The Sun. — London, England, 1848-01-27 00:00:00

Lane:4l6re & Yorkshire 93 Ditto, ditto 1);tio, 1 . 2 Shares ...... 33 ... r . - Do. Quarter Shares... 14 1 ,4 1 2 14 .. ..... ....... D. Fit c hs... .. 8 Do. Sixteenths 6 14 — Do. Third; (Reg.)....10/..15..... 5 div. ... 6 dis. Do. Liven,. and Bury 38 Ditto 14 (late Dud derslii;ld and Shelf.) 33 1 2 1 ,4 7 Ai Do.(l'V4kLtield,l'onte tract, awl Do. (W. Riding linion)4/. 25... •• Do. (Preston & Were) 25 D 0.% Shares( A)... 9 Ditto ili:to (11 ) 1 Leeds and Bradtord ... 95 Leeds, Dewsbury, &c... Do., Ilalf Shares l5 . Do.Newßranch (tittle) 2%... Do. Extension (green) V l / 2 • DJ. New Extett(pink) 24 — Lecds and Thirsk ...... 36 huff, New Do., I'refer., 6 per Ct. 31 2 — Liverpool, Crosby and Southport. 2 Liverp., .11nchst: &New castW .Junction 2% — London & Black wa11...13. 1 . 65.8 d — Do. New, No. 2 ... 4/. 13s. 4d — Do. Extension London, Brighton, and South Coast 50 Do. Consol. Eighths. 30 Do. Guarani 5 per ct.., 9 ... Do. Pref. Con. sper ct. 50 .. ••••••• Ditto, ditto.— 1852 50 London and Greenwich 12/15s 4d Bl/2 ............... Ditto, Preference... 18 17s 2d — lAtidon and N. Western 100 ......152 153. Do.,Quarters L & B. 22 - 1 1 /i Dv., ao., New . Ditto Fifths ..... .. 2 ...... •••••••• •••-• 30 1,4 42% 47% 8% 151% 34% Do. t 4 Shares (G. J.) 25 Do 40/. Shares( L. M.) 15 — Do. 401. (M. & B.) ... 40 Do. 101. (M. & B.) A. 7 1 ,42...... Do. 10/. ( 51. & B.)11. 7 1 / 2 ...... ... .• Do. 101. (%1. & B.) C. 1 Loa4. It S. Western ...411. 6i. 8(1.... 54 1 55 Do. New ConsoL Btbs 40 Do. New 50/. ... ..... 32%.. Do. New 40/. . 26 Do. Tenths (Consoi.) 50 Ditto ditto .. .... .... 40 Ditto, Thirds Si. 6s. 8d.... London, Salisbury, aid Yeovil - .Logdonderry&C,,lerains 27%...... ..... — Londonderry and Ennis killen - ....... -.• 2b ...... ... «........ ..... Manchester,Buxton,and Mat10ck........ ........ .. 3 - Manchester, _ Sheffield, _ _ and Lincolnshire -100 - ••• •••••••••• .... Do. Quarters (No. 1) 13 OMEN - Ditto ditto (No. 2)... 2 5 - Ditto ditto (No. 3)... 7% - Ditto and Grimsby.... 25 -• •„.... Ditto ditto . •.••••••• 7 ....•• -- ••••••• 00000 -.•- - Ditto ditto ............ 4% - ...... ....... Ditto Sheffield and - ••••• Lincolnshire 7%... •, ..- •••••••• Manchest. i t Stnthampt. 21 41•••••• - ... Midland ~ .... ..... 100 115% 114 ll4 Do.:ConsolidatedPref.loo - Do. 46/. Shares 4O - Do. 601. Shares 15 - Do. Birm., and Derbyloo - ..•••......... Midland Consel. Brist. & Birming., 6 per ct. ...100 .....• - - I/Wind, Brist. &Glocstr. 36 •••••• -- ..... ..... - Ditto, ditto 111.35. 6d..• - .....••• . .... - llindlnd,Leicest.& Swan -- nington, 8 per ct.gnar.loo ...... - Midland Great Western Irish .•.... 35 ...... - - N ewcastleandCarliale...loo •••••• - ••• Do. Quarters 25 •••••• - - Ifewmrket&Chesterford 18% - ..... •-•-"' - Do. Extension .........21. 12 - Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford 6 .•••• • ..... Newry and Enniskillen 7 ,. .. Newry, Warrenpoint, and Itostrevor 12% - Norfolk ..100 - ' Do. New 20/. .. 5 Do. Extension ... 1a Do. Scrip, 1847, North of Norfolk 2 - ... ..... ....• Do. do. W aveney V al. 2 - Northern Counties Union 4 ... ..... 25 - - Do. H a lf Shari s Do. Quarters. ........ .. 4+ 4 - • Do. Extension - Ditt •Thirds Nerf/ Staffordshire lO ....„ 10% .... - •••••• North Wales - - North W estern 6 • •••• .00.0 •••• ..... I/X tOrit, Worcester. and Welrerbaniptoa Rea ding, Guil dford, and Reigate - Royston an d Ili tc hi n ... 1% - - ........ .. Scottish Centrist Scottish Midland 2 2% - • •• • - Ditto, New ........ ..... 'lO - - ....... - - Sheffield, Rotherham, sndGoole - • Shrewsbury and 'fi rm ... 7 Ditto ditto. Class B. 4 - , , Shrewsbury & Chester ( Nor. W. Min.) l6 - - Ditto Halves ... ditto 8 - .. ..« ........ - Ditto Oswestry ... l2 - Ditto New Do. 8 per Cent. I'ref 5 - _ Shrewsbury and Il ere fd. 2 ...« Shropshi re U n i on - South Devon.- Do. Preference - South• Staffordshire 4 - / •-- 30 3 4 South Eaattrn & Dover. 33% B o+4 Do., No. 1.. - - Do., Nc,2. •••• - Do , N 0.3 Do., No. 4 8%..• ...... ....•• 8 . South Wates ..... 18 South Yorkshire, Don caster, and Goole 3 - - Swans. & Loughor &Ca meron's Stm. C0a1.... 6 Taw Vale Extension ... 4 --- ••• ... ..... .•• Thames Haven Dock and Railway .... .... . 17 ..•••%. - Vale of Neath ... ..... 4 % Waterford and Kilkenny 13%. .... - Watertord and Limerick 40 Waterfd,W x f r d , W icklw, and Dublin ..... .. .... 2 ...• • - Westeornw a ll 4 - - IV hitehave n & Furness 13 ..•- Windsor, Stie - 1314 000000000 .•-•• 27 2 10 IA 2• 1 A1 73/4 3 Ts South, tines, and Western.... ... 525....... Wilts, Somerset, & Way- mouth 3O — York, Newcastle, and Berwick. Do'. Or:ginal New and Lerwick Do. North Shi e ld s P ur. 25 ..- 19 1 4, ...... Do. Extensi on . N o. 1. 15 Do. do. N o . 2. ...... tO uo. U.N E Preference 8 ...... 914% York and N ort h Mi d l and 50 .Ditto, Pr e f erence ...... 10 Do. East a nd W est Riu- ••• ' ins Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens... 20 Central of France (Or- •••.. leans and Vierzon) ... 14 ... ..... Central of Spain .. Ceylon 5 — ••• Demerara ... •—• 4 — bemire Valley Direct Bombay and Madras ss . ••• Dutch Rhenish 7 ... _. ... 1 1 4 - ...... East Indi an ... Great Indian Peninsutar 5s Italian and Austrian.... 4 Jamaica S. Blid. J unct ion 1 Lourain a l a ... 6 ••..••.....•.. Sambre Luxembourg 6 !lons and Avignon..... 5 Madrid and Valentia... 2 --. Nanear and Liege l6 . Northe rn o f F rance lO . .. .. - ••• .. 11 Orleans an d B ordeaux 6 ...... ......... Over Yasel ............... 4 / 3 a 4d — ...... • Paris and Lyons lO ..... ••• Paris and Orleans ...... 20 ..... Paris Paris and Rouen ........ 20 ...... Rouen and Strasbourg ... 8 and Havre ...... 20 ...... Sambre and Meuse ...... 18 ... .. 6% ... Strasbourg and Basle ... 14 • - Tours and Nantes ...... .. 8 ... Tournay, Jurbise Lan- ... den; and II aS seft ...... 16 ...... - West Flanders.- ...... 8 1 4.... - JOINT S'I6CK. RANKS. Australasia ............... 4n ..• •..••..•• •• British North American 50 L0nd0n 1 ................. .... 23 ''. - ......... 24 & Westminster. 20 Provincial of Ireland ... 25 Ditto New... ..... ..... 10 ... Commercial of London 20 ... Union of L0 n d 0n..,, _ .., 10 Union of Madrid ...... 40 National Prov. England. 35 — - - Ditto, New.. .. ..... 10 London Joint 5t0ck...... 10 National of 1re1and...... 2214 ........ Union of Australia ..... 25 Ditto,New.... ...... .... 214 31% IN 13 9% 77 11% - 71% Anglo- MINES. Mexican ......... 0 Brazili an C ocaes& Cuibalo 30 British Iron .............. 12 •••••• n Rolooa Scrip . ..... ... .•10 ••• Galvaniz e d Iron ... ..•••• Real D e l M onte Ditto, New ........... 4 , Unreg. - IX REDUCTION IN THE RATE OF OUNT. The B an k of Engl DlSU and Directors have just reduced the minimum rate of discount to four per cent. LLOYD'S SHIPPING —(THIS DAT.) LONDON, JAN. 27.—Wind E. by N., fresh gale and fine clear frosty weather. Orr ST. ALBAN'S HEAD, JAN. 23.—Vibelis, of Jersey, Rio Grande. PLYMOUTII, JAL 26.—Wind E.—Arrd. 25, Waterloo, Van di Ellen, Bat av i a; B ueep h s l us, Penang; Zo a:o, Ew en, Akin, Surin a m. 26, C onra d, Koln s , Ri o Ja neiro, fr Ilamburgh. su nk MUNDSLET, JAN. 25. A vessel, name unknown, last night about two miles from here. A boat, said to be marked " General William`Ritchie, of Newburgh," 4 3 washed on shore at Becton. Yi n 31 ouTR. JAN. 26. The Nordetiernen, Chris. tinnsen to Marlaix, has put in hero waterlogged. 44130 WArga • JOhaatOwo• of Now castle, went on shore here yb3terday, and filled ; crew saved. ALorsonoucn, JAN. 2i.—A locker board, branded in two places" Wave," has been picked up here. MALDON, JAN. 26.—The Wear, of Sunderland, was hot on the Gul , lleet Sand, yesterday, during a snow storm ; crow saved. NEWBURY, JAN. 24.—The Pilot, of and from this placl to Leith, in being t.iwed to sea yesterday, was driven on the sand at the south side of the entrance of the river, and is discharging. The cargo of the Ge hroeders,, De Leew, frornDantsic to Rotterdam, which got on shore near this place, 10th inst., has been landed partly in a damaged state. DUNDEE, JAN. 24.—The Adale, from Archangel, which went on shore at the river, 9th inst., has been got oft and was towed up to port this day. MIDDLESBOROUGH, JAN. 23.--A boat, marked " Al seria," or " Algerina, of Lynn, Stephen Gulls, master," has been picked up by the Clio. IlAnwrert, JAN. 25.