The Sun. — London, England, 1863-02-20 00:00:00

i in New 3, 1863. :d Grand Doblado, trouble to army and farina of ld.) L a letter ich trans uary Orizaba, that place men, for With this • the road lent army arison of meet the their in- ill inter- Orizaba ►ava been y assured who sup it of these and the ikes some anthori all those recture of z, direct abordina.. a French ly, what- in. 24. acelleytey trmy, the t-martial 'asos, for to execu- tits, after •e shot in e follow• an. 31. we have de Cuba the 17th ,ouisiane, s nothing rumours, you. in re- whom I yes under 00 mules, o furnish tract, and rted that 3apturing nb--some 7ruzana. rictorious a in Vera fled from ig to pay levied. b-handed rom Vera era in the the cause to poison t to Mar- ress their ings dare 1 Antilles e against L Cruz to have re- files of [nary and ter of our 'an. 19. w ell a r in 18 03 H y derev seat irtti t. IJ °l4 to unite a ' , j ell ' a cottav But t he pressu T r i : ure. Brito'• ore. SEAg•' Gireune, nien; tb le was at Zed Sea• '~ 3CONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE o'CLocii. The money market is relapsing into a state of quietude after the temporary commotion produced by the alteration in the rate. A moderate business has b een t ransac t e d today, and the lowest quota tion is 31 per cent. The Bank authorities are there fore not likely to derive any benefit from the redac tion which they made yesterday. A considerable improvement is exhibited in the situation of the Bank of England by the return published yesterday afternoon. It shows a large increase in the reserve of notes and stock of bultion, and a further reduction in the total of other securi ties. Subjoined is our usual analysis:— Active Circulation £19,310,720 Decrease .. .. 520,330 Bullion .. .. 14,589,222 Increase .. 518,571 Rest .. 3,380,678 Increase •• •• •• .• 15,239 Public Deposits 7,413 275 Increase • . . 460,467 Other Deposits.. 13,769,276 Increase .. 172,920 Seven Day and other Bills .. 605,776 Decrease .. ** 7,626 Government Securities 11,043,079 Na alteration. Other Securities .. 18,750,424 Decrease .. 397, 9 0 3 Notes Unemployed .. • .. 8,990,535 Increase .. .. 1,001,360 A dividend of 10 per cent. for the year ending 31st December last is recommended by the directors of the Notth British and Mercantile Insurance Company. The coupons of the Egyptian 7 per cent. Loan will be paid on and after the Ist proximo. The operations in the Foreign and Colonial Pro duce Markets during the last few days have not been very extensive. Sugars have sold slowly, but at steady rates. Coffee, in some instances, has exhibited a slightly upward movement ; but tea, rice, truit, and spices have remained without any material variation. Tallow has continued dull, at a slight decline, for both present and forward delivery. With regard to the silk trade Messrs. Durant and Co. state :—" The periodical public sales com menced on Wednesday, and are concluded. The quantity offered was 1,700 bales Bengal, 7,000 bales China, 650 bales Jhpan, and 750 bales Canton. The whole were allowed to pass without bidding, ex cept the damaged bales, which were taken at fair prices. Our general market has been quiet for the last three or four weeks, but it is thought that there is a better demand for manufactured goods; should this continue, we may look for an early re commencement of business." Two O'CLOCK. At Paris this morning, according to Reuter's telegram, French Rentes were 70f. sc.—flat. There is no alteration in the English Funds to day, and a very small amount of business has taken place. Consols, however, although dull, are firm at 921 ; for transfer, and at 92i for the account. Ile New Threes and Reduced Annuities are flat at 92H ; Bank Stock has advanced to 239, and a bargain has taken place in the Red Sea Telegraph Annui ties at 21 7- 16ths ; India Stock has receded to 227 ; but the 5 per Cent. do.. at 108 k; and the Enfaced Paper, 105/. A transaction has taken place in the Si per Cent. Enfaced Paper at 112 3 ; ; and in the Bonds at 15s. prem.; Exchequer Bills are quoted 15. to ss. prem. Continued steadiness has been perceptible in the Foreign Market, and the transactions have been moderately active. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1354. are 891 901 ; do., 1858, 721 73/ ; do., 1862, 696 701 ; and the Consolides, 411 4 ; Greek Bonds are flat at 201 ; Mexican remain at 33/ 1 ; Portuguese New Loan, 478, being buoyant; Russian New Loan has improved to 931 94; Spanish Passive are heavy at 258 264; and the Certificates are supported at 10; and Venezuelan, 692 ; New Grenada 2 per Cents. have further improved to 324 33/. In the Railway Share Market the dealings were limited, and prices exhibited litttle variation of importance. London and B lack wal I, North Western, and Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln have im proved 55., while Midland, South-Western, Lanca shire and Yorkshire and several others supported previous quotations. _ . The Foreign and Colonial undertakings were also inactive at about former rates, Great Luxem burg being dealt in at 16, Sas Paulo at 23L Grand Trunk of Canada at 211, Great Indian Peninsula at 1051. Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares ex hibit some slight variation. City Bank improved to 9 31 ; Union of Australia to Mt ; Ottoman Bank declined to 921, and Peninsular and Oriental Steam to 714 to 721- BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 239 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities .. New 3 per Cent. Annuities New 2i per Cent. Annuities... 76t i ttnuittes, 30 yrs, expire i9th Jan., MO — Ditto (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908. 21 7-16 India Stock 227 _ .. . D tto 5 per Cent Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cent Ditto 5 per Cent lO5l intto 5i per Cent D bonds t: 1 .;100 .• . • Ditto under £l,000 Consols for Account, March. 5 Exchequer Bills, £lOOO, 21 per Cent 1 5 pm Ditto £5OO Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian 5 per Cent Ditto 4 3 / 4 per Cent., 1852.58-60 'illlian 3 per Cent. 7B . RgPPtian 7 pet Cent Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coup ma 2Ol 1 Mexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account 331 1 New Gra na d a I )itto 2 pet Cent. 33 21 31 Ditto Deferred 8 P e ,— ov , an4 3 / 4 per Cent. l)itt o Ditto , 1862 A c 3 count 881 8 Portuguese Ditto o er Cent., 1853 1862 Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St -- Ditto 41 per Cent., 1850 9ll Ditto 5 per Cent. 1862 Ditto Scrip, £65 16s. paid Spanish 3 per Cent Ditto Passive Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded Turkish:6 per Cent. 1854 — Ditto Account B9/ Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 Ditto Account Ditto 6 per Cent. 1812 Ditto Account Venezuela, 3 per Cent Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch 24 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil — Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates Cor.sols, M TWO O'CLOCK. oney _Ditto Account 921 TERRIFIC EXPLOSION AT THE MAGNETIC TELE GARPII COMPANY'S ()Elam—At a late hour last night a loud and fearful explosion of gas took place at the offic es of the above company, 58, Thread nee dl e - street. The housekeeper had entered a back room on the seoon d fl oor, burners, and lit on of the gas when the accident t oo k place, causing very considerable dam T a b g e e fie to r the bgar d premises,e attended, bu but the inmates escaped un njured. the fi re was ext i ng uished beforeiotsNaGrnriEvasls. CONGRESS THE A R CH/EOLOGICAL FOR 1863. The Arel reological Institute of . Great Britain and Ireland has decided upon holdinngettsefm;leatrignugistchiasmydeeaur, at Rochester, under the Preside &a. Professor preside re yfeussoevr Walter Y n bi t of the British Asso ciation Dean of Chichester, and Lord Talbot de Ma a a h r i li de oo si k • sPectively in the section of a rchitectu i r i e dirs val antiquitie s . The meeting will b v e e g . , his i t u ory en , andthe lastm e - Tuesday in J uly, and will cont i nue f or a week. u Th e fit mous Jecker,"says the t ioUrriCl4 d u Hat n r i e, "is, it i s sa i d, at present in Paris, where h e is occupie(l drawing up a memorial in support of his claims against the Mexican Government." T HE CoMMERCE OF NAPLES.