The Sun. — London, England, 1848-02-17 00:00:00

Clyde to Runcorn, was towed in here leaky, on the 311 i.nitnt, and mu S' Thf• sloop, Endeavour, ~{ ttlis port, which on shcte at the entrance of Lower Lough, uu ttle Oth ult., has been got off, ai,d towed to this port. WIVENHOE, FEB. 16. The Indian, Urquhart, not Marshall, as previously reported, for London, which was on shore on the Gunfleet Saud, on the 14th instant, has been assisted into this port, making a great deal of water. The Mercury, of and from Sunderland to London, has been on the Gunfleet Sand, but was assisted off and prockeded. PLYMOUTH, FEB. 16. Sid. Prince Regent, Sierra Leone; Superb, Philivtelphia. BRISTOL, FRB. 16. Sld. Maria Laure, Mauritius ; Ada Mary, Barbadocs ; Perseverance, St. John's, New BruhAwick. NEWS.—(THIS DAY.) rzzivTGATE ILDID The supplies of Meat on sale today were by no means large, and a steady business was doing, at full prices. Beef from 3s to 4s ; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 8d ; Veal, 4s 2d to 5s 4d ; and Pork, 3s. 10d to 5s 2d per Bibs. by the carcase. MEAT MARKETS. SOUTHALL, FEB. 16.—The Beet trade was heavy, on somewhat easier terms; but that for Mutton was active, at higher rates. Otherwise the demand was in a slug gish state. Beef from 3s 6d to 4s 4d ; Mutton, 3s 10d to 5s 4d; Veal, 4s to ss; and Pork, 4s to 4s 8d per Bibs., to sink the offals. ROMFORD, FEB. 16 —We had a steady general de mand to-day, and prices were well supported. Beef from 3s 4d to 4s 4d; Mutton, as 8d to 5s 4d; Veal, 4s to ss; and Pork, 4s to 4s 8d per albs ; Quarter old Store Pigs, 18s to 245. each. Hlmmalm, FEB. 16.—Prime stock sold freely, at full prices. Otherwise, the demand was in a sluggish state. Beef, from 3s 6d to 4s 4d; Mutton, 4s 2d to 55 2d; Veal, 4s to 4s 8d; and Pork, 4s 2d to 4s 8d per Sibs. ARUNDEL, FEB. 15.—Beef, from 3s 8d to 4s 4d; Mutton, 4s 4d to 55 2d; Veal, 4s 2d to 4s 8d per 81bs. A. mo derate supply, and a slow trade. CHICHESTER, FEB. 16.—Mutton advanced quite 2d per 81bs; otherwise, the trade was heavy. Beef, from 3s 6d to 48 2d ; Mutton, 4s 4d to 5s 2d ; Veal, 4s to 4s 8d ; and Pork, 4s 4d to 4s 8d per Sibs. Quarter -old Store Pigs, 18s to 22s each. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 21 13s to 81 13s ; Clover, ditto, 31 13s to 41 15s ; and Straw, 11 4s to 1/ 8s per load. Supply good, and trade very dull. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 21 15s to 31 15s ; Clover ditto, 31 12s to 4/ 12s; and Straw, 1/ 4s to 11 9s per load. A moderate supply, and a heavy demand. WnrrEcnApEL.—Meadow Hay, 21 12s to 31 13s; Clover ditto, 3/ 12s to 4/ 15s ; and Straw, 1/ 4s to 11 Ss per load. Trade dull, at the above quotations. COAL MARKET. --YESTERDAY. Buddle's West Hartley 16s Od Ramsay .................. 13s Od Dipton Tanfield ...... l3s Od Wharneliffe ......... ... 15s 6d Hasting's Hartley l6i Od Eden Main .............. 17 8 s 3d s Od North Pontop ..... New Pelton Blain— ... 14s Od Bell New Tanfield ...... . ..... 14s 6d Haswell lBs 9(1 Original Tanfield South Peareth Tanfield Moor . ..... 16s Od Stewart's Tanfield Moor Butes... 141 6d Pease Wylam ......... ... .. —.. 15s 6d Tees Wall's End, Sce. 'Whitworth l3s 6(1 Harton ....... .... ...... 15s 6d SidneN 's Hartley Arrivals, 401—sold, 83. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the Week ended Feb. 17, 1844, made up from the Returns of tin. Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in Esti;land and \Vale, per Imperial Quarter. WHEAT. I BAILEY.' 01.TEI. I RTE. I BEANS. I PEAS. 4 PRICE 151 a ad 31s 2d I 20s 7d 30s 5d I 34s Id 43s 9d The Duties on Foreign Grain are now suspended. SHERIFFS' COURT.—(THIS DAIL .) (Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BURCHELL.) DE WINTER AND OTHERS V. FEAKE. The plaintiffs in this action are bankers, and the action was brought to recover the sum of 5811., the balance of a banking account and interest thereon. It appeared by the evidence that the accounts had been balanced from time to time, and interest charged thereon, the above amount being found due in June last; since that period interest at seven and a half per cent. had been charged. The Learned UNDER-SHERIFF said he did not con sider they could charge beyond the 51. per cent. The plaintiffs' attorney said. that money had been so scarce that 9 per cent:could have been obtained. The UNDER-SHERIFF said that as they struck a ba lance every six months they charged compound interest. The plaintiffs' clerk was then examined as to whether a bill of exchange for 3001., accepted by a Mr. Philip Feake Martin, and drawn by defendant, had not been paid. The witness replied that it was dishonoured and returned to defendant, although it had been entered in the account to plaintiffs' credit. The drawer had an account with their bank. A juror asked whether the bankers might not have taken up the bill, and debited Martin?—The witness said, not without instructions Defendant wished them to sue Martin, but they did not thiak fit to do so. The UNDER-SHERIFF said the jury might give what interest they thought proper, say 5 or 4 per cent. or less; it was discretionary. The jury ultimately gave a verdict for the principal and interest at the rate of 5 per cent. BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) Ann Simpson, a woman of bad character, was charged before Mr. Henry with stealing a pocket-book, contain ing seven 101. notes, and one 51. note of the Bank of England, and one 100 dollar note of the United States Bank, from the person of Mr. John Scones, a planter, of Texas, but now residing at Spring-place, Bagnigge wells. road. The complainant, it appeared, took a cab at about four o'clock this morning, in the Strand, desiring the driver to take him to Spying-place, Bagnigge-wells-road. He was then slightly intoxicated. The prisoner came up as the cabman was about to shut the door after com plainant got in, and without invitation, stepped into the cab. The complainant allowed her to remain. On ar riving at Bagnigge-wells the prosecutor found that he had no change, and ordered the cab to drive back to the Strand and get change. The cabman drove back to Brydges-street, where he stopped at the Falstaff, a night house, and the complainant and prisoner got out. The complainant then missed his pocket-book which he had in his pocket when he first got into the cab. Having some indistinct recollection of feeling the prisoner's band in his breast pocket, where he had placed the pocket-book, he immediately accused her of it. She denied it, and the complainant spoke to the cabman, who called a police-sergeant (Matthews, 10 H) who was pass ing at the moment. The sergeant, on hearing the charge made by prosecutor, took the cabman in custody, and gave the prisoner in custody to the constable on duty in Brydgea-street. On the way to the station-house the prisoner produc( d the pocket-book, and said she would give it up at the station-house. She admitted that she took it from Mr. Scones's pocket, and said she did so be cause he would not give her some money which he had promised her, and she wante d " to p a y herself." She was detained at the station and the cabman was liberated. The pocket-book and its contents (seven ten pounds and one five pound note, English, and one 100 dollar note, American) were identified by Mr. Scones, who thought the notes were all he had in the pocket-book, but was not certain. Mr. Scones e x p ressed a great unwillingness topress p the charge, as he had urgent business in Paris which required his immediate presence there, and the delay of attending to a prosecution would be disastrous to ela him; but Mr. HENRY said, that for reasons which he should h erea ft e r explain he could n ot allow complainant to w ithdraw from the prosecution of the charge. The pri soner must be remanded till this day week, and Mr. Scones must then attend, or he would be compelled. Remanded accordingly. MARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY) Wm. Jones, a sturdy young fellow, was placed at the bar, before Mr. Bingham, charged with ,burglariously entering the house of Colonel Albert Goldsmid, 2, Park crescent, Regent's Park, and stealing therefrom a pair of gold epaulets, several gold ornaments, silver spoons, and other articles. John Lambkin, butler in the service of Colonel Gold amid, said he was in bed between three and four o'clock this morning, when he was disturbed by hearing a noise. The moment he awoke he saw the shade of a light under his bed-room door. Fancying that some person was in the house he got out of bed and opened the room-door gently, and looking about him saw the prisoner holding a light against the front door inside the passage, examining the bolts. The prisoner subsequently proceeded up stairs, and witness alarmed his fellow servant, who came to his assistance, and accompanied him in searching the house. On searching the library they found the prisoner coucbed down under the sofa. Witness's fellow servant laid hold of the prisoner while witnesa went and called the police, who came and took the prisoner into custody. Witness subsequently saw the articles produced taken from him. Charles Dither, footman in the same establishment, corroborated the evidence of last witness. Mr. James Henry Goldsmid, nephew to Colonel Albert Goldsmid, identified the property produced as belonging to his uncle. Rann, 249 S, said he was on duty in the New-road about four o'clock, when he was called to No. 2, entering the Park-cr eslibra rycent. He proceeded to t he house, and, on , saw the prisoner sitting on the sofa. s coatearched d h the im, and found upon h im four waistcoats, a ,an other articles now produced. He also found some money which had been taken from the footman's box, a " jemmy," and a box of matches. He then took him into custody, when the prisoner told him that he came out with the intention of committing the robbery, and w as very sorry he had disturbed the butler. The prisoner, who was recognised as an old offender, seas committed for trial at the Central Criminal Court. CLERKENWELL.