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The characters ;•••z.= sketched with a masterly hand, true to nature, and yet marked by traits of individuality, which throw over them an originality, and prove how acutely the artist must have onserved."—Literary Gazette. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. NEW AND COLLECTED EDITION OF LAN DOR'S Witt .INGS published in Twt, Volumes, used um octave, µrice 325., cloth, 'THE WORKS OF WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR. Including the Imaginary Conversations, with a Ike v and Original Series ; l'erieles and Aspasla ; Examination of Shakespeare ; Pentamero., of Koccacio and Petrarca ; liellenics (now for the first time publi-hed); Tilt:ernes and Poems. With many large additions throughout, and the Author's last correction. Edward Moxon, Dover-street. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Nobility, Subscribers to the Opera. and the Public, are re spectmlly informed. that a grand Elt x rA NIGHT will take place on THURSDAY next. May 27, whcn will be performed (tirst tiuu. In this country) Donizetti's Opera. entitled LA FIGLIA DEL It..GGIMENTO. Maria, bid le. Jenny Lind La Marchesa dl erkenreld, Mdme. Solari ; SuipizioSe.rgente, b:gnor F. Lablache ; and Tonio, Signor Gordon!. To be followed by various Entertainments in the Ballet Depart met. combining the talents or Mdlle. C. Grid , M We. L. Gratin, Mdlte. C. Rosati, Mdme. P. Stephan, aid Mdlle. Cerito, M. Perrot, and M. St. Leon. ,s,,en at Seven The Opera to commence at Half-past Seven o clock. ROYAL I ALIAS OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. GRAND EXTRA NIGHT. on THURSDAY next, May 27, when will be performed Mozart's Opera, DON G LOVA NNI, which has been some time in preparation, will be performed, with the ino-t perfect ensemble, embracing a triple Orchestra, Ballet, d”ub!e Chorus, with all the leaning Artis es, including Grisi, Per- Corbari, Mario, Hovers, Tamburini, Tagliatico, &c., con. ducted by 31. Costa. To render as rerfect an ensemble as p^ssible in the performance of this Opera, Melle. Fanny Elssier and 31d1:e. Dumilatre, have kindly cons rated to dance t• e minuet. onclude with the new grand Ba let, in three Acts, entitled LA SAL MAN it NE. Principal characters by Mdlle. Fanny El-skr and Mdlle. Durnitatre ; a 1.40 Mdlles. Benin, .Naodot, De Mensse, Delecliaux, O'Bryan, and l'atipa. The Subseribers, Nobility, and Gentry are respectfully informed th IL an additional Pit and Box entrance is now opened under the 11 tut, Covent-garden. PRICES OF ADMISSION. Pit stall ............................ • • £l 1 0 First Amphitheatre Stalls, First Row 0 15 0 Ditto, second and Third Rows 0 12 6 Second Amphitheatre Stalls.... ••• • • • Pit Tickets ••..• • • • First Amphitheatre ••• • • Second Amphitheatre ••••• • • • • • Tickets, Stalls, and Boxes to be obtained at the Box-office, Bow t eH , and at Cramer, iteale. and Co.'s. 201, Regent-street. The Doors will open at Half-past Seven o'clock, aid the Opera w h vommenee at Light. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Linder the Matogemeet »i Mr. ot. Webster, sole Lessee. THIS EVENING Will: be performed the new Comedy, called TEMPER. Slr Mama duke Topple, Mr. Farr. n ; Sir Charles Tempest, Mr. Hudson ; God- Mr. Webster; Cyril Tempest, Mr. God trey. Mr. Tilbury; Emerson, Howe; Lady Tempest, Mrs. !4eyinour ; Mrs. Herbert, Mrs. Glover; Florence Wilmot, Mrs. Fortescue; Miss FiLling, Airs. Humby To bi followed by a Miscellaneous Concert, in wli , ch the FOUR HUN( :ARIAN I IV , THUMENTAL VO.:ALISTA will give their imi tatins of various instruments. with the Lips only. To conclude with TUE INVISIBLE PaINCE! or, The Island of Tranquil Delights. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHE Under the direction of Madame t eleste. TIS T 711: be performed the original Drama, EVE.N.NG called THE FLOWERS r - F THE FOREST ; a (;ipsy Story. Cheap Jew', Mr. Wright ; fannictel. Mr. 0. Smith ; the Kinchin, Yr P. Redford; Leyhourne, At Worrell ; Cynthia, Madame Celeste ; Lemuel, Miss Woolgar; f:tal - 14ht Begs, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; Lady Agnes, dim Harding. After which (never acted) an entire 'y new Petite Comedy, called FLYING COLOURS; or. Crossing the Frontier. Captain Sans souo, Mr. Webster; Margaret, Miss Woolgar ; Ilelen de 3lontereau, Madame Celeste; J.stine, Miss Ellen Chaplin. To be followed by the Opera Ituffa Sketeh, called JENNY LIN It. P , incipal characters by Messrs. Wright, Paul ifedtord, Lambert, ft_lby,Culleword, and Miss Woolgar. THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. J. M. Maddox., I...Asee 4.1 Manager. THIS EVENING Will be performed Shakspere's tragedy of KING LE AR. King Lear. Mr. Macready ; Edgar, Mr. Cr-swick; Gonad', Mrs. Warner; Cordell*. Mrs. Stirling; Regan, Mrs. Fosbrale. Atter which a new Drama, entitl,d THE KING AND THE Pi 'ER. Principal characters by Messrs. Hughes, Walton, Barker, Wynn, Delaystnti, Granby, Miss E. Stanley, Miss G. Smithson, and Mit , s Marshall, THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. Under the Management of Mrs. Keeley. THIS EVENING Will bf. perfomed the varce, ca led WANTED A HERMIT In Whi.:h Messrs. r Wigan, Turner, Kinloch, Kelley, Mis.i Arden,. and Mr,. Keeley w I perform. To c followed by the new occasional Dramat c Sketch, called JEN SY LI.ND AT LAST; or, Tie Swedish Nightingale. Charuc crs by Mr. A. Wigan, Mr Turner, Mr. Klu.och, Mr. Bellingiun„ Mr Bender. Mr. Yurnold, and Mrs. Keeley. After which Tfl E ftINTER '6 DE I'IL. MaurepAS, Mr. Belling ham: lir.nghin, Mr. Kinloch: l'ica, Mr. Keeley. i., cone:tide with the new Burlesque Exiravaganza, called THE Wool) HAIMON; or, One o'cl..,ck, lu which Messrs. Keeley, A. AV *ail, F. Matthew.. Bellingham. Kinloch, Silver, Miss Dickinson, Idlss InnY, and Mrs. Keeley will appear. ruEsen PLAYS. —ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell. FOR THE BENEFIT OF MDLLE. DENAENt. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Comedy of OSCAR ; on, Un Mari qui T: 't.we sa Femme. Oscar, M. Reinder ; Juliette, Mdlle. ► •enitin. ..tier which, the fiivourite Comedy of LA AIARQUISE DE SEN- N E l', - .itRE. Le Marquis, M. Regnier ;La Marqu se, Millie. Denain. c , mciude with LEi PRECIEUSES RID[CULES. Macarille, It,gnier ; Madelon, Aidlie Khin ; Cathos, Jldlle. Fouq , et. Boxes, 6s. ; 3s. 6d.; Amphitheatre, 3 .; Gallery, 28. Mixes and Stalls may be engaged at Mr. witehell's Royal Library, 73. Bond-street; and at the Box-office of the Theatre, svnich Is open gaily from Eleven till Five. 1 MOHAN I:ERENADERS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. In c.Aisequence of the incre..s:lig success which attends every re prei•" :tattoo given by the celebrated ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, Pell Harrington, •'nite. Stanwood, and (lemon, they will repeat their usual ENTERTAINMENTS at the above Theatre, 10- MORROW Evening, and every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. D—c‘r. o; en at Light o'clock. They will aso give a DAY PEli- FORII2, SCE This Morning,. May 26, commencing at Hall past TR. , o'clock. They will appe:tr at the It mile Hall, Store-street, This E v ening; and at Sussex Hall on Monday neat. lt , .se. and Stalls at Mitchell's Roy ,1 Library, 33, 011 Bond-street, and et lie BOX-office of the Theatre. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, Proprietor and Manager 'or. %, 1111 am kinttr. Cater the patrona ge of t h e Q ueer , P r i nce Albert, and the Rural Family. spleLd d Combination of Novelties, in addition to which Mr. Batty bite cog ged Mtlile. Laurina, the Female Equestrian. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Equestrian Mag'ica Sketch, THE GOLDEN FOol .STEED; or, The Charmed Horse of the Black Valley. Una.'ailed SCENES in the CIRCLE, with a brilliant cil.play of Ilerso,,,anahlp, introducing the Foreign and British Artistes. Too ichple with I.orti Ityron's Dramatic Poem of THE BRIDE OE AI 1 DOS ; or, The Corsair. Stage Manager, M r . W . D. B roadfoot. a.; Boxes, 45.; Upper Boxes, 3.: I'it, 25.; Gallery, Is.; I: • *all • • ( .--ur, 6d. Commence every evenimr at Seven o'clock, ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. l'ndcr the Management of Mrs. Frances Davidge, Lessee. THIS F.VENINO 7,e performed lielliors o, , ers. of LA SONNAMBULA ; or, T:te ..:agc haulm. Rodolpho, Mr. Lenin; I lvmo, Mr. Hard ; Y. Is Alessio, Mr. Ho rncastle ; Amino, M so na'nforth ; Lisa, Msa aacs ; Teresa, Mrs Dale ; An ette, Miss Vaughan. Tu.:. t,r. 2d e with th- new Nail teal I mama, called 1 iIF. WItEcK I.lvl enptain. Mr. Mute I; Gol , teall, 31r. Horn e.l-tstie ; .tea SMock , - Mr. Nes ; Chris; tn., Mrs. Ware. Fit, Is.; Gallery, lid. Gnu upen at Mx, commence A' tY r 0.• SiX. itOYAL VIC , t/IGIA TkiEATIIE. THIS EVENING Will be n3rformed THE LONELf:%ii OF THE OCEAN; the ~i~Lt Bet6re the Bridal. Characters by Messrs. N. T. Hicks. t4ea;:e., Bird. Raymond, Gardner, Miss Vincent, Mrs. G. Lee, and Wu I<iirroughchtle. Alter which a bra.na from the Frelich, entitled DONZELLA ; or, 'The .'Ionl; and the Assassins. 