The New York Herald Newspaper, May 6, 1849, Page 1

SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 6, 1849. IE EUROPEAN NEWS. ARRIVAL or THE EAMSHIP AMERICA AT THIS PORT. errr Details of the Intelligence, de. ee. See The steamship America, Capt. Harrison, arrived her wharf, at Jersey City, at half-past 8 o’clock, evening. She sailed from Liverpool, on Sa- day, the 21st ult. he news, in brief, we received by express and graph, on Friday morning, and published it in Extra Herald. We now proceed to give the tails. Annexed is a full list of her passengers :— or Passencers ren Roya Mait Sreamen America, arTAIn Harnison, From Liverroot ro Hatirax AND ew Yorx, 2lst Aprit, 1849, OR pax. r Satlan, YOR HALIFAX ir. Jardine, Master Dryfus. NEW YORK. 70 fr. Levey, lady and maid, Mr. Richards, Mr. Mi % J. Ryan, Mr. King Ir, Bates, Indy, and two male Mr. Parkes, servants, Mr. Lewis, Erriekson and maid Mr. Mackay, Holthausen, 2 children Charles J. Sudkins, Mr, Colburn, Ed. Mr. Holland, William Greenshields, Mr. Torry, Mr. Cuvillier, Julius Hess, Mr. Bruyen J. Strickland, Stephe A da Dir: Cragg and lady. fr, Paterson and child. ir. Mild Mr. Cunningham, fH. Strickland, Mr. Connolly, Mr. Arthur, ‘m. Li J. Draper. ' J. Benson, Mr. W: ig! . Pleasants, Geo. Pemberton, . Hockanith, Mr. Holthausen, . Parkin, . Tinckets Mr. Johnston, my ith, e . C. Kerr, ey Blain, hittlesey, Tr, Legh, Mr. Chisholin. FROM HALIFAX TO NEW YORK. . Raward Master Ward, Mr: Gammell, Miss Mary Lawson. On the 2ist, her day of sailing, she passed the hip Ashland ; on the 23d, in lat. 50 25, lon. 14, ex- hanged signals with British bark Hythe, and on he 24th, at 7} A. M., in lat. 49 29, lon. 18 37, ex- hanged signals with the American steamship ‘ashington, Captain Floyd, from Southampton, ngland, for New York. The America brings £185,328 in specie. Interventiou of France in the Affairs of Rome. In the British House of Lords, on the 19th ult :— Lord Bravmoxt said he wished to put a question to he noble marquis, relative to the nature of the French xpedition to Central Italy. It was not his intention o say one word now as to the policy of such a measure; ut he must say, if the expedition were for the purpose utting down a republic in Rome, it was certainly her a strange thing that one of the firet steps taken the democratic republic in France should be to put down foreign republic, which was only imitating its xample, and to restore a monarchy, perhaps the most bsolute in the world. (Hear, hear). It would be trange thing ifthe head of the Roman Catholic Church hould owe his restoration to temporal power to the hands of the French republic. After what had fallen from the noble marquis respecting Sicily, he was only lanxious to ask whether the government of this coun- try had taken any part, either in the way of instiga- ting, or in the way of concurring with the French go- wnment in the step which tho latter had taken.— After we had ceased to interfere in Sicily, where ‘acenes of butchery unheard of in civilised warfare had taken place, and ‘after we had absndoned that island fo the arbitrary control of « most unehristian monarch, would nge indeed if we should concur with France in this interference for the restoration of the Po The Marquis of Lanspowxe—I have no hesitation in telling my noble friend that the oecurrence to which he has referred, the intended expedition by the French to Italy, is perfecly correct. But I may say that expedi- tion bas not been instigated nor 81 ed. i Goa &; vernment of this omer and aoeee _ Vssepe e subject of any agreement or neg: lon. e same ey I must pA that intimation of that intention has been received, but I am not prepared to say that the objects of the expedition, as far as | am acquainted with them, are of a nature that this country would dis- approve of, At the same time! think it right, after wat has fallen from the noble lord on another subject, to express @ hope that the noble lord will not consider me as in any degree acquiescing in his statement, that with peters f to another country in Italy unfortunately engaged in war, under circumstances between whic! snd those which distinguished the French expedition there is not the slightert analogy, we have receded from the policy we have heretofore adopted, or in any sense abandoned any assurance we have given. The Manifeato of M, Guizot, The following address from M. Guizot to the electors of Calvados, is published in the Paris papers of to-day, ander the title of M. GUIZOT TO HIS FRIENDS. Bnomrron, April 6, 1849. frionds express to me their intention of bringing me forward as a candidate at the next election, and ask my own opinion on the subject. I consider it an honor to have such a question addressed to me. I have only one way of replying thereto:—I will say, without re- serve, what, in my opinion, ought to be done now by sensidleand honest men, and what are my personal sen- timents. When well instructed as to what [ think, my friends will do what may seem to them good for our country. ‘Only one thing is now important to France—that the rty of order shall be organized. Organized, it will Rave an immense deal to do; no one can say all that it may have to do; but what it has to do now ia to organ- ize itself Everybody says that, but I fear that many , Bookie ‘among those who say it are far from seeing what the words mean and command. Order is much more se- riously attacked than is thought, and much less de- fended than it ought to be; attacked to its foundations, incessantly, everywhere, in the government, in society, at the family hearth, in the secret of the heart of man, by revolutionists passionate, unbridled, indefatigable, insatiable; defended only on the surface at the last mo- Ment, on the point on which the evil breaks out, by honest men full of doubt, who know how to die that so- ciety itself may not die, but who close the eyes and go to sleep the moment it becomes not absolutely impossi- ble to Believe that society may live. That is a great deal too little; against such perils order should have other than such victories, ‘The public, the true public, the whole people, with their great instinct, know this, and act accordingly. ‘Why did they not elect General Cavaignac President? General Cavaignac had gained the most decisive bat- tle for the advantage of order; General Cavaignac is an honorable man; he was the representative and chief of force—of force’ legitimately victorious. But by the acts, cither of his friends or of himself, General Ca- vaignac was not, in the eyes of the people, the repre- sentative of order, the chief of the party of order. Not ungrateful, but clear seeing, the people turned away from him, and ranged themselves en masse around a name which had remained in their memory as the sym- bol of order and a strong government after revolutions, May the same instinct that guided the people in the election of the President, animate and guide them in the election of the Assembly. They have raised the flag of order; let them send around it an army, that is to say, @ great political party, capable of obtaining a definitive victory. The work is, 1 know, infinitely more difficult, but it must be accomplished, for the salvation of society is at that price. I should offend Providence if! thought that socivty be destined to perish. The elements of the party of order exist in France. ‘Three serious governments which lasted—the Consu- late, which soon became the Empire; the Restoration, and the Monarchy of 1880—left them to the country. Either from the want of pradence, or force, or duration, the republic thus far, does not count among the serious overnments of France of the last sixty years, France Eas been convuleed or oppressed, never reguiarly aud efficaciously governed by the republic, It is a form of ernment, which, put to the proof, has not yet shown its excellodce (fait ses preures) among us. Under very different conditions, the consulate and the empire, the restoration and the monarchy of 1830, were governments essentially devoted to order, bound to re-establich it or defend it against ardent enemies By the t Jes they profess, by the habits they have contracted. by the struggles they have supported, the partirans of those governments, the men formed in their cause and under their intluence, are naturally