The Sun. — London, England, 1849-02-10 00:00:00

T HE LEGAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY. (Provisionally Registered, January 17, 1849.) Capital, 2,000,0001., in 80,000 Shares, of 251. each. Preliminary Deposit, 2s. 6d. per Share. Prospectuses and full information may be obtained at the Tempo rary Offices of the Company, 13a, Cannon•row, Westminster, on ap plication to G. F. HOWE, lion. Sec., pro tern. NEW NOVEL, BY TIIE AUTHOR OF " EMILIA WYNDHAM." Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. /L OR D A UNT u LL; OR, A SEPTEMBER NIGHT. By the Author of " E3IILIA WYNDHAM," "ANGELA," Bce. Henry Colburn, Publlsker, 13, Great Marlborough-street. ROBERT HOUDIN. - ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. M. ROBERT HOUDIN will have the honour to repeat his extra- Ordinary SOIREES FANTASTIQUES, at this Theatre as fellows THIS EVENING, Saturday, February 10. T ues day Evening, • • • • „ 13. W e d n esday Morning, .. „ 14. Evening Performance at Half-past Eight ; Day Performance at Half-Past Two. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Amphitheatre, Is. Cd. Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets 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. r I EAT It It 0 YAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, Sele Lessee and Manager. Old Brompton. The public is respectfully informed that this Theatre has, during the recess, undergone eery extensive repairs and alterations and the whole re-decorated. THIS EVES'ING, NM be performed THE ME,.CIIANT OF 'VENICE. Shylock, 3lr. Charles Kean ; Portia, Mrs. Charles Kean. To conclude with an Arabian Nights' Entertainment, entitled CAYAIULZAMAN AND BADOURA; or, The Peri who Loved the Prince. Characters by Messrs. Blan - d, Keeley, Mrs. Keeley, Miss Horton, and 31iss Reymolds. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPFIL TTrder the direction of Madame celeste. During the Recess this Theatre has been entirely re-decorated, the original designs by Digby Wyatt, Es 4 , executed by Mr. Sang. A new Stage, Curtain, Act Drop, and Chandelier. An approved sys tem of Ventilation, &c., &c. The Private Boxes enlarged, Backs added to the Seats, and Stalls rendered more comfortable. THIS EVENING Will be presented the celebrated Drama, entitled THE GREEN BUSHES ; or, A Hundred Years Ago. Murtogh, Mr. 0. Smith ; Dennis, Mr. Culleuford ; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Redford ; Grinnidge, Mr. Wright ; Captain Dartois, Mr. Worrell ; Madame St. Aubert, Madame Celeste ; Geraldine, Miss E. Chaplin; Nelly O'Neil, Miss Woolgar. To conclude with THE ENCHANTED ISLE. Alonzo, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Prospero, Mr. 0. Smith ; Ariel, -Miss E. Chaplin. ROYAL LYChUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestris. Sole Lessee, Mr. Charley Mahe 'N s. THIS EVENTS:, Will be performed a new and original petite Comedy, entitled WHO SPEAKS FIRST? After which, a new Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE KING OF TILE PEACOCKS. Characters by Messrs. Harley, John Reeve, Selby, H. Hall, Marshall, and H. Marshall ; Miss Kathleen Fitzwil ham, Miss L. Howard, Mrs. Macnamara, Miss Marshall, Miss L. Marshall, Miss Coleman, and Madame Vestris. To conclude with AN APPEAL TO THE PUBLIC. Dress Mixes, 55.; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. No Calf-price to any part of the home. The isiew Lox-office, No. 2, Wellin;to:- street, is open to the public , very day, from Ten till Six. PRINCESS'S TII EAT I: Pi. Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and Manager. During the Recess this Theatre has been re-decorated and embel lished in a superb and costly manner ty Mr. Durwitz. A new Chan delier has been fitted, and the best airan,,cments have been made for the due Ventilation of the Theatre, and the conuert and convenience of the audience. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new Opera, entitled MARIE, THE FOUND LING OF THE LAKE. To conclude with a new grand Pantomime, entitled BLUFF KING HAL ; or, Harlequin and the Charmed Arrow. Harlequin, Mr. Bologna ; Pantaloon, Mr. F !tubs , ; Clown, Mr. Fleamore ; Sprite, Mr. De Barr ; Columbine, Miss Fawcett. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Last Week of the Wars of the Jews. Under the Patronage of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness Prince &lbert, &c. Enormous success of the Holiday NeveUlu, the most astounding in the Metropolls.—A gorgeous Spectacle.—Brilliant Scenes of the Arena.—A new comic Pantomime. • THIS EVENINCI, The curtain will rise at a Quarter to Seven o'clock precisely to the magnificent Spectacle of the WARS OF THE JEWS ; or, The Fall of Jerusalem. To be followed by an Inimitable display of SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, supported by the first Equestrian talent of the day. To conclude with a new Equestrian Pantomime, entitled BOLD ROBIN HOOD ; or, The Pretty White Horse and Enchanted Prin cess of Sherwood Forest. Box-office open from Eleven till Five. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. TO CORRESPONDE2 ES. fio communication can be attended to unless authenti cated by the name and address of the writer. tip;ected communications cannot be returned. THE WEATHER.—►SUN OFFICE., FEBRUARY 10. THSILXOMETER, Lowest, 42; Highest, 46; Noon, 51. BAROMETZA, 30.42. WIND W.S.W. ; dull hazy weather. WATER. AT LONDON BitWOE. Tura DAY —Vorninv, 48 rrin. after 3 Evenin7, 7 min. after 4 TO-MORROW—Morning, 26 ruin. after 4 Evening, 44 min. after 4 4-7 1 1: 42 - -- tadi: big t . „ r i .l iCi c~o\ l 0.1 • M., 4 ,-, • " 4 7 - • r_l)/t-o-rx 310 `~~ ~Y erV Tan , < CZR, LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1849. Since the instalment of Loris NAPOLEON in the Palace of the Elysee Nationale, Republican France has witnessed a very considerable degree of consis tency, of ability, and of patriotic determination, in the conduct of the Prince PRESIDENT. Never were the difficulties of government more complicated, and never have those difficulties been encountered with a more calm or resolute air of self•possession. After twelve months of anxiety and involvement, the popu lation of Paris and the departments are beginning to resume their confidence in themselves and in the Ad ministration. Commerce—debilitated by a prolonged and almost paralytic indolence—is reviving again to the necessities of industry and enterprise. The secret clubs which have hitherto fomented the wicked passions of the community are subsiding at last into a blessed impotence. The maniacs of democracy, or rather of ultra-democracy, whose war cry was Pillage et Viol ! whose blasphemous watchword was Vice l'Enfer ! whose prototype was the Iscariot, and whose model•hero was the Apostate, have ultimately recognised the impracticability of their undertakings. The more sincere and rational majority have evinced a readiness to support any Go vernment which could afford them protection against the stilletoes of those political assassins and shelter frorn the attacks, sometimes open and sometimes concealed, of those lawless and sanguinary depredators. During the first interval which followed the revolution of February, the Government of LAMARTINE presented to the nation the safeguard of its unsullied honesty, and of that august heroism which must for ever consecrate to the admiration of posterity the memory of the Poet-Statesman. During the second interval the Government of CAVAIGNAC inspired the Republic with a sense of security from the irreproachable integrity of the Dictator, and from the enormous military force placed altogether at his disposal. During the third interval the Government of BONAPARTE has overshadowed France with the protective influence of that great name which the nation still regards as its most glorious heritage—the name of the CAESAR of Christendom, and of the CHAR LEMAGNE of Civilization. however, i n th e While we would commend , very hi g h es t terms the administration of affairs by th e Prince Louis NAPOLEON, since the day w h en h e was solemnly procla imed President of the French Repub lic, we would entirely exclude from any participation in that eulogium the members of his perverse and intolerant Cabinet. The Prince PRESIDENT has confirmed his magnificent popularity in spite of his Ministers. He has secured to himself the respect and sympathy of the nation, notwithstanding the odium which has , with full j ust i ce, fallen upon the holders of the portfolios. He has risen in public estimation, though he has clogged himself with the dead weight of M. ODILON BAR ROT. But for the insolent deportment of the latter towards the National Assembly, the recent feud be tween the Legislative Power and the Executive Power would never —could never, by any possibi lity—have broken out.. The National Assembly, but for