The Sun. — London, England, 1856-02-19 00:00:00

low be wel the re-esta -1 which wl l ,, all parties." n Gazette, Lim charged ddressed to which now I Vienna ie Our official 6n regiment 1 ; and the 6r the name ra :—" Our i accident, with anY r Majesty's airing, and irn to the tppenod to id accident 3 Empress, 1 to whose punished.', Bth, in the Ter roubles E 3 construe. tlrchangel• be reserve Lie two last i fresh de iilitary do )bility, for following -" General ps d'armee a tolerable I, but the Lem. The are rather Ismael id OBlllan arrived at )e coneen a part of mu a por t been ex at Hassan ks." publisher 3 banquet Deputies, slier Bal ms as fol.- from Paris i is the au- May safely not over• Tony Italy, ted by the Europe by confidence for it is Vie supremacy, whioh are of lilsertfr nterests of 11 as those aw autbo students artillery, could not , t number up during I of Yellow I. At one I even and verde the,' rain to 100 ige ground how. For I a decline, the former er. 1 and 8 to )l. 7to 1 to 1 freely vestment• nall sums. Lou which irday, was 'u.3 merely he Two Derby. hich was e much thick is mg cora rby and )up, the iourand o Cara )o cm. ify two ms Una 858. I of my signed Charles ederiok 1 pro be pur ad vela. l impo. by iii." A two ,ussell 'onned on ray ;IMOLA. le and e that nineo- FROK 'ere is sinesa .4 on MONEY MARKET COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed with much animation. Compared with Friday's rates quotations of all kinds were fully sustained. The sales were estimated at 10,000 bales (of which 1,000 were for export and 3,000 on speculation), comprising 260 Perham and Maranham, 61d. to 200 Bahia, 6id. to 6d. ; 150 Egyptian, 6d. to 100. ; 300 Surats, at 31d. to 4id.; and 100 Sea Islands, 10d. to 2s. 2d. In the Railway Shar• Market the business was of a much improved character. Th• tone of the market was better and prices were higher. Letters from Madrid mention that the general opinion of the people is not in favour of the pro- Posed measure of the new Minister of Finance, Senor Santa Cruz, to replace the octroi duties by au indirect general contribution. It is said that the old law was only oppressive on five articles of consumption, whereas the new law will be oppressive upon all. That the old law was only burdensome to the con sumer, while the new law will be equally so upon Consumer and producer ; and finally, that the new partition of the districts and provinces to come under the general tax is made with perfect equality. The retirement of the former able Minister of Finance, Senor Bruil, is much regretted through out Spain, in the present state of financial affairs of the nation. Tho Moniteur has published a financial state ment of the expenses incurred by the French na tion in prosecution of the war against Russia, which shows a considerable increase yearly, during the three years it has lasted. The items are as follows 11123 401,641,8251. 1854 601,251,0251. 18b5 1,079,801,425L 3 T0ta1.... _. 2,082,694,3751. 20 The foregoing shows an increase in the expendi turn for the army and navy of France during the et. Past year as compared with that of 1854 of 20 418 , 5 50400 f. ; the total of the year amounting to N i more than the two previous years. Should the 81 War continue this year a further increase on 1855 !( 0 ) e xpected. These figures are significant of th e 25 Pressure upon the financial resources of France, as 25 i "unncing' the Government in the present pacific fi i2 t ; 48 Pect of affairs. 10 The h a lf- year l y meet i ng o f t h e Blackwall Rail- et. /14 3' Company was held to-day, when some discus dt - B Lou took place. The net revenue for the past half- 2 1 3 ' 4l ' was 23,896/. 14s. sd. from which the interest 1.00 asdeb en t ures was deducted, leaving 19,3331.75. 4d. if t v allable for a dividend of 3s. 6d. per share. There 50 t r a p some complaint about the falling off in the 20 affic. The report and dividend were agreed to. st. 4 -ce plan proposed yesterday by the Chancellor 50 the _Exchequer with regard to the n e w l oan has st. igteherally been condemned in the city, as the mo unt is considered disproportioned to the exiSt t of th e Government. Indeed the sum to 't. the raised will no t suffice for the expenditur e o f 8 itoeuntry until the 24th of April, when the st. :It instalment will become payable and a 25 l'rthee appeal to our capitalists will, in all 23 l ac hability, immediately ensue. That a large out- 5 , ( 4 ) 0 7 Will be un avo id a bl e , even a ft er th e declaration rt,"" i t Peace, is generally admitted, a n d th e G overn - if 41 t, with the knowledge of this fact, have no d oubt determined to obtain only sufficient abl 'is for the public service until it may reason he expected that the result of the 4 201 Conf erences s h a ll h ave b een ma d e k nown , ea arrangements for future pecuniary aid can be i t : e „ . ted were advantageously to the general money f re -r 'et) and to the Government likewise. Still limit loans, even though they may be for very e ,"' lt ed sums, are objectionable, and tend to impair th 4cl eace • and it i s no t, therefore, surprising that p li e ti re aenemeasure has been objected to when the ration were so fullyprepared f o r a much h eav i er ope th l ea. If th e G overnmen t h ave th e con fid ence i n i; result of the peace negotiations that may be it , erred from the various statements elicited from p!eao intimately connected with the Cabinet, th e Y o tiatien of a small loan, however, may ou th e g , tße nt Occasion p rove more sa ti s f ac t ory t h an i s ge nt occasion anticipated. It i s b e li eve d th at M essrs. tf i v‘uschild only will op en a su b scr i p ti on li st, but 8 Usual circul ar announc i ng suc h i ntent i on has 4 °t Yet been issued. Tie Funds, which improved yesterday when the particulars of the new loan transpired, have since 6„ ec 'ole heavy, owing to the policy of Sir George ' ..l.ll ewall Lewis being considered ill-advised. atStill,however, as all will depend upon the satis erY progress of the Peace Conferences v l i e „ dealers await the preliminary meeting is Much anxiety, and very little business tli„ l 'elY in the meantime to be reported. The de inkr," 'prices is about I per cent. Consols for 4; 1 "Y have been 901 and 901 /, while for the to (ejonnt they have been 901 to 91, and since 90'4 ktd l i. The New 3 per Cents. have been 91-i ha v e i l t ° 3 per Cent s . 90; to 91f. Exchequer Bills 11 4 be en ss. dis. to par, and India Bonds 2 s . di s . 41,c Stock is 2131, an d I n di a St oc k 225. T oi l ! Foreign Market i s ex t reme ly i nac ti ve . p,, 1811 6 per cents. have declined to 93L and the k ee ntS to 99 1 and 100. Belgian 41 per cents. .r e ar , • _ 1 , ' 1 7") and the Dutch 4 per cents. 951 St,, et .° f ollowing are the nominal prices of Foreign 2ea ' Bl--- Grenada Deferred Bonds, 62- 7i; Mexican, A o '4 ; Peruvian, 80 81 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 56 57 ; C ent u guese 4 per Cents., 47 49 ; Russian 5 per a . S 0,,,.*;_,. 1 U4 ; ditto 4i per Cents., 92 94 ; Spanish Ci r -- ,‘„‘-; 6 11te., 421 •, ditto Deferred, 230 jr ; ditto 41 5 ; ditto Passive, 61 4. tra"waY Shares are all rather heavier, but th e sli d ions are of a limited character. The de- P or e ,iu several i ns t ances is ss. to 103. per sha re . 4'n and Colonial are dull. Part: lllll3 g, Banking, and other shares were without change. Itticular 4tio nal Discount Company's Shares are ± to hAITPrem. ABl l FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES. 4 te 3 h .- Stec ( From the Oficial Lie.) m.i n A., d one . 