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, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 26, 1842

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tended political influence. No nations in the world are
better fitted for becoming wealthy by means of com-
merce than Portugal and Spain. They have vast in-
ternal resources yet undeveloped; and under wise, pacific
Governments, nothing is wanted but to direct into
natural channels the industry of the people. Letters
and the arts ever follow in the wake of national wealth.

From Madrid the Journals are of the 17th inst. The
only political news they bring is the arrival in the capital
of the Infante Don FRANCISCO DE PAULO and his family.
The Prince was kindly received by the REGENT.

The Railway -question is now the all-engrossing topic
in the Paris Journals. The minority of the Committee
upon Railways despair of France being able to carry on
such works, contemporaneously with the walls of Paris,
without a new loan. This would impose fresh taxes, and
taxation is just now a sore subject in France. Twenty
millions of francs are also wanted to make a harbour
at Algiers, and the question suggests itself to the Fi-
nance Minister, " Where is the money to come from ?"
When the absurd scheme of burying the wealth
of France in the ditches of Paris was first
broached, we predicted that a period would
arrive when it would be found materially to
interfere with the construction of those mighty
works for the rapid diffusion of civilization throughout

the world. Have we been mistaken ? What but the
walls of Paris now hinder France from carrying out her
vast designs for the construction of railways? Her
grand schemes of human civilization and improvement
are entirely frustrated, in consequence of the immense
sums squandered by her in reviving one of the national
bugbears of the twelfth century—a stone fortified
capital:—

We take the following particulars relative to the late M.
Aguado from the Constatutionnel and the Memorial of
Bordeaux :—M. Aguado, on arriving at Oviedo, where he was
regarded by the inhabitants as their great benefactor, was ro-
ceived with illuminations and balls, and every possible
demonstration of the most grateful welcome. On thP
14th instant, he reached Gijon, where he was met
by a numerous cavalcade, which escorted him to his
hotel, and, after his alighting, he received deputations
from the principal corporations of the town, with con.
gratulatory addresses. In fact, M. Aguado had changed the
lace of the country. His mines and various manufactories had
introduced a prosperity which the people duly appreciated. He
had expended more than a million of francs in forming new
roads. After taking a walk on the Quays of Gijon, M. Aguado
returned to dinner, and it was at the moment of his sitting down
to table that he was struck with apoplexy. His physician
immediately bled him, and he revived for a minute, uttering a
few words, but then relapsed. Further bleedings were prac-
tised, but he expired in the curse of the night. M. Aguado
was in his 58th year. He was created by Ferdinand VII.
Marquis de los Marismas del Guadalquiver' Commander of the
Order of Charles 111., and Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella
the Catholic, with the honours of Intendant-General of the
Spanish Marine, in reward for his services as court banker. He
was also invested with the Order of the Saviour, in Greece, in
acknowledgment of his services in negotiating the loan to King
Otho, under the guarantee of the three Powers. He has left
a widow and three sons. The eldest of these children, aged 21+,
is married to a daughter of Mr. Macdonald, an English gentle-
man, who was a Consul-General, upon which he gave up his
commission in a cavalry regiment, and entered diplomacy ; be-
came attached to the Embassy at Vienna, and is at present, a
member of the Legation at Florence. The two younger sons
of the late Marquis, one seventeen and the other fourteen years
old, are pursuing their studies at the College Bourbon. M.
Aguado was a native of Spain, but became a naturalised
Frenchman and a Colonel in the army, in which capacity he
returned after the Spanish war in 1804. Madame Aguado is
a Spanish lady. A part of the Marquis's suite, with his equip-
ages, arrived at Bordeaux on Tuesday. The fortune left by
111. Aguado is estimated at various amounts ; some journals
state 40 millions, others 66.

The i%foniteur, of the 23d, has the following note:—
" The Marquis de Brignole Sole, Ambassador of the King
of Sardinia, had a private audience yesterday of his Majesty,
at which he delivered letters from his Sovereign, announcing
the marriage of the Duke de Savoy with the Archduchess
Mary Adelaide Francisca, daughter of the Archduke Regnier,
of Austria."

