The Sun. — London, England, 1863-02-11 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. MIDLAND. The directors state in their report that the re ceipts, compared with those of the corresponding half-year of 1861, under the several heads, are as follow :—From coaching, £424,110, showing an increase of £18,889 ; from minerals, £243,356, show ing a decrease of £7,355; from merchandize, £155,195, showing an increase of £18,361 ; from cattle, £18,360, showing an increase of £978; the result of the whole being an increase of £30,873. The balance available to dividend is £408,734, of which £2,081 is brought from the account of the previous half-year; and the directors are enabled to recommend the declaration of the following divi dends (less income-tax), payable on the 2d of March next :—£3 ss. upon each £lOO Consolidated Stock ; £2 lls. 3d. upon each £lOO Consolidated Birming ham and Derby Stock ; £3 upon each £lOO Conso lidated Preferential Stock; £3 ss. upon each £lOO Consolidated Erewash Valley Stock ; £2 ss. upon each £lOO Consolidated 41 per cent. Preferential Stock; £2 upon each £lOO Leicester and Hitchin Preferential Stock; ss. upon each £lOO Cense- Edited Irredeemable 41 per cent, Preferential. Stock ; 2s. lid. upon each £6 4s. share, being half year on £2 145., and 75 days on £1 10s, per share, at £6 lOs per cent. per annum, leaving a balance of £4,186 for the current half-year. The remainder of the £6 4s. shares left unallotted in the hands of the company have been soli during the half-year, and the premiums realised upon the sale, amount ing to £1,063, placed to the credit of the insurance fund, which now amounts to £55,363. Mr. Kid ley reports—" That the rolling stock is in good working order, and that, during the half-year end ing the 31st of December, 1862, the mileage per formed by trains has been as follows—With pas senger trains, 2,106,959 miles; with goods and mineral trains, 2,279,534 miles; total, 5,086,493 miles ; which, compared with the corresponding period of last year, show an increase with the passenger trains of 274,485 miles, and with goods and mineral trains of 236,005 ; total in crease, 510,690. The renewals of locomotive stock for the half-year have been twelve engines, 13 carriages, 17 break-vans, 8 horse boxes, 4 car riage trucks, and 138 waggons, the entire cost of which has been charged to revenue." The works of the Rowsley and Buxton line have progressed to the satisfaction of the engineer ; the tunnels and other heavy portions are well advanced, and the directors expect that the line will be ready for traffic on the first of June next. The contract for the Whitacre and Nuneaton line was let in November last, and the works have been commenced; the period for completion stipulated in the contract is the Ist of July, 1864. A contract for the construc tion of the Ashchnrch & Evesham Railway has also been let, and the directors expect the line will be completed in the course of the present year. After mature deliberation the directors have arrived at the conclusion that it is now necessary to provide an independent access for the great and rapidly inereas ing traffic to and from the metropolis. The occupa tion for this purpose of the district lying between the Great Northern and London and North Western Railways, by an extension of the Midland Railway, will at the same time be attended with much local as well as general public convenience. The neces sary steps have accordingly been taken for promot ing a bill in the present session of Parliament to enable the company to construct a railway from Bedford, by way of Ampthill, Luton, and St. Albans to London. The length of railway and branches to be made is 51i miles, and the estimates cost £1,750,000. The directors have, with the assent of th 3 directors of the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company, introduced a bill to effect a junction be tween the Bristol and Birmingham line and that of the Bristol and Exeter Railway in the city of Bristol, and also to enter into agreements with that company to lay down additional lines of railway on the narrow gauge between the point of junction and the passenger and goods stations of the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company at Bristol, and for the use of those stations by the Midland Company. The estimated cost of the line and works is £15,000. 'lnB u lreu"'"" - t4acuaucea o LILA.. Alfa ..a.-- abiing the Midland Railway Company to construct a branch to connect the town of Barnsley, and the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway at Barnsley, with the Midland Railway near the Cudworth Station. It is about 41 miles in length, and the estimated cost £78,278; also a branch to connect the town of Wirksworth and the Cromford, and High Peak Railway with the Midland Railway at Duffield. Its length will be 91 miles, and the estimated cost £59,636. A line from Staveley to the Doe Lea Valley ; length about 5 miles ; esti mated cost £27,990. This branch will connect the Midland Railway with a very large and valuable coalfield for which the proprietors are desirous to find an outlet. The directors believe it will bring a con siderable increase of traffic to the main line, and prove in other respects advantageous to the company. The directors are also the promoters of a bill, jointly - with the Furness Railway Company, for the con struction of a railway to be called the " Furness and Midland Railway," for the purpose of connecting the coast railways of Cumberland and Westmore land and the Lake District, with the Midland Rail- way, by a line commencing at Carnforth and termi nating at or near Wennington, on the Little North Western Railway. The line is about 10 miles in length, and the estimated cost £150,000, of which the Midland Company is to contribute one-half. The new railways and works authorised by Parliament in the sessions of 1861 and 1862 having been com menced, it has now become necessary to raise capi tal under the provisions of the following Acts of Par liament, or some of them—namely, the Midland Railway (New Lines) Act, 1861, £390,000 ; Addi tional Powers Act, 1861, £100,000; the Otley and Ilkley Extension Act, 1861, 1150,000: the Rowsley and Buxton Extension Act, 1862, £380,000 ; the Ad ditional Powers Acts, 1862, £120,000. The shares to be created under the Acts of 1861 will be of £5 each, and those under the Acts of 1862 of £4 each, and such shares are to be entitled to a preferential dividend at the rate of £5 per centum per annum, payable half-yearly, the firat payment to be for the half-year ending the 31st of December, 1865, and to be paid with the dividends of the ordinary stock of the company. LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE. The report of the directors states that the amount of cspital chargeable to revenue on Dec. 31, 1862, exclusive of leased lines, is as follows:—Con solidated stock, £12,093,594 ; guaranteed and pre ference stock, £2,758,385 ; ard loans, £4,619,614 ; total, £19,471,593. The expenditure on capital account for the half sear amounts to £126,038. Tho total traffic receipts for the half year ending Dec. 31:amount to £903,991 against £982,760 for the corresponding period of 1861, showing a de crease of 178,779. Tho total expenses amount to 1.,3(39,41.1 for the past half year against £430,518 for the corresponding period of 1861, showing a decrease of £31,107. The balance of revenue appli eible to th e payment of dividend on the ordinary suck of the company is £57,372, cut of which the directors recom mend the proprietors to declare a dividend at the ra t e of 4 per cent. per annum, less income tax, leaving a b a l ance of £15,500 for the ne xt account. The co n ti nuance of the American civil war has had a most depressing effect upon the reve nue of the company, the receipts having fallen o ff £78,769 below those of the corresponding half 3 car, although that half year showed nearly £49,000 less than the same period of 1860. It is satisfactory, however, to the directors to observe indications of a gradual