The Sun. — London, England, 1858-02-27 00:00:00

_ - .. _ ONEY Asa ta, ALID COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLoca. The return issued from the Bank of England for the week ending Thursday last thous that th. Directors, if they had felt inclined, could have re duced the minimum another 1 per cent., a fur ther improvement having taken place in the general situation of the establishment. Owing to the limited demand for money the reserve of notes continues to increase, and the other securities are still diminishing in a rapid manner. The decline last week was nearly half a million, which will account for the reduction in the amount of private deposits. While, however, these movements increase, the available re sources of the Bank are so far satisfactory that they are indicative of the stagna ion of t , ade, it is encouraging to be able to discern symptoms of revival which may soon increase the demand for discount accommodation. The principal items and the changes they present are as subjoined : Active circulation Decrease Total Bullion Increase .. 292,120 Rest .., 3:685.703 Decrease Public deposits Increase Other deposits 15,496 817 Decrease Seven-day and other billi .Decrease Government securities Increase Other securities . ' Decrease Notes unemployed It crease The Foreign Exchanges yesterday afternoon all slightly receded. Some small parcels of gold were withdrawn from the Bank yesterday ; but they were balanced by a similar amount being taken in. Silver is firm, but business is quiet, and bars are now quoted at Se. lid. per oz. standard. Letters from Liverpool state that the Cotton Market yesterday closed firmly, and the sales amounted to 7,000 bales, 1,000 of which were taken for export and on speculation. The Rail way Share Market closed steadily. The half-yearly meeting of the General Screw Collier Company was held this day. The report was adopted, and the director s authorised to take measures to wind up the company. The Funds have been rather firmer today, but the market has exhibited a very inactive appear ance. Only a few transactions have taken place, and these have led to no particular alteration, but the tendency has been favourable, and an advance of per cent, took place. Consols for transfer and the 4th of March have been 96i to 971. They are now 97 to 97k, and for April 971 The New Three per Cents. are 971 f, and the Reduced 9711 Exchequer Bills have further advanced, viz., to 40s. and 41s. premium, and India Bonds have been dull at '268. premium. Business in Foreign Securities has been rather limited, but ou9tations hare generally advanced. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 1011 102; ditto 4 per Cents. remain firm ; Buenos Ayres 6 per Cents., 81i. ; Grenada New Deferred, 64 ; Peruvian 4i per Cents., 83 ; Portuguese 3 per Cents., 451 ; Russian 4i per Centq., 99i 100 ; Spanish 3 per Cr nts., 4441; ditto Passive, 6i ; Venezuela 41 per Cents., 341 4 - ; Dutch 2i per Cents., 65 3 / 4 ; and ditto 4 per Cents., 1001101 k. The following are the nominal prices f Foreign Stocks :—Grenala DJerred BAnds, 5/ 61 ; Mexi can, 204 t020 3 / 4 ; Peruvian 4i per Ceuti, 82i to 83 3 / 4 ; Ditto 3 per Cents., 56 to 57; Portuguese 3 per Cents.. 45i to 46i; Russian 5 per Cents., 110 to 112; Ditto 4i per Cents., 98 to 100; Spanish 3 per Cents., 44 to 444 ; Ditto New Deferred, 264 to 24. The Railway Share Market this morning his not been very active, and the vatiationsin the iew lines dealt in do not exceed 4 to per cent. Great Westerns declined ss. Eastern Countie-, L.inca sbire and Yorkshire, 10s. ; Great Northern and south Easterns declined 10s. The Foreign and Colonial lines were in very limited request. Paris and Lyons improved los., and Great Western of Canada declined 4. Mining Shares were" quiet. Cobre Copper brought 41i and United Mexican 4. Joint Stock Banks and Miscellaneous Shales have slightly improved. Union of Australia ad vanced 10s. ; Australian Agricultural, ss. ; Electric Telegraph, 11. ; and Peninsular and Oriental Steam declined about ss. ITISH FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES—THIS DAY (From the Official Lisel Busineas done per ent. Reduced Annuitits 97 1 3 • ner r ant ornsols Annsitlea 974 71 Row 3 per Cent. Annuities 97a f ladia isonds, 1.:10un CQuiels for Account Ezt, ~., net fills, 24d . 81000 •.»•••••• •-- £560 37 36 40 41 p Sm • Ditto Advertised 37 40 p PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS—THIS DAY. anenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent, — Ditto Account Grenada New Active, 2.1 per Cent. — ~Ditto Deferred 6.} reravian Bonds, 44 per Cent — Ditto Akcouut .. !Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent., Con. 1841 ..: Ditto 1853, 3 per Cent 451 i lassieu Bonds, 1822, #: St., 5 per Cent — Ditto, 44 per Cent. 84) ...El k ti,...ds, .i per Cent. Ditta. Passive 63 Thrkiall nonds, 6 p er , :eat Ditto Accou n t .... Venezuel a Bonds, 4a per Cent Divtaends on the above payable in London. Dutch Exchange, 23 per Cent., 12 Guilders 6ii Do. 4 per Cent. Clertilleates ...... Con Sols, TW) tet:;, , Jult.. motley 97 Ditty, Amount Consols for Account, (April) SPORTING I TELLIGENCE. BETTING AT MAN C HES TER—FRIDAY. LIVERPOOL SPRING CUP. 9 to 2 apt Garurnott (offered) 6to 1 apt Martha (~frered) LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 7to 1 ag-t Lltt'e Tow (taken) • 11 to 1 *get Kliight of the Shire (taken) 12 to 1 aget Harry Lorrequer (taken) 12 to 1 agst Tom Motdy (taken) 12 to 1 agst Treachery (taker.) 14 to 1 ag.t Laugh Bawn (taken) 15 to 1 apt The Brewer (taken) 16 to 1 eget Morgan Rattier (taker)) 16 to 1 agst Conrad (taken) 20 to 1 aget Sluggard ,For the Sefton Handicap, offers to take 5 to 2 about THE DUCHY OF CORNWALL —The receipts of the Duchy Of Cornwall I,r tbe year 1857 amounted to 6 1.8291., and t he discharges to 57,1321., leaving a cash balance at the Itted of the year of 4, 6971. The payments made to the t te , teea and treasurer of the mince uf Wales for the Ate of his Highness amounted to 39.1121. SINGULAR PROOF OF ATTACHMENT, ---A few days ago ..kw9man wh o co b abited with a man cut off his fore-finger while he Was asl eep. She placed the finger upon a stone, aad) applying a knife, struck it with another stone, .flevering th e f i nger, which hung only by a piece of skin. The roan subsequ en tl y rece i ved surgical treatment at -the North Dispensary, but is maimed for life, It a ppears that the man had threatened to enlist in the • 41 °3', and the woman, from the "strong affection" she '.entertained for him, committed the act in order that be /11 11 ,414 not carry out his intention, which would result in "enarition.—Liverpool Mercury. 4iutß/S UR COLLIERY EXPLOSION NEAR ABERDARE.- I °l ie or 19 LIT S6.—The explosion in question occurred .ti about two o'clock, on Thursday, at one of the Lower h o tif frYn collieries, Cam Pennan, near Mountain Ash. eh moon as a knowledge of the catastrophe became knowp "e ground, the rela , ives of the men empl )yed in the - 3 1 2 , 1 4 !°e, and numerous residents of the adjacent cottages, lool e l e to assemble a t t h e mou th o f the culliery. It was 00. as certained that out of 32 hands who were in the I.ptilary at the ti me as many as 1 9 h a d b een k i lted. of endeavouring e udeavonring to ascertain the circumstances that `;;; 1 _ 16 ( 1 to the explosion, it was found that at the point th m _ er o the explosive gas fired, a part of the headway of .1;7_0:1441g had fallen in. The body A," fo und quite dead close to thisspot; but his safety lan of a man was AnZ.eshich had been given to him in common • bad i Ulan, securely locked, could not be found. By t h e ew es of the other 18 men the lanterns were all found with the teitZ fastened and uninjured, and the opinion enter th e 12 : je that some of the stones, in their descent from %ha ea t c l e waY, struck and broke his safety lamp, and that ' °t th e d filme, coming in contact with the full voluni tilted re ° e P ignited it and caused the explosion whic 0- 0 mo fatally. The catastrophe has spread quite a ‘44..i9"44,the entire neighbourhood, and the utmost tt for the recovery of the bodies. --•~-- RAILWAyh. RAILWAY. ; , tosi , fr Prat% this day. 2i 10 gibe. Nottna. Boa; & Eastn. June. ... L) all Belfast & liallynnen i/ al' iiirmng. Wolverh. -tour Va11ey.......,. 