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the Crown to grant an extension of the patent for four years on certain conditions, and postponed the final ad vising the Crown for a few days. THE LE GAL TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY. (Provisionally Registered, January 17, 1549.) Capital, 2,000,0001., in 10,000 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, Westm i n ster, on ap plication to G. F. HOWE, Eon. Sec., pro tem. THE AUTHOR OF " WHITNFB.LABS." Now ready at all the Libraries , Lu 3 vols., T HE NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE " OWEN TUDOR." By the Author of " Whitafriars," "Caesar Borgia," &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great liarlbor•ugh-street. . Now ready, in Three Volumes, post Pro., with Portraits, THE CORRESPONDENCE of SCHILLER with KORNER. Comprising Sketches and Anecdotes of Goethe, the Schlegels, Wieland, and other Contemporaries. From the German. With Biographical Sketches and Notes, By LEONARD SIMPSON, Esq. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street, (Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty.) ROBERT HOUDIN. - ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. M ROBERT HOUDIN will have the honour to repeat his extra ordinary SOIREES FANTASTIQIIES, at this Theatre as follows: — THIS EVENING, Tuesday, February 13. To-Morrow Morning, Wednesday „ 14. Saturday Eveaing, „ 17. Evening Performance at Half-past Eight ; Day Performance at Half-past Tw•. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Amphitheatre, Is. 6d. Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets for this extraordinary Entertainmeat 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. ruEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARK Er. Mr. B. Webster,-Sale-Lessen-an4-Manager, Old Brompton. The public is respectfully informed that this Theatre has, during the recess, undergone very extensive repairs and alterations and the Whole re-decorated. THIS EVENING, The Stranger, Mr. C Will be performed THE STRANGER. Kean; - Mrs. Haller, 'Mrs. C. Kean. After' which, TWICE KILLED. To conclude with an Arabian Nights' Entertainment, entitled CAVARALZAIIAII AND BA.DOTTRA ; or, The Peri who Loved the Frince. Characters by Messrs. Bland, Keeley, Mrs. Keeley, Miss Horton, and Miss Reynolds. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. %der the direction oi Madame Celesta. , During the Recess this. heatre has been entirely re-decorated, the original designs by Digby Wyatt, Raft 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 mere comfortable. THIS EVENING Wiil be presented th• celebrated Drama, entitled THE GREEN BUSHES ; or, A llnruired Tears Age. Murtogh, Mr. 0. Smith ; Dennis, Mr. Cullenford ; Jack Gong, Mr. ?aul Bedford ; Grinnidgo, Mr. Wright ; Captain Dartois, Mr. Worrell ; Madame St. Aubert, Madame Celeste ; Geraldine, Miss E. Chaplin; .Nelly O'Neil, Miss Woolgar. To conclude with THE ENCEIANTED ISLE. Alonzo, Mr. Paul Bedford; Prospero, Mr. 0. Smith ; Ariel, Miss B. Chaplin. ROYAL LYCI✓UM THEATRE. Ullcier the Management of Madame Vestria. Sole Lessee. Mr. Charles Ma• ha - A - s. THIS EVENIN t., - . • bo performed a new and original petite Comedy, eititled WHO SPEAKS FIRST? After which, a new Fairy Extraysgauza, entitled THE KING OF nu: PEACOCKS. Characters by Messrs. Harley, John Reeve, Selby, 11. Hall, Marshall, and H. Marshall ; Miss Kathleen Fitzwil *lain, Miss L. Howard, MN. Macnamara, Miss Marshall, Miss L. Marshall, Miss Coleman, and Madame Vestris. To conclinie with AN APPEAL TO "FYE PUBLIC. Dress 51.; Tipper Boxes, 4s: ;-Pit, 28. ; Gallery, is. No 4:lt-price to arr 3 part of the house. The NeN.f Box.-o: ice, No. 2, to -, street, is open to the every, day, from Ten till Sta. PRINCESS'S Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and %7anager. Huhn.: th 3 Recess this Theatre has been re-decorated and embel ln a superb and costly manner ty Mr Hurwitz. A new Chan cloder hal teen fitted, and the best tiirirr.; E meats have been made for the due Vottilation of the Theatre, and tho co:Mort and convealence of the and once. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new Ballad .Opera:entitled ROBIN GOOD FELLOW. Characters by Messrs. Charles Braham, Weiss, Honey, C. Fisher; M'ss Poole, Miss G. Smithson, Miss Kenworthy, Mrs. Weise, and Miss E. Stanley. To conclude with a new grand Pantomime, entitled BLUFF KING IIAL; or, ILulequin and the Charmed Arrow. Harlequin, Mr. Bologna; Pantaloon, Mr. Paula ; Clown, Mr. Fleamore ; Sprite, Mr. De Barr ; Columbine, Miss Fawcett. ASTLEY'S ROYAL .A.MPIIITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Under the P.dronage of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, tac. Enormous success of the Holiday Novelties, the most astounding in the Metropotls.—A gorgeous. Spectacle.—Milliant Scenes of the Arena.—A new comic Pantomime. T EVENING, Taa wit! rise• at a Quarter to Seven o'clock precisely to the magnificent Spectacle, by Fitzball. entitled • CORA SCO or, the Warriors Steed. To ba followed by en Inimitable display of SCENES IN TIIE CIRCLE, Fupported by the first Equaetriati taLtit of the day. To , couclu:lc with a row Equestrian Pantomime, entitled BOLD ifoo.u i . or, The Pretty White Horse and Enchanted Prin ces's of S:terwood,Forest. • ilox-office open from Eleven tilt Fire. Mr. W. West. • TO CORRESPON comthuhication can be attended to urless authent: %fed by the ‘ name and address o: thia writer. 11 , 9-tod eornmcnicationi cannot be returned. TILE iWEA'illElt.—Sut; OprieE. FEBRUARY 13. Taitiumals*rurt,, Lowest, 27; Ilighe3t.. 41; Noon, * 42 11AROMP,TIM 30.59. WIND W.N.SV.; five cold weather. • vy' ATER AT I.ONDO,N I) E. 111'5 DAY —Morning, 39 min. after 5 Evening, 56 min. after 5 To-Moltiaw— , 13 ,ker . 6 f N,venin , 32 in. after 6 134 43:2 a . L o ‘, • 4," • - • .4, 13 rtuirtc LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1349. Another of -the most liberal and enlightened Sove reigns of Christendom has just been compelled to fly from the capital of his dominions, and to seek shelter in an obscure seaport, from the ingratitude of the very people upon whom he has squandered his bene factions. If Pius IX. has been driven by the insen sate passions of his children from Rome to Gaeta, LEOPOLD lrbas been obliged to fly for his life from Florence - to Piombino. And while these paternal Monarchs are expiating in banishment the crime of their benevolence, the tyrant of Naples remains upon his throne unmolested, the charlatan of Prussia con tinues in the plenitude of his royal authority, and the stripling upholder of Austrian Absolutism wields his sceptre with unrelenting power over his enormous and incongruous territories, Those potentates, to employ the language of Holy Writ, are wise in their own generation. They see that by denying their holiest rights to the masses, and by acting according to the ruthless prin ciples'of despotism, they can better preserve to them selves the pomps and riches of their dignity. They see that the very men who summon their people to the enjoyment of the blessings of freedom are those who are repaid for their generosity by being hurled down from their temporary elevation by the ignorant and fanatical races they have emancipated. In all this there is bitter reason for the friends of liberty to weep over the. destinies of Italy, over those destinies which dawned so gloriously immediately . upon the accession of JOHN Masier FERRETTI to the chair of the Sovereign Pontificate, but which has since been overclouded by the ultra-democratic madness which has seized upon the unfortunate Italians themselves. The crime which has conduced to the downfal of the Grand Duke of TUSCANY is the crime of his liberal enlightenment. Like the POPE, he had voluntarily bestowed a Free Constitution on the multitude. Recently he had gone even further; be had signed with his own hand the decree, ordaining that thirty-seven Tuscan deput ies should participate in the deliberations of the Constituent Assembly. The beneficence of his policy has, however, only elicited the ingratitude of the population. An insur rectionary movement in the capital has compelled him to escape furtively from Florence —to hasten from Sienna, where three of his faithful ad herents were massacred under his very windows, and to take refuge in Piombino, whence it is conjectured that he may have subsequently proceeded to Porto Ferrago, in that island of Elba which is celebrated as the place of the Great Emperor's first captivity. In the case of Pies IX. the popular out break is more comprehensible than in that of LEOPOLD IL lhe accusation levelled against the Porseier, the cause of the assassination of