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=-7 W..ARD'S laAHGlS AND NEW SttTOCK HAS JUST COME TO HAND FOR THE PRESENT SEASON; CONSISTING of 8000 PIECES of the most elegant DESIGNS" that can be brought before the Public' in Fi,-r-Ne IIII CHINESE INDIAN, and ENGLISH tastes and designs, of the most superb patterns that can be produced, greatly surpassing any ha has before*had' Also, elegant sets of patterns representing Stag Hunting, Italian Boys, and various other subjects, so admirably executed as to obtain the Prize' awarded by PIUNCE ALBKRT at the Society for the Promotion of Arts and Commerce. I W in returning thanks to his numerous supporters, not forgetting the Trade, for the very liberal patronage they have been pleased to favour him with, begs to inform them that he has this season nearly doubled that of the last, for the express purpose of procuring them at such remarkably low prices as to enable him to render them as low as any House in the Kingdom, as well as to have that great variety which cannot fail to please every taste. Splendid Crimson Flocks as low as 5s. 6d. per piece. LIST OF PRICES AS FOLLOWS: £ s. d. £ s. d. Itich Crimson Flock .per piece 0 5 6 Parlour Pdper (last year 2s.'6d.) .perpiece 0 1" 6 v All Crimson, imitation ditto „ 0 3 6 Library Paper "$i « Ditto Glazed ditto. » 0 4 0 Good Sitting-room and Bed-room 0 10 Rich Satin Watered CLit to 0 2 10 Very superior 0 1 3 Ditto Ditto 0 2 0 Bed-room „ 0 0 8 Elegant Drawing-room Paper 016 Ditto 0 0 7 Dining-room, Crimson and Oak. 0 2 0 Ditto 0 0 6 Vorygoodditto. 0 1 8 Ditto 0 0 4 The Proprietor wishes to inform his Customers, that he undertakes to Paint andPaper Houses by Estimate or Admeasurement, war- ranting" to give satisfaction to all Parties who will be kind enough to favour him. The Trade supplied at 5 per Cent, on any amount «V*cr £ ;}. Pattern's free of charge, sent to any part of the Country upon application. All Papers marked in plain figures, ancl no abate- IR~1'j \y ^CrrS +o state that, in compliance with the wishes of several Ladies and Gentlemen in this Neighbourhood, he shall henceforth keep a regular supply of PIANO-FORTES, both for Sale and to Let out on Hire, of first-rate Instruments, by Collard, Broadwood, and Metzler 'and has by hiin now some very superior Instruments. Among the many novel articles now on hand is the PATENT DOWN QUILT adapted for a Large Bed, and so constructed as to make a beautiful Chair or Sofa Pillow; the PRINCE of "WALES'S EASY CHAIR which is not only elegant in its appearance, but is considered to be the most comfortable yet invented; Patent Rising Dressing-Glass"1 'patent Night Commode Smea's Patent Reading Stand Drawing-room Table Book-Stand Angola Hearth-Rugs Sliding^Hearth-Brush together with a very great variety of fancy Drawing-Room Chairs, of quite a New Style, elegant Dressing- Glasses with Marble Slabs, from E2 up to £ 6 6s. with a variety of other new things. b The Promietor wishes to call particular attention to his large and elegant assortment of CARPETINGS and HEARTH-RUGS, of crerv description, the patterns and quality of which cannot fail to meet the approbation of all who may be pleased to favour him with an inspection • 47 quite new Patterns of Brussels, just struck off the blocks, very superior quality, 3s. 6d. per yard, regularly sold at 4s. 6d. ner yard • 'the very best that can be manufactured for money, at 4s. 6d. per yard Dutch Carpets, in all widths, and quite anew class of Patterns, of the very best quality; Kidderminsters and Druggetingsj Linen Ci'umb Cloths, in great vaiiety, at equally low piiccs. J. AV. takes this opportunity" of bringing before the Public his List of CABINET and UPHOLSTERING GOODS, &c., &c., Mow on hand and feeling confident, f, om the great success that he has met with, that the attention so called will not be in vain, being a Alfred that his Goods are of such a general character as cannot fail to suit all parties, having on hand a very large assortment of first- quality Goods, together with every description of Common furniture. Marqueterie Drawing-Room Furniture. Tfia Sutherland "Work TaVe, forming Card Table, with Chess, Cribbage, Backgam- mon, Work-box, and a new shaped Bag Loo Tables Occasional Tables The Elizabethan Star Table The Bell Table, with rich inlay Twelve Fancy Work Tables, all