The Express. — London, England, 1848-02-10 00:00:00

Cruz either Mexican citizens or the subjects of any other nation, for the purpose of engaging in the exist war on the part of Mexico against the United States. A neutral vessel which carries a Mexican officer of high military rank to Mexico, for the pur pose of taking part in hostilities against our country, is liable to confiscation. On these instrue tioDs being submitted by Mr. Bancroft, the following answer was returned by Lord Palmerston : r,, r o g s.sake. Nov. lb, iSt..—tilt —ln answer to your totter of the eth instant (Mb, comslanting of the conduct of Captain May, of the Brinell mad riewnierTeviat , in haying conveyed General Paredes heu tbr Havana to %al Cr., in themonth of August ism, I b tve toe honour to stole to mu that the Lords Commindonerr of the tilmindtr, wisg investigated the eircummtances of Otis affair, her :Majesty's government here Informed the directors of the Royal Moil Stern p a , a gre company, to wham the runner Teviot belittler, that the di. rectors ere bound to testify, in a marked manner, their disapproval of o w t a m Move conduct, in having thus abused the indulgence afforded to the companfr versa to by the government of the United steter ; and the directors of the company have accordingly mated to her Majesty's government that they will immediately euspend Capt. May from his command ; and that they publicly atul distinctly con. demo lay art on the pan of their olitsers which mar be regarded as a breach of faith arcade the government of the UMW Status or man infringement or inmsion of the regulation/1 established by the United States °dicers in that ports of Mexico which are occupied by the Weer of the United Statue.— Signed) Paturairros. The next is a letter from the foreign secretary, which shows the truth of what had been stated by Mr. Webster a short time since, in a speech at the Massachussets convention, that government had con nived at the entrance of Santa Anna into Mexico. Private and eontidential.—U. S. Navy Department, Map Cl, 1$ IG.— Cocansodore, — lf Santa Anna endeavour" , to enter the Mexican ports, you will allow hint to pare freely.-4terpectfully yours, G. Criseaori. --Commodote David Conner, Commanding Home Squadron. The rest of this correspondence is not of material interest. There are no later dates from the seat of war than those previously received—viz., Mexico, Decem ber 17, but fuller intelligence is given. It would seem that the Congress at Queretaro was virtually dissolved by the non-attendance of the members. The new Congress would assemble in January, and a correspondent of El Monitor says, that many of the new senators and deputies were already on the road to Queretaro. The commissioners from the Mexican government had left for Queretaro, after having an interview with Mr. 'frist. It was supposed they went to bare a new conference with the supreme govern ment on the subject of peace. Mr. Trist, however, was acting as it were contrary to orders. Having been recalled, he could not contract any valid terms of arrangement. _ MONEY MARKET. NEW YORK, JAN. W.—The nook market during the past week has ben exceedingly quiet. Priem remain about We some as these current the wee k previous, and there is no thing in the perspective calculated to elevate or demean prices to any extent The shipments of specie do not abate, but the drain atea i uly continues, and the amount taken from this city within the port two weeks aconites nearly 100,000 dollars per .by. At this rate it is very easy to maculate how &Donner banks will be upon the verge of sus pension, and we see at present no probability of the foreign demand for our precious metals °mums . In view of these facts it is not difficult to tell what will be the state of the money market and the state of pricey for Mucks of all kinds for some time to Lome. With this weighing upon the market, prices for stock , cannot be otherwise thou depressed. Although quotations range several per cent. below points they have reached at any time within the pa •t two years, and most of the stocks in We lint are now netting much below their real value, there in yet a margin for is further decline, under the circumstances connected with financial matters. Securities of every kind, front treasury notes down to Morris Canal, must fall, until the turning point is reached: but whether a reaction will be produced by a cessation of the demand far cleric, or by a suspension of specie pay menu, is as yet a matter of mach doubt and uncertuinty. The pro spect at present is decidedly in tacour of a suspension ; and such an event may be nearer at hand Wan is generally imaginid. A oomparbon of prices ruling at the close of the market yesterday, with those current at the close of the previous week, exhibits a decline in Truism , Notes of per cent; Ohio dine f ; Reading Ronda, ; 'Leading Mortgage Bond., 21; Reading Railroad, ; Norwich and Worcester, 4 ; Erie Railroad, new ; I ; Harlem, 1 • Long Island, 1 ; Farmers' Lam.; Canton. ; Mottin Canal, 1- +here has been on advance in Erie Railroad ol d Mock of 21 per cent. Some of the State stocks and some of the fancies hove been very quiet during the past knelt. In our remarks, eaysthe Sew fork Herald, relative to the paymeeta On account of interevt due on the bonds of the Mateo:Wiwi% we stated that °wiper cent. would be pail about Feb.l, on bonds, to the amoust of 9,200,000 d o h, We have since learned that such le not exactly the case; the clinked will not be so Inge as we stated. It appears that by law the dividends are sayable on the Ist of January and lot of July in each year; three semiannual dividends hove already been made—the tint in July Is-46, 013 dl. 23e. • the second In ama.ry, 1011, .1 3 dol. S 3 c., and 'the third o n o the lie ' of July, 1847, J of 7 dol., all of which were paid on the coupon of January Ist, 1842. The first two payments were the proceeds of a tax of one mill upon the taxable property of the state, cud the third payment wes in part of the proceeds of a tax of one and it half mill upon the taxable property of the state. It is estimated that this tax of one end a hell mill will amount to 126,500 dol.; of this amount, 0.5,500 dol. were received and divided between the holden of 9,3:00,000 dol. of the bonds of the state, equal to 7 dol. upon a Lund of 10000 dot. The remainder of the amount, nay 55,000 dol. Is to constitute the fund for the payment of the fourth, or present January dividend but the legislature of Moues, at its last session, passed an act dinette; the governor to issue beads to the bolder, of certificitn of indebtedness, formerly issued by the state for internal improvements, and for the construction of the canal, whick,bonds should bear intenst from the date of the cern:le:atm mad be entitled to share pea ram in the proceeds of the mill and a half tax. The amount of these bor.ds is not known here, but an account of them is daily expected from the governor, when the amount which may be received can be apportioned and paid to the holders of all the bonds of the state, excepting those to Mandlister and Stebbins. The amount of money already received i less than 22,000 dol. but as soon as the amount of bonds is known upon which the 55,04 dots. ie to be paid, the apportionment will he , made, and the payments commenced by the agent of the state, at the American Ise-beep Bank. The fourth dividend will be lesethan the third, for two reasons t First, more than one half of the procemlsof thetas was remitted and appropriated to the payment of the third dividend; and second, the Baum of bonds In 1817 are to be saldnl to those upon which the third dividend was paid. The 55,000 dollars would pay a dividend of less than 6 dollars on each bond, provided there was no increase in amount of bonds since the third dividend was paid ; but as that amount will be in creased the dividend of oourn will be lee, but how much less we are not at present able to tell. The bondholders will see that the amount at the present dirid.end is not because Illumis is not doing all she pro mised to do, but for the satisfactory reasons :dove given. There is now no doubt but that the Illinois and Michigan Canal will be ready for use its entire length . upon the opening of nasigation in the spring. The revenue from this =patent work, and the proceed; of the sales of canal lands next .august, will reduce the Indebtedness of the stale rapidly, and enable the treasury to pay larger dividends more earely than those now paid from the tax on the property .31 the stete. COMMERCIAL. NEW YORK, JAB. Id. —The , lour market continued with out animation, and oaks were made to a moderate extent, including lois of Oswego and Michigan, with email parcels of Ohio 3nd Brook lyn, at about pensions prices. In the absence of the steamer's news, now due, dealer. Were indisposed to otter the market freely. Prices were considered to be stilt above the views of exporters, and before any large transactions can likely take place for export the next atrouns. from abroad must prove more favourable, or some emcee stone will be required by those holding order, previousiy seised. In wheat there were no sales of importance reported, but prices mere steady. In corn, transactions were chiefly continent to parcels of new western and southern mixed at about yesterday's quotations. Then wee rather more doing in meal, at steady price-s. Rye was quiet, and oats steady at previous rates. Burin-Tt'ren.