The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-31 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,

AMERICAN NE WS

LIVERPOOL, MARCH 30.
By the United States mail steam-ship Pacific, Cap-
tain Nye, which arrived in the Mersey shortly bet Ore
noon, we have advices from New York to the 17th
inst. She has 65,0001. in specie on freight.
The Havre packet had 150,000 dollars in silver and
58,000 dollars in American gold engaged.
Tne royal mail steam-ship Asia arrived at New
York at 8 A.M. on the 14th instant. The screw steam-
ship City of Glasgow sailed from Philadelphia on the
14th inst., but has not yet arrived.
We have advices from Mexico to the 15th ult.

There is no news of importance.
We have advices from Havannah to the Bth inst.
St47ar continued very firm.
Exchange on London, 51 to 6.
Advices from Hayti to the 16th ult. have been re-
ceived. Coffee was very scarce-85 to 86 dollars
Haytian per 100 lb. Logwood, 40 dollars per I,ooolb.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

MARCH 19.
Money Market—There has been a fair market for
Government and State stocks during the week, with a
moderate bwiness. The demand has been mostly for
banking purpose•. Money continues in active demand
at 5 to 6 per cent, on loan, and 6 to 7 per cent. fur short

Foreign exchange has been firm and in good request.
Bills on London, 1094 to 110 i, and principally at the
latter rate. Bills on France, 5 7-1 to 510 for 60 days'
paper, and 5t05 2i for short sight. Amsterdam, 414
to 42; Hamburgh, 364 to 36g.
Cotton—The cotton market has fluctuated considerably
since our notice of it for the steamer Europa, advancing

, and receding as the tenour of the European and the
southern accounts were favourable or otherwise. On
Sa-
turday and Monday last the market was dull, and prices
declined 4c. from the rates of Friday last. Yesterday,
however, there was an active demand, and this reduction
was fully recovered. We continue our last quotations,
which on most descriptions now stand higher than on
the Bth inst. The receipts at all the shipping ports are
1,751,328 bales, against 1,615,055 to same date last year
—an increase this season of 136.273 bales. The total
foreign exports this year are 224,911 bales more than
last—say 119,000 bales increase to Great Britain, 54,353
increase to France, 21,824 increase to north of Europe,
and 29.211 increase to other foreign ports. The ship-
menta from southern to northern ports are 115,696 bales
less this season than last, and there is an increase i❑
stock of 35,215 bales. The sales for the week ending
Friday last were 15,100 bales, and since our last 7,500
bales. We quote inferior Atlantic ports, nominal;
Florida, nominal; other Gulf ports, nominaL Low to
good ordinary Atlantic parts, 10 to 101; Florida, 10 to
104; other Gulf ports, 10 to 11. Low to good middling
Atlantic ports, 11 to 11k; Florida, 11 to 1 other
Gulf ports, Ili to 124. Middling fair to fair Atlantic
ports, 11g to 121; Florida, 12; other Gulf ports, 12.1. to
In. Fully fair to good fair Atlantic ports, 12k; other
Gulf ports, 14.
' Flour—Since the circular of the 25th of February the
movements in the Atlantic have been almost confined to
the home trade, with a heavy market, and the quotations
are now 12i-c. per barrel less than at that date.
Grain—Wheat is held so much above its realised
value that the millers purchase sparingly—Genessee,
112 c. to 115 c.
Iron—We have to report a sale of 200 tons of Scotch
pig at 20 dolls. 50c. to 21 dolls. 75c., six months, ex
ship; 70 tons of Swedes, 84 dolls.; and 56 ditto, com-
prising a large proportion of extra sinders, 92 dolls.,
eight months.
Tobacco—We have but to note sales of 100 hhds. of
Kentucky, at 84c. to 11c.; 20 Maryland, 7 40; two bales
of Havannah, 48 to 53; 75 cargoes of Florida, 17 to 30,
four months; and a lot of Kentucky stems, in bales,
1 doll, per 100 lb. as cash.
Freights are dull. Cotton, to Liverpool, id. asked;
Havre, id. To London, tobacco, 22 6 to 25; flour, 15.3 d.
to is 4d., nominal. To Glasgow, cotton, i; ashes, 20s. -
to California, 40c. to 60c. per foot, dul

