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NEW WORK. ET TrER AUTHOR or « WILD'SPORTS Or THE
WEST," 8(4. i and asked the Her; Secretary to fix a day for bring-
NOW ready, in 2 vol.. post Bvo., with Illustrations on Steel and ing forward such measure.
Wood, by Leech and G. Measom, 2h., bound.
lILL•SiD6 and BORDER, SKETCHES • Sir G. GREY said that he had hoped to introduce
T • -D4 of the CHEVIOTS and the 1.A.1131ER1 the inea)ure last night, _ with LEGEIS
for the introduction of the Bill, and would take the
but he would now fix Monday
discussion on the second reading.
On the motion for going Into Committee on the
Railway, Harb ,urs, and Yier, (Ireland) Bill, Mr.
ROEBUCK quoted the expremions made use of by
the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER against the
motion of Lord GEORGE BENTINCK a short time
since and contended that this measure was the same in
principle, though not in extent, and that it was brought
forward at a time when there was a panic in the money
market, as if to add to the monetary difficulties under
which the country was labouring. The people of
England, he was assured, would no longer suffer such
unwise proceedings as this, of lending 620,0001. to
Ireland, after they had already advanced 10,000,0001.
He would therefore move as an amendment, that the
other orders of the day be read.
After a few words from the CHANCELLOR of the
Exult EQUEN, the House divided, when there appeared—
For the amendment l4
Against it 203
Majority for Ministers — 189
The House then resolved itself into Committee, and
The CLIANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that as
he had made his statement the other night on the
motion for the second reading of the bill at so late an
hour that very few Members were present, he would
now repeat it ;. and he thought it vs ould furnish a
complete answer to the assertions which had been
brought forward against the Bill. The Right. lion.
Gentleman at great length repeated his statement.
The House was subsequently addressed by Mr.
GoULBURN, Sir W. CLAY, Mr. ROEBUCK, MT.
SPOONEE, Sir R. PEEL, Lord J. RUSSELL, and some
other Hon. Members, when the House divided, the
numbers being—
For the resolution
Against it

X CIR.

By W. H.. 31 kXWELL. Egg.

Author of " Wild sports of the West," " :_zrori,s of Weverloo," &e.
" These volumes are sure to be welcome alai popular. They are
In the best marner of the author of ' Stories of Waterloo' "—Lite-
rary Gazette.
•" A delightful and very attractive work; as agreeably and tho-
Toughly pleasant as could be desired. It must become a favourite
book."—Merning Advertiser.

Richard Bentley, New Millington street
(Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty).

HER MAJESTrS THEATRE.
The Mobility, SOscribers to the Opera, and the Public, are re-
lpectably Informed that

MDLLE. JENNY LIND
will make her first appearance in this country on TUESDAY next
the 4t`•x of May

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
TEI3 EVENING, Saturday, May I, will be performed Verdi's
celebrated Opera,

I DUE FOSCARI.
tarrezia, Madame Mo .tenegro; Jacopo, Signor Fraschini ; Lore-
dano, Signor Benche ; and Il Doge, Signor Coletti.
After:which a DIVERTISAEMENT, in which will be presented
Pas de Cinq from " Ros!da," by Alone. ('erito and M. S. Leon• as•
misted by Mdiles. Cassan. Jam s, and honor e. Grand Pas by Mdlie.
Graiin, supported by 3.ldlles. 11, norm, James, and Cassan. And "La
Manola, by Moile. Ceri o and Leon.
To be followed by a SELECTION from Donizettrs Opera, " La
Favorite, by Signor Gardoni and Douche.
To conclude with the admired new Ballet (by M. Paul Tagliono,
entitled

THEA ; on. LA FEE AUX DES FLEURS.
fly Mdlie. Rosati, Mane Marie Taglioni, Casual, Honore,
31ontford. Julien, Lati,oreux, anti M. Taglioni.

HER .AJES CY'S THEATRE.
The Second appea-ance of JI lle. JENNY LIND in this country.
The Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public, are respectfitily in-
formed, that an EXTRA NIGHT will take place on THURSDAY
next, May 6, when will be performed Meyerbeer's Opera,
ROBERTO IL DIAVOLO.
_ _

Alice, Mdlle. Jenny Lind; Isabella, Made•. Castellan ; Roberto,
Signor Fraschini ; unhaldo, signor Gardoni ; Sacerdote, Signor
Douche ; sad Bertram, Signor htandigl (his second appearance at
this Theatre).

"With various Entertainments in the Ballet Divert!ssement, coin
prising the talents of Mdlle. Cerito, Mdlle. Rosati, Mdlle. Marie
Taglioni,Mdlle. Petit Stephan, Mdlle. Gralin, M. Perrot, M. P. Ta-
glioni, and M. St. Leon.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
ktsr NIGHT OF THE GRAND SPECTACLE.
THIS EVENING
will be performed the grand Opera of THE BOHEMIAN GIRL.
Count Arnheim, Mr. Borrami ; Florestein, Mr. Harley ; Thaddeus
Mr. Harrison; Deviishoof, Mr. Stretton ; Queen of the Gipsies, Mrs.
Hughes; Arline, MiB3 Rainforth.

Stier which the New and Original Oriental Spectacle. called THE
DESERT; or, The Imann's Daughter. In which the Two Elephants,
upwards of Sixty Horses, and the Camels will appear. The Imann
Useph, Mr. Howell ; Figvez, Mr. Rafter; tiara, Mr. W. H. .P•yne
Fuzel r/ola, Mr. lii,-itcastie ; Maleck, Mr. T. Matthews; Ahabeck,
Mr. Ilatchison ; Kuzliraga, Mr. L. Lee; Princess Ipomaye, Miss Mes-
sent ; Nilda, Miss Collett ; Girgee, Miss R. Isaacs.

Majority -133
Several other votes having been agreed to, the
louse resumed, and the remaining orders having
been disposed of, adjourned at Two o'clock.

THEATRE ROYAL, HA MARKET.
Under the Manlgernent ut Mr. Webster, sole Lessee.
THIS EVENING

Will he performed Sheridan Knowles's Comedy of THE LOVE
CHASE, Sir William F-iidlove, Mr. Tilbury ; Master Waller, Mr.
Howe ; Widow Green, Mrs. Glover ; Constance, Mrs. Nisbett.
After which the Grant Astronomical Extravaganza. called TUE
NEW PLANET ; or, Hariequin f.-ut of Place.
To conclude with the Comic Drama, called A CABINET g(TES-
TION.

