening were wound up by a vivid and glowing description of the in teresting region of the Decapolis and theAnranites,Roman cola ,, D ies beyond the Jordan, in Palestine, delivered by Mr.Buck fq I: ingtiara s the resident director, which afforded great pleasure „,.,.46 the numerous and brilliant assembly. The King of Hanover has just abolished the du ,Zea imposed on butcher's meat, and on the grinding of ,as pressing heavi l y on tha labourin g classes. They tern to be replievhl by new taxes, the nature of which is not - •.,- /„., S r Kv), TRA Stf.N, tortunow, MONDAY EVENIN C 4, APRIL 26, 1847. ROYAL ACADEMY.-EXCLUDED PICTURES.—Works of Art, which may be excluded for want of space by the Royal Academy, or which may not have been finished in time, will be received for Exhibition at the Royal Ade laide Institute, Adelaide Gallery, Strand, according to the regula tions of the Council, which may be had an applicat'on to the Secre tary. Works to he exhibited must be sent on or before the ',3oth i.st. The Exhibition to commence on MONDAY, May 17th. THOMAS LIAIIRLIC:iTON WILSON, Sec. Royal Adelaide Gallery, Strand. THE WEATHER.—Strx OPncE, APRIL 25. TEIERNONETER, Lowest, 36; Highest. 51 ; Noon, 58, BAROMETER, 30.03.—Wind W.S.W.; fine. APRIL 26. THBRMOMETER, Lowest, 39 ; Highest, 58 ; Noon, 54. BAROMETER, 29.86.—W1ND, W,S.W.; fine. glib VI IT ening rnL LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 26, 1847. Consolatory and flattering intelligence has arrived from Spain, intelligence such as will render the Pa checo Administration more popular than heretofore in this country. Arrangements appear to be in pro gress for the settlement of the long-standing liabilities of the Spanish Government—a decree having been issued in the Gazette on the 17th ult., whereby it is proposed to form a Commission for hearing the repre sentations of the various classes of the creditors. Happily, therefore, the dilatoriness of the preceding Cabinets will in no manner be imitated by Senor PACHECO and his Ministerial colleagues; and the wrongs inflicted with such an obstinate pertinacity and such an unyielding callousness, will be compen sated bya tardy but welcome payment. No promise could so effectually ensure to an embryo and rather doubtful Ministry, like the one recently nominated by Queen ISABELLA, the sympathy of the public as this, affecting as it does the pockets and the monetary prosperity of so many individuals. The golden shower of Danae is more welcome-now-a-days—to this commercial and unsentimental generation—than the blooming showers of herbs and blossoms dropped from the lap of Proserpine. PACHECO is aware of this very reasonable preference, his associate SALAMANCA is aware of it, and hence the publication of this pro pitious decree, and the half assurance that the Spanish race are resolved no longer to be a re pudiating and partially insolvent race. With all the natural and artificial resources of that kingdom, with its fruitful vineyards and its inexhaustible gardens, with its enterprising citi zens and its army of merchants, it were preposterous to imagine that, with a judicious application of the science of finance, its debts could not be ultimately liquidated. There is an elasticity, moreover, in financial affairs, as conducted by the more experienced economy of this country, that would enable a less prolific soil than that of the Peninsula to produce sufficient, not merely for the nutrition of its inhabi tants, and the settlement of a proportionate amount of interest, but likewise for the release of the country by instalments from a much heavier embarrassment. It is very conceivable that Senor MON should regard with a jealous animosity the measures undertaken by the new Minister of Finance, seeing that they cast a hue so flattering upon the successors of SOTOMAYOR. Hence, therefore, the diatribes that are appearing in such rapidity in the columns of the Madrid news paper El Faro, which is avowedly the organ of the opinions of 301oN. If the present advisers of her MAJESTY will, however, but take courage, they may scorn the fantastic imputations cast upon them by the morbid and suspicious imaginations of their discomfited opponents. It requires, indeed, not merely sagacitp, but courage, to extricate the Go vernment from the slough of despondency and the depths of " imbecility" in which bas been so long involved. fir Besides the arrangements we have already indi cated, as in preparation by the Pacheco Cabinet, ttlbUy lU Lae same stare et xorwara ness, and of almost equal importance. Foremost among them is the project of law regarding the press—divided into four sections and forty-nine articles. Seven offences are therein enumerated as punishable under the proposed enactment : offences against the person or dignity of the SOTEREIGN, against the safety of the State, against public order, against society, against public morals, against foreign Sovereigns, and against individuals. So that the Executive will still retain a very consider able influence over that fourth estate, in whose freedom alone the true spirit of civilisation can be realised. A second project of law is in reference to the disposal of property appertaining to poor houses, colleges, townships, nzaestrasgos, and other descriptions of immovable property. Besides these intended alterations there are more of a satisfactory character for the conversion of outstanding credits into three per cent. stock, and other matters much desiderated, but hitherto neglected. In all this there appears an activity of a very encouraging kind, and such as will, if uninterrupted by external intrigues, tend to insure the happiness and competence of the entire nation. A satisfactory programme, however, is not sufficient; a prac tical good must be actually effected, otherwise no Cabinet (however plausible) can continue long in existence. PACHECO must consequently follow up these projects with energy and celerity if he is solicitous to render his dominion permanent, or his country flourishing. Let him take warning from the fortunes of his predecessors ; let him remember how, having "kept the word of promise to the ear, and broken it to the hope," they have been succes sively ejected from authority, and sometimes igno miniously expelled beyond the frontier. Let him bear these things in recollection, and act upon the deductions derivable from that experience. On Thursday last we pointed out that the probable effect of the adoption of the clause proposed by Lord G. BENTINCK in the Committee on the Irish Poor law Bill, for placing the entire rate on the occupying tenant, would be to occasion a renewal of the scenes of 1832 and the subsequent years, and practically to render the law inoperative and inefficacious. That opinion has received the strongest confirmation from a resolution passed at a very numerous and respect able meeting of the guardians and ratepayers of the Lisburn Union, held on Wednesday last—a meet ing, composed of all classes, as well proprietors as occupiers of land. The resolution, too, was carried on the motion of DEAN STANNUS, agent to the Mar quis of lIERTFORD, and thus the representative of one of the largest estates in Ireland. It states the serious apprehensions entertained with regard to the clause, and directs that " A petition, signed by the chairman, on behalf of the meeting, shall be pre sented to the House of Lords against a measure which would be so glaringly unjust in principle, whilst it would create bitter enmity between landlords and tenants, produce passive resistance to the payment of rates over the entire country, and might eventually endanger the stability of property ;" and adds, " in stead of such a ruinous clause we unanimously and earnestly implore the Legislature, not only to con tinue the proportion of the rates upon landlord and tenant, as it is found in the existing law, but to sanc tion a provision which will free the tenant from the loss and inconvenience of paying at any time more than his own proportion of such assessment." The fatal results of such an enactment are by no means overstated. The farmers would indeed feel that they were treated in the most inequitable and unjust man ner, if the entire burden of the impost was suffered tions, in the improvementyh of their lands to fall upon their shoulders, and if of the impost mustchaer whose united thep the soil —men b _rothperiev,t,oerigs weight ose . and strenuous exec , were practically ex it must fall on the land, .a and in it is