The Sun. — London, England, 1840-04-30 00:00:00

o return should i t not =plaints y are ab taf ry oPe' n ot he Ministry al of the ensable; ,y are at i ts COr o- prevail: the 18th most re' We ar e , e are.°, e : to trio . o d e ff e ct, ;be cola' lour fine ,cted es to reduce 'rince 00 a the ' f a ' w esent e sty w ere ego p r: , 1 towle e f words e 1 1 nail , ' 1/ 14 0 0 50 1 .4. 490 ', 401 5' )AY'' • St l3l/13' so g o. ti& o l e t• bid ' h , og. II • di t to ; Que bec; fargl l 101 k--c." iled 08 or rie`'. No lOr , for irg► 2" . ; tO 4g, 1 . tO glittg°l to bo• , ,o toto' , : to I °. ' ati °ll i° e l r Pr l e be ,pis nor V 5°141 1 o leo°, id ' ls If ' bar re s t es to o, 30' EVENIN G EDITION. ANCIENT CONCERTS. The fourth performance took place last night, under the direction of his Royal II gliness Prince Albert. Con ductor, Mr. H. Bishop; Leader, Mr. F. Cromer. The Royal Director of the evening was very anxious to introduce a specimen of Palestiea's compositions for voices only, and the one selected eras from a service. The following were the words—double quintett : " Sanctus Dominus Deus Sahaoth. Pleui sunt wall et terra glorite tutu." Chores.—" Hasanna in excelsis." The quintett was led off by Miss Birch and Miss Mas lon, then followed in fugue by the altos, Hawkins and Tyne; then the first tenors, Rubini and Bennett ; then the second tenors, Harrison and Peck; and, lastly, Phil lips and Lablache, the effect of which was the most sub lime imaginable; and when at the words " Pleni sunt min," Lablache took up the fugal point, with all the majesty of his voice, and Rubini followed him, it created quite a sensation in the room. All this was without any ac companiment. When the chorus commenced the organ pealed forth all its powers, and the impression made on the company will not be soon forgotten. The chorus in fugue, from ono of Sebastian Bach's masses, was a tine specimen of ecclesiastical writing, and was heard for the first time at these concerts. Haydn's quartett and chorus, descriptive of our Saviour's last words en the cross (Die Norte des Erlosero am Kreuze), equals any production that was ever penned. Towards the cad of the quartet, a solo is given to the bass, which was admirably sung by Tamburini, who con cluded on double E flat, with a thrilling effect. This was followed immediately with the earthquake chorus, the accompaniments to which are truly awful. It is said that Prince Albert got up this oratorio once in Gtrmany, and that he sung the principle bass part himself. Handel's magnificent chorus, " When his loud voice," with its tur bulent accompaniments, was finely performed. The duet " Cara Sposa" is the " Graceful Consort" in the third part of The Creation. It was sung by Grisi and Tamburini. The former gave both her songs admirably : her brilliant voice came out capitally in " Let the bright seraphim," and it was ably responded to by Harper on the trumpet. Lablache sting a song of Handel's which has not been performed since the opera of " Bernice " came out, some 120 years ago. It is a fine spirited composition, in the style of Honour and Arms," " Lascia Amer," &c. Graun's Spirited opening of the Te Deum. and Mozart's mo tett had justice done to them, both by the band and chorus. The selection from ." The Mount of Olives" consisted of a trio by Grisi, Rubini, and Lablache, con cluding with the celebrated Hallelujah chorus. This sketch of the performance will give an idea of its magnificence, and the subscribers to the Ancient Concerts may con gratulate themselves on Prince Albert's having be come a Director ; for, from the excellent selection made by him on this occasion, he has given a proof of his acquaintance with the best works of the greatest master that Europe ever produced. The concert was honoured with the presence of her Majesty and Prince Albert, the Queen Dowager, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince Ernest of Saxe Coburg, Prince George and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar, the Duke of Wellington, Earl Howe, Lord Burghei sh, the Marchioness of Normanby, Lady A. Somerset, Lady Clinton, the Hon. Miss S. Rice, Miss Pitt, Miss Hudson, Miss Wheatley, the Earl of Ux bridge, Lord R. Grosvenor, Lord Byron, Baron Knesebeck, Baron Gruben, Baron Lowenfels, Colonel Cavendish, Col. Sir H. Seymour, Hon. Captain Curzon, Colonel Bouverie, Sir F. Stevin, and Mr. F. Seymour. The above were all in the Royal boxes. In the Director's box and other parts of the room were the Duchess of Cannizzaro, Countess of Lich field, the Earl of Wilton, Lord Castlereagh, Lady Burg hers'', Lady Saltoun, Lady Bloomfield, Viscountess Bar nard, Lady Emma Wemyss, the Hon. General Bligh, Sir J. Campbell, the Earl of Bandon, the Archbishop of Armagh, the Bishop of London, &c. The company alto gether amounted to between six and seven hundred, and the appearance of the room was exceedingly brilliant. The concert next Wednesday will be under the direc tion of the Duke of Cambridge. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY ,TWELVE O'CLOCK. We have not as yet received the Liverpool Cotton Market. Arrivals this Morning.—French and Ostend mails ; ship letters from Philadelphia and Maranham. We have received the Journal of Antwerp, of yester day's date. Bontsc oF AMSTERDAM. APRIL 27.—The National Funds are firm, owing to some purchases in the Integrales at the prices of the day before yesterday ; even some of them are higher. There has been also some purchases in the Five per Cents, in Actions of the Society of Commerce; the improvement in prices has caused some business. The price was 182. Ardoin's Spanish was not so good this day. The Commissioners for the liquidation of Cockerill's debts are now preparing to sell the establishment. At present there are only three purchasers known--the Em peror of Russia, the General Society, and a German As sociation. THE FUNDS. Cansols may be quoted at the leaving off prices of yes terday, 901 buyers for Money ; and 91 for the Account ; Exchequer Bills 25 26 prein, ; India Bonds 3 5 prem. ; Bask Stock 17,5 f ; India Stock 249} 250. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active not quite so good as it left off, 28i f; Portuguese same as they closed, 351- i; Three per Cents. 24 i; Colombian 25/ 261 ; Mexican 28i 29; Dutch Two.and•a-Ralf per Cents. 54 ; Fiv3 per Cents. 1001 - _ - PRICES OF STOCKS Tills DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 1755, 5' India Stock II per Cent. Red. B per Cents. Con 00N %%141 South Sea Stock — 3% oer Cent OB% 1 Old Annuities — Ditio Red. 98% V. tti%% 1 New Ditto New 3% per Cent 00%•%% S per Cent. Annuities, 1751 New 5 per Cent. - Exch. Bills, £l,OOO ... 27 25 pm Bank Long Annuities toexoire Ditto 500... 27 .25 pm. Jan, 5,186 i). l3 0-16% Ditto Small 27 25 pm. Oct. 10, 1859.... l3 %r Ditto Commercial dia. Jan. 5, 1860 .13 13-:ti Ditto Advertised ....• pm. Jan. 5, 1850. — Bank Stock for Account ~ -- April 5, 1880 — India Stock for Account .. Jan. 5.1870 — Consols for Account Ol INN PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE 0 CLOCK Austrian Bonds — Peruvian Botii.ls — B e lgian Bonds Ditto Account .grazilian Bonds Ditto New Bonds Ditto Account Ditto Accoun• 35 Y4 Buenos Ayres Bonds ......... Ditto,3 per Cent. — Ditto Account A Ditto ccount — Malian Bond k -1 Prussian Bonds Russian Bonds, 182'1 — Ditto Aeco'. lit Ditto Account — Cokirctian 8end5............... 4-- Ditto Metallic Ditto tecci. Sit • ........ ..... Columbian 3: r d 5, 1 .8 2 ,4 . 2844 7. .1.1 tto uccnnt — , Ditto Account. 0 81. 6 ,% Danish Bonds 77k II . Passive Deferred Ditto Att.( t n t ......... ...... 14% —1 Greek 80nd5.... . ........... . —1 French, 5 per eent......, 5.^.' f. —7.. Ditto Bonds, 18'25 — 4 per cent...... —f. —c. Ditto Account —' 3 per cent. —f. —c. Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent —, Exchange. —f. —c, Ditto Account Ditto, ti per Cent. ... 28% ; Ditto A cc ount 53% Ditto Account ....»......... '29?,', Ditto, 5 per cent 100%% Neapolitan — Ditto Account lOO% HALF-PAST ONE. The chief feature of observation this morning is a settling of the Foreign Account, which, up to the present hour, is going off well, as it is not a heavy one ; it is stated to be a Bull Account. The extreme fluctuation in Spanish has been about to 1 per cent. in Portuguese, about I per cent. Money, being so easy, an Accour.t may be carried over for 1-16 per cent. Both the British and Foreign Market were heavy during the morning. We understand that a discussion took place in Mincing lane, at the Tea Sale this morning, respecting the altera tion as regards the new conditions proposed. It was ul timately arranged that no further deposit should be given by buyers. The Lisbon mail still remains due. Consols at present 9q- for the Account, not so good as in the morning; Exchequer Bills, 26 4 7 5 premium ; Bank Stock, 175 ; India Stock, 2504. Spanish Active receded to 284 a; Deferred, 144 ; Pas sive ; Portuguese), 35A- ; Three per Cents., nothing done ; Brazilian, 774 8 ; Colombian, nothing done ; Mexi can, 251; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 534; Five per Cents, 1001. The above market heavy. Shares ati" improving. CLOSING PRICES. Br.rristi FUNDS Boni Sttick 175 ' India Stack 2'0 1 ,4 1 per Cent. Red 3 per Cent C 0014 Ditto Old Annuities . 34 per Cent. Red 98% Ditto Sew Annuities New 3%'. per Cent 99% Lx. Bills, 1,0019 "d css pm New S per Cent —. Ditto 5001 25 pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 27 inn Jan. 1901 Oct. 1859 Jan 1800 FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian, 5 per cent — Portuguese Bonds,sper cent. Balgian, 5 per cent — Ditto. New Ditto Brazilian Bonds — Prussian, 5 per cent — Boenos Ayres, 6 per cent — I Russian Bonds, 5 per cent... 114 Chilian, 6 per cent — I Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 er cent — Spanish, 5 per . ent 2 8 1,i Ditto, 1824 '.6 Ditto, Deferred Danish, 3 per cent '7B French, 5 per cent —t. —c Greek Bonds, 1823, 5 per ct. Exchange —l. —c Mexican, 5 p..