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The author has never before written with so much energy and feeling. No one but a person of real genius could have produced such a tale."—Britannia. Henry Colburn, Publlslter, 13, Great Marlborough•strect. TIIE NEW HISTORTC.kL ROMANCE. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., O • WEN T U D 0 R. An Historical Romance. 13y the Author of " Whitefriars," " Cxsar Borgia," &C. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THE CASTLEREAGH PAPERS. Now ready, price 28s. bound, CASTLEREAGH CORRESPONDENCE. Vols. 111. and IV., ConVeting the IRISH REBELLION and UNION. Edited, with Notes, and a Life of LORD CASTLEREAGH, By his Brother, CHARLES VANE, MARQUESS of LONDONDERRY, K.C.8., &e. " The two concluding volumes of this valuable and important pub .lcation even far surpass in historical interest the two which pre ceded them. They contain the continuance of the correspondence respecting the Legislative Union, down to its completion ; together 'with a mass of documents illustrative of the concessions to the Ro man Catholics' Emmet's insurrection, and the questions in agitation at the present time with regard to Ireland and its Roman Catholic population, &c. The work is equally valuable to the historian and the politician.''—.John Bull. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. T H E This day ,is published, in post Bvo., MR. ALFRED STREET'S NEW POEM, F R 0 N T EN A A ROMANCE OF INDIAN LIFE. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. ROBERT HOUDIN. - ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Close of the attractive Entertainment. M. ROBERT HOUDIN will have the honour to repeat his extra ordinary SOIREES FANTASTIQUES, at this Theatre as follows : Saturday, Evening • • February 24. Tuesday Evening „ 27. Wednesday M ornin g „ 28. Thursday Evening .. .. March 1. Saturday Evening 3. Being the last Entertainment, owing to M. Houdin's departure for the provinces. Evening Performance at Half-past Eight; Day Performance at Half-past Two. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 25.; Amphitheatre, Is. 6d. Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets for this extraordinary Entertlinmeit may be secured at Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; and at the Box-oftlee of the Theatre, which is open daily from Eleven till Five o'clock. THEATRE EIOYAL, HAYMARK_E'r. Mr. B. Webster, Sele Lessee and Manager. Old Brompton. The public is respectfully informed that this Theatre has, during the recess, undergone very extensive repairs and alterations and the whole r e• decorated. THIS EVENING, Will be performed DON CAESAR DE Don Caesar, Mr. James Wallach; Lazarillo, Miss Horton; Maritana, Miss Bennett. To be followed by an Arabian Nights' Entgatainment, entitled CAYARALZAMAN AND BADOURA ; or, The Pert who Loved the Frince. Characters by Messrs. Bland, Keel ey, Mrs. Keeley, Miss Horton, and Miss Reyntids. To conclude with a new Farce, entitled "TOUR LIFE'S IN DAITGER. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. under the direction of Madame Celeste. During the Recess this Theatre has been entirely re-decorated, the original designs by Digby Wyatt, Esq , 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 mare comfortable. THIS El: ENIN , Will be performed the original lifaxia, called HARVEST HOME. Principal characters by Messrs. H. Hughes, Lambert, Wright, P. Bedford, 0. Smith, Madmne Celeste, Miss Woolgar, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss Turner, kc. After which, VIE ENCHANTED ISLE. Alonzo, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Prospero, Mr. 0. Smith .Ariel, Miss B. Chaplin. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Undcr the Management of Madame Vestal& Sole Lessee. Mr. Chatles Ma' he ws. THIS EVENING Will be pefformed SHAVE YOU DIRECTLY. After which, a new Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE KING OF THE PEACOCKS. Characters by Messrs. Harley, John Reeve, Selby, H. Hill, Marshall, and 11. Marshall ; Miss Kathleen Fitzwil %alit, Miss L. Howard, Mrs. Macnamara, Miss Marshall, Miss L. Marshall, Miss Coleman, and Madame Vestris. • • To conclude with USED UP. . Dress Boxes, .55.; Upper Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 25.; Gallery, Is. No Ulf-price to any part of the house. The New Box-office, No. 2, Wellington , street, is open to the public every day, from Ten till Six. PRINCESS'S THEATit E. Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and Mhnager. During the Recess this Theatre has been re-decorated and embel lished In a superb' and costly manner by Mr. Hurwitz. A new Chan dellerhas been fitted, and the best arrangements have been made for the due Ventilation of the Theatre, and the counort and convenience of the audience. THIS EVENING, Will be performed the Romantic Opera, entitled LEOLUCS. Count Adelmar, Mr. Charles Braham; the SeneschAl, Mr. IL Hen, eastle ; Frantz, Herr Mengis ; Matilda, Mtn. Weiss; Lesline, Miss Poole. To conclude wjth a new grand Pantomime, entitled ELUTE RING HAL ; or, Harlequin and 111 Charmed Arrow. Harlequin, Mr. Bologna; Pantaloon, Mr. Paul.; Clown, Mr. Flex-more ; Sprite, Mr. De Barr ; Columbine, Miss Fawcett. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Ender the Patronage of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, &c. Enormous success of the Holiday Novelties, the most astounding is the Metropolis.—A gorgeous Spectacle.—Brilliant Scenes of the Arena. _____ THIS EVENING, roe curtain will rise at a Quarter to Seven o'clock precisely to the magnificent Spectacle, by Fitzball. entitled CORISCO ; or, the Warrior's Steed. To be followed bran inimitable display of SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, supported by the first Equestrian talent of the day. To conclude with a romantic Melodrama entitled TILE BRIGAND OF ANCONA. _ Box-office open from Eleven till Five. stage Manager, Mr. W. Weat. TLtk WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, FEBRUARY 22. THEW:SOX/ITER, Lowest, 43; Highest, 51; Noon, 56 BARO3IETEB, 29.81. WIND W. to W.N.W.—fine fresh breeze and mild weather. r.:fT wATER A.T LONDON BRIDGE. `rats DAY —Morning, Tr min. after 1 I Eveninv, 55 rain. after 1 To-Ifoalow—Morning, 13 min. after 2 Evening, 32 rain. after 2 u, .4 4 4). .1 p • r " qb./ • I 4-; • it , ttening ;int LONDON, TIIIIRSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1849, As a glorious compensation for the delay which has occurred in the arrival of the Overland Mail from Rindostan, the dispatches received this morning • contain intelligence of the capture of the city of Moulton. In consequence of the extraordinary extent and solidity of the fortifications, as well as from the desperation which had seized upon the rebel soldiers of the MOOLEAJ, the triumph of our brave fellow s over the besieged was not accomplished until after a dogged and sanguinary bombardment. This bombardment appears to have lasted, indeed, with scarcely any intermission, during an interval of seven days, from the 27th of December, when the siege commenced, until the 2d of January, when the town was stormed and taken, through breaches, at the point of the bayonet. How enormous must have been the havoc among the lives and property of the insurgents, may be conjectured from the knowledge that Moultan was invested by 15,000 British troops and 17,000 allies —making in all a force of 32,000 well-disciplined fighting men —that the attack continued for a week uninterruptedly, that the artillery of the assailants consisted of 150 pieces of ordnance, about half of which were of the largest calibre, and that during the fifty hourss wit whichthe pre ceded the entrance of the Europea ns ramparts a frightful cannonade battered down the walls and buildings of the doomed city. Almost immediately upon the arrival of the Bom bay division and the siege-train foiward movements were made by the army under General Wnrsir. On the 21st December ;the auxiliaries had reached the camp- On the 25th, namely, Christmas-day, the force changed ground. On the 27th the troops ad vanced in four columns upon Moultan, driving Vue enemy before them, through the suburbs or environs, and taking up a position within five hundred yards of the fortifications. On the 28th, batteries having been erected, a tremendous fire was opened upon the besieged. On the 29th, the artillery had pushed forward to within eighty yards of the outer i _ n alaaure ; and, on th e 30th t oo k p l ace one of those 'Walling catastrophes which, like the burning of the Ite Publican man-of-war L'Orient, in the midnight ' , Olen at Aboukir, suspends hostilities by the horror of ita devastation. A. shell thrown from one of the mortars alighted cn the p rincipal magazin e of the fort, i gn i t i ng a store it is said, of .800,000Ibs. of gunpowder, and throwing up, a thousand feet into the air, a column of dust and ashes. In this terrific explosion it is be lieved that several members of the family of the IfooLaAJ were destroyed, and that the DEWAN bimself was severely