The Sun. — London, England, 1846-12-19 00:00:00

to _ --'... M...........................""'' 4 10d Gtes. per 81bs by th e carcase. ... 7s to 12s; Turkeys, It to 4 S to 7 s ; Ducks, is 6cl to 2s 6d; Tame It ibbits, 114 Surrey Pow tact:. , 23 ;. Wild ditto, 10d to Is 2d; Pigeons, 6cl to 10d 4s 6d to Gs • Fowls, 6s to 9s; ditto Chickens, , ~„ , liBh tz!to-door Fowls, 2s 9d to 5s 6d per couple. Eggs, i-' , .5 - . 11 1 - e '2 . 4 to 17a per 100; Fresh Butter, ls to is 4d per 4 11) 3 , l'Zots, 2s to 4s ; Partridges, is to 2s ; Hares, 2s to ; lairgan, is 2d to Is 4d ; Woodcocks, is Gd to 4s; Grouse, bllci- Va 23; Snipes, is to 2s; Teal, 6d to Is 3d; Wild ti 11, - ,.", Is 9d to 2s 6d; Widgeons, 9d to is 8d ; an 'era. Is to Is 3d each. bllse f EWPORT. 'ell, 4s f - " 1 1 23 10d to N 3s 8d ; Mutton, 3s 6d to 45 8 d ; to is 8d; and Pork, 3s 10d to 4s 19d per Sibs. 14444catki..., of _B s ZLLINGSG.II z it ! rte Fib,ib, the supply of T which was small, was L . the to high rates. 74.; from 2s 10d t: 2I 3 I s C Il f ttron E , 3 . 3 . 8d to 4s 8d; Veal, , -0 43 Gd; and Pork, Bd;s 8d tc 4s 8d per 81bs. life ti the h i 4 BREAD. of Wheaten Bread in the metropolis are from 'N; of Household ditto, 7d to B%cl per 41bs loaf. t o kki et 1,,,. RXDE MARKET. 1. 314 4 .ildes, 561 b to 641 b, 3d per lb ; do. 641 b to 721 b ,, , 301 , ' 4 cl; ; do. 721 b to ,"801b, 3d to 3 1, 9 d ; do. 801 b to 881 b, 3 1 / 2 ,u 14, ,Ao.BBlb to 961 b, 4 1 / 4 d to sd; do. 961 b to 1041 b, 5d t• 1 Skins, each, 4s 6d to 6s 6d ; Horn Hides, 13s ; Polled 9 _ . kil 1, 8 'ld to 5s 6d; Kent and Half-breds, 4s to 45 d , 2s 8d to 3s 64:1' a lt tlitpx RAT MARKETS. S' ta ki ll4) . — 'Meadow Hay, 21 5s to 4/ ; Clover ditto, e ' ; and Straw 11 gs to 1/ 12s per load. A full ttoithstlPPly and a sli;ggish demand. . 415, 311 7-li ix - -Meadow Hay, 21 8s to 4/ ; Clover ly b: 3 . to 4118 $; and Straw, 1/ 8s to 11 13s per load. sa.Qpoderate, and trade rather dull. Clover It tili 4, 1 S a 1025113,M. L•—Meadow 2/ 5s to 4Z; / 8s to it 12s per load, Y and Straw moved off slowly, at late rates. 1 24 Ls , ANcER y _(T II IS DAY.) "5 ikt.... t0:4 3 , 111 . Chancellor sat in the Old Hall, Lincoln's t " .I.°ll D. THE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN p a .„ RAILWAY. 004 7,eanle before his Lordship by special per r cl,p - eloyo, tY for th e p urpose o f di sc h arg i ng an order w Z i t Lordship the Master of the Rolls, a fe °Y Which he dissolved an injunction obt n ai a n n e d d IN.W'Y the plaintiff restraining the Londo I) • est e 0, rn Railway Company from . lowering hrai vi t a h 3 e , L e t it, 7ed la a particular part, and taking te railway lo also ordered the plaintiff to pay the costs of j i ,• ll4 eti 4 4). Which he had given notice to extend the . _l4-appe.° The facts of the case out of which 1 1C 1 n ' be le al the judgment of the Master of the Rolls loh g p me ,,, thus stated :—An Act of Parliament kWhl e Ll ithy, t t i l .a for the making of a railway r h om n S am ta e ffo h r y d il l ' it we, s e ,, t tilway was commenced. T e dtk i -P :aY ; b 'Tally denominated was the Trent Valley . th e Airi t t i n m e ,ing afterwards purchased by the Lon eatne ..guam Railway Company, it now goes ILPlaintif F tthe London and North Western Railway. ,.e leres " °Ham Breynton, being in possession thi lb (4 l and, used for brick-making, in the pa tequir..,age. on the line of the railway, the coin- W. 1414 for .` l O about a rood and thirty-eight perches h c u lila st r Purposes of the railwsy : and on the 26 f t r h P4reh hey entered into an agreement with him 0 1l looPtet en tts s e t.bereof, and the price of the land, as we Ito _ Moon for severance and all other damages ot taYbrbitration. By the agreement the lands were toth_Natrui*.Purchated by the company for the purpose_ t0 4 " 91 4 re 'llg their railway according to the plans an h d kiitAlet_,Presenting the manner in which it was to e tpo.hy h a vt ; After crossing the plaintiff's ground, the . Iti t ren e 7,to cross an old turnpike road, and then it IblIth oi : laud belonging to one William Robinson, loZdoro.the company had on the 30th of Jane last Itored feue Purchase of so much of his land as the Ptil v et the if they should make the road pass t otio l it i on y, and not raise it up so as to cross the kis he 8 aw level with it; but if they took the latter tq tt ai r es k i l he would not take less than 1001. The Il k * th e rtt ?, ved upon s i n ki ng t h e roa d so as to pass a the Railw Clauses Consoli a SOY r- Ac aaß r y ailway can b ay e constructed, so as n 'aY cross it on a level with it, unless the Ip iej : , tiel9ntains an express enactment to the c0n "4,1 Act. 1 1 - 4 , ease there was such a clause in the , "%ir on siPpeared that the plaintiff had himself tki' and made ef having the road to pass under the rail !lio t ow di si 7 affidavits to that effect. However, he i kt e t n °B 4l att'sfied, and wished the Company t o make k oL dd. .Panl,,,tee railway on a level, as was originally VII fora refused, and in September last he filed , tAt t ioZ x t --"rTe performance of his agreement, and Z ju e - etie , f e l t _ne moved for an injunction, which was „,, eto apply in four or five days. The t :4 114 , 4: . to restrain the Company, their agents, h bg lige road workmen from lowering or excavating the t 0 ,4 land ,„." so as to interfere with or affect the plain 14141: Trent manner inconsistent with the provisions 2g c ?, 4 ect tl i,-,` al ley Railway Act of Parliament, or t e n e IQ o f therein referred to, or the agreement of 4 8P 4 intifr u CY, 1 846, in the planitiff's bill mentioned. efe nti " a ting moved to extend the i n j u nction, It‘ l e oa 44 , 4 moved to dissolve it; and both motions kl b efiror l be heard. The motion to dissolve st t l, % I ; fi rst, inasmuch as, if it was sudei tok,qtasti„ Plaintiff would then have no . locu h s .s stan_ t t i e ;) •of the Rolls took time to consider jud t g e krtilitt%,lll few days his Lordship pronounced h 0, 00 -4 3 now sought to be discharged. h, 4 (1%41 and Mr. Co o k e wer e for the appellant ; I , } l ,‘lte 'WI, Mr. Foll e tt, an d M r . B aza l ge tt e i:Pport th e d ec i s i on of the Court below. ltd sel b kef it C HANCELLOR, without calling upon the keeti r er the respondent s t o a dd ress t h e C ourt, gave 41111 1k t o, r Tling to grant th e i n j unc ti on , an d th ere b y the uecision of the Court below with costs. furl PARKER V. NOWELL. h; h er arguments in this part - heard appeal ee 1, 18 Lordship the remainder of the morning. .(t te ‘ f , -CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.) ore th e VICE-CHANCELLOR Of ENGLAND.) 4115 v, HoLL.—WRITING LETTERS TO A JUDGE. that this leX-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND, on taking his h:eati lks tb o.rning, stated that Mr. Snow, the plaintiff in op snow V. had occasionally favoured him It, e ‘vin g ' t a b f4 d,,avits of letters from Brussels. Yesterday indivi4 lt ‘ l , 'AIN he found a printed letter from the rac Y , and ' ll4 ' w hich he talked about the fraud, con- I ta teraent wa t s c ; flar r i " of the bar, and in which also a k ti (the v ice.cc . e that certain persons, among whom %t et Y ancellor) was one, were directors of a WhichV' N o 48 Called " The Legal Insurance so li Ythi„ he begged to state that he had never had bei gto d o with ksi t -11 the b that society, but as the letter was a % ti p th em a r, he thought he could not do better than k,, ‘ lett er d _ a present of it. His Honour then handed 7g it .:";_n to the registrar for the bar, to make such 11 1 : at 74.13;,.,!k2eY might think fit. grLI. observed that the Court would recollect c ;ettl e ci s e h e Z v e was. unfortunately connected with that Pahy,, , called " The West Middlesex Insurance Ilefore Vi ce - Chancellor Sir J. K. BRUCE). WORTH V. WILSON. trltleti c 7 .4 motion on the part of the plaintiff for the the off CerloinCfourt,.and restoration to her custody, of d t „ e e „ . , ant children, who had been abducted by sztr e r.,.. a n_t . , 'who was their maternal grandmother. It ),7 ) for at the father and mother of these children C ' 2 lll th r_ W . o months before his demise , frequented a 117reiad4;:mbolic chapel, from which it seems that gh, who the be,, 4 Wo u l d Was a protestant , was apprehensive that If:_ 11 be brought up as Roman Catholics, and th'slin D . 4 ° co, asion of their being on a visit with her at k., s Y t ,' Sas removed them secretly to London, where h resid e. iit t -4 4 e. A habeas corpus was granted, which t l llet. served upon the servant of the defendant, ii i :tpp ettp mtlence in Portland place, London, she refusing h e t t t , 0. - It was contended in support of the motion, did o " e re were no testamentary guardians, the Court h I t b Pt refuse the application. le t eln g stated on the part of the defendant, that it was Os illation to present a petition on the suit, st 9 140 11 R directed the case to remain over till Mon ho h at the same time that he would hold those t het r ,,au the children in their possession, answerable for ° Auction when such was ordered by the Court. ANKRUPTCY.—(THIS DAY) Thi IN RE JOB ELLIOT T . 'kith 3 uankrUpt, who had carr i e d on b us i ness as a s hip i t ttt fi eate teer-lane, Tower-street, City, came up for his The b , nabs tthittaPt passed his last examination about twe t l h ve . t l e _ . ll7 the e ' "hen the Learned Commissioner wi f Pro se ction and gave him very little hope of d obtaming hi s 'certificate, on the ground that he de of L ., an assignment of his property, to the preju lkee • "la creditors, and that he had not kept a cash I . ll nt. - 1 - 1 • 8 1. 4 — uNAN now appeared on behalf ef the bankrupt. 44 4 4 _ 1(1, he did not attempt to exculpate him, but to ex tltthlk‘e. The Learned Gentleman here stated several vs tot k i t aatances calculated to extenuate the bankrupt's p o et. thiltil l tLearned COMMISSIONER, in giving j u d gment , sa id 1 41., 4 wished it to be understoood that in all cases there was a preference given to one creditor, or k b ooks were not kept, he would always mark them toliirle'vere censure. Under all the circumstances, he 40 te' etio s uayend the certificate for six months, without $k ,R IFFS' COURT.—(THIS DAY, T• hi ) BOLTON v. LOVEJOY. nt `o h": w ,as an action to recover the sum of 71. 