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THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, Witt be performed a .New Opera, entitled THE CRUSADERS. The Ogindpal characters will be sustained by Messrs. W. Har rison, llowani, Horncastle, S. Jones, Weiss, Stretton, D. W. King, Miss Romer, and Miss Rainforth. Agibr which, a new Fairy Ballet, called THE ISLAND NYMPH. In which Mons. Desplacos, Mdlles. Neodot, Louise, Adele, Mdme. Glubilei, &c., will appear. THKATRE HIS EVALE RbY, HAYMARKET. TNING will be performed the Tragedy of ROMEO AND JULIET. Romeo, Ilkis Cushman, Mercutio, Mr. Hell; Peter, Mr. Buckstoue ; Juliet, Miss S. Cushman ; Nurse, Mrs. Glover. The Band will perform the Overture, " La Ga.z . m Ladra," and the Waits, "Love's 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. Tilbury, 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 Ardes, Villars, and Howard. To conclude with the Now Grand Romantic Extravag any+, en titled THE ENT., CHANTED HORSE ; or, Prince Firouz Schal , of Persia and the Princess of Bengal. Principal Characters by M essrs. Keeley, Wigan, F. 3Tattliews, Collier, Turner, Kinloch, &c.; .AlLs itathes Keeley, Villars, Hodson, Dawson, Howard, Arden, &c. Stalls, :is. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, 6d. THEATSIE ROYAL, ADELPILI. THIS EVENING ,Wit be k "Awned the Drama of LEOLINE : or, Life's Tr; ale l'ilnefpal characters by Messrs. 0. Smith and Wright, Mrs. Yates. and Mks Woelgar. To be followed by TAMING A TARTAR; or, Magic ant Ma zourkaphobia. In which Messrs. 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Vining, Martin, and Daly. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. muusseho bit of " Jessie Holmes." Triumphant reception of The Scamps of Londen." THIS EVENING 101 be pertbrrned JESSIE HOLMES ; or, The Wld Horde of the Wolf's Hair. gupporte d by Mr. Dale, Mr. Freder i cks. Sexllle, Mr. Hierbort, Mr. Higgie, Miss Vincent, Miss Terry, &c. After which, HERCCLEii, KING OF CLUBS. Hercules, Mr. Iterlac_th Taahelnde with THE SCAMPS OF LONDON. Supported by the entire strength of the company. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, FEB. 26. TIIIIIRMONFETEB, Lowest, 45; Highest, 58; Noon, 56. -E:L/LOIIETEIt, 29.92.—W1ND S., fine sunshiny weather. iWrirATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. !darning ~ P 9 minutes after 1. Evening .. 37 minutes after 1 t ~,, lip .?1,41 .), -T.' '•`67 .4... ,, ,, . • ~,, ,t--.. _ e, , A ~ .d -k . ;,,,1:4 - -• , ~.... , t-...,.,-, ~ - • ,•;,••' ~• .4-, 2 ,,, , . 4 ., ~7 e .s,L, ( ~_•-,4 k „,np, . .; r ,tii f' J ettning >na4 heard the whole of Mr. FERRAND'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'l3mEN'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 /ttsus rei publicce. We return to the case of BRIAN SEERY to observe that Sir JAMES GRAHAM signally failed in his attempt to find precedents for 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 he 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 had 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'Coms ELL pointed out, was not at the same, but at the next assizes, which makes a very important difference ; and there is a further important difference, that the second jury acquitted the prisoner, so that the question of the propriety of execution, after one jury had been dis charged because linable to agree, did not and could not arise. Sir JAatEs GRAHAM said that the difference of result did not afiect the principle involved in the case, and that the prin ciple consisted in the second trial. But here we take leave THURSDAY, FIIII,RuARy 26, 1846 to differ from him. The question which Mr. O'CONNELL asked was (and he had given some days' notice of the question) " Whether there be any instance in England for the last century of any person being tried for any capital felony, by a second Jury, after the first jury was discharged by the Court, at the same session or assizes, and convicted and executed." It is the carrying into effect the extreme sentence of the law, after the discharge of one jury, that is the gravamen of BRIAN SEERY'S case. Let alone the extraordinary circum stance of the seeond 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'CONNELL has given notice of a "Bill to amend the criminal law in Ireland, by enacting that . _ in future no person shall be tried on any indictment for felony a second time at the same session or assizes, after having been tried by a former jury at the same session or assizes, and that jury haying been discharged by the judge." responsibility of most extraordinary importance—the re sponsibility of so far expediting the present discussion I 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 Knaresboroueh was a grievous nuisance to the question under debate, to the House of Com mons, 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 malignities as delivered by Mr. FERRAND doubly impertinent and doubly contemptible is the very baldness of his assertions. He gives utterance to 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 prevented any one else from whispering them in the walls of Parliament. And, notwithstanding their very desperate character, 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 affixed to free-trade petitions by workmen were written on compulsion—but he didn't Thus Mr. FERRAND was "prepared to prove" that in the petition pre sented by Lord Mostriem from his constituents in the West Riding of Yorkshire one man had actually penned no less than fourteen thousand autographs—but he didn't I Thus Mr. FERRAND was "prepared to prove" that the hosiers if this country, though protected by a duty of 20 percent., could not successfully compete with the Saxony manufacturers—but, again, he didn't ! Such :incessant and extensive draughts upon our credulity are surely sufficient to exhaust all our re sources of belief; and in the end render our faith bankrupt. As for refinement of style also, the Member for Knares borough is quite an oratorical CHESTERFIELD; his epi• tliets are so daintily selected, his language is so choice and delicate. He talks of " humbugging," and "thimble-rigging," and " gammoning," and "putting farmers on their backs," and " sticking to agriculture," with as much fluency as that with which Enutnen BURKE de livered his impassioned and superb perorations. But in Mr. BUSFEILD FERRAND we detect something of the Alderman CUTE school : the anxiety to appear familiarised with the habits and condition of the people by employing innumerable cant phrases. But the Hon. Gentleman's self sufficiency is not retarded by any consideration as to the very false and questionable position in which he stands before the assembly of Commons. Hence, in ono 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 !1' What a very miserable estimate the Member for Inaresberough must have of the discrimination and memory of the representatives. ADDISON tells us of his friend, Sir ROGER DR COVERLEY, inflicting a severe punishment upon a certain BULLY DAW SON. Would that we could resuscitate the shade of Sir ROGER, and introduce him to the Parliament House. Forcibly as the Government officials have spoken upon the amentable dearth in food of every description with which the inhabitants of Ireland are afflicted, their disclosures 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 b :en 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 of each street, are now being given by parties most competent to afford us a just insightinto the veritable condition of the Irish peasantry. The parties of whom we thus make mention as a the respectable 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 mere 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 COMYX, parish priest. irons that most temperate and plain-spoken document, it appears that " one hundred and sixty householders (in Kilkee), with their families, amounting to nice hundred and seventy-two indi viduals are in a state of abject poverty and nearly deprived of all earthly means of subsistence—the present supply of potatoes available not amounting to more than five hundred and sixty stone or six barrels !" 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-v,itnese—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 di se ased 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 tritely in propounding some panacea for the great social malady. Let the Ministry and , their supporters strive to m eet the exigencies of the ocea sion, and the temporary misery of Ireland will become in the end the permanent happiness of the British Isles. 