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TO THE ELECTORS OF WESTMINSTER, GENTLEMEN. IBELIEVE I am asserting but a fact, that at the last general election, a majority of your body were de sirous of recording their votes tor me. We need not now atop to in quire by what neglect or juggle a stain on your hitherto bright and long-established fame was then inflicted. But you and myself conse quently are placed in a peculiar position. Under such circumstances—after so many years in your service— attar so many marks of your confidence, which I have scorned to betray or abuse, or to pander for fee or reward, it has remained Im perative on me to be prepared to co-operate in removing that dis credit. But a week since I stated, at the instance of pure minded and in. fluential electors who enjoy your esteem, my determination to fulfil that obligation. The occasion has arisen. lam present with you to fulfil my part. Last night a numerous assembly of your public spirited local representatives, at which I was present, decided on this contest. In five preceding contests their decisions have been with me, irrevocable. Never bfore have I been honoured with a wore kind, generous, or unanimous reception. I need not tell you, I am a free-trader, total and immediate ; not, however, of a few weeks or months, but of many. years, when the cause was In contempt and disrepute, and when Its support was not the road to worldly advantage. And I have no motive now to aban don it—nor will Sir It. Peel find amongst his most obsequious fol lowers or officials a more ardent supporter of his present measures. But, gentlemen, though deeply conscious of the necessity of unqua lified assistance to the se measures, I fun not so silly a political or party pedant as to believe that this is the sole matter worthy of con sideration, that there are not also other quite as great objects of Civil anti Ileligiou.s Equality and Amelioration to be yet struggled for. Of these I will,yon know, be also a staunch adherent. And I will no: watt to be so for the coaversions of the great and powerful. The day of election will arrive quickly. You will find me, then mend intermediately, at my post. I will do my duty, to the best of tiny humble ability—do you yours ; and I am sure 1 need not call to your recollection, that the first and paramount of all political func tions are those of electors. It is they who have truly the power to each their governors that a just, upright, and honourably consistent course can alone receive their permanent sanction. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your faithful Servant, DE LACY EVANS. Bryanston-square, 12th Feb., 1846. WESTMINSTER ELECTION.—The Com mittee for conducting the Election of General Sir 1.1 LACY EVANS sit daily at the Ship Hotel, Charing-cross. The Hon. EDWARD P. BOUVERIE, M.P., Chairman District Meetings of the Electors will be held at Willis's Rooms, THIS EVENING ; and at the Windsor Castle Tavern, Pimlico, on Monday. Each evening at Seven o'clock. Nomination; Tuesday ; Election, Wednesday, To be had of all Booksellers. NEW TIMO N. SECOND EDITICO of PARTS I. and 11., NOW READY. Also PART 111. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, t reat Marlborough-street. SECOND EDITION. NOW READY. LADY HESTER STANHOPE'S MEMOIRS in 3 vols with Portrait, &c., 31s. 6(1. bound. . . " Lady Hester Stanhope possessed a rapid and deep insi g ht into hums character, and her remarks upon the distinguished persons with whom she was acquainted, as well as of the many travellers who visited her at Joon, are always pointed and searching, if not always just. All the passages relating to her uncle, Mr. Pitt, are of striking interest, and her strictures upon the character and conduct of the politicians and intriguants of the day arc Irresistibly amusing and forcible."—Morning Chronicle. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. - - RAILWAY SHARES BY PUBLIC SALE. MESSRS. LAMOND, SMALE, AND LAMOND beg to thank their Friends and the Public, for their continued support and patronage, and to announce that their Public Sales of Railway Shares, &c., take place every TUESDAY and Finney, at one o'clock, at their offices, at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedh3-street, London, at which place all favours, con `sining instructions, are respectfully requested to be addressed. All Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited for exa• ruination at least one day previously to their being offered ; ane advises of results will be forwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds immediately disposed of according to instructions. Offices, Mall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London. T 1 IE LONDON and BIRMINGHAM EX TENSION, and NORTHAMPTON, DAVENTRY, LEA MINGTON,- and WARWICK RAILWAY COMPANY. NOTICE The Shareholders of this Company are informed that for the pur pose of effectually carrying out the original undertaking, and in pursuance of arrangements for amalgamation concluded witk other vounp‘nies, and of others still pending, the Directors find it neces sary to divide the capital into shares of 201. each in lieu of the exit ing shares of 251., anti to increase the present deposit of five per cent. to ten per cent., which is also necessary for the purpose of complying with the standing orders of the Houses of Parliament. The holder of four existing 251. shares will, therefore, be entitled to receive five new shares of 201. each. The Shareholders are required to pay on or before Monday the 23d instant the thrther sum of it. ss. on the shares respectively held by them, and for this purpose to deposit with the Secretary at the Company's offices, 15, Old Jewry Chambers, London, on or before the 18th inst. the scrip for the same, together with an application for registry and exchange in the annexed form. The requiske order to one of the Company's bankers to receive ;he increased deposit will be issued within two days after the registry of the scrip, and on the production of the bankers receipt new scrip will be issued. All scrip in respect of whin the Shareholders shall fail to take the necessary steps for payment of the required deposit, within the specified time, will be absolutely forfeited. The Directors have much pleasure in informing the Sharvholders that the petition for the requisite Act of incorporation has been pre anted and that they are actively engaged in prosecuting the same. In consequt nce of the depression in the money market the Direct tors have delayed calling for the additional deposit until the latest Possible moment to which they could with safety do so. Eorins of application for registry and exchange of scrip may be obtalged on application to the Secretary at the Company's offices. By order, J. E DE BEAUVOIR, Burt., Chairman JOHN 118RVEY, Secretary. FORM OF ♦PPLICATION. To the Committee of direction of the London and Birmingham Ex tension, and Northampton, Daventry, Leamington, and Warwick Railway Company. Gentlemen,—l herewith transmit scrip for shares in the above Company In respect of which I request you to issue me new scrip, and I agree to pay the further deposit of 11. ss. on each share en or before the 23d instant, and I undertake to execute the neces sary deeds when required. Dated this day of February ,1846 :Same in lull:. .. .......: Description ............ Address in fu11.......... THE PRINCE'S CLUB-HOUSE, Corner of St. James's•street, in Piccadilly. notice.—Noblemen and Gentlemen are respectiNilly informed this establishment is now prepared for their reception, with aug mented arrangements and increased accommodation. Princes' Club, St. James's-street. Entrance iii -- 1;1;7,:dilly, No. 162. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING Will be performed an original Opera, entitled DON QUIXOTE, Don Quixote, Mr. Weiss ; Sancho Panza, Mr. Stretton ; Camacho, Mr. King; Itovedos, jr. liormeastle ; Basillus, Mr. Allen; Quiteria, Miss Rainforth. After which will be produced a new Fairy Ballet, called THE ISLAND NYMPH. In which Mons. Desplaces, Males. Maria, Neodot, Louise, Adele, Mdme. Giubilel, &c., will appear. To conclude with a new grand Christmas comic Pantomine, called HARLEQUIN GULLIVER ; or, Giants and Dwarfs. Harlequin, Mr. Wieland Clown, Mr. T. Matthews ; Pantaloon, Mr. Howell ; Columbines, Miss Hicks and Miss Lonsdale. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. THIS EVENING Will be repeated THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH. A Fairy rale of Home. John Peerybingle, Mr. Stuart; Tackleton, Mr. rilbury; Caleb Plummer, Mr. W. Farren ; Stranger, Mr. 11. Hon ; Dot, Miss Fortescue ; Bertha, Mrs. Seymour ; May Fielding, Miss elbln; Tilly Slowboy, Mr. Buckstone. Between the acts, the Band will perform the " Annen" and " Cerito Polkas," "La Khtarina, Cellarlus Waltz," the Overture " Fille du Rerger," and "Love's Serenade." After which a* erigilaal Comedy, entitled THE OLD SCHOOL. Principal characters by Messrs. Farren, Holl, Brindal, Mrs. Clifford, and Mrs. taruold. To conclude with a Grand New Extravaganza, entitled THE BEE AND THE ORANGE TREE; or, The Four Wishes. Principal Characters by Mr. Hudson, Mr. James Bland, Mr. Caulfield, Mr. Clark, Miss P. Horton, Miss Julia Bennett, Mrs. Caulfield, and Airs. tStatxley. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Drama of LEOLINE : or, Llfe'a Trials. Principal characters by Messrs. 0. Smith and Wright, Mrs. Yates, and Miss Woolgar. To be followed by a New Farce, entitled THE PHANTOM BBEA.KFAST. Supported by Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. Wright, Miss Woolgar, &c. To conclude with a Burletta, called POWDER AND BALL ; or, St. Tibbe's -Eve. Principal characters by Messrs. Selby, Wright, Monyard, Sanders; Mrs. Frank Matthews and Miss Woolgar. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. The Cricket on the Hearth," and " The Enchanted Horse" every Evening until further notice ! • THIS EVENING WILL BE PERFORMED THE CRICKET ON THE HE-trail: A FAIRY TALE OF HOME. The Principal Characters by Mr. and Mrs. Keeley, Mr. Emery, Mr. F. Vinito . , Yr. Meadows, and Miss Grote. To be:followed by the original REDOWA WALTZ, music com posed by M. Jullien, by Miss Frampton and Master Forrest. Altar which will be repeated a New Grand Romantic extravaganza, entitled THE ENCHANTED IIOItSE ; or, Prince Firouz Schah of Persia and the Princess of Bengal. Principal Characters by Messrs. Keeley, Wigan, F, Matthews, Collier, Turner, Kinloch, &c.; Mes dames Keeiev, Villars, Hodson, Dawson, Howard, Arden, &c. Stalls, ss. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ;• Gallery, 6d. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STkEET. THIS EVENINO Witt be performed the Comedy of WILD OATS. Rover, Mr. Welleek. To be followed by a DIVERTISSEMENT, .in which Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Marshall, M. Adrlen, 3liss Bailin, Miss Marshall, and Mdlle. Duval will appear. TO . conclude with the New Christmas Pantomime, entitled THE KEY OF THE KINGDOM ; or, 11Altr EQUIN AND THE. FAIRY BLUE BELL. Harlequin, Mr. IV. II Harvey ; Columbine, Miss Rullen ; Clown, Mr. Flexinore ; Pantaloon, Mr. T. Hill. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. . 