wounded. Whether or not such were the case, the result of the detonation of the magazine proved to be sufficiently destructive. Some of the burning fragments - falling upon the adjacent houses, produced a conflagration in which were consumed, besides a vast quantity of treasures, ll= THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING , FEBRUARY 22 , 1849 , grain stacks to the value of five Lacs, or 50,000/. In consideration of the effect which this occurrence could not fail to have upon their operations, General Wiiisn at once presented three gold mohurs to the artilleryman who had levelled the mortar, and Lvegold mohurs to the company to which to belonged. On the 31st the bombardment was resumed with still greater fury, and was continued during the whole of the Ist of January—shells being hrown sometimes every minute, and sometimes every ten minutes, while deafening salvoes were per-. petually fired from the heavy batteries. Throughout the whole of the following night the cannonade was persevered in ; and on the morning of the 2d of January a column of the Bengal division, commanded by Colonel FRANKS, advanced towards a breach on the north-east side, hard by the Delhi Gate. Finding an entrance in that direction impracticable, the troops moved round to the opposite walls of Moultan, where the Bombay column had already penetrated beyond the ramparts. At about three o'clock in the afternoon the first British colours were planted in the fortress by a sergeant-major of the Company's Fusiliers. Towards nightfall the whole town was swarming with the conquerors, and parties of the Seikhs were recognised stealing out upon the plain and making their escape in the direction of Sirdarpore. From the manner in which the ground is excavated for the formation of nullahs or watercourses, the cavalry dispatched in pursuit of the fugitives were unable to make more than a few straggling prisoners. Before Moultan was finally occupied by six regiments of English soldiers, the city was found to contain, as booty of war, fourteen guns, twenty-five elephants, a great number of horses, and an immense quantity of grain, besides other spoil of very considerable value in specie and miscellaneous property. Fifteen lacs of ru pees, or, accordinglto more moderateaccounts, 30,0001. had been offered by the native bankers or Mahajuns to save their establishments from spoliation, but the offer was understood to have been refused. On re viewing the events of this memorable bombardment it will be matter of congratulation that on our side the destruction of life has been, comparatively speak ing, so trifling ; whereas with the defeated rebels the havoc has proved deplorably severe, among a great number of other Singhs, HINDOO SINGH and SHAM SINGH having fallen during the encounter. Before the mail left Calcutta news had not been received of the fall of the citadel of Moultan, in which the MooLEAJ still remained at bay, resolved to perish rather than accept the alternative of flight or capitulation. Nevertheless, it was fully expected that on the storming of the fort, which was intended to take place about the 10th instant, that last strong hold would have fallen into our possession. In fur therance of this object, on the morning after the oc cupation of the city a brilliant exploit was achieved at daybreak (Jan. 3) by three companies of her Majesty's 10th Infantry, under the personal direction of Captain YOUNG, and at the suggestion of Lieutenant MAusisELL, of the Engineers. By these gallant men the only gate then remaining in the hands of the enemy (the Dowlut-gate, according to one correspondent) was dashed at and captured— , its importance being enhanced by the circumstance that it led from the city across the moat surrounding the citadel. Inquiries will, of course, be made as to what Major EDWARDES was doing in the midst of these extraordinary operations ; and, on the examination of the lengthened accounts which have arrived from the seat of war, it will be seen that that distinguished officer was compelled, from the very fact of his celebrity, and the terror of his name among the Seiklas, to forego any opportunity of participating immediately in the engagements, in order to combine with his com rades Lieutenant Lava and General COxTLANDT, to make demonstrations in order to distract the attention of the enemy. It was through their instrumentality in this respect that the rest of the troops were enabled to prosecute so successfully their advance Upon Moultan and the prolonged bom , bard ment. As to the position of affairs in other parts of the Punjaub, they assume for the time a very subordinate importance, in consequence of the interest concen trated upon the operations against Moultan. The Grand Army, under the Commander-in-Chief, had, by the latest intelligence, joined the camp of Sir Rum TuAcKwELL, half way between the Jhelum and the Chenaub. SHERE SINGH at the same period remained encamped on the hither bank of the Jhelum, protected in rear by the river, and in front by a dense and almost impenetrable jungle. 30,000 men and about 40 guns were understood to constitute the strength of the insurgents. In the camp of SHERE SINGH, Major LAWRENCE still continued a close pri• soner, although the treatment he received was still marked with respect and kindness. As to the posi tion of CHUTTUR SINGH, and the rest of the leaders of the rebel Seikhs, full particulars will be found in the dispatches published in other columns of this evening's impression. The Navy Estimates for the ensuing year, which have just been published, will be found in another part of our impression. There is nominally a very large reduction in this branch of the public ser vice. The estimates for the year 1848-49 amounted to 7,726,6101., but reductions were made subse quently to their being printed and laid on the table of the House to the extent of 208,0001., so that 7,518,6101. was the amount really required. For the present year 6,260,7401. is asked for, of which 147,2001. is for the service of the army and ordnance department, leaving 6,113,5401,, the net amount re quired for the naval service. A nominal saving of 1,405,0701. is thus apparent. We regret, however, to say, that this saving, or at least by far the greater portion thereof, is more apparent than real. Certain charges have been merely transferred to other de partments and are still required, although under other names. For instance, the Post-office contract packet service, which was last year charged to the naval estimates, 611,6621., will henceforth be voted in a separate estimate for the packet service. A further sum of 161,6981. for the packet service was also in cluded in the net estimate last year, which will now be charged separately to the Post-office department. Again, the sum of 43,6021. was last year charged for the convict service, which has been very properly transferred to its proper position, and will henceforth be included in the Treasury miscellaneous estimates. A charge which should have belonged to the Army and Ordnance Departments, being for the conveyance of troops, stores, &c., last year amounted to 181,3221.—this year 147,2001. only will be required, showing a saving of 34,1221. It is a decided improvement to have the several sums charged under their proper heads—no part of the system that still prevails to too great an extent eli cited greater complaints from financial reformers than the improper classification by which charges were made under a variety of different heads, which led to the greatest obscurity and confusion, where all should, and might, be plain and simple. Why should producing a largerthe Post-office nu receivesthaa w the a s credit for actually obtained, while an expenditure of 773,3601. on account thereof was charged in the 'naval esti mates, which were thus erroneously increased to that extent ? Why should the real expense of the con vict system be diminished, while the sums paid on that account improperly swelled our marine expendi4 ture ? Much discontent was occasioned thereby, and. many complaints preferred, that might have been avoided if things had been called by 'their right names. Henceforth the system will be changed, and the simple truth disclosed. The real saving, which amounts to 640,908/. only, is to be effected in the following manner:—There is to be a reduction of 1,500 seamen, and of an equal num ber of marines, making 3,000 men in all, who will be turned adrift to seek employment in other nations, where their services may be better appreciated than in their native land. The savings will be in wages and. provisions, 109,3741. ; in the scientific branch, 24,410/4 in wages to artificers, 46,58 3 / 4 in na val stores, 1.8 8,3441., and in new works improvements, 234,6671. duch credit cannot be accorded for this latter saving , as it simply arises from the completion of certain • works that have been c.arried on at a considerable expense for several years. The estinain 'es for the present year are divided into two distinct b, ranches—the effective service and the non -effective