The Sun. — London, England, 1848-01-31 00:00:00

I ok,- The Bart, Mlntyre, from Glasgow-, which sank in 614 bay 10th inst., is breaking; part of her materials are washing ashore. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCIIANGE-MONDAY. In consequence of the severity of the weather the arrivals of all kinds of Grain, as well as Flour, up to our market, coastwise and by land carriage, last week, were on a limited scale; while those from Ireland and Scot land were small in the extreme. From abroad no Wheat or Flour came to.hand, indeed the only foreign imports were 91'5 quarters of Oats and 56 ditto of Linseed. Fresh up this morning the supply of English Wheat from Essex, Kent, Cambridgeshire, &c., was very small, and the stands were scantily filled with samples of both red and white. By land carriage very little grain reached us. Although the attendance of both town and country millers was by no means large, and the weather unfavourable for effecting pur chases, the demand for most kinds of Wheat of home produce, especially for selected qualities, was tolerably steady, and a fair clearance was effected at prices about equal to those obtained on Monday last. At the close of business a fair clearance was effected. The quantity of foreign Wheat brought forward was quite equal to the wants of the dealers. Selected parcels of Riga, Ros tock, and Stettin moved off at fully last week's quota tions. In all other qualities comparatively little business was transacted; yet the importers were firm, and would not sell except at full prices. The actual quantity of foreign Grain and Flour now 'on its way hither is small. Notwithstanding the supply of Barley brought forward was moderately good, that grain was very steady, and in some instances rather more money was paid for fine Chevalier qualities. The Oat samples of Malt moved off freely, all other kinds slowly, at unaltered currencies. Scarcely any Oats were in the market, nevertheless most descriptions met a slow inquiry at previous rates. The sale for Beans was very inactive. In prices, how ever, we have no change to notice. Maple Peas were in good request, at an advance of fully is per quarter. Other kinds were quite as dear. Indian Corn and Meal were ♦ery dull. Fine Flour was in steady request, otherwise the trade was heavy. In prices we have no change to report. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wheat—Essex & Kent, Nalt—Chevalier...... 58s to 395 Red. ........ 465 to 535 Oat. Yorkshire and Ditt.,White, New 595 58s Lincolnsh., Few'. 20s 225 Norfolk and Lin- Potato coin, lied. • ..• 475 SOs Youghal and Cork, Ditto, White •• • ..• 495 63s Black .• • • ... 213 225 Irish, Red.. .. .... —3 —3 Cork, White.... • 21s 268 Ditto, White ... —s —s Scotch, Feed. • ... 22s 265 7s 7 oit ............ —s 5 Beans—Tick .•• • • .... 335 44e - sew. ........ 328 341 Marley—Grinding. • • .. 255 28s Malting . ........ 301 325 CheTalier 328 33a Malt—Suffolk and Nor folk 545 561 Brown 505 528 Klnicstonand Ware 575 bBs Pigeons ....• • 4Bs 54s Peas—Grey .. • • 3Bs 40s Maple. •• • 40s 42s White .••• • •• ••• 42s 44s Boilers ••• •• .• 445 475 Flour—Town-made 435 48s Suffolk • • Stocktn Es Norfolk 3Gs 4ls The imports of foreign stock into London, last week were very small, as under: — Irons whence. Beasts. Sheep. ambs. (7- Scheveningen ... 28 ... ••• Noordwyk 20 ... 21 Schiedam .••••• 72 ... 190 ... 14 ... 8 Lambs. Calves. 6 Total l2O ... 211 ... 14 ... 14 Owing to the severity of the weather, scarcely any stock has been landed at the outports. On the opening of the navigation in Holland, very large importations may be expected. There was an unusually small supply of foreign stock on sale this morning, but its quality was tolerably prime, especially the Beasts, most of which were turned out last and in the previous week. We regret to state that extensive losses of both Beasts and Sheep have been reported at sea during the week, arising from the boisterous and severe state of the weather. This morning the Dundee steamer arrived with eighty hoots, fifty of which were found smothered in the hold. The Aberdeen boat had not been reported at the usual hour. Owing, doubtless, to the activity in the Beef trade on Monday last, and the consequent high prices obtained by the salesmen, a great inducement was held out to the graziers to forward more liberal supplies of stock for to-day's market. As, however, the atmo sphere had become mild, the Beef trade was in a very sluggish state, at a decline in the quotations of fully 2d per Blbs. The highest general figure for Beasts did not exceed 4s 8d per 81bs, and a total clearance was not effected. The supply of Beasts, in the quality of which a decided improvement was noticed, was a full average one for the time of year. From the southern grazing districts we received about 500 short horns; from the eastern, western, and midland counties, 1,300 Herefords, runts, Devons, Scots, short horns, and Irish Beasts; from other parts of England, 900 of various breeds; and from Scotland, 50 horned and polled Scots. The num ber of Sheep were considerably in excess of those exhi bited on this day se'nnight, and of improved quality. The mildness of the weather operated against the Mutton trade, which was decidedly heavy, at a fall in value of quite 2d per 81bs. The top figure for the old Downs was 5s per Sibs. Calves were in short supply and heavy demand at 2d to 4d per Sibs less money. In Pigs exceedingly little business was doing at barely stationary prices. - - - Per Sibs. to 3 a. d. to a. d. Inferior Beasts.... • 3 36 S econd qacity .. •• 3 8 4 0 - Prime large Oxea •. 4 2 4 4 Prima Scots ...... 4 6 4 6 Large coarse Calves 4 2 4 111 Prinz. suiall ditto .. 6 0 5 4 Suckling Calves • .21 I 28 latirtor Sheep .3 4 2 SUPPLY AT Resat*. I Sheep. 3,063 19,399 nk the ofraL s. 4. to s. d. Second quality ditto 4 • 4 4 Cearle-vreolled ditto 4 6 4 10 Aouthdewn Wether 4 10 5 0 Dltto out of the ',reel Large Hogs Small Porkers • 4 8 5 0 Qearter old rigs 211 e 25 0 Lambe ••••• • • • •. 0 0 0 0 MARKET. Calve!. 1 rio. 66 281 NAWCIJLTZ AND I.II9II.DEBTBOLL. Since our last report these markets have been heavily supplied with each kind of meat slaughtered in London and the provinces. Prime Beef and Veal, from their scarcity, have commanded a ready sale, at, in some instances, a trifle more money. Otherwise, the trade has ruled firm, at fully previous quotations. Scarcely any Foreign meat has been on offer. At per stone by the Carcase. 1. d. to s. d. a. to s. d. 11oef,inferior.• •• •• 3 4 3 6 Matton, issforier .. 3 4 3 6 middling •• •• 3 3 3to --- middling.. 3 8 4 0 primelarge •• 4 0 4 2 prime .... 4 2 4 6 - prime small •• 4 4 4 i Pork, large.. ...• •. 3 8 4 6 Yoe ...... ••••• • • • 4 4 i 4 - sroftll.... •• .. 4 8 5 2 Limb. Os Od to Os ed. BOROI7GII AND SPITALVIELDS. The arrivals of Potatoes at the water side having been very limited in the past week, the trade has ruled brisk, at a further advance in the quotations of from 55. to 10s. per ton. The supplies in dealers' hands are comparatively small.—York Regent's, 130 s to 1605; Seotch Reds, 120 s to 130 s ; ditto, Buffs and Blues, 1103 to 1208 ; Kent and Essex Regent's, 120 s to 150 s; iitto, Shaw's, 100 s to 140 s; ditto, Kidneys, 1205 to 140 s ; Wisbeach Regent's, 110 s to 140 s. BOROUGU HOP MARIEET. Ws have again to report a steady, though by no means brisk, demand for the best New Hops, at fully the late advance in the quotations. In most other kinds, very little is doing, at unaltered figures. New Hops— Sussex pockets, 21 15s to 3! 