^r cent — French, 3 per cent —4. —c. Ditto,6 per cent., 1823... ..... 9.834, Dutch, 21,', per cent. Peruvian .1825.6 per cent — , Ditto, 5 per cent. 1.10% SHARES. Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Bristol and Exeter Railway Eastern Counties Railway : Great Western Railway Ditin Vey. , Shared L on don and Brighton Railway 4O as y 4 L on don and Blackwail Railway L on don and Birmingham Railway 2O L on don and South Western Railway 1(15 L on don and Croydon Railway I trunk) lO% Ditto Scrip Manc h es ter and Leeds Railway 81% Midland Counties Railway 94 Northern and Eaitern Railway lO North gidland Railway Ditto New Shares HULL RAILWAY.—On Wednesday a trial was made on the Hull and Selby Railway of the first locomotive engine received, and which has been made by Messrs. Fenton and Co., of Leeds. We understand that it came from Ilessle in about six minutes ; the Chairman and some of the Directors were upon the line in a truck attached to the engine. Direc tions have been given to the contractors that the single line throughout shall be completed by June 1 ; the double line will be opened the first week in July. The only stoppages now are at the cliff of Hessle, where it is unavoidable, in order t o provide ballasting, as well as to work out the valuable chalk stone—and at the Pottery, in consequence of the dispute with Mr. Bell as to his wharf. A rule nisi has been granted in the trial with Mr. Bell. The engine now on the line is ailed the Kingston.— Hull Obsrrrer. DUTCH LAWSUIT.—A few years ago a couple of Dutchmen upon the high hills of Limestone. though very friendly, had a terrible falling out about one killing the other's dog, for which he sued for damages. They were called into Court, and the defendant in the case was asked by the Judge if he killed the dog ? " Po sure, I kilt him," said the Dutch man, " but let him proof it." This being quite satisfactory, the plaintiff in the case was called on to answer a few quos , tion s . He wa's asked by the Judge to what amount he esti ' mated the damages? Ho did not understand this question so well ; so, to be a little plainer, the Judge asked him what he thought the dog to be worth ? " Pe sure," said he . , " the slog was root nothing ; but since he was so mean as to kill hint, he shall pay de full value of him."—American Paper. CHANCERY COURT-(THIS DAY.) The LORD CHANCELLOR took appeal motions to-day. MUNCH V. COCKERILL. The greater part of the morning was occupied with this case, which came before the Court for the purpose of set tling the minutes of the decree as to the costs. After some considerable discussion his Lordship pronounced an order by which the costs occasioned by the suit were ap portioned. The Court then proceeded to hear appeal motions. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT. (THIS DAY.) His Honour the VICE-CHANCELLOR took motions to day, but, in consequence of the absence of Mr. K. Bruce, who was engaged in the Lord Chancellor's Court, His Honour was only enabled to dispose of a few cases behind the bar, and the Court rose before eleven o'clock. ROLLS COURT.-(THIS DAY.) The Court took motions. COTHAM 2/. WATSON AND OTHERS. AIR KINDERSLEY moved in this case, on behalf of three of the defendants, assignees of a person named West, by a reference to the Master to tako an account of what was due to the plaintiff, for principal and interest, by virtue of a mortgage, and to tax the costs of the suit ; and that on payment to the plaintiff of what should be found due on taking such accounts, together with the costs of the suit, the plaintiff should be ordered to deliver up the mortgage deeds, and the bill be dismissed. Mr: PEMBERTON and Mr. PIGOTT for the plaintiff op posed the motion. The MASTER of the ROLLS, in giving judgment, ob served, that an application to the Court to stay pro ceedings on satisfaction of the plaintiff's demand, and the payment of all costs, was so reasonable that it would at least meet with a very favourable consideration from the Court. Whether it could well be granted must depend on the nature of the suit, and upon the question whe ther the plaintiff might or might not, by the institution of the suit, have contracted some obligation towards persons who were parties to the suit, and defendants. An ob ligation of that kind had been considered as not arising in the case of a suit by one creditor on behalf of himself and all others. In this case, the bill was filed by the mortgagee against the mortgager and subsequent incumbrancers upon the estate. If the suit went on to a hearing, there would be a decree for taking an account of what was due to the plaintiff, for his principal, interest, and costs, and provision would be made for the redemption of the mortgage by the subsequent in cumbrancers successively. The subsequent mortgagees wore brought before the Court, and made parties to the suit, for the purpose, among other reasons, of giving them an opportunity of redeeming. The plaintiff, no doubt, might at any time dismiss his bill with costs against all the defendants. He was under no obligation to continue the suit which he bad instituted for his own benefit, and he might dismiss his bill on any arrangement he might think fit to make, provided that was not so done as to injure other parties. But in this case a question might arise, what was the amount due upon the mortgage. The subsequent mortgagees were persons interested in the taking of the account. They were by the frame of the bill called upon to intervene in the taking of the accounts in respect of their interest, and also in respect of their right of redemption. Was it possible to continue them as parties to the suit and the account under order which was to de prive them of the benefit of redeeming, and leaving it to the chance of any contract or agreement between the par ties whether they would redeem or not? That could not be done, and his Lordship was under the necessity there fore of refusing the motion with costs. WOOD V, lIITCHINGS. Mr. TURNER moved, on behalf of the plaintiff, Sir Matthew Wood, that the receiver might, with the appro bation of the Master, to whom the cause stood referred, sell and dispose of all such parts of the personal estate of James Wood, of Gloucester, the testator, as consisted of stock in trade, furniture, plate, and household effects. The Learned Counsel submitted that the motion was carried. The property at present was wholly unproduc tive; and what his client sought was to have it converted into money and made productive. Mr. KINDERSLEY, on behalf of the next of kin, submit ted that there was no necessity for selling the few trinkets and personal ornaments and the plate: of the testator, with a view of making it produc tive. The estate of the testator consisted of stock in the funds to the amount of upwards of 600,0001., yielding an income, at 3 per cent., of 18,000/. They did not object to the sale of the stock in trade, but the plate and trinkets, and so on, the relatives of the testator would naturally be desirous of keeping, and it might ulti mately be decided that they were entitled to them. Mr. TURNER observed that if it was desired any parti cular articles should be retained, his client would offer no objection to it. The MASTER of the Rot,Ls—lt is not necessary to sell them for the purpose of meeting any demands on the estate. Mr. KINDRRSLRY-Certainly not, my Lord. It was ultimately agreed that the order should merely extend to the sale of the stock in trade. His Lordship having got through the motions, rose shortly after one o'clock. BAIL-CO URT-(THIS DAY.) IN THE MATTER OF JOHN THOROOOOD. Sir F. Pou.ocx applied for a rule to show cause why a writ De contumace capienda, issued by the Ecclesiastical Court, and under the authority of which John Thorogood was imprisoned in Chelmsford Gaol, should not be set aside, and John Thorogood liberated. He made the ap plication on three grounds. Ist, That the citation issued from the Ecclesiastical Court, against John Thorogood, for subtraction of Church -rates, was not issued as it ought to have been in the name of Doctor Lush ington, the Commissary, but in the name of the Bishop of London ; 2d, that it did not set forth that the amount of Church-rate demanded from John Thorogood was under the sum of la, neither did it set forth that John Thorn good had been summoned before two Magistrates, and had then questioned the validity of the rate ; and 3d, that the words introduced into the writ issued from the Ecclesias tical Court were not in the form set forth in the Act of Parliament. Mr. Justico WILLIAMS did not consider the last point as one of any very great importance ; but taking all the cir cumstances into conaiderAtion, he felt it his duty to grant the rule.—Rule granted. EXCHEQUER COURT-THIS DAY. SITTINGS IN BANCO.-WALL V. COPE. Mr. KELLY showed cause against a rule for a nonsuit obtained in this case so long ago as Hilary Term last. The action was brought for the recovery of an attorney's bill. The defendant pleaded the statute of limitations. There was no question that the dates in the bill were be yond the period of six years. The question was whether the payments of 21. 