The Sun. — London, England, 1848-02-03 00:00:00

PRESENT STATE OF SWITZERLAND. New ready, and to be had of all Booksellers, in 2 vols., poet Bvo., 211. SWITZERLAND IN 1847. With an Account 4f ITS CONDITION BEFORE THE WAR, By T. MUGGE. Esq. Edited by Mrs. PERCY SINNETT. Itiehard Bentley, New Burlington•street, (Iritbaskor to Ordlfuiry to her Majesty). Jet ready, In I rel., I Os. &1., 11.1.1(13LIS IN TIER IitOWLICTIC RUION OF TH E MOUNTAINS. By HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSig. Author of "The Improvisatore." Tiaaalaited, under the Superintendence of the Author, By C. RECK WITH. Bloaard Bentley, New Burlington-great, (Publisher ha Ordinary to her Majesty). SUM HOWITT. loot rowdy, In I TOIL post STO., T io P.BASA.NT and his LANDLORD. =OIL HUN *WIDISH. By M. HOWIET. EMAIL Noadow, Now larlingtos.ofroot. Now midi, in 2 ♦ols.. with Portrait, 211. bound, IQIIMINISCENCES OF PRINCE TALLEYRAND , With IXTRACTS FROM HIS POLITICII WRITINGS. laary Cullman, tublisher, 13, Great Marlborough-strest. BEIPTAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE, Betabliaked la 1147 Per the purpose of rendering a more perfect per f orianaata( Sim Veil drama than had hitherto been attained In this sowEry. The Gentry, S u beeribers, sad Patrons of Music are re- Inrmed that the IIE AION (1e48) will COMMENCE the et th week to Marsh, to the Revs and commodious edifice ooustrusted las year. OPREA, fir a pre4aetiost of the established works by the great masters of every school, fir the effectiTe representation of the repertoire of se- Notre* Operas m4nted last season, and of compositions to be heard Ayr tie neat time in this country, engagemenis have been already raed1"1111 eminent artistes FRIMI ltde. Grisi, and Idde. Persfani, MU. Ronconi, lidlle,Steffanini, and /fele,. Casten= (her first appearance), CesOnel. Mane. Inglellna ZoJa (of the Scala la Milan, her first appearance in this country), and Mihs. Paslme Garcia Viardot (her first appearance). CONTRALTO. Mademoiselle Athol'. TINORI. Signor MOlrlo, and Signor Saivi, Signet Sank Signor Luigi Mei (hem Scala, hiS first appearance In this country), and If. finger (et the Academie Royale de Musique, and of the Opera asindyte, in Paris, his first appearance in this country). PRIMI BASSI BARITONI. Signer Tamburini and Signor Roneoni. PRIMI BASSI PROFONDI. Signor Marini. (The ratification of the engagement if Signor ("or- Lull-84W, the celebrated basso, is daily expected). BASSO COMICO. Signer Agostino Revere. ALTRI PRIMI BASSI. Ivor Taglietoo and Signor Polonini. rado Tenore—Signer Soldi (from the Sea ls). Dirutothe Music, Composer, and Conductor —air. Costa. Mho Orchestra, comprising the distinguished professors of last season, will be increased by additional artistes ; the names of the instnusentalista forming the entire orchestra will bo published ln:a Uteri, pr2speetas. Th e Military Band, whisk has also been increased, will be saler the direetisa et Hr. Godfrey, band-muter of the Coldstream% ginards. The powerful and Armstrong Chorus of last year will be further grenathened by 14 chosen and experienced singers, and will number 111 voices—namely, 40 ladies, and b 2 male voices. Chorus Master— Signer Bosesnsiglie. Poet and Translator of the Libretti—Signor lia,ggisal. Prompter—Signor Monterui. TIIE BALLET. Wks rule which gave such satisfaction to the musical public last season, that no divertissement should be suffered between the acts of operas, will be strictly adhered to. The performance* will terminate with a ballet. Daring the season the follewing eminent danseuses will appear : Mde. Flora Fabisri (her first appearance), Mdlle. Leopoldine Arent (premiere da.nsease of the Imperial Theatre in Vienna, her first appearance in this country), Mdlle. Elisabeth Robert (premiere dansease of the ♦cademic Royale de Musique in Paris, her first ap pearasee is this country), Malls. Camille (her first appearance t'or fear years), Mdlle. Thierry, of the Fenice, in Venice (her first ap pearance In this country), Mdlle. Laugher, of the Scala (her first ap pearance in this country), Mdlle. Celest Stephan, Mdlle. Honors (her first appearance), and lidlle. Lucile Grahn (her first appearance). M. likilvain and M. Bretin (their first appearances), M. Goalie, &e., mg a attraereus body of Coryphees, ?magnetises and Figurantes. Maitre de Ballet—M. Appiani (from the principal theatres Ix i'laly, Frames, and Belgium). Itegisseur fie la Danse—M. O'llrvan. Leader of be Ballet—M. Alfred Mellon. Composer—Signor Iteleata. The scenery ►y Messrs. Grieve and Teibin. Premiere Artiste Cos tuosiere—Mrs. A. Bailey. legagements are pending with other distingaished artistes for opera and ballet. I detailed Preepeetus, with the arrangements for the season, will be ready in a few days, and may then be obtained at the Box-office (eelner of Bew-street and Hart-street), and at the principal libraries mot mast* publishers. loyal Italian Opera. Covent -garden. Jan. 22, 1341. TREATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Ea i.r the Management of Mr. B. Webster. sole Lessee. MA. Alla MM. CHARLES KEAN. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new and original Play, entitled THE WIFE'S IieNCRIT. Lord Arden, Mr. Howe; Sir Walter Arayett, Mr. Searles Kean ; Jabea Sneed, Mr. Webster ; Harrington, Mr. Erin dell I Bronillard, Mr. Rogers ; Lady IL - reline trayott, Mrs. Charles *Kean t Maud Mrs. Keeley. After wisic.h. a sew Farce, called DEARF.ST ELIZABETH. Mr. Menet LAK, Mr. Keeley ; Mr. Winch, Mr. Rogers ; Betsy, Mrs. ICeeley. eenettids with a New and Original Burlesque Spectacle entitled YEN WORLD UNDERGROUND; sr, tie Ctelden. Flute and the limazeat Waters. ziaa.34 M *sager, Mr. Fanen; Acting Manager, Mr. F. Webster. J. T. Archer, P.ox-book keeper. Ewes, Is. ; Pit, is. ; Gallery, 25. ; Upper Gallery, Is. 14 - ox's open at half-past nix, Performance to oresnmence at Seven. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. tinder the direction of Madame Celeste. Tills EVENING Will he presented aft entirely new Piece, entitled the PEARL OF TEX t)CEAN ; or, the Prince and the Mermaiden. Principal chu rasters by Mason. Kaye, P. Bedford, Wright, Munyard, Gleriaire, Conenferd, and Worrell ; Miss Woolgar, Miss Emma Harding, Miss dlleu Chaplin, Mrs. Laws, and Madame Celeste. T. be followed by a now aid original Farce, entitled OUR NA TIONAL DRTENCOS ; or, the Cockshot Ygynatiry. Principal eharaeters by Messrs. Lambert, Wright, P. Bed, Sanders ; Ma dame Celeste, Miss Emma Harding, Mrs. Laws, and Miss Woolgar. 're condade with A NABOB FOR AN HOUR. Isexes, 45.; Pit, 2e. Gallery, le. I ‘tora ol,ea at Halt-past Sla, Performance to commence at Seven. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestris. ►ole Lessee, Mr. Charles ➢latkews. THIS EVENING Will be performed a Gamic Drama. ("Med A ROUGH DIAMOND. Characters by Mows. Selby, Diddear, Bellingham, Luckstone; Mrs. Leigh Murray, and Mrs. After welch, a liew fairy Extravaganza, entitled TILE GOLDEN Brutal'. Principal characters by Messrs. H. Hall, Harley, Kee ridge, Madame Yeetris, Miss IL Fitzwilliam, and Mrs. Macnamara. To conslude with a Romance of Real Life, called BOX and COX. Principal characters by Mr. Harley, Mr. Buckatone, and Mrs. Mac. nanutra. Drees Boxes, is.; 'Upper Boxes, 45.; 24. ; Gallery, Is. No salt•prlce-to any part of the house. The Sow Boxroffiee, No. 2, Wellington-street, is epees to the Public; every day, from Ten till Six. The Interior of the House has been entirely re-designed by Mr. W. Bradwell of the Colosseum. FR PINCH M.A. - I'B.—ST. JAMES'S TIIEATRE. Lessee, Mr. John Mitchell, 33, Old Bond-street. MONS. BOCAGE'S BEgEFIT. TO-MORROW EVENING, :Tho Entertainments will commence at Half-past SeTel, with A new Comedie-vaudeville entitled UN YOEU DE .YEUNEA VILLEi. Pictielin, M. Tourillon ; Octave, M. Montaland ; Andre, M. Joiset ; Cecile, Mdlle. 3larot ; Fanchette, Mdlle. Elise Grange. Attar which,liere's Comedic of LE TARTUFFE. La Tartufro, Ltocage. To conclude with LES DEUX MENAGES. Bourdeuil, M. Bocago. Boxes, stalls, tickets, and season prospectuses, may be had at Mr. MITCHMLL'S Royal Library, 113, Old linad•street. I•,,.)xes„ 6s. ; C. 6d.; Amphitheatra, 3e. ; Gallery, 2s PRINCESS'S THEATRE. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager, Duchess-street, Portland. place. Madame ANNA THILLON. THIS EVENING WI be prosonbed a new and original Operetta, entitled The TONG GYARD. Diu Guzman, Mr. Beckda; Don Aloarez, Mr. parker ; Donna °Maple, Miss eiara Flower ; Zetella, lirdaine Anna Thlllon. Afton wkiab. a new semis Drama, called MT iIISTER'S 6ECRET. To be followed by a new Cornic Piece, entitled THE SULTANA. Sly isea , Mr. Ryder ; °amyl!, Mr. Compton ; Tuseph, Mr. Henry ; Roxalana, Mada' Anna Thillon; Elmira, Miss Villars ; Ismona, atlas Hodson. co eonclude With a new Christmas Pantomime, entitled OLD FATlililt T/113; or, Harlequin and the Four Seasons. Drew. Circle, 55.: Boxes, as.; Pit, he. ; Gallery, la. ROYAL SURREI"PHEATRE. Leuee, Mrs. F. Dr.Tidge, Kenshigtou-read, Sunray. ndir Manugenieet •f Mr. Bunn TALA ETENING, the performances will commence with the ►Nlebratel Opera or T 111 DA IFGH TE I{ OF Tlll It FAS ME NT. Ckaraeters by Messrs. H. Phillips, King, H•rncastle, Rafter, Att wood, M`Hak•n, and Miss Pools. To ooaclido with a uew Pantomime, entitled RATTLEDOOR aod SHUTTLICOCK ; •r, Hahequin Trap, Riot, and Rail. ♦ ,r,seinet entrance to the private boxes has been made (which have been re-tilted). Private boxes may be had nightly of all the principal Librarians ; *ad at the Box-etlize e the Theatre, which Is epee daily hen Ten until Four. Boise, 2s. ; Pit. is• ; Gallery, ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will ho Derfeimod JANIE EYRIE ; or, the Secrets of Thornfield Manor. cisi al characters by Messrs. Hicks, Dale, Searle, Ilig -2.r1.116 , Vincent, Mrs. G. Lee, and Miss Burrougheliffe. To oqiiell4 with the grand scholastic and instructive Pantomime, entitledkllltt WORLD OF WONDERS ; or, Harlequin Caxton and the Origin of Printing, with wonderful scenery and decorative ap pointments. Clown, Mr. Paul Herring ; Pantaloon, Mr. Morelli ; Hsrlegals, M. Lupine 6prite, Signor Moline; Columbine, Mdlle. s.utllli. — Bozos, r.. ; Pit, ad. ; Gallery, 4d. No llall-price to any part et the ileum Doan epee at six, to coraraeaes at Half-past Six. ASTLEY'ii ROYAL AMPUITIIEATBE, Proprietor and Manager, Mr. William Batty. Mr. Batty's performing Elephants. THIS EVENING The Grani Spectacle of THU CAMP OF SILESIA. Entirely new Scenes in the Arena, by the talented Artistes of the Establishment, in the various modes of equestratioi. To eons/tide with a Grand Equestrian Comic Pantomime entitled HARLIAQUIN DOCTOR STIITAX AND HIS DAPPER GREY WARR, in which those popular artistes Herr Dentin, lldlle. Theo dore, Mr. Anderson, and Mr. liradbitl7, as Harlequin, Columbine, Clown, eat Pantaloon, which will exceed in spleadoar and effect all former productions at the Amphitheatre , Bea-office open from 11 till 5 "VAC and Stage Manager, Mr. W West. TWIG v. VISCOUNT PALMEBSTON.—At the West minster County Court yesterday, an action was brought by the plaintiff, a coach wheelwright, against the Right . Hon. Lord Palmerston, M.P., to recover • the sum of 171. 109. for work and labour done for his Lordship. — No answer being given to the thrice-repeated summons of the bailiff for his Lordship to appear, the case was ordered to proceed. There appeared for the plaintiff an attorney's clerk, whom the judge refused to hear.— Glass, the officer of the court, said he left the summons with the man servant at his Lordship's house in Carlton gardeea. The servant tub' him his iLordship was in town, and he would give it him immediately. The Judge to the plaintiff—Flare you had any communication from his Lordship since the summons?—Plaintiff said ho had not, and proceeded to state th at h e sued h i s Lordship for work done i n making and repairing wheels for his car riage during the years 1842 and 1843. H ad the orders direct from his Lordship's own mouth at his residence in Carlton-gardens. It was in the early part of 1842 that his Lordship gave the order for one portion of the work. Had man) times applied for payment, but never had a chance of seeing his Lordship. Had written to him and sent in two or three bills, but had never had an answer. The Learned Judge, having carefully examined the entries in the plaintiff's books, made an order on his Lordship to pay the debt and costs on the 16th inst. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MEETING of PA RI lAMENT :11! WEATHER.—SIIN OFFICE, FEB. 3. rLIERNONETER, Lowest, 31 ; Highest, 41 ; Noon, 41. BAROMETER, 30.4.—W1ND S.S.W. ; fine. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning.. 39 minutes after 12. J Evening .. 3 minutes after 1. mand for labour is, comparatively speaking, small. IVe shall return to this subject on some future occa sion. There are many persons who consider that no measure of relief can be effectual, or that prosperity cannot be restored to—perhaps we should say intro duced into—lreland, until a considerable portion of what is termed the surplus population are removed to other lands. Emigration on a large and extensive scale is regarded as the principal cure for her grievances, the safety-valve by which the dangerous elements may be suffered to escape and evaporate, and the social relations of the different classes in that country may be brought into a healthy condition. It is hardly necessary to say that we do not agree with the parties who press the argument to this extent, who desire the wholesale expatriation of the myriads that would be required to seek their fortunes in other climes, in order to make any important change in the position and prospects of Ireland. The persons of whom the great majority of the pilgrims have hitherto consisted—the enterprising, the hardy, and the industrious men, who are ready to undergo any hardships and vicissitudes in pursuit of that inde pendence which is denied to them in their native land, who have realised sufficient funds, the produce of their own exertion, to defray the expenses of their passage and settlement—are precisely those whom it would be most desirable to retain at home, and whose energies should be directed into profitable channels, on which they might be expended with benefit to themselves and advantage to the community in general. They constitute the thews and sinews of the nation, and should be encouraged by every practicable means. It cannot be said that there are not ample opportunities for the beneficial employ ment of those persons. Four millions of acres of land, now lying waste and unproductive, but which might readily be converted into valuable arable and pasture, so as to return fully ten per cent. on the necessary outlay, and thirteen millions of acres nominally under tillage, but whose produce might be doubled, if not quadrupled, by judicious cultivation and the proper application of the labour that is so cheap and abundant in every locality, afford the strongest evidence of the real facts, and that all that is required is the due development of the industrial resources of the country. It is certain, however, that there are some districts that would be materially benefited by the removal of a portion of their inhabitants, from which a certain extent of voluntary emigration must be expected, and it is desirable to ascertain in what manner that emigration may take place most advantageously :for the parties themselves, and for the nation of which they are citizens. They may be obliged to leave our shores, but the feeling of brotherhood should still be main tained ; and although they may dwell in another hemisphere they should remain under the protection of the British flag, and still be united under the same Government with ourselves, if they are compelled to depart from the parent State. We have colonies where they may be received, and where they may find a shelter and a refuge without changing or repudiating their allegiance to the SOYBREIIIN of the British Empire. When such a necessity arises we should endeavour rather to encourage colonization than a total departure