The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-09 00:00:00

S. -
- MARCH 9, 1849.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
QUEBEC AND HALIFAX.
The final report of Major Robinson, Royal Engineer,
on the proposed trunk line of railway from Nova Scotia
through New Brunswick to Quebec has been made.
from which it appears that five metes were examined
and surveyed, the first being 600 miles, the second 635,
the third 652, the fourth 595, and the filth 692 miles in
length. The second line is the ono recommended, com-
mencing at Halifax, and running to Truro, at the head
of the Bay of Fundy, thence over the Cuinberland Moun-
tains to Amherst, then along the coast from Bay Irene
to Shediac, thence by a north-wes,erly course, crossing
the rivers-Richibucto and 3rliramiehi, so as nut to inter-
fere with the navigation; Bun by the Valley to Bathurst
on the Bay of Chaleurs, along the coast of this bay to
the Restigouche River, and by it and the valley of the
river Metapedia to the St. Lawrence, and by the right
bank of the St. Lawrence to Quebec. Teis line passes
through extensive coal fields arid mineral districts, in
which iron ore is abundant. One most important object
to be attained by the construction of the railroad is, the
settlement of the public lands, and the encouragement of
emigration from the mother country. It is stated to
combine in the highest degree the greatest amount of
remuneration for the expenditure to be incurred as com-
pared with the other routes, the opening up a large
field for provincial improvements for the settlement of
emigrants, and by affording the opportunity, in addition
to internal, of external communication by means of the
Gulf of St. Lawrence and the Bay Chaleurs, that it will
tend to develop in the highest degree the commerce and
the fisheries of the province of New Brunswick. After
explaining the advantages of this route as to climate,
agriculture, and engineering, it states the estimated cost
to be about 7,0001. per mile, which, for the 625 miles,
would amount to 4,445,0001., and adding one-tenth for
contingencies, 444,500 L, total 4,889,500/., or, in round
numbers, 5,000,000/. It is estimated that the .total
population at present which will be benefited by and
become contributors to the line, may be taken at
400,000, and would, at 10s. per head, give 200,000/. as
its probable revenue per annum. Various suggestions
have been, made for raising the capital required for the
construction of the line by Earl Grey, the Secretary of
State, and the governors of the provinces, but nothing
definitive has yet been come to with regard to the mode
of raising the capital. They all admit the advantages of
the railway, and the governors of the provinces their
willingness to contribute towards its construction.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

BRISTOL, MARCH. D,

STOCK EXCHANGB.—The stock market to-day has been completely
iiitctive, but without any alteration in prices.

LIVERPOOL, 31 A-RCM 8.

STOCK EXCHANGE. —The market has been very dull. Prices,
however, have not given way. —The sales are—Caledonian, Prefer-
ence, 7 per cent., 11%, ex in.—Glasgow and Greenock, Preference,
5 per cent. till 1858, 7%—Lancaster and Yorkshire (late M. and B.),
Fifths, dia.— Ditto, 101. Preference, 6 per cent., IN p.—Ditto,
Extension (late W. P. and G), 20—Lancaster and Preston, Three
Quarters, if p.—London and North-Western 136—Ditto, Quarters,
New, Si. I Is. 3d. p.—Ditto, Huddersfield and Manchester, 27
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 13%--Midland Stock, $1 ex div.
Ditto, New Halves, 7% dis. Skrewsbury and,Chester (late N. W.
51.), New 131. 1-3 Shares, % p.—Shrewsbury, Oswestry and
Chester, 3% dis.—South-Eastern, No. 4 (Registered), 7%—York,
Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 6 per cent. guaran-
teed, % die.