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 LiNcor.N, 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 LINCOLN and Captain Rous, 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 theN 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 Coed lano, " that the new Minieter 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 Don HENRY had re signed the command of the corvette Villa de Bilboa ; and one of the Opposition papers adds, that the persecuted INFAxTE 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 GO days, and the Five per Cents. at 23 1 / 2 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 not of seeing Sir ROBERT PEEL'S commercials 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. BERSTER, who belongs to that expiring class, the protectionists, he added, "AI. BERRYER'S was the opinion, 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 difficulties 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 ROBERT 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 Hon. 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 pot tion of the Chamber. A protectionist Member of the name of Tun., 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. DE LAMARTLNE 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 Debats contains the following very striking statistical detals respecting the falling off in the consumption of butchers' meat in France:— PRICES OF RAILWAT gIIARES. LONDOk, Tale Loras did not sit yesterday. The Gommons meet at if y 7.91 1,0 o'cloek. Sevevsil railway Bills were read : second time. The seoond reading of the Roman Catholic Relief postponed after a short conversation in reference to Lord LINCOLN'S recent declarations on the subject of the ]Fish policy, in which Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIEN, Sir 3PMES GRAHAM, Lord JOHN RUSSELL, Mr. O'CONNELL, and Mr. P. HOWARD took part. Vim JA)S.O GRAHAM then alluded to the case of SEERY, "id sticrlhat he had received a communication from the Lord Lieutenant, stating that a deputation, which had sailed upon, hi m Roscommon, to represent the lawless state of the eimeity of comm on , had certainly stated incidentally lbat any lenity sho wn to SEERY woul d ten d t o keep attire a spirit of. insubordinatio n , b u t th a t he had not beeninfluenced m his determination by their represen tations. " 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 Commerce 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 publication 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 prier to the revolution, and the vigilance observed at the gates is well known. It results from these accounts that the quantity of butcher's meat constuned in Paris in 1789, when the po pulation was 600,000, amounted to 52,000,000 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 be 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 ono 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 cited. By and degraded. We may, without falling too deeply into error, mea sure the productive capabilities of men by the quantity of meat they taiii. lt cyr. y . t A he sd . s th id eT e mi o . f e ap t tr h ih i c s r o main fbeb ezuf f l s oe e f t consume. Many examples of the justness of this estimate have been its s t he r p , which rti,ee eh hasas isss sen sibly moreinferiorcomes rare, a n quality,another, re served for the labouring 350. or 40c. the demi-kilo. and this classes, was, twenty years ago, less than and that ofeuperior day it is up as high as 50c. or 55e., quality has risen In the 55c. or GOc. to 70 e . or 75c. and same period of time from upwwill b a e rds. This increase of the price of meat at the but c h er ' s shop found same proportion upon the b es t i n the tn to be very nearly I n th e the most urgent necessitie s o f the country is forat Consequently one of quiekly as possible with meet i n greater abundance, it to b e supp li e d as undance price." and at a lower The Constitutionnel says :- 4 . M, Guizot formally declared on Mon. day that the Government had abandoned all idea of the expedlticll. gAdeifitscar. The garripen of Bourbon and MaytAtil wili 31t. O'ColigißLL gave', notice of a motiiei for giving to irelfical the two additional members of which Sudbury bad been deprived. The Friendly Societi e s' Bill Was, after a short dis mosiol, read a second time, and the House adjourned. We s uspect that Mr. SrAFFORD O'Bnnut has got hold of a AVE'S nest, in Mr. EVELYN DENLSON'S account of Lord LMCOLN'S views on Irish Church and State affairs. First of all, Mr. Diansox's account is singularly vague and indistinct; and secossdly, Mr. Ilseasox has always been looked upon as a yew timid Irish C 'lurch reformer among his own party. 14. EVELYN DENISON is brother of the Bishop of SALISBURY. 'When Lard STA,NLEY and Sir JAMES GRAHAM left th Whig Government in 1834, on the appropria tft clause, aed Sir ROBERT PEEL got possession of office for a few months in 1834-5, Mr. EVELYN Box followed Lord STANLEY' and Sir J. GRAHAM. to re Lord LINCOLN may have satisfied Mr. E. DENISON by his views on the Irish Church, without its being a se l uituAttiat he is prepared to destroy it. But these protect , tionists loovr not what they would be at. What makes theM most wore is the uniform' assent to what has so often been asserted lately—the ludiorousness of the protectionists ,attempting to form a Government. This it is which has made them keep up a three weeks' debate, in which smear middle-aged squire is bidding against the rere tat the post of leader of the Commons under the ILO ND Government, and every beardless scion of a fahas ipac ons whic tbu Duke eikballithinig of f i ise t iz iov to some of the loaves and expects to distribute. ` q¢i Tuesday night the D u ke of Iticrosoni was in the Peers' ses,si in the AUUSe of Commons pr a op iu m bl e time; be A few by Mr.. more obse rv ati o ns, respecting the speech delivered make; but these 1 we feel ourselves unfortunately oblige d to P reresentatives in th se observations have exclusive reference to the other a single word of deprecatione Lower House. As to addressing or remonstrance to the Member for Knaresborough himself we would as soon trouble our selves to reason a current brawling ditch-water into of quietude. Our remarks alone o directed to the H ono urable Gentlemen who are Were a Tuesday evening pelted with his unwholesomeand personalities. We would express a hope that no feeling of unblushing very natural irritability at the indignities of langua ge, the scurr il ous inuendos, the u nconstrained imputations, and ; so lent attacks wit h which their names were severally a ng: ponied, will induce them to condescend a reply even to the length of one syllable. They may remain perfectly assured (as their so b er senses will show them ) tha no doubt t such manifest bitterness of heart and such bili ous impertinence of tongue, are utterly unworthy of a rebuttal. On a subject of such s ingular insignificance, can and of such painful aband onment of propriety, we scaxgely do more than endeavour to enforce the necessity of its being utterly diaregarded (as we are fain to suppose it must be) by those legislators witose time is forestalled by a THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING. PEERUAR-1 28. In4e. merely be reinforce:l. The Minister of Foreign Affairs added, that the Diglish would not act any more than ourselves against the 11 ovas." The Committee of the Extreme Gauche of the Chamber of Depu ties has fast sent a circular to all its agents in the departments, ap prising them of the probability of a general election at au early period, and urging them to exertion. The Marseilles journals announce the arrival there of a vessel from Algiers, with accounts of the lath, but the information that they communicate is without importance. Nothing new of a positive na ture was known as to the movements of Abd-el-Bader. The Three per Cents. closed at 841 . 83 e. ; the New Loan , at 841 . 54k. ; the Five per Cents 1231. 41e. ; tke Orleans Railroad shares, 1,330 f.; Rouen, 1,057 f. 5c.; Havre, 750 f. ; Great Northern, 77Sf. 75c. ; Avignon, 1,020 f. ; Vierzon, 735 f.; Bordeaux, 655 f. ; Rasb., 2521. 50e. ; Fampoux, 4SOf. ; Dieppe, 480 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 556 f. 50c. ; Tours and Nantes, 591 f. 25c. ; Paris and Lyons, G3of. ; Spa nish Three per Cents., 334 ; Ditto, Domestic Debt, 32% ; Spanish Passives, 6%. The following are the quotations for other lines :- Lyons and Avignon (Talabot), 510 f. 50c. ; ditto (Lecointe). 5051. 50c.; ditto (Compagnie Meridiouale), 5021.; ditto (Definitives), 5721. 50e.; Bordeaux and Cetta (Mackeizie), 6041. ; ditto (Espeleta), 510 f. 50c.; Charleroi, 500 f. