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Established for the purpose of rendering a more perfect performance of the Lyric Drama 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 establishn works of Chnaroma, Mozart, Rossini, Meyerbeer, and others of the more modern Italian School, including Operas by Eellini, Dont zetti, Mercadante, and Verdi, on a scale of the utmost perfection in every department ; to which intent the manazement has assembled a Company embracing the greatest and most varied latent in Europe. PRIMI 'SOPRANI.—Madame Grist and Madame Persian' (her first appearance in London for three years), Madame Ronconi and Mdlle. Steffanoni (of the Theatre La Scala, in Milan, her first ap pearance in this country). CONTRALTI.—Signora Alboni (of the Theatre La Scala, Milan, and of the Imperial Theatre in Vienna, her first appearance in:this country), and Mademoiselle Corbari. TENORL—Signcr Mario, Signor Salvator Lavia (of the Imperial Theatre of St. Petersburgh, his first appearance in this country), Signer Tulli (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, hilt first appearance on the Italian stage in England). PRIM! BASSI BARITONI—Signor Tamburini and Signor Giorgio Ronconi. PRIM BASSI PROFONDI—Signor Marini (of the Theatres San Carlo, Naples, La Scala, Milan, and the Imperial Theatre, Vienna, his first appearance in this country), Signer Angelo Alba (of the Theatre Royal, Madrid, his first appearance in this country), and Signor Polonini (of the Imperial Theatre, Vienna, kis first appear ance in this country.) PRIMI BASSI COMICI —Signor Pietro Ley (of the Theatre Royal Madrid, his first appearance in this country), and Signor Agostino Revere (of the Theatres Royal, Naples, Milan, Vienna, and St. Pe tersburgh, his first appearance in this country). Beconde Donne—Madame Antoinetta Mollidori (of the Theatre La Scala, in Milan), Mademoiselle Amalia Linari, Mademoiselle Luigina Bellini: _ _ geconde Tenore—Signor Emmanuele Slano (of the Theatre San Carlo in Naples). Director of the Music, Composer, and Conductor—Mr. Costa. A powerful and numerous CHORUS of chosen and experienced singers 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 he under the direction of Mr. Godfrey. . An ORGAN, of extensive compass, has been expressly erected in the theatre by Messrs. Flight and Son. Organist—Mr. V. Novello. The BALLET, 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 Blaster ; and, daring the season, the following eminent Danseuses will appear :—Premieres Ilanseuse —Mademoiselle Dumi latre (ef the Grand Opera, Paris), and Mademoiselle Plunkett (of the Grand Opera, Paris), Mademoiselle Bertha (of the Imperial Theatre, Vienna, her first appearance in this country), Mademoiselle Neodot (of the Theatre Royal, Madrid), Mademoiselle Marietta Baderna (of the Theatre La Scala, Milan), and Mademoiselle Fuoco (of the Academie Royale de Pari•). Monsieur Petipa (of the Grand Opera, Paris), Monsieur Gontie (of the Theatre Royal, Madrid), Monsieur Ferdinando Crose, 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 (Basis (of the Theatre La Scala, Milan). Leader of the Ballet—Mr. Alfred Mellon. Regisseur de la Danse Mr. O'Bryan. Composer—Signor Alessandro Curnd (of the San Carlo Theatre, Naples). THE THEATRE.—To render the Interior at once commodious, elegant, and comfortable, it has been entirely reconstructed and decorated, under the immediate direction and after designs of U. Albano, Esq., C.E., with every attention directed to its proper ventilation. The Decorations have been executed by Mr. Ponsouby. The Management has happily secured tile 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 sea on, to be obtained at the Box °dice, 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. Borrani; Podiebrad, Mr. Harri• son ; Mathias, Mr. Weiss ; Matilda, 31iss Rainforth ; Lillis, Miss R. Isaacs. To conclude with a new Ballet, entitled SPANISH GALL AN. TRIES. Principal ehara,ters by MM. Croce, Adrien, Tell ; MdDes Baderna, Louise, Adele, St. Louin, and Renard. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. 'Under the Management of Mr. B. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVE:sTING WiU be performed a new and original Comedy, called THE SCHOOL FOR SCHEMING. Principal characters by Messrs. Far ren, Stuart, Buckstone, Howe, Selby, Brindal, Mrs. Glover, Mrs. Humby, Mrs. Yarnold, Miss Fortescue, Miss Bennett, Miss Rey nolds, &c. During the evening the Band will perform the Overture, " Lac des Fees," " Plantagenet," " Rose," and Helen" Polkas ; Waltz, by Lanner ; Galop, by Strauss ; and the " American Polka." To concladc with the Original Grand Fairy Fatravaganza, called the INVISIBLE PRINCE ; or, the Island of Tranquil Delights. Principal characters by Mr. James Bland, Miss P. Horton, Mrs. L. S. Buckingham, Miss Reynolds, and Miss Julia Bennett. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. Under the Management of Mrs. Keeley. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Drama, TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS. In which Mr. and Mrs. Keely 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. nder the direction of Madame Celeste THIS EVENING Will be performed the celebrated Drama, called THE GREEN RUSHES; or, A Hundred Years Ago. Murtogh, Mr. 0. Smith ; Dennis, Mr. Cullenford ; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Grinnidge, Mr. Wright ; Captain Dartois, Mr. Worrell ; Madame St. Auhert, Madame Celeste ; Geraldine, Mrs. Yates ; Nelly O'Neil, Mrs. Fitz- William. After which the Comic Drama, called THE MAID WITH THE MILKING PAIL. Lord Philander, Mr. Cullenford ; Algernon, Mr. Boyce ; Diccon, Mr. Wright ; Milly, Mrs. Fitzwilliam. To conclude with, DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE TO CAMBERWELL ? Honeybun, Mr. Wright ; Crank, Mr. 0. Smith ; Mrs. Iloneybun, Miss Harding ; Mrs. Crank, Mrs Matthews. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING Will be performed a Grand Opera, entitled ANNE BOLEYN. Henry VIII., Mr. Bodda ; Percy, Mr. Allen ; Rochford, Mr. Wal ton; Smeaton, Miss S. Flower; Harvey, Mr. Wynn; Lady Jane Seymour, Miss Rourke ; Anne Boleyn, Miss Bassano. After which, a Concert by the New Orleans ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS. To be followed by the original Cornedietts, called ADVICE TO HUSBANDS. General Leslie, Mr. Granby ; Frank Trevor, Mr. Tining ; Mrs. Trevor, Mrs. Stirling. To conclude with the Comic Drama, called THE TWO RAIN BOWS James Rainbow, Mr. Branby ; Peter Rainbow, Mr. Compton; Caroline, Mrs. Hughes ; Matilda, Miss Bonner. _ _ FRENCH PLAYS.—ST. JAMES'S TIIEATIIE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. MONDAY EVENING Will be performed the Comedic-Vaudeville of MATHILDE ; ou, I.a Jalousie. M. Darbert, M. Lafont ; Mathible, Mdlle. Fargueil. After which the favourite Vaudeville, entitled LES DEUX BRI GADIERS. Rameaudor, M. Lafont ; Francine, Mdlle. Fonquet. To conclude with the Vaudeville of L 1 SCEUR DE JOCRISSE. Jocrisse, Mon. A. Tousez ; Charlotte, Mdlle. Fonquet. Boxes, 0., Pit, 3s. 641. , 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 V, E R E,NADERS, ST. JAM ES'S THEATRE. The celebrated ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, Pell, Harrington, White, Stanwood, and Gannon, 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 MORNING ENTERTAINMENT will take place every MONDAY MORNING during Lent. The Perfonnances will 'commence, each day, at half-past Two o'clock. The Programme will be varied on each occasion. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Amphitheatre, 2s. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Proprietor, air. W. Batty. Under the patronage of the Queen, Prince Albert, and other 3lembers of the Royal Family.—Mr. BAT ry has formed an ar rangement (for twelve nights only) with M. Pablo Famine ; his first appearance in Loudon with his highly-trained Steeds. The Fox-llounds meet every Evening at Half-past Six, THIS EVENING Will be performed THE ROYAL Fox-HUNT; or, Life's Course of Men and Steed. Entire change of the SCENES of the CIRCLE. Box-office open from eleven till five o'clock.—Doors open at six and commence at half-past six o'clock.—Stage Manager, Mr. W. Broadfoot. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessee, Mrs. Frances Davidge. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Tragedy of OTHELLO. Othello, Mr. 11. Betty; lagn, Mr. Saville; Casslo , Mr. Predericks ; Desdemona, Mrs. Saville ; Emilia, Miss Richardson. To conclude with the new Dream, called RABY RATTLER; or, The Progress of a Scamp. Characters supported by the whole Comic strength of the Company. Boa-office open from eleven till four o'clock. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. sexes, Is., Halt-price, 6d.; Pit, 6d.; Gallery, 341. THIS EVENING Will be pertbrmed the MAGIC HARP OF .ALTENBERG ; or, The Grave of the Old Abbey Ruins. In which Messrs. Hicks, Dale, Forman, Searle, Miss Vincent, Miss Pearce, Re., will appear. After which, THE DUKE OF SHOREDITCH. Supported by the entire Comic strength of the Company. To conclude with GALE BREEZELY; or, A Tale of a Tar. MR. D'ISRAELI'S NEW WORK, " TANCRED ; OR, THE NEW CrwsADE."