improvement in the future revenue of the company. The working ex penses have been consi derably reduced ; but among other things the in crease of the charge for rates and taxes, consequent upon the distress in the cotton manufacturing dis tricts, has caused them to be heavier than was ex pctcd. The Yelling stock and the permanent ray of the company are reported to be in good order and condition. In future, or until the proprietors may otherwise determine, the renewal account will be closed each year, a sum of, say £15,000 or £20,000 being charged to revenue in the first and the balance in the second half year's accounts. The directors expect that the Oldham, Rochdale, and Royton line railway will be opened for traffic ir. July next. The directors have for some time past been engaged in purchasing the property required for the via duct from Salford to Victoria Station, and intend to proceed with the execution of the works without delay. The works upon the branches to Dewsbury, Heckmondwike, Aleltham, and Shawforth, for which Acts were obtained in the year 1861 and 1862, will be gradually proceeded with, so that, while meeting the public requirements, the expen diture upon them may be as little burdensome to the proprietors as possible. The directors have consi dered it their duty again to deposit plans for mak ing a more direct railway between Doncaster and Hula; the North-Eastern and South Yorkshire Companies have also deposited plans with a similar object. Ever since the last session of Parliament the directors have laboured most earnestly to effect an arrangement by which another costly Parlia mentary contest would be avoided, and they have now every reason to believe that such an arrange ment will be concluded. The directors regret to find that they are to be called upon again to defend the interests of the compsny from attack in Pailia ment. New lines are proposed in Lancashire and Yorkshire not required for the public convenience; and measures are again to be submitted to Parlia ment injurious to the cc,mpany's property, and of which the Legislature has already expressed its dis approval. Looking at the cost of these contests, the directors will gladly avoid them in every in stance where such a course is practicable. NOTTINGHAM AND GRANTHAM. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held at Grantham on Monday. Mr. J. Wyles pre sided. Mr. Gough, the secretary, read the report, which stated that the balance to credit of capital account at the last meeting was £8,781, and £256 calls then unpaid, amounting together to £9,037, had been paid over to the Great Northern Railway Company, thus closing the capital account. The balance of revenue from the preceding account was £ll9. This sum, added to the half-year's rental from the Great Northern Company, with transfer fees, &c., deducting the cost of management, enabled the directors to propose a dividend of £2 Os. 6d. per cent. for the half-year, payable on the 16th inst., and the future half-yearly dividends would be of similar amounts. The CHAIRMAN moved the adoption of the re port, which was seconded by Mr. BEASLEY, and unanimously carried. The CHAIRMAN then moved that a dividend at the rate of £2 Os. 6d. per cent. be declared out of the net profits of the undertaking, and that the same be paid on the 10th February. The motion was carried, and a vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the proceedings. LONDONDERRY AND ENNISKILLEN. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yesterday at the office, Coleman-street-build ings, Moorgate-street, Mr. H. Laver in the chair. The report, an abstract of which has appeared in The Sun, was taken as read. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, expressed his regret at the absence, from illness, of Mr. J. Clay, the chairman of the com pany. With regard to the traffic, he remarked that the Dundalk and Enniskillen Company completed their junction with the Londonderry and Enniskil len Railway at the latter place in 1869, in which year the gross traffic of the two companies amounted to £80,520. In 1860 the Dundalk and Enniskillen Company (now the Irish North-Western) leased the Londonderry and Enniskillen Railway on certain terms, and the gross traffic receipts on the two lines amounted in that yea: to £87,173; in the year 1861 they amounted to £90,987 ; and although he ' could not tell the exact amount of the gross receipts for the past year until they got the report of the leasing company, he believed the amount for 1862 to be about £92,200. He thought that those figures showed a favourable progress, particularly when it was considered that they had had a succession of very indifferent harvests. As the Finn Valley line would be opened next month, and the works on the Bundorah line were progressing favourably, he thought they had a right to expect a great increase opened opened for traffic. The only outstanding liabilities were in respect of land, and he was glad to say that the solicitor of this company expected that they would be all closed in the course of six months. They had found no difficulty in converting the com pany's debentures as they fell due into debenture stock, which he thought would be considered satisfactory by the proprietors. They bad received some compensation from the Londonderry and Cole raine Company for conducting their business in the offices of the company. Capt. WARREN seconded the motion for the adop tion of the report. Mr. HEMMING thought it reasonable to expect from the development of traffic some increase in the rent after the end of the next 12 months, which would enable them to pay off the arrears on the pre ference shares and the remaining liabilities of the company more rapidly than heretofore. An increase of only £6,000 a year in the gross receipts of the two companies over and above £95,000 would enable them to pay off 1 per cent, of the arrears, The CHAIRMAN explained that under the lease the company were to receive £26,000 a year for three years from 1860, and after the end of that period they were to receive in addition 20 per cent. of the receipts of the gross receipts above £95,000 a year, until they got a net sum of £33,000 a year, which would pay 5 per cent. on the whole of their share capital. The report was then unanimously adopted; and formal resolutions were passed declaring the full dividends on the 5 per cent. preference B stock, and on the 6 per cent. guaranteed A stock, for the past half-year, payable on the 17th inst. ; and also at the rate of 1 per cent. per annum on account of arrears due on £247,737, stock B, on the 28th inst., the usual indemnity being given to the directors in respect of the payment of arrears. A vote of thanks to the chairman and directors terminated the proceedings. MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, & LINCOLNSHIRE, The total expenses of this company's railways, including rents, tolls, duty, &c., from the Ist Jan. to the Ist Feb., 1863, amounted to £27,901, as against £27,792 for the corresponding period of 1862, The proportion of the South Junction receipts accruing to this company from the Ist Jan. to the Ist Feb. amounted to £2,533 as against £2,408 for the corre sponding period of 1862, and the expenses to £1,093 as against £1,052. The total receipts, including rents &c., of this company's canals from the Ist Jan. to the 31st Jan. amounted to £4,949 as against £4,984 for the corresponding period of 1862, and the expenses to £4,157 as against £4,269, leaving a balance of net profit of £792 as against £715 for the corespond ing period of 1862. RAILWAY BILLS. Yesterday the standing orders were complied with in the following cases :—Great Northern, to make arrangements with respect to the Cheshire Midland, and other lines in Cheshire Midland, and other lines in Cheshire, and to raise £220,000; the London, for power to extend the Pimlico Railway to Chel sea and Kensington, and to raise £700,000; Nor wich and Spalding, to enable the Great Northern to work and lease it; Andover and Redbridge, to transfer the