The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-26 00:00:00

Mani 1 _-Allt.

LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 26, 1845.

The Duke of WELLINGTON has announced the second
reading of the Maynooth Bill for Monday next, the
2d of June, and intimated, in his usual decisive and
business-like manner, that he will keep his word. He
is right. The country is sick of this miserable Maynooth
affair. It involves no new religious principles; the
money required to carry it into effect is the most
contemptible item in the financial estimates; it gives no
additional encouragement to Popery; it establishes an
act of justice, but rather in form than in reality; and it
has been opposed so long, and in such tedious, un-
meaning speeches in the House of Commons, that
if the Lords were to follow the example they would
make the legislative body absolutely ridiculous. It is
said enormous masses of petitions are already
prepared for presentation. We have no doubt of the
fact. We believe they have been prepared for many
weeks, or are only transcripts of petitions thrown below
the table of the House of Commons. BREADALBANE
has so many committed to his charge that he cannot
bring them up in less than a week. WINCHILSEA has
an equal load ; KENYON and RODEN are also heavily
burdened ; and WELLINGTON and STANLEY must,
therefore, be bold men to face the indignation and re-
proaches of such illustrious ornaments of the House of
Peers as these four Anti-Maynooth leaders. WIN-
CHILSEA has already fought the Duke in defence of
Protestantism, and why should he not do so
again ? His worthy colleagues may also single
out their men and fight WHARNCLIEFE and STANLEY
and ABERDEEN. They cannot do less. Catholic
Emancipation was nothing to Maynooth ; and if the
champions of intolerance have a drop of true blood in
their veins, they will spend it in defence of their cause.
If they possess common sense, they know there is no
other chance for them. The House of Commons has
sent up the Bill backed by the greatest majority, taking
numbers, intelligence, independence, and sound argu-
ment into account, that ever supported any measure
brought before the Legislature. The opposition to it
has been of the most puerile, bigoted, and un-Chris-
tian character. The speakers have not advanced li
one argument which, if carried to its legitimate
extent, would not divide the kingdom into separate
merciless factions; dissever the colonies from the mother
country, and make the sister island more hostile to
England than even France and America in the midst of
a bloody war. Are the Peers, then, to reject such a
weight of authority? Are they to risk the safety of
the empire to gratify such hopeless bigots as RODEN and
KENYON, and reject the unanimous voice of all men in
the Commons' House of Parliament possessing ability,
sound judgment, and Christian charity, for this paltry
grant to Maynooth. The case is utterly hopeless. But
still the farce is to be performed. Endless petitions are
to be presented, long speeches made, and vile accusa-
tions reiterated against fellow Christians, all in the holy
name of religion. We regret to find certain leaders of
the Dissenters joining in this cry of intolerance—men
who have suffered so much from the very spirit which
animates WINCHILSEA, and RODEN, and KENYON—
men who would be trampled upon in their turn if their
chosen advocates should prevail, and who yet cringe to
the hand that would bind stronger their fetters. What
hope have they from the House of Lords ? Was there
ever such an absurdity heard of as Dissenters
trusting to support from the Puseyite Bishops of
LONDON and EXETER ? Yet such is the fact.
They turn with contempt from the RUSSELLS, the
Howicxs, and the MACAULAYS, leaders of a party to
whom they owe so much, and trust to 'Nous and LAW,
and the bench of Bishops. In the whole history of the
country there is no record of such deliberate folly—
such a manifest act of political and religious suicide.
They have inflicted a blow on the cause of dissent, from
which it will not recover for ages, and furnished proofs
of weakness hailed with the most intense delight by their
present faithful allies. "We have tried these Church
destroyers," say the high Tories, " in a reformed House
of Commons, representing every large town, where Dis-
senters abound ; they could muster only 34 members in
a House consisting of 505 Members, or about 1 to 15,
and with our aid the united party sustained the most re.
markable defeat ever known, not even excepting the
palmy days of the old rotten-borough system. We
know their strength, and we shall profit by experience,
when they apply for the abolition of Church rates, rebel
against Church extension, and raise a second time their
voices against our plan of national education. PEEL
has deserted us, but he has divided the forces of our
enemies, and division is the certain forerunner of de-
feat." These are truths, unwelcome truths we admit,
but the Duke knows, if the Dissenters do not, that
" there is no mistake, and there can be no mistake."

JOHN RUSSELL insisted that it is, if it can accomplish I
mutations like these. Were some of the diversities pro. I,
duced by the divisions on, and after, the third reading !
of the Maynooth Grant Bill less extravagant? Assuredly
not. Now the moral we would have Hon. Members
to collect from these is simply this—having made a be-
ginning and broken the ice, as it were, in their
accidental encounters with former political opponents,
on certain common grounds of political cerement,
influenced in the main, perhaps, rather by a
sense of equity, than ou calculations of statesmanship,
let them proceed to discover and to occupy the nume-
rous other grounds on which they may meet the just
advocates of the more matured opinions on great
economic and social questions. It would be, doubtless,
romantic to expect at any early period the advent of this
sort of political perfectability ; but we may gravely hope
that a few such electrifying shocks as the
divisions on the Maynooth question may bring
the more' intelligent representatives of the people—
Whigs, Conservatives, and Radicals—to discover
that there are neither so many nor so insurmountable
organic discrepancies of political theories between them,
as should necessarily prevent their coming to a better
understanding on most of them. And since we give
them credit for being equally animated by a sincere de-
sire to advance and consolidate the welfare of this great
empire, let us hope that, in proportion as the im-
pression is more emphatically produced on them by
occasional accidents of this kind, that it is very possible
for them to travel in the same path for the same great and
common end, they will acquire the determination to
betake themselves to those paths without delay or mis-
trust. For if the counsels of all the great parties—the
popular, the lowest, and the middle classes— the repre-
sentatives of the trading, manufacturing, and landed in-
terests of the empire be really excited, what human
power can withstand her physical force, her naval great-
ness, or her political supremacy ?