10s. for ' 4 , 4 41 44 7 ° „'d- The pl a i n tiff i s a z i nc merc h an t, artnHham 4reekl and the defendant, is a smith, at T am.. i'4ol,: 4o biason appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. ` 111 1e1L,"' f or the defendant, who plead e d that h e was not It Pas k rr u zed by the evidence of a Mr. William Bolton, Pia b ; 40 relation but a neighbour to plaintiff, that he ~4111.;,•,.eaPnt when the goods were ordered, and that he ~'ect them, and afterwards demanded the money. 7,th`; ° r°, hied to pay. The witness was cross-examined, atNs ( 1 — ,./LeW of eliciting that the business belonged to clideteadant's uncle. The witness said, he could swe h ar ttzbe n i ot, for he (witness) had carried on business in t h e i qt th s °°P, and when he took the Ship public-house, c a 9 13 to defendant Another witness was called N a • - as in the habit of making up the books of the de llo and the last Witness, and knew that there were The els e in the business besides defendant. %eeitl ,IJNnxa-SnEune—This evidence appears very %,uve at present. Ph,,ta' t f i :,,slAs admitted it was, and that he could not "efence. Jury found for the amount claimed. l BAGOT v. SYERS. pleadedB W as an action on a bill of exchange. Defendant k r. tthat he did not accept, nor did he promise to pay. th t t'St 4 JR I ) appeared on behalf of the defendant to pro .ereglunat the trial proceeding, on the ground that is su w,,ere two issues, and the notice was to try the e • It - contended for plaintiff it was all one The UNDER-SHERIFF said he could not refuse to try the cause, but would take a note of the objection. Evidence was then adduced to prove th(l handwriting of the defendant, and on that issue a verdict was given for plaintiff. POSTAL TREAT' WITH PRUSSIA The Gazette of Friday contains a Treasury warrant for lowering the rates of postage betwixt Great Britain and Prussia, in terms of the convention lately concluded with that country, In this document the Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury announce, that on every letter not exceeding half an ounce in weight, addressed to any place in Prussia (ct vice versa), and conveyed either by way of Hamburgh, the Netherlands, or BA glum, and by packet-boat or private ship, there shall in future be levied an uniform rate of British postage of 6d. Letters to and from the British colonies to be simi larly charged, with the addition of the postage payable between the colony from which such letters may be sent and the British port to or from which the packet or ship shall sail. In the above cases the Postmaster-General may, at discretion, either allow the whole of the postage to be charged to th , receiver, or cause it to be required when the fetters are put into the Post-office; but in no case is the sender to have the option of paying the Bri tish or colonial rates, and leaving the foreign postage to be paid in Prussia. Letters exceeding halt an ounce in weight are to be charged according to the scale of weight and number of rates laid down in the Act for the regulation of postages. British and colonial news papers, and such publications as are allowed to pass by post as newspapers in the United Kingdom, are to be charged when sent to Prussia, or to other foreign coun tries through Prussia, one halfpenny each. The same rule is to apply to Prussian newspapers. Printed prices current, commercial lists, and courses of exchange, allowed to circulate by the post, unstamped, in either Great Britain or Prussia, are to be charged ld. each. Newspapers, &c., mast also be sent via Hamburgh, the Netherlands, or Belgium. Pamphlets and periodical publications (not newspapers) sent to and from the two countries are to be charged as follows:—Not exceeding two ounces, ld. each; above two and not exceeding three ounces 6d. each; above three and not exceeding four ounces, Bd. each; and for every additional ounce above four, an additional rate of 2d. No pamphlet or publication above 16 ounces to be forwarded ; and all newspapers, pamphlets, &c., sent through a foreign country, must pay the foreign postage payable thereon, in addition to the British postage. Letters or news papers passing between Great Britain or Prussia, vier France, are to be charged at the old rates of postage. The above regulations come into operation on the Ist of January next. THE LOCOMOTIVE ESTABLISHMENT AT ASHFORD..-•-• There can be no doubt that the approaching completion of the Paris line to the coast will materially increase the traffic of the South-Eastern Railway. It is not alone for this increase of traffic that the company are, by the erec tion of an immense locomotive establishment at Ashford, preparing. The North Kent line to Gravesend will re quire a very large carrying stock. The immensity of the river passenger traffic to and fro between London and this town is too notorious to need particular remark. Experience teaches us that a great portion of this will inevitably pass over the South-Eastern Railway. The directors are looking forward to the construction of the stock necessary to work such a traffic. The ground on which the ,orks at Ashford are being erected was origi nally a hollow, the surface rising in the direction of the railway (east and west), and to the south. This hollow has been filled up level with the rail. The works con sist of a large engine shed, a repairing shop, smiths' and boiler shops and tender shed. The engine shed, which is for the accommodation of 16 locomotives, with their tenders, is 208 feet 9, by 63 feet, parallel with the railway. Four lines of rail extend longitudinally through the whole length of the building. The repairing shop has room for 15 engines and tenders. The length of the building is 395 feet by 45. Attached to the front of this building is to be a stationary engine of 25-horse power, for driving the works. A tranverse crane will move on iron rails, longitudinally along this shop. It will be capable of lifting 20 tons at its centre. To the south, and parallel with the repairing shop, is the smithy. This will contain 20 fires. It is 176 feet long by 45 wide, and 28 high. These and other buildings comprise about one-half of the works that the South-Eastern Company intend to carry out simultaneously with the construction of their new lines.—Kest Herald. The remains of the late Right Hon. Thos. Gren ville will be deposited in the family mausoleum at Burn ham near Dropmore. VISIT TO THE HOT SPRINGS NEAR MONTEREY. — MONTEREY, MEXICO, OCT. 28, 1846.—Last evening I paid a visit to quite a notorious and fashionable place of resort, called by the Mexicans Caliente Augua, or Hot Springs. These springs are situated about six miles from the city, and have of late become a place of much attraction to the American officers and soldiers, as well as Mexican citizens. The larger of these springs is about ten feet square, the bottom covered with a beauti ful limestone, about four feet deep, and surrounded by a substantial cemented wallof limestone. The water is about milk warm, clear as crystal, oozing from the bottom. It is one of the most splendid places in the world for bath-ing on a small scale. The other is about one half mile from the first, and nearer the base of the mountain. This spring is much smaller, and remains as nature left it. The water is actually unbearable to the touch. I dropped an egg into it, and in four minutes it was beau tifully cooked. 'This is what I call natural cooking. What is very strange about this spring is, that there is no steam rising from it, not even in the morning or evening. The water, after standing over night, is de cidedly the best I ever drank—it is truly delicious. If we have not the pleasures of Saratoga, White S u lphur ' Newport, &e., we do ha ve th e en j o y men t Of C a li ente Augua.---LVew York Herald. AMERICAN FLOUR FOR IRE QUEEN 0J ENGLAND —Notwithstanding that the flour and other bread-stuff; sent to England are of the purest quality, nevertheless we learn from the Batavia Times, that Mr. Henry Smith, on enterprising miller of that county, sent six barrels of the choicest superfine Genesee flour, manufac tured at his mill -in Wheatland, Monroe Co., to Queen Victoria. and for which, in due time, he received from her Majesty the comfortable little sum of $3,000. The flour was put up in highly finished barrels, neatly varnished, enclosed in sacks, and forwarded direct to the Queen at London. The fortunate experiment upon the appetite ( f royalty seems to have suited her Majesty's palate so nicely, that in addition to the ample remuneration for his first adventure, he has recently received an order direct from London, for three thousand barrels more " of the same sort," which he has promptly forwarded. We ap prehend that the article sent to her Majesty was more carefully selected and fashionably put up than the thou sands of barrels sent down to the sea-coast, and the Queen prefers it for short cakes or rout cakes; but gene rally speaking, our wheat and corn flour, our rye and buckwheat meal, are beyond doubt the cleanest and purest product of any country, and the fine brands may be purchased with great confidence by any and all classes of consumers abroad.—New York American Sun, Nov. 30. The Courrier of Lyons of Monday states that there was a heavy fall of snow in the preceding night, which froze and became so slippery that several persons fell and had broken limbs. BRIGHTON COLLEGE.—The New College at Brigh ton resid ten, on is to be publicly opene d b y the B i shop of Chichester, toe Patron and the Earl of Chichester, the P Tuesday, Jan. 26. The Rev. Arthur John Macleane, 8.A., r f T r i n i t y College, Cambridg e, has been appointed Principal of the New College, and the Vice -Princi p alshi p with the Theological Tutorship. has been conferred on , College, Cambridge, the Rev. Henry Cotterill, M.A., late Fellow of St. John's Mr. Wickham . had • Y e sterday, at an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer , Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes, Mr. Aglionb from St. John's,' rw Gentleman Y had also an interview with the Bight Ron. his official residence in Downing. street. n yesterday. ST. j ou , , s N . ashore, chimney the steam ferry-boat —" We last night Brunswick, dated 26th ult., says: BauNswicK.—A private letter 8 falling, a dreadful storm, ships blown miles distant, says that they In i g, walls and houses blown down, driver from St. Andrews, 67 im p assable. The mail`P ab led, and the ferry rendered windfalls. The mail drivers in wi n d y weather genera lly h ad to cut away nearly 1 50 i dr carry axes with them, PROVISIONS PROM I ME Nic UNITED STATES.