the arrogant demeanour of the President of the Council, would never have conceived itself called upon to maintain the dignity of its character by the pro tracted extension of its existence. It would, vvithout any unnatural effort, have peacefully decreed the period of its own dissolution. In all human likeli hood it would have been no more before the expira tion of January. The insolence of the bearing of M. ODILON BARROT—that last and feeblest emanation f ro m the Assembly —has nevertheless entirely altered the attitude and complexion of affairs. When that great Parliament—that Parliament which had pro claimed a Republic, that Parliament which had deli berated over the destinies of the country in the midst of the agonies of a rebellion, that Parliament which had extricated 3G millions of human beings from the depths of a revolution and had built up from it s very foundations the gigantic, elaborate, and symmetrical edifice of a Constitution --when that great Parliament, we say, listened to the insolent voice of M. ODILON BARROT telling it that its hour had arrived, it felt itself instinctively forced into that posture of resis tance which his led to the recent collision between the Assembly and the Government. For it was surely not in character with the majestic and his torical career of this Parliament that it should retire with the semblance of an ignominious expulsion before the mandate of this obsequious Para site of Parties ! The Assembly recognised, with that exquisite susceptibility which may be termed the conscience of a Senate, the insult offered to its dignity ; and, at the very moment when it was preparing to withdraw from power and to resign that power again, unsullied and undiminished, into the hands of the electors, it recoiled from the move ment which, instead of appearing in the light of a voluntary dissolution seemed, under existing circum stances, to partake of the disgrace of a compulsory abdication. Hence it has been that the National Assembly has defied the commands of the Cabinet, and has thought to preserve its glory by prolonging its existence. Those among the popular representatives, however, who looked beyond the dust and the din of the con tentions of to-day, perceived that this abrupt and (all things considered) very natural step on the part of the National Assembly, was dictated by an erroneous sentiment. " Either," said M. DE LAMARTINE, more than a fortnight ago, " Either you rnuA destroy the Ministry or you must retire : if you would act bravely you would do the former ; if you would serve the country you would do the latter." Then it was that in the name of Patriotism, he called upon his brother representatives to withdraw. The Hero of February has since spoken more in detail upon the important question of the dissolution. In the sitting of Tues day, M. DE LAMARTINE, impelled from his silence by the unexpected and startling personalities of M. SAR• RAM, ascended the tribune, and hurled back upon his assailant one of those dazzling orations which are charged with the electric bolts of poetry and elo quence. He disclaimed the accusation that in Fe bruary he had taken up the Republic in his herds and, casting it into space, exclaimed Va, et tonibe ou to pourra! He disclaimed this accusation on the score that it was he who had appealed to Universal Suffrage, and had resigned the Republic, unstained by a single crime, into the arms of the National Assembly. He explained the meaning of his celebrated ejaculation, Alea jacta est! He declared that he could never repent that ejaculation so long as France had to throw the die while the fate of the throw was in the hand of GOD ! He concluded his oration by apos trophising the Assembly in the name of its glory, of its dignity, and of its reputation, calling upon it by the memory of its great days, by the remembrance of that 4th of May on which it had first assembled, by the recollection of that 15th of May on which it had survived the assaults of an armed conspiracy, and by the memorable solicitude of that 23d of June, when it had conquered the barri cades at the head of the people—to FALL. The last word articulated by the Orator has not yet ceased to reverberate in the heart of the Assembly— Tombons ! That simple but emphatic recommenda tion will have its fruit, and that fruit will be the dis solution. The National Assembly will retire in vested with the souvenirs of its renown, bequeathing its opprobium as a fitting legacy to M. ODILON BARROT and his colleagues, and leaving the destinies of the country in the consciences of the people and in the patriotism of the Prince•PREsIDENT. We readily gave insertion to the letter of the Hon. EDMUND Phirrs, in answer to that of Mr. RIGBY WAsoN, which appeared in The Sun of Thursday last. We should have commented thereon hi the same publication in which it appeared, but that we deemed it fitting that Mr. Wasoir should have the opportunity of defending his own propositions in the first instance, which we felt convinced he was fully prepared to do without a moment's unnecessary delay. We have not been disappointed in that expectation. Mr. WasoN's answer appears in another part of this day's impression ; and we confidently refer thereto as a complete and satisfactory vindication of the views and principles contained in " The Budget for the Million." It is scarcely necessary to add a single word to the unanswerable arguments contained therein. There may be some apparent hardship in saddling those of the "commercial, profes sional, and labouring classes," who, " during the 24 (34 ?) years that have elapsed since the war, have applied their hard earnings in the purchase of pro perty," with a proportion of the debt charged on the entire nation. There might be some weight in the argument, if the - :point at issue merely depended be tween those in the enjoyment of property held by themselves or their ancestors (from whom they de rived it) at the time when the debt was con tracted, and others who subsequently acquired property. It must, however, be placed on a much wider basis. The question practically lies between the persons now in the possession of accumulated and realised property of every descrip tion, and the far more numerous class who earn their daily bread by the sweat of their brows, and who have received no inheritance whatsoever but the birthright of every freeborn man—the liberty of toil ing for their own support—and who, under the present system, are compelled to devote a considerable portion of their time and labour to provide for liabilities in• curred long before they were born, and from which they obtained no benefit whatever. It is between these parties that the relative equities are to be de cided. That is the true point, and there can be no departure therefrom ; no riding off on collateral issues, to divert the public attention from the real merits of the case. There is no principle better understood than that every purchaser of property must take it subject to every defect, and to every charge, legal or equitable, to which it may be subject. Caveat emptor is a well-known maxim, which has never been contro verted or denied. The party about to invest his money must institute the closest inquiries in every particular, every point and circumstance of the case must be fully investigated, every possible claim that may arise must be taken into consideration. If he disregards anything so obvious as the existence of an enormous public debt, he alone is responsible for the omission. He cannot hope that perfectly innocent parties should be prejudiced by his negligence, or by his confidence in the permanency of an unjust and erroneous system, Instances are of every day occurrence in which the above principle is acted on and enforced. Mr. WisoN has adduced three clear and forcible illustra tions. Previously to the passing of the Reform Bill many persons had invested their capital in the pur chase of rotten boroughs—in acquiring a supposed right to the franchises of their fellow-subjects. Were the rest of the nation to remain for ever unrepre sented because a few exhibited such fatuity as to hope that the anomaly could be perpetuated—that a seat in the Legislature could be openly disposed of, with as little disguise or concealment as an article of furniture, a house, or garden ? Most assuredly not. The boroughs were disfranchised with the full approbation of every honest and right-minded man, and little sympathy was expressed or entertained for the boroughmongers. Slavery was abolished. The glorious principle was affirmed that, throughout the British dominions, man should have no property in his fellow-man—that human beings should not be sold or disposed of like beasts of burden—that every social tie should not be severed, and those sundered whom GOD had joined together, at the mere will of an earthly master, a fallible mortal like themselves. Were the innocent victims of the atrocious system to be retained in per petual bondage, because hadmanypueorshoanllowsed ro e p xp p e e n r d t e y d , their savings in the purchase of will Thatand pleasure toenmt,hefull of a in the hope thatcontinuance ip of wo th u e l exist ingdstil still remain hands,to theirto be sufferingapplied atthe intheirtheir n fellow-creatures ere hope was also most signally and most justly disap pointed. Again, properties were purchased in the expecta tion that the food of the people would be permanently taxed—that prices would be artificially enhanced for the benefit of a privileged class. The monopoly had existed for many years. The principle of what was termed protection to British industry (!)