—(THIS DAY.) Perrrin, a man having the appearance of an Irish labourer, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with uttering count erfeit coin. Mrs. Flack, of Berkeley street, Clerkenwell, grocer and tobacconist, stated that last evening, being in her parlour, she heard, in conversation with the lad who was serving in the shop, a gruff voice, which she thought she recognised, and thinking she bad some more than common reason for remembering it, she looked out, and at once knew the prisoner as the she to who some three months ago passed off upon her a very had half-crown, in a style of great tact and impudence, which the witness imitated with such dranditic fidelity as provoked some laughter in the court. At the moment when she recognised him last night he was acting in the same " off-handi dash tiind of a way," pretending to be T tIE SUN, LONDON, _ THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 17. half drunk, and was about to take up a small parcel of al:(1 eißange of a ,;L:..2i.ning , 1 • ;-7- , Hew_ • PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. -~ the shopman had just tai-rHd up, forward, caught up the the tobac...i, examined the half-crown, called her husband from the parlour and a. police-officer from the street, secured the prisoner and gave him into custody. She was prepared with proof of the prisoner's identity as to the previous uttering. Mr. TvltwurrT said that in this case the prisoner had managed to escape, and laughed at his continued sue cress. He was one of those persons who followed this practice as an occupation, and after the lapse of certain intervals revisited the same shops, when they thought they would have been forgotten. But the authorities at the Mint had their eyes upon hire. At present. i! would bH useless to commit him on this charge. Mrs. Flack observed that it was very hard the public si-ii)uld be exposed to such rubbery. The MAGISTRATE said that the law could not un fortunately afford tradespeople like the complainant as much protection as was to be desired. They would be much better protected by their own vigilance and good sense, as was very well exemplified in the case of Mrs. Flack herself. The prisoner was discharged. • ; .;:. 17'6 arrrocc,r)qo thP ,7• V • "'..TYNESD.AY, FEB. 16. ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL. Order fur Committee read; Motion made, and Question proposed, " That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair Amendment proposed, to leave out from the word " That" to the end of the Question, in order to add the words this House will, upon this day six months, resolve itself into the said Committee," instead thereof :—Question put, " That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the Ques tion." The House d.vided MAJORITY-AYES, 186. Adair, Hugh E. Greene, Thomas Pigott, Francis Idair, R. ,hafto Gregson, Samuel Pilkington, Jaisies :ware, Viscount Grenfell, C. Pascoe Price, Sir It. Aisoc.&, 1110itiai Grenfel , Charles W. Pusey, Philip Anson, Colonel Grey, Sir G. Raphael, Alexander Amon, Viscount Grey, Ralph W. Reynolds, John Baines, M. T. Grosvenor, Lord R. Ricardo, J. L. Barkly, Henry Haggitt, F. It. Ricardo, Osman Baring, F. T. Hall, Sir B. Rich, Henry Bellew, R. M. Hayter, W. G. Robartes, T. J. Berkeley, H. Ileadlam, T. E. Romilly, John Berkeley - , Grantley Henry, Alexander Russell, F. C. H. Birch, Sir Thomas Herbert, Henry A. Rutherford, A. Blackall, S. W. Hervey, Lord A. Saiileir, John Blake, M. J. Heywood, James Scheletield, William Bouverie, E. P. Howard, C W.G. Scrape, G. P. Bowring, Dr. Hume, Joseph Scully, Francis Bright, John Hutt, William Seeley, Charles Brockman, E. D. Jackson, William Seymour, Lord Brotherton, Joseph Jervis, Sir John Shell, R. L. Brown, W. Johnstone, Sir J. Sidney, Thomas Buller, Charles Keogh, William Simeon, John Banbury, Edward Keppel, George T. Smith, Vernon Busfeild, W. Kershaw, James Smith, John B. Buxton, sir E. King, Peter John Smythe, G. Callaghan, D. Labouchere , Henry Somers, J. P. Campbell, W. F. Langston, J. 11 Somerville, Sir W. Carter, John B. Lascelles, W. S. Stansfleld, W. R. C. Caulfield, Colonel Lewis, George C. Strutt, Edward Cavendish, G. li. Lincoln, Earl of Stuart, Lord D. Cayley, Edward S. Lushington, Charles tua Sullivan,M rt, ichael Lord J. Clay, James M a cnamara, Major Clements, Charles 31`Gregor, John Sutton, Henry Clifford, Henry M. 31"Pavish, C. C. Talbot, J. H. Cobden, R. Meagher , Thomas Tal b o t, Sergeant Colebrooke, Sir T. Mahon, O'Gorman Tenison, E. K. Craig, W. G. Marsh ..11, J. G. Thicknesse, R. A. Crawford, W. S. Marshall, William Thompson, Colonel Dawson, T. V. Martin, C. W. Thornely, T. Devereux, John T. Matheson, Colonel Towneley, John Drumlanrig, Vis. Melgund, Viscount Trelawny, J. S. Drummond, H. Milues, R. M. Tufnell, Henry Duff, George S. Mitchell, T. A. Turner, E. Duncan Viscount Moffatt, George U r q uhart, David Dunne, P. Molesworth, Sir W. Vane, Lord 11. Ebrington, Viscount Monsen, William Verney, Sir H. Ellice, Edward Morpeth, Viscount Villiers, Charles Elliot, John E. Morison, General Wall, C. B. Evans, John Mostyn, E. M. L. Walmsley, Sir J. Ewart, William Mowatt, Francis Watkins, Colonel Fagan, William Mulgrave, Earl Wawn, J T. Foley, John 11. Mare, Colonel Westhead, J. P. Fordyce, A. D. Newry, Viscount Williams, John Forster, Mathew O'Brien, Sir Lucius Williamson, Sir H. Fox, W.J. O'Brien, Timothy Wilson, James Gardner, J. D. O'Brien, W. S. Wilson, Matthew Gibson, T. 31. O'Connell, M. J. Wood, W. P. Gladstone, W. E. O'Connor, Feargus Wyvill, Marmaduke Glyn, George Carr O'Flaherty, Anthony Yorke, H.R.: ' Gower, Leveson Paget, Lord Clarence Graham, Sir James Palmerston, Vis. , Granger, T. C. Parker, John Greene, John Peto, Samuel M. ELECTION COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) GREAT MARLOW. The Great Marlow Election Committee re-assembled at the usual hour this morning; Sir John Pakington in the chair. Mr. Sergeant WRANGHAM, finding that the evidence at his command would not sustain the allegations of bribery, said he felt it to be his duty not to waste the time of the Committee by further prosecuting the case. In the course of the inquiry he remarked that an insinu ation had been thrown out against Colonel Knox, one of the sitting Members, to the effect that he had been personally guilty of bribery, but he felt it due to the Committee and the Hon. and Gallant Member, to state that such an imputation could not have been borne out by the evidence. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the Committee having deliberated for a few minutes, the doors were re-opened, when Tho CHAIRMAN announced that the committee had come to the resolution that Mr. Williams had been duly elected for the borough of Great Marlow, and that Colonel Knox had also been duly elected. This closed the proceedings of the Committee. KINSALE. The Select Committee appointed to try the merits of the Kinsale election petition re-assembled at the usual hour this morning; Mr. Bouverie in the chair. The first witness called this morning was Ann Ryan daughter of Pat. Ryan, barber, of Kinsale. She stated that she had for some time been in the habit of assisting her father in his business, and she remembered being sent for on the morning of the election, between four and five o'clock, to go to Mr. Sisk's house, a publican at Kinsale, to operate upon the chins of a number of free and independent electors of the borough. She shaved the chins of no less than 35 voters, not one of whom could sit or stand from drunkenness. Some of them she found lying upon straw in the yard drunk, with bottles and drinking materials placed by their side, while others were snoosing on the kitchen floor, two or three of them lying amidst the contents of their own stomachs. The free and independents were held up by the sober portion while she shaved them ; but Dr. M'Lel lan was in that state that it was utterly impossible to shave him because he could not be held up at all, he was so drunk. The consequence was, that during the operation of shaving, she unfortunately cut his throat and her own finger at the same time. Mr. Guinness, the sitting Member, and Dr. Jago, his friend, were present and assisted in holding up the free and independents, while she operated upon them. Parson Ryder was amongst them, and appeared to her to be as drunk as the rest of them. The