men of order, engaged in the service of ‘the great social interests which order protects, and which in their tura protect it. When order ix in peril, the alliance of these men is natural. At pre is necesvary, abso- lutely necessary, Divided and reduced each to its own vither of the different parties which are of the ments of the party of order is able to con- quer alone the enemies of order, and to found its go- vernment, Put to the trial, they bave ail successively Gailed, Of the great lessons which experience has given ue during the the greatest and th one, and parties have g one has hoped fer his last sixty years. that is, perhaps ¢ lesson is a bitter git, When the hon Js country from peril, and of founding tts go Sones &# profound mortification not to suffice for the fark,” ‘The noble and selfigh desires of the bawan hoart #uffer equally from the disappointment, But what do the revolts of wounded pride derve, exeept to dig " -e the abyss in which it falls? fag inuivi- eo what exiet measure wat ean @one, Prolonged iuaons e atthe sae thor the evil, and the want ob power to rem It must be continually reported tha deal, of the party of order, Bonapartists, Legitimists, Or- leanists, conservatives of all dates and all shades—all have need, absolute need of each other, United. they will have a good deal to do to conquer : disunited, they will inevitably be conquered, And it is not appear- ances,words of union which can suffice, It is not sufficient to give to the necessity of the concert between all the men of order a certain exterior satisfaction, and then to continue, under cover of this great peace. all dissen- sions and all wars, great or little. That the union of parties and of the men of order may bear its fruits, it must be complete. Restricted or mutilated, it would be stricken with weakness or disrepute. But is this union, which is {so necessary, and which can only be efficacious if it be serious and sincere, pos- sible? "Yes, certainly, provided that it only be required todoat present what’ the present requires. No false appearance; no deceitful reticence. There is no sadder spectacle, no worse policy, than partios embarrassed by themselves, and accepting, or seeming to accept. names which are not their names, and a flag which is not their flag. Little matters it that no one is deceived, and that falsehood is soy a conventional veil, which covers the truth without hiding it. The great public is there, which does not enter into such conventions, and which despises the falsehood the more the falsehood 18 vain. Whether they come from the empire, or the restora- tion, or the monarchy of 1830, let t! men of order, in drawing together, not impose on each other such a falsity; let them mutually give and take themselves for what they really owe. Their union will be so much the more sure, the more it is evidently the result of their decided determination, without weakness or dissimulation, And let not the different elements of the party of order attempt to tie each other down in advance and from the present, on the great questions of the future. It is an immense fault, and always pro- ductive of fatal consequences, to take up such que: tions too soon, and to attempt to resolve them by previous understanding, when their solution is not an sity. Necessity, even when present and does not always suffice to make parties pru- dent; but it alone has a chance of succeeding in so doing. And the more the questions are difficult, the more important is it only to take them up at that su- preme hour in which events speak high and command prudence, under the penalty of causing folly to be very deurly paid. And let there be no retrospective policy, for it would have the effect of renewing old struggles among the men of order, No anticipated policy—it would cause struggles to arise which nothing now ren- ders inevitable, and would render impossible reeoncilia tions which are now necessary, Good sense is the same in the highest and most modest affairs of life. To ever day its work. The defence of society, attacked in ail parts, is the task of to-da ‘When the men of order shall’ have acted together to accomplish it, they will assuredly be better prepared, and more inclined to accomplish together the re-construction of the govern- ment of the country, when the day for that undertaking shall come. Truth for the present—liberty for the future; on those two conditions the serious union of all the ele- ments of the party of order is possible. Let that union be established; by it the present will be saved, and we shall do what the future will do—that part, at least, which God leaves to men in the future. To say what dominant and constant idea should, in my opinion, preside over tho conduct of all the men of order in the elections for the next Assembly, is to say how I should act myself, if | were called on to sit there. My past, besides, imposes on me peculiar du- ties, which I am desirous to allude to. I labored long to found the constitutional monarchy. I long upheld and practised a policy which was strongl; epposed. I do not now regret having been of opi- nion, from 1814, to 1848, that the constitutional mo- narchy was the government best adapted to France. Andas to the policy which I followed, I certainly have not the pretension not to have committed faults in carrying it out—to have never done but what it was right to do, and to have constantly done all that was requisite; but I am perfectly convinced that the policy in question was an essentially sound one—advantage- ous alike for liberty as for erder; for pregress as for se- curity; for the greatness of my country abroad as for its prosperity athome. My conviction and my honor alike command me to remain faithful to it, whether it be victorious or vanquished. I do not overlook, and | desire that my friends should not overlook, the difficul- ties which may result from this situation. Recent facts, of great importance, and evident to all, invite at the same time their attention. The events which succeed each other in so rapid and striking a manner in France, and throughout Europe, y day that there is but one prudent, honor: id practicable policy. Without payiny attention to proper names and dates, they every day show that the defenders of that policy were right, and they put down those who oppose it, Beyond any doubt it may hold its head high in the midst of events now accomg plishin . Fora period of four-and-thirty years, thro he trials of a continual struggle, and amidst the cries of a revolution, France enjoyed all the blessings of = free and well-regulated society. Her activity and her ity were ves widely every direction by vi a rapid and steady progrosi Security reigned alike in town and country. Civ. ilization covered the soil with its works, and filled men’s minds with the hopes which it ge crated. Without noise, without display, with peace maintained and right respected, French society Deheld its consideration and its’ influence every- where extended in the society of Europe. All these Diessings appeared full of promise for the future; whnn, all at once—in # day, in single hour—they disap- peared, as the most blooming harvests vanish under fire or tempest. France did not abandon herself in this disaster—she struggled, and struggles still to escape from it. She cannot, certainly, be accused of manifesting in her efforts too much ambition or exi- gence, since she accepts things which are infinitely dis- Pleasing to her, reducing to the strictest necessaries er pretensions and her hopes of the experiments which are being effected before us. On the other side, the men engaged at present in public affairs do not turn a deaf ear to this great voice of events. However dif- ferent may be their dispositions, the same light strikes their eyes—however distant may be their starting- points, they are all drawn to the same ground. The only policy that is practicable at present is also be- coming the only one practised. Thanks to that superior and irresistible pressure, under that hand of God which commands all events, to proclaim the same truth, and all men to comprehend [ithe barriers fall without a finger belng laid upon them, and approximations are being operated, whether they be sought for or neglected, whether men speak or are