The Sun. — London, England, 1861-02-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY ' EVENING, FEBRUARY 2, 1861, DENMARK AND PRUSSIA. Th' following is the diplomatic correspondence relating to the dispute between Denmark and Ger man y which has lately passed between the British Ane , Prussian Governments : LORD BLOOMFIELD TO BARON SCHLEINITZ. October, 1860. The Danish Government being sincerely desirous g if putting an end to the controversy which has un *o rtun ately so long existed between Denmark and t he German Confederation relative to the Duchy of tolstein, has determined on making an effort to b t ing about this desirable result. The Danish Government is convinced that it wot ild be useless to endeavour, under present cir cumx lances, and with the agitation which exists in the public mind in Holstein, to settle at once and definaively the constitutional position which that Duchy is to hold in the monarchy, and that it is theref ore necessary to prepare the way for a defini tive a rrangement by one of a temporary nature, which would give time for calm reflection and dis cussion between the two parties more immediately intereeted—viz., the provincial States of Holstein and Ow Danish Government. For this purpose the Danish Government is pre pared t o adopt the following modifications in the existing state of things. The consultative vote accorded to the Holstein States by the second paragraph of the Royal patent of the 23d of Sept., 1859, to be changed to a delibe rative one, so that no law shall have force in Hol stein, either in regard to persons or property, with out the approbation of the States of this duchy. It is to be hoped that the common interests of the Rigsraad and the States of Holstein may produce an understanding between them on matters sub mitted to their deliberation ; but if, notwithstand ing the repeated efforts of the Government, dis agreements should still continue to prevail between the two assemblies on matters of two m uc h import ance to be postponed to a subsequent period, the Danish Government engages not to give effect to the measure, in that part of the monarchy the assembly of which shall have rejected it, and to confine its operation to the part of the monarchy whose assembly has accepted it. In order to bring about an understanding be tween the contending opinions of the two assem blies it might be necessary, perhaps, to adopt measures of a special character (such, for instance, as the nomination of a commission of equal numbers from both assemblies); but, without entering at present into details on this point, it may observed that the Danish Government will do nothing which will interfere with the liberty of decision accorded to each assembly. With reference to financial arrangements, the amount which the special finances of Holstein will have to contribute to the common expenses of the monarchy will be fixed, once for all, at 850,000 rigs dollars, which is the average sum paid by that duchy on a calculation of the last six years. As long as no augmentation of this sum is necessary, the Holstein States will exercise no control over its employment; but, should the exigencies of the State require any additional resources, the aug mentation of the sum fixed can only be imposed on the finances of Holstein by Royal ordinance, after the free consent of the States has been given. The Prussian Government will doubtless recog nize in the above proposals the spirit of conciliation by which that of Denmark is animated. If these arrangements are carried into effect the States of Holstein will, in point of fact, exercise the same control over measures affecting their duchy as the Rigsraad possesses over those intended for the other parts of the monarchy, and it is therefore hoped that when the plan is submitted to the Diet by the Danish representative at Frankfort, it may receive the support of Prussia. But the Danish Govern ment is prepared to go still further in the way of conciliation. They cannot, indeed, nor will they, admit any right on the part of Germany to inter fere in the affairs of Schleswig, and whatever con sessions are made to this duchy, must be understood as emanating solely from the free will of the Danish Government, and not construed into an ad mission of the authority of the Confederation of Schleswig. As a proof of the friendly sentiments by which they are animated, and of their desire to remedy some of the evils complained of, the Danish Govern ment would be prepared, on the consent of the Diet being given to the temporary arrangement for Hol- Wein above alluded to, to adopt the following modi fications in the laws at present existing in Schleswig: 1. The religious ceremony of confirmation to be performed in the language selected by the individual. 2. Freedom of private instruction conditional on passing the usual public examinations. 3. Complete amnesty for political offences and re-establishment of attainted individuals in their political rights. 4. Freedom of meeting and association between Schleswigers and -Holsteiners for non-political pur poses, and provided no such designation as" Schles wig-Holstein" is attached to the society. Such are some of the measures which the Danish Government would be at once disposed to adopt, and ,more might possibly be done later. It is submitted to the Prussian Government whether there is not cufficient here to pave the way to a better under- R t between Germany and Denmark, and whe ther it would not be wise on the part of the former, i r r. the present critical state of Europe, to take ad va citage of the conciliatory sentiments prevailing i n Denmark for bringing these long-pending dis put elf to a termination. RARON SCHLEINITZ TO COUNT BERNSTORFF. Nov. 8, 1860. I lia:ve the honour to forward herewith to your Excell•lncy copy of a memorandum which Lord Bloomffield, by the instructions of his Government, has con dentially communicated to me, in order to make known to us the stens which the Danish Go vernment intends to take for arranging the differ ences in the matter of the constitution of Holstein. Accord Eng to that memorandum the Danish Cabi net now wishes to make it understood that under present circumstances, and with the excited state of feeling prevailing in Holstein, it is at the present time impossible to settle definitively the position t o be given to the duchy in regard to the whole constitution of the monarchy. A mere provisional arrangement rather is to be made, which may leave the necessary room for a peaceable transac tion bet wosn the Governments and the States. Your Eroolleney will readily un d erstand how painfully we must have been surprised by this in. formation. Nine years have already passed away without result since the promise of a Constitution made in 1851-52. When a year ago the Federal Assembly wottldrlaave at length proceeded to measures of execution, the Royal Ducal Government could not ward off this menacing step but by the promise that negotiations sho u ld f or th w ith b e o pened with the representatives of the country. This year also is gone by without anything being done, and now at the close it is plainly asserted that the settle ment of the affair is made impossible by the ex cited state of public opinion. If such excitement really exists, the cause of it is the fact that the promises made still await their fulfilment; on the other hand, the most urgent necessity is that this matter should be brought to a final issue as speedily as possible. In wh a t Way does the Government propose to arrange matters in the interim ? Its propositions in this respect are not leas unsatisfactory. It is well known that the Confederation, by its resolution of the Bth of March last, declared it to be indispensably necessary that in the interval tak ing place till the position of the constitution should be definitively re-este.blished, all proposed laws for the common affairs of the monarchy, which are brought before the Council of the kingdom (Reichs may