The Sun. — London, England, 1861-01-16 00:00:00

I if (MEI' MAFKET AND CITY NEWS''. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. The Money Market still continues quiet, but a large amount of business is nevertheless transacted, and bankers and brokers are not disposed to relax their terms for the accommodation they afford When the exportation of guld, and the critical state of monetary affairs in Paris point to the probability of further restrictive measures. Loans are in request at the Stock Exchange at 5 to 6 per cent. No variation of importance was exhibited in the Foreign Exchanges yesterday afternoon. • About £50,000 in bar gold was withdrawn from the Bank of England yesterday for importation to the United States. Notice has been given that the sixth annual drawing for the reimbursement of 543 obligations of 100 f. each, and the first annual drawing for the repayment of 101 obligations of 500 f. each of the Great Luxembourg Railway Company, took place at Brussels on the 31st ult. Continued activity was exhibited in the Liver pool Cotton Market yesterday, and previous prices were fully suppocted. The sales were 15,000 bales. The half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of the Union Bank of London has been held to-day, when the report recommending a dividend of 12s. per share woo unanimously adopted. It was stated that the business of the company during 1860 had been very satisfactory, the profits having amounted to £170,000, and that there had been no bad debts contracted during the past six months. With regard to the Pullinger frauds, it was mentioned that no further amounts had been regained, but the matter was still pending, and an additional recovery was hoped for by the directors. At the half-yearly meeting of the London and Westminster Bank, held to day, the report, which declared a dividend of 6 per cent., with a bonus of 7 per cent., was unanimously adopted. The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Company's steamer Etna, which sailed to-day from Liverpool for New York, took £212,500 in specie. Continued depression has been experienced in the Market for Public Securities to-day, sales having been pressed to some extent in consequence of the unfavourable position of monetary affairs in France as well as in this country. Consols have been 911 ; for money, and 911 1 for account, but they are now 9 11 and 91: I respectively. The New Threes and the Reduced have declined to 911 ; India Stock is firmer at 219 and 220 ; ditto 5 per Cent. Loan re- Mains at 1001 B ; the Debentures at 95f ; but xchequer Bills are heavy at 7s. to Bs. discount; 13 auk Stock is 2321 233. - Business continues very quiet in the Foreign Stock Market, and prices show very little altera tion. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 70 to 70/ ; ditto, 1868, 56 to 56; ; Russian 5 per Cents. are steady at 1 041; ditto 41 per Cents., 1860, are flat at 901; 4nd Mexican at 20t 21. The dealings in the Railway Share Market have been rather active, and owing to a preponderance of speculative sales, caused by the depression in the English Funds, a marked decline has taken place in the value of most of the principal undertakings. North Western, and North Eastern (York), have receded 10s. ; Caledonian, Eastern Counties, and Great Western, 15s. ; Great Northern, Brighton, and North Eastern (Berwick), £1; West Midland, £l6s. ; and Midland and South Eastern, £1 10s. In the Foreign Market there was very little business recorded. South Austrian and Lombardo- Venetia declined:to 12k. The Colonial lines were also at decidedly reduced values. Grand Trunk of Canada declined to 211- 22; East Indian to 97i 98k; and Great Indian Peninsula to 95k, Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have continued very inactive, without any change of importance in values. Ottoman Bank declined 61.; English, Scottish, and Australian Chartered improved 6e.; and Electric Telegraph, £l. FOREIGN FUNDS--CLOSING PRICES. Bank Stock 3 Per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9l+ a a 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities New 3 per Cent. Annuities India Stock 219 20 •• Ditto 6 per Cent Ditto Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent. — Ditto 5 per Cent. 94 Ditto Sf per Cent lOO -`ebent Ditto Dei tures. 1858 Ditto 1859 Ditto Bonds £l,OOO — Ditto under £l,000 Colas°ls for Account, Feb. 7 9li 1 India Stock for Account — Ditto 5 per Cent. for Account . . 1001 kx.checraer Bills, £l,OOO, lid Ditto Small ‘. BRITISHent FUNDS—CLOSING PRIC 2O ES. Andean 3 per C Ditto Account 2l 20k Portuguese 3 per Cent.. 1853 .. . • Ditto 3 per Cent. , 1856 , '7 and '9 .. — I I Ditto Account I Russian 5 per Cent. 1822, £ St lO4 i Ditto 4i. per Cent. 1860 Sardinian 5 per Cent Spanish 3 per Cent it Ditto Account Jinish Cert. of Coup. not funded s} T' xrkish 6 per Cent 7Ol Ditto Account bividends on the above payable in London. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols, Money Ditto Account 9ll 1 ,PORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT MANCHESTER-TUESDAY. CXESTER CUP. 40 to 1 agst King of Kent (taken) 40 to 1 agst Lawyer (taken) DERBY. 6to 1 aget Dundee (taken) 14 to 1 apt Big Ben (taken) 20 to 1 aget Diophaatus (taken) 25 to 1 agst Dictator (taken) 33 to 1 agst Folkestone (taken) 33 to 1 agst Nautilus (taken) AQUATICS. THE INTERNATIONAL SCU LLERS' MATCH BETWEEN ROBERT CHAMBERS AND JOSHUA WARD. l~t Ikes's Spirit of the Times, of Jan. sth, says :—" We are glad to be able to announce that the proposed match between the Champion oarsman of our Hudson River, Joshua Ward, and Chambers, Champion of England, is about as good as made. The letter of Mr. Wilkinson, the 'Acker of Chambers, to Mr. James Farish, empowering hitt to make the match, was published in our edition of the 1 5th of last month. The terms proposed by the backer of C hambers were as follows :—The match to be for 2,500 dols. aside, to be rowed upon the Hudson River in the spring. The distance to be a straight pull of five miles with the Stream, and the Englishmen to be allowed 500 dole. for his expenses in coming over here. Mr. Wilkinson also wished that the editor of this paper should be the stakeholder. Mr. Parish called upon us last week with the response ho has received from Joshua Ward. He agrees to the proposed terms with sue exception. Instead of the stakes being 5,000 dols., as Mr. Wilkinson proposed, our man wishes to row for 4,000, 2,000 aside. This is a sum large enough, and we do not expect that Chambers and his backer will insist upon the other 500 dols a-side. Mr. Palish will promptly forward the response of Ward to England, and in the course of a few weeks we shall no doubt be able to announce that the articles have been drawn up and signed, and deposits staked. This will be a splendid opening for the aquatic season in this country, and it will be a gala day on our b eautiful river, never surpassed since the adventurous 11eadrik