The Sun. — London, England, 1842-12-19 00:00:00

zot , fat the already reached us. It is somewhat singular N e ` , l ' s ! Drench journals have been for some days in PortV" of the exact number of shells fired from te eili , 4-4 tjuich in so much as they have been able to ti z , 4, e that they were thrown at the rate of one per t ar for a space of 13 hours, and that half the stock 15 04 1 nuaition in the fortress was exhausted; whilst klett , e has attempted to furnish the world with a the casualties. To the French especially, who teli' o e r ,l s ° good an understanding with the so .called tto. t ' o ues in the city, it must have been far more Itr o „useertain the amount of' lives lost and houses t4 0 ,,, - .reu, than to learn the exact number of missiles kio un n ,b,Y the as s ailing army. The fact is, if our el leci : to lie relied upon—and we give it as it has e us, without guaranteeing its entire accuracy, - Iv Perfectly authentic—that very few lives, if t th er e lost. tee the effect of the bombardment, and ko ma ! ] Shed:; having been principally directed against ildings, and especially the Town-hall, 0 ,." '0 or ti tree private houses were burnt, and no ) se i 4 eusive! or irreparable damage was done to the le t of the citizens. Barcelona had for simile 4 t lt et '';ore ate firing began presented the melancholy ttie,. ° `, 4 P . ; ace about to suffer that terrific mode of „ - the revolutionary disturbances of the pre- I !!)sp,' u'ce -weeks, and the conflict between the 1 4 ; aud the National Clients which commenced X s e n eti ", I 01 already thrown the place• O total • ; rl 5 nod. driven a large portion .d popuia _ eh , ; (1 41 , its. walls. After the bombeeedinent how -14 lastel a few hours, our inf.-Anent states that ih." l2r Pril , isg to see the c"Pepoenie with which ke y Kaa view their posie mr. Th e s h ops were keti t a e- uile 3ed, the cafes neee thronged, even the tit, nipssi'ere lighted, - an d , as we h ave b e f ore k leo tied ''''`lY few S eriwas casualties were known to -eurr o ,,." . . k Ori r ZT —w .. , RADE—COMTIVILInCII. iT ar k , Bradford, Huddersfield, and Lei th, t ve been very slack during the past week, h°;e arii r dale at Rochdale has been also less busy. peat he and Halifax the depression has not been •; at Leeds an active Christmas trade is ex • floi some extensive orders for India and China N e en given. !kt .trade of Belfast is gradually improving: the t Pill uirlie mills are in full operation throughout e uatry. • . =XXICTXOZSIEEzeIreIa. Nlpt l int Clive, eldest soil of Earl Fowls., has an- IC', himself as a eandidute for the representation r tn. Shropshire. Plir4LIC XIVE2MOVEIVIMITTS. vroPesed that a strong rope net of 16 or 20 Zet,• l're, to be called the " Fire-nets,!' should be 41. all scenes of conflagration. The by- Ne' 4 could stretch out the net, for the persons in t, to leap into. Such a rietting at the late fire ~ two kmer l e s would have saved at least the lives of Young women. SPORT:ENG. le i e queen's pack of stag-bounds for the ensuing ktpleeoneists ol exactly 5C cAples, and all in beau- St,ondition. The three days hunting during the 4 iq' l ek w ere spirited. The next, today, will be at klved; oo h . Wednesday, at 13iffont ; and on Friday, e ls Il 1 4 COURT-;--P.5.51T10.11.11.11X.E. 1 / 4 4: Princ e de Broglie left the French Embassy on last with dispatches for Paris. tit Luke of Devonshire arrived in town on Friday b ee uin Bri g ht on . Luke of Newcastle has arrived in Portman ,Th,', 'lV:"ake and Duchess of Somerset have arrived l e l , bledon Park from D evo n. ▪ e tArl and Countess of Tankerville have left T h y3r Paris. Earl and Countess of Camperdown and Lady nth Duncan left Camperdown House, Forfar ,,:tt Tuesday last f or th e i r res idence at Bath. Il tess Poulet has left town for Bognor, Sussex. and Viscountess Jocelyn have arrived at Park, the Earl of Rodea's seat, in Devon trclu town. The Viscount and Viscountess go bl iT l early next month. tt,,, ls ti c Tint and Viscountess Villiers have gene to t Vi s house, their seat, near Banbury. Ebrington Sir Benjamin and Lady Hall, ,liti‘ohert Newman, ' Bart., and a party, have been the Hon. Newton and Lad Catherine Fel- Ori st 4 Yring the past week at Eggesford, Devon. 'At t bunt and Viscountess Palmerston have for the Vltlight been st a yi ng w ith Viscount Melbourne, 1 11, ( kket H a ll, Herts, where Lord and Lady Beau 4tClul the Hon. William Cowper have likewise es . 8t William Hervey left St. James's-square on Ur i tut y to join the Marquis and Marchioness of at Brighton. N t Lord Chancellor and Lady Lyndhurst left VI Saturday evening for Turville Park. Her try iP has lately been much indisposed. utri d and Lady Carrington have arrived in town "yhurst, Bucks. e t) , wiXsc ra.X.llamous. Zi t ; iltford, the father of Miss Mitford, died at 1 4, k in e ,i( 1 1 on Saturday, aged 82. He was an active , 111 44 - rate for the county (Berkshire), and was for Nljears Chairman of the Reading division Petty 't, l l - ," B * Signor Valentine, the modeller, is about a. east of the Doctor's head. IN • -stt rday being one of the solethn feasts of the L • church, divine service was attended at the kaa' a n church by Baron Brunew, and a select circle , ) ,,Ti n aftE rwards entertained at Asburnham House. of Hanover has forwarded a donation of kid ot „ . `uwards the subscriptions for the relief of the and family of the late Dr. Maginn. 4 ARKET NEWS. s Ik i kbe Ted, (THIS' DAY.) S (1 1 „, 4.01-EXC HAIN GE -MONDAY. 1 5 t t -e ' Our report on this day se'nnight, as well as N ti r mark e t thi s morning, the arrivals of Wheat of Ze h e growth from Essex, Suffolk, and Kent, have ,Mte ° , l moderate scale, but of fair average quality. 11 1a ) i ca nds to-day were rather scantily filled with while the attendance of both London and ,a 3 - i r tY dealers was not very . numerous. For the Zttt bj'arcels of both Red and White W , e had . a fair, i 9 th,;/ no means a brink inquiry, at prices quite equal ' il fer 4e noted on Monday last; but the middling and Th ai r kind. though not cheaper, hung on hand. • N, lll ',,Ports of ' foreign Wheat have been small. There A„te " 'air retail business doing in fine qualities, and ;4 r ates were, in most instances, supported. 1 ,0 11 1 3 P1y of barley was again extensive, nearly quarters having come to hand. The best itt le 7 sorts supporteu their value, without much tty -i t tt Y ; but grinding and distilling sorts were It tisa"l" .a vY and the terns cheaper. Malt was in fair err While the sale for that' article was slow, at late Nv e d -Ilei es• From all parts few Oats have been re qtiv;,, Yet as most of the buyers held off for future l'ie t k . ';' B , the demand was, on the whole, slow, at last kt, 1 0 : figures. In Oats, under lock, scarcely a trans 4loth,:svas reported. Beans and Peas were again dull. town and country -made . Flour met a dull inquiry. '4Z44 1 „ connmicy PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. - ' Bll AVuunT....Essex and Kent Red 44s to 52s Ditto White s3s to 59s WitElr Red 47s to 50s 114 8. Ditto, White 49s to 54s 34s to 46s 36s to 38s LI grinding 27s to 29s Malting 3os to 32s Chevalier .................. Suffolk and Norfolk . s6s to 62s 8r0wn..................... 503 to 54s Kingston and Ware s6s to 62s Chevtiflor .......... ................ .Yorksh'S; Lincolnsh feed 23s tom, 2.h i Potato() ...... Youghall and Cork black 17s to 18s Cork - ,vhite .............. 19s to 20s Scotch Feed 2ls to 233 ................. Tick 3os to 36s .................. „Grey 3ss to 38s Maple 33s to 34s White 3os to 35s Boilers •••• Town Made 43s to 45s 'Suffolk. 34s to 38s Stockton and Norfolk 3ss to 38s ~BE4O,iIFION GR:IN AND FLOUR IN BOND. A'r .............. . 35s to 42s 114 1 - Haniburgh (1 4 - 14 t . v ................ .New 41" . Feed l4s to 163 1) 5.. • 2os to 263 23s to 27s .. .................... .A mer i can 23s to 25s Baltic 22s to 234 SPOUTISFEZZZO. geld nsultrin,..; that the great Christmas market was 11) ek st h ere last w ee k, we had a f u ll av erage nu m b er o f the r , on offer thi s morn i ng , an d, taken as a whole, ford -1 3 11 , 41 ity not only of the Scots, homelands, Here ter rayons, Durhatns, and short horns, the four '„ o rming the principal portion of the arrivals, Iva% forming that of the other kinds brought forward tllaell.llllsually good indeed, we might venture to to 44 7. 