The Sun. — London, England, 1849-02-20 00:00:00

THE LEGAL TITLE ASSURANCE COMPANY. (Provisionally Registered, January 17, 1849.) -Capital, 2,000,000/., in 80,000 Shares, of 251. each. Preliminary Deposit, 2s. 6d. per Share. Prospectuses and full information may 'be obtained at the Tempo !Wl Offices of the Company, 13A, Cannon-row, Westminster, on aP 11cation to G. F. HOWL Holt. Sec., pro tem. THE NEW NOVEL. Just ready, in 2 vols. post Eivo., ROCK IN G AM; Or, THE YOUNGER BROTHER. A Novel. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. ROBERT HO U THD N. I - ST. JAMES'S EATRE. Last Weak but One. M. ROBERT•IIOUDINwi will have the honour to repeat his extra. rdlnary SOIREES FANTASTIQUES, at this Theatre as follows: — THIS EVENING, Tuesday, February 20. Thursday INforniaih,...r. • • „ 22. Saturday, Evening .. 24. Evening Performance at HalfAM Eight ; Day Performance at Half-past Two. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 25.; Amphitheatre,. Is. 6d. Boxes, Stalls, and Tizkets for this extraordinary Entertainment . may be secured at Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; and at the Box-office of the Theatre, which is open daily from Eleven till Five o'clock. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. The public is respectfully informed that this Theatre has, during the recess, undergone very extensive repairs and alterations and the Whole.re.decorated. No Performance To-Morrow. THIS EVENING. Will be performed HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. C. Kean ; Queen, Miss Laura Addison r Ophelia, Miss P. Horton, in consequence of the in disposition of Mrs. C. Kean. . To conclude with an Arabian Nights' Entertainment, entitled CAMARALZAMAN AND BADOURA ; or, The Peri who Loved the Prince. Characters by Messrs. Bland, Keeley, Mrs. Keeley, Miss Horton, and Miss Reynolds. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under tie direction of Madame Celeste. ,Oaring the• Recess this Theatre has-been entirely re-decorated, the • „ Srieftal designs by Digby Wyatt, Elt., executed by Mr. Sang. A la* Stage, Curtain, Act Drop, and Chandelier. An approved sys tem of Ventilation, tic., /cc. The Private Boxes enlarged, Backs • added to the Seats, and Stalls rendered mere comfortable. • THIS EVENING Will be presented the celebrated Drama, entitled THE GREEN SBCIIES ;'or, - A' Iluddred Years Ago. Murtogh, Mr. 0. Smith ; Dennis, Mr. Cullenford ; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Grinnidge, MF. Wright ; Captain' Dartois, Mr. Worrell ; Madam. St. Aubert, ligiclame Celeste; G,raldi9e, Miss E. Chaplin; Nelly O'Neil, Miss Woolgar. After wkich, TEE ENCHANTED ISLE. Alonzo, Mr. Paul Sedford ; Prospero, Mr. 0. Smith ; ArieL Miss E. Chaplin. ittrYAL LYCII3M THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vsstrla. Sdle 'Leases. Mr. Charles Mahe xs. THIS EVENING, Will be performed USED UP. After which, a new Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THB KING OF rim PEACOCKS. ' Characters by Messrs. Harley, John Reeve, !Selby, H. Hail, Marshall, and H. Marshall ; Miss Kathleen Fitzwil 'lam, Miss L. Howard, 'Mt. Mapnarnara, Miss Marshall, Miss L. Marshall, Miss Coleman, and Madame Vestris. To conclude with a new and original petite Comedi, entitled WHO SPEAKS FIRST? Dress Boxes, 58. • Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, Is. No half-price to any part of the house. The New Box-office, No. 2, Wellim,•ton.street, is open to the public. every day, from Ten till Six. PRINCESS'S THEATOE. Mr. 3. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and Manager. During the Recess this Theatre has been re-decorated and embel lished in a superb and costly manner by Mr. liurwitz. A new Chan delier has been fitted, and the best arrawements have been made for the due Ventilation of the Theatre, and the couLiort and cenvellence of tke audience. THIS EVENING, Will be ,perfonxed a new Ballad Opera, entitled ROBIN GOOD FELLOW. Characters by Messrs. Charles Braham, Weias, Honey, C. Fisher•; Miss Poole, Miss G. Smithson, Miss Keawerthy, Mrs. Weiss, and Miss E. Stanley. To conclude with a new grand Pantomime, entitled BLTFF KING HAL ; or, Harlequin and the Charmed Arrow. Harlequin, Mr. Bologna; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo; Clown, Mr. Fie/more ; fiprite, Mr. De Barr ; Columbine, Miss Fawcett. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Under the Patronage of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness Prince filbert, Sec. enormous success of the Holiday Novelties, the most astounding is the Metropolls.—A gorgeous Spectacle.—Brilliant scenes of the Arena. No Performance To-Morrow. THIS EVENING, . _ The curtain will rise at a Quarter to Seven o'clock precisely to tho magnificent Spectacle, by Fitzball. entitled CORA/3C° ; or, the Warrior's Steed. To be followed by an inimitable display of SCENES IN TIM CIRCLE, supported by the first Equestrian talent of the day. To conclude with a romantic Melodrama entitled THE BRIGAND OF ANCO,A. Boa-office open from Eleven till Five. Stage Manager, Mr. W. Welt. ' THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, FEBRUARY 20. MERRMOMETER, Lowest, 40; Highest, 54; Noon, 48, BAROMETER, 19. 82. WIND S.W.—continuous rain. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tani DAY—morning, 1 min. after 12 1 Evening, 28 min. after 12 To-Moasow—Morning, 51 min. after 12 1 Evening, 14 min. after 1 . fi t.e - -..,•• • 0' 4111011ib a. iltor 'YAM; • 2 . , . 4 ‘i • - t 5•-• •-- gbh ur brienin LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20. 1849. If the Patrie, the semi• official organ of the French Government, is to be credited, the melancholy spec baele presented to the world by the Italians is on the eve of its termination. According to this authority, the Neapolitan andiSardinian Sovereigns are prepared, with the concurrence of all the powers of Christen dom, to intervene simultaneously in the territories of the Papal States and of Tuscany—in which event the naval powers of England and France are to assume a position in front of Leghorn and Civita Vecchia, Not the most earnest of those lovers of liberty who recoil from the notion of foreign intervention in the settle ment of the government of any, country will lament the fact of the arrangement here intimated. For, in accordance with this reconciliation, the monarchs who will directly interpose in the affairs of Rome and Florence are—like the magnanimous princes who have been expelled from those capitals— rulers of that fair Italy which has recently been ra vaged so lamentably by intestine dissensions, and de spoiled of the glories of her new-born freedom by the criminal exaggeration of democracy. The interven tion spoken of by the Patrie and countenanced, as far as we can yet understand, by the whole of the Great Powers of Europe, would be a native intervention rather than a foreign intervention. The combined fleets of the French Republic and of her Bri tannic MAJESTY would only appear off Leg horn and Civita Vecchia, the two principal ports of the disorganized dominions of the GLAND Duna and of the PONTIFF, for the purpose of affording a visible token of the coincidence of the Governments at London and at Paris, in the enter prise simultaneously undertaken by the King of IsTAPLIIS and the King of SARDINIA. Of course it • -must be expected that the French Cabinet will be at once and severely catechised upon this point in the National Assembly by the leading Montagnards, and that the English Cabinet will be subjected to the same kind of cross• examination in the House of Commons by the principal men of the Opposition. Whatever may be the invidious construction placed upon the enterprise by the enemies of the Adminis tration, it is indisputable, however, that the friends of true freedom will have only cause to rejoice that Naples and Sardinia, that England and Fra nce , th a t each and all'of the great Powers of Christendom have consented to act in a manner so worthy of themselves, .scvadvantageous to the real interests of the Italians , a nd so . i)erfectly in accordance with the holiest prin ciples inculcated alike by justice, by reason, by humanity, by religion, and by civilization. Profound as may be, and as unquestionably is, the indignation of every right-thinking man at the un paralleled ingratitude and the diabolical mendacity of the Romans and the Florentines to the two generous hearted and beneficent princes who loaded their subjects With benefactions, only to be themselves driven into exile by the murderous hands of rebellion—the pr oMptinga of that indignation must be suppressed in the settlement of the ' affairs of the two States. While the rights of the banished Sovereigns are duly and honourablj , coil e d, the interests of the people —however ungrateful and despicable that people may be—must be also duly and honourably borne in con sideration. True, that the hallowed recollections of the Amnesty surround the white and unsullied robes of Pins TX., while the whole of the paraphernalia of the usurping Government of the Eternal