When we very lately animadverted on the strange
anomalies and deficiencies of our criminal law, and in-
stanced the absurd inequality with which punishment
was apportioned to offences coming under the cognisance
of its jurisdiction (an inequality by reason of which fhei
severest penalties are sometimes meted out for the most
venial transgressions of a statute, having regard to cer-
tain acts in themselves indifferent—and the lightest are
inflicted for crimes the most revolting to humanity, be-
cause of some, technical informalities in the indictment,
or some error in the pleadings), we little imagined
that we should so soon encounter an evidence of the
physical existence of one of those unconvicted ruffians
who now and then escape in the last crisis, as it were,
of fate, the ignominious doom they have justly merited.
It is undoubtedly a sound principle of humanity, and
of justice as well as of law, to assume any man inno-
cent, in the face of whatever evidence may have been
brought forward to substantiate his guilt, uc.til a verdict
of Guilty shall have been recorded against bias. At
the same time there are facts and circumstances on
which, though the cumulative and legal proof necessary
to establish a conviction may be wanting, the impression
of the public mind is clear and distinct that they
are conclusive of the guilt of the accused. We
mentioned the case of one " SHEENE," tried many
years ago at the bar of the Old Bailey, for the murder
of his infant child by cutting its head off. This ruffian
escaped conviction at the time, solely by virtue of some
worthless quibble as to the technical description in the
indictment of himself or his victim—(for we really
forget which). Whichever it was, he had been
styled in the pleas of the Crown " THOMAS "
for " JOHN," or " JOHN " for " THOMAS." So-
ciety, it might have been supposed, was in-
terested only to know—first, whether a murder
had been committed upon the child; secondly, by whom;
and upon neither of these points was the slightest doubt
expressed, either by the jury or the judge. The flaw
in the indictment, however, being pleaded by his
counsel, was held to be fatal, and he escaped that doom
which it would be an affectation of delicacy to suppose
that any individual in the country, who had perused the
evidence tendered at his trial, ever doubted that he had
most richly merited. In these distressing cases, where the
meshes of the law may be said to break through after hav-
ing netted their prey, natural instinct usually deters the
monster which has broken out of them from ever ven-
turing again into their vicinity. So, in those rare 'cases
where a technical informality has overridden the whole
force of direct proof, positive depositions, and circum-
stantial evidence, the lucky delinquent has gene-
rally been too happy to withdraw himself from the yell
of public indignation and the pointed finger
of scorn and infamy, in the safe retreat
of obscurity and silence. In the police re-
ports for Wednesday last, under the head of Wor-
ship-street, we read of a WILLIAM SHEEN, brought up
for having assaulted and threatened the life of a re-
spectable publican. The case was proved to the satis-
faction of the magistrate, and SHEEN was bound over to
keep the peace, himself in his own recognizance for
100 L, with two sureties of 50L each. These were very
readily procured, for this SHEEN, it appears, is a pros-
perous personage, possessing household property in the
♦icinity of the office to the amount of more than 70/. per
annum. It is further stated that he is the same man, we were
going to say, who, having cut off the head of his infant
child, was allowed, through the carelessness of the Clerk
of the Arraigns, to slip his own out of the halter. We
had no expectation of ever encountering this " wolf-head"
again. We had thought that even the most obscene and
darksome purlieus of Shoreditch and Spitalfields could
have vindicated themselves from the imputation of har-
bouring such inhabitants. But this is an age of surprises•
It must be imagined that the public like to renew old
acquaintances of however questionable a reputation
under any circumstances however startling. For our
own parts, we are beyond the reach of such emotions.
Nil admirari is the motto we take up with. WO should
scarcely utter an interjection were we told to-morrow
that the injured and scientific experimentalist, Mr.
BELANEY, was endeavouring to get enrolled as licentiate
in medicine and surgery under a new Charter for " par-
ticular " instead of " general " practitioners. Yet we
do marvel at our law of bail, or the discretion of our
magistrates in administering it. To-day a gentleman of
great respectability is brought before one magistrate,
for soundly horsewhipping the seducer of his own
daughter in the person of his brother-in-law, her uncle.
Application is made to bail the gentleman who has,
under such irrepressible feelings of resentment, com-
mitted such an act of violence. The Magistrate, Mr.
TWY?ORD, refuses under circumstances thus special to
accept bail, and asks, with a simplicity quite touching—
" Why should he ?" To-morrow you shall have a no-
torious murderer, with no other recommendations but
those of his luck in defrauding the public executioner,
brought up on a charge of wanton and brutal assault
without any such provocation of intolerable injury, before
another magistrate. The charge is proved to his satis-
faction, and this Magistrate, on bail being tendered for
the notorious offender before him, accepts it with a
facility that seems to ask—" why should he not?"