'to he bdlowed by 31:. Cox's DNSOLVING VIEWS. conclude with AD3IIItA.L 5.131. Supp rted by the entire is:•.).igth :if the Company. Boxes, Is.; 'lair Price, 6d. Pit, 6d. ; Gallery, 3d. ROYAI, SURREY ZOOI,O , ;ICAL GARDENS. timier the patronage of her Majesty, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Queen DowaJe.,&c. ' Open every Mond ty, Tuesday, Wednrsday, and Thursday. Ad ,:issicn, 0 e Shilling GRAND FLOWER SFIOW. Tbe Proprietor begs to am:mt.:cc hat he has. at a Con , iderable itv , e11.43, erected a new Liar -lice, and a wagnilleent Walk, with flitver borders, statues, and a Central Fountain, in trout of the *reflect Piciorlal Representation of THE TOWN kND BAY OF GIBRALTAR. Th e -.- ' r ceagerie contains many specimens, Inclu.ting the Giraffe, Sr„c. The itumenade Concerts, com.ucted ..y i , odfrey. A 3 enres.'n tai ion of the Porcelain Tower of Nankin. The i:othic Bridge of &cues. The grand Pyrot. clvdc isplay, representing the . SIEGE OF GIiIIiALTAR. e strtng the commencement of the Be mbardment. partial destruc tie a t f cue Town, and Blowing u p of th e B atter i ng Ships. Ciuring the season, M. JULLIv.N will give a series of Concerts; the Band will consist of one li - ndreol Performers. tinYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT - GARDEN.—Their Roy .1 ifighnts•es the Duke and Do , Mess ot Cambridge, and hii Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge, 1),o :tired the Royal bailer. Opera with their presence. ;fier Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge was at tendeil by the H,n. Mas ford. Also his Royal 11 . gtiness the Grand Duke of Lncea, attended by the q . iis of Palaviciiii. There were also present the Dillitt and Duchess of Norfolk and Lady Adeliza - "ward, the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort and Lady L t t;: e 4. 4o Soto.r: , et, the Duke of Newc a stle and the " 3 3 Pelham Ambas t Clinton, his Excell e ncy tie Austrian c"'"" avadur and th e C ountess Dietricbstein, his Ex 1 Call Y the Turkish Ambassador and the Princess im :Id, t h e en count vuutrt Joirnme, Count Revel, C. unt Y.a.S Atlesbury, the l. the Marquis and Marchioness oniniels of Wilton, .I,i.uri,tess Gran., Dost,gal, Earl and Marquis of Sli o, Marquis of or,,,nl,and the Ladiei Cadogan, ille, Earl and Earl Bruce, 'Earl Countess tit Chesterfi,l.l. C, , untess of Ess...x. Earl cf Kilmorey, Counts of Veruiam, ViscouMer uNewport, Viscount Dui ph u, Viscount csiniitopf., suffit.id, Doiager Lady Suffii. hi , /4., r 01,4:xi mouth, Lord Crmistoun. Lord and Lady Ernestce, L'" 1) , Vccux, Lady Caroline M.. se, Lord th-nadev Fenton I a.ly Fred , reek B'-ntinck, Lord Futs-y and Ho n % * i n s ; Hon. Lady Pdkenham, Lord Charl.s Clinton, ./ oz.! Geon - e Mariners, Lady Nelthorpe, Lily Graham, Lady Morri,:, the Eon. A. D. Wiilougnby, the lion. Mr. the Hon. Mr. Bigct. the Hon. Mr. Tol!emache, the lion. Mrs. Anson. the Hon. Cecil Forrester, th e lion. George Byng, the Hon. Mr. Milks. Admiral Sir I:, !ward Codrington, General Sir Alexander and Lady Tuff, Sir Renry Webb, Sr 2liciid:l Shaw Stewart, Sir Bouchier Palk Wrey and Lady, Sir W. Alis-v Stanley. Ow lion. Robert limlev, Sir Geer Tali.ot. SrsH. my awl Lady &l e n s , M r. H. R. York.., M.P. Mr. G. Mudd, rind Mrs. Dodd. Mr. H Barine. M.P., Mr. E. 1). Prltheroe, M.P., Mr. M. Archdall, M.P.r:d Mr. W. Grvory. M.P. •f REQUISITIQN TO SIR ROBERT PEEL FROM Bill lIINCIII3I. --.At a mee'ing of the triends of free trade held ou Tuesday evening, in this borough, it was resolved to invite -Sir Robert Peel to st an d as a candidate at the ,forricorning electicn, in the room of Mr. Spooner, one jio present mouthy. TM? WEATHER.—Sum Orncz, MAY 26. THErtmomETER, Lowest. 45 ; Iligho-st. 71 ; Noon, 67. BAROMETER, 30.28.—W1ND S S.W.; fine. 111 :ii 4V.kTl.:}c. AT I.oh DON-104.10t4E TILLS DAY. 31,rning .. 24 mirinteA after !I I Evening ~ 51 rninntes %thcr 11 • per acre ; and we believe there is no practical agri culturist who will not say that sum is very far below the mark, we find at once that 1,750,0001. sterling is annually wasted for the gratification of the childish vanity of the landowners—that they may be enabled to record the large quantities of game that have been butchered at their battues. This is inde pendent of the enormous cost of the establishments of gamekeepers, &c., defrayed by the landlords out of their private resources, and the still more objectionable outlay occasioned by the support in prison of the numerous victims of the game code, and iu the union workhouses of their helpless and unprotected wives and families. Every consideration demands the total and immediate abolition of the iniquitous system. It is nei - her just nor proper that we should place tempta tion in the way of our brethren, and then punish with unrelenting severity the fault we have ourselves occasioned. But persons who are oblivious of such consequences may, perhaps, be awakened to the pecuniary injury that must be occasioned to the monetary of of the country, our trade and corn merce, by the necessity of exporting nearly 2,000,0001. annually in gold to supply the deficit occasioned by the damage to which we have alluded, and consent to a revision of the laws that are fraught with such baneful results. With what con sistency can any man abridge the quantity of food used in his family, and, by continuing to pre • serve his game, maintain a nuisance that con sumes twenty times the quantity of human food that can be saved by such abstinence ? The adoption of such a course must be considered as the vilest hypocrisy, arid how can the Levislature continue the game-laws in their present condition without laying themselves collectively open to a similar imputation ? We trust that we shall see many who have erred, chiefly from want of thought, submitting with a good grace, and voluntarily giving orders for the destruction of the ex cess of game and vermin of every description on their respective estates; and also that measures will be in troduced into Parliament for a sweeping and efficient measure of reform that is so urgeotly. required. A remarkable feature of the present session is, that, in the midst of the great and complicated ques tions which have been forced upon the attention of the Legislature, consequent upon the tearful vi-ita tion which has produced such terrible sufferings throughout the whole of Ireland and portio::s of Scot land, and compelled a review of the entire social 83 stem of the United Empire, one of the most philan thropic measures ever submitted to Parliament has all but passed the Rubicon of legislation, and will as suredly become in a short time part and parcel of the law of the land. We allude to the Ten Hours' Fee. tory Bill. It was not only not immediately connected in its nature with the extraordinary political exigen cies which the Senate have had to consider from the very commencement of the session, and which still continue, in a great degree to demand the most careful deliberation of our lawgivers, but it was also a measure which its most devoted advocates well knew would meet with the keenest and most vigi lant opposition, at what time soever it might be urged forward. Considering the perplexed state of Ireland, the extent and variety of the schemes introduced with the view of improving it, some of them being of immediate necessity, while others were meant to be of a permanent character, —considering the unsatisfactory complexion of our foreign relations as connected with French intrigue in Spain, regarding also the great amount of ordinary routine business which must be yearly gone through in Parliament, and recollecting, likewise, that Sir ROBERT PEEL was known to be hostile to the mea sure in question, it evinced great boldness in Mr. FIELDEN and his faithful coadjators to press on the Ten Hours Bill under such untoward circum stances ; and it is somewhat marvellous to think that -uccess has, notwithstanding, virtually crowned their humane efforts. A few weeks back most people, re flecting upon the foregoing, and aware that the Prime Minister was desirous of limiting the time of youth ful labour in factories to eleven instead of ten hours, would, if their opinion had been asked, have declared that if the measure passed at all, it would be only in the shape to which the first Minister of the Crown bad declared himself to be favourable. The juvenile working classes will, however, shortly obtain, the boon of having the period of their daily factory labour restricted to ten hours. This triumph can therefore be only attributed to one circumstance, and that is, the justice and righteousness of the cause itself. To relieve the youthful factory -workers from excessive toil by legal protection is so mani festly conducive to their social, moral, and religious improvement, and to the well-being of society at large, that an earnest and perseverirg appeal to the sympathies of Parliament, supported by such luminous arguments as Mr. MAcatmAy urged in favour of our industrious artisans, was certain of gaining the ulti mate acquiescEnce of Lords and conamons in Mr, FIELDEN'S prposal. The Centr a l Sh ort Ti me Corn _ _ _ m;ttee of Yorkshire have already held a general meeting upon this subject, and, in a must grateful spirit, have unanimously passed appropriate resolu tions, expressive of their unfeigned thankfulness for the manner in which our Senators have responded to the prayers of the manufacturing population. The philanthropic wisdom of Parliament is thus early receiving its choicest reward in the gratitude and esteem of the worki►,g classes. A Berlin letter of the 19th informs us that the General Diet had just passed a vote, with only three dissentients, in favour of a project for the establish.