Nothing but the total abrogation of that enactment
which was speciously carried through Parliament in
1844. under the plea that it wai requisite to prevent
further "alterations and vicissitudes in that medium
of exchange which regulates the value of every
article in the country"—nothing, we say, but the
total abrogation or that enactment, ur the miraculous
reversal of the eternal laws of Nature, can preserve
the empire from a more frightful panic than has ever
heretofore been experienced. It behoves the Govern-
ment, therefore, to be vigilant and,_active; it behoves
every man in the two august assemblies of legislation
to bestir himself for the salvation of that national

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
nder the direction of Madame Celeste.
THIS EV EN iNG
Will be performed the original Drama, called THE FLOWERS
OF THE FOREST ; a Gipsy Stdry. Cheap John. Mr. Wright ;
Ishmael, Mr. 0. Smith ; the Kinchin, Mr. P. Bedford; Leybournc,
Mr. Worrell ; Cynthia, Madame Celeste; Lemuel, Miss Woolgar ;
starlight Bess, Mrs. Fltiwillism; Lady Agnes, Miss Harding.
After which will be produced an Opera Buda apropos sketch, called
JENNY LIND. Principal characters by Messrs. Wright, paw
Bedford, Lambert, Selby, Cullentord, and Miss Wockar.
To conclude with SHOCKING EVENTS.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
J. M. Maddox, sole Lb.5f...3 and Manager.
THIS' EVENING
Will he performed MIDAUTM3IER NIGHT'S DREAM. The
principal characters by Messrs. H. Hughes, Ryder, J. Vining, C.
Fisher, Wynn, and Compton ; Miss Winstaniey, Mrs. Stirling, Mrs.
11. Hughes, Miss S. Flower, Miss Anne Romer, Miss Marshall, and
31iss Smithson.
After which, the new Farce, entitled, A WIFE FOR AN HOUR.
Principal characters by Mears. Walton, Granby, Vining, Cowell,
• Compton, Mrs. Hughes, and Miss E. Stanley.
To be followed by the new Drama, entitled ANGELINE. Angeline,
Mrs. Stirling.
To conclude with the Farce, entitled KEEPING A PLACE.
Spikespur, Mr. Granby; Crocus, Mr. Compton; Dorollisa Danvers,
Mrs. Foshrdke ; idy, Silas Laporte.

credit which is now vaccillating, and oscil-
lating, and tottering over an abyss of in
volvement. In protesting against the deplorable
Bank Restriction Act of Sir ROBERT FEEL, we are
not cavilling as to the impropriety of seine trivial
financial speculation, we are insisting upon the
necessity of obliterating from the statute-book of the
present legislative decade, a principle which has
carried the commercial interests and the monetary
stability of the country to the very limits of inse-
curity and disquietude.
It were madness to blink the reality which
at present forces itself upon the conviction of
every one at all acquainted with; the opera-
tions of the Money Market; unless some step be
taken to inspire the mercantile world with confidence,
unless the Bank of England be released from those
preposterous trammels which have prevented the de-
velopment of its financial strength, unless something
be done to counterbalance the evils already effected
by the Currency blunder of 1844, we must be carried
headlong into a whirlpool of difficulties as great as,
if not immeasurably greater than, the difficulties of
1825. The diminution in the price of the Three per
Cent. Consols from 971. in the June of 1846 to 861. in
this, the fourth month of 1847, shows already the suc-
tion of the current of this terrible Maelstrom. The per-
ceptible decrease of employment shows it; the con-
sequent diminution of wages shows it ; the state tit
the canal shares, of railway shares, of the unfunded
debt, and the impracticability of obtaining discount—
all chow it. A serious alarm has taken possession
of those engaged in banking; it is an alarm, we wilt
grant it, that is scarcely- justified, inasmuch as the
amount of bullion stilt retained in the cellars of the
Bank of England is on the average greater than can
be remembered during many preceding occasion, of
pressure. Nevertheless, that there is a very con-
siderable degree of trepidation cannot be
for a single moment questioned, and when once
this trepidation has thoroughly imbued the
public mind, we know by a terrific experience
the disastrous consequences which ensue.

THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM.
t7nder the ManaLmnent of Mrs. Keeley.

THIS EVENIN6 will be performed a New Drama, called THE
CREOLE. Characters by Messrs. F. Mathews. Leigh, Murray, Emery,
Kinloch, and Keeley, Miss Dickinson, Miss May, Miss M. Keeley,
and Mrs. Keeley.
Af er which, an entirely new occasional Dramatic Sketch, called
JENNY LIND AT LAST; or, Tee Swedish Nightingale. Charac-
ters by Mr. A. Wigan, Mr. Tamer. Mr. Kinioch, Mr. Bellingaam,
Mr. Bender, Mr. Yarnold. and Mrs. Keeley.
Mr. WILLIAM BATEMAN, Vie celebrated BLACK MINS-
TREL, will give a Vocal and Instrumental Selection from his
American Entertainments, cencluding with his greatly admired
Concerto on the Piccolo.

To be followed by New Vaudeville Extravaganza. called
"US°F-: THE SE'X)ND. Characters by Messrs. A. Wigan, Seeley;
Miss Dickinson, Miss Turne•, and Mrs. Kee'ey.
To conclude with the LOAN OF A WIFE. Characters by
Messrs. F. Mathews, A. Wigan ; Mrs. woollidge.

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FRENCH PLAYS. —ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell.,
MONDAY EVENING
Will be performed (first time in this country), SANS NOM cm,
Draws et Romans.
After which, the popn'ar Comedie of LES DEMOISELLES DE
ST. CYR.
To conclude with the principal Scenes of the Petite.Comedie. en-
titled LE MARRIAGE FORCE.
Boxes, 6s. ; 35. 6d. ; Amphitheatre, 3-,: Gallery, 2s.
Boxes and Stalls may be engaged at Mr. Vitamins Royal Library,
na, Bond-street ; and at the Box-office of the Theatre, which is open
(tally from Eleven till Five.

ETHIOPIAN ~lERENADERS. ST.JAIREWS THEATRE.

The celebrated ETHIOPIAN SERENADERS, Pall. Ilarrhtaton.
White, Stanwood, and Gomm, will have the honour of repeating
their inimitable ENTERTAINMENTS :t the St. James's Theatre,
THIS EVENING, Saturday, May I. Doors open at Eight o'clock.
They will also give a DAY PERFORMANCE on Wednesday next,
May 5.
Boxes and stalls at Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ;
and at the I-lox-office.

NEW STRAND THEATRE.
THIS EVE ', INO

'Will be performed an Original Pictorial Drama, in Four Parts,
entitled, HOGARTIPS MIRROR. Principal characters by Messrs.
Darcie, H. Lea. Butler, Payne, H. Reeves, Ayliffe, Deighton; Miss
Love, Mrs Grtlitiv, M as Harcourt, &c.
To be followed by an Eccentric Viintlevilie, calle.l, CAPERS AND
CRUSHERS.

