The Sun. — London, England, 1837-03-20 00:00:00

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Ditto Account ... - 1• 1 t,. Account ...... ...... .... --,i Ditto, 5 .. , ..r cent 101,'.50% Nerobtui...... ' Ditto Account .... - it pm. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Paid. Anglo Meiticin Yining Company (iss. at s'. rm.) Iro Or eat Wo.tein Railwa; Company 4O 1.00 , 1;01 and Birmtnyhari Railway Company 75 I"ndon and Southampton Railway Company 35 Anti Dryrot Company tfo!onial Hank Arrived. Due 0 America....,..... 1 0 orazil 0 I+ , ends Ayres.. 0 carthavula ~.. (I 2 2 Fta•nders AIA I LS. Arrived. Due.l Arrived Due 2 France ...... 0 0 1.:5! ion ..... 1 I nuqru.Sa.lerssy 0 0 Malta ....... ...... 0 0 Ilimburg n' 0 Mexic0............ 0 I Holland ...... 0 0 0 0 Jarniica 0 Leeward Islands II 2 Waterford. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE 'JO-MORROW. minutes after I j Evening...—. 2 minutes after 2 BRASSE'S GREEK GRADUS. A NEW EDITION, 18s. Bvo. bds. To which is added, A SYNOPSIS of the GREEK METRES, by the Rev. J. R. MAJOR, Master of King's College, School, London. GREEK GRADUS ; or, GREEK, LATIN, and ENGLISH PROSODIAL LEXICON. For Colleges and Schools. - By the Rev. J. BRASSE, late Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge. It has been the object to present, in a comprehensive form, a Manual, containing the interpretation, in Latin and English, of such words as occur in the principal Greek Poets ;—the quantity of each syllable actually or virtually marked;—an authority quoted for the existence and quantity of each word in those writers ;—and those terms set down as synonymous which appear to bear a simili tude in sense to the principal word. The Works of the Greek Poets have been examined, and such epithets and phrases annexed to each principal word as are of legitimate usage, and seem best calculated to embellish Greek composition. This Gradus will suffice for the reading of the Greek Tra gedians. • The indefatigable application required in the compilation of the Greek Gradus is manifest ; and we heartily recommend tne work as supplying a desideratum in our School Books, and likely to be advantageously used to a very wide extent.'—Literary Chronicle. Printed and published by Valpy, and sold by all Booksellers. HAMBURGH, FEB. 28, 1837. ALL those who may have to write to us are re quested to be particular in directing, HEINE BROTHERS, IN HAMBURGII ; but neither the denomination BANKERS, or LOTTERY CON TRACTORS, or MERCHANTS, nor any other, is required on the Address ; and Letters directed HEINE BROTHERS, IN HAMBURGH, without any further remarks or description, will do for any Branch of our multifarious Business. We beg further to observe, that a Letter with one enclosure doubles the postage only, but several en closures would by far increase the same; thus 201. 401, or 801., for instance, if remitted in one Bank of England Note would on,y cause double postage ' • but 201. remitted in two Ten-pound Notes, or Four Fiv e -p oun d Notes, would be liable to a much higher charge. It is, therefore, most advisable for those having to remit money to Hamburgh to forward the amount, whenever possible, in One Note, or One Check, or one Bank Post Bill, &c. &c. The same is advisable on receiving Money from Hamburgh. Of course, large sums, to be received from Hamburgh, amounting to some or many thousands may rather be received in Bills of Exchange on London. All those having to give any Orders for such Branches of our Business as CANNOT BE EXECUTED LATER THAN BY THE MAIL FROM HAMBURGH OF THE2Bth OFMARCH, are requestad TO LOSE NO TIME IN FORWARDING THE SAME, and to FORWARD THEM BY THE REGULAR STEAMER, as the Post via France takes too long. The LONDON STEAMER of the 21st and 24th Of March will be - - THE LAST MAILS that can be expected to reach Hamburgh before the 28th of March, HEINE BROTHERS. ERRATUM.—The following passage in the Adiertisement of the " Brighton and London Railway Company," inserted in our Paper of Friday, was incorrectly stated, owing to a trans position of a single line. It should read as follows :—" Their pretext for the opposition by which they accomplished this object, was the non-compliance with the new Standing Orders, upon the construction of which no two persons are found to agree, and upon which the Standing. Orders Committee were equally divided, leaving the Chairman the casting vote." The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 20 minutes past Three o' Clock. ;.:17Z \ i§ 2o 4l !b4, Zbt :11tII+ LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 20, 1837. By an extraordinary express from Paris, intelligence his been received of the defeat of General EVANS, and his retreat to San Sebastian. Betrayed by SA A RSI , I ELD and ESPARTERO, who treacherously allowed the Carlists to attack him with their whole forces, he was driven not only from before Hernani, but from all the positrons so gallantly carried by his brave troops in the engagement of the 10th inst. Wt. attribute not the slightest blame to the Hon. and Gallant Member fur Westminster. His conduct throughout was that of a brave man and an able orficer. Had lie been supported by EsPA RTERO and SA A RSFIE Ilernani and the %%hole of the adjacent country would have been now in the possession of the QUEEN'S army. The following is a copy of the official dispatch communicated to the French Govern ment by telegraph : " BAYGNNE, MARCH IS.—General Evans has failed com pletely in his attack upon Tiernan', the Carlists having re ee.ived a reinforcement of eight battalions, brought by Don Sebsstian, who had quitted Siarstield. The Christinos re pulsed, abandoned in the greatest disorder the positions which they carried on the Ioth, and retired in the evening to Sari Sebastian, where they were preceded by 1.500 wounded. A battalion of the English Nlarines alone held its ground and protected the retreat. Espartero is at Durango, and Saari field at Berios." The sudden an] unexpected arrival of the eight Carlist battalions, commanded by Don SEBASTIAN, nephew of the Pretender, decided the fate of Llernani, which otherwise would have been taken by EVANS, tlevite of the bravery of the -garrison. Now Don SEBASTIAN could not have moved a foot in defence of the garrison but for the treachery of SA A n..41E-T,D, «ho took advantage of a snow shower to retreat to Gatos:), irar Pamp,.duna, leaving EvANs and his brave troops in the lurch. The scandalous retreat Of SAARSFIELD is announced in a telczraphie despatch of the preced ing day, w}',ien was posta up at the Bourse on Sa turday. The following is a copy of it : " BA YONNE, Mnaen 17.