The Sun. — London, England, 1842-02-10 00:00:00

MORNING THE NEW NOVEL. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., T HE SCHOOL FOR WIVES By the Authoress of " Temptation." " A ve:y interesting work. The authoress is evidently a person of highly cultivated mind, and of great talent."—Ob server. " - A novel written with no ordinary ablity, and with a cheerful healthy spirit."—John Bull. "This attr ac ti ve nove l i nc l u d es a great var i ety o f characters andincidents, which are held together by a plot of intense domestic interest."—Sun. " A novel of staierior merit, possessing the excellence of exciting great interest by the admirable manner in which the characters are drawn, and its natural and lively style of con versation and description."—Courier. Henry Colburu, Publisher, 13, Great Nlarlborough-street. VIIS . MAJESTY the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, naving AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY DIVIDENDS, which (though they are NO LOTTERIES) offer many possibilities of obtain ing LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS, at HAMBURGH and at LUBECK, ♦re now SELLING ORIGINAL BONDS for the said DIS r AMU PIONS. Persons desirous to purchase for the Next Distributions tray re!_-eive, PREVIOUS to giving any orders, the PRO SPECTUS and PARTICULARS, upon addressing a line to HEINE BROTHERS. The NEXT DISTRIBUTION contains DIVIDENDS of £25,000 £6OO £llO £7O 5,000 400 100 60 1,500 ' 200 90 50 1,000 150 80 Sterling. 800 120 THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, FEB. 10, Will be repeated, arranged as a Drama, Handel's ACIS AND GALA TEA.—Polniheine, Mr. H. Philips; Acis, Miss P. Horton; Damon, Mr. Allen; Galatea, Miss Romer. After which will be repeated the New Play, entitled THE PRISpNER OF WAR. To conclude with the New earce, entitled THE WIND MILL.—The _Marquis de Roueville, Mr. Morris Barnett ; Sampson Loy, Mr. Keeley ; Marian, Mrs. Keeley. Doors tt be opened at past Six, and the Performance o begin it Seven o'clock. Boxes 55., Second Price, 2s. 6d. Pit 35., Second Price '-ts. Lower Gallery Is. 6(l...Second Pr Is. Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. UNUER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS% THIS EVENING, FEB. 10, Will be repeated Bellini's Opera of NORM A.—Pollio, Mr. W. Harrison ; Flavius, Mr. Clement White, Oroveso, Mr. Leffler ; Adalgisa, Miss Rainforth ; Clotilda, Miss Grant ; and Norma by Miss Adelaide Kemble. After which will be repeated the New Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled GUY EARL OF WARWICK ; OR, 'IAIILEQUIN AND THE DUN COW. • Doors to t e (Tened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles, ss. ; Second Price, 2s. Bd. ; Pit, 35.; Second l'riee. 25.; Gallery, Is. Tickets and places for the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may be had upon application. Private Boxes to be had solely of Mr. Andrea's, bookseller, I ti 7 . New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Extraordinary attraction. Wonderful success of " Norma." Last week of " Elizabeth Lazarus." Continuation of the most popular, eccentrically grand Pantomime ever produced. THIS EVEIstiNG, FEB. 10 Will be acted Haines' wonderfully successful Drama, enti tled ELIZABETH LAZARUS, THE JEWESS, founded on Captain Glasscock's " Land Sharks and Sea Gulls." After which, 111 1:5. NORMA, with Music —Nor ma, Signor Nevilli ; Agelgisa, Signor Waltoui ; Pollio, Sig nora Nlartni. To conclude with a Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND THE ICE QUEEN; OR, JACK FROST AND KING THAW —With gorgeous and charac teristic Scent ry, splendid Properties, ludicrous and Quaint Dresses, ingenious Tricks, magnificent Panorama by Brun- Ding, &C. Harlequin, M. Holine; Patch, M. Rochet ; Pan taloon, M. Lehman ; Flip, Signor Feliz Carlo ; Clown, Mr. Buckingham ; Columbine, Miss Sharpe. Private and Public Boxes can be had of Messrs. Sams, Ebers, Mitchell, Andrews, and Seguin, during the run of this popu lar Pantomime. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF SIR. OSBALDISTON. Every Week still adds to the increasing number of visitors who nightly frequent this popular establishment. The public may, therefore, rest confidently assured that no possible exer tion shall be ranting to produce such novelty, variety, and attraction, as to render this Theatre still more pre-eminent, if possible, in its position than ever the reiterated acknowledg ments of the public already so flatteringly pronounced it. On MONDAY next, February 14, another new Domestic Drama, to be entitled MARY WHITE ; or, the MURDER at the OLD TABBARD; supported by Miss Vincent, the acknowledged Heroine of Domestic Tragedy, and Mr. E. F. Saville, &c., &c. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning 4 minutes after 2. I Evening .... 22 minutes after 2, THE WEATHER—NOON, FEBRUARY 9. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. 'Thermometer... 48 11ighe6t 4B 1 Lowest '36 Barometer 29.69.—Wind S.—Freezing Point 32 Deg. • , . " 10" t - "-- - 211 v`-- - • titt a§Altt. LONDON! THLIZ6I)A Y. FKI;UUARY 10, 1842. Intense interest was yesterday excited about the House of Com►uons, and in all concerned with the Corn-laws, to hear Sir ROBERT Pm L's plan. The House itself was filled in every part before five o'clock, and its purlieus were so much crowded, that the lobbies and passages were cleared, to the great annoyance of several repec table persons, by the SPEAKER'S orders. Mr. CURTEIS laving declined to bring forward his motion concerning Mr. ELTON, no other business was transacted than what concerns - the Corn-laws. A great many petitions were presented against the laws, between four and five o'clock, and at five minutes past five, Sir ROBERT PEEL began his statement. His speech was generally plain, confined to facts, and arguments destitute of the usual clap traps, but overloaded with words. It was not calculated to make an impression on the House. It excited no cheers from his friends, and only a little derision from his opponents. We never knew him make so many mistakes, and when he concluded, expressing. no confidence that his measure will be carried, it seemed as if he an ticipated a defeat. He spoke till a few minutes before eight, and evidently failed to please the landowners, while he did not gain the commer cial classes. After Sir R. PEEL had resumed his place, 'Mr. COBDEN rose and denounced the proposition as an insult to the suffering people. The Corn-law Conference also held a meeting, and passed a re solution, that the measure of Ministers, " far from holding out a prospect of relief, is an insult t.) a patient and suffering people." They added—" That it is an indication that the landed aristocracy are destitute of all sympathy for the poor, and are resolved, if permitted by an outraged people, to persist in a course of policy which will involve the destruction of every interest in the country." The immediate result of the trimming Ministe rial proposition, therefore, is to exasperate the disease it was intended to cure. Sir R. PEEL does not differ from other ignorant pretenders to a knoWledge of the healing art. The amount of his proposition may be stated in a very few words. He is to make no al teration in the mode arid manner of taking the averages, except to cause the returns to be looked after by the Excise, and to increase the number of towns, now 150, from which the 'returns are to be made. He rejected the notion of taking the return from the sales of the growers. He said not one word about other provisions than the grains which are usually embraced by the Corn-laws, and, repu diating a fixed duty, he confines his alterations entirely to the sliding scale, which he preserves. He is to alter that scale thus : At present, the duty on wheat at 50s. and under 51s. is 365. Bd., and it increases Is. for every Is. the price of wheat falls. Sir ROBERT PEEL proposes when the price is under 51s. the duty shall be 20s.,and shall never be further in creased however low the price may fall. By the present scale the duty falls Is. fur every Is. the price rises, till it reaches 675., when the duty, then 205., ceases to slide, and leaps irregularly till it ends at ls. when the price reaches 733., and so re mains. Sir ROBERT PEEL proposes that the duty of 20s. when the price is under 51s. shall fall as the price rises, till it reaches 535. Then he introduces a resting place in the scale, and the duty remains 18s. till the price reaches 555. As the price rises ls. above this, the duty falls ls. till the price reaches 675., when there is another 'resting place, and the duty remains at 6s. till the price has got up to 694 4 The duty then again falls ls. as the price , rises - 11 -> till the latter reaches 755., when the duty is , to cease latogether. I Sir nowt % *t•Paitz. praises the plan as i likely to 67s.,leiniti produce a greater . steadiness of price. By avoiding the jump t ill a g bov o e it v of the present scale, when prices reach certainly enable the merchant to count with more certainty on his market. It will probably satisfy Mr. CRIPPS, by permitting him at time: to bring returns from the United States. But this is its only merit. Men will endeavour still to evade the duty though the temptation will be somewhat lessened, and the bulk of the corn imported will be hereafter, as heretofore, at the lowest duty. The consequence will be that the average price under Sir ROBERT PEEL'S scale must be 755. before corn is- imported, whereas now it is imported at 735., paying ls. duty. We understand why a resting place is intro duced at 675., but we know no reason for intro ducing another at 555., except it be for uni formity. Sir ROBERT PEEL boasted of his duty not increasing beyond 205., which is mere idle talk, for the duty at that rate now is completely inoperative, and the higher duty might just as well be 100/. as 20s. He wished, he said, that the price of wheat should be generally between 545. and 585., 'and he kindly proposes a duty on it at that price of 165. Bd. In fact Sir R. PEEL'S plan is the poorest alteration we have yet seen proposed in the Sliding Scale. It was, accordingly, at once justly treated as a mockery by Mr. COBDEN. In ordinary and prosperous times it might have done, but to pro pose it now is like offering a perfume to a man at the point of death from starvation. But not only is the scale a mockery ; the speech which introduced it was a bitter, biting insult to common-sense, and to the starving people. Sir ROBERT PEEL, as the agent of the landowners, had the extraordinary pre sumption to stand up in the House or Commons, and contend that the distress of the people was not caused by the unjust legislation of which lie is the advocate. He sought to throw thAlatue, which properly belongs to bad laws, on the strug gles of the manufacturers to keep themselves from sinking under the weight of his mischievous legislation. His petty alteration in the sliding scale might have been laughed at, as an ind.