—1 t blew very hard last night from the east. The following has been posted at Lloyd's:— NO ricE TO MARINEIiS. ILLUMINATION OF THREE NEW LIGHT- HOUSES. Ministry of Public Works, Paris, Dec., 1847. Mariners are hereby informed that from the lat of January next three new lights will be exhibited through out the night, one at the northern extremity of Corsica, and the other two at the entrance of the roads of Brest. The following descripticn shows the geographical position, character, and range of these three lights, the establishment of which has been already announced in the three last editions of the "Description des Phares de France," published in 1845, 1846, and 1847: LIGHTHOUSE OF THE ISLAND OF GIRAGLIA. Light with eclipses of from half minute to half minute. Upon the island of Giraglia, lat. 43 1 45, long. 7 3 55 E. Elevation above the ground, 22m.; above the surface of the sea, 82m.; range, 27 miles. In ordinary weather them) eclipses will be total only beyond a dis.ance of te❑ marine miles. T LIE SUN, LON DON, LIGHTHOUSES OF THE MAIN CHANNEL OF BREST. 1. LIGHTUOUSE OF PETIT MINOU.—FIXED Upon the Point of Petit Minou, situated at the western entrance, and at the northern side of the inlet of Brest, lat. 48 21 29, long. 65219 W. Elevation above the ground, 33m. 40; above the sea, 32m.; range, 15 miles. 2. LIGIITHOLTE OF rORTZIC.-Light varied from three to three minutes with flashes, preceded and followed by brief eclipses. Upon the Point of Portzic, at . 8,400 metros N., 68 E. of the lighthouse of Petit Minou, lat. 48 20 12, long. 657 9W. Elevation above the ground, 33m. 40; above the sea, 56m. 20; range, 18 miles. In ordinary weather the brief eclipses of this lighthouse will become total only beyond a distance of eight ma rine miles. These two lights, in a line with each other, will indi cate to mariners the course they have to steer to the entrance of the inlet, in avoiding to the north the shoals of Coq, and of the Basse Buzec, and at the south that of Vandree. 3. SUPPRESSION OF THE LIGHT EXHIBITED IN FORT BEROUARD, UPON THE JETTY EAST OF THE PORT OP ClOTA.T.—Mariners are hereby informed that from the let of April, 1848, the light exhibited in the Fort Berouard, at the jetty east of the Port de la Ciotat, will be discontinued. The entrance to this port will con tinue to be indicated by the fixed light, with a range of nine miles, exhibited at the extremity of the same jetty. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) NEIVITGA.TE AND IMADENNALL. A very steady demand was experienced for each kind of Meat, at full prices. Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 4d ; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 8d; Veal, 4s 4d to $s 4d; and Pork, 3s 8d to 5s 2d per Blbs, by the carcase. MEAT MARKETS. SOUTIIALL, J11726.—We had a firm trade to-day, and prices had an upward tendency. Beef from 4s to 4s 103; Mutton, 4s to bs 2d; Veal, 4s 4d to 4s 10d; and Pork, 4s to 4s 8d per 81bs, to sink the offal. ROMFOnD, JAN. 26.—Each kind of fat stock sold freely, at higher rates. Beef from 3s 8d to 4s 8d; Mutton, 44 to 55 2d; Veal, 4s 4d to 4s 10d ; and Pork, 4s 2d to 4s 8d per Sibs ; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 19s to 24s each. LXWES, ,JAN. 25.—Beef, from 4s to ss; Mutton, 4s 2d to 5s 4d ; Veal, 4s to 5s ; and Pork, 4s 2d to 4s 8d per 81b. A short supply and steady trade. EAT 11TAILICETS. SMITYFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 2110 s to Si 12$ ; Clover, ditto, 3/ lOs to 41 12s ; and Straw, 11 4s to 1/ lOs per load. A moderate supply, and a sluggish demand. CUMBURLAND.—Meadow Hay, Si lOs t• Si 15s ; Clover ditto, 31 lOs to 4110 s; and Straw, 11 4s to 11 12s per load, Supply rather limited, and trade dull. WHITECIIAPEL.—Meadow Hay, Si 10$ to El 13•; Clover ditto, 31 lOs to 41 15s ; and Straw, 1/ 4s t• 11 105 per load. Trade heavy, at the above quotations, COAL MARKE' --YESTERDAY. Adair's Main ......... 161 6d Harraton Main ......• 18. Od Bate's W. Hartley... 19s 6d Belmont 22s 3d rtuddic's W. Hartley.. 20s 3d Braddyll's Hetton 22s 9d Carr's Hartley Chester Main ]Bs 00:sit Hetton Dipton Tanfleld ...... ... 14s OdlHaswell 23s 3d liedley's Hartley Hasting's Hartley 2os 3d!Laxibten Holy-well Main ... ..... 18s 9dlLumley Nurtli Percy Hartley.. 19s 6d.Rusiell's Hetton New 'Fantleld lss 6d l ßichmond Ord's Redheugh I'ontop Windsor ..... 15s 6 , llStewart's South I'eareth —adoc ..- Wy lam West IV vlain Wall's End, &c lfieugh Hall Acorn Close Bell and Brown 2ls Gd Trimdon ... ... 21s 6d Bewicke and Co 2ls 6d Adelaide Tees Brown's Gas Gosforth 2ls 60eymour Tees Hotspur Hilda Killingworth 2ls Od i West Cornforth Northumberland Riddell's 2ls 3dperwentwaterHartley 19s 9d WaAington Eden Main. 22s 3dl CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the Week ended Jan. 27, 1848, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in Dal/land and Wales per Imperial Quarter. WPIRAT. I ' BARLEY. OATS. I WEL BEANS. I TBAS. PRICR .. 1 63 e I d 30s 4d 1 2ls 30s Bd Hs 8d 45i 2d ilia Duties on Foreign Grain are now stispendet. CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.) The LORD CANCELLOR took his seat in his Court at Westminster:at half-past eleven o'clock to-day, and gave judgment in several cases. STRIP LAND V. STRICKLAND.—JUDGMENT. The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment to-day in this case, which came before his Lordship twelve months since upon an appeal from the dE cision of the Master of the Rolls dismissing the bill of the plaintiff. The suit was instituted in Li ovember, 1839, by Henry Eustatius Strickland, a son of the late Sir George Strickland, against his brother, the present Sir George Strickland, and other members of the family, and asked that the will of his father, made in the year 1808, might be established, and that it might be declared, that upon the death of Walter Strickland the plaintiff became entitled' to all the estates, including Win tringham, East Heslerton, and Knapton, which, by the will of the testator, were expressed to be devised to George Charles and Walter Strickland respectively for life ; and that the defendant, Sir Geo. Strickland, who had held since the death of Walter, and still con tinued to hold, the said estates, might be decreed to render to the plaintiff an account of the resits and pro fits of them, and give up to him all the title deeds. The Master of the Rolls in his judgment, delivered in August, 1842, said that the title of the plaintiff dependipg upon the will of the testator was a purely legal one, and, therefore, this Court could have no jurisdiction in the matter until such title had first undergone the ordeal of an investigation at law. The question, therefore, was, whether the Court should retain the bill until that issue had been tried. The practice of the Court was not to retain a suit which involved the mere legal right to property, unless the assistance of the Court were equitably invoked for the purpose of making out such title at law, such as restraining the setting up of outstanding terms, or compelling the parties to make certain admissions. In this case, however, no suck assistance was asked from the Court; and although,, the plaintiff claimed an equitable interest in the property, no such interest had been shown. The Master of the Rolls, therefore, ordered the bill to be dismissed. without costs, as far as concerned the defendant Sir George Strickland, but with costs as to the other defendants, and against this decree the parties appealed to this branch of the Court. The Lord Chancellor this morning, in giving judgment, went at consider able length into the facts of the case, and stated his opinion unhesitatingly to be, that the Master of the Rolls had come to a sound conclusion in dismissing the plaintiff's bill. He must therefore affirm that decree of the Master of the Rolls with costs. Appeal dismissed with costs. PARKER V. MORRELL.-JUDGMENT. The LORD CHANCELLOR ;11801;;;;;;;dgment in this case, - which came before his Lord ship previous to the long vacation, upon appeal from the judgm ent of the Vice-Ch ance ll or Knight Bruce. The bill was filed by the plaintiff to cancel a bond, by which the plaintiff ?undertook to be security for his brother, who at that time owed a sum of 2,5001. to the defendants, who are bankers in Oxford. The bond was dated in 1831. Subsequent transactions took place, by which the plaintiff's brother be3ame more deeply indebted, and it was alleged by the defendants that the bond rendered the plaintiff liable, as it was given for a continuing ba lance, and therefore a general guarantee. The Vice- Chancellor directed issues to try the question, and on a verdict being given in favour of the plaintiff made a decree. The defendants appealed on the ground that the issues were imperfectly framed, and that they did not embrace the whole question. The LORD CHANCELLOR, in giving judgment, went at some length into the facts of the case, and after adverting to several points of practice involved in it, directed an issue, to try whether the bond and war rant of attorney of the 13th April, 1834, were ob !awed fraudulently from the plaintiff, or by false misrepresentions giving liberty to endorse special circumstances on the postea, and reserving all costs until the issue was tried. THE GRAND JUNCTION CANAL COMPANY U. DIMES.