The Sun. — London, England, 1852-02-18 00:00:00

ROYAL M ARIONETTE THEATRE, ADELAIDE-STREET, WEST STRAND. Continuous Novelties—Continuous Success—Continuous Applause — and Overflowing Audiences. Great Hit of the Bottle Imp. The performances Tali' EVENING and during the week will oommence with an Occasional ADDRESS , by Mr. Albany Brown. After which, a new scene of Apropos, entitled the MANAGER'S ROOM, with Signor Bari Tone's new Scena, The French Commenta tor on Shakspere, and Grand Italian Aria, by Signora Barbiere Al- With a new Infinitesimal Operetta, entitled THE UNITED SER VICES, written expressly for Use Marionettes, by Hugo Vamp, Esq. To be Bowed by a new Neapolitan grotesque Divertissement, entitled .IELECIikNO FORTUNATO, with Frolic* of Saltarello and Pierrot. And the grand romantic Spectacle of THE BOTTLE IMP. A Morair_g Juvenile Performance on Saturday next, the 20tb, at Three o'clock. Doors open at Half-past Two. Doors open at Half-past Seven, and commence at Eight o'clock. 3s. ; Lower Stalls, 2s. ; Private Boxes, 1/. ls.; Balcony Stalls , Balcony,Amphitheatre, ls. Private Boxes and Stalls may be obtained at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; Mr. Sam's Royal Library, St. James's-street ; Mr. C. 011ivier, New Bond-street ; at all the prin cipal libraries; and at the Boa-office of the Theatre, Adelaide street, West Strand. THF.,t TRE OR DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, W m be performe d meyerbeer's grand Opera of ROBERT THE DEVIL. Robert, Mr. Fedor ; Bertram. Mr. Drayton ; Raimbaut, Mr. Manvers ; Alberti, Mr. Dehaga ; the Princess, Miss Crichton ; Alice, Madlle. Evelina Garcia. After which the new Parisian Ballet-Pantomime, entitled VERT VERT ; or, The Pet Parrot. Characters by Messrs. W. H. Payne, H. Marshall, Chapin°, J. Marshall, and H. Payne ; Madlles. Plun kett. De La Vecchi, Louise, and Annette ; Misses Honey, Browne, Coveney, and raiser. Box-office open daily from 10 to 4. Stage Manager, M-. J. M. MORTON. The whole under the management of Mr. BONN. LESSEE. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. THIS Ev EIM LN&s. Will be performed an entirely new comic Opera, entitled AMINTA THE COQUETTE. Don Tencrio, Mr. Weiss ; Fernandez. Mr. W. Harrison ; Garcias, Mr. H. Corti ; Aminta, Miss Louisa Pyne. After which, THE HOU,EKEEPER ; or, The Waite Rose. Sidney Maynard, Mr. Howe ; Tom Purple, Mr. Leigh Murray ; Fa ther Oliver, Mr. Stuart ; Simon Box, Mr. Buckstone ; Felicia, Miss Reynolds; Sophy Hawes, Mrs. Fitzwilliam. To conclude with the Farce, called THE TWO BONNYCASTLES. Mr. Bonnycastle, Mr. Buckstone ; Mrs. Bonnycastle, Mrs. Luck- Ingham. THEATRE ROYAL, &DELPHI. Lessee, lin B. Webster ; Directress, Madame Celeste. Enormous snezes4 of the Yankee Comedian , Mr. Josh SiLsbee. MI:" EVENING, Will be performed the Farce of THE MOTHER AND CHILD ARE DOING WELL. Lieutenant O'Scupper, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Mr. Felix Fluffy, Mr. Wright ; Maxwell, Mr. Wort ell ; Emily, Miss Emma Harding. To be followed by a characteristic sketch, called THE YANKEE PEDLER ; or, Old Times in Virginia. Hiram Dodge, Mr. Silsbee , Morland, Mr. Worrell ; Miss Nancy Bantam, Miss Emma Harding. After which A LEGHORN BONNET. Characters by Messrs. P. Bedford, Wright, Worrell, Miss E. Harding, and Miss Courteney. lo conclude with a new and original Christmas Tale, called LIT TLE RED RIDING HOOD. Wolfram, Baron of Burliburg (sur named the Wolf of Biberich), Mr. Paul Bedford; Scraggenheim, Batter ; Trudchen (commonly called Little Red Riding Hood), Miss Kathleen Fitz william. YAL PRINCESS'S THLATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Managementat Mr. C. Kean, Will be performed Shakespere's Historical Play of KIN 3 JOIDI (as acted at Windsor Castle by Royal Command). Principal cha racters by Messrs. C. Kean, A. Wigan, Ryder, Addison, Meadows, J. Vining, C. Fisher, Graham, Wynn, J. Cooke, Everett, Stanton, Cathcart, and Wheatleigh ; Miss Phillips, Miss Robertson, Miss Mur ray, Miss Kate Ttrry, Mrs. Daly, and Mrs. C. Kean. With a new grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN BILLY T.LILOR ; or, The Flying Dutc hman and the King of Bit ritongo. Harlequin. Mr. Cormack ; Clown, Mr. Fleamore ; Panta loon, Mr. Paulo; and Columbine. Miss Carlotta Leclercq. K0T...N.L0r.; 13 ". 4 Under the Idenßgernent I,43arae VeStria. TUIS EV 2.NING, w , l! be performed _ . TUE GAME OF SPECULATION. Principal characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, 'F. Matthews, R. Roiby, B. Baker ; Mrs. C. Horn, and ;Bas M. Oliver, Pn .0n. , 911 , 1€ with A new and original Fairy Extravaganza, by J. R. Planche, Esq., entitled THE PRINCE OF 11APPY LAND ; or, The Fawn in the Forest. Characters by Madame Vestris, Miss St. George, Miss Lanza, Miss Martindale, Miss Grove, Miss Eths, Miss Rosina Wright, Messrs. F. Matthews, B. Baker, Suter, Hon:waste, Butler, and Vernon. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. -,'t Mr THIS EVENING, Will be presented WILLII William Tell, Mr. 11. Far ten; Alert, Miss Louisa Howard ; Gesler, Mr. Diddear Michael Mr. Hoskins; Emma, Mrs. Barrett; Agnes, Miss Julia Glover. To conclude with RED I,IJFIJS ; or, Harlequin Fact, Fiction, and Fancy. Red Rufus, Mr. Shalders ; Clown, Mr. Edwards; Harlequin, Mr. Forrest; Pantaloon, Mr. Tanner; Columbine, Miss Lees. FUNCr.I'Ei PLAYEDUSE AND STRAND THEATRE,- Lersee, Mr. W. R. COPELAND. Liverpool, The Warmest Theatre in London. TH I EVENING, Will be presented THE RIFLE CLUB. Characters by Messrs. Romer, Rogers, Attwood, Miss Sanders, aod Miss Maskell. To be followed by THE TWELVE LADOUIts OF HERCULES. To he followed by a new Chinese burlesque, called THE MAND..t.- 'TUN'S DAUGHTER , or, Willow Pattern Plate. Characters by MeMrs. J. Reeve, Rogers, Romer, Attwood, Hudspeth; Mesdames Marshall, Sanders, Bell, Eglinton, and Maskell. After which, The JUVENILE PARTY. Boxes, 35.; Pit, 2s. ; Amphitheatre, Is. - Boxes eaoti. Stage Manager. Mr. E. Stirling. AetTLEY'S ROYAL AMPILITIIEATRi:. Under P Axonaee of bee stale4t7 Anti nia if.o: 7 a: Highness r• - nre? A. Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. The moat succesgbil and pcpuiar Theatre in London. Last Week of the Pantomime. Tlllts yy EN LNG, WM be performed a Magnificent Spectacle, entitled BLUE BEARD ; or, Female Curiosity, in wt ich will be introduced a pair of highly-trained Elephants, male and female, allowed to be the most docile pair ever brought into Europe. With iiatty's Inimitable 'scenes of the Arena, combining talent the highest or, er, both Native and Foreign. With the m. at popu.ar and onl , Equestrian Pantomime In London, entitled MR. and MRS. BRIGGS ; or, Lunch's Festival—Mirth, Wit, and Jollity. Har:equin, Mr. Harvey; Columbine, Mis. Avery ; Pantaloon, Mr. Ruckman; Clown, Arthur Nelson, who will in the coarse of each evening playa number of favourite airs on the Eck Harmonicon. Y.sizhets to Ls; tad at the 12ox-office tram Eleven till Four dally. Stage 'ian,4er, T. Thompson. MEETING OF PARLIAMENT THE THIRD EDITION OF "THE SUN" will be found highly interesting during the present extraordinary Session of Parliament. The THIRD EDITION will contain the DEBATES of the SAME EVENING up to the HOUR of POST ; also, SPORTING of every description, with TATTERSALL'S on Monday and Thursday Evenings in time for Post ; with the GAZETTES of Tuesday and Friday, contain iag Army and Navy Promotions, Bankrupts, &c., and ALL NEWS arriving in London up to the Hour of Post. EXPRESS EDITIONS ON ALL IMPORTANT OCCASIONS. Orders received by all News-agents, and at the San-Office, 112, Strand. Sun Office, 112, Strand. FERRI:IA/2T, 1852. HIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. T " A I -- MOrnin't 59 min., alter 12 1 Evening 23 min after 1 — ening 47 min. after 1 ; Even,rez S min aster 2 I ° 3 I ..I.TiIEIL—Surx OFFICE', FEBRUARY 18. Lati. 53-•—r iti t +3t circa awn yegrerday. 37 --o ‘vezt Lhi:i morning and during the night. 40 —this day, at nr4on. BARCIIFIrtia, '29.68 w is p N.N.W.—Moming, fresh breeze and sunehing weather ; Afternoon, alight rain. DAILY WEATiMit TkBLE. state of the Wind and Weather at each of the followin g pl a ces at Nine o'clock yesterday morning,—The stations are arranged in order of latitude. PooLs—Wind S.E.. strong breeze—overcast. HASTrifGa—Wind W., fresh breeze —overcast, Socrraklarros—Wind W., strong breeze —overcast. .—Wind N.W,. gentle breeze —over cas t. FotixaeroieF TI.-:Taarpoit—.Arind W., strong breeze—cloudless. GREENWICH—Wind W., gentle breeze —overcast. SraooD—Wind W., calm—partially cloudy. LElawroe—Wind strong breeze--partisily cloudy. CowI:LEST Mt.