The Express. — London, England, 1863-02-02 00:00:00

FRANCE. Ps= en ova CORRIMPOSDID7.) PARIS, SATURDAY EVINDTO. Prince Napoleon, forming all by himself a mino rity of one, has voted against the address in the Senate. The positive command of his cousin and sovereign prevented him front speaking on the Roman question, but he has shown his feeling by his vote. This vote and the speech of M. Thouve nel, which are the only important features of the debate in the Senate, sweep away a forest of menda cious cobwebs which M. de la Guerenniire has been weaving in the France for months past. M. de la Gueronnii.re says that the Emperor's policy in re gard to Rome has never changed, but that M. Thou vend misunderstood it. This the late Foreign Minister indignantly denies. Ile asserts posi tively—and his assertions will be believed, because they but corroborate what every body knows—that in all his negotiations with Rome be faithfully and literally carried out the Emperor's instructions. When, therefore, he says that his last despatch to M. de Lavalette, threatening to withdraw the French forces from Rome if the Pope would not reform his government, was a bill draw n at a certain date upon his (M. Thouveners) per sonal honour, lie very clearly proclaims to the world that the Emperor ordered him to pursue a course of policy which it seemed good to his Ma jesty to change when lie called for the aid of M. Drouyn de Lhuys. The moderate, respectful terms in which this declaration is put make it all the more irrefutable. M.Thouveuel, with all the weight of his official knowledge and experience,denounces the reforms in Rome with which the Pope is amusing M. Drouyn de Lhuys as altogether illusory, and expresses a decided opinion that the French occupa tion is no longer justifiable. M. Billault's answer to M. Thouvenel was a choice specimen of the height of impudence. He told the senators in a very few words that all discussion was useless, and that they had nothing to do but to vote the ad dress, because the Emperor was resolved to main tain the deans quo. But the zealous and clever M. Billault forgot that the very paragraph of the address on which he was speaking contained an assertion in flagrant contradiction with his argu ment. He said, formerly we met with a lioti ponstains at Rome, and now we mret with a 10.11 pOSSUMUS at Turin, and under these circumstances the Emperor, who will never weary in attempting to conciliate the two parties, will wait. But the address, meaning to insinuate that M. Drouyn de Lhuys' policy has been to a certain extent successful, says, untruly indeed, but auda ciously and distinctly, "at Turin they meet° talk of Rome." That is the wilful misrepresentation made by the framers of the address of t h e dignified refusal of the Italian government to enter into any negotiations on the subject with M. Drouyn de Lhuys. M. Billault was quite right when he said there was a non possum/is at Turin, but that was a very bad argument in favour of the address as it stood ; because the address said quite another thing. However, M. Billault had probably small for his audience, and at any rate he rightly respectug that the argument was good enough for them. There was nothing else worthy of serious notice in the Senate's debate on the address, which, in obedience to a hint from a high quarter, was gone over at railroad speed. Baron Dupin made a speech as tedious as irrelevant about the small proportion of Roman oatholics in Prussia who get government appointments, the progress of Hegel = iSIII, and the annexation of Belgium to Holland at the beginning of the century. This speech alone constituted what was called the " general discus sion." _ The Patrie is authorised to give a positive contra diction to a reported conversation copied from the Nev' York Tribune into a London journal, between the Emperor and Mr. Slidell, in the course of which his Majesty was said to have proposed the purchase by the Union of all the slaves in the South, and Mr. Slidell to have admitted that slavery could not be expected to endure beyond the present century. The Petrie says that this conversation (which by the way has been made use of by the Southern party in England as an argument to show that the Emperor in his media tion was anxious to put an end to slavery) is purely imaginary from beginning to end. It adds, and no doubt from the best authority, that in all the con versations which Mr. Slidell has had with political men in France, the question of slavery has never once been alluded to. It is, indeed, a remarkable thing that the Emperor, who some people think so wer7 clever, should attempt to interfere in the 'United Sta tes at this crisis, and give the go-by to the vital question of slavery altogether as if it were not worth a thought. Twenty-two Italians, notorious Bonrbonist con spirators, were, through the mediation of the Countess Waleweeki, invited to the Empress's last ball, behind the back of Chevalier Nigra, the Italian Ambassador. When the latter heard of the invitations, he at once wrote to the Duke de Basaano that sudden indisposition " would ire vent him from having the honour of waiting upon her Majesty. All his legation sent notes to the same effect. M. Nigra told Prince Napoleon what had happened, and the Prince thereupon in formed the Dike de Baseano, in no measured terms, that he considered it an insult to his wife to ask her to meet the notorious enemies of her father, and that neither be nor the Princess Clotilde would at tend either the ball or the grand dinner that was to precede it. In order the better to mark his ab nonce from the Tuileries, Prince Napoleon took his wife to dine that day at the Trois Freres, and lett such a handsome gratuity with the waiters as will Si the visit in their memory. The Figaro Programme states that poor Mdlle. Emma Liery, who is still at death's door from the efiTcts of her crinoline accident ou the stage, &aka every day to see the bills of the Opera. Her physiciaLs are of opinion that in the ppeaent shat tered state of her nerves it is essential to present her from knowing that the part of Fenella, in Masaiiielk, which she thinks is kept open for het, has now been given to another dancer. A pious frand is therefore committed, and false bills are printed every opera night for the sole purpose of being shown to Mdlle. LisTy. PLYMOUTH, FEB. I.—The Omer Pas* 76 days from Sedaoy, arrived last Light as Dartmouth, and landed her mail.. dim brings 20 puaeogara, aod 90,000 mutate of gold. LOON 4,i , A HONIWARD-BOrND COTTON-LLMIN gerp.—We here just received intelhgeses of the total de struction. by fire, at sea, of the fine bonus legal, while oe her promo from Pensambuom is the Brazils, to this port (Plymouth). She had a valuable cergo of cotton on beard. The lanai took fire on the 12th of December, in let. 42 N., long. 30 W., the masts falling overboard four days afterwards, so rapid was the action of the devouring element. Fortunately for the safety of those on board the Iceei, the burning vessel was fallen in with by the Forti tude, of Newry, which eacoseded is taking the sinfiartnente mariisers from the keel. They haws subsequently been transferred to the ship Yorkshire, and landed in this coun try. They being in a destitute condition, were forwarded to their respective homes by the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Society. It is fortunate the crew were rescued at the time they were, es, in the state of the wea ther, bed another day or two elapsed, there is little doubt that all oa board would) hen met with a watery grave.