There was a good deal of sound constitutional doc-
trine in Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S speech of Wednesday
night last, on the subject of party. For such a dis-
course the third reading of the Maynooth Grant Bill
undoubtedly furnished a very apt text, and we hope that
Lord INGESTRE will not lightly forget the somewhat
severe illustration into which Lord Join( was so kind as
to manufacture him, of that embodiment of party
" which has all its defects, and none of its
redeeming good properties." There is a small class
of very small politicians, whom it is expedient
to instruct in the salutary lesson, that party, however
good it may be in relation to its results and influences
on the service and welfare of the public, cannot be
tolerated for palpable objects of private advantage. But
the remarkable division of Wednesday shows such a
singular fusion of parties, such an array of con-
fused and conflicting opinions on the side of a
measure of justice and liberal feeling towards our
Roman Catholic brethren of Ireland, that we would
fain draw from it an augury of permanent
benefit to the highest interests of the public, through
the toning down of extreme opinions, the abandonment
of personal prejudices and distrusts, and the combina-
tion of political antagonists in a brave and generous
alliance to uphold the institutions of their common
country, by giving to all classes of the community a
genuine and equal interest is them. Could we but
evoke from the marshalled benches within the House,
where men on both sides, for the most part,
follow as accurately and obediently the tactics of
their political leader, as a line of newly-drilled soldiers
watch the motions of their fugleman—could we but evoke
many such divisions into the lobbies without, we might
reasonably hope that the reign of common sense and
truthfulness was at hand. Men would soon be brought
into a habit of voting as they thought, not as they were
whipped, as it is called in Parliamentary parlance. The
principles of free trade would find new exponents, who
would awaken, as from a dream, to a sense of wonder
at the perverse tenacity with which they had
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the repeal of the Statutes of Mortmain ; Mr. W. MILES
mooting the abolition of all restrictive duties on the trade
in Foreign Corn; and Sir ROBERT PEEL himself agitating
for the repeal of his Currency Bill of 1819, and its com-
plement of 1844.
Party must be, per se, quite as good a thing as Lord

Madrid. journals of the 16th instant have been re-
ceived, but they bring no news. A rumour prevailed
that General CONCHA, Governor of Catalonia, was about
to be removed from the command of that province
According to another rumour, a Carlist rising was ex-
pected at Arragon.

The Three per Cents. closed at 34 3.16 for cash,
and 341- at 60 days ; the Five per Cents. at 25* at 60
days ; and the Debt without Interest at 8k for the 27th

among the last agreed to, and tS Bill passed. Com.
mittees of the Chamber were enged in examining the
Paris and Strasburg lines, and he branch line from
Metz to Saarbruck. The. line fro Orleans to Tours, it
was expected, would be openet in September. The
Constitutisnnel says:-" Indepenently of the ships of
the line and those of a smaller free appointed to cruise
in the Mediterranean for pradce, there is to be a
division formed of steam-frigate. Admiral PARCEVAL
DESCHENES will continue to gormand the first, and the
Prince DE JOINVILLE the seond, who will probably
have the chief command, if to two squadrons act to-
gether."
The accounts from Lucernetre to the 19th, and state
that the Grand Council had ben induced, by fear rather
than any other motive, to cormute the sentence on Dr.
STEIGER, on condition that le be transported for life.
The Cantons of Berne, Zurici, and Argad, it appears,
threatened, in case of any atempt to carry the capital
sentence into effect, to call cit the federal troops and
rescue the prisoner. M. MutEit, the President of the
Diet, who had been struck with apoplexy, was re-
covering.
The Three per Cents. closed a the Paris Bourse on Thurs-
day at 86f. 20c. ; the New Lan, at 86f. 55c. ; the Five
per Cents. at 121 f. 60c. ; OrlEtns Railroad Shares, 1,240 f. ;
Rouen, 1,132 f. 50c. ; Vierzon, f22f. ; Havre, 921 f. ; Avignon,
1,055 f. ; Basle, 2731. 75c. ; Scinish Actives, 40% ; Spanish
Three per Cents., 42 ; Spanish Passives, 7i.
The following are the quoations for the new lines:-
Orleans and Bordeaux, 24Ot,premium ; Boulogne, 130 f.
ditto; Troyes and Montereau 701. 50c; Paris and Lyons
(Laffitte), 22f. 50c. ; ditto (Calm), If. 50c. ; ditto (Ganneron),
10f. 50c; Northern line (Laffitt±), 351. ; ditto (Rosamel), 10f.
50c. ; Tours and Nantes (Mackeizie), 12f. 50c. ; ditto (Drouil-
lard), par; ditto (O'Neill), 12f 50c; ditto (Jacques Lefevre),
par ; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe), 25f. ; ditto (Talabot),
35f. ; ditto (Compagnie Mericionale), 1 lf. 25c. ; Bordeaux
and Toulouse (Mackenzie), 121. ; ditto and Cette (Espe-
leta), 17f. 75c. ; Creil and St. Quentin, lf. 50c. ; Paris and
Strasburg (Ganneron), 12f. 50c, ; Dijon and Mulhouse, 6f.25c.
LYONS, MAY 19.-Avignon and Marseilles, 1,067 f., end of
May; Paris and Orleans, 1,235 E, ditto; Paris and Rouen,
1,1221.., ditto ; Orleans and Vierzon, 827 f., ditto ; Orleans and
Bordeaux, 712 f., ditto.

