The Sun. — London, England, 1860-02-16 00:00:00

211 E NAVY. The lines and drawings for the Belvedere and Royal Oak, two of the new screw steamers which the Admiralty have ordered to be laid down at Chatham Dockyard, having been prepared under the direction of Sir Baldwin Walker, Controller of the Navy, the vessels are to be commenced at Chat ham forthwith. There are several other line-of battle and other steamers now building at that esta blishment, including the Bulwark, 91 ; the Atlas, 91 ; the improved steam frigate Undaunted, 51e; the screw corvette Orpheus, 21 ; and the Ratt snake, 20, in addition t o which the Rodney, 91, and the Galatea, 26, are in dock fitting for service. In consequence of the efforts which are now being made to complete the vessels on the stocks during the present year the workmen and mechanics in most of the establishments are employed overtime, and are working until a late hour in the evening, The paddle-wheel steam sloop Alecto, Commander Raby, for the West Coast of Africa, and the gun boat Louisa, for Left:A, having sailed from Wool wich on Saturday, were delayed at Greenhithe un til yesterday, when they left for their destinations, the former calling at Portsmouth and Plymouth. The iron screw steam storeship Industry, Master- Commander George J. Hodges, for Rio, sailed yes terday from Deptford to be swung at Greenhithe, to be adjusted for sea. Rear-Admiral Sir Alexander Milne, K C. 8., will probably leave Plymouth Sound, in the screw steamship Emerald, 51, Captain A. Cumming, for the West India station, about Saturday next. The screw steam gun-vessel Alacrity, 4, Co m mander Baird, having been thoroughly repaireL l, left Plymouth Sound on Tuesday for the Meliter ranean. The screw steamship Majestic, 80, Capt. Mends, C. 8., left Plymouth Sound under steam on Tuesday for Liverpool. The gunboat Hind, tender to the Russell, 60, left Plymouth on Tuesday with stores for Falmouth. The Flying Fish, 6, screw despatch-vessel, Com mander Charles W. Hope, at Portsmouth, has been placed in No. 1 dock, to make good some defects in her rudder. The Megfera, screw troopship, in No. 8 dock at Portsmouth, is having the surface of her plates on the inside covered with a patent cement, to pro tect her rivet-heads from the wash of the bilge water and grit when at sea. The Ariadne, 26, screw, Captain Vansittart, will be unable to aesume her experimental trials at the measured mile in Stoke's Bay before the 20th inst., owing to the tides, The Arachne, 18, sailing sloop, Commander John E. Alontgomerie, is hourly expected to arrive at Spithead from the West Indies. The materials for the erection of the coaling jetty in front of the watering island at Portsmouth Dockyard are being unloaded from a bark in the harbour, and the staff of the contractors are about to commence operations forthwith. The sum allotted for the work in the Navy Estimates for 1860-1 is £5,377, £lO,OOO having been already voted for the purpose, making the total estimate amount to £15,377. The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty :—Commander J. W. White to be Inspecting Commander of the Coastguard, vice Commander Gryles, deceased ; Commander E. F. Dent to be Inspecting Commander of the Coast guard, vice Commander Clarke, whose period of service has expired ; James Symon, second master, to the Himalaya ; Robert Gill, promoted to be second class assist. engineer in the Tribune; Aaron H. Symes, acting third class assist.-engineer, to the Fisgard, for service in the Monkey ; Robert J. M'Morris, acting assist.-surg. to the Forte ; John Brown, acting assist. -surg. to the Donegal; Frede rick W. S. Ponsonby, secretary to Commodore Dun lop at Jamaica ; W. E. Chown, assist.-paymaster, to the Cornwallis ; W. B. Risk, assist.-paymaster, to the Forte ; W. H. E. Mitchell, clerk, to the Forte ; L. H. Edwards, assist.-clerk, to the Sans pareil ; and Edward B. Cornish, assist.-clerk, to the Forte. The proposal of raising an Artillery Corps of Volunteers in her Majesty's Dockyard, Woolwich, having been submitted to the heads of departments by mechanics and others serving in the dockyard, and their proposition having been fonvarded by the Commodore-Superintendent for the consideration of the Board of Admiralty, their lordships have signi fied their approval of its organization. The first preliminary meeting on the subject was held last evening in the Dockyard School-room for the pur pose of adopting measures to carry out the propo sition. TILE ARMY ESTIMATES FOR 1660-61. The army estimates for the ensuing financial year are divided into six parts—viz., forces, civil establishments, supplies, works and buildings, edu cational, and none-effective. These six classes are subdivided into 23 parts, on each of which a dis tinct vote will be taken. The gross um required for defraying otir military expenses for the year 1860-61 is 14,842,2751—viz., 12,707,6521 for effective, and 2,134,6231 for non _ effective services, being an increase of 1,982,978/ upon the estimates of the last year. This increase is on the following items :— . Effective service, for pay and allowances of land forces. 775,162/ ; land forces and miscellaneous charges, 136,4231; depart ments of the Secretary for War and of the General Commanding in Chief, 10,6301; manufacturing establishments, military storekeepers, barrack-mas ters, lodging money, rents, &c., 14,9651; wages of labourers, &c., 194,8431; provisions, forage, fuel and lights, barrack furniture, bedding, &c., 184,293/ warlike stores for land and sea services, 1,020,763/; fortifications, 196,783/; educational and scientific branches, 5,340/. The increase on last year's esti mates for non-effective services is 2,9s4l—namely, rewards for military service, 20/; and superannua tion allowances, 2,9341. There is a decrease under the following heads for effective services—embodied militia, 260,0001; volunteer corps, 20,000/; clothing and necessaries, 108,0001; civil buildings, 29,4571; barracks, 125,8851. The decrease under non-effec tive services is as follows :—Pay of general officers, 2071; pay of reduced and retired officers, 13,3451; widows' pensions and " compassionate" allowances, 1,3231; pensions and allowances to wounded officers, 310/; in-pension, 961; out-pension, 485/. The items themselves figure for the following amounts —Land forces pay and allowances, 4,499,636/ ; miscellaneous charges for land forces, 698,7921; em_ bodied militia, 300,0001; volunteer corps, 68,0001; departments of the Secretary of State for War and of the General Commanding in Chief, 196,224/; manufacturing establishments,militarystorekeepers, barrack-masters, lodging money, and rents, &e., 374,0051; wages of artificers and labourers, 944,371/; clothing and necessaries, 342,000/; pro visions, forage, fuel, lights, barrack furniture, &c., 1,281,077 • warlike stores for land an d sea service, 2,168,388 i; fortifications, 645,355/; civil buildings, 206,5001; barracks, 707,607/; educational and scientific branches, 275,697/. The non-effective items are—Rtwards for military service, 25,3901; pay of General officers, 75,8601; pay of reduced and retired officers, 492,3571; widows' pensions and " compassionate" allowances, 184,523/; pensio ns and allowances to wounded officers, 44,1231; in pensions, 30,638/; out-pensions, 1,144,895/; supe rannuation allowances, &c., 136,837/. The number of men to be actually voted by the house is 143,362, being an increase of 20,707 upon the number voted last year, but in reality being only an increase of 6,456, owing to " transfers" froth India and other augmentations, adding 14,251 men more than voted, and which raised last year's forces to 136,906 men. The composition of this force may be thus distributed :—Staff officers of all ranks, 1,121 ;,.cavalry officers, 681 ; infantry officers, 5,357; non-commissioned officers of all services, 10,972 ; rank and file, cavalry, 11,529 • and infantry, 113, 702 —givin g a total 'of 143,362 men, with 14,63 - 2 ' horses.: Her Majesty's forces in India, classed separately, of include men ranks, viz. :—Royal Horse Ar tillery, 622, with 600 7,2i3, with 6,472 horses ; cavalry of the line, horses ; Royal Artillery, 4,860, with 2,288 horses ; infantry of the line, 66,282 ; Army Hospital Corps, 63 ; ep9ts of regiments in India stationed in Great Britain, 13,420, with 350 horses, giving a total of 99,490 9,710 horses making the gross total of he 7 (143,362 x 92,400) 2 35,852, with a t a o j t e a. s l ty o 's f 2 f 4 ° , 1 3 1 :1 e9s horses. The administration of martial law costs the coup. try 59,31 2 /, being an increase of 9,0131 upon last year; the movement of troops is also in advance o f list year by 16,0001, and figures for 145,000/. Divine service is to cost 2,5971 more than formerly, and will beperformed for 44,963/. The cost of medals for military rewards is put down, as before, at 3,000/. Gratuities to soldiers discharged by indul gence, and as rewards for meritorious conduct, figure for 9,0001. The German military settlers at the Cape of Good .