—meaning thereby the right to tax the many for the exclusive advantage of a small:minority—was over and over again affirmed in the Legislature. Large majorities in both Houses of Parliament supported the monopoly. The voice of public opinion, however, prevailed. A spirit of inquiry had gone abroad ; a few zealous and in defatigable, men unceasingly exposed the injustice and impolicy of the system. Their constitutional agita tion was successful, and the iniquitous Corn-laws were abolished and consigned to the tomb, amid the hearty execrations of all except those who were in terested in their maintenance. If a still more recent illustration be desired, we might point to the recent enactments for the relief of the poor in Ireland. For merly the poverty of the country was not con sidered a charge upon its property. Millions had been invested by those who supposed that they would be permitted to retain the entire produce of the lands for ,their own exclusive benefit—that the pauper inhabitants might starve without their being called upon to apply any portion of their superfluities to the relief of the pressing necessities of the sufferers. They have, however, been deeply and bitterly disappointed. The paramount claims, the superior equity, of the sick and needy were taken into account, and enactments were framed, in which their alleged rights as purchasers for valu able consideration were wholly disregarded. So it ought to be, and so it will be, when the natural rights of our industrious population are taken into account, when the commercial, professional, and labouring classes, who are toiling at the present moment, require that they shall be freed from demands which cannot fur a moment be sustained, either legally or equitably—which cannot be justified under any cede ever promulgated. The greater por tion of their hard earnings must be applied to the necessary support of their families, before any part thereof can be suffered to accumulate, or set aside to be invested in the purchase of property at a future period. They are but too happy if they can lay by a small sum to guard against the contingencies of ill health or want of employment, when their exertions can no longer be made available. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. The National Assembly has signed its own death warrant, by adopting on Thursday the proposition of M. LANJUINAIS by a majority of 187, the numbers being— For the adoption .... .... 494 Against it.......... Majority --187 Several attempts were made to reserve various organic laws for discussion, but the reactionary agents of the English Tory aristocracy (for it has been in England, and in conjunction with the English Tory aristocracy, that these reactionary intrigues have been carried on), obeying the orders received from London, insisted upon the rejection of all such pro positions, and accordingly the reservation of the organic law on military organization was rejected by a majority of 419 to 362, although the motion for reservation was supported by General LAMORICIERE. The reservation of the Pcor-law Bill was rejected by a majority of 444 to 309, and that of the Law on Primary Instruction by 458 to 307. The proposal to reserve the:organic law on the press was likewise re jected, and before it separated the National Assembly read the organic Electoral Law a first time. The conspirators of the 29th of January have thus suc ceeded in forcing the Republican Assembly to commit suicide. The reactionary journals are all in ecstacies at this unexampled triumph of the system of " enor mous lying," which in every country in Europe con stitutes the stock-in-trade of the reactionary party, and calculates theTnumber of days :that must elapse before the Legislative Assembly, elected under the joint influence of terror, corruption, and cajolery, can assemble in order to cashier the PRESIDENT, as he was elected to cashier the National Assembly. The Constitutionnel calculates the number of days that must elapse at 80, and fixes the 7th of May as the day for the meeting of the Le gislative Assembly. That meeting will be the signal for the present Ministers and flatterers of Lours NAPOLEON to turn upon him and kick aside the planche Napolionienne. Actaeon-like he will be hunted by his own hounds, and if in his extremity he should turn to the honest Republicans of the veille for assistance we trust it will be afforded him, for from this time the salvation of the Republic depends upon LOUIS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE continuing Pre sident. With regard to the conduct of the Assem bly itself we concur in the following opinion ex pressed by the National:— •' Our readers will comprehend the painful feeling we experienced at the sight of the Assembly, hitherto so firmly united by its Republican convictions, at present divided by the intrigues of reactionary parties, and thus repudiating in succession every portion of the duty en trusted to it." The Patrie, the official journal of the Government, has the following on the subject of the reservation of the Budget. " An explanation was given to-day, in the lobbies of the National Assembly, of the first paragraph of Art. 3 of the proposition on the dissolution, voted yesterday by 445 to 373. The following are the terms of this article:— " The order of the day of the Assembly shall be re gulated in such manner that, independently of the elec toral law, the law of the Council of State, the law of the responsibility of the President of the Republic and of the Ministers, and the budget of 1849, shall be voted be fore Ahe dissolution.' " The words and the budget of 1849,' added to the article as drawn up by M. Lanjuinais, by way of amend ment, proposed by MM. Dezeimeris and Pascal Dupre, differ essentially from the amendment of M. Sauteyra, which was withdrawn. An amendment, according to the ideas of M. Senard, was rejected. It was erroneously considered that this vote was a check to the majority. It cannot in anywise alter the essential provision of the law which is thus conceived:— " The elections for the Legislative Assembly shal l take place on the first Sunday that shall follow the final closing of the electoral lists in all the departments.' " The above quoted provision, voted yesterday, does not render the voting of the budget obligatory upon the Assembly ; it only prescribes that the order of the day may be so regulated that it may be voted before the separation. As M. Gouin, President of the Committee of Finance, remarked, this faculty is according to right. Its insertion in the decree on the dissolution of the Assembly cannot in any manner alter the date fixed by Art. 2." The Constitutionnel announces that the French Government has acceded to the proposal to join a congress of Catholic Powers, to be held at Gaeta, to afford the POPE their aid to enable him to exercise his spiritual authority freely, and in a manner worthy of the Catholic population of the world. Numerous addresses from different legions of Na tional Guards are daily presented to Colonel FORM TIER, expressive of sympathywith him, and protesting against the arbitrary and illegal conduct of General CHANGARNIER. The National, in allusion to the pitiful prevarica tions of which M. LEON FAUCHER was guilty in re lation to the lithographed bulletins, says that the same bulletins which were sent under official covers to the Prefects were also sent as " corresp on d ence " to the Legitmatist and Orleanist provincial journals, and, adds the National, " as the tendencies of the present Ministers of the Republic are entirely in fa vour of monarchy, it was useless to multiply the 'Bureaux de correspondance: " The following are the principal items in the weekly return of the Bank of France : Specie in Paris ... —.F.158,847,615 Ditto in the branches ... ... 127,305,360 Bills remaining due in Paris ... ... 53,648,357 Ditto in branches 95,837,523 Over-due bills 115,394 Protested bills in Paris ... ... 9,327,282 Ditto in provinces ... ... 4,766,836 Bank notes in circulation ... 