6s; Weald of Kent ditto, a/ to 31 10s; Mid and East Kent ditto, 3/ 6s to 5/ 12s per oat. WOOL. The reduction in the rate of discount by the Bank of England has given a firmer tone to this market ; never theless, the actual business doing—as most of the dealers are looking forward to the approaching public sales—is smalL In prices, we have no change to notice. Scarcely a single bale was imported last week from any quarter. TALLOW. The demand for Tallow has fallen off, and prices have declined quite 6d per cwt. The stock has been cousi derably reduced; but most of the chandlers are well sppplied. P. Y. C. on the spot, is 47s 6d, and for de livery, 47s per cwt. Town Tallow steady, at full prices. Rough Fat, !s 10d par Sibs. CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.) This was the last day of Hilary Term, and it was expected that the Lord Chancellor would sit pursu ant to notice to g i ve severa l j u d gments an d h ear mot io ns at elev en o'clock. Shortly before that hour a notice was put up in his Lordship's Court, stating that he would not sit before the first seal, which is fixed for the Bth of February. It is genarally,reported that the cause of his Lord s hip no t s i tt i ng i s a sl i g h t co ld , which he is fearful might bring on a relapse of his late severe indisposition if he ventured to sit in Court. VICE-CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.) (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR Of ENGLAND.) His Honour the Vice-Chancellor of England took !notions to-day, it being the last day of Hilary Term. Ncthing of interest except to the parties concerned carne before th e C our t d ur i ng t h e w h o l e morning. QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) No cases of morning. public interest were heard during the CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. These sessions, being the fourth of the present mayoralty, were commenced this morning in the Old Court before the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, the C ommon Sergeant, and Aldermen Gibbs, Sidney, &domain, Sheriff and Finnis, Mr. Sheriff Cubitt, and Mr. Hill, accompanied by the Under-Sheri ff s, and other ci v i c functionaries were in attendance. The grand jury having been sworn, The COMMON-S'isaozArtr addressed them. He said, in consequence of the sudden indisposition of the Recorder, he had been unexpectedly sent for this morning to charge them, but the notice he had re ceived had necessarily been so short, that it was quite out of his power to perform the duty so satisfac torily as his Learned Colleague could have done. Of course he had no opportunity of examining the depositions in the cases that would be brought before them, and, therefore, all that he could do was to refer them to the calendar. There were, he obser ve d, seven cases of burglary, but none of them appeared to him to present any features of difficulty, and it was only necessary for him to remind them that the crime of burglary, in the eye of the law, was the breaking into a dwelling-house during the night time. The Legislature had defined the night time to comprise the period between six o'clock in the evening and six o'clock in the morning, and it was necessary, therefore, that the offences should have been committed between those hours. The next case in the calendar calling for remark was 41)114) of a rake= ge/i9115 nature. It Wes a case of TUE IVO'N I LONDON, _ IVIONTD.A.Y EVENING. JANUAItY ut s 1640, murder. He was not, however, In possession of the facts, but it would seem from the calendar that a woman was chargt - d with the murder of two children. It would be for them to decide whether the unfortu nate criminal, in committing this dreadful crime was actuated by malicious motives, and had previously to its committal premeditatill and deliberated upon the crime. The Learned Gentleman then proceeded to comment on some of the other cases in the calendar, and at the conclusion of his address, the grand jury retired to their room. MARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY) Ann Cooke, a middle-aged woman, with a remark able sinister expression of countenance, was placed before Mr. Bingham, charged with being found in the house of Messrs. Payne and Sons, 328, Regent street, under the following circumstances:— Mr. PAYNE stated that on Saturday evening he heard a violent altercation between his cook and some other woman in the hall. He listened, and from what he heard, he felt convinced that the person who was speaking to his cook had come to the house on purpose to seduce his nursemaid from her place by pretending to reveal such things as would place her (the muse) in affluence and splendour. Having the welfare of his servants at heart, he went into the hall, where he saw the prisoner, and as she could not give a satisfactory account of herself, he gave her in charge. His cook and nursemaid were present and would explain the matter further. Catherine Kestell, a young woman of very prepo sessing appearance, nurse in the service of Mr. Payne, said the prisoner came to her a few nights ago and said she came from Fanny Bright. Witness said she did not know such a person as Fanny Bright, and was quite surprised at the prisoner's impudence in coming to her. The prisoner replied that Fanny Bright had got a connexion among young females to whom she told fortunes, and that she (prisoner) was employed to extend that connexion, and wished wit ness to allow her to tell hers. Witness refused, and desired her to leave the house. The prisoner said she would not leave, and wanted witness to let her come up stairs to tell her fortune, and said if her (witness) mistress came into the room she could say that she (prisoner) was her mother or her aunt. She refused to listen to the prisoner, who then left the house. Witness subsequently informed her mistress of what had occurred. Eliza James, cook,'in the service of Mr. Payne, said the prisoner came to her master's house on Satur day night, and inquired for her, saying that she came from Fanny Bright ; not knowing such a person, she went to the hall and saw the prisoner, who wished to let her see the nurse as she had something of importance to communicate. Having heard of the prisoner's previous calling, witness spoke out so loud as to bring her master into the hall, who gave the prisoner into custody. In answer to the charge, the prisoner said she was sent to Mr. Payne's by a woman named Fanny Bright, who came from Ludlow, and who wished her to call at Mr. Payne's to see her sister. She denied ever offering to tell fortunes. Mr. BINGHAM said, supposing the prisoner went to the prosecutor's house for the purpose of getting six pence for telling fortunes, it was a very wicked and fraudulent practice, for she knew very well that she had no more power to tell fortunes than he had. In looking at the appearance of :the nurse, he believed her (prisoner's) object to be widely different to that she went for, and as she had broken the law in pro posing to tell fortunes, he should commit her to the House of Correction for one month. WORSHIP-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) David Phillips was charged with attempting to pick the pockets of persons at the door of the Wes leyan chapel, City-road. James Collins, a member of the Wesleyan body, said—Last evening, as the congregation was leaving the chapel, he observed the prisoner, who was assisted by another lad, about his own age, popping in and out at the doors and sounding the pockets of persons. No property was found upon him on his being searched at the station-house. He had given a wrong address. Mr. HAMMILL ordered the prisoner to be locked up until inquii ies should be made respecting him. THE LATE KING OF DENMARK. The late King Christian of Denmark was born on September 18, 1786, and consequently had entered on his 62d year. He ascended the throne Dec. 3 1839, succeeding his cousin Frederick VI. He had first married the Princess Charlotte Fredrica of Mecklenberg Schwerin, and afterwards the Princess Caroline Amelia, daughter of the Duke of Schles wick Holstein. By his first marriage only he had one son, Prince Frederick Charles Christian, born Oct. 6, 1808, and who now succeeds him by the title of Frederick VII. Two hours before his death, which took place on the night of the 20th, and not on the 19th as first stated, King Christian was in full enjoyment of his faculties ; he had had during the day two conversations Kith his son, and has left him, in his own handwriting, instructions full of wisdom: Prince Frederick proceeded at seven in the evening to his chateau of Christianburg, the eti quette not permitting the successor to the throne to pass through the city before his being proclaimed. At midnight, the new King signed, in the Council of Ministers, the proclamation destined to announce his accession to the throne. In it, he declared that he would continue the work of his father, and that he would inaugurate his reign by giving to the country new institutions which had been for a year before prepared by the solicitude of the late King. On the 21st, at nine in the morning, the doors of the grand balcony of the palace of Christianburg were thrown open, and immediately the Princes of the Royal Family, the Ministers of State, and the high dignitaries of the kingdom appeared on the balcony. The Minister of Justice, M. de Ste mann, then approached the balustrade, and cried out with a loud voice, "King Christian VIII. is dead— Long live King Frederick VII!" This cry was re peated each time by the heralds, and on each occasion the band of the body-guard replied by a flourish. From nine o'clock till twelve all the gates of Copen hagen, according to ancient usage, were closed. The keys of the city, and also those of the citadel, were carried to the palace. The troops of the garrison and the national guard assem bled at one o'clock at their various places of meeting, and took the oaths of fidelity to the new King before Prince Ferdinand, General-in-Chief of the army, and of Prince "William, Governor-General of Copenhagen. The students were anxious to make a demonstration before the arrival of the new