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

A•••••••••••• The Dart, M'lntyro., from Glasgow, which Pi ank in this bay 10th inst., i, breaking; part of her materials an washing abhore, MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE-MONDAY. Its consequence of the severity of the weather the arrivals of all kinds of Grain, as well as Flour, ap to our market, coastwise and by land carriage, last week, were en a limited scale; while those from Ireland and Scot land were small in the extreme. From abroad no Wheat or Fleur came to band, indeed the only foreign imports were 175 quarters of Oats and 58 ditto of Linseed. Fresh up this morning the supply of English Wheat from Essex, Kent, Cambridgeshire, &c., was very small, and the stands were scantily filled with samples of both red and white. By land carriage very little grain reached us. Although the attendance of both town and coantry millers was by no meaas large, and the weather unfavourable for effecting pur chases, the demand for most kinds of Wheat of home produce, especially for selected qualities, was tolerably steady, and a fair clearance was effected at prices about oval to those obtained on Monday last. At the close of business a fair clearance was effected. The quantity of foreign Wheat brought forward was quite equal to the wants of the dealers. selected parcels of Riga, ltos tock, and Stettin moved off at fully last week's quota lions. In all other qualities comparatively little business was transacted; yet the importers were firm, and would not sell except at full prices. The actual quantity of foreign Grain and Flour now on its way hither is small. Notwithstanding the supply of Barley brought forward was moderately good, that grain was very steady, and in some instances rather more money was paid fur fine Chevalier qualities. The Oat samples of Malt moved off freely, all other kinds slowly, at unaltered currencies. Scarcely any Oats were in the market, nevertheless most descriptions met a slow inquiry at previous rates. The sale for Beans was very inactive. In prices, how ever, we have no change to notice. Maple Peas were in good request, at an advance of fully is per quarter. Other kinds were quite as dear. Indian Corn and Meal were very dull. Fine Flour was in steady request, otherwise the trade was heavy. In prices we have no change to report. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wheat—Essex & Kent, Malt—Chevalier ... • bag to 591 Red. ••.. • • • • 468 to 538 Oats Yorkshire and Ditto,White, New toils bfls Lincoinsh., Feed. 2ls 224 Norfolk and Lin- Potato coin, Red. .... 47s 608 Yeughal and Cork, Ditto, White ••• • • • 42e 63a Black .• • • ... 21s 22f Irish, Nei ••-• •• • —3 —3 Cork, White. •• .. 21s 26s Ditto,White... ... —s —s Scotch, Feed. •• .. 228 261 74-011 ............ --5 6 Beans—Tick ..• New. •• ........ 226 346 Pigeons .. •. • • .... 48a 845 Barley—Grinding. ••.. 285 265 real—Grey .. •••. • • 38e 40$ Malting . ........ 306 32s Maple ... Chevalier ... 325 335 White .•• • • • • ... 425 445 Malt—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers •• •• 445 475 (018 •••••• • • • • •• 545 .566 Flour—Tows-made••• 44a 486 Brown ........... :50s 52,5 Suffolk •••• • • 375 41 5 Kinston aid Ware 87s 556 Stockta & Norfolk 366 4is EMITEPIELD. The imports of foreign stock into London, last week were very small, as under: — From whence. Beasts. Sheep. Scheveningen ... 28 ... Noordwyk Schiedam . 72 Lambs. Calves. ... 6 21 ... - ... 190 ... 14 ... Total l2O ... 211 ... 14 ... 14 Owing to the severity of the weather, scarcely any stock has been landed at the outports. On the opening Of the navigation in Holland, very large importations they be expected. There was an unusually small supply of foreign stock on sale this morning, but its quality was tolerably prime, especially the Beasts, most of which Were turned out last and in the previous week. We regret to state that extensive losses of both Beasts and Sheep have been reported at sea during the week, arising from the boisterous and severe state of the weather. This morning the Dundee steamer arrived with eighty Soots, fifty of which were found smothered in the hold. The Aberdeen boat had not been reported at the usual hour. Owing, doubtless, to the activity in the Beet trade on Monday last, and the consequent high prices obtained by the salesmen, a great inducement was held out to the graziers to forward more liberal supplies of stock for to-day's market. As, however, the atmo sphere had become mild, the Beef trade was in a very sluggish state, at a decline in the quotations of fully 2d per Blbs. The highest general figure for Beasts did not exceed 4s 8d per 81bs, and a total clearance was not effected. The . supply of Beasts, in the quality of which a decided improvement was noticed, was a full average one for the time of year. From the southern grazing districts we received about 500 short horns; from the eastern, western, and midland counties, 1,300 Herefords, runts, Devon% Scots, short horns, and Irish Beasts; from ether parts of England, 900 of various breeds; and from Scotland, 50 horned and polled Scots. The num ber of Sheep were considerably in excess of those exhi bited on this day se'nnight, and of improved quality. The mildness of the weather operated against the Mutton trade, which was decidedly heavy, at a fall in value of quite 2d per Sibs. The top figure fur the old Downs was 5s per 81bs. Calves were in short supply and Pigs exceedingly little business was doing at barely stationary price's. Ink the •fal. Per Albs. to si s rt. it. 4. to s. 4. . d. to s. Ditertor Acosta-- 8 4 8 6 Second quality ditto 4 • 4 4 locond quality ••• • a 8 4• Coarse-woolled ditto 4 6 410 Prime large OMNI 4 2 4 4 Southdewn Wether 4IQ b 0 tria te Scott; 4 6 4 4 Ditto out of the wool Large csorse Calves 4 2 411 Large Hogs Prime small ditto .. • 0 fi 4 Small Porkers • • Suc kling Calvea —2O 0 28 $ Quarter old Pigs-20 0 23 Interior Shoop •3 4 3 t Lambs ........ 0 0 • Weaste, P AUPLY AT MARKET. 3,0.11 I Sheep. Calve,. I Pia , 19,390 68 280 N 21.97 G11TH ILIVD I.I3ADEINTICA.Z.L. Since our last report these Insrk , ?ts have been heavily supplied with each kind of meat slaughtered in London and the provinces. Prime Beef and Veal, from their Icarcity, have comman d ed a rca ly sale, at, in some instances, a trifle more money. Otherwise, the trade h►s ruled firm, at fully previous quotations. Scarcely ►ny Foreign meat has been on offer. •t per eteete by the Carmel,. e. d. to s. d. e . d. to R. d. Deet.i*Parlor.• •• 3.4 3 6 Mutton, loterior .. 3 4 3 6 - middling .... 8 8 11 10 prime large .. 4• 4 2 - prime small •• 4 2 4 4 Pork, large •••.• • • • 3 $ 4 6 Teal •• ••••••• • • • • • 4 4 5 4 -Am 8.11 .• •••• • • 4 11 2 Lamb. Sc Od to Os Od. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. The arrivals of Potatoes at the water side having been very limited in the past week, the trade has ruled brisk, at a further advance in the quotations of from ss. to 10s. per ton. Tee supplies in dealers' hands are comparatively small.—York Regent's, 130 s to 160 s ; Scotch Reds, 120 s to 130 s ; ditto, Buffs and Blues, 110 s to 120 s ; Kent and Essex Regent's, 120 s to 150 s; ditto, Shaw's, 100 s. to 140 s; ditto, Kidneys, 120 s to 140 s ; IVisbeach Regent's, 110 s to 140 s. BOROUGH ROP MARKET. We have again to report a stesdy, though by no means brisk, demand for the best New Hops, at fully the late advance in the quotations. In most other kinds, Very little is doing, at analtered figures. New _Hops— Sussex pockets. 