• ment of differential duties as an encouragement to the mercantile navy, and has also declared in favour of a new augmentation of the duties on linen and cotton thread, with a stipulation fur the remission of the duty in case of re - exportation. '1 he Asst mbly of the States of Wiesbaden, in their sitting of the 19th, adopted unanimously the proposi= tion of M. ZAIS, for an application to the Govern ment to re-establish the law on the press of the sth May, 1814, and to intervet6 with the Germanic Diet with a view to obtain the abolition of the censorship, and a general law for the regulation of the press. M. DE STRALENHEIM, Minister of Justice to the King of HANOVER, died at Hanover on the 19th. Madrid ppers of the 19th instant have arrived. The Minisiers, who all went to the Pradu on the 18th in order to recommend the KING-CONSORT to re pair to Aranjuez, and reside in the same plat e with the QUEEN, have not succeeded in attaining their object. The Heraldo says, " He did net deign to accede to what Ministers demanded." Prior to the visit of the other Ministers, Senor SALAMANCA had a long inter view with the KING, and represented to him that " as a Spaniard, as a loyal sul ject, as a soldier, and as a prince, he should be the first to obey the orders of his QUEEN, and shed for her cause the last drop of his blood." On the re turn of the Ministers from the Prado another Cabinet Council was held, after which Senor PACHECO and Senor SALAMANCA act off for Aranjuez. The KING demands, as the price of his reconciliation;4. the removal of all the present members of the royal household, and the appointment of a Camarilla of his choosing. The " Palace question,' as it is called, ex cites extraortiinary interest in Madrid. A guard of honour has been sent to the Prado, out of rtspect to the KING-CONSORT. The Popular publishes a letter from Aranjuez, which states that the QUEEN is in an "interesting situation." The marriage of Don ENRIQUE has been officially notified to the nobility. The permission to return to Spain, which Don ENRIQUE asked for on his mar riage, has, it is said, been refused for the present. Generals CAMBA, ESPINOSA, MONTERO, PEROL, and CENDRERA, have all been restored to the rank of which they had been deprived for their fidelity to ESPARTERO. The Heraldo publishes a letter from Catalonia, stating that TBISTANY, who was reported some days ago to have been shot, was on the 11th at the bead of a band of 300 men. MADAM BOLSA, MAY 19.—The Three per Cents. were done at 30 1 4 for cash ; the Four per Cer 43. at 18%; the Five per Cents. at 19 ; the Debt without. laterest at ; and the Coupons at 16. We have received-the National, the onlj political paper published in Paris on Monday, the other papers having kept holiday in honour of Whitsun tide. On Monday the debate in the Chamber of Depu ties eonimenced on the proposition of M. GLAIS Brzon on postal reform. The proposition is opposed on the ground that it is not :afe to risk a defalcation PRE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 26, 1847. in the revenue at the present moment. On this sub ject the National as the following article : " What has been the influence of the general receipts of the tariff of 1827 which the Government persisted in maintaining? An augmentation of expenditure far superior to the increase of the revenue. Compare, for instance, the produce of the customs, foiests, regis tration, and indirect taxeq, with those of the Post office; and the interiority of the latter will be at once apparent. Still more, whilst the four imposts of which we have just spoken give each year more considerable profits to the Treasury, the service of the Post-office alone does not follow that ascensional progress. On the contrary, its expenses augment in the proportions of 60 per cent.; whereas the improvement in the receipts is only 26 per cent., so that the Administration, in wish ing to remain stationary, retrogrAes. But to what other cause but the gnat elevation of the tariff can this result be attributed? It is not, besirles, a new tact. in political econcmy, as it has been constantly seen that excessive taxes end in a diminution of receipts. France claims the honour of having led the way in Europe in organiz ing a post-office service, hut her imitators have singu larly gone beyond her. Everywhere a progress has been made; we alone have stuck fast in the old path. The foll 'wing is the average postage at present prevail ing amongst the principal nations:— England ••• ••• ... uniform postage ... ... 10e. Prussia ••• ••• 8 zones •• • ... 26 Spain ••• ••• ••• uniform ..• ... 27 United States ..• 3 znies Sat dinia ... ••• 7 zrnes ..• ... 34 Austria .., ... 2 z-nes .•• ... 34 Russia ... ~. unif o r m France ••• ••• 11 zones (tariff of 1827) 42 This comparative table shows that Frarict, is not even on a level with the powers which she has left so far behind her in the career of political reforms. The Governm:nt of July has shown less liberality than Austria arid Prus sia. The tariff of 1827 has n. t only the effiot of placing us in a stateiroptlaienets u interiority on a stran ge y relativ e to io n h ourselves.t(c)onthtreadrieesttofwte woridbut Few persons ar e aware that during the last century and a half we have actually retrograded in postal matters. According to the tariff of 1673, the postage of a single letter was fixed, according to the di , tance, at from 10c. to 25c.; in 1705, at from 15c. to 50c.; in 1759, at from 20c. to 70c. The revolution took place, and in 1798 a new tariff, having for basis a single letter, weigh ing a quarter of an ounce (7i gr.). and establishing twelve zones, fixes the postage at from 20e. to 75c. 'the year after the z , _,nrs were reduced to four, and the poet age raised from 50c_ to If. 25c. In the year IV. the Council of Five Hundred; ' eonsieeting that it is as important fur the go. d of the service as for the interest of the Treasury to re estabhsh an i - quilibrium betweili the receirs and expenses of the Post-office,' declaed that something ought to be dine at once, and adopt• . d the following resoluzion. The postog was raised as follows : MONEY : and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO TI 'SEE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool ) esterday were 5,000 bales, and prices were firm. American ord. and mid. sorts were quoted id. per lb. higher than on Friday last, and all other kinds wore at extreme rat, , -s.—ln Shares there was a further improvement. A good demand existed for Midland, North Stafford, and York and Sewcastle. The sale of Railway Shares yesterday, by Messrs. La mond and Co., was rather firmer; and the prices realised show an improvement upon those of last sale. The followirg are a few of the principal sales:— East Indian . . £o 2 6 Manchester and Southampton 0 10 0 Atubergate, Nottingham, and Boston 1 6 6 Great Northern ...... . Reading, Guildford, and Reigate • 417 6 Newmarket and Chest erfOrd, Extension 2 1 0 North Staffordshire, New Scrip . Windsor, Staines, and South-Western. South Wales Eastern Counties, York Extension 5 18 0 South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole 1 7 6 East Lancashire (Scrip) Louvain ala Sambre 0 18 0 Eastern Counties ...... 18 19 0 Corn still falls in the provinces as well as here, and the ailviccs bum New York received this morning, al. though bet one day later, intimate that holders of flour were rather anxious to realise, and that freights were low. As regards the latter circumstance, it necessarily arises from the canals not having opened, tart if holders were anxious to realise before the supplies arrived, what nay we nut expect when they ere poured down to the Atlantic seaboard, as some anticipated. If the subjoined statement from the New Price Cu' rent be correct, and no doubt there are plenty of similar instances in other parts of the country, our home sup plies will be large yet. The writer observes:— " It is estimated, that as soon as the arrivals com mence, which will be very shortly, from St. Petersburgh and Canada, added to those known to be on the passage from Odessa and the United States, &c., the imperte, including flour, will nut be less than equal to 100,000 quarters we, kly. This is irrespective of the Supplies in toe farmers' bands, which, from all we have been able to learn, are quite cl,quate to meet our wants until the harvest cotnniere es. It may be interesting toour readers to know the very • moderate views wtkich some of the farmers entertain as to a remunerative price ter wheat; for exan'pl.., a gi ntleman farmer near Norwich, of the name of Blake, has stored up in his granaries his crops of wheat for the last seven years, and has deter mined not to sell until he can obtain 150 s. per quarter. Another farmer. Mr. Plaxton, in Essex, has three years' crop still for sate. F r the in formatien of farmers and sp culators, sod as a caution to the millers and bakers, who literally buy only from haed to mouth, we subjoin a statement of the prices of grain in the famine year 1800, showing that wheat tell in price, within one mont h, t rent 120 s. to 40s. per quarter.' , The table proves this clearly enough, and we expect that many will "be wise in time," according to the adage that a " bird in the hand is worth two in the bnsh," 'and that a "nimble ninepence is better than a slow shilling." We should think that even farmers must be able tocalculate the loss of interest upon capital locked up for seven years, and which by improvements on the land, &c., might possibly have been inereesed two-thirds in that time. The advice* received to-day from the Cape of Good Hope to March 27, describe the measures about to be taken by the new Governor as being vigorous, and likely to bring the Kafirs to unconditional terms, and to enforce the surrender of the stolen cattle, &c. The English Funds have been firmer to-day, and the settlements so far has not made them worse, although the " options," up to the hour of •our writing, have not come of Consols have b.en 874 to for present trsnsfer, and about 88 to fur July. Exchequer bills have been par to 2i. premium. Bank Stock has been firm at 189. Th., New Three-ane-a-Qaarter per Ceitts. have been marked 88 to 874, and the Three per Cents. 