—The N y l o o r n k t , e z a u n m d a t , h Waterloo, i t i e e r n l a o n o 'go, from which arrived Biddle, from New at Liverpool on the 17th Baltimore, insta l n ° , as h Indian corn, cheese flour, 41,091 bushels wheat, 35,041 bushelsrings,46s barrels 100 barrels Indian corn meal, 300 barrels biscuit, 42 , 208 firkins 1,050 kegs lard, 50 casks rice, 4 r 2 ice k , e 4 gs ,s b 4 u 7 t b te o r x , es 63 an b d a B3 el Et t : n k d s barrels and 45 tierces beef, 241 barrels pork, and 16 hhds. bacon. AMERICAN SUPPLIES.—A line of pac ket gif3 shackagipare: r b i a v r e r d e a s t o L f Liverpool 4 f ,2 r o t m 3 p N a c e k w a g Y e s o o r f k, fl o h u a r s , b ht 1,194 of cheese, 50 boxes of biscuit s , 107 firkins o 1,220 quarters of wheat, 132 b arre l s , 9 tierces, and 7 butter, hogsheads of beef and pork, 1,687 quar t ers of Indian di corn, and various other articles of Am er i can productiorl and the Great Western has brought 2,499 b oxes and 65 casks of cheese, 1,049 kegs and 90 firki ns o f l ard, 10 casks and 8 hogsheads of pork, 100 packages of bacon, 960 packages of apples, 78 casks and 2 barrels of hams, 20 hogsheads and 50 barrels of general provisions, 30 barrels of beans, 99 casks of butter, and other articles, the whole the production of the United States. We do not recollect that the Great Western has, on any former occasion, brought so large and varied a supply of provi sions as in the present instance, and the extensive sup ply of apples by both vessels is also particularly remark able. They comprise two descriptions—one called the American new town pippin, and the other more recently introduced, of a smaller kind, and having a beautiful ro seate colour, called lady's fingers, both being equally esteemed for their excellent quality and flavour, and are in very general request. THE LARGEST MERCHANT VESSEL IN THE WORLD. —The people of Liverpool have now an opportunity of seeing the fine new packet-ship New World, which is supposed to be the largest merchant-vessel in the world. This magnificent ship arrived in the river on Thursday, on her first trip across the Atlantic. She is under the command of Captain W. Skiddy, and is intended to take her station as one of the packet-ships between this port and New York. Sbe is 188 feet long .between perpen• cliculais, 196 feet from the stem to the taffrail, 42 feet extreme breadth of beam, 28 feet deep, and is 1,818 15 95th tons, carpenter's measurement, or 1,511 31-95ths Government measurement. It is estimated that she will show 5,000 bales of cotton, or 3,000 tons of measurement goods. She has three decks, the same as a frigate, the upper one being as substantial, in proportion, as either of the others. A full figure of Columbus ornaments the bow, and an arch of carved work, relieved with gild ing, her stern. The after-cabin is 27 feet by 14 feet, and contains six state rooms, each 9 feet by 10 feet square.--Liverpool Albion. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 19, 1846. POLES IN SIBERIA. HORRIBLE TREATMENT OF THE We borrow the foll;wing recital of the cruelty exer cised by the Russian Government on the Poles exiled to Sib- ria for political causes from one of the Polish journals published at Paris. Europe too often re mains ignorant of the mode in which Muscovite tyranny displays itself; at intervals, however, some victim escapes, and denounces to the civilised world the frightful barbarity shown by this Government of savages towards those of its subjects whose crime is to aspire to liberty. Our readers may recollect that some months ago the journals contained a paragraph, stating that a Pole had been arrested at Keenigsborg by the Prussian police, who found him asleep on the steps of a church. This Pole, who at first attempted to pass him self off as a Frenchman, of Languedoc, on being closely questioned, confessed that he was a political exile who had escaped from Siberia. He was immediately thrown into prison, and, by an order from Berlin, was about to be delivered up to the Russian authorities, when, fortunately, he again succeeded in escaping. This fugitive, by name Rufin Piotrowski, a native of the Ukraine, has now reached Paris ; he is known to several of the most honourable members of the Polish emigration, who attest the loyalty of his character, and his perfect sincerity. During his stay in Siberia, Pio trowski had the opportunity of conversing with many political prisoners on their road to the place of their exile ; be was also acquainted with many inhabitants of the district where he was (Tava, near Ekaterinsk) and even with persons attached to the Govern ment ; hence he learnt many facts from men the best informed on the subject, and ocular witnesses of the greatest credibility. The number of Poles exiled in Sibc ria exceeds fifty thousand. Several are condemned to hard labour in various establishments; the majority are colonists c n land belonging to the ad ministration of transports. A Catholic church has been erected at Tomsk, and two priests of that belief are annually sent to give religious consolation to the exiles. The following accounts throw light on the fate of some of these ur.happy men. Colonel Peter Wysoski, chief of the insurrection of the 29th of November, 1830, who was wounded and taken prisoner during the attack on Warsaw in 1831, was condemned in 1834 to hard labour in the mines of Nertchinsk, situate in Eastern Siberia, on the confines of China. Here, finding a num ber of countrymen in a similar position, an attempt was made to escape, in which, however, they were disco vered. Wysoski, the hero of so many battles, was con demned to receive 1,500 blows of a stick. He under went his punishment with the firmness of a martyr, and after being cured, was sent to the fortress of Akatui, more to the east, where he still is. Another attempt to escape by a Polish priest, named Sienacinski, and a number of other exiles confined at Omsk, in Sibe ria, having been likewise discovered, about 400 Poles were arrested. After an inquiry which lasted three years, the Abbe Sienacinski, a Captain Gorski, and four others, were sentenced to receive seven thousand blows each; and two hundred others accused to from 500 to 3,000 blows, together with hard labour for life if they survived. The execution took place at Omsk, in March, 1837, a General Galiafiayeff having been sent expressly from St. Petersburg to preside over it. General Prince Kortehakoff was Governor-General of Siberia at the time. On the day fixed for this sanguinary act, two battalions, of 1,000 men each, were drawn up on the place of execution, every Pole in the battalions having been previously replaced by Russians, One of these battalions was to inflict the punishment of the condemned sentenced to 7,000 blows; the other con demned were reserved for the second battalion. Ac cording to the military penal law of Russia, the sticks used in punishing soldiers should be of such a size that three will fit the barrel of a regulation musket; but each of the sticks employed in the execution of the Abbe Sieracinski and his accomplices were so large that a single one would scarcely go into the musket. According to the same law the soldiers ought to remain in close order, and not move the elbow from the side in striking ; for this special case, however, an order had been issued to leave the space of one pace between each soldier ; they were also commanded to advance the right foot, and raise their arm when giving the blow, in order to strike with their whole force. The execution commenced with those condemned to receive 7,000 blows, the Abbe Sieracinski being last. Each of the con demned, naked to the waist, was led fourteen times be tween the ranks (two soldiers striking at once only count ing as one blow). When the sufferer fell from exhaus tion be was placed on a sort of sledge, in order that he might receive the full complement of his sentence. When the turn of the Abbe Sieracinski came, a surgeon approached him to make him take a strengthening drink, but he refused it, and walked towards his executioners singing the psalm, Misere mei Deus. As he was of a delicate constitution, and exhausted by long privations, he fell after receiving one thousand blows. He was then seized, and placed in a kneeling position on the sledge, his arms being bound behind his back in such a manner as not to protect him from the bloody flagellation ; his head was fastened, face downwards, to beams at the back of the sledge, and in this posture they continued to bear him along before his executioners. He still breathed at the four-thousandth blow ; but soon after yielded up his last breath. His inanimate corpse received the remaining two thousand blows. The others sentenced to seven thousand ; blows, died dur ing the execution, with the exception of one alone, who was spared, because he was ill, and after recovering from his wounds, was sent to Nertchinsh. There, however, he became insane, and killed himself the day after the infliction of his sentence. The bodies of the five martyrs were buried near the town of Omsk. Those who were to suffer from five hundred to three thousand blows, reseived neither pardon nor commutation. Of three persons, through whom the projected at tempt at escape had been discovered, one was strangled 140 another drowned; the authors of this act of vengeance have never been discovered. The third has been promoted to the rank of an officer (he was before a private soldier), but has the air of a lunatic. General Galifiayeff has been named commandant of the city of Stavropol, the chief place of the province of the Caucasus, and now resides there. Other scenes of the same nature have occurred, and still occur in Sib er i a . Th e pu bli c i ty given to such facts will at least serve as a chastisement to the executioners. THE RAILWAY PIONEER. A claimant to the invention of the railway system has lately risen from the obscurity to which his want of suc cess seems, unfortunately, to have doomed him. It ap pears that so early as 1816 a project then in contempla tion for making a canal from Charleroi to the mining districts of Belgium, first suggested to one Mr. Thomas Gray the superior alternative of a railway, a proposal which, it is curious to observe, has lately received the sanction of the Belgian Government, as " the Entire Sambre and Meuse Railway." From this period (1816), the idea of general railway communication