from our laws and institutions ; and if it can be shown that emigration must take place, it should be directed by every legitimate means towards those British settlements where labour is still in demand, where their arrival may prove advantageous to those who have already settled there, and where there is an abundant supply of land yt_lt unappropriated, so that every in dustrious man may have a reasonable hope that, by a steady attention to the employment he may obtain, and honest and upright conduct, he may gratify his ambition by himself becoming, at a future period, the proprietor of an extensive and profitable farm. In all these particulars Australia possesses extra ordinary advantages over any other colony or coun try that could be indicated. There is full and ample employment for every individual who may arrive at any of its ports. The wages of every description of labour are highly remunerative. Any skilful mechanic or agriculturist is certain of obtesning a salary that, in a brief period, will place him in a situation of comfort and indepundence; white even the unskilled labourer, one of that class who. would consider himself happy if he could pro cure permanent employment in Ireland at 4s. or Ss. per week, will, between money wages and rations readily obtain that amount daily, and will be enabled, themfore, to procure luxuries and comforts which at house would cost at least 801. or 1001. per annum. The increase of his family, which in this coun try 'would be felt as a peculiar difficulty, would there. be a source of wealth, every one, even at an early age, being enabled to contribute to th e common stock, and add his portion to the gene ral fi und. rne emigrant, however, would not be the only person benefited ; the welfare of the present in habitants of the colony would be materially advanced by an additional amoant of labour being placed at thei9• disposal, and by finding a means of disposing of the ;provisions that are now wasted for want of con sumers. It was stated last year in the Legislative Asstlmbly of New South Wales, and we believe with truth , " that no less than 64,000,000 lbs. of meat would be wasted this year, sufficient to feed 1,100,000 of those poor persons who were starving in England and Ireland." The statistics of the country will prove that this statement cannot be greatly exaggerated. There are but 180,000 inhah itants, while there are more than 2,000,000 of cat tle, and 8,000,000 of sheep, or 18 oxen and 50 sheep for each individual. We cannot here help ex tractling from a memorial addressed to Lord Jona Russ um. by a coramitte• of noblemen and gentlemen, corati'tuted in the month of December last, for the purpo. ►e of advancing colonization on judicious prin ciples tY - Irough the exertions of a gentleman, Mr. E. L. Bot.-.D, to whom the Australian colonies are already deeply i ndebted. They state—" The superabundance of food is wasted for want of mouths. The corn is shed for lack of reapers, the wool is injured for want of shear ers, and, consequently, all descriptions of produce , either perish or are greatly depreciated, both in quan t. ity and value ; herds of cattle are boiled down' tr.c it tallow there, while thousands are perishing for want; of food here; there the meat is wasted, here the men are wasting. Human skeletons pine here for what fret tened dogs reject there. The balance be tween fut .d and population is unequal at home—it is as uneqt c d in New South Wales—but it is the other way. La like manner the scales of labour and em ployment; are uneven here—they are as uneven at the antipodes.., but in the opposite direction. Here labour is b oo plentiful—there it is as much too scarce. We have • tried and failed to convey the food to the starving n an, therefore convey the starving man to his food, th fa labourer to his hire, and you may restore the lost ball tnce. We are t enable to enter more fully this day into the contemta of this able memorial, which, with the resolutions 2 adopted, and the names of the committee, have been pi iblished under the title of " Competence in s Colony,. contrasted with Poverty at Home." We most heartily recommend it to the attentive consi deration of tl le public, convinced that it must bring conviction to every unprejudiced mind of the superior advantages possessed by Australian over American emigration. A letter i iom Rome of the 21st January announces that Cardin Ll FERRETTI had quitted that city. The King' of SARDINIA has issued a decree con voking the U ouncil of State to meet on the 15th of March. A letter iv ern Naples, of the 25th January, says— " The concev ,ions granted by the King of NAPLES, both to Napl4 a and Sicily, have produced no effect. On the walla of the capital were found written in large types, 'a In yr, tardi' (it is too late). It is the Tfeue, rnene, 7'ek el, upharsin of the Neapolitan royalty. Some well. inter itioned persons are determined to force the KING t A ab ( ll;cate, to constitute a regency pending the minori ity oi r the hereditary Prince, Duke of CALABRIA,, q h o i only twelve years old, and to pro claim a liber: Al constitution for the Neapolitans and the Sicilians, Yesterday the people of Salerno com mitted atroci ties; they killed gendarmes, sbirri, and their abettors , spies, without mercy. The soldiers made a very weak resistance, and whilst they withdrew from the tow, n the people en masse followed them, crying out, they Should consider well what they were about on their march to Naples, and that if they did not join the general movement they should be treated as the gendarmes. There is a more remarkable fact worth our conside ration. It is in itself a principle of order, and capable of giving the degree of the measure of confidence that the Sicilians have in their revolution. It is the har mony, union, and wisdom of the armed populations. It is the integrity and wisdom of the members of the Provisional Government; and the natural consequence of all this compact of order and wisdom is that, at the very moment in which all private deposits are withdrawn from the Royal Bank of Naples, and that the greatest consternation and anxiety reign in the trade of that capital, the Bank of Palermo, on the contrary, has experienced not the least fluctuation ; the deposits have certainly not increased, but in no way , diminished since the first breaking out of the insur- rection. " Thus it happens that in Sicily, where power is in the hands of the people, no excess has been committed, order and confidence have not been for a single in stant troubled—in a word, the greatest security reigns everywhere—and in Naples, where power is still in the hands of a regular and acknowledged Government, where material order has not yet been troubled, the panic is general—money withdrawn from the circula tion, financial operations suspended, and all deposits withdrawn from the Royal Bank. " The key to the enigma is this—the Neapolitans have not forgotten that FIIIIDINAND 1., in 1806, flying from the French, made (what is called) main basse on the deposits of the public funds, on the Royal Bank, and other financial establishments, without sparing the funds of the clergy deposited in the churches of Naples." Madrid papers of the 27th ult. have arrived. It would appear from the following extract from the Clamor Public() that, so far from the Carlist out break in Catalonia having been put down, as was somewhat bombastically announced by General PAvIA, in his dispatch to NARVIEZ, which was presented by the latter to the Chambers, it is of much greater importance than we have hitherto been led to imagine. The Clamor Publico says —" The order communicated by the Deputy Governor-General of Catalonia to the editors of the journals of Barcelona, that they must abstain from publishing any news of the Montemolinist bands which shall not have been previously inserted in the official reports of the Captain-General to' the Minister of War, is the cause of our comparative ignorance of what is going on in the province, and prevents us from cor roborating or contradicting positively the reports fur nished us in the letters of our private correspondents. The Government wish to make it appear to the country that the Montemolinist bands are completely exterminated, and in their ridiculous and rash at tempts to pass off that as true which every one knows to be false, they unscrupulously resort to any means that they think likely to enable them to attain their object." The Government is on the eve of closing an ar rangement with the Bank of San Fernando, by which that establishment will receive the revenues, and supply the Government with 1,283 millions of reals, being the amount of the reduced estimates. MADRID BOLSA, JAN. 27.