line to the London and South Western Railway; Leominster and Kington, to enter into w'sking arrangements and lease or sell their line to the Great Western and West Midland; West Mid land, for a branch in Glamorganshire, to relinquish the Stratford and Moreton Railway, and raise £150,000 ; Ilfracombe, f or th e cons t ruc ti on o f this line at an es t ima t e d cos t of £170,000; Great Eastern, for an extension between Chatteris and Ramsey, and to raise an additional sum of £53,000 ; Northum berland Central, extensions from the Wansbeck Railway to the Berwick and Kelso branch of the North Eastern and p a n t r calina s to . the Coldstream-bridge over the Tweed, e n strated outlay of £260,000 ; Milford, to compani es complete works, and arrange with oth er ; London, Tilbury, and Southend, for arrangeme n t s with ß. London and Black wall and Great East er n Channel Docks, at an estimat e d cost a n t i ? Port 29s 000. and The non -compliances were the Midl and, for, new lines and additional powers, and the Albert Station and Mid-London Railway. rHE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 11, 1863. son who gave the name of Musselbrook, and paid him £5 Ils. Id. for it. He did not remember what the gold consisted of, nor did he remember the person of the prisoner. He had no recollection of purchasing a gold medal, or the gold knobs of two canes. The Assistant-Judge said it seemed a most extraordinary way of conducting this business, for the entries in the book conveyed no information whatever as to the nature of the articles. He wanted to know whether, being gold and silver refiners, they always kept their fires lighted: The witness said they did. The Assistant Judge remarked that afforded a sufficient explanation why the articles could not be traced, and he could only tell the witness that if he went on in that way he would soon have to take the place of the prisoner in the dock. He would warn him to be very careful in future, or he would find the consequences would be most serious to him. He then sentenced the prisoner to be kept to hard labour for two years. Henry Bell, 19, tailor, was indicted for unlawfully as saulting and wounding Luke Rogers. Mr. Platt prosecuted; Mr. Ribton defended the prisoner. It appeared that prosecutor and prisoner were together in the Freetrader beershop, Stepney, on the night of the 6th January. The prisoner and his companions called him bad names. The prosecutor pushed the prisoner away, when he drew from his pocket some sharp instrument, with which he stabbed him two or three times in the face. A person named Wood, who was standing by at the time, witnessed the prisoner stabbing at the prosecutor with a pair of scis sors, and on the previous night the prisoner had been heard threatening to use the scissors if anything was done to him. The prisoner was found guilty of a common assault. The Assistant Judge sentenced him to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for two months. (Before Mr. Payne.) 'William Johnson, 33, was indicted for stealing 10 fowls, value 25s , the property of Rhoda Lee. It appeared from the evidence that on the evening of the 24th January, as Police-constable Burch, 257 K, was pass ing the rear of the Excavator beershop, in Devon's-lane, Bromley, he saw nine dead fowls lying on the ground, and one dead fowl in the pocket of a jacket which was lying close by. The prisoner was found in a publichouse without a jacket, and a short time before the fowls were found he had been seen near to the spot where the fowls were kept. The owner of the fowls spoke to him and asked him what he was doing there, and he replied that he was looking for an old sweetheart. The jacket was identified as belonging to the prisoner, and a young man named Robert Pearman, a blacksmith, proved that the prisoner had offered to sell the jacket to his uncle for 2s. The jury found the prisoner guilty. Alfred Higham, 400 K, said he had the prisoner in cus tody on the 19th of December, 1857, for stealing sheet lead. He was committed to the Old Bailey Sessions, convicted, and sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment. A previous conviction for burglary and several other con victions were proved against him. Mr. Payne sentenced him to be kept in penal servitude for 10 years. William Peter Jackson, 38, and George Jones, 33, were indicated for stealing a looking glass value 305., the property of Enoch Thomas. Mr. Horry prosecuted; Mr. Dickie defended the pr - goners. On the night of the 16th of January the prisoners and another man went up to the shopdocr of the prosecutor, No, 98, Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square, deliberately took down a looking-glass which was hanging by a string, and walked off with it. A police• constable, who had witnessed the whole proceeding, went after them, and took the glass away from Jones. He then took both prisoners into cus tody. The jury found the prisoners guilty. George Lockyer, the prison officer, put in the following convictions against Jones : —Three months in 1844 ; three months, 1847 ; two months, 1848 ; nine months, 1850 ; two months, 1854 ; three months, 1855 ; 21 days in 1860 ; six months, 1861; and six months in 1862, —making nine con victions against him. The other prisoner was unknown to him as having been previously convicted. Three of the above convictions were in this court, and the others, under the Summary Jurisdiction Act, at police courts. Mr. Payne commented en the character of Jones, and sentenced him to be kept in penal servitude for 10 years, and Jackson to be imprisoned for 12 months. found generous rivals in the arts of peace and in efforts to ameliorate the condition of mankind. And at no distant period may the sword be sheathed throughout your land, and the sounds of strife be exchanged for the conquests of industry. Signed on behalf of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce." MIDDLESEX SESSIONS---Feb. 10. (Before the Assistant-Judge.) Henry Harding, 19, servant, and Dudley Cooper, 31, ser vant, were indicted for stealing three gold watches, seven gold bracelets, 14 rings, and other articles, value £7OO, the property of Edward T. Bainbridge, in his dwelling-house. Mr. Poland prosecuted. Mr. Kemp defended Harding, and Mr. Sleigh appeared for Cooper. Mr. Poland having briefly opened the case, Mr. - W. Thomas Bainbridge, the prosecutor, said that he lived at No. 3, Cumberland-street, Hyde-park, and that the prisoner Harding hal been in his service for a month as footman. On the 14th of January he absconded from his situation, and after he was gone ho received a communica tion from Mrs. Bainbridge. Witness made an examination of the premises, when he found that a jewel case was miss ing, containing three gold watches, seven gold bracelets, 14 rings, a brooch, a pair of gold ear-rings, and several other articles. He gave information to the police as to the rob bery which had been committed. Edmund White, police-sergeant 16 D, said, from infor mation he received on the 15th of January, he went in search of the prisoner Harding, and on the 20 h he met him in company with Cooper at Notting-hill. He followed them to No. 7, The Mall, Kensington. He was accompanied by police-constable Isaacson. Both the prisoners went into the house. Witness and Isaacson entered the house, when Cooper met them at the door on the first floor and asked witness what he wanted, He told him that he was a police sergeant, and that he wanted some one who had just entered the house with him. He thereupon began to move about, when witness pushed by him and went into the room. Harding was sitting on a chair near the fire-place. Wit ness went up to him and said, " Joe, I want you on sus picion of being the person who absconded from Mr. Bain bridge's on Wednesday, stealing a quantity of jewellery." He said, " You are mistaken ; I know nothing about it." Cooper had hold of the handle of the door, when Isaacson pushed him from the door, and Cooper put his hand into his right hand pocket and pulled out a gold bracelet, which