The Sun. — London, England, 1840-03-07 00:00:00

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MR. BUTLER. THIS EVENING the Entertainments will commence with the LADIES' CLUB. Members—Mrs. Fitzmith (in the Chair), Mrs. Glover ; Mrs. Booklv, Miss Treble; Mrs. Twankay, Mrs. Garrick; Hon. Mrs. O. Cloudly, Miss Connor; Hon. Mrs. Derby, Miss Fitz waiter ; Mrs. Major Mortar, Miss M. A. Atkinson; Lady Harriet Smart, Mrs. Norton ; Mrs. Eliza Worrell, Miss Hawes. After which (a Sketch from " Boz "), entitled HORATIO SPARKINS. Mr. Horatio Sparkins, Mr. Wrench. To be followed by A FAMILIAR FRIEND. Mrs. Chattersley, Mrs. Glover. To conclude with a Musical Burletta, entitled FLORIAN. Florian, Mrs. Anderson. Boxes, 4s. Pit, 2s. Gallery, Is. HIGH WATIIR AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning 45 minutes after 4 I Evening 6 minutes after 5. EVENING EDITION. EXTRAORDINARY DEMAND! 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It is requested that Advertisements and Bills intended for insertion in this forthcoming Number of the Edinburgh Review be sent to the Publishers', on or before Monday, March 16. 39, Paternoster-row, March 7, 1840. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MADAME VEST RI& THIS EVENING, Mallen 7. Will be repeated the New Original Play in Mt; Acts, written by Leigh Hunt, Esq., to be A LEGEND OF FLORENCE. Francisco Agolanti. Mr. Moore; .Ar:tonio Rondinelli, Mr. Anderson ; Cesare Colonna, Mr. G. - gandenhoff ; Fulvio Da Riva, Mr. Bartley ; Giulio, Mrs, Waiter Lacy ; Ginevra, Miss Ellen Tree. After which will be produced a New Divertisement, entitled LES CHAMPS ELYSEES. The Characters by — Master W. Smith (pupil of Mr. Oscar Byrne), Miss Fairbrother, Miss Ryalls, Mrs. Gibson, Miss Kendal, Miss S. Kendal, Messes. C. J. Smyth, Ridgway, Gib son, &c. &c. To crinclude with MY NEICiHBOUR'S WIFE. Mr. Somerton. Mr. ''Cooper; Mr. Timothy Brown, Mr. Meadows ; Mr. Jonat}jan Smith, Mr. Bartley ; Mrs. Somer ton, Mrs. W. Lacy ; Mrs. Brown, Miss Lee. Dross Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d. ; First and Second Circles. ss. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, 2s._; Gallery, Is. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven e'Clock. Tickets anal plat ss for the Boxes to be taken at the Box-of ee. from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had sslely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 167, New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Novelty of extraordinary magnitude—New Historical Drama tic Legend, in three Epochas, depicting England in 1664, Baibadoes in 1665, 0:d London in 1166, with a representa tion of the Great Fire of London. THIS EVENING, MARCH 7. Will be acted, sth time, a Historical Dramatic Legend, called THE CITY APPRENTP:E ; or, THE THREE LILIES. Supported by the entire strength of the Company. After which, a Comeclietta, from the French, entitled FAMILY JA;ZS MENDED. • Bonhomme, Mr. Smith ; Chapinet, Mr. Saville ; Madame Bonhomme, Mr=. Daly ; Theresia, Miss Martin. To conclude with the Nautical Drama of BEN THE BOATSWAIN. Ben, Mr. Saville. 1111-1 V PIR._I:6NI ON, SATURDAY. MARC IT 7, v:446. . ~ ~.~,.. ~ ~=;~ 4.- tA-L-1- , ---., 'L`.~/.1 V ~• ~~ ~ ~ "~~ ! .._ . _ r= tit/ r ile gln* LONDON: SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1840. The 'Lords did nothing last night but listen to the prayrJrs of the people. They received petitions chiefly corxerning the Corn-laws and intrusion into the Kirk ; hread and religion, the most vulgar and the most ethereal of our appetites—the common aliment of every day life, and the last result of all human knowledge, were the widely contrasted, and yet proximate sub jects which their Lordships attended to. The bread question, touching their Lordships' pockets, was the occasion of a little talk. The Duke of BUCKINGHAM hoped the League would meet with the defeat it merits. We hope so, too ; and the result will be that the stoney lands of Berkshire will not be made the pretext for taking away the money of the poor to give it to the Duke of BUCKINGHAM. Lord FITZGERALD was of opinion that those who agitate for a repeal of the Corn. laws have overlooked Ireland. Indeedthey have not. The lumper-fed peasantry of a country which exports corn to pay absentee landlords' rents, is one of the darkest spots in Corn-law criminality. Lord FITZGERALD has a great regard to the present tenures of Ireland, and dreads lest they should be altered by the Corn-laws. He may have a great love for the power exercised by a BERESFORD and a LORTON of clearing their estates, but if he can find no other argument against the Anti- Corn-law League than that its success would alter the tenures of land in Ireland, he will encourage them to proceed, by promising them a double victory. What greater blessing could be conferred on Ireland, than to overthrow a tenure which makes the bulk of the Irish no better than slaves? The Lords put the Race-horse Bill through a Com mittee ; a labour, e presume, of love, for their Lord ships are all concerned more or less in racing. The Commons also paid much attention to the prayers of the people, who petitioned in favour of PaosT and h;s companions, for the release of the Sheriff, for the abolition of Ecclesiastical Courts, and Church-rates, against and for an alteration of the Corn-laws, for Church Extension, &c. &c. and for the release of Mr. VINCENT. The last petition said— •. That the confinement, close and rigorous, to which he has been subjected (so far surpassing in severity and de privation that which your Honourable House has thought fit to impose on Messrs. the Sheriffs Wheelton and Evans) has had a most prejudicial effect on his health, and your petitioner has just heard with the deepest grief and dismay, that the life of Henry Vincent is exposed to great danger, unless some means be immediately taken to re store him to health." But the law will take its course, however many lives it cuts dowo, while privilege, tinctured with humanity, releases those who may be endangered by its exercise. Sir. G. SINCLAIR announced his intention of moving, on the third reading, the rejection of the Irish Munici pal Bill. Lord JOHN RUSSELL stated, in answer to a question of Mr. HOPE, that the Budget would be brought for ward immediately after Easter. Mr. HuME complained of the absence for a year and-a-half from Upper Canada of the Chief Justice, and thought if he were not required there his salary should cease. Lord JOHN RUSSELL excused the absence of the Chief Justice by a death in his family. He is to return to Canada in the Spring. Sir JAMES GaAuAM implied that the Government had kept back some dispatches relative to the block ade of Canton, but Lord JOHN RUSSELL assured the Right Hon. Baronet that no official accounts had been withheld. There were private letters in the country from Captains ELLIOT and SmITH, but not official narratives. The debate on the Privilege Question was resumed by Mr. O'CostiELL,who objected to making the House of Lords the judge of the Commons privileges, a nd protested against the mode of proceeding proposed by Lord JouN RUSSELL. Sir WILLIAM FOLLETT pointed out the insufficiency of the means now at the command of the House to vindicate its own privileges, and gave his cordial sup port to Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S Bill. Mr. C. BULLER supported the Bill as a practical means of putting an entl to au unsegmly squabble with an obseen, bookseller. Mr. GISBORNE expected tbat they must legislate to secure all their privileges, if they adopted the Bill, and he would oppose it in every stage. Sir ROBERT PEEL vindicates! the House of Com mons for not having resorted to legi slation till they had tried other means. H e was now sati sfied that the powers of the House were incomplete. A great deal of time had already been wasted in discussion ; imp risonment had been tried and fail e d, an d b e gave his c ordial sup port to the Bill which avo id e d a (l i scussion tv, to the t privilege of the House. 1 Mr. kiumE was spiky to find the Right Ron Baronet a backslider, and meant to go forward himself and give his vote against the Bill. Colonel SIBTHORP would support any Bill that would release the Sheriff. Lord HOWICK complained that the Bill was not in troduced till alter the House had committed the She riffs. The concession should have been made before, and so the injuries the House had inflicted might have been avoided. The measure now was humiliating and degrading, and be would vote against it. The Noble Lord ascribed much of the opposition to the privilege to a hatred of the Reformed House. _ _ - Mr. MACAULAY supported the Bill, and said if it miscarried they wnuld be absolved. They had great powers, by which they might the ow the country into con fusion, amct it would redound to their credit that instead of using thse powers they had taken this mild means of securing the exercise of a necessary privilege. Lord MAHON, differing with great regret from his Right Hon. Friend Sir E. SUGDEN, meant to support the measure. Mr. BERNAL and Sir S. LUSHINGTON expressed determination to vote for the Bill. Mr. HOPE said, in voting with the minorities, he had not been actuated by any desire to lower, as said by Lord Howroc, the Re formed House of Commons. After Lord JOHN RUSSELL had made a long reply, in which he bore hard on his Learned Friend the SoLI. CITOR-GENERAL, tbD Rouse divided and leave to in troduce the Bill was given, by 203 to 54. Sir JAMES GR , VIAM'S motion to allow the Sheriff to go out on bail v.as next brought forward ; and the Right Hon. Barone' quoted some cases of persons formerly liberated on. bail, to juitify