—The Three per Cents. closed at 27f cash, and at 11-16 at fifty days ; and were 5-16 f cash after the close. Five per Cents., 16k cash ; 16i at fifty days. Passive Debt, 51 buyers ; I sellers. Exchange on London, 48. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. The debate on Tuesday in the Chamber of Depu ties was unexpectedly adjourned, in consequence of the inability of MM. TREES and GulzoT to address the Chamber, as they had not recovered from the fatigue of the discussion of the day preceding. This unexpected postponement of the discussion was a great disappointment to the numerous strangers who filled the galleries, and who had hoped to hear M. Timms and M. GulzoT speak on the affairs of Swit zerland. Among the disappointed were the Duc DR MONTPENSIER and the Duchesses of ORLEANS and NEMOURS, who had come to the Chambers expressly to hear the speeches of these great orators. From the Ist February corn imported into France is subject to the ordinary duties, the free importation having ceased on the 31st January. A telegraphic dispatch has been received in Paris, announcing that on the 29th ult. the constitution of 1812 for Naples and Sicily had been proclaimed at Naples by the command of the KING, who has yielded to everything they demanded of him. The debate on the Address was resumed in the Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday. It was on the paragraph relating to Switzerland. M. Tullius opened the discussion, and had not concluded at the hour of post. The Union illonarcitique says —" We are assured that the ordinance, which calls the Marshal Duke is'lsLv to the Ministry of War, in the place of General TREZEL, has been lying for the signature of Louis PHILIPPE since Tuesday." Lieutenant-General PAIXHANS has, at his own retuest, been placed upon the reserved list. Having always been of opinion that aged officers should retire to make room for those more fit for active service, and having expressed this sentiment in the Committee which prepared the law on the general staff of the army, he has resigned his situation as Member of the Committee of Artillery. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse yesterday at 74f. 30c.; New Loan, 75f. 15c. ; Five per Cents., 1161. 57c.; Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,185 f. ; Rouen, 905 f. ; Havre, 445 f.; Great North ern, 1321. 50c.; Avignon, 552 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux, 4t6f. 25c.; Troyes and Montereau, 240 f. ; Basle 158 f. 75e. ; Paris and Strasburg, 407 f. 50c.; Tours and Nantes, 3861. 25c.; Paris and Lyons, 390 f.; Spanish Three per Cents., SO ; ditto Domestic Debt, 24i ; ditto Passive, 4i. BUSINSSS DONS IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT Till LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, FM. L. Boulogne and Amiens, It4—Northers of France, 11M DINNER TO ME. DAVID SALOMONS, By THE Cooreas' CoatraNv.—On Tuesday the master and wardens and court of assistants gave a splendid enter tainment at the London Tavern, as a compliment to their brother, Mr. David Salomons, on the occasion of his re cent election and admission to the office of an alderman of the city of London, Mr. Salomons being the first of the Jewish nation admitted to that situation. Mr. Firth, the master of the company, presided, and was supported by the Lord Mayor and Mr. John Masterman, M.P. Among the numerous company were Aldermen Johnson and Farncomb, Sir Felix Booth, Bart., Mr. P. J. Salo mons, Mr. A. Goldsmid, Mr. P. Salomons, Mr. S. Samuel, Sergeant Merewether (the Town Clerk), Under sheriff Wire, Mr. Bunning, the city of London architect, and the Common Council of the Ward of Cordwainers, of which Mr. D. Salomons is alderman. The several toasts were warmly responded to, and the company enjoyed all the good things to a late hour. SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL SOCIETY. -- Yesterday the annual meeting of governors of this society was held at the offices, King William-street ; John Labouchere, Esq., in the chair. The minutes for the last quarter having been confirmed, the report was read, from which it appeared that the admission of cases of typhus fever continued, particularly from colliers, the cause of which was referred to the want of cleanliness on board these vessels. The committee regretted that, notwithstanding the Act of the 7th and Bth Vic., c. 112, the health of seamen suffered from the effects of scurvy, and deplored that it was occasionally treated with indifference by the masters of ships, who frequently substituted un wholesome compounds for lime or lemon juice. The Dreadnought having sprung a leak in November last, it would be necessary to dock the ship next spring. The committee acknowledge the receipt of seventy five pounds, being a portion of the sum left for charitable purposes by Ibrahim Pacha ; also 3 11 3 /. 6s. Bd. from the Cape of Good Hope, b e i ng a moiety of penalties under the Act of the 7 and $ Vic. The sum of 2,1311. 13s. 9d. Reduced Stock, bequeathed by the late Robert Lowrey, was transferred in the names of the trustees. The late Lieatenant-Colonel Furchas has left one-thirteenth of his eats to to the hospital. In conclusion, the committee called upon the friends of the society to continue their exertions in its favour. The number of patients admitted during the last year was 2,712; discharged cured, 1,311; convalescent, 679; re lieved, 58; not cured, 26; out-patients admitted, 1,941, of whom 92 were completely clothed after being cured. 84,238 had been relieved since the establishment of the hospital. The total receipts for the year amounted to 9,025 L 13s. 9d., out of which there remained a balance of 1721. 19s. The report and accounts were received. Keying, the Imperial Commissioner to the Emperor of China, was elected a vice-president. The other officers of the society were then appointed, after which the meeting separated. QUEEN'S THEATRE, HULL.--This place opens on the Ist of March, under Mr. Egerton's spirited manage ment, and with nearly the whole of the old favourites. Rumour says that the justly admire d tragedian, G. V. Brooke, is to attend at the opening of the campaign; he will doubtless have a hearty reception from his many warm friends and admirers. Mr. Macready has been starring it for two nights at the Hull Theatre-Royal, in the characters of Hamlet and of Richelieu, and we are happy to say the house was literally crammed both nights. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO 7'HREE, The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was firm. Sales 9,000 to 10,000 bales, including 8,000 bales of American at 41d. to aid. per lb. Spinners were free buyers, and the price of American was id. per lb. higher than last week.—Railway Shares were active, and there was a general improvement in prices. At Messrs. Lamond ;and Co.'s sale yesterday a good business was done. The following are a few of the principal quotations:— Eastern Counties ... •• Birmingham and Oxford Junction .. 24 0 0 Aberdeen Madrid and Valencia. Caledonian 35 19 0 Lend., Brighton, & South Coast ...... 42 0 0 Edinburgh and Glasgow Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 7 15 0 London and Blackwell, Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A) 4 8 • North Staffordshire Buckinghamshire ... 