1.00 R.rkenhd. Lanesh. si Cheshire Juuct i all Blackburn i all Blyth & Tyne original £25 (iss. at £45)... . 100 Bristol & Exeter 100 aledonian. .. 100 "`nester & Holyhea I ' all ''ork and Bandon all Cork, Black. & Pass all Cornwall all Da. A all Do. B all II üblin&BelfastJunc. all Dun. P. &Aber. June. 100 East Anglian ........ 10') Eastern Counties..... 100 Eastern Union,A.stk. 100 Do., do. A. .. 8} n o New A_ . all East Kent .. ........ 100 East Lancashire - all East Suffolk .. ..... all Do. 'lOO Ed inburgh & Gl asgo v , all IFAinb. and Peebles 100 ,Edinb. Prth. &Dunde, all Forth and ClydoJunc. 100 Furness .. ......... 100 iGlasgow & S. Western all Great N. of Scotl and 100 ;Great Northern _ , 1100 Do., A. Stock ...... 100 Do., B. Stock ...... 100 at. Sth. &West. (Ira). 1.00 Great Western. ...... 100 , Do. Str.V.R gua.St all ilrish South-Eastern. all ;Lancaster & Carlisle. ' 4 1 Do., Th:t ie.- ... ...... I Do- New Thirds .., Lancash. &Yorkshire 6 Do., do. F £l6 ... i Do., Wet. Riding lin. I Do. Sonthport. 1 London & Blaekwall Lond.Bright.&S.Cst London & N. Wester'. Do. Fifths D0.,10/.811.,M&8...0 Do. Eighths London & S. Western Lndndrry.&Coleraine ILndndrry. & Ennisk Itianch.Shef.dtLincln. Metropolitan Do. J. L. Ricardo's arrangement Nfidland . ..... Do. Birming. &Derb) Midland G. West.(lr. ) Do. Shares ......... Newcastle &Carlisle.. Newpt.A berg.&Hrfd Newry & Enniskillen Newry, Warrenpoint & Rostrevor Norte ik. Northn. Counties Un North British North Devon, Rail. 61 Dock Stock ... Do., A Stock ......... Do., B Stock ........ N. Eastern - Berwick Do. do. Extension ... Do do. G. N.E.Purch 'Do Leeds Do. York North London „. N. & S. Wstn., stoad,Hamp and City Jn I tsiorth Statfordshire... ' North Western.. N. & S. Weetrn. June. Oxford Worcester & wolverhampton.. Portsmouth .. Rhymuey Scottish Central ... I Se‘A. N. E. Abrdn. St Shropshire Union Sitiugbonrne dtShoer, South Devon.. ..... South Eastern 'Do. 43 per c. Shares , South Wales S. Vorksh. Riv,er Dun D 0..... 5a 5i B# 8/ 73 - 9A - 10 92 - 94 - 96i - 97 38 - 40 ••• -- 4 - 8 - 18 - 19 61 - 62 49 •-- 51 33 -- 33 15 - 17 92 - 93 ••• ..... . 67 2 . 3 53 -- 95 9i - 104 104 - 103 93 - 95 127 - 129 102 - 101 soi uli 60 .- 62 I 85 88 11 —l2 p 11 • 12 p 939 94 1 d 61 - 108 - 10964 99 - 994 •• '..... ••• d i 53 961 .• ..... .. . - 40 - 41 • 98/ - -99 i 71 - 73 fi - ii 63 65 3i -- Nci 53 54 56 - n 504 - 804 -81 f 9 4 - 96-1 3f - 31 74 - 8 8 i - 94 Staines,Wok ,&Wok. Stockton & Do. do., 1.854 Do. do., DM ,Stock ton & Hartlepl (Taff Vale Do. Pref., No. I__ Thames Hay. &R. Val , . of Neath.... Waterfd. & Kilkenn,, Waterford&Limeriek' West Cornwall West End of London and Crystal Palace Do .A Do. B Do. First Class Do. Second Class Wmbledon &Croydon 34 - 6i -- BRITISH POSSESSIONS. :Mimi. and St. Law. Bombay, Baroda, and Cen.lnd,guar. 5 p. c. Do. I - i Buffalo 61 Lake Hur. Buff., Brut. et Godch. '6 p.c.bds., 1 Aug.,'72, Do. do., 1 July, '73 Do. do., 1 June, '741 Calcutta and S. East. ;Central Oude (Lim.)l Ceylon A shares 10 - 12 1 95 - 9° 80 - 85 77 - 82 ••• ••• Do. B. do. Demerara . Eastern Bengal East Indian Do. C Shares D 0.4 p.c. Bnds. ' '57 Do. do. do. '59, do. I Geelong & Melbourne guar. 5 per cent. Gd. Trunk. of Canada Do. 6 p. c. Deben Gt. In, Pen. g. 5 pore Do. New. guar. 5 p.c Gt. Wostn. of Canada Do. New „ 110 - 111 - 2 pi 19. 20 51 53 83 85 21§ 22 201 —20 a idi Bds., payable '57 do., p. '60... I Do. do., '73, do. ...I Do. do., '73, without 110 - 118 1.10 - 115 option 'Madras, guar. 4. p.c Do. do., 5 per C. Do. 4i p. c. Eaten.' Do. 3d Ex., g. sp.c. Do. 4th Ex do. 'Dude (Limited) 4 ;Scinde, guar. 5 per c Do 405 110 19i 20 21 —21 i rid— fp § iP 1 - lbi ••• - ••• 1 10 all 20 I all 5 all A ntwrp & Rotterdam Ardennes Belgian East. Junct Be z i era to Graissessac Carmeaux& Toulouse Coal Mines and Ry Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France I Do. New Euphrates Valley t Central of France Great Luxembourg Italian Junction Lake Const. & Bale Lierre and Turnhout Lombardo-Venetian Lucca 41t Pist.sp.c.p. Lyons and Geneva (3, Lyons & Mediterran Maria Antrala Do. New ... Namur & Liege Do. do. 6 p. c. Pref Northern of France Norriws and egianj yon rnk s .Pref Paris Paris and Orleans Reeife & San Frau., (Perriam.) g. 7 p. C. 10 all Roma and F rasc ati, It) ah Royal Danish 5 all Royal Swedish .10 all Sambre and Meuse 10 all Do. 5i per cent. pref 10 all Southern of France Si all West Flanders..,,.,, LO all Do. 5,4; per c. Pr. . n all IW.StN. W. of France ;0 6, I Western of Austria 0 all West, of Switzerland 6 all Wieel aden 6 all Do. Bp. cent. pref. * all Zealand,.,,,,,_ ... 6 - 64 -•••--••• 1 -... li 0 all 6 all 3 i - 31 3 -- 30 274 - 28 j O I all N ~ •~• o 2s. ;0 all !O all .G ti - ii : iii .d 1 4J giip 5 I an 27 -: 28 33a1l 10 all 20 all 21 - 211 381 - 3:41 91 331 - 33/ 55 - 57 .6 all .0 i all it - 11)1 16 - 18 4 8 - 8 - 86 214 - 211 4f - 5 9 - 94 27 - 28 .04 .... ... JOINT-STOOK BANKS. 10 all Australasia 25 I.Bi Bank of Egypt ""' I 00 50 Bank of London 40 all Bri. Col, Bk..k Ln. Co 50 all British N. Am er i can 20 10 I C. Bk. of Ind. Au.&Ch 09 50 I City 00 25 Colonial CO 20 Commercial of Lond 20 all Eng.Scot.d/Aus.Cl it 20 all Lon. Ch. Bk.of A .1:-t 20 all Ditto New 60 20 London and County ... 50 LndokE.Bnkng.Corp 50 10 London Joint Stock. 00 20 Lond.andWestminst. 00 35 National Pro. of Eng. 20 10 Do. New 50 25 National Bank 20 all New South Wales 25 all Oriental Bank Corp 30 20 20 25 pr Ot o t v om i n a c n ial ßa ef a lreland LO all Do. New. ..... 5 1 R.Aus.B. &G. i n ,' ;,, 25 all South Australia . ... • 2 5 all Union of Australia 2i Do. New ............. .. D 0 10 Union of London Do 50 Unity Mutual 00 051 WeNtrui3k of Loud, ) 85 - 87 23i - 244 48 - 52 - . 4 - 2 59 - 61 17 i -- 18 17t -- 184 SIB M - This Day). 'D 11S BASSI T OF THE FRENCH 16i 15 3t. 100 all St. 100 St. 100 10 all 10 ' all 124 5 St. 100 5 all 25 all St. 100 10 1 10 1 St. 100 St. 100 50 all 25 all .00 all 25 all 50 9 20 all st. 100 50 St. 100 St. 100 St. 100 St. 100 St. 100 25 all 25 16 St. 10.) St 100 St. WO 10 31.1 10 17i 10 all 10 all :it. 100 100 100 all 100 all 5 all 5 all 10 all 10 all .0 all 0,11 18 9 .8 all !0! ) all )0 100 10 100 )0 100 28. 2s6cl ;0 10s :!41 all ;t. 100 0 all 0 all 00 all 20 all It. 100 10 all 0 all ojl all !Oil 13 O all O all O all O all 5 5 ;1 all 33 -- 34 9 sdi 110 26i 49 - 112 -27 h - B 1 - 2A - 37 - 74 BCq —81 i 13 15 ,$ 7 5 d 9 —37 i, ... ~... FOR. JON. 44 :: 46 36 -- 38 201 -20 i, 46 - 48 26 -._ 28 23 --. 25 P• 11 777 • n THE SUN, LOND"ON, SATUR DAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 27, 1E558 RAILWAYS. Leasing Companies. Closing Prices this day Business dot e this day 100 100 all 100 all ,100 Buekghamsh. Clydesdale Je Col.Stour Vy. . E.Ln. g. 6 pi E. Uu. H. Sh Mas. Barr. & Neils. Direct., Do. Ni Glstr.&Dn.Fr Hull & Selby Do.. Shariv. Do. Shares. Lon. 'St Greenw Do. Preference Lon. Til., Do, Bark. Sh. Manch.Baton. a►nd Matlock Mdld. Bradfd. Newmarket 96i 7 100 1 54 IN.diEst.s Do. 6 perct.. Do. Fixed sp.c Prest. es Wyre 613 i Do. i Shrs. A Roystn.4 Hit. 10 12 50 25 Shrows.Sz Her IS. Staffordsh WearVal.g6pc Do St. Wilts&Somrst I Ln. &N. W. Cateflon E. U. dt E. C Nortnn E. Count. Caldonian. F. , t.Westn Y. & N.M o Do SEastern Peto &Co Do &N. W. .1; Midld. Midland... E. Count Do Do •Do drIS.W Do Gt.Northn T. Brassey M. Macau Stk.dzDar Do Gt.Westn. 98 - 100 100 - 102 13 - 139 - 141 4 - 41 ••• ..... 108 - 110 13 - 14 24 - Z 5 97 - g 9 2i - 2i 96 - 93 i • iP 55 - 57 '135 - 138 8 - 104 - 33 -- : 4 4 90 - 92 1 Sit EFERENCE SHARES. all Blyth and Tyne 10 p. c 7 o. 4 per o. Shares. 