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Various private Dills were forwarded a
Tn the c, ur3e of a conversation on th

Indian corn, wlttph arose t
M•CArtTitY as to the r,gulathns under which Indiar
e,,rn was to be distributed to the peoplit of Ireland,
sir PF.F.r. stated tlu..t it had been found already
that persons who had been subtisting upon that article
wi-re able to do their work better, and to work for a
longer time, titan they had been while subsisting o•
potatoes; that the peoplz, found Indian corn botl•
palatable and nutritious, and that all prejudices against
ha cse were fait disappearing:. The Right lion. Baronet
also said that foreign wheat was much required in Eng-
land for the purpose of mixing with English %heat.

subject of
n put by "jr•

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Foreign wheat was now subject to a duty of 18s.; but if
the proposed corn-law were in operation, it would be
imported at a duty of ls. Oatmeal, also, which was a
great article of consumption in Ireland, would, under
the new corn-law, come in at a duty of Is. Indian
corn was only admitted duty free by Treasury Order,
and he therefore urged upon Hon. Members connected
with Ireland, to permit the first reading of the Protection
of Life and Property in Ireland Bill, to take place with as
little delay as possible, in order to expedite the passing of
the Corn Bill.

After a few words from Mr. lawics and Mr.
BoRTHWICIL, _

Mr. SMITH O'BnIEN urged the Government to the
propriety of facilitating the passing of the Corn Bill, by
postponing the Coercion Bill. He admitted that the in-
troduction of the Indian corn had alleviated the distress
in Ireland, and concluded by asking if there was any in-
disposition manifested on the part of the Irish authorities,
to avail themselves of the provisions of the Public Works
and Compadies Works Presentment Bill?
Sir J. GRAHAM was glad to say that the applications to
the Board of Works had been very numerous. He re-
gretted, however, to have to state, that there was an in-
disposition on the part of some of the grand juries to
carry out the provisions of the Bill.
Several other Hon. Members took part in the conver-
sation, and the subject dropped.

The Committee on the Art-Unions' Bill was post-
poned for a fortnight.
The Railway Deposits Bill passed through Committee.
In answer to Mr. LABOUCHERE, Sir R. PEEL stated,
that he should advise the Board of Trade to issue a cir-
cular to the various railway companies, informing them
of the principles on which the proposed Bill for the re-
gulation of railway companies, to which he had alluded
the other night, was intended to be founded.
In answer to Mr. TUFNELL, Sir J. GRAHAM stated,
that he did not despair of carrying a Bill to amend the
Metropolitan Buildings' Act during the present session;
but that the Bill alterin2; the Law of Settlement, the
Highway Bill, and the Militia Bill, besides the third
reading of the Corn Bill, would have to be disposed of
previously. _ .

A long conversation followed on the subject of the
business of the House, in the course of which Mr. J.
O'CONNFLL stated, on the part of the Irish Members,
that they were willing to withdraw their notices of
motion for the days fixed for the discussion of the Corn
Bill, but that they were determined to persevere to the
very uttermost in their opposition to the Coercion Bill.
At its rising, the House adjourned to Friday, the
17 th instant.

The Earl of DALHOUSIE, on Tuesday night, brought
forward, in the House of Lords, his statement of the
intentions of the Government with respect to the rail-
way legislation during the present session of Parliament ;
and the principle of the measure, which was exactly that
stated by Sir ROBERT PEEL in the Commons on the
previous night, was received with the unanimous appro-
bation of their Lordships. It has been found, that
from the severity of the losses sustained since the
month of October last, a very great disinclination
exists on the part of the public to invest any money
in railway speculations, and, consequently, no matter
how promising the speculation might appear, if a new
call were made the shares would become greatly de-
pressed in value. The great majority of the holders of
scrip who, animated by seeing the large fortunes
realised in the course of the last few years in similar
speculations, have plunged recklessly into the several
schemes, and applied the entire amount of their dis-
posable capital in the payment of the first deposit, or the
eurchase of shares in which the first deposit alone had
been paid, are generally unable to comply with
any new demand, and, as a matter of course,
arc obliged to sell the shares they hold for
any sum that may be offered,—in many in-
: Lances glad to get rid of them, even at the loss of all
they have already paid, en being saved from further
liabilitj ; and this, too, at a time when but a small pro
portion of the first deposit has actually been expended,
and there would be a considerable dividend, if the scheme
could be abandoned and the assets of the company
equitably distributed amongst the persons entitled thereto,
after payment or all charges and expenses fairly affecting
them. It is, however, in the power of any individual share-
holder to prevent the dissolution of the cempany and thus
to keep a large amount of capital locked up, the releasing
of which would prove of universal service to the com-
merce of the country. Unfortunately there will always
be found persons ready to job and to disregard the
general interests, so that it is found to be quite impos-
sible to effect any such dissolution, no matter how
beneficial it might be to the shareholders at large. Such
a state of law is manifestly unjust and unreasonable,
and the object of the present BM is for its improvement,
enabling the several railway companies to wind up tilt it
affairs, if they shall think proper so to do. Many diffi-
culties will be found in carrying this into execution, but
these are merely matters of detail, and the recess will
give time for full consideration. Nothing can be fairer
than the principle of the measure, that persons actually
and bond fide holding a full moiety of the stock of the
company, shall be entitled to call for its dissolution,
and that therefore the funds of the company should
vest in a trustee or official assignee, who would,
after satisfying all claims properly chargeable thereon,
distribute them amongst the persons fairly entitled
thereto. This, however, may be held to give rather too
great a power to the large shareholders. For instance,
it might be worth the while of a large rival company to
purchase a considerable number of shares for the ex-
press purpcse of bringing to a conclusion a rival specu-
lation, which might interfere with themselves. We
should, therefore, at present prefer that the majo-
rity of votes be taken according to the scale
established by the Joint-stock Companies Regula-
tion Acts of last session, it having been, after mature
reflection, selected as the scale most proper for
giving to the small as well as the large shareholder the
influence to which he would be fairly entitled in the
management of the affairs of the company. Again, we
think that it would be desirable if a similar number of
shareholders were given the power of suspending for
the present the operations of the company, and getting
back at once a portion of the deposits, leaving a suffi-
cient sum to meet all the liabilities of the company, and
a small sum in hand for the trivial expenses
which might be necessary between the present time
and the next session of Parliament. By such a
provision as this a large sum would now be released,
brought into circulation, and rendered applicable
to the general purposes of the country. We know many
instances in which the shareholders, although feeling
the greatest degree of confidence in the soundness and
eventual success of the project, and unwilling to dissolve
the company, after having incurred all the preliminary
expenses, would be rejoiced if it could be suspended for
a given time, and an opportunity then afforded to them
of deciding whether the scheme should be abandoned or
carried into execution, and, in the meantime, the
amount of money, which could not possibly be required
in the interval, would be placed at their disposal. Should
it then be determined to persevere in the schemes
a call could be made in sufficient time to make the neces-
sary deposit in Parliament for next session ; and those
shareholders who did not comply therewith should abso-
lutely forfeit their shares, of which a new allotment
might take place, giving a preference to the eld
shareholders, if such should be considered desirable.
In the event of a reaction in the money market,
the schemes which have already stood the test
of Parliamentary inquiry would probably be re-
vived, and prosecuted with general satisfaction to
the parties at present interested in their eventual
completion. Sir R. PEEL announced last night that the
' difficulties of detail (springing from the law of partner-
ship), for the due development or.the principle he has
laid down, are already under the consideration of the
highest legal men in the country. He also suggested
that, in order to acquaint parties as early as possible
with what they must do to avail themselves of the mea-
sure to be brought forward immediately after the recess,
the Board of Trade, the moment the legal assistance re-
sorted to by the Government shall have furnished them
with the fittest machinery for effectuating their views,
shall issue circulars to the heads of the different Compa-
nies, informing them of the necessary steps to be taken
ior obtaining the benefit of the contemplated Act.

A more fearful responsibility impends upon the landed
.roprietors of Ireland than is possibly conjectured by
iternselves. Morally, politically, and socially, it will be
incumbent upon them to ameliorate, by every means in
their power, the woes and almost unparalleled privations
.f their tenantry. Particulars of the three visitations
,imuitaneously hanging over the Irish multitude— the

..i6:ultiuns of organ Led murder,
ta:d or of an unzvmal dearth
•
mc.rt4l epidemiev, spreading far
-
an 1 wide throughout the poputation ; and yet with
thei.e port?;,tous tli6elaures before them, how have the
Irish la.nairds acted ? Why by silence, by neglect, by
desertion ! The Premier conjures them to co-operate
with the Legislature in succouring_their destitute coun-
trymen ;—they respond to that solemn and official ad-
oration by resigning their patrimonial estates to the
providence of their agents ! An accumulation of ex-
igencies renders their personal interference in the do-
mestic economy of their possessioni more than
ever a matter of woeful necessity ; yet, in spite