—A despatch was laid before Parliament yesterday on this subject, dated January 29, from Mr. Bonham, Consul-General at Naples. lie writes i n consequence o f h av i ng se en letters signed " John P. Hennessy," to reiterate the statements he had previously made with regard to the improvement 'within the last few years of the commerce of Naples, as indicated by the number and tonnage of the ships entering that port. The Gorge Cruikshank Gallery at Exeter-hall i s now complete. The two hundred and forty-four fiames contain over one hundred original drawings, sketches, and the p h ainti ngs, and over one t h ousan d o f t h e proo f etchings of of Bacch great artist, as well as his latest work—" The W ors hi p As," hare 100 stir I cui to too I too too stock 4tock stock 100 100 10i, 100 100 WO 100 100 stock stock 20i 20 100 lOC ~~ SHARE .M.A.RKETS—This Day ORDINARY SHARES AND STOuh3. aid. Closing Businese Price. done 8 8} 7 8 88 8 0 1161 117 E 7q 7 S 41 13 13 14 87 83 106 108 49 50 45 47 24 25 1274 121} 130 131 136 138 104 105 63 (li3 1101 110 f, 744 756 114 115 416 421 101 1011 101 162 441 456 13i IAI 128* 1281 i 6 lip 96 98 54 55 28 28 !102 103 57i 68i 90 9 111 114 P 16i 16t 11t 11 121 123 46 4F 103 105 60 61 32 34 97 07i 68 70 103.105 - 74 8 38/ 39/ 10 11 L. 7/ 8 p 150 152 5 54 2f 34 p 83 86 160 160 93 15 37 41 98 100 sl()Ns. Price. 64 f 6 105 1(,6 6 1p 4; 5# 4P 74 8 77 00 73 76 73 76 1(3 105 1( 8 ic9 P 6 1 7 lon ~6 t lip t tp 21 .2 65 68 50 53 56 58 41 .6 40 44 31 34 28 22 24 105 115 " 11 103 105 13 131 1 , 9 71 1 9 01 92 94 1 1 liP 103 104 96 98 92 1,4 49 51 3 5 83 k 5 104 106 t 1034 10C 41) 1,. 03 104 98 100 Share! Railways. 13.14: 6.4.0 Do New Do Binning. & Derby Mid. Gt. W. of Irelands, 19.16.4' Do Do B 12.10 Bir., IVol., and Str. Val. ; Blythe and Tyne. Bost.,Sleat,andMid.k.lo Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Cork and Bantiou Cornwall A ;2ets ro CliN Do A Do. B ll 6p c.p an.has j been paid to B. Dublin & Belfast June.; Dun.,Perth,& Ab. Juno. I Edinburgh & Glasgow. Giasg. and S. Western.l Great Eastern, Ord. stk Ditto A stock Ditto East. Anglian st GreatNorthof Scotland Great Northern... Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. am; W. of Ireland Great Western Do Str Val gua. stock Lancashire & Yorkshire London and Blackwall Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western Lon. & South Western Man., Shef., & Lincoln. Maryport and Carlisle. Do shares ' • Metropolitan Midland Do. shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, Sr Dundee, Nth. Eastern—Berwick Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds b() York Do Carlisle.. North London Do New North Staffordshire N. and S. W. Junction Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock Do Scot. Mid, stock Shrews. and Welchpool Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern South Wales S. York. and Rive Dun :,taine.,NYoit.,andWok. Stockton Az Darlington Do New, 1860 Taft Dale.. Do C Ulster Do Do 1 Vale of Neath Vietotia sta. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall VV. Hartlepool Har.&R West Midland Oxford Do Newport' Do Hereford l BRITISH POS' Etai I wava t I antic At St Lawrenc, Rom.,Baroda&.Cent In( Gu. kper cent.. ..... . Do. New Do. E. Shares... Hudak, anu Lake t urn:, Do. Preference .. • • • Buffalo,Brant,&Godricl p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 1 , 72 Do. do. July 1, 187:- hp. In. Jun,. 1,1, '1 en tta.. - t S. Eastn. ( I. 'apeTown Dock Scr Eastn. Bengal gu. 5 p. b ast gu. 5 p. 0. Do. do. G Ext Do. do. it do. .. Grand Trunk of Cana& no. let Pre+. Bonds.. Do. Go. deferred...... 'o. ?d Pro. Bon .S.. D.. do d ter ed...... i)o. 3d P ef. stock ... Do. do. d 1 err Do. 4th Pref. s o k... Do. do deferred...... Gt.lndiaPenua.gua.sp.e Do. New gna. 5 p. c... Do. January. 1862 .. Gt. South.of India (Lim uaranteed 5 per cent. Gt. W. of Canada Sharer Do. Nor . . Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't op' Do. 5i p. c. do. '77-8.. . Indian Branch Limiteq Madras guar., 5 p. c. Do. 4/ p. c. Extensio, Dc. 4: d0.... .. Do. Fifth Extension. Nlelb.Corp. i p. 0. Bud- & Hobson's Bay. Do. 7 p. c. blor p,. Bd . New Br answick et Cand. Claas A sill B. N. ftl.C'da6 po let pt bdE &bide ........ 1 Do. Delhi -- -- .- I • -• Do. do o 4- , Do. Punjaub ca Do. Do. .- ...•• •:.: 4 . Do. Induk.St. Flo.) COLONIAL DOVER. tip.c.J a ,SLJ I 1877-Si Do. 6 p. c. Feb. & AuL Do. d p. 0.11lar.& Sept Do. 5 p. c. Jan.&July. Do. 5 Inscrib3u stoci, Cape G. II ope, 6 p Do.Ap &Oct. 188( Do. 189. ;Do. Jan. .;a July, 1891 Ceylon. i,r0v.1 8 61, 6 p Mon it.us 5 per cen.; - Na,a G.,v. 6 per cent. ! Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct IN. S.W. Gov. 5 p , Do. sp. c.,1871 to 187. - Do. d0.,1888 &upwd, New Zealand 6p. cent. - ;Nova Scotia Gov. 6p. c. ' sterling, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6p. c, - 5. Aua Gtip.c.1876.& up. Vie. Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&Jul) Do. In p.n. Andtr.Ont 111 101 BRIT] sfl NIP 2 Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 4d 4a - 'mord Amalgamated - 21 23 - Devon G. Con.. Tavist 1 630 640 510 40 - East Bassett (Mogan 30 46 48 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd. 58. 4d 1p - East Caradon ....... 'Lit :6 I 7 In - East Carn Brea.... U.( 91 (0 - E. W'i Russel (Tavistk. 7.19.0 44 5 5 - GamASt.Aubyn(Gwen.; 17 17 19 - Great South lolgus 17, 6; 7 - Wheal Vor (Helstob 10 64 f - Grenville.. - Herod's- Foot.. s.l 50 52 - ling - Bton Downs 4. 7.0 24 3 - Lady Bertha Margaret (tiny Lelant 0A 37 39 -)iarke Valley.. 4 Myndy iron Ore (Lim : 2X Ide pr - New Setun l9) 130 140 - North Downs 2s 24 3.t - '..17.t 34 4 - N:orth Wheal Crotty . 46 5 - !'ar Consols (5.t. Blazes 1,; b 6 10 Tovidence(Uny Lelni 10.1'. 1 13 - t South Caradon(St.Cleei 1 , 395 4h5 - S. Carn Brea (Illogan) 3.15 h 24 24 Fran. (Illogah 10.8.9. 38 40 1 .9 871 926 2 -- Stray Park tO rin Croi + 5 Tamar Silv,t Lead Min. 4 4 4 15 1 1 1 6 4 4 17 - West Basset (Illwan) l6 124 136 - W Candon (Lis keard • 5 33 35 - West Seton 475 2(5 275 270 •• - Wheal Basset (Mogan t 4 75 80 - heal Buller( Redrutli`, 5 65 7 5 - Wheal Kitty (13.Lelant) 7.0.6 74 84 - WhealLud ott - wheal Mar yAnn (Men ) 8 154 164 - Wheal Seton 584 240 250 !Kai Treiawney (Lis ) 7 17 18 - Wheal Union 3.17 41 54 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great orthern, 5 per cent., red. at 5 per cent. preM., 109 Great Western, 5 per cent. red. pref., 103 Ditto. 4 per cent. Irred., 04 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Caledonian £lO gua. stock, 1014 Great Eastern, 3 per cent. pre", mot FOREIGN RAILWAYS. - Antwerp'and Rotterdam, 84 Bahia and San Francisco (rim.) gua. 7 per Oent., 211 s G a r n ea r t a L u ux lo r ini bo ), u g rg u , a. l6 7 per cent. (all), .‘34 FOREIGN MINES. Cape Copper (lira.). 3) Dun Pedr , Nor h Gel Hey, Great N. Copper of South AustraliClim.), Port Philip, 14 Santa Barbara Gold Mine (RM.), United Mexican (lint), 6 54 Yudanamutana of S. Australia (lim.), 34 4 1 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Australasia, 8 Bank of Egypt, 26 54 British and American Exchange (UM.), 10 4 Chartered Bank of British Columbia, 94 Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, 22 14 City, 93$ 4 Colonial, 391 English and Irish (rim.), 414 1 London Chartered Bank of Australia, 264 Lonoon and Colonial (Um.), 34 London and County, 401 London Joint Stock, : , 51 National tTE ngi London ho f and aAnudstArProvincialua :tarllo:it. Westminster, London and South African, 25 4 England, on lie 77i new, 214 UnionD itt o, of new, E Engla nd Ottoman Bank, 43 24 d a i n l C r n o n p c p e e ( r l M 1 : 1 ; 46 4 4 . 5 3 n f d l a 2 n 4 Peninsulalndian Carrying(ileinmt..); IShteam( 71.