10 2 0 Cornwall 0 10 0 Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston 0 7 6 There are arrivals to-day from various quarters, in cluding the Cape of Good Hope, with papers to Dec. 4, and Buenos Ayres to Nov. 6, and the West Indies. There had been nothing decisive at the Cape, but the troops had moved across the river Kei, and Sir Harry Smith had arrived out. The state of trade at Buenos Ayres was very dull as regards produce and imports. The exchange was at 2d. on England. Ships continued daily to evade the French blockade. At Monte Video affairs remained without particular alteration. The reports from► the West India islands, of which the substance is given elsewhere, are satisfactory on the whole in respect to the weather, but we cannot expect news of a cheerful character in other respects, because money continued dear in the colonies, and produce at home is cheap. The continental accounts are more satisfactory in respect to mercantile matters, and from Italy the ad vices are of an important character, the Constitution of 1812 having been granted. The funds have been rather flat again, but are now better on account of the news from Italy. Consols opened at 88i, and have since been 1181- to 19. Time bargains have been effected at 88i to 89k. Exchequer bills have been rather lower, ♦iz. 335. to 40s. premium. Bank Stock is worth 200 to 202, and.lndia Stock 243. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have realised 611- to 90i. Spanish Active Bonds have been 214 to 22, and the Three per Cents. 32. Portuguese Small Bonds are at 281. Mexican Stock has realised 182- to 19. Chilian Bonds are at 92. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been 54 to There is a firm market for Railway Shares, but prices are not generally higher. ONI: CLOSING PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES Bank Stock 202 200 200 3 per Cent. Reduced Anns B9 83% 89 1 ,6 894 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities. B B 3 /4 89 39 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1726 New 34 per Cent. Arms 11934 901/i 90N Long Anns. to expire Jan. 1860 India Stock 243 241 South Sea Stock Bank Stock for Account .. Consols for Account . BBX 39 1 h 89 1 4 E xc h eq uer Bills. 81 1,0001. 5001. Small OXE CLOSIBo O'CLOCK. PRICKS. ACES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. Brazilian Bonds Ditto, Small — Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent 92 Equador Bonds Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 1 8 34 Ditto, Account . l9 Portuguese 5 per Cents. — Ditto, 4 per Cent Ditto, Account Ditto, Small Russian Bonds 109% Spanish 5 per Ceut. 1840. Ditto, Account 2l4i 22 22 Do. Ditto, Passive Ditto. 3 per Cent 32 $2 Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch, 2% per Cent., 15 Guild 54 54M 54M Date. 4 per Cent. Certificates 35% 85% PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS HONE CLOSING RAILWAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen 45 ...... Amber., Nott., Boston, and Eastern Junction 2%...... Ayrshire and Galloway.. 2 - - Belfast & County Down le ...... Birmingham and Ox ford Junction .... ... 20 Birmingham, Wolver hampton, and Dudley le ..... 15 Birming.,Wolverh'pton, and Stour Valley 101. 145... 1 p ... 1 p Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Jun"..,. 7N • ••• • - Boston, Stamfd & Birm. 5 Bristol and Exeter B. - Ditto, Thirds Buckinghamshire... 121. 5 t!. 3 - 53/1 . 4 Caledonian Ditto, Half Shares .. 3 3 4 ...... 1 , and Clydesdale ioiHolyhead... ie a June ci .3 5 7 0 22% 3 4 ... Ditto;Preference Chester Ditto 12 Clarence Do. Ist Class, 8 per Ct. 10 Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. II Do. Government Loan, 4 per Cent . Direct London & Ports mouth Dublin and Belfast June. 25 Dundalk & Enniskillen 17% — East Anglia, 25/., L. & E. and L. and 25 Do., 181., E. & H.... 1/1 Do., 31. 10s. Eastern Counties Ditto (B) Ditto, Extension, 5 per Cent., No. 6/. 13a. 4d.... ...... ••• •• Ditto ditto, No. 2...61. 13s. 4d... Do., North. & Eastern 50 Do., Quarters ... ...... 12% Do., New Eastern Union 5O Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% — Ditto, Thirds .......135.4d.. Do. (guar. 6 percent.) 10 East Lancashire ......... 25 .. Ditto, New Ditto, New Quarters 8 3 / 4 East Lincolnshire ...... 16% Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... Ditto, Half Shares ... 15 Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% — Edinburgh and Northern 22 1 / 2 Ditto, N ditto, New.. 33, Ditto, Newport Ditto, ditto, New 2%. ... Exeter,Yeovil, k Dorch. 23' — ..... ... ...... Ditto, New .. 24 ............... Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle 81. 6s. Bd. Glasgow,Kilmar., & Ayr 50 - ••••••••••••••• Ditto, New ... 40 Do. Preference Consol. li Great Northern Do., London and York 2%.••••• Great South. and West (Ireland) 237 Great North of England.loo ....- 237 Ditto, New 40/.......... 5 ...... Ditto, New SOL ........ 30 ..... Ditto, New, 15/. ...... 6% ... - ...... •••••• Great We5tern............ 90 - 2 - 4 1 4 23% ...... Ditto,Ditto F%ift5hhre.5.............. 2 1 0 7%.. Ditto, New 171 .• - 9i,4•„ •• Huddersfield and Manch. 24 - Ditto, Thirds Hull and Selby .. Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 .....„ ... _ Ditto, 1 ,4 Shares Ipswich & Bury St. Edm 1 7l Do., do., and Norwich 15 Do., do., Extens. Scrip (late Camb. & Ely) 2% Lancaster and Carlisle... 50 Ditto, Thirds 12 Lancashire & Yorkshire 93 Ditto, ditto Ditto, % Shares Do. Quarter Shares... 14% 1 3 34 ••• 13 3 / 4 Do. Fifths... ... 8 8 3 4 Do. Sixteenths 6 l /4 Do. Thirds (Reg.)....10/.45...... Do. Liverp. and Bury 33 Ditto 1 ,4 (late Hud dersfield and Sheir.) 33 Do.(Wakefield,Ponte fract, and G001e).... 50 21A dia. Do. ( W. Riding Union)4/. 25... ... Do. (Preston & Wyre) 25 Do. %l Shares (A)... 9 ...• — Ditto ditto (B) ... 1% -— Leeds and Bradford 5O ...... Leeds, Dewsbury, &c... 42 1 ,x.....• ••••. — Do., Half Shares l5 ...... ..• Do.7,cewßranch (blue) 2 1 ... .. - Do. Extension (green) 2, Do. NewExten.(pink) 2% — Leeds and Thirsk ..... . 3G DDoit.t,oi, New Prefer., ....... .. r., 6per . C . L .. t /(2 % ...... __ Li ver pool, Crosby and Southport . 2 Liverp., Mnchstr &New castle Junction 2 1,4 London &Blackwall...l3l. 6s. 8d..., Do. New, No. 2 ... 4/. 13s. 4d.... Do. Extension London, Brighton, and South Coast Do. Consol. Eighths. 30 Do. Guarant. 5 per ct.., 9 Do. Pref. Con.s per ct. 50 .. ••• Ditto, ditto.-- 1852 50 London and Greenwich 1 2 / 1 5s 4d... Ditto, Preference... 18/ 17s 2d... I , 4ndon and N. Western 100 l4B 149 149 Do., Quarters L. & B. 22 Do., do., New Ditto Fifths Do. % Shares (G. J.) 25 Do 40/.Shares(L.M.) 15 ...... Do. 40/. (M. & B.) ... 40 ...... Do. 10/. M. kc B.) A. 7 1 ,4...... Do. 10/. M. & B.) B. 7% Do. 101. U. & B.) C. 1 -- ••• ... 1r.: 7 1'4.1;0 it. ‘ .11 L : - .410 • • THE THIRD EDITIONS "THE SUN" WILL CONTAIN, AS USUAL, THE LATEST PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE, ALL OTHER NEWS UP TO THE HOUR OF POST. Orders received by all Newsmen, and at the Sun•ojJice, 112, Strand. - (141' b r tnin ' LONDON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1341 As Lord GEORGE BENTINCK. will, in all probability, bring forward this evening, in the House of Com mons, the motion of which he has given notice, on the subject of the depressed state of our sugar colo nies, it may perhaps be as well that we should con sider the causes which have led to that depression, and the remedies which have been proposed for its relief. The causes alleged by the West India colo nists themselves are the withdrawal of the protective duty, and the scarcity of labour, and the remedies proposed are a renewal of the protective duty and an increase in the number of the labouring population. The true cause of the sufferings of the West India proprietors is not the removal of the protective duty, it is the scarcity of labour and the scarcity of labour alone, produced by the monopoly of the labour market enjoyed by the emancipated black population; and the renewal of the protective duty, so far from mitigating, would materially increase the depression under which the proprietors are labouring, inasmuch as the black population, who