—The literary event of the Spring, says a contemporary, will of course be D'lsraeli's" Tancred," but from the mode of advertising it, there is every proba bility that the preface will bear the usual "Coningsby " and " Sybil " " Grosvenor Gate, May morning." Our contemporary, however, appears to be a little at fault, as we perceive the work is announced for immediate publi cation. The title would seem to forbid any suspicion of the applicability of the book to present politics; but, for all that, it is pretty generally inferred that the learned author would not come forth in print at a time like the present, without ut'ering something in his dashing way, that may serve as a rallying cry for his party. GUN COTTON AND MACIIINERY. Isaac Mickle, Esq.,of Camden (New Jersey), is applying gun c ott on to use propulsi on of mach i nery in L, factory. The engine is constructed on the plan of the ordinary steam-engine, only thrre are t wo cylinders, one working in the other. The gun cotton is ignited 4 11; electricity, engen d ere d an d app li ed i n a novel manner. Qt y . degree o f p ower may b e o b ta i ned. It is safer than the Ulna, run it. ry steam-engine, an d one person can DESTITUTION IN THE HIGIILANDS.—A grand' Celtic fancy and full• dress ball is announced to take place on Thurs o, in aid of the fund day, the 11th inst., at Willis's col lecting for the distress ed s:r ! o h fn li l f eeras . festival ianagu i sh e i d i a o s f. the o u r ni t os. th t Te c a l l :i i : ies advantage of Prince Alb sevo e f ra i l t i g n l fl is u t en o - f patrons, who consist or d as we ll as Members of Parliament.. Wefoarr,ettsepgy. nobility, together with the Lord Mayor tial citizens, to state that from the number of tickets appl ied ceipts promise to be worth the effort, SIiSPECTFD INFANTICIDE.—Yesterday morning, as a labouring man was p roceedin g alon g the towing-path of the Surrey Canal, he discovered the bcdy ofla newiy_b era female child floating near the house of Mr. Hayward, of the King's Arms Tavern. It was dragged ashore, and when examined, the hands were found to he tied with a stout cord, and the head was terribly mutilated by some weapon. A surgeon of the district has seen the body, and is of opinion that the child has been murdered. Lady Charlotte Greville has taken a mansion in Lansdowne-square for the season. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Nobility, Gentry, Subscribers to the Opera, and the Public, are respectfully informed, that THIS EVENING, Saturday, March 6, will be performed Verdi's celebrated Opera, entitled NINO. Mims, Signor Coletti • Idaspe, Signor Corelli ; Arotasphe, Signor Bonebe; Fencna, Mdlle. Fagiani ; Abigail, Mdlle. Sanchioli. After wbich, a new and original grand Ballet, in five tableaux, by Paul Taglioni, entitled CORALIA ; ou, LE CHEVALIER INCONSTANT. Coralia, 3fdlle. C. Rosati; the Knight Halebrand, M. Paul Taglioni; Squire, M.•Geuriet ; Bertha, Mdlle. Petit; Page, Mdlie. Honore ; Duke,. • • Gosselln ; Fraisondin, 31. Venefra ; Fisherman, M. di Mattis. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. GRAND EXTRA NIGHT. On• Thursday, March 11, a variety of Operatic Entertainments will be presented, combining the talents of Mesdames Castellan, Fagiani, Solari, Nascio, and Sanchioli ; Signori Fraschlni, Superchl, Coletti, Bouche, Corelii, F. Lablache, and Cardoni. The Entertainments in the Ballet will comprise the talents of Mdlles. Rosati, P. Stephan, I3aucourt, Honore, Cassan. and M, Taglloni ; MM. P. Taglloni, L. D'Or, and the whole of the Halle Department. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT GARDEN, ~t NEW NOVEL, BY THE AUTHOR OF "SUSAN HOPLEY.' Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 v ol s ., T HE STORY OF LILLY DAWSON. By Mrs. CROWE. Authoress of " Susan Hopley." " Lilly Dawson is a heroine of quite as interesting a character as Susan Hopis) , ; and her adventures are not less romantic. Mrs. Crowe's style possesses a charm which renders her work irresistible." —Dispatch. Henry Colbnrn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. NEW WORK BY THE AUTHOR OF " THE RANSOM." Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., post Svo., KIRKHOLME PRIORY; or, Modern Heroism. By the Author of " The Ransom." Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. Just published, in 3 vols., post Bvo., price 31s. 6d. cloth, SHERIDAN KNOWLES'S NEW NOVEL, GEORGE LOVELL. Also, in 2 vols., post Bvo., price 21s. cloth, MEMOIR OF THE REV. H. F. CARY, Translator of Dante; with his Literary Journal and Letters. Edited by his Son, the Rev, HENRY CARY. Edward Moxon, 44, Dover-street. H ENRY RUSSELL AT THE STRAND THEATRE. Composer of Woodman spare that Tree—Pry Green—The Gam bler's wife —The Maniac—Ship on Fire—The Life Boat—l'm Afloat —Newfoundland Dog—and ether Popular Songs, will give his VOCAL ENTERTAINMENT THIS EVENING, AND EVERY EVENING. He will sing the Song of the Shirt—Paupers Drive— Gambler's Wife—Ship ou Fire ; &c. &c.—Songs and incidents of Negro Life and Character. Boxes, 3s. ; Stalls, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery 6d. ; Private Boxes, ii Is Box-office op( n from One till Four daily. THE WEATHER.—Suit OFFICE, MARCH 6. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 33; Highest, 41 ; Noon, 38. BAROMETER, 30 2.—WIND N.E., hazy. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Horning .. 22 minutes after 4. I Evening .. 36 minutes after 4 obtrj in the remission of further punishment on tr he solitary condition of their instant emigration. Me I ,nwhile, in these instances, the wages of their lab Dur on the public works will have been accumu lati,t ig until the time has arrived for their conditional discl harge. In all these provisions we recognise onl:i • the combination of rigid justice and a nobile clemency. The only point, in the proposition laid. before Parliament by the Noble Earl, her Mas esty's Secretary for the Colonies, which to our thin: king admits of emendation, is the one wherein is infix nated the " total" abolition of the present system of tt ansportation. Otherwise the scheme of secondary punt!ishments undertaken by the Government is as saga cious as it is benevolent. to yesterday inserted an article from a cone • spec: dent on the deeply interesting subject of the liabi ility of provisional committeemen. In fact, it is hard ily possible to estimate too highly the great public incq nvenience attendant on a doubtful and unsettled state of the law, particularly on a point in which Buell vast numbers are interested in one way or the otha r. A period of nearly fourteen months has now elart ied since litigation commenced between the cre ditet rs and individual members of the provisional CODI mittees of the several schemes which owo 1 their origin to the temporary in san i ty that prevailed so extensively in the year 18415. And it is not too much to say, that greater dou: bt and uncertainty prevails as to the legal effect of a ertain acts than at the commencement of that peril od. In fact, at the time when the debts, the sub jects -matters of the several actions, were incurred, and the proceedings instituted, and during the earlier trip; Is, no difficulty was imagined; the full responsi bility of every single person, who permitted his name to go forth to the world as a melt aber of the committee, for every debt that was properly incurred in furtherance of the obj t •ct for which he had consented to act, was uni vex sally supposed, as well by the creditors as by the coni mitteemen themselves ; on that faith the credit wa ! given. No tradesman hesitated to trust a COM par/ y that numbered amongst its promoters and matt aging members persons of undoubted solvency andi respectability. Every such person was bound by :law to have an interest in the company as a share holii 'er; it was his bounden duty to see that no ex pert se was incurred or debt contracted that could not. be liquidated in due season, and if he neglected the, duty he so assumed, and suffered the persons, put fors yard with his consent and approbation as the servants awl agents of the company, recklessly to involve the cot t +pally in debt—whether is it more just that he shoculd be the sufferer, or the innocent tradesmen wh SO, without any hope of gain save the fair profit on the, sale of his goods, delivered his property to the use oft he company ?It has long been justly remarked, that in r iinety-nine cases in a hundred the decision of law will be found to be according to that of common sense an d common justice, and that a man of sound judg me nit, wholly unacquainted with law, will arrive at th t same conclusion, although by a different process of reasoning, to that which the most learned judges we culd come to. We should be well contented to leave the ultimate decision of the question to be tri i d by this test, and would have little fear of the res ;alt. will set labour free, which we hope to see will be rapidly employed in its primary and legitimate chan nel, the cultivation and improvement of the land. Whilst, therefore, we deeply lament the unavoidable displacement of labour that has occurred, and enter tain a natural anxiety to witness its earliest restoration to its proper sphere of action, we cannot too highly extol the decisive resistance which the organs of the Government last evening presented to the proposition of the Member for Kil kenny. Mr. LABOUCHERE well said, that upon such an occasion " doubtful, ambiguous language, which may lead to misconceptions of the intention of Government, is not true humanity, but is most likely to lead to deplorable results." The conduct of some of the Irish absentees, who have been liberal in their contributions, according to their means, was freely praised by the Irish Secretary, who, nevertheless, truthfully remarked, that "he would not compare anything that could be done by an absentee with that which it is in the power of a resident Irish landlord to do, for he is able to encourage and support those around him, both by his example and his adviee." Of other absentee landlords Mr. LABOUCHERE did not hesitate to speak in terms of severe reprobation. " Some absentee landlords, I am bound to ray, sadly and shamefully neglected their duty, and, I am sorry to add, I know many instances like those mentioned by