— Waders MorMag Nests. Et.:ONOKY 121 TIM NAVY Fern: AT M. —The pruning leas is, according to rumour, to he vigorously applied to Ms wavy seassiss. sad mew two millions are mectioned as representing the sum likely to be saved M the 6uaneial year 186344. The economy will chiefly be effected by the re duction M tits lest, as it is argued if iron• cased ships are warrior to thaw of wooden coustruction, we shall not re quire is essay of the latter. There will, therefore, be a consequent reduction io the amount of storm in comparison with former years. We fear there will be no attempt made to reduce the number of clerks is the civil branches of the service. bat on the contrary, it is expected there will be an increase among these gentlemen. —Army aid Nary Gazelle. [Advertimmetit.l HOLLOWAT'a Pius. Cold and Damp —ibe variable temperatures of winter are exceed. ingly try.ng to robust frames, and every precantlon Is required to preserve the feeble from positive disease. Holloware pills cleanse the blood from all Impurities wMch have entered It, •• bier from foul sir or obstrected perspiration. This is • grand barMt both to preventhrg and curing all illnesses, and Invaluable to a debar*, eenstitebon, because the corruptive cirsidarlon wise* wcskrard and dearreyed the springs of bfa thus purified by these PH* moat crecessanly support and Invigorate them. cealestion of the luso. hdannnatacro of the throat= ln soma, and bear sirs, Holloway'. Pills prove the beet for s = we n gab iroff all urgent srwygotor, and the wrest preventing' Of POLAND. Bullier's Correspondee.•e, not by any means a revolutionary organ, contains the following comments on the Polish News : " Notwithstanding all that is said to the contrary in the Russian newspapers, the movement in Poised tends to be come general, and is assuming • real importance. A delegate from the central committee of Warsaw came to Paris lately, and has had several interviews with his countrymen herr A great many notable Polish refugees have left Paris for the theatre of events. Generals Wysoki and If iera laerski, who for the last year b e d b ee , a oa bad terms in conseq uence of • quarrel relating . . _ to the dissolution of the Polish school at Genoa, are now remedied, and propose to go at once to Poland in corn pan, with the pliant General Dembinski. If the insur rection can only hold out for three weeks longer, the Poles in Paris think that it has a chance of success, aided, as it i s likely to be, by the demoralisation and defection of a great pert of the Russian army, and by the rising which is immi nent in Lithuania and in the provinces of the military sub division of Kiev. It im in the manufacturing districts of Poland that the greater part of the recruits for the insur rection have been found. The sugar refineries in the neighbourhood of Plod, where more than 20,000 men are commonly at work, and the large iron furnaces of Melte and Radow are entirely deserted, and most of the men lately employed in them have joined the bands which hold the open country." The Warsaw Police Gazette of the 26th of January con tain' the following ordinance ci the Prefect of Police, Lientenent-Colonel Machette, which shows that the autho rities considered it nemerary to take very severe precast tiooary measures to preserve tranquillity in the city : " Ist. Assemblages of more than three persons are prohi bited. 2nd. Assemblages in case of fire are prohibited. It is squally prohibited for any one to stop while the soldiers are Famine. 3rd. The doors of every Mow meet be *aid et nine o'clock in the evening. 4th. Frost this day forward no one will be allowed to go out after nine o'clock in the evening without a lantern ; from one o'clock in the morning until daybreak nobody must appear in the streets. sth. All taverns, cafes, dining rooms, tic., must be cloud at sir o'clock in the evening. 6th. Every one who oomes into, or quits the city, must be furnished with a passport The inhabitenta must in addition conform to the mulattoes published in the proclamation of the state of siege in the PolieeGlezette of the 14th October, 1861." DRAMA. ST. JAMES'S. The little piece entitled the Merry W idow, which was produced at the St. James's Theatre cat Saturday evening with the most gratifying swam, ought to teach a lesson to managers, actors, and audiences. Without any compli• rated plot, any startling effects, any strong farcical element in any of the characters, it has succeeded mainly by the simple force of one untrained and affecting incident. Though it is divided into two acts, the runt act is merely • prologue to the piece, and the piece is merely a churning family picture. Of course, in such • play, • vast deal depends upon the actors, who must be something more than mere puppets overcrowded by dresses, scenery, and action. Hue' Herbert played the part of Mrs. Charles hlildmay with even more . than her usual ladylike delicacy, giving force and meaning to every attitude, and reflecting in her face all the varied emotions arising from her painful pod tioe. In thelastscene,whereshegradually awoke to &conscious nem that the letter being read to her blind mother was not this time am innocent deception brought forward in her sup posed dead husband's name, her acting rose to a high degree of tragic intensity, free from rant or exaggeration. Mrs. Frank Matthews (who was suffering from the effects of a severe fall) played the pert of the blind mother with perfect naturalness and great feeling. We are glad to state this, because this lady is generally associated with broad farcical parts, and because it mar help to dispel that Hindoo superstition of stagnroanagers which would always keep an artistic actor to one monotonous line of character, Miss Patti Joeephe, as Florence Mildmay, acted with great taste and premise. She is very young, and has, of course, much to learn, but she is beginning well, her youthful dif fidence being greatly in her favour. No young actors are hopeless as thou who swagger in their teens with precocious impudence and believe they have compassed the whole of their art. The delicacy with which Miss Patti Josephs con trived to throw a melancholy tone into the sprightly tensed, was forced to play upon the piano to help in de ceiving her mother, was not lost, we believe, upon the audiemee. Mir Adeline Cottrell went very creditably through the part of Mrs. Dslamere—a chancier which would take much of Mrs. Stirling's force and tact to do it full justice; and Miss Ada Dyes acted very pleasingly as Mrs. Mildmay's servant. Mr. Frank Matthews made a very agreeable genial at torney, looking just the sort of man to reader everybody happy ; sod Mr. S. Johnson contrived to stead out in a very small part of an old lawyer's clerk by his very artistic make-up, and his strongly marked meting. He is deserving of special praise for playing so onsll a put, and for doing his best to make it distinct without being obtrusive. The young man, Arthur Aylwyn, was played by Mr. Arthur Stirling with commendable care and meaning, ;-it with a little too much heavinees in the lighter passages. Mr. SU:lints elocution is rather monotonous. His cadences are not .6sntly varied, and he relies too much on the lower notes of his voice. He seems to us to want tender isers, and we like him far better in villaim than in lovers— eves lovers with a purpose. The bones was full ; the piece and all the actors were most rapturously