—]Tour:The sales footed till about 3,000 bbis. in va rious separate too, among which were 200 bbls. of Michigan at 6 dots. 124 c.; 1,00010. Oswego in divided lots, at about 6 dole. to 6 dais. 61c.; 300 do. Western at 6 dol.. 1210. and 900 do. Ohio at 6 do l ls. Some small sales of New Orleans round hoop were reported made at 5 dol. htie. to 6 dole.; and small sales of pure Generate at 6 dd.% 23e. wheat: No Iran...actions were reported, while prices remained about the same. Cern • Sales of about 5,000 bushels of new Western mixed, in store, were made at 67e. • 4,1300 do. were mails' at 69c. •, 2,060 do. Jersey white at the same priCe. Meet t Sales of 400 blea. of good New Jersey were made at 3 de15.371c.; 300 do. at 3 dole. 314 e.; und SOO do. Wesuwn was reported sold at 3 dole. 124 e. Rye: Sales of 600 bwiteels, in store, were made at 90c. Rye Flour contieued steady at 4 dots. 30c. to 4 dole. 624 c. Oats: Sales of about 2,000 bushels of canal were insole at :Ale. to 51c. There was no change in New Jersey or Southern. Barley con•inuel nominal. Beans : Staten of SO to 60 bble. were made at 1 dol. 121 c. Puoviniont.—New mesa pork was in lig it supply, and prices steady; while old mess and prime continued dull. 2)0 tierce; of faceted hams sold nt 71c.; 15 Mle. of sone shoulders sold at 410. Beef: Su tiereea of beef hams sold at 10 dole. 25e., and 380 bas. of cite mess at 3 dole. 3740, and 90 btan. ditto reported at 8 dohs 2k. laid: Prime continued in good demand. Cheese: There c intinued to he a good demand at the recent quotations. Butter was inactive. \re note Palen of 50 firkins of Ohio at 13se., cask. St I,ll. — The weather being unfavourable them was none landing. and we have only to cote eaten of 25 lands. New Orleans common at 44c., at four months. Mtlnt:N . 000 tincit.tvom.—FOr the Ozanne of the 15th from Breton, the great drawers were able to get I t premium on sterling hills, but thee was wthe an increase of isoodlinerchents' bills, which mould have been mutat tied at another time. They sold at 9to 10 premium, and Rime were left over. France sold at 5.2.1 to 23 per dollar; Anti's/dem, 404 to i ; lianibErg, 351 to :In. lantiters.—Very little change. Flour 'was shipped to Liverpool at Is. 61; grain in bulk et ed. to 60. ; heavy goad 2to. W. per ton; Cotton ld. per lb. The new ship, Maid of ,Orle ., ani, has been chartered by the government for a voyage to Vera Crux, with troops oral erovisionss for about Glop° dots. Business generally is moving slowly, but not disastrously. NEW UKLE/0.18, Jan. 10.—Cotton is low; middling to good middling file. tote. Sugnr and Molasses but little done. Four genet. Exchange, sterling bills ,carce. Freight', several new engagements. rIIADING IN fhuurcrums.—A deputation from committee of the associate institution had an interview on Tuesday with Lord Chief Justice Denman, in his lordship's room adjoining the Court of Queen's Bench, on the provi stone of a bill for the suppression of trading in seduction and prostitution. Avrt-Got.D-Law LEACI . E.—The eleventh public meeting of this body took place last evening at the London Coffee-house, Ludgate-hill. There was a numerous attend. mice ; Mr. F. Bennoch, the chairman of the league, pre sided.—The chairman said, that one object of this society bad been granted almost immediately on the assembling of parliament. by the appointment of a committee on the cur rency; and in proof of the good they had effected, he might mention that they daily received large numbers of letters from all parts of the country, and even front Canada. He feared that the committee on the currency would lead to the , question being shelved, without great determination on tte part of the people. He afterwards alluded to Lis recent correspondence with Mr. Cobden, and observed that free-trade and a fettered currency would necessarily ruin the country. But Mr. Cobden had not committed himself positively on the question ; he had not declared in favour of a gold currency in preference to a paper one ; he had merely supported the theory of the price of gold being fixed. Hence, when the question came be. fore the legislature, he might take the side of the league, and thus extend and strengthen his influence, without any inconsistency. In reference to that correspondence, the Tows had published a personal and abusive article ; and lint article had done the cause more good than anything Coe. He was confident the time wee approaching when the Times would come round to their side. The chairman further stated that Mr. Cobden and Mr. James Wilson had beet, invited to this meeting. Mr. Cobden had not replied ; I t:ir. Wilson, in his answer, said he saw no utility in dis• cussing the views which he had so frequently propounds , :,. Messrs. Hart and Jonathan Duncan having addreseed, the muting, the proceedings terminated, eiON or ToLL•BAna.—Yeatersiay a special meeting of the vestry of St. Pawns took place, ,for the par pose of cotuidering the gamed= now so much agitating eke country, viz., the abolition of toll-bars. Mr. Chu rc hwarden Howarth in the chair—Mr. Bray, in introducing the gar lion, said that in the north metropolitan districts, St. Pan cras in particular, the inhabitants were great sufferers by turnpikes and tollthars. With regard to the existing mode of levying tolls, the collection was managed so clumsily that its cost alone amounted to 600,0001. per annum, or from 50 to 60 per cent. of the entire amount levied. By the plan laid down by Mr. Pagan, one million per year might be levied in the shape of a rate of one penny ups ell the rateable property, and 124. per year upon each harem the kingdom, and that would suffice to keep a re roads in repair,_ and secure the abolition of t in England and Wales. As a proof of the m= injustice of the continuance of turnpikes, whilst one elms of persons were compelled to pay another escaped alteggeseg__, Mrs. Wilson, the omnibus proprietress, of Islington, kept ON horses, upon which she had to pay 750!. per annum in the shape of tolls, whereas Messrs. Chaplin and Horne, the railway carriers, kept 1,200 horses, upon which they did not pay ono single farthing —Mr. Bray proceeded to show that this was effected by the railway carriers, with their heavy loads, passing through the by-streets, to the great annoyance of the inhabitants, at all hours of the night, end depreciating the property from 25 to 35 per cent. In that parch the highway rate was 2d. in the pound, and by the plan of Mr. Pagan it would be reduced to one penny, there fore it was quite clear that the abolition of turnpik a would benefit the rate-pavan. He moved the following reso. lution : That the present system of collecting the revenue for the repairs of the turnpike roads in Englund end Wales is unequal in in operation. pressing excessively on the population in some locilitee, while those in other places are entirely exempt ; that It in eurabrous and °brims live, preventing free intercourse with the different parts of the coun try, wholly unsuited to the present state of eociety, and tens patine in its economy, as full 50 per neat. to expended in the collection ; that it is adapted only for the enrichment of es lm of hills and others, induces a system of Jobbing sett extravaPnee trimees, comminaloners, surveyor*, Re.; that, in short, It ism lcu lated to produces great amount at evil to society, without being in any wry advantageous. 'the members of this vestry, therefore, feel It their duty to petition the earthman( this kingdom to abolish each an expenrive unjust ns siva 'inn cause a moderate rate to be laid either mall the property or all the horns in the various counties, such rate to be collected, expended, and the turnpike and highway roads managed bycounty boards elected by and from the general body of rate-payers in each county. Mr. Matthews occluded the resolution, which was likewise supported by Mr. Churchwarden Wagstaff, and carried unsnimously.—A committee was then appointed to draw up a petition to parliament for the abolition of toll-bars, to be placed in the hands of Sir B. Hall, Bart., and Lord Dudley Stuart for presentation. THE MERCHANT SAILORS' PROCERSION.—For a long time put some excitement has prevailed among the commercial marine of the port of London, owing to the con templated revision of the navigation laws, and the fact of a memorial to the Queen praying her Majesty not to sanction the proposed change, having been agreed to at a general meeting of seamen of the port of London (at which delegates from all the outporta in the kingdom were present) has been already announced. The procession commenced by an assemblage of boats towed from below bridge by steamers, in three squadrons or divisions. Unfortunately, however, the weather was so boisterous, and the consequent difficulties encountered so great, that the procession lost much of its completeness, a far less number of sailor, taking part in the demonstration than was originally expected. Of the Northtteet division only a very small num ber reached London, the steamer engaged to tow up the boats proving altogether inefficient for the service, owing to the boisterous weather. Four to five hundred tars were :excluded by this acccident, and the master of the other two divisions (those from Long Reach and Shadwell) was very materially lessened by the same cause. Each boat carried a union jack in the bows, and most of the sailors bad a blue ribbon round their hats with " The Navigation Laws" printed in gold letters thereon. The start from Shadwell did not take place until nearly one o'clock ; and after a stormy voyage, on arriving at Westminster bridge the crews disembarked, and having formed in line about 10 or 12 deep, they marched through Bridge-street, Parliament-street, and Whitehall, to Tra falgar-square. This was the rendezvous, and at three o'clock the numbers present may have been about three thousand. The members of the committee having arrived, the procession reformed, and headed by a band of music returned through Whitehall to the Home-office. The sailors walked twelve abreast, and the general effect was greatly increased by union jacks carried at intervals of a few yards. As the procession passed the Admiralty, Rear- Admiral Dundee, first naval lord; Mr. Ward, aI.P., the secretary ; and the Hon. W. Cowper, came out on the balcony to view it. Their presence having been signal ed. was greeted by a burst of cheering from the honest tars. Admiral Sir Edward Codrington and two or three other naval officers awaited the arrival of the deputation at the llome.office for some time, but left shortly before its arrival t At half-past three o'clock the damnation reached the Home- , office. The following are the names of the gentlemen forming it : Mr. J. Mather, delegate from the Tyne ; Mr. nutshell, from London ; Mr. T. Elliott, from Weymouth ; Mr. Wright, from South Shields ; Mr. Edgar, from ; anti Mr. J. Dunn, for Sunderland.