1 e that we never saw a better collection of stock NI% any previous corresponding period of the Itafav N otwithstanding the weather was somewhat t nle rn c : . , ll , r abic to slaughtering, the beef trade was tr ati ;kay steady, yet far from brisk, and in most l iow acli nns, last week's quotations were supported. th at , "or, as a general figure, we cannot quote more c 0t8 4 ,.. 8 Gd f or b ee f , th oug h a f ew ver y su p er ior of e f lerefords, a n d D ur ban - is sold at higher rates 1 "3 . t i l l i tr°l 'eY, and a good clearance was effected As to e s alesmen previ o usly- to the close of business. ! ;er: h eeP, these were rather s c a n ty, but of good h e s e quality—if, indeed, we except that portion of The p I Y Suffering' from the effects of the epidemic, aot ar e ntandefor th em w as rath er fi rm, a t a b ou t th e °Ds obtained on this day sennight—viz., 3s 10d f ox the best long-woolled and polled sheep; and l' 4 NB EAB 4s 4d to 4s 6d per . Blbs for the powns. The latter, i by the way, was the extreme price. The Veal trade was 3teady at fully, but at nothing quotable beyond, late rates. .Prime small Porkers sold freely, but in other kinds of. Pigs little was doing. The importa-' tions of live stock from abroad for our markets have been, as might be expected, on a very limited scale, the principal receipts being at Hull and Southampton. At the former port, 30 oxen and tows have been received from Haniburgh, per the Transit and Manchester steamers ; at the latter, 50 beasts from Spain, mostly beneath the middle quality. It is now pretty well ascertained that the foreign arrivals, owing to most of the principal rivers being blocked up with ice, will be very smr.ll during the next three months. From our grazing districts we received, to-day, the following supply of beasts, viz. ;-1,200 short horns end runts from Lincolnshire, Leicesterkhire, and N ort ham pstonshire ; 1.00 Scots and homebreds, with a few runts;. from, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire ; 400 Herefords, runts,Durhains, and Devons, from, 01 ' w Western and Midland districts ; 300 of var ; .nis hinds, from other parts of England ; 50 horßrA and polled Scots, by a sailing packet, from Aber:,,„ ; and 40, via Livespool, from Dublin ; the r r .,mnant being derived from the neighbourhood of the metropoliis, while we had only two beasts from Spain. FROM GERMANY, DURING THE 'WEEK ENDING DEC. 17. Beasts. Cows. Sheep. Pigs. I.Jond:ffi . Hull - _ - ^ 20 10 Total for the week... 20 10 - - Previously this year 1,156 341 284 52 Grand total 1,176 351 284 FROM HOLLAND. 3 4 London Hull Week's arrival 3 4 Previously this year Grand total FROM SPAIN. 10 2 50 London Southampton Margate Ramsgate Devonport ... Week's arrival ' 60 9 -- Previously this year . 758 85 230 Grand total FROM FRANCE. London . Siiuthampton hull Week's arrival 23 Pnviously - this year 363 Grand total 4Ol 3 -- 35 140 PRICES PER STONE OF BLBS., TO SINK TILE OFFAL. s. cl. to s. ti.l r. tl. to P. d. Interior Beasts '3 2 3 41 Inferior Sheep ...... ... 3 4 3 6 Second quality ditto 3 6 310 Second quality ditto... 3 8 310 Prime large then 4 0 4 2 Coam-woolled ditto.. 310 4 2 Prime Scots, &c.. 4 4 4 6 Southdown Wethers 4 4 4 6 Large coarse Calves 310 4 6 Large Hogs 3lO 4 4 trim° small ditto 4 6 410 Small Porkers 4 6 4 8 Suckling Calves, each 16 0 31 01 Quarter old Pigs, eachls t. , 21 0 Feast& 2,35'3 SUPPLY AT MARKET. I e 4 e 9 1 0 I C l7B 5. I .24/7g. NEVTGATE AND 7.E.A.DENI-E2S.T.I. In consequence of the near approach of Christmas, the supplies of prime meat on offer in these markets, since our last report, have been seasonably good, yet, on account of the mildness of the atmosphere, causing the butchers to purchase cautiously, the advance in the currencies has not been more than about 2d per 81b. In other kinds of meat, however, a fair amount of business has been transacted, at full prices. The arrivals of slaughtered . meat from Scotland, York shire, and the West of England, have been large, with a dragging trade. ARRIVALS DURING THE PAST WEEK. Scotland Yorkshire Norfolk Suffolk . Essex Surrey Devonshire Wiltshire Other parts Beasts. Sheep. Calves. Pigs. 22 429 500 26 512 600 8 90 30 7 78 20 30 49 97 90 33 138 115 100 16 12 12 .5 30 75 14 7 20 3 0 18 Total l3B 1.362 329 1,384 Previous week's arrival 76 1,231 200 1,190 Difference since ourlast 62 131 129 91 At per stone, by the Carcase. s. rt. to s dd 5. d. to 8 d. Beef, inferior 3 0 3 2 Mutton, inferior 3 0 3 4 - middling ....... 3 4 3 6: middling..... 3 fi 3 6 -- prune large ..... 3 6 3 8; prime 3lO 4 0 - prime small 3lO 4 0: Pork, large 3 6 4 0 Veal 3 8 4 6f small 4 2 4 8 BOROUGH AM) SPXTALPIELDS. The arrival of potatoes, in the Pool, since this day se'nnight, have been again extensive ; those from the Channel Islands alone having 'exceeded 500 tons; while 14 bags have come to hand from Harlingen in bad condition. Our supplies being large, and the weather extremely . mild for the season, the demand rules heavy, at about last week's prices.—Scotch reds, 45s to 50s per ton ; York ditto, 55s to 60s ; Devons, 45s to 503 ; Kent and Essex whites, 40s to 45s ; Wisbeach, 35s to 455; Jersey and Guernsey blues, 35s to 40s ; Yorkshire Prince Regents, 45s to 50s. BON,OUGH HOP BIASZKET. For the best East and Mid Kent pockets, we have again to report a steady inquiry, at full rates of cur•. rency ; but in all other kinds of hops exceedingly little is passing►. The following are the present rates : East Kent in pockets, 5l lOs to 6/ lOs ; Mid Bents ditto, 51 5s to 6/; ditto in bag, 41 lOs to 51 ss; Sussex, 4/ lOs to Si 8s ; Farnhams, Si to 101; Old Hops, 3/ to 4/ 10s. WOOL DIELRICET. Although there is certainly more firmness in the demand for the best qualities of both English and Foreign Wools, we can notice no positive improve ment in prices, yet many of the holders have refused present rates. The imports have been 227 bales from St. Petersburgh ; 73 ditto from Hamburgh ; 501 ditto from Odessa ; and 47 ditto from Taganrog. TALLOW, This market has been dull all the past week, and in some instances rather lower prices have been taken. The weekly deliveries still continue to show a consi derable falling off as compared with last year; this is partly accounted for by th e m ild ness of the weather causing the chandlers to use less, and by tallow offer ing for next season at lower rates. COUNTRY MARK ETS. W heat. Baxley. I Oat.. I Beans. Per QUittrer.l a, to s. Bath 53 64 Blandford 46 52 ',irk:pert 67 Chard 48 56 Exeer B. to s. s. t., B. 8. to s. 25 23 :2 28 40 41 10 27 t.O 23 39 42 14 20 i 36 44 27 34 21 2si 40 Ppe to S. 40 44 32 36 40 44 t 2 38 3ti 38 31 33 atcucester 52 5 , 1 :.2 ilB 24 38 Guildford Newbury 44 62 *; 6 29 I 33 06 35 Reading, 42 65 26 52 18 YO 27 35 Salisbury 46 6 27 18 ;)(1 Shcrborile 150 56 21 32 2') 24 40 44 ShcptonMalletj 58 70 28 32 20 ".6 28 44 Uxbridge I 37 43 2 t 28 Warminster.,,, 44 56 •<4 no 20 25 I 1:6 42 Worcester 54 60 I'2 35 25 28 42 icovil. 151 60 24 28 2: 24 132 44 CAN'rERBURY MARKET. Wheat, 561.: to 565. —s. ts —s 481, to 50e. 475. to —1 Ilarlay, Malting...—. 275. to 72s Grinding.. —l. to —3. Oats lib. to 245. ....,. 0 1 tw.v.•••••••• t 0 ...S. Beans to 325. ~WV OId•WANNINP - s. to s. Pease d. t. d Beef 6 7 Mutton Vval 34 36 :S 40 3B 38 CHELTENHAM IIiARKETS. Per Bushel. s. d. to s. Per lb. heat C 9 7 9 datley 3 0 3 9 Oats 3O 39 ':ears I . cue 5 0 6 0' Hay 41.55. CHELMSFOII Wheat, White 47 to 57 Pork Lamb 7 0 te 41. 10s. (Al. per Itm. 1) MARKET. Oats Pease, Gray 27 21/ White Beans, Tick 27 F 3 Mazagan it) 3 0 • Red Palley Cheralicr 3l) al Grinding 22 26 BRUSSELS, Dec. 18.—Yesterday morning at eight o'clock salutes of artillery and the ringing of the bells of the churches announced the celebration of his Majesty's birth-day. The public buildings and the vessels in the canal were ornamented with the national colcurs. At noon Te Deem was performed in the church of St. Gudule, at which the Ministers, the Foreign Ambassadors, the civil and military autho rities, the two Chambers, and many persons of dis tinction were present. After the religious ceremony there was a review of the troops of the garrison. The Impartial, of Valenciennes, confirms the details of the fatal accident on the railway. The inquiry which is instituted will probably ascertain the cause of this disaster; it appears that it was act at all the effect of design, but that it was occasioned by a want of care on the French line. SUICIDE BY A MAN EIGHTY YEARS OF AGE.