took entire possession of Gray's mind ; and he shortly afterwards published a volume of " Observations on a General Iron Railway, or Land Steam Conveyance, to supersede the necessity of horses in all public vehicles." This publi cation was followed by several petitions from the author to the various Ministers of State, from 1820 to 1823; yet, although the book went through five editions, the pe titions were disregarded both by the Government and the commercial and mercantile interests to which they were addressed. Gray's first recommendation was, to make the railway experiment between Liverpool and Manchester; which shows how well he appreciated, both the merits of his scheme, and the want of rapid communication between manufacturing and export towns. In his work he mi nutely details the advantages derivable from railway transit for cheap supplies of fish, and other pe rishable produce, to the interior of the country —the regulation and acceleration of post-office carriage, by morning and evening mail-trains, so as to insure two deliveries and dispatches in each day. Yet poor Gray's book was ridiculed by a writer in the Edinburgh Review, and the author pronounced to be a madman, who ought to be shut up in Bedlam ! The book, however, penetrated into Germany ; and, not long since, a well known German writer re marked of it as Gray, who wrote upon ironrail follows:—"There was Mr. Gra way s—how exact his prog nostications of the immense advantages and y he turn to it to see how truly I read this beok , and I tveenaified, not only with regard s ure progress of his railwayof system. Twenty years ago his predictions have been wix4,o of the civilised world." Gray's idea wasabgranches to the smaller places, which large towns, and rand trunk system between all the the best railway a uthorities have since asserted would been originally a o with six wheels, the central ones d by d p t f e a d r ; t h h e i s b e p s l t a a s s y ssthe show l h o tt e d o mo i fives as now used, . portion of the projec ee th b n perfected in clines ; but this D, the great practical improver by Mr. George StePise Poor Gray is, however, left being toothed to work into racks . , to ascend steep ot the locomotive engine. without any reward for his Wilson, of Haarlem, to whom , as, " Grand T run k System" as early as 1816 the pu h blic i however, sucn h a ingenuity ui c t e y ; mum M n r i . ea T te h d om h a is s lately pl ace d G ray ' s c l a ims before Ipigehnztaanse,ewGe Gazette will insure the inventors requital.— FIRE AT POPLAR.—Late in the the fire was discovered burning upon premises, at 2, King occupation of Mr. Wm. Maunder, situated time of the stteet, West India-road, Poplar. Atthe tid there being outbreak, no person was on the premises, a no one to attack the fire, it travelled with surprising ra pidity,build- ing, so that in the space of a few minutes the :n last eveninge,maniseasl,arming which contained eight rooms, became wrapped flames. The parish engines, with a. couple from the dock, were e ar l y i n arriving, but owing to the scarcity of water, the engines for some time were of very little service. The brigade engines from Jeffrey and Well close-square stations followed in rapid succession, but owing to the want of water, the fire w as not extinguished until the building and the contents were all but destroyed. How the fire originated could not be learned. Unfortu nately the occupier was not insured. Mr. Saunderson, a lodger, has likewise lost the whole of his furniture; and Mr. James Ray, who occupied the adjoining house, has likewise received some damage by fins, &c. The former is insured in the West of England ()ace, but the latter was not so fortunate. ALARMING FIRE NEAR THE Wi3ST INDIA DOCKS. —At a few minutes before six o'clock last evening a fire, which, while it raged, occasioned much anxiety in the vicinity of the above docks, broke out; , on the premises in the occupation of Mr. Silvester, beer—shop proprietor and lodginghouse•keeper, situate adjacent tto the West India Dock station of the Blackwall Railway. Though several engines were in attendance the house was wholly de. stroyed, and damage done to two of the adjacent houses, though not to any considerable extent. :It was late when the fire was entirely subdued. THE WHEEL Or FORTUNE.—A_ gentleman from Strasburg won no less a sum than 150,,000 francs at the gaming-house in Hamburg on the 28th of November, and on the following day lost it all bw4 again, together with as much more. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL COM- - MERCE OF FRANCE IN THE YEAR 1845. The French Customs' authorities have just published a general statement of the foreign and colonial corn merce of France during the year 1845. It is somewhat remarkable that the publication of this statement should have been delayed until the middle of December, 1846, and does not speak much for the industry of the French employes. We sh a ll now proceed to g i ve as b r i e f and compendious an a na ly s i s as this huge volume : possible of the details of The 11 general commerce" of France, with her colo nies and with foreign countries, for the year 1845, amounts to 2,427,000,000 fr. By the term general com merce we would be understood to mean every thing which has been exported or imported, whether by land or by sea, without regard to its destination, or to any other matters of detail ;-special commerce including only that which enters into the internal consumption of the kingdom, and whatever has been exported of the actual produce of the soil and manufactures of France. Of the 2,427,000,000 fr. above-mentioned, the imports are stated at 1,240,000,000 fr., and the exports at 1,187,000,00 0 fr.; and if we divide the fifteen years from 1831 to 1845 into three periods of five years each, and compare the com mercial operations of the respective periods, we shall ar rive at some curious results. During the first period, from 1831 to 1835 inclusive, the general course of French commerce involved a total of 6,969,000,000 fr., for the second period,' from 1836 to 1840, a total of 9,339,000,000 fr.; during the third, from 1841 to 1845, a total of 11,215,000,000 fr. Thus the third period, as com pared with the first, exhibits an increase of 61 per cent.; and, as compared with the second, an increase of 20 per cent. The returns for 1845 present, when compared with those of 1844, an increase (on imports and exports united) of 88,000,000 fr.; and compared with the average of the five preceding years, an increase of 257,000,000 fr. The in crease has occurred chiefly in sea-going commerce. In 1845 the marine commerce amounted to 1,736,000,000 fr., while that by land reached only 691,000,000 fr. Of the 1,736,000,000 fr. forming the total of the marine commerce, the proportion of 808,000,000 fr. is set down as having en tered or departed under the French flag; but deducting from thisth w e hsuermeinof the competition u rep o r f e f s o e r n e t i i gn ng those opera tions,hibited, the actual indepe n d ent proportion flofagFsriasncperois only 524,000,000 fr. against 928,000,000 fr. for which foreign flags must get credit. Let us now set down, in the order of the importance of their relations to France in this respect, the names of the principal countries with which the French hold commercial intercourse. In the first list we shall consider imports and exports together, and in this view the order of the respective nations is as follows :-1, the United States ; 2, England ; 3, Bel gium ; 4, the Sardinian States ; 5, th e St a t e s in cluded in the German League ; 6, S pa i n ; 7, Algiers ; 8, Switzerland ; 9, Russia. If we take only imports, the order of relative importance changes, and runs thus :- 1, United States ; 2, Belgium; 3, England; 4, the Sardinian States; 5, the German League; 6, Russia ; 7, Turkey, 8, Sp a in ; 9, Switzerland. And the order again changes if we confine our view to exportations-for instance:-1, England; 2, the United States; 3, Algiers; 4, Spain; 5, the German League; 6, Belgium; 7, Switzerland; 8, the Sardinian States; 9, Guadeloupe. It appears from this that the United States and Belgium occupy the first rank as im porting countries. The United States have sent to France the value of 146,000,000 fr. of their produce, and Belgium the value of 117,000,000 fr.; while France has sent to the States no more than 96,000,000 fr. worth, and to Bel gium only_ 57,000,000 fr. It is necessary to remar k h ere that the United States are nearly the only country in the world which produces in sufficient quantity the great staple raw material which is indispensable to the opera tions of the manufacturers of France; and it is further necessary to advert to the action of the restrictive tariffs enforced against France by the United States since 1842, for their late commercial relaxations are exclusively in favour of English produce. About Belgium it is enough to say that she produces like a great, and consumes like a small, nation-a circumstance which, in the opinion of many, must always detract from the advan tages of any treaty that the French may form with her. Algiers has already arrived at the third rank amongst the consumers of the produce of French in dustry ; but this is accounted for by the well-known fact that the French themselves constitute the principal consumers. A reduction of the army would probably be immediately followed by a reduction in the ex ports of France to the colonies. It is well to remark, however, that the English and other foreigners will no longer have the advantage of suppl) ing Algeria with most of its necessaries, and of occupying the market there at the expense of French industry. This is put an end to by law, and French producers and workmen will henseforth enjoy benefits of which they were for along time deprived. Coming now to the subject of " Special Com merce" we find the total under this head amounts to 856,000,000 fr. ; cottons and silks occupy the first rank, being 108,000,000;r„ and 65,000,000 fr. respectively ; wools at 50,000,000 fr.; oils at 36,000,000 fr. ; and under the head of exports, which amount to 848,000,000 fr., silk tissues hold the first place, reaching 140,000,000 fr. The export of cotton manufactures was 127,000,000 fr. of wool manufactures 104,000,000 francs ; of wines 54,000,000 francs ; and of linens and hempen cloths 24,600,000 fr. These are the most interesting general facts deducible from the bulky documents before us. THE CORN TRADE WAKEYIELD, FRIDAY.