The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-20 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Alb:.rt, attended by the
Viscountess Jocelyn, Hon. Matilda Paget, Hon.
Flora Macdonald, the Earl of Morley, Lord Alfred
Paget, and Colonel Bouverie, honoured her Majesty's
iheatre with their presence yesterday evening.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by
Colonel Bouverie, rode out on horseback yesterday.
Their Royal Highneses the Prince of Wale',
Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice,
the Princess H?lena, and the Princess Louisa, took
their usual exercise yesterday in the garden of Buck-
ingham Palace.

The Earl of Morley has relieved Lord Dufferin in
his duties as Lord in Waiting to the Queen. Mr.
R. Ormsby Gore has relieved Sir Edward Bowater in
his duties as Groom in Waiting w her Majesty.
Her Roy 4 the Duchess of Kent, ac-
companied by his S-rsne Higdmeis Prince Edward
of Saxe Weimar, ~[td attended by Lady Fanny
Howard and Sir George C )uper, honoured the
Royal Italian Opera House with her presence last
evening. . _ _ _

About one hundrld and fifty Members of the
House of Commons assembled at twelve o'clock yes-
terday-, at the official residence of Lord (Tulin Russell
in Downing-street, and were received by Lord John
Russell, who w,is accompanied by the following
Members of his Cabinet, having seats in the Lowe!
House of Parliament, viz., Viscount Palmerston, Sir
Georye Grey, Sir John Hobhouse, Sir Francis Baring,
and the Right Hon. IT. Labouchere.
The conterenc- with the Minister lasted one hour.

Viscount de Moncorvo, the Portuguese Minister,
had an interview with the Right Hon. H. Labouchere
yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade.
A deputation, consisting of Messrs. M‘Lachlan,
Edmund Gore Dolgetty, \V. Jack4on, J. A. Jacioon,
Donaldson, Henty, J. Montefioro, and Levick, had
an interview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colo,.
nial-office.

Mr. Bright, M.P., and Mr. Brown, M P., had an
interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yes-
terday, at his official residence in Downing-street,
upon the subject of bonding at Manchester. A depu-
tation upon the same subject attended at the Trea-
sury, consisting of Sir Elkanah Armitage, Mr. Alder-
man Kershaw, M.P., Mr. Alderman Watkins, Mr.
William Gibb, and the Town-clerk of Manchester;
Mr. James Atherton (on behalf of the Manchester
Commercial Association), the Mayor of Salford, ac-
companied by the Right lion. T. Milner Gibson,
M.P., and Mr. Brotherton, M.P.
A deputation from the London, Btighton, and
South Coast Railway Company, consisting of Mr.
Laing, Mr. Wix, Mr. Sutton, and Mr. Hood, had an
interview with the Commissioners of Railways yes-
terday, at their office in the Board of Trade.
The Earl of icienniare and Mr. Herbert had an
interview with Sir George Grey yesterday at the
Home-office.

Mr. Shepard had an interview with Earl Grey
yesterday. Mr. Piesse also had an interview with
his Lordship yesterday.
The Finance Committee of the Commission for
the Exhibition of 1851, consisting of Earl Granville,
Lord 0 verstonr., Sir Alexander Spearman, and Mr.
T. F. Gibson, met yesterday at the Board of Trade.
Colonel Reid, Chairman of the Executive Committee,
was also present. The Committee on Machinery,
consisting of Mr. W. Cubitt, Mr. Pusey, M P. Pro-
fessor Willis, and Sir John Rennie, met yesterday at
the New Palace of Westminster. Mr. S. Russell,
secretary of the Commission, was in attendance.
The Committee on the Vegetable Kingdom, ccnsist-
ing of Mr. Posey, M.P., Professor Royle, Professor
Lindley, Professor Solly, Mr. Humphrey Brandreth•
and Mr. Fisher Hobbs, met yesterday at the New
Palace of Westminster. Mr. Dilke wa3 present on
the part of the Executive Committee.

Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governors of the North American Co-

EXHIBITION

OF ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL ART, SOCIETY

OF ARTS, ADELPHI.
Yesterday a remarkable exhibition of the above-
mentioned character was opened to our inspection, at
the rooms of the Society of A rts,John-street, Adelplu•
On visiting the collection we found it under the process
of examinatior, by a very numerous and inquisitive
swarm of private visitors—insomuch so that a careful
scrutiny of the different objects on view was rendered
altogether impracticable. From what we were enabled
recognise, however, it was evident that the esti-
mates of the number of articles (9,000), and of their
reported value (100,0001.), striking as they are, had
not been to any material extent exaggerated. Al'
though on a general and superficial glance at the ex-
hibition the prevailing tone of its appearance 0
sombre and sorne%s hat unattractive, on closer inspect'
tion it proves to be both costly and instructive.
Tapestry, both Belgian and Venetian ; armour, both
chain and plate, engraved and embossed ; enamels,
rosary, remonstrances, volumes curiously bound and
jewelled, Majolica-ware, and Raffdelle-ware, shrines,
salt-cellars and challices, cups, candlesticks, and
t; zns, Florentine genes of art and Etruscan vase,s,
are all grouped together in " most admired disorder,
and present a spectacle altogether eminently entitled
to conteinplation. In one direction we have a design
by Rubens, and in another by Palissy ; here we
have a painting by Raffdelle, and here
an enamel by Limousin. A visit to this singular
and most valuable exhibition will be admirably
preparative for the grand International Exposition of
Industry, destined to render 1851 memorable during
many subsequent generations.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—TuEsmr.
NORTIIAMPTONSHIRE STAKES.
8 to 1 agst Belus—taken
12 to 1 agst Chantrey—taken
100 to 5 agst Flatcatcher—taken
Nothing else backed, nearly all the subscribers being
at Warwick.

