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GLIsNIE, News AGENT, No. 4, Connaugitt-terrace, Ilyde-park. THE LAST EDITION of " THE SUN " supplied as 'oon as Published containing all the LA I'ET A. 6 Ws and SPOR INTELLIGKNCE, by Ii; W. II 111-11 S, Ile :Taper Agent, 4, Illacktriars-roan, Loudon, S. HIGH WATER AT LONDON_BRIDGE. ing. THIS DAT.—Morning, Gh. 40m.—Afternoon, 7h. 10m, To-llonHow.-Morning, 7h. 36m.—Afternoon, Bh. Bm. Ett ›latt OiVDON, SA.7URDAY, MARCH 4, 1865, -.0-- Englishmen will learn with regret the fall of that gallant little city which has for so long defied the fiercest assaults of its enemies. The Federal flag now waves over Fort Sumter, where the undaunted gallantry of the Confederates so often hoisted the Southern standard, and the moral triumph of the North is greater even than the material victory. Charleston was considered for so long to be the very focus of rebellion ; it had held out with such unflinching determination, and had been the theatre of so_ miry scenes in the drama of the war, that its' fate has been watched with the keenest interest both in this country and in America. Its retention was esteemed one of the most striking sui3fccesses of the Confederates, and its capture one the most important objects which SHER3IAN set before him in his redoubtable march. There is something especially interesting about the defence of a besieged C it y. History, drama, and poetry all bear - witness to the sympathy which is, almost universally felt on behalf of those who, like the Knights of ST. JOHN at Malta or the men of PIIILIPVON ARTEVELDE in the poet's noble drama, hope against hope, and maintain their struggle resolutely to the last. Such endurance has often been crowned with unexpected success at the last or darkest moment, and th e heroes of the defence have become the victors in stead of the martyrs of their cause. Such has not been the case with Charleston, and the day which celebrates in the States the re-election of ABRAHA M LINCOLN brings to us in England, who have watched the fluctuating fortunes of the Confederacy with such keen and unabated interest, the full intelli gence of the triumphant entry of the Federals into the city. They have not, however, the full glory of 'subjugating the city. 'Whether from political rea sons, or from real inability to hold it any longer, the Confederates themselves evacuated Charleston. On the night of the 17th they departed, after de- ......r........ stroying two ironclads, and sp ikin g the guns in the fortifications. A disastrous accident accompanied the process of destruction. Six thousand bales of cotton, in the upper part of the city, were ordered 0 be burnt, when the flames reached a quantity of ammunition stores, and a fearful explosion took place, killing and injuring great numbers, and spreading the fire in all directions. Two-thirds of the city are said to have been destroyed, thus leaving another Moscow in the hands of the conquerors. The explo sion apparently communicated the evacuation to the Federals, who took possession on the morn ing of the 18th. They found the city in a lament able condition, the upper part having been the scene of the explosion and the fire, while the lower part is described as being completely riddled with shot and shell. The actual value of the town is there fore not very great. The chief material advantage of the victory is its loss to the Confederates. Supposing the capture of Charleston to precede, as it is likely to do, the fall of Wilmington, the Con federates will be completely cut off from communi cation with the outer world. Henceforth, the sys tem of blockade-running is over, though it is sug gusted that light vessels may be constructed to run up the creeks. By the abandonment of the sea ports, however, the Confederates have resigned themselves to the loss of regular supplies, and of the power of turning their cotton to profitable ac count. It is not surprising that there should be great excitement in the North over the fall of Charleston, so long wished for, or that Govern ment and people should unite in demonstrations of joy and exultation. But the friends of the Confederates have no oc casion to despair, although a long list of reverses and disasters has been crowned by the fall of their cherished city. All these successes of the Northern arms are not due only to the fortune of war, but forms part of a deliberate scheme which rightly or wrongly the Confederate leaders have determined upon. It was some time since openly announced that General LEE held that the wisest policy would be to surrender all those cities and possessions, even Richmond itself, which detained great numbers of men, and were an encumbrance rather than a help. If he were free to avail himself of the services of the whole of the troops under his command, he could leave the South behind him and teach the North what war meant. He would show the speculators and fanatics, who find war-making so easy at a distance, that it does not only consist in making profitable contracts and vehe ment speeches, in decreeing the expatriation of the whole Southern people, and in buying off themselves and their relatives from public service when included in the conscription. They may have to learn that there is another side to the question, when fire and sword sweep through their own cities and desolate their own hearths and stores. This is the object which the C onfederate Commander-in-Chief has in view, and the abandonment of the Southern cities was a necessary though painful preliminary, even as in a time of the utmost danger a French General desolated the fairest province of the kingdom, choking up the wells, trampling down corn-fields, and burning the houses, so that the progress of the enemy might be stayed by the ruin. The evacuation of Charleston was a deliberate act, having been commenced three weeks ago, and it is likely enough to be followed by the evacuation of Wil mington, and even of Richmond, which is said to be imminent. Still the Federals had better not be too confident of ultimate success. There is an old French saying, " Se recueille pour mieux sauter," and it may be on this that the Confederates are act- Whether a wiser disposition of their 'orces might not have averted the necessity, and by arresting SHERMAN'S march at the outset have reversed the fortunes of the campaign, may be very fairly questioned. Hood's expedition into Tennessee was altogether a mistake, and has cost his country dear. Even had he succeeded in capturing Nashville and routing THOMAS, the gain would have been nothing compared to the loss of suffering SHERMAN to penetrate to the very heart of the South. He will now probably endeavour to reach Petersburg, and combine his forces with GRANT'S, and this anticipation will probably expedite the proposed evacuation of Richmond. The Confederates, in