beautiful Marqueterie Papier-Maehe Drawing-Room Furniture. I Ho>t elegant Landscape Tables Circular Tables, pearl and gold chess tops Ditto, sizes smaller, with groups of flowers Fittcd-up Ladies' Work Tables Handsome Fire Screens, pearl and gold Pearl Indian Sunk Tables Pearl Indian Sunk Tables Indian Banister Chair, pearl and gold I Gondola Chairs, pearl and gold Ditto Patent Alberts, flowered, pearl and gold Ditto Yoke, pearl and gold Rosewood Drawing-Room Furniture. Pour-feet Rosewood Loo Tables, £ 5 os. Pair ditto Card-tables to match, £ 6 6s. Ten diiferent-styie Easy Chairs, Cabriole feet and arms, £ 2 10s. upwards Elizabethan Pillows, marqueterie tops N?<.v-styie Cylinder Cheffioueer Ditto, plain New Fitted-up Fancv Bell Table Chess-top Tables Ditto, brass mounted Handsome Cut Fire Screens Ditto, plain Cabriole Settees, perforated back and spin- dle, quite new Double-end Settee, in Cabriole, quite new Ditto, ditto, Single-end, varying in stylo Elizabethan Ottoman Ditto, Carved Ottoman Music Stools fancy Occasional Tables Different-style fancy Work Tables French Chairs, large and small Different-style solid Rosewood Chairs A large assortment of Drawing-room Fancy Chairs Mahogany Furniture. Cabriole Marble-top Wasdi-stands, in va- rious sizes Now style Cylinder Cheffioneers "Four-feet solid Loo Tables, polished, £3 19s. Three-feet six Loo Tables, f2 19s. Hair-bottom Chairs, each 13s. Gd. Cheffioneers, £3 10s. Sideboards, Telescope Tables, Dining and Pembroke Tables New Style Dining-room Chairs, yoke back Library ditto Spanish Mahogany Hall Chairs, Cabriole feet, moulded back Kail -Chairs; ditto, ditto, carved back Mahogany Umbrella Stands, extending arms •Ditto, ditto, no arms Portable Easy Chairs Chinnock's Patent Easy Chair A large assortment of Easy Chairs, newest styles- Patent Easy Chairs, of different styles An Assortment of Sofas and Couches, in different styles different styles Four-post, Half-Testor, French, and other Bedsteads, in various styles; Mahogany- Wardrobes Tent Bedsteads, from 16s.; Mahogany-bot- tom Chairs, 4s. 6d. Beaufets and Corner Cupboards Chests of Drawers, new styles; painted ditto Washstands and Dressing-tables, mahogany and painted Ditto, Mahogany, Marble-tops A large assortment of Bedroom Chairs Cane Swing Cots; Mahogany-cane Table | Chairs Plain Cane Table Chairs !?' a, Mahogany Marble-top Wash and Chamber- stands i New-style Painted Washstands Room Screens and Chairs Back Fire. Screens Bedsteps, forming Commode and Cupboard Ditto, Steps and Commode Ditto, Commode Mahogany and Painted Chamber Horses Ottoman Bedstead, forming Easy Chair, Couch, Ottoman, and Bedstead Feather-beds; Milpuff ditto Hair, Wool, and Milpuff mattresses Chimney and Dressing Glasses, various styles New Patent Rising Dressing-Glass New Patent Night Commode Smea's Patent Reading Stand Drawing-room Table Book-stand Gold and F lain Embossed Leather, for Doors New Toilet Table, with fixed drawers and glass, allowed to be one of the first arti- cles in the trade &c. &c. &c. Various Articles. Silk and Worsted Gimps Cords and Tassels for Couches, Ottomans, Pillows, or Chairs, in great variety of colours Ladles' Skeleton Bags, for Berlin Work; also, a Fantsy Emb .ssod Velvet German and Russian Bags, iu various pat- terns A II v. \1.>- A. -» j G feb. V/J Y 4c, The Patent Drawing-room Sliding Hearth- brush E:nbosscd V dvet, in various colours Superfine Cloth, scarlet and black, crimson 11i1il black, any size, for Table Cloths lapicr-mache Table Mats and Doiiers j i!di<m-grass ditto and Doiiers Quite a new assortment of Berlin Patterns, Wools', Purse Silks, Knitting and Crotchet Books, Coloured and White Boar's-head Cottons, and every other article belonging to the same department, just come to hand A large assortment of Patent Carpet Bags, double lock, and can be locked in- side of thcdock A variety of the Patent Leather and Brussels Carpet Bags Carpet Bags, from 4s. up to 17s. each. A nice assortment of Velvet Carpet Hassocks Ditto, Brussels Ditto, Common OAVPCT, &. VY'ooll'at-MUFIS Crimson D rug-geting ditto; crimson and grey A large Stock of Druggeting, plain and printed Variety of Dutch Carpeting A large assortment of Kidclerminster Carpets Yard, 4, and i Yard Carpeting A large assortment of Giraffe Damasks, qute new. Ditto, mixed with Silk Lapland Rugs Ditto, Fancy