407,738,400 Notes in branches ... 13,896,100 To the credit of the Treasury ... 31,406,463 The Gazette de France announces that it was seized yesterday at the Post-office, for an article on the speech of M. DE LAMARTLNE. A Committee of the National Assembly yesterday determined that the authorisation demanded for the prosecution of M. PROUDHON should be granted. Marshal BuGEAur, has arrived at Lyons. Senor SALAMANCA has been arrested at Bayonne. BOURSE-PARIS, FRIDAY, FEB. 9. THREE o'CLocx.—The rise in the French funds and Railw.4y Shares made further progress to-day. The rise to-day is upwards of one per cent. on the Five per Cents. Exchange on London (30 days,) 25 37k; ditto (90 days), 25 25. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, FEE. 9. Boulogne and Amiens, 8% —Dutch Rhenish, 1% — Luxembourg (10/.), 2 %r—Namur and Liege, 8 3 4—Northern of France, 8— Orleans and Bordeaux, 3—Paris and Rouen, 183 4—Rouen and Havr e , 10— Sambre and Meuse, 44 — Tours and Nantes, 2. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 3d have been received. A letter from Catalonia of the Ist of Feb., says, "On the 27th January, at the Pasteral d'Ames, an ac tion took place between a column of the Queen's troops, under Colonel Solano, and a b an d o f Carlists, which was commanded by Cabrera i n p erson, in which the latter was severely wounded. On the 31st, Cabrera, h o tly pursued by the troops of her M a j esty up to the F ren ch frontier, entered France, through the vill age o f Madrid that th on a l t y. c " ABRER k had received two shots in the bod y , and that h e had died gf his wounds. La Farge, by the bide of Pratsde Molso. li e was ac c o n l l t p a w n i a e s d r b u y m h o is ured i medicaln i The following details of the murder of RECALDE throw some light on the character of that pet of the English Tories, General NARVAEZ : " M. RECALDE was a man beloved and highly esteemed throughout the whole of the province. He was turf:stet:l at his own hope, at VillAneuva, solely because he was known to be a friend of AZURA ; and although there was not the slightest evidence that he was in any way connected with the insurrecticn, he was carried to Pampeluna and thrown into prison. On its being known that he was a prisoner, his friends flocked around him with offers of service. Among others, M. INAZZA, the deputy for the province, ,proposed to him to address a petition to the QUEEN, demanding justice, and offered to be himself the bearer of it to Madrid. This was ac cordingly done, and M. INAZZA started post for Ma drid, with the petition, after having obtained from the authorities a promise that M. RECALDE should not be executed (as had been threatened) till his return. On his arrival at Madrid, M. INAZZA, on representing the true state of affairs, had no difficulty in obtaining an order for the immediate release of M. RECALDE, and without losing a minute he posted back to Pampe luna with the order of release signed by the QUEEN herself. But, horrible to relate, while this devoted friend was hastening to the relief of the unhappy man, General NARVAEZ had sent a telegraphic dispatch with the order for the execution of the prisoner with out a moment's delay. The consequence is, that we have seen at Pampeluna what was never seen in Spain before—a man executed on a fete day, and at eleven o'clock at night." MADaID BOLF.A.. FEB. 3.--Five per Cents. 10k; Three per Cents. 211. Exchange on London, 49 20. GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. PRUSSIA. The democratic party have been victorious every where in the elections of the Second Chamber. TEMME, JACOBI, and JUNG have been returned for Berlin, Uratutt has been re-elected for Magde burgh, and STEIN for Breslau. The only Ministerial ists of any note who have been returned to the Second Chamber are ARNIM and MANTEUFFEL. HUN GARY. The Hungarian Diet continues its sittings at De brecsin, and a detachment of the Magyar troops have laid siege to Arad, which city they bombarded on the 26th ult. General DEAIBINSKI, the Commander m. Chief of the Hungarian troops in the Theiss, is endeavouring to effect a junction with GORGY. The Magyars are desirous of not assuming the offensive before the spring. FRANKFORT. The German Parliament has adopted the line of demarcation for Poland proposed by SCHAEFFER, in preference to the one proposed by General PFUEL. SCHLES W IG-HOLSTEIN. The Allgemeine Zettung says—" We learn froma credible source that the Prussian Government will not recommence the war with Denmark. This we are assured is the indispensable condition of an offen sive and defensive treaty concluded between the Cabinets of Vienna, St. Petersburgh, Berlin, Copen hagen, and Stockholm, and which is directed princi pally against the revolutionary movements which may arise in the dominions of the Powers interested." MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEW S . CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton Market at Liverpool, yesterday, was buoyant again. Both speculators and the trade have bought freely this week, The sales yesterday were 8,000 to 10,000 bales.—ltailway Shares were very steady. Tne Bank of England weekly return to the 3d. inst., shows no important changes compared with the previous week. It is satisfactory to observe that the circulation increases, though but slowly, and as to the bullion, people seem to regard a further material addition as a matter of course. The discount business has not received any ex tewion, nor do we expect any, while money in the open market is to be had on lower terms than those granted at the Bank Notes Issued Increase Rest ... ... 28,330,845 ~. 14,975 ... 3,576,625 Increase 88,518 Public Deposits ... ... 3,922,307 Increase ... 44,659 Other Deposits 11,328.544 Decrease 514,255 Seven Day and other Bills ... 1,144,824 Increase 31,984 Government tiecurities ... No alteration. Other Securities ~, ~ 10,314,654 Decrease ... 112,927 Notes ... 9,553,460 Decrease 84,835 Bullion ... 15,105,764 Increase ... 63,693 Active Circulation ... 18,777,385 Increase ... s ., 99,860 The accounts from the manufacturing districts arc favourable, and although some caution is exhibited, there seems a probability of continued improvement. From Bradford we are advised that during the present week— " There has been about an average business done, and prices are firm. There is a fair demand for noils and broker. Yarn—ln the yarn market there has been little variation from last week. Prices aro still main tained. Pieces—The demand for pieces has, if any thing, been somewhat brisker, but the merchants still shrink from giving any advance in price." From Leicester we are informed that— " The wholesale buyers having laid in their stocks both of worsted and cotton goods, there has been less activity in the warehouses this week. Full employment is still extended to the workmen, and the general opi nion is that there will be a good spring demand. Worsted spinners are very firm in their demand of the 2d. advance, and are not disposed to take prospective orders, even at that advance. There is no alteration in cotton yarns. Wools remain firm, and in good request. Farmer's lots range from 223. 6d. to 245. per tod. The English Stock Market is extremely buoyant again, although business is not very active. Consols have touched 93i I, and are now looking very firm. The New Three.und-a-Qiiarter per Cents. have been 94i to Bank Stock is as high as 1961. Exchequer-bills range from 475. to 525. premium. During the presnt week nearly 600,000 ounces of silver have been shipped direct from London to the Continent. The Foreign Securities are quiet, but generally higher. Spanish Five per Cents. have touched 18 and 181, and the Three per Cents. 30 and 30k. Mexican Bonds have been 258 w and Equador, 28. Dutch Two-and•a- Half per Cents. are 50, and Belgian Four•and•a-Half per Cents. 82. Railway Shares do not rise with the Funds, although generally they have a firm appearance. The French lines arc higher, owing to the advance at Paris. BRITISH FUNDS 'l'lll6 DAY AT oNIL O'CLOCK. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock 196% 3 per Cent. Reduced 93 3 per Cent. Consols Anna 93 %Ma New 3 1 4 per Cent. Anna. .. 94 1 ,E % Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 ... 9 Do. 30 Y ears, Expire Oct. 10,1859... 8 13-16 . _ Consols for Account Exchequer Bills. 2 1 / 2 (1. 2d. March. June. 1,0001. Small 46 p PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Equador Bonds ••• 2% Mexican Bon4B, 1846, 5 per Cent —.— Ditto for the Account ....... ...... 25%% Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent,lB4o ... 