the Hon. Gentleman, where the resident propriet ors h ave come f orward with their time and their money to assist their distressed neighbours, and where there are owners of a very consider able property held in the district who refuse to come forward with anything ‘ whatever to relieve the destitution of the place. I assure the Hon. Gentleman that I agree with him in thinking that the proper place for an Irish landlord, under the present circumstances of that country, is in Ireland ; but I must say, that if a sense of their duty to their dependents and of their public duty to their country does not operate with them to produce that effect, I am afraid that a resolu tion of this House would have very little efficacy to bring about that result." We seriously advise those landlords whose proceed ings have evoked this trenchant language not to impose too far upon the forbearance of Parliament. Selfish apathy may be persevered in beyond the limits of tolera tion, and, when too late, the landlords may be dismayed by the discovery that Parliament will be disposed to bring them to a due sense of their past and present errors, by something of a far more stringent nature than what could be embodied in the shape of resolu tions. Lord J. RUSSELL himself intimated, at the close of his speech, that, upon a future occasion, he should be prepared to express his views upon this subject. " Coming events cast their shadows before." In BARNETT v. BURDETT, the first of the cases br t ught forward, and which was tried on the 20th of Ja tatary, 1846, the learned and, eminent counsel who appeared for the defendant scarcely attempted to deny his responsibility, and Baron ALDERSON, the pr, !siding judge, declared, " that there was not the lea ist doubt about the matter that the defendant was res yonsible as soon as he became a member of the pr pvisional committee, and that when a man becomes a :member of a provisional committee, from that moment he is liable for the contracts of the col lapany ; and the man who enters into those co: atracts for the company stands in the posi tio on of agent for the committee." And this view we is sanctioned and approved of by the Chief Baron on th• ! trial of WILLTA.ms v. BRADLEY, which took place the following month, and was unanimously confirmed by' the full Court of Exchequer, who refused to set aside the verdict had for the plaintiff. This latter jui figment, which was arrived at coolly and deli be:! ately, after hearing full argument, and without tho hurry incidental to nisi prius decisions, declared thri t it was well left to the jury to say whether the ! defendant, by joining the committee, had sa»ctioned the supply of goods from that period, and that there was no ground for disturbing the ver dic: t ; and yet, notwithstanding these opinions so strongly expressed, and at the time so universally received and acted on, we find the matter again in voltved in doubt and perplexity ; creditors tied up, anal obliged to hold over the actions they have long sinsce commenced, until the judgment of the Exche quer Chamber shall be obtained on the ve.:rata guestio ; and principles, the reverse of th , me then put forward, receiving the judicial sa»ction. We trust most sincerely that some ar rai:lgement may be speedily made, by which uni formity of decision may be attained ; that it may be coimonant with the principles of natural justice, and such as will merit the public approbation ; and that we may be spared from again finding a jury protest ing, as in the recent case of BARKER v. TAYLOR, against till!. direction of the presiding judge, and stating, " that if they were at liberty to consider the honesty of the case, they could not agree to a verdict for the defendant." The Augsburgh Gazette of the 28th ult. states that " after the departure of the Turkish Ambassador from Athens, the foreign Ministers in that capital waited in a body on M. COLE TTI, and inductd him to write a letter of apology to the Turkish Minister for Foreign Affairs, whilst King OTHo should on his part write to the SULTAN to explain the subject of difference." The Paris Presse, however, which copies the above para graph, observes that " the fact stated requires con firmation." The Nuremberg Courrier states, that according to a rumour which was in circulation at Vienna, the Prus sian Goverrment was about to propose a general law relative to the press for all the states of the confe deration, and to which most of the Sovereigns of Ger many had already given their adhesion. It was added, that this Bill had been communicated to the Court of Vienna with an invitation to adhere to it. A letter from Berlin, of the 25th ult., announces Cthat the Council of State had just terminated the examination of the measures alluded to above, and that it was to be forthwith submitted to the KING, with the expres sion of a wish that it may replace the censorship now existing. Strange as is the proposition, and not less im practicable than novel in its character, yet has it not taken us by surprise, that, when the proper period for sowing seed had arrived, some Member of the House of Commons should suggest and call upon the Government to undertake to furnish a wholesale supply of seed to Ireland, with the view of enabling the proprietors and occupiers of small holdings to invite the people to return to the culti vation of the soil. Such was the purport of the speech which was made last evening in Parliament by Mr. J. O'CONNELL, M.P. for Kil kenny. The staff which would be required to super intend all the operations necessarily incidental to such a scheme for insuring the due application of the resources, which the Government were hereby de manded to place at the command of the impoverished landlords and tenants, would be enormous, and its expense proportionably great. The Government, had the suggestion been acceded to, must have taken a lien upon the crops. Mr. J. O'Cesissimr. recom mended the Executive to compel the absentees to con tribute towards the heavy expenditure which would attach to his plan. The respective replies of Mr. LAUOUCUEEE and Lord J. RUSSELL were precisely what we should have thought every one might have anticipated. Temperately, but firmly, and, we may add, most wisely, they declined to entertain the sug gestion in any the slightest degree. Had they acted otherwise, they would have undertaken not only what no Government ever did, not only what it is not within the power of any State functionaries to accom plish, but they would have engendered evils of an insuperable character. Private enterprise would have been effectually paralysed, and, from the loss of this motor of public wealth, the Irish nation would have been inevitably involved in national bankruptcy. Because there happens at this moment to be the ex traordinary spectacle of 700,000 persons being em ployed on public works, it appears specious enough to propose that this huge expenditure, with which the national treasury is, to a great extent, tram melled, should be directed and allocated to the tillage of the land. It must be remembered, however, that the existing gigantic operations, to which we have been beneficently impelled, to rescue thousands from misery, famine, pestilence, and death, are fraught with seeds of destruction to the social system. " The sys tem of public works," observed Mr. LABOUCHEEE, " has grown to such a magnitude as to have become wholly uncontrollable and unmanageable." What may be defended upon the ground of temporary ex pediency, and has been rendered inevitable by the dreadful visitation which has spread throughout Ire- ' land, could not be justified, but, contrariwise, would be held vicious in the extreme, if legislation were to be resorted to calculated, by measures of a per manent tendency, to supersede private enterprise by means of State interference. All that has been hitherto done we willingly concede was indispensable, sed revocare graduni hic labor, hoc opus est. For this purpose, the first step taken by the Go vernment is to administer food in the place of wages to the stricken population. This is sound policy. It A letter from St. Petersburgh of the 17th ult. says— " The EMPERnit has just issued an ordonnance, which is to be annexed to the military code of the empire, and which orders all commanders of corps not to require from such Jewish soldiers as may be under their com mand any service during the Jewish Sabbath or feast- days, so as to allow these men to repair regularly tG the synagogue." The jubilee on the occasion of the accession of Pius IX. to the Pontifical Throne is to commence in Paris on the 14th inst., and will continue to April 4. It is reported, that on the 18th ult., the POPE had an attack of epilepsy, but from which he soon recovered. It is said that the attack was brought on by grief at hearing of the decease of his brother, to whom he was much attached. We are sorry to hear that this excellent Pontiff has had a sudden attack, but we trust that it was epilepsy, and that it was occasioned solely by grief for the decease of his brother. We cannot, however, forget that every Porz who has attempted to introduce reforms has been considered as an enemy by the Jesuits, and has died suddenly. Letters from the Romagna of the 23d ult. state that the POPE intended shortly to grant permission for the establishment of a National Guard throughout the Pon tifical dominions. A collision had lately taken place at Faenatt between the people of the town and the inhabi tants of the Borgho, who had been instigated by Austrian agents, in which six persons were killed and eleven wounded. The Legato of Ancona, Monsignor RuscoNr, had caused two clergymen, who were endeavouring to ex cite a popular movement, to be arrested and removed