process of shaving occupied from between four and five o'clock till nine in the even ing, and immediately after they had been rendered some what decent they were marched up to the poll. Parson Ryder was tho incumbent of a neighbouring parish, and while the voters were lead up to the poll he supplied hem with: whisky. and talked about the liberty and 'recdorn of election. TZILERS. Anstey, Thomas C. Arundel, Earl of MINORITY-NOES, 154. Arbuthnott, Hugh Farrer, James Alasterman, J. Archdall, Captain Filmer, Sir E. Maunsell, T. B. Arkwright, George Fitzroy, Henry Meux, iirillenry Bagge, W. Floyer, John Miles, P. W. S. Bagot, William Forbes, W. Miles, W. Bailey, Joseph Forester, G. C. Moody, U. A. Bailey, Joseph, jun. Fox, S. L. Morgan, 0. Baldock, E. IL Frewen, C. H. Mundy, E. Miller Bankes, G. Fuller, A. E. Neeld, Joseph Bateson, T. Galway, Viscount Newdegate,,C. N. Beckett, William Goddard, A. L. Noel, Gerald J. Beresford, William Gordon, Admiral Packe, CW. Bourke, Richard S. Goring, Charles Pakington, Sir J. Bowles, Admiral Granby, Marquis of Palmer, Robert Brackley, Viscount Greenall, Gilbert Pennant, Colonel Brainston, T. W. Grogan, E. Plumptre, J. P. Bremridge, Richard Gwyn, Bowel Plowden, W. H. Broadley, li. Halford, Sir H. Powell, Col. Brooke, Lord Hall, Colonel Prime, Richard Brown, Humphrey Halsey, T. P. Reid, Colonel Bruce, C. L. C. Hamilton , G . A. Renton, John C. Buck, L. W. Hamilton, Lord C. Richards, Richard Buller, Sir J. Y. Harris, lion. Capt. Rushout, Captain Burghiey, Lord Mayes, Sir, E. Sanders, George Burrell, Sir C. Heald, James Scott, Francis Berroughes, H. N. Heathcote, Sir W. Seymer, Henry Ker Cabbell, B. B. lieneage, G. 11. W. Shirley, E. J. Carew, W. P. Henley, J. W. Sibthorp, Colonel Chichester, Lord J. Ilildyart, It. C. Sotheron, T. H. S. Chohneley, Sir.M. Hildyard, T. B. T. Spooner, Richard Christopher, It. Hodgson, W. N. Starrord,_Augustus Christy, Samuel Hood, Sir A. Stuart, Henry Codrington, Sir W. Hope, Sir J. Stuart, J. Coctrington, Sir W. Herlihy, John Sturt, Henry G. Cole, H. A. Hudson, George Thompson, Ald. Coles, Henry B. Ingestre, Viscount Tollemache, John Colvile, C. R. Ireland, Thomas J. Trollope, Sir J. Compton, H. C. Jocelyn, Viscount Turner, .George Connolly, Col. Jollitle, Sir W. H. Verner, Sir W. Corry, Henry Jones, Captain Vyse, R. it. H. H. Cripps, William Knight, F. W. Waddington, David Davies, D. A. S. Knox, Colonel Walpole, S. H. Deedes, W. Lennox, Lord II G. Walsh, Sir J. B. Deering, John P.- . Lewis, Sir 11 . Welby, G. E. Disraeli, B. Lindsay, Colonel Wellesley,Lord C. Dodd, G. Lockhart, W. Williams, T. P. Duckworth, Sir J. Long, Walter Willoughby, Sir 11 . Duncuft, John LowtherA, Colonel W7,ld, James Duo chts, George Lowther, Henry Du Pre, C. G. Lygon, Gen. Edwards, Henry Mackenzie, W. F. Egerton, W. T. M‘lsTaghten, Sir E. Farnham, E. B. Manners, Lord G. LOLA MONTES AGAIN. We learn by letters from Munich, of the 10th, that disturbances have taken place in that city, of which Lola i‘lontes was the cause. The following are the particulars :—Among the students of the University of Munich, as among those of almost all the German Universities, associations exist, and they adopt a par ticular name and a head-dress of a particular colour to distinguish them from each other. Five associa tions of this kind had been established for a long time in the University of Munich, under the names Pfalaer, Schwaben, Franken, Bavaren, and Isaren, the names, in German, of the five provinces which compose the kingdom of Bavaria. A sixth asso ciation was lately formed under the name of Ale mania. It was got up in the drawing-room of the Countess de Landsfeld (Lola Montes), who took it under her peculiar protection. Its mem bers, fifteen or twenty in number, wore dark red caps, with edgings of different "colours. The Ale manen, as they were called, were " sent to Co ventry " by their fellow-students, and declared un worthy of obtaining satisfaction for any offence what soever. One day, at the commencement of this month, the Alemanen having presented themselves at the lecture of a professor, were received with hissings and hootings, and the professor was obliged to close the lecture. The next day the authorities begged of the students to be orderly, and announced that an in vestigation would be made relative to the names of the getters-up of the disturbances. No notice was taken of this, and the next day the lectures were again interrupted by the uproar made against the Alemanen. Prince Wallerstein, the Minister of TELLERS. Inglis, Sir R. H. Law, C. E. Foreign Affairs, and, ad interim, of Public Instruc. tion, went to the University, and addressed the stu dents in a kind manner. He was loudly cheered,and a promise was given him by the students that the lecture should not again be disturbed. Four Alemanen, however, on leaving the Univer sity, were followed for a great distance by a crowd of students, hooting and yelling. On the 9th, the Alemanen were again assailed with yells of even increased violence, and compelled to seek refuge in an eating-house which they frequented. As they were entering the house, one of them, Count de Hirschberg, who was greatly irritated, drew forth a poignard, and rushed on the people nearest him. A gendarme, however, luckily seized his arm, and wrested the poignard from him; but the gendarmes did not dare to arrest him on account of his being one of the Alemanen. After this scene, the Alemanen wrote a letter from the eating-house to Mlle. Lola Montes, begging her protection. Immediately on receiving it, the fair Spaniard started off on foot to the scene of tumult. On being recognised, the mob, which by this time had become very considerable, heaped insult upon her, and at length became so threatening that she endeavoured to seek refuge in a house. But every door was closed against her, and amongst others that of the Austrian Legation. 'The King having been informed of what was passing, left a fete which he was giving in the Palace, and wentto the spot lie there offered his arm to the Countess to protect her, and led her into a church opposite the Palace. There Mlle. Lola threw herself on her knees at the foot of the altar, and cried, "God protect my best, my only friend !" Shortly after she took a pistol, and issued from the church, carrying the weapon in her hand. Meanwhile the irritation of the mob increased, and cried, "Down with the Alemanen! Down with the spies of the --1" When the people caught sight of the unfortunate Countess, they rushed to wards her, and a man, after wresting the pistol from her, seized her by the throat, and so held her against the wall whilst the mob heaped insults on her. At length the gendarmes succeeded in releasing the un lucky woman, and in conducting her to the military post of the palace, from which she subsequently passed to the apartments of the royal residence. During all the rest of the day the garrison was under arms and strong patrols paraded the streets. In the afternoon the authorities ;informed the students that the Uni versity would be closed for a year, and that all strangers to the city would have to leave Munich in forty-eight hours. In the evening the people assem • bled on the Place of the Obelisk, and broke down some wooden palings to obtain weapons to resist the armed force. In the morning, it is said that the gendarmes, without warning the people or summoning them to disperse, charged them, and in so doing wounded two students, and injured a man so severely that, as was said, he subsequently died. The muni cipality addressed the Bing to obtain a revocation of the decree for closing the 'University for a year, but he positively refused to comply with the request. He, however, subsequently did so, and it was an nounced that the University would be re-opened on the 14th. ALLEGED MURDER AT ELY.—A very painful sensation has been created in this district, in reference to the mysterious death of an aged female, named Elizabeth Grabb, who, for some considerable time past had resided with her husband at a place called Little port, a few miles distant. The deceased expired on Fri day last, somewhat suddenly, but then it was generally supposed by the inhabitants of the village that her death was perfectly natural. The suddenness of the deceased's death made it necessary that an inquest should be held on the body. Accordingly, Mr. W. Marshall, the co roner, was apprised of the death, and that functionary f o rthwith issued his warrant for an investigation to be opened on Saturday last. Upon that ocasion the jury wa s sworn, and after the body of deceased had been viewed, evidence of such a startling character was re ceived relative to the cause of death, that the coroner at once adjourned the inquiry until Monday. In the mean time Mr. Laxton, of Littleport, and Mr. Stevens, jun., of Ely, both surgeons, IA ere ordered to make a post etcetera examinalion of the body. Upon the . re-assem bling of the coroner and ju r y the medical evidence showed that the head of deceased was most extensively injured from external blows, apparently influtted with some heavy instrument. There was no doubt ex pressed by the medical men that the deceased bad died irom the effects of violence. The