—alr. Wawn, M.P. for South Shields, introduced the deputation to the Home Secretary.—Mr. Mather (addressing Sir George Grey) said he had the honour to place in his hands a memorial from the seamen of the various ports in Great Britain against the re peal of the navigation laws ; and he begged that the right hon. baronet, in presenting the same to the Queen, would imprets upon her Majesty the undoubted fact that it con tained the true sentiments of the whole body of British seamen. [(government really did make the change raid to be contemplated in those laws, he felt sure that, however much the British sailors might regret it, they would be compelled to seek employment in other countries. He hoped that it might not be so, but he felt confident that it would Sir George Grey said he was the son of an old naval officer himself, and he should be very sore) , to see Mr. Wather's prediction prove well-founded. lie hoped and believed, however, that he was mistaken in the opinion he txpressed. Mr. Mather said he felt confident, if the right honourable baronet's gallant father was alive, be would not be found among the advocates of the proposed measure. If the country forsook its sailors, in self-defence they would be compelled to forsake their flag.--Sir G. Grey said he hoped Mr. Mather's fears were unfounded. This much, however, he might say, that he would take care to lay the memorial before her Majesty, and explain the feelings of those on whose behalf it had been signed.—The deputation then retired, and in less than half an hour the whole procession re-embarked at Westminster bridge. Nut the slightest breach of decorum occurred during the day. FUNERAL OF THE SOLDIER lIENRT DUCKER. — The funeral of the murdered man took place yesterday, at the burial-ground of St. John's, Westminster. The streets in the immediate vicinity of the Wracks were crowded. The remains were followed by a large number of the soldiers of the battalion to which the deceased belonged, with all the drums and fifes, &c. On arriving at the church the remains were received by the Rev. Mr. Browne, 'M.A., Chaplain- General to the Forces, who read the funeral service in a very impressive manner, and at the conclusion the coffin was removed to its final destination. The last military honours were performed in the usual manner. SUICIDE.—From a statistical account of the accidents taken into the London Hospital during the past year it appears that this crime is, in the neighbourhood of that institution, greatly on the decrease, as in the year 1843 the number of suicides admitted amounted to 40, in ISI4 to 36, in 1845 to 32, in 1846 to 30, and in 1847 to only 13; and during the same period the patients had in:teased from 5,666 to 8,277. INQUESTS, YESTERDAT.—DEATH 11T FlRE.—Before Mr. W. Baker, at the Falcon, High - street , Stoke Newing ton, on the body dairy Anne Clifford, aged 83 year,. who died from the effects of burns. The deceased resided is Church-street, od d lhad been very ill for some time put, and was unable eave her bedroom. On Monday after noon last Mrs. Robertson, with whom she lived, rent her daughter to the deceased, and when the door was opened she found her aunt lying upon the floor enveloped in thrum. Assistance was immediately rendered and the fire was quickly extinguished. The deceased was burnt in a most dreadful manner, and her clothes were almost burnt off her body. It is supposed that the deceased was sitting in a chair before the fire, and her clothes ignited with a cinder. The chair was consumed to ashes and a portion of the wall was burnt. She was very feeble and unable to call for &subs tance. The jury returned &verdict of " Accidental death." — Tux SUaFICIOVIS DEATH OF A BARMAID.—Before Mr. W. Carter, at the Marlborough Arms, George-street, Camber well, respecting the death of Sarah Davey, aged 25 years, late barmaid to Mr. Wm. Barnett, landlord of the Crooked Billet, public house, Johnson's-change, Rosernary.lane. The deceased for the last twelve months had been in the THE PROTECTIONISTS. --The protectionist members service of Mr. Barnett ;on the 19a, of January the deceased of the lower house had a second meeting yesterday at the telt her master's residence in company with a Mrs. Chem residence of Mr. Donkey, M.P., in Old Palice-yard. About bees, of No. 4, Cork.street, Camberwell, whom she tad sent sixty attended. It was generally understood that the sub- for by letter. Mrs. Chambers proceeded to the Crooked ject considered was that of the appointment of a successor to Billet, as directed, where she found the deceased very ill and Lord George Bentinck in the lower house, and that the complaining of rheumatism. They left the house, and after Marquis of Granby, son to the Duke of Rutland, was the calling cab, got i Lotus irected the driver to convey them hapey man. Mr. Stafford, M.P., was also mentioned. to Mrs. Chambers' lig e tAreaching the dwelling of the NATIONAL DEFENCES. A numerously attended out by the cabman and latter the deceased was mating, in which we observed many members of the So- Placed in the passage. He subsequently handed in a box and s ixty Friends, was held last evening at the Horns As- a bundle of linen, and having received 4s. drove off. The sembly-room, Kennington, for the purpose of petitioning deceased was led up stairs by Mrs. Chambers, who, on find parliament against any increase of the existing naval and in g the deceased get worse called in Smith, a surgeon, military forces, th e enrolment of the militia, or th e establish • who, being kept ignorance other b aying ree y e e u r t e ly e lj u i• a e h n meat of additional fortresses. Mr. G. W. Alexander was birth to a child,. tre ated he r o . Mbo let, sid r e an r il r breve . t e . e Her bosom , voted into the chair, and declared war to be a barbarous practice belonging to the dark ages, and wholly inennsis weeni• w e cold. E presenteditself, a nd tegethe u r e w h it s h s w oll e n , bu t t not hard. He thought her state ' tent with the re li gion of Christianity. After some further had arisen from *Pia , Presen c ausing her remarks the Rev. J. Burne t moved the following resolu- fever, which produced great debility, ultimately death on the 30th ult. He did not consider that the eryaipelas tion That this meeting believing the spurn and practice of war to be was the result of any excitement. He never had any anus utterly at varnuoe with the spirit and e ity and the mation, until after her decease, that she had lab ly been true interested mankind* deeply e tas regr site attempts which base con fi ned.—Mr, J. S. Flower, surgeon, of Camberwell-peen, bee ma k., a nd are *tin making, to excite in the public mind the be- said he had made a post-mortem examination of the lody, lief that war and Invasion are imminent, raid to ground upon this by order of the coroner. Witness found she had recently pretext an addition to the present naval and military establishments s . given birth to • child. Upon cutting into the tneut, be ot the country. The following resolution was moved by Mr. H. Vincent in • discovered a large asundere the pectoral muscle, extend very effective speech, seconded by Mr..Scoble, and adopted ing as far as the collar bone. The abscess . witnes a . attributed _ Ow was the previous one) with only eee diesentient to the suppression of milk , which might be produced from That this meeting desires to record its deliberate conviction that frig ht , cold, or other causes. She had been d slivered about the apprehuisiere of war and uwasion are unfoutuled, and that a ortnight. The immediate cauee of death was the abscess, , an increase of ru e existing naval aid military tomes of the empirc. I which gave rise to a constitiecienal disturbance, eicitutg I fever and congestion of the brain. The death was a natural wthbeefteiritibl:ttbl'"ce ofcc enlar otworo geme c n o t t of of Lhceisfitoandoolingfortranne.,y, , th oc e e c n y r ato le , ilof t o t i l n e e, an d he did not think I t was caused by any exposure to Id.—Mr. Smith said he had attended the deceased m i.R ean4 o 7 l aa y t t e e n ee d r t , o is a. no tro7 t on , l ra y u tt irli r thedanfotor preserve . r„...,,,r50 . 