his proceeding. In the, course of the discussion which ensued, Mr. WAKT,Ev described the conduct of the House as most dast,ardly, in voting for the Bill, and he declared that the Sheriff ought to he Immediately released, and that ne would bring fomard a motion for the release of all the parties now in custody, STOCKDALE, HOWARD, and all, on the first opportunity. A good deal of personal crimination and recri mination, as to the course severally pursued by Noble Lords, Right Hon. and Hon. Gentlemen, such as usually takes place when a party is defeated and breaks up, enlivened the close of this now altoge ther farcical business. For that we must refer to our report. The matter was wound up thus—Lord JOHN RUSSELL suggested that letting the Sheriff out on bail might give rise to another dispute with the Courts, and he therefore advised that the Sheriff should be released on his entering into an engagement to appear again at the bar on the Gth o f April. To thi s Sir JAMES GRAHAM assented, and framed his motion accordingly, assigning as the reason for discharging the Sheriff the report of Dr. CHAMBERS on his health. Mr. HUME treated that report as a pretext, and moved that the preamble mentionin g it be omitted. On this question the House divided, and the words were retained by 124 to 47. The House again divided on the question of releasing the Sheriff, to attend again on April 6th, which was carried by 118 to 31. So the Sheriff is to be set at liberty for the present, to go in a triumphant proces sion, as Mr. Warburton said, to the House on a future day to be finally released. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL and the .111(wning Chronicle will surely break their hearts at such a lame and impotent conclusion to their fostered privilege quarrel. Mr. MORRISON, the Liberal candidate, has been returned for Inverness, the forerunner, we hope, of the return of Liberals for Perthshire, Helston, and Lewes. Though Mr. Molt EtisoN succeeds a gen tleman whose Parliamentary career, not splendid but useful, has met our approbation, we are glad to see him restored to the House of Commons. His extensive acquaintance with commerce in all its ramifications, will make him a most useful Member of Parliament. For his predecessor, Mr. M'LEOD, who is far better known to the public by his speeches on the hustings—which, under the peculiar circumstances of the times and the country in which they were delivered, were excellent—than by his speeches in Parliament, we have always felt consi derable respect ; and had his boldness in public in grappling with some popular errors, been frequently manifested in the House of Commons, we should have concluded that the House could now have " better spared a better man." We say these few words, unwilling that Mr. M•LEon should retire from public life without a brief record of our regret for his loss. - There seems now a probability that the Privi lege question will be settled. As far as we under• stand the Bill proposed by Lord JOHN RUSSELL, the Speaker's certificate that any Report is pub lished by order of the House, will be at law a bar to any action. That such a measure should be favourably received by those who have been for months and weeks bawling against the power claimed by the Commons of publishing what it likes, however libellous on individuals, seems to us extraordinary. Yet such is the fact. The Standard approves of it. The measure will be a pre-enacted immunity. The Speaker's certificate is to take away all hope of any legal redress for injuries inflicted by libels published by the House of Commons. We have never objected to the power of pub lishing claimed by the House ; we think the House ought to possess that power, but we have objected to the means it has taken to vindicate its right. We have said, let the House make a proper libel law, and its publications, unless it should take up' the trade of a libeller, and wantonly publish de famatory and uncalled-for assaults on private character, will never be questioned. It prefers, however, to leave the libel law 'as it is, a disgrace to the country, and enacts that its publications shall not be exposed to the harrow under which it places those of individuals. We presume that some measures will be adopted for examining the papers of the House before they are printed. At present, a Member moves that a paper be printed, and the order of the House which follows will be the foundation of the Speaker's certificate. The Right Hon. Gentleman will know nothing more of the publications of the House, when he has to give the certificate, than he knows now ; while the certain immunity of that certificate may induce carelessness in Members in moving that papers he printed. As long as the House is sitting, some redress may be obtained—an appeal may be made to it, and it is open to the influence of public opinion. Its privileges are, then, in the breasts of the Mem bers, and they may be affected by humane feelings; but a certificate is a mere bit of paper; and, when the House is not sitting, it will be armed with, and will represent all, the privileges of libel, that are now so noxious. On these grounds, we are inclined to think that the certificate will make the privilege more onerous than at present. What, too, will be the case, after the Parliament, the Speaker of which gives the certificate, is dis solved ? Is it still to be in force ? There may be a new Speaker, a totally new set of Members, and the new House may refuse to notice or redress any injury inflicted by its predecessor. The certificate, therefore, may give perpetual immunity to a mali cious libel. It will embody all that is noxious in privi lege into a law. As it is now exercised a House of Commons, responsible to public opinion, and under its influence, Calls it only into existence as the oc casion demands ; it ceases with the House, and dies out when it is prorogued. By the new Bill the privilege will be permanently fixed in a bit cf unfeeling paper. We, like Mr. Sergeant WILDE, prefer the old form. So far as the people are con cerned, nothing whatever will be gained by Lord J. RUSSELL'S Bill. W e observe with pleasure that all party ties are broken up by this .question. Lord STANLEY goes with Lord JOHN RUSSELL, who is opposed by his own SOLICITOR-GENERAL. He is supported by Sir W. FOLLETT, and opposed by Mr. O'CON NELL. The statesmen take one side, the legal men take the other. This independence of indivi dual Members on one point, allows us to hope for it on others. The thoughts as well as the votes of he Members having once run out of the ruts of party, will diverge on other occasions, and we shall have Members of Parliament expressing in the House some of those extraordinary opinions, neither Whig nor Tory, which are common out of the House. If the privilege discussion—other wise, in our opinion, idle and useless—bring about such a result, it will not have taken place in vain, though thoe who originated it never intended nod dreamed of its consequences. Nor is the breaking up less remarkable in the Press than in Parliament. The Chronicle deplores the blindness of the leaders of the House of Commons, and implies that the author of the Bill is afflicted with cowardice. The Herald describes Sir ROBERT PEEL as " de graded and disgraced" by supporting Lord JOHN RUSSELL. Of the Conservatives who have voted with the majorities on this question, the Standard says—" Their conduct is inexplicable ;" and the Times, having hinted more than once that Sir ROBERT PEEL " has taken a false, which may be a fatal step ;" and the Right Hon. Baronet rot having taken the hint, the Times doubts whether a " man so morally weak be fit to be the leader of ; a are specimens enough of av itil,d 1i.1 . 60,VC,11 LU think for tbrinseives, 'at least on this one question mil there will, no .doubt, arise others on which their self-will, now that th e y h ave once i,.,1111-geu will lead them to throw Rt;S,?..ELL and PEEL, the Whigs and the Thres, overboard, and seek in reason, principle, or in science, for that guide which faction will no lonp-er supply them. Among the almost innumerable congratulatory Ad dresses presented to the QUEEN at the Levee yester , day, on the happy occasion of her MAJESTY'S Mar riage, the Address presented by Mr. lsAA.c. LYON GOLDSMID, from the Jews of London, is the only one which on public grounds calls for any observation. The Jews are now the only class of her MA JEsTY's subjects labouring under civil disqualifica tions; and it must be gratifying to the feelings of her MAJESTY to be made sensible that, if the Jews not an equality of civil rights with the rest of her subjects, they are neither less loyal nor less devotedly attached to her person and Government. The friends of Jewish emancipation must also see in the conduct of the Jews upon this occasion another proof of the fact that, whatever objection may be taken to the faith of the Jews as unorthodox, their works are in ac cordance with the professions of the most zealous de fenders of all that is most moth-eaten, and, therefore, of course most venerable in the established constitution in Church and State. No other class of British ,subjects has such substantial grievances of which to complain, and yet no class exceeds the Jews in a ready obedience to the law, and a quiescent submission to unmetited obloquy and indirect oppression. We trust these circumstances will be placed in their true light before her Majesty, and that she will be thereby induced to signalize the commencement of this new and auspicious era in her reign, by placing her Hebrew subjects on a footing of civil equality with the rest of their fellow countrymen of