City IS Rollut c d with the blood of Rossi and the other victims of insurrection : but, enormous • as the -contrast may be between the two powers, between the legal and illegal powers, the legitimate and the illegitimate authorities of the kingdom, the interests of the one must not from any f ee lings of momentary partiality be allowed to pre dominate over the councils of those who are about to work out a reconciliation. Ungrateful and despicable as the Romans are, they must not be dictated to—even by the bayonets of their Sardinian and Neapolitan countrymen. Rash and forgetful though the Tuscans hive shown themselves, they must no t' b e coerced 3 welded on the anvils of the Ab ruzzi even by sword or of Piedmont. The arrangement for the return of Lzopoir; - o to Florence and of Pio Norio to the Quirinal must be effected by conciliative rather than by imperative measures. An interposition so con -4tletedr'will. redound not more to the glory of the i n te"ning Sovereigns than to the interests of the Italian population, and it will afford, more over, the expiation due—due as a sacred recompense for their undeserved misfortunes and for their magnanimous and illustrious careers — to the Roman PoxTur and to the Grand Duke of TUSCANY. An interposition such as this, moreover, would be in accordance with the principles advocated by one of the purest and one of the wisest of the Italian patriots, the Abbate VINCIINZO GIOBERTI, the Prime Minister of the Bing of SARDINIA. In ad dressing the Chamber of Turin, during its sitting of the 10th instant, that distinguished and enlightened statesman thus spoke to the Italian representatives : " The resurrection of Italy has, like every other revo lution, a fixed principle and limit beyond which, instead of progressing, it would retrograde. This principle and this limit are represented by the four following views:— Reform, the Constitution, independence, and confedera tion. The Ministry rejects, therefore, as Utopian the plans of those who would create a military and republican Italy. As regards unity, it esteems the principle much, but thinks it impracticable. As to a republic, it prefers a constitutional monarchy, because, disunited and enslaved for so many cen turies, it could only be the focus of divisions and dissensions, from which would arise tyranny and the enfeeblement of the country. These principles will be the guide of the present Administration, which desires a strong and popu lar monarchy, the complete independence of the kingdom of Italy, a federal Constituent Assembly, and a Diet representing all the states of the Peninsula." Who sha 11 gainsay the justice of those memorable sentences when the domination of GALETTI is con trasted with the paternal sway of Pius IX., when the demagogic power of GUERRAZZI is compared to the constitutional authority of LEOPOLD 11. ? Of all the children of Italy there is not one —no, not even the philosophic MAMIANI or the poetic MANZONI—who has studied the requirements of her people with so ' profound and vigilant a wisdom as that which has directed the studies and developed the genius of VIN CENZO GIOBERTI. And 'VINCENZO GIORERTI has said—" As to a Republic, a Constitutional Monarchy is preferable, because disunited and enervated for so many centuries, an Italian Republic could only be the focus of divisions and dissinitions, from which would arise tyranny and the enfeeblement of the country." GIo- BRETI has said this, and GIODERTI is a patriotic statesman, and, what is more, a philosophical his torian. It is from an earnest and sincere conviction —a conviction supported by the arguments of the Prime Minister of the King of SARDINIA—that we look forward to the reinstalment of Pius IX. and of LEOPOLD 11. in their palaces, through the interven tion of the Sovereigns of Naples and Piedmont, and through the tacit assistance of the great Powers of Chris tendom, as to a double event which must prove a bless ing to the population of the Papal States and of Tuscany. When these things shall have been ac complished', Italy may then regard herself as saved from the evil influence of eccentric demoniacs like CANINO, and from Brummagem-Rienzis like CICE ROACCRIO. In reporting to the magistrates of Gloucestershire, in Quarter Sessions assembled, the result of the in vestigation into the manner in which the Fish ponds Lunatic Asylum was conducted, Mr. Pux- NELL, the Chairman of the Sessions, (to whose indefatigable exertions in exposing the work ing of the present abominable system of priiate lunatic asylums the public is deeply indebted) related the case of a patient who had been detained for more than twenty years in the asylum without any certificate authorising such detention. The natural consequence of so long a seclusion from society was to produce a state of nervous helplessness which now incapacitates the unfortunate man from conducting his own affairs, not because he is insane, not because he is incompetent to their management, could he but once arouse his energies to active exer tion, but beciuse he has been so completely cowed and spirit-broken by long confinement, that he has lost all habits of self-reliance. He has no faith in himself. In speaking of the case of this unfortunate man, Mr. PURNELL said— " I would take him by the hand, and lead him out of his confinement, but secluded as he has been from the world during the best portion of his life, it may be some time before his mind shall have recovered sufficient tone to enable him to manage for himself. I have therefore arranged to bring the matter under the cognizance of the Lord Chancellor." In consequence of the application of Mr. PIIRNIILL to the LORD CHANCELLOR, a commission de lunatico inquirensia was issued, and on Friday last an inquiry into the state of mind of Mr. FRANCIS DRURY was instituted, at the Shire-hall, Gloucester, before FRANCIS BARLOW, Esq., and a jury. The patient, Mr. FRANCIS DRuitv,, was present, and Mr. Bor.- DUN, solicitor, of London, attended to watch the proceedings on behalf of the Alleged Lunatic? Friend Society. Mr. DRURY, it appears, was removed from the Fishponds Asylum on the 29th of January, and placed in the County Lunatic Asylum, at Gloucester. The physician of that institution thus describes the present state of this unfortunate victim of the private madhouse system " Dr. Williams examined—l am Superintendent of the County Lunatic Asylum, and have been for two years and a half. I first saw Mr. Drury, at the County Asylum on the 29th of January last, and ho has; ben there ever since; I see him three or four times a dity4 I think he is of unsound mind, especially as to his'cliftl= awls respecting Dr. Bompas. Ho says that the late Dr. Bompas exercised a mental force, which has ruined his mind. He meant continuous influence. I know no other delusion that he has; it absorbs all his ideas. He can not direct his attention to any book or newspaper; he says the moment be begins to read, this mental force is exercised over him. There is no incoherence of ideas on this subject. He is very well conducted. I have rea soned with him on the subject; but he says he can refer to nothing; he is unwilling to walk on this account." We cannot agree with Dr. WILLIAMS in con sidering that Mr. DRURY is labouring under any delusion as to the exercise over him of a mental force which has ruined his mind. That his mind is ruined is but too true, but that such ruin is attributable to the undue exercise of continuous influence over him, to the system of terror to which he was subjected in order to force him into the madhouse, and to the treatment which he underwent during the time of his incarceration, is but too clear from the evidence of the unfortunate man himself, and from that of Mr. PuRNILL. The following are some of the answers of Mr. DRURY to the questions put to him, in order to test the state of his mind : " Can you road a book or newspaper?—No; I cannot engage my attention sufficiently to do so. " You can't understand what you read?—Yes; I can understand, but I can't confine my attention to the subject. " You mean it leads to disagreeable thoughts ?—Yes. " Why do you not amuse yourself by looking after your property; do you think you could look after it?—l don't think that I could. I do not think myself well enough, owing to the mental force on my mind. " In answer to further questions, Mr. Drury said he felt himself better since his removal, but the oppressive effects of the mental force still remained on his mind ; he did not think. after having been of twenty years, that he could look over his accounts, or that he was capable of taking care of his property; he had never written or received a letter during the twenty years that he was in Fishponds Ayslum ; he did not consider him self well, but hoped he should get better ; he suffered a great deal from varied uncontrolled sensations of imagi native force. " Is it only when you try to read ?