- 1 25 8 MISC EL LANEOU National Discount Compan y Ern ), Eoyai Mail Steam, 563 Paris mentiontnatthecon of the for A t d h v e ic p es rop frm o ( s , ed loan for the (Government C o nfederate States of America has been received. ° The c o ntrac, has already been ratified by the Hou se o f Repro. sentatives, and the ratification of the senate is expected by next post. The loan is for £3,000,000 in bonds to bear 7 per cent. interest, and exchangeable against cotton at the option of the holders at any time until six months after the conclusion of peace. The cotton is to be delivered during the war in the interior, and after the conclusion of peace at one of the ports at the rate of 6d. per lb. for New 0 leans middling. The bonds not converted into cotton will be re• deemable at par during 20 years, by half-yearly drawings, and the bonds redeemed and interest are to be paid in gold Paris, Amsterdam, and Frankfort. Sixty days innotLi:enidsotno, be given to the Government for the delivery of the cotton, It is added that, as the Government possess all means of transport from the interior to the port, the cotton thus hypothecated will be the first available for shipment to Europe. The price at which the bonds are to be issued hats not transported, so} 49! 60 46 68 I 8 751 I 5 1 ( 11 101 451 5 131 128 k tilllslnepp. dun '1 - IEUL Rill. 105 107 113 106 106 108 96i 97i 95 97 104 110 112 114 1113 115 111 113 110 112 1 , 9 111 11 , 5 i 106 i 100 a 101 a 100 101 100 101 10 11l 186} 107i 1 :0 112 1 10 112 107 109 11C1 lll} 97 } 1051 6 THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 20, 1863. LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT. (Before Sir J. Stuart.) A.RDING V. MARTIN. The further hearing of the argument in this case—the object of the suit being to set aside a deed on the ground that it had been executed by a person who, since the execu tion of the deed, had been found lunatic, and who, it was alleged, gave, without any consideration, all his household furniture, plate, and other effects to the defendant—occu pied the greater portion of the day. It is still proceeding. COURT OF PROBATE. (Before the Judge Ordinary and a Special Jury.) CRISPIN V. DOGLIONI. The reception of evidence in this case was resumed to-day. It is what is called an interest suit, that is, the plaintiff, as the natural son of the late Henry Crispin, one of a firm of merchants formerly carrying on business at Faro in Portugal, has an interest in disputing a will pro pounded by the defendant, Maria Doglioni, a sister of the deceased, inasmuch as by the law of Portugal, where a man, not noble, leaves one natural son, the son is entitled to the whole of his father's property if he dies intestate; if not in testate, to two-thirds. The firm of Crispin and Co. have car ried on an extensive wholesale, as well as retail, business in a variety of commodities, including fruits, cheese, linen, cork &c., and, at the time of Henry Crispin's death in 1826, had made accumulations in the English funds to the amount of upwards of £84,000. In the year 1. , 09 Henry Crispin, the father of the plaintiff, formed an acquaintance with a „young woman named Barbara Julia Cortez, the daughter of a' hair dresser living in the same street, viz.. Rua San Pedro, Faro. The result of this intimacy between Henry Crispin and Bar bara Julia Cortez was th• birth of a son, the plaintiff, on Oct. 2, 1816. Shortly before the birth of the child, Henry Crispin called on Antonio Sabbe, who had the management of the foundling institution at Faro, and told him that Bar bara Julia Cortez was about to become a mother, and asked him to have a nurse ready to receive the child. In the Pox tu guese foundling institutions there is a kind of drum,having an opening on one side, fixed in the wall or door, and which drum revolves vertically, so that when a child is born out of wedlock, and the parents wish to avoid publicity, the child is taken to the foundling, placed in the drum, which revolves and delivers the infant to the person waiting to re ceive it, without the person who brings it being seen. Henry Crispin called at the foundling . institution, —A tne keeper of the wheel to have a nurse ready to receive the child, of whica he stated he was father. On Oct. 2, 1816, the child was born and was handed through the drum, and given into the charge of a person named Maria di Camo. Shortly after Henry Crispin again saw Sabbe, and told him that the child was his, and that it was to be baptised Jose Cortez Francisco. The boy was afterwards removed from the Foundling, and Henry Crispin constantly acknowledged him as his son. In the year 1828 Henry Crispin died, and the boy remained with his mother Barbara Julia, and was brought up to the trade of a carpenter. In 1852 the plain tiff commenced a cause of filiation against the defendant, Maria Doglioni and her husband Lazaro Doglioni (since de ceased) in the Court of First Instance, and after several appeals in the Portuguese Courts, he was declared the natu ral son of Henry Crispin. In 1859 he applied for letters of administration in this court of his father's effects, and the Judge Ordinary granted limited administration, that the plaintiff might be enabled to institute proceedings in Chan• eery. The defendant Maria Doglioni propoundt d a will of the deceased Henry Crispin, and denied that the plaintiff was his natural son, and that issue now came on for trial. The reading of documentary evidence, taken abroad, occupied the Court the whole of the day. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. WEOLESALE ROBBERY.—A NEW USE FOR CRINOLINE. —Thomas Goodman and Alfred Sanders, two journeymen, in the employ of Mr. Benjamin Cox, butcher, of Swallow passage, Regent •street, were charged before Mr. Knox with stealing a quantity of fat, the property of their em ployer, and Good wan was further charged with being in possession of a quantity of meat at his lodgings, believed to be stolen. Butcher, 137 C, deposed that about a quarter to seven that morning he was in Princes-street, Regent-street, with Dawson, 301 A, when he saw Sanders open the shop door of Mr. Cox and beckon Goodman in. Goodman went in and remained about five minutes, and on coming out he (Butcher) noticed that he had something very heavy in his pockets, and followed him to 25, Union- street, Middle sex Hospital, and on following him into the house, and telling him he was a police-officer, and asking him what he had in his pockets, he replied "That's my business," and walked upstairs. He (Butcher) followed him up, and on looking in his (Goodman's) coat pockets (most extensive ones) he found a large quantity of fat, and an searching the room he found a large quantity of fat similar to that con tained in the pockets, and a piece of salt beef 221bs, in weight, and on a further search he found secreted under a crinoline a quantity of mutton. Goodman said the meat had been brought to his house the previous evening by a man named White, afterwards said the fat found in his pockets was from Mr. Cox's. Mr. Knox inqured the value of the fat produced, and was informed it was worth 3/d a pound. Dawson, 301 A, said that on asking Sanders what the other prisoner was doing in the shop, he said that he came to speak to him about a horse ho backed the previous day, and that whatever he had in his pockets when he came into the shop he took away with him. He said that he had given Goodman no fat, although he (Dawson) had said nothing about fat. Mr. Benjamin Cox, an invalid, said that in consequence of being laid up with an injured arm, he could not identify the whole of the property, but could the beef. It had been going on while the foreman was at market. Mr. Knox said it was a serious matter, a case for trial, and he should remand the prisoner. The prisoner applied to be admitted to bail, but Mr. Knox said he should distinctly refuse it. Mr. Cox said he had no doubt he had been robbed to a large extent. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Day, NEWMARKET RACES,-THIS DAY, (By ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) £4O HANDICAP PALTE. Antelope Sunflower 2 Four ran. GRAND HANDICAP STEEPLECHASE. Molly Asthore Sir Bobby Omar Pasha Liverpool Cotton Market.—This Day. (REUTERS TELEGRAM.) 