Hudson and his men ascended the stream. We h ave already indications of the vast interest a n d exc i tement It Will create among our oarsmen and nautical people, who ee atinue to express the utmost confidence in our champi on , ward, The co-operation of all our boat-racing clubs and P e nemen will make the day of the race a magnificent holi day, and the beauty and fashion of New York will certainly be afloat on the occasion. In order that the match may go 1 11 ' and be, in d ue season , brought to a gallant conclusion, strong itvite all th e b ret h ren o f th e o ar to give "along pull, a Pull, and a pull altogether 1" The export of sherry from Cadiz doling the past 3 0 ", accordi ng to t h e off i c i al Span i s h li st, was 51,859 butts. these Mes srs . G onza l ez, D u b ose, an d C o . s hipped 4,03 5 - ( Pts ; P. and W. Cosens, 3,947; P. Domecq, 3, 092 ; P. k a t 2 , 9 74 ;M. Misa, 2,669 ; Pemartin and Co., 2,6 5 7 ; - 1 de Mora, 1,975 ; D u ff G or d on an d C o ., 1.912 ; Widow 1, 722 .111 ° 11 Y 1,895 Widow P t'll 1 781 Haurie Nephews, , Or a, , , Yeasi and Co., 1,681; B. Vergara, 1,604—a1l the shippers figuring for less than 1,500 butts each. GREAT FAILURE IN THE LEATHER TRADE ketZlN'zßPOoL.—The first hearing of the bankruptcy of T. Barton a n d S on , t ann e rs , &c., of Liverpool, took (i et e , in that town yesterday, when Messrs. Bard and .Tor- W4°tl4 Livel erpool, and Mr. .. I \l'Kenna, banker, of London, the se as assignees. Debts were proved on the estate tawraeltent of £130,000. Amongst the creditors, Messrs. Il ee and Mortiraore proved to the amount of £25,000. SHARE 31. ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS. BIS DAY.) h are I Railways 50 il3eltast and Ballymena 13.14 liir.,"SVol , and Str. Val. stock Birk., La., and Ch Juno 25 Blackburn 25 Blyth and Tyne 10 Bost. Sleaf. and lilid.Co stock Bristol and Exeter stock Caledonian 10 Carmarthen t Cardigan 50 Cork and Bandon 20 Cork, lilrock., ,Passage 20 Cornwall.... stock 12} 10 stock 6.4.0. stock stock 50 stock stock stock stock stock 25 stock stock stock 10 19.16.4 stock stock stock stock 10 stock stock stock stock stock stock 12 10 stock 13 stoci stock stock stock stock Do (A gets no div. A ' until c ran. Do B hasbeen p d. pe toB Dublin & Belfast June. Dun., Perth, &Ab. : East Anglian Eastern Counties : Eastern Union, A stock : Do do B do Do Nw A, late EU3ds East Suffolk !Edinburgh & Glasgow Edin. Perth, & Dundee Forth & Clyde Junction !Furness plash. and S. Western :Great Nthn. of Scotland Great Northern Po do A stock Po do B do t. S..k W. of Ireland Great Western Do Str Val gua. stock' Trish South-eastern Lancashire & Yorkshire London and P.lackwall Lon., Bright.. & S Coast Lond., Chat., and Dover Lond. &Nth. Western Lond. & , th. Western L'derry & Coleraine :,'Merry & Man. She. & Maryport and Carlisle Do do # shares Metropolitan Midland . Do new.. .. Do i!irming. & Derby Mid. Gt. IV. of Ireland Do A shares MM Kent Do, Cray Line Newcastle and C Newry & Armagh, def Newry, Warupt. & Roe Norfolk .... Mho. Counties Union North British ... Nor.Dev.Rail&Dk.stoek D- A stk •, A recs no d. until (ipchas beenpd.B Do B stock ..... Nth. Eastern—Berwick Dodo, 6.N.E. purchase Do Leeds Do York North London .. Do new North Staffordshire N. and S: W. Junction Not. &Grantham Rail Feebles Portsmouth Rhymney - Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock . Do Scot. Mid. stock Shropshire Union Sittin gbourne & Sheer. South Devon South Eastern ...... South Wales S. York. and River Dun Staines, Wok,, and Wok Stockton & Darlington Do do .. Taff Vale .............. Do Pref. No 1 T h am es IlirenD k ciz Rail Ulster Vale of Neath Victoria Sta. and Pim 1 Waterford & Kilkenny Waterford & Limerick West Cr , rnwall West London Do Ist class Do 2d class .. WestHartlepool Harbr and Rail West Midland—oxford' Do. Newport; Do. Hereford! Closing ; Business Price. fl Done. 8} 81 81 83 11i 12i 6} 7 99 101 91 971 6 6} 8 81 16 17 51& 521 37 39 25 27 86 88 28 29 115 11? 112 113 1015 f 107} 1132 131 1114 1121 73 234 ' 61 64 1171 1171 80 62 116 118 50 11 991 1001 94} 95i 8 10 55 58 Si 20 1341. 1341 107 109 7 6d 54 56 651 66 11344 105 p 1p 634 34 94 914 101 103 2i 2f - 1 91 10 8} 8f 115 117 34 34i 861 871 50 52 6 7 40?, 414. 861 86 62 64 80 8! 6 B 414 424 10 11 p 551 5 2 li d pp 67 69 ' 114 111 47 49 42 44 82 84 PREFERENCE SHARES. 94 i 1 1 Share Railways. ,Paid Closing Business Price. Done. IllythP. and Tyne 10 per C. pref. (issied at ‘.£s o Kris. 8c Exet.4 p.ct.stook Do. do. do. Shares ..... :Do. .£lO, 41 percent Do. Quar. Shares, No. 2. !Cork J.-. Bandon, 51 p. C. Cornwall. 5 per cent... , Dun.Perth&Aber Jun. . E.Angrn.Class A 7 &sp.c. 'Do. do. Class B 6 p.c.... Do. do. Class C 7 p.c.... Coon. Ex. 5 p. c. No.l Do. do. No. 2 Do. New 6 pet ct. stock. Eastern Union, 4 per ct. Do. 5 per cent. guar..., Edin.&G las. sp.c. shares' Do. 4 p. c Fr,ua. S. & D.! Edin. Perth& Dun. 4 p.c.! Furness, 5 per cent ....1 IGlas.& S. West.g.a. 5 p.c.' Greht Northern, 5 p. ct. Fo.sp.c.Redm., 10 p.c.pm 'Do. 41 p. c. do. do. Do. sp.c. fiedm. 5 p.c. pm Nh. of Scotld. Ist pf. Gt. Sn. a W (Trchtnd) 4 p. et. pref. Great West. (Berks and Hants) Ext. 5 p. et 'Co. Redeemable,4a p.et Do. Redeemable : 4 p. et ID° Irredeemable, Do. 5 p.et. Redeem. Prof.' Do. Rirm. Pref. Shares. 1 (34. W. Ches. 8 p.c. pl.sh. Do. do. 5 p. et. pref Do Bi rtntr..mtar. stock Do. Chester ,r.rua. shares Do. do. do. Do. do. do. Lan.&York 6 p. c. stock. Do.Barnal.st.£s 34 104 pc Do. 6 per c. (E. Lan.) .. Lon. ct Brig. 5 pc.gn. No.l Do. 5 p. c. No. 2 Do. Erna. 6 p. c. ,Do. do. 5 p.c. No. 4 do. 44 per cell'. Do. do. 4} p. c. shares Do. 7 p. ct. Pref. stock Do. 6p.c. do. (W.E.ArC.P ) Do.4p.c.S.(div.def. til '65) Lon. Chat. and Dover Lon. and N.W. Coy. and Nuneaton, 5 p. et Lon. & S.W, 7 p. et. stoel Do. 44 per cent ... Do. (Pr r tsm. perpl anns. of 2s. 6d..... ..... ILondondy. & Cole. eh. ILondony. & Ennis. sh.l IMan. Sh. &Lin. 6 per et., 1D0..£6 Do. 31 per cent Do. redeem. 6 per cent Mary , •ort & Car., 4 p. c Do. 41 per cent Mid. Con. 6 p c. stock Do.Con.Bris. & Bir. 6 p.c Do. 41 p. 0. pref. stock Do. with option till 1866 , Do. Leic. & Hit. pref. st. l Norfik 5 p. c. Ex. st. 1846; Do. 51 p. c. Pref. do. 18471 Do.sWay.tial.Ex.st.lB47 North British, 5 p. o Do. New, gna. 5 p. Do. Bor.Un. shs Do. do. do. Nth. Dev.l3 ail. et Dck.Co.l IN-East.Cons.Pret. 4 p. C. Do. Berwick, 4 p.c. Pref.] Do. do. do Do. Leeds, 6 p. a. No. 1 Do. do. Quarters, 1848 Do. York, • . RS. Purch North Staffordshire Rhymney Guaranteed Scottish Central, new p Scottish North-Eastern 14 p. c. pref. stock Do.Aberdeen,gua.6p. Do. 7 p. o. pref. stock South Devon, Ann. 10s, Do. Fixed 44 per cent.' South Eastern (Iteadin Ann., 1.0.6) Do. 44 per cent. Do. Fixed :ip.o. Ist is. , outh Qua. 4 p. c. Do. 44 per cent. S.-Yorkshire, 4 p. c. gua. Stock. Et Dar. A 5 p. c Do. B 6 ner cent Do. C 6 percent Watrfd t Kilkny, 6 p. c W.Mid -Oxf Ist Gua stki Do. 2d do Do. Newport 5 p.c.pf.red. Do.Perpet. 