—I can't explain because it is variable according to the nature of the o c capable was o f livin gn otea a t l h o a n t e subject I r ea d. H e then said that he did not think him self n eya.p accßopent t knewthe nature arvealeufe the effect on his mind was continually working on his mind that he could not control his mind. Sometimes he was worse than at other times ; the weather affected him. He had never had any idea of injuring himself but his thoughts made him unhappy? , , All these symptoms are merely the effects which would be produced naturally on the mind of an y person wh© had for twenty years been subjected to a system of terror, and kept during the whole of that period from all communication with the sane portion of his species. That this is the only cause of his present melancholy condition becomes more evident on reading the narrative of the manner in which he was partly entrapped, and partly bullied into becoming the inmate of a lunatic asylum : " Mr. I'. B. Purnell sworn—l first examined Mr. Drury on the 23d of November, and I have seen him repeatedly since, and taken long examinations. He stated to me that he became of unsound mind in 1810 or 1811. " Mr. Drury—No; I said in 1803. " He then placed himself first under Dr. Cox, feeling of unsound mind. He remained 18 weeks, and then went home, continued at his farm several years, and partly from the conduct of his trustee, and the formation of an attachment, he again became of unsound mind. Dr. Cox was dead, and he put himself under the care of * Dr. Bompas. He remained for a considerable time in lodg ings as a nervous patient. The last time ho was in dif ferent lodgings, immediately opposite the asylum. Dr. Bompas persuaded him to come into the asylum, and used a sort of supernatural force. " Mr. Drury—No; excuse me —not supernatural force —he compelled me. " The Commissioner—He did not use violent force? " Mr. Drury—No; he used mental influence over me. " Mr. Puraell—He said Dr. Bompas called with his daughter, and said, I wish this day was over, something dreadful will happen.' Ho was then compelled to go to the madhouse. _ " Mr. Drury—The doors were set open, and I could not walk in any other direction. I fancied a voice said, is in the madhouse, and the door is locked.' " The door was locked before I could move to get out. The imagination has remained ever since, although Dr. Bom pas is dead, and I am in another asylum. "In answer to questions put by Mr. Purnell, Mr. Drury then said-he had three forces on his mind at the time he.went in: the first was, that if he came into the asylum he should be ruined; the second was, that the innocent would suffer for the_uilty; the third was, that the deeds were inconsistent t with his heart and soul; and they locked the door of the madhouse." After the perusal of this narrative, we repeat the opinion we have more than once enunciated, that the Fishponds Asylum is not one whit worse conducted than the great majority of the private lunatic asy lums in the kingdom. In ninety-nine out of every hundred of tho existing private lunatic asylums there are at this moment cases infinitely more flagrant than this of Mr. DRURY, and we fearlessly assert that such there will ever be so Jong as it is the interest of the keepers of these asylums to make persons mad in order to secure their permanent residence in the asylum, rather than to cure them, and thereby lose the profit derived from their maintenance. It is the fault of the system, not of the men : the temptation to which the keeper of a private lunatic asylum is exposed, s is too great for the generality of mankind to resist, and no system of inspection can be organized which shall prevent the recurrence of these intoler able abuses. _ Lasciate ogni speranza, Voi the entrate should be inscribed over the gateway of every private lunatic asylum. It is only by doing away altogether with the system of private asylums that the insane will have a fair Chance of recovery. The jury found that Mr. Minix was of unsound mind, and had been. so since December, 1847; consequently he is nonr_under the immediate protection of the Lord Chancellor. -We hope the Lord Chancellor will consider it his duty to inquire into the conduct of his own,officers, the Commissioners in Lunacy, who visited this Fishponds Asylum regularly:twice a year, and who ought on each occasion to have per sonally examined Mr. DRURY. That such examina tion, if it ever took place, was of the most superficial and unsatisfactory character is abundantly evident, or they would have made themselves ac quainted with the real history of the case, and have at once reported thereon to the proper authorities. It appears that Mr. DRURY possesses landed property worth between 1501. and 2001. a year, and that he has no near relations. Probably the Lord Chancellor may think it right to inquire who received .this income during the twenty or thi r t y years that Mr. Dauxr was a prisoner at the Fishponds, and what became of the surplus, after the payment of his expenses at the asylum. The necesssity for a speedy refOrm of the Law of Lunacy becomes every day more apparent; and we trust that the Society for the Improvement of the Law will, without delay, adopt measures for carrying into effect the excellent sug gestions of the Committee of Equity, to which the consideration of the subject of the laws relating to lunatic persons was referred. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC We have received the French papers of yesterday. Several bronze medals of HENRI V., have been seized at a manufactory in the Quarter of the Hotel de rile, and the dies from which they were struck, have also been discovered and seized. The engraver of the medal has been arrested. Several of these medals have also been seized in the shops of the Boulevards, the Passages, and the Palais National. The PRESIDENT of the Republic attended on Satur day the anniversary service for the repose of the soul of his father, Louis BONAPARTE, ex-King of Hol land, which was celebrated at the Church of St. Leu. Several of the old soldiers of the empire were present. The Countess LOVISA. RAYCONI, the daughter of the late King JOACHIM MURAT, ha.s arrived in Paris. The railroad from Tours to Saumur was opened yesterday. The J'ririe of last night contains the following semi-official statement on the subject of the affairs of Italy : " The report is current that, with the consent of all the Powers, the King of Naples and the King ot Pied mont are simultaneously to interfere in the States of the Pope and in Tuscany. The journey of the Piedmontese General Baia, who has left Turin for Naples, passing through Florence and Rome, is said to be in connexion with this plan of intervention: Should the intervention take place, it is said that the English and French fleets will take up their position at Leghorn and Civita Vecchia." It is generally understood that this plan of inter vention has been fully arranged, and that it meets with the approval of all the great Powers. The National has the following on the prospects of Republicanism in Italy : " The Tuscan Provisional Government has already admitted in principle that the fusion of Tuscany with the Papal. States would be the best guarantee of their future independence. It has only yielded in this to the impulse of unitary democracy, which aims at the formation of a vast Republic, with Rome for its capital, and with the Italian Peninstila as its limit. If, therefore, a new State be formed-tlialy Central or Roman Republic, no matter the name—an immense step will be made to wards the end which we speak of. It may, in fact, be affirmed in advance, that Lombardy and the Duchies, when their hour of deliverance arrives, will join the Ro man Republic rather than the Kingdom of Piedmont. The choice of Venice is not doubtful. Sicily, which now with out doubt, would fear to adventure in a perilous fusion, and so weaken the elements of the resistance which is in preparation, would not hesitate, if Naples, delivered up to its Bourbons, did not hold it in check. As to Pied mont, who does not know it? Who does not know how much the democratic action finds germs there ready to bear fruit? The population of Turin is royalist; or rather, constitutional—the liberalism of Gioberti mar vellously suits their present instincts. But Genoa, the Novarrais, and Savoy, are hostile to the monarchical principle. It is, therefore, not too much to affirm, that a Republic firmly established in the centre of Italy would inevitably dismember the kingdom of Charles Albert. Such are the probable chances of the present unitary democratic movement, produced by the presence of the foreigner in Italy. It is the want of a com mon defence —it is th• deep hatred of the Austrian yoke, which prevails over these in testine divisions, these municipal antipathies, which have so long caused the slavery of Italy, after having brought on her ruin. Does that mean that they have disappeared? We dare not either hope or promise it. Federalism has deep roots in Italy, and unity is as yet only a state of theory, of instinct suitable to the moment. If it were given to the republican dogma to destroy in a few days all the dissolving influences which