2115 s t• 816 i; Weald of Kent ditto, 81 to 3110 s; Mid and East Kent ditto, 8/ 6s to 51 12s Per cwt. WOOL. The reduction in the rate of discount by the Bank of England has given a firmer tone to this market ; never theless, the actual business doing—as most of the dealers are looking forward to the approaching public sales—is small. In prices, we have no change to notice. Scarcely is single bale was imported last week from any quarter. TALLOW. The demand for Tallow has fallen off, and prices have declined quite ad per cwt. The stock has been consi derably reduced; but most of the chandlers are well supplied. I'. Y. C. on the spot, is 47s ad, and for de "T.erY, 47s per cwt. Town Tallow steady, at full prices. Rough Fat, 2s lod per sibs. CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.) This was the last day'of Hilary Term, and it was expected that the Lord Chancellor would sit pursuant to notice to give several judgments and hear motions at eleven o'clock. Shortly before that hour a notice Was put up i n hi s Lordship's Court, stating that he would not sit before the first seal, which is fixed for the Bth of February. It is generally reported that the cause of his Lordship aot sitting is a slight cold, which he is fearful might bring on a relapse of his late severs indisposition if he ventured to sit in Court. VICE -CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY . ) (Before the VICI-CHANCELLOR Of ENGLAND.) Hie Honour the Vice-Chancellor of England took motions to-day, it being the last day of Hilary Term. Nothing of interest except to the parties concerned came before the Court during the whole morning. QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) No cases of public interest were heard during the morning. CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY.) OLD COUNT. These sessions, being the fourth of the present mayoralty, were commenced this morning in the Old Court before the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor , the Co mmon Sergeant, and Aldermen Gibbs, Sidney, Salomans, and Finnis, Mr. Sheriff Cubitt, and Mr. Sheriff Hill, accompanied by the Under-Sheriffs, and other civic functionaries were in attendance. The grand jury having been sworn, • The Commute- SaitGesrer addressed them. He said, in "nsequence of the sudden indisposition of the Recorder, be had been unexpectedly sent for this morni ng to charge them, but the notice he had re ceived had necessarily been so short, that it was quite out of his power to perform the duty so satisfac torily as his Learned Colleague could have done. Of course he had no opportunity of examining the de:positions in the cases that would be brought before them, and, therefore, all that he could do was to refer them to the calendar. There were, he observed, seven cases of burglary, but none of them appeared to him to present any features of difficulty, and it was only necessary for him to remind them that the crime of burglary, in the eye of the law, was the breaking into a dwelling-house during the n i g ht time. The Legislature had defined the night time to comprise the period between six o'clock in the evening and six o'clock in the morning, and it was necessary, therefore, that the offences should have been committed between those hours. The next case in the calendar calling for remark was one of a rather serious nature. It was a case of T R E murder. lie was not, however, in possession of the , 1 facts, but it would seem from the calendar flat woman eras charged with the murder of two chilcben, It would be fur them to decide whether the unfot•Va nate criminal, in committing this dreadful crime r .rams actuated by malicious motives, and had previously L'.o its committal premeditated and deliberated upon th.t crime. The Learned Gentleman then proceeded to comment on some of the other cases in the calendar, and at the conclusion of his address, the grand jury retired to their room. • MARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY) Ann Cooke, a middle-aged woman, with a remark able sinister expression of countenance, was placed before Mr. Bingham, charged with being found in the house of Messrs. Payne and Sons, 328, Regent street, under the following circumstances: — Mr. PAYNE stated that on Saturday evening he heard a violent altercation between his cook and some other woman in the hall. He listened, and from what he heard, he felt convinced that the person who was speaking to his cook had come to the house on purpose to seduce his nursemaid from her place by pretending to reveal such things as would place her (the nut se) in affluence and splendour. Having the welfare of his servants at heart, he went into the hail, where he saw the prisoner, and as she could not give a satisfactory account of herself, he gave her in charge. His cook and nursemaid were present and would explain the matter further. Catherine Kestell, a young woman of very prepo ses•ing appearance, nurse in the service of Mr. Payne, said the prisoner came to her a few nights ago and said she came from Fanny Bright. Witness said she did not know such a person as Fanny Bright, and was quite surprised at the prisoner's impudence in coming to her. The prisoner replied that Fanny Bright had got a connexion among young females to whom she told fortunes, and that she (prisoner) was employed to extend that connexion, and wished wit ness to allow her to tell hers. Witness refused, and desired her to leave the house. The prisoner said she would not leave, and wanted witness to let her come up stairs to tell her fortune, and said if her (witness) mistres% came into the room she could say that she (prisoner) was her mother or her aunt. She refused to listen to the prisoner, who then left the house. Witness subsequently in formed her mistress of what had occurred. Eliza James, cook,`in the service of Mr. Pa), ne, said the prisoner came to her master's house on Satur day night, and inquired for her, saying that she came from Fanny Bright ; not knowing such a person, she went to the hall and saw the prisoner, who wished to let her see the nurse as she had something of importance to communicate. Having heard of the prisoner's previous calling, witness spoke out so loud as to bring her master into the hall, who gave the prisoner into custody. In answer to the charge, the prisoner said she was sent to Mr. Payne's by a woman named Fanny Bright, who came from Ludlow, and who wished her to call at Mr. Payne's to see her sister. She denied ever offering to tell fortunes. Mr. BINGHAM said, supposing the prisoner went to the prosecutor's house for the purpose of getting six pence for telling fortunes, it was a very wicked and fraudulent practice, for she knew very well that she had no more power to tell fortunes than he had. In looking at the appearance of .the nurse, he believed her (prisoner's) object to be widely different to that she went for, and as she had broken the law in pro posing to tell fortunes, he should commit her to the House of Correction for one month. WORSHIP-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) David Phillips was charged with attempting to pick the pockets of persons at the door of the Wes leyan chapel, City-road. James Collins, a member of the Wesley= body, said—Last evening, as the congregation was leaving the chapel, he observed the prisoner, who was assisted by another lad, about his own age, popping in and out at the doors and sounding the pockets of persons. No property was found upon him on his being searched at the station-house. He had given a wrong address. Mr. HAMMILL ordered the prisoner to be locked up until inquit ies should be made respecting him. THE LATE KING OF DENMARK. The late King Christian of Denmark was born on September 18, 1786, and consequently had entered on his 62,1 year. He ascended the throne Dec. 3 1839, succeeding his cousin Frederick VI. He had first married the Princess Charlotte Fredrica of Mecklenberg Schwerin, and afterwards the Princess Caroline Amelia, daughter of the Duke of Schles wick Holstein. By his first marriage only he had one son, Prince Frederick Charles Christian, born Oct. 6, 1808, and who now succeeds him by the title of Frederick VII. Two hours before his death, which took place on the night of the 20th, and not on the 19th as first stated, King Christian was in full enjoyment of his faculties; he had had during the day two conversations with his son, anti ha. loft hit., in his own handwriting, instructions full of wisdom: Prince Frederick proceeded at seven in the evening to his chateau of Christianburg, the eti quette not permitting the successor to the throne to pass through the city before his being proclaimed. At midnight, the new King signed, in the Council of Ministers, the proclamation destined to announce his accession to the throne. In it, he declared that he would continue the work of his father, and that he would inaugurate his reign by giving to the country new institutions which had been for a year before prepared by the solicitude of the late King. On the 21st, at nine in the morning, the doors of the grand balcony of the palace of Christianburg were thrown open, and immediately the Princes of the Royal Family, the Ministers of State, and the high dignitaries of the kingdom appeared on the balcony. The Minister of ,Justice, M. de Ste mann, then approached the balustrade, and cried out with a loud voice, "King Christian VIII. is dead — Long live King Frederick VII!" This cry was re peated each time by the heralds, and on each occasion the hand of the body-guard replied by a flourish. From nine o'clock till twelve all the gates of Copen hagen, according to ancient usage, were closed. The keys of the city, and also those of the citadel, were carried to the palace. The troops of the garrison and the national guard assem bled at one o'clock at their various places of meeting, and took the oaths of fidelity to the new King before Prince Ferdinand, General-in-Chief of the army, and of Prince William, Governor-General of Copenhagen. The students were anxious to make a demonstration before the arrival of the new King. Several of them sang the national air of Norway, and, atter the oaths were taken, cries were