his Prime Minister, the reason for the sudden oblivion of the glorious acts which had one, by one: emanated from the heart, and been achieved by the hand of Pio Noxo, was the fact that the PONTIFF refused to declare war against Austria. In consequence of that refusal the rational Guard turned those arms, which he him self had given them, against his palace, and tee National A 2 aeulbly, which he himself h ee d ;lite existence continued their sittings with the most da.'Laielly apathy, while a foul murder was being perp t ra ted upon their very th reshold. Not : esithstancliag thie, notwithstanding the Bone:labs sung to the poignard which had slain Count ROSSI, there was a plain and appreciable reason for the out break of .the Roman populace. The Pore had re fused to declare war against Austria—and although the fault of "tbat refusal lay not with Pius IX., but on the coritary redoundel infinitely to his glory as one who believes himself to be a priest of the GOD of Peace—the Romans, in the delirium of their patriotic ardour, did not charge the fault of the refusal upon the incongruity of his duties as:an ecclesiastical Monarch, as a Pope andas a Prince, but raised their infuriated and undiscerning hands against the noblest of their benefactors. The fault of the Romans, moreover, was not their deter mination at all costs to join the patriotic war against the alien oppressors of their country—that determi nation being honourable to them as freemen and as lovers of their fatherland—but it was in those frightful excesses into which they were hurried by a blind and indiscriminating fury. It was in such extravagances of atrocity as prompted them to chaunt a derisive De profundis under the windows of the weeping relatives of Rossi, and to deposit the dagger which had penetrated his heart in a golden box placed between two lighted wax-candles. " The heart of MARAT," says CIIA.TEAUBRIAND, " was placed in a precious pyx, in a rich repository ; a cenotaph of gauze was erected on the Place du Carrousel, where the public went to visit the bust, the bath, the lamp, and writing-desk of the divinity : the wind, however, changed; the filth poured from the agate urn into another vase, was emptied into the , common sewer." So may the wind change now, if the Roman multitude will but listen to their better con sciences. GIOBIRTI has already declared that he will not allow the Sardinians to participate in the farce of the Constituent Assembly; and he is even now em ploying his influence for the pacific reconciliation of Pope Pius IX. and the Roman populace. With LEOPOLD 11. it is different. He has done nothing which can be construed into a dereliction of his own duties as a constitutional sovereign. The solitary accusation that can be levelled against him is that he has granted not only everything that prudence dictated to him as just, but everything that his people demanded from him under the erroneous impression that it would be beneficial. He has now yielded his signature to the decree sending thirty-seven Tuscan deputies to the Constituent Assembly, and the very circumstance of his having conceded this among so many other things to his people, has induced them to rise against him with cries of " Death to LEOPOLD!" " Viva! Pio Nono!" " Viva! Leopoldo Secundo 1" were the cries which resounded for sixteen months in Rome and in Florence; and now Pius IX. is lament ing the ingratitude of the Romans at Gaeta, and LEOPOLD 11. that of the Florentines at Piombino. Until the Italians know better how to discriminate between their foes and their benefactors they may dream, and only dream, of their nationality. They must expiate their criminal blunders before they can expect good fortune to descend upon their patriotism. They must place more reliance upon the sincerity of those statesmen who have risked everything to effect their emancipation. They must not mistake a cowardly attack upon a building containing only a few old men and a handful of Swiss servants armed with halberts for an act of popular heroism. They must not look upon a Mur derer as their national Saviour. They must discri minate between the wise recommendations of an Administrator and the insane excitations of a Dema gogue. They must listen rather to the voice of GIOBERTI than to that of STURBINETTI, to the ad vice of LEOPOLD rather than to the frivolous declama tions of CICEROICCIIIO. Then they may hope to realise the magnificent visions of Mazzisr, to satisfy the honest expectations of PEPS, and to accomplish that great work which was commenced under the venerable auspices of Pio Novo. The directors of the London and North-Western Railway Company have issued their account for the six months ending the 31st December last, prepara tory to the general haf yearly meeting which is to be held on Friday next, the 16th instant. It is a full and satisfactory docwnent, affording the most valu able inforalation as to the position and prospects of the company. It will be peculiarly acceptable on the present occasion, inasmuch as the calculations and estimates put forward by the directors in the latter end of October lust may be closely tested, and their accuracy subjected to the strictest ordeal. These calculations have hitherto been proved to be correct in every particular. The results have proved in some degree more favourable than had been anticipated, the directors hav ing " endeavoured. to avoid giving an undue colouring to the prospects of the company." This was a wise precaution. When so many interested persons were desirous of deteriorating the property of the shareholders, and of keeping up the railway panic that had been excited, any variation from the estimates would be eagerly seized on, and unceasing harped on. Many futile attempti were made to im peach the estimates contained in the important state ment to which we have alluded. The "Bears" of the Stock-Exchange and their unprincipled abettors found their occupation gone. By an organized system of enormous lying they had suc ceeded in reducing the value of every description of railway property. Even the shares of the London and North-Western Company were quoted at a discount but a few days before the publication of the authorized statement. A great change, however, immediately followed its appear ance : the complete and satisfactory refutation of " the erroneous statements and calculations" that had been put forward cast discredit upon the other assertions and insinuations of the alarmists. An immediate improvement took place, and, within a week or ten days, prices of railway stock generally had risen to the extent of 12 or 15 per cent. Since that period there has been a steady progressive im provement, and, by a reference to the present quotations, it will be found that the increase has, in many instances, amounted to from 30 to 40 per cent. on the prices of the 23d of October last. North-Western shares, which on that day were sold for 991., were yesterday in demand at 1371. to 1381., and we are greatly mistaken if the publication of the present balance-sheet will not be productive of very beneficial results. The most interesting point to the shareholders will necessarily be the amount of dividend which they are to receive on their capital stock. In the former statement, the directors made their calculation of the gross revenue that would be required to pay 7 per cent. per annum ; that was the probable amount of dividend which they encouraged the shareholders ,to hope for when the main line and branches were fully opened, and all the capital of the company had been rendered productive. That expectation has been more than fulfilled—a dividend of 3i per cent. will be declared on Friday next for the half year ending the 31st December last, and after payment thereof there will remain to the credit of the company a disposable balance to be carried to the next account of 71,3981. Os. 2d. It will thus appear that 31 1 per cent. might have been paid out of the profits had the direc tors considered it desirable, and a large balance still have been retained. It is, however, always better to in • crease than to diminish the dividends ; and we shall confidently anticipate that such an increase will speedily take place. After the great fact of the exact amount of the dividend has been ascertained—a question that comes home to every shareholder—the next points to be considered relate to the clear profits of the company. Have the gross receipts of the comp any i ncreased or fallen off? Have the working expenses been kept within due limits ? The answers to these interro gatories will prove no less satisfactory. It will be found that there has been an improvement of the gross revenue, while there has been a diminution of the working expenses. Thus we find, that the gross revenue for the year ending 31st June, 1848, amounted to 2,194,093/., or, on an average, 42,1941. per week, while the gross revenue for the six months, ending 31st December' amounted to 1,154,019 1 . Ils. 7d., or, on an average, 44,385/. 