‘x to the mean mind of Sir R. PEEL ; but when all around hint is groaning with agony, from the - determination of the aristocracy to destroy the liberties and appropriate the property of the people by law, it is more, we believe, than human nature will bear, to have this man using his talents to exonerate the aristocracy and throw the blame of the mighty mischief they have caused, on those who are honestly and honour ably seeking to paid a living for themselves, and to find employment and bread for others. It was terribly insulting, also, to hear Sir PEEL introduce an elaborate, and yet unfounded, comparison between the labouring classes in England and Prussia, contending in substance that the former ought to be contented, because they are not worse off than the latter. Why did he not refer to the immense deal of wealth which our labouring classes produce more than than the labourers of Prussia, of which the proof is the great number of persons who are maintained in idleness and opulence by tin it labour ? His statistics were both false and in sulting; for the great number of our middle classes, and the domestic consumption of the agricultural classes in Prussia, which cannot be brought into the account, renders the ave rages of consumption, which he quoted, as worthless as his new scale. Sir ROBERT PEEL'S speech, worse than his trifling alteration , was a cold-blooded insult both to the suffering manufacturers and the still more suffering work men ; and it will make a profound and general impression, unfavourable to the aristocracy of which he is the organ. The debate in the Madrid Cortes threatens to be in terminable. On the 31st ult. it had been twelve days under discussion, and yet the talking was going on as furiously as ever. With the excep tion of some spicy personalities, applied to the memory of dead Kings, and the character of living Ministers, nothing could be duller, or less generally interesting than the debate. The funds were without change on the Madrid Bourse. The Five per Cent;. tvere at 321 for cash. The French Republican Journals are delighted wit the accounts published of the reverses sustained by the British troops in Affghanistan. The National in parti &liar sets no bounds to its joy. Haughty Albion, licking the dust on the theatre of her past glorit s is to our Gallic Contemporary a most delightful spectacle. In the very idea he riots in the franticjoy of gratified revenge. Our doom he considers as sealed. If the Anglo-Indian Government make war on the treacherous Atighans, it will do so with an empty treasury and ruined credit ; and when the tri butary Princes find us engaged in hostilitit s at such a distance they w ill throw off our yoke, implore the aid of the golden-footed Monarch of Burmah, and at one blow prostrate our seeming colossal power in In dia. On the other hand, the National is satisfied that if we abandon Cabool we lose our newly-aCquired intluetwe at the Court of Teheran ; disgust the Government of the Ptmjaub ; place Aden in peril ; re-establish the sway of Russia in Herat ; and, by giving the native Princes such a striking proof of our weakness, provoke all the dangers which we were endeavouring to escape. Now we shall say nothing, either of the good taste or the good feeling displayed in the views set forth by the National upon this question. Among honourable men of any country there can be but one opinion about them. A handful of gallant officers, one of them an honour to the laud which gave birth to a BURNS, a SCOTT, and an _ABE RC ROM BIE, were at tacked in a defenceless state by wretches pretending. to be their friends, and brutally murdered. This is done in a country some thousands of miles distant from any territory subject to the British sway, and on the appearance of the sad narrative in an Indian Journal transmitted to France, the organ of the Ultra-Republi cans, in the very Capital, gloats over it as a delighftil manifestation of the decline of British power in Asia ! It was not thus we recorded AED-EL-KADER'S passion for the erection of pyramids of French heads in Afric.l. But enough of this subject. We propose no more than to acquaint our readers with the mannerin which any ac count of reverses sustained by us in any part of the worli is received by a portion of the French Press. Nor do the Ultra-Liberal Journals stand alone in this respect. The organs of legitimacy are equally indecorously ran corous in the expression of their joy at the deplorable events which took place in Cabool. There is quite a dearth of political news in the French papers of Monday. The following extracts from ahem are of some intorest The Chamber of Deputies was summoned for Monday at three o'clock, to receive a communication from the Government. This communication is the presentation of a project of law on the iron rhilway, The Globe of Belgium publishes the following news :—" We learn today from a person who is so situated as to be able to give the most correct information, that the accession of the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg to the German Customs Union, has at length been agreed to by the King of the Netherlands. M Rochussen, the Dutch Minister of Finance, has been to London to take the ratifi cation of the treaty to the King of Prussia. The following are the terms in which the ratification on the part of the Grand Duchy is said to be expressed. " The Treaty is concluded for the term of one year; if at the expiration of that year the King Grand Duke should think fit to cancel the engagement, he is not to oonclude any Treat) with an other party till after the lapse of four years delay from the day ix which he signifies his renunciation of the present Treaty." The Courrier Belge confirms this news.—Constitutionneh The National announces that M. Chapais de Montaville, will, en Thursday next, bring forward in the Chamber of Deputies, the following proposal : " Thenceforth the 24th Article of the Law of the Ist Law of the 17th May, 1819, shall be as follows :—The printers of writings, the authors of which shall be prosecuted by virtue of the present law, and who complied with the obligations prescribed by the 2d head of the law of Oct. 21, 1841, shall not be liable to prosecution merely for having printed these writings, unless they have acted willingly (sciemment), as is stated in Article 60 of the present code." However, the printers of daily journals can never be considered as having acted wittingly. BOURSE—PARIS, MONDAY, FEB. 7 r I trst Highest Lowest Lest Price Price. Pric... Prier. Prencn 5 per Comb ....... .... 119 13 ... 111. 20 ... Ili/ 10 ... 119 15 4.% per Cente. lO7 25 ... 107 23 ... 107 :15 ... 107 25 . per Cents lO3 ... 1' 3 ... 103 ... It 3 3 per Cents BO "80 ... 80 ... 80 Loan ......... 'lank of Orance Lathtte Sank LOOK Stares 1015 ...1015 ...1015 ...1015 5,0001 Shares 1030 ..,503e m ut() ...50:30 rolcian Bank Belgian 5 per Cents. S per Cents., 1840 1054 ... 104. ... 105% ... 105% iparpsh Active =s4 ... 25% ... .25 , 4 ... 2:0i.,, Passive B% ... 5% ... 5 % ... 5% New Deferred Neapolitan 12% 11.17 80 —. !b7 80 ._ 107 .0 _. , u 7 70 ioanni -. .• *I % ••• 104 y 6 ... 104% ... IN% RAILWAY sHAREs. St. Germain .................. 8 g4 9 e 2 50 .. . ... 13` 2. 1 ...... 340 890 ...... 34 893 rs Veailles. IL li LB Rouen•• 520 ... 5 25 ... 517 50 ... 520 Urietns . 565 ... 570 ... 565 ._ 570 Strasburg to Bale, 212 50 ... 232 50 .. 23 . i 25 .»231 25 WIGAN MEMORIAL TO THE MAYOR.- The Tories, in the true spirit of the party , refused to a m an , to sign th e late memorial, soliciting the Mayor of Wigan to call a public meeting, for the purpose of considering the best means of alleviating the distressed condition of the poor. This is pure Toryism--ptwo different rofessing sympathy and practising it ar e things.—Live rpoo l c THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10. 1842. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEW S. CITY WEDNESDAY EVENING. Rather a large business was done in Stocks to-day, and prices, with the exception of Indian Securities, had a slight tendency to improve. It might have been supposed that the public would have abstained from all business until the termina tion of the iinportant question coming under debate this evening in the House of Parliament. The bona fide transfers, however, were rather more numerous. Consols for immediate delivery were quoted 88% to 89, and for the Account 89 to t39 1 / 8 . The con fidence of the holders of•the surreptitious Exchequer bills ap pears rather to increase, and the premium upon the stamped issue has advanced to 19a. and 21s. India Bonds, on the con trary, !rave way to Bs. and ss. premium ; and East India Stock was reduced to 244 and 243 in consequence of the recent in telligence. Bank Stock, though steady, was rather dull at 167. New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. brought 984 to 98k, and the Three per Cent. Annuities 89 to Foreign Stocks were comparatively quiet, but in prices there was some steadiness. Spanish Activ e B on d s were mar k e d 24 beingto a shade better. P or t uguese N ew Five per C ents. t° 32 ; and the Th ree per C ents. at 19 4 . Bra ziliank was at 66 1 / 2 , Colombi an at 214 to 22, an d D utc h TewA2roe4 s - moderate t o,ni3dt. ea_ Half per Cents. at 514 to 5 1 % . l rate degree of activity prevailed in the Share Mar ket to-day, anti prices were net quite so feeble. The chief transactions bore upon the Northern lines of Railway. Great Thirds % premium. S out h W estern were 204 premium, W es te r n were at 21, the New at 104 to 1 0 1 , 4 , and B irm i ngham MidlandtCo%nties 17, and North Midland 30 discount. Union Bank of Australia New Shares were 34 premium. (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, FEB. B.—We have had a very moderate demand for Cotton to-day, the sales not amount ing to more than '2,500 bales, of which 250 have been taken for export. No change in prices. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, FEB. B.—The transactions at the Share Market this day' comprise—Grand Junction, 1854 ; Half Shares, 924 ; London and Brighton, 364 ' • London and Birmingham, 1 74 ; Quarter Sh ares , 3,54 ; Manchester and Leeds Quarter Shares, 3/. 19s. ; North Midland, 704. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 8. —The late ac counts from India haveslightly affected our market; yet though we have not so good a demand for stock prices continue firm : Liverpool and Manchester Quarter Shares, 44 ex. div. ; London and Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 354 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 284 20; Manchester and Leeds, Half Shares, 33 334 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 4/. to 4/. Is. 6d. ; Lancaster and Preston, Three-quarter Shares, 18 184 ; Manchester As surance, The ilalburgh mail has arrived. No alteration to notice in the rate of Exchange or the price of gold. The Contir.ental Exchanges were firmer yesterday, and an advance upon Paris and Amsterdam may be noticed. Both the English and Foreign Securities opened firmer this morning, with a slight advance upon the c!osing prices of yes terday. Consols are 88 r ; for Money, and 89A for the Account. Exchequer Bills IBs. 20s. Spanish Active Stock 24 1 / 4 i ; Por tuguese Five per Cents. 3li 32 ; ditto, Threes, I9i ; Mexican Bonds 323 g. The English Market continues firm, with a moderate busi ness. Consols for Money are 89, and for the Account 89k. Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced have reached 99%, but were last done at 99i ; New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. 98i ; Three per Cents. Reduced 86%; Exchequer Bills have advanced Is., being now 19s. to 213. prem. In the Foreign Market there has been but a limited business done_this . morning. Spanish Stock have been at 24, and are now quoted 24. Passive, 53 ; Deferred, 123; Brazilian, 66. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 51*; Colombian, 22; Mexican, 32i. In the Share Market there has also been but little doing— Great Western have been at 86 ; London and Brighton, 361 ; Midland Counties are lower, _being quoted 83 ; and Northern arid Eastern have declined from 36i to 35. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 167 India Stock 3 per Cent Red 893 Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cons. B9 Ditto Old Annuities 3i per Cent Red.. New 3i per Cent New 5 per Cent. Long Annuities ;oexpire ; Ditto Small l9 pin Jan. 1860.,........ 12 11-16 Bank Stock for Acct *— Oct 1859..., ..... India Stock for Acct — Jan. 1860. ... .... 124 Consols for Acct B9 FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 p,i cent—. Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 pei Bent — ;Ditto, New Ditto Brazilian 80nd5.... 66i Prussian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ayres 6 per cext Russian, 5 per cent...... Chilian, 6 per cent._ ~ Ditto, Metallic .. . Colombian, 6 pet cent.. Spanish, 5 per cent...... 24-i Ditto, 1824.. ....... ..... - Ditto, Deferred .. , 12i Danish, 3 per cent - French, 5 per cent. —l. ......c, Greek, 1825,5 per cent —l Exchange - f - -c, Mexican, 5 per cent.... 32A French, 3 per cent — . —c Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 IDutch, 21 per cent. . 5t Peruvian, 1825, f:per ct. 'Ditto, 5 per cent. ... . 101 i SHARES. Birmingham and Derby Railway (100 pd) 59 Eastern Counties Railway (23 raid) „. tg Great Western Railway ( 65 paid) B6 Ditto New Shares (50 paid) . .... Ditto Fifth (4 paid) ... 96 London and Brighton (50 paid) • ::;tig London and Birmingham (90) •• • •• Ditto Quarter Shares (15 paid) ....... . 35i Ditto Thirds (32 paid) 5B;- London and South Western 113 8:3 20 34i London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) Ditto Quarter Shares (15 paid) Northern and Eastern (40 paid) North Midland Railway (100) Ditto New Shares (40 paid) B4l Ditto Thirds (15 paid) South Eastern and Dover (48 paid) . 27 York and, North Midland Railway (50 paid) 93 LAW IN TELLIGEN CE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Fell. 9. No case of interest came before the Court this morning. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Feb. 9. QUIN V. ADAMS. This was an action to recover damages for injury (lone to a cur. rice of the plaintiff's, and also for the cost of a horse which was killed in consrqueace of the accident. Mr. Kelly apseared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Platt for the de fendant. The plaintiff is a physicist), and the defendant is a coach builder. The plaintiff bought the curri_le in question from the defendant sonic time ago, and subsequent to the carriage being sent home it was discovered that it was very defective, and was frequently sent back to the defendant to be altered. On the day in question the carriage was going up Upper Grosvenor-street, when the front of the carriage fell upon the backs of the horses, and they started off at full and from injuries one o f t h e h orses received it subse quently The value of thi s h orse - was one hundred guineas, and for which the action was brought. The plaintiff received a warranty with the carriage. The other ho rse was a l so i n j ured. sed died. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Feb. 9. KILPATRICK V. GREAT 'WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. The plaintiff in this action was a policeman employed on the Great Western Railway. In the autumn of last year he was em ployed in his avocation on the line, and seeing some logs of wood lying at the side of the road had taken part of it home with him for the purpose of using it as firewood. The station-clerk considered this an offence against the Company, and the plaintiff was taken before the Magistrate on a charge of stealing timber, and was sent to prison for a short pu►od. The present action was brought to re cover from the defendants damages for false imprisonment. The case occupied the Court the whole day. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Publit Opinion. - " Who runs may read." FOILEIGN. The accession of the Grand'Duchy of Luxemburg to the German Commercial Union has been agreed upon for one year. In the French Chamber of Deputies, on Monday, the Minister of Public Works read the Government plan . for the railroads. The lines proposed to be executed immediately, at the expense of the State, are those between Paris and Brum* by Lille, with branches to Calais, Avignon, and Marseilles, and Elle, Paris to Nantes, by Tours and Orleans, Chalons and Dijon, to Strasburg. M. Chapuis de Montaville, a Deputy of the Extreme Left, gave notice on Monday of a motion for a Bill tending to except printers from the responsibility of articles published is journals, thus leay.. ing the responsible publisher alone liable. The Augsburg Gazette of the 3d inst. publishes a letter from St. Petersburgh of the 22d ult., stating that the recal of Count Pahlen was not connected with any political motive, and that conse quently the question of etiquette debated between France and Russia bad not originated with the latter Power. Count Pahlen will not returu to his post, the Emperor having resolved upon no longer having any Ambassadors at the European Courts, but only Ministers Plenipotentiary upon special missions. P OPINION. The Morning Post denies, for at least the hundredth time, that the present distress is caused by the Corn.laws, observing that the vast enterprises undertaken without any provision for the recoil, together with the cupidity, luxuriousness, and hard.lieartedness of the mere seekers after wealth in the manufacturing districts, mainly tend to produce distress. The Chronicle warns Sir Robert Peel not to compromise his remedial reeasures for the sake of vote-catching ; and adds, that it remains for him to make the elevation he has conquered an ex. hibition of glory or of disgrace, such as the greatest may envy, or the meanest may despise. The Herald states that the introduction of Lord Stanley 'a Bill respecting ecclesiastical dignitaries in the West Indies, is another indication of business-like energy in the Government to which the Noble Lord is attached. The Times denies that the people's petitions are treated with disrespect. MC NET-TRADE-COMMERCE. The debts and liabilities of the Tweed Bank are 300,0001., and somewhere about 10s. in the pound is expected to be paid. The fishing waters were set up for sale on Wednesday, but let by auc. tion for one year, there being no bidder. From the Report of the Manufacturers' Relief Committee, read at their meeting held on Tucsday, it appears that in the course of their charitable labours, the sum of 30,0001. has been distributed among the operatives of England and Scotland. PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. It is in contemplation to widen and improve the streets and lines in the neighbourhood of Shadwell and Wapping on the completion of the Thames Tunnel, which is rapidly approaching. XILXCTIONEMILING. The election for Dublin University will take place to.merrow, The Solicitor-General is at present unopposed. The Committee of the Reform Association have recommended the Liberal party to refrain from bringing forward a candidate for Liverpool during the present season of social depression and poli. tical apathy; but chiefly because a contest would only force their adversaries to gratify the venal and corrupt among the electors. It appears from an address published by Mr. Rathbone, the Chairman of the Committee, that the venal freemen, at the election in 1830, received bribes amounting to 19,600/., of which 4,500/. was paid by the Reformers, and 15,000/. by the Tories. Mr. George Arkwright was on Tuesday elected Member for Leo minster, in the room of Mr. Vice. Chancellor Wigi am. Mr. Maclean's retirement from the representation of Oxford is rumoured. No new writ, it is understood, will be at present moved for in the borough of Southampton, in the room of Lord Bruce, now Earl of Elgin, as it is said his Lordship has given notice of legally try ing the question, whether or not, under the existing laws, a Mem ber of the House of Commons vacates his seat on succeeding to a Scotch Peerage. LITERALLY AND SCIENTIFIC. The Esterhazys of Galantha, have been, from time immemorial, the highest Barons of Hungary. At one of their castles is seen their genealogical tree; the basis of whieh is a recumbent man, out of which branches the several lines of their warriors and states.. men. At Eisenstadt, the present Prince has a stronghold, palace, and troops of his own. The treasury of the house, which has ac. cumulated for ages, is administered by a council of six lawyers. SPORTING. In addition to the office of Steward of Doncaster Races this year there are also several other nominations rendered vacant by the demise of the Duke of Cleveland. The Hon. Colonel Anson is likely to be the new Steward of the great meeting in the north. The horse of Mr. E. 6. Cann, after a tremendous run of thirty