The Sun. — London, England, 1849-03-12 00:00:00

-----'' f in time 0 •bances in the pars and local shall be tructed to execution 30 to our TOSEPZ gE OF >nig. ,s of the nk of the the king - Karinthle Gradishe, este, %jai e princely of Bob of Uppe r Ind Lode' n• and the wine; the , with th e ume,ia l f ngdoni inclusive Kraszee. Covar and ry border indepen- Austria!) e, and the 'al Crow n the con• ghts, an d and foster he indi!i; by speclsl )ne single 0 countrl or title ig t, shall be I parts o' 3 anness' i the pro' wrial dig' etained. 'EROI I . ~ d of ea ch of HaP s i lc tion,so m family rsor to th i s . main suc h a GOO I, in addl. m . pero - Of ided by 0 • takes hip taken `:', l kencelne- able, fol d °manifold sgoefllveworaill' adorn aDd foreign ana pub' Dh decr ea Minister; stens, Oil a es in ordo' troug lo nperor: granto l o kishmeo ts : th reoPee. ED2Per °l ; lisair 0 ere is btl I law oil a acquire e any , air' er Crov r° r criao o. l ii ce, nor '" Anitriso lit of eg eli e confin e 5 ~, ly by I.' nd or de• free by i an Aug. 'dors th° ons quslie )f the etr ire' :ht to so d f the e .s t i ; 3e of the coi l " strictiol.o ntsl es cou ity. , fp ,tacheo: aused ill be Pt in No l l , a rt of 1 L D1 01. : 1 1 Diet O, and or the Pi. enyvievo other atie ° ' clop f mbers ° constO n cl )wti . 11 " a the e ll .; at ley re ll- ; le° shall ba a ) florw. • of 611 ' i of 1 t f, by s u ed e-nara gene ol hO zen .nd wuot of sc cou- i Lchise ° B WI ,o, 011.- r hail) office r ' 0 1 ' I d i° - o five' Wei l° use. at uses has to astitil° iYe in. , 713 into lid Its Pre; ler c' THE' SUN, solute majority of Totes. An equality o votes condemns MONEY and COMMERCIAL N E WS. the measure. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. " See. 54.—The sittings of the Imperial Diet are The sales of Cotton at Liverpool, on Saturday, public ; but each house may resolve itself into a secret amounted to i'from 6,000 to 7,000 bales, including 500 committee on the motion of the President or of ten American for export, and 1,500 on speculation. There =embers. was a better demand, but less being o ff ere d th e mar k et "Sec. 55.—Members of the ho uses can on ly p resen t petitions to the house to which they belong. consequently improved in firmness, and ex t reme rates were obtained. The sales included 6,000 A mer i can at " Sec. 56.—Deputations are not to be admitted to the 30. to 6d., 300 Surat at 34d. to 484, 100 Pernatn, &c., Imperial Diet. "Sec. 67.—N0 member of the I m p er i a l Di e t can be at sd. to 6d., and 50 Egyptian at 6d. to &tl. Railway made answerable out of d oors f or th e op i n i ons w hi c h h e shares were firmer, but there was only a li m it e d business pronounces in the house. done. If the Frankfort Parliament can accom pli s h no great "Sec. 58.—The arrest and pro secu ti on o f a mem b er during the session can only t a k e pl ace w i t h th e express political end, it will at least r en d er i nest i ma bl e serv i ce to Germany by establishin g something like fiscal and cone. consent of the house to which that m e mb er b e l ongs , ex- mercial unity ; and it will b e p art i cu l ar l y a d vantageous if "Sec. 59.—Each house has the f ram i ng o f its standing oepting always a case of seizure i n flag ran t e . the proposition for the f ree nav i gat i on o f t h e rivers is orders within the limits of the principl es d e t ermi n e d by carried out. Th e I m p er i a l Mi n i ster o f Commerce has proposed a law t o ma k e t h e G erman r i vers avail the constitution. The mutual relations of the Upper and able fur the c oun t r i es w hi c h are i n the con houses. Lower House are regulated by a convention of both the federation, th e S tate regu l at i ng the navigation "Sec. 60.—The right of proposing laws belongs to the and attending t o th e con di t i on o f t h e waters Emperor and to either house. under its control. Th e vexa ti ous d ues wou ld b e abro " Sec. 61.—The consent of the Emperor and of both gated on the Rhi ne f rom B as l e outwar d s, on the Necker, Houses is required for each law. A bill, which has been the Main, the L oan , th e M ose l , t h e W eser, the Warre,the Tuelda, the Elbe, an d it s b ranc h es to t h e B a l t i c an d rejected either by the Emperor or by one of the the Donau. Each s t a t e w ill con t r ib u t e i ts proport i on of Houses, cannot be brought in again in the course of the the necessary annual outl a y. A f urt h er carry i ng out o f same session. Sec. 62.—The Imperial Diet participates in the le- the Zollverein sy s t em i s expecte d a l most s i mu l taneous l y. " Very encouragin g a d v i ces h ave b een rece i ve d f rom gislation of the affairs which this con s itution designates as affairs of the empire. Paris, rel a ti ve t o t h e t one o f pu bli c f ee li ng, an d a l t h ough there is a littl e uncer t a i n ty i n th e p o li t i ca l re l at i ons of .. Sec. 63.—The deputies from all the Crown lands Atnitria, &c., no particular uneasiness seems to be felt on participate in the legislation on the affairs of th e e m p ire . The same joint participation takes place respecting the that score. legislation on matters of ci v il a n d crimina l jus t ice , and Extreme depression is still observable i n th e C orn the practice and competency of co ur t s . Market, and there is much difficulty in doing busin ess . The eupplu s of Foreign are very considerable. " But whereas Hungary, Transylvania, Croatia, and Slavonia are in the i above respects diff e rently constituted, There has been very little doing is the E ng li s h the said parts of legislati on s h a ll i n t h ese C rown lands Stocks this morning, and after opening tol era bly we ll fall within the province of their res p ec ti ve D ie t s . in consequence of the further rise in the Fren c h ren t es " But the aforesaid Diets will h ave th e t as k o f re- at Paris on Saturday, they have declined, o w i ng to operations in connexion with the settlement of the order risingto est a p blish a de s irable harmony of islation in the said the br legislation hes, in account. The highest price of Consols ha s b een 924, of all parts of th e euipire. Until that result shall have been and there have been no intermediate quotations tween that price and 92i. For April th e curren t be obtained, the members for the said Crown lands shall be values are about i per cen t. a b ove th ose h ere restrained from taking part in the discussion s of th e Imperial noted. This afternoon the "options" c o me o ff, an d it likewise from giving th e i r votes on any suc h resoluti on. Diet on the said br anc h es o f legislation, and is the interest of many of th e j o bb ers t o ! pep d own t h e " Sec. 64.—The E m p eror prorogues t h e I mperial market, as it is said that a large amount o f ca ll s wou ld Diet, and he may di sso l ve it a t any t i me. O n t h e pro- come into play were Consols to rise above 83. Th e rogation of the Diet, or on th e di sso l u t ion o f one o f t h e New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. ha ve b een 93i f , houses, the s itti ngs o f e i t h er h ouse must i mme di ate] and since, 93f i. E xc h equer -bill s h ave rea li se d 42 s to cease. In case of a di sso l u ti on o f th e I m p eria l Diet y , 44s,and India Bonds und e r 1,000/. 48 s p rem i um . another Di e t mus t b e convo k e d w ithi n th ree mont h s In the Foreign Market there h as b een more specu l at i on after the dissol u ti o n." in Mexican stock, and the price has been run u p t o 2B an d (To be continued.) 28k. Grenada D e ferred have r ea li se d 3i ; E qua d or , 3i ; Venezuela 28k, and Peruvian 56; Portuguese Four per Cents. have realised 264 to L and the Spanish Three per Cents. 298. French Five per Cents are 90, with the ex change at 25 25. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been 491 to i• Danish Three per Cents. have been at 79. Brazilian small 80k to 83. ' Railway Shares have been dull this morning, and with no general alteration in prices, but Hudson's lines are improving, and the French shares, in one or two in stances, are again higher. AUSTRIA. The following appears in the Austrian Lloyds o the 6th.— •` We give the assurance to the nation that no alliance whatever has been entered into with Russia; that Aus tria has not promised to allow, through gratitude for the services rendered in Siebenbiirgen, the Russians to act as they please in the Danubian principalities, and that the Russian citizen corps crossed over the Austrian frontiers without the request, consent, or knowledge of our Government, and solely at the demand of Lieute nant-Field-Marshal Puchner." ONE PRICEB OF , tItITP3II FUNDS. O'CLOCK. per Cent. Reduced Aims ...... 92%% 3 per Cont. Consols Annuities 9 2 3 /4 New 3 1 4 per Cent. Arens...... uong Anns. to expire Jan.lB6o India Bonds, 1,0004 [)itto under 1,0001... 4B p Ditto New Annuities ... 8 9 3/ Consols for Account 9' 4l xcliequer Bills. 2 1 hd. & 2d. 1,0001. June ...... ........- Small, June . 42 p PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. CLOY ING PRICES. 92 1 ,A 92 1 j 93 1 4 9 1-16 Great disturbances have broken out at Braganca and Botzen. Official reports from Cracow, of the 3d inst., mention 600 Cossacks, who occupy the frontier on their own territory from Miehelowice to the Vistula, and from thence to Bilica. Cracow, which was reported to have suffered a bombardment and a Russian occupation, was tranquil, although that tranquillity was threatened by numerous emissaries and smugglers of prohibited wea pons. Lieutenant General LEGEDIZ was quite prepared for every eventuality. ONE O'CLOCK. LONDON, "assisted in here on the 28th January, dismasted &c., has this day proceeded in tow of a steam-tug to Calais. The Isabella Sarah, of Newcastle, laden with dry goods, in coming up the river, 9th instant, missed stays opposite Wool. , wich dockyard, got into contact with two vessels lying along side the wharf wall, and received considerable damage. DEAL MARCH 10.