7s. 4id. per week—an improvement of 2,1911. 7s. 4id. per week. This goes a considerable way towards the increase of 6,4241. a week that will be required when all the lines now in progress of construction are opened for traffic, and made fully convertible. Again, the w•crl:ing expenses have been esti mated at fcrty per cent, on the gross receipts, Now those charges during the present half year amounted to 382,141/. 3s. 7d., little more than 31 per cent, on the total revenue of 1,154,0191. lls. 7d.; and if we add the parish rates and taxes, amounting to 30,3031. 12s. 4d., and the duty on passenger traffic, 26,125/. is. 10d., we shall find that the total amount, 438,569/. 17s. 9d., does not quite amount to 38 ler cent. on the gross revenue. Here, then, is an im- THE SUN, LONDON, portant saving of 2 per cent. on the receipts, amount ing for the past half-year to no less than 22,5801. on the estimates. The other parts of the account are equally satisfactory. It appears that the calls in course of payment amount to 371,2021., and the calls still to be made to 5,124,3971., which, with the sum of 15,822,1481., already paid up, will give a total capital of 21,317,7471. The amount of debentures is sued under the seal of the company, which in the last account, to the 30th June, stood at 9,186,671/.155. 10d.) had been increased to 9,626,267/. 19s. 3d., of which there had been applied in payment of calls upon shares in, and raised specially for, the use.of subsidiary lines connected with the company, and re presented by the capital of the respective under takings, 3,559,262/., leaving a balance of 6,067',0061. appertaining to capital expended on the main line l and branches. We congratulate the shareholders most heartily on these very satisfactory accounts, which must have very beneficial influences, so far as the market value of their property is concerned. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. The Moniteur publishes the following report of the Minister of the Interior to the PRESIDENT of the Re public, relative to the late disturbances at Cette : " Monsieur le President,—ln the evening of the 7th the town of Cette was the scene of violent disorders. A crowd of misguided men forcibly entered the hall in which the Municipal Council was deliberating, and afterwards pillaged several houses and burnt the furniture. Neither property, persons, nor the public force were respected. This scene of de vastation lasted for four hours, in the midst of an im portant town, with a garrison , National Guards, and a Municipal Council, without any attempt being made to suppress it. Under these circumstances, which called for all its devotedness, the National Guard of Cette has not done what it ought to have done. Out of sixty men who had received orders to protect the Hotel de Ville scarcely twenty made their appearance, several citizens inscribed on its lists even joined in the riot. The standard df order was abandoned, and attacked by those who should have carried and defended it. " The National Guard is the armed country; its dutt is to protect the execution of the laws, and to cause proL perty and persons to be respected. No force caa supply its place. Order would perish, and liberty would be im; possible in the ranks of a nation who should have arms and yet would not use them to maintain public security. In the face of disorder every citizen is a soldier. The National Guard of Cette has failed in this duty; I pro pose to you, Mons. le President, to dissolve it. "The municipal authorities on the same occasion have been equally reprehensible. The Mayor of Cettedid not interfere personally to repress the disturbance, which would have yielded before his voice and his authority, lie did not make the summonses required by the law; he did not employ the public force when it was required, nor in a useful manner; but he left the town free to the voters; a greater scandal could not have been given to the people. You will doubtless be of opinion, Monsieur le President, that a striking reparation is due to the in sulted authority of the Government. I have the honour to propose to you to dismiss the Mayor. Allow me tO express my regret that I cannot find in the rights with which the Government is invested a course of proceeding better proportioned to the gravity of the facts which have occurred. " Accept, &c., "LEON FAUCHER, Minister of the Interior." In consequence of the above report, the PRESIDENT of the Republic has issued a decree dissolving the National Guard of Cette, and dismissing M. MERCIER, the Mayor of that place from his functions. The Moniteur likewise publishes an official notifi cation of the regret expressed by General NARVAEZ, and the amende made by the Government of Spain to the French R:public in consequence of the remon strai_ces made by the French Minister at Madrid to the Spanish Government on the subject of the viola tion of the French territory by a company of Spanish troops who had pursued a band of insurgents across the frontier. The Moniteur also announces that M. BUFFETT, the Minister of Commerce, is charged ad interim with 'he functions of Minister of Public Instruction luring the absence of M. DR FALLOUX, who has been ~blig(:d to leave Paris in consequence of the severe indisposition of his father. Marshal BUGEAUD has been addressing a series of Bobadil speeches to the authorities of Lyons, in the course of which he pays the most fulsome adulation to Prince WINDISCUGRATZ and his Pandours. In this BUGEAUD is consistent. Who so fit to be the panegyrist of the murderer of BLum as the butcher of the Rue "Fransnonaine ? Serious disturbances have broken out in the islands of flyeres in consequence of an attempt to enforce some new custom-house regulations. A brigade of gendarmes and four companies of the line were dispatched from Toulon for the llyeres on the 7th. BERNARD, the Clubbist, bas been sentenced by the Court of Assize on the Seine to five years' imprisonment, and 2,000 francs fine, for having in the Clubs of Belleville and Batignolles delivered speeches exciting the citizens to hatred of each other and* . the Republican Government; for attacking the principles of property and family rights; attack ing the Constitution, outraging the religion legally recognised in Franca ; exciting to civil war, to pillage, and incendiarism ; and, finally, for attacking the rights and authority of the National Assembly. The French Government has received an official report relative to the gold mines of California. This document has been laid before the Commissioners of Mines for their opinion, which is to be published after it has been communicated to the Ministers. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, FEB. 12. Boulogne and Amiens, 9%—Central of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 9 , 4 —Luxembourg (71.), %—Namur and Liege, B ,l 4—Northern of France, 8 , 4 Orleans and Bordeaux, 3 Paris and Orleans, 30 1 ,4—Paris and Rouen, 19 , /4—Rouen and Havre, 10 , 4 1 —Sambre and Meuse, 5% —Tours and Nantes, 1%. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 6th hare been received Their contents are unimportant. MADRID BOMA, FEB. 6.