WARWICK SPRING MEETING.—TUESDAY.
111ateb, 100, la fc ; 12st each. Hunt Ste •plechase
Course.
Mr. Robertson's The Ace of Trumps (Car. Broadley)
Lord Lurgan's Sobriety (Capt. Little)
6t05 on Ace of Trumps. Won by two lengths.
The Scurry Stakes of 5 soya. each, and 20 added, 1231
each. Gentlemen riders. (4 Subs.)
Mr. Barnard's Jack-of-all-Trades ... (Mr. Caldwell) 1
Mr. Wilson's Ven:ure, 5 yrs (Capt. Little) 2
Mr. William's Syrup, 4 yrs (Mr. Brookes) 3
Mr. A. Robertson's Catch-me-who-can ...(BroadeY)
Even on Venture, and sto 2 agst Syrup. Won by
head; a length between second and third.
The Trial Stakes of 10 sovs. each, and 50 added. The
Mile Course. (13 Subs)
Mr. W. Moseley's Alonz,, 3 yrs, Est 121 b (W. Sharp) 1
Mr. I'. Dawson na Mtirk Tapley, 3 yrs, 7st (Arnold) 23
Mr. Stevens's Knight ( f Gwyune, 3 yrs, 7a (Sabin)
The following also started, but were not plsced:—M.ff'
Scott's Warrick, :3 yrs, 6i4 121 b (ii. Evans)—Mr. n•
Lucas's Eye-the-Bop, 3 yrs, 6st 121 b (G. Evans)—fir'
B. Green's o,baldettor, 3 yrs, 7at (Basham)—Mr. ,
T. I:•:ailer's Woodsprite, 3 yrs, Est 121 b (G. Sharp)—Mr'
Merry's Brennus, 3 yrs, 64t 12Ib (G. Oates)—and Lord
Clifden's Torpor, 3 yrs, Gat 121 b (Gooch).
Betting-5 to 2 agst Mark Tapley-3 to 1 *Pt.
Knight cf Gwynne-7 to 2 agst Torpor—and 8 to 1 sgs°
Alonzo. Won by a head; Mark Tapley beating Knight
of Gwynne by half a length. Run in 1 min. 49 secs.
The Willoughby Handicap of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft, and
only sif dec:ared, with 30 added. Gentlemen rider'
Two miles. (12 Subs., sof whom declared.)
Mr. Stafford's Fugitive, aged, lOst 91b (Capt. Little)
Lord Strathmore's Rat-trap, list 71b (Capt. Brooke) 'a
Mr. Carew na Andalusian, lOst 71b (Mr. Osbaldeston)
Mr. Lucas's Yard-arm, lOst 111 b ...(Mr. Davenport)
Betting-7 to 4 agst Fugitive—and sto 2 agst Bat"
trap. AA on by a length.
The Free Handicap of 10 sovs. each, 5 ft, and 25 added'
One mile. (9 Subs.)
Mr. Mason's Doubt, 7st 81b (slb extra)...(W. Sharp) 2
Mr. Jones's Docility, 4 yrs, Est 91b .. (Thick) f,
Mr. Fowler's Cosl,chia, 5 yrs,Bst 71b (G. Whitehouse) °
The following also rata:—Lord Clilden's Rath:nip"'
6 yrs, Bst 111 b (Pearl)—Mr. J. Day's New Forest Deer,
aged, 7st 131 b (Wakefield)—and Mr. Lawson's Eunuch,
3 yrs, 6st lib.

Belting-3 to 1 each: agst Doubt and Rathmines--4
to 1 agst Docilit3—and sto 1 agst Eunuch. Won by a
head; a neck between the second and third.
The Farmers' Plate of 501,
with 101. for the second, for
hunters, ridden by farmers; four years, I Ist; file'
1 Ist 71b; six and aged, 12st, &s. Heats, the Two-
mac
Course.
Mr, Gulliver's Fazeley, aged, 12st ...(Mr. Wood) 1 1.
Mr. W. Cowper's Jerry, aged, 12st (Owner) 5
Mr. F. Robbins's ch g by Redshank, 4 yrs, I Ist 4 '6'
Mr. H. Oldham's Shepherdess, 5 yrs, list 71b 2
Mr. 11. Ball's Little Jenny, 6 yrs, 12st 71b 3 0
Mr. J. Boddicgton's The Cricket, 4 yrs, list 6 L;
Mr. Austin's Woodland Mary. 5 yrF, 1 Ist 71b 7

BIRTHS.
On the 14th inst., at Raheen-park, Tipperary, the lady of
Captain T. F. H. Alms, late of the 70th Regiment, of a
daughter.
On the 14th inst., at Grove House, near Leeds, the lady of
J. Middleton, Esq., of a son.
On the I 6th inst., at Sackville College, East Grinstead, the
wife of the Rev. J. M. Neale, of a daughter.
Ou the 17t h inst., at Hyde-park-gate South, Mrs. Cousenol
of twins, son and daughter.
On the t7th inst., at Enfield, Middlesex, Mrs. John B 4
Hunter. of a daughter.