- I UDGNIENT. The Loup CuANCELLOR also gave judgment in this case, which came before him upon an appeal from a decree of the Vice-Chancellor of England. It appeared:that, as long ago as the year 1774, the Grand Junction Canal Company bad obtained an Act of Incorporation, under which they concluded purchases of land, and took leases for the purpose of carrying out the lino of inland navigation, in cluded in which was a piece of copyhold land purchased of one Skidmore, tenant by copy of court roll to the lord of the manor. Dimes, the defendant, had come in first as mortgagee, and subsequently had bought the manor with all its rights. Skidmore had for thirty years been tenant to the lord, render ing him customary services and fines, and then died, and the heir of Skidmore being an infant, the lord of the manor seized the copyhold land until he could have a tenant capable of rendering him the cus tomary services, treating the company as trespassers upon their own line of navigable canal, and bringing a large quantity of bricks with which he threatened to impede the navigation. The lord then informed the company that he should not desist from this course unless the company should agree to buy up his interest. ID this state the case came before the Vice-Chancellor of England, who, in giving judg ment, stated that he considered the whole diffi culty had arisen from the fact that when the Act of Parliament was passed, under which the plaintiffs had power to make their canal, sufficient consideration was not given to the circumstance that a portion of the land to be taken was copyhold ; if that fact had been brought to the attention of the framers of the Act there would have been more special pro visions intro heed. As it stood, his Honour thought that the Act had authorised any person who had the right, title, or interest in the land, by such a con veyance, the form of which was pointed out, to con vey all their right, title, and interest. Jos. Skidmore was the copyhold tenant of this land, and the corpora tion purchased from him, for valuable consideration, and the land was conveyed under the Act. He con sidered that this Act provides for the conveyance by a party who had an interest of his own and no more, and it could not mean that where a party by that form conveyed his interest, that he should be taken to have passed anything :which trespassed on the rights of others. Joseph Skidmore, in conveying his interest, had perfect right to demand that his copyhold should be continued to his grantee by the admission of his heir, but it could never have been intended by the Act that he should pass the absolute interest in the land which, in fact, would be passing what did not belong to hini. His opinion was, that the heir of Skidmore was a trustee for the company, and the company could compel the: lord to admit such heir. He therefore declared that Thomas Edmund Skid more, the heir of Joseph Skidmore, the copyholder, according to the custom of the manor, was the person who ought to be admitted tenant on the court rolls, and, when admitted, that he would be a trustee of the estate for the company, and that there should be a reference to the Master to decide what fine was to be paid by the company upon the admission of Skid more's heir, and that the company should pay his costs, and recover them from the defendant Dimes. The Lord Chancellor, after adverting to the facts at some length, stated his opinion to be that the decree of the Vice-Chancellor of England was perfectly correct, and ordered the appeal to be dismissed, with costs.—Judgment affirmed, with costs. JONES V. ROSE.-SUDGMENT. The LORD CHANCELLOR also gave judgment in this case, which came before him upon appeal from the judgment of the Vice-Chancellor Wigram. The main question in:the cause was, whether the plaintiff Jones had not, by neglecting to pay the calls, for feited 150 shares in the property called the Rosher ville-gardens, at Gravesend. The Vice-Chancellor directed inquiries before the master, with which both parties were dissatisfied, and both therefore appealed. The Lord Chancellor thought the course adopted by the Learned Judge was a perfectly correct one, and ordered both petitions of appeal to be dismissed with costs. THURSDAY E VENING, JANUARY 27 1848. damus would lie in this Court, addressed to the Archbishop calling upon him to proceed to the busi ness of consecration ? Mr. BADELEY apprehended not. There were seve ral accounts of confirmations in the records of the Archbishop of Canterbury which showed that wit nesses had been examined and cross-examined in support of the charges of opposers at such confir mations. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE—Were the witnesses cross examined by an opposite interest, or by the Arch bishop's officers ? Mr. BADELEY believed it to have been a sifting by the officer of the Archbishop, not technically a cross-examination. Mr. Justice ERLE—Can you cite any instanf:es in which the opposer has appeared and examined the parties ? Mr. Baneeer could not cite any such case at present. But what he contended for was, that wit nesses had been examined upon oath npon such occasions. The affair had not, therefore, been con sidered as a " sham" in the timeof Archbishop Parker, neither was it so considered in the time of Wickliffe, for in the " Life of Wickliffe," by Strepe, p. 253, there was an account of the proceeding's at the con firmation of that Archbishop, where opposers were cited to appear tied witnesses examined. The process was not a " sham" under Crantner, Wickliffe, or Parker, neither did it so appear in later times. case 0 , Evans v. Asketh, in the time of Charles 11., was not considered by the judges as a " sham." Bishop Fell, about the same time, did not so treat the subject; in a note to the Epistle of St. Clement, published in the year 1699, he said " that the confirmation of the bishops of England was according to the customs Of the Primitive Church." Aylin, in his life of Arch bishop Laud, speaking of the confirmation of Bishop Montague, said " that it was the ancient custom of the archbishops to confirm in the church of St. Mary le-Bow, Cheapside, and to cite all opposers to appear aid make their objections, or for ever after hold their tongue." Dr. Nichol], in a supplement to his " Com mentary cn the Book of Common Prayer," stated that " it is an impudent slander to state that the bishops de rived their power and authority from the King ; the King can only do what belongs to kings, and the bishop what belongs to bishops ; the King issues his cong."! d'elire ; after the election has been made by the Dean and Chapter, parties are cited to appear and state their objections to the form of election, or to the person elected, and when those objections are heard and judicially decided upon, the bishop proceeds to conse cration." Surely upon all these authorities the Court could not consider that this proceeding was all a " sham ;" would they not, on the contrary, believe it to be a reality, and a most important reality ? Charles 11., in the year 1681, and William 111., in the four years of his reign, were so fully convinced of the importance of appointing proper persons to the office of bishops, that they actually appointed a com mission to inquire into the qualifications of the person nominated by the Crown, and the exercise of this great care on the part of the Crown to appoint proper persons might possibly have accounted for the small number of cases which had occurred of opposition since the date of those commissions. Now, it was well known that great changes in the mode of admi nistering justice was actually taking place. The Sheriffs' Court had, almost lost all its jurisdiction, and it was but a few years since that the public were astonished by the appearance of the mode of " wager of battle," which had slumbered for