every religious de nomination. Letters from Hanover, of the 29th ult,, state thq the City of Osuaburg has refused to elect a Deputy to the Second Chamber, and has resolved to abide by its former protest. The KING, whose health was improv ing, had issued an order to the electors of the capital to elect a Deputy according to the forms prescribed by the Constitution of 1819. A similar order was addressed to the other corporate towns of the kingdom, but with what success we are not . as yet informed. On the 10th of January an engagement took place , between the Russians and the Kluvans, headed by the KHAN in person, in which the latter were completely routed, and driven to the very gates of Khiva. On the 25th the Russian General, PEROWSKI, was to attack the town, unless it previously surrendered, which it was expected to do. There is no foreign or domest;c news in the French Journals of Thursday of the slightest importance, ex cept the telegraphic desratch of the 29th ult., from Madrid, which appeared in The Sun of yesterday. M. THIERS'S speech is found fault with by nearly all the Liberal Journals, as wanting in explicitness—a com plaint which it is unreasonable to make in the face of the Ministerial declaration, that the policy of the new Cabinet will be fully developed when the vote for grant ing the service-money is demanded, fixed at a shorter period than a week from the date of the Minister's speech. But the Journal des Debats, the organ of LOUIS PHILIPPE, not only finds fault with the vague ness of the speech, but, with au impudence hardly cre dible, states that the King regards the accession of M. TRIERS to power as the prostration of his Royal dignity. We have not the least doubt of the fact, but it was madness on the part of the King to make it public at the moment M. TRIERS was informing the Chambers that he enjoyed the entire confidence of his Sovereign. M. THIERS is not a man with whom the King can trifle with impunity ; and he must sec in this conduct of the CoArt a design to ruin him wi:l, the country. But now that he is in office, nothing can be more useful to him than his being publicly known to be in bad odour at the Tuileries. Let him only continue what he is now considered to be, the representative of the principles of the Revolution of July, and he has nothing to fear from the hostility of the Court. In the Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday the Government monopoly in tobacco was voted for ten years longer by a majority of 249 against 23. The Te'nps states that the naval strength of France at present consists of-46 ships of the line ; 56 frigates ; 32 corvettes ; 59 brigs ; 24 gun-boats ; 21 transports ; 31 gabares ; 55 smell craft ; and 36 steamers, making in all 350 sail, capable of opening a fire of 10,000 guns. This is a formidable force truly but we question whether the French tax-payers suppose it absolutely necessary to the welfare of the country. A letter from Algiers of the 22d ult. states than an engagement took place on the previous day between the French and the Arabs near Blidah, when the latter were defeated with the loss of several thousand men. This statement requires confit melon. To us it appears worthy of no credit. The Kalifa, EL BAIKAIN, who was reported to have been poisoned by ABD-EL-KADER, was at the same date in the Province of Constantine, raising troops for the service of the EMIR. A letter from Alicant, quoted in the Gazette de France, states that one of the Judges of that city wta, assassinated for instituting an inquiry about the murde. of the Alealde. Assassinations are every-day occur rences in Spain. BOURSE.-.-PARIS, THURSDAY, MARCH 5. 1 irst Highest L,, , , est Last Price I'rice. Price Price Crench :t per Cents ll4 ... 114., 113 93 ... 13 05 4 per Cents lOl 20 ... iO4 20 . ... 104 20 ... 104 26 3 per Cents B2 80 .. 82 80 ... 82 70 ... 82 70 Rank of Prance Liltitte Pa' k 5,0000. Sh 5197 50 ...5200 ...5197 59 —52 , 0 Belgian Bank 9OO ... 92. i ... 90 , 1 ... 912 50 5 per Cents lO4 ... 104 1 4 ... 104 ... 10414 3 per Cents 73 80 ... 1 . 3 SO ... 73 73 ... 71 75 United States Bank Loan... 98% ... 11EN ... 11814 ... 031 4 Spanish Ac , ire ~ Passive 7% ... 7% ... 7,. ... 7h, New 11.ferred Old Deterred 8 ... 8 ... 8 ... 8 u'ortitettese 3 per Cents Neaolit.m Roman HQ% ... 103% ... 1034 ... 163 h RAILWAY :Ai AREs. St. Oermai , versafife;, it. 11 557 50 ... 557 50 ... 552 50 5:2 50 L.B 375 ... 376 2s ... 375 ... 375 Orleans .. StratcHurg to Bale 340 25 ... 247 50 7.45 ;345 HAMBURG BOINENHALLE, MARCH 3. Bills; Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank :snares l';'. 03 An 10-Russian Loan P , 9 I 081 ti Russian 5 per Cent. Ist serer;, Certificate Inscription, Ist Seri.3.; • lO s Russian 5 per Cent. Hop, and Co. 3d and 4th Se, i: s Ditto in Certificates Dutch ',dual Debt, pe ('cut 5:0,6 52 Ditto S per Cell' 9B Polish Bond, New , ickct Anglo- I ;apish Loan, 3 per Cent 7a. 74 Norwegian Loan, ISO, 4 per Cent"... li , 2, Scanish, New 3 per Cents. EXCHANGES Orit LONDON. Id Ameutto, MARLS 3.-13. 7—Two months, 13 514. S TOCKHOLM, FEB 25.—Seventy-five days, 12 2. PETFRSBURGH, FEB. 21.--Two months, 39 —2O pence. VIENNA, FEE. 22.—Three months, 9. •17%. BERLIN, FEB. 29. —Three months, 0. 21 POST-OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY.—A Second Edition of the Supplement to this work has just been published, containing the Post-office arrangements tot carrying into effect the uniform Penny postage, and a Directory of Parliament for the present Session, with the town residences, and country residences of the Members of both Houses. It gives minute details relative to foreign postage, with the rate of postage charged in London on letters to be sent to every part of the world. The Lists are arranged in alphabetical order, and embrace all the principal towns, and many' of the smaller towns, thus :—the postage of a single letter weighing a quarter of an ounce to Cairo, is marked 2s. 3d.; to Coburg, Is. Bd. ; to Mantua, Is. 7d.; to Maranham (Brazil), 2s. 9d. There is some useful information for the Citizens of London, re lative to the posting and delivery of letters in the Lon don and Country district of what was formerly called the twopenny and threepenny post, with the departure and arrival of the mails in all the principal towns 01 the empire. The Supplement is a necessary accom paniment to the Directory, and the charge is very mo derate. A strong disposition is manifested to resist the adoption of the new Rural Police in Somersetshire. The op ponents urge that the principles involved in the measure are unconstitutional ; that the state of the country does not re quire such protection ; and that by the introduction the county rates, now amounting to 20,0001. a-year, would be doubled. Tom SPRING.—The Champion of England begs of Mr. Black not to call him notorious, and has written a letter to that effect, concluding with this pithy " P. S. I called at your office yesterday, but had not the good fortune to obtain an interview.' Of course not, "an interview" might have in volved " a Poorer" from the indignant fist of the pugilistic pro rietor of the Castle. VETO ACT.—At the Perth meeting,on Friday, Mr. Robert Steuart, one of the Lords of the Treasury, ap peared as the active supporter of Mr. George Stewart, the Church-Liberal candidate. Mr. Robert Steuai t gave his friend the benefit of a little side puff : Mr. George Stewart is anxious to pass a Par lien entary Veto Act; Mr. Robert Steuart holds out hopes that Mr. George's anxiety may have its wish. He could not tell the intention of the Cabinet, not being a member; but he could tell what Mr. Fox Maule, the Lord Advocate, and himself, being members of the Govern ment, were prepared to recommend :—As the intervention of the Legislature was necessary , they would advise a d ec l aratory enactment, fully recognising the rights of congre gat i ons to of the acceptability of present ees , and of the judge absolutely in all spiritu a l matters, C h judgeu r in clusive of the qualification of minister s. — Glasgow A N ". c e h x c el o u u s r iv o el t y o DEATH FROM DESTITUTION.—Last evening an inquest was held before Mr. Payne, in the St. George's workhouse, Borough, on the body of Charles Greyson, aged 42, a casual pauper. It appeared that deceased had been very poor for the last four months, but did not apply for relief, as he expected to receive 501. left him by a deceased relation. At length he applied for relief to the parish authorities of Christ Church, Blackfriars-road, but was refused. On the 18th of January he applied at St. George's workhouse for a night's lodging, which he received, together with sufficient food, and left next day, as he said, for Gravesend. In a state of extreme destitution and emaciation he applied again on Sunday last ; he was taken into the infirmary and treated with care, but he died next day. Verdict - 7 " Died from natural causes, accelerated by want and disease. The spread of Mathewism has seriously affected the revenue in those parts of Ireland where it has been intro. duced. The Excise collection in Cork district is 23,000/. de ficient compared with the corrP3rnirlinz quarter ye, rovi thr i , ermoy oc,llt,tll - 1 - - • • the same period. e ~~ ~: ~ TH.EI MA(KETS-01141N DAY.) COVENT- GA RDEN. Supplies were good, except of Foreign Fruit ; prices high. and trade good. Plants 3s. to ss. per dozen bunches. Celery 6d. to 2s. per bundle. Onions ss,' to bs. id. per sieve. Car "'s 6 s , to lit. per dozen bunches. Turnis 2d. to 6d. per bunch. Oranges 4s. to 14 s. p er h un d re d. Lemons 6s. to 10s. per hundred. Apples 4s. to 40s. per bushel. Cucumbers 10s. to 12s. per brace. Savoy Cabbages 3s. per dozen. Spinach 2s. to 2s. 6d. per sieve. French Beans 4s. to 52. per hundred. New Potatoes 2s. to 2s. 6d. per pound. Scakale per punnet 3s. 6d. to ss. Strawberries ss. per ounce. Asparagus Bs. to 12s. per bundle. Old Potatoes-White 60s. Blues 655. Yorks 80s. Devons 70s. Scotch 70s. per ton. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. A good supply to-day, a proportionate demand ; price un altered. Beef 2s. 10d. to 3s. 10d. ; Mutton 2s. 10d. to 3s. 101 ; • Veal 3s. 81 to ss. ; Pork 3s, 2d. to 3s. Bd. per stone of 81b. ; Larks 2s. per doz.; Pigeons 9d. to Is. ; Gold Plo ver is. to Is. 6d. ; Surrey Capons 6s. to 9s. ; Turkeys ss. to 7s. ; (Cocks) Bs. to 12s. : Pin Tails Is. to Is. 6d. ; Pea Fowls Bs. to 10s. ; Ducklings 3s. to 4s. ; Wild Rabbits 9d. to Is. ; Tame do. Is. 3d. to Is. 6d. • Guinea Fowls 2s. 6d. to. 3s. bd.; Fowls 3s. 94.• to ss. ; ehickens 2s. 6d. to 3s. 6d. ; Hares 3s. ; Goslings 7s to 10s. ; Eggs ss. 6d. to 7s. pzr 120. HUNGERFORD MARKET. Fish plentiful and reasonable. Turbot, 6s. to 21s. ; Soles, 101 to 4s. 6d. per pair ; Lobsters, 2s. to ss. ; Salmon, 3s. per lb. Butchers' Meat in good demand and supply. Beef, 7 1 ,44. to 8 1 ,44. ; Mutton, 7 1 hd. to 8 1 / 3 d. ; Veal, Bd. to 9d. ; Pork, 7 1 /d. to 8 1 Ad. per lb. Vegetables tolerably plentiful, prices high, and much as at Covent-garden. BILLINGSGATE MARKET. Supplies good, except Lobsters, and a fair demand, prices stationary. Turbot, ss. to 21s. ; Cod, 3s. 6d. to 12s. ; Salmon, 2s. 6d. to 3s. per lb. ; Oysters, 245. to 60s. per bushel ; Soles, 9d. to 4s. per pair ; Lobsters, 2 s. to s s , ; Mackerel, 6d. t o 10d . eac h ; Haddocks, 61 and Bd. to Is. 2d. ; Whitings, 4d. to Bd. HAY MARKETS. Supplies good, and so was the demand. Hay, 70s. to 88s. ; Clover, 90s. to 120 s ; Straw, 345. to 425. per load. TALLOW MARKET. P.Y.C. very quiet at 51s._6(1.___ TEA MARKET. Parties with money pick up here and there small p3reels in the hands of needy holders. This was the only kind cf trade doing, and will be until the arrival of the next overland mail. 310NEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O' CL CK, Arrivals this morning—French and Brazil mails, the latte► by the Skylark, sailed on the 10th January, front Rio Ralik 22d December, Pernambuco 17th December. No ship letter:. received. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, FRIDAY.—Our market continues in the same inactive state noticed in our last, with a very moderate extent of business doing, but as we have no im• port of moment, owing to adverse winds, our stock is compara tively small in all kinds, save India and Egyptian, and holders have, therefore, been enabled to obtain the full prices of last week for the short stapled descriptions of American and Pa ranams ; other kinds are heavy of sale at last Friday's prices. The sales to-day are about 3,000 bales of all kinds. Of 820 Sea Islands off.red at auction to-day there were only 210 bales sold at 9 3 / 4 to IS, and of 180 ditto ditto ; b 0 bales sold at 5i to 9 1 A, being much upon a par with previous prices by private contract; 1,000 bales of American have been taken on specu lation, and for export 800 American, 400 Bengal, 120 Surat, and 30 Bahia. We have received Buenos Ayres Papers to the 15th Dec. Two smart actions took place on the 22d and 24th ult., be. tween detachments of the hostile armies in the province of Cerrentes, in both of which the troops of Governor Lopez were victorious. Don Ricardo Lopez, who was taken prisoner in the affair on the 23d, was brought into town on Saturday last in custody. His arrival has caused considerable curiosity. The Gazette of the 7th inst. contains the particulars of the proceedings in the House of Representatives, on its sitting of the Bth and 9th, when the note from the Government relative to the late insurrection, was taken into consideration. The dis cussion was long, and the conduct of the French severely com mented upon. It was imputed to them that they had stained the glory of France by allying her flag with the rebellion. The weather has been seasonable during the week. This day, the 14th instant, completes the' 627th day of the blockade. Exchange on England during the week, 3 3-16 d., being LI e lowest price. Highest price of doubloons during the weeie, 2E6 dollars, lowest 290 dollars. The papers from Rio Janeiro by the mail, are of the same date as received yesterday, of the 9th_January. ROME, FEB. 24, (FROM A conitesros-nztvr.) A young woman, celebrated for her beautl, and belong ing to the lower class, was guillotined here on the 19th lost., together with the wretch whom she hired, for the mall sum of ten crowns, to assist her in murdering her ousband, that the might have, without restraint, illicit in tercourse with a paramour. She has since confessed that ,he was instigated to the commission of the deed by her partner in guilt ; the murder was effected under circum stances of atrocity unparalleled, and is of too revolting a nature to allow of being mentioned. The wretched woman had been attended for some time past, and at the time of her execution, by the Sisters of Mercy ; it is said she ?rayed with much fervour for intercession at the judgment seat of a more awful tribunal, where she was about to ap pear; but the unhappy assassin refused to ask pardon of a justly offended Providence, and died miserably impe nitent. Her paramour, who was compelled by the law to witness their execution, is condemned to the galleys for life. The carnival commenced on Saturday morning, and the weather is most propitious ; the sky is cloudless, and the .un's genial rays cheer the festive scene. The grassy dale and woodlands have been invaded to procure violets to ,hower down on the favoured fair ones. The winter has wen so mild that green peas, asparagus, artichokes, and other esculent plants, have been for some time abundant ; strawberries arc found in the woods ; the myrtle, the ar bute, and guncestirs, are there in flower; 'the fruit trees are putting forth their blossoms, and the birds are singing as in Spring. The Count Hawks le Grice has been recently invested with the insignia of the Pontifical triple tiara of the three ttingdoms, as one of the Chamberlains attendant in the Court of his Holiness the Pope. The Count presented the other day Mrs. Janet Taylor's works on navigation, when the Pope bestowed a silver medal on the learned uthoress. and ordered her books to be deposited in the library of the Vatican. LAW INTELLIGENCE. VICE- CHANCELL URNS COURT, MARCH 6. ARCHER V. SLATER. The arguments in this case - were concluded yesterday, with the exception of Mr. K. Bruce's reply, which was postponed till this morning, in order that his Honour might consult.with the Lord Chancellor as to the point of jurisdiction which was raised with the course of the argument. The facts of the ease as stated by the plaintiff's counsel, appeared to be as fol.ow : The bill was filed by the plaintiff who had been a pauper during his minority in the workhouse of Woodford, in Essex, and the deir-at-law of a blacksmith named Thomas Wakefield, who died at Epping in the year 1788, leaving considerable freehold and copyhold property, in the county of Essex, ti his widow, .Vary Wakefield, for her life, with remainder to his daughter, Johanna, in fee. The bill prayed that a decree, made by the ilaster of the Rolls in 1823, establishing the will of Anne Wakefield, the testator's sister, disposing of the copyhold pro perty, might be set aside on the ground of its having been ob ,ained by fraud and misrepresentation, and that an assumpsit be directed to try Airs. Anne Wakefield's state of mind at the time of making the will. The bill alleged that previous to 1705 the daughter of the testator Jo henna Wakefield died under age, and unmarried, leaving her aunt Ann Wakefield her customary heir; that the latter made a will in 1798, devising her reversion to two persons, named Archer and Surridge, in trust to sell and divide the proceeds into moieties, one of which was bequeathed to Surridge, and ,he other to be divided bet Ween two of the other testator's rela tions. Ann Wakefield died in 1799, and Archer, one of the trustees, in 1813 ; and at the death of Mary Wakefield, willow of the testator, and the tenant for life of the property, in 1820, Surridge, the surviving trustee, sold the property ty auction. One portion was purchased by a gentleman named Banbury, and the other by Mr. Slater, the defendant. At the time of the sale the plaintiff, who was the customary heir, and heir-at law of the testatrix, was an infant in the parish workhouse at Woodford, and in consequence of rumours of an intention to 4uestion the validity of the will by the plaintiff when he attained his majority, Mr. Surridge consulted a solicitor at Epping, named Windus, who advised an equitable suit to ,siablish the will. Accordingly a bill was filed, and set down for hearing at the Rolls, and a decree was pro nounced in December, 1823, establishing the will, and that decree it was the object of the present Bill to set aside. Since ;hat decree Slater had completed his purchase, but Banbury obtained a surrender from the lord of the manor, as in the case of a possession vacant for want of an heir, while the decree was pending. The plaintiff became of age in 1826, but was unable to institute a suit until ten years afterwards, when he filed the present bill to set aside the decree, alleging- that it was frau intently obtained, as 'no evidence was given as to the sanity of the testatrix; that neither the decree or the registry-book showed that the will had ever been produced to the Court, end that no day was given to the infant to show cause against