DIED.
On the 17th inst., the Countess of Scarborough, aged 85.
On the 2d lest., Coote MuLoy, Esq., 1).L., of Oak-port,
Roscommon, Ireland.
On the 11th lust., at Bi!ston, Dorothy Ann, eldest daugh-
ter of Mr. E. Perkins, of Northampton.:
On the 14th just, at her Majesty's Exchequer, Whitehall-
yard, Mr. Thomas Peak, aged 59.
On the 14th ult., at Woodeote, Hants, Anne, the wife of
Colonel Coles, aged s'.
On the i sth inst., at Lenton, aged 41, Caroline, daughter
of the late M. Needham, Esq., of Lenton, Notts.
On the 16th inst., at Hillingdon-end, Uxbridge, Mrs'
Elizabeth Grainge, aged 94.
On the 18th inst., aged 62, Anne, the wife of James Field,
Esq., of Montague-street, Russell-square.

London; Printed and Published by MURDO YOIT:sTaf
No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Slot Mee, Ma jl'
Strand., in the Precinct of the Savor. in the COIIII4
DV.4cileaes, Wednesday, March 20,1856.

CONTRACTS for BALTIC TIMBER
GOODS and NORWAY• SPARS.
Department of the Storekeeper General of the Navy,
Somerset-place, 18th March, 1850.
The Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral
of the 'United Kingdom of Great Britain a:.d Ireland, do hereby give
.414.,°tice, that on TUESDAY, tha 1604 of April next, at One o'clock,
they be,ready to treat with such persons as may be wiling to
Contract for suplying her Majesty's several. Dockyards with RIGA
HAITD -MASTS and FIR TIMBER, DANTZIC DECK DEALS
aud Flit TIMBER, and NORWAY SPARS.
Distributions of the articles and forais ot the Tenders may be seen
at the said office. •
No Tendei• will 1^ received after One o'clock on the day of treaty,
°r /1,13' noticed, unless the party attends, or an agent for him
Kt
RAY authorised in writing.
~,..,very Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of till Admi-
''ltY, and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for
," and must be delivered at Somerset-place, accompanied
by a letters ned byalso two responsible parsons, engaging to become
bosnd with Use person tendering in the sum of 3,0001. for the due
Performanco of each of the Contracts for Riga and Dantzic GoodS,
and in the sum of 5001. for the Norway ;pars.

MIDL AND RAILWAY
LOANS ON DEBENTURES.
The Midland Railway Company are prepared to receive Loans for
a limited amount, on security of their Debentures, in sums of not
less than 4.0001. each and upwards, at interest after the rate. of 41.
105. per cent. per annum, payable half-yearly.
Application to be made to the Secretary, at the Company's Office,
Derby. By order,
Derby, March 16, 1650.

*HANK of ENGLAND, MAuca 12, 1850.
The Court of Directors of the Governor and Company of the
k of E::gland give notice, • •
Theta General Court will be head at,the Bank, on THURSDAY,
irE 21st instant, at Twelv,e,,o'clocy precisoy, to consider of a DI
„„„,,ND.', Also Brat atiOilier G.titeral Court will be held at the Bank
ofApril nest, rtfrom Ten o'clock in the Fore-
;:!Vil. till Fottrln the Afternoon, for,the ELECTION of a GOlTER-
uit•and DEPUTY-GOVERNOR for the year ensuing (which will
'4',telared that evening) ; and the same Court will be cantinued
adjournment,. and held at the same place, end during the same
tit4.'rs, on WEDNESDAY, the 10th (lay of April next, for the ELEC-
vaN of TWENTY-FOUR DIRECTORS (which will also be one
ilech„te Quarterly General Courts a by the ), the
tion of the Twenty-four Directors wppointedill be declared asCharter soonand as the
liCratinY is over.
Printed lists of the Proprietors having votes will he ready to he de-
JlVered at the Bank on Tuesday, the 26th of March instant.
Ist 1/ JOHN KNIGRT, Secretary.
„ • -• By an Act rassed in the 7th year of the reign of Geo.
Person will be entitled to vote at the said election who shall not
are been six calendar months possessed in his own right of the
tteek'for Which he shall then give his vote, unless the said stock shall
aye been acquired, or shall have come by bcduest, or by marriage,
or by •
L leccsSlOn to an Intestate's estate, or by the custom of the city
of
or by any deed of settlement after the death of any per-
's'', Who shall have been entitled for tile to the dividends of such stock.