centuries, and after a very long argument in this Court it was decided that " wager of battle" was not a " sham," but a reality. It was not to be supposed because a law slumbered that therefore it was only a " sham." Such laws were a reality, and their power only lay dormant till it was necessary to call them into existence. His Learned Friend Mr. Hill had said, somewhat scarcastically, " What a distress ing state Ireland must be in, where the bishops are not confirmed at all." Now, it was a matter of his tory that Dr. Randall was appointed a bishop a few years since, but it was found that he would not be able to stand the ordeal of Bow Church, and he was therefore made an Irish bishop; it would therefore be probably much better for Ireland if this mode of public confirmation were used with respect to Irish bishops. Ile denied that this was a question affect ing the Reformation. That great event was not a transfer of infallibility and despotism by a mere change of persons. The doctrines put for ward by the Reformation, and recognised by statutes, was far different from that. The principles of the Reformers were completely identified with those of the parties who now prayed the Court to make the present rule absolute. The 24th Henry VIII., c. I`2, distinctly stated the duties of the Archbishop and of the King, the one to appoint and the other to examine and confirm. Coke was an authority also in favour of that view of the case. Was the prerogative to be exercised to the injury of the subject? Was it not frequently the case that letters patent were repealed on the ground that the Crown had been deceived ? and was it not monstrous to suppose that infallibility should alone attach to the prerogative in its exercise in the choice of a bishop? If the prerogative was for the benefit of the subject, was not the present proceeding rather in aid of the prero,a tire ; for was it not for the benefit of the subjects that proper persons should be appointed as their bishops ? There was no injustice to the bishop in the opposition that was brought forward against him; he had ample grounds fur meeting the charges. A bishop was not appointed for his own benefit. God forbid ! He was appointed for the good of the Church. The weltare of the Crown, the State, the individual, and the Church, all required that the investigation should be gone into fully and completely. It was quite possible tor the Prime Minister to appoint any person whose moral conduct was unknown to him, and was it not right that an opportunity should be afforded for investigation. Ile believed that a layman might be consecrated a bishop per saltum without going through the various inferior grades, or without even subscribing the Thirty-nine Articles. Such a person would then be a judge of doctrines in the whole of his diocese, and exercise an entire control over the habits and fortunes of his clergy. Was it not preposterous that such a state of things should exist? A Prime Minister re maining long in office would be able to fill half the sees of the country, if no inquiry were to be made, by Unitarians, Rationalists, or Presbyterians, or he might even go so far in opposition to the Reforma tion, as to fill those sees with persons nearly allied to the Roman Catholic religion. If the rule were re fused, and the construction of the other side agreed to, the effect would be to annul entirely the power of the Archbishop—he would be a mere machine, possessing do more power than the veriest clerk in the Home office who male out a copy of the patent for the Crown. He would be a tool for the purpose of regulating these elections. Was it not absurd to suppose that the power of the highest dignitaries in the Church could be thus trifled with ? The present question was one of great im portance ; it was not so much whether Dr. Hampden should be a bishop or not, but it was the interests of the Church which were in jeopardy, and, trusting that the Court would look at the question in that light, he entertained a fervent hope that the Court would make the rule absolute. Sir F. KELLY then rose to address the Court. Nothing less than the commanding importance of this question could induce him to occupy their Lord , ships time upon a question which had already occupied so much time. Except the whole of their Lordships should feel every point in this case clear and free from doubt, he felt satisfied that their Lordships would imitate the example of the wisest and greatest . of their predecessors, and abstain from giving a final determination upon a question involving such great considerations, and such consequences, upon a mere motion for mandamus upon affidavits, and put it into such a course of inquiry as to submit the whole ques tion involved to the highest tribunal in the kingdom. The question involved beside the prerogative of the Crown, alluded to by his friends on the other side, the character and efficiency of the Church and its most exalted ministers, the respect and reverence in which they were henceforth to be held, the confidence which henceforth should be reposed in them by their entire flock, the people of this country ; moveover, not the temporal interests, for that were little, of the clergy of the diocese of every bishop, but he eternal interests of the vvh de community of this country ; and it was such an important question as this that the law officers of the Crown prayed their Lordships to determine finally, upon a mere motion on affidavit. He fully admitted the right of the prerogative of the Crown to nominate a bishop for l i • election, he had no wish to invade that prerogative ; but, on the other hand, there were other rights in volved. The confirmation of the bishop was placed in entirely different hands. But it had been said that this ceremony was a mere frivolous form ; if it were so, he was at a loss to know what. other part of the proceedings were not also liable to the same charge ; the proceedings with respect to the election by the Dean and Chapter might also be termed a frivolous form. The rite of confirmation was not however of so entirely a frivolous nature, it was first enjoyed by the Apostles under Divine direction, and continued throughout the early ages of the Church to be exercised as a most important event, and he defied his Learned Friend to produce a single case in which any Bishop had ever been ordained except by ecclesiastical authority. The apostolic direction to Titus with respect to confimation had been carefully followed by every church in Christendom for a period of 1,700 years, and it was this rite which was now denounced as a mere idle ceremony. Lancelot tus, Ferraris, and Van Espin had alluded to the cere mony of confirmation, and the authority of these foreign jurists had been acknowledged by Ayliffe, Linwood, Gibson, and Burn, writes of this country, and though diflerences might exist as to the mode of confirmation still it was always in accordance with the principles laid down by these jurists, and SIMMONS V. GARRETT.-JUDGMENT. The LORD CLIANCILLOR also gave judgment in this case, which came before his Lordship yesterday upon an appeal cause petition. His Lordship was of opinion that the order of the Court below was cor rect, and dismissed the appeal with costs. The Court then proceeded to hear appeal motions and cause petitions. BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) THE QUEEN V. SIR W. YOUNG AND ANOTHER. Mr. COCKBURN moved for a rule to show cause why the order to bring up the defendants in this case for judgment to-morrow should not be rescinded, so far as Sir William Young was concerned, and the matter allowed to remain over till next term. He moved upon two affidavits, one by the attorney of Sir Wil liam Young and the other by his medical adviser. The affidavit of the attorney represented that Sir W. Young had for some time past been confined to his room with illness, and owing to the precarious state of his health, his medical attendant had forbidden him access to the presence of Sir W. Young. The con sequence was that Sir William was as yet ignorant both of the recent trial and its result, and as his medical adviser swore that it would be dangerous to his life if the matter were broken to him in his present en feebled condition, it was hoped the Court would extend the order for judgment and the recognisances till next term. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, on behalf of the prose cution, had no objection. There was, however, this difficulty in the matter. His Learned Friend in tended to move for a new trial, on behalf of Sir Wm. Young, but no such motion would be made in respect of Captain Charatie, the other defendant. It would be a serious inconvenience if Captain Charatie were brought up for judgment to-morrow, and a new trial were afterwards granted. The better course to adopt would be for his Learned Friend to make his motion for a new trial when he (the Attorney-General) moved for judgment to-morrow, and he would under take, in the event of its being refused, not to press for judgment against Sir William Young till such time as his health admitted of his being brought up. Mr. COCKBURN assented to this suggestion, and an order was made out, dispensing with the personal attendance of Sir William Young to-morrow. BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.) TIIE GREAT FAILURE OF MESSRS. ALEXANDLR ♦HD Co. (Before Mr. Commissioner GOULDURN.) This morning the first meeting for the proof of debts and choice of assignees took place under the fiat issued on the 12th instant, against Lesley Alexander and William Bardgett, of Z 3, Old Broad-street, city of London, corn merchants, trading under the style or firm of Lesley Alexander and Company. Messrs. Rees and Wilde, jun., attended the meeting as solicitors for the petitioning creditor, Mr. Richard Saunders, of King William-street, discount broker. The debts proved on this occasion amounted to 289,0001., and it is stated that the further proofs will be about 200,0001. more, so that the whole amount of the partnership debts are something under 500,000/. The assets already in the hands of the official assignee amount to 45,0001., and consist of the proceeds of the sale of stock and debts collected, &c. The probable future amount of assets cannot be accurately stated, as it will depend upon the sale of estates in the north of Ireland, belonging to Mr. Lesley Alexander. The following gentlemen were chosen assignees, without opposition, and accepted the trust :—Mr. John Gellebrand Hubbard, of Bi robin lane, merchant (a director of the Bank of England) ; Mr. Spencer Ashlin, of Mark-lane, corn factor; and Mr. James Pittman, of the firm of Saunderson and Co., King William-street, gentleman. Mr. Reis, on behalf the creditors, applied for an audit and dividend meeting, to take place at the ear liest possible moment. The bankrupts' examinations were fixed for the 13th of March, and "expedition would be . attended with great convenience to creditors. The Learned Costmtssiormt concurred, and said, by the recent Act of Vic:. (5 and 6, chap. 122, s. 27), he had the power to fix the dividend immediately after the passing of the bankrupts' examination, and therefore he would appoint it for the same day. WORSHIP-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) Mr. Charles Houlton was charged with being drunk and assaulting police-constable 71 H. The police — min stated that he was on duty in High street, Shoreditch, at about nine o'clock last night, whoa he observed the defendant quite drunk. Pro secutor did all he could to persuade him to go home, but without avail, and as a brother constable now came up, it was thought prudent to take him to the station-house. The defendant walked along quietly for a short distance, when he suddenly turned round and knocked prosecutor down, and for the moment rendered him insensible. The defendant said he was a licensed victualler, and came up to London from Weir yesterday morning. He had been drinking freely during the day, and had lost the train by which he was to return home, and what he did or what became of him afterwards, he knew not. He was extremely sorry for what it appeared he had done. _ _ Mr. ARNOLD said, the defendant had expressed great contrition for his conduct, which, however, could not be suffered to pass by. He had power to send him to prison. However, as he h o p e d i t would be a warning to him in future. He should fine him 405., or fourteen days imprisonment. THE SOUND.—The number of vessels which passed through the Sound in 1847 was 21,536, being the largest number in one year ever before k nown . T h i s increase was owing chiefly to the numerous exports of corn. THE METROPOLITAN COMMIS SIONERS OF SEWERS.-(THIS DAY.) A Court of Sewers was held this morning at No. 23 Committee-room of the House of Commons ; Lord Ebrington in the chair. A report of the sub-committee appointed to advise as to the direction of the Ordnance survey of the metropolis was read. The report stated that Captain Yolland, of the Ordnance Department, had applied to the committee for instructions as to the point where the survey should be commenced, and the committee, considering the low sanitary condition of the popula tion in the poor districts of Westminster, and coupling that circumstance with the low level of the West minster district, and looking also to the proximity of the district to a county adapted for the application of sewerage manure to market garden purposes, re commended that the survey should be corn meneed, and a block plan at once prepared for, the district bounded by Bridge-street, Westminster, Great George-street, Birdcage-walk, Constitution hill, Hyde Park-corner, Knightsbridge, Brompton road, Fulham-road, Park-place, 31ilmates-row, and the river line from Milman's - row to Westminster bridge. The report was unanimously adopted. A supplementary report was presented, setting forth that the survey had already been commenced, and efficient accommodation received for the officers engaged upon it. This report was ordered to be entered on the minutes of the Court A number of cases of defective sewerage were brought under the consideration of the committee, in the course of which it transpired that from ignorance the poorer classes of the metropolis were greatly averse to the drainage and sewerage of their districts, but the good which had resulted from the operations of the surveyors ii various parts of the metropolis was daily removing the erroneous impressions which prevailed on the subject. The surveyor's report on flushing sewers and cleansing courts and alleys intimated that since the last Court foul deposits had been flushed away from the sewers of Westminster, Surrey and Kent, and Tower Hamlets, to the extent of '70,826 feet and 10,656 loads. During these cleansings the surveyors had recourse to Sir William Burnett's deodorizing fluid, and now they were about to test the fluids of M. Legoyns and Mr. Herepath, of Bristol. In the parish of Marylebone several courts and mews, which had hitherto been neglected, were beginning to be paved and cleansed. The report was adopted. The Court then adjourned till this day fortnight. Vbtrti Wbition THE CASE OF THE REV. DR. HAMPDEN QUEEN'S BENUH.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco, before the LORD Oniar JUSTICI, and Justices PATTBSON, COLBRIDGIB, and ElLa.) TUB QUM V. Van A.RCHEISIIOP Or CANTHRBUAY. The arguments wore resumed at the sitting of the Court. Mr. BABEL ET proceeded.—He said—Yesterday he called the attention of the Court to episcopal elec tions prior to the passing of the statute of Henry the Eighth ; he thought by going back to the period an terior to the Reformation that their Lordships would the better arrive at the intentions of the Legislature of that day in passing the statute in question ; and that they would the better arrive at the legal meaning of the word " confirmation," which, he contended, being a legal term, meant " confirmation " according to law. He then passed to the statute, and con tended, that every impartial person must, after a careful perusal of it, be of opinion that the object of the passing of the Act, and the intentions of the King, as evinced in history, was that the Act was simply passed to abolish the power of the Pope in this realm. He then submitted—and he submitted the point now with confidence—that from the time of the passing of Magna Charta up to the latest proceedings by the Legislature in natters ecclesiastical, that it was the intention of the Legislature to continue those privi leges to the clergy which they had formerly possessed —namely, the power of electing those who were to be placed over them, and who in all things apper taining to them exercised full spiritual jurisdiction. He apprehended that the whole scope and history of the constitution of this country showed that no popular right such as this should be interfered with by legislative enactments, and he should, he con fessed, be content to try the Act of Henry VIII. by the test of the popular voice ; for Bacon, and other eminent writers, held that it was an inviolable prin ciple in our constitution, that unless the popular voice consented to any public matter it could no; be decided in the affirmative. The choice of the people was always respected. Thomas Sims, an eminent and curious writer, speaking of the election of bishops, said, in words which deserved to be immortalised and handed down to posterity, that persons appointed to the office of bishops should be free from all ill-repute, and if scandalised and of bad life, that these things should be inquired into by a cf , mpetent tribunal, and that he should be rejected if he were found unfit to take so high an office. If the people in the olden time were not entitled to vote for bishops, they were entitled to oppose their appointment. He could cite numerous other opinions to the same effect; but he would not occupy the time of the Court at too great a Antiquities, book 4, C . 