The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-15 00:00:00

TEE SUN, LONDON,' SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 15, 1847.

all the toils of the recent Parliamentary sessions
by the enthusiasm of an election which shall

redound to the credit of the intelligence of the popu.
lation, and shall be a guarantee of the extended happi.
ness of the community. Remember this, Liberal Elec•
tors of England! that although you have the vast majo-
rity of the talent of the country with you, although the
most eminent statesmen of the age are with a few
unimportant exceptions bound together in the na-
tional cause, you must likewise show that among
your chief characteristics are those of ardour, of en-
thusiasm, of industry, of unanimity. And for the
more facile assurance of success to the Liberal cru-
sade, which must be commenced at the next general
election, let us return again to the Lower House of
Parliament those men who have evinced their com-
petence to fulfil the duties of our representatives pro-
perly. Electors of Marylebone ! among these men is
Sir CHARLES NAPIER.

Towards the close of last month Mr. COBDEN, M.P.,
was munificently entertained by the citizens of Flo-
rence, in their splendid gallery at the Borghese
Palace. Having for upwards of half a century con-
ducted their mercantile affairs upon the principles of
free trade, whereby they have attained to a degree of
social prosperity and happiness which the modern
traveller finds unequalled in any part of Europe, the
Tuscans had nothing to gain by inviting our re-
spected and illustrious countryman to a public ban-
quet. The same observation would fail if applied to
the remarkable receptions which the Hon. Member
for Stockport has met with in other cities of southern
Europe, during the nine months he has been absent
from his native land. Throughout France and Spain
the enlightened merchants resident in the various
marts visited by Mr. COBDEN in the progress of his
tour, felt, more or less, the blighting effects of the
burdensome fiscal arrangements by which their ex-
port and import trade are affected. Hence, apart
from the gratification which they naturally expe-
rienced in entertaining so distinguished a guest,
they could not but have hoped that the faithful ex-
position of the true principles of commerce, made
amongst them by the great champion of freedom of
trade, and duly disseminated among the public,
might facilitate the conversion of their respective
Governments to the expediency of framing their
mercantile codes in accordance with the enlightened
views of the renowned commercial regenerator of the
nineteenth century; whereas in Tuscany the
citizens had no room for similar anticipations.
The galling influences of a restrictive policy
have for years been unknown to them. For
the last fifty years the genius of philanthrophy
has guided their intercourse with the rest
of the world. The banquet in question, there-
fore, was given purely in honour to Mr. COBDEN. It
emanated in the most refined desire of publicly tes•
tifying their exalted sense of his personal worth and
European celebrity. The assembly was altogether
free from the slightest alloy of selfishness. In its
sympathies and aspirations it was entirely masonic.
The blessings which they had acquired for themselves
they wished to be experienced by the inhabitants of
other states ; they gloried in finding among them the
man who had succeeded in England in trampling
under foot the hydra of monopoly. Mr. COBDEN
made a most felicitous speech. He acknowledged
that instruction to his audience would be superfluous.
His remarks were made to be read in other lands,
and to bear his faithful testimony to the happy condi-
tion of a people who had consistently acted upon the
soundest principles of political economy. Where the
sceptic will not be convinced by philosophical reason-
ing, a practical illustration will frequently serve to
work a conviction. There is a princely simplicity in
the eloquence of RICHARD COBDEN. To the memo-
ries of the eminent men who had disenthralled com-
merce in Tuscany, be rendered a solemn homage
Honour to Baudini, who a century ago discovered the
truth, of which more than half the civilized world is still ig-
norant, that liberty of commerce is the only safeguard
of nations against the evils of scarcity, and their
surest guide to agricultural and commercial pros-
perity. tionour, immortal honour, to Leopold, who, taking
the torch of science from the hand of Baudini, entered upon
the then dark and untrodden path of free trade, and guided
only by its pure light proceeded onwards with an unfaltering
step, undeterred by the obstacles which ignorance, prejudice,
and self-interest threw in his way. Honour to .Neri, John
Fabbroni, Fossombroni, and the rest, who preserved from the
attacks of sophistry his great work to our day. These are
the real benefactors of mankind, to whom we ought to decree
honours and monuments, whose peaceful triumphs will shed
blessings upon myriads yet unborn, long after the causes and
compnipmers of blood-stained victories are lost in oblivion
and nothingness."

The generous encomiums conveyed in the fore-
going have been deservedly lavished upon the speaker
himself. Well might, then, Signor EMANUELLE
FENzr, in his fervid address, exclaim, " Continue
your labours, 0 RICHARD ! gather other laurels, so
much the more to be desired because they are not
stained with blood, but are covered with the benedic-
tions of the human race."

the electoral liberalists of Marylebone. The gallant
Admiral has redeemed all the pledges of the hustings ;
he has evinced no little anxiety to forward those
principles of commercial and legislative reform which
have latterly become so; intimately amalgamated
with the whole body of the Legislature. The
interest displayed by the Hon. and Gallant
Member for Marylebone in all 'natters of a
local and parochial character has only been exceeded
by the regularity of his attendance in the House of
Commons, and by the boldness of the language in
which he has so frequently upheld the cause of social
and political freedom.
Now that the septennial period is approaching so
nearly to its termination, it necessarily becomes a
matter of peculiar and paramount interest with those
who are really solicitous for the triumph of liberality,
that every constituency throughout the three king-
doms and the principality of Wales should be pre-
pared for the contest inevitable upon that general
dissolution. The contest will not merely be at the
polling-booths or around the hustings; it will in a
particular manner become manifested in the courts
of registration. For that contest every enfranchised
patriot in the empire should be prepared. No one
must slumber like the hare in the fable, or the tortoise
may outstrip its more competent rival. Every man
must be up betimes, and doing. The flood-tide is
approaching ; let not the precious opportunity be
missed. Remember that the Athletes of the Roman
amphitheatres developed their corporeal skill and
their muscular energies by perpetual practice in the
strifes of the arena. The glorious principles of civil
and religious liberty have gained marvellously in
numerical strength and popularity since the last
auction, it is true ; the kindred doctrine of free trade
has in that momentous interval become victorious, it
is true ; the Conservative party, the strong party, the
inflexible and domineering party, has been routed
and trodden down before the irresistible impulse of
the popular will, it is true ; party generally, indeed,
has become a has been and a bye-word, it is true ;
yet for those very reasons we should not evince our
exultation by indolence, or assert our power by an
idle and braggart confidence. We should consum