se, 'vice. On the latter, which consists of rewards for p, Ist services—such as h alf-pay pen sions, all6Wancen .of various kinds—there .has been no reduction; indeed there is an increase of _12,124/. It is manifest that in th is respect the reductions can only . . be gradual. The public faith cannot be violated to the recipients. Great care should, however, be taken to prevent new claims from arising unnecessarily. No indications of future economy have been held out in this respect—no promise that there should be an alteration of the present system. The full number of flag-officers are still to be maintained—we are still to have 150 admirals (in addition to 45 retired rear admirals), of whom 13 only are in comnkission ; while 182 flag-officers are placed on the non- dffective list. Few indeed of the number have any prospect of actual employment ; indeed, the age and infirmities of the majority would prevent the possibility of their again entering upon the active duties of their pro fession. We must again emphatically declare, that we do not desire that existing interests should be inter fered with—that the pay or pensions that have already been granted, and for the continuance of which the national faith is to a certain extent pledged, should be in any degree reduced. But some guarantee should be given that the vacancies as they may arise should not be filled up, or at least that but one ap pointment should be made for every three vacancies until the number be reduced within reasonable limits, say to 75 or 100 admirals at the outside, which would be amply sufficient for every purpose that could be required; indeed not one-sixth of the num ber could possibly be employed under any combina tion of circumstances that might arise. Let the promotions then be distributed with sparing,and cautious hand, and we shall not find so large a demand upon the national resources as 1,394,1701., the estimate for the present year, for non effective service, the demand for the past year having been 1,332,0461. ; in this respect, therefore, there is no improvement. The rank and Parliamentary , in fluence of many of the parties still forbid the appli cation °film pruning knife, and the enforcement of that economy and retrenchment that is exhibited in other quarters. In the effective service, 4,719,3701. only is de manded, the original estimate last year h a ving been 5,507,9781: The full amount, however, was not required, and 161,6981. was applied to expenses ,of the packet service performed by her MAJESTY'S mail vessels, which, as we have already explained, is henceforth to be charged to the Post office department. We confess that we regard with some misgivings the reduction of 3,000 men, the number asked for the ensuing year being 39,130 only. It is not the pay or provisions of the men that constitute the objectionable items, and we trust that no attempts will be made to reduce the number be low that which may be required for the maintenance of the national honour and the national dignity. We beg to refer our readers to a communication signed "A Constant Reader," which will be found in another column. Our correspondent notices a portion of the speech of Mr. HUDSON at the meeting of the Midland Railway Company which escaped the notice of all the reporters, as well our own as those belonging to other journals. We now gladly supply the omission, which still further confirms the estimate we had formed of the value of the stock. It appears that from the diminished rate of interest now demanded, all the money that may be required by the company, under the borrowing powers still available, may be obtained at four per cent. A very con siderable saving will thus be effected—a saving which the Chairman estimates as being sufficient to increase the dividends by one per cent. This fact cannot be too widely circulated. It will completely remove ainy fear that might have existed in the minds of the shareholders of diminished dividends, and will ead to great firmness in the quotations. THE FIIIIE L_ REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. In the discussion which look place on the affairs of Rome in the National Aiserably on Tuesday (a re port of till -commencement of which appeared in the Third Edition of The Sim of last, evening) M. Pou- JOLAT, who 'advocated the restoration to the Porn of his temporal power at any price, was followed by M. T. Bac, who said the question before the Assembly was one that ought to have a solution, and to effect that object he had just laid on the bureau of the President an order of the day to the following effect:—" The National ' Assembly, persisting in its declaration of the 25th May last, passes to the order of the day." The Government, he said, had not expressed itself clearly as to the con• duct it intended to pursue, but, from the explanations which had been given from that tribune, it was evident that if intervention took place the Government would not regard it with regret. The Roman Republic was a fact which the French Republic should feel it an honour to protect. The language which had been used by the Minister] of Foreign Affairs might do very well for a minister under the monarchy, but it did not suit that of the French Republic, and Republicans should not tolerate such language.—(Mur murs.) The Roman Republic flowed from the same origin as the French Republic.—(Loud interruption.) He maintained that the revolution of Februar and the Roman revolution were of a similar character'; but for the former the latter would not have taken place.—(Hear, hear, from the Left.) You would not allow a hand to be laid on the French Republic; do not, therefore, inter fere with the Roman Republic, for that would be to de stroy your own principle. M. Aylies said that no one had a right from that tri bune to contest the legitimacy of the events which had taken place at Rome. But in making that declaration, he did not mean to admit that there was any similarity of character between the French and the Roman revolu tions. In his opinion the most important part of the question was the declaration made at Rome, that the Spiritual Power should have every guarantee, and also full independence. In that point of view the question interested the whole Catholic world, and it would abdi cate its rights and its duties, if it did not interfere to establish the independence of the Spiritual Power. — (Cries from all sides of " Divide, divide.") Numerous Voices on the Right—The order of the day, pure and simple. The President—M. Bac has withdrawn his order of the day; there is, consequently, nothing to divide on. The incident was then declared to be closed. The National protests most energetically again t any attempt on the part of France to destroy the Roman Republic, and to restore the PoPE by force of arms ; and argues, not without some show of reason, that if France has a right to restore the POPE by force of arms, Russia has the same right to restore by force HENRY V., or Louis PHILIPPE. These papers state that General AUPIC, the French Minister at Constantinople, had joined Sir STRAT FORD CANNING in his protest against the occupation of Wallachia and Moldavia by Russia, and that General LE FLO, the French Minister at St. Peters burgh, has addressed the Russian Government in very decided language on this subject. The French and English Ministers have likewise, it is said, for bidden the negotiation of any secret treaty between Russia and Turkey, much to the delight of the latter power, which is prepared at once to go to war with Russia with the certainty of being supported by England, and the probability of being supported by France. It was announced in Paris yesterday that the pre liminaries of the Conferences at Brussels for the settlement of the Italian question had commenced, and that Count CoLLARaDo, the Ambassador of Austria to that Conference, had declared that he was charged by his Government to make known that he would not take any official part in the meeting, un less, before all things, the plenipotentiaries would formally engage to recognise, in the name of their respective Courts, the integrity of the treaties of 1815. To this important declaration, Count CoLLA REDO added that Austria, in accord with her powerful allies, was decided to take the necessary measures to make the treaties which had been signed and ac cepted by Europe duly respected, and would not admit that the Conference of Brussels should have any other object. AMETTLER, the Spanish Progressista chief, has been driven across the frontier into France. He was followed by the QUEEN'S troops, who again violated the French territory by shooting five Spaniards who had taken refuge in France, and seizing eleven others rand carrying them as prisoners into Spain. A report was current that the PRESIDENT of the Republic had pledged himself to maintain the treaties of 1815, and to unite with the Austrian Government in the Pacification of Italy. The Parliamentary Club of the Council of State, consisting of the members of the former Club of the Institute, have named a