Atter which. a Screamer, in One Act, entitled, ARE TOE'
COMING TO BED?

To conclude with a new Ba'let, intr.xlucing upwards of 60 Cory-
phees. founded on an entitled, THE ARABIAN NIGHTS' EN-
TERTAINMENT.
Stalls, 34.; Boxes, Is. 61.; lit, Is,• Gallery, 41. Halt-price ,t
half-past Eight o'clock.
ttox•oftlee open from Pleven till four o'clock.
Applications to be m :de at the ttox•otflce of the Theatre.

As was visible in the ever-memorable convulsion 01

1825,there is a growth in these pules as traceable as in
any meadow cowslip. A panic seldom, if ever, starts
into existence like a mushroom ; it germinates in-
visibly; it expand,, and sweils,.•and rises above thy►
surface, and then bursts form into poisonous exube-
rance.

4ISTLEY'S ROYAL kJMPHITHEATRE,

Under the patronage of the Queen, Prince Albert. and the

Royal Family.
Prf,nriPtor anti Manager !Jr. W. Batty

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Extraordinary Nov.-]ties and grand Equestrian Feats every night,
THIS EVENING, FoURTH WEEK OF THE SUCCESSFUL

GORGEOUS SI'EC!ACLE OF

What was the case in 1825 ? There was a pro

Lord Byron's Dramatic Poem of THN: BRIDE OF ABYDOS ; or,
THE CORSAIR, introducing Mr. Batty's numerous and highly trained
Horses and Fairy Ponies, living Elephants, Camels, Zebras, Deer, !cc
Entire change in the Scenes of the C,rcle, by the first artistes in
Europe. Great suce,e,s of the extraordinary lofty leaner Mr. 11-m-
-derson in his wonderful Arab flights. Splendid Pageant by Eight
Ladies and their trained horses, and other productions, only to be
witnessed at this neat re.
Acting and Stage Manager, Mr. W. D. Brotulfoot.
Box Office open from Eleven till Four. Box Book-keeper, Mr.
Sheffield. Perferman. e commences every evening at Seven o'clock,
doors open at Half-past Six.

tracted interval of doubt us to the capability of the
banks for converting their paper issues into money.
That doubt affected, as a matter of necessity, the
whole variety of private and joint-stock banks in the
kingdom. There was a rush for cash payments upon
Sir PETER POLE'S bank, and a consequent crash ;
and that, it can never be forgotten, was merely
the preliminary to a vast succession of simi-

ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
Under the Manlgement of Mrs. Frances Davidge, Lessee.
THE ORIGINAL ETHIOPIAN SF.RENADERS,
CROWDS NIGHTLY TO SEE THE BUFFALO GIRLS,
With Coloured Concert, Nigger Songs, BanJo, Bone, Tambourine and
Violin Accompaniments, the Railway Overture, and Grape Vine
Twist. All by Female Professors.
THIS EVENING

lar disasters. All this arose, however, mainly
from the dread as to the impossibility of obtaining
sufficient credit money ; and how as this great
anxiety removed, and in what manner were its results
to a certain extent remedied f The explanation has
been very happily compressed into a sentence by
Mr. JAMES WARD, in a recent pamphlet. " For-
tunately," says he, " some one in the Bank re-
membered, or stumbled over, some large pack-
ages of one-pound notes which had never been

The Performances will commence with THE ANCHOR OF ROPE ;
or, The Seaman's Star. Mr. Dunmore, Mr. Conway ; Squire liar-
greave, Mr. T. Fredericks; Captaia Walton, Mr. Tindel; Mary
Wheatly, Mrs. Ware.
After which THE BUFFALO GALS; or, Female Ethiopian Sere-
naders.
To be followed by THE BEDOUIN ARABS.
To conclude with THE FATE OF CALAS.
Boxes, 25., Fit, Is.; Gallery, 6d. Doors open at Six, commence
at Half-past Six.

issued, and the issue of which had long ceased to

ROYAL VIC lORIA THEATRE.
For One Week only, the Dark Brothers and the Black Gals of
Ohio, who will sing, with full Instrumental Accompaniments, all the
Popular Melodies of the Day.
Second Reek of the SiilP BOY, hailed with acclamations of ap-
plause.
THIS EVENING _ _ .

be considered as a necessity which could arise in
rerum naturci." That was the means of salvation.
The incubus was removed, and the social system was
without any repetition of its monetary throes and
agonies. The directors of the Bank of England, then,
in 1825 restored business to its previous state of
activity and confidence by circulating large quan-
tities of one-pound notes ! Had the ruinous
enactment of 1844 been already passed they
would have been as helpless as their suc-
cessors are at this present instant; they
would have possessed the means of rescuing the na-
tion from a peril so imminent and appalling that Mr.
HUSEISSOI4 declared the country to be " within
twenty-four hours of a state of barter," and yet,
with the Bank Restriction Bill of Sir R. PEEL

Will be performed POVERTY; or, A Teele of Sorrow. Characters
by Mr. N. T. Hicks, Dale, Searle, Bird, Gardner ; Mrs. G. Lee, Miss
Ilurroughcliffe, &c.
After which, The Mississippi Dark Brothers,and the Buck Gals of
Ohio.
To be followed by the SHIP HOT ; or, The White Slave of Gua-
deloupe. The Ship Boy by Miss Vincent.

To conclude with (This Evening), TILE RATS OF RAT'S CAS-
TLE; or. The Old Abbey Ruins.
Boxes, Is.; Half Price, 6,1 Pit, Rd. ; Gallery, 3d. Private Boxes,
Parties of Four, 10s. 6d. ; aad Parties of Eight, U. Is.

rs r. W Mt.—Seys Orincs, APRIL 30.
TRICRMObIETER, Lowest, 40 ; Highest, 55 ; Noon, 52.

BA nom ETER, 29.73.
WIND W.S.W.; morning, fine: afternoon, showery.