—General Eva::s on the 15th inst. gained possess;on of the Yenta de Hernani, after some slight resistance on the part of the Carlists ; he captured four pieces of artillery, and had two hundred of his troops wounded, E - partero was en the I.sih at Eybard, at the extremity of Gui puscoa. Saarsfield, surprised by snow storms, had returned to Ggasa, near Pampeluna, on the 12th, after hating gained borne advantage. Don Carlos is at Tolosa, and the Infant Don Sebastian Occupies a position in front of Saarstield with tcq battalion,." The Paris Papers of Saturday state that ESPA R MO, imitating the conduct of his worthy colleague SAARSFIELD, has evacuated Durango, and marched back at the head of his columns to Bilboa. One ac count states that the Anglo-Christinos have lost nine hundred men killed, besides the wounded ; but this is manifestly a gross exaggeratidn. The Christi nos had man✓ wounded, but very few killed, consider ing the bravery with which the Carlists fought, and the disadvantages they had to contend with in attacking and carrying strongly defended positions. We can scarcely credit the account we have received of the con duct of ESPARTERO, but if confirmed, we shall set him down as a traitor to the cause of the QUEEN and Constitution. Since the article immediately preceding this was written, we have received communications from various quarters, which strongly incline us to believe that the •whole account of the de feat of Gen. EVA NS is a Carlist Fabrication. In the Royalist JuurnrAl ni;itrope, which has just been put into our hands, we find the defeat of General EVANS, and his retreat to San Sebastian, preceded by 1,500 wounded men, an nounced in a letter_ from Bourdeaux, dated the litth inst., six days earlier than the date of the dispatch from Baycnne, communicating the same intelligence to the French Government. It is also not a little re markable that the Bourdeaux and Bayonne dispatches —the former of which is commented upon as a gross fabrication in one of the Paris evening papers of Satur day, should he conceived in nearly the very same words. Another ground of suspicion is to be found in the fact that, yesterday, a Carlist agent in London endeavoured to foist copies of a similar dispatch into the columns of some of our Contemporaries. The dispatch itself bears internal evidence of its suspicious origin. It does not state on what day the defeat of General EVANS took place ; and the whole has much the appearance of a Stock-jobbing concern. Should it Unfortunately prove a correct re port, it will be high time for the Cortes to take the entire management of the war into their own hands. Madrid Journals to the 12th inst. inclusive have been received. The President of the Council, Senor CALA TR AVA, continued so seriously indisposed that his resignation had become inevitable. Count ALMA DO VAR, the new War Minister, officiated in his room, as President and Secretary for Foreign Affairs. In trigues for the recal of CORDOVA, who it appears is destined to play a still more distinguished part in the service of her Catholic MAJESTY than any that has yet fallen to his lot, were ac tively at work in the capital. They were managed principally by his brother, who is said to enjoy the confidence of the REGENT. Ministers were doing all in their power to raise funds, but apparently with but indifferent success, as the payment of the divi dend on the Home Debt was suspended on the 10th for want of money. The Cortes have agreed to tax house-rent 40 per cent. for the benefit of the State, but from this no immediate supply of ready money—the one thing most needful—can be anticipated. There is no domestic intelligence of any importance in the French Journals of Friday and Saturday, with the exception of a rumour that the Emperor of RUSS IA is opposed to the marriage between his niece and the Duke of ORLEANS. The cause of his Imperial MAJESTY'S reluctance to a family alliance with his Royal brother of France is not stated; but it is conjec tured that the CZAR is somewhat apprehensive of the stability of the Orleans' dynasty. A rumour was current in Paris on Saturday night, to the effect that a body of 10,000 Carlists had crossed the Ebro to join the bands in Catalonia, and make a sudden dash upon Madrid. So many rumours of this kind are fabricated daily by the agents of Don CARLOS that no credit can be attached to any of them. The Appanage Bill will be violently opposed in the Chamber of Deputies. The discoveries recently made of the fraud attempted to be committed on the Chambers by an immense under-estimate of the rental of the estates which the KING seeks to con fer upon his second son, have greatly exasperated the liberal party. As the whole scheme was concocted by DUCIIATEL, PERSIL, and the KING, the Minis ter of Finance will not escape the justly provoked vengeance of the Opposition. FRENCH FUNDS.-PARTS, MARCH 17. Five per Cents., 106 f. 90c. 95c. 85c. Four per Cent., 98f. 35c. three per Cents., 79f. 15e. 21)c. 'loe. 15c. Bank Actions, 2,410 E 2,415 E 2,4101. Rente ile Naples, 081. It. 65c. Roman Five per Cents., 102 102%. Spanish Actives, 28 27% 29%1,4 %%Yi. Spanish Passives, 7%%%. Belgian Loan, Five per Lents.. 103%. Brussels Society, 1,555 f 1,560 f. Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents, 32%%. Dutch Two and a half per Cents., 53%. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25c. 40c ; money, 25f. 37%e. Three months, paper, 25f. 21k. ; money, 25f. 20c. -Ours Authailigue. FRENCH FUNDS.-PARIS, MARCH IS. Five per Cents., 1061. 90c. 75c. 70c. 90c. Four per Cents., 981. 35c. Three per Cents. 79f. sc. 79f. Bank Actions, 2,405 E Rente ae Naples, 981. 60c. 50c. 55c. Roman Five per Cents., IN I 2%. Spanish Actives, 28%%%%%%. Spanish Differes, 11%3j. Spanish Passives, 7%%%. Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 103%. Belgian Society, 1,560 f. Portuguese Three tier Cents. 32%. Haytian Loan, 300 f. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25f. 40c. • money, 25E 37%c. Three months, paper, 25f. 20C. ; money. 251. -('ours Authentiarte. LAST PRICES. Five per Cents., 106 E 80c. Three per Cents. 79E sc. Bank Actions, 2,405 E Bente de Naples, 98f. 75c. Roman Five per Cents., 102%. Belgian Loan, at 3%. Brussels Bank, 1,39t1 75e. Portuguese Three per Cents., 32%. Spanish Actives, 2i%. Spanish Passives, 7%. n)arliS; Differes, 8%. N w Di freres, 11%. HA'IBUR• SORSEN HALLE, MARCH 17. Bills. Money, Austrian Metalliques, 5 per cent. Ditto elito 4 per cent. Ditto ditto T, per cent. Ditto Bank shires 1347 1345 Anglo-Russian Loan lns 104% Paper Inscription, 6}'l6r cent is 71% Russian S per cents. Metal. Russian inseription, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th Series Dittn, Certificates rortugnese Regency Rontls, 5 per cent 47 Ditto, 3 per cent 3l 30% Ht-..ch 2% rer Cents. - :Atte S per Cents Polish Bends, 3 per cents. New Ticke's l5 .14 156 U Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cents Nerwegi.in Lean of ISI4, I per cents. - li 1 Spanish, in piastres, 3 per - Cortes Lean, 5 per Cent. ....... Greek 1 per cents. 1133:3, guaranteed by France 93 42% EXCHANGES ON LONDON. Ilausreo, MARCH 17.-138%; twomonths, 137. Sr. Prevsmostimin, Mitten 7.-Three months, 10 746. tiTHCICHOLM. MARCH In.-Two months, 12 0. Cuitis-riasos,sllllatten 4.- Three months. 5 2. BEELiX. MaacH 14..