—Five per Cents., 101 paper; Three per Cents., 21i, for the Account. Exchange on London, 49 20, paper. GERIVIANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. AUSTRIA. Advices have been received from Vienna to the 7th The Moser Zeitung of that date contains a long proclamation of Field-Marshal PIICHNER, dated Her- Enannstadt, Jan. 24, together with particulars from the seat of war up to the afternoon of the 21st. The loss of the enemy has been very considerable, from GO to 70, and 98 wounded. According to the latest intelligence, a division of the enemy, after the dis comfiture of the other part, evacuated Salzburg, and took flight in the direction of Schorostin Blasendorf and Thorda. It is stated in a letter from Pesth of the Ist, that the inhabitants of Grau, a town three leagues from Buda, had risen in insurrection, attacked the garri son, and displayed the standard of revolt. T roo p s and artillery had been sent to crush the rising. The people of Grau had at one time professed great de votedness to Prince WINDISCHGRATZ. The Ministry of Finance will form a separate sec tion for the kingdom of Hungary, under the direction of the former Councillor of State, Count ALMAZ. Three civil commissioners will be sent to the pa cified parts of Hungary for the regulation of the affairs of the Government. The Wiener Zeiteng of the 6th contains full particulars of the funeral of Count Mumma, which took place at Ofen on the Ist of February. The ceremony was very imposing, and the remains of this barbarously murdered plenipotentiary of the EMPEROR were conveyed from the vault at Pesth to the gar rison church at Ofen, accompanied by a body of the clergy and a division of grenadiers and a squadron of Üblans ; various military divisions were drawn up under the command of Prince SCHWARZENBERG ; and his Excellency Field-Marshal WINDISCHGRATZ, with a numerous and splendid retinue, accompanied the re mains on horseback from the palace. FRANKFORT. The Frankfort Gazette publishes the note sent by the Austrian Cabinet to the Central Power, relative ' to the question of the Constitution. The following is the substance of the note:— to " th T e h e A f o o s r t m ri a a t n ion c o a f b i a o e u t n i p t a r a ri o a t n i e a s b t l a e t e w cl i?: t e h s n r o e t g a a p r p d ea t o r differenceee: k hax u eni s s nt t Ao r t i u a bs , eter n t owi oaanrenns between n d nam e tt siab ot .ana r cntakerd cl made w s yeae,d e it unite n b h euirptoio regard ttenher broken t d i ffe r e nt teo G ermany . bonds oda parts which olft can theG i e t rm ac a e o e w o i n th fed in e- - ration, which is one of the essential elements of Euro pean treaties. The real unity of Germany cannot be established except with the concurrence of - Prussia and Austria. The Cabinet of Vienna has communicated this resolution to the Cabinet of Berlin; but it has not Effected a perfect understanding with Prussia on this point. Austria desires to take an active part in the re neration of Germany, which must be effected by a clear understanding between the princes and the people, and in her opinion the eider means to obtain this end is a more strict union between the different German tribes. ;lis Majesty the Emperor and his Government declare solemnly that they will not submit to any Central Power which may be confided to another German prince." The National Assembly of Frankfort, in the sitting of the 9th, decided, after a debate, that the right to labour and to assistance should not be inscribed in the Constitution. Several amendments on the sub ject were, however, referred to a committee. A re port from a committee was, presented, recommending TUESDAY the Government to call on the Prussian Government to explain its reasons for continuing the state of siege of Berlin, which, it was said, the Assembly sees with regret. PRUSSIA. A Berlin letter of the Bth, addressed to the Inde pendance of Brussels, says that there is no truth in the statement that the ambassadors of England, Russia, France, and Austria, had received orders to demand their passports in the event of the King of Panama. accepting the Imperial Crown of Germany. DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, FEB. s. —The announced warlike proclamation, so much spoken of, proves to be merely a lithographic letter addressed to the faithful people of Schleswig, thus , conceived :—" Th e G o vernment invites in the KING name, his faithful people not to oppose force to unjust pretensions ; meanwhile the KING will not consent to prolong an armistice which gives rise to the present uncertain state of affairs." ITALY. We are without direct news from Florence, but the French Constitutionnel of yesterday confirms the report given in the National of the day preceding of the flight of the Grand Duke of Tuscan:- from Flo rence to Sienna in consequence of an emeute, and the Constitutionnel adds that in consequence of the ex tension of the emeute to Siennira, the GRAND DUKE had been forced to quit that city and take refuge in Piombino. At Rome there was a large meeting held in the Theatre Tortinono on the 3d. Loud cries were raised in favour of a republic. The emeute of the 29th at Naples is now con sidered to have been an affair " got up " by the police, for the purpose of giving the Government an excuse for occupying Naples with troops during the time the Chambers are sitting. II Tempo, of January 31, gives the following ver sion of the proceedings on the 29th :—" About four in the afternoon there was observed in the Marine street an assemblage composed of the inhabitants of the different quarters of the capital, but this assemblage dispersed as soon as the patrols of the garrison and the police appeared, and the streets were soon nearly cleared. Nevertheless, some groups re-assembled in the vicinity of Toledo -street. These groups were in turn dispersed by the patrol, who in some instances fired over the heads- of the people as they retreated. Order was then re - established without any damage being sus tained." La Liberta says the people showed no disposition to disorder, only crying out for the Constituent Assembly ; but some s tones having been thrown, th e police fired over their heads, without having the effect of dispersing them ; and the troops having commanded them three times to disperse, the cavalry then charged, whereupon the people shouted " Long live the cavalry, our brothers," on hearing which the cavalry sheathed their swords, and calm was re-established. The Chambers were opened at Naples on the I s t with order and tranquillity. The Corriere Mercantile, of the 6th instant, says the Consul -General of England, in Genoa, has called on the Genoa Gazette to contradict the report that the Grand Duke of TUSCANY, after a long and confi dential conference with the Ambassadors of France and England, had given his adhesion to the Italian Constituent. On the contrary, the Minister of Eng land, Sir G. HAMILTON, says that the GRAND Doge, in giving his adhesion, put himself in direct opposition to the advice of the English Minister. HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.) Tha House at again to-day to hear Scotch appeals The Lord Chancellor presided. CRAIG V. DUFFEY AND OTHERS. The arguments in this appeal, which were commenced yesterday, were resumed this morning, and occupied their Lot dships the whole day. The case (as we stated yes terday) came before their Lordships upon appeal from the Court of Session in Scotland. The appellant repre sented the London, Leith, and Edinburgh Steam Packet Company, and the defendants were steam engine -makers. The sole question between the parties was whether the company had a right to recover more than a limited amount of damages for the construction of a steam-engine, which had be'en put on beard one of the company's boats, and could not be worked. Mr. Bethel!, with whom was Mr. Gordon, appeared for the appellant; and Mr. Stuart Wortley and Mr. An derson were counsel for the respondents. PRIVY COUNCIL.-(THIS DAY.) The Lords forming the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council' sat again to-day in the Council Chamber, Whitehall, to hear appeals, but no case of interest came before their Lordships in the course of the morning. VICE - CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.) (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR OF ENGLAND.) DUNSTON V. DUNSTON. The arguments in this case, which came before his Honour upon further directions and costs, occupied the Court the whole morning. The case is totally devoid of interest, except to the parties concerned. (Before the Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.) DUNCAN V. LUNTLEY. The further arguments in this past heard case, which came before the Court upon demurrer, occupied his Honour the whole day. (Before the Vice-Chancellor WIGRAM.) SMITH V. CAPRON.