The Sun. — London, England, 1852-03-09 00:00:00

o fiftb Xbttion+ SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. COVENTRY RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH). (Conticued from our Fourth Edition.) The Huzdla Race. Hslf-aad-Half Ormsby Drag ... ROLLA; The First Chamber held a secret sitting, with closed doors, on the 3d, and decided that the debates on the subject of the treaty of commerce with Belgium, held in general committee, shall not be made public.— Amsterdam Courant, March 7. RUSSIA. - ---- The works of the railway from St. Petersburgh to Warsaw are being carried on with extraordinary activity. The number of workmen at present exceeds 10,000, and they work daring part of the night. All the rails necessary for the immense line are to be de livered by the end of July, and the contracts for the supply of locomotives have just been signed. COURSE OF EXCH. Amstercarn 11 1934 Ditto, three months .. 12 1 Rotterdam 12 1 Ant w erp..........• .• • 25 57% 5.... 25 5734 Hamburgh .... • • 31.8. 13 11 Paris, 3 isys i sight 25 3734 Ditto, 3 months 25 57% 3Lirseilles •. • • .. 25 57 80ardeaux......... • rrankforton Maine..., 122 Vienna, effec. fio • • • 12 40 Trieste, ditto.. 12 40 Petersbargh,slll. Rble.. 37% 21adrid SO A.NGE.-(THIS DAY.) Gibraltar.. .. • • •• __ Leghorn .............. 30 8734 Genoa ............••.. 25 65 Milan .. - • .. •• Venice........ •• .• . 40% Palermo,peroz...... •• 121% Iliessina . ; . • • • • • • • 12151 • • •• 10 p 0rt0.............. Rio Janeiro • • ...... Buenos Ayres New York, 60 days'aight ?AWES OP BULLION, PEI OZ, Foreign Geld tubers.. £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 Apanish Doubloons .. 0 0 New Dollars .. • • 0 4 10% Ativer in bars .. 0 5 0% Barcelona • ........... THE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, MARCH 2, 1352. Notice is hereby given that her Majesty will hold a levee at St. James's Palace on Wednesday, 24th March instant, at two o'clock. REGULATIONS TO BE OBSERVED AT THE QUEEN'S LEVEES, AT ST. JAMES'S PALACE. The Noblemen and Gentlemen who purpose to attend her Majesty's Levee, at St. James's Palace, are requested to bring with them two large cards, with their names clearly written thereon, one to be left with the Queen's Page in Attendance in the Presence-chamber, and the other to be delivered to the Lord Chamberlain, who will announce the name to her Majesty. Those Gentlemen who are to be presented are hereby informed, it is absolutely necessary that their names, with the name of the Nobleman or Gentleman who is to present them, should be sent into the Lord Chamber lain's-office, on the Monday previous to the Levee on the 24th of March next, before twelve o'clock, in order that they may be submitted for th e Q ueen ' s appro b at i on; it being her Majesty's command, that no presentation shall be made at the Levees but in conformity with the above regulations. It is particularly requc sled, that in every case the names be very distinctly written upon the cards to be delivered to the Lord Chamberlain, in order that there may be no difficulty is announcing them to the Qui en. The state apartments will not be open for the reception of company coming to Court until half-past one o'clock. Notice is hereby given, that all persons having peti tiens or addi2seee to present to her Majesty at the Levee, are to send a card (having on it their namer, a statement of the object of each petitions or addresses, and the names of the persons from whom they come) to the Lord Chamberlain's Office, tefore twelve o'clock, on the Monday previous to the Levee on the 24th of March next ; and that two other cards, having on them precisely what is written upon that sent to the Lord Chamberlain's office, are to be taken to the Levee; one of the two cards to be delivered to the Page in the Ante-Room, and the other to the Lord Cham berlain, who will read its contents to her Majesty; and, on these occasions, no other statement is to be addressed to her Majesty. A deputation to present an address is not to exceed four persons. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, MARCH 2. Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty will hold a drawing-room, at St. James's Palace, on Thursday, the Ist of April next, at two o'clock. REGULATIONS TO BE OBSERVED AT TIE QUEEN'S DRAWING-ROOM. The Ladies who purpose to attend her Majesty's draw ing -room are requested to bring with them two large cards, with their names legibly written thereon, one to be left with the Queen's Page in attendance in the Presence-chamber, and the other to be delivered to the Lord Chamberlain, who will announce the name to her Majesty. And those Ladies who are to be presented are hereby informed, that it is absolutely necessary that their names, together with the names of the Ladies who are to present them, should be sent in to the Lord Chamber lain's office on Tuesday, the 30th March instant, before 12 o'clock, in order that they may be submitted for the Queen's approbation; it being her Majesty's command, that no presentation shall take place unless the name of the Lady presenting, together with that of the Lady to be presented, Snail appear on the card to be delivered to the Lord Chamberlain, which name shall correspond with those previously sent in to the Lord Chamberlain's Office. It is particularly requested, that in every case written cards only be delivered. At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the sth day of March, 1852, present, the Queen's Most Excellent Ma jesty in Council. This day the Right Honourable Orlando George Charles Bridgeman (commonly called Viscount Newport) and the Right Honourable Sir John Trollope, Bart., were, by her Majesty's command, sworn of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and took their respective places at the Board accord , ingly. ST. JAMES'S PALACE, MARCH 5. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Orlando George Gharles Bridgeman, commonly called Viscount Newport, to be Vice-Chamberlain of her Majesty's Household, in the room of the Right Hon. Edward George Fit zallan Howard, commonly called Lord Ed ward Howard, resigned WHITEHALL, MARCH 5. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting unto Lieu tenant -General the Right Honourable Henry, Viscount G.C.8., the office of Master-General of her Maj !Ws Ord nance o f t h e U n i te d Ki ng d om of G reat tam and Ireland. tent The Q u -- . he bas also been pleased to direct letters pa tentto be passed under the Great Seal, granting unto Lieutenant-0 et Clerk of lonel Francis Plunkett Dunne, the office Great Britain an d Ireland. of the United Kingdom of Ireland. The WH ITEHALL, MARCH 5. Queen has bee n pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Ireland Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Harding, Es Land' appointing John Dorney s E ir v bs n er D M od a s j o e n st . y's Advocate- General, in herom of f) FOREIGN-pien4E, MARCH 5. The Queen has been tonio Ferrer de San Jordi _ e t2aprove of Don An for her Majesty the Q ue ,, of ' s vice eConsal in London 10 VVNIN G-STREI T n i t The Queen he ,- been pleased to sPP th ti l e tc ,s a N c 9 .r . man; r tant. gistrar De ny Masson, E q., to be Clerk i n partment of the colony of Iloc g ..g enp HogsE GUARDS,,,nftint;2 6. recommendation The Queen has been pleased, of Field Pilarshal the Cum:termer-in-Chief, to an Captain Edward Sutherland, hell-pay unattacheepolts" tO one cf her Majesty's Honourable Corps of G entlemen at Arma,vice Smit h, deceased. MARCH CRO WN-OFFICE, s. MEMBERS RETEIINED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARLIAMENT. Borough of Colchester—The Right Honourable John JamTs Robert Manner., commonly csllei Lord John JamPs :Robert Manners, First C.)namissioner of Works and Public Building s . Borough of Abingdon—Sir Frederick Thesiger, of Bryanston-Equare, in the county of Middlesex, Knight, her Majesty's Attorney-General. Borough of Stamford—T he Ri g ht Honourable John Charles Herries, of Saint Juli an ' s , Seven Oaks, in the county of Kent, President of the Board of Control. Borough Of Midhurst—The Right Hon. Spencer Ho ratio Walpole, cue of her Majesty' s Principal Secre taries of State. _ Borough of Buckingham—Wchard Plantagenet Camp bell Grenville Nugent Chandes Temple, commonly called Marquis of Chaudos, one of the Lords Commis sioner' of the Treasury. Commission l i by . the Lord-Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire. Castlemartin Yeomanry Cavalry—Cornet James Broft Byers to be Lieutenant, vice Parry, resigned 12th F , bruury; Cornet Frederick Leopold &plebe DittAll teutfol, Baron de Rutz-,-; Baron Frentz, to be Lieute nant, vice Leach, resigned 14th February; Barton Ed vine Byers, prom o t e d , 'nand Rees, G en t., t o b e C orne t, Peb. 25. [The following Article is substituted for [he one which appeared in last Friday's Gazette Commisbu m by the Lord-Lieutenant of Lances ire. 2nd Regiment of the Duke of Lancaster's Own Mia —Sir Thomas George fresketh, B3rt , to be Colonel, Sir Stanley, resigned, March 1. Commissi on by the Lord-Lieutenant of Oxfordshire. Oxfordshire Coming (lately RPgireeat of Militia—Adjutant George a Captain in the 71st Light Infantry) to be Captain by Brevet, March 2. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Fife. Fife Militia—Dugald Stewa r t L awr i e, Gent.. to b e Li e utenant, vice Peter S een, dc. cFased, March . BANKRUPTCY SUP ERSEDED. 