The Sun. — London, England, 1852-02-06 00:00:00

OYAL MARIONETTE THEATRE, ADELAIDE-STREET, WEST STRAND. Continuous Novelties—Continuous Success—Continuous Applause— and Overflowing Audiences. Great Hit of the Bottle Imp. The performances THIS EVENING and during the week will commence with a new GRATUL.A.TORY ADDRESS, written and delivered by Mr. Albany Brown. After which, a new scene of Apropos, entitled the MAN AGER'S ROO5l, with Signor Bari Tone's new Soena, The French Commenta tor on Shakspere. The grand romaantio Spectacle of THZ BOTTLE IMP. To be followed by a new Neapolitan grotesque Divertissement, entitled AELECHINO FORTUNATO, with the new Italian Mimes. T. cowhide with the Musical Zurlescpse of BOMBASTLS FU -11,1080. A Morning juvenile Perfbrmance To-morrow, at Three o'clock. Doors open at Half-past Two. Doors open at ilalf-past Seven, and commence at Eight o'clock. Private Boxes, 11. ls.; Balcony3B.; Lower Stalls, is. ; Balcony, is.; Amphitheatre, ls. Private Boxes and Stalls may be obtained at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; Mr. Sam's Royal Library, St. James's-street t Mr. C. 011ivier, New Bond-street; at all the prin. sipal libraries; and at the Box-office of the Theatre, Adelaide street, West Strand. THEATRETHIS ROYAL, DRURY- LAVE. EVENING, TIIB BELLE STRATAGEM. Dorricoart,' Mr. Anderson ; Slr George Touchwood, Mr. Cooper; Hardy, Mr. Tilbury; Fl atter, Mr. F. Vining ; Leticia Harding, Miss Fitzpatrick. After which the new Parisian Billet-Pantomime, entitled VERT VERT ; or, The Pet Parrot Characters by mews. W. H. Payne, H. Marshall, Chapin°, J. Marshall, and H. Payne; Madlles. Plun kett, De La Vecehi. Louise, and Annette ; 311 sses H oney, Browne, Coveney, and Falser. Box-office open daily from 10 to 4. PRICES OF ADMISSION. The former scale of prices has been revised, and a rate of admission adopted suitable to the convenience of all classes of society: Dr.es Circle Upper Boxes Pit.. • • Amphitheatre Gallery .. 2s. 6d. ild.I.F P 11.183. Dress Circle Upper Boxes Pit Amphitheatre Gallery Os. 6d. Private Box es , £ 3 35., £2 25., and Al 1 ls. 6d. Orchestra Stalls, Ss Stage Manager, Mr. J. M. MORTON. Director of Spectacle, Mr. W. WEST. The whole under the management of Mr. BUNN, LESSEE. .. 2s. .. Is. Gd. TIIRATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. Lam, 4tr. B. Webster ; Directress, Madame Celeste. 'Enormous success of the Yankee Comedian, Mr. Josh Silsbee. EV.r.I3T(NG, win be performed the Farce of THE MOTHER AND CHILD ARE DOING WELL. Lieutenant O'Scupper, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Mr. Felix Fluffy, Mr. Wright ; Maxwell, Mr. Worrell ; Emily, Misa Zmma Harding. To be followed by a characteristic sketch, called THE YANKEE PEDLAR; or, Old Times in Virginia. Hiram Dodge, Mr. Silsbee ; Morland, Mr. Worrell ; Miss Nancy Bantam, Miss Emma Harding. After Which MY PRECIOUS BETSY Mr. Bobtail, Mr. Wright. To conclude with a new and original Christmas Tale, called LIT TLE RED RIDING ROOD. Wolfram, Baron of Burliburg (bur named the Wolf of Biberich), Mr. Paul Bedford; Scraggenheim, Ntr. Butler; Trudchen (commonly called Little Red Biding flood), Miss Kathleen Fitz will lam. rite.A.Tltea, , Under the Managernertat Mr. C. Kean TO-MORROW Will be performed TO PARENTS and GUARDIANS, in which Messrs. Keeley, A. Wigan, Meadows, Cooke, Mrs. Keeley, Miss Mary Keeley, and Mrs. Wigan will perform. After which, the Operetta of the SWISS COTTAGE (as acted at Windsor Castle by Royal Command), in which Mr. and Mrs. Keeley and Mr. A. Wigan will appear. With a new grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN BILLY TAYLOR ; or, The Flying Dutchman and the King of Ra ritongo. Harlequin, Mr. Cormack ; Clown, Mr. Fleamore; Panta loon, Mr. Paulo; and Columbine, Miss Carlotta Leclercq. taJYAL LaCtUAI Under the Management of Madame Vestris. THIS EVENING, Wilt be performed THE GAME OF SPECULATION. Principal characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, F. Matthews, It. Roxby, B. Baker ; Mrs. C. Morn, and Miss M. Oliver. To conclude with A new and original Fairy Extravaganza, by J. R. Manche, Esq., entitled THE PRINCE OF HAPPY LAND ; or, The Fawn in the Forest. Characters by Madame Vestris, Miss St. George, Miss Lanza, Miss Martindale, Miss Grove, Miss Ellis, Miss Rosina Wright, Messrs. F. Matthews, B. Baker, Suter, Horncastle, Butler, and Vernon_ ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. ).rifts and Zlanauer Mr. W. Farrel. rms Evkwuro, Will be perfbrmed A CONSPIRATOR IN SPITE OF HIMSELF Mr. Inigo Inkhorn, 3I r. Farren ; Tan, Mr. Compton ; Hastings, Mr. W. Farren, jun., Bertha, Miss L. Howard; Margaret, Mrs Bartlett. After which AN ORGANIC AFFECTION. —.... .....___ _. _ To conclude with RED RUFUS ; or, Harlequin Fact, Fiction, and Fancy. Red Rufus, Mr. Shalders ; Clown, Mr. Edwards; Harlequin, Mr. Forrest; Pantaloon, Mr. Tanner; Columbine, Miss Lees. PUNCH'S PLAYHOUSE AND STRAND THEATRE. Lamp, Mr. W. R. COPELAND, Liverpool. The Warmest Theatre in London. CU4 it. 1.1 LNG. Will be performed THE TWELVE LABOURS OF HERCULES. After which, The JUVENILE PARTY. To be followed by a new Chinese burlesque, called THE MANDA NM'S DAUGHTER, or, Willow Pattern Plate. Characters by Messrs. J. Reeve, Rogers, Romer, Attwood, Hudspeth ; Mesdames Marshall, Sanders, Belt, Eglinton, and Maskell. To conclude with MY Sl3 TER FROM INDIA. The prices 01 admission are arranged as loilow :—Orchestra stay s, 4e; homes (first circle), 3s. • (second circle), 28. ; Pit, 13. IkOrq to be opened at ilalf-Past Six, and the periormancvs to commence at Seven precisely. A second price will be taken to the Boxes only at Nine o'clock —drat Circle, 21.; seoond circle, Is. Private Moses rwte Guinea and a Half each. Stage Manager. Mr. E. Stirling. A&T.LEY%-, Kul AL AMPHITB.EATIik.;. e o 2 4 , 3 r M.aj-,2ty and his Royal Highnesi P 4-• r kln.rt Proprietor and Manager, Mr. W. Batty. The 11 ,,, 41, fL11(1 D)pll lar Theatre to ',odor. Under Mr. Batty beg 4 to Inrorat his patrons that he has entered into an engagemmt with M ,ns. FBAS*I'Z BEN:-00, the great Rope Dancer, (rein Vienne, wilco wf!l IrAisr his , ppearauce every evening. Grand Jtiv,nileNight, The Performances will commence With the rn - st ropti ar (mt. E uestrian Pantomime in Landon, entitled MR. and M US. BRIGGS ; or, I uncles Festival—Mirth, Wit, and Jollity. HAVenulii, Mr. Harvey ; Columbine, Mis. Avery ; Pantaloon, Mr Ruckman; Clown, Arthur Nelson, who will in the Coarse of each evening play number of favourite airs on the Zack Harmonicon. With f 4 atty's Inimitable Scenes of the Arena, combining talent of the highest or er, both Native and Foreign. To conclude with a Magnificent Spectacle, entitled BLUE BEA RD ; or, Female Cariosity, in which will be introduced a pair of highly-trained Elephants, male and female, allowed to be the most docile pair ever brought into Europe. Children under 10, half-price. Mi:Aets to be had at the Box-office from Eleven till Four daily. Stage Manager, Mr. T. Thompncrt. MEETING OF PARLIAMENT THE THIRD EDITION OF "THE SUN" will be found highly interesting during the present extraordinary Session of Parliament. The THIRD EDITION will contain the DEBATES of the SAME EVENING up to the HOUR of POST ; also, SPORTING of every description, with TATTERSALL'S on Monday and Ti:u n d ay Evenings in time for Post ; with the GAZETTES of Tuesday and Friday, contain ing Army and Navy Promotions, Bankrupts, &c., and ALL NEWS arriving in London up to the Hour of Post. EXPRESS EDITIONS ON ALL IMPORTANT OCCASIONS. Oriers received by all News-agents, and at the 112, Strand. Sun- Office, Sun Office, 112, Strand. FEBRIITAUY7 1852. SIGH WATER AT LONDON* BRIDGE. Tali DAY --Moll2lllg 15 TEdn• alter 2 I Evening 36 min after 2 T ~.mozzow-I,lorrim4 58 min. after 2 E ven i nw 20 inn arter 3 IJAILY TABLE. State of the Wind and Weather at each of the fallowing places at Nine o'clock yesterday morning......Th, st g ato lls are arranged in order of latitude. PuratoUTH— Wind S. W., s trong breeze—rain. Fools—Wind W. h a rd wind—overcast. BRIGHTON— Wind W., hard strong breeze—overcast. Hawria43B Wind W.S.W., strong breeze—overcast. B°uTTIA3IPT°s Wind S., calm—overcast. Foxalrarose—Wind S. W., strong breeze—overcast. TUNBitiDoifr.