heard of " The Constitution for ever!" "Long live Frederick VII. 1" After the departure of the King, some individuals sang the first couplet of the " Marseillaise." A rumour was in circulation that an effort was to be made on the evening of the 21st to obtain a representative regime. There was some talk of a deputation, composed of the deputies of Co penhagen at the States, of members of the burgess class, and of students, which was to present itself to the King, and express a wish in favour of a constitution. The intervention of the police suc ceeded in dissipating the crowd, and public tranquil lity was not a moment troubled. All the Ministers hare been confirmed in their places. Only Count de Molthe, of the family of the Minister of Den mark at Paris, was named member of the Council of State, and was present on the 21st at the first coun cil held by the King. The King sent one of his chamberlains to announce to the sister of the late King, the Landgrare of Hesse, who is returning to Italy with her daughter, the Princess Augusta, the sad news of the death of her august brother. Another officer of the Court caried a similar message to the Dukes d'Augustemburg, brothers of the Queen. Her Majesty, whose affliction is profound, and who is the object of universal sympathy, left Copenhagen on the 21st, and retired to Fortghenferee, a royal residence three leagues from the capital. Prince Ferdinand, brother to the late King, is fifty-eight years of age ; he is married to the eldest daughter of King Frederick VI., and has no children ; he will be the presumptive heir to the throne. After him, should the present King not marry again, or have no children, the Crown would pass to Prince Frederick, eldest son of the Landgrave of Hesse, eldest sister to the late King. It is this Prince who married the Grand Duchess, daughter of the Emperor Nicholas, who died three years back. His accession will lead to a forced solution of the question of the separation of Holstein from the Crown of Denmark, a question raised at the end of 1846 by a rescript of King Christian VIII., and which has se, much agitated men's minds in the Duchies and in Germany. The following is the letter-patent announcing the acces sion of Frederick VII. to the throne : " We, Frederick VII., by the grace of God, &c., greeting --Since the Almighty has thought fit to call to himself the King, so dear to the country, our beloved father, Christian VIII., we have ascended the throne of our forefathers. Profoundly touched and afflicted by the heavy blocs which has fallen on , us as a son, we share with our faithful people in the grief inspired by the great loss which our dear country has experienced, and we seek for strength in the firm confidence which we feel in the succour of the Divine goodness, and in the conscious ness of our sincere and serious determination to as sure the prosperity of our dear people. Our first and most important object shall be to follow the example of our beloved father, to unite, like him, clemency to justice in our government, to encircle the inhabitants of all parts of the country with the same paternal affection, and not only to continue the amelio rations commenced by him in the administration, but also to terminate the arrangement intended by him for the different relations of the state, the completion of which has been deferred only by the illness and decease of our beloved father, % and which tends to guarvitee the reciprocal SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 31, 1848. rights of the citizens, to ensure concord - in our dear country, and to strengthen the force and glory of the state. In addition, it is our will that all public affairs shall follow their course uninterruptedly, in confor mity with prescribed rules; and that all the officers, named or confirmed in their situations by the de ceased King, shall continue to fulfil their functions until further orders, under the oath of fidelity preci ously sworn by them. " Given at our Palace of Christianburg, this 21st . .day of January, 1848. " FREDERICK, the King." IRISH SPECIAL COMMISSION. CLONMEL, JAN. 27. The Lord Chief Justice took his seat on the bench this morning at ten o'clock, and was joined by the Chief Baron shortly after, who, we are happy to say, is much better. His Lordship was suffering from the prevailing epid em i c . MURDER.—T WO CAPITAL CONVICTIONS.—PhiIip Cody and Henry Cody, brothers, and both young men, were indicted for having, upon the 9th of July last, at Killarney, in this county, wilfully and feloniously fired a loaded gun at one Edward Madden, and inflicted upon his person a mortal wound, of which he died in two days. The elder brother, Henry, was charged with firing the fatal shot, and Philip with having been present aiding and abetting. The ATTORNEY GENERAL stated the facts of the Case. John Kelly, examined by the SOLICITOR-GENERAL —I live at Ballyknockin, and am a steward in the employment of the Marquis of Ormond at the wood of Killarney. The deceased Edward Madden was employed there as an assistant steward over the women engaged in barking the timber. I know the prisoners. On the 9th of July I left my own place to go to the wood. As I was passing through it I heard a shot, and heard Madden bawl. I knew his voice. I looked after I heard the shot, and :Ave the smoke, and observed a man, and then another, who bounced out close to where the first man was, and fired a second shot. I afterwards heard a third shot, and saw the man who fired it. I heard Madden bawl immediately after the first shot, and before the second. After the first shot was fired he began to move away, and then the two others were fired after him. The three shots were fired at him before he reached the gap. The persons who were present did not pursue the murderers. I did not attempt to follow them myself, for they were out of sight in a minute. I turned back from the place and set the people to work. The list of workmen was called over, but they did not all answer. There were 160 men altogether. Henry Cody did not attend that day at all, but Phil. Cody came at one o'clock and made a half-day. They were both at work on the following day. They worked there all that day, but never after. Harry Cody lived at Ballyknockin, and the other prisoner at Bohermore. Mr. M. Ryan, R. 2,1., examined by the ATTORNIIT• GerotAL-1. went to see Madden, after he was shot, on the same day, and found him lying in an out house; the irst word he said was, " Ah, Sir, they have done my job at last." He also said tkat he did not expect to recover, that he was almost off. He was perfectly in his senses at the time. He told me the priest had been with him. I reduced to writing the statement he then made. Sir Charles O'Donnell deposed that he was in command of the troops in the district, and that he hears the declaration read to the deceased by Mr. Ryan. The deceased assented to the statement as it was read. The Clerk of the Crown then read the "dying declaration" of the deceased. After stating that he had settled his affairs, and received the rites of his church, to prepare him for appearing before his God, where he soon expected to be, the document set forth that Henry Cody was the person who fired the shot that wounded him, and that two other shots were fired at him, by Philip Cody, of Bohermore, and a strange man whom be took to be Ned Kelly, of Kil cash. Mr. Ryan was then cross-examined by Mr. Ron- LISTON—He said, I took down in the declaration everything the deceased said. The deceased was with me frequently on magisterial business during the two years I knew him, and gave me most impor tant private information. I only knew him to be accused of one crime, robbery of a gun. Sub-constable Flannagan deposed that he arrested the prisoner, Henry Cody, on the 11th of September. Witness saw him running from the wood with a gun in his hand, and when witness came up near him he snapped a gun at him (witness), and was raising the cock again when witness knocked him down. They both fell together, and Cody got up and ran off again. The case for the prosecution closed here, and Mr. ROLLBSTON addressed the jury for the defence. The Solicitor-General having replied the Chief Baron charged the jury, who retired, and in about twenty minutes found the prisoners Guilty—Henry Cody of the murder, and Philip Cody of having aided and assisted in it. Sentence was deferred. CHARGE or ROBBERT.—Timothy Hogan, Michael Whelan, and Pat. Coonan, all young men, were found guilty of havin g en t ere d the house of Wiliam ? Hackett, at Derrinvollen, on the 26th of November, and robbed it of several articles of wearing apparel. I During the examination of the witnesses a sub- I constable, named Sullivan, produced three loaded I pistols which he had taken from the prisoners. In reply to the Court, the witness said that the arms were loaded when he got them, and that people said the gun was taken from Mr. Little on the night he was shot. Mr. SCOTT—Are the arms loaded now ? Witness —They are, oi,• l‘lr SCOTT—WeII, take care, Sir. You ought not to be throwing them about in that way.