possess the monopoly of the labour market, would increase in their demands, demands which the proprietors must satisfy, how exorbitant soever they may be, or abandon the cultivation of their estates, and thus the only effect of a renewal of the protective duty would be to rob the industrious and hard-working white labourer in England, who works hard for twelve hours a day during six days in the week for a miserable pittance of 10s., in order to present the proceeds of the robbery to the idle, indolent, black labourer in the West Indies, who works seven hours a day three days in a week, and who gets for that amount of work something like thirty shillings, besides having a house and pro vision ground rent free. The cause, the whole and sole cause, of the present depressed state of the West India proprietors is the want of a sufficiency o labourers, who for fair wages will cultivate their estates. What they want to restore them to pros perity is a fair day's work for a fair day's wages; so long as they are unable to obtain this so long will they be in a depressed condition, notwithstanding all the measures that may be adopted for their relief. With this there is no doubt lout that they will be speedily not only restored to prosperity, but that they will again command, as of yore, the markets of the world, for there cannot be a doubt but that free labour, when it is really free, can compete advantageously with slave labour under any circumstances. The competition at present carrying on by our West India colonies with Cuba and the Brazils, is not the competition between free labour and slave labour, but the competition between slave labour and no labour at all. Various attempts have been made to procure for our colonists an adequate supply of labour, but every attempt at promoting immigration has failed, partly from the physical incapacity of the immigrants to battle with the climate, but principally from the impediments and hinderanees which have been placed in the way of immigration in accordance with the groundless fears and unfounded prej udices ofeertain very well-meaning but exceedingly ill-informed persons, who imagine . that it is impossible to propose any plan of immigration to the West Indies which shall not be virtually a revival of the slave trade. So long as Mr. STEPHEN remained at the Colonial Office the West Indians might well despair. " Lasciate ogni sperensa voi the entrate" should have been the motto over the door of the sanctum of this gentleman, but at length the incubus is removed, and we entertain hopes that Earl GIST and Mr. HAwas will be more just to the 'West Indians than their predecessors have been, and that they will complete the great work of free trade, of which they have ever, through evil report and through good report, been the foremost champions, by giving to our West Indian fellow-subjects free trade in labour. It is evident, as is observed by a writer in the number of Blackwood, just published —" It is evident that the African alone is physi cally suited to undergo with ease and without dan ger the fatigue of field labour in the climates which are suited for sugar cultivation." To Africa there fore must the West Indian proprietor look for the immigrants who are to compete in the West Indian labour market with the present black population of the West Indies ; and the question therefore arises, is there any part of Africa in which free labourers can be found who will voluntarily emigrate to the West Indies, and there give a fair day's work for a fair day's wages ? That there is such a place we know from a very high authority. The late Reverend FRANCIS H. RANKIN, who was for some years colonial chaplain at Gambia, in his excellent work on Sierra Leone, published in 1837, thus describes the Kroomen, who are the gal legos, the labourers, the out-of-door servants, and the cooks of the colony :—" The Kroo republic, upon the grain coast, lies at the distance of about four hundred miles from Sierra Leone. A Kroo answered my in quiry, why he had come so far in order to be cook to an English gentleman in Free Town for two or three and twenty shillings a month, by saying, White man love work, Kroo man love work ; white man no slave, Kroo man no slave ; where white man go, there Kroo man must come.' " " One of the most remarkable peculiarities of this sin gular people," observes Mr. RANKIN, "is their detestation of slavery," so that here we should run no danger whatever of having a slave trade in dis guise, the Kroos holding it in as great detestation as the English themselves. "In seeking white men's society, the Kroo has a steady view to the acquisition of wealth," continues Mr. RANKIN ; and after de scribing the course of Kroo life in Sierra Leone, he thus concludes the history of the Kroo career :—" At the age of forty he has generally succeeded in amassing about thirty pounds, and has attained the summit of earthly grandeur. He lays out the useless coin in marketable articles, for his native home is guiltless of a metallic currency, and returns to live with his people as a gentleman.' " The Kroomen, also, be it observed, are in constant contact with English sailors, especially men-of• war's men, whom they assist as supernumeraries. It is evident, therefore, that the idea of a Kroo ever being either kidnapped, cajoled, or coerced into being a slave is chimerical in the extreme ; in fact, the slave trade cannot exist without slavery, and as every man the instant he touches British or British colonial ground becomes ipso facto free, there can be no revival of the slave trade, so far as the British colonies are concerned. If the Kroomen are of advantage to Sierra Leone, they would be of still greater advantage to Jamaica and Demerara, and there is no reason in the world why those colonies should be deprived of the advan tage from the labour of the Kroomen if the latter are willing to sell it, or why the Kroomen should be deprived of the advantage of selling their labour in the dear market of Jamaica and Demerara, where the demand for labour is great, instead of being confined to the cheap market of Sierra Leone, where the de- FEBRUARY 3, 1846. Lou.& S. Western ...411. 6s. 8d.... Do. New ConsoL Bths 40 .. ~. Do. New 501. ..... 37%.. ......... Do. New 401 .. 30 Do. Tenths (Consol.) 50 Ditto ditto .... 40 Ditto, Thirds Si. 6s. 8d.... 1 1 A % (Lis...—. 1% dis. London, Salisbury, and Yeovil ...,.u....... •.. 1 1 ,4...... Londonderry &Coleraine 27% — ........ Londonderry and Ennis killen 25 ...... ••• ..... Manchester,Buiton,and Matlock 3 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire ...100 Do. Quarters (No. 1) 13 Ditto ditto (No. 2)... 25 Ditto ditto (No. 3)... 7% — Ditto and (.;rimsby.... 25 Ditto ditto • ... ..... 7 Ditto ditto Ditto Sheffield and Lincolnshire 7 1,4... •.. ...... ......... Manchest. & Southampt 2 IA — ••. ..... taidlani lOO 11 5 1, 4 5, 11 11 5 34 Do.:ConsolidatedPref.loo Do. 401. Shares Do. 501. Shares Do. Birm., and Derbyloo Do.Consol. Bristol and Binning., 6 per ct.... 100 .._ Wald, Brist. &Glocstr. 36 .... Ditto, ditto ...... .. 11/.35. 6d... ..... .... Midlnd, Leicest. & Swan nington, 8 per ct.guar.loo ...... Midland Great Western Irish B5 — Newcastle and Carlisle...loo Do. Quarters 25 Newmrket& Chesterford 18% •• ,•••• -- Do. Extension .........21. 125.... Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford Newry and Enniskillen 7 Newry, Warrenpoint, and Rostrevor . . 12 1 h •. ........ •••• Norfolk .. ...... 100 Do. New 201. Do. Extension Do. Guaranteed 5 1 ,dipe. 5 -- _ .. 21 1414 92 3 1 / 2 19 194 26% 26% 28►4 109 85 1 ,4 22 8! ,/ 2 - 161,4 l ii P 18% 47 23 3 4 IT I4 - VA 41; 59! - 4% Central of Spain .. - 2 - ••• ..... . Ceylon Demerara Dendre Valley 4 Direct Bombay and Madras Dutch Rhenish ...... East Indian ... 1 1 ,• •A . ... Great Indian Peninsular ss. Italian and Austrian. ... 4 Jamaica S. Mid. Junction 1 Louvain ala Sambre ... 6 Luxembourg 6 Lyons and Avignon..... 6 Madrid and Talentia... 2 Nansar and Liege l6 ... .. ... ........ ... Northern of Francs lO Orleans and Bordeaux 6 Over Yssel 4/334d...... • .............. Paris and Lyons lO ..... ......••••"•" Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen ... ..... 20 Paris and Strasbourg ... 8 Rouen and Havre - Sambre and Meuse l3 ••• .. 74 Strasbourg and Basle ... 14 Tours and Nantes 8 Tournay, Jurbise, Lan den, and Hasselt ...... 16 West Flanders... JOINT STOCK BANKS. British North American fflb Union of London..-..... 10 .. • London Joint Stock lO Australasia - •••.•.•••••• •• Colonial 25 London & Westminster. 20 Provincial of Ireland ... 25 Ditto New... ..... -...• 10 Commercial of London 20 Union of Madrid 4O - National Friar. England. 35 Ditto, New lO National of Ireland 22% ••• Union of Australia Ditto,New... 2%...... . (Signed) H. G. WARD. To W. Dobson, Esq., Secretary, Lloyd's. MARKET NEWS.- (THIS DAY.) Do. Scrip, 1847, North of Norfolk... 2 - .. Do. do. Waveney Val. 2 - Northern Counties Union 4 North British ... .... ... 25 Do. Half Shares Do. Quarters 5% 5%.. 5% Do. Extension - - •• - Ditt ,- ) Thirds • 2 - . - Nora Staffordshire lO ...... 10% 11 ...••... 11 North Wales - . •• - North Western 6 - •••• ‘lxford, Worcester, and Wolverhamptan ..... 85 ... .. 21 Reading, Guildford, and Reigate - - Royston aid Hitchin ... 1% — ... ...... .. .. Scottish Central - Scottish Midland 22% - . - Ditto, New lO - ........ ••• •• Sheffield, Rotherham, aid Goole - Shrewabury sad rm... Y Ditto ditto, Class B. 4 Shrewsbury & Chester (Nor. W. Min.) - Ditto Halves ... ditto 8 - „. .... ........ Ditto Oswestry ...... 12 - Ditto New Do. $ per Cent. Pref 5 - ••• ........ ••• Shrewsbury and Herefd. 2 Shropshire Union - South Devon... 4O ..............- Do. Preference - •.•• •••• ..•• - South Staffordshire 4 - .. ...... - •• - South Eastern & Dover. 33% 81 % 34 8 1 34 Do., No. 1.. - - Do., NE. 2. - •• ••• •••• ••• - Do., No. 3 .. ..... ...... 20 - - Do~ No. 4 South Wales ls ...... - ......... ..... 9 South Yorkshire, Don ca.ster, and Goole $ Swans. k Loughor & Ca meron's Stag. Coal. ... 6 ...... - ... ..... .. - Taw Vale Extension. ... 4 - ••• •• - Thames Haven Dock and Railway - Vale of Neath ... .. - Waterford and Kilkeiny 13 1 / 2 ...... - Waterford and Limerick 4$ - Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw, and Dubhn West Cornwall Whitehaven & Furness 13 - Windsor, Staines, and South Wester' ..... ... 52s 2 p Wilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth 3O - York, Newcastle, and Berwick. .... .. ......... 25 ..... 35%% ... Do. Original New and Berwick Do. North Shields Pur. 25 - Do. Extensime No. 1. 15 Do. do. No. 2.-- ... 10 , - •• ••• ....... •• Do. G.N E.Preference 8 ...... 10 1 ,4 4 %%', 4 ...... York and North Midland 50 - Ditt©, Preference ...... 10 - ........ ••-• I', Do. East and West Rid ing Extension FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens... 20 Central of France (Or leans and Vierzon) ... 14 - LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, Fr u. 3.—Wind &S.W., light breeze, and cloudy, with mild weather. DEAL, FEB. 2. Wind N.W. to N.N.W. Arrd. Wallace, Callao ; Laurel, Callao. Arrd. from the River and aid., Agnes, Sophia, Matanzas. PORTSMOUTH, Fzu. 2. Wind W.N.W.—SId . her Majesty's steamer Firefly, Coast of Africa. Off port, Essex, Howard, Madras. RAMSGA.TB, FEB. 2.—The Groingen, of and for Am sterdam, from Newport, is off the harbour, very leaky, and will come in next tide. DovER, FEB. 2.—The sloop Rosebud, London to New haven, sank off this port to-day, after being in contact with another sloop; crew saved. PORTSMOUTII, FEB. 2.—lt is reported that the James, of Bristol, sunk off the Owers this morning; crew saved. PLYMOUTH, FRB. 2.—Wind W.—Arrived Unicorn, Teazel!, Rio Grande, with sails split and leaky. WATERFORD, FEB. I.—Wind N.N.W. to W.N.W.— Sld. Jan. 31, Ellen, Foran, Trinidad. SUNDERLAND, Iriat. 2.—The Ocean Maid, Lark, for Shields, which came on shore 29th ult. on Whitburn Steel, washed over the ledge this afternoon, and is now on the main, very much damaged. BRIDLINGTON, FEB. I.—Part of the broadside of a vessel, with a white streak about nine inches deep, was towed on shore yesterday. YARMOUTH, FEB. 2.—The Admiral Blake, of and for London, from Hartlepool, got upon the Scroby Sand this morning, and sunk; crew saved. NOTICE TO MARINERS. Admiralty, Jan. 31, 1848. Sir,—l am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to acquain t you, for th e i n f ormat i on o f the Committee for Managing the Affairs of Lloyd's, that Vioe-Admiral Sir William Parker has reported to my Lords that Two Lights are placed at the entrance of Ithaca Harbour; one on Point Andrea, and the other on tho Lazaretto. NEWGATE AND I.EADENHAI.L. The supplies of meat on sale to-day, were moderately good. OR the whole, the trade ruled heavy, at barely stationary prices. Beef, from 3s 2d to !4$ 3d ; Mutton, Zis 4d to 4; 4d ; Veal, 4s to 5s ; and Pork, 3s ad to 5s per 81b8 by the carcass. MEAT MARKETS. SOUTIIALL, FEn. 2.—We had only a moderate supply of stock here to-day, yet the general demand was heavy, on somewhat easier terms. Beef from Ss 4d to 4s ad ; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 10d; Veal, 4a to ss; and Pork, 4s to 48 Sd per Sibs, to sink the offal. RUMFORD, FEB. 2.—Prices declined from 2d to 4d per albs, with a heavy inquiry. Beef frona Ss 4d to 48 ad; Mutton, 3s ad to 5s ; Veal, 4s to 4s Id ; and Pork, 4s to 4s Sd per lilbs ; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 20s to 245 each. limmisam, FEB. 2.—Really prime Beasts and Sheop were in steady request, but the general quotations had a downward tendency. Beef, from 3s 10d to 43 8d ; Mutton, 4s to $s ; Veal, 4s to 4s 8d ; and Pork, 4s 4d to 4s 10d per 81bs. ARUNDEL, FEB. I.—Beef, from Ss 8d to 48 8d; Mutton, 3s 10d to 5s ; Veal, 4s to 4s 8d ; and Pork, 4s 6d to 4s 8d per albs. A. moderate supply, and a slow trade. CHICHESTER, FEB. 2. Beef, from 4s to 4s Id ; Mutton, 4s to 4s 8d ; Veal, 4s to 48 4d ; and Pork, 4s 2d to 4s Bd, per Elbe. Quarter-old Store Pigs, 20s to 238 each. Supply good, and trade dull. WAY IVIARZETS. SMITHFIELD. ow Hay, 21 lOs i • 3/ 13s ; Clover, ditto, 2/ lOs to 41 12s ; aid Straw, 11 4s to 1/ per load. Supply good, and trade very dull. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 2/ 105 to 31 159 ; Clover ditto, 31 10a to 4110 s; and Straw, 1/ 5s to 11 lOs per load. A moderate supply, and a sluggish demand. WIIITECILLPEL.—Iteadow Hay, 21 Ss to Si 143; Clover ditto, 3/ lOs t• 41 15s ; and Straw, 11 41 to 11 Ss per load. Trade dull, at barely stationary prices. COIL MARKET.—Tuerzirwr. Adair's Main ..- 163 6dwranfleld Moor ...... 17$ 64 Chester Main 173 Od Wall's End, &s. Dean's Primrose Dipton Tanfield l4s 6d Haswell 283 Ild New Tanfield lsa Od Ships at market... 112 CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITICIEI CORN For the Week ended Feb. 3, MS, made up from the Returns of UV Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Walla per Imperial Quarter. wissaT. muff. OATS. I IT'. 1 MUNN. I Mi. PRICI •. I b2s [ad 'llis 3d 110 s ad SI& 7d 43s ea QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.) ..,, Sittings at Nisi Prins, before Mr. Justice ERLI aA .;, -i '':',7 Common Juries.) WARD, M.P., AND ANOTHER, 11. CARS. , .1 Mr. M. CHAMBERS said this was an action brougb. 47 by the plaintiff, Mr. Henry Ward, M.P., and Sects. \\'',", tart' to the Admiralty, and &Ir. Henry Lewin, pl.. 1.4 prietor of the Weekly Chronicle, to recover 501. frogs •"*, .I f Mrs. Anne Cass, the former proprietress of the Coot ~... Gazelle and Fashionable Guide, for machining ti wie .