Work ditto, Plain colour Hearth-rugs and Door-rugs Cornice Fringes and Belf Pulls, of various prices Oil Cloths, from three yards wide down to half-yard White Marble Oil Cloth, expressly for wash- stand tops Ditto, Rosewood, Mahogany, Gold, and Claret, best goods Ditto, Common, of various patterns Cocoa Matting; ditto Manilla; ditto In- dia.ii ■ figured; ditto plain; ditto JJUlcli. Foot-stools; Camp-stools Brass and Mahogany Window Poles and Ends Musical Pictures American Chairs Slipper Stands Ladies' Work-frames Eight-day Timepiece, remarkably low Common Goods, of all kinds, at remarkabIy low prices A large assortment of English and Foreign Fancy Toys Fancy Cabinet Goods, such as Tea-Caddies, Work-Boxes, Desks, Net- ting and Glove Boxes, &c., &c., &c., of the latest designs. The Proprietor also begs to inform his numerous supporters that he is appointed by W. SMEA and SON, Sole Agent in. Wales for that valuable article called the FRENCH POLISH PRESERVER, which preserves and hardens the Polish, keeping up that beautiful brniiiiriey which is so much desired, and can be made use.of by any servant with the greatest ease in bottles, Is. 3d, and 2s. Gd. each. <F. W. wishes to inform the Trade that he has on hand a large assortment of the following VENEERS for sale:—Mahogany, N s » d, Maple, and Satin Wood and intends keeping a regular supply for the convenience of parties on the Hills, saving them the ■> of going to Bristol for such things, intending to sell at Bristol prices. Also, Mahogany Boards of various thicknesses on Sale. J. W. bogs to inform the Inhabitants of this Neighbourhood, that in compliance with the desire of several parties, he, for the I p future, will be an HOUSE AGENT, and shall be most happy in receiving instructions from any parties, either to procure or let Houses for the same. J. W. begs to call the attention of the inhabitants of Aberdare, Merthyr, Dowlais, and their respective Neighbourhoods, to his Establishment, being assured that they will effect a saving of about 15 per cent., together with the advantage of selecting from general assortment A large Assortment of Angola Wool Rugs, of various Colours, just come to hand. ALL GOODS MAUXED IN FIGURES, AXD SO ABATEMENT, Duke-street, Cardiff, 7th March, 1849. TEAS AT WHOLESALE PRICES, CARRIAGE FREE, No. 2, BUCKLERSBURY, CHEAP SIDE. rpiIE heading of our Circular sufficiently indicates the basis of our system, viz.—that of supplying the Public with Teas and Coffees j at Wholesale 1'rices for Ready Money. This announcement may appear somewhat presuming; and the question may naturally aris6—How one party can sell at Wholesale Prices, while another requires a Retail Profit ? The answer is simply this: Our arrangements are identical with those of the largest Wholesale Establishments, and framed on the most Economical Scale. Our Warehouse, situate in a bye thoroughfare, is one of the most spacious in London, and affords the Greatest Facilities for the most Extensive Transactions, and is entirely unencumbered with tnose merciless expenses inseparable from the show of a Retail Shop, and for which indirectly the purchaser is taxed. Our business, the parent of many branches, extending throughout the United Kingdom, is of such magnitude, that our purchases are necessarily large, a;a we thus derive every advantage the market affords." Lt will, therefore, be seen that we are in a position to supply the pubile en the best and most economical terms-in fact, to supply atfirst hand by which all iniennecliate profits are saved. In quoting a partial selection of our prices, we have appended a few recommendatory remarks, and we wish particularly to be understood as holding ourselves responsible for each character so appended. We mention this, in consequence of the too frequent practice of late—particularly in the Tea Trade—of gulling the public with false alluring titles—and while some are distributing their rubbish at half a crown a pound, others adopt the ingenious appellation of best Black Tea, which, for quality, is on a par with Best Hats, 4". 