1Qwcr she co tons, of public Morality, 10 impede the efforts mmang f the Menne- about a year since, when she gave birth to a child. — ton and improvement of the pemee, to retard the great moral re- Verdict, " Natural death." At Die close of the inquiry, the forma now In progress, to burden yet more heavily tb; : coroner directed Inspector Campbell still to continue his in neratiou or their poetenty, and to aggravate the 001y,mersisa Present vestigetion. and, if anything important transpired, to take hen of the nation. • th wi e t r it tte uvo r at rtun once before the maipstrate, who would deal The adoption of a petition in confer= Ay with the resolu tions closed the proteedings. ebt court. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Duke and Duchess of Saxe-Cobourg, and Count Arthur Mensdorff, honoured the performance at the ilayautrket Theatre with their presence yesterday evening. The royal suite consisted of the Viscountess Jocelyn, Madame de Wangenhetm, the Earl of Morley, Colonel Buckley, Cap tain the lion. A. Gordon, and Baron Fritsch. The Earl of Morley has succeeded Lord Byron u the Lord in Waiting to the Queen, and Col -nel Drummond has succeeded Mr. R. Ormsby Gore u the Groom in Waft ing to ber • Majesty. A Cabinet Council was held at half-past two o'clock yesterday afternoon. at the Foreign-office. The Ministers present were Lord John Russell, t'se Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lausdovene, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palm. r stun, Earl Urey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Esrl of Auckland, Sir John Hobhouse, the Right lion. H. La bouchere, Lord Campbell, Viscount Morpeth, the tdarq tie of Clanricarde, and the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay. Ihe Council sat three hours sad a hail. Mr. Wawn, M.P., and a deputation of delegates from the sailors, had an interview with Secretary Sir G. Grey yesterday at the liomesoffice, to pr sent a petition ou the subject cf the navigation laws. The deputation con- I dieted of Mr. J. Dunn, Mr. G. Hutches], Mr. T. Elliott, Mr. H. Wright, Mr. J. S. Grieve, and Mr. J. Mather. Sir H. V. Huntley transacted business at the Colonial .office on Tuesday. Despatch's were received yesterday at the Colonial ' office fr in the Governor of Vail Disinen's Land. The Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord President of her Majesty's must hunourab:c Privy Council, gave a grand diuner last evening, at Lanslowne-house, to the cabinet ministers, the gte it officer' of state of the Queen's house. hold, and the clerks of the Privy Council. The roll of sheriffs (or the rem ut year was settled during the evening. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council eat yesterday. The lords • , resent were the Master of the Rolls, Lord Campbell, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court. The consideration of Al•. Tinkus's peti:ioo for an eaten-ion of the term of his patent occupied the court the greater part of the day. CITY COURT OF SEWEItI3.—OAS EXPERI MENTS. The commissiocers assembled in the Guildhall on Tuesday for the purnose of pursuing the inquiry in reference to gas, and to put the burners of Mr. Leslie, the sanitary commissioner, to the test. Deputy Pea.totk having taken the chair, Mr. Leslie. and Mr. Bateman, the governor, and Mr. Lowe, the engineer, to the Chartered Oa Company, attended upon invitation. Mr. Lowe acid, that the governor and he went to the General Post•otlice, and made experiments in the presence of some of the eiiitials, to ascertain whether by Mr. Leslie's mode of purifying gas an increased power of illumination was given, and, rater a most corelul experiment for twenty-five minutes by two single jet burners attached to two distinct meters, and projecting from them a shadow on a sheet of paper, the plan generally adopted as the best practical means of testing the power of the light, the result was ex actly 6 per cent. against Mr. Leslie's purified gas. They at tended again on Wednesday, and put on two of Mr. Leslie'. I burners. They reversed the meters, and the result then wan 3 per cent. against Mr. Leslie —making an average of 41 per cent. They also tested the purity by the usual chemical tests, and found that, on the Tuesday, the gas was not so pure—the test was slightly affected ; on the Wednesday, however, the tests were not affected by the gas either before or after it had undergone the proems of purification agree ably to Mr. Leslie's plan. Aeon tome discussion between Mr. Lowe and Mr. Leslie, the latter, at a subsection: stage of the proceedings, read the following letter . Inland Utter, Feb. ;.—Sir,—ln reply to your letter of this miming, requesting my opinion as to the experiments now proceeding In the various rooms of the inland department under your t entpae fur the purification of el., and improved combustion thereof, gto acquaint you that three ix a ereat and man Lot improvement in the sanitary state of the offices; the hot blare of air formerly so much oomphuned of co longer exist. The rooms are much better lighted than they ever were refer,. Some c f the burners ri iiMre a re. arrangement, and perhaps halfsialoren more, may eventually be neceseary, hut the goodness of the light is shown by the loot, that in the largest room. the features of the officers on duty can be e ver y . where disUnguished, which was rot formerly the Me. The quan tity of gas consumed in the two works of the experiment (ending Saturday last), is 311,050 net, being I I X,lllO feet less than in the cor responding weeks of hat year, notwithstanding i n the interim two large additional offices have ben added. I sou fully s aistied with the trial that has been male, and it is my intention to recuinmead the general adoition of your system throughout the 1,04-ONICC &part. ment.—l am, air, your most obedient servant, W. lioansiraii, Super intending Fresideid.—.l. L.slie, lisq- The CHAIRMAN informed them that Mr. Radley, who was stated to have much experience in mutters connected with gas, wished to make a communication. Mr. RADLEY said that his object in waiting upon the committee was to inform them that Mr. Leslie's gsa purifier was an imitation of his, the patent for which he had taken out in 1841, and thi,t the use of his plan, inasmuch as it was perfect, would produce it, per cent. more than elr. which that gentleman promised them would produce 2.51. per cent. to the City more than was yielded by any other invention. Ile then entered into a very long statement on the subject, and said that he could produce as much gas from horses, dogs, cats, and rats, as would light the metro polis, at 31. 63. per thousand feet of gas, and yield a better illumination. Ile instanced the case of one man who had dealt in decomposed animal matter, and made, in 13 years, tne sum of 75,0001., which showed that " muck made money." He assured the commissioners that horse-flesh, which produced no more as cats' meat than about 21. 101. a ton, yielded upwards of 31. when used to lighten the darkness, and that the conversion of the human beiag into gas would be infinitely more profitable; and he did not see why we should not, particu larly as so fine a profit was derivable from it to the living, adopt the noble Roman burial by cremation, which would render our dust inflexions, instead of adhering to the churchyard system, which could not, even with the assist ance of leaden coffins, prevent the existence of a horrible nuisance. He was a poor man, whose means would not permit him to go to a pound expense in an experimental pre paration, but he had had great practical experience, andhad laboured in the very humble department of a stoker at les. a week, to bring to the test the knowledge which he had ac quired in the course of a good chemical education. Ile had in vain sought for employment in the gas manufactories. The principals were all decidedly opposed to hint, but they felt no hesitation in pirating his invention, and Mr. Leslie had pirated his burner as well as his purifier, and white Mr. Leslie wanted 75. for his burner , he wanted no more than 2s. 4d. for hie. Mr. Leman declared that it was impossible to show that in principle, or in one single feature of the inventions, there was the slightest resemblance between his and Mr. Rad ley's. He would most willingly contribute 101. towards the expence to which Mr. Radley might be put in working hie experiments for the purpose of showing that they were pirated. He felt the more anxious on the occasion, as Mr. Radley had announced his inability to incur any expence ; but the fact was, that Mr. Radley win in the habit, the moment he heard of a new invention, of claiming it as his own. Mr. Leslie then stated that he had applied for an ethcial report of what was going on at the Post-office upon his plan, for the satisfaction of t he commissioners. Mr. Leslie concluded by stating that he was moat desirous that any of the gentlemen who denied the originality of his in vention should at once put his patent to the test, or show in what respect his invention bore the slightest resemblance to any other. In the evening the commissioners ass...tabled in the Guild hall for the purpose of testing the burners of Mr. Leslie and those of the Chartered Gas Company. There were present, besides the commissioners, Dr. Letheby ' Mr. Palmer, Mr. Dillon, Mr. Henry Morrison, and Mr. Haywood, the sur veyor to the sewers company, and several scientific persons. Dr. Letheby consented, at the request of the enmmissioners, to make the arrangements for ascertaining at what rate the gas was being consumed by the respective burners of Mr. Leslie and the batswing burners (the ordinary burners in the public lamps). Tho photometera baring been set, and the lights in each pronounced equal, Dr. Letheby pronounced, alter two experiments, that the results were as foliose : The batswing (or Chartered Company's burners) burned at the rate of 5 feet 3-10ths per hour, and Leslie's burned at the rate of 4 feet 6-10 the and 3-teths of a tenth. Dr. Letheby then merely exchanged the burners, placing those of Mr. Leslie upon the lamp before occupied by the betels-Mg burner, and sire versa, and he pronounced that the bats wing burned at the rate of 4 feet s.loths and a half, and Leslie's burned at the rate oil feet 6 10ths and a quar ter. The total results from the two experiments were that the batswing burner consumed at the rate of 4 feet 9-10ths and a quarter per hour, and Leslie's at the rate of 4 feet 6.loths per hour—a difference of 3.lflths and a quarter of a tenth in favour of Leslie's.