—(Laughter.) Mr. Rom.EsToN—Take care, you might shoot the law officers.—(Laughter.) CHIEF JUSTICE—It is very improper to bring the arms loaded into Court. ADJOURNAIINNT OF THE Cos mission.—Their Lord ships w ill, if possible, rise to morrow evening, so as to proceed to Dublin on Saturday. FRIDAY, JAN. 28. The Judges sat to-day at ten o'clock, at which hour the court was crowded to excess, in consequence of its being very generally known that three of ch. men charged with the attempt upon Mr. Baillie's life would be put on their trial, and that it would I be the last important case beard during the com mission. ATTACILINO A DVIELLING•IfOUSH ARMED.—In the case of the Queen v. Hogan, Coonan, and Whelan, for attacking the dwelling house of William Hackett, armed, and stealing a quantity of wearing apparel, in which there was a verdict of conviction, as we mentioned yesterday. Mr. ROLLISTON moved in arrest of judgment, contending that under the statute which gave the court power to try prisoners for both ridings of the county of Tipperary in either Nenagh or Clontnel, they had no jurisdiction, unless where a special order was made for the removal of prisoners, and there was no such order made in the case of the men who had just been tried. The ATTORNEY. GENERAL, on behalf of the Crown, stated that upon a former occasion the point was raised, when one of their Lordships (the Chief Jus tice) filled the position he then occupied, and was o verruled. The Couai at once confirmed the decision, and sentenced the prisoners to be each transported for se ven years. The CIaIEF JUSTICE, in pronouncing judgment, observed that the punishment would have been much more severe, but that it did not appear any violence was committed. He also called attention to the fact that the prisoners were in their present position owing to the breach of confidence of one of their own guilty companions, and advised all those persons who in cri me , an d were as yet at l arge , to Eire up all up connexion with men w h o wou ld, th e mo mentwere rnix their own liberty was at•stake, betray them into the hands of justice. The prisoner Hogan, who has been convicted in this case, is a notorious character, and believed to be implicated in several of the most barbarous murders that hare taken place in the county Tipperary for the last two or three years, and amongst others, in the assassination of Mr. Waller; the evideuce against him, however, although strong, was not such as to warrant r r putting him on his trial in any In M r . Waller's case the a s i n n t os the instance. Crown in de ceased mentioned his name as one of the murderers before his death, but as there was no dying declara tion taken the statement could not be made use of; out of the way for gave himself up, when n an t ! i t y h prisoner,welvs months, afte after a t k l e s e s p t i n g be fcund that the evidence was insufficient, and that two of his companions were discharged. He was also the il a fornser a young man a b ou t discharged in a short t ime after his arrest. AT MR. BAILLIE.—Edward Rowan 26, and the latter a bout 40 years of age, were placed at the bar and indicte d for h aving attempted the life E nlidrTjoof Mr. Richard Unia cke Ba illie, upon the 13th of and November, 1847, at Lisnaturn ey, in this county, by discharging a loaded blunderbuss at him, and inflict ing a certain injury upon him by which his life was endangered. The prisoner Rowan was arraigned as the party who actually fired the shot, and Daly with being present aiding and abetting. There are three other men implicated in this crime, but only two given in charge to the jury, as their legal advisers refused to allow them to join in their challenges. Of the three, on e has become an app rover , as w ill appear in the evidence, and another is in prison ill of fever. A most respectable jury havin g been empannelled, The ATTORNST-GENBRAiI shortly stated the case for the prosecution. He said, that like many other cases tried during the commission, it arose *tit of the position which Mr. Baillie held, as agent to a gen tleman named Rowley, a nd which brought him into contact with some of the prisoners, who entered into a conspiracy to take his life. It would appear that the prisoner Daly was arrested for a sum of 701., at the suit of Mr. Ron-I°Y. and that he and the other man on trial, together pith several others, knowing it was Mr. Baillie's usual habit to go home to his residence, about three miles and a-half from Nenagh, every Saturday night late, met him on the night in question, and fired at d him a blunderbuss, th e contents ofwhich entered his head , an d very nearly deprived him of life. Evidence in proof of the above statement was then I called. The ease for the prosect#ion had not closed at post hoar. be sent to each shareholder a week before the holding of that meeting. The report was adopted, and a vote of thanks having been passed to the Chairman the meeting terminated. THE WEST CORNWALL RAIL WAY.—(THIS DAY.) A special general meeting of the proprietors of the West Cornwall Railway was held this afternoon at the offices of the company in Broad -street-buildings, for the purpose of deciding whether the works of the line should be proceeded with at once or postponed for two years; Captain Moorsom in the chair.,] The CHAIRMAN stated that the company was under certain liabilities, which could not be hung up if they were inclined to postpone their works, and theref o r e the directors proposed to ask the shareholder s for power to proceed with so much of the line as lay between Hoyle and Penzance, a distance of about 17 miles, which could be made for 80,000/., and which it was estimated would yield a return of between 8 and 9 per cent. After some discussion, the meeting proceeded to vote upon the question for which it had been con vened, when there appeared— For proceeding 5,810 Against it . . The asents being more than three-fifths of the shares delivered in, the directors were empowered under the Act to proceed With the works. The meeting terminated with the customary vote of thanks to the chairman. COMMIT'FAL OF A WIFE AND MAN SERVANT FOR WILFUL MURDER. A DR ROAVRNNY, SATURDAY, 3 A.M.—The grea t es t excitement has prevailed in this district for some time past in reference to the death of Mr. William Howells, a farmer, m the parish of Llanwellen. He died on the 10th of la s t N ovember. Subsequently to his burial his wife and man -servant conducted themselves in a manner which e xc i te d suspicion, and various persons living in the lo ca lit y , knowing that the de ceased died without being att en d e d b y any medical man, were not slow in charging th e w if e and her male servant with having murdered the deceased. These charges came at length to the knowledge of Mr. Coroner Hughes, and assumed such a shape that that gentleman considered it necessary to hold an inquest. Accordingly the deceased's grave was re opened for the purpose of making a post mortem examination of the remains, and on Friday, the 7th of the present month, a respectable jury met the Coroner at the Hanbury Arms, Llanwellen. The only proceedin g w hi c h th en t oo k place consisted in the jury viewing th e b o dy an d giving the contents of the stomach into the charge of Mr. Steele, a surgeon, for analysation, and the inquiry was adjourned. The Court was re-opened on tke 14th, when the following evidence was adduced : Sane Morgan, a servant to deceased, said that her master enjoyed good health up to the 9th of Novem ber last. Ile had some apple dumplings for supper that night, and shortly afterwards went to bed. The last dumpling he ate his wife helped him to, which she split up the middle, and put what she thought were sugar and milk u p on it. Th e deceased, about ten o'clock, was seized with vomiting and purging, with excruciating pain, and he continued in that state till twelve o'clock the following night, when he died. After her master's death her mistress slept in the same room with the man servant, James Price. Shortly before deceased died her mistress said it was no odds if she gave him a fatal dose. Witness told her she would not, as she had another world to think of. After the body was exhumed she said, "It will be better for me to stand my ground, and then I shall not be suspected so much." She also said to witness, " If anything is found in his stomach you is ill be hung because you made the dumplings." Richard Steele, surgeon, who made a post mortem examination of the body, proved that deceased had died from the effects of white arsenic. He found as much as 61 ounces of that poison in a very limited portion of the stomach. - Edward Evans, a druggist, identified - the wife as having purchased a shillingsworth of arsenic at his shop:about the time deceased expired. Thomas Davis, a labourer, said he had been in the service of Mary Howells about seven weeks. On Tuesday last he went up stairs to change his trousers. Price accompanied him to the room, when be told witness to shake the gown of the first wit ness. He did so, but nothing fell out. Price then told him to put his band in the sleeve; which he did, and found a brown paper parcel. He declined to open it, because he thought it looked very suspicious that Price should tell him to shake the gown, and not do it himself. He called his mistress up, and she exclaimed, "Here is the poison —that girl has done it." John Royston, a constable, proved having appre hended Mary Howell the preceding day. The latter told him that she had seen the servant girl give the deceased the poison in a cup, after ha had eaten the dumpling. The jury, after consulting, returned a verdict of "Wilful murder against Mary Howells, the widow of the deceased, and James Price, her servant ;" upon which they were both committed by the Coroner to take their trials at the next assizes. MR. GUSTAVUS V. BROOKE. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) The following extract from a small periodical pub lished in 1846, in Manchester, edited by Mr. J. Eastbv, called the Manchester Bee, will, we are informed, be found perfectly correct as to the age of the tragedian, whps__si(e _has . beta . . .trroneon . itegl the 1846, and what he has proved himself in 1848. " The gentleman named was born in St. George's • place Dublin, in 1812, and received his education at Edgeworthstown. He drank deep of the inspiring well—yearned to pass his hour upon the stage—and, at last, an opening was given him which is worthy of a passing notice. The late Kean—tte ill-fated Ed mund—was engaged to play in Dublin, but ere the time arrived he was arrested by the hand of death ; and thus a great chasm was created, and the theatri cal world left to mourn over the greatest dramatic lumi nary that ever trod the English boards. The manager was perplexed, made an overture to Mr. G. V. Brooke to play the part of William Tell, as a trial. The at tempt was made and a fortunate one it proved. An engagement followed, and our youthful tragedian then went the round of leading characters,' and played with distinguished success, receiving, at various places, fetes of magnificent descriptions, costly pre sents, and lauded to the highest by all the influential provincial journals. Meanwhile, his fame and talents reached the great metropolis, and offer after offer was made to him from managers of London theatres, re questing him to fix his own terms for three years, all of which Mr. Brooke declined. Whilst sojourning in Scotland, a fair and titled young lady, daughter of a Scottish peer of ancient lineage and immense ter ritories became smitten with our hero's handsome figure and person, but, to the credit of his moral courage be it recorded, he could not see, in such an alliance, that which ought to be every man's guide through life—subsequent happiness and satisfaction to all—and he hastily abandoned bonnie Scotland,' and made a brilliant professional tour in England. His first appearance in Manchester was for Mr. Egerton'a benefit, at the Queen's theatre, in 1838, as Edgar Ravenswood, and the extraordinary sensation he created in that beautiful piece-11 gem in the crown of laurel which encircles the brow of one of Scotia's sweetest bards—the im mortal Sir Walter Scott—fully equalled anything ever witnessed in this town. He afterwards made his debut at the Theatre Royal as Richard the Third, and gained laurels from every one capable of appre ciating a sterling and startling impersonation of the tyrant Richard. In a short time Mr. Anderson attempted Othello at Drury-lane, under Mr. Macready's reign, and the lavish praises bestowed upon the attempt' made all eager to see Anderson's Moor.' He was announced to play it here, and Mr. G. V. Brooke to represent lago. Excitement became rampant, the house was crowded, and the reception of the tragedians tremendous. With ou t wishing to disparage Mr. Anderson's Moor,' we are forced to state that Mr. Brooke's lago eclipsed all that night, and was so admitted by the audience. An offer now came from Drury-lane, which Mr. Brooke again declined, making eight metropolitan temptations in fourteen months I There can be but one opinion of Mr. G. V. Brooke as a tragedian. He has every requisite for the profession he adorns, and has a voice unequalled for strength and harmony, which he modu lates and governs with consummate skill." --- Loss OF THE ATEN r IER.—A letter from the British Consul at Palermo announces that a portion of the wreck of the Avenger has be en was h e d on s h ore a t th e wes t coast of Sicily. Amongst other matters there have been found the body of an officer in uniform lashed to a spar, a boat, and R carronado gun, marked Avenger, 181 b. Some surprise is felt, not only at the distance from the wreck where those portions have turned up, but also at the state of the ourrents, which would make tho place appear a most unlikely one whence to expect any tidings or anything to elucidate the melancholy catastrophe.— Oblerver. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN HIGH liomionts.--Yester day morning, shortly after one o'clock, a fire, attended with a considerable destruction of property, broke out upon the premises belonging to Mr. James Voile, auc tioneer, situate at 288, High Holborn. The discovery was made by some of the neighbours in the opposite r houses, who saw smoke issuing from the upper windows. An immediate alarm was given, and the residents were made sensible of the danger to which they w ere exposed. The whole of the parties, with the exception of a child in bed, asleep, were able to get out without much diffi culty; but upon their again attempting to ascend the stairs, to rescue the child, they found the place so full of fire that they were unable to enter. One of the fire men, of the name of Stagg, upon learning that a child was in the premises, succeeded, at no little personal risk, in forcing his way through the smoke an d h eat , and he happily succeeded in bringing the child out in safety. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PONTSMOUTII, SUNDAY.—The Earl of Auckland, G.C.8., First Lord of the Admiralty, and Mr. 11. G. Ward, M.P., official Secretary to the Board, after spending the evening with Mr. Baring, at Alver stoke, on Friday evening, slept at the Railway Hotel, Gosport, and returned to town by the 8 30 (express) train_ We beg to inform naval officers resident in the provinces; that during the ensuing Parliamentary session, such of them as may be desirous of an audi ence of the First Naval Lord, Rear-Admiral J. W. D. Dundas, C. 8., M.P., should attend at the Ad viralty on the first and third Tuesdays in every month. In noticing the rumour relative to the paying off of the Prince Regent, 92, Captain W. F. Martin, which was 'very current after the visit of the Lords of the Admiralty to that ship on Friday, it was mentioned merely as a rumour, and considering that her penant has been flying nearly two months, and that she has not entered 400 men out of her complement of 820, there seemed to be some colour for the report. We have the best authority, however, for stating that she will not be paid off until she has served the usual term of commission. Captain Martain will not take any but goodt seamen in the strictest sense, and this per haps has kept her back in manning and fitting longer than other ships whose captains have been less parti cular in their selection of hands. We hope to see her in due time manned and ready to do good service, as she is capable of doing, as one of the heaviest two deckers afloat. _ Captain Sir Baldwin Walker, to whom is offered the appointi nent of surveyor of the navy, is expected in England ;from the Pacific, via Panama, by the next Mexican packet. Mr. Edye, the deputy surveyor, has been granted the salary of surveyor at the rate of 1,000/. per annum since the retirement of Sir W. Symonds. SIR CHABLIS RAPIER'S SQUADRON. Extract of a letter : " The St. Vincent, Howe, Queen, and Canopus are the only sailing craft attached to Sir Charles Napier's squadron left in the Tagus. The screw fri gate Amphion, 36, the Terrible, Dragon, and Scourge, from the steam squadron, now here (19th instant). The Comet has gone to Oporto, where also is the Jackal. " The Asia, 114, Captain Stopford, flag of Rear- Admiral Phipps Hornby, C. 8., arrived at Lisbon on the 11th, with her mainyard carried away when off Usshant. The Canopus gave her mainyard to the Asia, which enabled her t• pursue her voyage to Rio on the 13th. _ " Exercise has recommenced in the squadron. The Admiral has to a certain extent recovered the shock caused by the sad intelligence of the loss of the Avenger and his step-son. Topsail, topgallant, and royal yards are sent down at sunset, and up again at eight ♦.M. ; sails are then bent immediately. " At Oporto all is quiet, but everybody is looking forward to another outbreak before very long; all the guns have been removed from Oporto, so that, in the event of a row, they may not defend themselves as heretofore. " The terrible arrived on the 15th." PROMOTIONS. JAN. 29.