received, and Mr. Buckingham was ho noured with a cell before the curtain. THE DISASTER AT THE PRINCESS'S THEATRE. On Saturday afternoon the coroner's investiga tion isto the circumstances through which Sarah Smith met bee death was opened by Dr. lankester and a jury at Middlesex Hospital. Mr. Edward Morgan, house surgeon of Middlesex Hos pital. said he saw deceased when admitted to the hospital ea Friday week. She was extemaivedy burned on the face, Deck, sec forehead, hack and frost and cheat, both arms, and one-third of the whole audios of the body. She never rallied, and she sank last Weeneeday at a tram ter bef.re 6 o'clock at sight. The cause of death was exhaustion caused by bums. Meet of the interns! viscera was congested, but those was so inflanimatios. Elbe said nothing of the mum of the oxidant. William Harris said he was super-master of the Princess'. Theatre. He superintended the extra ballet. He saw the accident. It happened on the prompt or the left side from the audience. He was standing on the right or 0. P. side. He saw Mrs. Hunt, one of the extra balleta, in flames. She ran to the first entrance on the prompt aide, but she did not page out. She pored Miss White, end in lasing_Mits flenith, set fire to her. Mr. Ruby followed Mrs. Hunt, threw her down, and with his Inverness cape put out the fin). He then returned to Miss Smith, and, with the as. eistanee a[ the soldiers on the stage, put the fire out. The deceased wore more skirts than were usual. The outride skirt was supplied to the ballet by the manager. He believed the outside skirt had been dipped in a solu tion to prevent fire, but he was not positive. It was the night before the dresses had to be altered, and be ac. counted for the fire by supposing that the unintlammable outlines had worn out. He was not aware that mi the evening of the accident there were any other than the ordi nary appliances to put out fire. There were firemen in the Mr. Robert Rozby said, he was stage-manager of the theatre. He did not see the clothes of the girls on Bre. When he heard the first scream of the girls he was standing on the prompt side. Mrs. Hunt ran off the stage to the first wing. He seized her and tried to tear off the clothes, and (lading he could not extinguish the dames he threw his Inverness cloak around her. The fire hose was always ready for fire, but there were no special arrangements. He thought damp blankets on each side of the stage would be desirable. In the present case he did not think that if there had been rugs at hand the fire could have been extin guished. It was very difficult to catch a person who was on fire. - 447; Edson, 1, William.alrest, Keriningtoe.park, said she was • ballet girl at the theatre. She saw Mrs. Hunt on fire. She was standing next her, sad cried out " Annie, you are on fire." She screamed red ran away. She did not see Elbe Smith catch fire. She did not think the tire was caused by the gas. It was, she thought, from the tin plates alight pans. She (witoese) ran to the back of the stage. The managemeet provided the outside skirts. She had never thought of trying whether the skins were intim nimble or Dot. Ens Huggins supplied the skirts. It wee blue drapery, but not the outside taria4an skirt, that took fire. The drapery over her shoulders first caught. By a Juryman—She thought sufficient care was taken to prevent fire by the gas. The Coroner said be also thought sufficient precautirns were taken to prevent fire from the gas. William Randle said he was • firework artist to the theatre. He made the lights burned to produce the alit initiating effects in the theatre. Eight of the illuminating lights were burning at the time of the accident, four on each side. He lighted the lights with a wax taper. The lights were green sad red. He did not we gunpowder, and the lights threw oat no spark.. Here the witness exhibited one of the tio pans, and said they were placed two fret from the girls. Sometimes the match of the fuss would spatter, but he did not see any sputtering when the saddest occurred. The match was made with cotton, saturated with gunpowder. He saw Mrs. Hunt pass him In flames. He had lighted the lights for thirty years, and bad never nee the fuse sparkle. He had no idea of how the fire oc curred. It had not happened from the gas. The most probable theory was that the fire had occurred by sparks from the match, but he could not say whether it had been so or not. He bad now introduced another system of lighting the lights. William Aitken said he was • property man at the theatre. He held • light at the third wing, and Era. Hunt was between him and Mr. Boodle. He did not see her take fire. Did not think any sparks from his for had caused the fire. H's light could sot drop out, as it was tied in. He lighted the light with • taper. He was scan he did not use • Inciter. He held the third light, and Mr. Randle the second. The dress could not bare caught fire Nei the other lights. It was therefore most probable that the dress bad caught fire either from his light or from Mr. Randle's. After some conversation it was arranged that the coroner and Dr. Morgan should proceed to when En. Hunt was lying, to get any evidence she could give. Upon the return of the Coroner, he seal be had seen Mrs. Hunt, and that she bad said the first ides she bad of being on fire was from an intense heat she felt behind her. She turned round, but could not see the firs. She thought it wet probable that her dress must have caught from • spark from the young man's fire-pan. She could not say if any one was to blame. She had performed at many theatres before, and she never knew of one being unprovided with remedies for fires taking place amongst the members of the ballet. There were always wet blankets kept at the wings. (Jo °us occasion, when she was dancing at the Surrey Theatre, sav ahe mush% fi re, and by these wet blanket s h er lif e was ed. Mr. Henry William Linda', lessee of the theatre, mid he had not seen the accident. If anybody was in a theatre for three months he would see how difficult it was to make the people take proper care of themselves. Sinop the accident bad occurred appliances for putting out fires had been provided in the theists*, such as damp blankets, rugs, mops, kc. During Mr. Hasa's management arrangements for putting out fire had berm put in force in the theatre; but Mr. Harris bad abolished the whole thing, and this might account for no I each arrangements being in operation when the accident occurred. He did not ksow whether the dresses worn by the=were uninflammable or not. some farther evidence of minor importance, the Coroaer marnmed up, and the jury, without requiring the court to be cleared, returned a verdict of " Accidental death." They also paired the following resolution : " The jury wish also to express then opiaioa that sufficient pronounces were not takes at the Princese's Theatre to • extinguish say accideatel fired the clothes of the corps de They also atroagly urge the necessity of reedering articles ef linen and cotton clothes fireproof by the manu facturer and the laundress." lab) intrlligtnct. Importing ten without colour on th e lest pre vents Um, Masse peeing off Inferior brown leaves as In us. semi Us& ilorninsan's Teo Is uncoloured, thsrefore always wed &ULU told V ludiuta b/ t.ses smsta.—(AdvertissessaL THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 2, 1863. 3EZTEOPOLITAN 001TNTY 03IIITA. Maas days appointed for the prom* week. Warn= Wu, da klarlibeelans.