1 Benjamin Holmes, an., eat le salesman, Bradford, Yorkshire. _ _ BANKRUPTS. Joseph Loader, Upholsterer, p ay ement, Finsbury, to surrender March 19 and April 17„ 4t eleven, at the aasignee, Guild hall (Mamba's; Taylor, South-street, Finsbury, Wilbourne Clark, commission agent, Pudding-lane, March 22, at two, and Aril 26,. at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Ed% rds,a official saki Me, Sambrook- Moore, Gra'fe Inn-square. THE SUN, John Oyston, linendraper, Wakefield, March 25, and April 23, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young, official assignee, Leeds; Parker, St. Paul's Churchyard; Bond and Barwick, Leeds. Amos Dean, clothier, Brighton, March 13, at eleven, and April 17, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee, Basinghall-street; Sowton, Great James -street; Kennet, Brighton. William Henry Bridge, jun., butcher, Warnborough, Hants, March 19, at twelve, and April 23, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street; Richardson, Moorgate-street. Clement Courtney, victualler, Exmouth, March 16, and April 15, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court. Hernaman, official assignee, Exeter; Laidman, Exeter. William Frost, silk throwster, Macclesfield, March 19, and April 9 7. at elven, at the Manchester District Court. Lee, official assignee, Manchester; Fox and Son, Finsbury-circus; Worthington and Earle, Manchester. George Townson, plumber, Whalley, Lancashire, March 19 and April 22, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Mackenzie, official assignee, Manches ter; Alcock, Skipton ; Higson and Robinson, Manchester. Stavros J. Negroponte, merchant, Manchester, March 22 and April 21, at twelve, at the Manchester Distrcit Court. Pott, official assignee, Manchester; Sale, Worthington, and Shipman, Manchester. Augustus Alexander Lackersteen, merchant, Broad street-buildings, March 19, at half-past twelve, and April 23, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Lawrance, Plews, and Boyer, Old Jewry-chambers. INSOLVENT DEBTORS. W. H. Chamberlin, fishmonger, Mount-row, Liverpool read. W. Haggis, beer-retailer, Saint Mary-street, Woolwich. H. Goring, butcher, Hayes, Uxbridge-road. R. Hodder, bootmsker, Dean-street, Soho. T. Cooper, artist, King William street, qty. H. E. B. Coe, architect, John-street, Bedford-row. E. Goodwin, architect, John-street, Bedford-row. G. Northcote, butter dealer, Dudley-place, Harrow-road. J. T. Durrant, cattle dealer, Widford Essex. J. Frankenstein, commission agent, Kennington-lane. W. Coxhead, watch maker, London-road, Southwark. S. Priddle, tailor, Princes-street, Cavendish-square. W. Golden, cheese factor, Shaftesbury-street, New North-road. Francis Winnington, pork butcher, Manchester. J. Walker, attorney at law, Speen, Berkshire. I. Hum, rope manufacturee, Victoria-place, Hackney- road. . _ W. !Mills, - .. commercial clerk, Lyadhurat-square, Cam- _ berwell. J.Wild, cabriolet proprietor, Pump row, Old-street-road. J. Beck, innkeeper, Carlisle. S. Phillips, paper hanger, Brighton , Sussex. J. Turner licensed victualler, Manchester. J. Wright, publican, Pant, Denbighshire. J. Boor, plumber, Holbeach, Lincolnshire. E. Firth, licensed victualler, Oldham, Lancashire. R. Bricheno, horse dealer, Fulbourne, Cambridgshire. B. Appleton, victualler, Carnarvon. VV. Hole, publican, Aberdare, Glamorganshire. W. Cooke, corn dealer by commission, Northampton. R. G. Clabburn, surgeon dentist, Castle Meadow, Norwich. J. H. Hepworth, commercial traveller, Alverthope, Yorkshire. W. Suthers, jun., traveller, Cornhill, Ipswich. J. Briscoe, out of business, Heaton Norris, Lancashire. E. Banks, millwright, Chorley, Lancashire. H. Banks, labourer, Chorley, Lancashire. W. Chadwick, tailor and draper, Manchester. E. Fawcett, rag dealer. Salford, Lancashire. W. Hundson, butcher. Cheetham, Manchester. J. G. Lawrence, Lieutenant in the Bengal Infantry, Acton-upon Severn, Worcestershire. E. Levy, tailor, Manchester. J. Leigh, ale dealer, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire. J. Levy, traveller, Red Dank, Manchester. T. Newton, beer seller, Ashton-under-Lyne. A. Smith, beer seller, Seholes Wigan, Lanc.ishire. S. Siddeley, butcher, Salford. MARKET IN TEL LIGEN CE. (From the London New Price Current, March 9.) SUGAR.-TO-day West India Sugar was operated in with reluctance for home consumption, and in some cases the rates taken for refining as well as grocery sorts mere rather under those of Friday. Operations are 350 hhde, Sea., including a public sale of 70 tree and 8 brls Deme rara, which sold at 30s to 31s for common yellow, and mid to fine brown 27s to 29s per cwt. Of Barbadoes none was brought forward. REFINED.-To-day ReEned Sugar was operated in with caution for home trade purposes, and rates rather incline downwards, there being a more plentiful supply; low brown Lumps are offered at 445, per cwt. In the position of the market for Crushed Sugar there is no change. MAURITIUS.-This afternoon there was a further in crease in supply of Mauritius Sugar, and rates declined 6d to is per cwt. Of 14,200 bags at auction barely the half found buyers, fine yellow wen; at 34s 6d to 35s 6d, good 32s to 345, mid 30s 6d to 31s 6d, low 29s fo 305, good to fine brown 27s to 295, other kinds 22s to 265, low to fine grey 27s to 33s 6d, grainy yellow 34s to 38s 6df and brown 26s to 308. EAST INDIA.-This afternoon grainy Bengal Sugar met with a free sale at the full currency, but other sorts were dealt in with caution, and easier terms were acceded to. At auction 4,275 bags were mostly disposed of, mid grainy white at 41s to 41s 6d, fine yellow do. 37s 6d to 395, other sorts 31s to 375, brown 28s 6d to 308, and good white Benares 34s to 355. Madras is rather cheaper, with the exception of grainy ; of 3,900 bags at auction the chief part sold-grainy white at 40s 6d to 425, good to fine yellow ditto 35s to 375, ord to mid 39s to 34s 63, soft brown 22s to 23s 6d, ord to mid yellow ditto 24s to 25a per cwt. FOREIGN.-To-day there was a further increase of demand for foreign Sugar for shipping, and former rates were easily obtained. Operations privately are 1,500 chests brown Bahia, nearly all at 15s, and a cargo Per nambuco at is 6d for a near port. None was offered at auction to-day. MOLASSES.-The supply remains scanty, and at late rates there are several buyers of West India; the value of Antigua is 13s 6d to 14s, and other sorts 12s 6d to 13e. Cuba and Porto Rico wanted at 13s to 13s 6d, Bengal and Mauritius lls 6d to 12s; few parcels are however, unsold. Honey still finds a free sale, good to fine Jamaica at 48s to 565, and low middling 40s to 475; indeed an advance is looked for. Several transactions have taken place in Tamarinds. East India at 7s to 12s, and West India 24s t o 34 s per cwt. CoFFEE.-To-day Coffee attracted little attention for shipping or home consumption, yet there was firmness on the part of merchants, and previous rates are sus tained for all sorts. Native Ceylon cannot be obtained under 39s for good ord quality. There was again no public sale. COCOA.-This afternoon Trinidad Cocoa was leas in demand, yet lower rates were rejected. At auction 300 bags Trinidad were only in part sold, low to mid grey at 30s to 3ls 6d, good red 375, and common 33s 6cl per cwt. TEA.-Operations in the lower kinds of Congou are rather important during the last few days, and at pre vious rates less desire is evinced to sell. For better sorts demand has not improved, yet prices have ceased to de cline, but supply is not smaller. The value of low quality is 7id to 7:id, good ord sound, 8d to 84d, blackish leaf 9d to 100, fine and Pekoe kinds 113 to is sd. Oolong sells more freely, still no advance has taken place, rates ruling at 8d to 10d for low to mid, an d goo d to f i ne ltd to la 3d. A fair demand now prevails for Souchong, and the downward movement has ceased, good to fine realizing ltd to is 6d, and inferior 8d to 103. Pouchong is wanted at 4d to 7d; few parcels are on offer. Green Tea is less pressed for sal. , and in prices no variation has transpired since this day week. For common and medium a brisker demand prevails, at present better sorts are attracting little attention. Hyson of low an mid quality is held for Is to is 3d, good to fine is 43 to 2s, superior 2s 2d to 2s 8d; Young Hyaon, common 10d to ls, mid to good is to la 6d, superior Is 8d to 2s 2d, Imperial Canton 103 to I Id, Hyson sort 2s Od to 2s 2d, Gunpowder, Canton 83 to Is ; Hyson kind, low to mid is Id to is 6d, good to fine is 7d to 3s 3d, Csper 8d to Is 3d, and Hyson skin 7d to Is. Of Scented Orange Pekoe several parcels have been sold, and there is now a firm market for better sorts. The value of common is 83 to 11d, and mid to fine is to is 7d. In flowery Pekoe rather more has been done, still there are free sellers of fine to superior at Is 8d to 2s Bd, and low to good is to le 6.1. RICE. -To-day the market for East India Rice was inactive, and former terms are with difficulty sustained, mib white Bengal can be obtained at 10s, There was no public sale, and few parcels are declared. SPIRITs.-Leeward Island met with little notice since our last report, and rates are on the decline, ruling at is i t ., l E t e c ' st l.s tn e d d i P . aoof. Few transactions have taken place [asses and at is 4d there are sellers, the market being mo re little notice, airaly supplied. In Demerara met with 40 (zrdesire is evinced to sell at 2a to 2s 33 for 30 to Jamaica; shipp ers reluctance last week's e v choice marks 34' to 3s 6d to 4s, over as owroloif. There is a plentiful supply of l as home dealers operating with _ Bvaluations are barely sustained ; 2s g4odcd raid to good 32 to 35 flue 3s to 3 3s over proof are offered at from 2s 6d to 2s 10d, mid ;some home trade deliveries a . nFdofrulolldraetressoo k u 2a 6d, and low 27 to are smallerobut larger Rum is cheaper than last 30 over proof 2s 2d to 26 3d. year ; s . r b t t s itined . of )3rand b • ' Y . a risker de o 'OA;yet th • , but in other kinds sales have m fo a r rd xp v. been limited; ere is no decline. Cognac best brands of the vinta of 1 , Prices for o re r t v a a t i l l o s l , l 1850 ditto 4s 5(1 801 rule at 2d to 4s 43, . - . Loge4s 89 4 4 s s 2d to 48 11d, 1848 ditto 5s aa to 5s 53, older 5 ditto s 6d to mid 2s 6d to 4a, and Bordeaux 6s 6d, low to for British-made S • • to 2s 23- Prices yet range firm _ , a r d rit at 95 lld to los, net cash Gin 9 25 under 8s 61 and fine 2s to 2s 9317 ditto 9s. Gen: vu is 9d to i ls 103, COCHINEAL .