213 i 15. i 14 Reduced Annuities 9l 90i 1} 1 fr Na~ r ' „ue ut console Annuities 903 iiA L i ~,0 6, pe r Cont. Annuities o, 4 Pr Cent, An nu iti es 74 A nnuities expire sth Jan. 1860... i n itto 1.. Year's expire sth April, 1885 l6l Lodi 14,_""ds £lOOO und b er £lOOO 2 d Cis f or Account c `,, e iao° o quor Bills 24d. 45 0 * 3 d par 5 1 3 El t hlll4l d tto 2onds, 1858, 311 per Cent 97i 8 1 1 / 4 ,,. 111 t10E8 OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. fr,"„ l4 ' , Bonds, 5 per Cent. ,t`iiili . „‘ ° New, 5 per Cent., 1829 and 1839 lOO ' 4 4pi s l t i l ,,, }3o tls, 6 per Cent CO 3 per Cent., 1825 s Per t 11 . b'tt,:!, muds, 4. per Cent. qtr i i i i h ," 0 Per Cent, 55 tioNtz' ,l l 13 0nIs, 5 per Cent. h7a R onde, 3 per Cent— illt,!8 Account Ditt o , Nevi Deferred, 3 per Cont. Nritic,o Pa ss i ve 4 1 44 4 A lt " 1 : 1 8. 6 per cent 9 12 )4 ) le ct°l "" Dittow Seri ) 4 per Cent Account 1"N• Nvidends above ayablo in tend,,,, lb Leh Reitea, 4r per Cent. 64 b bit : t ti ou .. 4 2 21 i per Cent., ex. 25 franc 5,....... Per Cent.. ex. 25 francs 96 Di -z uluinge 2i per Cent ,12 Gail ... - 0 4 per Cel'it. Certifieatws , . 950 Consols THREE O'CLOCK. tto Account, March 11 ... •• •.. 0 0 1 MARKET NEWS.—(This Day.) 20 20 10 10 20 20 20 . 103 I 10 20 40 20 10 20 t! ",rll, TllLD. — Mesdow hay, 4/ 04 to RAY MARKETS. 5 '/15s clover ditto. 4, , to 61 10.4; and straw, 1/ 5s Od to 1/ 10s Od per 10 , 1,1, rather dull. It p CriEBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 4/ 4s to Si 16s ; clovo, do. a to 6/ 10s ; and straw. 1/ 4s to 11 9s per load. demand. (10 . rtltiltone.PNL.—Meadow hay, 41 Os to 5 124; clovor 81 to 6/ 14g ; and straw, 1/ 4i to 11 9e per load. 'NZ good, and trade rather dull. COLONIAL. be RA •• -- -The market has been ra th er firm • a few forced oir cougou realised 83d, but th e f a i r market price may ° tad at 9J, for common congon. 'ati (4 krt.—A. moderato business has been done for ex er skj,ll to the oontinent, at hst week's refined'rat but home P te * k " . 11 act with great caution. In the markt hub c4,li;L:.aniactions have taken place for home use, but crushed "Isa in good demand for export: E. The business done in Plantation Ceylon has 1 4 4 , 4 , rather active, and at full rates, and holders are firm. 1 4 4 ii t y k e has been neglected, although no decline in price I k r „ 4 'ett Place. Mocha realises fall rates. I ktt ,4t The market still continues steady, but operations kkiixZlimited character, at about previous rates. it e , e "The inquiry for this article has been steady, and tom. Ontinue firm. Good Demerara realised 3s 3d per T, Piton. ttle demand exihts eiter for consu- Eg to C 0 tculation.li cu Spelators quot a ti o n hmp for P.Y.C. 5134 'NB wn tallow, 51s. 50 20 25 100 10 SHARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) RAILWAYS. 1 i [Paid.; RAILWAYS. St. 1.01. L1.U0rd0eu.....,. 1.2 i Yit.infog. Nottng. Bolt I and Bastn. Junet i 0 all Belfast & Ballymena AI all Birming. Wolverh & Stour Va11ey,.,.,,., , a 296 Birk e4hd. L'AncHL. II Cheshire Junct I 7il all J IR,. Choh. at Birk., 1 I zso and .1:25 Cons 2 , 19 Do., £20..... ...... ..., 5 all 'Myth kTynsorigina ' 425 field. at £45 t. 100 firis:,ol and Exeter t. 100 -I ,aledoniau ) 61k \Cana. and Cardigan 1 all Chester & Holyhead ) all ,Cork and Bandon.. I I all . ;:terk, Black, & Pas!. I I 18 ilornwall H all Po. A I 8 Do. B ' 1 4 .1 Crieif Junction Dublin&BelfastJunc all Ann. P. Li Al), , r. Jric . 'lOO East Anglian ....... all Astern Counties _ 100 East. Union, A Stk 100 6., B. Stoc 4 . ISi 0., New A......... 10 East Kent 4.00 East Laihashire I 100 di nhu rgh dr Glasgos: all Edinb. and Peebles 100 din. Prth &Dun (I°,l 9 ' orth & Clyde Jnn2 all Furness all Do. Extension....... 100 Glasgow& 8. ',Vest- , , all Great N. of Scotlnd 100 Great Northern 1100 Do., A. Stock...., 1 00 Do., B. Stock 130 Gt. Sth. &West. (Ire ; 100 rcat Western 100 Do. Stour Val. Rail Gum. Btk all Lancaster South-Eastorn. all Lancaster k Carlisle 14i, 0., Thirds 8 :Do. New Thirds 100 I Lancash.andYorksh Do., Wet. Riding Un all Giv.Creby.&Southpt all !London & Blaekwall 100 IGond.Bright&S.Cst. 100 Gond. and N. Westr, 16 !Do. Fifths 2. Do. Eighths.. London and S. Weetn all £5O all !Do., £4O all !Lndrolrrytt Col erain all I Gndndrrv. & Enulsk 100 ! Nlanch.Siief.& Linel: 625. DO., Man. lir Lin. Un 1 IMetropolitan 100 {Midland 100 rDo. Biruing. &Derb all Midi &G. West. (Ire, all ;Do. Half Shares .111 INewcastle & Carlish all iNwpt.Aberg.&Hrfe, 83:Newry & Enniskille all Newry Warrenpoin and Rostrevor 100 Norfolk . 3i Northn.Countios Un 100 North British Nth Devon Rail & 100 Dock Stock 100 Do., A Stoup., all no., B Stock D0.,a1l B Guarant e e 100 Tr. Eastern—Berwic 214D0. do. Extension . 15 Dodo, G.N.E. all Do. Leeds LOO Do. York 100 Forth London 31 .IS.Wstru.,ll4nr stead, and City Ja. 17i 'North Staffordshire all 'North Western all N. &S. Worst rn. June 1 Nuneaton, Hinckley and Leicester.. 1')0 lx, Wore.. & Wolv 8 Purtsniouth 100 geottlah Central,,,, 100 Shropshire 131.1 Jr: an South Devon I'lo South Eastern 100 South Walea 15 S. Yrksl). & Riv. Dn/ 5 Do 16 Stalnes, Wok. &Wok a 1 iStockton & Daril 16 Stu Aten & Hartlepi 110 Taff Vale.. 1.00 Do. Prof., No. 1 22 Thames 11ay. D.& R. Ulvorstono & Lanus. all Vale o 1 N,Ath all Waterfd. & Kilkenny all Watorford&Linierick all West Corn wall all West End of London and Crystal Palace all ; Do. A 3 Do. B , all 'West Loudon all iWiniblecln St Croydon FOR .0 all !intwerpstßott , .rdem A 40 Do. 5 p.c. Oblgs. con. in Sli. atpartill'64 10 Ardennes cli; Belgian Eastn, June , 14 Beziers to Oral ssessae 44 Bombay, Baroda,and Centralindis,Scrli all Do. all Demerara 11 Dutch Rhenish all gastern of France 13 Do. Now all East Indian , g. sp. 15 Do. Extension.. all D0.44p.e.1ind5.,'57 ad Do. do. do., '59, dr 16 'Gee'ong k Melbourne guar. 5 per c nt, . all Do., Lou. allot., do. 224 ;431d Tk of CanadaA. is Do. 9) Do. Cert. of Deben , con. into Stk. till 'ID all Do. Comp. 6p. c., 14 Int. Central of Franc. all IGt. Indian Peninsula] 14 ,Great Luxembour, Constituted Shares all !Do. 11 Do. re-is. forftd. all Ot.Westernof Canada. Shags 5i Do. New all Do. Bds., payable's7, with option till '55 all !Do. do., '62, p.'56 all IDo. do., '76, p. '6O all 'Do. do., '73, without option all Hamilton & Toronte , all I Do. 6 per cent. 17 Lake Celia. & Basle j a l 6 l l l L L L y u le o e l ia s e fiz a a n n P a d i s o li t- u c t r p n o va . h c o . u . p . t . 14 Lyons & Itediterran all Madras, guar. 4 'Le 10 Do. New ( 0., sp. 5 Do. 4i p. e. Eaten all Maria Antonia all Do. do. Now all Namur & Liege (witl interest) all Do. (ox interest) all Northern of France all D0.201.8hs all Do. 201. 3 p. o lids (fmy.l3.&Ains.ghs ll NorwegianTrunkPre all Paris and Lyons all Ditto Bonds all Paris and Orleans._ 5 Rome and Frascati all Royal Danish all itoyalSwedish all Do. Obligations all Sambre and Meuso... all Do. 54 p. cent. Prof. 5 Ikiude, guar. 5 p. all Do all Southern of France 16 St. Andrew's and Quebec (A).,. Wont Flanders all Do 5A per c. Pref 18 W. &N. W. of Pram, all West. of Sveitsorland all Wiesbaden all Zealand Bugin CEA doue thti day. 25 26, 4} - 4i ••• .... 8 - 8 16 - 15 13 - 14 9 - 8 86 88 55f b 6: •.. - 12i - 13, • •• ...... . •• II ..... ... ••• . 4 2 ..• 12 10 10, 30 20 - 22 71 73 52 54 9 1 22a 233 lo• •••• ... 1 , 1141 ... .. 83 - 85 6f - 92 - 93 7G - L2i - 125 [O4 - 106 57f -57 i 74 - 77 6i - 74 6 - 7 81t - 821 "m" 7 - 97 - 98 00 1 - 1011 xa ci t - 92i - 93, ... ."m' . re• .." el 24~ - 25 - 69i - 70 11 - 43 ••• •.•• .. 10 - 1 49 51 3 3/ii 29 30 75 -76 5i - 6 A l 4t - 14i - :5 1 51 52 83 - 92 7 - 6i( Li - ii 23 - 25 104 - 106 74 - 76 46 - 4$ 11 - 12 64 - 65 71 - 4 - 2,1 - 36 .4 """" .. ... ..