18 1 4 Ditto for the Account 17% 18 1 4 18 Ditto Passive Bonds 4%4 Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent Cent Ditto for the Account Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian 4 1 per Cent Dutch 21/ 2 per Cent.,l2 Guild 5O I:IISI.NESs DONE IN RAILWAY SLIAItEi AT ONE O'CLOCK RAILWAYB. PAID. PCB SHAB/. A.berdeen Bristol and Exeter Do., Thirds Caledonian Ditto, New 101. Preference 7% 7 ...... to 8% Chester and Holyhead... 5O ..... —x. i.. to Ditto, Preference East Anglia, 25/. L. & E., and L. & D . Ditto, 18/. ' % E. & H Ditto, 31. l Os., E. & 11... 3 1 ,4 2% to E %stern Counties .... Do. New Guarant. 6 per Ct. 10 Do. Exten., 5 per ct. No. 1,6/. 13s. 4d % p to Do., do N 0.2,6/. 13s. 4d... % p to Eastern Union, Class A (late E. U. Shares) ......... .. 25 Ditto Scrip (gua. 6 per ct.) 20 „ _ .. east Lancashire Do., 6 per Cent. Preference Quarter Shares 6l A, 714 to 7 Great Northern Do. 1 / 1 B 6 per Cent. Guar. 61, S A I / 8... to Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 45 Great Western 100 10414 ... to 105 3 / 4 Ditto, Quarter Shares Ditto, Fifths Hull and Selby 5O lO3 ...... to Ditto, Half Shares .. ...... 25 ..._ 52 Lancaster and Carlisle.... ... 50 Do., Thirds.. Lancashire and Yorkshire Ditto, ditto Ditto Fifths Do., New Guar. 6 per cent. N 9!i ...... to Do., West Riding Union... 7 .... Llnd., Bright., & South Coast 50......35 1 4 3 4 x.d.... to Do., New, guar. 6 per cent. 5 London & North Western.....loo 138V,... .. to D,. New London and S. Western....... 50 .. ... 42% to !danchr, Sheffield, and Linc.100 Ditto, % Shares (.No. 3)... 124 ...... 6% 1 4. to Midland. .. l.OO .... . 94% to 94 Ditto, 501. 5hare5........... 25 North British .. .. ... Ditto Pall Shares. ..... ..... 12 1 4 7 3 /4 ..... to Do. Quarters 6 - ii 3:34 to Ditto Thirds .... ........ —.... 8%..„.. 43A . to North Staffordshire—. .. ...... 15 Reading,Guildfd., & Reigate 124 Scottish Central Shrewsbury and Birmingham 10 Ditto, New Guaranteed 8 Shrewsbury and Chester (Nor. W. liin. ) Ditto 8 per Cent. Pref....... 10 Shropshire Union 5 ... .. 2%..... to South Devon Ditto, Preference ...... .. ... 25 South Eastern Ditto, Scrip No. 4.. South Wales f ork, Newcastle, and Berwick 25 Do. Exten. No. 1 (Y. & N.) 20 Do. do. No. 2, New &B. 20 Do. G. N. E. I'ur. or Pref 8 ... York and North Midland .. 50 Ditto, Preference FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens 2O .. ... 9 1 A to Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon) ... Dutch Rhenish 7 1,4 l% to Luxembourg Ditto Namur and Liege 2O ...... 'Ph...... to Northern of France l2 ...... 8 , 4 %... to ... Orleans and Bordeaux ... Sambre and Meuse MINES. United Mexican JOINT STOCK BANKS. National Provincial of Engid. 85 Ditto, New COURSE OF EXCHANGE. Amsterdam .......... 12 2% Ditto, at sight • • .... 12 0% Rottcrdatn .... ••.. •• 12 2% Antwerp ••••••• • •• • • • • 25 75 Hamburgh .... • • M.B. 13 11% Paris, 3 days'sight •• 25 40 Ditto, 3 months .... 25 60 blarseilles •......... •• 25 65 Bourdeaux.... ..... • 25 70 Frankfort on Maine.... 121 Petersburgh, Sil. lible .• 36% Berlin. • • • .. • • • • • • • • • • Vienna, effec. f 10...... 11 29 Trieste, ditto.... • • .... 11 29 Idadrid ...... 48% Cadiz •• •• •••• .• •• 49 Bilbao.. Barcelona .. ••...... •• Seville.. •• •• •• •• •• •• ••• Gibra1tar.............. Leghorn ........ •• .. •• 32 50 Genoa •••••• ••—— • • .. 26 60 Milan .. • • ............ Venice........ • • • • .... Naples ...... •• ... . •• 46% Palermo, per0z........ 118% Messina .............. 119 Lisbon •• •• •• —•• •*• 51% Oporto .......... .... 52 14 Rio Janeiro .......... Buenos Ayres ........ New York, 21 days'sight -- Philadelphia .......... -- PRICES OP BULLION, rEs 02 Foreign Gold in bars.. £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0 New Dollars ...... 0 4 10% Silver 1n bars ...... • . 0 4 11 • Mr. Charless Ross, one of the late Commissioners of Excise, it is stated, has been appointed a Commissioner in the Audit Office, at a salary of 1,2001. per annum. FIRE IN ALDGATE.—ShortIy after twelve o'clock this morning a fire, involving a destruction of property valued at some thousands of pounds, broke out upon the premises belonging to Mr. Dunkley, wholesale shoe warehouseman, carrying on business at No. 15, High street, Aldgate, within a few doors of the Three Nuns Inn. The premises were exceedingly lofty, being seven floors high including the basement. Under the direction of Mr. I3raidwood, and Messrs. Fogo and Connorton, the whole of the engines were called into operation, and vast torrents of water were thrown upon and into the midst of the burning pile, in spite of which the work of destruction continued to defy the exertions of all pre sent, and it was not until two o'clock that the firemen could get the mastery over this fearful conflagration. SOUTH DEVON.—The election for Sotith Devon has been fixed by the Iligh Sheriff to take place on Tuesday next, the 13th instant, at Exeter. The only candidate in the field is Sir R. Lopes, Bart. SIR HAMS SLOANE'S NONUMENT.—Happening to pass the old Chelsea Church, which stands at the end of Cheyne-walk, Chelsea, wl ere rest the remains of Sir Hans Sloane, 1 stopped (says a correspondent of the Builder) to read the inscription on the monument, which occupies a prominent position in the churchyard, close by the roadside; but, alas! it was with difficulty I could do so; the letters are all but obliterated. The monument itself is simple and impcsing, and the inscription appeared to be equally so. Would it not be desirable to call attention to its state in your valuable journal, in older that some of the more public spirited of the inhabitants of that locale may be induced to subscribe a few shillings to have the letters re-cut deep into the stone before it is too late to decipher them? LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, FEE. 16—Wind W.S.W., moderate breeze, and cloudy. COWES, FEB. 9.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. Aiwina, Laf - entz, Africa, for Hamburgh. DEAL, FEB. 9. Arrd. Mohawk, Morrison, China ; Marion China ; Success, Boatt, Penang; Alexander Baring, Wilson, Calcutta; John Wilt, Donovan, Calcutta; Planta• ganet, Bird, Calcutta; Duke of Roxburgh, Collard, Madras; Olinda, Taylor, Colombo; Java, Callao; Mary Halket, Thompson, Buenos Ayres; Huna, Clark, Buenos Ayres; Ebenezer, Pallot, Buenos Ayres; Orkney Lass, Jamaica; Edmond, New Orleans, and sailed for Bremen; Ranger, River Gambia. Arrived from the River, Mariner, Harland, New Zealand ; Royal Sover e i gn , Deolandes, Adelaide, South Australia; Neptune, Vautier, Cape of Good Hope. Arrived from the River and sailed, John Brooks, Cull, St. Lucia; Sir Robert Peel, Chadwick, New York. Sld. Chartley Cestle, Sydney, New South Wales ; Investigator, Madras and Calcutta. RAMSGATE, FEB. 9.—Wind W. to W.N.W.—Arrd. Loyalty, Sunderland, with foremast and bowsprit carried away, having been in contact while at anchor in the Downs this morning. BELFAST, FEB. B.—The Berbrand, which was run on shore sth inst., near Carrickfergus, is now at anchor. LONDONDERRY, FEB. 7.—The Lannen, from Catania (with barilla, fruit, Stc.), got on a rock on the 6th instant, in the Mowrn, about a mile below Londonderry Quay, and must discharge, having sprung a leak. BELFAST, FEB. B.—Wind W., fresh gales.—Put back 3d, Mary Dale, Salee, for Cuba. --- BELFAST LOUGH, FEB. 7.—Sld. Kingston, Charleston. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 9.—Wind S.IV. to W.S.W., fresh.— Arrd. Captain, James, Bombay ; Coquette, Africa ; Waldron, Moore, New Orleans; Elizabeth Bentley, Bennett, St. John's, New Brunswick. Sld. 7th, Juana, Valparaiso, Henry Ware, New:Orleans. Off port, Wm. Canynges, —; Liverpool,—. The Martha Jane, from Newfoundland t o t hi s port , was spoken 7th inst., 60 miles- south of Cork, under jurymasts, and steering for Cork, by the Waldron, Moore, at this port. The Dickey Sam, hence to Callao, which was driven on shore near Crosby Point 13th January : was get off this day, and laid on the gridiron in Princes Basin. The Phoenix, of Dublin, from Cadiz (with salt), was totally wrecked 27th November, on the bar of Rio Grande; crew saved. • PLYMOUTH, FEB. 9.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Magnolia, late Crossman, Pernambuco. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) COVENT-GARDEN. The supplies of both fruit and vegetables here to-day, were seasonably extensive ; yet the general demand was steady, at last week's quotations :—Fruit—Pine Apples, from 4s to os ; and Foreign Grapes, black and white, 8d to Is 6d per lb; Apples, 4s to 6s per bushel ; Pears, lOs to 15s per half sieve; Walnuts, 8d to 10d; Lemons, 5s to lOs; and Orarges, 4s to lOs per 100 ; Chesnuts, 2s to 4s per peck. Vegetables— Spinach, Is 4d to is 9d per junk; Horseradish, 3s 6d to ss; and Celery, 9d to is per bundle; Asparagus, 3s to 5s per 100; Onions, 2s to 2s 6d; and ash-leaved kidney Potatoes, 6s to 8s per bushel; Cape Brocoli, 21s to 24s per dozen bundles; Mushrooms, 6d to 9d per pottle; Spanish Onions, 12s to 15s per box ; Endive, Is to is 3d per score ; Savoy Cabbages, 8d to Is per dozen; Turnips, Is 3d to 2s; Carrots, 2s 6d to 4s; and Greens, is 3d to 2s per dozen bunches; Parsley, is to is 6d per half-sieve; forced Seakail, Sd to is 6d per punnet ; Cucumbers, 3s to 6s 6d per brace ; forced Rhubarb, 8s to lOs per dozen bundles; Beetroot, Is to is 3d per dozen; Jerusalem Artichokes, Is to is 3d; and Brussels Sprouts, is to is 6d per half-sieve; Parsnips, 6d top& per dozen; Cornish white Brocoli, 3s to 4s per dozen bundles; Turnip Greens, 6d per bushel; Leeks, is per dozen bunches; New Potatoes, 8d to is per lb. RUSSIA AND POLAND. ST. PETERSBURGH, JAN. 28.