he threw to the opposite side of the bed. Isaacson then took hold of Cooper, upon which Cooper seized Isaacson by the throat, and said, "I'll choke you, you -, if youdon't leave go," Witness wer..t over to Cooper with his staff, which he threatened to use if he did not leave go of the constable. Cooper's wife and two or three others in the room begged of him to leave go, and witness was about to strike him when he said, "If you don't strike me I'll leave go," and he did so and sat down. Witness turned round and saw the window open, with Harding on the balcony, just in the act of putting one leg over it. He seized him by the collar and said, "If you attempt to move an inch I'll kill you." He said, "Pray don't hit me, and I'll go in and remain quiet." Further assistance arrived, and witness searched the room. He told the prisoners that he was going to search their persons to see if they any of the property that was stolen in Cumberland-street. He said, " Well, what I have about me don't belong to me." In his waistcoat pocket witness found a gold watch and a piece of chain, another part of a gold chain, a set of gold studs, and two purses, containing upwards of £34. He then searched Cooper, but found nothing relating to the case upon him. He afterwards searched the room, and under the bed he found a leather portmanteau, with a small box inside containing a suit of plain clothes, which Mr. Bainbridge identified as belonging to his son. They were both taken to the station-house, and charged with stealing this property. Harding then said, "It's all right, it is their clothes; I made a mistake and put on the wrong ones." Mary Ann Jones said she was housemaid in the service of Mr, Griffiths, Crown-lane, Streatham, and knew the prisoner Cooper. He was in her master's service on the 20th Dec. last as footman, and remained until Thursday, Jan. 20. He passed by the name of Martin. On the evening of Jan. 19 Harding came, and Cooper saw him iu the kitchen for a few minutes, and then they went together into Cooper's room. She saw no more of Harding. The next morning Cooper showed her a watch so small that a shilling would cover it. Witness put a shilling on the watch and it covered it. A square locket was attached to the watch. He said he was going to send it into the country that day. He left that morning a little before 11, and said he would be home to dinner at 6, bat he did not return. He showed her a loose diamond some days before. Thos. Tingey, assistant to Mr. Chapman, pawnbroker, High-street, Kensington, produced a signet ring, pledged on Jan. 15 for 3s. by the prisoner Harding. Geo. White, assistant to Mr. Wells, High-street, Ken sington, pawnbroker, said on Jan. 16 he received the pencil cases in pledge, and on Jan, 19 a piece of gold chain. Hard ing pledged the chain. The prosecutor, Mr. Bainbridge, was recalled, and said among the articles lost was a very small watch, which was the exact size of a sovereign. A shilling would cover it well. There was a vinaigrette and some " charms" attached to it; it had a silver face and black figures, and belonged to Mrs. Bainbridge. The ring produced by the witness Tin gey belonged to him. Mrs. Bainbridge also had pencil-cases like those produced. Geo. Isaacson, police•censtable 264 D, corroborated the evidence of Sergeant White as to the assault committed - - - - - Sergeant White was reealled and said, after the appre hension of the prisoners he went to a place in Hampshire, and there saw a woman passing by the name of Cooper, Ho received from her a letter addressed to her. It bore the postmark of having left London on the 19th of January. The letter said " Joe has left his crib, and has taken away the jewel-case and three gold watches. If this goes all right I shall have some money. I hope they will not catch him. Be sure and burn this piece of paper." Mr. Kemp then addressed the jury for the prisoner Har ding, and contended that ho was a young man and was really the victim of Cooper, who had been accustomed to this sort of thing, and had got into situations by the means of false characters. Mr. Sleigh having addressed the jury on behalf of Cooper The Assistant-Judge carefully summed up the evidence. The jury found the prisoners guilty. In answer to questions from the Assistant-Judge, Sergeant White said that for three or four years the pri soners had been acting together, but there had been the greatest difficulty in obtaining a conviction against either of them, in consequence of their continually changing their names, Harding going by the names of " Joe Taylor," " Wallis," and " Country Joe." Cooper went by the names of " Munday," " Martin," and numerous other aliases; and the robberies which they conjointly committed were not discovered until after they had left the situations which they obtained by the means of false characters. Mr. J. S. Brooking one of the magistrates on the bench, said that Cooper obtained a situation in his establishment by means of a false character in 1857, and robbed him of property to a considerable amount ; but ho was unable to obtain sufficient evidence to convict him, although he had no doubt whatever as to his guilt. Several other gentlemen, including Mr. GI iffitlas, of Streatham, and Mr. Plummer,of Gloucester-gerdens,Hyde park, also stated that the prisoner Cooper had got into their service by means of false characters, and in every case his employment hadbeenfollowedby robberies to a considerable amount. Mr. Western Wood, M.P. for the City, who was also on the bench, said that I-larding was in his service in October last, and after robbing him to a considerable amount had absconded. A warrant was obtained for his apprehension, but the officer who held it had been unable to find him. The Assistant-Judge said the public were greatly in debted to Sergeant White for bringing these two men to justice, who had escaped for many years. With the concur rence of the whole of the magistrates on the bench they wished to mark their sense of the way in which they esti mated his conduct, by ordering that he should be paid a reward of £5. (This announcement of the learned Assistan t was warmly applauded by the magistrates.) The sentence of the Court upon Cooper was that he be kept in penal servitude for 14 years, and Harding for 10 years. The prisoners having been removed, The Assistant-Judge said he hoped that this case would be the means of putting the public on their guard in respect to characters given to persons applying to them for situations. In no instance ought they to receive a written character without writing either to the clergyman of the parish or to the police authorities to ascertain the truth of the statements contained. George Mnsselbrook, 19, was indicted for stealing two gold-headed canes and other articles, value £5O, the property of Christopher Knight Watson, his master and employer, The prisoner pleaded guilty. The prosecutor is the secretary to the Society of Anti quaries, who hold their meetings and carry on their busi ness at Somerset-house, and the prisoner was in his employ as footman from the month of December, 1861, until October, 1862, when he went away. About the beginning of January two gold-headed canes, a snuff .box, a miniature, and a gold medal were missed. Information of the loss was given to the police, and the prisoner was apprehended by William Ackrill, police-constable 48 F, at the East India Club in St. James's square, where he was then employed. On being accused of the robbery, he said that he had taken the articles, that he had burnt the canes and broken up one of the knobs, which he had sold at a shop in Wardour street, Soho. He also said that he had taken the snuff-box, gold medal, and rings, and sold thew at the same shop. At the station-house the prisoner said ho had sold the gold medal for £2 or £3, but the various articles stolen were valued at upwards of £5O. The Assistant-Judge ordered the prosecutor to stand for ward. Mr. 1i atson then got into the witness .box. He said he thought the conduct of the shopkeeper in