!!!,3!3 AT i,o.k.liON-Kko_i Is 4;•: THIS DAN.
Sfornmg .. 23 ininutes after 2. Evening .. 39 minutes AN. 2.

looming over their heads, they would have been in-
capable of budging one inch, or of stretching out a
finger. The effect of that lamentable measure,
indeed, is to produce artificial panics—panics arising
from no dearth of bullion or specie, but from a want
of a superabundance of bullion and specie—panics
produced for the gratification of a dream and the
preservation of a bubble. Was ever a grand com-
mercial community placed in such gratuitous
straits and encompassed by such voluntary dangers
in mere obedience to a preposterous whim ! As it is
very excellently expressed in a Parliamentary peti-
tion, published in another column, the real uses of
credit money are absolutely reversed by the enzxt-
tnent of 1844, because, under the operation of that
enactment, when the country is in a position to do
Without the aid of the Bank credit, then the Back con
"foz id
money
its help r
furnish it most abundantly," whereas ' hen credit
.I'B really required, the Bonk i.e compelled to
indicated, namely, by rescinding
Surely the scale's of Justice must
have settled uvon
the eyes of the Legislatut e Until
the Government ma
passed under nder cta he
& remedial movement in the
law have
direction w
aesse
shall continue to clamour unlate Administration, we
tion—its immediate ahrog tctiTinglY f"1- its abruga-
cisive abrogation. n—its utter and

These conditions involve tie necessity of proclaim-
ing an ainneAy, forming a molerAfe Ministry, and
convoking the Curter, all of which will be regarded
with triumphant feelings by DAs ANTAS and his
patriotic coadjutors. Such are in chief the remark-
able phases of European politics of the year eighteen
hundred and forty-seven.

Madrid papers of the 22d have arrived.
Senor SALAMANCA, the Minister of Finance, had
furnished the Committee of the Chamber with
variety of information on the suiject of his all for
the sac of State propee3, and appe.-ired disposed to
consent to several of the modifications proposed by the
Committee, so chit it is by no mt,aliS: improbable
that the measure so modified may pass. Ti.e. QUEEN
has nominated thirteen new Senators, all of the
Progressista party. Among them are Senor BE-
CERRA (one of EsrARTER.O.S Ministers), Senor
GONZALES, Senor Loraz, and Senor FRIAs. It
was generally believed that no Spanish armed force
would enter the Portuguese territory. General i
MANUEL CONCHA WiS still cloaked at 111t-uisid by
the illness of hip sister and Lis daughter. Th,-
QUEEN attended a bull fight on the 2.211, accom-
panied by her uncle and uy het cousin, the Infanta
aetti,
nhse
tpic!,t Without Interest at speir;
osiTt
w l\rle.tdDoanlD :As 1, B
for ela%
h 2 ;erne Three per Cents.
3ear.n-its.thaet

No subject can, or ought, to interest the mind of
an Englishman so much as that of the na.y of his
country. His attention cannot be engrossed by any
matter of greater national importance. The foremost
rank which we occupy among the most civilised and
powerful states of the world, is attributable to out
past and present naval supremacy ; and unless our

We have received
died
on papers y
of Weiriesda•
Lord CovvLzr died on Tuesday evening. at his

TUB SUN, SATURIIAY MORNING, MAY 1, i#ll4l.

maritime strength. be sustained, commensurate with
the guardianship which we have to maintain over the
vast and numerous dependencies of the British Crown,
and which can (ally he effected by augmenting its
p4l cver in proportion to the relative advancement made
their naval resources, by (,doer we shall
in, vtt:lbiy f;rf..it the exalted distinction we have
acquired over the rest of the universe. Still, though
our naval affairs are thus entitled to pre eminent
consideration, it is difficult to rouse the attention of
the country to a due reflection as to their efficient
administration. The stability of the service, con-
sistently with a due regard to economy, is the pre-
dominant consideration. Economy in the ma-
nagement of everything connected with our
naval armament, is a point to which the Board of
Admiralty should be compelled to pay adequate
attf-ntion. The enormous expenditure which we
annually incur for the support of the navy
imparts extreme importance to the question of eco-
nomy. At the same time, retrenchment should not
be exhibited in any niggardly spirit. Wherever
economy is sought to be enforced, to be judi-
cious it should be also liberal. Whilst moderate
estimates are always acceptable to a nation so
heavily taxed as the English, yet, if it were to be
ascertained that they had been framed upon a scale
below what was really required for the stability of
the navy, the heaviest censure would be deservedly
visited upon the Board of Admiralty. With the
progress of science, improvements, apparently highly
valuable, and important mechanical suggestions, are
being constantly made. Their merits in rela-
tion to naval architecture have to be tested upon a
gigantic scale. It is the bounden duty of the
Admiralty to encourage, within reasonable bounds,
the different experiments necessary to test the merits
of various scientific inventions. To this species of
encouragement are we indebted, in no small degree,
for the present superior excellence of our navy over
those of our rivals. It is not to be expected that every
experiment should be successful, nor reasonable to call
that a waste of money which may have been expended
without producing a satisfactory result. It is a ne-
gative advantage to have ascertained that any parti-
cular invention has not answered the contemplated
end. All knowledge is based upon experience.
Frequently a series of experiments is indispensable
to afford a fair trial to a mechanical novelty. It
sometimes occurs, that in the process of one experi-
ment ideas are furnished, not only of what will
render the same (if defective) successful, but also
of planning something else of a most useful character.
Those, therefore, take a narrow-minded view who
consider public money has been squandered where the
original expectations, either of the inventor himself or
of those who have supported him, have not been always
realised. The public are undoubtedly justified in
requiring that large sums of money should not be
continuously laid out in furtherance of any plan of
ship-building which has been persevered in for a
number of years, and which, admitting that it has
proved advantageous in certain respects, has never-
theless been shown to be equally and seriously de-
fective in others.

Mr. Hums: on Thursday night brought forward his
motion for inquiring into the state of the navy since
1832, as regards the building, alterations, and
repairs of her MAJESTY'S :hips. The motion was re-
jected, and apparently upon the grounds, first, that
the present Board of Admiralty had greatly super-
seded its necessity by their appointment of a Com-
mittee of Reference, before whom all plans or draw-
ings for the building of ships in future must be laid,
and specially reported upon ; and next, because the
House of Commons seemed disposed to place every
reliance in the efficiency, honesty, and zeal of Lord
AUCKLAND and his naval coadjutors. The debate,
was however, interesting in many respects. We
shall take an early opportunity of noticing it more
in detail.

residence in the Place Vendome.. This melancholy
event is thus announced in Galignanis Messenger--

" We announce with deep regret the death of the Right
Hon. Lord Cowley, late Ambassador from England at the
Court of the Tuileries. His Lordship had been for some
time ill, and the limont. d event Lock place last night. at his
reiderwe in t e VP 'me, The Noble Lord w;e3 in
hi. ,evenly-tit: c;11, bee;, inril in 1773. His L'rd.
ship „.„„ 11,,ke of AVe;iiiigt,..n,
he was by f,.u,

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The Secret service 4\lo!ley Bill was passed in the
lber of Deputies on Monday by a majority of
164, the members being—fur the Bill, 220; against
it, 56. This, however, cannot be considered as indi-
cative of any reconciliation having taken place be-
tween M. GUIZOT and the Progressive Conservatives,
inasmuch as they had long since publicly announced
their intention of voting in favour of that measure.
The Union Illonar chiq4e says—" Several Cabinet
couriers arrived on Sunday evening at the lintel
Courcelles, and caused two Councils of Ministers to
be held, at the end of which secret agents were dis-
patched to Madrid, bearers of dispatches for the Em-
bassy. One nf the Privy Councillors of the lintel
Courcelles also left on Monday, on a private mission
to IsABELLA.."