that eventually empted from any he n occ in n this . country it would signify little whether anll of the payment, or the owner was made responsible for the charges are here taken into the icalcuaulas:io farmer before he enters into the occupation oof th ' tenement, and devotes his capital, skill, and industry e to its cultivation and improvement. Besides, such a charge has existed in England for centuries; its probable amount may be assumed and I relied on with nearly as much certainty as the rent itself. The Englishman, too, does not set himself in opposition to the law because its operation may be found oppressive and burden some, or seek by underhand means to evade a pay ment for which he is made responsible. He may grumble and complain, he may petition and agitate for an alteration of the law, but while it remains on the statute-book he will obey it, and liquidate, so long as be has the means in his possession, the sums payable by him. But in Ireland things are essen tially different. It is comparatively a new burden. It is but a few years since it was first introduced, even in the stinted and abridged shape in which it at present exists ; and hitherto the amount collected has borne but a small proportion to the value of the land: 6d., or at the utmost 10d. in the pound per annum on the poor-law valuation—which, it must be recollected, is fully 20 per cent. below the real value—is the out side that has been levied in even the poorest districts, on an average of the past years. This will now most probably be considerably increased. A far higher charge will become necessary, at least in the districts where the landlords continue the crassa negligentia for which so many of the body have been remarkable; a new burden would be entailed on those already oppressed by rackrents, and barely able to obtain a livelihood little better than that of the paupers they would be com pelled to relieve. A general conspiracy would speedily be organized. An anti-poor-law confedera tion would start into existence. The landlords would tacitly sanction the resistance ; they would but feebly oppose any steps taken in opposition to such a charge ; and, so long as they received their rents, they would consider the non-payment of the poor-rate a venial offence on the part of the tenant. Even as the law now stands great difficulties at tend the collection. We are told by the Southern Reporter that the greater part; if not the whole, of a rate struck last November is still payable, and cannot be enforced. The state of the Castlebar Union has already attracted the attention of both Houses of Parliament. It has been proclaimed to the country that while numbers were dying on every side, while famine was raging at the very threshold of the work house, young and old, strong and weak, able-bodied labourers, as well as those suffering under the decre pitude of age or the helplessness of childhood, sinking from inanition, not one-fourth of the number which the house was intended to contain were admitted, owing to the impossibility of procuring payment from the farmers. The same impediments are found in many other parts; and, unless some additional means of enforcing the demand are conceded by the Legis lature, these difficulties will be greatly increased. Surely, then, this is not a time to play the landlords' game, or to permit them, by a side wind, to get rid of that which they would not venture openly to reject. In all questions were the principle of protection is concerned the dernier ressort of its advocates is to fish for a Select Committee. The House of Lords seems to be the favourite arena for this species of political legerdemain. Nothing daunted by the failure of the experiment recently made in regard to the navi gation-laws, under the auspices of Lord STANLEY, a similar atttempt was made in the Upper House on Friday last, when the second reading of the Customs Duties Bill was brought under their Lordships' con sideration. Upon a division, the Government suc ceeded in relieving their measure from the impedi ment sought to be thrown in the way of its progress. The discussion is not to be regretted. It has evinced, first of all, that the principles of free trade are now so well understood and established, that, even in the branch of the Legislature where those of protection are still pertinaciously clung to by many of its mem bers, they triumph over all opposition. In the next place, it shows the public ingratitude of the supporters of monopoly. Notwithstanding that the Government had raised the differential duty on colonial rum from 6d. to 9d. per gallon, for the express purpose, as admitted by Earl GREY, of con ciliating the Opposition, and not, in any wise, be cause they doubted the equity of their original pro position, the concession failed to reconcile the Duke of RICHMOND, Lord STANLEY, et hoc genus ovule, to the wisdom of the fiscal regulations embodied in LLIC ncu. .anu, itit.t.iy, we rejoice at tne aiscussion because it served, in a prominent manner, to elicit the evils of the Excise system. It was declared that the entire number of dis tillers in London was not more than eight, who alone paid 3,500,0001. out of the 6,000,0001., or there abouts, which constitute the whole amount of the Excise duty paid on spirits in the United Kingdom. The consequence of the heavy amount of duty leviable upon the manufacture of spirits is that none can embark in the trade without the command of an enormous capital, and hence the most absolute mono poly prevails throughout this extensive branch of traffic. It is needless now to point out that the Customs Duties Bill will not operate unjustly between our own countrymen and the foreign producers, seeing that the Lords, by the vote to which they came, have decided that this is an idle fear, and believing, as we do, with Lord CAMPBELL in his humorous assertion, that " the mountain dew will never yield to the produce of the sugar cane !" But of this we are satisfied, that the very facts brought forward by Lord STANLEY afford the strongest vin dication of the Bill for the mutilation of which he adduced them. An indefensible monopoly exists, which the measure will tend to shake, a measure which, whilst redeeming a pledge given by two successive Governments to the West Indian colonists, will be acceptable as an act of justice to Great Britain and Ireland. In the latter country, indeed, the monopoly has been more com plete than elsewhere, since the effect of the extraor dinary differential duty has been practically to limit the importation of rum to a most insignificant quan tity, not more than 20,000 gallons having for some years been the annual average of such importation. The cost of collection, and the inquisitorial character of the Excise duties, are daily rendering them more and more objectionable to a people fond of enterprise and freedom of action. Any measure, therefore, which paves the way for facilitating the ultimate abrogation of these vexatious laws presents an addi tional recommendation to the favour of an enlightened public. On the 17th the Papal troops succeeded in captur ing, in the Province of Ferrara, sixty brigands, who have for some time past been ravaging Lower Romagna, pillaging the corn stores. They were natives of the Austrian provinces, and were, it is said, organized by Austrian agents. Madrid journals of the 18th have arrived. It is said that some differences have taken place in the Cabinet on the subject of the recal of EsrmrrEao, a measure strongly advocated by Senor SALAMANCA, but objected to by some of his colleagues. It was rumoured that SALAMANCA would resign and be succeeded by REYNOSO. The attempts made to pro duce a reconciliation between the KING and QUEEN have been unsuccessful. The KING continues to mope in his apartments, occasionally going to mass by way of variety, while the QUEEN, accompanied by her father-in-law, drives about Madrid, mi xes with her subjects, studiedly adopts the national cos tume, and is daily becoming more and more popular. The KING, it is said, is lending himself to the in trigues of the French Court, and is a mere tool in the hands of MON, PIDAL, and MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA. General RONCALI has, it is said, refused the government of Gallicia. The Carlist Chief, CARE CILLA Y BLANCH, called the Penitent of Finestra, has been captured in Larnpurdan and carried to Gerona for trial. Don Lo- RENZO ARRAZOLA has been appointed Fiscal