hundred votes, if it be not every day on the breach to
sustain its majority and enlighten public opinion."
The Constitutionnel ascribes the embarrassment of
the Cabinet to the misconduct of its members, and
states that the Due DE BROGLIE advised the retire-
ment of the whole Cabinet, and that a person whom
M. GUIZOT is accustomed to consult, and on whose
opinion he places great reliance, was of a similar
opinion; but that M. DUCHA.TEL insisted that the
Cabinet should remain in office.

During the recent disturbances in different parts
of France to prevent the removal of grain, the mili-
tary authorities have not ventured to employ force to
establish order, when not unaccompanied by one of
the civil authorities. The Minister of War, how-
ever, has just issued directions, setting forth that by
the law of Aug. 3, 1791, the commandants of the
military have not need of the co-operation of a civil
magistrate to repress acts of aggression and pillage,
and to ensure the absolute free circulation of grain
and provisions.

The Toulonnais of Sunday states that the first
division of the Mediterranean squadron, now at
anchor off the island of Hyeres, was expected to re-
turn to Toulon to re-victual, and then sail for the
coast of Italy with the other ships under the com-
mand of the Prince DE JOINVILLE, whose squadron
is now composed of the Souverain, bearing the Ad-
miral's flag, the Friedland, in which is Rear-Admiral
DE TREHOUARD, the Ocean, Jupiter, and Jena, with
the two frigates Armide, and Psyche, and several
steamers.

COUPS AUTHENTIQUP.—PARIS, MAT 12.—French Five
per Cents., 115 f. 75c. 60c. 50c. Four-and-a-Half per Cents.,
104 f. Four per Cents., 100 f. 25c. Three per Cents., 77f. 90c.
Bank of France Shares, 3,240 f. Obl. of the City, 1,300 E
Neapolitan (Rothschild's) Definitives, 102 f. 75c. 80c.
Romans, 991/4f. Belgian Five per Cents. (1840), 993/ f.
Ditto (1842), 100 f. Ditto, Four-and-a-Half per Cents.,
9530. Spanish Three per Cents., 351%. Exchange on Lon-
don :—One month, paper, 25f. 70c. ; money, 25E 70c.; three
months, paper, 25f. 3714 c. ; money, 25f. 321,4 c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAT 13.
Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 1414—Namur
and Liege, 4—Northern of France, 11X—Orleans and
Bordeaux, 6—Paris and Lyons, 54—Paris and Rouen, 351
—Rouen and Havre, 241/2—Sambre and Meuse, 7.

PORTUGAL.
SOUTHAMPTON, MAY 14.
The Montrose arrived at nine o'clock; she left Lisbon
on the 9th inst. This vessel brings news that the pro-
posals of Colonel Wrylde had been accepted at St. Übe's,
and declined at Oporto. Dispatches will be sent by the
eleven o'clock train.—Herald.

THE LORD-LIEUTENANT OF
IRELAND.

DUBLIN, MAT 12.—At eleven o'clock last night the fo
lowing bulletin was issued :

" His Excellency has gained considerable strength, and is
better this evening."

The bulletin issued this morning is less favourable :
" The Lord-Lieutenant had a quiet night, but his strength
has not improved."

At three o'clock this afternoon the answer to inquiries
was, that " there Was no material change in the state of his
Excellency."

ONE CLOSING
Bank Stock
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
.
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. •• 86% 85% 851
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities
.. •. 873 46% 87% 87
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anna. 87% %IA 14 871 A
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 9 8 15-16 8 15-16
Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. • • 9 3-16 % 9%
India Stock .. .. • • . ••, .. • . 242 242
India Bonds, 1,0001. .. .. .• • • •• 2 dis 2 dis
South Sea Stock .. .. • • • ••
Ditto, New Annuities .• • • • • 85%
Consols for May 27
.. .• • • • • •• 87% 'Alndia Stock for Account
.. .. .. . 241
Exchequer Bills. IN d. 2d.
1,0001... ,„ .• .. par 1 p
5001.:.. .. .... 23 p
Ditto, Small •• • • 45 p
ONE CL DICES
FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PR ICES
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. 83 83
Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent .. 20% 20%
Ditto, for the Account •• • • — 20%
Russian Bonds .. "•• • • 309 109%
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. ..
Ditto, for the Account
.• .. ..
Ditto, Passive Bonds • • • • • • 5
Ditto, Three per Cent .. ..
Ditto, for the Account
.. .. . 31% 34
Dividend' on the above payable In Lendon.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates

/351
241

57%
•• 87• U 88%
PRICES OF M;SINESS CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES, PAID.
ONIIVLAICic. PRICES.
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 10 .... 16%......., • 16%
Boston, Stamford, & Birmingham 5 .... 5 5
Caledonian .. .• 30 ...... 23%
Ditto, Half Shares 2% ..... 1%
Eastern Counties .. 20 .... 1844 . lB%
East Lincolnshire .. 6%.... 7%
Edinburgh and Perth .- .. • . 2 .... 2 ......
Great Northern ...• 2% •
Great Southern. & West. (Ireland) 30 .... •
Great Western .. 85 I 11% ....... • I 1 1%
Ditto, Half Shares .. 50 .... 64% 65 ..... 65
Ditto, Fifths ..
.. 20 .... 25% .
Ditto, New .. 4% .....7%
Leeds and Thir5k........26 .... •• •• .
Ditto, Preference 6 per Cent... . •
London, Brighton, and S Coast.. 50 .... 51 k %
Ditto, Consol. Eighths .. 10 ....
London an • North-Western ••100 .. 1711,E 14
Ditto, Quarters L. and B. 7 ......
Ditto ditto, New Shares • • .. 2 .
Ditto, 401. Shares M. &B. • • 40
Ditto, 10/. Shares M. & 13. (B) 5 .... 10% 10 ..
London and South-Western 411. Gs. 10d...
Ditto, Tenths (Consolidated) .. 50 .. • • 51%
Ditto, Scrip— .. •• • • • • 5 .... 4% %
Ditto, ditto .. .• .. • • • • 4
Manchester and Leeds .• • • 82 • • ..lOU .
Ditto, Fifths .. • • .. 5
...
Ditto, Thirds (Reg.).. . • • • 71. 45... ...
..
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. .• •• % d'
Manchester and Southampton .. 2
Midland .. •• ..100 ....114% 113 115.
Ditto, New • • •• 36 .. 38%34
Ditto, New • • • • 6 77/.
......
Newcastle and Berwick • •• 20 ..
Ditto, New .. • • • • • • 5
Norfolk .. • • .. •• ..100•
Northern Counties Union .. • • 123...... 4
•• ••
North British • • .. • • •• 25 .... 30% •• • •
Ditto, Extension •• • • • . „ %
..........
North Staffordshire .. • • • • 7%
Oxford, Wor'ster, & Wolverhanap. 22% 1334
Preston and Wyre.. • • • • 25 .
Ditto, Half Shares (A) .. 8 .... 34
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 5 4
Royston and Ilitchin . • • • • 1%
.•
......
Scottish Central • • • •• 17% .. ...
22% 2314 22%
Scottish Midland .. .• •• • • 17% ........
Ditto, New.
Shrewsburyasasnild BiTin.g.ha! 33% 32
%2•":
Shropshire Union .. •• .- 4 ..........
South Eastern and DoTor 33
Do.. New (do. 101.) .. No. 4. 5 .. . ..........
West Riding Union • • • • .. 4/. 25... ...
% p par ..
Windsor. Staines, &S. Western.. 425. ... ......
.
York and Newcastle .. • - • • 25 .
Ditto, New.. • • • • • • .. 10 .... 13% ,.... ..
Ditto, Preference .. . • • • 4 ....
York and North Midland 50 .... 82%
Ditto, Extension • • .. •• 25 40 .....
Do. E. and W. Riding Eaten.. 10 .. 20 19i, ......
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Dutch Rhenish • • .• • • • - 7
.......
Namur and Liege .. .. • • • . 10
..
..
3 s' ..
.
West Flanders .• • • . 8 34 ..
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
London and Westminster .. .. 20 .... 26 .. • •
Union of Australia .. • • .. 25

1713

11
66

51!.4
434
3LA
100

li P
% dls.

414
par
eft P
34N
13%
614
82%

MINES.
Real del Monte, Unregistered .. —„ .. 314 ........ • • 3
COURSE OF EXCHANGE.
Amsterdam C.F. 12 9 Gibraltar..
Ditto, at sight ..... . 12 6 Leghorn .. •. •• .. .... 3o 50
Rotterdam .... .. 2U. 12 9% Genoa ................ 2G 50
•
Elamburgh .... • • M.I. 14 Venice.... •• • • ..... ...
Aitona •.. ........ Naples .• • ... 39%
Paris, 3 days' sight .. . • 26 Palermo, per o 2 •
... 119
Ditto, .............. 26 40 Li5b0n................ 52%
Marseilles .. .. • . ..... . 26 50 Oporto .......... ••• • • • 53%
Bourdeaux
Frankfort on Maine:. ...26 45 Rio Janeiro • • .......• 26
. 124 %
Bahia
Petersinrgh, 317 s .... Buenos Ayres
Berlin .... ...... ... •• • New York, 21 days'sight --
Vienna, eine. flo .. .. .. 10 16 Philadelphia ..........
Trieste, ditto.... . • .... 10 16 PRIM OP BULLION, PEE ois.
Madrid .............. 46 l'i Foreign Gold in bars £3 17 9
Cadiz •.. : ........ 47% New Dollars .... • • 0 4 9%
ilium_ .............. Portugal Gold Coin ••0 0 0
Barcelona • • .......... , Spanish Doubloons
fi1iPvi11e........ •••• • • .. Silveri?

la bar 5,,,,,, •• 0 4 10%

FLANDERS MAIL.

BRUSSELS-, MAY 11.—Seventeen ships arrived in Ant-
werp yesterday, twelve of which have cargoes of Corn.
The Precurseur informs us that the refiners of foreign
sugar at Antwerp have just addressed a petition to the
Minister of Finance on the subject of molasses,
which have lately arrived from Mantazas, and
which are no longer imported at the duty
of G 36. In this document, which we are sorry that
we cannot place before our readers at full length. The
petitioner requires that the member, before deciding on
this admission will be pleased to order a trial to be
made with the molasses, in order to ascertain the quan-
tity of sugar fit for exportation which these contain.
For the purpose of making this trial, the refiners have
placed their manufactories at the disposal of the Go-
vernment
The Senate opened and closed the general discussion
of projects of law for granting supplementary credit to
the department of the Interior and of Foreign Affairs.
The sequel of the
general discussion of the projects of
law relative to the reduction of the tolls on the Sambre,
which opened at the end of the sitting, was adjourned till
the evening.
The Moniteier of this day contains a Royal ordinance,
promulgating the law, by which the Chambers have
fixed the expenditure and
revenue of the kingdom, ae-
,,,rding to the account presented
Finance. by the Minister of

Art. 1. The ordinary and extraordinary expenses of
1839 are fixed at the sum of 124,293,3141. 74c. The
payment of the expenses which have been made for the
same period till its close, is fixed at 123,934,849 f. 33c.;
the remaining to be paid at 138,4951. 44c.
Art. 2. The receipts of the budget of 1839 are fixed
at the sum of 115,885,823 f. 15c.
A sum of 48,6121. sc. is to be deducted from the
revenue.