The discussion in the French Chamber of Deputies on
the northern line of railway has been brought to a close,
and the Bill adopted by a majority of 253 to 10. The
following are the more important clauses adopted rela-
tive to shares :—The adjudication shall not be valid
until confirmed by royal ordinance ; the company de-
clared successful cannot issue any negotiable shares or
promises of shares before being constituted as a societe
anonyme, duly authorised according to Art. 37 of the
Commercial Code ; the projectors of the company shall
have a right only to the reimbursement of their advances,
and after they have established their claim to the same
before a general meeting of the shareholders ; no one
can vote by proxy in the board of directors of the Com-
pany. In case two members, differing from the rest on any
point, shall demand to have the question postponed until
the opinion of one or several absent directors might be
made known, a copy or extract of the minutes shall be sent
to all the members absent, with a request to them to come
and vote at the next meeting on a certain appointed day.
or to address, in writing, their opinion to the chairman.
He shall read the opinion so sent to the board, after
which, the point shall be decided by the majority of the
members present ; all publication of the quotations of
shares, before the constitution of the societe anonyme
shall be punishable by a fine of from 500 f. to 3,000 f.
The following clause was proposed by MM. DUFAuRE and
VIVIEN, and also adopted::—" There shall be sent to the
office of the Minister of Public Works the register from
which the scrip receipts delivered to the subscribers
shall have been cut, or a list, stating the reciprocal
engagement of the projectors and the subscribers, and the
definitive division among them of the capital of the
company ; from the date of the delivery of the
registers or lists above mentioned, all stipulations by
which the projectors shall have reserved to them-
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DRIIRY-LANE THEATRE.—We are at length enabled
to state that Madame Thillon is convalescent, and re-
appears here this PvAnine. Some idea may be formed
of the desire to see this accomplished singer, wh.a wo
state that upwards of 4001. was returned from the Box-
office last week, for places taken on the nights she was
unable to perform. Madame Thillon sings to-morrow
night at the Palace, by her Majesty's command.

Paris and Strasbourg
(Ganneron's)
Do. do. (Hainguerlot') 2
Royal North of Spain ... 2 ...... 2%% ...
Sambre and Meuse ..... 4
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Provincial of Ireland ... 25 ...... 524

3714
3714
17%

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING-, MAY 26, 1845.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS
(From The Sun of Saturday Evening.)
The Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was firm. Sales
7,000 bales at last week's quotations.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 23.—The sales are
—Barnsley Junction, 434 • Ditto, Half Shares, 2%; Birken-
head, Manchester, and Cheshire Junction, 914 9 ; Blackburn,
Burnley, and Accrington, 814; Blackburn, Darwen, and
Bolton, 5 ; Caledonian, 11 10% ; Churnet Valley, 6% 6 ;
Clitheroe Junction, 214 prem„; Glasgow and Dumfries, 225.
235. ; Goole, Doncaster, Sheffield, and Manchester, 20s. 6d.
275. 6d. ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, 3% ex
new ; Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 6% ;
Leed., and Think, 7% ys ; Leeds and West Riding Junction,
84 3%; Leicester and Birmingham, 1% prem. ; London and
Birmingham' 237 ; London and Windsor, 7s. 6d. 7s. prem. ;
London and York, 414 7-16 ; Manchester, Buxton, Matlock,
and Midland Junction, 4% %,- Manchester and Birming-
ham, 5734 58 ; Manchester and Leeds, Quarter Shares, 21%;
Midland Railway Consols, 168 ; Ditto, 40/. Shares, 20 ;
North Wales, 3% ; North Western, 4 ; Preston and Wyre
Extension, 2% ; Southport and Euxton, 2% ; Trent Valley.
Continuation and Holyhead Junction, 2%; Wakefield, Pon-
tefract and Goole, 16 ; Welsh Midland, 114 1/8 prem. ; West
Yorkshire, 21/2, ; Great. North of France, English, 5% ; Paris
and Lyons (Ganneron's), 2%. Manchester and Buxton, 5.
The steamer from the West Indies brings favourable ac-
counts of the crops, &c., and the exports of sugar had
been large from most of the islands up to
the respective dates. The Trinidad folks com-
plained, nevertheless, that they had not made quite so
much sugar as they expected. The colonists generally ap-
peared in good spirits, except at Barbadoes, where the want
of rain was serionsly felt. The accession of labour by the
arrival of the hill-coolies was likely to give heart to the
planters generally,
In Hayti hostilities were expected to recommence, He-
rard, the ex-President, having again landed on the island.
During the week to Saturday last the Bank of
England issued notes to the amount of 29,340,425/.,
an increase of 117,490/. The " rest" increased by 4,757. The
public deposits were larger by 965,994 the other deposits
by 210,5464 and the notes by 593,9095/. The bullion was
15,999,370 i., an increase of 137,684/.
Not the slightest alteration is to be noted in the Consol
Market to-day, and there is but little doing at the current
sates, 99 t 4 %. The premium on Exchequer-bills has been
4wt;; supported at 58s. to 60s. Bank Stock has been 210%
to 14 ; New Three-and- a-Half per Cents. have realised
We have not.-2
10114 A ; ,t,.:d the Three per Cents., 983/4 lA.
single bargain officially marked in Spanish
Bonds, and the othZ.*:
rates. Portugu Foreign Securities maintain about pre-
viousen Converted have been 67 to 67%,
Mexican 3714, and Chiliari
Half per Cents. have been 63
ijjerred 52. Dutch Two-aod-a-
The Share Market has been' a
,;t, tol lift weak Cents. 973/4.
scripl of the new lines, but very fire,.' e again for the
for the old railways.
CLOSING
ONE
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced
3 per Cent. Consols
New 314 per Cents ...101;,ix, of A
Long Annuities to expireJan.lB6o 11 1-16% 111.1
- ' c
Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 ... 11 1-16 11 1-1,
Consols for Account.... ....... 99%1A, 9914
Exchequer Bills, 1,0004, 1%d.... 60 58 pm. 58
Ditto 500/. .
Ditto Small ... 58 60 pm. 60
Ditto Advertised — pin•
ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.:
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent...„ . .....
Ditto, Deferred .. 52
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 .... 374
Ditto Account
Ditto. Deferred
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, Converted 67
Ditto, Account ..... —... 67%
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840........••
Ditto. Account ........
.....
Ditto 3 per Cent. ............ •
Ditto, Account
PAID. A ONE O'CLOCK. CLOSING
41%
Dutch, 2% per Cent .
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 973/
A 9734
PRICES OF
RAILWAY SHARES PRICES.
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush .................. 1% ...... 2%
Birming. and Gloucesterloo .....135
Do. New ... ............ 171/2 ...... 331/
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction ......... 2
Bri'ton, Lewes, & Hest. 2024
Caledonian ............... 5
11305114 10
Cambridge and Lincoln 1%
Chester and Holyhead... 15 16
Churnet Valley
Coventry and Leicester 114 ll4 ll4
Cornwall .................. 3 -. . % 4li
1 mblin and Belfast June 2% 10? lOl
Dublin and Galway ••••• ?%..
.... 3 874 36