-. ... 20 - 22 '34 - 4i 4 - 6 ,e ••• • ....' • •• Closing Prlees this day - 1(1 - 1 p 2 - 2 P - P - 39 -39 i 12 -14 21, -21 i - 14j - 75 - 77 82 -- 86 5f 6f. 20f 20j 4i 5A 3 3f 25t -96 i 34 - 99 - 122 - 122 -- 25 { - 120 - • .-- rrn ii loi i 9 - 19,i d 7 2 3 5 6 5} — bi 40 111 124 7 - 491 - 49 ... - .. 50 - 51 19 20 la 2 2} 9 i = lfp ••• ..... pm 3i - 4 3i - 35 iii 1 : ilii JOINT-STOCK BANK *ll !Australasia 50 Bank of London all firi. Col. Bk.&Ln. C. all Britiila N. Arooricab 5 Chartd. Bank of Asis 4 Chrtd. Bnk. of India, Australia, & CLinq 50 City 25 Colonial 20 Commercial of Lond all Eng.cicot.&ins.Cht Cond. Chart. Bk. of Australia 5 Ditto Now 20 Leadon and County 50 , Lnd.S.:l3.l3ukg. Corp 10 iLondon Joint St ic k 10 London and Paris 20 ir s -eond. Woetminster 35 ational Pro, of Eng 10 ,Do. Now VA National of Ireland all New South Wales,.., all Oriental Bank of Corporation 25 Prcvincial of Ireland all Do. New 1 R Ails & dl O Im C 4 50 Royal British all iourli Au ars lia all Union of Australia 2A Do. New ...... 17 Union o Loudon 92 P 4 67 - 69 •.• .. par -- 1 . p Gil - 71 • *. ••• 17i -- 18 16i -- 174 2 -- lbd - 2P 3 • 1 d ... - ». ... '''' .• ... - - 39 Z 9 - 41 ON .... HA - 40 71 - 72 27' 7i - 28i 9 88 55i 6 10 k 92 i 761 6 5 71 6 i ri i i 92 3a id 091 70 0.4 ' 7 5 i I i i 141 15 51i 64 i ,• - di. 1 ,i 570 2t 31 103 j 8 25i 121 3 169 25ii 1.25 IT lit THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 19, 1856. Court of Queen's Bench—(This Day.) sleep for the rest of the night. I had seen the girl at the house one Sunday evening before. That was about a month ago. I knew it was the same girl because 'opened the street door, and heard my mistress tell the girl to wipe her feet and go into the parlour. I went in, and my mistress and the girl went out, and returned with a box with three clasps. When my mistress went out with the girl she had a large stone with her, wrapped up in a piece of cloth. My mistress told me to go to bed on that night, but I refused, when she took the girl away with her, and told me to stop up until she returned. That was the only occasion I ever saw the girl there. When my mistress went out on Saturday evening, she had the same dress on that she now has ; but when she came into the kitchen she had an old black dress on. After all was quiet, my mistress came to my bed-side, and said she had been to market—that she had got change of half-a crows, but that she would not pay me until Sunday morning. My mistress then went up to bed, and I did not see her again that night. When she was talking to me at my bed-side she appeared to be very white and much agi tated. By Mr. Morrie--My mistress also said in the kitchen, while she was walking about, " She will not tell any more lies about me." Both poisoners declined to put any question to the witness. LtaiKP, Compan. C;oitiln this day. nnaineas thLi 1&y. SECOND COURT. Sittings at Guildhall at Nisi Prins. (Before Mr. Justice Crampon, and a Comnion Jury. RUNT V. 11.KENZIE. This was an action brought by the plaintiff to recover compensation in damages 1;r the injuries his wife had sustained from the alleged negligent driving of the de fendant's servant. The defendant pleaded not guilty. The plaintiff is a builder and a surveyor, of Syden ham, his wife conducting an upholstery business in Lon don, and the defendant is a distiller, carrying on busi ness in Cullum-street, city. It appeared that on the 3d of November last the plaintiff's wife was being drawn along Moorgate-street in a chaise by her foreman. As they were passing the defendant's waggon, which was drawn by three horses, and proceeding at the rate of eight or nine miles per hour, the latter diverged from the aide of the road (probably to pass another vehicle), when the waggon came in contact with the plaintiff's chaise. The collision was so great that the plaintiff's wife was thrown out and under the feet of the horses in the waggon, the foreman was thrown over his horse's bead, and the chaise shattered to atoms. The plaintiff's wife was seriously injured at the time, from the effects of which she was confined to bed for three weeks, and had been unable to attend to business for six weeks. Her memory had been seriously affected from that time. She would require medical attendance for some further period. Mr. Georga William Henry Cowan], divisional sur geon, having been sworn, said—l reside at No. ti, St. John's-terrace, New North-road, Hoxton. On Sunday evening last at about five o'clock I was called by the police to No. 13, Linton-street, and in a coal-cellar I saw the body of a child about 14 years of age. I discovered three large wounds from -the back of the neck to the front, embracing the whole of the left side. The jugular vein was divided, and the carotid artery had three small wounds upon it. There were several small flesh wounds about the neck and face, also on tha left hand, and one on the left arm, as if done in a struggle to save her throat. Her right side was very dirty, as if she had lain on it when the throat was cut from the front, and then pulled round. Prom the nature of the wounds I am satisfied they were inflicted by some other party. She could not have done it herself. Serjrant George Bexley, No. 12 N, said—Between six and seven o'clock on Sunday evening I went to the house 18, Linton-street, New North-road, and in the first floor, used as a bed-room, on searchine , I found a pair of stock ings (now p ro d uce d) un d er the bed. There were spots of blood on one of them. They were marked with the initials " C. C." which were those of the female pri soner's maiden name, Celestria Christmas. There were also spots of blood on the pillow in the kitchen where the servant girl slept. Rebecca Donelly, searcher at Hoxton station-house, said—At half-past six o'clock on Sunday evening I searched the female prisoner. When I took her to the searching room she said " What do you bring me here far ? Is it to search me l" I said "Yes." She replied, "Oh dear ! that foolish girl has been t a lki ng . I have a cellar in my house without a plate. A girl was found there stabbed with a knife. I cannot think how she came there. for my house was fastened up at ten o'clock last night." While I was searching her she had taken her top dress off, and her petticoat from the fore part to the knee downwards was covered with blood. The pri soner said, " I am subject to bleedine , front my nose. I use my petticoat to it. My husband can tell you that he lent me a silk handkerchief." (The petticoat was here produced.) Mr. Inspector Payne, N division, said that he had used every exertion and made every search, but could not discover the knife or any weapon with which the wounds were inflicted upon the deceased. Mr. Corrie said that there was no evidence to warrant the detention of the male, but ho should remand the female until Monday next. The witnesses already examined were then bound over to prosecute her at the Central Criminal Court on the charge of wilful murder. The prisoner, up to this stage of the proceedings, was allowed a seat in the dock by the side of her husband. She appeared to become faint, and leaned her head upon the front of the bar. The husband was now liberated, and the wife was taken from the court to Waddington's (the gaoler 'e room. The defence was that the injury and damage was purely accidental, and arose from the plaintiff's chaise endeavouring to pass the defendant's waggon at a time when other vehic:es were passin e ,, along the street. The Jury, after a short consultation, returned a ver dict for the plaintiff—darua,ges, 1001. 