POPULATION OF AMERICA.
Without venturing to assume as indisputably accurate
the minuter portions of three rough proofs of the Union
census, we may, perhaps, be warranted in concluding
that the leading features are correct. The estimated
numbers are as follows:

No. of
I
Represcn- Represen-
Free pePll- Slaves. tative po- tatives
States. lation. pulation. and
fractions.
.---
-----
582,026 .. .. 6 22,970
Maine •
.. 3 38,475
.. 10 62,964
•• 3 34,1 94
vNeerwmorillatmpshiro • • •••
.. 1 54, 73
• • 3 91,385
.. 33 24,010
.. 5 24,819
NNI3It Connecticutheeww::jieae'olrkl.asyne :tat. :: •". ...: •.: •.:
....
..: .....
23: ;039318:749111118085307,1422:38489243 ..
•...•
52
1 '13:2( I)
,: 0: •.: •i• .. 25 11, 04
Pennsylvania •• •• •• •
21 25,244
••
Ohio ••
10 58,498
••
ll‘nldsicaonnasin• •:::::: : : ' : r7,,m .. .. •• 3 26,068
•• 4 24,874
Michigan •• •• ..
-:. 850,000 •• 9 11,416
Illinois •• •• •• •••" ••
Iorra•• • • ....... •• • •
200,008( .. " 2 5,648
2 13,648
4J2,661 90,355 546",874 5 80,991
140,000 460,000 1,216,000 13 4,712
480,000 280,000 608,000 6 88,944
CarolinasC(237otaoiatririgrittf::ll:3l;'iadarol.i.'n. .:
:: ..: :: .... ......: 288,000 350,000 490,000 5 24,120
Georgi•• •• •• •• ••• • •• ~-,•••-•,000 300,000 774,000 8 28,592
Fwrida....... • • .... „. 45,04 0 22,000 58,2 0 1
Alamba •• ........ ~ 440,000 3:30,000 638,000 6 78,994
Mississippi ........ .. 300,000 920,000 490,000 5 26,120
Louisiana • • ........ 250,000 200,000 370,000 3 90,472
Tex as ••••..• . .. .. 100,000 50,000 130,000 1 36,824
Arkansas .......... 150,000 45,000 177,000 .: 83,824
Missouri ............ 598,000 91,547 644,928 6S' 872
Tennessee .... • ... , 800,000 250,000 950,000 10 240
Kentucky ••• ..•... 782,000 211,000 908,600 9 .617
Delaware ..., .• .... 90,277 2,332 91,676 1

ZNTIRE POPULATION.

free.
13,574,7
6,2944,
197,9

Free States .......
Slave States•. ••
District aNd Territories •••• •• •• •

. ayes.

3,057,234
3,500

20,067,720 3,070,731
The entire representative population is about
21,710,000. The ratio of representation will be about
93,176.
And as by the law of May, 1850, the number of mem-
bers to be returned to Congress is fixed at 233, the distribu-
tion of these among the six-and-twenty States of the Con •
federacy will make upon the whole a difference of four
votes in favour of the free and against the slave-holding
states. Some of each class gain, and several of both lose
representatives under the new census; but the probable
results are said to be, that while the free states gain six
new members and lose four of their old ones, the slave
states gain but four additional and are deprived of six.
The change at first sight may appear to be inconsi-
derable, but its importance is in fact inestimable. Hi-
therto the balance in the Lower House of the Federal
Legislature has long been considered so doubtful as to
render every vote into which the question of abolition
was suspected, however remotely, of entering, exceed-
ingly precarious. Neither party would admit itself the
weaker, and neither could make good its claim to per-
manent superiority of numbers. But a lasting with-
drawal of two votes from the south and the lasting addi-
tion of two votes to the north is a serious matter.

Not many days since we showed that what slavery is
to the United States, our religious dissensions are to
England. The important part of our census, then, will
be that of which we find no mention in the return de-
manded of each head of a household, but which is to be
gathered from answers to queries put to the pastors of
different religions. This, indeed, will be an important
return.—Morning Paper.

