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THEAML ROYAL, ADELPHI. TFITS EVENING ~': -- yn . :; WITH A PORTRAIT OF LADY CORK, ENGRAVED FROM THE ORIGINAL PAINTING BY SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, AND AN ILLUSTRATION BY LEECH. The March Number, price Half-a-Crown, of BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY, will contain: — BRIAN O'LINN. • ; OR, LUCK IS EVERYTHING. By W. H. MAXWELL, Esq., Author of ",Stories of Waterloo," " Wild Sports of the West," &c. WITH AN ILLUSTRATION BY LEECH. CHAPTER Vl.—Visit to the Border—Hymeneal Preparations— Divers visitors arrive, the cempany of some of whom would have been willingly dispensed with. CHAPTER VII. —Another arrival—Captain Dangertlekl—lnterest trig disclosures of what took place at my father's, both upstairs and down stairs. A Month at Madrid. The Cornet's First Deal. The Minstrel. The Last Days of Riego, by Mrs. Romer. The Beauties of Colonos. Chesterfield and his Times, by Dr. W. C. Taylor. Curiosities of Costume, by Henry Curling. OUTPOURINGS. By D. CANTER. LIBATION Xl.—Farren's conception of the character of Touchstone -Power's eccentricity and punctuality—Liston—Hls resemblance to George IV. —His liberties with the Actors and the Audience— His parody on Opera-dancing, &c. The Gent.—Popular Zoology, by Albert Smith. Gaming, Gaming-houses, and Gamesters. To my Nephew. Tales of an Old Manorial Chamber—The Broken Sword, by Alfred Crowquill. Lady Cork, with a Portrait. TIPPERARY HALL. • The Laws—Ale and -Eichylus—Breach of Promise of Marriage and the Enchanted Horse—How to fill your glass—The Whiskey drinker and Gen. Narvaez over the Wine-shins—The Battle, the Bivouac, and the Banquet—Murcheson's Geology, and Unfeeling Outrage by Dr. Faraday on a Sunbeam, &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THE WEEKLY CHRONICLE of Saturday, the 28th February, and Sunday, the Ist of March, will con tain the Fullest Particulars of the BRITISH VICTORIES IN INDIA, from the Official Dispatches and other Sources, the Lists of Killed and Wounded, Trophies Seized, &c., &c. With the MONSTER DEBATE AND DIVISION, the Election for Smith Notts, Editorial Comments on the State of the FREE 2. , R ADE QUESTION, and a LETTER FROM COTTON TWIST r--office, 337, Strand ; and all Newsmen. Price 6d. 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 FRIDAY. at One o'clock , at their offices, at the Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London, at which place all favours, con taining instructions, are respectfully requested is be addressed. All Scrip and Share Certificates must be deposited for exa mination at least one day previously to their being offered ; and advices of results will be forwarded by the first post after the sale, and the proceeds immediately disposed of according to instructions. Offices, Hall of Commerce, Threadneedle-street, London. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, Win be perfermed a New Opera, entitled THE CRUSADERS. The principal characters will be sustained by Messrs. W. Har rison, Borrani, Horncastle, S. Jones, Weiss, Stretton, D. W. King, Miss Romer, and Miss Rainforth. To conclude with a new grand comic Pantomime, called HARLEQUIN GULLIVER ; or, Giants and Dwarfs. Harlequin, Mr. Wieland; Clown, Mr. T. Matthews ; Pitntaloon, Mr. Howell ; Columbines, Miss Hicks and Miss Lonsdale. THEATRE, ROYAL, HAYMARKET. TII IS EVENING Will be performed the Tragedy of ROMEO AND JULIET. Romeo, Miss Cushman, Mercutio, Mr. Holl; Peter, Mr. Buckstone; Juliet, Misr. S. Cushman ; Nurse, Mrs. Glover. The Band will perform the Overture, La Gaz ca Ladra," and the Waltz, "Loves Serenade." After which, the Comedy of THE OLD SCHOOL. Principal characters by Messrs. Farren, Holl, Brindal, Mrs. Clifford, and Mrs. Yarnold. To conclude with a New Farce, called LEND ME FIVE SHIL LINGS. Principal characters by Mr. Buckstone, Mr. Tilioury, Mr. Brindal, and Miss P. Horton. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. THIS EVENING Will be performed LUCK'S ALL. Principal characters by Messrs. Diddear, F. Vining, Meadows, Kinloch, Turner, and Keeley ; Miss Hicks, Mrs. A. Wigan, &c. After which, NEXT DOOR. Characters by Messrs. A. Wigan, Turner, Bellingham; Misses Ardeu, Villars, and Howard. To conclude wills she New Grand Romantic Ex travaganz ~ en titled THE ENCILANTED HORSE ; or, Prince Firouz of Persia and the Princess of Bengal. Principal Characters by Messrs. Keeley, Wigan, F. Matthews, Collier, Turner, Kinloch, &c.; Mts. dames Keeley, Villars, Hodson, Dawson, Howard, Arden, &c. Stalls, ss. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, fid. Will be repeated an entirely New Drama, sailed THE LIONESS OF THE Noßni, or, The Prisoner of Shlusselboarg. Alexis Romanouskl, Mr. Webster; Triplelearns Srout, Mr. Wright; Eliza • beth, Madame Celeste. To be followed by TAMING A TAIItAR ; or, Magic and Ma zourkaphobia. In which Messrs. Paul Bedford and Wright, Miss Woolgar, Madame Celeste, &c. will perform. To conclude with a New Farce, entitled THE PHANTOM BREAKFAST. Supported,by Mr. Paul Bedford, Mr. Wright, Miss Woolgar. &c. PRDICESS'S THEATRE. OXFORD-STREET. THIS EVENING, Will be performed the Tragedy of RICHELIEU; or, the Con spiracy. Cardinal Richelieu, Mr. Macready. Principal characters Supported by Mesr3. Cooper, Murray, J. Vining, Granby, Rya, r, Hon ner, Mrs. Stirling, and Mrs. Brougham. To be followed by a DIVERTISSEMENT, in which Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Marshall, M. Adrian, Miss Bailin, Miss Marshall, and Mdlle. Duval will appear. To be followed by Shakspeare's Play of KATHERINE AND PETHUCHIO. Petruchlo, Mr. Walla& ; Katherine, Mrs. Stirling ; Blanca, Miss E. Honer. NEW STRAND THEATRE. M. PHILLIPPE'S SOIREES and MATINEES MYSTERIEUSES. Two Morning Performances during the Week. At the urgent and reiterated solicitations of many distinguished families, and in order to accommodate the crowds who flak to attend his Morning Performances, M. PHILLIPPE will , Ave his Grand Juvenile Entertainment every Wednesday and Saturday Mornng, It Two o'clock. M. Phillippe's most Popular Deceptions and Peculiar Exrerlments will be repeated every Evening, varied by the Amusin Per formances of the Chlatini Family, and the astounding Feat of the American Brothers.—Doors open at a quarter past' Seven to com mence at a quarter before Eight. Stalls, 35.; Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, Gd. ; Pevate Boxes, 11. ls., and H. 1 ls. 6d. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHIMEATRE OF A ITS. G 1 nions career of the New Oriental Spectacle. The most suc cessful piece ever produced. Nightly overflows of rank and fashion to witness the rare pe:formances of the Colossal Elephants, train of Camels, &c. THIS EVENING Will be performed a New Drama, entitled THE RAJAH OF NAG POSE ; or, the Sacred Elephants of the Pagoda. In which the wholg of the extensive resources of the Establishment will be branght into requisition. New Scenes of the Circle, combining the unequalled Feats of the British and Foreign Company. The whole to conclude with the favourite Afterpiece of LOVE AN!) WAR. I►AVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY TILE tTRE. The greatest hit ever known. The One Hundred Female Warriors' wonderful performance, and the magnificence and effect of the New Historical Spectacle, have produced an immense sensation. Nightly crowded to the ceiling. First appearance of Mr. R. Pelham (from America), the Nigger Dancer and Singer. THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE SKA KING'S VOW ; or, a Struggle for Liberty. Supported by Messrs. Hughes, 'Rogers, Cowell, May nard, Johnson, Lewis, Heslop, Monson; Mesdms. Vining, Daly, Marlin, Miss Glover, and one hundred Female Warriors. After which, a new Farce, entitled, THE MASQUERADE BALL. Saints-Hit-'em-Bard, Mr. R. Pelham. To conclude with. THE MENDICANT. SON or, The Jew of Southwark. Supported by Messrs. Hughes, Johnson, Rogers, Cowell, Maynard, Lewis, Heslop; Mesdames H. Vining, Martin, and Daly. 110YA.L VICTORIA THEATRE Surpassing hit of " Jessie. Holmes." Triumphant rece?tion of " The Scamps of London." THIS EVENING Will be performed JESSIE HOLMES ; or, The Wild Horde of the Wolf's Lair. • Suvorted by Mr. Dale, Mr. Fredericks, Mr. E. F. Saville, Mr. Herbert, Mr.•Higgie; Miss Vincent, Miss Terry, &c. After which, HERCULES, KING OF CLUBS. Hercules, Mr. Herbert. . . To oonclude with THE SCAMPS OF LONDON. Supported by the entire strength of the company. THE WEATHER.—SIIN OFFICE, FEB. 26. TEERMoMETER, Lowest, 45; Highest, 58; Noon, 56, BAROMETER, 29.92.—W1.Yn S., fine sunshiny weather. WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 1 minute after 2. I Evening .. 24 minutes after 2 14 f l ' ' , ' . 5t ,,,,,u, •,,,,,.„ Or ~ . A -',' ' • ':' •Cti. - I t igT.ti,"... . ' 11 111 1 - .• ! • ?,,, ---- -re4 -- ,,F : 4y - tie)( • ---- '''''ii B'ir ,o , ' '• * " DI ; !lir - - r.,, I • -.75.... ontin Mt LONDON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1846. The LORD CHANcELLon took his seat on the Woolsack at Fivt -'clock. After the presentation of various petitions, The Marquis of WESTMEATH asked whether a deputation_ consisting of several persons, waited upon his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, after the conviction, and before the execution of BRIAN SEERY, to pray that the convict should not be respited, or his sentence transmuted, but that he should be executed? Secondly, whether the deputation purported to proceed from the county of Westmeath. Thirdly, N‘ , ' lle liettler such p roceed i ng is to be deemed " harsh harsh and unusual. " i Noble Marquis then went into a long statement, im pugning the couduct of the Catholic cler of Westmeath i n re 4 ;ard to th e case of BRIAN SEERY. gy The Earl of ST. GERMANS protesteck vry against what, if lie would were notdesignd afrai ofin g us anunparliantenta expression, he been made o n the ate calumniouse attack which had a body, were distßio m i r h Catholic cl erg y, w h o , as humanity. The N ob i l f thened for trheeaidr the piety letter a nd of the Lcd LieutenAnt to the re Secretary (which has already appeared) in answer question of the Noble Marquis. He believed that the od thetation, in making e actuated by the repr, sentation to the Lord Lieutenaer ectetittwas hard, a sense of duty. He would not say this cowneclun but it wal unusual ; but, considering the evide trial, and the charge of the Judge, the Lord Lie i n v a e n n ,tb e f ee l. justified in interfering to prevent the law tfrdoimd not takiry , its course. The' Marquis of WESTMEATH and the Earl of Sr. GErotAxa mutually explained. Lord STOURTON vindicated the Roman Catholic priesA ma from the attacks which had been made upon then. Lord BitotiGiimi thought that any such. discussion as the one now en!ered on tended to polmin the administra tion of justice. He hoped that Ole Catholic priests were worthy of the eulogium that had been passed . on them, and i they would be more deserving of t if they were to give up, at once and for ever, the abominable practice of deliver ing Political addresses to their flocks. If any priest, Catholic or rotestant, were to interfere with the administration of justice, it would be the duty of the judge to punish him. The County Works Presentments (Ireland) Bill was read a second time, after a few words from Lord MONTEAGLE and the Earl of oeST. GERMANS. The other Bills on the table were forwarded a stage, and their Lordships adjourned. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock, and upon doing so called the attention of the House to a discrepancy between the writ and the return for South Nottinghamshire, which was amended by the Clerk of the Crown at the table, after which Captain VYSE took the oaths and his seat for the southern division of that county in the room of Mr. CALViNV*IGIYY:, .1.• Sever al ItiLWAttillit_ re forwarded a st age , an d a great number-of_ktitidns were resented in f avour an d aga i nst the MiuisteriaLfiee4racte mere. Petition q wero, In:Ositnted in f avour o f t h e pardon of Frost, Viril4ams, anc Vone . q,, I Mr. WARIi withdrew , the notice he had given to move that th 4 petition of the Cifsegow? Kilmarnock, fuld S 3 Ayr Railway Company, with respect to their bill, be taken into consideration, and that the parties have leave to proceed with their Bill. Sir R. PEEL presented a petition from Tynemouth in favour of the reduction of the timber duties proposed by the Government. A Message from the Lords brought up:several Bills, which were read a first time and ordered to be read a second time. Sir R. PEEL, in answer to a question, said that after the decision of the House with regard to the corn-law question, he proposed to go on as rapidly as possible with the other articles of the tariff, but he intended that the House should dispose of the corn-law question first. Lord J. RUSSELL hoped at the same time that the subject of Indian corn would be taken into consideration. On the motion of Mr. O'CoNNELL, the petition from the Middleton Poor-law Union was ordered to be printed with the votes. On the question for the resumption of the debate on the corn importation measures, Mr. ROEBUCK hoped, if another night was to be devoted to the debate, the House would not be again occupied for two hours and a half with such a speech as that which they had heard the night before last. He hoped, for the honour of the House and the protectionists, that their time would be occu pied by arguments, and not by personal invectives. Sir R. 'Nous thought that the Hon. Member for Bath was the last person who ought to be so mealy-mouthed as to deprecate personalitid. Mr. BRIGHT stated, without hesitation, that all that had been said by the Honourable Member for Knaresborough with respect to Mr. WitsoN was totally without foundation. The starch manufacturers wished for no pro tection; and if they did, Mr. WlLsom would be the l as t the speeches to of was t s l u ie pp H o o rt m it ilem lt her t.rn a re unfortunate ahe re that uzh in all he but never proved them. After some observations from Mr. COLQUHOUN, Dr. Bow atxG, and Captain Vivi.or, Lord MORPETH read a letter to the House from the operatives of Yorkshire, denying the statement that they were compelled to sign petitions in favour of a repeal of the corn-laws, and stating that the operatives were more anxious for the carrying of that measure than their masters. A new writ was ordered for the borough of Brid port, in the room of Mr. Baillie Cochrane, who since his election had accepted the office of her Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds. Mr. Ross then resumed the adjourned debate on the Go vernment free-trade measures, which he moat warmly sup ported, Mr. BECKETT DENISON was sorry the Honourable Mem ber for Knaresborough was not in his place, because he had on a previous night made use of his name in a manner that he was not entitled to do. He trusted that in future for his own sake he would be more careful how he made use of the names of Hon. Members without their knowledge or assent. He denied that the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Government had deceived him into seconding the Address, but he must confess that he never thought he would have gone so far as to have proposed a total repeal of the corn laws. If he could be convinced •that a repeal of the corn laws would be beneficial to the working classes he would vote for their repeal ; but, believing that protection to corn was protection to the working classes, he felt bound to give the measures of the Government his opposition. He thought the Government ought to have given the agri culturists a lease of the Bill that was passed in 1842. He believed that agriculture was in its infancy, and that it would be able to keep pace with an increase of population. If the measure of the Government was right, the time for bringing it forward was wrong and ill-chosen. He had been elected for the West Riding because he was favourable to the protection of agriculture ; he had given no pledge to that effect, but he felt bound in honour to uphold the professions by which he had obtained his seat. If he had changed his mind he should have felt bound to resign his seat, and not state that he had done so. and with that statement to dispose of all his speeches. He was determined to stick by all his speeches, and be could not therefore support the Government. Mr. BROTHERTON supported the Government proposition, considering it a measure of humanity and justice, if the corn-laws were only abolished with a good grace. Mr. CHRisToritEn gave his cordial support to the amend ment of the Hon. Member for the city cf Bristol, believing that the Government measure was calculated to injure all classes of society. Mr. CARDWELL supported the measure of the Government. Mr. FINED opposed the Government measure. He could not believe in the sincerity of the conversion either of the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Government, or of the Noble Lord, the Member for the City of London. He believed that the majority of the population of the country were with the protectionists, and that if free trade was put up to auction by universal suffrage, it would be thrown at once into the British Channel. Her Majesty's Ministers on this question would have a nominal majority, but a bond fide ministry. In a new Parliament there would be no less than 300 protectionists. Mr. SEYMOUR opposed the Government measure. The feeling of the tenant-farmers in general he believed to be in favour of protection. Mr. VILLIERS then addressed the House. He claimed the Honourable Member who had spoken last as one of the supporters of the repeal of the corn-laws, because he had stated in Dorsetshire, that if they could not defeat the plan of the Honourable Baronet, he would rather have a total re peal. He deprecated the delay . that had taken place in the discussion of the question. The House had been for the last three weeks hearing the arguments over and over again. He was glad to see the concessions that had been made by the Government to common sense and humanity. He could not see on what ground the Right Hon. Baronet ought to have been subject to the reproaches that bad been cast against him. He believed that people were proud of the Right Hon. Baronet for having courage enough to throw to the winds the domination of a factious party. He believed that the more opposition was given to the measure, the more it would be endeared to the pecple. The protec tionists said that they did not object to the opening of the ports: how long had they been of that opinion? Why, only since they knew that there was no grain to come in. They had been discussing for eleven days the system of pro tection, and it was quite clear, at this moment, that the House had not a single idea of what it was. It had been said tliat the League had got up the Goatacre meeting. He denied it, and asserted that the League had had nothing to do with it. Lord STANLEY, who was now the leader of the protectionists, had told them what protection was—that it raised the price of land and food, but did not enhance the price of labour. The protectionists could not get out of the fact, because if that was not the mean ing of the law, it had no meaning at all. The protectionists thrived when the people were starving—was that, he would ask, a state of things which ought to be allowed to exist any longer? The corn-law must either be supported by force or opinion; force bad been tried and failed, and opinion and humanity were against it. On the motion of Mr. G. BANKES, the debate was adjourned till to-morrow. Lord J. Russzu, hoped that as the debate had lasted so long it would be concluded to-morrow. Mr. R. SPOONER. joined in that hope. but he could not allow the debate to close without affording to every Member who ventured to address the House an opportunity of doing so. He wished to explain to the Hon. Member for Wolver hampton the grounds on which he intended to support the amendment that had been proposed. The debate was then adjourned till to-morrow, the orders of the day disposed of, and the House adjourned. We suspect that Mr. STAFFORD O'Brazx has got hold of a mare's nest, in Mr. EvELvst :bFzusort's account of Lord LINCOLN'S views on Irish Church and State affairs. First of all, Mr. DENISON'S account is singularly vague and indistinct; and secondly, Mr. DENISON has always been looted upon as a very timid Irish Church reformer among his own party. Mr. EVELYN DENISON is brother of the Bishop of SALISBURY. When Lord STANLEY and Sir JAMES GRAHAM left the Whig Government in 1834, on the appropria tioft clause, and Sir ROBERT PEEL got possession of office for a few months in 1834-5, Mr. EVELYN DENISON followed Lord STANLEY and Sir J. GRAHAM. Therefore Lord LINCOLN may have satisfied Mr. E. DENISON by his views on the Irish Church, without its being a ser:aur that he is prepared to destroy it. But these protec' tionists know not what they would be at. What makes them most sore is the universal assent to what has so often been asserted lately—the ludicrousness of the protectionists attempting to form a Government. This it is which has made them keep up a three weeks' debate, in which every • middle-aged squire is bidding against the others for the post of leader of the Commons under the RAcmmosn Government, and every beardless scion of a ducal souse establishing his claim to some of the loaves and fishes which the Duke of RICHMOND expects to distribute. On Tuesday night the Duke of RICHMOND was in the Peers' seats in the House of Commons for a calsiderable time; he heard: the whole of Mr. FERIIAND'S oration (we wish him joy of his friend), and was for some time in earnest conversa tion with Mr. MILES and Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIEN. We suppose Mr. O'BRIEN's manifesto about the Irish Church was the fruit of this deliberation with his chief. The pro tectionists are determined to show them that their faculties can embrace all the great questions of state—church as well as corn. We still think that a Protectionist Government will be a lusus rei publica. We return to the case of BRIAN SEERY to observe that Sir JAMES GRAHAM signally failed in his attempt to find precedents fur his execution, after conviction by a second jury impannelled at the same assizes, the first having been discharged because they could not agree. In the first case which be mentioned—the trial before Mr. Justice LAWRENCE, in 1794—the first jury was discharged, not from being unable to agree as to the verdict, but owing to the illness of one of the jurors, before the judge had summed up, and before, therefore, the jury bad begun to consider their verdict. In this case, then, the trial had to begin de novo, before it had gone so far as to raise any presumption in favour of the prisoner from a difference of opinion among the jury, or to render it possible that the administration of justice shouldincur a suspicion of harshness by the impanelling of the second jury. In the second case mentioned by Sir J. GRAHAM, the second trial, as Mr. O'CoxxxcL pointed out, was not at tho same, but at the next assives, which makes a very important difference, i and there