of this: imperative position of affairs, the only
effect produced by these circumstances upon the
wealthier classes in Ireland is an increase of fashionable
emigration. Since the development of so many contem-
poraneous evils in that beautiful but desolate island,
the pernicious absentee system has been marvellously
and lamentably extended. Not only have the habitual
defaulters is this respect persisted in their most baneful
course, but new secessions, in a like direction, have
tended, more than we have the heart to calculate, to
render the sufferings of the Hibernians more
abasing and more hopeless. For this mis-
taken and inglorious behaviour let them, however,
rest perfectly assured that in some fashion or other they
will ultimately be held accountable. It is futile—it is
impossible, to shirk the duties imposed upon them as the
guardians of the labouring Irish by the inscrutible will
of OMNIPOTENCE. When a contagion, whether moral,
vegetable, or animal, has broken out in a country, it will,
unless impeded by a courageous interference, ravage
every sectional division of the empire indiscriminately.
During the height of the plague at Jaffa, when the
soldiers were stricken by a terror which endangered
the lives of the healthiest veterans in the French army,
NAPOLEON entered the different wards of each hospital,
respired the infectious atmosphere, and himself dressed
the ulcerous sores of the sufferers. History vouches for
this—the pencil of DAVID has immortalized it. By that
sublime act of valour a new confidence was infused into
the soldiers, and the fatal malady actually decreased in
its violence. Let the landlords of Ireland display some
tokens of a similar intrepidity ; let them return to
the scenes of devastation, and endeavour earnestly and
hopefully to assuage the pangs already experienced by
so many millions. Humanity addresses them in the lan-
guage of adjuration, not so much as a class, as indi-
viduals. If some movement of the kind be not adopted,
the consequences cannot by any possibility be computed!
We say this, not so much in reference to present
miseries (frightful as those miseries undoubtedly are), as
in reference to the terrific extension of whatever
miseries are already experienced, as months are per-
mitted to elapse. What are some few of the most recent
facts ? Why these—and the deductions to be drawn
fi om them are as obvious as they are heartrending. First
of all the prospects of the next harvest could scarcely be
one jot more unpropitious. Agricultural labour has been
almost wholly prevented by the bleakness of the tempe-
rature as well as by successive torrents of rain, which
have, according to the Dublin Evening Post,
" flooded the country to an extent as great
as the fearful year of 1816." Three-fifths
of the oats, usually sown before the 17th March,
remain still out of the earth, and time must be allowed
before the ground will be sufficiently recovered from this
severe pluvial irrigation to permit of its being touched
by the spade. Then, again, the fears of typhus fever, so
lung entertained, have beer., and are being unhappily
realised in various localities. Insomuch so, that the
Tralee Poor-law guardians have taken into consideration
the establishment of a temporary free hospital at Dingle.
An intelligent sojourner in the county of Meath gives us,
moreover, a most desolate picture of the sufferers in his
vicinity. With a vast portion of the respectable inhabi-
tants of that neighbouroood, or, as our informant ex-
presses it, with " the meat-eating people" of Meath, the
supply of potatoes upon which they are now subsist-
iog cannot last beyond the commencement of
June. After that period what may not be the conse-
quences? GoD knows ! These are but an inficitessimal
portion of the grievances now sustained or to be sustained
by the Irish people. The faint echoes of their woe alone
reach our ears, but those are eminently mournful and
imperative. Oa these accounts the landlords of Ireland
must rouse themselves from their apathy, if they are
desirous of rendering their own prosperity permanent.
A vast future deficiency both in worldly wealth
and in their reputations as men and Christians might
be prevented by a comparatively moderate disbursement
at the present moment. Their own pockets, as well as
their own consciences, cry out to them for their interpo-
position. Let them take example by that benevolent
gentleman of Arch-hall, who is feeding sixty children
daily at his own private expense. In grati-
tude we will give the name of this true
philanthropist ;—it is Mr. SAMUEL GARNET. Let
them note the subscription made by the soldiers on the
Sutlej ; and the 3,0001. contributed by the inhabitants of
Calcutta for the relief of Ireland. And, looking at
these things, let them be shamed into a compliance with
Sir ROBERT'S requisition. That Right Hon. Statesman
has evinced throughout the present session a sympathy
for the Irish which should be a pattern and an in-
citement to these absentee landlords—not the least
token of the sincerity of which sympathy is, that intro-
duction of the " Protection of Life (Ireland) Bili,"
which has retarded the progress of his favourite measure,
and excited a fresh amount of vituperation upon his
conduct. So earnest is the Prime Minister's wish to
;Way the present diseased excitement of Ireland, that he
has actually given a Bill for that purpose precedence
of his great free-trade scheme. Take that exhibition
of self-forgetfulness in the Minister as a stimulus to
your own exertions in the same cause, you landed pro-
prietors of Ireland, and the pangs of your countrymen
may be yet effectually alleviated!

We have intelligence from Madrid to the Ist inst.
Another Ministerial crisis appears to be at hand. Nan-
VAEZ and his new colleagues have quarrelled about some-
thing, but whether it is the marriage of the QUEEN, or
the new law of the Bourse, or whether CHRISTINA and
the Camarilla have got up a plot to destroy NARVAEZ, it
is impossible to say. Little doubt however remains that
a violent Cabinet explosion had taken place, and that the
Ministers EGANA and PLZUELI had tendered their re-
signations, which however had not been accepted.
On the Ist the Three per Cents. closed at 32, at 30
days, with premium ; the Five per Cents. were not
quoted ; the shares of the Bank of San Fernando were
at 270 f. ; ditto of the Bank of Isabel, 170 f.

The only intelligence of interest in the Paris papers
relates to Spain. The latest accounts appear in the
Fresse, a journal generally supposed to be well informed
respecting the doings of Queen CHRISTINA and her few
associates,•who now rule the destinies of Spain. It will
be seen, from the subjoined statement in that journal,
that there is a subject, independent of what is put forth
by public rumour, which "is too delicate to enter upon
for the present." We have no doubt it refers to some
dark scheme now in agitation behind the scenes, and
fear that another revolution must take place before this
intriguing, desperate woman is brought to her senses. "A
rumour was current on Sunday that a new crisis had
again unexpectedly overturned the NARVAEZ Ministry,
and yesterday (Monday) the report assumed a degree of
consistency. We have j ust read in a letter, received yester-
day by express, dated the 2d, and written by a person whose
information has never misled us, that a very warm dis-
cussion had taken place between General NARVAEZ and
the Ministers of Justice and the Marine on the subject
of the new law for regulating the operations on the Ex-
change. It is known that one of the first acts of the
MIRAFLORES Ministry was to suppress time bargains.
When the General resumed the Government it was pre-
tended that this injunction would be immediately
taken off, and the Heraldo pronounced this to be
a calumnious assertion. The declaration of the
Heraldo was contradicted by two or three persons
whose intimate connexion with General NARVAEZ
gave them considerable influence, and therefore did not
gain any credit. It appears, however, that it was well-
founded. It is certain that when it was debated what
should be done in this matter the Ministers could not
come to an agreement, General NARVAEZ, supported by
M. BURGOS, was opposed to the suppression of time bar-
gains, which was maintained by MM.PEzuELA and EGANA.
General NARVAEZ became outrageously warm, and
MM. PEzuHLA and EGANA were so offended by the un-
ts atesmaniike language of the President of the Council
that they left the Cabinet immediately, tendering their
resignations. The letter in which we have found these
details expatiates largely on the cause of this new ex-
citement in the mind of General NARVAEZ, but the sub-
ject is of a nature too delicate •for us to enter upon, at
least at present. The letter adds that General NARVAEZ
sent the same evening for the Marquis DE Viteeuma
and Baron DE MEER. "If this news be confirmed,"
continues the writer, it will not be long be-
fore I come and shake you by the hand in Paris ;
unless, indeed, events should force the whole
body of the Liberals to come forth in defence of the
throne they have founded, the institutions they have
won, which is not impossible, for the absolutists have
never held their heads so high nor spoken with so much
insolence.' The author of this letter belongs to that
fraction of the Conservative party which is called the
Puritans, and is one of the most influential members of
it. On the other hand, we have been told that the
NARVAEZ Ministry has withdrawn en masse, and that.
MM. MJNS, PIDAL, and CASTRO Y OROZCO have been
assembled in council to form a new Ministry. Every
friend of Spain must applaud a crisis which may bring
into power men like CASTRO Y Onozco. A Ministry
thus composed, particularly after w hat passed at the
last sitting of the Congress, would find a general sym-
pathy in the people, and an immense majority in the
Chambers. Nevertheless, however great may be the
confidence which we have in the persons from whom we
derive the forgoing information, Chair news is too im-
portant and too unforeseen for Us to guarantee their
exactitaae,"

The Semaphore of Marseilles contains the following
intelligence from Algiers, dated the Ist inst.:—
"We have received by the Pharamond steamer an account
of a very serious engagement between our troops and the
Arabs, the particulars of which had not yet reached the
Algiers journals. That engagement had taken place between
the eolumn of General Cavaignac and a large native force,
six leagues to the north-west of Tlemcen. General Ca-
vaignac had received in that town a sort of challenge, for-
warded to him by anew Kalifa, anxious to try his strength
with him. That Kalifa appointed for the General and his
column the day and place of the encounter. On the 23d of
March, the day fixed in the challenge, General Cavaignac
marched out with a corps of cavalry and his column to the
ground, where the enemy was drawn up awaiting his arrival.
The Arabs appeared to be upwards of 3,000 in number,
1,200 horsemen and 2,000 infantry. The engagement soon
commenced, and lasted two hours. The Arabs fought with
great determination, but, once broken, they took to flight,
leaving 200 killed on the field. We are said to have expe-
rienced some loss ; a chief of battalion and several officers
were among the dead. It appears that Marshal Bugeaud
considered the affair as extremely important, since he imme-
diately dispatched an officer of the staff, Captain Pourcet, in
the Pharamond, with an account of the engagement to the
Minister of War. This intelligence was brought to Algiers
on the 31st, in the evening, by the packet Tartare, which left
Oran on the 29th."

The subjoined letter from Dresden, dated April 2, ap-
pears in the Augsburg Gazette. The Chamber of Repre.
sentatives in that capital cannot fail to cause great un-
easiness to the Germanic Confederation and the abso-
lute Sovereigns en the Continent, for it has been en-
gaged nearly for the whole of its sittings in advancing
the principles of Constitutional Government :-
" A few days ago the Fourth Committee of the Second
Chamber presented its report on the royal decree of August
26th, 1845, interdicting political associations and meetings.
The following is the language of the Committee :-4 The
Government regards the present Constitution as a work flit-
ever terminated, as the last term of perfection, beyond
which it is not allowable for the people to carry their views.
It is at least in this manner of regarding the matter that the
decree has been drawn up. Restrictions ought not to be op-
posed to the spirit of association, since it is a spirit which
has produced more great things than all the police regulations
in the world, and the apprehension that the right of meet-
ing may be abused by no means. justifies its absolute inter-
diction-it can only recognise the necessity of legal measures
being adopted to prevent the evil. Other constitutional
states, and amongst them the German state of Baden, have
inscribed in their institutions the right of association as an
unalienable right, not acknowledging any other limits than
those of the law. That is what Saxony also desires. The
contrary enactments of the Germanic Confederation cannot
be appealed to in this question, since they apply to sedition,
high treason, and the overturning of established order. But
the loyal intentions of the Saxon people do not admit of any
doubt, and the present tranquillity renders all preventive
measures superfluous. The Committee is therefore of opinion
that the Chamber should invite the Government to present
to the Saxon Parliament a Bill to regulate the exercise of
their right of association.' "
On the Paris Bourse on Tuesday the Three per Cents. closed
at 83f. 55c. ; the Five per Cents., 119 f. 95c. ; The Orleans
Railroad shares, 1,217 f. 50e. ; Rouen, 1,0301. ; Havre, 737 f.
50c. ; Great Northern, 755 E ; Avignon, 887 f. 50c. ; Vierzon,
6721. 50c. ; Bordeaux, 617 f. 50c. ; Boulogne, 5051. ; Basle,
2301.; Paris and Strasburg, 520 f. ; Tours and Nantes, 540 f.;
Paris and Lyons, 572 f. 50c.; Spanish Actives, 334 ; Spanish
Three per Cents., 36%.
The following are the quotations for other lines:-
Lyons and Avignon definitive, 540 E; Bordeaux and Cette
(Mackenzie), 502 f. 75c.; ditto (Espeleta), 509 f. 50c.; Char-
leroy, 495 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette definitive, 535 f.
-MARSEILLES, APRIL 3.-Marseilles and Avignon, 945 f. ;
Northern, 7721. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 6021. 50c.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGif RAILWAYS AT TIE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 8.