the decree when he came of age. Mr. K. BRUCE, Mr. WAKEFIELD, and Mr. K. PARKER appeared on behalf of the plaintiff, contending that the ,:nurse pursued in obtaining the decree at the Rolls was against all precedent and the practice of the Court, and that even if the proceedings had been regular, the decree establishing the will ought never to have been made, inasmuch as t was clear from the evidence adduced that Ann Wakefield was tittle better than an idiot—that she was well known to be a person of imbecile mind in Epping, where she was called the silly woman—that she was incapable of entering into natural conver sation, and therefore totally incapable to make a will. Mr. Jacob, Mr. Norton, Mr. Richards, Mr. Goodeve, Mr. Betel, and Mr. H. Parker, appeared on behalf of the different defendants interested in supporting the decree of the Master of the Rolls, and contended on their behalf that the proceedings by an original Bill on the part of tho Plaintiff to set aside a deuce pronounced at the Rolls on the ground of error, was al together irregular, and that the proper course would have been that either a Bill of Review should have been filed, or that an appeal should have been presented against the decree of the Lord Chancellor. As the devise was of copyhold, it was not necessary that the original Bill should have been produced, the probate being quite sufficient ; and that probate, it was clear from the evidence, had been produced. The VICE-CHANCELLOR said it was a singular thing that an entry had been made in the Registrars' book of the production of probate, and that entry was crossed out. Mr. JACOB observed, that there was evidently some mistake, for in a book kept by the clerk in Doctors' Commons, there was an entry stating that the clerk had attended the Court with the original will. Then as to the sanity of the testatrix, it was said it had not been shown, but as the subscribing witnesses were all dead nothing more could be done than to prove their deaths and signatures. As to the question of giving a day to the infant to show cause, it had been settled that it was not ne cessary, except in foreclosure suits where a conveyance was necessary, and the evidence of the capacity of Mrs. Ann Wake field, to make a will was perfectly ridiculous, and had been satis factorily contradicted. In the course of the argument the Court threw out a doubt as to its jurisdiction to set aside a decree pronounced at the Rolls, but the arguments were allowed to go on. Mr. K. BRUCE, before he replied, wished to know whether the Court still doubted its jurisdiction to set aside a decree inade at the Rolls, because if it did it would be useless for him to reply, inasmuch as he had stated at the time the Court threw out the doubt as to its jurisdiction that his client asked for the reversal of the decree, and nothing less. The VICE CHANCELLOR considered, if he was asked to reverse the decree for error, that he had not jurisdiction to do so, but he thought he could so interfere as to prevent the defen dants from taking the benefit of the decree they had obtained. Mr. JACOB objected to this course, thinking the argument ought now to be concluded, leaving it to the Court to pro nounce whatever opinion it thought proper. Mr. K. BRUCE had no objection to go on, provided it was understood among all the parties, if the Lord Chancellor would allow it, that any decree pronounced by his Honour should be treated as the decree of the Lord Chancellor. Mr. JACOB and Mr. RICHARDS could not consent to such a course being adopted. _ . . The VicE-CliANcELLoit said he would refrain from hear ing Mr. K. Bruce's reply till to-morrow, when he would con sult the Lord Chancellor on the subject. His Honour, on taking his seat this morning, stated that he had mentioned the subject to the Lord Chancellor, who entertained the same opi nion as himself, and his Lordship thought, considering what had been done in the cause, the right thing to do would be to let the case go on before him (the Vice-Chancellor), and that. he must determine it as well as he could. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS (FRIDAY EVENING.) TIMES.—The mystery of the last fortnight relative to the course the Treasury were likely to adopt in regard to the new issue of Exchequer Bills, has beets put an :end to this morning. The advance in the rate of interest, from lid. to 2-id. per diem, has realized the anticipations formed by the dealers in Exchequer Bills, who predicted from the first an nouncement of the Exchange that it could not be accom plished on better terms. The judgment formed therefore of the new Chancellor of the Exchequer is, that he is ex ceedingly ill off for advice, or that he must have relied on the counsels of his predecessor, though both of them might have learned better from their own past experience, as Mr. Spring Rice in 1837, when the Right Honourable Gen tleman was his Secretary, fell into exactly the same error. And a fatal error it was to him and to the country, for by holding out too long for a lower rate of interest than the state of the Money Market would bear, he was compelled afterwards, at the rebound, to pay a higher price than would have been necessary had he understood his business, and made timely concessions. After: this, people here really begun to despair of ever meeting with a Chancellor of the Exchequer who pos. sesses the ordinary stock of knowledge requisite for his craft. For want of this little grain of common sense, Mr. Baring has stultified his department with the corn. mercial and moneyed interests, kept the Money Market for weeks and months in a constant state of ferment, fright ened away most of the old steady supporters of the un funded debt, and, finally, submitted to • the humiliation of asking assistance from the Bank, then awaiting its trial, like a criminal, before the country, and which an bonef.t and intelligent Minister would have avoided at any sacrifice. The general notion in the city is, that this rise in the interest on Exchequer-Bills, as it removes all necessity for , a funding, is conclusive against a recourse to any such measure, though it is thought that a small loan may be made to cover that deficiency in the revenue which has been suffered to accrue by the bad management of the Ministry, after which a tolerable degree of confidence is felt, in consequence of the notice taken by the Opposition side of the House of their numerous financial blunders, that they will not be suffixed to go on as they have done, making additions, out of all former order and precedent, to the public debt of the country, without some express provision for the payment of the interest, and consequently that some new taxation will be introdued in the course of the Session. A duty on salt and a modified house-tax have been currently talked of to-day in the city. All these things have told well on the state of public credit, as will be seen in the description of the actual transactions in Government securities. The new rate of interest fixed for Exchequer Bills is higher than that of Consols at the present price, which is a very rare occurrence, and one which could not happen under a well-conducted system at the Treasury. Mr. Spring Rice and Mr. Baring have the rare merit of form ing the exceptions —the first in 1637, the last on the pre sent occasion. It is a state of things, of course, which Bd.per annum ; Exchequer Bill s at 2-id. yield cann ot long continue. Th e rate of Consols at 90 is and those at 21. 13s. 9d. per annum. Z : 8 6 1 5 . . . 5 ' Taking the amount of Exchequer :Bills in circulation at 21,000,000 1 ., the increase of annual charge for interest under this arrangement will be about 150,000/. It is to be hoped that some member of Parliament will put a question to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to what extent :he Directors of the Bank have been honourod „i t !, ,n this occasion, einee his w-; ti,(einie,e at the r..atLie time the exteLt to winch they have laid him under an obligation to them. If they knew or foresaw what was pmiding, they have served themselves, and not the Treasury. The expectation raised by the state of foreign exchanges en the last poet day Las not been wholly realized. A small decline in the rates of exchali,ge on Amsterdam and Hamburg took place to-day. there having been a demand for bills on those places, On Paris the supply of paper was quite equal to the demand, and the price remained the name at last post. By an arrival at Limerick papers were received late in the day at the North and zouth American Coffee-house from Rio Janeiro to January 10. It appears that Maran ham and Rio Grande still continued in their wretched state. The exchange was at oil, and stock at 77i. By a vessel arrived at. Rio accounts had been received there from Monte Video to the 23d of December, stating that on the day before Admiral Dupotet had anchored in that port with the French squadron under his orders, which left Brest some tune since. HE RA 1.D.