—A ukase of the 9th commands the construction of a new road to the Prussian frontiers, by which means smuggling through a large, woody, and unfrequented country will be put a stop to. The present boundary line lies along the very , verge of the frontier, but the new road is to run at some distance from it, not, however, more than four everts inland, and no village is to be built between the road and the line of demarcation. The cordon buildings and peasants' huts are to be built along the side of this road, and are to be assigned to the soldiers who form a sort of reserve for reinforcing the frontiers. Minor regulations commanded by the EMPEROR will be carried out by a commission. Our journals contain an official notification, "that in order again to make up the capital of silver coin in the Exchequer, which had been rather diminished in 1848, the sum of 3,000,000 silver rubles was on the 25th of January received from the reserve store in the vaults of the fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul. That reserve fund, after deducting the above 3,000,000 rubles, amounts to 106,588,595 silver rubles." _ _ WARSAW, JAN. 31.—The EMPEROR has issued command to all charitable and benevolent institutions in the empire, positively prohibiting them to augment their funds by means of masquerades and public amusements. N OR W A Y . The shock of an earthquake took place on the night of the 27th ultimo, which shook the houses and roused the inhabitants from their beds. An unusually brilliant northern light appeared in the course of a few days. THE CHOLERA.—At Bergen, up to the 23d, thirty one new cases had occurred. Total number of cases since commencement of disease, 435; of which 279 proved fatal. SWEDEN. STOCKHOLM, JAN. 30.—The KING has commanded that a new postal arrangament shall be made between Sweden and Norway. The Norwegian Councillor of State M. STARIG, and the Swedish Postmaster- General M. HAMILTON, are charged with drawing up the regulations. The murrain among the cattle is spreading. A large body of emigrants in Gefleborg Lehor was preparing to go to America.—Hamburgh Papers, Jan 6. ITALY. Intelligence has been received from R ome to the 31st, at which date the city was perfectly tranquil. The trials of the soldiers engaged in the military revolt of the 19th ult. are concluded. Two of the criminals have been condemned to death, and others to the gallies. The Government has ordered a prose cution to be instituted against General Zuccuz, who, it is said, has established a camp at Pontecorvo. An address has been voted at Spoleto to the PRESIDENT of the French Republic, calling upon him to inter fere in defence of Italian nationality. IRELAND. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) TRIAL OF MR. DUFFY. DUBLIN, FRIDAY EVENING.—In the Commission Court to-day, at two o'clock, the Attorney-General addressing their Lordships with reference to the plea of abatement•handed in by the prisoner on the pre vious evening, moved that it should not be received upon the ground of duplicity, inasmuch as it stated the same facts twice over relative to the alleged dis qualification of Mr. Majoribanks, the grand juror. as was was obj ec t e d t o f o r th e a b ove reason; Mr. Butt said he had no objection to expunge so much the plea wished to hav e th e o bj ec ti on s t a t e d with certainty. of he th only The Attorney-General said he was 'perfectly satisfied with the suggestion of the prisoner's counsel, and would be prepared, at the sitting of the Court, on the following morning, to announce whether the Crown would Join issue on the amended plea or demur. The Court then proceeded to dispose of other business. Tnis CORN TRADE.—There was rather a lively market at the Corn Exchange to-day. Wheat fully maintained the currency of Tuesday, and oats and barley were 3d. to 6d. dearer. Indian corn met a slow sale without any alteration in price. DEATH or DR. GORDON.—We most deeply regret to have to announce the lamented death of Dr. Gordon, the well-known physician of this town, who expired at his own house, in Albion- street, at half-past two o'clock on Wednesday afternoon. 11;s complaint under which he long lingered, was ulceration of the stomach. He suffered no pain, and all his mental faculties were clear to the last moment of his life. His family and relatives were in the room when he died, and he bade them all an affectionate adieu.—Hull Advertiser. DEPUTATION TO THE BOARD OF CONTROL.--An incorrect account has appeared in the City article of a morning paper of an interview which took place on the Bth inst. between a deputation from Lancaster and York shire cotton manufacturers, joined with the managers of certain railroad companies and the President of the Board of Control. It is quite true that the President assured the deputation that due attention would be paid to their statements, and that he fel t inclined, as then advised, to rend e r l ess s tringent one of the terms in tended to be offered by the Court of E as t India Three tors to the railway c ompanies, viz., that which is com monly called the confiscation clause ; but it is not true that,,Sir John Hobhouse gave the deputation to under stand that he was disposed to yield upon the main point on which the railway managers seemed principally to insist—that is to say, on the unconditional guaranteed dividend of 5 per cent. On the contrary, lest any mis understanding should prevail on this head, Mr. James Wilson, one of the secretaries to the India Board, de clared—and his statement was confirmed by the Presi dent—that the concession to which allusion had been made had no reference whatever to the guaranteed divi dend. It is proper to add also, that nothing was said, as stated by the article in the same paper, of the Govern ment granting pecuniary aid to the companies.— Times. REPRESENTATION OF SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE FRIDAY.—It is understood that the no mination of a candidate or candidates to represent this division of the county of Stafford, in the room of Lord Ingestre, now Earl Talbot, will take place at Lichfield on Monday, the 19th instant. No real opposition, as far as we can learn, is contemplated to the return of - Lord Lewisham, ISIATOZA.TB AND XMADEIVEIiZap POULTRY.—Turkeys 4s to 9s ; Geese, 4s to 6s; Ducks, is 6d to 3s; Tame Rabbits, is to is 9d; Wild 'ditto, 8d to Is Id; Pigeons, 8d to Is; Roasting Pigs, 5s to Ss; Surrey Fowls, 7s to lOs ; ditto Chickens, 4s 6d to 7s; Barn-door Fowls, 3s to 3s 9d per couple; English Eggs, 9s to lls ; French ditto, 8s 6d to 9s 6d per 100; Fresh Butter, lld to Is 3d per lb. GAME.—Pheasants, 2s 3d to 3s; Partridges, is to is 6d; Hares, 2s to 3s ; Woodcocks, 3s to 4s ; Grouse, is 9d to 2s 6d ; Ptarmigan, is to Is 9d ; Snipes, is to is 6d; Teal, Btl to is 4d; Wild Ducks, is 3d to is 9d; Widgeons, 10d to Is 6d; and Plovers, 6d to Is each. ITTECITICCHAPEZ. Beef, from 2s 4d Co 3s 6d; Mutton, 2s 8d to 4s 4d; Veal, 3s 861 to 4s 8d; and Pork, 3s 2d to 43 Gd per Blbs. NEWPORT. Beef, from 2s 8d to 3s 6cl; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; Veal, 4s to 4s 10d; and Pork, 3s 10d to 4s 6d per Blbs. BILLINGSGATE. Turbots, !is to Ils ; Cod fish, 38 to 58 6d; Whitings, 3d to 6d ; Lobsters, is 3d to 2s 6d ; and Crabs, 6d to 2s each ; Soles, 6d to 2s per pair; Eels, 4d to Is, and Salmon, Is ld to Is 3d per lb; Haddocks, 4d to 6d each.; crimped Scate. Gd to Bd, and Salt fish, 2d to 5d per lb ; Flounders, is to Is Gd per doz ; Oysters, 13s to 25s per bushel ; Mackarel, 8d to is each. BREAD. The prices of Wheaten Bread in the metropolis are from 7d to 7id ; of Household ditto, 5d to bid per 4lbs loaf. RIDE MARKET. Market Hides, 561 b to 641 b, lid to lid; ditto, 641 b to 721 b, lid to lid ; ditto, 721 b to 801 b, lid to lid; ditto, 801 b to 881 b, 2d to 2id ; ditto, 881 b to 961 b, 2id to 2d ; ditto, 961 b to 1041 b, 2id to 3d ;:ditto, 1041 b to 1121 b, 3id to 4d ; Calf Skins, each, 5s to 5s 6d ; Horse Hides, 8s to 8s 6d ; Polled Sheep, 4s 64 to 5s 9d; Ruts and Half. breds, 3s 9d to 4s 6d; Downs, 3s to 4s. EAT MAIRE.MTS. S3IITIIFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 21 is to 3/ 12s • Clover ditto, 3/ lUs to 4/ 128; and Straw. 