—JUDGMENT. His HONOUR gave judgment to-day in this case, which was arginid before him yesterday, upon a demurrer put in to a bill filed for the specific performance of an agree ment to take an assignment of the lease of a house in Great Ormond-street, which, in 1845, had been granted to a Mr. Wakefield by Lord Monteagle and Lady Lucy Standish. The lease had subsequently been assigned by Wakefield to Mr. Smith, who had subsequently agreed to assign it to Mr. Capron, who, it was alleged, refused to accept the lease, upon the ground that the written con sent •f Lord Monteagle, the surviving lessor, had not been obtained, ,which written consent was specifically required by the original lease. The point upon which the demurrer turned was, as to to the sufficiency of the statement in the bill, as to the consent in writing having been obtained from the sur viving lessor, it being argued by the counsel in support of the bill, that, at all events, enough appeared upon the face of it to justify the Court in sending the case to the Master upon the question of title. His HONOUR, after going shortly into the case, stated his opinion to be, that the demurrer could not be sus tained, and ordered it to be overruled with costs. Mr. Schomberg was counsel in support of the de murrer, and Mr. Wood and Mr. Southgall were in de fence of the bill. The Court then proceeded to hear causes and further directions. QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Westminster, before Mr. Justice ERLX and a Special Jury.) THE QUEEN v. TURNER. This was a prosecution, at the instance of a gentle. man named William Stevens Merewether, against a Mr. John Turner, for the commission of wilful and corrupt perjury committed in an affidavit sworn b him in this Court some time ago. The defendant is the brother of a Mr. John Turner, a gentleman of considerable pro perty, who died in 1829, at the age of 76. He had been twice married—the second time to a lady who had acted as governess to his former wife. She, however, died a few months before him. For three years before his death he had been in ill health, particularly so dur ing the last year. Mr. John Turner, the defendant, a Mr. Hornblow, and another gentleman, were the execu tors of the deceased gentleman. Shortly before his death the prosecutor, who was examined at consider able length, accused Mr. Turner and Mr. Hornblow with having obtained the deceased gentleman's signa ture to cheques in the middle of the night. This, it seemed, they did not deny ; b u t th ey added, that no injury should result from this, as all save two had been destroyed in the presence of several respectable parties, and that the two had been used for a necessary purpose, the defendant saying that it was well they were signed, as his brother was in such a state that he would never be able to sign his name again—meaning that he was in an imbecile state. Dif ferences arose between the executors and the other mem bers of the family, which led to protracted proceedings in Chancery, and consequently much ill-feeling. After some decision had been come to in these Chancery pro ceedings, a pamphlet was published and circulated, purporting to have been written by a barrister, detailing the nature of the suit, and containing some strong ob servations with respect to the conduct of Mr. Turner, for which he applied for a rule calling upon the prosecutor's son, the writer of the pamphlet, to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against him. The alleged perjury was held to have been committed in the affidavit of Mr. Turner sworn in this court, as pre liminary to the application for the rule. A large number of witnesses have been examined on both sides, and the case is likely to be a most protracted one. EXCHEQUER.--(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi Prins at Westminster, before the CRizr BARON and a Special Jury.) WA LEY V. COOKE. The trial of this case, which was brought by the plaintiff, the Coroner for Middlesex, to recover compen sation in damages for the publication of libels in the Medical Times, was resumed this morning. Mr. Sergeant Wzmuzis addressed the jury on the part of the defendant, earnestly soliciting their most serious attention to the observations which he had to address to them—not merely for his own sake, for he was entitled to little consideration—not merely for the sake of his client, but for the sake of the interests necessarily con nected with the case, which for magnitude, and iu im portance, had of late had no parallel. He did not in tend to imitate the example of the Attorney-General in conducting the defence. It mattered little to him whe ther Mr. Healy was accused of being an ignorant and half-educated man, a stupid lawyer, or a person reduced to the lowest depths of poverty, except so far as such accusation tended to show that the plaintiff had infused into this action a portion of his own malignant spirit and disposition. Was a man's poverty to be held up there as a repro ac h upon hi s c h arac ter? In order t o show that he was no ignorant, half educated man, he would refer to passages and sentences in the articles now beTere the Coutt, which Mr. Wakley might do EVENING, FEBRUARY 13, 1849.7 well to imitate instead of brawling aloud to mobs in the city of London. Instead of Mr. Healey deserving the abuse which was heaped upon him, he deserved well of his country, if he had, as he firmly believed was the case, removed the mask from the face of a man in power —a Member of Parliament, a coroner, and an editor of a public journal. After alluding to the admissions which had been made on the other side, he said if they came to the conclusion that there was not a desire on the part of the plaintiff to implicate, and inculpate some of the parties at the bar» racks, their judgment might be warped with prejudice, and they must entertain views entirely opposite to those held by the majority of persons. The deceased was a private in the 7th Hussars, and bore the character of a confirmed drunkard. Upon the Ist of June, 1846, he was in a mom with a sergeant and several other soldiers, and he took up a poker and struck the sergeant a violent blow in the chest, and, but for the interposition of parties present, he would no doubt have murdered him on the spot. The sergeant was on duty at the time, and could it be expected that an event of this kind would be passed over ? A court-martial was consti tuted, and on hearing the charge, it directed that the prisoner should receive 150 lashes; and though it was painful to carry out that sentence, it was abso lutely required that the act which made it necessary should be put into operation. On the 15th of June he was flogged, and after it, being a man of spirit, he went briskly into his room, whistling on his way. The healing progress continued to go on rapidly until the 4th of July, when his back was quite well, and it was reported he would be fit for duty in the course of a few days. The weather was then extremely hot, being 88 degrees in the shade, and though relaxed very much from his confinement, he insisted, despite of all remonstrances, to wash out a damp cell. He was en gaged in that operation about three-quarters of an hour, and next day complained of a pain in his side. The pain extended to his head and left shoulder, and other symptoms of an impeded circulation made their appear ance. Bleeding and other remedies were adopted, but he did not recover, and upon a post-mortem examination by Drs. Hall, Warren, and Reid being made, they ex pressed an opinion that his death was in no wise con• netted with the corporal punishment which he had received but arose from inflammation of the heart and pleura., Notwithstanding, however, the very regular manner in which proceedings had been taken by the military au thorities, Mr. Wakley, instead of holding the scales of justice as even as possible, stated to the jury that which he knew was not true, in order to poison their minds and enlist their prejudices. But Mr. Wakley loved the sweet voices of the people; he could not live without their ap plause, and in order to obtain it he hunted out alleged grievances and abuses of this nature. He knew enough of human nature, however, to be aware that ambitious men despised every obstacle to the attainment of any object they might have in view. They stooped at nothing, worthy or unworthy, and whether their am bition was that of the demagogue who sought to engulph his country in ruin in order tcz instal himself in authority, or was that of a less aspiring nature, no im pediment was too great to surmount, and no circum stances too extraordinary to be taken advantage of. But Mr. Wakley's patriotism was of the modern school, and he did not appear to have studied the examples of the ancients on this subject. The Court adjourned for ten minutes on the applica tion of the Learned Sergeant. The address for the defence will probably occupy the whole day. COMMON PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi Prius in Guildhall, before the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE.) The :London Nisi Prius Sittings, after term, com menced this morning at G uildh u ll, before the Lord Chief Justice. The cause list contains the names of 93 case 3, of which 4$ arc special juries, 51 remandants, and 42 new causes. (Sittings in Banco, before Justices COLTMAN, MAULE, CRESSWELL, and WILLIAMS.) MONEYPENNY V. DEARING. _ This was a question as to the construction of a will. The ease was argued before the Court of Exchequer about two years ago, and thence carried before Vice- Chancellor Wigram, who, not being satisfied with the decision by the Court of Exchequer, directed an issue to this court. The testator, Mr. James ivloneypenny, of Maython-hall, in the county of