special committee, composed of MM. GARNIER PAGES, PAGNERRE, BARTHELEMY SAINT-HILAIRB, and Ducraae, for the purpose of di recting the approaching elections. The - Comm — ittee on - the Electoral Law have pro pdfuonsce ti t n h a e r e following i n agm paymentend ria e n t e t o l e e t h t e e d B r i l e l p : r — e s ' e l n All a tives of the people, and not comprised in the excep tions specified in the 77th and 78th clauses of the present law, shall be bound to choose previous to the verification of their qualifications between their func tions and their legislative appointment ; in default of option, they shall be considered to have resigned their functions by the simple fact of their admission as members of the Legislative Assembly." The Liamone steamer, which had been sent to the island of St. Marguerite to take on board the 52 Arab prisoners pardoned by the President of the Republic, returned with them to Toulon on the 15th, and was to sail for Algiers in a day or two. The Three-per-Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse yesterday at 49f. 95c.; the Five-per. Cents. at 81f. 60c.; Orleans Railroad Shares, 805 f. ; Rouen, 520 f. ; llavre, 335 f.; Great Northern, 446 f. 25c.; Avignon, 181 f. 25c.; Vierzon, 340 f.; Basle, 92f. 60c.; Bor deaux, 416 f. 25c. ; - Paris and Strasburg, 355 f.; Tours, and Nantes, 335 f. I'..IS3INESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, FEB. 21. Central ; of France (Orleans and Vierzon), 11 1 7 .,/- 2 —.Talnur and Licge, 9 4—Northern of France, 93 Orleans and Bordeaux, 3:3;4 —Paris and Rouen, 2.0 , / 2 ex niv.—Paris and Strasbourg, 3A l —Rouen and Hay:s, 13% Sambre and Meuse, s—Tours and Nantes, 24. which bai been as3igned respectively to their churches for certain purposes under the statute, into si perate parishes quoad sacra disjoining these from the parishes of which ttiey at the time formed parts, and declared that the minister of these churches inducted, or to be in- ducted, were, and should be, authorised to exercise and enjoy within their respective districts the whole powers and privileges competent to parish ministers, as fully and freely as if their respective districts had been ordi nary parishes; and further declared, that such ministers wcse and should be constituent members of all presby teries, synods, church courts, and judicatories what soever, and should enjoy every privilege as fully and freely, and with equal powers, as parish ministers, re quiring, as the enactment required, all such judicatories within whose bounds the churchee were situated to receive and enrol the ministers as members thereof, and to put them in all respects on a footing of Presbyterian equa lity with the parish ministers of the Established Church. In the sat* year there had been presented to the As sembly petitions from various chapels of ease ministers, praying that they might be received into the same posis tion as parish ministers with kirk sessions and parochial districts; and there had also been transmitted overtures from several presbyteries to the same effect; on consi deridg'which the General Assembly pronounced a deli liver/mice, whereby approving of the objects of the over turea' and the petitions, they appointed a committee to consider by what means these might be most effectually araixtensively carried into execution. In consequence of the prospects thus held out, preparations were corn• naenced in various parts of the country for taking ad vantage of the change in the condition of chapels of ease, which it was certainly anticipated would be effected at the next Assembly, as had already been effected as to the Parliamentary churches. In particular, a " proposal " for the formation of a society iu Glasgow for the erection of additional " pa rochial churches" in that city and its suburbs, was circulated by certain of the pursuers, and subscrip tions obtained thereto, the formation of which society and the payments of the subscriptions were expressly contingent upon the power of eight presbyteries to give parochial districts and' corresponding privileges to such places of worship, and upon the passing of an Act of Parliament to exclude the right of the patron when these should be made the churches of quoad sacra parishes. A Bill was accordingly introduced into the House of Commons by a Member who was a subscriber to the " proposal," and became president of the society, when subsequently constituted after the passing of the " Act el Assembly anent Chapels of Ease," atter mentioned for excluding the right of the patron over places of wor ship built by voluntary contribution, and erected into parochial churches, either as additional churches in an existing parish, or as the churches of new parishes, whether the same be erected quoad spiritualia, by authority of the Church Courts of the Established Church of Scotland, or also quoad temporalia, by authority of the Commission of Teinds. This Bill was passed into an Act, and it was in the course of passing, when the General Assembly of 1834, convened in May of that year, passed what was called the Veto Act, which was afterwards declared by the Court of Session and the House of Lords to be illegal. Three churches were erected by, and two of them were conveyed to, parties not connected with the society; but the society still held fifteen other churches, erected out of its funds, the property of which churches, and of the ground on which they respectively stand, was feudally vested in trust in certain individuals mentioned in the summons in this cause. The Presbytery of Glasgow as signed and allocated to these several places of worship special districts in the neighbourhood of each place of worship respectively, with the exception of one named Springburn Church, which was not opened till the. year 1842, which several districts they erected into parishes, quoad sacra, disjoining the same from the pa rishes of which they formed parts. Ministers were duly ordained, and inducted by the Presbytery as the minis ters respectively of the places of worship, with the ex ception of Springburn Church, and of the parishes quoad sacra respectively attached thereto; and were by the Presbytery enrolled as members thereof. A body of elders, to constitute with the ministers the kirk session of each of the several churches and parishes, was also ordained by the authority of the Presbytery in each of these churches and parishes, except the church of Springburn; and thenceforward exercised sessional juris diction therein respectively, to the exclusion of the session of the parishes by which the several districts erected into parishes quoad sacra respectively formed parts; and the Presbytery thenceforward received and admitted a representative elder chosen by each of these kirk sessions as members of the general Presbytery. It has since been decided, in the Stewarton case, that the Church of Scot land, as established by law, and the judica tories thereof; have no power to allocate and assign districts or parishes quoad sacra, such as those here in question, or to constitute kirk sessions for such places of worship and parishes, or to admit the ministers thereof to sit in church courts, or to any of the privileges of parish ministers, or in any way to alter or innovate upon the parochial state of parishes as regards pastoral super intendence, kirk sessions, and jurisdiction, and disci pline belonging thereto. Under these circumstances, the question arose, what was to be done with these churches? On the one band, it was contended that the object of the subscribers not having been answered, the churches thus prevented from having ministers enjoying all the church rights, ought to be sold; While, on the other, it was contended that these churches were absolutely attached to the Established Church of Scotland, and must so re main. The Court of Session adopted this latter view of the case, and upon the appeal from that decision their Lordships now gave judgment. The Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, and Lord Campbell having stated their opinions to be in ac cordance with the judgment pronounced in the Court below. The HousE ordered the appeal to be dismissed with costs. which the Baboo would proceed in order to get into the river. The Baboo was then taken along the kasin of the docks with the aesistonce of some water men's boats to the entrance of the docks. At thst time the Lion was stationed outside, and the Newcastle also, though no contract had been entered ;alto with the hitter in consequence of the message not having reached the defendants. It was the business of the waterinen to hand over the hawser of the Baboo to the stefah-tug out side the entrance. At that moment the Newcastle was endeavouring to push itself towards the vessel for the purpose of catching the hawser; the crew of the Lion were trying also to do the same thing. The Newcastle, however, succeeded in taking possession of the hawser, and proceeded to tow the Baboo down the river on the assumption that the Newcastle had been employed for that purpose. The captain of