" It appears decided," says the Commerce' " that the Duke
de Nemours is not to make the campaign in Africa during the
present year. The accouchement of the Duchess is assigned
as the reason of this change of determination. The spring
will, it is said, be too far advanced at the probable period of
her convalescence to make it worth his while to set out. The
intended appearance of the Prince in Africa is connected with
the favourite plan of Viceroyalty, which would have given an
opportunity to return, by an indirect way, to the appanage.
'I hese matters may be kept in petto from the next Chamber,
but good care must be taken not to let anything on the sub-
ject come to the knowledge of the electors."—Commerce.
BOURSE--PARIS, SATURDAY, APRIL 23.

First Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Prick Prier.
french 5 per Cents lig 31) .., 119 GO ... 1 0 30 ... 119 60
444 per Cents lO7 80 ... I, 7 30 ... 107 80 ... 107 5J
4 per Cents. ......
3 per Cents Bl 35 .. 81 45 ... 81 25 ... SI 45
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5,0001. Shares 5050 ...5050 ...5050 _5050
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Belgian 5 per Cents.
5 per Cents., 1840 104% ... 104 ... 104% .. 104%
Spanish Active YS% ... 25,fL ... 25% ... 2514
Passive 4% ... 5 ... 436 ... 5
Portuguese 5 per Cents. Bl% ... 3I ... 31T. ... 31%
N eapul it ark
R rilan 105% ... 10',38 ... 105%. ...10574
RAILWAY 'SHARES.
St. Germain . ........ ............ 820 ... 820 ... 820 ... 830
Vetsatilcs. acts 340 ~.3410 ... 340 ...340

...
LB 212 50 .. 212 50 ... 211 25 ... 211 25
Rouen 545 ... 550 ... 543 75 ... 550
Wein&
Strasburg to Bale. 235 ... 535 ... 235 ... 235

C OURT-FASErromanLE.
The Duke and Duchess of Leinster, accompanied by the
Marquis of Kildare and Family, arrived at Carlton House-
terrace on Friday, from Ireland.
The Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh, accompanied by the
infant Marquis of Beaumont, arrived in town on Friday from
Fleurs Castle, near Kelso.

The Earl and Countess of Winchilsea have arrived at the
Clarendon Hotel.

The Marquis of Salisbury left town on Saturday for Hatfield
house, Herts.

The anniversary of the Duke of Northumberland's fifty-
seventh birth-day was celebrated at Alnwiek on Tuesday last.
Sir Robert and Lady Peel have issued cards for a grand
dinner on Saturday week.
The Marquis of Bute, it is said, is to be the new Lord High
Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of
Scotland, in the room of Lord Belhaven.
The visitors to Strawberry-hill, during the last three days
alone, have exceeded twenty thousand persons.
Lady Francis Egerton gave a concert on Friday evening,
which was attended by many of the nobility.

IVIISCELLANMOITS.
The house formerly inhabited by La Fontaine, the celebrated
French writer, at Chateau-Thierry, is advertised for sale.
The Earl of Shannon, who died on Friday la,t, is succeeded
in the family honours by his eldest son, Richard Viscount
Boyle, who has attained his thirty-third year. By the Earl's
death a pension of 3,1331. reverts to the Crown, who has en-
joyed it many years for the abolished office of Clerk of the Polls
in Ireland.
Very extensive improvements are now proceeding at Windsor
Castle, under the direction of Mr. Blore, the architect; 200
workmen, at least, are employee! at the present moment.
Yesterday was the festival of St. Mark. His parents were' of
the tribe of Levi : his original name was Mordecai, changed to
Marcus, or Mark. After finishing that portion of Scripture
known to us by his name, he travelled into Egypt, and while
preaching in a church there, was brought out by the Egyptians,
his feet tied together, and -then dragged through the streets
till dead.

Yesterday was the anniversary of the birthday of Oliver
Cromwell.