King. Several of them sang the national air of Norway, and, after the oaths were taken, cries were heard of " The Constitution for ever I" " Long live Frederick VII. !" After the departure of the King, some individuals sang the first couplet of the " Marseillaise." A rumour was in circulation that an effort was to be made on the evening of the 21st to obtain a representative regime. There was some talk of a deputation, composed of the deputies of Co penhagen at the States, of members of the burgess class, and of students, which was to present itself to the King, and express a wish in favour of a constitution. The interv e nti on o f th e p o li ce suc ceeded in dissipating the crowd, and public tranquil lity was not a moment troubled. All the Ministers have been confirmed in their places. Only Count de Molthe, of the family of the Minister of Den mark at Paris, was named member of the Council of State, and was present on the 21st at the first coun cil held by the King. The King sent one of his chamberlains to announce to the sister of the late King, the Landgrave of Hesse, who is returning to Italy with her daughter, the Princess Augusta, the sad news of the death of her august brother. Another officer of the Court caned a similar message to the Dukes d'Augustemburg, brothers of the Queen. Her Majesty, whose affliction is profound, and who is the object of universal sympathy, left Copenhagen on the 21st, and retired to Fortghenferee, a royal residence three leagues from the capital. Prince Ferdinand, brother to the late King, is fifty-eight years of age; he is married to the eldest daughter of King Frederick VI., and has no children ; he will be the presumptive heir to the throne. After him, should the present King not marry again, or have no children, the Crown would pass to Prince Frederick, eldest son of the Landgrave of Hesse, eldest sister to the late King. It is this Prince who married the Grand Duchess, daughter of the Emperor Nicholas, who died three years back. His accession will lead to a forced solution of the question of the separation of Holstein from the Crown of Denmark, a question raised at the end of 1846 by p rescript of King Christian VIII., and which has so much agitated men's minds in the Duchies and in Germany. The following is the letter-patent announcing the acces sion of Frederick VII. to the throne : " We, Frederick VII., by the grace of God, &c., greeting :—Since the Almighty has thought fit to call King, to himself the so dear to the country, our beloved father, Christian VIII., we have ascended the throne of our forefathers. Profoundly touched and afflicted by the heavy blow which has fallen on us as a son, we share with our faithful people in the grief inspired by the great loss which our dear country has experienced, and we seek for strength in the firm confidence which we feel in the succour of the Divine goodness, and in the conscious ness of our sincere and serious determination to as sure the prosperity of our dear people. Our first and most important object shall be to follow the example of our beloved father, to unite, like him, clemency to justice in our government, to encircle the inhabitants of all parts of the country with the same paternal affection, and not only to continue the amelio rations commenced by him in the administration, but also to terminate the arrangement intended by him for the different relations of the state, the completion of which has been deferred only by the illness and decease of our beloved father, 4111 d Winch tends to guarantee tho reciprocal rights of the citizens, to ensure concord in our dear country, and to strengthen the force and glory of the state. In addition, it is our will that ali public affairs shall follow their course uninterruptedly, in confor mity with prescribed rules ; and that all the officers, named or confirmed in their situatiotyi by the de ceased King, shil continue to fulfil their functions until further orders, under the oath of fidelity previ ously sworn by them. " Given at our Palace of Christiauburg, this 21st day of January, 1848. " FREDERICK, the King." AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY MORNING. • advises have been received from Halifax to the 18th, Boston to the 15th, and New York to the [4th instant, by the Canard's steam-ship Caledonia, Captain Lott, which was telegraphed off Holyhead this morning, as mentioned in our,City article. The Caledonia has brought 32,0001. in specie. The American steam-ship Washington, had been com pelled to put into Halifax, in consequence of some defect in her machinery. The Cambria arrived at Boston before the Caledonia left. The Cabinet at Washington ha 3 determined that General Scott should be recalled. The command of the army would devolve on Major-Cieneral Butler, as second in rank to General Scott. The other officers involved in the dissensions in the camp would, as a matter of course, return home. The latest American news will be found in the following extract from the Boston Advertiser of the 15th, the New York mail not having arrived in I3os ton at the time of the departure of the steamer. NEW YORK, JAN, 14.—The steamer Rhode Island was run into this afternoon, by a Brooklyn ferry boat while passing up the East River, on her way to Stonington. The water- wheel of the Rhode Island was carried away, and other damage done. Another boat was sent on with the passengers and mail ; the latter included that for the English steamer• CONGRESS, FRIDAY.—The Senate was not in session to-day, having adjourned over until Monday. The House of Representatives was engaged chiefly upon private Bills of little importance, and resolutions re ported by Committees, which were read twice and re ferred to the Committee of the Whole. The Bill providing for pensions for widows of revolutionary soldiers married after the war, reported from the Committee on Private Land Claims, and one for the relief of the step-mother of Major Brown, who was killed opposite to Matamoras, was discussed for several hours. Many members opposed the latter, because they thought that no preference should be given to the families of officers over those of privates. If the Bill embraced all similar cases, they would be willing to support it. Without taking the question, the Committee rose, and the House, without; doing any further business, adjourned over till Monday. BY " PONT EXPRESS" AT NEW YORK.—PETERS• BURGII, JAN. 13, 1848.—Your Pony Express this morning brought New Orleans papers of the 7th. The schooner Eleanor arrived on the 6th, bringing papers from Vera Cruz to the 29th, four days later. General Scott had issued orders announcing that the United States army is about to spread over and occupy the whole republic of Mexico, of which it will hold possession until Mexico sues for peace upon accept able terms to the United States. Numerous orders are published relating to taxes. All fines heretofore payable to the Mexican Government are demanded now to support the army. He enumerates various articles for taxation. Lotteries are prohibited. Colonel Mills was about to leave Vera Cruz. We learn that his regiment was entertained at Vera Cruz by a splendid supper. A letter in the Monitor, dated at Queretaro, states that the present Congress would not come together again, several deputies having left. It adds that the new deputies and Senators would soon be in the city. The Mexican Government is silently taking mea sures for suppressing the intrigues of foreign monarchies. In consequence of the State Governments not ful filling their promises to aid the general Government with such resources as they could command, the latter was much cramped for means. Lieut. APDonnelly of the third artillery, and two other officers, with a small party, left Puebla for Jalapa. on the 15th, having charge of considerable money. They were attacked in the night by four teen robbers, and although only three of our country men had arms, they defeated the ladrones, and arrived safe at their destination. NonroLx, JAN. 13.