their turn, may concentrate their armies, and, by a decisive battle, recover their lost ground, and inflict a serious bloW on the North. We may yet see another battle of Pharsalia, and the fortunes of war may be reversed. Should LEE abandon Richmond and penetrate to Ohio and Pennsylvania, the Northern armies must necessarily follow him. The Northern fleet has now done its utmost, and is henceforth useless for the purposes of war. The Richmond Examiner says that if SHERMAN cannot reach the Danville Road, he had better have stayed at Atlanta, for BEAUREGARD may yet lead him such a dance over the Carolina swamps as GREEN led CORNWALLIS. " BEAUREGARD," it adds, "is be lieved to be carrying out a deliberate design, and SHERMAN is near the end of his tri umphs." The evacuation of Wilmington, says another journal, would render 5,000 more men available, and we cannot but hope that part of LEE'S scheme consists of the arming of the negroes. Were he to make his appearance in Pennsylvania with 100,000 blacks, the fervour of the abolitionists might cool. If the recent triumphs of SHERMAN had been won by the sword, the North would have more reason to exult ; as it is, the continual system of retreat and evacuation on the part of the Confede rates is too foreign to their national character to be otherwise than deliberate and for a purpose. The second reading of the County Courts Equit able Jurisdiction Bill may be considered as a satis factory thing on the whole, for the measure pro ceeds in the right direction so far as it goes, and inaugurates those reforms i n th e l aw which are so much called for, and yet have been so often and strenuously opposed. There is so much ado made about the propriety of not instituting this reform, and the desirability of that suggestion, that delay is the order of the day, and procrastination the thief that steals away the time of the session, and we find ourselves year after year in no improved position, and with no prospect of a definite and decided change. At all events, something has now been done, and this session—otherwise sp-dult-in foreign politics and domestic questions-jseems des tined to be hereafter memorable for its achievements and alterations in a legal form. The bill for the site of the law courts has been successfully brought through its stages, and now some advance has been made in the measure of the county courts charges. So far it is gratifying to witness some exertion being made to attain the necessary improvement. The objections that were made to the bill in the House of Lords last night do not appear upon attentive consideration to contain much force, and were by easily set aside the explanation of the Lord Chancellor. It would be an unheard-of thing if any legal cha nge took place without many demands being mad e and grave complaints utt ere d aga i n st its passing into law. Notwithstanding those t who hese diffi culties, it is incumbent upon administer a the law to endea vour at any risk an I through l opposition to introduce an d carry out from tim e t o which the e x i genc i es time those remedial pleasures of the nation require, and which experience de clares to , be rendered necessary to suit the tempt 'r of the times, and to con duce to the advantages of the community. Lord ST. LEONARDS opposed the second reading of the bill on several grounds, the chief of which being that the County Court Judges were deficient in a knowledge of the law. He said that the two branches of the law were quite distinct, and it was no disparagement to say that those men fixed upon as referees would not be able to discharge their duties in an adequate form. This objection is, how ever, purely a technical one, and there is no reason why the difficulties referred to should not be met and overcome. Besides, it is not always those who are too exclusive in their attempts who succeed the best in rendering in the end the most effectual ser vice to their profession, and reflecting the greatest credit on themselves. Lord BROUGHAM and Lord CAMPBELL were both common law lawyers, and the former went from a stuff gown to the woolsack. Many others might be cited who have also proved themselves capable of performing what Lord ST. LEONARDS regards as an impossibility. Equity, if rightly regarded and properly considered, is not more than the exercise of common sense and the applica tion of right feeling. The Lord Chancellor, in addi tion to this objection, very aptly observed that he was sorry so hear the noble and learned lord de clare that these judges were utterly incompetent to administer business in equity, because " he had prac tised in the Equity Courts, and was present when Lord LYNDHURST was suddenly transferred from the Court of Common Law to the Court of Equity which he afterwards adorned for so many years." This was a capital retort, and must hay% impressed the House with the futility of the objection, which nevertheless possessed sufficient appearance of validity to impress and influence many at first sight. No greater mistake can be made than to fix in predetermined limits, what may or may not be done ; it is a safer and wiser cause to extend the line and enlarge the sphere of action, to suit the requirements of the case and answer the demands of the time. The Lord Chan cellor humorously observed that he did not regret the opposition of the noble and learned lord, because by this means he was certain of having a close scrutiny into all the provisions of the measure. This is very true, since it is the surest mode of acquiring and approaching perfection to sift the matter over and weigh well the conflicting claims, prior to coming to a decision that must be final to a great extent. The noble and learned lord also declared that he was not aware that the judges possessed that modesty as to their own capacities, which Lord Sr. LEONARDS imputed to them, but if they do, said he, " I advise them by all means to get rid of it as soon as possible." It is satisfactory to gather from the Lord Chancellor's speech, that by the provisions of this bill the County Courts will be put in the way of attaining that efficiency, and impart ing those advantages which they were intended to do, and the now fulfilment of which as yet has been a source of regret and a ground of complaint with many. It is curious to notice also that by one of the provisions of the statute by which these courts were first intended, they should apply to equity as well as to common law, and therefore by those proposals of this new bill the original purpose will be carried out to full perfection with increased power and extended privileges. A system that works well in any capacity, will in all probability also work well in another. There is no reasonable ground of argument put forward against this measure that can at all justify its rejection by the House, and, on