The Sun. — London, England, 1862-02-17 00:00:00

THE EGYPTIAN LOAN. A letter from Al ex andria, dated Feb. 3, says : Whether or not the Egyptian Government is to take a loan, and who are to be the persons privi liged to supply the money, are questions that still remain more or less undecided. The Imperial Go vernment, as I lately mentioned, have granted authority to the Viceroy to contract the debt ; but a difference of opinion has arisen on the subject with the Prussian Consul-General. The latter asserts that the Imperial firman solely applies to the offer made by the German bankers, while Said Pasha maintains that he is free to borrow the money wherever he pleased, and on the best terms he can get. The question in dispute could not be agreed upon here, and it has accordingly been re ferred for solution to Constantinople. Under any circumstances it is understood that nothing will be definitively arranged until M. Thouvenel makes known his decision upon the claims brought against the Egyptian Government by the Comptoir d'Escompte. But, meanwhile, proposals analogous to those of the German capitalists have been made to the Viceroy by some of the local bankers, and these offers have been received with a degree of favour, in ge neral attributed to the repugnance felt by the Viceroy to contracting a foreign debt. If, however, this repugnance proceeds solely from ap prehensions of difficulties with foreign Governments, it is not easy to see why it should greatly benefit the Alexandrian bankers. Although resident in Egypt, they are Europeans, and they would conse quently have precisely the same claims as their brethren in Europe on their respective Governments for intervention in any question that might arise between themselves and the Viceroy. In neither case is it proposed that there should be a European guarantee of any kind. It is more likely, therefore, that the *Viceroy simply looks to the possibility of making a better bargain. The proposal under discussion is to issue bonds at par for about 40,000,000 f., redeemable by annual drawings in 30 years. An annuity of 11 per cent., which is that demanded by the German banks, would thus admit of dividends of nearly 10* per cent. per annum, besides the sinking fund. The Viceroy proposes formally to assign certain specific sources of territorial revenue as a pledge to the holders of the securities for the punctual payment of his annual obligations, and to issue the bonds endorsed with this important condition, as well as with special reference to the Imperial firman by which it is authorized. Under these terms it seems not improbable that a large number of persons here would be tempted to take a share in the loan. The credit of the Egyptian Government, through its wise perseverance in the late economical reforms, row stands exceedingly well. The Treasury bonds, which a year ago were at 13 to 15 per cent. discount per annum, are now sought after at 9 to 10 per cent., and these bonds, it must be remembered, bear no interest, and are unsupported by security of any nature whatsoever beyond the confidence derived from the punctuality with which the Government has throughout the past always met its engagements towards the public. The only condition imposed by the Turkish Government has been that the Egyptian stock shall not be quoted on the European Exchanges, and the reason seems to be, that the Turks cannot bring themselves to face the humili ating contrast which the Turkish and Egyptian quotations would certainly offer. Doubtless, there fore, many persons would be found here ready to invest their savings in the new securities ; but that the whole amount of above £1,500,000 sterling could be taken up without the assistance of European capital is a proposition far more difficult to meet in the affirmative. I have therefore stated the case with all impartiality, for the benefit of any among your readers who may feel tempted to entertain the idea of investing in Egypt. Comparisons, as the Turks seem so well to know, are often odious, but a Moorish loan having so lately been concluded, the terms of the operation just termi nated and of that under discussion fall naturally op posite each other. On the one hand is the immense advantage of a virtual guarantee from the British Government ; on the other are higher dividends, supported by security which, though comparatively weak, can byno means be regarded as wholly invalid. But in all these matters, it must be owned, the weakest point for the Government is its unfortunate connection with the Suez Canal scheme. The reports current here respecting the operations of the com pany become daily more and more unfavourable The small channel, or rigole de service, dug through. Lake Menzaleh, is already, I am informed, almost entirely obliterated. Whatever embankments had been raised on either side have been washed away, and the small boats that occasionally attempt the passage find themselves every now and then stuck fast in the open but shallow lake. The approaches to Port Said are in as unpromising a state as ever, and the cutting through the sand heights of El Gisr it is found must be attempted, in spite of its ac knowledged difficulties and disadvantages; and, I must add, it is now altogether vain for the projec tors of the scheme to talk of English jealousy and animosity. Here, at all events, people of all nations have at length arrived at a tolerably happy state of unanimity on the subject, and none are more ready to treat the undertaking with ridicule than the French themselves—those, at least, who are not per sonally interested in it. Many even of the latter abandon the cause, and disputes are carried before the French tribunals, through which it is believed that some curious revelations will ere long come to light. Among other things that may be held to fore bode that the beginning of the end is drawing nigh must be reckoned the hints that are becoming more and more frequently cast at the immense difficulties and obstacles caused by English apposition. Now, this is too unreasonable. No doubt the scheme found little favour with the English people or Government, and it is by no means unlikely that the Porte was dissuaded from making over the Isthmus of Suez to a foreign company, but surely our adversaries, to use their favourite expression,must be prepared to admit that the disfavour they complain of was by no means unnatural. They themselves had plainly informed us that the great object was to aim a blow at what they called " le point faible de la cuirasse Anglaise." And yet, beyond what I have men tioned, I know of nothing that can be laid to our charge. Since the first day when the work was commenced in the isthmus there has been no inter ference with it, either direct or indirect. None, in fact, have boasted more loudly of the rapid success NS ith which one-half of the capital was obtained in Prance, and the remaining deficiency supplied by the Egyptian Viceroy, of the crowds of volunteers 'w ll o were flocking to the works from all parts of Tg7Pt, and of the impotence of England to delay the com p le t ion of the canal by even a single day, than tho se to who now show an incipient disposition attribute failure to English illwill. I should wish that the task of proving the utter irra tionality of suc h accusation, unparalleled as is the charg e f or h i an i nconsistency, at least on this side of the Atlantic, adversaries, sar illd avail to silence our above mentioned but any such hopes must, I fear, be very suffering British publi!hinddulged in. The Tong a fresh burden of respee s a ibi h r est be prepared to see shoulders. Already I see it decla r ed fitted to its broad of Suez journal that the cond uct in the Isthmus people in hindering the formati o n of the British channel from the Mediterranean t o t o il a navigable no less obnoxious to the reprobation of Red Sea is world than that of the Federal AmericatohgeFivilized block ing up against future generation s of all in .the harbours of the States with which thevuanrtr.rics# war. Let us, however, at least hop e f hat — t " Egyptian Government may have the wisdom and e good fortune to guard itself against the more tangible demands with which it will undoubtedly he threatened on the bursting of the great bubble, for the existence of which it is, unfortunately, so large responsible. 