In Ono very large Volume, Bvo., illustrated by above Three Thousand
Engravings on Wood, price 31. 13s. 6d. cloth,
4 N ENCYCLOPEDIA of CIVIL EN-
GINEERING; Historical, Theoretical, and Practical. By
EDWARD CRESY, F.S.A., C.E.
" A desideratum in the history of engineering science is supplied
t.y the publication of this remarkable volume. There is not a mem-
ber of the community, from the highest engineer to the huMblest
surveyor, who will not find here materials to. enrich his mind and
extend his knowledge."—lrish Railway Gazette.
London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Long,mans.

J. F. BELL, Secretary.

OTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, that JOHN
WAREING,
iof Byrom-street, livert;ool, in the county of
• ia,naster, Tailor and Draper, by an INDENTURE of ASSIGN-
T bearing date ' the Twenty-fifth day of February, 1850,
Pksirzned all his personal estate and effects therein ascribed, unto
pitERT PARNALL, of Ilishopsgate-streqt, in the city of London
jading in t artnershlp with Henry Pitman), and HENRY WARE-
bra, of_ Ilirmingh,..tm, in the county of awik, Tailor and
Per, for the caw./ benefit of all the CreditoWrsr cof the said John
-
arcing who shalt execute the said deed of assignment, or signify
1
~:eir assent there-,;0,, in writing, within the space of three calendar
tad"ths from thei;ilate. thereof, and which said Indenture was exectt-
'^%, by the ;aid-liihn Wareing upon the Twenty-fifth day of February,
t:Nitousand ~tight Hundred and Fifty, in the presence of and at.
Powell, of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick,
off;eeciter, and. which said Indenture of Assignment now lies at the
of said John Powell, in Birmingham, aforesaid, for exe-
"lti" by '.he. creditors of the said John Wareing.

DR. KENNE DT'S SECOND LATISI READING-BOOK.
Just published, in 12m0.' price ss. cloth,
PALAESTRA LATINA: or, a Second Latin
Reading-Book. Adapted to the Author's " Elementary Latin
Grammar." By the RCT. B. IL KENNEDY, D.D., Head Master
of Shrewsbury School. _

Also by Dr. Kennedy,
TIROCINIUM ; or, First Latin Reading-Book. 12m0., 2s,
ELEMENTARY LATIN GRAM MAit. - 12m0., 3s.,titL
ELEMENTARY LATIN VOCABULARY. 12m0., 2s. 6d.
Tiar, (AULD'S LATIN PRIMER. 12m0., 2s.
ELEMENTS of GREEK GRAMMAR. 12m0., 4s. 6d.
London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.

•MERCANTILE or OTHER SITUATION
WANTED.
A YOUNG MAN, who has held situations of trust and responsibi-
lity, is ready to enter upon a: new engagement, ,as the, business of
the Company with which he has been connected:during the, last four
years, as principal Bookkeeper and Ca,hier, is befog wound up. Oec
would be preferred where strict integrity and industrial habits would
he more esteemed than first-rate ability. He can procure private
security, and the first mercantile gentlemen in Glasgow are given as
references.

Any application addressed to M. D., Daily Mail-office, Glasgow,
will be immediately attended to.

TO COMMERCIAL or COMMISSION
• TRAVELLERS.

WANTED, a GENTLEMAN who has a connexion with first-doss
Fish-curers, or other s, on the fishing coasts, to sell an article in ge-
ne-al use among them.

Allress A. 8., care of Mr. Samuel Tull, net and rope manufac.
surer, 153, Fenchurell-street.

TOUT and PORTER.—JENNER, WICK-
ING and JENNER, are now delivering for cash, to private fa-
milies, their celebrated Porter at Is., and Imperial Stout, at I6d. per
gallon. May be had in casks of 41,4, 9, 18 and 36 gallons.
N.B. Their Ales are now in very fine condition.'
South London Brewery, Southwark-bridge-road. ,

ITER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY'S VI-
SIT IRELkND, illustrated by a grand moving DIO-
RAMA, with some of the most charming scenery in that country,
including the lovely LAKES of KIf.LARNEY, hy Mr. P. PII I LLIPS,
IS 7,,c OPEN at the Chinese Gallery, Hyde-park Corner, Daily at
Three, Evening at Eight.
Admission, Is.---Reserved Scats, 2e.
An interesting historical record of the event may be had at the
Clattery.

PREVENTION of COUGHS and COLDS.—
Persons liable to attacks of Coughs and Colds, will entirely
escape them by the occasional use of that celebrated remedy,
Bit. LOCOCICS PULMONIC WAFERS, which have a pleasant
taste, and never fail to give instant and permanent freedom from all
irritation of the lungs. Upwards of 300 cures of Asthma, Consump-
tion, Coughs, kc., have been performed by this medicine (and pub-
lished)during the last twelve months.