have so long separated the Neapolitans from the Romans, Milan from Turin, Genoa from Venice, &0., we should see in that phenomenon, so little anticipated, its most magnificent consecration. But we doubt that such will be the case. Besides, since the die is cast, this is the manner in which we should like to see the future acts of the Italian demo cracy unroll themselves. The cry of Vine la /*oblique raised at Rome, will find echo in Tuscany. There we certainly see some symptoms of re-action mani fested, but they will be put down without much trouble. When the first difficulties shall have been surmounted, let Florence stretch out a fraternal hand to Rome. Let armies, treasures, alliances, diplomatic relations be all in common. If the frontiers of the Roman States be me naced, let the Tuscan battalions go and defend them. If the Grand Duke Leopold causes arms to be taken up against the rebellious capital, let Garibaldi and his brave legionaries hurry to the walls of Florence. Without menacing Piedmont, without feeling, as in other times, the doctrinary abuses of M. Gioberti, without paying attention to the means which might be devised to make him expiate them cruelly, let the new Republican State offer him a loyal co-operation in the war against the foreigner. If he reject it, if he be determined to carry out his ideas of Papal restoration, it will be time then to appeal from the Minister-Priest to the Chamber, already decided to overturn him, from the monarchical capital to the republican provinces." The Moniteur publishes a return of the produce and consumption of beet-root sugar from the com mencement of the season of 1348 up to the end of January. It appears that during this period 44 ma nufactories have stopped working, and the general quantity of sugar produced was lessened by 12,328,474 kilogrammes. BOURSE—PAMS, MONDAY, FEB. 19. TIIBBE o'CLoca.—The rise at the Bourse made fur ther progress to-day. The French Routes and Shares opened con s id era b ly above Saturday's closing prices, and continued to rise steadily till almost the last moment when there was a slight reaction in consequence of the wish of the fortunate speculators to realise the profits. The Railways participated in the rise. Exchange ou London (30 days), 25 25; ditto (90 days), 25 15. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, FEB. 19. Boulogne and Amiens, 93 /—Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 11—Luxembourg (71.), %—Ditto (10/.), 2 ex int.—Namur and Liege, B%—Northern of France, 9 1 4 — Orleans and Bordeaux, 33.6-.. Paris and Rouen, 20% ex di v ..—Paris and Strasbourg, 3 1 4—Rouen and Havre, 13 —.Sambre and Meuse , s % — Tours and Nantes, 2k. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 2o,' SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 13th have arrived ; they are destitute of news. MADRID BOLBA, FEE. 13.—The Three per Cents. are reported at 21# buyers, sellers ; Five p er Cents. were done at 10f cash in small bonds, an d were 14 buyers after the close • Coupons were done at 61 and cas h ; P a ssive Debt, 3 13.16 buyers, 4 sellers ' • Bank Shares, 56 buyers, 58 sellers ; Dis count on Notes, per cent. 7 • Exchange on London, 49 25. GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. AUSTRIA. The Wiener Zeitung of the 14th contains a pro clamation from the Governor of Vienna for the apprehension of the person or persons who on the night of the 12th inst. sent up two rockets into the air on the glacis between Franzens and Schottensgall. The rockets ascended to the height of twenty feet, and then exploded. On the spot where the inflam mable matter burnt for some minutes with intense light, and scattered around to a wide extent, a great number of musket balls were found. The Austrian Diet at Kremsier, in its sitting of the 12th, continued the discussion of the Bill on Fun damental Rights. Art. 13 of the Bill states that " every citizen of Austria shall enjoy full freedom in the exercise of religious worship. Offences com mitted in the exercise of this right shall be punished by the law." Art. 14 says—" The State will grant no privilege to any creed. It will compel no one to join in any religious worship which he does not profess." Tlyi discussion, which was very animated, was adjourned to the following day. PRUSSIA. The Prussian Straits Anzeiger, of the 17th, con tains the following proclamation : " The opening of the Chambers, which, by a royal patent of December, 1848, were convoked for the 26th day of the present month, will take place at ten o'clock in the forenoon of the said day, in the White Hall of the Palace Royal of this capital. " The Deputies are 'informed by these presents that, on the 24th and 25th, from eight o'clock in the morning to eight in the evening, and early on the morning of the 26th, they are request e d to appear in the provi sional bureau of the two Chambers; for the First Cham ber behind the Catholic church, and for the Second Chamber in the Leipsic Strasse, 35, where, upon show ing the note of the llection Committees, informing them of their elections, they will receive their tickets of admission." The KING will remove from Berlin to Potsdam before the commencement of th• sittings of the Chambers. FRANKFORT. The German Parliament was engaged on the 16th in discussing the election law. DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, F. 12.—1 n the sitting of the Assembly this day, the Minister made the promised statement of the position of Government in regard to the debates of the Assembly on the fundamental laws, of which the project has been submitted to the Chambers. The statement was as follows :—The Ministry gives the Assembly entire freedom in the discussion of the fundamental law, and considers the project submitted as a basis of the proceedings, by which the Government does not consider itself so completely bound that it cannot reject changes made by the Assembly, and reserves to itself the power of forming its own conclusions subsequently to the re solutions framed by the Assembly. The Ministerial declaration did not appear entirely to satisfy the Assembly, but the official journals seem to expect that the project of the Constitution will be passed by a majority. Great difficulty is met with in collecting the mili tary contributions. The war steamer Geyser has left for Alsen.—Haniburgh Borsenhalle, Feb. 15. ITALY. ROME. The Roman journals of the 9th contain a full report of the debate in the Constituent Assembly, which terminated in the deposition of the POPE and the proclamation of the Republic. This important sitting commenced on the Bth, at noon. M. Galetti occupied the chair. All the Ministers were present. Tho number of representatives present was 144. The proceedings commenced with M. Armellini, in the name of the Provisional Govern. ment, coming forward and resigning into the hands of the Assembly the powers which it has hitherto held, in order that it might be provided for as the Assembly in its wisdom might think proper. The Prince de Canino then rose, and quoted an English proverb, which said that deeds were better than words. There was no deed more glorious than the meeting of the Constituent Assemby. It ought to be proclaimed that, for that fact alone, the Provi sional Government had deserved well of the country. History would preserve their names in its annals. They would be carried down to the most remote posterity. But while the Assembly approved so far the acts of the Provisional Government, it was its duty not to give the stamp of its approbation to acts which were repugnant to their conscience. He, therefore, called upon the Assembly to declare that the Government had not done all it ought to have done relative to three things —arias, money, and the purging of different departments. He concluded by a long examination of the acts of the Pro visional Government, several of which he condemned. M. Sterbini said—We have said, and I repeat it, that each Minister is ready to answer for what he has per sonally done. M. Armellini—lf we have done any good, the public will, no doubt, give us credit for it; if we have done harm, we are ready to answer for it. M. Campello—The Assembly will probably not waste time to-day in hearing the report of each Minister. It is sufficient that it should be known that the Ministers hold themselves responsible. Carlo Rusconi : —lt is for th e A ssem bl y to nom i nate a Miaistry to administer the affairs of the country in its name, and I propose that the present Ministry be con firmed. The motion was carried unanimously. A discussion then arose with respect to the report of the Minister of Foreign Affairs. A Member asked four questions—first, what relations had the Provisional Government with M. do Courcelles, who came to Rome?—secondly, what Powers had pro tested against the departure of the Pope, and in what terms?—thirdly, had the Provisional Government en tered into any negotiation with the Pope, and in what sense ?