64dap..t 50 . >t " )) . 1 1 00 ° 0 C B c a l :l i P e s d r eScf n .. E( .2 xi 8 1 . 0 4. p, c 100 Ches. & Ho. 5i p. c 100 Do. do. 5 per cent_ all Cork & Bandonsip.c, all Dun.Perth.&Aber.J, 100 ,E. Anglian Cls. A Sh. 100 Do. do. Cls. B 6p. c. 100 Do. do. Cls. C7p. c. 100 Ea.s.Co.Ex,sp.c No.l 100 Do. No. 2 ....... 100 Do. Now 6 pr. c. St. all East Un., G. 6p. c. all. Do. 51., 10 per cent. all Do. 101. Debentr.Sh. all Do. do. 4 per cent 00 East Lancash.6p.cts all E.&W. York. J. sths 9 Edin. & Gl. sp. c. Sh. 00 'Ed.Prth.StDun.4p.e. 100 Furness, 5 p. 0 100 Glas. & 5.W.G.5 p.c 100 Great Northn. 5 p.e 100 Do. 5 p. c. Redeem at 10 p. 0. prom.,,, Do. 44 per coat .... 60 Do. 5 p.c., Rod, at 5 p. c. prom. all G t.N. of Scot. Ist Pro 18 Gt. S &W. (Ireland) 18 Do. 4 por c. Pref. St. 6 Gt W.(B.&H.Ex.spc [OO Do. con. rod. 41 p. c. 100 Do. con. red. 4 p. c. 100 Do. Ina 4 per lent. 100 Do. 5 p. c. red. prof, all Do. Birm. Pref. Sh., all Do. Chester Bp.c.P.S, all Do. do. 5 p, c. do 100 Do. Birm, Gna. Stk. all Do. Chosh. Qua. Sh. all Do. do. do al Do. do. do. 100 Lan.& York. 6 pc. St. 100 Lon. &B. G. 5 pc."'sro. 1 100 D0.,P., 5 p.c.St.No.2 [OO Do. New Guar. 6p. c. 100 Do. do. sp. c., No. 4 100 Lon. & N.W., Cov. & Nuneaton 5 r. et... 100 Lon. & S.W. 7 perct. late 3d Shares ... all Londy.& Color. 4 Sh. all Londy.&Ennis. 4 Sh. 1 100 M., S.,&L. 6p. Cent. 44 Do. do. do. £6 ... .. 100 Do. do. 31 per cont. all Marypt. ,- Carl. 4 P.C. all Do. 44 per cent 104 Do. do. 1100 Nfid.Consol.6p.c. St. 100 Do. Con. Br. Bir. 6 p.c. 100 Do. 44 p. c. Pref. St. 100 Do. L. de H. Pref. St. all New., Aber., &e., pr. 5 p. c. red. 5 p, c. pm. all Do. Perpet. 6 pr. et. all ^Torf k. D eb. 4p. c. Sh. 100 Do. sp. c, Ext. 1846 100 Do. 54 p.c. pf , 1847 100 Do. Wv.V.sp. ..,1847 LOU North British .. ..... .. 3i Do. 71. Preference ... ,00 N. E. Berw. 4 p.c.Prf, 8i Do. do. do 13 Do. Leeds 6pa No.l 9 Do. do. Qrs., 1848 10 Do. York H.& S. Put all North Staffordshire 100 Ox,, Wor. & Wolv. 6 p.c., Ist guar..,..,, 1 100 Do, 6p. c. 2d guar 100 Do. do. Debectr. St all Scot. Cent. New Prof 100 - c.N.E.Alaer.g.6p.c 100 Do.. do. 7 p.c. pf. St, 100 Do. d 0.34 p.o. pf t all South Devon all Do. fixed 44 pr cent all S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. 100 Do. 44 por cent 100 Do. Fixed 44 p.c. Sh 1 100 Do. New 4i pr. cent 1100 S. Wales Gua. 4 p. c. 100 Do. do. 44 p. c all S.Yorksh.4 p.c.Guar all Stock. &Dar., sp. c 19 o. do. do. . !BA Waterfd& Kilk. 6pc - 95 -- 106 6, ••• - 6 108 110 115 115 130 112 - 114 - 120 - 120 - 135 74 - .17 - :11 - .03 - 63 - 10A - 87 -- 88 - - 11 10 - 16 - to 72 19 14 138 -- 10A 75 20 10 15 140 1160 - 165 121 - 123 66 - 70 L 37 - 139 100 - 102 92 - 93 fit 11.7 ilii o• "—.' ... 1 168 - 116 96 - 98 1 - 6 12i 25 20 St. id. par! 121 - 123 107 - 109 97 - 99 LO 72 - ;-- 74 10 1e 251 - 25/ j••• - ..• ---• ••• 27i 2ta MINES. I - I k - I P ii - 24 12i -13 j 41 43 13 15 id p a 4d 164 174 8 14 hd 1 ••• - ••• 5 - 6 2} 21 3i 4b 1001 103 I 122 1081 9 93 10 41j 114 i 13i 104 5 3 i 5 2i 3 96 1 21 79 1 Business this day T.HE ROYAL BRITISH BANK (This Day.) COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, GUILDHALL. (Sitting at NiA Pring, before Lord Campbell and a Special Jary.) THE QUEEN V. BROWN AND OTHERS. THIRTHENTE DAT. The trial Of the iuformetion ageinet the directors and manager of the Royal British Bank for conspiring by false pretences to defraud the shareholders and cue temers and the public, was this day resumed. The same counsel appeared as before. The Court met at 12 o'clock. The interest in these proceedings was greatly increased this morning from the fact that they would be this day brought to a close; and long before the time for opening the court the avenues were densely crowded, and by 12 o'clock every available space was occupied by an anxious auditory ; amongst whom were many respectably dressed females. On the bench were the Hon. Misses Campbell, his Lordship's daughters, Lord Overstone, the Hon Miss Jones Lloyd, and several of the ladies of the families of the jury. Punctually at 12 o'clock his lordship took his seat on the bench and commenced summing up. He said the anxious task now devolved upon him of summing up the evidence in this remarkable reed very important ease ; and he said it most unaffectedly that his anxiety was ••-• grea'ly diminished by considering the character and qualificatious of the gentlemen whom he now ad dressed. If it bad been his duty to have tried this case at the Aesizee in the country before country gen tlemen and farmers, he should have been much more embarrassed, for he probably would have known more than the jury, and it would have been his difficult and irksome task to have tried to cemmunicete informa tion to them which they stood in need of ' • but the jury now tryi ng th i s case knew more of the subject under investigation than he did, and it was most satis factory to him to think that they were so well qualified to decide and do that justice ho was sure would be done to the country and the defendants by their verdict. After the long and laborious trial he thought they were now at the thirteenth day, during which time they had devotedly attended to the evidence as it proceeded, and they seemed to him to thoroughly understand it as it proceeded step by step and therefore his task was now comparatively easy, and he should only feel it his duty to state to them the ques tions of law as they arose, and to direct their attention to what he considered the principal points for them to determine. It bad been his fate on the trial of a cause as judge to occupy two days in summing up the evidence, and if he thought that he could do any good, or at all assist them by going through the whole of his notes, page by page, he would not hesitate a moment to do so, hut he thought that in this case were he to do so be should be perplexing them rather than assisting them, and he thought he should be best dis charging his duty by bringing the few plain points of the case before the and upon which their verdict was to pass between the Crown and the defendants. They were aware this was a criminal information filed by her Majesty's late Attorney-General, a gentleman of great learning and high honour, and who had filled the office of her Majesty's Attorney-General with great distinction and benefit to the Country, but whatever might be the result of the prosecution, no one could for a moment impute the slightest particle of blame to him for the course he had adopted. After the disaster of the failure of the bank, the ruin it had brought upon hundreds, and the scandal it had caused, it was essen tially necessary a judicial investigation should take place, and he bad only put the defendants on their trial or what was termed an ex officio information, which was a course of proceeding of an eminent character and perfectly constitutional. The information charged the defendants with having oon:spired together to repro sent falsely and fraudulently that the Royal British Bank and its affairs had been during the year, ending Dec. 31, 1855, in a sound and prosperous condition, producing profits divisible among the shareholders. That was the alleged conspiracy, and there were several overt acts alleged, the principal of which were the report of the directors to the shareholders of the state of the bank up to 31st Dee,, 1355, the issuing of new shares ; the balance sheet of which they had heard so much which profeeeed to give a true account of the condition of the bank at that time ; the payment of dividends of 6 per cent, out of supposed profits, and the buying of shares to keep up the price. It had already been stared to them by the learned coon el frr the prosecution that by the law of England the crime of conspiracy may be com plete without any overt act being corninitt=d, but at the same time overt acts were material