1 IVERPOOL, Feb. 20. Sales of the week, 18,250 bales ; 1,960 on specu lation, and 4,890 for export. Quotations—Fair Orleans, 254 ; Mobile,24-1 ; Upland, 231; estimated Middling, 212, 204, and 20 respectively. Surats, 9to 19/. Imports, 38,928 bales. Stock, 415,300 bales. Sales to-dap probably 2,000. No dearer. - SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, TATIERSALL'S-LAST EVENING{. LINCOLN HANDICAP. Bto 1 agst Lopcatcher (taken and offered) 10 to 1 agst Libellous (taken) 10 to 1 agst Sea Nymph (taken) 100 to 8 agst Douche (taken) 100 to 8 agst Hubert (taken) NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES. 11 to 1 agst Croagh Patrick (taken) 12 to 1 agst Grimstone (taken) LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 100 to 15 agst Satellite (taken) 100 to 8 agst Jealousy (taken) 20 to 1 agst Shropshire (taken) CITY AND SUBURBAN. 20 to 1 agst Gardener (offered) 28 to 1 agst Queen of Spain (offered) 40 to 1 agst Misfortune (taken) 40 to 1 agst Polynesia (taken) TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. 4to lon the field (offered) NEWMARKET STEEPLECHASES.—THunsDAT. After a lapse of -15 years, a Steeplechase Meeting has been revived at Newmarket. An admirable course, within half a mile of the Kennett Station on the Newmarket and Bury Railway, was made, and the &stance (four miles) was easily approachable by road and rail, The line of country formed something of the shape of the letter " P," the competitors starting opposite the judge's box, and re turning over the fences taken on the outward journey. Although the obstacles were in many places trying, the fences generally were not formidable. In the longest race there were 26 jumps, including the Brook, which had to be taken twice in each of the contests. The weather, which for some time had been beautifully 'fine, broke up on the eve of " the Chase," but fortunately the rain passed away during the night, and the opening day, though thick and foggy, remained fine until nearly the termination of the racing. The attendance, principally composed of the Lon- don division, was numerous, and the programme, which contained four events and a match, was unproductive of any close contests. The day's proceeding commenced with the usual Newmarket punctuality, at one o'clock, with the prim-in: 1 1 handir.x, "4' 41 . day fnr vilely-liar° wont to the post, and terminated in favour of Ben Land—the " John Scott" of steeplechasing. Subjoined ate details of the running : A Handicap Steeplechase of 5 sovs each, with 60 added ; for four-yr-olds and upwards. About three miles and a half. Mr. 8. - Land's Oliver Twist, aged list 21b (B. Land, jun.) 1 Captain J. 0. Machel's Molly Asthore, 6 yrs, lOst 21b (A. Sadler) 2 Mr. Elyod's St. James, 6 yrs, 9st 121 b .. (W. Griffiths) 3 The following also ran :—Mutineer, Brown Stout, and Quicksilver. Betting-13 to 8 agst Oliver Twist, 5 to 2 agst Molly Asthore. Mutineer made play, but after going three-quarters of a mile, stopped, which left St. James with the lead. Arriv ing at the turning flag for home, Molly Asthore took the command, but going on the wrong side of a flag about half a mile from home, gave way to Oliver Twist, who cantered in 40 lengths in front of Mr. Machel's mare; St. James was a similar distance in rear of Molly Asthore; Brown Stout stopped with Mutineer, and Quicksilver fell at the artificial brook, on the return journey. A Match, 12st 71b each; gentlemen riders ; 20 sous pp. Three miles over the ,teeplechase Course. Mr. Oslar's Laundress (Captain White) 1 Mr. It. Symonds's Harkaway (Mr. Henry) 2 Betting-2 to lon Laundress, who took the lead after going a short distance, and won by 40 lengths. Harkaway fell twice, but Mr. Henry was no . injured. A Handicap Sweepstakes of 3 sovs each, with 30 added, for all ages. About three miles. Mr. Golby's Sunflower, aged, 9si 131 b (C. Boyce) 1 Mr, Elyod's Antelope, aged, 10it 91b ..., (W. Griffiths) 2 - - Jerry also ran. Oliver Twist was weighed for, but prior to going to the pest was found to be lame, and was withdrawn. Betting-6 to 4 on. Sunflower, 7to 4 agst Antelope. The latter went away and quickly obtained a command- ing lead of Sunflower. Jerry having refused to jump the first flight of hurdles, returned, and left only two in the race. Instead of coming round the three-mile turning flag, Antelope went forward, and Boyce taking advantage of his knowledge of the course was left with a good lead and won by a distance. A Selling Steeplechase Sweepstakes of 3 soya each, with 20 added; for 4-yr -olds and upwards; maidens allowed 71b; winners extra ; selling allowances, About two miles and a half. 3 subs. Mr. John Nightingall's Orkousta, aged (L4O), list 61b (Owner) 1 Mr. R. Cotton's Friar of Apshall, aged (D 10), lOst 131 b (Eilingham) 2 The foil wing also ran :—Diadem and Acre. Betting-6 to 4 each agst Orkousta and Friar of Aps hall. The last named took the lead going out, and Acre refus ing at the second fence, left Diadem following The Friar, and Orkousta bri aging up the rear. All three refused at the road, about a mile from the finish, where Diadem stopped, and was brought home by the road. The last fence was jumped by Orkousta and Friar of Apshall, hut, the letter cutting it, was beaten three lengths. The winner was purchased by Mr. C. Green for 52 guineas. A Hunters' Stakes of 3 sovs each, with 20 added, for bona fide hunters that have been hunted at least six times with any established pack of hounds in the counties of Cam bridge, Suffolk, Essex, or Norfolk, in the seasons of 1862- 3; for 4-yr-olds and upwards, winners extra; gentlemen riders. About two miles and a half. 8 subs. Mr. Lington's Leicester, aged, 12st (Owner) 1 Mr. Jenkins's Express, 12st 101 b (carried 12st 121 b) (0 si ner) 2 Mr. Chaston's The Despised, aged, 12st 101 b (Mr. Gedney) 3 The following also ran :.—Fernaoy, Little Wonder, Bank rupt, Clear the Way, and Laundress. Betting—Even on Leicester, 2 to 1 agst Express, 4 to 1 each agst Laundress and The Despised. The two first favourites led throughout, Leicester win ning by aim lengths from the last hurdle. The Despised was a bad third. NEETING.—MAncIi 16. aster Spring Handicap. St Course. DONCASTER SPRING Acceptances for the Donci Leger Age st lb The Lawyer .. 5 8 - 12 Upperhand Joey Jones .. 5 7 11 The Monk 6 7 8 St, Maximin 5 7 4 Amy Charles Fox .. ~, 4 7 2 Harlequin 4 7 2 Hubert Little Dick Flytrap Bernice ice 5 a 6 6 9 7 Soothsayer Equator Adventurer Acceptances for the Great N, About three m Ago at lb. Age st lb. Jealousy Romeo Freshman a 10 11 Remunerator .... a 9 9 Shropshire .. 6 10 10 Remedium Sinking Fund .... a 10 9 Gift , a 9 7 The Dane Satellite Avalanche a 10 4 Fergus Northern Light .. 6 10 2 Fosce .. Heads or Tails.... a 10 2 Climax .. Piff Paff a 10 0 Birdbolt a 9 0 Light of Other Days a 10 0 Discrepancy Nosegay a 10 OiNed of the Hills .. 6 8 12 Lincoln Age st lb Honest Tom 3 6 2 Bohemia Revolver Sea Nymph Dirt Cheap Fontenoy Lady Faueonberg 3 5 11 Semiramis 3 5 11 Colombine .. 3 5 11 Devotee 3 5 10 Jenny Wren 3 5 10 Sledwere Picco Westminster 3 6 7 rth of England Steeplechase, Liles and a half. LINCOLN SPRING MEETING.—The following horses have been scratched :—Monk and Stanton out of the City Handicap; Alchymist out of the Lincolnshire Hunt Steeplechase. BIRMINGHAM ANNUAL STEEPLECHASES. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23. Acceptances for the Grand Annual Steeplechase. Age st lb Age at lb Freshman a 12 7 Dandy Maritana Sinking Fund .... a 11 13 Heads or Tails The Dane Joe Maley 6 11 9 Mytton Light of other Days a 11 9 Pergus Northern Light .. 