67%
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Dublin and Mußinger-. 2% 43/4 A 402
Eastern Counties ......... 25
Ditto New ... . ........ 4/. 163. 43/4,
Eastern Union ............ 15 .„ „, ..._4%%
Ditto Extension ...... 11/2 2% 2%
Great North of England-100 2211/2 222 221... 2211
Ditto New ..... - ........ 5
Ditto New ............... 2
Great Western ....... ..... 80
GuDilidtftoork Shares.........Fare,rn:
..... 520%
...
..105y6
8
5%
Hull and Selby ...........• 50 107% 107 lO7
London and Birminghm (5t0ck)...240 238%...
Do. % Shares ......... 2
.....
..... 334
London and Bright0n... 50
London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. 18 /4 1/2 lBl/2
Do. Guaranteed 5 per
Cent. .................. 6
London and S. Western 41/ 6e 10d 79% 79
Do. New .............. 21/2 l 3
London and York ...... -. 2% 4%% 4l/8
London, Salisbury, and
Yeovil - 3% 2%
Londonderry & Coleraine 21A. ..... 31/2... 3%
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen .. 21/ 4% 43/4
Lynn and Ely
Manchester and Leeds— 73 154
Midland 100 l7l 169% 1691/
Do. New
Midland, Birm., Derby...loo 132 131 132%... 133
Newcastle and Darling-
ton Junction 25 •••••• 50%
. 50
Do. New Brandling... 10 ..... 313/ 31%
Newcastle and Berwick Ph ..... 153 16% 15% 16
Newry and Enniskillen. 2% •-•• 3 s 3%
North British ..... ...... 12% 2O 19%
Do. New
Norwich and Brandon... 10 •1
S 3/4 lB3/4
Do., New ... ..... ..... 1 ...... 4% 4%
Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1 ...... 4%
Scottish Central
Shrews., Wolverhamp.,
Dudley, and Birm ...... 2% ••• • • 5 4% 4%
South Eastern & Dover 33/ 234d-' —1
Do~ No. 3
South Wales ' 21/2 5l
Trent Valley
Trent Valley and Holy-
head Junction ..... ... 1% ...... 2% IA 2%
Wexford and Carlow .... 2
West Yorkshire ...... ••• 2%.
.....• 2% 2%
Yarmouth and Norwich. 20 ...... 27% 27%
York and North Midland 50 ......
Do. Selby
.... 69% 69
Do. Extension IM 173/4
FRENCH RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens... 4
Bordeaux, Toulouse, and
Cette - 210r1
Dijon and Mulhouse 2 .... ..... 2% ........
Great North. of France.. 4 ...... 53/4
Do. do. (Rosamel's) 2
Great Paris and Lyons 2 •••••• 3 8
170 2 •••
Louvain and Jemeppe... 2 ... •
Orleans and Bordeaux... 2 ...... 11% %
Paris & Lyons, Laftitte's 2 ...... 32%
Paris and Lyons, Gan-
neron's, ...
Paris and Rouen

1734
91/4
2%

1114
2%
2%
43

COURT CIRCULAR.