under an escort to Rome. At Sinigaglia another clergyman, who had preached against the POPE, was apprehended, and, being considered insane, was confined in the lunatic asylum of Pesaro. Monsignor Ruscom had entertained at a dinner the captain and officers of the Neapolitan war-steamer Intrepido, which had been lying at anchor for some days in the harbour. This demonstration seemed to have greatly dissatisfied the commander of the Austrian squadron, which was cruizing off the coast. The King of NAPLES had evinced of late more liberal sentiments. During the Carnival his MAJESTY appeared in the Corso, with his aide•de-camp, dressed after the Italian fashion of the middle age, and bearing the banner of the Lombardian League. The Madrid mail had not arrived in Paris on Thursday. The Fontento of Barcelona, of the 25th ult., publishes the following circular, addressed by MANUEL LESCALA, the Political Chief, to all the alcaldes within his district, which fully confirms the rumours which have bcen for some time in circulation as to the force and the success of the Carlists in Catalonia. " A band of rebels , commanded, as it appears, by the fero cious Mosen B ene t, having appeared in the province of Lerida, I consider it necessary to give due notice thereof to the 'inhabitants of the province under my orders, in order that by their loyal conduct they may escape the terrible misfortunes which have already begun to be felt in other localities. Her Majesty's troops are ac tively pursuing those misdoers, and wia inflict on them the most exemplary punishment; but, in order to accomplish this, it is necessary that the inhabitants should lend their assistance. This is, moreover, for their individual interest. as that cannot but suffer from a protracted continuance of such disorders. In order to prevent such calamities to the extent of my power, I have adopted the best means of ascertaining the names of those who fail in this their duty, and they may rest assured that the guilty will not escape the most exemplary punishment. I charge you to give this circular the greatest possible publicity, and to assist its operation by every means in your power." THE SUN,_ LONDON, SATURDA.Y EVENING-, MARCH 6, 1847. on the subject of the appointment of U. HEBERT. That gentleman will be appointed Minister of Justice, from which the department of public worship is to be se parated. The Ministry of Public Worship will be con ferred on _M. CARNE, who may be considered as the nominee of the Jesuits. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Thursday at 78f. 40c. ; the Five per Cents. 118 f. - oc. ; the Orleans Railway Shares, 1,273 f. 75c. ; Rouen, 867 f. 50c. ; Havre, 690 f. ; Great Northern, 628 f. 75c. ; Avignon, 830 f. ; Vierzon, 582 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux, 535 f. ; Boulogne, 400 f. ; Troyes and Montereau, 300 f. ; Basle, 210 f. ; Dieppe, 335 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 465 f. ; Tours and Nantes, 467 f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 491 f. 25c.; Lyons and Avignon, 480 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 451 f. 25c. ; Spanish Actives, 33 ; Spanish Three per Cents., 35. LYONS, MARCH 2.-Avignon and Marseilles, 836 f. 25c. ; Vierzon, 585 f. ; Northern, 6321. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 491 f. 25c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Maxon 5. Boulogne and Amiens, 14 —East Indian, 5 —Northern of France, 1230 Orleans and Bordeaux, 7%—Rouen and Havre, 2635. ARRIVAL OF THE LISBON MAIL. A telegraphic message was received at Lloyd's this morn ing, announcing that the Ripon steamer, from the Mediter ranean, had arrived at the Metherbank at half-past three this morning. She reports that the Pekin left Gibraltar at 11 A.M. 25th February. The Pottinger, at Gibraltar, 25th February, all well, would sail 26th. Spoke the Oriental, all well, 26th, ninety miles west of Gibraltar, and saw the Erin, 5 p.m. 4th inst. off Ushant. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were4,ooo bales, with a dull market. Prices were without change. Shares were flat. The following are a few of the principal sales of Railway Shares yesterday, by Messrs. Lamond and Co.:— Great Western of Bengal £0 7 0 East Indian Leicester & Bedford, Exchange Certificate 0 13 0 Northern Counties Union 1 4 6 Boston. Stamford, andßirmingham 7 2 6 Sliropshire Union and Canal 1 7 6 North Staffordshire Northern and Southern Connecting Leeds and Thirsk, Preference ... 5 0 0 Direct Northern (scrip) 2 16 6 Eastern Counties, No. 2 . Reading, Guildford, and Reigate, ex int 4 19 0 North British Extension Ambergate, Nottingham, and Bostoa Eastern Counties, York Extension 4 9 0 Manchester and Southampton 0 19 0 There are no late ship arrivals to-day. The principal variations in the Balance-sheet of the Bank of England during the week to Feb 27, were these : Notes Issued £25,349,820 Decrease Notes reserved 6,016,695 Increase Bullion Decrease Public deposits increase 58,964 Other deposits decrease 484,602 Other securities decrease .. 779,809 Rest, increase The continued decrease of bullion and increase of notes in the banking department indicate the restriction which the bank directors are compelled to put upon their issues, and should inspire due caution among the mercantile interest, especially as the exports of bullion continue both to the United States and to the Continent. The Money Market is in a disturbed state, and, contrary to expectation, the funds are more depressed than before the payment of the deposit on the new loan. The causes assigned for the sales that have been made are the unfavourable tenor of the accounts from France relative to the grain and money markets, the little difficulty that has arisen in Greece, the willingness of the Great Western and Birmingham Railway Companies to borrow money at 4% and 5 per cent., and the specie re mittances still in progress. This has been a heavy week, however, and the heavy payments for bills due and the loan, ate quite sufficient to account for the reaction. Consols are as low this morning as 89% % for transfer on Tuesday, and for April have been marked the same, though upon the opening of the market they were called 89% to 90. Consols Scrip has been to % premium. Exchequer -bills have brought 35. to 6s. premium, being steady. The New 3 1 / 4 per Cents. have been 91 3 % to 92 1 / 4 . Bank Stock was firm at 204 to 205. The Foreign Investments have been depressed. Spanish Five per Cents. have declined to 22 3 / 4 %, and the Three per Cents. to 33% %. Brazilian Bonds have been marked 86 to 87. Dutch Four per Cents, are 921. The market for Railway Shares has experienced a further decline. Sales have been made to some extent, and parties seem to apprehend, that in the event of money becoming scarcer, they may experience a difficulty in getting accom modation upon share property. As in all periods of excite ment, too, there are not wanting parties who exaggerate the difficulty, and by so doing, really create the pressure they predict. Such is our contemporary the Times, which is again at its old work to-day, never taking a pleasing view of any thing. Circumstances are unfavourable, but why make them worse ? frbtrb 1311itton THE FUNDS.-(CLOSING PRICES.) BRITISII FUNDS. ONE CLOSING Bank Stock O'CLOCK. PRICES. .. .. .. .• • • • • • • 205 204 204 Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. .. 89% % 89% Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. .. 89% A, % 89% New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anna. 92% 91% 92 92 Long Annuitios.kxpire Jan. 5,1860 .. 9%% 9% India Bonds, LOW. .. .. .. .. .. Ditto, under 1,000/. .. .. .. .. par par Console for Account, April 15 .. .. .. 89% 90 89%% 89% Consols, Scrip •• .. •• • • • • • • 0% %% p 0% p Exchequer Bills. 13id. 11cl. 1,0001... .. .• . • 36 pm. 6 p Ditto, Small .... 10 —— pm. 10 p FOREIGN FUNDS. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. Ditto, for the Account .. .. . 87 Ditto, New Bonds, 1829 and 1839 .. 86 Chilien Bonds, G per Cent .. . .. Ditto, Deferred .. .. .. • • .. 53% Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent] .. .. Ditto, for the Account ..• • 22% % Ditto, 5 per Cent.lB, 39, 40. div.lB4l 21% Ditto, Passive Bonds .. .. .. 5 Ditto, Three per Cent .. .. Ditto, for the Account .. . . 33% li % Dividends on the above payable in Loudon. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK. PRICES. .. 92% PRICES OF EUSINESS CLOSING RAILWAY SHARES. PAID. DONE AT PRICES. ONE O'CLOCK. Aberdeen.. .. .. • • .. .. 30 .... 2834 ..... 28 Amber., Notting., Boston, and Eastern Junction .. . • • • 2% •• • • 2%% •••• • • • • Birmingham and Oxford Junction 5 .... ••• • • • •• • Birming., Wolver., & Stour Valley 5 •••••• •• • • Birkenhead, Lancash., & Cheshire Junction .. 4 .... 44 Boston, Stamford, & Birmingham 7% . • 6% %•••• • • • • Bristol and Exeter • . • . .. 75 .... • . Ditto, New .. Buckinghamshire ..61.45,.... Caledonian _ •. _3O .... 26% 1•1•• •• •••• Ditto, half Shares .. .• .. Eastern Counties .. .. • • •• 20 • • 20%3,q •• .. Ditto, York Extension .. .. 4 .... 4 4 Eastern Union .. 40 .... 553 56 East Lancashire .. .. • • .. 14 •• • • 16% . . Ditto New .. .. 5 .... .......... Ditto, ditto New Scrip • • .. 14 •• • • 2% % East Lincolnshire .. • • • • 4 •• • • 71 i ••••• • • • • • Edinburgh and Glasgow • . •• 50 ••• • 77 •• • • ...... Ditto, Half Shares .. 10 .... 204 ....... Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 12% ..•• 183 18 Ely and Huntingdon 12%.... 1334 % Great Northern (London & York Regd.) .. • • • • " 2% 23 •••••• Great North of England . ..100 ...... A.Ditto, New .. • • • • 5 •• • • • • igDitto, New .. • • " • • Q , 2 Great Western • • • • • • "- •• • • • •17 6 • • • •• ••• • • 7 Ditto, Ilalf Shares .. •• • • , Ditto, Quarter Shares . • .. 