—Adjourned. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 10, 1848. IRELAND. DIIBLIti, Pea. 8. 'Sher is no foundation for the announcement that a meeallq of the catholic bishops would be held in Dublin to-4.% . v. There was no such meeting sum moned, and noun such was or is in contemplation. The vacancy in the iepresektion of Waterford will not be filled up by either 4... f the late members. Mr. Wyse refuses to present himself, and Sir Henry Bar ron, although named, would not subject himself to a defeat. The good patriots of Waterford will have none but a stiff repealer. Such is the will of the corporate Ciceroacchio, who carries the democratic wisdom of Waterford in his breeches-pocket. He, it appears, has taken up Mr. Costello, late clerk of the rules in the Queen's Bench, while on the side of the more independent repealers appears the late M.P. for Cork, Mr. WCarthy. Mr. Costello is likely to be the chosen of the orbs intrarta. Two of our most eminent physicians are in fierce conflict. In a late number of a medical periodical one of the conductors charged the College of Surgeons with keeping up, at a large salary, a certain pro fessorship which conferred no benefit. The gentle man alluded to replied in the Medical Press, that his antagonist, who is enlinent in Irish antiquities, bad ac quired his character for antiquarian propensity, more particularly in reference to some recent excavations, the knowledge lavished on which was plundered from the academy. The chemical lecturer is on the wrong side of the disputation. The question will be investigated at the next meeting of the committee of antiquities. SOIREE AT THE COLLEGE OP PUTSICIANB. — Last evening the College of Physicians gave their annual soirie, which was very numerously and brilliantly attended, the Earl of Clarendon having been present. Some interesting papers were read. PROVINCIAL. An EL ns. THE ROBBERY AT THE LEEDS HOUSE OF RE RIMOVSBY, OR FRYER HOSPlTAL.—Yesterday, W. Harri son and R. Fermis underwent a final examination at the court-house, and were fully committed for trial at the en suing Yorkshire Assizes, on a charge of burglary. It will be remembered that their comrade, George Greenwood, died from the effects of the quantity of stolen whiskey which he had drank after the robbery, before they were found by the poliotman. unreritutfuemAND. Tae NATIONAL DEFENGEs.—A public meeting, convened and presided over by the mayor, was held in the Guildhall, Newcastle, on Tuesday at noon, to consider the general question of naval ant military expenditure. The attendance was large, and comprised men of various shades of political opinion. The principal speakers were Mr. Priest man, Mr. G. Crawshay, Mr. T. M. Geenhow, the Rev. G. Harris, and the Rev. J. Pringle. The purport of their remarks was, that as there is no probability of invasion, or even of war between this country and I. ranee, the panic which has been created on the subject of national defences is groundless, unjust towards the French, and tend ing only to benefit the scions of the aristocracy, who now look in vain for commissions; that the na tural tendency of commerce is to blend the interests Of all nations ; that the military spirit is hostile to commerce, and that we should endeavour to extend our ' friendly relations rather than to excite jealousies which time Me, to a great extent, rendered dormant ; that, instead of lamming our expenditure, and thereby injuring a people already suffering from financial embarrassment, • parlia mentary inquiry should be instituted to ascertain whether a reduction cannot be effected in the naval and military esta blishments of the country. Resolutions were passed em bodying these views, and a petition to parliament was also resolved upon. The proceedings extended over four hours, and were characterised by perfect unanimity. DURHAM. Tit SEAMEN AND THE NAVIGATION LAWS.—A correspondent says : How little reliance is to be placed on the representations of certain persons professing to express the sentiments dim seamen, shipwright+, and others of the working classes of the Tyne and the Wear, on the subject of the navigation laws, will be seen from the following notice of a public meeting held on Monday evening, in the Athenaeum, Sunderland. The meeting, according to the placard convening it, was one representing the seamen, shipwrights, and other trades interested in the prosperity of British shipping. A shipwright named Oarnaby was called to the chair. In accordance with the plan of the meeting, he invited any gentlemen present in favour of or against the navigation laws to express their sentiments.—Mr. J. Wilson, an extensive merchant and shipowner, was the first to ac cept the invitation. He mails a speech exposing the absur dity and mischief of the protective policy.—Mr. J. Candlish, a shipbuilder and shipowner, followed on the same side. Having concluded a speech abounding in arguments and striking facts, an appeal was made to any who might be dis posed to maintain protection to come forward, or for any who had any questions to put or doubts to be solved to urge their views; but no one accepting the challenge, Mr. J. Ferguson, a shipwright, rose, and proposed : That this meeting, having heard the addresses just delivered, Is of opinion that no apprehension need be entertained that the repeal of the navigation laws will be productive of say injury to British chip ping, or to the ecamen, shipwrights, and others connected with the maritime Interest; but, on the contrary, this meeting believe, that, looking to the obstruction which those laws offer to the advancement of our commercial and manufacturing interests, the immediate repeal of the said laws is highly desirable; and that British shipping and British industry need not dread competition with any foreign nation. After other addresses, chiefly from working men, a peti tion in favour of repeal was adopted, with only three dissen tients. What renders the above meeting more remarkable is the fact that the secretary of the Shipowners' Society, R. Brown, Esq., an able and popular speaker and an advocate for the navigation laws, was specially invited to attend, but he did not make his appearance. A SEMI:B EXPLOSION OF GAS took place in the office of the Corporation Gas Company, at Sunderland, on Tuesday morning, which caused very considerable alarm in the neighbourhood, and has done very extensive damage, not only to the office and premises where the explosion originated but to the residences of several families in the IS I Arr SI . ...ft.•••••••• FIRE-DAMP EXPLOSION AT WEST BROMWICII. BIRMINGHAM, WEDNUDAY NIOHI.-A fearful expleeion of fire-damp is stated to have occurred in the neighbourhood of West Bromwich this morning, by which the laves of seve ral men and hones were sacrificed. At the present time it is impossible to ascertain the cause and extent of the calamity, end we therefore reserve authentic particulars until to. sorrow. t;amuniu.,s~.~...z. TIIE HADDENIIAM BCROLARY. Yesterday, at Ely, J. and T. Hart, and M. and L. Jeffreys were examined on the charge of robbing and ill-treating Mr. Mitchell, of Dairy House Drove, near Haddenham. The accused are re ported to have borne themselves throughout theexamination with the greatest effrontery, frequently interrupting and call ing the witnesses opprobrious names, and breaking at inter vals into bursts of unseemly laughter. They were identified as a gang of midnight disturbers who have long infested the neighbourhood. They were folly committed on this charge. The same prisoners were then arraigned for a burglary com mitted under exactly similar circumstances, in Wisbech Fen. They were all distinctly sworn to by Mr. Foster, and some property carried from his house was also found upon them at the time of their apprehension. Having been committed for this second offence, the prisoners, who also stand charged with the commission of a burglary at Mrs. Turner's, of lin gay, Norfolk, being again asked if they had aught to say, Luke Jeffrey replied, "It don't signify what we say; things has been sworn to : but I can prove that two false oaths have beeu taken." They were conveyed to Cambridge gaol. THE DUNDEE MURDER.