--Not much surprise was created among the moneyed inter,•st this morning, by the receipt. at the dank of England nad the Stock Exchange, of an official notice from the Treasury for raising the interest payable upon the unfunded debt from lid. to 24-d. per centime per diem. An opinion has for some days been entertained in the City that to permit the payment of Exchequer Bills into the Customs, the Excise, and other public departments for duties, the only course that could be adopted by the Chan cellor of the Exchequer would be to increase the rate of Interest upon the floating debt, by which it is possible Ex chequer bills may be kept at a premium. The question still remains undecided, whether the Chancellor, in order to complete his financial arrange ments for the year, will resort to a funding of Exchequer Bills or to a direct loan. With many parties it is thought conclusiie that the former step will be adopted, while others argue that the Chancellor must have a direct loan •in order to p l ace t h e T reasur y i n a situation to meet th e i ncreas i ng d eman d s upon i t . It is said, and doubtless truly, that the first step the Chancellor must take after he had succeeded in fund ing Exchequer Bills to the extent required, would be to re issue new bills at the enhanced rate of interest notified in the above Treasury circular; but should the pres sure for money continue, with an adverse market for the Foreign Exchanges, and the probable contingency of a large importation of foreign grain, and a demand for bul lion for exportation, it is certain that, while money on the best security is worth fully five per cent., Exchequer Bills could not be kept at a premium when they only pay 31. Bs. old. 'per cent., taking them at par. It is with re ference to the paints to which we have alluded that capi talists in the City hold the opinion that, after all, the Chancellor of the Exchequer must resort to a loan to place the treasury of the kingdom upon a satisfactory footing. SUN.—The Colonial Markets were brisk this after noon, and grocers bought freely. The advance in British Plantation Sugar this week has been Is. per cwt. Cof fee was .toady, and Tea could not be had except at a slight advance. There were some good sales of com mon free trade Congous at 2s. 6d., and of ord. Twaukay, at 2s. 7d. per lb. The Foreign Exchanges were not good for this country. Bills on Paris were taken at 25. 55 to 57i ; on Hamburgh, at 13.94 to 9 ; and on Amsterdam, at 12 2. The Funds maintained up to the close of business the advance of 'the morning. Consols were done this afternoon at 90i n for present transfer, and 91k to i for April ; Exchequer Bills rose to 17s. premium. The notice from the Exchequer Bill Office is con sidered likely to keep up the value of the unfunded debt sufficiently high to insure their being kept in circula tion, in lieu of being paid in for duties. The new Bills, unlike those issued last year, will be received immediately at the Excise and other Government de partments from parties indebted to the revenue. . There was no variation of the least importance in the Foreign Bonds this afternoon. Spanish Active left off at 29, Portuguese new Five per Cents. 344, Mexi can at 29f, and Dutch Five per Cents. at 100. The Railway Shares were all rather better, both as respected price and demand. POLITICAL SUMMARY OF THE MORNING JOURNALS. The Morning Herald of this day, referring again to the Privilege question, says:—" The tyrant majority' has proved itself a majority •no less cowardly than tyrannical. Lord John Russell's Bill involves a virtual abandonment by the House of its unconstitutional method which it I claimed of vindicating them. The matter is now to be settled by legislation."—The Morning Post, in a leading article suggrrted by Mr. Baines's late speech in the Com mons on the subject of First Fruits, remarks as follows " There is a sort of plausibility in the project of equaliz ing, or bringing nearer to an equality, the incomes of the , clergy of the Church of England, which is very apt to catt,h the favour of ill-informed and low-thoughted Reformers. It is, perhaps, not untrue that, in some extreme eases, it were to be wished that the superfluity of one parish should minister to the poverty of another. The legitimate course of setting this right is by means of pluralities."—TheMorn ing Chronicle, alluding to the result of the election for the Inverness district of Burghs, observes as follows :—" To the numerous elections gained by Reform Candidates since the meeting of Parliament, we thus have to add Inverness, and we hope we may soon have to add Perthshire. Where is the Tory re-action of which we have heard so much? For what have the party incurred, during the recess, the disgrace of fanning the flames of bigotry, and abetting the foulest slander against her Majesty ? The Tories never were lower in popular estimation than at this moment."— The Times thus expresses itself on the subject of the American Boundary-line question : —" The real posture of this grievous question has not, we fear, been meditated with much attention on cur side of the water. People ge nerally do not seen. to reflect that the adjuslner.t of the boundary quarrel dors no?depeud so much at this late pe riod on the success of our negotiations with the Govern ment at Washington, as on the degree in which the pas sions of the people of Maine may be excited or tranquillized by the turn of these negotiations." LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, MARCH 6.—Wind N. E., fine weather.—Arrived the Ann, Whitfield, from Rio Janeiro; Achilles, Duncan, Ceylon. Sailed the David Scott, Spicer, Madras ; British Isles, Muirhead, Demerara. LIVERPOOL, MAacir 6.—Wind S. S. E., fresh breezes.— Sailed the Governor Fenner, Bennett, for Savannah ; Elizabeth. Swan, Charleston ; Brooklyn, Richardson, New York ; Lan cashire, Alexander, ditto ; Austerlitz, Hammond, Boqon ; Clio, Daley, Halifax ; Susan Crane, Coffin, ditto ; Nemesis, Hall Odessa. :Off-port, Marian, Tampico. Sailed Dec. 13. FALMOUTH, MARCH s.—Wind E., fresh breeze.—Arrived in the Channel the Skylark packet, from Pernambuco—sailed 7th Dec., Bahia 2d Jan., Rio Janeiro 10th Jan. mSGATE, MARCH 6.—Sailed the Martha, Robson, for Sierra Leone. MILFORD,Maacit s.—Arrived the Memnon, Gordon from Llanelly, leaky, and with damage, having been on shore if Carmarthen Bay. DUBLIN, MA Ben 4.—Sailed the James Simon, for St. John's, New Brunswick. PENZANCE, MARCH s,—Off port, the Emma, Toogood, from Monte Video—sailed Dee. 25. CROOKHAVEN, MARCH 4.—Arrived the Harlequin, from Rio Janeiro; Trinidad, Brown, Odessa; Mary and Eliza, St. Michael's. TOBEItMONT.— Arrived the Jenny, Hudson, from Jamaica, having on board the master and five of the crew of the Dorothy, abandoned at sea. CORK, MARCH 4.—Arrived her Majesty's ship Jupiter, from Ceylon ; Naiad, Phillips, Catania. Sailed the Celia Large, Moherat, for Jamaica. Off port, the Trinity Packet, from St. Michael's. CLYDE, MARCH 4.—Sailed the Eliza, Grange, for Mont Video ; Thistles. Jenkins, Demerara ; Antigua, Fisher, An tigua; Alice and Eliza, Marshall, New Orleans; Mitchell, Newfoundland. At the Leree yesterday, J. L. Goldsmid, Esq., presented to her Majesty the following Address, beautifully printed in a blue letter, with a rose coloured arabesque mar gin, embodying the union emblems of Great Britain and Ire land, on a rich white satin, lined with lutestring of the same colour, edged with an elegant silver fringe and tassels .—" To her Most Gracious Majesty Victoria I —May it please your Majesty, we, yoar Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, members of the Jewish congregation of Maiden-lane, Strand, most humbly crave permission to present your Majesty our sin cere congratulations on your Royal Marriage, and to express our earnest and heartfelt wishes that the Divine blessing may attend and prosper that auspicious event; and that your Majesty may, through a long life, enjoy unalloyed domestic happiness, and see peace and prosperity spread throughout your Majesty's dominions. And we earnestly hope that your Majesty's reign may be distinguished by such wise and equitable legislation as shall tend to secure the just prerogatives of the Crown, and equal rights and immunities to all your Majesty's loyal sub. ject.s. With most profound respect." The members of the For Club will give their annual grand dinner to-day, at Grillon's Hotel, to celebrate the anniversary of the birth of that great statesman. The M arqu i s ,of Lansdowne, Lords H olland, Albemarle, and Foley, Mr. R. Gordon, &c., are expected to be present. On Friday afternoo n, a fire broke out at Crock ford's Club-house , in St. James's.strect ; but owing to great exertions made by the firemen, who were p rompt in arriving from the neighbouring stations, TA as got under with out much damage having been done to the premises. The Marchioness of Normanby arrived at Mul grave Castle on Monday evening from town. The Master of the Horse and Lady Albemarle returned to Berkeley-square, on Thursday evening f market, where the Noble Earl inspected hi s racinrogsra New_ pre vious to the spring meeting. Lord Briniiham intends to leave his estate in the south of France about the 20th inst., on his return home, via Paris. Lord Macdonald left Mivart's on Wednesday evening, by the railway, on a visit to the Earl of Sefton, at Croxteth Hall, near Liverpool, where his Lordship and the Noble Earl were umpires of the grand Liverpool steeple chase on Thursday. DEATH OF THE HON. MISS BURGH. — The families of Major-General Lord Downes and Lord and Lady Clonmel have been placed in mourning by the demise of the Hon. Miss Burgh, aunt to the Noble Lord, who expired at her residence, in Merrion-square, on 'Monday last, at the ad vanced age of 94. Lord Downes derives an accession of for tune by her demise. Lord and Lady Downes came up from Birt House to Merrion-square, in consequence of the death of their relative. Ail alarming fire broke out yesterday morning, about half-past seven o'cloA, on the first floor of the premises .of Mr. H. B. Roberts, Solicitor, No. I, Child's place, Mid dle Temple. The fire was discovered by Mr. Smyth, a bar rister, who occupies the first floor, who, on waking, found his room Was filled with smoke; he rushed out of the room, when he discovered that his sitting-room was