Wardour-street was most extraordinary, in purchasing articles of such value from a boy whom he did not know, and without making more inquiries about them. Among them was a medal pre sented to his (prosecutor's) grandfather, Bishop Watson, by the Royal Agricultural Society, in 1807, for his improve ments in reclaiming waste lands. There was also a minia ture portrait of Bishop "Watson, with several other valuable articles, but few traces of them were to be found. The Assistant-Judge ordered the shopkeeper's assistant in Wardour-street to be called. John Blundell said he was foreman to John Hearn, of 3, Wardour-street, Soho, gold arid silver refiner. He ma naged his business and bought gold and silver, which were melted down. He made entries of what he purchased, and on looking at the entry under the date of Juno 26, 1862, he • found that he had purchased a quantity of gold from a per- SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES,—The short discussion in the House of Lords last night on the practice of granting tickets of leave to criminals under sentence was a mild ex pression of the very general and very uneasy feel ing of discontent on the subject. Were these partial remissions of punishment, or hal pardons, only exceptional, their consequences would not excite so much attention. But time has developed a practice into a system, and the system into an abuse ; and only those who have fought against an evil can form any estimate of how strong and formidable it may become when it has struck root. Give the most mischievous abuse time to create a few " interests " to support it, and it will long evade, and often defy, even the power of Parliament. The " interest" will get itself strongly represented in that body itself, and do battle against the public as stoutly as if it defended the best of principles. Criminality has acquired its privileges, some of them at variance with the law of the land ; and there are stiff doctri naires who uphold their own theories as to the treat ment of criminals at the evident expense of the honest portion of the community. There are philan thropists who contend for the comfort of rogues as if it were one of the rights of man. Their theory of the perfectibility of scoundrels has been rather rudely shaken lately by the conduct of their clients ; but it will require something stronger than the gentle cen sure of a few points of the "system," pronounced in the Peers last night, to give practical effect to the public condemnation. Something, however, has been done, It is not much, but as it places some check on a lenity that was growing dangerous the advance is in a salutary direction. From Lord Granville's answer to the question of Lord Stan hope, it appears that a circular has been sent to the Chairman of Quarter Sessions in reference to cri minals who are re-committed after having been convicted of former offences. To this class of cri minals, for the future, no expectation of a remission of any part of their sentence is to be held out. For such an offender—the hardened and " relapsed"—a prior ticket of leave is not to become a complete con donation of previous crimes. His old score is to be remembered against him, and he is not to open a new account with the consideration that may pos sibly be extended to those who are young in crime. For his new offence he is actually to undergo the punishment the law awards. Intelligence of any thing that affects the professional prospects of the criminal class spreads very rapidly among the mem bers of it, and a general knowledge of this regula. tion or instruction will probably have a deterring influence. Small as this may be, it is a public gain. It tightens the grasp of the law and takes some thing from the discretion and indiscretion of the authorities, by whom the sentences of the Courts have so often been modified. With a twice or thrice convicted prisoner before him a judge will now know what punishment he is awarding, and if he thinks five years' imprisonment the just penalty for the crime he will not be compelled to inflict ten, to ensure half the number. The "old hands" among the criminal class will not come as inexperienced beginners before governors and chaplains, and their power of loosing where the law has bound will be restricted in such cases as one we report this morn ing of a thief who was sentenced to ten years' im prisonment, having had nine former convictions. With his great experience, no doubt, this " person" would have made a very good " prisoner." He would have given the authorities no trouble and obtained honourable mention as a promising sub ject. But on a tenth conviction society is not un reasonable in demanding the measure of protection secured by putting such a confirmed offender under restraint for the full term of his last sentence. These strong cases have lately turned up very op portunely, for such facts prove most convincing ar guments. Another statement elicited by last night's discussion is also satisfactory. It appears that the ticket-of-leave men now at large are not so entirely exempted from supervision as they formerly were. Recently these rovers, who prey on the community under the 'gaol "letters of marque,' have been made "amenable for leading disorderly lives, keeping company with thieves, or committing offences of which the general law of the country is not exactly cognisant." This, we presume, means that their indulgence has been forfeited, and they have been placed under lock and key again, on their uncompleted sentence, without the intervention of a trial and a jury. The supervision is not so com plete as it has been made in Ireland, where extra mural vigilance is a part of the system. But some control has been found possible, and the ticket of leave is not a wholly unrestricted licence. But, considering the magnitude of the evil and the pub lic alarm, the Government might have done more in the same direction without turning the question over to a Royal Commission. It looks too like re sorting to an old expedient, which is certain to post pone, and very likely to evade action, where some immediate course is needed. The Commission will probably open a hundred topics, some of which will call up feelings almost sectarian. Scores of wit nesses will fight out their several theories, and the inevitable Blue-book will embody much fierce phi lanthropy. The most probable result will be the throwing over the subject to another session. A satirist might without much injustice represent the our Government as in a perpetual state of interroga tion. The Executive does not act, but " inquires," through commissions and committees; and these bodies which make the inquiry cannot act, they can only recommend. But the public derives no benefit from a mass of "recommendations." Paying well for the machinery of the law that catches and locks up criminals, it wants to be assured that a "higher law," called Prison Discipline, shall not make their punishment a farce. This the Home-office has full power to do without shifting its responsibility upon a Royal Commission. HERALD.