6 11 8 Emblem a 10 3 Oliver Twist a 11 5 Bird of Prey a 9 10 The highest weight accepting being 12st 41b it has been raised to 12st 71b, and the rest in proportion. AQUATICS. ROYAL LONDON YACHT CLUB. It has been determined by the above club that a con gratulatory address be drawn up and forwarded to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales on the occasion of his approaching marriage. PRINCE OF WALES YACHT CLUB. The opening trip of this club is fixed for April 2. Yachts to rendezvous at the Brunswick Pier, Blackwall, at 3 p.m• In the course of the season there is to be a match open to yachts of all nations of any build or rig not exceeding 15 tons, P.W.Y.C. measurement, to be sailed under the regu lations of the club, excepting Rule 40, " That centre-board boats sail by themselves." LONDON ROWING CLUB. The fixtures o f this great metropolitan club Ajm , up t alar h rie e elh6 a 2 n i2s : : annual opponents opponents of the 'Universities at Henley, have just been made, and are as follows : Op . ening of the Club at Putney... Trial Eights (from which the great crew is picked for Henley) The 13elfour Fair oared race p F r o o u m r i s s ea to be a very ..May 9. The Clifford Sculls ope M n ay ra 2 ce 3 .. It ri t d h pean e itr w 'ss orld of gentlemen y who have neither iis Tophleenhi3 w et °eol: President ' s e Grand Challenge nor amateurs, Stewart'a Challenge Cups, or pair•oared prizes at Horjeh the ThaiTeraity race at Putney, or a previous race for the Belfour prize; and, as the London Rowing Club have won the prizes described at Henley, many of their leading men are necessarily barred, so that a very excellent opportunity occurs for other aspirants to aquatic fame. It is much to be regret ted that Mr. F, Playford is about to retire from the cap• taincy of the club. COURSING. THE GREAT WATERLOO (ALTCAR) MEETING. THURSDAY. (Patron—The Earl of Sefton; judge, Mr. Warwick; slipper, Mr. Raper.) The Great Waterloo Cup, value £1,600 in specie, by sub• seription of 25 sous each ; the winner to receive £5OO second, £200; two dogs, £5O each (4100) ; four dogs, £3O each (£120) ; eight dogs, £2O each (£160) ; 16 dogs, £lO each (£160)—£1,240. 32 dogs. The Waterloo Purse, £260 ; Waterloo Plate, £lOO (£36o)—total, £1,600. The winner to give three dozen of claret to the club dinner. 64 subs. London and Worth-Western Railway. The half yearly general meeting of the proprietors of this company was held to-day in the Euston station, Mr. Moon, chairman of the company, presiding. The attendance was more than usually numerous. The report of the directors, an abstract of which has already appeared in onr columns, having been taken as read, The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said they would observe with pleasure that the dividend was 51 per cent. per annum, a dividend better than any they had recently received, and better than any since 1856. Mr, WESTHEAD, deputy chairman, seconded the motion, Sir H, WILLOUGHBY asked an explanation of its item of X 590,000 in the capital account for temporary loans, Mr, TAYLOR asked whether the arrangements with the Irish North-Western Company would ensure their future amity, or whether they should have at some time or other to fight them in Parliament--:-giving these " diabolical" guarantee which had inflicted on them so much injury, Mr, WRIGHLEY was making some remarks on the gene ral policy of railway comr , nies, when The (CHAIRMAN reminded ram that he thought it was agreed they should pass the business of the day and declare a dividend, and then take up the general question of their policy. Great cries of " Dividend," " Dividend," then arose, and much confusion, amidst which Mr. WRIGLEY said he was going to move a resolution as an amendment, and proceeded to say the question was, whether the shareholders were to resume the control over the policy of the company which they had lost. [The meeting was proceeding when v e went to press.] PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. HOUSE OF COMMONS, FEB. 19. BIRTHS AND DEATHS REGISTRAIION (IRE LAND) BILL. Order for committee read. Motion made, and question proposed, "That Mr. Speaker do now leave the chair." Amendment proposed, to leave out from the word " That" to the end of the question, in order to add the words "it be an instruction to the committee that they have power to make provision for the registration of marriages in Ireland," instead thereof. Question put, " That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the question." The house divided —Ayes, 66 ; Noes, 63. AYES —66. Acton, Sir J. Greenall, G. Packe, C. Adderley, C. B. Greene, Capt. J. Pakington, Sir J. S. Bar ttelot, Col. Grogan, Sir E. Parker, Major W. Bentinck, G. W. P. Hamilton, Lord C. Powell, F. S. Bentinck, G.C. Hamilton, Major sss ß ceooh i llmr dL awrteeey e nsn y nr,e , s:j:: S cLoßo i . r soo.ejtr l M. Lord E. E W G., W. Bovill, Wm., Hansard, M. D. Burghley,Bridges, Sir L o ß r . d , Bt. Hennessy,ilay, sir J. P. ButlerJohnstone,ll. Hodgson, R. Holmesdale, Lord T T Chapman, J. Clifton, Sir R. Howes, E. Trefusis, Hon. C. H. Clive, H. G. W. Humberstone, P. S. Turner, C. Collins, T. Hu me, W. Upton, General Cubitt, George Hunt, G. W. Vance, John Dickson, Col. Jervis, Leader, N- Captain Vandeleur, Col. . Dunne, Col. Vansittart, Wm. Egerton, W. Longfleld, Robert Walpole, S. H. Fane, Col. Lygon, Hon. F. Watlington, J. Farquhar, Sir M. McMahon, P. Whitmore, 11. Ferguson. Sir J. Monsell, Rt. Hn. W. Wyndham, Hon. P. Forde, Lt.-Col. W. Mowbray, Rt. lin. J. TELLERS. Gard, R. S. Mure, David Naas, Rt. Hn. Lord Gore, J. R. 0. Northcote, Sir S. H. George, John NOES —B9. Angerstein, W. Gilpin, C. Martin, P. W. Atherton, Sir W. Glads.one, W. E. Martin,J. Bagwell, J. Glyn, G. G. Massey, W. N. Baines, E. Goldsmid, Sir F. Mills, J. R. Baring, Thos. Geo. Gore, W. R. 0. North, F. Barnes, Thomas Gower, G. W. L. Padmore, R. Bonham-Carter, J. Gregson, S. Paget, C. Bouverie, E. P. Grenfell, H. It Palmer, Sir R. Bowyer, Sir G. Grey, Rt. Hn. Sir G. Palmerston, Visct. Brady, Dr Gurclon, B. Peel, Sir R. Browne, Lord J. T. Hadfield, Geo. Peel, P. Bruce, H. A. Headlam, Thos. E Fender, J. Butt, Isaac Henley, Lord Pigott, Sergeant Caird, James Ilibbert, J. Potter, E. Cardwell, Rt. fin. E. Hodgkinson, G. Russell, Sir Wm. Castlerosse, Vist. Howard, Hon. C. Salomonq,Alderman Childers, H. C. E. Butt, W. Scholefie,d, W. Clifford, C. C. Jackson, W. Seymour, A Cowper, Hon. W.F. King, Hon. P. Villiers, Rt. Hon. C. Cox, W King - lake, A. W. Warner, Edward Crawford, R, W. .King,lake, Seri. J. White, Jas. Dalglish, Robert Layard, A. H. White, L. Douglas, Sir C. Lanigan, J. Williams, W. Doulton, F. Lawson, W. Winning - Jon, Sir T. Dunbar, Sir Wm. Leatham, E. Wood, Rt Hn. Sir C. Esmonde, John Lefroy, A. Wood, W. Evans, T. W. Locke, John Wyld, James Ewing, H. E.C. Lowe, Rt. Hon.R. Folef,'Hon. H. W. M'Caim,;J. Fortescue, C. S. M'Cormick, W. Gibson. T. M. Maguire, J. F. TELLERS, Brand, H. B. Knatchbull-Hugess BANE RETURNS. The Bankers' Magazine furnishes the returns of the cir culation of the Private and Joint-Stock Banks in England and Wales for the four weeks ending Jan. 10. These returns, combined with the circulation of the Scotch and Irish Banks for the same period, and the average circula tion of the Bank of England for the four weeks ending the 7th Jan. (the nearest date furnished by their returns), will give the following results of the circulation of notes in the United Kingdom, when compared with the previous month : Dec. 13, • Jan. 10, ' - , _ 1862. 1861 Increase! [ Decrease. —___- Bank of England... 19,825,158 1 ,1 ,6 96 , 084 129 074 Private Banks 3,20;,000 3,14 , ,6 21 1 59,374 Joint-stock Banks 2,875,251 2,974,9 25 t ..__—..-- 80,326 ____ Total in England. 25,905,409 25,636,635' 208,774 S co tland 4,57_,9 1 4,2 7,379 - 355,558 Ireland 5, t ,42,768 5, 53 '' ,139 304,629 I—___ ..-- - - United Kinzdora. 36,321,114,, :'5,392,153 • 928,961 United Kingdom. And, as compared with the month ending the 11th of Jan., 1862, the above returns show a decrease of £329,552 in the circulation of notes in England, and a decrease of £1,038,912 in the circulation of the United Kingdom : On comparing the above with the fixed issues of the seve ral banks the following is the state of the circulation : The English private banks are below their fixed issue ............ • ........... £ 1,183,685 The English joint-stock . bank . ar " c; below their fixed issue ................ ............... £507,432 Total below fixed issue in England.... £1,691,117 The Scotch banks are above their fixed issue £1,468,.108 The Irish banks are b elow their f i xe d i ss ue .... £816,c.05 The average stock of bullion held by the Bank of Eng land in both departments during the month ending the 7th of Jan. was £ 1 4,873,607, being a decrease of £131,753 as compared with the previous month, and a decrease of £970,077 when compared with the same period last year. The following are the amounts of specie held by the Scotch and Irish banks during the month ending the 10th Jan. : (4,1 a +l , ..Sontell hanks... = 2 423,072 Gold and silver held by the Irish banks.. 