—Wind g w .W., bard ird—overcast. Csainamaa—Wind W., strong breeze—overcast. lAitm°l:TEl—Wind W., strong bre eze —rain. — II3I4 INGBAm — Wind W., gentle breeze--overcast. The returns from the following places indicate the the wind and weather on Monday morning at nine o'clock : c loudy. Lcsimucit —Wind W., ge n tl e b reeze —partially—partial ly Hot. THEAD—W ind W. by N., s t rong breeze—partially cloudy. LANCASTER.... ind W., gentle ze icy HITBT-- W ind W strong breeze—overcast.te— rain. DwituNGTozr— Wind W. y, W-, storm - sleet, rain. Bicarrocic—Wind N. W., strong breeze—rain. At the Royal Observatory, G reenw i ch, the mean daily reading of the barometer was_ above 30 i n . on Satur d a y ; the mean of the week was 29.b4a in. The m ean d a ily tempera ture was 10.6' above the average of the same day in ten years on :7 , uaday ; on Monday the excess was only I 7°; and on the remaining five days the daily mean was below the average. On Sunday the mean daily temperature was 49 .4Q ; on Monday it fell to 40.a°, and it contipued to fall till Thursday, when it was 34 . 3 ° ; on the two tollowing days it slightly increased. The mean f the week was 38.8°, w hi c h is near the average. The wind blew from the south-west on the first two days, on the nest three from the north, a n d towards the . nd of the week from S.S.E. !!t -••• 4 4 ,4. t fir , •• _ E r•no .0" • Dp, • • flI LONDON. WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 18, 1852. Whether the presfnt Ministry will continue much lonizer in office ; or be" driven from the posts of Ad minii•tratior, must verysixediiy b ecome apparent. During a considerable time put it, has existed only on suff,:rance. Popularity, indeed, was river its at tribute even i n it s plmiest days, for the success of Lord JOHN RUSSELL iii first attaining' the rank of Prune Minister was attributable less to his own THE SUN, capacity than to the embarrassed situation of his ' predecessor. The revenge wreaked by the Country Party upon Sir ROBERT PEEL—a revenge considered by them to be justifiable, because of the manner in which the Right Hon. Baronet bad broken up the powerful and predominant party of the Conservatives — was the real source of strength to the Whigs in 1846. It was then that the statesman who had caused free , trade to triumph over monopoly was thrown out by a division on the Coercion Bill. Ireland, which had long been his acknowledged difficulty, was selected at that moment as the means of affording the Protectionists the most effectual weapon for the destruction of his Government. Sir Ro- BERT fell, but he fell as administrator had never fallen before, he fell in the midst of enthu siastic evidences of national gratitude and popular ad miration. The night of his resignation was marked by a spontaneous ovation at the very door of the House of Parliament. Lord Joan rose into power as Premier bad very seldom risen before, he rose in the midst of an apathetic indifference on the part of the community. He was accepted as a necessity, ra ther than welcomed with any degree of confidence. Suspicions were entertained from the very outset that he would be incompetent to fulfil the responsibilities of his position to the entire satisfaction of the people; and if death had stilled the hand of GILLRAY, and po litics had been abandoned by CRUIESHANY, there was still found the pencil of LEECH to insinuate that JOHN was not strong enough for the Place. Under these auspices it was that the leader of the Whig Party in the House of Commons was empowered by the QUEEN to form an Administration. To this end be grouped together the representatives of the GREY section of the Whigs, the representatives, that is to say, of the men who had maintained their original ideas upon government when EDMUND Buzau and his followers deserted to WILLIAM PITT, on the com mencement of the great French Revolution. With the GREY section Lord JOHN associated that other sec tion with which he himself had been all along more peculiarly identified, namely, the LANSDOWNE section, the members of which were for the most part im bued with the Edinburgh Review principles. These again were joined by the new Prime Minister, with a cluster of politicians. Whip it is true at heart, but Whigs belonging to neither of the foregoing divisions, men, for example, such as Sir JOHN CAM Honnorse, sinee then elevated to the peerage by the title of Lord BROUGHTON DE GIFFORD. Of this threefold complexion was the Whig Cabinet which Lord JOHN RUSSELL invested with a certain redeem ing popularity by introducing into it as Foreign Secretary the last and most illustrious of the Can ningites ! During six years the Ministry thus formed was held together by the force of circum stances. Disgrace was drawn down upon it by the perverse and blundering policy of the Colonial Department. Odium was provoked by the imbecility and ignorance manifested in the administration of the Exchequer. Defeated, glaringly and ignomi niously defeated, upon one question after another, the Government of the Whigs under Lord Joule Rug- SELL became as habitually in a minority as the Go vernment of the Whigs had been formerly under Lord MELBOURNE. Only three considerations im part(' d to them anything like a respectable influence in the country. The Earl of CLARENDON had won eulogium on all hands by hie vigorous but conciliatory proceedings in Ireland as Lord-Lieute nent. Sir GEORGE GREY, as Home Secretary, had given very general satisfaction. But, above all, Lord PALMERSTON had by his foreign policy secured to the Cabinet what must for ever be its principal glory, the glory of having upheld the dignity of the empire throughout the world, while at the same time preserving uninterrupted peace during those three terrible years when the most poweifal states of Christendom were convulsed by what Aensoer b,9is finely called the tnindquake of revolution I Yet, among all the members of the present Ca binet, the Foreign Secretary was the only one sum marily dismissed and ungratefully sacrificed I Quos Deus vult perdere prius dementat. Lord PALMERS TON was ousted from the Ministry, and in his expul sion his former colleagues destroyed the talisman of their popularity. Their admirers may object to this that they still continue politically in exist ence. No—they cannot correctly be said to exist they are only dying hard. The Reform Bill will be to Lord JOHN RUSSELL what the Coer cion Bill was to Sir ROBERT PEEL. As was very happily observed by the Hon. Baronet the Member for Bedford, the Bill in question might more cor rectly have been entitled " A Bill for the purpose of keeping her MAJESTY'S Ministers in Place !" This ingenious endeavour must nevertheless, we feel assured, prove in every way unsuccessful. The people will look with suspicion upon the paltry boon cast to them so ungraciously by that Whig Party which is manifestly sanguine of thus obtaining for itself another lease of the Administration. According to APII LEIUS, the only effectual sop for the dog of PLUTO was " a barley cake steeped in wine and honey." The sop which has at last been reluctantly tossed to the national Cerberus by the Whig Government, is altogether inadequate both as a bait and a soporific. There is the barley cake sure enough, but it is a barley cake which has never been soaked either in wine or in honey. Besides, the population know well enough the hand that casts down to them this trumpery sop of a Reform Bill. Timeo D a naos et dons ferentes. The gifts are too equivocal in themselves, in those who are offering them, nay, in the very manner in which and the very circumstances under which they are offered, not to be rejected with derision. We look forward, prom ptly and therefore, with confidence to the New Reform Bill as to the weapon which, sooner or later, in the House or out of the House, must effect the destruction of the Whig Government. After all the various rumours s hich have been afloat in regard to the projected increase of our standing army, it appears from a statement made by Lord Joliet RUSSELL in his late speech on intro ducing the militia proposition to the House of Com mons, that no augmentation will be demanded beyond about four thousand men. Even for this small additional requirement, we are only indebted to the state of affairs in South Africa, so that it may be viewed in the light of a pro visional and exceptional measure. The fact is, we have a sufficiency of regiments and soldiers, but the former are not by any means in that effective state of consolidation which an easy re-arrangement would produce. The depot system, as at present applied to regiments on colonial service, ought to be placed upon the same footing as that of those serving in our East Indian possessions, and a small staff, with a couple of officers at the head, substituted for the existing retention of four companies. Furthermore, and indeed principally, with respect to our Infantry corps, Guard s an d Li ne ( an d i n th e f orme r we should' not be at all sorry to see the third batta lion of the Grenadiers reduced, and the army list eased of go many precocious field-of f icers), each battali on should of one hundred consist rank of we would h ave, after. deduc and tingw hereb y eight twenty-five b a tt a lions for India, a n d eight colonial ones infan try force for borne and co l on i es of sixty-eight na thou sand rank And file, or in round numbers, of 75,000 infantry of all ranks. It is rumoured, and it is to be hoped with tru th, that the arm y is to be improved by an addition nffour of ba r t i t fl al e i s on s (to be effectedt ot' ligh in fsntry and as m an y ; an equal number by conversion of r of