NI4TIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSU-
RANCE SOCIETY.
26, Cornhill, London.
Capital £500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
w:iThis nstitution embrces important and substantial advantages
lh respect to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuties.
l'elicies issued by this Society have a twofold advantage :—provi-
irh for the family of the Assured, and an augmenting pecuniary
lable resource to himself, if needful, whllel lying. The Assured
"Nen all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense, or for-
reitu
-re of the Policy, two-thirds of the Premiums paid.

To Singers- and Public Speakers they are invaluable for clearing
and strengthening the voice. They have a pleasant taste.
Price Is. 1%d., 2s. Pd., and Ile. per box. Agents—Da Silva and
Co., I, Bride-lane, Fleet-street, London. Sold by all. Medic ne
Venders.

DR. LOCOCK'S FEMALE WAFERS.
The only remedy recommended to be taken by Females, have no
taste of medicine.
Price Is. d, 2s. Pd., and lie per box.

Thy, eor
th N..
MAth
" chnp

DIVISION OF PROFITS.

itinued prorTpeiityoititeSociety has enabled the Directors
nual Meeting, held on the 10th of May, 1848, to declare a
as, Tarying from 27 to 65 per cent. on the Premiums paid
'olicy effected on the profit scale.
EXAMPLES.

1 Perms- 'Sum the
,4.,,,5i Annual !Policy Bonus In cent Re- A ,z,r,-• d
', E., I're- 1 taken addition Bonus in Auction of may bor-
-1.7, 47, mlum. out In to Sum Cash. Annual row on
Assured. Premium. Policy.
£ s. d. £ s d. £ s. d. £ s. d.
x sd 0
74 3 4 I ; 1839 1226 6 0 102 15 1 16 2 9 194 8 10
1 00
1837 276 i 14 3 128 14 3 21 7 2 593 6 8
1536 1251 18 19.115 14 8 18 12 8 543 17 9
18,,0 178 0 0, 82 14 2 12 14 11 145 0 0
1841 1174 0 0 78 3 4 12 2 0 395 11 1
l 1842 147 4 2 C 5 15 10 10 2 4 346 2 3
1843 193 18 .0 44 8 4 615 11$ 296 13 4
1 1844 162 6 41 27 13 4 4 4 0 247 4 5

DEFERRED ANNUITIES.
~21Y the operation of the earn, principles, the Society is enabled to
afford to the public a plan of Deferred Annuities far more advanta-
t,!?us than any hitherto offered, whereby an individual, by the con•
',Dutton of a very small annual, monthly, or weekly saving, may se-
re either either a comfortable provision for himself in advanced age, or,
4'l'lB option, a large sum of money, or a policy to his family at his
h„e4th ; while by giving to the purchaser, at any time, the power of
(Ifrowin;;; two-thirds of previous payments, it removes all risk
` forfeiture from inability to continue premiums, besides affording
4,ktople resource during sickness and want of employment ; and
ftinald the purchaser die before arriving at the stipulated period, ,o-
-.4-rds of his payments will be returned to his representatives.
he following Table is a specimen of the great and varied advan-
;Res which the judicious application of a small saving casecure
'Though this Society.

on al
65, by an Ai
21. 125.

Ridge (1846), Lieutenant Julius Bunce, Royal
Marines. •

Assistant-Surgeon James Peters (1838).
Sir Francis Baring will discontinue seeing officers
until further notice.

The Nankin, 50-gun frigate, launched atWoolwich
on Saturday last, arrived at Sheerness at nine o'clock
on Sunday. It is supposed she must have.
touched the ground immediately after she went off
the ways, as. her main stern rudder post is broken.
It is expected she will be ready for sea in May next.
The San Fiorenzo, 50, ordered to be built at Wool-
wich Dockyard, is to be commenced immediately in
the slip from which the Nankin was launched. A
considerable quantity of the timbers of the San Fie-
renzo have been already converted and conveyed to
the sides of,tbe slip.
A convict employed with a gang at the mast-house
at the west- end of the yard attempted to escape yes-
terday; but,, being .soon. missed,, a search was imme-
diately commenced,.and he was.found..in the hold of
the Royal Albert busily engaged in filing off his irons
with a file he had obtained from some of the work-
men's hoies..

GIRTH AM,' MARCH 19.--The Nankin, •50 guns,
was to-wed into this harbour on the afternoon of Sun-
day, the 17th instant, by the African. end Jasper
steam-vessels, and on Monday she
WES placAl under
the sheers, where her masts were put into their places ;
and the same day she was taken into the third dock
to coppered end fitted for sea. • •

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
YORK, NEWCASTLE, AND BERWICK.