-----, Hope cease to draw 18,1331, as they did last year from the estimates. The pay of the General Commanding-in-Chief is 9 19 s 6d per diem, or 4,4581 7s 6d per year ; the Military Secretary receives 2,0001 per annum ; the Inspector-General of Fortifications, 1,5001; the Secretary of State for War, 5,0001; and the Under- Secretary, 2,0001. Th expenses of the War-office consume 171,396/, being an increase of 9,5101 upon the last year, while , the Commander-in-Cider s - o ffi c e appears for the comparatively modest sum of 10,4621. The cavalry forces of her Majesty aro composed of two regiments of Royal Horse Artillery, two regiments of Life Guards, one Royal Regiment of Horse Guards, and 18 regiments of Dragoons. The infantry are formed by one Royal Regiment of Artillery, divided into 16 brigades, one Coast Bri gade of Artillery, one Artillery Depot Brigade, one Riding-house Troop, one regiment of Royal Engi neers, one of Military Train, one regiment of Grena dier Guards, one of Coldstream Guards, one of Sc ots Fusilier Guards, 100 regiments of Foot, four batta lions of Rifle Brigade, three West India Regiments, and 11 colonial corps. FRANCE AND THE POPE. That the power of the Pope is twofold, temporal as well as spiritual, is one of those facts which may be assumed as axioms in any political controversy. All men are agreed that the head of the Roman Catholic Churc has functions to perform with which Cardinal Antonelli and such as ho ought in no degree to be mixed up. Neither will any one doubt that there are problems in the government of Rome and its dependencies equally unsuited to men whose lives have been spent in devotion and contem plation. Starting from this point, M. Thouvenel, in a circular addressed to the diplomatic agents of France, which we translate elsewhere, seeks to in struct them as to the proper limits of either juris diction, and to furnish them with arguments and precedents which may show that those very Powers - hich now hold the most transcendental views of the Papal authority have, when their own interests have been concerned, dealt with the Pepe quite as ill, or ,even worse, than purely temporal Govern ments. Of course, when a Sovereign or an indivi dual is t ermed with double powers nothing is so natural ass that he should call in the one to the assistance o , f the other. Nothing is more constantly complained set' in private life than this species of encroachment, and all our sympathies go with the French .Minister for Foreign Affairs when he seeks to apply this salutary check to the most insidious, encroaching, and unscrupulous of all Powers, —the Papacy. To us the argument is of little moment, for we are in the habit of considering the Pope just as falli ble in his spiritual as in his temporal jurisdiction, and, indeed, of treating the signal and notorious failure of the temporal Prince in things that are seen as no bad argument against the spiritual autocrat in things that are unseen. But for the Roman Catholic Powers of ale Continent it is of the utmost consequence to be well informed on this point, and to be always pre• pared to meet claims which, if once admitted, would reduce their power of free action against the Papacy within the very narrowest limits. The burden of supporting a spiritual infallibility which history contradicts and reason disowns is quite heavy enough without extending it to temporal concerns. Interdicts and excommunications, the weapons of a barbarous age, are a kind of artillery which can no more be admitted into modern war fare than bows and arrows ; and if the twelfth and thirteenth centuries could not discriminate between the crimp of denying the feudal supremacy of the Pope and a violation of the ten commandments, we live in an age in which no such confusion of ideas is any longer likely to perplex. The spiritual arm for spiritual offences, the temporal arm for tempo ral injuries, is the only rule which we can recog nise; and we believe that no other rule would ever have been set up if Kings and Emperors, reigning less securely than of yore, had not caught at the Papal power as their natural ally, and been care ful to magnify as far as possible an influence from which they received the most valuable support in their career of repression and coercion. There does, however, remain another question, on which M. Thouvenel throws no light. Granting that the Pope's spiritual jurisdiction only extends to spiri tual matters, who is to judge what is temporal and what is spiritual P Logic would seem to reply that the infallible Pope must be the judge of the limits of his own infallibility—a position which, if granted, would practically annihilate the distinc tion between things temporal and things spiritual. It is no bad illustration of the difficulties in which the extraordinary pretensions of the Roman Catho lic Church ins olve the Roman Catholic Sovereigns that they have been obliged to decide the question the contrary way, and to maintain in the same breath that the Pope is infallible in spiritual mat ters, and that what spiritual matters are must be left to be decided by every Sovereign, or, indeed, every private person, according to the dictates of his own judgment. The Pope cannot be trusted any more than any ordinary mortal to be judge in his own cause ; and so fallible reason, without the slightest symptom of doubt or hesita tion, lays down the exact limits and extent of infallibility. The difficulty does not exist for Pro testants, and does ,not seem to be felt by Roman Catholics, so it is no affair of ours, bat we confess that we cannot help in some degree rejoicing that we have no such maztrais pas to pass in order to vindicate the right of the people of the 'Emilia to throw off' the dominion of a Sovereign in our eyes all the more fallible because he claims infallibility, and not a whit the less temporal and mundane be cause he is an ecclesiastic. M. Thouvenel supports his doctrine that the spiritual power of the Pope does not include tem poral concerns by citing a number of transactions to which it requires some courage to refer as an autho rity for anything else than the amount which tri umphant force will demand, and patient weakness will concede. There is no doubt that the acts of Gen. Bonaparte and the French Directory afford ample precedent for treating the temporal domi nions of the Pope with the least possible ceremony, but, unfortunately, these proceedings are full of so many objectionable precedents, that we, who have no Savoy and Nice to annex, should be sorry to in yoke their authority, even when they favour a just and righteous cause. Still, as the Pope, after the Treaty of Tolentino, and the other conventions to which 11. Thouvenel alludes, sanctioned by his pre sence the coronation of the General who had de spoiled him of his dominions, the arguments of M. Thouvenel may have some weight as against the Pope's successor ; and, if allowed any authority at all, it cannot be doubted that the conduct of Gen. Bonaparte proves that the view which he took of the power of the Pope was as completely tem poral as that of Alaric or Attila, or even the devout Emperor Charles V., who besieged the Pope in his temporal capacity in the Castle of St. Angelo, while he offered up prayers for his safety, in a spiritual print of view, in his own private chapel. General Bonaparte, then, it appears, evinced his opinion of the merely temporal nature of tho sovereignty of the Pope, not merely by retaining and transmitting to his own succes sors the Papal Principality of Avignon, but by selecting the Pope as the victim in a series of trans actions of which he has some right to claim the merit of being the inventor. To the First Napo leon, we believe, we owe the idea, which became so fruitful in his hands, of aggrandizing himself at the expense of another Power, and compensating that Power out of the dominions of a friend or a neutral converted into an enemy for the purpose of spolia tion. Let tho se who think of Savoy and Lom bardy study the series of negotiations ani intrigues which succeeded the Italian'cuanipaign of the First attention. France to F s i s . , Lti e c e h appropriated ilho priate Y d en t ei heht aesreriatlolerios o called our the Popo ; France compensated Austria for her losses at the expense of the Republi c o f Venice, which Republic was also compensated at the ex pense of the Pope; and , finally, Austria Im perialthe and Apostolic champion of Catholicity, was fain herself to receive a portion of the spoil in the shape of Papal territory on the coast of the Adriatic. Truly M. Thouvenel has brought forward historical precedents which, if not very honourable to France, are conclusive a,suinst Austria, and not a little damaging to the Papal claim, which identifies the dominions of the Church with the Church itself.