the contrary, it is earnestly to be trusted that it will be permitted to pass into law, as the Lord Chancellor forcibly re marked in conclusion. There were many things to be said pro and con for the bill, but it was im portant that it should be subjected to every kind of scrutiny and anxious care. There are good grounds for hoping that by the passing of this measure a real and substantial advantage will be conferred upon the community, and that the obstacles which are apparently in the way of its successful working may be put aside at once and for ever when it comes to a practical working, instead of being merely the subject of theoretical discussion into which techni cal prejudices will perforce intrude themselves. THE SUN, LOADON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 4, 1865. Another Night and Morning of Fires. A fire of considerable magnitude, and attended with a great loss of property, took place about half-past two o'clock this (Saturday) morning, in the extensive premises belonging to Mr. Thomas Fryer, a cabinet-maker, carrying on business at Nos. 12 and 13, Hoxton Market. The dis covery was made by a police-officer of the N division, who lost no time in arousing the inmates and sending off for proper assistance. Fortunately the whole of the occupants got out of the buildings in safety, although at one time driven back by the flames. Conductors Isles, Green, and Puzey quickly attended with the Royal Society's escape, and were preceded by Barton, with the parish engine, from Shoreditch. Numerous engines of the London Brigade, I with Messrs. Shand and Mason's land steamers, followed in rapid succession. Under the direction of Capt. Shaw, Mr. Bridges, the foreman of the district, and other officers, the firemen went to work, and being aided by a good supply of water they were enabled to throw copious streams upon the conflagration, but the fire continued to rage most furiously. The parish engines, by conveying the hose up the fire-escape, with the assistance of the brigade, managed to throw the water upon the principal seat of the conflagration ; but it was not extinguished until the whole of the workshops, the valuable contents, and the dwelling-louses were destroyed. The origin of the fire is enveloped in obscurity. A fire likewise happened in the premises of Mr. Page, lithographer, No. 47, Basiughall-street, City. The dis covery was made by police-constable Bernard, 165, of the City force, who at once sent off for condUctor Brigs, who attended with the Royal Society's escape and several engines of the London Brigade, and the fire was confined to the second and third floors. The origin of the fire is as yet unknown. About a quarter before six o'clock this (Saturday) morn-I ing a fire was discovered by police-constable,.2B4, of the M division, raging in one of the arches of the great Eastern Railway, tenanted by Mr. Martin, a timber dealer. Con ductor Isles having arrived with the Royal Society's escapes and numerous engines of the Brigade, and those of Shand and Mason having followed, the fire was happily prevented from extending to the large stabling and timber yard adjoining. Another fire took place at No. 76, Bunhill-row, occupied by Mr. Carbine, a boot maker, at which the firemen, the engines of the brigade and parish, and the Royal Society's escapes attended, and owing to the exertions of all present the flames were confined to the lower portion of the build ing. The Robbery in Cornhill. whore t o h f Yesterday two more o f th e gold watches, stolen from the shop of Mr. W a lk er , i n C orn hill , were recovere d f r om the bottom o th d e h T ,o h r am bz , a be t t ot e p at lac w e o u r e k ar si Llac s k a fri tu ar rd s a -b y r l i a d s g t : ope w ra h t i i c o h ns h o a f ve th b e, been fished u o p n i e n o t f y. Sir mallaking, with one f oun d on T hursday, 11 gold watc h es i n ie h w a r a d s Mayne was pres en t for some time yesterday witnessing the watches ß recovered while he was there. The movements of roost of the watches and the go ld cases of a few have been more or less injured by the immersion. One of the two found yes terday having a tight-fitting flat crystal was very littl e injured indeed in comparison with the other, the dial and hands of which were protected by an ordinary lunette glass that had been broken in the fall of about 60ft., or by fric tion with the shingle in the bed of the river. The search i s being made within an area of about 20ft., and under the supervision of Superintendent Durkin of the F division, and Inspector Evans of the Thames police. The diver de scended eight times yesterday in all, on one of which he remained clown 19 minutes and on another 16i minutes. On one occasion when he had been down only 31 minutes he brought up one of the watches, but ho had been down 19 minutes before he found the other. In all 65 watches have now been recovered by Mr. Walker, two from the mail David Roberts, now in custody, who was arrested by two of the city detective police while he was in the act of disposing of them, 52 of which were found in the posses sion of the six other prisoners who were apprehended on Friday last, and the 11 found by the diver. Altogether, including gold chains, watches, and other articles of jewel lery, he has recovered about £1,500 worth of the stolen property. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAM.) CANADA. QUEBEC, FEB. 17. The Legislative Assembly, while in Committee of Supply on Tuesday evening, voted, without a divi sion, the sum of $50,000 for the purpose of reim bursing the St. Alban's Banks for the losses they sustained by the Confederate raiders. Several mem bers strongly opposed the appropriation of so much money out of the public Treasury to make good a loss for which the chief of police, Judge Coursol, and the city of Montreal, were responsible. Great dissatisfaction has been created throughout Western Canada in consequence of this act of the Govern ment. The matter will be discussed before the house to-night. The evidence in the case of the St. Alban's raiders was brought to a close yesterday, and the Court adjourned until Monday, when counsel will be heard on either side. The Rev. Mr. Cameron, for merly a chaplain in General Morgan's command, who was despatched to Richmond to procure docu mentary evidence on behalf of the prisoners, arrived in Montreal on Tuesday afternoon. Another mes senger, with duplicate copies of the documents, has also arrived safely. The evidence deducible from these papers clearly establishes authority before the act. Four messengers volunteered their services, only two of whom have been successful in their perilous mission. One was drowned while crossing the Potomac, and the other, a person named Davis, is to be hanged. It is said that Mr. Cameron had to swim a considerable distance among