—John Beechervoise, Thomas Drury, Wil liam Weeks, John Brown, and William Sparks, gun ners, advanced to the first class. William Deacon, John Devonshire, Edward J. Humphreys, and William Hull, gunners, advanced to the second class. APPOINTAINNTS. Second Master—William Greet, to the Hercules. Clerk—C. W. Motherwell and J. L. Thorne, to the Crocodile. _ .... Master's Assistant—Robert Forder, to the Star. Boatswains—Edward Rouse, to the Prim* Regent; John Turner, confirmed to the Blenheim. WiLd S.S.W., strong breezes and hazy weather. The Hereford Times describes a drake with three legs, to one of which two feet were attached. The largest forest set apart for red deer which ex ists in Scotland is the forest of Atholl, where 100,000 English acres are given up to them. DEATII or OTAHEITIAN CHlEP.—Prince Teti, the fifteenth son of Tati-Vahine, one of the greatest chiefs of Otaheite, died onWednesday in the hospital of theVal de Grace, Paris, in which he had been placed, in conbe queuce or ins sintering irons 4 ijuiplitstit; diathesis tuberculosis, and which it appears was aggra vated by his being brought to this climate. SERIOUS FIRE. NINE HORSES BURNED TO DEIPIL—A letter received on Saturday at the Sun Fire Office, announces a most serious fire having occurred on Thursday last at a place called Spittle, near Aber gavenny, which destroyed the farming premises of Mr. Richards. It commenced in the stables, where there were fourteen valuable horses; five were extricated alive, but the remaining nine were burned to death. Each animal was worth forty guineas. How the fire origi nated is not stated. DEATH or ANOTHER GENEEAL.—We have to an nounce the death of Gen. Frederick Maitland, Colonel of the 58th Regiment of Foot. This gallant veteran is one of the family of Lauderdale, the heritable standard bearer for Scotland, which has produced so many dis tinguished generals and admirals of the army and navy. He was the brother of the present Sir Alexander Mait land Gibson, Bart., and fourth son of General the Ho nourable Alexander Maitland, fifth son of the sixth Earl of Lauderdale; was born in 1768, and has died, conse-. quently, in the 86th year of his age. EARTHQUAKE AT BlTAYlA..—Letters from Batavia in the island of Java, of the 20th, state that on the 16th, 17th, and 18th, shocks of earthquake were felt at Batavia, and in the regencies of Cheribon, Bonjoemak, Kaddoc, Semarang, and Rambay. The shocks were io. violent as to recal to mind those of 1834. At Batavia the towers of the church were a good deal shaken, and that of the town-hall bad taken a strong leaning to the left, whilst a cross in cast-iron,, which surmounted it, was overthrown. In the town of Cheribon all the buildings, except the stores, the walls of which are of great thickness, were so much injured as to threaten ruin, and oblige the inhabitauts to seek refuge in the plains in the environs. At Palimang the residence of the governor was thrown down, and all that it contained destroyed. Forty houses in the Chinese quarter shared the same fate, and seventeen inhabitants were crushed to death under the ruins. A great number of sugar and indigo manufactures in the open fields were destroyed. Intelligence from all points of new disasters was reach ing Batavia, and the greatest alarm prevailed in that capital. Tun Faartcn n Cut/ie.—M. de Montigny, lately appointed Vice. Consul of France at Shanghae, in China, had forwarded to his Government various interesting reports on the productions of Indo-China and the islands of the Indian Sea, which are likely to occupy an im portant place in the trade of France with those coun tries. The observations of M. de Montigny bore prin cipally on the different species of teak, on the numerous applications of the gum known by the name of gutta percha, and on the many species of flour extracted from the roots and plants of the above mentioned countries. Those documents are accompanied with samples carefully selected, and even sets of the plants, of which M. de Montigny recommends the cultivation, either in France or Algeria. Tun Emu Ix igis NA-TIVI •FoitzsTs.—A native who was walking at my side, and who had accompanied us all day, stopped suddenly, and, pointing with his finger, said, " Emu!" About a mile distant across the prairie were two of those birds quietly feeding. The dogs were immediately called together, fresh vigour seemed to animate the whole party, and we proceeded to give chase in high spirits. Emus are sometimes shot with the rifle, but the usual mode of obtaining them is by hunting them with kangaroo dogs. If you happen to corn. near enough io them without raising alarm, they may frequently be detained, and even attracted almost up to you: stirrup, by whistling. I have known this to be repeatedly tried with success. When you begin to whistle the emu lifts up its head and listens with attentien; soon, delighted with the sound, he walks leisurely in the direction from which it comes; then, perceiving a human being, he pauses, seems irresolute, and finally walks round and round you in circles, gra dually lessening, until he approaches within a few yards. If his confidence be not repaid with a bullet, he will, after gratifying his curiosity by a good stare, quietly walk away through his native woods. Emus are fre quently speared by the natives, who, by taking care to stand stock-still the moment the creature lifts up its head, manage to approach within a few yards of them while feeding. Though the savage may have his hand raised in the act of throwing the spear he remains fixed in that attitude whilst the emu takes a surrey , of him. Perceiving only an object without motion, the bird takes him for a tree, sad continues to graze, falling a victim, like other innocent things, to a misplaced confidence in its own security. The emus ran fast, and gave us a long chase; but at length the headmost dog caught hold of the extended flapper of one of the birds, and arrested its progress; the others, coming up, soon pulled him to the ground, and by the time we reached the spot he was dead. The feathers from the tail were distributed among the party, and placed in our caps; and the legs being cut off, the rest of the bird was abandoned. The legs alone afford any meat, which is by no means a delicacy, and resembles coarse beef.-7he Buihman. The trial of Mr. Gutteridge, for libelling the Bishop of Manchester, will take place at th• Wurwick Assizes in the month of March. The Zeitungshalle of Berlin, of the 26tb, announces some leases of cholera in Upper Silesia, especially at Rutiboo, Pleas, and Leobschitz. _ _ _ Public prayers hare been ordered in all the churches of Belgium, on account of the contagious disease which is now prevalent in Flanders. Zb trbi Initton JEWISH DISABILITIES. (THIS DAY.) A meeting of the inhabitants of Westminster was this day held at the Hanover-square Rooms, pursuant to a requisition to the High Bailiff, for the purpose of considering the propriety of petitioning Parliament for the removal of the civil and religious disabilities of the Jews. The meeting was called for one o'clock, but the attendance at that time was very scanty, there not being more than twenty persons present, and the commencement of the proceedings was de lay ed till near l y t wo o ' c l ock. The HIGH BAILIFF having taken the ch a ir, apolo gised stateado f taken te w weather, in an con sequenced:t h Q disappointment expected in to the take attendance ar of t i n variousthe gentlem e n w h w fore were e proceedings. The object of the meeting was to discuss the pro • prioty of adopting measures to remove the civil and religious disabilities of the Jews. The meeting had been convened by a requisition numerously signed. It was but just to state that after he had received the first requisition requesting him to call the meeting, he had received an o th er t o t h e same effect, also very numerously signed. To the latter of these requisi tion he stated, that as the object of the two meetings was similar he thought the parties might amalgamate and make one meeting answer the purpose of the re quisitionists.--(llear, hear.) It was not for him to give any opinion on the subject before the meeting, the different speakers would fully explain that sub• ject.