be of va lidi ty in rath) . in Bp far a s th ey Holstein, be also laid before the States of Holstein, and that no laws relative to common affair; %p ee l_ ally financial affairs, may be made current in Hol stein, until it has received the assent of the states of the duchy. The present propositions of Denmark , are very_ far from coming up to the above resolution. It is true that in the case of laws affecting the rights of persons and property the right of with holding assent is to be granted to the States; but in financial matters—and it is these particul .rly that are most important—they will have no vs)'ce. The Government will of its own full power determine the aversum which would be contribrt ble by the duchy in a certain degree as a tribute for the com mon wants of the monarchy. It will fix the amount of this aversum in proportion to the sums which it has levied in the last 6 years; in this case, also, with out the assent of the States, and to an amount which has already been the subject of many complaints. No voice is to be allowed to the States of Holstein in regard to the appropriation of this aversum. It is only in the case of an increase thereof being de manded that their assent will be asked for. It is evident that the position of Holstein accord ing to this arrangement would relatively be very unequal to that of the other parts of the monarchy which are represented in the council of the king dom. For the council would consider and would have a deciding vote both on the tax and its appro priation, and it is clear that there is an imminent and justifiable apprehension that under such cir cumstances the wealth of the duchy would have to subserve not so much its own interests as those of the other part of the territory. Hence it appears evident that, in assuming that the proposals would confer upon the States of Hol stein, in respect of the affairs appertaining to their Duchy, practically the exercise of the same control over them as that which belongs to the Reichsrath (council) over the affairs of the other portions of the Monarchy, the memorandum of the London Cabinet, in its hope that the propositions of Den mark may find approval, is building upon as un founded hypothesis. We have already frequently pointed out how con trary to justice it is altogether that the Danish Go vernment should continue to retain in force the whole constitution of the State, especially the council of the kingdom, which it has itself origi nated after it has been compelled to admit that by right this does not subsist as regards Holstein. The council should constitute a common representation for common interests. It has ceased to be a common representation since Holstein had been separated from it; nevertheless, it decides upon matters cora -1 mon to all, and therefore upon the weightiest inte rests of the Duchy of Holstein, which is not repre sented by it. How irregular this is, how necessarily the abolition of the Reichsrath was altogether im plied in the separation of Holstein, is at once evi dent to•an unprejudiced eye. But the adoption of the present propositions of Denmark would impli citly include, at the same time, an approval of the continuance of the Reichsrath, and it is not easy to foresee when the interim state, founded in this way, will be brought to a close. But, however the propositions of Denmark may be considered, the Confederation, at all events, cannot, as the London Cabinet appears to assume, feel itself empowered to covenant with Denmark on the settlement of affairs upon this basis, and Prussia also is therefore not in a position to act in this sense at Frankfort in accordance with the wish of Lord John Russell. The question here is that of the rights of the States, which it is not in the province of the Confederation to settle ; upon. this the Danish Government may enter into negotiations with the States. If it have their assent, there will not be anything to say against it on the part of the Confederation. But the propositions do not appear to be of a nature such that the Confederation could use its influence with the States for their assent, and it could not ad mit the validity of any arrangement which the Government might make in accordance with these propositions so long as the assent of the States should be withheld from them. As your Excellency will' see by the conclusion of the memorandum, the Copenhagen Cabinet thinks it may further an understanding upon the question of Holstein by the offer of certain concessions in respect of Schleswig. We may abstain from going into a detailed consi deration of the value of the measures put forward because the hypothesis with which they were, as an essextial condition, connected is, we are con vinced, entirely unacceptable by the Confederation. No right of intervention in the affairs of Schleswig is thereby granted to the German Confederation. All concessions to be made to that Duchy are exclu sively understood as emanating from the free will of the Government of Denmark, and are not inter preted as an admission of the authority of the Con federation in reference to Schleswig. To this the Confederation will never agree. It is certainly quite just, and this we have always admitted, that the Duchy of Schleswig dies not'ap pertain to the body of the German Confederation, and thus it is so far not subject to the authority of the Confederation. But it is nevertheless quite in consistency with this that the King of Denmark, as Duke of Schleswig, has contracted, in behalf of the equalisation of the debated claims of Holstein, cer tain international obligations towards the German Confederation in respect of Schleswig, and is bound to fulfil them. In regard to this I may refer to our detailed me morandum of last June, which at the time your Excellency also brought to the knowledge of the English Cabinet. The spirit in which England has so frequently in other places laid its weight in the scale, where it was available in obtaining for people liberties against their Governments, which until then did not belong to them according to law, and the principle respecting national rights which recently dictated the despatch of Lord J. Russell on the 27th of last October to Sir J. Hudson, at Turin, will not permit us to doubt that in the case between Denmark and Germany, in which the question now is to defend the well grounded and documented liberties of the States, Great Britain will have no hesitation to use its whole influence with the Cabinet of Copenhagen for obtaining what is right. Your Excellency is authorised to acquaint Lord J. Russell with the contents of this despatch in re ply to the memorandum communicated to us. S CHLEIN ITZ. His Excellency Count Bernstorff. LORD J. RUSSELL TO MR. LOWTHER. London, Dec. 8, 1860. Sir,—Her Majesty's Government have carefully considered the despatch of Baron Schleinitz to Count Bernstorff of the Bth ult., of which a copy is herewith enclosed for your information. The first remark I would make upon that de spatch is, that the Prussian Government appear to misunderstand the position of her Niajestrs Go vernment in respect to the memorandum delivered to the Court , of Berlin. The propositions therein contained are the propositions, of the Government of Denmark. Her Majesty's Government have not recommended them for acceptance ; they have not even said that they might form the basis of a set- tlement ; all that they have said is that they hoped an opening for negotiations might be found in them. A further remark I have to make is, that her Majesty's Government by no means understood that the Holstein contribution proposed by Denmark was to be taken from Holstein without any po wer of inquiry as to its appropriation ap , ne O du n mo n t a h rt e kh e et o o n p tagrreatnr y oe Prussia f they w o thatuld t have he thoughtontr contribution i a o n d e o m f ral and common expenses oist sh ouldoitt shouldbealsoaenfijkoeyd, sum, and that the States of i e t to a a oi n equal inio degree g thoop p