in a blaze. H e aroused the inmates, and, having procured water from below, Mr. Roberts opened the door of the sitting-room, w hi c h was he, however, fortunately sue es, His next- was directed found to be in one body of fifiream; ceeded in extinguishing t he directed to his two child ren, who were in a top whom were nearly •suffocated, the youngest, a fine boy two years old, beittg quit, iusenbible: restoratives, however, having been administered, they were at length brought to. EVENING EDITION. HER MAJESTY'S LEVEE. The Queen held a Levee (the second this season) y vs. terday afternoon at St. James's Palace. Her Majct-ty 3ld Prince Albert and suite arrived from Buekirqbaut Palac* in four of the State carriages, escorted by a party of Li Guards. The Royal Suite included the Mistress of the Robe,l, Lady Barham, Lady in Waiting, Lord Lilferd, Lord i a Waiting, Colonel Wemyss, Equerry in Wa;flog:, Mr;. Cowell and Master Byng, Pages of Honour in Waiting:. Viscount Boringdon, Gentleman of the Bedchamber to biti Royal Highness, Colonel Wylde,•Equerry. and Sir Georg e Anson, Groom of the Bedchamber to his Royal Higlenes , : Her Majesty was received at St. James's Palace by at Lord Chamberlain, the Lord Steward, the Master of tc,e Horse, and Colonel Armstrong,,Groont in Waiting. The 'Levee was attended by his Royal Highness e Duke of Sussex, and his Serene Highness the Hereditur y Prince of Saxe Coburg Gotha. His Serene Highness was attended by Baron de Lowenfels, and Baron de Grui berg. Her Majesty g ave audience in the R o y a l Cl o s e t, before the Levee, to th:: following Foreign Ministers Baron Bulow, Envoy Extraordinary, and Minister Ple nipotentiary, from the King of Prussia, on his retain from the Continent on leave of absence. Monsieur Guizot, Ambaosador Extraordinary, and Plenipotentiary, from the King of the French, to deliver a letter. Monsieur Dedel, Envoy Extraordinary, and Minis.v.er Plenipotentiary, from the King of the Netherlands, Yo deliver a letter. Their Excellencies were respectively introduced by Viscount Palmerston, G. C. 8., her Mujesty's principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Sir Robert Chester, Master of the Ceremonies. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the Great Officers of State and Officers. of the Household, having entered the Throne Room, the Entree company were in troduced. The following presentations to her Majesty, took-place in the Diplomatic Circle : Count Henri L XIX. Reuss, Schleitz-Kce-tritz, and Monsieur de Savigny, by- Baron Below, tne Prussian Minister. Monsieur Louis Auguste de Soveral, First Attache cf the Portuguese Legation, by Baron de Moncorvo, the Portuguese Minister. Le Comte Dmitry Nesselrbde, Attache to the Russian Embassy, by M Kisseleff, the Russian Charge d'Affaires. M Charles Drouct, Belgian Charge d'Affaires, in the absence of M. Van de Weyer, by the Lord Viscount Pala raerston, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. M. Bilesikzi Effendi, Officer of the Turkish Army, by M. Agora, the Turkish Charge d'Affaires. Le Comte de Bonneville, by M. Guizot, the French Arr. ssador. After the Corps Diplomatique, the Entree Compny were admitted, when the following presentatiml.4 to raa Queen took place:— _ _ Lieut.-Colonel Bouverie, on being appointed Equerry to his Royal highness Prince Albert, by Lord Mill. Mr. Marrable, Secretary to the Board of Green Cloth, by the Lord Steward, for the honour of knighthood. The Chief Justice of Upper Canada, by Lord Joint Russell. Chief Justice Field, of Gibraltar, by Lord John Rueael,ll. Mr. Under- Sheriff Jackson, by the Marquis of Nor manby. The following presented Addresses at the Entree Levee :--. The Archbishop of Canterbury,—of humble gratulation* on Her Majesty's auspicious union with His Royal Hies. tress Prince Albert of Saxe Cobourg and Gotha,_from the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of Christ. Canterbury,—and from the Clergy, Churchwardens, aiai. Teachers of Church Sunday Schools, in the town of Maidstone. The Earl of Errol,—of congratulations on Her Majesty",..,- Marriage,—from the President and Society of Advocatea in Aherdeen,—and from the Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council of the City of Old Aberdeen. The Earl of Uxbridge,.—of Congratulation upon Her Majesty's Marriage,—from the Members of the Presbytery of Lanark. The Earl of Belfast, of congratulation on her Majesty's marriage, from the Royal Belfast Academical Institution. The Duke of Somerset, on her Majesty's marriage, from the Royal Institution. The Earl of Ripon (President), upon her Majesty's marriage, from the Royal Society of Literature. Sir Henry Halford, President of the Royal College of Physicians, on her Majesty's marriage, from the College. The Duke of Richmond and Alexander Bannerman, Esq. M.P. from Mariscbal College, Aberdeen. Lord Ashburton, of congratulation on the occasion of her Majesty's nuptials, from the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the borough of Thetford. The Bishop of Peterborough, of congratulation upon her Majesty's marriage, from the Bishop, Dean, Chan cellor, Archdeacons, Prebendaries, and Clergy of the dio cese of Peterborough. General the Viscount Bcresford—of congratulation, on her Majesty's marriage, from the States of the Island of Jersey. Mr. Stanley, M. P , with the Mayor and Town-clerk of Stockport, on her Majesty's marriage. Mr. Keate, President of the Royal College of Surgeons, of congratulation, from that body. Mr. Labouchere, M.P., and Mr. Baiebridge, M. P., of congratulation, from the inhabitants of Taunton. The Secretaries and Attaches of the different For&gn Legations were presented to his Royal Highness Prince Albert, by their respective Ministers. Among those present were Baron Bentinck, Secretary to the Netherlands Legation, by M. Dedel; Baron de Manderstrom, Secretary of the Swedish Legation, and Baron de Bjornarjerna (by Count Bjornstjer na) Mons. L. A. de Several, First Attache of the Portugue se Le g ation (by Baron de Moncorvo), Baron dc Bourqueney, first Secretary to the French Embassy, Baron War:lKr, Sc. cretary to the Prussian Legation ; Count Revd, Secre -1 tary to the Sardinian Legation ; Baron Bertouch, Seere- I tary of the Brazilian Legation ; Baron de Lebzeltern, Se cretary of the Austrian Embassy. the Baron Gustave- van Zuylen, and Theophile Van de Westyne, Attaches to the Belgian Legation. The Levee was attended by the French Ambassador, the Prussian, Swedish, 13uencs Ayrean, Danish, Basarran, Netherlands, Sardinian, Hanoverian. Portuguese, Greeiair, Venezuelan, Spanish and Saxon Ministers, the Austrin Minister on a Special Mission, the Brazilian, Sicilian, Aus trian, Belgian, .Mexican, New Grenada, Russian Charge), d'Affaires; Count George Esterbazy, Secretary of Embassy at St. Petersburg!'; Co!. R. Wright, Adjutant-General do l'Etat, Major-General d'Ecuador, M. de la Coucha and ! Pampillo of the Spanish Legation, the Archbishop of Yerk, the Bishop of London, the Archbishop of Armagh. the Lod Chancellor, the Lord President, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home, Foreign, and Colonial Dapartnaents ; 1 the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Chancellor of the i Duchy of Laneamer, the Secretary at War, the Chi,-f ; Commissioner of the Woods and Forests , t he Chief Sc. 7 cretary for Ireland, the Lord Steward, the Lord Cham jberlain, the Master of the Horse, Lord Mill, Gold Stick to Waiting ; Sir Henry Parnell, Paymaster-General ; Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Judge Advocate General, the Treasurer of the Household, the Comptroller of the Household, Mr. Stanley, Secretary of the Treasury ; Mr. S. M. Phillips, Under Secretary of State ; Mr. Fox Strangways, Under Secretary Fore:gn Office ; Hon. Sir Edward Butler, Lieutenant of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen at Arms ; Sir Edwin Pearson, Lieutenaiit of the Yeomen Guard ; the Master of the C e re monies ; Sir William Woods, K. H., Garter King of Arms; Colonel Cavendish, the Clerk Marshal: Lord Alfred Paget, Equerry to her Majesty ; Colonel Sir Horace Seymour, Equerry to the Queen Dowager ; Rev. Dr. Dakins, Prin cipal Chaplain to her Majesty's Forces ; Lord Dinanben, A D.C. to the Queen ; Captain Phipps Hornby, R. N., Naval A.D. C. to her Majesty ; Colonels Sir Robert Gm - - diner, Baker, M. P., and Brotberton, A. D. C. to the Queen; Colonel Richardson, Royal Horse Guards, Silver Stick in Waiting ; Mr. James Bunce Curling, Clerk of the Cheque to the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen at Arms ; Mr. Ellcrtborp, Clerk of the Cheque of the Yeomen Guard ; Mr. Francis Seymour, 19th Regiment, Groom of the Bedchamber to his Royal High ness Prince Albert ; Sir Benjamin Smith ; Cap ' tain Seymour S idler, Exon in Waiting; the Groom of the Robes, the Solicitor-General to the Queen Dow ager; Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Frederick Smitb,Gentleman Usher, and Mr. Arthur Blackwood, Groom to the Privy Chamber in Waiting; Lieutenant-Colonel Diggle, anti Mr. Alfred Montgomery, Gentlemen Ushers in Waiting ; Mr. Mellish, Gentleman Usher to her Majesty the Queen Dowager. Among the general company were Mr. Durant, Sr. Audre, Consul General of France; Mr. Sergeant Arabin, Sir Martin Archer Shee, President of the Royal Aca demy ; Sir Benjamin Brodie, Serjeant Surgeon to the Queen ; the Lord Register of Scotland ; Rev. the Provost of Eton, and the following DUKES—Roxburgh, Somerset, Wellington, Argyll, Richmond, Sutherland, Beaufort. MARQUlSES—Westminster, Exeter, Ailesbury. EARLS—Kinnoull, Cadogan, Rosehery, Charlevillc, land, Eex Tank ervi s l s le, Erroll, Listowel, Warwick, Carlisle, Zet , Chichester, Ripon, Bradford, Glengall, Mount Cashel'. VlSCOUNTS—Powerscourt, Canning, Lake, Fitzharris, Barrington, Maynard, Hood. Locos—Henniker, Norreys, Leigh, Ashburton Dun sany, Cowley, De L'lsle, Granville Somerset, Bexley, Kinnaird, Lyndhurst, Radstock, Charles Fitzroy, Sudeley, Fred. Beauclerk, Albert Cony-n/3 . 