2, spoke of the right of the people to object ghtoaln in his work on Ecclesiastical their bishops. Blackstone, and in fact every ancient writer, agreed in stating that the people possessed an inherent right to elect their she riffs and other persons to whom the safety . of their lives and property were entrusted, and he implored the Court to transmit those rights to posterity unim paired. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE asked the Learned Coun sel if his argument was not this—that the people had a right to elect their bishops ? Mr. BADELET said it was. He did not wish the Court to introduce anything that was new, but to preserve what was old. He contended that the Dean and Chapter were compelled to elect those whom the Crown nominated; but that this did not affect the right of the Metropolitan to refuse to confirm or the people to object. He contended further, that if a " sha m ," th a t th e con fi rma ti on was a th s e h e a l m ect a i l o s n was also. Mr. Justice Eire said there must always be a con secration. Mr. BADELAY said the Metropolitan only pos sessed the right to consecrate, and he might refuse to do so. _ _ Mr. Justice COLERIDGE inquired how bishops were many lePl thingsuenee which i f the confirmed when the Pope exercised power in this realm ? Mr. BADMILBY said to the Metropolitan to b the carry Pope out generally m se o n u t y a , bull but Fg e z n a p t ens ii t l an b . is sometimes the Pope, carried rol out the ceremony with out a process in the Ecclesias eeolua o rid f ts Justice o t of b f e t Rh s C eo ta : M t L e ee't got a pallium f Rome and reminded tory that the Learned I%7iilism rein ome, and refused to t ß o i u c u a t f l u th: until he had made terms with the Pop e. Mr. BADELRY said this was so. What giveC ot i n r i s t . would be might militate were a n g o ai t ns a t li t o h w ei e r d ap to .. object to persons proposed as bisho ps ? Th ere might be might be the m co an n pointiatent, known only t o - persons residing in the dioceses, where they were sou g ht to be appointed, and might not abuses creep into the Church if acquainted with these things were prevented from boldly coming forward at the solemn ceremony of confirmation, and stating grounds o f opposition which were, perhaps, known only to them ? There was no more solemn ceremony than that of confirming a bishop, and the right of the people with respect to it ought not to be lightly treated. A bishop was placed over the clergy in his diocese n, • ay, more, he was empowered to ordain ; and if an improper person was appointed, was it not possible that the bishop might ordain persons disqualified to fill the sacred office of clergymen ? Looking at the mere rights that ordi narily subsisted between man and man, he asked the Court, if a person, who knew of errors of doctrine, or of scandal, in the life of a person to be appointed a bishop, was not to be permitted to come for ward to prove them if he could ? If the Court decided against the issuing of the mandamus, they would decide that the Archbishop Was a mere ma chine. [Sir Fitaroy Kelly, who has been absent two days, owing to indisposition, here entered the Court, and took his seat in the Queen's Counsel box, under Mr. Badeley.] Now it did not appear that the Archbishop was subject to prwmunire. flacon, though he spoke of the penalties that attached to the receiving of bulls front the Pope, said nothing about those high officers of the Church being subject to such a penalty. He was at a loss to know how, looking at the statute, the Vicar-General could decide that those who ap peared at Bow Church could render themselves liable to prasmunire, or how those who heard them ren dered themselves liable to those penalties. This was clearly the opinion of Lord Bacon. The meaning of the act was, whatever the election might be con sidered, nerely judicial, and was required to be done " in due form of law. Mr Justice ERLE—If the act of confirmation is a judicial act, what is to he confirmed or annulled ? Mr. BADELEY—The election. Henry the Eighth, with all his tyranny, did not take a -Nay the power of the bishops either to confirm or not. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE inquired if the tempo ralities were restored before or after consecration ? Mr. BADELET replied not till after. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE further inquired if a man- in no case had the confirmation been by laymen. If his Learned Friend the Attorney-General should prove that the Archbishop, according to his construc tion of the statute, was bound to confirm as a minis terial act, then was the whole ceremony of consecra tion, as contained in the Book of Common Prayer, not only a mockery, but a direct violation of the Act of Parliament. Ile maintained that, consistent with the exercise of the great power of the prerogative, might also exist the rights of the Church and of the people. It had been argued that this was an infringe ment of the prerogative; he quite agreed that from the Crown, and the Crown alone, must come the ap pointment of every bishop, but there was nothing irreverent towards that prerogative to suppose that there should be the power in the high dignitaries of the Church to inquire into the fitness of the person so nomineed. What secu rity would there be, if there was not such a . power, that the whole bench of bishops might not be filled by Roman Catholics, if the throne should ever be filled by a person holding such opinions as were held by James 11. ? Suppose that an Act was to be passed making it illegal for any lay patron to present any person to a living, and vesting them in the Crown, could any person say that such an Act would put an end to the right of tl:e Church to inquire into the character of all such persons previous to their ordi nation ? But such was the argument used by the other side. The 231 henry VIII. only provided that the appointment of bishops should vest in the Crown, but it was nut to be supposed that the right of the Church to inquire previous to con fi rma ti on was superse d ed b y that Act. With respect to the real meaning of the statute, he did not know a better way to discover it than by referring to th e mo d es of confirmation under that Act, which had taken place shortly after the statute passed ; and it would appear that in the Ist of Eliza beth, the year when the statute was revived, the pro ceedings at the c on fi rmat i on of Archbishop Parker were precisely, step by step, the same as was now contended ought to have been taken in the case of the late proceeding towards the confirmation of Dr. Hampden. his Learned Friend Dr. Bayford had thrown some doubts upon the power of the Arch bishop to compel the attendance of witnesses. H e apprehended that the Court at Bow Church was the Court Ecclesiastical of the Archbishop, and as such would have had power by some means or other of doing justice to the parties. He felt convinced that the Archbishop had the power in every Ecclesiastical Court under him of compelling the attendance of witnesses necessary to obtaining justice between contentious parties. Some objections had been urged in this case to the remedy by wrkof man damus ; it had been said no mandamus would lie, because this was a matter of spiritual jurisdiction ; that might be so, but the ground on which they came to this court to exercise its powerful jurisdiction by way of mandamus was, because this Court would cause justice to be administered by its superior jurisdiction, wherever an inferior court, having a certain jurisdiction, refused to exercise it. The Learned Gentleman, having adverted to the parties in the case, and the importance of it to them, concluded a most excellent speech by expressing a sincere hope and firm conviction that the Court would make the rule for a mandamus ab solute. The Attorney- General rose to reply, when Lord DENMAN observed that he and his brother judges were not prepared to say that he had the right to reply. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL submitted that he had the right to reply. The present proceeding was an attack upon the prerogative of the Crown ; and this was the Crown's court, and he apprehended that it was the undoubted right of the Crown officers to have the last word. Lord DENMAN observed that the Crown was not the prosecutor in the present case, and he knew of no precedent for the adoption of such a course. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL remarked that there well might be no precedent, because there never had been an instance, that he recollected, in which the Crown was called upon to strike a blow at its own pre rogative. Lord DENMAN wished to hear Sir F. Kelly upon this point, although he considered it a matter for the discretion of the Court whether they would hear the Attorney-General's reply or not. Sir F. KELLY opposed the right of the Attorney- General to reply, on.the ground that the Court should not increase and extend the prerogative of the Crown, which it would in giving effect to a claim of this kind, where there was no precedent for the claim being allowed. Lord DENMAN said that he and his brother Judges, upon consideration, had thought it would be the most convenient course to hear the Attorney-General in reply. _AA TiIeAITORNEY-GENERAL replied at some lengt and concluded by imploring their Lordships, as early as consistent with justice, to dispose of the case. The Court took time to consider its judgmmt. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.-'ne Queen and Pri Albert walked this morning in the pleasure groi n adjacent to the Castle. 4 Lord George Lennox left the Castle to-day. -0 Lord and Lady John Russell arrived nt the Castle this afternoon, on avi .it to the Queen. Earl Spencer and the Viscountess Palmerston are also expected to arrive this evening on a visit to her Majesty. Their Majesties the King and Queen of the, Bet glans left the Castle shortly before four o'clock this afternoon for Frogmore House, and paid a visit to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. Their Royal highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took their usual airings to-day in the Castle pleasure grounds. Her Majesty and her Royal Consort walked out this afternoon. The Countess of Desert has left the Castle. The Viscountess Jocelyn has arrived from her residence at Richmond, and has succeeded the Countess as the Lady in Waiting to the Queen. The Earl of Morton and Sir Edward Bowater have taken their departure from the Castle, and have been succeeded by Lord Byron and Mr. R. Orinsby Gore, as the Lord and Groom in Waiting to her Majesty. The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening will include their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, his Excellency ➢lons. Van de Weyer, La Mar quise de Trazeynies, the Lady in Waiting of the Duchess of Kent, the Baroness de Speth, Earl Spencer, Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, Lord and Lady John Russell, Mr. G. E. and the Hon. Mrs. Anson, and Major de tioerkerke. The band of the Grenadier Guards will attend during dinner. The Queen's private band will after wards attend in the Castle. The Bishop of Manchester had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday. The Earl of Harrowhy had also an interview yesterday with the Right Hon. Baronet, at the Home- office. Mr. Brooke had an interview with Earl Grey yes terday, at the Colonial-office. Lord and Lady John Russell left their residence in Richmond Park yesterday afternoon, for Windsor Castle. Dispatches were received yesterday, at the Colo nial-office, from the Governor of the Mauritius. THE ANTI-GOLD LAW LEAGUE. MR. COBDEN AND MR. BENNOCH. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Six,—Why did Mr. Bennoch disguise from Mr. Cobden, that one of the objects of the Anti-Gold-law League is to substitute a silver standard at the fixed price of ss. 6d. per oz. for the present gold standard at 3/. 17s. 100. per oz. ? I am, Sir, your obedient servant, R. W. DICKINSON. Ilfracombe, Jan. 25, 1848. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT MANCHESTER TUESDAY. CHESTER CM-20 to 1 agst Blaze (taken), 30 to 1 agst Jonathan Wild (taken), 33 to 1 agat Swallow (taken), 40 to 1 agst Clumsy (taken), 40 to 1 agat Swiss B o y (taken), 40 to 1 agst Stultz (taken), 50 to 1 agst Cracow (taken), 50 to 1 art War Eagle (taken). I)Ennr.-9 to 1 agat Surplice, 13 to 1 agst Glendower (taken), 20 to 1 agst Springy Jack (taken), 20 to 1 agst Assault, 30 to 1 ap,t Beverlac, 33 to 1 agat Cervus, 35 to 1 agst Sesostris, 35 to 1 agst Keraun. LEAMINGTON AND SOUTHAM STEEPLE- CHASES. The stewards have decided that all bets made upon these chases prior to the frost shall " stand," whether the races come off next week, or in the event of a further postponement becoming necessary. TilE WEATHER.—Yesterday morning the guards who arrivel at the General Post-office by the different railway mail trains stated that many parts of the country, especially in the north, are covered several feet deep ith snow, and the water completely frozen over several inches thick; so that in all probability canal communi cation, should the present frost continue a few days, will be closed to navigation in the eastern, western, end midland counties. The fall of snow has been very heavy also in Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, and parts of Surrey. Yesterday numerous cart loads of ico from the environs of the metropolis were shot into the ice-houses of the confectioners and fishmongers. The Serpentine in Hyde Park. the pieces of water in St. James's Park and Regent's Park denoted the probability of soon affording amusement to skaters. In the north of France the fall of snow during the present week has been very heavy, and the waters in the vicinity of St. Omer, B er • guns, and Calais a re frozen , forming an immense sheet of ice. RUMOURED ROYAL VISIT.—It is stated that the King of Prussia will pay a visit to Q ueen Victoria in the course of the spring , when the " Shield of Faith, "on which the artists are busily engaged, w ill b o presented to the Yrince of Wales. IMPORTANT EXPEDITION IN SEARCH OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN. The public will learn with great satisfaction that the Government having determined that no expense shall be spared in providing an efficient expedition to proceed in search of Captain Sir John Franklin, K.C.8., and his gallant companions in the arctic regions, the Admiralty have spared no pains, and have lost no time, in meeting the wishes of the Go vernment and the public generally by providing superior ships, and selecting an efficient officer to command this perilous enterprise. With reference to ships, we may state that two vessels have already been purchased, one of 420 tons, from Messrs. Green, to be called the " Resolution," the well-known name of Captain Cook's discovery ship ; and the other, of 470 tons, from Messrs. Wigram, of Blackwall, to be called the " Endeavour," the name of the famous circumnavigator's first ship. They are entirely new, and the names of the builders are a sufficient guarantee of their qualities in every respect essential for such a service as that to which they are to be devoted. - With respect to the office:- who is selected to command this expedition, when we mention that it is the gallant and distinguished Captain sir James Clark Ross, Knight, D.C.L., F.R.S., who returned about four years since upon a polar voyage (and who is the nep h ew of that other celebrated arctic voyager, Captain Sir John Ross, C.B ), the most unanimous confidence will be reposed in him as an excellent seaman, an effi cient officer, and a most skilful and experienced navigator. In his appointment to command ail I conduct such an expedition, an assurance will he felt that everything that can be done will be ac complished to gain tidings of, and to afford succour, if required, to Sir John Franklin and his gallant band of adventurers ; while at the same time we shall have the satisfaction to know, that what by any possibility can be effected in the way of solving the grand problem, the pursuit of which has already cost so much, and in which so many gallant lives have been sacrificed, will at least be bravely attempted by Captain Sir James Clark Ross, in the Resolution and the Endeavour. Already we have heard that many of Sir James's old shipmates, who are not with Franklin, are desirous of casting their lot with him a second time amongst the eternal ice fields, and we are certain that by the time the ships are ready fitted by Messrs. Green and IVigram, which by their contract will be about the Ist of April, as efficient a complement of officers and seamen will be collected as ever devoted themselves to any national enterprise. The Resolution and Endeavour will follow Sir John Franklin's track as close as possible.