of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice, and, it is said, General Ros DE OLANO will be nominated Lieutenant- Colonel of the corps of Halbardiers, and be succeeded as Governor of Madrid by Don JUAN ORTEGA. The 18th being Sunday, the Bolsa was closed. A new paper, entitled El Faro, has appeared at Madrid. MON, PIDAL, and MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA, are, it is said, contributors to its columns. It is in tended to be the especial organ of the Afrancesado ex-Camarilla. The Clamor Publico publishes the following intelligence from the frontiers of Portugal. It is dated Ayamonte (province of Huelva, April 8): " Ye s t erday, at about three r.m., twenty-nine boats en tered the Guadiana. They conveyed about 1,200 men, or ganised into two battalions, whose bands played as they I passed Ayamont assembled and Bilbao siege hymns. An immense crowd on the banks of the river to ad mire the flue spectacle of so many boats with the Portuguese flag flying. To-morrow as many boats, carrying as many men, are to enter the Guadiana. General Sada Bandeira and his staff will arrive. He has been recently appointed by the supreme Junta of Oporto Lieutenant in the Algarves and Alemtejo. We have in the Guadiana a splendid Por tuguese steamer, which has brought Bandeira's division from Oporto." " Our letters from Faro of the Bth," says the Echo (another ultra-Liberal print), " state that the day before Sada Ban deira's division moved towards Alemtejo, by Villareal, Guadiana, and Lhertola. On the Bth, at noon, the General and his staff left with some troops in the same direction, after having a conference with General Maldonado de Eza, who had arrived at the same hour at Gavia, with a column of above 1,000 men. General Moldonado had previously effected his junction with the Count de Mello. We believe that all will soon be at an end in that part of the country, the people being partisans of liberty." We have received the Paris papers of Friday and Saturday. The journals of Friday all comment on the affairs of Prussia, and the Debats, which has not yet re covered its placidity of temper, again complains of the contemptuous manner in which the KING spoke of the working of the Constitution of the Barricades. The Republican papers see in the assembling of the Diet of Prussia the counterpart to the assembling of the States-General of France in 1789, and consider it as the prelude to a revolution. " If," says the Berlin correspondent of the National," the debates and the vote on the Address have not yet enlightened the KING, if he should obstinately persevere in the illu sions of his pride, or the follies of his system, he is preparing, as is openly said here, a civil war, and drawing on his throne clouds pregnant with storms." A grand review took place in the Place Carrousel on Thursday. The KING, who was present, was loudly cheered by the troops. The Courrier Francais revives the report that was some time since in circulation, to the effect that the Emperor NicuarAs was about to visit Paris shortly. The Union Monarchique, however, which on such a subject is likely to be well informed, declares that it is extremely improbable that such a visit will take place. " The Court - of the Tuileries," says that journal— " Has resolved to send an Envoy Extraordinary, with a pressing autograph letter, to Stutgard, to endeavour to pre vail on the Emperor of Russia to pay Paris a short visit. The choice of the Envoy is already made, and, if the Em peror resists, he is instructed to solicit at least the visit of the Grand Duke Constantine to Strasburg or to Paris. The writer even oilers to send a Prince of the family of Orleans, the Duke d'Aumale or the Duke de Montpensier, to Stutgard, to express to his Majesty the anxious desire of that Court to establish a new entente cordiale. Our correspondent, how ever, assures us that the so-much-wished-for visit will not take place this year." According to the Presse, accounts have been re ceived from Otaheite of the 9th of January, announcing that the natives had made their submission to the French authorities, but that Queen POhIARE had not returned to the island. The afoniteur publishes the returns of the mer chandise imported into France during the month of March, 1847, from which it appears that the duties levied thereon amounted to 12,030,657 f. They had produced, in the corresponding month of 1845, 11,470,219 f., and in 1846, 12,355,628 f. The receipts of the Customs during the first quarter of 1847 were 32,969,595 f., being by 1,308,847 f. inferior to those of 1845, and by 3,251,442 f. to 1846. The Univers of Saturday asserts that the Queen of SPAIN is in a condition that promises an heir to the throne. The Union Monarchi4ue, of the same date, states that at the earnest solicitation of MoN, PIDAL, MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA, and the other chiefs of the Afrancesado party, General NARVAEZ had refused to accept the embassy to Paris. Some coolness is said to exist between Lours PHILIPPE and CHRISTINA, in consequence of the refusal of the former to create MuNoz Duke of Malmaison, or of St. Philip, or of St. Arnelie (the patron saint of the Queen of the FRENCH), instead of Duke of Montmorot. The Chambers were occupied in the discussion of measures of merely local interest. The Presse says— " The account current of the Treasury with the Bank of France, which latterly had fallen to 4,000,000 f., has re mounted to 35,000,000 f. The raising of the rate of interest upon the Treasury Bonds to 5 per cent. has contributed towards supplying it with specie. The cash in hand at the Bank has also risen in a large proportion ; a fact which is remarkable, considering the extent to which money is ex ported from the other side of the Channel. In order to lessen this, the Bank of England has not only raised its rate of discount to 5 per cent., but has recommended refusing the best paper, and limited considerably ” the length of the time which the bills it takes have to run. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse, on the Z~rleans Railroad - Sin;res, — P.36(.; Rouen, 927 f. 50c. ; Havre, 673 f. 75c. ; Great Northern, 625 f. ; Avignon, 7701. ; Vierzon, 587 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux, 515 f. ; Troyes and Montereau, 2971. 50c. ; Basle, 190 f. ; Dieppe, 320 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 4271. 50c. ; Tours and Nantes, 421 f. 25c. ; Paris and Lyons, 431 f. 25c. ; Lyons and Avignon, 450 f. ; Belgian Two and-a-Half per Cents., 53 1 4, MARSEILLES, Arlin . , 2 0.—Marseilles and Avignon, 768 f. 75c. ; Northern, 613 f. 75c, BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 24. Boulogne and Amiens, 165 8—Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 15 Demerara, 3—Dutch Rhenish, 3 —East %—Narnur and Liege, 4% e — Northern and Lyons, s—Paris and Strasbourg 2—Rouen and Havre, Rouen, Indian, oour tehne r n3%60-1,72f —Paris se b , o al u n2 r d t 26 1 4—Sambre and Meuse, IMPORTANT FROM PORTUGAL We have just received the following important in telligence from Portugal :-- " Mello has reached the left bank of the Tagus, and menaced Lisbon. The Queen has agreed to a change of Ministay. " The English sailors have landed to protect the Queen."—Herald. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton Blarket at Liverpool on Saturday was without alteration; the market was still dull. The sales were 3,000 bales, all to the trade.—ln Railway Shares more business was done, but there was no improvement in prices; in fact, many lines were again lower. There is a more cheerful state of things to-day in the City, and, unfavourable as the Bank returns analysed under this head on Saturday appear to be, there is a hope, as in other cases, that matters may have seen their worst. The intention of the Scotch bankers and others to press Government for an alteration of the present currency law, and to allow the extension of issues upon securities instead of coin, inspires more hope. The Corn market also is lower to-day, and the fine weather has had a good effect. We believe likewise that there has been no renewal of the purchases for France. The English Funds opened rather heavily, but have been improving since, and within the last half-hour there is a de cided "start." Consols have touched 86 1 / 6 for money, rather buyers, and SG% for account. Exchequer-bills have been Is. and 4s. Bank Stock is flat at 191. East India Stock has been quoted 245. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been quoted 86 3 / to 87%; and the Three per 1 Cents. 84,j to 85 1 4. At present the Foreign Market does not partake of the buoyancy of English Stocks. Spanish Five per Cents. are 24 1 ,4, and the Three per Cents., 3518 to 34 3 / 4 . Portuguese Four per Cents. have realised 34 to 333,4. Chilian Bonds have been at 93. Dutch Four per Cents. have been 89 to 887 , 1 1 . Although the Railway Share Market wants tone, there is .. ~ .. .. .. the more satisfactory feature observable that sales have not been pressed, and that the orders to sell received from the manufacturing districts are fewer than might have been ex pected. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT O NE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock .. (Fr Three per Cont. Reduced Annu ities • • 8514 84 % 85 ' , Three per Cent. Consols Annui ties • • • • 85% it6q, New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anns. 87 8674 87% • Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 • • 245 9 8 15-16 (From the Official List.) 191 India Stock .. • • • • • • • ' • • • • South Sea Stock • • • • • • ' • •• • • . .. 192 1 Bank Stock for May 27 • • • • • 4 . . . . 86 . 4 86 86 Consols for May 27 • • • • • ' 241. Exchequer Bills. iNd. .. 4 1 4 dis • • • • • • 83% Ditto, Old Annuities Loooi. .. .. •• .• 4 1 die 2 dig 1 p 3 dis Ditto. Small • • • • •• • • PRICES OF FOREIGN FU NDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Chilian Bonds, .. 93 Portuguese Four per Cent • • 3 nn 4 u 34 Ditto, for the Account • • " •,) Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent. • • . • 24 Ditto, for the Account • • • • Ditto, Three per Cent .. •• • • -.. Ditto, for the Account • • • • 35:i 34% Dividends on the above payable in London. 6 per Cent. .. Dutch Two-and -a-Half per Cents. 7 Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 89 887, BCSINESS DONE !X RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PAID. PER SIIARE. RAILWAYS. 1%14 .. to .Amber., Notting.,Boston, St Eastrn Tn. 2% •• • • iai l e ) k it i t i o ig . Birmingham and Oxford Junction .. 10 •• 17 '3%,, A.. to Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham • • 5 •• " 6 •• ' • to Bristol and Exeter . .. •• •• 75 ••••71 • • • • to Ditto, I N I a e m w sl; i • r e 11 ••• •• •• •• 10 •• • • j • ( . .1 :• to Caledonian .. .. .. .• • • •,-, •• • • *4•••• 1%/s•• to Ditto, Half Shares .. .• • • .. 27A, .. 21 •• . . to Chester and Holyhead .. .. • • • • Eastern Counties .. .. . • • • •• 20 •• • • 18%74.. to to Do.,Perpetual,s per Ct. No.l, t 3/. 13s. 4d. •• • • •• • • Ditto, ditto .. .. N o , 2, 61. 13s. 41 • par .... to I ,i P 11 • • • • 6 0 1 ;, 4 5• 231,43,i 1 . 5 .. to 24 61A .. 4.74 %.• to Ditto, York Extension , • • • • • East Lancashire • • • • • • Ditto, New .. .. — • • • • N 6 •• to Ditto, ditto, New Scrip .. • • • • 14 •• • " 5 1 % i; '7; to to East Lincolnshire • • .. • • • • • • 4 ••• • ' '- ' /' -- 50 •• iO•7S .• .. to 70 Edinburgh and Glasgow • • • • '' 15 1 ,474 ••.. to Ely and Huntingdon • • • • • • • Great Northern .• .. • • • • ' • 3.74 2 , %lA.. to Gleat Western • • • . • • • • •• 85 112% ——to Hull and Selby • • • • • • •' 50 .• • • 102 ••.. to Lancaster and Carlisle .. .• • • • • 60 •• • • 59% •• .. to L.verpool, Manch, and N ew c. Junct. 234 •• • • 34% .. to London and Blackwall .. 161. 13e. 4d. London, Brighton, and S o uth Coast • • 50 .. •• 60 kt ,i % to 51 Ditto, Consolidated Eighths • • • • 10 •• 1014 •••• to Lontion and north-Western • • • • 100 • • —l7l • • . to 170 Ditto, Quarters .. L. and D. 7 22S .... to Ditto ditto New . 2 .... 11k.... to Ditto, 40/. Shares .• ht. and B. .. 40 .... 66 ...• to Ditto, 101. Shares .. 3f. and B. (C) 1 •• • • 63y ....• to London and South-Westem 411. 6.. 10d. .... 62A .• .. to Ditto, New 273(•• 293 34 .. to Ditto, Tenths (Consolidated) .. .. 40 •• . • 4134 .... to Ditto, Scrip .. 5 .. • • 4%% • • to Lynn and Ely .. .. 20 .... 213 .... to Manchester and Leeds .. . .. 82 .• • • —• to Ditto, Fifths .... _B% 9.. to .8% Ditto, Thirds (Reg.) .. 45..... % p par to P Manehester, Buxton, and Matlock -. 425. .... p to Midland •• ..100 ....114 113.. to 114 Ditto, New .. 2 .. 334%.. to Ditto, Birmingham and Derby ..100 .... 8931 .... to Newcastle and Berwick .. .. 20 .. 233/ %M% to Ditto, New . 5 .... 6% %% to Northern Counties Union .. 4 .... Iji to - North British .. .. 25 .... 31 .... to Ditto, Half Shares • • 121¢ .... 14 j 4 14 to 1414 Ditto, Quarters .. .... . .. to 3 Ditto, Extension .% _74 1.. to Ditto, Thirds .. .. .. I'~. 2 %3¢.. to North Staffordshire .. 5 8 5 7 i% to Ditto, Scrip (late Churnet & Blythe) 2 .... 3 1 A .... to Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton 223 .... 13 .... to Preston and Wy re .. • . 25 34 1 A %.. to Shrewsbury a.tcl Birmingham (A) • • 336 336 .... to Ditto, ditto (B) 3 .... 2% • ... to • Shropshire Union • • • • • .. 425..... 1% dis. to South Devon • • • • • • .. 40 - . 293¢ .. .. to south 5taff0rd5hire"................ 2/. 125... % 1 dis to % dis South Eastern and Dover .. •. —331.28.4 d. • . . to Ditto, New (iss. at 321.) No. 1 .20 .... 20% to Ditto, New (do. 30/.) No. 3 .. .. 15 • . 14 .... to Ditto, New (do. 151.) No. 4 .. 5 •••• 4%% to South Wales .. .. • • .. .. 10 .. • • 7 •• .. to South Yorkshire, Doncaster, & Goole 2 .. • • 1 % to York and Newcastle • • .. .. 25 .... 33k. .. to Ditto, New • • • . .. 10 .... 133 to Ditto, Preference .. • . .. 4 .... 6 .. to 6% York and North Midland .. 50 .... 81% .... to Ditto, Preference .. .. 2 .... to Ditto East and West Riding Extension 10 .... 20 to 19% FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens .• • • .. 20 .... 163¢ to Northern of France • • • • • • 8 • . 12% .. ••to Paris and Lyons .. • • .. 8 .. • . 5 .. • • to 4 Sambre and Meuse • • • • • • •• 12 ••4•• • • to MINES Real del Monte. Unregistered • • • • •• • • 3% ...• to LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, Aran. 26.—Wind S.W., fresh gales and squally with rain. DEAL, Arm 24.—Wind E. 25, A.M., variable. P.M., S.W., squally.—Arrd. Christina, Ran, Matanzas, and sailed for Amsterdam ; Eliza Bell, Hewitt, Cape Hayti, and sailed for Bremen ; Theresa, Smith, New York, for Antwerp ; Electra, Milne, Grenada; Ada, Brodhurst, Jamaica; Beaufort, Cuba, Jamaica; Sewell, Antigua. Sld. Josephina Catherina. Ha vannah ; Albion, New York; Azorian, St. Kitt's; Sarah, Jamaica; Claudine, Demerara; Andromache, Hunter, Quebec. Arrd. from the River, Anna Mary, Valparaiso; Sylpb, Barbadoes; Ellen, Jamaica; Independence, New York; Anna, Bell, Prince Edward's Island; Carleton and Brothers, Quebec; Wave, Mogador. OFF PORTLAND.—Mederwaard, Meyer, Sourabayer, for Rotterdam ; President, Verkouleren, Patjitan, for Amsterdam ; Simela, Brown, Singapore; Prins Carl, Boldt, St. Croix, for Copenhagen. OFF TORBAY, Aram. 20.—Hector, Fox, Jamaica; 21, Nile, Miller, Mauritius. NEWPORT. Aram 24.—The Mary Ann has been got off shore with four feet water in her hold. OFF SALCOMBE, APRIL 25.—Wind. N.W.—Creole, All gaard, Black Sea; Malabar, Bombay. 24, Samarang, Buckle, Mauritius. PLYMOUTH, Arm 25.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Jane, Powers, Rio Minto. FALMOUTH, APRIL 24 AND 25.—Wind variable. Arrd. Mermaid, Caird, Havannah, left 4th ult. Off port, Lucie, Vanderpenacht, Batavia, for Rotterdam Johan, Ullander, Pernambuco, for Bremen ; Lesselliers, Henrickson, Matanzas, for Antwerp. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 25. Wind N.N.W., variable and light.—Arrd. Diana, Munro, Porto Rico; Columbus, Coffin, Philadelphia; Roscius, Eldridge, New York; Elizabeth Wood, Crosbie, Barbadoes ; Asia, Barbadoes ; Lybia, Dove, La Guayra ; Franconia, Crabtree, New Orleans ; Ann Cropper, Mortor, New Orleans ; Asia, Hannah, Mobile ; Lucy Ann, Thorndike, Philadelphia. Off port, Hannibal, Bombay ; Elizabeth,-Mocha. Sid. New Margaret, Hong- Kong; Antonia, Lima; Hinda, Sierra Leone; Wallace, Lima ; Countess of Sefton, Valparaiso; Charlotte, Barba does ; Shamrock, St. Dominga ; Mary and Elizabeth, Jamaica; Sarah and Ann, Matanzas; Niantic, New York; Stadacona, Staten Island; British Empire, and Elizabeth, Quebec. COWES, APRIL 2.—Arrd. Ancona, Peny, Havannah, with damage and part of cargo thrown overboard, and loss of mate, in a hurricane on the 23d ult., in the Gulf stream, and pro ceeded for London. WATERFORD, APRIL 23.—Arrd. Rose Anna, Wilkson, New Orleans Alice Tarleton, Trefethong, Philadelphia ; St. Fillan, Davis, gt. John's, Newfoundland. OFF FALMOUTH, APRIL 21.—Active, Jacobson, St. Croix, for Copenhagen. 