The Sun. — London, England, 1863-02-10 00:00:00

THE INSURRECTION IN POLAND, LEMBERG, Feb. 9. An order of the Emperor of Austria has been published to-day, decreeing the prorogation of the Galician Diet until the 2d of March. The resolu tion is supposed to have been adopted in consequence of Prince Sapiehn, having announced his intention of proposing that the Diet should vote an address to the Emperor of Austria requesting his diplomatic intercession with the Emperor of Russia in favour of Poland. A rumour is current that the Marquis Wielopo!ski has been assassinated. Feb. 9 (Evening). The insurrection at Olkusch is rapidly spreading, The insurgents under Kurowski are posted near Dombrown. L%ngiewiez is preparing to attack Czenstochau. The insurgents have promised the railway adminis tration not to destroy the line on condition that all trains shall stop if signalled by them to do so. MvsLownz, Feb. 8. The insurgents are in possession of all places 1331 ween Czentochow an,' the Prussian frontier. The Russian troops who had fled into Prussian ter ritory have been escorted to Heiwitz. Railway communication between Breslau and Warsaw has been re-established. BEUTIIEN, Feb. 8. Sumo hundreds of peasants suitable for military service have taken refuge with their goods on Prussian territory, near Brinica. The great landed proprietors are assisting the insurgents with horses and provisions. BERLIN, Feb. 9 (Evening). The Nord Deutsche Zeitung of this evening says : —" News of an alarming character has been re ceived from the Polish provinces. Up to the pre sent time the agitation prevailing in Russian Poland has not crossed our frontier, but great excitement has now commenced in some districts, chiefly in that of Kulm, amongst the Polish landed proprietors. It is believed that serious intervention on the part of the Government will become necessary." The Neuc Preusszche (Kreutz) Zeitung says— " The extension of the Polish insurrection has in creased. The whole of the Ist and 6th Prussian army corps, and a division of the 2d corps, are to be concentrated. It is rumoured that the battalion is in future to consist of 800 men." A Berlin journal, in a letter from Warsaw, dated the sth instant, supplies the following information respecting the revolt : " The chief place of assembly and seat of the or ganisation of insurgents who have not hitherto come into contact with the Russians is at Wonchocko, in the government of Radom, and stretches on one side over Suchodniow, where there is an imperial cannon foundry,and on the other side over Opatow to San domir, on the Galician boundary, whence the insur gents are unceasingly supplying themselves with weapons. Gen. Langiewicz, a former officer in Prussia, and later, as it is said, in the Garibaldian service, organises there, with the help of some Rus sian soldiers who have been captured, the insur gents who were partly compelled to rise, and is forming them into a regular corps. " A second place of assembly is the neighbour hood along the Lithuanian boundary from Biala to wards the west to Lukow, from the east to Janow (close to the Lithuanian boundary), and to Wen grow on the north. Two of these positions in Wen grow and in Biala have now been attacked and taken, after being for a long time unassailable on account of the want of military. At both places, according to the official report, the struggle was very severe, and ended with the flight of the insur gents. At Wengrow 150 were found killed, and nine wounded. The discrepancy between killed and wounded is explained by the fact that the insur gents carried away their wounded with them. They do not appear to have been pursued with much energy. In respect of the assemblage of insurgents at Biala, the official journal does not announce what is confirmed by other intelligence, that an attempt to surround them has been frustrated, and that they have been enabled to retire to Janow. " The third organised corps of insurgents is in the Augustowski Government, where a tendency to effect a junction with Lithuania is plainly visible. Here, also, with the exception of the above-men tioned fight, no decided advantage has been gained on the part of the Government. "As will bo seen by the above account, the situa tion of the Government is an extremely grave one, and although hitherto the movement was slighted and treated as a mid proc,?eding, much grave anxiety is now shown as to the result of the revolt in these districts. Many of the well-to-do Russian families have quitted the country, particularly the female portion of the inhabitants. " Where fear rules there also is the inclination to make some one a scape-goat for all misfortunes. However, tho Russian party are not disposed to single out M. Wielopolski. On the contrary, the Emperor has deolared, through his brother, the go vernor, that the margrave still enjoys his Majesty's confidence. Consequently, the chief of the army in Poland, General Ramsay, a known Liberal