Kent, made his will in 1804, whereby he devised his real estate, which was of consideraole value, and of the tenure of gavelkmd, in a certain order of succession, and under certain limita tions, one of which was a limitation "to Philip Money penny and his issue." How these words were to be construed forthed the subject of controversy between the parties. - Mr. Honsow, who appeared for the eldest son of the second brother of the testator, and was heard on the preceding day, contended that by the limitation " to Philip Moneypenny and his issue," Philip Moneypenny took an estate or lift-, and his first and other sons suc cessively in tail male. Mr. MALINS, on behalf of one of the defendants, this morning contended that the limitation " to Philip Moneypenny this issue" created an estate tail. In sup port of this position ho cited the case of " Dor v. Featherstone" (1 Barnewall and Alderson), where the property was devised to the parents for life, with re mainder to the heirs of the body of the wife by the husband, to be equally divided among them, share and share alike. There it was held that the intention of the testator being that the husband and wife and all the issue should take; that intention could only be effectuated by giving them an estate tail, and accordingly an immediate estate tail was given. Again, in the case of " Feather stone v. Featherstone" (8 Clarke and Finelly, 67), which was a writ of error from the King's Bench in Ireland, there was a devise in these words, " I give and devise to my kinsman, William Featherstone, and his heirs male, according to their seniority of age, and their respec tively attaining the age of 21 years, all my real and per sonal estate not hereinbefore disposed of, the elder sur viving son of the said Wm. Featherstone and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten always to be preferred to the second or younger sons." In that case the question was what estate William Featherstone would have taken if he had survived the testator, for he died in the life time of the testator, leaving the appellant, his son, him sur viving? If it was an estate tail, there was a lapse, and the appellant took nothing; therefore that was a case which particularly called for the merciful interpretation of the Court; for if it was an estate tail, in consequence of the rule of law that an estate tail failed, by lapse, in consequence of the first taker dying in the life time of the testator, the intention of the testator was frustrated, 1 1 and the property went over, to the disappointment of the objects of the testator's bounty. Then, if the words " to William Featherstone and his heirs male" created an estate tail, upon the same principle he (Mr. Malins) contended that the words " to Philip Moneypenny and his issue," created an estate tail. The decision of the House of Lords, confirming the decision of the Court of Queen's Bench in Ireland, was delivered by the late Mr. Justice Tindal, who said that William Featherstone would have taken an estate tail if he had survived the testator, and the consequence was that as he died in his life time there was a failure of the devise, and the appellant took no interest whatever. Their Lordships would observe that that decision pro. ceeded entirely on the ground that the testator had some notion of modifying the course in which the parties were to take, and the qualification which the successive takers were to have, yet it corresponded on the whole with a clear devolution of an estate tail. In this case, whatever the intention of the testator might have been, if Philip Moneypenny took an estate tail, it would go to his eldest son, and from the grandson to all the heirs male of his body, so by the giving Philip Moneypenny an estate tail in general, the devise effectuated the complete inten tion of the testator. It was impossible by any construc tion to effectuate the whole intention of the testator. Tho argument was proceeding when we went to press. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWT, CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. There was an active demand for Cotton at Liverpool yesterday, and the market closed with spirit. Prices of all kinds are extreme, and there was a heavy run on Brazil. Including 3,000 American and 500 Pernam, taken by speculators, the sales were 12,000 bales, and comprised 8,000 American (of which 500 were saw ginned) at 31. d. to 6A.; 2,000 Pernam and Maranham at 44d. to 54d.; 500 Bahia at 54d.; 500 Egyptian at Sid. to 64d.; 500 Surat at 3d. to 4d.; and 200 Sea Island at Bd. to 18. 2d. per lb. Railway Shares were dull and prices lower owing to the settlement. Accounts from Belgium state that there had been in• creased exertions made recently to export grain tram that country to England, and that French produce also came in transitu for the same purpose. At Harlebelte, the country people manifested great dissatisfaction when a considerable quantity was carted off for shipment, but their opposition was overcome. It is stared in letters from Vienna that the great banking houses of Sina, Rothschild, and Stieglits, had united to take the Austrian loan of 50,000,000 florins. The debate on the Navigation-laws is expected to be the engrossing subject in Parliament this week, and there is a strong feeling in the City that the matter should be got out of hand as speedily as possible, for the sake of the shipowners themselves as well as of the public and the mercantile com munity. ; Free trade is incomplete without the boon of greater freedom for the navigation of every sea which English vessels plough, and our East India possessions more particularly are pining for the development of their immense, and as yet but half-tried, resources. As the Mercantile Journal aptly states:— " We need hardly say that colonies, which are no longer adapted to colonisation, instead of being sources of strength, are elements of weakness, and,. therefore, for our own sakes as well as theirs, it would be wise to leave them to themselves, when the work of colonise. tion has reached a certain point. They can gain nothing by being mixed up with our foreign politics, and we lose a great deal by involving them in our quarrels. But coute qui coute ' says Mr. Young, we must maintain our absolute naval superiority, go on increasing our maritime force as France and America increase theirs. Pari ratione, France and America should respond by a still further increase, and we, again, by a further in crease, and so on, ad infinitum. We wonder that even Mr. Young did not see the absurdity of such a proposition. The game of retaliatory and restrictive duties would soon cease, like all over-strained exertion, by the actual exhaustion of the parties engaged. The excitement in the English Stock Market continues very great, and there is the utmost confidence manifested in the maintenance of the current quotations, and of their enhancement yet by 1 or 2 per cent. The adjustment of the Consol account having been effected, everything is again in the ascendant, and the rise since yesterday morning exceeds 1 per cent. While money can be bor rowed on stock at 14 to 2 per cent., with a margin of only 2 per cent. below the present rates, and while the quotations continue to rise so steadily at Paris and else where, we cannot expect that there should be much inclination to speculate for a fall in prices, however, prudence may deter many from operating for a rise. Consols have been 934 to 94i for Transfer, and 94 to 94i for March. Bank Stock has been done as high as 197. Exchequer Bills have been rather lower, owing to, sales made, and probably with a view to the investment of the prec• eds in Consols. The Foreign Securities have been more buoyant in sympathy with the English Funds. Spanish Five per Cents, are 18 to and the Three per Cents. 30 to f. Portuguese Foul' per Cents, have been marked 25k, and Brazilian Bunds soi to 82. Mexican Stock has been 25 to 25i. Russian Bonds have realised 109 1 1. Dutch Two-and.a-Half per Cents. have been 50e. Railway Shares have been looking up, and Midland, N, r th-Western, Great Northern and the York lines are higher. The French shares are still advancieg. Great Western are steady. ONE CLUB" NG ~,1.,:-.1, Cer viturisli. r UNDi O'cLOOR VRICES. wank Stock 3 :- or Cent. Reduced Arns 94 94% 941,4 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 93% 941/ 935,4% 941,4 Zen 31. E per Cent. Arms.-- . 9SV, 95 95% 96 951,q Lone Arms. to expir, Jan. I 860 Ditto 30 years, ,Tan. 5, 1860 834 13-16 8 13-16 India Ronda, 1,000/. Ditto under 1.000/. . ....... . 52 50 p 50 p South Sea Stock 3 per Cent. Annuities,l7sl 9l 91 Consols for Account 94% 94 94N1% 9451 qxcheouer 'Rills. 