251. of that amount being for the wife's personal suffering. EXCHEQUER COURT. (Sittings at Guildhall at Nikoi Prim+, before the Lord Chief Baron Pollock and a Special Jury.) BERKELEY, V. BERESPOIID AND OTHERS-LIBEL. The Attorney. General, Mr. James, and Mr. Grey, were counsel for the plaintiff; Sir F. Thesiger, and Mr. Tomlinson for the defendant. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, M.P. for Bristol, against the defendants, proprietors of a weekly public:atio❑ called the IVeekly Allictiice for a series of libels contained in that publication. The action arose out of the proceedings of last session with reference to Wilson Patten's act, for the better observance of the Sabbath. Mr. Berkeley considering that that act in fringed the liberty of the subject and pressed harshly on the labouring classes, obtained the appointment of a select committee to jut/sit:re into the subject, of whick the plaintiff was chairman. After hearing evidence that committee unanimously reported in favour of a modifica tion of the above bill, and the result was the introduc tion of a bill into the House of Commons, by Mr. Berkeley, founded on that report, and which was passed into a law. The defendants in their publication had published a series of articles in favour of the better ob servance of the Sabbath, in which they impugned the conduct of the plaintiff, alleging that he was in collusion with the licensed victuallers of Bristol, and with corrupt motive?. Sir F. Thesiger said at the commencement of the case that whilst he cla.insed a perfect right for the de fendants, as the conductors of a public journal, to exa• mine and criticise the conduct of public men, yet at the same time he admitted that in their energy to serve the cause they had at heart, they had been hurriedly led into the indulgence of expressions and making assertions they did not on that occasion pretend to justify. The defen dants would, therefore, submit to a verdict passing again t them. The Attorney-Gel:1(ral said the only object his client had in bringing this action was the vindication of his character. That having been'conceded by the defendants, the plaintiff was satisfied. He could not agree with one remark of the learned counsel fur the defendants, that they had been hurried into using the expressions com plained of, because the libels were contained in a series of articles extending over several weeks and months. A verdict was then taken for the plaintiff for five guineas, by consent. CONFESSION OF THE MURDERESS. 13y the untiring zeal and intelligent perseverance of Inspector Hatton and Sergeant Townsend, N division, circumstances have come to light which place beyond the scintilla of a doubt the fact of the poor child, whom they discovered so horriby mutilated in the cellar of the house, No. 13, Linton -street, being the offspring (illegi timate) of the murderess, Celestria Somner. Immedi ately after the examination of the prisoners yesterday, the officers mentioned proceeded, in company with Karl Somner, the husband, to a house, No. 4, Peter-street, Hackney road, inhabited by an elderly woman, named Harrington, and her two daughters. Here it was ascer tained that a child, aged 10 years, who had been under the protection of Mrs. Harrington nearly from its birth, was taken away by its mother last Thursday week, be cause she declared her inability to continue longer the payment of 10s. a month for its keep, since which time Mrs. Harrington 1183 not beard or seen anything of the chili. Tho officers next went to 18, Murray-street, New North-road (adjoining the house occupied a short period since by Mary M`Neil, who murdered her two children there), and found it occu pied by a sister of the prisoner, whose husband is also a German, and engraver. Here they learnt that on the evening of the day the girl had been taken from Mrs. Harrington she was brought by the prisoner and kept until 10 o'clock last Saturday night, when the wretched woman took her child away, without shawl or bonnet, under the pretext that she had obtained a place for her at a greengrocer's in the neighbourhood ; finally, Mrs. Harrington, Mr. Souther, and the authotities went to the scene of the murder, and the former there identified the victim, who was lying on the servant's bed in the kitchen, to be the same child she had reared from its in fancy. The poor woman's tribulation was very great at the sight, and she repeatedly reprehended herself for having parted with her. She said that the child went by the name of " Celestria Christmas," and subsequent inquiries elicited the fact of that having been the maiden name of Mrs. Serener, whose parents are most respect able silversmiths, in King-square, Guswell-street.road. A direct confession of the murder has been since made by the miserable parent, she alleging that the act was com mitted with a knife, and that she was impelled to the commission of it by the frequeit quarrels with her hus band, who was obliged to pay ss. a-week for its keep, but at the same time she asserts it to be her brother's offspring. Mr. Somner distinctly denies this, and states that 2e. 6d. a week only was paid by him by agreement before his marriage with the prisoner, and that such sum was always paid willingly by him. The prisoner has not made any remark relative to how she has disposed of the knife, nor can any clue be found to the place of its deposit. She has been married two years, and Mr. Somner's circumstances aro very respect. able. The house, No. 18, is elaborately furnished. L IT ERA TURE. The Mystic : and ether Poems. By Philip James Bailey. Second Edition. Chapman and Hall. Mr. Bailey is evidently a very wonderful man— bestriding the world of letters like a colossus, and talking over our heads, far away—in nubibus! His " iestus" was a mystery of mysteries floating across the blue empyrian of literature like a magic car drawn by fiery dragons, but drop ping clown among us, as it pa ss ed by up aloft, fragments of delicious melody, and pearls and jewels of as rare price as ever fell from the lips of the Arabian Princess. Then came his " Angel World"—a mistier mystery of mysteries ! And last of all "The Mystic"—the very name of which is a confession ! It cannot possibly be that Mr. Bailey's excuse for his incomprehensibility is in any way explicable by an avowal like that of the inscrutable versemaker in Horace—brevis esse laboro, obscitrus fio—the Pegasus of our author being, of all the ambling nags within the range of our acquaintance, decidedly about the most rong winded, and one having, moreover, the largest scope imaginable in which to show off its paces to perfection. The field traversed by that steed—shod with thunder and maned with light ning —being, in point of fact, Universal Space, "Heaven," " Hell," the "Surface," " Any where," " Everywhere !" What says The Devil, as he is riding by his side ? " See what a long long track Of dust and fire behind, For miles and miles aback ! And shrill and strong, As we shoot along, Whistles and whi r l s , Like a forest of firs Falling, the sold north wind." Whereto, Festus : " Look ! my way I can only read By the sparks from the hoof of my giant steed." Presently (Pegasus galloping like mad along the edge of a stupendous precipice by the sea-shore) what saith Festus?