ANTWERP.—ASPECT OF THE
TrAttvEsT.—A letter
from Grammonde Gays, the country presents at this
moment a delightful prospect from the fine appearance
of the tole seed, which have not, for a long time, been
so strong and so full covered with flowers. There has,
indeed, been some delay in the flowering as in vegeta-
tion in general this year, but this delay will not be pre-
judicial; next to the tole seed the rye presents the most
beautiful appearance. It is long since it has been

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
There was a steady market for Cotton at Liverpool yester-
day. Sales 4,000 bales, without change in prices, including
3,500 bales of American at 6d. to 71d. per lb. There was
a better feeling in the Share-market, owing to the bankers
discounting more freely.
Thu sale of Railway Shares to-day, by Messrs. Lamont
and Co., went off without spirit, and prices remain un-
altered. The following aro a few of the principal sales :
South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goolo £1 7 0
North British, Thirds
Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston 1 5 0
Royston and Hitchin
North British, Extension-- ....... .
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 4 17 6
Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux .... 6 0 0
Liverp. blanch. and Newcastle-upon-Tyne 0 14 6
Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock. .... .. 1 12 6
Eastern Counties
18 17 0
Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A) 3 2 0
Newmarket and Chesterford
South Wales ................................. 7 0 0
Northern Counties Union 1 2 6
Loudon and Blackwall, No. 1
Eastern Counties, York Extension .. 416 6
Much interest, and indeed some little excitement, was ma-
nifested in mercantile walks, upon the fact of the Boston
steamer having arrived off Holyhead becoming known, and
all were on the qui vice to learn the rate of exchange at New
York, and the state of the grain market. Had the letters
and papers reached town sufficiently early, the market
would no doubt have been affected in Mark-lane, but in the
interim business proceeded quietly, and Monday's rates were
supported, foreign qualities being even a shade dearer, in the
absence of any extensive demand, and despite the very fair
arrivals within the last two or three days. Wheat seems
now to be the scarcest article, and therefore it becomes of
importance that consumers should turn their attention in
some measure to rye, Indian corn, sc., as partial substitutes.
This, with economy, would assist in clearing out the supplies,
and much, also, will be saved by even the moderate use of
sugar in distilleries. The exchange comes higher from
New York, but for other particulars, as we have
not yet had an opportunity of seeing private letters from
America, we must refer our readers to another part of
The Sun.
Although money has been rather dearer in the Stock Ex-
change, arising from the payment in advance of instalments
upon the Loan, and which have been made, it is said, to
some extent, there is certainly rather more ease in the dis-
count market, and there has been accommodation rather
more liberally granted, despite some difficulty which has arisen
in the payment of acceptances by one or two houses. In-
dulgence in the present state of affairs may well be needed,
and to the fullest possible extent, no doubt, will be
granted too.
The Funds are influenced temporarily by the Loan pay-
ments, but Exchequer-bills have been made most
available for the purpose. The allowance of in-
creased interest or discount upon prompt or full
payments of the deposits upon the Eight Million Loan,
in some degree, and without doubt, if such payments be ex-
tensively made, tend to eheck the advantages intended by
the advancement of the interest upon the Unfunded Debt,
though unquestionably it must place the Treasury in a more
wholesome condition. It may be questioned whether capi-
talists, considering the present value of money, will pay ex-
tensively upon the scrip until matters become more settled.
Consols have alternated from 86% to 8716 for ;present
transfer, and from 87% to 87% for account. Exchequer-
bills have realised par to ls. premium. The New Three-
and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 87% to 87%.
The Foreign investments have been very little dealt in.
Spanish Three per Cents. are 34 to 34%; Mexican have
touched 20 to 20,/8 ; Brazilian are steady at 83; and Dutch
Four per Cents. are
Railway Shares are rather better supported, with less stock
pressing for sale.
BRITISII FUNDS.