the ice of the Potomac. The decision of Judge Smith is looked forward to with intense interest. It is thought that the judgment will be favourable. Should it, how ever, be adverse, Lieut. Young and his compatriots intend applying for a habeas corpus. The receipt of the evidence so opportunely procured from Rich mond has caused manifest delight to Southerners and others who sympathise with the prisoners. It is stated that the Southern refugees in Montreal alone have over two and a-half million of dollars deposited in the banks of that city. Should the Southerners withdraw their resources from the banks of Canada, owing to the passing of the Alien Bill, the banks must suffer. During the sitting of the Legislative Council last evening, the Hon. Mr. Sanborn's amendments to the Confederation resolutions were lost on a division of 41 to 18. The debate will be resumed to-night. Mr. Dorion, leader of the Opposition, delivered a lengthy speech in the Lower House against the pro posed Confederation scheme. Owing to the condition of the corporate finances resulting from the reckless extravagance of the City Council, a petition has been presented to Parliament praying that the elective system be temporarily sus pended, and a commission appointed by the Crown to be substituted therefor. In the last year's ac counts the expenses are 50 per cent. in excess of the revenue. On Monday morning a serious railway accident occurred near Guelph, o,n the western division of the Grand Trunk, when a pass enger train was thrown off the track an d hired down a deep em bankment. Several passengers were injured, and the most severely the Hon. Mr. Foley, ex-Post master-General. At an early hour this morning a fire broke out in a large wooden building in rear of the Provincial Armoury and storehouse, which were with difficulty saved from destruction after considerable damage had been done. It was fully an hour before a supply of water could be obtained. Through the exertions of detachments of the Royal Artillery and others, nearly all the arms, stores, and clothing were re moved. It is stated on the authority of a Montreal journal that there are no less than 30,000 French Canadians alone in the Federal army. One thing is certain, that there are a host of recruiting agents scattered over the province, a few of whom are now and again brought to justice. Last week one fellow was sentenced in Montreal to a fine of $l6O and six months' imprisonment for enticing a private of the 60th Regiment to desert. A day or two ago the Quebec Court of Queen's Bench was occupied with the trial of a boarding-house keeper for attempting to enlist a young man as a soldier in the service of the United States. A demurrer was taken, but Mr. Justice Mondelet held that the imperial statute, 59 Geo. 3, c. 69, relating to foreign enlistments, is in force in the country, having bee n p asse d i n the It appears from th e peirtehaatt t l h a e rg p e r . isoner offered a yo ung in f t t h h e e e cas m i e n v t e i d r e e n s t c e o man a bounty of poo to go with him to join the Federal army, which the last, being under the influ ence, consented to do. Both persons were traced to the railway terminus at Point Levi, and the young man has not made his appearance in Quebec since. Upon the father of the boy accusing the prisoner of kidnapping his son, he remarked, " I have not made much out of him, and he stole my coat on the road." Four wit nesses testified to the circumstance of seeing the youth and the prisoner together. After the judge had summed up, the jury returned a verdict of guilty against the accused, who, being out on bail, was at once taken into custody. AUSTRIA AND THE ZOLLVEREIN. BERLIN, March 3. The Ministerial Nord Deutsche Allgermeine Zeitung of to-day says : " The customs negotiations taking place in this capital between the representatives of Austria and of the Zollvereba are so far advanced that the agree ment of the negotiating parties may be considered as certain. The chief difficulties which have latterly arisen with regard to the t ar iff concessions to be made by either side, may therefore be regarded as in the main removed." Another semi-official statement reports :— ,4 The negotiations between the Zollverein for the conclu sion of a commercial treaty are proceeding very satisfactory, notwithstanding the obstacles which at one time threatened to oppose their success. Pre cisely in the most delicate point, viz., with regard to the mutual concessions to be made in the respec tive tariffs—the negotiations have now come to a conclusion, the settlement of the customs cartel, and of facilities in the frontier traffic alone remain. It is not thought probable either of these questions will give rise to much discussion. It is stated in other quarters that the conclusion of the negotiations may be looked for about the middle of the ensuing week. DENMARK• COPENHAGEN, Feb. 27. Debates in the Rigsraad advance very slowly, the President of the Council and the Finance Minister both being ill ; the Minister of Marine is also now indisposed, and the Ministers for the Interior and for Public Worship are the only members of the Cabinet visible. Discussion of the bill for extra ordinary expenditure and revenue from 1864 to 1868 therefore considerably hangs fire. Discontent is expressed at the purchase of the iron-clad Den mark, completed in Scotland, and questions will be probably put upon the subject in the house. A general resume of the present financial position is shortly to be laid before Parliament. It has never transpired that the Finance Minister has con cluded a loan with Raphael and Sons, of London, for £728,000, to cover advances made in 1864. The loan has been taken for the most part at 94k, and it is hoped will produce altogether £670,000. A bill has been laid before the Rigsdag for a rail way line from Vandrup, the last station of the Eastern Railroad in Jutland, to Strandby, west of the Schleswig frontier, and to establish a harbour at that point. It is intended by this means to form a new connection with the German Ocean, and open a line of traffic with the Schleswig Railways. Strandby is close to the island of Fano, and may thus become an important commercial station for Jutland and Fuhnen.' The entire cost of this under taking is estimated at 2,350,000 rigsdalers. Plans are also being prepared for enlarging and deepening Copenhagen harbour, to render the port of the capital well fitted to be an extensive place of anchorage, for which it is at present deficient in the main requisites. FRANCE. MARSEILLES, MARCH 4. The Messageries Imperiales steamer Peluse passed Messina yesterday morning, and may be expected here to-morrow. She brings 108 passengers and 713 packages of merchandise. The bulletin of the Paris Observatory gives the following as the atmospheric state of Europe yes terday :—" The barometrical pressure has generally increased in the west of Europe, and westerly winds prevail there. The elevation is slightly felt over Spain and the Mediterranean ; the barometer has fallen, on the contrary, in the Adriatic and on the costs of Norway and Portugal. Stormy weather prevails almost everywhere. A hurricane passed 'over the Adriatic, and was partially felt in the Gulf of Genoa and on the coasts of Provence. The wind has shifted to the south, and is not strong at Oporto. South-west winds on the French coasts are to be apprehended." In Paris yesterday slight rain again fell during nearly the whole day. Towards the evening the wind rose considerably. _ _ The total amount obtained for the coins of the Pourtales collection is about 18,000 f. The attend ance during the three days which the sale lasted was not by any means great. The Court of Assizes of thelserehas been engaged two days in trying a farm labourer named Chenavas, aged 46, and a woman named Moiroud, aged 36, charged with having, on 6th Sept. last, murdered the husband of the latter, a farmer residing at Cha tonnay. The male prisoner was also charged with having murdered his own wife about 18 months before. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased Moiroud was a good-natured, easy sort of man, who had been unsuccessful in business and still more unfortunate in having a wife who was un faithful to him, and had for twelve years been the scandal of the village, owing to her illicit connection with the other prisoner, living in a cottage within 100 paces of the farmhouse. On September 7th Moiroud had disappeared, and rumours soon began to cir culate that he had been made away with by his wife and her paramour. To silence these reports the female prisoner, on the 13th September, applied to the police authorities of Chatonnay, requesting that measures might be taken to discover her husband, who, as she alleged, had left home on the 7th, and had -not been seen since. As the popular suspicions soon after became known to the authorities, officers were sent to search her house, and in the ash-hole of the oven pieces of calcined bones were found, which were ascertained to be those of a human body. A close examination of the house having also led to the dis covery of numerous traces of blood in the bed room, and on the handle of an axe, the widow Moiroud and Chenavas were arrested. When interrogated, the female prisoner admitted that she had killed her husband unintentionally by throwing a large stone at him after he had struck her in a quarrel, and that, not knowing what to do with the body, she had burnt it in the oven. But as this statement was not credited, she at last owned that Chenavas had murdered her husband while asleep by striking him on the head with an axe, and that they had then burned the body and buried the calcined bones at a spot which she indicated, and where they were found. Chenavas, after long denying the truth of his ac complice's confession, at last admitted it. The police having been informed of the circumstances attending the death of the male prisoner's wife, had her body exhumed, and chemical analysis proved that the viscera contained a quantity of arsenic. He was therefore committed on both charges, but he all along denied that he had caused his wife's death. The jury acquitted Chenavas on the charge of poisoning his wife, but brought in a verdict of guilty, with extenuating circumstances, against both the prisoners on the other accusation, and the Court accordingly sentenced them to hard labour for life. The Mercury of Apt (Vaucluse) mentions that M. Devoulx, formerly registrar in that town, has just died, aged 102. The customs receipts at Havre during February last amounted to 1,109,106 f., being 585,993 f. less than in the same month last year. The bounties paid on exports during the same period were 5,237 f., being 110,997 f. less than in February, 1864. The Siecle says :—" Mine. Hulbutier, wife of a cutler, living near the Bois de Romainville, was confined yesterday of her twenty-ninth child. Eight of these children, four boys and four girls, are the only ones living." BOURSE, March 3.—Business is a little more ac tive than yesterday, but the market is still weak. Threes, for the Account, are unvaried, being at 67fr. 85c. Mobilier are now at 891 fr. 25c. In Railway Shares there is not much doing, but prices are generaly well maintained. The market closed as follows : Italian Loan 65 Do. end month 65 15 Ditto Threes — New Mexican Russian 9O Austrian Spanish Threes Home Debt Deferred - RAILWAYS. 41 per Cents 96 75 Do. end month — 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 90 Credit Mobilier Do. end month 883 75 Bank Shares 3505 Cndit Foncior 1275 Rorattu Cash. Acct. Orleans Northern lOl5 ... 1015 Lyons and Mediterranean 945 950 Southern 5Bl 25 ... 580 Western 542 50 ... Eastern Sardinian 302 50 ... 302 50 Austrian Lombard 550 ... 552 50 North of Spain 312 50 ... 310 Saragossa BB5 ... 382 50 Ditto to Barcelona GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES. —The regulations for the insurance of lives with the Government and the purchase of Government annuities have been issued. In order that inquiries may be made as to the health and real age of the applicant he is to be re quired to give referees—two respectable householders and his employer. On the insurance of a life there may also be a medical examination. Insurances will be void in case of death by the hands of justice or by suicide. If the insured shall, after insuring, follow certain hazardous occupations, or go beyond the limits of Europe, or enter upon active ser vice as a soldier, he must pay higher premiums, and ob tain leave from the Postmaster-General. Persons insuring their lives or purchasing a future monthly allowance may make their payments even weekly ; the amount insured will be paid over immediately after proof of the death. Life annuities or deferred monthly allowances purchased are to bo free from all taxes. A life policy will not be exempt from probate duty. To cover costs and charges, a person purchasing an annuity, payable half yearly, may be re quired to pay a fee of is. for every £1 of annuity purchased. Tho business is to be conducted at post-offices and at those offices the forms to be filled up and an abstract of the re gulations may be procured as soon as they shall be ready. THE METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS AND VESTRY OF ST. MARYLEBONE.