is a further important difference, that the, s'lcond j u ry acqu itt e d the p r i soner , so t h at the question :l i the propriety of execu ti on , a ft er one j ury b ad been dis affaeregt the e ecause unable to agree, did no t an d cou ld not arise. Sir JA.mr.s GMAIIAM sa id that the difference of result did not principle involved in the case, and that the prin.. ciple consisted in the si T c h ond trial. But here we take leave to dif f er from him, The had asked was (and the question) ~ Whetdherg in England for tho last cent being tried for any capital fuerlyonl jury, after the first jury was discharg e d b y same session or assizes, and convicted and question which Mr. O'CoNNELL iv i e h n ere sona h e days' notice of instance of a b n y y any person a second ,x the e c e . t o e u d r t 4 at the the carrying into effect the extreme sentence of the l i t a is after the discharge of one jury, that is the gravainex ‘ o r f BurAii SEERY'S case. Let alone the extraordinary circurn stance of the second trial taking place at the same assizes, the mode in which the first trial terminated should have procured a commutation of the capital punishment. We are glad to observe that Mr. O ' C ONNELL ha s g i v en notice of a "Bill to amend the criminal law in Irelan d, b y e na cting that in future no person shall be tried on any indictment fer felony a second time at the same session or assizes, after ti t o d n g e 0r .,, assizes, having and been that tried j jury a having ed sa b rn y e th s e es j s or me former jurybeen discharged athrge Forcibly as the Government officials have spoken upon the lamentable dearth in food of every description with which the inhabitants of Ireland are afflicted, their cliaelosuree fall infinitely short of the reality. Their attention has, for very natural and ostensible reasons, been directed mainly to an investigation of the aggregate calamity : in the outset of their labours an eye was judiciously kept upon the gross defi ciency. For all practical purposes, this was undoubtedly the most laudable course to pursue ; it was indeed the most rational course to pursue : for, by plunging at once into the detailed destitution of each individual district, much time would have bsen swallowed up in calculations of superfluous minuteness. An immediate knowledge of the general wants which had to be supplied would be delayed by such over scrutiny—relief would have been hampered by this elaboration of fact—woes would have accumulated while the very preliminary measures were being arranged by which that accumulation should have been averted. What, however, the Government agents were prevented from accomplishing by the actual responsibility of their office, namely, disclosures of the separate privations undergone in the hamlets of each parish, in the streets of each hamlet, and in the cottages o f eac h s t ree t, are now b e ing given by parties most competent to afford us a just insight into the veritable condition of the Irish peasantry. The parties of whom we thus ma k e men ti on ate th e res p ec t a bl e residents in the different rural districts of our sister island. From the reports which these gentlemen are severally forwarding to the Executive authorities, the awful and growing destitu tion of those unhappy people are becoming each day more and more recognisable, more and more appreciable, more and more fearful in every possible respect. The accounts given in those documents are, indeed, heartrending to the very last degree. We have, in the abstract, a most rooted antipathy to anything like a penis to serve party purposes —such a panic, for example, as the protectionists have raised of late respecting the " destruction of British agriculture :" we regard any faction Which would resort to instruments so pernicious as that of raising false alarms for the purpose cf insuring their own advancement, as in finitely culpable, and infinitely worthy of reprobation. Any man, however, who would stigmatise the pre sent cry about starvation in Ireland as one of this party character, or as false and erroneous to the extent of one single tittle, must either be entirely devoid of common sense or cruelly callous to the suffering of his fellow. crea tures. Whatever statements have already been made re specting the lack of common nourishment among four millions •of the Irish populace are only glimpses, are only fragments, are only scanty indications of the dark and agonising substratum of evil. Far from any exaggeration having been resorted to with he intention of exciting an undue amount of sympathy, each packet, as it traverses St. George's Channel, is the bearer of some new and still more harrowing description than the one conveyed by its predecessor. Is there any misrepresentation in our previous accounts of this national famine? Let the "figures" given in the Cork Examiner of the 23d instant be the rebuttal of such an insinuation. From those figures it appears that potatoes—(the staple commodity of the peasantry be it ever remembered)—that potatoes in the Cork market are now of nearly double the price, and little better than half the quantity of the corresponding season twelve months back. In other words, that in February 1845, there were 424 weights (each of 201b5.), the highest price of which was five pence-halfpenny; while, in February, 1846, there are merely 230 weights, selling absolutely at tenpence. That brief cal- culation is a corroboration more forcible and more indubitable than the most impassioned language could ever be. As a corroboration of this corroboration, however, let us for a moment turn to the report recently forwarded to the Commissioners of Public Works by the Com mittee of Relief " deputed to investigate the condition of the people in Kilkee, County Clare." As some guarantee as to the authenticity of this report, and as an evidence that im plicit reliance may be placed upon its declarations, we may mention that the individuals who joined in this charitable labour of investigation were the Rev. JAMES MARTIN, rector, and the Rev. MICHAEL COMYW, parish priest. From that most temperate and plain-spoken document, it appears that " one hundred and sixty householders (in Kilkee), with their families, amounting to nine hundred and seventy-two indi viduals are in a state of abject poverty and nearly deprived of all earth'y means of subsistence—the present supply of potatoes available not amounting to more than live hundred and sixty stone or six barrels f' And afterwards that it is the most "solemn conviction" of those two re verend gentlemen that " even that residue of the potatoes was scarcely fit for human:use, and, from its limited supply, totally inadequate to satisfy the cravings of hunger." Besides this, we are informed by an eye-w itness—one who has himself visited that region of miserable desti tution, that the people in their their wan and hag gard looks give indications of the famine which is thus divulged; that they are living testimonies of those six barrels of potatoes for the sustenance of nine hundred and seventy-two human beings ; that the stench of those very vegetables is insupportable beyond description from their diseased condition ; that the cheeks, the lips, the eyes, the stark hands themselves of those unfortunate crea tures are alone vouchers for the truth of the two clergymen ; that the livers of the fowls that have been nourished on that dreadful fare have been found after death quite rotten ; and that in the hovels, in the features, in the silent despair and quiet desolation of Kilkee, may be perceived the progress already made by dearth of wholesome food. If such be the condition of the Clare peasantry in February, what will it be one month, two months, or three months hence, if no measures are adopted to make up the deficiency: to afford labour and in recom pense of labour sustenance, and that sustenance moreover cheap? That there is an absolute necessity for some ame liorative effort being made in behalf of Ireland is admitted by all reasonable persons without distinction of political or religious creed. Hence it was that his Grace the Duke of RICHMOND expressed his readiness to for ward by his acquiescence any proposition for the employment of the Irish population. Hence also arises our principal anxiety to witness the immediate close of the present discussion ; as until then no arrangements adequate to the emergency can be made by Parliament to stay the rapid and sullen advances of famine the most dire, and disease the most contagious. With this doom threaten ing so many thousands of our fellow-countrymen, Govern ment will not assuredly be tardy in propounding some panacea fsr the great social malady. Let the Ministry and their supporters strive to meet the exigencies of the occa sion, and the temporary misery of Ireland will become in the end the permanent happiness of the British Isles. A few more observations, respecting the speech delivered by Mr. Fennasto, we feel ourselves unfortunately obliged to make ; but these observations have exclusive reference to the other representatives in the Lower House. As to addressing a single word of deprecation or remonstrance to the Member for Knaresborough himself—we would as soon trouble our selves to reason a current of brawling ditch-water into quietude. Our remarks are alone directed to the Honourable Gentlemen who were on Tuesday evening pelted with bis unwholesome and unblushing personalities. We would express a hope that no fetling of very natural irritability at the indignities of language, the scurrilous inuendos, the unconstrained imputations, and in solent attacks with which their names were severally accom panied, will induce them to condescend a reply even to the length of one syllable. They may remain perfectly assured (as no doubt their sober senses will show them) that such manifest bitterness of heart and such bilious impertinence of tongue, are utterly unworthy of a rebuttal. On a subject of such singular insignificance, and of such painful abandonment of propriety, we can scarcely do more than endeavour to enforce the necessity of its being utterly disregarded (as we are fain to suppose it must be) by those legislators whose time is forestalled by a responsibility of most extraordinary importance—the rce sponsibility of so far expediting the present discussion as to afford speedy assistance to four millions of supplicants, as well as to incorporate a just and enlightened commercial policy for ever and for ever with the con stitution of Great Britain. As one of the most intolerable amongst a vast number of intolerable impediments to the accomplishment of this great measure, the harangue of the Member for Knaresborough was a grievous nuisance to the question under debate, to the House of Com mona, to the Speaker individually ) and to the country at large. And it was thus intolerable because of its being nothing whatever to the purpose, because of its uncon scionable duration, because of its unhealthy venom ) and par ticularly because (as already stated) of its numerous and utterly irrelevant personalities. It was in fact built up almost entirely of personalities, and occasionally of personalities of the very meanest description, namely, during the absence of the parties vilified. In this respect we may mention his allusions to the Hon. Member for Durham. What ren ders each of these singular inallgnities as delivered by Mr. FERRAND doubly impertinent and doubly contemptible is the very baldness of his assertions. He gives utterance te a series of the most prodigious and incredible statements—statements so completely out of the range of credence, so improbable, so impossible in themselves, as to have pteveiited afiy one else from whispering them in the walls of Parliament, And, notwithstanding their very desperate charactet ) he vouches for their truth by—what ? Why by his personal authority ; or, to employ his Own favourite expression ) he is always "prepared to prove them." There is invariably some fictitious evidence— (never divulged !)