-011 Saturday morning a most determined act of suicide was committed by an old man, eighty years of age, named Robert Campbell, residing at o. 9, Church road, Stepney. It appears that he had been in an in firm state of health for some time put, and on the morning in question his wife had occasion to go to the Post-office, leavinu her husband in bed. She returned in less than five minutes, when she was horror-struck at finding him lying on the outside of the bed covered with blood, issuing from a deep wound in his throat, which he had inflicted with a razor. Medical assistance was sent for, but he expired shortly afterwards. He had at one period of his life been in very comfortable circumstances, but latterly had been much reduced. This, it is supposed, had p re y e d upon his mind, and induced him to commit the rash act. The Emancipation has a private letter from Amster dam, dated the 15th, which says that, according to accounts from Batavia of 6th September, there had been, on the 26th of August, a second fire at Soura baya, which destroyed 300 homes of the natives and the Chinese. TUE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER l9, 1842. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The Cotton market at Liverpool on Saturday was dull, only 2,50 . 0 bales being sold at the previous rates. In Railway Shares also there was scarcely any busi ness done, there being but few purchasers. Eastern Counties were 8!-1 ; BirminghaM Thirds, 33i ; and South Western, 62. • Accounts have been received from Buenos Ayres to the 15th October, and which appear to give fur ther evidence of the progress of Rosas in his invasion of the Oriental Republic. The national squadron had sailed with 12 transports under convoy, having on board troops and stores for Entre Rios, and the military movements appeared to be very brisk. A new Governor had been appointed in Santa Fe, who was expected to act vigorously against the enemies of Rosas. The English residents at Buenos Ayres had held a meeting, at which it was determined to open a subscription in aid of the relief fund which had been set on foot in England for the dis tressed manufacturers. After a slight demand for certain spring goods, the market for imported fabrics had again become very dull. Flour was higher. Shipping was wanted at the same rates as at Monte Video. Dry freight was more abundant at Buenos Ayres. There were 40 vessels in port, nine of which were British. Advices to the 7th October from Monte Video direct, r3ceived via Havre, stated thatthe continuance of hostilities paralysed business, and that it was diffi cult for ships to obtain carg►oes. From Java under date of Sept. 6, we learn that another serious fire had occurred at Sourabaya, by which a great number of Chinese and native houses had been destroyed. The Canada Loan having so entirely got into the hands of the Stock Exchange members, forms an agreeable hobby fur the speculators, and they have run it up already and 1 per cent. pre mium, with a prospect of its going higher. The security, however, is, in point of fact, first-rate, and as such the public will take it for want of a better in vestment, now money is so abundant. The instal ments are to be made on the 22d December, and on the 9th January next. In the Funds there has been only a limited business done, and the quotations are still rather heavy for Consols, which have receded to 931; - and 9311 for the' opening. Exchequer-bills are steady at 50s. to 51s. premium; -and East India Bonds at 435. prem. ; Reduced Three-and-a-Half - per Cents. are worth 101 to 1011 ; and Long Annuities 12 9-16 ; India Stock is firm at 2674. The Foreign Market is rather fiat. Spanish Actives are 181 4 ; and the Three per Cents., 241 to 24k. Mexican Bonds have not been higher than 314 to 31. Brazilian have been dull at 69; and D utch Two-and a -Half per Cents are quiet at 52i to 521. Portuguese Converted Bonds, are steady at 3211. The Railway Shares also can hardly be called so buoyant. Great Western are 251 ; Birmingham, 981 to 991; South Western, 201 ; and Manchester and Leeds, New, 2 premium. Brighton are 14 to 14* ; South Eastern Scrip, 3 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 2 , and Eastern' Counties, 14i discount. British North American Bank Shares are 7 discount. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Eastern Counties Edinburgh and Glasgow •50 Great Western London and Brighton ...... London and 13irmingliam 2O lB9 ...... to 1891 London and South Western ... 41% 6li to Manchester and Leeds Ditto New Shares 3O South Eastern and Dover Ditto Scrip... PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, DEC. 17. • Three per Cent. Consols 94 Three and a Half Stock •. 100 Ditto, New, 1830 MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 17.—We have had a flat market, but prices continue firm. Paris and Rouen, 2i to 26; Manchester and Bir mingham, 20 to 204 ; Manchester and Leeds, 73 to 74; ditto Halves, 31i to 32 • South Eastern, 61i to 624; Peak Forest Canal, 40i. LAW INTELLIG ENCE. CHANCERY,—(THIS DAY.) The LORD CHANCELLOR. was occupied to-day in hearing appeals; the first of which, Barnard v. Sut ton, on motion part-heard, occupied the greater por tion of the morning. ROLLS' COURT._(THIS DAY.) . HOWARD V. HOWARD. This cause, which was part-heard on Saturday, was resumed to-day at the sitting of the Court. It came before the Court upon exceptions to the Master's lte port, and the questions involved referred to the dis posal of certain property in the West Indies.ley did not possess much interest, and were likely; to en gage the Court some days. VICE-CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY). (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGl,trip.), After disposing of two cases which had been, part heard, the Court proceeded to take motions, and Mr. Stewart was heard in reply to the case of Ilickson v. Mainwaring, the facts of which have already appeared in The Sun. QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi Prius at the Guildhall, before Lord DENMAN and a London Special Jury.) CURTIS V. THE BLACKWALL RAILWAY COMPANY. The plaintiff is the inventor of the patent rApe, and the action was brought against the defend is for an alleged infringement of his patent. There were several models on the floor of the Court, without the assistance of which it would be impossible to convey any idea of the merits of the case. It is expected that the trial will last over to -night, as there were ten counsel engaged in the cause, and there are an immense number of witnesses to be examined. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) CASE OF Dn. BAILEY.—This being the day to which the case of Dr. Bailey, LL.D., was adjourned, the Court was crowded with persons anxious to hear the further examination in this case, being the third. The same Counsel appeared as on the last occasion. Mr. Justins from Mr. Flower's office, appeared for the prosecution. Wm. Moorlan, was then called, and said—l live in the City-road. I am skilled in fac-simile writing. By Mr. C. Jones—That is imitation writing. I am a lithographic artist, and can tell when a writing is real or not. Re-examined—Looking at the promissory note and the receipt produced, and comparing them, the signa sure to the promissory note appears to be a tracing from the signature to the receipt. By Mr. C. Jones—l do not know whether the sig nature to the receipt is Mr. Smith's or not, but I have no doubt the other signature is a tracing. Re-examined—l do not believe the signature and body of the I 0 U produced are in the same hand as the receipt before produced. The letter produced is not in the same handwriting as the receipt. It is not at all like ,it. Bryan Carney was then put into the box. I live in Prince's-row, Pimlico. I am a labouring roan. I know the prisoner; I have known him about ten weeks. A short time since he asked me in the Brompton-road if I would become a witness to a law suit. I made him no answer for about five minutes, to consider what was his motive for asking the question. I told him yes at last. He gave me a shilling. He told me to call at his house at ten o'clock the follow ing day. He gave me the direction, No. 73, Caro line-street, adjoining Coleshill-street. I went to him next day and saw him there. He told me to sit down until he had written what I was to say. I sat down, and he wrote something, and then he read it to me. He then gave mo the paper, and I gave it to Mr. Smith. I gave it to Mr. Smith about five weeks afterwards. When the prisoner gave me the paper he told me to get that by heart, and that I would be thereby en abled to give answers to the counsel that would be acting for Mr. Smith. I walked away then, and he gave me a shilling. I saw the Doctor afterwards, in about five days, and he told me to go down to his so licitors, in St. Mary Axe. He gave me a note to Mr. Hill. I gave the note to Mr. Smith, I believe. The solicitor questioned me, and I told him what Dr. Bailey had written down for me to say. He asked me if I was at the chapel with the deceased Robert Smith. I told him I saw him at Queen-square chapel. He asked me what was in the document that was signed there, and I told him, as Dr. Bailey had told me to say. I was at the solicitor's office as much as three quarters of an hour being questioned. I saw the prisoner afterwards at my own house. It is about six weeks ago. He said he wanted to speak to me outside. I went outside. He said he wanted me to go to the Exchequer Coffee-house next morning at ten o'clock. I went, and saw the prisoner there. There were six persons there. There was a person there also who had written down what I said at St. Mary Axe, and he told me to read it. I said, "Read it yourself." He read it, and he asked me if that was right ; but sure I did not know anything about it, but I said "Yes."