-A A large demand prevails, both for con sumption and on speculation; the ad vance; tales of Honduras ailvera have been made at •34 3d t o 3 s 7d, bl ac k 3 s 7d to 45 103; Mexican 3s 5d to 38 83, sil vers 3s 2d to 3s 3 d , an d Teneriffe 3s 7d t o 48. Stock is rath er l ess t h an l ast yea r, and deliveries are upon a more extended scale. SA LTYLTRE.-To• day stiffer rates bein g demanded for Rough Saltpetre checked business, and of 2,200 bags Calcutta at auction a small part only sold at 25s 6d to 264 6(1, for refraction Ili to 21 per cent, and 17 ditto 25s the washed realised 198 6d to 21s 6d. There were buyers at last weeks's valuations. PROVISIONS.-For Irish butter the market has a dull appearance. Prices for Carlow, Clonmel, and Kilkenny rule at from 70s to 806; Waterford 66s to 745; Cork 76s to 795; Limerick 65s to 68s; Tralee and Kilrush 6 9 3 to 6 Is; and Sligo 63s to 6Ss per cwt. There is a more plentiful of Dutch. Friezland, fine at 98s to 102 s, surplus and seconds 68s to 90a; Holland, fine 80s to 865. inferior 62s to 70s; Kempen, fine 92s to 965, Zwolle 83s to 904, Groningen from 66s to 725, Leer and Emden 603 to 645, Kiel and Holstein New ; Milk 95s to low, and Stubble 853 to 903 per I ... 1 •.• 9 -. 3 LONDON, cwts Prices for English rule from 64s to 104 s; and fine self freely, but ordinary is dull of sale. For Bacon there is a fair market, and with a brisk demand. Irish small Meat realise 44s to 48s, heavy ditto 42s to 455. Several purchases have been made in Middles ; Irish and American at from 403 to 435. Trade is brisk for Lard, and rates are on the advance, Irish Bladdered selling at 50s to 575, Keg and Firkin 45s to 50a, Hambro' from 46s to 565, and Ame rican Bladdered 52s to 543. 1151M3 met with little attention, Irish and English can be obtained at 48s to 60a. A large demand prevails for barrelled pro visions, and the market has a firm tone, sales of Irish India Beef made at 110 s to 1163 per cwt. Prime Mess 903 to 955, India Pork 115 s to 120 s; Prime Mess 675 6d to 703 per barrel, and inferior 623 6d to 65s per barrel. Cheese finds a brisk sale, Edam 35s to 425, Gouda 303 to 38s; Kanta 18s to 18a 6d, and American 32s to 465. TALLOW.—In consequence of a reduction of 3d to 6d per cwt having been submitted to for Russian on the spot a good home trade has been experienced. Fine old yel low Candle is now 35s to 35s 3d, and new 358 6d to 35s 9d per cwt. Operations are of little moment for delivery, with sellers at 35s 6d for next two months, and at 37s to 37s 3d for the latter part of the year. Some melted cannot be obtained under 36s net cash, and a good demand pre vails. Of South American 300 pkgs at auction mostly sold at 32a to 35s 9d for low to fine. Of 650 casks Australian, about one half found buyers; Mutton 32s to 35s 9d, Beef 33s to 345; 600 casks wrecked Petersburgh all sold 33s to 355; an d 485 casks Soap Tallow 32s 3d to 33s per cwt. Ons.—Prices are not better for Seal Oil, although se veral purchases have been made; pale is 30/ to 301 103, and other sorts 271 103 to 291 105. Cod is still wanted, and realize from 32/ 10s to 331, there being no increase of supply. Several purchases have been made in Southern, low to fine quality at from 321 to 34/, and supply remains small. For Sperm the market remains in a firm position, and several transactions have taken place at 831 to 85/; Headmatter is 86/ to 94/. There is an increasing demand for Rapeseed Oil, and a less quantity is pressed for sale; brown realized 29s 6d to 363, pale 30s 6d to 31s, and Foreign Refined 31s 6d to 325, Prices range firm for Olive. and a good demand still prevails; Gallipoli is 44/ to 45/, and other sorts 421 103 to 431 10s per tun. In Linseed Oil important purchases have been mad for shipping. and home consumption, there are not sellers for present delivery under 26s 6d. Palm remains in good request from 25s 6d to 275. For Cocoa Nut there are several buyers; Cochin at 34s to 365; Ceylon 33s to 355; Sydney 303 to 31s. Lard Oil is wanted at 47s to 50s per cwt. LITERARY FORGERIES. (From the Atheneum.) The " Shelley Letters," published by Mr. Moxon, and reviewed in our paper a fortnight since, are, it turns out, with but one or two exceptions, forgeries. It is proper to say at once that Mr. Moxon has been deceived, and that uo gentleman from the moment of the discovery could have acted more straightforwardly and promptly than he has done in this transaction. As soon as he was convinced that he had been the means (the innocent means) of giving to the public a false article, he did his beet to repair his mistake. He has suppressed the book, and has called in the copies delivered to the trade. The discovery was made in quite an accidental manner. Mr. Moxon had sent a copy of the book to Mr. Tenny son. During a visit which Mr. Paigrave was paying to Mr. Tennyson he dipped into the Shelley volume, and lighted on a letter written from Florence to Godwin —the better half of which he at once recognised as part of an article on Florence written for the Quar terly Review so f ar b ac k as 1840 by his father, Sir Francis Paigrave. It is good to find a son so well versed in the writing of his father as young Mr. Pal grave proved himself to be on this occasion. He lost no time, as we may su pp o se, in communicating his curious discovery to his father, and Sir Francis, after comparing the printed letter with the printed article, wrote at once to Mr. MOXOD, informing him that the letter—by whomsoever written—was a "crib" from an article wnich he had written tor the Quarterly kterzew. Startled at such intelligence, Mr. Moxon replied that he had bought the letter at a public sale among other letters also by Shell e y, and that the passage of which Sir Francis claimed the authorship was contained in a let ter written by Shelley, oarrying upon it the post-mark of the period and other written signs which apparently marked it to be genuine. The Deputy-Keeper of the Public Records was, it may be readily imagined, equally startled with Mr. Moxon at the announcement of such a fact. He wanted to see the letter. The lett er was produced. "It looks genuine; is it not genuine?" "I am the author of that passage, but not the writer of that letter," was the reply of Sir Francis. "Bat may not Sir Francis," it was urged to Mr. Mo xon , "h ave seen this letter in the noble collection of autographs be longing to his father-in-law, Mr. Dawson Turner?" a question which only added a fresh difficulty to the solu tion sought. In this emergency Mr. Moxon had recourse to the assistance of a gentleman known to be conversant with autographs. The letters were placed in his hands with a request that he would spare no pains to ascertain the truth about them—and with this information to guide him—that they had been shown to some Post-office clerks at the General Post-office, who " to the best of their belief," pronounced them to be genuine. The first step taken after this was to compare the post-marks with Byron's letters to Mr. Murray, posted from the same cities in the same month and year, and to the same city—London. Here they failed, and in this way. Where " Ravenna" on a genuine letter was in a small sharp type—in the) Shelley letter it was in a large uncertain type; and in the letters from Venice the post mark of the City of Palaces was stamped in an Italic, and not, as in the Shelley specimens, in a Roman letter! These were strong facts; but then the dates agreed with Shelley's sojourn at the several places—the seals were correct. The handwriting was marvellously Shelley like—no hesitation about it —a fr ee acc ustomed h an d. " Are they not genuine?" Fron whom did Mr. Moxon buy these letters? They were bought at Sotheby a n d Wilki nson ' s, at l arge prices. From whom did Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson receive them for sale? "We had them from Mr. White, the bookseller in Pall-mall, over against the Reform Club." Off runs the gentleman-cletective. " From whom did you, Mr. White, obtain these lett ers ?" "I b oug h t t h em o f two women—l believed theta to be genuine, and I paid large prices for them in that belief." Such are the words supposed to have been spoken by Mr. White. The two women would appear to have been like the man in a clergyman's band, but a lawyer's gown, who brought Pope's letter to Curl!. It would be impolitic at this stage of an important in quiry to publish the whole of th e p ar ti cu l ars p l ace d at our service in elucidating the forgeries of the letters. It is proper, however, to say thus early that there has been of late years, as we are assured, a most systematic and wholesale forgery of letters purporting to be written by Byron, Shelley, and Ke:tts—that these forgeries carry upon them such marks of genuineness as have deceived the entire body of Loudon collectors—that they are executed with a skill to which the forgeries of Chat terten and Ireland can lc y no claim—that they have sold at public auctions and by the hands of booksellers, to collectors of experience and rank, and that the imposi tion has extended to a large collection of books bearing not only the signature at' Lord Byron, but notes by him in many of their pages, the matter of the letters being selected with a thorough knowledge of Byron's life and feelings, and the whole of the books chosen with the minutest knowledge of his tastes and peculiarities. But the "marvel" of the forgery is not yet told. At the same sale at which Mr. Moxon bought the Shelley letters were catalogued for sale a series of (unpublished) letters from Shelley to hi a wife, revealing the innermost secrets of his heart, and containing