-Wind s. hard wind—ovecast. GREEN w ICll—Wind S.W., strong breeze —overcast. wxwnorc—Wind W., strong breeze—overcast . cloud S„ W. , h ar d wind---partially cloudy. Col-A- 21 EsTEa — N‘ ind S.W , hard wind — ov ercast. Casasamoz-- Wind gentle breeze—overc ast. Y kr:MOUTH—Wind W.:calm—cloudy. Br E3ll2loll.3.ll—wind W., strong breeze—overcas t. The returns from the following places indicate the state of the wind and weather on Wednesday morning; at nine o'clock :-- L mnivr eg—Wind S.W., hard wind—heavy rain. c" Low — Wind hard wind —rain. Pi.tmotrrx—Oo Inc! W., hard wind —overcast. eOO.l.lK wind S. W., strong breeze—scud, rain. &goon—Wind W., fresh breeze—rain. SwrzunoN—Wind S. W., fresh breeze —overcast. Larearrox—Wind S. W., str , ng breeze —rain. Lanoasref-.,Wind S.W.. strong breeze —heavy rain. WIE-ray—Wind S., strong breeze—rain. DAP:LINGTON— Wind S., strong breeze—rain. Satp_.Wind S.W.. strong breeze—rain. Sum - rocK—Wind N. W., strong breeze—rain. THE WEATHER.-61Thr OFFICE, N . - EBRUART 6. 7 aaltAc.mialr,E, .:./f THE Slung, 51—highest Elliot; neon yesterday. 4 .. 2 —lO WeSt raY3 morning' and daring the night. "--4h13 day, at noon. BARONET 2E, 29.88. IYETD sur.shiny weather, with occasional showers KolOWLriaGr or THE ANCIENTS.--We be' i ev' that the ancients poscess 2 d the krowlt.dge of the mariner's comwhich pass, air-baloons. and l ocomotive vessels; for the arrow by Abaris, the Scythian, was enabled to find his way through unknown countries was the magnetic needle. The self-moving ships menti oned in the Ouyssey were vessels furnished with sillswindm that put in motion cars placed at the ship's side, hirballoon of the moderns is identified with the invention of Dredalus; and this the more easily, because he bade hls son IFartis not to fly either too high or too low, for fear of dissolving the 4 , Wax ,' by which the ar tificial wings were united to his b 0 0... y But the " wax" was probably mentioned by the first narrator of the story, who did not know the procesi t!ll in ti , 3 of Joining pipes, made in the case of Daedalus to .imitate the joi n t s of wings, hy means of luting, or a compositiop. f °. `..Y, Which if too dry Or too raoi,st looses cqually its tenacity, THEATRE ROYAL. HAYMARKET. • B Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. nut , EvENING, Will be performed an entirely new comic Opera, entitled AMINTA THE COQUETTE. Don Tenorlo, Mr. Weiss ; Fernandez, Mr. W. Harrison ; Garcias, Mr. H. Corn ; Aminta, Miss Louisa Pyne. To be followed by a DUEL IN THE DARK, in which Mr. Buck- Stone and Mrs. Fitzwilliam will appear. To conclude with a Fairy Burlesque, called THE PRINCESS RA. DIANE AND THE STORY OF MAYFLOWER. Characters by Messrs. Buckstone, H. Bedford, J. Bland, Caulfield, Clark, Plimmeri, Mrs. Fitzwilliam, Mrs. Buckingham, and Miss Collins. TO CORRESPONDENTS No communication can be attended to unless authen ticated by the name and address of the writer. Rejected communications cannot bct returned. ?... ~t i_.: ....,.... . f; , _ -,J,• It, 44, • , c,l . •• tt.. ( kr ;.... ,V, , 44 " t7 l, .:, 4 ';'' • .' A I> -- ' 1 t . . ,/‘) ,--5.;14, _ ......ii,,... I /) " ' I: -oftita , _....' ... f x... 4 netitina ;Am LONDON. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 6, 1852. Everything the country is likely to learn in re ference to the dismissal of Lord PALMERSTON has now been brought under the consideration of Parlia ment. Anxious to pronounce no precipitate opinion upon a matter of such extraordinary importance, we have refrained from expressing our sentiments upon the subject until the House of Commons had been placed in possession of all the more remarkable facts relating to it, through the medium of the various Ministerial explanations. Such is actually now the case; and we are, therefore, enabled to comment upon the whole of the great question at issue after having weighed it in the balance of a most scrupulous and painful deliberation. It was manifest, we conceive, throughout the principal part of the discussions of Tuesday that the chief orators upon the occasion spoke to the fullest extent of their ability, or at any rate with all the force of rhetoric which was compatible with the difficulties of their investigation. The PRIME MINISTER, more especially, has seldom dis played his skill as a debater to more conspicuous ad vantage than upon this first night of the session, when he had to account to the people of England, through the medium of their representatives, for the most rash and unpopular among all the many rash and un popular acts of his Administration. His position on rising to address the House was, it must be acknow ledged, one of almost bewildering embarrassment. He had to argue down, if possible, a feeling of extended and profound indignation. He had to specify the reasons which induced him to expel from the Cabinet , with unexampled abruptness, the very statesman who, of all his colleagues, enjoyed, in the largest extent, the confidence of the population. Aware that such were the duties and such the responsibilities devolving upon him under these peculiar circumstances, it was but natural to observe the PREMIER concentrating upon his speech of the 3d instant all those rhetorical energies which had so often before proved effective in the discomfiture of his political adversaries. There was, nevertheless, appa rent in the very elaboration of Lord JOHN RussELL's address, a consciousness on his own part of the in efficacy and insufficiency of the statement he had to submit to the Legislature, otherwise we should most assuredly have had from him a more homely and a more succinct explanation, and not an explanation branching off into a multiplicity of evasive and epi grammatic allusions to the different states of Christen dom, sprinkled with clap-trap couplets from the sen timental verse of \VALLEE, and closed with such a highly exaggerated and exceedingly hyperbolical peroration. It was not thus that Lord PALMERSTON responded to the imputations cast upon his character as an administrator, by the leader of her MAJESTY'S Government. From first to last his speech was un impassioned and argumentative. Beginning with the earliest intimation of the estrangement between himself and the PRIME MINISTER, and concluding with the resignation of his seals of office as Foreign Secretary, Lord PALMERSTON explained with the utmost lucidity, both of expression and of arrange ment, the various stages of the misunderstanding which ultimately led to his dismissal—his sudden and (in the manner of it) ignominious dismissal—from the Cabinet of his SOVEREIGN. The country is by this rime, therefore, acquainted with all the details it is ever likely to obtain in referenee to these remarkable and, until now, inexplicable transactions. . . • Inexplicable, it must be added, they would still con tinue to be, but that it is impossible not to recognise a vast deal more than is apparent on the surface either of Lord JoHN RUSSELL'S elaborate statement, or of the plain-spoken and straightforward explanation of Lord PALMERSTON, or, in fact, of the whole sub stance of last Tuesday evening's discussion. Ostensibly, Lord PALMERSTON was dismissed from the Cabinet, because of the opinions expressed by him on the 3d of December, in a conversation with Count WALawsxr, the French Ambassador. In reality, those opinions were only seized upon as a pretext for the Noble Lord's removal from the Go vernment. That removal, we are persuaded, had been resolved upon not fur a week, or a month, or a year, but for four years prior to his conversation with the French Ambassador. Sentiments of displeasure were entertained towards him as far back as 1847, and the only anxiety ever since has been to rid the Ministry of one whose policy bad proved inconvenient (or shall we say offensive ?), as the policy, not of a Itussian Minister, or of an Austrian Minister, or of a Portuguese Minister, but of an English Mi nister. But then, as Sir ROBER T PEEL had said so truly and so memorably, we were and are all " proud of him." There was the difficulty. As the popular favourite, It might be hazardous to dismiss Lord PALMERSTON without some show of reason from the ranks of the Government. Still dismissed from office he must and should be—that was resolved upon, and resolved upon too by an authority that brooks no opposition. It was impossible to tolerate an administrator who showed himself so unaccountably averse to uphold the compact of Germanic alliances and the privileges of Germanic nepotism. The only thing, therefore, was to discover some plea, to seize upon the very earliest opportunity. During the whole of the period intimated we are satis fied that Lord PALMERSTON has remained under the ban of that cherished displeasure, and that he has now suffered the consequences of one falling under an implacable resentment. The late Foreign Secretary has, in all this, to his own detri ment, sounded the depths of the most enigmatical of all