—(Laughter.) He told me to go over to Westminster Hall. I went home because I thought I had to swear to that which was in the paper. I did not see Dr. Bailey for a week after. I told him he must be a scaly man to want me to swear to a paper for 7s. 6d., and if he gave the whole country I would not do it. He had promised me 301. to do it; 101. before I swore at Westminster Hall, and 201. when it was ended. Cross-examined—The prisoner wrote the paper in my presence. I cannot say the paper produced is the one. I said, the last time I was examined, that the paper then produced was the prisoner's_ writing. Mr. C. Jones—ls this the paper? Witness—Oh Lord, Oh Lord, I wish I had never been in it ! Mr. C. Jones—Won't your swear it if you are paid for it ? Prisoner (vehemently)—No ; if you paid me for it I would not by my blessed oath. Oh, I wish I had never seen him (pointing to the prisoner). Mr. C. Jones—When you swore on the last occasion that the paper then produced was the one Dr. Bailey wrote, was that true or false ? Witness—lt was true. Mr. C. Jones—ls this the paper that I,, , k'as then pro duced ? Witness—l will not swear. Mr. C. Jones—When ypu were in Mr. Hill's office 'r three quarters of an hour, were you telling lies ill the time ? Witness—lndeed, I tould nothin but Lies- all the time.—(Laughter.) Mr. James Smith was then called, and stated that le was brother to the deceased Robert Snlith. The last witness some weeks ago called on me, and stated to me what he has said to-day ;he d-slivered a paper to m?. It was the one produced. Robert Lenny said, I live at 41, Charles-street, Westminster, with my grandmother. lam 14 years of age. I know the prisoner. I have known him about three years. I have been employed by him to write and to go errands. The last time I was em ployed was iu September. I wrote at his house. I wrote the pacer produced (the one given to Carney). It was by Dr. Bailey's direction. I copied it from a paper in Dr. Bailey's handwriting. After same further evidence of little importance, the several witnesses were bound over to pro secute, and the prisoner was fully committed for trial. UNION. HALL.-(THIS DAY•) Another hatch of poor men were brought up for re fusing to do the work assigned them in Newington workhouse. The defendants are all agricultural labourers, and in consequence of want of work in the country, many of them coming up from distant parts to seek employ ;in London, they were reduced to their present destitute condition. Worn out with fatigue and exhaustion they applied at the workhouse, and were admitted ; but, according to their accounts, they were unable to perform the work that was as signed to them, from sleeping in a miserable place, and having a small allowance of food. The MAGISTRTE committed them for two days each, not as a punishment, but to pass them home to their respective parishes. MR. GREEN W OOD THE POLICE MAGISTRATE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. " Can such things be And overcome us like a summer's cloud Without our special wonder." SlR,—With feelings of heartfelt sorrow, I read in your impression of the 14th, under the head of Clerkenwell Police Court, that a poor boy had been sent by Mr. Greenwood to the House of Correction for 21 days for endeavouring to 'eke out a miserable existence for himself and his widowed mother. In this country it is quite clear poverty is a crime, and the poorer and more unprotected an individual is the less chance he has " of being recommended by the Court " to escape the punishment awarded him. In your same impression, I observe three " notorious thieves " were committed to the House of Correc tion for three months ! ! for stealing certain property from an uninhabited dwelling-house, so that there is evidently no material distinction between a person ask ing for a penny to save him from the cravings of desperate hunger, or in a thief taking away your property and disposing of it where he pleases; the same punishment is awarded to both parties, the only difference being a matter of time. Let me, how ever, implore those Magistrates who are, by their country, permitted to administer the law in itp various forma, to allow the scale of mercy to preponderate in their judgment. Here, a poor unfortunate half famished fellow-creature, who, sooner than commit an offence which would place him within the reach of the " Common Sergeant," or who, sooner than become the associate of thieves, is to be imprisoned in the House of Correction, for 21 days, for trying to sell in the streets a few coloured prints, so that he might be able to purchase a bit of bread instead of stealing it, and for this aet (" most righteous Judge') the sufferer is doomed to be incarcerated within the walls of a rigorous English Bastille for the space of 504 hours. Polished oak stables for horses, tessellated pavements for dogs, iron doors and rough gaolers for poor starving children, taxation and imposition for the people of England, are the delights and advantages of this favoured land, so "great, glorious, and free." But, Sir, a ti me w ill come when the aristocracy of i this kingdom, an d th e h ar d-hearted hirelings who now grace "such tri c k s of t yran t s may be borne by s l o a v e s w butce ourn o Magisterial tby rng lßench,ishmen.l will be mplore y ou to taught to l v g a lend assistance to the case of the unfortunate boys now paying the penalty of their p o verty in the deep dungeons of the House of Correction. ONE OF THE PEOPLE, AND A SUBSCRIBER OF TEN YEARS. This morning about five minutes to twelve o'clock a shocking accident took Place at the Hungerf ord Suspension-bridge, by the b rea ki ng of a crane, by which two men had a narro w escape of their lives ; one fortunately got off with on ly a ducking; the other was not so fortunate, having his leg broken in two places. He was removed on a shutter to Charing cross Hospital. A letter from Verviers, of th e 15th December, says: —We learn that the works on the iron railway, from Pepinstee to the Prussian frontier, h a ve just been totally suspended, and all the workmen dismissed by the contractors, who, it is said, were no longer paid, and disagree with the Government on various points. In consequence of these unhappy differences, about two thousand workmen will be thrown out of employ ment in the midst of the winter. We hope the Go vernment will lose no time in putting an cud to these differences.; AFFECTING SToier.e—We find the following extra ordinary story in several of the journals :—" A short time ago a melancholy event took place in the theatre at Leghorn. A player on the bass named Gemini niani, wishing to make his talent known to the public, acts of the opera. The connoisseurs, however, thought announcedbut lightly that ahti his heta talent, and to play a piece between the assembled to laugh at the performance. When the poor artist was playing the rondeau of Lucia on a single string, conversation, laughter, and noise drowned the sound of the instru ment. He exhibited marks of extreme emotion, and at last his agitation became so great that he could no longer do justice to his powers. When he arrived at the phrase— Tu delle gigje in seno, io della morte (Thou hest joy in thine heart, and I death), he let the instrument drop, remained a moment motionless ' and then fell heavily on the stage ! The people of the theatre rushed from the side scenes, and bore him off. Medical aid was applied, but in vain—he was dead !" —Galignani's Messenger. LIEPMANN'S PROCESS FOR PRINTING IN OIL-CO LOURS.