facts, not wholly dishonourable facts to a i'ather's memory, but such as a son would wish to conceal. These letters were bought in by the son of Shelley, the present Sir Percy Shelley --end are now proved, w e are told, to be forgeries. To impose on the credulity of a collector is a minor offence, compared with the crinie of forging evidence against the dead, and still minor as in one instance against the fidelity of a woman. The forgery of Chattert on injured no one but an ima ginary priest—the forgery of Ireland made a great poet aeem to write worse than Settle could have written— but this forgery blackens the character of a great man, and worse still, traduces fe mde virtue. Mr. Moxon is not the o , lly publisher taken in. Mr. Murray has been a heavy sufferer, though not to the same extent. Mr. Moxon has printed his Shelley pur chases; Mr. Murray—wise through Mr. Moxon's ex ample—will not publish his Byron acquisitions. THE BANK OF FRANCE. Tho treaty recently com;luded between the French Government and the Banl : of France is, like all the public acts of that great establishment, a subject of serious importance to the f,',:nancial and commercial in terest not only of the Frenc th people but of Europe. We have not forgotten the ser aces rendered to the public by the Bank of France in 1848, when it carried the country through a crisis of unparalleled difficulty; but the Bank retained at th at time its independence, under all the vicissitude e of the political world, and its councils were directed, not only by M. d'Argout, who is still its Governor, but by the opinion and advice of the Finance Committee in the National Assembly, which included the ablest at id most experienced heads in the nation. The recent measure to which we now allude appears to involve a c , )nsiderable sacrifice of the independence and the strict p rinciples by which the Bank of France has hitherto bet. n directed ; and the effect which these changes may het . ?after produce on the opera tipus of such an institution r, nclers it incumbent on us to examine them with some mit ,uteness. The Bank of France was still independent of the Government, f o r it s privil ?ges had been greeted in 1 840 for 24 years, subject tc. a break at the end of 12 Years; but th e y cou ld no t 1:e withdrawn without the consent privilege of the Bank itsel.F. The extension of the to fifteen yet. rs from the present n' . iR, therefore, an unimportant concession. Moreover, as from the the State Powert to a very large amount, it had it in its the Beni+. is the creditor of administered enforce with aunt iority its own conditions. But, for o to u, reasons which are ti ,be attributed, we believe, has b P e ego i n n a d l rather than a p iblic motive, M. d'Argout that compelled we voluntary, a n d heed to accept t. rms differing materially principles on which it ho Bank has hitherto bees The sacrifice, if such it be, is, however, from the State to the Bank The repay ment of m ß ro not as . are of any circumstances Bank to st ibmit to the arrangements. wise reprehensible than that it, spread over a period debt of 75 millions now due of aA by the first article, to be Bank during a very protracted money less available for thi!'' renders this largo sum of re—a measure not other .' i.nd ineonvertible burden. general.:ltorthe occurrence ofof any e resources of the Bank, IPeriod, and that, in case of i t t h m e i n g e h g t o p ti r a o t v io e n a o f e fresh onsid e a r d a vz : sudden crisis requiring the v i t , At any rate the State, a n d not th© Bank, is the sole TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 9, 1852 gainer by this transaction. For, simultaneously with this decree, and forming part ef one of its stipulated pro visions, the Bank has consented to reduce the rate of interest to three per cent., at a time when nvither the price of the public securities nor the ordinary rate of commercial discount in France appears to warrant such a reduction. It has never been customary for the Bank of France to vary and adapt its rate of discount to the money-market as frequently as is done by the Bank of England. Still less has it been usual to make so large a reduction as 1 per cent. at one blow. Such a measure is obviously dictated by the political conve nience of the Government muc h more t h an b y t h e com mercial interests of the B an k or t h e pos i t i ve d eman d s of the public. It is true th a t th e accumu l at i on o f spec i e in the cellars of the Bank of F rance h as reac h e d an un precedented amount, and th a t if th e a b un d ance o f money alone determined the rate o f di scounts some re d uct i on m i g ht reasonably b o ma d e. But the price of money is equally affected by ano th er cause, name l y, t h e want of commercial confid ence . M on b y i s d epos i te d i n banks most abundantly wh en men are most a f ra id to employ it els e accumulati on ewhere indisposes prudent men to ; and the very same cau se w hi c h promotes th • emselves of it. I t i s t h e want of conf i dence more • former rate of discount which has suspended commercial transactions in France, and the attempt to force a supply of mon e y on the market by lowering the price it will tend rather to promote loose speculation than well-considered business. The private advances of the Bank of made, according to its regulations, upon the "third signature" to the bills it accepts. These third signatures, way of endorsem en t, are th e secur iti es t o w hich the Bank chiefly y looks, and they are given by the sc houses of Paris to their own customers, takin g adjcolulat commission sai by on to cover the risk. If the rate of discount be lowered at the Bank, it by no means follows that more first-class bills will be discounted by that institu tion; but more bills will be presented at the discount houses, and if they are of a doubtful character the pro fit on them will be raised, so that the reduction of in terest will go into the pocket of the intermediate agent, who gives the third signature. The only correct test of the proper rate of interest on the discounts of a national bank is the price of the public funds and the common rate of private discount. With the Five per Cents. in Paris at 106, and the common rate of discount at 4 or 3i, we can only regard the sudden lowering of the rate of interest from 4 to 3 by the Bank of France as an arbitrary attempt on the part of the Government to lower the value of money to an artificial standard, and to evade the natural laws of trade- It would obviously be a more advantageous mea sure o, in the part of the Bank to invest its superabundant capital the purchase of Three per Cent. Renter at 70, than to discount paper and to extend its advances to the State at 3 per cent. at par, and we are at a loss to un derstand h , -ow the Bank can lend money at 3 per cent. which may now be invested in the public funds at a little below 5, This part of the agreekent is not, however, its greatest or its mo s t i rre mediable innovation. A wider departure from sound principles and from the existing regulations of the B an k of France is the proposa l t o ena bl e t h at in stitution to ma k e advances on railroad securiti es , as i t has hithe rto d one on f un d e d secur iti es an d fi rst - c l ass private bill s only. We know, b y t h e exper i ence o f this country that ra il roa d property—even of the b es t kind — partakes to an alarming extent of all the variations of commercial enterprises and speculations. The same motives that deter a national banking estab lishment, on whi c h, as i n France, the public credit an d the private t ransact i ons o f the nation may be sa id to depend, from embarking in industrial speculations, have hitherto opposed all advances on such securities; and, even in this country, they have only been admitted under Strict limitations. The object of the Govern ment in encouraging the Bank of France to assist these speculations is to promote the construction of the principal lines of railway, and to facilitate the transac tions of the railway market. But that object is un doubtedly one of secondary importance in comparison with the interests the Bank has constantly to protect, especially in a country like France, where no man can say that three mouths will not witness some political and financial crisis. At such a moment, if the available re sources of the Bank are sunk in deferred loans to the State, or lent out on railway securities, that may become unsaleable at any price, it is evident that a suspen sion of cash payments might again be the result ; and the effort to give an artificial impulse to trade would recoil on the establishment at the cost of which it is made. The only solid foundation on which the commer cial interests of France can be restored to healthy acti vity is that confidence which is far more deficient than capital; and confidence can only spring from reliance on the good sense and moderation of the Govern ment. It is destroyed by a series of fantastic and capricious decrees anticipating the duties of the Legislature, some of which have already. attacked the rights of property, while others threaten to overturn the first principles of taxation. To facilitate the advance of money at low interest, with no corresponding increase of confidence and security, is merely to encourage men to gamble and to speculate; and measures which might be laudable in a highly flourishing state of society be come questionable when they are employed to disguise the stagnation of trade, or to compensate the losses caused by a recent revolution.— Times. THE ENGLISH ABROAD.