Waltz, Die Heiteren.
Polka, Madelinen.

2%
21/8
111 f

LATER ARRIVAL FROM NEW YORK.—The Southerner
Captain Palmer, arrived at Liverpool on Friday night
with papers from New York of the let inst., one day
later than those received by the last steamer. They do
not contain any item of news of the least importance.

The Queen's natal day ( Saturday) was celebrated at Clare-
mont. At seven o'clock precisely the band of the Grenadier
Guards, led by Mr. Schott, master of the band, commenced a
serenade with the performance of the " Reveille," from their
station near the portico at the east front of the mansion.
The band afterwards performed the following pieces :
Choral, from the " Zauberflote."
Romanza, Duetto e Finale, from " Lucretia Borgia."

T'HE COLOSSEUM.
NIGHT EXHIBITION.
The Colosseum was opened on Saturday evening, for
a prix-ate vi ew of the night exhibition. and a most
gorgeous and magnificent exhibition it is. On entering
in Alt any-street, the visitor is conducted through the
magnificent corridor, lighted by twenty. six colossal
tripods, to the refreshment room, cros,ing hich, he
finds himsel: in the Glyptotheca, or Hall of Sculpture,
which is also splendidly illuminated. Entering the as-
cending room, or, if he prefers it, ascending the stair-
case, he finds himself in the gallery, and "London by
Night " bursts upon him. The splendid pano-
rama, an entirely different picture from the panorama
exhibited by day, is erected in front of that picture.
The dioramic effects produced in this magnificent work
of art are truly wonderful. As the spectator debouches
on the platform his attention is first attracted by the
clear blue sky, begemmed with twinkling stars, while
ever and anon a fleecy cloud flies across it. He looks
down and beholds the illuminated city mapped out at his
feet—long and brilliant lines of light from lamps and
shop-windows mark out the great leading thoroughfares,
while here and there the upper windows of the houses
appear irregularly illuminated, the lights occasionally
appearing and disappearing, as the dwellers may be sup-
posed to enter or leave the rooms. The moon is at
the full, and the river, " flowing at its own sweet
will," reflects the moonlight from its rippling
surface. The lamps of the bridges, too, are reflected
beautifully—now appearing mirrored clearly and dis-
tinctly in the stream below— now broken up into a
thousand glittering fragments of light by the eddies of
the current. This picture is certainly one of the most
marvellous efforts of the pictorial art ever produced.
The honour of the design is due to Mr. W. Bradwell,
and the artists whose magic pencils have executed it are
Mr. Danson and Mr. Telbin. Descending to the Glypto-
theca, we next make our way to the Chalet and Alpine tor-
rent. The sound of the falling waters—the appearance of
the rushing cascades seen by the dim light of evening—the
" monarch of mountains" i❑ the back ground, towering
to the heavens and reflecting the light from his " crown
of snow," while all below reposes in his gigantic shadow,
produce an effect that is awfully sublime. It is a place in
which one would willingly rest awhile—a place in which
one feels the full force of the sublime passage of scripture,
"Commune with thine own heart, and be still." Quitting
the Chalet we enter the Stalactite Cavern, the palace of the
gnomes, and other earth-born deities, with its brilliant
and glisteninc, fantastic colemns, its dropping waters, and
its sluggish cakes. This is the last scene of this palace
of enchantment, and we quit this most magnificent of
exhibitions so fascinated, so delighted with all we have
beheld, that it is not until we find ourselves in the busy
street, wending our weary way homewards, that we feel
perfectly convinced that all we have seen there is not
reality.