23. Admiral Zoutman, Henricks, Pana rocka, for Rotterdam ; Prince Van Orange, Boer, Batavia, for Rotterdam ; Straats Sunda, Kirk, Batavia, for Amster dam ; Horsburgh, Smith, Lima; Roxburgh of Liverpool, Callao ; Laura and Louisa, Rio Grande, and procdeded to the eastward ; Pargas, Lopatiqui, Havannah ; Diana, Jacobsen, St. Croix, for Copenhagen ; Centurion, Faulkner, New York, for Rotterdam. Coat, APRIL 22.—Wind S.W.; 23. S.S.W., fresh breeze.— Arrd. Alicia, Johnston, Valparaiso; Selina, Bragg, Sierra Leone. 23. Louisa, Wvcherly, Callao ; Governor, Varty, Matanzas ; Eagle, New York. Off port, Orestes, Bombay. NEWPORT, APRIL 24.—Wind E.—Sld. James Innes, Gre nada; Isabella, Quebec. LIM/BRICK ' APRIL 24.—Wind S.S. W.—Sid. 22. Quinaborg, Havannah ; Mary, Pringle, Baltimore; Princess Royal, St. John's; Vestige, Quebec. OFF LIVERPOOL, APRIL 25.—Queen of the Ocean, Adven ture, Adame Charlotte, Unica Higa, Carena, and Margaret. Sld. 24th, loyalist, Quebec; George. Newfoundland; 25th, Kathleen, Africa; Euterpe, Bahia; Hope, Trinidad; Roan oke, Baltimore; Ready Rhino, Halifax; James Ridden, Staten Island ; Juno, Staten Island ; Lady Constable, Prince Edward's Island ; Pursuit, Quebec ; Booth, Newfoundland ; Maria Cleaves, Havre and New Orleans. OFF DUMMIES% APRIL 24.—Zeeland, Noord, Batavia, for Amsterdam. riarop, ccueuec. LONGROPE, APRIL 20.—The Leadbilter, Croll, of New castle, has been got offshore, with little damage. Sld. 17th, Neptune, Miramichi; Elizabeth, Holderness ; Richebucto, Percival, Quebec; 18th, Christiana, Quebec; Sir F. B. Head, Quebec; Anyx, Quebec; Viatie, Miramichi; Middlesbro', Montreal; 19th, Sir Edward Hamilton, St. Andrew's, New Brunswick; Brutus, Jane, Urania, Feronia, Countess Mul grave, William, Catherine Little; 20th, Margaret and Rush, all Quebec. MARKET NEWS.-(T HIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE-MONDAY. During the last week the arrivals of English Wheat for our market, coastwise, were somewhat on the increase, but by no means extensive, while those of all other articles of Grain of home produce were very small. From Ireland and Scotland next to nothing came to hand ; but the imports of Foreign Wheat, Barley, and Oats—there being nearly 30,000 quarters of the latter—were large; those of other Grain small. A fair quantity of Flour was received. Fresh up, a fair supply of Wheat came to hand from Kent, but that from Essex and our various other districts was small. On the whole, therefore, the stands were seasonably well supplied with samples of both Red and White. At the com mencement of business the factors demanded extravagantly high prices for all kinds of Wheat of home produce, as much as 945. having been asked for Essex white; but which, however, the millers were not inclined to give ; hence we must consider the trade rather slow than otherwise, at the currencies paid on Monday last, and at which a clearance was with difficulty effected. There was an increase in the show of Foreign Wheat, owing to which, and there being scarcely any foreign buyers in the market, the trade was somewhat dull, yet previous rates were paid in every instance. Only about 100 qrs. changed hands for shipment. With English Barley we were scantily supplied, but the quantity of foreign was large. Selected parcels for malting purposes commanded, in some instances, a trifle more money ; but in the value of grinding and distilling sorts we have no improvement to notice. All kinds of Malt, the supply of which was rather limited, moved off slowly, but prices were fairly "supported. There was a good quantity of Oats on show, yet the transactions were good, at fully last Monday's currencies. The whole of the English, Scotch, and Irish samples were sold, but several quantities of foreign remained on hand. Beans, the quantity of which on offer was very limited, sold freely at is to 2s per quarter more money. The sale for Peas was firm, and white parcels rose is per quarter. In Indian Corn no sales were reported. Flour was firm at last week's figures. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE Malt—Chevaller • • . • . • 78s to —s Wheat—Essex & Kent, Red, New • - 798 to 805 Oats—Yorkshire and Ditto,White, New 815 89a Lincolnsh., Feed. 30s 33s Norfolk and Lin- Potato coin, Red. •• • • 753 505 Youghal and Cork, Ditto, White.. •• .. 80s 86s Black . ••• . 25a 28s Irish, 1ced........ —5 —s Cork, White..... 28s 31s Ditto,White • •• —s —s Scotch, Feed. •• • • 33s 36s Rye—Old •••••• • • • • • • —s s Beans—Tick . •••• •• . 42s 45s New. ••.••. • • • • • • 48s 54s Pigeons •• • 50s 52s Barley—Grinding..... 42s 45s Pease—Grey......... 50s 54s Malting .•. • . .• . 49* 54s Maple . . ..... 511 54s Chevalier .... ... 54s 56s White -... 51s 57s Slalt—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers • • • •—• 57s 595 folk •.• . •. 73s 75s Brown .• . Kingston and Ware 7.5 s 785 SMITH I Flour—Town-made... 62s 65i Suffolk .....• •—• 50s 54s Stocktn & Norfolk 50s 54s :rxmi.D. Since Monday last, up to Saturday evening, the imports of live stock into London was composed of 102 Oxen, 900 Cows, 1,020 Sheep, and 96 Calves, chiefly from Rotterdam and Harlingen. At the outports, about 100 Beasts, 220 Sheep, and 35 Calves, have come to hand, in, for the most part, fair average condition. The last-mentioned arrivals have been disposed of in the various local markets, at very full prices. To-day there were on sale here about 250 Beasts, 200 Sheep, and 40 Calves, from Holland, the whole of which f o und buyers at enhanced currencies.' Notwithstanding the supply of home-fed Beasts on offer here this morning was seasonably good, and of excellent quality, and the weather somewhat unfavourable to slaughtering, the beef trade, aris ing from the large attendance of both town and country buyers, was brisk, at an advance in the currencies obtained on this day se'nnight, of quite 4d. per 81bs. The primest Scots freely produced 4s. 6d. per 81bs., and at which a good clearance was effected. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, we received about 1,200 Scots, Homebreds, and Short-horns ; from the Western and Midland districts, 800 Herefords, Runts, Devons, &c. ; from other parts of England, 750 of various breeds ; and from Scotland, 220 horned and polled Scots. For the time of year the numbers of Sheep were small, though of full average quality. All breeds, especially the primest old Downs, commanded a ready sale, at an improvement on last week's prices of fully 4d per Blbs. Downs in the wool sold at 5s Bd, those out of the wool, 5s per 81bs. Previous to the close of the market nearly the whole of the supply was cleared off. In Lambs the business passing was trifling, yet previous rates were mostly sup ported. The Veal trade was firm at an improvement in value of from 2d to 4d per 81bs. Pigs were in moderate supply, and steady demand at very full prices. Per Blbs. to 81 s. d. to v. d. nferior Beasts.- I 30 3 4 ink the offal. S. d to s. d. Second quality Mit° 4 4 4 8 3ocond quality •• • 3 6 3 8 Coarse-woolledditto 410 5 0 P — rin4e larze Oxen.. 310 4 2 Southdown Nether 5 2 i Pilule Seas • • • • 4 4 4 6 Large coarse Calves 4 2 4 8 Prime small ditto • • 4 10 5 4 Suckling Calves ..18 0 29 0 Ditto out of the wool Large Hogs 8 4 4 Small Porkers .. • 4 6 5 0 Quarter old Pigs ..16 0 19 0 Inferior Sheep .. .3 10 4 2 Lambe .....:.... 5 4 6 4- I Pigs. 413 Beasts. 3,30 SUPPLY AT MARKET. Sheep. I I Calves. 19,040 140 BOROUGH HOP MARKET. There is much less business passing in our market than is usually the case at this period of the year; yet last week's prices are generally supported. BOROUGH AND SPITAIMIELDS. The supplies of Potatoes on sale here were very small, while the trade ruled firm. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Since Monday last the arrivals of country-killed Meat have been on a very moderate scale, viz., about 100 carcases of Beef ; 300 ditto of Mutton ; 350 ditto of Lamb; 140 ditto of Veal ; and 360 dito of Pork. The supplies slaughtered in the metropolis have been tolerably good, yet a full average amount of business has been doing at about stationary prices. There have appeared on sale about 300 carcases of fOreoi Beef, Mutton, and Veal in good condition. At per stone by the t,arcaea. 