— Tithes. [ADVERTISEMUNT.]—We are happy quote the follow ing interesting information from Barry's report on cures of indigestion (dyspepsia), flatulency, constipation, nervous, leilious, and liver complaints, cough, asthma, con sumption, and debility, without medicine, by Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food :—Eight years' dyspepsia, ner vousness, debility, with cramps, spasms, and nausea, for which my servant had c , insulted the advice of many, have been effectually raniovod by Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, in a very short time. I shall be happy to answer any inquiries.—Rov. John W. Flavell, Ridlington Rectory, Norfolk. Cure 18,216. Dr. Andrew Ure of constipation, dyspepsia, nervous irritability. Cure 36,.212. Captain Allan of epileptic fits. Cure 42,116. Major Edie, of en largement of the liver and total prostration of strength. Cure No. I,6o9.—Three years of excessive nervousness, with pains in my neck and left arm, and general debility, which rendered my life very miserable, has been radically removed by Da Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food. Alexander Stuart, Archdeacon of Ross, Sibbereen. In tins, at Is. Gd. ; 11b., 35.; 21b., ss. 9d.; 51b., 125.; 121 b., 265. The 101 b. and 121 b. tins carriage free, on receipt of post oFffio Fortnum, Mi ce order. D u B arr y an d C o ., 77, R egen t- s t r eet, London. Mason, and Co., 182, Piccadilly ; bis, 60, Gracechurch-street 4, Cheapside ; 63, and 150, Oxford street ; 330 and 451, Strand ; 49 and 60, Bishopsgate street ; 8 5, Drape r . Tottenham-court-road. Also at Dublin. Bewley 'and pape at Edinburgh, Raimes and Co. ; at Liverpo o l, ral Nixon and Thew • at Manchester, Sharp and Scott; at York, pand a mes, Blanchard, and Co.; South ampton,atElovi, Ti (E SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY gVENING, FEBRUARY 16, 1860. BATA JV GENCE. GREAT WESTERN. The report.; of the directors of this company states that steadily improving from almost ever), t,li soe duringrevenue, n the last half-year, eables the ; r e e v e n directors 40 recommend an increased dividend to the ordinar: shareholders of the company. This " improvement of income was the more satisfactory, as not only deiived from every branch of traffic, but as extending ,alike over all portions of the Great Western system. While the lines south of Wol verhampton had contributed £55,588 more than in the corresponding period of 1858, the two Shrews bury Railways had added £10,720 of excess to the general receipts, making together an average weekly increase of £2,550 for the same length of railway. The loss entailed upon fhe company by the Shrews bury Railcvays, which amounted in the last six months of 1 tt7,f"iB to £15,292, had been now reduced to £7,325, notwithstanding that a charge of about £l,BOO had been incurred and paid in the latter period for reneVring a portion of the joint line be tween Wellington .and Shrewsbury. The accounts which had been circulated showed fully every item of expenditure, representing the working charges. In relation to those which affected the South %Vales Railway, an award was made in the month of Sep tember last by Captain Galton, of the Board of Trade, declaring the rates which were to be charged against that company for the supply of locomotive power and rolling stock, which award not only affected those charges during the last half-year, but for au antecedent period of two years. The accounts for the last half-year were made upon the basis of that new award •, but it would occupy some time to apply it to the former accounts. The directors were led to believe that the total amount would not be much varied, although the details by which it was to be finally ascertained might give rise to complication. and occasion much labour and loss of time in arriving at the final conclusion. The directors proposed to the company, as the result of the accounts made up to the 31st December, 1859, to declare a dividend at the rate of 31 per cent. per annum on the consolidated stock of the company, and on the Great Western Windsor shares, payable on the Ist prox., carrying forward a balance of £25,748 to the next account. The report goes on to state that, "It will be observed, from the state ments printed with the accounts, that a saving of interest on capital has been commenced, by re-bor rowing at lower rates, as well as by a reduction of interest from S to 6 per cent. per annum on a por tion of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham prefe rence stock, which will hereafter save about £3,000 per annum. The Metropolitan Railway, after a pro tracted struggle for the means of obtaining capital to carry it into effect, is now happily in a financial condition which will insure its construction. The whole capital of that company has been subscribed, with the aid of a contribution from the City Cor poration of £200,000 ; the contracts for the works have been satisfactorily taken, and the works com menced in several places. The city authorities are also promoting a large Meat-market in Smithfield, which is intended to be connected with the Metro politan Railway by a short branch, adding much to the usefulness of the whole undertaking, and affording to railway companies the means of pos sessing a very convenient terminal station for goods, &c., within the city. The Brentford Rail , way and Docks, provisionally opened in July last, were completed, so far as concerns the conveyance of goods, &c., in the middle of September. The re moval and adaptation of machinery removed from Bull's-bridge to Brentford has been gradually pro ceeding with as much expedition as circumstances would allow, provision having to be made for car rying on a considerable traffic at both these places during the interval. The directors have the satis faction of reporting that the minimum monthly tonnage under the agreement has been already at tained since the month of November, and there can no longer be a doubt of the stipulated quantity of 100,000 tons of goods, &c., exclusive of coals, being shipped or landed in the Brentford Docks within the first year of the lease. The Board of Trade made some requirements before the Brentford Railway could be opened for the accommo dation of passenger traffic, which necessarily postponed it until the commencement of winter, and rendered it undesirable to commence running pas senger trains just at that season; but the directors propose to do what is necessary for that purpose early in the spring. When the Metropolitan line shall be finished, and a connection perfected by railway trains with their stations in the North of London and the City, the Brentford and Isleworth population, as well as that of the suburban districts, will be enabled to make the journey with the ut most facility by a system of frequent trains, cal culated to promote their convenience, and so to in crease the number of all classes of daily travellers over the Great Western line. The directors hove deemed it necessary to apply in the present session of Parliament for power to make a short extension branch at Yeovil to the South-Western Yeovil and Exeter line for interchanging traffic, near to the point where the two railways intersect each other. There would not otherwise be any convenient method of providing for the traffic which must ne cessarily require to pass from the trains of the one to the other company. The estimated cost of that branch is £15,000. The Birkenhead Leasing Bill, of which this company gave notice, is still before Parliament, although the ultimate fate of any such application has been rendered uncertain by a notice received from the London and North-Western solici tors that their company will not be parties to any bill for that purpose. It seems unnecessary at the present time to discuss at length the various cir cumstances which have led to a relinquishment by the London and North-Western Company of the agreement entered into in August last, and sanc tioned by meetings of the three companies, for the permanent working and joint lease of the Birkenhead Railways. It is sufficient to say that in the