Gallop, Millanolo.
The performance concluded with the National Anthem.
A select circle, who had been honoured with invitations, in-
cluding the Marquis of Exeter, the Earl of Liverpool, the Earl
Delawarr, the Marl of Jersey, Hon. Miss Murray, Hon. Miss
Kerr, Mr. George Edward and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, Cap-
tain the Hon. Arthur Dancoxibe, Captain Francis Seymour,
and the Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay, arrived at Clare-
mont in the course of the day.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Prince of Leiningen, and attended by Colonel Wylde, Equerry
in Waiting, rode out on horseback in the forenoon. Her Ma-
jesty and Prince Albert rode out in a poney phieton in the
afternoon, the Prince driving. The Equerries in waiting,
Lord C. Wellesley-and Colonel Wylde, attended on horseback.
The Royal Family were taken airings in the morning, and
Prince Alfred was taken a carriage drive in the afternoon, ac-
companied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton.
The Royal Dinner party included her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent, his Serene Highness the: Prince of Leinin-
gen, the Marquis of Exeter, the Earl of Liverpool, the Earl of
Delawarr, the Earl of Jersey, the Dowager. Lady Lyttelton,
Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Honourable Miss Murray, Hon.
Miss Kerr, Honourable Matilda Paget, Mr. George Edward
and the Honourable Mrs. Anson, Sir Robert and Lady
Gardiner, Misses Gardiner, Captain the Honourable Arthur
Duncombe, R.N., Honourable and Rev. Charles Leslie Courte-
nay, and Captain Francis Seymour.
The band of the Grenadier Guards was in attendance during
dinner, and performed the following pieces s--
Overture—" Jubel"
Selection from " Belisario" ...... Donizetti.
Waltz—" Nachtfalter"
Thema, with variations
Polka, and Dobru-noc
Gallop—" Charlotten"
The National Anthem.
Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended and per-
formed the remainder of the night. :=
Yesterday the unfavourable state of the weather throughout
the forenoon prevented the Queen and Prince Albert taking
their usual early walk, and the Royal Family from being taken
their accustomed walks and rides.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent, the
Prince of Leiningen, the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Royal
Suite, and the Domestic Household, attended Divine service
yesterday at CL.remont. The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie
Courtenay officiated.
The Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden visited her Ma-
jesty the Queen Dowager on Saturday, at Marlborough House,
attended by the Baroness de Strumfeder. Their Royal High-
nesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge visited and took
leave of her Royal Highness at the Duke of Hamilton's resi-
dence in Portman-square. The Grand Duchess dined with
the Marquis and Marchioness of Douglas, at their residence
in Connaught-place, and afterwards (attended by Baroness de
Strumfeder and Baron Roth de Schreckenstein) honoured the
Chevalier and Madame Bunsen with her company at his Ex-
cellency's residence on Carlton House-terrace.
Yesterday morning, at ten o'clock, the Grand Duchess Ste-
phanie of Baden left town to embark for the Continent, pro-
ceeding to the Tower Stairs. Her Royal Highness was ac-
companied by his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe
Weimar, the Duke of Hamilton, and the Marquis and
Marchioness of Douglas, and was attended by the Baroness de
Strumfeder and Baron Roth de Schreckenstein. The Chevalier
Bunsen, Prussian Minister, received her Royal Highness at
the place of embarkation. The Royal Duchess, attended by
her suite, went on board the Princess Victoria steam-packet for
Antwerp, en route to Brussels, on a visit to their Majesties
the King and Queen of the Belgians. Prince Edward of Saxe
Weimar, the Prussian Minister, the Duke of Hamilton, and
the Marquis and Marchioness of Douglas, returned to town
after the departure of th. Grand Duchess.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited the
Queen-Dowager yesterday, at Marlborough House. Their
Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Gloucester and the
Duchess of Cambridge visited her Majesty on Saturday.
The Duchess of Cambridge attended Divine service yester-
day morning in Grosvenor Chapel. Lady Augusta Cadogan
and Mr. Edmond Mildmay were in waiting on her Royal
Highness.
The Duke of Cambridge attended Divine service yesterday
morning, in St. Sepulchre's church. Baron Knesebeck was in
waiting on his Royal Highness.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and Prince George,
attended by Lady Augusta Cadogan, honoured the Italian
Opera with their presence en Saturday evening.
The Dukes of Wellington, Rutland, and St. Albans at-
tended the early service yesterday, in the Chapel Royal, St.
James's. The sermon was preached by the Sub-Dean of
Lincoln ; the prayers were read by the Rev. J. V. Povah.
The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, the Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Normanby, the Marquises of Huntly, Salisbury,
and Northampton, the Countess of Wilton, Lords Cawdor, Shef-
field, Sandwich, J. O'Brien, and Wrottesley, and the Lord
Mayor of Dublin, attended the daily service. The sermon
was preached by the Sub-Dean of Lincoln. The prayers
were read by the Rev. J. V. Povah. The lessons by the Rev.
C. Packman, and the communion service by the Rev. Dr.
Sleath. Mr. Turle presided at the organ.
A deputation from the London and Dublin Bank had an in-
terview with Sir R. Peel on Saturday, at his official residence
in Downing-street.
Mr. Pakington, M.P., had an interview with Lord Stanley
on Saturday at the Colonial-office.
A deputation from the National Bank of Ireland, including
Mr. R. S. Ring, secretary, and Mr. William Tatham, solicitor,
had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on
Saturday.
Mr. Patton Egerton had an interview with the Earl of Dal-
housie on Saturday, at the office of the Board of Trade.
Viscount Arbuthnot had an interview with Sir George Clerk
on Saturday at the Board of Trade.
The Earl of Falmouth and a deputation had an interview with
Sir R. Peel on Saturday.
Mr. Wickham, chairman, and Mr. Timm, solicitor, of the
Stamps and Taxes, had an interview with the Chancellor of the
Exchequer on Saturday.
The Earl of Limerick transacted business at the Colonial-

"ffica on Saturday.
"fie Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a meeting
I I.
on Satu,..dayi. There were present the Bishops of Eiy, Lich-
on Worcester, the Right Hon. H. Hobhouse,
field, Linen. q'
on. J. Nicoll.
and the Right A
:v:s and Viscount Clive had an interview on
The Earl of Po
Clerk.
Saturday with Sir Ge,m.g
.oarde and a deputation from Galway
The Marquis of Clanri
:with Sir R. Peel.
had an interview on Saturday
tnFday at the Colonial-office,
Dispatches were received on S::
from the Governors of the West Inch.' colonies.
Dispatches were sent off on Saturday sqvening for the Go-
vernor of Hong-Kong.