— FESTUB—" Wilt take the sea ?" "Think of that, Master Brook !" To which, not to be outdone in pluck— LUCIFEB—" Ay, that will we ! And swim as we ride, Our steeds astride ' • Come leap, leap off with me !" FESTUS [half disposed to draw back at a pinch with sud den qualms comprehensible enough in poor mortality]— " What ? shall we leap Sheer off this steep A mile above the sea ?" "Surely," thi n k s the Devil, and the Devil says plainly enough what he thinks, and—away they go ! PMTS. -" There is a rapture in the headlong leap, The wedgelike cleaving of the closing deep! Jec., lee., Sae" Luclraa [adding]—" By chaos ! this is gallant sport ; A league at every breath ; Methinks if ever I have to die I'll ride this rate to death." Sueh is the Pegasus, Mr. Bailey bestrides, riding hose are his own words, remember ! ride " Fes as." 2d Ed. 1845. p. 91.) — "Right onward ! till we feel the whirling brain Ring with the maddening music of the main ; Till the fixed eyeball strives and strains to ken, Yet loathes to ken the shore and haunts of wen ; And the blood, half starting through each ridgy vein, In the unwieldy hand sets black with pain." Precisely. He describes it to a nicety. Carried away with him in his wild career, hither and thither, here, there, and everywhere, we are soon, be sure of that, stark, staring, raging, ravaging mad 1 The poet's eye (Mr. Bailey's)—like that of the true bard described by Shakspere, "in a fine frenzy rolling, glancing from earth to heaven, from heaven to earth." Everybody is infected. The cleverest men of our time sing the pecans of his praise. The bluff, sturdy, honest, Corn Law Rhymer, tolls us of Festus—" It contains poetry enough to set up fifty poets !" Sir Edward Lytton calls it a production "most remarkable and magni ficent." (We aro quoting from the puffs-supple mentary given at the end of Mr. Bailey's master. piece.) Mr. Marston says, " I know no poem in the language that can be compared with its copi ousness and variety of imagery." Mr. Charles Hooton—(who the deuce is Mr. Charles Hooton —says, " this book is in a modern library, what the garden of Edeu was in the old world,—a glory and perfection, in the midst of comparative sterility." Cam coiterisparibus—usque ad nauseam,. Well—we suppose it is all this. And we suppose, too, that the drivellings of the late Mr. Wordsworth about idiots, and Betty Foys, and Peter Bells, and the like vulgar numskulls, are the sublimest outpourings of poetical philoso phy. We will suppose all this—we will take it for granted. But, for God's sake, don't let us hear after this that there was ever anybody of any note at all, ever born in Holles-street, London, or in Henley-street, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick shire. The two classes of events are incompatible. Accept the one as proven, and the other must in evitably be at once repudiated. However, this may be—certainly it does so appear—that Words worth has his worshippers, and so too has Mr. Bailey. Off with your caps to them, greasy mob ! and fling them into the air ! But when such is done be sure the " fixed eyeballs" strain and strive, and the blood starts in the " ridgy veins" till the hands grow black, and the brain whirls to the " maddening music" after the very natural fashion described by Mr. Bailey in his Festus, when he flies off at a tangent on the back of his bedlamite Pegasus ! Turning, however, for a moment from " Festus" and the "Angel World," aid " The Mystic," and the select little excited group of Mr. Bailey's ad mirers, what is the advice we find hinted to his fellow-scribes by Lord Byron '!'— " Dear authors ! suit your topics to your strength, And ponder well your subject, and its length ; Nor lift your load before you're quite aware What weight your shoulders will, or will not, bear : But lucid Order, and Wit's siren voice, Await the poet skilful in his choice ; With native eloquence he soars along— Grace in his thoughts, and music in his song." Alas I. advice such as this appears to be either in audible or wholly unpersuasive among many of the leading rhymsters of our generation. An ago of poetry strangely prefigured, it seems to us, in those lines of Dr. Johnson, written by the great critic years upon years ago, in ridicule of certain poems published in 1777 " Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is strange and nothing new ; Endless labour all along, Endless labour to be wrong ; Phrase that time has flung away, Uncouth words in disarray, Tricked in antique ruff and bonnet, Ode, and elegy, aid sonnet." Unhappily for his honour, not merely ode and elegy, and sonnet, but epic, and dramatic, and di (lactic performances of most portentous magnitude- Latest manifestation of which " Endles labour to be wrong" comes tohand this amazingßiddle-me-riddle me-ree of " The Mystic." We suppose it is all very fine. Turning it over—with our eyes gradually starting, and our hair slowly bristling up, and our veins imperceptibly swelling, and our brain ra pidly churned into a whirl, under the maddening influence of poet and poetry—we read a great deal about the Earth being " reboant," aid about a god (with a small g) of " psychopompous func tion," and about planets which are " plenipotent," and mirrors that are " sma,ragdine, ' and pearls " enringed with natural nimbus," about "mediates linked and interlapped," and " terraqueous em bouchures," and " demiurgic hosts," and ceviter nal causes," and all that sort of thing abundantly, prolifically, multitudinously. Pelion —as we turn the pages --- gets piled upon Ossa, and Olympus shrivels down into a wart, and from the top of Pelion perch e d on the shoulders bab bling of Ossa, high up among the clouds, there comes down to us, faintly, the ghost of a voice mawl dering monotonously about somethingvor other— whatand ever must remain, we presume, for ever a mystery alike to Gods and nightmare brought to nAltogether— the thing—is as much like a hook, set up by the compositors,carefully corrected, y t as far as the typography is concerned,bie reader s l of the Messrs. Chapman an d Hall's establishment, and in due course of tim e issued from the press to pass through edition after edition am i dst the plaudits of Mr. Baile y' s admirers—who, if the truth were only confessed, of course no more un derstand what on earth, or in heaven, or in hell, he means , than he can by any sort of possibility do, himself. However, hero the book is actually be fore us to the numb er o f 165 octavo pages, with " second edition" already stamped upon its title-page. It raves at one moment about "Heaven's azure world-lave, celled with stars' (p. 8), and a little further on (p. 12) tells us all about somebody (" The Mystic," of course) sail ing— ark crystalline, In " T mhe anne sky' d bs abybeamin smal se ods u a of sns y , lo drag th e deeps of spaer and net the s tars, Where in their nebulou, shoals they shore the void Aad through o ld n i g ht' s Typhonian bli n d ness s h ine % Then, solarized, &o." And so on—and so on. Very wonderful—isn't it ? Amazing ! In fact so wonderful as to be altcgetber miles and miles out of the reach of any sane man's comprehension. Finally—let ushers say foronce and for all, that to get rid of " The Mystic," and Mr. Bailey, and his worshippers all together, we are ready to agree with them about its splendour, and his pre-emineuce, and their sagacity, in fact — (there ! if they will only let us have done with it) —about everything ! We accept " Festus as the poem of poems dwarfing by the force of con- RsrLirAza: Bedford and Bletrhloy Buekghamsh. Clydesdale.k. Col. Stour Vy. Sud. and Hai. E. Liu. g. R pe E. Un. H. Sh, Glas. Barr. & Neils. Direct Do. New...... Olstr.dg Dn. Fr Hrtlpl. Dk. & Railway Hull & Selby Do. Shares. Do. Shares. Lon. & Groenw Do. Preference Lon.,Til., & S. Lowestoft gr. , 4 per cent. Do. 6 per et. Manch. Bstn and Matlock M iddlesbro' & Redcar Ificild.Bradfd Newmarkot Bury E. G.spc N.