—in the background. Thus Mr. FERRAND was "prepared to prove ; ' that all the signatures Axed to free-trade petitinne b 7 worittain were written on compulsion—but he didn't ! Thus Mr. FERRAND was " prepared to prove" that in the petition,rpre sented by Lord MORPETiI from his edrletitiieht s i n the West Riding of Yorkshire one man had actually penned no less than fourteen thousand autographsimit hIS didn't t Thus Mr. F2RRAND was "prepenvvi irl pi bye that the hosiers of this country, though protected by a duty of 20 percent., could not successfully compete with the Saxony manufacinrere=bilt; again, he didn't! Such .incessant and extensive draughts upon our credulity aro surely sufficient to ahatist all our re- A b s for refinelmuestnet an n f style R m F b i r , u: f , b ; r s na e r Knares borough sources of belief; and in the end render Our faith bankrupt. oratorical a ialso, C tl l e t: st i E e rough is ; theta are so daintily selected, his language is anAuage is so choice an d delicate. He talks of ",,humbugging," and "thimble -rigging," and " farmers gammoning and "putting on their backs," and " sticking to • . as much fluency as that with agriculture,' with which EDMUND BURKE de livered his impassioned and superb BUSFEILD FERRAND we detect somethingperrationfs. But in Mr. CUTE school ,the anxiety i o liar t i l s i e e ci Alder m an to appear familiarised Tr habits and condition o f the people by einptlho3l the .g innumerable cant phrases. But th e H on. Gentleman's self sufficiency is not retarded by any consideration as to the very false and questionable position in Which he t d s A• • THE SUN LONDON, _PRIDAY MORNING, rtBRUARY 27, 1843. before the assembly of Commons. Hence, in one portion of his address he actually has the coolness—the consummate coolness—to speak as follows :—" It would suffice for him to pledge his word to the House that ever since machinery had been introduced into this country for the purpose of manufacturing goods, the wages of the working people had been gradually falling." " It would suffice for him to pledge his word to the House !! ' What a very miserable estimate the Member for Knaresberough must have of the discrimination and memory of the representatives, ADDISON tells us of his friend, Sir ROGER DE COVERLEY, inflicting a severe punishment upon a certain BULLY DAw sox. Would that we could resuscitate the shade of Sir ROGER, and introduce him to the Parliament House. We regret to find (and our regret will be shared by every free-trader throughout the country), that the Duke of NEW CASTLE'S unconstitutional influence has prevailed in South Nottinghamshire, and that his son, Lord LINcoLN, has been defeated in the well-fought contest by a majority of about 690. The total number polled was 2,780, the consti tuency, according to the last returns being 3,614; so that a fair proportion of voters had recorded their sentiments, or more properly speaking, as regards the majority, the sentiments of the Noble Duke. Sir R. PEEL has thus been deprived of the services of another official assistant in the House of Commons, and the defeats of Lord Lrscor and Captain Rots, though proceed ing from different causes, produce nearly the same effect. They weaken the power of the Minister and encourage the protectionists to continue their opposition by foul means as well as fair, and obstruct the accomplishment of measures of the very first importance to all classes. Unfortunately the landlords, and some of their retainers, cannot yet discover this, but they will in time. Sir ROBERT PEEL'S plans are too well laid and too sound to be defeated by a faction in opposition to all the rest of the community, and in a very few years after the new tariff has come into full operation we reckon to a certainty that the farmers will be the loudest in its praise. Madrid journals of the 18th have been received. The Ministry appear to be acquiring more strength in public estimation from openly avowing the constitutional principles on which they propose to act, and from a determination to continue the financial policy of Senor MoN, which has done much to improve public credit. "We learn," says the Castel. lano, " that the new Minister of Finance will adopt a sys tem of publicity in all his operations. The receipts and expenses of last year are about to be published, and they will henceforth be published every month, so that the Cortes and the country will be acquainted with the real situation of the Treasury. M. PENA Y AGUAYO will omit nothing to establish a balance between the Active and Pas sive of the Treasury." Accounts from Corunna state that Pon llEsny had re signed the command of the corvette Villa de Bilboa ; and one of the Opposition papers adds, that the persecuted INFANTE had arrived at Santiago in the public diligence on the 12th, amidst the cheers of the inhabitants. The Three per Cents. closed at 32 3 4 for cash and at 60 days, and the Five per Cents. at 23% at 60 days. A brief, but important discussion took place in the French Chamber of Deputies, on a motion relative to the octroi duties on cattle, and this led to remarks on the impolicy of imposing heavy import duties on the necessaries of life. The movement in England has manifestly extended to France, and we despair net o f see i ng Si r ROBERT PEEL'S commercial policy adopted in a few years by that country. The Minister of Commerce, in adverting to the high price of butchers' meat, said, every proposition tending to diminish the duties and lower its price ought to be received with favour. M. DE LAMARTINE considered that the food of the people ought not to be left at the mercy of self-named protectors ; and, ad verting to a- remark of M. BERRYER, who belongs to that expiring class, the protectionists, he added, " M. BERRYER'S was the ophiion, not of the poorer agricultural population, but of the rich proprietors, whose first object was to secure a high price for their produce, without any attention being paid to the t:itaulties and straits of the working classes. Notwithstanding the efforts made by the protectionist party, it would be found necessary sooner or later to satisfy the legitimate demands of the people, and take off those burdens which now bore so heavily on them, for the advantage of the rich." He then referred to the declaration of Sir Roman' PEEL, in the House of Commons, that in France the popula tion had increased in a far greater proportion than the cattle of the country, and that, consequently, she required a cer tain quantity to be imported each year, which caused the present dearness of meat. The lion. Deputy, after dwelling on the necessity of removing as much, and as soon as possible, all protecting duties, concluded by declaring that the whole discussion might be summed up by these words: —" Let us vote cheap food for the people." These noble sentiments appeared to produce much sensation, and were loudly cheered by a considerable potion of the Chamber. A protectionist Member of the name of Tins, said the Hon. De puty, seemed to allow that the proposition chiefly was good, inasmuch as it prepared the way for other reductions, so as to eventually suppress all prohibitive duties on foreign cattle. M. DI LAMARTINE replied, "he was far from de manding the immediate abolition of the prohibition alluded to; he knew that in such matters it was necessary to pro ceed by gradations-; but the general tendency ought to be to establish an equilibrium between the products of all coun tries, and to break down the barriers which opposed one na tion's profiting by the advantages which the soil conferred on another." The Journal des Dibats contains the following very striking statistical detals respecting the falling off in the consumption of butchers' meat in France : " There is one fact which rules over the debate opened yesterday on the entrance duties to be paid upon cattle brought into cities and towns—the consumption of meat in France has been diminishing for more than 50 years. The following are the incredible results of a re port published by the Minister Of Conitherce in 1842 :—ln 1830, the people of France consumed 394,000,000 kilogrammes of meat, or, upon the average, 12 1.3 d kilos for each individual. In 1840 the consumption fell to 370,000,000 kilos., which, taking into account the difference of the amount of population, gave 11 kilos a head. Thus, in the short space of ten years, the annual consumption of meat In France was reduced by 23,000,000 kilos., and that per head by eleven per cent. It is true that the correctness of this official publicatfon has been disputed : but what cannot be reasonably questioned is the perfect accuracy of the accounts of the entrance duties of Paris. These are very ancient. The Walls of Paris were raised prior to the revolution, and the vigilance observed at the gates is well known. It results from then accounts that the quantity of butcher's meat consumed in Paris in 1789, when the po pulation Was 600,000, amounted to 62 ,000,000 kilos. ; and that in 1839, when the population was increased to 900,000, the consumption was only 59,000,000 kilos. If the calculation per head he made upon this, it will be found that in 1789 a citizen of Paris ate, upon the average, 74 kilos. of meat, and that In 1839 this consumption fell to 48 kilos. per head. What does this tell? Before the Revolution did the people live in abundance?—did they gorge themselves with the necessaries of life ?—did they enjoy an excess of the good things of this world? Alas Before the 'Revolution the people did not find themselves in this happy condition, It has been singularly ame liorated since this great and memorable reformation—this is a truth of which we have ample evidence. One thing is certain, that in one essential article of food —that of meat—it is less fortunate, and has a much more scanty supply than before the Revolution. It is sad to say—but it is not the less true— the people of France have not meat enough to eat to supply their wants. This fact alone deserves all the serious consideration and anxious solicitude of our statesmen. Its deplorable gravity becomes more and more unveiled, when all the consequences it brings with it are reflected upon. A want of substantial nourishment engenders a race of puny degenerate beings, and thus nations have become impoverished and degraded. We may, without falling too deeply into error, mea sure the productive capabilities of men by the quantity of meat they consume. Many examples of the justness of this estimate have been cited. By the side of this main fact conies another, which is its corollary. As the meat has become more rare, its price has sen sibly increased. The price of beef of inferior quality, such as is re served for the labouring classes, was, twenty years ago, less than 35c. or 400. the demi-kilo., and this day it is up as high as 50c. or 55c., and that ofsuperior quality kas risen in the same period of time from 55c. or 60c. tolik. or 75c. and upwards. This increase of the price of meat at the butcher's shop will be found to be very nearly in the same proportion upon the best in the market. Consequently one of the most urgent necessities of the country is for it to be supplied as quiekly as possible with meat in greater abundance, and at a lower price." The Constitutionnel says :—" M. Guizot formally declared on Mon day that the Government had abandoned all idea of the expedition against Madagascar. The garrison of Bourdon and M a y o tt e w ill merely be reinforced. The Minister for Foreign Affairs added, that the English would not act any more than ourselves against the Novas. . _ _ The committee of the Extreme Gauche of the Chamber of Depu ties has just sent a circular to all its agents In the departments, ap prising them of the probability of a general election at an early pe riod and urging them to exertion, The Marseilles journals announce the arrival there of a vessel from Algiers, with accounts of the 18th, bnt the , information which they communicate is without importance. Nothing new of a positive na ture was known as to the movements of Abd-el-Kader. The Throe per Cents, closed at 84f. 83c. ; the New Loan, at 84f. DOc. ; the Fire per Cents., 123 f. 45e. ; the Orleans Ra frond shares, 1,330 f,; Rotten, 1,057 f. 5c.; Havre, 750 f.; Great Northern, 778 f. 75c . Avignon, 1,020 f. ' • Vierzon, 735.; Bordeaux, 655 f. ; Bast., 2521. 