HAYTI.
We extract from the Feuille de Commerce of the 29th Apri

the following particulars of the death of the President, and the
appointment of his successor :—" After a long and glorious
career, surrounded by difficulties without number, the
modest, the brave, and benevolent President Philipe Guerrier
has paid the debt of nature. He died at the National
Palace of St. Marc, on Tuesday, the 15th April, at half-past four
in the afternoon, in the midst of his numerous family, inconsolable,
like the whole republic, for such:a great loss, He had shown,
during a long and painful illness, the resignation of a good
man and a Christian. He was called to the Presidency
at a time the most difficult, and, perhaps, the most
critical in which the Republic has existed since its
foundation, and it required all his persevering moderation
to have restored, in such a short period, tranquillity amidst the
incessant schemes and concealed plots of certain persons, who
dreamed only of revolutions, and of those disorders which follow in its
train. He died without ever having shed a drop of blood, or signed
one death.warrant." On the announcement of his death, the Council
of State assembled, and after mature deliberation, conformably to
Art. 10 of the Decree of Nov. 1844, proceeded to the vote for a
new President, when General Louis Pierrot was unanimously
elected, and invited to proceed to the capital forthwith, and take
the oath of fidelity to the nation. Decrees were immediately
issued announcing these facts and regulating the ceremonies to be
observed at the funeral of the late President.
The following is an extract of a letter from Port-au-Frince,
dated April 20, 1845 :—" I send you the local newspapers !hat
you may see the death of our President and the election of another.
Herard de Riviere has shown himself in the Colombian schooner
off several of the ports of the Republic, but has met no where
with encouragement ; and as he has thus far escaped the cruisers
sent by the present Government after him it is presumed he is
either gone on to the Spanish main or returned to Jamaica.
Whether he will venture on the latter course Is doubtful, as it is
understood he had previously pledged his word and honour as an
officer to the authorities in Jamaica that he had no intention what.
ever to visit or molest this Island."

..... _
We are all anxlous for the arrival here of General Pierrot, the
new President. He %;,as a Prince under King Christophe, being
the brother of her Majesty, and is a most strict disciplinarian. He
is clever and energetic, but ag,od, being as old as the late President,
about eighty years of age. He 57as in command of the northern
district of the Republic, and his heaul quarters, Cape Haytien.

THE LATE DUEL AT 3OSPORT.
[FROM A CORRESPONDENT.]
The cause of this lamentable affair, which has excited so much
sensation was, Mrs. Hockie's going to dance twice wit?.‘ Mr.
Seton, contrary to her husband's desires.
It is true that Mr. Hockie, and his second, Mr. Pym, prac-
tised at Sherwood's shooting gallery before they went out, but
they did so solely with a view of trying the pistols, and not, as has
been so industriously asserted, to improve their skill in the use
of the weapon. The report of the Times' Correspondent was full
of exaggerations, and evidently proceeded from a party hostile
to Mr. Hockie. By virtue of the recent regulation of duelling in the
army and navy, the commissions of Lieut. Hockie, Pym, and Bowles,
are all forfeited. It must be a subject of deep regret that Lieut Hockie
did not select a civilian as a second, instead of a young officer, as
he must have been aware that his accepting such an office would
have involved the loss of his commission. As the insult offered
to Mr. Seton by Mr. Hockie was so public, it seems surprising, and
reflects little credit on the proper authorities, that the parties were
not prevented meeting, especially as the duel did not take place
until five o'clo,:k the following afternoon.

DETENTION OF THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.—The
Erebus, Captain Sir John Franklin, and the Terror, Captain
Crozer, which left the river in the early part of the week, on an ex-
pedition to explore the Arctic regions, accompanied by the Monkey
and Rattler steam.ships, in order to tow them off the Orkney
Islands, have been obliged to bring up off Aldborough, owing to the
fearful north-easterly gales which have of late been
blowing, and, up to the last accounts were still lying
in the roadstead. The gale of Wednesday night was
very severe; a number of vessels parted from their
anchors. One vessel, named the Daniel, belonging to Mal_
don, was driven by the fury of the gale on to Pakefield Flat, near
Lowestoffe. The crew, finding that she had become a wreck, took
to the boat, when unfortunately, on nearing the beach, it cap-
sized ; three poor fellows clung to the bottom and were saved, but
the remainder, four in number, including the captain and mate,
perished. _ .

ti,ARE COPIES OF THE HOLY SCRIPTCRES.—In the
last day's sale of a portion of a nobleman's library, on Thursday, an
edition" of the Holy Scriptures, of exceeding rarity, was sold. It
was thus described in the catalogue :—" Holy Bible, in which is con.
tayned the Olde and Newe Testament, truly and purely translated
into English by Thomas Matthew, black letter, morocco extra, gilt
edges. by Clarke, 1537. The real name of the translator was
John Rogers, who was the first martyr in Queen Mary's reign.
The present copy is perfect, with the exception of the following
defects—a letter or two cut off at the bottom of the first title, the
title to the Prophets is repaired at the bottom, two leaves in the
table and the imprint are in fac.simile by Harris, the corner
of Goa 2 torn off, and a few leaves repaired." It was pur-
chased for 105 guineas
Prince _Napoleon Bonaparte, whose arrival in Paris
we have announced, appeared on Wednesday in one of the re-
served seats of the Chamber of Deputies. His features resemble
those of the late Emperor, and his appearance in the Chamber
excited much interest.
The Earl of Seafield has arrived at the Clarendon
Hotel.