123/ 19% ••• • • ..... 19 4 Ditto, Fifths .. 20 .... 27 34 Ditto, Xew .. • • • • 4% •• • • 8 % • Lancaster and Carlisle .. .. 50 • • ••• • • • Ditto, New . .. 5 .... 104 •• . ..... 104 Leeds, Dewsbury, & M anchester 2 7% .... 33 % 33% Leeds and Thirsk 22% 214 • ..... •• .. 214 isDitto, New"— .. .• 5 .... 4% Ditto, Preference 6 per Cent. .. 5% 4% 4% Liverp., Manch., & Newc. Junct. .. ••—•••• • • • • • • London and Blackwell .. 16/. las. 4d. —••••• • • • • • 8 Ditto, New, No. 2 • • 11. 13s. 4d. 34 P•••• • • • • 7 4 P London, Brighton, and S Coast.. 50 .... 543( 1 54 Ditto, Consol. Eighths 10 13% 13% Ditto, Guarant. Five per Cent 9 .... —•.••• • • • • • 9 % London and Greenwich .. 1 2/. 15s. 4d. 9% •••••• • • • • 9 34 London an i North-Western ..100 ....183 184 1823 .. IA4 Ditto, Quarters . • . .. 2 .... ••••• • •• • • 21 Ditto ditto, New Shares •• .. 2 .... 13% •• •• ..... 14 Ditto, Fifths .. • Ditto, 10/. Shares M. &B. (C) 1 ••••• . . • 74 London and South-Western .• 41/. 6s. 10d.. •64 .... ••• • . 63 Ditto, New .. . • . • • . 22% .... 25% Ditto, Scrip.. .. ••• . 5 .... Ditto, ditto .. •.......4 .... London and York Extension Scrip 2% •• Lynn and Ely .. .• .. 20 .... .. ••••• • • • 22% Manchester and Leeds .. .. • • 82 .• Ditto, half Shares .. .... 38 •"•• • • • • 49% Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 12 .... 16 % Ditto, Fifths .. • • .. 5 .... . ....... 10% Ditto, Thirds (Reg.) . • • • 84s. ... •—p• • •• • • 2% p Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425.... • p • • Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .... 1 •• .. Midland .. .. ••• • .. 100 .. • 120 ...... •. • • 124 Ditto, New .•• • .. 35 .... . • Ditto, New .. .. • • 2 _ ........ • • 5% Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 100 .... 94% ....... • 94% Midland, Birming. & Gloucest.• • 100 ... 124 •• Newcastle and Berwick •• 20 .. 34 . % 3.5 34% 35 34% 34% Newmarket and Chesterford ••10 . • 10%4 IOX Ditto, Extension • • 2/. 12s. —•••••• • • • • % P Norfolk .. •• .. • • .100 ....140 • 140 Ditto, Half Shares .. .. .. 10 . •• • Northern Counties Union .. .. .. • • 1 1414 -••••••• 1 North „British .• ••••25 .. • • 35% 35 Ditto, Half Shares .. • • • 12% • • 16% Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 2% .... ...... • • 4% Ditto, Extension 14 Ditto, Thirds .. • • .. 1 .... 3 3 4% .. •.. • • 3 % North Staffordshire . • • • 5 ... 8 North Western .. .. ••••4 .. • • •••• • • • • Oxford,lVorcest.,& Wolverhmptn. 17% .. ••—••• • • • • • • 11% Reading, Guildford, an d R e i gate 5 .. 5 41‘ Scoaish Cenarl. • • l5 .... 224 %•••• • • • • Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 3 .... 3% 4••• • • • 4 ,, Ditto, Class II 1 .... .... ••• • • • , I >ti Shropshire Union 425..... % dig •••• • • • • 38 di!! South Eastern and Dovor 33% .. ••3735•• • • • • • • 37 % Do.. New (60.33/. 68.8 d.) No. 2. 12 .... ••"• • • • " 4 •• •31 Do., New (do. L 11.) .. No. 3. 15 .... • • •• • • • ' Do., New (do. 15/.) .. N o. 4. 3 % 41si •• • ••• • • • 4% South Wales .. M.. 10 .... siiii•••••• 8 % Trent Valley and Midland • June. 425. • • %P••• • • • • " P West Riding Union 425. •• • • 114 % P••• • • • 13{ York and Newcastle .. 25 .... 1 3 6 6, •. •• 1 3 6 6 Ditto, New.. .. .. 10 .• • Ditto, Preference .. • • • • 4 •' • ~!7'7 6 •••• • • • • • • 6ti ti York and No r th Midl an d .. • • 50 •• • • " .••• • " • • 86 7 1 Ditto, Extension • • .• •• - • ' 36% 3 7% •• • • 37% Ditto, Preterenca • • • • • • 2 •• • .. • • • • 12 Do. E, and W. Riding Exten... 10 •• • 2 2 3 ••••• • • • • • 22% FOREIGN RAILWAYS. ~. Boulogne and Amlens .. .. .. 18 •• • • •••••• • • •• 142 Bout. T 0.."., & Cette (Mackena!e) 2 .. • • ••• • • ..... .... Ditto, ditto (Espelete) .. 2 •• •• I t ..... . . . . . Louva' ia la Sambre .. •••• 6 ••"•—• • • • • • •• 1% li 2 Luxembourg 2% Namur and Liege .. .. • • .. 10 •• .. 5 1 ~,i Northern o: France . • .. • • 8 .• .. 12 1 4 ........., 12a/ 01 - I,IIIL, all 3 BOlrdealLX ~• • • 6 7 • ' • • ,. , ~., Paris and Lyons •• • • • • • • 8 •• • • 74... .. .. .. 7 Rouen and Havre • .. .. .. 20 .... „ „ ...... 26k, West Flanders .. • • • • • 6 •••• 2 %•• • • . . . . . . 2N MINES. Real del Monte, Unregistered • • •• • • 3% ••••• • .• .• -IA- n • - ,L... 'S - .. . .. st. , • ..., v --.1 ', ? , rE v . ' 1 ' ',... 7. • M °. ' .. ' " : 43 . 175 - "4.1 4 " , i'l i . "•r , ..,- n.,- inning Sint LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 18 47 In consequerce of the great press of matter, we are obliged to omit our usual summary of the Parliamentary proceedings. CABINET COUNCIL. Summonses were issued to the Ministers to attend a Cabinet Council this afternoon, at the Foreign office, Downing-street. Legislation, from being the most complicated of sciences, admits of perpetual improvement, and re quires an almost endless modification. So compre hensive is this principle in government, that the whole business of the Legislature may be said to be comprised in the labour of reconstructing, and re adapting, and reforming, and re-organising the Code of laws by which the body politic is bound together, and from the peculiar colouring of which the Con stitution derives its character and its individuality. Notwithstanding the genius which has been lavished upon the science cf good government from the re motest periods of antiquity, that science is every day proved yet more plainly to be in its very embryo and its adolescence. The philosophy of the heathen sages, the wisdom of LTC URGUS, the fabulous sagacity of Pomermus, the intelligence of JUSTINIAN, the assiduity of CONSTANTINE, the industry of ALFRED, and the generous and masculine powers of CHARLEMAGNE have been in effectual in sweeping away the vaster abuses of the social condition. After ages of experience and generations of experiment, the commonest evils still continue to flourish, the moral maladies consequent upon the congregation of men together in states and cities still remain unchecked, and, what is more disastrous and appalling than all these considerati , ms, is, that crime seems to propagate itself with re doubled energy 'under the very punishments which have been contrived for its correction and eradication. In lieu of a diminution of depravity in consequence of the greater extension of civilisation, the licentiousness of the more abandoned classes of the community appears to thrive and deepen upon a ratio nearly equivalent to the advancement and elevation of their more prosperous and more fortunate neigh bours. We become satisfied with the alterations made upon the statute-book, we relapse into the lethargy of confidence ; but the evils we conceived to have been either vanquished or provided against, accumulate in number and extend in enormity, until we are re awakened to a knowledge of their existence by a sense of danger and a consciousness that some more effectual measures of prevention and expiation must be administered. Just now we are precisely in that position. The deplorable inefficiency of our criminal regulations has loomed upon us in spectacles so rife with atrocity, that we are compelled, from sheer horror, to pause and scrutinise its details. From that scrutiny we have been latterly deriving a dread ful but salutary lesson in legislation. We have looked into the abysses of sin which have yawned before us in our penal settlements, and from the dismal disclosures of those abysses we have derived the experience of many centuries. The pernicious effects resulting from indiscrimi nate transportation have, however, been long since recognised. Even before the abolition of the assign ment system—a system that actually held out temptations to the destitute to become com paratively affluent by becoming felons, or, in yet plainer words, to become the favourite objects of the solicitude of the law, by becoming the flagrant de riders and infringers of the law—even before that wanton system of leniency had been thoroughly ex. ploded, cries of indignation were raised agains the broad principle of transportation as in efficient in preventing the commission of crime, and as inapplicable to all species of offences against the State. Now, however, that clamour for the re vision of our criminal code in reference to the intiic- tion of secondary punishments has penetrated the region, and, what is more, has reached the ears, and, what is more, has satisfied the judg ments, of our deputed legislators. Last evening the Earl GREY pronounced the doom of the obnoxi- ous system of indiscriminate transportation. The complete re-organisation of the law in this particular, is, therefore, we take it, inevitable. The days of the old blundering system are numbered. Our annual number of convicts will not henceforth be shipped off in cargoes to the penal colonies to be pampered into irreclaimable ruffians by being surrounded by unusual luxuries, or to be goaded into the commission of those heinous and almost incon- ceivable crimes that might well "fleck the skies with blood," and " t urn th e suns hi ne black." That transportation has always been a most un equal punishment is universally acknowledged. Both before and after the abolition of the assignment system it has been unequal. To the outcast of the workhouses and rookeries the salubrity and purity of a tropical climate are immeasurably more than com- pensation for the supervision of an inspector, the compulsory labour of so many hours each day, and the banishment from a country in which his very existence is a misery and a degradation. On the other hand, transportation is a monstrously disproportioned punishment, to the less criminal and the more affluent members of the population. Satisfied as we are with the scheme proposed by Earl GREY