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 25. Boulogne and Amiens, 11%-Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette (Es peleta). -Dendre Valley, -Dutch Rhenish, 6% -East Indian,. 1-Great Nortkera of France Constituted, 16 5 / 4 -Great Indian Peninsular, %-Italian and Austrian, 1%-Lyons and Avignon, 2% -Luxembourg, 2%-Madrid and Valentia, 1-Namur and Liege, 3-Orleans and Vierzon, 18 -Orleans and Bordeaux, 11%-Paris and Orleans, 51-Paris and Rotten, 40%. Lord Ingestre, in his speech on Tuesday night in opposition to the Government measures, stated that "he was sprung from an ancient root ;" this is a polite way of calling his father "an old turnip." Now, although Lord Ingestre and his father, 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. HONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS, CITY, QUARTER TO TgREE. The sales of Cotton at:Liverpool yesterday were 6,000 bales, in cluding 500 on speculation , and 500 for export. The market was rather flat. American sold at 3Ad. to sd; Egyptian at 5%d. to 8 1 ,4 d.; Surat at 2N, d. to 3%3. ; and Pernansat 5Nd. 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, U. I Is. 6d.-Great Grimsby, Louth and Horncastle, H. 7s. 6d. -Leeds and Carlisle, 11. 17s. 6 d.-Peterborough and Nottingham, Os. 601.- Ipswich, Norwich, and Yarmouth, 1/. Gs. 6d.-Wexford, Waterford, and Valencia, 11. 4s. 6d.-Rugby and Huntingdon, 11. ss. -Louvain and Jemappe, 21.-Leeds and Carlisle, U. 165.-Jamaica Junction, 31.-Jamaica South Midland, 31.-Tring, Reading, and llasingtoke, 21. Bs.-Buckinghamshire, 21. 4s. 64.-Paris and Orleans, 501.-North Staffordshire, Churnet and Potteries, 51. 175.-Real del Monte Mining (Unregistered), 3/. 10s.-South Midland, V. its. 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 flat of Parliament, to be taken immediately the tariff is settled, for home consumption. Accounts, of Dec. 27, from the Cape of Good 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 95% F 4 to 96%, end for the next Account from 96 to 96%. The continuation therefore shows that an opinion is entertained that prices will further advance. For temporary pur poses cash has been in demand, and sales of Exchequer-bills, early 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 been very trifling. Colombian ex Venezuelian have improved to 52 ; Grenada to 23. Mexican are worth 31% ' • Peruvian, 38 ; Portuguese Four per Cents., 58% ; Spanish Fi ve p er Cents., 27% ; Lana the Dutch Four per Cents., 95% %. The Birmingham and Gloucester Shares have been in request at 25 premium ; the Edinburgh and Glasgow at 22 premium ; the Great Western have improved to G 7 premium, and most of the other Shares have a firm aspect. BRITISH FUNDS ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK. PRICES. Bank Stock .. 209% 208% 209% 209% Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. • • 96 4 3 4 9G% Three per Cent. Consols Annuities 96 95r$ 96% 96 961 ,i New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anus. 98% 98 98% % 98% Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1660 .. 10 9 -16 11-16 10 11-1 G 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 .• • • • • 7. Ditto, New Annuities .. • • • • 95 Consols fur Account, April 26 .• • • 96 %34 Exchequer Bills. d. d. 1,0001... .... 35 38 Fm• 6001. .... 35 38 pm. Ditto, Small 35 38 Ditto, Advertised •• •• 37 35 pm. ONE FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. Columbian Bonds .. .. • • .. 51% 52 Grenada, 1 per Cent .. • • .. .. 23 Mexican Bonds, 1837, S per Cent .. 31 Ditto, for the Account .. • . 31% Ditto, Deferred .. • • .. • • 16% Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent. .. 38 Portuguese Four per Cents .. 5514 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent 27% IA Ditto, for the Account .. Ditto, Passive Bonds .. .. Ditto, Deferred Ditto, Three per Cent .. .. Dividends on the above payable in Loudon. Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cent Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cant Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates CLOSING PRICES. .. 59%% 59% .. 95%% 95% BUSINESS CLOSING PAID. DONE AT PRICES. ONE O'CLOCK. Aberdeen Amber., Notting., Boston and Eastern Junction .. 2%.... 2 Birmingham and Gloucester.. 100 ....125 .. Bridgewater and Minehead .. 425. • • ••• • • RAILWAY COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) Sub-Committee No. 4. The Committee met itiaje --- usuall7Z. Present—Sir W. Heathcote (Chairman), Mr. J. O'Connell, Mr. Shirley, Mr. Evans, Mr. Hope Johnstone, and Mr. Acland. WEXFORD, CAMMONAT, AND DUBLIN 31.7NCTXON. The Committee proceeded with the petitions against this Bill. The petition of Thomas Greenbam, Thomas Brennan, and others, alleged that one of the petitioners, Mr. Brennan, have ing property on the line, had received no notice except on the '2Bth of December, being Sunday. . . .. Mr. Brennan was called to prow; that he received a notice on the Sunday after Christmas•day, but could not say that it was not left at his house on a previous day. The petitioner's servant was called to prove that she re ceived the paper en that day, and said that she received some paper then, but could not identify it. Mr. Curtis, a clerk to the solicitors for the Bill, was then called, and said that on Christmas-eve he met Mr. Brennan on the quay at. Wexford, and served him with the notice. PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the' House of Commons.) The following Petitions for Railways were reported, and the Bills ordered to be brought in V the undernamed Hen. Members: — WEDNESDAY, FEB. 25. Scottish Grand Junction—Lord Advocate, Lord J. Stuart, and Mr. F. Maule. Airdrie and Bathgate Junction--Mr. Baillie and Mr. Baird. Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Railway, and Port, Ike., of Goole — Mr. Lascelles and Mr. Mines. Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby Dlrect—Vlscount Morpeth and Mr. Stansfleid. Leicester and Swanningten Junction—Mr. Villiers and Capt. Carnegie, London and Oxford—Mr. Du Pre and Mr. Fitzmaurice. SECOND READINGS OF RAILWAY BILLS. MONDAY, DIAILCH 2. Newmarket and Cheaterford. TUESDAY, MARCH 3. Enfield and Edmonton, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4. Midland and Eastern Counties (Cambridge to Weedon). RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. MANCHESTER, FEB. 25. SToca EXCHANGE.—The sales are —Boston, Newark, and Shef field, % dis.—Caledonian, 3 p.—Clydesdale Junction, 9% p.— Derby and Crewe, 3 p.—Direct Northern, 1-16 p.—Glasgow and DUTllfries, 7-16 dis.—GrandUnion, par—Lancashire and North Yorkshire, 14 dia. —Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 3 p.—London and York, I p. c.—Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, p.—Manchester and Birmingham, 79—Ditto, Quarters (C), 6% p.—Manchester and Southampton, Bs. p.—North Staffordshire, 3% p.—Sheffield and Manchester, Quarters, No. 3, 3 p.—Shropshire Union Railway and Canal, lyg dis.—Trent Valley, 2134 p.—West Lancashire Coast, % dis. —West Riding Union, 2 p. LEEDS, FEB. 25. STOCK Excite/um-The sales are-Newcastle and Darlington Junction, 44-York and North Midland, East and West Riding, 9 p.- Leeds and Bradford, 51% -Leeds and Thirsk, 10 cash-Sheffield and Lincoln, 3 % -Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, 175. 6d. dis.-Direct Northern, 21. 95.-Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 5% -West Riding Union, 3% -Buckinghamshire (late Rugby), ss. p.-Grand Union, Is. p.-Lancashire and North Yorkshire, 58. dis.-Lanca shire, Yorkshire, and North Eastern, 17s. 6d. dis.-Leicester and Bedford, 3s. 6d. dis.-North Western, 2%. HULL, FEB. 25. STOOK ExcusimE.-The sales are-Blackburn, Darwen, and Bol ton, New, 3s. p.-Derby and Gainsborough, 175.-Grand Union, 28s. -London and York, 3% -South Midland, 41. 65. 6.1.--Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 3-West Riding Union, 3%. SHEFFIELD, FEB. 25. STocK Excaat.tos.-The sales are-Leeds and Bradford, 52%- Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 3 -West Riding Union, 3%. HUDDERSFIELD, FEB. 25. STOCK Excuestua.-The sales are-Hull and Selby, Quarter Shares, 9 p.-Midland, New, 14% p.-Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 5% p.-Leeds and Bradford, 51%-Manchester and Huddersfield Extension, 2s. 6d. p.-Huddersfield, Halifax, and Brad ford Union, 314 -Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby, 12s. 6d. dis--Wexford, Waterford, and Valentia, 11. 6s. 6d.-Liver pool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 5%-West Riding Union, 31. 19s. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, FEB. 25. STOCK Excrurroz.-The sales are-Direct Northern, par-Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, Quarter Shares, h p.-Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, 21s. p.-Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 36a. p.-North British, 7 p.-Ditto, Halves (Carlisle), 1% p.-York and Carlisle, 14s. dis. YORK, FEB. 25. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Direct Northern, 21. 112.- Ilrand Union, 1% -Ipswich and Bury Extension (Norwich), 2%- London and York, 31. 13s. 9d.-Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 31. 175.-Neweastle and Berwick, 21-Newcastle and Dar lington Extensions, 10%-North British, Carlisle Extension, 21. 178. -West Riding Union, 3%-York and North Midland Extension, 32 -Ditto, New)_East and West Riding), 1014. EDINBURGH, FEB. 23. STOCK ExenAsfox.-Tho sales are-Aberdeen, 101. 101.--Aberdeen Banff, and Elgin, 11. 16s. W.-Airdrie and Bathgate, 21. 4s. 6d. -Arbroath and Forfar, M.-Ditto, Half Shares, 161.-Ayr and Dumfries, 21. -Ayr and Galloway,ll. 18s.-Banffshire, 11. 103.- British and Irish Union, 21. 155.-Caledonian, 141. N.-Caledo nian Extension, 21. 10a.-Caledonian and Dumbarton, 21. 75.-Clydes dale Junction, 191.-Direct Northern, 21. 15s. 6d.-Dundee and Ar broath, 391.-Ditto, New, 221.-Dundee and Perth, W. 155.-East of Fife, 21. 25.-East Lothian Central, 11. IN.-Edinburgh and Bath gate, 21. 10s.-Edinburgh and Glasgow, 791. 10s.-Ditto, Half Shares, 16/.- Ditto, Quarters, 19/. 155.-Ditto, ditto, New, 161. 10s.-Edin burgh Glasgow, and Dumbarton, 16s. Gd. -Edinburgh and Leith Atmospheric, 11. 95.-Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 191. 108.- Ditto, Preference, 20/. 10s.-Edinburgh and Northern, 51. 12s. 6d.- Ditto, Newport, 11. 35.-Ditto, Lochgelly, IL Bs. 6d.-Edinburgh and Peebles, 11. 195.-Edinburgh and Perth, 31. 10s. 6d.-Forth and Clyde Junction, 11. IN.-Glasgow and Ayrshire, 761.-Ditto, New Stock, 281. 10s.-Ditto, Quarter Shares, 191.-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 21. 95..-Glasgow and Dundee Junction, 21.-Glasgow and Garnkirk, 421. 102.-Glasgow and Greenock, 191. 10s.-Ditto, New Stock, 101.-Ditto, Preference, 11. 155.-Great North of Scot land, 31. 4s. id.-Granton Junction, 11. IN.-Inverness and Elgin, 1/. Bs.-London and York, 41.-North British, 281.-Ditto, Halves. 101.-Perth and Inverness, 1/. 145.-Scottish Central, 161. 53.- Scottish Midland, 61.-Stirling and Dunfermline, 21.75. GLASGOW, FEB. 24. ST•eft Excfmroz.-The sales are - Aberdeen, Banff, and Elgin, 375.-Airdrie and Bathgate, 425. 6d.-Ayr and Dumfries Junction, 465. 6d.-Ayr and Galloway, 388.-- British and Irish Union, 545. Gd. -Caledonian, New 725.-Ditto, Extenilon, 475.-Direct Northern, 545. 6d.-East Indian Railway, 225. 6d.-Edinburgh and Perth, 70s. -Glasgow General Terminus, 11-Glasgow and Belfast Union, 425.- Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 75%-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Car lisle, 455.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan, 575.-Glasgow and Dundee Junction, 38s. 6d.-Lanark and Lothians, 475.-Larne, Bel fast, and Ballymena, 315.-Lesmahagow, 51s. 6d.--Scottish Central, 15%-Ditto, New, 9-Scottish Southern, 378. 6d.-South Midland, 835.-Stirling and Dunfermline, 455. Bristol and Exeter Buckinghamshire . Caledonian .. 70 85 .. 425. .... par ........ .. 10 ... 1334 ~(.. Ditto, Extension 2 1 ,4 ::...... Chester and Holyhead .. .. 20 .... 21U Direct Northern •• • • • • • • 254 •• • • 2% !1 l q •• • • Dublin and Galway .. .. 4 .... 4 3%...... Eastern Counties .. 141. Its. 21% 'A •• • • Ditto New .. 81. 16s. .... 6% P••• • • • Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1. GI 13e. 4d. •• • • .... Ditto, ditto, .. • • No. 2. Cl. 13s. 4d. p . Eastern Union • • • • • • .. 25 Do. Extension to Norwich • . Edinburgh and Glasgow .. 50 .... 70 72 ...... Edinburgh and Perth • • 3 34 Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester .. Goole, Doneast., and *hatield, &c. 425. %1 p Grand Union (Nottingh. & Lynn) 1% I 'b Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 15 .... 2034 Diito, Extension • • • • • 15 191,4 Great North of England • • • 100 Ditto, New .. • • • • • • • 1% •• •• 14% ... . . Great Western • • • • • • • • 85 • • ..152 Ditto, Half Shares • • • • • • 50 .... 84% 83 Ditto, Quarter Shares • . 5 17 Ditto, Fifths .• eB:ce... .3....u.n.c..t... 3 • • • . • • 2 % . * ... ~ 14316:7'4 :.• •• .. •• • • .: • 2 7 0 .. .• . . 2 6.4 .••:: •:•• ..• • 1: ... M :: .... ::• 131.4 ; 1 11 ,45 ....... ,. . d. .. 232: ............. 50 • ...106 ... • Ilu D ll it a to n , d i S iai el f by ,h Ipswich, Norwich, and Yarmouth 2 ...: _ •• • „ , , • •, „ Irish North Midland • • • . • • 1% .... si • . .... • • • Leicester and Birmingham .. 225. .... % dis •• • • .hares Leicester and Bedford .• ••••• • • • 225. .. • • _ .• • • LoL Leicester, ivnedrpo n.. a 3 fn l at ' anmch Birminghamw. .o & rt h s , .. .. • . 100 ..• .. _ . .. .. .. Ditto Quarters ........2 .... 27 .... .. •• .. Ditto Fifths ........2 .. • • 24% . London aad Brighton ......0 •• •• 65y, ..... .. Ditto, Consol. Eighths • • .. 40 •• • • ___. '..... • Ditto ditto Fifths • • .• •• 20 .. • • 29,, ... • • ' • • • London and Croydon • • .• .• .• ...• 21% ::' • • . London and South-Westem 411. 6s. 10d. 78% •••••••••. Ditto, New • • • • • •• 1214 .... 2334 Londou and York Lynnand Ely • • • • • • • • 5 .... —.. •....'' Manchester and Leeds • • .. 82 •. • • ~••• . • .... Ditto, Half Shares ........ .... 60 ........ Ditto, Quarters ......2 —.. 14 ... •• • :: Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 ~ • • 7 7 ^`, 76 F,,,,.. ••• Ditto Extension .. .. .. 42 1 5. ........ Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) .. 101 3 M i a id n l c a la n e d ste . r . , B . u . xto . i . i, &... Ma .. t10c . k .1 4 0 2 0 5. .... i Ditto, New .. • - • . .. 18 .. • • 31v 32t ; .. • • Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 100 .• • • 1 16 " . 7 . •• • Newcastle and Darlington Juliet. 26 •• • • Ditto, New •••• • • • • 11 "••••• .• • Ditto, New, Brandling .. Newcastle and Berwick .. • • Newark, Sheffield, and Boston .. 2% .... 13 , ... . : North British .. • • • • • • •. 20 •• . • _...' . ▪ •• ... Ditto, Half Shares • • • • .. 6 •• • • 9% . • . .. Ditto, Carlisle Extens i on .. 14 ...• ........ North Staffordshire • • • • • • 425. .• •• 3% ~, Oxfd.,Worcester, & Wolverhmptn. 12% .. • • 1434 1' 33 , .. ' Scottish Midland .. ......5 •• • • ..._ ^. • '••• • • ' Ihrewsbury and Birmingham .. 214 .... 2 ' ....... Shropshire Union .. • • • • •• 425. .• • • % dis.. .. ',,, • South Devon .. • • • • • • • • 35 —• • 2b14 36 37 South Midland • • • • • • • • 425..... 24% p South Eastern and Dovor .. • • 33% .. ~ 381,E ........ Mo., New (do. 151.) • • No. 4 . 2 34.... 314 •••• • • •• Staines and Richmond .• • • • • 1 .... 21,4 ~ .. •.• • • South Wales .. • • • • •" • 5 •• • • 6 34 % Trent Valley .. .. • • • • .. b .. .• 26 .. ...... Vale of Neath .. • • .. .. 2 .... 2% Wexford, Waterford, & Yaleutia 1%.... 1% ••, •.. • York and North Midland .. .. 50 .... 98 Ditto, Scarborough Branch .. 25 .... 474 48 Ditto, Selby .. .. .. .. 30 .... 74 .. ...... • Ditto. Extension .. .. .. 15 .... 324 32 Do, E. and W. Ridiag Exton... 1 .... 104 .... FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Rarbadoes .. .. .. .. .. 1 .... 0% Boulogne and Amiens .. .. .. 10 .... 11%. Calcutta and Diamond Harbour.. 7s. .... — , Central of Spain .. .. .. .. 2 .... East Indian .. . •• • • .. is. .... 1% Grt. North. of France Constituted 5 .... 15%34 ......., Great Western Bengal .. • • lie •• • • 51 Namur and Liege • • .. • • 4 •• • • 3 14 . Orleans and Bordeaux • • • • 6 .... 11% Paris and Rouen .. .. • • • • 20 .... 20 .... 40N ..... ...., Rouen and Havre . .. • • • • ~.. Sambre and Mouse • . " • • ' 6 •• • • 5% • • • • • • • • • ' MINES. Real del Monte, Unregistered • • •• • • Bolanos Scrip .. .. • • • • •• • • • CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRIT.'S" CORN For the Week ended Feb. 21, 1846, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns is England and Wales per Imperial Quarter. I WHEAT. I BABLEY• 1 OITS• i EYE. I BEANS. I PEAS. PRICE .. 55s Od 29s 11d 21 $ 6d 2.28 10d 34 $ 9d 34 s 3d DUTY... 17s Od 7s Od Gs Od is Gd 7s CI 6s 6d MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY) WEASSETB. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 31 55 to 4l 5s ; Clover ditto, 4/ 53 to 51 12s Gd ; Oat Straw, 1/ 108 to 1/ 13s ; Wheat Straw, 11 13s to 11 151 per load. Trade dull, at the above quotations. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 3/ 8s to 41 ; Clover ditto, 4143 to 6/ 103 ; Oat Straw, 11 12s to 11 111; Wheat Straw, 1114 s to 1/ 16s per load. A moderate supply, an d a sluggish demand. WHITECIIAPEL.—Ifeadow hay, 315* to 4/5s ; Clover ditto, 41 8s to 51 15s ; O a t Straw, l/ ll s to 1/ 13s ; W heat Straw, 11 13s to 11 15s per load. Supply good, and trade dull. MEAT MAIZICETS. Sourum.f., Fan. 25.—The supply of fat stock here to-day was by no means extensive, yet the general demand ruled heavy at barely last w eek's quotations. Beef, from 2s Gd to 4s 2d; Mutton, 3s 6d to 5 3 4d ; Veal, 4a to 4s 8d ; and Veal, 4s to 4s 8d ; and Pork, 3s 8d to 4s 10d per Sibs. ROMFORD, FEB. 25. Plimo Sheep sold steadily at full 20s ; and Mulch Cows, with prices, otherwise the trade ruled dull. Beef, from 2s Ed to 4s 2d ; Mutton, 3s 4d to 5s 4d ; Pork, 4s to 4s 8d per 81bs. Suckling Calves, 13s to 30s; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s to their small calf, 161 to 1815 s each. LEWES, FEB. 24.—Beef, from 2s 8d to 4s 4cl; •Mutton, 3s 10d to 5s 6d; Veal, 45 to 48 8d; and Pork, 4s to 48 8d per 81bs. A moderate supply, and a steady demand. NIIII7GATNI AND LEADENEULIM. The supplies of Meat on sale were not to say large, yet the trade was in a depressed state, at barely stationary prices :—Beef, from 2s 6d to 3s 6cl; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; Veal, 4s to ss; and Pork, 3s 8d to 5s 2d per 8114. by the carom% CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) The Lord Chancellor sat in the Old Hall, Lincoln's Inn, to-day, and heard motions. The Court was occupied the whole morning with the case of Parker v. Constable. His Lordship rose at an early hour to attend her Majesty's Draw ing Room. The Vice-Chancellor of England did not sit to-day. SECONDARIES.-(TIIIS DAY) (Before Mr. Secondary l'orrErt.) FULL AGsat U. SPIELER. . This case was specially appointed for this morning. The plaintiff claimed as administratix of her husband, who had been a builder. The defendant is the landlord of the White Lion, Thames-street. The action was brought to recover the sum of 161. ss. 11d. for work done. On the case being called on, a gentleman said that unfor tunately the defendant's attorney was too unwell to attend, but he (the applicant) begged to be heard. The SECONDARY i aid that he could only hear an attorney, his authorised clerk, or counsel, unless the defendant chose to appear. The facts of the case were simple ; the work was proved to have been done. The defendant called a witness, who stated that he considered 101. a fair price for the work ; his measurement and estimate, however, were amongst other papers in the hands of the attorney. The SECONDARY said the jury must take the case as it stood, however incomplete. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff. BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS . DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner SHEPHERD.) IN RE PALMER. This bankrupt came to pass his last examination, which had been adjourned in consequence of his not having kept books of account. The bankrupt had carried on business as a chemist, &c., in the country. The assignees were satisfied with the ex planations given, but nevertheless considred that the bank rupt's conduct was reprehensible in not keeping books of account. Mr. Lucas, counsel for the bankrupt, urged, that in this case the non-keeping of books of account ought not to be visited with punishment. Up to a certain date, he was un questionably solvent, and his affairs had been easily wound up. It would be a bad principle in law to punish a man for not keeping books where not absolutely required. The bank rupt was not shown to have acted dishonestly or to have spent his creditors' money. The COMMISSIONER concurred, and allowed the bankrupt to pass his examination. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Baron PARKE and Mr. Justice NVILuAms.) Mr. BALLANTINE made an application this morning to have the trial of John Feacy, for the wilful murder of Thomas Martin, postponed till next session. He made this applica tion because there had been no time to instruct counsel in the case. _ _ _ Mr. Baron PARKE suggested that it be left over ti Saturday. Mr. B - ALLasuren said that he would enquire whether this time would be sufficient, and mention it again to-morrow. John Stone, sen., John Stone, jun., and Inn _Hyde, were charged with having feloniously set fire to a certain dwell ing -house, No. 3, Bridge-road, the property of George Leo nard, with intent to defraud the Union Insurance Company. Mr. Doane was for the prosecution. The prisoners were undefended. George Leonard had let the house in question to John Stone, sen., at 16/. quarterly rent. The female came first, and the male prisoners followed some time after. In the month of November last Stone the elder 'came into his shop, and asked if he (Mr. Leonard) were insured, and where ; he was told at Mr. Austen's, the agent for " the Union." He said that he would go over and see about it, and he then left. On:Sunday, the Bth of February, he ob served a strong smell of fire, and on examining the premises occupied by, the prisoners he discovered that a bed and a bag of shavings were on fire. The shavings were not used as a bed. He pulled the bag of shavings into the road, and again ran up stairs. The partition was then in a flame, but after some difficulty it was got out. He observed a box from which smoke was issuing. There were, however, no signs of fire outside. On opening the box he found a lot of cooper's chips, and a piece of coke as large as his fist inside it. There was a very strong smell of turpentine. The furniture was of the most wretched description, there being only one chair, a clothes-horse, a tub, and a lantern. He observed a Might through the chinks of the partition into the next room, and having first drawn down a portion of it, he managed to get water at it. The fire appeared to come from below the flooring, and on exa mination it was found that the floor had been raised and a lot of broken up baskets placed there, which were on fire. There was another bed there, and a second bag filled with shavings, also on fire. There were some drawers in a chest in that room, and the bottom one was on fire while those above were filled with cooper's chips. In different parts of the room were other bags of shavings not on fire. Lees corroborated the testimony of the former witness. Elizabeth Dowse said she was related to the female pri soner, at whose house she went to reside about Christmas. The prisoner slept in the same house. The witness had a bed upstair4where there were four chairs, a chest of drawers, and a mirror. She lay on a feather bed. In the next room John Stone, jun., slept. Witness stayed at the house three weeks, and was away one week before the fire broke out. John Stone, sen., said it would not be convenient for her to remain at his house longer; on that account she made up her mind to go to Wiltshire, but at the request of Stone the younger and her aunt (the female prisoner), she took a house in Trafalgar street, stone the younger offering to pay the rent. After she had gone there, one Beck, who keeps a beer-shop, brought a bed and bedstead, two boxes, and a set of fire-irons, sent, he said, by the prisoners. Beck after that returned, and said the bedstead must be put up on the ground floor, it was not worth while lugging it up stairs, as she might not be long there. On the Sunday her aunt and young Stone called on her, and the former slipped something under the bed from below her cloak. She was called to the door by her aunt, who told her Stone had been very cross and contrary. He was on the drinking order. lie bad been grumbling that he was so dirty. She hag brought down his dirty clothes, intending to be down to wash them next day , Witness asked where her aunt was going, whet she said she was going to meet Stone at Turnham green. This was about 7 o'clock in the evening. Witness and the two persons went out together to a beer-shop at Turnham green, where young Stone called for a pot of beer. Her aunt appeared very low, and on being asked what the matter was, merely shook her head. Witness and her son left the two prisoners in the beer-shop, and met Stone the elder at the door as they left, but refused to go in. Almost an hour after she - got home to Trafalgar-street the witness Newell came to the door and said Stone's house was on fire. Wit ness found the bundle and the band-box brought by her aunt to contain dirty clothes. Her aunt came about twelve o'clock that evening, and appeared in great