—Wooday, Feb. 3: Tuesday, 3 Wednesday. 4 Thursday, 5. Buromumar, Portland•road.—Wednesday, Feb. 4 , Thursday, Friday, 6. BIBITFORD.—Tuesday. Feb. 3. Cunumwicu s Duncan-terrace.—Toesday, Feb. 3 , Wednesday, 4 ; Friday, 6. GaolalgrCH,Oldetreed.read.—Toesday, Feb. 3 Thursday, 6. Bow. Bow-road.—Monday, Feb. 2: Friday. 6. WHITICHAPIL, Great Prearotatreet.—Turalay, Feb. 3: Wed• &today, 4 ; Thursday, 5 ; Friday. 6. GOOTHIWIL lialatatreet.—Tuenday. Feb. 3 : Thursday, : Friday, 6. Bunirrow, Whitehead's.spere.—Wednesday, Feb. , Thurs. Ga b. t imrs , Camberwell New-road. —Tuesday, Feb. 3. 011.10011FICH.—Wednesday, Feb. 4. Woominat.—Thursday, Feb. 6. than be had anticipated, and said he had no wish for the ease to go for trial, but be hoped his lordship would deal with it. The defendant was fined 405., or in default one month's imprisonment. The money wee afterwards paid. GUILDHALL John Callan sod I e;ri Oonde, this Clar Le, were charged with fraud. -- Prisoners went to Mr. Chapman, potato salesman of F. einem Market, an ha d i =ed for a ton of potatoes, at 51. lbs. Clarke was , and when requested to pay. said as soon as he got the Potatoes into his cart round the corner he would do so. Callan acted as porter. Haring waited a abort time after the last sack making the ton had been carried away, as prisoners did not return, Mr. Chap man went round into Stonecutteretrest sad found they had decarrped. A witness, of whom they hired a van, proved that the primer's compelled him to drive to several places to sell the potatoes, and that they ultimately sold them to • Mr. ' Hummentone, in Somers•town, for 41. He err them divide the money, sad Clarke then told him if he was asked where he took the potatoes, to say he unloaded them into another van. On Ma declining to be mixed up with what be then inspected was some fraud, they said there was nothing wroeg, it was only " a little bit of business on the quiet." Remanded for inquiry. ROW-STREET. Charles Madden, George Dray, Charles 11,iti, and W. Turner were charged with defrauding Pat Conyngbam of two sovereigns. The prosecutor met the prisoner Madden when he was going to the theatre. Madden asked him the way, and got into converietion with him. He then induced him to go into a public-bones, where they met the other prisoners, and began pleayigtgamee , during which prosecutor was induced to lend Madden two sovereigns, which he refired to give him back. They then wanted to bet him that his watch was made of tin, sad they took him to a pawnbroker's to see how mach would be advanced upon it. He was getting a ticket for the watch, when a constable came in and saved him from further i”orMoo. Mr. Lewis, for the priories, enteaded that the money was only lent, sod the prisoner were willies to repay it. Mr. Carrie rid be bad often sees foolish peeler in the witars-box, but never such a fool as the proarrator. If • man wee fool enough to lend the money in the way this had bees lest, it wee not a criminal act, but he should ceder the money to be returned. The primmer were discharged. MARLDOROUGH4TREET. _ _ John Townsend was summoned by Captain Seymour, Gronadkr Guards, for driving • horse and cart, to the common danger of the passengers, in Oxford-street. Captain Seymour said that about • quarter•put See o'clock on the 21st December, he was crossing Tottenham wort-road, in command of the picket of the Bank of England, when the defendant, who was driving • van, at tempted to break the ranks, but was prevented. Be then tried to force his way through • second time, but was again by a sergeant and a policeman. Witness gave the Ven P rant into custody, but the constable refused to take the charge, on the ground that none of the soldiers had been knocked down. Mr. Boor said the constable was quite right in refusing to take the charge, and asked if the defendant whipped the hone or was driving fast? Captain Seymour said be did not see him either whip his hone or drive fast ; but a sergeant and a soldier swore he did. Of two policemen, one said that be did whip his horse, the other that he did not. The defendant mid be did not intend to drive against the soldiers, but owing to the traffic behind him be could not pull up quickly enough. The street was exceerively crowded at the time. Mr. Knox considered that soldiers were entitled to the lame protection u other painengeni in the street. The question here was whether the defendant drove "sou to endanger the lives of persons," which were the words in the act of parliament. The evidence wu very contradictory, and he did not think this was a cue for • heavy fine. He should therefore order the defendant to pay Is. and cute. THE AUSTRALIAN COLONIES AND TRANSPORTATION. The following memorial wee presented to the Duke of Newcastle on Saturday : TO RIB GRAM TIN TOMB OF NIWCASIII, H.O. My Lord Duke,—The committee of the General Association for the Australian Colonies, elected by an influential body of gentlemen in this country, who are interested as colonists, or otherwise, in the several free Australian colonies, have not failed to observe the demand fora renewal of transportation which has of late been publicly made by a portion of the press of the United Kingdom and by several judges, grand jurors, and other persons connected with the administration of justice. Being anxious that her Majesty's government should not be igno rant of the sentiments entertained on this subject by Australians, they desire to lay the following statement before your grace. They believe that transportation to any part of Australia is viewed with grave and well-founded apprehension by the people and legislatures of all the free colonies. First. Because the progress of the settlements founded by Great Britain in both hemispheres jus tifies them in the conviction that before long the whole of the Australian seaboard will be settled by emigrants from the mother country ; and because there is no greater impediment to healthy coloni sation, and nothing more pernicious to the moral welfare of a free settlement, than that it should be founded upon crime, and that its early history should be written in shame. Secondly. Because the apparent material p and success of the old penal settlements OEN= South Wales and Van Diemen's Land is not likely to berepeated uow, when facilities foroommunication will render it impossible to isolate new settlements ; when it will be hopeless in the secondary stage to attract free emigrants to a penal colony while free colonies in its neighbourhood are offering more attractive fields for labour ; and when the enor mous cost of such settlements, and the abuses to which their government is liable, will undoubtedly lead before long to a reaction in public feeling, and to partial if not entire abandonment of the ex periment Thirdly. Because the experience of former penal colonies shows that an essential part of the system is the granting of conditional pardons, allowing and practically inducing the holders to leave the settle ment for any place except the United Kingdom ; because the panting of such pardons to convicts in Van Diemen s Lund and Western Australia has compelled the adjoining colonies to enact in their self-defence measures subversive of the Queen's prerogative and inconsistent with the law of Eng land ; and because such a conflict is discreditable to the public policy of the empire, and will, if per sisted in, tend to weaken the loyalty of the colonies. Fourthly. Because the existence of the penal settlement on the western coast of Australia