The Sun. — London, England, 1848-01-12 00:00:00

t S E MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool, yesterday, were 1,500 to 2,000 bales. American, 4id. to 6td. per lb., with a heavy market.—Railway Shares were firm, and a good business was done. The statement of the Colonial Bank, the salient points of which we gave yesterday, has given rise to considerable remark, and there has been some further discussion as to the position of the West India colonies. It is known that Government is desirous of affording aid, buts whether for the advantage of mortga gees and non-resident proprietors, we are to return to the days of " protection," alias monopoly, we are left to guess. If the estates were to be re-sold, and came unin cumbered into the possession of frugal men of moderate means, and Government were at the same time to en courage emigration, we see no reason why colonial pro perties could not, be made to pay. The American advices are not of special interest, but it would appear that the exports of bullion had not ceased Whether we shall receive much more remains to be seen. As to the Mexican war, and the pecuniary aid which may be needed by the Government, it is stated that— " There is no doubt but that any amount of money the Government may require will be offered, as soon as proposals are issued. The immense amount bid for, when proposals for the last loan ware issued, shows pretty conclusively the ability . of the Government to make loans. Bids for nearly sixty millions of dollars were sent in for the loan of eighteen millions made last spring, and we have no doubt, notwithstanding the apparent tightness of the money market, that proposals for the loan of twenty-five millions would at once be taken' The Funds have been rather fluctuating this morning, and there has been a few sales, on account of the decline at Paris. Money, however, is too easy to allow of mere fractional alternations abroad exercising a decided influ ence here. Consols are 97* to I, after having been Ili to 67. The New Three-and• a-Quarter per Cents. have realised 881 to I. Bank Stock has been firm at 195 to 197. Pasch equer-bills have risen to 235. and 265. premium. In the Foreign Market the dealings have been at full rates generally. 'Spanish Three per Cents. are 291 ; Portuguese Four por Cents. have been 26i to 27. Bra zilian Small Bowls are 82. Grenada Stock is at 19k. Dutch Two-and- tialf per Cents. have been 54} to 1.. Railway Shar es exhibit a slight reaction compared with the highest, rates of yesterday, but are by no means weak. ONE CLOSING PRICES OF BRIM3H FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES Bank Stock 8 Per C en t. R edua ed Anns. 8 7 14% 87 87% 87% 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities.-- 87 1 4 1 4 86% 87 87 1 4 New 3 1 4 per Cent. Anns 8 8 14% 88 88 1 4 88X LongAnns. to expire, ,Jan. 1860 India Bonds, 1,0001. —••••• ****** '• 10 dis Ditto under 1,0001. Bank Stock for Account . —los 195 Consols for Account.... 8 7 1 1 %% 87 87 1 4 87 1 4 Exchequer Bills. 3d. 1,000/. 5001. .. 23 p Small . ** ..... .. 25 26 23 p ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK. PRICES. PRICES OF FOREIGN /MIDS. Brazilian Bonds .. — Ditto, Small Grenada Bonds, 1 p er Cent. 194 Mexican, 5 per Ceu t. 1846 — Ditto. Account.. lB% Peruvian Bonds,. G per Cents 3O Portuguese 5 per Cents— — Ditto, 3 per Cent Ditto, 4 per Cent. 264 27 Ditto, Account ... 26 26% 3 A Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Passive . Ditto. 3 per Cen t — Ditto. Account . ....... Dividends oft the above payable in London. Dutch, 21, per Cen.t., 12 Guild 544 1 /. 2 xd Ditto. 4 Der Cora. Certificates 54 1 Axd 86 PRICES OF RAIL rAm. BUSINESS OSING WAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK DONE CL . PRICES. Aberdeen.. Amber., Nott., Boston, and Eastern Jul:Lotion 2 5 / 4 ....- X Ayrshire and Galloway_ 2 1 ; i Birmingh am and Ox:- "'ford Junction .... ... 20 hampton, and Dudley 10 Birmi ng. , Wolverh'pton, and Stour Valley .... ...110/. 145... .....• Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire June.— 73 4 Boston, Stamfd & Birn t . 5 Bristol and Exeter...... 80 64 Ditto, Third s ...... ... 20 % Buckinghamshire... 101. 4s. ... -2% didie.2 die. Caledonian . ........... ..;'SO Ditto, Half Shares .. 33 / 4 -7 Ditto,Clydeadal e J ure: . 50 - Chester and Holyhead.... .37%•-••• - Claren ce Ditto, Prdereace _ :12 t — 78— Do. Ist Cl ass , 6 per Ct.. 10 Do. 2d Class, 5 per C. 10 Do•Governmeut Loa it., 4 per Cent. Dublin and Belfast Jun .c. 20 ....-. Dundalk & Enniskill en 15 ....•• East Anglia, 251., L. & E. and L. and D...... 25 ...... 12 114 Do., 181., E. & H.. - 18 Do., 31. 105.,E. &I I. 2 ...... Eastern Counties-. ..... ~ 20 Ditto (B) 2O ...... 16 Ditto ' Extension,s pet • d. Cent., No. 1...... t 3/.. 135. 4d.... % dis % Ditto ditto, No. 2...6d. 13s. 4d... % d;s. par. p is ar Do., York Extensii in. . . 10 Do., North. & East :at 50 ...... Do., Quarters ......-.. 12% 12% Do., New .... 23 ...... Eastern Union ..... 50 Ditto,Quarter Shares 12% - Ditto, Thirds ........13 5 .4d.. .............. . Do., (guar. 6 per cen...l.) East Lancashi re ...... ... - Ditto, New - Ditto, New Quartets 1 3 3 % — East Lincolnshire .... IDA - Edinburgh and Glasovr 50 ...... 45 Ditto, Half Shares ..., 15 .. .. Ditto, Quarte r Shares 12 5 ,4 ll Edinburgh and Northern 22 1 / 2 Ditto, New.. .... ni — Ditto, Newp0rt......,.. 90 — ••• Ditto, ditto, New.-- 2 4. .... Exeter,Yeovil, & Dora.. 2% Ditto, New ... 2 / 1 1 .•.••• Glasgow, Dumfries, an .d Carlisle 8L 6s. Bd. Glasgow,Kilir ,& ;w,/i.ilnaar.,..., Ayr 50 — Ditto, New ...... .-. 40 Do. Preference Consr.il. 12 1 / 2 — . ....... . Great Northe rn .... 10% —..... 4%x. int. Do., London and Yo , _lk 2% Great South. and West. (Ireland) .. Great North o:Euglai . d.l 00 ..... Ditto, New 401. Ditto, New 301 3O Ditto, New, 151. Great Western JO Ditto, % Shares 5O ...... 60 Ditto, 1 4 Shares Ditto, f ifths 2O Ditto, New, 171 Huddersfield and blanch. 24 Ditto, Thirds Bull and Selby .. Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 •• Ditto, 1 4 Shares - Ipsvfich& Bury St. Ethy l . 17 1 / 2 Do., do., and Norwich 15 Do., do., Eaten 4. Scrip (late Carnb. & Ely) 2 1 ,6 l% 1 Lancaster nod Carlisle... 50 Ditto, Thirds Lancashire & Yorkshire 93 ....• Ditto, ditto • • Ditto, % Shares Do. Quarter Sh ares. .. 14% l2 Do. Fifths... 8 - Do. Sixteenths 6 l /4 •••••• Do. 'Mali (lie .)....101.4:...... Do. Liverp. and Bury 34 Ditto % (late Hud dersfield and Sheff.) 33 Do.(Wakefield,Ponte fract, nod Goole).— 47 1 / 2 — Do.( W. Itid;ngUr;.onyi.2B -.. Do. (Preston & Wyre) 25 Do. % Shares (A) 9 — Ditto ditto (13) ... 1% Leeds and Bradford st) .. ... 24:% Leicester and Bedford... 16s. — Leeds, Dewsbury, Bcc... 42%...... ... . ___ Do.' 13rauchShares 12 Do.Newlirauch (blue) Do. Extension (gran) Do. NewExten.(pink) `2 1 , , Leeds and Thirsk ...... :26 Ditto, New Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct, Liverpool, Crosby and Southpott, . 2 Liverp., Alnelist7 &New- _ castle Junction 2% London &Blackwall.l6/. 13s. 4d.... 4 1 2' Do. New, No. 2 ... 41. 13s. 4d.... Do. Extension ..... ..• 17% — London, Brighton, and South Coast Do. Consul. Eighths. 30 Do. Guaraut. 5 per ct. 9 ..**** Do. Pref. Con. sper ct. 50 —— • Ditto, ditt0.....„ 1852 50 London and Greenwich 12/1534d... Ditto, Preference... Preference... 18117 s 2d... London and N. Westcra 100 152 Do., Quarters L. & B. 22 - 1 14 Do., do., New Ditto Fifths ..... .... 2 ••• " ...... ''''•• Do. !.,,i Shares (G. J.) 25 Do 40 /.Shares(L.M.) 15 — Do. 401. (M. & B.) ... 40 Do. 10/. (M. & B.) A. 7% ...... Do. 10/. (M. &B) B. 71A ll% Do. 101. OE &BO C. 1 44 d. & S.Westein —4l/. 6.... Bd.— 54% 55 .. . .... Do. New Consol. Bths 40 _ Do. New 50/. ... ..... 52 1 ,4.. .. 31%..... .. • _ no. New 401. . 26 Do. Tenths (Coml.) 50 ..itzu ditto ' .... -- Ditto, Third:: L( ' I ldoo, Salithar3- cw:: LY,;ilril ...... ... :.„ -... ondo ndeuy&Coleraim, 27%...... -•••- Londonderry and En 131- kil i el. .—.. ... .„, 23% .ft„. ... .... ..19.1 ...• '''"' 1 • Manchester,Buston,and Matlock 3 000000 5 4•••••••• 000000 % DIA ci. e.,t er, Sheffield, PTT:t Lincolnshire ICO ...... ••• • ._ Do. Quai,ols (No. 1) 13 ...... ••• _ Ditto ditto (No. 21... 25 Di; to ditto (Nc. 3)... 7%...••• Ditto and Grims4.... 25 Ditto ditto . ... —... 7 Ditto ditto Ditto Sheffield and Lincolnshire 7 14••• ••• ••••••• ........ .....• Manchest.&Southampt. 2 A...... Mildanil lOO ll2 113 1 A 113... 113 Do. ConsolidatedPref. 100 Do. 461. Shares ...... 