—The American war is more tedious than a five-act tragedy. It is still dragging its slow length along, and the end appears to be further off than ever. The Hibernian, true to its name, brings us a farrago of news in which nothing new can be discovered. The account of the army of the Potomac is just what might have been expected. Gen. Burnside, as we know, has resigned the chief command. Gen. Hooker, one of the most active and efficient of the innumerable soldiers of the North, has been appointed in his place. Burnside is about to be examined before a committee of the Senate at Washington concerning the interference of subordi nate officers with his plans. Should this interfe rence be proved it is Gen. Burnside who should be blamed first of all for it. In permitting it he must have been forgetful of his duties as commander-in chief; in suffering himself to be led against his judgment he was sacrificing the lives of those en trusted to his care. We have no high opinion of Gen. Burnside's abilities as a soldier, and if it be proved that he consented to abdicate his functions as commander there will seem to be nothing left that any one can urge in his excuse. The unfortu nate man has been entrusted with responsibilities that were far beyond his capacity, and he has done his best to make shipwreck of the Federal cause. Now that the barometer of public feeling is at zero as regards him, the star of the discarded M'Clellan is once more in its zenith. He is being fated at Boston, where it is proposed to give him a public reception, after the manner of Americans. As Mr. Martin Chuzzlewit received an ovation as soon as it was known that he was going to settle among the rattlesnakes, this public tribute to M'Ciellan is in tended as a prelude to a fresh expedition of this general against the Southern armies. The idea is not peculiar to Boston. It extends to the capital. We hear that a proposition made in Congress to place M'Clellan once more at the head of the army was welcomed with loud applause by the people in the galleries. It is natural that the only commander who has not yet been disgracefully beaten should still remain the most popular of the Northern gene rals. The telegraph favours us with an account of the dispositions of the army on the Rappahannock, the head-quarters of which are still at Falmouth. We cannot say that we find them very interesting. Of what importance is it to learn that Smith com mands the right, Brown the centre, Jones tile left, while Robinson presides over an army that cannot move P A general of Loui.,. XIV. of Frt»ce once forwarded to the King a precis of a hundred reasons why the army under his command was unable to bombard a certain town, the first on the list being that he had no guns. The King was satisfied with this, and did not read the remainder. Now there may be many weighty reasons to binder the army of the Potomac from advancing once more against the enemy. We read, however, that " the snow is six feet deep at Falmouth, and Ihe roads are im passable," and this is quite enough for us. Mean while, the discontent of the Democratic party of the North is gaining ground. Gold, which was at 57 premium on Jan, 30, had risen to 59 on Jan. 31, and there was a perfect panic among the monied and mercantile class at the financial crisis that seemed to be impending. The legislative and judi cial authorities of the middle States are assuming an attitude of open hostility to the Government. Resolutions have been proposed, and are likely to be accepted in the New Jersey Legislature, which amount to an expression of want of confidence in the Administration, and call for a sort of dictator ship under M'Clellan. The judge of quarter ses sions of Philadelphia having instructed the grand jury to postpone all other business to the considera tion of the arbitrary arrest of the editor of the Evening Journal, the grand jury have investigated the circumstances and returned a bill of indict ment against the officers concerned in it. This is an arraignment of the Government of Pre sident Lincoln in the persons of the subordinates who acted under his command. The State of Ken tucky has refused to allow negro regiments to pass across her frontier, and the people of Mary land and Missouri have been alienated from the Northern cause by the proclamation of slave emancipation. The difficulties of the Federal Go vernment are increasing hourly, and the fragments of the old Union that still claim to hold together are so rending apart by reason of their diverslty of feeling, that some day, when ripe for the final dis integration, they may fall asunder in pieces with one accord, And Mr. Lincoln and his Cabinet be left alone at Washington. DAILY NEWS.—The first words which Alexander 11. addressed to the representatives of the Polish nation after his accession were, •' No illusions, gentlemen ; above all, no illusions." The commen tary on this language is now being written in blood. It would have been well for the Emperor's reputation if he had some one to tell him that the hopes which a brave nation draws horn history, contemporary experience, and its own conscious ness of great qualities are not entirely at the mercy of a phrasemonger, even though he be Imperial. The Emperor must by this time have become con vinced that the illusion was Suite as much on his side as on that of the Poles. The man would be very rash who should venture to predict the course of the great movement of which we are spectators It may be that this insurrection may be trodden out as former insurrections have been. It would not be at all wonderful if insurgents who have few arms save such as they have taken from the enemy, and whose bands are for the most pa it composed of pikemen and scythemen, should be overcome by the well-organised and fully-equipped brigades of the Czar. On the other hand, it is to be observed that I elements are present in this conflict which have not affected the issue of former insurrections in Poland. 1 The internal state of Russia is not what it was in 1830. The social condition of Russia in Europe was then comparatively settled and compact. Now all is in a state of transition. Through the mea sures which the Government has taken for the emancipation of the serfs the old bands have been loosened, and the great mass of the people are moving onwards to a new position. The recent speeches of the Czar to the peasants prove that he is aware that he has awakened expectations which his measures have not satisfied. And those mea sures he has solemnly declared to be final. Under these circumstances the issue, by the Polish leaders, of the Proclamation, which we give in another column, and in whiCh the cane of the political in dependence of Poland is bound up with the promise of new rights of property in land, may have an im portance reaching beyond its effect on those to whom it is immediately addressed. In old countries, Go vernments have uniformly found that no revolu tionary movements are so difficult to compress as those which are connected with a struggle for the ownership of land. The Central Committee, which have declared themselves the "only legal Govern ment of Poland," and which in that capacity de mand the zealous obedience of every Pole, have con nected the national cause with this powerful incen tive. They say :—" From this moment the land, which the agricultural population possessed on con dition of paying rent or giving task work to their masters, is unconditionally their property, and that of their heirs. The families of all labourers who join the ranks of the defenders of the country, or die in glorious death while serving, shall receive a share of the land won from the enemy out of the State property." We are of course unable to esti mate the influence which these promises have actu ally had upon the peasantry whom the Russian Go vernment believed it had effectually detached from the national cause by exempting them from the re cent conscription ; but we know as a fact that the peasants who were at first reported r‘s standing aloof, are now heartily with the movement. The consp quences have been such as the Rtis'im Government could never have looked tor. By the latest ac counts, the number of person , jaiumg the insurrec tion was continually increasing, and extensive die tricts had been entirely cleared of Russian troops, who had taken refuge in bodies of 500 at a time within the Prussian frontier. Hitherto the suc cess of the insurgents has surpassed the expecta tions of Russia and of Europe, probably it has exceeded their own hopes. Still it may prove but transitory if the Russian Government be permitted to organize and advance its forces at leisure. It may be otherwise if the contagion of agrarianism, as embodied in the Proclamation of the Polish Cen tral Committee, should extend to Russia and excite agitation among the peasantry, whose situation, as we have seen, renders them peculiarly susceptible to influences of this order, in that case the Russian Government might find too much