tilent. Shame on those who would now re- main obstinately plunged in the slough of old differ- ences or resentments! At the present time it is an imperative duty for every man of worth and sense to trample under foot every petty feeling of selt-love, or of self-satisfaction, or of annoyance—to fling aside every recrimination. whether proceeding from pride or ran- cour—and tofthink only of his country, and of the peril in which it is placed. Which of us can ponder on the position of his coun- try? Not now is it for the determined advancement of her liberties, or for the accomplishment of her de- signs in the world, or for her grandeur, or her glory, or for her future position, that France watches and com- bats #0 strenuously ; but for the most elementary in- terests of society—for property, for family-ties, for quiet, for daily existence. And that even that end, modest as it is, France docs not attain in a certain and complete manner—she succeeds in preventing herself from being precipitated into the abyss, but she does not succeed in extricating herself out of it. Who can mitapprehend the meaning of such a spectacle? A stable government, a government which contains with- in itself pledges of stability, and which spreads the con- viction of that sentiment abroad, is the cry which is- sues from these facts. There is nothing but a stable government that can extricate France from the abyss ; nd no government can become stable unless ali the natural elements of the party of order shall join to support it, The three great go- yernments which existed and have fallen in France during the last sixty years have left after them, ly the side of the Republic, three hopes, or, shall I say, three perspectives of government? There lies the dif- ficulty ; and it is for France herself to remove it, for she aione can doo, At her voice, and under her im- pulse, let one great party of order be formed, which shall not seck out exclusively, or reject absolutely, any of the solutions of the problem that are possible, but which shall be decided to solve it, and to remain firmly united for that purpose ;—for without a firm union the roblem cannot be solved. Alsou that party is mak. ing its appearance. Let it strengthen itself; let it in- crease ; let the elections send it powerful to the ap- proaching Aesembly. No one can say what the fature will bring ubout—perhaps things which are now re- garded ax impossible, But, however that may be, if the great and natural party of order be there united, it will be the common safety. I have now said what I think. My friends at present know what ideas would regulate my conduct ; it is for them to judge of what nature should be that which would suit themselves. If they believe that my pre- sence in the next Assembly will be useful to the com- mon cause, | am at their service. Let them decide the matter in the sole interest of the country—the sole law to us all. : GUIZOT. The Hangartan War. ‘The news from Hungary continues unfavorable for the imperial army, ‘The Hungarians have not only taken Waitzen, but they have also taken by storm St. Thomas, the fortified camp of the Servians, defended by 25,000 men and forty cannon. In the suburbs of Pesth the Croats began to plunder some days ago, and their commander decimated them, The Magyars did not enter Pesth, but left a corps of observation before the city, while their chief force seems to have crossed the Di be Windischgratz will become Minister president and Minister of War. Gen. Bobin has been appointed civil and military governor of Vienna, The letters from Pesth and Vienna in the German papers confirm the accounts of the successes of the Hungarians at Waitzen, and of the destraction which threatens the imperial army before Cormorn, Ther: positive news of events, the details of which, and manner in which they were brought about, are still withheld from public notice, The Ban of Croatia, whose position was of late on the railroad line leading from Pesth to Albert and Cyoglod, that is to say on the left bank of the Danube, f# now most suddenly found to be on the right bank of that ri Nor is it probed Me that he would have quitted his former position an d the river, unless ¢ y adefeat, The ce binski, following . have likewise rg; in other the I the Danube, and oceupied W. words, the Hungarians had tarne Austrian army by @ flank om whieh. n few days ago, formed th tlons of either army, ie now int and of the Magyar forees and Buda ntre of th roar of the Imperial ar ih sieging Comorn, and which, besides. has been weal 1 by the succor which its commander, General Wohl- gemuth, was obliged to send to General Ramberg. who endeavored to oppose the approach of the Hungarians from Waitzen to Gran, is now exposed to a three-fold attack from the north, the south, and from the garri- son of the fortress itself The country surrounding Comorn is all but in the hands of the Magyars, and Comorn is but 20 leagues distant from Vie The news of the death of the Austrian 1 Gots is confirmed by this day’s post. He was hit by a bullet in the streets of Waitzen, and died at the age of almost 70 zee ‘The imperial party amongst the inhabitants of Pesth are poten the Hungarian capital and flying to Gran, and even to Raab and Presburg. The Bombardment of Genoa, In Genoa the reaction has been complete. Avezzana, with his eleven chiefs, kept the city of Genoa in a com- plete state of anarchy during abeut nine days. How- ever. General Marmora having invested the city, and the English ship of the line, the Vengeance, together with the American steamer Princeton, having taken up & position close to the town, so that the friends of order could not be plundered by the convicts and ruffians who were proposed to be let loose upon them, the rebels had no alternative but to surrender. Avezzana, (who it appears was formerly a merchant in New York) gether with his eleven comrades, were permitted to es- cape on board the Princeton; and all parties seem to concur in ascribing the salvation of Genoa from pillage to the judicious conduct of the English and American commanders, Marmora entered the city after the sur- render of the rebels; order has been re-established, and the trade of revolution has been put a stop to for some time to come. The bombardment which took place has not done much injury. The Dorian palace is only slightly damaged, and the presence of the for- eign vessels has effectually protected the property of the merchants. The Canadian Troubles in England, [From the London Chronicle, April 20.] When we first anncunced the Canadian Indemnity bill, and deprecated its probable consequences, we were twitted with having discovered a mare's nest. It was said to be nothing more than the revival of a former measure, not at all fuyorable to rebels, nor ip the slig! est degree calculated to alienate the affections of true- hearted colonists from the crown. Let those who held this language read the extracts from American and Canadian papers which we reprint to-day, and declare candidly whether we were mistaken—whether what they mistook for a summer cloud, or a passing shower, bas not turned out the forerunner of a hurricane. It has proved vain te say, that there was no intention to grant moncy to disaffected persons. Ithas proved vain to say, that the Governor was anxious to hold the scales even, and abide by the strictest rules of impartiality. It has been useless to explain that the measure bore no refe- rence to races, and that it was a matter of supreme indif- ference to Grey, or the Earl of Elgin, whether the French or the Anglo-Saxons maintained or retained the supremacy. ‘The Anglo-Saxons knew better; they distrusted the allies of their natural and avowed ad- versaries; they were guided, as loyalists, by their in- stinctive repugnance to disloyalty; and the result is a dogged, determined, defying, reckless, almost rebellious, opposition to the indemnity, ‘ou may pass this odious tax, is the language of not a few amongst them, but so long as there is an axe or a rifle on the frontier, and Saxon hands to wield them, not a sixpence shall be paid. You may pass it, but be- ware—incedis per ignes—before the royal assent can be notified on this side of the Atlantic, Lower and Upper Canada may be numbered amongst the United States of North America, and