to be looked at by juries, because from them they mightdraw inferences whe ther the alleged conspiracy ever took piece. It had also been truly stated that it was not necessary to prove conspiracy, that evidence should be given of the formal consults win of the parties accused, or their having deliberately resolved that they would commit some illegal act, or resor4 to inept means to gain any object, but if, as rea , onable men, a jury could say there was a common design or acting in con cert to do what was wroug, it would be a ground upon which a jury might suppose and reasonably draw the lam ence that such a conspiracy was actually formed. The manner in which the prosecution proposed to prove the charge of conspiracy, was first to show that the bank was in a state_uf insolvency at tios'end of 1655 and the beginning of 1856; and that being known - tip the defen dants they entered into a design to represent that the hank was then in a flourishing condition, for the pur pose of deceiving and defrauding those who were shareholders, or the public who might wish to become shareholdersor have dealings with the Royal British Bank. It would be for them to say whether, on the part of the prosecution, they had established their case. He must, however, caution them against supposing that, although one or . several of the defendants might have done what was improper, it would not be sufficient to establish the charge against then for example, if any of this wanton after the reserve the their charge know led of fund ha been exhausted, and they had lost more than one-fourth ,se e-foouir the eo fact e the o p f i it, paid-up conspiracy to misr e p resen t f or the purpose of deceivi ng and defrauding the p u bli c , for there must b e a joint act with a gu ilty knowledge. H e should first call their att en ti on to whether there had been generally was alleged on th e part of the ne r aCilryow such n, a ndhn he conspirac y as eouplelat capital e establish without lion to the case as it pract ica lly affected the defendants e and draw their atten s [re be continued in our last edition.] THE CHARGE AGAINST MR. ISAAC BUTT, M.P. PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE.—THIS DAY. The committee for investigating the charges in the petition of Mr. Coffey against Mr. Imams Butt re-assem bled this morning at 12 o'clock in No. 18, Committee room. S ceived a vi s it f rom Mrs. Parr. Sheth ir W. Cod of thein r g in ui g r t y o , ri said previous hebeggeito tosta the re-Commence meatte eaetemheedhadverrey anxious that means should be afforded her of rebutting that part of the evidence aspersing her character. He a t onldd informher he her whatmentionuld la sht t eir de be eio subject ein to the committee, he M w r. as V p er r n es o i n den S t m e i f t h, upon the subject. Sir Jam es G raham said it had better be done at the end of the i nqu i ry. said, duri ng the whole of Lord Palmeraton's Ministry th e e xa ß m o in e e r d d b e y Mr. Roebuck, f Control. He frequentl y saw Mr. Butt on the subject of the claims of Ali Moored. In 1856 he remembered a memorial being presented to the Queen from the Ameer. In March, 1857, he remembered papers being moved for. He recollected a conversation he had with Mr. Butt pre vious to that motion. The substance of the conversation was that Mr. Butt urged Mae justice of the claims of Ali Moored. He did not recollect that Mr. Butt said any "compromise" was entered into. Mr. Butt wished that the turban lands should be restored to Ali Moorad. During one of the conferences Mr. Butt stated that the matter would be brought before the house, but he did not remember Mr. Butteaying "he would bring the subject forward." He (witness) considered that such a course would be inadvisable, and he agreed with Mr. Butt that at that particular tim e i t would have had a bad effect to proclaim to the public that there was disaffection among the nati ve princes. He recol lected a draft letter being sent to th e Board of Control .by the Court of Directors ; was altered and returned to the Court. When he came into offic e he looked upon the case of Ali Moored as settled. He believed that the Ameer had been guilty of the offence of which hehad been charged—that of forgery i n the treaty; but he considered that the punishment inflicted upon him was excessive, and as the Ameer had behaved well for seven or eight years some mitigation should be made in his sentence. Ile had an interview with Mr. Batt, and told him su c h was his opinion. He also had an interview with Ali Moored, and he believed that he went out to India under the idea that the authorities there would listen to his case. By Mr. Deasy—He recollected M r. Butt telling him he should move for certain papers at the time of the Indian budget. He told Mr. Butt he th ought the standing orders would prevent his taking such a course. This conversation took place in the House of Commons. This took place in 1856. Mr. Roebuck—Did you ever give Mr. Butt authority to say to the Ameer that he must dismiss Mr. Coffey ? Mr. V. Smith—No, as he bad nothing to do with the subject. At a subsequent time Mr. C o ff ey wrote to him to ask him to vindicate his character from certain aspersions. He merely acknowledged the letter and declined to interfere. The assertion that be gave autho rity to discharge Mr. Coffey w as untru e . H e h a d no authority to give such a direction. Cross-examined by Mr. Deasy—He thought for a long time that the case of Ali Moored was in the hands of Sir F. Kelly. He certainly suggested to Ali Moorad, when he set out for India, that he should go as . quickly as possible ; a n d, moreover, told him to exert h im self in suppressing any disturbance he might f i n d on h i s there, and do all he could for the supp or t o f t h e authorit y arriv . ali of the English Government. By Sr J. Graham—When he gave an ffi c ial interview to Ali Mourad he had not bad any c onvers ation on the subject with Mr. Butt. He introduced the Queen of When he went to the Board of Cvattol he considered he Oude contrary to the wi s hes of the Court of Directors. ad a right to exercile his own judgment, and he he deved he was the first president who ever thought of remitting a pertioa cf the eel:tonne on Ali Moorad. He considered the punishment fufl.cced on Aii Moored as exce , sive. He never went the length suggested by Mr. Butt with respect to the Ameer's case. He con -edered the Government of India was the proper tribunal o peal with such a subject, Be n know whether Lhe committee wished him to review the Liecieion he had already arrived at. Sir J. Graham —Certainly riot. By Mr. Sergeant Kinglake—He made known his opinion that the Government of Bombay was the proper tribunal to deal with the Ameer's case to Mr. BLitt. By Mr. Wilson Patten—He bad heard, like other persons, that members of Parliament had received pre sents for advocating the claims of Indian princes, but he bad never been offimally informed of the fact. He never understood that any of the persona who had called upon him had any pecuniary interest in the result. By Sir J. Graham—lf you had known that any per son had called upon you with respect to the Ameer'e claim, and had had a pecuniary interest in the settle ment, would you have broken off the interview at once ? Mr. V. Smith—Certainly. I should never have allowed any pressure to be placed upon me to advocate certain claims in Parliament. By Sir J. Graham—Mr. Butt said he was going to Vienna in order to ascertain whether the Ameer was doing to India or not, and he (witness) gave him a letter of introduction to Sir H. Seymour. The right hon. gentleman having answered a few other unimportant questions, retired, and the room was ordered to be cleared, in order that Mr. Deasy's proposal .or the production of the bill of coats of Messrs. Hunt and Esdaile might be decided. On the room being reopened. Mr. Esdaile was