'Lessee, Miss Kate Howard. THIS EVENING Will be performed the Domestic Drama, called OUR VILLAGE. In which Messrs. Waldrog, C. Boyce.. Romer, Cockrill, G. Witd, Miss Hamilton, Miss Brumley, and Airs. Leclercq will appear. Afior which will be repeated THE. CRICKET ON OUlt OWN HEARTH. Dot, Miss Kate Howard. To be followed by ANGELS AND LUCIFERS. In which Mr. Wild will APPaar• A.nd concluding with the new Pautrainime, unapproachable for glee and grandeur, called. FOR'CUNATUS; or, THE MAGIC CAP. - 'ortrfultus, Miss Hamilton ;_ Prince Alegrim, Mr. Cockrill; Fairy Queen, Miss /troniley ; Harlequin,. Smythers ; Pantaloon, Mr. Charles ; Clown, Mr. JefTeritti ; Columbine. Miss Laidlaw. NEW STRAND THEATRE. TWO MOIRNING PERFORMANCES DURING THE WEEK. M. PHILLIPPE will (by desire), and in consequence of the iin- Inense:uterflows which have attended his Morning Performances, give 'Grand Juvenile Entertainnienta every Wednesday and Sa turday Mornings, commencing it Two o'clock. "kr.'Phillippe's most Popular Deeepilons and Peculiar Experiments will be repeated every Evening, varied by the Amusing Per- Formanees of the Chiarini F am il y , an d, th e astounding Feat of the American Brothers.—Doors open at a quarter past Seven, to com sa«n Mane, ee at a qua r t er b efore Eight. 3 s-; Boxes, 2s. • l'lt, Is. ; Gallery, 6d. ; P r i va t e B oxes , li. Is., and 1/. I ls. 6d. ASTLEY's ROYAL AMPIUTISEATRF. OF ARTS. The most extraordi nary Novelty ever p ro d uce d . —Th e N ew G rand l S pectacle, whi ch has been playing In Paris with repeated Oriental PAICCentaE69. THIS EV ENING wiii be performed a New Drama, entitled THE RAJAH OF NAGPORE; or, be introduced the theperformi Sacredn 'Ele phants of the Pagoda. In which will g Colossal F.lephants and Camels, hose r ul arrival caused unpre ce d ented sensation in the metropolis. New Scenes of the Circle, combining the talent of the French and English Artistes. To conclude with a favourite Afterpiece. ROYAL VICToit To surpass eo much Novelty and Attraction is i‘nposo.ible. Work of the New Grand Romance of " " The Prisoners .of ""14 Seventeenth Century." First Week of The Cook at Kerlin:lt! ton." Third Week of "The Ruined! .... at Milbank." TIIIS EVENINO. Will be performed a new Dram t, entitled, THE .2 1ARCIIIONESS DE lIRLS VILLIERS ; or, 'ihe Poisoners of the Seventeenth Cen tury. Principal characters by Messrs. Savtle, Fredericks, Dais, aid 1511sF. Vincent. To be followed by THE COOK AT KENNINGTON ' • or, Ni FsWowers Allowed." Characters by Messrs. James, Herbert gMrie ; Miss Terry, 3frs. Lee, &c. To conclude with THE RUINED HOUSE AT 3IILBANK ype rted le Messrs. Saville, Fredericks, Dale, niggle, Searle, Werbert, Ulises Vincent, Terry Richardson, &c. Y GLASGOW HARRoUR MINERAL RA'LIVA —This Bill passed the Standing Orders Committee of the House of Commons, en Thursday, unqoposed. Mr. Galbraith, writer to the signet, and Mr. Aution, of Messrs. Law, Anton, and Turnbull, solicitors to the Bill, and 'ff,pa. Bald, Beg., C.E. and F,R.S., th e eng i ne er, proved the requisite =mations and fulfilment of the standing orders. Esti mate 101,000/. This is a Railway and Tidal Dock Bill, and is cal culated much to benefit the River Clyde. Sin PHILIP EGERTON.—Sir Philip Egerton met his oonstituents at Knatstbrd on Friday last, to tender his resignation as Member for Cheshire, stating that he should feel it his duty to sup ptrt Air Robert reels measure —for, from either him or Lord John 11%9 , 3811, It was evident they must have free trade, and it would be Judicious to support the Present Minister rather than to have Whigs in °filo* again ; although, perhaps, there was no difference now be tween Radicals and Tortes, as there seemed to be a complete amal-s gamation Of political parties. His constituents would not accept hi!' resignation, and he retu l rns to the House a n advocate and sapporte of free trade.--Linerpoo Courier. THE SUN, LOND O N, SATURD A Y RITE NI I N Or, FEBR UA R Y 14, 1846. THE PRACTICABLE INVALID AND GE NERAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, For:lnsuring Invalid :Lives, on novel, liberal, and equitable principles. ~l►ares 50/. each. _First payment limited, hi pursuance of the Act, to ss. per share. No application for shares can be received after the 28th instant, the numbers intended to be issued being nearly completed. Interest, at the rate of four per cent., allowed from time of pay ment ofdeposit to first division of profits. Total amount of deposit will be returned (without any deduction for expenses), if the Company shall not be brought fully into ope ration. Applications for remaining share% prospectuses, and any further information, may be obtained of the joint solicitors— A. M. X. LOW, 65, Chancery-lane. C. INNIS, 42, Bloomsbury-square TO CORRESPONDENTS. We entirely concur in the remarks of " A Clerk with a large family," but our opinion has been sufficiently ex pressed, and we think it better not to interfere further be tween the parties. THE WEATHEIL—Strx OFFICE, FEB. 14. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 35; Highest, 49; Noon, 48. BAROMETER, 30.2.—W1ND W., fine. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-ERIDGE TlllB DAY. Morning .• 45 minutes after 3. 1 Evening . 0 minutes after 4 s,l ~,-' ' 6 ' 4 ' L --- 4 . ' ,• ( - _:;.:.:.V:....1.;<-,\11: . x ,.:4, -...,c . _ s'-,-.. * - -:./ - :..- • ''.---;;\ r ' ~.7 k 1 \ \- 1 1 •'L , ,sto" b . ._.,_ . ~,4 4,t_ SECOND EDITION. ‘.OJ irrnins LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1846, Lord DENMAN, in the absence of the Lord-Chancellor, took his seat on the Woolsack in the House of Lords, shortly after Five o'clock. Earl SOMERS presented several petitions against any alte. ration in the corn-laws. On the motion of Lord DENMAN, the Administration of Criminal Justice Bill went through Committee. The Earl of REDE.SDALE presented a petition from an indi vidual complaining of the course pursued by many parties with respect to railway Bills, and praying that their Lord ships would make it a standing order of the House that all panics, before they should be permittted to introduce railway should be bound to prove that the provisions of the Registration Act had been complied with. The Earl of DALHOUSIE moved the adoption of the resolu tions contained in the second report from the Lords Corn mittee on Railways, which was agreed to. The Public Works Ireland Bill went through Committee, and was ordered to be reported en Monday. In answer to a queztion from the Earl of CLAKENDON, The Earl of ABERDEEN stated that he had no objection to lay on the table of the House the correspondence that had taken place between the Spanish Minister and himself rela tive to the duty on Cuba sugar. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY gave notice of his inten- tion, on Tuesday next, to ask the Noble Duke (WELLING- Tox) the cause of the dismissal of Mr. GulisToxx from the Poor-law Commission in Ireland. The Duke of WELLINGTON said he would take care that the Noble Marquis should have the information he required on the day he had stated. The House then adjourned till Monday. The House of Commons sat at Four o'clock. The Sheriff of London presented a petition from the city of London in favour of a repeal of the corn-laws. Several rail way Bills were read a second time, and ordered to be committed. A new writ for North Nottinghamshire was ordered, room of Mr. G. KNIGHT, deceased. Lord DUNCANNON brought in the Itiatlock, Manchester, and Buxton Railway Bill, which was read a first, ordered to be read a second time. Mr. STuurr brought under the consideration of the ()use an irregularity that had taken place in a petition for a rail way Bill, which led to some discussion, in the course of which, Mr. GREENE gave notice that he would move an order to the effect that no petition for a private Bill should be received by the House, unless it was regularly signed by all the parties, Mr. FERRAND gave notice that on Monday he should ask the First Lord of the Admiralty, if he should then be in office, whether he proposed to fill up the two offices now vacant in consequence of the resignation of two of the Lords of the Admiralty : and if he were afraid toappeal to the countryby nominating to the vacant offices, he should move that the offices be abolished as useless. Mr. Suartitan CRAWFORD gave notice that he should ask the Government on a future day if they intended to bring in any measure during the present session to amend the law of landlord and tenant in Ireland. On the motion of Mr. LIDDELL, that the petition of the Shipowners' Society be printed, Mr. RUNE asked if it was intended to introduce any mea sure carrying out the recommendations of the Committee with regard to regulating the merchant seamen's servi•e ? Sir G. CLERK said that Government were in communica tion with the Shipowners' Society on the subject. Mr. FortgrEu denied that the petition expressed the senti ments of the great body of shipowners of Great Britain. Mr. LIDDELL replied, and the motion for printing the pe tition was agreed to. Mr. JAMES asked if the Government had received any ac counts of the dreadful affray which had taken place at Pen rith among the labourers employed on the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, and what measures had been adopted to preserve the public peace. Sir J. GRAHAM had received no official account whatever from the Magistrates of the existence of any such dis turbance: Mr. EWART asked if the Government had ever considered whether it was necessary to make railway companies exer cise some superintendence over the labourers? Sir G. CLERK said that the promoters of railway Bills were obliged to provide a certain number of special consta bles to superintend the works. In answer to a question from Sir R. hicus, as to the inten tion of the Government with regard to the rebuilding of Westminster-bridge, Mr. CARDWELL said the subject had been considered by the Government, and that they had directed weekly reports to be made as to the state of the bridge, and that when any thing special occurred the attention of the Government was directed to it, so that ample care was taken of the public safety. Sir R. luaus considered that answer unsatisfactory. He begged to ask when the - Government considered the new palace at Westminster would be ready for the accommoda tion of Parliament, and if it were not ready by 1847, whether there would be any objection to the appointment of a Com mittee of Inquiry ? Mr. CARDWELL thought it possible that the expectation of Hon. Gentlemen that Parliament would sit in the new House in 1847 would not be realised.—(A laugh.) He, how ever, thought it would be neither necessary nor discreet to appoint a Committee. In answer to a question from Mr. Coeeerr, of Athlone, The CirAfeceenoit of the EXCHEQUER stated, in conse quence of a decision of the Judges i❑ the Exchequer Chamber overruling a decision of the Court of Queen's Bench, and deciding that certain parties were entitled, in conse quence of the enactments of the corn-law of 1842, the re venue would suffer a certain loss, but it was still under the consideration of the Government whether an appeal should not be made to a higher tribunal. On the motion of Sir W. ConraxGrox, a new writ was ordered for the election of a Member for East Gloucester shire, in the room of the Hon. F. CHARTERIS, who had ac cepted the Chiltern Hundreds. On the order of the day for resuming the adjourned debate being read, an immense number of petitions en the subject of the corn- laws were presented. Sir llow,inn DOUGLAS then rose to resume the adjourned debate, and announced his intention to vote against the proposition of the Government for removing pro tection from British agriculture. lie had always voted against a repeal of the corn-laws, be had fre quently spoken against the measure, and in reviewing his past career on that subject, he found that he had nothing to explain and nothing to regret * except the insufficient mannner in which he had advocated the cause of protection. His opinions were unchanged, and in accordance with these opinions' Le should vote, for he considered that protection was not enly necessaryfor British interests, but also for the interests of our colonies which were unrepresented in that House, and which were no properly understood. He considered that the experience of the last three years furnished no correct data on which to form an opinion ; and, therefore, he considered that the Right Hon. Baronet had failed to give any just reason for his change of opi• nion. The corn•laws had not caused the distress of 1840, 1841 and 1842, neither had the partial adoption of free-trade Prind pies occasioned the prosperity of the subsequent years, ..