We learn from the Edinburgh papers that the Mar-
quis of Bute has been appointed Commissioner to the
General Assembly. He is said to support Sir Robert
Inglis in the scheme for Church extension, but is opposed
to the Non-Intrusion scheme. It matters little, however,
what are the politics or religious doctrines of the Lord
High Commissioner, for he has only to read a speech at
the opening of the Assembly made for him, and listen
with imperturbable patience to the long speeches made by
members of Assembly, and we believe the Noble Mar-
quis will display as mich serenity on those occasions as
any one of his predecessors
CURIOSITY.—Some English people were visiting an
elegant private garden at Palermo, in Sicily, and among the
little ornamental buildings, they came to one upon which was
written, "Non aperite," that is, " Don't open. This probi-
bition only served to excite their curiosity, and they very un-
civilly proceeded to disobey the hospitable owner's injunction.
On opening the door, a forcible jet of water was squirted full
in their faces—a very just,though not a very severe retribution.

tion as well as capital, and deserves more protection than capi- I CO URT CIRCU LA It.
tal. We mean the interest of the labourer—the interest which The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by the Viscountess
the poor man has in a fund of profitable employment. Now, Jocelyn, Lady in Waiting. ateived in town at four o'clock
there can be no question that a thousand acres devoted to the yesterday afternoon, in an open carriage Mid four, eseorted by
production of wheat gives employment to a great many more a party of Hussars, trom Claremont. A chariot and fout, toils
labourers than a thousand acres devoted to the production of taming the Equerries in Waiting, Major-General Wevmss,
beef or mutton. In short, the protecting duty on wheat is a
and Colonel Bouverie
protecting duty partly for the capital employed, but much more followed. Their Royal Highnesses
the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, and
for the labour employed, while the protecting duty on cattle is their attendants, occupied the next carriage, followed
partly for the labour employed, but much more for the capital. by an open carriage and four, containing Viscount Sydney,
If, then, the interest of the labourer be more worthy of legisla- Lord in Waiting, and the Hon. C. A. Murray,Murra Master of
tive protection than the interest of the owner of capital, it is the Household.
just that the protection on wheat should be greater than the Her Majesty and Prince Albert were received at Buckingham
protection on cattle. But it is the misfortune of Whig politi- Palace by the Lord Chamberlain, the Lord Steward, the
eians
the onthat, when the questhink oion of protection is mooted, capital is Vice-Chamberlain, and Lord Colville, Lord in Waiting on
ly thin they can tf." Prince Albert.
The Times says :—" Mr. Wakley, though he would prefer, Lord Hill had an audience of her Majeety.
like ourselves, a graduated Income-tax, and would decidedly Her Maj
like best of all a property-tax, is persuaded, that as people be- The esty had an evening partyeat Buckingham Palace.
company began to arrive soon after nine o'clock, and were
come ' more used' to the present impost, ' the table of the conducted to the Yellow Drawing Room.
House will be loaded with petitions praying for its continuanee Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester arrived
and its increase.' We confess we cannot quite rise so high in shortly before ten o'clock. Their Royal Highnesses the
our expectation as Mr. Wakley. Conservative as we profess Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George, and the Princess
ourselves, and disposed as we are to aeree with him that the Augusta of Cambridge, were attended by Lady Augusta
principal inconsistency in the tax is the smallness of the sum Somerset.
raised—the insignificance of its amount, and the shortness of
its duration—we still are not so sanguine as to suppose that an Their Royal Highnesses were received by the Hon. Miss
Alurray, and Hon. Miss Lister, Maids of Honour in Waiting.
experience which had only produced a bitter and ever-inereas • Hon. Captain Hood, Groom in Waiting, Major-General
ing hatred up to 1815, will be found to have a composing effect Wemyss, Equerry in Waiting, and Colonel Bouverie, Equerry
,in 1842. It certainly did not improve upon acquaintance in Waiting on Prince Albert.
I then, and we know no reason why it should now, however the Among the earlier arrivals were, the French Ambassador,
enthusiasm of the moment may have hurried Mr. Wakley into and the Countess de St. Aulaire, the Marquis of Hertford,