Boulogne and Amiens, 12—Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cetto
(Mackenzie), I;B—Dutch Rhenish, 534—East Indian, % —Great
Northern of France Constituted, 145i—Great Indian Peninsular,
lA—Louvain and Jemappe, 1% —Lyons and Avignon,' 2 —Luxera-
bourg, I%—Orleans and Vierzon, 16—Orleans and Bordeaux,
10A Paris and Orleans, 481 A—Paris and Strasbourg Constituted,
s:s—Sambre and Meuse, 2°l—Tours and Nantes Constituted, 6!4.

lIIMBURGII BORSENIIALLE, APRIL 5.
Bills. Money
kustrian 5 per Cents • •••• • • • • 118
Bank Shares 1600
Anglo-Russian Loan .......• ........ 1071, 10G%
Russian 5 per Cent., llarub. Certificate. 171
Ditto let series 1n5cripti0n............ 1021 A
Ditto, ?lope and Co., 3d and 4th series • • 97
Ditto, in Certificate— •• ••• • • • 96
New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. ••• • • • 89
Ditto Stieglltz . ....... ......
Spanish New 5 per Cent. .
Ditto 3 per Cent ........... ....... 283
Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2% per Cent • •
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent ••• • • 59
Ditto 3 per Cent. • • • • • • • •
Polish New 4 per Cent. Loan, 1844. •• • 81
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent ••• • •• 66N
National Bank Shares •••• • • • •
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—ViENNA, APRIL I.
5 perpe r
Cent. Cent. 15-IG
3 per Cent. ditt0........................ g'
4
Loan, 1834 •• •• •• • • 154
Ditto, 1839 • • 122 q
Bank Shares •• • . ........ ........... 1572
Esterhazy's Loan .....................
RAILWAYS.
The Northern, or Ferdinand •••••• • • " • ' 193,,
Gloggnitz ................ ... • • • • •• • • • • 13974
Vienna—Milan •• • • •• • • 11914
Pestle .......... .. 10414
Sienna ..
(lrosetto ••• • • ..... •••• • ••••••" • • • • • • 95M'
Oldenburg • 101
Apenninen .............. ••••••• • • • • • •• 98%
Pestle Bridge .......... •.•• • • ..
—Allgemeine Zeitung, April 4.
DUTCII FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, APRIL 7.
dloney. Bills.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent........... GOl4 CO%
s',itto, 3 per Cent • • • • 72% 73,4
Ditto, 4 per Cent. • ............. • . 54% 95
Amort Syndic, 41% per Cent .••• • • 99% 99%
Ditto, 3% per Cent.. ... •• • . 90 9014
Commercial Company, 4% per Cent his 168%
East India Loan, 4 per Cent • • • 9414 94.1,4
Exchange on London, at sight 12 20
Twe months.. ••••••• • . • • • • 12 22
On llamburgh, at Sight •. • .
Two months.• ••••• •• ...... 35 75
—Dutch Papers. April 8.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, APRIL 4.

Bills. Money.
St. Schuld Sch., 3% per Cent • • • • • • • •
Prosy. English Bonds, 1630, 4 per Cent
Foreign Exchanges • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ..... ....
Exchange on London, £1 Sterling, 3 months.
6 24%
Munburgh, 300 Marks, 2 Months. 149%
Paris, 300 tr., 2 Months ........ _ 80 1-12
On Paris ••.•• • • • . • ....
.. _
TWO inonths. • • • • • • •. ~
....
_
—lJalyersal Prussian Gazette. Aptil 5.

ACCIDENT TO lIIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF
SASE-COBOURG, JOURNEY-TO TOULON, Manor 31.
MARSEILLES, Arnie 3.—The horses of the carriage, in which
the Prince was seated, in company with one of his Aides-de-
Camp, having taken fright at something on the road, started
off at full speed, and in the endeavours of the coachman to
check them, the reins were broken. The Prince and his
friend then opened both the doors of the carriage, and jumped
out. His Royal Highness slightly bruised or sprained one of
his legs in his fall, but his friend alighting on the ground
without injury, was fortunate enough to get hold of the
horses' heads and stop them. His Royal Highness was so
little affected by his fall that he was not only enabled to com-
plete his 'journey without inconvenience, but also to appear
the following evening at the theatre at Marseilles. Very
fortunately the Duchess was lot in the same carriage as the
Prince. The amiable qualities of this illustrious and youth-
ful pair are the admiration of all who have had the honour
of being admitted to their personal acquaintance. Their
Royal Highnesses and suite embarked yesterday afternoon,
at a little after four, on board the Amsterdam, for the coasts
of Spain and Lisbon.
GAME -LAWN.—Game, according to law, includes
hares, pheasants, and a few others ; but there is an old case
of a hackney coach horse who died game, or, at all events,
carried out the gallant resolve of Macbeth, to " die with har-
ness on his back." No person can kill game without a card•.
ficate, which proves that he is an individual of " some mark ;"
but he is nevertheless often very wide of the mark or. these
occasions. If the animals shot at were aware of this pro-
vision for their security, they would have the right to call
upon the sportsman to produce hie certificate before proceed-
ing to make genie of them. A certificate must be taken out
annually, and expires in July ; but if a hare were shot on
the last day of that month, and not to expire until August,
the certificate having expired before the hare, a vey nice
question would arise as to the legality of killing him. The
landlord who lets his land, usually reserves the right of kill-
ing the game, the tenant having the privilege of feeding it.
It has been said by Coke, that the landlord has all the best
of the game, which is, for the tenant, every losing one. The
laws against poaching ere very severe, and extend even to
protection of the eggs of birds of game ; so that poaching an
egg is highly criminal. The preserving of game is carried
to an extent that is often destructive to the tenant ; he is
not allowed to regard self-preservation as the first law of
nature, for game preservation is a paramount obligation.—
Punch's Political Dictionary.
SOCIETY OF APOTHECARIES. -- On Wednesday the
following notice was issued from Apothecaries' Hall, Black-
friars, relative to Sir James Graham's recent Act with regard
to apothecaries :—" The Society of Apothecaries, antici-
pating the probability of a change in the laws which regu-
late the practice of physic and surgery in this country, were
unwilling, while the Medical Bill of the Secretary of State
for the Home Department was still before Parliament, to
have recourse to proceedings of a penal character for enforcing
an observance of the ' Act for better regulating the practice
of Apothecaries throughout England and Wales.' Sir James
Graham, however, having admitted that it is not his
inten-
tion of re-introducing any similar measure for the present,
and it appearing that numerous individuals are entering upon
the practice of medicine who have given no evidence of their
possessing the requisite skill and ability for such practice, to
the serious risk of the public health, and to the disencou-
ragement of a zealous course of study on the part of medical
students, the Society
to give this public notice that they will use their utmost en-
deavours to secure to all classes the full benefit of the pro-
visions of the Apothecaries Act, and that, upon being fur-
dtle:rnathed
by
fur-
nished with the names of individuals alleged to be practising
of Apothecaries deem it to be their duty
of the coroner, C.
as apothecaries without having submitted themselves for
rrival
examination, and obtained the certificate of qualification re-
quiredtai
ttowtahse
law, accompanied by adequate proof of such illegal
he case,
practice, the society will forthwith institute the necessary
legal proceedings for the punishment of the offenders."
THE BaostnisY POISONING CASE.—On Wednesday the
jury were re-assembled at the Swan and Mitre to pursue the
he
To): u Idieanrtriteot
make
kn
eckatot
farther;
rt
attorney employed by Carttar, Esq., and Mr. James, the
lj
the inhabitants of Bromley to watch
ment, for reasons which, if stated, might defeat the ends of
Justice.
YARIIAM SINCE CONVICTION.--Various rumours are
current here as to certain confessions which Yarharn is said
to hate made since his condemnation ; we have endeavoured
to ascertain the fact, and We believe that up to the time of
our writing this (Monday) nething of the kind had transpired,
nor has, as is commonly believed,Tolver had an inter-
view with him I.n error . Mr.
s also
prevails as to the arrival of
the w • arrant for his execution,• 1 it reported has been
which is
received, and V •la•• it
will take place on Berard ,y next. There
are not now any warrants fo • a calendar is tilled
up by the clerk of assize with the sentences of all the pri
sonars; this is sent to the sle vii}; in'
sen".those prisoners
with d , wao against •
the word "death" added, takes the usuel proceedings
to carry the law into effect. The sheriff also fixes the day of
execution, which is almost invariably the third market- day
after sentence, which, in
_this instance, will be Saturday, the
18th instant, We have not heard+her the above is the
day fixed.—Yarmouth Chronicle w le'
JURYMEN FINED.—At the conclusion of one of the
trials in the Nisi Prius Court, Liverool, on Thursday, the
jury retired without leave, and their services boiog flumes
aietely required for other CIIII3OS, Air. Justice Coleridge
(4'46144ad
14etentees, Who were not serving in other
(WO) to gia c4ch.,

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, QUARTER TO THREE,

The sales of Cotton in the Liverpool Market yesterday
were 10,000 to 12,000 bales at firm rates. Shares im-
proved.
A sample of the latest importation of seed potatoes
just received from the Azores has been forwarded to us,
and though but little acquainted with agricultural pur-
suits, it would appear that should the failure in the
crop of this esculent be as general as reported, an excel-
lent supply may be obtained for tillage by the farmers
who are short of stock on cultivating the article in
question. It is not unworthy of remark, that
the potato blight has not in the least extended
to the Azores, and the samples here referred to
may be considered as pure. A sample may be seen at
the office of The Sun to-morrow and the next day. For
the details, those parties who are interested may refer to
an advertisement that is inserted in the usual place. It
is fully expected that very many further shipments may
be made to this country should it turn out (as un-
doubtedly it will) that seed potatoes are very scarce,
that the most ample means may be provided for the pre-
sent year's crops.

There are late accounts from the Cape of Good Hope
this morning. The only news of importance—and there
is every reason Ito believe that the facts are exagge-
rated—is, that the Caffres on the frontier were becom-
ing again very troublesome.
There has been a good amount of business transacted
to-day. The payment of the dividends has considerably
relieved the position of the Money Market. Exchequer-
bills have advanced to 28s. and 295. premium. Consols
for the Account have been very firm at from 961 I;
and for Money at 96i- t. At the present moment,
however, there is a preponderance of sellers. The
Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have gone back from
97i to 96k. For Reduced Three per Cents. there has
been a fair demand at 951 India Stock has been sold
at 260, and Bank Stock at 2064.
In the Foreign Funds the transactions this morning
have not been of any importance. There is a slight im-
provement in Brazilian to 81i, and in Danish to 874.
Mexicans are heavy at 32, Portuguese at 81, Russian
at 109. Spanish Consols at 244, and the Dutch Four
per Cents. at 92. The Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have
realised 54.
_ . .

The Share Market has not improved this morning,
and business is slack.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ON O'CLOCK
(From the Official List.)

sank Stock .. • • • . 2064
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 95%3( %
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. 96 !%4
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Amu. 97 96% 971/ 96%
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .• 101,4 3-16
India Stock • • • • • . 260
Consols for Account • . 9634 %
Exchequer Bills. I%d. I%d.
1,0001. •. •• 29 24 28 pm.
5001. • • .. .. • . 29 24 28 pia.
Ditto, Small .. .... 29 24 28 pm.
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 613,
Danish Bonds, 3 per Cent 87%
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 1 per Cent ..
Ditto, for the Account .. .. 32
Ditto, Deferred .. •• 163,
Portuguese Bonds, S per Cent. .. 81
Ditto, 4 per Cent .. ..
Ditto, for the Account 53
Russian Bonds .. 109
Spanish Itonds, 5 par Cent. 24%
Ditto, for the Account • . 24%
Dividends on the above payable In London.
Dutch Two-and-a-Halt' per Cents. 5934
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 92% 92
BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK
RAILWAYS. PAID. Pea SHARE.
Amber., Notting., Boston, & Eastrn Jn. 2% . to
Bristol and Exeter .. • • • • .. 75 •• • • .... to

Ditto, New

b .. .. 9 .... to

Caledonian

10. ~.. to 7%

Ditto Half Shares .. • • • • • • 214 •• • • 1%%.. t•

Ditto Extension .• • •• •• . • 1.1:4 ::.• to
Clielnisford and Bury . • .. • • .. 1% •• • • % to
CticAer and Holyhead .. •• .. 20 •• •• 17% .... to
Direct Manchester (Remington's) .. 214 .. • • I'/ • ... to I
Direct Manchester (Itastriek's) •• 51,4 •• •• •. to
Direct Northern •• •. •• •. 2!‘a •• .• I •• .. to
Dublin and Belfast Junction .. .. 10 .... 4 .. t)

Dublin and Galway .. ..