6 p. c. pf 1864 Do. till 1869, Ist is. Do. do. 2d is. 1101 103 2(4 211 6 61 99 101 112 115 106 108 110 112 1108 110 124 126 179 51 1091 9 112 114 90 22 116 118 112 114 104 106 86 88 98 100 98 100 89 91 90 92 101 103 10 10i 174 184 lei 11 76 78 204 214 10i 10f 154 16 138 140 116 118 116 118 138 143 116 118 103 105 X 153 156 130 134 69 71 89 91 118 118 10 155 14 141 70 I 7A Ai I iP, 137 139 102 104 95 97 111 113 110 111 I li p 93 95 IC2 104 IP 23 d p 24 '123 126 130 133 104 11 234 24 102 104 102 104 91 93 100 102 85 88 27i 284 32 33} 32 336 45 48 124 125 120 124 100 102 123 126 116 120 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RE Railways. Bedford and Bletch ley all Ln & NAV .. Ilackinglmnshi re .... 100 iLn &N.W 98 100 ' Chester & Holyhead.. 100 'Do. Do. do. 51 per cent., 100 Do 125 127 Do. do. 5 per cent. 100 I Do. Clydesdale Junction.. 100 l ealedonin 102 104 Colchester, Stour Val. all ,E.U.&B C 16 17 E.lincolnshire,2 - ..6p.c, 100 ,Gt. North. 135 137 E.Union, Harwich Shs all E.Counts. 41 41 Do. Woodbridge ... 100 Gls.Barr.&Neils,Drct. 100 'Ca,ledonin Do. New ... ...... . 100 Do. Gloster. Dean Forest all Gt. West ' Hartl pool. D ck.& Rail. all Yk.N.&l4r; Hull and Selby- ...... all 'YIc.N. Md. Do. 1 Shares ....... ' all 1)0. Do. 1 Shares ....... all Do. ... Lanc.& Carl. gua.s p.c.' 100 a.m.& N.W London & Greenwich 100 8, East Do. Preference .. ...I. 100 Do. Lon.,Tilby.& Soutend.l 100 Tett) &Co Lowestoft, tua. 4 p.M.I 100 ,Do .. Do. 8 per cen t... I 100 , Do Manc,lluxtn. & Matk.; all L NW&M Mid. Bradford P re f er - 1 1 ence Stock ....... i 100 Midland Newmarkt.,Zilaraliteed 5 BuryEx ' f p . c . ; 5. 5 6 E.Counts Northn.& Eastn. 5 p.c.i all Do Do. do. 6 per cent ..... all 'Do. "o • Fixed 5 Per cent.; all Do. North Western ...... 1 all Midland Preston and Wyre. 1 all Lez&LNyWk l a ooo l o l T 8 fr :t n . N . R D 0 0 y . i s t Stares n.l i i te h . .. . .... ........... Shrewsbry& Hereford ort . h. Do. Do ' • 1 1 ... rasseYl South Staffordshire „ all Maclean Wilts and Somerset.. 100 Gt west Wimbledon & Croydn.' all L.& t Bre. 5, -- ; - -;,,,-..... •,--= - - 1041 'TALE. p nid Leasing Closing Business Paid. Co.'s. Price. Done. ;harel Commercial ,I 100 Do. 4 per I lent. Pret.Min., 100 East and Welt Imaia .. 100 London NO . ,St. Katharine... Southampton . ......... 160 , Victori a.. ........ ....... 100 99 101 ID9 I New ~.esioi4 . ol 3 id Par stock stock stock stock stock stock stock Paid. (dosing Price. 100 100 100 16 13 4 , 100 100 100 5 174 all 110 112 '206 210 61 63 115 120 89 91 31 3} 97 99 i ;p 56 58 151 151 ISS 137 1102 105 i 11 11t 90 92 7 i 84 112 11i 12 10511 721 3 2i 1 3 116 k 17 161 116 k 17 991 1001 99} IS 3 I I 40 4 1 104 i 2 2 P 851 15 51 61 Business Done. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 16, 1861. THIRD EDITION. THE BONAPARTE _FAMILY. Paid, Closing Price. I &mimeos done 73 75 91& 92} 2 11 d: 411 sdi A most interesting case will come before the Tri bunal of First Instance at Paris on the 25th of the present month. Madame Bonaparte, first wife of the late Prince Jerome Bonaparte, ex-King of Westphalia and uncle of the Emperor Napoleon, and her son by her marriage with the Prince, claim to inherit their part of the personal property left by the Prince. Madame Bonaparte, who I believe is now in Paris, was, as you are aware, an American lady named Paterson, and the real object of the present suit is to re-establish the perfect legality of her marriage. "By attempts renewed during the last few years," says the printed memoir drawn up by Madame Bonaparte's legal advisers, M. Berryer, advocate, and M. Legrand, avoue, 6 7 75 80 67 72 6S 70 i pr " By means of writings recently published it has been tried to annul the character and validity of the most solemn acts, in spite of the sanction they haVe received and the positive prescriptions of our laws. The best established facts have been denied or misrepresented, and an attempt will be made before the Tribunal to cause the illegal acts of arbitrary power, and the opinions servilely repeated by men without any judicial authority,* to prevail over the fundamental principles of law and of social order " A short sketch of the early career of Jerome Bonaparte is then given. He entered, the naval service in 1803—his brother, the future Emperor, being then lirst Consul—and proceeded from Mar tinique on board of a merchant vessel to the United States. If he were born, as stated, in 1784, he would then have been only 19 years of age ; but from a communication of General Smith, uncle of Miss Paterson, his commission as officer showed him to have been 22. He was introduced in the month of May to the family of Mr. Paterson, " one of the richest and most respectable citizens of Maryland." Jerome became enamoured of Mr. Paterson's daughter, and after some time proposed marriage. After due inquiry as to whether any difficulties, legal or otherwise, existed, the suitor was accepted. Jerome announced to his family in France his approaching marriage. The French Charge d'Affaires to the United States communicated to his Government the particulars of the negotiation, and the despatches containing them are still in the archives of the French Foreign-office. The cere mony took place with great solemnity at Balti more, on the 24th of December, 1803, and the con trat de 7nariage was signed by Jerome, his wife, and his wife's father; and witnessed by Mr. J. Carrol, of Baltimore, by the V ice-Consul of France, by M. de Camus, a French citizen, afterwards Minister of Foreign Affairs in Westphalia ; and by Commodore Barney, of the United States' navy. The ceremony was performed by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Baltimore, who delivered the following certificate : " Baltimore, Dec. 24, 1803. " With licence, I this day united in the holy bonds of marriage, is conformity with the rites of, the Holy Catholic Church, Jerome Bonaparte, brother of the First Consul of France, with Elizabeth Paterson, daughter of William Paterson, Esq., of the City of Baltimore, and of Dorcas Spear, his wife. "1 - J., Bishop of BALTIMORE." This certificate was verified by the French Vice- Consul, Henry Vernet. " Such were the solemnities of the marriage of M. Jerome Bonaparte with Miss Paterson," observes the memoir. " No opposition was sent from France, when the projected union bad been known many months before. The whole year 1804 passed over without protest, or any sign of discontent disturbing the quiet and honour of the Paterson family, or troubling the happiness and mutual affection of the young couple." Railways. Atlantic & St Lawrence Born.,Baroda &.Cent Ind Gu. 5 per cent..... Do, Do. B Buffalo and Lake Huron Do. New Do. Preference, Buffalo,BrantAGodrich 6 p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 Do. do. July 1. 1878 Do. do. June 1, 1874 Clcutta. , tS.Eastn.TLim' Cape,Eastn.Prov. (Lim: Cape Town & Dock Scrip Ceylon Guarantd. 