such a sentiment. With regard to the merits of direct taxa- Lord Monteagle, Lord Wharncliffe, Duke and Duchess of
tion generally, there can be little doubt that, if fairly levied and Beaufort, the Lord Chancellor and Lady Lyndhurst, the Earl
properly modified, it must be by far the most honest and equi- and Countess of Haddington, the Duchess of Bedford,
table mode of raising money. The first requisite of a tax is, Earl Fortescue, the Earl of Harrowby, the Duke
that it should fall uponpeople according to their means." of Wellington, Marquis and Marchioness of Clanriearde, Earl
We take the following from the Herald:—" Admitting, of Winchilsea, Marquis of Normanby, Marquis of Salisbury,
for the sake of argument, that it was necessary to remodel the Marquis ofHuntly, Duke and Duchess of Somerset, Viscount
Melbourne, the Duke of Buccleuch, Duke of Cleveland, Lord
representation in 1830, the grand error of the Reform Ministry
consisted in their selecting an arbitrary amount of population Cottenham, Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, Duke and
as the test for exempting boroughs from disfranchisement. Duchess of Sutherland, Marquis of Anglesey, Marquis and
Y Marchioness of Lansdowne, Lord and Lady John Russell,
Some boroughs, which need not be specified, are so peculiar]
situated that it would be impossible to guard them from cor- Lord Glenelg, and Viscount Duncannon.
ruption ; and yet the only question asked, in regard to their Her Majesty and Prince Albert entered the State Rooms,
fitness for the trust of returning Members to Parliament, was accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent,
what figure they made in the census of the population. Had the Duchess of Gloucester, the Duchess of Cambridge, ,and
the figure required been so high that the constituency would Prince George and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, and
have been too numerous for a candidate to purchase, there attended by the Lord Chamberlain and the Lord Steward.
would have been some check against bribery; or had the boon- Her Majesty's private band was in attendance in the Throne
daries of boroughs been more widely extended, the same Room during the evening.
desideratum would have been achieved. But, unfortunately, Supper was served in the Ball-Room.
she desire of saving two or three pet Whig boroughs from the The following had the honour of receiving invitations :
disfranchising schedules prevented this ; and so, to preserve a Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, the French Ambassador,
a few Whig nomination boroughs. the representation is still Countess de St. Aulaire, and the Gentleman Attaches to the
disgraced with a number of boroughs which are always at the Embassy; the Austrian Minister, and Gentleman Attaches to l
service of the highest bidder." the Legation ; the Belgian Ministei, and Madame Van de
The following appears in the Chronicle :—" There are Weyer; the Hanoverian
Minister; the Portuguese Minister; the
strong rumours that something is going on among the country Prussian Minister, Madame de Bunsen, and Gentleman At-
gentlemen with respect to the tariff. The icy Mr. Pusey, taches; the Russian Minister, Baroness Brunow, and Gentlemen
who does not seem to act on his reverend brother's doctrine of Attaches; the Saxon Minieter,the Spanish Minister,the Wurtem-
reserve in communicating knowledge, let ont the other daY berg Minister, Baron Griessheim, Baron de Langein, the Lord
that Sir Robert Peel was not to be allowed to inundate this Chancellor, the Speaker of the House of t ommons, the Lord in
country with strange horned cattle and pigs, without a fight. Waiting, the Lady in Waiting, the Lady in Waiting on the
P Duchess of Kent ; the Lady in Waiting on the Duchess of
Miles had taken the matter up ! Miles had determined to sto
the Premier ! Miles was going to make a motion ! and the Cambridge ; the Lady in Waning on the Duchess of Glouces-
country gentlemen were going to vote with Miles ! Ever since ter ; the Lady in Waiting on the Princess Sophia Matilda ; the
Mr. Pusey said this, Miles is the only topic at Boodle's. When Gentleman in Waiting on the Duke of Cambridge ; the Gen-
one squire meets another, they say, " What is Miles going to tleman in Waiting on the Duke of Sussex ; the Groom in
do ? ' "Is Miles determined to go on ?" "Will the forms of Waiting.
the House admit.of Miles making his motion e" .. Flew many Duxes—Richmond, Dorset, Sutherland, Northumberland,
Newcastle, Wellington, Marlborough, Buccleuch,
will vote with Miles?" "Is there any chance of Miles being Somerset,