9. (I. to 9. d. Beef, inferior 2lO 3 0 ,V 1 into'', interim 38 r 3 it' middling •• 3 0 3 21 -- middling— 4 0 4 2 prime large 3 4 3 6 j prime small 3 6 3 8 P.rk, :t 8 4 6 Veal.. •••• • • 4 0 5 0 -- n I 111 4 8 h Lamb. 5A 4d to 6s 4d IVOOI.. Very moderate imports of Wool have taken place in the port of London during the past week. Privately, the amount of business doing is trifling, yet prices are generally sup ported. TALLOW. There is a very inactive demand for all kinds of Tallow, and the quotations are still tending downwards. Town Tallow is heavy, at 48s 6d. nett cash ; Rough Fat, 9s 3d per 8 lbs. HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.) The House sat today to hear Scotch and English appeals. The Peers present were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, Lord Campbell, and Lord Vivian. CLELAND V. WELL This case came before their Lordships upon appeal from the decision of the Court of Session in Scotland disallowing a bill of exceptions tendered by the appellant to the verdict of a jury, finding him guilty in part of wrongfully excluding the respondent from the possession of certain property be longing to a deceased lady of the name of Williamson, who at her death resided at Scarborough, in Yorkshire. The case, which appears likely to occupy a day or two in arguments, possesses no point of interest except to the parties concerned VICE-CHANCERY.-;THIS DAY.) The Vice-Chancellor of England heard exceptions and further directions to-day, none of which were of any public interest. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) ATTORNEY-GINERAL V. WIMBOLTIIN SCHOOL. This was a petition iu the suit, praying that the Eccle siastical Commissioners might be admitted as parties to the suit. His LORDSHIP delivered judgment this morning. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners sought to administer to the charity of Queen Elizabeth's school at Witnbourn, in the county of Dorset. It appeared that the Attorney-General had laid before the Master to whom the subject had been re ferred, a scheme respecting this charity upon which the master had not expressed any opinion. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners prayed that they might be at liberty to be heard before the Master. These Commissioners were first incorporated in the year 1836, it was their duty to lay before her Majesty in council schemes in reference to charities which, when ratified by the consent of the Crown, were to have the same force and effect as if contained in the Acts. In the Act of this charity there was a clause providing for the better provision of the poor of the parish." He appre hended that the ecclesiastical commissioners had no vested trust direction or control over any portion of the property of that charity, the powers which the commissioners claimed in those petitions was not to be conceded. In the matter of charities they might give, from their position, judicious ad vice, and render considerable assistance, and there could be no objection to receive such advice and assistance ; but the question was not, whether or no it would be desirable to have the advice and assistance of the ecclesiastical commissioners, but whether or no they had the right which they claimed? And they made an application to the Attor ney-General to be present at the inquiry before the Master, it was not likely that they would be reused ; but instead of that they think they had a right, and litigate the matter with him. It was contended that the ecclesiastical commis sioners were independent of the jurisdiction of this Court ; but it was clear that all they were competent to do was to lay a scheme before the Queen in council, which scheme they could not ratify. What powers of the Court might be opposed by her Majesty in council might be urged by the Attorney- General, but it was his (Lord Langdale's) opi nion that it should not be urged by the ecclesiastical commissioners. It was not likely that the Crown would oppose the Court, or act contrary to the law laid down by that or any other Court. It seems, that having instituted an inquiry respecting this charity, the ecclesiastical com missioners were informed that there was property for the collegiate church of Wimbourn Minster; but it did not ap pear that it was intended by the Act that it should, as was contended, rest in them. That must depend upon the Court, according to the principles by which it was governed in such cases. The ecclesiastical commis sioners, it must be admitted, had a very important duty to perform ; but in the present case they had no trust that the case could be recognised in this Court. They had in this suit, the Attorney-General, the governors of the charity, the Bishop of Bristol, who was said to be a visitor, together with other parties, so that there were quite sufficient to give the Court all the information and assistance requisite ; and he trusted they would be able to proceed with out any conflict with the Queen in Council. If the ecclesias tical commissioners would not consent to act in the way he had pointed out, he would dismiss the bill with costs. Oa the application of Mr. TURNER, the case was ordered to be mentioned on Friday next. JORDAN V. YORTESCUX. This cause turned upon the construction of a will. It ap peared that the testator by the last codicil to his will be queathed a sum of 5001. to the plaintiff in these terms :—" I give and bequeath to John Jordan 5001., in addition to 1,5001. which I have bequeathed him by my will." It ap peared, however, that the testator had by his will, to which he alluded, left the plaintiff but 1,000/., and it was contended by the defendant consequently that the plaintiff was entitled to only 1,5001. His LORDIHIP decided that the plaintiff was entitled to the 2,0001., and overruled the demurrer of the defendant. QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.) Sittings in Banco, before Lord Chief Justice DEIkiMAN and a full Court. JURISDICTION OF THE COURT IN THE CHANNEL ISLANDS. In this case, in which two boys had been brought up to this court by writ of habeas, The ATTORNILY-GENERAL applied for a further postpone -011111., or the roaunitiermy of the return to the writ. Mr. CROWDER urged that the case ought to be proceeded with, as ample time had been given to obtain all the neces sary returns on the part of the Crown. Mr. Justice ERLE wished to know whether there was not enough on the face of the returns to warrant the removal of the parties from the country? The ATTORNEY•GENERAL said that they had been sen tenced to be transported for seven years, and had been brought over to this country from Jersey and placed in the Penitentiary,' by the order of Sir G. Grey, until the legal decision upon the case should have been given. The case was then ordered to stand over until Thursday. TILE QUEEN V. BATEMAN. The defendant in this case, who had been convicted of stopping up an alley in the city of London, was brought up to receive judgment. Mr. Justice FATTESON said that he had been convicted of stopping up an alley, upon the order of two magistrates, which order was not valid. The sentence was that he should pay a tine of 51. to the Queen, and remain in custody until the fine was paid. No other case of any importance occurred during the day EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) COON V. SMITH. This was an action tried before Lord Denman, at Kingston, when a verdict was entered for the plaintiff for 306/. 4s. Mr. Sergeant CHANNEL now moved for a rule to show cause why that verdict should n o t b e se t as id e an d a new trial had, on the ground of misdirection and the verdict being against evidence. The plaintiff was a lithographer, and the defendant, registered proprietor of the Brighton, Lewes, Gravesend, Tunbridge Wells, and Eastern Counties Junction Railway Company, and the action was brought for work and labour done. The plea was that defen dant was not indebted, and a set-off. The Learned Counsel contended that the company, who were connected with defendant in the projected railway, and not the de fendant alone, should have been made liable, and that, therefore, the Learned Judge, in putting the case to the jury, had on this point given a misdirection.—Rule refused. WAINMAN V. KINMAN. Mr. Lusit moved for a rule to show cause why the verdict in this case should not be set aside, and a nonsuit entered or a new trial had. The action was brought on a promissory note and an account stated, and the pleas were a denial of the making of the note, of due notice having been given, and of the account stated, but the material plea was the statute of limitations. The verdict was entered for the plaintiff for 242/. lls.