—and fourthly, in what position are the relations of the Government with Piedmont with respect to the Italian Constituent Assembly? M. Sterbini said he thought it right to declare that no negotiations had been opened between the Provisional Government and Gaeta. M. Armellini then alluded to alarming rumours which had been spread of the advance of hostile columns from the side of Piedmont and of Naples, and declared that there was no truth in them. He added that Zucchi was at Gaeta, with an army of-80 men. The sitting was then suspended for half an hour. When the Assembly resumed, M. Savini moved the following decree:— " CONSTITUENT A SSEMBL Y. — FUNDA.MENTAL DECREE. " Art. 1. The Popedem has fallen, in fact as well as in law, from the temporal government of the Roman States. " Art. 2. The Roman Pontiff will enjoy all the gua rantees necessary to the independence of the exercise of his spiritual power. " Art. 3. The form of government of the Roman and will take the glorious name State beempaunreßdeepmnbollacynr., " Art. 4. The Roman Republic will hare, with the res of Italy the relations which a common nationality re quire. " The President, G. GALETTI. GIOVANNI PENNA,ern, ARRoDA.NTE FABRELLI, "ANTONIO ZumßlANenr, Secretaries." QUIRICO FILOPANTI After speeehes from Mamiani, Mari, Filopanti, and Agostini, at six o'clock the Assembly adjourned the de bate for two hours. On the resumption of the sitting, M. Audinot pro posed that the Assembly should at once decree the depo sition of the Pope, but that it should be left to the Italian Constituent Assembly to determine the form of Govern. ment to be adopted. A long debate on this proposition followed; but ulti mately the Assembly resolved, almost unanimously, that the entire decree should be adopted, and that not only should the Pope be deposed but the Republic established. Of 144 Members who voted, fire only opposed the adoption of a Republican form of Government. The proceedings were not closed till past two in the morning. The Aba says that, the city of Rome was in a state of apparent joy and enthusiasm at the result. At two o'clock in the afternoon of the 9th, the flag of the Republic was hoisted on the tower of the Capitol, amid the cheering of thousands of specta tors, and the young Republic was saluted at its birth by the firing of 101 guns from the castle of St. Angelo. enlistedr o l T m h e e nt T sto r ' have 8 /, e u r n v o be e fe o on f r Rtgwoooimn y ears , ofon there on a l arge scale "for the independencethe 9th, state s th a t en for several d ays past . The Ist Regiment of Li g h t Infantry a l one h as b een increased by 600 r ecru i ts, of Italy and th e lib er t y o f the people." The new s o f th e proc l a mation of the Rom an Re public was rece i ve d at Bologna with an ecstacy o f enthusiasm. Bonfires were lighted in the streets, trees of liberty were planted in the public places, and in the evening there was a general illumination. TUSCANY. - The GRAND DUKE is still at St. Stefano. He has brmally forbidden the publication of the proclama tions of the Provisional Government. By a decree o f th e 10th the Provisional Govern ment of Tuscany has instituted a military commis. sion for the d e f ence o f T usc any, composed o f seven persons, amo ng whom we remark the name of Ge neral D'APIC E , w h o ma d e the last stand last ye ar in the Tyrol ag a i nst A us t r i a . Engineer CAaTINELLI is especially appointed for the defence of the Appe nines of Lunigiana and Garfagnana. They have likewise published the following de cree convoking the Legislative Assembly : " The Provi s i ona l G overnmen t of Tuscany, consider ing that the f orm o f govern ment of Tuscany, as a p ar t of Italy, i s t o b e determined by the Italian Constituent Assembly ; th a t meant i me T usca ny cannot be l e ft with out a Legi s l at i ve A ssem bly really representing th e country, dec rees :-1, The G enera l C ounc il an d the Senate are abolished. 2. The legislative powers are concentrated in a single Assembly, composed of representatives of the people elected by direct universal suffrage, and in the Provisional Go vernment. 3. Laws may be proposed both by the Legislative Assembly and by the Ministry. 4. The As sembly shall be composed of 120 representatives, elected by departments in proportion to population. 5. The elec tion shall take place in the communes, and the votes shall be cast up in in every department. 6. Candidates for the representation must be 25 years old or upwards; electors must be 21 years and upwards. 7. Women, persons declared by the tribunals incapable of managing their own affairs, strangers, or persons sentenced to punishments not within the competency of the tribunals of first instance, or to any punishment for fraud, rob bery, and similar crimes against property, are neither eli gible nor electors. 8. The Assembly is convoked for the 15th of March, 1849. 9. A Bill for the immediate organization of the Italian Constituent Assembly shall be speedily presented to the Assembly. 10. The Minister Secretary of State for the Department of the Interior is charged with the execution of the present decree.—Given in Florence, Feb. 10. " The President of the Provisional Government, " GUERRAZZI: " The Secretary for the Interior, " MARMOCCHI." TURKEY. Advices have been received from Constantinople of the 4th by the Levant Mail. The Journal de Con stantinople of the above date says : "In consequence of the gravity which the affairs of the Moldavian-Wallachian principalities appear to as sume, a great activity has reigned in the Divan for some days past. The meetings of the members of the Otto man Cabinet are more frequent than usual, and the communications between the Porte and the representa tives of the great Powers receive fron► this state of things an unaccustomed movement. It results, from letters received at Constantinople by the last mail from Bu charest, that arrests continue to be effected in the prin cipality of Wallachia. These arrests, the letters state, take place at night, and terror is the order of the day at Bucharest. All the men suspected of being well with the party of the old Boyards will tremble for their liberty and their fortune. The same communications declare that these acts are effected independently of the will and authority of the Commissioner of the Porte, Fuad Effendi, and of the Caimacan, Prince Constantine Cantacuzene." GREECE. Athens journals of the 7th have been received. The KING has granted a complete amnesty to General GRIVAS ' who was one of the c hi e f s o f th e i nsurrect i on of 1847. HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.) The House sat to-day to hear Scotch appeals. The Lords present were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, Lord Campbell, the Marquis of Dunegall, and the Bishop of Hereford. LIVINGSTONE V. PROUDFOOT. The, arguments in this appeal from the Court of Ses sion in Scotland were commenced this morning, and occupied their Lordships the whole day. The case is of no interest except to the parties concerned. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY HOOPER V. DENSON. The further arguments in this part-heard cause, in which a cross bill had been filed by Denson against his partner's original bill for an account, in consequence of the dissolution of their partnership and the outstanding partnership liabilities of their late firm of Hooper and Co., of Coleman.street, London, West India merchants, were resumed this morning, and occupied the Court the whole day. VICE-CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.) (Before the Vice-Chancellor of ENGLAND.) DUNN V. ItIAUDSLEY. The further arguments in this part-heard case again occupied the Court the whole morning. (Before the Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.) REESE V. CHILTON. The further arguments in this part-heard case were resumed this morning. (Before the Vice-Chancellor Waaaaisx.) NEWMAN V. HUTTON. The arguments in this case, which were commenced on Saturday and continued yesterday, were resumed to day. The bill was filed by the captain of a vessel trad ing on the African coast, against the defendants, his owners, to set aside a settlement of account in 1838, upon the grounds that the plaintiff was, at the time of the set tlement, in an insane or weak state of mind, and that he was under duress. The original plaintiff, Captain New man, having died in 1841, the suit was continued, by revivor, by his widow. It was stated by the bill that, in 1832, Captain Newman was engaged by the defendants as master of the brig Industry, at six guineas per month, and he was to have one-fourth of the profits of the spe culation in ivory, gold, and palm-oil, on the African coast. It was alleged that after his return from the fourth voyage, the defendants charged him with felony, and in order to avoid the consequences of a prose cution, ho assented to the settlement now seugilit to be impeached, but not until he had been arrested upon a note which he had given to the defendants.: The captain had ultimately given a cheque for 1,2564, and had received a receipt from the defendant. It was con tended by the plaintiff's counsel, that the