6am, Edward Russell, Marcus Hill, M.P., Teynbara, Grantley, Dinorben, Prud hoe, Boston, De Freyne, Fitzalen, Camoys, George Ben tinek. BISIIOPS—Sodor and Mann, Peterborough, Salisbury, Chester. RIG/1T Hosoveaames—Joseph Planta, J. C. Herries, Henry Ellis. HONOVRAPLES Edward Mostyn, Adolphus Liddell, Francis Charteris, Charles Langdale, M.P., Lieut.. Col. Clive, Captain Perceval, R.N., H. T. Liddell, M.P., Campbell Saarlett, G. Ponsonby, J. Oliphant Murray, C. Barrington, W. 0. Stanley, M.P., Major Scatlett, M. P. BARONETS—John Scale, M.P., William Curtis, Wi!- liain Somerville, Frederick Hamilton, John W. Lubbock, George Henry Smyth, M. P., Thomas Winningtou, Wal ter James, M.P., Stephen Glynne, James Clark, Alex ander Grant, J. Rae Reid, M.P., 'J. Fremantle, Edward Lytton Bulwer, H. St. Paul, Robert Price, Alexander iMalet, T. Charles Style, W. Brabaion, M.P., Charles Morgan, George Staunton, M.P., J. M'Grigor, Benjamin Hall, M. P., Robert Campbell. Sias—Martin Archer Shee, Charles Wetherell, Sa muel Spry, M.P., William Follett, Pete:: Laurie, James Duke, M.P., Charles Scudamore, Thomas N. Reeve, Francis Chantrey, Moses Montefiore, F. R. S., James Fellowes, Edward Sugden, George Rose, Charles Dou glas, Woodbine Parish, Henry Willocks, Gardner J. Wilkinson, William Hyde Pearson, F. Onto:Laney, Thomas Phillips, T. C. Morgan, R. Jeoking. REY. Dcmas—Hampden' Hawtrey. Symons, Shop. herd, Crombie, J. R. Browe,Dakius, Card, Dibdiu, Jahn Browne. ARCHEEACOK—Thorp. . SERGEANTS AT Law—D'Oyley, Manning. THE ruNns. The Foreign Exchanges were rather lower yesterday after noon, with little business doing. The Exchange from Rio on London comes 304 d., and Stocks, 7Th. Consols opened this morning at the same quotations they left off at yesterday, 91i* for the Account, and 904 far Money, little orinothing doing as yet; Exchequer Bills, 14 16 prem. ; Bank Stock shut ; India Stock, 248 249. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active not so good as it left off at, 29f, at present 281 j, in consequence of the state of iiege of Madrid still continuing; Spanish Deferred, 14*; Passive, 7i 1; Portuguese, 34i ; Three per Cents., 24 24 ; Columbian, 251 26*; Mexican, 29* 3 ; Brazilian, 771 8i ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half, 531 ; Five per Cents., 100/ 1011. nut:Es OE STOCK'S T a I — . VA Y AT ONE O'CW - cis . lank Stock ,--1 India Stock — I per Cent. Red. - ' Ditto Bonds -1 per Cents. C0n.... . 90 % 34 South Sea Stock — 1y ner Cent —. Old Annuities — ;iteo Red. - New Ditto lew 3% pet Cent...... ........95% 9 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 \Jew 5 per Cent. -.-I Exch. Bills, X 1,000.. IS 111 pm Bank Long Annuities toexpire Ditto 500 .. 15 18 pm. Jan. 5, 1800. ....... .... ... -- Ditto Smali l5 18 pi- Oct. 10, 1859.”.........11 15-18% Ditto Commercial dii. J.n. 5, 1t560 -- Ditto Advertiscu ..... 14 11 pm. Jan. 5, ISSO — Bank Stock for Account ... April!, 1890. — India Stock for Account .. Jan. :5.11 1 70 — Consols for Account .91%14% PRICES OF FOREIGN FU NDS THIS DAI AT ONE 0 CLOc I. tustrian Bonds - Peruvian Bonds - lelgian Bonds - Ditto Account - Ditto Account - Irazilia n Bonds - , Ditto New Bonds ..., n3 7 ,, Ditto Account - , Ditto Account 3l Buenos Ayres Bonds - . Ditto, 3 per Cent........ - Ditto Iccount - i Ditto Account - "Jhilian 3oad r - Prussian Bonds - Ditto 1 .:::,c - .. tt - Russian Bends, 162'1 l' 2% :oktnitian Bards - Ditto Account - Ditta icca,nt - i Ditto Metallic - CoitliT2i3l;l;i 7 (6,1824 - Spanish Bonds .......... ........29%!. LEV.; tc:T.iit 3anis!: Bonds Ditto Atct : 01 — Dec, reed 1 Greek Bonds — French, &per cent. --f. —c, Ditto Bonds, 1825 — 4 per cent --f. —c, Ditto Account — , ------ 3 per cent. —f. — t -, Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent — . ....—..-- Exchange. --f, —.-c Ditto Account --j Dutch, IN per cunt Ditto, 6 per Cent. - , Ditto Account — Ditto Account gcapolitan --...! DDlittttoo,Ascpceorticnetif.......... 101 100, _3 Pit ICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Shalt Bissoe Bridge . Birmingham and' Derby Railway Company .... 90 6.53‘ Birmingham and Gloucester Ra i l way ( ompany 70 — !4 Brighton Railway London and South Western .... Northern and Eastern Railway Company 25 Condon and Westminster Bank £0 9.4% 4ational Provincial Bank of England ~ . 5 Ditto New COURSE: EXCH, 111134:m14m C.l4'. 12 5 )itto, at sight ...... 12 2 tetterdam '1. 7 . 12 5% intwerp... Hamburg. M.E. 13 :2% kltoria Paris, 3 . ..lays' sight.... .... 25 40 (Nue._ „ „ ........... Ms. *.a. 70 ••• 25 70 3°lli - do:tux ►N(iE }'L•r: • EPIMI Le -4 • -.•-• Vence N„ples NA , zrriv) ....... Oporto ...... • . • 11* Rl° Jaziorr ..... 47 4O ~.„..re, 55 ~. .......... Frankfort on Maine., Ex. 81. -. Ifi'clA 'rtersbuigh,ritii:e 9 Us. 3734 3crlin Vienna, effective fi...3 M li 6 fricite ditto , n 7 76L4 - ati flueco - ,s ityt Yon, , Ole eortu ..„ i 3roig.) Go 4 . • 0111 , .. Z. , .7 C Ncw • • N2Vir I),ESIS ••• 0 t, , evilly 'l6 I Sil-cr . 3ar , -• .. • (' 0 ti PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS. DUBLIN, MARCH 5- 3 per Cent. Consols - 31, per Cent. Stock Ditto Reduced - i Mho nian Bank — Ditto New, 1830 ...... .. 9SA ( City of Dublin Steam Comp. 3Y,', per Cent. Debentures... 9; % I National Insurance Company Bank Stock ISI ) City Debentures, 4 per cent. Grand Canal Stock Royal Canal Stock !ULF-PAST ONE. We have seen private letters from Buenos Ayres of the 14th Decemher, stating that the blockade still continued, but they were on the eve of important events, and the result of which will determine the long or short. duration of it. The writer adds that by the next post he will be able to give more infor mation on the subject. No business dc,ing in exports, the quo tations were very low. The British Market continued during the morning firm at the opening prices, with scarce a bargain doing, and may be quoted at present 91A ; Money 903 4 • Exchequer Bills 16 to 18 prem. ; India Bonds, nothing done : Bank Stock and India Stock, money continues at five per cent. In the Foreign Market, although very little business has been done, Spanish Active is heavy at 284 ; Deferred 14 ; Portu guese 34 ; Colombian nothing done ; Mexican 29%; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents 53% : Five per Cents. 1001. It is reported that Government have this morning received despatches from India, the contents of which have not, as yet, transpired. The total number of newspapers published in the United Kingdom is 519 ; of these 125 are published in London, which pay more stamp-duty than all the other papers together. GOLD DUST ROBBERY. —The trial of Lewin Caspar recommenced this morning at nine o'clock, when the. Recorder expressed to the Jury his regret for the inconvenience they had been put to by being detained all night. The t r i a l was proceeding when we went topress, and was expected t o occupy the Court unt il a late hour in the evening. DREADFUL MURDER AND SUICIDE.—W e have to record a most fearful and melancholy occurrence that took place on Wednesday at Storrington, a small market town on the road to Petwortii, and ten miles from that place. It appears that a poor woman living in the place, the wife of a sailor in a trading vessel from Littlehampton to London, has been for some time labouring under temporary derangement, and on the above day, being left alone for a short time, she took a razor, and, shocking to relate, severed the head of her infant child from its body. Having perpetrated this frightful act, she turned the same instrument against herself, and in flicted a fearful gash in her throat. On persons entering the scene of this tragedy, the body of the poor child was found l y i n g on a box and the head lying on the floor. The unfortu nate woman herself was also lying on the floor, but not quite dead. She lived a few hours, and then expired. An inquest was held on the bodies on Thursday, when the above facts were stated, and a verdict of " Insanity" returned. —Brighton Herald. UNIVERSITY IN TELLIGENCE.--1 MARC" o.— Th e Hertford Scholarship (an Uni vers i ty S chch : larship for the cultivation of Latin Literature ) took p l ace on Wodnesday. the 4th. Mr. H. Smith, of Oriel College, was the successful candidate. Mr. Cotton, of Christ Church, gained the proxime accessit. EFFECTS OF RAlLROADS.—Previously to the opening of the Great Western and the Southampton rail roads there were eighty-two long stages passed through the town of Egham daily, nearly the whole of which changed horses at the several inns in the town. Now the eighty-two are reduced to four. Some of the inns have been closed, and several others (the landlords of which arc not getting salt for their porridge) are about to be shut up. PRIZE FIGHT._Ots Monday a prize fight came i off at Dalmarnock Bridge, betwixt two newly imported Irish men, for 101. a side. After being both well beaten the parties left the ground. o.'e are sorry to add, that a d resser o f t h e name of Aitchison, who was hurrying to witness the disgraceful exhibition, dropped down on Dalmarnock-road and expired.— Glasgow Chronicle. he nobility who hone- I Among the . .:ured the ,talian Opera with their presence on the opening night (Tuesday) %co ~b , e rved the Prince LoniF 1\7, 1' 6100 4, ~I to occupied a box in . • 1. , • "!C and 11 - ,' •• Prince de Aletaturt. 1