50e. ; Fampuox, 480 f. ; Dieppe, 480 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 55Gf. 50c,; TOUT; and Nantes, 591 f. 20c.1. ; Par s• and w 030 f. ; spa-. nigh Three per Cents., 38% ; Ditto, Domestic Debt, 325 ; Spanish Passives, 6%. The following are the quotations for other lines:— Lyons arid Avignon (Talabot), 810 f. 50c. ; ditto (Lecointe). 505 f. 50c.t ditto (Compagnie Ideridionale), 502 f. ; ditto (Definitives), 572 f. 50e. ; Bordealt and Cette (31ackeszie), 504 f. ; ditto (Espeleta), 510 f. 50c ; Charleroi, 500 f. _ BUSINESS DONE IN FOREDIN RAILWAYS AT THE IiONDON STOCK MICHANGE, FEB. 25. Bottlogne and Asitiqns, 11%—Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette (Es peleta), 2IA —Dendre Valley, 34 —Dutch Rhenish, 63 4—East Indian, I—(heat Northern of Franee Constituted, 16 % —Great Indian Peninsular, 4—l 1 all an and Austrian, i% —Lyons and Avignon, 2% —Luxembourg, 2% —Madill and Valenti'', I—Namur and Li ege, 3—Orleans and Vierzoa, IS —Orleans and Bordeaux, 11''X—Paris and Orleans, sl—Paris and Rouen, 40%• Lord Ingestre, In his speech on Tuesday night in opposition to the Governtient measttresr stated that "he was sprung from an ancient root ; r ' this is a polite way of calling his father an old turnip." Now, although Lord Itigettre tied his Whet, Earl Talbot, hold opposite opinions on this question, he might have treated his parent with a little more respect, During the whole of the contest in South Nottinghamshire no such disrespectful allusion to the Duke of Newcastle was made by the Earl of Lincoln. QtigEN ANNE ' S ourdf.—tin Wttittestly the annual account of all moneys received and disburse d by di tirPirelMOTS o Queen Anne's Beeinty during the year ending the 31st of Dedetteitt, 1844 Whitli htth beim presented to Parliamen t, were p rint ed . The receipts were 181,8011. 12s. 511., and the disbursements 178,7961.95. 9d. The yearil , tenths iu atteat were 901. 2s-Ad. Stit. 14; PEEL' MEAPtinr,--The Manchester Guardian says, it is now confidently stated diet gr, taut Clintern, M.P.; the Member for North Lancashire, will vote with the prOteeflOnlsta, thus neutralising the vote of his colleagne, Mr. Wilson Patten. The pirntinviurt Journal states that Lord Ward, of Dudley, has g i ve n 1114 proity 111 faVotir of the Government measure, when it comes be fore the llEntle of Lora: M. \YAW:Wiwi—The Court of Directors of the East Fr is CUrilpatiY fitige presented sir. WtighOrn with the sum of 3001. in consideration of his useful and zealous services, and of the ex penses which he has incurred in the establishment and during the progress of steam communication between Great Britain and India. —Area's India Sialloa TA.UhtTitixi.—Every admirer of this great singer Will be delighted to learn that, after he has completed his en gagement at St. Petersburgh, hem ill pass this season in London. We have great pleasure in making this agreeable announcement to onr usical readers. Tamburini is still unrivalled as a barytone. OBsEnvER-orFicE, 169, STRAND. —With a view to itirnish full particulars of the highly important achievements In India, the Observer purposes publishing a gratuitous half-sheet Sup plement of twenty folio columns on Sunday next, March 1. The price of the Observer (including the Supplement) Sixpence. A Mon. day afternoon Edition of the Observer is regularly published at Four o'clock, which edition is best adapted for the country and readers abroad. The Observer was the journal that first announced the in tended alteration in the corn-laws, mad which paper has in its subse quent numbers anticipated all the official moVellle.nta In progress, Ponneete4 ‘lllll that highly important meant ' MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. (From The San of Lase Night. The sales of Cotton afLiverpool yesterday were 6,000 bales, in cluding 500 on speculation, and 500 for export. The market was rather flat. American sold at 3 3 4 d. to sd; Egyptian at 5%d. to B%d. ; Surat at 2%d. to 3%d. ; and Pernamat 5%d. Shares were dull. Messrs. Lamond's sale of Railway Shares was well attended, but prices ruled very low, and exhibited no improvement, although more purchases were made Irish North Midland, 145.-Churnet and Blythe, IL 11x. 6d.-Great Grimsby, Louth and Horneastle, 11.75. Gd. -Leeds and Carlisle, 11. 17s. 6d.-Peterborough and Nottingham, 95. 6d.- Ipswich, Norwich, and Yarmouth, 11. 6s. 6d.-Wexford, Waterford, and Valencia, 1/. 4s. 6d.-Rugby and Huntingdon, 1/. ss. -Louvain and Jemappe, 21.-Leeds and Carlisle, It. 165.-Jamaica Junction, 37.-Jamaica South Midland, 3L-Tring, Reading, and llasingtoke, 21. Cs.-Buckingbamshire, 21. 4s. 6d.-Paris and Orleans, 501.-North Staffordshire, Churnet and Potteries, 51. 17s. -Real del Monte Mining (Unregistered), 31. lrs. -South Midland, 4/. ss. 6d.- Irish Great Western (Dublin to Galway), 41.- Direct Northern, 21. 13s. A most Anxious desire is expressed in the City for the termination of the debate upon the corn-laws-commercial operations will con tinue at a stand still until the whole matter is settled. In the various docks on each side of the river Thames, an immensity of all sorts of produce awaits but the fiat of Parliament, to be taken immediately the tariff is settled, for home consumption. Accounts, of Dec. 27, from the Cape of Geed Hope, state that the Natal district was still being thinned by emigration, but that the new Lieutenant-Governor was expected to take measures that would satisfy all parties, and protect the farmers who remained behind. A considerable amount of business has been transacted in the Public Securities this morning. This is the settling day in Consols, and a vast amount of business has been transacted. Consols for Money have advanced from 93% % to 96%, and for the next Account from 96 to 9634. The continuation therefore shows that an opinion is entertained that prices will further advance. For temporary a po,.es cash has been in demand, and sales of Exchequer-bills, earl} in the morning, reduced the premium to 355., but since a rise has taken place to 38s. India Stock has advanced to 261, and Bank Stock to 209%. The Government brokers have bought largely to-day. In the Foreign Stocks the business done has beets very trifling. Colombian ex Venezuelan have improved to 52 ; Grenada to 23. Mexican are worth 3134 ; Peruvian, 38; Portuguese Four per Cents., 58% ; Spanish Five per Cents., 2734 18 ; :anct the Dutch Four per Cents., 95% %• The Birmingham and Gloucester Shares have been in request at 25 premiam ; the Edinburgh and Glasgow at 22 premium ; the Great Western have improved to 67 premium, awl most of the other Shares have a firm aspect. BRITISH FUNDS, ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock 209% 20834 209% 209% Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 96% 96% Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. 96 95% 9614 96 96% New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anne. 98% 98 98% 1 4 98 34 Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 6, 1860 .. 10 9-16 11-16 10 11-16 Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1849 .. 10 7-16 107-16 Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. • • - 10% India Stock . 259 261 261 India Bonds, 1,0001. .. .. • • - Ditto, under 1,0001. .. • • - 41 South Sea Stock .. • • • • - Ditto, New Annuities , 95%. 9514 Consc Is for Account, April 26 .. 96 38 96% Exchequer Bills. I%d. • I%d. 1,0001. - 35 38 - -- pm. 35 SOOl. - 35 38 - - pin. 35 Ditto. Small - 35 38 - - pin. 38 Ditto, Advertised - •• • • 37 35 - pm. 35 ONE CLOSING FORErcur ruNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Columbian Bonds .. 51% 52 52 Grenada, 1 per Cent •.. 23 23 Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent .. 31% 31% Ditto, for the Account .. • . 31% 31% Ditto, Deferred .. •16% 16% Peruvian Bond., 6 per Cent. .. 38 33 Portuguese Four per Cents .. 58% xB3 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 27% 'A 27 Ditto, for the Account 27 Ditto, Passive Bonds .. 6 1 4 Ditto, Defetrod - 17 Ditto, Three per Cent • .. - 3734 Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cent .. - 98 Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. 59%% 59% Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 95 %34 95% PRICES OF BUSINESS CLOSING DONE AT RAILWAY SHARES. PAID. PRICES. ONE O'CLOCK. Aberdeen .. .. 10 .... - ...... . 10 Amber., Notting., Boston and Eastern Junction .. 2%.... 214 ..... 2% Birmingham and Gloucester.. ..100 .. .. 125 •.... • • 125 Bridgewater and Minehead 425. 1 dis. Bristol and Exeter .. .. 70 .. 85 B5 Buckinghamshire .. 425. .. • . par ••• • • par Caledonian .. 10 .... 13 34 %.. • • 13% Ditto, Extension .. 2% - ••.• • • • . 3% Chester and Holyhead .. .. 20 .... 21 1 % • ..... • • 21 1 4 Direct Northern .. .... 2 30 1 4% 2% Dublin and Galway .. .. 4 .... 43% Eastern Counties .. 141. 16s. .... 21% 9 4 %• • • 21% Ditto New .. 81. 16s. .... p . 7 p Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1. 61135. 4(1. - - Ditto, ditto, .. .. No. 2. 61. 13s. 4d. % p % Eastern Union .. • • .. .. 25 .... - Do. Extension to Norwich .. 2 34 - Edinburgh and Glasgow .. .. 50 .... 7 0 7 2 • . •• . Edinburgh and Perth .. Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester .. 2% . 2 Goole, Doneast., and s,heffield, tce. 425..... % 1 p I p Grand Union (Nottingh. & Lynn) 1% .... 1% • • Great Southern & West (Ireland) 15 .... 2034 . 20% Diito, Extension .. 15 .. •• 1934 19 34 Great North of England . ..100 - .. • • - Ditto, New .. . 1% •••• •• 14% •• .. 14 1 4 Great Western .. 85 ....152 Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 50 .... 84% 83 ...... 83 Ditto, Quarter Shares .. .. 5 .... 17 . • Ditto, Fifths .. 20 .... 34 .... • • Hull and Selby .. .. 50 ....106 •• . Ditto, Half .--hares .. • • • • 7 .... 26 • • Ipswich, Norwich, and Yarmouth 2 .. • • • • Irish North Midland .. • • 134 34 .. Leicester and Birmingham .. 225. .... % dis Leicester and Bedford .. - ..... 34 d's Leicester, Tamworth, tee. . . Limp., Manch., & Newc. Junct. 234 .... 338 3........ 3 London ant Birmingham ... .100 . • • - Ditto Quarters .• 2 .... 27 .. •• • • .... 27 Ditto Fifths .. .. 2 .... 24% ....... 24% London and Brighton .. 50 .... 65% 651% Ditto. Consol. Eighths • • .. 40 . Ditto ditto Fifths .. .. 20 .. 29 1 % ...- 2914 London and Croydon .. 13/. 15s. 9d. 22 .......... 25 London and South-Western.. 41/. 6s. 10d. 78% 78% Ditto, New . • . • • 12% •• • • 23% • • • London and York .. .