characters— Odia in longumjaciens gum reconderet, auctaque promeret. The pretext fur his removal from the Cabinet was at length discovered, and that pre text was—his conversation with the French Ambas sador. Now, as affording a reason f.or a step so ex traordinary as the overthrow of a great statesman such as the late Foreign Secretary, no plea could be more shallow, and, upon broad coostituional princi ples, we even add, more preposterous. True, it had been resolved upon, as Lord JOHN RUSSELL re marked, by the members of the Administration col lectively on the occasion of one of the Cabinet Councils, that the Government of this country should, in regard to the internal affairs of France, altogether abstain from interference. But, then, the opinions , expressed by L or d P ALMERSTON to Count WALEWSRI could by no possibility b e cons t rue d i nto anyt hi ng at served o n T uesday evening sal appro ac hi ng to interference - for, as the former ob ihe Hou se of when addressing himself to Commons, ," there is in diplomatic in tercourse a well-known and perfectly understood dis tinction between c onversations official, by which Go vernments are bound, and d which represent the an opinions of Governm ents, those a unofficial e conver sations, by which G overnments i n which the speakers d o not expri.sae not bound, and the opinion of Governments, but the opinions they ma themselves t Lord PALmEasToN expressed in the course of for the moment entertain." Such an oprnion' power of expressing an opinion every hthisaptrivate conversation with the French Ambassador, ar has been hitherto - allowed, Foreignand otherwise the po3ition must have resolved itself into idiotic and ridiculow. Nay, the one both Secretary y disclosures the puloasdsiebilibtyy Lofordalrl ALd:.elnEliiaSlTONthasth, in beyond the this opinion to Count WALawsxr, he Was so far from exceeding the prerogatives granted to him by his ministerial office, and so far, a l so, from r unn i ng counter to the v i ews en tertained upon the matter iu question by the rest of the members of the Administration, that upon the same day and to the same individual, one or other of her MAJESTY'S ad visers—not immediltely conn , cted with the Fe reign Department—bad declared themselves almost in the same langu9ge as that employed by Viscount PALMERSTON. His O wn uceounf of thi s rather un fortunate coincidence for th e PRIME MINISTER i s al t toob"l t u Oing and t oo unanswerable not nperusal and reperusal, quo t g b e e t h e entitledr quo tatioa and req"tati"' - Now I expreued thin opinion to which the Noble Lord has referred to the French Ambassador on the 31 of December ; but," said Lord PALMERSTON, " was I the only member of the Cabinet who did thus express an opinion on passing events ?—(Hear, hear.) lam informed that on the evening of that very day, and under the same roof as I expressed my opinion, the Noble Lord at the head of the Government, in conversation with the same Ambassador, expressed his opinion.—(Hear, and laughter.) I cannot tell what that opinion was, but from what has just now fallen from the Noble Lord this evening, it may be assumed that that opinion was not very different even from the reported opinion which I am supposed to have expressed.—(Cheers.) Was that all ? On the Friday, and in the Noble Lord's own house, I have been informed that the French Ambassador met the Noble Lord the President of the Council and the Chancellor of the Exchequer.—(Loud cries of ' Hear.') The Noble Lord again expressed an opinion—(Hear, hear)—and the President of the Council and the Chancellor of the Exchequer also expressed a❑ opinion—(Cheers and laughter) —and be it remembered, that the charge was not the nature of the opinion, for the Noble Lord distinctly told me, You mistake the question be tween us ; it is not whether the President was justi fied or not, but whether you were justified in expres sing an opinion on the matter at all.'—(Hear, hear.) I believe that the Noble Lord the Secretary of State for the Colonies did also in those few days express an opinion on those events, and I have been informed also that the then Vice-President of the Board of Trade, and now the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, also expressed his opinion.—(Cheers and laughter.) Then it follows," said the Noble Lord, with a delightful ap preciation of the reductio ad absurdum, " that every member of the Cabinet, whatever his political avo cations may have been—however much his attention may have been devoted to other matters—is at liberty to express an opinion on passing events abroad, but the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, whose peculiar duty it is to watch those events, who is unfit for his office if he has not an opinion on them, is the only man not permitted to express an opinion—(Hear and laughter)—and when a Foreign Minister comes and tells him that he has news, he is to remain silent, like a speech less dolt, or the mute of some Eastern Pasha.--(Cheers and laughter.)" The deduction is in every respect too extravagant to admit of one moment's doubt as to the triumphant and undeniable completeness —as far as it goes—of Lord PALMEES TON'S explanation. As far as it goes, we repeat, be cause we cannot believe for an instant that the debate of Tuesday evening comprises the whole of the motives and the reasons for his dismissal which might, but for insurmountable ob stacles in the way of official etiquette, have been re vealed. The defence put forward upon that occasion by the late Foreign Secretary himself, we believe in our hearts to have been crippled, and abbreviated, and restricted within very narrow limits by the Noble Lord's known allegiance to the first principle incul cated by our national Constitution. This, we doubt not, will be long remembered to his honour, not only by his fellow-citizens, but in like manner also by his SOVEREIGN : and though we regard him as culpable, as glaringly culpable, in one part of those transactions —as culpable in forgetting - the dignity of his office and in forgetting the dignity also of his own elevated re putation in statesmanship—we mean, by not having at once sent in his resignation on the 14th of December, immediately on ,the receipt of the peremptory and overbearing letter addressed to him by Lord Jouls RUSSELL—we feel assured that the popular sympathies must still remain on the side of Lord PALMERSTON, a statesman "more sinned against than sinning," and one who, by a splendid career of forty years' duration, has earned for himself the glory of being, to England, among the number of her most chivalrous and patriotic Admi nistrators. "We trust that the questions at issue between the magistrates and coroners in some ;few districts may be speedily set at rest, and that if the existing law be not sufficient for that purpose, an adequate legislative remedy may be promptly applied. Great inconve nience has occasionally been sustained through the absurd jealousy entertained by some justices, which has led them to cast impediments in the way of the due discharge of the constitutional functions of officers of at least equal jurisdiction with them selves. It is, indeed, difficult to conceive why persona, whose sole object should ba the promo tion of the ends of justice, should thus wantonly and unnecessarily interfere with the proceedings of (we will not say a rival, but) a co•ordinate authority, We, however, fled that there has beer, and still is, in some districts, such improper interference, and that it has recently been carried much further than at any former period. I: therefore becomes our d u ty to examine how far the obstructive and vexatious conduct of the magistrates is jus tified by law, and to point out the possible con sequences of such i mpo li t i c conduct on the part of these justices, and in so doing we are greatly assisted by a very able pamphlet,* in which the points in dis pute are clearly and distinctly explained, and convincing arguments brought forward in favour of the writer's views. Indeed, we have but one fault to find with Mr. Hterome's exceedingly temperate and admirable letter, viz., that he does not press the matter by any means so far as he legitimately might on be half of himself and his brother coroners throughout the United Kingdom. He is, however, manifestly desirous of having the vexata riumstio amicably ar ranged; he has therefore avoided pressing any argu ment beyond the point at which it must command the assent of all unprejudiced persons. 