9d.; Best Boots, 8s. 6d.; and Best Coats, a Guinea. It is, in point of fact, pretty candid confession that they do not keep the finer descriptions of Tea. The following List is composed from the Latest and most Favourable Quotations in the Market. BLACK TEAS. s. d. GOOD OnDiNARY COKGOU ( a very fair common Tea) «.2 8 GOO# USEFUL CONGOU (a useful Tan, decidedly cheap) .8 0 FTTK-ONG CONUOU TEA ("very good Tea for domestic use) .3 4 N V, STUONCT CONGOU, PEKOE FLAVOUK, (This is an excellent Tea, and deservedly in repute).3 8 FiNE PJ;KOF. SOVCl{()NG.4 0 (We might here refrain from publishing a higher price, for positively a higher price is unnecessary but we keep the higher prices for Connoisseurs.) Sui'JSKioit PEKOB SOUCHONG (from the Kongshing estate, rich and rare) 4 4 LVFS'ANG SoucaoNG ,o 9 (This is the acme of perfection in Tea, and bears comparison ill reputt; tu old Beeswing Port.) GEEES" TEAS. „ s. d. GOOD USEFUL GBP.BN (this will mix with Black at 2s. SùY". ,3 8 FINIS TwimtAT (this with the Black at 3s.) 3 4 YOUNG HYSON (a very good Tea, tin4 with the 3s. 4d. Black, makes an excellent mixture) 3 S FINE YOUNG HYSON (a little on the Cowslip ftavour).4 0 GUNPOWDEII TEA (very strongly recommended) .4 4 SuPEiuoit YOUNG HYSON (This is a most excellent Tea, and is really the most useful of all our Green Teas; it pos- sesses great strength and a line aromatic flavour.) 5 0 FINEST HYSON (This is a choice Tea, possessing all those rich and delicate qualities fine Hysons are celebrated for) .41 0 FINEST GC-NPOWDKK 7 0 (This is The Gunpowder, and is quits a treat: not many years since it was sold at 16s. per lb.) COFFEE. We wish to direct particular attention to Coffee, from the fact of our having, after great trouble and expense, succeeded in perfecting ha machinery for roasting, which has never before been discovered. Letters patent are already taken out for the invention, which preserves the aroma, and removes that acidity, so frequently complained of by delicate persons. s. d. (fQOD CEYLON COFFEE (Good sound Coffee) 0 10 PINS CEYLON COFFEE (a very good Coffee) .1 0 P LANTATION (recommended) 1 2 ] s FINEST JAVA COFFEE (much and deservedly in request) ,1 4 THE FINEST CUBA COFFEB (strongly recommended) .1 6 FINEST MOCHA COFFEE 1 8 It will be naturally inferred from the above that it is a favourable time to lay in a stock, as prices never were so low, nor can a greater fall reasonably be anticipated until the excessive duty of 2s. 2id. is reduced. For example, we are now selling Good sound Congou at ;)8. per lb., which, after deducting the duty, leaves but nd. to remunerate the merchants and pay all expenses of impurtatiion- a price by which the importers must be great losers. Referring to the above list we venture to solicit a continuance of that support hitherto so liberally bestowed. Having now established one of the Largest Businesses in the kingdom, we refer with pride to the progressive increase during the lust twenty years, proving that our System of BusillCSS, based on liberal principles of commercial enterprise, and holding out unprecedented advantages, is fully appreciated. Ail orders are expected to be accompanied by a remittance or Post Office order or if a reference in London be made, pay ment on receipt and approval of the goods will be sufficient. Our Terms are Cash, and we seek remuneration only by magnitude of business. Qur mottois, Small profits and quick returns." NOTE.—Teas are delivered carriage free to any part of England when the quantity ordered exceeds six pounds, but the carriage of Coffee is not paid unless accompanied by Tea. 2, Buckiersbury, Cheapside MANSELL AJ9D SO. Delivered Carriage Free to way Part of i&e

f ,(>1 FRANCE. THE EXPEDITION TO ITALY. The-.French expedition arrived at Civita Vecdhia on th 26tH; and took possession of the town, no resistance being offered to them. A telegraphic dispatch. was received on Saturday at half- past three o'clock, P.M., by the Government. It is dated Civita Vecchia, April 26, 11 o'clock, A.M., and is as follows:— The squadron under my command anchored yesterday at ten o'clock before Civita Vecchia. "At twelve o'clock the city was occupied by 1,800 men of the expeditionary army. This occupation was effected with the consent of the autho- rities of the town, and without a blow being struck. The whole of the troops have disembarked since this morning, and I hasten the landing of the military stores. Signed, the Rear- Admiral commanding the sqaadron of the Mediterranean." A second telegraphic dispatch was also received on Satur- Z, day last, at five o'clock, P.M., to the following effect:— Marseilles, April 28, 2 o'clock, P.M. GENERAL OUDINOT TO THE MINISTER AT WAIt. Civita Vecchia, April 25. 