—The U. S. brig Porpoise, Lieut. Gordon, at Norfolk, is under sailing orders for Africa and the Mediterranean. The .New York Herald states that Mr. Clay will decline a nomination as candiliate for the Presidency on his arrival at Washington. It also says that there has been a minor defalcation at the Treasury de partment of about 25,000 dollars, and also one in a post-office, somewhere at the north, of 50,000 dollars. The latest accounts from New Orleans were to the 2d inst., and Vera Cruz to the 24th. There were rumours that General Scott had decided to send a column of the army to Queretaro. There was no confirmation of the news that Mr. Trist had agreed with the Mexican Commissioners upon terms of peace. A tremendous explosion occurred on board the steam-boat Sea uiird, from New Orleans, bound to St. Louis, and loaded with 100 kegs of gunpowder She took fire near Cape Geraideau, and blew up with a tremendous explosion, which was heard at a dis tance of 40 miles around the scene of disaster. The boat was, of course, blown to atoms ; but, happily, the passengers had all narrowly escaped before the explosion took place. Another steam-boat accident also occurred on the Ohio. Oat of 70 persons between 20 and 30 perished. In Canada the elections were proceeding quietly. Forty-one Members had been elected, including M. Papineau. There were still about forty elections to come off, a majority of which the reformers expect to result in their favour. operate very sparingly. The sales were unusually active. The Indus and Madrid save arrived. Paredes was lying ill at Talancigo, and Santa Anna in retirement at Tehuacan. The Mexican army was nearly extinguished. Negotiations with Trist nearly been renewed, with prospects of peace. IRISH SPECIAL COMMISSION. CLONMEL, JAN. 27. The Lord Chief Justice took his seat on the bench this morning at ten o'clock, and was joined by the Chief Baron shortly a f ter , who, we are happy to say, is much b e tt er . His Lordship was suffering from the prevailing epidemic. MURDER.--TWO CAPITAL CONVICTIONS.—PhiIip Cody and Henry Cody, brothers, and both young men, were indicted for having, upon the 96h of July last, at Killarney, in this county, wilfully and feloniously fired a loaded gun at one Edward Madden, and inflicted upon his person a mortal wound, of which he died in two days. The elder brother, Henry, was charged with firing the fatal shot, and Philip with having been present aiding and abetting. The ATTORNEY GENERAL stated the facts of the case. John Kelly, examined by the SOLICITOR-GENERAL --I live at Ballyknockin, and am a steward in the employment of the Marquis of Ormond at the wood of Killarney. The deceased Edward Madden was employed there as an assistant steward over the women engaged in barking the timber. I know the prisoners. On the 9th of July 1 left my own place to go to the wood. As I was passing thruugh it I heard a shot, and heard Madden bawl. I knew his voice. I looked after I heard the shot, and saw the smoke, and observed a man, and then another, who bounced out close to where the first man was, and fired a second shot. I afterwards heard a third shot, and saw the man who fired it. I heard Madden bawl immediately after the first shot, and before the second. After the first shot was fired he began to move away, and then the two others were fired after him. The three shots were fired at him before he reached the gap. The persons who were present did not pursue the murderers. I did not attempt to follow them myself, for they were out of sight in a minute. I turned back from the place and set the people to work. The .list of workmen was called over, but they did not all answer. There were 160 men altogether. Henry Cody did not attend that day at all, but Phil. Cody came at one o'clock and made a half-day. They were both at work on the following day. They worked there all that day, but never after. Harry Cody lived at Ballyknockin, and the other prisoner at Bohermore. Mr. M. Ryan, R.M., examined by the ATTORNEY GENERAL — I went to see Madden, after he was shot, on the same day, and found him lying in an out house; the first word he said was, " Ah, Sir, they have done my job at last." He also said tliat he did not expect to recover, that he was almost off. He was perfectly in his senses at the time. He told me the priest had been with him. I reduced to writing the statement he then made. Sir Charlea O'Donnell deposed that he was in command of the troops in the district, and that he heard the declaration read to the deceased by Mr. Ryan. The deceased assented to the statement as it was read. The Clerk of the Crown then read the "dying declaration" of the deceased. After stating that he had settled his affairs, and received the rites of his church, to prepare him for appearing before his God, where he soon expected to be, the document set forth that Henry Cody was the person who fired the shot that wounded him, and that two other shots were fired at him, by Philip Cody, of Bohermore, and a strange man whom he took to be Ned Kelly, of Kil cash. Mr. Ryan was then cross-examined by Mr. ROL LESTON—IIe said, I took down in the declaration everything the deceased said. The deceased was with me frequently on magisterial business during the two years I knew him, and gave me most impor tant private information. I only knew him to be accused of one crime, robbery of a gun. Sub-constable Flannagan deposed that he arrested the prisoner, Henry Cody, on the 11th of September. Witness saw him running from the wood with a gun in his hand, and when witness came up near him he snapped a gun at him (witness), and was raising the cock again when witness knocked him down. They both fell together, and Cody got up and ran off again. The case for the prosecution closed here, and Mr. ROLLESTON addressed the jury for the defence. The Solicitor-General having replied the Chief Baron charged the jury, who retired, and in about twenty minutes found the prisoners Guilty—Henry Cody of the murder, and Philip Cody of having aided and assisted in it. Sentence was deferred. CHARGE OF ROBBEP.Y.—Timothy Hogan, Michael Whelan, and Pat. Coonan, all young men, were found guilty of having entered the house of William Hackett, at Derrinvollen, on the 26th of November, and robbed it of several articles of wearing apparel. During the examination of the witnesses a sub constable, named Sullivan, produced three loaded pistols which he had taken from the prisoners. In reply to the Court, the witness said that the arms were loaded when he got them, and that people said the gun was taken from Mr. Little on the night he was shot. Mr. Scorr—Are the arms loaded now ? Witness —They are, Sir. Mr. SCOTT—WeII, take care, Sir. You ought not to be throwing them about in that way.—(Laughter.) Mr. ROLLESTON— Take care, yott - might shoot the law officers.—(Laughter.) CHIEF JUSTICE—It is very improper to bring the arms loaded into Court. ADJOURNMENT OF THE COMMISSION.—Their Lord ships will, if possible, rise to• morrow evening, so as to proceed to Dublin on Saturday. FRIDAY, JAN. 28. The Judges sat to-day at ten o'clock, at which hour the court was crowded to excess, in consequence of its being very generally known that three of the men charged with the attempt upon Mr. Baillie's life would be put on their trial, and that it would be the last important case heard during the com mission. ATTACKING A DWELLING-HOUSE ARMED.--In the case of the Queen v. Hogan, Coonan, and Whelan, for attacking the dwelling-house of William Haskett, armed, and stealing a quantity of wearing apparel, in which there was a verdict of conviction, as we mentioned yesterday. Mr. ROLLESTON moved in arrest of judgment, contending that under the statute which gave the court power to try prisoners for both ridings of the county of Tipperary in either Nenagh or Clonmel, they had no jurisdiction, unless where a special order was made for the removal of prisoners, and there was no such order made in the case of the men who had just been tried. _ J- The ATTORNEY. GENERAL, on behalf of the Crown, stated that upon a former occasion the point was raised, when one of their Lordships (the Chief Jus tice) filled the position he than occupied, and was overruled. The COURT at once confirmed the decision, and sentenced the prisoners to be each transported for seven years. The CMIEF JUSTICE, in pronouncing judgment, observed that the punishment would have been much more severe, but that it did not appear any violence was committed. He also called attention to the fact that the prisoners were in their present position owing to the breach of confidence of one of their own guilty companions, and advised all those persons who were mixed up in crime, and were as yet at large, to give up all connexion with men who would, the mo ment their own liberty was at stake, betray them into the hands of justice. The prisoner Hogan, who has been convicted in this case, is a notorious character, and believed to be implicated in several of the most barbarous murders that have taken place in the county Tipperary for the last two or three years, and amongst others, in the assassination of Mr. Waller; the evideuce against him, however, although strong, was not such as to warrant the Crown in putting him on his trial in any single instance. In Mr. Waller's case the de ceased mentioned his name as one of the murderers before his death, but as there was no dying declara tion taken the statement could not be made use of; and the prisoner, after keeping out of the way for nearly twelve months, at last gave himself up, when he found that the evidence was insufficient, and that two of his companions were discharged. He was also discharged in a short time after his arrest. ATTEMPT TO MURDER MR. BAILLIE.