Algiers journals of the 224 have arrived.
The Akbar states that Bou MAaA, who left Algiers
on the 221, in the Labrador steam-frigate, had passed
the whole of the evening of the 20th with Marshal
BUGEAUD, and given him valuable information re-
lative to the interior of Algeria. The surrender of
this chief is regarded at Algiers as one of the most
important events that has occurred in the whole of
the war with the partisans of ABD-EL-KADER.
Bou BLIzA. arrived in Toulon on the 25th. From
the accounts which have been given of the conduct
of this chief, it would appear that FrenA gold had
as much to do as French steel with his surrender,
and that Bou MazA has to endure, not so much the
misfortune of being a prisoner, as the disgrace of
being a renegade.

The Greek Loan Bill was voted on Wednesday by
the Chamber of Deputies without a division. In the
course of the discusiion, M. GUIZOT said that the
Cabinet was determined to persevere in the policy it
had hitherto pursued in Greece, and to say nothing
calculated to embarras3 the Greek Government in
the peculiar and delicate situation in which it was
placed.
The Three per Cents. closed at 77f. 90c.; the Five per
Cents., 1151. 80c. ; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,2321. 50e. ' •
Rouen, 926 E 25c.; Havre, 6711. 25c.; Great Northern, 6211.
25c. ; Avignon. 7731. 75c. • Vierzon. 780 c.; Bordeaux, 51•61.
25c. ; Basle, 1931. 7&.; Dieppe, 327 f. 50e. ; Paris and Stras-
burg, 427 f. 50c.; Tours and Nantes, 421 f. 25c.; Paris and
Lyons, 436 E 25c.; Lyons and Avignon, 450 f. ; Bordeaux and
Cette, 4451.; Spanish Three per Cents., 351 A.; Ditto Pas-
sives, 54.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE. APRIL 29.
Boulogne and Amiens, 16%—Dutch Rhenish, 4—Lyons
and Avignon (Conetitated), VA—Northern of France, 12%
—Orleans and Bordeaux, 6A—Over Yssel, 3 dis.— Paris and
Lyons, 6—Sambre and Meuse, WA—West Flanders, 4.

MOST IMPORTANT FROM ST.

PETERSBURGH.

We hare just received from St. Petersburgh the
important intelligence that the Emp-ror of Russia
has, by an Ukase, dated the 12th instant, determined
to invest in the Foreign funds
,30 millions of silver
roubles in specie, equal to 4,500,0001. sterling, which
it is intended should remain as a permanent invest-
ment in those securities. It was expected that the
greater portion would be invested in the English
funds.—Herald of yesterday.

FLANDERS, HAMBURGH, AND

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Suss of Last N:ght.)
There was a slight improvement in the Cotton market at
Liverpool yesterday, but not sufficient to alter tteaations.
Sales about 4.0(X) ba:, s, in luding 800 American en specula-
tion. The torsi sale •of American were 3,600 bales at 6',4d.
to 7V. per lb. Surat sold at 4,1. to :id. per lb. Shares
were witheut slteratiou.
The Market has par; icipared in the rise in Consols,
end buyers having more coutidence, prices have rallied, in
some instances, considerahy. The following are a few of the
principal sale: of Railway Snares to-day, by Al, esrs. Laniond
and Co.:—
Mai,cliteter and Southampton £0 15 6
Louvain ala Sambre
De. by, Stafford, and Worcestershire 0 9 6
Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A) 3 14 0
Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock. .... „ 1 17 0
South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole 1 7 6
West Riding Union
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate... 4 14 0
North Staffordshire
Great Northern
Buckinghamshire ... 5 6 0
Eastern Counties, York Extension ..... -.. 5 8 0
South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4 4 18 0
North British, Extension 0 19 6
There are accounts of March 3 from Graham's Town,
Cape of Good Hope. The Thunderbolt steamer was likely
to be a total wreck, but her stores and rigging had been
saved. Sir Henry Pettinger had arrived at Graham's Town.
There had occurred nothing of importance on the frontier.
There is a meeting of merchants and others to-day at
the Hall of Commerce, to consider the present state of
monetary affairs, but at the hour of our writing it had not
terminated. The meeting has been kept rather private, and
is convened by circular, we understand.
There has been a further marked improvement in
the tone of the Money Market to-day, which is
likely to extend in all directions, as the reports in cir-
culation prove correct, and it seems to be generally be-
lieved that the Russian Government intends to invest a
large amount of the 30,000,000 roubles in stock here. The
sum is not ascertained. but even one or two millions in the
precious metals, or supplied partly by value in grain—which
we must have, and pay for in bullion, if drawn from America
or other countries—would prove an immense relief to us.
Consols have been up to 87% for Money, and to 87% for
Account ; but sales have been pressed since, and the quota-
tion is now down to 87143 for the former, and to 87% %
for the latter. Exchequer. bills have been quoted 2s. to ss.
discount. The Consols Scrip has improved to 2 and 211
discount. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have
been marked 871 to 88%. Bank Stock has realised 189
to 191.
The Foreign Bonds have been quiet again. Spanish Five
per Cents. have realised 24M, and the Three per Cents. 351 A.
Portuguese Four per Cents. have been 34 to 343/4. Grenada
Bonds have been 193 A, and Equadur 2,11. Dutch Two-and-
a-Half per Cents have been 58%.
Railway Shares have been rather better.
illtrfi:,/f 1,131•41);i. ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRO:ES.
liank Stock .. .. 189 191 191
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 86% 86 86
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities 86% 87%1,4% 871 k
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anns. 87%% 88% 38 87%
Lung Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 9%
Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 9 5-16
South Sea Stock ..
t'' soli; for May 27 .. •.
Three per Cent. Consols, Scrip ..
Elehequer ts;ils. Ind.
1,0001._
500/.
Ditto, Small

.. .. 867 877 i% si%
2% dig 2% dis
2d.
3 2 5 dis
2dis par
2 1 dis

ONE CLOSINt,
DEICES.