MEETING OF THE DEBENTURE
HOLDERS OF THE LYCEUM THEATRE.
A meeting of the debenture holders of this theatre was
held yesterday in the salOon of the theatre, for the pur-
pose of considering the best means to be adopted for recover-
ing the arrears now due to them on their debentures.
There were present Mr. W arrington, Mr. Brookes, Mr.
Lumley (who attended as the solicitor and agent of the
Marquis of Aylesbury), Mr. Chilton (who attended as the
representative of Mr. Wallace), Mr. Powell, Dr. Jay, Mr.
Amyott, the magistrate, Mr. Gilbert, Mr. G. Moore, Mr. W.
Cox, Mr. Wagstaff, and Mr. J. Strutt.
Mr. WARRINGTON having been called to the chair,
Mr. STRUTT said that he called this meeting of his brother
debenture holders in order that they might consider the steps
proper to be taken under the circumstances in which they
found themselves placed. As a debenture holder he
had, on the 25th of April last, written to Mr.
Walter Arnold, as the representative of the trustees
of the Lyceum Theatre, requesting that gentleman
to furnish him (Mr. Strutt) with a statement of the accounts
of the theatre. (Mr. Strutt here read the letter, which
stated, that as Mr. Arnold had received a sum amounting to
upwards of 5,0001. as rent for the theatre, from Messrs.
Keeley and Strutt, he (Mr. Strutt) as a debenture holder,
requested to know how that sum had been applied.) In his
answer, Mr. Walter Arnold said that as Messrs. Grisell and
Peto had a mortgage upon the property, dated 1834, which
took precedence of the debenture deeds, and not one shilling
of which had been discharged, he must decline furnishing
any accounts. (This letter was also read in extenso.) Ile
(Mr. Strutt) had paid to Mr. Walter Arnold, as rent,
for the theatre in 1844, 2,2031., in 1845, 2,3071., exclusive of
4001. deposit ; in 1846. 2,699/., and up to the 13th June, 1847,
557!., making a total of 7,766/., which he knew himself had
been paid, and, which spread over an extent of three years.
gave 2,313!. a year. From 1836 to 1846 there had been re-
ceived as rent of the theatre, 22,400/., and as rent of the
houses included in the same trust, 3,360/., making a total
of 26,260/., giving an average rental for the theatre
of 2,073/., and for the houses of 357/., showing a total annual
average rental during the 11 years of 2,224/. When the
mortgage was given to Grisell and Peto there was a sum of
1,4454. due to the Marquis of Exeter. The following had
been stated by Mr. Walter Arnold to be the amount of the
average annual liabilities of the theatre :—Ground rent,
704/.; interest on a mortgage held by the Marquis of Exeter,
2321.; interest on Grisell and Peto's mortgage, 560/. ; taxes,
2501.; insurance, 120/. ; repairs, 1001. ; sundries, 25/. ; and
Mr. Walter Arnold charged for himself, for the trouble
of receiving the moneys, 1501. a year. He left it
to the meeting to say how far they thought such a payment
ought to be sanctioned in the present state of their affairs.
But even this account showed that their ought to be a balance
in hand of 3,300!. available to the payment of the debt due
to the debenture holders, but he had ascertained that there
must be a considerably greater balance unaccounted for. The
ground rent was two years in arrear, which would increase
the balance unaccounted for by a sum of 1,400/., and
he would ask, if Mr. Walter Arnold, or the trustees,
have received this money, why did they thus place
the property of the debenture holders in jeopardy? The Mar-
quis of Exeter might at any moment enter upon the pos-
session of the theatre, and get rid of them altogether by an
action of ejectment. If Mr. Walter Arnold could not give
some better account of this transaction than he had done,
it was high time that the debenture holders should look to
themselves. In July 1836, Mr. Walter Arnold had written
a letter to the debenture holders, stating that the debt due
to Grisell and Peto was 5,996/„ and that it would be liqui-
dated by an annual payment of 800/. The mortgage debt
now returned as due to Grisell and Peto was 9,2371., nearly
double what it was in 1836. It could not have amounted to
this sum even if the 2,2391. guaranteed to the Marquis of
Exeter on the execution of this mortgage were included in
it. This debt ought to have been reduced instead of
having been increased, inasmuch as there was a surplus
of revenue over expenditure, which might have been
applied to its gradual liquidation; but, notwithstanding the
receipts show a balance for the last 11 years of 300/. a year
over the expenditure, making a sum of 3,300/., which might
have been applied to the liquidation of this debt, notwith-
standing there was a sum of 1,400/. arrears of ground rent
unaccounted for, this debt of Grisell and Peto's had nearly
doubled. There was besides a sum of 1,650/., which during
that period had been drawn by Mr. Walter Arnold for re-
ceiving the moneys belonging to them.
Mr. POWELL—That is not the only benefit Mr. W.
Arnold has derived. He has, I believe, besides this 150/.
a year, the best box in the theatre.
Mr. Sruurr said such was the case, and not only had he
the privilege of giving that box to his friends, but he used
to let it through the booksellers at 2/. a night, clearing 6/. a
week in that manner, and it was in consequence of his (Mr.
Strutt's) refusal to let Mr. Arnold use his privilege in that
manner to the injury of the lessees, that Mr. Arnold had
chosen to refuse any terms that Mr.',Keeley and himself might
offer to take the theatre. But as that was a merely personal
matter he would not go into it.
Mr. POWELL—By what authority does Mr. Arnold hold
that box? We do not benefit by it.
Mr. STaurr—Certainly the debenture holders do not profit
by the box.
Mr. PowEu.--It is a very bad bone, certainly; but Mr.
Arnold seems to be the only person who gets any picking off
of it.

In answer to several questions,
Mr. Svturr said that he did not know who had a right to
let the theatre. He had taken it of Mr. W. Arnold; he paid
Mr. W. Arnold the rent; and Mr. W. Arnold was the only
person he knew as the representative of the debenture holders.
Ile believed that the mortgage of Grisell and Peto had been
assigned to Mr. Walter Arnold, who had assigned it to Lord
Cecil. the Marquis of Exeter's son. He had learned from
Mr. Warneford, the agent to the Marquis of Exeter, that
there were two years' arrears of ground rent due, and until
that was paid up they might be refused permission to walk
into the theatre. The taxes had been returned as
2501., they amounted to less than 2001. The insurance in
the West of England had been returned at 2501. a year,
He had inquired, and found that the sum paid to the West
of England Office was 651. a year. The repairs had been
himself at 100/. During the three years of his tenanc hene
and, withvren
himself had done all the repairs, and during the last eleven
e
years not 3001. had been spent on the theatre ;
gard to the 1501. a year to Mr. Walter Arnold for collecting-
the money, all he could say was, that he, Mr. String
aid his rent into the bank of Messrs. Cock-
g, and all the trouble
Cock-
burn every Monday mornin
W. Arnold had was
Hto draw it out a gain.
Ile gave Mr. W. Arnold notice of this meeting in order that
he might attend if he thought it desirable. He had also
written to the trustees, Lord Saltoun, Sir Andrew Barnard,
and Sir. Hallett. The two former replied that they bad
never interfered in the affairs of the theatre, and the latter
that he had never received any money available to the
liquidation of the claims of the debenture holders. He had
written to Mr. Arnold, sen., and his answer was to the same
purport as that of Mr. Hallett.
A conversation ensued on the conclusion of Mr. Strutt's
address, and eventually
air. LUAILEY (acting on behalf of the Marquis of Ayles-
bury) moved the following resolution :
"Resolved—That the debenture creditors having received
no payment whatever on account of the debentures granted by
the trustees of the Lyceum Theatre, nor any satisfactory ac-
count since the granting of the same in 1835, notwithstand-
ing it appears that the property has been productive to a
considerable amount during the whole of that period, an ap-
plication be forthwith made to the trustees, for an account,
showing the annual net rents and profits since the date of the
debentures, and for the production of the trust deeds, and
other accounts and papers necessary to ascertain the parti-
culars relating to such net rents and profits."
The resolution was seconded by Mr. BnooKEs, and carried
unanimously.
Dr. JAY then moved that Messrs. Strutt, Warrington, and
Powell, debenture holders, who have kindly undertaken the
same, be authorised to make such application, and to
examine such deeds, trusts, and accounts, on behalf of this
rneatinr„ to report the result to this meeting, which is ad-
journed to rriday, 4th June next? at one o'clock, to be held in