—Wind N.N.E. ; 11, N.W.—Arrd. 10, Caroline Stewart, Hull, and sailed for Valparaiso. 11, Arrd. from the River, Will Watch, Hambleton, San Francisco; St. Martin, Hanichild, Buenos Avres. Arrd. from the River and ski., 10, Sir Edward Parry, Freeman, Port Adelaide; Jenny Lind, Westgart, Cape of anod Hope ; Acorn, Langley, Porto Rico; Helen, Mumford, Tobago. 11, Josea, Hansen, Monte Video ; Cheshire, Hogg, Barbadoes, and since put back; Dublin, Penn, Trinidad. RAMSGATE, MARCH 11.— Wind N.—Sld. 10, Bessell, Domingo. STROMNESS, MARCH 28.—Wind E.—Sld. Feb. 28, Mary, Callao, after repairing. DUNDEE, MARCH B.—Advice, Davis's Straits. 9th, Alexander, ditto; Horn, ditto; Princess Charlotte, ditto. PORTSMOUTH MARCH 10. —Wind N.N.E. to N.; 11, W.N. W . Arrd. H.M.S. Wanderer, Sierra Leone, Feb. 10, and proceeded eastward; Eliza and Emma, Bovsen, Rio Janeiro, and sailed 11, for Hamburg. Sld. 10, Nickarie Packet, Surinam. COWES, MARCH 10. —Wind N.N.E.—Arrd. George An dreaF, Foh, Angostura, and sailed for Amsterdam. Sld. Sa line, Rio Janeiro. HARTLEPOOL, ArAncir 10.—Wind N. to N.N.E.—SId. John Hutchinson, Panama. BRISTOL, MARCH 11.—Wind W.N.W.—SId. Japan, Ha vannah ; Mirima , !hi, St. John's, New Brunswick; Quebec, ditto; African Queen, Africa ; Eliza, Barbadoes ; lon, Sa vannah ; Caroline, Tobago. SHIELDS, MARCH Haselwooll, from Clackmannan, on being towed out yesterday evening in a gale, went on the liezel Sand, and drove on the Mair, where she remains; crew saved. CROMER, MARCH 10.—Two tread-boards, marked " Sarah," in yellow letters on a black ground, were picked up on the beach this morning. OFF SALCOMBE—John Smidt, New Orleans, for Bremen. SUNDERLAND, MARCH 11.—Sld, William, New Brunswick. LIMERICK, MARCH 10.—S1d. Newpenny, Havannah. CORK, MARRCIH 9.—Wind N.— SILL Palendar, Boston; Herundo, New York. Off port, Charlemagne, Fales, New Orleans, for Havre Lotus; Pollock, Baltimore. WATERFORD, MARCH B.—Sl‘l. Lady Constable, New York; 9th, Tuskar, Panama; Downes, New York. , . SWANSEA, MARCH 11.—Wind N.IV.—SId. Commodore, Cuba. NEWPORT, MARCH 10.—Wind N.E.—Sid. Marianne, St. Thomas; Mary Gibson, Havannah. LYNN, MARCH 11.—The Joseph and Mary, of and for Sunderland, from London, sprung a leak off Flamborough Head on the 9th inst., and sunk yesterday off Snetlesham ; crew and part of stores saved. CLYDE, MARCH 9.—Wind W. to N.—Arrd. Pursuit, Wil son, Mobile. Sld. Emulous, Barbadoes ; Atalanta, Porto Rico; Carolina, New York and St. John's, New Brunswick. DUBLIN, MARCH B.—Sid. Arkansas, New York. FRANKFORT. The Committee for the revision of the Constitution has determined, by a majority of 13 to 10, in favour of an hereditary chief of the Empire. Pl - tIJSSIA. The following programme bas been signed by 171 Umbers of the Second Chamber:— " The undersigned members of the Second Chamber con alder the following principles as indispensable for the pros perous solution of the problems before them. 1. They ac tnowledge the constitution of the sth of December of the past Sear as the legitimate fundamental law of the Prussian State, and pledge themselves to co-operate to war d s th e reserv ed re :vision of the same only by pursuing the course pointed out In Faction 112, and to acknowledge the revision as binding. 2. In the revision of the constitution they will unalterably hold fast by the principle of constitutional monarchy under the hereditary government of the house of Hohenzollern. Actin upon these foundation., they dedicate themselves with full devotion to the furthering of all true interests of the people." In the sitting of the Second Chamber of the Bth, 111 ANTEUFFEL, the Minister of the Int-Irior, presented the following bills :-1. On the abuse of the right of as sembly and association. 2. On the misuse of placards and hand bills. 3. On the regulation of the press. .And announced that when these bills should have been accepted the state of siege might be suspended. VINCKE ,then proposed that a committee be appointed to draw tip an address in answer to the speech from the Thron e , which motion was carried by a majority of 172 to 159. ZY URTEMBURG. The Xing of WIIRTEMBIIIIG is dangerously ill. The Fundamental Law was proclaimed on the 6th. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. The Cologne Gazette of the 9th, says, "Chevalier litizisEN, in consequence of instructions received from Frankfort and Berlin, has replied very concisely to the official announcement of the King of DENMARK, de nouncing the armistice of Malmo. He declares that the negotiations for peace are thereby broken off, and must be broken off until that denunciation be withdrawn. England and France have, it is said, likewise mani fested to Denmark their serious disapprobation of this denunciation. Denmark will thus be thrown back more completely upon Ruisid; and will find Lt St. Petersburgh au ener : Retie supporter, the more so since the Russian note to the Berlin Cabinet, which was at first doubted, is now positively denied. There is to be a meeting at Schleswig to- day (March 6 ), of the bureau of the National Assembly, for the pur pose of discussing the important question, whether it be needful, under existing circumstances, immediately to convoke the Assembly. Great activity prevails in the war department at Schleswig. General HoWIN clearly manifests great in terest in the Schleswig-Holstein cause. It is reported that the results consequent upon the treaty of peace are expected to have an unfavourable in tuence upon the inhabitants of Schleswig-Holstein, and that for this reason all the Schleswig- llolstein truops are to quit the country, and to be replaced by troops of the empire. The new levy amounts to 3,500 men. The burghers of Uendsburg have quarters for 3,000. A gun-boat for the Schleswig-Holstein service has just bees launched at Gluckstadt. The command of the native troops will probably be confided to Colanel ZATIRICUS. The Cologne Gazette of the 10th contains the follow ing announcement : " Immediately on the receipt of the intelligence that Den kark had notified its intention not to renew the armistice, the Ministry of the Central Power met in council, and dis patched that same day a courier to Chevalier Bunsen, at that o lldon instructing him to intimate to Lord Palmerston, ",' if his Lordship could not give gu aran t ees f or th e con !Talon of peace on the conditions proposed, an army of ‘u ,o oo men should immediately take military posession of the duchies.. ITALY. NAPLES AND SICILY. ULTIMATUM. The Turin journal of the 7th gives the following as the ultimatum for the settle men t o f the affairs of Sicily, agreed upon between the King of NAPLES, Mr. l'Esi- IME, and M. DE RAYNEVAL : A general amnesty, excepting thirty leaders of the revolution, wbo were to receive passports; the consti tution of 1812, modified; one army only, with a Sicilian contingent; independent Parliament; finances , ipalities, and tribu na l s; lieutenant to be named by the KING, either a P r i nce oyal or a Sicilian. The head of the household, the foreign affairs, war, and marine, to depend on the KING ; a contribution of four millions of arrears, and one million of war indemnity to be made. An English vessel had left on the 28th with this u/ti• Thatum for Palermo. Should it be rejected by the Provisional Government of Sicily, the mediating Powers announce that they will Ivithdraw from all further interference. Vecchia Contemporaneo publishes a letter from Civita veechia of the 28th ult., stating that a steamer had arrived there that day from Naples stating that the Sicilians bad definitively rejected the ultimatum of the bledating Powers. There must have been some mistake th©r alto the fact or as to the date, inasmuch as if the 44iimatum was not despatched from Naples to Palermo ntil the 28th, the intelligence of its rejection could nardly have reached Civita Vecchia on the same day. The Tuscan Moniteur, of the 6th inst., says that a I ,l l , ° dification of the Ministry is about to take place. SINE° be the Advocate General, and CABELLA will enter the Chancery. 4 , The following is the reply of the King of SARDINIA to e address of the Chambers, applauding his Govern- C ut for favouring an Italian confederation, and oppos ts any intervention of foreigners in central Italy. The t ultinber also recommended a closer alliance with the „, 14. ° great constitutional powers, as well as with Hun -'llrS', opposed to the same enemy. 4 Signori,—l am grateful for the sentiments you ex gess, and return thanks to the Chamber. I rejoice in ;,e harmony which prevails. Our union is the best ;40raise of success. You tell me the nation is ready for gL e rY sacrifice. I assure you that the army is in a 4 :urishing state and ready. I and my sons have the "tienal honour and Italian independence at heart." RE 'COMMENCEMENT OF HOSTILITIES BE TWEEN THE PIEDNIONTESE AND AUSTRIANS. 44-mtters were yesterday received in Paris from Turin, °l3l a Colonel of the Staff, which state that the Pied tti...ontese have commenced hostilities. They have mar ched on Piacenza, and the Austrians had advanced iuralueet them. According to the same authority, the A ust ri (Nansectout of Milan Of CHARLES ALBERT would be to drive the -A. the UKE rview ANDNAPIEB.—S Charles, at late in D te with the Duke, is said to ir hare declined to India. On this the Duke, in his customary curt hnipcided, " The n, air, if you don't go, I must"— 'Wed Service Gazette. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY. CORN EXCLIANGE-(MONDAY.) The arrivals of English Wheat for our market, last week, coastwise as well as by land-carriage, was less than 2,000 quarters. That of all other articles of home pro duce vs as equally small, and of but middling quality. From Ireland and Scotland, the receipts were confined to a few cargoes of Oats. The imports of foreign Wheat were large, viz., 38,657 quarters, chiefly from the near Continental ports—the supply from Antwerp alone ex ceeding 16,000 quarters—and the Black Sea. The other foreign arrivals comprised 2,303 quarters of Barley; 5,582 quarters of Oats; 665 quarters of Rye; 642 quar ters of Beans; 303 quarters of Peas; 2,597 quarters of Tares; 9 quarters of Linseed; 45 quarters of Rapeseed; 174 quarters of sundry seeds, principally Clover; and 4,302 sacks, together with 1,570 barrels of Flour from France and the United States. Large supplies of foreign grain are still on their way from the Black and Mediterranean Seas. The supply of Wheat fresh up to this morning's market from Essex, Kent, Suffolk, &c., was again very limited, and a large portion of it was greatly out of condition. Notwithstanding that the attendance of both town and country buyers was larger than for some time past, the demand for all kinds of Wheat of home produce was ex ceedingly heavy; and, where sales took place, factors were compelled to submit to a reduction in the quota tions of Monday last of from Is. to 2s. per quarter. So heavy was the trade, arising in some measure from the damp state of the samples, that prices were almost no minal. The market closed heavily, and a total clearance of the stands was not Effected. There was a large quantity of Foreign Wheat on offer. This had a very depressing effect upon the demand for that article. Nearly the whole of the importers were anxious sellers; hence the demand, from the unwilling ness on the part of the millers to get largely into stock, in the face of the continued heavy imports of flour from France, was dull in the extreme, and the currencies gave ay, compared with those paid on Monday last, from Is to 2s per quarter. Floating cargoes were offered at a still greater reduction, without finding purchasers. The stocks in warehouse are increasing. We were but mo derately supplied with Barley; nevertheless the sale for that article was dull. Malting samples were unaltered in value; but grinding and distillingsorts ruled a shade lower. Literally nothing was doing in Malt. In prices, how ever, although the supply was but moderate, we have no change to notice. With Oats we were scantily supplied. The best qualities sold at late rates. Damp samples were a mere drug. In Beans next to nothing was pass tug, at last week's reduction in value. Peas of all kinds were heavy, and loner to purchase. Indian Corn and Meal nominal. Flour of all kinds was offering at Is to 2s per sack lower. French qualities, 33s to 34a per sack. 52 p 89N 92, 41 p 42 p CURRENCY PER IMP; Wheat—Essex & Kent, Red. .....• • • 398 to 47s Dltto,White, New 43s 54s Norfolk and Lin coln, Red. •. • • 40s 46s Ditto, White— • • 42s 513 Irish, Red •••• •• • • —s —s Ditto,White.. •• • • —s —s Rye—Old • ••••••• •• •• —s New....... ••• • .. 25s 28s Barley—Grinding..... 23s 26s Malting 28s 30s Chevalier .... ••• 3ls 32s Malt—Suffolk and Nor- .E.RIAL MEASURE. Malt—Chevalier...... 59s to 603 Oats—Yorkshire and Lincolnsh., Feed. 16s 193 Potato • 189 229 Youghal and Cork, Black . •• • • 14s 19s Cork, White .•• • • 16s 193 Scotch, Feed. .. • • 203 23s Beans—Tick • • 278 29s Pigeons •• • • 34s 36s Peas—Grey ..••• • • • • • 345 36s Maple. ••••• • • • • • 353 368 White •• • 24s 26s Boilers ••••• • • • • 258 27s Flour—Town-made .• • , 38s 423 Suffolk-. • • ••• • • 315 343 Stockta & Norfolk 303 33s f01k............ 57s 583 BrOwn ...... 50s 543 Kingston and Ware 583 503 SEED MARKET. Really. fine parcels of Clover • seed, both red and white, are held at considerably enhanced rates, although the, arrivals from abroad continue liberal. Canary Seed is a slow sale, at barely last week's prices. Linseed and , Rapeseed dull. In oth er see d s very li tt l e d o i ng. 'The inferior parcels of Linseed Cakes have declined fully 5s per 1,000. Turn! p,Whlte, per huall. Its to 12s, lied and Green.. • • 11a 12,5.1 Mustard, 8r0wn.... . (is 115 1 White • • • • • .. 8s 123 Tares, New • • • • • • 7s 8s Old • . • 4s 5s Canary, per quarter .. 100 s 12's Rye grass.. .. • • • • 20s 245 Clover, Iteti.En,,. (cwt.) 35s 63s White • • • • .... • • 35s 55s Foreign 8ed.... 35s 59s White.. 353 56s Trefoil .............. 13s 19s Carraway 29s 31s Coriander •• 18s 191 Hempseed, per quarter 32s 34s Linseed, Eng. 'owing.. 50s 521 Crushing .. •••• 3S s 40s Baltic •• .. 38s 401 Odessa . 385 425 Linseed Cake, pr.l,ooo— ......101 5* 1115, oreign...... 61155 51 Os Rape Cakes, pr ton 41 4s 41 55 Rapeseed, pr cwt. 271 lOs 301 Cs sivalTairxELn. During the past week a fair average time of year supply of foreign stock—as will be seen by the annexed return—has been received in the port of London. The total importation has amounted to 1,695 head, or less by 921 bead than in the preceding; but more by 1,094 head than at the corresponding period in 1848. The general quality of the arrivals has turned out tolerably good; and the following table shows the quarters from whence they have been derived:— IMPORTS INTO LONDON. From Beasts. Sheep. Calves. Lambs. Ostend — ~ 212 Rotterdam Antwerp Hambiugh 20 Harlingen lO4 ... 108 ••. - ••• 76 ... ".... ... 10 ... .... 66 .. Total 36) ... 1,142 ... 181 ... Corresponding week in 1848... 203 289 ... 109 ... -- Difference ... 166 more. 852 more. 75 more. Within the last few days a statement has been issued by the Board of Trade, purporting to give the total imports of foreign stock into the United Kingdom during the month ending Feb. 5, 1848 and 1849. The statement in question is as under:- 1848. 1849. Oxen Cows Calves Sheep Pigs —....—. Totals It must be obvious to all acquainted with the subject, and more particularly to those who have watched the progress of the arrivals, that the above returns are ex tremely inaccurate. That correct official statements are invariably important, not a doubt can be entertained; but those so extremely erroneous as those given above are calculated to mislead the grazing community, as well as the public at large. To prove our position, we her e give the arrivals of stock in London only from the 6th of January to the 3d of February inclusive, the period, doubtless embraced in this official document. ARRIVALS OF STOCK FROM ABROAD INTO LONDON FROM THE 6TH JANUARY TO THE 3D FEBRUARY, INCLU SIVE, CURRENT YEAR. Week ending Beasts. Sheep. Calves. Jan. 13 Jan. 20 .... Jan. 27 • Feb. 3 Total actual arrivals 893 Corresponding month in 1848 Now, it may be asked, how have these discrepancies crept in? When it is shown that a larger number of sheep alone came into London than the whole of the stock stated by the officials to have arrived in the United Kingdom? The fact is, a most serious, we will not say wilful, blunder has been committed by some parties, and the sooner it is corrected the better. It must be under stood that the Customs, in London, publish daily a state ment, compiled from the ships' manifests, of the imports, deliveries, &c., of all articles reported. Those returns prove the accuracy of our own, and the absurdity of those published by the Board of Trade. The arrivals of stock since our last, at the various outports, have been small, but increased supplies are expected. Let ters from Holland, state that the disease so much prevalent amongst the sheep during the greater portion of last year has greatly subsided. The supply of foreign stock here, today, was very mo derate, and, for the most part, beneath the middle I pality. Al/ kinds were du!l in the extreme, end quite ltl m,81135. lower than .l a y f, week. - For the- 11,4 0114°f yedr the arrivals of Beasts fresh up to this morning's market, from our various grazing districts, were large, and of CLOSIN. PRICES, Brazilian Bonds Ditto, Small... B3 80% Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent 71 Ditto, 5 per cent. Scrip, 1849 98 p Equador Bonds Grenada Bonds, 1 per Cent. Ditto Deferred 3% Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 2 8%%4 Ditto. Account 2 8 14 28 28% Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents 56 Portuguese 5 per Cents. Ditto, 4 per Cent Ditto. Account ... 26% 3 / 4 Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Account 174 Ditto, Passive Ditto 3 per Cent Ditto, Account .... . . ... ..... Venezuela Bonds, 2. per Cent 28% Dividends on the above payable in London. French Rentes, 5 per Cent. Exchange 2sf. 25c. 25f. 25c. French, 3 per Cent Exchange 251. 20c. 25f. 20c. Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild 4 2 3 / 4% 49% Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 80 79 PRICES OF PA3D. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING itAILWAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. A berdeen 5O .... Birm in rol am and Ox ford Junct., calls duly paid, or with a guaran. 20 ...... t irming.,Wolverh'pton, and Stour Valley 131. 145... 11 1 A ... 11% Caledonian Do. New 101. Pref..... 10 ..... 11 1 4 ...... .. ...... 11 1 4 heater and Holyhead... 50 bast Anglia, Zan., L. & E. and L. and D...... 25 Eastern Counties... ..... 20 ...... 10%% .... ....... Do. New Guaranteed 6 per Cent. ..... ..... 10 ...... 11 3 / 4 l l 3 /4 Ditto ditto, No. 2...61. 13s. 4d 14 p l4 p Do. North. & Eastern 50 Do. New Last Lincolnshire ...... 25 Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... 44 Great Northern reat South. and West. (Ireland) Great North of England.loo ......232 x.d. ... ..... 