—This process, which lately excited so much interest at Berlin, and indeed throughout the whole world of artists, is now no longer a mystery, the in ventor grugdainsctled him disclosed his secret in consideration a by the King of Prussia. Liepmann lately p resen ted to the Emperor of Aus tria a copy of the w ork in which the process is de tailed, and has received a golden medal from his Im perial Majesty in acknowledgment of the presenta tion. We have seen in several of the German papers descriptions of the process ; b u t, though in its application it is said to be extremely easy and simple, we must own that we have not as yet obtained any very clear idea from the accounts to which we refer. " The most important point," says the Ham burgh Borsen Halle, " in which the new process varies from all previous methods of printing in colours is, that the body from which the impressions are taken is not ono upon which the colours have to be laid for each separate impression, but is itself a coloured map, of greater or less magnitude according to the number of copies required, and presenting a kind of mosaic representation of the picture to be manifolded. The manner in which this body of colours is prepared ad mits, not only of the sharpest contrast between two adjoining colours, but also of a gradual blending of the one with the other." Viscount Ebrington, Sir Benjamin and Lady Hall, Sir Robert Newman, Bart., and a party, have been visiting the Hon. Newton and Lady Catherine Fel lowes, during the past week, at Eggesford, Devon. Lord and Lady Carrington have arrived in town from Gayhurst, Bucks. The Noble Lord and Lady leave town in the course of the week. DRAYTON MANOR. — Lor d Fitzgerald and the Right Hon. Henry Goulburn (the Chancellor of the Ex chequer) arrived on Saturday evenin g on a visit to Sir Robert and Lady Peel. The Earl of Aberdeen was expected to have arrived on Saturday from Argyll House, but the Noble Earl has delayed his departure from the metropolis, urgent business requiring his presence in town. Sir Thomas Fremantle and other Fuests are expected on Monday to join the circle. fhe Right llon. Baronet and Lady a Peel intend to receive a succession of visitors until the first week in the ensuing month. DREADFUL ACCIDENT, AND DEATH OF THE COUNTESS OF DENBIGH FROM FRIGHT.—On Friday morning, at twelve o'clock, a dreadful occurrence took place in Eaton-square, Pimlico, at a house now being finished for the Earl of Denbigh. It appears that a large cornice had just been fixed against the side of the building by the bricklayers, when the latter being about to leave (it being their dinner hour, the cornice 'fell with tremendous force, and caused the scaffolding to give way, and the three men were precipitated into the road from a height of nearly fifty feet. The Countess of Denbigh, who was passing at the time, and who witnessed the scene, was so affected that she was instantly conveyed home, and, we regret to say, that her Ladyship exp i red in the afternoon at three o'clock. The Countess was enciente, and has had eleven children. The poor men were Conveyed to St. George's Hospital. COUNTY WONDERS. Dr. Fuller in his quaint history of the " Worthies of England," parcels out, under the title of " Won ders," as he proceeds to illustrate our English coun ties, all the artificial or natural rarities which they possess. His peculiar wit spices the whole, .and even the few selections we adduce, are not devoid of his usual grotesqueness of remark. llAmrsmßE.—An oak, near Lindhurst, in the New Forest, is credibly reported to put forth green leaves yearly, on or about Christmas day. It must now be sprouting. KENT.—The wonders of art are the ships here, which are better than the French, who are left handed in sea-fights ; better than the Dutch, which are floaty and buoyant,; while the Spanish pride bath infected their ships with loftiness, which makes the better marks for our shot. Our English oak is incom parable, and though the Hollanders bought our tim ber for their ships, they could not buy our art of ship building; so that, as Bishop Latimer once said to one who had preached his sermon, " They have gotten our fiddlestick, but not our rosin." LEIC - ESTER.SIIIRE.-At a village here called Curley, all that areborn the rein have a harsh and rattling kind of speech, and cannot pronounce the letter R. One of the best scholars in the county could not for his life utter Carolus Rex Britannim without stammering. The best was, the King had from him in his hearty prayers what he wanted in his plain pronunciation. LIECOLNSIIIRr.-At Harlaxton, •in this shire, a helmet, not gilt, but of massive gold—cassis non au rata, sed aurea—was turned up by the plough, and presented to Queen Catharine, first wife of King Henry the Eighth. RUTLANDSHIRK.—Tt is surprising that this county, so pleasant and fruitful, almost in the middle of Eng land, had never a single abbey in it, and only two convents, which were appurtenant to other counties. Dr. Fuller, with somewhat anti-clerical zest, remarks hereon, " The, like cannot be paralleled in England, choose so great a parcel of ground where you please. Show me so fair a bunch of sweet grapes, which had no more flies to suck them." GLOUCESTERS MM.—Oysters, cockles, and peri winkles of stone are found at Alderley. Shallow Rabbies, says Fuller, who count themselves of the cabinet, but are scarcely of the common council of nature, consider them to have been formerly shell fish; and not lusus natura of creation. LANCASIIIRE.—About Wigan and elsewhere in this county, men, says Fuller, gu a fishing with spades and mat-hooks. First they pierce the turfy ground, and under it meet with a black and deadish water, and in it small fishes swim. Let them be thankful to God in the first place, he says as comment, who need not such meat to feed upon. And next let those be thankful who have such meat to feed upon when. they need it. This practice is now obsolete, but the just ness of the remark applies fully to the state of that county at this moment. DERBYSIIIRE.—Here is the Mam-Tor or Mother- Hill, so called because it is always delivered, and pre sently with child again, for immense heaps of sand constantly fall from it, yet it never appears diminished, but is secretly recruited. DEVONSIIIRE. — The Hanging-stone. This got its name from a thief, who having stolen a sheep, and tied it about his own neck to carry it on his back, rested himself awhile on this stone, which is a foot high, till the sheep by struggling slid over the stone on the other side, and so strangled the man. Let tl e lawyers dispute, remarks the Doctor, whether the sheep in this case was forfeited to the King's almoner as a deodand. EXETER.—When the city of Exeter was besieged by the Parliament's forces, so that only the south side of it ,towards the sea was open to it, larks appeared in such numbers that the poor boiled them for pottage. It was assigned as a cause that these birds, frightened by the shooting on the land, retreated to the sea-side for their refuge. BEDrORDSIIIRE. — The river Ouse, in this county, in 1399, parted asunder, the waters from the fountain standing still, and those towards the sea giving way, so that it was passable over on foot for three miles to gether, not without the astonishment of the beholders. CHESIIIRE.—IIere is a pool adjoining Brereton, the seat of the honourable family of that name, wherein bodies of trees are seen to swim for certain days be fore the death of any heir of that house. CORNWALL. — The celebrated stones called the Hurlers, are reported by tradition to have. been formerly men, metamorphosed into these masses for hurling—a sport peculiar to Cornwall—on the Lord's day. CUMBERLAND.—The moss-troopers, who were pe culiar to the borders of this county, were so called from dwelling in the mosses, and riding in troops together. They dwelt on the bounds or meeting of two kingdoms, but obeyed- the laws of neither. They went to church as seldom as the 29th of February comes into the calendar. They lived by the species of free trade, comprehended in the motto " Vivitur ex rapto ;" and like a nest of hornets, strike but one, and all stirred about your cars. SUSSEX.—William of Newbury writes, " that in this county, not far from Battle-Abbey, in the place where so great a slaughter of the Englishmen was made, after any shower, presently sweats forth very fresh blood out of the earth, as.if the evidence thereof did plainly declare the voice of blood there shed, and crieth still from the earth unto the Lord." Credat Judreus ! IVARwicx.suißE.