w r o i with i t a h t o R n e i o c f h s this h a i t s h , a power sum, om, of and t o remonstrate against any malversation, wouldbo a demand quite in conf orm ity' w ith th e Danish memo randum. It is obvious that Denmark, being an independent State, must maintain its monarchy, its army, and its navy, in a manner befitting► its rank and position as such. Nor can it be in principle unreasonable to ask that the States of Holstein and Lauenberg should contribute to maintain the monarchy, the army, and navy of the kingdom. Having endeavoured to remove this misappre hension, I will proceed to define the position of Denmark and that of her Majesty's Government in relation to this correspondence. It has been the desire of Denmark to show a willingness to conciliate, without admitting a right of intervention in the affairi of Schleswig on the part of the German Confederation. The Danish Government having argued that, as Great Britain could not be suspected of claiming any such right, it was More consistent with the position of Denmark to convey to Prussia their intentions in regard to Schleswig through the official medium of Great Britain, and if possible with her support, than to make concessions directly to the German Confederation. The British Government on their part have not adopted the Danish propositions as their own, nor recommended them to the naked acceptance of the Prince Regent of Prussia and the German Confe deration. But they confess that they take an in terest in the integrity of the Danish monarchy, and should be sorry to see the force of Denmark, which is not considerable, weakened or impaired. With this view her Majesty's Government would have been glad to see all parts of the Danish mo narchy fairly represented in a Parliament at Co penhagen. If that is unattainable; they would have been glad to see Denmark and Holstein assume an equitable portion of the burdensnecessary to be borne for the maintenance of Danish independence. The despatch of Baron Schleinitz of the Bth of November appears to reject this scheme of settle ment, just as the former scheme of equal represen tation had been before thrown aside. There remains to be considered the position o Denmark as regards the German Confederation. The Duchies of Holstein and Lauenberg are German duchies, and form part of the German Confederation. The laws of the German Confede ration are applicable to them, and it will be for the Diet and the Duke of Holstein Lauenburg to de cide together what those laws require, and what should be their future destiny. But with regard to the Duchy of Schleswig it is a Danish duchy. The memorandum of the Court of Berlin communicated to her Majesty's Govern ment on the Bth of July last, in giving the sub stance of an annex to the Vienna despatch of the 26th of December, 1851, says : " The Imperial Government folly acknowledges the competence of the King to annul the former union between Schleswig and Holstein as relates to administration and justice, and also this prin ciple that the mithority of the federal law, and therefore also the competence of the Confederation which arises from that alone, cannot have any force over a land not appertaining to the Confede ration, and consequently not over Schleswig." There appears here a distinct renunciation on the part of Austria and Prussia on behalf of the Ger man Confederation of any competence to extend the Federal laws over Schleswig. Nevertheless, ;the Prussian Government now claims a right to interfere in Schleswig, in virtue of certain promises made by the King of Denmark in 1851. Let us first remark the form of these promises and then their nature. In their form the promises of the King of Den mark were made in the first instance to his own subjects ; but the despatch of the Court of Vienna of December 6, 1851, and the reply of the Danish Minister for Foreign Affairs, together with the nearly simultaneous proclamation to the King of Denmark, tend to invest these promises with the value, though not the exact form of an engagement. The Imperial Minister defines the meaning of the programme of the King of Denmark, asks for " the binding form of a declaration made at the command of his Majesty the King," and:ends with a volun tary offer upon those terms to lay aside the man date of Austria and Prussia as representing the German Confederation, and to provide for the evacuation of Holstein. On the 29th of January, 1852, the Danish Fo reign Minister made, in furtherance of the autho rity conferred upon me from the highest quarter, the declaration that the King, our master, acknow ledges, as being in coincidence with his own, the interpretation of the supreme intention 4 communi cated to the Courts of Berlin and Vienna, which is given in the despatch of the Imperial Court of Vienna of the 26th of December of last year and the annex thereto, &c: Next, as to the nature of the promises made These are : First. The King of Denmark promises that there should be no incorporation of the Duchy of Schleswig with the kingdom, nor should any mea sure tending thereto be adopted. Secondly. The proclamation of the 28th of January, 1852, promises a constitutional develop ment of the State of Schleswig, and that the law to be framed for that object will especially contain the necessary provisions for procuring a perfectly equal settlement and effectual protection to the Danish and German nationalities in the said Duchy. There can be no doubt, in the opinion of her Majesty's Government, that these promises consti tute an engagement which his Danish Majesty is bound in honour to fulfil. He is bound not to in corporate Schleswig with Denmark; to maintain in Schleswig representative States, and to protect the Danish and German nationalities in the Duchy of Schleswig. But neither in form nor in substance, as it ap pears to her Majesty's Goternment, do these pro mises give a right to Austria and Prussia, or to the 'German Confederation collectively, to interefere in all the details of administration is the Danish Duchy of Schleswig. If Schleswig were incorporated with Denmark, if Schleswig were deprived of its separate constitution, Germany might claim a right to interfere. But if the regu lation of each church and each school in Schleswig were to be subject of interference by the German Confederation, it is clear that the sovereign rights of the King of Denmark would exist only in name. Her Majesty's Government will always, on their part, use any influence they may possess with the Court of Denmark to secure the protection of the German inhabitants of Schleswig. But when the Prussian Government refers to the sentiments recently expressed by her Majesty's Government in behalf of Italian nationality, the Prussian Government must be reminded that there are in the Duchy of Schleswig 140,000 Danes, and that the remaining population is not purely Ger man; while neither in the States of the Church nor in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies was there any mixed population of any other race with Italians. In fine, whether we regard the form of the en gagements taken by the King of Denmark towards Austria, Prussia, and the German Confederation, or whether we regard the susceptibilities of the Danish Government, the mixture of races in Sch leswig, and the just regards due to Germans and Danes alike, her Majesty's Government are per suaded that there never was a question which more imperatively demanded a temperate consideration, or on which a beginning of strife would be more injurious to all the interests concerned. I am, &c., J. RUSSELL. Mr. W. Lowther. LORD JOHN RUSSELL TO MR. PAGET. Foreign-office, Dec. 8, 1860. Sir,--I send you a copy of a despatch from Baron Schleinitz to Count Bernstorff, and a copy of the answer I have given to it in a despatch to Mr. Lowther. You will observe that I have stated in this de spatch the engagements which, in the opinion of her Majesty's Government, his Danish Majesty is bound in honour to fulfil. " Ho is