4 .. • .
_1 IA • . • . to

Eastern Counties • • • • • . 141. 16s. Od.• •.. 211;, to
Ditto, New .. .. • • • . 81. 16s. Od.• ••• 5% p.... to

.. •
Do., Perpetual,s per Ct. No. 1,6/ 13s. 4d..... .. to
Ditto, ditto • • .. N 0.2, 6/. 13s. 4d... XM p a.d. to
Ditto, York Extension .. • . • • 102. •• .. 1 i,a •.• • to 1
Edinburgh and Glasgow • . 50 •• 71 ••..to 72
:onto, Doncaster, and Sheffi,ld, &c... 425. • • .. dis.• • to
Great North of England ..100 • • ..210 .• • . to
Great Western .. 85 .• •• • • t•—
Ditto, Quarter Shares • • .. • • 5 •• .. 163 •• • • to
Ditto, Fifths •• .. 20 .... 34 • • to
Guildford, Farehain, and Portsmouth b •• .. 41, X.. to
Itull and Selby .. .. • • .. JO ....101 .... to
Ditto, Ilalf Shares .. • • .• 7 .... 24 to
Leicester and Bedt;pal •• 225. .... die. to
London and Birmingham •• • • ..100 .• ••220 .. • • to 222
Milo, Thirds .. •• 24 .• 6134 to
Ditto. Quarter Shares .. • • • • 2 .... 27:% •••• to
Loudon and Ltrighton •• • • •• 50 62% X• • to
Ditto ditto Fifths •• • • •• 20 .. • .. to
London and Croydon .• .. 13/. 15s. 9d. •• 21 .... to
London and South-Western .• 411. 6:3. 102. • • • • 76 . to
London and York •• •• • .. N 24.. to
London, Warwick, and Kidderminster 24 .. • • IX •• .. to
1 .01idonderry and Coleraine •• • • 7% •• •• 4 •• • • to
Lynn and Ely • .. 10 .. • • 7 .. • • to

Dianel,ster and Leeds •• .. 82 ....120 ..•• to --
Ditto, Half Shares .• •• •• •• 38 .... 54% to
Ditto, Quarters
3fanehester and Birmingham •• 40

Ditto, Quar.er Shares ( II) .. • • 2 .. • • 9 to
Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) • • • . 1 •• • • 7M .. to 7
Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock .. 425. .... par.... tot dbl.
Midland • • • • • • • • • • • • 100 ....144 .... to 143%
Ditto, /few •• • • • • • • •• 10 •••• 29 .••to
Midland Great Western (Irish) .. .. 10 .... .. to
Newcastle and Darlington Junction .. 25 .. 42% to 43
Ditto, New .. .• •• 1 .• .. 734 •• .. to
Newcastle and Berwick • • •• .• 10 16..,. to 1734
Newark, Sheffield, and Boston • • • • 2%.... 1 .. to
North British . • • • • • • • • • 20_ •• • • 244 4• • to

Ditto, Half Shares .• .. 6 .. • • 8 • . to
Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. 1;i .. • • 11436 • • to
Northern and Eastern .. • • • • 50 •. • • 67 •• • • to
Ditto Scrip (boned at 5 discount) .. 40 .• • • 55 .. • • to
North Kent and Direct Dover •. .. 234 .. • • 136 ld .. to
North Stafford-shire • • • • • • .. 425. .... 1 p.. to 2 p
Norwich and Brandon .. .. • • 18 •• • • .... to

Ditto, New •• •• • • 5 •... 7 .... to
Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton 1214 .... 814 IA . to
Perth and Inverness .. •• •• .. .. •• Ih • ... to

Portsmouth Direct

.. .. .. .. 3 .... 1 .... to-:

Rugby and Huntingdon .. • . .. 2 .... 3y .... to 1
Scottish Central .. .. 10 .. •• 13%.... to
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. . • 234 .• • • IA, 3,4 .. to
Shrewsbury and Hereford .. to
South Eastern and Dover • • .. 33% .... 31% .... to 35
Ditto, New, No. 2 .. •• 10 ... 9 % .... to
South Wales .. .. • . 5 .... 13,4 to I
Welsh Midland .. • • .. • • • • 234 •• • • 1!4.... to

West Riding Union .. • . • • •• 1 pto
Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth 2%.... .?4 -•to
Yarmouth and Norwich .. • • .. 20 .. • . 24% .... to
York and Lancaster • • •.• • • ••
,2%•- .• .... to

-
York and North Midland • • .. • • 50 •• .. -- •• .. to
Ditto, Extension • • • • • • •. 15 •• • • 21% •••• to
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.

Dutch Rhenish • • . • • • .. •• 5 •• - . 5%% to
East Indian .• .. •• • • • • •• Is. •• • • %%•• to
Great Northern of France Constituted I •• • • 14% %• • to -- -
Great Western Bengal • • •• .• 59. •... %.• .• to
Luxembourg • • • • • • .. 4 •• • • 1% %..to
Namur and Liege • • • • • • . 4 •• • • 1% %•• to
Orleans and Vierzon . .. .. .. 10 •• • • 16% to
Orleans and Bordeaux • • .. .. 6 .. • • 10% •• .. to
Paris and Strasbourg Constituted • . I .... 534 %..to
Rouen mad Havre • • •. . •. 20 •• .. 29 ••.. to

JOINT-STOCK BANNS.
National Provincial of England .. 35 •• • • 35N .... to

MINES

Real del Monte, Unregistered .. • • •• .. 33,4 .... to

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAT).
LONDON, APRIL 9.—Wind N.W., light breeze, and fine,
clear weather.
DEAL, Amt. B.—Wind N.N.E. to N.E., fine.—Arrd.
Jeannette and Bertha, Kollig, Singapore, and sld. for Ham-
burgh; Candidate, Fowle, Barbadoes ; Fantome, Jamaica.
RAMSGATE, APRIL B.—Wind If.N.E.—Sld. Cronstadt,
Hatch, Galveston ; Calypso, Jorstad, Oporto ; Constance Mar-
garetha, Neilson,.Fowey.
Po/maim:Tin, APRIL B.—Wind N.N.E to N.—Arrd. Bth,
Switzerland, Knight, London, and sld. for New York ; Ori-
ental, Soy, Southampton. Sld. Ann, Seaton, Tatum-
gouche ; Swallow, Grey, Quebec.
COWES, APRIL B.—Wind N. E.—Arrd. Matador, Ballehr,
Galveston. Sld. Cheribon, Dekker, Batavia ; Isabella, Rob-
son, Quebec.
TORQUAY, APRIL 7.—Sid. Mersey, Buller, Miramichi;
Amethyst, Carter, Miramichi.
PLYMOUTH, APRIL B.—Wind N.—Sld. Nanette, Africa;
Guineaman, Stanfield, Cape Coast Castle; Alpha, Quebec;
Nestor, Smith, ditto; Florence, Brummage, ditto; Dahlia,
Hooper, ditto; Spermaceti, Hooper, ditto; Sylvia, ditto;
Gem, Peverley, ditto; Vittoria, Young, ditto; Tweed, Lake..
man, ditto; Ouse, Williams, ditto ; Baltic, Gordian, ditto.
BRISTOL, APRIL B.—Wind N.E.—Sld. Amelia, Rudge,
Africa; Augusta, Facey, Quebec; Chieftain, Walker, ditto;
Druid, Whitfield, ditto.
ABERYSTWITII, Arm. B.—Wind N.E.—Credo, Humphreys,
Quebec.
I.avEßPoor., APRIL 9.—Wind N. to N.N.W., moderate.—
Arrd. Margaret Pollock, Pye, New Orleans ; 'ray, Dundee,
leaky, having been on shore on Boyle Bank. Sld. Exporter,
Robertson, Quebec ; Highland Mary, Crossland, Quebec ;
Amity, Allan, Montreal ; Elizabeth, Wilson, Newfoundland;
James Orr, Andrew, Newfoundland.
CASTLETO UN ( BEARIIIVEN), APRIL s.—Sld. Leviathan,
St. John's, New Brunswick.
BELFAST, APRIL 7.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrd. 6th, Mozam-
bique, Pickanee, St. John's, New Brunswick. Sld. 7th, Re-
becca, Campbell, Miramichi.
PILL, APRIL 7.—Sld. Augusta Facey, St. John's, New
Brunswick ; Amelia, Rudge, Africa ; Druid, Quebec.
PORT TALBOT, APRIL 7.—The Magnet, Davis, and the
Martha Jones, in going out in tow of a steam tug, got
aground on the bar ; the latter has come off with loss of boat
and slight damage, but the former remains.
DOVER, APRIL B.—Wind N.N.E., fine.—Sld. Elide,
Bentsen, Charleston.
OFF BRIGHTON, APRIL B.—Arrd. Victoria, New York.
TEIGNMO HUI, APRIL B.—Wind N.E.—Sld. Active, Hole,
Newfoundland.
FOWEY, APRIL 7.—Sld. Royal Adelaide, Smith, Quebec;
Euphrosine, Quebec.
FA LMOUTII, APRIL B.—Wind N. to E.N.E., fresh.—Sld.
Duchess of Leinster, Renfree, Ceylon and Calcutta ; Indus-
trial, Marovick, Rio Janeiro ; James Duncan, England,
Grenada; Eleanor, Tunny, Barbadoes ; Wave, Houguez, St.
Thomas's ; Venilia, Knight, Saguinay ; Catherine Brown,
Cape of Good Hope ; Moutais' Bennement, La Guayra
Courier de Bilbao, Cocheimbo, Havannah.

- -
ter-old Store Pigs, 16s to 20s; and Mulch Cows, with their
small calf, 161 to 191 each.
LEWES, APRIL 7.—Beef, from 25 10d to 4.8 4d; Mutton,
8s 8d to 5s 2d; Veal, 4s to 4s 10d ; and Pork, 4e to 4s 8d
per Elbe. A moderate supply, and a sluggish demand.

CORN AVERAGES.
OEXPIRAL AVERACIZ PRICES OF BRITISH CORN
For the Week ended April 4, 1846, made up from the Returns of the
Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns In England and Wales
P!l,J92,l*lje Qiktute.r.