—Rule granted. MARLBRO'-STREET-(THIS DAY.) Samuel Johnson was placed at the bar for assaulting Mr. 11. Hunt, landlord of the Duke's Head, No. 10, Little Pul teney-street, Soho, and threatening to take his life. Mr. BINGHAM fined him 55., and held him to bail in one surety to keep the peace to all her Majesty's subjects for three months. John Dixon, a man of colour, and John Randall, two stout well-fed fellows, were charged, with being found begging in the public streets. It appeared that on the preceding evening, about five o'clock, as police-sergeant Newman, E 9, was proceeding along Oxford-street, he observed the two prisoners lying on the pavement, on which they had chalked the words, " We are destitute and starving," he watched them for a few minutes, and saw them receive several pence. He then took them into custody, and conveyed them to the station, where, on being searched, 2s. Bd. was found on Randall, and 2s. ?id. on Dixon. The prisoners, who denied the charge, were committed for one month to the House of Correction, and the money found upon them to go towards their subsistence. Francis Shipp, a gentlem an residing at Finchle7, w as charged with furiously drivin g , an d knocking down trances and Elizabeth Price, thereby endang er i ng their lives. It appeared, that about twenty minutes past nine o'clock, the defendant was driving a pha3ton and pair of high_spirited horses, at a furious rate along Leicester-street, and, after coming in collision with a cab which was much damaged, ran against the two females, who were crossing the end of Cranbourne-street. The complainant, Francis Price, re ceived such injuries that she was picked up in an insensible state, and conveyed into the nearest surgeon's, where it was found that her arm was fractured, and her leg severely grazed by the wheel. The other complainant was also much injured. James Dymes, cab-driver 2,021, proved seeing the de fendant driving at a great rate, and that he ran against his (witness's) cab, the springs of which were broken, and other wise so severely damaged as to be unfit for service. Police-sergeant, C 20, and constable, 53 C, also proved the furious rate at which the defendant was driving, and that he was in liquor at the time. The defendant denied driving at such a rate as had been described, and called his groom as a witness to the same, who endeavoured to prove that the accident was owing to no fault of the defendant, who was a most experienced driver. The horses became restive through running against the cab. He did not think him much the worse for liquor at the time. The defendant said he would make ample compensation for the damage which he had caused. Mr. BINGHAM fined him 40s. for furiously driving, 30s. for damage done to the cab, and recommended him to pay 101. each to the females. W ORSHIP -STREET .—(THIS DAY .) George Lucas, proprietor of a respectable eating-house in Bath-street, City. road, was charged with stealing a quan tity of mortar from some building now in the course of erec tion in Shepherdess-walk. Sergeant Raveney, 26 N, stated that he was proceeding on his round, when he observed the defendant, whose hands were covered with mortar, carrying a box of that material, con taining abouth three stone weight. Being satisfied, from its being so early on Sunday morning, that the prisoner had stolen the mortar, he stopped him, and th e d e f en d an t ac knowledged that he had taken it from a heap of mortar which was lying in one of the branching avenues in Shepherdess-walk. The prisoner expressed his sorrow and contrition for the offence, which he said he should not have committed but for a sudden rupture having taken place in his oven. Mr.. BP.oucamoN replied that it was not the first tnoi,---,,t Inuring in a respect:Abie sphere (f life who had been bro?).,lup, plead, i : ri : ,,,ti, ~, could o h , a t v i - T ; g 1 ( s . t n n e at t l o I..wiwre him for such petty, paltry theft,,.. The prisoner,:,lA, mpe , sr, wou lent their aid to him under such circumstances. 0° or ,y . . ,- id Willing') I f , r s e c c veral bricklayers iiw then ~Tve Broughton), however, did not desire to fix the stain of m ho upon the prisoner, as it might have the effect of ruining P e j, tor the remainder of his lite. Tile prisoner was discharg ... but he would perhaps put something in the poor-bni bel°l' he left the office. The prisoner did so, and was allowed to depart. RAILWAY Colll3liffEEs' (THIS DAY•) HOUSE OF COMMONS. GROUP XVI. A fLIZZA T EASTERN COUNTIES ND jtp NORTHERN EXTENSIONS AND IIITCEIN) . the The Committee was occupied during the whole _ A by the in hearing evidence in favour of the line as proPee e d by Easter Counties Railway. in opposition to that pop.' the Great Northern Railway. gock- The Committee adjourned till to-morrow a t 12 o GROUP XX. The Committee appointed to consider the rall wa Yin Sch li e l in this group, assembled for the first time this daY at e . d burn N 0.35. Present—The Right Hon. Henry G oulbu nii" sa man), Lord Dalmeney, Mr. Trotter, Earl Jer Colonel Rawdon. The Bills submitted for consideration were---, Les inier The London and North-Western (Kenilw orth, tioa ton, &c.) Birmingham and Oxford Junction Amendment Om s ot' of line). . 4 . an. Birmingham and Oxford Junction (Warwl' • We l ' ford line). bat, Birmingham and Oxford Junction, an d Binning -- verhampton, &c., Amalgamation. • g ot:1 1 ' 111' e). Midland (Cheltenham, Warwick and Leanjln-i of Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton (No . Ong tit Mr. WHATE LEY, Q.C., for the promoters o: the lines, proposed that the Committee should errauentin.l Thursday, 118 the Lord Chancellor had to give P d h g ic h vieu.; cause (the broad and narrow gauge question), I , " 0000 11 materially affect the conflictin g interests which Le tee M had to consider. G • ot,l Mr. COCKB URN and Mr. AUSTIN had no ob J e 16i course. bed Mr. POOLE, in the e ven t o f th e Committee rising, to know in what order the Bills would be take?? the 131111 The CHAIRMAN replied, in the order in which be read a second time. • The Committee then adjourned until Thursday GROUP XXI. (Sir J. Graham, Chairman.) v". OXFORD, 'WORCESTER, AND rs ' 4" HAMPTON, AND STOUR vBL y TENSION AND BRANCHES. o gut,, e llf The Committee, this morning, after hearing liw t he 0 0 "‘"_,, of Mr. Cockburn and Mr. Austin with respect e , A O - 100 037 , the - t he proceeding with the Bills, came to the following B "The Committee call upon the opponents 0- that if proceed with their case, on the understinding t" preamble of the two Bills, now under considerstioetcootro be held proved, and if the clauses perrnittiogi„itil: the e fit; Lion of the mixed gauges be inserted in the P I mittee will make a special report to the f1° 1154 c ons ° f attention to the resolutions of the House of C o s a nd Of 1846, 0,01. 19th of May, MI6, and the Gaue Act 0 ed the r ' ° statement of the reasons which may have induce d t he t b. mittee to come to that conclusion." tit or In consequence of this decision, evidence in 0 0 1 STOUR VALLEY RILL ( 1 + 741. was given. The first witness called was live doe' bar. Foster, a proprietor of extensive coal en- e of paying upwards of 30,0001. per annum for the caul 00 sd.5 d . ' and other materials, who gave evidence in favour I line. As periority of the proposed line over that of the intrisl s od P' Other evidence of a similar nature was gone Committee adjourned till to-morrow a t twelve 0 c."'" ----- TT Ann, P:tee' CONFLAGRATION OF BRANDESTON -.- gel` c. WOODBRIDGE.-Th's fine specimen of Elizabethenroote, ture, the seat of Mr. Austin, Q C., situate on,a %gab near the road side between Cretingham and •" $- te o* .; Suffolk, fell a sacrifice to a fearful conflagration on c o otier l d ing of Thursday last. It was built about tbree_„tse , since, and was very capacious, having a of upwards of 150 feet, with picturesque garden a ,' bi the Up to within a few years the mansion was tenin; c hased ' ll . O noble tied family of its founder, from whom Mr. Austin Is i der going t i., estate, and it was at the time of the accident len are W ills elaborate restoration and alterations. From in f l a te ef„,"111 tuted, it appears the ball was placed under Oft, ii nco-_,. 