—The committee of the vestry of St. Marylebone, appointed to consider the carrying out of the Thames Embankment contract by the Metropolitan Board of Works, yesterday presented a report, in which it was stated, " Your committee have with much care and attention examined into the several charges brought against the Metropolitan Board of Works in refer ence to the carrying out the contracts for the Thames Embankment (and various other charges in connexion with the main drainage works), and your committee is of opinion that the Metropolitan Board of Works by their answers (and the evidence by which these answers have . been supported) have fully refuted all and every charge made against their proceedings, and that the Metropolitan Board of Works is entitled to the full confidence and sup port of the vestry.—GEo. H. BACHITOFFNER, Chairman."— , Ordered to be entered on the paper. LAW INTE, This Day. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Winslow.) IN RE 1. LEIGH, LATE POLICE MAGISTRATE AT WORSHIP- STREET. To-day was appointed for judgment in this matter, which has created considerable interest in both legal and com mercial circles. It will be remembered that the opposition to the bankrupt has been extremely marked, so that the judgment of the acting commissioner has been looked for with some anxiety. It had been announced that the judg ment khad been postponed upon the application of the bankrupt, and Mr. Beard received a letter this morning from Mr. Registrar Winslow to the effect that this really was tho case. Our reporter has been informed that what ever way the result of the judgment be, it is the intention of some of the creditors to bring the matter under the notice of the benchers. DIVORCE COURT. (Before the Judge Ordinary and a Common Jury.) FRADIN V. FRADIN AND DEGLOS. Additional evidence as to the identity of the respondent in this case, which was reported in yesterday's Sun, was adduced, and the court made a decree nisi with costs against the co-respondent. HEATHCOT V. HEATHCOT. Mr. Giffard, Q.C., and Dr. Spinks, were counsel for the petitioner; and the Queen's Advocate and Mr. Searle, for the respondent. This was a suit instituted by Thomas Hoathcot for a divorce from his wife, on the ground of his wife's adultery with a person named Patrick Moore, who was killed in 1863 in a drunken squabble. The respondent denied the adultery, recriminated the charge, and pleaded cruelty and wilful neglect conducing to her misconduct. Mr. Giffard opened the case, and it appeared that the parties were in a respectable station of life. The parties were married in May, 1864, and for some time re sided in the Caledonian-road. Shortly after the marriage the respondent gave birth to a child, and subsequently the petitioner allowed her to go to visit her friends in Ireland, but the child having become ill he wrote to her to return immediately. She seemed very much displeased with this summons, and returned with evident reluctance. Soon after she became addicted to intemperance, ne glected the child, and behaved herself so improperly that her husband was compelled to leave her in 1856, but he gave her the furniture of the house, worth between £2OO and £3OO. In the same year he discovered that she had decamped, and that she had sold the furniture. It appeared that she had opened a tobacconist shop in Marylebone, and behaved herself in the most disgusting manner, ap pearing at the door drunk, and collecting a crowd about the place. Through the medium of a solicitor a negotia tion was opened between the parties, which resulted in an agreement by which respondent promised not to annoy her husband, and he agreed to make her a weekly allow ance, which was paid regularly ; and in addition to which he gave her occasionally £5 and other sums of money. This continued until 1863, but on the 12th of May in this year, a man was brought before one of the metropolitan magistrates, charged with having caused the death of the man named Patrick Moore. A woman was examined at the investigation who described herself as Mrs. Moore, but afterwards admitted that her name was Hatchet, and that she was the wife of the petitioner, but that she had been living with Moore for some time preced ing his death. The husband then commenced proceedings for a dissolution of his marriage. Decree nisi. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. THE SOCIAL EVIL.—THREATENING ONE OF THE COM PLAINANTS.—Victoria de Langle, a Frenchwoman, was charged before Mr. Knox with loitering in Regent-street, for the purpose of prostitution, to the annoyance of the inhabitants. Mr. Henry Dolby, engrave; of Regent's Quadrant, said : —Tho prisoner is a prostitute. At 10 o'clock last night she came into Regent's Quadrant, and continued there with slight intermissions till 12 o'clock. I had seen her accost two men, and would have given her into custody, but could not see a constable. At five minutes to 12 I saw her com ing down the Quadrant, leaning on the arm of a man named Kaye, reputed to be a man who lives on her prosti tution, and who follows me about wherever I go. At the moment I passed her she said, " You are a thief," these words being in English, and afterwards, "Satre ca naille, j'aurai ma vengeance." Since the prisoner was here last and convicted by your worship, she has been going on just as before and as if she had never been convicted and no warning given to her. She hisses me, uses filthy ex pressions towards me, and I go in fear of bodily harm being done to me by her. Mr. Albert having read over the evidence to the prisoner, Mr. Watson, 299 A, said—l saw the prisoner accost two men. I cautioned her and she called me disgusting names, and said she could give me something. She has since she was hero last been worse than ever, and gets crowds round Mr. Dolby and myself while walking in the street. Mr. Knox—l shall fine the prisoner 40s. or a month, and order her to find one bail in £3O to keep the peace towards Mr. Dolby for three months. Kayo (formerly a sergeant of police, and the man alluded to by Mr. Dolby)—l wish to speak. Inspector Walker—That is the man who lives on the pri soner's prostitution. Mr. Knox—Put him out of court. The order of the magistrate was promptly obeyed. Fanny Bradley and Mary Ann Emma Edwards was next charged with a similar offence. Mr. Dolby said his only object in prosecuting in these cases was to get rid of the nuisance, he having no vindic tive feeling towards the prisoners. Mr. Knox fined them 40s. or a month each. THAMES. AGGRAVATED AND UNMANLY OUTRAGE. - William Thompson, a seaman, who has been in custody a fortnight, was brought up on remand before Mr. Partridge, charged with savagely assaulting Mary Rasin. Mr. L. Lewis, from Lewis and Lewis, Ely-place, de • fended the prisoner. It appeared that the complainant was an unfortunate woman in more senses than one, and certainly in the annals of brutality no female ever sustained more serious injury. Her head, face, and body wore covered with bruises and contusions. She met with the prisoner a fortnight since, and they were carousing at various places for some time. She took him home to her lodgings, No. 4, Bett's-street, St. George-in-the-East. The prisoner's