has been protested against by all the free colonies, and in practice by the free people of that settlement itself, whose numbers have continuously fallen off since the introduction of British felons • and be cause that introduction is only advocated by those who remain in consequence of the local expendi ture, defrayed from the imperial exchequer, which it necessitates. Fifthly. Because they were unwilling that Australasia should be the subject of experiments in penal legislation pernicious to the colonies, and at the same time certain to fail in their main object— the diminution of crime in the United Kingdom ; transportation to Australia being no longer looked upon by the criminal population of this country as hopeless exile to a land of toil and suffering, but rather as a means of reaching the gold fields ; and being even now eagerly hailed in convict prisons when offered as a substitute for penal servitude. In conclusion, the committee, fully recognising I the praiseworthy desire shown by her Majesty's go vernment for full inquiry into the subject, as evi denced by the recent appointment of a royal cow -1 mission, would very respectfully remind your grace that it is to the acts of the Secretary of State for the Colonies rather than to the advice of an irre sponaible commission that colonists look in matters of imperial policy affecting their welfare ; and they trust that the result of your grace's consideration of the present momentous question will add another to the many expressions of confidence felt by the colonies in your grace's administration of affairs. We have the honour to be, your grace's faithful, obedient servants, Charles Nicholson, Stuart A. Donaldson, Daniel Cooper, and W. C. Wentworth, New South Wales. Frederick A. Du Croz and James A. Youl, Tasmania. W. Bagot and A. L. Elder, South Aus tralia. Walter Brodie and John Morrison, New &eland. James Rae, L. Mackinnon, and H. G. Ashhurat, Victoria. Septimul dibbou, Queensland. London, Jan. 13. A Cadiz telegram says that yellow fever had almost disappeared from the capital of the Canaries. PROPONID MIXORIAL TO Mt LATI RICHARD Guam —Oa eatarday an indoestial ineeg of the friends of the late Mr. Green, the shipowner of Midmall. took place at the Literary Institution, West ladle Dock-road. for the purpose of taking into considenitioa means for erecting an appropriate memorial to the memory of the late lamented gentleman. Mr. Peter Bolt, of the TMissa Iron Shipbuilding Works, took the chair, and after some w marks from lb. O. F. Yong, and other gentlemen • rowan. tion to the Weal that it woe desirable to raise a suitable y memorial to the wassisn of/ate Mr. Rieberd Green wee adopted. aad it wee I to coseene a public meeting at the inhabitants of the fa furthermore of the object. THE Banangates Was.—Puesz AND Lynne' wznonao Putnam to the News. ialt. inabloosark prangs Plower. sirruc sod Illy of the Volloy-ihroo bottles la • car. 76., or to 414. ausett.--1. Now Boaiiiiirool, W.—indroltisememt.l COURT OF QtREN'S BENCH.-JAN. 31. B[War in Banco.—(Bstore Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, and Justine, Wightman, Crompton, and Blackburn.) BUBINT3B OP THE COURT. The Lord Chief Justice announced that he should pro• side this day (Monday) at Nisi Prins. The court would also sit io Banco and proceed with Mr. Justice Blackburn's DIM trials, and the others in their order, except his (the Lord Chief Justice's) new trials. TRAY V. 818 COLLI BLACKBURN. Miss Fray again appeared in person to move in this case, which was an action against Sir Colin Blackburn, one of her Majesty's Justices of the Court of Queen's Bench, the particulars of which were reported a few days since. His lordship retired from the bench during the application. She said she was advised to apply to the court to be allowed to amend her declaration in this case under the Common Law Procedure Act. She wished to state in the declaration malice and other things against the learned judge. She was advised that she bad a strong case against his lordship, and by being allowed to amend her decimation in the manner asked much litigation and trouble would be saved. Yr. Ja Lice Crompton—Have you an affidavit ? Mies Fray—Yes, my Lord. Mr. Justice C rompton—Then hand it up. Having read it, his lordship asked her if she had anything more to ssy Mien Fray said she hoped their lordship woc!d allow her to amend the declaration on the ground asked. It was a very cruel case ; she was entitled to bar costa, and she should be able to show malice and other things ; she had been used very ill in this and other matters. Mr. Justice Mellor—What do you mien by " malice and other thinp M;vo wpild lie.Fray—Corruption. She understood that an action - Mr. Justice Crompton said there wee no doubt they had the power to amend . The question was if they orght to do it. Miss Fray said it would save trouble if she were allowed to go on, es she wart deterw;ned not to stop ii:th it. Mr. Justice Crompton said he thought the court ought not to allow the amendment. If the words were inierted the action would not lie, and it was no doubt for the benefit of the public that no action should lie against a judge for anything done in the course of him judicial duty. If the declaration was amended if would be equally bad. It ap peared to him that this was a vexatious proceeding. The affidavit was loosely worded, and as hs considered it was • vexatious and improper proceeding, the court ought not to lend the plaintiff any aid. Application refused. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.-JAir. 31. Sittings in Banso.—(l3efors Lord Chid Janke Eris and Justices Williams, Willis, and Keating.) /RIM V. Kt 010101 GRIT—APPLICATION FOR AN AVVACH- KEIT. Mr. O'Malley Irwin again appeared before the court in this cue, sod moved for an attachment against Sir George Grey and Lord Westbury for contempt of court, and mud that the alleged contempt of Sir G. Grey was not producing certain document• according to the requirements of his enliven& dunes tee= ; sod as to Lord Westbury, that he bad thrown the writ and the viaticum at the The Lord Chief Justice interposed by laying, that it waa contrary to the practice to grant rules for attachment upon the last day of tam. Mr. Irwin wished to explain some observations reported in the newspapers, as having been made from the bench on a previous occasion. The Lord Chief Justice, however, dec li ned to hear him, for the reason previously tilted. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. JIM 31. (Before the Judge Ordinary.) 