112 s to 119 s per load. A mode rate supply, and a dull trade. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 21 103 to 3/ 15s; Clover ditto, 31 lOs to 41 lOs; and Straw, 113 s to 1/ lOs per load. Supply tolerably good, and trade firm. HITECHAPEL. —Meadow Hay, 21 8s to 31 12s; Clover ditto, 31 lOs to 41 13s ; and Straw, 11 2s to 11 9s per load. Trade dull, at our quotations. RAILWAY RETURNS RAILWAY TRAFFic.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same week in the previous year:— NAME OF RAILWAY. Week ending Feb. 4 4 3 4 3 3 4 Jan 27 Feb. 3 3 Amiens and Boulogne . ...• —• • •• • • Belfast and Ballymena .• • • •••• • • • • Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Bolton, Blackburn, Clitheroe, and W. Y. Chester and llolyhead. • • .. • • .... • • .. Cockcrmouth and Workington.... • • • • Dublin and Drogheda• . • • • • .••• • • • • • Dublin and Kingstown • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen • East Anglian.... .. •. • ... ••..•• • • .. Edinburgh and Glasgow . • ...• • ... Edinbnrgh and Northern • . • • • • • • • • • . Eastern Counties and North Eastern.. East Lancashire • • • • ............ • ... Eastern Uni0n...................... Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr ...... Glasgow and Greenock••.. Great Northern and E. L. • • • • .. • Great Southern and Western • • • • • • Great Western, R&c • • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Kendal and Windermere...... • . • Lancashire and Yorkshire..• • . Lancaster and Carlisle Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport Londonderry and Enniskillen. London and North Western, &c • . London and Blackwall • • • .... London and Brighton London and South Western Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham.... Midland Great Western (Irish) • . 3lonklands ........ • • . Newcastle and Carlisle.. • • • • ........ North British .....• • • • • • • • • ........ Paris and Rouen. • • • • • • • • • • • . Rouen and Havre .. • • • • • • .• • Scottish Central .... • .......... ..... Shrewsbury and Chester .. South Eastern and Branches • . South Devon Waterford and Limerick... .. ........ Whitehaven Junction ............... York and Newcastle . .• • • ...... York and North Midland Last week. 1,318 377 318 3,621 1,225 (69 655 3,053 1,5:)2 13,601 1,719 1,114 .2,022 915 1,799 3,018 17,629 10,13: 1,(J67 37,187 662 432 3,274 612 12,804 1,052 1,052 1,634 913 543 6,887 7,900 2,747 18,662 ),101 764 1,754 16,839 91 8,058 1,038 135 34,956 2,162 4,654 1,958 G 36 5,14)9 6,576 1,990 17,944 607 1,716 5,540 1,961 794 1,228 6,646 1,242 1,887 669 216 501 6,364 10,821 6,001 155 9,843 5,654 ST. MARYLEDONE BANK FOR SAVINGS, NO. 76 WELRECK-STREET, CAVENDISH. SQUARE. The nine teenth annual general meeting of this institution was held on Friday, the 9th of this month, at the office, No. 76, Welbeck. street, Cavendish-square, the Right Hon. the Earl Waldea,rave in the chair. It appeared from the several reports rend to the meeting, that no less than 2,070 new deposits had been made in the last year; 19,019 deposit accounts remained open on the 20th No vember last, of which no less than 14,455 held balances averaging less than 31. 33. Id. each. Upwards of 291,3861. was then invested with the Commissioners for the reduction of the National Debt. This amount has since risen to 295886/. 3s 3d. The continued evidence thus afforded of the disposition of the working classes to provide against the casualties of life, will prove a source of gratification to all reflecting minds; and it may indeed be hoped that this provident disposition has its influence in improving the character and conduct, materially con tributing to this class of workmen being the last to be discharged whenever establishments are reduced from scarcity of work. SAM SLICK'S NEW WORK, " THE OLD JUDGE OR, LIFE IN A CoLoNY."—These are a couple of volumes, redolent of the hearty fun and strong masculine sense of our friend, " Sam Slick." In some respects, we like the book before us even better than the 'cute lectures of the Yankee Clockmaker. In the sketches we have different interlocutors, and a far greater variety of characters than in " Sam Slick," while in acuteness of observation, pungency of remark, and abounding heartiness of drol lery, this last work of Mr. Haliburton is quite equal to the first. In" The Old Judge" every class of colonists are painted, from the Governors down to the cod fishers. Every page is alive with rapid, fresh sketches of character—droll, quaint, racy sayings, good-hu mcured practical jokes, and capitally told anecdotes. We recommend " The Old Judge" as a very original and very instructive, and a very amusing companion.— Morning Chronicle. LONDON FEVER HOSPlTAL.—Yesterday afternoon the forty-seventh annual meeting of this well-deserving charity was held in the Freemasons' favern ; Thomas Corney, Esq., presiding. From the report read by Dr. Tweedie, it appears that at the commencement of the year 1848 there were eighty-four persce,s, who were inmates of the hospital. During the year, 1,261 persons were received into the establishment, who were suffering from primary and secondary fever, and 74 who had been attacked with scarlet fever. The total number of persons, therefore, who were under the care of the medical officers for the year was 1,835 ; of these 1,128 cases were discharged cured, of which 58 were scarlet fever, and 9 were sent to other hospitals. The number of deaths amounted to 22 1. A vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the proceedings. MR. DYCE SOMBRP.—The following eminent physicians have signed a certificate stating that in their opinion Mr. Dyce Sombre is of perfectly sane mind;-- Dr. Paris, President of the Gillege of Physicians, Dr. Mayo, Sir Alexander Morrison, Dr. James Copeland, Dr, Robert Fergusson, and Dr. IVm. Costello. This has been embodied in a❑ affidavit, which has been sworn by the six eminent physicians above refmed to, and which has been laid before the Lord Chancellor. RAILWAY DIVIDENDS.—We understand that the Great Western Dividend will be after the rate of 6 per cent. per annum. The London and North-Western bill be attir the rate of 7 per cent. per annum, with a stated surplus of about 30,000/. on the net profits of the half year. THE NATIONAL DEBT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—I should hope that it would not be necessary for we to SAV that nothing I ever wrote or thought could imply that i felt Mr. Phipps could mean any personal disrespect in criticising "The Budget for the Million;" on the contrary, my complaint, it; indeed, my letter to. you could be considered in that light, was, that Mr. Phipps did not exercise his critical towers on the most, if not the only important proposition in the budget, viz., that it was discreditably dishonest not to pay off the .Na% tional Debt. In this etening's paper Mr. Phipps proposes to meet this complaint, and " offers to my candid consideration the following objections to my argument, which he be lieves may be thus shortly stated. The Debt was in curred merely to protect property against invasion from a foreign foe, therefore property ought to pay it off." Now, assuredly, I used no such argument, either in letter or in spirit. My proposition was, that the debt (of course meaning that contracted for the last war) was contracted to prevent foreign invasion ; tbat property alone was benefited by the prevention of invasion, and, therefore, it is discreditably dishonest in property not to pay the debt. It did not appear to be necessary to say that labour, whether of the head or the arm, is property, and that such pn•perty is just as much benefited by the preven tion of disorder, whether arising from foreigninvasion or domestic anarchy, as he who possesses property, in the ordinary acceptation of the term; indeed,_ more so, for the latter may save something from the wreck, • Ite whereas the former loses employment, by which alone he can procure the daily bread for himself and family. But surely it is as clear as the sun at noon day, that it is only the generation of the industricus classes which lived at the time the debt was contracted which could receive any benefit from the protection in their indus trious pursuits; and as the debt must be paid, either the principal or the interest, who but the owners of pro perty are to pay it? Can any person who reflects really think it possible that the ill-paid seenpstress must be obliged to make her scanty meal still more scanty in consequence of the tax imposed upon her tea and sugar to pay the interest of a debt contracted by the nation for the protection of her grandmother? Mr. Phipps says—" That during the last twenty-four years that have elapsed since the war, a very large part of the property he would propose to mulct