'We are masters of Civita Vecchia without striking a blow. The authorities offered no resistance the inhabitants and National Guard received us with acclamation. M. de Lamartine has declined the representation of Paris, in a letter addressed to the electors, in which he tells them that if returned for Paris and for his native department, he would sit for his own department. The cholera happily still continues to diminish. During I the last two days the number of cases in all the hospitals together has amounted to only 52. The deaths in them have been only nineteen, with six in other establishments.

AUSTRIA. DEFEAT OF WELDEN BY THE HUNGARIANS. The intelligence from Vienna more than confirms all that had been previously rumoured as to the utter rout of the Austrian army by the Hungarians. The 35th Army Bulletin, published in the Weiner Zeitung, acknowledges that the Magyars have driven back both Welden and Wohl- gemuth, have raised the siege of Comdrn, have compelled the'Austrians to evacuate Buda and Pesth, and are advancing on Vienna. The main Austrian corps, under Welden, was driven out of Gran at the point of the bayonet, and utterly put to the rout. While this was going on at Gran, the army besieging Comorn, under General Wohlgemuth, was driven northward by the Hungarians, whose outposts on the 23rd were within two miles of Presburg. Wohlgemuth's army consisted of 25,000 men. The Magyars have thus completely brokea the Austrian centre, and cut off Wohlge- muth's communication with Welden, while by the capture of Gran, Welden's own communications with Vienna are en- dangered, and his retreat into Styria cut off by the Hun- garian left wing under Klapka and Vetta. On the night of the 22nd, orders were received for Welden to dispatch all the regular troops stationed in Vienna in the direction of Presburg; but the commandant did not deem it safe to part with the force which enables him to keep up the state of siege, and the orders were disregarded. In a village near Vienna boys of 15 and 16 years of age have been forced to join the ranks. Welden has offered every Magyar who de- serts five florins, and twenty if he brings his horse with him. The Magyar authorities meet this alluring offer by publicly announcing that any soldier who felt disposed to accept of it was at liberty to do so. If the following is authentic, and we see ho reason to doubt it, the Magyars are probably at this moment under the walls of Vienna, A correspondent in the Constitutionnel Gazette, of Berlin, writes from Vienna under date April 23, five o'clock p.m. :— My intelligence must not be regarded as a mere rumour. Couriers have arrived, and bring confirmation of the defeat of General Wohlgemuth. Vienna is in a state of feverish agitation. Numerous families are already preparing to quit the capital, in which they are afraid that disturbances will break out. The Imperial troops, transported to the left bank of the Danube on the 19th, were repulsed on the fol- lowing day. Georg-y is with 60,000 men near Neuhauxl and St. Peter's, one league from Comorn; and he has re- lieved that fortress, before which there were 15,000 Aus- trians. The Hungarians are in full march for the frontiers of Austria, and are four (German) miles distant from Vienna." Another correspondent of this journal says that the ad- vanced posts of the Hungarians are at Tyrnau. From another source we learn from Vienna that Comorn is relieved; the corps of General Wohlgemuth was driven back five German miles. It is added, that not only have the Magyars relieved Comorn, but they have advanced within two leagues of Presburg. While General Welden was beaten on the Danube, Pesth, the capital, was evacu- ated by the Austrians, who crossed the Danube on the 21st, at five o'clock p.m. It appears certain that Buda has also been evacuated; and should all this be confirmed, it is ex- pected that Kossuth will re-open the Diet there on the 24th. The Hungarian General Vetter has been appointed to take charge of the re-establishment of all the passages of the Danube below Pesth, to occupy Stuhlvveissenburg, and to raise the landsturm of those countries. The Emperor of Russia is expected at Olmutz on the 5th of May.