the Stars and Stripes may have replaced the Lion and Unicorn in Quebec, We will not submit to the insult, we will net bow to the humilia- tion; our honor as Englishmen, as men of your own blood, faith, and country, is at'stake; and come what come may, we will not be robbed of it by the mistaken candor of conservatives or the pseudo-liberality of whigs. “The undercurrent leaning of the Adglo-Saxons here towards an annexation with their brethren of the United States, unjustly and untruly attributed to them by Lord Durham in his time, as t.ue as the Gospel now.” Such is the deliberate assertion of a writer in one of their leading newspapers, and we trace in all of them abundant indications of its truth. “ Our good, loyal fellow citizens (remarks another) aro cogitating, Fuminating, shivering, growling, grinning, and every thing but barking. “They say they must have annexa- tion, for they cannot and will not do without it. One old tory, we heard, the other day, who, after coming home full of indignation, d—d the Quecn and Lafon- taine, and swore he could stand it no longer.” The said old tory gave, it must be owned, one very good ros- son, assuming his calculations to ‘be correct, for he computed that annexation would add tenfold to the value of his land. The opposition is not confined to words. The leading supporters of the ministerial mea- sure have been hung in effigy,and the utmost exertions of an armed force have been found inadequate to suppress the rudest ebullitions of popular feeling. When the mob act upon purely mob impulses, their violence may excite only etreuaitory slarm ; but s popular mo ment must be deemed of the highest importance, w it is the outward and visible sign of incipient agitation and deeply-rooted discontent in the community. We would fain indulge in another reflection. It is both un- wise and ungenerous to trust to the unaided operation of creeds or principles, and legislate upon the convic- tion that a royalist can never become # republican, whatever pressure may be put upon him, or to what- ever temptation he may be exposed. Let’ every philo- sophic observer reflect, how the Roman Catholics of Ireland have gradually been alienated from that respect for order, and almost servile obedience to authority, which religious teachers of the same persuasion have inculeated on their flocks in every other quarter of the world in all ages, Men are the slaves of circumstance and we very much fear, that, when the Canadians compelled to make their choice between Great Britain and the United States, they are much more likely to be influenced by resentment, wounded self-love, and self- interest, than by historical reminiscences, country, consanguinity, or the more exalted motives of pure patriotism, We need hardly say that the Americans are evident- ly on the look out, and prepared to profit by the op- portunity. They know full well that they could not forcibly dispossess us of the Canadas, but they may fan the fre. of rebellion by thelr suggestions, and enforce the policy of annexation by their arguments. “If the Canadians (suggests the New York Herald) do not up a respectable revolution in less than nine months, we shall consider them a noisy, empty set of feltows, who deserve no encouragement at all from this side of the border.” The .merican Gazette, with less appear- ance of mischievous intention and infinitely more point and argument, comments upon the conduct of the Ca- nadian government as ‘the strangest example ef infat uation aud want of principle—for we hold ingratitude, even in gavernments, to be want of principle—that has occurred in modern times. A new political morality is to be introduced into the world. Engtand improves upon the Christian precept—she not only forgives her enemies, but she abandons and outrages her friends The Governor-General of Canada bi in his hands, awaiting the decision of his wisdom—or his folly—a far more momentous issue than that of a mere rebel compensation question. or even a question of rebellion and revolution in British America.” By a strange coincidence, Lord Elgin has resorted to the same expedient as Harley in 1711. He has added twelve members to the Upper House. We are not in- formed whether they were usked by any Canadian Wharton if they voted by their foreman; but even with this reinforcement, the Governsr's majority only amounted to four, In this state of things, it is said, be bas suspended his assent until her Majesty's pleasure shall be made known. In other words, he trembles at the responsibility imposed upon him, and waits to hear whether the English Cabinet will confirm the rumored decision of Earl Grey. Judging from recent specimens of vacillation, we should infer that they will not. Lord Jobn Russell's nerves are by no means what they were when Sydney Smith described him as prepared, at a mément’s warning, to take the command of the Chan- nel fleet, or perform an operation for the stone; and Chatham himself would hesitate, when a single false step might dismember the empire, aud permanently alicnate the most important colonial appendage of the Crown, The Navigation Laws of Great Britain. In the British House of Commons, cn the 19th ult., on the motion that the Navigation bill, as amended, be considered, Captain Hannis moved the insertion of the following clause:—And be it enacted, that the master or owner of every ship belonging to any subject of her Majesty, and of the burthen of 80 tous and upwards (except pleasure yachts), hall have on board, at the time of her proceed- ing from any port of the United Kixgdom, and at ail times when absent from the United Kingdom, or navi- guting the seas, one apprentice or more, in the foll ‘ng proportion to the number of tons of his ship's a measurement, according to the certificate of registry — that is to ray. for every ship of eighty tons, and under three hundred tons, one upprentice at the least; for every ship of three hundred tons, and under six hun- dred tons, two apprentices at the least; and for every thip of six hundred tons and upwards, three apprentices At the least; all of whom, at the period of tielr belag bound respectively, shall be subjects of her Majesty, and above twelve and under seventeen years of age, and be duly bound for the term of four years at least; and ifany such master or owner «ball neglect to have on onrd bis ship the number of apprentices as hereby re- quired, together with their reepective registered inden- tures, assignments, and register tickets, he sball, for every such offence, torfeit and pay the sum of ten pounds in respect of each apprentice, indenture, aasign- ment, or register ticket so wauting or deficient, Mr Lanot » considered the clause unealled for, as there was at present sufficient inducement for lads to enter the merchant service, ax was proved by the fact that there were in that service from 11.000 to 12,000 apprentices more than were required by law. Mr Lisnares recommended his hon. friend to with- draw the clause, Capt. Hanis withdrow the clause accordingly. Mr. Axpenson moved in clanse 1. page 2. line 43, after the word © deficient.’ to insert “ and th quitting any vessel whatey al serv and to which they nin. Lanovens amenduwnt, whieh w tions be had det gould not ¢ Id ruiee one of a el nined net to raise, ‘Lhe manning of the navy was of great importance. and ona future eceasion Might b tly diseuseed and improved. Lut it would be inexpedient to mix it up with the pro: abt bill Nir, Hoare sendin wt, u the obser be esitent 4 of quer. chy he said. that althe now conde the the Hoard of Trado. fore, advise his honorable friend to withdraw the amendment, and wait for some more favorable oppor- tunity to call attention to the subject. Mr. J. Ricanno trusted that his honorable friend (Mr. Anderson) would withdraw his amendment, and wait for a tuture opportunity to introduce it. After a few words from Captain Berxeu Mr. Anperson expressed his willingness to concur sabe feeling of the House, and withdraw hisamend- meni The amendment was then withdrawn. Mr. Lanovenen® said that with regard to the two amendments which the right honorable gentleman the member for the University of Oxford (Mr. Gladstone) had upon the paper, he Was willing to agree to the first, but that he could not, in justice to the interests of the colonies, agree to the second, The first ame ment was, in lieu of clause 14, to move the followin, “Provided ulways and be it enacted, that it shall be law- ful for her Majesty in Council, upon an address, or joint address, as the caso may be, from the Legisla- tive Council, or Council and Assembly, or pro- per legislative authority, of any British posses- sion, praying her Majesty to authorize the von- yeyance of goods and passengers from one part of 'such possession to another part of such posses- sion in other than British ships, to deelare, by Order in Cow , that such conveyance shall be authorised ac- cordingly, in such terms and under such conditions as to her Majesty shall seem good.’