000 es v. woes (asap, (Continued from Saturday's Express.) The Rev. John Young Cooke, the respondent — l never heard till the petition was fileethat I was accrued of any acts of violence towards her. ldy youngest son Arthur is imbecile, and be is in the charge of a Mrs. Clement and her daughters, who live in • cottage near me. He was placed there by the advice of my family surgeon. My youngest daughter , Mildred, is at • school, where she was placed by the advice of Mrs. Wyld. Since the visit of my eldest daughter; to their mother in the Isle of Wight they have scarcely ever spoken in my presence. Cross-examined by Dr. Spirks—l merely stroked down my wife's face. I never forced my hand into her mouth. She took hold of my finger to bite it. My wife may very likely have strongly objected to a mode of endearment like stroking her feu I did not point at her with my whip in • menacing way ; but we were both angry. I will swear that I did not see marks on her face or ban& the next day. I had moved the chair when she fell, but I did not do so in order that she might fall. I have not treated my daughters with great harshness since they went to the Isle of Wight ; certainly not Mr. George Jocelyn—l reside at Ipswich, and am the family solicitor of Mr. Cooke. I have known the parties about thirty years. I have had two occasions of seeing which of them was to blame. The first was about a ear I went with Mr. Wyld to Semer. Mrs. Coo ke had pre viously written to me, and when I was next at the rectory she asked me if I would allow her ao opportunity of speak ing to me is the presence of her husband. When I was about leaving the following day I was in the drawing room with Mr. sod Mn. Cooke, and she began a connotation by saying, "I wish to speak to you, Mr. Jocelyn, in the presence of my husband. He is con tinually finding fault with me, and I do not know what for." They then went on for three or four hours disputing in my presence about the children, the management of ser vants, housekeeping, and matters, so far as my recollection serves me, of the most trivial import. The matter left off just where it began. On that occasion the parties ex hibited a'oont the same amount of temper. I saw them again in the presence of Mr. Wyld. On that occasion I went at the request of the respondent. Mrs. Cooke's chief ground of complaint was that she was not allowed to sit at the head of the table, or take the management of the household. Mr. Wyld and myself listened for about two hours, and we then retired. We talked the matter over, and we decided that we would !endeavour to bring about • reconciliation. We recommended that Mrs. Cook should resume her place at table, but we were unable to effect that object. I then retired with Mr. Cooke alone, and I at length prevailed on I him to coosent. Before dinner Mr. Wyld and I arranged that be should take the petitioner to the head of the table, which he did. Both parties appeared during the discussion to be equally angry and equally ill.tempered towards the other. There was no violent language, but both kept find ing fault, and recriminating one upon the other. Mrs. Cooke did not say • word about her husbaud's cruel treat ment of her. She did not make the most distant allusion to it, and I bad no conception of anything of the kind. She certainly did not appear afraid of him. Cross-examined—My object in going to Semer wu to ' effect a reconciliation. The Queen's Advocate having summed up the case for the 1 1 defence. ! Dr. Spicks replied, contending that gross cruelty had been proved against the respondent, who, be said appeared to have behaved more like a Turkish heehaw than an English gentleman. His imperiousness seemed to have no bounds, and he appeared quite to forget that the position of a wife in this country involved her being the mistress of his family. With such a man nothing we. more probable than that he should have been betrayed into acts of violence, sod thus the petitioser's evidence would have been more credible than his, even if it had not been so strongly corroborated by her children and by Miss White, who must be regarded as a perfectly impartial withal.. The cruelty, then, being made out. he (the learned civilian) strongly contended that it had neither been condoned, nor bad Mrs. Cooke forfeited by delay her right to the remedy which the law gave her. lie submitted with great confidence that there must be a judicial separation as preyed. _ - Sir C. Cromwell maid he could not at oboe give judgment in this most distressing case, a case which necessarily in volved the greatest falsehood on the one side, or grow false hood and cruelty on the other. Whatever might be the re sult it was necessary that be should give the matter his gravest conaideratioo, lest there should be any misapprehen sion of his language in the event of his holding that there was sufficient ground forrejecting the petition, even although be might think the charge of cruelty bad been established. Judgment postponed. THE POLICE COURTS. MANSION-HOUSE. Hear!, KrAansy, • tall, powerful-looking man, time keeper at the omnibus station i• Graosohurchutreet, City, end late a constable in the City police, who was brought up the previous week charged with violently assaulting a gentle man named Smith, deidiegat 57, High Holborn, by striking him in the eye with hie fist, appeared on remand before the Lord Mayor in answer to his recognizance. On the previous occasion the case was adjourned in order So sesertion what effect the blow might ultimately have upon the complaiaant's eye, as it was then in such a dread ful date that he could sot see, and be was afraid that he rbonld lose the sight of it altogether, his other eye being sightless. H. stated, bowers,, that his eye was much better CLERKEN WELL. Mr. Beard applied, on the part of a lady, for an order for the protection of her earnings against her husband and his creditors. In June, 1858, the husband left his home, under the pretext of going to look for work, and he had never re tin_ied, nor had be ever allowed her any maintenance. She bad ow child about a tear old when the husband left her, and she was now obtaining her own livelihood, and had con trived to get together a little furniture ; she was also ex• pcitiog a Imicy, and all this she wished to be as from her husband in in.. of his return. Yr. Barker at lint grunted the mder, but upon the chief Berk ooming into court, he pointed out to the magistrate a ease, recently decided, to show that this was not a case of desertion. Yr. Barker then rescinded the order. MARKETS. TALLOW.—SATURDAY EVINLVG. - Tbe motet VS/ ateidy today at the following rates:—Spot. 45e. 6d. ; Jilar, 45e. 9d. to 46e.; April to Jane, 43 e. 9d. ; October to December, 475. 3d. Dehvery to but evening, 2,082 auks ; snivels, 779. COTTON.—Lrvziroca., JAN. 31.—We have had rather more doing to-day, with • better feeling. The sales are 5,000 bales, including 600 American, at 21d. to 22id. ; 4.150 Surat, at 15d. to 174 d. ; 100 Egyptian, at 21d. to 211 d. ; 150 Forum, at 210. ; of which 2,500 are for speculation sad export. To-day's import is 4,750 bake. COTTON GOODS.— MANCHESTER, JAN. 31.—We have had another week of stagnation and inactivity. The causes are sufficiently numerous. The advance in the rates of discount stands first, and then wines the alarm created by the renewed efforts of France to get • footing in the Ame rican quarrel. Another cause, no doubt, and the most important of all, is the absence of demand. The French minister's despatch bas disturbed confidence so seriously that whatever the sellers of yores or cloth may be willing at such a moment to accept for their goods, buyers are quite at a km to fix the lowest terms at which it would be safe to op erate. The yarn market as a rule is firmer than might - have been expected, though mainly because of the lowness of stocks, but make were made yesterday at as =4:reduction as Id. per lb. In cloths many of the pro appear to ant with great firmness, but in this branch of themarket, as in the other, they* is great irregularity in prices. Yea of experience my they have rarely seen so much irregularity. The India mail is anxiously looked for, in the hope that it may bring news that will give an impulse to business, and to some extent reams confidence for she present. It must not be forgotten, however, that with cotton goods at their present high rats it is next to im possible there can be any great increase of demand except of a temporary or speculative character. WOOLLEN CLOTH.