MANCHESTER, 3faitcn 8.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—West Riding Union, 3 13-16
dis.—Sheffield, Preference, 1074 —Sheffield and Lincoln, 14—Grimsby
20/. Shares, •11 die.—Dover (No. 4), 7 7-16—York and Newcastle,
Preference, par—Kendal and Windermere, 4%—Leeds, Fifths, 2%
Ambergate, 4 3-16 dis.—East Lancashire, Preference, 7 7-16.
BIRMINGHAM, MARCH 8.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market to-day was stationary. There
was little disposition to buy or sell. The sales are—Great Northern,
81. 16s. 3d.—South Staffordshire, 3►% die.
YORK, 51Aacn 7.
Bresue EXCHANGE —The business transacted to-day was as fol-
lows :—Great Northern, 114—Ditto, Halves (B), guaranteed 6
per cent. 6%—Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole, N. div., guaran-
teed 6 per cent. 84—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (Original New-
castle and Berwick), 253 i ex div.—Ditto (Newcastle Extension), 19
ez dir.—Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), 736.
HULL, 31Aften 8.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—East Anglian (L. and Ely, L.
and Drm.), Preference, 6 per cent., p.—East Lancashire, 19
Ditto, Preference, 7 per cent., 734 North British, Qaarters, 3%
Ditto, Thirds, 4%.
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, MARCH 8.
STOCK ExcuArecs. --The business done in the Stock Exchange to-
day has been as follows :—Great Northern, 11% —Wear Valley
(New), 3034—York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 25% ex div.
GLASGOW, MATCH 7.
STOCK EXCHANGE.— The following acre to-day's transactions :
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and ♦yr, 54 —Ditto, 5 per cent. uaranteed,
106—Ditto, Halves (No. 1), 61. 18s. 6d.—Great North of Scotland,
4s, 6d.—Great Northern, 1 11. 3s. 6d.—York, Newcastle, and Ber-
wick (G. N. E. Purchase or Preference), 834.

AFFAIRS OF VENEZUELA.
(FRON A CORRESPONDENT.)
CARACAS, JAN. 21, 1849.
In my last letter I informed you, that the constitu-
tional vessels commanded by General Justo Briceno had,
on the Bth ultimo, forced the bar of Maracaibo.
On the 13th ultimo, while at anchor at Brio-seco, they
were attacked by the malcontents with a superior force,
which after a sharp engagement they beat e ff, capturing
three of their vessels that had run aground.
Oa the 24th ultimo, the castles of San Carlos were
evacuated by the malcontents, who, abandooing tour of
their vessels, with the remainder crossed the Lake of
Maracaibo, and entered the River 'Luba.
On the same day Briceno to,,k pssession of the cas-
tles, in the dungeons of which were discovered a number
of prisoners detained there during the last six months.
They were so emaciated and weak from the ill-treatment
they had experienced ss to be scarcely able to move.
A short distance from the fort were also found eleven
bodies of constitutionalists, killed in the affair of the
13th of November, which had been left unburied, the
flesh having been devoured by vultures.
On the 25th ultimo Briceno followed up the lake in
pursuit.
The malcontents landed at the town of San Carlos del
Zulia, where on the night of the 31st ult. they were
attacked and completely routed by a column under Co-
lonel Ezequiel Zamarra, singular enough the same
in.lividual whose death Soublette and Paez strove
in 1846 so hard to compass, and in which attempt they
would have succeeded but for his escape from prison.
An instance of female heroism, worthy of being re-
corded, was displayed during this attack, and, in fact, to
it the success of the attack is chiefly due.
A lady of the name of Maria Encarnacion Pirelli, wife
of a respectable householder of San Carlos, exasperated
by the cruelty shown by the malcontents, took part in
the action; and observing that after more than two hours'
firing the constitutionalists were as far as ever from
taking the town, she s&zed alighted torch, mid encoura-
ging the soldiers to follow her example, in the midst of
heavy fire, rushed up to one of' the houses occupied by
the malcontents and set fire to its thatch. Wounded in
the leg by a grape-shot, she has since been conveyed to
the hospital.
A body of the malcontents under Colonel Andrade
effec.ed their escape, retiring upon the province of Me-
rida, but on the 7th inst. they surrendered themselves up
at a place called " Mocoties.”
Thus has terminated the rebellion commenced a year
since by the ex-Generals Paez and Soublette.
The former remains at Curass,m, the latter at Cartha-
gena, neither of them having by a return to Venezuela
chosen to expose to peril their own persons subsequent
to their flight into New Granada in March of last year.
There is nut a doubt in my mind that the malcontents
would have long since surrendered had they not been
allowed to make use of Curacoa and its dependencies as
bases for their operations; for example, Oruba was the
principal resort of their vessels.
Even children of Venezuelan slaves who, by the law of
the country, are born free and become so entirely on
attaining the age of 25, have by Pa( z's associates been
carried away to Curacoa and there sold as slaves.
Considering that Curac is is only.a few hours' sail
from the Venezuelan coast, it is most important to the
future peace of the Republic that Paez be no longer psi.-
mitted to act there the part of a conspirator against the
Venezuelan Government and nation.
Mr. Leocadio Guzman, the popular member of the Ex-
, ecutire Government, promises that great reductions shall
be effected in the public expenditure, and a check be at
length put upon the bare-faced frauds against the
Customs.
It will be well for the country if he be enabled to make
good these assurances; for the late rebellion has occa-
sioned enormous losses to it in every shape and way;
whilst its character and credit hare been completely un-
dermined by the agitation of delusive fiscal and commer-
cial panaceas, and by still more dangerous projects for
evading the payment of debts by the landed proprietors,
which have been framed by the party called " Cotope-
rim," of which 1)r. Sanavria and Mr. Francisco Ramon
Hernandez, in union with sLyeral of the most indebted of
the oligarchy, are the principal members.
The worst feature in the case is, that these projects
are not the wild schemes of an ignorant and excited
multitude, but are deliberately put forward by some of
the richest, although indebted, owners of plantations in
Venezuela, and that their practical effect
.would be to
enrich these at the expense of their creditors, chiefly
foreigners.
Of course the eventual, if not the immediate, loss
would fall on the nation at large, and not upon the
foreign creditors, as intended; but it is to be hoped that
President Monagaa, who is one of the largest landed
proprietors, and one of the richest men in Venezuela,
and who does not owe a shilling, will support his
Minister, Guzman; and that,' with the aid of public men
of firmness and integrity of purpose, he will, as he did
last year, save the honour and .material interests of his
country by successfully frustrating these suicidal and
dishonest machinations.