2s. and 10s. 6d. did not bar the sta tute. These payments were made in the following man ner. The plaintiff was the solicitor for the Commission of Lunacy against Miss Bagster, as also in the case for the nullity of her marriage with Mr. Newton. The defendant was a witness upon the occasion. That trial was had in June 1832, and in the July of that year the defendant wrote to the plaintiff to get his expences, &c., for his at tendance, and place the amount to the credit of his account in his (plaintiff's) books. It was in March 1833 be fore the witnesses in Baxter and Newton were paid their expences, and on the 14th of that month plaintiff wrote to the defendant, inclosing receipts for 21 25., and los. 6d. which had been allowed him for coach hire, asking him to sign them, and he (plaintiff) would place them to his (defendant's) account, according to the instructions contained in his note of the preceding July. The Learned Gentleman contended that these pay ments were clearly made on account of a larger sum then due, and consequently the whole bill was taken out of the operation of the statute. Mr. EhLE contra contended that there was no proof that the money was not received by the plaintiff in the charac ter of trustee or banker for the defendant. Mr. Baron Pent E---What do you say to the defendant's letter of July, 1832 ? Mr. ERLE—That letter was written before the six years, and supposing there had then been account due to plaintiff, it might have been settled. However, ho contended that the money so received by the plaintiff, although on defen dant's account, was not a payment according to the mean ing of the Statute of Frauds, and if so he was entitled to have his rule made absolute. Mr. MONTAGUE SMITH followed on the same side. The LORD CHIEF BARON said, although he had no doubt at all upon the matter, for he thought it was clear that the plaintiff had the power to apply the money received in any manner he pleased, and if it were applied to a bill even fourteen years due, it would take it out of the Sta tute. The Court, however, were anxious to give the case further consideration. They would, therefore, postpone their judgment for a short time. The Free Society of Abeona, of Brussels, has published the conditions of the general course which the travel ling pigeons are to perform, which they offer to all the amateurs of the kingdom, on the 19th of July next. The premium is to be 300 francs, and the subscription for each pigeon 10 francs. Persons desirous of subscribing are to address to the residence of the above Society. MRS. FRY AND THE COUNTESS D'OULTRE MONT.--The following anecdote is sent us by a correspon dent at the Hague:—" A few days ago a postmaster on the frontier towards Germany received orders to have a certain number of horses ready next day for a lady travel ling incognito. The idea immediately came into the post master's head that such orders could relate to nobody but the Countess d'Oultremont, who has been given out as the in tended wife of the King of Holland, and he communicated his suspicions to his neighbours. The rumour spread like wild-fire through the town, and, next day, when the tra vellers and their carriages arrived, they were nut a little sur prised to find the whole population turned out to receive and stare at them. The horses were changed, and just as the car riages were starting, the travellers threw into the midst of the crowds that stood around some handfuls of small money, and a number of little pamphlets. The gazers scambled for the cash, and pocketed it forthwith ; they then thought of exa mining the literary bequests of the travellers—they were tracts ! The lady travelling incognito was the beneficent and amiable Mrs. Fry !" MARRIAGE EXTRAORDINARY.—A couple were arranged at the altar table at Keighlcy church on Monday, for the purpose of being married. After having got placed in order by the sexton, the minister proceeded. When they came to that part of the service where the ring was wanted, no ring was to be found, and the real intended husband had gon e t o b uy it. Shortly he c ame , an d pro d uced the ring, which was put upon the book, and afterwards upon the finger of the bride, by the person intended to give her away: they then proceeded to complete the business, the man who had been regularly pub lished standing by. The ceremony being completed, th e y went in the vestry to register; the minister hating entered thorn, called upon the pe rs o n mars jetl to sign, and ho answered, ff It' s noone a me—that's The minist er , not half pleased, finding wet his mistake, returned with the party to the altar table, and married the woman to her proper lover.— Holifax Express. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1840. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen had a dinner party yesterday at Buckingham Palace. The company consisted if her Majesty the Queen Dowager, their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, their Serene Highnesses the Duchess Ida of Saxe- ‘VeimPr, and the Hereditary Prince of Saxe Coburg Gotha, the Duke of Wellington, Earl Howe, Earl of Uxbridge, Lord Burghersh, Lord Robert Grosvenor, Baron de Gruben, Baron de Lowenfels, Countess cf Charlemont, Frances Lady Clinton, Lady Anne Maria Dawson, Lady Augusta Somerset, Hon. Miss Pitt, Hon. Mi ss Spring Rice, Ba roness Lehzen, Lord Byron, Baron Knesebeek, Hon. C. A. Murray, Sir Frederick Stovin, Hon. Colonel Caven dish, Colonel Bouverie, and Mr. Francis Seymour. The band of the Ist Life Guards was in attendance at the Palace during dirner. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, the Queen Dowager, the Duchess of Kent, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar, and the Hereditary Prince of Saxe Coburg Gotha, and nearly all the company afterwards went to the performances of the Concert of An cient Music, at the Hanover-square Rooms. Prince Albert left shortly before the Queen. His Royal Highness was accompanied by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam bridge, the Duke of Wellington, and Lord Burghersh, and was attended by the Gentlemen of his Household. The Queen and the remainder of the Royal party followed in several of her Majesty's carriages, the Queen Dowager accompanying her Majesty in her carriage. Viscount Melbourne had an audience of the Queen yesterday. The Princess Augusta visited the Duchess of Glouces ter yesterday at Gloucester House. The Duke of Cambridge visited the Princess Augusta yesterday. Lord Jeffrey, the Lord Advocate of Scotland, and Mr. Nicholls, had interviews with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday at the Home Office. Mr. Bedingfield bad an interview with Loid John Rus sell yesterday at the Colonial Office. Fitzstephen French an interview with Mr. La boachere yesterday at the Board of Trade. The Cabinet Ministers dined with the Earl of Claren don last evening at his residence in Grosvenor-crescent. "TEN YEARS AGO !" Tide Morning Herald of Tuesday. BY A TORY EX-PLACEMAN. Ten years ago —ten years ago I My hopes were all out in full summer blow; Light was my spirit, and bright my eye, The Devil a sorrow or care had I 1 I drank—l gamed—and I danced away, As tho' life were a lengthened holiday ; Four times in the year I made my bow At the Treasury, closed against me now ; And I took my post with a smirking air On the Tory side of the Speaker's chair, Where I laughed to behold the Whigs' condition, As they shivered from cold and inanition, In the polar regions of Opposition ; Oh, who made a gayer, or prouder show Than I did —ten short years ago ? But now how changed my life appears 1 I am sunk chin-deep in a vale of tears; Hope has bid me a long adieu, And Friendship, of course, has bid farewell too ; I've lost my credit, I've lost my place, And at Court no longer can show my face; My mistress is gone, the cunning fox, And gone, alas, is my Opera-box ; Stultz looks savage, and Crockford shy, And Tattersall grim, when I pass them by ; Where once I was welcomed with cordial grins, As one of the Tory squad of INS, I ara now received with jeers and pouts, As one of the Tory squad of OUTS ; Alas, how changed from the dashing show I made—but ten short years ago I SKETCHES OF OUR CONTRO. VERSIALISTS. No. INT.—THE REV. J. H. HINTON, M.A. Some men will arrest the attention, and carry along with them the interest of an audience, by beauty and grandeur of imaginative picturings— others—by the depth and profundity of intellectual research—some by the cogency of close, continuous trains of reasoning—others (and perhaps fewer, than any other class) by an originality which —out of things unheeded from their commonness, and tame in their irreflective acknowledgement— elicits the elements of new and striking impres- sions. Mr. Hinton is of the last order. His originality is not so much in the starting of new and undiscovered ideas, or the investing of them in novel and more attractive adornments ; it lies neither in depth of intellect nor power of ima gination ; it is rather in an active application of the judgment, in an energetic exercise of common sense and common feeling on every topic that En- lists his attention. It is not so much in the no- velty of his mental faculties as in the unusual vigour and activity of their use. It is not so much that he invents thoughts, as that he unfolds them ; not so much that he originates ideas which other men have not, as that he looks at things with a liveli ness of mental vision, which enables him to see what other men pass by. There are few whose discoveries awaken, upon common topics, so much of interested attention as Mr. Hinton's. Hearing him, ideas flash upon you which before you never received, and which yet ap- pear to be most natural and almost involuntary consequences. You are impressed with the thought, and wonder that you had never thought so. There is hence a freshness, a vividness about his state- ments which allows not the mind to flag or weary till the end. Mr. Hinton's main characteristic, indeed his guiding principle, is the confident appeal to common sense—the constant resort to an enlightened reason. Hefearlessly rests his case upon