6 p. c Demerara Eastn. Bengal g,u. 5 p. c East Indian, gm 5 p. c. Do. IP Shares Ext Do. Jubbulpore Do. 4i p c. Debentrs Do. 5 p. c. Deb., 1864—i Geelong k Melbourne ' Geelong Corporation 6 per cent. Bonds Grand Trunk of Canada Do. 6 per cent. Pref Do. 6 per ct. Debentr Do. 7 per cent. 1862 Do. do. 1867 Do. do. 1872 Gt. IndiaPenin.gua.sp.c Do. New gua. 5 p. c Gt. South.of India (Lim) guaranteed 5 per cent. Gt. W. of Canada Shares Do. New ....... Do. Bonds pay. '76, with, opt, till '6O Do. do. '73 till '6O. Do. do. '73 without opt. Do. 5i p. c. do. '77 do Madras, guar., 4i p. c Do. do. 5 per cent Do. 4 3 p. c. Extension Do. Fourth do Do. do.. Melb.Corp. 6 g. o. Bnds. Newßrunswick (lc Candal Ry.itLand(Lim.)g.6pe Class A Capital Share Do. do. Land do. IDo. do. B Capital_ d 0... _ IDo. do. Land do. _ Oude (Limited) ........ Scin de .. —... • • • 1 ,i 44 Do. Punjaub .... ge, Do. Do. ........ ce ci Do. Indus. St. Flo. tml St. Andrews & Quebec 2 Trinidad (Lim.) Scrip.. I li 11 d pr 2& 1i d 98 99 974 981 994 1001 21i 221 72 73 43 48 46 48 45 50 45 50 95 96 lid d 2i 11d 10} 101 10 d, 95 100 95 100 93 96 88 92 83 95 92 93 85 87 1f If o 5 7 6 7 97 98 2id lfd —d 92 9i WAYS. 5i 61 — PI 11 lid i 1 1 11 12 3 2FI 2& 211 23 24 Of 6i 74 71 19 20 1W 38 8 9 34i 354 53 65 31 3d 54 5f 8 .1 If 1 d, 11 If d 19 20 5 6 91 f 21 22 .)K BANKS. 84 VI 72 74 19f 20f 5t 63 11 11 - - 221 23 34 35 71 73 40 41 214 224 16} 161 I 22& 23 1361 361 47 48 17i 18i 26 27 'T SECU 103 113 I:10 112 110 112 991 .100 i 107 108 107 108 1051 tOgi 97 99 97 99 96 98 1054 106 k 1107 108 SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock. THE CHESTER CUP. WEIGHTS FOR THE C] THIS DAY, JANUARY st lb .. 9 2 .. 9 0 .. 8 10 .. 8 7 .. 8 7 .. 6 .. 8 5 .. 8 4 .. 8 2 .. 8 2 .. 8 2 .. 8 2 .. 8 2 .. 8 2 .. 8 2 .. 8 0 .. 8 0 .. 8 0 .. 8 0 .. 8 0 .. 7 12 .. 7 12 .. 7 10 .. 7 10 .. 710 .. 7 10 .. 7 10 .. 7 10 .. 7 10 .. 7 10 .. 710 .. 7 10 .. 7 8 .. 7 8 .. 7 8 .. 7 8 .. 7 8 .. 7 8 .. 7 8 .. 7 8 [LESTER CUP, PUBLISHED 16, 1861, AT 11 A.M. Joskin Defender .. Thormanby Sweetsauce Rover.. .. Dulcibella Master Begot Newcastle .. Horror . . High Treason Lovett .. Giovieux Black Prince.. Crater.. .. Wallace .. Mistake .. Rattlebone Schism .. Skilful .. Adam Bede .. Rupee .. Wild Rose .. Starke .. 311 ut t er f 1 v Buwble * Bee Special License Northern Light Weatherbound The Rap .. Appollyon Bevis • • Faultless .. Emblem .. Mons. Phillipe Light • . Physician Volatile .. Umpire Scent • • Stockade .. Bushman .. .. 6 8 Doefoot .. 6 8 Sparrow Hawk .. 6 8 Chere Amie 6 8 Overton .. 6 8 Mimic.. .. 6 8 Damascus .. 6 7 Russley .. .. 6 7 Starlight .. 6 7 Reindeer .. 6 7 Birmingham .. 6 7 Professor Dick .. 6 7 Silver Hair .. .. 6 7 Killigrew .. 6 6 South Australian .. 6 6 King of Kent .. 6 6 Rajah Brooke .. 6 6 Isabella .. 6 6 Precise .. 6 5 Henham Lass .. 6 5 Jealousy .. .. 6 4 Satinstone 6 4 Dreadnought .. 6 4 Danae .. 6 4 Lady Ripon .. 6 4 Voltella .. 6 4 Priestess Colt .. 6 4 Stanton .. 6 4 Yorkminster .. 6 4 Industrious .. 6 4 Elcho .. 6 2 Belleisle .. 6 2 Intimidation filly 6 2 Croagh Patrick .. 6 2 Paul Clifford .. 6 2 Sweet Hawthorn .. 6 2 Ivanhoff 6 2 Herne .. 6 2 Edmund Kean .. 6 0 North Lancashire .. 6 0 Ben Webster 7 8 First Lord 7 8 Satellite .. 7 7 Wildman .. .. 7 7 Simple Simon .. 7 7 Tame Deer .. 7 6 Merrimac .. .. 7 6 King of Diamonds 7 4 Donner and Blitz 7 4 Fitzavon .. 7 4 Gridiron .. 7 4 T. P. Cooke .. .. 6 0 Horace .. .. 6 0 Irish Emigrant .. 6 0 Rara Avis .. .. 6 0 Bridegroom .. .. 6 0 Jacintha .. .. 6 0 Pagoda .. .. 6 0 Sister to St. Albans., 6 0 Black Diamond .. 6 0 Princess Royal .. 6 0 Giraffe .. .. 6 0 ___ Surprise 7 4 Cromwell Rosamond .. 7 4 Juno Oliver 7 2 Pounce Eskdale .. 7 2 Duchess .. Upperhand .. 7 2 Betts .. •• Predictor .. 7 2 Bandsman .. Petra 7 0 Balham Springwell .. 7 0 Morella Coroner .. 7 0 The Rock Pitman .. .. 7 0 Canary .. Forager .. .. 7 0 Pancake .. El Hakim .. 7 0 Somersault .. Man-at-Arms 7 0 Vancouver .. Parmesan .. 7 0 Cashio Yellow Rose .. 7 0 Bravo.. Optimist .. .. 7 0 Snapdragon. 5 9 Mountain Nut 7 0 Acco 6 9 Waterford .. 7 0 East Sheen .. 5 7 The Brewer .. 6 12 Robinson Crusoe 5 7 Syringe .. 6 12 Babette .. .. 5 7 Feodorowna .. 6 12 Lady Evelyn.. 5 7 Guilder .. 6 12 Spanish Fly .. 5 7 Desmond .. 612 Calpe 5 7 General Hess 6 12 WatervrAch .. 5 7 Folkestone 6 12 Pebble 5 7 Millionaire .. 6 12 Arabia 5 7 The Alderman .. 6 12 Blue Stone .. 5 7 Slingsby 6 12 Shepherdess .. 5 7 Sailor .. 6 12 Lady Chesterfield .. 5 7 Wm. the Conqueror 612 Sawcutter .. 5 7 Maid of Chesterfield.. 6 10 La Reux .. 5 7 Byeways .. 6 10 Weatherwitcb. 5 7 Seclusion .. 610 Selina filly 5 7 Mowbray 6 10 Monastery .. 5 7 Conscript .. .. 610 Bally Edmond .. 5 7 Chance Shot .. 6 10 Meyerbeer .. 5 7 Stockton .. 610 Sycophant .. 5 7 The Monk 6 10 Wombat .. 5 7 The Lawyer 6 9 Rapture .. 5 7 Malpas .. 6 8 Venison 5 7 East Stanley .. 6 8 Flirtation .. .. 5 7 Lord Lineoln, Mr. Farrance, Mr. Buchanan, and Mr. S. Lyons did not name. If the highest weight accepting is under Bst 121 b, it will be raised to that,!and the others in proportion. Forfeits to be declared on or before the last Tuesday in January, at 3 p.m. .. 6 12 .. 6 12 5 12 .. 5 12 5 12 .. 5 12 .. 5 10 .. 5 10 .. 5 10 .. 5 10 5 10 .. 5 10 5 10 .. 5 9 .. 5 9 From the above weights it will be seen that Mr. Topham has formed a just estimate of the equivocal performances of Joskin and Mistake (late Earl of Essex) at the latter end of the season. Newcastle, Wallace, Schism, Rattlebone, and Wild Rose, from among the heavy weights, have no reason to complain ; and the same may be said of Eskdale, Gridiron, Forager, Man-at-Arms, and Chere Arnie, in the middle weights ; while Herne, Van couver, Edmund Kean, Snapdragon, Horace, Flir tation and Sycophant will be a good selection from amongst the light weights. lam afraid the backers of The Lawyer and King of Kent will find some difficulty in getting out of their investments. A better handicap has not appeared for some considerable time, and it reflects the greatest credit on the care bestowed in judging the merits of each animal by• Mr. Topham. I heartily wish him a large acceptance. A FRESH MAN. LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.) COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. (Before Justice Blackburn.) COLBURN Y. JONES AND ANOTHER. This was an action on a charter party. Mr. M. Smith appeared for the plaintiffs, and Mr. Prideaux for defendants. Mr. Colburn was the master of a ship called the Martha Whitmore, of Newport, and defendants were merchants at Bristol. On the 25th of April the plaintiffs entered into a charter party with the defendants to proceed after leaving a cargo at Baltimore to a port in New Brunswick, and take in for the charterers a cargo of deals and timber. In the charter party there was a provision that the ship should pay £25 towards the lighterage. The ship proceeded to New Brunswick, and took in the cargo, when Mr. Defreses agent there claimed several sums for carrying out the cargo amounting in all to £125. Carrying !out the cargo meant bringing it out of the country. The condition was that the plaintiff as charterer was liable to pay the whole claims. It was contended by the defendants that the custom of the port was for those charges to be all defrayed by the ship. The defendants had paid £5O into Court to cover the lighterage, but denied their liability for the remainder. The jury gate a verdict for the plaintiffs for £5l Is. 6d. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. The judges in this court were occupied the whole of the morning in hearing the arguments in a very complicated enclosure case. The question involved was whether Lord Portsmouth had the power to enclose 300 acres of land of Anstey Manor, contrary to the wish of a gentleman named Mr. Partridge, who had an interest therein. POLICE IN7E'LLIriENCE—(This Day). MARLBOROUGH-STREET. REFUSAL TO MAINTAIN A WIFE.—ALLEGED ADUL TERY.—John Castelli, of 31, Regent-street, was charged before Mr. Beadon, by the parish authorities of St. James's, with refusing to maintain his wife, and leaving her charge able to the said parish. Mrs. Rosa Castelli said she was the wife of the defend ant, who had left her on the 4th of October last, since which time, till a week ago, she had been in St. James's Workhouse, the defendant only giving her £1 ss. during that time. Mr. Tett, one of the parish officers, said several attempts had been made to find him, and it was only on the previous night that the warrant was served on him in Aldgate. The defendant said his wife was false. Mr. Tett said there was a case depending in the Divorce Court. Mr. Beadon said that was a good reason why he should not interfere. Mr. Tett said he thought the proceedings there would not interfere with those in.the police court. Mr. Bea'lon said he was not going to decide in such a case. The question was what was the nature of the case before the superior court. Mr. Tett said they had no grounds for supposing the charge against the wife was truo. Mr. Beadon said, here was a man who had taken expen sive proceedings in another court, and they could not ex pect him to try a case that was now before Sir Cresswell Cresswell. They could not, before that case was dismissed by the judge, ask to commit the defendant. Mr. Tett said he understood Mr. Lewis, of the Albany court-yard, was the defendant's solicitor, and had the con duct of the proceedings in the Divorce Court. The wife said the proceedings there were stopped—there were no witnesses. Mr. Beadon said the thing was, was the case set down for regular hearing. Mr. Tett said he believed the defendant's brother was paying the expenses, 'and that he lived in Regent-street. The defendant had married the female with the full con viction that ehehad a child at the time, and the female had had one since her marriage to the defendant. She was at the time in business as an eating-house keeper. Mr. Beadon said if the defendant set up adultery, and that was the only thing that he could set up for refusing to maintain his wife, and the judge dismissed the case, he (the magistrate) would have to try the case. The only thing was was the proceeding in that court merely for putting off the evil day, or was it honest. He was sorry the summons had been taken out for refusing to maintain his wife. It should have been for desertion, as he was not in a position to be capable of supporting her. It was a clear case of desertion. The case was ultimately disposed of by the defendant agreeing to allow his wife 7s. a week, the parish consent ing, till the settlement of the case before the Divorce Court. It was only when the First Consul became Em peror, and " when he was preparing for his family the distribution of so many Royal and sudden grandeurs to impose respect and dread of his power on the Sovereigns of Europe," that the marriage of his brother Jerome appeared, in the words of M. Thiers, " opposed in the last degree to his political designs." The Emperor compelled his mother, Madame Letizia, to sign a protest against her son's marriage, as being contracted without her consent previously obtained, and the Emperor himself issued a decree forbidding it to be entered in the register of the offices of State. The memoir shows at some length that all this was of no effect towards annulling the marriage. Meantime Jerome Bonaparte and his young wife left the United States for Europe. They landed at Lisbon. Jerome proceeded to meet his brother, and sent his wife on to Holland, where she was to wait for him. He left Lisbon on the sth of April, 1805, and it was the last time she saw her husband. Several letters from Jerome to his wife are given in the memoir, all breathing the warmest affection, and expressive of the most unshaken fidelity. On the 6th of May, 1805, the Emperor wrote thus to his brother : "Your union with Miss Paterson is null in the eyes of religion and the law. Write to Miss Paterson to return to America. I shall give her a pension of 60,000 f. on con dition that in no case shall she bear my name, to which she has no right, by reason of the non-existence of the union. Inform her, of yourself, that yon have not been able, and that you cannot, change the nature of things." The " nature of things" which Jerome could not change was the elevation of the Bonaparte family to the rank of sovereign families, but of recent date, and subsequent to the marriage. The Emperor addressed at the same time similar injunctions to his brother Lucien (afterwards Prince of Canino), " whose marriage, contracted with Madame Jouberton some years previously, seemed also disfigured by the same tnesalliance in the eyes of the triumphant man who had just added to the title of Emperor of the French that of King of Italy." Lucien received a letter, declaring that "Madame Lucien would never be recognised by the Emperor, because her son might be called to in herit the throne, and the Emperor owed it to the dignity of his crown not to expose this immense inheritance to the issue of a marriage contracted against his will." Lucien was not the man his brother took him for; to his threats he answered as follows : " You conclude by tracing out for me the line of conduct I ought to pursue—viz., to destroy the contract which has united us for the last three years—to bring back to Paris my wife changed into a concubine ; to separate my daughters from their mother, who have found in her their parent ; to acknowledge my two children illegitimate. And you call that a simple preceeding I And you think that after having divided a poor family, dishonoured my wife, disinherited my children—that after having deprived them of their name and their position, which isno longer mine, but theirs, I should find compensation for so ranch baseness in the graces and favours which you say would enable my illegi timate children to live honoured and happy I Sir, I respect in you the organ of the Emperor. Know, however, that rather than descend to such infamy I would immolate my son and my daughter with my own hand. . . . More over—l am again writing to his Majesty—excepting the sacrifice demanded of me, I am ready to make all others that may be thought useful to France. My dignities belong to the Emperor. The choice of tho place of my retreat be longs to him. When he commands me to change it I will obey without a murmur ; if he requires it I will quit Europe, but I will not quit my wife and children except with my life. "Pesaro, May 25, 1805. " LUCIEN BONAPARTE." Lucien refused to separate from his wife ; she survived him, and their affection remained unal tered to the last. Meantime Madame Jerome Bonaparte continued to receive from her husband the same affectionate letters as before. The Emperor next addressed himself to the Pope (Pius VII.) and demanded a bull annulling the marriage of his brother Jerome. He' descended to wilful mis-statements of the case. Fol.