—The following is an extract of a letter from a British resident at Leghorn, dated Feb. 20, 1852 :—" They are talking of making all the British take out permissions from the police every six months, and some every three months, to remain here, and every time the permission is renewed there is about ss. 6d. to pay, and every one of a family to have a separate one, which would come to be a considerable tax. Their object is twofold— First, to raise money to support the Austrians ; and, second, to have it in their power to send any away when their leave is out. The old merehants who have been born and lived always here aro quite indignant at this. There was a public meeting at the Consulate to-day about it." STRIKE OF WORXISEN.—The Newry Examiner states that the operative stonecutters and masons employed on the works of the viaduct over the Boyne have struck for an advance of wages. EXTENSION OF RAILWAY TELEGRAPHS.—The tele graph is now nearly completed over t h e route of the Great N or thern Railway, from London to Lincoln and Hull. It is also being constructed by the Electric Telegraph Company, who have about 1,000 men daily at work, on the Lancaster and Carlisle, Maryport and Carlisle, and along the western coasts; also on the Shrewsbury and Ch ester, an d Shrews bury and Hereford Railways, MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Mardi 8. THROWING STONES AT A RAILWAY TRAIN.—John Whitnell, 12, and William Hay, 13, were indicted for feloniously and maliciously throwing and casting stones upon a railway carriage, used on the London and North- Western Railway, with intent to endanger the safety of Charles Skelton and others, then being passengers in such. No counsel appeared to prosecute, and the prisoners— two young rustics—were not defended. Charles Skelton deposed that he was a guard on the London and North-Western Railway, and resided et Oxford. In consequence of a stone having been thrown at, and a window broken in a carriage, in a train of which he was guard, between Sudbury and Harrow, on Tuesday, the 24th of February, he kept a sharp look out when lie passed the spot on the following day, and be saw the prisoners in a field adjoining the line. As the train passed they each threw a stone at the car riages; one stone struck the carriage and bounded off; the other would certainly h ave hi t h i m on the h ea d, h a d he not "ducked" his head un d er t h e covere d par t o f the van. He went on with th e tra i n to T r i ng , w h e re he left it and went back by an up train to the field, where ho found the prisoners just about to leave, and when they saw him they took to their heels. He followed them for a mile end a half, when he captured and gave them into custody. It was Whitnell who threw the stone that would have hit him if he had not stooped his head. Sergeant Cooper, 6 T division, said when the pri soners were brought to th e station at Harrow, Whitnell told him that he had thrown a stone, but the train had gone past, and Hay said, " We were only throwing at the telegraph wires." When called on for their defence, Whitnell said they had been pelting at birds on the line, and Hay that they had been heaving stones at the electric telegraph. The jury found the prisoners Guilty. The ASSISTANT•JUDCE said it would not do to let these young rogues go without a punishment which would deter other b o y s from doing similar th i ngs. H e thought a good fl ogging in of good. prison would do them a deal Mr. Maude, the deputy clerk of the peace, that the Act of P arliament under which the pointed out indictment was framed g ave no Boner to be flogged. Mr. Bere s f ord, the superintendent of the North. Western p o l ice, said the company had no desire to press the charge again st power to the Court to order a pri these two boys; but as it was continu ally occurrin g t h at stones were thrown d own the line, they though t i t necessary that these mischievous boys should be t aug h t at tended with punishment. Th e ASSISTANT-J UDGE sa id he was sorry th e A ct of that such proceedings would be Parliament did not give him the power to sentence them to be flogged, but most certainly, if they were men, the Court would have sentenced them to hard labour for two years. The most serious consequences might have re sulted from such misconduct; but, as a lenient sentence would show them and others that they could be punished for it, a lenient one would be passed; but if the throw the ordinary sense, throw in were repeated, and the parties caught, they would be punished most severely. The Act of Parliament made this a felony, but the prisoners were not felons in and he should therefore direct that they should not be associated with thieves in prison. He then sentenced them each to one month's impri sonment. The prisoners were removed blubbering lustily. Mary An ne V aughan, 10, Sarah Pritchard, 23, and George Holmes . 27, were i n di c t e d, th e two f ormer for stealing, and th e latter for receiving an immense quan tity of linen, &c., th e property o f G eorge Roustun . The prisoner s were each sentenced to six months ' h ar d labour. upon her entering the lower passage witness seized and held her until some one cam° to her assistance. It was than discovered thqt the timepiece, see:, a few minutes before safe on the drawing-roum mantel piece, was on the stairs. Mr. ARNOLD inquired whether witness knew anything of the prisoner? The servant replied that she was a total stranger to her. „ A policeman proved that the accused was under the influence of liquor when he took her into custody. In reply to Mr. Arnold's inquiry, the policeman :said she could walk and talk well at the time, notwith standing the liquor she had taken, and totally denied the charge. Mr. ARNOLD inquired whether the police knew any thing of the accused ?—Sergeant Ceapling replied that she was a charwoman, living in the neighbourhood. The worthy magistrate, who has been very unwell for some time past, but is now sufficiently recovered to re sume his sittings, remanded the prisoner for a weak, in order that some inquiries might be made about her. CLERKEN WELL. Yesterday Edward George, arespeotably-dressed young man, was charged by Mr. Richard Dickenson, fruiterer, &c., of Brewer-street, Clerkenwell, with being in his house with the intention to commit felony, having a crow-bar in his possession, and violently assaulting him, under the following circumstances The prosecutor deposed that of Sunday evening, at six o'clock, he left his house, after carefully closing the street-door. On his return home, at eight o'clock, he found the door had been broken open, and the prisoner was in the parlour. He ran at witness and struck him with some heavy instrument, which subsequently proved to be a crow-bar (now produced), which was found on the ground. Ho seized the prisoner, when they strug gled together, and fell down. He (prisoner) got up and ran away, but, being pursued, he was overtaken, and given into the custody of Philips, 229 G, who took him to the station-house and locked him up. Taylor, 84 G, examined the house of the prosecutor. The street-door had been forced open, and some articles, with a knife, were found on the parlour table. The pri soner had evidently been alarmed by the return home of the prosecutor. The prisoner said nothing in his defence, and Mr. CORRIE sentenced him to three months' impri sonment, with hard labour. Philip - de Capelain was finally examined before Mr. Corrie, charged by Mr. Dixon, of the firm of Messrs. Dixon and Co., watchmakers and jewellers, of 28, Ely place, Hatton-garden, with stealing four gold watches and two gold guard-chains, value 501. Mr. Harris, solicitor, of Moorgate-street, attended for the prosecution. The particulars of the case have already been fully detailed in the newspapers. The court was crowded to excess by goldsmiths, watchmakers, jewellers, and other tradespeople, who had been plundered by the prisoner. It will be recollected that the prisoner obtained the property from Mr. Dixon under a representation that he was anxious to make his sisters some presents of jewel lery, &c., prior to their going to Adelaide, and that he was one of the firm of Messrs. Arthur, Wellington, and Callen, patent agents, of Parliament -street, Westmin ster. The property was traced to have been pledged on the same day that it was obtained. Some additional evidence was now adduced, and the prisoner, who said nothing in his defence, was fully committed for trial. Mr. Daniel Harrison, jeweller, &c., of the Lowther arcade, Mr. John Mott Thearle, gold and silversmith, &c., 19S, Fleet•street, and other tradesmen, identified the prisoner as having obtained property from them under similar circumstances. A gentleman attended from the office of Messrs. Haw kins and Co., solicitors, of New Boswell-court, on the part of Mr. Callen, and, addressing the bench, said that it had gone abroad that the prisoner had been in the habit of obtaining goods under a representation that he was connected with the firm in Parliament -street, when that representation was groundless and false. He (the prisoner) had been formerly in the firm, but the partner ship was dissolved and gaz'tted in December last. His client (who was now present) was a most respectable man, and, for the sake of his own repute, he wished the matter to be sot right with the public. The prisoner had only been in the firm for one month, and it was evident he had taken advantage of the fact in order to facilitate his systematic impositions. Mr. CoRRIE said he had no doubt that his explanation would go abroad with equal publicity. The prisoner was conveyed to Newgate in the police van. BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE. (From the Newcastle Journal.) A court was held on Saturday last, before the High Sheriff of the county of Northumberland, who was re presented by the Under-Sheriff, John Adamson, Esq., in the Grand Jury-room at the Moot Hall, to assess da mages in an action brou g ht by Miss SaraghheasDdionnbtkeheienn,a ac tion Rothbury, against Dr. F arrago , o f th e same p l ace, for t breach d o t b p o r e