evidence esta blished that the captain had long laboured under nervous excitement, and that he was at the time of the settlement of the accounts very wild in his manner, and that he had subsequently made attempts upon his own life, in the last of which he had been successful. They contended that what had been paid by the captain was merely a sum paid as a compromise, he being under apprehen 7 sions from the charges or threats made at the instance of the defendants, and they asked that the Court would direct an account to be taken before the Master. On behalf of the defendants, the owners of the vessel, it was s t ate d t h at at the conclusion of the last voyage Captain Newman called upon theta, and obtained an advance of money, and that alter some delay they obtained access to his papers and books, and their suspicions were awakened t that all was not right ; that in January, 1838, the captain came to the defendants' counting-house, and at once avowed that he had defrauded his employers to the ex tent of 1,0001., that he had been very uncomfortable since he had returned, and was willing to put himself right by paying the amount; that he admitted he had kept back out of the proceeds of the cargo 140 gold:doubloons, 287 ounces of gold dust, and sundry bills of exchange, and referred the owners to the parties resident in Leaden hall-street and Ratcliffe-highway, who, he stated had purchased some of the property; that it was discovered by the accounts that the captain owed:the defendants 1,6501., but they had taken 1,2501. as a compromise; that no threat had been made 'by them or on their be half, but he might have been acquainted of his liability by his own solicitor; and that the result of the settle ment was favourable to him. In answer to the allega tion that the captain was insane it was observed that there was no evidence of his having died by his own hand, and that the very witnesses who deposed to insanity had treated with him in matters of business without calling in medical men or any friends of the deceased. As to the ground of duress, all that was proved was that the sheriff's officers had taken him into custody for the debt, but this being legal custody, it had been well esta blished, and was one of the elementary principles of the law recognised so early as the time of Sir W. Black stone it did not a moun t to d uress. Equ i ty, i t was argued, could only relive on the ground of fraud, but the evidence failed to establish this, and the plaintiff, or her husband, had consented to take advantage of the settlement which had been made. [The arguments had not concluded when our After noon Edition wont to press.] COMMON PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi Prins, at Guildhall,', before Lord Chief Justice WILDE and a Special Jury.) EWBANE. V. NUTTING. This case, which lasted the whole of yesterday, was resumed this morning. It will be recollected that it is an action in a charter party, brought to recover the loss which the plaintiff alleged he had sustained by reason of the defendant having, on a voyege from Liverpool to Calcutta with a cargo of salt, i n t h e s hi p T r i ton, put into Bahia, and intermediate ports, and sold the cargo at a great disadvantage. Captain Walter Greg, on the part of the defen dant, this morning deposed that he had been a master-mariner for about seventeen years, and was cap tain of a vessel called the Diana, in October, 1845, which sailed from Liverpool on the 2d of November in that year, on a voyage to Bahia. He saw the Triton lying at the dock-gates at Liverpool before he started. The first part of the voyage of witaess to Bahia was very stormy; it blew a very heavy gale on the 6th and 7th of that month. He arrived at Bahia about eight or ten days before the Triton. He had been at Bahia many times before, and was well acquainted with the port. He received directions on December 15th from the Consular office to make a survey of the Triton to ascertain the state in which she was. Captain Selkirk was associated with him in making that survey. They proceeded on that day to make a general examination of the vessel. They found a cargo of salt on board, but they were not able with the cargo of salt on board to make anything like a satisfactory estimate of the state of the vessel. They made such a survey as they could under the cir cumstances, and they made their report to the con sul upon that. A portion of the cargo was then taken out and put into lighters. The cargo that was taken out was very much dirtied by the leakage. It was a very heavy cargo. After the vessel had been lightened, he and Captain Selkirk proceeded with the survey. They found she had been strained very much from stern to stern. The pitch was all cracked, and when they went below they found she had been leaking at every point, and part of the bul warks had been carried away. The cooking-house was also in a shattered state. In his judgment it would not have been at all safe to proceed with a cargo of salt, as the vessel then was, to Calcutta. The injury she had sustained was not partial 'out general, and very important. Mr. Sergeant CHANNEL replied on the defendant's evidence, on the part of the plaintiff; contending that the ship was in a sufficient state of repair to take the cargo on to Calcutta. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE then summed up the case. He said this was an action brought by the plaintiff, the owner of the cargo in question, to recover damages from the defendant for the conversion of his property so shipped in the defendant's vessel. This was not an ac tion founded on a contract, although a contract might be presumed, but it was an action for the wrongful sale of the cargo of salt shipped on board the defendant's vessel. The first question for the consider ation of the jury was, whether the sale, which in point of law amounted to a conversion, was or was not justi fiable. Secondly, whether it was a sale for which the defendants, as owners , or for which Captain Ordo was alone responsible. It bad ever been considered a matter 1849. of great importance to see that a merchant's cargo which was entrusted to the owner of a ship was not disposed of in any other manner than the owner of that cargo gave authority t , dispose of it, except under such urgent circumstances as would justify the disposal of the property differently from what its owner wished. The responsibility was thrown on those owners or captains who sold any cargo to show that the sale took place under necessity. The sale should be such a one as the law considered was a sale of necessity, to furnish an answer, on the part of the shipowner or captain, to the charge of selling a merchant's cargo. The jury found for the plaintiff.—Damages, 725/. (VI ONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. There was less activity in the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday, which closed rather tamely for American sorts; other descriptions are still, however, firm. The sales were estimated at 6,000 bales, and included 4,000 American at 31d. to sid., 200 Peruams at sd. to 5-d., 100 Bahia at 511., 500 Egyptian at 51d. to bid. and ;"-7, J. 500 Surats at 3d. to 4d., and 100 Sea Island at Bid. to ls. 3d.—Railway Shares were dull and prices were lower. The projeot for a Danish loan excites no interest here, and although there have been subscriptions in the Stock Exchange, the public will not be inclined to participate. We have had too much of foreign loans already, and no encouragement should be given to them, however small. At present 800,0001. are required, and no doubt it is hoped that one-half will be raised in England. his quite certain that our capitalists are sending away specie both to Austria and Hamburgh, and no doubt in con nexion with these loans. The American accounts engage much attention, to the exclusion, indeed, of almost everything else. The specu lators for a fall in the Funds were selling freely, being convinced that prices would fall ; but all would depend upon the further news from California. United States Stock was 1084 to 109. Upon the Cotton Market we are advised, in Stewart's Circular of the last date, that " Prices have undergone but little change since the date of my last circular, per America, on the 23d ult.; the succeeding week the average daily sales were 4,500 bales, with a st iff market; and on. Monday, the 29th, might be called nearly a quarter cent dearer, or equal to 74 cents for fair Uplands. The steamer Canada arrived in the lower harbour late that evening, but, in consequence of fogs, we did not receive the letters by her until the morning of the next day was well ad. vanced. Although her accounts show a very healthy state of things at Manchester, and generally over Eu rope, with large sales at Liverpool, still there was evi dently a disappointment felt, as an advance by her of a farthing was generally operated for. The consequence was a very flat market that day, with limited sales, at a deduction of a quarter of a cent. on the lower styles, and about an eighth on the upper