FURTHER PARTICULARS. Intelligence has been received from Vienna, of the 25th ultimo. The utmost agitation prevailed in the city on ac- count of the advance of the Hungarians. Should the Hun- garian army appear under the walls of Vienna the Viennese would rise upon the garrison, and open the gates of the city to their Magyar deliverers. The Constitutional Gazette of Vienna, of the 24th ultimo, says:— Though the tranquillity of our city has not yet been dis- turbed, the news of our ill success in Hungary has produced a strong effect upon the populace. The streets are regularly patrolled, but the public-houses are filled with the factious, and cries of Kossuth for cIv, ell 1 are frequently heard. The workmen seem prepared to enter anew on the political arena. It is said that they intend, in case Kossuth attacks Vienna, to rise en masse, in order to join him. The public consterna- tion is extreme; every one wishes to procure gold and silver, and the bankers' and money-brokers' offices are besieged by jnultitudes." n The Hungarians have been as successful on the Lower as they have been on the Upper Danube. They bombarded and burned Carlovitz on the 16th, and they have sent large quantities of arms and munitions of war from Agram to Sem- lin, by Sisacok. Perczel entered Kerkovah without meeting the least resistance. 0 The ministerial journal, the Austrian Lloyds, says:- We must evacuate Pesth and Buda, raise the siego of Comorn, abandon all the forts and strong places in Hungary —in fine. assemole all the Imperial forces on one point, to obtain a decisive result. If we are victorious, we shall soon reg-am ail we have lost, and we ar.e sure that we shall care- fully preserve what we shall thus regain." The Wiener Zeitung publishes a Government proclamation on the subject of the Hungarian war, in which, after sum- ming up the events since the commencement of the war, the Austrian Cabinet protests that the fate of Hungary must have its decision on the field of battle, and that the Austrian I'S Ministers allI (I encrals will act exclusively with this view of the question. "Our enemies (these are the words of the proclamation) must be fought with. It is necessary to rout them, and to annihilate them, and until this shall have been accomplished no attention whatever can be paid to anything besides this grand object." 0 The proclamation concludes by stating that most ener- getic measures are being taken to attain the object in view, and that no bulletin will be published, nor the further move- ments of the Imperial forces divulged to the public, and that the Austrian patriots ought to be satisfied with the know- ledge that a gallant army, led by able generals, defends the cause of Austria in Hungary. The JBreslau Zeitung contains the following important intelligence:- I hasten to inform you, that in consequence of the total defeat of the Imperial army between Gran and the Danube, when 12,000 Austrians fell under the swords and bayonets of the Hungarians, and on their retreat fell a prey to the waves, General Welden is compelled to an immediate eva- cuation of Pesth and Ofen. The greatest disorder has pre- vailed the whole day. In a placard" Welden calls upon the two great cities to grant a perfectly safe retreat to the rem- nants of the Imperial army. Report says that Kossuth, by desire of the city, has granted the Imperialists an armistice of 48 hours for evacuating Pesth and Ofen. The Hunga- rians are to make their entry to-morrow. The greatest joy prevails there." The Cologne Gazette, in an article dated Vienna, the 24th, saysAfter this defeat of the Imperial troops, there can be no further question, at present, at least, of a concentra- tion of the Austrian army." The same journal says the Hungarians are preparing to make head against the Russians. The Diet of Debreczin has ordered a new levy of 200,000 recruits, 100,000 of them to be raised in Transylvania.