• • • 2 % •• • • 3 %% •••• • • • • 3% Lynn and Ely .. • • .. .. 5 .... bz Manchester and Leeds .. 82 .... Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 38 .... 60 •• • • Ditto, Quarters .. .. 2 .. .. 14 .. • ... Ditto Extension .. 42e..... 3% p 314 p Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 - .. 77 76 78 7B Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) I - Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. .. • • 1% % •- I % p Midland .. ..100 146% Ditto, New .. • . 18 •• • • 31%% 32 3 234 Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 100 ....116 Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 75 .... 44 Ditto, New • • • • • • • • 1 .. 10%... Ditto, New, Brandling .. 20 •• .. 38 37% Newcastle and Berwick .. .. 10 .... 21% M Newark, Sheffield, and Boston .. 234 .... 1% •• • • North British .. . • • • • • 20 •• • • - •.••.. .. • • 27 Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 6 .... 9% Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. 1 1 4 - ••• • • North Staffordshire .. • • 428. •• • • 3% P .• • • 3 % p Oxfd.,Worcester, to Wolverbmptn. 1234 .... 14% 13% .... 13% Scottish Midland .. • • .. • • 5 .... - .. 5 Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 2% .... 3 a Shropshire Union .• 425..... % dis. South Devon .. . • • . .. 35 .... 3534 36 27.... 37 South Midland .• • • .. 425. .... 2 1 4 p••• • • • 2% p South Eastern and Dovor . • 3334 38 1 4 .. • .. 38 1 ,4 bo., New (do. 151.) .. No. 4. 23% .... 31/ ........ 3% Staines and Richmond .. 1 .... 2% . South Wales .. • • • . .. • . 5 .... 5 34 Trent Valley .. .. • • .. 5 .. • • 26 26 Vale of Neath 2 .... 2%.. 2% Wexford, Waterford, & Valeutia 1% .... 134 .. • • York and North Midland .. 60 .... 98 ••.. • • Ditto, Scarborough Branch .. 25 .... 47 1 ,4 48 Ditto, Selby .. .. 30 .... 74 ..... .• • 74 Ditto. Extension .. .. 15 .... 32% 32 32 Do, E. and W. Riding Exten.• • 1 •• .. 10% FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Barbadoes .• 1 •• .• 0% ••••.. • • .• 0% Boulogne and Amiens .. .. 10 .... 11% .• • •• • • 11% Calcutta and Diamond Harbour.. 7s. •• • • - Central of Spain .. • • 2 •• . • - • • East Indian . • .. .. • • be. •• .• 1% ••••.• .. • • 1% Grt. North. of ' France Constituted 5 .. .. 15 % 1534 Great Western Bengal be. 411 Namur and Liege .. 4 •• • • Orleans and Bordeaux .. 6 11%...,....,. 11% Paris and Rouen .. • • .. .. 20 .... 40% .......... 40% Rouen and }limo . .• .• 2 0 •• • • 201 4 ••••• • • • • • 29% Sambre and Mouse 6 •• • • 5% •••• • • • 5% MINES. Real del Monte, Unregistered •• • • ••• • • • •• • 3 Bolanos Scrip .• • • • • •• ••• • ••• • • .... 5 FLANDERS MAIL. BLICSSELS, FEB. 12.—The Senate continued to-day the debate on the project of law explanatory of Article 442 of the Code of Commerce. The general debate on the project of law relative to the vote of credit, 153,000 francs, for mi litary works, was opened and closed immediately, and the vote of the articles fixed for to-morrow. BRUSSELS, FEB. 24.—The Moniteur publishes the royal sanction of the budget of the Department of Foreign Affairs, and of the Marine; also a royal ordinance appointing the Minister of Justice to act as Minister of War during the in disposition of the Minister; also a royal ordinance, offering bounties on the potatoes imported for the purpose of planta tion. BELGIAN FUNDS.—Bll7Sstfil, TEL 24. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent •• • • •• • • Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent • • • Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent Ditto Three per Cent•• • • ••• • Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto ...... Ditto, ditte,lB49 ......... ....... ••• • •• 100% Ditt0,ditt0,1842.....• . • • 1023f Ditto, 1844......... .... Ditto, 1836... .......... ....... ....... Ditto, 1838 • Ditto of the City, 1832 ••••••.• • .. • 100% Ditto, 1843 •• lOl% Bank ofßelgium. • ....... .......... 810 • Bru.atels Papers. Feb. 25. ILLMBURGH BORSENIULLE, Tea. 20. Bills. Money. Axistrian 5 per Cents ..... ........ 110 Bank Shares • • •• • • • ..... • • • • •• •• •• • • 1600 Anglo-Russian Loan • • 100 Russian 5 per Cent., Hamb. Certificate. 103 Ditto Ist series Inscription. •••• • • • • . 104 Ditto,Hope and Co., 3d and 4th series. • Ditto, in Certificate. ••••• • • • • ........ 98% New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. •• • • 91 . .. • 89% 89% Ditto Stieglitz • • • Spanish New 5 per Cent. ••••••• • • • • • • 19% 19% Ditto 3 per Cent .•••••••• • • • • • • • • • 31% Anglo-Portuguese Loan. 2% per Cent • Dutch Actual Debt, 234 per Cent. ••• •• 60 Ditto 3 per Cent. •• • • • • ...... Polish New 4 per Cent. Loan, 1844.... 82 Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent •. . 87 86% National Bank Shares• • -- AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—TaNxs, Fan. 18. 5 per Cent. Metalliques• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 112% 4 per Cent. ditto •• . • 3 per Cent. ditto ••• • • •• .. Loan, 1834 ......... . Ditto, 1839 .• .. Bank Shares .. Esterhazyi Loan • • • . • RAILWAYS. The Northern, or Ferdinand • Gloggnitz • • • • • • •• • • • • .• • • Vienna—Milan • • • •••• • • • • •• • • •• • • • • • • 122• X Perth . • • • • • • • • • • • •• • • ...... • • • • • • 105 Sienna .. • ..... •.•• • • . • ... Grosetto •• • • •• • • 98 Oldenburg ••• • • Pestoia ••••••• • • • • • • • ..... " "••• ' • " A.pefininen .. • • • • 100% —Allgetnelne Zeitunr. Feb. 21. The Duke of Wellington had a lengthened interview on Wednesday with Lord Fitzroy Somerset, his Grace's military secretary, at the Noble Lord's private residence in Great Stanhope street. The Marquis and Marchioness of Douglas, who are passing the winter at Rome, with the infant Earl of Angus, are not expected to return to England until the advance of the spring. The Countess of Lincoln continues to improve in health. _ _ _ _ _ ------- The Earl of Besborough's son, the Hon. and Rev. Walter Brabazon Ponsonby, has been presented by Lord de Manley and Thomas Henry Graham, Esq., to the rectory of Canford, Dor setshire. BURGLARY. Tho house No. 32, Blackfriars-road, occupied by Messrs. Chenu, hatters and jewellers, was broken into on Tuesday night, and a quantity of jewellery and other valuable property was carried cff n Mout the slightest interruption from the police, and we believe no traces of the burglars have. yet been dis covered. They broke in at one of the windows of the first floor, facing the street, so that the robbery must have been committed in the most daring manner, and apparently with perfect security. Messrs. Chenu are Frenchmen, and have carried on business in that quarter for some years. They have lost property, it is uild, to the amount of 2001., and their unexpected misfortune has excited very general sympathy. An Irish paper mentions the case of a sick man at Thornend Gate, whe, in a fit of delirium, got up and ate several bang notes by way of disappoinunot to his expectant heirs. PRINCE WALDEMAR. The following letter has been received by the Chevalier Bunsen from Sir Henry Hardinge respecting the noble and brave conduct of this prince at the battles on the Sutlej. The Prince is son of Prince William, the late King's brother, and had assumed the name of Count Ravensberg as a tra velling title : " Camp, Ferozepore, Jan. 1, 1846. "My dear Chevalier,—l wish your Excellency a very happy new year, and many congratulations on the personal safety of Prince Waldemar, who, with the characteristic gallantry of his illustrious race, -and the national love of en terprise of his countrymen, was present with me in the re cent action of Moodkee, on the 18th of December, and at Ferozeshab, on the 21st and 22d of Decemv:cr. " His Royal Highness intended to proceed to Bombay by Sinde, and left Ferozepore on the 23d of December last quite well. " It was impossible for any soldier to show more coolness, intrepidity, and energy than did his Royal Highness and the noblemen of his suite on these occasions. " The Prince's sur g eon was struck off his horse by a grape shot, when I saw his Royal Highness instantly alight to his assibtanc.e. The humanity of this act was of no avail. The unfortunate gentleman had already ceased to exist. " In the morning of the 22d I felt it to be my duty to re quest his Royal Highness to retire. The action threatenld to be very severe, and I could not reconcile it with the re spect I bear towards the Prussian royal family, that one of its Princes, having already witnessed an Asiatic battle, and greatly distinguished himself, should run a risk to which there was no necessity that his Royal Highness should be exposed. " With great reluctance his Royal Highness consented to proceed to Ferozepore. " I beg further to observe, that his Royal Highness has, by the amiability of his demeanour, won the respect and admiration of all the officers, civil and military, of the East India Company's service, and that our most respectful good wishes attend his Royal Highness wherever he may direct his steps. " These sentiments towards his Ros al Highness, sp uni versally entertained, are grateful to me; for, from old recol lections and attachment, I take a deep interest in all that concerns the military officers of your nation. " I have the honour to remain, yours very sincerely, " H. HARDINTGE, Governor-General. " His Excellency the Chevalier Bunsen." THE LATE BATTLES IN INDIA. The following letter is from a young officer personally en aged in the actions of the 19th, and 21st and 22.1 of December : " Camp Ferozepore, Dec. 29, 1845. " I take up my pen just to give you a short account of the most splendid - victory we have just gained over the La horians. We met them first on the 19th of this month, after marching twenty-four miles, and commenced action, about three o'clock in the afternoon, which, without inter mission, lasted till eight In the evening. Two days previous to this the Governor-General rode in one day sixty miles, the next (the 17th) 45 miles, and halted ready for the action against a fort ; but finding nothing worth taking, the Go vernor-General ordered us not to molest them. After the battle on the 18th we continued on the field for a couple of days, when we again moved (21st) at eight in the morning. After a march of sixteen miles we met the enemy, and about two P.M. we commenced an attack, which continued all night and the greater part of next day, when we achieved a splendid triumph, and drove the enemy back across the Sutlej. You are aware that the Sutlej is a river which partly separates the Punjaub from our territory. The army of Lahore came over the river 80,000 strong. They are, generally speaking, brave soldiers, and their artillery is equal to our own, besides being of larger calibre. We had not more than 30,000 to meet them, and these not together, poor fellows ! Some marched upwards of 200 miles with but very scanty fare, at the rate of 20, 30, 40, and 50 miles a day, amidst clouds of sand and a broiling heat, and no water to be found. " Sir Henry himself slept on the field of the last battle without anything but his cloak around him, his two sons at his side, and your humble servant close to them, with many another brave fellow. " We have three aides-de-camp killed and two wounded, Colonel Wood among them, shot through the thigh, but in excellent spirits and doing well. Sir Henry, Mr. C., and Mr. A. are all safe, and also poor me, who never saw war's alarms before. I think we have given them enough for the present, although perhaps it is_ not yet all over. The go vernor-General is an " out-and-outer," as the soldiers have it. He is first and last in the