grades." Of the Stock Market it is said that " Quotations for many securities in this list have fallen off slightly within the past two weeks, and the market has not been so active as previously reported. This can only be attributed to the increased demand for money, and the screws put upon the market by the banks. The payments into the custom-house will, doubtless, be larger for some time to come, and the pro bability is that the banks will be more cautious in their movements. They will be compelled to be so, in con sequence of a decrease in their means, by a withdrawal of a portion of their deposits. Much, however, depends upon our next advices from California. In the event of large remittances of gold coming to hand, there will be an immediate change in the complexion of our financial affairs, and, of course, a great improvement in the money market." The latest dates from the gold region appear to come through Mazatlan, and appear to be of about No vember 5. They confirm previous statements, but mention that the washings had ceased owing to the cold weather. About 4,000,000 dollars are stated to have been found since the first discovery of the gold, but some persons thought that not more than 2,000,000 dollars had been obtained. Immense num bers of persons were leaving Mazatlan. It may be right to state, however, that many were content to abandon the gold digging, and to take to trade. At Montreal flour was 245.6 d. per barrel. Exchange on London 11 per cent. The Legislative Assembly of Mexico was opened on the Ist January, and an excellent speech upon the occasion was delivered by the President, who has for the first time during many years had a budget prepared and laid before the Congress. The President alludes in most favourable terms to the resources of the Republic and to the practicability of establishing an equilibrium with the expenditure. Although the French advices are good, and the Rentes had further advanced, our Stock Market is exceedingly flat, and there is by no means so good a feeling. The supply of Money Stock continues large, and it is said that sales have been made with the view of investing the proceeds in the French Funds and Railway Shares, which are so much below our own. Consols opened at 934 f, and have since been 921 for Money, and 92i to 93 for Account. Exchequer -bills are 38s. to 41s. prem. Bank Stock is at 196. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 93i to 944. Foreign Stocks are flatter, except Mexican, which have been 251 -I. Spanish Five per Cents. are 171, and Portuguese b'our per Cents. 25. Dutch Two-and• a- Half per Cents. are 50-j to 2 - 4 . The Railway Shar e Market has been exceedingly heavy, except for the French lines, which have again improved. Great Western, North-Western, and all the other lines are depressed. CLO, ING PRICES. 196 93 93 ONE 'RI:Ts OF 13RITISII FUNDS. O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 196 per Cent. Reduced Ar.ns 93% 92% 93 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 93% 92 3 / 4 % New 3% per Cent. Anne....,,., 94% 93% J . l Long Anns. to expire Jan. 1860 Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 B% 13-16 8 13-16 India Bonds, 1,0001. Ditto under 1,0001... -56 57 p South Sea Stock Ditto New Annuities Console for Account 9 3 1 /2 92% 93% 93% Exchequer Bills. 2%d. & 2d. 1,0001. June 500/. June Small. June Ditto Advertised, June 3B 37 p 37 p PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS, ONE CLOSING O'CLOCK. PRICES. Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent.......,.., 96% 96 Equador Bonds Grenada Bonds, 1 per Cent. — Ditto Deferred Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 — Ditto, Account ...... .. ...... Portuguese 5 per Cents. — Ditto, 4 per Cent 25 Spanish 5 per Cant. 1840. Ditto. Account 17% Dividends on the above payable in London. French, 3 per Cent Exchange 2sf. 30c. 25f. 30e. Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild 50%% 50 3 / Ditto. Account ..... ... ..... 5 0%% 50% Ditto, 4 per Cent. C er tifi cates 80 % 80% PRICES OF BUSINESS DONE CLOSING RAILWAY SHARES, PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen 5O — x n....,...... 19%xn Birmingham and Ox ford Junct., calls duly paid, or with a guaran. 20 Boston, Stamfd & Bi rm . 5 ... - 5 4% 4% Caledonian Ditto, Quarter Shares 11% — .. . 4 54, Do. New 101. Pref..... 7% 8%.... .. ...... 8 % Chester and Holyhead... 50 - 20% Ditto, Preference Dublin and Belfast Ju.nc. 35 ..-.. 6% 6l /s Eastern Counties........ 20 ... 10 3 / 4 % % l O 3 /4 Do. New Guaranteed 6 per Cent. ..... ..... 10 Ditto, Extension, 5 per Cent., No. 1 61.135. 4d.... Ditto ditto, No. 2 61. 13s. 4d... IA p Do. North. & Eastern 50 Do~ 5 per cent. ..... Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ....„ .............. Ditto, Half Shares Exeter,Yeovil, & Dorch. 2% i. ••• Great Northern Do., - 1 / 2 A Deferred ... 12 1 ,x ...... 4% ... .. Do., 1 ,4 B 6 per Cent... 6% ...... Do. Extension 2%...... % Great We5tern............ 100 ...... 100 98 98% Ditto, 14 Shares Ditto, New 171... 1 / 2 ... .... - Lancashire & Yorkshire 93 Ditto, ditto Do. Quarter Shares... 17% 14% Do. Fifth 5........... .... 10 Do. New, G ua . 6 Der et. 7% 9% . . ......... ... Do. (W. Riding Union) 8.. London &Blackwall...l3l . 6s.Bd 5 London, Bright on , and ...... ......... South Coast 5O ..... 35 3 / 4 % Ditto, New 5/., guar. 6 per cent. London and N. Western 100 ......140 137 137 Ditto, New ...... 12% 12% Ditto,Filths ..... .. Do. 101. (M. & B.) A lO ~ Lond. &S. Western 5O . ..... 38% 39 .......• 39 Manchester,Buxton,and Matlock 4% l% l% Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire... 100 D 0.% Shares (No. 3) 12% 5% ••• 5% Midland ... 100 Do., do., 501. Shares... 25 ... .. 18% 18 Do. Consol. Bristol and Birming., 6 per ct.... 100 ......125% 124% Norfolk ......... 100 - ...... - ••• -•— Do. Guaranteed 5 p ct. 20 Do. Guaranteed s%pc. 5 Do. Lowestott(4 per ct) 20 Northern Counties Union 4 ...... GAN • % North British ...... ... 25 ...... 16 ... .......... 16 Ditto, Halves .. North Staffordshire Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton - ....... .. Scottish Central Shrewsbury and Bins-. 10 Ditto ditto, Class B. 6 Ditto, New Guaranteed 8 Shrewsbury- & Chester (Nor. W. Min.) lB - Ditto Oswestry ...... 18% l5 ... l3 Shropshire Union So ith Emtern Do., No. 2. Do., Scrip No 4 Wilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth York, Newcastle, and .. 40 Berwick..... .. Do. Original New and • . — Berwick .. ...... ... 4-. ..... Do. E ktension No. 1 20 B) 20 874 Do. G.N.E.Prel erence 8 ••• .. 874 York end North Midl an d 50 Do. East cad W es t Rid- ...... 54%.. . 54 1 ' ........ ...... ia 57p 34 25 1 % 25!4 17 IA p A P 54% 42 16 1 3 4 47 , 13 534 :f 4 93% 20% 13% 73 1 4 13 1 4 7 3 / 4 9% 4% 5% 34 22 22% ing Extension 25 ...... 27k, 27 1 / 4 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. roulogn, and Amiens... 20 Central of France (Or o leans and V ierzou) ... 18 Namur and Liege ... Northern of Fr ance ...... 12 ...... 9 3 4 10 Orleans and Bordeaux-. 7 PaPisAnd Rouen .... ..... 20 ..... 21 20 3 4 ex. d Paris and Strasbou rg ... 9 ...... •••••&••• 54 Bourn and Havre ...... 20 ..- 1 2 14% .. 13!$Sambre and Meuse ...... 20 ... .. 5% 4% 5 Tours and Nantes 9 ..... . 2 1 / 2 ••.•••........ 2 N JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia London Joint Stock Union of L0nd0n......... 10 ...... 1014 10,4 LONDON AND BLACK WALL RAIL' WAY COMPANY.—(THIS DAY.) The usual half-1 easily general meeting of the above company was held this morning, at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate- street ; Mr. J. N. Daniell, chairman of the board of directors, in the chair. The report stated that the receipts, including the be' lance from the previous half-year, had amounted to 29,6352, and that the total expenditure had been 17,75 31 4 leaving a balance of 11,8521. applicable to dividend. Tbit would admit of the payment of 2s. 6d. per share, c l ea r of income tax, upon the p resent cap i ta l stock of the corn'party, comprising 87,900 shares, which exceeded the number of shares on which the last dividend was paid by 15,900. There had been a diminution in the passenger, traffic, as compared w ith th e corresponding per i o u of 1847. Irrespective of the cause which had of late affected this as well as other railways, the unfavourable state of the weather during the summer, and . the eh' cumstance that only one line had been in operation during the last three months, would account for the decrease. From the report of the engineer laid before the 1 14 meeting, the directors fully expected that the adaptation of the main line to the locomotive system of working would have been completed before the end •of the yea r ' During the progress of the works, however, various fut . pediments presented themselves, and it was not until the close of the year that the alterations on one line Wer e finished. The Commissioners of Railways having it t. spected the works, sanctioned the opening of the altered line, which, with the extension line, would, in due