and blameless man, must suffer. He has therefore been relieved of his command, as it is a rule that no high Russian dignitary is superseded without he is ill, apoplexy has been alleged as the reason for the displacement of the general. " The official reports to the Commission of the Interior—a knowledge of which is only obtained here by private means—are almost without excep tion unfavourable to the Government, and full of complaints of the want of proper military protec tion. Every where the insurgents, even if only in small numbers, continue to take the public treasure and leave their receipts in exchange. The Russians are less conscientious in this respect. The commis sion has received information that in some places the Russians themselves have fallen upon the trea suries, and plundered them, without leaving any acknowledgment. " Persons are leaving Warsaw day by day to join the insurgents, notwithstanding the strong guards at the gates and at all means of exit. As soon as they reach the camps the oath is administered to them, and they take their places in the ranks im mediately. How, close is the communication be tween the insurgents and their families whom they have left behind them, and on the other side how circumspect are the leaders of the insurgents, is shown by the interesting fact that entire packets of unsealed letters from the insurgents to their rela tions are conveyed by ladies of this city. All letters, however, are open, and are only written on small scraps of paper, as other documents are not allowed to go out of the insurgents' camp." The official journal of the 4th inst. contains the following report : " In consequence of the court-martial jurisdiction exercised by each commander of troops, with the right of executing the sentences of these courts on all rebels taken with arms in their hands, eighteen men have been condemned at Plock, of whom two have been shot. "The chief of the Itadom military district an nounces that at the attack on the company of the bmolenski regiment at Bodzcntin, Lieut. Rapp was shot by M. OLnioski, vicar of the Bodz2ntin church. Many clergy in the neighbourhood have deserted their homes, and are now with the bands of rebels in the woods. They were not able to induce the country people to join them. Colonel Count Nostiz, adjutant to the Emperor, who with his command, consisting of 1,000 men ( seven companies of in fantry, two gu ns, and 15 Cossacks), Was stationed in the vicinity o f the fortress of B revesc Litewski, drew near the t own of Biala on the Ist inst., as he learned that 3,000 rebels were assembled there. As the bridge over the liy rn te river, tt, elotrvoeorsts drewfrom Biala, was found to he destroyed, the guns over the ices and bivoua.ked at night three versts from the town afte r having made At eleven made a forc e d march of 40 versts during the ay o'clock the rebels attacked the troops on all sides, with the view of routing them and capturing their guns. Th e s t rugg l e l a sted two hours. The insur gents could not make a stand against the musketry fire and the bayonets, but were repulsed, and retired in disorder towards Jarrow, with the loss of 42 men killed. The number of wounded must have been very considerable, bat the rebels carried them off. Of the troops three were killed and 15 wounded. account of the darkness of the night the insur- gents could not be pursued, and therefore Colonel Nostiz withdrew the troops to bivouac at the town of Bielsk, and next morning effected a junction with another division of troops, and definitively resolved to march against the rebels." wanted for a people which has just rid itself of an unconstitutional King, and which cherishes like wise a great national idea. While thus the cause of Duke Ernest makes rapid progress in all directions, the National Assembly has taken measures to bring forward once more before the world the wishes of the Greek nation. It could not do otherwise. Above 200,000 votes have been given by Greeks from all parts of the world, and the Assembly has to count and record those votes. A special paragraph in the rules relating to this process was brought forward yesterday for discussion, and a commission of 20 members drawn by lot has been intrusted with the work. The read ing of the paragraph led to a great manifestation in the Assembly. M. Tricoupi got up and sp,gre on the subject of this unanimous wish of the Greek people. He is one of the most eloquent men in the Assembly, and was first brought to notice by an eloquent speech on Lord Byron. The subject, as well as the disposition of the Assembly and the audience, was well calculated to stir up that elo quence, which, although displayed at a late hour, carried every one away. The early part of the sitting was taken up by the election of the two remaining Vice-Presidents and of the four Secretaries, which ended in the complete triumph of the Plain over the Mountain. Not one of the Vice-Presidents or Secretaries of this