232% x.d. Ditto, New, 40/ 4O Ditto, ditto Ditto. New, 151.- ...... 14 .. ..33 ____ 33 Great Western 100 ...... 98 1 4 97 3 / 4 x.d. 97 3 /x.d Ditto, 1 4 Shares Ditto, 1 4 Shares Ditto, Fifths ... 20 Ditto, New 171........ 15 ... Lancashire & Yorkshire 93 ..... . Do. Fifths... Do. Thirds ...... ....... . 15 Leeds and Bradford , Lomion, Brighton, and South Coast 5O ..... 36 ... . .. Do. Guarant. 5 per ct 9 ...... Do. Pref. 5 per cent.... 50 .. ... Ditto, ditt0...... 1852 50 London and N. Western 100 137 137% 136% xd 137 1 ,4x.d Ditto, New Ditto, Fifths ..... .. .. 2 ...... 9 % x.d ..... Lew& &S. Western 5O -. 38% 38 38% x.d.38:, 1 x.d, Do.. New Scrip, 1848, Pref. 7 per Cent. on Deposit, and 5 per Cent. on Calls NI anehester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire...loo Ditto, New 101. Pref... 10 Midland ...... ........ -.100 ...... 82 63 x.d. Do., do., 50/. Shares... 25 ... .. 17% Di Consol. Bristol and Binning., 6 per ct.... 100 , Zorth British ... .... ... 25 ...... 15% 1 Ditto, Halves .. North Staffordshire 17 14 14% Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Royston and Hitchin ... 3% 3% ........ ....... Shrewsbury and Birm... 10 Ditto ditto. Class B. 6 Ditto, New Guaranteed 8 Shropshire Union South Devon.... Do. Preference South Eastern Do., Registered No. 4 10 Do., Scrip No 4 ...... 10 South Wales 33 ...... 19% South Yorkshire, Don caster, and Goole Wear Valley 6 per Cent. Guaranteed .. .. 5O .... . 61 1 4 Do. do. do. ... 25 Wilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth rork, Newcastle, and Berwick....... .. 25 .. ... 25% ex.civ.... 25 1 / x.d Do. Original New and Berwick .. ...... ... .. 25 ...... 25 3 4 % ex.div. 25% x.d Do. Newcastle E xten. 20 Do. G.N.E.Prelerence 8 Y4rk and North Midland 50 5l 50 ex.div.... 5014 x.d Ditto, Preference Do. East and West Rid ing Extension FOREIGN Rd ILWAYS. Central of France (Or leans and Vierzon) Northern of France...... 13 Paris and Rouen ......... 20 ...... 221 8 21% Paris and Strasbourg ... 10 - 4V B x.i Rouen and Havre i ...... 20 Sambre and Meuse ...... 20 ... .. 4 3 / 4 4 3 /4 MINES. 8 p 3 % 28 28 1 / 8 57% 27 26(/ 17 1 4 3:r4 29% 281/2 36 9% 51 Bolonos Scrip eeeeee •• •• _, •••.• ...... JOINT STOCK BANKS. London & Westminster. 20 Union of Australia .... . 25 121 1 -A . 2 6% 14% 20 1 4 3 7 / 8 53a 2 10 61 1 4 3044 33 1 A 23% 2i LLOYD'S SHIPPING. -(THIS DAY.) LONDON, MARCH 12.—Wind at noon W., light breeze and cloudy. STATE OF WIND AND WEATHER AT THE PROVINCIAL PORTS THIS MORNING, AT 9 A.M. Colchester S. by W. cloudy. Gosport Gloucester N. W., fine. Glasgow S.W., fine. Hull Lowestoffe W. by N., cloudy. Leith Liverpool Newcastle Portsmouth Southampton Yarmouth W., fine. TRADED, MARCH s.—Arrd. Heather Bell, New York. BELFAST, MARCH W.—Wind N.W.—Sid. Waitron, New York. lavEnroor., MARCH 11.—The William Penn, for Youghal, struck on Jordan Flats last night, unshipped her rudder, drifted on Barbo and filled; three men drowned. Arrd. Magellan, Spraule, China. Sld. 10th, Crisis, Shanghai; Maria Winch, Hong Kong; Isabella, Harnett, Calcutta Coligny, Senegal ; Lady Mona, Buenos Ayres, and not on the Ath as reported; Don Pedro 11., Rio Grande; Carina, Havannah ; Alexander Grant, New Orleans; Julius Cmsar, New Orleans; Amazon, New Orleans; Stirlingshire, Mobile; Marcia, Cleryet3,,Mobile ; Canada steamer, New IrOlji% Mobile; Charles Carroll, Mot4ile, Oil L'assa , ,;' Crescent; Kajeity. RAMSGATE, 111Aacm 11.—The Jeune Amyte, which was MONDAY EVENING, unusually prime quality. -Compared with those reported on Monday last, they show a considerable excess, both as to weight and condition. Notwithstanding the at tendance of buyers was telc. , rably good, the Beef trade, from the increase in the supply, was very dull. The primest Scots, &e., sold at about stationary prices, viz., from 3s 6d to 3s 8d per 81bs; but the value of all other kinds declined 2d per albs. At the close of the market, a large number of Beasts were turned out unsold. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, we received about 1,700 Scots and short horns; from the northern, western and midland districts, 1,000 Herefords, shorthorns, runts, Devons, Irish beasts, &e., from other parts of England, 400 of various breeds, and, from Scotland, 230 horned and polled Scots. The supply of Sheep was larger than that shown on this day se'nnight, and of fair average quality. All breeds of Sheep experi enced a very dull inquiry, and the quotations gave way 2d per Sibs. The highest figure for Downs in the wool was 4s 6d, out of the wool, 4s per 81bs. About one-third of the Sheep on offer were shorn. Calves were in short supply and lair demand, at last week's prices. Prime small Pigs were in rnoderAte request, at barely late rates. All other kinds of Pork were 2d per Blbs lower, with a heavy demand. Per Sibs. to sink the offal. 8. d. to s. d Inferior Beasts... • . 2 6 2 8 !ocond quality - • •• 2 10 3 0 Prime large Oxen.. 3 2 3 4 Prime Scots • ..... 3 6 3 8 Large coarse Calves 4 0 4 6 Prime small ditto .. 4 8 5 0 , uekling Calves • .18 0 27 0 Inferior Sheep . 3 0 3 4 s. d. to s. d. Second qual. Sheep 3 6 3 10 Coarse-woolled ditto 4 0 4 2 Southdown Wether 4 4 4 6 Ditto out of the wool 0 0 0 0 Large Hogs .. .• •• 3 2 4 8 Small Porkers .... 3 1) 4 2 Quarter old Pigs •• 17 0 22 0 Lambs .... •••• •• 0 0 0 0 TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET. I Sheep. I Calves. I 19,75. 21,140 138 160 FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts. Sheep. 1 Calves. 1 Pigs. 259 500 77 NEWCATE AND LEADENHALL. The quantity of country-killed meat received up to our markets, last week, by railway and other modes of conveyance, was very moderate, compared with that of some preceding weeks. The supplies on offer slaughtered in the metrop o li s h ave been by no means extensive, though of full average quality. Nearly all descriptions of meat have commanded a steady, though not to say brisk, inquiry, at very full prices, at which clearances have been mostly effected. About 400 carcasses of for eign meat, slaughtered in London, have been disposed Of. At per stone by the Carcase. s. d. to s. d. I 8. d. to s. d. 2"4 2 6, Mutton, inferior .. 2 6 2 8 Be;sts. 3,650 Beef,inferlor...... •-- middling .... middling.. 210 8 4 - p P r r i i m m e el s a m rg a e ll 3 2 1 2 2 3 3 4 0 Pork,larg p e ri . ' . R . c ......... 2 3 1 6 0 3 3 1 6 0 Vesd•• •• • 3lO 410 - 5ma11........ 3 8 4 4 BOROUGH AND spxTaxanzaiDs. Since Monday last, up to Saturday evening, the ar rivals of potatoes, at the water- side, amounted to about 3,000 tons, chiefly from Scotland, Yorkshire, and Essex. The general quality of those from the two former quar ters has proved tolerably good—that from the latter inferior. The quantity of really sound, consumable, home-grown potatoes on offer is small; hence, such descriptions command a steady em en d , at f u ll pr i ces. All other kinds are a dull inquiry, and somewhat lower to purchase. The continued influx of potatoes from abroad has greatly interfered with the demand—espe cially as most of the cargoes are reported in fair average condition ; and it is evident that great attention was paid to the cultivation of the esculent on most parts of the continent last year. To show the ex tent of the arrivals from abroad, we may observe that, since ' the commencement of last September, nearly, or quite sixty thousand tons have come to hand in the port of London alone. At the outports, the supplies have been OH an equally extensive scale. The Channel Islands, from whence in seasons of tolerable abundance, we have frequently received from 25,000 . to 3.0,000 to ns annua ll y, have contributed scarcely a . t raction of our s u ppl y f or many months pa s t. The foreignimports since this day se'nnight have been large, viz., 1,650 bags 3 hampers from Rotterdam, 600 bags 467 tons from Antwerp, 627 bags 97 tons from Calais, 230 tons from Dieppe, 136 tons from Dunkirk, 46 bags from Ostend, and 181 'tons from Rouen, forming a total supply of about 1,650 tons. The following are the day's prices:— Per Ton. Per Ton. York. Regents 100 s to 140 s • Kent &Ess.Whites 90s to 112 s Ditto Shims ... 84s to 94s French Whites 80s to 95s Scotch Reds ... 100 s to 120 s Belgian ditto Ditto Caps 9os to 100 s I Dutch ditto Ditto Whites... 70s to 80s WOOL. The imports of Wool into London last week were very small, viz, 79 bales from Hamburgh, 7. - e ditto from the Cape, and 319 ditto from Odessa. The supplies on offer in the private contract market are not to say heavy, while the demand for all descriptions is firm, and the late improvement in value is well supported. The mar ket appears to have reached its highest pint for the present. 110110U031 SOP MiSPLILET. Our market continues to be very scantily supplied with colory samples of new Hops, the demand for which is steady, at about last week's quotations. The middling and inferior kinds of Hops, both old and new, are offering ineffectually at very low prices. S ussex p oc k e t s , 214 s yo 21 16s ; W ea ld of Kent ditto, 21 12s to 31 8s; Mid and East Kent ditto, 3/ 3s to 61 per cwt. TALLOW. Although the delivery of Tallow last week did not exceed 1,590 casks, our market is tolerably firm, and prices are a shade higher than on Monday last. To-day P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted at 40s 6d, and for delivery during the last three months, 41s Gd to 41s 9d per owt. Town Tallow, 41s per cwt. net cash; Rough Fat 2s 3id per 81bs. Letters from St. Petersburgh represent the trade heavy, at 126 roubles for tine for August delivery. Inferior parcels of Tallow had sold at 117 roubles, cash. 1148. 1549. 