'We may here, for the information of those who are not acquainted with the case, briefly explain the nature of the controversy. Some years since a magistrate, for what reasons we shall not attempt to explain (it is not Parliamentary to impute motives). deemed it expedient to lend no assistance to the coroner, who was at that very time holding his inquisition on the body of a person supposed to have met his death by unfair means. The alleged murderer was com mitted for trial, and when required to be brought before the coroner and the jury impannelled to decide on the means by which the deceased met his death, the answer was that the prisoner was in Newgate, awaiting his trial. The final committal was an un fortunate contre temps. The sessions at the Central Criminal Court had already commenced, and Lord CRANWORTH (then Baron ROLFE), to whom an appli cation had been preferred for a habeas corpus to bring up the prisoner before the coroner's jury, considered that, " although they had a right to have the prisoner before them, he had no power to order the removal of a prisoner who was liable to be tried any day." There, however, the prisoner had been finally committed foi trial, and the criminal sessions were actually going on. At Manchester, however, the Justice usually offi ciating in the Borough Court (Mr. Mamma) has as sumed an aspect of greater hostility to the coroneet• authority. Others have, by refusing to delay the final committal, avoided granting the requisite facilities to coroners, but it was reserved for Mr. MituDe to take a step in advance, and (we believe for the first time) to issue an order to the police not to bring before the coroner an y persons in their custody suspected or charged with felonious homicide. This is " taking the bull by the horns" with a vengeance, and forcing on the conflict of authority so greatly to be deprecated. The magistrate chooses to add the legislative to the executive and judicial functions, and ex mere motu to supersede one of our most ancient offices—an office, too, be it remembered, not appointed to by the Crown. The coroner is, indeed, the only magistrate who is popularly elected —the representative of a l arge eon stitueney—and he does not hold his office merely during pleasure, but dam se tene geserit; or, in other words, he is irremovable, except in case of incapa city, exto r ti on, neg l ect, or misbehaviour. There are many important duties annexed to the offic e to winch we need not at present allude ; such as the inquiries ieto " fires," " treasure trove," &c., and also the execution of writs when the sheriff is a party to the suit ; and the returning of the jury panel, if the sheriff be in any way interested in the cause, or related to plaintiff or defendant. The prin cipal duty, however, is the holding of inquiries "super visum corporis" as to the cause of the death of any person, respecting which any reasonable doubt • " Letter from the Coroner to the Council of the Bo rough of Manchester on the subject of t h e R eport o f t h e Watch Committee IQ relation to Cororierif ,Laquots." THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. cnug :--" L y i ng lated. It is rep t r We have recei ve d th e Paris journals of y es t er d ay. T o l t e s c /V o i n o t n i z n te u u e r to c o b n e t arni al e v t o h i e e n f t o ty l o c w i r i pretended that the Government has the intention to touch public establishments, to seize on assurance offices, and to impose taxes on income and stock. Such rumours, as well as many others of a like character, are entirely destitute of foundation." A decree from the PRESIDENT of the Republic de clares that, when it becomes necessary to nominate one or more members of the Council of State to form part of a commission or committee, or to take any part in the execution of a law, such nomination is to be made directly by a decree of the PRESIDENT of the Republic. By a decree of February 3, M. BARBAROUX, Councillor of State, is nominated member of the com mittee of surveillance of the colonial banks. M. MACDONALD, Duke de Tarente, comes forward as a candidate in the Loiret, for the districts of Glen and Montargis. M DC MoNTALEMBERT who has definitively broken with the PRESIDENT, has announced his intention of starting fur the Doubs. Generals C.Avaignac, Changarnier, de Lamori ciere, Bedeau, L,-&o, Col. Charrai, and M. M. Leon Faucher and Baze are to be brought forward for , Paris. The Gazette des Tribunaux says—" It is by mis take that several journals h ave announce d that M . D UPI N has caused himself to be inscribed on the lists of the Order of Advocates." __- - The prefect of the Gironde has issued a notice, de claring that the state of tranquillity which the de partment has enjoyed for some weeks past permits his modifying the decree of his predecessor, relative to closing cafés at an ear l y h our . F o r o'clock t o r or di nary d ays , an d and fete days, a s b e i ng most in conformity with the habit s o f th e popu l at i on . the o'clock loc winekfuture, for he e shops fixe s ten and Sundays The installation of M. 11 .. , BLANGL E as Procureur- General of the Court of Cassation, in the room of M. DUPIN, took place yesterday. The judges and avocats-gineraux wore their red robes. The custo mary oath was administered to M. DELINGLE by the First President, M. PORTALS. M. DELANGLE then took possession of his seat, the avocats-generaux standing uncovered. He delivered a brief speech, in the course of which he declared " that Prince LOUIS NAPOLEON had saved society, and that the duty of men of order, and especially of magistrates, was to second him." l‘f• Porturas briefly replied, and the ceremony terminated. The Minister of War has given notice, in the public journals, that the full number of invitations for the ball which he is to give on the 11th inst., hiving been attained, no further applications can be at tended to. It is stated, says the Afoniteur Parisien, that Ge neral CAVAIGNAC i 3 employing his leisure time in writing his memoirs. This historical work, to which the position of the writer in so many great events gives a great interest, is to be published by one of the principal booksellers of Germany. The Bourse was remarkably fi rm , with not much bu siness doing, except in Railway shares. The Five per Cents. opened at 1031. 15c., fell to 1031. 10c., rose sub sequently to 1031. 30c,, and closed at 103 E 25c. for the ,nd of the month; the Three per Cents. closed at 65 F. ' loc.• O r l eans Railroad Shares, 1,092 f. 50c.; Bogen , 6301. ; Havre, 2651.; Great Northern, 5681. 75c.; Avig aun, 2221. 50c. ; Vierzon, 5011. 25c. ; Basle, 210 f. ; Bordeaux, 435 f.; Paris and Strasburgh, 4631. 75c.; Fours and Nantes, 2961, 25c. ; Amious to Boulogne, 287 f, 50,%; Paris and L yons, 5771. 50c. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 5. Boulogne and Amiens, 11 ex d._-Luxembourg, 3 1 4 — Northern of France, 181.,_ OrleaLa and Bordeaux, Sambre and Meuse, 3;;R. SPAIN. Telegraphic dispatches confirm the intelligence which we yesterday published of an attempt to assas sinate the Que en of SPAIN. Her MAJESTY was ,vounded near th e shoulder. The assass i n, who fired the pistol at nea r l y arms length from her MAJESTY'S person, was instantly arrested. The wound is no t considered of' a dangero us character. MADRID B oLEA., JAN. 31.—The Three per Cent s . were done at 37i for time; the New Three per Cents. 