40 ...... 4314% 1 4% 43% Do. 50/. Shares l5 ..... 13% z. int 12% x. i. Di Id Derbyloo ...... Do. Birm., any Midland Consol.Thist. & ..... ..... "..•• ... -- m ß id i i r n in d, in i g r . i , s 6 t. per icocenstrt..lo3o6 Ditto, ditto ....... ..111. os. 6d... ......... l!if'dlnd,Leicest.th Swan ning on, 8 per ct.guarlo o ...... Wdlend Great Western • .. ..... 4•1••• - re 1r v i ca 5h 5ii . e ............................. 1 8 00 1 Do. Quarters 25 ...~ .. Newinrket&Chasterford 18 1 ,4 Do. Extension .........21. 125.... Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford . 6 ....... ...... Newry and Enniskillen 7 _ Newry, Warrenpom4 and Rostrevor 1 2 1,4 — .. — Not Colk ..,...... -.100 - Do. New 20/. Do. Extension Do. Scrip, 1847, North of Noi•blk Do. do. Wavenev Val. 2 Northern CoanVeslinion 4 — ;North British ........ ... 25 Do. Half Shares' 12%...... - Do. Quarters Do. Extension %•••••, % ..• • 1 / 2 DU') Thirds .....• a Norti Staffordshire 754 7 % 1 /4 7 l /2 North Wales North Western 6 Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton ...... 35 ... Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Royston and Hitchin ... 1% —.- ........ Acottish Central I ottish Midland 2O — • •••• ••••• Dit to, New ......... ..... 10 Sheffle'd, Rotherham, and Goole Shrewsbury and Dirm... 6 Ditto ditto. Class B. 3 ...... - Shrewsbury & Chester (Nor. W. Min.) Ditto Halves ... ditto 8 ........ Ditto Osweetry ...... 12 Ditto New Do. 8 per Cent. Pref 5 Shrewsbury and Herefd. 2 ...... Shropshire Union South Devon 4O ...... 23 21% .. ...... Do. Preference South Staffordshire South Eastern & Dover. 33 1 Do., No. 1 24 Do., NQ, 2. Do., No. 3.. ..... ...... 20 ...... .... Do., No. 4 South Wales lB es mho 8 1 4Xi B l4 xl South Yorkshire, Don caster, and Goole 2 — Swans. & Loughor & Ca meron's Stm. C0a1.... 4 Taw Vale Extension ... 4 Thames Haven Dock and Railway ..... •..... 17 1 / ...••• Vale of heath ... .. 4 Waterford and Kilkenny 13 1 / 2 ...... .. Waterford and Limerick 40 Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw, and Düblin West Cornwall 4 ... .. — • Whitehaven & 1 urness 12 Windsor, Staines, and South Wester n........ 525. 2 1% p Wilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth York, Newcastle, and Berwick. .... . . ...... .., 25 .. ... 34 $ A Do. Original iew and Berwick Do. North Shields Pur. 25 Do. Extension No. 1. 10 Do. do. No. 2.-- ... 10 1.4. G.N-E.Preference 8 •••—• 9 % 7i, York and North Midland 50 Ditto, Preference ...... 10 Do. East and Wes*-Rid ing Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens... 20 Central of France (Or leans and Vierzon) ... 14 Central of Spain .. Ceylon Demerara 5 .. . Dendre Valley 4 — Direct Bombay and Madras Dutch Rhenish East Indian ... l l4 --•• ••• _ _. Great Indian Peninsular 55... — Italian and Austrian.... 4 Jamaica S. Mid. Junction 1 Louvain ala Sambre ... 6 Luxembourg... 6 Lyons and 5 Madrid and Valentia... 2 21% 18 31 Namur and Liege l4 .. .. 5 Northern of France Orleans and Bordeaux 6 Over Yssel Al3s 4cl 2 p. share 2 p sh. Paris and Lyons Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen ... 2O Paris and Strasbourg ... $ Bonen and Havre 20 Sambre and Meuse lB ..... 7 ... .•• Strasbourg and Basle Tours and Nantes 8 Tournay, Jurbise, Lan den, and Hasselt ...... 16 West Flanders Si.... ... 1 1 4.. JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia British North A mericou 50 Colonial 25 ... ••• • ••••..... Provincial of Ireland Ditto New... ..... ...... 10 Commercial of London 20 London Joint Stock National of Ireland 2 2 14 — ••• Union of Australia Ditto,New... 2% — • Union of L0nd0n......... 10 ... .. Union of Madrid National Prov. England. 35 Ditto, New London & Westminster. 20 MINES. Anglo- Mex ican lOO Brazilian Cocaes& Cuiba 30 .... British Iron Bolonos Scrip Galvanized Iron lO Ditto, New Real Del Monte, Unreg. .4 44 7% LLOYD'S SHIPPIN G--(THIS DAY.) LONDON, JAN. 12.—Wind this day at noon S.W. to W.S.W„ light brecze and fine weather, with slight frost. DEAL, JAN. 11.—Wind N. to N.N.E.—Arrd. from tl o River and sid. Northumberland, Madras • Stander ings, Al goa B ay; Eleanor, Algoa Bay; John Munn, Lima; Daphne, Bahia; John, Trinidad; Catherine Greene, St. Kitt's; Eliza, Jamaica; Thomas Fulden, New Orleans; Bangalore, Bermuda; Sophia, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Superior, Sierra Leone. SCARBOROUGH, JAN. 11.—The Probus, Antwerp to Ilamburgh, leaky, sails split, and rudder broken, was fallen in with and towed in here by the Duncan Dunbar; must discharge. CHANCERY.-1 4 :. THIS DAY.) The Lord Chancellor sa't, in his Court at eleven o'clock, and heard unoppou d lunatic petitions, ap peals, and cause petitions. BURST V. PADWIM L--JUDGMENT. His LORDSHIP gave Judy 2 vent to-day in this case, which was argued yeste 1( lay upon motion in the nature of an appeal fror . the decision of the Vice- Chancellor Wigram, wl ao refu sed to make an order upon the plaintiff to give socurity for costs. His Lordship, after go ing o a t some. length into the case, a to be th a t t h e j u d gment o f t h e stated Vice - Chancellor correct, and or d ere d th e a pp ea l clear ° p wasiu i to be dismissed with . costs. DUBLIN, JAN. 10.—The smack Mary, Newry to this port, was totally wrecked last night on the Cross Rocks, Skerries; Crew saved, and it is expected that the mate rials and cargo will be saved. BELFAST, JAN. 10.—The Abigail, Leggett, hence for New York, put back Bth inst., leaky, and with loss of sails, spars, stancheons, &c. The Endeavour, of this port, is on shore at the entrance of the Lower Lough, but is expected off. Sracto, JAN. 10.—The Industry, which was stranded on Bowmore 29th ult., has driven further on the strand, and now lies apparently with her back broken; a con siderable portion of the cargo has been saved, materially damaged, and the remainder in the hold is entirely destroyed. L JATIC PEI ITIONS . The Court then UT proceeded to hear the unopposeil lunatio petitions. IN THE as ATTHR. OP DITCH 30/11(111N. This case came before the Court upon three peti tions; one on behalf of the c.ammitte,e of the person of the lunatic, Mr s. Dyce Sambre and Mr. Parker, the object of whir j h wag, fi rst, to c'arry out the in. tention of Mr. Dy ce Somi ire w'Ath respect to the erection of a tr,onument in I, udia to the widow of the great grandfa'ther of Mr. D 3 ice, Sombre—the Begum Sombre, who. left the lun a ti c. an immense fortune in India. It appeared from th e statements on the peti tion that the monument, w al& had been executed by an Italian sculptor of emin arm e, named Tadolini, was ready to be conveyed to India; that 8,0001. out of the 4,0001., agreed to be given to the artist for executing it , had been paid, and the petition prayed th al. the remaining 1,0004 might be paid. Then, wi I.la respect to the carriage o 1 the monument to India, a .gentleman of the name of Beale had agreed to do s o for 2s. 4d. per cubic foot, ' and the petition prayed t hz tt the Court would order that that offer should be :to cepted. The petition also prayed that the Court wo at d make some specific order with respect to the alloy /Tr nce to Mr. Dyee Sombre weekly, as Lord Lyndb to rat bad given no specific directions upon the subjc Tr, t ; and also that the costs of the committees of the person and the estate, in respect of the petition prc'i rented in 1846, should be paid out of the estate of 3 Ir. Dyce Sombre. His LORDSHIP made tl le orders as prayed. The object of the ne xt petition, which was pre sented by the committe e of the estate, was the con firmation of the Made' report, finding that an in creaze should be mad a to the pension of a female named Bebee Sohagu• a, from 15 to 50 rupees, and general management of the e a s l t s a o te t . he costs of the _ - HiS LORDSHIP also made the order in this peti tion. The other petition, which related to the expenses of Mr. Dyce Sombre's election for Sudbury, was not proceeded with, in consequence of the absence of Mr. Lloyd, who was then engaged in arguing a case in the Court of Queen's Bench. The Court then proceeded to hear lunatic and cause petitions. VICE-CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.) (Before the VICE-clikr(cELLOR of ltaoLAina.) His Honour was occupied the whole morning with unopposed cause petitions and motions of no interest. (Before Sir J. WIGRAM.) ROBERTSON V. scArrnGATn. This was a supplemental B.ill, filed by the assig nee' of the plaintiff against tLedefendvnt, James,Webb Southgate. It appeared that