The directors have!.-ie;itiecf their report with respect
to the position of the holders of the Great North of
England purchase shares. Tney state that they can-
not recognise the alleged right of those shareholders
to seek for any modification of the terms on which
those shares were created; but they think it will be
judicious to secure to those shareholders a minimum
dividend cf four per cent. until the Ist of July, 1856,
en the 171. yet uncalled, as the calls on these shares
are paid up, but that on the 8/. already paid the ordi-
nary dividend only should be paid, and that after the
Ist of July, 1856, the whole 251. should receive equal
dividend with the capital stock of the company.
The directors believe that this course will best
secure the payment of the 171. yet remaining due
on Great North of England purchase shares
as that sum shall be required, but they have thought
it expedient that a call of 21. should be immediately
made on these shares, payable by instalment e of 11.
on the Ist of July, and 1/. on the Ist of January
next, which call they have accordingly made. The
amount of calls to be received from time to time on
the shares will be applied in reduction of the amount
due to the Great North of England proprietors; thus
relieving this company from a corresponding amount
of the rent payable for the Great North of England
Railway, and so preventing any increased burden to
this company, in its allowance of four per cent. divi-
dend on the calls to be made. The directors are glad
to announce that they have been enabled to induce
Mr. Plews, under certain conditions, to allow himself
to be proposed for re election as a director at the ad-
jeurned meeting. Mr. Alderman Hodgson also
consents to be again put in nomination. Should
these gentlemen be re-elected the only remaining
raeanoy will be that occasioned 'by the retirement of
Mr. Love.

Beware of Imitations In the Form of Pills.

DR. I.A'MEIZT ON TIIE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH
AND MATURITY.-VrITII 40 COLOURED ENGRAVINGS ON
STEEL.

Fiat publsbed, and may be had In French or English, In a Sealed
Envelope, 2s. 6d., or post-free, from the Author, for forty-two
stamps,

SELF-PRESERVATION; a
Medical Treatise on the Physiology of Marriage, and on
the Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and Maturity,
usually acquired at an early period of life, which enervate
the physical and mental powers, diminish and enfeeble the natural
(ecline's, and exhaust the vital energies of Manhood ; with Practical
Observations on the Treatment of Nervous Debility and Indigestion,
sliether arising from these causes, close study, or the influence of
tropical climates: Local and Constitutional Weakness, Syphilis,
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LAW INTELLIGENCE.
ARCHES' COURT. March 19.
(Before Sir HERBERT JEERER FUST.)
GORIIkM V. THE BISHOP OF EXETER.

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VISCOUNTESS FRANKFORT r. VISCOUNT FRANKFORT.

The proctor for Lady Frankfort applied to the
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decided, Lady Frankfort being in distress, and to
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into possession of property lately, by her father's
death.

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only nominally so, and
The COURT ordered the case to stand over.