called, and the chairman informed him that be was only required to give dates and names .4 the parties who attended certain consultations, The witness then, in answer to Mr. Desay,•said there Was a consu;tation on July 27, 1856, at which Sir F. Kelly, Mr. Butt, and Mr. Ayrton were present. There was also a consultation on August 13, at which Sir F Kelly and Mr. Kinglake attended. Mr. Butt was nee pres,nt. Mr. Roebuck—How many consultations did Mr, Butt attend in 1856. Witness —One. On the 23d of February, 1 357, there was a consultation; Mr. Butt's name was not down as attending on that occasion, but he believed he was present. On the 21st of July there was a consulta tion, at which Mr. Butt was present. Neither he nor his partner, Mr. Hunt, ever paid Mr. Butt any fees for attendance on those occasions. Mr. Deasy—Can you say, from a reference to your books, whether any resolution was come to on the part of those acting for Ali Moored, that Mr. Butt should take no further steps in Parliament in the Ameer's case, excepting moving for papers. Witness—l object to answer that question. Mr. Bright—l don't see how you can object to answer such a question. Sir J. Graham—lt is the opinion that you must answer that question. Mr. Esdaile—ln May, 1857, it was resolved that cer tain steps proposed to be taken with respect to the Ameer, should not be taken unless with the direst sanction of Sir F. Kelly. [To be continued in our last edttion.j MARKET NEWS.—(This Day.) COVENT GARDEN. TILS ATT.EMPT TER EMTERO PARIS, Thar-day.—The Court of Assiz s was crowd-.d long before 10 o'clock by those pei,ons who Lad obtained pe:rn•ssi-n to be pres tit o t occasion. Many of the cor,-.;sp , ndent- of tie Loed journals were unable to get jet the Court. It is not positively known whether it is the int-rn tion of the French Government to exclude the agents of foreign journals during the trial of Orsini and his companions ; but certain it is, the difficulty of obtaining tickets to enter the court is much greater than on previous occasions. Authentic information is, it appears, to be sup pressed as far as possible. In pursuance of a deci sion as unprecedented as it is arbitrary, unconsti tutional, and illegal, the authorities have pro hibited the French journals from publishing any reports of this trial, except such as shall be given out by a board of censure specially appointed for the purpose. The official report is intended, it is said, to be very brief, There were in court m an y gen tl emen o f th e French b ar who will, no doubt, give their version of the trial, and by degrees all will be known. The accusation and trial is based on an attempt to assassinate the Emperor and. Empress of the French, on the - eveningofJan. 14. Five persons are d rectly accused as the authors of the plot, namely Joseph Pierri, Chas. de Rudio, Antonio Gomez, F. Orsini, and Simon Franc o i s B arnard (the last-named ab sent). De Rudio, Gomez, and Orsini, who threw the shells, are further accused of the murder of divers persons who have died from the wounds they received on the said evening of January 14th. The conduct of the trial is in the hands of M. Delangle, the President. Orsini and Pierridecided on having M. Jules Favro as legal counsel. De Radio and Gomez having declared that they had not made any choice, President Delangle has named M. Mathieu to act for the former, and M. Nicolet for the latter. Lord Cowley, Marshal Magnan, General Fleury, M. Dupin, and M. St. Georges (of the imperial printing-office), were among the company on the bench behind the judges. The members of the Council of the Order were the only advocates (be sides those engaged in the cause) who were admitted without tickets. At 2J minutes past 10 the four prisoners, guarded, as usual, by gen larmes, took their seats in the dock in the following order : 1, Gomez; 2, de Rudio ; 3, Orsini; 4, Pierre. Gomez appears about 30 years old. He has a mild expres sion of countenance, rather fresh colour, long light brown hair, and no beard. He was well-drased iu black, with black kid gloves, and appeared very calm. He does not look at all like a servant, but his appearance is less distingu6 than that of the other three, who have evidently been brought up as gentlemen. De Rudio has a large head with a lower jaw strongly developed, and a very deter mined expression of countenance, yellowish com plexion, thick black hair, with mustachios and im perial of the same colour. He is a strong made man, with large high shoulders. He was dressed in black ; age 25. He appeared very calm. Orsini, the principal prisoner, is a man of middle height (40 years old), with hair turning grey and very much off his forehead, and large and very black whiskers. He has an aquiline nose, piercing black eyes, a small well-chiselled mouth, very white teeth, and a pale complexion. He was well dressed, with a black frock coat and black kid gloves. He speaks French fluently, but with a strong Italian accent. On coming into court he looked round with a certain degree of curiosity, but without be traying the least emotion. Pierri is 50 years old. He has short bristly black hair, and wears an entire beard, which is rather grey. He has large features, and a countenance expressive of great determination. Like the other prisoners he was dressed in black. It was remarked that both he and Orsini held their heads erect, with a haughty, undaunted air. A few seconds after the introduction of the pri soners, President Delangle and the other judges took their seats on the bench. After the usual questions to the prisoners touching their names, ages, and professions, the long acte d'accusation was read, and occupied the court till past 12 o'clock. The sitting was then suspended a short time. On the judges returning into court, Gomez was inter rogated by President Delangle. His answers may be summed up to this effect :—That he was not re sponsible for the act with which he was charged ; he only obeyed orders without knowing the object of them. (Orsini was observed to smile during these explanations.) De Rudio said he was sent to Paris by Bernard ; that when he arrived there, but not before, the project of the assassination was confided to himby Orsini ; thathe agreed to come into it, because, had he refused, he feared that he should have been treated as a spy, and perhaps assassinated. Orsini said that when he found that Napoleon 111. had it in his power to do so much for Italy, and bad used it against her, the idea came inro his hetad to act the part of Brutus, and that it was a right thing to kill the man who had killed the liberties of his country. He repeatedly said that he would not say a word against his fellow-pri soners, and that he regretted anything which, in a moment of anger, might have fallen from him against them. He answered with apparent candour all that concerned himself, but did in fact refuse to answer every question touching his confederates. He showed great firmness throughout. He took credit to himself for the part he had played in the Roman Republic. He said that liberty ought to be based upon courage and con Aaucy, and not upon assassination. Whether Italy was to be repub lican or not, he said that she must first, and above all things, be independent. Pierri answered loosely, and often wandered from the questions. He denied everything, and said that he only came to Paris to see his son. The shell found upon him had, he said, been given him by Orsini to take care of, he not knowing what it was. He had a rendezvous with Orsini on January 14, at a Cafe Chantant, and it was on his way there that, attracted by a crowd near the opera, he went quite by accident into the Rue Lepelletier, where a policeman arrested him before the explosion. M. Jules Fevre, who defended Orsini, rose and addressed the jury something to this effect:— "I would wish to forget for a moment the painful feeling which oppresses