upon this basis. Even on the awful truths of religion, he hesitates not to declare that they are not opposed to, or contradictory of—though, of course, he by no means pretends that in all cases they must be dis coverable by, or entirely comprehensible to—the natural dictates of an informed and properly direc- ted judgment. It is on this principle is founded his:" Harmony of Religious Truth with Human Reason"—a work vindicating the whole scheme of Revelation on the grounds which reason alone supply—and a work, which we scruple not to affirm, is worthy of being Placed among the clearest and firmest elucidations of the Evidences of Christianity—and, from its nature, far more calculated to be influential with the mass of mankind than the profound abstractions of But ler or the minute investigation s of Paley. In a word, he has never allowed his judgment to lie dormant—he has always kept active the discern ing and the reasoning faculties within him—and he never scruples to bring them, on any subject, into active and vigorous play. United to this freshness of thought, there is a simple truthfulness of feeling, arising from the finest exercise of natural and unsophisticated sen sibilities ; the one acts and re-acts upon the other, they harmonize together, and the charm of both is heightened. Mr. Hinton's style and utterance follow his thought. As he thinks, he speaks ; that is to say, his discourses are not shaped into any other order or arrangement than the course and current of his thoughts. In fact, there is nothing of what is understood by style, either in his discourses or their delivery ; they are the natural flow of ideas, producing as natural and unlabourcd a flow of words—nothing artificial, or studied, or prepared, in the construction of sentences ; his language concise and simple, and his delivery, as much as possible, like the ordinary tone of conversation. There is in it, however, a kind of trembling anxiety—a feverish nervousness; his voice, now tremulously plaintive, now slightly dissonant— musical, but untuned ; and the imaginative might, in his pale and thought-worn countenance, and languid, yet contemplative eyes, which remind one of a fire that has exhausted itself, and dimly lingers on its flame, picture an enthusiast.. And such he is—an enthusiast (let us be understood), in the true sense of the term ; of a mind which, in aught that borders on the sacred, feels an ardour of devotion which acts almost like the consciousness of inspiration, or, at least, of high and hallowed influence. this is the en th us i asm which has often retained thoughtless, mirth-seeking hundreds in breathless interest, listening to the fer vent field-preaching of Mr. Hinton, marked as it is by a pathos and a power which could hardly be equalled. The same enthusiasm, when brought to bear on a subject so closely connected with religi on as the Church co ntroversy—influences him on the side of Voluntaryism, with a depth of conviction and an in. tensity of feeling which cannot be controlled. And in an institution such as the national religious establishment —of bearings so diverse --of relations so numerous —of influences so multiplied —many are the points, salient and assailable, on which the acute common sense of Mr. Hinton throws its severe scrutiny, and applies its powerful—because most popularly appreciated—tests. His reply to the celebrated Chalmerian Lectures was marked with all the severe scrutiny of a chemical analysis ; and the highly-wrought rhetoric of the Doctor was dis sected with a piercing acumen of in vest i gat i on, which could not but elicit whatever was frail and feeble in its composition. SHOCKING ACCIDENT.--On Saturday evening last, about seven o'clock, the waggon man of Mr. Robson, mil ler, New North Road, Durham, whilst near Aykley Heads, on his return from Newcastle with a load of wheat, met his master near that spot, and on leaping from the shafts of the waggon to speak to him, he fell under the fore-wheel, and both wheels passing over his chest, he died instantaneously. The deceased's name was Hervey, and lamentable to relate, only a few weeks ago he had a child killed by a fall down stairs. MOIN EY MARKET and CITY NEWS. (WEDNESDAY EVENING.) TIAE S.—The intelligence that the British ships had commenced reprisals on the Neapolitans caused an uneasy sensation in the English Stock market in the latter part of the ?ay. Consols have declined both for Money and the Account, and are quoted 904 to for the former, and 91 (sellers) fur the latter. The unfunded securities have, on the contrary, advanced, and the quotation for Exchequer Bills is 245. to 6s. premium. Spani.ili Stock is slat, and there does not seem at present much disposition to speculate in Foreign securities. The Actives are quoted 28, 3 ,- to Portuguese are stationary at 3.51 to a for the Five per Cents. ; also Dutch Two-and a- Half, which are at 534 to 4. The Share market is still the object of attention, almost exclusive. Great Western have again considerably ad vanced, and are at 20 to 2 premium. Brighton have im proved to 8- to 8 discount, and Birmingham maintain their premium of 73 to 75. The shipments of bullion from Dover for the Continent have been resumed. Within the last few days they have amounted to 70,000 oz. of silver, in coin and bullion, all for Calais. A high and desorved compliment has been paid to the report of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce by Mr. David Hubbard, of the American Chamber of Representa tives, in a letter to his constituents of the state of Alabama, devoted exclusively to the subject. He considers that the report goes a long way further than anything he had ad• vanced in shedding light on the enormities of a national bank, conducted by " selfish irresponsible men," with more power over the human race than could be enjoyed by any monarchs without a paper system--a system which robs children and mothers of their bread, and under hich the world groans, that the " rich may be made richer," and the powerful more powerful. After quoting the part of the report which points out the losses to the manufacturing and mercantile community, by forced expansion and contraction, and the fact that in 1837 the fiats in bankruptcy were 1,939, whereas the average of the four previous years was 1,266, he calls upon his constituents who are merchants to look at this item, and not give a fatal blow to their prosperity by clinging to the idea of a national bank, since it is proved by the report that the late mischief's were produced by the lianks of England and the United States. Ile proceeds quoting the statement of the distress of the working classes in the commercial and manufacturing towns, and asks his fellow-citizens whether, such being a small por tion of the fruits gathered from the national Bank of England, they desire to ingraft a branch thereof on the tree planted by their fathers, in order that their children may gather like fruit. If they have such a desire, he recommends them to read the report, when they will cut up by the roots every sprig and scion, that their children may not even be tempted to eat the fruit. lie regards the report as of immense value to the Ame rican people, saying that it comes " from the highest authority on the subject upon which it treats," as pro ceeding from a city (Manchester) which understands com mercial and manufacturing interests as well as any city in the world, and through an organ which, it is right to pre sume, conveys a fair and full representation of that city's knowledge and experience, The information contained in the report he considers conclusive against the esta blishment of a national bank as a regulator of currency, and applying it to the affairs of his own nation, says, that if so powerful an institution, located among capi talists, with a thousand times the property of his fel low-citizens, has so signally failed as a regulator, and caused so much embarrassment and distress, it would be absurd to expect success from a similar institution in Ame rica, where circumstances arc still less favourable. Another result which he considers established by the re port is, that when contraction becomes necessary, the Bank, in its struggle to meet it engagements, has caused a greater loss by the reduction of prices than the whole amount of its capital, and ten times as much as could have been occasioned even by so clumsy a method of exchange as transporting specie in waggons, and he regards as of the highest importance the connection (shown by the report) between the instability of bank paper and the growth of crime and pauperism. Ile ad vises men of all parties to read the report, and hopes that none of them will think of going back into a " worse than Egyptian bondage." CHRONICLE.—The Consol market became flat soon after the opening of business, some considerable sales of Money Stock having been effected. The Exchequer Bill market, however, is firmer, being last quoted at 245. to 26a. premium. The rumours lately so prevalent, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer was about to give notice for a considerable loan, although still afloat, are not so much the subject of discussion. The state of the public finances, and the increased expenditure incurred by the extension of our naval and military establishments, have led to a very general impression that Government must require extraordinary pecuniary aid; and the abundance of money leads to the expectation that they would take , advantage of the favourable terms on which it at present can be obtained. The discount houses in Lombard-street arc doing business freely at 4 per cent. ; and on the , Stock Exchange money is worth little more than 2 per cent. The intelligence brought by an extraordinary ex press from Paris, announcing the beginning of reprisals, and that the British ships of war had seized upon several Neapolitan ♦essels, produced no effect upon the funds, as it was generally anticipated, and at the same time sup posed that hostilities would cease on Admiral Stopford receiving his last instructions. On this latter point con siderable difference of opinion is entertained, it being considered rather uncertain whether our difference with the King of Naples would or would not be immediately adjusted by negotiation ; but we put no faith in the story that a certainiNeapolitan Prince, now on a special mission at the Court of St. James's, is oftener at the mansion of a leading Conservative Baronet in Privy-gardens than with Lord Palmerston at the Foreign-office. POST.