•. • . . which prosperity, it should be recollected, had occurred while the country was subject to a corn-law. P r ot ec ti on , he believed, was not for the benefit of one class, but for that all ; and he would no t expos e th e B r iti s h artisan unpro tected to competition with the protected labour of the fo reigner. lie denied that the importation of grain produced a , c,,o,lntempo raneoui export of manu f ac t ures; an d a , n parison of the exports and imports of 1836 and 1341, and 1842, would prove the truth of his position. Ile considered it would Le good policy to open the borne market and the West India market to our corn-producing colonies. He had supported the measure of Canadian corn, but he felt bound to opp os© th of the home market to th e forei gi corn The Canada Corn Bill was a solemn co mpact , for the introduction b e tween the legislative bodies of Canada and this co untry, e n tered into this measure not only violated that compact , but the o o l d in c i e n guished the whole colonial system , and made all t m pr e ur ! h and xtin e colonies for commercial purposes free and independent states, leaving to them the entire regulation of their own commercial affairs It was a most incorrect assumption to declare that Mr. flys- KISSON was a free- trader. He was a Protectionist, and his colonial trade Acts protected British commodities in the colo nial markets by differential duties ranging from 10 to 70 per cent. All the colonies now imposed duties on the im portation of the products of other colonies. It could only be by the formation of them all into a league to establish perfect free trade. The United States andthe Zollverein found changes in the minds of public men. If the question was between the plan of the Right Honaurable Baronet and that of the Noble Lord the Member for the city of London, he as an agriculturist must confess that he should prefer the immediate abolition of the corn- laws to the termination of it in three years. He believed that less misery and wretchedness would be caused by the Noble Lord's plan than that of the Right Hon. Baronet. lle contended that the country was not prepared for these changes—that, instead of gaining adherents, the Right Hon. Baronet was losing supporters ; and that, if the operatives and labourers understood their own interest, they would one and all rise against these measures, and with curses execrate the time that even a free-trade Minister sat upon the Minis terial bench.-He believed the Right Hon. Baronet had acted from Conservative !notices, but he believed he was pun suing a course of policy destructive to the country but if they were to have free-trade, he much preferred tha open, manly, atraightforward conduct of the Noble Lord the Member for London, to the temporising, cautious policy of the present Minister. After mutual explanationsfrom Mr. &LILLIE and Mr. MILES, The Earl of ➢leach moved that the debate be adjourned. Lord NORTHLAND considered the measures would be ruinous to the agricultural interest; but he felt bound to vote for them, because he bad confidence in the Right Hon. Baronet, but he had none in the Noble Lord. He thought the question must be settled, and that it had better be settled by the Right Hon. Baronet. Mr. FEnRAND would like to ask the Noble Lord, what con fidence he had in the Right Hon. Baronet, when he was drag ged out of the coal-hole to vote for liberal education ? (A laugh.) Colonel T. Wool), considering the measure absolutely necessary for the maintenance of the prosperity of the coun try, would vote in favour of it. Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIEN complained of the extreme—ln convenience of the Members availing themselves of the motion of adjournment to discuss the question in debate. He had a perfect right to make a new speech on the subject, which he was not going to do. This was not a question of party, and he protested against the precedent which was set of raising a debate on the main question on the question of adjourn ment. The debate was then adjourned until Monday. The other orders of the day having been disposed of, the [ouse adjourned. Rumours, to which full credence is given in several quar ters, lead to the belief that a mutiny has broken out in the Admiralty, and that it will require all the tact and courage of Sir R. PEEL and Lord ELLENBOROUGH to subdue the rebels. One report states that Sir GEORGE COCKBUIL.N and Admiral BowLEs have both resigned on the ground that they have insuperable objections to Captain Rous as a col- league. This , is extremely probable, for the Gallant Officer is a well-known Reformer—he has denounced the crying abuses in the navy; he has some young blood in his veins, and must therefore be regarded with the utmost jealousy and suspicion bya disciple of the old school, like Sir G. Cocxnuuri, In our opinion, however, this is not half the truth. Lord ELLENBOROUGH is the great bugbear ; strong qualms were felt on his appointment, the old rotten system was in (langur from a man who had created such alarm at the India Home, and Captain Rous' accession was only the feather which de cided the balance. During the whole of Sir R. PEEL'S ad ministration Sir G. COCKBURN has had everything his ow,a way ; Lord HADDINGTON, never very resolute, and latterly labouring under infirm health, yielded his own convictions, perhaps, to those of the first naval Lord, and the junior Lords were kept in such excellent and severe discipline, that they were very cautious in hazarding an opinion adverse to the venerable Admiral. The Admiralty has hitherto exer cised a sort of intperium in imperio ; it has the power of appointing, or what comes to the same thing, recommending, all officers to ships and stations; it regulates its internal economy with the most wonderful independence and self-satisfaction, and seeing not at all disposed to recognise such a body as the Cabinet, or such a personage as Pritne Minister. It was natural, therefore, that a tremendous corn motion would be excited in the decayed tenement when the old crew were invaded by such radicals as ELLENBOROUGH and Rous, and the sacred fabric was touched by the un hallowed hands of a thorough Reformer, like the First Lord of the Treasury. But what is this commotion to the public? A new system of management for the navy has for many years been demanded, not by the press only, but by some of our most distinguished naval officers. such a union of sovereign states, with perfect free trade among themselves, with stringent protection against all others. We might form such a league with our colonies and our East India dependencies, and such a league as that would conduce to the power and the prosperity of the empire; but the esta blishment of the proposed system of free-trade would render the formation of such a league impossible. By this machinery they had destroyed the manufactures of India, and had forced the Indian manufacturers to become sugar cultivators, and now by the introduction of free-trade they were about to ruin these Indian agriculturists. The Hon. and Gallant Officer then read several extracts from the works of Mr. Huskisson to prove that it was most im• politic to depend upon foreigners for a supply of corn. After apologising for having trespassed so long on the House, the Hon. and Gallant Officer concluded by stating that, giving the Prime Minister all credit for honesty of purpose, so strong were his convictions as to the mischievous nature of the proposed measure, that it was his duty to vote against it as an experiment perilous and unnecessary. Viscount 'VILLIERS gave his suppert to the measures proposed by the Government, because he hoped it would prove to be a permanent settlement of this much agitated question. Mr. Scorr had hoped that he should have been enabled to afford the Right Hon. Baronet that support which he had always hitherto afforded him; (but it wass with pain and regret, that, after a careful examination' of the sub ject, he felt now bound to vote against the Government. He had always looked up to the Right Hon. Baronet with respect, but he must say that this sudden change of opinion on the part of the Right Hon. Baronet had come upon him with most stunning effect. But acting upon his own conscientious convictions, he felt bound to declare that he felt it his duty to oppose the Government measure The Right Hon. Baronet was in the position of a counsel who, having received a brief and a fee on one side, went into court and agreed on the other, recommending his original clients to abandon their cause altogether, and who was fol lowed by his juniors, while the only reason they would con_ descend to give was, that they had changed their minds . The Hon. Gentleman then proceeded to read various quota tions from the speeches of the Members of the present Go vernment, for the purpose of showing that their opinions had been a series of contradictions ever since they had aban doned the principles of protection. He believed that the measures now proposed would produce most cruel and disas trous results. The proposed measure was wide and bold ; but he doubted whether it was wise and politic, and he feared it would not prove successful. He was no ultra-protection ist,—he was no advocate of any unalterable law,—he was opposed - to monopoly,—he knew how liable a tax upon grain was to be called a tax upon the bread of the people; and, therefore, he thought the duty upon corn should never exceed the amount sufficient to give due encouragement to home cultivation ; and he should have been fully prepared to have gone with the Right Hon. Baronet in reducing the amount of the pre sent protection to agriculture, for he felt that the expenses of the farmer had been considerably reduced. Sir R. PEEL asked the Honourable Member for whom he was counsel? Mr. Scow, under considerable excitement, declared that he was counsel for no one but his own opinions. He was the hired advocate of no one—be was the delegate of no one. He would have followed the Right Honourable Baronet if he had remained true to his colours; and if he had differed with his constituents on this subject, he should have felt it his duty again to appeal to them. The proposed measure woul inflict a heavy blow and a great discouragement to the agri cultural interest ; would diminish the supply of food, create great fluctuation in price, and lower the wages of the labourer. It was said that this measure was but a mere fiscal regulation ; why, it was a mere fiscal regulation that coat this country the United States. He considered this measure an innovation on the Constitution of Eng land, and it should never become the law of the land with his consent. It was said that it was not necessary to con tinue protection in England, while it was admitted to be necessary for the colonies. He couldnot see why any distinc tion should be drawn between the two. He could not agree with the Right Hon. Baronet in the propriety of