evidence of the other yr:messes went so far as to fix the guilt upon the hus band of the deceased. The jury, therefore, returned a verdict of wilful murder against John Grabb, the hus band, who was forthwith committed to Cambridge Castle to take his trial at the next assizes. TO SIR ROBERT INGLIS, 31. P.. AND OTHERS. se, , n' I 1:0L think it nlcesv.,.. - 'o i you niy humble remarks on that ali-ab , urbing suo ject of the day, Jewish disabilities, was there not, as I learn by a public print, now a petition on the Lords' table against the Bill in question. Declamations become useless against the over whelming torrent of the age, and Scripture quotations absurd when misinterpreted, or at least cited agree able to a self•suiting doctrine. He whom the mea sure, as its prime mover, will for ever honour, has eloquently and quite sufficiently shown that the question is a mere religious one ; but you seem scru pulously to think that Christianity is at stake by fo-giving sinners. Allow me, then, humbly to remind you of our Saviour's own prayer. How can you hope for forgiveness if 1900 year; of the most cruel and humiliating sufferings of those whom you regard as your religious adversaries cannot produce in you that sense of common feeling that the time of forget fulness is fully arrived ? That same Divine prayer you repeat in the Creed, in other words, the " hope" for forgiveness, is become a " belief" in you, and can it so be when your action denies its truth ? The foundation of Christianity is " charity," which, survives, as it surpasses, both " faith" and " hope how then, allow me to ask you, would you explain your belief in Christianity, which you so piously fear to be shaken, when you yourself demolish the edifice by depriving it of its very foundation ? Eighteen hundred years long have the Jews been tyrannically kept as slaves, and now even you seem little inclined to think of that absorbing question "Is Israel a servant, is he a home-born slave ?" Does Christianity constitute or confer a monopoly either of birthright or place, to be sold, Esau-like, for a mess of potage ? God forbid! "Make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way, but it rather be healed." " Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them ; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body." In wandering through the divine Apostle's Epistle to the Romans, I may, without wounding the sus ceptibility of the great University, whose oracle I needs must think you represent in the matter in in question, perhaps, be allowed to think that Paul, though speaking of circumcision, did not wish to exclude baptism from his comparison, and putting the simplest construction on the simplest w-_,rds, we find this remarkable sentence :—" For he is not a Jew which is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh." And the Apostle, justly interpreted, when justly under stood, says thus :—For he is not 11 Christian that is one outwardly, neither is that baptism which is outward. I surely cannot be taxed with blasphemy when I take the broadest view of the broadest subject, of a subject of humanity, of charity. Blasphemy ! The very doubt that our Divine Master could wish for the exclusion either of man or tribe from his earthly and heavenly blessings amounts unquestionably to the greates of blasphemies ! Though the question be an international one Europe has her eyes fixed on you. You have eman cipated the slaves, and were reduced to the stern necessity of yielding to the complaint of your half brother Catholics. You expend millions on missions for promulgating the doctrines of Christianity, and would you forget at home what you teach abroad— that charity is the Gospel's vital breath, that by the action of charity alone, not by its idle profession, you can alone convince and reform ? It would be folly to follow the petition above alluded to in all its steps and erroneous arguments, if arguments they deserve to be called ; but what proof does in matter of fact result from a quotation of Smollet's history respecting the revocation of a former Act past in favour of the sews ? Ist. That so many hundred years ago some en lightened men felt the necessity to make some con cession to unfortunate exiles, 2d. That Parliament inconsistently revoked the next day what it had granted on the previous one. ad. Had Parliament not been so inconsistent then, it would very likely not have become the lot of the present honourable assembly to be called on for the execution of so important a measure. But, to point out more forcibly still the absurdity of such a quotation or reference, allow me conscien tiously to ask you, Who among your religious anta gonists should be justified in the wish to see you burnt alive, on the plea of Smollett's history reveal ing to us that so many hundred years ago many of your religious confraternity shared in so cruel a fate ? I will refrain from alluding to the speciality of the City election, which secured to the Baron de Roths child 6,792 votes ; I will not enter into long details on the present most general manifestations in favour of the Bill, which manifestations may once more convince you of " Vox populi vox Dei est ;" and I will conclude with reminding you that the question is not one of grace or mercy, but one of conscience and justice. In this land of freedom you will, you cannot refuse so just a claim. London, Feb. 17, 1848. THE CHEAP NEWSPAPER RETROGRADE MOVEMEN r. (From the Leeds Mercury.) Some time back a number of newspaper proprietors in Liverpool and other places tried the suicidal ex periment of reducing the price of their papers to threepence, and some even lower. Every person acquainted with the numerous and heavy charges on a newspaper establishment was aware that the experi ment must inevitably fail. And so it has done very quickly, as the following article from the Liverpool Mercury—one of the papers which was led into the foolish experiment—sufficiently proves:— " The Blackburn Standard of Wednesday, which boasts of having been almost, if not quite, the first provincial journal' to reduce its price to threepence, announces that for the future the price will be fourpence. It is stated that the reduction was originally made partly in anticipation of a reduction of the stamp, advertisement, and paper duties, and partly to ascertain how far a paper, brought down to the very verge of prudence, could, by a greatly increased circulation, be made to remunerate for the risk run.' The first ex pectation was notoriously erroneous; the practical result of the second is thus announced: —' We have persevered with the experiment for nearly eighteen months — longer, by a considerable time, than all, save one or two of our contemporaries, who were led by similar hopes to our own to follow our example, and by just so much greater experience we are authorised to confirm their decisions by pronouncing the experiment to be, for our own interest, a failure." We believe,' said the Times some seventeen months ago, the very hardest, the most economical view of mercantile transactions, is just that which suits the relation of newspapers with the reading public.' We shall, therefore, be speaking in a strain which all will comprehend, when we say that there is a point of profit in the newspaper trade, as in every other, below which it would hardly be worth while to continue in business. We have nothing to complain of in the result which has followed our experiment; it has, in one sense, mornthan answered our anticipations. But the risk increases with the increase of sale, and the expense of producing the article is in no respect lessened; so that while we win the victory, we have to pay all the costs, and the greater the glory the greater the charge. A con tinuation of such fortune as we have hinted at, it may easily be perceived, would not leave us much to boast of; and we have, therefore, resolved upon the step an nounced at the head of this notice. We shall henceforth charge a fair price for our labour and outlay—fair to ourselves, and, in consequence, just to our supporters; for it is not to be expected that we should continue to offer an article of similar quality at a loss to oursel ves, w h en ever we discovered our mistake." " The Liverpool namesake of the Blackburn PWrs which, alarmed by the prospectiv e reduction in the price of another, struck the blow off hand, and came down at , once to threepence, in spite of loud songs of triump h,' subsequently sung, from time to time, as to the marvel lous success of the experiment, soon saw the expediency of rising first to threepence-halfpenny, and now tofour pence. The person who first co mmenced the experimer!t of a threepenny newspaper in this town boasted of his success also, but soon found it expedient to take his departure for America, leaving his wife des titute amongst strangers, to beg her way to her native country. A twopenny paper, of . half size, commenced by ou r contemporary of Liver court, soon gave up the ghost. The price of the Mail, which was reduced to threepence, has lately been raised to fourpence. Another contemporary came out two days a week with half papers, at twopence-half penny each; he then tried