the defendant carried on the business with his sc )n, as bookseller, in Fleet street, but the partnership b e i ng dissolved, a new firm was formed between. the plaintiff and Henry Southgate, and under the title of Southgate and Robinson, the father receiving 500/. to retire from the business. The original hill rAlleged that he had been induced to enter into the (partnership under an erro neous opinion formed upom the statements of Henry Southgate, and that the money, 3,0001., which he embarked in the business, had been applied in liqui dation of the debts of the fild firm. The supplemental bill made the same alleg - Atior., and the defendant, in his answer, asserted till it the plaintiff entered into the partnership with the understanding that he was to assume the liabilitig 35 of the debts of the firm. His Holqoua, in delittering judgment, said he ' considered that the alleg,ation in the answer was not improbable, and 'Abet there was no proof of the allegations in the 'oill, and he must therefore de cide against the plaint - iff. sedwith costs. The bill was dismiti EXCHEQUER. -(THIS DAY.) ( .Sittings in Banco.) MI MI V. NASH AND 27 OTHERS. and Mr. Crompton appeared to s h ow au against,, a rule calling upon the plaintiff t o e l ec t c in M. which art rJne of the above causes he would proceed to trial, aT.id for a stay of proceedings in the remainder, and to relieve the defendants in all the causes, except the one to be sued, from all sosts subsequent to the 19th of January, 1846, the defendant undertaking to be bound by the event of the cause elected to be tried. The Attorney-General and Mr. Bramwell appeared in support of the rule. The action was brought separately against twenty eight members of the provisional committee of the projected Derby and Uttoxeter Railway, fora sum of money for which they were jointly liable by virtue of their office. In one of the actions, Henry v. Read, the plaintiff had obtained an award for the payment of the debt and costs, but had not signed judgment. Since obtaining the award further proceedings had been taken, and the defendants had demurred to several of the actions. IRISH SPECIAL COMMISSION. SENTENCES ON PRISONERS CONVICTED DURING THE COMMISSION.—IMPORTANT ADDRESS OF THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE. LIAIERICE, MONDAY.—The prisoners convicted during the commission, and not before sentenced, were brought up to receive sentence. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE - addressed them as fol- Mr. MARTIN, with whom was Mr. Crompton, now contended, that the plaintiff was entitled to all his costs in the remaining actions. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, with whom was Mr. Bramwell, maintained that as the remaining twenty seven actions could not succeed inasmuch as the defendant would ba able to plead the award in one of the actions, they were nut entitled to their costs in those actions. After considerable discussion it was finally agreed, that the parties should 2ubmit 'to the decision of the Court, as to what costs ought to be paid. The COURT then decided that the plaintiff should have the defendant's costs in the action in which the award had been obtained, and the costs of the writs and demurrers in the other actions ; and that upon the payment of those costs, and the cost of the present application, all further proceedings should be stayed. BANKRUPTCY.--(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner GovLBuEN). IN RE SAMUEL. This bankrupt had carried on business as a silver smith in Bury-street, St. Mary Axe, and to-day was appointed for him to pass his last examination. The estate is very considerable, the debts being about 80,0001. The accounts were not prepared, and the bankrupt applied for a further adjournment, as the accounts were very complicated. He said that it would, even with the assistance of an accountant, take three months. His HoNouu granted the adjournment. The Solicitor to the assignees objected to the con tinuation of the allowance (4/. per week). His HONOUR said that it could not be expected that the bankrupt could prepare his accounts if de prived of the allowance. Ho had no power to grant it after the choice of assignees, but if it was refused he would make an order at the audit for the payment of a reasonable sum to defray the expenses of prepar ing the accounts. lows :—Prisoners, you all tthe of one who destroyed is c thosepo guilty)l u e n a ot d ru e yti d rrsage w hie have tried and convicted various offences—offeneea p ar t a ki ng of th e c h aracter n e e v e i_d d e nee, which, have been so prevalent i n w- hs -ctlave disgraced its character and upon Mace. an Y y ou per h s a o s n re mbleoenhefaorud mustndgu b ilty e convileft the j ur y no a lt erna tive but to fi ne y ou guilty, y ou are now about to receive your sentences, awl it is no part of my duty to rebuke or to insult you. God knows there is enough before me to disarm any feeling of resentment, and to cause to be extended to you pity and compassion, if mercy to others did not forbid that extension. The time has gone by at which admonition or advice would have been of use. Your career of guilt has been run—that career has terminated, and now arrives another state of things —to hear the sentence of the law and the punishment inflicted upon you. These sentences in the cases of every one of you, with some slight slif ference, wilt ha ve the effect of causing your imme diate removal from this country—separation from friends and kindred—in some instances that separation will be eternal—for the whole period of your natural lives, at least for periods which exceed the ordinary duration of your ages. The ties which have con nected you with your families, the ties which have connected you with your parents, brothers, sisters, are all suddenly and for ever to be snapped asunder, not by the laws of nature or by the act of God, but by your own evil deeds. Friends and kindred will hereafter live, but not for you. You will live, but not for them. I might be spared, and would cer tainly spare myself, the labour and pain of these ob serrations, if I looked simply to your condition and your fate. You have forfeited your liberty —you have forfeited the most inestimable treasure with which God has blessed man—you have forfeited the labour of your hands, and you will hereafter, during the l ong per i o d s ciyour sentences be in sub stance but serfs and slaves. But it is for the sake of others that I protract my address to you. The object of our law in inflicting punishment is not to gratify the passion of revenge. Revenge is foreign to the spirit of that law. The object of punishment is the salutary, the important principle of preventing crime —of saving those who might otherwise be criminals— of saving them from themselves and their own evil passions and propensities—and of saving others from aggression by inspiring them with a salutary terror, which may arrest their progress in crime, and protect the sound and well-ordered portion of society. It is therefore that at this moment you have comparatively little interest in what lam about to say. But what lam about to say is all important to others. And who are these others ? Your associates in crime— your companions in guilt—the desperate band of robbers and assassins who have pillaged the country and rendered life and property insecure. They it is that are now to be warned by your example ; and if not reclaimed from their evil ways, they at all events may, by the signal punishment which awaits you, learn what their punishment will be if they do not stop short in their crimes, turn away from the paths of riot and disorder and bloodshed to the paths of pease and order. There may be many such here, and to them it is highly im portant to lay deep in their minds the few observa tions which I avail myself of this opportunity of making, for their sakes and for the sake of the com munity, which I hope will be protected by the ex amples now about to be made. I hope that these examples will operate as a discouragement to them. And here, I would ask, if any partners of your crime—if any associates of your guilt—if any persons guilty of similar practices be within hearing of my voice is your position one which they or any of them envy—are you at this moment in such a condition as that they would exchange their places with yours ? Will they not reflect that what is your fate to-day may be theirs to-morrow ? Will they not reflect that the ignominy and the exposure —the loss of liberty, of country, 'and of kindred, that are now about to be inflicted on you must in evitably be the lot of that man who is not warned by your example and arrested in his course of guilt ? Is not your position calculated to make an impression upon the heart of every man ? What a spectacle to witness in a civilized and Christian country ! I believe that there are at this moment net less than 15 human beings before me, all of whom, in mercy to the peaceable and well disposed, it is necessary to remove from their friends and native Thomas Newman, attacking a dwelling•house, seven years' transportation. Denis Flyn, who pleaded guilty to a like offence, seven years' transportation. John Collins, highway robbery, seven years' traus• portation. _ _ _ SECONDARIES.