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The Moniteur publishes a long report, d it ed Dec. 26, from Admiral Bonard, giving an account of the late proceedings in Cochin-China, a summary of which is given in a preceding column. From the moment of his arrival at Scgon, he devoted his attention to collecting all the information that could be of use to him in the military operations which were likely to take place. He ascertained that for- midable preparations for defence had been accumu lated on every road leading to Bien-Hoa. Thus, two leagues from Segon, the Annamites had esta blished a fortified camp, defended by 3,000 men. The river of Bien-Hoa, at two leagues from the camp, was obstructed by nine solid barriers of wood, and a little further on, by an estoccade in stone. Higher up still, a long series of solid piles were placed for a distance of about 1,000 yards in the river, at about a foot distance one from the other. All those works were supported by forts mounted with cannon, and having parapets from behind which sharpshooters could fire in every direction. To attack all those ob stacles in front would have been to sacrifice a great number of lives, and in consequence the Admiral determined to attack the centre only, and once having broken it to turn on the flanks, as the case might require. He ac cordingly assigned to each officer in command his particular work, and he attributes the success ob tained to the extraordinary punctuality with which every direction was fulfilled. The report then pro ceeds in these terms : "Everything being disposed for a vigorous attack I sent an ultimatum to the Ambassador of the King Tu-Duc, who was sheltered behind the barricades of Bien-Hoa, demanding a categorical reply within 24 hours. The answer not being satis factory, the troops chosen for the combined attack where put in motion at 5 o'clock on the morning of the 14th December. The same evening the column commanded by Chef de Batallion Comte, composed of foot chasseurs, 100 Spanish foot soldiers, 60 horse men, and 44 guns, bivouacked at Hon-Loc. A second column, under the orders of the Lieutenant Colonel of Marines Domenech Diego, and composed of 100 Spaniards, a battalion of the 3d regiment of Marines, and two 4-pounder rifled guns, descended in the course of the evening to an advanced post on the river, and held themselves in readiness to march at daybreak to replace at Hou-Loc Comte's column, which was to advance upon Go-Cong to keep in check the camp of 3,000 men established on the plain of Mihoa, without, however, yet attacking it. At daybreak the Comte division commenced its march upon Go-Cong, whilst Captain Le Brie of the Navy, at the head of two companies of forces, composed of crews from the vessels, re paired to the same point by the stream cf Go- Cong, which falls into the river Bien-Hoa. At the same time the captain of the Renommee, with its boats, was also directed towards Go-Cong, leaving the stream at the point where the column of Do menech Diego had disembarked. These three divi sions arrived at the same time owing to a signal given by firing a cannon shot, which at the moment of the attack was to be made to Captain Le Bris and the captain of the Renommee by Chef de Ba taillon Comte on his approaching Go-Cong. At half-past 7 the place was carried. Go-Cong, once militarily occupied by some companies of foot chasseurs, Capt. Le Bris, with the troops from the vessels, reinforced by a part of the Comte division, immediately advanced to take the forts and the batteries of the right bank in reverse, while the vessels under the command of Lieutenant Harel, commander of the Avalanche, cannonaded them heavily in front. An obstinate resistance was made at the barrier forts, and they only fell by the ma noeuvre of attacking them in the rear. Your Excel lency will easily judge of the losses we should have suffered had we confined ourselves to attempting to take those forts by force with our vessels alone, for a single one of them, the gunboat Alarm, received 54 shots in her hull, and had her rigging and masts much cut up. The stratagem of turning the bar riers having succeeded, the two first forts of the right bank were carried ; that of the left blew up with a loud explosion, and all those which were echelloned along the river as far as Bien-Hoa were evacuated in disorder. The vessels then, without taking any rest, attempted to make a passage through the barriers, and after two days and nights' incessant work succeeded in reaching a point of the river near Bien-Hoa." The next day at dawn Commandant Comte ad vanced with his troops on the camp of Mihoa, before which the Domenech Diego column had remained in observation. That column and other troops, ap pointed to support it, attacked the camp in the centre and two other points with such energy, that the enemy were seized with panic, and fled in every direction. The camp, the fort, and the batteries having been destroyed, the Admiral gave orders to have the Domenech column embarked and carried up the river of Bien•Hoa, whilst the Comte column, which had returned to Go-Cong, after the route of Mihoa, prepared to cross the river to operate against Bien-Hoa. The report then goes on to say : "In order to fix upon a good spot for landing before commencing the attack on the citadel of Bien-Hoa, I ascended the stream above the barriers on board the steam despatch boat Ondine, upon which I had hoisted my flag, and followed by the gunboat No. 31, commanded by Lieut. Jounart. We were hardly before the citadel, which was con cealed by trees, and of which we could only discover the flag staff, when two or three discharges of artil lery were directed against us. Fortunately no one was hurt, and at the third shot of the gunboat the fire of the enemy ceased, and a large conflagration appeared above the citadel. It was only the next day that we could cross over the troops from the right to the left bank, and occupy the citadel ; the whole of the defenders, terrified by the affair of the barriers, having abandoned it with precipitation without having had time to burn the large quantity of vessels in construction and wood contained in a small neighbouring arsenal, from which the inces sant fire of the gunboat which was anchored near had kept them during the whole night. Unfortu nately the mandarins, faithful to their barbarous traditions, had on leaving put to death the unfor tunote Annamites, Christians, and others, who were imprisoned in the citadel, and whom they had chained in enclosures surrounded with spikes, chevaux de frise, and combustible materials, which were set fire to. A certain number of men of strong constitutions, had, however, been able to escape, some safe and sound, but others injured ; we picked them up here and there concealed in the bushes, and so terrified that they hardly knew whether to look upon us as saviours or murderers." The report terminates in these words : " To sum up—the expedition of Bien Hoa, accom plished in four days, has had for its results the com plete destruction of the camp of Mihoa, situated at three leagues from Segon ; the taking of three forts and the blowing up of a fourth ; and the total eva cuation of the province of Bien-Hoa by the army of the King Tu-llue, who, fearing to be cut off on the road to Hue, which is in course of construction, fled in disorder across the mountains, abandoning all the forts, which had been accumulated with so much difficulty one upon the other, and burning the magazines (the remnant of this army has re tired towards