? The other amend- ment, to which he could not give his sanction, was in the following terms :—* And be it enacted, that upon a like address from the Lg wid legislative authority of any two or more colonies, which her Majesty in council shall declare to be neighboring colonies for the purposes of this act, praying her Majesty to place the trade be- tween such colonies upon the footing of a coasting trade, it shall be lawful for her Majesty, by order in council, to declare that it shall be deemed and taken to be a coasting trade accordingly, for all intents and pur- poses: Provided:ylways, that the privileges conferred by this act upon foreign ships shall not be diminished by such order in council, unless by regulations which shail be equally applicable to British ships.” Mr. Giapstone was understood to express his willing- ing to consent to the preposition of the right honorable gentleman In answer to a question from J, Ricanpo, Mr. Lanovcnene said, that although it was originally proposed that the bill should come into operation at the end of three months, it was now proposed that it should not become law until the 1st of January, 1850. Some verbal amendments were then agreed to, and the report was ordered to be brought up on Monday. The Debts due by Forcign States to British Subjects. The following circular has been addressed by count Palmerston to her Majesty's representative foreign States, respecting the debts due by foreign States to British subjects;— Forrien Orrice, January, 1849. Her Majesty's government have frequently Endl coed sion to instruct her Majesty’s reprosentatives in various forvign States, to make earnest and friendly, but not authoritative representations in support of the unsatis§ fied claims of British subjects who are holders of public bonds and money securities of those States. As gome misconception appears to exist in some of those states with regard to the just right of her Ma jesty’s government to interfere authoritatively, if it should think fit to do so, in support of those claims, I have toipform you, as the representative of her Ma- jesty in one of those states against which British sub- jects have such claims, that it is for the British govern- ment entirely a question of discretion, and by no means @ question of international right, whether they should or should not make this matter the subject of diplomatic negotiation. If the question is to be considered simply in its bearing upo right, there can be no doubt whatever, of the perfect right which the government of every coun- try possesses to take up, as a matter of diplomatic negotiation, any well founded complaint which any of its subjects may prefer against the go of another country, or any wrong which from “such foreign governinent those subjects may havo sus- tained ; and if the government of one country is enti- tled to’ demand redress fer any one individual among its subjects who may have a just but unsatisfied pecu- niary claim upon the government of another country, the right so to require redress cannot be diminished merely becauso the extent of the wrong is increased, and because, instead of there being one individual claiming a comparatively small sum, there are a great number of individuals to whom a very large amount is jue, It is, therefore, simply a question of discretion with the British government whether this matter should or should not be taken up by diplomatic negotiation, and the decision of that question of discretion turns en- tirely upon British and domestic considerations. It has hitherto been thought by the successive go- vernments of Great Britain undesirable that British subjects should invest their capital in loans To fo- reign governments, instead of employing it in profit- able undertakings ‘at home ; and with a view to dis- courage hazardous loans to doreign governments who may be either unable or unwilling to pay the sliptlated interest thereupon, the British government has. li- therto thought it the best policy to abstain from taking up. as international questions, the complaints made by British subjects against forcign governments which have failed to make good their engagements in regard to such pecuniary transactions. For the British government has considered that the losses of imprudent men. who have placed mistaken confidence iv the good faith of foreign governments, would prove a salutary warning to others, and would prevent any other foreign loans from being raised in Great Britain except by governments of known good faith and of ascertained solvency. But nevertheless, it might happen that the loss occasioned to British sub- Jects by the non-payment of interest upon loans made by them to foreign governments,might become so great that it would be too high a price for the nation to pay for such a warning as to the future, and in such a state of things it might become the duty of the British go- vernment to make these matters the subject of diplo- matic negotiation. In any conversation ek may hereafter hold with the — ministéys upon this subject, you will not fail to communicate Wy them the views which her Majesty's government ent tain thereupon, as set forth in this despatch Lam, &e. (Signed) China, Our Hong Kong advices are to the 27th of Feb- ruary, from which we learn that the Peninsular and Oriental Company's new steamer Malta arrived on the 16th inst.. having left Singapore on the morning of the Sth ; and the Canton steamer, belonging to the same company. arrived on the 19th inst. ‘The question of opening the city gates at Canton has been the engrossing subject during the month : we be- lieve that nearly all the oy part of the native community of Canton will glad to have the matter settled, as they are getting tired of it, and it is not ar- gued by them now with the same angry feeling as on former occasions. ‘The fear of the Ladrones and of the idle portion of the working classes seems to be the chief cause of alarm. and not the question of the right of opening the city gates tous. The authorities can and must be made to eae out the convention, or the consequences, indirectly, may be injurious ‘to Bri- tirh interests, not only at Canton, but at all the other ports. The conference between her Majesty's Plenipoten- tiary and the Viceroy of Canton, on the 17th instant, at the Bogue, which lasted long. must have been im- portant. Nothing has transpired ; but it is reported that Seu has sent to Pekin for positive and final or- ders drom the Emperor about opening the gates at Canton There is a general feeling of confidence in the firm- ness and determination of her Majesty's plenipotentiary to Sake a this and other important points. ‘Trade has felt the effects of the agitation; but, once this q tion set at rest, it will improve, and the feeling that it will be settled gains ground. Her Majesty's ship Hast- ings, Sir F. Collier, returned from the Bogue on the 19th instant, with’ her Majesty’s steamers Fury and Medea; her Majesty's brig Arab returned to Whampoa, and the Hon. Company’s steamer ?hlegethon, to Can- The Columbine remains at Amoy, and the Mari- Her Majesty's steamer Scout has not me down from Foochow. Her Majesty's brig Pilot arrived on the 2ist instant from Labuan. Her Majesty's st amer Inflexible returned from a cruise on the 19th instant, without having found any trace of the Kelpie. Her Majesty's steamer Fury is to proceed on a virit to the northern ports with the admiral, on the 25th instant. We have to communicate the distressin, missing officers. Captain Da Costa and Lieutenant Dwyer. at Chuck-chi nd it is feared that some sad ca- ‘astropbe