- instance, he said that Jerome had been only on month in America when he married ; whereas he arrived in May, and married on the 24th DeceLuber. He alleged scruples of conscience, on the ground that Miss Paterson was a Protestant ; " and," he said, " it was important to France that a Protestant girl should not be near the Emperor ;" whoreas, the Princess of Wurtemberg, whom Jerome afterwards married, at the instance of his brother, was a Pro testant. The Pope refused to annul the marriage. " If we usurped an authority,' he said, which we do not possess, we should become guilty of a most abominable abuse before God's tribunal and the whole Church; and your Majesty, in your justice, would not wish us to pro nounce a judgment contrary to the testimony o f our con science and the invariable principles of the Church. Again an attempt was made to extort the bull, and again the Pope refused. Madame Jerome Bonaparte, who was ignorant of what was going on against her, proceeded to * Thin alludes to what is called the Conseil de Famille the members of which, according to the memoir, were MAL Abbatucci, Fould, Troplong, de Moray, Baroche, ano General grnano. all all all all 100 100 100 all 100 all 1100 10 all 100 FOREIGN RAM Antwerp dL Rotterdam) rdennes ........... p.c. :Belgian East. Junction, IBeziers to Graissessac.. iCso — neaux Mine a Rai ' Cs' .........t..... Ditto Extension ... ,Dutch Rhenish ....... !Eastern of France. Grand Rus. Guar. 6 p. c. ' Do. do. Great Central of France Gt. Luxem., Con. ells— Italian Junction Lake Constance & Bale Lierre & Turnhout Lyons & Geneva Maria Antonia Do. New ..... ..... Namur & Liege Do. 6 p. c. Pref. Northern of France... Do. New Shares Norwegian Trunk Pref 'aris,Lyons, & Mediter arts & Orleans ecife & S. Fran. (Pern ) gua. 7 p. ct. lim 'Riga & Dunaburg ;Rome & Frascati IRoyal Danish.. .. 'Royal Swedish !Do. 7 per eent. Pref. 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(Lim ) 100 130 140 R , 5 ,South Australian Land all 34 36 1 Submarine Tel. Scrip., all 4 1 i Do. do. Registered. 10 Do. do ' all 5 , 7 20 Tr. & Ln. Caoflipr.Can ! 5 64 .. 100 VanDiemen'oLand.o , 28 9 10 Share' Paid.' Closing Business Price. Done B 981 8 f 7i 22 1I I 72 45 gs} 5 100 100 all all all all all 100 162 17 MEN' ,ITIES. 99j 100 st lb land, and there, on the 7th of July, 1805, gave birth to a son, the party to the present - suit. Certificates of his birth and baptism are all given in fell in the memoir. Madame Bonaparte remained in London until November, 1805, where she continued to receive the same affectionate letters from her hus band. But she grew tired of the solitude in which she was left, and, finding her position embarrassing, she resolved to return to America, which she did in November, 1805. Not long after this the letters of Jerome to his wife became less affectionate. The memoir explains 1 this change : 1 " Since the Treaty of Peace of Presburg the Electro, Duke of Wurtemberg, had obtained with the title of King considerable territorial aggrandisement, and the hand of his daughter, now become Princess Royal, was already destined for the'youngest of his (the Emperor's) youngest brothers. Was Jerome ignorant of these projects when on the 20th of Jute, 1806, he wrote from Martinique to his wife a letter reproaching her for having left Holland ?" This letter was of evil omen. The reproach of having left Holland was most unjust on the part of one who, having brought his wife from the United States to Europe, had abandoned her at Lisbon ; had told her to repair to Amsterdam; and soon after ordered her to return to America. On the 17th of July, 1806, he addressed his last letter to" Madame Bonaparte, at Baltimore ;" it made no announce ment of the 'project of his brother; it contained commonplace compliments, and consisted of four or five lines. On the Ist of June, 1806, an act was prepared which the memoir describes as " a melancholy monument of the vices engendered by the servile weakness and the guilty condescension of ecclesi astical authorities to the exactions of a Govern ment. This was a sentence issued by the Arch bishop of Paris annulling the marriage of Jerome with Miss Paterson, an act which the head of the Church to which the Archbishop belonged had previously and repeatedly resisted as illegal aid opposed to the dogmas of the Church. The Arch bishop had the baseness to declare " that there was no marriage contracted between the minor Jerome and Elizabeth Paterson; that the alleged marriage was null and clandestine, having taken place with out the publication of banns, without the consent of the minor's mother, from which there resulted a presumable rapt de seduction, without the presence of a proper priest,* in a foreign country, &c." The Emperor baying at last persuaded the King of Wurtemberg and the Emperor of Russia that his brother was free to contract a new union, Jerome was married on the 12th of August, 1807, to the Princess Frederica Catherine of Wurtemberg, and in December of the same year was proclaimed King of Westphalia. In May, 1808, Jerome sent a person to the United States to claim his son and bring him to France. From the letter which he wrote to his father-in-law, Mr. Paterson, it appeared what little value he set on the acts which annulled his Ameri can marriage. In it he spoke of giving his son the position "suitable to his birth and rank ;" bringing him up in the rank which belongs to him, he should thus . diminish the grief he felt at being far from his mother, and repair all the evil which the great political interests he was bound to respect had done us," &c. In a letter to his wife of the same date he says he " counts upon a more happy future," and " nothing will ever make me forget the bonds which unite me to you, and the tender attachment which I have vowed to you for life." Madame Bonaparte refused to part with her child. Another long letter is given, dated Cassel, the 22d November, 1808, from Jerome, now King of Westphalia, to his American wife, in which he pro poses to give her for her residence