the Baboo was ex ceedingly anxious that no time should be lost, because they were just at that point of the tide when a few minutes would have been of the greatest importance; and, therefore, he did not interfere to prevent the de fendants towing his vessel. The crew of the Lion kept following the Baboo and remonstrating with the cap tain until they arrived at Limehouse Reach. At that time, without any the least assignable reason, and acting with the greatest negligence, the tug Newcastle began to slacken its speed. The captain of the Eaboo called out to them to go on ; but, all of a sudden, the hawser attached to the Newcastle tug_was loosened and cast off, and the Baboo was cast adrift in the most dan gerous part of the river, with S.S.W. wind. This pro ceeding had the effect of driving the Baboo ashore, and it was for the damage she had sustained that the present action was brought. The case was not concluded when wo went to press. EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) ;Sittings at Nisi Prim, at Guildhall, before Mr. Baron PLATT and fa Special Jury.) GRAPES V. PUNNET. Mr. Cockburn an i Mr. Barstow appeared for the plaintiff ; and Mr. Martin and Mr. Humfrey, and another Learned Gentleman, for the defendant. . The Postmoster-General, the Marquis of Clanricarde, and Colonel Moberly, the Secretary of the Post-office, were present on the bench. Mr. CUCKBURN, in opening the ease, said this action was brought against the defendant as the proprietor and publisher of the John Bull newspaper, for a libel pub lished in that paper reflecting upon the character of the plaintiff. Mr. Robert Grapes, the plaintiff, filled the situation of letter-carrier in the employment of the Post office—a not very exalted and elevated condition in life certainly, but one the humility of which, it would be imagined, would have secured to him immunity against attacks in a newspaper of the aristocratic character and pretensions of the John Bud. It seemed however, according to the statement in the plea of justi• fication, and the statement contained in the libel itself, that Grapes had been instrumental in assisting Mr. T. Duncombe, the Member for Finsbury, in bringing cer tain alleged abuses connected with the administration of the Post-office before the attention of Parliament and the public. He supposed, therefore, that Grapes was thought worthy of a place in the newspaper as the sub ject of a most malignant and malevolent attack. It ap peared that certain parties connected with the Post office, among whom was a gentleman of the name of Kelly, had taken upon themselves the preparation and publication of a work, which was familiarly known to all, and the merits of which he was not disposed to deny, called the " Post-office Directory." In preparing that work Mr. Kelly was in the habit of availing himself very extensively of the assistance of letter carriers, whose various duties took them to the different districts of the metropolis, and afforded him the means of acquiring the information he wanted. Some question had arisen as to the propriety of employing men who were paid by the public, and whose time ought to be ex clusively devoted to the public service, for the advantage or gain of any private individual, complaints had been made on the subject by some of the letter-carriers, and among many others by the plaintiff, Grapes. A question had also arisen with regard to what was called the early delivery, which consisted, as he understood, in delivering to particular individuals who were disposed to pay for the accommodation, letters at an earlier period than the public at large were enabled to obtain them. The con sequence of that practice was, that while those favo u r e d and privileged individuals btained an early delivery of letters, the letters to the puclic generally were considerable delayed. A considerable number of -letter-carriers came forward to substantiate the charges ' which had been made on those subjects, and Grapes being among them, he acquired to himself the unfavour able and hostile sentiments of Mr. Kelly and the subor dinates who were connected with him, and was ulti mately dismissed. Whether there was any real charge which could be substantiated against him, whether there was any real or just cause for his dismissal, or whether ' circumstances which involved no criminality on his part were not seized upon and made a pretext for his dis ' missal by the persons to whom he had given offence, would be matter for the consideration of the jury. But before his dismissal, Mr. Duncombe having heard of the alleged _ _ abuses in the Post-office, and being a most indefatigable Member in exposing the abuses of public departments, thought it his duty to bring the matter under the at tention of Parliament. It was in 1846 that he first alluded to the subject in the House of Com mons, and in 1847, when he brought it forward again, he intimated that he would revive the subject iu the next session of Parliament, in the event of his being re-elected for Finsbury. In the meantime, however, a person of the name of Thacker, a letter car rier, who was hostile to Mr. Kelly, and was prepared to substantiate charges against him and others, with respect to those abuses, and another man named Ringrose, a sub-sorter, since charged with embezzling letters at the Old Bailey, convicted and sentenced to transportation. At the time of those convictions there appeared au arti cle in the John Bull in reference to the trials, but it was only important so far as it introduced the name of Grapes to the readers of the journal. The article, however, which contained the libel complained of ap peared on the 24th of July, 1847, and was as follows: " We shall bear more of Abraham Thacker; mark our words ! So said we on the 10th inst., and we said truly. Abraham Thacker was one of Mr. T. Duncombe's Post office informers, and was sentenced to be transported to. day (unfortunate Abraham !) for embezzling letters. A worthy associate of Abraham is fishing up dirty matters for Mr. Duncombe of the vinous name of Grapes. Robert Grapes has since been dismissed from the Post office for endeavouring to tamper with the witnesses by whose evidence Thacker's guilt was proved. I have received a great deal of information from Grapes,' quoth the lion. Member for Finsbury (information, we opine, is not the only thing he has received from Grapes), and therefore, Oh !—of course, therefore this charge of tam pering has been trumped up. Poor Grapes has been plucked before he was ripe. All this is so natural a course of events that nobody can doubt it. The fact is (only Mr. Duncewbe did not like to say so yet.) Grapes, in stead of tampering with the witnesses, was merely en deavouring by his moral and religious influence to pre vail upon them to speak the truth respecting his crony Abraham, the said witnesses being two perjured rogues suborned by the Postmaster-General, or those wicked and diabolical persons Mr. F. Kelly and Mr. W. &ken ham (the former, says Mr. Duncombe. is the greatest tyrant ever employed in any department') to swear away his life if they would. 'All this will come out next ses sion when Mr. Duncombe, if he is again elected for Finsbury,' means to revive the su:)ject. Meanwhile we hope he will behave generously to poor Grapes, and squeeze him into a good place of some sort or other, since it is most manifest he has lost the one he had in consequence of doing his (Mr. Duncombe's) dirty —no, we mean his snow-white work. He has a pair of them now on his hands—Abraham in the hulks, and Grapes, pining, perhaps, in a back garret upon nothing a day and finding himself. We are quite sure that the juice of the grapes will be as poison to his lips so long as Grapes (perhaps he is a married man with a family, which would make a bunch of Grapes) is the victim of this Kelly fever." He (Mr. Cockburn) could not conceive anything more malignant than the spirit in which that article was written, especially as it assumed, and per haps not without some reason, that the man Gropes, with his family, would be compelled to starve in a garret. The libel charged the plaintiff with tampering with the witnesses who were called to prove the guilt of Thacker, but he denied that he had done so, and he called upon the defendant to make good his assertion. He could not suppose that the article had emanated from the editor of the paper, but strongly suspected that it had been cut and dried by some gentleman connected with the Post-office, and the plaintiff would have brought this action against the writer of the article instead of the publisher, but thedefendant refused to furnish him with his name, and the only offer he made was to insert sny statement in the John Bull which the plaintiff might think proper to make. The defendant was therefore responsible for the libel, and he had no doubt that he was backed up and assisted by those officers of the Post office under whose malig nity the plaintiff had suffered. There could only be one construction put upon the case, viz., that the plain tiff had caused