—We have a small arrival of all grain at our market this morning. This is accounted for by the impediment in the canals by ice, which pre vents the vessels from making their passage. Wheat has, in consequence, advanced upou last week's prices ss. to Cs. per quarter, barley also from ss. to 6s. per quarter, with a limited business at those quotations. In other articles no alteration. LIVERPOOL;YRIDAY.-The arrivals of all kinds of pro duce are extremely small, owing to the continuance of easterly winds, consisting of 5,456 qua rters of w h ea t. 365 quarters f oats, 4,380 quarters of Indian corn, 466 loads of oatmeal, and 184 sacks and 5,465 barrels of flour ; whilst the exports for the • same period are 4,933 quarters of wheat, 676 quarters of barley, 183 quarters of peas, 3,345 quarters of Indian corn, 6,5:4 barrels and 924 sacks of flour. The transactions in wheat since Tuesday have been to a moderate ex tent, at an advance of ld. per 701bs. Of flour in bond a few thousand barrels have changed hands, at 365. to 365. 6d. per barrel in store for Western Canal. In duty-paid parcels there has been little done, but it is held for 6d. per barrel advance. There has not been much passing in oats and oatmeal, or Indian corn, the high prices required restricting the demand to small parcels for immediate consumption. Malt, barley, beans, and peas are firm at previous rates. At our market this morning there was a moderate demand for wheat at an improvement of 2d. to 3d. per 701b5., but this advance checked the sale. Free flour met a slow sale at 6d. per barrel advance, and bonded was rather easier to pur chase than yesterday. Oats were 2d. per 451b5., barley 3d. pet 601b5., and Egyptian beans 2s. to 3s. per 4801bs. dearer, being very scarce. The small quantity of Indian corn here held for 725. per 4801bs. Oatmeal was ls. per load higher. GLASGOW, DEC. 16.—From the north, east, and south heavy snow-storms are reported, which impeded the carriage of grain to markets, and, combined with con trary winds, have kept out supplies. Here and in the surrounding districts we had a week of sharp frost, but ❑o snow. The trade has been very lively since our last, owing to an increased demand from Ireland for all the secondary qualities of grain and flour, consequently wheat and flour have advanced 2s. to 3s. per boll or sack. Barley has to be written Is. to 2s. dearer per 3201 b. Oats and oatmeal are held ls. to 2s. higher per boll or. load respectively. Beans and peas, especially the latter, realised an advance of ls. to Is. 6d. per bull of 2801bs. At this day's market there was a gocd attendance of town and country buyers, and the sales effected pro ceeded easily at the above enhancement. WHY SHIFT THE SITE OF WESTMINSTER-BRIDGE ? —By a very slight removal to the north of the present bridge a new site may be obtained which would recon cile many difficulties, which would not inflict injury and injustice on innocent parties, and which would still afford to the public th at accommodation to which they have been accustomed. There is a very short street, leading out of Parliament -street, called Derby. street, having on one side only two houses, and on the other side three houses; consequently much money cannot be required to be expended in forming the approach. Cannon-street crosses Derby-street at right angles, but opposite the latter street is only a wharf, extending to the river. I venture to suggest that a new bridge could be formed at this point, and to terminate on the Surrey side, very nearly, if not quite, where the present bridge ends, al though, in fact, a clearance of ground a little to the northward would form a better line than the present. My object in selecting a line which would require but a small outlay for the approaches (always a most expen sive item in such matters) is, besides the reasons already stated, that a large sum may be devoted to a purpose which is highly desirable, namely, to p urc h ase and re move the entire block of houses in Bridge-street, form ing the north side of New Palace-yard; thus a fine area would be obtained for the entrance to the new Houses of Parliament, which would also be seen to more advantage from the new bridge than can be expected to be the case from other positions.—The Builder. returning Day. The 206 members; c THE CITY ELECTIONS.—The annual election conono siof m embers for the Court of Common Coun c il t a k es p l ace s ( a )n n s d tMs seven o ofndta wy o e f nb t t h ey e irs f g o " ;m e er will Sn Thomas'stll wards,be contested, vi z . ; —B i s h op s gate, Coleman - street , Cripplegat e (Within and Without), I the'a r latterin gd oonf whichW i t Without, o oneut , ePfotrhtseockaennd,idaante is of the Jewishd Cordwai ners , in g f oerni persuasion.tttlhOeAin diploma c a l n la srot ae k, COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following --- : ThomasA e s s r s . Ice a v Joseph in, having undergone the necessary examinations night sSpalding, ald i admitted nAg Johnston Mit chell, Lincoln shire;mF i e n m u c b a e n r s e , i o i f i n g s that tow n, institution,ublin Jamesviz . r a m m s bd tro en n! Dublin; William Bellhouse Midwood, AT Manchester; and former August August 31st, Lincolnshire;e h c ll , Uath; THil Thomas A L r1,,0m a slv William William l liam Denton s.un n ,D Royston , ibb , Hull;Cambridgeshire. the same meeting of the Court of Examiners, members of Messrs. Alexander Robertson and Evan Evans passed for naval 1840, the latter April 29th, 1842. Mr. Francis Clunie the same C th oelsl e eg g e, ei a it r l e em ( e ia n t ' e s d, d i t p h lo e m fo as roa , Sibbald also passed for natal assistant. A WINDFALL -Thomas Kee, an Irishman, em ployed as a labouring hand on our railroad, last week received intelligence, in an authentic shape, that he was the inheritor of an estate in the Emerald Isle to the amount of 13,0001. or 60,000 dollars. After reading the ' letter, Thomas picked up his old coat, it is said, and gave it a sling as far as he could off the dock, then, call ing his fellow•countrymen, told them of his good for tune, and " put them all through," without stopping to count costs. He starts for Ireland, we learn, this week, —American paper. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 18.—At nine o'clock this morning the St. Vincent, Victory, Vengeance, Penelope, and other ships in harbour, dressed in colours to receive her Majesty on her return from the Isle of Wight to Windsor. The Polyphemus steam-vessel, Commander James J. M'Cleverty, sailed last night soon after sunset, to distri bute water and provisions to such distressed merchant vessels as she may find windbound in the Channel. The Cyclops steam-frigate, Captain W. F. Lapidge, has been found on examination to be very defective in her hull, 'and as her repairs will require docking and occupy some considerable time, she has been ordered to Sheerness for that purpose, all our docks but one being fully occupied, and that one will be wanted earlier than her repairs can be completed. She is expected to sail to-morrow. The Sinbad lighter sailed this morning for Woolwich and Deptford. The Myrtle steam tender, Mr. Balliston, Second Master Commanding, was taken into the basin to-day to make good defects. The Emerald tender returned yesterday from Jersey, with newly raised men and boys for the service. The Hampshire (timber barque) was floated on Wed nesday night, and was taken into the Camber yesterday to have her ballast trimmed, and the vessel put to rights after her week's immersion. The Penelope steam frigate, Captain W. Giffard, was removed from her hulk yesterday, and placed at moor ings to try her compasses. The Cyclops took her place alongside the Blake hulk to refit. In Harbour—The St. Vincent, Victory, Vengeance, Victoria and Albert, Excellent, Naiad, Sparrow, and Penelope ; the Cyclops, Fairy, and Echo steamers. At Spithead—The Mutine. In the Basin—The Resistance, Crocodile, and Myrtle steamer. In Dock—The Prince Regent, Edinburgh, Ajax, Leander, Champion, and Serpent. SHEERNESS, DEC. 17.—The following memorandum, issued by the gallant and distinguished Captain-Super intendent of this dockyard, will explain the nature of the intended measure for organizing the workmen of the several dockyards into a volunteer corps for the de fence of the ports MEMORANDUM. "My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty having issued a circular expressing a desire that the artificers and labourers of the dockyard should enrol themselves for the exercise of the great guns, and also to acquire a sufficient knowledge of small ones, so as to enable them to move in a body for the defence of the works that are in progress for insuring the dockyards from a surprise by the enemy, the officers are requested to make this known to the men in their respective departments that an enrolment may be commenced ; and the Captain- Superintendent has full confidence in the zeal, loyalty, and spirit of the men of the dockyard, that they will not be behind any other yards in manifesting such proper feeling for the defence of their country, if necessary. Their Lordships propose that the enrolment shall take place under the following regulations, viz.:—none are expected to enrol themselves above the age of 45 years, or under 18 ; an allowance will be made for the extra time employed in such drill as may be thought necessary; clothing will be provided when forming in line for the infantry exercise with arms, and accoutrements; the inspectors and leading men will be non-commissioned officers, and the Captain-Superin tendent relies on their zeal, net only in seconding their enrolment, but also in getting the men efficient when formed in companies. The principal officers of the yard being the field officers, and captains of infantry, the clerks and foremen will be subalterns. The instructions to be given to the officers and men will be mainly the exercise of the great guns, though some training in the use of the musket, and platoon exercise, may follow, to gether with a company or two for light infantry move ments. Further instructions will be given out from time to time, as they may emanate from the Admiralty, and no active measures will be immediately resolved on, further than to manifest the sold and good feeling of the men in this yard, in giving in their names on au early day; and in the list of names so given in, are to be ex pressed against each man his age, trade, and stature. " D. PRICE, Captain-Superintendent." The Terrible steam-frigate, Captain Ramsay, is or dered to Woolwich, to have her defects made good, for which purpose she is to be taken into dock there; she is precluded from being docked here, in consequence of the narrow entrance to the basin, a defect which it has been in contemplation to make good for some years. The Apollo troop ship, Commander Radcliffe, will, on her arrival from Portsmouth, be taken into dock to be overhauled and refitted. _ - ~..._. The Raven cutter, recently paid off all standing by Commander Stephen, is not to be re-commissioned at present, but will dismantle and be laid up in ordinary. The Birkenhead iron steam troop ship, Commander Ingram, progresses favourably with her fittings, but men enter slowly for her. The Formidable, Seringapatam, Euryalus, and Horatio are in dock ; and the Birkenhead, Dragon, and Chiches ter in the basin. CHATHAM, DEC. 18.