bound," I have stated, " not to incorporate Schleswig with Den mark, to maintain in Schleswig representativ© t S i t e a n t a e l s i , t i a e n e d i a to th p e ro p t e n c e t the Duchy y of G s e e r h m l e a s n w g n . d u anish na whlatteavpepreamrsayth%lhre Abliauideisntgy'sforGovern ment g t a h g a e t • ments entered into with Austria and Prussia, , the King of Denmark is bound in honour to fulfil these conditions. He proclaimed them publicly; he made them known not only to his subjects, but to the representatives of foreign powers ; nor is their fulfilment less his interest than his obliga tion, His German subjects in Schleswig ought to feel that they enjoy under his rule equality o f rights with their Danish fellow-subjects. They will then feel a loyal attachment to the Danish monarchy, and a sincere desire to preserve it un impaired. If, on the contrary, the education of their children at the common schools and their worship at their parish church is trammelled with vexatious regulations, and the Government appears to be animated by a desire to depress the nationality of subjects, of German origin, unhappy consequences may follow. Should the German Diet proceed to enforce its resolutions of March last, the neighbouring Duchy of Schleswig is sure - to be the scene of agitation, perhaps of tumult and riot. In such an emergency the King of Denmark will feel the value of having made such concessions to the German inhabitants of Schleswig as shall raise him above all suspicion of bad faith and all charges of placing an intelligent and industrious portion of his subjects in a position of odious in feriority. Yon will read this despatch, together with that to Mr. Lowther, to M. Hall, and give him copies of them.—l am, &c., Aug. B. Paget, Esq., &c. J. RUSSELL. In a second dispatch, Baron Schleinitz transmits to Count Bernstorff a copy of Lord John Russell's despatch to Mr. Lowther. He writes : To our great satisfaction we have been allowed to gather from the latest despatch of Lord John Russell, that the Royal Government of Great Britain did not intend to recommend the pro posals of the Copenhagen Cabinet for acceptance ; nay, that it did not even wish to tender those pro posals as a fit basis for the settlement of the affair. The Danish Government has offered to deter mine, in the fulness of its own power, a certain sum of money annually to be paid by Holstein as a contribution to the common expenditure of the monarchy—that sum to be estimated according to the rate which the duchy has been compelled to pay during the last six years. The offer was coupled with the condition that, as long as the Government did not demand an increase of the sum in question, no right should be allowed to the Representative Assembly of Holstein to exercise a control over the disposal of the money. It was obvious at once that the posi tion of Holstein would thus become much more unfavourable than that of the countries repre sented in the general Riksrath at Copenhagen, the latter enjoying the privilege of voting each item of the budget, and watching the rightful application of the expenditure in every single instance. Your Excellency will now perceive from the en closure that "t.he British Government are desir ous of securing for the Representative Assembly of Holstein a right of control over the employment of their contribution. The British Government (Lord John Russell pro ceeds to say in his last despatch) would be gratified to see every portion of the Danish monarchy ade quately represented in a general Parliament at Copenhagen; or, should this be unattainable, the kingdom, as well as the duchies, ought to be made to contribute a proportionate share in the common expenditure. On our part, we have not the slightest objection to such an arrangement ; and if a contrary inference has been drawn by Lord John Russell from my despatch of the Bth) this can only proceed from a misinterpretation of my views. Nor did we, as Lord John Russell supposes, ever reject the plan of an equal representation for the different countries. On the contrary, we have always urged the Danish Government to fulfil the promise that the monarchy should be granted a constitution, bestowing an equal amount of rights upon each of the various countries constituting it. We have derived particular gratification from the concluding portion of the despatch of the Bth inst., in which the British Government does not hesitate expressly to recognise the existing international obligations of Denmark with respect to Schleswig —obligations entered into towards the German Confederacy, but the very existence of which has been persistently denied by the Copenhagen Cabi net. It is a matter of course that these obligations cannot be made the cause of Federal interference with the details of the administration, and we have never as yet claimed the right of adopting such a course. We are assured that the convictions so frankly expressed by Lord John Russell concerning the Danish obligations with reference to Schleswig would be all the more calculated to influence the action of the Copenhagen Cabinet if the latter had no reason to doubt the perfectly impartial and friendly character of the attitude of England in this question. I conclude with a word in reply to a remark made by Lord John Russell towards the close of his despatch. If, in my despatch of the Bth of November, reference was made to one of Lord John Russell to Sir James Hudson, I did not in this allude to the principles therein expressed concerning the rights of nationalty, but rather wished to speak of the rights of a people in opposition to those of its Go vernment. In these latter I could not but regard a guarantee for England taking an interest in the claims of the Holstein Assembly against its Go vernment. Your Excellency is authorised to inform Lord John Russell of the contents of this despatch, and also to transmit to him the expression of our thanks for the explanations given to us in this last note. SCFILEINITZ. been made for her during the absence of her hus band by her father. The evidence fully established the case, and the Court made a decree nisi. Sergeant Parry and Dr. Swabey were counsel for the petitioner. The remaining cases were not of a character requiring special notice. SECONDARIES' COURT. (Before Mr. Potter arid a Special Jury.) BREACH OF PROMISE.-KNIGHTSV. THISTLEWOOD. This was a writ of inquiry sent down by one of the superior courts, to assess the amount of damages in an action for a breach of promise of marriage, judgment having been allowed to go by default. Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., and Mr. Tindal Atkinson appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Digby Seymour and Mr. Best for the defendant. Mr. Hawkins said this was a case to recover damages for a breach of promise to marry, and he thought that after the jury had heard the evidence they would consider it a case deserving their most serious consideration. The plaintiff is Miss Cathe rine Elizabeth Knights, a young lady of between 22 and 23, and the only daughter of an extensive farmer at Landon Hill Hall, near Ockendon, in Essex, and the defendant is a gentleman, about 30 years of age, of independent fortune, amounting to £4OO or £5OO a year, living in the neighbourhood of Regent's-park. In the course of 1859 the de fendant was anxious to pass some few months of country life, and he advertised for apartments in an Essex paper. It appeared that Mr. Knights, the father of the plaintiff, had been suffering from indisposition, and was recommended company, and seeing the advertisement, he was induced to answer it. The parties met and came to terms, and in September the defendant became' an inmate of Mr. Knights' house. Shortly after he had taken up his abode, the defendant formed an attachment with the plaintiff, Miss Knights, and on her father being made aware of that circumstance, he declined giving his consent until he had made some inquiries respecting