able to carry his motion ?" " What will happen if Miles should Beaufort, Cleveland, Rutland, Leeds, Hamilton, Bedford.
carry his motion ?" " Will Peel resign, and the Queen send for DUCHESSES —lnverness, Leeds. Northumberland, Somerset,
Miles ? " "Will there be a Miles Ministry ?" And thus Sutherland, Bedford, Cleveland, Richmond, Beaufort,' Marl,
Miles, like Hampden of old, is in all men's—that is, in all borough, Hamilton, Buccleuch.
country gentlemen's mouths ; those even who never saw or Ala aceuises—Wellesley, Breadalbane, Douro, Clanricarde,
heard Miles, accustom themselves to speak of him as a god Normaeby, Waterford, Cholmondeley, Anglesea, Ely, Lon-
who is to descend and save the sinking 'squires. Be of good donderry, Huntly, Exeter, Ailesbury, Granby, Abercorn,
heart, 0, Miles ! and do thy best against free trade. Thou, Hertford, Lansdowne, Salisbury, Ormonde, Worcester, West-
and thy shepherds, and slow herdsmen will do little against minster.
Peel, supported for the nonce by Russell, and even Cobden. MARCHIONESSES -- Lansdowne, Ailesbury, Breadalbane,
The shepherd Aristreus was, as V irgil tell us, able to bind the Douro, Clanricarde, Cornwallis, Abercorn, Cholmondeley,
changing Pi oteus •; but thou hest to deal with one far more Normanby, Exeter, Ely, Londonderry, Wellesley,Westminster.
slippery and multiform than Preteus."
EA a es—Westmoreland, Liverpool, Camperdown, W inch il-
The Leeds Times speaks in a congratulating manner on the sea, Gosford, Beauchamp, Shelburne, Verularn, De Grey,
return of Mr. Joseph Hume :—" Leeds was greatly shorn of its Alsrch, Dartford, Devon, Beverley, Stanhope, Cardigan, Car-
lustre when it threw out this indefatigable champion of the narvon, Fortescue, Fitzwilliam, Charlemont, Bradford, Had-
people's rights ; and the Montrose burghs have done themselves dington, Grey, Dunmore, Cork, Albemarle, Sandwich,
no small honour by returning their old and tried represents- Cowper, Zetland, Scarborough, Malmesbury, Cawdor, Aber-
tive at the present juncture. There is no man alive who is deen, Talbot, Bandon, Howe, ilchester, Jermyn, Hillsborough,
better acquainted with questions of finance, currency, trade, Harrowby, Jersey.
and commerce, than Joseph Hume; and there is none who will COUNTESSES—VeruIam, Dartmouth, D,e Grey, De La Warr,
be found more consistent in his support of the great principles St. Germains, Sandwich, Stanhope, Camperdown, Bandon,
of Democratic liberty. We trust that Leeds will yet have the Carnarvon, Wstmoreland, Bradford, Winchelsea, Charlemont,
honour of being represented by such a man." Albemarle, Malmesbury, Cawdor, Dowager Morley, Fortescue,
The present agricultural excitement is thus commented on Dowager Essex, Beverley, Beauchamp, Hillsborough, Zetland,
by the Dublin Evening Post :—" The English farmers— Cork, Grey, Haddington, Cowper, Jersey, Dowager Ilchester,
sweet fellows—who afflicted us and themselves with a Tory ma- Dunmore.
jority, are now beginning to find out that they have been done ViseouNTS—Palmerston, Cantilupe, Hinton, Grimston,
—that they have been choused, cheated, and betrayed—and Sydney, Galway, Lowther, Mahon, Jocelyn, Emlyn, Melbuurne,
Bernard, Norreys, Beresford.
now that the steed is stolen, they arc in a great fuss shutting Het
the stable door. Served them right. As they brewed, so VICOUNTESSES—GaIWay, Mahon, Sydney, Norreys, Pal,
must they bake. Peel will not lose a man of his majority, or merston, Beresford, Selina Milton, Bernard, Jocelyn.
only a man."
LORDS—Camoys, Northland, Campbell, Alfred Paget, Dun-
Opposition to the Income-tax by the anti-monopolists is thus cannon, Henry Cholmondeley, Churchill, John Scott, Ashley,
advocated by the Bolton Free Press .—" If, for no other eras Templemore, Stavordale, John Manners, George Lennox, Dal-
sons than that the tendency of the Income-tax will be to meney, Fitzgerald and Vesci, Francis Egerton, Delamere,
rivet upon the people the fetters of the great monopolists, Byron, Prudhoe, Augustus Loftus, Cottenham, Curzon, Sea-
Corn-law repealers ought, at the present, to offer it their most ham, Radstock, Glenelg, Wharncliffe, Ravensworth, Temple-
strenuous opposition; and when it has become law, they ought town, Dinorben, Wm. Thynne, Belhaven, Sondes, Colville,
to spare no exertions to dispel the mists which at present en- Ernest Bruce, Montagu, John Russell, Monteagle, Carew,
velepe the minds of the middle and working classes as to its Manners, Colborne, Hill, Stanley, Lovat.
origin, tendency, and results."
LADlES—Dowager Lyttelton, Gardiner, Isabella Wemyss,
Toleration of the Income-tax is regarded by the Devonport M. Cecil, Elliot, Catherine Cavendish, Delamere, Louisa