21,4 d. & 2d. 1.1)001. March .. 43 46 p 1,0001. June 46 49 p 5001. March..,_ 43 46 p 5001. June Small, March .. 43 46 p PRICES OF FORUGN FUNDS rThrE CLORIN" OYITACK. PRIC FS. Brazilian Bonds ... .. 801,1 80% Ditto, Account B2 82 Ditto, Small — 82 Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent .. ...... Equador Bonds lnxican. 5 per Cent. 1846 2 5 14 25 25 Ditto, Account . 25 % 1,4 25 1 ,4 Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents 49% 49 1 4 Portuguese 5 per Cents. — Ditto, 4 per Cent 2 51 25 1 ,4 Ditto, Account — 26 Russian Bonds Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Account — 18% Ditto, Passive Ditto, 3 per Cent ............304 30 30 Dividends on the above payable in London French, 3 per Cent. 49f. 25c. 491. 25c. Exchange 2sf. 30c. 25f. 30c. Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild 5 0 14 50 1 4 Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 7914 3 ,4 79 3 A PRICES OF PAID . BUSINESS DONE CLOSING RAILWAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen Birmingham and Ox ford Junct., calls duly paid, or with a guaran. 20 Bristol and Exeter 9O ...... ....„ — Ditto, Thirds nuckinehamthire ... 16/. 4s. Caledonian Ditto, Quarter Shares 1114...... 5 , 5 Chester and Holyhead... 50 East Anglia, 25/.. L. & E. and L. and D...... 25 ...... 31,4,„ 3% Do., 18/., E. & H.... 18 ...... 2 1 4 ...... 24 Eastern Colliding... ..... 20 ...... 114% . ll% Ditto ditto. No. 2...61. 13s. 4d... 1 4% p % p Eastern Union, Class A _ (late E. U. Shares) 25 Do. Scrip (6 percent.) 20 East Lancashire Do., 6 per Cent. Pre ference Quarters ... 6!.f 7 1,4 .. East Lincolnshire ...... 25 F,dinburgh and Glasgow 50 ..-.. 42 Great Northern Do., 1, A Deferred ... 12 1 ,( 5 4% .. 4 3% Do., 1,4 B 6 per Cent. guaranteed ... ..... 6%. 5 1,E%.......... 5% Great Western ......100 lOO ... lOl% Ditto, I ,i Shares Ditto, New 171 l5 ... .. 13% 1 4 14 Lancaster and Carlisle... 50 -•••• Ditto, Thirds Lancashire & Yorkshire 93 Ditto, % Shares ...... 43 ... Do. Quarter Shares... 17% 13% Do. Fifths... ... 10 Do. (Preston & Wyre) 25 Do. 1 4 Shares (A)... 9% 14% London & Black wa11...13/. 6s. 8d.... 5 4%... London, Brighton, and South Coast Ditto, New 51., guar. 6 per cent. . London and N. Western 100 l3B 139 137%... 138 3 4 Ditto, New Ditto, Fifths ..... .. .. 2 Do. 101. (M. & B.) C. 1 ..., 4 3 /4 4 34 Lond. &S. W'-stern Do. New 501. ... ..... 42%.. Ditto. Third 5 ........... 15 Dianchester,Buxton,and Matlock... Midland ......... ........100 ...... 91 93 92 92 Do., do., 601 Shares... 25 ... .. 20% • 20X Do. Consol. Bristol and Binning., 6 per ct.... 100 124 Norfolk ......... ......... —.lOO ...... ...... . ... Do. Lowestoft(4 per ct) 20 ...... \ 7 or t h British ...- .... ... 25 ...... 16 %... Ditto, Halves .. ..... 12% 7% Ditto, Quarters North Staffordshire Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 12% — ...... .. ...... Scottish Midland Shrewsbury and Birm... 10 Ditto ditto. Class B. 6 ...... 3 1 4 Ditto, New Guaranteed 8 Shrewsbury & Cheater (Nor. W. Min.) lB ' Do. 8 per Cent. PreE 10 Shropshire Union South Devon Do. Preference South Eastern Do., No. 2. Do., No. 3 ....... ...... 30 ...... Do.. Registered No. 4 10 Do., Scrip No 4 South Wales ...... 33 Waterford and Kilkenny 20 Wear Valley 6 per Cent. Guaranteed ... .. 5O Do. do. do. ... 25 Wilts, Somerset,& Wey mouth Cork, Newcastle, and Berwick. Do. Original New and 15% 2 • 00000 ••• •=•• Berwick ...... .. 25 ..... 283 / 4 Do. TLStensiox No. 1. 20 Do. do. No. 2..,...... 20 Do. G.N.E.Preference 8 ... ...... York and North Midland 50 ...... 56 3 / 4 .. ••• ' FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amien5... 20 Central of France (Or leans and Vierzon) 18 Namur and Liege Northern of France. l2 Orleans and Bordeaux... 7 3 1 4 Paris and Strasbourg ... 9 i?ou - tn and Havre Sam.re and Meuse 2O ... 5 1 ,4% Toun and Nantes ~ 9 2 Australian. 3 ••• ..... A .. . . 53/ pm Barrossa Range Min. Co. 28s. United . :',lexican JOINT STOCK BA.N K. London Joint Stock The Havre cotton market, by the last report, was quiet, and in the absence of speculative purchases, prices showed a tendency to a slight reaction. SHERIFFS' COURT.-(THIS DAY ANDREW V. ZINC. This was a writ of inquiry to assess damages in an action for libel, the defendant having allowed judgment to go by default. Mr. WARREN appeared for the plaintiff, who he stated to be a gentleman of station and who had retired from the East India Company, as an army surgeon. The de fendant was a literary gentleman and a physician, and also secretary to the Statistical and Ethaological Societies. The two libels were contained in two letters written on the 20th October last, by the defendant, to General Briggs and General White, in terms distinctly charging the plaintiff with being " a swindler," and stating that "he had swindled the defendant to a large amount." On receiving these letters the plaintiff commissioned a friend, Mr. Langbourne, of the firm of Rankin, Vickermann, Langbourne, and Co., the ' solicitors to apply to the defendant for an explanation of his extraordinary conduct. Four letters were written by Mr. Langbourne in very temperate terms asking for proof of the charge which the defendant had made against the plaintiff, but the defendant took no notice of the letters, and this action was commenced. The de fendant did not appear in Court on the inquisition. The Learned Counsel for the plaintiff, who was attended into Court by various distinguished military and other friends of the plaintiff, read the cor respondence above adverted to, and highly com mended the plaintiff for the moral courage he had shown in not violating the laws of God and man by calling his traducer to " the stern and bloody ordeal" to which gentleman are too apt to appeal on such occa sions. He had preferred trusting his character and honour to an impartial jury of his fellow countrymen, and concluded by calling on the jury to give, not such small damages as would servo only to barb the arrow of calumny, and afford matter of exultation to the plaintiff's traducer, but such damages as would show that trial by jury was a real protection to gentlemen. Tue UNDER SDERIFIr briefly summed up, stating that he concurred in the observations of the Learned Counsel, that this was a very serious case, from the deliberate nature of the offence by the defendant, and the station in society occupied by both parties. Such outrages certainly ought not to be committed with impunity. The jury retired, and after some absence, returned with a verdict—Damages, 5001. The Learned Counsel had offered in his address to accept :an apology and withdraw; but it: appeared as above-stated; that the defendant had instructed no one to represent him in court. --- THE ROBBERY AT THE ST. PANCRAS VESTRY.— This morning several skekton keys were found in the garden . in front of the gutty per cha depot, two doors from the vestry room. It wi:l be recollected a number of skeleton keys were found in this locality immediately after the discovery of the robbery. OBSTRUCTING nemstats IN THEIR PROGRESS TO THE ilousa.—Yesterday, in consequence of several of the Peers having been stopped in their passage to the House by brewers' drays and hackney carriages congre gated in, the streets leading thereto, the Usher of the Black Rod, by order of th. , Hous , ?,.rnade a communica tion to the Commissioners of Police, requesting them to such pbstruc:ions. 46p 49 p 42p 49 p 46 p DA 1%) LONDON, FEB. 13.—Wind 3.W., light bre( ze, fine, and tro:.ty. PLYMOUTH, FEB. 1 1.—A ship's longboat, marked on the outside " Hannah Grayson, of Wokington," was picked ❑p c ff Lundy Island, 9th inst., by the Briton ar rirt d her.. Sid. 12, Margaret, B.•rmuda. RoTHEsIY, ISLE OF BUTE. FED. 10.— k large brig, outward bound, got on shore this day on Foreland Point, and is filling with water; crew saved. HULL, FEB. 11.—The Perseverance smack, of Scar borough, Foreman, in entering the Humber,- 9th inst., struck on a wreck on the Hale, filled, and sunk; crew saved. OFF PORTLAND, FEE. Smith, New York, for Arnste-rdam. OFF HAM'S HEAD,—Thetis, Batavia, short of provi sions, bound up channel. BEAumAnis, FEB. 12. —l , Viud W. Arrd. Kathleen, &tippled, New CalabAr. PADSTOW, FEB. 11.—Wind N.—Arrd. Chieftain, Green, Callao. MUMBLES, FEB. 9.—Sld. Burtel, New Orleans. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 12.—Wind S.