FOREIGN FUNDS.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent ..
Ditto, New Bonds, 1829 and 1839 .. 82
Chilian Bonds, G per Cent .. . 91
Ditto, 3 per Cent .. .. • • • . 52
Equador Bonds 2 Ti 2%
Grenada, 1 per Cent .. . 19% 19%
Mexican Bonds. 1846, 5 per Cent .. 20
Ditto, for the Account • . 204
Portuguese Four per Cent 34% 34 34
Russian Bonds .. 109% 110%
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent ..
Ditto, for the Account .. .. 24% 24U
Ditto, Three per Cent ..
Ditto, for the Account. .. 35% 35%
Dividends on the above• payable in London.
Dutch Two-and-a-lialt per Cent .. 58% 58%
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 88% 89
BUSINESS
PRICES OF CLOSING
DONE AT
RAILWAY SHARES. PAID. PRICES,
ONE O'CLOCK.
Aberdeen.. .. .. 30 .... 25 25
Amber., Notting., Boston, and

Eastern Junction 2% .. • . .. •
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 10 .... 17% .... • • 17%
Binning., Wolver., and Dudley.. .. 10 10%
Buckinghamshire 61. 45... .. 1 dis... 1 dis.
C dodonian 30 .... 23% 24% .... 24%
Chester and Holyhead .. 27% .... 21 • • 21
Eastern Counties .. 20 .... 18% % 19 lA 19 19%
Do. rerpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1.61. 13s. 4d. • ....• ••
Ditto, ditto.. .. No. 2. 6/. 13s. 4d. %p par par
Ditto, York Extension 61.4 •514
East Lancashire .. .. • • .. 17 • • • • 17 • • • .. • • • • 17

The present year is already singularly fraught
with vast political movements which augur favour-
ably for the progress of popular influence amongst
some of the European states. In Prussia a grand
step has been taken by an enlightened monarch in
furtherance of constitutional government, which,
though it was long expected,, will, nevertheless, from
the mode in which it had; 'been initiated, always
secure for FREDERICK WILHELM IV. the admiratioo
and gratitude of the present and future generations.
Such a voluntary act on the part of an absolute
sovereign, such a kingly concession at a moment
when profound peace reigned in his dominions,
such a splendid and graceful tribute to the moderation
and loyalty of his subjects, is without its parallel in
history. For the sake and value of the noble example
which the King of Prussia has herein set to those
in w ho,e bands the sceptre may hereafter be placed,
to be swayed in other portions of the civilised
world, we sincerely trust that the firm re-
liance which he has evinced in the w iaiom
and allegiance of his people will be fully justified by
the legislative conduct of the United Diet; and from
the manner in which its members have already
entered upon their solemn functions our aspirations
are not likely to be disappointed. If we turn ceir
eyes to Spain and Portugal, we observe a very different
state of things. In both of these kingdoms the cause
of popular government is discernible as being pro-
gressive, but only as making its way through the fiery
ordeal of intestinal commotions and national con-
vulsions, to which every country must be sub-
ject wherever despotism attempts to retain it,
grasp beyond the period when the enlighten-
ment of the people justifies their being emanci-
pated from its thraldom. Spain has just
succeeded in throwing off a vast incubus of
tyranny, corruption, and foul intrigue, and her
youthful QUEEN is manifesting the most ardent de-
sire to acquire and to retain the love of her
subjects. To restore to her people the rights
of the Constitution wrested from them at
the period of ESPABTERO'S downfal, is appa-
rently the patriotic aim which Queen ISABELLA
and her present Ministry have in view to effect
at the earliest possible moment. In Portugal,
on the other hand, we observe a youthful Queen who
has been struggling to deprive her people of their
constitutional liberties. The consequence is that she
has alienated the affections of her subjects ; that the
horrors of civil war have infested her dominions, and
that she has only been saved from absolute defeat,
which would have subjected her to the degradation of
imprisonment, or the disgrace of compulsory ex-
patriation, by the joint remonstrances of England,
France, and Spain against her insane policy. But
for the timely presence of British ships of war and
marines, Lisbon at this moment would, in
all probability, have been in the possession
of the Junta. As it is, we collect from
the most recent advices from the Peninsula
that MARIA DA GLORIA has consented to the terms
of arrangement proposed to be carried out by the
mediation of our Government between that of Por-
tugal and the insurgents.

DUTCH MAILS.

BRUSSELS. APRIL 23.—The correspondent who lately
repres, cited the visit of the Emperor Nicholas to France
as probable, informs us to-day that this visit will not
take place at present.
A contract, dated April 3, has been concluded for a
line of sailing vessels between the ports of Antwerp,
Galatz, and Odessa, between the Minister of Foreign
Affairs and Mr. Frederick fiarkort. The contract is
from the year 1847 to 1851 inclusive.
On the 21st oF April the prices of corn in the market
of Lisle continued to rise. This rise has been 2E. 6c. in
the course of one week. The hectolitre of the finest
wheat was 42f. 720.
We learn from the Journal du Commerce d' Anvers that
the Minister of Finance has given orders, dated the 14th
April, to the Custom-house, with necessary directions,
to prevent the importation or trade in the port of
Antwerp under the name of Molasses and at the duty
to which that article is liable by the tariff.
BRUSSELS. APRIL 27.—The average price of wheat in
the week ending on Saturday, April 24, was 39f. 98e.,
“nd that of rye 29f. 21c. per hectolitre. These prices
are coudderably above those of last week, namely,
3f. 14:.. on wheat and of V. 27c. on rye.
BATAVIA.—We have news from Batavia of the Ist
March, which is not very interesting. The Govemor-
Gen.ral of India hai taken anetuttreA for the executi, n
the articles of the treats concluded on the 29th July
with Belgium relative to the expel t.tion of 4,000 lasts of
colonial produce.
A letter ;rum Singapore, dated March Bth, praises in
the highest terms the efforts o: the Dutch Government
in favour of a more liberal colonial system, a. well as ef
i.he enlightened views of the Governor-General of Dutch
India, who it is hoped will open the Molueea !shreds
:430 to the trade of ml nations. The authorities of Java
and Singapore are on the most friendly terms, and a com-
mission from ~tacassar had arrived at Singapore to ar-
range several points relative to trade.
The Journal de Lisle says, the accounts from the
markets all announce a decline in the prices within these
ten days—wheat has fallen everywhere on an average
from 21. to 61. per hectolitre. We were yesterday
informed that the prices are more lavourable to the
seller. _ _

East Lincolnshire .. 6% .... 814% • ...
Edinburgh and Glasgow .. .. 50 .... 70 70
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% .. • • 17%
Ely and Huntingdon .. .. 15 154 . •• .. 15%
Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester .. 2% ..
Great Northern .. •• 3% yi, ........ 2%
Do., London $t York Extension ....
Great North of England . ..100 .. • —
Ditto, New .. .. 5 .... 59 ..... 59
Great Western .. 85 ..........
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 123 .... 17% • • .• .. 17%
Ditto, Fifths .. 20 .... 26% 26 ...... 26
Ditto, Xew 4% .. • • 7% 7%
Leeds and Think . • .. 22% .... 20% .... •.. 20%
Ditto, New .. • • .. . .. 10 ....
London, Brighton, and S Coast.. 50 •• .. 51% % ........ 51%