minutes near Plymouth, performed the extraordinary leap of going over a hurdle of seven feet in perpendicular height, a feat accom plished in gallant style. COURT-FASHIONABLE. It is not the Intention of the Queen Dowager to reside again at Sudbury Hall ; and the furniture there will, in consequence, be re moved to Bushy or Marlborough House. Lord and Lady Maryborough give a grand entertainment on Fri. day week to the Duke of Cambridge. Lord Southampton is entertaining a distinguished party at Whit. tlebury, Northamptonshire. Countess St. Aulaire arrived at Hertford House on Monday evening from Paris. The Duke and Duchess of Burcleuch contemplate leaving Mon. agu House at the close of the season for Scotland. MIS UZI/LANE° US. The Forty.eighth Anniversary of the Licensed Victuallers' So. ciety was celebrated on Tuesday, at White Conduit House, when between 400 and 500 gentlemen sat down to dinner. The Secretary read the Report, from which it appeared that since the establish. ment of this excellent Institution the enormous sum of 216,7451. had been distributed fur different charitable purposes. On the motion of Mr. Ewart a return has been ordered by the House of Commons of the number of perscres executed, fur alt crimes in London and Middlesex, during triennial periods front 1821 up to 1839, together with the number of persons committed for murder in the same periods respectively. The solemnities observed on Ash Wednesday of old in the Church were severe and exemplary. Silence was observed; coin. mon prayers used, and ashes and holy water sprinkled on the heads of the Monks, the Priests saying, " Remember you are but dust, and to dust you must return." On that evening, also, boys used to run about with firebrands and torches. A fire broke out at Drontheim cn the 23d inst. , when 300 houses and the hospital were consumed. The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland has issued a commission to in quire into the state and circumstances of all the public charities in Dublin receiving Parliamentary aid, and the sums voted for the maintenance of which form a portion of the annual estimates. - On Saturday morning last, the guard of the Limerick mail-coach was severely wounded on the Moneygall road, by a shot from a blunderbuss, discharged from behind a ditch. The splendid presents made to the Prince and Princess Esterhazy, arrived from Venice and liatisbon, and displayed on Monday even ing at Lady Jersey's, were valued at P 2,000/. The most magnifi cent were a beautiful tiara of the purest diamonds, and a rich necklace of pearls. The boy Jones has again vanished in a most mysterious manner. He left home in a clean shirt on Friday morning last, since when he has not been seen, though a letter has been received from hint, bearing the Portsmouth post-mark, stating that he is going to sea again. The letter is supposed to have been writen at the dictation of others. We dare say that the boy will be again found shortly in Buckingham Palace. Mr, Wakley, alluding to the recent railway accidents, observed on Tuesday in the House of Commons, that " when one or two Lords had lost their lives, the House would be disposed to sym pathise with them; but until some noblemen had been sacrificed, he had no hope that the House would pass such a law as the case required."—Such being the case, we wculd respectfully hint to the patriotic. Duke of Buckii.gham the propriety of his allowing himself to be smashed or blown up on a railway, by way of attracting public attention to the subject. His Grace's loss could not be sup plied, and he would have the proud satisfaction of knowing that, like the Roman Curtius, he offered himself up a victim to the public good ! We are glad to learn there is no probability of altering the penny-postage to # oz. There is very little doubt but that, the vacant see of Ossory will be conferred upon the Venerable Archdeacon of Dublin, Dr. Torrens. The valuable living of St. Peter's, in this city, will fall to the Government, and the proper allocation of this causes the delay in the public announcement of the new bishop. The clergymen named are Doctors Elrirtgton, Vig_ nolles, and Daly. The first is the choice of the Lord Primate; the second, the !first chaplain to his Excellency, and Dean of the Chapel Royal; the third, one of the litigant parties for the Deanery of St. Patrick. GLACIARIUM ARTIFICIAL ICE 1 -- This beautiful invention has fully established itself in public estima tion, nearly 10,000 persons of the first character having in spected it, and testified their approbation of its merits. The private view will shortly close previous to its being carried out on the magnificent scale contemplated. In the list of visitors for the last few days are Prince Nicholas Esterhazy, Marquis of Stafford, Viscount Chelsea, Sir Edward Parry, Sir Walter and Lady Blunt, Lady M'Gregor, Hon. W. Fitzroy, Hon Mr. Wombwell, Baron de Rectouch, Sir Henry Calder, Captain Bosanquet, Captain Durtiett, Mr. Faraday, &e. THE ASSIZES.—THE NORTHERN CIRCUIT. —We believe that the arrangements for the ensuing Assizes are not yet completed, and great uncertainty has prevailed with respect to them. It is understood, however, that the Commission-day at York will not be earlier than the Ist of March, and it may be the sth. That at Liverpool will be from a fortnight to three weeks later. Mr. Baron Parke and Mr. Baron Rolfe will be the Judges at York and Liverpool. Mr. Justice Wightman (probably alone) will take the four northern counties and North Lancashire. Mr. Sergeant Atcherley takes Mr. Baron Parke's place on the Norfolk Cir cuit.—Leeds Mercury. WIGAN SCRUTINY. Preparations for the Wi g an scrutiny are now in active preparation ; evidence is col lecting, and, from the knowledge we possess of the unlawful practices of the Tories at the late election, we feel not the slightest hesitation in predicting that in a very short space of time Mr. Charles Standish and Mr. Charles Roscoe Grenfell po wil ( ! iw ba o t r h oo e li s c i wl t e t . ing Members for th e goo d o ld borough.—Lieer- ICII, FEB. 7.—The Firebrand, Light cos co a t* Ostend, rnsmgt haveeinnr ning, and Shear water c e sat r ni ntdh s g t te e nom a -f m dvi;ryri v ut e tis s lisl s eei e af l returned squadront eachht o t Lo t apo h dr e ert: whichvWe s o s o e l l w divided e lc o h n v y e e y s yesterday, r m d the o ay n 4 , sum having been presented ththern by order of his Majesty : Pilots and engineers, Si. ; petty-officers, 2/. each ; j and the remaining part of the crew, 1/. each. 'NEW WATER COMPANY.—We perceive by an advertisement which appears in another part o f our paver, that an application will be made in the present Session of Par. liament for an Act to incorporate the " London, Westminster, and Metropolitan Water Company," and to empower them t o supply the inhabitants of London with pure arid wholesome water. This great and desirable change has for many years been most loudly and earnestly called for by those who are compelled to consume the water of the river Thames. Tne experiments which have been made under the able direction of Mr. Robert Stephenson, the engineer, have fully demonstrated the fact, that a sufficient quantity of pure water for the adequate supply of the metropolis, can be obtained from the springs in the neighbourhood of Watford, in the county of Hertfordshire, without interfering with the in terests which are vested in the surface waters, and consequently without any detriment to the value of the millowners' property on the river Colne. THE QUEEN v. LORD ASHBURTON AND OTHERS.-lt has been already stated, that on Thursday after noon, just before the breaking up of the Grand Jury, a bill for conspiracy against Lord Ashburton and three others, was re turned to the Central Criminal Court. Since that time up to Monday, the bill remained in the office, and no application was made on behalf of the prosecutors for the usual certificate of the Court of the finding of the Lill, upon which, in ordinary cases, the defendants, under such circumstances, are called upon to find bail. On Monday an application was made on behalf of the Noble Lord, to Mr. Justice Patteson, for a writ of certio rari, to remove the indictment from the Central Court to the Queen's Bench, and the certiorari was accordingly issued ; and the case, if ever it should come to trial, will consequently be disposed of in that Court. The amount of bail fixed by the Learned Judge was a recognizance of 500/. for each of the principals, with two sureties of 250 i. each. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Feb. 9. IN RE HILL •ND /11001[1111. 1 It will be recollected that on the last examination of these bank rupts, proof was tendered by Mr. Rees, on the part of Messrs. Nicholson, Messrs. Nix, and others, upon five bills of exchange accepted or endorsed by the bankrupts. On that occasion Mr. Kearsley objected, on the testimony of the bankrupts, to some ex , tent :corrob:rated by Mr. Maise (recently a bankrupt), that the bills were accepted or endorsed solely for the accommodation of that person, without any consideration ; and next, and principally, the bills were illegal, having been drawn on en. stamped paper ill England, and dated as if drawn in Guernsey. It was argued in support of the bills that although there was no probable evidence that the drawer was in London at the date cf the bills, that was not proof that they were drawn on the day of their date, and that the onus was on the objectors to prove the af firmative that they were drawn in England. It appeared also that there existed no such firm as Douglas and Company, Guern sey, confectioners, whose names appeared as drawers; that the house under their name was that of Maise, who also wrote the signature. and endorsements. Mr. Commlstioner EVANS gave judgment. He said the question in this case is, whether the bills were drawn in Guernsey or in Eng. landece i v t e h d a t i n w e o v u i l d d en b e c ea in t a a u n d y C o o n u t r h t e o r f e j v u e s n t u ic e e . and t i t , h i s e e y o c u o n u t i r d y. . 