threepence; then half one paper a week at threepence, and has now advanced to threepence-halfpenny in a s li g htl y enlar g ed form, which still does not contain more than half the letter-press of the Mercury. Another contemporary, who, a very short time ago, had the hardihood to declare publicly his perfect satisfaction with the losing experiment, will soon have to tell another tale, if ho has not told it already. Several other provincial newspapers, which were frightened out of their propriety by the ruinous competition commenced in Liverpool, have since thought proper to retrace their steps, and others, who have not yet done so, have seen or will soon see, the absolute ne cessity of a similar movement. For ourselves, although we partially yielded to the movement for a time, in self defence, and for the sake of our advertising friends, we have never changed the opinions we expressed from the first; nor, indeed, was it possible that we should do so, those opinions being founded on a thorough and prac ical knowledge of our own business." Dr. Z THE YARMOUTH BRIBERY CASE, TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR ' —I have just read your article on the Yar mouth bribery case, and, with your permission, I desire to make one or two observations on that question. After expressing your just indignation at the gross corruption of the voters, whose conduct has brought disgrace upon the borough, you proceed to ask, " Is it surprising that the Committee recommends the disfranchisement of Great Yarmouth ?" Here, Sir, let me remind you that the Committee only request the House of Commons to disfranchise the freemen, allowing the 101. householders of the borough in future to return the two Members. This recommendation of the Committee is founded on justice, and I am sure will meet with the appro bation of all the well-disposed inhabitants of Great Yarmouth. It may not be uninteresting to state that it has been the practice for very many years by both parties in Yarmouth to pay to each freeman for each election the sum of 21. 2s. for his vote, and a ten-shilling ticket for drink has been generally added. This circumstance will explain what was meant by some of the witnesses saying the " Reds" (Tories) owed them Si. for previous occasions. It has been the desire of the Liberal party in the town for years past to do away with this " head-money," which the free men look upon as their inherited right, and the can didates know very well they must pay them or lose the election. In 1835 Colonel Anson and Mr. Rum bold lost the election, after sitting in Parliament for the borough about twenty years, in consequence of their attempt to b rea k u p thi s pernicious custom. It is to be hoped that the House of Commons will immediately act upon the recommendation of the Committee ; and, indeed, I do not see why freemen in all boroughs should not be disfranchised at the same time. Their privilege is an unjust one, and is productive of much corruption at elections. W hat right has one man more than another to this pri vilege ? which is generally obtained by serving a seven years' apprenticeship to a freeman, or by being the son of a freeman: In Yarmouth there are about 1,000 of them, but as about half of them are house holders as well, th e y w ill n ot all be deprived of the franchise. I w ill not intrude further upon your space, and shall be obliged if you can insert the above remarks. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, A YARMOUTH FREEMAN. London, Feb. 15, 1848. [The fact that 500 of these corrupt freemen are householders is sufficient of itself to influence the House of Commons in pronouncing the entire die • franchisement of the borough. An ounce of Parlia mentary civit will not sweeten the fame of Great Yarmouth —its offence is rank, and smells to heaven. -ED. Sun.] TESTIMONIAL TO GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Six; I have read with much pleasure of the " con templated testimonial to George Cruikshank." He has rendered the world his debtor. Henceforth every true friend of popular progress will accord him a high place on the list of great and good men whom " his soul delighteth to hon our ." Whil st we g i ve a ll d u e praise to Cruikshank , let us not f orge t, h oweve r, that th e leading ideas of the work which has immortalised him, were s uggested b y a poem en titl e d " The Blessings of Temperance," the composition of an old Irish shoemaker, named John O'Neil. Th e world is sometimes strangely unmindful of its benefactors. The fervid strains of Ebenezer Elliott awake the henmids of his countrymen to the evils of monstrouscorn-laws. The celebrated Anti-Corn -law League was the result. The corn-laws repealed, Mr. Richard C o bd en was presen t e d by the B r i t i s h nation with some eighty or ninety thousand pounds. Nocv I do not g ru d ge th a t p a t r iotic indivi dual a single farthing of this vast " sum ;" but was it generous of England to neglect in the hour of her triumph the brave poet, who had incited her sons to action with all the vehement eloquence of a Tyrtoeus. " Bard Happily the of Sheffield" is in independent circumstances. Such, Imfortunately, is not the case with John O'Neil, he is old—afflicted with ill-health, and I fear the " res angi4tadorni." Sir, your kind sympathies have ever been with Ireland. You have never played the Celt slanderer, you do not live by pandering to the lowest prejudices of Englishmen . Say, is not the Saxon indebted, and that largely, to the mental labours of this poor, hard working Celt—labours prosecuted under I know not how many difficulties and pri va ti ons ? Should, he be slow to testify his gratitude. t In conclusion, I think it ri g ht to state that I am personal-':y unacquainted with `Zr. O'Neil, but, as an 'lrishman, I could, not refrain from writing these few BAGGING A COBBLER.—At Marylebone Police court yesterday L. Jones was brought up on the follow ing curious eharge:—On the previous evening the prisoner, after making an old cobbler drunk, undertook, for a wager of 2s. fid., to put him into a sack and carry him to a pawnbroker's in Stafford-street, Lisson-grove. He proceeded thither with his load, which, on entering the shop, he threw down upon the counter, saying that he had brought a speechless " subject" to pledge. Ho was given into custody, owing to his having collected a great crowd, and he was therefore conveyed to the station-house. The sack was untied, and poor Crispin was liberated. The prisoner was admonished and dis charged. W ooncocKs.—For several years these delicate birds have not been met with so numerous es formerly. Some sportsmen think it owing to the want of se "re frosts in November; . others attribute the cause to the immense quantities of their eggs gathered abroad in their native marshes for the market; but, independent of the great flights that used to cross the seas, there is now as many bred in this country as occasionally yields good winter shooting. For instance, during six days of the last intense frosts, Mr. Stewart, gamekeeper at Balms caan, bagged in Lord Reidhaven's preserves 107 wood cock, all plump fat birds, such as must have tared well among the cozy wood-springs of Glen•Urquhart.—ln versess Courier. sentences concerning the claims upon the public of one who has conferred distinguished honour up )n our ultimo!) country by im , uccf , ,;s, Sul • : 'oral and intellectual advancement of his kind. I am, Sir, ycurs very truly, SAMUEL MURPHY 'LANGLEY. 23, Vauxhall-bridge-road, Westminster, Feburary 10,1848. RAILWAY ROBBERIES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. ALTON V. RUSSELL. SlR,—With reference to your report of this case, on the 9th instant, it is but justice to me to supply some omissions of evidence in your alo:e report. First, the " parties whose interference led to the dis charge of, and attendant writs by, Mr. and Mrs. Wareham, were Mr. Pearse and Mr. Maples, and not Mr. Sturns, whose reiterations of their and of Mr. Rus sell's promises of indemnity were made at later periods, as the correspondence read in court showed. Second, that this action was brought for the benefit of creditors, all of whom were such in respect of Wareham's six actions, and my being left without proper protection. The amount claimed was accord ing to my books and vouchers; and investigations had been frequently invited of the directors, Mr. Russell, Mr. Mills, Mr. Sturns, and Mr. Saunders, but for twenty months (up to the day of this trial) they resisted every overture, and did deny their legal liability, which led to all my difficulties exposed in court yesterday ; and they even put in pleas denying the Eromises of the defendant, and alleging that 1 did not go far enough in the investigations! which pleas they abandoned in court before I had gone through a tithe of my evidence. They might have paid money into court, or agreed on other courses open to them, rather than, as the correspondence shows, abandon me to my fate, and neglect to fulfil their promises, and what they ad mitted to be their moral liability. In justice to me, insertion of this is necessary. I am your obliged servant, CHARLES NASH, Parliamentary Agent. Montague. street, 'Wednesday. P.S.