4t 19; the Debt without interest, si; and the Con. pons, at 9/. The German GERMANY. journal of Frankfort 'state s f rom Rostock, that the theatre of that place ha s b een closed by the authorities for a fortnight, in conse quence of the performance of a piece called Robes . pierre, in which the " Marseillaise was sung, and loudly us . encored by t h e au di ence , w h o j oined in the chor A letter from Gotha, on the 30th ult., in the Cologne Gazette, states the, after the dissolution of the Diet, the deputies, who had voted for the adop tion of the Constitution presented by the Government waited on the Duke of SAXE GOTHA, who expressed his regret at the resistance that he had experienced, snd declared his intention of calling a new Diet, to which he will submit the Constitution. The Nutiohal Gazette of Berlin of the 2d says, that amongst th e propositions submitted to the Ger manic Diet i s one calling for some peremptory deci sion, respecti ng the encouragement given to political refugees in S w i tzerland. The Colo gne Gazette of the 4t h sta t es f rom Ber lin, that th e P russian Government has expresse d it perfect sati s f act i on at the explanat i ons g i ven by n d. Earl GRAN VILLE with reference to t h e no t es that have been add ressed to the B r i t i s h Government on the subject of p o li t i cal refugees i n England. A letter fr om Hanover, 31 s t ult., states that the Government h as resolved to form a commission of public fuutioziarks , to prepare a new set of l aws on can be entertained. We shall quote from Mr. HER FORD'S letter on this part of the case :—" I: is his ju dicial duty, upon notice that any person has come to an unnatural death, to issue his precept to the con stable to return a competent number of good and lawful' men to appear before him, and make inquisi tion touching the matter. The jury appearing are sworn, and their charge is to inquire, upon view of the body—How and where the party came by his death ; and if any and who were there ? and who are culpable, and in what manner, either of the act or the force ? is necessary that the coroner should have before him and hear everybody who can give informa tion material to the i nqu i r y. H e h as f ur th er , as incident to his office, authority to order a post mortem examination of the body of the deceased." He has, therefore, an authority far greater than that of the magistrate, for he may order the exhuma tion of the body, and continue the investigation in the absence of any person accused, and the verdict thus returned will place the party inculpated on his trial before a judge and petit jury, though the grand jury had ignored the bills. H e has thus not merely a power of committal like the magistrate, b u t hi s warrant is sufficient to ensure a trial at bar, and we have known cases where parties arraigned on the coroner's inquisition were convicted of manslaughter, notwithstanding the rejection of the bills by the grand jury. It it, therefore, of great importance to the due administration of justice that every possible assistance should be rendered " to the ancient tribunal which hath far more extensive powers than magistrates, who are not even authorised to order d o e r r dinaaproyst.mortem examination, and who are no t b o und to hear th e ev id ence on t h e part o f t h e ac cused. Looking, th en, mere l y, to t h e pro t ect i on o f t h e accused, wh o ( unt il d u l y conv i cted) must b e deemed innocent, we say th a t thi s unseem l y con fli ct, for which, by the way , t h e coroners are no t i n any degree responsible, should be brought to a close. Let us, following up the hints given by Mr. HERFORD, suppose a Party, charged with, or suspected of, homi cide, taken into the custody of the police, and by them brought before the magistrate. The coroner, assisted by a jury, is holding a simultaneous inquiry. The accused is, however, by the new rule, prevented from appearing before the latter, and thus debarred from one of the supposed privileges of every English. man, that there shall be no secret examinations, so far as he is concerned, but that he shall have full opportunity of hearing and replying to everything that may be alleged against him. The coroner's jury, however, listen to evidence respecting matters of a very damnatory character. The accused ought to have it in his power to rebut or explain away the inferences fairly deducible therefrom ; but, thanks to Mr. MAuDr) and such of his magisterial brethren as take the same view of the subject, the opportunity would be entirely ,lost. In his, compulsory, absence he may be not only subjected to incarceration, until delivered in due course of law, but also, necessarily, given in charge to a jury, the final arbitrators of his fate, although the grand jury may have thought the evidence insufficient to subject him to so serious an ordeal. In the satisfactory settlement of the ques tion the community, in general, are seriously inte rested. It i s essent i a l to the protection and security of the subject that it should be set at rest. It merely requires that it should be calmly and seriously con sidered, in order to have it satisfactorily arranged. To all desirous of knowing the data on which it must be decided, we earnestly commend Mr. HERFORD'S dispassionate and able brochure. the organization of the country, and submit them to ; the States. It is stated in a letter from Vienna that, in conse quence of the discovery of a secret society having a political character among the students of the Poly technic Institution, between twenty and thirty of them have been arrested. BELGIUM. The Afessager des Chambres of Brussels states that the prosecution against the Bulletin Francais, in that city, is pursuing its course. On the first day of the visit of the police at the office of that journal only the proofs were seized, but on the second day the whole publication was seized and removed. lONIAN ISLANDS. The Milan Gazette quotes a letter from Corfu, of the 12th ult., stating that the Italian language has bee❑ superseded in the islands as the official language by the modern Greek, since New Year's-day. LATEST FROM PARIS (BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.) PARIS, FRIDAY, HALF. PAST EIGHT A.1%1 A telegraphic dispatch from Madrid state, that, according to the bulletin of the physicians, no un favourable symptom had presented itself, and that her Majesty slept a great part of the night.--Times. MARKET NE WS.-(THIS DAY. CORN EXCHANGE-FRIDAY Coastwise only a moderate supply of English Wheat —1,830 quarters—has been received up to our market this week. To day the arrivals of that grain by land carriage were small, and greatly out of condition. Not withstanding that the attendance of buyers was by no means large, the whole of the English Wheat on offer changed hands, at fully Monday's prices. A few trans actions took place for forward delivery. Rather over 6,000 quarters of foreign Wheat have reached us, chiefly from the westward. Good dry samples, ex granary, were in steady request, at full quotations, In low and middling kinds vt ry little was doing. Floating cargoes were held above the limits received from Hol land. We were very scantily supplied with Barley, for which the demand was firm, at fully the late improve ment in value. Malt was in moderate supply, and steady inquiry, at extreme currencies. The Oat trade was firm, and good heavy parcels were held for more money. Beans, Peas, Indian Corn, and Flour steady, but not dearer. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. I Malt. Oats. Flour. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. English • • 1,830 1,740 4,790 Irish .....• .• 640 Foreign ...... 6,080 Qrs. 1,860 2,430 Sacks 1,310 1,320 15,210 bls SMITHFIELD. To•day's market exhibited a very limited supply of Beasts, both as to number and quality; nevertheless the detnaad for all breeds was in a sluggish state at Monday's prices —the top figure for the beat Scots being 3s 8d per Sibs. The arrivals of Sheep being on the de crease, the Mutton trade was firm, and late rates were well supported in every instance—the highest quotation for the best old Downs being 4s 4d per Sibs. About 50 Dorset Lambs were brought forward. Calves were in abort supply and heavy inquiry, at the late decline. I❑ Pigs scarcely any business was transacted. Mulch Cows were selling at from 14/ to 181 each, including their small Calf. Per 811)5. to a. d. to a. d. taterior Beasts... 2 4 2 8 second quality .. •. 210 3 0 Prime large Oxen.. 3 2 3 4 Prime Scots ...... 3 6 3 8 Large coarse Calves 210 3 6 Primesmall ditto .. 3 8 310 Sucklln; Calves ..18 0 21 0 Lambs •••• • • 0 0 0 0 TOTAL SUPPLY the offttl. s. d. to s. d Inferior Sheep . 2 8 210 Second qual. Sheep 3 0 3 6 Coarse-woolled dlttc3 8 4 U Southdown Wether 4 2 4 4 Ditto out of the wool 0 0 0 o Large Hogs •.•• • • 2 6 3 6 Small Yorkers ••• • 3 8 310 Quarter old Pigs ..16 0 19 0 AT MARKET I I Pim 254 I Pigs. Boasts. 504 I Sheep. Calves. 2,600 , 129 FOREIGN surpL / . Boasts. I Sheep. I Calves. 129 404 52 • NEVIGATE AND LEADENRALL. The general demand was inactive, as follows: At per stone by the Carcase. 8. d. to a. d. 0. d. to a. o. reef, inferior...... 2 0 2 4 Mutton, inferior .. 2 4 2 6 - middling .. 2 6 2 8 middling.. 2 8 3 4 - primelargo .. 210 3 0 - prime .. •• 3 6 310 primo small 3 0 3 2 Pork, large .... ••• • 2 4 3 0 Veal.• .• ••••••• • • • 2 10 3 8 - small ••• • 3 2 3 8 BOROUGH HOP MARKET. New Hops continue to move oft steadily at full prices. Yearlings are held at extreme quotations, but other kinds are much neglected. Sussex pockets, 1123 to 126 s per cwt; Weald of Kent ditto, 126 s to 140 s; Mid and East Kent, 140 s to 2501. C0M0N1636.. SUGAR.