—FURTHER _—The inquest on the body of Mr. Walsingham Hazen was yesterday brought to a conclusion. In addition to the facts previously deposed to some circumstances were detailed cal culated to strengthen the suspicion previously existing Litainst the nephews of the deceased. The witness Capel (who, it will be remembered, was at work in the barn on the Monday, aud, saw his master at the colts' house with the prisoners) was recalled, to speak to a material fact, which at his form urination he had omitted to mention. lie was in the habit of keeping an old coat at the farm to work in, 1 1 and his usage was to take off his other coat when he came , to his labour, hang it up in the stable, and resume it when he left in the evening. lie should in the usual course have gone into the stable on the Monday evening to fetch his coat, but he found that some person had brought it out and thrown it across the door of the barn, so that it was unnecesary fir him to do so. Mary Stallard, • connexion of the deceased, stated, that on the Friday after the pri soners were in custody she was at the Carpenters' , 1 Arms public-honse, at Dundry, and saw James Resell there, 1 in conversation with his sister. She heard him say it was not he who did it, and also heard him exclaim, " I wish that Benjamin bad never come here." A youth named Pritchard deposed, that on Tuesday evening, while the search for Mr. Mizell was going on, he went to the premises, and asked the prisoners if he might not have got into the old well. They did net offer to search it, but said they did not think he could he there. Josiah Sampson deposed that in the search for the deceased a person named Itees took an active part. Wit ness beard the prisoner Benjamin say to his brother, "Here's that old Rees again. He 'a been bothering here several times, and wants • bit of the skin knocked off his head." A man named Marshall deposed that, on the Tuesday after Mr. disappeared, he saw the prisoners and the ser vant man owles in the stable. Fowles, who was tipsy, leaned against the manger, and said, "0 I'll die, I'll die." Benjamin Hazen inquired, " What, bee'st thee going to ' die instead of thee master ?" The Ashton winnable Your -g deposed, that while the prisoner James was in custody a con versation took place about the umbrella. The priaoner said ne one could have put it into the stable, as he had the keys. Witness also heard him say, " I wish that Benjamin had never come up at Christmas." The corone; having slimmed up the evidence the jury returned a " , erdict of " Wilful murder against Benjamin Hazel! air; James Hazell." It is understood that they will not be 'removed to gaol till they have been finally examined by tae junk:P. P. Blum FRENCH PLATS: La Vicomteeee Lolotte," in rt.!'" Iddlie• : Rath : t i e appeared with so much semen on sseadaY, was reP'Ated last evening. It was preceded 1".,y a 1 vaudeville, in ~ wo acts, called " Noensie," little ; .. o.ece of and net without interest. It tow, u pon an tr..le lilin dmiTtew'al a' ch, if we remember rightly, foram the subject of I another French piece produced here a few rare ago. A young girl, the daughter of a gentleman who has never sown her from her infancy, introduces herself into her father's house as a servant, and gains his bean by the assi duity with which she ministers to bis comforts and soothes his infirmities. Some variety is produced by the mistakes and jealousies produced by the younz lady's position ; but all of course is cleared up, and No, , Mie is recognised by her father, and united to a constant lover. The character was acted with grace and feeling by Mdlle. Baptiste; and the Comte D'Arrigny, the father, was represented by M. St. Marie with manly ,insplicity. The piece went off pleasantly enough, though its very slight materials are too much spun out by superfluous talk. The substance of the first act might be contained in o coupe or scenes, and the piece, by being thus compressed into one act, would gain in animation and compactness. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL. OXFORD, FEB. 9.—Tu • CREDIT SYSTRM.—The President and fellows of St. John's College, in order to check the system of long credit, on the one hand, and eitrumemt expenditure on the other, among the undergraduate members of their society, have trued the following notice, which ban been est emiively eigned the tradesmen of Oxford i—t . Engagement to be signed by tradesmen desirous of being employed by undergraduate members of St. John's College Ist. I engage that I will, within a week from the commemement of Lent, Easter, and Michaelmas term, in every year, muse to be deli vered to each of my cuetomere under the degree of B.A. my bill or ACCoutt for articles supplied to him during the previoue I engage that in the event of such 1011 not being paid that mem thereof shall be 'riven to the prividerl or one of the tutors of the college within • fortnight from the commencement of the term succeeding that in which the bill eked hare been delivered.- 3. I engage that I will take no promissory not,. hill of exchange, or other Mitten instrument, as 4 repreeentative of money, or se a se curity for the payment of money bank notes and cheques for Irmo,- diste payment excepted) from or ou behalf of every undergraduate member of St. John's College, mime with the consent of his parent, gueedian, oe of the president, or one of the triton of the college.— N.D. A copy of the above, together with the lin of the tradesmen who have signed the engagement, will he delivered to even' under graduate member of St. John's College upon Lis matriculation, and also to his parent or guardian."—Dr. Elvey ' organist of New College and St. John's, was rday appointed to the offim of a Choragus or Prtefectus Moslem Exereitatioue, In the room of the late Dr. Crotch, who held that office upwards of 30 year, The appointment 'vets with the Vice-Chanoellor, the Warden of New College, the Dem of Christ Church, and the Preeident of St. John's College. The Junior Procaor wall receive the names of under gredustes who intend to offer themselves' for the revonelons In Lent term, on Thursday, the MR, set RiA.T. the 18th inst. CAVERIDOE.—AIit • cougrrgauon holden this morning the following degrees were conferred :—M.A.: W. Cordell, St. Peter's Coll. ; S. Shepherd, Pembroke Coll. ; T. A. &art:mood, Emmanuel Coll.—W. R. William, Sidney Coll., ad enndem gratiam ; M. O'Connor, ALB.; F. A. Power, M.A., Trinity Coll., Dublin.—At the same con gregation the graces inserted In Tamilay's Daily News pawed the --- senate. DURII•II.—DEOREES CONVIHRID.—M.A. : Rev. H. R. Cunainghnose, Rev.]. Pcskler.—B.A..l E. Bron) in, C. Greensray, N. Greens) ell, R. Sorene.—rrootor : W. G. Henderson, MA, Pro-Proctor :G. Butler, M.A.—Curatdr of the Museum 1). Compton. )Ueetion in behalf Tuz QUEEN'S LETTER tor • general collection •—._ of the Sectety for the Propagation of the Gesptl in Foreign Larne, which has been delayed beyond the usual time In consequence of the two collections by royal au•hority law year, has just been issued, ant will probably be in the course of creulation through the Neveml dio. macs in the courw of the present month. PitEFEKMENTO.—Itev. J. T. l'igot to be precentor end the Rev. S. Shepherd to he a minor canoe of Rd:heater CathestraL— Rev. P. A. Dodson to !Leigh P.C., county and din. Linceln.—Rev. P. Booth to tittle Wilbraham IL, CanOridge ; dio. Ely ; 324. with resi dence; vice Rev. G. de Hague, dec. ; pate., Corpus Christi Col, Cambridge.—Rev. A. Easther to be Head Master of the Grammar School, Almondbury, Yorkshire.—Rev. W. Hughes, P. C. of Ft. David's, Liverpool, to be a surrogate too the din. of Cheater.—Rev. T. C. 11. Leaver to Rockhampton R., co. and din. Gloucester ; 2401. with residence; vire Rec. W. Davies, dec.—tier. G. Madan, V. of Cambridge, to the Deanery Rural of Donley ; dio. Gloucester and Bristol; vlbe Rev. W. Desks, dec.—Rev. S. P. Pare to St. Paul's P.C., Prentoo, Lenceabire; din. if inchestrr ; patron, the V. of Prestoo.—Rev. T. Wren to the Stipendiary C. o f South Walabaro St. Miry and Umnblington, Norfolk ; dro. Norw. VAexaielES.—Chaplaincy of the E. I. C.'s Almshouses, Poplar, Middlesex; Rev. 11. Iliggineon, dec. -Vice-PrixZelehip of Huddersfield Collegiate School; Rev. A. Eaa.bce, resi .—hap. la of the County Gaol, Ipswich; S.F. Page, prom. NAVAL DecoNrottr, FRI.. B.—Express, 6, Lieut.-Com. T. James, arrived yesterday from Fslmouth, and came into harbour to refit.— Netley, tender, arrived this morning from Port4mouth with supernu romeiee—P.uitaloon, In, Corn. Douglas, noi mcpeeted the morning by Admiral Sir J. West, commandcr-in.chref, and came into harbour to be pada. Wuocutcu, Fan. 9.—Triton st.-v. left on Monday, under the charge of Limit. Robertson, for • cruire of three or four das in the North Sea, in order to try her machine! , and capabilities, y as a ma boat.—Cararloc et..r., built for the Folylcarl and Liverpool Steam Mail Packet eervice, ha been docked here. The vbeel and her two Mater boat., the Lerrellyn and the leaders, are to be fitted with bilge pieces, a plan which to pursued with all the Driver mall packet. , ad other steamers, which areliable, when lying in harbour, to ground at low water, am a great deal of the straining aii.lng from the pressure of the machinery on the hull is th.avoiderL—Capt. J. Drake tiasheen ordered to study at the ale im.factory. ADMIRALTY, FEB. B.—APPOINTUENTS.—Captain : J. Bennett, to Imaum.—Licutenants F. L. Chrietook, to Enterprise; B. Anita, to Ocean, Arc pocketeervice at Dover ; J. C. Byng, to Rod. ney.—Second Master: W. 1.. Ceirldrey, to Enlerprise.—Mrstere Aseretante : M. D. Barnes to Caledonia: R. Coen, to Champion. Assistant Surgeons: W. B. C. Chrirt, confirmed to Colfingwood ; F. Morgan, to Raleigh.