—The present aspect of the Money Market well deserves, and doubtless will not escape, the attention of the currency committee and others interested in the in vestigation with which it is charged. The Committee has been assured by those who claim to be great autho rities in such matters, that the fluctuations in the supply and value of money, and consequently of goods, are all at tributable to the capricious will of the Bank of England. Mr. Tooke did himself credit, and the Bank but justice, when, in 1832, be refused to give countenance to so un founded an assumption. The Committee has, in the exist ing state of things, an opportunity of determining for itself, whether or net the accusation brought against the Directors by interested and unreflecting persons can be substantiated in any degree by the evidence of what is passing before us. The Bank circulat'.on just now is low, and the interest charged by the institution five per cent. Yet money is notoriously superabundant. It may be ob tained in any quantity at four per cent., or one per cent. below the Bank rate. Has this state of affairs been pro duced by the Bank of England ? No one will have the hardihood to contend that it has:; for the Bank, to have been the cause of the superabundance of money referred to, must have resorted to the process of lowering its in terest and extending its issues. Under these circum stances, the clamour raised against the . Direction is surely very unwarrantable and disgusting. However easy it may be for vain and empty pretenders to monetary science to dogmatise or condemn, it is felt by such as take the trouble to think upon the subject, that to understand the working of the currency is not a thing of so ready attainment as joint-stock issuers would have it believed to be. _ Much important information could, without doubt, be extracted from the bill-brokers. The Lombard-street houses Ind their supplies of money fluctuating from many causes, and the Committee would do right to consider with the deepest attention testimony, as to facts, coming from par ties who must necessarily see so much of the practical ope rations of the day. At all events the Bank of England must not, and cannot be regarded as the active cause of the present excess of money, nor is the administration of the Directors to be hereafter assailed, with reference thereto, by those who, in order to cover their own malpractices in banking, and lapses in trade, are so prone to lay the consequences of their indiscretion at the door of others. The public like to see fair play, and from the facts «e have placed before them, will have no difficulty in putting the saddle on the right horse. There were reports in circulation again to-day respecting loans and a funding of Exchequer Bills. The„ conse quence was a trifling advance in the unfunded debt, and a corresponding retrogradation in the permanent securities II E R A LD.—The public continue favourable to invest ments in the Share Market, and, generally speaking, not only is there an increased demand for Railway Shares, but some inquiry for shares generally. This sort of speculative in vestment, it may be ebserved, is both prudent and com mendable, under such restrictions as to the elegibility of the property or undertaking which the exercise of a sound discretion will dictate. It is rarely that loss will be risked where a due share of caution is brought to bear ; and, in contradistinction to foreign loans or foreign enterprises of any description, which may fail, as they too gene rally have failed, it must be noted that however indi viduals may suffer by undigested speculation in do mestic undertakings, the wealth of the nation collectively is not diminished ; for the loss of a class of individuals becomes the gain of a greater number, and labour is more largely employed and more beneficially requited, although to the dispersion of the hoards of capitalist:, great and small. In respect of foreign schemes, the reverse takes place ; for what the capitalist loses is so much impove rishment to the nation in every sense. The wealth lavished remains abroad without profit or return of any kind, or in any shape of interest or labour to the nation, or to indivi duals at home. Great Western Railway Shares advanced to 20 to 22i ; the half shares to 9} to 10} ; London and - 3irmingharii to 73 to 5 premium ; Brighton to 81 to 8 ; I li'ackwall to to discount. SUN—The intelligence by express, from Paris, of the commencement of reprisals by the English squadron came rather unexpectedly to the city politicians, who more expected the news of an accommodation than of cap tures. It is inferred, however, that the English Ad miral, or at least the Court of Naples, could not have received the news of Louis Phillippe's proferred media tion in the affair. At any rate, supposing the fact to be true, as it is stated, the English, by making a bold stroke at once, are not likely to be worse treated in the end. There were to- flay many largo sales of Stock by some of the leading members of the English house, in the habit of effecting purchases and sales for the Court of Chancery and the Joint-stock Banks of Scot land and Ireland. These gave a heavy tone to the market, which rallied, however, just before the termi nation of business, being but slightly affected by the in telligence from Naples. Consols for iuuncdiate trans fer brought 901 to 90, 1 ,- sellers, and for the Account 91 buyers. Exchequer Bills were firm at 0 3s. to "G . s pre m., and India Bonds at ss. prem., B a nk Stock-iml p roved again to 173 i. Friday next will be holiday at the Bank of England, being the Ist of May. The half-monthly account in the Foreign Market will be adjusted to-morrow. Spanish Bonds since the I.sth instant have risen from 28 to 291, and Portu guese from 351 to 3Gi. This afternoon Spanish Active Stock left off rather heavily, at 28i ; Mexi can receded to 28i, and Brazilian to 7.54 ; Spanish Deferred Bonds were at 133 : 4. The Share Market was firm and animated. The Railways bearing a premium were the Great Western, 21—the New, 9-Z- ; the Birmingham, 74 ; the Man chester and Leeds, 21; the North Midland, 4f —the New, 1 9 1 ; the York and North Midland, 20 ; and the South Western 8 premium. The Brighton were at 8t ; the Croydon Trunk at 3i ; the Midland Counties at 14 ; and the Blackwell at discount. Colonial Bank Shares improved to 84 premium. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. (From the Morning Post.) The Horning Chronicle is equally dishonourable and profane in the language which it uses with regard to the decision of the Cambridge Election Committee. It refers lo what it calls " a proposed absolution of Mr. Manners Sutton" from all taint of the bribery and corruption for which he has forfeited his seat, and affects to regard this as a mockery and an offence to truth. But the report of the proceedings of the Committee, which its own columns contain, shows, as clearly as language can show anything, that the Members of the Committee, as well those opposed in politics to Mr. Sutton as those who agree with him, were of opinion and anxious to state that opinion, that Mr. Manners Sutton was completely f►ee from any moral taint in tue mutter. (From the Times.) The Irish Poor-law must, in all that relates to elections, be made more stringent by provisions which will be sug gested by the result o f an i nqu i r y b e f ore a S e l ec t Com mittee, if any such should take place, before its dependent measure, the Corporation Bill, can safely be launched. And here we would urge upon the leading members of the Conservative body in the House of Peers the danger of placing any reliance upon the promises to introduce legis lation upon this or that part of the subject, which may be made by the Ministers. Let them bear in mind, that the Conservative leader in the other House has declared, that from these same Ministers " be withholds his confidence on every ground on which confidence can be withholden." (From the Morning Chronicle.) We have always willingly allowed that individual Tories may possess liberal and enlightened minds ; but these in dividuals, though they may be unable to detach them selves from the party, do not entertain Tory opinions. No mistake could be greater than to infer, that because Sir Robert Peel leads the Tory opposition in the House of Commons, the opinions of the Right Hon Baronet are the opinions of the Tory party. " Toryism," as we observed on Friday last, " means tyranny, bigotry, corruption—it means not merely the sacrifice of the many to the few ;:butlan intellectual darkness, which would sacrifice the interests of the people without advantage to any one." Every measure of an enlarged and beneficial char acter has been combated by the Tories, who have the na tural antipathy of owls to the light. The good measures carried under Tory administrations were not conceded by the party, but forced from it. When the principles which give to a party its peculiar character are abhorrent to the spirit of the