2,164,106 £4,682,778 Being a decrease of £82,230 as compared with the previous return, and a decrease of £516,795 when compared with the corresponding period of last year. The return from the Bank of England for the week end ing the 18th of February gives the following results when compared with the previous week : Rest £3,38 3 • 67 8 —Increase.... £15,239 Public deposits 5 —Increase.... 460,467 Other deposits 13,769,2 76—Inc rease .... 172,920 On the other side of the account: Government securities £11.043,079 —No change. Other securities 4 —Decrease.... 397,903 Notes unemployed .. • • 8,99),635 —Increase.... 1,001,360 The amount of notes in circulation is £19,310,720, being a decrease of £520,330 ; and the stock of bullion in both departments is £14,589, 222 , showin g an increase of £518, 671 when compared with the preceding return. - - - BETHLEHEM HOSPITAL. --A. meeting of the Governors of Bethlehem Hospital was held this morning at Radley's Hotel, New Bridge•street, Black friars, and a gentleman from our office accordingly attended to report the proceedings, but was informed, on application for admission to the meeting, that the president of the hospital, Alderman Copeland, had issued an order for the exclusion of reporters for the public press. We are at a loss to conceive the reason for such an order, without there is something which the governors of this extensive charity wish to conceal from the public. SHAVING THE LADIES.—We have all heard of an operation called " shaving the ladies," yet we doubt if any lady is aware of the very clean shave she is constantly undergoing. If she is accustomed to frequent " cutting shops," where the stock is periodically thrown into a state of convulsions in its efforts to sell itself off, of course she expects to be done : but possibly she does not know thatfor years the trade in " small wares," as it is termed, has been losing its conscience in the most remarkable manner. There is in short a regular conspiracy to cheat between the manu facturers and the great wholesale dealers. If alady, instance, buys a reel of cotton marked a hundred yards, she imagines, possibly, that she gets that quantity. Miserable delusion 1 There are not more than seventy. All goods, again, that are sold in the piece, run short: "short stick,,, in fact, is a slang term for insufficient lengths. Some of the wholesale middlemen will send up labels to the manu facturer indicating false lengths, and they are put on, as a matter of course, by many spinners. The Britisher is thus cheated out of 30 Per cent. of his goods,—once a wok. THAMES. A GERMAN CASE,—Frederick Bock, a German labourer who kept up a continual commentary on the proceedings in his own langwige, was brought before Mr. Selfe, charged with s ealing three blankets, the property of Wilhelm Bruns, a sugarbaker, of No. 36, Bett's street, zA. George's-in-the- East. B.,th parties are Germans, and the evidence was inter preted by Mr. Wintjen, an interpreter. Last evening, be tween 6 and 8 o'clock, he saw the prisoner come into his room and ask Mrs. Bruns to cook two potatoes for him. He told the prisoner he had no room on his fireplace to cook potatoes, and told him to go upstairs and see a lame man, who would cook the potatoes for him. Soon after wards the prisoner sneaked out of the house, and after he was gone he missed three blankets from his parlour, Mr. Selte—Are the blankets tound ? The Interpreter replied in the negative. Mr. Selfe—What evidence is there against this man? The Prosecutor—He sneaked into my house and sneaked out again. Mr. Selfe said that was all nonsense. The prisoner did not sneak into the house at all; he went into the man's room, and asked him to allow him to cook potatoes. Dorothea Bruns, the wife of the prosecutor, was called, and repeated her husband's evidence in German. Mr. Selfe—ls there any more testimony ? Mr. Wintjen—No, sir; the prosecutor says that the pri soner does nothing for his living, and sneaks about the street. Mr. Selfe—The prisoner ought not to have been taken into custody. HR is dianhArgoii_ Bank of England Return.--Yesterday. An Account, pursuant to t cap. 32, for the week ending of Feb., 1863: he Act 7th and Bth Victoria on Wednesday, the 18th day VISITE DET otes issued ..--.X28,301,255 ARTP,IENT. Government Debt £11,015,1C0 Other Securities .. 3.631,900 Gold Coin Sr Bullion 13,651,255 Silver Bullion .... 428,301,255 £28,301,255 BANKING DEPARTBINNT. oprietors' Capi- Govnt Swa -14.553,000 riteiesrn m including t al £ Rest . . ...... 3,380,678 Dead WeightAn- P u blic Deposits (in- nuity) x1 1 ,04 3 ,07! eluding Exche- Other Securities 18,750,424 quer, Savings' Notes Banks, Commis- Gold and Silver 937,967 missioners of Na- Coln tional Debt, and Dividend Ac counts) .......... 7,413.275 Other Deposits.. • . 13,769,276 S ev en Day and other Bills ...... 605,770 £39,722,0 05 I £39,722,005 MILLER, Deputy Cashier. Feb. 19, 2863. an extract from a AITSTRALIA.—The following i s private l e tt er , dated Sydnty, D ecember 21st, 1862 . —" There has been a long-continued drought here. Note blade of gree n gr ass is to be seen. Catt le dying by hund re d s , an d there will be a . d , ea deal o and flock arc f distress in consequence amongst the small settlers.' THE TOBACCO T RADE .—A meeting of gen tlemen interested i n t h e to b acco tra d e w as held on Wed nesday, at whi c h Mr. Ayrton, M.P., attended, and sug gested that th e meet i ng ought to ask to have t h e i r c ase con sidered by a se l ect committee of the House of Common s, and that th e bil l i ntroduced by the Chancellor of the Ex chequer should b e postponed till the committee made its re port. The suggestion was adopted by the meeting, and Mr. Ayrton undertook t o move in his place in the house for the appointment of a select committee, ILLINOIS COTTON. --The Chi cago T i mes o f 27th s :a—ss'e The first bal e o f cotton ever packed i n Chicago was together yesterday. It is made of cotton grown in the southern part of this Stat e , w hi ch, for fineness of grain and general adaptability to the requirements of the spinner will compare favourably with that brought from the far South.", SECOND TIES. Lord Lurgan's Lady Norah beat Mr. Fitzmaurico's Attila Mr. Williams ud Silkworm beat Mr. Bako nd Heather Jock Lord Uffirrton nd Monarch beat Mr. Bell nd Hippogriff Lord Sefton's Streamer beat Capt. Molyneux nd Sutler Mr. Lindsay nd Sea Foam beat Mr. Thompson's Tirzah Mr. Gordon nd Coodareena beat Mr. Gordon nd Dunoon Mr. H. Heywood'• Robe beat Mr. J. Johnstone's Jock o' Dalgig Mr. Spinks' Sea Pink beat Mr. Brundrit's Belligerent Mr. Callender's Kingwater beat Mr. Randall nd Patent Mr. Hornby nd Imperatrice beat Mr. Ingleby's Yordas Mr. Steel's Spider beat Mr. Bland's Belle of the 'Village Mr. Lister's Chloe beat Mr. Hyslop nd Dixie Mr. Russell's Reliance beat Mr. Lawton's Laura Mr. Blundell's Be Quiet beat Mr. J. B. H. Jones's Justice Mr. Dunlop's Duchess beat Mr. Croft nd Gipsy Queen Mr, Cunningham's Hopbine beat Mr. Stockernd Elling ton The Waterloo Purse, for 32 dogs, beaten in the first course for the Waterloo Cup, the winner to receive £lOO ; se cond, £5O; two dogs, £l5 eaoh ; four doge, £lO each; and eight dogs, £5 each. Mr. B. Dal.: beat Mr. J. Jardine nd Union Jack Mr. Bruce's Colchicum beat Mr. Hammond nd Donna del Lago Mr. W. Mather nd Blemish beat Earl Bective's Bobbinet Mr. J. Armistead nd Drawn Sword beat Mr. Gibson's Coorooran. Mr. J. Knowles nd Sea Rock beat Sir St. George Gore's Rienzi Mr. P. Callan nd Confederate beat Mr. J. Blackstock's Belle o' the Castle Mr. T. Brocklebank's Briar beat Mr, G. Gregson nd Sambo Mr. D. Bateman nd Sea Girl beat Lieut. Col. Bathurst nd Dead Shot Mr. E. W. Haywood nd Jerrybaldi beat Mr. Peacock nd Lyndhurst Lord Grey de 'Wilton's Glendower beat Mr. Campbell's Calmaroona Mr. Worrall's nd Agility beat Mr. Blanshard's Baba Mr. A. Graham's Great Gun beat Major Boothby nd Bobbing Down Mr. Cloudesdale nd Gilbert beat Mr. Galway nd Lady