PRUSSIA. DISSOLUTION OF THE PRUSSIAN DIET. BERLIN, ArRIL 27.—The successive defeats sustained bv the Government in the Second Chamber on the German ques- tion, and on the motion for terminating the state of siege, s' have determined the Cabinet to dissolve that body. The Chamber did not separate till late in the afternoon yesterday. A Cabinet Council was held early this morning, at which the dissolution was resolved on, but nothing trans.- pired of the intention of the Ministry till it was actually carried into effect. Even the deputies of the Right most 6 closely connected with the Government had no suspicion of the step. The House met this morning at 11 o'clock. The minutes of yesterday's sitting were read and confirmed, and it was proceeding to the order of the day when the different Ministers entered together and took their seats. This, though not usual, did not excite much attention. The question was a motion for considering a short draught of a Z, law providing for the protection of the Chamber during the period of its session," till the measure against the abuse of the right of holding public meetings should come into operation. The urgency" of this motion was voted by 159 against 158 votes, a majority of one only. It was a superfluous proposition. The "period of 'the session" was destined to be very brief. The President of the Ministry rose in his place, and read the following Royal order:— i "We, Prede rick William, do decree, on the ground of the 49th and 76th Articles of the Constitution of the. 5th of Decem- ber last, and on the advice of our Ministry, as follows I. That the Second Chamber is hereby dissolved and "2. That the Upper Chamber is adjourned." The whole House was struck with surprise. Had a shell fallen through the skylight and exploded on the floor, it could hardly have caused more sensation. Not a word of explanation or motive was added, and the Ministers quitted the Hall. The President read the Royal order again, and declared the Chamber dissolved. At 11 o'clock it met quite cheerful and unsuspecting, and at half-past 11 it had ceased to exist. The intelligence of the event caused the greatest excite- ment throughout the city. In the evening crowds assembled on the Donhofs Platz and on the Linden. A party of soldiers endeavoured to clear the former locality; in the attempt the officer was struck and severely wounded. The soldiers im- mediately fired, and one man was killed on the spot; two others are wounded. This was at half-past eight; at nine, when the mail leaves, the vicinity of the Chamber was thronged, and the people, showed little inclination to disperse. There is too much appearance of our being on the eve of a second revolution.

HANOVER. DISSOLUTION OF THE HANOVERIAN DIET. The Commons House of the kingdom of Hanover was, on the 25th ult., dissolved by special message" from the King. —The proclamation states that the King's endeavours at conciliation were fruitless, that the diet was prorogued to the final solution of the German constitutional question; that a prolongation of the prorogation was consequently thought advisable, but opposed by certain members of the Diet; and that thus the King was compelled to make use of the right vested in him.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, ApIUL 17.—After the departure of the Canada money became easier and more animation existed, but lower quotations subsequently ruled, and the pressure in monetary circles "became severe. The closiho- rates of discount were 11 to 12 per cent, per annum; and of money on call 7 per cent. A million of dollars would probably be required for Europe. Arrangements have been made to p 1-1 anticipate the payment of another million dollars of Mexican indemnity. This would ease the market. The transfers of American stock have become limited. The dividends on the Pennsylvania debt will hereafter be paid wholly in specie. The demand for sterling exchange is active, and the Sup- ply reduced. Rates since the departure of the previous mail have ruled higher, and close at 106 to 106t, with an upward tendency.

AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.—By the royal mail steam-shin Niagara, Captain Rvrie, which arrived early this mornim* we are in possession of advices from New York to the 17th of April. The steam-ship Euiopa arrived out at Halifax on the 17th, in nine and a half days, and proceeded to New York. A Baltimore paper states that the Medway had left Cha- gres with about 1,000,000 dollars' worth of CaHfornian g old-' dust. The British frigate Constance, Captain G. W. L. Courte- nay, sailed from Callao on the 10th of February for Ma- zatlan. The Philadelphia Inquirer states that President Taylor, in a conversation with the editor of the Pittsburg Journal, expressed the following opinion in relation to the 'tariff:- He avows that, while leaving to the representatives of the people in Congress the adjustment of the tariff, he is in fit-- vour of protection and of a tariff which will endure, by virtue of not being too high, and gives a decided preference to spe- cific duties over the ad valorem principles which found favour with the last Administration. The United States naval force in the Mediterranean is to be forthwith increased. Commodore Morgan, who is to have the command of that station, solicited a line-of-battle ship, but it has been determined to send out threefrigate and the Mississippi, in addition to the force now there. The Canadian advices are unimportant. The province was tranquil. The signature of the Governor-General had not been affixed to the Indemnity Bill: it was supposed lie awaited instructions from home. A new tariff bill had been introduced into the Assembly. A tremendous conflagration had taken place in Toronto. A letter dated Montreal, April 7, states-" The greater part of the city is in ashes, and the loss is estimated at about 600,000 dollars. The magnificent cathedral of St. James, erected a few years since on the same spot where stood the former cathedral, which was "destroyed by fire ten years ago, is-included in the conflagration."