—At Leaminliton, there issue from the earth two twin-springs, as different in taste and operation, as Esau and Jacob, the one salt, the other fresh. WlLTSHlRE.—Stonehenge. Supposed to be a Roman work, or temple, dedicated to Ccelum, the senior God of the Heathens. _ _ _ SOMERSETSIIIRE.—WockIey liole in the Mendip hills. An underground concavity, with spacious vaults, walls, and labyrinths; the cause being un imaginable why the earth was put in such a posture. SURREY.—The river Swallow, which sinks under around, and rises again near Letherhead. This river is more properly termed Mole, than that in Spain on the like occasion is called Anas, that is a duck or drake. For moles, like the Surrey river, work under ground, whilst ducks, which Anas does not, dive under water. _ YORKSHIRE.—" From H—ll, Hull, and Halifax deliver us." This is part of the old beggars' or va grants' litany. At the last place, thieves caught in delicto were instantly beheaded with an engine. The Naval promotions consequent on the success ful termination of the Chinese war, are not yet finally resolved on, but we anticipate their promulgation in next Tuesday's Gazette. We have every reason to believe they will be on such a liberal scale as to satisfy the hopes and expec tations of the service. This is a legitimate occa sion, of which the Board of Admiralty will no doubt avail themselves, to promote the officers who are fortunate enough to fill those ranks that are usually selected on occasions of important events which call for some especial mark of favour ; and, it is generally expected, that not only will those whose names have been honourably mentioned in the public dispatches be advanced a step in rank, but also the Commanders, First Lieutenants, and Senior Mates of the Fleet, as has been usual on occasions of perhaps greater brilliancy, but certainly of no less important results than may be anticipated from the successful termination of the war against China. We may anticipate an equally liberal army promotion.—Naval and Military Gazette. SUICIDE THROUGH FILIAL SORROW.-011 Satur day evening Mr. Payne held an inquest at the Queen's Head, Cree-church-lane, Leadenhall-street, on the body of Elias Jacobs, aged 40, a coffee-house keeper, of No. 2, Bury-street, St. Mary Axe, and of the Hebrew persuasion. Julia Hiams, servant to de ceased, said that, seeing on that morning he did not come down stairs at his accustomed hour, she sus pected, from previous circumstances, that he had destroyed himself in his bed-room. Fearing to go and ascertain the fact by herself, she sent for a policeman, who forced the bed-room door, and found the deceased suspended by the neck from the bed rail, by means of a cord. He had been dead, a sur geon who had been called in said, many hours. Ever since his father's death, which took place eleven months ago, his sorrow was so great that it frequently amounted to insanity, and latterly he was attended by a keeper from a lunatic asylum, who more than once prevented him from dashing out his bra ins b y butting his head against the wall. The passing of the Income tax Act had added to his insanity, and his constant incoherent ravings about the ultimate injury he fancied it would do him, so much annoyed his customers that they abandoned his shop one after the other. Though, besides his business, he inherited a fair portion of freehold property, he dreaded so much the effect of the Income-tax, that no argument could persuade him that it would not be his ruin. Verdict, " Insanity." PALERMO, Nov. 28.—After many years repose, Etna has during the last three we ekspoured forth immense masses of fire. It seems that considerable torrents of lava are flowing in the direction of Bronte. The damage already done is said to be immense. The fine weather allows us to roam about the whole night, admiring the extraordinary spectacle. Numerous strangers come to be near the scene. . JEMMY WOOD'S HOUSE. The executors have ordered the demolition of this rich eccentric's house, and, in compliance with these orders, men are engaged in pulling it down. Numbers are attracted to the ruins, in the hope of finding treasures concealed by the old banker. Some of the over-curious have pur chased some pieces of the old timbers of the house, to convert them into snuff-boxes. The Croydon Railway Directors have called a.meet leg of their Proprietors, for the purpose of considering the propriety of relinquishing their carrying depart ment, and becoming a toll company only. We regret to hear that a firm largely concerned in tthe corn trade, and having extensive establishments at Penryn and Truro, has failed. Their importations of foreign grain previous to the harvest are said to have been extremely large.—Devonpert Independent. NEWPORT, iSLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) MORE CITANGES.—At the Christmas meeting of the Isle of Wight Agricultural Society on Thursday last, there was very little competition. Mr. Brown, I learn, obtained eight prizes, and for two other prizes there was no competitor. The Rev. Walton White,. one of our principal landowners, and one of the most strenuous supporters of the Tory candidates for the Isle of Wight, in proposing the health of Sir Richard Simeon, our late Liberal Representative, told the meeting " they must not look forward to protection ; the principle was broken down ; they would have to return to first principles, and it would have been well for them if these first principles had never been de parted from ; as they would not then have been in the difficulties they now, were. It was plain to him that the principle of protection would be withdrawn, and trade and agriculture have to look to their own exertions. He had no fears for agriculture. The demand for agricultural productions could not fail. Industry, supported by intelligence and capital, would be sure to succeed, and those changes which had an nually been the cause of panic and alarm would then cease, and all would be happy and prosperous." SUMMER WEATHER. — We have a continuance of the most beautiful weather ever remembered at this season ; the meadows are covered with daisies; violets aml primroses grace our banks with their blossoms as in spring. 1:lie wheats could not possibly look better; while the cattle are still out. The thermo meter is at 55 in the shade, the barometer at 30 deg. 15 min. Wo noticed a meadow which has been folded over with sheep within a fortnight, and fed very close, it is now quite green, having young grass full one inch high in that time. GREAT LEAGUE FUN MEETING IN MARYLEBONE. On Saturday evening an exceedingly numerous and highly influential meeting toolc place at the Three Compasses Tavern, Marylebone-street, for the pur pose of carrying out, in the most efficient manner, throughout the borough of Marylebonc, the objects of the great League Fund, for obtaining a total and immediate repeal of the cdious Corn-laws, and ;he re moval of all restrictions upon trade and commerce‘. ,-- J. Guthrie, Esq., a vestryman of St. Marylebone;• presided, and having explained the object of the meet ing, said he had to congratulate them on the extraor dinary advances the Anti-Corn-Jaw League had made in public opinion throughout the country within the last few weeks. Mr. G. Daniell said, in no district of the metropolis had there been a greater reaction in favour of the repeal of those most odious imposts, the Corn-laws, than there had been within the last few weeks in the borough of Marylebone. Men of the greatest wealth and standing in society were coming forth in every direction to assist them in carrying out the objects of the Central Anti-Corn-law Asso ciation in that district, and he had no doubt when the great meeting for that section of the metropolis took place, they would have such a show of men affluence and standing in society pre sent, as no other meeting on the subject could as yet boast of. He understood that many letters had al ready been received upon the subject, and he would move that they be read to the meeting. The motion having been seconded and carried, the Chairman -an nounced that letters had already been received from General Sir De Lacy Evans, the Hon. C. P. Villiers, M.P., Dr. Bowring, M.P., Mr. T. Milner Gibson, M.P., from Colonel T. P. Thompson, who was at Nottingham ; Major Revell, J. E. Hovenden, Esq., the Rev. Mr. Bowes, of Blanford Chapel ; the Rev. Mr. Townley, the Rev. Mr. Marshall, and a large number of other Dissenting clergymen of the bo rough, offering their earnest co-operation in the cause, and expressive of a determination to be present at the great meeting of the fourth section of the metropolis, comprising the borough of Marylebone.