trouble. Richard Beck said his father kept a beershop in Queen street, Hammersmith. He removed a bed and boxes on the Saturday to Trafalgar-street, which Mrs. Dowse gave him out of his father's stable, and some other articles from Stone's house. Charles Beck, father of. the last witness, said he knew that an old bedstead belonging to Stone was in his stable for some weeks before the fire. Daniel Merrill*, builder, the landlord of the house in Tra falgar-street, said the female prisoner and Mrs. Dowse came to engage the house. William Newell, said he went on the Bth of January to 7, Bridge-road, at about 9 o'clock, and saw Mrs. Dowse there but not the prisoners. He went to Phillips's workshop and found the female prisoners drinking, and called out the elder Stone, and told him his house was on fire. Stone replied " Oh, is it ;" and continued to smoke his pipe, and then asked whether witness would go in and have some ale. When they went in the female prisoner asked what the matter was, and the elder Stone told them the house was on fire, when the female prisoner began to cry. As they were all going home witness said he told them they had broken open the drawers and found some papers on fire. The elder Stone said he was done for. Henry Mount, constable, said he had broken open the doors. (He here produced two drawers, one of them, the lower, contained fire on the day in question, the other shavings and chips, the bottom of which had been burnt.) When he took the elder Stone into custody he told him what for, " and the prisoner said he had been at Bridport, but whether he was the last in the house or no he was not sure, for he had been asleep in the chair. The con stable said he would discover the person who hadbeen last in the house by the key of the door being discovered in his pos session. Subsequently, as they proceeded to the station house, he heard something jingle over the wall. The con stable asked the prisoner what it was, but he made no reply. Next morning he found it was a key which answered the door of the prisoner's house. An inventory of furniture was taken off the prisoner's person, which he attempted to de stroy. Another inventory was read in Court, which had been found in one of the boxes at Mrs. Dowse's. The policy of insurance effected by Stone with the Union Insurance Com pany in August last, to the amount of 1001., was produced and read. The constable made an inventory of the furni ture he found in the house, amounting in value to 121. 15s. 7d. The constable found some of the articles saturated with tur• pentine, and a broken bottle lying by the side of the bed, which had contained turpentine. The policy of insurance, with aproposal for life assurance, was discovered in the drawer with the chips. John Catchpole, a cooper, said he had sold the elder Stone 6d. worth of chips, about a month before the fire happened. Solomon Raster, agent, at Hammersmith, for the Union Insurance-office, preyed having given a policy of insurance to the elder Stone. Stone's liabilities would be covered from the 19th August to Michaelmas next. The evidence having been closed, Mr. Baron PARKE directed the jury to find the younger Stone Not Guilty, as no charge had been proved against him. This verdict was returned, and the prisoner was discharged accordingly. Mr. Baron PARK went through the evidence at great length, remarking, as to the female prisoner, that the jury must find her not only privy to the intention, but assisting or present when the fire was kindled. The jury, after deliberating a short time, returned a verdict of Guilty against John Stone, sen. The emale prisoner was aquitted. Mr. Baron PARK, in giving judgment, said the prisoner had been found guilty, on the clearest evidence, of a crime which but a few years before was visited with capital punishment. The danger to human life from his act was imminent. He doubted whether he ought not to sentence him to transpor tation for life. The prisoner was sentenced to be transported beyond the seas for 20 years. 31% 31% 16% 38 15/11i 27 Q l ,‘ 125 1 dia. Par 13 3 4 3% 21% 2 3% 21% 7p dfs % cbs dis VA P 78 714 1% p 146% 3214 ..._ 2% 3%p 133( % dig, 2 1 ,‘ p 38U 314 J le g 26 2% 98 48 74 32 10!4 IV.EW COURT. (Before the RECORDER and Alderman CHALLIS. Benjamin Pavyer was indicted for receiving four type moulds, value 104 the property of Vincent Figgins, well knowing them to have been stolen. Mr. Prendergast and Mr. Doane conducted the prosecu tion, and the prisoner was defended by Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Ballantine. The facts of the case were briefly these :—A man named Simms, in the employ of the prisoner, who is the well known type-founder of Bartholomew-close, was present when he bought the four moulds for 9s. 6d. of a lad, who stated he had bought them in Edinburgh. Simms, having been in the employ of Mr. Figgins, knew them to belong to him. Upon this he communicated with them, and the assistance of the police being obtained, they searched the prisoner's premises, and found the goods named in the indictment, which it turned out had been stolen by an apprentice, who is now under charge for the felony. The witness Simms underwent a searching cross-exami nation, which went to show him to.bel i a drunken profligate character. Several witnesses gave the prisoner an excellent character. The RECORDER having summed up, the jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty. In answer to the Recorder, the jury said they did not be lieve either of the witnesses. On the application of Mr. Clarkson, the prisoner was dis• charged, and left the Court with his friends. SIGNOR TABIBURINI.—Every admirer of this great singer will be delighted to learn that, after he has completed his en gagement at St. Petersburgh, he will pass this season in London. We have great pleasure in making this agreeable announcement to onr musical readers. Tasnburint is Still UnXlYAlleil as A barytque. A PROPHEC Y froin the POTATO We remember a nursery fragment —as, doubtless, does the reader—running thus : " The butcher, the baker, The candlestick maker, Ali jumped out of a rotten potato I" We know not whether the good Father Mathew had this doggrel in his thoughts, but he has hopefully suggested that future plenty may be made to gerrninate from the present potato blight. The noble meek-hearted man has written a letter to the Cork Examiner, in which he dilates on the use and importance of Indian corn as an article of food. He says, " I hope for many ulterior advantages from what at present is a calamity; our people will be deterred from de pending solely on potatoes for food;" and he concludes as follows With the gratifying prospects now before us of su2icient remune rative labour for the whole unemployed population of, Ireland, I in dulge in the expectation of soon seeing the potato reduced to its pro per position of a vegetable to be used with flesh meat, &c., as an ac companiment, and no longer to be esteemed as an exclusive article of food, except for hogs." We fervently hope so too. And when Paddy shall enjoy his own pork, with a bit of Sunday mutton or beef; shall break his daily bread of good wholesome corn ; when he shall be enabled to secure to his family these small comforts, ori ginating in the present dire distress—made ultimately at tainable by him in consequence of the attention of the Le gislature to his present misery—then let the little children of Ireland be taught the above-named doggrel as a house hold song of comfort and thanksgiving, and let them (gene rously assuming the advent of the maker of candlesticks) pipe from contented, full - bellies, the realised prophecy : The butcher, the baker, The candlestick maker, Did jump out of a rotten potato." We think that Victoria herself would hear as sweet music in this as ever she listened to in " God save the Queen." — Punch. Died, December 22, 1845, struck by a cannon-shot, while gloriously storming the Seikh batteries in front of Ferozepore, Lieutenant George Alfred Croly, 2Gth Light Infantry, N. 1., eldest son of the Rev. Dr. Croly, Rector of St. Stephen's, Walbrook, London A CHESHIRE HElto. Sir John Littler, who was engaged in the late battle of Moodkee, in India, is the eldest son of Thomas Littler, Esq., by Diana his wife, daughter of John Hunter, Esq., a Director of the East India Company, and represents a family of considerable antiquity in Cheshire, where, in the Vale Royal, his ancestors were settled in the time of Edward I. Sir John Littler was born Jan. 6th, 1783, and married, June 25th, 1827, Helen Olympia, only daughter of Captain Henry Stewart, son of John Stewart, Esq., claimant of the earldom of Orkney.