-Threem•nths. 6.24. -Hamburg Papers. March 18. The " spoliation of the Church" is the favourite cry of the factious brawlers who are now setting their faces against the Ministerial measure for settling the Church-rate question. Those.who hare selected this as a war-cry—among whom stand first and foremost those meek successors of the Apostles, the Bishops— know well enough that nothing of the kind is intended, or could possibly be effected, by the measure in ques tion ; but on the contrary, that the best interests of the Church would be more advanced by it than by any other plan that has ever been devised. They are in their hearts convinced that it is in the truest sense of the word a " Conservative " measure, because it not only renders the dormant revenues of the Church avail able to her own support and even extension, but cuts off at once the main source of that collision with the people which has sprung up so generally, and which, if not speedily stopped, will, as surely as effect fol lows cause, cud in her destruction. True, it may not not be so conducive to the personal interests of Bishops, and other ecclesiastical persons, as they could have wished. It may take from such devout supporters of the Church the power of enriching themselves at the expense of the poor, or, to use the words of the Ox ford Clergy in their address to the Bishops, of " plun dering what has been dedicated to Almighty GOD." This it may and must do; and here we find the real cause of the mortal enmity which the "Dignitaries" have swot u against it. If any one should think that this is rather a hasty, if not a harsh, conclusion, let „him cast his eye over the letter from ". A CHURCHMAN" to the CHAN CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, which we have inserted in another column. From this document it is made to appear that by a gross fraud practised upon Parliament, the Church has been dispossessed of property to a large amount, in order to put money into the pockets of the clerical trustee or lessor, and of the lessee, the said lessor being one Dr. WILSON, Prebendary of St. Paul's, tl►e lessee the City of London, and the property that called the Finsbury Estate. The ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LC Wheat. B. 5,996 rs (r•sh F.reign Per Share 4 4.1% 4 tif; 7A 20 1 4 1) 2'2 lv ri ter calculates that IV the time the lease thus frau blently obtained has run out; the Church will have !,ustained a loss of four hundred thousand pounds This is the way the holy guardiana of " what has been dedicated q . to Almighty GOD" protect it from he " plundering" of the profane 1 No wonder they .!e.l a honor of any pforpial that has foe its object o transfer this Protection to other hands than their own. THE MARKETS.-(T HIS DAY.) CORN ENCITANG. The arrivals of all kinds of Grain,alFo of Flour last week were considerable, and the trade remained throughout dull az ihe former Monday's terms. This morning there was a small . 1-esh supply of every article in the trade. Higher prices we.a lemanded for the few samples of fine Wheat that were et market, and partially obtained ; but the general trade ex perienced no improvement. . Burley of good quality is not so plentif6l as of late, and this article is unaltered in value. Beans met with a free sale, and are rather dearer. Pease of both kinds remain as last quoted. In the Oat trade, transac rims have been slow, and the prices of last Monday were hard ly supported. There is no alteration in the value of Flour, and the trade contiLues heavy. PRICES ON BOARD OF sine. Nheat, Red (old) .4. G. Beans, Small,new) 388.42.5. White (old).„ lios. 6-5. -- (old) 44 s. 50 s. —Red ;1836) . Us. 50s. Tick (new) 32s :345. - Fine Ws. iss. -- Superlii,e .........Ms. Rem. Harrow (new) ....355.365. —Wh to (11 5 26) 46s. 525. (01d)... ...... 425.465. Fine sis 58s. Brank .... 315.335. -- Superfine ftks. 625. Oats, Feed —Foreign free Rye 14 , 3's. Poland —5.-3 Barley .255. 05 New 235.275. Grinding 27 , Viii. Potatoe.. fi85.31).. Malting 32'.355. Malt 465 54m. Scotch k9 31s. Fine New 565. 5Ss. Irish 200. 22 25 Pease, Grey, New 325. 31s. Flour 'l'own ;per sack) ..... ..525.55 , Maple New . 9 45. 365. Seconds 46s 5i15 White Boilers 335. 40s. Nsrth Co,llltl y .......... 4 1( 0 , 44 11 : 405. 42 , Bran SMITHFIEL'. This day's supply was very goc alteration from the prices last gm PRICES nu% STONE OF 8L )NI)ON DURING LAST WELK arley. Oats. 1 Flour .29} qrs. 10,245 qrs '7,640 ticks 110 31,520 -- 900 - - MARKET d, and the sale was dull at little Ited : I. TO SINK THE OFFA LI. a. d. to s. d. s. .1. to s.d Interior Beasts 2 4 2 6 ramjet* Sheep ...... ...... 210 3 0 Second quality ditto 2lO 3 4 Second quality ditto. 3 5 310 Prime large Oxen ...... Prime Scots, &c.. 4 0 4 2 Southdown Wethers ... 410 5 0 Large coarse Calves 4 6 410 Laige Hogs. 's 8 4 2 Prime small ditto 5 2 5 8 , Small Porkers 4 8 5 0 S•ickling Calves each ...17 e 36 01 Quarter old Pie each) 12 0 20 0 Lmnb.... ..... ......... 7s Pd. to Es. Od. SUPPLY, AS PER CLERK'S STATEMENT. Beasts. Sheep. I Calves. Pigs I 2,741 2%200 130 326 About 40 of the Beastaleame up the St. Alban's road ; :abo.tt 400 up the other northern roads • about 4uo (ine".iding Irish) from th e western and midland , istricts ; abo ut 2 1 ;00 from Not folk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cam bridgeshire ; about 11.0 from Kent and Sussex ; and most of the remainder f OIR the marshes. &c. iii the neighbourhood of London. NEWGATE AND LEADENHA LI, MARKETS. At per stone, by the Carcass. s. d. to s d' s i to s d. Beef, inferi0r............... 2 6 2 8 Mutton, inferior ..«..... 2 8 3 0 - middling ........... 210 3 0 _ middling. 'l 2 2 6 - prime large 3 2 3 4 - prime 3 8 4 2 - prime small 3 6 3 8 Perk, large 3 6 4 2 Veal 3 2 4 8 small 4 b 1, 8 ILamb r, lod to 7s. sd. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE CORN MARKET.—March 15t. Our farmers brought a large supply of Wheat to this a d'ay's market, and the arrivals coastways were also considerable, which caused inferior samples to be taken off slowly at a de cline of ls. per quarter on the prices of this day se'unight, though the best qualities nearly supported similar rates. The arrivals of Barley are also large, and all but the finest descrip tione Is. per quarter lower. Oats were is. per quarter cheaper, with an abundant supply. In Rye there is no varia tion. Malt continues a slow sale, though offered at a decline of ls. per quarter. White Pease firm. Beans and Grey Pease remain without change. Flour supports our quotations, but the arrivals from Norfolk and Suffolk are very large. New. ilia. . Wheat, Northumberland 42.. 6115....... 57. 64 Norfolk and ......... 575. ...... 60, 65,. - Berwick and Scotch..„ s "4". —s. 6i, -- Foreign s 5 • • —4. —a. Rye, Norfolk and Suffolk 33s 38s —s. —s. eoreign Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk 32.i. 36s ...... •••••5. Grinding and Feeding 285..... --S. —s. Malt, Norfolk and Suffolk Ohs —s. Beans, Small 425....... —a. —s Tick .. 365. 40s —5 Pease, White 33s 425..... --a. Gray 133 36i —s. —s. Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe . 0 4. 26s 2ss. 274. _ Feed Foreign —s. —s Flour (per sack)... —s. s. 43s. 475. THE DEATH OF THE DEAN OF BRISTOL.—Dr. Beoke was the son of the Rev. Christopher Beeke : he was born at Kingsteinton, in Devonshire, Jan. 6, 1751 ; elected a scholar of Corpus Christi College, May 5, 1769, and took the degree of B.A. as a member of that society, Jan. 20, 1773. He was elected to a fellowship at Oriel College (on Frank's foundation) April 21, 1775, took his M.A. degree June 6, 1776, and was soon after appointed tutor of his college. He was presented by Oriel College, to the rectory of Ufton Nor cot, Berkshire, October 17, 1789, and vacated his fellowship in 1791. In 1800 he proceeded Doctor in Divinity; and the following year, upon the death of Dr. Howell, was appointed by the Crown to the Professorship of Modern History in this University, and when the late Dr. Parsons was promoted to the see of Peterborough, succeeded him in the deanery of Bristol. Dr. Beeke was the author, we believe, of several pamphlets on finance, and it has been said that the late Mr. Pitt was indebted to him for the original suggestion of an Income Tax ; and Mr. Vansittart (the present Lord Bexley), it is well known, when Chancellor of the Ex chequer, consulted him upon most of his financial pro jects, and derived much assistance from his calculations.