in reference to the treatment of felons, re joiced as we are at the abandonment of a plan by which humanity is violated, and Norfolk Island transformed from an earthly paradise into a habitation of beings very little removed from demons, we are, neverthe less, persuaded, that there is much reason in the re- mark uttered by Lord BROUGHAM, that the total abolition of the system of transportation is undesirable, seeing that it is to many criminals the most awful of all the visitations of authority. According to the scheme traced out by Lord GREY, the present system of transportation is to be wholly and "totally abo lished." Felons, instead of being dispatched forthwith to the penal settlements, are to be retained at home for a limited period. During the prior portion of that period they are to be subjected to a . rigid con finement at Parkhurst, at 'Milbank, at Pentonville, or elsewhere; and in the subsequent portion of that period they are to be employed upon the public works. It is in the arrangements connected with this industrial employment of convicts on public works that the principal merit of the Noble Earl's proposition consists. Here the most profligate and hardened will have a final :opportunity of working out their social and physical redemption. By honesty, assiduity, and sobriety they may in this stage of the expiation of their offences We have received the Paris papers of Thursday. For a wonder, none of them comment upon Spain or Spanish affairs. The Dehats mentions a repor t now current on the Continent, that it is the intention Of the King of SARDINIA. to construct a railroad from Genoa to Chamberry, with a tunnel under Mount Canis, eight miles long. Should this railroad be con structed, Genoa will become a formidable rival to Mar seilles, and the route by Genoa will, in that case, pro bably be found preferable either to that by Marseilles or by Trieste, for the conveyance of the Overland Indian Mail. The Constitutionnel has a long article developing a plan for the military colinization of Algiers, and the Presse sneers at the idea of our having a day of general fast and national humiliation on account of the famine in Ireland. "It is a calumny on PROVIDENCE," says the Presse, " to attribute to:it the deplorable misery which desolates Ireland." Doubtless the Presse would insinuate that the potato rot was entirely occasioned by the mis government of pellicle Albion, and it might, in support of its argument, adduce the case of Poland, where, under the mild and paternal government of its especial pet, the Emperor NICHOLAS, the potato rot has not appeared. Clearly the potato rot is the consequence of misgovernment. . _ _ In the meantime, if we are to believe the .National, the distress in France is progressively increasing. It says— ' "By the admission of the Minister of the Interior, our necessities are progressively increasing, and it appears doubtful whether the last grant of 4,000,000 f. demanded by the Government will be sufficient for a situation which is really deplorable. The price of wheat continues to rise, and the consequences are felt by every branch of trade; whilst the greater number of our manufacturing towns are on the eve of a crisis. At Rouen, particularly, the operatives are me naced with an interruption of employment, and the conse quences of a suspension of the factories is anticipated with apprehension. The supplies voted by the Chambers are mere alms, insufficient for their professed purpose. We live unprepared, and when any serious circumstances arise, the Government only thinks of applying a temporary remedy, and when the crisis is passed we again fall into our habits of torpor until a new calamity awakens us from our lethargy, This is called governing I A nation so administered must necessarily within a certain period, arrive at a dreadful crisis." The Presse will in this case be scarcely inclint d to proclaim that the distress of the governed is attributable to the faults of the governors. A compromise has been come to with the parti pram 13nt4roL, MARCH s.—Wind E., fresh.—Arrd. Laidmans, Walker, Mauritius. LIVERPOOL, MARCH s.—Wind N.N.E., moderate.—Sld. Robert Kerr, Charleston; William Prowse, Hong-Kong; Centaur, Cape of Good Hope ; Cosmopolitan, Africa ; Mis chief, Rio and Manilla; Marian, Antigua; Capricorn, New Orleans. Off port, Patmus, CLYDE.—SId. Medora, New Orleans, and not for Boston, as reported; 4th, Prince of %Vales, Calcutta; Courier, Porto Rico ; Ann, Harley, New York. CORK, MARCH 3.—Wind E., fresh.—Sld. Senhora, Matanzas. GRANGEMOUTH, FEB. 27.—S1d. Liverpool, St. John's, New Brunswick. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) BREAD. The prices of Wheaten Bread in the metropolis are from 10d to 10Ihd; of Household ditto, 8d to 9 1 / id per 4lbs loaf. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) His Lordship was occupied all the morning in hearing un opposed petitions and short causes, which were of no public interest. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice COLTMAN.) THE LATE ROBBERY AT THE CATHERINE: WHEEL, IN THE BoLOUGlL.—William Barfield, a porter, was indicted for stealing, on the 27th of January, a pocket-book, containing bank- notes to the amount of 300/., the property of Francis George Shaw Skipp. Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Wilde attended for the prosecution, and Mr. Clarkson defended th 9 prisoner. Mr. BALLANTINE having opened the case, proceeded to call witnesses. Francis Skipp stated that he recently resided in Finchley, and had since been in the Queen's Bench Prison, from which place he had come that morning. On the 26th of January he had received 300/. He was then staying at Drummond's Hotel, and his brother-in-law, Mr. Last, was staying with him. On that day thay left the hotel at four o'clock, witness having previously deposited his pocket-book, containing the money, in his left boot, and strapped the trowsers down. About five o'clock on the succeeding morning they arrived at the Catherine Wheel in the Borough, where they asked for beds. The prisoner let them in and informed them that there was only one room unoccupied, to which they were shown. Wit ness sat down at the foot of the bed and asked the pri soner to pull off his boots. Last, who was much intoxicated, was then at the other side of the room. Witness felt kis boot, and found that the pocket book was then quite safe. The prisoner pulled off his left boot, and witness observed him stoop for a second. He jumped up almost immediately, said he had left the gate open, and left the room, and at the same time witness discovered that his pocket book was gone. The prisoner returned in about five minutes, and witness then told him that he had lost his pocket-book, and that there• fore he (prisoner) must have taken it. Prisoner said, "Do you mean to say that ' I robbed you ? because it you do you may search me." Witness took prisoner's cap off, but was not allowed to search further, the prisoner saying, " Keep your hands off me, don't be after putting any thing . in my pocket." Witness said that he should call a policeman, on which the prisoner called up his master. The landlord, Mr. Gunder, said he was quite satisfied of the ho nesty of his servant. After some time passed, witness went out and called a policeman or two, who searched the room, but not the persons of those present. On leaving the Ca therine Wheel for the station-house, witness and his brother in-law walked in front ; the prisoner was nearest the shops. At the station-house the prisoner was searched, and nothing found on him. Witness and Mr. Last were also searched, at the desire of Mr. Gunder. Mr. CLARKSON cross-examined the witness at great length, and he was also re examined by Mr. Ballantine, but nothing material was elicited. George Last gave somewhat similar evidence. James Hall, 101 M, observed a cab stop on the morning of the 27th January, at the Catherine Wheel, from which Mr. Skipp and the last witness descended, and passed within the gate. In about half an hour, witness was called in, and in formed by Skipp that he had lost his pocket book, and would have the house searched for it. Mr. Gander said he should not allow his house to be searched, as it would disturb the lodgers. Witness then recommended Skipp to bring two more policemen, and be did se. Mr.- Skipp said "it was no use searching the prisoner, as he (Mr. Skipp) had done so already." Some of the rooms were searched, and they after wards walked to the station. The prisoner and witness walked first, the prisoner being on his right hand side. Mr. Skipp and Mr. Last, with a policeman, followed, and Mr. Gander came after. They preserved the same order in passing the top of Adams-court. By the Learned JUDGE—A complaint was lodged against him for neglecting to search the prisoner at the Catherine Wheel ; but the decision on that complaint was deferred until the trial was over. Henry Assister, 30 M, said, that the prisoner told him when walking to the station that he had been searched. John Shelley Yates, inspector, produced a pocket-book handed to him by a person named Munro, containing four 501. and one 100/. notes. The prosecutor and Last were sober when the charge was taken at the station-house. William Munro, employed at the Phoenix Gas Company, received the pocket-book from a person named William Cox, and handed it over to the last witness. William Cox, servant to the Phoenix Gas Company, was passing down the Borough at a quarter to six o'clock on the morning of the 27th of January, and kicked against the pocket-book, which lay about the middle of the pavement, nearly opposite Adams-place, and in the way from the Catherine Wheel to the station-house. Mr. CLAnKsoN addressed the jury for the prisoner, and contended that nothing was shown bringing home the charge to him. Mr. Justice COLTMAN summed up, and the jury retired to consider their verdict. After an absence of half an hour, they returned into Court with a verdict of Guilty.