—Chester Courant. DEATH OF MRS. BUSHE. —We regret to announce the death of this amiable and talented lady, who expired at her house on Friday last. 'Her loss will be severely felt in the musical profession, of which she was deservedly an ornament, Mrs. Bushe (better known in the musical world as Miss Noel) was the original Agnes in Der Frieschutz, vt hen it was produced in Edinburgh, and in which she made a great impression ; and few will forget the exquisite taste and feeling she imparted to all our Scotch ballads, in which she excelled. In private life Mrs. Bushe was universally re spected, and we need scarcely say that her death will be regretted by a large circle of friends and admirers.—Edintturgh Advertiser. _ GENERAL THEATRICAL FUND.—The annual meeting of the members was held on Wednesday, at the saloon of the English Opera House ; Mr. Buckatone, the treasurer, in the chair. From the report of the committee, read by Mr. Cullenford, the secretary, it appeared that the object of this institution was the granting of permanent pensions to actors, actresses, chorus singers, dancers, pantomimists, and prompters. The necessity of such a fund had long been felt by the members of the profession, from the exclusiveness of the Covent-garden and Drury-lane funds. These patent theatres only assisted the decayed members of their respective companies (pantomimists excepted), while the General Theatrical Fund was open to all persons connected with the stage, with the exception of those engaged in the musical and scenic departments. Drury-lane im posed a servitude of three successive seasons, and Covent-garden two successive seasons, to entitle amember of such company to the advan tages of either funds, consequently the majority of actors and actresses were excluded from the benefits of these rich and prosperous in stitutions. A very clever letter, expressive of these sentiments, from the pen of Mr. H. Hughes, of the Surrey Theatre, was laid before the meeting. The financial statement of the directors was subsequently read. The receipts during the past year had been 3,0961. 15s. 5d., while the expenditure was only 451. 19s. 7d. The amount of annuity proposed to be granted during the ensuing year was 251. There were four claimants. The report of the committee having been con firmed, it was determined that the first public dinner In aid of the fund should take place early in April, at the London Tavern, at which Mr. Charles Dickens had kindly consented to preside. Among the donors to the institution appear the names of the Duke of North umberland, 50/. ; Mr. C. Kean, 501. ; Mr. Macready, 30/. ; Mr. A. Webster, 201. ' • the late Mr. Davidge, 20/. ; Miss llelen Faneit, 51. (annual) ; and Mr. W. Farren, 51. (annual). The customary votes of thanks haying been given to the officers of the fund, the meeting separated. MORNING TRAINS TO LONDON.—We understand that it is the intention of the directors of the Grand Junction Railway to comply with the request of the merchants of Liverpool, recently con veyed to them in the form of a memorial, praying that they would establish a morning as well as an evening express train between London and Liverpool. It is generally understood that the morning train will„ tart at 6 and reach Loudon about 12 ; and we be lieve that it is the intention of the directors to delay the starting of the down-train to Liverpool until 5 o'clock in the afternoon, in order that perions desirous of performing the journey to and from London in a single day may have more time to get through their business. It will thus be possible for merchants, brokers, and others, who may be desirous to attend sales of sugar, wool, indigo, and other articles — or professional men having business to perform which requires their actual presence on the spot—to pass the previous night at home, to spend four or five hours in London, and again to reach home the same evening. The distance travelled 1;111 not be less than 428 miles ; and yet, such is the ease as well as the swiftness of this mode of tra velling, that it will be performed with much greater ease, and in pretty much the same time, as the, Journey was formerly performed from Liverpool to Manchester, and back again, in the same day. Twenty years ago this was considered something of a feat, although the distance travelled over was only 72 miles.—Liverpool Times. aIkQUEEN ANNE'S BOUNTY.—On Wednesday the annual account of all moneys received and disbursed by the Governors of Queen Anne's Bounty during the year ending the 31st of December, ki44, which have been presented to Parliament, were printed. The receipts were 181,8911. 12s. 5d., and the disbursements 178,7961.95. 9d. The yearly tenths in arrear were 901. 25. 6d. Sin. R. PEEL'S MEASURE.—The Manchester Guardian says, it is now confidently stated that Mr. Talbot Clinton, M.P., the Member for North Lancashire, will vote with the protectionists, thus neutralising the vote of his colleague, Mr. Wilson Patten. The Birtninghatn Journal states that Lord Ward, of Dudley, has given his proxy in favour of the Government measure, when it comes be fore the Rouse of Lords. MR. WAGAOBN.—The Court of Directors of the East India Company have presented Mr. Waghorn 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. —4EO4 In4ta AAA A DESULTORY CONVERSATIOr ON THE RAILROAD DEPOSITS. A. It appears very singular to me, that in the e"c; of England weekly returns, which show an iminenaeL crease in the private deposit account, there does not appear to be any material decrease in the a mount u, sr Bank.notes in circulation, or increase in the amount bullion—can you tell me how this can happen? los B. It is impossible for me to give you any p atio but as to the private operation of the Bank of England; $ I can dearly explain to you how it is possible.lo banker to show an immense increase in the deposit .sot count without one single penny of cash b ein g Paid a single bank note nor a sing ! Pleaso show the fact le as it is sovereign pussible in real) et to the railway deposits. th at B. I dare say you have read in the ne ws Par the Accountant-General has accepted the cheques dfteir by the directors of the railroad companies ne London bankers. A. I have. 010 B. Well, then, we will suppose that a London b has taken securities to the Bank of England, tel.„10/ arrangements for opening a " cash credit" a ccoee be d fo r r aw l n , 040 0 , On f 0 0 0 1. r ., being the amount he exPeeted t° h cg s A. I understand. The London banker in aue - d for would be entitled to draw on the Bank of Englsll" 1,000,000/. th eir B. The directors of the railroad companiltw the cheque for 1,000,0001. on their London banker no' hands of the Accountant-General. The Aee e , tl ,, n iaad , General pays this eheque into the Bank of •Peenot, whose clerk takes it to the London banker for •paY,,OO The London banker having opened a cash credit ac t ' g i f e with the Bank of England for 1,000,000 L, does noi cash for it, but draws a cheque on the Bank of P l i e 7 r th for 1,000,0001., which he hands over in exchaoge cheque drawn upon him by the directors o f the ri" J co y mpan, A. I see. Then I suppose the Bank 0- s .lsa, J balances the London banker's "cash credit" see°,-;tiera,,' gives credit for 1,000,000/. to the Accountant"`", retaining the banker's securities for 1 , 000,0001. 1 of advanced. b B. Precisely so. Thus you perceive tha t the the railroad deposits may be satisfied to o°,o'll standing orders of the Houses of Parliam ent the one single penny of money being paid • en "sill culation of bank-notes will not be decreased, o°'l3ol sovereign extra get into the coffers of the 0 61 England. e A. The operation appears to be very sillir explained. as gee l :, B. Observe, I do not say things have been 1 0— , teo, o this way. I merely wish to show you how ° a f urther:; actions of this kind may be arranged. In order ". 