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Secondary JAMES.) There was only one case set down for hearing, and that was to recover the amount of a bill of exchange. The defendant pleaded that he did not accept, but did not appear to support the plea. LIABILITY OF MILITARY PENSIONERS TO SERVE ON JURIES. On the names of the jury being called on, Mr. Andrew Kenna claimed to be excused on the ground that he was a Government pensioner, and enrolled in the battalion of pensioners. He said that he was liable at any moment to be called on active service. The SECONDARY—Yes, when the French come. I know of no exemption on such a ground, and I must call on you to serve. land; and will your companions in guilt go on and Nee that danger ? Will they blindly, to their own ruin, rush into crime again ? Agai n bra ve th e authority of the law, and again incur its terrors and its punishment ? Oh I if you had voices and could use them I it is not from my lips the language of admonition should come, but you should warn, from the place in which you stand, every human being misled by your example, or who may have participated in your crimes, by ti our example to beware of your fate, and that, if they continue in their crimes, your fate must be theirs. But with what hopes are these evil designs entertained and these evil practices continued ? Does this commission prove that the law has lost its rigour that the ministers and officers of justice, false to " their trust, wink at the escape of criminals, and decline to per form their duty ? Every event that has occurred since the commission opened forbids the expectation of impunity. The jurors have done their duty ably, firmly, and constitutionally. A more conscientious discharge of such duty I never witnessed in the course of my life ; and is it from laws so administered and laws so executed that these dastardly banditti hope to escape ? Is it against such authority they hope to battle ? But has nothing occurred within a short period to diminish their hopes of success, and deprive them of the power of doing mischief. [His Lordship here referred to the clause in the recent Coercion Act, rendering the possession of fire-arms even in dwelling-houses, without a license, a high misdemeanour, and giving a power to the police to search all suspected houses.] From my own expe rience, I can say that as arms cannot be safely kept in houses—for the police will know what houses to search, and will have the power of searching them, and as arms concealed outside houses will from damp be rendered unserviceable, the best hopes may be indulged in. But has nothing else oc curred to diminish their hopes of success, by dimi nishing the power of this banditti ? Has not the case of William Frewen, condemned to transportation for life, occurred, and has it not been heard of? The power of these illegal confederacies is founded upon terror. Under the influence of that terror the farmers of the country have repeatedly—very often, I trust, involuntarily—received and harboured criminals such as you. Perhaps they did it in ignorance of the law —whether that be so or not the law on the subject is no longer doubtful. Its power has been asserted and proved by the conviction of William Frewen ; and every man who harbours a murderer or a felon does so at a peril of which if not heretofore aware, he is now well warned. In future he cannot pretend ignorance of the law ; where, th en , w ith ou t fire-arms— without protection—where will the disturbers of the peace find repose ? Let me here advert to what has occurred in two or three instances during the present commission, because they show the condi tion—the miserable condition of privation and suffer ing which is the inevitable result of persisting in these crimes. We have heard instances—and I now men tion them for public information—of criminals con scious of their guilt skulking from the officers of justice, abandoning their own dwellings, and scarcely venturing, in the sever es t weather, to enter under the roof which ought to give them shelter, or to warm themselves at the hearth from which their crimes have excluded them. I eannot conceive a more miserable state of things; but it is a retributive consequence of the violation of the law of God and man. Practically the robbers and assassins in this country are reduced to destitution and misery by the consciousness of their own criminality. But let me address another, and concluding,_ word o f a d v i ce to those who, like you, perhaps a have formed members of th ese a t roc i ous confederacies, and whom I would rescue if I could. I, in this county, and in other counties in Ireland, have witnessed the progress of these confederacies, and I know that, as soon as the law h as grappled with them successfully, distrust of the conspirators becomes universal—confidence is undermined, and treachery begins. Nothing is so tru e as t h at no real confidence can, from the natu re of thi ngs, subsist between com panions in crime. Sooner or later —that is, as soon as self preservati on or fea r shall h ave a l arme d th e confederates, some one will, without hesitation, in stantly ava il himself of his mea ns o f k nowle d ge to betray the confidence 'nosed in him, and be the in strument of bringing his own compan i ons to justice. This has happened—this will. happen —I speak with that confidence--with that settled i rreversa bl e prin of nature enable me to enter ciple which the tain, repeating laws m that amongst guilty men there can be no confidence. I lat'w the name of the informer is odious. I know in what detestati on it i s h e ld. But who makes the informer ? Th e person w h o trusts him. What gives him pow er over lif e an d liberty ? The confidencs reposed in him. Who is be trayed and destroyed by that confidence ? The men who confided in guilts' associates. Th ere f ore cri minals, in reposing confdence in eac h ot h er, arm eac h other with the means sf mutual destruction ; and, whatever the horror with which the name is regarded, it should be recollected that his power of doing mis chief—if you will call it so—arises from the absurd folly of trusting to a taal who is from th e was,- nature 41 ,is on ly sale in fait trust, as lone it serf his own interest. Let that self-interest , that self preservation come in conact with his vow, his pro mise, and the oath or engagement of such a person SHIELDS, JAN. 10. —The Perseverance has sprung a leak, and must discharge. Two steamers are reported to have sunk in the harbour, and some vessels have lost bowsprits and bulwarks. 11. The Ohne Cecelie, hence to Hensbury, has put back, having been in collision, sth inst., in the North Sea, with a Danish sloop; threw part of cargo overboard, is very leaky, and must discharge: the latter, it is supposed, will founder. The Emily, hence to Havre, is aground on the Herd Sand. DUNDALK, JAN. B.—The Lark, which went on shore 19th ult. at Giles quay was got off to-day and towed here, much damaged. IIenTLErooL, JAN. 10.—The Algerina, of Lynn, was in contact with the Ann, of Lynn, this morning, and sank; crew saved by the latter, arrived here. SCARBOROUGH, JAN. 11.—The Robert and Margaret, of Shields; the Mary Clark, of London; and the Eliza Ann, of London, have put in here, the two former leaky, and the latter with rudder damaged, having been ou Whitby Rock this morning during a thick fog. HULL, JAN. IL—The Ariel, hence to Marseilles, and the Helena Catharine,, from Porta Plata. have been in contact; the former has put back with loss of cutwater, Bte.,_ and is much strained. W A INFLEET, JAW. 10.—The Mery, of and for Boston, from Stockton, is totally wrecked on the Knock Sand; greater part of stores saved. BOSTON, JAN. 10.