the position in life of the defendant, and suggested that he should not continue to reside at the farm. The defendant accordingly left, and a correspondence ensued between them which ended in a proposal of marriage, which was to have taken place on the 26th of April, 1860. The defendant did not deny having made the overture to marry, and by not putting a plea on record virtually ad mitted that he had broken the promise without the least provocation. It had been said that the de fendant was a man of weak intellect, but in his epistles to the plaintiff he evinced neither proof or sign of this; indeed he showed an unusual amount of forethought in worldly matters. In one letter, of Feb. 10, he wrote to plaintiff:— " Will your father give you £2OO, which is not an out. of-the-way sum. Cannot do with less to provide those things I name to you as necessary," &e. Mr. Thistlewood was exceedingly anxious to obtain an advaLee f;om the father for plaintiff's wedding trousseau, and on Feb. 14 ho addressed the plaintiff as " My very dearest Kate," and said : " I went yesterday to meet your father at Fenchurch street according to your request, to hear what he had to say on your behalf. I thought his proposition very unreason able, such as I should never consent to. He proposed to me to give you 801bs down. And to pay 151bs towards the rent for 10 years, if he should live so long. Nothing less than £2OO will be deamed sufficient and 201bs towards the rent for 10 years and to sign a bond to that effect that is my views on the subject if he does not consent to that natters may remain as they are, for I consider he has it in his power to do so. You say your mother is going to make you a present of a tea service. If I was asked my opinion I should prefer the breakfast service, because I have a very nice set of china tea service myself." Matters proceeded, more letters passed, and both parties looked forward to the approaching happi ness of a wedded life. Everything was arranged for the nuptials, as will be seen by the subjoined letter : " 3, Albert •street, Gloster-gate, Regent's Park. "MY VERY DEAREST K ATE,—I should have replied yes terday by return of post, but had to go to London, not hear ing from you who was 'likely to be invited. I thought, although the 26th of this month was named, that you had not made any preparation, therefore I have not as yet or dered my clothes, &e. What do you think I should require for the occasion ? I presume the coachman will have rosette and white gloves, and the bridesmaids bookcays,' and also yourself. I think you do wrong, excuse me naming it, to ask any other clergyman if you thought of doing so than Mr. Packman, because your father will have to pay him a compliment for coming which does not rest with me only the usual ' fess.' I presume you do not intend asking Captain Simonds, for I don't want the Fishers to know all about it. How many carriages do you intend having? Who is to be bridesgroom man ? It is no use you rickoning of my brother and his wife, for they have made up their minds not to be present. The reason I thought of advertising and going to a farmhouse again, because I met with an accident some few years ago, and thought it would unfit me for marriage, that is the only cause of my being so backward, which lam sorry such is the case. It makes me ill at times, because it comes across my mind. If you have me I will do all in my power to render you happy. Please to inform mo the cost of those houses you made mention of. I shall require the proper description of tho church where the marriage is to take place, whether it goes by any name; I also want your Christian names and surname to fill up the licence, for they won't do it unless I give them full particulars.: ' Mr. Hawkins—lt had been previously arranged that the marriage was to take place on the 26th of April. In this letter it will be seen that he alluded to having met with some accident which rendered him unfit for marriage. It had even been sug gested in many of his previous communications, and he would show that it was perfect rubbish and an idle story in order to release himself from the promise he had made. He had mentioned the name of a Captain Symonds in the correspondence. That gentleman was more than 70 years of age, and therefore a person of whom the defendant could not have been jealous. He was a friend of the defendant's, and ho had asked him to his resi dence. It seems that Capt. Symonds had been invited to the wedding, and as Mr. Thistlewood and his wife would have left, he was asked to re main at Mr. Knights for a few days as society for the father. This seemed to have given great offence to the defendant, and on the 17th of April he penned the following, what he (the learned counsel) must call a cool and heartless letter:— " 3, Albert-street, Gloster-gate, Regent's-park. "My dearest Kate,—l receive a letter from you this morning, and there was one also for Captain Simonds, wherein you state, Don't say anything to Mr. Thistle wood about IL' " You can ask him to come down to your house the day before, and remain a few days, but my people must be driven to an inn, and put to expenses. My brother and his wife consider themselves grossly insulted, in conse quence of which they don't mean to come—(laughter)-- and I don't think you mean any good towards me in the way you have acted, only for the sake of gain. Therefore I shall decline coming also, but agree with the Fishers to remain again. " With kind regards to all, and love to yourself, I remain yours affectionately, " SAMUEL THISTLEWOOD. " Y.S.—My people are quite as respectable as Captain Sim ond s." The defendant was remonstrated with upon his heartless conduct, but he persevered in his intol - to break off the marriage and set Mr. Knights at defiance, so that after the licence had been bought, the patent boots obtained, the wedding speech prepared, the advertisement written out, to say nothing of the wedding ring, for which he hasl inclosed the jeweller's account to the plaintiff, upon this paltry excuse he refused to fulfil his solemn promise. The plaintiff had suffered in her health from the treatment she had received, and he asked the jury to give ample and Substantial compensa tion for the loss which she had sustained. Evidence was then called in support of the learned counsel's statement. The case for the defendant was that he was of weak intellect, and not fitted to perform the duties of married life. The learned Secondary, in summing up, re marked that the letters which he should hand to the jury bore no traces of that weakness of intellect deposed to by the defendant's witnesses. The jury, after a short deliberation, awarded the plaintiff £6OO damages. -,L'4l L 4W INTELLIGENCE, _Feb. 1. COURT FOR DIVORCE AND MATRIMO• NIAL CAUSES. (Before the Judge Ordinary.) CUJiLEY V. CUBLEY AND SMITH. This suit was instituted by Francis Cubley, pro prietor of the Tankard publichouse, Kennington road, Lambeth, for a divorce, on the ground of his wife's adultery with the co-respondent, who had formerly been a potman in his service. Both defen dants appeared, and Mrs. Cubley in her answer pleaded cruelty on the part of the petitioner. The case stood over from Monday, the identity o f th e co-respondent not being fully established, and the facts have been already reported in this journal. Two witnesses were called who supplied the deficiency, and the following evidence on the plea of cruelty was adduced : Alexander Ennis stated that he had been a pot man in the employ of the petitioner about two years and a half ago, and lived with him about 11 or 12 months. During that period he saw Mr. Cubley frequently illtreat his wife, and on one occasion after having had some friends to sup with him. When they left he heard Mrs. Cubley scream violently, and, on going into the bar, he saw Mr. Cubley with one hand on her neck and with a ginger-beer bottle in his other hand. Ho rushed up to him and wrested the bottle from him. When