the provinces of Ben Thuau, beyond Lower Cochin China); the taking of 48 pieces of cannon, a quantity of excellent timber, and 15 royal junks, of which 10 are of near 200 tons burthen ; and lastly, the possession of the citadel, in which, notwithstanding the damage which the enemy sought to effect, we can now instal a respectable garrison with an hospital of 100 beds in a magnifi cent country, without marshes. This territory can easily support the cavalry, which, when joined to a -without relaxationwill in a short time purge this frontier from the marauders formed by the remains of Tu-Due. The necessity of pursuing harassed, necessitas.a. might still find demoralised enemy which to rally if not continually meansfrequent movements, and de mands all my atte ntion. It is s thus impossible at out all those by whom I have this moment to vo_ntio:. been so ably seconded d ecisive t whom I have been so ably seconded in ti d ecisive ope I Spaniards must limit myself to stating your Excellency that all have done th e i r duty with zeal and courage ; that the have con tinued to give,. with their small army, the , most loyal assistance ; and lastly, that the marine, as in all these combined operations, has ably sup ported a double share of its fatigues and dangers. I have confided the command of the province of Bien-Hoa to Lieut.-Col. Domenech Diego, who, strongly established in the citadel, will overrun the province with his movable column. The cavalry which I have left him, and which will find means of subsistence everywhere in the district, will be of great utility. At the same time the Comte division will watch the country towards the prefecture of Hayen, whilst the Renommee with its company of landing troops, will advance to meet him, in making a passage through the numerous stockades with which this natural channel has been defended, in the fear of an attack by water, upon a point where the treasury and magazines of the enemy's troops were placed." La Paine has the following :—" The news oft e success obtained by the French troops in Cochin China is confirmed. The port of Bien-Hoa has been occupied, and the reports current of the loss sus tained by our expeditionary corps are very much exaggerated." La Patrie publishes the following details : " Rear-Admiral Bonard, with 3,000 men, advanced against Bien-Hoa on the 10th of December ; at the same time a division of gunboats was sent up the canals which surround the town, and tra versed it in all directions. The attack commenced on the 15th at daybreak. At 8 o'clock the steam gunboats Avalanche, Alarme, and Fusee, sup ported by smaller gunboats, Nos. 19 and 20, ad vanced within four cables' distance of the forts, and opened a heavy, well-sustained fire. The Annamites responded with great vigour, and the Alarme, rid dled by balls after two hours' firing, became a wreck. The defences on the river were stormed and car ried by our sailors to the shout of Vive l'Em pereur P Meantime the land forts were attacked by our troops, after one hour's heavy cannonading. The citadel and outworks were carried by storm. At 4 p.m. the Annamites retreated, leaving the town and a large amount of materiel de guerre in our hands. On the next day a division of French troops, consisting of the 101st Regiment of the Line, the Chasseurs-a-Pied, and two battalions of marines, were sent in pursuit of the Annamite army. This affair, very glorious for our arms, and of great im portance for our interests, costs us only an insignifi cant loss. At the same time other engagements took place between our troops and the Annamites on different points, in which as usual the same de votion and courage were displayed." THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 17, 1862. other expenses to £473,233, or 42.5 per cent.; the rent-charges of six branch lines amounted to £16,850, and the interest on the joint capi tal expended to £7,609, leaving a net balance of £714,510 to be divided between the two corn panies,in the proportion of 82-1-per cent., 0rL589,471, for the Great Western, and 171 per cent., or £125,039, for the West Midland Railway Company. As this is the first half-year's working on joint account, a correct comparison of receipts and ex penses cannot be made with the corresponding period of the preceding year. No. 8, the general revenue account of the Great Western Railway Company shows that, in addi• tion to the £583,917 received from the joint work ing, there is the sum of £11,068 for dividends on shares in other companies, and a balance of £2,400 brought from the preceding half-year, making to gether L 597,438. From this sum is deducted £20,189 for guaranteed annuities to the Wilts, Somerset, and:Weymouth Railway and Kennett and Avon Canal proprietors ; £20,418 for rent charges paid to the Glocester and Dean Forest, the Here ford, Ross, and Glocester, the Brentford Dock and Railway, the Wycombe, and the trustees of the Paddington estate; £66,744 for dividends, interest, &c., payable in respect of the Shrewsbury railways ; £4,500 appropriated against loss on the lease of the South Wales Railway; £236,200 for interest charges on debentures and loans ; £1,331 for interest on the Berks and Hants Extension shares ; £l5l for Hen ley Railway subscription; and £113,923 for divi dends on Great Western preference stocks, leaving a disposable balance of £133,983 for dividend, which at the rate of 3 per cent. per annum for the half year ending Dec. 31 last, would absorb £123,559, and leave a balance of £10,424. The dividend at the corresponding period of the preceding year was at the rate of 31 per cent. per annum, being a half per cent. per annum more than the dividend for the past half-year, but the latter is quite as much as was expected, owing to the general depression of trade, and to the tact that the traffic from the West Mid land district over the narrow gauge line recently laid on the Great Western from Reading to Lon don did not come into operation until October last, giving barely three months of that traffic during the past half-hear. PROTESTANTISM IN BOMB. A letter just received from the Eternal City says : It is the opinion of the best informed persons here that in the event of a revolution which should restore liberty of conscience, there would be a much stronger reaction towards Protestantism in Rome than has yet been shown in Flo rence, or elsewhere in Italy. They have here seen Popery in its grossest shape, and are doubtless heartily sick of it in all cases where there is not absolute enslavement to super stition. The "curses not loud but deep" on the immo rality of the clergy maybe heard by whomsoever will earn enough of the confidence of one of the poor Romans as to induce him to speak his mind. Knowing what a dweller in Rome cannot but know on this subject, it is not a little disgusting to watch the prudery of these priests in " whited sepulchres"—the banishment of Florentine flower-woman, the exclusion of English ladies from dozens of places too holy for their desecrating feet, and lastly such incidents as one which occurred to me yesterday. I was visiting an infant school, admirably managed by a most benevolent Italian gentleman. It consisted only of little boys, from three to eight years old. " Why," said I, "do you not admit also little girls ? It does them bbth good to be mixed, and it is hard for the girls to be excluded every where in Rome from these institutions." " I know it, signora, I know it. But, believe me, we have difficulties enough with the Government already. Were Ito venture on mixing boys and girls, even under eight years old, 1 should have my school shut up next week." The poorer classes certainly manage to read a quantity of forbidden literature, good and bad, in whatever way they contrive to obtain the books. I have managed to converse with a good many, according to the easy courtesy of Italian manners, and have found the knowledge of French novels alternate curiously with that of the Bible. One poor young woman, of the latter order of readers, confided to me that she pos sessed a Bible ; and oh, what a beautiful book it was 1 An English lady is her house had given it to her. " But have you not to confess to your priest that you have such a book ?" " Oh, cara signora, he never dreams of asking me such a thing; if he did I should be obliged to give it up. I have a cousin, a fine fellow, who had a Bible last year, and a priest came into his house and spied it on a table, and put it into his pocket and walked off with it." " Tell me," I said, " supposing we were to have a change here, would there be many, do you think, who would become Protestants ?" " Molti, molti, signora, oh, molti 1" (many, many). " And are there many now who read the Bible ?" A compressed smile and a nod was the safe reply. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE GREAT WESTERN. The directors of this company have just issued their financial statement, which is divided into nine principal accounts. No. 1 consists of Great Western receipts and expenditure on capital account ; No. 2, of the capital accounts of the Shrewsbury lines ; No. 3, the Great Western and West Midland joint account of receipts and expenses on capital account in respect of all sums expended for the accommoda tion and development of the joint traffic, including the expense of laying down the narrow gauge from Reading to Paddington, providing additional roll ing stock, station, sliding accommodation, and making new lines. The interest of the capital ex pended on joint account is deducted from the joint revenue before any division of net receipts is made between the two companies ; No. 4, the revenue accounts of the two Shrewsbury railways; Nos. 5 and 6, the revenue accounts of the Kennett ana Avon Canal, and of the West Midland Canals ; No. 7, the joint revenue account of the Great Western and West Midland Railways ; No. 8, the general revenue account of the Great Western Railway Company ; and No. 9, the details of the joint revenue account of the Great Western and West Midland Railway Companies. 1N o. 1 shows that the Great Western received on capital account £8,421,529 on ordinary shares, £5,133,571 on preference shares, and £10,824,309 on debentures, loans, &c.—making together £24,379,409. The expenditure of the Great Western on capital account for lines, works, and rolling stock, to the end of 1849, amounted to £10,902,380, and from that date to the 31st of De cember, 1861, to £10,866,771, including £465,978 expended on joint account, together £21,769,151, and for subscriptions and disbursements in respect of other undertakings to £2,182,322, making the outlay on capital account £23,951,474,and leaving a balance of £427,936. No. 2 shows that the total expenditure on the Shrewsbury and Birming ham Railway amounted to £1,760,284, and on the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway to £1,743,618, making the total expenditure on capital account for those two lines £3,503,901. No. 3 shows that the Great Western Railway Company bad expended £465,878, including £31,171 for the Shrewsbury lines on the joint capital account of the Great Western and West Midland Companies. No. 4 shows that the revenue of the Shrewsbury and Bir mingham Railway amounted for the half-year end ing the 31st of December last to £51,925, and the working and other expenses to £31,136, leaving a balance of £20,789 to meet the guaranteed interest and dividends, .motmting to .C 28,268, lvaving a de ficiency of £7,468 to be provided by the Great Western Railway Company. The revenue account of the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway for the past half-year showed that £96,337 had been received, and £56,311 expended, leaving a balance of X 40,026. to meet the guaranteed interest and dividends, amounting to £38,486, thus leaving a surplus of £1,540. There was a deficiency in the preceding half-year of about £3,400, from which the surplus of £1,540 must be deducted, leaving the actual defi ciency on the Shrewsbury and Chester line only £1,860 for the year 1861. This must be gratifying to the shareholders of the latter company, as it in dicates that they are approaching the time when they will be entitled to receive, in addition to the 31 per cent. guaranteed, a moiety of any surplus that might remain after paying all expenses and gua ranteed charges at the end of any year, such accounts being settled yearly. No. 7 shows that the total recoipts on joint revenue account of the Great Western and West Midland Railway Companies from the Ist of July to the 31st of December, 1861, am punted to £1,212,201, and the working and GREAT NORTHERN. The report of the directors of this company states that the receipts on capital account to the 31st of December amount to £11,994,128, and the expendi ture to £11,812,388, leaving a balance of £181,740. The outlay upon capital account during the last six months amounts to £129,585, including £51,361 subscription to the Gersten and Liverpool line; £20,643 chiefly for the new junction with the North Loudon Railway and for enlarging Hatfield station ; and £46,190 for additional rolling stock. New irre deemable preference shares to the amount of £245,000 out of the £360,000 authorised to be raised, have been taken up, and the first two calls duly paid. In the course of the last half-year £65,720 has been received on account of the company's 4 per cent. perpetual debenture stock, in substitution of mort gages, making the total £1,822,272. The average interest on the mortgage debt, including debenture stock, is now £4 is lld per cent. The gross re ceipts for the half-year ending the 31st of December amount to £768,684, including five months' receipts of the Nottingham and Grantham, and for the cor responding period of 1860 to £709,183, showing an increase of £59,501. The gross expenditure amounted to £367,811, against £366,494, showing an increase of £1,317. The excess of receipts over expenditure amounted for the past half-year to £400,873, and for the corresponding period of 1860 to £342,689, showing an increase of £58,184. The fixed charges amount to £223,131, against £200,290, showing an increase of £22,841. The balance avail able for dividend on the original A and B stocks amounts to £186,297, against £153,862, showing an increase of £32,435 over the corresponding half of 1860. The directors recommend a dividend on the ori ginal stock at the rate of £7lss per cent. per annum, giving £3l7s 6d for the half-year ; on the B stock, £3 per cent. for the half-year, making up 6 per cent. for the year; and on the A stock, £4 15s per cent. for the half-year, leaving a balance of £423. The dividend for the year 1861 on the original shares amounted to £5 15s per cent., Eigainst £5 8s 9d for 1860, and on the A shares £5 lOs per cent., against £4 174 6d per cent. in 1860. The directors have applied to Parliament for power to continue their loop line from Gainsborough to Rossington, 15 miles in length, the estimated cost being £330,000. A bill for the "Edgware, Highgate, and London Railway" is promoted by independent parties. The proposed line is to join the Great Northern at the Seven Sisters-road Station, passing Upper Hollo way, and thence by Highgate and Finchley to Edgware. In consideration of a subscription of one third of the capital, which is estimated at £220,000, this company are to have the exclusive working of the line. NORTH LONDON. The report of the directors states that the gross receipts for the half-year er ding the 31st of Decem ber last amounted to £86,964, and the expenditure to £49,933, leaving a balance of £37,031. To this was added the balance of £472 from the previous half-year, making £37,503. The interest on the debenture debt, amounting to £B,lOB being de ducted, the sum of £29,395 remained available for dividend, which the directors recommend should be at the rate of 51 per cent. per annum, leaving £524 for