th e " heavy bobs"), and by the arming of each regimental light company with the rifle. These would indeed b e steps in the right direction. The advantages a n d even necessity of some cons iderable amelioration of the present infantry equipment have been so profusely discussed and demonstrated of late in the public journals, that we shall not here dwell upon that branch of the subject. The necessity for keep ing pace with the modern improvements in firearms which have been adopted by certain of our continental neighbours is beginning to be generally felt. Even those slow coaches the Austrians are, we understand, turning their attention as well as the acute French to the question of substituting rifles for muskets. The Austrian troops at Ancona have been recently supplied with sixteen of the newly invented German rifles to every company of a hundred and ei g hty men, and these soldiers are now daily drilling as sharpshooters. It a ppears that the whole • Austrian infantry has been similarly supplied, and LONDON, the officers declare that these rifles will carry with decided effect upwards of a thousand yards. What we want then, as regards the British infantry, is, strong battalions, not over-officered, and with a fitting proportion of light troops, who shall be made crack long-shots, whilst the main body, with im proved "Brown Besses" and bayonets, are rendered, by a general change for the better in the articles of their equipment, more competent than ever to uphold at close quarters the justly-vaunted superiority of the English soldier in the field of war. Our cavalry consists at present of twenty-six regi ments, of whom five are devoted to Indian service, leaving twenty-one for the home, viz., three Guards, seven Dragoon Guards, and eleven Dragoons, three of which latter may be classified as heavies. We would suggest firstly, that the Carabineers (6th Dragoon Guards)be transformed into the sth Dragoons, which once distinguished regiment has not figured in the Army List since it was disbanded shortly after the Irish Rebellion of 1798, for some reason or other not very clearly understood, and its officers, with the pre sent gallant Marquis of LONDONDERRY, its then lieutenant-colonel at their head, drafted into other regiments; secondly, that the sth and 7th Dra goon Guards be reduced; and, thirdly, that the three regiments of guards, the four of Dragoon Guards and the other twelve home regiments, should have each eight troops. This would constitute a force of seventy-six squadrons, which, allowing forty mounts to each troop, gives a cavalry of 6,080 horses, exclu sive of officers. The superiority of a four over a three squadron regiment is admitted by all compe tent judges. As to the Artillery, the deficiency of that branch of the service has at length become too notori ous, and an augmentation will be forthwith brought into operation. Field guns are of no great use if you have not men enough to work them and an adequate supply of horses. Woolwich of itself ought to be always in a condition to bring sixty guns into the field at five minutes' notice. Whatever ex fe-nse might be needed to meet such modifications as we have thus cursorily put forward would certainly not be grudged. It would be small, if any, and although the English public are not given to playing at soldiers, their general desire as regards the military power of the country is to see it efficient. Efficiency will be found to be economy in the long run, and it is the interest of those who contribute so large an item in the State expenditure as is voted under the head of the army and ordnance estimates, to in sist on a sound economy being exercised therein ; and that although we do not pretend to compete with the other great Powers of Europe in the numbers of our soldiers, we shall not be found a whit behind them in the effectiveness and promptitude of our military appliances. LATEST FROM PARIS (BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.) PARIS, WEDNESDAY, HALF-PAST 8 A.M. The Moniteur publishes the Law on the Press. No paper is to be created without Government authority. Poli , ical newspapers published in foreign countries will not be allowed to circulate in France without Government authority. The caution-money of a paper appearing more than thrice a week to ba 50,000 F. Ali publication of a paper without authority, or without lodging the caution-money, is to be punished with a fine of from 100 f. to 2,000 f. for each number, and imprisonment of from one month to two years. The stamp duties imposed on newspapers are also applicable to foreign newspapers, unless they are exempted under a diplomatic convention.— Times. QUARTER SESSIONS' CHAIRMEN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Snt,—lt is very desirable, fur several reasons, that a barri.ter should preside as chairman at all quarter-ses sions. The Government would render the public a great service in appointing (by a short Act of Parliament) the county courts judges chairmen of quarter-sessions. I am, Sir, yours, &c., Feb. 16. A LAWYER. In the announcement of the munificient legacies to charitable institutions bequeathed by the late Thomas Dickenson, Esq., of Upper Holloway, is to be added 1,0001 to the Cheesemongers' Benevolent institution. BROMPTOR HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE CHEST. —Yesterday, at a meeting of the board of management, Mr. Thomas Lowndes is the chair, it was announced that his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury had, for the second time consented to advocate the interests of the charity, as his Grace did in l 48. On Sunday next a sermon will be preached in the parish church of Clapham, by his Grace, with a view to the immediate completion of the eastern wing, and its approaches. The Duke of Cambridge has expressed his intention of presiding at the forthcoming anniversary festival for the same benevolent object. HEAR THIS, LADIES.—The learned Niebuhr, when in this country stayed some time in the north, and it is stated by his biographer, that in the vicinity of Edinburgh, he visited the seat of Sir John Murray, of Kirkland's Hill, whose wife was " somewhat rough, though pleasant," and who "smoked her pipe, laughed at it, and protested it was no sin." We would rather reconcile ourselves to the " pan telettes" than the pipe, notwithstanding all that has been said of the Bloomers. In short, a lady with a day pipe would be more intolerable than a bagpipe, and heaven defend us from the latter item in this world's annoyances l—Berwich Warder. EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE BY TWO FOIiZIONERS. — Some fews days ago the police received in formation that a woman of the name of Caroline Karama, a servant in the family of Dr. da Alguer, 4, Ovington-terrace, l3rompton, had absconded from her situation, taking with her a quantity of valuable jewellery and other property to the amount of 2001., and notwithstanding every effort of the police she eluded their vigilance until yesterday afternoon, when, as Superintendent Otway and Inspector Monckton of the C division were proceeding down Cambridge-street, Gulden-square, they saw the woman come out of Ur. Yates', a pawnbroker in the same street. They followed her to the Hotel de l'Europe, L e i ces ter-place, which she entered. After waiting a few minutes the officers went in, and, on proceeding to a front room on th© third floor they found a man, who gave the name of Wen zeslaus Joseph Stralsener, and the woman whom they had followed. The latter was counting out some money to the man, and on being told the nature of the charge against them, the man took a razor from his waistcoat pocket, and before the officers were aware of it, drew the blade across his left wrist, and directly fell on the floor. Inspector Monckton immediately extricated the razor from his grasp, anu in the struggle it fell from his hand. The woman directly caught it up, and cut her left wrist in the same manner, and fell down in a state of insensibility. They were at once conveyed to Charing-cross Hospital, and on being examined by the surgeon, he found that the arteries had been completely severed, and that they were in a dan gerous state. Two constables were left in charge of them, and as soon as they are sufficiently recovered they will be taken to the police court, Westminster, there to undergo an examination on the charge of robbery. DISCONTINUANCE OF INQUESTS AT PUBLIC-HOUSES. —The parochial trustees of Poplar have recently come to a determination that all coroners' inquests shall in future be held at the Town-hall instead of at public-houses. In pur suance of this change, an inqaest was held on Friday even ing in the Town-hall by Mr. W. Baker, the coroner. This proceeding was strongly opposed by Mr. Finney, the land lord of the King's Head Tavern, and several other parishi oners, who demanded to know by what authority the inva riable custom of holding inquests at public-houses had been changed. One of the officers of the parish said the parochial trustees considered there were great objections to coroners' inquests being held at public-houses; it detracted from the respectability and solemnity of a court of juetice. They thought that the Town-hall was a much more suitable place for carrying out such public inquiries. The inquest was then proceeded with. NEW AND CHEAP OMNIBUSES. -- Yesterday a number of new and well-appointed omnibuses commenced running between the Paddington terminus of the Great Western Railway and the Great Northern station, at King's cross. The fare is 2d. for the entire distance. FIRE AT DARTFORD.