Mr. Cubley became calm Mrs. Cubley desired witness to go up stairs and conceal the razors. He witnessed several other acts of a similar character, and heard Mr. Cubley use the most disgusting and fearful language towards his wife. Coun — sel having addressed the Court, The learned judge said he considered that the petitioner was entitled to relief, and accordingly granted the de cree nisi, and directed that the younger 'child should remain in custody of th e zr other for the p rese nt, the petitioner allowing ss. a-week for its maintenance. _ _ _ Dr. Phillimore ;;iended that the wife was not entitled to the allowance, as well as the alimony pendente lite, which had beon ordered by the Court, and which she would retain for three months longer. Sir C. Cresswell agreed with the learned doctor, and said that the respondent must make her elec tion between the alimony and the allowance for the child, and counsel for the respondent decided in favour of the former. Dr. Phillimore, Q.C., and Dr. Tristram were counsel for the petitioner • Mr. Best and Mr. Pater for the respondent, and Mr. E. Lloyd appeared for the co-respondent. • PADMORE V. PADMORE AND TAYLOR. This was the petition of the husband, praying for a divorce, on the ground of the wife's adultery with the co-respondent, and there was HO defence. Mr. Sergeant Parry and Dr. Swabey were couns6l for the petitioner. It appeared that the petitioner and his wife were married at St. John's, Wapping, in 1848, and lived together, with some interruption, until 1856, dur ing which period the respondent gave birth to three children. In 1852 Mr. Padmore accepted a situation in the commissariat department of the English army, and went to the Crimea, where he was absent for some time, and on his return he resumed cohabitation with his wife at their residence at Northampton. He subsequently went tothe Cape of Good Hope, where heremainedfrom 1856 to 1859, and five or six months after his return, his wife was confined of a child, he having previously refused to live with her, being aware that she was pregnant. It further appeared that Mrs. Padmore was addicted to habits of intemperance, and that a provision had POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Fib. 1. MANSION-HOUSE.—An incident occurred during the sitting of the Court of which the Lord Mayor availed himself to comment upon the serious and systematic obstruction of public 'traffic by cos termongers hawking fruit for sale on trucks in the principal thoroughfares in the city, and upon the encouragement they received from some quarters in defying the law and all regard for the public con venience in this respect. This practice has of late been so greatly on the incraase as to render neces sary, in the public interest, the special interference both of the late and the present chief magistrate. several others of the aldermen, and also of the Com missioner of Police, with the view to its repression. Although it is an offence punishable by a fine of 405., or imprisonment in default of payment, to obstruct a public thoroughfare, the usual course of the Lord Mayor and others of the magistrates at this court has been to inflict upon persons charged be fore them with infringing the law in this respect a fine of half-a-crown or three days' imprisonment; and that only in cases where the offender had pre viously received an admonition from the bench— which he had disregarded—for a similar breach of the law. Yesterday three costermongers were brought up for obstructing, in midday on Thurs day, the traffic in Lombard-street and Bartholomew lane; two of the most crowded thoroughfares, as is well known, in the city of London. Two of them, named Nathan and Franks, were seen, with another, loitering with their trucks selling fruit, all three abreast, in Bartholo mew-lane, and at that time no fewer than nine other trucks were observed in the same street, short though it is. They were discharged with a caution by the Lord Mayor, it being their first offence. Woolf Cohen, another of the class, charged with a similar offence, was proved to have been seen standing with his truck in Lombard-street four or five times between 3 and 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and being a previous offender, he was fined half-a crown or three days. Mr. Keeling, of the firm of Keeling and Hunt, wholesale fruit merchants—of whom many of this class of costermongers are reputed to buy the fruit they vend in the streets—was in court, and asked permission to address the Lord Mayor, he having previously offered to pay the fine for Cohen. Leave being given, he said he wished to call attention to the privation which that class of men, the number of whom throughout the metropolis was estimated at about 20,000—had, with their families, suffered of late from the obstacles which some of the city magistrates had opposed to their calling, which pri vations were greatly aggravated during the last month by the severity of the weather. Scores of these men had been driven from the streets, where they were accustomed to earn an honest livelihood, and had thus been exposed to want and perhaps to crime; and but for the assistance which had been rendered them would have been in a state of star vation. When they were fined or imprisoned for obstructing the streets it was not so much they as their wives and families who were the sufferers ; and he trusted he might appeal in the interest of this class of men to the well known benevolence of the Lo Mayor. He admitted there was often just cauTe for complaint in the manner in which many of them followed their calling . in the public streets, but he thought that scarcely justified the extent of the interference with them by the magistrates of late. He added that the matter would probably be brought under discussion in the Court of Aldermen at their next meeting, and to that quarter he looked for some arrangement which might remedy the public inconvenience caused by the obstruction of the traffic, and at the same time fall in with the interests of the men. The Lord Mayor (to Mr. Keeling)—What is the drift of your application? Do you mean that be cause a man is in a state of poverty and want ho is to be held at liberty to commit an infraction of the law; that because a costeomonger is badly off and finds it difficult to dispose of his goods, he is to take up a standing in a crowded public street, to set up a table or a stall, for instance, in Cornhill ? Mr. Keeling—That course has been allowed in other cases. The Lord Mayor—What do you mean by " that course ?" Here is a man (Cohen) brought to this court charged with having been seen standing in Lombard-street four times in two hours in the height of the day, impeding the traffic with his truck, regardless of repeated warnings and remon strances addrescd to him by the police. Do you suppose, if you were in my place here, you would be justified in allowing your feelings to override your judgment, or your sympathy with a particular class of the community to blind you to the public interest ? I cannot foresee what the Court of Aldermen may do in a matter of this, kind ; but I know, from constant experience, that no policeman ever brings an offender of this class before the bench unless he has found him cbstructing the current of traffic in a great public thoroughfare, and that in spite of repeated warnings. These men are never brought here from quiet streets and lanes, where they might possibly follow their calling with less of public inconvenience. It is of the utmost iinpor tance that every possible facility should be afforded for the accommodation of the traffic of a great city, and it is one of the first duties of a magistrate to preserve order in the public streets, and to see that no unnecessary impediments are thrown in the way of people going about their business. Mr. Keeling said the shoeblacks were tolerated; why not the costermongers The Lord Mayor—The shoeblacks are posted at stations recognised by the police