interval important differences have arisen on this subject be tween the two companies, and that, duritig a pro tracted correspondence, your directors expressed their willingness to refer those differences to arbi tration, but the London and North-Western Com pany declined recourse to any arbitration, except ing it was restricted to two points only, .which they had raised and selected, but which, in effect, could not have led to a final adjustment of differ ences on vital points between the companies who were parties to the agreement. Since the last half yearly meeting your directors have given much consideration to the means of procuring the very best quality of materials, both of iron and timber, required for the renewal and maintenance of the permanent way and works. Those materials form important items in the ordinary expenditure of the company, and the supply of them requires therefore to be watched with peculiar care, in order to insure their being of the best and most enduring charac ter. To accomplish this with respect to iron rails, the Board have decided, after the most careful in quiry and investigation, to construct upon their premises at Swindon a rolling mill for the working up of the worn or damaged iron, in order to be con verted, with the aid of fresh material of the very best quality, into new rails, which would possess a longer and therefore more economical existence than any which have yet been manufactured for them. The first cost of the roiling mill and machi nery will amount to £20,000, which sam, with all current interest upon it, will be absorbed within a period of 14 years by an annual charge on the new rails of £2,000, in addition to the expenses of the manufacture. Your directors are satisfied that this process will utilise your worn rails at the highest price obtainable for old iron, and will provide new rails of the most durable quality at a comparatively moderate cost. The directors very much regret that a deficiency has been proved in the waggon stock belonging to the Shrewsbury narrow gauge linos. The most searching inquiry will be made into this matter by the directors, who will spare no ended.. yours to prevent the recurrence of any similar mis take. It may be right hero to mention that in the engineering stores for the maintenance of the rail way there is a considerable amount of materials which havelnot yet been used, but for which charge has been made against revenue in previous accounts, exceeding the value of £17,000, which will be brought back gradually in future accounts to the credit el maintenance of way. The directors are unwilling to conclude this report without adverting to the melancholy loss which the com pany have sustained in the recent death of Mr. t i t l e s rel As n i tgs:. as a sa t of faithful or ful original tailno dsezeraeel remarkable u g as i r l p e ra e ob r ml c o o f t this enie. u no whose ndthsoielsi l•e_ t i geia ie n lv s at ad abilities rn n thof. were Ilia heart not more and the cons kindness piucuoosftln i his a disposition, the directors think that the proprietors will wish t o j o i n w i t h them in paying this passing tribute to his m emory , in heartfelt proof of their gratitude for his services rind their adrniratiox of :is character." BRISTOL AND EXKTER. The directors of this company intend to propose a dividend for the half-year ending the 31st Dec. last at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, which, with the dividend for the first half, ending the 30th J une last, at the rate of 51 per cent. per annum, makes the dividend 51 per cent. for the year 1859 on the consolidated stock of the company. I ANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE. The half-ye irly meeting was held yesterday a t Manchester—Mr. G. Wilson (the vice-chairma n ) in the chair. The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the re port. He stated that, although many people were under the impression that a large increase cf traffic could be worked without an increase of the work ing expenditure, the directors' experience showed that additional traffic always required additional outlay to obtain it. However, the increase of £79,337 in traffic had only cost the company 311 per cent. to obtain it, while the working expenses on the whole receipts of the half-year had been about 401 per cent. The directors had great hopes that the rate of dividend now proposed would be maintained or improved upon for the future. It was not often that railway directors could point to any special acts of theirs showing the benefit of their superintendence, or for which they were in a position to ask for the shareholders' acknow ledgments, but on this occasion he thought they were fairly entitled to do so. Recollecting that this company was the first, if not the only company, at the present time, to relieve the cost of working by consuming coal, and consuming coal only iknowing that this alteration took place after a series of experiments by able and scientific men, the directors had attended to the subject for many months, and at a very small ex pence all the old working stock had been altered to meet the requirements of the change from coke to coal. By comparison with the year 1856 or any other period when coal was not adopted, it showed a saving on the half-year of £13,000 or £14,000; he thought it would be admitted that in this respect, at all events, the directors had not been inattentive to the interests of the company. (Hear, hear.) The expense of the permanent wayshowed a diminution, the line was in as good order probably as any in the kingdom, and it was only natural that the share holders for the future should enjoy the advantage of their liberal allowance for expenditure on this ac count in years past. He feared that the saving in the item of general charges was more apparent than real. He regretted that the legal and Parliamentary charges should be so large, not only in this but in all railway companies ; but so long as it appeared their duty, which he did not see how they could escape, to watch with the greatest vigilance all rival schemes before Parliament which might seriously affect their interests ; so long as they were subject to applications to Parliament all along their line, by corporate bodies and others, for Water Bills, or Improvement Bills, or other bills, which might seriously affect them in rating, and so long as they were compelled to go before the tribunal which Par liament had appointed—the most expensive in the kingdom—he really could not anticipate a material reduction in these expenses, The fault was in the Legislature, and not in the Railway Boards of the kingdom. The amounts paid for compensation showed a reduction of £3,139. In more senses than one, they must feel gratified that this was the case. A distinguished railway authority, Mr. Watkin, had proved at one of the Sheffield Company's meet ings, that the risk of railway travelling was very much exaggerated. In that opinion he (the chair man) agreed. He was not quite sure that Mr. Watkin 's arguments did not show that of all places in which a man could place himself for secu rity, a seat he a first-class carriage was the one he should select. Taking the number of peo ple travelling down Market-street, Manchester, and the accidents occurring to them from vehicles, sign -boards, or chimney-pots, he (the chairman) maintained that there were fewer people injured on this line in proportion to the number of pas sengers than there were pedestrians in Market street. (Cheers.) Very little was heard of these ; a stretcher carried them to the Infirmary, and a paragraph iu the newspapers disposed of them for the future; while, if a railway company had the misfortune to injure any one, of course large claims were made against them, although ships might sink with 500 passengers on board, for which not the smallest shadow of a claim was made against the owners. Many complaints had been made against this company for defending their interests in law courts against extraordinary claims believed to be false ones. No claim for compensation was ever made to this board that was not referred to a committee composed of men as humane in their judgment "on these subjects as any in the kingdom, and, if a choice had to be made in the interests of the claimants, he believed no tribunal could be found more actuated by a desire to meet all the exigencies of the case. But claims were made which by no means represented the injuries sus tained, and which put it entirely beyond their power to deal with them, except through an Eng lish jury. If he were to mention the singular in stances of recovery after a verdict