The Prince of Orange has signified his intention
of giving a gold cup to be run for at the ensuing Croxton
Pa! k races.

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placed be:ore extremely imperfect vision, the most aged defective
s!ght, is brought to its youthful, natural, and original state. Powerful
Telescopes, Opera Glasses, &c. Caution—The Messrs. S. and It. Solo-
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up the saute name in their immediate neighb• urhood, nor in any
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—Only to be had at 39, 4,l4cwarle-t3re¢t, Piccadilly (opposite the
York Hotel).

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
As se anuounerA yesterday, the season will pr:sitivery
commence on Thursday next, the 15th of March. The
unusual silence which has prevail, d until the present
moment has arisen, we presume, from the uncertainty
that has existed as what w,uld ultimately form the le-
merits of the troupe. As regards Jenny Liud, the em-
press or prima donne, it is not up to this momieret de
tided in what form she will contribute to the enter-
tairemeets of the seasen. Amongst the artistes en-
geged is Madame Ficzzohni, who apps ared to
London some seasons mi,tca. Thar; lino artiste has
just e,ncluded the season at St. Petvt ksburgh. here v.e
tie.:r her success was exceediegly great. We have ale
.ready stated that the valuable set vices Alb.)tii
have been sr cur. d. There is also G,zzeinja, who,
during the carnival just expired, was the ruling prima
donna of the Gland Opera at Turin. We learn that her
voice is a soprano c,tg, eat extent. Another engagement.
upon which it seems great re hence is placed, is Mdlle.
Permits, a pupil of the great Pasta; she has for several
)ears teen perk-cling herself; both vocally and drainati-
ctilly, under her illustrious mistress. Ih. next singer
is Mdlle. Guiliani, a soprano ; and Cassolani, a young
contralto, who has recently appeared and created Is
sensation at the Seals. Several secondary lady vocalists
have been engaged. The tenors consist of ;hat general
favourite Gardoui; Calzori, considered one of the best
Ressitiesn tenors in Italy; M. Thrches. who has recently
commenced his career with excellent effect at La Pergola,
San Carlo, and at the Italiens at Paris; and M. Bartolini,
who has also essayed at the last-named theatre. The
bases are Lablache, F. Lablache, Belletti, and Coletti.
The orchestra will still boast of the great instrumentalists
of last season, supported, it is said, by several new en-
gagements, and the choruses have been strengthened by
fresh and efficient voices. The indefatigable Balfe will
once more wield the baton. The choruses will be under the
direction of Felice Ronconi, the brother of the great
actor and singer. The Clementa di Tito, of Mozart, is
to be revived; and llMatrimonio will be produced, with
Lablache, Frezz And, mid Alboni. The Don Giovanni
will be cast with Alboni in Zee-line, who will also appear
as Ninetta in Gazza Ladra, which she has been recently
performing at the Italians. The ballot will be supported
by Carlotta Grisi, who will commence the seas(ll, and
Rosati, and Marie Taglioni, Petit Stephan, Louis D'or,
&c. Each of the vocal debutantes will appear in an opera
specially adapted to her peculiar talents.