—The low Superior, hence to,-- Th mil Hartlepool to has L opwutEbsTaoekFFlEea,kyj',ANan. dlios.—diargiviTschheng., Shoreham, has been assisted in leaky, and with pumps choked. Margaret, itvery Troonto Newport, e p A u D t ' in iT h A e N re this morning, ning ? w h consider able damage, having been in collision last night with the Nimrod steamer. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 11.—The packet•ship Louis Phil lippo, Castoff, from Havre to New York, struck ou the Rips off Nurtucket, and lost rudder, and had 5 feet of water in her hold, and would be taken into one of the nearest ports. KIRKCALDY, JAN. 9.—The Lord Seaton, Talbot, from Quebec and Aberdeen, in attempting to enter the har bour yesterday, struck outside the pier heed, went en :lore ; and must diaehrago , b.er i 5 partly gone, and thu ISBEACFI, JAN. 11.---The Mary Simian, hence to Newcastle, lies on her beam ends at the side of the river below Sutton Bridge, and fills wilh the tide; it is hoped hat the whole of tin cargo yfill be cared. MARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY.) Charles Trebble, Daniel MCarthy, and Frederick Goodeve, three well-known thieves, were placed be fore Mr. Hardwick, charged with picking the pocket of Mr. John Fisher Kennett, 2, Southampton - street, Fitzroy-square. Hughes, 114 E, said he was walking along Oxford street about five o'clock last evening, when he ob served the prisoners following the complainant. Knowing them to be notorious thieves, he watched them, and saw Goodeve try the complainant's pocket, but without succeeding in his attempt to get anything out. He then saw Trebble follow up in the place of Goodeve, and, after trying complainant's pockets, pull out a silk handkerchief. Witness then called another constable to his assistance, and went up to the prisoners, and took them i n t o custo d y, w i th the handkerchief in their possession. He then informed the gentleman of his loss, who identified the hand kerchief as his property. Smith, 13 E, corroborated the evidence of last witness. boroutsaifidvehoe'crocaks on the preceding proceeding along prosecutor first witness up and toll 6tOI Orford-street he led-;11'135 had been robbed. He aaw a t handkerchief in Lis haria, which he itleutl64 4,, 6iug his (pry secutor's). The prisoners, who protested tho 4 innocence, were ,committed for . CAPITAL CONVICTION. John Renihen and six others were put forward charged with the wilful murder of John IlPEnery, at Adamstown, on the 3d Oct., 1847. The prisoners declined to join in their challenges, and John Reniben was then put forward, and a jury having been sworn, given in charge for the murder. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL opened the case for the Crown. He said it would appear in evidence that, on the night of Sunday, 3d October last, a party of armed men went to the house of the deceased M'Enery. Renihen, it appears, had some dispute with .the family of M'Enery, out of which there arose an investigation at petty sessions. M'Enery had arms in the house for his protection, and these he on that occasion used as he was fully justified in doing—he endeavoured to resist the party outside, and fired some shots. However, seeing the party outside so large, he knew that further resistance would be unavailing ; he accordingly ceased firing, and endeavoured to hide himself. The party immediately broke into the house, demanded money and arms, and, after pos sessing themselves of both, searched for M'Enery. Having found him, they dragged him out of the house, when they beat him severely, and inflicted some gunshot wounds on him, from the effects of which he died next day. The case was clearly proved. The jury, without leaving the box, found the prisoner Guilty. The same apparent indifference that characterised the unfortunate men previously convicted capitally at this commission was observable in the present instance. There was not a movement of a single feature betraying emotion of any kind. The prisoner was remanded, with an order to be brought up for sentence next morning. T 31E S UN, ][.ON DON _ WEDNESDAY EVENING JANUARY. 12, 1848. IVICA, DEC. 17.—The Era, E t ce . of Newcastle, from Liverpool to Leghorn, was s tre - aded on the island of Formentera previously to the 19i ,h ult. ' will perish with the same rapidity as flax is consumed by fire. Now I have concluded what I had to say on the position in which you stand in reference to your own companions in guilt, of whom there must be many ; and in reference to those with whom, though you are not individually associated or personally acquainted, are looking on at the result of these trials—looking on with a natural anxiety to know whether they can safely proceed further in their career of wickedness, or whether your escape from the violated laws of the land can extend any hope of further impunity, or any prospect of enjoying the plunder they were desirous of possessing. I do again warn those whom you represent—the criminals, the untried criminals—the unapprehended criminals of the county of Limerick. Let them look to your station, and ask themselves is that one of triumph, or rather is it not one of misery and distress. Are you prepared to say, is any one prepared to say, that the sentence I am about to announce to you, any human being, with a particle of mind, can hear un regarded. One word more before I proceed to pass sentence. Six months ago, when the criminal justice of the country was administered at the assizes, it may have been that some of you were present at scenes some% hat similar to that now presented to you. It may be that you saw prisoners in that dock sentenced by the judge, and that judge holding out as a terror to you the example of those then sentenced. Now, if youever heard that language, what must be your afflic tions at this moment? And what would you not have given —would you not have given the whole earth to have abided by that advice ? Advice may be suvected because it comes from the organ of the law. Those who entertain that supposition, or whe would diminish the value of that advice, are greatly mistaken. But suppose it was not he who addressed you—suppose it was any individual who cared to do no more than tell the truth, and was simply anxious to preserve you from incurring the severe penalties of the law, would it not be the advice of a true and sterling friend ? Is it the less friendly because it comes from the high authority of two of the principal judges of the land ? Those who give you a different advice are your real enemies, and by following it you do that which tends to your own destruction. His Lordship then pro ceeded to pass sentences as follows, recapitulating and shortly commenting on the particular circumstances of each case : John Farrell, attacking the dwelling-house of Thomas Barkmaa—Transportation for 14 years. Michael Looney, Daniel Looney, Michael Madigan, Jeremiah Garven, Thomas Frawley, and Patrick Gleeson, for attacking the dwelling-house of Patrick Maloney. All (with the exception of Michael Looney, recommended to mercy and sentenced to 11 months' imprisonment) to be transported for 14 years. In this case there was an indictment for the abduc tion of the prosecutor's daughter, but it was not pressed by the Crown. The facts, however, came out in evidence on the trial, and Looney was recommended to mercy for having shown some kindness to the girl when the others were brutally dragging her through the country. Patrick Richardson, Maurice Oitrey, Michael Kennedy, and Michael Collins, for having attacked the dwelling house of William Staunton, ten years' transportation. Thorns Hinchy, firing into a dwelling-house, two years' imprisonment and hard labour. Laurence O'Donnell and two others, attacking a dwelling-house, two years' imprisonment and hard labour. Daniel Noonan, Michael Collins, and Andrew Duggan, attacking a dwelling-house and appearing in arms, two years's imprisonment and hard labour. James Healy, and nine others, who pleaded guilty of having unlawfully assembled, nine months' im prisonment. REMOVAL Of TUB CONVICTS.