_
WHEAT." BARLEY.' OATS. i RTE. I LEANS. I PEAS.
I PRICE .. 553 8d 305 7d 22s 6d 333 7d 341 10d 34s 2d
DITTY... lie Od 11 Od Gs Od Cs 6d is 651 is 6d

MARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY)
John Jones, a good-looking youth, between thirteen
and fourteen years of age, of superior manners, and
dressed in very showy style, was charged with attempt-
ing to pick pockets.
Mr. Robinson, the solicitor, attended on his behalf.

William Jones, one of the constables belonging to the
Mendicity Society, stated that between five and six
o'clock yesterday afternoon he saw the prisoner with
four other youths of much the same appear arc° as him-
self, in New Bond-street, following two ladies who were
walking arm-in-arm. The prisoner was close behind
them, in the centre of his companions, who were
screening him from observation. Witness saw him put
his hand to the ladies' dresses, and feel for their pockets;
they followed the ladies to the Burlington-arcade, and
at the entrance the prisoner again attempted their
pockets. The ladies went into the Arcade. Witness
followed, and asked if they had lost anything ; they
said they bad not. The prisoner and his companions
then went into Burlington-gardens, where he followed
up another lady in a similar manner, and witness saw
him take hold of her dress and put his hand to her left-
side pocket. He then seized him, on which he threw
something away, believed to be a pair of scissors. He
was secured, but his companions made off and escaped.
Mr. HARDWICK asked if the prisoner was known?—
The constable said, he had been pointed out to several of
the force that morning, but nothing was known of him.
The prisoner said he was merely walking along
quietly, when the constable seized him.
Mr. IlannwlcK—How do you get your living?—
Prisoner—l am residing with my mother, at No. 2,
Albert-terrace, Surrey-road, Blackfriars-road.
Mr. HARDWICK remanded the prisoner until Tuesday
next, and directed that in the interim inquiry should be
made respecting him.

LICENSED VICTUALLERS AND
GENERAL FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE

COMPANY.--(THIS DAY.) __ ___.
A general business meeting of the above Company
was held in the London Tavern, at one o'clock, for the
purpose of declaring the result of the last five years'
experience. Charles Bleadon, Esq., presided.
The SECRETARY read the report, which stated that the
profit on the fire and life branches of the Company's
business was upwards of 23,0001., the appropriation of
which gave general satisfaction. Five per cent. was
added to the proprietors' capital, and after writing off a
large sum from the preliminary expenses, a balance of
nearly 11,0001. was passed to the reserved fund.
The report was received by the crowded meeting with
evident satisfaction.

The CHAIRMAN stated that the report would lie for
inspection in the offices of the Company for ten days,
when all might have an opportunity of inspecting it at
leisure.

Mr. BINGLEY, in moving the adoption of the report,
said, that it had given him the highest satisfaction, and
although in some points he was inclined to dissent from
the directors, yet so much confidence did he place i❑
them that he had given way, and was determined to sup-
port them to the utmost.—(Ch(. ers.) Ile moved that
the report now read be adopted, and entered on the
minutes.

Mr. KEASLEY seconded the adoption of the report.
Four d,rectors, six committeemen, and one auditor,
who were to have gone out, were re-elected unani-
mously.

Tha.uks were moved to the directors and Chairman,
which were acknowledged in a neat and eloquent speech
by Mr. Alderman Musgrove. The meeting then sepa-
rated.

SIR GEORGE MURRAY.—We have been requested to
contradict the statement relative to the declining health of
the Master-General of the Ordnance. The real fact is, that
Sir George Murray has for some time past been making
great progress towards complete recovery, and during the
whole period of his illness has transacted his official business
daily at his own residence, instead of at the office in Pall-
mall.— Times.
FOREIGN POTATOES.—SeveraI importations of this
esteemed vegetable are now taking place from foreign ports.
A vessel called the Navarino, from the Channel Islands,
brought on Monday 45 tons, the produce of these islands ;
and the Ann, from Gijoei and Viliavicissa, 15 tons of the
same article. The Mary, from Bordeaux, which arrived on
the same day, brought 33 tons of potatoes of French pro-
duce. Whether for the purposes of seed, or of immediate
consumption, these arrivals at the present time of asserted
scarcity in the article in this country of native production,
present a feature of interest and importance.
FOREIGN ICE.—In consequence of the failure of the
supply of ice at home during the last winter, there is now
great competition in the market from foreign sources. There
are now two sources Open from America, and nearly every
vessel that arrives from Norway brings over ice as ballast,
which is imported duty free. A vessel from America, now
discharging iu St. Katharine's Docks, has brought over a
quantity of capons and turkeys in the ice, the preservative
effects of which are, however, anything but satisfactory.
We learn from Dantzic, 28th tut., that the Austrian
Government has prohibited the export of corn from Galicia.
SoUTIIWARK LITERARY INSTITUTION.—Mr. C. Brown
gave his second lecture on the genius and writings of Moore
at this institution last evening. The lecturer in the first
part treated of the satirical poems of the author, " The Two-
penny Post Bag," " The Fudge Family," and those gems
of wit, sarcasm, and fun, mingled with true wisdom
and true poetry, with which the poet was wont in
days gone bye to delight the town. The selec-
tions were judiciously chosen, and were given with
great spirit and effect by the talented lecturer. The second
part consisted of a critical notice of the Irish melodies, with
vocal illustrations by Mr. and Mrs. Caulfield, and Miss
Florence Brunel, the young lady who made so successful a
debdt at the Institution last week. She sang the delightful
melodies with great pathos and feeling, and with clear and
accurate intonation. She was much applauded, and is un-
doubtedly an as tiste of great promise.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—This morning, about eleven
o'clock, as a coal waggon, belonging to Benjamin Bent,
Cannon-wharf, Westminster, was passing up West-street,
Soho, a little boy about eight years old, Who, strange to say,
was playing with the drag chain of the waggon, fell between
the wheels, and horrible to relate, the off hind wheel passed
along his back and crushed his head perfectly flat, so that
his brains and pieces of his skull were upon the stones of
the street. It is needless to add, he was dead when
picked up.
What will the Lords Do ? The Nation.—Punch.
There are nearly 2,0001. raised already for the family
of the late Bishop of Jerusalem.
ST. CLEMENT DANES.—Mr. Sherville, the collector of
poor-rates for this parish, states that instead of 500 distress
warrants being issued, there are only eight, and not one has
been put in three.
THE ROBBERY OF LORD RUALEIGH'S JEWELLERY AT
ST. JOHN'S COLIAGIC, CAMBRIDOIL—At the General Quarter
Sessions of Cambridge, on Tuesday, Edward Ellsbury, a
youth, was indicted for stealing from the rooms of William
Alleone Cecil, Esq., commonly. called Lord Burleigh, the
eldest son of the Marquis of t;xeter, at St. John's College,
jewellery of the value of from 401. to 501. His Lordship is
an undergraduate of the University, and occupied rooms in
the second court of the above College on the second-floor.
On the evening of the 26th ult. he went out to dinner, &lora
half-past six o'clock, leaving an open case standing en a
dressing-table, containing various articles of jewellery. Be-
tween ten and eleven o'clock he returned, and on inspecting
the case found six sets of gold studs, a gold chain, and
four valuable gold pins missing, of the value previously
stated. He immediately adopted the necessary precautions
with a view of gaining the restoration of his property, or
the detection of the thief; but nothing was heard of either
until the 10th instant, when the prisoner endeavoured to
pledge a gold pin fir five shillings at Mr. Folkard's, a pawn.
broker, in the Blackfriars-road, London. The case against
the prisoner having been gone into, the Recorder sentenced
him to seven years transportation. It was understood that
the Court would use their influence in sending the prisoner to
the model prison, Isle of Wight.
A few days ago, as a little boy belonging to Vime-
reux, near Calais, was trying with a line from the quay to catch
some of the small fry peopling the water, he was frightened by
see-
ing an immense black mass come floating up the harbour.
Ilehas-
tened-
tened to informhis father, and in a few minutes the whole of the in-
habitants were upon the quay, astounded at seeing the port com-
pletely filled with mackerel. Some time was lost In considering how
to secure this valuable godsend. At length the means of entrapping
the whole shoal was devised, by completyly stopping the mouth of
the harbour; and thus, according to one account, more than 4%30
fish have been caught. • •
QUEEN'S COLLEGE, BIRMINGHA3E—The Rev. and
e Worshipful Chancellor Law, the Vice-Principal, has taken
up his residence in college, in order personally to superin-
tend the proposed extended system of collegiate, medical, and
surgical education. The reverend gentleman RS offered to
the resident students the following munificent prises :-501.
to the student who may carry off four medals, 801. three
medals,. 71. two medals, W. one medal. William Sands C
Esq., the Dean of the Faculty, has also gone into residence
to assist the council in carrying out proposedthe fis
plan.d
patches,
Captain Watts, and Baron Thiele,
o'clock yesterday
,bearer o
arrived at London-bridge Wharf at
morning by the General Steam Navigation Company's steam-
shipp Triton, after a fine as
The passage would have been sage of twelve hours from Ostend.
much shorter, but the Triton
had to contend with a fog,
IRONMASTERS' QUARTERLY MEETING.—WoLvEn-
IiAIIPTON,
WFDNEADAY.—The ironmasters' quarterly meet-
ing was held here to-day. The attendance was good, and
great anxiety was evidently felt as to the present position
and prospects of the iron trade. There were a good many
orders and offers announced at reduced rates; but none were
accepted, and the business done was of a trilling character at
present rates—viz., pig, 4/.153. to 51. 10s. ; bar, 10/. ; rail-
way iron, 10/. to 11/. per ton. One master, who does a large
business, stated that an order at a reduced rate was handed
to him, which he traced as having gone through twelve dif-
ferent masters, by e bons it was refused ; but another master
stated that he was aware of the fact that a good many orders
at reduced rates were actaally in progress of being executed,
having been taken nominally at the rates fixed by the last
meeting, but with an understanding that a heavy deduction
would be made in the shape of discount. In these c' • 1 nem 1-
etances the meeting at Birmingham to-morrow is expected
to be a stirring one,
TuE Burrisit MUSEU3L—This building, which has
lately undergone considerable improvement, will be closed
to the public to-day (Thursday), and re-epen on Monday
next, remaining open every day dining the Easter week,
Saturday excepted,
Inesu DISTNNSS.—INDIAN SUBSCRIPTIONS.— We are
informed that 3,000/. has been lodged in the Bank of Ireland
to the credit of the Mansion-house Famine Committee, by the
benevolent inhabitants of Calcutta--and that more may be
expected.—Deblin F;witing Post.
During the night of Friday last, some incendiary set
lire to the Grand Stand on Sutton Coldll4l ;Ace-course.
Being composed of wood, the building was completely de-
stroyed.— Wolverhampton (.74.,;oiiiele.
CoMMUTN OF THOMAS NICOLLE'S
saye a teleie,re,plith dispatch,
The Jersey HeraldH, of Tuesday.
communicated the intelligence to the ea aster of the Jersey
packet, just before it piled for the island On Saturday last,
that senttaic:e id death upon Nicolle had been commuted,

AMERICAN NEWS.

THIRTEEN DAYS LATER.