has been pur chased with the hard earnins of the commercial, profes sional, and labouring classes.' No' doubt of the fact, and this is one of the curses which a wise Providence inflicts on those nations which inflict injustice on the people. The Reform Bill undoubtedly swept away the property, and blighted the prospects of many who were interested in schedules A and B. The Negro Emancipation Bill (notwithstanding the grant of twenty millions) inflicted a blow on the owners of West India property from which they never can recover. The abolition of the corn-laws will, Ido not doubt, entail serious loss upon many a landlord and many a leaseholder. Li all these cases property which was purchased with the hard earnings of the commercial, professional, and labouring classes was very much depreciated. But the answer to the complaints of hardship was caveat emptor. . _ brie purchased property in rotten boroughs, in the expectation that the oligarchy would be always sufr ficiently powerful to protect such an abomination. Another purchased property in the West Indies, in the belief that the oligarchy would be always sufficiently powerful to protect the atrocious principle that man has a light to have property in his tellow-creature; while a third funded or improved his property, entertaining no doubt that the oligarchy would be always able to compel the industrious classes to purchase their daily bread at a higher rate than they could obtain for it else where. In all these cases "the hard earnings of the commer cial, professional, and labouring classes were mulcted;" yet what sane man would seriously propose to make the people pay 80s. per quarter for their corn—or to recon struct the principle of slavery—or restore to Gatton and Old Sarum the right of sending Members to enact such laws? I venture, therefore, to think that Mr. Phipps's argu ment, " that the hard earnings of the commercial, pro fessional, and labouring classes weuld be mulcted" by my proposal to pay cff the National Debt does not prove that the proposition that it is dishonest not to pay off the National Debt is a "misuse of terms." I hope Mr. Phipps will live to change his opinion that " the ' Budget for the Million' is a proposal for a violent and sudden change in the relative position and fortunes of every Englishman, by which the advantages honestly gained by economy and industry would be transferred for the future to those who have been less provident." The " Budget for the Million" contains no proposition for any transfer, either "to the less or to the more pru dent," and Mr. Phipps will seek in vain for any such principle in its pages—it only proposes to relieve the industrious classes from a burthen which has been molt unjustly imposed upon them, for which they never have received, and cannot possibly receive, any equivalent; and this injustice has been perpetrated for the mean purpose of saving the pockets of a ruling oligarchy. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, RIGBY WASON. Reform Club, Feb. 9. 1849. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, FRIDAY. The Queen walked this morning in ,th e gronndS around' the Castle. The Roy al Family took their usual airings. Prince Albert went out hunting this morning, at tended by Sir Edward Bowater, Lord Alfred Paget, Mr. G. E. Anson, and Colonel Wylde. Lord and Lady Ashley took their departure from the Castle to-day. tier Mjesty's private band was in attendance yes terday evening, i:i the Castle, and performed the follow ing pieces: — Overture, " Le Pre au% Clercs" Grand Concerto, Violin, M. Sainton Sainton. Movement from Lessons Handel. Sinfonia (No. 5) Beethoven. Mr. Pendarves, M.P., had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday, at the Home-office. The Chairman of the Customs had an interview with the Right Hon. H. Labouchere yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. Jenny Lind is going to be married to a Mr. Harris, the son of a London banker. This information may be fully relied upon.—Leeds Mercury. MADEMOISELLE JENNY LIND.—The popularity . of this distinguished vocalist increases on every successive visit to the provinces. On Thursday evening she sang at the Town•hall, Birmingham, in Mendelssohn's ora torio of Elijah, and was most enthusiastically received. The Hall was crowded to exec se, and although' the prices of tickets were high, hundreds were unable to obtain ad mission. The Mesdames Williams and Messrs. Machin and Lockey acquitted themselves with great effect. The receipts could nut fall far short of 1,2001,, if they did not exceed that sum. Mr. Benedict was the conductor, and Mr. Simpson presided at the organ. SEIZURE OF AN ILLICIT STILL AND SPIRITS.---' Yesterday Mr. D. Colquhoun, supervisor, and Messrs. E. Thomas, Vanstone, Sargent , and Mack, officers of Excise, of Stepney district, with police-constable 111 H, went to a house in IValinsley-street, Bethnal-green, where they found a large copper still, set in brickwork, charged with molasses wash, and running off spirits, about 150 gallons of molasses wash fermentinff, a tub of molasses, and a great number of tubs, cans, &c., used in the trade of illicit distillation; about six gallons of spirits of wine 52 7 per cent. over proof; and four gallons of feints 46 1 per cent. under proof, which were seized. The spirit was of first•rate quality. No per' son was on the premises when the officers entered, conse quently no prisoners were taken. From the appearance of the place there could be no doubt that the contraband trade had been carried on for a long time, and to a con siderable extent. The seizure was conveyed to Broad-street warehouses. In the Cape of Good Hope papers to the 21st of December there is little worthy of notice. A practical agri culturist in the neighbourhood of Malmesbury having experienced great inconvenience in the harvest sea son from a deficiency of labour to secure his corn crops, had successfully constructed a machine for cutting them, which not only enabled him to work with a less number of hands, but also a diminished expense. De sirous of giving his neighbours the benefit of his invention , he had submitted it to the inspection of all who sought to profit by its usefulness. The question of public education was being mooted in the colony. BIRTHS. On the 2d inst., at Birr, County, Ireland, the lad/ of Captain H. Butler, 52d Regiment, of a son. On the sth inst., at the residence of her father, Er. Hut chesson, the wife of Major T. Sydney Powell, 57th Regi" runt, of a son. At Edinburgh, on the 6th inst., the lady of Captain Hyde Parker Laurence, of a daughter. On the Bth inst., at Somerset-house, the wife of Charles Weld, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIED. ....... At Cheltenham, on the 7th inst., John Harrison Aylmer' Esq, of Walworth-castle, in the county of Durham, t ° Rosanna Louisa, daughter of Rear. Admiral Sir Josiah cog hill Coghill, Bart. On the 7th inst., at Barking, William Robson, only son James Josias Robson, of Woolwich, Kent, to Rose, eldes' daughter of J. Harris, Esq., of Barking, Essex. On the Bth inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, the W l ' J. Beadon Rogers, to Mary Anne, daughter of G. Belbeth Esq., of moole, Dorsetshire. On the 7th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, the Rev. Horatio Nelson William C emyn , rec t or o f Branste4,tl: Norfolk, to Elizabeth Martyn, only daughter of the It" Rev. Dr. Martyn, rector of St. George the Martyr, Queen square, Bloomsbury. DIED. On the 29th ult., at his house in Edinburgh, Sir Joll ies Stewart, Bart,, late of Allanbank, Berwickshire. At Bognor, on the 3d inst., Amelia, daughter of the late W. Leeves, Esq., of Tortington, Sussex. On the WI inst., Hannah, the wife of Mr. James Kerwin, of Rotherhithe, aged CO. 13. On the 7th inst., Mary Hannah, eldest daughter of 0 . Wilkins, Esq. of Dover, aged 25. At Ryde, Isle of Wight, on the 7th inst., William D. 511376 Esq , late of Calcutta, aged 42. At Kensington, on the 7th inst., aged 22, Augustus Frede rick, the eldest son of H. F. Thistlethwayte, Esq. "v. On the 7th inst., aged 42, G. S. Griffith, Esq., of Prigh On the 7th inst., hdward Warner, Esq., Lre of Sout henu Eltham, aged 47. On the Bth inst., at Camberwell, Elizabeth, widow of tl i° late J. Baker, Esq., of Chalk, near Gravesend, aged 95. Id' On the 6th inst., E. R. Phillips, Esq., of Great Titcb fie street, Portland-place, aged 47. On the nth inst., Rebecca, the wife of Edward JOlO3, of No. 15?, Strand. of London Printed and Published by MURDO YOU NG ;I2, No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun. Office, N°•,:,pf Strand, in the Precinct o f th e S av oy, in the coluw Saturday, February 10, OA • .A ' 4 ?' - ;i ..---'"-- THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 10, 1849. ba ;9 1 0 to ~,~~ • **. • '.---,