—The firemen of the London brigade, with a strong number of hired auxiliaries, have been actively employed ever since their arrival on Saturday night in endeavouring to get the fire at the Phoenix Paper Mill entirely extinguished, but up to last evening have been unsuccessful, and a mass of fire still remains beneath the ruins. 200 women were employed in the mill, all of whom have been thruwn out of work. R E PRESENTATION OF WESTMINSTER.—Mr. Charles Lushington has announced his intention of retiring from the representation of Westminster at the close of the present Parliament. Among many gentlemen spoken of as pro bable candidates, one has already announced himself in the person of Mr. John Villiers Shelley, of Maresfield Park, Sussex, who describes himself as a landowner and practical farmer. He is for vote by ballot, coupled with an extension of the franchise, a corn-law repealer, and an enemy to grants from the public purse for other than secular purposes. A great desire exists on the part of a numerous section of the constituency to invite Lord Palmerston to come forward ; and a public meeting of electors will be called in the course of a few days to consider the desirableness of memorialising the Noble Viscount on the subject. ESCAPE OF TWO PRISONERS FROM THE BOROUGH GAOL, COLCHF.STIR.—On Sunday evening last, about six o'clock, two prisoners —viz., George Jones, who was under remand upon a charge of having a large amount of counter feit coin in his possession, and James Keeble, charged with obtaining goods un d er false pretences, effected their escape from the bor oug h gaol, by cutting away part of a door, with some instrument th ey had secreted, which ena bl e d t h em to' enter a passage, at the end o f w hi c h they effected an aper ture through a brick wall into the vegetable market place, from whence they effected their escape ; and although their exit was discovered by Mr. Harvey, the gaoler, about half past six o'clock, and the police dispatched in all directions in pursuit of them, no clue has at present been discovered as to their route, or whe reabouts.—lpswich Express. Some editor says that the destiny of the world often hangs on the smallest trifles. A little miff between Charles Bonaparte and his love Letitia might have broken off a marriage which gave birth t o Napoleon , and the battle which the Chicago Adv ert i ser • a' little says—" Yes, o f Waterloo. To w that is the fact. Suppes2,, tat tam. e VIP had taken place be tween Adam and Eve! vi WEDNESDAY EVENENG, FEBRUARY 18, 1852. THE SHARE MARKETS. BRITISH RAILWAYS. Railway& PAW. Nominal Prices, Business dons to-day. Aberdeen.. • • • • Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston, & E. Juncion Belfast and County Down ?Arming.. Wolverhamp., and Steer Valley Dlrkenh., Lan., & Cheek June., late 881. 65. 841.. Do. Chest. & Birkenkd., 601. & 251. Consolidated Do., do., 201. •• Bristol and Exeter.. Caledonian • • • • • • Chester and Holyhead Imblin and Belfast Junet. Dublin and Kiagetovin— Dandalk and Enniskillen Dundee, Perth, and Aber leen Junction .• • • Do., New .. • East Anglian (261. L. E. and L. & D.) •• .• Do, (181. E. & IL) Eastern Counties • • • • Eastern CI-den, class A, late E. U. shares • • Do. do. do. .. Do. de., B & C shares East Lancashire • • •• I), New quarters • • East & West India Docks and Birm June. East & West York. June. Edinburgh and Glasgow Eden., rerth, and Dundee Glasgew and south-West. De. do. G.D. & C.ateck Great Northern Do. halves, A. deferred Do. halves, B, 6 Per et. Great r!antherr. and Western, Ireland .. Great Western .. Lancaster and Carlisle Do. thirds • • .. Lancaster and Preston Lancashire and orkshire Do. quarter el-aces Do. fifths .. • Do. West Riding Union Leeds Northern .. Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport • • •. London and Blackwell .. Do., Tilbury Ext. Scrip London, Brighton, a n d South Coast London and N.-Western Do. do. cinarters De. fifths • • • • .. Do. 101. sh.• 31•& It (a) London and 5.-Westera • Do. new 501. .. Do. new 401. .• •• Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock •• Manchester, Sheffield, & Lincolnshire Do. Manchester and Lincoln Union .. 113( to 11% 5U —5% 11% 3i 5%3r 9% a 10% 17% 100 die. 8b —B7 15 ISM 19 19% 20 —lB d. 116% % 15 19 % slalland •• Do. 501. shares .. De. Birming & Derby Ilialand Gt. West. (Ire.) Newcastle and Carlisle.. Do. quarter shares .. Newmarket .. sewport, Abergavenny, and Hereford Newry and Enniskillen.. °wry, W arr enpoint, & ite,strevor :Scrfolk •• .• Do. New 201. shares.. Northern Counties Union North British.. North Devon .. North Staffordshire .. North-Western •• North & Sth.-West. Jane. Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton.. .. Se9ttish Central Seottish Midland .. Do. new .. Shrews. & Birm„ Class A Do. Class 8.. .. • • Screws. & Hereford., Old Do., do.. New • • Shrewsbury and Chester (Nor. W. Nam) • • •• Do. halves Do. Oswestry Do. New....• .. • • Shropshire Union • • • • Do., A, B, C, & D, folly paid up at per cent • • South Devon .. South• Eastern .. • • South ..males.. south Yorksh. and River Dui 5h..1., Roth., and Goole, South Division attains nd D.nfermlinO Stockton and Hartlepool ruff Vale .. .. •.1 Taw Vale Extension .. Thames Haven Dock and Railway .. • • or Neath Waterford and Kilkenny Waterford and Limerick, Waterford, Wax., Wick. and Dublin .. West Cornwall , •• • • Whitettaven and Farness York, Newc., & Berwick Ditto and Newcastle Extension Ditto G.N.E. purchase York and North Midland 7.1 - 1 C M S 5% -6% 3% -3% 2% -2% 7% -7% 4% -ISM ib 16% x.cll 49 -50 26 -28 4)4 - 5 100 6 6 6 18% - 18% 5% - 5 13% - 13% 100 au 1 13 4 47% 100 853{ —B6 x.d 74 —77 7% —8 P. 66% —6N 7% —6% cl. d. 14% —15% . • . -• • 7 -7% 94 -95 114% —ll9 3% — 3% P 35f, 3%P• 1% 110. 85 —B6 z.d die. zd 16% 834 dia. zd 100 42% 2% -2% 2334 30 4 2 0 100 314 di'. 57S 58 28 —3O 100 473•. 15 -83 ii 4 34 4 Ms, die. ii -25 2S 17% 19 334 14 —i2 3N( 3 dia. 67 5 8 —7 7 % dis. 87 —B% dis• dis. %du. par 7% % 3% lb% x.d au all all 1 634 35% (84%x.d 85%34 i 14% 35 74% 115% 16 13% 4% 9 — 19 36 9 4 3 dia. .. ••• • • 12 —l4 6 7 9 —lO dls... •••• •• s% 3 d. 26% 4% 18 -15 20 - 34 2% 30 - 300% 3% -2% & iso 1 52 A .. 1 •• 65% 66 65% 94 % 119% % % $5 $43 x.d 34% 29 g 29 67% b 7 % % __ Di% 87 a X % 5 % % % 23% to dig. 9% =IOU 34 44 163 w 17% —5, dia. 17% 18 734 7 12% 53 2134 rxxince 'TA.3IB. Agua Fria ... ... Anglo CaAlton Jan :: :: Australian .... .. :::: Ave Mari* ......... Blaenarvon Iron & Coal British Austira/ian Gold British Iron . ...... Brazilian Imp (Is. 51. p.) Do. Cocaea. and Cuiabs Do. St. Jobe , del ltey.. Cobre Copper Copiapo —• Eng. &Auatr aillan Copper Gold Mounta lit • Great Polgoot h Mexican& t. American Nouveau Moxi de........ Santiago de Ct aba Tin Croft • • • •• •••• • • • • United Maxi a sn.. • • • • • • West Maripc ts a ..... . Assusissis British Nort i America.. Colonial ...... ••..•• • • • • Commercial CI f London.. London Join A Stock .. Landon and iffeetminster National Pr. to rincial Eng. De. New . • • .. National of I reland .. • • Oriental inn a k Corporat. Provincial c f Ireland. • • Do. New ... ........ Union of A. s itralia ~ • • Do. New . enlon of L. )1 don Unto!: or vA Jiria 1111 Gen. Steam Navigation . renin. & ri ental Steam. Ditto ditto Royal Mail Steam ...... k`aid. Nominal Vrices., tloz !o-day. 2% 76 %; 13 (We can•oE)t be animal still not be influenced by MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were es timated at from 12,000 to 14,000 bales, of which 1,000 Surat ski 500 American were taken for export, and 1,500 Surat and 1,500 American on speculation. The market closed with an upward tendency, and American and Surat were id. per lb. higher, and all other kinds were tight.