86 i f to 8. The Foreign Securities have been very quiet again. Portuguese Four per Cents. are 331 being flatter again. Spanish Three per Cents. are not higher than 334. Mexican Bonds have been - Steady at 204. Dutch o-and-a Half yr Cents. have reelised 584 f. Railway Shares have still rather a firm and improving appearance, and the dullness of trade may throw more surplus money int the market. BRITISH FUNDs 'flits OA AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Ist distance, from 10 sous to 2f. 20 sous. 2,1 99 15 „ sf. 3,1 ~ It. to 7f• 10 sons. 4th ft 1 I. 5 sous to 10f. This was the beau ideal of the fiscal theory, and six months after the falling off in the receipts was si, enor mous that a new resolution was come to. The Council o. Five Hundred, considering that the service of the Post-office presented a deficit in its receipts, compared with its expenses, absolutely ruinous to the Treasury, and that it was as urgent as useful to , 9tneliorate the pro duce of this service, raised the weight of the single letter from a quarter to a half ounce (15 gr. in place of 7i gr.), and reduced the postage in this wly :-- Ist distance, 50 leagues, from 2.. 10 fMe to 6 sous. 2d „ 100 99 5f to 10 3il ~9 9 „ 150 7f 50 sous t o 14 „ 4th „ above ,9 10f. to 18 „ From that period to 1827 we could mention other charges, but all have rather referred to new classifica tions of distance than any serious changes in the post age. To sum up, the tariff has been changed eight times from 1791 to 1827, and if any one wishes to ob serve the progre- , s realised, not only since the end of the 18th centuty,,but since the edict of 1673, he must com pare the postage of a single letter sent to the greatest distance (above 900 kilometre!), under the empire of the tariffs which have sucteded each other for the last 15U years:— " According to the tariff of 1673, it would have cost 25c. 99 ff 1703 9,50 e. ff • f f , 1759 ,s 70c. 11l 91 . 1791 ~ 75c. 9, , ft yea IV. tf 90e. f f „ year V. ft 75c. ft „ year VIII. ft If. - ff If 1827 99 lf. 2c. Does not this s i m pl e comparison relieve us from th e task of dwelling longer on the necessity of reducing a postage heavier not only thin the tariff of the absolute Gov, rnmeuts, but even than all those hitherto imposed on as ?" Intelligence has been received from the Island of Bourbon up to the 231 February. The financial crisis had become aggravated, in consevence of the bad weather, which had continued 35 days with out interruption, had compromised the sugar canes, and completely destroyed the plantations of vivrieres. There was an absolute want of specie; the sums paid cut by the Treasury to the garrison were imme diately conveyed to India or the Archipelago for the acquisition of rice and cattle. In consequence of the.rains, which had caused the rivers to overflow, ruined cultivation, and interrupted all communications for several thy*, the colony suffered most severely from the want of provisions. This deplorable state of things may be ascribed to many causes, but es- pecially to the interruption of commercial relations with Madagascar. Formerly the great portion of rice and cattle required by the colony were ob tained from that island by means of exchanges, but at present they have to be procured from India, where they hive to be paid for in money. The Colonial Council, which had been prorogued on ac count of the violence of its discussions, had resumed its sittings. The Government had submitted to it several drafts of decrees destined to assure the execution of the law of July, 1845, but the party of re sistance seemed disposed to re,,ect that absolutely. The question of delegation was expected to receive a solutim in the course of the month of March, but on that matter, as on all others, the Colonial Council was divided, without there being any hope that the two parties would accept any means of conciliation. M. GANNERON, the banker; died on Monday. A letter from Toulon, of the 20th, says " There is at this moment a great bustle in our road stead, s the squadron under the command of the Prince de Joinville is taking in its stores; Iva' orders have been given for it to he reai'y to sail by the 231 inst., but is not supposed that it will he ready before the end of the month. It is reported here that the squa , iron is to pro ceed to the Lk.vant, but this report stands in need of confirmation. By an ord , r or the Minister of War, thirty Arab prisoner. who are here have just be, n set at liberty." The Three per Cenfs, closed on the Paris Bourse on Mon day at 78f. 10c.; the Five per Cents., I 15f. 95c.; the Or leans Railroad Shares, 1,233 f. 75e. ; Rouen, 947 f, 50c.; Havre, 641 f. 25c. ; Great Northern, 600 f. ; Avignon, 725 f. ; Vierzon, 582 f. 50c.; Bordeaux, 507 E 50e.; Boulogne, 405 f.; Bamle ' ; w 187 f. 50c. Dieppe, 323 L 7.'.; Paris and Strasburg, 427 t. 50c. ; Tours and Nantes, 410 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 436 E 25e. ; Lyons anti Avignon, 4501. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 451 f. 25c.; Belgian Two-and-a-Half per Cents.. 53 1 5 2 . AIAY 20.-Marseilles and Avignon, 712 f. 50c.; Northern, 593 f. 75e. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 25. Northern of France, 11%-Paris and Lyons, .54-Paris and Orleans, 46-Paris and Rouen, 36 1 4-Paris and Stras bourg, 11/2. Bank Stock •• •• •• •• 189 Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities • • 8 I A% Three IN r Cent. Consuls Annuities .. • • b 7 4 % .New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anns. 87 %% 88 87% Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5. 1860 •• Pi, 9 India hoists, 1,000/. • • .. .. Ditto, under 1,0001. .. 3 dis 2 p Censols for May 27 .. • • • • •• •• 87 tq3 9 Exel.equer Bills. I%d. 2d. 2 p par 5001. •• •• •• 4 1 1) Ditto. Small G 3 p . PRICES OF FOBEIO4R.VI7NnSt. A.T ONE O'CLOCK. Buenos - Ayres Binuip, 6 per Cent... 37% Mexicali, 1816, h per Cent .. • • kOti Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent. • • Ditto, Four per Cent .. .• .. Ditto, for the Account .. • • 33 1 4 Spanisl. Bonds, 5 per cwilt. .• .• '22 DI ttv, Three per Cent .. • • • 33 3 4 Dividends on tile above payable In London. Dutch Two-and.a-liall per Cents. 584 HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—The Queen and his R 'Jill Highness Prins, . Aibert, accompanied by her Royal Highness the Duchess or Kent and his Serene Highness the Prince of Doiningen, and attended by the Viscountess Canning, Lady Augusta Bruce, the Hon. Miss Stanley, the Marquis of o:•tettntle, the Hon. Cap, taiu Gordon, and Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, harrowed her Mojesty 's Theatre 3 estsrday evening with thi it pre , ence. 11cr Majesty the Queen Dowager, accompani e d by their Serene I lighiresses the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess ot Saxe Weimar, and attended by the Marchiorn ss of Ornionde, Earl Howe, the Baron Tezitz .r, L.. Comte de Buear, and the Hon. Captain Somerset, was also present. His Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Cunt rittine, accom parried by his Excellency the Russian Minister, also honoured the t h eatre with his presence. His Imperial Highness's suite tch, and the Hon. Colonel Grey. comprised Admiral Dirke, Baron Friedri c k s , - 2". H aurows His Roy a l Hi ghness the Duke of Cambridge was also present. W e also noticed the Duke of Wellington and Marchioness of Douro, Prince Louis Napoleon and suite, the Duke of Leeds, the Duke and Duchess of Montrose, the Duke de Palmella, the Duchess of Suther land, the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, the Baroness Brunnow and Mademoiselle Olga rie Lechner, the Mar quis and Marchioness of Clanricarde aild Miss de Bergh, the Marquis and Marchioness ot Nrarmanby, the Marquis o f Il untley, the Marchioness of Blandford, the Marquis of Kildare, th e Atarquis and :marchioness of Ailsa, the E ar l of Falmouth, the Earl ot Lonsdale, the Earl ot C ar di gan, the t'ountess ot Cardigan. the Ear l of Minister, the E ar l of Bective, Earl Grenville, his Excel lency the H anoverian Minister, the Countf.sa o f Shan non, Viscount C an . erbury, Vi-count Clifden. Lord Blantyre, L or d and LAY Charles Wellesley, Lord, Lady. and Miss Fit zroy Somerset, Lord' Elphinstone , L ord Camoys, Lady Colborne, Lady Byria,, Lady Augusta Baring, Lady Hume C amp b e ll . M . d e B org , L a dy Cour lotte Denison, enison, L a d y Grant, Lady G. S l mour, Lords G. and 0. Fi tzgerald, Mr. and Lady Sandford, Sir Wil liam and L a d y Fremantle, Sir F. and Lady Roe, the Lord Mayor and Lady Carroll, General and Lady Palmer, 6ir H. Dundss, Sir Ralph and Lady Howard, Sir John M ac k enzie, Sir Felik Booth, Sir Thomas Hare,Sir R. Vivhat9 Mr. H u b ert d e B u h, Mr. Mountjoy rg Martin, M P., and-M rs. Martin, Hon. Mr. Lawless, Mr , Parke, M.P., Hum General Upton, Mr..hiiintagne Gore, M.P., the A ttorn y- General. Major BuCk ßuckley,Civtain the Hon. J. Macdonald, (w ow I , Vildnian, Hun. G. Byng. M. C. D e Catudriaff.k Sir W. .A. Stanley , Sir R. Gordon, th e Count .de max, &c. Revel, Hun. St. John Mild- BUSINESS DOSE • N RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE. %rnber., Notting., Boston, & Eastrn Jn. 2% 1 .. • • to Birmingham mai Oxford Junction .. 