11 o t i, l b ) e e land. The bills ar e unstampe d , an d if t h ey w e re drawn in Eng date of a bill of exchange is prima facie evidence of the day on which it was drawn, and therefore it lies upon the parties who claim upon these bills to prove that they were not drawn at the dates they bear, and that they were drawn in Guernsey. The bills 1 ' are drawn in the name of Robert Douglas and Co., and it is proved by Mr. Maise that there were no such persons, and that he both drew and accepted the bill The Solicitor who put in this claim called Mr. Glegg, who was clerk to Maise before his bankruptcy, and, indeed, he was not a witness very anxious to give evidence against his employer, but his evidence has convinced me that :liaise was not in Guernsey on the day of the date; and if the holders thought it would serve_ them to show that the drawing took place on a different day and in that place, it was for them to prove it. The gentleman who appeared for those creditors cited the decision of Lord Ellenborough in the case of Abrahams v. Dubois, when his Lordship was of opinion that the objectors were bound to prove that the bill was drawn in Englan d . But that was a nisi prius decision, and cannot be supported. Ido not think it ought to go. vern me in this case. If the person who draws ` bill i s p rove d t o be In London on the day of its date, no rational person can suppose that it is drawn in Paris, or in Guernsey. If the mere writing the name of a foreign place on a bill was sufficient, there would be plenty of foreign bills drawn its London on unstamped paper. The case of Byning v. Moroe (2d Carrington) put the matter in the proper light. If the bills in.question were really drawn in Guernsey, the holders could find plenty of pr°°f• But it rests with my conscience to say whetter the evidence satisfies me that Mr. Hobson, the principal creditor , complained to his Honour they were so; and as, on the contra r y , I am satisfied that they were drawn in London, I must reject the c l aim. of the manner in which the balance sheet was made up. The offi. cial assignee had, in the course of the day, discovered several in. accuracies in it, and even erasures in the books; and he (Mr. Hob son) applied to his Honour to allow him an opportunity of examin. ing them thoroughly, before the bankrupts passed. N. Commissioner EVANS said that Mr. Hobson should have every facility in ascertaining the truth of every particular; and he (Mr. Commissioner Evans) saw some things in the balance sheet which required explanation, such as a cl aim of 1,3C0/. from the fat her of one of the benkrupts. After some discussion, the case was adjourned till this day w ee k , the friends of the bankrupts undertaking to pay the expenses of a meeting. Yates and John Atkinson CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. , is to , SENTENCES. At the terminafon of the Old Bailey .Sessions on Tuesday, House of Correction for six T. Eggleton a number of convicts were brought up for judgment, when the following sentences were passed: — Transportation for Life — Wm months Fo r Fboeufrotreee Fourteen his expatriation. Years—Mary For Fifteen Years—Pat. Flann,gan and John Harcourt. ‘bielicklsepStin to o h ; hard d e l l a a b s o t- u n r a last-named, n ed t , hKe bt i . n i i g ig a.n a d r: i t u a.r r y ipd ra c y o l n or v . ict For twice Seven Years—Sarah Price, alias Pugh. Smith, David Harrington, W. Metcalfe, J. Brown, John Barry, A. Morti- For , Ten Years—J. MiGregor, J. Payne, W. Sarah Atkins, alias Jones, John Williams, James King, Thos' mer, Wm. Smith, John Bennett, John . Charlton, Carroll, Wm. Thomas, John tirown, Mary Banks, Wm. Beglie . For Seven Years—Jag. Nicholson, Win. Estworthy, J . Jones 'Thos. Breen, Charles Whitmore, J. Dalen, John. Davis, R. Light, Alfred Pluckro se, Wm. Hend erson W Livermore, J. Rickards, Wm. Connor, Mary Regan. 'W. Several o th ers were sen t en ced to various periods of impri eminent. The Duke d'Aumale has given a prize of I,ooof. I.n. the Nantes races of the present year, COURT CIRCULAR. Werinsort, WEDNESDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert walked this morning on the Castle-terrace, and in the newly laid-out mounds of the Home-park. This afternoon her Majesty and Prince Albert rode out in a pony phaeton, his Royal Highness driving, accompanied by the Prince Ferdinand and the Princes Augustus and Leopold of Saxe Cobourg, in a pony carriage, followed by the Viscountess Jocelyn, Hon. Miss Paget, and Hon. Miss. Liddell in another pony carriage, and attended on horseback by the Earl of Moe ton, Colonel Wylde, Hon. Captain Duncombe, Count Degen feld Schomberg, and Captain Zaitsch. Her Majesty's Private Band, and the Band of the Royal Horse Guards will be in attendance this morning. Col. Bouverie will have the honour of joining the Royal Dinner Circle at the Castle this evening. The Court will leave early tomorrow (Thursday) morning, about half-past' eight o'clock, and will proceed by . the usual route to Brighton. I-Ter Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent attended Divine Service yesterday morning (Ash Wednesday) in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. Lady Fanny Howard wss in waiting on her Royal Highness. Her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta of Cambridge visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlbo rough-house. The Duchess of Kent visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday at Gloucester-house, and also her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, at Cambridge house. Baron de Moncorvo, the Portuguese Mini-ter, transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. Mr. Dears, Chairman of the Customs, and Mr. Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had interviews with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Down ing-street. The Hun. Mr. and Mrs. Watson have arrived in town, from Rockingham Castle. Mrs. Walker Ferrand has arrived in town, from a visit to the Earl and Countess of Hillsborough, Nuneaton, Warwi,:kshire. The Dowager Lady Lyttelton has left Farrance's Hotel, for the seat of Lord Lytteltoo, Worcestershire. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yesterday. The Lords present were the Lord President, Lord Brougham, Lord Campbell, and Mr. Justice Erskine. An Appeal was resumed which had been part heard at former sittings, from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, relative to the property of Mr. Peter Rainer, who died on the 30th of Oc tober, 1837, the parties being " Charles Deare and Thomas Mayhew v. Ellen Elwyn." Dr. Addams was heard for the respondent, and occupied the Court until past three o'clock, when the Queen's Advocate rose to commence his reply for the appellant. Their Lordships adjourned at four o'clock. LOVE AND PUGILISM.—Two Jews were dis tinguished, one for his skill in pugilism, the other for his fond ness of the fair sex. A gentleman being asked to what tribe they belonged, answered, " I don't know; had they not been Jews, I should have supposed one of them to be an Amorite, and the other a Hittite." SHOCKING OCCURRENCES AT LIVERPOOL. —On Sunday morning a gentleman from Belfast threw himself, in a fit of delirium, out of the window of his lodgings, in Duke street, and was so injured by the fall, that he died in half an hour.—On Saturday night last a decent-looking man shot him self with a pistol, beneath one of the sheds of the George's Dock. He had a number of small stones and 2id. in copper in his pocket. —Liverpool Albion. As it is her Majesty's intention to visit Brighton next week, and to remain at the Pavilion till the middle of next month, there will be no Drawing-room till after Easter, and it is expected that, on the 7th of April, .the first Drawing room will be held at St. James's. There will be several state balls given in the course of the season. Her Majesty intends passing the Easter holidays at Windsor, and will remove from thence to Buckingham Palace the beginning of April. STATE OF THE HOSIERY AND LACE TRADES. —lt is painful to state, that notwithstanding th month of Febru ar y h as arr i ve d , t h e d eman d f or both hosiery and lace goods is rapidly decreasing ; shops that some time since had half employment now wholly stand, whist a fever for emigra tion prevails amongst the young men, and it is only from the want of means to pay their passage that it is not gzneral. In the midst of this distress we are sorry to state that the manu facturers of both hose and lace are continually compelled to meditate reductions in the wages. The wrought cotton hose hands have submitted.almost without a strugg,e to the reduc tion of 3d. per dozen on their wages. Another very large house has given notice of its intention to reduce the price for making cut-up hosiery. —Nottieghare Review. SCOTT MONUMENT.—We are delighted to perceive that the laudable exertions of the Sub-Committee in London are likely to be crowned with success. The senti ments and the intelligence contained in the letter which we publish from the Hon. Charles Augustus Murray, the Master of her Majesty's Household,:to Mr. Dick, the Convener of the Auxiliary Committee, must be flattering to all our readers : Windsor Castle, Feb. 1, 1812. SIR,—I have the honour to inform you that, agreeably to your request, I have submitted the particulars regarding the Scott Monument to the Queen and Prince Albert, the result of which has been, that her Majesty has been pleased to pre sent the fund with one hundred pounds, and his Royal High ness has given twenty-five pounds to the same object, both of which sums I transmit this day, to Mr. Castle, in London. Be assured that, as a Scotchman, I have felt proud in being made the humble instrument of obtaining the Royal protec tion and countenance to an undertaking so praiseworthy ; and believe me, Sir, to be sincerely interested in its success.— Yours, &c.—CH. A. M UR RAY.— Scotsmen/. LORD BROUGHAM —Lord Brougham was the only man in either House of Parliament, who, on the opening night of the Session, g a v e a genu i ne ec h o to t h e vo i ce of the mllions out of doors. He alone boldly declared the principle of total repeal of the Corn-laws ; at.d he alone had the cou rage to insist on the necessity of so extending the franchise as to admit within the pale of the Constitution the great body of the working classes. Lord Brougham said that the time was rapidly advancing when they must consider the latter ques tion, and break (ken the live of distinction which now sepa rated the enfranchised from the unenfranchtsed classes, if they would preserve the peace and harmony of society. Of course, the words of liroughsm fell upon unwelcome ears in the House where they were delivered ; but they will not fail to give hope and courage to the millions without, who now look anxious!! for a Deliverer to lead them into the promised land of peace and plentifulness. If there be one man now living, who is more than another fitted by his genius, his talents, his eloquence, his statesmanlike qualities. his powers of leadership, and his long-tried services in the cause of the people, to lead us onwards to enfranchisement an d freedom, Lord Brougham is that man. —Leeds Times. PROGRESS OF TEMPERANCE—THE POPE.