—The Albatross, 16 guns, Com mander Arthur Farquhar, in harbour, is shipping her sea stores on board, and will be ready for sailing on the 23d instant. The Warspite, 50 guns, in dock, fitting for commis sion, is nearly completed, and she will be undocked at the end of this month. Mr. Joseph Pemble, draughtsman, has been appointed overseer of the Banshee steam-packet vessel, ordered for building in the river Thames, on plans proposed by Mr. 0. W. Lang, assistant to the master shipwright of this yard. FRENCH ITALIAN OPERA. When M. Gardoni made his first appearance at the Acad‘mie Royale two years ago, we recollect we stated that he had gone to the wrong side of the Boulevards, and that his place was at the Italian Opera. His brilliant debut at this theatre on Thursday ' , roves the correctness of that opinion. His fine pure tenor, cramped and dis guised by his singing in French, came out in his native language with a fulness and beauty of tone which seemed to take the public here entirely by surprise, and, aided by his " gallant youthful figure and hand some features, at once established him a favourite—a judgment which, we must remark, the fairer part of the auditory assisted in ratifying with unusual zeal and animation. The opera selected for the occasion was L'Elisir d'Amore, which had the merit also of introducing another novelty, namely, Ronconi, in the part of Dulcamara, and in which, though succeeding the inimitable Lablache, he was brilliantly successful—keep ing the public in continued roars throughout the whole part. His great predecessor is more spontaneous in his humour, but it is difficult to imagine a more perfect picture of an Italian charlatan than Ronconi in this character. He was immensely applauded. Mme. Persiani sang with all her usual exuberance of ornament, and was encored in the duo with Ronconi, whose imitations of some of her fiori lure convulsed the house with laughter. Tagliafico's Sergeant is by many degrees his best character, but, with Coletti in the theatre, why was such a part confided to a secondary waste? The opera went off admirably, and we have to congratulate the director on the posses sion of a tenor who relieves us from all apprehensions of disappointment in future. Gardoni's first air drew down vast applause, and in the duo with Tagliafico he was even more successful, for he was compelled to repeat the principal passage, by an irresistible demand from the entire assemblage. At the close of the piece the calls fur the debutant were loud and general, and he appeared to bow his thanks, accompanied by the principal performers. RAILWAY RETURNS. RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same week In the previous year:— NAME OF RAILWAY. Week ending Dec. 11 10 15 13 Arbroath and Forfar ••,••••• • • • • • • • Chester and Birkenhead . • • • • • • • •• • • • • Dublin and Drogheda. •• • • • ••••• •• - • Dublin and Kingstown • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Dundee and Arbroath . • • • • • • • • • • • • • . Durham and Sunderland . • • • • Edinburgh and Glasgow • •• • •.• • • • • • Eastern Counties and North Eastern • • East Lancasihrd .. Eastern 'Union .. Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr • • • • . • Glasgow and Creenock• • • • ••• • • • • • • Gravesend and Rochester.. • • . • . • • • • • Great Southern and Western • • • • Great Western, &c • • . • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • Hartlepool ..... •. . • . London and North Western, &c ..... London and Blackwall.. • • London and Brighton . Londox and Croydon . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • London and South Western . • • • • • • • • Manehester, Bolton, and Bury • • • • . • Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc— Maryport and Carlisle • • • • • • • • • • • • Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham.... Newcastle and Carlisle • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Newcastle and North Shields.• • • • • - Newcastle and Berwick • • • • • • Norfolk • • • • • • • • • • • North British .. • • • • .. Paris, Corbeil, and Orleans ...• Paris and Rouen . • • • • • • • • •• •• • • • • .. Preston and Wyre • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . Sheffield and Manchester.. .... • • . • . . South Eastern and Branches •• • • • ... South Dev0n................. Ulster. York and Newcastle . •• . • •• • • •. • York and North Midland 12 13 12 12 Last week. 2,927 8,485 654 404 2,003 834 951 16,930 34,575 65S 6,054 5,193 7,408 493 16,625 1,795 485 1,193 5,616 552 1,647 6,501 520 1,237 664 5,024 5,121 tg,".z tg7.' ,bo— 572 2,333 6.772 1,803 740 117 16,058 1,274 33,457 681 4,950 5,097 868 6,834 387 13,898 1,633 410 1,087 5,722 4,559 956 5,434 1,111 571 4,215 4,464 BANK OF ENGLAND. (From last Night's Gazette.) An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32, for the Week ending on Saturday, the 12th day of December, 1846. unix DEPARTMENT. Notes issued • • • • • • • • 28,410,738 £28,410,735 X. Government debt .. 11,015,100 Other securities •• • • 2,984,900 Gold coin and bullion 11,935,818 Silver bullion .. • • 2,474,917 28,410,735 M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. Dated the 17th day of D ec ember. 1846. BANKING DEPARTMENT. Proprietors' capital. • 14,553,000 Itest ••••••• • • • . • • • 3,437,378 Public deposits (in cluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Say ings-banks, and Di vidend accounts) • • 9,185,471 Other deposits ••• • • • 7,991,126 Seven day and other bills. • • ..... -•• • • 88G,995 Government securi ties (Including Dead X 26,053,970 sated the 17th day of December. Weight Annuity) .. 12,807,417 Other securities .. .. 13,879,960 Notes • • 8,623,815 Gold and silver coin.. 742,778 £30,053,970 M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. 1846. We are informed that Mr. Cannan, son of the late Mr. Cannan, official assignee, is appointed to fill the same berth in the place of late Mr, A►lsager. LATEST PRICES OF SHARES, IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM PANIES' STOCK. From tie Official List, PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18. JOINT -STOOK nazrz.s. Dividend Amount Name of Company, per of Paid. Price Annum. Fhare. instralasia •• • • 61. per cent. 40 0040 0 0 Britshb - orth American 51. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 •- :tommercial of London 5/. per cent. 100 0 20 0 0 51. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 - Londn and Westminstr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 27% London Joint-Stock ... 61. per cent. 50 0010 0 0 Metropolitan - Provincial of Ireland- 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 - Ditto, New .• • • 81. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 - National of Ireland .. 51. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 - Nat. Provncial of Eng. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 - Ditto, New... ••• • • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 Union of Australia.. 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - Union of London... • • 51. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 174181731 AN CM C 0 IE% PAN X S Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of I'aid. Price Annum. Share. X a. d. 4 a. d. Albion •• • • 31. 105. 500 0 0 50 0 0 75 Alliance Brit. and For. G per cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 18% Ditto Marine. ••• • • • 6/. per cent, 100 0 0 5 0 0 5% Atlas 13s.6d.prsh. 50 0 0 5 0 0 t 5% British Commercial 7s. per share 50 0 0 5 0 0 7% Clericl,yed.& Gen. Life 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 210 0 10 31. 100 0 0 10 0 0 10s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 - Eagle 6s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 s%xd Eng. & Scot. Law • • 51. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 3 European Life...... 534 per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. 20 Freemasons' .• • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0 Globe 6l. per cent. Stock. 136 Guardian •••••• • • • • • • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 36 10 0 4814 Imperial Fire 6/. and bonus 500 0 0 50 0 0 230 Imperial Life •••• • • • • 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 - Indemnity Marine • • 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 513 1 31 Law Life......... •.. 11. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 3% Legal and General Life 50 0 0 2 0 0 6% London Fire .. ••• • • • 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 14% L•ondon Ship •• • 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 15 Marine.. - ........... 51. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 - bled. Invlid& Gen. Life Oil. per ct. 50 0 0 2 0 0 - National Lean Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 - National Life.... Cqll4oittm Life ...... 51. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 231. 6s Phoenix - 205 Protector Life • • ... 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 241.6 d Provident Life........ 11. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 23 Rock Life •••• • . • • 4s. 5 0 0 010 0 VA Royal Exchange 5/. per cent. Stock. Sun Fire ....• - 210 Ditto Life . 11. 6s. 49 Universal Life - DOCKS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. I per of I Paid. I Price. Annum. Share. X s. d. I X s. d. Commercial East and West India 6l. pr cent. Stock. 