for large da mages, the shareholders would be very much sur prised. He confessed he had never • seen yet a remedy proposed so successful in restoring an in jured person to health as a good heavy compensa tion paid by a railway company. (Cheers.) After some great disaster these remarks might have been looked upon with distrust, but he made them at the present favourable moment, hoping that for the future the directors would never be supposed to have rejected claims except on what appeared to them sufficient grounds for rejection. (Hear.) The directors had exerted themselves to prevent any , future difficulties with other companies, but he re gretted that the Great Northern, with whom they had been on the most friendly terms, as with all others, had proposed a scheme seriously prejudicial to them. They had done their utmost by the offer of favourable terms to induce the Great Northern to continue running over this company's line from Doncaster to Wakefield (the cost of which was chiefly in the interest and incurred at the request of the Great Northern), and he had no doubt Par liament would approve, as on three former occa sions, their reasons for opposition. (Hear.) Mr. W. STUART seconded the resolution, which was adopted. The various guaranteed dividends were then de clared, and a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum on the original stock, after which the re tiring directors were re-elected. A long discussion took place on the election of an auditor, the contest being between Mr. Evans (the retiring auditor) and Mr. Wrigley. For the latter there appeared 72 votes, and for the former 68. A poll was demanded on behalf of Mr. Evans, which would be kept open till noon on Saturday, and the result would be made known on Monday. The meeting having been made special, the East Lancashire Preference Fifth Shares, 1857, were for mally converted into a 5 per cent, preference stock of this company; and the proceedings ended with a vote of thanks to the chairman. SEVERN VALLEY. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at the offices, Victoria-street, West minster, Col. J. C. W. Forester, M.P. in the chair. Mr. C. E. REED, the secr e t ar y, rea d the report, which stated that the progress made by the con tractors with the works was satisfactory, and the directors expressed a belief that the line would be opened in the summer of 1861. During the autumn of last year the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver hampton Railway Company suggested the propriety of an arrangement with this company of a more en during nature than that now existing, and in conse quence the directors consented to the introduction into Parliament of a bill to carry out that object. The directors had now under consideration an offer from the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Companyforthat purpose. In 1859 certain gentle men connected with Tenbury carried successfully through Parliament a bill for the construction of a railway from the Wofferton station of the Shrews bury and Hereford Railway to Tenbury, and the line thus sanctioned was now being constructed. The same parties, aided by gentlemen resident be tween Bewdley and Tenbury, bad this year sub witted to Parliament a bill for a railway from the Tenbury station to the Severn Valley Company's line near Bewdley. The subscription to this new undertaking was very considerable, and was taken almost entirely by the r e s id en t s i n the district. The option of dividing the company's shares into A's and B's, which the proprietors sanctioned at their last ordinary meeting, had not been generally ac cepted. The number of shares divided was 1,233 only. It was possible that this option might still be desired by others of the proprietary, and the di rectors therefore suggested that the period within which the option might be exercised should be ex tended. The report of Mr. J. Fowler, the engineer, stated that the contractors were in possession of land for upwards of 341 miles in length of the line, and notwithstanding the long continuance of wet weather, which had caused numerous slips of the ground and otherwise retarded the works, no time had been lost which could be avoided. The heaviest works being between Hartlebury and Bridgenorth, incessant efforts bad been made to urge them for ward as fast as possible, and upwards of 9 miles were already fenne3 for the permanent way. Be tween Bridgenorth and Shrewsbury the earthworks were of a lighter character ; but the larger cuttings had been proceeded with,and considerable progress had been made. The permanent way was laid and ballasted for five miles, and large quantities of rails, sleepers, and fastenings were on th e groun d or i n course of delivery. The Much IVenlock line would be proceeded with, so as to be opened simultane ou-ly with the company's main line to Shrewsbury. The capital account to the 31st December showed that £229,225 had been received, and £226,223 ex pended, leaving a balance of £3,002. The CLEAIRMAN having moved the adoption of the report, Sir T. lir. txxiswroN, M.P., said the shareholders at the other end of the line were anxious to know the object •-of the Amalgamation Bill. They were all in the dark as to the terms the Oxford, Wor cester, and Wolverhampton Company proposed to give them for the lease of their line. Some of the shareholders thought they should try the working arrangement first before leasing the line. Mr. J. PARSON, a director, stated that negotia tions between the two companies were now pending respecting the new terms, The existing arrange ment was, that the Oxford Company were to work and itaintain the line for 50 per cent. of the re• ceipts, and, in addition to the other 50 per cent., they were to give them 10 per cant. of the receipts of traffic from the Severn Valley line passing over the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton line. The suggestion was now that the Oxford Company should hand over to the Severn Valley Company 55 per cent. of the receipts on their line, keeping the 45 per cent. to pay for working, maintaining, and renewing the Severn Valley line for the extended period under the proposed lease. Another sugges tion was that the Severn Valley debentures should be taken at 4 per cent., being the average amount paid by the Oxford and Wolverhampton Company. Mr. Brassey had the power to take them at 5 per cent. per annum. The Oxford Company were to undertake the transfer and other business of the Severn Valley Company. These were the material points under discussion. The traffic would be worked under the direction of a joint committee over the shortest route. They had already ex pended £263,000, and it was expected that the cost of the land would not exceed the estimate. Mr. W. REED, a director, explained that it was right Ow should have some additional advantage for leasing their line for the long term of 999 years. Resolutions were passed adopting the report, re electing Mr. J. Parson and Mr. Chowne, the retir ing directors; and also Mr. W. Phillips, the retir ing auditor. The meeting thex separated. NORTH LONDON. The report of the directors of this company states that the receipts from all sources during the six months ending Dec. 31 last amounted to £75,072, and the total expenses to £41,288 ; and that, after deducting the interest on the company's debenture debt and adding the balance of £1,174 brought from the previous half-year's account, there remains a net balarce of £27,483 available for dividend. From this sum the directors recom mend that a dividend be declared at the rate of 5i per cent. per annum, amounting, on the company's capital stock of £975,000 to £26,812, and leaving £671 to be carried forward. The increased receipt of £4,559 in the past six months, as compared with the receipts during the corresponding period of 1858, has been derived from an increase on almost every branch of the company's business. The ex penses, notwithstanding the additional work per formed and some exceptional charges borne by the revenue of the half-year, are only £1,998 in excess of the corresponding six months of 1858. On Jan. 2 last, the Hampstead Junction Railway was opened for passenger traffic, and the working in connection with this company's railway has been, thus far, satisfactory. The capital account showed that £1,376,697 had been expended to Dec. 31 last. SOUTHAMPTON DOCKS. The report of the directors shows a net revenue for the six months ending Dec. 31 last, after pay ment of the interest on the debenture debt, the dividends on the preference stocks, and all the working expenses, repairs, &c., of £7,703, which with the surplus over from the previous half-year of £783, makes an available balance of £8,486. From this the directors recommend a dividend for the half-year of £2 per cent., being at the rate of £4 per cent. per annum. LAW INTELLIGENCE.