authorities, and where they offer no obstruction to the thoroughfares —at retired corners, for instance, in the neighbour hood of the Royal Exchange. There is no analogy between a shoeblack stationed at one of those spots and a man with a truck loitering along the Poultry, for example, by the edge of the kerb, with a number of carriages, cabs, and omnibuses toiling at a slow pace in his wake until it shall please him to get out of the way. Mr. Keeling said he trusted, nevertheless, that some consideration might still be shown for a class of men who laboared hard to earn a living. The Lord Mayor—l have a natural respect and sympathy for every man who is struggling to earn an honest livelihood, but I must tell you one thing, Mr. Keeling. I don't think it is right for a gentle man in your position to come here and pay fines for a prisoner who has committed a breach of the law. I have before me two acts of Parliament which apply to this among other offences. I am bound to do my duty when I see that the law which I am here to administer has been infringed; and it is a public scandal when a man of respectability comes forward before an audience in a court of justice and interposes between the bench and a prisoner. Sir It. Carden, who was upon the bench, re peatedly signified his hearty approval of the ob servations made by the Lord Mayor. Mr. Keeling said that was the first time he had interfered in the way mpntioned by the Lord Mayor, and if he had committed an error it was from sym pathy with the men in question. The matter then dropped. Henry Williams, a middle-aged man, who had previously undergone a sentence of penal servitude pleaded guilty to stealing a policeman's coat and truncheon, and a hat and scarf from a clerk in a merchant's office in the City, where he had pre sented a begging letter. The Lord Mayor, who sat in petty sessions with Alderman Sir It. Carden, sentenced him to six months' imprisonment with hard labour for each offence. John Johnson, 45, who had also been previously convicted, underwent a final examination on a charge of stealing gas fittings from the staircases of several merchants' offices in Cannon-street, and was committed for trial. GUILDHALL.—Richard Wells, a clerk in' the employ of Messrs. Tie Tritton, and Co., East India merchants, of 26, old Broad-street, was re examined on the charge of embezzling £2OO and other sums, the money of his masters, and was again remanded. William Martin, George Gabriel, Matthew John Cooper, and Francis James Burton, the eldest of whom was not more than 17, were brought up for further examination relative to the charge of man slaughter which was partly inquired into on Tues day last. Witnesses were examined, after which Alderman Phillips said there was not sufficient evidence against Burton and Cooper, and they were there fore discharged, but Gabriel and Martin would be remanded until Wednesday. BOW-STREET.— A gentlemanly-looking young m i 7n, who was charged as William Robertson, but w h o i;:ow acknowledged that his real name was Richard ltyrie, and that he was an assistant or supernumerary clerk in the War-office, engaged in the topographical branch, New-street, Spring gardens, was charged with stealing a quantity of paper from that office. The prisoner, who admitted that he had stolen the paper, was remanded. WORSHIP-STREET. Mary Macdonald, a good-looking and well-dressed young Scotch woman of 20, was brought before Mr. Leigh by Sergeant Gee, of the II division, under somewhat strange circumstances. The sergeant stated that while on duty in the Whitechapel-road between three and four o'clock that morning a policeman brought the young woman to him, and stated that he had seen her repeatedly pass him upon his beat, and that he thought she must have been walking about in this manner for several hours. Numerous overtures of an improper description had been made to her, all of which she scornfully rejected, and, this at length exciting his notice, he determined to stop and question her the next time he saw her, and on her again coming up to him, footsore and dejected, he asked her the cause of her so walking about the streets, and she with some reluctance then told him a story which induced him to hand her over to the sergeant, who took her to the station for protection gave her some refreshment, and determined to bring her before the magistrate, to see what could be done with her. _ _ Mr. Safford, the clerk, questioned the young woman, and the statement jointly made by her and the sergeant was, that her father having died some time since, her mother married again, her second husband being a Mr. William Laidlaw, a grocer and teadealer, of the Spoutmouth (as it sounded), in the Gallowgate, Glasgow, and who did not behave very kindly to her, though she did not allege any par ticular instance of neglect or unkindness. There was one other daughter besides herself, who was married and settled, and it was her (the young woman's) duty to generally assist in the business. She had been for two years courted by a y oung man who was a sailor on board an East Indiaman called the Maggie Miller, to whom she was engaged to be married, and who had written to her from Calcutta two months ago, stating that he was on his return voyage, and would be in London by the latter end of January. She was anxious to see her sweetheart as soon as possible, and, in fear lest he should be obliged to sail again without being able to come to Scotland, she got up on Friday morning, before her father or mother was awake, and, taking £2 12s. to pay her expenses from the till, she quietly left the house at a quarter to 6 o'clock, went to the railway station in Dundas-street, and then on to Edinburgh. There the passengers stopped about a quarter of an hour, when she took her place in the train, and on reaching London late at night took a lodging at the first house she saw, her money having now run 94 to the extent () 15e, ad. She went day after day all round the dock►a, in th e expectation of hearing something of the Maggie Miller, but could not, though she still persevered, in the full conviction that the lyoung man must have arrived, till Thursday morning, when she found that the whole of her money was expended, and, as she could not return to the place where she had lodged without the means of paying for it, she continuously walked the streets till three that morning, when the policeman met her and took her to the station. She had had nothing to eat from eight o'clock the preceding morning till the con stable stopped her and lodged her in the station. By direction of the magistrate, Mr. Safford wrote a letter to the girl's parents, acquainting them with the circumstances, and guaranteeing, if they for warded sufficient money to pay her expenses back again, that au officer should see their daughter into the train, and in the meantime the FOUng woman was transferred to the workhouse, that she might be properly taken care of till the answer arrived, the girl leaving the court crying heartily. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE WEEK. Miles Opened. Receipts. Railways. , . 7........./.,_____4 1861. 1860. 1861. 1860. ...-- _-.... - X Ballymena and Port Rush.. 35 35 295 272 Belfast and N. Counties.... 65 . 65 1,092 1,015 Belfast and County Down.. 21 21 512 486 Birkd., Lane., & Ches. June. - - - - Myth and Tyne 2' 20 1,188 1 , 280 Bristol and Exeter 125 125 5,325 5,620 Caledonian Cockermouth &Workington 8 :3.4 261 236 Cork and Bandon 2O 20 303 260 Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6l 6 1 106 161 Cork and Youghal . 26 - 214 - Cornwall fin 531 92i: 8 ,,,,,, Deeside l7 17 222 4 -•-• DublinA Belfast Junction Dublitif and Drogheda 63 63 1,465 1,37! Dub. & Wicklow (m.Kingst ) 101 401 1,388 1,248 Dundalk and Enniskillen Dundee and Arbroath 174 174 601 529 Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jun 3l 31 1,180 901 East Anglian 671 671 757 865 E.Counties,Nrfk.,&E.Union 499 499 22,600 24,:N85 Edinburgh and Glasgow Edinburgh, Perth,& Dundee 78 78 2,973 2 , 970 ' Forth & Clyde Junction Furness Glasgow & South-Western 1831 1831 7,927 7,425 Great Northern 283 283 24,754 23,961 Great North of Scotland a t.Soutlya. dr Westn.