TIMES —Apropos to slavery, we have to record
an act of personal subjugation, as bad as anything in
the evidence given last year to the Committee of the
Lords. The scene was not the Bight of Biafra, nor
Gallines, but Downing-street; the victims were not
the glossy children of Ham, but 160 Members of the
British [louse of Commons ; and the ostensible au-
thor of the extraordinary outrage was not a Brazilian
skipper, but the head of her Majesty's Government.
By the sound of the Treasury whip the unfortunate
captives were mustered early in the above-mentioned
barrecoon, and there shortly and sharply instructed
in the terms of their servitude: Without so much as
allowing them the opportunity of tendering their spore•
taneous support, Massa Russell, for so we must call
the principal actor on this occasion, informed his cap-
tives that if they did not support him in the blockade
of the African slave coast, he would turn them all
out into outer darkness to find a new master if they
could. It was in vain that they protested and
demurred, talked of money and reputation, and
other topics customary with s.:nsiblo-men; his Lord. '
ship would take no denial. Their opinions they
might keep, but their votes he must have. As ap-
pears from the division last night, his Lordship suc-
ceeded to the desired extent. The poor sufferers
came out lamenting their hard fate, but few of them
dreamt of actual resistance. Thus, by a sort of vica-
rious bondage the British M.P. has taken the place
of the African, and done taskwork to the music of the
lash. Such, in fact, is the history:of last night's di-
vision in the Commons. Let not the public be de-
ceived for one moment. The 232 Gentlemen se ho
vote for keeping this Old Man of the Sea on our
shoulders, themselves inwardly groan at the_ pres-
sure. We believe that any one of them would
rather carry a sack of coals, or all the blue books
of the session, from Westminster to St. Paul's,
than vote away another million for this deplorable
humbug. Sed- fata aslant. If they don't do as
they are bid Lord Palmerston will go out, Lord John
will go out, and all the rest will go out, and it is im-
possible to say who will come in ; perhaps Mt. Dis-
raeli, perhaps Mr. Cobden, perhaps Mr. Feargus
O'Connor. Nor was this all, The philanthropists,
sure of their victims, were not content with exacting
a dumb vote. They had prepared what we can only
call a song of victory, which was to be chaunted in
honour of the Africans quadron and' its complete ill-
success and glorious certainty of failure. Mr. Hutt's
motion was simple enough, and they who did not like
it might think it sufficient to move the previous ques-
tion.
dueNo n
Not eootte these
had b
gentlemen.se
been
given
mo-
tion for last night stood a monster amendment, of
which
venlnhy the
Member for North Derbyshire, and better known at
Exeter ball than Sc. mnro.tlicler.s
Eof‘..ans,
Stephen's. After reciting with
fitting pomp all that had not been effected by her Ma-
jesty's naval force employed on the coast of Africa,
this amendment went on to ask for further supplemen-
tary measures—fresh communications;representations,
and remonetrances addressed to other powers, in the
hope of persuading them to do what they have pro-
mised to do, but what they will undoubtedly see us
all at the bottom of the ocean before they will do.
There was a certain tone about the concluding and
most important clause of the amendment, a certain
" gravity," and " friendliness and regard for " the
character of this country," which, coupled with some
recent passages in our history, does just suggest the
idea--we beg to be excused if ,we are wrong—of an
armed apparition in the Tagus, or perhaps in the har-
bour of Rio. This may, of course, be an injurious
surmise; but, as the foreign Powers we have to deal
with are slaveholders to begin with, are our rivals in
trade, and make a very good profit by our philane
thropy—as they break all their engagements with
us when slave trade is concerned, and leave us alone
in our Quixotic undertaking, nothing is more likely
or natural than that the fleet now at the Piraeus
should have to stop at Lisbon on its way
home and ask a few questions ; and, if it be so,
it is difficult to suppose that so prudent and farseeing
a man as our present Foreign Secretary, with such
an instinctive hatred of war, should not have that
vision before his eyes. Such, at all events, is the
image irresistibly awakened in our minds by the last
clause of the amendment intended to be moved last
night, but withdrawn, perhaps for the very fact of
this ill look about it—perhaps out of tenderness to the
feelings of the Ministerial supporters. Now, in all
seriousness, what are to be Ministerial measures, and
what are not? A Minister does not derive all his
power from his own person, essence, and being. He
is a creation of Parliament, just as that is a creation
of the country. Of course if he produced his ma-
jority out of the fountain of his own perfections he
might impose on it what laws and conditions he
pleased, as he might on any other creation of his
brain. But in our view of these matters a party is
just as independent as its leader, and if it owes him a
considerable degree of obedience he owes to
it a still sv,larger degree of consideration.
Above all, he is not to impose Ministerial questions
at discretion. If it supports him in free trade, or
the colonies, or education, and other standing mat-
ters of Parliamentary dispute, it does not follow that
he is at liberty to impose a new tax on its allegiance
in the shape of a perpetual blockade costing a million
a year—not a farthing less —and
nd absolutely ineffec-
tive for its purpose. At this rate no man can say
what he may not be called on to vote for. He rises
in the morning a free agent, and reads in the notice
paper that before night he will be committed to that
which he holds in utter abomination. It is bad
enough to be pledged to heaps of things by force of
custom and prescription, merely because one was
born to them or bred to them ; but worse, still, to be
under an indefinite obligation to think and do what
one has not at present the least idea of. But
what is the value of a majority made up
of such materials ? The country must take
this matter into its serious consideration. A large
proportion of our fleet—a fourth, it is said—is
employed on this interminable
fool's errand in the
tropics without the least benefit whatever, but a great

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Heaven, he once more resumes his sword, he was
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indeed a king, ay, every inch a king. He was
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Parodi (who was the Abigail), in the third act, was
encored. He was frequently called on dur-
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Abigail of Parodi is by far the best on
the lyrical stage. Impassioned, yet majestic—
haughty, yet impulsive—at once revengeful and am-
bitious, the slave Queen is a character to which Ma-
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full justice. Her genius and her power enable her
to act the character, while her youthful appearance
enables her also to look it, and the consequence was
that last evening the representation was perfect. The
great improvement in her vocalization, which we re-
marked in her Medea, was again conspicuous last
evening. Her Abigail was as perfect as a piece of vo-
calization as it was as a histrionic performance. Be]-
letti was tee High Priest ; this has always been one
of his greatest characters, and he was last night as
great as ever. Solemn and impressive in his manner,
his singing was, as it always is, critically correct and
most effective. Orostaspe left nothing to be
desired. Madame Giuliani made a most interesting
Fenena. She was encored in her final air, which
was beautifully rendered. Signor Michelli as Istaspe
was painstaking, but the music of " Verdi the violent"
occasionally overpowered his voice. The numerous
choruses were well rendered, and the " Va Pensiero"
was, according to custom, encored. At the conclusion
Signor Lorenzo and Mademoiselle Parodi were called
on. The beautiful ballet Les Metamorphoses,
which nightly increases in popularity, followrd, and
was enthusiastically received. Les Metamorphoses
promises to be a ballet " not for a season but for all
time." The house was very fashionably attended.

THE A RINIY.-IVe understand that arrangements
r.ro in contemplation fir the appointment of Lieutenant-
General Sir William Gomm, K.C.8., to the situation of
Commander-in-Chief at Bombay, vice Sir Wiliupghby
Cotton, G.C.8., who is exptclted to give up his command
i❑ the course of the ensuing autumn.

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charged with having stolen a gold it atcl, the property
of M. Theodore Rousseau, from the house of. Mrs.

Ilunter, 20, York-road, Lambeth. Th prisoner engaged
aputrnetta at Mrs. Hunter's, and had not been there an
hour before she entered the lit-drown of M. Rousseau,
who also lodged at Messrs. Bunter's and stole his gold
watch. The prisoner belongs to a family the members
of vvhich have foryears past lived by victimising, lodging-
house keepers and tradesmen. One of Ler brothers is
at prose, t in Maidstone gaol.