—Lizos, JAN. 31.—The month closes with a good market. There was decidedly more ani. nation this morning in both halls; theattendance of beysis was numerous, sod their purchases pretty extensive. 401. tons in plain and fancy styles, tweeds (chiefly light mix tures), sod other spring fabrics were the chief objects of in quiry, and were readily bought ; low numbers, on account of their great and increasing scarcity, commanding advanced tares. Some good parcels of light me diums , pnocipally in middle qualities, also changed he. The market alto. gather wore a cheerful and an encouraging aspect. HARDWARE.—Biamintaaam, JAN. 3L —The trade of this town is inactive, but is by no means depressed, the manufacturers not haying yet had much cause to complain of amenity of orders ; they have io the great majority of instances had sufficient to keep their usual complement of hands steadily employed, and it is quite certain there is not much doing in the way of making up goods for stook. Since Christmas the country shopkeepers in the hardware trade have been doing only a moderate amount of business ; it is now stirring, and the factors travellers being again on the road, it is reasonable to anticipate that orders will again become more plentiful. The foreign trade is quiet, a few fresh orders have been given out for goods for the Aastm lien market, and there is • steady business to the West Indies. Nothing doing to Canada; to America there is more doing than there was twelve mouths ago. The iron trade continues in a tolerably healthy state ; to this district there is no scarcity of orders, and all the large works are in full operation. In this parish pauperism shows a steady de cline ; last week the number of cases of outdoor relief was 8,294 ; in the corresponding week of last year it was 11,692. CORN.—Csitammoe, JAN. 31.—Wheat as last week; barley in short simply and dearer. Wheat, 425. to 52a.; barley, 30s. to 425.; oats, 20a. to 265. CLIIIISLE, J. 3L—There was a good supply of wheat, and fair of barley and oats at our market to. day. Wheat meta slow sale, at last week's prices, the coadition being rather improved. Oats met a good demand, at hilly 3d. per bushel advance. Barley dull, at late rate*. Wheat, white, new, 17s. Od. to 20s. Od.; old, 17s. Od. to 20s. Od.; red, new, 16a. Od. to 18s. Oil. Barley, new, 10a. Od. to lla. 6d. Oats, potato, new, Bs. 6d. to Vs. Gil.; common, new, 7a. &l. to Bs. 3d. Bye, 13s. Od. to 15.. Od. Beans, 15e. Od. to 17s. Od. CotcmurrEs, JAIL 3L—A much larger show of wheat than for some weeks past. The sale slow, at a decline of la. The supply of barley, peas, and beans small—the two latter ware unaltered in price—barley, except for the lowest quality, Is. dearer. - - - - - °MIDTOWN JAL 3L —The supply of wheat to-day rather more liberal. A fair demand for all dry parcels at the prima of last week. Other deecriptinos were difficult to sell. Easley, eats, ks. without variation. Wheat. 40a. to 58a; barley, 31.. to 395.; cats, 21s. to 29a. ; beam, 38s. to 43.. ; pass, 40a. to 43.. per qr. HITITTORD, JAL 31.—A moderate supply of rhea.. Trade as before for dkry samples ; other lots lower. B e rl e , trade extremely dull, bat not lower. Beam, 6d. per load cheaper; °eta steady as before. Wheat. red. 28.. to 30s. per load 6.e, :rts. ; white, Ms. to 325. ; floe. 32a. Barley, malting, 35.. to 43a. per qr. ; grinding, 26.. to 36.. Oata, coarse, 16s. to 21s. ; feed. 225. to 264. Beaus, 2N. to 235. per load. Peas, 23.. to 265. per load. Uncteriut, Jaw. 31.—There was a moderate quantity of wheat on offer, the condition of which wee is some measure improved. Was took place quietly, sad the prices of !art week were with difficulty made. bid red was di. pmed of at 52a to 66a. : new, 46e. to 30s. ; old white, 55.. to 60a. ; new, 635. to 56.. per 36 atone. Barley came to hand slowly, and with a firm feellog in the trade high p r i ces were paid ; malting, 345, to 38.. per qr. ; grinding. 28.. to 30.. per 30 stone. The show of oats was limited, and ado to a fair extent were effected at 6d. to ls. per qr. advance on moot currencies ; old, 27e. to 30e. ; new, 21, to Mo. per 24 stone. NNWCANTLB-UPON-TYNK. JAN. 31. —A t our market tk a morning we had a moderate show of wheat from ry a growers, bat from the coast and from abroad the arrival s an to • fair extant, considering the elate of the weather; fresh-thrashed parcele, being wanted were in fair rein s , and a clearance effected at full last Saturday's ra t, From the stands few sales occurred, and the trade, tboa a k quiet, may be written firm, at about previous pm, Flour most be written the turn lower, with • limited la. quiry. Malting barley without change; nothing ps oaat4 . a grinding sorts. Beene met little attention. we 64 pee.. enquired for, whilst secondary varieties c little attention. Oats steadily supported their value ; e b,„ Scotch seem to be inelluieg upward ; Immo in raty hat* request. The arrirsla iii week are ama t a i n. 2,897 gm. ; foreigo, 5,286. Rye, coastwise, 66. BM% coastwise, MO. Malt, coastwise, 180. Oats, coestmes, 134. Peas, foreign, 36. Beast, coastwise, 15 ; forei g , Flour, aoastwme, 876 sacks. India' corn flour, 625 Facia. - Noaanca, 31.—Tbere wes • full &Wed's.* of Carman at /this Erase to-day, sod a good supply of wheat. The doomed was sot vary brisk. sad the el ta made were effected= terms sAOUy is favour of the lam The supply of barlay falls off, and late rates an fully ipp. ported for all descriptios. Is ade, bras, sad peas Dot mach doing. Flour 6d, per sack aeeepa. White wheat (welchiasi tilbs. to 63Iba), 465. to ; red ditto Orei g li ng 57Ibe. to 631te.), 42u to 455. ; best chevalier maltag barley (weighing 53Ibs. to 541b5.), 375, to 40s. oc i . chevalier ditto (weighieg 52Ibs. to 53160.). 354. to le t ; ditillusg ditto (wear rung 49Ibe. to 51Ib0.), 325. to 31a ; oohs, per qr. Flour, Ms. 6d. bouts, per took. 384. to 4 0 1 /. ; Ind Paw, 3 6 • to 40e IlirerrimAs, JLI. 3L The show of wheat was burly A 2 aversp. The weather has been mild during the week, and outdoor work makes mtidsetory progress. The de mud for wheat was dell, and all but very toe sorts two la. per quarter lower. New white mode 455. to 55e. ; as. red, 455. to 51a. ; old white, 58s. to 645. ; old md, 50e to 56e. per 36 Moon There was only a limited show of barley, which met a fair sale at quite as much mosey u last week. English malting, 345. to 435. ; foreign ditto, 34*. teak pee quarter ; grinding, NA to 30s. 30 Mose. There was a healthy feeling is the demand for eats, and pricer were rather higher; old, 25e. to 31s. ; seer, ra. to 265. per 2 stem. OXFORD Jar. EL—There was • fair supply of goo, wheat at this market to-da with about an equal damned and although many samp l, changed heads, there eau perceptible Asap in prices. The finest whits realised Gok par quark and red 56a. ; in low-priced wheat Rs. (w and 46s t rod) very little business Rid done. Malting bet* dthe finest description mule rather more money thim ha week, prices being from 30s. to 425. Oats were worth how 2os. to 28s. PITTIIRDOROUGH. JAN. 31.