the displeasure of the Post office authorities because he had furnished information to a Member of the House of Commons, with a view to a disclosure of the maladministration of that department of the public service. Upon those grounds he contended the plaintiff was entitled to the full amount of damages. The publication of the libel, and the application of it to the plaintiff, was then proved, and plaintiff's case closed. Mr. MARTIN addressed the jury on the part of toe de fence, contending that the defendant had done nothing more than his duty as a public journalist in commee' ing, as he did, upon the trials at the Old Bailey. I_ maintained the correctness of the charge, that the plain tiff had been guilty of tampering with witnesses, in order to deter them from telling the truth. The Marquis of Clanricarde examined into the truth of the accusation, and decided that it had been proved; whereupon he made a minute, and dismissed the plaintiff from the Post office. If his Lordship had not done that, he would have neglected his duty to the public. The only ques tion was, whether the plaintiff had been rightly eis missed; and if the jury thought he had, the verdict would be for the defendant. On the other hand, if a verdict was found tor the plaintiff, he contended that the smallest possible amount of damages would be sufficient, as he had suffered no injury whatever. The Marquis of Clanricarde, Mr. Peacock, the soli citor of the Post , office, and Col. Maberley, the secretary, were then briefly examined, as to the cause of the plain - tiffs dismissal—their evidence corroborating the state ment of Mr. Martin. A witness proved that the article complained of was in the handwriting of the late Mr. Mudford, who was formerly editor of the John Bull. The case had not concluded when our re )orter left. SOMETHING BINDING ON THE NOIIILITY.—None but Lords are allowed to receive the Order of the Garter. We do not envy them, for the Garter is gene rally considered a fitting ornament for 0611,m—ranch. CRAIG V. DIIFFUB ♦ND OTHERS. Their Lordships also gave judgments in this case, which came before them upon appeal, also 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-en gine, which had been put on board one of the company's boats, and could not be worked. The Court of Session decided that they had not, and their Lordships to-day adopted their decision, and dismissed the appeal with costs. LIVINGSTONE V. PROUDFOOT AND OTHERS. The further arguments in this part-heard appeal were resumed this morning, and occupied their Lordships the whole day. The appellant was the minister a short time ago:of the Church of Cambusnethan, in the Presbytery of Hamilton, in the county of Lanark, and the res pondents represented the members of the Presbytery of Hamilton. It chanced that in the year 1835, a re• port had become prevalent in the parish, to the effect that the ministers had been guilty of certain acts of theft. A lengthened negotiation was the result, in which the heritors of the parish took a leading part, with the hope of making such au arrangement of the matters as would prevent any public exposure. These negotiations not terminating b a way that was satisfac tory to the present appellant, he then made an appeal to the General Assembly, by whom, i❑ compliance with his request, the matter was remitted to the Presbytery of Hamilton, accompanied by instructions that the case should be investigated in accordance with the rules of the Church. The Presby tery of Hamilton was composed of the ministers of what were denominated quoad sacra parishes. This tribunal adjudged against thu appellant. These parishes were created iu all parts of Scotland, by virtue of a law which passed in the year 1834, and had never been chal lenged until the year 1840. From the judgment of that tribunal the appellant made a further appeal to the Synod of Glasgow and Ayr, by whom the judgment of the former was affirmed, with the exception of one par ticular charge. The appellant thereupon entered a pro test, and applied for leave to appeal to the General As • sembly. Ultimately the matter came before the Court of Session, and from the judgment of that Court the present appeal had been made. Mr. Bethell and Mr. Anderson were Counsel for the appellants, and Mr. Holt appeared for the respondents. The arguments occupied the Court the whole morning COMMON PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi Prins, at Guildhall, before the Lord Chief Justice WILDE and a Special Jury.) EINCAIRD AND ANOTIIER V. WILL IS . In this case Mr. Crowder , Queen's Counsel, Mr. Ser geant Channel, and Mr. Greenwood were counsel for the plaintiffs, and Mr. Sergeant Byles represented the de. fendant. Mr. CROWDER, in stating the case, said the plaintiffs were the owners of a vessel called the Baboo, of 500 tons, which had been in the habit of trading to China. The defendants, who were the Shipowners' Towing Company, were sued by their secretary, who was the nominal defendant, under the provisions of an Act of Parliament; and the Shipowners' Towing Company having a number of tugs for the purpose of towing ves sels, were the owners of a tug called the Newcastle ; and this action was brought to recover a compensation in damages for the injury which had occurred to their vessel the Baboo from the misconduct and mismanagement of the defendant's servants engaged in navigating their tug, the Newcastle. The Baboo had returned on its homeward voyage from China in April, 1847, and having occasion for repairs was towed up to the dock of Messrs. Wigram, for the purpose of under going those repairs. On that occasion the Ship-owners, Company was employed for the purpose. Baying un dergone the necessary repairs at Messrs. Wigrams' dock, on the 20th of April, 1847, the Baboo was taken to the London Docks, and remained there until it had completed its cargo, and was engaged by some pas sengers to go on an outward voyage. It was in May that the arrangements had been completed, and the vessel was about to proceed from the London Docks on its voyage. On the 13th of May all the neces sary preparations had been made. There were twelve passengers to be taken out, and the vessel was then destined for Sydney. On the evening of the 13th May it was necessary that some steam-tug should be engaged for the purpose of towing the vessel out of the London Docks and down the river, and the de fendants' tug was engaged on the following morning. It was necessary that advantage should be taken of the state of the tide, and the vessel ought to have left the London Docks somewhere prior to one o'clock. It seemed that in consequence of some mistake having oc curred with the captain of the Baboo, in not having had an opportunity of giving the necessary intimation to the defendants for the purpose of sending their tug, no tug arrived. In that emergency one of the plaintiffs en gaged the steam-tug called the Lion, belonging to an other and a rival company, the Thames Towing Company. It was arranged that the Lion was to take up a position just outside of the Ishadsvoll entrance to the London Pocks. QUt cf SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 15th have arrived. CABRERA, it is said, had completely recovered from his wound, and was again in the field. The Navar rese Carlists are again in arms. The news of the defeat of AMETTLER is confirmed. The Comercio of Cadiz, of the 11th, states that there was every probability that the difference between Great Britain and Morocco would be amicably ad justed. The report of the murder of the British Consul at Tangier was unfounded. The English squadron was still at Gibraltar on the 7th. It then consisted of five ships of the line, one frigate, one brig, and six steamers. • The new GoYernor, Sir ROBERT GARDINRS =Witt on the 6th at GitOtarovph his family.. MADRID BODIA.,'reOI 18.—Five per Ceittt, Threes, 21i, both paper. Exchange on London, 49 40, paper. GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES. AUSTRIA. Advices hive been received from Vienna to she 15th. The Austrian Lloyd's says—" Count NUGENT has established his head-quarters in the environs of Essek. Intelligence from the army states that the fortress is surrounded by the Imperial troops on both the banks of the Drave." The Ost•cleutscher de Vienne says that Cronstadt has been taken by the Szeklers. The Imperial troops have gained a victory in the valley of Borgo. Coloneltransx, in command of the advanced!guard of the army of the Bukowine, fell unexpectedly on the 6th February upon the Hungarians, who were at Mi rosczuy, and made prisoners of 500 men and twelve superior officers, and took two cannon, provisions, &c. The Breslau Gazette, in its news from Hungary of the 13th, states that the Imperial troops have been beaten near to Zipackhaz, on the Theiss. SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN. FRB. 14.—The ex-Minister of War, M. FOSHI.