Ditto, Consol. Eighths .. .. 10 .... 11 .......... 11
London au North-Western ..100 .•172% 173 172 173 173
Ditto, Quarters L. and B. 7 .. 22 Y 4 2.2%

' Ditto ditto New Shares • • .. 2 .... 11% • . ll%
Ditto, 101. Shares M. &D. (C) 1 .• .. 6% 6%
London and South• Western —4ll. 6s. 10d... 62 63% 6254 62%
Ditto, Scrip.. 5 .... 4N % • 4%
Londonderry and Coleraine 20 ... 9%
Lynn and Dereham 20 .... 21 ••• • • • 20%
Manchester and Leeds .. .. 82 .• • . .....
Ditto. Quarter Shares .. .. 12 .... 15 .... l5
Ditto, Fifths .... 9% 95%
Ditto, Thirds (Keg.).. 71. 45..... %% p % p
Manchester, Buxton, & 3latiock 428. •• •• .... •
Slaneliestet and Southampton .. 2 .... 14
m Kumla..loo —.11554 116....•• 116
Ditto, New .. .. 36 39 38% 3954 394
. .

Ditto, New .. .. .. .. 2 .... 4i4ji • ..... 4%
NeNcastie and Berwick .. •• 20 .... 25% N ...... 251
Ditto, New .. • • • • 5 .... 6% 7 • ...... 7%
Norfolk .. • • .. .. • • ..100 .• .. .. • • ...... 125
Ditto, Extension .. .. .. 10 .... ..... ..... 9%
Northern Counties Union .. .. 4 .... .......... 14
North British .. .. ~ .. .. 25 .... 31 .. ...... .. 31
Ditto, I lal, Shares .. .. • • 12% .• • • 14% x int. ... 14 ki
Ditto, Quarter Shares • • .. 2% • ... • • ........ 3
Ditto, /tot tension .. • • .. 4.... 1 4.......... 1%
Ditto, Thirds .. .. • . • • 1 .... 234 ....... 21
North .siaitortishire .. • • • - 5 .... 6% 7% 6%.. 6%
North Western • • .. .. • • 4 .. • • 2 ...... 2
Oxford,Worcest.,& Wolverhmptn. 22%.... 13% .. •• • • .... 13N
Shrewsbury and B•rmingliatn .. 3% .... 3% % ........ 3%
Shropshire Union .. .. . -125..... 11 • • ...... •• 134 dis.
South Eastern Ana Dovor .. • • 33 q.. •• 37 ••••.. .. • . 37
DIM,. New (iss. at 321.) No. 1. 20 ~. 21 . ..... •. • . 21
80., Sew (do 151.) .. No. 4. b .... 4% •• .. • • .... 4%
S• ,uth Wales .. .. .. .. 10 .... 7k ..... ...•• 74
South Yorkshlr,, Doncaster, and

- -
THE HAGUE, APRIL 27.—We have received, by the
overland mail, Java papers np to the Ist March.
BATAVIA., FEB. 19.—During the afternoon his Ma-
.d in the Roads of
ght
arrive
15th, and brou
er
this port by the
jtßei yal
acersh steamer,aavniand
gplaet
ilzediraeapsptoiirt,leeudortir
European overland mail, which left London on the 24th
December. The arrivA ('f the mail was delayed in
consequence of the Lady Mary Hood, British steamer,
Which brings it from Ceylon to Singapore. and further
lo China, having been surprised in the Gulph of Ben-
gal b) very stormy weather and a high sea, by which
it required eleven days for the voyage from Ceylon to
Penang, which is usually performed in 137 or 140 hours.
ou the same day his Muj,:sty's steamer the Batavia, ar•
rived fr( m the Cape of Good Hope. This vessel is
Singapore, and there to
There have been very
of the country, in con-
sequence jureieeeanttdtinundations
moi unv
ensrieci
vastit,tredawlmirtaahirl t
3.
of heavy rains in the interior.
iIAMBURGII BORSENIIALLE, APRIL 27.
Bills. Money.

1
Vale of Neath .. 4 .... .......... 2).2
N't est Riding 4/. 25... .. ya 34 p . p
Windsor. Staines, &S. Western.. 425..... p...... • • 34 l
Vora and Nevi-castle .. 25 .... 14 ...... ... 34
Ditto, New.. .. 10 1114% ...... 1414
Ditto, Preference .. 4 .... 7
York and North Midland ..........
Ditto, Extension .. 25 .... 40 •• .. ••.. • • 40
Ditto. Preterencc • • .. .. 2 .... •. • • •. 10N
Do. E. and W. Riding Exten. • • 10 •• . 20N ••• • • • .• • 20N

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Northern of France •• 8 .... 12 • ....
Orleans mid Itourdeaux .. 6 .... 6% • ........
Paris ail,. Lyons .. ....
Paris and Rouen .. • • .. 20 .... 36% ..........
Rouen and Havre .. 20 .... ..

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
London and Westminster .. .. 20 .... 2614 ..........
Union of Australia 25 ....

MINES.

Real del Monte. trrirecistered .... 3M
COURSE OF EXCHANGE.
Amsterdam ......C.F. 12 7

kustrian 5 per Cents • • • • • •
Bank Shares • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1590 --
Anglo-Russian Loan •••• • • • ......
Russian 5 per Cont.. limb. Certificate 1063 106
Ditto Ist series Inscription.... „
Ditto, Nope and Co., 3d and 4th series • . 97
Ditto, in Certificate • • • • • •
New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. llB
Ditto Stleglitz • •• •
Spanish New 5 per Cent • •
Ditto 3 per Cent 2836
Anglo-Portuguese Loan. 234 per Cent • •
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent -•• • • 57% 56
Ditto 3 per Cent. • • •• • •
Polish New 4 per Cent. loan, 1844 •• 78
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent ...... 83%
National Bank Shares— ..............
BELGIAN FUNDS.—Baysms, Anuz
Actual Debt, 23i per Cent .......... ....
Rothschild's Loan, Fire per Cent ........
Loan of Thirty Millions, lour per Cent •
Ditto Three per Cent..
Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto
Dltto,ditto, 1840.. • •• • •• • • ••• • • •• • 100
Ditt0,di5t0,1842......
Ditto, 1844. ...•••• ••..• • ~ • ..• .. • 96%
Ditto, 1836.. .........
Ditto, 1838 •
• . • • • •
—Brussels Papers. April 29.

HEALTH OF THE LORD LIEU-

Ditto, at sight •• .... 12 4
SoUtldnut ...... 2U. 12 7%

TENANT.