—Railway Shares were flat at lower prises. Some conversation has taken place upon the nume rous failures that have occurred in Dublin, and the im pression prevails with many that the trade of that city is in a state of decay. We believe, however, that this is entirely erroneous, for it must be remarked by those who pay attention to the subject, that the parties who have suspended are mostly in the colonial and provision branches,, and these it is well known have been more fluctuating than any other. Compared with what has occurred in London, the liabilities of the different firms are unimportant, and many of them will pay a very fair dividend. We apprehend that the same mistake has been made throughout the world with regard to the future prices of tropical staples. There cannot be any safety in speculating for a rise at the present day, and we should strongly deprecate fal lacious hopes, because the sooner a permanent level is estsbliehed the better it will be for the growers as well as the merchants. Taking Sugar and other articles in the Calcutta and West India markets at prices which it seems impossible to realise in London, is a poceeding which any school-boy would understand to be ruinous in its results, and yet throughout the past year this may be said to have been done by merchants of standing and ex perience. We have before explained, however, that this is not so much an error of judgment as a compliance with force of circumstances, for if our manutactures are pressed into the Eastern markets beyond the power of consumption, there is no alternative but to accept what we can get in return, and the greater the detav,nd the higher, of course, will be the prices. In Mincin g -l ane , at present, there is a far greater amount of caution, and we could hardly point to one article in which the sales are more than equal to the average, weekly consumption. These may give a dull appearance to general trade, but it is a healthy system, and those only who think of becoming suddenly rich, and - who, as often, are made irretrievably poor, will object to it. It is satisfactory also to know that our provision markets are firmer, and that the Admiralty thinks it advisable to give a prefer ence to Irish cured meats. This was proved by the smaller quantity of American taken when the last con tract was entered into. Grain, likewise, is not expected to - go lower, and the late harvests in the north of Europe will not leave any large surplus for exportation to Eng land, unless a greater temptation is offered with regard to prices. Objections are making to the Australian Mail con tract, and Mr. French urged upon Parliament last evening that Mr. Walton had not performed his agree ment in forming a company. This is obviously an error, because we have already been informed by public advertisement that the Australian Mail Steam-packet Company have purchased two screw-vessels, which will be ready in April to make a commencement; and al though we have before urged that we require at least, in the present altered circumstances of the colonies. a monthly communication, we must likewise feel gratified that the movement has been made, and are certain that the feeling in the City is that the new company has taken it at an 'exceedingly low figure. The Amsterdam Stook Market on the 16th inst. was well supported for Dutch Bonds. South American were likewise in request. The more the question of the Exchequer-bills is con sidered, the greater the dissatisfaction expressed with the conduct of Sir Charles Wood in not availing himself of the exiatiog abundance of money to effect some re lief of the existing burden. It i s true, the saving won the 8,500,0001. falling due would be only about 32,0001. if the daily interest were lowered to lid. per cent., but this is an object, and with the existing high pre mium upon the bills, it is obvious the public could obtain the saving. We apprehend the Government in its weakness thinks to" curry f avour " w i t h t h e banking interest by postponing the measure, but in this they may be mistaken, seeing the general impoliCy of their proceedings and their consequent unpopularity. The Stock Market is still heavy and there is very little money business doing. Consols bring 97-1 for Transfer and 97i to # for Account. The premium on Exchequer-bills has been 58a. to 61a., and on India Bonds 695. to 718. premium. The New Three-and-a Quarter per Cents. are 99i to and the Three per Cents. 97i to 98. Bank Stock is very firm at 217. Foreign Securities have been a good deal dealt in. Spanish Five per Cents. have been 231 ; and the Three per Cents. 41. The Deferred are 18i 4, and the Certi ficate has risen to 1 a per cent. Portuguese Four per Cents, have been marked 32i I. Grenada Bonds have been quoted lower, sales being made to realise profits. The Active have been 214 and since 20k. Equador are also down, being 4 Deferred Grenada have re ceded to 71. These stocks have been run up too fast, and not altogether upon valid ground, for one follows the other. Venezuela Old Stock is at 371 i. Belgian Four-and a-Half per Cents, are 91/, and Dutch Four per Cents. 92 to I. Mexican Stock has been worth 32i j for Money, and up to 32i and 33 for Account. Peruvian Old Bonds are at 98k. Railway. Shares have been rather weaker, but sales have not been pressed. Gold Mines have been firm and a moderate business is doing in them. The following is from the Committee of Spanish Ame rican Bondholders respecting the Equador debt:— At a meeting of the Committee of Spanish American Bondholders, held to-day, it was determined, in pur sua►nce of a resolution passed at a meeting of Colombian Bondholders, held some time since, to dispatch Mr. Eli%s Mocatta of Liverpool, to Quito, to endeavour to effect an adjustment of the foreign debt of the republic of the Equador." THE ST. ALBANS DISFRANCHISE MENT BILL. - - -- • ---- . The House of Commons on Monday night presented one of those scenes of injured innocence with whieb it periodically wipes off the stain of continual corruption. The smut is always accumulating on the coalheaver's face, but about once a week he finds sufficient leisure and soap to restore his complexion to a sort of conven tional cleanliness. In the case of the House of Commons this ceremonial purification is repeated two or three times in a session, and, as might be expected, with the greatest zeal on the occasions of the most crying scandal. St. Albans is not unfitly compared by its unfortunate re presentative to the scapegoat on which the House of Commons grafts the sins of every one of its Members, on the supposition that, by exterminating that one borough, the House will be left perfectly pure. That is the Levitical notion. In these days, perhaps, we should borrow cur images from some of those gigantic systems of sewerage which lately divided the attention of the sanitary world. St. Albans is the great sump or monster cesspool into which the reeking ebeminations of St. Stephen's are carried away, though, as it appears, we only excbauge one difficulty for another; for how is St. Albans itself to be dis posed of ? The process ot self-purgation attempted on Monday is very ingenious, and nothing could exceed the reality with which the various personages threw themselves into their parts; but, after all, the annihilation of a nuisance is all but impossible, There are a thou sand excellent plarls by which furnaces are warranted to consume their own smoke, and we have no doubt they have all been tried at Buckingham Palace; but when we stood before the new front, of that edifice last Saturday afternoon there rose from behind the figure ot Britannia a dense column of smoke that would have done honour to any brewery in the metropolis. We should not be surprised it the new patent corruption-consuming sp paratuse now on trial in the House of Commons, should attain but a partial success. A sagacious contemporary made it a point the other day in favour of the new Par liamentary Representation Bill, that whereas the first Reform Bill might be compared to Hercules in his cradle strangling the serpent sent to devour him, the present measure represents the adult hero with nothing further to destroy, his work all done, himself' a gentleman of leisure and independence, in easy circumstances, much like a modern man upon town. That, of course; is the delusion which plausible men are always palming on fools. Strangle your serpent, do your Schedule A once for all, or, if there must be a comme morative sacrifice, slay a St. Albans once in ten years, and you may then say to your soul, " Soul, take thine ease; eat, drink, and be merry." But on this point our learned contemporary, and, we will add, the concoetors of the new Reform Bill, and the sacrificers of St. Al• bans, are all wrong. When Hercules grew up, instead of a simple serpent, he had a fifty-headed Hydra to kill, besides other monsters; and that is exactly the sort of work which the Hercules of our days, the British House of Commons, has to accomplish, and will have to the end of the world. Yet it must be confessed that the various actors in the farce of Monday night did their parts well. Sir George Grey was full of admiration at the very com plete way in which " the Act of last session" had worked in detecting and exposing the corrup tio❑ of St. Albans. Read his speech, gentle reader. Except the single expression, " almost un precedented," there is literally hot a syllable in it chat would lead one to suspect bribery had ever bean heard of in this country before. Had be been describing the unparalleled atrocities of Burke and Hare he could not have been more indignant and more simply bent on the work of discovery and retribution. He wiped his mouth, and sat down tee champion of poli tical purity. But where there is virtue there will ever be calumny also, and the Minister found himself auda ciously accused from the very record on which his speech had been framed. Mr. Whiteside asked " whe ther the attention of the Right Hon. Baronet had been directed to that part of the St. Albans evidence which stated that