& Est.s p. c. Do. 6 zber ct. Do. Fizeds p c Preet. & Do. Shre. A Royiltn.St Hit. Shot. Roth and! Goole g. 5 p. o. Shrews. & Hor, S. Staffortish. I Wear Valleygr 6 per cent._ I Do Wilts&gomrst London & N. West. 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The prisoners, who are of short stature, and who appeared quite unconcerned, were allowed to be seated during the examination. The first witness called was Mr. Inspector Hatton, of the N division, who deposed as follows :-- Yesterday afternoon, about half-past four, in consequence of information I received, I proceeded, in company with Serjeant Townsend, 23 N, to the house No. 18, Linton-street, Islington, when the door was opened by a girl about 15 years of age. We proceeded along the passage, and saw the female prisoner coming up the kitchen stairs. When she saw us she said, " What do you want ?" I said, "We will tell you after we have looked into your cellar." She then said, "Good God ! what de you want to do that for !" At that moment the wale prisoner came out of the parlour. We then went down stairs and into the kitchen together. A light was obtained, and Serjeant Townsend went into the cellar. He came out shortly afterwards and said it is quite right, the body is there. I then went into the cellar, and found a child there, apparently about 14 years of age, with her throat cut in a very dreadfulman• net., and quite dead. Serjeant Townsend then took hold of the female prisoner and said, "You must consider yourself in my custody on suspicion of causing the death of this child." She said, " I did not do it. I know no thing about it. I heard something last night Near the railings, but did not know what it was." She then turned to her husband, and said, " I did not say any thing to you about the matter in case it should make you timid." Both prisoners were then conveyed to the station-house. The prisoners declined to say anything, or to ask this witness any question. Serjeant Edward Townsend, 23 N, said—l accompa nied the last witness to the house in question about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. At the time I did not know the prisoners' names. We knocked at the door, which was opened by a little girl, and upon asking the names of the prisoners, we proceeded into the passage. I met the female coming up stairs, when I asked her if her name was Spinner ? She said it was, and then asked what we wanted there ? At that moment the husband came out of the parlour, and exclaimed, " What is it ? —what is it you want ?" I then said, "We should like to look into the cellar of your house." The female said, "Look into my cellar, good God, what for ?" I made sin answer, but asked her to come down stairs with us. We then all proceeded to the kitchen, and having pro cured a light from the servant girl, I went into the cellar underneath the pavement, and there I saw a girl about 14 years of age lying dead upon her back. I saw blood apparently clotted on the neck and on her throat. I then went into the kitchen, and, addressing the inspec tor, said, "It is quite right; the body is there." I then seized the female prisoner by the wrist, and said, " Ton will consider yourself in my custody for having caused the female's death." She then said, "Me ? I did not do it. I know nothing about it." After a short pause she said, " Ah, yes ; I heard a noise outside the area railings last night ;" and then, looking towards her hue bawl, she said, "I did not tell you, dear, as I thought it would make yon timid. Having p rocure d a ca b, I took both prisoners to the station. I afterwards went back to the houseand made a careful search of the various rooms. On proceeding upstairs I went into the front room, which was used as a bed-room, and under the bed I found an old black gown with spots of blood upon it, and it ap peared tohave been partially washed out. I then went to the cellar with the surgeon, and found the door spotted with blood. There were also 'narks of blood on the kitchen door and on a wafer box. Upon making a fur ther search, I discovered a spot of blood on tho pillow of the bed in which the servant slept. The 119 ale prisoner, when asked by Mr. Corrie if he wished to ask the witness any question, maid, " No ;it is not me. I said at the rtation•house that I did not know anything about it, and I again say here that I know nothing about it." The female, in answer to the same question, said, "No, I don't." _ Rachel Mont, an interesting little girl about 14 years of age, who gave her evidence in the most clear and art less manner, deposed as follows :—I am a servant g i r l living in the house 18, Linton-st re et, Islington, I wont into the prisoners' service on the 15th of last Septem• ber. On Saturday night my mistress went out about ten o'clock, but before she did so she came and said I was to go to bed. I did not go to bed, but sat up ma k. iug myself an apron. That was in the kitchen. After my mistress had been out some time, I heard the key put in the street door, and then I put out the can dl e and gut into bed. I heard my mistress come i n t o th e passag., and she had a female with her. She cam e t o the top of the stairs and said, "Are you abed, Ra c h e l l" I wa m rd ad s e c n am o e an d sw ow er n . aSndliedw th thenre we e k ntu irchn st e nireand blindafter wards down. , She then left the kitchen and said to the little girl, " Come down here." The girl did so, and then my mistress went into the cellar, and told the girl to come to her, but the girl stopped at the kitchen door. Mis tress said, " Come here, what are you afraid o f ?" They b o th came i nto t h e ki tc h en. The girl then said I " I am no t a f ra id , b ut i t i s a strange pl ace t o me. have no t b een here b efore. " They t h en went into the area, when th e littl e g i r l sa id , " Some one w an t s to cut my thro a t." Wh en my m i stress said, " Supp ose I was to cut it." The girl said, " Oh, 3'"u are going to kill m e ," an d t h en called out "Murder." This she called out several times, and said, " The de v il will take y ou , th e devil will take you You will kill me, you will kill me ! I am dying, lam dying !" The girl then made a horrid noise, as if she was breath-1 ing hard, and ray mistress said "hu-b" several times. My mistress then put the candle out, came lute the kitchen, and walked up and down in the dark several times, and said to herself, " I will kill you." She then got the lucifer-box, lit the candle, and went into the cellar again, and was there for some time, but I did not hear the girl speak again, and all was quiet. A short time after this she came in, shut the door, and went up stairs. My master was out at the time, but he came home about one o'clock. He let himself in with a key. I knew it was about one o'clock becanse I did not go to all all all 1()0 4) 5 St. 25 10 28i 1 50 so 2 100 pm Phi 12 t d 201 20 Si 4 129 31 1091 2i f a 27 lfe f I 151 16 92 3 SODT.H-EASTERN RAILWAY. It is the intention of the directors of this company, at the forthcoming half-yearly meeting of the proprie tors, to recommend the payment of a dividend of 13F, 3d. per 301. stock, which is at the rate of 41. Bs. 4d. per cent, per annum. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LONDON, Feb. A—Wind this day at noon, N. ; mo derate breeze and dull hazy weather. The Badjadinger (c. 3.), arrived in the river from ()port , was in contact on the lith inst. in th e Downs, sapposed with the brig Creuiorne, and had stern damaged ; the brig sustained considerable damage. PLvuouTil, Feb. 18.