10 .. •• 16 • • to Caledonian .. • • •. 35 23% •• • • to Chester and Holyhead .. • • .. 27% l9 .. to Eastern Counties •-• • • •• 20 .• •• 18% to 19 Do., Perpetual,s per Ct. No. 1, 61. 13s. 4d p.. to Edinburgh and Glasgow .. 50 „„ t o Ditto, Quarter Shares .. • • 12% 1 6 34 .. •.to Ely and Huntingdon • .• • • 15 .. • • 15!-h •••• to 15 Great Northern .. • • • • ... •• • • 2 1 4 .... to 2 Great Western • • •• •• • • .. 85 . 109 .... to Ditto. Half Shares •. • • • • 50 .. • • 63 .. • • to Ditto, Quarter Shares .. • • • • 12% 15N ... •to Ditto. Fitt ha .. • • •. 20 .. Ditto. New .. •• •• .. .... 7 % .... to Hull and Selby .• .. • • .. •• 50 • • .•163 .. ••to Leeds and Bradford .. .. 40 .... 8434 .... to London and BlacKwall .. 161. 13s. 4d. •• • • 734 •• .. to London, Brighton, and South Coast 50 • • 51% .... to 52 Ditto, Consolidated Eighths • • •• 10 .• 1134 to 12 London and Greenwich • • 121. 15s. 4d. .. • • 9% .... to London and North-Western.. • • .. 100 . • .17 i ••.. to .172 Ditto, Quarters .. .. L. and B. 7 .. •• 21% Ditto ditto New • • .. • 2 .... 11%.... to Ditto. Fifths " • • •• 2 .• IS .... to —• Ditto, 401. Shan s • • M. and B. .. 40 .... 604 .. • to Lon.;on and South-Western 411.6.,. Bid. •... 61% •Ny .. to 62% Ditto, Tenths (Consolidated) • • • • 50 •• 51 .. • • to Ditto, Scrip .. • • • • •• • • 5 •• • • 44 .. • • to Lynn and Ely .. •• .. 25 .... 26% .... to Lynn and D.:reliam •• •• • • 20 . 20% ...• to MATICIIC , IfT and Leeds .. • •• 82 .• •• 98 •• to Ditto, Half Shares • . .. • • • • 39 .. • . 45 .. • • to Intto. Quarter Snares • • .. .. 12 .... 14 .... to Ditto, Firths • . .. • • . 5 ...„ 814 to . Ditto, Thirds (Reg.) .. ..71. 45..... 3 ,4% dis. to Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock . 425. .... yy dis... to Midland •• •• •• •• •• ••100 .....115 .... to Ditto. New .. .. 36 .... 39 .. •• to Ditto, Consol. Bristol & Birmingh. New6capsetrieccaiiiitd. Berwick . 1 ..10 2 0 0 7. 12 2 4 514 t t o . 2 1244 : Ditto, New • Norrolk • • .. • • .. .. 100 . 1'26 .... to Northern Counties Union • • • . .. 4 .... 34 .. ••to • North British •. 25 to Ditto. Half Shares 12%.... 14% •• • • to Ditto, Thirds •• • • .. • • 1 2 1 4 •• •• to— Northern and Eastern .. .. •• 50 .• • • 5a% .• to North stattordshire •• • • •• • • 7% .. • • 934 14 3 8 to Preston andWyre • • -. • • 25 ., .... 35 54 .. to .. By, .... 12 ti ••".. to Ditto, Hair hares (A) Shropbture Union .. .. • • 4 •• .. 2 1 4 to _ iota!' Eastern and Dover .. • • 331.28.4 d. 35% •• .• to 36 Ditto, Nev (iss. at 321.) No. 1 .20 . . 20%.... to Ditto. New (do. 331. Gs. Bd.) No. I— 12 .. • 11 •• . to Ditto, New (do. 30 .) No. 3 .. .. 15 .•• to Ditto, New (do. 151.) No. 4 .. • 5 4h, South Wales .. •• •• •• 10 •• •• 7 .... to West Riding Union .. • • —41.25....• t 4 dls.• to Windsor, Staines, and South-Western 425..... p..to York an Newcastle .. •• . .. 25 ...• •• to Ditto, New .. •• • •• •• 10 .• 11 1 A to 14 1 4 Ditto, Preference • • • • •• .• 4 6% jg to York Mid North Midland •• .• 50 82 .... to Ditto, Extension •• .• . t 25 .• •. 40 .. ••to FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens .• .• .. 20 .• • • 1114... to Namur and Liege •• .• • • • 10 .• • • 3% • • to Northern or France .. .. • • 8 •• • • 11% )..• to ... Paris and Lyons I iTns OAK HAS WoN.—When the ash-tree opens its lest' before the calc, a wet surniuer usually hAlows: and when the oak•trEe open s its leaf before the ash, a dry summer usually The oak, is first this year. vri,farA Lox &press. JOINT. , TOOK BANKS. London and Westminster .. .. 20 •• •• 26k •• .. to -• . ),.:yi _lt vi, ,0 ,,0ui . 4 ' if • ),‘—'l, ~..,...- - 4 - A 7. - -auk -‘,.. 04.. --, IFF- .4:41.11.0 , • AY , , N ;';','‘...*:** l - 41\, ,74: er. N ioS „,,... - , itorr ' 1 , - 1 ;-• ... „ t,, , .•' - ' , .. .... 1, ,-- lii • SECOND EDITION. 0/11eniniT •=4 LONDON. WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 184 All undeserved imputations, however, have been removed from the character of Lord DUNDONALD, and his name is virtually declared to be as untar nished as any upon the book of Peerage. What is particularly worthy of consideration, too, in the act of the SOVEREIGN, and of her MAJESTY'S Ministers, is that the Earl of DIINDONALD is restored to the original lustre of his position, and is re-invested with the star and ribbon during a period of maritime tranquillity, when no sentiments save those of abatract truth, uninfluenced by the motives of convenience, could have elicited the acknowledgment of his wrongs and the satisfaction fur so many indig nities. Lord DUNDOINALD may now rejoice in the glory with which his own genius and valour have adorned his history ; he !nay rejoice not merely in ' the certain admiration of posterity, but in the present and cordial admiration of his contemporaries. Ilis brilliant carver has been nobly consummated by the complete vindication of his actions, and by his double investiture, aisit,:wrffe, with the emblems of national gratitude.,: , ,lwibe, conduct of the present Cabinet he may have a foretaste of the applause which will be given to the piethury of his heroic life by future generations.. At this season of general deficiency and scarcity, when thousands of our countrymen are unable to pro cure a sufficiency of even the humblest and plainest description of food for their fatuities ; when trade is paral3sed, and the immense quan ities of gold (the only circulating medium whiCA . the absurd restric trions imposed on our currency by the several sta tutes relating to banking allows us,) is daily exported from our shores in exchange for tt'e cereal products of other lands, it becomes the most serious duty of the Legislature to restrain, by binding ani stringent enactments, every description of waste whereby the food of the people is diminished, and the exigencies of the nation increased ; and also to suspend or abrogate every existing law that may possibly lead to similar results. Many of the most exalted in our land have' taken the initiation in placing their own households on limited allowances. Our gracious SOVEREIGN, ever foremost in the cause of humanity, has set the example. The order has been issued that the quantity and the quality of the bread and flour used in the palaces shall be reduced— that no individual shall be permitted to receive more than a pound of bread in the day, and that second qualit% flour only shall bEios.ed for any purpose in the royal establkhments. The precedent thus set, has, as might easily be imagined, been extensively followed. It is looked on as a religious slut by every head of a family to abolish all useless an e cesary expendi- ' ture in his own imm e di a t e c i rc l e , to a b ri d ge, as much 1 1; 10 as possible, the outlay, even for necessaries. It is by such means only that the difficulties of our position can be successfully encountered, that the most heart rending misery and suffering can be averted from our poorer brethren. .There is not a sufficiency for all, and unless the wealthier will consent to curtail a por .tiott of the consumption usual in ordinary periods, some 'fcriUSt; be left withvkut enough to keep life and soul together. While such economy is - renaerea necessary, it would indeed be a mockery to continue a sys tem that occasions the greatest injury to the growing crops, a system that damps the energy and checks the spirit of the farmer. Too often he finds on the arrival of the anxiously-expected harvest the fallacy of the hopes in which he had indulged; in place of obtaining an ample return for the labour and capital he has expended in the cultivation of the soil, he finds the chief portion consumed and destroyed by a s• . iperabundance of game and vermin, which he dares not get rid of. No; they must be retained for his landlord's sport, and to his cost he finds that sport invokes him in utter ruin. effects sn o f etshtiismeaxtterafo rmed of g th a e me i , nj an ur d io th u e s may ordina b r e y q u antity damage thereby occasioned, from the case of THOMAS FREDERICKS, which was heard in the Court of Queen's Bench on Saturday last. Into the legal points connected with that case it is wholly unneces sary to enter. The simple fact that a jury assessed no less than 343/. 19... for the damage done in two years by game and rabbits to the lands in the cccupation of the plaintiff's tenants, or 160/.125. in th e public indignation, an d to 183 '. is. damage first, and 1831 . 