LYCEUM THEATRE.
The fact that the different objects which occur in the
course of a day may easily be distorted into the dream of
the ensuing night, forms the basis of a little drama
produced last night under the title of the Romantic Idea.
A German student arriving at an inn finds there a
jealous landlord with a young and a waiter
pining with a hopeless passion for his master's
daughter. A curious story of love and murder
which he has heard told (or rather very well sung
by Miss K. Fitzwilliam), with reference to a ruined
castle in the neighbourhood, induces him to pass the
night there. A grim postillion guides him to the spot,
and, falling asleep, he sees the legend acted before him
in a dream, with the personages of the inn transformed
into the principal characters. After a series of awful
adventures which he goes through, as a long-lost heir
to the property, and which ends in the violent death of
nearly everybody concerned in the tale, be wakes, and
the little piece is brought to a close. The chief hu-
mour of the situati,,n consists in the circumstance,
that the student, with his modern prosaical lanusge, is
brought into inim(sliate contact with a number of people
who talk the high•flown dialogue of burlesque tragedy.
The pompous declamation of Mr. Hall, Miss Fitzwilliam,
Miss Howard, Mr. Selby, and Mr. Roaby, which last
gentleman impersonates a demon quite in the " 0.
Smith " style, produces considerable laughter, and con-
trasts with the easy wonderment of Mr. C. Mathews,
who acts the student. The scenery representing the
ruins may be classed among the happiest of Mr. Bever-
ley's productions, and the contrivances for changing from
actuality into the world of dreams are der, r and effec-
tive. Much applause followed the fall of the curtain.

COURT CIRCULAR.
OSBORNE, THURSDAY.
The Queen and Prince Albert, accornpanird b) Prince
Ernest of Leinengen, walked early this morning iu the
park at Osborne.
The Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal rode, and
the younger branches of the Royal Family, walked as
USUAL
No addition to the dinner party yesterday.