1847 1845. DAG Stock this day • ... ••1 21,9:33 17,430 Price of Y. C. ••.. ll 39 0: o t t ( , ) 4 t 2 : 43 9 5 d 51s Ild Delivery last week: •• I 1,42 918 924 Ditto from June 1.... , 73,157 75,351 70,814 An ivals last week . 31 707 S 2 Ditto from June 1.. • 77,104 77,384 70,502 Price of Town •• —• •1 429 45 Gd 53s Od 1 0,28 1 9,762 50s to 50s 33 1,780 85,004 1,299 86,665 51s. 29,08 40s 6d to Os 1,F,9a 2 82,660 433 104,203 IMPRISONMENT OF THE _REV. - MR. SHORE, .By THE BISHOP OF EXETER. (THIS DAY.) A public meeting of the friends of civil and religious liberty was held this morning in, Exeter Hall, for the purpoSe of considering the case of the Rev. Mr. Shore, with the view of prOcuring an alterati on of the law which precludes se-' ceding clergyhien fro:An preaching as Dissenting ministers, and of obtaining his immediate release from prison. The Rev. Mr. Camo, a clergyman of the Church of Eng land, was called to the chair, and in opening the business of the day he remarked that the meeting had been convened to consider a question of deep importance to the civil and reli gious world, namely, th e lib erty of the subject for consc i ence sake, which now w ore an aspect which had no parallel since the days of James IL, and which h a d b e en produced by an artful and unju s t i nterpretation of the ecclesiastical law. The Rev. Dr LEINGUILD then implored the Divine blessing upon the proceedings of the meeting; after which, The Rev. Mr. Tioaassay related the circumstances under which Mr. Shore had been incarcerated in St. Thomas's gaol, Exeter. The R ev. G entleman, he said, was preaching at Spa Fields Ch ape l, on Frid a y even i ng, an d a t th e c lose o f hi s sermon, which wa s so Effective that it drew tears from his gaoler, who was one of the congregation, he was arrested on a warrant issued by the Bishop of Exeter. Since then a letter had been received from Sir Eardley Wilmott enclosing 20/., and from Mrs. Thompson, the sister of Mr. Baptist Noel, and the Earl of Gainsborough, enclosing 101, in furtherance of the object of the meeting. Two letters had also been received from Mr. Shore, from which he would make the following extracts :—" The key has at last grated on my prison door, and I trust the cause of religious liberty , will be promoted by the reverberation. My accanno dation is rather rough, but, although unconscious of wrong, I must remember that I am a prisoner in a gaol, a place for felons. I find that the Bishop's agents are already quibbling by saying that I am placed here merely for costs; but how did those costs arise? Simply from preaching in an uncon secrated chapel or building ; and even if the costs were entirely paid, I should still b e altogether at t h e t en d er merc i es of the Bishop. He could still k eep me in gaol, and preachingthat all my days, for contempt o f court, i n as a Dissenting minister. Will the pe o pl e o f E ng l an d allow such an outrage to continue under the sanction of law ?" . " I hasten to write you another note, in the hope that I may be in time for the post t o -d ay, t h at kr. Barnes, the Bishop's secretary's clerk, has been here, and told me that if I would pay the costs I may be free; I told him to the effect that if I had not preached as a Dissenting minister the costs would not have been incurred, and that I had not the means of pay ing them, and that he well knew the Bishop was still able to. keep me in gaol, even if the, costs were paid. I told him, however, that I should not now have any communication with the Bishop of Exeter either directly or indirectly, that I regarded the matter as entirely in the hands of the people of England, and that I did not purpose to take any step in the affair. lam just come from chapel, where I have attended the service. The thought struck me very forcibly, what-re spect can these prisoners have for the laws, when they find a minister among their number for merely preaching, the Gospel ?" A Volsci in the meeting suggested that a history of Mr. Shore's case ought to be related from the beginnig to the end. The CarammaN said the - suggestion should be complied with. Another VoiCE asked if the secession of Mr. Shore had anything to do with Popery?—(Cries of" No, no.") The Rev. Mr. BIBBY then came forward to move the first resolution, which was as follows :—" Resolved that this 'as sembly, having heard the statement relative to the appren sion and imprisonment of the Rev. James Shore, M.A., f els it to be its first duty to offer to that gentleman the expres sion of its deep sympathy and Christian affection in his pre sent afflicting circumstances, and assures him that prayers shall be offered continually to Almighty God in his behalf, and every effort shall be made for his liberation which the constituti , n of our country and the spirit and precepts of the Gospel of Christ can suggest and sanction." After entering into a lengthened history of Mr. Shore's case, which must be already familiar to our readers, he adverted to the excuse which had been put forward for Mr. Shore's arrest, namely, that it was not for preaching, but for costs. ;It must be remembered, he said, that though he might be imprisoned now for costs, if he paid those costs, he would still be liable to arrest if he attempted to preach; or for the act of preaching on Friday. This quibble of costs re minded him of the little boy's game of one leg up and one leg down.--(A laugh.) if the costs were paid, Mr. Shore's conscience would carry him into the pulpit, and from the pulpit he would again be conveyed to gaol for costs; so that unless some change were made in the law, Mr. Shore would have to oscillate between the pulpit and the prison. That might be the way to Exeter town, but it was not the way to London town.—(Laughter and cheers.) Lieutenant BLACIMORE seconded the resolution, and, it was put from the chair and carried unanimously. The Rev. Mr. STIR:I7IIN moved the second resolution as follows • " Reselved, that this assembly deeply laments before God and man that any Church, professedly Christian, should have the power to inflict upon any one, not excepting a minister of the Gospel, protracted law-suits, heavy law charges, and imprisonments, in the name of the religion of Jesus Christ, it being inimical not only to the spirit of the British constitution, but utterly at variance with the spirit and positive precepts of the Founder of our holy religion. In the name of civil mild religious liberty, in the name of Chris tianity, in the name of the comru>n brotherhood of .I:brj as?:ce;nld) , oletnnly denounces the existence of such vnver, whether possessed by ecclesiastical courts, and avows its deliberate conviction that its exercise in the case of Mr. Shore especially, after that he had left the MAR CH l2, 18 Established Church and had become a Protestant Dissenting minister, is unjust, cruel, and unchristian, and that as British subjects this assembly will use all lawful means for pardon of conscience and liberty of worship, in behalf of all men, especially the minister of the Establi s hed Chur c h." 'flteßeverend Gentleman raid he agreed fully with the spirit of the resolution, but he would not pledge himself to any after proceedings in this case. It appeared to him, however, that the imprisonment of Mr. Shore looked very like return ing to the bigotry of James the Second's time; and he was quite sure, that from the Queen downwards, with the exception of the Bishop of Exeter and his followers, who was a worthy successor of Laud, all would raise their voices against the law that a seceding clergyman of the Church of England could not preach as a Dissenting minister. Mr. JOSEPH DAWSON seconded the resolution, but he doubted whether Mr. Snore was imprisoned for preaching— it was for the non-payment of the costs of proceedings which he himself had instituted. The Rev. J. BURNETT said, if the opinion of Mr. Dawson were to hold good, the Bishop of Exeter might have knocked Mr. Shore down with a bludgeon, and then, when the Rev. Gentleman was taken to an hospital, he might say. " Oh, he has been confined in the hospital, not because I knocked him down, but because he has a wound en his head." —(Laughter and cheers.) The fact was, had the Bishop never have prosecuted Air. Shore, he never could have been imprison ed for costs.—(Hear, hear.) The resolution was then put, and carried unanimously. A committee, consisting of twenty-seven gentlemen, with power to add to their number, was then appointed to or ganise an agitation against the proceedings of the Bishop, and to take steps for holding a public meeting in the Large Hall. Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the meeting, which was a very crowded one, broke up. PUBLIC BUSINESS NOW BEFORE THE HOUSE OF COMAIONS-MARCH 12. PUBLIC BILLS. Title of Bill. Progresso. 1. Affirmation-waiting for Committee. 2. Bribery at Elections-referred to Select Committee. 3. Buckingham Summer Assizes-passed into a law. 4. Clergy Relief-waiting for second reading. 5. Commons Inclosure-passed into a law. 6. Consolidated Fund (8,000,0000-passed into a law. 7. Conveyance of Real Property Act Amendment passed the Lords, and waiting for first reading. 8. Copyholds Enfranchisement-ordered, but not yet presented. 9. Distraining for Rates-passed the Commons, and now in the Lords. 10. Elections and Polling Places (Ireland)-waiting for second reading. 11. Greenwich Markets Regulation-waiting for second reading. 12. Habeas Corpus Suspension (Ireland)-passed into a law. 13. Indictable Offences (Ireland)-waiting for Com mittee. 14. Inland Revenue-passed into a law. 15. Insolvent Members -referred to Select Committee. 16. Landlord and Tenant-waiting for second reading. 17. Life Policies of Assurance-waiting fur Committee. 18. Lunatics (Scotland)-waiting for second reading. 