—There was a better supplier I wheat here to-day. and prices NM about L. per qr. lover than hat week. Barley in request at advancing rates, sot the same may be sad of bean. Oats without atteratioo. READING, JAL 3L—There was a modrateapply of whestatourmarket e thismo s rn s i s s with as average atteeduce. Business ruled somewhat d at no alteration in prim a I The supply of barley wee y so large as some few wools past; node was limited at last week's pone. The insister 'cuts, beans, and peen, was merely of a retail character. Boorman, Jon. 3L—At the Corn Exchange there was barely an avenge show of wheat, and the attendance of the town and country trade was very moderate. For best descrip tions of both home grown and foreiaa wheat the rasa allot market were maintained, but other kinds were la to 2a. per quarter cheaper. For primest lots of white the nes were rcta. to 60s. ; and red, 50e. to 64e. per quarter ; We nn and secoodary white, 48.. to bts., and rod, 40, - to 5 0s. per quarter. There was • moderate show of bong, sod last week's rata were maintained. Best malting was done at 365. to 40a., and grinding, 26a. to 30s. per gee err. Oate were a quiet trade at about foamier currencies, beet Polish realising as high as 28s. per quarter. In beans and pees c. there I. no change to note. Wilmer's, JAN. 31.—We had a mall show of wheat at market toelsy. Best white wheats fully enebstabed kW week's prices, but reds were Mbar auks to buy. Oate is czd te, •upply, and 6d. per qr. lower. Bean, peas, and bar. es .tt alteration. Prices to the power:—What, w 48s. to 50a., 631ba. per bushel ; red, 45e. to Me. ; Oats, 10ed. to Md. per stone. Beans, 345. to 365. pw qr. ,t of 19 Woos; old, 445. Wonarsren, JAN. 31. —At this day's market there was • full supply of wheat from the farmers which bead buyers at rather under the currency of this day week. Foreign held for proviooa rates. Barley maintained ha value. Oats held or quite as mach mosey. New beans ware is request for planting. Peas only taken in reted. Yong, JAN. 31.—ms show of wheat was tolerable, there being • sprinkling of red and white sorts. Selected commanded rats' ; inferior kinds were the torn O pars late New red realised 2s. to 465. ; new white, Be. 525. per 36 stone. The supply of barley was limited, wed there being hardly sufficient to meet the demand preview t.itee were rather exceeded ; malting, 325. to 38s. per qr. ; grinding, 295. to 30s. per 30 stone. Them was • short oboe of oats for which the dimmed was healthy at prices is sellers' favour ; new, 20a. to 245. per 24 stone. Rye, 345.; malt, 645. to 665. per qr. KIIMCALDT, JAN. 31.—At our country markets. this week, we had, as last, fair supplies of wheat and oats, but small of barley. Prices remain very much the same as last week. Here to day, we had very moderate supplies of wheat and tr day, and fair of oats. Prices of best barley and oats higher than last week ; samodary much the was ea formerly. Wheat without shame. Wheat, old and now, 295. to 545. per qr. Barley, new, 212. 6d. to 3b. Oat., new, its. to 21.. WATIMFORD, Jas. BL—We have spin to report VOT7 empty receipts of home-grown gm* and arrivals of tamp exhibit a considerable tallies off. Our market in come queer. continues exceedingly firm, but the amount of bust. nem peeping is not so large as of late. Wheat : Beet ate. Om of Irish are taken freely at fully last week's currency, but inferior runs are seglecited. Foreign not so much is quired for, and prime rather easier. Barley quite as dear. The supply of oats not being equal to the demand, holden are enabled to obtain a further edvanoe of 2d. to 3d. pa barrel. Indian corn not so active, but with a steady mo sumptive sale former prices are supported for good gush tam. Flour in better request, especially the coarser kuNk Imports this week : 2,006 qn Indian corn, 3,316. Exports this week:—Wheat, :32 barrels. Oats, 1,36 e barrels. Flour, 13 wiz. Oatmeal, 42 swim - - CATTLL—C•euaut, JAN. 31.—There were about 1% , heed of Irish cattle on offer in our market to-day. and tin quality of the lot. was good. Good atteedanos of buyers and a brisk trade doing. Prices ranged from 54 to 81. and 91. One lot of 14 head sold early in the day at about i'. The stock of young pigs on offer in our market to-day core prised about 50 cartloads. Small cheap pigs were rather manse, bat there was an exoellent supply of the meter clam. A brisk wholesale trade wee dope early in the day, but home buyer. were scarce. Prices ranged from is. 6d. to Os. fur the poorer lota, end from 10s, and lla. up to Ile. for the better clans. CRYSTAL PALACE.—HALT-A-CROWN DAY.—S 4 TUNDAT, JAN. 31. Admiasions on impose, 369; ditto by season tickets, 1.687 ; total. 2.056. The Times of June 23, speaking of petitions Watches in the Exhibition, says .—" Some of them are of ova beauty, and It the English watch trade only follow up with the same spirlt and steams this first attempt to compete nub foreigners In decorative watches, there seems to be no mesas why we should n rt get the trade entirety into our owls hands; airmiceseter-Doplex. Lever. Horizontal Repeaters, Centre Se conds, Keylew, Split Second, and every description of s :ask from the plsinest to the highest quality of which the art Is it present capable. and adapted to all climates. Benson n Ilia.- trated Pamphlet , free by pod for two stamps, on Watches s.O. talus a short history of watchmaking. with descriptions ;cites. It acts se • guide in the purchase of s wat , h. and enables those aho live In Scotland, Ireland. Wales, the Colonies. India, or any part of the world, to select a watch. and hose 0 rent free and safe by poet.-33 and 34, Lodgstebills Established 1749. —lAdvartisement. I BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. BIRTH& BAl.DRY.—January Si, at Tontaay. tho wife of A. Baldry. 1,1 of a son. BALDWlN.—Jantiary si. at Clay. House, near Halifax. the a W of J. Baldwin, Eris, of a sow. BRAMWELL—January 21, at Oxford, the wife of Mr. W C. Bramwell, of a son. cuuace ILL--January at Sainexdquare, Hyddr.irk, wife of C. Churchill. #oi . of a lon. HlclOL—January 81, atSuuthirlek-creacent,Hyde.part.. the ~k of Col•nel K. Nlcks. of II sou. MACCLEBVIELD.—.January at ghlrbura Castle, the COLllstelh ut Ilexclesaeld. of a daughter. MARRIAGE& BOLT .BARTLKY.—January i 9. at West Hackney Church. hi the Rev. H. Thompson, George Wells, son of the late h Holt. hist, of Ores* Yarmouth, to Sarah Julia Anna, ttuttittne t of the late R. Bartley. Ems.. of Rectory.plaoe, West litteto. PROBBRT—IICNT.—January 2d. at Holy Trinity Chunh, hot font, by the Rev. F. Bannister, W. R. Prithert, Esqof •e`l' port.Weaer, to Maria Lucinda, relict of the late T. Hunt. Kett of Victoria. STRICKLAND—ROARK—January 28, at the parlsh rims. iteckenhant, Rent, by the Rev. H. Burney, M. .t Altrern". Atereellne De Lille, eon of A. Strickland. bay, of delativis Devon, to Charlotte Anne, daughter of P. R. Hoare, keg .4 Luacombe, Devon. DEATHS. anuarY 29. at livaaturd street, chasm. S.„, bet . seal lap. BIDI?gN. -- Januaz7 28, at Kennington-terrace, Vautaall. Bidden, aged St 11.100.".—Febtaary 1. at Chatham. John Briggs. Lg.. of AO'. gat* House, (beer. tied 7 0 Jean: BUROCEIS.—Jaunar) fai, at tlanibererell New.rosd. Mr. t. _ Isar &Msod 67. EN Y.—January tis. at Clifton, neer &tad, J. W 142 ' bony, Iraq., J. l'. for Somerset, aged 62. HASLt . CI( —Januar, 2.9. at Hateloake flott.fe. !Stratford. ilia,‘• Kr. S. klasluck, ued 77. BIN ItlCHsltN.—January tg, et Ilighbary Nei/lark. H. U m ' Admen. Yaq.. aged SCOTIA NU.—January 111. at At. Mary Alibotgagerrace. Kro' aingin. tiarah, wife of IL Scotland, Iraq., e.g. IV 1(1/ILL—January U. at the Grange. Ifedale. YorkaMle. Rear. Admiral C. Wyvill. aged 71. Meted sad PebaLied by WILLIAM [MS HALM W 14.° LIMIMMtd4MOO4 111 the City of Leaden, Printer, at tam ow*. M besivirdetreet, to the Precinct of WO.ltefrie , . MUNDAT, Ibta. I