—Herald. DEATH OF lilt. JOSEPH BELL, OF EDINBURGH. It is with sincere regret that we have to announce the death of one of the most distinguished medical practitioners in Edinburgh, Dr. Joseph Bell. The melancholy event took place in his house in George street, on the evening of Saturday last, about nine o'clock. The cause was, we believe, typhus fever, caught in the discharge of his professional duties. Up to Wednesday the 12th, Dr. Bell was in the enjoy ment of his usual health ; on the following day, he was seized with illness, which continued to increase until he was cut off in the midst of his fame and his usefulness. The present season, it has been remarked, has been peculiarly severe on the members of the medical faculty, several of whom have been attacked by fever; but perhaps the heaviest blow they have sustained is the loss of Dr. Joseph Bell. By the public and the profession he was universally esteemed. Few stood higher, or enjoyed a wider reputation than he did. By his brethren he was held in the greatest respect. The public placed every confidence in his skill and abilities, as was testified by his extensive practice. By the poor his death will be sincerely lamented, for his charity was unbounded. Ilis professional eminence, com bined with the pleasing and gentle amiableness of his character, endeared him to a wide range of friends, amongst whom his memory will long b e cherished. Dr. Bell had a sort of hereditary claim to distinction in his profession. He was the youngest son of the late Dr. Benjamin Bell, the Liston of his day, one of the most celebrated operators and practical surgeons that Scotland can boast of. His mother was a daughter of Professor Hamilton, who filled with distinction the Chair of Divinity in the University of Edinburgh ; so that, by parentage, as well as by professional celebrity and personal labours, the name of Dr. Bell has loag been intimately connected with the medical renown of the Scottish metropolis. He was warmly attached to the Esta blished Church, of which he was an active member, and, at the time of his death, an elder in St. George's Church.—Edinburgh Advertiser. ~~ THE CORN TRADE. At most of the leading provincial markets held since Monday, the value of wheat has given way to about the same extent as it did on that occasion at Mark-lane. The depres•ion at Liverpool has been somewhat greater than elsewhere, owing to the ap pears ace there of rather liberal supplies of wheat and dour from Ireland. On Tuesday the best qualities of wheat were obtainable in that market 3d., and rough parcels of Irish Gd., per 701bs. below the rates cur • rent on that day se'nnight. Fine fresh brands of American flour were not quoted lower, but Irish was offered freely at a decline of ls. per sack. Later in the week more confidence was shown, and on Friday quite as much money was realised for wheat, whilst flour and Indian corn sold better than on the previous market day. The accounts from other large towns in the north are dull. Our letters from Scotland describe the weather as having become cold mild seasonable, and the corn brought forward at Edinburgh and Glasgow on Wed nesday was, it is stated, in better condition than on any previous occasion this winter. At the first named market wheat brought very nearly former terms ; but at Glasgow prices were quoted 6d. per boll lower. From Ireland the accounts are on the whole dull ; the recent arrivals of Indian corn at Cork, &c., and the expectation of further supplies, had occasioned this article to be pressed on the markets ; and rather increased deliveries of grain of native growth having at the same time appeared, with full advises from this side, buyers had refused to act, except at lower rates. Meanwhile, great distress continued to prevail among the poor, owing to the dearness of potatoes. Some falling off has taken place in the supply of English barley, only 5,941 qrs. having been received within the last eight days. Prices of this grain having been reduced of late to a point deemed tolerably safe, factors have been firm ; and though the maltsters and. distillers have since Monday conducted their opera tions with considerable caution, they have scarcely been able to buy on as easy terms as those then ur rent. In foreign barley there has been very l ittle p ta a k s e si n ng i , n s s t m ill all ° before. c ( i ) t c .t l an h t e i a ti v t y .s, g a r t ir m i u din c g h sa th n e lpi s e a s m h e a r v a e te b s ee as a The stand which the price of barley has lately made has induced holders of malt to display more firmness, and the finer kinds have maintained their previous position ; nor have we heard of less money having been taken for the common descriptions, though the latter have been very dull of sale. We have to report an increased arrival of home. o g w ro n wn co o a a st, oats, received having, 2,957 in addition to 3,132 q r s . f rom ou r iirs. from Scotland, and 9,329 qrs. from Ireland. English beans have come forward rather sparingly; and though the inquiry has been of a retail character, lower rates have not been taken. Egyptians have also been held firmly at previous prices. Neither boiling nor feeding peas have excited much attention ; and in the absence of business of im portance quotations have remained unaltered. The accounts from Ireland being discouraging, Indian corn has been more freely offered, and this article has gradually given way ls. to 2s. per quarter; good Galatz having lately been sold at 335. to 355. per quarter. The value of Indian corn meal has also re ceded more or less.—Marh-lane Express. DEATII OF COLONEL VAUGHAN, OF have to record the demise of Colonel Vaughan, of Rug, the commanding officer of the militia of the latter county. Ile was brother to the late Sir B. Williams Vaughan, who for more than 44 years repre sented the county of Merioneth in Parl ia ment. His death took place on the 19th inst., at Nawna, near, . Del golly, one of the family seats. The vacancy the militia will be filled up by the Lord-Lieutenant, the Hon. E. L. Mostyn. Tint CONWAY TUBULAR BRIDGE.—By last Thurs day, we understand, about 200 feet out of 400 of the wooden supports to the tube have been removed, with which the tube exhibited , 1 . 10 sensible deflection. Wheu they are all removed the bridge will rest • on two te m p orary pillars constructed under its ends, for the purposes of testing it. By this day it is expected th e w h ole will be d remove , and the invention be fully tested. After that it will, with all expedition, he floated to the piers in the river, and raised to its proper pla ce . I n a work of this s ort so much uncertainty exists, th a t cre di t i s d ue t . ) the engineers for having hit the time so nearly as they have. We underst an d M r. B runel was there the other day,inspecting the bridge. If all things go on well, it is expected that the line to Bangor, 595 miles from Chester, will be opened for goods traffic by the Ist of March.—Chester Courant. ASYLUMS FOR TIIE lIOUSELESS.—In consequence of the severity of the weather, and the appearance of a continuation of it, the committee of the " Asylums for the llouseless" had an especial meeting on Saturday, when ~it was resolved to open the asylums in Playhouse yard, St. Luke's, and Glasshouse-yard, East Smithfield, in which establishments about 400 applicants were received on Sunday night. The Western Asylum, in Ogle-street, Marylebone, is also to be opened. We regret that the funds of this most effective but unobtru sive charity are seriously reduced. Alderman }lnnis, on the day of his inauguration at Guilhall, very liberally trausmitted 50/. to the Tower Ward Schools, in addition to his former dvustivas. =ter