--Edirard Rowan and John Daly, the former a young man about 25, and the latter about 40 years of age, were placed at the bar and indicted for having attempted the life of Mr. Richard Uniacke Baillie, upon the 13th of November, 1847, at Lisnaturney, in this county, by discharging a loaded blunderbuss at him, and inflict ing a certain injury upon him by which his life was endangered. The prisoner Rowan was arraigned as the party who actually fired the - shot, and Daly with being present aiding and abetting. There are three other men implicated in this crime, but only two given in charge to the jury, as their legal advisers refused to allow them to join in their challenges. Of the three, one has become an approver, as will appear in the evidence, and another is in prison ill of fever. A most respectable jury having been empannelled, The ATTORNET.GENERAL shortly stated the case for the prosecution. He said, that like many other cases tried during the commission, it arose out of the position which Mr. Baillie held, as agent to a gen tleman named Rowley, and which brought him into contact with some of the prisoners, who entered into a conspiracy to take his life. It would appear that the prisoner Daly was arrested for a sum of 701., at the suit of Mr. Rowley, and that he and the other man on trial, together with several others, knowing it WAS Mr• iSaillie'S usual habit to go home to his residence, about three miles and a-half from Nenagh, every Saturday night late, met him on the night in question, and fired at him a blunderbths, the contents of which entered his head, and very nearly deprived him of life. Evidence in proof of the above statement was then called. The case for the prosecution had not closed at post hour. COMMITTAL OF A WIFE AND MAN SERVANT FOR WILFUL MURDER. ABERGAVENNY, SATURDAY, 3 A.ll , l.—illgt;;test excitement has prevailed in this district for some time past in reference to the death of Mr. William Howells, a farmer, in the parish of Llanwellen. lie died on the 10th of last November, Subsequently to his burial his wife and man-servant conducted themselves in a manner which excited suspicion, and various persons living in the locality, knowing that the de ceased died without being attended by any medical man, were not slow in charging the wife and her male servant with having murdered the deceased. These charges came at length to the knowledge of Mr. Coroner Hughes, and assumed such a shape that that gentleman considered it necessary to hold an inquest. Accordingly the deceased's grave was re opened for the purpose of making a poet mortem examination of the remains, and on Friday, the 7th of the present month, a respectable jury met the Coroner at the Ilanbury Arms, Llanwellen. The only proceeding which then took place consisted in the jury viewing the body - and giving the contents of the stomach into the charge of Mr. Steele, a surgeon, for analysation, and the inquiry was adjourned. The Court was re-opened on the 14th, when the following evidence was adduced : Jane Morgan, a servant to deceased, said that her master enjoy e d good health up to the 9th of Novem ber last. He had some apple dumplings for supper that night, and shortly afterwards went to bed. The last dumplin g he a t e hi s w i fe helped him to, wh i ch she split up the middle, and put what she thought were sugar and milk upon i t. The deceased, about ten o'clock, was seized with v om i t i ng an d purg i ng, with excruciating pain, and he continued in that state till twelve o'clock the following night, when he died. After her master's death her mistress slept in the same room with the man servant, James Price. Shortly before deceased died her mistress said it was no odds if she gave him a fatal dose. Witness told her she would not, as she had another world to think of. After the body was exhumed she said, "It will be better for me to stand my ground, and then I shall not be suspected so much." She also said to witness, " If anything is found in his stomach you Al in be hung because you made the dumplings." Richard Steele, surgeon, who made a post mortem examination of the body, proved that deceased had died from the effects of white arsenic. He found as much as 6fr ounces of that poison in a very limited portion of the stomach. Edward Evans, n druggist, identified the wife as having purchased a shillingsworth of arsenic at his shop about the time deceased expired. Thomas Davis, a labourer, said he had been in the service of Mary Howells about seven weeks. On Tuesday last he went up stairs to change his trousers. Price accompanied him to the room, when he told witness to shake the gown of the first wit ness. He did so, but nothing fell out. Price then told him to put his hand in the sleeve, which he did, and found a brown paper parcel. He declined to open it, because he thought it looked very suspicious that Price should tell him to shake the gown. and not do it himself. He called his mistress up, and she exclaimed, "Here is the poison—that girl has done it." John Royston, a constable, proved having appre hended Mary Howell the preceding day. The latter told him that she had seen the servant girl give the deceased the poison in a cup, after he had eaten the dumpling. The jury, after consulting, returned a verdict of "Wilful murder against Mary Howells, the widow of the deceased, and James Price, her servant ;" upon which they were both committed by the Coroner to take their trials at the next assizes. DEPREDATIONS OF THB WOLVES IN FRANCE.---A letter from Baumes-les-Dames, on the Doubs, states that the country round that place is infested with wolves. A few days ago, as two children, one ten years of age and the other eight, were on their way home from a farm-house, they met a wolf, and on their attempt to fly the younger child fell, and was immediately carried off by the wolf into a neighbouring forest. A diligent search was made, but no trace of the child could be found.—Galignani's Messenger. Loss OF THE AVENGER.—A letter from the British Consul at Palermo announces that a portion of the wreck of the Avenger has been washed on shore at the west coast of Sicily. Amongst other matters there have been found the body of an officer in uniform lashed to a spar, a boat, and a carronade gun, marked Avenger, 181 b. Some surprise is felt, not only at the distance from the wreck where those portions have turned up, but also at the state of the currents, which would make the place appear a most unlikely one whence to expect any tidings or anything to elucidate the melancholy catastrophe.— Observer. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN HIGH HOLRORN.—Yester day morning, shortly after one o'clock, a fire, attended with a considerable destruction of property, broke out upon the premises belonging to Mr. James Vaile, auc tioneer, situate at 288, High Holborn. The discovery was made by some of the neighbours in the opposite houses, who saw smoke issuing from the upper windows. An immediate alarm was given, and the residents were made sensible of the danger to which they were exposed. The whole of the parties, with the exception of a child in bed, as!eep, were able to get out without much diffi culty; but upon their again attempting to ascend the stairs, to rescue the child, they found the place so full of fire that they were unable to enter. One of the fire men, of the name of Stagg, upon learning that a child was in the premises, succeeded, at no little personal risk, in forcing his way through the smoke and heat, and he happily succeeded in bringing the child out in safely. PENINSULAR MAILS.—The Peninsular and Orien tal Steam Navigation Company's ship Madrid, Captain Weeks, arrived at Southampton on Saturday at noon, with the usual Spanish and Portuguese mails, in charge of Lieutenant Newenham, R.N. Her dates are, Gib raltar, Jan. 15 ; Cadiz, 16 ; Lisboa, 19 ; and Vigo, 22. The Madrid dd not call at Oporto in consequence of the boisterous state of the weather, and during the passage across the bay she has experienced a succession of N.E. gales with heavy sea. The steamer Jupiter was spoken in Vigo-bay, proceeding southward, on the 21st, at 6 o'clock P.M. The Madrid has 27 passengers, and the following freight:-124 half-chests of oranges, G boxes of tangarmes, 21 boxes of lemons, 76 bags of chestnuts, 25 bags of gum, 38 barrels of dates, 104 cases of Spanish eggs, 12 packages of specie (value 11,0001.), and 40 packages of sundries. At Gibraltar —the steamer Polyphemus and the troop-ship Belle isle, bound to the West Indies with the 54th Regiment. At Lisbon—Her Majesty's ships Howe, St. Vincent, Queen, and Canopus ; steam-frigates Scourge, Dragon, and Terrible, from Portsmouth, with artillerymen, &c. The Isabella Spanish frigate was to sail from Cadiz on the 16th for Havannah, with the new Governor-Ge neral Roncali. The commercial advises are not of importance. SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAT...—The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's iron ship Indus, Captain Soy, arrived to-day, bringing the heavy portion of the East Indian and China mails, a small cargo of silks, gum, and Egyptian produce, and about fifty pas sengers, among whom are eleven Turkish youths, sent by the Egyptian Government to England for education. The Indus sailed from Malta on the 13th, but meeting with some damage from the boisterous state of the weather, was compelled to put back to Malta, from which port she again sailed on the morning of the 16th. The Royal Mail Steam Company's ship Teviot, having been ashore a few hours on the Spit, arrived at three o'clock P.M., and the Madrid arrived from Lisbon, &c., at noon. Guar's-INN.—Notice has been given in the several Halls of the Inns of Court, that there will be a voluntary examination for honours in the English laws of real property, in Gray's Inn-hall, on Wednesday, the 7th of June next, and that all students for the bar will be qua lified to stand on the occasion who shall have attended and joined in the ordinary lecture, examinations, moot ings, and other exercises which take place in Gray's Inn hall between the present month and June. The position of the candidates will depend upon the results of the examination in connexion with those of the ordinary exercises beforementioned. The names of the successful candidates alone will appear in the class list, so that those who do not think proper to go in for honours, or who do not succeed, will not be prejudiced. D ES PERATE ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.—On Saturday afternoon, between the hours of three and four o'clock, a young man, named Charles Bertie, made a most desperate attempt to destroy his life by leaping from the centre of Blackfriars bridge into the River Thames. Several persons noticed him suddenly mounting the bridge. They at once suspected what were his inten t tions, but before they had time to get up to him he plunged head fotonest into the water. A steamer pass- ing at the moment nearly went over him. Mr. R. Ware, the pier -master, sent off a boat, and the man was res cued apparently lifeless. He was immediately taken to the Glaziers' Arms, Water-lane, ,where he was placed in a warm bath, and the usual remedies having been resorted to he recovered sufficiently to state that he had a wife and two children, and that they resided in the Muscovy-road, Bayswater. He also stated that he was exceedingly sorry in having attempted to destroy his life, and why he should have done so he could not tell. Livastroor. BANKING COMPANT.—The deputation appointed by the meeting of the depositors on Wednes day, waited upon the directors of the bank yesterday, and after a long conference, during which the propriety of a further call being made on the shareholders, to enable the bank to meet its engagements , was earnestly urged by one of the deputation, the inter view terminated in the following offer being made b y the directors, namely, "To pay 6s. Bd. in cash on or before the 10th of February next, Cs. Sd. on the let of August, and the further sum of Cs. Sd. on the Ist of December. The two latter payments to be made by bills, to be drawn by the depositors on the Liverpool Banking Company, payable at Messrs. Curries and Co., London. The bank to allow five per cent. interest on their respective ba.- lances.—Liverpool Mercury. The Musical World states that Mr. Macready has Acce pted au engagement in the United States. COURT CMCVLArt. WINDSOR, SUNDAY. - Yesterday the Duke of Norfolk, Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, and Sir Robert and Lady Grrdiner took their departure from the Castle. Prince Albert enjoyed the sport of shooting yesterday morning. His Royal Highness was accompanied by Viscount Palmerston, and was attended by Lord Byron, Mr. G. E. Anson, and Colonel Bouverie. Her Majesty and Prince Albert took an airing yesterday afternoon, in a pony phaeton, the Prince driving, attended by the Equerries in waiting, Major-General Wemyss and Colonel Bouveilie, oa horseback. Their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent yesterday afternoon, at her residence, Frogrnore House. The royal dinner party at the Castle yesterday evening ineludod their Majesties the King aod Queen of the Belgians, .user Royal Highness the Duelers of Kent, their Excellencies Mons. and Madame Van de Ireyer, La Marquise' de Truzeynies, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Seib, and Major de Moer kerke. The Queen's private band .attended on Friday evening i❑ the CaAle, and; perOrned the following pieces : Overture, " Sirene" Selection, " Postilion" Adam. March, " Zauherflote ". . • , Mozart. Selection, "La Fille du Regiment"... izetti. Finale, Sinfonia ... Carsbade Walter .... . Labitz. l (Y. This morning the Queen and Prince Albert tt.lok their accustomed early walk. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took walking and pony exercise this forenoon in the grounds around the Castle. Her Royal Highness the Princeso Helena was taken an airing. The Queen and Prince Albert, the Ring of the Belgians, the Ladies and Gentlemen or ' the Court, and the domestic household, attended Divine service this morning in the private chapel of the Castle. The Hon. and Rev. C. L. Courtenay officiated. Her Majesty the Queen of the Belgians attended Divine service at the Roman Catholic Chapel, spital. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by his Serene Highness Prince Frederick of Hesse, and attended by Lady Augusta Cadogan and Baron Knesebeck, arrived at' their residence at Kew, on Saturday, from honouring the Duke of Rutland with a visit at Belvoir Castle. Viscount Palmerston arrived in town on Saturday afternoon from Windsor Castle. BONNIE SWEET ROBIN" IS " NAE DEAD AND GANE." (Written for the Anniversary of the Birthday of Robert Burns, at Sheffield, - January 25, 1848.) Oh! say not in sadness the Bard has departed, While Memory thus is enshrining his name; For the perfume his chaplet of bay leaves imparted, Lives fragrantly yet iu the breathing of Fume. _ While we think of him over the t 0 crimson tipp'd flower,' While we chaunt furth his soul in the " Bannockburn" strain, While we bend to his harp as we do at this hour, Oh! " Bonnie sweet Rubin" is " nae dead and gane." His love plaints in exquisite tenderness breaking, Still tall on our ear as the dew on the earth; His song of proud honesty still is awaking Man's sense of the greatness that springeth from Worth. While rare " Tam O'Shanter" calls smiles to our faces, While " Mary in Heaven" brines something of pain; While " Puir Maillie" is mouru'd, and " Twa Dogs" keep their places, Oh! " Bonne sweet Robin" is " nae dead and gane." It is bitter to know we must tell a dark story, Of Poverty thrusting him on to his grave; That he struggled with Sorrow while working for Glory, A toiler—a victim—but never a slave. Yet his spirit now seemeth to hover beside us, The sepulchre-stone was laid o'er him in vain, He is here as God's teacher to prompt and to guide us, And " Bonnie sweet Robin" is "nae dead and gene." He lighted the beacon that burneth for ever, He opened the well-spring that cannot dry up; lie poureth Truth in the chalice he left us, and never Shall noble Humanity turn from the cup. While We've hearts in our boson's that know how to cherish The hands that unfasten the world's heavy chain— Till the Good and the Beautiful utterly perish, Oh! " Bonnie sweet Robin" is " nae dead and gam" —Dispatch. ELIZA. COOK. CHLOROFORM. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—The public are now fully aware of the ex traordinary and merciful effects of chloroform, which makes patients thoroughly insensible to pain while undergoing the most torturing operations. Thou sands have already experienced its benign influence, and amongst others the venerable Berzelius himself, to whom it was the means of bringing relief under the most agonizing suffering. Chloroform not only makes patients insensible to pain, but is, besides, a valuable remedy in some of the most formidable diseases. Beyond a doubt it has in more than one instance cured tetanus, cholera, delirium tremens, and many others. Look also to its blessed effects in midwifery. How many mothers, with their offspring, have been saved, and how many have to be saved by it. When ether was introduced, the bad effects which were mixed with the good were proving fatal to its general aduption. The idea of alleviating pain, how ever, had by this time caught hold of the profession, both here and on the Continent, and every one was eager to distance his fellow in the discovery of some other substance, but the problem could only be solved by the powerful mind of a Simpson, who thus con ferred a boon on the hutnan race. When we look buck on Dr. Simpson's improve ments in the obstetric art, and his contributions to medicine generally, crowned by the greatest disco very of this or any other age, we see that his life has been one career of usefulness, of deep scientific re search, and, we are happy to add, of triumph. The misty clouds of petty jealousy have been dispersed by the resplendant rays of the sun of truth. He may be said to be to medicine what Newton was to phi losophy, and, to adopt the language of the poet, " When all was dark as night, God said, Let Simpson be, and all was light." The ladies of Britain, not to be outdone by their continental neighbours, will surely come forward with some appropriate testimonial to one who, with out fee or reward, has done so much for them ; and surely Lord John Russell will feel proud in proposing a grant, to which Parliament will be equally proud to accede, rejoicing in the opportunity of marking a nation's sense of gratitude to the benefactor of man kind, and the honour to his country. Yours, &c., JUSTITIA. January 29, 1848. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH THE QUEEN V. THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY'. DECISION BY ANTICIPATION. _ Feb. 1, 1848. Lord DENMAN—The question before us is one merely of practice. As this Court never interferes with the rules and regulations laid down by inferior Courts as to how the form and manner of proceedings before them shall be conducted, we declare The rule discharged. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT MANCHESTER. - FRIDAY. CHESTER CUP.-25 to 1 agst Blaze, 30 to 1 apt Keleshe (taken), 30 to 1 agst Cracow (taken), 30 to 1 agst Jonathan Wild (taken), 40 to 1 agst Clumsy (taken), 40 to 1 agst Swallow, 40 to 1 agst Swiss Boy (taken), 40 to 1 agst Lady Hylda, 1,000 to 20-1,000 to 13 agst Sally Maggs (taken), 1,000 to lb agst Glen Saddel (taken). DEnsv.-900 to 100 agst Surplice, 13 to 1 agst Glen dower, 20 to 1 agst Springy Jack (offers to take), 20 to 1 agst. Assault, 33 to 1 agst Cervus ((taken), 40 to 1 agit Keraun (taken freely), 1,000 even Springy Jack agst Assault (offered). NEWMARKRT IIAxDICIP.-10 to 1 aget Millwood (taken and afterwards offered). THE EARL or DUNDONALD.—We understand that Vice-Admiral the Earl of Dundonald, G.C.8., the newly-appointed Commander-in-Chief to the West India station, has applied to the Lords of the Treasury for his arrears of half-pay, which were impounded during the period his Lordship's name was not on the Navy List. The Noble and Gallant Earl having been restored to the same rank and position in the navy to which he would povedrogr, ess i ve /y have attained had hie name not been re m ov ed, appears to have a strong prima facie ground of appeal to the Government, — United Ser vice Gazette. Captain Sir Baldwin Wake Walker, K.C.8., to whom is offered the appointment of Surveyor of the Navy, is expected in England from the Pacific, rid Pa nama, by the next West India mail steam-packet. Mr. Edye, the Deputy-Surveyor, has been granted the salary of Surveyor—namely, at the rate of 1,0001. per annum, since the retirement of Sir William Symonds.—United Service Gazette. The Governor of Labuan, Mr. Brooke, had an in terview with Lord Palmerston on Saturday afternoon, at the Foreign-office. His Excellency will take his depar ture early next week for the seat of his government in the Meander frigate, commanded by his friend, the Hon. Henry Keppel, accompanied by his suite and by the several officers appointed to constitute the new settle• ment of Great Britain in the Indian Archipelago. The Meander made one of the quickest passages on record in the early part of the week from Sheerness to Portsmouth, where her Gallant Captain has been exercising', his crew of picked men. So popular is this enterprising com mander in the navy, that several petty oftieet .8 volun teered to enter as able-bodied seamen, and moi than the full complement were soon found to uccompal on bis distant sad enterprisipg voyago,—Observer. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTET, SUNDAY.—The Earl of Auckland, G.C.13., First Lord of the Admiralty, and Mr. H. G. Ward, M.P., official Secretary to the Board, after spending the evening with Mr. Baring, at Alver stoke, on Friday evening, slept at the Railway Hotel, Gosport, and returned to town by the 8 30 (express) train. We beg to inform naval officers resident in the provinces, that during the ensuing Parliamentary session, such of them as may be desirous of an audi ence of the First Naval Lord, Rear-Admiral J. W. D. Dundas, 0.13., ALP., should attend at the Admiralty on the first and third Tuesdays in every month. In noticing the rumour relative to the paying off of the Prince Regent, 92, Captain W. F. Martin, which was very current after the visit of the Lords of the Admiralty to that ship on Friday, it was mentioned merely as a rumour, and considering that her penant has been flying nearly two months, and that she has not entered 200 men out of her complement of 820, there seemed to be some colour for the report. We have the best authority, however, for stating that she will not be paid off until she bas served the usual term of commission. Captain Martain will not take any but good seamen in the strictest Eerily., and this per haps has kept her back in manning and fitting longer than other ships whose captains have been less parti cular in their selection of hands. We hope to see her in due time manned and ready to do good service, as she is capable of doing, as one of the heaviest two deckers afloat. Captain Sir Baldwin Walker, to whom is offered the appointment of surveyor of the navy, is expected in England from the Pacific, via Panama, by the next Mexican packet. Mr. Edye, the deputy surveyor, has been granted the salary of surveyor at the rate of 1,0001. per annum since the retirement of Sir W. Symonds. SIR CHABLIS NAPIER'S SQUADRON. Extract of a letter : " The St. Vincent, Howe, Queen, and Canopus are the only sailing craft attached to Sir Charles Napier's squadron left in the Tagus. The screw fri gate Amphion, 36, the Terrible, Dragon, and Scourge, from the steam squadron, now here (19th instant). The Comet has gone to Oporto, where also is the Jackal. " The Asia, g 4, Captain Stopford, flag of Rear- Admiral Phipps Hornby, C. 8., arrived at Lisbon on the 11th, with her mainyard carried away when off Usshant. The Canopus gave her mainyard to the Asia, which enabled her to pursue her voyage to Rio on the 13th. " Exercise has recommenced in the squadron. The Admiral has to a certain extent recovered the shock caused by the sad intelligence of the loss of the Avenger and his step-son. Topsail, topgallant, and royal yards are sent down at sunset, and up again at eight ; sails are then bent immediately. " At Oporto all is quiet, but everybody is looking forward to another outbreak before very long; all the guns have been removed from Oporto, so that, in the event of a row, they may not defend themselves as heretofore. " The terrible arrived on the 15th." PROMOTIONS. JAN. 29.—John Beechervoise, Thomas Drury, Wil liam Weeks, John Brown, and William Sparks, gun ners, advanced to the first class. William Deacon, John Devonshire, Edward J. Humphreys, and William Hull, gunners, advanced to the seccnd class. ♦PPOINTMENTS. Second Master—William Greet, to the Hercules. Clerk—C. W. Motherwell and J. L. Thorne, to the Crocodile. Master's Assistant—Robert Forder, to the Star•. Boatswains—Edward Rouse, to the Prince Regent; John Turner, confirmed to the Blenheim. Wilid S.S.W., strong breezes and hazy weather. The ilereford Times describes a drake with three legs, to one of which two feet were attached. The largest forest set apart for red deer which ex• ists in Scotland is the forest of Atholl, where 100,000 English acres are given up to them. DEATH OF OTAHEITIAN CHlET.—Prinee Teti, the fifteenth son of Tati-Vahine, one of the greatest chiefs of Otabeite, died onWednesday in the hospital of theVal de Grace, Psris, in which he had been placed, in conse quence of his suffering from a lymphatic disease, called diathesis tuberculosis, and which it appears was aggra vated by his being brought to this climate. SERIOUS FIRE. NINE HORSES BURNED TO DEATH.---A letter received on Saturday at the Sun Fire Office, announces a most serious fire having occurred on Thursday last at a place called Spittle, near Aber - gavenny, which destroyed the farming premises of Mr. Richards. It commenced in the stables, where there were fourteen valuable horses; five were extricated alive, but the remaining nine were burned to death. Each animal was worth forty guineas. How the fire origi nated is not stated. DEATH or ANOTHER GENERAL.