o n m i i a s i e d o a f t marriage. soo l , and j T u h d g e m d a e m n t a al lowed to go for the plaintiff by default. Mr. Atherton appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Bliss for the defendant. Mr. Atherton, in opening the case, stated th a t t h e plaintiff, Miss garah Donkin, was the daughter of par ties who, in their sphere of life, were respectable, and who resided in Lothbury, in this county, although the plaintiff herself was in the :service of Mr. Lloyd Ed warde, a gentleman residing in the county of Carnarvon. The defendant was a doctor of medicine ; but, as he would show, there was nothing disproportionate or un equal in their rank, as the defendant was a native of the same village, and was formerly an apprentice to an apo thecary of the name of Davidson, at Rothbury. The defendant, after his apprenticeship, had the good for tune to have some money left him, by means of which he proceeded to Glasgow, and having graduated at that university, had since practised as a physician at Rothbury. Many years ago, the sister of the plaintiff and the sister of the defendant were both in the service of Mr. Davidson; the plaintiff was in the habit of visit ing t h e m, and it was then that the defendant formed an acquaintance with and an attachment towards the plain tiff; and from a period commencing with 1843 until 1848 be, the Learned Counsel, would have to direct the atten tion of the jury to an increasing and affectionate corre spondence carried on between the plaintiff and defendant. He did Rot intend to say that in that correspondence the promise of marriage was made, for it was not made until November in last year; but it was right, as the defen dant sought to reduce the damages, to lay before them the entire circumstances, and show upon what footing the parties previously stood. In the year 1848 the corre spondence ceased for some time, and ho believed that something like an estrangement took place between them, but of that thwaeaspsilsatieourbiilffigwdehdidotonwoatlsecaodynase i p vvn l g a a. in l : si b nfo u ar t s m ßh a oo t rt t ht e b r t s uimre re mained in that state until Jane of last year, at which time a itff r o rival the defendant sought to obtain the nri o tt f their acquaintance. After some difficulty she her l last induced to meet him, and a reconciliation r r t aowt o h i enf a at o nees a k aerp o wav i ht o aai l n ac t e h , e which ultimately led to the promise of mar part of the defendant. The defendant made no secret of the matter, but, in fact, informed all his acquaintance. After the plaintiff's return to Wales the correspondence was continued, until the Bth of Septem ber following, when the plaintiff received a letter abruptly terminating the contract; and, to the surpriseof all, the fact afterwards transpired that he had placed his affections on another lady of some property, who had come to reside in Lothbury, and whom, about the end of September, he married, this lady being the widow of the late Mr. Ferguson, of Redworth, Durham. These were the main facts he had to lay before them, and they would find that the breach of promise was one of a most heartrending and reckless description, and, if prompted by mercenary motives, it was doubly cruel and shameful. The Learned Counsel then read extracts from numerous letters written by the defendant to plaintiff while at ser vice, and distant from Rothbury, showing from the glow ing terms used that the attachment of the defendant was of the most sincere and tender description. When the plaintiff had returned to Wales, after the death of her sister, and after the promise of marriage was made, the defendant wrote thus to the plaintiff:— " Rothbury, 14th July, 1851. sea e sh i al s h in al e l " My dear Sarah,—Owing to the Rothbury post-office regulations upon Sundays, there is no time to answer letters, and it prevented me ackaowledging your long looked for and welcome note. I expected to have heard from you on the Friday, and I went up to your house to inquire, but your sister informed me that no letter could reach here from you before Saturday or Sunday. Satur day came, but with it no word from you; I then thought something must have happened to you on your journey; but Sunday came, and with it the welcome news that you had arrived safe and in good health, and how happy it made me. I supposed you would like to bo a sailor, you are so fond of sea sickness. Will you come by e attend to the Iy w oh h u e o p n we y i 11 0 l u sn r ho e at t i u lg r he n ta v a me g e a t again oe witheboemtt come with eo of you yyoloufu.then. you do, But l v ae n i tnt afraid heeml s eer the words, ' Honour and obey,' and if you_ above, you shall never go by something about myself. In the first place, mind. In the well as relating to my body, not so my comp an y; next place I have felt deeply the loss of . y ou r o my fate submission t but I feel that a patient forward to the future; and with hope I look most, and during the past at present, hispers that w . h i 't was hero. that hope cheers me—it whispers hour, I wis in H. Ohl that happy t our hope Him end be happy. dear, rest t us from all In the meantime, let us, m meet again. and trengthen as. danger, a n p e r l o w te h e ich I feel the But *hat oppresses towards . is my treatment, bitterness. I feel I have done greatest, I fe©l its t for all I have had forgive_ what and more ye what can never be u a nd also the promise that you could that is mighty, and h ness from your lips, ou , y have still the same kind and for trust me egali at when you left I saw there was a some giving heart. Bat oppressed you, and I am afraid I was thing whichthat grief. You could not place that firm of the cause me, when I had once proved so false. u pon reliance dear! I intreat you only to forget the past and Oh! mY up till we look forward to a brighter future. You never shall have cause to complain of me again, for it shall be the an y 1 s tudy of my future life to make you happy. If you could only see into my heart, and read how much you are impressed upon it, and how dear you are to me, dearer than life itself! * * 4 ' • The whole gossip of this quiet little village is about you and me, and about our approaching marriage. One tells me that it is going to take place immediately, and that Susan is going to take deepest moved your situation, &c.—l remain, my dear Sarah, ever yours, " WM. FARRAGE." A third letter followed this, equally affectionate in its terms, dated August 18, 1851, in which the defendant poetises , i , ri Th ii the se following phaesasrito ns thatm most ss s t t d r we a ej i ll guide."—(Laughter.) f ohuanvde regarded hi s protestations ofr . with .ov e, e la tmteal glqaYujiOntu: due e e defendant solemnity, mixed up with expressions of strong religious which could not but create a deep impression on st.nn. mind of the plaintinff, and induce her to believe him 1 S f e o a r rn tLy to feeling, which care. Remembering the letter last referred to, and dated on the 18th of Angnst, in which the defendant SP Pme d ta,her to Lave le:;;-eased his i'ervoer - Lir the piainnil . - - to have any way cooled, what would they think of tno man who in three weeks from that date could pen the following epistle, which terminated the correspondence and blasted the opening prospects of the plaintiff?— " Rothbury, Bth September, 1851. " Dear Sarah,—My reasons for not answering your last sooner you will have heard ere this from your sister at home. Little did I expect when you and I met again. that in the interval before, your sister had used the most abusive language against me. Even during your resi dence here several of my friends told me of it, but I paid no attention to their stories. At last, they were so very bad, that after due inquiry I found them to be too true; still I would not have mentioned it to you, if other things had not occurred. A patient whom I was attend ing asked me to drive her to the Holy Stone well, and in coming past your father's house, two of your sisters were standing. I spoke to them, but they paid me the compliment to put out their tongues at me, and even sent Mrs. Kemble to ask me what were my intentions, and why I should drive out a lady. Under such circum stances our correspondence must cease. Not only your friends have done everything to annoy, but my mother and my brother have hardly spoken to me since you were here, and if I continue corresponding with you, my brother will leave me. I told you when here how very much mother was opposed to it, and it was all through what your people had said against me. And I have always made it my strictest rule of duty to obey my only parent; and as she is so much opposed to it, this letter will terminate our correspondence. You got the loan of one of my books, &c.; I shall feel obliged by your returning it when convenient. " I remain, yours truly, " Was. FA.RRAGE." Another letter was dated Rothbury, July 30, 1851. After acknowleding " her last kind and welcome letter," he proceeds as follows : "My dear, you tell me you are well, how happy it makes me to hear such good news from you, and mind do not forget to prize that inestimable blessing more and more, for remember your own happiness does not rest on it alone. There is another whose happiness entirely depends upon the happiness you enjoy. May every blessing then attend you is the heart-felt prayer of your William. * " * * My dear, lam afraid that I will not succeed in getting a house at the Michael mas term, that is November first. If Ido succeed, our happiness shall be completed in the unit ing of these hands together whose hearts have so long been united. The only house I would like is Hedley's, and I fear he will not leave it. If Ido not succeed, our happiness will not be completed before May next year, and that is such a long time, nearly nine months, to look forward; but