me, and express my admiration of the eloquent display which we have just witnessed. The learned advocate opposite (M. Chaix d'Est Ange) has long adorned our benches; his place has remained unfilled, and he himself is regretted by us all. His career sheds bril liancy on the solemn functions with which he is now in vested, and the prestige of his eloquence imparts to then' a formidable force. If a danger was to be found in finding oneself opposed to him, it is that very sentiment which his concluding words have invoked. We had no need of that appeal to pity which we have just heard. We are all seized with terror and dismay on thinking of the bloody tragedy which brings us to this spot. Saying thus much, I may add that I do not share all the opinions of the Procureur-General on the acts, the principles, and the men concerning whom he has spoken. My own opinions, my principles are known to the Procuraur. lie knows also that crimes, violence, abuse of force, have never been, are not, and never will be their symbol. No !I do not, I can not believe that mere force can establish rights. Accor,ling to my views it is through their habits and usages that states become degenerated ; and, if a nation was unfortunate enough to fall within the grasp of a despot, they would, in deed, be badly inspired who should seek to get rid of him by the steel. History teaches us that Governments perish by the excess of their principle. God, who counts the hours of the power of this world, reserves for that power which his Providence has condemned catastrophes much more sudden, much more striking, than by all the criminal ma chinations that were ever planned by conspirators. This is my firm belief. Orsini asked me to defend him. I did not reject his prayer; but at the same time I well understood the weight of the burden imposed on me—nay, more, my inability. I expressed to him all the horror which his crime impressed me with, whilst I felt touched by his misfortune, and when speaking of his country I felt compassion at his tears. I told him that for a cause like his—the inde pendence of his country—l would, that object him, shed the last drop of my blood : but I added that in the pursuit of _ object he had grievo us ly er red ; that that error of mind he must expiate, and that his life would be the expiation for the laws he had violated ; that his life was dr awing a close, as a punishment due to the g u principle disre of respect for human life, garded. I told him I should at whichnhe had him us n ti o f w y before the jury, and assist him at this solemn hour. Behold t me j e at my poet. lam not here J. o glorify Orsini, nor him, not more than to save him . sou s I I wish only to endeavour rays of the light of truth —of that truth whi ch to cast on his immortal treat en will protest his mem or y against the execrat i on of post to offer some explan a ti ons. I will do so erity. Ido not coins here to pretend to excuse , but simply moderately, for I am not like the Atto rney - General, invested history, the privilege of seeki ng out a t my ease, the causes which r en d er my WW2 try liable to a too frequent repetition of s i m il ar at tempts. Ido not come here to save--I do not come even to defend -but solely to explain his fatal aberration; trusting to demonstrate to you that my unfortunate client i s not unworthy of some feeling of pity. I will first rec tif y what I consider to be a mistake of the Attorney-General. The crime has not been dictated by ambition. I never thought that the blood which has been shed could have favoured his accession to power. Ambition has not been the great occupation of his life—his whole existence has been one long struggle against foreign o pp ress i on. Why, how could it be otherwise ? He drew these sentiments, those noble traditions, from the blood of his parents, and was nurtured in them beside the domestic hearth. His father, M. Orsini, took part in the first revolution— was captain in the army under the First Empire —and made the Russian campaign. He Was one of that glorious phalanx which, notwithstanding that foreign lands fur nished its rank and file, fought in the same cause with France, marched under the same flag, and mingled its blood with ours on the battle-fields of Europe. Force, rather than ideas, raised up that empire; force likewise overthrew it ; and, after its fall, Orsini sheathed his sword. But, during the great reign, Italy witnessed the realisation of the dream she nourished during all the course of her history, Italian unity under the sceptre of a great chief. Are you, then, surprised that, at the resurrection of the system overthrown in 1815, M. Orsini, the father, should have thrown himself into an enterprise which was destined to restore unity to Italy, that unity whioh h he had e sh.i seen his r realised in his youth, and for which n ndertaking blood ? And doto brandsuc by the name of conspiracy seekpiracy ? Beware l That plot, if plot t two conspirators 121 its you insist on t e rming it, counted 'D0..., Only limited supplies of fruit. and vegetables were on sale, and the demand ruled steady, as follows : FRUIT. Pineapples, per lb. 6s Od to 8s Colonta I do., ea. Os Od to Os Od Grapes, per lb 2s Od to i Os Foreign do Os Od to Os Od Melons, each Os Od to Os Od Peaches, p. doz. Os to Os Od Nectarines, do. ...Os to , Os Od Apples, p. 12. sv.ls Od to 28 6d Pears, per doz ...3s to Gs Od Oranges, per 100.. Gs Od to 8s Lemons, p. doz. is Od to 2s Odl Apricots, p. doz. OsOd to Os Od Cherries, per lb. Os to Os oai VEGE Filberts, per 100 lb 30s to 40s Cobs., p. 100 lbs. Os to Os Almonds, p. lb. Os Od to 00d Walnuts, per 100 Os to Os Od Figs, per doz Os to Os Od Strawberries, per pottle Gooseberries, per half sieve ....Os Od to Os Od Currants, p. h. sv. Os 01 to Os IPlums, par do. Os Od to Os Od Green gages, per h. sv.Os to Os Raspberries, p.potl. Od to Od !ABLER. Greens,p. doz. bun. Is 3d to 45 Shallots, per lb 6d to 8d Cabbages, do. Os Od to Os Od Eorseraddish, p. b. Is6d to4s ' Savoy do., p. do. Os 2d to Os 4d Parsley, per do. °d to 6d Cauliflowers, do.ls 6d to 4s Od Celery, per do is Od to is 6d Brocoli, p. bun. is 01 to is 6d Beet, por doz. ls Od to 2s Od Potatoes, per ton GOs to 150. Parsnips, per do. Od to Os Od New do., per cwt. Os Od to Os Small salad, p. pun. Od to Od Peas, per h siev Os Od to Os Od afushrooms,p.ptl. lsolto2sod Turnips, per bunch 2d to 4d Artichokes, each ...0d to Od Carrots, per bunch... 4d to 7d Lettuces, per scr. Os 3d Os Od Cucumbers, each 3s to 5s Od Endive, p er Bor . 2 s 6d t o 3 s Garlic, per lb 6d to Oa 8:1 Radishes, p.d.bun. 2s to OsOd Sorrel, per sieve Od to Os Tomatoes, per hsv. Os to Os Od Spinach, p. d0...2s Od to 4s Od Walnuts per 100 ...0d to Od Brussels sprouts, per Chillies, per 1001 s Od to 2s Od half do 9 301 to 3s Od Capsicums, per 100 Oa Od to Os Onions, p. bush •Os Oil to Oa Od Rhubarb, p. b. is Od to is 3d New do., per bunch Od to Od .Asparagus, per bund 5s to 7s French beans, per Seakail,perpun.2s Od to 3s Od half-sieve ... 