adopting his mode of atmospheric railway legislation. Mr. WARD considered the Hon. Member who had just sat down was extremely difficult to follow ; for there was not a single sentence that he had uttered which he did not contradict in the next. They had waited long enough for the landlords to decide on the subject of protection, and he thought it was now high timefor the people to have a voice in the matter. Negotia tion had been tried on this question and it had led to nothing ; was it, he would ask, too late to try example ? The first vote he gave in that House was in favour of the corn-laws; but his views on that subject, like those of the Right Hon. Baronet and the Noble Lord the Member for the City of London, .had changed, and that after ma ture deliberation. If there were burdens on the land, was it not monstrous to be talking about them, unless they could be shown? He had for three years moved for a Committee on the subject, and every time he had been defeated. He would give the extensive propo sition of the Right Hon Bart. his hearty and cordial support, believing it to be the means of salvation for the agriculturists themselves. At the present moment such was the excitement of the agricuiturists that they were unfit and incompetent to manage their own affairs. When a class arrayed itself against a community, it would soon lose its self respect. All that he had in the world depended upon land, but still he was convinced that protection to agricultui e ought no longer to exist. Protection was at variance with the intelligence and just demands of the country. He trusted that the majority with which the proposition o f the Government would be carried in this House would be of such a nature as to induce it to meet with that reception in another place to which it was entitled. Mr. Was. MILES supported the amendment. He could not consent to any compromise ; things must either remain as they were, or they must adopt the proposition of the Go vernment, or that of the free-traders. They were now attempting to legislate against the experience of centuries. It was the height of madresa to take away protection at once. It appeared to him astonishing that the failur eof the crop in one article of food, should have caused such " It was Mr. HUSKISSON'S opinion that the existing corn-laws could not be upheld with the existing taxation, and at the same time increase the national prosperity and the public contentment." But Mr. WARD had not even then finished his flagellation of the farming interest gentry. They were to be scourged again before be had finished his harangue: the cat- whip had to be fresh leaded and fresh knotted, and a few final stripes administered to the obdurate back of that obdurate personage, Monopoly. In this climax of castigation the Member for Sheffield almostentirely restricts himself to one, small, solitary, taunt, but that taunt at that eleventh hour was about the bitterest, smartest, and most un bearable they could well have received under all circumstances. He observed that the peculiar burdens upon land had been repeatedly harped upon by the opponents to Sir R. PEEL'S present policy, but these burdens had only been spoken of, "the truth was the agriculturalists could not prove the existence of those burdens." This is no novel retort, we grant : almost the same epithets have been employed of late by a score or two of free-trade orators ; but it was the time and the place, in the present instance, that imparted to those few and simple words a sting of the most scorching and intolerable acuteness So much did they, indeed, goad and lash the anti-Ministerial gentlemen, that they cried out together with the torment. Their cry was, "We can !'i but it is a cry only tantamount to an universally ac knowledged criminal putting in a plea of " not guilty, s, merely for a vexatious delay. The delay, however, in this case will be most transitory. The enemies to the pro posal of the Prime Minister have nearly every one of them been foaming plentifully at the mouth, but with that foam their meagre residue of strength has evaporated : and not an insignificant portion of their own party have withdrawn an opposition which is so ostensibly impotent, and so manifestly unjust, declaring al most in the very phrases used by Mr. WARD, that they gave their " cordial support to the Ministerial proposal, as being the salvation of the agricultural interest." The solemn as- surances made by Lord LLNCOLN to the Nottingham shire electors was indeed anything but rash or precipitate, when he declared to them that the spirit of oue-sided protec tion will be dead before many days have elapsed. In the heart of the people it is already among the bygones : in the . _ heart of the people free-trade is already the law of the land. Madrid papers of the 6th have been received, but they bring no news of interest. General NARVAEZ bad recovered from his late indisposition, and was able to attend the Chamber, and take part in the discussion on theelectoral law. The Three per Cents. closed at 33 1.16 at sixty days, and the Five per Cents. at 23 7-16 at 60 days. The French Ministry, finding the Chamber of Deputies inclined to support their measures, are resolved to get through the heavy business of the session with the utmost dispatch. The Secret Service Money Bill, presented some days ago, was subsequently sunmitted to the different Com mittees fur investigation, and adopted almost without discus sion. Timns, BILLAULT, BERaYER, and the more violent of the Ministerial opponents, seeing they had no chance of thwarting the Bill in the Committees, seven of which con sisted of Conservatives, absented themselves. The next question brought before the Committees was the Bill of M. ST. PRIEST, for reducing the interest on Three per Cent. Stock. Four voted for entertaining the Bill, and five against it ; but as the consent of three of the bureaux is sufficient to warrant theiotroduction of a Bill, the question must be debated in the Chamber. The Government, however, are still op posed to the scheme, and as the Chamber of Peers will sup. port them by a large majority, it has no chance of being carried into effect this session. The Deputies had passed the Adulteration of Wine Bill by a majority of 151 to 88. Tie Epoque, a Government paper, contains the following paragraph! In the summer there will be formed a camp near Toulouse, where the regiment of the Duke DE MONT PENSIER is in garrison. On this occasion the Infanta LOUISA of Spain, accompanied by a part of the Spanish Court, will , :owe and return the visit paid last summer by the French PRINCES to Pa.Lpeluna. In the spring the Prince DE Jour- VILLE will take the command of the Mediterranean fleet, now under the orders of Admiral PARSEVAL DESCIIENES." It thus appears the Duke DE MONTPENSIER is determined to press his suit to the young INFANTA. A letter from Berlin announces the death of Baron DE BoLow, ex-Minister of State. A malady, which he had contracted of late years from excessive application to busi ness, and whi c h f orce d hi m to withdraw from public affairs, sooner than hi s ti me o f lif e would seem to demand, was the cause of his d ea th. The Three per C e nts. c losed on the Paris Bourse on Thursday at 841'. 80c. ; the Fi ve per C en t s ., 123 f. 35c. ; the Orleans Rail roa d shares, 1,2871'.50 c. Rouen, 1,022 f. 50c.; Havre, 717 f. 50c. ; Avignon, 987 f. 50c.; Vierzon, 700 f. ; Bordeaux, 645 f.; Boulogne, 550 f. Troyes and Montereau, 450 f. ; Basle, 251 f. 25c. ; Northern, 766 f. 25c. ; Fampoux, 4401'. ; Dieppe, 470 f. ; Spanish Three per Cents., 38 34 ; Spanish Domestic Debt, 33. The following are the quotations for other lines :—Paris and Lyons Definitive, 625 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, ditto, 557 f. 50c. ; Tours and Nants ditto, 594 f. ; Lyons and Avignon (Talabot), 512 f. 50c. ; Ditto (Lecointe), 505 f. ; Ditto (Compagnie Merldionale), 503 f. ; The public cannot forget the speeches made by Sir CtIAULES NAPIER on the abuses in that department ; they cannot be blind to the fact that most of the young-men brought up as apprentices on board our ships have no induce ment to remain in the service for which they were especially intended ; that many go into the merchant service, or into the American navy, where they get better pay ; and that the greater portion of the sailors who man the fleet of England's great rival are natives of this country. Thus the main arm of the United Kingdom is weakened by disease at the very source of life—we have ships of every class in abundance and _to spare, admirals in still greater - numbers, and every department, except one, full to overflowing. W here patronage prevails there is no lack of hands; but where there is little or no patronage where the interests of the sailor should be consulted, and the best men that money and rewards can obtain should be found, we find only poverty and destitution. Should war break out with America, an event very prcbable, sailors to man our . fleets could not be obtained without the press-gang, an instrument to which these rulers of the navy cling as if it were the only salvation of the country. Men are thus torn from their lawful and peaceable occu pations by the most cruel of all despotisms, hurried on board a Queen's ship, there to be treated as outcasts, and not al lowed again to touch their native land till they sell them selves as slaves. But these are only a few of the grievances which such men as PEEL, and F.l.LENnonouctr, and Rolls would eradicate, and the public, therefore, can feel no surprise that they are met by the fiercest opposition from Sir GEORGE COCKBURN, Admiral Bowr.Es, and the other admirers of the present ruin ous system, which they all regard as a model of perfec• Lion. This is only one instance, among many, of the diffi culties with which a Reforming Government has to contend, but nothing great is ever accomplished without difficulty, and the fact, we : trust, will only .be a further inducement for • the • Government to persevere, and maintain at every - hazard their new appointments.. Sir G. COCKBURN is a man of high character, and a respectable officer, but his time is gone by ; he is above seventy years of age, he is imbued with all the erroneous notions of his earlier days, and is therefore totally unfit for the present crisis. He can well be spared, and Sir R. PEEL, who has already effected such important revolutions, in defiance of powers that would have deterred less daring minds, - is not to be frightened by a worn-out clique of old admirals, or be compelled to submit any longer to a system which threatens the security of the British empire. There are plenty of good officers fit to sup ply the place of Sir GEORGE COCKBURN, and we know of no better substitute than the captor of Don AftoirEt.'s fleet, the hero of St. Jean d'Acre—the gallant Sir CIIARLESNAPIER. Within the brief interval already occupied by the discus sion upon the proposed free-trade measures the fallacy of just representation in the House of Commons has, indeed, been most conspicuous. Party advocates, upholders of class interests, and in some instances mouthpieces of their own banking accounts, have successively risen to address the House --professedly in the cause of national prosperity— but actually for the purpose of enabling themselves still to gorge their own purses from the poor man's larder. In exposing this mock philanthropy, as it was again advanced by Mr. Scorr in last night's debate, Mr. WARD acted boldly but bitterly. Instead of permitting the former gentleman to swallow that very poisonous bolus, his own opinion with its pretty tinfoil covering, Mr. WARD stripped the gilding off with a few cutting sent6nces and crammed them again down the other Member's throat. It was a pleasant punishment to the spectators, because it was a punishment so richly merited, especially after the school boy violence and urchindike irritability with which Mr. SCOTT attacked Sir R. PEEL. And be it remembered, this same wonderfully calm and wonderfully philosophic Mr. Scorr attacked the Right Honourable Baronet fur, what he was pleased to call, hi desertion from the ranks which he had hitherto marshalled so skit fully, while—(most consistent corollory !)