so fine, and only one fear is entertained, namely, lest
the abundance of seed should be lost in the plant, and
leave only their ears. For this reason, several farmers
at the beginning of last month, have sent their sheep
into the rye field to weed the plants, and they hare suc-
ceeded admirably. The wheat is not so favourable, and
in general is slightly attacked with blight, which, how-
ever, begins to disappear. A considerable quantity of
wheat suffer from the want of manure, which many of
the smaller farmers have not been able to procure this
year. The planting of potatoes is completed, but the
farmers have generally followed the advice of the news-
papers to pass the harrow over the plantations. The
flax looks well, and, upon the whole, the state of the
harvest is favourable in our neighbourhood.
VIENNA, MAY 4.—At one o'clock this morning the
remains of his Imperial Highness the Archduke were
laid in state in the Hofberg Chapel. The walls were
hung with black cloth, upon which are suspended the
various armorial bearings of the deceased. The
Imperial Duke, lying on the state bed, is at-
tired in a marshal's uniform, his halide crossed
on his breast, surrounded by a hundred burn-
ing wax-tapers. At his feet lie his field marshal's
staff and his hat and sword; at his head, a crown; on
his right and left, the Gold Fleece, the Grand Cross of
the Order of Theresa, and several other splendid deco-
rations. The heart of the hero is now (three o'clock)
being conveyed to the Church of St. Augustin, and his
entrails to the Church of St. Stephen. In two hours
the remains of the Duke will be deposited in
the imperial vault of the Capuchins. Thousands
have been assembling since an early hour this morning
to witness the interment. This morning a letter was
addressed, by his Majesty the Emperor, to the chief
military councillor, Count von Ilardeyg, imforming him
that the army should partake of the court mourning for
six weeks ; that the Field Marshal's sword shall be de-
posited in the Imperial Arsenal ; and that both: the
Regiments of which he was commander should for ever
retain the name of the Archduke Charles. His Majesty
likewise states his desire immediately to erect a splendid
monument to the memory of the deceased. On the an-
niversary of Napoleon's death a solemn mass will be
celebrated for the departed Duke. The theatres are
closed for some days.
DEARTH IN GERMANY.
PRAGUE, MAY 2d.—Private letters state that there
have been riots in Kommotan, and also in Eger and
Leitmeritz, directed against fureign corn dealers. They
were pursued out of Eger with showers oft stones as far
as Wahlsassen ; and in Leitmeritz a speculator in corn
had both his ears cut off.
Disturbances were also apprehended at Aussig.
In the Riesengebirge the people mix flour with wheat
straw, and where this cannot be obtained, they are com-
pelled to use hay ground to powder, which they mix
with rye, flour and oatmeal.
BERLIN, MAY s.—Several cargoes of corn arrived
here to-day, and others are expected. The importation
of corn by land has also been considerable, so that the
sale in our market to-day might be called dull.
Rye was sold at 102 dollars to 110 dollars per whispel
(24 bushels), and oats from 46 dollars to 50 dollars.
In consequence of the prohibition of the distilleries, such
large supply of potatoes has come from the wealthy
landowners, that there is sufficient, not only for planting
and supporting the inhabitants, but also for feeding
the cattle, so that we may hope for a great reduction in
the price of this article.
PRUSSIAN DIET.
BERLIN, MAY 4.—The affair of the address is not
yet settled, and we shall, therefore, soon find it again
brought forward. The continuation of the projects of
law in the sitting of to-day did not produce anything
important. We may add, that in the last sitting of the
preceding week the determination, according to which
those persons are to be considered as exceptionable, who
according to article 4 of the Royal ordinance of the 20th
of July, 184 3 , in the Courts of Honour, have been con-
demned to the penalties prescribed (e.g., for wanton
conduct in duelling), was rejected by a majority of 260
to 205.