—Sen tence deferred. NEW COURT. (Before the RECORDER.) No case of any importance came on in this court during the morning. WORSHIP-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) A man named Yarnell was charged on the police sheet with stealing a quantity of paper, valued at 31. 18s., the property of Mr. John Knight, paper-hanger, of No. 190, Brick-lane, Spitelfields. From the evidence of police-constable Hanway, 118 G, it appeared that a man named Munro, was this last week tried and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment for robbing Mr. Knight, the prosecutor in this present instance, of a quantity of valuable paper. Munro was duly conveyed to prison, where he at once made a communication to the authorities there, implicating Yarnell. The subject of the communication was transmitted to the Recorder, who or dered that Yarnell, who is described as an oilman, of N. 1, Earl-street, Finsbury, should be immediately taken into cus tody and conveyed befure a magistrate. Twenty-two rolls of paper, valued at between gi. and 101. stolen property, had already been discovered. Munro, it appears, was in the habit of calling with a horse and cart at various paper-stainers, with an order from Mr. So-and-So, for a quantity of paper, which was delivered to him at once, when he was met with on the road by Yarnell, who eased him of his booty. The prisoner was remanded, in order to have time for fur ther investigation. THE CASE OF LETITIA HANNAN.— It will doublessly be gratifying to many of our readers to learn, that the case of the young woman, Lretitia Hannan, the particulars of which appeared in The Sun of Thursday se'nnight, has been attended to by several distinguished, benevolent individuals, and the result has been that she will be enabled t o carry into effect the laudable design she had in view, viz., that of opening a school on her own account. Mr. ARNOLD, in announcing further donations, said that the envelope of one of them contained a recommendation for her to apply to the Goveruess's Home Soci e t y . H e (Mr. Arnold) bad instituted inquiries respecting her, and the re sult was so satisfactory that he would be happy himself personally to recommend her. The Magistrate then desired Hayward, one of the warrant officers of the Court, to give her the n ecessary ass i stance, in the purchase of those articles required for the purpose of carrying into effect the object desired, and the recipient, having thanked the worthy magistrate for the assistance he had rendered her, left the office. CLERKENWELL.—(THIS DAY.) Mary Clarke, an interesting -looking girl, about 16 years of age, was charged before Mr. Greenwood with having com mitted a number of robberies in the vicinity of Somers-town, Camden-town, and Kentish -town. The prisoner was deeply affected, and wept all the time she was in the dock. From the evidence of a number of witnesses who were in attendance, it appeared that a gentleman, named Lambden, residing in Albi on - terrace, Somers-town, hearing a noise irl his hall, went down and found the prisoner concealed in the yard. She had with her a large bundle, containing a damask ' table -cloth, seine sheets, and a quantity of wearing ap parel, and said she wanted to see a lady named Smith. No person of that name being known, and the prisoner being unable to give any more satisfactory account of herself, Mr. Lambden gave her in charge to a policeman, when it wes ascertained that the house of Mr. Rutheiford, at No. 4, York-place, Somers-town, had been robbed of several articles, amongst which were the sheets and table-cloths produced is court this day. The constable said that he had not yet bad time to make inquiries after the owners of other property which lit,d been found upon the prisoner. Mr. GREENWOOD committed her for trial on the charge of robbing Mr. Rutherford, but ordered her to be brought up LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, MARCH 6.—Wind N.B. by N., moderate breeze, and hazy. DEAL, MAacß s.—Wind N.N.E , moderate and thick.— Sld. Brilliant, Pernambuco ; Commodore, Rio Janeiro ; Agnes, Antigua; Harriot, Matanzas; Ocean, New York; Northumberland, New York. PADSTOW, MARCH 4.—Wind S.E.--Arrd. Mayflower, Longmuer, Callao. HULL, MARCH s.—Wind N.—Sld. Swallow, Greenland. PADSTOW, MARCH 3.—The Busy has been got off the rocks, and into the harbour. FALMOUTH, MARCH 4.—The Lady Harvey, Yarmouth to Cork, got in contact with the Henry, of Bideford, and went on the Hard. CASTLETOWN, BEARHAVEN, MARCH 2.—The Bidston, Smatter, Liverpool to Calcutta, has put back to this port, with pumps choked with salt. COVEN7C-GliliDEn Pine Apples, 5s to 8s ; Hot-house Grapes, 5s to 8s per lb ; Dessert Apples, 20s to 25s ; and Kitchen ditto, 6s to 10s per bushel; Oranges, 8s to 15s; and Lemons, 108 to 14s per 100; Filberts, 100 s to 120 s per 100 lbs. ; Savoys, is to 2s 3d per dozen; Greens, 4s to 6 s 6d per d ozen b unc h es ; lirocoli, 2s to 5s 6d per bundle; Forced French Beans, 2s to 3s per 100; Potatoes, 8s to 12s per cwt; Turnips, 3s to 5s ; and Carrots, 6s to 7s per dozen bunches; Horseradish, is to 63 per bundle; Rhubarb, is 6d to 2s 6d per bundle; Brus sels Sprouts, 2s to 4s per half sieve ; M us h rooms, 2 s to 4 s per pottle ; Turnip Greens, 2s 6d per bushel ; Leeks, 2s to 4s per dozen bunches ; Parsnips, 6d to is 6d per dozen ; Onions, 7s to 9s per bushel ; Celery, Is to 2s per bundle. NEVITGATE AND ZEADENEL4I7.74. Prime Mutton and Veal moved off steadily, all other kinds of Meat slowly, at our quotations :—Beef, from 2s 6d to 3s 6d ; Mutton, Cs 4d to 4s 6d ; Veal, 4s 2d to 5s 2d ; and Pork, 3s 8d to 4s 10d per 81bs by the carcase. Turkeys, 4s to 9s ; Geese, 4s 6d to 6s; Ducks, is 6d to 2s 6d; Tame Rabbits, Is 3d to is 8d; Wild ditto, 81 to Is 4d ; and Pigeons, 6d to 10d each • Surrey Fowls, 6s to 9s; ditto Chi c k ens , 4 s t o 6 s; an d Barndoor Fowls, 3s 6d to 6s per couple. Eggs, 103 to 14s per 100; Fresh Butter, Is Id to Is 3d per lb; Hares, 2s to 3s; and Wild Ducks, Is 6d to 2s 6d each. BILLINGSGATE. Turbots, 8s to 18s ; Brills, 2s 6d to 4s 6d; Cod-fish, 2s to 7s; Haddocks, 8d to Is 6cl ; Whitings, 4d to 8d; and Lob sters, is to 3s each; Soles, 4d to 3s per pair; Eels, 6d to Is ; and Crimped Scate, 8d to 10d per lb; Mackarel, 14s to 26s per 100; Salt Fish, 2d to 8d per lb. HITNGERFORD. Fair average supplies of most articles were on offer. Generally speaking the trade ruled heavy, at but little variation in prices. % P 26 1 4 2% 20% 4!,f, 56 164 again on Monday, when it was expa e same neighbotch oo ' l be able to perfect other charges in th ~ ted the policeman would , against her. RAILWAY RE'r L TRNS. RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The following are the To tai Rec ei p ts ,S f .h th; ways for the past week—that is to say, up to th,the respective returns are made, together with the r. scelPt i of week in the previous year e date to .• gss eL 4, Week ending La St WWI" NAME OF RAILWAY. Feb. 27 Mar. 2 Fab. 28 Arbroath and Forfar • •• •• •• •, Chester and 'Birkenhead . ...... • Dublin and Drogheda• • •• • • • • ..... Dublin and Kingstown .• • • • • • • • • •• Dundee and Arbroath . •• • • •• • • •• Durham and Sunderland . • . • • • • • ..... Edinburgh and Glasgow . •• • ••-• • - • - Eastern Counties and North Eastern. • East Lancasihre . • • • .....• . • ...... • • Eastern Uni0n...................... Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr .. • • • • Glasgow and Greenock.. • . • • ... Gravesend and Rochester • • • • • • • • • • • • Great Southern and Western . • ...... Great Western, &e • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Ipswich and Bury • • • • • • • • • • • • London and North Western, &e.. •• • London and Blackwall. • . • • ...... • • • London and Brighton . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • London and Croydon .......... ..... :8 London and South Western .•••• • • • • Manchester, Bolton, and Bury ••• • • • !7 Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc.. a Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 11 Maryport and Carlisle ••••••• • • • • • • • !7 Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham.... :7 Newcastle and Carlisle ••••••• • • • • • • • Newcastle and North Shields .••• . • • • !7 Newcastle and Berwick !7 North British ............ .. Paris and Rouen . .....• •••• Preston and Wyre • • • • • • • • • • Shrewsbury and Chester • • • • • • • • • . •• South Eastern and Branches •• • • • • •• South Devon• • • ..... . •• • • •• • • • • • • •• Taff Vale . Ulster . ........ York and Newcastle . ........ York and North Midland ..... •• • • .. SPORTING INTELLIGENC E ' (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) BETTING AT MANCHESTER—FRIDAT CHESTER Cur.-300 to 15 agst Mendicant (take r e ) to 10 agst Punch (taken)-500 to C agst Silvanus ( 1 X \ THE DERBY.-6 to 1 agst Van Tromp (taken to 51. ? i r Offers to back three agst the Field for the Coventry 1 dicap. Nothing else mentioned. HOOTON PARK STEEPLE CHASES. \ The Hooton Stakes of 10 soy& each, 5 ft. and 100 added: f Mr. Abbott's Proceed (Owner/ 5 Hon. R. Lawley's Roarer ... .............. .06 Forrester, Sir Abstrupus, Railroad, Othello, and Bally i also ran. Won easy by seven or eight lengths. w h t sl The Storeton Stakes of 5 soya. each, and 50 added. ' , miles. 1 Mr. Lockwood's Barmaid, lOst 41b (Ovros r l $ Mr. F,,wlet's Beggarman, lOst 41b . ...-- .. OA ' .. .. , Basquine, Maid of the Castle, Robin Adair, Blsic"..„o Yellow Dwarf, and Sir William, also started. Won in 1 ; The Hooton Hunt Stakes of Y 3 soya. each. Three..' 