We have received, via Havre, New York papers to the
18th of March. Their contents are important.
The latest speech in the Senate was that of Mr. Cal-
houn, on the 12th of March. Ile of jetted to the un-
equivocal notice respecting the Oregon question, but was
opposed also to the equivocal resolution of the Senate.
Of the two questions, " compromise" or " war," he ad-
vocated the former. The reasons which he gave for this
conclusion will be found in the abstract of his speech,
given below.

Th© papers by this arrival are full of accounts of the
disasters and destruction of property caused by the
breaking up of the ice on the river, and the sudden rise
of the waters. Numerous shipwrecks had also occurred;
the details of some of which will be found amongst our
extracts.

Tue Hibernia steamer had not arrived at New York
on the 18th ult.

The money market was much depressed.
The news from Texas is that the Bill for delivering
the public property to the United States had passed the
Senate without opposition.

From Canada we have accounts to the 9th of March.
The intelligence is only of local interest.
For our shipping news by this arrival we refer to the
usual head. The following are our political and com-
mercial extracts:—

" THE OREGON TERRITORY.
"We understand that negotiations are on foot at
Washington, among the several sections of the demo-
cracy, for the purpose of effecting a union on a certain
ine of policy on the Oregon question—and that it is
probable that all negotiation will be suspended—the
policy of ' masterly inactivity' adopted—and a trial
made of the sense of the country on 49 and 54 40. A
few days will tell the secrets."

IMPORTANT MOVEMENTS AT WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, MARCIS 15, 1846.—The Oregon ques-
tion is in as confused and excitable a condition as ever.
What will be the result of the various motions before
the Senate no one seems to be able to tell. Some doubt
whether the " notice" will be given, and whether the
whole matter may not be laid on the table, by a com-
plete revolution in the attitude of the different sections
in the Senate. Many of the ultra-Oregon men, instead
of being favourable to the notice, have only turned right
round in favour of " masterly inactivity," or no move-
ment at all. This course of action has been adopted, in
consequence of the belief in keeping the question copy'
for future contingency throughout the country. In the
meantime, Mr. Calhoun speaks to-morrow, and crowds
are collecting into this city for the purpose of hearing
that distinguished man on the great question into which.
the country is precipitated.
Last evening there was a caucus of the ultra-Oregon
Members, comprising ten Senators, and many Members
front the House. It is said they are against all negotia-
tion—against all compromise, and even against the
notice, if necessary—that they will probably adopt
" masterly inactivity," and lay the whole subject on the
table, bringing forward measures for giving territorial
government to Oregon, within the provisions of a
treaty similar to that passed in 1821 by England.
It is the purpose of the sticklers for the whole of
Oregon to make it the political question of the day, and
withdraw it from all negotiation, and take the chance of
fighting for it, in 10, or 15, or 20 years hence. It is
even believed that Mr. Polk may be induced to adopt
this line of action, and thus be enabled to unite the whole
party on some policy in favour of the whole territory at
a future day, without opening the negotiation now, or
endangering the peace of the country. Such is the con-
fused condition of things that any result- may be expected
as to the issue of the debate is the Senate on the nego-
tiation about Oregon.
(From the New York Herald, March 17.)
WASHINGTON, MARCH 17.—The sensation—for it was
a sensation—awakened by the rising of Mr. Calhoun in
the Senate, on Thursday last, as the visible sign that he
would speak to-day, caused the galleries, three hours
before the meeting of the Senate, to be filled.
Mr. Calhoun, with a short and concise preface, en-
tered into au examination of the expediency of the
notice. From the recommendations of the President, it
was thought, at the beginning of the session, that the
notice would lead to a series of measures resulting
in war. Since that time the phase of affairs had materially
changed. '1 here was no more an idea entertained now of
war than that our title was " clear and talquestionable
to the whole territory of Oregon. Ile opposed, not-
withstanding, the unequivocal notice ; he was opposed,
also, to the equivocal resolutions of the House ; and, if
he should advocate the notice in any shape, it would be
in the form of the senator from Georgia (Mr. Colquitt),
embracing a recommendation for the settlement of the
controversy by "compromise." There were two alter-
natives of settlement—war, or :a " compromise." In
every point of view the latter was the preferable mode.
War would involve us in an inextricable national debt--
1, ad to the re-establishment of a rotten paper system —concentrate all the powers of the States into a federal
government, and terminate in a central military des-
potism. Peace would give momentum to the great work
in progress-1t would extend our commerce—it would
increase our internal wealth—it would erect our -roads
and canals—it would relieve the States—it would extent&
our borders—it would preserve us Oregon—it would
establish a beneficial fraternity of interest between the
great nations upon whose exertions the civilisation Of
the world mainly depends—the United States and Qreat
Britain.
Mr. Calhoun regretted the impatience of the senators. of the west, but he felt assured that they themselves
were, perhaps, beginning to think that our title to the
whole territory was nut so clear and unquestionahle
ag
they had at first imagined, and that war was not the
pastime of an hour. He earnestly desired a speedy ad-
justment by compromise, because, among other mria-
sures, the settlement of our controversy with Mexico
depended upon the adjustment or non-adjustment of the
conflicting claims to Oregon between us and Great
Britain. in the event of a war upon this question,
Mexico would at once act upon the offensive, and by
Mexico on the south, under the discipline of British
officers, and by British steamers along the sea-board,
the Canadians on the north, a British fleet upon the
lakes, and the Indians on the west, we should be enfi-
laded on every side,

THE QUESTION OF THE DAY.
(From the New York Herald, March 15.)
The debate on the Oregon question continues with
unabated interest in the United States Senate, while the
agitation spreads throughout the country. The points; in dispute may appear small—being a difference between
49 deg. and 54 deg. 40 min.—but on this very difference
the awful result of " peace" or " war" hangs. This is
the contingency which gives edge—force—interest, to the
debate in the Senate. The last accounts show that Mr.
Evans, of Maine, has finished a speech of two days it}'
length. He went through the usual topics connected
with the title ; but, as far as regarded his vote on the
various propositions before that body, he seemed to be
in a state of bewilderment and confusion. " I do neC
know," says Mr. Evans, " as to whether I shall vote fur
notice, or no notice--I can't tell if it be peaceful, or not
peaceful—l do not understand the motive of the Presi-
dent. Here is the great difficulty—the deep embarrass-
ment—the awful mystery—which hangs over the Oregon
question, involving, in its consequence, the foreign rela-
tions of the country, to the most unexampled extant, and
all the alternatives of peace or war."
While this state of agitation is increasing—widening:
from its centre in Washington—it is not possible for tho'
people of this great metropolis to look calmly and atandl
idly upon it, and to take no interest in such a question,
The President and Congress appear to be surrounded with
embarrassment and doubt. They seem not to know
what to do in the present crisis. They are anxious to
ascertain the sentiments of the people, and from the in-
dications presenting themselves every day, we have the
strongest reasons for believing that the people, from this
time forward, will take this question in their own hands,
and give forth their views and purposes in every ensuing
election.

• This is the natural progress of this great and agitating
question, commencing with the Executive and CongresS,
and radiating gradually through the whole country, until
the whole masses of the population become fermented
and agitated. The Oregon question, therefore, holds in its
hands the momentous issues of peace and war.
It presents to the people of this metropolis a far
more important topic of discussion and decision
than mere local reforms, or local questions, in-
volved, usually, in our charter elections. It is ob-
vious that the interests hanging upon this question, as
connected with this metropolis, are mightier and deeper,
and broader, than the mere corporate interests of the
city. Such being the case, it is very natural for the
minds of our citizens to take the earliest opportunity of
presenting this question to the people at the polls,
order to furnish some light as to their purposes and
views, as soon as possible. The distribution of city
offices, or the value of a few local reforms, or the as'
cendancy of any political sect of politicians, all dwindles
into insignificance when compared with the vast foreign
commerce of this large and populous city, which is be;
ginning already to be affected by the portentous aspect cf.
things at Washington, by the embarrassed position
of
our foreign relations, by the mysteries of the executive
mansion, and by the agitations of the capitol.
In this broad aspect of the present position of our
Government and the people, connected with our foreign
relations, we should not be at all surprised to see this
new and important issue involved in our approaching
election; ; neither should we be surprised to see "munielP
reform"—the ascendancy of this clique or that clique-;i
the strength of this party or that party, compsl?
all to give way to this new division, this distracting
controversy on the subject of the foreign relation
of the country. A new and important question is force!:
upon this community by the action of the Executive and
the Congress—a question in which is involved the VT,
prosperity of this city for years to come, beyond the
value of twenty corporations, and the existence of all
parties heretofore in being. Are the people for 49 deg'
or 54 d. g. 40 min. ? Will they give up five degrees.
e,"
the Pacific for the sake of permanent peace ? Are tll4
in favour of peace or war ? These are the question
s°
likely to be presented at the approaching electra
and all other questions will hare to be postponed
solve niece convenient time. We cannot resist the °ls-
taglon—the cholera of Washington.

NEW DIVISION OF PARTIES.
(From the New York Herald, March 17.)
The great issues which have been cast in the polities
cauldron during the past few years bid fair to act like
some chemical agent, and precipitate to the bottom SO,
which has heretofore predominated. In 1844 a gre
an
li
Ul of the men who, in 1840,supported Harries:Pot 114 e

for Polk, while many who had stuck to Van Buren to
the last, indisposed with the Texas agitation, and too
timid for bold movements, sided with the Conservative
principle, as exemplified in its embodiment, Clay.
Well, the Polk party succeeded—they selected their
President, a majority of the United States Senate, and a
majority of the House of Representatives. The Presi-
dent has administered the government in a manner sa-
tisfactory to all moderate, sound-thinking, no-party men,
but his originally warmest supporters are now breaking
up rapidly into factions. The southern Polk-men go for
a " masterly inactivity" on the Oregon question—the
western Polk-men go for 54 50, and "no compromise
but at the cannon's mouth"—while the northern Polk-
men go for 49, even if war be necessary, and as much
more as can be peacefully secured. Out of the conflict
which is thus going on among the various sections, a
new party, or perhaps new parties, must inevitably
spring. However the question may be decided, all can-
not and will not be pleased.
The Whigs are equally distracted on this question ;
one section of their phalanx is somewhat disposed to go
to war for 54 deg. 41 min., while the other would rather
lose the whole than fire a gun.
No matter how the question is decided as between
the nations, we must have a breaking-up, and a new or-
ganisation of parties. There are numbers of dissatisfied
men of influence in each of the present parties who would
gladly participate in such a movement, and there are
two or three of the great minds of the nation, in the Se-
nate and elsewhere, who are preparing to lead it on.
Democrat and Whig are likely to become obsolete,terms,
and most probably the new divisions of our political
world will be classified, like those in England, as Con-
servative and Radical, or some such terms.