—(Cheers.) Messrs. Hayden, Wall, Glasier, and several other gentlemen addressed the meeting, and resolutions con demnatory of the Corn and Provision-laws, and a de termination to assist the Anti-Corn-law League by every means to carry their repeal, having been adopted, a Committee was appointed to draw up resolutions, to be submitted to the great League Fund meeting about to be held in Marylebone ; and thanks being passed to the Chairman, the meeting separated. SPAIN. MADRID, DEC. 10.—The Regent's return is fixed, it is said, for the 15th, and he will not even enter I3arcelona. He is to arrive here without any military pomp or triumph. It is anticipated that he will pass by Valencia and not by Saragossa, in order to avoid an interview with the Infante Don Francisco de Paulo, who, it is reported, has received orders to quit Spain, as well as his Secretary, Count de Parsert. The Cortes is to be reassembled immediately after Espartero's arrival. The loan of 600 millions of reals will be the first affair, as upon that depends the cotton question. Some compensation is to be offered to Spain, it is whispered, for the diminution of the tariff, by suppressing the tobacco depot at Gibraltar. Rumours of a Ministerial modification are very current, and it is asserted in some quarters that the Cabinet is to be strengthened by the accession of Senor Gonzales and Don Facundo Infante, their oratorical talents being necessary to pass the measures to be pro posed in the Legislature. The Parliamentary coalition seems to he still com pact, and resolved to make a decided opposition to the Ministry on the late events in Barcelona. It is generally regretted that the Regent should have been compelled to resort to a bombardment, and the state of siege subsequently is much blamed, the more especially as the address of the Deputies of Con gress was to require the observance of constitutional forms in the suppression of the rebellion, instead of resorting to exceptional measures. A military dic tatorship is feared, although Espartero is believed to be opposed to it, yet his staff entertain the hope of this kind of supremacy. At the English Legation it is openly said that it will be the only means of salva tion for Spain. The report of the inquiry into the ill-treatment of M. Lefevre, the French merchant, has been submitted to the Supreme Naval and Military Court, but its contents have not transpired. The dispatches of Van Halen and the political chief of Barcelona compromise M. Lessops, the French Consul, very seriously. The Castellano remarks that their allusions are imprudent and impolitic, as, if true, they ought to form the object of a diplomatic note, and not be published in an official journal. GREECE. ATHENS, Nov. 30.—Yesterday morning M. Sill vergo, the newly-appointed Minister of Finance, went mad while attending a Council of Ministers. I be lieve but there is no doubt that the Greek Government money matters are quite as deranged as the Minister. Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Mason, in her Majesty's line-of-battle ship Howe, is at anchor in the Piraeus harbour, as is also the Scout, the Hon. Captain Drum mond. The French Admiral Lasusse is also in the Pirmus with two line-of-battle ships, but is expected to leave in a few days for Toulon. Her M ajes t y ' s sister is arrived , and will remain here during the winter. A.great many English travellers continue to arrive and depart, and will, no doubt, increase still more if the project of having English steamers to run between Malta, Athens, and the Levant is carried into effect. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. have just perused a copy of Col. Thomp son's " Exercises, political and others," and through Lgueoeu a rCOLU o lri p ll ting Columns would suggest the propriety of t he them, and presen ting a copy of them through private individuals (of course members of the League), to the principal reading-rooms, Mechanics' Institutes, &c., of the kingdom, or at least to the A agricultural ones.—Yours, Sze., LEAGUER. 1 Newcastle, Dec. 13. A DRUNKARD'S FA713..—0n Saturday evening Mr. Payne held a n inquest in the Compter, Giltspur-street, on t h e b o dy of Richard Bailey, .aged thirty-one, lately a por ter in the service of Mr. Hart, wine -merchant, of Fenchurch-street. It appeared that the deceased had an uncontrollable propensity for ardent spirits, which in the end rendered him dishonest. On Satur day week he lost his situation, and being suspected of having robbed his late master, the police received in formation of the suspicion. In consequence they watched him, and on Wednesday night one of their body met him in the City, carrying a two-gallon stone bottle, which he dropped as soon as the con stable accosted him. The contents consisted of whisky, which he said he was taking, by his " mas ter's " orders, to a person in Broad-street. This statement proved untrue, and the deceased was lodged in the station, where during the night he was much excited, and otherwise indisposed. The next day he was .taken before the Lord Mayor, and remanded to the Compter until Monday (this day). The moment he entered the prison his indisposition was perceived, and he was placed in . the infirmary, and attended to by the medical officer, but he died on Friday. Mr. M‘Murdo, the prison surgeon,. said he examined the body internally, and, found disease of the brain and liver, the result •of , hard drinking. Deceased had confessed his propensity to ardent spirits, and said that shortly before his apprehension he had swallowed a large quantity. Death was to be attributed to great excitement, the consequence of recent i mmo d erate d r i n ki n g of raw spirit. Verdict--" Died from exces sive drinking. WILL OF TAE LATE LORD ROLLS.--The will and nine codicils of the late Right H on . L or d R o ll e , l a te of Shewton, in the county of Devon, has just been proved in the Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of C an terbury, in Doctors' Commons, by the executors, the Eight Hon. Charles Rolle Clinton,Baron Clinton, Zachary Hammett Drake, Esq., and Harry James, Esq. The personal property of the deceased has been sworn under the val ue o f 300,0004 left to his family, and is principally MONEY MARKET and CiTY NEWS: FROM TEE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. CITY, SATURDAY EVENING. TIMES.—The result of the offers for the Canada debentures transpired this morning; and it was made known that Mr. Maubert was the sole purchaser at the high price of 1081. The rumour that he had pre viously offered 107/.lls. appeats to be a true one, and also that that was yesterday tte highest price ten dered. This the Government wt,•uld not accept, as the sealed paper placed in the hands of the Governor and Deputy-Governor of the Bank Che England, and referred to in the announcement, declarb.d 108/. to be the lowest price. The biddings were not re-Opened but Mr. Maubert's offer being the highest, h e was allowed the option of taking the loan at the Go' ern 'tient price if he pleased, to which terms he tweet:cd. The arrangement between our Government and we Canada Company is, that the latter shall pay 5 pea' cent. on the loan, of which Government guarantee% four to the creditor, the remaining one, as well as the whole premium of eight, being set aside to form a sinking fund, which will thus immediately have 24,0001. to begin with. As some doubt has arisen as to the extension of the Government guarantee beyond the twenty years, and with respect to the redemption of the loan, it may be as well to observe, that the general interpretation of the law is, that the Govern ment is not bound to redeem at all, but in case of niA-redempticn in twenty years, is bound to continua the guarantee of the payment of interest, even if the [ redemption should be postponed for an indefinite period. The panic in the corn trade does not seem likely to subside yet, two more failures, both at Wakefield, having been mentioned on 'Change to-day. The principal one is that of Messrs. Dunn and Son, a firm of high respectability. For some days has the ru mour been current that a large corn failure was at hand, and this was the firm referred to ; but