7s, in tho end y ear, is amply sufficient t o aw ,k_, the direct attention to the monster grievance in one year to a few farmers, in a moderate sized manor ! What must be the amount of injury throughout the kingdom in general, what would he a fa ir per tentage at which t o est i mate the annual damage don e muchacre might it be assumed ? crops, or at how per. 123eie l y b e §O6 dowil a ;4. . g.the average loss bIIo u 1 4 From our heart we congratulate the Earl of DUN DONALD on the compensation which he has received, for thirty years' injustice, by his restoration to knight hood. A paragraph in the Ga:ette of last evening formally announces that Vice-Admiral the Earl of DUNDONALD is once again a Knight Grand Cross of the 3lost Honourable Order of the Bath. By that declaration the present Government at once acknow ledges that a heinous cruelty has been perpetrates towards this heroic sailor by the preceding Adminis trations, and proclaims to the world that the character of our distinguished countryman remains unsullied and unsuspected. Again we express our most ear nest felicitations to Lord DUNDONALD for the tardy but brilliant expiation of Ministerial injustice with which .her MAJESTY'S existing advisers have striven to compensate his prolonged sorrows. May the satisfaction experienced by this Noble and Gallant Peer at an avowal so imperatively demanded by truth obliterate the recollection of the wrongs and contumelies with which he has been for years insulted ! May he find in the contentment and serenity flowing from an expression of national con trition like this, an enjoyment immeasurably beyond the sufferings entailed upon him by more than a quarter of a century of national ingratitude ! History would have done ample justice to this eminent and valorous man, had the State continued blind to his merits and indifferent to his services. Nay, history has already done him the justice he de s,rves. The name of COCHRANE ranks among those of the noblest heroes in the British navy, and is invested with h glory only second to that of the greatest warrior of the sea. In the records of our naval actions none are more conspi cuous for calmness almost incredible, fo; audacity almost insane, fur enterprise the most continual and the most chivalrous, than the achievements per formed in the war vessels of England by the Earl of DUNDONALD, when Lord COCHRANE. Those achieve merits might surely have sheltered this valiant servant of the Crown from the odium of professional degrada tion and the miseries of Ministerial neglect. The prowess by which he had so repeatedly maintained the dignity of the realm, forwarded the interests of his compatriots, and covered himself with perpetual glory, might surely have saved him from thirty years of anxiety, of official contempt, and of apparent public debasement. But no ; that anxiety has been experienced, that contempt has been borne, that ap parent debasement has continued during thirty years, and only after passing te.cathed through this terrible ordeal is the sin of the State confessed, and the victim of its persecution restored to the knight hood he had won at the point of his keen sword ! Why, Koscrusxo might as w2ll have been branded as infamous by the refugees of Poland, or DUGUES CLIN have had his baton as Constable of France broken ignominiously over his head ! Why, BouVAR might with equal reason have been scouted from the shores of South America, or the golden spurs might as lief have been hacked from the heels of fir PHILIP SYDNEY ! DI 111 ES ✓ Real del Monte, Unregistered .. • • • . •• • to COURSE OF EXCHANGE. Amsterdam ...... C.F. 12 8 (libraltar „„ „ ...„ Ditto, at sight • • .... 12 5 Leghorn ........ ••• • • 30 80 Rotterdam 2U. 12 8% . .lenoa .. Antwerp • ............. 26 3u Slilan ..... .•.• • • • ___ Haniburgh 31.8. 13 15 Venice, ...... . .. ..... Al tone • • • • Naples .. .. ••• .. 39 3 d Paris, 3 days' sight .. •• 25 90 Palermo, pe r 11 9 .............. 26 30 Lisbon,. •• • • Marseilles •••• • • • 26 40 , )purto • ;1;1 80urdeaux......... .. 26 35 itio Janeiro " 26 Frankfort on Maine.... 12dh Itahia •• Petersburgh, 3 ituenos Ayres .. •• • • Berlin • • ...... •• • • N ew Y ork, 21 days'si•ht -- Vienna, etTec. lio • • 10 IS iPhiladelphiag ... Jt frieste, ditto.... •• • . 10 15 PRICL Mad tid • . 4611 Foreign Gold in bars...£3 1S OF BULLIO N, PL OZ. 7 9 New Dollars 0 4 9% e a diz .. •.. : 47% Bilbao.. spanish lioubloons .. 0 0 0 Silver in tars 0 4 11% LLOYD'S SHIPPIN(r—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, MAY 26.—Wind S., light breezo, and fine clear weathDr. DEAL, MAY 25.—Wind S.W., fresh ;10 P.M W.S.W., light breeze.—Sld. Blend, Batavia; John Brown, Porto Rico. Arrd. from the River the Agricola, Calcutta; Boreas, St. Croix. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 25.—Wind W.S.W.—Off port, Owen Gie,dower, Robertson, Bombay, which passed the Mary and Ellen, of Cardigan, abandoned with eight teet of water in her hold, on thu 20th instant. FALMOUTH, MAY 25.—Wind W.S.W.—SId. Pheno -1 meene, New York. LIVERPOOL, MAY 25.-.. Wind W.S.W. to W.N.W., fresh.—Arrd. Brilliant, Cowan, Mauritus; Star, Thomp ion, Rio Janeiro; Undaunted Brown, Philadelphia; Co lumbia, Furber, N ew York,std. Ist in s tant. The Ash , land, Williams, hence to New ?kirk, went rat shore on Long Island 29th ult., and remained, making water, in an easy ,position ; - assistance had been sent from New York. CLYDE, MAY 24.—Wind S.—Arrd. Ganymede, Joy, Jamaica. Sid. Victory, Calcutta ; Francis, St. Kitts ; Ann Campbell, Halifax. DUBLIN, MAY 24.—Wind E. ; PM. S.W.—Arrd. Venus, Soal, Philadelphia ; Claremont, Fleming, New Orleans ; Ella Cesander, New ,York. Bld. Friendship, Quebec. ADE RDEEN. ;4,..Wiud S.W.-.511 Mary, kips, CORE, MAY 23.—Wind S.W., strong.—Acrd. En chantress, Eliis, New York. WATEIiFORD, MAY. 24.—Wind S. to W.S.W.—Arrd. Beaver, Lam son,Porto Rico. KINGSTOWN, MAY 24.—Wind S.W.— Atrd. Glide, M‘Lloyd, Boston. LEITII, MAY 24.—Wind N.—Acrd. Fadrene3minde, llyorth, Demerara. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE-WEDNESDAY During the present week the arrivals of English Wheat fur our market have been to a fair extent. To-day the show of samples of that grain was by no means large ; yet, owing to the prevailing fine weather, the demand for all deicriptions was in a very siuggish state, and Mon day's reduced figures wcre wiih difficulty supported. Upwards of 8,000 quarters of foreign Wheat have come to hand since Saturday evening. As usual, large parcels were pressing ha' sale, the trade was heavy, at a dccine of fully Is per quarter. The show of Bailey was moderate, while the trade was heavy, at barely late rates. Eleeedingly little hu,iness was passing in Malt, the vJue of which grain inid a downward tendency. Oats, Beans, Peas, Indian Corn, land Flour, might have been purchased on somewhat easir ARRI VAL& Wheat. 1 itarioy. Oats I F10w. 2,940 qrs. 1,110 qrs . 320 qrs.! 4,660 sks ---- I ---- 610 I -- 8,700 3,•i70 11,W) I -- Malt. 4.620 are. larlf MEC IiAP.E L. A fair average supply o f Meat was on sale here; generally spoiking, the demand was in a sluggish state, at barely stationary prices. He* f. rrom 3.,i 6d to 4 , 6 d, Mutton, 4s 4d to 5, 6 , 1; Lamb, 68 to 6i 10d; Veal, 4. 6,1 to 5s 6d; and Polk, 4a 4d to 56 4d per Blbs, by the carcase. Enitlish Irish. ........ Foreign ...... ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) The Court was occupied all the day with the argu ments in a part heard cause, which did not possess a particle of general interest. VICE-CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Vice-Chancellor Sir J. WIGRAM.) TENNANT V. TENNANT. leis HONOUR delivered jitd4 , lnent in this case, which was as follows:—The testator devised the rents of his whole estate in Swansea to his w i . e for life, with a resi duary bequest to certain trust, es, order to accumulate a fund for certain purposes. and • the point at issue was, whether the rents of the whole estate passed to the wife? As the whole question turned upon the exact words of the will, ii is necessary to set them forth ; they were as follow: , . The testator having first bequeathed the whole of the rents of his estate to his wife for lite, then pro ceeds to bequeath various sums to his ri halves and friends upon her death. and concludes with these words:—“ And as to the remilue of my real and personal estate, not otherwise disposed of by this my will, I give the same to my said truAtees, upon trust that they, and the survivors of them, and the heirs, executers, and administrators of, such survivor, do and shall place out the same at interest in some of the Parliamentary stocks or funds of Great Britain. or in or upon real securities in England, Scotland, or Wales, at interest, and do and shall in the mean time, until the said residue shall become payable, vary, alter, and transfer the same for other stock, funds, and securities, so as to cause the same to accumulate in the nature of compound interest." His Honour decided that the wife was entitled to hold the rents of the whole estate for her life, and that they passed by the will. QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings iu Banco, before Lord Chief Justice DENMAN, RUSSELL v. SMITH. Mr. WATSON, Q.C., applied for a rule to set aside the verdict in this case, which had been given for the plain tiff, with a penalty of 40a., for an infringement of the copyright of a song called the " Ship on Fire." The Learned Counsel stated at some length, that the case had been tried at Guildhall, and a verdict for the plain tiff given. He now moved to set aside that verdict, on the ground that it had been given under an erro neous construction of the Act 3d and 4th William IV. It was provided by that Act, that an in fringement of a musical copyright should be con stituted by its being sung at any opera or play of drama tic entertainment. It had been given in evidence that the song had been sung at a place called Crosby-hall, a place of public resort, and that place had been considered by the jury to be one of dramatic entertainment. He now contended that this hall neither came under the de scription of opera nor place of dramatic entertainment, and that the song was not of that description which was protected by the Copyright Act as an opera or musical composition, as stated in the Act, as it was not set to any particular musical air. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE—Then you are compelled to argue that the important branch of musical composi sition, the Oratorio, is not protected by the Copyright Act. The Court will consid,r of the application. BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco, Irion• itiir. Juatier WIGHTMAN, THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD v. TARLPTuN. Mr. CowLEY moven, on behalf of the defendant, for a rule nisi, to amend a feigned issue, put forward by the plaintiff', in regard to all that it contained relating to the village of Towcester. The question in these pro ceedings arose out of the Tithe Commutation Act. In the rie - arage was a parish Grilled Handleigh, and the University Coi:ege of Oxford were landowi.ers in that parish, the titles of which were in the course of com mutation. It was coi.tehded iliat the tithes to he paid from Ilranileigh were only un corn, grain, hay, lambs' wool, and wood, all other produce being exempt. The &Heretic, of opinion which arose with re,pect to the pr.eiuce upon w.nch tithe was to be paid caused the matter to be referred to the fiche C.-m -inis,ioner, who decided that tile land wa , exempt from the payment of all tithe, • xeept upon corn, grain, hay, lambs' wool, and wood, and that these tithes were pay able to the vicar nnly. Upon this decision an action had been brought, and a_ feigned issue set forth, which he, sought leave to amend. '1 he question at issue was not whether the tithe was to be pld to the vicar alone, but whether the I.nd itself was sub „Vct to tithe at all. . was the only question which could be raised, as the feigned issue wikh regard to the pa)ment to the lector only, left, the real case just as it was. Leave had been given in a case called Elwards and Bunbury, third vol. Queen's Bench Reports, p. 885. He had before cited that case, and Mr. Justice Coleridge had ord.Ted ad further proceed ingr in the present case to be stayed until the tour:h day in this term. lie now moved fur this leave, in order that the case might ne brought before the full Court. Application granted. REGINA V. THE JUSTICES OF MIDDLESEX. The rule in this case, Whic;i was mane I.l3solute yes terday, was, on the a:plicatioti of the Court, I ecalled, in order that the case mi 6 lit be brought on and argued be fore the full Court. CLARKE V. WELLS. Mr. WOOLLETT applied fur a rule nisi fir an attach ment against Mr. Wells, au attorney, and Wright, his clerk, tor disobedience to an order ot Mr. Jus:ice Erle, to deliver up certain papers, v , hich order Lati 1.1011 wade a rule of court. The rule had been served personally upon Weds and his clerk, and the) had refused to de liver up the papers. It appeared trom the affidavits that much difficulty was apprehended in the seiviee of the attiiehment, as it had been found next to impossible to serve hint with the rule of court. The person who had served him had called several times, ant had only served him by meeting him in the street, an.ipur,uing when he ran away. lie paid the costs ordert-d by th. Master, but rctused to obey the rule.—.llwe nisi g‘lintett The court afterwards sat at nisi pritv, but no case of any nnportAnce occurred. COMMON PLEAS.--(THIS - DAY.) (Before the Lunn ('lrli F JUSTICH in Bitlieu.) 31ARFLLET v. LEIFetIILI). Mr. JONES (wan whom was Mr. Peacock) apps ared to oppOse a demurrer to the judgment io this case. The plaintiff had bought air estate or the defendant, with all undertaking that an abstract of title should be turuish,d, but that the inquiry should nht go further back than a certain deed bearing d After paying the !nice the plaintiff discovered that the title was bA. An action was brought - , and a ver Act entered against him ; but he sought reparation on the groan . of there having been a breach , of the conditions of sale. It was argued by Mr. Peacock that 'here had bon an abstract deliver( d accordit g to the terms of the con ditions, and that it there nail been a bread] at all it had not been property alleged in the eleclaration, and that therefore trie plaintiff was not d to any relief. In supp..krt of his view of the cas.r he cited Sin ,rt v. II) ' where a horse Lad been sold with a warranty, and this the plaintiff alleged had invalidated the bar gain. But on the trial it appeared that no notice of unsoundness had been given, as was by law required, before twelve o'clock of the ria) after that on which the bale was effected. The allogadan, thereiore, was tuad missable, as the plea amounzed to non assumpsit, and the rule ought to be redised. In answer to that it was held, that the cuediti( ns of sal• had created a collateral contract, and the case of "Park- r v. Palithir" was ci, ed to show that such was the fact. It, that case the plsintiff had agreed to sed a quaittit) of rice, w hich, aecordin,, to the rules of the Ett-t. India Company, must be sold by sample. The rice when produced, was unrqual to the sample, and the defendant, on the taut pteaued non assumpsit. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE inquired whether that ap peared oil the face of the contrac•, for he remKnbert ti a case reported by Campbell, in which an action had been brought on a contract to which there was a subsidiary agreement. But that subsidiary agreement had Lot appeared on the face of the declaration, and the plaintiff was constrquently nonsuited. Mr. PEAcocs, said that the applicant in this case had requited that, to be done which the defendant had never 'promised to do, and if the abstract was to be consul:Tcd at all it would constitute a veation of hew on which the Judges alane would have to decide. It' the defendant had not delivered the deed of convey ante from Mr. Bosanquet to. lr. Marfleet. which carried Lbe estate in 1643, he would have tailed in that to fulal his en gagezients, but he had done so, and had therefore per formed all that was required of hiZn, and no rule nisi ought to be granted. The LORD CHIEF BARON said that he was of opinion that there must be judgment for the plairtiff, as the plea was a bad plea. The condition alleged in the contract stated that 'he defendant had the power to sdtealtievdertahagtoutdhefrdeeetlddantittleh.miTonnel plea denied tis and -o • ed to give certain abstract, though not the it.yusfr:tiosf good title, but if this denial was to b e effective at all it must be in proper and direct terms, and not circuitous and argu mentative. The plea was therefore bad, for no cases 441nolivitedorcQuld bo cited, usiliwt,ol4-goa" ru!e of the Courts, and there ought, consequently, to be judgment for the plaintiff. The ot . ,er Learned Judges coinciding in this opinion, the verdict was ordered to be rotA,t;.reti accordingly. COURT OF RE VIE W.—(THISDAY His Honour Vief , Chancellor Knight Bruce sat this morning as Chief Judge in Bankruptcy, but nothing of public interest wtts brought.before the Court. SECONDARIES.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Secondary POTTER.) LOCKE V. CAUFER.-CURIOUS CABE OF ALLEGED FAL' SIFIC VTION OF VOUCHERS. The plaintiff in this action is a brickmaker and mer chant, and defendant a builder, &c., at New-cras s ' Deptferd. The action was brought to recover th e sus ; of 11/ 55., the balance of an account for goods sold sea delivered. and pleaded The defendant paid 31. 12s. into Court, nil d- bit as to the remainder. Mr. Sadgrove, solicitor for the plaintiff, called TbO. son, a clerk to the plaintiff, who stated the account:br"e tween the plaintiff and.defendant, and that the WS was due. Mr. MILLER, who appeared as counsel for the defend' ant, produced a book and cross-examined the whiles! 61 to an entry in the defendant's book of a sum of W i • received. The witness distinctly swore that ke received 101. on the-day in question ; that a lthough signature appeared on the book, the figures and Wail; writing of the amount in full were not in his hand writinc. He generally s i gne d the books. The figures had been altered from 10 to 20; the writing had been ulterd. Mr. MILLER, for the defendant, c oncluded the he Altera: tion of tau to twe n ty h a d b e en occas ioned by t it ._o ness pressing ter a large sum on account. This be ( In , Learned Counsel) would rove in evidence. Tbere (was to call no alteration in the written part, and he begged the attention of the jury to the tact that sums of twg were written at full length in cheques and on, bile to check the figures ; in this case the figures had be . .. first put in as ten but altered to twenty, at which spa* I' was tilted up in writing. A juror said th a t h e th o ught with the witness the the writing had been altered—that the figures had was evident. in that Mr. MILLER sa id h e cou ld no t see the case d light ; the alt erat i on e t t h e 10 t o 20 m i g ht be accounte d tor, but in the writing it was i m p ossi bl e to alter lead eat() to .