—During the passing of sentence preparations were made without the court for the immediate transmission of those sentenced to transportation to the convict depot in Dublin. The space in front of the court house was lined with a large party of the 92d Highlanders, and jaunting cars were ranged along the entrance of the outer hall for the reception of the convicts. Beside the Highlanders there was in attendance a troop of the Queen's Bays, and a large party of mounted police. The convicts haring been handcuffed and manacled, were placed two on each car with two of the constabulary, and with the escort of the Queen's Bays and mounted police before mentioned, conveyed direct to N enagh, ea route to Dublin. They were accompanied out of town by an immense number of spectators. The wailing of the convicts themselves, as well as of their friends and relatives, was most painful to hear ; and it is not too much to say that examples of this kind will have greater effect on the country than the more serious vindications of the law which have attended the present Commission. LATEST PRICES OF SHARES. I BANKS, ASSURANCE. AM) OTisiEll COM- PANIES' STOCK. From the Official Lift, euBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING. LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 11. ZOINT-STOCIC saAN MS. . Dividend Amount r Name of Company. per of Paid. Price I Annum. Share. f - - -- xg. d. A a. d. -..• . tistralasia •• . • • 40 0040 0 0 - 3rltshNorth American 51. per cent. 50 0050 0 0 45 , Ceylon - I Commercial of London 61. per cent. 1 60 0 0 20 0 0 - E i'.olonial.. . ...... ... 51. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 - r Gloucestershire ••• • • • il5/ per cent. - - - lonian - Londn and Westminstr 1 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 24 - - 13 0 0 - ' Lo:idon Joint-Stock ... 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 - • Provincial of Irelanl.. 181. per cont. 100 0 0 25 0 0 - . Ditto, .........St. 8/. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 - National of Ireland .. 1 51. per cent. 50 0 0 22 10 0 - 5 Nat. Provncial of Eng. I 6'. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 35 ; Elko, New......... 51. per cent 20 0 0 10 0 0 10 . 2outh Australia ...... - - 22 10 0 - Un!on of Australia •• • • 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 23 ; Ditto ••••..-• • •• •• - - 210 0 - Uni.ol of London... -6/. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 - Union of Madrid - C.h MAI'S. ... . .; I Dlviderd Names et ' 1 a.' Dividend! Names of ' 1 Companies. I. n per , Annum., Price. Companies. +.• per Price. ca A v=Annum. l ' I X 1-- ! x -. Ash tn & Oldhl 9751.5 r .p c. 70 Macclesfield • 100 - Barnsley • • • •1160. 15 121. 1 150 Neath ••• • • • 100 201. 340 _ritilk& - Ahrg;lso, N. j 80 Oxford ••• • • • 100 20/. 200 Thrminghainl.3sl 41. 'I Su Pe a k F ores t. 7 8 37. 40 Coventry .... 1 100/ 251. / Regent's • • • • • • •33 11 . 4s. 18% Done .....1100; 6/. ' - 61 Rochdale.... 85, Ellse're&Chs,l33! 41. 4/. 54 Ereek ash . - 'um; • 50 Somrset Coal 150 7/. 10s. 130 I . 32 4 ' - Do.Lk Fd St 12 61. p. C. - Grand•Tunctil 100' 5/. Grand Surrey 100' - 80 Steird &Wore 1,0, 281. 275 30 Shrewsbury.. 1251 15/ Grand Unien'loo IL 10s. 21% tSto i bridg 1 'aftantliarn ..11 5 0; 121 . - 'Seve r rn and 145 1 145 I 201.. . 30 - 5 Kenut & Avnl 39, 7s. 6d. 5Ni Wye Rail. i 261 11. Bs. 30 Laois& Lirrp 100 341. , 505 W arw i ck & Leicester .... 140, 10/. 1 75 Bir m i ng . I 1 00 5/. 65 (mutt" &N.h.; 83 4/. 1 36 Warwick& I I LoughboreAti 142 70/. 530 Napton.. j - 46 Monmeutheir 100 Si. - Worestr &] 78 2/. 39 Metgemrysh 100 51. - 1 binning. MeltilM wbrylloo, 10/. - Wilts & Brks, 67 11. I 11 E7.IIIIITR3.NCII COMPANIES. -------. ' Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. -- ---. Z s. 0.1 £ B. el• Albion •...-•• • • • • • • 3/. 10i. 500 0 0 150 0 0 75 Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 17 Ditty 21arine.- •• • • 61. per cent, 100 0 0 50 0 5% _Wks •• - British Commercial .. 7s. per share 50 0 0 •5 0 0 6% Cloriel,Meil.& Gen. Life 51. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 20% 31. 100 0 0 10 0 0 - Crown 13s. 50 0 0 5 0 0 11 Eagle . ... Eng.& Scot. Law •• • • 51. per cent. 50 0 0 219 6 I}i European Life •••• •• 5% per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. - Family Endowmn t Soc. 4/. & be. 4 0 0 4 0 0 - Freemasons' .-•• • • • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0 - Globe ••.-.•• • • • • • • • 6/. per cent. Stock. - 120 Guardian .•-••• • • • • • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 36 10 0 443 i 'mperial Fire -••• • • • 12 per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 214 Imperial Life •• • • • • 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14% Indemnity Marine ... • 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 513 1 - Law Fire ............ - 100 • 0 210 0 3 Lary life.. --- - .. 11. 65. 100 0 0 10 0 0 45 Legal end General Life - 50 0 0 2 0 0 - Landon Fire ... ••• .• 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 13% London Ship •.••• • • • 105. 25 0 0 12 10 0 13% Marine .. •••••• • • • .. - 100 0 0 15 0 0 - Med. Invild& Gen. Life 4%1. per et. 50 0 0 2 0 0 9% National Leaa Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 2 10 0 - National Life• • . - Palladium Life 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 - Pelican .. • . - - - 87 Plicenix • - - 165 - "I otector Life- - ... 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 - rovident Life •••• • • .. 11. 55. 100 0 0 10 0 0 - Rock Life.-- -- •• 4s. 5 0 0 0 10 0 4% Royal Exchange 5l. per cent. Stock. - - ?tin Fire • • • • . • • • • .. - 61. 105. - - - Ditto Lite • - ' - - Universal Life lO%l. pr cut. 100 0 0 810 0 - Vlotcria Life --•• .• • - - 4 0 0 - GAS-LIGIIT AND COME COMPANIES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. i Price. Annum. Share. I IS. s. d. A. s. d. British ••• • • ... •• . • Ditto Provincial ll. Bs. !20 0 0 19 0 0 , 23% Bristol .• . • ... • ... • • ICI. per cent.l 20 0 0 - -- Brighton ...... •• • • - 1 9 City of London . CfjpotinentalConsolidat 92s. pr share V 0 0 39 5 0 . 5.1 Ditto, New ..... ... 85s. pr share M 0 0 37 10 0 51'e Equitable.... .. .. -. . 45e. pr share 50 0 0 50 0 0 ' 38 Imperial • ..... ••• • • • 61. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 : 803 Independent ....... • • 61. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 64 , London. • .... •.•• • • • • 2%1. pr cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 i - Ditto.... • ... •.• . • . Gt. per cent. '5O 0 0 50 0 0 1 - Phcenix .•. .. Ratcliff -• • • ...... • • W. and bns. 100 0 0 90 0 0 ! 80 United General ... •• . 4%1. pr cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 1 17 Westminster Chartered 3/, 50 0 0 - 55%xd Ditto, New -- - ... , 12s. 50 0 0 10 0 0 , 11 POST-OFFICE NOTICES. The following were issued yesterday at the General Post -office :—" Her Majesty's steamer the Acheron, wi▪ th mails for Madeira, Cape of Good Hope, Swan Ri▪ ver, and Auckland, New Zealand, is appointed to sail from Devonport on the 11th instant. Mails to the Coast of Africa, &c.—Mails will be made up at this office on the evening of the 31st instant for Ma deira and the West Coast of Africa, to be conveyed by one of her Majesty's ships appointed to sail on the let proximo. Letters for Madeira will be charged a postage of is. 10d. per half-ounce and so on, and newspapers 2d. each, which must be prepaid. Letters for the West Coast of Africa will be charged ls. per half-ounce, newspapers free of postage. All letters and newspapers for Sierra Leone, not directed to be forwarded by any other vessel, will be dis patched by these mails. Letters and newspapers for Madeira, or for any part of the Western Coast of Africa, except Sierra Leone, intended to be sent by these vessels, must be specially addressed By her Majesty's ship the —.' Further notice will be given about the 26th instant as to the name of the packet and the port from which she will take her departure. The mails for British North America, Bermuda, and the United States will be made up on Friday evening next, the 14th inst., to be for warded by the Acadia steamer, via Liverpool, Halifax, and Boston, and on Friday evening, the 28th instant, by the Hibernia steamer, via Liverpool and New Yor k; next packet due on the 16th. Madeira, the Brit ish and Foreign Colonies in the West Indies (except Honduras, _Nassau, Bermuda, New Orleans , M exico, Havannab, and San Juan, Porto Rico), Venezuela, Jacmel, San Juan de Nicaragua, New Grenada, instant, by and Peru, on the morning of the 17th by the Forth steamer, via Southampton ; next packet due on the 22d. Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, on the morning of the 17th instant, due on the 15th. Gibralta r, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, Hong-Kong, and China, on the morning of the 20th instant, Hindostan, via Southampton. By the fort nightly overland closed snail to the Mediterranean, India, &c., via Marseilles , o n the evening of the 24th; instant. RAILWAY ACCIDENT. —Early yesterday morning intelligence reached this town of the melancholy death of Mr. Halliwell, cash-keeper to the Duke of Bridge water's dock and warehouses at Preston Brook. The particulars, as detailed to us, are these:—Mr. Halli we ll had been waiting for a short time the arrival o f a t ra i n from Crowe, to take him to Manchester, wh e r e it was his intention to join a wedding party, to meet his sister, who had been married a few days before. Ab ou t this time the express train, which leaves this town at half past six, for London , was seen in th e di s t ance, an d on Mr. Halliwell crossing from one side of the road to the other, the engine, which, no doubt, h e h a d no t antici pated so soon, struck him on the aid e a nd knocked him acrok,,, the line. The iron guard in front of the engine eaug ht his head, and dragged him for some distance. Vi nun he was t:4l(eu up his foot was found to be severed, and, besides other very severe injuries, several of his ribs were fractured. The unfortunate man only . lived a Tory short time after the accident,—Liverpool.Mercury. Zbirb Xtition EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) MACHU V. SOUTI3•WESTERN RAILWAY. This case was tried at Guildhall during the last sittings, before the Lord Chief Baron, and a verdict entered for plaintiff for the sum of 1261. 13s. 10d. Mr. INIARTIN now moved for a rule nisi to set aside the verdict for plaintiff, and enter same for defendant upon the last issue. The plaintiff, it appeared, for warded a bale of silk by the South-Western Railway from Andover to London. The bale duly arrived at the Nine Elms Station, and was then transferred to Messrs. Chaplin and Horne, the carriers, to be by them conveyed to its destination, but was alleged to be stolen by one Johnson, in the employ of Messrs. Chaplin and Horne. The question now raised was whether the company were liable to make good to the plaintiff the value of the hale, on the ground that it was feloniously stolen by a servant of the company. The Learned Counsel contended that he was a ser vant of Messrs. Chaplin and Horne, and not of the company. The Com took time to consider. JEWISH DISABILITIES BILL. Sir Robert Harry Inglis demanded that the further proceeding with this Bill should be postponed until after the recess, in order to give time to the country to express its opinion on the subject of it, and to give vent to "the indignant evangelism of the nation." This challenge has been accepted. Edinburgh has tested public opinion Iby a crowded public meeting unanimously in favour of the Government measure. Southwark is the first English borough which has adopted the same course by calling a public meeting on Friday, and the example will be generally followed. Therefore, Sir Robert, " since thou call'st for justice, lae assured thou shalt have justice, more than thou desirest." MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN THE WEEK ENDIYG SATURDAY, JAN. 8, 1848. Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ... 420 Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... 30 Turbercular Diseases... 170 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 164 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ... 23 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration ... 288 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion... ... Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. ••• ••• Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. ... Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles Diseases of the Skin, &o. ..• ••• ••• Violence, Privation, Cold, or Intemperance Sudden ... ••• ••• .„ Malformations... ..• ••• Premature Birth ... ... Atrophy Old Age Causes not specified DEATHS PROM ALL CAUSES ... 36 ... 67 1,364 Population Enumerated. Average weekly Deaths Deaths, 1843-7. in the Five 'Winters. Week. • 161 ... 167 . 209 ... 257 • 203 213 . 235 ... 334 • 299 ~. 393 1841. West Districts... 300,711 North Districts.. 375,971 Central Districts 373,653 East Districts ... 392,444 South Districts .. 501,190 Totals... ..... 1,948,425 -., 1,107 Males Females 1,364 683 681 BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. Males Females Total ... ... 701 ... 675 ... 1,376 SALE OF RAILWAY SHARES BY AUCTION.-(TITIS DAY.) Messrs. Lamond and Co.'s sale was well attended to day, and more business done than] usual, and at ad vanced prices. The following are a few of the quo tations:— Namur and Leige Reading, Guildford, and Reigate . 7lO 0 North Staffordshire Eastern Counties Paris and Lyons Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston..— 0 7 6 Shropshire Union and Canal 1 11 0 Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock. -.. Taw Vale Extension and Dock .. Manchester and Southampton.. .....- Boulogne and Amiens ... 14 0 0 Buckinghamshire ......... . ................ -.. 7 19 0 Chester and Holyhead, Preference ll 15 0 MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of Jan. 11.) FOREIGN.—This afternoon at public sale 662 hhd s 10 half tierces of Cu ba Muscovado, dut y paid, were nearly all taken in at 40s for fine, and at 376 for low yellow; the small part that sold fetched the former rates, good yellow 3 9 s 6d, mid 35s to 38s 6d, and low 37s per cwt. COFFEE.—This afternoon the quantity of Plantation Ceylon offered at public sale amounted to 96 casks, 550 bags,. the whole sold—middling and good sorts fetched stiffer rites, but the lower kinds went is. per cwt. cheaper ; good realised 58s to 58s 6d, middling 48s 6d to 503 6d, low middling 445, fine fine ordinary 41s 6d, fine ordinary 38s to 40s, good ordinary 35s to 375, ordinary 345, pea berry 40s 6d to 50s 6d, and damaged 22s to 36a 6d ; 782 fans of Tellicherry subject to 4d jAr lb duty at stiff rates—line bold yellow, like Mocha, 61s to 635, good 56s 6d to 58s, pea berry 63s Gd to 66s 6d, inferior 51s 6d to 56s Gd, bold Triage 30,3 to 352, low ditto 12s to Iss, damaged 12s to 13s 6d. TEA.—To-clay, at the public sales, a good demand was experienced for Tca, and on the part of merchants there was firmness. The proportion sold was likewise larger than for some time past. The total quantity de clared amounted to 12,700 packages, of which 4,600 were sold, including 2,000 catty boxes. Congeal fetched stiffer rates, and Caper sustained the former value, whilst Ilytton sold id, Gunpowder 3d, and Impe rial Id per lb above former rates--Congou, fair common fetched 8-id to 8: 4 1 d, good 11d; Caper, in boxes 714: to 71c1; Ilyson, fair Is Old to I. sd; Imperial, good and flee Is 3d to Is 9d; and Gunpowder, good 2s 3:1 tv 2s lid per lb. Rim—To-day East India was in good demand pri vately, and former rates were well sustained. At pualie sale 400 packets of Bengal were sold at lOs 6d to Ils for low broken dusty white, and 8s Gel to Os 6 , 1 for sea damaged. Of African Arrowroot 18 casks fetched 314.1. MOLASSES.—To-day there is little ~ ,, a ssing in West India privately, and the rates taken were rather ender thore that existed previously. At public sale 29 puns of St. Lucia went at IGs for ordinary. COCOA.—British plantation is more required; but holders insisting upon an advance on previous rates of Is to 2s per cwt, operated against business, and 425 bags of Trinidad at auction were only in part disposed of, fine red at 50s, good 46s Gd to 475, and middling 45s per cwt. Foreign met with little attention, and 35s to 37s per cwt is the value. SPICES.—To-day Pimento was less in demand, and 200 bags at auction went id per lb cheaper; good middling and good selling at 3fd to 31d, middling matter coarse and a little mixed aid, 30 boxes Jamaica Ginger realised the full value. 712 bags of African were taken in rather above the value. Lanzoo.—The quarterly sale of East India is fixed for the Bth of February, and the quantity declared is at present 3,157 chests, but it will be increased to about 10,000 chests. SPIRITS.—To-day there was only a limited business concluded in Rum, although proof Leowards were obtain able at is 6d to is 7d; East India is sd; Jamaica of good quality 30 to 38 per cent. over proof at 3s 6d to 3s Bd, and fine at 3s 101 to 4s 4d per gallon. The market has a dull appearance for all kinds, and there are further arrivals. SALTPETRE.