ALLEGED RETIREMENT OF MR. BUCHANAN.
(From the New I ork Herald, March 14.)
WASHINGTON, MARCH 12, 1846.—The developments
made in my communication in Tuesday's Herald, con-
cerning the " letter carrying " of the Hon. Senator from
North Carolina, from the " White House " to the only
post-office, on the night of Thursday, previous to the
closing of the mail for the Cambria, I have reason to be-
lieve have caused a commotion in the Cabinet, the conse-
quence of whick will be the almost immediate retire-
ment of Mr. Buchanan from the post of Secretary of
State. Indeed, Ido not see how he could remain in his
present position, whilst the duties of his office seem to
be performs: by the President himself, without a degree
of self-abasement, to which I know he never would sub-
mit. No, Mr. Buchanan is made of sterner stuff than to
remain in any position in which he may be interested,
whilst others arrogate to themselves the right to control
it, and assume the exercise of its proper departments,
without being willing to share its responsibilities.
The Secretary of State being the only 54 40 member
of the Cabinet, has also taken umbrage at the private
consultation of the President with the 49 men of the
Senate who have, up to this time, so strongly opposed
both the letter and spirit of his declarations on the
Oregon question, as contained in his inaugural address
and message. Mr. Buchanan's retirement, therefore,
from public life will be a sort of triumph for him, as
the causes that have led to it will be those that are iden-
tified with the purest and most patriotic feelings of the
country. Mr. Bancroft too, goes out about the Ist of
April. Whether any others leave or not, I have not yet
ascertained ; or who will succeed those it is difficult to
say. Ido not believe there is one public or private man
of any character that would be willing to accept &Cabinet
appointment upon the same terms that those at the
various departments now hold theirs. No, Sir, not one
—unless, indeed, they be willing to act the part of mere
clerks—machines, without any volition of their own in
the appointment of their subordinates, as well as in other
things.
When Mr. Polk first came here, the following Cabinet
arrangement was agreed upon by him ; but, owing to
lir. Walker declining the subordinate station of Attor-
hey_General, which was assigned him, the plan was dis-
ordered, and the present Cabinet agreed upon. Here is
the first cast of that curious concern, which I shall now
put upon record, for the first time, for the benefit of the
.eurious in such matters:—

Mr. Buchanan, Secretary of State.
Mr. Bancroft, Secretary of the Treasury.
Mr. Butler, Secretary of War.
litr. Fairfield, Secretary of the Navy.
Mr. Johnson, Postmaster-General.
Mr. Walker, Attorney-General.
Mr. 'Walker kicked the beam, and Messrs. Butler and
Fairfield were floored. George Bancroft came near suf-
fering the same fate by the opposition of Levi Wood-
bury, who kept him two or three days hanging by the
eyelids, wheel before the Senate for confirmation. Was
there ever such a state of things exhibited before as this?
It has, however, this merit in it, that it fulfils to the
letter, in a political point of view, what the Scriptures
say in a moral, which is, " The last shall be first, and
the first last ;" for it is now well understood that Mr.
Walker, who was then at the tail of the list, is now at
the head of the list, and means to keep himself there,
too, no matter who may hereafter become his associates
in office.
I understand Mr,, Mason is to succeed Mr. Buchanan ;
but whether as an ad interim Secretary of State or not
I cannot affirm.
The House is still engaged in debating the Harbour
Bill, which has been considerably lengthened by the
'opposition of some Members to a clause in it relating to
the purchase, by the United States, of the stock of the
Louisville and Portland Canal. It is difficult to account
for such opposition, when the advantages resulting to the
Goveptiment and people are at all understood. The Go-
vernment own virtually 5,353 shares, leaving only 4,647
owned by individuals. The Government originally
owned 2,903, and the balance of 5,353—viz., 2,4 so—has
been purchased by the company, with the net proceeds
of the tolls, dining the last four years. The 4,647
shares owned by i.ndividuals can be purchased now for
about 570,000 dolli., ;which, if they be purchased by the
collection of tolls from :be public, as provided for, by the
charter, they will cost about 1,200,000 dells. This
amount, by that course, will have to be levied on the
commerce of the western states, in the space of about
eight years to come. At the end of that time. free navi-
gation is to be the result, which, if the Government
make the purchase now, may be brought about in less
than a 3 ear, by the course proposed by the Committee
oto Commerce. In the event of Government purchasing
the remainder of the stock, in which it is already the
largest shareholder, a saving of 630,000 dolls would be
tthe result, in eight years or less. I hope the House will
give the matters their mature reflection, before coming to
a vote on it on Tuesday next.

THE BREAKING. UP OF WINTER—TREMEN-
DOUS FRESHETS.
DESTRUCTTON OF PROPERTY ON THE MERRIMAC.—
The Boston Advertiser of the 17th of March contains a
letter, dated Haverhill, March 15, nine o'clock, P.M.,
which says
Our usually quiet village is in the greatest con-
sternation imagitutble, on account of the sudden and un-
precedented rise of the Merrimac. About half-past
:seven o'clock this evening, the ice started and moved for
be_seems i
time quite freely; it then choked up the island
low,
,when the water above began to rise rapidly. Ere
we were aware it was flowing full tide into the cellars
and basement stories of the: buildings on the river's
bank- So sudden ano save any
was its rise as to render it
t
almost impossible .7 any a the various property
While deposited there. write,nit all the cellars on the
river aide of the Wate and
r
the distance of nearly a mile,
for
are completely
filled, and the basement stories
savweedlinhgi-shocuhir are en-
and the kitchens of many d " many stores,
children, who
tirely flooded. One; man
terwar up
were quietly asleep, only by wading
atherholunug
t
to his waist, then taking them to
through a window, and so upon the roof of an
adj' 0-
n
building, escaped. Sol ue families have been driven froit
their parlours without h'eming time to take a single sr_
tide of furniture. The firm of Montgomery and Co, is
said to have 20,000 dolls. worth of shoes and leather
now under water. In many places on these streets men
are at this moment paddling from door to door in boats,.
or on pieces of ice, tryin g to secure floating property, or
transport females from the furious flood. One man in
the last stage of consumption is in one of the aforesaid
houses, too far gone to be moved away. He has been
removed, however, to an rapper room, where he will pro-
bably before morning embark on his last long voyage.
The water still rises, thous it is now higher by two feet
than in the great flood of 1818. Everybody is out, in-
valids, as well as many anio will become so by their
exposure. Lanterns, .OVOV shoes, arks, life-preservers,
boats, and Bangor boots, are in great demand.
" 10 o'clock.—The welter is reported as at a stand.
If so, we have hope it %Jill drain off gradually, without
sweeping away buildings and bridges that must go, if the
ice starts at this high pitch,. Should we find ourselves
at the mouth of the Merrimac to-morrow morning, we
will add you aP. P., dated at Newburyport, describieg
as drily as the nature of the case will permit, the pro-
gress of the flood.
"11 o'clock.—We are all here still. The ice dam
below has just given way, to the great relief of the ac-
rnulated waters and the affrighted people hereabouts.
r a few minutes our two bridges were in extreme
danger ; but all that is now past, and we breathe freely
again.
" Monday Morning.—Our relief last night was only
temporary. This morning we find the water as high as
er! and still rising. The amount of damage done is
vemuch greater than we last night supposed. At present
we dare not conjecture how great it may be. Little
River Bridge is gone clear, and many small wooden
buildings standing along .on the banks of the river were
entirely crushed by the ice, and many others moved
from their foundation. Two of our principal business
streets, for nearly half a ;mile are literally piled up with
huge masses of ice and the ruins of buildings."

IPSWICH THEATRICA LS.---We perceive by the Suf.
folk Chronicle that Mr. \V Biter t:lhelley, who recentlyAade a
successful debut at the Pavilion Theatre, has been creating
a great sensation at Ipswich, in the characters of Shylock,
Alacbeth, and Richard. The critic of the Suffolk Chronicle
speaks of him as an actor of great promise, possessing phy-
sical and mental attributes of a high order. Let Mr. W.
Shelley cultivate his talent, let hint learn his art by an
apprenticeship in the provinces, before he ventures a debut
In the metropolis, and fame and fortune will be his; for at
the present moment we have .no first-rate finished tragedian,
nor have we had such since the death of Edmund Kean. and
the retirement of Remble and 'Young.
THE ARMY.—The 17th Lancers, whose destination
for Ireland was announced some weeks since in our columns,
will embark at Liverpool, for Dundalk, which will be occu-
pied as head-quarters ; ene troop, however, if not more, will
Proceed farther north, and be stationed at Belfast. The 3d
Or Prince of Wales's Dragoon GuArds, new in Ireland, is
linder orders for Scotland. The Ist Royal Dragoons, from
o_.undalk, move to Cork. The sth Dragoons have relieved
the 10th Hussars at York, and the latter regiment has ar-
frnetikat Canterbury, prior to embarkation at Gravesend for
q7'u ,ast. The 11th Hussars will arrive from Newbridge,
lirletY3leifade Kildare, on the 30th and 31st. In answer to in-
yesterday, it was stated that Sir George Murray
Was better.
32.___T• he Earl
ebterd ay. of Dalhousie had an interview with Sir R.

POOR MAN'S GUARDIAN
SOCIETT.