I cannot see how we can avoid it, for, my dear, I cannot bring you here until I have a house, and everything prepared. I cannot, therefore, think of bringing you until May, if Ido not succeed, although I suffer ever so much in being so long separated from your dear company. Happy would Ibeif my eyes could just now behold thee—happier still if my arms could enfold thee. But you must tell me in your next, my dear, the plan to proceed, and whatever you dictate I should be happy to fulfil. * * * • Oh! Sarah, how I look forward to that day when I shall call you my own, and still the greater happiness that we shall part no more in this world. Let us, my dear, rest our hope and trust in Him who is mighty, and if He aces fit that we should meet again, nothing earthly can prevent it; and when that happy day arives that we are to be united, may our hearts be firmer and truer united by religion; and our lives devoted to His service, &c. "Yours, &c., " W. FARRAGE." " Rothbury, August 18, 1851. "My dear Sarah,—Your very welcome and long looked-for idea came upon the 13th inst., and if you had the least idea of the happiness your letters alway s g i ve when they come to hand, I feel certain that from your kind and generous breast you would not keep me so long in eu,pense. Day by day I waited until the post arrived before I commenced my journey, but each day only to meet with disappointment. Now, my dear, how would you like if I had not answered you for a fort night to come? I cannot express in words the happiness your letters give when I receive them—a happiness I would not exchange for anything in this life except the realizAtion of that bliss which they are the harbingers or forerunners of—the anticipation of such happiness that still awaits us in this life—how much I look forward to that day when we shall meat again, and meet to part no more in this life. In the meantime let our li ves be devoted to the service of our Creator, and living to Him, and spending our days to His glory and the advancement I o f His kingdom upon earth, our reward will be great in Heaven. The time will soon p ass away. You mention that you expect to be in London —nothing would give me greater happiness than to meet you there, but the dreadful thought to meet you again and bo parted from you—l could never endure it; that alone would prevent it, but professional engagements are very numerous at present, which also would prevent me, and I have all but made up my mind not to visit the Exhi bition; and remember in a very short time I will have to undertake a very long journey to bring you from the mountains of Wales back to canna Northumberland, as my own dear—what must I call it—l suppose you know. The poet spoke the words of truth when he composed the following lines:— , The heart that is deepest moved Its passions most will guide.' And if you could, my dear, examine the heart of your William whilst writing these lines, you would find how deeply thou art engraven there —by night and by day my thoughts are on thee—how often I wish the day was here when we are to be united, but I find the longer we have to wait our happiness in the end will be the greater; but, my dear, it is hard to bear up to think of happiness so near and not to possess it. A little longer and all will be well. We must wait, for we cannot make it bet ter. Again, my dear, I ask you to excuse this scrawl. Write soon—God bless you with health and happiness. I remain, ever yours, " FARRAGE." What could they think of the conduct of the defendant? And what, moreover, would they think of it when he told them that there was not a tittle of foundation to justify this wilful and deliberate breach of contract? The sisters of the plaintiff should be called before them, and they should hear from their own lips whether or not they were guilty of the acts which the defendant had laid to their charge in this letter; but, suppose they did all he said they did, that was no justification of the con duct he had pursued. The letter he had just read was that of a mean, false, and mercenary man, who, at the times be wrote it had made up his mind to leave the plaintiff, and who had not the manliness to do it by a ny other means but those of misrepresentation and falsehood. The handwriting of the defendant to the several let ters produced and read havin g been proved, Mr. William Calver, an officer of inland revenue, was called, and stated that the defendant got Mrs. Calver to make a tea-party, for the purpose of meeting the plain tiff, in order to enable the defendant to renew his inti macy with her. Witness also proved the marriage of the defendant, in November last, to a widow of the name of Ferguson, who had come to Rothbury for the good of her health, and lodged in a house opposite that of the defendant. Miss Mary and Miss Jane Donkin, sisters of the plaintiff, denied ever having used abusive language to the defendant, or annoyed him in passing the house in the manner described by the defendant in his last letter to the plaintiff. Mr. Bliss then addressed the Court on behalf of the defendant. After adverting to the various epithets heaped upon the defendant by the Learned Counsel for the plaintiff, he asked it the defendant was the kind of husband that any lady would desire to have, or complain of because she had escaped from him? As to breaking off the first intimacy the Learned Counsel had tiai!ed to prove that there was any blame attributable to the de fendant. With respect to his renewing his intercourse with the plaintiff, there was nothing to show that ho was actuated by any bad motive, or that there was anythingben like improper design; for the plaintiff had actuallyhe _ a fortnight in the village, and the defendant as ; been near her father's home until he was called a mitted the he was passing, by one of the sisters. conduct of the defendant had been very e f t o e ol a ish ee ; r b ta u i t n , after all, no one could doubt but thhat,huep time, ho had acted in accordance with feelings of his heart; and, in renewing histninotsitmseineyce, sincere gallusions and im was clear he had given wey pulses which never once lo_akhtenodt those drwtahred fitoretthseerfiuestuoref regarding consequences. W letters prove? Only that the de le f d en g d e a e n t t e , r a na b l o fi y d , , a l n it d y th to e plaintiff, a girl, were ready to p ea ch other; and they m ight as well attempt to forbid the p u l se to move, the beard to grow, or the sun to rev o l ve in its d a ily course, as lt to deter this aer partyoung or poeouprlenaftruorme. form i ng a ttachments. There was one feature in hiscase, and that was ee n , during all this lon g intimacy, no injury had b sustained by the plaintiff at the hands of the defendant ; but, it was probable, that all alon g he contem plated misgivings in hi s m i nd, as thestrain of some of his letters would denote, as to the connexion terminating as it did. Notwithstanding all the foolish and loving expressions made use of, there was an evident doubt in almost every one of those lettots as to the parties ever being married. The Learned Counsel then commented on the impr u . denoe of con tracting marriages when the parties were not in a posi tion to make each other comfortable and happy. The defendant had but a limited practice, in a small villag e, with a salary of 251. a ear as surgeon to the district y Union workhouse, a provision manifestly inadequate for the support o f an establishment. The mother and brother of the defendant were opposed to the marriage, and there were other motives which might induce a re flecting man to pause before entering into a union that might not result in happiness. Because, after all, there must be something to outlast the honeymoon—something to endure a ga i nst su dden and u naccountable fits of ill humour s omething to bear th e pinch of pecuniary means, beside coareless otherltel;iter it;Waansd,she n that really tsv au er y e so, what had the Plain tiff better as she was than contracting a union which she would probably have to regret, when struggl ing w i th the difficulties resulting from it? Was not that a un i on that both might lo ok to a nd recoil from f orming? With respect to the wo und which the feelings of the plaintiff had sustained, be thought that was a very diffi cult t hi ng to estimate in cash. No Not a letter had been prod u c e d to s h ow that the attachment was reciprocal. All the jury had to do, therefore, was to judge of the relative posi tion o f b u tt' parties, and say what was a fair sum to be Paid in com pensation for th e b reach of the contract in question. The jury, after a short consultation, assessed the da mages at 1501. FACTORY DELEGAT E IVIEETING.—There was a meeting of factory delegates at Manchester on Sunday, to consider the Propriety of applying t• Parliament to insert the words " no child" in the Act of 1850, so as to prevent relay working, but ultimately it was determined only to apply to the present Government to better enforce the regu lations of the present Act through the inspector . OLICE INTELLIGENCE. Maria Black WESTMINSTER. with stealing 3 valu a bl e skeleton timepiece from t he drawing room of Mr. Hallebon the Shakspere's H e ad Tavern, an elderly w oman, was charged es Eaton-street, Pimlico. , Maria Pen n i ng, housemaid at th e prosecutor's, said that, seeing the p r i soner leave the drawing - r oom tha t she - f----.. morning, n i i nvrhd h e r down stai rs ; the prisoner, ob serving her, m a d e a dead stop on one side to allow her to pass, and on h r doing ' so w itness's suspicion that something w as wrong was heightened - hehtened by hearing a rattling under the accused's cloak. Witness waited at i the bottom or a minute on her wa as witness co ns idered, to ' y down, , j put down what she had coaled under her cloak, and COll of the stairs, and the accused then stopped RACING FIXTURES FOR 1852• MA Tir.!R „ • Done.,t , r Spring 10 1 Northampton ............ 