—admitting that the proposed measures were only an extension of the system hitherto adopted by the Conservatives. In reference to this latter admission, Mr. WARD justly stigmatised the consum mate doggedness with which certain nominal politicians plod forward upon some plan which modern facts have long proved to be an intolerable grievance —their eyes willingly bandaged up. With perfect accuracy did he remark . " legislation must progress. The laws of England are not in fallible !" All history goes to corroborate this declaration, ; all experience, ancient and modern, forms an exemplar of its justice. That man must be a very zany who would main tain otherwise. He must be something little short of pur blind, who would pick from the Commentaries one of those renowned passages of eulogium upon British legis lation uttered by good Judge BLACKSTONE—and wear it, so to speak, upon his forehead as the morale of his political care er. This was not indifferently insisted on by the Hon. Member for Sheffield, while at the same moment he pelted a few good-humoured sarcasms at the two (nominal) representatives of Liverpool, Sir H. DOUGLAS and Lord SANDON, who, in the words of the Hon. Gentleman, " had committed to the most stringent mono poly the greatest commercial town in the empire." Much, in fact, does it behove that vast constituency to investigate this very unsound position of things ; and to be henceforth more chary in the selection of spokesmen. That great stalking-horse of protection, Mr. HUSKISSON, from whose vast shadow the agricultural monopoly gentlemen have been shooting their extremely blunted_arrows of argu ment (?) was not forgotten last evening by Mr. WARD ; and a fine expression in point did he produce from a speech delivered by that celebrated statesman, on the 25th March, 1830. The lan guage used by Mr. Husrussosi has been latterly masticated with much relish by the protectionists. We rather conjec ture they will find in the paragraph alluded to a very hard and unexpected bone, which, in the midst of their pleasant mouthings, will snap off a few of their teeth. Here is the mar ceau—for the anti-Monopolists it w ill b e a t oot h some one: — _ _ Dcrdeaitx and Cette (Mackenzie), 504 f.; Ditto (Espeleta), 512 f. 50c.; Charleroi (Kysaens), 495 f. ; Caen (Delamarre), 501 f. LIONS, FEB. 10.—Marseilles and Avignon, 992 f. 50c.; Paris and Orleans, 1,295 f. ; Paris and Rouen, 1,027 f. 50c. BUSINESS ONE IN FOREItIN RAILWAYS AT TILE THE INDIAN MAIL. (From the Times.) Bank Stock .. • . .. • • . • • . 208% Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities 97% 97 Three per Cent. Consols Annuities • • 967 %%14 New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Aims. 99 98%x Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 - Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 India Bonds,. 1,0001 .. . Ditto, under 1,0001. . • . Consols for Account .. • • .. 97 96%n Exel.equer Bills. I%d. I%d. 1,0001. • • .. .. • . 38 —— pin 5001. .• .. • . •• .• 38 40 pin Ditto, Small . • •• .. 40 38 —pm PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent... 40% Milan Bonds, 6 per Cent. .. • • Ditto, Deferred • • • . 52% Granada, 1 per Cent. .. • • • • 24 23% Ditto, Deterred • • • . 5► 4 Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent .. • • 39 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent. .. Ditto, Three per Cent .. • . .. Ditto, for the Account .. •• 3854 Dividends on the above payable in London. - Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cent. 9854 Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 60)6 Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 95% 95 Ditto, for the Account .. 95% •• -•- •. 10 7-16 BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE. Bridgewater and Minehead .. • • 425. .. • • to Bristol and Exeter .. • • ~ 70 .... 89 .. ••to Ditto, New .. • • • • 5 .... 13% .. •. to 12% Buckinghamshire • • .. 425. .... % p.. to — 34 Caledonian .. .. •• • • • •. 10 .... 14%...• to Ditto Half Shares .. • • .. 234 .... .• • • to Cork and Waterford .. .. • • .. .... 1 .. ••to Direct Manchester (Remington' s ) .. 2% .... 1% •••• to Direct Manchester (Rastrick's) .. • . 5%.... 4 .. • • to Direct Northern • • .. .. 2 34 .... 234 to Dublin and Belfast Junction .. .. 5 .... •.ti Dublin and Galway .. • • • . 4 .. • . 434.... to Eastern Counties .• • • .• 141. 16s. 0d..... 22% .... to Ditto, New .. •• .• 81. 16s. 04..• .. 734 pto Ditto, York Extension .. • . 105..... 1 34 %•• to - Eastern Union .. • •• 21 •••• .• ••to Ditto, Extension to Norwich .. .• 234 .• • • to 3% Edinburgh and Glasgow .. .• •• 50 .... 80 .. ••to . -Ditto, Halt Shares •. .. • . .. 5 .... 163434 • • to Ditto, New Quarter Shares .• •• 10 .. • • 1634 • • • to Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester .. 2% .... 2% .• ••to Goole. Doncaster, and Shofileld.&e,.. 425. 1 9434 p to Grand Union (Nottingham and Lynn) 1% ...• 13a % to Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 15 .. 22 •• to Great Western .. • • • • ... 85 .• .. 155 .. ••to Ditto, Half Shares • • • • 50 .... 87 .• • . to Ditto, Quarter Shares • . .. • • 6 .. •• 13 •• ••to Ditto, Fifths .. • • .. 20 .. • • 3134 .. • • to Hull and Selby .. .. • • .. .. 50 ....107 % .• to Leicester and Bedford .. • • • . 225. .. • • 34 p.. to Liverpool, Mauch, and Newc. Janet. 234 .... 3% ••to London and Birmingham •. • • ..100 •• • .224 ex div to Ditto. Quarter Shares .. • • • • 2 .... 27 .. • to Ditto, Fifths .• .. • • • • • . 2 .. •. 25 ••to London and Blackwall • • 161. 13s. 4d. .• • • 9 .. ••to Ditto, New • • .. • • .. 234.... .. ••to Loedon and Brighton • • • • .. 50 .... 66% ex dtoGT x d London and Croydon .. • . 131. 15s. 9d. •• 22% ••to London and Greenwich 12/. 15a. 4d. .. • • 9 •• • • to 10 London and South Western . 411. 6.i. 10d. •• • • . to Ditto, New • • • • • .. 1234 24% .. to London and York .. .• • .. 234 .... 414 .. •• to 4 Ditto, Ralf Shares • • • . •• • - .... 2% •• • • to Manchaster and Leeds .. • • .. 82 •. • • to -- Ditto, Extension • • • • • • 425. .... 3 p•. to Manchester and Birmingham .. .. 4O ••• 79 .. • • to Ditto, Quarter Shares • . • • • • 4 •• 12 .. •.to Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock • • 425. .. • • 1% p.. to Manchester and Southampton .. • • 2 .. • • 2%%.• to Midland Ditto, New • • • • • • • .. 12 .... 2814 .. to Ditto, Birmingham and Derby ..100 ....120 .. •• to 122 Newcastle and Darlington Junction .. 25 .. •.. 45 .... to Ditto, New .. .. • • .. 1 .... 10%.... to Ditto, New, Brandling .. • • •• 20 .. •• S 9 ••to Newcastle and Berwick • • • • •• 10 ...• 22% •.to Newark, Sheffield, and Bostoit • • 2%.... to North British .. • • • • • • 17% .• ••.. to Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. • • 1%.... 3 •••• to North Kent and Direct Dever .. .• ... to North Staftbrdshire • •• • • 425. • • 3 34 %pto Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton 12%.... 15% .. • • to Portsmouth I divot • • • • 3% 414.... t o Scottish Central .. •• • • .• • • 734 .. • • 16% • • to Ditto New • • •• • • • • 2 % •• • • 2 1 ,4 •• •. to --- Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. • • 234 ...• 334 .. to Shropshire. Union • • • •• • • 425. .. • • par.—. to gomersetshi re Alidiand •• 2% • • 1% 34.. to Soutti Midland • • • • • • • • • 421. 2%34 pto South Eastern and Dover .. • • • • 3134.... •• • • to Ditto, New, No. 4 • • • • .. 234 •• • 3% % • to Trent Valley • • • • • 5 .. • • 24 2334 to 25 Wexford, Waterford, and Valentia 1% •• 1% ••• to Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth .. 234 ...• 3g.. ••to Yarmouth and Norwich .. • • .. 20 .. •• 2734 xdto York and North Midland .. • • .. 50 .... 1% .• .• to Ditto, Extension .. •• .. 15 .• •• 33 •••• to FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens • • .. 10 •• 12 .... to 11% Bord., Toulouse, & Cette (Mackenzie) 2 •• • • 234 .... to Ditto, ditto (Esrelete) • • .• • . 2 .. • . 2% .... to Dendre ' Valley • • • • • • • • • • 2 •• • • %••• • to Dutch Rhenish .. • • • • • • 5 • • • 7% to Great Northern of France Constituted 5 • • 15 .... to Great Western Bengal • • • • is. •• • • 3f l •••• to Italian and Austrian • • • 3 •• • • 1% .... to Luxembourg • • .• .. 4 .• • • 23434„ to Madrid and Valentia .. • . .. 2 .. • • 114.... to Orleans and Bordeaux • • .. 6.• .. 11%14 •to MINES. Real del Monte, Unregistered • • 4 •••• to "THE SUN" EXPRESB.—Our enterprisingeontemporary The Sun, with whom energetic enterprise is a constitutional quality, not satisfied with merely expressing Sir Robert Peel's speech on the development of the Ministerial measure, at the opening of this important campaign, has been fol lowing up the work by sending express editions, contain ing the debate as it proceeds each night up to half-past eight o'clock. The effect of this has been to give some of the most important speeches to the provinces many hours before the arrival of the morning papers. Monday night's debate was especially important, and the express of that evening proportionally serviceable, because in giving the speeches of the mover and seconder of the amendment (among others), we had the whole case of the Opposition, which was just no case at all, at our breakfast table, in this blessed city of Exeter, the next morning, and had our digestion improved by seeing how little the monopolists had to say for their system. The Sun stands still at the head of the movement " Go a head" is still its motto.— Western Times. " Tut SUN" EXPRESSES.—We received from Mr. Rutherglen, at twelve o'clock last night, an Express Edition of The Sun newspaper of Monday evening, containing be tween seven and eight columns of the great debate on the repeal of the corn-laws. Our contemporary is well known over Great Britain for the liberal exertions it ever makes upon occasions like these; and confers a benefit on the com munity by its enterpise, which is very generally recegnist d. Its report upon this occasion was not only of great length, but of much accuracy. —Glasgow Argus. "THE SUN" EVENING NEWSPAPER. —We were in dented to Mr. Murdo Young, the proprietor of the above jour nal, for a copy of The Sun on Tuesday night, containing a full report of the speech delivered by Sir Robert Peel, in which he announced a great reduction in the taxation of the country, and the prospective abolition of the corn-laws. The Sun was forwarded the same evening, by special engines, to all parts of the country, and arrived in Paris some hours be fore the morning journals. A special messenger from Bel- gium was also supplied with proof slips, with which he de parted on the instant, and thus was the important Ministerial statement read in the Netherlands at least a day earlier than it could be known through any other channel. Such activity is unexampled in journalism, and we hope the spirited pro prietor of The Sun may reap a rich reward for his exertions. —Dispatch, Feb. 1. LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 13. Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette (Espeleta), 24-Central of Spahr, 1 -Ceylon, 1 -Dutch Rhenish, 7 -East Indian, 1% -Great North ern of France Constituted, 15 4 —Great Western Bengal, 34- Louvain and Jernappe, 2 -Luxembourg, 2%-Madrid and Valentia, 1 - Paris and Lyons (Cannel on's), 3%-Paris and Orleans, 49%-Paris and Rouen, 39-Rouen and Havre, 28%.: We are glad to learn that Mr. Cobden's health improves, and that he is now in a fair way of recovery. Should the heavy debate be protracted till the end of next week, perhaps he may yet throw some new life into it. We understand that the mail from India, which arrived yesterday, has brought no letters or dispatches from the Governor-General. It is known, however, from the most unquestionable authority, that the advanced guard of the British army was attacked, on the evening of the 18th of December, by the Seikh troops. The enemy was repulsed, and driven back for upwards of three miles, with the loss of seventeen pieces of cannon. This affair occurred at Moodkee, a place about twenty-two miles to the north-east of Feroze pore, and having opened a communication with Sir John Littler, who commanded at that post, and having been joined by the corps under that officer, attacked the enemy's intrenched position at four o'clock in the afternoon of the 21st. The first line of intrenchments was carried ; but the night was so dark that further operations were suspended. At dayl;ght en the 22d the second line of in trenchments was attacked, and all the enemy's defences wore, in half an hour, taken in reverse, and the guns captured. On the afternoon of the 22d the enemy advanced with their in. fantry, and hordes of camels earrying swivels, for the purpose of retaking the guns they had previously lost. All the at tacks, however, which they made were repulsed ; and after a cannonade, which had no result, they withdrew, and retired to a place called Sultankhanwalla, about ten miles from Fero zepore, where they had still some heavy artillery. The British army would be joined by two battalions of native in fantry, which were not in the previous actions, and the enemy's position at Sultanhkanwalla was to be attacked on the 24th. No accounts have been received of the specific loss on either side, nor is the name of any officer mentioned. The captured guns amounted to 65 counted, and there were some more in a village on the British right. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. • Cl7'Y, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was dull. Sales, 4,000 bales. Shares offered no feature. • Messrs. Lamond's Share auction yesterday was well attended, but the prices of the new lines were again worse :—Dutch Hanoverian, 21. I s.6d.—East Indian, If. Gs.—North Staffordshire, Churnet, and Potteries, Si. 16s.—Isle of Axholme, Gainsborough, and Goole, 2/. 2s. 6d.—Waterford, Wexford, and Valentia, 11. 9s.—Calcutta and St. George's Point, 10s. 6d.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 31. 10s.— Vale of Neat'', 21. 19s.—Leicester and Bedford, 11. 4s. - London and Manchester (ltemington's), 11. 14s.—Great North and South Wales, and Worcester, 11. 6s.—Bordeaux and Mediterranean, IL 19s.—War wick and Worcester, U. Os. ed. There is still an entire absence of ship or other arrivals with foreign news of interest, if we except the details received from the Continent respecting the alarming scarcity of food in some parts, and the riots resulting therefrom, all indicative of the want of stocks from which we are at all likely to get largely supplied, and further showing that the United States and Canada will have to be our chief resource. The following are the chief points of variation in the Bank of Eng land return shown for the week, to the 7th inst.:— Notes issued .. .. • • .. £26,698,620 An increase of .. .. • • 111,265 Other Deposits .. .. 18,912,445 An increase of .. .. • • 1,875,615 Seven Day and other Bills .. .. 963,688 A decrease of • .. 23,414 Other Securities • • • • • • 22,908,661 An increase of .. .. • • 1,441,664 Bullion • • • • • • .. 13,335,645 An increase of • . 47,301 The Securities and Deposits, therefore, were again under the influ ence of the railway lodgments. The English Stock market opened flatly again this morning, from the paucity of business ; but it is impossible, while there is a chance of renewed purchases by the Chancery broker, that stock should be come at al. plentiful. Indeed the amount already absorbed must, until resold, exercise a most important effect in keeping up prices. Consols have been 96% to 96% for transfer on Monday, and 97 to 96% for Account. Exchequer-bills have realised 355. to 40s. pre mium. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 99 to 98%, and the Three per Cents. 97% to 97. The Foreign Investments have been very quiet. Spanish Three per Cents, are 38%; Chilian Deferred, 52%; Buenos Ayres, 403{,; Grenada, 24 to 23% ;- 'Peruvian, 39. Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cents, have been 98%, and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 60%. There has been a fair business done in railway shares, and prices generally are supported. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) LONDON-, FEB. 14.—Wind W., light breeze, and fine weather. FAtsrouTri, FEN. 12.—Sid. Rifleman, Hammack, Sydney, New South Wales. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 13.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrd. Challenger, Arche bald, China aSalisbury, Hubback, 3loulmein ; Dream, Alley, Para ; Poalac, New Orleans. Sid. St. George, Hutchinson, New Orleans ; Susqueliannah, Turley, Philadelphia; Medora, M`Neill, Halifax. Off Port, }lelvellyn, and Avoca. The fiat, Morning Star, of Northivlek, from Wicklow, has put into Southport, with damage, and leaky, &c. having been ashore on Yeds Bank. The Heywood, from Africa, on shore on Carnarvon Bar, has been towed off and alongside the Quay, after cutting away main and mizen masts ; her leaks have lieen stopped, and is fit to proceed to this port. STRONINESS, FEB. s.—Sid. Orivell, Colburn, St. John's, New Bruns wick ; Rapid, Largee, Molitnre. DOVER, FEB. 13.—The Joseph, of Yarmouth, Brereton, from Seaham, was in contact off Beachy Head, this morning, with the Matchless, of Scilly, and sunk soon after; crew saved. CLYDE, FEB. 12.—Wind N.W.—gld. lied ora, Il`Pherson, Trinidad; James Edward, Webster, New Orleans ; Europa, Boyle, Trinidad ; Michigan, United States. Yelimou'rn ROADS, Feb_ 12.—Arrd. Brunswick, Morrison, St. Andrews. HARTLEPOOL, FEB. 11. —Sid. Merchant, Storey, Monte Video. NEWPoRT, Feb. 13.—The Rostrum, of Christhuistadt, bound to Malta, in hauling out of the Cardiff docks, caught the ground and lay athwart the Gut ; is much strained and vex} , leaky. Bzmisr, FEB. 2.—The Horsferd, Drennan, frem Liverpool to Trii.idad, which was on shore in Lame Lough, was got off yesterday after discharging a greet part of cargo. STRONNESS, FEB. 5. —The Jessie, of Week, bound to Londonderry, drove on the Quarry Rocks, 3d inst., lightened and got off into the harbour, and hauled on the beach for survey. The Marquis or Queensberry, from St. John's, N. 8., which was at the back of the Holmes, 31st ult., waterlogged, has been hauled on the beach, had her leeks stopped, and will proceed to Leith in a day or two. Cur, FEB. 12.—A boat, marked " John Bannister, of Hull," has been picked up in the harbour, supposed to have belonged to a vessel which appears to have foundered off this coast within the last few days. DEAL, FEB. 13.—Arrd. from the River, William Gales, Venus, Bombay. Arrd. from the River and sailed, Arequipa, Cragg, Hobart Town; New Express, Hewett, Calcutta, &c.; Westminster, Honey, New York ; Fellowship, Armstrong, Bahia ; Curraghmore, Ball, Ascension ; Murillo, Woodside, Havannah ; Mary Caroline, Brewer, St. John's, N.B. BRISTOL, FEB. 13.—Arrd. Falcon, Savage, gto. Jim's, N.B. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) COVENT-GARDZIN. For the time of the year, a very large supply of both Fruit and Vegeta:flea was again on offer, while the demand ruled heavy, at barely last week's quotations :—Potatoes from 3s 6d to 7s 6d per cwt ; Turnips, Is 3d to 2s 3d ; Carrots, 4s 6d to 6s 6d ; Greens, is to 25 94. ; and Leeks, 10d to is 8d per dozen bunckes ; Onions, 2s to 2s 9d ; Apples, is 6d to 45 ; Pears, 5s to 6s ; and gpinach, is 6d to 2s per half sieve; forced Potatoes, 10d to Is 6d ; Pine Apples, Cs to ; and Aborts, la to la 4d per lb ; Savoys 10d to is 3d ; and Cauliflowers, 2s to 6s per dozen ; celery, Is to 2s 3d ; Horseradish, 2s to 5s ; forced Asparagus, 55 to Gs ; and ditto Elaubarb, 2s 6d per bundle; Oranges, 6s to 12s; and Lemons, 7s to lOs per hundred ; Sea kale, 2s 3d to 5s per punnet; Turnip Greens, 2s 3d per bushel. NUN GERPORD. The supplies of most articles on sale to-day were but moderate, yet the general demand was heavy, and prices had a downward tendency. NEVI/GATE AND MILA.DENNA.IO74. The trade here to-day was heavy on the following terms. Beef from 2s 6d to 38 6d; Mutton, 3s 8d to 4s 8d ; Veal, 4s 4d to 5s 2d; and Pork, 3s 8d to 5s 2d per Sibs. Turkeys, 3s 8d to 13s; Geese, 58 Gd to ;s; Ducks, Is 6d to 2s Gd ; Tame Rabbits, Is 6d to is 8d; Wild ditto, 4d to 10d ; Pigeons, 10d to Is 2d ; and Roasting Pigs, 61 to 9s each ; Fowls, 48 to 9s per couple ; Pheasants, 48 to 58 ; Part ridges Is 8d to 2s 3d ; Leverets, 2s to 3s; Hares, 3s to 3s 6d; Wood cocks, 2s 6d to 3s ; Clouse, is; Snipes, 8d to is 3d ; Wild Ducks, Is 6d to 2s; Widgeons, Is 3d to Is 6d _and Plovers, 6d to 9d each. BREAD. The prices of Wheaten Bread in the metropolis are from 9d to 934 d ; of Household do., 6%cl to B%d per 4lbs loaf., RIDE IVIAMEET. Market Hidos, 561 b to 6 41b, 2%d to 3d ; do. 641 b to 721 b, 3d to 314 d ; do. 721 b to 801 b, 3%ci to 33 d ; do. 801 b to 831 b, 334 d to 3%d ; do. 881 b to 961 b, 334 d to 4d ; do. 96113 to 1041 b, 4d to 4 1 0; Cat Skins (each), 3s 9d to 7s ; Horse Hides, 13s ; Polled Sheep, 4s to 5s 9d ; Half itreds, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; Downs, 3s to 38 10d ; Lambs, 3sto 4s. NEWPORT. Beef from 2s 10d to 3s 8d ; Mutton, is Bd to 4s 10d ; Veal, 4s 4 53 4d, and Perk, 3s 10d to 5s 2d per Ms. BILLINGSGATE. Turbots,fis to 18s ; Brills, 2s 6d to 7s 6d ; Cod Fish, 38 to 9s , Whitings, 4d to 10d; Mackerel, Gd to 10d; Lobsters, is t• 3s; and Crabs 6d to 2s each ; Soles, 6d to 3s per pair, Smelts, is to 3s, and Thames Flounders, is 6d to 2s per dozen; Salmon, is 2d to is 9d per lb ; Eels, 6d to la 2d; and Crimped Scats, Ed to 9d per Ib. . . WEITECHAPEL. Beef from 2s 6d to 3s 6d ; Mutton, 38 6d to 4s 8d ; Veal, 4s 4d to 5s 2d ; and Pork, 33 3d to 5s 2d per Bibs. /LILY 11IARILET8. SMITHFIELD.— Meadow Hay, 3/ 5s to 418 s; Clover ditto, 41 511 to 51 8s ; Oat Straw, 11 10a to 11 12s ; Wheat Straw, 11 12s to 11 14s per load. A fair average supply, and a steady demand. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 31 88 to 41 108 ; Clover ditto, 41 4s to 51 8s ; Oat Straw, 11 lOs to 11 12s ; Wheat Straw, 11 13s to 11 15s per load. Trade firm, at full prices. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 31 5s to 418 s ; Clover ditto, 415 s to 5/ 12s 6d; Oat Straw, 1/ lOs to I/ I2s , Wheat Straw, 11 12s to 1/ 14s per load. Supply good, and trade rather dull. ROLLS COURT.