— The late Dean of Bristol was a p erson o f ver y extensive acquirements. He was not only an accurate scholar, an able mathematician, and a sound divine, but a good antiquary, and peculiarly well acquainted with most subjects connected with political economy. The following anecdote is not un amusing, and we know it to be true :—Whilst the late Dean was a fellow of Oriel, he was a member of a club that as sembled at the Angel Inn, and being there one day, waiting the arrival of his brother members, a mercantile traveller en tered the room, and began a conversation with Mr. Beeke. Intent upon commerce, and forgetting perhaps that he was in an university, the traveller remarked that the opposite build ing ( Queen's College) was a noble exchange, and entering into details of trade, &c. was so delighted with the observa tions and talents of his companion, that at parting he thanked Mr. Beeke for his obliging information, adding, .4 I clearly discover from your conversation, and the intimate knowledge you have of the subject, that you arc in trade like myself. Pray, Sir, may I ask if you are not in the carpet line ? Oxford Herald. EARL GREY.—His scholarship has left upon him no taint of pedantry ; the matchless polish of his cha racter has neither attenuated its structure, nor corrupted its simplicity ; and the agitation of long and strenuous opposition has subsided without depositing the slightest residuum of as perity or petulance. His morals are pure, his honour is un • spotted, and his heart is one of mingled nobleness and tender ness—one in which a throbbing patriotism swells and bursts into universal pi ilanthropy.—Leicestersh;re Mercury. The Reformers of Oldham have resolved to put General Johnson, of Lincolnshire, in nomination as their can didate, with Mr. Fielden. Never have we witnessed such a gross demoralisa tion of sentiment and public feeling as in the neighbouring town of Berwick. Corrupt beyond measure, men—aye, re spectable men—calling themselves free men—have come for ward and avowed their hostility to the great, the salutary. the all-saving measure of Ahnicipal Reform in England.—Kelso Chronicle. At the Middleton Petty Sessions, before Messrs. Fletcher and Smith, magistrates, Messrs. John H;lton Kay, and Co., of Heywood, pleaded guilty to five charges of the Factory Act; Mr. Heathcote, informer, did not wish to press for a full penalty for the first offence. Fined 61., and costs. Messrs. S. Chadwick and Sons were fined 40s. and costs, for two separate offences; and an overlooker at Mr. James Chad wick's mill, 40s. and costs, for endeavouring to conceal a girl under 13 years of age from the factory inspector.—Manchester Guardian. On Saturday a Mr. Collier, residing at No. 59, Hare -street, Edgeware-road, made application at the different police offices and stations relative to the disappearance of his two daughters, aged nine and twelve respectively, who, he said, had been decoyed away, he knew not whither, by a wo _ man named Harriet Williams, fur some bad purposes, as he apprehendel Williams is a young woman about 27 years of age, of sallow complexion, with dark brown hair, grey eyes, a piercing look, and a scar on her forehead. The applicant stated that he had traced her to Old-street, where she has a =inter who keeps a straw bonnet-shop, and he learned that she had been there with the two girls on the 10th inst., (the day of abduction) but he could obtain no further trace of them. The elder of the girls, Harriet Collier, is about four feet in height, with dark eyes and hair, and of delicate complexion; and the other, Maria, is about 6 inches shorter than her sister, with long pale features, light brown hair, and grey ey es . Unusually large flights of wild fowl have passed over the eastern coast, which is attributed to the prevalence of severe north easterly winds during the past fortnight. In se veral parts of the country the ponds have been frozen over, and the thermometer has suffered a greater depression than at any time during the snow storms prevalent in this strange winter. The daughter of an honest porter of a house in the Rue Coquenard, being engaged to a ball on the evening of the Mi- Caremea anticipated the pleasure of eclipsing her com panions by the style of her dress. At the proper hour she ascended to her humbl e garre t to adorn herself for conquest, when great was the disappointment which awaited her. The door of the room, it is true, was not broken open, nor was the furniture apparently disturbed, but the drawers had been care fully emptied of all the gay paraphernalia destined for the evening's display. No clue to the robbery was obtained till about a week afterwards, when the mother of the young girl was standing at her door, and repeating the disaster, for the ninety-ninth time, to a neighbour. On a sudden she observed a female, who had recently lived in the house, pass by, dressed in a Fart of the sto!en property. Information having been im mediately given to the police, the female was followed to her new residence and arrested, and, the remainder of the pro perty being found in her trunk, she was delivered over to the hands of justice. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, MAuca E. by E.—Arrived the Al fred, Jameson, from Singapore; Liberator, Angel, from Wa terford; Stratheden, Cheape, from the Cape of Good 110-ce; Planet, Murray, from Jamaica ; and Gladiator, Britten, from New York. FORTIMOUTH, MAtiCti 'O.—Wind E.N. E,, fresh breezes.— Are ived the Abercrombv, Dutcher, from Leith, for Sydney, having struck on the Bherlingam Shoals, Off Cowes the Juno, from Rio Janeiro. FALMOUTH, MARCII 17.—Wind E. to N. E., fresh breezes. —Arrived the Anteus, Floyd, from Tenerifte. TOPsIIAM, MARCH 19.—Arrived the TWO Sisters, from CUpetiliagen, DOVER, MARCH 19 —Ai rived the Tallyho, Cole, from the Cape of Good Hope. .lEasty, NlAncit 17.—Arrived the Harriet, Lial, Cadiz. GLOUCESTER, MARCH 19.—Arrived the Elpo, Lake, from St. Michael's. NEWPORT, NlAacit '.B.—Arrived the Echo; Cornclian, from Havatinah. CORK, NlAacti 17.—Arrived the Zorilda, Melter, London. ODESSA, FEB. 27.—The air to-day is very mild, with a strong S. wind, which ha 4 broken up the ice outside the port, and 12 ships are in sight. The Integrity, Fallon, from Tarbert to the Cl)de, foundered the 13th instant off Brandon [lead ; crew saved. _ _ The Louisa, from Liverpool to New York, was spoken with in lat. 33. long. 23., by the Spencer, arrived at Liverpool. The Enterprise, of Guernsey, bound to Vera Cruz, was spoken with in lat. 45. long. 13., by the Lavinia, arrived in the Clyde. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK Our arrivals this morning arc two French, two Ostend, and the Dutch Mails. We have also ship letters from New York, by the Hibernia, arrived at Liverpool. TIIE FUNDS. Both the City and Stock Exchange, this morning, were greatly excited by the Extraordinary Express published in the Morning Papers, stating that General Evans experienced a total defeat in the attack on Ilernani, with great loss of men, and being obliged to retreat on St. Sebastian with the re mainder of his army. All that we can say on the above im portant event is, that great doubts are entertained in the City on Lhe subject, as it appears to have come from a Carlist3uarter, and on the 13th instant the same report was published at Bordeaux of the total defeat of the army of General Evans, who was obliged to retreat to his old position. This has had the effect of reducing the Spanish Funds near three per cent. Left off at 27k, opened this morning at 241 —at present, 231 24+ ; Passive, 6+ 1; Deferred, 10 to 10- ; Portuguese, 48 49 ; Three per Cents, 311. Consols also opened heavy. Closed at 90 for the Account; done at 89i 90—at present 90 ; for Money, 891 ; Exche quer Bills, 24 26 prem. ; India Bonds, 23 25 prem. There arc few arrivals this morning, owing to the Easterly winds. The account which appears in the Morning Chronicle of this day of the total defeat of the forces under General Evans, and their retreat in disorder to San Sebastian, is regarded in the City as requiring confirmation. In addition to this tele graphic dispatch, wanting everything like dates, a curious cir cumstance has come to our knowledge, which seems in some way connected with the extraordinary express in question ; and this is, that so early as yesterday afternoon a well-known Carlist authority here was busily engaged in circulating the very same intelligence. If no confirmation should arrive in the course of the day the whole may be considered a fabrica tion. In the mean time its effects have been felt in the Fo reign Market, and Spanish, which closed on Saturday at 274 8, opened at 241 to 25, and are now at 231 24+. HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK. In the previous part of the morning the express from Paris in general was not credited ; since which the Morning Post has published a Second Edition, with the official account, as contained in the Chronicle, and which appeared in the French paper (the Charte), published in Paris at half-past 4 o'clock ; there, therefore, now can be no doubt of the disaster which has befallen General Evans and the Spanish army. Spanish Active, which was previous to the publication of the Post, at 24k +, immediately receded to 23k ; it has again lowered to 22k. The news received from Spain has spread consternation among the speculators in the Spanish Securities, which are ex pected will further recede. They have already fallen five per cent. this morning. Consols 94 for the Account ; Money, 891 90 ; Exchequer Bills, 24 26 prem. ; India Bonds, 23 25 prem. ; Portuguese, 46 ; Three per Cents,: 33/ ; Dutch Two-and-a-half per Cents, 53i. THREE' 0' CL 0 CK. Consols for th• Account, 90k. Mr. Sheridan Knowles has announced his intention to be present at the ensuing anniversary of Shakspeare's birth, and also expresses his readiness to accede to the desire of the Shakspearean Club, that he should deliver an oration at Stratford, on the writings of Shakspeare. The proceed ings, it is expected, will consist of a morning meeting at the theatre for the delivery of the oration ; and after that a pro cession to the tomb of Shakspeare, where the proposed altera tions will be pointed out and explained. On Monday there were five inquests at Hull, on children who bad, on the two days previous, been burnt to death I We trust that another Session will not be permitted to pass away without an amendment of the present absurd, cruel, and anomalous law of libel. Our contemporaries in the provinces have recently suffered severely from the attacks which have been made on the liberty of the Press. During Friday night and Saturday morning we had a heavy fall of snow, which, however, soon disappeared from the streets and roofs of the houses in the town, but in the country it is still lying to a considerable depth. We have, throughout the present week, had, though cold, yet agreeable weather; the frost has been more severe than we usually have at this ad vanced period, and on Tuesday the tanks adjoining the town were covered with ice. At Ayton, on Tuesday morning, the thermometer stood as low as 15 degrees, being within one de gree of the hardest frost we had during the winter; and at Jedburgh so intense was the frost on Monday, that the thermo meter stood at 9. It has only been known twice to be so low in forty years.—Bcrwiek .Advertiser. A person on whose veracity we can depend, informs us, that happening last week to call at a house in a western parish of this county, the " good man" informed him that he "had just signed a petition to keep people from tearing down the churches." " Tearing down the churches," exclaimed the visitor in answer, "who is intending to do that ?" " Why," said the host, " the parish-clerk, who brought the petition, told me that a great number of petitions were sent to Parliament to have the churches torn down, and this petition was to prevent it from being done ; so I signed it." On having the matter explained to him, he was much chagrined at having been duped by so absurd a story, and expressed his regret at having signed a petition without first correctly understanding its na ture.— West Briton. Sir W. Molesworth paired off with Lord F. Eger ton, and Mr. H. L. Butner with Mr. Price of Radnor, on Mr. Clay's motion fur a repeal of the Corn Laws. DRAKE, THE SW I NHL E R.—This person, who recently attempted to put into circulation a forged bill for 11,0001., for which he has since been committed for trial, has occasionally resided in Chester. About two years ago, it will be recollected a venerable personage, named Argent, who oc cupied lodgings in Eceleston-lane, swindled Mr. Pritchard, draper; Mr. Smith, and others, out of linen, suits of clothes, and other articles, and then suddenly decamped from his lodgings at a late hour of the night. The occupier of the house was disturbed by the noise %%hien the fugitive made in his descent from the window, and immediately alarmed another lodger—a Rev. Mr. Roberts, and begged him to aid in his capture. The Reverend Gentleman accordingly bustled down stairs with apparent earnestness, but the door was so difficult to unbolt and unlock, that the Reverend Gentleman failed to gain an egress until Mr. Argent had had sufficient time to get safe away. The next day the Rev. Mr. Roberts left home and did not return until after the lapse of three weeks. He has since occasionally visited Chester, remaining here only three or four months at a time, but is not now likely to revisit his former seclusion, as he turns out to be the identical Mr. Francis Drake, alias Jovett, for whose apprehension so many rewards have been offered by bankers who have suffered by his forgeries. To aid his deception, he was provided with cano nicals, and, we hear, did duty for a neighbouring clergyman a short distance from Whitchurch, and made calls not only upon clergymen in Chester, but also at the Palace of the Bishop himself. He also engaged several boys in Handbridge, and on one of his American voyages took them over with him to be employed on his estate there, which was, doubtless, the ac cumulation of his frequent crimes.— Chester Chronicle. The state of the libel law permits a man who fan cies himself injured to choose his own tribunal, however far away from where he is either known, or cared for; and not only that, but if he has entered into a controversy, he may pick and cull just what he assumed to be the cause of grie vance, leaving the real and full merits of the case totally out of the question. What an anomaly is it in the administration of that law which requires a witness to tell not only the truth, but the whole truth, to permit a prosecutor to take the opinion of a jury upon only so much as suits the purpose—not of cha racter but of triumph !