‘ 1 , journal in 1845. The periodical in question was as. , .., funct—it had run its career, had exhausted *it ,‘` fashionable world, and at length ceased to exist itseg The defendant agreed to pay the plaintiffs quarterly, and between May, 1843, and September, 1845, they ,'• had received several sums of money from her, but 501. remained due at the end of the period. Her last payment was in June, when she gave a cheque . k for 201., and promised at that time to Mr. Foote, the , plaintiff's clerk, to give directions to her publisher to pay the plaintiffs in future weekly instalments, but she had not kept her promise. The defendant had paid V. into court, alleging that she eeased to have any proprietorship after the 25th of June in the journal. She gave them no notice at the time to this ? . effect, and they went on machining the journal until r: September, up to which period she was the regis- ' tered proprietress at the Stamp-office. It appeared, '- he said, that some claim had been set up by the de. ;-- fendant for spoiled copies, and the plaintiffs were perfectly ready to allow a sufficient sum as a set-ok ~ but they had, notwithstanding their repeated appli cations, been unable to obtain an account of them. The plaintiffs therefore claimed 351., the balance of the account. The Duties sn Foreign Grain ire new itupended. Evidence was adduced to show that the defendant had promised in December to see that the compositors and the plaintiffs were paid ; but it was elicited that she had invariably stated that she was not thst proprietress beyond the time in question. Mr. Sergeant Sung simply contended on behalf et the defendant, that she ceased to have any proprietor ship in the journal after the 25th of June, and callid a Mr. Abbott to prove the fact. Mr. Hearne, of the Strand, it was said, became proprietor after that time. Mr. Justice ERLE left it to the jury to say whether the defendant was liable after the 25th of June. He said, if she had held it out to the plaintiffs that she was the proprietress of the journal after the period in q uestion, that they ought to find for the plaintiffs. The jury gave their verdict for the defendant, and stated that they dill not consider the defendant liable after the 25th of June. 4 214 - SIA !p 18% 351 i, -- 10 1 ; 2 _ 13% - 7 lii - _ 16t SHERIFFS' COURT.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BußciaLL.) TURNZZ V. JOHNSTONI. This was an action to recover compensation for the loss of a horse and damage done to a cab through tae negligence of defendant's servants. 'Plaintiff is a cab proprietor, and defendant is s road contractor at Clerkenwell. Defendant suffere 4 judgment to go by default. On the part of the plaintiff it was shown that an the 2gth of November last one of plaintiff's men wail driving the horse and cab along the Ball's Pond roads Islington, when the 'vehicle and the horse fell jai , an excavation which bad been incautiously left opals, without any light, or anything to protect the public from accident. The horse's back was broken, and it was necessary to have it destroyed on the road. Tile witness for the plaintiff valued the horse at from 104 to 121., and the repairs of the cab cost about 9 1 . Plaintiff was also put to the expense of hiring another vehicle, during the repair of his own, and was put to an expense of Si. On the part of the defendant witnesses were callk 4 to cut down the damages; and a veterinary surgeon. who saw it dead four days afterwards, valued it 41. or 51. in its life time, as it was " jaded, worot parrot mouth, blind in both eyes, and twenty year/ old." The witness's examination, however, had slight weight, having, he said, raised the upper lip wish his toe, so as to have a view of the " superior maw' illiary." Another witness was called, who estimated the damage to the cab at 355. or 21. The UNDER-SIIERIFF, in summing up, said On jury were not to consider this as a case against tto public, and punish defendant for that, as though he been indicted, but compensate the plaintiff f o r trap .. - damage he had sustained. The jury, after consulting for some time, gave 11 verdict fir 201. CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY•) OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.) FORGERY ON TiIN RUSSIAN COVER/ MINT. Lagbe Aronson, Jacob Freideburg, Raphael Irate man, and Solomon Muscovitz, the four prisoners 'W were convicted yesterday of forging Russian nottl were brought up this morning for judgment, snl sentenced—Aronson and Muscovitz to be imprisoow ° for eighteen mo n th s , w ith h ar d l a b our; an d K a uft' man and Freideburg to be transported for ten years- John Byron was charged with forging an order f the payment of the sum of 911. 10s. 4d., with 4101 0 to defraud Messrs. Rob er t s , C ur ti s, and Co. Mr. Bodkin, with whom was Mr. Huddlestone prosecuted. The prisoner was undefended. The prisoner had been a clerk to Mr. Henry Willi* merchant, of Sr, Old Broad-street, and in that cape' city he had access to that gentleman's cheque-book , On the II th of September last a cheque for 91/. I° 3 ' 4d., purporting to have been drawn by Mr. Hell Willis was prese n t e d t o M essrs. R o b arts, Curtis, an' Co., and duly honoured. Upon the cheque bein: returned to Mr. 'Willis' office it was discovered to be , forgery, and on it s b e i ng exam i ne d by Mr. Will. i and two of his clerks, they recognised the hallo: writing of the prisoner. The prisoner absconde 4 but was arrested at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The prisoner said he had written to a number 4 ! individuals to attend to support his defence, but bell ) " ignorant of the day on which he should be brough up he was afraid none of them were present. Several names were called at his request, but onV one answer was given. Ann Bissett was the 'party who answered to 0) " call," but Mr. Bodkin objected to her examinstio t on the ground that she was married to the prisoner. Mr. Justice COLERIDGM ob serve d th a t t h e objectil“ could hardly be supported, seeing that one of t witnesses for the prosecution had stated that tV prisoner was married to her sister upwards of t ts years ago, and had a f am il y o f c hild ren. W O witness the wife alluded to? _ .._ . Mr. BODKIN replied in the negative. Mr. Justice C OLERIDGE (t o th e witneass)--Will, o n were you married t o th e p r i soner ? Witness rep " B— ' in the month of January, 1847. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE directed that Harriet Little' the witness who appeared for the prosecution, 0 ' 1 7: presented herself to be the sister of the prisonees / vl— ' should be recalled. ',Air/ In answer to questions from the Learned JTJA- -- „. she stated that the prisoner was married to her sil k about five years ago, and up till then she had boo° ignorant of his second marriage. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE said, under these circusY stances the witness Bissett could be examined. The witness simply proved that the writing on th e t , cheque did not resemble the writing in the letters ="1, had read from the prisoner, and that on the 11th °'-` September, the day upon which the chestue WO Pre sented, the prisoner was ill in bed. COMMON PLEAS.—(THIS DAY) (Sittings at Nisi Prins, at Westminster, before Mr. Justice COLTMAN and a Common Jury.) MICKINTOSII V. PURCBLL. This action was brought against the landlord of the King's Arms public-house, in Ebury-street, Pimlico, for false imprisonment. It appeared that the plaintiff, in December last, went into the King's „ La Arms and called for some spruce, in payment of in which he tendered half a sovereign. The bar-maid, conceiving that it was a counterfeit one, showed it: 2 defendant, who called in a policeman and gave the plaintiff into custody, and he was confined all night in the station-house. The half-sovereign proved after all to be a good one, and the magistrate, after hearing the case, discharged the plaintiff, and inti• mated that the defendant had better compromise the matter with the plaintiff. For the defence, it was contended, that after the case was decided the parties went out together lad settled the matter at a public-house in the neigh.. bourhood, where they had some gin, when defendant expressed his regret, and gave plaintiff half a crown as compensation, with whi c h pl a i n tiff appeare d satisfied. The pfaintiff, however, considered that the half-crown was merely intended for some refreshment for the plaintiff, and that the defendant promised to settle with him on another occasion. The Learned JUDGB summed up, and The jury found for the defendant. - .; • U