-(THIS DAY His Lordship sat to.day at ten o'clock. DeCLELLAND V. COLESWORTII. The hearing of this case was resumed. It was a demurrer, and was quite devoid of public Interest. LONDON SESSIONS -(THIS DAY (Before the Loan MAYOR, RECORDER, - and ALDERMEN.) The grand jury having been sworn, were addressed by the Recorder who congratulated them on the extreme lightness of their business. Several of the petty jury were fined 101. each for non attendance. Samuel Breffett, an elderly man, formerly in the employ of the London Dock Company as a cooper, Iv as indicted for violently assaulting James Northcote, superintendent of the tobacco depart ment of the same docks. The defendant pleaded guilty. Mr. BALLANTINE said he appeared on behalf of the London Dock Company, and although the defendant had pleaded guilty, he felt bound to call witnesses to show the determined and aggravated na ture of the assault. The facts were these, the defendant had been discharged In November 1g44, and at that time expressed strong feelings of revenge against the complainant. On meeting him on Tower Hill he followed him, striking a violent blow with an iron bar, and continuing his violence until assistance arrived. The Learned COUNSEL called witnesses, who produced the iron. (It was termed a "stave iron," or large Iron chisel eighteen inches long.) Defendant said that he was annoyed, for after he had been dis charged from the tobacco warehouse, the complainant sent round to prevent him from obtaining work at other warehouses. The complainant positively denied this. The RECORDER asked defendant, who had exhibited great obstinacy during the case, whether he could get any one to become bail for him? Defendant said he could not, there was no one he could ask. The ItacoaDEß then gave judgment, that defendant should be im prisoned for six weeks, and afterwards enter into recognizances to keep the peace for three years, observing that there appeared to be a great degree of malignancy in defendant's conduct; and if he re peated his misconduct he would be again indicted, his recognizances estreated, and, as he had no one who would be answerable for him, the term of his imprisonment would very likely be permanent. MARLBRO-STREET.-(THIS DAY.. ANOTHER CAPTURE OF GAMBLERS.--Between two and three o'clock this morning, Superintendent Beresford, accompanied by a strong body of police, proceeded, in pursuance of a warrant from the Commissioners, to effect an entrance into a common gaming -house, No 162, Piccadilly, opposite to the end of St. James's-street, and having done so, they succeeded in capturing in the upper part of the house five persons, who at the station-house described themselves as follows :—John Richardson, of No. 15, Jermyn-street, St. James's, dentist; William Cartwright, of No. 1, Exeter -street, Strand, sur geon ; Charles Burton, of No. 4, Little St. James's-street, gentleman ; John Edwards, of No. 5, Arundel-street, Haymarket, surgeon ; and John Davison, of Alpha Cottages, Maida-hill, artist. The charge entered against them is " for having been found in a certain common gaming -house without lawful excuse." The house was fitted up in a superb and costly style, the hall-porter being dressed up in a splendid livery. An ante-room was set out with a profusion of refreshments, wines, &c. The whole of the defendants procured bail at the sta tion-house. Two persons, named George Chapman and Joseph Smith, were also taken into custody, and charged with assisting in conducting the concern. The examination of the defendants is postponed until this afternoon The late Viscountess Canterbury has, by her will, given the splendid large dejeuner service of porcelain china, formerly belonging to the late Archbishop Sutton, to the present Viscount. Her Lad, ship has also given to her son, Captain J, Home Purves, of the Guards, all her plate, which was her Ladyship's previous to her marriage with the late Viscount ; and to her daughters, Mary and Ellen, all the furniture and books ; and to her daughter, Frances, the contents, whatever they may be, of her two jewel boxes at her bankers. The late Viscount Canterbury's picture, by Heffner, is left to the Hon. Henry - Manners Sutton. Other specific bequests are left to the lion. Mrs. Sanderson, Lady Bles&ngton (the Viscountess's sister), and to the Earl of Auckland. Pecuniary bequests, amounting together to about 6,0001., are left between her three daughters, Mar guerite Home Purees, Ellen Home Purves, and Frances Diana Man. ners Sutton. The residue, real and personal, in trust for her daugh ters, Marguerite, Mary, and Ellen. Her Ladyship's will was proved by her son, Captain Purves, the Earl of Auckland, and J. A. Powell, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn, her executors, under 9,0001., exclusive of pro perty out of the province of Canterbury. The Viscountess made her will in October, 1844, four months after his Lordship's death, and a codicil on the 15th of November, only the day previous to her death. Her Ladyship was in her 55th year. The late Viscount's will has not yet been proved.—Pest. MR. NEWMAN'S LIBRARY.—The whole of the exten• sive and valuable library belonging to Mr. Newman has been re moved from Littlemore, near Oxford, to Oscott College, Birmingham It contains upwards of fifteen thousand volumes, of which ten thou sand arc folio. News has reached England by the overland mail from India of the total loss of the East India Company's brig of war Coste, near Calicut. The officers and crew were saved. ALTERATION IN THE CORN -LAWS, 1842.—A Cork mercantile firm, D. Lane and Son, have netted 17,0601. by the mis take made by Sir Robert Peel in the day upon which his corn-law of 1842 took effect. The lion. G. Cathcart, Colonel unattached, has been appointed Deputy Lieutenant of the Tower. The gallant officer was aide-de-camp at Waterloo and other engagements. He is brother to, Earl Cathcart, Colonel-in-chief of the 1 ith Hussar s , an d C ommander of the Forces in North America. Northallerton Great Candlemas Horse Fair com menced on Monday last, and is now being held. First-rate coach horses, hunters, and nags have not been so plentiful as on some former occasions, while the demand has been good, and high prices given. The most eminent dealers from London, Edinburgh, and all parts of the country, as well as several foreigners, have been in attendance, and have made large purchases. Viscount Castleraigh arrived from Paris last evening to vote on the division on the Ministerial measure now before the House of Cemmons. Doßizetti has left Paris in care of his Physician, for Nice. No hopes are entertained of his receviuy. SECESSION OF ANOTHER OXFORD DIVINE. The Rev. J. M. Chanter, M.A., formerly of Oriel College, Oxford, and vicar of Ilfracombe, Devonshire, whose pulpit, it will be remembered, Dr. Pusey occupied with the licen se o f t h e Bishop of Exeter during his suspension by the University authorities, has followed Mr. Newman's example, by conforming to lthe Roman Catholic com munion. Mr. Chanter is the forty-third member of the University of Oxford who has conformed to the Roman Church from among the Tractarian party within the last three years. Lords Shelbourne, Bruce, and Foley, with Mr. Row land Errington, are actively employed in conjunction with the Baron Brunnow, the Prince Lieven, and other persons of distiction, in form ing the club :at Coventry-house, which is to be established on a footing of great splendour. WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, FEB. 13.—We have very short supplies of all grain. The Wheat trade is very firm for fine and dry samples, but all other sorts are nearly unsaleable. Fine Barley sells on former terms ; no demand for common qualities. Beans Is. per quarter higher. Oats for seed fetch good prices, but mealing sell at a reduction of 'Ad. per stone. Shelling, also, is in slow request. Malt as before. DISSOLUTION OF THE LIVERPOOL ROYAL STOCK EXCHANGE.--As a sign of the times the dissolution of tills exchange might be adduced as important. A new association opened on Mon day, into which, we believe, the bulk of its members, together with many who have seceded from the association in Bank-buildings, have seceded.—Liverpool Courier. CORONER'S INQUEST IN THE QUEEN'S PRISON.—On Friday a lengthened investigation took place in the Queen's Prison, before Mr. Payne, the City Coroner, on the body of Mr. John Frost, late a Chancery prisoner, who died in the above-mentioned gaol on Wednesday night last. The Governor of the prison stated that the deceased was brought to the prison lu December, 1844, a bill having been filed against him for contempt of the Court of Chancery. Ile was latterly detained for the costs of the suit, which amounted to be tween forty and fifty pounds. In consequence of the declining state of his health, ho was removed to the infirmary in December last. Every attention was paid to him, and he was supplied with wine and nourishing food. The prisoner had it in his power to apply for his discharge in forma pauperis, but which he did not do. Af er the production of a variety of evidence from the surgeon of the prison and from Mr. Cobbett and other friends of the deceased, the jury re turned a verdict of—" Natural death, accelerated by long im prisonreent " THE REFUGE FOR THE DESTITUTE.—The Committee of the Society of the Refuge for the Destitute have this week caused their asylums in Playhouse-yard, Whitecross-street, and Glasshouse yard, East Smithfield, to be opened for the reception of the house ' less poor. In consequence of the mildness of the weather, It was thought not necessary to receive inmates, though repeated applica tions were made by poor creatures who were suffering from poverty and destitution. Since Monday, the inmates have amounted nightly to about 300, men, women, and children (the greater portion of the nen being from the agricultural districts) at each of the establish ments, who, on their being admitted, and on leaving, had sev era lly a thick slice of bread each. At Glasshouse-yard there are baths; but in the absence of that accommodation at Playhouse -yard, each is provided with water, a towel, and soap, by the matron, evening and morning. DUTCH MAIL. I in th:01? THE HAGUE, FEB. 7.—The archives belongig# I I ) 1, ii oi ti e, ci Netherlandsl 1 3 f - i o h f e L 2 i 7mthbujrougnn Tuesday were to th ir 'IIP We learn that the Belgian Commissioners 1/I „,biciv u l es B4 d s a . y last, according (lays, to Maastricht, to receive the archives ''' to the Belgian provinces of Limburg. add`' Tits HAGUE, FEB. 9.—Among the petitionsee the Second Chamber, which were read 60-, we find three on the reprisals adopted agi u by the resolution of the sth of January. A W l ' I. That of Messrs. Vanden ' Henvell, Son( anr ng ite t , cerned in the fisheries a t Vlardengen, &C., PraYO d ber to sanction the reprisals against Belgiute, interll.est of our fieries. a c' : 4 The address of Messrs. Varkevissen an d N ov same effect, and founded on the interest of SP" , men, with their families. c de ", H. An address from Mr. M. AL ' and other i n h a bit an t s o f the commu ne 0 , 8 01 0 in the provi nce o f Z e tl an d, con taining el e approving of the said measures of reprisal. fot o*, unquestionable authority," says the Leinburg;'coolP; in one of the late sittings of the Chamb er Ruremcnde, the members unanimously agre e ; Flee) King, thanking hi s M a j es t y f or the energet!teceolle:' tamed in his decree of th e sth of January',roe L ' de lea Haye) stated l as t May that the ,-f* had already addresse the : Generl for I st it! the prsi6iis of Be d lgium.States We are asasured 'leo addressed a memorial tO the Chambers, a sking i' do pii‘' , win the decree of the sth of January till the 8 0 0 teacykeitathbeleneacrersasnagreymsetnetpsbetthwaetenthtehe two rc ill may not be forgotte n i n th e f u t u rr d tre n a c ti ti:l-.°9l)°il February 11. 6. 0 1 DUTCH FIJNDS.—AiturraiLDA 1L 604 . 4 0 Actual Debt, 234 per Cent.• •• •• •• • 7 3 , hitt°, 3 per Cent •• • • 91% Ditto, 4 per Cent. Amort Syndic, 4% per Cent.