19. Marriages-waiting for second reading. 20. Marriage (Scotland)-passed the Lords, and wait ing for second reading. 21. Navigation-waiting for second reading. 22. Offences (Ireland)-withdrawn. 23. Out-door Paupers-passed the Commons, and now in the Lords. 24. Outicwries-read a first time. 25. Overseers (Cities and Boroughs)-passed the Commons, and now in the Lords. 26. Parliamentary Oaths-waiting for second reading. 27. Petty Sessions-passed the Commons, and now in the Lords. 28. Poor-laws (Ireland) Rate in Aid-waiting fur second reading. 29. Protection of Justices (Deland)-waiting for Committee. 30. Public Roads-read a first time, and afterwards withdrawn. 31. Public Roads (No. 2)-ordered, but not yet pre sented. 32. Qualification and Registration of Voters (Ireland) -waiting for second reading. 33. Real Property Transfer-referred to a Select Committee. 34. Real and Personal Property Conveyance-waiting for second reading. 35. Recovery of Wages (Ireland)-waiting for second reading. 36. Registering Births, Deaths, and Marriages (Scot land)-passed the Lords, and waiting for second reading. 37. Relief of Distress (Ireland) (50,0000-passed into a law. 38. Spirits (Ireland)- waiting for third reading. 39. Summary Cunvictiens (Ireland)-waiting for Committee. 40. Vice-Guardians of Unions (Ireland)-passed into a law. Total number of public Bills passing and passed through the House of Commons 40. Besides the above-mentioned Bills, the following are under the consideration of the House:- Committee of Supply. Committee of Ways and Means. Adjourned debate on the subject of Sicily. Adjourned debate on the subject of Local Taxation. There are also 129 private Bills in various stages be fore the House. Select Committees of the House of Commons are now sitting on the following subjects:- Army and Ordnance Estimates. Bribery at Elections Bill. Ceylon and British Guiana. Fees (Courts of Law). Fisheries (Ireland). Insolvent Members Bill. Privileges. Poor-laws (Ireland). Public Petitions. Real Property Transfer Bill, Selection. Slave Trade. Standing Orders. Steam Navy. . Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues. corn mod ore was also lying, and, singularly enough, his flag-ship , a s , teatn-frigate, is likewise called the Pene lope. Sit C. Ilotham had been heating up the slavers' barracoo, as Gailinas, some of which he had burnt, as a punisln neat for an infringement of the treaty. He wal to 1e,3.v• Sierra Leone, Feb. 24, for Porto Prayo, to wait for Commodore Fanshawe, C. 8., in the Centaur, and to to rit over the command to him. lie would then make the- best of his way to Spitheld. The squadron was generally healthy. Little of inte• rest had recently occurred on the coast. The Te azer, screw gun-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Selwyn, I tad arrived at Sierra Leone, and had gone on to Ascension. The K ingfisher, 12, Commander Harvey, left Sierra Leone for• Seabor, Feb. 10. The A.mphitrit , , 25, Captain R. Eden, had finally quilted the coast for Valparaiso. IMPR.ISONMENT OF THE REY JAMES SHORE. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT,) EXETER, SUNDAY EVENING —Mr. Shore was brought here in custody of Thomas Burch, the Sheriff's officer, and ph eed in the prison of St. Thomas the Apostle, ad joining this city, on Saturday night. The rev. gentle man was met at the prison door by Mr. Latimer, of Exe ter, but no other friends awaited his arrival, as his ap prehension was wholly unexpected. The rev, gentleman was taken, as you know, in Sp. fields Chapel, immediately after de-4cending, from the pulpit and o❑ his way to the vestry. He fell into good hands, for a kinder or more respectable man than the officer charged with this un pleasant duty does not exist. The Bishop of Exeter has two writs against the rev. gentleman; one for costs in curred in defending the ecclesiastical proceedings taken against him by the bishop, end the other for costs in curred ley the bishop in responding to the appeal which Mr. Shore made to the Privy Council. Ile is arrested on the latter writ. The imprisonment might have been in London but the bishop's proctor would not consent there • to; and. Alr. Shore will, therefore, be put to the expense of getting a writ of habeas corpus in the event of his wanting to go to London. After Mr. Shore has paid ti ese two demands, he may be then imprisoned for con tempt of the Ecclesiastical Court, as he has preached after having been admonished not to do so. Mr. Shore is, however, determined not to pay either. Mr.: Shore told a friend to-day that ne considers the question now placed in the hands of the people of Eng land. He has neither the inclination nor the money to meet the Bishop's demands ; and he therefore sees no release from his present captivity but through the medium of Legislative interference. Mr. Bouverie's Bill does not provide for his release, as it would be an ex post facto law. But why should it not do so ? The Tolera tion Act was held to be a sufficient guarantee of re ligious liberty for upwards of a century and a half, till Bishop Phillpotts gave it the crooked interpretation, in which he has been sustained by the Ecclesiastical Court and the authorities of the Queen's Bench. Whe❑ cer tain noble horse. racers were pursued at law for penalties incurred by infringement of the laws against gambling, the Legislature made an post facto law to relieve them and thwart the informer. If the Legislature has been thus tender over gamblers, why can it not be con siderate towards a worthy and religious man ? The Right Reverend Prosecutor sent a young gentle man, who is clerk to his secretary, to tell Mr. Shorn that if he would pay the costs he might go out, that all the Bishop wanted was the money. Mr. Shore did not dispute this fact, but declined to listen to any over tures. This young gentleman laboured also to impress upon the mind of the Reverend Gentleman that he was not imprisoned for preaching, but for costs. Mr. Shore asked how the costs would have been incurred if he had not been charged with the offence of preaching? I can state to you further, but of course in perfect confidence, that the Bishop has sent our Reverend Friend no dinner to-day. What would you say to a shepherd who clapped one of his lambs into the pound, and gave him nothing to eat ? There will probably be a public meeting here, and various other efforts to protest against this act of vindictive bigotry. It is not improbable but Bishop Phillpotts, case-hardened as he is, veil live to re pent this rash step, and that the hour of repentance may not be very distant. TO TILE EDITOR OF TILE SUN. SIR,--Having observed in your paper of the 17th ult. some remarks on the proposition of AI. Edouard Char ton in the French Assembly, that no person should be allowed to exercise the elective franchise unless he could write and read, I beg to say that I think a much better test of a person's qualification or capability of exercising that important duty would be that Ile should be able to work or solve correctly any rule-of-three question in arithmetic. This wou!d not only prove that he was able to read and write, but it would also prove his power to think and reason, which is a very necessary qualification in en elector. Besides, in my opinion, the qualification would be much better defined in the one case than the other.—l am, Sir, yours obediently, WILLIAM WRIGHTSON. Thorne, March 10, 1849. DEATH or ANTHONY WHITE, ESQ.—The medical profession has lost one of its brightest ornaments in Mr. Anthony White, the eminent surgeon, who died at his house in Parliament -street, on Friday morning last, at an advanced age. Mr. White was of a north -country family, and was a graduate of the University of Cam bridge, where ho took an honourable degree. He came to London at an early period, and commenced practice as assistant-surgeon at the Westminster Hospital, with which institution to the day of his death he continued to be associated. Mr. White speedily obtained ce lebrity for the dexterity and success of his operations in the most difficult cases in which surgical skill is re quired. He acquired, at an earlier period than is usual in his profession, a very extensive practice, and was not long in obtaining the recognition of eminence by election to a place in the council of the College of Surgeons. Mr. White twice succeeded to the presidential chair of that institution, and was highly valued as a member of the Court of Examiners. In consequence of repeated attacks of gout, which specially affected his hands, Mr. White was necessitated some years since to relinquish active practice as an operator; but he conti nued to a very recent date to give the public the benefit of his experience as a consulting surgeon. His name is one which will be long recognised among the eminent men of his profession, which he not only adorned by his talents, but in the practice of which he was distinguished by a remarkable benevolence. His skill was always at the command of men engaged in the pursuits of science, literature, or the arts, to whom not unfrequently his purse was open as his hand in the hour of their distresses. To Mr. White surgeons are indebted for many of the im portant improvements made of late years in their instru ments. Those ascribed to the Baron lleurteloup were, we believe, almost all introduced under his auspices. The superintendence of the several prisons under the control of the Government and of the convict de partment is about to be consolidated under one board, an arrangemeat that will combine uniformity of treat ment with economy in the management of the prisons and hulks. No additional expense will be incurred, as the service of some of the members of the Boards of superintendence and of the inspectors of prisons will be made available in the proposed consolidation, which is to take effect from the beginning of the next month. GAOL DISCIPLINE.