POISONING IN SUFFOLK.—On Friday and Satur-
day last a long investigation took place at Stonham Aspal,
near Ipswich, botore the coroner and a jury, to ascertain by
what means a labourer named Cage, came by his death ss-
picion having attached to his wife of having poisoned huim
with arsenic. From the evidence produced it appeared that
the deceased and his wife lived on the worst terms, and that
she was a very profligate woman, that Cage was for some
days previously to his death very ill in bed, and that me-
dical aid was obtained. He died on Saturday week, and was
about to be buried, when from certain intelligence as to the
cause of his death the clergyman of the parish caused a post-
ponement of the funeral and a coroner's inquest to be called.
The evidence of two medical men affirmed the fact of the
presence of arsenic in the stomach, &c., and it was proved
that Mrs. Cage had employed a woman to purchase for her
a pennyworth of arsenic. A good deal of circumstantial
evidence was adduced to fix the guilt on Mrs. Cage, who
has been taken into custody by order of a magistrate, and
remanded for examination this day, and in the meantime
the inquest has been adjourned for a full analyzation of the
contents of the stomach of the deceased to be made.

SIR GILBERT is with much re-
gret we have to announce the death of Sir Gilbert Heath-
cote, Bart., of Nortnanton Park, Rutland, and of Durdans,
county of Surrey. He died at his seat Durdans, on Wed-
nesday last, the 26th inst., after a short illness, aged 77. He
entered the House of Commons at the early age of 21, where
he represented the county of Lincoln in three, end the county
of Rutland in nine, Parliaments. At the dissolution in 1841
he retired from active political life, but continued to the end
of his days much devoted to the amusements of the turf, on
which no one was more distinguished for high principle and
honour. It is singularly worthy of remark, that during his
long political and sporting career on the turf he never made
a bet, and in his many elections he never had a contest.
Sir Gilbert won the Derby in 1838, and on that occasion and
on all others his success was always
greeted with unwonted
enthusiasm.

ORGANS AND VANS.—A horse drawing a brougham
takes fright at one of the huge grind-organs,
and the conse-
quence is some damage to the carriage. Forthwith the Corn-
missioners of Police forbid the performance of the monster
grind-organs in the great thoroughfares. This is doubtless
quite right, but what is sauce for the goose is since for the
gander; and why are the monster advertising vans permitted
to go about frightening horses, and thereby endangering
people's properties, limbs. and lives, while the organs, not
a tithe part so large, glaring. and apt to star le horses, are
put under a ban ? The vans are sheer nuisances, and nothing
but nuisances in any way. The organs have their redeeming
music. Why, then, is the worst of the two tolerated ; or,
we should rather say, favoured? Are the Commissioners'
waiting till some gentleman has to complain of damage? We
will answer for it that for one horse that starts and becomes
unruly from the noise of an organ there are a dozen that are
frightened by the vans,with which they never get familiarized,
as the vans are continually altering their shapes, colours, and
appearances, and enlarging their size.—Examiner.

Christchurch, Blackfriars-road, was sacrilegiously
broken open by some thieves some time during Saturday
night. They did considerable damage, but did not succeed
in carrying anything away.

THE GAME LAWS.—At the recent Nottingham
assizes Baron Alderson, in a night poaching case tried before
him, and where it came out that Earl Manvers' keepers had a
savage dog, his Lordship commented upon the shameful
practice of gamskeepers taking out ferocious dogs " to worry
men," as he justly termed it. Let us ask, by do keepers
go out with loaded guns? Not to shoot game in the night,
we apprehend. Time the odious game-laws and the execs-
BiYe game-preserving propensity were rectified,

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.