Independent in the following light :—" The new Corn-law and Churchill, Albinia Foster, Campbell and Stratheden, A. M.
the Income-tax may be both regarded as virtually carried ; but Dawson, Cockburn, J. Scott, Wilhelmina Stanhope, Cust,
how they will be endured is a question. Not long we venture Ouseley, Elizabeth West, Mary West, C. Strangways, Lynd-
to assert. The union which has been commenced among real burst, G. Lennox, H. Cholmondeley, Elizabeth Duncan, Agnes
Reformers on the great question of the extension of the Sea- Byng, Monteagle, Augusta Faulett, Cottenham, (2) Pelham
frage, gives certainty to the expectation that better times are Clinton, Elizabeth Bulteel, Montague, Charlotte Egerton,
coming, and makes sure the conviction that the days of class- Cremorne, C. Gordon Lennox, Dinorben, John Russell, H.
legislation are numbered."
Bernard, Caroline Barrington, Levet, Stuart de Rothsay, C.
MONEY—TRADE—COMMERCE. and D. Fitzwilliam, Jane Grimston, E. L. Gower, Sondes, L.
Various estimates are made of what the whole heap of good, Fitzmaurice, Emily Hardinge, Wharncliffe, Wheatley, Eliza-
bad, and indifferent things will produce at the sale of Straw- beth Campbell, Colville, Louisa Percy, Colborne, (2) Corn-
berry-hill. Those who are sanguine say 50,000/., others wallis, Adelaide Paget, Adeliza Manners, H. Jermyn,
25,000/., the more correct 20,0001. Belhaven, Cooper, Augusta Somerset, Ernest Bruce, Byron,
Appointments under the Income tax have already been begun Sophia Rendlesham, in and A. Vane, Georgina Grey, Dow-
to be made by the Tories, and several notices of such have ap- ager King, Radstock, Rushout Cockerel], F. Hotham, Ca-
peered in the Provincial Papers within these few days. moys. Bowater, Manners, Augusta Somerset. Ravensworth,
At Rochdale and Bradford during the past week trade has A. M. Loftus, Follett, Peel, C. Villiers, Stanley, Francis
been limited ; at Barton very depressed, and at Leeds the Egerton, Graham, Ashley.
worst spring-trade remembered. At Manchester things are Riene HON,`URABLES—G. S. Byng, Sturges Bourne,
firmer ;at Middletcn more animated • Leicester has been with- Sir R. Peel.
out improvement, and at Huddersfield the market bad. Ho No unaesees—Al iss Cholmondeley, Miss Ponsonby, Misses
The Marine Society held their anniversary dinner on Satur- Lyttleton, Miss Copley, Georgina Liddell, C. A. Murray,
day, at the London Tavern, Sir G. Cockburn in the chair ; Miss R. Colborne, Misses Thellusson, Mrs. G. Campbell,
among the subscriptions, her Majesty, the East India Corn. Misses Pepys, Miss Devereux, H. Cholmondeley, 51. West,
pany, and the Trinity House Corporation were separately down C. West, Miss Byron, Mrs. Anson Mrs. Ponsonby, Craven
for 105/. each. Berkeley, Miss ialontagu, Miss Liddell, Miss Stuart, Mr.
The Highland Schools held their anniversary festival on Lawley, Lady Middleton, Robert Curzon, Mr. Charterie,
Saturday; the subscriptions this year are larger than at any Captain G. Campbell, Col and Mrs. Dawson Darner, Gen.
period during the preceding 69 years. Upton, Sir E. Butler, ALss Stoner, Miss Campbell.
Ex.ECTIONEERING. BARONESSES—Keith, De la Zouche.
The West Middlesex Reform Association, at their late meet- SlRS—Henry Wheatley, Edward Cuss, Gore Ouseley, Wm.
ing at Brentford, voted unapimous thanks to the electors of Follett, W. Freemantle, Robert Gardiner, Robert Chester,
Montrose for returning Mr. Hume. George Anson, Augustus Foster, Thomas Gage, Henry Her-
NAVAL AND MILITARY. dings, Geo. Cockburn, J. Rushout Cockerel', John Beresford,
George Cooper, Robert Dundas, E. Bowater, Charles Dalbiac,
The whole of the Bth Regiment of Foot were yesterday on
R. Adair W. Middleton. J. Graham.
their route to Chatham, from whence they embark for India : es '
.aIESSIELTRS—Irby, George Bankes, Luttrell, Willliam Ca-
they comprise 1,200 fine men.
vendish, George E. Anson, Mr. Villiers Stuart, Hastings
LAW AND POLICE, Russell, C. Cavendish, Bulteel, Egerton,Alolyneux, Monte
Thomas Maslin, who has been in custody at Southampton gomerie.
since Wednesday, on a charge of having made a desperate ate MISTRESSES—Shaw Lefevre, Weymouth, Marley, G.
tempt to cut the t hroat of Frederick King, a youth of fourteen Bankes, Stanley, Blomfield, Howley, 1 illiers Stuart, Sturges
Bourne, Bouverie.
years of age, and then endeavouring to stab himself, was finally
examined before the Mayor on Saturday, when he was corn-
milted for trial at the Winchester assizes. Mvn issES—Madeoiselle de Flahaut, Bourne, Wheatley (2),
Beresford (2 ), Cockburn, Stanley, Ponsonby (2), Ward,
Robert Humbling, a City policeman, was committed at Ousele
Guildhall on Saturday, for stealing a gold pencil-case. The Bank ey, G. Vernon Harcourt, Cavendish, Percy (2), Gurney,