• RING, having spoken in a late sitti n g of the Assembly, of the impossibility of Denmark to continue the war, said that Denmark did not possess an army on which it could implicitly depend for success ; and that even under the most favourable circumstances the advan tages gained would never compensate for the sacrifices made. This speech called forth much indignation from the belligerent party, and so great was the irrita tion among the people, when it got wind, that the mob went to the house of the ex-Minister and broke his windows. They then went in a body to the KING, at Christianburg, for the purpose of compelling him to declare war instanter. The KING, it is said, declared to the leaders of this demonstration that he was quite ready to a bdicate.—Hamburgh Borsenhalle. HOLLAND. Tus HAGue, Feb. 20.—The King has authorised the Netherlands Consul at Athens to appoint Mr. FERALDI his Vice-consul. His Majesty has likewise empowered the Consul-General of the Netherlands at London, to appoint P. W. CLARK, Es., his Vice- Consul at Glasgow, and the Nether an ds Consul at Valparaiso, to appoint Mr. J. BOONERS, his Vice- Qonsul. The Staats Courant contains a notice from the Minister of Finance, dated the 14th ef this month, stating by virtue of the laws of the 20th December, 1840, and the 30th October, 1848, Treasury Bonds have been emitted to the value of 7,994,000 florins. THE SECOND CHAMBER OF THE STATES GENERAL. The scrutiny of the votes being terminated, the Chamber proceeded to the election of the President. The highest votes were obtained by Messrs. VAN GOLTSTEIN, Tnolnucx, and A NEMAET. These three names will be presented to Ins MAJESTY, who will choose from thein a President for the present session. The captain of the Ernest Augustus steamer, which runs between Delfzyl, Emden, and Leer, has been invited to go to Leer on Tuesday next, for the pur pose of taking on board several deputies, who are charged to examine as to whether Ems will not be a proper spot for the establishment of a German mari time port. RUSSIA EXTENSIVE FAlLURE.—lntelligence has been re ceived from Moscow, stating that the large mercantile house of Shestor Brothers, at Kiachta, has failed for the sum of 2,500,000 silver rubles. Several of the smaller Russian houses will suffer materially by this failure.—Dutch Papers, Feb. 20. ITALY. The three members of the Executive Committee of the Roman Republic have taken up their residence in the Quirinal. A circular has been addressed by MAZZERELLI to the Roman Ministers at Foreign Courts, calling on them to give in their adhesion to the Roman Re.- public. Count PENAFIEL, the Portuguese Minister had, at Gaeta, on the 7th, an audience of the POPE, for whose restoration an alliance had been entered into between Austria, Naples, Spain, and France. The Grand Duke of TUSCANY was still at Porto Stefano on the 13th. The Provisional Government at Florence were proceeding in their duties, and were re-forming the National Guard, and taking the oaths of the army, the greater part of whom had taken them. There were some who refused, and, to avoid the fury of the people, nought to take refuge in the citadel, but their comrades would not receive them. The Pwdmc utese Gazette says that at Parma the Austrian General having declared his intention to occupy the po:;ts of the place and of the gate of St. Barnabas, the municipal authorities, in order to avoid a conflict and p robably bloodshed, had requested the National Guard to permit the occupation, and to re commend the p eople to remain quiet, as they would watch over thei r rights. TURKEY. Letters from Constantinople of the sth state that the Ottoman Minister for Foreign Affairs has pro tested against the entrance of the Russian troops into Transylvania, through Wallachia or Moldavia, on the footing that it is a direct and flagrant violation of the treaty of 1841, which secures the integrity and autonomy of the Sublime Porte, inasmuch as in the present disturbed state of Hungary, lawless free booters may with, impunity invade the Ottoman ter ritory, cause serious annoyance by these irruptions, commit depredations, excite confusion, and stir up rebellion. The protestation of the Divan has been followed by the of Sir STRATFORD CANNING and General Auric, who have come into the field as the advocates of the rights of Turkey, which have been violated most audaciously by Russia. The reply of the Russian Minister is said to have been couched in terms most offensive to the SULTAN. HOUSE 6 7 :1 ? LORDS.—(THIS DAY.) The House sat again to-day to hear Scotch appeals, and also to give judgment in two cases which have lately been argv.et before their Lordships. The Peers present were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, and Lord Campbell. BAIN V. BLACK AND OTHERS. Their Lordships gave judgment to-day in this case which was argut td before them during the course of last week upon appe:ll from the judgment of the Court of Sessions in Scot! and. The following are the facts of the case upon which their appeal was founded:—For a con siderable period prior ,to the year 1833, all additional places of worstip in connexion with the Established Church of Scotland, not being churches of parishes erected by decree of the commission of Teinds, under authority of the statute 1707, cap. 9, were placed on the footing without any parochial district of chapels of e ase, attached thereto, or a kirk session belonging to it to ex ercise spiritual discipline and government in the congre gation; and :.they were served by ministers not having seats in any of the judicatories of the church; the con gregation, and the bounds assigned as the peculiar sphere of the minister's service, being subject to the exclusive spiritual jurisdiction and pastoral superintendence of the minister and scision of the parish within which such places of worship are situated. The condition of such chapels 'of ease was considered to be so unfavourable and disadvantageous, with reference to the promotion of religious instruction and the providing of pastoral superina endeuce, that comparatively few persons could be indi iced to contribute towards the erection of such pl sees of worship; and during the lapse of the precedit ,g century, while the population of Scotland had net .rly doubled, and fully live hundred places of won hip had been built by voluntary contribu tion ire connexion with different Presbyterian non establisbc,s I communions in Scotland, professing the same doctrine, acid adhering to the same standards with the Establis'ned Church, which places of worship had the benefit c ,f kirk sessions, and of ministers on a footing of Presbyt arian parity with tbeir brethren, only 63 addi tional p laces of worship, on the footing of chapels of ease, had beet t erected by voluntary contribution in connexion with the Established Church of Scotland. In the year 1833 , the General Assembly of the Established Church passed, • with only one dissentient vaice, a de claratory enactment with reference to certain places of wor ship in the Highlands, built with funds voted by _Parliament under_ the, sth Geo. IV., c. 90, but ut.st erected into parish churches by that statute, or by the Court of Teinds, by which enact ments -th e Ar,sembly erected the PoToral districts LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAV.) LONDON, FEE. 22 —Vir.d this day at noon W.S.W•I moderwe bretzo and flue. OFF PORTSMOUTII, FEB. 21.—Comet, M era. YARMOUTIII, FEB. 21.—The Union, of GuernEeY , went on the Cross Sand this day, but got off, with loss of rudder, and with the assistance of a tog, has been brought into harbour. WHITBY, FEB. 21.—The Star, Walker, of this port, has put in here with loss of bowsprit, &e., having been in contact with a barque. The Newcastle, brig, Robin son, of this port, in taking the harbour this morning, struck the end of the east pier, and went on shore about half a mile to the south, and will become a wreck. LONDONDERRY, FEB. 20.—The Shamrock, from Liverpool to Rio Grande, which put in here on the 12th ult., with damage, drove from her anchors yesterday, and struck on a bank on the east side of Louth, but got off without damage. LIVIMPOOL, FED. 21.—Wind W.N.W. to S.S.W.-- Arrd. Milton, Sampson, Mobile; Blanchard, Blanchard, Mobile; Alert, Marseilles. Sid. Mary Winch, Valpa raiso ; Caroline, Reede, New Yoik ; Mary Florence, New York ; Kate, Rowe, New York; Mary, Smyrna. The Mary and Jane, from Cork, is on shore near Crosby Point. Off Port, 21—Charles Chaloner, New' Oilcans, BELFAST, FEB. 20.—Wind W.—Arrd. 18, Agnes, Smallinun, New York, with part of cargo thrown over CORK, FEB 18.—S1d. Charles, Newfoundland. DEAL, FEB. 21.—Wind N.W. to W.S.W.—Arrived Gaston, New York, and sailed for Bremen. Arrived from the River—SeringaPatam, Reckett, Madras; Leo' paid, Shire, Buenos Ayreie,; Saline, Sullivan, Rio Ja- neiro; John Cobbuld, Hendley, Jamaica. Sld. Huidec, Launceston, Van Dieman's Land. MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY.) IXTLIZTE CHAPEL. There was a slight improvement in the demand for the best meats at full prices. Otherwise the trade ruled extremely dull. Bed; from 2s 2d to 3s 4d; Muttons 3s to 4s 2d; Veal, 3s Bd,to 4s 8d; and Pork, 2s 10d go 43 4d per Blbs by the carcase. MEAT reLaRKETs. SOUTHALL, FEB. 21.