—Less has been doing in British Plantation, and buyers therefore have been enabled to come in more easily as regards price. BarbAdoes by auction went at 39s for fine yellow, 34s 6d to 37s 6d for good mid to good, and 303 to 313 for low. Demerara only partly tound buyers, low to mid yellow 29s to 29s 6d, fine brown 28s to 28s 6d, and ord yellow 30s to 325. Refined has hen in demand, grocery lumps 43; 6d to 48s for low to fine. EAST INDlA.—Bengal sold at 34s to 36s 6d for good to fine white Benares, 32s 6d to 335 6d for mid to good mid, 31s to 323 for low, a❑d 37s to 38s for fine grainy yellow; mid and good like Mauritius brought 29s to 30s 6d. Mauritius was rather cheaper, and nearly all found buyers, good yellow 32s to 32s 6d, mid to good mid 22s 6d to 31s 6d, low to mid 23s to 25s 6d, and good grainy yellow 355. Foititost.—Yellow Havannah has been in moderate demand at former prices for exportation; ord white Haceio sold at 345, duty paid. Porto Rico, low to mid grey realised 30. to 32e, and mid yellow 345 6d to 35e. Cuba went at 295 6d to 31s 6d for ord to mid heavy grey and yellow. For home consumption Havannah sold at 31s 6d to 35s for ord to mid yellow, and at 355 6d to 395 for good and fine. COFFER.—This article has been dull, and Plantation Ceylon has been is lower; low mid 475 to 488, and low to good ord 41s to 42s 6d. N at i ve Ceylon was at 38s 6d for good ord, and some was taken in at 393. Mocha has been in small supply and rather wanted. Other de quotscriptationons have been nominally at abou t the previou s i s. COCOA..—The market has been rather heavy. RlCE.—There has been a brisk demand ; mid white Bengal has been sold at 105 6d, and mid to good Coringa grain Madras at 9s to 105. SPICES.—Mace has been at steady prices, mid dark to good pale is 10d to 2s 3d, and goo d b right 2s 4d to 2s sd. Cloves have realised is id for good, and 54d for ord. Nutmegs have been in request, small to mid brown at is 6d to 2s 3d, good old 25 4d to 2s Ild. Pimento is wanted; mid and good mid even has been sold at 4id to 44d. White Pepper has had a steady sale at 7/d to Bfd for good. Cinnamon went at lull prices to a 2 o d r a ta. dvance for thirds, but 2d to 4d per lb loiNer for other Rum—There has been a firm market. COTTON.—Moderate sales have been made at former prices. TEA.—There is not much doing, and nominally the rates remain unaltered. TALLOW.—P. Y. C. is quiet at about 35s 9d to 36s on the spot, and 35s for delivery. GREEN FRUIT. --NO improvement to be reported in the market; two cargoes of Oranges from St. Michael, and one from Terceira, sold by Keeling and Hunt, at public sale, went at prices barely as good as last week. Lemons depressed, owing to several cargoes landing out of condition, which are forced on the market. The stock of Chesnute diminishing. Black Spanish Nuts without alteration. No sale for Barcelona. Seville Sours in request. DEATH OF CAPTAIN ANDREW C. O'MALLEY.- The decease of this gentleman took place at his residence, Newcastle, on Tuesday last, after a prolonged illness, much regretted by hi s acqua i ntances, and deeply mourned by his numerous relations and connexions. Captain O'Malley was the last surviving brother of the late gallant Major-General George O'Malley, C. 8., whose military renown will ever live in our history, and of Major Owen O'Malley, our much regretted friend. The remains of Captain O'Malley were' conveyed to the family vault, Murrisk Abbey, on Friday last, accompanied by a large assembly of friends and relations.— Mayo Constitution. ' ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.—At the monthly general meeting, held yesterday at the society's house in Hanover-square, W. J. Broderip, Esq., Vice-President, in the chair, Miss Burdett Coutts, Messrs. J H. Gurney, T. Nagh ten, T . Lacey, G. Gillett, and H. O'Brien Jameson, were elected fellows. Lord Garvagh, the Hon. G. W. Milks, Messrs. W. M. Bigg, W. Ward, W. Taunton, It. Sayer, and F. G. Rasch, ere proposed as candidates for the fellowship. DEURY•LANE THEATRE. —The promised ballet of Vert- Vert is to be produced here this evening , as w e under stand, with ve r y great splendour ; and the re-appearance of Mademoiselle Plunkett is, of itself, quite enough to create unusual attraction. The additional title of The Pet Parrot is given to the ballet, the term of Vert- Vert not being quite so familiar to the English as the French public. We are informed that the Bishop of Meath, in con sequence of his late dangerous illness, has been prohibited by his medical attendants from attending his Parliamentary duties for some time. The stringency with which the Mint is enforcing its rules, with reference to the receipt of gold ingots inferior to the standard, has caused a slight alteration to become necessary in the rate at which the Bank of England pur chases American and French gold coin. Hitherto the prices paid have been 3/. 16s. 2 t4cl. per ounce for American eagles, and 31. 163. 2d. for French 20-franc pieces, but these left no margin (except an insufficient one of / 2 d, in Thatthelatteexrpceanssee) for the expense of t he refining process which is requisite before they can be coined into soverei amounts to about Id., and hence, under the prospect or o ea eagles, es, t i nuous arrivals, such as to render the point one of import.- an t e, the purchasing rate for the future will be American reduced to 31. 16s. 14„d.. which will equally apply to F re nch pieces, and Dutch guilders. With regard to the purchase that of gold ingots, it is understo o d a l so w ill take them .at the rate of 3/ . 17s. Dd. per o unce o f -at the Bank s tandard gold," only when the parcel shall iu the aggregate be of a quality equal or superior to th e standard of 22 caws line, and be fit for coinage without going through the pro cess of refinage. For the the Bank will h convenience of. the sellers, how ever,pure ase gold ingots of a qualit y not under 21 carats fi ne, on receiving an allowance equivalent to ' the expense of raising it to standard. We believe that the Cape Screw Steam Navigation Company have obtained the contract for conveying the mails to the Mauritius, Ceylon, and Calcutta, in opposition to several other tenders which have been submitted to the Government. THE ENROLMENT OF THE MILITIA.—It is said that in the Militia Bill to be brought before Parliament on the 13th instant, it will be proposed to enrol this force to the ex tent of 75,000 men: 1852. ) BRITISH RAILWAYS. Railways. Paid. Nominal Prices, Aberdeen.. .. Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston, & E. Juncion Belfast and County Down Wolverhamp., and Stour Valley Birkenh., Lan., & Cheek June., late 331.85. Bd.. Do. Chest. & Birkenhd„ 501. &251. Consolidated Do., do., 201. .. Bristol and Exeter.. Caledonian Chester and Holyhead .. dublin and Belfast Junct. Dublin and Kingstown.. Dundalk and Enniskillen D =dee, Perth, and Aber leen Junction .. Do., New •• •• •• East Anglian (251. L. & E. and L. & D.) • • .. Do. (Isl. E. & IL) Eastern Counties .. Eastern Union, class A, late E. tr. shares Do. do. do. .. Do. do., B & C shares East Lancashire D. New quarters - - East & We stincia Docks and Birm. Juno. .. East & West York. June. I Edinburgh an 4 Glasgow Edin., Perth, and Dundee Glasgow and South-West. Do. do. G. D. &C.steck I Great Northern • • •- I Do. halves, A, deferred Do. halves, St, 6 per et. Great southern and Western, Ireland Great Western .. Lancaster and Carlisle .. Do. thirds .. Lancaster and Preston .. Lancashire and orkshire Do. quarter 61 area .. Do. fifths Do. West Riding Union Leeds Northern .. Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport .. London and Blackwall Do., Tilbury Ext. Scrip London, Brighton, and South Coast .. London and N.-Western Do. do. quarters .. De. fifths .„ Do. 101. sh., M.& B (c) London and S.-Western . Do. new 501. .. • • Do. new 401. .. •. Manchester, Buxton, and l Matlock Manchester, Sheffield, & Lincolnshire .. Do. Manchester and Lincoln Union • • Do. 501. shares .. Do. Diming & Derby sildland Gt. West. (Ire.) ^leweastle and Carlisle • • De. quarter shares • . Newmarket ewport, Abergavenny, and llereford Newry and Enniskillen • • Cowry, Warrenpoint, & Rostrevor orfolk 00. New 201. shares.. Northern Counties Unien North British.. •• •• I North Devoe • • •• •• North Staffordshire •• North-Western .• •• North & Sth.-West.Janc. Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton.. .. Scottish Central .. Scottish Midland .. Do. new .. 'brews. & Birm., Claim A Do. Class 8.. .. Shrews. & Hereford., Old Do., do., New 4brewsbury and Chaster (Nor. W. Min.) .. Do. Halves Do. Oswestry Do. New.. .. Shropshire Union .. Do., A, B, C, & D, paid up at per cent .. ionth Devon .. South-Eastern South Wales.. ~o uth Yorksh. and River, Dun .• .