Having commenced the season on Saturday week by
the ddbt%t of Mademoiselle Caroline Duprez as Lucia,
and by the production of one of the most charming of
ballets, Mr. Lumley has followed up his " most excel-
lent beginning" by producing, on Saturday last, Auber's
most original, most delightful, and perhaps, taken as a
whole, greatest opera, Gustave 111. The plot of this
opera, which is from the pen of Scribe, is well known to
every playgoer in the United Kingdom, and the most
popular of the airs are familiar to every one, for
there is scarcLly a theatre in the whole realm in
which Mr. Planet e's version of it has not ben per-
formed. In that version, however, the opera is sadly
curtailed of its fair proportions, the whole of the recita-
tive is omitted, and as it pleased the Covent-garden
management of that day to consider it necessary to
give the part of Gustavus to an actor wbo could not
sing, Mr. Plande was obliged to introduce a new cha-
racter, a certain Colonel Lillenhorn, whose -de busi-
ness appeared to be to sing the music which
the King could not sing, and whose presence
was felt as a perpetual intrusion. Familiar
therefore, as is the Covent-garden operatic version of
Gustave 111. to the English public, to Mr. Lumley is
duo the honour of having been the first to produce, In
this country, in its original entirety, unmutilated and
without interpolation (save in one instance, to which we
shall presently allude, and in which the interpolation is
au improvement), this the chef crceuvre of Auber; and to
produce in a style surpassing, in every respect, even that
in which it was originally produced at the Grand
Opera in Paris. The cast was as follows:
Amelie ••• ••• Mine. Fiorentini.
Arvedsen (the witch)... Mdlle. Feller.
Oscar (page of the King) Mdlle. Caroline Duprcz.
Ankastrom ..• .. Signor Lorenzo.
Dehorn,
Ribbing, } nobles ... Signor F. Labluche.
/ M. Poultier.
Gustave DI. Signor Calzolari.
Madame Fioreutini, who made her debiet during the last
week of the last season, but who, during that week,
achieved for herself an European reputation, has
added immensely to that reputation by her
performance of Amelie. Never have we heard
the exceedingly difficult music of this part more
purely or more sweetly rendered, while her
acting was tragedy of the very highest order. The
trio in the second act, " Dio the in o r mi leggi" was
delightfully rendered, and the grand scene at the com-
mencement of the third act was a superb piece of perfect
dramatic vocalization. Her look and manner as she
draws the fatal name from the urn was one
of the most powerful pieces of acting we have
ever witnessed, and Madame Fiorentini has added
immensely to her fame by her representation of this cha-
racter. Mdlle. Caroline Duprez made one of the daintiest
and prettiest of pages, and sang the music of the part
deliciously. It is exactly suited to her voice and style,
and she seemed quite to revel in the saucy melodies of
Auber. Her aria in the first scene was exquisitely ren-
dered, and the well-known invitation to the ball seemed
to acquire additional freshness and spirit from her admi-
rable manner of giving it. The great triumph of the
night, however, was in the last act, in which she
introduced au air from Auber's opera Le Serment, com-
posed, as it would appear, for the purpose of condensing
the greatest possible number of vocal difficulties into
the smallest possible compass. In this air Mdlle. Caroline
Duprez, by her marvellous powers of executien,excited
quite a furore ; never have we beard a more marvellous
and perfect specimen of florid vocalization. Calzolari
sang the music of Gustave with exquisite taste and
sweetness, and Lorenzo gave a fine, spirited, and manly
version of the part of Ankastrom. The trio of
the conspirators, by Lorenzo, F. Lablache, and M.
Poultier (who has been engaged from the French
Academie de Musique expressly to take part in this
trio), was the very perfection of part-singing.
Mademoiselle Feller made her debrit in the
character of Arvedsen, and from the manner in which
she performed the part we are most desirous of seeing
her again. Her voice is a contralto of rich and sono-
rous quality, and her intonation is perfect. It is evilent
from her manner of performing this little character that
she is a most accomplished artiste. It is not, however,
so much on the solo parts as on the choruses that the
success of Gustave 111. depends. Among the chortles
of this opera are to be found some of the tery
finest specimens of Auber's choral writing, and
these were rendered with an exactness and
closeness that left nothing to be desited.
The " Viva el re," at the conclusion of the second act,
was redemanded as a matter of course. The choruses
were not only admirably sung, but they were acted
with infinite spirit. Never have we seen a more
lively scene than that to which we have jus;
alluded—the sailors' chorus at the conclusion of the se•
cond act. In order to render the production of the opera
as perfect as possible, Madlle. Carlotta Grisi was
brought over from Paris expressly to take
part in the masked ball, and made her dibQ

f'ir the season in a new grand pas composed expressly
for her, and engrafted on the " danse des Folies." Her
reception was most enthusiastic; she looked as lovely, as
graceful, and as fascinating as ever, and danced divinely.
The orchestra, under the direction of Balfe, did full
justice to Auber's brilliant, sparkling, and most expres-
sive music, and the success of the opera was at once
brilliant and complete. All the principal artistes were
called on at the conclusion. The beautiful new Watteau

ballet concluded the evening's entertainments. The
house was crowded in every part; long before the rising
of the curtai❑ there was not a box or a stall unoccupied,
and the pit and gallery were crowded.