Bella Mr. Barden's Dervock beat Mr. C. Jardine nd Moselle Mr. Holes' Scipio beat Mr. Morrall's Mercury Lord Binning nd Heart of King beat Mr. Campbell's Carabradzo LATEST BETTING. WATERLOO CUP. sto 1 agst Kingwater (taken) 7 to 1 agst Sea Pink (taken) 7to 1 agst Sea Foam (taken) Bto 1 agst Rebe (taken) 10 to 1 agst Streamer (taken) 10 to 1 aget Spider (taken) 12 to 1 agst Silkworm (taken) 12 to 1 agst Coodareena (taken) 15 to 1 agst Reliance (taken) 15 to 1 agst Imperatrice (taken) 20 to 1 agat Chloe (taken) 20 to 1 agat Ba Quiet (taken) 20 to 1 agst Duchess (taken) The coursing will extend to Saturday, MARKETS—This Day. MARK LANE. The show of samples of English wheat here, to-day, was moderate. Both fur red and white qualities, the de mand ruled inactive, yet no change took pl.ice in prices, compared with Monday. The condition of the supply was tolerably good. With foreign wheat the market was fairly supplied. Generally speaking, the trade was in a sluggish state, yet the quotations were supported. Floating cargoes of grain were in fair request, at late rates. Seed barley was in demand, at very full prices. Other kinds moved off slowly, at about previous quotations. The malt trade was steady, at late currencies. The supply of oats was very small. Sweet parcels com manded extreme rates; but in other kinds, very little bu,iness was transacted. Beans—the supply of which was moderate—moved off heavily at late rates. Peas were in steady, but far from active, request, on former terms. _ .. - • In flour, the dealings were by no means numerous, yet prices ruled firm. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. English...... 1,180 550 1,620 1 370 630 Irish.. ........ Foreign ...• 7,030 3,220 6,250 8,710 brie NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The supply of town and country killed meat on sale in each of these markets is moderate, Generally speaking, the trade rules heavy, but without leading to any material change in prices, compared with our previous report. Per Sib, by the carcase. sited edsd Inferior beef .. 2 8 3 0 Middlingmutton 3 10 4 2 Middling do. .. 3 2 3 6 Prime do .. 4 4 4 6 Prime large do. 3 8 3 10 Veal Do. small do. .. 4 -0 4 2 Small pork Large pork .... 3 4 4 0 Lamb Inferior mutton. 3 4 3 8 BOROUGH HOP. The business doing in hops is very moderate, good and fine English, as well as foreign, qualities support previous rates ; otherwise, the quotations have a downward tendency. With foreign produce the market is welt supplied. Mid and East Kents Weald of Kents Sussex Bavarian Belgian American COLONIAL. THA.—There has been a steady demand for good and fine descriptions, and prices generally are well sustained. SUGAR.—The market has been rather dull, although no material alteration can be quoted in prices. In the refined market late rates havo been maintained. COFFEE. --Only limited transactions have been reported on either foreign or colonial descriptions, hut full prices are current. Riou.—For East India qualities there has been more in quiry, and slightly enhanced prices have been obtained. SALTPETRE.-13usiness has been dull, and the few bar gains entered intu were at previous rates. TALLOW.—The market has been dull, and prices tend downwards for both present and forward delivery. P.Y.C, on the spot is quoted 44s 6d to 44s 9d, June delivery 44+ 9d, and last three months 47s per cwt. SHIPPING—This Day. LONDON, Feb. 20.—Wind this day at noon—East; moderate breeze and cloudy weather. CLYDE, Feb. 19.—Wind S.—Sailed—Clutha, for Mel bourne. PORTSMOUTH, Feb. 19.—Wind N.W., foggy.—Arrived Majesty's ship It!,adamanthus, from Plymouth. Sailed —Her Majesty's ship Speedy, t r Jersey; her Ma jesty's ship Megzera, for the Channel Islands. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Friday morning. Sailed—Condor, steamer, for Bremen ' • Seine and Tamise, screw steamer, for Paris ; C onc ordia, steamer, f o r Bou logne ; Cosmopolitan, for iiamburg. D E AL, Friday Morning. Passed—Westward No, from London, for liurrachee. Sailed—All the outw ard bound, except one. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton, Mar. 21 via Marseilles Mar. 15, brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Mar. 6. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Mar. 3, chi n a, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Mar. 4. - via Marseilles ...Feb. 27 Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Feb. 26. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Mar. 4. ... . . . via Marseilles Feb. 27. India (Bombay), via Southampton Feb. 25. via Marseilles Feb. 20. Portuga1.... Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Feb. 25. via Marseilles Feb. 20. Newfoundland .. Mar. J. Oporto and Vigo .. .. U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... Feb. 26. by U.S. packet.... by Canadian packet. Feb. 20. W.C. of Africa, Madeira and Teneriffe .......... Mar. 10. Bahamas, via New Y0rk'...................Mar. 12, . • • ..Feb. 28. Mexico .................... I D All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, i Feb. 28. California, and Britian Columbia, , .......... ._,. MIA French Sympathy with the Poles. (From the Times' Correspondent.) A remarkable change is observable in the official and semi-official press on the question of Poland, The same journals that but a week ago had for the insurgents only invective and disdain are all of a sudden loud in their praise. The Jifoniteur, i for n stance, has ceased to publish its " Correspondence from Warsaw," compiled at the Russian Embassy in Paris, and recommended by M. de Morny, and prefers reproducing articles from German papers which cry out against Prussian intervention and denounce the cruelties of the Russians in Poland. The Constitutionnel is discreet and mute ; the Pattie, after ten days' silence, now tells us that the " Polish question" is the most important and the most . urgent of all E uro p e an questi ons . Th e Optnton Nationale has already issued its programme for the Imperial Government to carry out if it care to stand; and in this letter you will find the epi tome of an article by a public functionary claiming Polish sympathies for the Napoleons, and charging both branches of the House of Bourbon with guilty connivance at the spoliation of Poland. With all this it seems strange that the sale of en gravings and pictures relating to passing events in Poland is prohibited. One paper is refused permis sion to give the portraits of the leade rs o f t h e insur rection, and another was near being confiscated for a description of the palace of the Kings of Poland. in Warsaw. A manifestation of some of the work ing classes was spoken of, but the democrats have been requested to discourage and preveet it; and a posthumous prosecution of a Polish journal pub lished in Paris and now defunct was contemplated. It is evident that there are two opp os i ng currents in official regions. Two mighty personages coalesce with the Russian Ambassador, abetted by two journals rather notorious than celebrated for th e i r reactionary spirit. The other official department s sympathise with, and to the best of their means sup port, the Poles. So far as one can know anything of the feeling of the army, it is decidedly favourable to the Polish movement and to French interven tion ; and the sort of agitation carried on in French society by the Russians about the alleged cruelties of the Poles has but small effect. The Russian journal Le .Nord, published in Paris, has for days past dwelt on the atrocities committed by the Poles on the Russian soldiers who fell into their hands. These are calumnies; and we have seen that disarmed Russian detachments gained the Prussian frontier, and suffered no ill treatment from the insurgents. On the other hand, the mas sacres perpetrated at Tomaszow and Suchedniow show in what fashion the Russians act. The Nord has but few customers in Paris, but the Russians circulate it in society, and read these terrible details made up for the purpose. O ne R uss i an of high rank, who was enlarging a day or tw o ago i n a place of public resort on the enormities of the Poles, re ceived from one of his