—I must also correct these particulars :—That the arrest of Wareham was the result of fourteen days' excessive exertions, and under counsel's advice, and not in consequence of information from Maynard. That the instructions to go on with the investiga tions were from the defendant, and not from the plaintiff. The verdict against me, by Wareham, was only half a farthing, and the Judge refused him his costs, thus vindicating me on that unfavourably pre sented occasion. For eighteen months after resigning my engagement I conducted business for the company, and ensured their successes in the same actions of 'Wareham, yet was refused a single shilling on ac count to meet the expenses. 1848. FEY. li. Bills. Money Austrian 5 per Cents • • • • • • • • 102% Bank Shares • 1580 Anglo-Russian Loan ............... Russian • 5 per Cent., Hamb. Certificate Ditto Ist serieslnscription.• •• • • •• • • Ditto,llope and C0.,3d and 4th series• • Ditto, in Certificate ••••••••• • • • • • • • • . 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Bills Actual Debt, 2% per Cent •••••• • • • • • 5368% b 4 Ditto, 3 per Cent • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 68% Ditto, 4 per Cent.• ••••••••• • • • • • • •• 84 54% Arnort Syndic, 3% per Cent Commercial Company, 4% per Cent • 162 162% East India Loan, 4 per Cent Exchange on London, at sight . • • • • • • 2 Two months... • • • • • • 11 90 On Hamburgh, at sight .• 34 82 Two months.• ••••••• • • • • • • 3s 81 On Paris • ••••••• • • • • • • • 56 12 b 5 82 IIdIEBITROM BO: Two mouths. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 101 IN 101% AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, Frs. 9. b per Cent. 3letalliques • • 4 per Cent. dltto • • • • • • • • • • • • • 3 per Cent. ditto• •••• • • • ••• . • • • • " " Loan, 1834 • • 152 Ditto, 1839 . • •• • • • • . • • • • .. 112 }r, Bank Shares ••••••• • • • • • • ..........1673 Esterhazv's Loan .... •• • • •• • .......... 67% RAILWAYS. The Northern, or Ferdinand .. • • • • . 110)1 ) Gloggnitz •• • • •••. • • • . ••••• • • • • 1 07 Vienna—Milan • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . 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THE ROYAL GENERAL ANNUITY BarissELs. .Jinx 15. y,terciev the Ce.,e 1 era SOCIETY. c,frnene,•ci the general discussion 'on the project of The anniversary of this excellent institution, the law relative to the office of notaries. The Minister object of which is "to allow annuities to decayed mer tor the Interior presented to the Chamber three pro- chants, bankers, professional men , master manufac jects of law ; relative, first, to the suppression of the turers, tradesmen, their widows, and clerks, and to law of the fractionnement of the Electoral Colleges ; sing!e females, daughters of persons belonging to secondly, the election of burgomaster not belonging such classes of society," was celebrated last night at to the Council ; thirdly, the addition to the list of the London Tavern, wider the presidency of George electors, of those who are on the jury list. In this , Hudson, Esq , M.P., who was supported on the right sitting of the Chamber of Representatives another , by the Hon. Mr. Walpole, and on the left by the proof Ras afforded that a parity of votes sufficed to Dean of Winchester. Among the company were throw aside another important question. The recog- ; General Caulfield, Mr. Urquhart, M.P., the Rev. Dr. nization of the Notorial was the order of the day, but I Pocock, amd Mr. Robarts, jun. A number of beautiful Mr. Ceatmean drew attention to various petitions on and elegantly attired ladies occupied seats on the the table which occupied the greater part of the day. j platform, behind the chairman, and in the gallery. BRUSSELS, FEB. 15.—Yesterday evening the Poles About 300 sat down to dinner. resident here celebrated the martyrdom of the Rus- "Deem laudate" having been chaunted, the Culla sian patriots, who were executed in consequence of , MAN gave in succession the usual loyal and constitu their insurrection of 1825, against the despotism of 1 tional toasts, which were as enthusiastically responded the Czar. This day was selected as being the anni- ttoas at any former gathering. versary of the death of Simon Konarski, the apostle The CHAIRMAN then proposed " Success to the of the liberty and fraternity of the two nations, who Institution ; and long may it flourish ;" a sentiment was shot at Vilna. which was received with the utmost enthusiasm. In WURTEMBURG.—STUTTGARD.—In the sitting of expatiating on the excellence of the objects of the the Chamber of Deputies on the Bth, the galleries institution he said he regretted his inability to dis were densely crowded, and many officers were ob- charge the duties of his office with anything like the served among the auditors. The Minister of the ability displayed by his illustrious and gifted prede- Interior presented the projects of law respecting the cessor, Lord Stanley, whose speech he should be restriction of the marriage of the poorer classes, as content to read them instead of offering any observa also the supplementary law to the edict of the tions of his own, if usage did not prevent him from constitution. According to this latter project, doing so.—(Hear.) It was the province of the society the term of oLce of the Council of De- to alleviate human woe—to afford consolation to puties would be extended to nine years, those who, perhaps, from no act of their own, possibly but that every three years a third of this number shall from too great a reliance in others, or from the course retire from office. The Government reserves to it- of legislation, had sunk from comparative affluence to self the ri g ht o f deciding the election, even if one of the most abject poverty. There was not a merchant the three can did a t es f or a v acant seat in the Coun- in this great city who could say with certainty that he cil shall have been returned with a majority of two- should never have occasion to become a recipient of thirds of the votes of his electors. The project grants charity—nay, even some amongst the company might publicity during debates on matters of a general by the hand of adversity be driven to seek its nature.—Algemeine Zeitung, Feb. 11. aid, and therefore it was the more incumbent upon HAMBWRGH, FEB. 12.—The Journal de St. Peters- those present to spare something from their super imrgii contains a declaration, which Baron Kradner fluities to assuage the misery of those who were not was commissioned to deliver to the Assembly of the in a position to help themselves.—(Cheers.) He States. This declaration states that the Russian regretted that the institution had not been able to Cabinet fully agrees to the duplicate of the well- expend a larger sum during the past year than 6121. known minutes of Austria, France, and Prussia, of in affording aid to twenty-nine individuals; but he the 18th January, and that Russia conceives it. hoped they would give liberally to-night, for be self provisionally released from the objection of pro- believed that money was not worth having unless it tecting the neutrality of Switzerland, and that was made the means of contributing tothe happiness Russia will suspend its guarantee for this neutrality, of their fellow-creatures.—(Cheers.) so long as Switzerland mistakes the fundamental A number of other toasts followed, and Mr. AL principle of its existence by the disparagement of the DRICII announced that the subscriptions received cantonal sovereignty, and continues to be the refuge amounted to nearly 1,5001., the Chairman and Mr. for revolutionists. Charles Dixon having given the munificent sum of PRE6BURG, FEB. 7th.—The Chamber of Deputies 1001. each. did not meet for several days, but held private con- The dinner and wines were excellent, as is always ference respecting the rescript relative to the Comitais the case at the London Tavern. The musical depart- Administration. It seems that the Opposition has meat was under the direction of Mr. Hobbs. Mr. split into two parties, and while the moderate party Toole, in giving the toasts, and in keeping order recognizes its advantage from the constitutional and amongst some disorderly spirits at the end of the positive declaration of the Government of its care in room, showed himself as excellent a master of his craft regard to the Administration, others will not give as his late father, who was the first to endow the office up their agitation against the Government, of toastmaster with a professional character. and persist in their annoyance. This day The company did not separate until late. two projects of an address were laid be before the Chamber of Nobles. The first was from the deputy Saerteranzi, to the following effect : " That we beg to offer our thanks to his Majesty for his declaration that he has at heart the rnainte mince of our Constitution, yet that it must be ac knowledged that the doubts of the states were not altogether unfounded; that we demand the realiza tion of the promises given, the maintenance of the dignity of the Supreme Court, and the abolition of the administrative system. We must further request his Majesty for the re-establishment of the Constitu tional system of the Government." The upper classes shall for the future not only conduct the business of the Committee but shall also have the chief superintendence. It is requested that in this answer his Majesty may be solicited to give practical proofs of the promise contained in the royal receipt during the course of the present Diet, and that then the States, if possible, will consider the proposed measures of reform for the welfare of the country. THE PROJECT OF THE ADDRESS FROM THE DE PUTY or BERECIIIER.M. Longuy states that in an answer to the Address it must be observed that the repeated mention of the Administration causes much apprehension to the nation, and that, we will not go into particulars, as his Majesty promises the main tainance of the Constitutional Supreme Court, and secures to us, only with some exceptions, the nomina tion of the Administration, and that the article of code will soon be re-established in it is true legal force. FRANKFORT ON THE MAINE, FEB. I.