—To-clay rough was only in limited de mand, and 700 bags of Calcutta at public sale were taken in at the former value, viz —middling grey but rather damp 9 to 91 per cent. refraction 31s to 31s 6d, but the unretracted sold at 30s per cwt. SAGO.—Holders are anxious sellers, and submitted to prices is 6d to 2s per cwt under those previously current. At auction 749 boxes were disposed of. Privately there has been little passing, and lower rates are expected to prevail. Although Sago Flour is offered at a consider able reduction, yet few buyers are to be met with, and at auction a small part only of 782 bags found buyers. OILS.—For Seal there has been an excellent demand, and a further rise in the value is apparent, whilst on the part of holders there is firmness, and the) have obtained 301 to 311 for pale; at auction 56 tuns were sold. Cod, however, has declined in value, several parcels have been disposed of. Southern cannot be obtained upon lower terms, but the supply is small of all sorts, but the purchases made are of little coese quence ; at public sale 15 tuns realised 311 t ss to 311 15s. There has been an improved demand for Sperm, and the parcels sold privately were at improved rates — at public sale 50 tuns fetched 821 to 821 lOs for fine quality, and a few lots for export only 801. The purchases made in Linseed Oil have been upon a large scale by the home trade, and a fair demand pre vailed for exportation, whilst a rise in the value is appa rent. Holders of Olive are not disposed to submit to any further reduction in value, and the deliveries exceed the arrivals. Cocoa Nut is little required, the supply is on the increase. The operations in Palm are to a limited extent only. The consumption is, however, better than of late, and prices have become moderate. Rapeseed Oil has been dealt in with caution. TALLOW.—In consequence of further reduced rates having been accepted for Russian on the spot, buyers were induced to come into the market with more freedom. A good business has been concluded both by soap-makers and chandlers, and 44s 6d to 44s 9d are the prices accepted for fine P.Y. Crndle. For forward delivery, however, the operations are of little consequence. Home made is not much required, and as the stock is accumu lating, there is a desire shown to sell at 46s 6d to 47s net cash. Other ltiuds . ,are in large supply, and prices continue to recede. 24 p 23 p 26 p 82 1914 .26 3 A 19% 293 11 1 A 81,i 12% 12% 45 j ; l~ 1014 94% 4% 43% 1521 1 3414 - 11% ...... 3 1 lti LAUNCH AT PARTICK. On Saturday afternoon a large iron steamer, named the Trafalgar, built for the City of Dublin Steam Navigation Company, was launched from the building-yard of Messrs. Tod and M'Gregoe Partick. The circumstance having been previously made public, and the day being fine, the banks of the river were lined with spectators, eager to witness the interesting spectacle ; and the masts of all the vessels in the vicinity were decorated with a profusion of flags. The scene altogether had a very gay and ani mated appearance. In the building-yard there were a number of ladies, as also Captain Sarsfield, marine superintendent of the City of Dublin Steam Naviga tion Company, and other gentlemen interested in steam navigation. The necessary preparations having been completed, about twenty minutes past two o'clock the signal was given, and the ceremony of naming the vessel having been efficiently performed by Miss Mackinlay, the Trafalgar glided gracefully into the water, and the firing of cannon amid the hearty acclamrtions of all present. Ample precautions having been taken, not the slightest accident occurred during the launch ; and it may be mentioned, as reflect ing no small credit on the vigilance of the builders, that the same thing can be said with respect to the whole of the numerous launches which have taken place from their:yards. The,Trafalgar has been built for the City of Dublin Steam Navigation Company, and is intended, we understand, to carry the mail be tween Liverpool and Dublin. She is 800 tons burthen, and her engines, of 350 horse-power, are constructed on the oscillating principle. It is expected, from her beautiful mould, that a high rate of speed will be attained ; while at the same time, to fit her for making the passage in all weathers, she has been built in the strongest possible manner, and may be safely classed as the strongest steamer that has yet been launched on the Clyde. She has excellent cabin accommodation, and is intended to be fitted up in a very superior style. We under stand the vessel will be immediately towed up to the harbour, for the purpose of receiving her engines, which are all ready, and she will, in all probability, be finally completed and at sea in the course of two months. After the launch had taken place, a numerous party adjourned for the purpose of dedicating a bumper to the Trafalgar. Health and prosperity to klek r . Tod and 11.1‘Gregor having also been propo nd sed begged Itl‘Gregor acknowledged the compliment, to propose " Success to the City o b f ee D n l a bl e i x n is S te te n a c in e, Navigation Company," which having been years, had at length he observed, for twenty-f built for themselves. sentof getting e t t t h i :F r a vessel . thought of coming north for°urtfieThepyurhpaodse be also begged to propose the health of marine superintendent, Captain Sarsfield, to inspect the steamer, an d that gentleman. Captain Sarsfield replied, observing that he had witnessed the proceedings of that day with much gratification, for a finer vessel he had never seen launched ; and he had no doubt that the company with which he had the honour of being connected would soon be induced to come to the same quarter for a repetition of the dose. ,The health of Miss Mackinlay and the other ladies present was also duly hehoured. We may add, that in the yard from where the Trafalgar -was launched we observed other two iron steamers on the stocks, one of which, belonging . to the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Company, is )n -tended for China, and the other, a larger vessel than the Trafalgar, to sail between Liverpool and Belfast. We cannot but rejoice at the celebrity which our Clyde shipbuilders have obtained, were it for no other reason than the amount of employment which it enables them to give to builders and workmen. — North British Mail of Monday. COMMUTATION OF SENTENCE.—The sentence glad _ . l Pilkington, as well as that of Speed, has, we are g e a to find, been commuted to transportation for lit Liverpool Mercury. CORONER'S INQUEST AT CROYDON. DICAL NEGLECT.—The inquiry touch—legit LLEGED Elizabeth Hopkins,: Howar d, hose death was alias vir the neglect of the death of alleged to have, been occasio ned medical o y fficers of the Croy donDr. Berncastle, one of the yesterday at the Gun, Croy don. Union, was resumed r y which did not conclude don. After a long , o i c i nci t u t i lit;t night, the Jury returned t u h n e t f l g twelveit verdict:—" r That Elizabeth Hopkins, alias Elizabeth Howard, died from exhaustion, resulting upon protracted labour, and that Dr. Berncastle has shown the greatest inhumanity towards the deceased in leaving her when in labour, and that we, the Jury, consider hi m a very unfit person to act as a medical officer." ORIGIN OF I NFL UENZA. — Attempts have been made to date the existence of influenza at a very remote pe riod. Dr. Most has extracted from the writings of Hip pocrates an account of a disease which he regarded as influenza, but which differed from it in several important particulars. Soine epidemic catarrhs which prevailed in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries are recorded; but these can scarcely be regarded as influenza, of the exist ence of which we have no credible accounts previous to the year 1510. Such is the opinion of Dr. Schweich, and the instances brought forward by Dr. Gludge of the earlier existence of this epidemic are not satisfactory. Since the sixteenth century it has frequently occurred, and the extent of country over which it has passed, as well as the large number of individuals whom it has affected, has afforded ample opportunity for local de scriptions of the disease, of which medical authors have considerably availed themselves. According to Dr. Schweich, the disease has most frequently had its origin in the north, whence it has extended in a south-westerly direction ,• that it has frequently passed from south fo north, or from north east to north-west, and never from west to east, or from north to south.—British and reign Medical .Review. 7 ...~,