as it was expected to the last that some arrangement would be made, the name was not generally mentioned. The other failure, which is considered of less importance, is that of Messrs. John Swallow and Son. In reference to the observations recently made about the funds in this country, on account of the Guatemala debt, we are informed by a member of the Committee, that the whole of the consignment of in azo and cotton is not yet in cash, but that a large Taportion is, and that the mercantile firm who are • consignees, invested such portion in Exchequer its receipt, from their own sense of propriety, iced by any one to do it. No instructions ab i tl ni l l e di s it; 11,.a.,, nplication of these f un ds h ave y e t b een re as to the t.i ceived from Central America, and from the great length of time A -equired to o bt a i n re pli es f rom l e tt ers sent to the interim of that country, it is possible that the instructions ma) not arrive before February or March next. (Ned the 25th of Mercantile letters from 2‘facleira, November, mention the arrival of a k;ortuguese brig ' of war from Lisbon, announcing e donation of 300,000 dols. from the Government towart. I s repairing the damages caused by the late inundation c, a credit for the amount to be placed in London, and d. -awn for monthly at the rate of 400,000 dols. or 500,C 00 per month. The sum of 3,000 dols. had also been nib scribed by the Queen, and a Committee had been .nP pointed for the appropriation of the money, and io report how the island may be benefited by a modßi s r. cation of the tariff. These facts are all confirmed has the official bulletin, which is in London. THE FORMIDABLE. By a letter from Barcelona, dated December 2, we have the following particulars of saving the above fine man-of-war :—At a quarter before eight on the night of the 29th, going four knots, the ship struck the ground heavily (it appears 14 miles to the west ward of Barcelona). A boat was immediately die. patched to Barcelona for assistance, and at daylight a French steam-vessel, many boats, and small cTaft, came to assist. The stream had been got out, and the steamer carried out a bower. During the c 30th, two other steamers arrived from the westwa rd, a French and Spanish ; and at five the Rodne much to our joy and comfort, arrived and anchor( *I a mile from the Formidable, then in four feet les e water than she drew. The Rodney sent two cables an end, and the Formidable two to meet them, amf both ships hove together. The water was startedi and pumped out, all the lower deck guns thrown over-- board, with three of the main, a quantity of shot, and' at a quarter before 12 on the night of the 30th she was hove off, having been 28 hours ashore. The bottom was a soft clear sand, but being near the breakers, some heavy rollers occasionally coming in, made the ship thump heavily. The weather was fortunately very fine; the rudder went soon after grounding. The ship was dragged, by main strength, at least half a mile, judging from the buoy of the rudder and the first gun thrown overboard. The ship's company, during the whole time worked well, and their conduct is said to be beyond praise. The ship was towed toßar celona, from which she has proceeded to Port Mahon. Damage sustained—(From the report of an excellent diver.)—The false keel is gone in many places, from ten to twelve feet in one place ; the forefoot gone ; the rudder gone; main keel damaged in places; two leaks forward; a small leak in the bread-room ; she makes eight inches water per hour; between the main and mizen masts she hung and thumped heavily. The Cyclops, steam-frigate, had arrived, and had been sent, to try and recover the rudder and guns. The Belvi dera arrived at Barcelona on the 2d inst. The writer adds, " I am firmly of opinion that, if the Rodney had not arrived as she did, the Formidable might have been erased from the Navy List."—Hampshire Telegraph. BOARD Or GUARDIANS, GREENWICH, SATURDAY. —At a meeting of the Board of Guardians, the Chairman (Mr. B. Carter) brought forward the subject of allowing roast beef, plum-pudding, and strong beer, to the inmates of the union on Christmas -day. He thought there could be no objection on the part of the Board to the usual allowance being given. Mr. James (the clerk) said that the new rules of the Poor-law Commissioners were so stringent as regarded the dietary of the paupers, which was only to be altered by the medical officer, that he did not consider the Board would be justified in making the order. Mr. Moze said there would be a great deal of dissatisfaction amongst the parishioners if those in the house were debarred from that small enjoyment. Mr.Warman, the relieving officer, said that the out-door poor, who had only a shilling or eighteenpence per week allowed, and never had a mouthful of meat from one month's end to another, were more deserving objects of a little extra allowance. The Chairman said that no doubt anAdshteofotrheone rules,was trheeaydyontol some hundred pounds would be subscribed for that becomeonly prescribed a c con tributor. t h en - t ri b o pur pos e , r dietary , for Sundas and week days, but ys, not a word was said about " Christmas-day , " they . must exer cise what they had very little of—" a discretionary power."—(Laughter.) If they happened to do a little wrong they would, at the same time, do • great deal of good ; so the best way was to let the poor enjoy themselves, and the Board must make friends with the Commissioners afterwards. He did not anticipate that would be a task of any great diffi culty. The resolution to grant the allowance was unanimously agr eed to. NORFOLIC.--STRANGE STORY.—Messrs. Gulley, of Cossey, have lately built a didling boat, and employed men to take the soil from the bottom of the river in front of their mills. A few days since these men found a human skeleton, and a coroner's inquest has since been held. It appears that about nine years ago a Jew, whose name was said to be Abrams, visited Ta verham in the course of his trade, sold some small articles, for which he gave credit to the purchasers, and left the public house there in the evening, on his way to the Lion, at Drayton (the next village), with, as now reported, a sum of 901. in his possession. At Drayton he disappeared, nor did he ever again come to claim the amounts due to him at Taverham. Som e time afterwards a mars named Page was apprehended for sheep-stealing, tried, and sentenced to be trans ported for life. During his imprisonment he told divers stories of robberies and crimes, most of which turned out to be false. But, amongst other things, he wrote a letter, promising that if he were released from gaol and brought to Cossey, "he would show them that, from under the willow tree, which would make every hair in their heads rise up." The man was not released, but the river was drawn, and some sheep's skins and sheep's heads were found, which were considered to be the objects Page alluded to. From under this willow tree, however, the skeleton has been fished up by th e didl ers , an d it it. said there is proof ,that the corpse /'as fixed down by ts muck crome. The common belief in the neighbouring villages is, that these are the bones of the missing Jew, and that Page knew of the murder if he were not an accomplice. The Magistrates, we understand, believe that they have obtained a clue to the mur derers, and have been and still are earnestly engaged in pursuing the discovery."—Norwich Mercury. BROKEN••WINDED HoasEs.—The public ate fre quently imposed upon by horse-dealers selling broken winded horses, which are termed " warns ;" and which defect they contrive temporarily to conceal from the purchaser in the following manner :—" They thrust a quantity of leaden shot, intermixed with a portion of lard, down the horse's throat, which so operates upon the lungs, that it keeps the health of the horse in order for more than twenty-four hours, so as the most ingenious dealer cannot detect the disease." If the animal can be sold during this time, well and good ; if not, a dose of castor oil removes the shot, , &c. The next day the shot is again applied, and so every alternate day the horse is fit to be exposed to sale, which in the end seldom fails to entrap a purchaser. MR. WlLSON.—ahis favourite vocalist, who 'ass honoured by singing before her Majesty at Taymouth Castle, and who has since met with continuous success in Scotland, will make his first appearance for the season, at the Music Hall, Store-street, next Monday evening.