bas befallen them, as no trace of them has yet been discovered, The Marriage of Jenny Lind at Bath, [From the Bath Looker On) This event. (respecting which there have been so many conjectures and #0 many rumors) we are in- formed, on the best authority, took place last week; and with such privacy was the ceremony conducted, that many of our readers will be surprised to learn, that the marriage of the Swedish nightingale was per- formed, by special license, on Thursday week, at the residence of the bridegroom's family, No. 40 Great Pul- teney street, Bath, The engagement of Jenny Lind with Mr. Harris bas long been publicly announced and commented upon by the daily and weekly journals; and so strict # record has been kept of the movements of the fair cantatrice that itis somewhat surprising the anuouncement of her marriage should have escaped our larger London contemporaries. Such, however, is the fact. Jenny Lind is married—married in Bath—to anative of Bath; and henceforth, we understand, she will retire into the privacy of domestic life; she will become one of our residents, and will shed over the cirele in which she moves, those graces which have her such an idol with the public. ‘The history ny Lind, both before and since her appear. in this country—her extraordi triumph PALMERSTON. news of two r a voealist—her bounded lence re themes on which journalists period. riters of the day have dilated af nauseam. the “ fortunate enchanting voug- trers. may not be un Mit Harris is the on of the late Mr, Harris nwt Pulteney xtrert. Hath and is, we understand. related to the Bishop of Norwieh, His early educational studies were pursued but youth”? rome particulars reepectt ho has wooed and at Grosvenor Colege, in his native city, where be greatly distinguished himself as a classical and mathe matical eehoiar His eugagoment with Mdlle Lind bas led to her ret nt from the stage; and althoagh (to the well-known quotation) © ne'er Fhuail jock upon her ike again’ as ag exponent of Lhe lyric ar and her withdras al from tie pablle wilt a dlank in ouvamusemente not to be easily filed u yet, amidst all the regrets whi sioned, sure we are that there is no not to join with us in the aspiration, that man: years of that domestic happiness which has 0 be “the only bliss that has survived the fall,” may be in store for her in this the country of her adoption, and that if we are no more to be eharmed by the magic notes of Jenny Lind, we shall, by many an act of that unbounded and expansive charity which has equalled her vocal fame, be often reminded of her existence ns the no longer apocryphal character—* Mrs. Harris,” Meyerbeer's New Opera of the Prophete This opera is characterized by that powerful intricate instrumentation, that sombre loftiness of intention, which characterize Meyerbeer's genius. Harmony there is of the amplest kind, but generally it has not the mellowed grandeur suited to the oratorio, whose style it approaches nearest, and of which Mendelssohn was s0 complete a master. To the lyrical operatic style it is greatly opposed—having none of those con- trasts of light and shade, and but very few indeed of those melodies which the ear seizes and the memory retains. Meyerbeer appears here to have forgotten, more than in any of his more recent works, that the rich and the powerful, those whose days are spent in labors of commerce and ef art, do not go to an opera for fierce excitement, to renew the fatigue of the day, but for repose of the mind by change of impression, which nothing dramatic or musical can afford when it is constantly overstrained and of lugubrious sameness, and the appeal to the ear and the understanding are carried on by the sheer phy- sical force of voices and instruments, In the choice of * John of Leyden’’—a choice clearly dictated by Meyer- beer—a greater error has been committed than in the selection of * Robert le Diable,? in which the occa- sional approach to subjects which all men of good taste, not to speak of the religious, repudiate on the stage, is veiled by the distance and the mingled superstitions of the medieval period. Whether as a tailor, an enthusiast, an usurper of power, or a religionist—the “John of Lord n’ tor a hero is a most extraordinary thought, and his irreverent doings in his stage cha- racter are not likely to please either the Catholic, or the Protestant, or the Dis: ©; still more certainly would it be offensive to th baptist, since the stern devotee here has revels worthy of Julius IL., if not of Borgia. The socialists alone will be perfectly suited by the libretto of this opera; therefore was 1 not astonished to see amongst the audience Count @’Alton Shee, one of their leaders, the first to applaud, the last to cease You will see that whilst it cannot afford desirable inspiration to the composer, its hero and its plot exclude it from performance in most coun- tries, It is Prog not under the dominion ef the Austrians, or the Pope, it is not at Vienna or in Italy t it will be performed. The king of Prussia himself, erbeer’s royal master and liege lord, will not like example of the burning of palaces in religious and litical enthusiasm which this opera affords, As to “ngland, ofcourse anew libretto must be written, if, ‘as it is said, Madame Viardot is to have leave, on the ‘ith of July, to go over and perform it. I need’ not say that whatever the defects of the work generally, there are some portions worthy of the palmier days of Mey- beer’s genius. The two first acts are heavy and en- nuyeu#, but the others offer some bright exceptions, amongst which I must particularly mention a singular buffo trio, of highly artistic construction, betwixt Ober- thal and two Anabaptist preachers, supported by the chorus of Anabaptists, in the third act; and the stan- zas sung by the Prophet. with a goblet’ of wine in his hand, before he accomp on the palace, in the fifth act. There is also an excel- lent trioin this act betwixt Fides (Viardot), the Pro- phet”? (Roger) and “Bertha” (Castellan.) As regards mise en scene, nothing has been spared, pictorially or otherwise. Duponchel, who was the first to make vo- culists sing a trio on horseback, spares nothing for cos- tume and other theatrical effects of appearance. thing is wanting, not even dancing or skating. The dancers were Plunkett and Petitpas, and the skaters performed a ballabile. ‘The constant rehearsals of the music of this opera, which keeps the voices of the sing- ers perpetually onthe stretch, has so much strained those of the vocalists who perform the principal parts, that it would be unjust to judge them by the result of the first night, when some emotion must have added to their fatigue. Castellan, who hus a secondary and less burthensome part, written exprestly for out with full effect. As further proof of bad taste in the French capital, I will only add that besides this | tist prophet, there has been another hero of the kind enacted on the Boulevard; whilst even the martyred Louis XVI. is not respected—Frederic Le- maiter playing this royal personage with every probable horrible detail, at the Porte St. Martin. The Latest Continental News by Mail. Panis, Thursday Evening, April 19, 1849. The Bourse to-day has been much agitated by ru- mors, It wax suid that Lord Palmerston had protested against the French expedition to Civita Vecchia; that Mazzini, the Dictator of Rome, had confided to Kersan- sie, the French red republican, the defence of Civita Vec- chia with instructions to bury himsclfin theruinsrather than surrender; that the French government had sent 8 formal protest against the acceptance of the crown of the German empire by the king of Prussia, and a note to the Diet of Frankfort with a casus belli. ‘These are only a few of the rumors in cireulation to cause or account for a fall of nearly one franc in the price of the Rentes, My own opinion is, that the noar- er we approach the elections the greater will be the agi- tution in the money market; for the red republicans and Socialists finding their hope of success by legal means rapidly leas founded, will resort to violence, and great precautions will be necessary to pre- vent emeute ; you may judge of the desperation of these men by the manifesto put forth to-day by thelr central committee, and to which the members of