—BIRMINGHAM, SATURDAY.— Captain Maconochie, the author of several works on " Secondary Punishments" and the " Marked System," has accepted the governorship of the new borough gaol of Birmingham. The building, which is of immense di mensions, and constructed according to the design of Mr. Hill, a local architect, is said to be singularly well adapted for carrying out the peculiar views of the first governor. LORD GOUGH'S LAST EXPLOIT..---" I came, I saw, I conquered," was the boast of Caesar. " I came, I did not see, I did not conquer," should have been the bulletin of Lord Gough. He came, he made no reconnaisance, he shut his eyes, he put down his head, he rushed at the enemy like a mad bull.—Examiner. A son of the late lamented artist, Mr. Haydon, whose untimely fate excited so much public sympathy, has been appointed by Lord John Russell to a junior clerkship on the first vacancy that has been filled up by the Treasury for some months past, in consequence of the reductions iu the several departments. It is said that when the special train by the South- Eastern that left London at six A.M., to meet the nine o'clock steamer for Boulogne, at Folkstone, and the cor , responding train to Paris, to be present at the anniver sary of the French revolution, started—only six pas sengers availed themselves of it. THE PAYMASTER-GENERALS OFFICE.--MT. Os borne, M.P., has obtained a return showing the saving effected by the consolidation of the offices of the Pay master-General, Paymaster of Civil Forces, and Pay masters of Excheque r -bill s , & C . It appears that the amount of the said saving in salari es i s 1 6,145/., equal to 45 per cent., or the difference between 36,045/. and 19,9001. The saving of expense which may arise from giving up the offices of the Paymaster of Civil Services and of the Paymasters of Exchequer-bills, and from the decrease of other contingent expenses, cannot be cor rectly ascertained. The expense of printing, of station ery, and other incidental charges of the office of lPay master of Civil S erv i ces , h ave heretofore been Ir_urt hecuddr in the gen era l expenses of the T reasu ry. f since appears that thirteen clerks have been promoted whose salaries has August last, the aggregate amount o thus been increased from 3,84 0 1. to not renewed al lowances were withdrawn on promotion, k. and f 3, w 95 ' 01 Certain to the successors of the advanced cler k. Griffin, THE STONELEIGH ABBE U last mad© an application at the solicitor, on Wednesday John Wilcox, on a charge of murder, Petty Sessions on behalf of John Leigh, of Preston, for a warrant against said to have been committed at Stoneleigh Abb ey. The warrant was refused. ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The council of this College have determined that the examinations for the Fellowship shall take place on Monday, the 2d, and Wednesday, the 4th of April next. WRECK ON THE LANCASHIRE COAST.—During the past week a quantity of wreck has been washed ashore on the coast near Rossall, and other portions have been seen floating in Morecambe Bay. Th e appearance of that which has been secured indicates it to belong to a vessel of about 100 tons burden, but nothing has yet been gained by which the name of the unfortunate vessel can be identified. —Preston Chronicle. A SOLDIER OF FORTUNE —At Fulford, William Rankin, a private of the 53d, was this week married to Miss Maclaurin, heiress to 15,0004, who was given away by her father. The bride is 26, and the bridegroom 30 years of age. Greaves, Fawcett, and Brenhead, the three men who, oa the 10th of January last, knocked down a banker's clerk at Wakefield, and robbed him of 173/., were convicted at York on Friday, and were each sen tenced to 20 years' transportation. RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN, Miami' B.—The Alice and Mary, Jones, from Port Carlisle for Liverpool, was brought in here this morning with damage, having been ea shore. NA V. AL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY.—The Stromboli steana-sloop, Commander Lord Amelius Beanclerk, arrived on Friday evening frOm Gibraltar. Having been ordered to sail home instead of steaming, her news has been forestalled by the packets. The following officers have come home passengers in her:—Captain Coape, of the 67th Regi ment, late Aide-de-Camp to his Excellency Sir R. Wil son, ex-Governor of Gibraltar; Captain Adair, Royal Artillery; Mr. Sainsbury, midshipman, from the St. Vincent, to join the Centaur steam-frigate on the coast of Africa; Mr. Eden (nephew of the late Earl of Auck ' land), midshipman, from the St. Vincent, to join the flag ship Victory, at Portsmouth; also invalid soldiers from the 67th and 34th Regiments, and two convicts be , longing to the former. She sailed yesterday for Sheer ness to be paid off. She has not been eighteen months in commission, but is in most serviceable and warlike order, fit for any duty a steamer is calculated to perform. To pay her off then, under such circumstances, is en tailing an expense upon the country, which ought to ori ginate some other feeling than surprise in the economi cal camp. To refit this vessel will cost a large sum. She is capable of serving three or four years longer be fore refit. The Rifleman, steam-schooner, Lieutenant-Cotrxman der Croitun, arrived to-day from Tangier direct. She left on the 22d ult. Her news has therefore been fore stalled. She was ordered to sail home in pursuance of the new economic regulations, and has made an excel lent passage of seventeen days. She is ordered to refit forthwith for foreign service. PRONOTIONB. _ _ Mates—Warren lia.StingsAud:rson, sen., of the St. Vincent, 120, Joseph Robinson, of the Reynard, screw. sloop, and George Willes Watson, sen., of the Caledonia, 120, seniority 1847, and the second on the list of mates, have been promoted to the rank of lieutenant; George F. Meehan], whose name as acting mate has appeared in the Nary List for April, 1848, and as having passed for seamanship, but with no figures to denote where serving, has been promoted to be acting lieutenant; Henry Christian, acting mate of the Harlequin, 12, ut Lisbon (seniority Jau., 1848), to be acting lieutenant. OI3IT GARY. Commander John Fleming (1814), of Mansdale, re cently died at North Bank, Campbeltown, Argyllshire. This officer served with much distinction during the whole of the war. His services were recorded in the London Gazette on three occasions, and he received pee euniary honorary reward from the Patriotic Fund. He was Deputy-Lieutenant of Argyll. Lieut. William Robert Adair, acting lieutenant of the Spartan, 24, died at Trieste, Feb. 21. He was the third eon of Major-General Adair, C.B. Lieut. Nathaniel Cranstoun France (1814), died fat Brixham, Devon, in the 57th year of his age, March 3. Paymaster and Purser William Anderson (1533), died at Bothwell, Lanarkshire, Feb. 27. The Caledonia, 120, Captain T. W. Carter, was towed out of Hamoaze into Plymouth Sound, on Friday afternoon by the Confiance and Fearless steam-vessels. She appears to have started rather too soon on tide, for she touched the ground slightly when off the dockyard, near the Rubble bank moorings. She brought up for a few minutes, but as she had scarcely gathered way, there was no apprehensions of serious injury, consequently she proceeded. The next day, however, in order to satisfy the authorities, the diver was sent down to examine her, when he went all round by the side, and under her keel, forefoot, &c., and found everything all right, with not a scratch even. She will be ready for sea on Wednesday. The Wanderer, 12, Commander Montressor, arrived at Spithead, on Saturday, from Sierra Leon, on the coast coast of Africa. She left that port on the 10th February. The Wanderer received orders for paying off at Chatham, and sailed about 4 r.m., the same even ing. She has not been one of the most fortunate ves sels in the prize way. She was taken to the coast in the summer of 1846, by Commander P. li. Somerville; but in the spring of 1847, Commodore Sir Charles Hotham, not approving of the discipline or management of the vessel, obliged Commander Somerville to exchange with Commander Montressor, of the Cygnet, then about to come to England, so that Commander Sommerville was displaced from the command of a very fine brig, anti Commander Montressor got a double allowance of the coast service. The Rolla, apprentice brig, Mr. Fenwielc, command ing, was beat into Plymouth harbour on Saturday night, and will again proceed to Spithead for exercise to-day. The Janus, 2, steam gun-vessel, Lieutenant Cor n _ mender Powell, arrived at Devonport on Saturday, a n d coaled preparatory to leaving for Gibraltar the Cain e night. PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY, FIVE P. m.