field, and the soldiers idolize him for his bravery and kind attention to their wants. He himself now visits the hospitals every day, and when in the field deprives himself of every comfort, marching at the head of the troops without a tent, a change of clothes, or even a day's food." POLICE INTELLIGENCE. WORSHIP-STREET. Mr. William Challis, tobacconist in the Hackney-road, was placed at the bar before Mr. Broughton, charged with having criminally assaulted Jane Wilson, a child 12 years of age. The complainant stated, that as she was proceeding home at 9 o'clock on the preceding evening, the defendant, who was standing at the door of his shop smoking a cigar, stopped her, and induced her to enter the house under the pretence of sendin. , her upon an errand. He next led her into a room at the back of the shop, instantly threw her down, and, in spite of her resistance, succeeded in perpetrating the offence imputed to him. The defendant then promised her ss. if she would not mention his conduct towards her, and placed 18.6 d. in her hand, but she indignantly flung it upon the ground, and a customer having fortunately entered the shop at the moment, she availed herself of this interruption to escape into the street, where she informed the first woman she met of the treatment she had sustained, and requested to be led home to her parents. _ _ _ Elizabeth Blake, the woman just referred to, proved that the girl, upon leaving the defendant's house, accosted her in a state of great distress and alarm, and having informed her of the circumstances, she conveyed her to the house of her aunt, who returned with her to the defendant, and gave him into custody. Mrs. Esther Bostock, a lodger of the defendant, deposed that at the time of the alleged assault she heard the cries and sobs of a child in the room beneath her; and the con stable who apprehended him stated that on reaching the house he found a crowd of several hundred persons assem bled in front of it, amongst whom were numerous women, who threatened to tear the defendant to pieces, and altogether expressed such exasperation against him, that the Witness was compelled to procure a cab and the assistance of several other officers to enable him to convey Challis in safety to the police-station. Upon being asked if he wished to say anything in answer to the charge, the defendant declared that it was altogether destitute of foundation ; but Mr. BRMIGIITON expressed his opinion that a clearer case had never come under his notice, and said he had no hesita tion whatever in committing the defendant for trial, but as the depositions could not be taken that day, he must be brought up agein upon a future eccadon for that purpose. LAMBETH. Frederick Munton, a master tailor, residing at No. 3, Hal ford-terrace, Penton-place, Walworth, who has been in cus tody for several weeks, on a charge of cutting the throat of his wife, was placed at the bar before Mr. Henry for final examination. There are several circumstances attending this case which render it one of a very peculiar character. In the first place an aged woman, the mother-in-law of the prisoner, and who was a most important witness, has been found 'dead in her bed since the prisoner's apprehension and his examination in this Court. In the first place, notwithstanding the force of the evidence, the wife herself declares her husband perfectly innocent of the charge, and asserts that her own was the hand with which the wound on her throat had been inflicted. Ths circumstance took place ou the morning of Sunday, the 25th of last month. Mr. Otway, the gentleman 'who was first called in, and under whose treatment the prisoner's wife has nearly reco vered, expresses it to be his decided opinion that Mrs. Min ton had inflicted the wound herself, and speaks of the situa tion of the wound itself, being in front of the throat, as in a great measure confirmatory of that opinion. Mr. Hewitt, a surgeon, who had been called in by the po lice, gives a different and opposite opinion. The latter gen tleman thought that if Mrs. Munton had attempted the act herself she would have commenced the wound further back, on the left side. Having once commenced, he (Mr. Hewitt) did not think she could have left off so soon as appeared to have been done in the present wound. On going to the sta tion-house he requested the prisoner to strip, and found a number of scratches on his person. Three fingers on the left hand were cut across, apparently by the cut of a hard-pointed sharp instrumented. There were no other marks about him, but he was much discoloured with blood all over, especially his feet. His shirt, both the front and sleeves, were satu rated with blood. The .prisoner said he could account for this. He said he was in the habit of sleeping without his shirt occasionally, and was going on to say something fur ther, when Inspector Collier and himself (witness) cautioned him, and told him he had better say nothing about it. Mr. HENRY remarked, that it was not the duty of an officer to check or prevent a prisoner from any statement he might t i';nk proper to make, though such appeared to be the pre vailing pPinion. Their duty, as frequently expressed by the Judges, was .9 hear anything a prisoner chose to disclose, but . not by questions o: conversation lead them to makestatemeuts which might be again L.'ed against them. Mrs. Munton, the prisoner: wife, was next examined.—She is a tall, middle-aged woman, was very pale, and seemed very weak from the excessive loss of block: and the effects of the wound, which it appeared is nearl he_ led. Upo n bein g y sworn, she, in a low tone, deposed that she been ad - mar ried to the prisoner for about three years , and, wh?h the ex eeption of a few words about business, which they soon made up again, they lived happily together. She was subjected to an unusual flow of blood to her head, and this disturbed her mind a good deal. On the morning of Sunday, the 25th of last month, she got out of bed from her husband for the pur pose of lighting the fire, and while she went along the pas sage, her mind became so distressed that she could not tell what her feelings were. There was something going before her which excited her very much, and said, " You must do the rash act !" She then went into the kitchen and got the razor. She was at the time in a dreadful state of madness, and gave one cut in the passage and the other in the room. She imagined, for she was not sure, she called her husband, who was in bed, and he came to her assistance. While she lay on the floor she was unconscious of what passed for a short time, and until she heard her mother's voice when asking "who had done it ?" and she, witness, merely shook her head, as she could not speak. Mr. HENitv—Are you sure you did not point to your hus band and say, "He did it?" Now be careful, Mrs. Munton, and don't answer the question hastily. Mrs. Munton. with some animation —4 am quite certain I did not point, or say so, as I could not speak at the time and I merely shook my head. I have nothing further to, say, but that my husbaud is quite innocent, and that I did it myself. There had been no scuffling in the passage. Mr. HENRY—One of the surgeons examined swears to some scratches being on the person of your husband. Do you know how he became so scratched ? Mrs. Munton— Oh, my husband was in the habit, when I let may nails grow, of asking me to scratch his back, and I did so some weeks ago. Mrs. Munton denied having had a quarrel with her husband of any serious nature, or any dispute beyond a few words on business since their marriage, and then they soon made it up again. The%ister of Mrs. Menton, a respectable married woman, contradicted the latter part of her sister's evidence, de clared that the prisoner was frequently in the habit of ill using her, that her sister had, on many occasions, com plained of his ill-treatment, and being black and blue from his violence, and she actually saw the prisoner ill-use her herself. Arthur Joy Vesev, a little boy, ten y e ars of age, the illegitimate son of Mrs. Munton, said that for some weeks before Sunday, the 25th January, he lived with his grand mother and uncle, in the hous e of the prisoner. On the Thursday night before the 25th he slept in the same room with his mother and the prisoner. On that night the pri soner came home about one o'clock, and from that time until morning they never ceased qua rrAling. In the course of the morning the prisoner got out to snuff a candle, which they burnt in the room, and when he did so he placed a pair of scissors with which he snuffed the candle, close to his throat, and told his wife he should do for him. His mother replied that there would be no occasion for that, as ehe • k • should take her boy with her, and should either droWlier bang herself. Mr. HENRY remarked, that taking the whole o f the es+ dente into consideraticn, he should send the C 3SC before statement and leave it to them to say w hether they believed of Mrs. Munton, or whether she was not givint',..,* false colouring to the casd in order to screen her husband fro the charge. SOUTHWARK. William Dunn was placed at the bar before Mr. Cotting: ham, charged on suspicion of being concerned with bret,llal. into the house of Mr. Joseph Arnold, near Romford, in l'.!- e s ) ; and stealing 807. in Bank of England notes, 40 soverespot besides a gold watch and oer nigh yertt o. Mr. Arnold stated that on the f the 19th o flC s ber on the morning of the 20th, his g house, called Witsleb,toeuli Cottage, in the parish of Dagenham, Essex , was brio' into and plundered of the above property. The lion s e, was only occupied by him, his wife, aid two servants , hosedlie situated in rather an unfrequented part of the coun tr y . en kept an excellent, watch-dog, but the thieves effected snn, trance by breaking the paunel of the back door , and ba:iiy, obtained an entry they proceeded to the dining the cupboard of which was an iron chest of prodigious stre bic T and weight, affixed to the place where it was kept' wand was the dvpository of the above property. Notoitil?.,tbe ing.its cumbrous dimensions the chest was removed 17 ! de d thieves to a field at 'a considerable distance. By th e 5 ,0, the chest was discovered the body of the watch-dok "toe there was every reason to believe, had been killed by 11, 0 acid. The money contained in the iron chest Pri r “ d l t eli consisted of Si. Bank of England notes, and iniT e parlounrg after the robbery the complainant gave notice at the rate d. to stop any of the numbers, should they be Pre' of th e Owing to that notification, he was apprised that sore!n.the stolen notes had been paid in, but he failed in tracin:Sts parties until a few days since, when one of the 5 1 - net 'ed to 24,564, was stopped, which, on inquiry, was ascertain...loa have been paid in by Messrs. Fuller, basing been re e , t o by that firm from A butcher living on the south side u' water. • tifie a The bank• note in question was produced and i den Mr. Arnold. sts' A Witcher named Randall, living in the London-rcjato tbd then called, and he stated that about a fortnight ag°,oll best of his recollection, the prisoner, whom be had P I e lpd, is known about the neighbourhood, called at his sl w E' s f payment for a joint of meat, tendered the dl. BO' he IC land note produced, on which he (witness) wrote soner's name, which enabled him to identify it. In reply to questions from the MAGisTRATE, .tbsela, The prisoner said he had taken it of a man in SO, boa, for a black horse, about three weeks since. He did 1 11 ° . : 103 0 the man's name. The transaction took place at t here sere public-house, and, to the best of his knowledge, th e _ on' three or four other men present, two of whose nato4iith' be thought, Fox and Ferrand. People who attend he t ool; field were obliged to take notes from strangers, an d the one in question in the usual way of business. rise Policeman Terrick, 26 M, buying stated that th e P was tried some time ago for robbery, and that ult 3,, 10 1 twenty of his associates had been transported wi th period, beardi!! Mr. CorriNGllam said the character he bad ju st nt e,, t`r the prisoner, coupled with the fact of a stolen ban k n'esilln, produce of a daring burglary, being traced to po. rf or decided him in the determination not to accept of butrefofe prisoner's future appearance, and that be should t fo stief remand him in order to give time for the production ° evidence against him. CORN AVERAGES. rnit s GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH of t,'„ For the Week ended Feb. 21,1846, made up from the He i tu s2 ;l Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns it/ Englau" per Imperial Quarter, WHEAT. 