latter was elected. Tbis result was due to a combination of all the Ministerial fractions, that of the President included. It looks as if the new candidate, by offering the prospect of a speedy settlement, had acted as a sedative on the party passions which had been stirred up in the Provisional Government itself. In Warsaw the women of all classes are preparing lint for the wounded men in the forests ; and it is stated that the nuns of the St. Felicia Convent wish to proceed to the woods to nurse their countrymen. Some persons suspected of the attempt to poison the Margrave Wielopolski and his family have been apprehended, and have been examined, but the official report does not state whether the accused are Russians or Poles. In the Russian camp the reform-seeking Margrave is looked upon as the cause of all the evils, and particularly those which press the Russian Government at St. Petersburg on the road of liberal reforms. THE GREEK REVOLUTION. (From the times' Correspondent.) ATHENS, Jan. 31. On Tuesday last Mr. Elliot received a telegram stating that Duke Ernest of Saxe Coburg was ready to accept the Crown of Greece if it were offered to him ; that he was warmly supported both by France and England ; that ho would retain his paternal do• minions ; and that, having no children, he reserved to himself the right of proposing at once to the Greek nation a successor who was ready to adopt the orthodox religion. Good news from Europe has been scarce of late, but the scarcity has been made up for by this last intelligence. Since it arrived we have received the mails, which bring us more or less reliable details and ornamentations, and the impression produced by the news may be judged of from the eagerness with which these details have been seized upon and discussed. Among these are some further condi tions which Duke Ernest is said to have laid down —these are, an accession of territory towards Epi rus and Thessaly, through the mediation of Eng land and France, and a loan of £BOO,OOO. Even after reducing these two last conditions to their true value, as a disposition on the part of the Western Powers to see what can be done both with respect to a regulation of the frontier line towards Turkey, and to a future loan, which is indispensable to Greece, enough remains to satisfy all but the most unreasonable, for the support of Duke Ernest by France and England presents chances of a speedy solution of difficulties. And this is more than could be hoped for. In spite of all that has been said, written, and done, the name of Prince Alfred has not been eradicated from the minds of the people. Under all circum stances, it would have been difficult to allay so general and spontaneous a feeling, and to direct minds into another channel ; and it was much more so in this case, where there were so few other chan nels open. All those who were in any way connected with the three great powers were excluded by the protocol. The choice of an Italian Prince would have offered almost equal difficulties on the part of those great Powers. The very name of Austria is hated; the doubtful Constitutionalism of Prussia was little calculated to attract eyes in that direc tion; so nothing remained but to study the Almanache de Gotha, and find out the least objectionable in the numerous list of little German Princes, or else, as a coup de desespoir, to enquire whether any of the numerous sons of the late Sultan Abdul Medjid was disposed to be baptised and to undertake to annex Curkey to Greece. There was the additional difficulty of hitting upon one who, if not supported by the three great Powers, would at least not be objected to by them; and, in spite of all the grand ideas of popular sovereignty which are now the fashion, this was a very serious consideration. There was, indeed, the example of Italy, which did a great many things in the very teeth of divers great Powers ; but the Italians are a nation of 22 millions, and the Greek race all over the world numbers little more than one-tenth of that number. And then Italian national unity was a great idea which carried away every one, but how could the Greeks be expected to get up en thusiasm, or even a unanimity, for any one of those whom it was still left open t o them to choose ? With such difficulties before them no one can blame the Greeks, or call them unreasonable, if they are faith ful to the choice of their hearts, and will not give up until those who oppose the choice can agree upon some one who might be acceptable to them. They say, " We have made our choice, and we have no other. It is for the Powers who prevent us from having him we want to find a solution ; on them be the responsibility. What is the use of our choosing again but to risk another refusal ? So let the Powers come to an understanding and make a pro posal, and wo will see whether it suits us." Such has been the language all along of everybody, and no one has even troubled himself about another