141 East Country - 21 Landon St. Katharine 5 per cent. Stock. 99% Southampton ••..• • • • 41. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 - WATER-WORKS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price, Annum. Share. £ B. d. East London.... ••• • • • 81. 100 0 0 - 205 Grand Junction ••• • • • 3/. 10s. 41 18 4 - 90 Kent 2/. 10s. 100 0 0 - - Vauxhall •-.••. • • • . - • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 - - West Middlese . . • 51.55. pr cnt. 63 12 9 , - , 130 LIST OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. £ a. d. £ a. d Bank of Scotland - 100 0 0 175 Royal Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. - 100 0 159 British Linen Company 8/. per cent. - 100 0 0 220 Commercial Bank - 100 0 0 163 National Bank 6l. per cent. - 10 0 0 141.-s Union Bank of Scotland 7%1. pr cent. - 50 0 0 91 Western Bank - --• •• • 61. per cent. - 50 0 0 853 North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. - 5 0 0 7 3€ Clydesdale Bank.- •• • • 61. per cent. - 10 0 0 13/. 8s Eastern Bank. 5l. per cent. - 10 0 0 1114 Caledonian Bank -•. • • 73%1. pr cent. - 2 10 0 41. 118 Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 61. per cert. - 5 0 0 71. Is City of Glasgow Bank . 51. per cent. - 10 0 0 131. 7s Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 255. 9d Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14% Incur. Co. of Scetlnd 5l. per cent. 10 0 0 All paid. 10 North British Insur 5541. pr cent. 200 0 0 10 0 0 273 Caledonian Fire Incur lOl. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 22 34 Edinburgh Life Incur 6/. per cant. 100 0 0 12 10 0 18% Edin. & Glasg. Railway 11.10 s. per c. 50 0 0 50 0 0 743 Ditto, M Shares.... 75. 6d. - p. a. 12 10 0 All paid. 18 4 Edin., Leith, & Grantn - 20 0 0 20 0 0 18% Glasgw & Ayrshir Rail. 71. per cent. 50 o_o All paid. 6934 Glasgw& Greenckßail. V. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 163¢ 91sgw & Garnkirkltail. Sl. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 3934 Dundee &Arbrothltall. 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 37 Standard Life Ass arnce.l Si. per cent. 50 0 0 210 0 9 CANALS. Names of g Dividend l Names of Dividend Price. per Price. Companies. g per Companies. Annum. ac Annum. co - --. £ £ Ishtn& Olili 97 51.55. p e - Monmouthsh 100 SI. - Ashby-d-la-Z 113 41. .- Mntgomrysh 100 W. - BarnSley• •• • 160 121. - Macclesfield. 100 - - Basingstoke.. 100 - - Neath ... •• • 100 171. - Brknk&Abrg 150 W. - Nottingham. 150 121. - Cromford..• • 100 141. - Peak Forest. 78 31. 75 Dudley lOO 4/. - Regent's ...• 33 N. ss. 203 Derby .. •• • • 100 6/. - Rochdale.... 85 41. - Ellsmre&Chs 133 41. 55 Shropshire - 125 81. - E:ewash •• • 100 321. - Somrset Coal 150 71. 105. - Forth & Clyd 100 41. - Do.LkFd St 12 61. p. c. - GrandJunctn 100 71. 83 Stfird&Worc!l4o 281. - Grand Union 100 1.1.. 10a. - Shrewsbury.. 125 151. - Glarnorgnsh . 172 13%1. - Stourbridge.. 145 20/. 315 Ulatr&Brkly 100 - - Strtfrdon Av 79 1/. 10s. - Grantham • • 150 121. - Severn and 26 11. Bs. - Huddersfield. 57 - - Wye Rail. Kennt & Avn 39 7s. 6d. 5% , Trnt & Mr-3 50 30/. Lancaster.- 47 1/. 10s. - 1 sey, 34 sh. Leeds&Livrp 100 341. 522% Thema &Med 19 - - Leicester .. • . 140 10/. 105 Worcatr & 78 21. 43 Leicstr &Nth 83 4/. 52 Birming. Loughboregh 142 70/. - Wilts & Brks 67 11. - 1 LAW INTELLIGENCE. VICE-CHANCERY COURT, Dec. 18. (Before Vice-Chancellor Sir J. K. BRucE.) TAYLOR V. FARMER. This was a motion for an injunction to restrain the defendant from copying labels which the plaintiff used in packing cases of cocoa.—The injunction was granted. The remaining cases at this Court to-day were of no general interest. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Dec. 111. DARDON V. BENTON.-SHARE DEALING. Mr. Bovill was for the plaintiff, and Mr. Humphrey for the defendant. This was an action to recover the value of a bill of exchange for 1001. 18s. 6d. and the value of several rail way shares, which the defendant had undertaken to sell for the plaintiff. The plaintiff had carried on business as coal agent at Wapping, and the defendant, who was a railway share-broker, had had offices in Nicholas-lane, but, to use the graphic words of Lord Denman, in summing up, " these parties had come to no good at all," as it seemed they had left their respective residences. The plaintiff, like most people in the autumn of last year, had speculated largely in rail way shares, and the defendant had acted as his broker. In this way a small number of shares in the Eastern Counties ; the Exeter and Dorchester ; the Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester; and the Warwick and Worcester, were deposited with him for sale. The plain tiff gave the defendant the bill for the above sum on the understanding, that if the shares were sold, the defendant should take it up, but if the -reverse occurred, that the plaintiff should do so. The shares were not sold by the defendant in the strict sense of the word, as the defendant had pawned some shares with a person named Stanley fur 121, and with a person named Thompson for 81., but the plaintiff had not received even those sums, and he had been compelled to take up the bill, for which he had received no value. The defendant after the "panic" became a bankrupt, and in his exami nation he stated that a person named Somers had stolen the bill from him, and that he had not therefore re ceived any value from it. The defence was, that the defendant did not undertake to dispose of the ;hares ; that the panic came on, and that many of them would not have brought more than one quarter per share. Lord DENMAN said the question which they had to decide was, whether the shares were or were not depo sited with the defendant fur the purpose of being sold for the plaintiff. He was bound to pay to the plaintiff whatever he received on account of the sliarea, with the deduction of a reasonable sum for selling them. The bill, it appeared, was given to the defendant for value, but he had not given any. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for 100/. 18s. 6d. A HORSE CASE.--SPINKS W. BARDELL. Mr. Humphrey and Mr. E. James were for the plaintiff, and Mr. Sergeant Wilkins for the defendant. This was an action to recover 27/. 6s, from the defen dant for " horse meat," supplied to a horse, which he had bought from the plaintiff, under the following cir cumstances:—The plaintiff is a li very - sta bl e keeper, and the defendant is the well-known omnibus proprietor. The horse was sent to Aldridge's Repository, and was sold to the defendant for twenty-nine guineas. The horse was sound, and in excellent condition. A few days after it was brought t o th e p l a i nt iff s sta bl es b y a boy, but his appearance was so altered, he was such " a poor limping, miserable wretch," that those employed in the plaintiff's stables, who had known him before he was sold, scarcely recognised him. The boy left the horse, and said his ma s t er wou ld ca ll an d speak to the plaintiff about it. He came, and in a conversation which ensued between them, the plaintiff said, if he allowed the animal to remain, he should charge him 11. los.. a week for keep ing it, so that the defendant knew perfectly well that he was rendering himself liable for his keep. In support of this statement, a number of witnesses were called, who were in the service of the plain tiff. They all agreed that the horse was perfectly sound ; that he had not been " nursed," " plugged,', or "rowelled ;" that he was not affected with " farcy," that he had no "jog," no swelling in the glands, no " ulcers in the nostrils," no " mumps." It appeared, however, that he had a " rowel in his chest" when he came back ; and that he was now in high condition—so high that it had been found necessary to put him in a box by himself, as he had kicked down all the partitions in the stables. The plaintiff's veteri nary surgeon said he had treated the horse for a lameness in the hock. He was afflicted with farcy, which, in an advanced stage, was almost incurable; and no one would think of putting an animal so affected into a stable with other horses, as this horse had been placed, on account of the great danger of infection. Farcy was a morbid poison, which affected the whole system. The horse had hal a " seton.' He did not notice whether he had been " rowelled." For the defence the very reverse was shown, and that the plaintiff well knew that the animal was afflicted with N 3Y 44- all these diseases. The defendant, it ap't! kept the horse for a month, at the plaintifral he induced him to believe that he would soon and that at the end of that time he sent him bra less, and demanded the return of his money. nary surgeon saw the horse a week or two ago,and found he had recovered, but the veins were still " corded. ' As soon as the horse was brought from the repository, he was found to be in the diseased state alluded to. Mr. HUMPHREY replied. The Learned JUDGE summed up the case at length. He should ask the jury to decide two material questions in the cause; first, whether there was such a misrepre sentation as to make the sale void, so that ne property would pass to the defendant; next, did the plaintiff know the horse was unsound when he sold it. If Spinks con ducted himself fraudulently in the sale, and Bardell was induced to purchase the horse by such fraudulent repre sentation, then the contract would be void, and the pro perty in the horse never passed to Mr. Bardell and never was his horse. The jury consulted together for above half an hour in the box, but could not agree, and they at last withdrew to consider their verdict. The jury, at a late hour came into Court, and by their Foreman announced—that with reference to Lord Den man's first question, they were of opinion that the false representations alluded to therein were made by the plaintiff; but they were not agreed that the defendant in making the - purchase of the horse was influenced there by; and, with reference to the second question, they did not find that the plaintiff knew of the horse's unsound ness at the time that the sale of the horse to defendant took place. In effect, therefore, the verdict is for the plaintiff. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Dec. 18. PACIFIC STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY V. LEWIS. This was an action on the part of the plantiffs, a chartered company, to recover from the defendant the sum of 1,5361. 