" EPILOGUE.
ALSO WRITTEN FOR THE OCCASION EY LADY DUFFERIN.
" Friends! for such are ye, who have played friends' parts,
Whose hands have given kind earnest for your hearts,
Fain would I thank ye in their name, whose grief
Needs but to ask, and to obtain relief;
Who hailed ye brothers by the bond of wo,
And found no English heart that answered---' No.'
" But sad thoughts lie behind those grateful words,
And my hand shrinks from such deep-sounding chords,
Lest I should pass the limits of my part,
(To rouse the feelings, not to wring the heart).
1 would remind ye, that these hours of pleasure
Are not so wholly lost, as some you measure;
That kindly purposes, and motives right,
Hallow those moments of else vain delight;
And pleasure's garlands, when their bloom is fled,
Shall bear sweet fruits of mercy in its stead.
And ye, most gentle, inexperienced eyes,
That view real misery with a strange surprise,
That, lost in wonder, as its depth appears,
Still half incredulous, question thro' your tears;
As stars, that in appointed orbits move,
Far off, yet proceed, in their light or love,
To God's wide firmament their lustre yield, _ ;
Yet shed sweet influence on the peasant'a.fie.ld_ t
P
So your bright presence in these scenes
to-night,
soil,
On many a darkened hearth shall kindle light,
Shall fall like sunshine on the unfilled ;
Rouse the sad labourer to rewarded toil
And glow like spring n
—green, no more.
on Sc.otland's barren shore,
And the waste plains of Er'
t la
" One word for us,
Indulgent critics, gen!roul: Y bours find
kind applause,
Who blend together,
and er,in
The imperfect effort titseir
worthier cause.
Take our best wish es I—be your dreams to-night
By hopeful thoughts of happier days made bright;
May no sad image on
your memories dwell,
But thanks and blessings breathed in this—Farewell."
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by
Prince Leiningen, and attended by the Countess of
Charlemont, the Hon. Miss Stanley, Lord Waterpark,
the Hon. Colonel Pbipps, and the Hon. Captain
Gordon;
and her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended
by Lady Augusta Bruce, Lady Fanny Howard, Sir
George Couper, and Lord James Murray, honoured the
performance with their presence. We also noticed
Prince Louis Napoleon, the Russian Ambassador and the
Baroness Brunnow, the Austrian Ambassador and the
Count Potocki, the Countess Dietrichstein,the
Countess
of Wilton, the Countess of Chesterfield, the
of Granville, Countesses Cowper, Grey, Essex, Morley,
Bruce, Mansfield, Ellesmere Fingall; his Grace Duke of Wellington, the Duke of Roxburgh, the De utkhee
of Botufort, the Duchesses of Norfolk, Bedford, Suther-
land, Beaufort, Roxburgh; Marquises Huntley, Donegal,
Grabby, Douro; Marchionesses Clanricarde, Ailesbury,
Cornwallis, Douro; Earls Ellesmere, Maltnesbury,
Fingall, Bruce Surrey;
Granville, Portarlington,
Viscounts Ebrington, Palmerston; Lords 'Beauvale,
Newport, Elphinstone, Glerelg, E. B nir, Arthur Len-
nox, Templemore; Ladies Viryide, Der athe, J. Stuart,
C. Greville, Georgiana Fullerton, H. Cadogan, Seymour,
Suffield, Macfarlan, Wallscourt, J. St John H. Baring,
Seaford, Melee, Newport; Sirs J. Drummond, A. Duff,
John Johnstone, Alb
.CDliafford, J. Walsh, W. Pym, E.
Blacket; the Hon. neoGmbe, F. Villiers, M. Cuff,
Ashburnham, Mrs. Anson, Byng, and G. Barring-
On) Coat de Blues, Colonel Kau, &c.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, MAY 13.—Rear-Admiral of the Blue Stir
C. Napier, K.C.8., is selected by the Lords of the Admiral.ri
to hold a dis, inct command in the Mediterranean, and ‘el.
hoist his flag on board the St. Vincent, 120, Captain hr.
at this port, in a few diys, sad proceed forthwith to Lis
Sir Charles will be followed as soon as possible by the icr
120, Captain Sir James Stirling, now fitting for sea wit
possible expedition, at Sheerness; and the Calecnnia, 124rCaptain Dixon, at Devonport. Other ships will also fell.n .
as the Government have resolved to increase the fleet in tau
Mediterranean. mouth
A hoax was played off upon the inhabitants of Ports e
to-day. The news of the sudden death of the a
Duolfe,
Wellington was communicated between three and four Jred
by electric telegraph, and created a most unpre-e"
sensation The.
Vengeance, 84, Captain Lushington, was a nerrn.
on the 24th of April, having arrived on the 15th with
ers%
Cameron and the Ist detachment of the 42d to
She had a long passage of forty-nine days from
ego
Bermuda, and both sides of the main-deck full of si_ege
measles having broken out on board seven days after I
She
Malta, which carried off at the fist sweep four soldiers•
was to sail
steam-tend on the Ist of May for H
Pilalifax. Anent
The Undine team-tender, aster-Commander
having undergone sundry repairs, and been coated oncti.,
side of her bottom with red lead and the other wit hall r
a ,
position, in order to see whether either application Wan" dthe
vent the growth of rubbish, was undocked yesterday,
SaTppho, 16, takn in for rfitment. 13,4
he Anollo troop-ship,e Commander Radcliffe, sailed
evening for Halifax. Ireland.
The Odin steam-frigate arrived this morning from
.d of on
She has a quantity of seeds and Indian meal undisP°,eZe
board, which is ordered to be ieturned into store at w
rence -yard. As usual with all new Government strs're'
her eagines have broken down, and will take a mouth has
pair to set to rights again. She is a new racial°
never been employed but during the last threevoersfsoeur
" relid service." orl the
The Hyacinth, 18, was undocked this morniiig, a d sad
Britannia, 120, taken in to have her bottom exalnine
cleaned. teeth
The Netley arrived this morning from Ply
and left on her return as soon as she had discharged t
RoyAL MARINES. niPaniej
Captain Logan, and 100 men of the artillery co ~,s0
embarked this morning at this ort in the Geyser s"
sloop for Pembroke, for servic in that Atick-
mouth wnireel.
e