Government places had been the reward of persons who had committed corruption on behalf of Reform candidates?" Sir George Grey was at no loss for a reply. " He was ignorant of any such rewards having been given by the Goverment to which he be longed for any such corrupt practices." The imputa tions which the Horne Secretary had to meet were vast but general; and perhaps it is easier to ignore, in set phrase, the corruption of an (invite, of a Legis lature, or a Government, than the bribery of at, individual; but there were those present who had to meet the most direct personal charge of malprac tices, and they did their part as well as Sir George Grey had done his. Foremost of these is Mr. Jacob Bell. This much-injured man, brought fairly to bay, has at last made a capital fight. He confesses the sins o St. Albans. On that point, indeed, he says that, like the House of Commons, he has derived great light from the published evidence. He begs the Hon. Members not to condemn him by the perfect insight they now have into the wrongs of St. Albano, but to put themselves into his situation while he was still a raw candidate, as must of them, indeed, poor creatures, have been in their day. What did he do ? He accepted the unanimous invita tion of the borough. He prepared an address with the usual ingredients from the new Whig pharmacopoais. tie showed it to those high authorities Mr Coppock and the Secretary of the Treasury. Did not that show at least a disposition to be right, and where could ho fiuj better advisers ? Be toes his committee, he canvassed the electors, be submitted to a searching t xsmination as to his political tenets, and le joked to find himself ap proved by his cautious and discriminating critics. He thought it tight to confide in those who placed confi dence in him. What is more generous than a❑ inter change of confidence? He found the Liberal cause staked in his own person, and determined to go on. He was victorious. When all was over, and the thing was dose, the bills began to come in. He had had his sus picions before, and now the reality dawned upon him that he had been victimized at every stage of the affair. He repented, but too late. But, after all, he asks is his own case much worse than the average? "Re has had the excitement of an election, the luxury of a petition, and the further indulgence of a commission, and the total sum of his expenses has not exceeded 4,3001." Why, it this is corruption, it is very cheap corruption. St Albans, old as it is, does not know how to charge. We will warrant that it is far below the average of the sixty-seven boroughs which Lord John Russell proposes to perpetuate. Such is Jacob Bell's defence, and we have hardly done justice to its simplicity. His colleague's story was the same. Some days after the election the bills began to come in, and he found there had been bribery. Mr. Bagshaw represents Harwich, and says whatever the case has been, there is no corruption now. Sir J. Wil loughby did once represent Harwich, and says that. whatever the case now is, there was no corruption then. There are evident gaps in the chronology of Harwich. The last of these innocents is Mr. Hayter. He knows nothing of corruption. Nobody has asked him for places, and he has promised none. He cannot think what people mean by these insinuations. All he knows about St. Albans is, that he happened to meet with Mr. Bell in the presence of Mr. Coppock, when Mr. Bell showed him the address he had issued to the electors of St. Albans. All he said on that occasion was, that be thought the address a good one; that it appeared quite consistent with Mr. Bell's views, and he hoped it would be found equally consistent with the views of the electors of 'St. Albans; from which expressions we may at least infer that Mr. Bell stood in the same relation to the ad dress as the electors of St. Albans did, and bad as much to do with its composition. Who, then, was its author, and what was the meaning of this mysterious conference between the Secretary of the Treasury, the Whig bo rough agent, and the candidate for St. Albans?— Times. LLOYD'S SHIPPING--(THIS DAY.) LONDON, FEB. 18.—Wind at BOOR W.N.W., fresh bre , zt., fin., clear dry weather. TORBAY, FEB. 17.—Wind N.W., strong—Pat back Hope, Havannah. WATERFORD, FEB. 16.—Wind W.N.W., strong—Sid. Clarence, Sydney, New South Wales. SUNDERLAND.—Sid. Royal Oak, New York. HULL, FEB. 17.—Wind W., strong—Sid. Gremanica, Greenland; Rose, ditto. SHIELDS.—Sid. Alexandrine, Aden; St. Lawrence, St. Helena. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 17.—Wind W.N.E. to N.W.-- Arrd. Oliveer Van Noord, Shanghai; Garland, Callao; Gardyne, Valparaiso; Corinthian, New Orleans; Saw toga, Now York; Perseverance, St. John's, New Bruns wick; Empress, ditto. Put back, Gossypurn, Aden., The Antarctic, for New York, has put back with da mage ar.d part of cargo thrown overboard, hav i ng been on Blackweter Bank. The Marion, from Cey lon, has arrived at the Mauritius with loss of foremast, mainmas t sprung, and other damage. Off port, Urgent, Essex, anti Regina. W.S.W DEAL, FEB. 17.—Wind N.W. to N.E.; P. 24 ' moderate.—Arrd. Sir Beira, Vs heave ; Jamestown, Whampoa; Lady S a l e Gambia; Krou Princess Caro-- line, Berbice. Arriv e d' from the River Corsair's Bride, Algox Bay ; Ti gr i s , Jamaica. Sid. Hannibal , Shanghai; Paradise, Calcutta ; Arethusa, Algoa Bay. A rrd. from the River Giorioss, Calcutta ; Governor M'Lean, Africa; Reward, Jamaica; Forest ,Qu e en, New York; Sham rock, ditto. SOUTHAMPTON, FEB. U.—Sid. Clyde steamer, W est Indies. OFF FALMOUTH, FEB. 17.—Wind W.N•W••• —Diana ' Buenos iNyv-s, and sailed for Alton& QUEENSTOWN, FEB 16.—Wi n d W., strong and squall,' • —Arrd. Colooney, Callao; Hugh Bailment , C allao. Three large men-of-war are entering the harbou r j ust at post hour, and the Lisbon fleet are supposed to be coming in. FALMOUTH, FEB. 16.—The Charles, of and for Ply mouth, trorn the Bay of Honduras, was abandoned, 23d Jan., lat. 25 N., Jong. 30 W., with loss of rudder and • three feet water in her hold; crew saved. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 17.—The Hope, of Brill:tam, Antwerp to Belfast, is supposed to have foundered, having been cut down to the water's edge by collision, last night, off St. Albans, with the Jacobus, Rotterdam to Beavia, which has put in with the crew of the Hope on board her. .&NGLESEA, FEB. 17.—The Maria Emilia, Liverpool to Naples, is on shore on Dulces Ruck, Lynas, full of water. nea r rota QUARTER TO THREE. ▪ 97 • 97 Buyers. Con.:to:s ••• Ditto Account, March 11 ONE PRICES OF BRITIbIi FUNDS O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 3 pu , Cent. Reduced Anna. 8 per Cent. Consola Annuities 97',4 97 LieW 34 per Cent. Aims- .... ...ong Anna. to mxpireJan.1860 Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860. 63 India. Honda, I,oool ...... ...... , — Ditto under 1,000/ .. 69 71 p South Sea Stock Consols for Account ~ ......... ...... 97%4 11 A Kxcheciner .Silly. 1% a. 1,0001. 5001. Small, •• •• • CLOSII G PXICE 216% 97a 97 99 7 1-16 63g, 71 p 107% 97 61 p 61 p 61 p ONE CLOSING PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES. Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent. 5 1 1,4 51% Equador Bonds Grenada Bonds, 1% per Cent. — "l Do. Ex Dec., 1849 Coupons ....•• 21%34 20% 201,4 Ditto, Deferred 32 3 / 4 Mexican. 3 per Cent,, 1816 Ditto, Account Peruvian Bonds, s:per Cent— — 98% Ditto, Account Ditto, Deferred ........ — Portuguese o per Cents. - , Ditto, 4 per Cent. 32%78 33 ex d. Russian Bonds .................. ~. - Ditto, 4 1 4 per Cent . ............. . 1011 , 2 101 1 A Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. — Ditto .Account..... .73 T,,' 3 / 4 89 Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840 2 :34 . per c l !Pt. Ditto. per Cent 4 l. - Ditto 3Nevi Deferred ........... 18%14 Spanish Com. Cert. Coup• not funded 1% 1% V eneznela Bonds, 31 A per Cent 37111 Ditto Deferred .•••••• •"' 15% 1 15 36% Dividends on the above payable in London. 16 Belgian, 4 1 ,4 2 per Cent. Ditto 5 Der Cent. Dutch 2 1 % per Cent. 12 Guild 69 14 991 Ditto 4 per Cent. Cmtitleates 9214, COURSE OF EXC. mnsterctim .......... 11 19 Ditto, three month B.. 12 0 Rotterdam 12 0 &ntwerp • • 25 50 Brussels . • • • ...- • • 25 50 Hamburgh •• • 3 1.8. 13 10% Altona • • ............ Paris, 3 dayesight .. 25 32% Ditto, 3 months 25 50 Marseilles 25 50 , . Frankfort on Maine.. • , 121 Berlin • • Vienna, effec. 12 40 Trieste, ditto.... .. 12 40 Peterthurgh, Si!. Rbl , , • ?7 Madrid ......,....... AO Oadiz •• •• •• •• •• 5 °% Barcelona • • • • • • • • • • • •. !_•.• RANGE,-TUENDAY. Gibraltar„ •• •• •• •• •• •• Leghorn ........ ••.. • • 80 8 0 Genoa •• •• •• •• •.•••• •• 25 60 Milan . • .• •• • • e • t• • • •• Venice.. • . • . • . .• • • • • Naples • • Palermo, perm Messina Lisbon.... .......... Oporto • • ••.•••• • • . • • Rio Janeiro ........ • • Buenos Ayres .. ••.. •• New York, 60 days'sight Philadelphia PRICES 07 BULLION, pra CL Foreign Gold 'sr 6,2 r, Vortugal Gold Coin .. u 0 a u spanishDoubloonB New Dollars •• •••• 4 10% 811vorin bars •• ••„ s r. 0 5 " THE IRON TRADE. For first-rate qualities of manufactured iron the de mand continues good, and has suffered less than might have been feared from the protracted strike of the engi neers; but prices have been sustaiued with difficulty, owing to the reduction, varying from 2s. 6d. to 10s. per ton, that has very generally been submitted to in com mon sorts, while even upon those terms the demand has been limited. There is, however, a probability of s c or e revival in the nail. rod and chain-iron branches, strikes of the operatives employed in chain assnidnbacyniabigl: eteona t e ., , d r i li t °- making appear to be terminated, the under a pressure of accumulated ordering the abandon the threatened reduction of wage . s n - c _ o i- r to t " cipal contracts for rails seem still ttocienlui Welsh district, where they are eagerlya_ct, _ t on, i except, in which profits form no p irt of tbe .b c di l n4 w all room icr indeed, it be that of carefully I pon terms at 85s. per ton. Bost Stan t?s . . e± o r r but hot air cinder a t unaltered pric es, .w e b a x s i e r negotiatede pi g s continue last we ei in them. A large order w e h som e request. a d n ' cl io s ta a e ek i acknowledged g d e i s d tt P t 0 . bl e Although every expectation iron is scarcely t p r o e s m si u bl n e t rative. be in a truly deplorable condition, some dawnings of of f pointed, improvementand te hs t aa r 6l a e d ha e i t h i s e. r o t ‘11) bean r h i hope for Staffordshire are said to be discoverable from h events of the last few weeks. The price of Scotch has b b t to that point ca a renderthat of the speculation is make to a serious extent is said to have been begun, while the safety bringing buyers more freely into tll andthpig-iron a e a n reduction e effected o f ham Gazette. a market.—Birming- INQUEST ON THE LATE MR. CROFTS.--An inquest was held on Saturday on the body of James Crofts, Esq., aged 85, a gentleman possessed of about 7001. a year, and which was instituted owing to some suspicions having been entertained as to the mode of his death by a Mr. Barrett, who was ma rr i e d to Sir. Crofts' niece. Mr. Barrett had left Mr. Croft s i n h is house in London-street, t o pursue his own studies elsewh ere, and found on his return that t h e o ld gen tleman had be en removed by two men an d a f e male to Wey mouth-street, w h ere he had died. The bod e y Rev. exhumed. M r . Mr. Cl ar k son appeare d for th dlestone and M r . H u ddl es t one , h the nephews and heir-at-l aw o f t h e d ecease d, aneci at evidence that the deceased had b c e o e n , in order that he might have b e tter care, he been subject to fits of epi lepsy, and it b e i ng cons id e red more convenient, as removed to tlrister, from the appeared Nv Weymouth street, where every attention was paid to him by Miss Hud dlestone and the Rev. a mere decay of natur e . A that death had resulted Mrirel u ddl e gtone. It also appear e d m l e f dissatisfied with the result, an d lre t ur ned of " Natural death." Sir. h b i bring the case into a superior court. Barrettverd i verdict m ex -a p s r :: e c e o d r di n m g I y said that he would r THE G u n h es i d hims elf UNIKNOWN.—OH Admiral Stewart EAT elf for admission at the door of the p o lli ng he was refused, unless he p ro d uce d a car d, by the policeman aY who had charge of the en t rance. " Wh at ! a card from me, ,, bporeostehnti on ngT said the astonished visitant, "why I am `culprits,' man." Police constable— R looked eq ually as one of the t°" ished, and, apologising f or hi s i nnocen t ig norance, of c ourse withdrew hi s oppos i t i on.— K ent i s h Mer cury. - - _ On the 24th instant the Provost and Fell rays of Trinity College. Dubiin, will hive a grand dinner to his Ex- Loiti Liuut,ll.l,t, the 'ci.sliops ail litr,t,is learned societies at their magnificent hall. The fete is in honour of the installation of the Primate as Chancellor, and I of pr. lii'Donnell, as Provost. 16 24 126 AT Leasing Business Railways. Companies. mo d . Pricies * done to-day. Bcdf. & Bletch ley . Lou. & N.W. all -• • Binning. & Ox- • ford Juncion, guaranteed • • Gt. Western all 29 -30 Do., without a guarantee .. De .. •• all 24 29 nirm. ' Wolver., & Dudley, gua ranteed .. Do .. •• all 29 -- 30 X.d Do., without a guarantee .. Do • • •• all 2B -•29 z.d Buckinghamsh. Lon. &N. W. all IT - 17% 17% Clydesdale June Caledonian all 44 -- 46 E. Lin., Gar. 6 Per Cent. o •• G. Northern all 33% - 14% Gl ouces ter and Dean ForeSt Gt• W ee tern 20 2 - 8 p .... Hartlepl Dock r Yrk. New. ,1 - and Railway L an a p., T er. -•. Hull sad Selby „ •=• M. all 104 - 106 x.d x.d D o . )4 sh a res Do •• •• all 52 -53 x.d x.d Do. % Shares DO •• all 24 -25 x.d Leeds and Brad. MlS l _, eui 100 - 101 z . d 101% 14 Lou. and Green. 8. E astern •• all 11% - 123,( Do., Pref. Do •• •• all 24 -26 Lowestoft, Gd.. 4 per Cent. .. Norfolk ** an 15 17 De.. 6 pax cent De t• •• • all Middlesbro' and N. lted & car ias 6 c 6 t Stoc , ..ktibar all •• --- • • per Cent. .• E. Counties • all Do., 5 percent. Do. •• • • all , 114 -51 Do. New .. Do -• • el 67 -69 Preston and L. &N. w mn, zr D .} a ll 44 46 Wl%hares r . 13 W - DO LL ". '''• 11 ;Bi{ -^ 1 44 P Read., Guild., and Reigate .. S. Eas t ern . all 2114 - 21% Roy. & attain G. Northern 64 8 Do. Shep. Ex.. Do •• all -4% Shot., Roth. and Goole, 5 per ct. Lillie. York 16 la South Stafford/. Mr. Weleen 9 34 t - Wear Val. 6 par Cent. gua. Stook.lo Dar. all 27% ••• 28% z.d z.d Do. do._ , •• Do. .. 2523 •• °"" ** Do. do. ...1Do•• - Wilts & Somers, [Gt. Western 100 .12% - 9134 sa% inc: R iss.: OS iss. ItailwaYL Paid- Nominal Prise. Business dose te-daY• .---- - Aberdeen •• all 2- 1% dia. 413. Acerceen, Nc. 2, 7 pr. et. 2% .- Caledonian 101. • • • • 10 7% ...... 7% Cheater and Holyhead • • all 16% -17 Dur.d. Per. & Aber. *Divan. all 5 - d. East;Ang. (31 ins.) 6p. c. au 2% - 3 D 0., . (51.) 7 per cent.- all • e..astern Counties &sten.. 5 per cent. No, 1 • • all 39 - Do. No. 2 .. • • • • ali % - % pm I Do. xew 6 p.cent. Stock ~, 11% - 1 2 34 12 Eastern Union, ScriP guaran. 6 per c'ent. • • a l l 9 34 -10 10 East Lancashire, 6 per cent. quarter shares • • all E. &W. York. June. stha all • • -• • Edin. Per. &Dun. 51 P • ct• all 3 - 4 Glasgow & Congo'. 100 Gt. Northern, b per sent. all 143{ - 14% 14% Do., sp. c. Redeem. ScriP 6 34 -1 p 7% % Great South. & Western a ( t lre w lan e,ta d) rn eig ( h B ths .rk .i an • a • all 794 -7% Hants Ex., 5 per Cent.) 6 p . Lancashire and York shire, F. 201... • • 6 1% - 13( dia. Do. 6 per ct. Stock • • 100 133 - 134 Leeds Northern, 6 per cent., No. 1.. - • • • 13 .. p Do. quarters, 1 848 9 • p London, Brighton, and 8. Coast, guar. 6 per et. 180 De. pref., 6 p et.Sk,lBsl 100 De. new guar., 6 per cl, 100 140 145 Lon. & N. West. (Coy. & Nuneat.) 5 per cent. 13% •• -• • London &S.-W., new .. 5 2% x.d London. & Ennis., 34 611 a 10 1034 - 4134 - Manch., Sheffield, and Line, guar. stirs., No. I all 11 - 1134 1134 % Do. new, 101. l2 12% 12% no., 61. • • • au 3 % p 3% Midland Con. 6p. e. steel 100 Do. Consul. Bristol & Binning., 6 per cent... 100 134 -• 136 133 Do., Leic. & Swanning., 8 per cent. guar. 100 •• •• Do., Preference .. 5 34 - dia. 434 % Norfolk Extension a ll 16 - 16 34 Do. guar. 5 34 per cent. an 434 - h North British •• 6 5 - 5 34 514 Oat. Wor. &V‘' 01.151.6 p.e 10 % dli g t ir e w & Mr., new guar, all 10 - 10% 6are-Grs. and Ches. (Nor. W. Min.) 8 per cent. an 15% - 16% S o uth Devon • . 11 _ 3 south-Eastern, 4% P. d • South Yorks., 4p. et. gd. 20 4 - 3 die. York, Newc., and Berw., Gt. N • of E. Pur. all 1534 _ 16 3% York and North Midland H. and 8. 'Parch. 10 1% - 13 a dia. PORZIGN. Boulogne and Amiens .. 11% - 11% 11% Central of France.(o.,V.) 8,11 20'4 20% Dutch RheMfh • • ..8 4% -4% dia. East 18 _ 3 p. Do. do. do. .. 20 •- Gres:lndian Peninsula. • all % - % Ditto ditto • • .. 4% %-% P. Louvain ala Sfunlare .. 7% • • -• • 3 Luxembourg •• •• •• 13 3 - 334 x.d 3 x.d Ditto (Railway) • . 10 2% - 356 x.d Ditto (Canal) .. • • 2 % x.d Maria Antonia • • .. 1716 e 84 -• • Ditto, New •• 834 • • -• • Namur and Liege .. •• all 5 - 6 , 19% % Northern of France .. 16 19% - i' 7 's 334 Orleans and Bordeaux .. 11 2 % 2 % 9 3 -3 % P Paris and Lyons .. .. 6 48 Paris and Orleans all !! V % x .d 25% :x.d Pirifi and itonen •• •• all dig. 17 Paris and Strasbourg 18 134 10% 10% w :S am i destnur u N erna eb nia i an ean r ay r nd,d w d lij d N ' ij nas s orinr l i a b 7 Q ta : l l l t bcl: .: : : ( a A n_ .. .. : : : ) : 11!3.231: 1% - 130 %- % P % % par 56 p 3y dis 134 2 134 2234 —23% 33 —34 4 6 P 934-1034 par % p par 3c p 334 4 434 — 5% 10 —ll 2 —214 Par % P BTOCB BANXIS. all 38 39% N 46►% 46 25 11% 12%. 20 24 25% 10 18% 17% 20 29% —3O x.d 17% 17 30 31' x.d 43% 45 1571 —l6}4 35 35% 3 334 i 4% - 1534 ICNIX.: 3"' ANEOUB. 48 49% 27 34 —284 70 —7l x.d 1734 -- 18 77 7834 Ole for tt interesto ke errors of the Official Lists. sti( I correspondents.] 