135., for a breach of contract on the part of the defendant in supplying a quantity of coals for the use of the vessels of the company. The Attorney-General, Mr. Martin;apd Mr. Phipson, appeared as counsel for the plaintiffs; and Mr. Watson, with whom was Mr. Batt, for the defendant. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, that the plaintiffs, being desirous of procuring Wallsend coals for their steam-vessels, had purchased a quantity of the defendant, a proprietor of the Llanelly Coombe mines: in the south of Wales—the plaintiff, in his advertisements, having stated that four tons of his coals would go as far as five of any other kind ; that they would burn without smoke, and would easily ignite, and leave but few ashes. A quantity amounting to 485 tons of these coals was shipped in the company's vessel, the Portsea, to be conveyed by it to Valparaiso. The coals were of so easy ignition from the vast quantity of sulphurous matter which they contained, that it was discovered that they had ignited on board of the vessel from their own spontaneous combustion, and that upon two separate occasions the crew of the vessel were compelled to throw overboard a large quantity, amounting together to 70 tons. When, however, the coals were required to burn, they would not, except at the mouth of the furnace, and that igni tion would not proceed upon their being pushed into the furnace, or poked. The grit from the coal had spoilt the machinery, the fumes had spread sickness and diar rhoea among all the passengers, and they were altoge ther totally unfit for the purpose of generating steam in marine engines. Evidence was then given of the above facts. Mr. WATSON then contended that there was no proof of the contract between the parties to supply coals, of any particular nature. Mr. Burr followed on the same side. After hearing arguments at considerable length, the LORD CHIEF BARON said that, in his opinion, as a mat ter of law, the contract had not been made out, and he thought plaintiffs ought to be called. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that he hoped the Court would allow him to amend his declaration. The LORD CHIEF BARON refused, and it was finally arranged that a verdict should be returned for the de fendant, upon the grounds of non-assumpsit, with liberty to move to set aside the verdict, should the Court be of opinion that there was evidence to go to the jury as to the existence of the contract. The jury then returned a verdict accordingly. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. Several minor charges were taken, which were of no public interest, and the business of the Court was ad journed,shortly before four o'clock, till the' s 4th of Jan uary next. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of December 18.) SUGAR.—To-day importers of West India Sugar insisting upon a further advance in prices, operated against business, and the private purchases amounted to only 150 hhds and tierces, making the total sales for the week 1,180, and the advances during that period is per cwt. There were many buyers at the rates of yesterday. None of any sort was of fered at auction to -day. EAST ilfDlA.—Prices, at present, cannot be quoted higher for Bengal, but holders have manifested more firmness, and the supply has fallen off considerably. A brisker demand has prevailed; and by private contract many parcels of white, brown, and yellow have been sold at fully former rates. At auc tion only 741 bags of white Benares have been offered, which were disposed of. Madras has been in much better request and brought prices is to 2s per ewt above those of last Fri day. The large parcels sold privately consisted chiefly of low brown and middling yellow, and brought 38s to 43s per cwt. Penang is wanted, and would bring better prices; but little is to be had. REFINED. —To-day refined goods were largely dealt in by the home trade, and prices further advanced—brown lumps selling at G2s to 635, and standard lumps 63s 6d to 645, The market is scantily-supplied. For Bonded Crushed the trade is firm at 33s to 33s Gd for first quality. MAURITIUS. —AIthough the stock shows an increase over that of this time last season of 12,787 bags, still merchants manifest firmness, and refrained from offering any at public sale. Buyers have been mere inclined to operate, and of all qualities several parcels were taken by grocers and refiners at prices showing an advance, on those previously current, of 6d and is per cwt. Arrivals of the new crop are, however, near at hand, and the quality is represented to be very good. FOREN N.—Holders of the descriptions available for home consumption have displayed more firmness this week, and there has been a falling off in the supply of all kinds brought to market. The trade operating with more freedom, prices have assumed an upwaid tendency for every sort. In savan nah a good business has been transacted privately, at prices showing an advance, on those previously current, of 6d per cwt. Brazil has been sold to a fair extent, and rather better prices have been paid for all qualities. The parcels of Porto Rico disposed 'of were at stiffer rates, and the supply small, especially of the better kinds of yellow with colour. All other sorts have been more largely dealt in at stiffer rates. Although there are sellers of all sorts of fforeign for exportation, upon previous reduced terms, still the purchases made privately have been extremely limited, and none has been offered at auction. MOLASSES.—The demand has been brisker for West India, but any improvement in prices has been prevented from taking place by the market having been well supplied with all descriptions. _ _ _ _ COITEE.—Of West India none has been submitted to public competitionduring the week, and by private contract few pur chases have been made, although there are sellers of all de scriptions upon previous low terms—good and fine middling Jamaica has been sought after, and fair market rates are offered; but there is scarcely any remaining undisposed of. Cocos.—There has been little desire evinced to operate in the lower qualities of West India, although there are sellers Lather under previous rates ; but good and fine red sorts are wanted, and command very full prices—the value of red is 36s to 455, and grey 34s to 44s ; none at present has been submitted to public competition, but there is a fair stock. RICE.—To-day there was a good demand for East India Rice privately, and holders insipted upon very full prices. At public sale 1,350 bags of Bengal were in part sold, at " 18s 6d for good middling, fine white was taken in at 21s to 22s per cwt, being above the value. SPlCES.—Prices have been maintained for Nutmegs, al though the market has been abundantly supplied. Mace met with a ready sale at previous improved prices. Black Pepper has been in good request privately in consequence of merchants accepting previous low rates. Fine white is wanted, but the supply is small. Pimento is wanted, and in consequence of the scanty supply buyers are compelled to pay stiff rates. Ginger is wanted and tLe supply having become small, the parcels sold privately were at rather higher quotations. Cassia Lignea met with very li:tle attention. Cloves have been sparingly dealt in. Cinnamon is to be obtained upon lower terms, but few purchases have been made; there is, however, but a small quantity on offer. Prices rule firin for Cassia Buds, the stock being light. SPlRlTS.—Leeward Island Rum has been sparingly dealt in this week, although there are sellers upon rather lower terms. For East India the market is in a quiet state, and prices are not so firm. Demerara has been only in limited request. In Jamaica little business has been trans acted in any kind, but holders for the most part are unwilling to lower their price. Brandy is little wanted, and holders are inclined to sell. Geneva has met with more attention for exportation. British Corn Spirits have been in excel lent request. Ons.—The market has presented a quiet appearance for Linseed Oil all the week; the home trade operating with caution, and few parcels having been take n for ex p ortati o n, although there are sellers upon further reduced terms. For forward delivery the business transacted has been limited. Rape Seed Oil has been in much better request, and prices have improved. For Olive prices remain much the same as t t r h e o n s e e e p ct re ed. viouTslhyerecurhreesnti,)ebenut m th u e c r h e been Nutsiness Oil, and the rates offered are equal to those of this day week. Holders of Palm manifest firmness, and a good demand pre vailed. Seal has been in excellent request, de a bo n fe d et b no ro ae u e g fl ad h i,r t ac a nx d d - - pvrainceecedererafitrems.. O s f ee C t r ern man hae y b p e a e r n ce di ls ep h e a s N e , tent, and an advance in the value took place. Sperm has been in much better request, and holders have obtained prices they could not previously. Lard Oil is rather more in request at 37s to 42s per cwt., but the supply is good. TALLOW.—This afternoon at public sale 177 hhds East India Tallow 50s 3d to 51s; 6 casks South American 49s ; 163 casks St. Petersbnrgh Candle 46s 6d to 49s 6d, very low 43s 6d to 44s 9d ; 23 barrels Italian 50s 3d to 50s 6d ; 14 casks Australian 49s 9d to 50s. VITALITY or Fisli.--Some fish die almost imme diately when taken out of the water, such are the macke rel, the shad, and the herring, and from this circum stance the vulgar saying, " as dead as a herring," has been derived. The eel, the plaice, the skate, the carp, and various other species, will, on the contrary, live for many hours after being brought to land. The perch has been known to survive a journey of sixty miles, packed in straw; and the carp can even be fattened when placed on wet moss in a cellar, crammed with bread and milk. and occasionally dipped in -water; but it will live for a fortnight out of the water altogether. Th e t ur b ot will also live and take food if placed in a d amp and cold situation ; while the spotted, the smoot h , an d some other blennies, live several days after removal from their natu ral element. The eel, the shark, and the dog-fish suffer the most dreadful mutilations without being speedilY killed.—Diummonds Anatomy. Mr. Hudson, it is said, has given orders for all the persons engaged on the Eastern Counties to be regaled with a good dinn er , an d to receive 55., during the Christmas holidays.—Leeds Mercury.