—The heavy rains, which we have had for several days, at two. o'clock this: day, caused the masses of ice to give way in several parts of the river. Only an hour before, the passage across the Maine had been per fectly safe for foot passengers. The river is very considerably swollen, and in several places has ad vanced above the quays, apprehensions of a complete inundation are, however, we trust, unfounded. The Rhine and the Mole have been open since yesterday, but at Mayence the ice was so dangerous that it is prohibited by the police. Preparations have been made for resuming the navigation, as a second freak ing of the river would. be unparalleled.—Allgemeine Zeitung, Feb. 11. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE THE LOSS OF THE AVENGER. We have received the following from her Majesty's ship St. Vincent, Lisbon, with a request that we will aid the cause of the subscription on behalf of the suf ferers plunged into want by the awful catastrophe, by giving it a conspicuous place in our columns:— " The widows, orphans, mothers, and sisters of the crew who were lost in the Avenger, and by that event left in distressing circumstances, are hereby informed that a subscription has been raised for their relief, and that those requiring relief are requested to make their applications personally to the clergymen or ministers of their church, giving a particular de tail, containing— " 1. If widows, their age, the number of children, their children's ages and sex. " 2. If mothers, who have hitherto received allot • merits, their age, whether the father or the son who allotted is still alive ; if so, their joint means of sub sistence. "2. If orphans, their ages and sex, whether in service, or capable of assisting towards their own support. "4. If sisters who have hitherto received allot ments, their age, whether married, and why requiring 'present relief. " The clergymen and ministers to whom applica tion may be made are earnestly requested to give their kindest assistance to the object of the present relief, and investigate such cases as may be presented when the individuals come within the denomination set forth; and to furnish a statement of the same to Captain S. C. Dacres, of her Majesty's ship St. Vin cent, through the Admiralty, London, or the Com mander-in. Chief at Portsmouth, or Devonport; adding such particulars as may guide the committee of management in their just distribution. "The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty having been requested by the trustees of the subscrip tion to continue for two months the payment of the allotments made by those of the crew of the Avenger who allotted up to the period of her loss, no further immediate relief can be required. " H. W. BRUCE, Captain, Queen. " S. C. DACRES, Captain, St. Vincent. " THOS. WILSON, Commander, Canopus. "Her Majesty's ship St. Vincent, Lisbon, Feb. 8." CASINO DE DE VENISE. Yesterday evening this resort of amusement was completely crowded by an audience attracted by the prospective entertainments, for the bent-fit of Mr. J. W. Sharpe and Mr. J. Tedder, the stage manager. Several well-known vocalists made their appearance, among whom the greater portion were of the comic vein ; after which the American Barlow appeared, and, dispensing with the usually-required as sistance of the band, fully succeeded in pleasing his nume rous auditory by his characteristic singing and delinea tion of negro life. The audience were most uproarious in their applause, the majority keeping both hands and ' feet (as well as lungs) in full play until their demands for a third encore were complied with. Mr. Sharpe terminated the concert by a new song upon the still discussed topic of the French invasion and the English defences, which having been encored, the ball com menced in good earnest, and concluded a few minutes before midnight. THE HAVRE COMMERCIAL BANK. Our Havre correspondent writes us on the subject of the temporary suspension of the Commercial Bank of that place (Director, Mr. Dubois), and states that measures are in progress by which it is almost certain the bank will be enabled to resume its functions in a very short time, probably a few days. The suspension was a measure of prudence taken by the director in consequence of an unprecedented run on the bank from people who had deposits there, and which have been reimbursed in the course of January to the amount of between two and a half' to three millions of francs. The committee of management and several shareholders have looked into the affairs of the bank and are fully satisfied of its en tire ability to meet its engagements integrally. Last night the New York liner to this port, the New Yurk, Captain Lines, was off La Hie, and this morning landed her dates to the 28th nit —Times. THE LATE BOILER EXPLOSION AT MANCHESTER. —MANCHESTER, WEDNESDAY, 5 r.2l.—The adjourned inquest on this most lamentable catastrophe took place at the Royal Oak, Downing-street, Ardwick. The ta i le, witness examined was James Harper, police-con C 20. He deposed to recov e r in g three bodies from the ruins. On going into the yard he saw d two hey were_ e co a n s - . fire hole burning. He got them both veyed to the infirmary, where they .(1 n sisted in getting all the bodies out oft he runs. John Hartley, boiler-maker , was nextexam d been employed to leng then the boiler three years and a half ago; and he was of opinion that the boiler w as in sufficient for the purp ose to which it was applied, and was under examination when our report left. Mr. Monk, the barrister, attended on behalf of Rolley, COURT CIRCULAR. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived in town yesterday, from her residence, Frogmore House, near Windsor, and visited the Queen at Buckingham Palace, where her Royal Highness ar rived at half-past one o'clock. The Royal Duchess partook of a dejeune with her Majesty and Prince Albert and their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Saxe-Coburg. At three o'clock the Duchess of Kent left the Palace on her return to Frogmore House. His Royal Highness the Duke of Saxe-Coburg rode out on horseback yesterday, attended by Baron Fritsch. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took walking and pony exercise yesterday, in the Royal Gardens. Her Royal Highness the Princess Helena was taken an airing. A deputation respecting hops had a conference with Lord John Russell and the Chancellor of the Ex chequer yesterday, at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing. street. The deputation consisted of Sir Edward Filmer, M.P., Mr. Frewen, M.P., Mr. Hodges, M.P., Mr. Fuller, M.P., Mr. 11. M. Curteis, M.P., Mr. G. C. Cantlupe, Major Curteis, Mr. J. C. Daws, Mr. R. Smith, Mr. J. Hilder, Mr. W. Nokes, Mr. Fielden Smith, Mr. B. T. Nokes, Rev. J. W. Maher, Mr. J. Springett, Mr. Charles Nearne, Mr. F. B. Elvy, Mr. James Fremlin, Mr. W. J. Carter, 111 r. W. Golding, Mr. H. T. Smith, Mr. D. Smith, Mr. Jeremiah Smith, Mr. Henry Smith, Mr. B. Shrobridge, Mr. William Hilder, Mr. Jesse Pipon, Mr. Benjamin Hardy, Mr. Samuel Pin, Mr. J. Hilder, Mr. H. Corbould, Capt. Luxford, Mr. Bacon, Mr. G. Whiting, and Mr. N. I'. Kell. Mr. Hume, M.P., and Mr. Foster, M.P., had an interview with the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. A. deputation from the city of London, consisting of Mr. John Wood, Mr. Deputy Harrison, Mr. J. H. Hall, Mr. John Dixon, Mr. Richard Taylor, Mr. Scott, and the City Remembrancer, had an interview with Viscount Morpeth yesterday, at the office of the Woods and Forests, in Whitehall-place. The Cabinet Ministers dined with Sir John Hob house, yesterday evening, at his residence in Berke ley-square-. Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-office, for the Governors of the West India Colonies. A deputation respecting malt, consisting of Mr. Lattimore (Hertfordshire), Messrs. J. Hudson, S. Lock, J. Cohen, L. Soolby, and J. Kemp (Norfolk); Messrs. R. Matson, C. Neame, E. Stuntz, and F. K. Elvey (Kent); Messrs. W. Fisher Hobbs, W. Hut ley, and H. Selmes (Essex) ; Messrs. F. Smith, W. P. Lamb, J. Fix, and W. E. Baxter (Sussex) ; Mr. R. Beman (Gloucester) ; Mr. C. Pocock (Berkshire); Mr. G. Clerk (Hertfordshire) ; and Mr. G. Smith (Hampshire) ; had an interview yesterday with Lord John Russell and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yesterday, and concluded the hearing of an appeal, " The Representatives of Count de Wall v. The Commissioners of French Claims." An appeal from Bengal was commenced, " Raja Burdahauth Roy v. Rum Tunnoo Bose." DRURY-LANE THEATRE. Her Majesty the Queen honoured the performances at this theatre with her presence last night. The en tertainments consisted of Balfe's opera The Maid of Honour, which was given by command, and the new divertissement for Mdlle. Fuoco, L'lnvitation a la Fete. The royal party included his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Co burg, the Baroness of Waugenheim, Baron Fristch, Lord Morley, Colonel Buckley, Captain Gordon, and the Marchioness of Douro. The illustrious visitors seemed well pleased with the performances, and were liberal of their applause. Her Majesty arrived punctually at half-past seven o'clock, and remained until the end of the opera. The royal box was hand somely arranged for the oc casion ; the lining was trans parent gauze of pink and white, with gold stripes, borders and cornices of flowers. Her Majesty was re ceived on her arrival by M. Jullien, who was also in attendance at her departure. The house was very full, the opera was exceedingly well played, and every thing went off with great spirit. M. Berlioz presided in the orchestra. THE « BOYER GALLERY. The preparations for the distribution of the almos, innumerable works of art, of which this gallery consists, are in rapid progress, at the house of Mrs. Mary Parkes, in Golden-square, and it will nut be long before the collection will be dispersed amongst the subscribers. In the meantime we would recom mend those who have not examined the collection to pay it a visit; the time spent in the examination of the different things contained in it will be well repaid. The celebrated Bover Bible is to be seen here, a copy of the Holy Scriptures matchless in the number and value of the drawings, engravings, arid etchings, with which it is illustrated, and one of the finest specimens of typography ever produced by the printing-presses of this country. This Bible was printed under the immediate superintendence of Mr. Macklin, and is one of the early folio copies of the work known as " Macklin's" Bible, very few of which were printed. The " Boyer" copy is the finest illus trated copy of the work, and may be said to be, in point of the number and value of the illustrations it contains, the most celebrated illustrated book in the world. Some notion may be formed of its import ance when it is said that it consists of forty five large folio volumes, bound in Russia leather and silk, and that it contains thou sands of illustrations, the works of the most celebrated continental and English artists. The il- lustrations were collected by Mr. Boyer himself, an artist of high reputation, and known by his contem poraries as a man of excellent taste and judgment. He spent some thousands of pounds and devoted many years of his life to the labour of illustrating these volumes : they are certainly a monument of un wearied industry and research in the prosecution of a most praiseworthy desire. There are other illus trated books in the Galle r y , via-, " Hume's England," in many folio volumes, a noble work, and a beautiful specimen of the union of art with literature. There are several hundred illustrations of the military career of the Duke of Wellington, Lord Nelson, and con temporary heroes and statesmen, consisting of dra w ings and engraving ot battles, sieges, portraits, %capes, &c., land all by artists of eminence. In addition to these things, there are paintings, drawings, engrav ings, gems, cabinets, so numerous that the mention of them by their respective titles, though it certainly would not be tedious, would be too long for our co lumns ; there is, moreover, no necessity to set them forth:at length, when the public can go and see them, and form their own estimate of their merits and value. Letters from Italy contain unfavourable intelli gence of th• health of Mr. T. Gisborne, late M.P. for Nottingham. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. There is an arrival, with two days later news from the Cape, namely, to December 14th. This arrival confirms the belief previously enter tained, that I.l"mhala is not sincere in his submission to British authority ; for, though living under its protection, he is evidently affording shelter and as sistance to those in arms against her Majesty. Pato still continues to elude pursuit. Sandilla is kept a prisoner at Graham's Town, and is liberally led at the expense of the colony or the State, while his bro ther (Dundee) succeeds to the chieftainship, and, being inimical to the British, rallies the scattered tribes around his standard in the vastnesses of the Amatola, whence the probability is, they will only be dislodged as before, by the employment of an ade quate force. The latest intelligence from the frontier will be found in the few extracts subjoined : " Colonel Somerset would re-cross the Kei, as soon as the captured cattle had been safely driven over, in order to search for Pato. The horses were much jaded, and the troops required rest. The Dutch farmers accompanying the troops had been out on patrol, and had taken 1,000 head of cattle—making the number at present in possession of the troops about 5,000. This patrol killed eleven of the enemy, making, as stated, thirty-two of the enemy killed since the troops crossed the Kei. A party of them had also had a skirmish with the enemy, in which Mr. John Marcus was wounded in the elbow, and two Kafirs killed. "A Government notification extraordi nary' had been issued by Sir Henry Pottinger on the 6th inst., resigning the Government in fav our of his successor, Sir Harry Smith, of whose arrival he was apprised on the sth by a special dispatch. "An address to Sir H. Pottinger was voted at a public meeting on his retirement from the colony, and another to Sir Harry Smith was also agreed to, and will be presented to him on his arrival at Graham's Town, which will be illuminated on that occasion." UNITED HILLS MINE COMPANY.—Yesterday a general meeting of this company was held, at the office in Adam's- court, Broad-street, Mr. Clarke in the chair, when the report of the directors was read, the substance of which was that the operations at the mine had been so impeded by the influx of water froir, a neighbouring mine, as to render all further proceeJ'ings more or less abortive. The directors had there fore taken proceed ings to abandon the mine, but received notice from the Duchy of Cornwall requiring then . to work the mine at all hazards. Seeing the injustice 'Df this, they requested an inspection of the mine by the Duchy, which took place, when the directors, after much negotiation, came to an arrangement for the surrender to the Duchy of the mine, and for the purchase of the machinery of the con , cern. The purchase-money to be paid within twelve months ; but the liabilities were so heavy as to make another call necessary to the extent of about 2,0001., which the directors hoped would be readily met by the proprietors, so as to wind up the concern altogether. A resolution was passed confirming the act of the directors, when the meeting adjourned. THE EARL OF DUNDONALD. — On the 29th ult. we stated that Vice-Admiral the Ear." of Dundonald, G.C.8., had preferred a claim for the a rrears of pay of which his Lordship was unjustly deprived t dhetitnhgeseverdns teeeo ee li e t v h seven teen years. But we are sorry to loam of her Majesty's Treasury have redfusierdat icat listen b t y ga llant Admiral's claim. The A in r ecommended Lord Dandonald's aPPrLon.—Uniteci Service Gazette. u iugeehn, has been . p a l r e d as L ed alo t r o s c h o e n ii : THE MINT.—The Q stitute and appoint t he _ t Sirhem rnissary-Genera l e N r v d illi r a i m ne C c o c t , t ffi on, n, E and s Colone l Cm the Master of William Nairne Forbes, 1i.E.1.C. Bengal Engineers, to be Commissioners to conduct an inquiry into the Royal Mint, and has empowered and comsnandcd them to inquire into and report upon the cons titution, manage ment, and expense of the Royal Min' ;, and to suggest may Appear to t and satiafis , :tory execution of ii , ern to be required economicalevu,cihnsaulrteertahtieons as the duties belonging to that establiE'Ament. EXCHEQUER-BILLS.—The officlo of Paymaster of Exchequer-bills is about to be tconsolidated with the office of her Majesty's Paymaste e-Generstl. An Act of Parliament for the purpose is now in preparation, and will be brought into the UI Dos e during the present session. DREADFUL SUICIDE Aa' MANCRESTER.—Yeater day morning Mr. Aitkin, a respectable tradesman in Manchester, who has been su ffering under an attac k of fever, threw himself, abc Mae o'clock, from a third storey window in front. •of his house, in Str an g ewa y s, upon the flag pavemer t underneath. The unfortunate man alighted on his he ad, and his brains and blood were scattered around, affoi ding a sickening spectacle to the l passers by. t ~f i '(~ f + f ~. ~' { :~ ~;I l 1 ..;