24 Warwick Spring asterik APRIL. Epiorn Spring Newmarket Craven ... 12 York Spring ........ ... 20 Abergavenny . l5 Milton ................. . 22 Birmingham ... l') I Newmarlut F. 5.......•• 26 MAY. I Bath and Somerset IS I Liverpool 11. ........... 19 Epsom ..................... 25 Wyo ....... ....... 31 glerton Chester Spring Newmarket S. S. Shrewsbury l2 Durham Lenharn J U 2 Manchester 2 E. Newcastle ............. South well Ascot . Beverley ~ Hampton . Newton Bibury 3 I Stockbridge ..••••••.•••' 8 Winchester ............. 25 9 Knighton .................. 25 29 16 Curable .................. ... 16 Ludlow ..................• 30 JULY. 20 Salisbury Newmarket 6l I Worcester Lancaster Liverpool Stamford ................ 20 Nottingham ..............• 21 Knutstord ....... . ••• ••• G o odwood ............... 27 AUGUST. North Staffordshire 3 York ...................... Brighton Great Yarmouth lO Lincoln .................. Reading Warwick __ 7 Doncaster Eglinton Club 2l Bedford Chester Yorkshire Union Hunt 6 Wrexham Newmarket S. 0. Leicester ............... 22 Manchester Autum n •.• 2! Newmarket F. 0. ...•••• 2° Holywell Hunt ........ . 19 I Richmond ...........5 I Newmarket Iloughto NOVEMBER. Worcester Autumn 2 IRISH RACES TO COME APRIL. Curragh... ........................ . ........................... MAY. ............ _ ......................................... JUNE. Cerra gh Kilcook Heath 5 I Ballewstown ............ 4. 10 3"":1 13 '7 1 1 1 a li m nro ..... .. .......................... 2331 Down Royal Corp Pheenix Park Roscommon 17 Curragh BEPTEMBEit. 26 Johnstown 7 I Cashel ................. 21 Cnrragh OCTOBER. 12 I Down Royal Corp •••es 2 1 Limerick THE COUNTRY MARKETS". is corn, The following is the official statement of the s &c., received in th e port o f L on d on from the p 0,170, Es ex, from the Ist Ma rc h, 1852, to the 6th M arch, both inclusive : r; I-!--- vz :az 21 . 43 , 262 ..f llow , • CHELMSFOR D , MARCH s.—P r i ces t o -d a y were -- Wheat, white, 46s to 51s; red, 4')s to 445; barley, 26s to 561; chevalier 28, to 33s ; grinding 21s to 278; mal t 55- to chevalie r 55 s t o 58 s ; oats 18s to 25s ; peas , partridge-, to 30s; wh i t e , 28 8 to 30 s ; b o i l i ng, 29s to 32 5; dun, Ono; to 28s ; bea ns , ti c k, 26 s to 30s ; h arro w ticks, 27s to COL mazaan, 24 to 28s. g CHESTsER, MARCH 6. d Wheat, white 46 5 to 505; re woe to 45s ; oat s , 20 s t o 22 s ; b eans , ma zagan 275 to 2 8 s ; 1" and small 308 to 33 s ; p eas , white 34s to 38s, grey , neVf " 308 ; barley, 30s to 34s per qr. KIRICALDY, MARCY 6.—The following are the quitati °° for grain : Wheat. Barley. First 44s Od 3C5 Od Second 423 Od 28s Od Third 36s Od 24s 6d Oatmeal, per bag of 2801 b _ H A DDINOTON, s.—' grain at our market to-day : Wheat. C01che5ter.....,,.....„ Harwich Leigh Maldon 50 1 121 i 364( 657; p 4 74 696 164 356 1000 Oats. 24s Od 21s fsd 18s Od imperial, he followi -I 17( Beans. Pt —s Od —s Od —s —5 Od —s 30s Od to 31s 0 ng are the price First Second 4ls Id Third ....... ..—...... 35s Od Total quantity of Wheat Do. Barley Do. Oats Do. Beans 1 Barley. oats. Beans. 36s Od 308 Od 402 Oc i , 30s 2d 228 Ild 333 „ A 3 ' 21s Od 208 Od 308 vu,, 'market 7b5 qrs., 700 soil do. 320 qrs., 279 3 01 ,1 do. 95 2 qrs., 670 sol do. 274 qrs., 234 5014 COAL MARKET.—YESTXBDAY. Prices of Coal par ton at the close of the market :-.• Bate's West Hartley 13s 6. Pensher - ................ 15e 1 Carr's Hartley ..... l3s 6 . Russell's Hetton •••• 15s 1 66 9 0 , 1 Hartlepool W. Hartley 13s 6. Scarborough ........... 17 " Od Hasting's Hartley l3s 6d Stewart's - ... -- ••• 05 Od Longridge'sW.Hartley 13s 6d Cassop .... .............. 1 6 ~A Wall's End, Wylam Heugh Hall ... ......... 15 DI Bell and Brown ...... l4s 9d SOUtk Hartlepool ..... 165 , 6 71 zgc. 13s Od Hartlepool . ............. 17: .../.; Hebburn Morrison Northumberland . 14a 06 West Kelloe .•• ••••• 1 4 4 : ~.tiA 'w 13s 3c Brown's Deanery ...... , „A ... ,1 1 223 '''" Riddell Eden Main ...... Bell Belmont lss 0, Nixon's Merthyr and Od Hetton Ships at market, 69 ...... Sold, 45. RAILWAY SHARE MARK ETS ' BISTOL, M 8. STOCK EXCHANGE R . —There was Ancu an improved feeling 6 , 1. hibited in the sha re mar k e t to-day, and a good busin*:: f h e a l s tel b v e : e l n BdornisetealtaanddvEanxceetderp,rBic7eihs. exTdhiev.tLaTnsaaffetivonalsetwlrbo...."- West Cornwall, 5 dis. LIVERPOOL, 11Liach 8. an naa Wlist STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business to -day was - • j., limited in amount, but prices generally were well sustaT.tt pool, Lancashire Crosby, The transactions were as follow:—Caledonian, 16%--.'"1",, 16 and Southport, New Preference, 4% per cent /4—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 69 1 4 —Li ! er North Britoil, 7 South-Eastern and Dover, 20 ~ s" . MANCHESTER. MARCH 8. 18%1/2 —Midland, STOCK EXCHANGE. —The share market opene. ..0- - a mount d a fair this morning, but afterwards improved, an 9 The transactiokn. of business was done at better prices. 58:-.-; Diviittiotv were as follow :—Caledonian, 16a/, —Lancashire and Yor shire, 69;4 —Ditto Fifths, 6% d is.—Di tto ( West Riding Union), 4 , 4, dis.—Manchester, , Sheffield, and Lincolnshire; 31%—Midland, 58;4—South -Eastern and Do ver, 20;s P -- Lot t O Anglian, 7 per cent., 2 . Ditto, 6 per cent.,_3 3-16—r., th British, 0 ' and Wyre, 44%- Ditto, Halves, 874 p.--Norl SEABORNE MAIL S. tiq abgnifles that the malls are sent front the General Post-olici by the night—and Mby th e morning front Lus•••—•••-•" 0 up in 1 From what when dig. Ninon PLACES- Genera l Post-office,' port London. I patChed. due. _____—.-- ------- _-..- .---.------ ----- i A me rica (by Brit. pktt.,)NNi4Maarrcchli 9 12 .... .... lu Ll v v e e no rpo ooi ol ... Much h ed ii America (by U.S. Pk - " dr3lareh'l7 .. . U.S. 2.7114 th of the monti; p s l o lyr uth - o a a ni th pt.. 3i M ar u ar c e ri b t. l: .. 1 . 1 _l9th . & 30th of mo. Dover .. Marcel '- America (by .t.): : : : M l 4 9 -u th su o Y f the month So th t lam b ' .. M 9th of the month " Z uv t e h r a am mp P ; : . Mar ch3DallY i 66 Africa (driWae..5...t.c.0...7.... Belgium l3 A r ba nz zan i Cl3aulcifno°niii A is Yr (vilChagres)M 2cl & 17th of montb'Southampt. March ; Cape of Good Hope N 14th of month Plymouth• • Mare' -. Constantinople* .. •• Nlth 1 7th27th efmo Dover .. March Iv ... ... k . r 8„ . 3 I N N T i l l 1 1 7 1 i i h n c ' e o ' f W d the ai e i d . m , Central America .. 711 1 2 d & 17th of mon. Southampt. March 5 C , 2‘hhranilaincn:l. Isi..es: Greece* .. .. .&.o.Fthri.,DsoSoouuvttehkrampp.tt... Ti. Twimgre ce T h h d . ali F f s N 7th 17t/i2 y - - March 10 Hamburgh .. .. il l_ es 7th of mo Dover Sat. Holland .. .. , Tb day & Friday 'London • • Ties* Men Thur M Wednea. & Satan London .. • • .. Honduras • • '• • N 17th of the month'Southampt. March 2u Ireland India (via Southam .M & N Twice daily .. ..IHolyhead.. Tvr1~1,....-,.. IL) XI 20th of tho monthSouthanaPt. March 3 L India (viaMarsailles) N lith& 24th efmonth Dover .. Arrived Mediterranean (via S ' authansnto ri) .. M 20th of the month Sonthampt. March Mediterianenn (via Mexico .. 2d of tho month.. Sout ham p t. March 5 Marseilles) .. N Sth&24tltofmonth D over .. Arrived Madeira .. .. .. M 9th of the month Southampt. March Malta* „ „ •• •• ij7tlo7thtliOlf9t in ti o , n 2 t 7 i Naples* tjh } Dover March 10 N sth 15th 25 th ofme Dover .. March 12 .• .1.4 sth 15th 25th ofmo Dover .. March 12 Papal States* •• •• Peninsular.. • • • • m 7th 17th 27th of mo Southampt. March lti Peru .. .. • , m 17th of the month southampt. March 2 0 • • Tuscany* „ is' sth 15th 25th of mo Dover •• (March 12 West Indies •.• • .. ~ M 17th of the mouth Southampt. March 25 Naples* .. •• •• Papal States* •• •• - 4; Peninsular.. •• " MMi Peru •• " Tuscany* .• •• •• West West Indieslndies,t Havanna N (. as i s w au P ) t :2d of the month .. ISouthanapt.lMarch 5 * The mails to those c ountrics thus marked (*) are c o nveyed br French packet via Marseilles. The Cape of Good Hope mails will be made up on the evening March 15, in consequence of the 14th falling on a Sunday. CALINORNIA. — MaIIs to and from Calitornia, vsa the United Stato are now despatched and due by every American packet BIRTHS. OF • BON. On the sth i ns t., th e w if e o f John Greenwood Esq.' Q. C., Chester-square. On the sth inst., at Hanover-terrace, Regent's-park, the wife of George Paton, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn. OF A DAUGHTKE. On the 6th inst., at her Majesty's Mint, Mrs. Henry William Field. On the 2d inst., at Southampton, the wife of John H• Forrest, Esq. AIARRIED. On the 4th inst., at Dauntsey, Major Exham Schomberg Turner Swyny, 63d Regiment, to Bertha, second daughter of the Rev. George Augustus Biedermann, M.A., rector of Dauntsey, Wilts. On the 4th inst., at the Church of St. Mary, Wittlesea , Robert Charles Scott, Esq., her Majesty's ship Intrepid, to Mary Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late Rev. Richard H. Sinclair, vicar of Cashel. DIED. On the sth inst., at Tyneham, Dorsetshire, aged 95, the Rev. William Bond, rector of Steeple-with-Tyneham , and canon of Bristol Cathedral. On the sth inst., at Bayswa ter, Caroline , wife of C a p tain Henry G. C. Plowden, 9th Beng al Light Cavalry. On the 4th inst., at St. Leonard's, James, younge st son of the late E. Boyd, Esq. , of Merton-hall, Wigtonshire, N•B• On the sth inst. , a t Iv y -villa, U pper Norw ood, Surrey, Harriet, the wife of 11. Heifer, of Walnut-tree-walk, La mbeth. On the sth inst., at the Gran g e, Hadlow , Kent, Frederick Bowman, Esq., aged 77. London: Printed and published by MIIIIDO YOUNG, of No. 112, S tra nd, Printer , at Th e Sun Offi ce, No. 112, Strand, in Viv Preanct of the Savoy, in the county of Middlesex, Tuesday, March 9, 1842, 1‘ r, ~,:~