— The Belfast Vindicator, received this morning, contains the following important and most gratifying announcement, which must delight the heart of every member of the Temperance Societies, which now include nearly five millions of the Irish people :—" The head of the Catholic church on earth, Gregory VS 1., is a teetotaller, and wears the medal of the Cork Total Abstinence Society. A letter from his Holiness, announcing this important fact, was received by Father Mathew (who had sent the Holy Father a gold medal), just as he was setting out for Moira, and will appear in the newspapers immediately after the apostle's return to Cork. The influence of this illustrious example will be productive of the happiest results. TH E HERRING FISHERIES.—We have ac counts from the western coast to the 2d inst. It is not cot rect, as stated in a Galway Contemporary, that 150 lives were lost in the disastrous storm of Wednesday se'nnight. Unhappily 16 persons perished in that dreadful gale; but the intrepidity of the poor and industrious fisher Men has not suffered thereby. The number of persons engeged in these fisheries is 18,000, and the boats alone are 3 , s o6.—Limerick Reporter. MR. WILSoN'S VOCAL AND NARRATIVE ILLUSTRATIONS or SCOTTISII MUSIC AND SONG.—Monday Mr. Wiison gave his fifth entertainment, which comprised a review of the Rebellion in 1745, with the adventures of Prince Charles. The songs were chiefly Jacobite relics, and illustra tive of the various points in the Young Chevalier's career through Scotland, in 1745-6. The entertainment, indepen dent of the songs, was one of the deepest interest, abounding with anecdotes of all descriptions —tragic and humotwous, his torical and dramatic. It was listened to throughout with breathless attention; and at the end, the audience testified the. gratification they had enjoyed by long-continued applause. The songs were given, as usual, in Sir. Wilson's happiest style, and several of thews were rapturously encored ; others would have been demanded twice, but through mercy for the singer. The Music Hall was crowded in every part by a highly fashion able and respectable audience ; and we feel convinced that the longer Mr. Wilson continues his entertainments, the more po pular will they become, so interesting are they, as well as in. structive. Monday's, for example, was as complete a history of the rebellion in the '45, as could well be given ; and we have no doubt that this entertainment alone, would draw crowded audiences for at least a dozen nights more. He sung, in addition to the songs in the programme, of which there were twelve, " Flora M'Donald's Lament for Prince Charlie," one of the sweetest melodies we ever listened to. The programme of next Monday's entertainment, contains a delightful variety of choiceold songs. GENEROSITY OF THE PfICENIX FIRE OFFICE,—On the 4th of August last, Mr. Robinson, of Car naby, near Bridlington, lost a horse by lightning, at Benning hohne, but not supposing he was insured from lightning, said nothing of his loss to the agent at this office until he renewed his insurance last Christmas, and which was then mentioned only in a casual way. '1 he agent, however, presented the case to the Board of Managers in London, who, on receiving the particulars and value of the horse, immediately ordered 50/. to be paid to the insured; which was as satisfactory to him as it was creditable to the office. —Hull Advertiser. We understand the visit of her Majesty and Prince Albert to Brighton will be expressly for the benefit of change of air for the Princess Royal, who has been so far in disposed as to render this rather inconvenient removal of the Court for a short period absolutely necessary. His Royal Highness Prince Albert has never yet seen Brighton. On Wednesday morning last, at eleven o'clock, the reception of Miss Mary Quin, daughter of Thomas Quin, Esq., of ‘Villiam-street (Town Councillor), took place at the Presentation Convent, Sexton -street. The young novice ap peared most healthful and very interesting, and went through the formula of reception with heroic firmness. This is the second daughter of Sir. Quin that has taken the veil at Sex ton-street. Limeriek Reporter. CASE OF THE VINDICTIVE.—W e learn from our Correspondent at Portsmouth, that it has now been proved positively to the satisfaction of the Commander-in-Chief there, after a full examination of all the four Quartermasters that steered her Majesty's ship Vindictive on the 26th ult., that the cause of her late accident was an error of three points in the compass—as these men, together with the Second Master, have all declared that the course steered was W. N. W. by compass, agreeably to the Captain's order, being about three points free after she weighed front off the Nab Light vessel (which then bore W. by S. by compass one mile), with the intention of anchoring in St. .Helen's until the weather cleared, whereas she found herself, to the astonishment of the Captain and Second Master, close to the Dean Elbow Buoy, by which she must have made a N. W. by N. course only, instead of a W.N.W. course, and there was not any tide at that time, it being sla k water; and during the 15 to 20 minutes that she was under canvas she was going full live knots. Thus it is evident that nothing but the error in the compass could have led the Vindictive into danger; and even hen, whets the Buoy of the Dean Sand was discovered close to her, she would have got clear of it by luffing to the wind, had not the wind at that instant shifted from S. by IV. to IVest, in a squall, which compelled her to anchor in six fathoms, about a cable's length from the buoy. We further find, that the Vindictive got off the shoal through her own re sources alone, not having received any aid from the shore or from our shil.s; and that nothing but her setting her coufses and slipping her cables as she did, at high water, though still blowing a gale of wind, could possibly have saved the ship. — Naval and Military Gazette. ACCIDENT TO THE BRIGHTON MAIL.—The Brighton down mail, on arriving at Preston, about a mile and a half from Brighton, yesterday morning, met with a serious accident. While proceeding at the usual speed. one of the horses suddenly dripped down dead ; two of the other horses were thrown down in consequence; the splinter-bar btoke,and both the coachman and guard received some damage, by being thrown from their seats. SURREY SESSIONS. George Mordock was indicted for stealing at Etham a cow, the property of George Winkworth, on the night of the 30th of De cember last. Police-constable T 15 deposed that on the night named in the indictment, about half.p:!st one, he met the prisoner and a person named Cox (who had since been tried and acquitted on this charge) driving the cow along the road towards London, zniel in reply to his (witness's) question, Cox replied the cow belonged to his father, who was a farmer at Farnborough, and that he was ordered to take it to Smithfield for sale. Witness returned to get the assistance of a brother constable, when he returned, and follow ing them, found Cox in custody of the police at Hounslow. The prisoner was subsequently arre , ! ted at the White Hart Inn, Wind sor, where he was employed as hostler. Butler, 194 T, who took him in custody from Windsor to Staines, said in reply to him the prisoner said when Cox was taken into custody, he (prisoner) made his escape across the fields, to Wind sor, where he changed his clothes. Mr. CHARNOCK, who appeared for the prisoner, strongly repro bated the practice of constables interrogating persons whom they held in custody; and contended that the prisoner and his Com panion were drunk at the time, and merely took the cow in a drunken frolic. The Jury having returned a verdict of Guilty, accompanied with recommendation to mercy, The CMAIRM&N said the offence of which the prisoner was found guilty, was one which latterly had become very general through out the county, and in all cases the Court was determined to trans. port the offenders; but in consequence of the recommendation of the Jury, he should.be less severe with the prisoner, and sentence him to twelve calendar months' imprisonment with hard labour. Mary Chapman, aged 28, was indicted for feloniously stealing at Richmond a sovereign and other moneys, and a pair of scissors and other articles, the property of Caroline Martin. The prosecutrix and prisoner were fellow-servants, in the em. plo)ment of Captain Beisted, of Richmond, and, soma after the latter left the service, the former missed the articles named in the indictment. Suspicion having fallen upon the prisoner, a search. warrant was issued, and her father's house searched, when, upon examining her dresses ,which were packed in a box, the scissors dropped from a gown upon being unfolded. The police. man who executed the warrant, eaid the scissors dropped in such a manner as to induce a belief in the prisoner's statement, that they accidentally were mixed up with the clothes when packing up her box after leaving her situation at Captain Belsted's. Mr. LOCKE was about addressing the jury for the prisoner, when they intimated that they had already formed a conclusion on the case, and immediately returned a verdict of acquittal. The prisoner then left the dock with:nit the slightest imputation upo❑ her character. THE MARKETS.-(YESTERDAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals of Barley and Oats were again good, but small of other Grain. The trade was quite in a state of suspension, awaiting the revelatons of Sir Robert Peel. COLONIAL MARKET. There was little business, but prices were firm. West. In dia Sugar sells slowly. Brown West India 57s to 60s, and yellow 61s to 70s per cwt. Coffee in fair request at firm rates TEA MARKET. There was little business done, but holders obtained fu rates. Company's Congou, Is. 100. cash, and is lOid. to I leo. for common Free Trade Congou. TALLOW MARKET. Prices of Russian firm, with a good demand, at 4Fs. to 48s. 3d. on the spot, and 48s 61. to 495. for delivery, in the two next and last three months of the year. SPIRITS Rum is firm, and the demand steady. Proof Leeward: 25., and Calcutta is. 9d. per gallon. Brandy neglected, but prices were sustained. COAL MARKET. Ships arrived since last market.day, 13 d. Aavir's Bell, aohson Co. Hartley 17 0 Old Tanfield Original Windsor's Pontop 1 , 0 Ravensworth West Hartley 17 Tantield Moor Bute's l7 6 Wylam Walls End Bell and Brown 19 9 Walls End Clark and Co. Walls End Heaton l9 ( Walls End Hedley l9 8 End Killingworth 19 Walls End Newmarch ..... 