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrived—Rosa Bela, from Dominica; Diana, Lagos. Sailed—Retriever, Africa. RAMSGATE, Feb.lB.—Wind E.N.E.—Sailed—Sylphide, for Rio Janeiro. SHIELDS, lob. 18.—The Jane, from London to New castle, has been got off the Herd Sand and brought in here. MALTH, Feb. 12.—The Pioneer (s.s. tpt. 232) was fallen in with by the British, arrived here from Liverpool, on the lOtla inst. , abont 18 miles oast of Galita, damaged in hor machinery, and was proceeding for Gibraltar under sail. (PER ELEOTIHU TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, 'Tuesday Reining. Arrived,—Spring, from Goole ; Despatch, steamer, Jersey ; Alliance, steamer, Havre. Sailed. Wonder, steamer, for Jersey ; Atalanta, steamer, Havre. LIVERPOOL, Tuesday Morning. Wind E. Ofr.—Euthusiast, from Pernambuco, Sailed.—Sarah Maria, for Leghorn ; Elise, Constanti nople. :QUBENSTOWN, Feb. 17. Wind S.E. Arrived.—Mary Macßella, Belvidere, Glide, Soren to, and Flora, from Alexandria; Balance, freni Marseilles; Rowena, Salonien ; Couloek, Syra ; Sylph, Mazaz,an ; J. 0., Athens. Suiled.—Parana, for Valparaiso. ET SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Tuesday, 9.53 a.m. Wind East. cloudy ; tide two hour's flood. Arrived, 18th.—Sunders Minde, from Gottenborg. Sailed, 18th.—Earl of Chester, for Adelaide. The Elizabeth, which sailed yesterday for Ancona, has since returned with damage. DEAL, Tiestlay, 9.50 a.m. Wind E.S.E., moderate. Passed 18th.—Telegraphen, for Rio Janeiro ; City of Palaces, Calcutta ; Elizabeth, Savannah ; Conita, Azores : all from London. Passed 19t11.—Feronia, from London, for Teneriffe ; H.M.S. Dee, Woolwich, for Plyraonth ; H.M.S. Rhada• manthue, Portsmouth, for the River. THE LATE MR. JOHN BEAHAM.---SeMOM has there been so remarkable a case of professional longevity as that of Mr. John Braham. There is scarcely a person living too old or too young to. have heard him sing. Born at London in 1774, of parents of the Hebrew per suasion, ho is one of the many instances of that aptitude of the Jewish race for music, which can scarcely have escaped the notice of any observer of the present age. At a very early age he was confided, already an orphan, to the care of Leoni, an Italian singer of celebrity, and made his debut as a public singer before he had attained his 11th year, when, from the quality and compass of his voice, he was enabled to sing several bravura songs that had been written for Madame Mara. When b e lost his boyish voice his future prospects appeared doubt ful, but he found a generous patron in Mr. Abraham Goldsmith, and became a professor of the piano. On his voice regaining its power he went to Bath, and there, in the year 1794, made his first appearance at some concerts that took place under the direction of M. Itauzzini, who, appreciating his talent, gave him musi cal instruction for three years. THE LATE , TOSHP_FI HUME, ESQ., AND THE BANK CHARTER ACT OF 1844. TO TIM EDITOR Of TM: SUN,. Sir, There is something remarkable in the fact that, with the exception of the war, tie two sabjects for the moment occupying the attention o f t h e public are the Bank Charter Act of 1844, and the means of rendering honour to its greatest opponent, the late J. Hume, Esq. I avail myself of this fortunate coincidence to beg your in sertion of some extracts from a correspondence I had with Mr. Hume on that subject, and I do so under tho convic tion that I am acting in conformity with his wishes, and at the same time indulge the hope that now that his voice no longer can be heard, his wishes may have the greater influence, and be considered as an injunction to his coun trymen to carry out his object, namely, the obtaining a repeal of that act, and substituting in its place free trade in the circulating medium. His letters furnish a short history of the rise and all bet the fall of the Bank Charter Act of 1844, and show how much the interests of the many were sacrificed to political objects and close interests. It appears from them that a well-known banker (the present Lord Overstone) conceived "that he could regulate the anselat of paper eureacy"— an article, be it observed, without intendieg he impute any selfish motive, in which bankers more especially deal, mad, consequently, they are not the best calculated to re gulate its quantity impartially. It further appears that the views of this banker were adopted by Sir It. Peel, and embodied by him in the act of 1814—that on the breaking down of the act in 1847, and on its reconsideration by a committee of the House of Commons, its restrictions would have been repeated, " had net Sir R. Peel obtained, in exchange for his support of Lord J. Russell's Cabinet, their votes to leave the Act as it was." Here we find the two great parties of the State coaleac ing with the monied interests to maintain an Act which gives the same protection to money that the Corn Laws gave to corn—raising the rate of interest on the former to the benefit of the money holder, as the sliding scale en hanced the value of the latter for the advantage of the landholder. Let the mercantile and industrial classes bear in mind that Ministers are dependent for their places on the votes of Coe members of the House of Commons, and these again for their seats on the votes of the electors, and, consequently, that they have the power iu their own hands of procuring a sounder monetary system ; and let them be assured that no Ministers will g rapple with this m ons t rous money monopoly, and risk the loss of office, unless supported by the country, through its representatives in Parliament. We hare monuments through the land to Sir R. Peel, and justly he deserved them for carrying out, at the sacritiee of his own power and party, those Free Trade measures of which Mi. Hume was the parent; for to his committee on import duties Sir It. Pool himself admitted the country was indebted for his Free-Trade Bills. How much more then are monuments due to Mr. Hume, who was through out consistent and faithful to the principles, now so uni versally acknowledged to be sound, of Free Trade, apply jug it not merely to commodities, but to the medium for circulating those commodities. He was truly the apostle of Free Trade, and no nobler monument could be raised to his memory than an Act of Parliament establishing free trade in the circulating nwdium, based on the principle enunciated in his draft report submitted to the committee of the House of Commons on the commercial distress of 1847. Such would be a worthy testimonial to one of the most single-minded and honest patriots that ever adorned this country. _ I am, Sir, Yottr obedient servant, HAMER STANSFELD. The Grange, Burley, near Otiejr, Dec. 20th, 1855. (Extract from Mr. Hume's letter.) Burnley Hall, 14th Nev., 1853. Your letter to Mr. Gladstone is in my opinion quite correct, and my exertions in the committee of 1848 would hays repealed the act of Peel of 1144, as inconsistent with the priuciplos of Free Trade, and my resolution in that committee to that purpose was lost by the casting 'rote of Sir Robert Peel. He was so much in favour of those bills, though sup ported only by th e c h a i r o f th e B an k , th at he obtained in exchange for his support of Lord John Russell's Cabinet their votes to leave those bills as they were. We divided five to four—the five were Lord John, Sir C. Wood, Mr. Goulborn, Sir R. Peel, and one other I forget —against three oth ers th a t vo t e d w ith me. Mr. Baring, h.fr. ° Di4raeli, and four others who were against the act of 1844, stayed away and would not vote, for some reason I never oould learn, and thus the glaring absurdity was allowed to remain, a reflection to the common sense of all Free Traders. The time must come soon when these acts of 1844-5, at present the reproach of Free Traders, must be repealed, and lam pleased to see you stirring in that direction. 