4G 121 N PAN ba 53U, 131. ss. 24% All 2 % % 2 534 a.d MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY) CORN EXCHANGE—WEDNESDA Y ' ith To-day's market has been very scantily supplied the all kinds of Wheat of home produce; nevertheless , demand—owing to the thin attendance of buyers-los in a sluggish state. In prices, however, no change tool' Place. For forward delivery, scarcely any business wail .) transacted. Only 240 quarters of Foreign Wheat were reported fresh up. Selected qualities were scarce, air quite as dear as last week; but low and middling kill. commanded very little attention. A few vessels w ere the coast waiting for orders. The sale for Ba rle y ana Malt was somewhat firmer than on Monday, but 1 1 ° change took pl a ce i n th e quo t a ti ons . Oats were falcri request at previous cu r r enc i e s. In Beans, Pa"' and request Indian Corn n ex t t o not hi ng was d o i ng . A fair ad of business was transacted in Flour, both English an foreign, at late rates. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK : _____------ Flea. Wheat. Barley. Malt. ' Oats. _______... _----_--- _---_--1.------ -- Sacks* Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. r.; ngI•I s k •—• 530 210 1100 470 I ' l2o Irlsh ........ _ , 2,310 310 sirs Foreign ......240 — 1 ' 2 110 i 2,360 pis 1......____. nonouGa HOP 1 1 01A8O8ET. , The general demand is inactive, at last week 5 V .- The show of sample• continuo's small. WEITECEaPEL. Prime Beef and Mutt o n moved o ff st eadily at full pril: In other kind s of meat very l itt l e was doing. B i e % from 2. 4d to 4d; Mutton 2s 6d to 3 8 8d; Veal'— to 3s 10d; pork, 25 4d to 3. 8d per 8 lbs by the carcase. CITY COMMISSION OF SEWERS. Yesferdmy th e C omm i ss i one rs assembled in the Guild hall, Mr. Deputy P,acock in the chair. THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMISSIONERS FOR THS PAST YEAR. V/S1 The CHAIRMAN said the public would read, -- he nf convinced, wttb great satisfaction, a detailed account u the labours of the City Commissioners of Sewers for the whole of the last year. It will be seen from that don'tt went, which has been drawn up by they urveyor, the. whatever might be said against the Cor the of city of London, the sanitary condition , and th e comforts of their fellow•citizens, formed an essential object in t he minds of the Court. The report was ordered to be printed and distributed amongst the members of the Corporation. --- LICENsING SECOND-HAND BOORsELLEIIO.--The magistrates at the Manchester Borough Court were yester day called upon to decide as to the liability of second-hand bo o ksellers to be included in the provisions of the local Police Act, which places it within the power of the towts council to compel all professing dealers in second -band a ticles to take out a licence, and to keep a register foor f thau.a inspection of the police, of the names and res idences parties with whom they deal in the way of Srade. The pa: nalty is 5/. for each day, in the event of non-con 3 the enactment. The licence is 2s. 6d., Which wall booksellers have hitherto been exempt, but he cline have resolved to enforce the Act with regard to them, in order _to avoid the charge of partiality. Two dealers in old book were accordingly proceeded against yesterday, and the ta an al ing of the term " second-hand articles," from which the old gistrate holding that their commodity came within the me r _ . each convicted in a penalty of 51. RAILWAYS ABANDONMENT. — Tw o reports were yesterday issued, made by the Board of Trades epdaefreiniadmanetsn tser; on the abandonment of two railways—the Portbury-lr.: and Railway and also the Scottish Grand Junction Bail way. The receipts on account of the Portbury-pier anon Railway were 21,314/. 2s. 4d., and the Par u gh . 16,525/. 17s. 4d., leaving the dispo sable balance on the , of December 4,788/. ss. On account of the Scottish Grano Junction Railway the receipts were 26,388/. 7s. 11d., at the expenditure 22 135/. 13s 4d leaving the balanc e hand 4,2714 2s. ld. ' • 9 DREADFUL EXpLOSION.-00 Saturday 111°113i - eg last a dreadful explosion took place in the powder manufactory, Cheapside, Birmingham. At half-p t eight the antproprieor, Mr. Mead, was engaged in the po rk ' shop, when in instant the neighbours were alarmed gat percussion' egalsf.' dreadful explosion resembling the noise of artillery, t i t,' d, shook the foundations of the houses in the neighbre_ and was heard for more than half a mile distant. Thelon; raises were entirely blown down, and the doors and iv 773 b di , , of several houses in the immediate vicinity were 77711c e ir a waged. The body of Mr. Mead was blown into thesepe„. considerable height, and some parts of the body w:g )re ia a 7l rated, and found in different directions. The Wo h o we ver, adjoining timber-yard took fire. The engines were,t:isd. speedily on the spot, and the conflagration Ot i f il li c ester" The family of the deceased reside at Ibstock, d oss , The shire. He has lest four children to deplore his loS'' o f the amount of the loss does not exceed 150/. The cause accident is not known. FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT. --LYNN, SATITILD-A% A most shocking accident happened last ni g ht near thr railway terminus o f this town to Mr. Matthew pawbe , which terminated fatally. About ninperooo'dck an Wisbeach arrived, and the guard ox osloothoepintriaomn that,fro n the Hardwick-road, and in passing through the viad u ct ne °train had come in contact human foot w•th something. On c o ning emerging from the tunnel,t. e offi engine. erso l r t was the engine, a unfortunate creature had wee h n e station,and was found, which at once,nficrumteddotwhne.suslpniCaiOfnewthunatinsuomtees a man's hat wee the London train came into t . line in search o then propos discovered adhering e t o ri n o t o t d o aa t h s,u e , rp l g o ie w loo e nt r ”a p n o dd r e t w ic se n e v o teh f re t a h i. f the unhappy.' sufferer, company being on the tender. On arriving i l un in po e an c int a ho ll e, e t d a t t h a e level hedy c roe of a s ; permanent way, between dition. At first his features could not be recognised, but, a careful washing, he was identified wing,rh a e n o w : ea and down i 11)drt ol lying i i n tnh e g . e s t i es round as being the gentleman some of thepar - Row 7 0 be wandered on this part , above-mentioned. the line cannot, as y et, be be conjectured. IRISH CHURCH MISSIONS.—A meeting. v er y the merously attended. was held at Trowbridge 12th inst., on behalf the society for Iri m sh p C olloll : r r l i chh :L ias h Ya d li° lo - it )n the absence of Walter Lon It_E:sq_., o N f isb H et e , yw E o sci od ., House, took g s( t i h ' e chair ' . Blair, Norris, Clarke, T h e meeting waspattended by Sir Francis Astley, Hon. St. John Methuen,. (Tenfrom the neighbourhood. The meeting which was ath dressed by o ß f y S t h o e u r t i h d b , Ir o n , aHnodubsey;nllelaerslysr sic, Calearrgcyde.!: the deputation from London, cjiasisting 0. - , Rev. R. Bickerstaff and J. C. Colquhoun, Esq., was deris t e i ;',, r crowd ed by persons of various classes, and resulted ill. ,:,. formation of an association for North Wilts, conducted b: an influential committee. The collection amounted to 100 1, . The meeting is expected to be followed by others in vario 15 towns of North Wilts. INCENDIARISM.—On Saturday information wa'g.. received that some diabolical miscreants had fired the Ixt i e l _ l t sive plantation and gorse covers belonging to the lail__; d ` 0 -' Yarborough, Brocklesby Hall, Lincoln , by which pr O P e to the amount of several hundred pounds was destroyed , "„, is a great many labourers' cottages injured. A large reW l r' o f o ffered for such information as will lead to the con victio the offenders. --"..................?,t. BIRTHS. OF A 8011. At the rtlanor-house, Langley, Bucks, on the 14th ilast* the lady of Captain Worth, Royal . On the 14th inst., at Portsea-terrace, the a id a -hill West , wife of Edwin Fox, Esq. OF A DAUGHTER. On the 10th inst., the wife of the Rev. Sir George L. o' ll ' Bart., of Ewell, Surrey. On the 13th inst., at Warwick-road, Paddington, the Vir e of Mr. John E. Richard. MARRIED. On the 12th inst., at St. Alartins-in-the-Fields, Lieutenant Quintin Kennedy Jolliffe, Indian N*vy , to Gertrude Eliza, only daughter of the late Jo hn Hammet, Esq., M.P. for Taunton. On the 12th inst., at the Church of the Holy TrinitY, , Clapham, J. G. Lucy , Esq ., of Hollowa y , to Nary Ann widow of Air. W. Patman, of Epping, Essex. On the 12th inst., at Sutton, Surrey, Otho W. Travers, of her Majesty'o 30th Regiment, and ot Bandon Ireland, to Henrietta A., eldest daughter of the Rev. W. H. Vernon, of Sutton, Surrey. DIED. On the 16th inst., at Ca mbrid g e-terrace, Hugh J. Mont gomery Campbell, late Captain tVth Regiment, aged 30. At Farnhurst Sussex, of which parish he had been nacho' bent 56 yews, the Rev. J hn IL S. o Cary, aged 2. On the 13th inst.. aged 28, Anna Maria, the w ife of J. T. Boardman, of Norwich. On the 1 1 th inst ., at Temple Belwood, Lincolnshire, Eliza beth Frances, wife of the Rev. J. D. Hilton. London: Printed and Published by MURDO ()ULM. 12 !t No. 112, Stran d, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 1 °i Strand, in the Pr ecin c t of th e S avo y , in the Aliddlelexp Wecto4dAY , February 14 1852. ~.=, ;. 'r . , `j' ^'~ is 'i -7 "t\