employment for its forces at home to be able to subdue Poland. We shall not, however, speculate on the course of events ; it will be:better simply to observe and understand them from day to day. As to opinion, there is no reason why we should not speak with the utmost freedom. Certainly, we need not hesitate to do so from any fear of contributing to inflame a sangui nary war. Journalists sometimes, in speaking of their responsibilities, employ a language which be tokens an exaggerated estimate of their influence. The moral forces which are called out in wars of nationality, religion, or opinion, are too powerful to be seriously affected by the likes or dislikes of inactive bystanders, however gracefully expressed. We most ardently wish the success of the Poles in their unequal conflict. By history and religion they are clearly marked off from the Russians. Russia has had plenty of time to establish her moral ascendancy in Poland, and has utterly failed. For her own credit, therefore, as much as for the sake of the Poles, we should be glad to see her abandon an experiment which is hopeless. No Power in Europe could so well afford to rectify its position. Should the prudence of the Government secure internal peace and tranquillity, Russia will receive in the rise of a numerous middle class, and in the rapid increase of wealth and population, the reward of the wisdom which dictated the emanci pation of the serfs, and will be more poweful than ever to fulfil its true mission—the development of civilisation among the peoples and tribes of its Eastern territories. Experience, however, bids us look for the establishment of national independence to the valour of peoples rather than to the reason ableness of governments. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills. — Diseases of the Skin.—By the joint action of these inestim able specifics, all skin eruptions are quickly banidied from the system, the worst description of wounds or ulcers are easily eradicated, the morbific matter, which nature finds injurious to her, is thrown out, and ,a thor ou g hl y healt hy state of the blood and fluids is the result, restoring a sound mind and body to sufferers rfter all other treatment has been found ineffectual, in many cases saving surgical ope rations and even life itself, by their miraculous power. The medicaments are composed of vegetable extracts of rare virtue, without the admixture of a grain of mercury or any other noxious substance. THE GEORGE GRISWOLD. This vessel, the arrival of which in Liverpool on Monday with a large supply of provisions for the benefit of the Lancashire Relief Fund we announced yesterday, was berthed in the Waterloo Dock by yesterday morning's tide. She is a very handsome and entirely new vessel of 1,180 tons American register, but capable of carrying 1,500 tons. In gene ral aspect and mould the George Griswold is an exceedingly fine clipper, her lines being fine, and her rig well adapted to the proportions of her hull. She is 200 ft in lenirth, 25ft wide in the beam, and 24ft in depth of hold, and was built by Mr. Thomas, at Quincey, in the Butte of Macoachuoctta. As the vessel was being towed up the river she was saluted by the firing of 18 guns from the North Fort, the Rock Fort ensign also being "dipped" in courtesy. It was expected, indeed, a sort of semi-authoritative announcement having been made, that some public demonstration would take place on the arrival of the ship, but, beyond the courtesies above-mentioned, nothing of a public nature occurred. The Chamber of Commerce will, however, in a few days meet the commander of the vessel and the officers of his crew in St. George's-hall, the use of which has been granted for the purpose, when the following ad dress will be presented :—" To the Commander of the ship George Griswold, as the representative of the American Contributors to the Relief of the Dis tress in the Cotton Manufacturing Districts.—Sir, Sixteen years ago, when our countrymen in Ireland were suffering the horrors of famine, your nation, then united and prosperous, sent across the Atlantic offerings of grain and provisions to alleviate their great distress. To-day, with your energies taxed to the utmost by the gigantic struggle through which you are passing, you have not ceased to be mindful of the :misery which this sad contest is inflicting on fully half a million of our industrious workers, and you have a second time generously contributed of the abundance with which God has blessed you to help the neat ssities of those among us who, by no fault of their own, are reduced to a state of compulsory idle ness and destitution. We call to mind that out of the sufferings of that period there arose for us by this emancipation of our industry an unspeakable good —which has enriched our country, extended our commerce, banished not a few of our social discon tents, and inaugurated a great moral revolution— the blessings of which have not been confined to ourselves, but are gradually working out in other countries the like beneficial results. May we not hope that the trial through which you and we are passing will be the precursor of equally great social ameliorations, and that out of the darkest hour of a nation's existence—that of bloodshed between mem bers of the same family —there may issue for you some signal national deliverance, the benefits of which are to stretch beyond yourselves to the gain of our common humanity ? Our country accepts with gratitude this noble gift. We welcome to our port the bearers of this brotherly bounty—freely given, freely stowed, and freely freighted across the seas by a commander who has given his free ser vices to this benevolent -work. Our Government and the local authorities have shown their appre ciation of the act, by removing every impost on the free admission of the ship and her cargo. As repre senting the mercantile community of Liverpool, this Chamber of Commerce asks you to convey to the donors its sense of the liberal and friendly spirit in which your merchants and agriculturists have united to send forward to our distressed cotton ope ratives so acceptable a message of goodwill and sympathy—and in many a home, darkened by the shadow of this terr ble calamity, the silent thanks and prayers of thousands who are bearing their pri vations with a pati.nce and a heroism beyond al praise, will_be your best reward. Addressing you on behalf of a community among whom it is well known great differences of opinion prevail as to the causes and objects of the contest now unhap pily raging among you, it would be evidently unbecoming in us to put forward any statement that would create dissension and mar the general harmony of the cccasion ; but we think we are warranted in say.tg that men of all shades of opinion would rejoice to see this war terminated in any way that xould not be inconsistent with your honour as s people and with the great and responsible position which you occupy among the nations. We shall recognise the return of peace and prosperity among you, the best securities for our own continuedprosperity. We trust that no thing will arise interrupt for a moment the friendly relations which have hitherto subsisted between us, and bat no harsh judgments or mis representations of feeling and motives on either side will lead us to forget that we are kinsmen, sprung from a common stock, united by the bond of a common langusge, and fellow-lahuurers iu the common cause of progress. May the two great branches of the Anglo-Saxon family always be ---- CITY CUT in, _OF SEWERS. - 4.