1 01 0, satisfy you that the payments may have beeo:4ej this manner, I would call your attention to theoseit side of the weekly published returns o f the heOl f England, where you will find that the sec urities o the Bank of England have increased in ere°occoll°,i equal to the increase of the "private deposit" D ot "„ A. I see you are correct ; but may no t the the England have invested the money received Wrote countant.General in securities, and in this WO 0 rid of their bank-notes paid in? tb ailee B. I should think not ; you will observe in oA returns that there are two sorts of securitiOr tO:fil, " Government securities," and securities " nth e esP, o , Government. You will observe, also, if Y eu tbeir,, t :r several weekly returns with each other, tha:, otP ii , vernment securities have rather decreased t ii r tGol' ef or wise, and that only the securities " other" th e agiag e ,l ment are so greatly increased in amount. Sne"„itlia case, I do not think the Bank of England we'ititlo,"s[ of themselves such deposits in private securitie?,,, a ce they would not hesitate to open a " cash credit on the deposit of private securities. t ite i A. I think your conclusion reasonable. , A p i ea B. It is possible - that many of these seete l "i o O r" as " other" than Government securities mar' 1110 be Government securities. ae 1 A. This appears to be a paradox. Be kin d explain how this can be ? ea eaero B. Suppose the Bank of England enters p o t • of,' head " Government securities " only th e a rap e positively positively in their own name, and their old and that any amount of Government veer'," etlieP ferred to them as collateral securities, to sec the tbe pf 4 ment of bankers' promissory notes, are net"•;" 4p ur of England deemed " Government securititbsa thus carried to the account " Securities eih er ec tli vernment." the A. Would not this mode of making e P nt ? returns be an evasion of the Act of Parlialeee);•so°`";6 ,jl ° B. I think not ; in fact, if they do arloPt,:, rio` P making up the weekly returns, I consider w e ' j t fulfilling the spirit of the Act. ‘ ,“ l t ig A. If the Bank of England has adopte d rendering assistance to the London banher"„pel r t be said that there are so many millions of , 111 „," tb ° up in the Bank of England in the railway ° A e r 1 ,41 " B. Of course the money cannot be loan tb e t 04: Bank of England, but remains in the hann!„ - t ere u e don bankers ; they can use it, and what t he can make by the use of it over and a bove , they will have to pay the Bank of Englan d ' e ill t e Loudon bankers' profit. 9 P r 1 01 A. Pay the Bank of England interest I thought you explained just now that t_l ie ,tesf t ok might be done without the use of any bola 11 , - b e Pj - B. Not pay interest ? Credit is moner—,, otr! England gives the banker credit for I,°`'„"6ol credits the Accountant- General with 1,000,u 40 l. paid honestlyintodu hiseto h account ;te Bank th of Englanderefore intcrest j for modation. [ O6 A. I should think the " rest" will show $ h 1) 0 11 r9und . sum by the time the next dividend °". - Glared. B. I should think so too. le t , ~,,s t e le l A. What is the meaning of the word 'T A - 0 111" B. It is only the French word reste, I'm" the r e; signifying the remainder, or the balasce . . e 10, 9 11, 0 of the account, as generally written by ol e if ai r , 9 A. Retournons a notre propos. Well, then, je ~ don bankers have all the cash of the rail be 001 their hands, the country bankers must b e P 1 1 he drained. all t" 1, o° B. The London bankers may not have ,„ t the it in their hands, for it is very probable I r n iterVor j r i bankers have accommodated the country no r ‘ ; f .a . the same way that the Bank of Engisi lu a, q /11 0 1 11 5, them accommodation, and, likely ell' u °l3s , til l ' lando A. h l a f v a e li b t e h e i n s f h o a r s w h ar a d p e p d en t e o d Le , part of the securities handed over to the , lie Fred 0 ) 14 what can make money or discounts so t y ~,4 termed ? Olt °C OQ , B. just suppose that the whole sot i° ,,f as, o cl,V, anncidonnoicr°:l33llo.'g'i,‘ I t. ro il ,l, way deposits had formerly formed part - 93(.4 1ti Or of number of accounts in all the bankers issvis, tad,l land, and Ireland, gentlemen's, loa re ' o cco li° o o ii i i iet hi°Bl3i vi ec o turj ti be fig ;° t; bankers' accounts ; it follows that those o cq o / 00 0 be decreased in the ratio of the railvvi i i !, sty! ri d pang, will periods. only Tined willt h the perhaps money the money transferred to a few, the bsn' h e „ rair for 1 ftl‘ what time he may be called upon by t '1 0 10 0 , 5 ite, e d seven, fourteen,days, he o s ,c or twenty-one ji,eo a Job, careful how he employs the money ir is t ov ir r irti oe, as formerly at two months' date. ',Lull , Or' 40/ pies trade and commerce, which are chie .3 ,106 ,: o o il if , means of bills of no less dates ; and, lluesi d solf?, rally suspected that many parties ba ir ' o avi%ef,hg t become shareholders in railroads- 4 sa ke s i "„0,70: because they have been obliged to ' 3 dee'hie"," their business affairs to pay their railersYbigs, 0 ',0 4 has crippled their resources; and the! get, 0 43 0 0 1 0's t ' readil to be taken in the discount niso'l o roP A itil jI; upon." Perhaps, as the London banks Or 0 ,o , r glib OS reduced by having to pay the Bank 01 -• s coll t h e r di ' .0 they require an extra p erce ntage Jot; m os- ° 4'• may be that this increased rate of 111 '" e jefi`;' ; evil rather any want of money itself. . c , if O re cr e as, A. There cannot be any want of ts° ll %l il le ,g o„rei remain in the hands of the bankers, slid inc be illie. be any difficulty in the bankers flo (1114 0id t at Olf ploying it, or they would rather bs,. ve n 'tia/ c ti it t e ° itself into the Bank of England O s i a ter es t et '" , i securities with the Bank and P 4 - Brea ,Ifi'' ~ „. a ,i i t could not have employed the co.. -t te't interest. tha ttb l 9jj $ B. This you may rest assured of, ilia bl accept the accommodation offere d 05 0. t o g e England, if it did not answer their pal? co its . ill: A. Well. Now, how are all their dvP g 0 , 5 ,,,i again ? tb e fer sl 4' le as Ges fl) o t B. By an operation just as situp pos t- 1; 0 0 1 The railway directors go to the Acc t t he 13° 0, 4 o ,i get his cheque, say for 1,000,0001, 0. 1 to thee 14 ) 1 , , i land. This cheque the directors Pay 0a bael'beleot!‘ their London banker's. The Lo" °-- t ," at the j'fill. cheque into his "cash credit accouoso in o at iti rr i i i , England ; he then draws a cheque ao o h for 1 tbe io r England, and instead of being Pa c o d pa) ree u back the securities he had deposited, , 0 0$ 0 . had P ' - ell of England the rate of interest the , • it) ! „, e le - i ts for the accommodation. nd sum` .og 1 A. It appears all very plain a _ st ioa. a iol Do 'j plained. I thank you for your inferw,our i:o3it 1 0 , ( B. Do not let me mislead You, .1 your viiiee'e;e,,, been` Of r . vgy v , 0 ,to operations positively havetV"' I V j Ot . V stated. You know lamin an ou. ~_.,,,t10 of ~,t have no direct means of getting lo • I b ui l ity o_sl, , i have wished to explain to you the ',/o . n e d to! . 01 0 monetary transactions of the kir.l au_i o u ver eig s iop, intervention of a single bank- aote or ) ,.onve rss l A. I have been interests d by you! ' g t 1013• thank you kindly for you/ i nform , i' (!fl` Ilfracombe, Feb. 17, `846. I V , t , , 0 t 0 d o i, , s issu e p e"tif V EXECUTIONS, &c.-From retu n ro__ s it lifi for Act , 0, ,, day, by order of the House of Coin e v e u; eca te or 00 1; 1, to ; 1813, no fewer than 120 persons in , d i n 2 6 f ier. s it B i ° crimes in England and Wales - ,` , , for mu' ... 15 4 4 0 0, 1 1, 1814, 70 were executed, including . _ 4 . w bom eo co; ; c ol 57 were executed for various crime v" n s u ' ru ber ° f pord i 4 England murder. In 1816, inctheudin' 21 f°r 1 0 9° 0 04 1' and Wales was 95, feria rder. 0° e$ 1 9 ' I . al rso ii in 1817, 115 were executed, 25 so f pe _ . 14 ., the number wa der ! ,0,0 e; years the following were „, 1 3 for 182 1 9' p; jef England and Wales : -1818, wi , mur der 1 2 focic , ) 15 for murder ; 1820, 107, 10 for r ,23, 54,,„„ fora iogi murder • 1822, 95, 18 for murde ; ,1, 25, 50,_!:'i n cl.'01;;) , 1824,49 ' , including 14 for murderer; n 8.27, 7;4 1 3 la ioc i . , ; 1826, 57, including 10 form u n er . ;$29:41, 52 , ..09 for murder; 1828, 59, 18 for l'i r r `,,,,!der; 1 7 5 for,, l ;t °,,,e der; 1830, 46, including 14 for ii , i ; e. inclu..” .; t o ,_,,-; n , in 12 for murder ; 1832, 6 , ;_„ r 0830 I doc anle l ; ja i ? 1833, 33, 6 for murder. ' fla,is vase ja this ea t,10 1 11 ; 26, y.if respect to which any return is a. especting. 02,5, o e r $; ever, from a return appended r s r that 1° . , 1 cri lD „ i e ar t V don and Middlesex, it aPP e3 ,i ec uted f° r i,- for - 04; i' 1827, the number of persons_e- a _ d 18 30 5 _.:, ii , 1 io .0 0, for murder 3; in 1828, 182 9 , f " r rna rder v 6 :li.J °3°s; • 41 o r3 r in 1831, 1832, and 1833, 12, for so , xow -e a r i !jerii fo i and 1836, none were e xecuted eu ,_,, , ai l for or 0 1 a o o p 1838, and 1839, 3 wer xe te" i , d, aiso - 11 0 00 ° ,0 6 1841, and 1842, 4 were execute _ ere 5 ~q 6 in 1843, 1844, and 1845, there :1 4 , ics rp A. , murder likewise, inatead a 53, tu tm 1827 Th e 41: fo„, ~: :a! the Il i! Oh.. ~. ~ 11..., th