age, on what ground, we ask, can any rational person expect liberal measures from a Tory Government ? EVENING F,DITION. FASHIONS FOR MAY. (From the London and Paris Ladies' Mag,atine of Fashion.) Our more recent communications from Paris inform us that the materials in fashion are likely to be of great variety this season ; silks, glaces and shot, mostly of light colours, muslins, pekins, satins, mousselines de laine, &c. &c. ; with respect to the make, there appears to exist some degree of rivalry between tight sleeves and bomffante ones, but it is probable the latter will triumph ; the present tight sleeves differ from those worn two years since—they resemble habit sleeves, ba ying two seams and elbows, and four small buttons on the bottom. The full sleeves are moderate in 'sire, and some arc made without any trimming on the top, and rather short, with a band which buttons, and from it issues a sleeve of clear or embroidered muslin, also terminating with a narrow band, to which a Oa is sewed, falling on the hand. Spenc..rs continue in fa vour ; those of velvet. with straight sleeves, withwt any fulness, almost tight, no wristband. Some 4ry pretty spring dresses appeared at Lougchamps, with biais at the bottom of the skirts, and on the sleeves ; the bodies open en eceur, with biais laid on, which met those en the sleeves ; some were with bouillons, others with flounces livered with another colour ; embroidery in silks is very fashionable both for shawls and dresses. Lace is also much used on dresses, both black and white ; as a general observa tion, it may be said, that the folds on dresses may either cross over each other or not ; that points are suitable to married ladies, but for young ladies the point is not so deep, and the body higher, and the fulness on :the top of the sleeves is confined very low on the arm. Coloused tulles will be fashionable for light evening dresses, mitt corsage drape, trimmed with bouillons. Bonnets are made rather straight, short in front, and not quite so low at the ears as those of last year; the shape is round in front, and very small ; the crown quite low and very little ornamented. The bon nets at Longchamps were white, with marabouts, glaces, silks, poult de soie covered with bouillons of crape mixed with violets : pink bonnets with veils, reps covered with crape, which was bouillonne at the edge, but in folds under and on the crown. Capotes of gausto or crape, with a fichu of lace or gauze on them ; the favourite flowers were bunches of hearts-ease, roses., violets, lilacs, and lilies of the valley. Ribbons are but little used on bonnets ; the favourite ones apricot, puce, green, violet, grey, pink, and choco late ; but before this came the Scotch plaids of ribbon. velvet, plain, or epingle, checked, plain ground, or varied by a showy flower. A satin or watered ribbon of an inch wide, tied in a rosette with long ends, forms a pretty ornament for the throat. Fringes are likely to remain in favour this surctpy_; they will be worn on the ends of silk scarfs, and iiiM; cachmire and Barige shawls, the latter materials again appearing; very large silk scarfs will be worn at the com mencement of the season, without being trimmed with fringe ; but as soon as they become common, it is ex pected lace will be again resorted to. A great many square cachmires are worn just now, green or blue, with large pines on a plain ground, fastened in front by a brooch, for which purpose coral is very fashion-able. COWES-WEDNESDAY. (1 , 12011 OUR OWN CORRIISPONDENT.) The influx of visitors into the Isle of Wight exceeds any thing ever known so early in the season, drawn from their homes by the fineness of the weather ; indeed April has this year nearly lost its character. " April showers" who has seen this year ? With the exception of a few drops on the Ist, 6th, and 7th, no rain has fallen here the whole month ; the ground is parched, and water is become a scarce article; it is hotter than it was in August last year. Lord and Lady Seymour, Sir J. A. Cathcart, Bart., Captain Lyons, Lord Corry, the Hon. Mrs. Knight, and several ethers, have taken houses. Amongst the arrivals at the Marine klotel are the Mar quis of Ormonde, the Rev. Mr. Barrington, Lady Bar rington, Lady Lucy Pelham, Lord and Lady Seymour, R. P. Staples, Esq., Colonel Rochfort, T. Leach, Esq., and the Hon. H. S. Law and Lady. IMFROVEMENTS.—Hundreds of our readers will remem ber the serious inconvenience to whlc4r they used to be subject on landing at Cowes, from having to pass over the coal vessels. No more are to come to the quay. Thousands will recollect their annoyance while landing and embarking, from the coal carriers and their filthy sacks—no more coals are to be taken into] the steamers at Cowes ; —and above all, at dead low water, the steamers could not get up to the wharf, and the passengers were obliged to land in boats. This nuisance is being removed ; a steam dredging vessel is now at work cleaning out the dock, so as to leave eight feet of water at the lowest runs. The fare aft from Southampton has been lowered ; and if the proprietors wished to keep another Company off the ground, they would do well to reduce the rate for the forecastle passengers. The Southampton Railway will be opened through the whole line on the 11th of May. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Lord and Lady Talbot de Malahide, at Long's Hotel ; Sir George and Lady Musgrave, at ditto; The Marquis G. Parito and M. O n eto, f rom Milan, at ditto-;' Lord Glentworth, at ditto; Major Walter Trevelyan, ht ditto; William Portal, Esq., and Miss Portal, at ditto; E. Ful ler, Esq., at ditto; Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Halford, in Grosvenor-square ; Lord and Lady Stanley, the Hon. Captain Gordon, Mr. and Lady Augusta Milbank and fa mily, at the Pulteney Hotel ; Vice-Admiral Lord Colville, the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Petra, at the Burlington Hotel ; Sir Thomas Hepburn, Bart., M. P. ; the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Edward ; ;Curzon and family; the Dowager Lady Saltoun and the Hon. Miss Fraser; Mr. Ord, M. P.; Lord and Lady Charles Fitzroy; the Hon. Miss Fitzroy: DEPARTURES. _ The Right lion. William Dundas, for Hastings ; the Hon. General Upton, for Paris ; Major Rivers, for Man chester ; Lord and Lady Henry Cholmondeley, for Hamp shire; Lord Walter Butler; the Earl of Winchilsea, for Brighton ; Lady Gardner, for ditto ; Mr. Elwes and fa mily, for the Continent ; Lady and Miss Disbrowe, for the Hague ; the Dowager Lady Northampton, for Sussex ; Captain and Mrs. Cocksedge, from Long's Hotel, for Essex ; H. Simon, Esq., from ditto, for the British Queen ; Edward Armstrong, Esq., and Mrs. Armstrong, from ditto, for Paris ; Sir A. and Lady Crichton, from ditto, for the Grove, Sevenoaks. Lord Brougham is not expected to arrive in town from France until Sunday or Monday next. The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch are ex pected at Montague House to-morrow, from Northampton shire. The Earl of Dalkeith and Lords Scott came to town early in the week, from Torquay. Lady Charlotte Greville, with the family of Lord and Lady Francis Egerton, left Rome on the 20th inst., and are expected to arrive early in the ensuing week. The Duchess of St. Alban's is going on most favourably. Her Grace has been confined a fortnight to-day. The Countess of Carlisle received numerous visits of condolence yesterday, in Grosvenor-place. The funeral of the late Countess of Burlington will take place on Monday next. THE LATE HON. MISS CARINGTON.—On Friday next, the remains of this young lady will be removed from Whitehall to Wycombe, Bucks, and on the following morning the funeral takes place. We understand that the Monday evening dances at Buckingham Palace are tolbe discontinued, but that her Ma jesty will give a grand ball early in the ensuing month. Her Majesty has been pleasiAd to honour the Earl and Countess of Listowel by signifying her wish to become sponsor to their infant daughter. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, accom panied by the Hereditary Prince Ernest, is expected to visit Newmarket on Tuesday next, when the 2,000 Guineas Stakes are to be run for. The Duchess of Somerset hoends giving a seties of fetes at Wombledon Park, upon the Caine scale of tasteful splendour that distinguished the fetes annually given by her grace's daughters, the Ladies St. Maur. The first will take place early in June. STATE BANQUET AT HERTFORD HOUSE,-- His Excellency the French Ambassador has issued invitations for a State banquet and fete, on a scale of unusual splendour, for the first May-day of St. Philippe. The tenour of the invitations prescribes the appearance of the guests in court dresses and uniforms. The dinner company will, we hear, consist of all the Cabinet Minister', the Ambassadors and Ministers of foreign Courts, and other great personages of the highest rank. The mansion of his Excellency, so well adapted for a festive display, is to have its frontage brilliantly illuminated ; a military band is to be stationed in the gardens of Hertford-house, to give further zest to a dinner prepared by the celebrated cook of Prince Talleyrand, now in his successor's service. Much curiosity has, we are 1 Id, been evinced in the fashionable world to be present at this'lete. THE LATE VISCOUNT GUILLAMORE.