‘ twenty" w ithout -.uch visible difference es ° de teett,,n ; where suspicion was raised by other c a l eurastancvs, if !mud had been contemplated a t he chelakr for process would hav e di scnarge d the ink, and if words" wily not for the "fig ures ?" then, as ° lie . nature was admitted, an end would have been p ut W Lb claim. The tact w as , th e w i tness l ove d his gista id make mistakes occasionally, and had w ade a° l calculation. The witness said he h a d n eve r been charged wi thwithsuch neglect by hi s master , and there was no foundati fur it exc e pt in th e b r i e f o f the Learned Cu'ue sel bat Evidence was adduced to make out the defence , no t failed, but showed that the "book-keepieg " was :bat very accurate on th e s id e o f t h e defendant , AD ' such mistakes were likely to happen. The. jury found for the plaintiff. SURREY SESSIONS.—(THIS PA-"/ (Before TH031.40 ~ PUCKLE, Esq., and Beu e—h ° Henry Wil son , a young fellow well known Magistrates.) t o Fo° n the police, was conv i cte d o f p i c k ing p i : c kets at Epsom, . Derby day, and sentenced to ten years' transport/1"v le June Green, aged 30, was indicted for t elonio t t e stealing at Kingston-on-Thames, tqo pieces of property ofMeasrs. Shrubsoles, linen , draper, of that P 1.7; It appeared from th e ev id en ce, that on the eveningree' the 21st inst. the prisoner entered the shop, and quested to look at some silk. Several pieces were At, e her, but she ma d e no purchase, but lett the shop. FL, had not proceeded f a r before the two pieces of silk w i t: missed from the counter. One of the proseoutor e ,r, mediately pursued the prisoner, and while be was as her about the property, she dropped it on the W e i s i r s from under her dress. The two pieces of silk were produced, and identified by the prosecutor. a prisoner s aid that she did ?ill steal the silk, nor did she know how it c ame on PI pavement. The jury immediat e ly returned ver di c t of GI: and the Chairman s en t e n c ed the prisoner tn. six w on imprisonment. y _ DA ) MARLBRO'-STREET—. - c ri 41... 2d °ming ~ ls to-.-- David Griffiths, a private soldier, battalion of the Coldstreani Guards, Mums NQ. 4, bar charged with assaulting Mr. John W Westbourne-street, Hyde Park. The com I • stated that on the previous evening' waa—p.laced at the r! want about six - o'clock. he was proceeding t h ro ugh Ha.noleorr: square, wh e n hi s attent i on was called to the pri s on who appe a r e d t o b e qua rrelling with a female. After the watching them a s ,rt time he saw him strike woman: a yi.dent blow in the face. Complainant rent° • Strafed el h the defendant upon his cowardly. eondtlegi -when, without the least reply, he (defendant) turned round, struck him on the head, and kicked his lee Complainant then called for a police-constable and gave him in charge. Mr. William Taylor, 285, Regent-street, corroborated the evidence of complainant. The defendant, in answer to the charge, admitted striking the female, and said she was his wife, an d he 14 as only correcting her, wLen the gentleman an" interfer.d with him. H e d e ni e d assaulting came ulting:thl compaiwit. Nlr. Ilmouam said hr. was surprised that a man hice the defendant should so couttnit himself, and as he had no doubt that he bv,tild b punished elsewhere, he (Sfr• gingham) should only it fl et the moderate fine of 205.• or seven days' imprs-nufent in the House of Correction. CLERKENWELL.—(THIS DAY. John .1 ack.on, a caiman, in the r m ploy ot Mr. Spencer* carrier, 78. thiswell-strett, was charged with robbing his employer and the New Gas and Coke Cofer.* under the tollowing circumstances:— It appeared that Mr. Spencer had contracted with the Company for the p .rforicance of thdr carting work, in which the prisoner was e , nployed, and yesterday the latter went to the Company's works for the purpose of taking out twenty four sacks ot coke. In about two heitirs afterwards Mr. Spencer-saw his waggon and horses standing in Golden lane without any person attending to theta, when his suspicion was excit.ed, and he counted only twenty-three sacks. Orders had been sent for the removal of twenty-four by the company. soon afterwards came out of a court, The prisoner made, and as it was found th a t he had sold a bag of coke there, he was given into custody. The prisoner w-As fully fitted.cornni w hen inquiries were DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT lIIINGERFORD-MARKET:'" This morning, about twenty minutes past four' o'clock, a tire broke out in the house of Mr. Milligan, corn and hay merchan', Hoi!gerfOrd-market. It was first disco vered by the watchmen in the market, who instantly gave the alarm, and, having broken opt n the door of the star le, succeeded in rescuing Iwo valuable horses, which otherwise would have become a prey to the devouring element. Shortly afterwards the Chaiidos- street Brigade (;nt.giihnees ‘4, a , r e r s i t ve , i t , aEndgzenrde ianitinidi•(doaittenityytloltlrdoew.oedfficebysi;hanosde_ plentiful supply of water, a n d ho w g e a re waiting for sit to tmarket, and op a e n n u p En r b e e se r n o t f , already attained a. o fearfulw rk h o t ! i g t h h t e flames, Great which w t they were without di-lay of the adjoining pee Brotherton as an oil manufactory; wises, occupied by Mr. ft afs . were fur a considerable ebettabertaihned exertionsfor the of the fir* men. police, an a d r i e i h rh ou tb s i e t ' a e n e t u s j subdued until seven o'clock. The warehouseetuelyotifieeprrptfieerereo walls ruwitemisdbi .sec joftoriginat ed fined to Mr Milligan's w leftare totally destroyed, nding. It t supposednothi but th attthoetaho was and dt contentsenti rei from an overheated flue belorgi g boiling shell-fish by the salesmen in the market. The am ant of property destroyed cannot yet be ascertained. ROBBERY AND NARROW ESCAPE.—This day at noon, as Mr. Joseph Yardley, tin [lardy a captain in the army but now a city merchant, was proceeding down Chiswell-street, Finsbury, he felt a sudden tug at Ws, coat pucker, and saw a man dart .into the Paul's Beau gin shop, which is situate at the corner of Milton-st r eet Chiswell- treet. Without waiting to ascer tain whether be had been robbed or nut, and remembering that there was a side door, he rushed round :the corner into Milton-street, and was just in time to collar the thief who had opened the door for him, and had got his silk handkerchief in his possession. Mr. Yardley 011 fee ling his other coat pocket, however, found that his pocket-book, which eimtuined nearly 3001 which he hid just received, w as safe. I 1 had no doubt been watched and followed by the thitlf, who had by mistake picked the wrong pocket, and who, on being given into cos:ody was recognised as the notorious swell-mob-man "Bill K.efe." CELEBRATION OF HER MAJESTY'S BIRTHDAY."" GRAND SiILITARS Z^ FECTACLE IN T. JAMES'S YARN. —To-morrow (Thursday) being set apart for the cele bration of her Maj.-sty's birthd .y, there will, should the weather continue propitious, be a grand military jo - StilPeeCtlii iii llt e l ia iiii p th ro e g T ra il m t- m ya e rd i , ss S it t e . d Jap ri e nn s's rhtterkkaugoereeGabularcito. halt laA evening. The troops are to be on the ground at in full dress, and to wear gold sashes. The Queen's Past nine o'clock. Officers attending are to aPPear exclusive guard, comprising one hundred ran k and file, of sentries, will mount at Sr. James's Palace at a quarter after one. The band will attend. The troops, band, &c., having formed into line, will await the approach of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and his Grace the Conunsnder-in-Chief; who , i t is understood, will be ac companied by his Loyal Highness the Grand Duke Con stantine of Russia and the distinguished personages of his suite. On entering - they will be received by the military compliments due to their rank, after which the party will ri ,e round the line. The usual movements will - then follow. The Belgian Free-Trade Association has convoked at Brussels, for the 16th of September next, a meeting. of economists of all cow:tries, to discuss their respective *no ter,sts and views on the broad principles of free trade. The committee of tho Association ha d de p uted WPariS two of its members, Messrs. Curr-Vandermaeren, Judge of the Tribunal of Commerce of Brussels, and Leber:li de Beaulieu, a civil engineer , to invite the most eminent advocates of free trad in Paris to attend the Belgian Congress. The invitation had been already cheerfully accepted by the Duke d'Harcourt, and M. Anisson Dtt• perron, Peer of France ; Messrs. Lamartine and Leon Fanch-r. and other deputies ; M. Michel Chevalier, M. WOIOWESki, &c. BOXLEY, AILESTORD, AND BURHAM.—The hop bine in these parishes has grown amazingly during the past week; so much so, thst it is impossible to find sufliolent women to tie them. They are at prewar, poziecOy.,4o foal say laud of veragu. 7.7 of ti Pu c - I. CO th IC Co too hell Ire 4118 the (lire