—Our market was eXCeS3iirell dull to•day for all kinds of stock, the prices of which were quite 2d per 81bs lower than last week. Beef from 2s 10d to 3s 10d; Mutton, 3s Rd to sts 8d; Veal, 3s 10d to 4s 4d; and Pork, 3s 8d to 4s 2d per Sibs., to sink the RomonD, FEB. 21.—Calves were in moderate requests at full prices. Otherwise the trade was heavy, at droop' ing currencies. —Beef, from 3s to 3s 10d; Mutton, 3s 84 to 4s 8d; Veal, 3s 8d to 4s 4d; and Pork, 3s 4d to 4s 2° per Blbs. Suckling Calves, 18s to 255; quarter old store Pigs, 16s to 19s; and Mulch Cows, with their small Calf, 141 to 171 lOs each. LEWES, FEB. 20.—Trade generally flat, at deprassed quotations:—Beef, from 3s to 4s; Mutton, 3s 8d to 4 ; 1041 ; Veal, 4s to 4s 4d ; and Pork, 3s 6d to 4e 2° per Sibs. HAT IteLARIEETS. SMITUFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 21 lOs to 31 I3s; Clo Yet ditto, 31 lOs to 41 15s ; and Straw, 11 3s to 11 9s pet load. A fair average supply, and a steady demand. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 21 lOs to 31 1 5 " Clover ditto, 31 lOs to 4/ 10s ; and Straw, 1145 to 11 103 per load. Supply moderately good, and trai l rather dull. WIIITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 21 8a to Si 13 5 1 Clover ditto, 3/ 106 to 4l 17s; and Straw, 1/ 2s to 119' per load. Trade rather dull, at barely late rates. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN , For the Week ended Feb. 15.1848, made up from the R e t ur ns of ~"6 1 Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in Engl a nd an d if "• per Imperial Quarter. MEAT. I I BARLEY.I I OATS. RIR. I BEANS. P%l PRICE .. 147 s Oad I 28s 8d I lis 23 26s 9d I 29s 941 foe 4 DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. {TREAT. 1 BARLEY. I OATS. I BYE. I BEANS. Tot Is Oct is Od Is Od Is Od Is Od ls ad EAST LINCOLNSHIRE RAILWA I COMPANY.—(THIS DAY.) The usual half-yearly general meeting of the abov e company was held this morning, at the Great Norther° offices, in Moorgate-street; Mr. George Hussey packet chairman of the board of directors,_ in the chair. The reported stated that at the last ordinary meeti° 6 the directors promised that the railway would be o° 3 ; pleted and handed over to the Great Northern Railot Company in time to earn for the pr o p r i etors, b e f or e close of the year, an instalment of the annual rent 0f .6 1 per cent. This pledge had been well kept, the direer° r t 6 havini , had the satisfaction to receive from the GO . ; Northern Railway Company, and to pay to the shat holders of the East Lincolnshire Railway CompanYt b io the 30th of January last, a quarter's dividend of 0 guaranteed rent. The lease had been settled. 1.1 r 3 / 1 directors had agreed with the Great Nortb e o Railway Company that this company eb°, ll , o l raise, by the issue of debentures, the ogr e necessary to work the East Lincolnshire 1 ' 13 „,i provided that such capital did not exceed 150,0001.; °,`" o , the directors had reserved ample powers for sectio°,l the due repayment of such capital. In future, the Ou t would be paid half-yearly, in two dividends of 31. 1 3 , e cent., on the 30th July and 30th January respectivelP • and on the following days whenever either of these dote , fell on a Sunday. While the company remained a sell ! ' rate corporation, there must be a committee of director; half-yearly meetings of the proprietors, appointMentfi auditors, and other regular proceedings, in t erm s of ke Act; but it was proposed that both directors and Au tors should act gratuitously. I The balance-sheet represented th e rece i pts to 90"-ne to 619,1371. 14s. I Id., less 2,435/. s s . 7 d ., st ill d ue to a i l ° bankers, and the expenditure to the same amount , that 2,435/. ss. 7d. was still debitted to the companY', l 4, The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the reP,,d, had nothing to add to the information it contaPi. They had completed their line, which he had no be t io tation in saying would prove one of the best i f ,_ ll , o l kingdom, and it had been handed over to the LP Northern Company. s ki A PROPRIETOR wished to know whether the 'be Lincolnshire shareholders would b e li a bl e for t o t interest on the new debentures alluded to in the reptile, The CHAIRMAN said no doubt they would be . I „._`' re ss but they were guaranteed against lo ss by the ud Jeffthe Company. In fact that com p an y would the interest, and the East Lincolnshire s h a rehol would receive their 6/. per cent. clear of all incumbl ° but the property tax. ro ° g Mr. SELF wished to ask what had been theylireir earnings of the line during the two months it bad - in operation? The SECRETARY replied, 6,700/. Mr. SELF inquired if the lease to the Great 1 4 ° r ' - Company had been executed? The CHAIRMAN said it had. ther /1 Mr. JOHNSON said, in the event of th e Great.-- ° , i r t bei Company bang unable to pay the g uaran t e e, b 6 "„d to the power to take the line into their own hands, °: be sue the Great Northern Company for the differenc e tween the receipts arad the rent. The CHAIRMAN replied in the affirmative. The report was then adopted; after which the re tlti ing directors and auditors were re-elected. A resolution forfeiting seventy shares, numb ered fr° :6 lll, 19,973 to 20,032 inclusive, from 18,628 to 18,632 0 elusive, and from 8,112 to 8,116 inclusive, was 1 0° agreed to, after which, ti Thanks were voted to the chairman and director° the meeting terminated. - - f CYCLORAMA..—Among the numerous visitors O - a ,/ Cyclorama during the past week, w ere the followil3p4o .01 His Serene Higbness Princ e Lowenstein, Marcluf,'"o Headfort and party, Earl an d C ountess Harrington,[oo Gage, Lord Seagrav e , Lord Kilmaine, Lord Wtv'l l iV Lennox, Lady Lushington, Lady Harvey, LadY dd 9more, Lady Batem an , L a d y May and party' Erskine and party, Hon. Sir E. Cust, Sir Willi°C . r Lady Middleto n , Si r T. B . L ennard and party, 'llOO N. Buxton, Hon. Mrs. Calvert, Colonel Gardine r ' Captain Wemyss, &c. S 11° , 4 THE COMMERCIAL BANK O F ENGLANW--"-j i . r te , fortunate joint. stock bank, which had it s head-e, at Manchester, and failed some six or s e ven yea r ipo i having involved the shareholders (like the Bank e a Cioi chester, the Imperial Bank, and the N or thern 0 105 0 f i g tral Bank) in heavy responsibilities, b es id e s al . all their capital, had a private meeting l as t week/ stn s circular has been issued to the holders of stating that although the debts are all paid off , of tbf were in operation to prevent the final di ss olution,. r i 0, company. A history of the concern, with partinn;iseo' how the money " had been dissipated," is Pr 75 91 ' The total liabilities amounted to 1,9331. (i nc luding 9s /.1 the estimated amount of bills not sen t i n , and 8 0 0 1 , 1 notes in circulation, and not y e t p a id). A 0 1 1 010" there was 4621. cash in hand, and money receiy B " / ja% bankrupt's estates and other sources, 1,8571.---le balance of upwards of 380/. EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.—The fort. c f It e ; dividend will be ss. 6d. per share, with a baltal c A e to t P tween 15,000 L and 20,0004 to be carried forwar - June dividend. gen et ' The Bishop of Carlisle intends holding 6 ordination on Sunday, March 4. ----- On the 11th inst.. at Montalto, Ballynahinch , Down, the Hon. Mrs. Ker, the lady of D. • daughter. t . fee ° On the 15th inst., at Wimbledon, the wife of Peh Esq., of a son. n $0 01) On the 15th inst., at Bedf or d, th e l a dy o f P. 'l'. °° f Esq., of a daughter. the cif On the 16th inst., at O rme - square, B ayswa ter, • e I W. H. Gardner, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIED ' %A . :, On the 15th inst., a t W oo l w ich,' ' T. W. Reev es cr lit e ' Church-house, Be c kl e y, S ussex , to M ary, second d s ' o .. ~ the late J. Mo r l ey , E sq ., Ri pon, Y or k s hi re. w o:i , On the 15th inst. at Rickmansworth, Charles k te r of Esq., of Lausanne, ' Kilburn, to Harriet, only datigr n hir f e n 'DO, S. Smith, Esq., of Melton-wood, near Brigg, Lit ' 1 " On the 15th inst., at Shirehampton, Gl o cester , '„ficl'ot D. T. Niblett, E,q., eldest son of D. J. Niblett, (I A l ' - sr Harestield-court, in the same county, to Car 010 0 0" younger surviving daughter of the late D. • A ' Eq., of Glocester. 1 .„,-, sis ter DIED. ' it fAW - On the 17th inst., in Baker-street, Charlotte 0. „ sag er, of Lieutenant-General Sebright Mawby, aged °' liV P ' - eif On the 17th inst., in the Effra-road, Brixton, oc rBs the wife of Charles Bacon, Esq., of the StaraP e 4 Cile4l' Somerset-house. W On the 17th inst., at Blossoms Inn, Lawre nce- 180 4 ife o f side, Mr. J, Plater, aged 62. the On the 18th inst., at Haverstock-hill, Sa rah, Captain William Ticehurst, H.E.I.C. S. d, Ee c qiBx t i On the Sth inst.. at Park-square, W. H. Lie.V i oio In the Cloisters, Westminster Abbey, Charles youngest son of the Rev. H. H. Dittman. , of 11SnIt Y° ondon : Printed and Published by MURD 0 Na/.10. 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