Banker.
examination led to some strange disclosures.
Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce recommended a compromise GENERAL--Wemyss.
eeHood, Bouverie, Rawdon.
to be made in the case of Mr. Levey, who claimed 6801. for Ma J 01L—Waymouth.
literary services rendered to the late Sir J ohn Soane, which is CAPTAINS —Codrington, Francis Seymour (Scots Fusilier
objected to by the executors as having been performed by him Guards), Clifford.
gratuitously under the expectation of a legacy.
Yesterday was the Birthday of her Royal Highness the
PINE ARTS. Duchess of Gloucester. Her Royal Highness received visits
The last of the scholars of the elder Bacon, Mr. Joseph of congratulation in the morning from their Royal Highnesses
Theakston, the sculptor, died at the age of 69, on the 14th inst. the Duchess of Kent, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge,
He was born in the city of York, studied in his early years the Princesses Augusta and Mary of Cambridge. and Prince
under Flaxman and Bailey, and for the last twenty years was George of Cambridge, and his Serene Highness Prince Edward
employed by Sir Francis Chantrey. lie was burieu at Kensal of Saxe-Weimar.
Green on Thursday last.
In the afternoon her Majesty the
ZIT Queen Dowager arrived
AND SCIENTIFIC. from Marlborough House, to pay a congratulatory visit to her
At a lecture delivered on Friday last at the London Mecha- Royal Highness.
nics' Institution on the Esquimaux race, by Mr. Richard King, Several of the Foreign Ministers and many of the Nobility
the naturalist of Sir John Ross's expedition, he stated that called during the day, and left their names for the Royal
ventriloquism, se rare in civilized Europe, is practised quite Duchess at Gloucester House.
commonly there ; even children can imitate the sounds of the Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Ktnt visited her Majesty
various animals they are acquainted with. the Queen Dowager at Marlborough House, on Sunday
SPORTING. evening.
The chief of the Newmarket meetings took place yesterday. Sir Edward Filmer, Bart., M.P., Mr. Plumptre, M.P., and
The great " Ladies' race," the 1,000 sovereigns stakes, was the a Deputation, had an interview with the Chancellor of the
event of most consequence. There were one-and- twenty sub- Exchequer, yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-
scribers to it in bOl. shares. street.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, MONDAY EVITNING.
The firmness with which the market for the funds
closed on Saturday has been maintained to-day, and prices
of Consols are again a quarter per cent. higher, being 92 92a
for money, and 94 92i for the account. Bank Stock 166 167 ;
lddia Stock 245 246 ; Exchequer Bills 38 40 prem.
The effect of the late numerous and extensive purchases for
investment is being shown in the scarcity at present existing
for all kinds of stock, which is really difficult to be obtained;
and the strange contradiction appears of the almost utter im-
possibility of exchanging the present superabundance of money
for funded security. However this may tend to prove the
deplorable stagnant state to which trade generally is reduced,
it is satisfactory to perceive, that it is our own stocks, and Rail-
ways which have absorbed this superfluity of capital, to the
exclusion of Foreign Loans or speculations in Foreign Bonds.
Monetary men aro looking with some anxiety for the measures
which will be adopted by Congress to relieve the Treasury of
the United States from its financial embarrassments, and great
feat s are entertained lest any portion of the loan should be con-
tracted for here, or that experience should not prove sufficiently
strong to deter our capitalists from advancing the money for it.
It will, doubtless, be put forth under the strongest feelings and
intentions of keeping faith with the lenders, but America, as at
present constituted, can offer no security which the next gene-
ration, or the next Congress may not, if it think proper, abro-
gate. Under such a state of affairs too much caution cannot be
exercised, previously to advancing money to the States,
either collectively or individually. Indiana, Illinois, and
Mississippi are illustrations of this position ; the respectable
part of the community being anxious to redeem the State
credit, while a small majority carry on the repudiating system.
With the exception of Dutch, which are better, the foreign
securities remain as on Saturday, and the prices were, Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 5'44 53; the Five per Cents.,
1001 101 ; Belgian, 1031 l 041; Danish, 801 811 A, ; and
Brazilian, 67 68.