17 6 Walls End Northumberland 18 0 Walls End RiddelPs l9 W. E. Braddyll'sHetton 1/ Walls End Haswell. ... 2fi 9 Walls End Hetton 0 walls End Lamhton W alts End Lumley l7 8 Walls End Pemberton l9 6 Wall- End Russell's Hetton 21 9 Walls End Stewart's Walls End Hartlepool Wals End arrington Tees t 1 6 Wall End Seymour Tees l9 3 Walls End West Tees 1,4 I Plethe lb 6 Hartley . Howard's Netherton Main 17 6 (Front the London New Price Current of February 8.) SUCAR.—There has been an increased disinclination on the part of the trade to operate in West India Sugar since this day week, and, the market has been in a very dull state, both grocers and refiners purchasing with much caution, and only 150 hhds and tierces have been disposed of during the three market days, although isnyorters have submitted to a reduction of Is 6d to 2s per cwt for all descriptions; the trifling quan tity sold may be principally ascribed to the Trade being enabled to supply their wants with other sorts of Sugar on more ad vantageous terms. The arrivals have been trifling since this day week. The quantity imported this year has been rather less than in 1841. The stock held by the Merchants is small. To-day the market for all desciiictions of Raw sugar pre sented a flat appearance, the Trade having for the most part ceased to operate, in consequence of its being expected that Government will make known their intentions in the course of the week as to the measures they intend to adopt with re spect to Foreign Sugar. The purchases in West India are not worth enumerating, and the public sales of Mauritius and Bengal were postponed. REFINED.—The home trade has operated with caution in Refined goods since our last report. Refiners have sub mitted to a reduction en last Tuesday's rates of Is fid to 2s per cwt. Standard lumps at 79s to 7th 6d, brown lumps 72s to 78s, Tittlers, ord 78s to 795, mid to- fine BCs to 90s, llambro' loaves corn 79s to 81s, mid to fine 82s, to 925, and double loaves 98s to 116 s per cwt. Treacle common at 27s to 27s 6d, patent, 28s to 30s, golden Syrup 3ls to 32s per cwt, being rather cheaper. Pieces l o w t o m i d a t 61 s t o 68 s , good to fine 6s to 72s per cwt. Bastards, common 40s to 445, midite good 45s to 53e, fine 54s to 58s per cwt. For bonded crushed Sugar prices are rather lower, 28s 9d to 29s having been accepted for first sort loaves at 31s to 33s for lOlbs and 141bs. Treacle at I2s to Its 3d per cyst. Bastards and Pieces E 14s 6.1 to 23s per cwt. Dutch Crushed Sugar at 27s on hoard for the lest. To-day the demand was dull for refined goods, and 78s 6d to 79s the value of standard lumps; Bonded Crushed 28s 9d per cyst. IllaUßlTlUS.—Prices have further given way Is. per rat ; at auction 6,726 bags have been offered, a small proi,ortion only of which found purchasers ; at and after the sales, fine bright yellow went at 67s to 69s 6d, good 64s to 665, mid 62s to 63s (id, low 60s to 61s per cat. EAST hs'lllA.—For Bengal prices have suffered a farther de pression of Is to Is tid per cwt. ; good to tine white 69s 6,1 to 70s 6d, mid to good mid 65s to GSs, low 635 to 645, ord to good brown 43s to 495, low to fine yellow 56's to 66s per eat. Manilla at 15s to 17s for low to fine brown, and 17s to 21 , for low to good yellow. Java 15s 6d to 21s for brown and yellow. FOREIGN.—YeIIow 'savannah at former rates; low to mid yellow at 19s to 2i's 6d, good end fine strong 21s 6d to 22s per eat ; since the sale, however, 200 boxes have been sold at 21s tid for fine strong ; for white 29s to 309 is the value of fine quality ; Brazil of brown quality is wanted ; prices have been fully sustained ; white at 20s to 24s 6d for low to good. MoesssEs.—Prices have been firm for West India, and a fair amount of business has been transacted; the sales have been 250 puns. Demerara good and fine 27s 6d to 28s, Anti gua ordinary 275. St. Kitts fair 255, ordinary St. Lucia 24s per cat. Bengal Syrup has been selling in small parcels at 23s to 255, but Foreign Molasses is dull of sale at 6s 6d to 8s per cwt. Tea.—There has not been much activity in the market for free trade Tea during the past week, still a fair demand pre vailed for both Black and Green sorts. The public sales which commenced on Tuesday last, concluded on Wednesday; on the former day prices declined fd to id fur Congou and Twankay, and Id to '2d for Pouchong, but on the latter day holders prevented any further fall, by withdrawing a large ouanity. Of the total quantity offered, amounting to 32,000 packages, 14,000 were sold on the following terms : —Congou, coarse new and rnized leaf went at Is 10d to Is 106 d, but mid dling rather strong burnt is 1064 to is 10 1 / 2 d, but middling blackish leaf is 101,( to Is I Id, but middling rather strong and full old Souchong kind Is Ilid to 2s Oid, middling strong blackish leaf 2s Id to 2s 3d, Pekoe flavor 2s 4id to 2s 7d, Bohea but middling faint and woody Is 4631 to Is 66d, Pouchong- very low Is Old to Is 4d, mid dlibg to fine Is 5d to Is 10d, superior is lld to 2s ('id, Twankay ordinary Is 10d to Is 106 d, middling rather strong Is 106 d to Is 10id, brightish leaf Is Ild to 2s Id, Hyson ordi nary coarse 2s to 2s 56d, middling 2s 6d to 2s 10d, good mid dling 3s 061 to 3s Oid, good to fine 3s Id to 3s Bd, Young Hy son very ord Is 7d, bright leaf 3s 2d to 3s 3id, Very line 4s 9d, Gunpowder low Canton made 2 s t o 2 s I d , Imperial middling strong burnt 2s 9id to 2s 10d, middling strong 3s Old to 3s Id, Caper but middling rather burnt Is Hid, Orange Pekoe middling scented 2s 76-d to 2s 'lid, good middling strong scented 2s 96d to 2s 9 d, Pekoe flowery middling strong 33 to 3s 06d, blackish leaf Pekoe 2s 6d, Souchong gcod blackish wirey leaf 33 7d to 3s Bd, middling blackish leaf rather strong burnt 3s per lb. he advices received from China are of an important nature ; they state that Ch usan, Ni ngpo, and Chinghae, had been captured b, the British forces with trifling loss, although the Chinese evinced more bravery than they have hitherto done. Trade was going on at Canton. Tea was arriving down in large quantities, and it was estimated that the new season's supply would be about 33,000,000 lbs ; the crop of Congou was expected to be 450 chops. Prices have opened high, 33 to 39 tack being paid for Congou. The total pur chases made in Tea is stated to amount to 60 chops : at Can ton the Chinese had shown some inclination to infringe the truce. The above caused holders of Tea yesterday to require ad vanced rates; buyers likewise were more disposed to operate, and a fair demand of business was transacted at id per lb ad vance • still the market was no t exc it e d, severa l of the trade keeping in view the estimated supply. Company's Congou sold at Is 10id cash ; Is Ild short prompts ; common Free Trade Congou Is 10Id to Is 10/d, and Twankay Is 10id par lb cash. The deliveries of Tea have continued large, and during the past week amounted to 554,000 lbs. 'to-day a good demand existed for Tea, and holders were firm, Is 10id to Is 10id paid for common Free Trade Congou cash, and Is 'Cid for Company's. Public sales will be shortly declared. Roar, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—For West India Rum, the market has been in a quiet state, both shippers and the home trade operating with caution, but prices have been maintained. lie sales have been 140 puns Demerara, 28 to 38 per cent. overproof at 3s 10d to 4s 2d. 130 Leeward at 2s 2d for 6 per cent, overproof, and proof 2s; for East India, however, the demand has been brisk, the sales have been 350 hhds at Is 9d, subject to the low duty, anti 280 at Is 4d, subject to the high duty. The present stock is about 2,200 puns less, but 4,300 hhds more. Our monthly statement of stocks includes 1,678 puns ‘5,748 hhds East India, and 377 puns and 30 hhds Foreign. For Brandy we have to report a dull market, and former rates have been barely sup ported ;—sales of Cognac, first brands of the vintage of 1836 have been made at 5s I for hhds, pun s 5 s 9d do 1837 hhds 5s 6d, puns 5s 4d; do 1838 Ihds 5s 4d, puns 2,1 ; do 1839 hhds 4s Ild, puns 4s 9d ; do 1840 Idols 4s Id, puns 4s per gallon : the stock is large. Geneva has moved off slowly, common at 2s, and fine 2s 6d to 2s Bd. Bri tish Corn Spirits dull, at 9s 9d to Os 10d, cash. To-day Rum is in fair request. Proof Leewards 2s to 2s Oid; Ca'cutta at low duty Is 9d to Is 10,1 proof. RicE.—There has been a giiod demand for Java Rice, and 4,500 bags have been sold privately ; low to good white at Os 6,1 to 11s; and Yellow 8s 60 to 9s per cwt, being full rates; for Bengal, however, the mar -et has been in a quiet state, and rather lower rates have been submitted to ; at auc tion 1,365 bags went at Ils to lis 6d for good middl ng white; 10s 6d to II s is the value of middling white; Carolina has been in good requeteby the home trade ; first sort at 365, inferior :,9s to 34s ; Patna good to fine 18s to 2Ce, and cotnmon 15s to I7s per cwt. To-day Bengal met with more attention, and 2.225 bags at public sale were all sold, mid at lOs 6d, and good mid I Is to Its 6d per cwt, being full rates. liEur.—'l he Mai ket being better supplied with East prices have declined 24/ for Manilla, and 191 15s to 201 for Jute; upon those terins, however, a fair business has been transacted. In Russian sorts, however, little business has been done; 361 to 36/ lOs is the value of Petersburgh, clean, it is reported that Government have it in contemplation to ad vance the duty on Russian Hemp. COFFEE.—West India, of middling and g ood clean quality, has been much i nqu i r d after, and very to I rates have been paid. The supply, however, is not ample; for the deinaLti and fine ord sorts have been only in limited request, but the rates previously established have been sustained. At auction MORNING S p l i 3 iv c a a t s e k ly s 17105bsatgosisfolds hare , 7 ,e ss be t e o n B p s a s i G a d f f o 7 s fi o le e or p il ar l 4 e n t Jamaica. aPPery . This afternoon the C o ff ee market p re sented a firm P' ante ; the d, mand was good for all clean deser,piWitil public sales were well at ; they consisted of 1. , ?7,,.75 Hayannah, bags Ceylon, 1,903 bags Coffee via "btti;ifor casks 9 b r l s B er b ice , H avanna h a ll t a ken in at 47 s t°,_ et i fd good and fi ne or di nary , b e i ng a b ove the value, 455 o'ive the best. Ceylon went at full rates, go od ordinary a'at 71s, and fine ordirary 72s 6d. Java via Cape 0 1 0 011 to 53s for good ordina-y , pale, being the full value. good 8000 went at full prices, and fine erdinary at 76s ato st. low middlin g BG s to 90s per cwt. A floating cargo a mi Co no is offering afloat at 40 per cwt. g ccia.