1 1 ' Mr. Hind nd Jupiter, list 71b . (Mr. Thntos a i 0 ... 4 Mr. Willoughby nd Five-pound- n ote ... ........ .•••••%-., 7 Mr. Lennard's Coal Black Rose ................................. • Roland and Laudican also ran. Won by two lengt7 PARLIAMENTARY BIISINE,„ S `). (From the Votes and Proceedi n gs of th e R ouse of 0 " 1 "" - FRIDAY, MARCH 5, The following Railway Bills were presented, reads time, and ordered to be read a second time : .64 0 ' Manchester, Birmingham, and North Staffordshire , ; Enfield and Edmonton Extension. Axholme (from the Leeds and Selby Railway to Gallir, - borough, with Branches). P tiir Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton (No. sions and Amendment). Parkgate and Chester and Birkenhead Junction. • co r The following Railway Bills were read a second witted, and referred to the Committee of Selection t--• 0 4.' 1 East Lancashire (Clitheroe, Mitton, and Padiham DO D Cambridge, St. Neot's, and Bedford Junction. ; 1 ' Taw Vale Railway and Dock. Newcastle and Berwick (Cramlington and Percy' ' Killingworth, and other Branched). - ,„;11; Edinburgh and Northern (St. Andrew' s rand L' r e vi a lcuP ß Harbour, Branches, and Road Crossings, Newport • .'1 Extension). York and Newcastle (Hartlepool Dock and Sailsrafj o ir Great North of England, Clarence and Hartlo ool ;:t tion Railway, Lease and Purchase). \ 400 London and North-Western (Lime-street, Liverpoac Extension, &c.) London and North-West ern (Portobello and Wolver M O. Branch, &c.) NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL-Oft t ill . The following Railway Bill s are appo i nte d to be second time • % TUESDAY, MARCH 9. Great Indian Peninsula. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10. Edinburgh and Perth. FRIDAY, MARCH 12. Edinburgh and Northern (Imp rovemen t of the rer bl a tweet' Ferry Port on Craig and the Northern Sh in ► the River Tay). RAILWAYS. The Committee of Selection h ave postponed 14 1 1.5 first ilh meeting of the Select Committe es on th e G r oupe """ 9, 13, 16, and 18, till after the Easter Recess. Sele4 The Committee of Selection have discharged the 9 0 4 Committee to which they had refe rre d t h e G roup No. ~:$OO. also the Panel from which th e C ommittees on Grour 13, 16, and 18 would have been selected. VACHER'S PARLIAMENTARY COMPANION. --- 51 1: February edition of this excellent little manual furnisbe s s 'ths addition to its usual valu a bl e contents, the resolutions o f the House of Commons with res p ect to P r i vate Bills, ofludiag alterations made, in the course of l as t mon th, in the Stan Orders. The lithograph e d p l ans o f th e C omm ittee.roo'S, Westminster Hall, with the position of the different 1 ,4 Courts; and the Hou s e o f C ommon s, with the various ro_o _ abutting to it, cannot fail to be of iafinite value to t whom business or pleasure may lead towards St. Steph_ FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE IMPERIAL GAS c o ; PANT'S WORKS.—Yesterday Mr. Mills held an inquesSs " 6 8, University College Hospital, on William Morris, Ig et c : atts . late an engine driver at the Imperial Gas and CA' o 'clock pany's Works, Battle-bridge, King's-cross. At forks, At last Sunday morning deceased went into the gas - h i s gicler six o'clock W. King, stoker, found him lying °TI s al in g close to the boiler, in sens ibl e. Th ere were no alter 00 juries on his body, and he was removed to his lodging s 'sved- Monday he was admitt e d to t h e h osp i tal, an d di e d on i lire nesday. When the b o d y was opened, two fr i g htful frac' re • of the skull, which were the immediate cause of des to detected, but how th e y were i n fli cted i t was i m possibl e conjecture. An ope n ver di ct was accordingly retu rne weett HOUSE ROB BERY .—O n Th urs d ay evening, bet,,,e tso seven and nine o'clock, some thi eves b roke into htle Paradise-terrace, Lambeth-walk, the residence of a " a rel, , lady named Howard, and stole a quantity of wearing 2 1 ) 400 silver spoons, &c. In one o f th e d rawers w hi c h W as bic h open there were eight sovereigns and other moneys , s t he fortunately escaped their notice. They entered bi a lth street door, and having ransacked the place got clear( ) their booty. s r o Of Head ETON MONTEM.—Th e Pro vos t an d Dias 4.,, cl Eton feel it incumbent upon them to apprise Etonian s ' a ' those interested in the welf are o f Eton, that the abolitioo,lo Montem has been erron eous l y represente d to b e st ill en s l iss question. That custom was abolished in January last li a r ovost of Eton, in entire concurrence with the Head tbe it ter, when her Majesty th e Q ueen h a d grac i ously l e ft t o sole responsibility th e d ec i s i on o f a quest i on upon whic-seir had fully made up th e i r m i n d s , a f ter the strongest cestay tion that the evils a tt en d an t upon M ontem were lfres of diable, and much t oo ser i ous to a d m i t of a contintolleo-ir that custom.—Francis Hodgson, Provost. Edward C. trey, Master. The Lodg e , E ton C o ll ege, M arch 5, 1847. o r EXTENSIVE EMBEZZLEMENT BY A COLLECT° 00 CITY DUES.—Yesterday, information was forwarded t, ° , 11 101 police stations, that Rob er t Albi on F ellowes, who bee' the responsible situati on at t h e C ustom-house of receiv er wine duties, had absconded. He is charged with hasqeets various times emb ezz l e d moneys to a large amount. ' t of ward of HU is otfered for his apprehension. The moan e d his defalcations is said to be nearly 7,0001. The dise ef s so took place under th e f o ll ow i ng c i rcumstances:—ln t h e se; is of the year 1846, th e gauger o f the city of London, wh o appointed by the Corpo r atio n t o gauge all the wines la of arrive within the port of L o nd on , an d w h o i s pa id the e ti , t he 4d. per tun, mad e a l arge d eman d , wh i ch far exceedeu.d amount that ought to have b een p a id on t h e d ut i e s Pest als by the collector to th e Ch am b er l a i n . Thi s led to an ing-oo and a committee was appointed by the Court of Coin t o Council to inquire into the m a tt er , on w hi c h an as/li ci t '. t ss was made to the alleged def au lt er t o ren d er an accou nt of moneys which had b ee n p a id to hi m. T he collector O r s t o to do so, on which he wa s sus p en d e d , an d a gent l ema n °f name of Scott was appointed pro tern. to the office. Th e so' quiry, during the period up to the 11th of last montblears ceeding, on which Messrs. Burn and Selson, who bed so ar appointed, brought up a report, and in which they 't ot ed mended that proper legal proceedings might be au ;Sid against Robert Albion Fellowes for embezzlement, es t 4d. found that the gauger's ch arge f or gaug i ng for 1841, ss. per tun, amounted to 439/., and as the City dues sfe r per tun, it showed 5,2681. ought to have been paid bit ° r e- office of the Chamberlain, whereas only 3,3581. had bee n t he • , ceived, thus showing a deficiency of 1,9101. for 184 1 A ; fa t deficiency for 1842 w as 1,7351 .; for 1843, 1,7491.; e ll `"„ e stf tuns 1841, 1,818/. ; and th ey a l so found that the yearly aa s wine imported into th e port o f L ondon was 9,00 0 tuns o s 17,000 pipes, and that the defalcations, in round number' k to upwards of 1,8001. a year. Th e report was referred !l c t o the committee to am en d, w hi c h b e i ng d one, has led to present proceedings. Tr o Or/ THE REPRESENTATION OF I,IIWBS.—Sfr Elphinstone, Bart., is about to resign his seat for Lewes' Eas t R. Perfect, Esq., a gentleman whose estates lie in Somerset, but who has s p en t a grea t p ort i on o f the last tabie years in Brighton, and b e l ongs t o most o f our l oca l cherl r . institutions, will take the field on the Liberal interests Perfect is a gentleman in the prime of life, of great 1 12 4 0 gents and experience in publi c a ff a i rs , an d h as alwaYsr ec ce a decided part in politic s on th e Lib era l s id e . Mr. Pe,, t o address to the electors of Le wes w ill a pp ear to•dayS election will, it is supposed, take place within a for The town has been canvassed, and there is no doubt of Perfect's return.—Brighten Herald. IRTHS. On the 25th ult., at the Roya ß l Hospital, Greenwich, the w ife of tbe Rev. James Hill, M.A., of a son. On the let inst., at Holland-road, Brixton, Mrs. Frederick Hortla" man, of a daughter. On the 3d inst., in Hans-place, Mrs. Philip Rose, °fa AfAXED. On the 6th inst., at All Souls' Cha ICI pel, Langham-place, bynthe4evio.: S. C. Lord, , Robert Gibson, Esq„ of Sandhurst Lodge, er Eleanor Harriet, only daughter of Sir Benjamin Smith , of itegent street, Portland-place. r dward On the vd inst., at St. George's Church, H anov er-square, Edmonds, Cl Lowndes-street, Belgrave-square, to Emma Br a g widow of 0. Bray, of Holborn. DIED. On the Ist Inst., at Woolston, near Southampton, surviving daughter of the late Arthur Jones, Esq., of Bath. _ o f lecturer On the let inst., the Rev. George John Haggitt, M.A. , St. James's, Bury St. Edmund's, aged 57. Lleatena On the Ist inst., at Hexworthy House, Cornwall , Colonel William Webber, h.p., Royal Artillery. Margaret, last In Piccadilly, On the 4th inst., Salllllfil Mills, Est;., of ItU2SCIi -. 3g7trc, bow„ 1 2 London: Printed and Published by DIVILDO YOUSQ, ot N. !- Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, N 0.112, Strand, in the Precille of the Savoy, in the County of:lLWkil et ex, SaturdAT, Jig" 6, 1841, g . 2f,' o 631' 683 881 280 9,692 675 477 2,057 969 6. 31 1;5° 1 35.° 11 747 4,01 65 41 64 1 10 6,21 Mb' Mar. 1 Feb. 27 ci r RANTI spayd FULL triti e d RiznlcLtrli iz o „„ Il etu t o ponn AL thmtbr._ w; ,lat.est Z t LaZlFor i t b e ktiZ i t .Patett V 4141,, LtOVJ 0. 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