the current half-year. The increase in the re ceipts for passengers amounted to £660 ; for goods, to £1,637 ; and for coals £l4B, together £2,445, as compared with the corresponding half of 1860. The directors, with a view of avoiding litigation, have entered into an amicable arrangement with the London and North-Western Company, under which the proportion of the expenses arising out of the lamentable accident on the Hampstead Junction Railway on the 2d of September last to be borne by the North London Company is fixed at one-third of the whole amount. The London and North Western Company have accepted the proportion of the new preference share capital for the City Branch to which they are entitled as pro prietors of North London Stock. The works on the new branch are to be commenced as soon as possible. The capital account shows that £1,445,106 had been expended, leaving a balance of £13,838. NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE. The report of the directors states that the total receipts on_ the railway amount for the year 1861, to £309,514, and for 1860 to £320,948; showing a decrease of £11,434. The receipts on the canal for 1861 amount to £110,835, and for 1860 to 1:137,582 showing a decrease of £26,747, making the total decrease on the railway and canal for the past year £38,181. Notwithstanding all causes of depression, the profits admit of a return to the proprietors at the rate of 3 per cent. per annum on their capital, and leave a balance of £l,BlO. The traffic committee, after a careful investigation, could not recommend any Course by which the expenses of working could be materially reduced. The renewals of the perma nent way were in active progress, and it would be requisite to call up forthwith the remaining amount due upon the shares, the first instalment of £1 per share on the lst of May, and the remaining sum of £1 Os. 4d. per share on the Ist of Jan., 1863. The capital account showed that £4,235,195 had been expended on the railway, and £1,170,000 on the canal, together £5,405,195. The revenue for the half-year on the railway amounted to £157,429, and on the canal to £54,379 ; total £211,808. The working and other expenses of the railway amounted to £81,089, and of the canal to £24,642 ; together £105,731, leaving a balance of £106,077. of the iron trade. The balance for the half-year, after :carrying £2,300 to the renewal and contin gency account, is £13,923, which enabled the di rectors to recommend a dividend on the original shares of the company at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum, and on the preference shares, according to their respective guarantees. The amount expended on eapital account is £555,000. MARYPORT AND CARLISLE. The report of the directors states that the re ceipts for the half-year ending the 31st of Decem ber amount to £31,157, against £32,910, showing a decrease of £1,753, as compared with the corres ponding half-year of 1860. The expenditure for the past half-year amounted to £12,059, against £11,837, showing an increase of £222. The engi neer reports a continued improvement in the condi tion of the rolling atoek and line generally. The falling off in the gross receipts, as compared with the corresponding period of 1860, is occasioned by the diminution in the coal and coke traffic—princi pally the latter—arising from the depressed state POLICE INTE'LLIc'ENCE.—.Feb. 15. THAMES.—EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF PER JURY.—Mrs. Mary Coucher, the matron of the Merchant Seamen's Orphan Asylum, Bow-road, appeared before Mr. Selfe to answer a summons, which assigned that sbe had committed wilful and corrupt perjury in the Thames Police Court, Step ney, on the 17th of January last, when a poor woman named Mary Laughton, the wife of a la bourer, was charged with stealing three half quartern loaves and 21bs. of uncooked meat, value in all 2s. Mr. Joseph Smith, solicitor, conducted the prose cution. Mr. Ribton, barrister, defended Mrs. Coucher. Mary Langhton was brought from the West minster House of Correction in charge of a turnkey and a female warder, to give evidence. She is a well-conducted and intelligent woman. Mr. Joseph Smith stated the case. The present complainant was a laundress, and had been for some time employed at the Merchant Seamen's Orphan Asylum, but did not sleep there. On the 16th of January, after she had finished her day's work, she was leaving the asylum, and the laundry woman escorted her to the gate fronting the road, when the defendant, Mary Coucher, the matron, asked her what she was carrying, to which she replied her supper, which the cook had just given her. Mrs. Coucher took from the complainant a small parcel containing a piece of cooked meat and a small piece of bread,wrapped up in a piece of old newspaper, and a basin of dripping, and carried them into the house. Mrs. Laughton returned to the kitchen, and remained there three quarters of an hour in expectation that Mrs. Coucher would restore her supper. The complainant then went home, and had scarcely reached it when a police man entered and took her into custody on a charge of stealing three half-quartern loaves and 21bs. of uncooked meat, the property of the trustees of the asylum. In support of that charge the present defendant, Mary Coucher, swore that she took from the plaintiff a bundle containing (besides the cooked meat and piece of bread) three half-quartern loaves and 21bs. of uncooked meat, and that the whole was wrapped up in an old coarse apron. The matron was flatly contradicted by a witness, whose statement was partly confirmed by another witness. The magis trate, Mr. Selfe, thought it was a case of conflicting evidence, and determined to send the case before a jury. The complainant was allowed to go at large until the sessions, on her husband's own recogni sance for her appearance. The woman was tried before Mr. Bodkin, the Assistant-Judge, and a jury, at the last Clerkenwell Sessions. After a long trial, and a summing up from the Assistant-Judge which he (Mr. Smith) heard, and which many others heard, the complainant was found guilty, and sen tenced to 12 months' imprisonment and hard labour. He, as her solicitor, and firmly and conscientiously believing that the poor woman was innocent, and that Mary Coucher had sworn falsely, took out a summons before the trial. He would put the un fortunate woman, Mary Laughton, the mother of a family, who had up to the 16th of January main tained an irreproachable character, into the witness box, and , her evidence would be confirmed by others. He hoped that the result would be that the defendant would be committed for trial, not at the Middlesex Sessions, but at the Central Crimi, nal Court, for wilful and corrupt perjury. Mary Laughton was sworn, and stated that as she was leaving the asylum on the night of the 16th of January, the matron said, " What have you got there ?" to which she replied, " Only my supper." The matron said it was a very large supper, and took from one hand a small parcel about the size of the Hebrew Bible on the witness-box, and a basin of dripping from the other hand. She saw no loaves or uncooked meat before she was taken back to the asylum. She was quite surprised when she was charged with stealing the three loaves and the piece of uncooked meat. She had been employed for seven months at the asylum. She was not wear ing or carrying a coarse apron when her supper and a basin of dripping were taken from her. _ _ _ Mary AnClZeast, laundry woman at the Mer chant Seamen's Orphan Asylum, saw Mrs. Laugh ton to the gate on the night of the 16th of Jan., and was about parting with her when Mrs. Coucher stopped the complainant and took a small parcel about the size of a brick and a basin of dripping from her, and said "This is all I want." The complainant had no loaves, uncooked meat, or old apron in her possession. She was quite sure . Mrs. Coucher did not take anything from the