0 . contractor, who had the management of the Wor" o ter e'' o f his workmen slept on the building. Abut a cl a o istee, t oo twelve o'clock on the morning named, a boy, en „„ e 0 1 4 the contractor, discovered smoke issuing from ' it P - 0 / sitting rooms over the library in the east winte Cr et e been used by the contractor since he had had w h o th the building, and was the only apartment in Infe i al' had been a fire for several days previous. Ito be . mediately awoke Mr. Sillett, the principal, 2 1 o ture came so alarmed that, instead of ascertaining the or and extent of the fire, he leaped out of the windowwoW tamed some severe injuries by the fall. Two or thi hone/ hastened o to sl t e h p e t i a n p s a o rt m m e e a n t t t , ic a s n i d n a en d d i e stant Past of thewale ames, which were issuing from men, who ; but owing to the dryne . ss the hh the e it a s fioor of in_!f an t h o fiii the "tjt spread with such rapidity efforts were u that their .. of the library 10:i ful. The elaborately carved wood ceiling all hoP e ' low had caught, and it seems from that moment e _ o r saving the edifice was lost. Mounted expresses v . ve i r i fe w; ea r diately dispatched to Framlingham and to IPs nl , c v illage ° gines and assistance. Crowds of persolt 11°'-'nsuccesr around flocked to the scene, and on the arrival m at, bei gines exerted every nerve to master the raging in vain. The interior of the noble structure wee _ ° , l o f tb°, of flame. About half-past two the roof and gable:elisupeo; stliferom tut the 0, north front tell in with a fearful crash, and in etlner: one b°4l c oal three hours from the discovery of the fire Brandest,onbegjee was a total ruin, only the south wall remaining; cannot ccuratey be larned. It, h o wever, is _ o t, ile derable— -it is sa i d about e 20,000/. The mansion wit* . p/0 sured.— Observer. ,-I nutatl° o til Two days ago we mentioned that a ar ad y our ea At i in town from the principal Scotch banks to e t _ e oe ceeet, make some arrangement which would prevent to land, in ore' of their purchasing gold from the Bank of Eng t his ser e to enable them to expand their paper circulation tee, alloy' . t e lt son of the year. The proposal they made wa s du t th rglan er gold to remain in the coffers of the Bank of .-- he i r own , credit, and save the expense of transmiseion to t ent bo werrl tablish in ents. The Chancellor of the Exchequ....4ade as tp.: bias declined to interfere with the law as itspeei to oe; subject, and an application made to Sir Robert e __ ou ol i • the on 5!•1 __. his good offices with Ministers to obtain bora in a v% O with no better success. The ex-Premier told t„ . . wte utl A few words that they must have been aware a the. of the Legislature in enacting the law, and interferehe w ith i v that it would be altogether inexpedieut to 'lbe w itlire d a 1 operation. The amount of g old dot aria a t "le. addition to the present stock in Scotland is half a million sterling to mt ors with fns 0V in May and June; and the Bank direct , resent consideration for their feelings than the pr PL .. ,,,tiof, Minister, quietly informed the deputation that on r e '"" a t the L' Bank of England notes the 500,000 sovereigns we_ t heir etr, tbe usual expansion of n ei n er , command, but that they could not hold them W hich 0 , count by their lodging securities. The resul t oic SO I L lowed was the sale of a considerable amount of F il „h be y , rides yesterday and to-day on account of the Sce`' ,ded r to obtain the sovereigns, a process which will be Od e e s th e soon as the account of the failure of the mission res, b t iele. other parties i n teres s t aA ed mTu i a n nnu t a h An e yd n . i h r oi t s h n . e —Herald City 'AO" in the ATROCIOUS ATTEMPT TO MURDER AN at 00 Potteries.w wife were w t h e r e e most p ° l i c o t o e4 : 10 1° 1 are the main facts attending the attack:—An ag e doaf il Tuesday t°teumrLECl ts. — n t i o g S li T t° murder a E t ' Fenton; named George and Sarah Bridgwood, both between seventy years of age, resided in a house in High,. / re fe l kept a small provision shop. man, as he lay O i n n morning the to rest about ten o'clock ; on the following (" ~ 00 6 0 t g h l e un o t l u d ering fight in the r Tt o h o ue l es n b , de a ad : and, i bgetift: e_ i h i : ee : d e is: half as Oa he saw • ceived a blow on the side of his head, arouse himself to ascertain from whence it proceen' neat nlr ment receiving several 0 00 00 which it is cuts on her face and arms 0 1d Ail believed were aimed at her throat. 1 ": D 01f 6 '.,4 mid recovering . himself, sprang out of bed, and being - fi a or,_74 tic person, seized a man, whom he got on eu, e ,„ eePSO placing his knee on his • succeed te him down, assailant's throat, succe ,co his wife the nee-iouje, his wife in the meanwhile contriving to ' he pl e d door, and call out " Murder." In a few minutes t ra fo were attracted to the house, and on entering the Both, Weri the old man in. the position above described. , e hbit t ; drenched in blood, and the bedclothes anc l l l ,, °° ,. r o ffian,„ 0 fearful proof of the murderous design of ...-- i ed to be being taken to the station-house, he vraS t °gn s in do ne l bricklayer, named William Burleigh• wa s was • 01 b 1 weak state, his throat bein cut ; but bow it iete oti . . was difficult to say. There g is no doubt that Ow b ei r jr in the first instance, was toplunder the hous e '- i . in n. 0 . disturbed, he attempted to murderthe e detec ts age d P ill " c ! that he might complete his object, and eseeP t he o 'o.o into traces thaet court c S t o o n k e a l) c o i l i i a c i e r - , c Yesterday he underwent an examination before _. woe 0. our . • _, A u p lU.P) on if , ' jBOll t ho After sever al witnesses had been examined, the ,P ee s co fully committed to take his trial at the next e-" r capital charge. t M a i ° I It aff • affords us sincere pleasure to find tho ‘ to o, , IQ tbe '''• of General i Sir H. G. W. Smith, Hart., and GAIIIIOBIOO 0 AI wal, has succeeded to theColonlcy of the- lier j eS e d the Rifle Brigade, Or sii and was pßroripdpgergi. Was villoW.e c rigade, the regiment with which t o o te d, , t his professional career were intimately conn•se Service Gazette. .0 lOC. J . A- its ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY, REG IRra d tin e S a° ; el At a meeting of Fellows held at the gardens i n the en on Saturday, Sir James Clark, Bart-, ALloentleMen, Were ballot took place, and the following ladies en"„ri Arund o ., t oer admitted to the society : —The Countess " F. Nany i h e r S rrey, Viscountess Esq.,Pon, theltilrgeven. , Esq.,..j. Cha.les Robert Rowley, Morgan ,---°,. 0. Totttet (4 9 1 3 . taste Holman, E , q., E. Osborn Smith, r',., s `v ~ Esq.,' „1 0 Whitfield, Esq., Themes Mo nEscl" W. Keith, Esq., Robert Hall, Esq., G ur ea ' —' big, O w.- Stanfield Cousens, Miss Field, rs° ' M . and Miss Ward. e iti n a l plessu r jot Loss OF THE TWEED.—We have 1 11 .- - d ,-, in ou r eta' announcing that the appeal which was ba n s, " sod of the week's paper on behalf of the widows, orp_...ek °f e at° dependent on the seamen who periehed in the reopenw"d above vessel, has been most nobly and liberally , fe cto , us bertu . c hie Mrs. Do by our fellow-townspeople and other genero of r eel . o g, A committee has been formed for the purposel„ Stab l i d subscriptions, consisting of Messrs. Elsinie , M' l e 'd Lap is Tipper, Dunlop, Lamb, Dat till, and Tucker , a_ tifica tioll or s Sparks and Hemsley ; and we have lun ch Tin the 6 . 0 0 1 stating that nearly 700/. have been contribute es,. g r ainer' space of one week. We perceive that her ai,....L,Ad Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness Princ e have been pleased to head the list with a joint 6 _ tri bal 201., and her Majesty the Queen Dowager also 01 ' ole 25/.—Hampshire independent. Friday the .. P ad SALE OF SCENIC PROPERTY.---On of the scenes, wardrobe, and properties of the were O ld ° al Theatre belonging to Mr. G. Bolton, the lessee, t cre rioter, 4 a communication made to Mr. Davenport, the Prop o ., o rtl y „ the premises, by Mr. Furber, under a distress for ren • o f pi se of their t ho the performers and musicians, the whole the wardrobe and musical instruments were the re r_ n ere7 I siVelY ,sa was restored to them, the articles sold being axe o f i_4rof tb r ee o el f - : belonging to Mr. Bolton. Five hundred cop tleman • st dramatic afterpiece called The Civil W went for Bs. ; and 66 copies of Mr. G. Bolton re er :0 All about Love and Jealousy, brought 35.; the r P coron a '. ' s five act cometieo, two a _P i r s wa tc_ t h 4/. ; a fairy car, with four w heels, 85..• mus hrooms, a fairy bower, a railway carriage, o _., t he vw box, 2s. 6d.; and the other articles in propertwP lots realising about 504