The Middlesex Sessions commenced yesterday.
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Three young urchins, named Kimball, Wright,
and Bolton, were yesterday committed from the Mary-
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pow's-box of St. Stephen's Church, St. John's-wood.
A brutal fellow, named John Blackburne, a car-
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coutructors for waking the tunnel of the Great Northern
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Mr. George "Watson, a jeweller, in Norton Poi-
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chain she had left at his shop to be repaired, and 21.
compensation for her detention in London to prosecute.
Mr. Watson declared that the lady was mistaken, as she
bad never left any such chain at his shop; but 51r.
Haminill, although exonerating Mr. Watson from all
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the chain had been left their for repair as stated.
NOTICE TO MARINERS. Admiralty, March 18,
1850. Sir,—l am commanded by my Lords Commis-
sioners of the Admiralty, to acquaint you, for the in-
formation uf the Committee for Manat:ing the Affairs at
Lloyd's, that her Majesty's steam-vessel Trident, or
Shearwater, and her Majesty's ship Superb, hare bten
ordered to proceed to ae-Chops of the Channel for the
relief of the homeward-bound trade.—(Signed) W. A.
B. HAMILTON. Captain G. A. HALSTED, R.N,, Secre-
tary of Lloyd's. _ _

NAVALCADETS.—From an official statement just
issued in return to an order of the House c f Commons,
it appears that tho number of cadets admitted into the
royal navy, during the year ending let January 1850,
was 96.=
FJRE.—Yesterday a fire took place at a cabinet
manufactory, Old-street-read, Shoreditch, opposite Pit-
field-street. There was a rea'ly supply of water, and
fortunately the firemen succeeded in confining the da-
mage, which was extensive, to the workshop.
MANCHESTER. TRADE itErOßT.—The market for
manufactures is in the same inactive state as it has re-
mained for several weeks past. Prices were nominally
lower, but concessions were readily obtained where bu-
siness could be at all effected,

RUINS IN CALIFORNIA.—It is reported that near
San Diego, at the head of the Gulf of California, an
immense extent of the ruins of ancient buildings have
been discovered, including temples, stone pyramids, &c.,
with hieroglyphics, the records of a great and civilised
race of inhabitant: who have vanished from the face of
the earth.

A number of books and instruments for Univers*
College, which have arrived in this country by steame, ,
from France, have btea admitted free, by permission of
the Lords of the Treasury.
The Rev. H. Mures, the new master of the Ro-
chester Grammar School, appointei by the Dean and
Chapter, is to be examined at the Town Hall to-day on
a charge of beating one of the scholars to an extraor-
dinary extent. The affair excites a great deal of in-
west in the town.

HIGHWAY ROBBERIES.-0a Saturday, the 16th
inst., between four and five in the afternoon, as Mr.
0-borne, traveller to Berries and Co., of Manchester,
was driving in his gig from Bala to Llanfillin, North
nos , but g
ote
Wales, at a lonely part of the road, near the top of
Borwyn Mountain, four miles from any dwelling-house,
he was attacked by three men, who stopped his horse,
and dragged him out. Mr. Osborne attempted to strug-
gle
okwfirtoh his
mthaessgaii bt x
2 7 5 h
le.
in was
lbeatdand about
silver. hre.
T headh
e
ruffians got clear away. On Saturday a gentleman was
stopped outside Manchester, and robbed of 3751.
LOAN TO THE DUBLIN AND BELFAST JUNCTION.--
We have heard from good authority that there is;almost
the certainty of the Government advancing the Dublin
and Belfast Junction Company 160,0001. or 200,000/. on
loan; but the Chancellor cf the Exchequer, in his finan-
cial statement on Friday night, made no allusion what-
ever to the subject. He proposes to advance a sum of
200,0001. for land improvements, and 800,0
The
001. for arte-
rial drainage, but nut one word about railways.
absence of all allusion to the loan, however, in the finan-
cial statement, is not to be taken as conclusive against
its beir, granted, though it would be well if the direc-
tors were prepared to apply a gentle pressure, as early
as possible after the Easter recess.—frisk Railway
Gazette.
TuE Hop DUTY.—Mr. Hodges, M.P., has ad-
dressed the following letter to the editor of the Maid-
stone Gazette :—" Sir,—Aware of the intense anxiety
that must prevail in the hop-planting district of the
counties of Kent and Sussex, after the financial state-
ment of the Chancellor of the Exchequer last Friday, in
which no allusion to the hop-tax was made, I felt it to
be my first duty to request a meeting of the chairmen of
the planters of both counties, accompanied by gentlemen
who have taken active part in the exertions hitherto
made to obtain a reduction of that duty; and their
unanimous opinion is, that I shall lose no time in ob-
taining a meeting in London of the Members of Parlia-
ment connected with the hop growing districts of the
different counties of England, with a view to the adop-
tion of such a course of proceeding as may be best cal-