the Mountain have nearly all adhered. The committee refuse to ad- mit any man as a candidate on the red republican and socialist interest who does not pledge himself to advo- cate all their principles, and. above all, proclaim that the republic—that ix the republic as they understand it— is above the right of mujorities ; thus repudiating the principle of universal suffrage, and establishing the right of insurrection by the minority. against the ma- jority. This is an open declaration of emeute, and every man elected to the legislative Assembly must pledge himself to respect none of the decisions of the majori- ty against. red republican and socialist principles, and to hold himself ready to take the command of the troops of anarchy whenever they may think fit to at- tack order and property. A declaration of this kind is of a nature to alarm the timid. It will not terrify the President of the republic or his ministers, nor will it terrify the men of action on the good side ; but it will have its effect with the multitude of peaceful eitizens, and, until the elections are over. and the nation can derive confidence from the firm attitude of its representatives, there will be great agitation. Our accounts from Florence in the regular course are of the 12th They confirm the telegraphic deapatch published by the French government, with one or two exceptions. Guerazzi, for instance, is stated to have fled, whereas the despatch said he was in custody, and we have no account of the dissolution of the Constituent Assembly. ‘This body was almost the first to proclaim the authority ofthe Grand Duke. The reaction origi- nated in a quarrel between the ruffians called the Log- horn volunteers and some of the people. They fired upon each other, and several lives were lost. The peo- ple generally then turned out, and becoming suddenly loyal, cut down and burnt the trees of liberty which they had planted, and shouted “Long live Leopold.” They would have massacred all the Leghorn volunteers if the latter had not been saved by the National Guard and the troops of the line, whe had joined the people. ‘The volunteers fled from the city on'theie way to Leg- horn, but on their way several were massacred by the peasants, whose indignation aguinst the republicans had no longer any bounds. ‘The letters from Leghorn of tho, 13th lend us to ex: pect dreadful scenes, for the republicans there are of the most ferocious character, All the respectable in- habitants who had the means were flying, for part of the Leghorn volunteers had arrived from Florence, and threatened to massacre all the royalists. One ot the Paris journals of to-day states that the government has received accounts of the quiet return of Leghorn under the sway of the Grand Duke, The Corn Trade of Europe. (From the London Mercantile Gazette, April 20.) A material change has taken place in the tone of the grain trade within the last fortnight. The value of wheat has risen from 2s. to 48, per quarter in most of the principal markets, and the advance in prices of other articles bas been proportionably great. This improvement has not been caused by any decrease in the supplies, or apprehension relative to the future as respects the crops in the ground, but must be wholly attributed to political events on the conti- nent Almost immediately after the receipt of the intelligence communicating the fact that hostilities had been actually commenced between the Danes and 4, and that the principal Baltic ports and river Elbe, &e.. were about to be blockaded, holders of corn raised their pretensions purely on the assump. tion that supplies from the north of Europe would be and might be wholly stopped. In case, the difficulties arising out of the Schieawig- in question should be arranged, and shipments from the Baltic allowed to proceed. the upward move- ment would unquestionably be checked , and the proba bility is. that under such circumstances the lateadvance would again be lost, provided nothing should occur in the interval to occasion uneasiness in reference to the next harvest, The weather has recently been of a very wintry character, bat we do not apprehend any mis- chief from the frost, beyond that of retarding vegeta- tion, The young barley may, perhaps. be somewhat cut up by the sharp winds, but wheat is too hardy a plant to run much risk of being injured thereby; and in one respect we may expect benefit to result-—vir: the destruction of insects. The mildness of the winter had the effect of encouraging the r x of the slug, wire- worm &e. The evil was partly checked by the sharp night frosts experienced in iarch, and the last few days must have been very destructive of insect life. ‘Lhe reports from all parts of the kingdom continue to k well of the appearance of the crops. and if May ld prove warm, vegetation would soon recover from the check given by present low range of tempern- ture, ‘The advance demanded on all kinds of grain has had the effect of inducing caution on the part of pur- Jays the trausactions ty, ‘Che arrivals of wheat. of home growth, the port of London, have been mall and the quantity brought forward at ted. he Bear quite mc Nearly the whole of the wheat exhibited on the Essex wnd Kent stands oa Mon- dy was placed early at an advance of fully 2s, per quar- teron the rates current on that day se’naight Flere the ise has however. stopped. Ou Wedaesday there was hardly anything doing and the few pareeta fresh up thie moruing were placed with some difficulty at the e hy land carriage sauyples from (he home coun- ra shes his destructive purpose | No- | er alone, came | hancement named. The supply of forcign whe; been tolerably good, and the attendance of eaaer purchasers less extensive than was the case last, week. On Monday, only a moderate extent of business was done. Holders were, however, very firm, and needy buyers had to pay full prices. On some qualities the advance from the lowest point of depression has beer 3s, to 4s, per quarter, Polish Odessa was sold on Mon- day at from 42s, to 44s., and superior sorts of red at 46s. to 48s,and even 50s. per quarter, nor has any abate- ment from these rates been since submitted to, though the demand has certainly slackened more or less, and the operations to-day were on & comparatively retail scale. The millers advanced the top price of flour 26. per sack on Monday, Other kinds of sack flour, in- cluding French, rose Is. to 2s. per sack, and Ame- rican Is. per barrel. The inquiry has, however, fallen off, the bakers being unwilling to take moro than they require for immediate use at the improve- ment. Barley was held ls. per quarter higher on Mon- day than on that day week, and a good many pareels of foreign changed hands. On Wednesday and this morn- ing the transactions were not of much importance, still the advance was maintained The arrivals of oats coaat- wise have been good. in additiom to which several car- goes have come to hand from abroad, ‘The total supply aving been larger than expected. and the dealers ha ing, during the last week or two, been induced by 10 prices to get into stock, the trade has again beeame quiet. ‘The made to day were, however, at similar Prices to those realized at the beginning of the week, which, when compared with those current on the 9th instant, show an advance of fully 1s, per quarter. The value of beans has crept up about 1s. per quarter, with- out much activity in the demand, Peas have, within tho last eight or ten days, risen 1s. to 2s. per quarter. There have been inquiries for floating cargoes of Indian corn on Irish account, but the high pretensions of sell ers haye prevented many bargains being closed. Financial Affairs, Loxpvon Monry Marker, April 20, 2 P. M.—The mar- ket for public securities to-day has been steady, the price having alternated only from 92 to \, or in other words, they have been buyersand sellers at 024g. There isa little better feeling in the market, and some pur- chases of money stock have been made, which, though in small amounts. have contributed to make the mar- ket a slight shade firmer, The money quotation has luced-Three per Cents, 90% uarter per Cents, 9144 4, Bank Stock India 245%, Exchequer-bills 4447, and In- Foreign securities remain without ration, Mexican Bonds being quoted 20%¢ to 30!5 with coupon, and 28 ex-coupons, Peruvian 66, Brazil 794%. Granada Deferred 37%, Equador 4, Spanish 174%. Ditto Three per Cents, 824g %. Dutch-Two-and-a- Half per Cents. 