—The remains of this lamented nobleman were interred in the family vault, on Friday, at Knockany • and not w ith stan di ng i t was announced that the funeral would be private, a vast train of carriages appeared, containing the relatives of the deceased's immediate friends, and resident gent,* of the neighbourhood, besides a great number of gentlemen wearing crape. There was a large concourse of mounted men, principally of his Lordship's tenantry, with scarfs and hat-bands, and sonic hun dreds of persons on foot—mechanics, labourers, &c., who also wore hat-bands. The cavalcade did not eave Rockbarton until ten, and the distance to the church was five miles, the entire route presenting a mass of country people, who lined the road, and accompanied the remains to their last resting-place. The relatives and connexions of the O'Grady family who at tended as mourners were—Lord Guillaraore, lion. W. O'Grady, Hon. R. O'Grady, Hon. and Rev. Wm. O'Grady. Sir Martin Archer Shee and the Royal Society of Academicians will give their anniversary dinner on Satur day next, in Trafalgar-square, to her Majesty's Ministers, the great Officers of State, &c. The Duke of Newcastle and party of fourteen, the Bishops of Norwich and Rochester, Len ) , and Lady Col. chester, Lords Cornwall, Montagu, Clinton, Denman, &c., have visited the Polytechnic Institution Ns week. The numerous lovers of that popular entertain ment, the Promenade Concerts, will hear with pleasure that the English Opera will open for the summer season with Prome nade Concerts. The band is selected from her Majesty's Theatre, the Philharmonic, .&e., and includes already amongst the solo players, Messrs. Harper, Platt, Hatton, G. Cooke. Baumann, Laurent, jun., Lazarus, Richard son , & c. S i gnor Negri is the conductor, and the celebrated flageolet performer, M. Collinet, is engaged andwillplay allthesolosin the quadrilles and waltzes. A " RESPECTABLE" TAVERN.—At the Po lice-office, on Friday, an inspector of police laid an information against a public-house in Naylor-street, kept by a person named Johnson, which he had entered, and found sixteen prostitutes and twenty-seven black men. Mr. Rushton said the landlord had already been twice fined for harbouring disorderly com pany, on the 6th of January'and on the 27th of March. The offence now proved took the case out of his hands, as the Act of Parliament provided that the third offence must go before the petty sessions, to which tribunal on the 7th proximo it was accordingly referred.—Liverpool NEWSVENDERS' BENEVOLENT AND PROVI DENT INSTITUTION,—Yesterday everting a benefit, in aid of I the funds of this excellent institutioin, took pl ace at the Hay market Theatre. This society was est a bli s h e d on the ` ) 2d of May of last year, for the purpose el f. grant i ng pensions and temporary relief to masters and servants engaged the a at le l of newspapers, who, from age, infirmity, or distress, m re quire assistance. The entertainments selected by the Commit tee of the Institutionie great satisfaction to evineedbothjudguienthte aand e g n o c o ;i .l taste, ,he and appeared to give bill consisted of The Maid of Croissey, the White Horse of the Peppers, Ills Last Legs, and My lVife's Mother. The house was crowded in every part. DIED.—On the 24th inst., after ten days' illness, at the family residence, the Franchise, Burwash, Sussex, Ann Dike, wife of Captain H. H. Haviland. A LADY'S TOILETTE.--Essential requisites for a toilette, humbly recommended to our fair readers : A fine eye-water—benevolence. Best white paint—innocence. A mixture, giving sweetness to the voiee—mildness and truth. A wash to prexent wrinkles—eontent. Best rouge —modesty. Pair of most valuable ear-rings —attention. A universal beau tifiec—geod iimnour. A hp-salve—Cheerfulness. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. INTELLIGENCE EXTRA. NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING, 1842.—TUESDAT Sweepstakes of 200 sots. each, h. ft. D.M. Lord Kelburne's Sister to Pathfinder, Bst 101 b ; Mr. Thorn• hill's fby Emilius, out of Marra, Bst 101 b; Lord George Ben. crick's Nina, Bst 71b. FRIDAY. Col. Peel's cby Camel, out of Garcia, Bst 71b. Lord Kel burn's fby Retriever, dam by Ardrossan, Bst, R. , 200 h.fl JULY MEETING, 1842.-WEDNESDAY. Produce Match.—The produce of Lord Kelburne's in by Co mus, out of Retainer's dam agst the produce of Mr. Byng's Snowball ; colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 31b. New T. Y. C. 100 h. ft. The Goodwood Cup closed with 44 subscribers. The fol, lowing have been added since the publication of the volume : Duke of Orleans (two subscriptions), Major Hay, Mr. Shel• ley, Mr. W. Ridsdale, Mr. Smith, Mr. Boyce. A question was submitted to the stewards of the Jockey Club during the Craven meeting last week, as to the qualifica tion of the Duke cf Portland's Beiram colt to start for the 200 sov. Stakes on Friday, for which stakes he was entered as a "bc by Beiram, dby Reveller, out of Veil." Veil has pro duced two fillies by Reveller, one foaled in 1831, which was the dam of the Duke •f Portland's colt, the other in 1832. It was proved to the satisfacCon of the stewards that the latter mare was not living when the Beiram was foaled, and they therefore decided that the nomination was valid. GORHAMBURY, 1840.-FIRST Mir. The Gorhambury Stakes of 25 soy, each, 15 ft, anal only 5 if declared on or before Friday week, with 50 added if six accept ; the second to save his stake ; the winner of the 2,000 Guineas or Newmarket Stakes to carry 71bs extra ; the winner of the 1,000 Guineas Stakes to carry 511 e. extra. Fir Clump in. . _ Epirus, 6 yrs, 9st 51b ; Calmuck, aged, 9st; Lugwardine, 6 yrs Bst 121 b ; Arctic, aged, Bst 101 b ; George, by Roller, 5 yrs, Bst 9lb ; Ratsbane, 5 yrs ; Confusionee, 4 yrs, Bst 71b ; The Friar, 5 yrs, Bst 61b ; Hyllus, 4 yrs, Bst 61b ; Chemist, 5 yrs, Bst 51b ; The Dey of Algiers, 4 yrs, Bst 51b ; Clarion, 4 yrs, Bst 41b ; Tubalcain, 4 yrs, Bst 41b ; Ruby, 6 yrs, Bst 21b ; Richard Roe, 5 yrs, Bst 21b ; ch g by Muley, out of Dulca mara' 5 yrs, Bst ; Mary Ann, 4 yrs, Bst ; The Dean, 4 yrs. Bst; Gilbert Gurney, 5 yrs, 7st 131 b; ch fby Merchant, out of Turquoise, 4 yrs, ist 121 b ; Hahneman, 5 yrs, 7st 121 b ; Slender, 5 yrs, 7st 121 b; Crafty, 5 yra, 7st 111 b ; Slang (h b). aged, ist 111 b ; Bravo, aged, 7st 111 b ; Jem Crow, 6 zrs, 7st 91b ; Maid of the Mill, 5 yrs, 7st 91b ; Bandboy, 5 yrs, /tit 91b ; Normanby, aged, 7st 91b ; Bristolian, 5 yrs, 7st 81b; Jenny Jones, 4 yrs, 7st 81b; 10, 4 yrs, 7st 81b; Wirrestrew, 4 yrs, 7st 31b ; Shuffler, 5 yrs, 7st 31b ; Kensington, 5 yrs, 7st 31b ; Cantator, 4 yrs, 7st 3lb ; Revoke, 4 yrs, 7st 21b ; The Drama, 4 yrs, 7st 2lb ; Susanna, 4 yrs, 7st ; Medea, 4 yrs, Est 121 b ; Red Rose, 4 yrs, Est 121 b ; Alsdorf, 4 yrs, Est 121 b ; Glenlivet, 4 yrs, Est 91b ; Speed, 4 yrs, Est 91b ; Grey Milton, 3 yrs, Est 91b; Margaret, 4 yrs, 6st 71b; Lyster, 4 ' yrs, Est 71b ; Harmodius, 4 yrs, 6st 7lb • Zephyr, 4 yrs, Est 71b ; Nawcrth, 3 yrs, Est 41b ; Abracadabra, 3 yrs, Get ; Dreadnought, 3 yrs, Est; Muleteer, 3 rrs, sst 10lb ; Marialva, 3 yrs, Set 10Ib ; Hellespont, 3 yrs, sst . 4lb ; Half-caste, 3 yrs. sst ; Exit, 3 yrc, 4st 71b ; Brother to Enterprize, 3 yrs. 4st7lb. Nominations for the St. Alban's Town Cup. Confusionee, 4 yrs ; Bristolian, 5 yrs; Joannes, 4 yrs. GRAND SWEEPSTAKES PIGEON MATCH. The long-announced sweepstakes pigeon match drew yester day a very large attendance of sporting men of all grades to the enclosure at the back of the Red House Tavern, Battersea. The contemplated amount of the sweepstakes was 100/. ; but, although the attendance was large, those actually willing to contend as shooters were not in number sufficient to carry out the plan to the amount laid down. As it was, however, four teen members were entered at a sweepstakes of 6/ each, with the following regulations : The best shot to receive 321 10s, the second best 22/ 10s, the third 16/ 10s, and the fourth 12/ lOs ; the whole of the gen tlemen to shoot at twenty-one yards rise, with five traps each, five yards apart. Charge of shot limited to two ounces, single barrelled guns for those who had won public prizes ; doubles for those who had not been so fortunate, with of course liberty to use both barrels if they thought fit. But few availed them selves of this ; in fact,l of the whole fourteen, only two. The shooting, which was at as many as eleven birds each, com menced at three o'clock awl continued until nearly dark, when the first prize was allotted to Mr. Wingale, who killed all his eleven birds. Mr. Johnsen received the second prize, having killed ten ; and Mr. Bloodsworth, Mr. Brown, and Mr. Bang, each killing nine, agreed to divide the two last stakes amongst them. It will be seen that the shooting of these five gentlemen was first-rate ; that of others but very mediocre, and betting was brisk during the day at 3 to 1 OR the gun. A POLICEMAN MURDERED AND ANOTHER DANGEROUSLY WOUNDED. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) Huddersfield, April 29 A horrible circumstance occurred in this town S'osterday, which has caused excessive excitement. I will detail the matter as briefly as possible : A gardener of the name of Tait, who recently resided with Rawson, Esq., of Halifax, originally from the highlands of Scotland, was in Huddersfield yesterday, and, going up to a florist's stall, inquired the price of a shrub; on being told eighteen-pence, " Will you not take two pence?" replied he. In banter, the owner said " Yes." Tait threw down twopence, seized the plant, and walked off with it. The florist pursued him, and, finding be per sisted in retaining it, he called the policeman, Duke, to his aid, aid directed him to be secured for purloining the plant. He resisted the policeman, who had to call others to assist, and with great difficulty lodged him in the lock-up. On being put into one of the cells, he was searched, but, unfortunately for after events, not very minutely ; however, a knife was secured, and he was lett to his reflections. We have only three policemen (Duke, Danson, and Dalton) in this borough, and it had required their united efforts to lodge him in security. The lock up is situated in the rear of Duke's house, and the usual access to it is through the house. They had not left him many minutes, and were talking together, when they heard the prisoner making a great noise, so much so that they returned to see the cause of the hubbub. Duke, unlock ing the door, threw it wide open, at the same time sa)ing, " What is all this noise about ?" " I'll let you sec," re plied Tait, " you damned --." He sprung forward at the same instant, and plunged a pruning -knife into his body. The attack being so sudden, and Duke taken by surprise, he had not the least chance of either warding cit . or avoiding the blow ; he stepped back, and endeavoured to get away from him, but the prisoner pursued and cut at him as a gardener prunes a tree, that is to say, upwards, Danson and Dalton endeavouring in vain to seize him. Very soon Duke fell, and Danson got hold of him; the prisoner immediately assaulted him in the same savage manner, and, in an incredibly short time, in flicted nine severe wounds on his head, body, and thighs. All the policemen were unarmed, with the exception of Dalton, and he had only his pocket-staff. When this butchering commenced, he drew it out of his pocket, but never bait an opportunity of using it till all the mischief I have now related had occurred ; however, lie now planted a blow on the hand or arm of Tait, and the fatal knife fell harmless; with another blow he brought the savage to the ground ; the doors of the prison yard were thrown open, assistance front the market people procured, and the murderer was secured. Mr. Wrigley, surgeon, arriving immediately, and attending first to Duke, found him de luged in his own blood ; a frightful wound within the thigh had divided the femoral artery, a nd he was ev'.dently fast sinking ; no skill could save him ; he was dead in fifteen or twenty minutes. Danson was sent to the e Infirmary, and great fears are entertai ned for. him. e inquest on Duke has been held this morning, and the Jury' s ve rdict is " Wilful murder." It is remarkable that Duke and Danson were tall, powerful, big men, weighing from fourteen to sixteen stone each, while Dalton, a mere boy to look at, weighs only nine stone. Duke has left a widow, but fortunately no family ; he came from Hull to be chief policeman in this town about eight years ago. It i s sa id th e prisoner r esides at Halifax, s\ here he has a wife and two children to lament the consequences of his furious passions. THE CITY POLICE FORCE. The following Report of the City Police Committee has been unanimously adopted by the Corporation : " We, whose, names are hereunto subscribed, your Committee in relation to the police, to whom it was referred to carry into operation the Act passed is the late Session of Parliament for regulating the police in the City of London, and to report our proceedings thereon from time to tinge, do certify, that, by the 9th clause of the said Act, it is enacted that such sufficient number of fit and able men as the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council, in Common Council assem bled, from time to time shall direct, shall be appointed from time to time by the Commissioner, to be a police force for the City of London and the liberties thereof ; and having received a Report from Mr. Daniel Whittle Harvey, the Commissioner, as to the number and ex tent of the force, we have taken the same into consi deration, and, after hearing the Commissioner thereon, and considering all the circumstances, we recommend this Honourable Court to order and direct that the number of the police force for the present year de not exceed in the whole .500. •' We further certify, that in considering that part of the Commissioner's Report by which it is proposed to continue M. Whithair, the superintendent of the police force, we arc of opinion the same must be re garded as a temporary measure only until such time as he may be properly provided for, suitable to the services rendered by him in organising and establishing the ori ginal force of 500 men, under the Act of Common Council of the 7th of November, 1838, that appoint ment not being requisite under the Act of Parliament, which vests the control and management of the police with the Commissioner. " We beg further to certify, that b) the 11th clause of the said Act, it was enacted that there shall be de ducted from the pay of every police constable belonging to the City police force a sum after such yearly rate us the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons, in Common Council assembled, shall direct, not being a greater rate than 21. 10s. in 1001., which sum so deducted, and also the money arising from stoppages from any of the said constables during sickness, and fines imposed upon any of the said constables for misconduct, and from the fines im posed by any Justice of the said City upon drunken persons, or for assaults upon police constables, and all moneys arising from the sale of worn or cast-ZIF clothing applied for the use of the City Police, shall from time to time be invested in Government securities by and in the name of the Chamberlain of the said City, and the interests or dividends thereof, or so much of the same as shall not be required for the purposes hereinafter-mentioned, shall be like wise invested in such stock, and to accumulate so as to form a fund to be called The City Police Superan nuation Fund,' and shall be applied from time to time for payment of such superannuations, or retiring allow ances, or gratuities, as may be ordered by the said Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons, in Common Coun cil assembled, at any time, to any of the constables as hereinafter provided. " That we, your Committee, having considered the said clause, and heard the Commissioner thereon, aro of opinion that Is. per week should be deducted from the salary of each of the inspectors, and 6d. per week from the salary of each of the police constables, for the purpose of such fund, and recommend this Hon. Court to pass an order accordingly. WILLIAM VENABLES. " RICHARD HICKS. " THOMAS CORNEY. " JOHN BROWN. " JOHN &ACM. " JAMET POWIILL. " J. CHARM " S. LAKE." " Resolved, that SOO fit andable men, and no more, be appointed by Daniel Whittle Harvey, Esq., Com missioner of the Police force of the City of London and the liberties thereof, to be constables of the said force ; and that the said Commissioner, or other the Commissioner for the time being, do front time to time fill up any vacancies that may occur in the said force by death or otherwise, so that the number of the said force be always 500, and no more, until this Court shall otherwise order and determine. " Resolved, that there shall be deducted from the pay of every constable belonging to the City police force the under-mentioned sums—namely, from the pay . of every constable of the police force holding the rank of inspector the sum of Is. per week, being at the yearly rate of 2/. 125., and less than 21. 10s. in 1001. of the pay of the said inspectors ; and from the pay of any other constable, not being an inspector, the sum of 6d. per week, being at the yearly rate of 1/. 65., and less than 2/. 10s. in 100/. of the pay of the said constables, which said sums so to be deducted as aforesaid shall be paid in aid of the City Police Superannuation Fund,' to be raised and applied in the manner and for the pur poses set forth in the 1 Ith section of the 2d and 3d Victoria, c. 94." It may be proper to state here, that the zeal and activity of the City 'Commissioner meet with the warmest approbation of the inhabitants of Loudon. TEACHING THE BLIND TO READ The second anniversary of the Society was hold on Tuesday at the Hanover-squaro Rooms, the Biihop of London, President, in the chair. Tile President delivered an impressive speech. The repent of the Committee was read by the Rev. Air. Finch, the Secretary, who, after adverting to the his tory of the Society, stated that two months was the usual average period for learning the system even by children, though they were often enabled to read after six weeks' instruction. Since the formation of the Society 71 pupils had receivedinstruction,ofwhom3.s were males and 36 females, and there were now in the school 1.5 melee and 16 females, of which number ten were t ()ardor& Amongst these were"? Chinese famaks who had not b born blind, but who were barbaroesly made so for the purpose of exciting sympathy , and who , haring bean received at Macao by Mrs. Gutzlaff, the wife of the celebrated Prussian Missionary, had been sent ever te this country. That the objects of the Society were progressing was evident from the increased demand for its books, the applications from persons to receive ins structions in order to teach otters, and the cireurn. stance that the Bengal Military Asylum had applied for books. Instruction in writing and arithmetic by means of raised figures, and in geography by the use elf raised maps, had been commenced at the school. The income of the past year was 6611., and there was a u minal balance in,the Treasurer's hands. Several of the children read portions of Scripture te the great satis— faction of the numerous audience, and the appearance of the two Chinese children excited much sympathy. The first resolution was moved by the Bishop of Chichester in an able speech. Several other clergymen addressed the meeting. A liberal collection was made at the doors. ROCIIDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, Artiii. 27.—There is no change to report in the flannel market to-day. The demand has been slack, and prices lose as wing]. The wool market continues heavy, at former prices. .„ 314 o 04 71,i gone. 180 0 n, 10.1 Ia 9 .... i44i 109. ol eo, ir , )