(lrlnd ) 329 2191 7,291 6,527 Great Western 5831 5782 34,816 33,741 Inverness & Aberdeen June 55 55 615 66g Irish South-Eastern 254 251 264 Ng Lancashire & Yorkshire 3954 3951 34,215 32,675. Leominster and Kington Limerick and Ennis. Limerick and Foynes 2 2 6 6 6 117 96 Llanelly 4 46 1 517 413 London & North-Western London and Blackwall 5l 5 2 1,317 1,412 London & South-Western Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast. 2244 2231 11,752 11,142 London, Chatham, & Dover 561 194 729 282! Loud., Tilbury, & Southend 424 40 1,074 924 Man.,Sheffield,& Lincolnsh 1731 174 11,078 11,019 Manch. S.Jun.& Altrincham 9 1 1,054 924 Maryport and Carlisle Midland (incl. N.-Western) 6141 6141 38,637 36,310 Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind. 177 177 4,254 3,556 Monkland 56 56 1,551 1,396 Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 2,313 2,122 Newcastle and Carlisle 7B 78 3,639 3,261 North British (incl. Selkirk and Galashiels) North Devon 35 35 366 38 7 N-Eastern(Bedale&Leybrn) 764 764 35,528 34,700 North London 9 9 2,270 2,305 North Statibrdshire 246 233 6,122 7,434 Oswestry and Newton 2O - 436 - Ithymney l9l 191 677 463 St. Helen's Canal & Railway 30 30 1,844 1,854 Scottish Central Scottish North-Eastern ll5 115 3,730 3,725 Shrewsbury & Birmingham 291 29/ - - Shrewsbury and Chester Shrewsbury & Hereford Shropshire Union 2 91 735 South Devon A 72 2,760 805 2,646 South-Eastern 306 306 16,616 17,943 South Wales .7 14 171 1 8,485 8,747 S. Yorkshire and River Dun 118 118 2,881 3,281 Stockton and Darlington Taff Vale 5l 4 1,626 1, 5,135 4,132 Ulsr 5l " Ulverstone and Lancaster Vale of Clwyd. lO 10 130 104 Vale of Neath 3511 35 1,713 1,360 Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 356 204 Waterford and Limerick WeSt Cornwall 27/ 27 1 676 621 W.Hartlepool Harbr.&Rail. 39 39 4,405 3,553 West Midland. W'haven,Cleator,&Egrmnt. 7 7 408 409 Whitehaven Junction l2 12 683 673 Whitehaven & Furness Jun. 35 35 696 698 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. Antwerp and Rotterdam 62 62 872 743 Austrian B2B 673 31,281 25, 4 70 Belgian Eastern Junction 204 214 270 268 Buffalo and Lake Huron l6l 161 1,146 1,600 Demerara (fortnight) - - - - Detroit and Milwaukie lB5 185 1,577 1,250 Dutch Rhenish lOBl 1081 3,167 2,801 Eastern of France 1032 1006 15,806 41,819 Grand Trunk of Canada 970 970 12,244 10,137 Great Indian Peninsula 2971 245 4,652 3,613 Great Luxembourg l2B 128 2,202 1.811 Great Western of Canada 345 345 8,638 7,149 Lyons and Geneva 142 142 3,518 3,499 Madrid, Saragossa &Alieant 301 284 12,105 8,701 Northern of Canada - Northern of France 620 602 43,752 46,547 Norwegian Trunk 44 44 - - Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 879 840 73,049 66,618 Paris and Orleans 922 922 48,906 42,476 Paris and Strasburg - - - Royal Danish 69 69 --;`' - Sambre --- and Meuse 6B 68 1,044 1,185 South Austrian Southern of France 777 773 21,171 15,313 Welland ... ............ - - - -- 26 - West Flanders W. and NW. of France 742 730 33,518 32,907 COUNTRY MARKETS. WAKEFIELD-FEB. 1. The arrivals of grain here this week are large. Wheat is generally held with firmness at last Friday's prices, but the demand is not active, and it is still difficult to make progress in sales, except of a little fine old English or the best new foreign. Fine barley quite as dear, other sorts quite neglected. In beans, oats, and shelling there is ne alteration to note. LOUGHBOROUGH—JAN. 31. At this market to-day the show of wheat from the far mers was good, but the quality wan irregular. Buyers purchased sparingly, and last week's rates were not rea lised ; white, 62s to 78s ; red, 54s to .72s per 36 stone. Bar ley was quite as cheap as in the week previous, malting selling at 37s to 43s per qr., grinding 32s to 35s per 30 st. Oats barely supported their value. Beans less firm. EXETER-FEB. 1. A fair business was done in the corn market to-day, at about late prices : Wheat, white..6s 9d to 8s 6d f Barley.. 45:341 to 5s 9d Ditto red Os Od to Os Od f Oats 2s Sato& 04 Flour, fine, 47s to —s; seconds, 45s to —s per sack. CATTLE. ___ ......._. There was a larger supply of cattle driven in, and sales were at about last week's currencies. I Fat beef,p score, lOs to ll s Od Ewes, per lb .... 61d t o 70 Pork careases,do 10s to 10 s 6d Wethers, d 0...... 7241 to 8d Sheep, per lb. Od to —d Fat calves, d 0.... 6d to 41 Rough fat, 41-4 per lb. BRISTOL SUGAR--FEE. 1 • We have had a steady demand for sugars during the last 10 days, and large sales have been effected at prices about Is to 2s less than those current last week. Refiners' pro , duce in good demand. COAL MAR. (rrlcea of Coal per Ton a' ET—FEB. 1. the dose of the market a. d. Bell's Primrose ......15 0 Howard's West Hart- N. d. ley 17 0 Waus rind: Herten 18 9 Brsddyll's Hetton 20 6 Hetton ........21 3 Lambton 2O 0 Ships at mark Walls`End Russel's Hetton ~ 20 0 South Hetton 2l 3 Stewart'a 21 3 Caseop l9 9 Hunwick Merthyr Dare 22 0 Craghead Hartley 16 3 :et, 80; sold, 46. [ArivEnrisnum%] Pills atod medicine invariably ag• gravate and perpetuate diseases ; their annoyance, dis. appointment, and expense may be avoided by . persons in indi ff erent health sending only their address to B. S. Barry, Esq., 77, Regent-street, W., London, and they will receive gratis and free by post the "IlevAtans' OWN GUIDE," or Natural Restorer, Without medicine or ex p sine, of perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, and refreshing sleep, to the moat enfeebled, insuring the removal of indigestion (dyspepsia), constipation, Hier complaints, nausea, epilepsy, paralysis, debility, nervousness, palpitation, cough, asthma, consumption, dropsy, liatniettcy, diarrhea, dysentery, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, catarrhs, colds, noises in the ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities*, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpi. tation, heartburn, headache, despondency, cramps, spasms. sinking, tits, bronchitis —"Unnuestionably the safest Guide to health." BIRTHS. COLLIER.—On the 30th Jan., at Wickham House, Clapton, Mrs. Vincent J. Collier, of a son. KARNEY.—On the 30th Jan., 91 York, the wife of the Rev. Gilbert S. Karney, of a daughter. KLOCKERS.—On the 23d Nov., at Shanghai, the wife of the Rev. H. Z. Klockere, of a daughter. LowE.--On the 29th Jan., at Stoke Damara, the wife of Captain Arthur Lowe, Royal Nkvy, of a son. MA CK lE.—On the'27th Jan., at Ernespie, Kirkcudbright* shire, the wife of James Mackie, Esq., M.P., of a son. MARRIAGES. CALLAWAY—SAMNIoNE.--On the 31st Jan., at St. James's, Westminster, Thomas Callaway, Esq., F.R.C.5.,, of Bury-street, St. James's, to Annie Panter, only daughter of the late William Samnione, of Wallingford, Berks. CLEAVER—CARLOW.—On the 16th Dec., at St. Mary's Brodin, Canterbury, Frederick Cleaver, Esq., to Clara, second daughter of the late Samuel Stewart Townsend Carlow, Esq. CUST—LASCELLES.—On the 31st Jan., at the Chapel, Dalkeith House, Lieut.-Col. John Francis Oust, Grena dier Guards, to the Lady Florence Harriet Lascelles. DBATHS. CLEYELAND.—On the 31st Jan., in Gresvenor•square, the Duchess Dowaser of Cleveland, in the 85th year of her ago. FAIR.—On the 29th Jan., at 5, South-crescent, Bedford squore, General Alexander Fair, C. 8., of the Madras Army, aged 85, GWYNNE.—On the 22d Jan., at Llyn-y-brain, the Hon. Georgiana Marianna Gwynne, youngest daughter of George, 13th Viscount Hereford. MACDONALD.—On the 18th Jan., at Greenwich, Mi. John Macdonald, late of Greenock, aged 72. LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO TOUNG, at No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE Sus Office, No. 112,Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County otitliddlesex Saturday, February 2, 1861. ~k ~ ~`