—Carnarvon Herald. - - A pig, preserved in a glass-case, having four cars, eight legs, and two tails, all perfectly formed, was presented this week to the Museum. It was farrowed alive by a sow in Oct. 1802.—Bristol Gazette. O❑ Thursday a woman, elegantly attired, with her fingers adorned with rings, called at the house of a highly respectable lady in Camberwell, and inquired if there were apartments to let. On being answered in the affirmative, she said she should like to view them, and, on seeing them, she said they would suit her if she could have the use of plate and linen. The mistress of the house said she would accom modate her. On being asked for a reference, she said that there was no one nearer than Hammersmith to whom she could refer, and only having arrived in town from Brighton the previous night, it was desirable that she should take pos session that night ; tut if any doubt existed as to her respec tability the lady had better decline taking her. The mistress of the house, after consulting with a neighbour who happened to call, agreed to receive her as her lodger, and consequently she took possession the same night. On the following morning the mistress of the house went to inquire of the reference, and during her absence the lady lodger decamped with six tea-spoons and six table-spoons, together with a hand some gold vfateh that was left on the chimney-piece in the parlour. LITETtATUItE LOCICIIART'S LIFE OP ' SCOTT. Vol. I. Well, Edinburgh, 1837. Mr. Lockhart's Life of his ilittstrions relative will not, e fat as it has yet proceeded, d:sappoint the cxpecta dons that have been farmed of it. With the exception of about ten or twenty pages, which nre devoted to a minute account, nearly if not altogether superfluous, of Scott's remote oncestors, not a page but teems with interest. The dramatic form in which the work is cast greatly heightens its effect, for Mr. Lockhart does not put himself prominently forward, but stands modestly in the back-ground, leaving Sir Walter, assisted by the recollections of his own perso nal friends, to be his own biographer. The volume com mences with an " auto-biographical fragment discovered in an old cabinet at Abbotsford, and composed shortly after the publication of Marmion," in which the great novelist details the events of his early youth with that manly and unaffected modesty which distinguished him through life. From this delightful sketch, whose ably fault is that it is too short, we take the following singular anecdote, from which it will be seen how nearly the world was losing, in early childhood, the author of 'Waverly : " My mother had sent a maid to take charge of me, that I might be no inconvenience in the family. But the damsel sent on that important mission had left her heart behind her, in the keeping of some wild fellow, it is likely, who had done and said more to her than he was likely to make good. She be came extremely desirous to return to Edinburgh, and as my mother made a point of remaining where she was, she con tracted a sort of hatred at poor me, as the cause of her being detained at Sandy Knowe. This rose, I suppose, to a sort of delirious affection, for she confessed to old Alison Wilson, the housekeeper, that she had carried me up to the Craigs, meaning, under a strong temptation of the devil, to cut my throat with the scissors and bury me in the moss. She was dismissed of course, and I heard became afterwards a lunatic." Sir Walter's love of reading, particularly the old tradi_ tionary literature of his country, commenced at an early period—indeed before many boys have mastered their al phabet. The fine ballad of " Hardyknute," which if we remember rightly, may be found in " Percy's Relics," and which is now known to be of comparatively modern date, was an early and especial favourite with 'him. " The Ballad of Hardyknute," says he, " I was early master of, to the great annoyance of almost our only visiter, the worthy clergymen of the parish, Dr. Duncan, who had not patience to have a sober chat interrup ted by my shouting forth this ditty. Methinks I now see his tall, thin, emaciated figure, his legs cased in clasped gamba does, and his face of a length that would hare rivalled the Knights of La Mancha's; and hear him exclaiming, one may as well speak in the mouth of a cannon as where that boy is." ' In his fourth year, Sir Walter Scott, accompanied his father to Bath, where it was hoped that the waters might be of advantage to his lameness. Here he saw his first play—an epoch in every child's life, for what boy has not felt his heart beat at the third ringing of the promptees bell ?—of which he gives us this amusing anecdote : " The play was As You Like It, and the witchery of the whole scene is alive in my mind at this moment. I made, I believe, noise more than enough, and remember being so much scandalized at the quarrel between Orlando and his bro ther in the first scene, that I screamed out, " Ar'nt they bro. thers ?' A few weeks residence at home convinced me who had till then been an only child in the house of my grandfather, that a quarrel between brothers was a very natural event." At the age of twelve or thirteen, Scott became acquainted with the works of Ossian, Spencer, and Shakspeare. Of the tawdry colouring of the firth he soon tired, but of the two last he was never weary. " I found," says he "in my mother's dressing-room some odd volumes of Shakspeare, nor can I easily forget the rapture with which I sat up in my shirt, reading by the light of a fire in her apartment, until the bustle of the family rising from supper warned me it was time to creep back to my bed, where I was sup posed to have been safely deposited since nine o'clock.", But the work that had the greatest influence over his feelings at this period ; which first kindled his enthusiasm ; and to which we may be said in a great degree to owe the " Lay of the Last Minstrel," " Marmion," and more especially the " Border Minstrelsy," was " Percy's Relics of Ancient English Poetry." Of his first acquaintance with this fasci nating work, Sir Walter gives us the following recollec- tions : " I remember well the spot where I read these volumes for the first time. It was beneath a huge platanus tree, in the ruins of what had been intended for an old-fashioned arbour. The summer day sped onward so fast, that, notwithstanding the sharp appetite of thirteen, I forgot the hour of dinner, was sought for anxiously, and was still found entranced in my in tellectual banquet. To read and to remember was in this in stance the same thing, and henceforth I overwhelmed my schoolfellows, and all who would hearken to me, with tragical recitations from the ballads of Bishop Percy. The first time, too, I could scrape a few shillings together, which were not common occurrences with me, I bought unto myself a copy of these beloved books, nor do I believe I ever read a book half so frequently or with half the enthusiasm." When Dr. Johnson turned Percy's Relics into such merciless ridicule at the Literary Club, he little thought that at that very time they were assisting to form the minds of the first poet and the first novelist of the age—Words worth and Scott—both of whom met with them about the year 1780, and had the first impulse given to their young imagination by them. But one's first book, like one's first love, is a thing whose influence is never wholly forgotten. What a world of fancy