The quotations of Mexican have been in the course of the
day 351/2 36, 3-11 35 , all for time bargains.
Railway Shares were a trifle lower. London and Birmingham,
179 181 ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 55 57; Great Western,
93/ 94/ ; the Half Shares, 644 65i ; South Western, 61 62;
Gosport, 61 62; North Midland, 69 70; tie New Shares,
33 34 ; South Eastern and liover. 30 30k; Brighton, 36g 36g.
In the bonds of the insolvent States Portuguese Five per
Cents. were quoted, 37i 38 ; the Three per Cents.. 221 224 ;
Columbian, 264 27 ; Spanish Five per Cents., 24/ 24g; the
Three per Cents., 24g- 24g.
(Front The Sun of Last Night.)
It is satisfactory to find by the letters from the manufactur-
ing districts, received this morning, t hat the abundance of un-
emploNed capital, has to a smal degree, benefited this descrip-
tion of property. In the cotton trade, both the demand and
prices have improved, but still scarcely sufficient to cause any
very great difference generally. The extremely stag-
nant state in which this branch of industry has
been sfor a long time, forbids the hope of any mate-
rial change for the present. The speculation which
has been going on in cotton will, it is to be feared, militate
against any immediate change for the better; and it must be
added that the intelligence from America and India appear
to lead to the conclusion that this speculation has not been
founded on a sure basis. The funds are again higher, Consols
94 for Money, and 92 for the Account; Three-and-cpailf