2s Gd to 8s Od Turnip greens, per Leeks, per d 0..,...,., 2d to 3d bush Os Od to Os Od NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Turkeys, 4s Od to 8s Od ; Poults, Os 01 to Os Oil; Geese, 4s Od to Os Od each ; Goslings, 4s Od to 7s Od P • Duck lings, 2s Od to 2s 9d ; tame ra bbit s , i s Od t o is 9il each ; wild do., 8d to is 2d ;APigeons, 8,1 to 10,1 each ; large Surrey 'Fowls, Os to 9s; bar:l;door do.; 3s 01 to 5s Od; Chick ens, 4s 0,1 to Os 0,1 per couple; Capons, Os Od to Os; Hares, 3s Od to 4s Od ; Grouse, Os Od to Oa Od each ; Pheasants, Os Od to Os Od ; Partridges, Oa Od to Os Od ; Woodcocks, 4a to 4s 6d ; Snipes, is 3d to le 6d; Teal, Os to Os Od; Wild Ducks, 2s Od to 2s 6d; Widgeons, Os Od to Os 0J; Plovers, Os to OsOd each ; Guinea Fowls, 3s to 3s 63; Roasting pigs, 4s Od to 8s Od each. Ostend fresh butter, —s to —s Od ; English do., is 2d to is 6(1 per lb. • English eggs, 7s Od to 8s Oil; French do., 6 s 01 t o 7 s Od per 120; Leverets, 3s Od to 4s Od each. NEWPORT. Beef, from 2s 101 to 4s 2d; mutton, 38 2d to 4s 61 ; lamb, Oa Od to Os Od; veal, 3s 4d to 4s 4d; pork, 3s 61 to 4s 2d per 81bs., by the carcase. WHITECHAPEL. Beef, from 2s 101 to 4s 2d ; mutton, 3s 2d to 4s Gd ; lamb, Os Od to Os Od ; veal, 3s 4d to 4s 41 ; pork, 35 4d to 4s 2d per 81bs by the carcase. BILLINGSGATE. Turbots, 2s Gd to ; Brills, is Od to 5s each; Salmon, 2s 3d to 3s Od per lb ; Cod Fish, 2s Od to lOs each; Soles, 4d to ls 6d per pair • Trout, Os Od t o Od per lb ; L o b s t ers, 6d to 3s Gd; Crabs, 6dto 2s Gd; Whitings, 3s Od to 7s per doz. ; Common Oysters, 16s to 20s ; Natives 40s to 50s per bsli. ; Mackerel, 4i;s to Os per 100; Smelts, is Gd to 2s Od per doz.; Skate, Os to Gd per lb; Shrimps, Os Od to Os Od per gallon ; Bloaters, 4s Od to 8s Od per 100 ; Fresh Herrings, 5s Od to Os per 100; Scotch do., Od ; Sprats, 4s Od to Gs Od per bushel; Doreys, is Od to 7s each ; Haddocks, 4s to 103 pet doz. ; Pike, 6d; Sturgeon, Gd per lb ; Prawns, 4s Od to ss; Mullets, Os 6d to 1 8 Gd eac h ; Pl a i ce, 4d t o i s each; Hali b ut, Gd per lb ; Flounders, is Od to is Gd p er d oz . ; sa lt fi s h, Od per lb ; E e l s , Od to Os ; Carp, is to 5s ; Tench, is to 55 per brace; Gurnets, 4d to ls. BREAD. The prices of wheate❑ bread in the metropolis are from qd to 71(1; of household ditto, 5d to 6: . ' t d per 4 lb loaf. HAY MARKETS. --- SMITIIFIELD.—Meadow hay, 2/ lOs to 31155; clover. 3/ 10s to 41 158; and straw, 1/ 3s to 1/ 78 per load. A moderate supply, and a sluggish demand. CUMBERLAND. —Meadow hay, 21 10s to 31 15s ; clover, 3/ lOs to 41 18s ; and straw, 1/ 3s to 1/ 8s per load. Both hay and straw met a slow sale, at barely late rates. WH ITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 2/ lOs to 31 15s; clover. 3/. 103 to 4/ 15s ; and straw, 11 3s to 11 7s par load. The trade ruled heavy, at our quotations. COAL MAR, Prices of Coals per ton a s. d. Walker Primrose .........12 61 s. e. Ward's West Hartley ...14 0 Hilda 14 6 20 0 Cassop Wallsend, Heugh flail 18 9 Gosforth . 15 (Vowsll's Duffryn Steam 21 26. the close of the market Wallsend, Ste. Ships at mark, it, 13 ; *told, 9. COURSE OF EXCHANGE.-YESTERDAY. tn5terdain............ 11 15 Gibraltar .............. Ditto, three months .. 11 17 Leghorn ........., ~.. 29 75 Itotterdana ............ 11 17 Genoa ........•....... 2a 52% .Intwerp .............. 25 32% Milan ............... 3russels .............. 25 35% Venice. _ _ _ Ban:burgh •• •• •• •• .• •• 13 5 Naples .• ••........•• •• 42 Altona •• •••••••••• •• •• • • Palermo •• •• 000000 •• •• 123 56 Paris •••• •• • • •••.•• •• 25 7 Messina •• • o 1233 i Do. three months .. •• 25 32Y,, Lisbon ...... •• •••• • • 51 56 Marseilles 25 35 Oporto 51% Bourdeaux .• ........ 'Rio Janeiro ..... ..• .... Frankfort-on-Maine .• .. 118 1 4 !Buenos Ayres.. •• ••• • •• Berlin •• •• •• •... .• •• •• • • New York,6o daye'sitht Vienna .........• •• .... 10 32 'Philadelphia rriesto •• •• •••• •• • • 10 32 PRICES OF RULLION, TRH oz: Petersburg ............ 35 !Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 9 Madrid ..• .......„... 48% Portugal Gold Coin -• 0 0 0 Cadiz ••••••••• • • •• •.• • 49% !Mexican Dollars et 0 0 0 Barcelona ........ .• I New Dollars ...... 00 0 Seville.• . .. •• •• .. •• s liver in bare ...... 00 0 LLO7D'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LONDON, Feb. 27.—Wind this day at noon, E.; strong breeze, and fine clear weather. OFF FALMOUTH, Feb. 26.—ArriTod----City of Dublin, from Calcutta. PLYMOUTH, Feb. 26.—Wind E.—Arrived—Argo, from Batavia for Amsterdam; Regime, from Cape Hayti for Hamburg. PORTSMOUTH, Feb. 27.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrived— Speedy, from Sydney, N.S.W. DARTMOUTH, Feb. 26.—Wind E.—Arrived—Mathilda , from Porto Cabullo for Hamburg. SIR WILLIAM SLERMAN'S JOURNEY THROUGH 017 DE. This important work, revealing the actual condition or nati7e kingdom, the very hot-bed of the great re bellioai i India, is published this day. All legal diffi culties being now at an and the public will have in this work the important testimony of one of the ablest and most honourable of our Indian officers on this moat interesting subject. The revelations here made will create astonishment in many quarters. DEATH OF THE BROTHER OF THE KING OF OUDE.— Another fatality has occurred in this ill-starred fa - nily. His Highness Prince Mirza Mohummud lowaad Allie Sekunder Hushmut Bahadoor, next brotherofotnhe_TKnuiortg. of Oude , and uncle of the young Prince, died day, at his residence in Warwick-r oa d West, after an illness of short duration, brought on by anxiety occa sioned by the death of the Queen of Oude a few weeks since in Paris. His highness had the advantage of the best medical skill, but his malady would not yield to treatment. 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You have just heard it said tht.t Orsini has passed his life in conspiracy. But how could it be otherwise, if you will reflect on the teachings of that past whichbas been revealed to yon ? Must not an Italien feel his chain ? And you wish that the grand idea of Italian unity, put into practice by bins who understoeS that its establishment demanded the overthrow of the tem. poral power of the Pope-- a power which was actually over. thrown— you wish that such a remembrance should ;rase perished, and left no trace behind. Bat it has been said Orsini took an oath, an oath which he has never violate le In 18W Tuscany drove him into exile --Tuscany, th a t i, to say, Austria. At length arrived '4g. It is not my busineat to-day to explain the causes of its birth ; but we cams e efface from our tnernolies a time when such an act was per. witted. When bd. de Lamartine made public his famot manifesto, which Italy hailed as the aurora of her in. dependence, when the news arrived at Paris of the re treat of the Austrians across the Tagliamento, France, if I recollect aright, was the first and the loudest to applaud Orsini, still the same, has not changed his sentiments. Universal suffrage gave him a place in the Constitnett Assembly convoked at Rome, You know the history ..f that Assembly. Europe trampled it under foot, and the cannon of France crushed it. This man must then yield to his weakness. This son of Captain Orsini must quit hie country once more. Ho goes to Vienna under the name of Herman, still pursued, as he avows, by the same demure which pursued him thus far. Seized, bound, led to the citadel of Mantles, which more resembles a tomb than a prison, his spirit remains unbroken. Ho forces the secret judges to render homage to the serenity of his soul, to the purity of his intentions. The instruments of death were ready, but the devotedness of a woman causes a letter to reach him, in which is explained to him a plan of escape. Eight bars of iron are cut through, and, after a long suspension over the abyss, the fragile support gives, at a height of 40 metres, and he falls into the abysk He is found by shepherds, who conceal him for 44 hours in the reeds of a frozen lake. He then goes to England, and tries to excite the sympathy of a powerful and generous nation in favour of his unfortunate country. When his legal and legitimate efforts appear useless his spirit, which again leads him astray, urges him to the commission of a crime, which at this moment he email wish to efface at the cost of his blood. The independence of Italy and he himself are sacrificed even to the very name lie bears, and which he has sullied by assassination. Doubtless such persistence is deserving of blame. A Mail must know how to bow to force, and before the Cabinet of Kings who tell you ' Your Government displeases nats. I destroy it.' But all that the work of force is destined to encounter on its way is a resistance which will rather allow itself to be crushed than to submit to