1 hope you may be able to got a good petition up by and bye, when the Parliameatary Reform shall be settled, and Flee Trade iu circulation must also ba established. Burnley Hall, 23d January, 1854. I have carefully read your letter to the Editors of the Leeds Mercury on the existing Currency Lairs of 1844-5. Sir Robt. Peel never committed so great an error in any of his public measures as he did in passing the acts of 1841-5, for, as he alleged, " the regulations and the restric tion of the paper currency." As a member of that committee on the Bank of England, of which Sir Charles Wood was chairman, I had the op portunity of observing that Sir Robt. Peel, Sir C. Wood, Mr. Warburton, and almost every member (the member for Birmingham alone excepted), were under the influence of Mr. Jones Loyd's opinions, viz., " that he could regulate the amount of paper currency," and, further, that deposit• in the Bank of England were not part of the currency. Thole were the two fallacies of Mr. Jones Loyd, and the perusal of the evidence will show how he broke down under my examination, and left the committee-room ; nor would lie oven have returned to finish his examination if I had not consented to limit my questions, and these, with the answers of Mr. Loyd, are before the public. Sir Robert Peel never could get free from these delu sions ; and when he had the power, in 1844-5, induced the House of Commons to pass these restrictive and injurious acts. Ia the inquiry before the Lords' Committee, is 184 w, part of which evidence you have quoted in your letter just published, the injury to the commerce of the country in 1847, from the laws of 1814-5, is clearly made out, and re ported to the Lords. In the committee of the Commons, in 1848, on the same subject, " Commercial Distress , " I consider th a t th e p roo f against these Acts of Si r Robert Peel was eomplete ; and when the consideration of the report came OR, my draft re port, "recommending the repeal of all these restrictive Acts," would have been carried, if Mr. Thos. Baring, Mr. E. Dis raeli, and other members had not purposely absented themselves from the discussion and from the division on the report; and the draft report of Sir Charles Wood was carried by a majority of one only. Lord John Russell who had not attended the sittings of the committee, or taken any part in the discussions, attended, and gave his vote to Sir R. Peel, by which no change was recommended; and from that time no attempt has been made to remove those Acts of 1844-5 from the statute-book, although the great variations in the value of money in the years since 1848 have exceeded any changes before 1814. I am pleased that you are now urging the subject on the attention of the public, and I hope it imay obtain that in terest which it requires. [N.B. The words in italics were underlined in th letter.] SUICIDE OF MR. JaTIN SADLEIR, M.P. Although until the mature of the evidence as to the motive which induced Mr. Sadleir to commit suicide be known nothing positive can be stated, yet there seems to be an impression that the deceased had disordered his mind by over-speculation. That the deceased com mitted suicide the medical post mortars examination per formed yesterday and other facts which have comae to light distinctly prove. It seems that the deceased was at his club up till half-past 10 on Saturday night, at which hour he returned to his residence, 11, Gloueestme square. At the club his friends observed nothing strange in his manner, and when he arrived home he seemed in his usual calm state of mind. He then ordered coifee, and, as he required nothing further, the servants, as was usual with them at that hour, retired to rest, leav ing their master up drinking his coffee. Whether h e ' but the latter went out immediately after taking the coffee, or re mained in until early the following morning, and th en isstrtohlleedpruepsotmo presumption, although g n i o x aotntehce same ns m ay e time it is cer tain that he did not go to bed that night, as kis bed was found undisturbed the following (Sunday) morning, and aos w elfa h ohr e tmi. n s e t pd h la e oardit s ioa e rh r tedi v se a hn n ai ts t ba s srhe g ylo o i cu t deru n ot p s iue werets t hey , hteh so f o u ll ia n c d e uncertain, o m n as a te c account uanbt matortnhiengservants es w ti e o r o e , not for they considered he might have made an appointment late the previous night. He was in the habit of staying at Hampstead, at Jack Straw's Tavern, and his lifeless body was found only a few yards from that inn. It has been erroneously stated that the deceased's remain, were discovered by the police, but they were found by a man named Bates, a donkey driver, who at half-past eight on Sunday m orn i ng wa s proceeding in search of a strayed animal, when he carne upon the corpse as it lay at about 150 yards from Jack Straw's Castle, on the west side of the heath, and close to a small footpath which leads down from the flagstaff at the top of the hill. Bates immediately hurried to the police-station. Inspector Green (S division) and other members of the force at once proceeded to the spot s , and all there found the deceased lying as if asleep on a m mound, which he bad evidently expressly plck •d out for the occasion, and a silver cup, together wi th a large sized bottle, marked with several labels, Poison, " by his side. Life h a d be e n extinct some time , a l th o ugh the body was then warm. Inspector Gr een had the body removed to the workhouse, and, upon examining tl slip of , deceased's pockets he found a small on which was written in a clea r bold , Lan d, "Jo h n Sadleir, 11, Gloueester-squar , Hyde Park. There w as also some money, in go ld and notes, in the deceased's p oc k ets, as also a case c ontaining two razors and sev era l l umps of loa f sugar, which the deceased no doubt i n t en d ed to take with the poison. Inspector Green, through the slip of paper alluded to , was at once ena bl ed to send to town and have the deceased identified, the writing on the paper being recognised as his own, go that the poor wan must have prepared it with the express intention of itg being the means of leading to his identification. The silver cup was immediately recognised as the deceased's own property through its bearing his crest. The bottle which had contained the poison, and which would hold at least half a pint, was not only labelled in several places with the word "poison," but the leather covering over the stopper had the same word written thrice across it in large letters. The deceased was a bachelor, and the melancholy event was in the course of yesterday telegraphed to his only relative, a brother Neiding in Ireland. tract the "Iliad " and " Paradise Lost," and the " 2Eneid" and the " Jerusalem Delivered" into mere grains of dust, into something very little short of absolute nothingness. We accept Mr. Bailey himself m the Coming Alan—actually Come at last. And having acknowledged all this, and eaten dirt (as the Orientals have it) Without a wry face, and swallowed every thing most submissively—do, for goodness sake, let us hope that Mr. Bailey's admirers will at last let us enjoy in peace and quietness the Fool's Paradise with which they have provided us 1 :IGN. 394 $ If i 711 i 28 'l3 2