choice. In the meantime the people at large are still wait ing for the arrival of Prince Alfred. Were it not for the unanimous accounts which come in from all the provinces, it would be almost incredible to what ex tent his name has become engraven on the minds of the masses. Only the other day Mr. Scarlett made a trip along the coast in her Majesty's ship Queen, and stopped for a couple of days in the secluded little Bay of Kranidi, to the south-east of Nauplia. It is as wild and little visited a spot as any in Greece, with only a couple of small villages on the hills. In the afternoon the party took a walk on shore, along the narrow path which leads up the hills, when I they were met by a peasant driving half-a-dozen donkeys before him-. Hearing one of the ladies speak Greek, he immediately inquired when Alfred was coming, and would listen to no reasoning, insisting that Greece cannot get on without him. Wherever the party went it was the same—at Poros, Nauplia, Argos, everywhere addresses and demonstrations. In vain were all devices resorted to to avoid them— the whole population had conspired to make their wishes manifest. Whenever a stranger makes his appearance he must submit to be questioned and harangued on the subject. The nationality of the stranger matters little, and only 10days ago I heard a most amusing account of Alfred m inifestations made for the benefit of a French gentleman and lady who were making a tour in the Peloponnesus. The only awkward thing is the hard-sounding foreign name of Alfred. Even by affixing the en dearing diminutive and making " Alfredalis" of it it cannot be naturalised, so the simple-minded people have taken to calling him "the Son of the Widow." Such being still the feeling of the masses, it was not surprising that the first quality which seized hold of their imaginations when Duke Ernest was announced was his relationship to Prince Alfred. He is " the uncle of his nephew." " Ernest" is even more difficult for a Greek tongue than "Alfred," so the candidate goes among the people under the name of " the uncle." Whether the qualification of being " the uncle" was taken into consideration by diplomacy or not I don't know, but it certainly is the one which is most calculated to recommend Duke Ernest to the masses of the people, As it is also known that ho wishes to propose a nephew as his successor, the transition from illusion to reality becomes so much the more easy. To those who think as well as feel, his greatest recommendation is that he comes strongly sup ported by France and England. Prince Alfred promised such real and fancied advantages that every one would have braved any displeasure on the part of Russia and France, but no one dreamt of doing so for any one else who could have been named. The warm support promised by Eng land and France to the Sovereign proposed is a guarantee that the Western Powers again work to gether in the Eastern question; and this is of no small value for a people who so eagerly look for ward in that direction. Since he has been proposed, every one inquires eagerly about the Duke's personal qualities ; and these can only strengthen the disposition which exists to look favourably on the new candidate. The man who alone among all Continental Sove reigns was not frightened by the events of 1848.49, and who alone resisted the general reaction in 1850, which was so fatal to Constitutionalism—he who has warmly espoused the cause of German nationality, and has stedfastly adhered to the pro mises he had made to his peop,e,--i s the very man THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 10, 1863. tense interest in Greece. The cases of Greece and Italy are not parallel. The latter consolidated under one head many old-established and organised go vernments ; the former has destroyed an organised Government, good or bad, and claims territorial ex tension at the cost of her patron's ally. Recom mending a King under a constitutional protector looks very like imposing a sovereign, and very un like a grant of free choice. Lastly, Greece believes that when all has been tried Great Britain will give in, if they only nail their colours to the mast, and give them Prince Alfred ! stable named Richardson, No. 219 H, with a prostitute hanging on his arm. The unfortunate woman is much disfigured, and has been in a state of great suffering ever since the occurrence. then on him would rest the acceptance or rejection of its advice. Mr. James Jackson, house-surgeon at the London Hos. pital, said the prisoner's wife was brought there on the night of the 31st of January with one side of her face, her neck, and her arm severely burnt. The liquid did not go upon her eye. If it had the sight would most probably have been destroyed. Some of the liquid fell upon the eyelid. The injuries were effected with some corrosive substance. Vitriol, that is to say sulphuric acid, would have done it. The prisoner made no defence. Mr. Woolrych committed the prisoner for trial. SOUTHWARK.