hearers this reply, " The stories you tell us seem very doubtful ; but even were they true they would be quite natural after all you have done in Poland." tne Opinione Nationale, the Organ of the Palais Royal, returns with renewed vigour to the subject of Poland. It would not do so if it were distaste ful to the Emperor. These articles in a paper which represents" Democratic Imperialism" may be thrown. out as feelers. It is worth while to ascertain whe ther intervention would be popular, while, at the same time, they do not compromise the Government, and may be disavowed at any moment. It also gives occasion to exalt the Bonapartes at the expense of the Bourbons, if we may judge from the second article in the Opinions Nationale of yesterday, headed "The Bourbons, Napoleons, and Poland." The Po.es, it is well known, had no great reason to be satisfied with Napoleon, whom they served with fidelity to the last, but who never realised the hopes which he had excited of reconstituting their na tionality. He certainly said that had he reigned during the first, the second, or even the third par tition, he would have armed all France to defend them. But at Tilsit the provinces which before the first dismemberment formed part of the kingdom of Pvland, and were subsequently annexed to Prussia, were detached from it, erected into a separate prin cipality—the Grand Duchy of Warsaw—and bestowed on the King of Saxony, with the excep tion of Bialystok, containing 200,000 souls, which was ceded to Russia. In order to humble Prussia to the dust, Napoleon had roused to the utmost the population of Prussian Poland; but he resolutely refused to encourage the Russian provinces of Lithuania to raise the standard of independence. " I love the Poles," he said to Rapp, after receiving one of their deputations " Their ardour pleases me. I wish to render them inde pendent, the task is not easy Too many nations are inte rest.d in their spoils,—Austria, Russia, Prussia. It the match is once lighted, there is no saying, where it would stop. My first duty is towards France, and it is no part of that duty to sacrifice its interests to Poland ; that would lead us too far. We must leave its destinies in the hands of the supreme disposer of all things—to Time, It will possibly teach us hereafter what course we ought to pur sue." The Opznione Nationale quotes various passages from the addresses of the Emperor to the Pollan. deputations. In November, 1806, he said : " France has never recognised the various partitions of Poland. Nevertheless I cannot proclaim your independence until you have decided on defending your rights as a nation, with arms in your hands, by all sorts of sacrifices, even that of your lives. Instructed by your calamities, unite, and prove to the world that one and the same spirit animates the whole Polish nation." Again on the 27th of the same month be said to the Polisti senators, presented by Count Radzi nunsiti " The misfortunes of Poland has been the result of its intestine divisions. What has been destroyed by force can only be repaired by force. Speeches and wishes are of no avail. If the priests, the nobles, and the middle classes make common cause and adopt the firm resolution to triumph or to die, they will triumph, and may count on my protection." As a contrast to this encouraging language the Opmione represents " a Bourbon, Louis Philippe d'Orleans" (afterwards King of the French), writ ing in the same month of the same year to Count d'Antraigues, who was setting out for St. Peters burg, a letter containing this passage : The Emperor of Russia must not suffer peace with Prussia; and if it be made, he mu t not recognise it. He must put in movement all the forces of his vast empire in order to prevent the resurrection of Poland, and he must do it whether Prussia is cowardly enough to submit or coura geous enough to oppose it. Tho fate of Russia, as well as of Prussia, depends on that of Poland." Two years afterwards the same Prince, while a refugee at the Court of Naples, wrote to Count d'Antragues on the preparations of Austria for the campaign of 1809 : " T have seen an army of 120,000 men in Poland under the command of the Archduke Ferdinand. Why, I asked myself, do you send a single man to Poland ? It is against Bonaparte that you should concentrate your forces. If you do net beat him, your 120,000 will not beat the King of Saxony. If you beat him, a detachment of 120 men will suffice to annihilate the King of Saxony and the Duke of Warsaw—and let there be no more about it." On the sth January, 1810, the Duke of Vicenza, Ambassador of France at the Court of Russia, signed the draught of a convention, stipulating, first, that the kingdom of Polandshon Id never be re-established; second, that the name of Pole.nd and of Pole should be proscribed in all public acts; third, that the Duchy of Warsaw should never have an increase of territory ; and, fourth, that the Convention should be made public. Napoleon refused to ratify this Convention, and persisted in saying that the re-establishment of Fe" land was desirable for all the Western Powers; and 1 as long as it was not re-established Europe would be without a frontier in the direction of Asia. " file severity of the weather," the Opinione adds, " tri: umphed over the efforts of Polish patriotism e an and French valour. Napoleon, vanquished by b ele ments, lost his throne, and the Bourbons returnedf to France." Philippe rl'h e. fol following ng Prince leo3 ln rtal a . l d e , t t his er from ambassador King L o Louis :diction to the annual b e e -n r of Deputies that Polish England, is a stran b g a e w assurance in theeldCe never perish : nationality should never perish it appears that you have not yet succeeded in making it g g It appea" v . are leo p n e a w o e r e a ld t h S a t. v P e e b t e er e s n bu co r n g v t u h l a s t ed b , u t t h f a o t r I . ko u n s : tiurnnitaearewvrsoeuntirdhnaaEtve lost Italy, as Belgium was taken from Hol land. c an it be or should it be forgotten that under the government of CzArtoryski, Poland, under the r evolutionary influence, would h ave b een up, and but for our judicious and salutary influence she would have united herself to France to repel, to crush—it cannot be doubted —Russia, notwithstanding her colossal strength, because it is true that when a people, really a people, rise for liberty, there is no power sufficient to subdue them. I hoped for better from the information you might have given as to the immense service we have rendered to Russia, to Austria, and to Prussia, a service which appears from tie fact since Poland has fallen, and not without some peril for use. Let us think of that a little more, not to be under the necessity of being incessantly reminded of it. Have you not the two letters of Lafayette containing reproaches against our Minister for having, by his advice and his promises, para lyzed Poland's means of defence ? Can the Cabinets t.o of Vienna and St. Petersburg want more, an all in the plans n danger be unknown which existed for Russia th ° which havo a A n d d am sy ? stem An o d f e d e e n fen it ce be ad f o o p rg te rb d tte b n y wthheatPtohleeys und;rtePureinecse the sole and powerful mover of the measures realized paralysed and it is we, rather he p s r e op r h es e o ti l e ut w io e n r s d — e resolutions—neutralized lized the system and break off here. Poland is no more ; tpheatnertshbeurgcoonuqguhetrotro ofth focus of incessant rebellion . . that the Cabinet of bt. n extinguished this Arrange so that they may thank for having at St, think Petersburg." ers a b u h r l g t . l , e , more of this at Vienna, and particularly held last great evening event of the day—the Polish insurrection. It is believed that the Moniteur will before long give some indication of the views of the Emperor on this grave subject. The Swedish Diet has doelared itself in favour of a common system of coins, weights, and measures for Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. stock stock stock 20 stock 50 100 stock S' ock 29 31 Pale. all 100 (100 100 2 15 ,IICO MEN 324 97 6 691 106 i 27 23 1051 1031 1041 `` ti