and that of his son " a noble palace, comfortable and in every respect worthy of you, at Smalcalden, about 30 leagues from Cassel," and also " the title of Prince and Princess of Smalcalden, for you and your son, with a yearly revenue of 200,000 francs." He also wrote to his son, who was then only three years old. Madame Bonaparte refused to answer his letters, and rejected his offers. Three years passed without any further corre spondence. In Februay, 1812, Jerome again wrote to his wife anti son, and assured the farmer that " sooner or later all would be arranged." Un changed by the assurance "that all would be ar ranged sooner or later," M2dame Bonaparte treated his letters in the same manner; she refused to answer them. But the next step she took was to demand from the tribunals of her own country a divorce from the husband who had abandoned and repudiated her. She was divorced a vincula tnatri ',lona in January, 1813, by an act passed in the House of Representatives and Senate of Maryland, "reserving her own rights and those of her son." In 1819 she came to Europe, and was received with much cordiality by the members of her hus band's family. Joseph, the elder brother of the Emperor, proposed to give his daughter in mar riage to Madame Bonaparte's son. The Princess Catherine of Wurtemberg and Madame Letizia. the mother of the Emperor, highly approved the project. Many letters are given in the memoir from the various members of the Bonaparte family, all couched in affectionate terms, and all recognising the relationship of Madame Bonaparte and her son, as if nothing had occurred. The marriage did not take place with his cousin, the daughter of Joseph. M. Jerome Bonaparte visited Italy in 1827, and was received in the same affectionate manner by his grandmother, aunts, uncles, and cousins, as proved by the ample correspondence contained in the memoir. He returned to America and married in 1829. He received letters of congratulation from all his relations. Madame Letizia, his grand mother, wrote thus : " Nov. 10, 1829. "My dear Son,—l have heard with pleasure of your marriage, as the person you have chosen possesses all the ad vantages one could desire. I earnestly pray that you may be happy in the union you contract, and if my blessing can contribute to it it will be complete and lasting. I beg of yo* to present. my affectionate wishes to your betrothed, though I have not the pleasure of knowing her. Your father is still in the country ; he will not return before the 15th. He is well, as also your brother and your sister (the present Prince Napoleon and Princess Mathilde), I em brace you tenderly. " Your affectionate mother, " MADAME." Similar letters of congratulation were addressed to M. Jerome Bonaparte on the birth of a son in 1831. The Princess Mathilde, daughter of the ex-King of Westphalia, was married in 1840 to M. Anatole Demidoff. Her brother, Prince Napoleon, lost no time in informing M. Jerome Bonaparte of the event, and he concludes in these words : " 1 embrace you, dear Jerome, as also your wife and child, and I am for life your devoted brother and friend, " NAPOLEON BONAPARTE." M. Demidoff also informed him of his marriage with his sister, the Princess Mathilde; the wife of Joseph, ex-King of Spain (then known as Count de Survilliers) did the same; and the Princess Mathilde herself wrote as follows : " Nov. 17, 1840. "My dear Brother,—l believe you will learn with all the interest of a sincere friendship the conclusion of my mar riage. My new condition realizes all the ho p es which I had anticipated. But, while lam happy, lam not the less at tached to all the affectionate sentiments which I pro before my marriage, and you know, my dear Jer ve my affectionateome, what a share you have in my affections. Gi com pliments to my sister-in-law, though I have not th e pleasure of knowing her; assure her of my affection for her. A thousand compliments from the Baroness. 4 , Your most affectionate sister, " MATHILDE. "Kiss my little nephew for me." When Princ e Louis Napoleon went to America after th e affair" of Strasburg, M. Jerome Bonapazte offered him his house as a residence. The Prince (the present Emperor) replied : My dear Couoin,—la a month I begin my journey to the interior. The first thing I mean to do is to pay you a visit. I remember with pleasure the time we passed together at Rome and Florence. " Farewell, my dear cousin; receive the assurance et' my friendship, "LOUIS NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.,, On the Ist of January, 1853, M. Bonaparte con gratulated his cousin on his becoming Emperor— " on the foundation of his success—namely, the * The Emperor had falsely stated to the Pope, when trying to extort the bull, that his brother's marriage was performed by a Spanisll , priest, whereas the celebrant was the itoman. Catholis Bishop of Baltimore. will of the people as expressed by universal suf frage." The Emperor replied : "My Cousin,—Notwithstanding the distance, and a very long separation, I have never doubted the heartfelt interest with which you folluwed all the chances of my destiny. I have felt great pleasure in the letter which brings me your congratulations. I thank you for them. The news you give me of the vocation of your son for the military career, and of his entering a regiment of Carabineers, has not been less agreeable to me. 'When eireumstanc3s permit I shall be, believe me, most happy to see you. Whereupon, my cousin, I pray God to have you in his holy keeping.— Written at the Palace of the Tuileries, Feb. 9, 1853. "NAPOLEON." M. Bonaparte came to France in June, 1854. On his arrival in Paris he received, through the Mini ster of State, an invitation to dine at St. Cloud, where the Court then was. The invitation was ad dressed to Prince Jerome. The moment he entered the Palace the Emperor handed him a declaration, drawn up by M. Abbatucci, Minister of Justice, M. Troplong, President of the Senate, and M. Baroche, President of the Council of State, setting forth that "M. Jerome Bonaparte is to be considered in France as legitimate ;" that " he is French by birth, and, if he has lost the character, a decree can restore it to him in virtue of the 18th clause of the Civil Code." In a short time M. Bonaparte perceived that his presence in Paris and the kindness of the Emperor towards him excited certain discontent elsewhere. He informed the Emperor of the fact, and received from his Majesty the following letter : "Mr dear Cousin,—l have received your two letters. I had already received one from my uncle Jerome, who told me that he would never consent to your remaining in France. I replied, that as the French laws recognize you as legi timate, I could not do otherwise than acknowledge you as a relation, and that if your position in Paris was embarassing it was for you alone to judge of that—that Napoleon, if he conducted himself well, had nothing to apprehend from family revelations, &c. You