• and Goole, Routh Divlsios . Stirling and Dunfermline Stockton and Hartlepool Taff Vale .. • • Taw Vale Extension •• Thames Haven Deck and Railway •• • Vale of Neath .. • Waterford and Kilkenny Waterford and Limerick, Waterford, Wex., Wick. and Dublin •• •• West Cornwall •• •• Wlaitehaven and Farness York, Newc., 8c Berwick Ditto and Newcastle Extension ••_ Ditto G.N.E. purchase York and North Midland THE SHARE MARKETS. 11 to 11% 5 -6% 9% 10% .. .... • • d. • • .... .. 84 -86 1”4 liii 19 19% 20 —ls 4 5% -6% 3% -3% 2% -2% 7% -7% 4)4 - 5 3% -3% 153 - 16% 49 -50 24 -27 4% - 5 18% - 18% 57i -6% 13% - 14% 35% -36 8' -87 75 -80 7 - 8 p. 621 A -62% 7% —7% d. 5% 5 4. 14% 15% • • • - • 6% - 7 94% 9534 x.d ' 117 —117% 3 p. 2% 3Mp. —1% p. 86% —87 A 7 6 die., 5 34 — 4% dill.l 2h, 2X 31 - 31% 24( us. 56 —56% 26 —2B 7% - 8 4% —4% dia. P • .. • • dip. 23 -25 14 —l2 die 21U 3 dia. 73 1 7 % • 6 3% dbl. 9 —a% die. ad .. dia. 3C die. par 15 —1534 14 —1434 8% —9% fiji 934 634 634 434 434 4h 334 dls. 12 —l4 6 7 9% 10% .. • • dia. 3% —3% d. 13 -15 20;4 - 20% 2934 - 30 —2% d. 150 -152 16 —l5 dia, • •• d. 3% —4% .• ... •.. 6u— 5% ta. 174 74 d. 3 ; —3% d. 21 LINES LEAS: ID AT FIXED R: 1NT87.8. Leasing Paid. /Nominal P r i ces . Btudness Railways. Companies . done to-day. Balt. & Bletch ley Lott. & N.W. all 1.. Binning. & Ox ford Juncion, guaranteed • • Gt. Western all 29 —3O x.d 29% x.d Do., without a guarantee .. De .. • • all 28 —29 x.d tirm., Wolver., & Dudley, gua ranteed •• Do .. .. all 29 —3O Do., without a guarantee •• Do • • • . all 28 —29 Buckinghamsh. Lon. 8; N. W. all 1734 —lB Clydesdale June Caledonian all 43 —45 E. Lin., Guar. 6 Der Cent. ••, G. Northern all 33 1 4 33% Gloucester and Dean Forest Gt. Western 20 1 —2 p Hartlepl Dock S . Yrk, and Railway i an 1 Ber. Bull and Selby Ik, &N. M. a ll 106 108 Do. 34 Shares Do • • all 53 —54 Do. •% Shares Do .. all 25 —26 Leeds and Brad. Midland .. all 101% 102 102 U Lon. and Green. S. Eastern .. all 11% —12 k Do., Pref. .. Do all 24 —26 Lowestoft, Gd. 4 per Cent. • • Norfolk .. all 15 —l6 DO.. 6 per cent Do all Middlesbro' and • • itedcar, 6p. ct Stockt.& Dar all • N. & East, 6 .. • per Cent. •• B. Counties . all 5734 Do., 5 per cent. Do. .. .. all 66 —5B Do. New •• Do • • • 43 56 —6B w yro ••c 8s La.& Y.} Preston and D. &N. all 44 46 00.34 SharesA Do .. .. 11 8 34 —9% p Bead., Guild., and Reigate .. S. Eastern •• all 20% 21% g oy . & ilitchin G. Northern 61i 8% —8% , o. Shep. En— Do •• .. all 8% —B% 834 Shot., Roth. and Goole, 5 per ct. . Lane &York 1811 6 south Staffords. Mr. M'Clean 934 1% 134 dls. Wear Val. 6 per Cent. gun. • • Stock.& Dar. all 2834 2934 Do. do. .. Do .. .. 25 Do. do. .. Do - - • • 25 .. Wilts &Somers , Gt. Western 100 9134 9234 884.312113# Nominal Prices. - 1 dis„ 7% 7% IN 17 b *-- IS% d. 2 % —2% •• .. % -Tit) 4--3:P 11% - 12 9 Ni -9% •' •••• •• 134 1 die. 14 - 14% % - AP 7% -7% - . P. - L 32 134 dlea - - P .. me .i X.d .• - •• 2% -3 p. 19% - 113.„ 11 -12 12% - 12% 34 - X p ... •• 133 ..., 135 .... •• •-• 1 d 15 ,634 43i 5 5 —5% % di. l 0 10% [ 5 % 16 Li —l3 .• ..... .4. 4 3 &Is. 115% 16 85i —4% i 1 41a. EON. 11 11% x.cl 19% 20 4% —4% (112. 2% 3 P• •• •• % % IL % Xi P• 3 3 -A - 2.! , , 3 - 3 li - % 2% El. 3 p 43 istErn Railways. I Pais_ Aberdeen •• •• Aberdeen. No. 2, 7 pr. et. Caledonian 101. • • • • Cheater and Holyhead .. Dund. Per. & Aber. Janc. East:Ang. (BZ. 10a.) 6 p. e• Do., (51.) 7 per cent.— iSaatern Counties Exton.,l 5 per cent. No. 1 • • Do. No. 2 . • ' • • • Do. xew 6 p. ceat. Stock Eastern Union, Scrip &martin. 6 per cent. • • East Lancashire, 6 Per cent. quarter shares • • E. & W. York. June. sths Edln. Per. &Dun. 5 1 p.ct. Glasgow & S.-W. Canso!. Gt. Northern, 5 per gent. Do., 5 p. c. Redeem. Scrip Great South. & Western (Ireland) eighths • • • • Gt. western ( gerks an 4 Hants Ex., 5 per Cent.) Lancashire and York shire, F. 201... -. • • Do. 6 per et. Stock • • Leeds Northern, 6 per cent., No. 1.. • • .. Do. q nd S. Coast, London, opar u eft , B g e b r: Brighton, guar. 8 h c. l t t 0 8 5. 4snp . De k , 5 * ,18 De. new guar.. 6 per ct. Lon. & N. West. (Coy. & Nuncat.) 5 per cent. .. London &S.-W.. new •• London ,& Ennis., 34 Shal Kenai.; Sheffield, and L Do o th .. , D 61. Midland Con. 6 p. e. stock Consol. Bristol & Birming., 6 per cent... Do., Leic. & Swanning., 8 p e r cent. guar. ~ Do., Preference • • .. Norfolk Extension Do. guar. 534 per cent. North British Oxf.Wor. &W 01.151.6 p,e Shrews. & Bir., new guar. Shrews. and Ches. (Nor. W. Min.) 8 per cent. South Devon .. • • South-Eastern, 434 p. et. South Yorks., 4 p. et. g(1. York, Naive., and Berry, Gt. 21. of E. Pur. Do. York end sorthlfildiar.d. EL and 8, Parch. .. Boa!eine and Amiens Central of France.(o.,V.) Dutch Lhentob East Indian • • • ; Do. do. do. • • Great Indian Peninsula • • Ditto ditto •. Louvain ala Sambre .• Luxembourg •• •• •• Ditto (Railway) •• Ditto (Canal) •• Maria Antonia • • • • Ditto, New • • • • Namur and Liege .• • • Northern of France .. Orleans and Bordeaux .• Paris and Lyons .. • • Paris and Orlear_s • • .• Paris and Rouen • • Paris and Strasbourg .. Konen and Havre • • •. Sambre and Meuse St. Sncir ew' s & Quebc.(A) Tours and Ju Nantes rbize .. Tourney, • Lan. dial, and Tiasaelt West Flablelll 17% 100 100 8 6 8 18 4 47% 100 100 4214 34 4 2 0 100 100 47% 3% 25 9% 17% 19 3% all all all 1 6 6 2-3 126 all all 10 20 ra 971 6s 8d 53 4_. l 8 - 3% 41 .... 26 .... 1% - 104, - 3% - 2634 1 1 ydis.' 10% 4 8 % 8 % dlB. .. - - 8 I 23 1tT.177131ff. Paid, Nominal Prices. Buatness uerto.day. Agua Fria 1 2 1 4 2%p 3% ,S Ang.o Californianlos. % 1 p Australian • • 5 ae •,(3 Ave Maria ..... •• •. 1 )4 dis —sg p 1 Blaenarvon Iron & Coal all •. —•• British Australian Gold 1 % dLs par 1 British Iron .• •• • • 131. Is. Brazilian Imp. (is. Si. p. ) 24% 1% 2 Do. Cocacs and Cuiaba all —1% Do. St. John del Rey.. 15 22% 23% Cobre Copper • • .... .• • 40 33 —34 Copiapo ..... •• •• • 14 4 5 Eng. &Australian Copper 2% )4 p x,n Z• 111 General., ••••••• • • • •• all 93' 10)4 Gold Mountain •• ••.. • • 1 4 - P Great Polgooth ...• .. • . all par p Mexican& S. American y 3% 4 Nouveau Monde ...... • • 1 % P santiago de Cuba .... • . 10% 4% 5 Tin Croft •••• •• ...... • • 7 9 —lO United Mexican • • • all West Mariposa ••••• • • • 1 % 1 .TOZNT STOCZE BANES. Aeatralasia ........ •• • • all 38 39% 38 British North America.. 50 46% —4B Colonial • • .... 25 11% . 12% Commercial of London.. 20 24 —25 U, London Joint Stock .... 10 18% 17% x.d London and Westminster 20 29% — 3O National Provincial Eng. 35 Do. National of Ireland ...• 22% 17% —l7 Oriental Bank Corporal, all 30 311,1 x.d Provincial of Ireland.• •• • 25 43% —45 Do• Near •••••• • • • .. all 15% 16% Union of Australia ...• all 35 36% Do. NOW ........ •... 2% 3 —3% Union of London ••10 14% 15% Union of Madrid •—•- all IVIZSCEIZANEOI3I3. Canada •••• • • • • 32% 48 49% Gen. Steam Navigation . 14 2734 —2B renin, & Oriental Steam. all 70 —7l x.d Ditto ditto 10 17% —lB Royal Mail Steam •••••• 60 77 7814 'EOI7/3. 48 49% 27% 28 7 0 —7l x.d 173 18 77 —7834 ,e errors of the Official Lista, 1114 1 correspondents.] Ditto ditto Royal Mail Steam ..... (We cannot be answers will not be influenced by Lble for t' MONE Y and COMMERCIAL NEWS' CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti mated at 7,000 bales, of which 1,000 American were taken for export. There was much Cotton offering, and prices of American were 1-16 d. in favour of buyero: The sales comprised 6,000 American, 250 Pernaru and Maranham at 51 , 1. to 64d., 150 Bahia at 5-ad. to 6icl j e 150 Egyptian at 6cl. to 9d., 500 S u r a t a t to 4d., and 80 Sea Island at Is. 2d. to 2s. per lb.