-- Yt sfer.lol this Court, performs all the: pub jie factions t-f Boast, .of Works in the city of L vkz s formally re , f:on,qituted under a new' e tne _Lord Mas 'or presiding at the cere monyaim lection of Deputy D e Jersey as h :rno Ind tnerously signed was cra until n. t A ii e m pre sented fromowners, i es oees,, and occupiers of property . ibnillFvinhsbicuhryh-cais bt rcuse,n ettroduced i n t o Parliamentp xilying the Court to oppose a au' horisirg the Great Cestern Raili,vay Company to make a station in the Circus, !irk to take with aujacent property, in cludingthtit view the L e o whole In o s f ti t t h u e tio ns Tht y stated that the Cifens, with its garden, cm, gas it does a t h n large ant: o pen area in the eat Item p ortion of the metropolis, 1 . , 4 a n ornament to the city, k ' most desir able place of rt. idence, and a hee.lthy spk - It for exer and infirm people of the' district. cise for the young in addition to the at 'ea and They stated also that, 2 se for houses in Finsbury-circu,-,, it is proposed to ta the purposes of the ter Min" the entire property ad joining on all sides, c0:m.13'6611g the south side; of South-place and Eldon-sti 'eet, the west side of Blom field-street, the north side o.f London-wall, and the east side of Finsbury-paveme.trt)• in addition to the London Institution, which has an' L naportant library, second only to that of the Britist Museum ; and most of the houses condemned are rk -sidences of a superior character, occupied by incuusaoents of the adjoining parishes, physicians, surgeons,, and other professional persons, and by merchants. Th..' memo rialists pleaded the vital importance to the coitimu nity of every open space and garden in an otherwise overcrowded neighbourhood. It is proposed, they state, by the bill in question to construct fivesepa.rate branch railways, and to shut up and appropriate 13 courtyards and other places, all covered by small houses, chiefly inhabited by the labouring classes. They added that the level of the proposed railway will be 19 feet above the surface of the ground, and the level of the Metropolitan railway adjoining 19 , feet below the outface, so that the formation of the station would he detrimental, if not fatal, to any scheme for a continuous railway system throughout London. The memorial, which was presented by Mr. Alfred Smee, was unanimously referred to the Improvement Committee for consideration and re port. On the recommondation of the General Pur poses Committee leave was granted to Mr. Otto des Granges to lay down tho cellular iron pavement of which he is the patentee to the extent of about 300 yards, for purposes of trial, in a spot to be selected by the surveyor to the commis sioners. As the pavement cannot be fairly testa - 1 in less than three Sears, it will be left at the end of that period fbr the commissioners to decide whether it should be retained and paid for at a fixed price, or be removeel by the patentee, power, however, being reserved to the commission er s to remove the pavement at any time it it be found dangerous to the public. Touching the sanitary condition of the city,Dr.Letheby, the. medical officer of health, reported on the state of 199 houses that had been inspected during the week, a .-td he sub mitted a list of 56 places for sanitary impr. ivement. He likewise reported that the markets and slaughter houses of the city had been duly inspected, and that the officers bad condemned 6,021,b. of meat and 1 80 head of poultry as unfit tor human food. 3,85611. were diseased, 2,0141 b. were putrid, and the rest was from animals that had died from accident or disease. It consisted of 17 sheep, 9 pigs, 38 quar ters of beef, and 118 joints of meat. All of it wile sent to the boilers. On Thursday last John Nichol son Halfhead, a cowkeeper of Worship-street, was summoned before the justices at Guildhall for send ing the carcass of a diseased cow to Newgate-market. He was fined L 5 and costs. 45 deaths and 67 births have been registered in the city during the week. The mortality returns are much below the average (68) for the corresponding period of the last seven years. This, together with the gradual falling off in the weekly number of deaths during the last month, indicates a satisfactory condition of the public health. The chief causes of death were as follow: —Phthisis, 4 ; mesenteric diseases, 4 ; hydrocepha• lus and convulsions, 4; continued fever, 2; scarlet feve-, 1; small-pox, 1 ; and whooping-cough, 2. COUNTRY MARKETS. J' LEEDS-TUESDAY. Wheat at prices nominally the same as on Friday. Fine barley at fully late prices; common qualities very slow of sale. Oats, beans, and other articles sold in retail at late rates. MARKET HARBOROUGH-TUESDAY. White wheat, 4's to 52s ; red, 44s to 48s per 36 stone Barley at 34s to 38s per qr., grinding 29s to 32s per 30 et• Oats, 26s to 28s; new, 203 to 25s per 24 st. ; beans, 388 to 43s per qr. SHEFFIELD—TUESDA Y. Red wheat, per load of 3 imperial bushels...2os Od to 218 Oa White If , ...22s Od to 24s 6a New red , ...16s Od to 188 Od New white ~ 1, 8 d Beans , 9 ), ...16s 6d 60dd t 0 0 0 1 2 9 1 : 6 6 1 Peas, per qr 56s Od to 60s 01 Grinding barley, per qr. 28s Od to 328 06 Malting ditto, ~ 348 Od to 408 Od Oats ~ 22s Od to 308 ed Flour, is 9d to 2s 2d per stone. LIVERPOOL-TUESDAY. At our market to-day ther;wala7:i;aitendance of tie town and country trade; very little business was done in but prices were unalterEd. Flour very dull, at for" mer rates. Indian corn in moderate demand, and freely offered. MELTON MOWBRAY—TUESDAY. The following were the currencies :—New white wheat! . 52s Od to 56s Od ; new red, 478 Od to 53s per 36 stone beam., 45s ter old ; new sorts, 38s to 41s per 38 A. barley, 36s to 38s for malting, and 30s to 32s per qr. O r grinding; oats, 22s to 30s Od per 24 stone. D ÜBLIN —TUESDAY s. d. s. d. Wheat, white 26 0 to 28 6 Do., red 23 0 to z 6 0 Do., new Barley Oats Do., black lO 0 to 12 0 s. d. s• ds 0 Beans.. . 24 0 to 27 r , Bere. l2 0 to 1 3 Rapeseed .... 0 to --- 0 Oatmeal l3 6 to 15 0 Bakers' flour Indian corn Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Au:ea - ails and Mauritius, via Southampton .. Feb. 18 via Marseilles .. Feb. 12. drazil and Cape Verds, by British p ac k e t. Mar. 6 Cape of Good Hope Ascension, and St. H e l ena . Mar. 3. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. Feb. 18. via Marseilles ...Feb. 1 2 ' Falkland Islands .. Mar. 6. Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Feb. 18 ' via Marseilles Feb. 12. India (Bombay), via Southampton via Marseilles .. Feb. 20. Portugal.... Mar. 6. Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Feb. 10. via Marseilles .. Feb. 10. Newfoundland Oporto and Vigo • U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet Feb. 12. 'l3i U.S. 'packet by Canadian packet Feb. 13 , W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe Feb, 10. Bahamas, via New York Feb. 12 , Mexico.. Feb 28 ' All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, 1 F e b . 13. California, and B r iti s h Columbia.. Births. CHAPMAN.—On the 9th inst., at Chertsey, Herte, bil l ' Frederic Chapman, of a son. • JOHNSON.—On the 6th inst., at Stamford-hill, the wife of D. Johnson, Esq., of a daughter. NicßoLL.—On the Bth inst., at Lyme Regis, the wife of Commander IltH Nioholl, R.N., of a daughter. STOKES.—On the 9th inst., at Cambridge, the wife of PO' lessor Stokes. of a son. Marriages. ELLIOT—GUILFORD.—On the 10th inst., at St. Jgraid 4 Piccadilly, John Lettsom Elliot, Esq., to Harriet, COW tees of Guilford. REEVE—DUNDAS. — On the sth inst., at Epworth Church, Lieut.-Colonel Reeve, late Grenadier Guards, eldest O P of General Reeve, of Leadenham H ouse , Lincolnshire, to Edith Anne, the eldest daughter of the Hon, a nd W s "' Charles Dundas, rector of Epworth. Deaths. ----- ATTREE.—On the 7th inst., at Brighton, Thomas Attreo, Esc., aged 86. DowNEs.—On the 9th inst., Edward Downes, Esq.,A n l 3 ; Hyde-park-squ are , W, , and of Ey.horne, Sand — Kent. aged 67. DuNcA. .—On the 7th inst. at at Lawton, near Arbro ath, James Duncan, Esq ., form . manager of the Fr °7il:l‘ cial Bank of Ireland, Belfast , aged 73. F• HAYWAnD.—On th e 6 t h i nst., at W a l ton, A y l e sbury, llayward, Esq., aged 82, MASON.—On the 9th inst., Miss M. Mason, of The Cedars' Wineheap, Canterbury, aged 59. WilactxsoN.—On the Bth inst. ,William Steele Wi lkili tt Esq., of 9, Upper Phil imore-place, Kensington, for merly of H.M.'s Ist Dragoon Guards, aged 45. 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