must, with out irritating your father, continue to follow the course which you have proposed to yourself. I will write to-mor row to Fould about the arrangements we agreed on. " Compliments to Jerome, and believe in my sincere friendship. "NAPOLEON:. On the 17th of April, 1855, M. Bonaparte, being then at Baltimore, received from M. Fould, Minis ter of State, a letter announcing to him that on his return to France he was to assume the title of Duke de Sartene (a town in Corsica), "to put an end to difficulties which you are aware of;" and also that it was the Emperor's intention that his son should bear the title of " Count de Sartene." This proposition was rejected. Prince Napoleon and his sister, the Princess Mathilde, then demanded of the Emperor and the Conseil de Familla, that " NM. Paterson (Mr. Jerome Bonaparte and his son) should not exercise any of the rights which belong exclusively to the legitimate issue, and that consequently M. Jerome Paterson and his descendants should be prohibited from bearing the name of Bonaparte." The Con seil de Famine decided in favour of their bearing the name of Bonaparte, but decided illegally, as the memoir maintains, that they should not have the right to avail themselves of the benefit of the 201st and 202 d articles of the ( ode Napoleon relating to succession. The Conseil de Famille was composed of• MM..Abbatucci, Fould, Troplong, De Moray, Baroche, and Orrano. The point is argued at some length in the memoir. On the 10th of November, 1855, Marshal Pelis sier, at his head-quarters before Sebastopol, named "M. Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte" lieutenant in the 7th Dragoons, Knight of the Legion of Hon our. This nomination was confirmed on the 24th of the same month. But on the 13th of June, 1856, a letter of permission to wear the decoration of the Medjidie of Turkey was addressed to M. Bonaparte, jun., as M. Bonaparte Paterson." This permission, granted to him under a name which was not his proper designation, was not accepted. At the same time, the proposition of the Dachy of Sartene was renewed to M. Bonaparte, the father. Under these circumstances the latter addressed the following letter to the Emperor, dated July 25, 1856 : Sire,—l received the enclosed from my son a few days ago. I kept it to reflect on its contents before I should send it to your Majesty. It breathes the sentiments of honour in which my son was brcught up, and I pray yoUr Majesty to grant his request. It is no real dishonour to a man to be born a bastard and in accepting the consequences. Had I been in that category I should have long since accepted, with gratitude, the offers which which your Majesty con descended to make me. But as I was legitimately born— and as I have always been acknowledged as such by my family, by the laws of all countries, and by the whole world, it would be the extreme of baseness and dishonour on my part to accept a brevet of bastardy. I did not raise the ques tion, neither do I fear it. And if the family council (em s& de famine) has rendered an illegal and unjust decision, it at least stopped short of depriving me of the name I bore from my birth to the 50th year of my age, - without its ever having been contested. " The object and the victim of intrigues, calumnies, and falsehoods, it only remains for me, Sire, to repeat the prayer I addressed to your Majesty in my letter of the 20th of March, to go with my son and wait in exile that justice which I am convinced Heaven reserves for me, sroner or later, and to request that your Majesty will be pleased to grant me an audience to take your orders for the future. "J. N. BONAPARTE." The memorial concludes by praying the tribune to order that an inventory be taken of the property left by his Imperial Highness Prince Jerome, and that a partition be made of it : " On this demand, which must be admitted in any case, M. Bonaparte will be able to maintain the legitimacy of his filiation and to repel any exception on the ground that ths affair has been already decided, which might be pleaded. As for Madame Elizabeth Paterson, who has taken no part in anything that has passed since the birth of her son, and against whom to this day no direct attack has ever been attempted, with whom it cannot be alleged that any deci sion, legal or not, has been pronounced, she will vindicate the honour of her maternity, she will prove the validity of her marriage, and she will claim all the rights which accrue to her from the contract which preceded it. Now that there is an interest created and present in the discus sion, and for the trial of the questions which this great cause may give rise to, French magistrates holding the code of laws in their han'ls, and maintaining all the dignity of their independence, will not make the holy authority of marriage, and the sacred and legitimate rights of a family, established for more than half a century, give way to the ephemeral necessities of policy, or to the arbitrary and capricious desires of absolute power, or to the illegal complacency of its servants. " BERRYER, Advocate. " M. LEGRAND, Avoui." It is difficult to exaggerate the importance of this case, for on the decision of the tribunals will depend the legality of the first, or of the second marriage. IBIS DAY'S SHIPPING. LONDON, Jan. 16.—Wind this day at noon—North- Easterly ; strong breeze and fine weather, with sharp frost. SUNDERLAND, Jan. 15: .Win S.E.—Arrived—Jersey, from Demerara. DOVER, Jan. 15.—Wind 8.- -- Artived — Jeraeke Hen. drika, from Buenos Ayres. 15.—Wind N.B.—Sailed-31011M PILL, Jan. 15.—Wind strong , —Sailed--Rhea Sylvia, for Canterbury, N. 4 TE, Jan. for flhlboa. PoßTsmoirra, Jan. 1 5.--Wind E., blowing hard.— Arrived—Lucknow, from Shanghae, with loss of maintop.. sailyard. N i s t E e vr l P for ° Jamaica. RT'janS.E.—Arrived — Rolf, from B r CARDIFF, Jan. 16.—Wind N.E.—Saied—Padarn, for Bilboa. SWANSEA., Jan. 15.—Wind E., strong—Sailed—Dol.. phin, for Pernambuco. (11Y ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday Morning. Arrived, Jan. 15—Alexander the Second, from Messina; Alliance, steamer, from Havre ; Emily, from Belfast. Sailed—Courier, steamer, for Havre. (BY SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning. No arrivals. DE&L, Wednesday Morning. No arrivals. Paris to-day (says a letter of Sunday) might be St. Petersburg, so intensely cold is the wind, which now and then brings us showers of hard, frozen snow. During the last week crowds have flocked to the Bois de Boulogne —foot passengers by thousands, carriages by hundreds; all the fashionable world of Paris, including the Emperor and Empress, have visited the artificial waters of our parks, the Emperor occasionally skating. It is the fashion here for skaters to drive before them an iron chair or sledge, in which reposes a lady in solemn grandeur, richly muffled up, according to the Russian fashion. 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