—We have to an• nounce the death of Gen. Frederick Maitland, Colonel of the 58th Regiment of Foot. This gallant veteran is one of the family of Lauderdale, the heritable standard bearer for Scotland, which has produced so many dis tinguished generals and admirals of the army and nary. He wsts the brother of the present Sir Alexander Mait land Gibson, Bart., and fourth son of General the Ho nourable Alexander Maitland, fifth son of the sixth Earl of Lauderdale; was born in 1763, and has died, conse-. quently, in the 86th year of his age. EARTHQUAKE AT BATAVlA.—Letters from Batavia in the island of Java, of the 20th, state that on the 16th, 17th, arid 18th, shocks of earthquake were felt at Batavia, and in the regencies of Cheribon, Bonjoemak, Kaddoe, Samarang, and Rambay. The shocks were so violent as to recal to mind those of 1834. At Batavia the towers of the church were a good deal shaken, and that of the town-hall had taken a strong leaning to the left, whilst a cross in east-icon, which surmounted it, was overthrown. In the town of Cheribon all the buildingl3, except the stores, the walls of which are of great thickness, were so much injured as to threaten ruin, and oblige the inhabitants to seek refuge in the plains in the environs. At Palimang the residence of the governor was thrown down, and all that it contained destroyed. Forty houses in the Chinese quarter shared the same fate, and seventeen inhabitants were crushed to death under the ruins. A great number of sugar and indigo iminufaetures in the open fields were destroyed. Intelligenice from all points of new disasters was reach ing Batavia, and the greatest alarm prevailed in that capital. THE FRENCH IN CHINA.--M. de Montigny, lately appointed Vice Consul of France at Shangbae, in China, had forwarded to his Government various interesting reports on the productions of Indo-China and the islands of the Indian Sea, which are likely to occupy an im portant place in the trade of France with those coun tries. The observations of M. de Montigny bore prin cipally on the different species of teak on the numerous applications of the gum known by the name of gutta percha, and on the many species of flour extracted from the roots and plants of the above mentioned countries. Those documents are accompanied with samples carefully selected, and even sets of the plants, of which M. do Montigny recommends the cultivation, either in France or Algeri a. TEE :Emu IN lIIS NATIVE FOEESTS.—A native who was walking at my side, and who had accompanied us all day, stopped suddenly, and, pointing with his finger, said, " Emu!" About a mile distant across the prairie we re two of those birds quietly feeding. The dogs were immediately called together, fresh vigour seemed to animate the whole party, and we proceeded to give thane in high spirits. Emus are sometimes shot with the r ifle, but the leilial mode of obtaining them is by hunting them with kangaroo dogs. If you happen to come near enough to them without raising alarm, they ma y frequently be detained, and even attracted almost u:p to your stirrup, by whistling. I have known this to lie repeatedly tried with success. When you begin to whistle the emu lifts up its head and listens with attention ; soon, delighted with the sound, he walks leisurely in the direction from which it comes; then, perceivin g a human being, he pauses, seems irresolute, and final ly walks round and round you in circles, gra dually lessening, until he approaches within a few yards. If his cf)nfidence be not repaid with a bullet, he will, after gratifying his curiosity by a good stare, quietly walk away through his native woods. Emus are fre quently speared by the natives, who, by taking care to stand stock-still the moment the creature lifts up its head, 'manage to approach within a few yards of them while feeiding. Though the savage may have his hand raised in the act of throwing the spear he remains fixed in that attitude whilst the emu takes a survey of him. Perceiving only an object without motion, the bird takes him for as tree, and continues to graze, falling a victim, like other innocent things, to a misplaced confidence in its own security. The emus ran fast, and gave us a long chase; but at length the headmost dog caught held of the ex tended flapper of one of the birds, and arrested its progress; the others, coming up, soon pulled him to the grour,d, and by the time we reached the spot he was dead. The feathers from the tail were distributed among the party, and placed in our caps; and the legs being cut off, the rest of the bird was abandoned. The legs alone afford any meat, which is by no means a delicacy, and resembles coarse beef. —The Bushman. The trial of Mr. Gutteridge, for libelling the Bishop of Manchester, will take place at the Warwick Assizes in the month of March. The Zeitungshalle of Berlin, of the 26th, announces , some [cases of cholera in Upper Silesia, especially at Ratiboo, Plass, and Leobschitz. Public prayers have been ordered in all the church COMMERCIAL NEWS. The commercial news reports exchange unaltered ; cotton and flour dull. NEw Yong, JAN. 13, 2i P.M.-Cotton--Sales 600 bales, at steady prices. Flour heavy, at 6 dolls. for common Western. Ashes-150 barrels pots sold at 5 dolls. 75c. Pearls firm at 7 dolls. 200 brls. selected whale oil sold at 36c. The leather sale to day was thinly attended. There was a slight ad vance on heavy and good damaged. There was not a single best quality hide in middle or light weight; still prices were fully sustained. Pork heavy. Sterl ing bills more plenty, and demand more slack, though tip-top names have been bought this morning at 11 to 11f pm.; but we quote 10 to 11. Francs have sold well, at 5,35. EYE-Sales --Cotton 800 bales, almost all to ship. Flour very hieavy ; shippers do not buy common western at 6 dolls. ; small sales southern, at 6 dolls. 37ic. 2,000 bushl s new southern yellow corn sold at 68c. ; 150 bbla. mess pork at 10 dolls. 50c. There is a good deal of poor cheese in market not fit to ship, which sells at Sic. to 6c. ; prime 6kc. to 7c. JAN. 14.-2 1.M.-(By telegraph.)-In Flour no change from yesterday, though the market is, if anything, duller. 7,000 barrels received to-day from New Orleans. There are orders in the market for shipping lots, but at lower rates. Sales of Gennessee at 6 dolls. 12ic. to 6 dolls. 25c.; 2,000 barrels of western at 5 dolls. 931 c. to 6 dolls. 12ic. Corn dull. Sales of new mixed at 65c. to 68c.; for old, 70c. offered.. Oats dull at .50c. Cotton firm. Lard firm, and held higher ; for barrels Bic., and for kegs 9c. was asked. Sales 1,000 barrels new mess pork, at 12 dolls, per barrel. Sales Western shoul ders at 44c.; barns at 7fc. per lb. ALBANY, 47 41+1 1 3.-Flour-Sales limited ; 100 barrels Black ]Rock sold 5 dolls. 94c. ; 200 good Indiana at 6 dolls.; for ordinary run of Westerns, hut 5 dolls. 8 1 7ic. is offered; sales of Gennessee at 6 dolls. 12ic. to 6 dolls.. 25c. Barley, 81c. to 85c. Rye, 81c. Pork without eliange ; sales of 100 still fed hogs at 5 dolls. 50c. ; 100 ditto 'Western, at 5 dolls. 75c., and parcels in the street at 6 dolls. BALTIMORE, JAN. 13.-(l3y Telegraph.)-Flour dull. Sales : 500 H.S., at 5 dolls. 87ic. ; City Mills, 6 dolls. 12ic.. Corn-Sales : 200 bushels, including md. white arid mixed, at 57c.; yellow, at 62c. Monms, JAN. 4, Ev E. - Cotton-Since the receipt of the foreign advices the market has been quite ani mated. Sales, for two days, 8,000 bales, at firmer prices. We quote mid. 61c. Arrived since Satur day, 6,026 bales ; exported 1,804. Stock, 90,767 bales. Exchange-Sterling, 7 ; Francs, 5.45; New York, 60 days, 2 to 2i ; sight, 1 pm. Freights- A brig tali:en for Philadelphia at 4e.; and a schooner to load lumber for Havannah. NEW ORLEANS, JAN. 6.-...(8y Telegraph.)- Cotton depressed, but a fair demand, at previous quotations. Sugar- - Market p oor l y supp li e d ; sma ll sales, at y esterday's prices. Fl our h eavy . I n f re i g ht s several new Qs g agements. T ransac ti ons i n exc h ange imited. WEST INDIA and MEXICAN MAIL. SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY. The Tewlot, with the West India and Mexican mail; is aground by Cstlshot Castle, a few miles down the Southampton Water. A small steamer has been. dispatched for her mails, and they may be ex pected here shortly. The Tevint left Demerara 19th Dec.; Berbice, Tobago, 21st ; B ar b a d oes , 31st ; I.9th; Trinidad, 2'=u; Antigua, Jan. 3d; Martinique, 2d ; G r enada, 23d ] Dec. ; Curacoa, 2 3 a Porto Rico, sth Jan.; Tor t ola, 4th; St. Thomas's, 4th; Bermuda, 10th; New ,gleans, 20th Dec. She brings 135,000 dollars, 120 serons of cochineal, 15 serons of jalap, two bale: of tobacco, 32 cases of cigars, 27 bales of plantain fibres. Purchasers for of Belgium, on account of th e contagions disease whi ch cotton at New Orleans have been for France, the eon . is LIOW preyalent in Flanders. ti, lent of Europe, and the North. English buyers .♦ } t IL 1