—The m ar k e t for West India has been state; by private treaty f ew purc h ases have been ou,"'toirl auction 180 bags Tri n id a d so ld a t 41 s 6,1 t o 459 for m "_er red, being full rates. Foreign is neglected, certain. ' t SAGO. —For common sorts a good demand exists, Sae being low. At auction 200 bags sold at 9s to 9s 6 6 P er o ; Sae brown, but for good Pearl there are few buyers• t t g i Flour several purchases have been made privately * 12s 6d per cut. Of Potato Floor 9.10 bags were dil aut iv at public sale at 14s for good quality, being c heaper I.' cipal part was taken for Manchester. 50 barrels ha s lb. Arrow Root .51d ; 69 barrels Tapioca at 5d to 7d r e r jo i'll SPICES —This afternoon the public sales awl° begs h:te, 357 bags black Pepper, and 141 boxes Casdsoe nea ; white Pepper went at 4-id to si, and black se P to 11 Pi . , 21d to 2-id ; Ca , sia Lignea sold at an advance of 6 LdliegF j and prices sr. cwt,iroial middling fetched 86s tid to 87s 6d. and nu" oree to 83 6 s 6d per cwt. At auction 170 boxes East India Pr Ginger went at Is tOd per lb. Twteow.—lt being supposed the G o vernmen t crease the duty on Rus s i an T a ll ow , an d it is repo i r t ` A :to pti extent of 5/. per ton, have caused the principal holu er- s ed the duty on nearly all the Tallow th e y have in bond, 05.. k entries during the last few days have been extensi le .' y.tir‘ spot 48s to 48s 3d has b een p a id f or l arge par cels o r• F PO dle, at which rate holde rs are fi rm , an d no t disposed 0 01 . sales. For delivery p r i ces are fi rm at 48 s 6tl for the ° soi o and 48s 6d to 49s for the last three months of the Y ear : ( l44L E° American at 40s to 435, for common to middling, 4 ,J01, 47s for good to fine. T own T a ll ow h as me t with s A g es_4 7- mand. This afternoon th e d eman d was goo d for pal; n spot, and holders firm a t 48 s f or b est ye l' o w ean Aik uje ' to 43 s American went at 44s to 47s for good and fine, and" - for low to middling quality. Ons.—ln the Value of common Fish Oils has taken place since this day week. Pale Seal a t in , 411. ; Yellow at 321. lOs to 37/. 103 ; Brown 28 1 . „ a l or ri o Cod 291. 5s to 29/. lOs ; Southern, at 34/. to 341. a7 d 1115; and 32/. to 331. lOs for low to good ' quality'. SP, er ;01 A nA ' tracted more attention : fine Bri.ish at q 5,91. to 9 04 '' - 3405" # ' rican, 871. to 88/. pei tun. Linseed Oil 34s 6tl to sD ee the spot, and 35s 6d to 35s 9d for delivery. RaPe,' 0 1 /: • 52s paid for Pale, and 50s 6d to 51s for Brown . ; tu ,r - L 1 60 1 '4 small. Olive has been in brisk request ; Gallip0" 8 0 62/., and Spanish 52/. to 53/. per tun. Palm at 3 21 ' for the best. Cocoa Nut Oil 35s 6d to 37s 3d for 113 . - 3 71 bond. This afternoon Cocoa-nut Oil went at 36 5 '- per cwt. littrrro. Or 6 „ Ill° , 10 MR. MEEK'S REPORT.—In page 5 0 .- i p, port of wheat from Prussia is stated to have bec! , „„ a nd . ,l three years, as follows:—In the three years 1838 - ff it ;i e ; 17,455,871 - quarto: s—say seventeen millions four it" , ~,,, fifty-five thousand eight hundred and seventy-on s e g oers:l:s; Now this quantity is only, in a smaller degree, an e r , l te ee like Lord Tamboff's thirty-eight millions from St•rf 4 Instead of quarters, I believe it ought to be bushels;'o i ',ably, Sehejle; and, as this blunder might lead t.potar shuffle, it is desirable that the country should be fa' '. ,d against it. OP 1 fe? di TORY DEFECTION.—It is currently ecj on 'Change that three or four commercial l‘f•P j 'dee t it, supporters of Tory principles and old monopolies, ha v o ist to their friends their determination to a v'ote agahl' e t ba 9 f rthcoming fiscal changes which shall endanger t i p l o , protective colonial syste m . Th e i r own i nteres t in, , ,y, Indies and Mauritius, t oge th er w i t h t h e i r k nown inu e o litil and consistency, render the probable defection the ° e h jgr' / 3,1 It is also alleged that their political chiefs have us them by the indifference shown to their remonstranos , self-preservation is one of the strongest and most Po : i f our natural infirmities. Ott ° 1 According to advices from Gib ra ltar, cl u r lo the Moniteur Pas isien , a collision t o ok pl ac e on th e l y the 9th ult. between th e Oriental, British steamer , P. to Alexandria, and the F renc h corvette E m bus'', thelt Oriental was obliged to p u t i n t o port to repa ir, ht e iftgl vette was injured only very slightly, a n d con t i nued PO, to Cadiz. Five British sail of the line and a frigate : A for Eng:and. 1 ir To: 0 EXTRAORDINARY CLEARANCE.--- 019 the Birmingham and M anc h es t er R a il way, an d to 6° 0 0 4 necessary conveniences f or th e M anc h ester termin oo Pre been found necessary to take down upwards of h i I ( „S mostly, however, if not altogether, cottages of the 4 6 scription. In a ddi t i on to t h e cost of such a mass 4417,09 this, the fou n d a ti ons i n t h at part which fronts L0r,40.1,P have bad to be ca rr i e d t o t h e very unusual depth of 71oii 50 feet. Taking, th ere f ore, t h e expense of t hi s t, ofr all its bearings, it will probably exceed in amount tba'. other in the kingdom. 104 A melancholy event took place at I.. „„irj 29th tilt.:—The nephew of a respectable traalaat%jerf town, having had a quarrel with his uncle, commit' h t 9 by blowing out his brains. This has caused no sli p of 1 tion, since he was a Protestant, and public attention 4 been much drawn towards that body by the recent y, a Temple, for the first time during the last 260 Yew the very zealous efforts of a very talented young P r . s l° M. Laforgue, of Montauban. TO 1 EASTERN METHOD OF MEASURING t y i 1, of of The people of the East measure time by the length he 4 dow. Hence, if you ask a man what o'clock it is. L ,,, 9 diately goes into the sun, stands erect, then, 10(1104 his shadow terminates_, he measures his length with e erri aid tells you nearly the time. Thus the workmen ,;„ I desire the shadow whirls indicates the time for leav,n, ii P"' I work. A person wishing to leave his toil says, f my shadow is in coining !" " Why did . you not corns ! dii 0) " Because I waited for my shadow." In the 7th at7 i ll' Job we find it written, "As a servant earnestly de s ' 0 shadow."—Roberts Illustrations. c I‘ VISIT OF THE KING OF pRu-s u l dp NEIVGATE.—It was stated, by mistake, that on t'7, 3 4 000 0 January, whi n his Majesty the King of Prussia via' r a i gate, that Mrs. Fry read to the prisoners from snlhie o ptf o r work. What she sel. cted th at d ay was the 12th c Romans and one of the Psal ms; an d i t i s t h e invarias3 sr , i e tier, not only of Mrs. Fry, but a ll t h e l a di es in c 0 tbar) with the several Prison Committees, when reading t ° , A tV. soners, to confine themselves entirely to the truths ~ in the Holy Scriptures. e /11 1) 1 DEPTH OF SNOW.—On Standedge, ° poi ridge which separates Yorkshire from Lancashire, theestiosell in some places drifted so much last week, that it has b u e p ight nary to cut carriage ways at least as deep as the '"" ~, fi r , laden coach. Mi t° , DEATH OF SIR lIENRY WILLIAM „. if Vw, .' BART.—We have to record the demise of the abo.joAd Baronet, who expired on Thursday night at his res' i be yol Upper Halley- s t reet . Th e deceased was son ef /iatA 8' , IBaronet, wh o was f or many years Comptroller of the o. t ;oi elder brother of Admiral Sir Thomas Byam Marti f T 4 al9o His eldest son H enry, b orn 1801, and married to 3' 15 to daughter of Sir Thomas Byam Martin, succe e '"" i family hon ours . 00 fli i ' i INCENDIARY FIR ES .—O n Sunday I,lf about two o'clock, dames Mitchell, police officer ' ) ( 1 0 1 rough, while on duty discovered a tire in a n e , w i s iA ise i , house opposite th e f oot o f Frederick -street, Sunne' r ffr eat e j IP, ! immediately proc ee d e d t o t h e p l ace, and appl i e d his Vied i ol to the igniting e m b ers , b y means o f w h ich h e S O 0 ,/ extinguishing the fire. There is no doebt it w as the dell' an incendiary. A rewar d h as b een o ff ered for t h e OPP 1 , Sunderland Herald. ls l , ! as - o r On Monday last, a nobl e s hi p o f 600 °lop. ! then, was launched by Thomas Swift, Esq., from ji b A to yard, at Brockweir. She was christened 6 , J e eern;ol; l l rett," by the lady of the Rev. Mr. West, Morayte n b , ry of the place, and went off in gallant style. This ia l . - .0 1 ,,i5t t vessel ever built on the Wye, above Chepstow-bridnf been purchased by a house at Liverpool, and is des ot) . China.—Mommouthshire Merlin. . elk 00 SUICIDE.—About • half-past seven ootill o ,' Tuesday morning, as some labourers were passing a i d road to the eastward of Duddingstone, they o bserl rc s;si hanging by the neck to the branch of a tree in a del pt ,„ 1 0 4 distance from the road. They immediately F e y . 51 1 , to the spot and took him down, when- th e , * ve d that life was quite extinct. It is supposed that vete' tunate man had got on the top of a dyke under theiojetii,/ having fastened the rope to the branch, threw I ' o oo The following description may perhaps lead to the ' de bt He appeared 26 years old, 5 feet 7 high, round facet., aa, ir, and whiskers, and hazel eyes. He was dressed in ",i, o o ol 'l' coat and vest, moleskin trousers, a blue GlengarrY; c essr .. „,ifet had a Guernsey frock over his clothes. 'lhe u` „es' whose pockets were only found a tobacoc pipe and e r . 0 4 had the appearance of a mechanic.—Scotsman. i 001 No LAWYERS AT BALI SE .- 4, I ha d • ro" i a .--. ,0001 0 the judges and juror s , b u t m i sse d an i mportant par, %? d on lish Court—where were the gentlemen of the u 'ilsOres l of my readers will, perhaps, concur with Captain t harhst that lialise was th e l as t p l ace ma d e, w h en I te ll him buts) ! not a single lawyer in that place, and never had beat :o oW some of my enterp r i s i ng pro f ess i ona l b rethren shoo. int? 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Ed ws i G e orge J oe On the sth inst., at St. Ann's, Limehouse, L ite r of Bird, Esq., of Clifton, to Eliza Loyd, second dank., Fitzgerald, Esq., Stepney. f ber DIED. on, C• l3. ' ° On the s:b inst., at Croydon, Colonel Strett Majesty's service. Joseph Vilrlv• On the 6th inst., at Walwood, Leytonstone , the third son of William Cotton, Esq. , e ,.. itobg i r On the 28th ult., in the New Kent-rout , the r' ,7 LOP, of tne ' Francis Bree, grandson of the former and nephe Esq S.' Ildaineilsires.fsj.6 Ar , Martyn Stapylton, Bart., of My ton, Yorkshire. )q , 8 N, °1 Isl. N IV. k, NV:I A.. 1 11. 14 , E. J. i Edv, No. 112 , St ran d London: P r i n t e d an d Published by b I tIRDO Y Strow, the Count of Middl esex , Thursday, February 10* ' I P P/ 4 at The Sun Office , No. 112, o