—Third Clam Assist. Engineers: J. Maynard. J. Hereford, Arthur Rtcharda, G. Goldstock, rind E. Percival, all to Fegard.—Naval Cadeta P. Osborn, and G. A. H. Vaughan, to Powerful; H. W. Brent, Caledonia ; Bagwell, to Bier; H. M. Ral e igh; Alt/116a, to Queen ;Cresgh, to Vernon ;Roe, to e Loch, to Charopion.—Clerk J. Ft... Wield, to Star . — ln. spectre S. Augear.--Gunner : H. A. Dewar, to Kingfieler.—Boat. maths : J. Colleon, confirmed to Wanderer ; J. Budd, confirmed to Illnatrious; W. Padont, confirmed to Gauges; J. Patterson, oon- Brined to Inserd.—Carpenter: R. Bate, to Champion. ADMIRALTY, Fen. 9.—ArPOINTMENTS.- Lieut. 6. 11. Williams, to be chief doer of coot guard.—Clerk : R. Batchelor, to Chamaton.—Master's Ariaistar.t : G. Gelling, to Avon.—Naval Cadet 11. Hake, to Charopion.—Asaistant Ettgilteer: J. Driver, to Ocean. — Acting Boatswain: S. Ruby, to Agincourh—Acting Carpenter W. Dean, to St. Vincent. SPORIING. BETTING AT MANCHESTER—TVEADAY. CHESTER CVP.-22 to 1 spat Blaze ; 25 to 1 apt Cracow ; 28 to I art Jonathan Wd (off to t); 33 to I agst War Eagle (t); 40 to 1 amt The Swallow; il 40 to I aged swiss Be y 30 to 1 eget The Widow (I); 30 to I sgat limahanter (1). LIVERPOOL STEEPLE CHASE.—I 4 to I offered on the field. NEWMARKET I:LANDIS:Jr.—Offers to take 15 to 1 about • Cracow. DERBY.-9 to 1 agst Surplice ;13to 1 eget Glen down; 20 to I agst Springy Jack ;2)to I agst Assault ,t); 33 te 50 to art Ce apt rmis; 40 to t sgot Flatcatcber ;t; ; 40 to I apt Semetris (t); I Swiss Boy (1). NEWMARKF.T COURSING MEETING. CHIPPENHAM FlELD—Tu.:may. THE Dzanv.—FidelDy beat Ey field, Guy beat The Reefer, (Mention beat Douglas, Diamond best Sikh, Tom Thumb beat Eton Boy, Tom Tit best Blucher, Viceroy beat Lucifer. THE CUP.—SIIIIOII beat Regina, Girl of Kent beat Filey, Contractor beat loran, Brutus best Cruiskeen, Twilight bent Fancy Boy, Vampyre teat Rosetta, Buonsparte beat Layendar,GreatWentera beat Lyme Amis. THE oAlo.—Vitula beat Eton Pet, Savanna beat Vi donia, Bridesmaid beat locket, Fidoiia beat Beatrice, Daphne beat Ferins, Dance beat Spinet, Toothache beat Saucy, Trifle beat Fercnia. PORT STAKES.—Gustasua beat Dot, Baksheesh beat Trooper, Figaro beat Varna, ienella brat Dolly, none beat Miss Tree, St. Vincent beat Voltaire. NEWMARKET STEEPLE CHASES.—In consequence of the heavy rain, on Tuesday night, a perti.m of the line selected to be run over yesterday was tioOded, and a postponement became unavoidable. The stewards, therefore, decided that the start shall come off to- morrow (Friday). The country chosen is in the neighbourhood of Moulton, between three and four utiles from Newmarket, and is well adapted for steeple awing. Mr. FORTH, senior, one of the first trainers of his day, died on Friday last, at an advanced age. ;ate iluttlltstnct. EQUITY COURTS. Before the Lord Chancellor. His lordship, on taking his scat, delivered judgments in the following cases : WESTWOOD e. SLATER.—This was an appeal from Tice- Chancellor Sir J. Wigram upon questions raised upon a marriage settlement, and was argued some time ago.—His Lordship affirmed the judgment, and dismissed the appeal with costa. THIS GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY V. THE BIRMINGHAM AND OXFORD JUNCTION RAILWAY COM PANY. AOREEMF.NT TO SILL RAILWAYS. —Srectric PERFORMANCE.—DEMURRER. —This was an appeal from an order of the Vice-Chancellor of England overruling a de murrer to the bill which was filed by the Great Western Railway Company for an injunction. and to enforce the per formance of an agreement entered into by them with the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway Company f.r the purchase by the former of the latter company's railway. The bill stated the act of 9 & 10 Vict., c. 337 (Pri vate act), for making a railway from Birmingham to join the lines of the proposed Oxford and Rugby, and Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railways, to be called "The Birmingham and Oxford. Junction Riifway that by the 68th section it wee declared lawful for tbe com pany (incorporated by the act) to let on lease the railways thereby authorised to be made, or part thereof, to the Great Western Railway Company. for such terms of years and on such conditions as might be agreed on between the two companies; that by . the 69th section it was declared lawful for the company so incorporated, by and with the authority of three-fifths of the votes of the proprietors present, person ally or by proxy, at some general meeting convened for the purpose, to sell and transfer to the Great Western Railway Company, and for this last mentioned company, by and with the like authority, on the parts of tae proprietors, to pur chase the railways by this act authorised to be made, or any part thereof, whether before or after the completion thereof, and from and after such purchase the railways by this act authorised to be made, SI Bach parts thereof as might be SO purchased by the Great Western Railway Company, should thenceforth become amalgamated with the undertaking be longing to the last-aimed company, and from thenceforth all the provisions, &c., contained in this set, relating to the railways thereby authorised, which might so become amal gamated with the Great Western Railway, should, with reference to all such railways, works, &c., as might have been made by the company by this act incorporated, ls• ap plicable to the Great Western Railway Company ; that by other sections it was provided that in case no purchase ce lease was made of the proposed railways to the Great Western Railway Company, that company should have the use of the new railways en terms therein-mentioned. The two comps- Mee were authorised to enter into agreements for the pur poam cetera mentioned :and contracts made before the set of such purposes was passed, by the committee of the coat pany thereby incorporated with the directors of the Great Western Railway Company, with the sanction of a general meeting, should be valid and binding. The bill stated another private act, 9 and 10 Viet., cap. 31d, " The Birmingham, Wolverhampton , and Dudley Railway Art,'incorporating the company for making that line, and declaring the amount of the capital, fro., and that the act contained no power authorising that company to sell their line. The bill stated that it wu con sidered advisable by the dimton of the two companies in corporated by the said twe, acts to unalgaraste the two lines of railway, notice thereof was duly given to the shareholders of both the new comninedem sea that the expediency of such amalgamation wouli - be discussed at a meett!'qt to be held in October, 1846 ; and each meeting and discusaLZ tuck plhottz and it was resolved at a meeting of the Birmieg.'nol Ina Oxford Railway Company "that, as an emalgasiatU." l of this company with the Btrmingham, Wolverhampton, taw Dudley Railway Company was deemed eepedient, the direc tors be authorised, in conjunction with the last mentioned isa any, to apply to parliament fur en art to carry such amalgamation into effect, providing in the said act fur pewee to sell or lease the said line, when imalgantated, or any part thereof, to the Great Western Railway Company, and that the directors were authorised to negotiate with that company for some arrangement for that purpose." A simi lar resolution was ponied at a me, tie" of the Birmingham, Wolverhan pion, and Dudley Rail. :ay Company. And the directors of both these companies ei:tered into negotiations with the Great Western Railway Company ; and on the 12th of November, 1845, the directors of the three companies C/11110 to en agreement in writing lot, the capital of the two companies t 3 be considered as amalgamated, and be taken at the sums then mentioned; 2nd, the Great Western Railway Company agreed to purchase, and the said two other com panies agreed to sell, the two undertakings, by payments as there mentioned; the detail; of that tad article, and the :3rd, 4th, and sth articles, set forth in the bill, are not material to be here mentioned ; by the 6th article, the Birmingham and Oxford and Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley Companies were to be amalgamated, and powers taken for the broad gauge, in addition to the narrow gauge thereon. and an arrangement to be made for bientung the Great West ern board of directors with the directors of the amalgamated companies in such manner as to give the Great Western Railway Company an effectual control over the expenditure of the said companies. By the Bth article, the terms and conditions of the agreement were to be submitted to epeeist general meetings of the three companies, to be convened without delay, and when ratified, all nee wary powers to be sought from parliament to give effect to the agreement. At meetings of the two companies proposed to be amalgamated. the said agreement was ratified; and on the faith thereof, the Great Western Railway Company entered into contracts for the completion of the railway., and on the 9th of July, 1847, an act was passed authorising the vale of the amal gamated railways to the Great Western Railway Company. The bill, after other statement' and cor responding charges, chaiged that notwithstanding the before-recited agreements, a majority of the existing shareholders in the Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway, consisting of persons who became shareholders subsequent to the said agreement, and interested in the Lon don and North-Western Railway, took on themselves to re pudiate the agreement of the 12th Nov., 1846, && The bill prayed that