--(llear, hear.) Mr. HUGGETT then stated that he had received letters apologising for non-attendance, but approving of the meeting, from Lord Marcus Hill, M.P., Right Hon. Fox Maule, 151. P., G. Thompson, M.P., C. P. Greenfell, M.P., James Wilson, my., Lord R. Grosvenor, M.P., E. Dirett, M.P., J. Matheson, M.P., Lord Dudley Stuart, M.P., G. Moffatt, M.P., Sir E. Colebrooke, M.P., E. Strutt, M.P., Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, Wynn Ellis, Hon. E. P. Bouverie, M.P., W. P. Wood, M.P., J. L. Ricardo, M.P., E. De Vear, G. Grote, Esq., B. Hawes, Esq., Dr. Lankester, &c. Mr. MACGREGOR, M.P., in moving the first reso lution, said that it afforded him great pleasure to assist, by any means in his power, in the removal of the civil and religious disabilities of the Jews. Their character and universal good conduct entitled these persons to the fullest exercise of the rights and pri vileges of Englishmen. In other parts of the Con tinent and the United States the Jews were admitted to the full participation of the rights of citizens, and no bad result had been found to attend the adoption of this course ; and he did not consider that the admissson of Jews into the Legislature of this coun try would in the least degree unchristainise the country, as was supposed by some persons who were opponents of the measure. With respect to the family of Baron Rothschild, they bore the highest character in Germany ; the grandfather of the present Baron was entrusted, during the progress of the French revolu tionary armies, with the whole of the treasures of the Sector of Hesse Cassel. His house was, however t pillaged by the invading army, but the treasures of the Elector were preserved ; and upon the return of the Elector the whole of his treasure was returned with interest by the trustworthy Mr. Rothschild.— (Hear, hear.) He believed that if the Baron de Rothschild were allowed to take his seat in the House, there would be no Member who would more strenuously support the institutions of the country. He felt great pleasure inj proposing as the first resolution —" That considering the existence of religious restrictions on the exercise and enjoyment of civil rights and privileges to be at variance with justice and sound policy, and contrary to the present spirit and practice of the constitution, and that the Jewish people being subject to all burdens and obligations affecting the subjects of this kingdom, have always shown themselves willing to discharge their duties as citizens, and legally and peaceably to yield obedience to the laws and statutes of the realm, this meeting gives its best support to her Majesty's Ministers in their purpose of removing from the statute-book the remaining civil disabilities of the Jews, an obnoxious remnant of ages of intolerant legislation." Mr. WILD, M.P., seconded the resolution, and felt it to be a great privilege to be allowed in the humblest manner to raise his voice in favour of the removal of the disabilities of the Jews; and had he been enabled to give no other vote in the House than the one upon that question, he should have felt amply remunerated for his trouble and fatigue in the con tested election for one of the boroughs of this coun try. The persecution of the Jews had originated with the oppressors of the Catholic Church, and in an age of feudal tyranny ; and he sincerely trusted that the time was not far distant when this last remnant of superstition and tyranny would be swept from the statute-book of this country.— (Hear, hear.) m R. said that he had never attended any meeting during the twenty years he had been more or less connected with the borough of Westminster, where he felt less apprehension of any division of opinion upon the great object of the meeting.—(Hear, hear.) As one of the mem• bers of the Sunday Trading Committee in the last session of Parliament, he had various opportunities of ascertaining the opinions of the Jews. Several members of the Jewish persuasion were examined upon the question of the Sabbath, as by the observance of their Sabbath they were compelled to give up two days of the week, while their Christian competitors lest het .e_ was thas they felt it no hardship whatever, and wished for no alteration with respect to the laws enjoining the due observance of the Sabbath. Their treatment of their own poor also reflected the highest credit on the great body of the Jewish people.—(Hear, hear.) He could not understand by what hallucination of mind the prelates in the House of Lords had in the year 1830 so far stultified their expressions of high respect for the Jews by their votes against the mea sure for removing their civil and religious disabilities. In 1133 another Bill for the same object was carried triumphantly through the Commons, and rejected by the Lords, and in 1836 the hereditary branch of the Legislature again nullified the measure passed with a great majority in the Lower House. It was sur prising that upon these three occasions the Lords should have acted with such obstinacy, and it would be a subject of deep regret if that branch of the Legis lature should again, for the fourth time, place itself in opposition to the wishes of the Commons and the rights of the electors of this great eempire.—(Hear,(Hear, hear.) It was intended by the Prime Minister to bring forward the measure on Monday next, when he trusted that the majority upon that occasion would be even larger than it had been upon the former divisions.—(Hear, hear.) C. LUSUINGTON, M.P., regretted that he was not able to catch the S peaker's eye upon the occasion of the late discussion on the measure in the House of Commons, but he did the next best thing to that—he gave his most hearty vote in support of the measure. —(Hear, hear.) It appeared to him equally ridi culous and insensate to deny one man civil rights because he read Scripture with a different construc tion than another.—(Hear, hear.) The intelligence and literary abilities of the Jews were universally acknowledged, and yet, with the greatest incon sistency, they were considered as unfit to take a share in the government of the country. A large debt of compensation was due to the Jews for the calumnies which had been spread by Christians respecting them, and it was a disgrace that the Jews were not now entirely freed from all disabilites.—(Hear.) Charles Cochrane, Esq., and Sir C. Aldis haring address the meeting, the resolution was put and unanimously agreed to. The HIGH-IiAILIFF then read a petition which had been prepared for presentation to Parliament in con formity with the resolution. The Hon. F. BING then moved, "That the petition now read be adopted and presented to both Houses of Parliament; that General Sir De Lacy Evans be re quested to present that to the House of Commons, and Charles Lushington be requested to support the same ; and that the Most Hon. the Marquis of Lans downe be solicited to present that to the House of Peers." PROUT, Esq., seconded the resolution, which was also unanimously agreed to. The thanks of the meeting were voted to the High Bailiff for his conduct in the chair, and the meeting broke up. CAMERON'S COALBROOK STEAM COAL, AND SWANSEA AND LOUGHOR RAILWAY COMPANY.—(THIS DAY.) The usual annual extraordinary general meeting of the above company was held] this afternoon, at the offices in Moorgate-street—Colonel Cameron, chair man of the board of directors, in the chair. A dividend of 8 per cent. for the past half year was declared upon the colliery account. The Railway Report was read, from which it. ap peared that the company was prepared to proceed with the line, but the directors recommended that the works should be delayed for a short time. The cut of coal in the company's collieries had increased during the last half-year as compared with the previous half-year, by between three and four thousand tons ; and in order to render the price of their coal less de pendent unon the fluctuations of freightage charges, the company had determined to purchase a fleet, and become their own shippers. Mr. B. SOLOMONS suggested that the dividend had better ba postponed till the next meeting. Two calls had recently been made, and he strongly sus pected that the proceeds had been applied to the pur poses of this dividend. The CHAIRMAN said the Honourable Proprietor was mistaken, the dividend was paid out of profits. The balance-sheet would be laid before the next meeting, a copy of which he would undertake should COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR ? SUNDAY. - Yesterday the Duke of Norfolk, Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, And Sir Robert and Lady Gardiner took their departure from the Castle. Prince Albert enjoyed the sport of shootkg yesterday morning. His Royal Highness was accompanied by Viscount Palmerston, and was attended by Lord Byron, Mr. G. E. Anson, and Colonel Bouverie. Her Majesty and Prince Albert took an airing yesterday afternoon, in a pony phaeton, the Prince driving, attended by the Equerries in waiting, Major-General Wemyss and Colonel Bouverie, Liu horseback. Their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians visited her Royal highness the Duchess of Kent yesterday afternoon, at her residence, Frogmora House. The royal dinner party at the Castle yesterday evening included their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, their Excellencies Mons. and Madame Van de Veyer, La Marquise de Trazeynies, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, and Major de Mott. }Jake. The Queen's private band attended on Friday evening in the Castle, and performed the following pieces : Overture, " Sirene" .... Auber. Selection, " Postilion" .. March, " Zaubertiote " . . Mozart. Selection, "La Fille du Regiment"... Donizetti, Finale, Sinfonia ..... Carsbade Walser Labitzky. This morning the Queen and Prince Albert took their accustomed early walk. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales., Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took walking and pony exercise this forenoon, in the grounds around the Castle. Her Royal Highness the Princess Helena WAS taken an airing. The Queen and Prince Albert, the King of the Belgians, the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court, and the domestic household, attended Divine service this morning in the private chapel of the Castle. The Hon. and Rev. C. L. Courtenay officiated. Her Majesty the Queen of the Belgians attended Divine service at the Roman Catholic Chapel, Spits!. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by his Serene Highness Prince Frederick of Hesse, and attended by Lady Augusta Cadogan and Baron Knesebeck, arrived at their residence at Kew, on Saturday, from honouring the Duke of Rutland with a visit at Belvoir Castle. Viscount Palmerston arrived in town on Saturday afternoon from Windsor Castle. " BONNIE SWEET ROBIN" IS " NAE DEAD AND GANE." (Written for the Anniversary of the Birthday of Robert Burns, at Sheffield, January 25, 1848.) Oh! say not in sadness the Bard has departed, While Memory thus is enshrining his name; For the perfume his chaplet of bay leaves imparted, Lives fragrantly yet in the breathing of Fame. While we think of him over the "crimson tipp'd flower," While we chaunt forth his soul in the " Bannockburn" strain, While we bend to his harp as we do at this hour, Oh! " Bonnie sweet Robin" is "nae dead and gane.' l His love plaints in exquisite tenderness breaking, Still fall on our ear as the dew on the earth; His song of proud honesty still is awaking Man's sense of the greatness that springeth from Worth. While rare " Tam O'Sbanter" calls smiles to our faces, While " Mary in H eaven " b r i ngs somet hi ng of pain; While " Puir Maillie" is mourn'd, and " Twa Dogs" keep their places, Oh! " Bonnie sweet Robin" is " nae dead and gane. It is bitter to know we must tell a dark story, Of Poverty thrusting him on to his grave; That he struggled with Sorrow while working for Glory, A toiler—a victim—but never a slave. Yet his spirit now seemeth to hover beside us, The sepulchre.stone was l a id o'er him in vain, Ile is here as God's teacher to prompt and to guide ns, And "Bonnie sweet Robin" is " nee dead and gene.' He lighted the beacon that burneth for ever, lle opened the well-spring that cannot dry up ; Ho poureth Truth in the chalice he lett us, and never Shall noble Humanity turn from the cup. While we've hearts in our bosoms that know how to cherish The hands that unfasten the world's heavy chain— Till the Good and the Beautiful utterly perish, Oh! "Bonnie sweet Robin" is " nae dead and gane." —Dispatch. ELIZA COOK. CHLOROFORNI. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sia,—The public are now fully aware of the ex traordinary and merciful effects of chloroform, which makes patients thoroughly insensible to pain while undergoing the most torturing operations. Thou sands have already experienced its benign influence, and amongst others the venerable Berzelius himself; to whom it was the means of bringing relief under the most agonizing suffering. Chloroform not only makes patients insensible to pain, but is, besides, a valuable remedy in some of the most formidable diseases. Beyond a doubt it has in more than one instance cured tetanus, cholera, delirium tremens, and many others. Look also to its blessed effects in midwi,ery. How many mothers, with their offspring, hare been saved, and how many have to be saved by it. When ether was introduced. the, Lt, • eara..rint-15uoli: Inc idea of alleviating pain, how ever, had by this time caught hold of the profession, both here and on the Continent, and every one was eager to distance his fellow in the discovery of some other substance, but the problem could only be solved by the powerful mind of a Simpson, who thus con ferred a boon on the human race. When we look back on Dr. Simpson's improve ments in the obstetric art, and his contributions to medicine generally, crowned by the greatest disco very of this or any other age, we see that his lite has been one career of usefulness, of deep scientific re search, and, we are happy to add, of triumph. The misty clouds of petty jealousy have been dispersed by the resplendent rays of the sun of truth. He may be said to be to medicine what Newton was to phi• losophy, and, to adopt the language of the poet, " When all was dark as night, God said, Let Simpson be, and all was light." The ladies of Britain, not to be outdone by their continental neighbours, will surely come forward with some appropriate testimonial to one who, with out fee or reward, has done so much for them ; and surely Lord John Russell will feel proud in proposing a grant, to which Parliament will be equally proud to accede, rejoicing in the opportunity of marking a nation's sense of gratitude to the benefactor of man kind, and the honour to his country. Yours, &c., JUSTITIA. January 29, 1848. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH THE QUEEN V. TIIII ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. DECISION BY ANTICIPATION. Feb. 1, 1848. Lord DENMAN—The question before us is one merely of practice. As this Court never interferes with the rules and regulations laid down by inferior Courts as to how the form and manner of proceedings before them shall be conducted, we declare The rule discharged. SPORTING IN TELLIGENCE. BETTING AT MANCHESTER. - FRIDAY. CIIESTER CM-25 to 1 agst Blaze, 30 to 1 agst Keleshe (taken), 30 to 1 agat Cracow (taken), 30 to 1 agat Jonathan Wild (taken), 40 to 1 agat Clumsy (taken), 40 to 1 agst Swallow, 40 to 1 agst Swiss Boy (taken), 40 to 1 agst Lady Hylda, 1,000 to 20-1,000 to IB agst Sally Magga (taken), 1,000 to 15 agst Glen Saddel (taken). DEREY.-900 to 100 agat Surplice, 13 to I agst Glen dower, 20 to 1 agst Springy Jack (offers to take), 20 to 1 agst Assault, 33 to 1 agst Cervus I(taken), 40 to 1 agst Keraun (taken freely), 1,000 even Springy Jack agst Assault (offered). NEWSIARIERIF HANDICAP.-10 to 1 agst Millwood (taken and afterwards offered). THE EARL Or DUNDONALD.—We understand that Vice-Admiral the Earl of Dundonald, G.C.8., the newly-appointed Commander-in-Chief to the West India station, has applied to the Lords of the Treasury for his arrears of half-pay, which were impounded during the period his Lordship's name was not on the Nary List. The Noble and Gallant Earl having been restored to the same rank and position in the navy to which he would progressively have attained had his name not been removed, appears to have a strong prima facie ground of appeal to the Government.—United Ser vice Gazette. Captain Sir Baldwin Wake Walker, R.C.B , to whom is offered the appointment of Surveyor of . the Navy, is expected in England from the Pacific, via Pa nama, by the next West India mail steam-packet. Idr. Edye, the Deputy-Surveyor, bas been granted the salary of Surveyor—namely, at the rate of 1,0001. per annum, since the retirement of Sir William Symonds.—United Service Gazette. The Governor of Labuan, Mr. Brooke, had an in terview with Lord Palmerston on Saturday afternoon, at the Foreign-office. His Excellency will take his depar ture early next week for the seat of his government in the Meander frigate, commanded by his friend, the Hon. Henry Keppel, accompanied by his suite and by the several officers appointed to constitute the new settle ment of Great Britain in the Indian Archipelago. The Meander made one of the quickest passages on record in the early part of the week from Sheerness to Portsmouth, where her Gallant Captain has been exercising his crew of picked men. So popular is this enterprising com mander in the navy, that several petty officers volun teered to enter as able-bodied seamen, and more than the full complement were soon found to accompany him on his distant and anterprising Toyagc—Obsorrer. ~i ~! I ii i '! d