DOILIX, APRIL 28.—The bulletin issued this morning
was extremely unfavourable, aial, notwithstanding the san-
guine notice of the state of the noble patient's health which
appeared in the Government journal of last night, there is
every reason to apprehend a fatal termination to his Excel-
lency's malady. After post hour yesterday, and up to three
o'clock this morning, the atswer given to the numerous in-
quiries wai, that there was no change in the symptoms, and
that the Noble Earl was not worse. This day, however, the
proscects of recovery have further decreased, as will be
seen by a copy of the bulletin issued at nine o'clock a.st.:—
" April !8, 1547.
" his Excellency continues in a very precarious state."
A little before three o'clock a fresh and equally unfavour
able bulletin was issued. It is as follows:
:tI oisu rExcellencyo'clock
to half-past two o'clock."
continues in a very precarious state up
here was no change, and it is not expected
there will be another bulletin published before seven o'clock
this evening.

-
Antwerp • ...... . 26 21
Hamburgb ...... M.D. 13 13
Paris. 3 days' sight 28 80
Ditto, 3 months 26 15
Marseilles • • • • - . 26 2
Dourdeaux . • . •. 26 20
Frankfort on Mains 122%
Petersburgh, 3Us .. • •

Gibraltar • • • • • --
Leghorn . . • • .. • • 30 70
Genoa ............ .... 26 25
Milan .. •
\iaples
......... 40
Palermo, per oz • • • • • • • 11934
Lisbon ..... .... • • • . • . 53
Oporto • • • • • • • • • • • 64
Rio Janeiro • • ...... • • 26 )4
Bahia .
Buenos Ayres .. • • .. ..
New York, 21 days' sight
Philadelphia .... • • ....
TRIM OF BULLION, pal 03
Foreign Gold in bars.. £3 17 9
New Dollars ...... 0 0 I
Portugal Gold Coin .• 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
Silver in bars ...... • . 0 0 0

Berlin •• - • . —
Vienna. effec.ilo •.. • • • 10 12
Trieste. ditto ...• • • .. 10.12

Madrid •• .. ...... .. .. 47 4

Cadiz • • •.. : ........ 473 j
Bilbao.. ......
Barcelona • • •• ........
Seville• • • • •• .• •• • • • • ••

MEETING OF MERCHANTS.

I SHOCKING ACCIDENT AT WINDSOR CASTLE.-
OH Wednesday morning, whilst a number of labourers
were taking Clown the houses of the military knights in the,
lower ward of Windsor Castle, the wind at the time blowing
furion.sly from the north-west, one of them, a poor fellow
named Michael Saunders, standing, on a :tack of chimneys
lintgtutwfiiiti tau et,allu-loduert-i
gust of wind caused him to stagger, and he sought to steady
h aOnpitclk;eaxt
himself by clinging to a mass of brick wor.k to.aommg,
however, way, and carrying him with it, ted into the
basement floor of the building.- The poor fellow fractured
one of his thighs, and t.!.e leg on the opposite side, a coif-
pound fracture in each instance, besides dislocating his right
wris, and receiving a severe laceration of the scalp, ac,atin-
partied by a ctaicussion of the brain. In this state he way
carried on a shutter to the Windsor limo t, a distance of
nearly three miles, when there nothing could be done
for him until the arrival of the district surgeon, and a mes-
senger on foot was sent Ibr hits to Eghatn, where he residas,
at least three tittles further, so that the poor fellow had to
endure his agony fur several hours unattended to. It is a
curious fact that a town, a royal borough, of such pretensions
as Windsor, should be without an infirmary, notwithstanding
all the talk there has been on the subject. It is said that his
Royal Highness Prince Albert has repeatedly suggested the
establiihment of an infirma:y for the reception of cssu-dties
like this, and ha, offered to sii.,cribt, liberally toward, its
support; but that the interminable squabblinqs of the worthy
burgesses have hitherto prevented it from being carried into
effect.

A meeting of merchants and bankers was appointed to
take place at the Hall of Commerce yesterday, on the
subject cf the state of the money marker. After waiting
some Lime, a message was brought from an influentia'
banker, that in consequence of the debate that would
take place in the evening in the House on the subject, and
the large purchase of stock by the Emperor of Russia,
the meeting had better stand adjourned for a few days.
Among the parties present were several members of
the most influential houses.

THE WESTMINSTER ELECTION. MEETING OF
Ma. C. LUSHINGToN'S ComatirrEn.—On Wednesday even-
ing, at eight o'clock, a meeting of Mr. Charles Lushington's
general committee was held at the Crown and Anchor
Tavern, Strand, to receive the report of
(t s
ftheigent.tlAemnz whoand
had undertaken to canvass the parish
upon other business. Mr. Geesin, of St. James's, in the
chair. Mr. G. Huggett, the secretary, read the report, which
showed that of the electors who had been seen the promises
were for General Sir De Lacy Evans, 259 ;for Mr. Charles
Lushington, 246 ; and for Mr. Charles Cockrane, 28. The
chairman observed that the report was highly flattering,
and he had no doubt that the canvassing of the other
parishes would be attended with similar results. Messrs.
Lewis, Briscombe, Bailey, Kittrick, Robinson, Childe,
Guthrie. Prout, and other gentlemen addressed the meeting,
all agreeing in opinion that in every other district similar
results would be found to that just reported from St. Anne's,
and that Mr. Cochrane had but trifling support beyond that
of his paid agents. Arrangements having been made for
further proceedings the meeting separated.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF CHEMISTRY.—The usual
monthly meeting of the College of Chemistry was held on
Wednesday evening at the institution. 16, Hanover-square;
the Marquis of Northampton, president, in the chair. The
attendance was not very numerous. Mr. Apsley Pellatt de-
livered a lecture on the mode of manufacturing simple and
compound glasses. and on the several arts of cutting, en-
graving, chasing, and enameling them. He illustrated his
subject by ingenious diagrams, and exhibited many curious
specimens of Roman and Venetian glass, with the view of
ill:owing that the ancients were more deeply versed in the
mystery of making and beautifying that elegant thanfabric
modern artists and authors are usually disposed to admit. In
the course of his observations the learned lecturer mentioned
a fact not vi ry generally known, but nevertheless very in-
teresting, namely, the existence at Naples of an ancient vase
similar in shape to the ce!ebrated Portland vase, but more
elaborate in its designings, and, if p
ex-
quisite workmanship. It was exhumed from the ruins of
Pompeii in 1827, and is still in an admirable state of preser-
vation. The lecture, though ou a subject now.rmewhat
firtri, was interesting, and afforded evident gratification to
the auditory.
The tl..n. Mrs. Erskine and sister arrived
inLon-don early yesterday morning by the General Steam Navi
gation danpanes Wilberforce, from Him*
burgh, after a hue passage.

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