the agreement might be specifically performed under a decree of the court, and for an injunction, &c. The Birmingham and Oxford Junction Company demurred to the bill for want of equity. The Vice-Chancellor, by his orders, overruled the demurrer, and granted the injunction as prayed for. The appeal against Lis Honour's orders was argued before the Lord Chancellor several days in the last Hilary term. His Lordship new, in giving his judgment, said, the amount of property involved in this lit:gatton, and the num ber of persons interested in it, gave importance to the dis cussions held on the demurrer, bat there was no diffi culty in dealing with the its: itself. His Lord ship then stated the material parts of the agree ment between the plaintiffs and the other two companies, as stated in the bill, and that they Ind in consequence pro ceeded to the sale and purchase as state'. The question was whether the agreement was binding on the defendant com pany, end whether the court will interfere by injunction. It is quite clear that this court will interfere during litigation to preserve property by injunction without coming to any opinion on the respective rights of the parties. His lordship referred to a case " Echliff r. Baldwin," we believe, in 16 Vesey, and another in 3 Vesey and Beanies, and said: the court, it was true, would not no interfere when it found a question of right disputed by the parties, except to preserve the property. Upon the statements in this bill which must be taken to be admitted, the injunction may be sustained and should be continued, although the relief prayed for may not be granted. The demurring parties say the plaintiffs show no reasons in the case as stated in their bill to give them a title to the performance of an agrcemet.t before the com panies were amalgamated. The aumlgamation act was passed the 9th of July, 1847. By the appeal his lordship was asked to treat the contract of Nov. 1816 as a nullity. The effect of such a decision would be to nullify many contracts, much u family arrangements and contracts entered into by projectors before the acts to confirm them are passed. In the case of " Edwards r. the Grand Junction Railway Company " (1 Mylne and Craig, 650), his lordship gave effect to a contract entered into by the projectors of a company before the act incorporating it was pasted. There were many cases to the lame effect. He was not therefore prcpared to do what the defendants asked by allowing the demurrer, and so treat the contract as a nullity, because its provisions required an act of parlia ment to confirm them. The defendauts cannot be allowed in this court to say we cannot have the benefit of such parts of a contract as can be performed because the whole of the contract cannot be performed without an act of par liament. His lordship cited some cases on that point—one from 3 Swanston—Spiller v. Spitler, we believe—and another from 1 Scholes and Lefroy, p. 13. He affirmed both orders, one for the injunction, and the other over-ruling the de , mutter with costs. Before Vice-Chancellor Knight Mice. . NORTH BTAFEDILDSHIRE RAILWAY Coil. FANT.—INJUNCTIO/L—WHETHER THE BONI/ UNDEU 8 VICT., c. 18, a. 85, MUST BE JOIST OR SEVERAL.—It may be remembered that in this case the plaintiff is the owner of land and saltworks at Sandb.ich, in Cheshire, and that the company having given notice to take nine pieces of land be longing to him, and then having enterea upon the land, tendering a bond for the value of seven pieces only, were restrained by injunction from further entry upon the land, or continuing in possession of or constructing their railway works upon any part of it ; but that leave was given to the company to apply for a dissolution of the injunction, when they should have entitled themselves to make the application. —Mr. Matins, on behalf of the company, moved that the in junction might be dissolved.—Mr. Russell and Mr. NV. T. S. Daniell, for the plaintiff, opposed the motion The Vice-Chancellor said, the only question war, whether since the injunction issued the defendants had so fulfilled the conditions, and complied with the requisitions of the Lands Clause, Consolidation Act, as to entitle themselves, under the 85th section of that act, to enter upon and use the lands of the plaintiff ; and if there were ar.y doubt upon that question, the benefit of the doubt ought to be given to the landed proprietor Viewing the case in this manner, his Honour was not satisfied that the conditions of the 85th section had been fulfilled on the part of the company. Perhaps it was reasonable to suppose that Mr. Thompson was a proper person to value the land. Perhaps it was reasonable to presume that it was before entering upon the business of the valuation that be made the declaration required by the 60th section of the act at parlia ment, and, perhaps, it might not be necessary for the surveyor to show, on the face of his valuation, that in making it he had had regard to the considerations specified by the ' 63rd section. But still, making all these suppositions, there were circumstances in this cme, from which his lionour did not feel satisfied that Mr. Thompson, in fixi 531. as the value of the land, had paid regard to all the circumstances pointed out in the G3rd section of the act, nor, looking at the times and circumstances of the payment of the sums of 501. and 31. into the bank, was bls Honour satisfied that the defendants had complied with the 86th section of the act. The suoject also of Mr. Thompson's valuation appeared to differ from that which be was directed to value, and moreover his Honour thought it right to state, that if the oefindants were assumed to have acted rightly in everything but the bond, that instrument did not appear to be clearly conformalio to the provisions of the statute. On the whole, therefore, considering that the defendants put their case entirely upon the 85th section of the act, and their compliance with its requisitions, his Honour did not think they had shown grounds for being relieved from the injunc tion, and the motion must be refused reserving the costs. Although his Honour had not mentioned the 91st and 92d. sections of the act, he had not forgotten them. and perhaps. the 92d section weuld be alone fatal to the motion, for It pro vided that no party should be required to sell part of any house, or other budding, or manufactory, when the party was willing to convey the whole, and it might be said that the brine pits, although not a building, were part of the menu:sr-tory. se.. v.,7,6:tancellor Wieraro. ELLIor V. SOUTH 1311:AON RAILWAY CONII.LNY.—Iiv.. i tsc-rios.—This was an application by the defendants to dissolve an injunction which had be en obtained in April last by the plaintiff, restraining the dekndaats, their seIYI2I2S,, agents, and workmen, from making or constructing, or era tinning upon the land, inthe bill mentioned, and required or taken by them from plaintiff for the purposesof their brands railway to bull Bay, near Plymouth, or any pert thereof, any embankment, or any walls or wall supporting, or intending to support an embankment, so at to cacaos a deviation or 'bus lion of th e surface level of the railway, or any port thueof, to an extent exceeding two feet above the level of the same part of the said railway as refemd to the common datum line described in the section approved by parliament and referred to in the Solids Devon Railway Act (amendments -and branches 1846), and as mark , si in the Lun e sec tion, a nd to restrain the defendants/rem deviating from the mid level of the said railways as marked in the said section, with reference to the said common datum line (where the railway was or might be serried over land required to be taken by the com pany from the plaintiff), or any port thereof, to any extant exceeding in any place two feet above tba levels, as marked in the said section, w About the previous consent of the plaintiff in writing. The injunction aito restrained the de- Fendants, their servants, &c,. from entering upon, Or using, or from occupying for any temporary or otber purges: the lands of the plaintiff adjoining to the land which bad bum required or taken by the company of the plaintif f , or any part thereof, and from depositing er laying, or continuing to keep deposited or laid on such adjoining lands of the plain tiff or any part thereof any stones, earthwork, or materials, without previously giving to the plaintiff arch notices an i are required by the provisions of the South Devou R a il w ay Act, 18H, and the Railway Clauses Con solidation Act, ISi•Vrelper.lively. His Honour now delivered judgment, observing that the injunction, so far as it sought to compel the company to undo what had already been done, must be dissolved. With reference to the main point in the cue, namely, that re lating to the right of the company to deviate from the level sanctioned in their act, and to which the injunction ought properly to have been confined, he thought the eri dens* of the scientific men was conflicting ; but that upon the whole the case was one of injury, which this court would protect by injunctien, if the plaintiff in truth wu right at law. He declined , however, giving any opinion as to the legal right of the plaintiff, with referenee to the matters complained of. These could only be determined at law, and the court would direct a trial with that view, unless the company would undertake to make any alters ion that might be tendered sitallol7 by the Malt of I kl it i f