• •• •• " 60 I„ ° Ditto, 3% per Cent... ... .• •• 164 Commercial Company, 4% per Cent • 94 3 East India Loan, 4 per Cent ••• • • • •••• 19 2 Exchange on London, at sight ••• • • 19 Two months... ••• • •• •• 35 •• On Hamburgh, at sight " Two m0nth5........... •••• —Dutch Papers, Feb. 7. • A rOjitt AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIV 4—„ • 5 per Cent. Afetalliques. • • • • • • • • ' '• 4 per Cent. ditto • •• • • •• " •• 3 per Cent. ditto• 1 0 Loan, 1834....... ....... .• ..... ' .• Ditto, 1839 ............ ..... .•• •• Esterhazy's Loan • • • •• • ' '• • 1 RAILWAYS. ..• 1P The Northern, or Ferdinand .• •• '' • ;9 3 / 4 Gloggnitz .. Vienna—Milan ........... • • • • •''• Pesth .... Sienna ..... • ••• Grosetto • • Oldenburg .• . • • •• Pestoja ................ —Allgemelne Zeitung, Feb. 9. PRUSSIAN FUNDS. —By al-' 1.0., P.•'„ 1 St. Schuld Sch., 3% per C en t •. • • ..... ' .91 i Pruss. English Bonds, 1830, 4 per Cent•• •"• ,4 . • ills Foreign Exchanges • • 69. , Exchange on London, .£1 Sterling, 2 310 Hamburgh, 300 Marks, 2 31ontil9. Paris, 300 fr., 2 Months • • ••' On Paris • • • • • " • • Two months • •• • •• • • •' • —Universal Prussian Gazette, Feb. 8. "......' 10I'' 1.G 4 THE CASE OF POIS BROMLEY. . 0 sr o je The inquiry into thi s mys t er i ous affair - ofr' 4 11! yesterday, at the S waa I nn , B rom ley, by c000t" Coroner. Before any evidence was adduced, t lic e riit 4 , Sl ,s/' private communication to the jury, and the r o , course not allowed to transpire. s o I‘ . lllo/i; 1 When the public were admitted, Serge, no s , -'s division of police , was examined, and he u e ,,r e er°,44' after the death o the deceased, he was 011 %elv, the chapel, after the service, and he bad el, es ell the Rev. Mr. Verrell, and some other gee' o sefpri the chapel, and they gave him the names °f the of they believed might k now somet hi n g sil k said they - appeared very anxious to give b' D IV in their power. ,hlOl Eyed r Mr. Bergley was re - ca ll e d, an d h e sa id 1 10 h, bol o although wh e n h e was b e f ore summoned' h e ld g i r t y i any meeting of the h ea d s o f t h e c h a p e l wei s ,i,beu,o ject of the death of th e d ecease d , h e n ow o p , o r he recollected that there was such a meeting' )1r• lo t KiThn was sent for. g e CORONER said th a t b o th the witne ss e ;tv had stated most positively, on the previous d e'r ,ie , such meeti ng t oo k p l ace . Mr. Bergley admitted it was so; but be ' y , sitive that there was a meeting. fro' fa ;1 1 Sergeant King, in answer to a question ikiog 0, 41 , ibt a bt said he had frequently seen the deceased " It 00,1, and on a Sunday evening shortly before h er . f ,to. t iol l o r, , walking with a man, but he could not identitiostio 1 ,1 % Mrs. Field deposed that she was on very le d fioesr,tP the deceased, and that she was in the habi t f tl3 , e o', ° l4; husband's house in London. In the ennil. e . ° ,reO fo siltP she obsert ed that the deceased apPeared the had not the least suspicion that sh: .h w e r he ' r th b e etfie t;i 4 The CORONER asked the witness • 01 dr rior ever informed her of there being any intirn„be O a t any young man ?—The witness replied tha'", c hic Mr. Field, her husband, produced a letter,eol/01, from the Rev. M r . V erre ll on th e 9 t h of Is°l after the death of the d ecease d. Th e l e tter . t o to the effect that they had been plunged yi l d, trouble by the death of their dear young fr' e- ,, c e0,.";1,,t• er ton being found dead under stich circurniti o l P, 0 1) a coroner ' s jury' to be assembled, and that t vt in order that there might be a post-morte's e ,. doc e t be f t/" certain whether she had taken any drug t°, ; P :lb s oe f l 7 4, The letter went on to say " We are of 0 1 0 ':eet' f it,, g , was occasioned by a fit caused by the excit e- j o eff, so 0 , or obtained a situation after having been place The enemies of the cross in this r` d is th e ft, infidelity and high churchism are alert, e n . to rrcoti t 6 turning out that she has taken iniythiog you will pray that the blame may not fel l t hst t , t ot cause." The letter then went on to 82Y. ireo` be, oite lo t evidence to give of the strong mental e f c oo to . ceased had exhibited for some time, hut_, ° ,pos eo ir not give that evidence unless-he•was cell e dbr The reading of this extraordinary dna" - siderable sensation in the court. , 00 0 0 . e d 0 0, The CORONER asked Mr. Field whet words The enemies of the cross," and Io w a:, 4, not able to give any explanation, and the ; u of t b rr to form a conclusion respecting the m0 0 ° 11 )014 ° r e o' o ,o • At this stage of the inquiry . the Coron e r pie r t f e ri l d r'.,p l communication with Mr. Superintende n ; is o t ei r fi viously had the case in hand, and upon Oro y att quest l room, the further proceedings wereuiry, again adjourned; and, upon the next that some important evidence will be addlyv-- olr, II The Archbishop of Canterbury an d osce• a dinner party, on Thursday last, at Lambeth ;0 0 ,/ , Archbishop completed his 80th year that daY• ogees tli", A petition, praying fo r t o t a l and i O 2 O OO o r s the corn-laws, and signed by upwards or NOW' WI? I well, was presented last night by Mr. WitklT big Yoe , e ri Sir Benjamin Brodie ha s res igne"„ c ii g r ifi r Examining •board, and, we pres ume, th e Con- ir Surgeons of England.— Chronicle. ter d4 3 i pt 0 1 4 ' i-ONDON FEVER HOSPITAL.—Yeto meeting of the supporters of this hospital ;',i'P e it SPO9O',l, masons' Tavern, Great Queen-street, the Eardtli, ~t o v, ejf):,‘ From the report made by Dr. Southwood Du t i - t or the number of patients remaining under t c lo ber,,,a1 4 40• December, 1844, was 65, since which time itso, s , le' o ° 4 o ' making a total of 610. Of that number " tli tj e ct o"; 77 had died, and 14 had been sent to other D e c o jo es t . „ o treatment 68. Fever had not been so pre` $l ,, 0 01 0 during the past as in the preceding year, whefieptsilli ' f ° d' sions was 626. More than one fifth of the IA" W lt ;p oi 0 ,0 from the City of London Uni on a t P ec khaa , ote e ger'nti accessible of the poor-houses, w as cro wded "'Tees e , v of deaths was rather higher than in 184 4 • and el• in support of the hospital amounted to 1 , 254 "'atid to 161. 10s. The report having been adopted, ,1 ) TO' / 0 4 „OA, re-elected President, the meeting se parated; C op n n. g o :l' 4 SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY.--. et - cot,,ic t r s'•`'.. Some attempts at extortion, under the nael:10 made last week by parties at Tunbridge W e ," - 10P $ f.0 0 $il'i' loi required by the South Eastern EallwaY ' ° 4, ) 1 , 0 P - 0 01 F 4! The parties were yearly tenants ; and under m agi/ 10 0 ;(11' of last session, the cases were decided by tv lo o o.," c tiP by a jury. The results were that claims offl 0 ' 61 • , 11,0 301., were adjudicated at 2501 ., 2301., 101,, an poedl their own expences.--Dover Chronicle. S ELKIRKSILIRE P E " er In consequence of Mr. Murray, th e free* „ he 00 1 •011 , 0 ' 0 , protested against a poll being taken withou t l',"„ oe f0 ,!1,p a show of hands on the nomination day , n° ,401. supporters have come forward to vote to and oPot.' .4 6 4 however, have proceeded with the pellingi ,e o.l l c ht 6 y 4 ; 4 ! 177 had registered their votes for Mr. Ellio t it_ rofs;" 38 at Galashiels.—Scotsman. 3,101- ° ,- r et O.: CHIMNEY SWEEPING. John 00 10`e °; / . 4 ' 1 ,0 6 ier sweeper, of Drury-court, was charged at 111 ata y esterday, by Mr. Steven, with sweeping as t o oe l li i o Academy by means of a child, in violation et na nl; 4 , Act. The case was supported by the testintot i ' ot, 4 up, and by the hous e k ee p er o f th e es tabliallw „ td u itt i :i was tined 20s. and costs. 01 1161°' p rii.6$ 4' VESSEL S cum.—Ye s terd ay e jos ePl'', f ete re 0 {0,4 between the Matchless, schooner, and th% ere,P, quetice of which the latter was sunk. I " b oteisr:, "is "( brought to this pert in the evening bythe ° , o l:lB / „ e tter' s gef ADVANCE OF WAGES.—The won A ie i te,,Y .ing condition, and, as a censequenca, 'a r at e : 4 , tb e c ag ° eot . been given to understand that T. Brown. 'l ite II ,to p , Ebbw Vale and Sirhewy Works, has given 1 0 or l of the improvement, by raising their wage.' G r Ao 4 %'esd arj iii‘l . moulh.shire Merlin. vlr• ha/ pee' otr CAPTAIN WILLIAMS AT NOIO r . . 2 jog , 0 10 0 0,.,.1 Williams, the Government inspector oct; week paid as a visit ; and having foun city gaol, that the dietary which the Gov e ir V o rt»e w s•s o uld t ' io ;A? •to be adopted, was net adhered to, has 001 0 ttie r „ vi through the clerk of the peace, that a mat them, because they had not enforced the at , t o s o r , ' 01' 4, 04 ,1 magistrates will try the question as r nter fere i ce s if . 0 0 jO ,. Williams or the Secretary of State to themsele re ot al) e t to be seen. They threaten to dereT that the to be seen. They threaten to d efel thst i 11 0 t ' 1 0,38,, e ts should Issue, and they w ill plea. ~t is . zio,at dietary recommended by the GoveraMf n - r dise ‘ ,4 p w r o is u o l: i l en d . est T r t o i T s, thite seems, ltealth is and the ° if it i l s l e ire w a ar t f,,7 i S e :l o s! surgeon of the gaol ; and the mag g L in ion 0 „jot ;coa e odyl dietary, as it is in the face of the s' i r ite go lf should not be forgotten that the cos i , u ;i, v On since, had similar objections, but they R ole, °l ob iniite l ; % ( p . months ago ; and it is perliaps renti,tr ,ai too sorters in the Castle are yet dead ‘ irt i it apee s g 7 o ', o l, L eo til s V e ri a r ll e t r i c o i lt l i b l Er d ; to the re i c d 1) f t ai na lc oil who a few days since were sent awaj ,nbio , a n i and , don. They were altogether unma :' n me tro ‘, tie lo : te le and d:sgusting conversation drove us,,, b0r 1 2; 41, it':`4'l ,° o 4l IL 'eSS 9 rP e ee Fe severe r e reprimand Thteh gs:ear t for o ir a° t Y h f' e t7l t ie r ' e )r a °"- releth r i l a l ' f °l i; t e from the ward. At length, when it eetT e . ii ordered ' 0 0 ; e ir dtitS having reflised to go to their rooms vs ., ' , ' ,o „ thc ito te . pri took the cat-o'-n.ne-tails, rushed ',T o ,. iheilL ore Ow n rlie pe`,,sl coveral somewhat severe lashes, de's A ls , ne igh° y e . and then confining them in differen . , ... med 019 „ cc! t% tre tL . noises, hallooing, shouting, Szc., al be zu in , subJe n ' waif; d lieo; s l, ei sons conceiving the prisoners wer e b ed bY th e Dero t o tts , ,l,e'd, treatment investigation wa- 3 ba d to go nerve irde:e s l,„ e when the "girls understood that theY tita n i orte tie j dressed themselves with their u nderAl o 'i is io , enro. other respects, behaved in the most li au(la o ';, , a s T w ee ° a il 7 ' OP , 10 inOv`' lie' la' , w , p ere ,,ra. i e d t to d g e e vi th ls er i x r m na a t n e af , ea c bl a e r , fact, and threatened ; idisCharge e l l 5 tent. • SA— oi oac, o oo o ,o, did not, however, proceed to that • , well-kt.ewn entomologist form a. , o . " c ol r atce;, ENSTOUMIOMLOGENIsTI.—Yesterday Ell ig on it iTc e ; a i r r ; ( 7,,?, e iri e - D te ll i i3 d P e - r'o V i j sri o rc .,c ial ! his sudden ful stances in consequence of ists' a l of 1 - l oon ~ Bt " Kntomolog „ vanu to el fh P e lr d u e d ee s a u s d e d d en h l arl y a b t ee h u is fo r r eB s i o dmele 7 ti : ln n e • ,gol . l o o° l o l % j v c, ' to t g i,i l': 0 0 ' the author of the Exotic Insects, c horea a the ; 1 4 1 tIOIIS for Preserving tr , o f nine 0 The deceased has left a fain y e 9la for $ unt's plan d f Qrtis timely loss. R odel itio ee DOVER REFUGE on Mr. ca w , a. harbour at Dover, and that —Dover Chronicle. miralty have at length deci aideoe' works j , . 1 .9