—Arrd. 11th, Agnes Gillies, Rio Grande. Sid. Spray, Pernambuco ; 12th, Emigrant, Sydney, New South Wales; Crown, Hong-Kong; Queen, Calcutta; John Matthri, ditto; Jenny Wren, ditto; Benjamin Boyd, Africa; Eliza, Rio Grande; Duke of York, Rio Janeiro; Renown, Bahia; Urgent, ditto; Tinamara, Ceara; Xeregans, Portkau Prince; Cailo &Lauren, New Orleans; Calcutta, ditto; Rowland, ditto; Moslem, ditto; Ashland, ditto; Lord Seaton, ditto; Monmouth, ditto. Off port, Index. The schooner wrecked on Taylor's Bank 11th inst., is under stood to be the Mary, Smith, of and for Workington / from this port. The Standard barque, for Belfast, was in contact with the James Corner, for Baltimore (at anchor in Boothe Bay), end has lost mizen-mast. EXMOUTH, FEB. .I.o.—Arrd. Cape Breton, Rio Grand. OF! THE WIGHT, FEB. 12.—Gladiator, New York. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) LCOONIAL, SUGAR.—The market for Britsh Plantation:continues firm, and the sales are 700 hhds at previous rates. The public sales have comprised 4,341 bags Mauritius, and 1,342 . bags Manilla; the Mauritius mostl y sold with spirit at rather higher prices for strong new; mid to fine yellow brought 37s to 40s, and brown of similar descrip tion, 33s 6d to 35s 6d. The B engal nearly all found buyers at full rates, viz., 40s to 42s 6d for mid to good white Benares ; 37s to 38s 6d for low white; 41s 6d to 42s for grainy white Dacca and Dhobah ; and 37s 6d to 38s 6d for yellow. , The Manilla was all withdrawn at 32s 6d for low brown, duty paid. 500 chests white Havannah sold privately at the extreme price of 335. The stock of British Plantation in the port of London on the Ist inst. was 24,024 hhds 4,731 times, against 20,451 hhds 2,600 tierces at this time last year. The stock of Mauritius is considerably larger; also Bengal and Madras. COFFEE.—The market continues very firm. Privately 1,000 bags, good ord Native Ceylon realised 355. The stock of British Plantation in the port of London on the Ist instant, was 2,331 casks, 2,876 barrels and bags, against 2,180 casks, 2,877 barrels and bags at this time last year. The stock of Ceylon is larger, but that of East India and foreign sort* de creased. Rum.—The stock in the port of London on the let instant was 21,020 puns 6,568 hhds, against 17,570 puns 4,398 hhds to the corresponding period of 1847. Ric E.-4,900 bags Arracan at auction, nearly all sold at 8s for mid to good white, being rather easier prices. SALTPLTRE.-1,400 bags Bengal at auction seld steadily, from 25s 6d to 26s 6d for 141. to 61 per cent. refraction. TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 40s 9d to 41s per cwt. on the spot, an Town 435. TEA.—The market has been very firm, and the deliveries are large. EAT zza.ramaTs. SMITIIFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 21 lOs to 31125; Clover ditto, 31 lOs to 4/ 13, ; and Straw, 113 s to 11 9s per load. Supply rather limited, and trade firm. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 21 13s to 2/ 14s; Clover ditto, 31 10s to 4l 10s; and Straw, 1/ -Is to 11 lOs per load. A moderate supply and a steady demand, at full prices. WIIITECHAPEL. —Meadow Hay, 21 12s to 31135; Clover ditto, 31 10s to 41 17s ; and Straw, 11 3s to 11 9s per load. Both lily and Straw moved off freely, at our quotations. SPORTIN G INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERD A Y. LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 8 to 1 agst Mr. Brcttle's The Curate—taken 12 to 1 agst Mr. T. Mason's Prince George—taken 20 to 1 agst Mr. Coghlan na Edward the First—tkn to 75/. 20 to 1 agst Mr. J. Bateman's Napoleon—taken 20 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's The Victim 20 to 1 agst Captain Little's Chandler 25 to 1 agst Mr. Buchanan's Alfred—taken NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STARES. 15 to 1 agat Mr. Bouverie's War Eagle 15 to 1 agst Lord Clit'don's Footstool 15 to 1 agst Mr. Harrison's Pyrrhus the First 25 to 1 agst Lord Bateman's Goodwood—taken METROPOLITAN HANDICAP. 8 to I•agst Lord Eglinton's Lugar—taken freely 10 to 1 agst Lord Stanley's Canezou 14 to 1 agst Mr. Gregory's Loupgarou 15 to 1 agst Mr. B. Green's Flatcatcher—taken 16 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Dacia—taken 17 to 1 agst Mr. S. L. Fox's Executor 20 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Backbiter—taken 20 to 1 ag.t Mr. Gratwicke's Do-the-Boys —taken 20 to 1 apt Mr. J. Clarke's Maid of Lyme—taken Lugar was backed for all that could be got on at 10, 9, and 8 to 1, and in one bet at 1,000 to 140. No others were in force. TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STARES. 5 to 1 sgst Mr. F. Clark's Mr. Milner 5 to 1 agst Lord Stanley's Uriel—taken 5 to 1 agst Lord Clifden's Honeycomb—taken 5 to 1 agst Mr. A. Nichol's Nunnykirk—taken CHESTER CUP. 20 to 1 agst Mr. J. B. Day's The Tartar—taken 20 to 1 agst Mr. F. Clarke's Joe o'Sot 40 to 1 agat Lord Howth's Peep-o'-Day Boy 40 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Lady Wildair—tkn 50 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Halo —taken 50 to 1 agst Mr. M. Blake's Ballinafad—taken 3,000 to 60 agst Mr. Adams's Ellerslie—taken 3,000 to CO agst Lord Eglinton's Lugar—taken 1,000 to 20 agst Colonel Peel's lodine taken 50 to 1 agst Mr. Gregory's Clermont 50 to 1 agst Mr. Alaughan's Rathmines 2,000 to 30 agst Lord Eglinton's Eagle's Plume—taken 3,000 to 45 agst Mr. Isaac Day's Conquest—taken John Day's two favourites, The Tartar and Joe o'Sot,' Lady Wildair, and Halo, were most frequently inquired after; business, however, was flat, and the prices show very little change. DERBY 4 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Flying Dutchman 14 to 1 agst Lord Ciriden's Honeycomb 20 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Osterley 20 to 1 agst Mr. A. Nicholl's Nunnykirk-5,000 to 200 taken 20 to 1 agst Lord Stanley's Uriel—taken and after wards offered 30 to l agst Lord Eglinton's Elthiron—taken to 501. 50 to 1 agst Mr. W. Jones's Magician 4,000 to 60 agst Mr. Woffendon's Langton—taken and afterwards offered 1,000 to 15 agst Mr. Bowes's Thringarth The only horses backed wore Nunn) kirk, Uriel, Elthi ron, and Langton. LIVERPOOL SPRING MEETING AND STEEPLE CHASE. Acceptances for the Spring Cup. st lb - st lb Mogador, 5 8 7 Rodney, 3 yrs Farewell, 4 yrs 7 f. Lillie, 3 yrs Prince Charlie, 4 yrs.. 6 11 B f The Flapper, by Caledon, 4 yrs 6 8 Touchstone, out of Reality, 4 yrs Acceptances for the Welter Cup. et lb' Subduer, aged Postilion, 4 yrs ll 2 Acceptances for the Gra. Hand st lb Chandler, aged l2 2 The Curate, aged Proceed, aged ll 11 Tho Doctor, aged ll 7; St. Leger, aged Wolverhampton,aged 11 5 Briti!,h Yeoman, aged 11 4 Mathew, aged ll 2 Arab Robber, 6 yrs Mulligan, 4 yrs The Iron Duke, 5 yrs 11 0 Kilfane, aged ll 0 Father Mathew, aged 10 13 Salute, aged The Victim, aged Prince George, aged 10 10 Subduer, aged lO 10 Sir John, aged Edward the First, agd 10 10 Crown Prince and 28 of _ st lb ' Prince Charlie, 4 yrs 10 9 ' Rodney, 3 yrs lO 4 Lnd National Steeplechase cheap. at lb La Syiphide, aged... 10 9 Tipperary Boy, 5 yrs 10 9 Napoleon, 6 yrs .10 8 Peter Simple, aged... 10 8 Knight of Gwynne, a 10 7 Chatham, aged lO 6 Fi3ticuff, aged lO 6 Coriander, aged Alfred, 5 yrs lO 6 Red Lancer, aged 10 4 Jerry, aged lO 4 Vulture, aged lO 2 Thurgarton, aged Ballybar, aged spew Gregis, 5 yrs 912 Equinox, aged , 9 12 Khondooz, aged 9 10 Mignionette, aged Sparta, aged ,thers pay 5 soy& each. CARDIGAN ELECTION.—On Saturday Pryse Pryse, Esq., was elected member for Cardigan by a majority of eight votes. The election of a representative for the Southern Division of Staffordshire has been fixed by the Hon. F. Gough, the High Sheriff, to take place at Lichfield, on Monday, the 12th inst. The General Steam Navigation Company's steam ship Waterwitch arrived at London-bridge Wharf on Sunday afternoon with an immense cargo of Yorkshire goods. The passage from Hull was performed in twenty two hours. AURTILS. - On the Bth inst., at Pontypool -park, Monmouthshire, the lady of Capel Hanbury Leigh, Esq., of a daughter. On the 9th inst., at Park-hill, Clapham, Mrs. Joseph Han son, jun., of a daughter. On the 9th inst., at Frittenden, the Lady Harriet Moore, of a son. On the 9th inst., at Dorset•square, the wife of J. Isaacs, Esq., of a (I,:ughter. On the Bth of January last, DIED. at Water-house Farm, Writtle Essex, Benjamin Wing, Esq., aged 80. On the Bth inst., at the Vicarage, Canwick, aged 23, George, second son of the Rev. G. Quillen On the Bth inst., at Chtitenlmm, aged 63, ltajor James Burke, f o rm er l y o f t h e 44t h and late of the 77th Regiment. On the 9th inA., Eliza Partridge, relict of the Rey. R. a B. Philhipson. Ott the 9th inst , in Edward-street, Hempstead-road, Upton Calderwood, Esq , of her Majesty's Ordnance, aged 59. On the 11th inst., at Queen Elizabeth-row, Greenwicb, Jshn Alexander, Esq., aged 66. On the 10th inst., its Eaton-square, Georgiana, :second daughter of J. W. Childers, Esq., M.P. 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