A deputation from the trustees of the Bermondsey,
Rutherhithe, and Deptford Roads, had an interview with
the Railway Commissioners, on Wednesday, at their
office in the Board of Trade, on the subject of the 14rove-
lane crossing by the Thames Junction Railway. The
deputation consisted of Mr. L( gg and Mr. Drew, for the
Hoed Tf ustees, and Ir. Pia-sou ter the Brighton R
il-
way Cumrany.
Colonel %V. L. Frecstun, ALP., had an interview with
Sir George Grey yesterday at the home-office.
The Commissioners of Inquiry into the conditions to
be observed by engineers in the application of iron in
railway structure, had a meeting yesterday at their Office
in the Board of Trade. Lord Wruttesley and other Com-
missioners attended.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TAT rERSALL'S.-YESTERDAY.
Little need be said of the business transacted yester-
day; it was confined to a few hones, and was in very
small sums, but was not altogether unimportant, inasmuch
as it gave The Tartar, Fernhill, Do-the-bo) 5, Joc• u'-
Sot, Uriel, and Osterley, a further advance fur the events
which are quoted underneath. Escalade was also in fa-
vour for the Derby; and anything above 3 to I would
have been taken about the Flying Dutchman.
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES.
4 to 1 agst Mr. J. D. Bay's The Tartar, 5 yrs, ist 91b
—take 9 to 2
8 to 1 agst Mr. Gregory's Loupgarou,3 yrs, sst 2:b
—taken and afterwards offered
8 to 1 agst SirJ. Hawley's Fernhill, 4 yrs, 6st Blb
II to 1 agst Mr. B Velox, 3 yrs, sst 310
15 to 1 asst Mr. P. Green's \Vesture, 3 yrs, sst s,b—t
Ea.;le is declared not to start.
METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.
100 to 15 ngst Lord Eglinton's Lugar, 3 yrs, 4st 101 b
to 1 agst Lord Stanley's Canezou, 4 yrs, Bst Ilb—
taken and afterwards offered
100 to 6 agst Mr. Gordon's 1)o-the-Boys,3 yrs, sst—t
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAN STAKES.
4 to 1 agar Lord Stanley's Uriel—take 5 to 1
4 to 1 agst Lord Clifden's Honeycomb—take 5 to 1
CHESTER CUP.
16 to 1 agst Mr. F. Clarke's Joc o' Sot, 6 yrs, 6st 111 b
—taken
18 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Halo, 5 yrs, 7st 10Ib
40 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Lugar, 3 yrs, 4st 101 b
2,000 to 30 agst Colonel Peel's Tatfrail, 4 yrs, 6st 121 b—t
• DERBY, 1849.
3 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Flying Dutchman
16 to 1 agst Lord Clitden's Honeycomb—taken
18 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Osterley—take 20 to 1
18 to 1 ugst Lord Stanley's Uriel—take 20 to I
33 to 1 agst Lord Stanley's Escalade—taken
33 to 1 agst Mr. A. Nichol's Nunnykirk
50 to 1 agat Mr. Watt's Chatterer.
DERBY, 1850.
50 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Knight of Avenel—t
COVENTR ir STEEPLE CHASE ACCEPTANCES.
The Craven Steeple Chase. Four miles.
Wolverhampton, list 51b—Prince George, lOst 131b'
—The Victim, lOst 101b—llope, lOst 101b—Dicky Mis-
fortune, lOst 101b—Thurgarton, lOst ?lb—Flycatcher,
lOst 61b—Solace, lOst 41b—Alice, 10st 21b—Verax, lOst
—The Slashing Painter, lOst—Vengeance, 9st it lb—
Ballybar, gat 101b—Cognac, 9st 101b—The Young'un,
9st 91b.
Handicap Steeple Chase of 5 sovs. each. Four miles.
Jerry, I Ist 21b—Sobriety, 1 Ist—Little Fanny, lOst
121b—Slashing Painter, lOst 91b—Camphine, lost 81b—
Yard-arm, lOst 71b—Queen of Hearts, lOst. 71b—Cog •
nee, lOst 71b—Justice to England, lOst 51b—Oily Gam-
mon, lOst—Merriman, lOst—Old Dan Tucker, lOst—
Lucy Neal, lost—Cynthia, 9st 101 b,
MANCHESTER STEEPLE CHASE.
Match-100 sovs. One mile and a half.
Mr. Coweh's L. 11., 4 yrs (owner), beat Mr. Howard's
Miller's Maid, 4 yrs, in a canter.
Sweepstakes of 3 sovs. ash, and 40 added. One mile
and a distance.
Mr. Hall's Ada Mary, 3 yrs, Est 81b ...(Osborne) 1
Mr. Jones's Hector, aged, Bst 1 lib ..•
Mr. Jones's Didsbury, 3 yrs, 6st 11lb
•••
The Countess of Lans!eldt, 3 yrs—Old No. 12, 4 yrss
—llarkover, 6 yrs—Beverly, 3 yrs—Railway King,
yrs—and Last Remembrance, 6 yrs, also starteod.ft,
and
The Steeple Chase Handicap of 15 sovs.
only 5 if d, dared, with 100 added,
and a half. (22 Subs., sof whom declared.)
9st 91b (Stagg)
Mr. Robinson's Fanny Gray, aged,
Lord Chesterfield's Victim, aged, lOst 1310 • 3
thihlree miles
Mr. Buchanan's Alfred, 5 yrs, lOst 61b •••
About
1 '
p ac ed•
The following also started,
but werea
ye; lost 21b—
not
Prince George, I Ist 1216—Sir
Henry, g
The Rover; 6 yrs, 9st 131b—Bally bar, aged, 9st 131b-
9st 121b—Ro-
Venom, 5 yrs, 9sl 131b—Election,_ 6 yrsom
Bowling,
6 yrs,
9,t
91b.
chester, aged, 9st 121 b—and 's
Betting-4 to 1 agat Alfred,
4 to 1 agat Prince George,
5 to 1 agst s .
,enorr. Won in a canter by three lengths.

SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY, MIDNIGHT.—The Pe-
ninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Montrose,
Captain Olive, has just arrived from the Italian coast.
Iler dates are— Civita Vecchia, Feb. 22; Leghorn, Feb.
23; Genoa, Feb. 25; Gibraltar, March 2. She brings on
freight a valuable cargo, consisting of specie, silks, and
works of art, and eight passengers, and has expe-
rienced remarkably fine weather. The Admiral
was still at Gibraltar, with a portion of
his squadron. The Sidon steamer has left, sup-
posed for Melilla, it having been reported that the Go-
vernor of that place was desirous of assistance, the Moors
having again shown a disposition to annoy him. It was
currently reported that the Governor of Melilla had
made a sally, but experienced a defeat, with the loss of
300 wen. The British brig William Tucker arrived
from Samsoun and Constantinople on the 28th ult., and
sailed the same day for Cork; but the crew having
mutinied, she put back. Exchanges same as our last
quotation.