has been called into play, and brought vividly before the world, by the Arabian Nights! To his perusal, when a boy, of Schil lers's Robbers, we owe the most enduring portion of Cole ridge's poetry ; and an acquaintance with Robinson Crusoe has set thousands wandering over the earth, who other wise might have cultivated through life the sedate organ of Stay-at-home-ativeness. But it was the antiquarian lore displayed throughout the Relics that chiefly fascinated Scott ; for though he relished, of course, the rough, cordial flavour of the old ballads, yet it was the sensibility of the antiquary, rather than of the poet, that Percy had stirred within him. For our own part we are taste less enough to laugh at all relics of antiquity, save and except when they come before us in the shape of a bottle of port wine. It has been often asserted that Scott's childhood was unmarked by any pre cocious displays of talent. Now, Mr. Lockhart's Memoir proves the direct reverse. We there find Miss Cranstoun, afterwards the Countess of Purgstall, saying of him, whi!e yet a mere boy, " upon my word, Walter Scott is going to turn out a poet, something of a cross, I think, between Burns and Gray ;" and Mrs. Cockburn, a lady every way qualified to form a sound opinion, bearing testimony to his singular precocity in these striking terms : " I last night supped at Mr. Walter Scott's. He has the most extraordinary genius of a boy I ever saw. He was read ing a poem to his mother when I went in. I made him read on ; it was the description of a shipwreck. His passion rose with the storm. He lifted his eyes and hands. There's the mast gone,' says he; crash it goes I —they will all perish 1' After his agitation, he turns to me. That is too melancholy,' says he ; I had better real you something more amusing.' I preferred a little chat, and asked his opinion of Milton anti other books he was reading, which he gave me wonderfully. One of his observations was, How strange it is that Adam, just new come into the world, should know everything—that must be the poet's fancy,' says he. But when he was told he was created perfect by God he instantly yielded. When taken to bed last night he told his aunt lie liked that lady. What lady ?' says she. ' Why, Mrs. Cockburn ; for I think she is a virtuoso, like myself.' Dear Walter,' says aunt Jenny, what is a virtuoso?' ' Don't ye know ? Why, it's one who wishes and will know everything.' Now, Sir, you will think this a very silly story. Pray whet age do you suppose this boy to be? Name it now, before I tell you. Why, twelve or fourteen. No such thing ; he is not quite six years old. He has a lame leg, for which he was a year at Bath, and has ac quired the perfect English accent, which he has not lost since he came, and he reads like a Garrick. You will allow this an uncommon exotic." We might make many more delightful extracts of this sort, but our limits warn us to a close. Enough, therefore, to say that the book abounds in characteristic detail ; is penned in a simple, manly style without the slightest undue attempt at ornament or panegyric ; and proves in every page that Walter Scott was just the frank, generous, high-minded, resolute, and unassuming individual that the world has given him credit for. Utterly devoid of all mean literary jealousies, he was ever the first to lend a helping hand to struggling merit. Though moving in the highest ranks, and himself connected with the old Scotch nobility, yet he had nothing exclusive or fastidious in his tastes or habits ; but was far less of an aristocrat than a man of the world. In private life, as in literature, he gave fair play to all parties. His nature was eminently social ; his conversation pregnant with various matter ; and he was, perhaps, the best story-teller that ever existed. In early man hood, though remarkable for his even temper, he was by no means averse to a row, for which those Oxonians and Can_ tabs, who may happen to be " non-reading men," will hold his memory in undying veneration. In the present volume he comes before us chiefly in the capacity of a letter-writer ; and it is no more than justice to say that his youthful cor respondence, if not so dazzling and pungent as Byron's, is far superior, as respects ease, sly quiet humour, and unaffect iti ed. es. In a word, Walicr Scott, whether regarded his priviite or public capacity, was a man not buss to ha loved, than reverenced. Ages have pissed since we have . had EUC'I a writer among us, and ages may roll on ere we have such another. He was the greatest genius England has known since the days of Shakspearc. Before closing this hurried and minty notice, we should not omit to state that we find in the present volume, in an anecdote repeated by Scott to Lockhart, the germ of the most striking episode in Matthew Wald. One word more. In his cursory allusions to poor Jamie Hogg, Mr. Lock hart has, we think, exhibited rather too much hauteur and cavalierness. The Shepherd is introduced in only two instances, and in both he is made to cut a most pre-eminently ridiculous figure. As if this were net enough, the biographer accuses him of being something lax in his notions of literary honesty, just as if it were possible for one so utterly unsophisticated as Hogg, to do a bookseller ! As for " modesty," with which Mr. Lock hart insinuates James had a very distant acquaintance , we can readily believe that he had more brass in his face than in his pocket. The following is one of the ancedotes to which we have alluded. It bears hard upon Hogg , nevertheless it is far too good to be omitted : ~ The next time that Hogg's business carried him to Edin burgh, he waited upon Scott, who invited him to dinner in Castle-street, in company with William Laidlaw, who her pooed also to be in town, and some other admirers of the r ustic genius. When Hogg entered the drawing-room, Mrs. Scott, being at the time in a delicate state of health, was reclining on a sofa. The Shepherd, after being presented, and m aking his best bow, forthwith took p6ssession of another sofa place d opposite to hers, and stretched himself thereupon at all his length ; for, as he said afterwards, I thought I could never do wrong to copy the lady of the house.' As his dress at this period was precisely that in which any ordinary herdsman at tends cattle to the market, and as his hands, moreover, bore most legible marks of a recent sheep-smearing, the lady o f the house did not observe with perfect equanimity the novel usage to which her chintz was exposed. The Shepherd, however, remarked nothing of all this—dined heartily and drank freely, and, by jest, anecdote, and song, afforded plentiful merrimen t to the more civilized part of the company. As the liquor ope rated, his familiarity increased and strengthened,- from Scott,' he advanced to Sherra,' and thence to Scott,' Vial' ter,' and Wattie,'—until, at supper, he fairly convulsed the whole party by addressing Mrs. Scott as ' Charlotte.' " FINE ARTS. SOCIETY OF BRITISH ARTISTS. We were admitted on Saturday to a private interview of this Exhibition, which, however, was so crowded, that it was with difficulty we were enabled to get near enough to mall of the pictures to form a correct estimate of them. Our notice must, in consequence, be brief.—No. 41. rico in the Bay of Naples, is from the pencil of Linton ; it is beautifully coloured, and is highly picturesque in its effects.