A public meeting in furtherance of the objects of this
Society was held last evening in the theatre of the
Marylebone Literary and Scientific Institution, Edward-
street, Portman-square.
Mr. BOND CADDELL, on taking the chair, said he
thought it scarcely necessary for him to detain the
meeting for any time in reference to those objects which
had called them together, as there were gentlemen
present who had been at the forming of the society, and
who would state to them the nature of those ends for
which the society had been called into existence. The
present was the third of those meetings which had been
held for the purpose of establishing that institution—
an institution which it gratified him to say, was en-
tirely separate from any political feeling or party
object whatever. They had before them the good of
the poor—(Hear hear)—the interest of the needy;
the Society had been formed to direct such to those
sources of relief which had been provided for them, and
also to consider those cases requiring aid, and to ad-
minister the means of relief. Charity prevailed in this
country to a very great extent; the exercise of it was
secured by law, and he found, on looking back to the
time of Elizabeth, that the poor-law provided for three
cases—the protection of infancy, the administration of
relief to the old, and the supply of work to the able-
bodied, unemployed labourer. Notwithstanding these
provisions, the meeting, he thought, must be aware that
unrelieved poverty existed to a great amount through-
out their population. Many would work, but could
not find employment, and were on that acconnt pressed
with want. One main object of the institution which
they were met to support, was to see that these poor-
laws were properly administered. He said the repre-
sentatives of Marylebone, Sir Benjamin Hall, and Com-
modore Napier, were both communicated with as to the
objects of the society, and both expressed their hearty
concurrence with these objects, but were prevented by
other engagements from being present that evening, and
occupying one or other of these places which he had
been called to fill. For this reason, indeed, he lamented
their absence, but he had no hesitation in saying, that
it would be his greatest pleasure to aid every institution
which had for its object the relief of the poor.
Mr. COCEIRA.NE was called upon to give a statement
of the origin and objects of the society, which he pro-
ceeded to do, detailing those particulars which have al-
ready appeared in the columns of The Sun. Mr. Coch-
rane then stated that a deputation had waited on Mr.
Walter, of Bearwood, in conformity with a resolution
passed at the last public meeting, to request him to
become the president of the society ; and that that gen-
tleman had approved most cordially of the object of the
society, and consented to become one of the vice-presi-
dents. He would have been present that evening, but
for business which had prevented him. The rules of
the society were read, and letters from Mr. Metealfe
and Sir Wm. Ross. Two outline sketches from the pencil
of Sir W. Ross, illustrative of the objects contem-
plated by the society, and intended for engravings on
the cards of membership, were exhibited to the
meeting. It was thought that their intentions could
thus be effectually and eloquently made known
to all in a way which all could appreciate ; and it was
stated that Sir William, on being applied to, undertook to
sketch out a suitable design, which he had done and
presented gratis to the institution.
Mr. COCHRANE moved, and Captain Everes seconded
the resolution, " that the report and proceedings of the
coinmittea be approved and adopted."
An amendment was made against the money qualifi-
cation for membership.
The resolution was carried by a large majority.
Mr. BUCKINGHAM, after adverting to the interruption
which had occurred in the course of the proceedings of
the evening, said that the principle had been recognised
in the law of Elizabeth, that all had a right to be sus-
tained. He said sustained, and meant not that ex-
periments should be tried, as had been of late, on how
small a portion of food a fellow man could live. The
society had not been instituted to take up and consider
the laws, for the Legislature had not given them power
to alter or to make the laws. But it was a recognised
principle in the laws existing, that the poor, the
halt, the blind, and the lame, yea, and the
healthy should be sustained. He saw no reason
why the healthy should be excluded when they are
without the means of existence, for they are the class
who most feel the pressure of want and the cravings of
a good appetite. It was well he thought that this ques-
tion was agitated, for it led to reflection on the principles
which based it. He thought there was no claim for
one class before another on the products of the earth,
for all were equally born into the world, its inhabitants,
and therefore had all a claim to be supported.—(Hear,
hear.) They saw societies instituted to prevent cruelty
being exercised towards the brute creation, its agents
and the police were on the watch that the lower animals
should not be maltreated ; but wherefore, he asked,
were men, thinking, reflecting, beings, to be neglected
in their misery.—(Cheers.) Nowhere was there
such an extreme of riches and poverty as existed in
English society, and the reason he thought that they
continued to exist in the same society was the extent
over which the different classes were spread. On board
of ship it would be different. In a case of calamity,
double rations could not be served in the cabin while
single rations were distributed in the forecastle. The
officer, he was tertian, who should attempt to do so
would fail to retain the esteem of his men. At the
same time be would not be understood as advocating
equality of condition, for that state, if it could be realised
to-night, would be found dissipated on the morrow, and
men quickly returning to variety in their circumstances.
But he did hold it a duty on Government to look to the
poor, and the helpless, and unemployed, that none might
want that sustenance to which all had a right. He con-
cluded by moving—
" Resolved, that this meeting is of opinion that the
great majority of the poor are animated with an anxious
desire to avoid the humiliation of living upon the bounty
of others, and seek parochial relief only from the pressure
of dire necessity, and that they are entitled to the kind
treatment of those who are by law appointed to dispense
that relief."

It was seconded by Mr. GEORGE JONES, and carried
unanimously.
Mr. SAVAGE, in rising to propose the next resolution,
said he wished it to be distinctly understood that that
society had nothing to do with the proceedings of guar-
dians in their localities ; their object was to aid the poor,
and to instruct them as to what they had a right to get
by law ; and a consequence of the existence of such a
society he believed would be to put guardians of the
poor and their officers upon their guard in doing their
duty. He then stated that the last year's returns were
300,0001. for law expenses in litigation between parish
and parish, as to which was bound to support particular
paupers. But he had asked intelligent gentlemen whe-
ther they had ever known a case where, the guardians
having been brought up before the magistrate for refusing
relief, money had been spent by the parish in defending the
poor man ; but the supposition was admitted to be a
novelty. To do this when necessary, that institution
had been formed, He then referred to practical illus-
trations of the present system. He said they employed
the poor in working throughout the kingdom,
and he thought that was well, but they
had given the poor a kind of labour which
degraded them, and did not call out their better
feelings. He would ask, had they allowed the guardians
of the poor to make their labour an article of merchan-
dise? lie thought that ought to be put down. He had
referred to circumstances at the last meeting. He had
referred to bone-crushing. Whether that was healthy
or unhealthy he would not say, but it did appear to him
suspicious that guardians should employ the poor to
crush bones at an under price to manure their own
grounds with. lie had made a statement as to female
labour. He had stated the practice at Andover and
other places. He knew that persons in Loudon cut outloo
dozen shirts, and sent them down to a manufacturer, who
Nyanoeduldhoe:edplt7latehiisn
.influence with the guardians in getting
4tbhty in
ediTo :ellomfuch less rate than they could be done
Loudon. He had said so on the former occasion,
himhe newspapers,3,lryinownosu.ld
Abeftemratteei
the following letter was sent to
rnetpoortht'eapPpraceartiecde
:

" Dear Sir—Wil you favour me, b
" High-street, Andover, March 12, 1846.
with the address and name of the Part); from
mu r nw
hoofmpyo
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received your information
made at the Andover 'lfni respecting
the sale of shirts
and sent to the London mar-
ket, as it is said here to b:
in a speech purported to he se.
The statement appears
meeting held in the Investigation
been spoken by you at a
New-road, for the Poor mutilation Hall, Circus-street,
" Your reply by return of s Guardian Society.
" Dear Sir, your ic)tretdiweinitl
"ROBERT servant,
ti
BERT "
In answer he sent back a copy of the following
"Dear Sir,—l have not seen the report to which your
letter of the 12th inst. alludes. I made no reference to
the sale of shirts made at the Andover Union, but to
information I had that a guardian of a union in namp_
shire, residing at Portsmouth and Gosport, manufao-
tura shirts by commission for the London market, and
that he had shirts made by the poor in the workhouses,
and understood that Andover was one place ; adding, I
trusted the Committee of the House of Commons would
op to a profit being
inquire into the practice and put a st
made by guardians, or others, of the lahour of the poor
in workhouses.
" As the object of the Poor Man's Guardian Socie 1
ty
will be promoted by correct information, I shall fea
obliged if you can inform me whether any shirt-making
is carried on by the inmates in the Andover Union, other
than for themselves."
Mr. Savage concluded with moving—" That this meeting
cordially approve of the principles and objects of the Poor
Man's Guardian Society ; deem it worthy the support of
the humane and benevolent of all elasses-; and hereby
recommend them to aid its operations by their contri-
butions, advice, and assistance.'
This resolution was seconded by Mr. BURN, and car-
ried unanimously.
It was moved by Mr. WHALEY and seconded by Mr.
IIEALD---." That the Secretary be now authorised to re-
ceive subscriptions, and to enter the names and addresses
of these ladies and gentlemen desirous of becoming
members of the Society."
It was moved by Mr. ASHBOURNE and seconded by
Mr. JARDINE—" That this meeting bas viewed with
feelings of great gratification the sympathy so generally
evinced by the press in favour of the Poor Man's Guar-
dian Society, and take this opportunity of returning
their grateful thanks for the space which has been al-
lotted to them in the columns of the public journals in
recording their proceedings."
The thanks of the meeting were voted unanimously to
Sir W. Ross for the munificent present he had made
the Institution.
Thanks
were
unanimously passed to the Chairman,
who replied, and the meeting adjourned.

Woonooca.o.—There is an unusual nun.lrr of w,-,od-
cocks in Sussex this spring. Last week, at lialeamere, a gentleman
Inund fITO WQodcoNtS' 4%13, With three and four two iu each.

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD
RAILWAY COMPANY. _ .

An extraordinary meeting of directors and share-
holders in this Company was held yesterday, at their
offices in Moorgate-street, W. R. Collett, Esq., M.P., in the
chair; the special object of the meeting being, according
to the circular notice, to ratify the terms entered into
with her Majesty's Government, for the immediate for-
mation of a Harbour of Refuge and Railway Pier Head
at Holyhead. It appeared, by a short report which the
secretary read, that the plans for a refuge harbour at
Holyhead had been approved by her Majesty's Govern-
ment, and that a communication had been made to the
directors of this Company inquiring how far they would
be disposed to subscribe towards its construction, and
that the result of the consequent negociation had been
that if the Company should agree to contribute towards
the outlay a sum of 200,0001., the works should be car-
ried on by the Government to the full extent shown in
the plans, and that they should be immediately com-
menced and prosecuted with the utmost expedition, com-
patible with good workmanship until completed. That
the inner pier was to be appropriated to the Company's
traffic, and the use of her Majesty's Government, and the
present harbour to be deepened for the purposes of the
railway, by giving accommodation to the larger class
of steam packets, until such time as the new harbour
and pier should be made available. The proposed new
harbour according to the drawings, would embrace
about 316 acres with an inner or steam-packet pier,
placed in such a situation that the Company's line of
railway may be extended down to and along it, so as to
form a direct communication between the railway trains
and the steam-vessels, the total cost being estimated at
700,0001. These being the chief points of the proposed
arrangements.

The CHAIRMAN read to the meeting the treasury
minutes of the details, as agreed upon between the di-
rectors and her Majesty's Government, and warm;y
urged their adoption on the meeting, calculated as the
directors believed them to be greatly to benefit the in-
terests of the Company. They had ample means and
power under their Act to carry out this agreement,
which was to the effect that the company should advance
25/. fur every 751. expended by the Government, until
the harbour was completed. There was no sort of diffi-
culty in the way of the company that could obstruct
the fulfilment of these conditions, for every-
thing connected with their line was in a most
satisfactory state towards completion, and before
the end of the present year they expected to
have it opened as far as Abergavenny. They had made
all their contracts for the whole line with the most cele-
brated and substantial contractors on the most reason-
able terms. Indeed, the contract for their bridge over
the Menai had been made at 20,0001. less than the esti-
mate of their engineer. They had completed the pur-
chase of all their rails at 10/. a ton, which was very low,
and they had also purchased sleepers for the entire line.
The only call to be made upon the shareholders would
be that of July next, of Si. a share, for at least twelve
months. So that it would be seen they were in no want
of capital in hand to carry out their works, although they
were at present expending about 80,0001. a month. Of
the Holyhead Pier, when completed, the company were
to have a perfect monopoly, although the Government
could not secure them against a competing line in other re-
spects for all future time. The Government were to pay
them 30,000/. a year for the conveyance of the mail for five
years certain, and should they not realise five per cent. on
their capital in that time, then the same Government con-
tract was to continue for seven years longer. This line
and harbour once completed, the intercourse between
London and Dublin would come within thirteen hours
with the greatest facility. The London and Birmingham
and Grand Junction Company, although not directly
interested in the traffic of the line, were holders of one-
half of the stock of the Company, and therefore largely
interested in its prosperity. The maximum of time cal-
culated on for the completion of the harbour and pier
was five years, long before which time the line would
be fully thrown open. They saw their way clearly in
every view of their interest, and the adoption of this
agreement with the Government was one which the
directors looked to with the utmost confidence to pro-
duce good results.
Several questions were put to the chairman by share-
holders, all of which having been answered satisfac-
torily,
Sergeant STORE moved a resolution to the effect, that
the terms of arrangement by the Company with her
Majesty's Government be fully approved and confirmed
by the meeting, which having been seconded by Mr.
Tooke, was unanimously agreed to.
Thanks were then voted to the chairman and directors,
and the meeting separated.