shipmate, who was also accompanied by a woman, went to the same house. A most disgraceful quarrel took place between the com plainant and the prisoner, and he threatened her, making use of fearful language. He then committed a murderous assault upon her, beat her about the head and face with his clenched fists, and caused her to bleed copiously from the nose and mouth, and then knocked her on the side of the head, on the eyes, on the right arm, and on the body until she was perfectly insensible. She had been under medical treatment in the hospital since the outrage was committed upon her, and was in a deplorable condition. Both parties were the worse for liqour at the time, bnt not drunk. It was admitted on both sides that the prisoner gave the woman ls. and a neckerchief only, and that she had not attempted to rob him, as-women of her class generally did when sailors were their companions. In defence it was urged by Mr. Lewis that both parties were equally to blame, and that the prisoner, who was not quite sober, thought he was beating a man. Mr. Partridge said there was no question about the origin of the quarrel, but that did not justify the prisoner in beating and mutilating the woman in such a savage manner. The unfortunate wretches who paraded our streets were entitled to the protection of our laws, and not to be maimed or killed by brutal ruffians. The prisoner had committed a savage and dastardly assault on the com plainant—it was an outrage of the worst description, and he felt bound to inflict a severe sentence, which was that the prisoner be imprisoned in the House of Correction for six months and kept to hard labour. WESTMINSTER. SYSTEMATIC PLUNDER OF EMPLOYERS.—John Williams, a man between 30 and 40 years of age, was placed at the bar charged with felony. Mr. Smyth, solicitor, conducted the prosecution. He said that the prisoner had been in the employment of Mr. Joseph Knight, timber merchant and fire-wood maker, Baltic wharf, Pimlico, for the last six months. It was his duty to carry out wood to customers, to receive the money, and account for it immediately upon his return home. On Thursday last the prisoner was directed to deliver 1,000 bundles of wood to a gentleman named Noels, in Belgrave street, 1,000 more to Mr. Gross, of 40, Elizabeth-street, and 300 more to Colonel Benson, of Eaton-place. The prisoner loaded his cart with only 1,040 in the first instance, and having delivered 1,000 out of that number to Mr. Noels, took the remaining 40 to Mr. Gross, and then returned to his master's promises, where ho loaded 1,310 bundles, and returning to Mr. Gross, delivered to him 1,010, making in all 1,050 bundles, and received payment of Mr. Gross for that number. Upon prisoner returning to his master he accounted only for the money for 1,000, pocketing the remainder. Prisoner was given in charge, and he then alleged that he had bought 50 bundles of wood of a stranger in the street, and sold them to Mr. Gross on his own ac count. Mr. Smyth said prosecutor had suffered consider ably by systematic robberies of this description for years, and had for some time suspected the honesty of the prisoner. The prosecutor was called in support of the above state meat. Arthur Jeffreys, the yard boy, who accompanied the prisoner with the cart, was also called in support of the prosecution. Mr. Gross, of 40, Elizabeth-street, Pimlico, proved that the unusual number of 40 bundles of wood was left first, and 1,010 afterwards, when he immediately paid prisoner for 1,050. Mr. Knight proved that prisoner only paid for 1,000. Prisoner was remanded. MISSING VESSEL.—The Electra sailed from Con stantinople on the 12th of September for the 'United King dom, and has not since been heard of. C ir.i . ,))t - r -, --- (tzual 't* 4 .- tp4, • - li--; 11111110. HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, March 3. The Queen, accompanied by her Royal HighneS.S Princess Beatrice, walked in the grounds this morning. Her Royal Highness Princess Helena rode in the Home Park. Her Royal Highness Princess Louise also went out riding, attended by the Hon. Emily Cathcart. Lord Alfred Paget and Colonel the Hon. A. Isar dinge have succeeded Major-General the Hon . A. N. Hood and Colonel the Hon. D. de BO 3.. Equerries in Waiting to her Majesty. -IP.- The Prince and Princess of Wales. The Prince of Wales rode on horseback yester day, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel Keppel• t. The Princess of Wales took a carriage drive, tended by the Hon. Mrs. Bruce. Field-Marshal Prince Bariatinsky visited the Prince and Princess of Wales atMarlborough douse. The Earl Granville was honoured by the pre sence of their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess °' Wales at dinner last evening, at the noble earl's residence in Bruton-street. After dinner a select partyin witness the representation of a French " Proverbs," which the characters were admirably sustained by I ,3cilie. Beatrice, the Hon. Lewis Wingfield, and Mr. Alfred Ala` d Their Royal Highnesses the Crown Prince ali ft Crown Princess of Prussia., with their youngest child, assembled tO Berlin on Wednesday last for Stettin, where they side for about three weeks. Her Royal Highness Princess Mary of Cambridge arrived at the Duchess of Cambridge's residence in St, James's Palace last night, from a lengthened visit to their, loyal Highnesses the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess Mecklenburg-Strelitz, at Strelitz. The princess was sec calr panied home by Lady Caroline Cust and Baron Lae', Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and DileD e '' d'Aumale, who are now residing at their seat, Woodnorto9:o Worcestershire, have been visited during the last few. (l6) o by their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchesss cou ntes7 Nemours, the Prince de Joinville, the Count and child, d'Eu, the the Duke de Chartres, with the Baron and Barone!): de Lage and Colonel Reille in attendance, and Dr. la d from Esher. Thd Duke de Nemours and the Count 1 , Countess d'Eu were to leave Woodnorton yesterday 13.1°1. ing on their return to Claremont. The Duke of Devonshire and Lady L° llo Cavendish have returned to Holkar Hall, Lancashire, fil)rudi Winchester, where his grace's second son, Lord Bdsc3Dy Cavendish, met with an accident some weeks age' which his lordship's leg was broken. Vie Lord Redesdale and the Earl Grosvenor are, understand, appointed executors to the will a the I % 4 ' e Duke of Northumberland, which is dated as far lo ci `. o , 1848. The Dowager Duchess Eleanor is to have Stalo.. Park, torkshire, and the late duke's house in NVl' ite `: ; :ge gardens for life, and the ample provision under her 00— settlement. o f be THE RUSSIAN EMBASSY.