—Feb.IIS. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Sittings in Banco, after Term, before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, Mr. Justice Crompton, and Mr. Justice Hill.) BEACHEY T. BROWN. This was an action for breach of promise of mar riage. The defendant pleaded that at the time of making the promise the plaintiff was engaged to marry some one else, and that if he had known that fact he would not have entered into the engage ment. The plaintiff demurred to the plea, and the demurrer now came on for argument. Mr. Beresford Hope was heard in support of the plea, and Mr. Jones for the demurrer. The Lord Chief Justice said he was of opinion that the judgment of the Court ought to be for the plaintiff. If the old law still subsisted, and the plaintiff could be sued in the ecclesiastical courts, on the pre-contract, to compel her to perform it, that would be a sufficient reason why she could not be in a condition to require the defendant to marry her or pay damages. But by the Act George IV., chap. 4, the pre-contract could not have any effect on her marriage with the defendant, or offer any obstacle or impediment to that marriage. That ground failing, the plea did not disclose any other reason why the defendant should not be asked to fulfil his engagement or to pay damages for the con tract being broken. It was said that the contract was überrimce fidei, and he entirely agreed in that. But still there were a great many things which a man might desire to have communicated to him, and which, when communicated, might operate on his mind to make him hesitate, if not to decide to break his contract, and yet the non-disclosure of those circumstances would not remove his liability to an action. There were personal circumstances or particular conditions of health and disposition which a man might desire to be fully acquainted with before entering into a contract to marry. But if they were not communicated his ignorance of them formed no ground why he should refuse to perform his engagement when once he had en tered into it. Ordinarily it was right that such facts or circumstances should be disclosed, but their non-disclosure did not afford any answer to an action of this kind. The only instance in which ignorance of the party contracting would excuse performance of the contract was the case where a woman had been unchaste. Incontinence went to the root of all the domestic happiness in contem plation when the contract was made, and was suffi cient to absolve from its performance. Nothing of that kind was disclosed here. The plaintiff was only said to have been under engagement to marry another man. That afforded no impediment to her marriage with the defendant. It cast no imputa tion on her virtue, and therefore did not come within the principle upon which in practice the misconduct of the woman was allowed to be an answer. There was nothing disclosed in the plea which barred the plaintiff from recovering damages. Mr. Justice Crompton and Mr. Justice Hill concurre d. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. (Sittings at Nisi Prius, in London, after Term, be fore Lord Chief Justice Erie and Special Juries.) SOLLIEUX V. INNOCENT. This was an action to recover 1758 15s. differ. ences in the purchase of shares on the Stock-Ex change. The defendant pl ea d e d 22 p l eas, d eny i ng his liability to the plaintiff, setting up that he bought through a stockbroker, and by the rules of the Stock-Exchange the principal was exonerated, and that the contract was a wagering contract for time bargains. Mr. Lush, Q.C., and M r . J . B rown appeared for the plaintiff; Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., and Mr. Pearce for the defendant. It appeared that the plaintiff was a broker, and a member of the Stock-Exchange, and on the 10th of December, 1858, he sold to the defendant, through a Mr. Mossop, a sharebroker, and not a member of the Stock-Exchange, 100 Bahia Railway shares at par, £3 per share, and on the 31st of the following March £2,000 Turkish Six per Cent. Scrip, at £79 10v. per cent., for the next settling day. The defendant is a wholesale grocer in Bedford street, Strand.. At the next settling-day for each of those shares and scrip the defendant di rected Mr. Mossop to carry on the differences, and so, from settling.day to settling-day, the diffe rences were carried on in a falling market until the 28th of April, when Bahia shares had receded £1 per share, and Turkish Scrip had fallen to £47. Mr. Mossop then determined to close the account, and tho respective shares were then sold at these prices, entailing a loss in differences of 7581 16s. The money not being forthcoming, Mr. Mossop could net meet the differences, and in consequence the plaintiff became a defaulter, and a committee of the Stock Exchange endeavoured to collect the moneys due to him on behalf of his creditors, and Mr. Leon on their behalf called on and saw the de fendant, who declined paying any one but Mr. Mossop, and with Mr. Mossop he disputed the amount due. In consequence the present ac tion was brought. The learned counsel for the plaintiff said, by the general law, if a person made a contract with an agent he might resort to the principal when he discov ere d w h o that principal was, and if the general law applied there could be no doubt that the defendant was liable ; but the defendant set up as a defence that he purchased through a 'broker, and that, by some custom of the Stock Ex change, this contract was taken out of the g enera l law, and the broker alone was l ia ble. He a l so se t up that these were time barga i ns and wagering contraas, which they were not, as the share s were bought out and out, and only carried over. The facts opened were then proved by calling the plain tiff; who stated that he sold the shares to Mossop as agent for the defendant, for whom Mossop told him he bought the shares. Mossop was not a mem ber of the Stock Exchange, When the account was closed the differences duo amounted to the sum stated, and payment could not be obtained from the iefen dant. The Chief Justice said he should hold that the defendant, as principal, was liable, and give M r . iiaN l / 4 kins leave to move to set aside the yerdiot. Verdict for the plaintiff for £l3,d ids. cyg 'T. 11UGTIE8. • This waS an action brought by 111 r. Predk. Gye, the lessee of Covent-garden Theatre, to reeaver hack £5,000, rent paid in 4Chrit4Co fox her Majesty's Theatre in tlio gaplarliet kr one yea; as part of a term leased to him by agreement, which had not been performed, d a t e d i n , M arc h , 1853, together withinterest on that sum, and £459 paid for in surance of the house. The defendant pleaded various pleas, denying his liability. Mr. Lush, Q.C., Mr. Creasy, and the Hon. George Denman appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. Bovill, Q.C., Mr. Sergeant Pigott, and Mr. Lloyd for the defendant. It appeared that the defendant is a solicitor, who for many years had made advances to Mr. Lumley, the lessee of the Opera-house in the Haymarket. Mr. Lumley becoming involved, the defendant sued him and recovered three several judgments against him, amounting to about £B,OOO. Mr. Hughes sued out a writ of eleg it electing to take possession of the theatre, and out of its rents to get his debts paid. An inquest was held by the sheriff as to its annual value, and it was fixed as worth £3,000 a-year over and above the ground-rent of £2,000, and under the *legit Mr. Hughes was entitled to get possession of the theatre and hold it until its rents and profits had paid his debt. As soon as Mr. Gye heard that Mr. Hughes had got command over the theatre he offered to lease it from Mr. Hughes, and ultimately an agreement was come to between them that Mr. Gye should have a lease of the house for such term and interest in it as Mr. Hughes had at a rent of £5,000 a-year, payable in advance, Mr. Gye to keep up the insurances, and to be let into possession on the 31st of March, 1853. On the 30th of March Mr. Gye sent Mr. Hughes a cheque for £5,000, and next day went with Beck, Mr. Hughes's agent, to take possession. On getting to the theatre they fou , nd the chain across the door, and admission denied them, a man of Mr. Lumley's being in pos session. The plaintiff was told it would be all right next day, and in a few days he was called on to pay insurances which were expiring, amounting to abont £364, 10s. and he had