—ln Railway Shares only a moderate business was done, and the market closed steadily. The amount of Produce brought to auction this week has been a full average; and this has kept buyers ! little in check for Sugar. Coffee is very dull, and holders have not passed sales. Saltpetre has been in re' quest; Rice is wanted, and Cotton, though quiet, ba s . been at full rates. Ccchi nea l h a d r i sen 6d. per lb. last month, but has since declined Id. to 2d., so great en ad vance not being justified, as the stock is large and con' siderable supplies are expected. Dyes and dyeing materials have been in fair demand. Indigo has been steady, and Lac Dye at full prices for the superior, but less for the inferior. Taking the past month, the ins' ports of Produce have been large, and generally th e stocks show a corresponding increase, but the deliveries continue on the same satisfactory scale. The Conti nental Markets are below ours, and orders thence are not at present executable. Messrs. Walter Howell and Hall state that the " mar ket is nearly cleared of the lower descriptions of Sheri'''. Wines, and we ar e h a ppy to fi n d t h at i n conseque nce or the advance in prices in Spain last year, none of the re' spectablo shippers will (and others cannot) encourage the importations into this country of Wines, altogeth er regardless of quality. Port Wine is quiet, with every appearance of young wines becoming slower in pri ce. The uneasiness in th e D ouro caused by the unprofitable trade of last year mus t ultimately prove advantagemle to purchasers in this country. Old tawny Wines, how ever, are more sou g ht a f ter, and we fear as the atee''e this descriptio n o f w i ne decreases for some time to ee,,—, f c shows an incre ase t hi s year of 1.244 present quotations will b e f u ll y realised. The stock shows n o corn' pared with the sense period in 1851." The honorary secretary, Mr. Francis Lyne, has p er ' formed a most ac ce pt a bl e serv i ce i n forwarding to the General Committee for promoting Tribunals of Com merce a translation of valuable documents received from the President of the Tribunals of Commerce in Paris, and we quite acqniesce in the general opinion which Mr. Lyn° mentions as prevailing, that the time has now arrived when this subject should be brought prominently under the notice of Parliament. A very interesting portion of the letter received from Paris is that whic h describes the functions and organization of the Tribu nals in France, and the commercial public are much in debted to the able functionary who has so obligingly furnished the information. It is a strong testimony t o the good feeling prevailing b e t ween men of b us iness en both sides of the Channel. Th e f o ll ow i ng extrac ts era well worthy of perusal:— " The Consulary tribun a l s i n F rance are tr ib una ls of exception, charged with the application of laws made especially for commerce. It is to this particular condi tion, that all the servi ces t h ey are called upon to rende r are reported. If com merce were governed by couinthb, law, it is at least doubtf u l whether the intervent i o n or . merchants in the jridgm, nt of t h e i r own a ff a i rs, wou ld bee! any great advanta ge; i n t h at case common j u dges would be sufficient. But, it has long since been acknowledg ed that the common law is not always sufficient in commer cial_pi transaction s; th at i n contracts, which spring from th e ' re as a consequence, there is something more than the u n der literal sen se o f t h e agreement, which is always to be tin the power of certain and particular usages, infinatelY vary ing according to places and circumstances; but those usages' although they cannot be ex resod in the contract, are, nevertheless, one of th e principal causes of the consen t the contractor s; an d , in consequence of being, as it wer e ' a part of the contract itself, it becomes necessary to ap preciate the imp ortance o f i t, withcut the apparent ac t. In that case the intervention of merchants becomes 11 ° .. " only an ad vantage b ut almost a necessity; for no one can better appr ec i ate those usages in the midst of wh ich they hav e p assed t h e i r whole life. The creation of con' commerce sulur•jud ges , wh i ch afterwards gave place to tribuna l s °f commerce, Was the consequence. " An important derogation from the common law we in France, the first motive for their creation. "In civil transactions written agreements only ar e admitted ; th e proof by witnesses must be authorised at the commencem en t o f t h e case b y wr i tten proo f , a nd the , inquiry cannot b e made, but upon the facts recogn ised by the jud ge , w h o determines in the judgment wh ich authorises the Inquiry. " It very soon b ecame recognised that such a colree 10 of procedur e cou ld not be advantageously applie d commercial transactions the greater p or tion of which is performed ver b a ll y, and can only b e confirmed t i those who hav e b een present at the stipulated c ontract' It is necessary th en to accord every facility for thek l . titication of these t ransact i ons. Hence the r i g ht of in quiry, and proof by t h e most extended means, w itho 2 t the commercial judge would be forced to confine himself within the conditions recognised by the civil law. "If in ci v il affairs prudence can command certain de lays, it ha s b een f oun d that these delays wore always en obstacle, frequ ent ly a l so a cause of ruin in commetilctal ~,,.., in to r th en e d p e r r oc a edze isi business; the. consequence has been such a sim f p h li e fic Dv' judge parties civil courts, can, contrary to the practice before the to support their ap pear themselves in person at tb defence. The service own demands, or oppose in their the number of of the cousulary judges are . gratuitous, thaton aitlmcaonstbeiminmet:de!:pteeryer °The of cases brought before it. cording to the number is composed ofpresident, one " In Paris the court members of which each tribunal is composed varies so- Their labours two distinct sections On e section is are divided into other of that of the au diences, the that the bankruptcies. Th e oirc • ular of Messrs. Schroeder, and Mummy, Pub ten judges, and sixteen assistant judges. lished by Mr. James Irvine, of Liverpool, gives the following particulars of the Cotton Market at New Or leans on Jan. 10: .. since cur report of the 27th ultimo, our maket b ee n marked by contin ue d fi rmness, and gradually lat . " proving rates, in consequence of later and more trap' Fectation which is e gaining spe ground,ended. T t h h a e t political bu quillising advises from Franco and Liverpool; the ex been again furthers in France will now fora time remain has brought quiet, . e have , out orders, the execution - of which must otherwls done f during the past fortnight has amounted to 74900' of which 32,300 during the first, and 47,600 during this week —prices middling, an ranging from 7 to 7,l a c. for closing firm at 71c. for tolerable even.running lists, which sinesa affairs d aro few on the market; our best q ualities are still more or less leafs-, and quite a largo proportion of • our receipts i s very muc h so, classing from or dinary to trill t low middling, and middling of goo d staple. Our -r butaries are now partly open, and larger arrivals may , ho looked f o r soon, but consid er i ng t h e gen erally goo_ feeling f or C o tt on , we do n o t an ti c i pate any m aterial re' duction in prices, and would not be surprised to see further advance secured under the excitement of the present steady, large demand. We quote ordinary to good ordinary 6i to 61, low middlin g 7h e middling good middling 71 to 71, middling fair 8 to 81, fair 9 to 81. Sales during the fortnight, 79,900 bales. ceipts at this port, 575,686 bal es , aga i nst 432,672 ba les last year. Increase of receipts at all por t s , 65,746 Increase of total export s t o Great Britain, 64,660 ba!e . ° • ~ Decrease of total exp or t s to F rance, 10,350 b a l es , add '" other foreign ports, 17,599 against last year." The market for Public Securities has been very_ buoyant again, an d t h ere i s an i ncrease d b us iness l ur money. Cons o l s h ave b een quoted 96:1 to 961 for Transfer, and 961 a for Account. The New Three-anus a Quarte r p er C ents, have been 981 to l e and the T hree per Cent s , 97i to Exchequer-bills have been up to 635. and 64. e. e, and East India Bonds 71s. to 72 5. present Consols are 961 for Transfer, and 961 for March 11. Foreign Securities have been more buoyant. Spanish Five per Cents. are up to 2.3 i and and the Three Per Cents. Cents. to 403- and 41. Portuguese Old Five per have been at 92 to 4. Equador Stock is down, being 31- to 4. Grenada Deferred Bonds have been at 6. I Mexican there is a further rite, and the feeling i s favourable to continued improvement, whether real or speculative remains to be seen. The range of p ri ces if has been from 32 . 1 to 32 8 8. Dutch Two-a-lle per Cents. have advanced to 58 1. A bargain h as been at l'1• Certificate a effected in the Spanish Committee's Railway Shares are looking up , and rather advanced rates have been obtained generally. The business has lines barn b een however, not been large. The French also firmer. Gold Mine Shares are advancing . Agus Fria Anglq-Californiau are each better. Business done to-day. 113 X 6 !i 5i 85 14% % 7 % 3i 16% % le% X 86 % %M I% 62% 63% 5 3i % 95( 94% x.d LIN % 25% 25 15 87% % 2 1 A 3034 14 % 201 Business dope to-day. PM Pm 11% j►, 14 % 7% 133% IN M Id 33i 18% 8 1 / 4 9 1 all 134 10 all all all all 4 J 1