Woonwicli, MAY 13. —The Right Hon. the Earl of
land, G.C.8., First Lord of the Admiralty; Vice.and gear'
Sir Charles Adam, K.C.8., First Naval Lord; v. Fitz.
Admiral J. W. Deans Dundas, C. 8., Captain hfilo'n. Lord
hardinge Berkeley, C. 8., COmmodore the Bight drairalty;
John Hay, C. 8., Lords Commissioners of the tdmiraltir
and the Hon. H. G. Ward, Secretary toth lock .8-144
arrived at Woolwich Dockyard to-day at ten oe,r J.
Bremer, K.C.B. andB.G.H. ; Captain
and were received by Commodore Superintendent, °th'e Ter-
Ramsey, oft
steam
rible, steam frigate; Captain Hall, of the Drat.g% store--;
frigate; Mr. Lang, master shipwright; Mr. Jeo.:Tvd,
chref
keeper ; Mr. Mouchet, store receiver ; and Mr. !"' %triages'
engineer. Their Lordships, on alighting from their c.,,ted the
The
proceeded to the west end of the dockyard, and 1 e • ate, the
steam-vessel, in dock, the Dragon steam-Art_t along
Niger and Kite steam-vessels, hi the basin,and then w of
the wharf wall to the place of embarcation, where al gt"e'eleif
honour of the Royal Marines was drawn up to tint being
Lordships. The barge of the William and Mary Yac scone'
in waiting at the landing steps, their Lordships,, to the
panied by Commodore Sir J. G. Bremer, proceedent 11 the
Black Eagle steam-vessel, and at 20 minutes down
steamers intended to tak part in the experiments we''ener
the river, the Minx iron steam-vessel with screw Pwreoer
mand of Lieutenant Sibbald,
first; the Amphion steam-frigate, under the tempera%
hams, in the Odin steam-frigate, followed by should be fee
steam-vessel as a tender in case her services sheol°_, pro'
quired ; the Teaser wooden steam-vessel, with scrersteo.
in the absence of Capeta.l„stauef
peller ; the Black Eagle steam-vessel, and the ei,
vessel. The Amphion steam-frigate was the rg eat 0.6410
attraction, Captain H. T. Austen, C. 8., of the
Mary yacht; Captain Schwabe, of the Russian WY_ ;code d
tenant Redl, of the Austrian artillery, inventor of t.;
signals for the navy; Mr. Lloyd, chief en
megisnee'th,litv
Atherton, assistant to the chief • eer • —•• 10-
en of the
ventor of the screw propeller ; and DM Revenu'
of Millar and Ravenhill, constructors of the engiueSleo at
Willis Linie
number of the officers of the royal navy studying...et'
the factory in Woolwich Dockyard, being on boarn,,ard,
Mr. Bison, master attendant at the Woolwich Vocellesar
had the superintendence of navigating the AMPhi.°ll ti the
frigate down the river, assisted by Mr. St or_ nor
pilot. She started with 44 revolutions of her screw pre:re`the
per minute, and overtook the Minx steam-vessel all the
practice ground in the Marshes, taking the lead of with
vessels. The Black Eagle shortly after came abreaToor
the Lords of the Admiralty, the Hon. H. G. Ward, aneutpuites.
modore Sir J. J. G. Bremer, all standing on the Palb-us
having their attention directed to the Amphion- &trots.
posite Erith, their Lordships caused a signal to be ma but it
the Black Eagle to make all sail upon the AmPhion,eico to
having been replied that the men had all gene trans"
dinner, including eighty of the crew of the Terrible,
__sr,
ferred for the occasion to the Amphion, their LordshiP!.;iir
considerately signalled to make all sail as early
the ule4
as could be effected. When the Amphion entered and
sured mile in Long Reach she had only her foresail
; test-
the tide being then slack, afforded a fair opportuintY
at ac-
ing her steaming capabilities, when it was found tna- ore
complished the measured mile in 6.78, or rather
than 6I knots per hour, the number of the revela-
tions tions of the screw-propeller being, on an average,
per minute. Their Lordships left the Black Eagle steals.
vessel opposite Greenhithe, and went on board the Amp
hioe•
after ai
and after examining the working of the engines, which per-
formed their duties most efficiently, the stay and square'
sails were unfurled, and this splendid frigate proceeded at s
rapid rate through the water, making nearly ten knots per
hour. The Growler steam-vessel left Woolwich some time
after the squadron and overtook the vessels below Gravesend,
and went ahead of the whole of them; but the AmPhice4
when her canvass was hoisted, went ahead of all the others,
and their Lordships appeared greatly pleased, and eXpreSSed
themselves to that effect, with the manner in which she pro.
ceeded under steam and under sail, and the way in which
the duty was performed under the command of Lieute"
nant Sibbald, with a mixed crew. The AmphionPro-
ceededsite ya
nutni
edte-re steamreek an
and o
rsdaeirl
wastoS ega ivreeancht,oantduiv haaednnjdu osPtr,re.
her back to Greenhithe to have her compasses
Their Lordshps shortly after went on oard the Black
Eagle, and returned to NVoolwich Dockyard, where that
landed at half-past six o'clock P.M., and immediately left
for town.
The Princess Alice steam-vessel left Woolwich at twenty
minutes before two o'clock, under the command of Lieute-
mint Scriven, and overtook the experimental steam squadron
in Sea-reach, having accomplished that distance in 1 hour
50 minutes, or at the rate of 134 knots per hour. Captain
Austen and the officers studying steam at Woolwich, with
those officially connected in the dockyard, returned to Wool-
wich in the Princess Alice, which will be ready to leave for
her station at Dover on Saturday next.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE•
DUBLIN.
SUPPLEMENTAL EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF B•A'
MELD IN TRINITY TERM. •
The names of the successful candidates are arranged itt
the order of merit.

FIRST GRADE.
Moderators (none at this examination).
Respondents.
Norreys, John A., Soc. Com. Maunsell, Robt. A., Soc.Coni.
Darby,Christopher,Soc.Com Cusack, James
Flynn, John H. Going, John.
GRADE.
Bulwer, Walter
White, Robert, Soc. Corn.
La Touche, James D.

SECOND

Pounden, John C., Soe. Com.
Galbraith, John S.

Tipping, Edward, Soc. Com.
Hawtayne, Wm. H., Soc. Com.
_ THIRD