subsequently paid further insurances amounting to £94. Not getting possession of the theatre, he applied to Mr. Hughes, who brought his action of ejectment against Mr. Lumley, and judgment in that action was not given till Dec., 1854, the theatre remaining closed. In 1856 Mr. Hughes sold his interest to Lord Ward,who had before purchased " properties" of the theatre for £10,500, and it was then out of his power to give possession to the plaintiff, and the litigation about the possession had gone on till 1858. Mr. Gye had demanded to have hie £5,000 rent paid iu advance, and , Imoney paid returned to him, as he had never been lot into possession, or received any benefit whatever from the payment. The defence was that Mr. Gye did not want to open the theatre that sea son, and had therefore lost nothing, and that the plaintiff never supposed the defendant could give him possession of the theatre, and that the defendant only leased to him such interest and power as he had. Mr. Gye, the plaintiff, was called, and proved these facts and the agreement for a lease, and a great number of letters were put in. He was sub jected to a very long cross-examination, in the course of which he stated that it was his intention to h ave opened th e th ea t re , as h e cou ld h ave wor k e d it with economy on the alternate days with his Co vent-garden company, many of whom were paid weekly salaries, and he positively denied that he had ever stated that it would be worth his while to give the £5,000 to keep it closed. Mr. Bovill, for the defence, contended that, owing to the number of boxes and stalls which had been sold, Mr. Gye had written that this would be an in surmountable barrier to his opening the theatre that year, and that Mr. Gye was anxious to take the theatre and get it into his hands, as he would then realise greater profits from Covent-garden Theatre ; that the agreement to lease was carefully drawn to lease according to the extent of the de fendant's interest only ; that Mr. Gye knew th ere must be an ejectment, as Mr. Lumley had given him notice that he should resist giving [up posses sion ; and that Mr. Gye was content to take the agreement for what it was worth. It was also con tended that, the theatre having been in fact closed, Mr. Gye had got all he wanted, and consideration for his money, fo r w hi c h h e never applied until nearly six years had expired. At the conclusion of the learned counsel's speech, the case was adjourned at half-past six, until to morrow. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before Sir C. Cresswell.) IN THE GOODS OF ISABELLA BANKES, DECEASED. Dr. Spinks moved that administration of the goods of the late Isabella Bankes might be granted to Alfred Nappenden, the husband of her sister Jane, or to any other person whom the Court might select, limited to the purpose of representing her in certain proceedings in Chancery. No step could be taken in that suit until there was some personal re presentative of Isabella Bankes, and although there was reason to believe she had left a will, of which .130 r. Smethurst was the executor, no such will had been proved, and if it should be propounded it would probably be opposed by the next of kin. Sir C. Cresswell said he could not grant adminis tration until the snpposed executor of the supposed will had been called to prove it. He should there fore reject the application. MARSH. AND OTHERS V. MARSH AND OTHERS. The question for decision was as to the validity of a will dated May 19, 1856, a codicil of June 18, 1856, and another codicil of April 29, 1858, of Mr. James S. Caldwell, late of Linley Wood, in the pa rish of Audley, Staffordshire, deceased. The plain tiffs, who propounded the instruments, were Eliza Louisa Marsh, Georgiana Amelia Marsh, and Rosa mond Jane Marsh, nieces of the deceased, and execu trixes under the papers in question. Mr. Caldwell died Nov. 17, 1858, a bachelor, without father or mother, leaving several nephews and nieces, the children of two deceased sisters and of one surviving sister, Mrs. Marsh. The property consisted of £ll,OOO or £15,000 in personalty and realty, of the value of about £l,BOO a year, situated in Cheshire, Staffordshire, and Derbyshire; besides some lease hold property in London. He appeared to have lived on friendly terms with all his relations, and one great object of his testamentary intentions seemed to be to secure, as far as he could, the con tinuance of the property at Linley Wood in the family, or of parties who would take the name of Caldwell, and in order to carry out that intention he left a large number of wills which were found to gether in a bundle, along with several unexecuted instruments, the day after his death. The defend ants pleaded that the will of May 16, 1856, and the two codicils appointing Mr. Caldwell's nieces execu trixes, were invalid and of no effect, not having been executed according to the provisions of the statute Ist Vic., cap. 26, but that the last sheet of the paper, dated May 19, 1853, was duly executed and attested, and formed a separate testamentary instrument, which the deceased intended to take take effect as a will or paper revocatory. They pro pounded a will dated March 1, 1851, and two codi cils dated respectively Jan. 31, 1852, and April 29, 1858, and submitted that by the latter codicil the testator intended to revoke the two former instru ments. The learned judge said that, under all the circum stances, the Court would pronounce for the will propounded by the executors. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Fsb. 15. MANSION-HOUSE.—Sarah Wells was charged with embezzlement. It appeared from the evidence that she had for some time past lived in the domestic service of Mr. I. Barry, of Queenhithe, stationer, and that from time to time she was entrusted with various sums of money for the purpose of paying housekeeping bills. These, it was presumed, she applied rega larly to their appropriate departments, until ade mand was made upon Mr. Barry from tradesmen whom he believed had been already paid ; and upon this an inquiry took place, which resulted in the discovery that the prisoner had, instead of paying, in many cases appropriated the money to her own use. Thus a file of milk bills were produced in court, all apparently duly receipted, but the party whose signature purported to be appended declared that he never received the money nor signed the receipts. Mr. Beard, who appeared for the prisoner, was anxious that his client should be dealt with sum marily for the larceny only, on the ground that she intended ultimately to repay the money-, but Mr. Alderman Abbiss refused to adopt this course, considering the offence to be one of a serious charac ter, and the prisoner was accordingly committed to take her trial for the higher offence of forgery. BOW-ST- :‘REET.—Edward George Flick, who on the previous day obtained the discharge of a pro tection order granted to his wife in October last, attended . b e f ore Mr. Henry, to complain that his wife and her friends resisted him in reclaiming his goods. He stated that on presenting himself at the place where his wife resided with her brother, for the purpose of taking away some goods which she had removed thither, he was opposed by her brother and father, who had gathered to their aid a mob of nearly 100 persons. He was violently thrust out, and his ankle was sprained. He did not want to take anything belonging to his wife, but only the property which had originally been his own. Mr. Henry was about to send an officer to remon. striae with the wife, and impress upon her that the order being discharged she must yield to the law, but as the constable was about to have with the applicant, his wife made her appearance. She complained that her husband 1 a I made a disturbance, and had•endeavoured to remove certain property which belonged to her brother. She had nothing belonging to . him (her husband). The husband said the goods he claimed were the excepted articles which he retained, as being under the value of £2O when he made out his schedule of insolvency. The wife here declared with much vehemence, that she would never live with her husband again. Mr. Henry said this was not the question ; her husband did not want to live with her. The Husband—No, not I. I want nothing but what I can swear to as my own property. The wife alleged that the property had been dis posed of under a bill of sale, but the creditors, out of compassion f or h er , gave her a portion, which were the articles now in question. She had sold them to her brother to buy food. The Husband—No such thing. They were not included in the bill of sale, as I bought them after it was executed, and they were removed with the knowledge and sanction of the holder of the bill of sale, as not being part of what he claimed. The Wife—l bought some after you were in prison. _ _ - The Husband—l don't want to claim those ; not but that I might, for you bought them with my money. _ _ _ The wife here lost her temper, and began vio lently to harangue the magistrate, the usher, and a party of friends who accompanied her, upon what she termed the hardness of the case. Mr. Henry recommended her to keep her temper. He was endeavouring to matte the best arrangement for her, but if he were to explain the state of the law, she would find that it was less favourable to her than she imagined. As she still continued her loud abuse of her husband and of the Court, his worship observed that she appeared to forget the cancelling of the order of protection. Her husband had a right, if he chose, to take even what she had subsequently purchased. The parties then left the court. In the course of the day they returned, and stated that the landlord of the house where the disputed goods were had taken them in execution for rent. Mr. Henry said in that case he could not inter fere. COUNTRY MARKETS. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE—FEs. 14. The wheat *rade mi.co our 1•643 k roport baa assumed a firmer tone, and at our market to-day 2s advance upon the rat ed of this day week were readily p a id. F ore i gn more iitt demand, and prices kept up. Barley firm. Home-grown and heavy Scotch have sold well of late, and south country qualities only saleable for grinding purposes, but in good demand at about 31s per 4481b5. Flour is up. Beans anti peas sold rather better, but no actual advance has been established. LYNN-FRB. 14. --- At to-day's market there was only a moderate supply of wheat, and the best samples meeting with a good demand, readily realised prices which were fully is over last week. Barley advanced is to 2s per qr on late rates. Beans also is to 2s over previous quotations. Old white 44s ti 48s J Old red 42s to 450 New white 42s to 47s 1 New red... ...39s to 140 HULL-F2B. 6. There was a moderate attendance to-day ; a thin show of English wheat, and dry parcels met a ready sale at about is advance. Oats, barley, beans, and peas were the turn in favour of sellers ; linseed makes 5s advance. Wheat.... Old white....per qr ... 46s Gd to 50s Od Old red lf .. 42s Od to 45s Og „ New white .. „ .. 44s Od to 48s Ol New red .... „ Dantzic, Konb , &c. old whits 50. Od to 625 Od - Dutch, Belgian, and French 455 Od to 474 Oa Baltic and Hamburg, red...' 445 Od to 485 01 St. Petersburg and Riga, old. 39s Od to 445 01 Barley., ..English malting 33s Od to 42s Od Grinding 3os Od to 32. 01 Saal and Oderbruck Holstein and Danisk 34siOd to 383 01 Grinding 26s Od to 29s 01 Oats English, old Archangel and Riga, per st Os 101 d to, 111 Friesland and Dutch Oslld to 03111: Swedish and Danish .. 0511 d to 0311 1 Beaus ....English, old, p er qr 4 65 Od to 48 5 New pigeon 405 Od to 425 Oa New tick. 39s Od to 40s IS Egyptian Peas .. Foreign breakers Grinding Tares ....Winter —s Od to —5 Og Indian Corn Linseed, feeding crushing Linseed cakes (Hull) £9 17 6 to £10.16 I 0 Foreign 715 oto $ S Rape cakes 415 oto 5 • 0 Bones 416 oto 6 I COAL MARK (Peon of Coal per Ton at ET—Fss. 13. the close of the market.) s. d. Bell's Primrose ......13 3 Davison's West Hart- Walls End. e. 8. 'Whitworth 15 • Hatton.... Kellos lB 9 Hough Hall 19 0 Hartlepool.. ..20 Hunwick Acorn Close 19 0 Framwellgate lB 0 South Kelloe l9 6 Eden 19 • South Durham..., l9 0 Russell's Hetton l9 8 Gosforth .... 18 9 Sheriff Hill .... 13 0 Keiper Grange ........19 9 Cassop l9 9 It, 78—Sold, 45. ley ....15 0 Grey's West Hartley.. 14 3 Lambert's West Hart- ley 14 6 Tanfield Moor 13 3 Tanfield Moor Butes 13 3 Wylam.... 15 9 Walls End. Riddell . 18 9 Haswell..... 20 6 Thorpe .... 19 9 Byron.. South Hetton 20 3 Trimdon Hartlepool-18 0 Ships at marke FO.REIGIf MAIL PACKET LIST. In the followiag table E signifies that letters are deapaboba by evening mails from Loidon, and M by morning mails• . Neal DESTINATIONS. - Despatch Port of Nos of Mails. Despatch. due. ___...—. Australia and Mauritius, via Soutitampteui Mar. 12, El Southrunp. Mar. O. Ditto, via Marseilles Bahamas and Havana via New York Feb. 17, Liverpool.. Mar. 111 Canada, &a. (by Canadn. pckt ) Feb. —. Liverpool.. Feb. lb Cape of Good Mope, Ascen sion, and St. Helena Mar. 11, E Derrnport Marl 1 China, Penang, and Sings pore, via Southampton Feb. 20, 31 outhamp. Feb. 1 6 Ditto, via Marseilles Gibraltar, via Southampton .. Feb. 20, Southansp. Feb. 18 Honduras and Blewlields .... Feb. 17, Southarap. Feb. 18 India (Calcutta) and Ceylon, via Southampton Feb. 20, Southansp. Feb..lB Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via South ampton Feb. 27, Sonthamp. Feb. r. 5 Ditto, via Marseilles Lisbon, Brazils,Buenos Ayres, and F. Islands Mar. 9,M outhamp. Mar. 5 Lisbon, Vigo, and Oporto Feb. 17, If outhamp. Feb. 21 Malta, Egypt, and Ades, via Southampton Feb. 18, II outhamp. Feb. 18 Ditto, via Marseilles Mexioo and Havana Newfoundland Mar. 2, 1 . E Liverpool.. United States and British N America (by British packet) Feb. 17,E iverpool.. < eb. 22 Ditto (by U. S. packet) West Coast of Africa , Ma deira, and Tenerife .. Wrest India, California, Vene zuela, Chili, Peru, Grey town, New Granada, &c Feb. 17, outhamp. Feb. IS [ADVERTISEMENT.]—Mr. Benson, Ludgate-hill, has JnPs published anew illustrated pamphlet on watches (free by ps•S for two ;stamps). It should be read by all who are abotlS buying a watch, as it contains prices and important informs' tion as to—What watch to buy ! where to buy it 1 and how W use it! [ADV ERTIBEMENT.3—Notice.—In consequence of Mesita- Lewes and Morton having just oommenoed 1860 with opposi tion similar to that which they previously advanced, and wish• ing to do those gentlemen every justice, Mr. Thorley is induced to enlarge his coming pamphlet, making it 64 pages instead of 32-- showing beyond doubt that their observations on th• so-called "Concentrated Cattle Food," and so-called "feeding statistics," are without foundation ; that the ttothamsted experiment was not made with his food, and consequent!, that this complete failure must either be through mismanage' ment or from buying the Condiment at the wrong shop. The first impression of One Hundred Thousand Copies will be ready about the first day of March, and may be had post free on receipt of Three Stamps, on application to Joseph Thorley , the Inventor and sole Proprietor of " Thorley's Food for Cattle," 77, Newgate-street, Londen ; 21, Broadway, Nei/ York, United States ; Mr. J. W. Thorley, Melbourne ; Vic toria ; Mr. Alfred Burt, Sydney, New South Wales; and of all his agents throughout the United Kingdom.—Feb. 2.1860 BIRTHS. BROOKSEANIC.—On the 13th inst., at Lamplugh Rector!, the wife of the Rev. Walter Brooksbank, of a daughter. GRAIIAME.—On the 14th inst., at 30, Norfolk-squarer Hyde-park, the wife of John Anthony Grahame, Esq., of a daughter. MARTEN.—On the 16th inst., at 9, Stainton-place, Black' heath, Mrs. Charles Henry Marten, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. MORRELL—HAY. — On the 14th inst., at St. MarY'llt Bryanston-square, Hopewell B. Morrell, Esq., of Mould' ford, Berks, second son of James W. Morrell, Esq., of IP, Kensington-gate, to Louise, eldest daughter of the late J. C. Uay, Esq., of Kelso. SHAW—OLuTTnnavox.--On the 15th inst., at St. George'', Bloomsbury, Edward Shaw, Esq., of Helston, Cornwall+ to Harriett, daughter of the late Henry Clutterbuat Esq., M.D., of New Bridge-street, Blackfriars. DEATHS. BBICKWOOD.—On the 12th inst., at Coborn-terrace, BO* L. J. Brickwood, Esq., aged 49. GERARD.—On tho Bth inst., at Mount Saekville, near Dub• lin, Charles A. Gerard, Esq., brother of Sir R. Gerardo Bart., aged 42. GOIMANSTON.--On tho 10th inst., at Gormanstol Castle, county M ea th, th e Vi scoun t G ormanston, 84. INNE3.--On the 12th inst., at Ayton Castle, Berwickshir e / Win. M. Ines, Esq , of Ayton, aged 81. Mos.F.n.---On the 15th inst., at Tavistock-square, Rob irt Moser, aged 76. RYALL.—On the 13th inst., at Weymouth, Anne, relict 0 1 the late Captain Ryall, aged 92. SUFFIRLD..—On the 11th inst., at Gunton-park, *II Emily Harbord, daughter of Lo r d an d L a dy Sum''' . aged 14 months. LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUN G ° of No. 112, Strand , Printer, at The Su n O ffi ce l No. ' l5 l Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the countY ° Middlesex, Thursday, February 16, 1860. . 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