course , have commenced working on the Ist of January, bog some difficulties respecting the use of locomotive en' gines on the main line, which, by the company's Ants, were required to be approved by her Majesty's Commit' . sioners of Woods and Forests, caused a further dell The directors repeat th e i r conv i ct i on that there wou be a considerable saving in the working expense° under the locomotive, as compared with the es; tionary engine sy s t em , and from a recent al l ", careful review of th e su bj ect, they had no doubt that both the extension line, so far as the traffic to Bow iftg e concerned, and the main line, would be worked for two' thirds of the cost hitherto of working the main line only' A joint station was now in course of construction at the junction of the Eastern Counties Railway 'with rh o Blackwell Extension line. As soon as it was complegn arrangements w ou ld b e carr i ed out for running the trains in conjunction with those on the Eastern Counties line' and the directors entertain no doubt that the advantag e derived by the p u bli c wou l d cause a considerable an d gradually increasing traffic to flow to and from our Ca terminus through this channel. As the powers le t widening the line from Stepney to Fenchurch-street, an Act for which was obtained in the session of 18 46 ' would expire in July next, the directors had deemed it prudent to direct that an application be made to Palle; ment for an extension o f th e t i me f or carrying into eft the powers given by that Act. As a vacancy in the d'' rection having been caused by the retirement of 1). 1 ' Bowring, the directors had, under the power vested il l them by the Act of Parliament, elected Thomas Aleocki Er.,q , M.P., to supply hi s pl ace , w hi c h e l ect i on they fee confident would meet with the approbation of the s hare; holders. On the present occasion Messrs. Lee 013 ! Bishop went out of offic e by rotat i on, b at b e i ng eligibt' for re-election they offered themselves accordingly. The CHAIRMAN, in m ov i ng t h e a d opt i on of the re pot congratulated the pr o p r i etors upon their hav i ng 't length got rid of the old and expensive system of stn' tionary engines. The alteration had cost them mtlof! but when he reme m b ere d t h at charge would reduce t h e expenditure one-third, that the saving would enable the ° „ to pay interest up on th e cap i ta l i nvested in the extension without altering th e i r p resent prosperous condition, I' felt that tho m one y h a d not been badly laid eu"," Besides, the change would enable them to run their 10 00 motives on the Ea s t ern C ount i es lines, and when the extension and station s were completed there could no doubt whatever that the traffic to Bow would be WI . mensely increased.—(Hear, hear.) The proprietctr e e were aware that at pre sen t t h ey were only work i ng th northern portion of the line, but they hor n ' shortly to open the sout h ern line, and til e d the traffic would be i ncrease d, b y the i r b e i ng connected with the Doekhead and the Birmicr ham Junction line, without making any a ddition _ to the expenditure. The obj ec t o f t h e di rectors wa s t 0 reduce the expenditure and increase the traffic, and tir, proprietors might rest assure d t h at every means w ou ld be resorted to for the accomplishment of that object. Mr. SMITH wished to know when the `l6Comotive‘ would commence working? The CHAIRMAN said they were already running. ,„ Mr. SMITH asked if any arrangement h a d b een co me r' with the Eastern Counties for working the joint traffic! The CHAIRMAN replied there had, but it was j aw pated shortly that the arrangement would be modified ill their favour.—(Elear, hear.) Mr. SMITH wanted to know what their position 'Jol la be in the event of th e E astern Counties repudiating gP", arrangement? The CHAIRMAN did not anticipate any such rupturl e Mr. JENNIN GS said h e was a large proprietor in g Eastern Counties, and at the next meeting he would press upon his fellow shareholders the importance being'on good terms with this company. After some further discussions, the report was adopted, and the dividend declared payable immediately. The retiring directors were then re- elected, as thanks having been voted to the Chairman the meet" broke up. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAV LONDON, FEB. 20.—Wi n d thi s d ay at noon, S.S. " " moderate breeze and dull cloudy weather with rain. n i PLYMOUTH, FEB. 19.—Wi n d S.W .—Off Port, 10,Y: Victoria, Hunter, Savan na h ; H.M . S . Athol, Jainwc— for Portsmouth. DEAL, FEB. 19.—Wind squally.—Arrd. fr o ,, the river, B en j am i n B. G reen, Jeffrey, Mauritius; Ma y' Pernambuco. Sld. Zulderzee, Havana. YARMOUTH, FEB. 19.—The Ciesar, Langley, of a r for Colchester, go t agroun d th i s morning on the B a rb Sand, but was assisted off without making water. , SOUTHWOLD, FEB. 19.—Th e R o b ert J ames, of an d South Shields, from London,'grounded on Sand Hard morning, was assisted off, and proceeded without sr parent damage. FALMOUTH, FEB. 19.—Wind W.-18. Sld. Pelbs° l ' Anderson, Barbadoes. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 19.—Wind W., fresh.—Arrd. Bona Dea, Buchanan, Savannah; Scotia, Miskellyt B a ltimore; Burlington, New Y or k ; C ana d a steamer , ditto. 17 , Sld . Mary, Moses, B os t on . 19 . O ff port, M a rcia Cleaves; Mobile. The T a y an d T ees packet, for Rotterda m, back this d a y, l ea k y , h av i ng b een on shore on t h e Nor th Bank, and must di sc h arge . Conit, FEB. 16.—S1d. P an d ora , S avanna h ; C ur rib, M`Bride, ditto. SHIELDS, FEB. 18.—It is bl ow i ng a ga l e from the west ward. MARGATE, FEB. 12.—The Stonehouse of and fq Plymouth from London, got on shore on the Togo; Sand last night—assistance has been sent, but it is fearo she must discharge part of cargo to get off. SHOREHAM, FEB. 19 . —The Lord Ch ar l es Sals-rt, London to Guer nsey , i s on shore on the Main, to tmo westward of this harbour. to HULL, FEB. 19.—Th e Stourbridge, from Breme n - this port, has p u t i n t o Christiansand, having been Witbin sixty miles of the English coast. S YARMOUTH, ISLE OP W IGHT , FEB. 19.—wind -• strong.—Put back, iris, Ball, for Algoa Bay. We have much pleasure in learning that a week l y periodical of instructive and amusing interest Will be commenced the first week in May, by Eliza CO I ; whose popular and • gen u i ne poe t ry h as d one so ranc_.. for " homes and hearts." We predict a meritoriow success, and shall hail its appearance with a 1 1011 welcome. ROYAL ARTILLERY.—WOOLWICEL FEB. I 9.-- 215 Griffin's company, Bth battalion, having been relie Y 4 O from field battery duty, are under orders to embark . ) 0 Saturday next for Leith Fort, to relieve CaP t A s o i r M'Co)'s company, sth b atta li on, t h e latter being 011„:1. orders to return to head-quarters, preparatory to on o , ing Captain Forbes's company, 9th battalion, at les Mauritius station since May, 1841 ; C apta i n FitzantY` 0 company, 3d battalion, h av i ng a l so b een relieve d fro lic Lute's field battery duty, ar e t o p rocee d , a b out the en d o f t . present week, to Dublin, to re li eve Captain C° ,„ . - pany, 4th battalion, the latt er b e i ng under orders to o t turn to head-quarters preparatory to embarkation 4, 0 the Cape of Good . Hope, to relieve Captain E1 1 i ° :0 0 company, 4th battalion, which has been at that stati; c l since May, 1841. Captain Tulloh's company, Ist , A l t Captain Wynne's company, 9th battalion, the two "for on the list for foreign service, remain under order s ,,,, r s Corfu. Fifty youn g men , recru i ts, joined head -qnsf*-bt on Saturday, from Lisburn, Ireland. They were brong e , over by Sergeant Mason, and made a total of 1,813 0 fir cruits brought to h ea d- quarters by that non-00;01 sioned o ffi cer since h e was p l aced under the comman ded Lieutenant Clarke, at Lisburn, extending over a pert of abort five years. —00! BIRTHS. , ° f On the 13th i nst., at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the "W"' H. W. Fenwick, Esq., of a son. g o ton On the 14th inst., at Leamington, the wife of G. P' • - Karr, Esq., of a daughter. soil' On the 15th i ns t , th e w if e o f F . Fladgate, Esq., of a r, On the 15th i nst . , at H ast i ngs, Mrs. Cox,. of a daughtetoo, On the 16th i ns t., i n Grove-end-road, the Hon. Airs. S e of a daughter. Esq' On the 16th inst., at Epsom, the wife of J. Paterson , of a daughter. DIED. On the 11th inst , Mr. H enry J osep h P age , o f 2 0 , lif) toil' place, West Ham, Essex. uAl h On the 13th i ns t., M r . S . M ann i ng, o f Patriot- 9 44e r Bethnal-green, aged 79, lat o o f th e Storekeeper p'o Tower, London. .v fi' At Lechlade, Glocaite rs hi re , on th e 14th i ns t., the JL' e J. Crump. dnde At the Court yard, Eltham, on the 16th inst., A lo ' -- G. Milne, Esq., aged 79. -----:----.---- London Printed and Published by MURDO YO, 01, No. 112, Stra n d, Printer, at The Sun Office, •° 44 ... Of Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, i n the coun t y Middlesex, Tuesday, Februsry_2o, 150!. Olt