com plainant but the small parcel containing the cooked meat and a pieco of bread, and a basin of dripping. Susannah Harvey, cook at the Merchant Seamen's Orphan Asylum, said she gave the complainant a piece of cooked meat and a small piece of bread on the 16th of Janury, at eight o'clock in the evening. The meat and bread were wrapped up in an old newspaper. She saw tho complainant leave the kitchen with the parcel. She had given her a basin of dripping in the afternoon of the same day. About ten minutes after Mrs. Laughton had left the kit chen, she returned without the parcel, and said, " The matron has taken my supper from me." The complainant remained in the kitchen about three quarters of an hour. Witness then advised her to 1 go home, and she did so. Inspector Kerrissey, of the K division, said when the charge was entered at the station-house and the loaves and uncooked meat produced, Mrs. Laaghton said " Oh, you liar, how can you stand there and say that you took the meat from me ; look here, Sir, Mrs. Coucher is going to leave, and she has said that she will be one with us before she went away." Mrs. Coucher replied " What is the use of your talking that way when you know you did have the loaves and the uncooked meat in your possession." Mrs. Keast, in answer to questions by the magi strate, said Mrs. Coacher did once complain to the committee of the asylum for her using bad language before the children. She had heard Mrs. Couche r say she wished a poor widow to have Mrs. Laugh ton's place and do the washing. The depositions made at this court on the 17th of January were put in and read by Mr. Livingston, chief usher. Mrs. Coucher then swore she took three loaves and a piece of uncooked meat from the complainant, besides the small parcel and the basin of dripping. Mr. Ribton cross-examined the witnesses, pointed out discrepancies in the evidence of Mrs. Keast given on the trial and her evidence that day, and said the charge of perjury was wholly unfounded. The case ought not to be re-opened, or the defendant committed on this charge. Wit nesses were called for the defence on the trial, Mrs. Keast was called, and Mrs. Harvey was also exa mined. The prisoner (Laughton) was also ably de fended by counsel, and the jury, after hearing both sides, found her guilty. He could account for the delay in giving Mrs. Laughton into custody after she was stopped at the gate. Mr. Couchcr, the superintendent, was then attending a lecture in the hall, and could not leave the children until it was finished. Mrs. Coucher did not like to give Mrs. Laughton into custody until she had consulted her husband, and directly the lecture was finished he was informed of what had taken place, and at once set the police in motion. The defendant was a lady of high respectability, good connection, and well educated, and what possible motive could she have in preferring a false charge against a poor laun dress. The committee of the Merchant Seamen's Orphan Asylum had every confidence in the inte grity of Mr 3. Coucher, and were at the expense of defending her from this unjust charge. The case differed from that of Mr. Hatch, for no witnesses were called for the defence in that case. The learned counsel then announced his intention to call witnesses, and Mr. Selfe adjourned the further hearing of the case for a week, and Mrs. Laughton was removed in custody, and taken back to Westminster Prison. WANDSWORTH.—EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF FORTUNE •TELLIN G.—ALLEG ED CGNSPIRACY TO POISON A HUSBAND.—SeIina Smith, a young woman, 20 years of age, who carried an infant in her arms, and who, it was stated, belonged to the' gipsy tribe, though not having the appearance of one, was placed in the dock before Mr. Dayman, charged with obtaining a dress and 2s. from a lady named King, residing at Wimbledon, by false re presentations, and ls. from her servants by similar means. Emma Pole, cook in Mrs. King's service, stated that, on Tuesday last, the prisoner came to the door with mats for sale, and afterwards wanted to tell her fortune and also her fellow-servant's. Witness said she did not wish to have her fortune told. The prisoner began to tell her something which was true, and she gave her sixpence. .11r..Dayman—What did she tell you ? Witness—l shall keep to myself what she told me. She told me my fortune. I gave her ls. for telling mine and my fellow servant's. Mr. Dayman—l must know what she said. Un less I hear I cannot tell whether she intended to tell your fortune or not. Witness—She said I was to be married to a gen tleman. (Laughter.) She told me several little things, which I cannot explain. She said I had enemies, and that I had a lucky countenance. (In creased laughter.) Mr. Dayman—l suppose you thought that was worth sixpence ? Witness—l paid her one shilling. I did not hear what she told my fellow-servant. The bell rang, and I went up stairs. I had heard my mistress say she should like to have her fortune told, and I in formed her that a fortune-teller was at the door. The prisoner went into the room, and I heard her say, "Good morning, my lady; you have a lucky face of your own ; I have something to tell you." I left the room, and shut the door. I afterwards saw my mistress go up stairs for an old dress, and she gave it to the prisoner. Mr. Dayman—ls Mrs. King a widow ? The witness did not understand the question, upon which a gentleman, who had been sitting at the solicitor's table, rose and said that he was the lady's husband unfortunately. He used the word unfortunate with reference to this silly business. Mrs. King had been a widow, and that was the reason the witness did not understand the question. The witness, in continuation of her evidence, said —I heard the prisoner say my master would not live longer than a month. She said, "As sure as God he will die in a month." I heard my mistress say she would not mind a sovereign if she could bring her something to do her good. The prisoner said if three drops were mixed with his tea, he would die in a month. On Friday the prisoner came again, and brought a powder in paper. I gave her a bottle and a jug of water. She mixed the powder in cold water, and put it in the bottle. She said three drops of it were to be given in every cup of tea. _ _ . _ Mr. Andrew, the clerk—Was it to save your master ? Witness—l supposed it was to kill him at the end of the month. My mistress said if it did her good, she would give the prisoner 10s. afterwards. The prisoner would not leave it without the money. At the commencement she said " I have brought you something to do you good." She also said that she gave ss. for it, and that my mistress should have it for 10s. When the prisoner said my master would die at the end of the month, my mistress saw me looking and said she was afraid to trust anybody. I said I would not tell. My mistress would not give her anything. The prisoner would not go out of the house. She was afterwards pushed out. Prisoner—l say dear, did you tell me not to go out till I Mid the money ? Witness—l said if she promised you the money you would be foolish to go without it. Prisoner—Did you not say tell the lady that master would die in a month's time ? Witness—l did not. Prisoner—Look here, my dear, did you not say the lady had got houses, and I was to advise her to sell them ? Witness—l did that. The Prisoner—She also told me to tell the lady that I was a white witch. Witness—l did not. I did tell mistress that she was a white witch. Priscilla Webber Jollings, the fellow servant of the last witness, gave similar evidence as to the pri soner telling her that she had a lucky countenance, and would be married to a gentleman. She also de tailed the conversation which took place upstairs between the prisoner and the lady. She said—l heard the prisoner tell my mistress she would be married again in twelve months, and that she would be a happy woman, and have one child. She said