reason. In our own history we have proofs of the fact. In 1815 Napoleon was overthrown. A regular Government succeeded a despotism. Well then, was not that Government, which was accuses of having been imposed by the foreign bayonets, inces santly menaced by conspiracies, of which our people were pleased to consider themselves, I will not say as martyrs-- ; I will not exaggerate—but as victims." With respect to the victims of the attempt oil the 14th, M. Jules Favre said : " Yes, that is a crime, a crime of which Orsini will be accountable before God, much more than before the law of men, because the law before it strikes him kas to inquire as to his intentions. The Procureur-General has not insisted excessively on this count. He has laid much more stress on what he calls the variations of his language. I will try to remove that reproach. It does not much matter to ua that he may have contradicted himself, or that he shows vacillation of mind of which the solitude of his pr.ison is the cause. It is not by such circumstances that we must judge an accused man." M. Jules Favre examines this patt of the clues• ticn at some length. He said : , "Orsini entered on this dangerous path on which fana. ticism urged him, bowed before the man he had intended to strike, and turning towards the nephew of the great Emperor, said to him `Prince, you boast of having issued from the ranks of the people. Well, then, take courage, and Attend your hand to the people who are the brothers of the French people. Do not allow Italy to be trampled under foot by the children of the north. The source of your own power is a revolutionary source ; bear it always iii mind, and you shall be invulnerable.' I have now done, 1 and my last words will be, like those of the Proeurenr-Ge neral, a prayer. Yon will do your d uty without passion and without weakness, and God, who judges the great of the earth—God, who measures all human actions, and weigh% the lives of men in the balance of which our intelligence and our hearts cannot Lave any adequate notion—Gott who views the sufferings of this man—his anguish, and the thoughts which have ever agitated his spirit—the ardent passions which have filled his heart —and will, perhaps, render to this intelligent and noble soul a pardon which, in their weakness, men will not be able to extend to him." M. Jules Favre then resumed his seat. The im pression produced by these last words was so great that several minutes elapsed before the Court was collected enough to call on M. Nogent St. Laurens, Pierri's counsel. CONVICTION AND SENTENCE OF THE; ACCUSED. PARIS, Friday Evening, 8.45 p.m. Judgment has just been passed upon the accused. Orsini, Pierri, and Rudio are found guilty and sentenced to capital punishment as parricides. Gomez is found guilty, but under circum stances of extenuation, and sentenced to penal ser• vitude for life. Tho accused said nothing. THE ALLEGED ATROCITIES AT TIIII TAKING OF DELHI. Some of the continental papers, we (Calcutta Englishman, Jan. 23) observe, have falsely accused our soldiers of cruelty on the taking of Delhi ; a city is never taken by assault without some innocent victims. We need not assure our English reade)s that the accusations of foreign journalists are un founded ; but, for the benefit of those gentlemen, we subjoin the following indignant denial by an officer who served throughout the siege, and was present at the assault : " I was told last evening that the government has written up to the Commissioner of Delhi, t.) know the particulars and number of the ' outrage: committed by the troops during the storm of the city, and afterwards. As there is a leisurely gran. deur about these 'gentlemen in black' who follow our armies in quest of good appointments after the fighting is over, which prevents their answering with that promptness and succinctness that such a question demands, I lose no time in send , ng you, for the world's perusal, the reply to such a ques. tion. You know that I would not write to yon an untruth, or even anything of which I was not perfectly certain—no, not even to defend and save the reputation of this glorious, though now despised, army. The answer is, in reply to English questions, and French, or any other calumnies—that this army has never, on any single occasion, sullied its arms and it t achievements by the slightest outrage, cruelty, or violence committed on any woman, or child, or peaceful and defenceless citizen. And, further, wa are not sepoys, or cowardly murderers of any otht r description, as is proved by what we have done ; for our country knows full well that men, capable of what is insinuated against us by the above question, never could have upheld their empire, their glory, and their well-acquired honour, as we have done. No, no ; thank God, we hard not forfeited or laid one single stain upon old England's pure and -noble character through. out this long and terrible struggle ; and f repeat it emph a ti ca ll y th a t whoever tan say that this army has committed anything cruel or atrocious, states that which is not fact, but foul and dishonourable slander. The rudest soldier in tbia army is incapable of slaying or harming a woman, a child, or an unarmed and peaceful citizen ; and f can swear upon my honour and my sword that no such thing has been done. This is my answer ; let him who can, gainsay its truth, and disprove its declaration. Mutineers and rebels, and mur. derers and violators of English children and wee men, we did slay, thank God, without mercy or hesitation, but women, or children or peaceful citizens—no, no, it is untrue, foully and shamefully untrue. It may suit the views of those who wrong this army, to calum n i a t e i t ; and to endeavour to prove, at the sacrifice of their country's honour, that we are unworthy of laudation and reward , but this shall not b e d one, so long as one man remainsi amongst us who knows the truth, and can give it to the world. I have dwelt rather long upon this sub. ject, but whilst endeavouring to be calm, I was de. sirous that our countrymen in England, and Eng. laud's friends and enemies all over the world, should know the truth fully, and without evasion or quibble. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, FEB. 26. The market is firm, with a tendency to higher prices; the current quotations being insufficient, if more readily obtainable, to meet the cost of production. Buyers, however, continue to operate cautiously and to limit purchases, as if wanting confidence in present high rates bring maintained. Toe news by the Canada says the receipts of cotton on the seaboard of the United Statta had been 108,000 bales, against 72,000 bales in the corresponding week of last year, and the impressfos here is that cotton will continue to come forward more freely. There are 206,000 bales at sea, but the ° ni l " ; vourable winds keep them out of port, and be li b z uye ... complain of paucity in the market. Sucb!tt a position of the cottoe-market there is probabi l ityno fo r the present much change of values in manufactu r es estricted busine notwithstanding the moderate and r estricted demand; sd doing. In domestics there is n oitnp_ Printing cloth sells slowly. a n d ins , k P in 40-inch shirting a rativo. Some sales are stil l m akin g noi t np ro ► ementin are nnremun~. Ibsunts and innartrhoew widths command fair business is reporte I f li o t r tl l e nd a i t a t , en at ti f o u n l . l rates, but medium counts of warps and cops f or at an advance k The demands from the home the markets, during the rates the t o r n ade, though not considerable, have also been supplied at higher rates. Messrs. Orrnerod Brothers and Co., of w e e f e l k as f t o w rth-l ee . ' Waterbarn-mill, near Newchurcb, have suspended, but there will be little or no loss to creditor.. It is feared there will be some mills stopped through the failure t S, Lees and Co,