—No. 199. The Prisoner of Chilton 111 taken from Lord Byron's well-known poem of that name. It is a noble production, especially as regards the boy, who, day by day, was ," withering i n the stalk away." The child is here represented in nearly ths last stage of pining atrophy ; and the expression of 114 emaciated countenance is such as it is impossible to witnesss without emotion. Mr. Hurlstone is the painter of this striking picture, which is unquestionably the greatest triumph he has yet achieved. No. 337, a Girl of Frar cati offering Flowers, is by; Miss Weller. This painting is finished with remarkable care and attention to propriety in all its details. The attitude in particular of the femal° who is offering her flowers, is full of ease and grace ; and her upraised hands is as delicious a bit of colouring, as glowing, spirited, yet perfectly in keeping with nature, as is to be met with in the whole exhibition. The countenance of the boy is equally impressive —and, from the life-like air,.is evidently no creation of the fancy, but a portrait from some Italian original. But the great charm of this painting is the air of repose that pervades it. It is as se rene and peaceful as a midsummer noon, when the light clouds hang poised in air, and every breeze is lulled. Isle. 132.—The Valley of Mexico does credit to the artist, Mr. Egerton. It is a most picturesque landscape, replete wit' animation; and of a cheerful complexion. 334. Portrait Of 6 Nettunese, is another picture by Miss Weller, and shows si much promise as her Girl of Frascati. The,figure pf the fail Maid of Nettuno teems with unstudied grace. Nom. On the Coast near Margate by Clint, in addition t° its other merits, has this singular one, of giving to a heavy, monotonous reach of brown sea-sand, quite a cheerful, and even picturesque, aspect—and this without verging on the . extravagant. No. 7.—Boys of Serra Genes co is sin' rited, but parts of it appear to us to be slurred over in h a ste. 34.—Portrait of Edwin Forrest is not so good a likeness a 5 some that we have seen in the shop-windows. It is, hovvever, ably coloured. No. 65. A Conference in the Shades, re. presents Napoleon, Byron, and Scott conversing together. Scott's countenance is characteristic enough ; but that Of Byron is far too theatrical ; and as for Napoleon, he has mouth whose expression is the very reverse of that attrk buted to it. Mr. Davis, the artist, can, we are sure, pain t better than this, as the shrewd sagacity of Scott's countenaec ° betokens. 283, Study of an Old Favourite, is a c lever picture from the pencil of C. Josi. 413, A Venetian Girl going to Mass, is a quiet, unaffected bit of colouring, Yet by no means deficient in vigor. There are many other abi r pictures in this exhibition, which, on the whole, is of more than average merit ; but we are pressed for space, and mol l defer our notice of them to some more leisure day. A horse belonging to a farmer at Bradfield, St' Clair, Suffolk, was lately choked by the servant passing do/ ill his throat a whole egg, which stuck in the gullet. It is a cony mon practice with servants to treat horses thus, with the view of producing a glossy coat. Saturday a gentleman left his horse with an u rchio in Charlotte-street, Bloomsbury, when he stripped it of di. bridle and saddle, and left the animal wandering about We street until it was traced by the owner. The thief was sub' sequently taken into custody, and was remanded at Hatton' garden police-office. On Saturday sennight, a human skeleton vr 4s found in a sort of grave in a field near Abergavenny, wh,„eff, some men were digging for stones to repair the road. ."'" bones were surrounded with stones, and a large flat stone, about five feet long, covering them ; they lay exposed for the day, and were then buried.—Shrewsbury Chronicle. At a late trial at Agen (Lot -en-Garonne) a worn of named Ann Capoulenn was found guilty of stealing a seek °, wheat in an inhabited house, and was condemned to two Yea r t imprisonment. It appeared that one of the jurymen not 1) 0 ;, able to write requested a brother juryman to write on bis 1 34 letin the same verdict he wrote on his own. The sccon:', juryman complied without asking the individual who made P g request whether he wished to record a verdict of " Guilty' 0_ " Not Guilty." The woman having been found G uilt y majority of only one, her Counsel, in consequence of the cis, cumstance above stated, protested against the verdict, and mended a new trial. The panic respecting the saving banks is not O n ; fined to Paris. At Lisle a run upon the saving bank in ° b a c town had commenced, and was proceeding at the date of latest accounts. The sums drawn from the metropolitan still bank within the last three weeks exceeded by 1,0:25, 00 ?.. (41,0001.) the deposits made in the same period. This el o r g cumstance is attributed in a great measure to the pressure.re distress on the lower classes, and unfortunately that pres su th e does not appear to approach its termination. From Lyn: ls tor . accounts received in Paris were still of a most melancholy e" ractcr ; but it is not the silk trade only that suffers. ~10 woollen manufacture of France is said not to have been wr'ta"cto 40 years in so deplorable a state as at present. These the would, it was believed, influence the impending votes 0, stet Chamber on the grants for the Royal family and for th e sec police.—French Paper. ale On Saturday morning, about eight o'clock, A fe ,. ril gr• of rather shabby appearance knocked at the door oced Elgin, in Adam-street West, and, on being admitted , Vi l ' s st with the most perfect nonchalance into the parlour, anyttoti down on a chair. She was then questioned as to the " s pa of her business, when she replied that she felt very ill' was unable to walk back to her home in the country. immediately went out to procure a cab, in order that h th e might be taken to the workhouse, and on his return githad vehicle, found, to his great surprise, that the stranger du e• forsaken the chair and was lying on the carpet, where, tbto ins his (Mr. E.'s) temporary absence, she had given bi r t t he a fine female child. The parent and her infant are still triso said dwelling, and arc properly attended to by the P" authorities. . t l it a In the early part of the week, the bills in 0 , 0 1 neighbourhood were thickly covered with snow, and at pr remain so. Sharp frosts have characterised the nights. t bo terday the sun shone out resplendently, and at mid-dil a. ..oe balmy air bespoke the approach of a more genial seas Kendal Mercury. Of The trial of Hearsum v. Cook, for the re coVer :etea five hundred pounds penalty for bribery, which was,„ e „, s Pod' o, to come to trial at the next assizes at Bury St. Ed h av ing has been postponed, in consequence of the defendant . 0 be put in a plea in bar, which contains matters requiring proved previous to trial.—Suffolk Chronicle. J . A horse belonging to Mr. Bullock, farmer , of of field St. Cl a r e , di e d o n Sunday week, from the effee; l l; o its flammation, produced by thrusting unbroken eggs '';'„, t egg throat for the purpose of producing a sleek coat.Tho.°) s on given was stepped at the entrance of the stomach lactic° natural obstruction, and could not be removed. The P hou gh of giving eggs to horses for the purposes above stated, eolith. attended with much danger, is, notwithstanding, very 6 —Su f folk Chronicle. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1637.