master would die in a month. Mistress said, " Do you think so. lam not quite sure." The prisoner said, "Do as I tell you, and you can." I remained in the room while mistress went upstairs to fetch the dress. Mistress gave her the dress and 2s. I saw the prisoner on the second occasion, when she came on Friday. She was with the cook. I went out, and when I returned I saw her talking to mis tress. The only thing I heard her say was, " You must put in so many drops." Prisoner—l say, dear, did you not say I was to ask the lady to give you Zö to go down to the gentleman's friends ? Witness—My mistress asked me if I would go to master's friends, and I told the prisoner to tell her to give me £5, and that it would not be lucky to go under £5. Mr. Dayulan— That is the only sensible thing I have heard in the case. Witness—My mistress told me I could go, and she did not mind what money she gave me. That was after the fortune was told. _ Prisoner—She said I was to tell the lady about her not living happy with her husband. Witness—l said so. __ _ Sergeant Davis, of the V division, said that on Friday afternoon Mr. King called upon him, and he accompanied him to his house. He saw the prisoner struggling with a man, and she refused to go. He took her into custody and told her she was charged with obtaining a dress anc 2s. from Mrs. King by false pretences. She then said the lady asked her to get her a bottle of stuff to put her husband out of the way. Witness afterwards went into the kitchen agd found the bottle of stuff on the table. The prisoner said it was the bottle, and that she got the stuff from her mother on Barnes Common. He afterwards went to the tent on the common and found the dress given to the prisoner. The prisoner admitted having the dress and also the money. At the request of Mr. King he was examined. He wished to premise his evidence by stating that there was a complete system going on in Wimbledon of fortune telling, begging, and extortion. Mr. Dayman allowed the witness to confine him self to this case as to what he saw and heard. Mr. King said he had reason to believe that the prisoner frequented his house for an improper pur pose. He questioned his servants, and he desired them to inform him when she called again. They told him that she was coming again on Saturday. She, however, came again on Friday. On that day he saw the prisoner walk into the dining-room from where he stood in his study. He heard words, sucq as "cost 55." and something about half a sovereign. He put on his hat and walked to the police-station. - Mr. Dayman told him that he acted quite right. Mr. King said that the first thing he saw when he returned was the prisoner struggling with a man. He also heard her make the statement to the ser geant. The bottle of stuff was produced, and consisted of a brownish fluid. The stuff had not been analysed. Mr. Dayman remanded the prisoner for a week, and directed that the stuff should be analysed, to ascertain what was in it. The prisoner was then removed to the cells. TILE YELVER7ON MARRIAGE CASE. In the Court of Session, on Thursday, " the evi dence allowed to the pursuer in replication" was resumed. The first witness examined was Mr. George de Launay, manufacturer, of Manchester, who deposed knew the late Air Longworth, father of the pursuer. He was a silk manufacturer in Manchester, and belonged to the firm of Cardwell and Longworth. Ho held a first-class position among the merchants and manufacturers there. I have visited at his house in Quay-steeet. They kept a very good establishment in Quay street. They kept their carriage. Mrs. Long worth was a Roman Catholic, and Mr. Longworth was a Protestant. The Longworths associated with the best families in Manchester. Mary Ann Cahill deposed—l was some time nurse maid to Mrs. Larkins, at Rostrevor. I was in Sangster's Hotel, in Rostrevor, in August, 1857, with Mrs. Larkins, who was there at the time. When I was staying there a lady and gentleman came to the house. The gentleman was called Major Yelverton. (The pursuer was introduced into Court, and identified by the witness as the lady spoke of.) They occupied two bedrooms and a sitting-room. There were five or six yards between the sitting-room and the gentleman's bedroom. The other bedroom was at the other side of the sitting-room from where the gen tleman's room was. They did not enter from the same landing. On the last Sunday they were in Rostrevor I saw the lady and the gentleman in the Roman Catholic Church there. The lady was opposite the altar, and the gentleman was sitting a few seats behind. They were married on the Saturday morning, and on the Sunday I saw them in the church. I heard of their marriage by common report. I saw the lady's clothes in a room different from that in which I heard the gentleman coughing. This was the room occupied as a bedroom by the lady. I once observed the housemaid taking up two cups of • coffee, and she knocked at the lady's door. The lady took one cup in for herself, and then took the other cup to the gentleman's door, knocked at it, and after handing it in she returned to her own bedroom again. I think that was a morning or two before the Sunday of which I spoke. There was no commuication between these two bed rooms except by going out to the landing. This witness was cross-examined at considerable length, but nothing of importance was elicited. Charles John Goodwin deposed : I reside at Keith, three miles from Bolsover. I knew the late Dr. Alsopp and his mother. They held a highly respectable position, and were one of the eldest families in Derbyshire. I occasionally saw the pursuer visiting there. She was treated by old Mrs. Alsopp as a lady. Dr. Alsopp told me he was engaged to the pursuer. Her conduct was always such as became a lady. Mrs. Alsopp was very strict in her views, and was one of the old school—decorum to a shade. Dr. Alsopp married a girl of the name of " Liz" Carter, the daughter of a small innkeeper. The marriage was regarded by the friends of Dr. Alsopp as a very unfor tunate one. Thomas Longworth, brother of the pursuer, was in business in Stavely. It was a general store for a colliery district—a large concern.—Mr. Fraser moved for an adjourn ment of the case in order to obtain the evidence of Richard Sloane, one of, the parties present at the marriage at Rostrevor, and who he alleged had been on several occasions carried off by the agents for the defender from Rostrevor, to' prevent his evidence being obtained by the pur surer.—Lord Ardmillan appointed counsel for the pursuer to lodge a minute on Tuesday, stating dis tinctly what he alleged and offered to prove in re gard to this matter. COUNTRY MARKLA S. ~. YORK- FEB. 15. We had a fair supply of wheat to-day, and a tolerable at tendance of farmers and factors. A quiet business was ex perienced, and late prices obtained. Barley was a pretty fair show, at previous rates. Beans were slow of sale, and prices slightly gave way. Wheat, red 58s to 61s Oats.... 22s to 24 9 White do .628 to 648 Beans 42, to 465 Barley .32s to 38s Peas ....--s to --0 Malt, 66s to 68s per qr. ; to 48s per sack. -e, 368 per qr.; flour, 46 LEICESTER-FEB. 15. The supply of wheat to-day at market only moderate• Trade quiet, late prices being supported. White, 64s to 680 —red, 53s to 64s per 36 stone. Barley was in fair re quest, grinding, 30s to 328; malting, 34s to 38s per qr.; oats, 24s to 35s per 24 stone. Beans at high prices- - new, 40s to 42s ; old, •43s to 48s per 38 stone. Fine flour, 46s I Seconds, 448 I Thirds, 42s per 20 stone. NORWICH-FEB. 15. Wheat to-day was in short supply, and the prices of last week were fully supported. A tolerable quantity of barleit which brought fully late currencies. Flour unaltered. White wheat 60s to 64s J Red wheat 58s to 62; Malting barley... .38s to 39s I Chevalier barley 37s to 380 New d 0...... 