1 BARLEY. OATS. BYE. ,4„ s ti .34, riticE .. I 553 Od 29s lid 2 6 1s d 32s 10d 3 ~, 4 s DUTY... 17s Od 7s Od 6s Cd 85 Gd 7g l or MARKET NE WS.—(YESTEL— dittm do TrIANILETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 3/ 5s to 4/ss; 0 1011- 10 el o 41 5s to 5/ 123 6d; Oat Straw, 1/ 103 to 11 1 35 ; e so Straw, 11 13a to 11 15s per load. Trade dull, at r• quotations. o Cls d t CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 3/ 8s to 41 ° s 10 1 " j ditto, 414 s to Si lOs ; Oat Straw, 11 12s to 14s OP ' Straw, 1114 s to 11 16s per load. A moderate P a sluggish demand. riot ). o ; ff WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 3l 5s to 415 s • - 41 8s to 51 15s Oat Straw, / lls to 1/ 13s ,• V ue jull• 11 133 to 1/ 15s per load. Supply good, and t rade MEAT DICAIitNNTS. ,to SotrrnAr,t, FEB. 25.—The supply of fat stock B — n( 1 ro o was by no means extensive, yet the general den ,j (PA heavy at barely last week's quotations. Beef, frorils-j; 4s 2d; Mutton, 3s 6d to 5s 4d ; Veal, 4,3 to 45 fill Pork, 3s 8d to 4s 10d per 81bs. ROMFORD, FRB. 25. Prime Sheep sold steadilY; t SJ t { prices, otherwise the trade ruled dull. Beef, fr7 Ti sd; 4s 2d; Mutton, 3s 4d to 5s 4d; Veal, 4s to ' 3 1, 24 to ",tll Pork, 4s to 4s 8d per 81bs. Suckling Calves , „' ‘ ,l, "" Quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s to 20s ; and Mulch ti ° ' their small calf, 16/ to 1815 s each. 1111 1 .1,1 LEWES, FEB. 24.—Beef, from 2s 8d to 45 to 4/) 3s 10d to 5s 6d; Veal, 4s to 4s 8d; and Pork, 45 d. per 81bs. A moderate supply, and a steady dernau NEWGATE AND x.r..aromirsA l 'ti The supplies of Meat on sale were not to yet the trade was in a depressed state, at bare*" ° I ' tt 6d prices :—Beef, from 2s 6d to 3s 6d ; Mutton, 38 by Veal, 4s to 5s ; and Pork, 3s 8d to 5s 2d per 8"" caftan. STATE OF TRADE. , / 1 01 MANCIESTER, TUESDAY, FEB. 24.--There ,50.1tet slightest change to notice in the state of o ur M e ssor e teli week. The continued, and indeed increased, PrsvoltiviD money prevents all purchases but those which are r ood , necessary to supply existing wants, and the de, t t be 4 10 for goods and yarn, is exceedingly limited , .tt b oefocl time, though some few spinners and manufactuz er A s tr eV slight concessions, prices are generally pretty P', 3 pr ie , which, in the existing state of the money market , ,LirPof for the generally sound and healthy condition of t 'd - sif t i3P' ROCHDALE, MONDAY, FEB. 23.—We have 1 1 . 3 ",,, ofto market, and few buyers have attended. Pr'c-hdPO - remain much the same. In wool there is 1 10 report either as regards price or amount of btail le nial .. 4 6 " LEEDS, TUESDAY, FEB, 24.—There has been Aket,sl- doing in light tweeds, but upon the whole our r esr as yet without animation. Woolleeps firm. be e " HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY, Fzß.-24.--There bt cidedly a flat market this day, and great con3Ple ill , in the warehouses. It is hoped, however, that thertsiV able state of business proceeds only from th e li nc t Are" which the measures at present before Parliaree n ot ber regarding the reduction of duties, and that eu may produce a healthy trade. O ° S O e 0 ' n't Aill 0 BLETSOE.— CAUTION A nritoniAlf. -.- itg -- f stet oc 0 Tuesday last, at Bletsoe, the Rev. John Wing , ° ;I 1, ` 4 til appealed against a surcharge for using a. -1 1""ipfon n ei h , Williams, the surveyor of the district, laid Z'o e o , stiollivj in consequence of the rev. gentleman ha vi ' l f o ie, ttiV l it letter sent to the surveyor, for a charitable pa rr e el ' l ` og,( insignia of a swan. Mr. Wing denied that th e s cr o d tf) t ioil' f any heraldic style about it, or that he had inten v ioli,A D, as such; he characterised the information as 3 OSt'iliti f csnfidene,e, and an oppressive exaction not co o bed till e / the legislature. As the information was Pe rsis to g . I was no alternative but to inflict a fine amounting , Bien( Herald.not ate ~,,. O, MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.—. I . .- ~, 9 . ,,e 1 " deaths during the week ending Saturday, Feb. 2 1 . ‘.11 5 5 1w e P,t/ 129 less than the average of rive winters. Bronchlo;orat JO' only disease that appears more fatal than usual. T i ll : c tele'eple 4. / ber is 31, while the deaths last week were 72. T'',;d6 0 „1 1 ,0 0 0 ,1 were 33. of which 14 were from burns and scalds, a; Bb' is, MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF A , 4 ENTLE3I:O4.," d al46' Wednesday Mr. Bedford, Coroner for Westminster , t io es ' )i ,l ll inquest at St. George's Hospital, on the body of d""fsa , ,„ 0 :1 aged 42, late butler in. the service of - SanderOt e era r e tV, No. 46, Belgrave-square. The deceased had been_.,"a ia r„ IP . years in the family, and was a sober steady man, a' ee 1" 1 1 o+ l , health. On Friday night last he left the house f° l. l , o dl°_, 0 0 10 waiting at dinner. He called upon Mr. Mason, the „plo t " Triumphant Chariot, in Pembroke-mews, Grosve°,, ° e ' t ee• Ar house he left at half-past ten quite well, to return :,u oa ', e tr,;te more was seen or heard of him until half-past six o'cl7, o l lo `,44'eS" morning, when he was found lying insensible on thej ig raiv e ao ti e site to an unfinished house in Grosvenor-crescent,,!.7eriDere of Ile was taken immediately to St. George's 1150 1 .`1,es s o f pi: 'tired shortly afterwards, from the rupture of a blouse, ar t 'O l , brain, which might have resulted naturally or other 0 ,1 1 1- t eloiO" :vas involved in great mystery, arising from the 1 1' b je el ie at o ere dreas being disordered when he was discovered , An' 0 0 3 ' io ) 1 00 1 ' considerable sum of money, which he was known to _ ete li 4 ,0 being missing ; and it was further s t a t e d by police-04i, to g lA te;le 119 B, who was on duty in Belgrave-square on the 1 :;,t, 0 the tit that he passed the spot where the deceased Iv or i a, 1 0 0 0 , few minutes before six o'clock on Saturday n,i te r e l , 3n, ceased was then not there. In the absence of f ur ne pteo'4ot l . o 01: jury returned the following verdict-Died from 8,- on '' a til ~,e0 : , COLLISION OF RAILWAY TRAINS. -- „ ie ter);:so W e' er, morning the mail train did not arrive in this city v" i eso ' t ra ll 2; e ; ;it ten o'clock, nearly six hours after time. The del s gage e t.o' i ii, we are informed, by the mail train overtaking th e ee nce , o f il le i, , Weston-super-Male. A collision was the conse c i_ o doe ~t ee .4r, two being destroyed and some pigs killed. Th e ` t j e ir 1 , 0 riror train was also so much damaged, that the delay.. e of " . :.,1 1 ison. •• jg moving the trains and getting another engine. war/ • gers or servants of the company sustained a n y . hilt° Luminary. Dir i13 113 g 0 The first-class fare from London to 6 4: 0 ,1 "ti° °- o now the same as the second-class in 1844. r ep l ~elPr tl l , VICTORIA PARK.—On account of the P eri ache(( of 0 of the weather, the planting has been carried on . !,,,,,,r l _,Y, c ot „ nearly 10,0011 trees Are Illant , d in the ground.- ~,,i s i ." 11Y outer plantations have been laid down, and all " 05 1 003 , roads complated. W earie , iir i 6 On hn ,hef o e , C o i l " - At Hammersmith Police-court John Pierce, the landlord of the King's Head PB,,atig ', l ',, e tia„, oij green, was charged before Mr. Clive with 1 . r0 .K.0.'" - TheLd , pigeon, which flew over the grounds where a spar n ertP_ e t Oa" - t -ow taking place, in which the defendant was tr witiv6l ' e fe r trrte recommended the parties to settle the f i r r e a atcli eff ect t to it him to det>lole, and an arrangement WAS 111 ' _ he poa - ~,pOP The May - or a Exeter has ordered t th the 01)1S. 4 off any person carrying about children afflicted with OW 1401 t _of MarlfS. WO' daughter. Etockw ell of On the 19th inst., at Baekford Hall. Chester. , to wife of 1 : 1;i , On the 19th inst., at Park crescent , 0013 d/ Bad Wiltshire, Esq., of a daughter. ..o 0. 13 4 ,1 On the 20th inst., at Alderley, Glouceoter'hire, of ~ Hale, Esq., M.P., of a daughter. ht, the 111 " t-0 0$ ' 0 Oa the 21st inst., at Ryde, Isle of Trig ' fAeut ew.- - • fl o Esq., of a son. trie lady °f t h e 10 ~,,r0 On the 22d inst., at Peterley House, -- ro d, . t ill: • N. Alves, of a daughter. intrrow - ' hten "DO 'l Ol y e lo ° l lf, a cl e. r:lll vr e ef ue tvi 13 , V i t . Tic eel, s o A C O p n t thhteE2.3rdoi.nrsdt.,,laiotnth. ceoWmpalorriyclts-vinfral: On the 23d inst., Mrs. J:Roberts, 0 the w it° of 3t ''' On the 22d inst., at Great Yarmouth, Mackenzie, of a daughter. . Brighton, t he ' i , Oa the 23d inst., at QUeeted-roaar .., Al .".0 . Edwards, of a son. itebe.;4se' MARRIED. ton-gluarertte, ill' ' f BrYan s cherl ° 1 0 i d On the 24th inst., at St. Mary --, t Lo i s ar/ nitre - pare, lio° bald Young, Esq., o Quebec , er B a r d , a e ' n e (l rta /A te Esq., of .., ,_ Hanover of the ter of Richard Norman, On the 24th inst., at St. Georg: da u ghte r Ingham, Esq., M.D., to Fanny', oe ou Ot to icing Lumley, Esq, only W I. I DIED' the . 3 10 ore, T arn es ' , ing ston - _ijoi ( undfor,a Diret ureldif°ol::ll On the 14th inst., in D t r e ll i t, o l t. l ls3 o , o f of Thomas Moore, Esq., a Lodge , '-'• , tolti'' v Oa the 20th last., at Surbite , e ~a nd e r so_t, .. 5 ~,0 4'' garet, the late Lieutenant J. Smith, R. • ~,„ of I , e wife of CaptaiuJßoahtnh,RAenaiil,t,:t jiLi,, On the 20th inst., at Stoke, nex t e deugl ifcr Jici On the 21st in ,at ... ,.e, var y, 0 th 0. rc ;O D ' latoenGtohveern2olsrtofhis ~ oa f ' )1 0 at Clapham F.l. Wi fe ' On the 21st inst., • Plow, Esq ,F.S.Al.',etln'a.ianttg.A.C.lSa.Pll":err' Lice , bars . ° verds et Mr s ' noe -*1 ii iie relict of the late T. Pedley, L•1 i n i i .. ..., 01 ,..etrc , tiara, , 11 1° Ou the 22d inst., in Upper N u.l 3f:tr. , ' • r t Plu s '' of the Set data ble'. O r On the 23d inst., lying O f On the 23d inst., in Upper Chain' Elizabeth Marriott Shaw. . _ e e t . ll , of the Rev. A. R. G. Thomas. second s ury of G I. On the 23d inst., Beatrice,Z North Itriltus. solaitcy, J. H. Bradney, of Leigh liouct; _,,.. Q , ~... -- --- 1 . ; . iu ifilton- s t r e e t, ---- ---- I,To. ' t On the 24th la st ., Elizabe 1 w. f"" ______: epic place, Brixton. - . /. $6, °!, fr .411 - sptroereste, _a, -------- OV t 'n t ff ` 111"" Strand, Printer, at County o 1t..—"01-1 -2—'-don Printed andritie%b_luinshoeftid boo7l.33:eitili,dll92e,sr At aP f e f - , , in the 2of7;tlheB466.aveY' .--~ SHIPS are ap RANIB UR( a ad Saturd a y zier--E„ ry ,ANTWERp +morni ng. 26 , luta 29, at . 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