5034 34, Ditto Four per Cent Certificates 7746 %. ‘There has been rather less business done in Railway Sharcs this morning, but no change hag taken place in prices. Quarter before Three.—Consols for Account, 92. The Bank of England. ISAUE DEPARTMENT. Notes issnod,... ,..£27,928400 “Government Debt. £11,615,100 Other scourities... 2,084,900 Gold Coin and bul- been from 9244 to 1%, R 44. Three-and 192 ion... 13,604,831 Silver Builion,.,. 323,560 £27,928,400 £27,938,00 | Aen ee ANKING DEPARTMENT. | Proprietors’ Capi Government Seen- t - £14,553,000 — rities, (including | Rest. 3,122,153 dead ‘weight an- | Public Depor nuity)... + £14,353,247 (including | Quer Securities 10a chequer Savin, Notes..... .. Banks, Commi Gold ‘and " Silver sioners of Ni Coin... .eevee+ 78,906 tional Debt, Dividend Ac’ 3,444,063, Other Deposits... 11,750,256 | Beven das other Bills,... 1,120,461 £34,068,932 £34,068,982 Dated 19th April, 1649, M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. Messrs, Brown, Shipley & Co ’s Cireular, Livenvoon, Ap? il 20th, 1849. Our cotten market continues dull and declining, and the quotations are again reduced 4d. per Ib generally, excepting only fair and good Orleans, suitable for the export demand. which are relatively scarce, Fair Up- land and Mobile are quoted 43sd., and fair Orleans, 4%d.; middling Upland and Mobile, 4d., and middling Orleans 43d.; ordinary 33d. a 334d. per lb, The busi- | ness for the week ended to-day, amounts to 92,210 bales, of which 2.300 are on speculation, and 4.850 for export; and the American descriptions consist of 9,010 Upland, at 3% a4%d.; 10.350 Orleans, at 334 a 6d.; 7,050 Ala bama and Mobile, at 3% a 6d.; and $20 Sea Island, at 7 a 133d. per Ib. The import. for the same time, is 28.500 bales, and the stock in this port now amounts to 457,000 bales, of which 309,000 are American. After some further improvement in flour, and con- siderable sales of Philadelphia, Western, &c., at 248. a 24e, 6d. per bbl., the article has become dull agein, and has declined to'23s. 6d., at which it is offered to-day in quantity exceeding the demand. Wheat is dail at our | last quotations, “For Indian corn, however, we | had a fair steady demand, at rather better prices—white | selling at 316. a 31s. 6d., and yellow at ‘338. per quarter, Indian corn meal, 14s. a 14s. 64, per DbL, | ‘The business in turpentine is confined this week to 300 bbls. only, at 7s. per cwt., the demand being very limited; and only about 500 bbls. common rosin bave Deen disposed of, at 38, per owt. Messrs. George Holt & Co.’s Circular. Liverroot, Friday Evening, April 20, 1849. There bas been somo slight variation in the prooeed- ings of our market during the week. On Mont a and Tuesday, owing to the Danish war, we were di and depressed. On Wednesday, there being more hope of an early settlement, and good accounts arriving from India, we had more activity and confidence, full 6,000 bales being sold, at firm prices. Yesterday, again, we had later advices from the United States, by the steamer, showing the receipts at the ports to be cep ing well up, and justifying the expectation that crop would prove abundant. ),000 bales. The consequence upon our lings was dullness, and an increased desire to 6 This morning the demand is fair from the trade, the market, in consequence of late arrivals, being abundanuy supplied with all deseriptio The result of the week's proceedings is rather lower rates—nearly $yd.; and therefore we adiust our quota- tions accordingly, applying more obviously to the com- mon qualities of American than any other deseriptions. ‘The public sale of Sea Island which took place om Friday last was a dull affair, and sold at nearly 3<d. de- cline. Long stapled cotton of all kinds, Sea Islands, Fgyptians, Brazile. are heavy and dull, the eommon and ordinary qualities being almost unsaleable, even at the lowest quotations. Depressed as things are at this moment, there is no doubt that 4d. per Ib. for “mid- dling” Boweds will be regarded as a moderate price, calculated to give encouragement to @ large consump- tion. 2.380 American have been taken on speculation, and 3,040 American, 100 Madras, 780 Pernam, and 30 Ma- ranbam for export. Sales to-day, 5 to 6,000 bales. Messrs. Wm. Gardner & Co’s Cireulars ivenroon, April 20, 1849. We continue to experience a fair retail demand for Beet at about previous prices.—the arrivals have been light, and holders show more confidence. In Prime Mess Pork the sales have been to some ex- tent at low prices for ordinary Western, up to our bigh- est quotation for choice Eastern; @ parcel of 400 bbls. Mers has also been taken at 55s. per bbl. ex ship. The demand for Bacon has been active, but some holders having withdrawn their stocks the amount of business has not been so extensive as previously. A slight advance has been established on ordinary Weet- ern sorts, and the market is firm at our quotations,— Hams being in increased supply, middling qualities hi receded 3s. to dx, per ewl.—Shoulders are also lower Is, to 2s. per ewt. There has not been much variation in Lard, fine qualities have been most sought after, and, for sueh, higher prices have been paid, but buyers are not eager. for want of assortment. the operations in cheese have been limited; a fine article is very scarce. At rather lower prices, there has been more doing im tallow Linseed cake remains dull, with an accumulating stock. The speculative feeling in the corn market, referred to in our last, continued throughout Saturday, Monday, and the early part of Tuesday, when the highest poin' was touched; subsequently, there was a pause, and holders having put their stocks freely on the market, a slight re-action was the result To-day has been very quiet in wheat and flour; ludian corm, however, has Leen taken pretty freely, at full prices Liverpool Prices Current, Imports, 4c, For the Week ending sprit 20. 1849. ARRANGED BY A COMMITTEE OF HKOKERS Sugar—Tthe demand bas been very limited, and the soles of B. P are under 200 hhds.. withont material change in price; 1.00 bags Bengal sold at last week's prices, and 2700 bags Mauritius ac s+ 6d. to 438. 6d. per ewt, Foreign—The market i= @ieter and the sales are only 230 cases. 1.400 bugs Brasil, and 40 hbds., 80 bbls. Porto Kico, at former rates, Molasses continues tm good demand, but in the absence of stock there are no Fates on the spot; te arrive 1500 puncheons have been sold; Barbadves and Antigua at 21s, to 228.; Porto Rico Cuba Muscovado at 21s, 6d, to 228,. with @ parcel of clayed. at 1s, percwt. n coffee uot a single transne- tion is reported; nothing having been done at the pub- lic eale of ordinary Rio brought forward on Tuesday} ‘A sinall lot of pepper brought isd. per Ib. Rie tierces Carolina sold at 10x. 6d. to 17s, 6d.; and 2500 page Bengal wt 88, 8d. to 8s, 6d. for broken, and 10s. for good middling. ‘The demand for rum is limited to the immediate wants of the trade, and the sales con- «st of 60 puncheons Demarara, without change in price, Cotton—The unsettled state of affairs on the conti- nent continues to havea very injurious effect, not onl, in Manchester, but also on this market ; the still buy sparingly, but the operations of exporters are duily to a fair extent. The same desire to sell, ae noticed last week. remains unabated, and has caused a further decline of yd. in nearly all descriptions, the market cloring heavily. Exporters have taken 9040 American. 780 Pernams, 30 Maranham, and 100 Madras, and speculators 2380 American Of 1600 Sea Island and stained offered at auction on Friday last, 700 were told at a decline of 4 to 4d. per lb. Tea—There is 00 alteration to notice in the market, which is inanimate; at the public Fale. yesterday. litte suld but the damaged’ lots Dyewoods— ihe transactions are not worth notice. ‘Tbe demand for turpentine is very limited, except for ood soft parcels, of which description 400 bbls. have Geom fold at 7a. per ewt No sales reported in tar, 28 Korin bas again declined, and 400 t0 500 bbls, of com- mon quality have been’ taken wc 2s, 11d to ds., and rome few parcels of tine at ds, 6d. to l0s., aeeording to