37s to 398 I Oats.. to -- -0 Flour, 42s Od to —s Od per sack from the miller. TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE WEEK. Miles Opened. Receipts. Railways. ~...._-. 861. ...____. 1860 , .... 861---"..- . 1860. - 1. 1 X £ Ballymena and Pert Rush - - - - Belfast and N, Counties 136 136 1,785 1,689 Belfast and County Down 49 395 553 - Birkd., Lane., & Ches. Junc - - - 522 Blyth and Tyne 22 22 1,454 1.474 Bristol and Exeter lO6l 125 5,303 5,694 Caledonian Cockermouth & Workington 81 Cork and Bandon 2O 20 363 370 Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 65 65 232 201 Cork and Youghal 26 26 239 210 Cornwall 531 534 1,142 1,0,0 Deeside l7 17 211 253 Dublin & Belfast Junction Dublin and Drogheda 63 63 1,6'.0 1,559 Dub. & Wicklow (m.King,st ) 481 401 2,026 1,738 Dundalk and Enniskillen Dundee and Arbroath l7l 171 619 594 Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jun 3l 31 1,018 1,154 East Anglian 6B 68 927 863 E.Counties,Nrik.,&E.Union 499 499 23,072 23,841 Edinburgh and Glasgow 142 1 42 6,161 6,072 Edinburgh, Perth,& Dundee 85 85 3,118 3,145 Forth & Clyde Junction Furness 3l 31 1,313 1,064 Glasgow & South-Western 1831 , 1831 7,227 7,323 Great Northern 330 330 24,401 25,8,9 Great North of Scotland .• Gt.Southn. & Westn.(lrind ) 329 329 7,144 7,413 Great Western 7921 7715 42,421 42,728 Inverness & Aberdeen June. 55 55 672 746 Irish South-Eastern 25 25 155 312 Lancashire & Yorkshire 3951 3951 30,062 35,287 Leominster and Kington Limerick and Ennis.. Limerick and Foynes 26 26 157 149 Llanelly 46 461 407 312 Londen & North-Western London and Blackwall 5l Di 1,3.5 1,48 London & South-Western Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 2411 2245 13,535 13,0)6 London, Chatham & Dover 725 565 1,501 730 Lond., Tilbury, & Southend 45 45 859 850 Illan.,Shefileld,&Lineolnsh 2311 239 13,62: 14,467 Manch. S.Jun.& Altrincham 9 n 1,026 9 i 8 Maryport and Carlisle Midland (incl. N.-Western) 6144 6141 36,569 39,449 Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind. 19 2 4 1921 4,316 4,471 Monkland 56 56 1,527 1,550 Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 4 4 2,036 2,107 Newcastle and Carlisle 7B 78 2,981 3,665 North British (incl. Selkirk and Galashiels) North Devon 35 35 363 388 N-Eastern(BedalaLeybrn) 789 764 33,415 36,476 North London 9 9 2,398 2,360 North Staffordshire 246 246 6,804 7,902 Oswestry and Newton 3O 20 441 369 ey Rhymn St. Helen's Canal & Railway 52 1 52 1,957 1,553 Scottish Central 1 Scottish North-Eastern ll5 115 4,100 3,785 Shrewsbury & Birmingham - - - _ Shrewsbury and Chester - - Shrewsbury & Hereford Shropshire Union 291 291 720 767 South Devon ' South-Eastern 306 306 15,981 16,622 South Wales l 7 ll 171 1 7.009 6,874 S. Yorkshire and River Dun 118 118 - - Stockton and Darlington 1 Taff Vale 5l 54 4,615 4,503 Ulster 5l 51 1,736 1,629 Ulverstone and Lancaster ▪ Vale of Clwyd .. lO 10 141 141 ) Vale of Neath 36 36 2,149 1,708 - Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 3:30 419 Waterford and Limerick ' West Cornwall 271 271 630 857 W.llartlepoolHarbr.&Rail. 39 39 3,589 1,756 I West Midland. - - - - W'haven,Cleator,&Eg,rmnt. 7 7 408 479 1 Whitehaven Junction l2 12 635 748 Whitehaven & Furness Jun. 35 35 613 678 ' FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. - Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 52 836 876 , Austrian B2B 673 31,887 38,100 ' Belgian Eastern Junction 261 265 211 258 D Buffalo and Lake Huron Detroit and Milwaukie lB5 185 3,316 1,566 - Dutch Rhenish lOB4 1084 2,902 ;2,731 ~ Eastern of France 1032 1032 46,142 45,678 ' East Indian 5 Grand Trunk of Canada 970 970 - - Great Indian Peninsula 4374 2974 5,539 4,922 Great Luxembourg l2B 128 3,227 2,646 3 Great Western of Canada 345 345 10,634 8,992 Lyons and Geneva 142 142 :3,754 4,072 e Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 301 284 13,684 13,424 Northern of Canada ... ;' Northern of France 691 623 47,452 46,761 ✓ Norwegian Trunk , 44 44 346 f 9( Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 879 872 87,471 84,606 ) Paris and Orleans 922 922 14,343 50,09( , Pernambuco 361 - 921 - J Royal Danish 69 69 413 431 e Sambre and Meuse 6B 68 977 1,151 South Austrian ) t Southern of France 777 773 23,232 21,91.2 Welland. ,- West Flanders ... 75 75 832 963 a W. and N.W. of France.... 750 750 32,037 33,631 6,849 4,503 1,629 141 1,708 "419 1,199 657 4,750 876 38,100 '258 1,521 1,566 :2,731 45,678 4,766 4,977 2,640 8,992 4,072 13,424 1,064 46,763 290 84,600 50,090 436 1,152 32,700 21,012 963 33,630 NORTHAMPTON-FEB. 15. At this corn-market to-day the supply of wheat W 5. moderate. The tone of the trade improved, and the prices for best samples as before ; inferior difficult to quit :-48s to 60s old, and 56s to 628 new. A steady business in barley! malting 32s to 365, grinding 29s to 31s per qr. Oats 0 1 moderate show, at previous prices—quoted at 20s to 343 per 24 stone. Beans, old, 38s to 455; peas, 36s to 450. nye, 37s to 425; malt, —s to —s; flour, 40s to —s per sack. NOTTINGHAM—FEB. 15. There was about an average show of wheat to-day, and the trade ruled rather firm—prices being for most sorts at last week's rates—white, from 475 to 70s ; red, 42s to 6 40 ' Barley in fair demand—malting, 34s to 40s ; rindin WI to 325. Oats were steady, at 24s to 355. Beans were , Bola at 39a to 50s per qr, Flour, 37s to 435. FOREIGN MAIL PACKET MT. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. Feb. 18 ' via Marseilles Brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. March 6. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. March 3 ' China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. Feb. 18. via Marseilles —Feb. 13. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Feb. 18. via Marseilles Feb. 1 3 ' India (Bombay), via Southampton .. Feb. ---' via Marseilles Feb. 20. Lisbon Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton yin MATRPiiie. Newfoundland 19 Oporto and Vigo .. U. S. and British N. America, ty Brit. packet ... .l . FFF e eee b bbb.. .. 13. by U.S. packet.... bye en C er a i n ff a e dian packet.k ar. b. W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and T Bahamas, via New York Feb 13. •••• „ Q . per Mexico .. • •• . :4° All parts of West Indies, in c l u di ng Chili, ; u Feb California. and British C o l um bi a.. I Feb. it BIRTHS. BOOTHEY.—On the 12th inst., at the Rectory, WeWin' Lady Boothby, of a son. FISHER. —On the 14th inst., at Kew, the wife of Lient'' Colonel Fisher, C. 8., R.E., of a daughter. JOIINSON.—On the 14th inst.. at Hannington Hall, Wilts, the wife of Captain Willes Johnson, Royal Navy, M. P. ' of a daughter. REMNANT.—On the 13th inst., at 17, Kensington-par k ' gardens, the wife of Frederick William Remnant, Esq.' of a son. MARRIAGES. ABERCROMBIE—DENNISON.—On the 15th inst., at Sal George's, Hanover-square, David Abercrombie, Esq.,_ ° o 64, Piccadilly, to El;za Amy, only daughter of the 10 Wm. Denniti . o . n, Esq., of &t : Arta], Relit& VERRAL—THORBURN—On the 13th inst., at St. Clemen t' : Danes, Strand, John Claudius Verral, late of Lewes, of Marion Emma, eldest daughter of John Thorburn , Fleet-street, DEATHS. BYNG.—On the 14th inst., at Little Casterton Stamford, Florence Louisa, wife of the Hon. and W Francis Byng. CLEMENTS —On the 11th inst., at Staplehurst, Kent, g r. Joseph Clements, late of 214, Oxford-street, aged 6 1 . HOOPER.—On the 1 Rh inst., at Peckham, Henry Hooper' Esq., of 40, Old Broad-street, and of Lloyd's, aged 43. MORETON.—On the 14th i ns t., a t Gloucester-place, pa man-squ re, the Hon. Au gus t us H enr y M ac donald Mor e_ ton, of Lairgie Castle, aged 58. TRIPP.—On the 13th inst., at Bognor, Chas. Upton Tr i p p ' Esq., aged 63. WARREN.—On the 15th inst., at Springfield, Upper CIO' ton, Miss Sarah Warren, aged 83. -- - _ -------ot LorinoN : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUN G. No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TnN SUN Office, No. 112 :N ua r8- g g in the Prt. duct of the Sav o y I n th e County 0t Blondayirebruary 17, 1802.