—Yesterday, b eing tenth anniversary of the Emperor Alexander's act';- sion to the throne, Divine service was celebrated a t - 5 chapel of the embassy, in Welbeck-street. The l le'r. file Popoff officiated. His Excellency Baron BrunnoW, " Ambassador, the Secretaries of the imperial ErabaesY' all the Russian subjects resident in town, attended °a 4 0 occasion. In the evening his Excellency the Jt Ambassador and Baroness Brunnow received at dinner toss Highness Field-Marshal Prince Baratinske and Baratinsky, Rear-Admiral Boutakoff, Prin ce koff, Prince A. Ouroussow, Baron Friedricks, ; 8 ; or Berg, Colonel Novitzky, Captain Kousnezoff, and Pro'' as or Mr. Somerset Beaumont, M.P., has been P l3 :to yiellnon the International Commission to proceed to tin inquire into the commercial relations between Groat WI and Austria. cate a DAVID ROBERTS was in art wholly a self-ed.- man. He received but one week's instruction , whee,,,,s b s °'s oi: l in the ``Trustees' Academy," Edinburgh, whe re he to have made copies of two hands. Mn. VINCENT WALLACE is so far recovered 35 t° be out of immediate danger. His many friends, 0110.. this country and in Paris, look forward to a yet 111°11 vourable turn of the malady.—The Orchestra. 010 LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS FOB t ENSUING WEEK.—Monday—Royal Infltitutioll, 7. 2 ; Electricity, Professor Tyndall. Entomological , tis, Asiatic, at 8. Architects, at 8. Society of Arts at 8: tor Lecture) Geology and the Arts and Manufactu re, P on lessor Ansted. Tuesday—Ethnological at 8 : ne etruct Afr• of Aborigines of Chatham Island by a Maori Invasion, Travers ; Inhabitants of Asia Minor, previous t° g 0 o f Greeks, Mr. Hyde Clarke. Engineers, at 8: Drain:tsti- Paris," Mr. Hederstedt. Photographic, at 8. Roya;fo tution, at 3 : Introduction to Study of Chemistry, Pr oles, at sor Hofmann. Wednesday—Archaeological Associatilis, 81 ; MSS. relating to Cardinal Wolsey, Mr. Read' covery of Roman ,Villa, Garnet Bay, S.W., Rev. 3 t ir ' cot- Society of Literature, at Bk. Society. of Arts, a t 8 ; : t ton Gins, Mr. Colburn. Microscopical, at 8: Th i ft : t 8: cea3, by Dr. Greville. Graphic, at 8. Geologio' at Echinodermata from Arabia, &c., Mr. Martin P uli , 31r. Fossil Contents of Caves attWindmill Hill, Gibralta'm' of Busk and the late Dr. Falconer; Asserted Occtirr,,,,ell'al- Human Bones in the Nile and Ganges, &c., late P r ' fro wner. Thursday—Royal Academy, at 3 : Sculpture' ptiog lessor Westmacott. Royal Institution, at 3: In at to Study of Chemistry, Prof essor Hofmann. Pl el ' r , '1 11 ` ) Antiquaries, at Bi. Friday—Royal Institution, at Eozoon, or earliest known Fossil, • Professor P g fr o- Saturday—Royal Institution, at 3 : Nervous Sy st lessor Marshall.—Athetzmum. _ uin . 000 DR. LUSIIINGTON.—Yesterday Dr. 1,11'004 resumed his duties as judge of the AdmiraltY, tio for the first time since his late illness. Consid°lolo34 great age of his lordship, now in his 84 th year, 110 war t better than was anticipated, added to which he ment in three cases with his accustomed lucl arrangement, and afterwards heard several casee• HER MAJESTY'S CHAPELS ROYAL.--- 111)-131 fi l iel l, will commence the special Sunday services, by command of her Majesty, are celebrated dur il3 , g , 4 l, S t ' every year in these chapels. At the Chapel 11°',1.11., James's, the sermon at the twelve o'clock service 1 , a u preached by Dr. Ellicott, Lord Bishop of Glouceete Bristol. At the Chapel Royal, Whitehall, the I °llo ll ' the morning will be preached by the Very Rel r ' P r f ra . t 1 1: dean of Chichester ; and in the afternoon by his ° Ty", Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of all Eng l3°- ; n od service in Whitehall Chapel commence at ett i -. 0 1 " p.m. The Sunday afternoon sermon at the ChaP e Whitehall, attracted very large congregations Chaff ,t tio 800 A considerable space in this chapel and the whieltoe galleries are free to the public. It accorarsou' persons. the fe' LORD AMBERLEY.—In compliance with to tior; quest of the Leeds and West Riding Liberal lOgisl,o° Society Lord Amberley has agreed to address f D e : electors of Leeds the week after next, with a T ie , o :oag: -. coming a candidate for the representation of that " 30 ,03' His first address will be delivered on Monday , tile l on d ', tl :t to the Liberal electors of some of the wards an and those of the remainder of the war ds on the i f t he, Wednesday. Should his political views meet wi t 'i l lot"' probation of these meetings, it is unders tood tlot 00..elee ship will address a public meeting of el ectors apdil r il / e tors on Thursday. 04 11 ' ) THE LATE LORD WILLOUGHBY D'Elto. viptio g mortal remains of the Right Hon. Lord NY t 0 00 D'Eresby were on Thursday consigned to their in ly Dori; place, beside those of Lady Willoughby, in th e fs riliz era l ,of ing vault at Grimathorpe, Lincolnshire. Th e — ., s trat e % e J private. On the recommendation of the ra e g„ o cl 4 Crieff, the shops and other places of business were from noon till 3 o'clock p.m., and the town bells ' 0 0 o f at intervals during the day, out of res pect to th‘rilogSio,,, of the deceased nobleman. In the adjoining t oo S. o ff Muthill, Comrie, and St. Fillans business wa s o f C r/ .4 pended for a part of the day. The magistrates ost ,, aP t;, have agreed to meet in the Town-hall on Stlo cleY , o oo l° , , afterwards to proceed in a body, dressed in deeP h l ; s ot ir to the parish church, where they will occuPY of n ight longing to the Drummond Castle estate. -- -Bc° dor DESTRUCTIVE FIRES. --During Th 111. 51 .0 0 111 1 and yesterday morning several fires br: of t b . what is termed the metropolitan district. S ° !too were of an extensive character, but others 1 01 '7 o flag' o , to deserve public notice. Amongst the s erion e i c oog ios l.o ,, tions was one that occurred in the P remises rer, and Pv'e Mr. Tomkins, late Shrimpton, licensed victua A ti a r e , l o prietor of the Green Dragon Tavern, 10, St; or li t te ' to hill, Doctor's-commons. Plenty of the Neu' en We e 1110 pany's water having been procured the fir' .yero alr ti o work in their usual intrepid man ner, but theY: .no t of 0 , eat 9 h a to get the flames extingui s h e d until the uPP°2 premises was destroyed and the lower pertilatown• maged by water. The origin of the fire a pe nu , Itte Eeci heat bulg ewdatsossoucinhteannseexttheanttththeaftrotnhteywasl:: e l xpettest : o : i t;; e 7 t e e r c i A similar fire occurred about 20 minutes.l3e:cb', day morning, in the premises of Mrs. tech, f3r iciC ara victualler, and owner of the Three Colurn o ' pore The flames were not extinguished unt o il d. so oe_ ol o - _, 6 0 greatly burnt. About half-past two o'cl . clock g r . G": , ing a fire was discovered on the premi se : 0. 3, Etl_ t is b4 Clement, corn chandler and seed dower 0 . 1 -: the p reln rl ,o street, Barnsburyroad. The lower pa suifere and the stock in trade were destroyed. •Da insured.