—Fresh westerly winds, with cloudy weather. THE COAST OF AFRICA. The Wanderer lett Commodore Sir Charles Hotham, K.C.8., in his flag ship, the Penelope, 12, steam-frigate, Captain L. T. Jones, at Sierfa Leone, where the French Iffii TO THE SECRETARY •:1101W: THE METROPOLITAN REFO/tlll AgSiNiATION. Sir,—On Wednesday the ith . the'' remarkable facts in the House of Commons vt;ere---t hat the Go vernment should have opposed a Bill for improving the Registration of Re a l Property,att -B he (c os t of bein g in a minority of 45 to 55 ; and th a t a ill for sub stituting affirmation for oaths, should halve been read a second time without opposition. From the last, it is clear that the world grows better. Fancy all we should have heard thirty years ago, about the outrage to public opinion in letting sectaries have their whims. On the same night came on the great Parliamen. tary contest, in reliance on which the King of Naples had been implored to hold out against the British diplomacy brought to bear upon him. When counter action of this nature is discovered in the field, all nations have summary methods of dealing with the concerned. But the B r i t i sh Absolutists profess to kee h p open sop,sho wher e any failing despot in contest P pe, may come and buy witho u t money wit his and without price. It is the same class 01 politicians that bawl for " the execution of a great capital," and call a continental Parliament " a Germran romance.' The strength of this party was broughat to the test on Wednesday, and when weighed in the balanc e was found wanting, by 124 against 39. " Our ally the King of the Two Sicilies" may calculate 'what he bas taken by the motion. On Thursday the Member for Buelthighamshire made his promised effort for redressing the wrongs of the agricultural interest. His speech - was charac teri•ied by much of that ability which takes a crowded audience to a Nisi Prius court, for the sake of hearing how the two sides of a cause will be defended, one of which is held pretty certain of being intrinsically bad. And it had this further advantage to set it off, that all which was urged in the .shape of opposition from the Free Trade side of the Douse, was pointless, tame, and i n f act not true. The only collectible statement was, that the landowners had bought their land subject to certain taxes, which therefore ought to be continued whether just or not; an argument which has been advanced against every body, and exploded by everybody ; which has been brought in defence of Church Rates, and would have told just as well against the owners of manu facturing property when . they urged , the: removal of the Corn-Laws. ,It would be matter of regret that a cause should thus apparently be thrown i n t o the enemy's bands, if it proof was not reli eve d b y t h e addition it makes to the that the Ho use o f C ommons is not the place where the opinion w hi c h ru l es the country is formed, but on the contrary is on l y a registrar, and a backyard one, of what is formed elsewhere. The Anti -Corn-law Leaguers would not have had a hundred followers, if they had fed their flocks on such diet as was pro duced on Thursday. The further debate was ad journed to Wednesday next. On Friday came on again the question of the Navi gation Laws. The debate:was opened by a speech of dreary length on the part of the Protectionists, ending in nothing but the assertion that they liked their mo nopoly, and would keep it if they could. A scion of nobility tried the pathetic, on the sufferings of dis charged shipwrights, now enjoying remarkably high wages, being all the while entirely " pachydernaous " to the sufferings of discharged workmen at Bradford and elsewhere, who must pay for the emoluments of the others. 'The old fallacy was put forward, which it is certainly not "a nation of shopkeepers " that submits to, declaring that duties of all kinds are as well on as off, because foreigners would only lay the difference upon their prices. The Member for Westbury made some useful observations in detail, on the various ways in which the shipping interest had benefited by the movement towards free trade. A county Member used very coarse language, which would not have been endured in any but a man. of his rank, in reiterating the assertion that in a cer tain hypothesis the Government intended " a lie ;" and he said nearly everything he had, four times over (for I counted), and sometimes six. This is the way things go on. In proportion as a man is wearisome and violent, is his certainty of being heard; while one who had anything sub stantial to say, would stand about as much chance of being allowed to speak, as a Quaker at Moultan. A curious principle is evidently in operation ; which is, that the House must be wearied to a certain extent before it is brought to divide, and as the first class of speakers are inevitable evils, the others would only be so much added to the time. All of which, you will see, is confirmative of the principle touching the office discharged by the House of Commons, sub. mitted in a preceding paragraph. The debate on the Navigation• Laws was finally adjourned till Monday; and the further debate on Mr. D'lsraeli's motion put off to Thursday. I am, Sir, your obedient servmat, AN OLD REFORMER. London, March 12, 1849. SIR ROBERT PEEL'S PLAN FOR IRELAND, TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD J. RUSSELL, 131. P., &c. My Lord,—Sir Robert Peel is running the course of all quacks ; first, with ostentatious itntportance declaring that he should not think of prescribing for the suffering industry of the country unless he was regularly called in and a suitable fee adniini-stered— then dispensing his nostrums, until hurled from his position by those he had deluded—now venfling his drugs, his own auctioneer. The :public will not forget that when your Lordship introduced the Bill for the reclamation of waste lands, it was defeated by Sir Robert Peel aided indeed by his protege 'in your Cabinet, and this, too, on the plea that it was contrary to the rules of politi cal economy; had that measure not been defeated, thousands whom this country has fed in idleness would have earned their bread by honest industry. And Sir Robert Peel's measure is far more opposed, not only to the principles of political economy (for that I should care nothing) but to the dictates of common sense, aye, and of common honesty, although in perfect keeping with the worship of his leading star—the moneyed class. Does not Sir Robert well know that the majority of the estates in the distressed unions, which he pro poses the Government to purchase, are mortgaged beyond their present value? Does he not know that the very first step in carrying out his scheme would b hese eto use the ? debt money of the i n d ustr i ous classes to pay t bad s I And this is precisely the same game Sir Robert Peel played respecting the twenty millions given for the emancipation of the slaves ; Lord Stanley, as the organ of the Cabinet, brought forward an honest and statesmanlike proposal to lend the West India pro prietors fifteen millions to enable them to meet the, difficulties which were inevitable in the transition from the date of slavery to that of free labour. Sir Robert Peel, as the leader of a powerful Oppo sition, f orce d t h e G overnment to change the p posed ro loan of fift een m illi ons i nto a g i ft of twenty mil lions, not giv e n t o th e W es t I n di a proprietor o were to bear the heat and b ur d en of the experiment, but given to the mortgagees in this countr.Y,r, who pocketed the money, and left the West Indian Pro prietors to their fate. So will it be with proprietors in the different unions in Ireland, if Sir Robert Peel's plan were carried, the money wrung from the industrious classes would go into the pockets of the mortgagees, who would rejoice in the measure, and the landlord and the people would be left in a far worse situation than at present. 'o voebdl obliged would do,act For the mortgagees dare not foreclose—the land.. lord acts as their bailiff without salary, and in that position they will keep him until by such a measure as that proposed by Sir Robert Peel they can get out of the mess. o is t too often involved as the propose viz.,honour ab le terms, now is the time, for then the mortgagee If th ß e r l it r i i s s i h l landlords who would be obliged to assist in getting affairs set right ; call their creditors together . and at present he does nothing except wait for Sir Robert Peel. lrur Lordship would have compelled these mort gagees to assist, if the estates, or a competent port i on of them, were s o ld f or the ament of' tin arrear ; and as f or their threat y to foreclose, he rates it would be the last thing they would do. What Ireland wants is employment for the people, and the reclamation of Waste lands would employ thousands for the same sum, which would be absorbed by Sir Robert Peel's measure in setting hundreds to work. The country has now before them the plan of Lord Stanley and the Protectionists on the o ne h and, and that of Sir Robert Peel and the Peelites on the other ; the former containing the views of statesmen, the latter of charlatans. When will your Lordship pro pose the plan of the Government ? I have the honour to remain Your Lordship's most obedient, RIGI3Y WASON. Bankruptcy on Friday, HERNE BAT PIER —COMP.ANY. In the Court of Bankruptcy against this company, under the provisions an application fora fiat of of the Joint-Stock Companies Winding-up Act, was applied for. His Honour said that the clauses in the Act favoured the conclusion that tho Legislature meant to confine the enactment strictly to trading companies. Hence, he was bound to say, that it appeared to him this was not a company which could be adjudicated bankrupt. .4ndh :11 g oes Adolphe ;nd on ST. J AMES ' S T HEATRE .—ThiS evenin g w il l be produced (for the first time in this country) Auber'sA popular'dam s opera favourite in one act, p a Wednesday, March 21, Auber's celebrated opera a of Le Diamans de la C o uronne will be pr o d uced on the occa sion of Aldlle. Charton's benefit. eco e m nt i i q tl u e e d of cleeo A young man, named Tootel, the son of the Post-roaster at Edgeli are, was charged at Bow -street on Saturday with having forged several money orders. He was remanded until Wednesday, when he will be corn. witted. S IT - . t 4.-•‘••,-• • • :• q\ _ votes a gib' Z 7