—Bartholomew Mahoney, aged about 20, was summoned by Inspector Upton, M division, for maliciously firing a loaded rifle in the public streets, thereby endangering the lives of the inhabitants. Mr. Williams, a shopkeeper, carrying on business in New square, Dockhead, said that on the afternoon of the 21st ult. he saw the prisoner with a gun in his hand, which he was frequently in the habit of carrying. About two o'clock he heard the report of firearms near his windows, but on going out he saw no person, excepting a few boys playing about. He, however, perceived that a rifle ball had pierced a panel in Mr Newell's gate, which hundreds of persons passed almost hourly. Mr. Burcham observed that there was not sufficient evi • dente to prove that the prisoner fired the gun. He gave him the benefit of the doubt by discharging him, although morally he had no doubt that he had fired the rifle. LAMBETH.—John Witham, a man of respectable ap pearance, was charged with intermarrying with Matilda Burgess, his former wife, Emily, being then and still living. Both the wives were present, and each had an infant in arms about the same age. The prisoner did not deny the charge, but said that six years ago his first wife left him to live with a young man, by whom she had since had three or four children; and, under these circumstances, he thought he was at liberty to marry again. Ho was remanded. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TlMES.—There can now be no doubt of the mag nitude of the Polish insurrection. The dates and the names of places cannot err. The column of Polish news and a map of the country are enough to show how widespread is the revolt, and how little progress has been made in suppressing it, in spite of alleged victories over the insurgents. We cannot but expect that public opinion in England will be much moved by the news of these events. This generation has been brought up in the belief that the partition of Poland was the greatest of modern political crimes. It has also been accus tomed to look upon the particular Government of the late Emperor Nicholas as harsh and vindictive beyond the precedents of the most despotic monarchies. The right of the Poles to throw off so oppressive a yoke, and the duty of sympa thising with them, and, if possible, assisting them, has passed into the creed of every liberal Englishman ; and however strong may have been the feelings of men on this subject years ago, they have been made still stronger, first by the Russian War, and then by the spectacle of Italy successfully winning her freedom from a Government much less oppressive than that of the Czar. How, then, shall we ask our countrymen to act at such a time as the present P It is a difficult question, for England has little influence with the Government which has driven the Poles into rebellion, and she has no direct power. In the heart of Europe, far beyond the reach of Western fleets or armies, the Impe rial troops are fighting with hasty levies of Polish citizens, or peasants led by men whose bold spirit or the possession of a military train ing has marked them out for command. The first impulse of a people like our own is to meet and protest against the violation of human rights, or to demand:of the Government that it should take some steps to make the national opinion known at St. Petersburg. But a Government has a very plain and decided path of duty. Experience has shown how impolitic, how undignified, how mischievous, it is for statesmen in office to make themselves the mouthpiece of national indignation or irritability. It is for the people, for the press, for private men in Parliament to express sympathy and antipathy ; but for Ministers of the Crown there is one golden rule in foreign policy—either to do something or to say nothing. The curses instead of the blessing of re volutionists have been on this country many times during the present century because high officials by imprudent language have held out hopes which could never be realised. The speakers meant no thing but to express in vigorous terms public opi nion at home, or to rebuke a high-placed evildoer on some continental throne. But those who are in the heat of a revolution and whose fate is trem bling in suspense cannot make allowances for Mi nisters who are also members of Parliament and accustomed to make popular harangues. They think that the land of liberty is about to intervene actively in their favour, and when they find that all the de monstrations meant nothing, and that the eloquent statesmen content themselves with a smartly writ ten despatch, they not unnaturally accuse England of selfishness and deception, if not of truckling to absolute power. We may hope, therefore, that if Mr. Hennessy or any other private member brings the subject of Poland before the House of Commons the Governmentwill meet the question prudently and with a sense of this responsibility. It is just be cause we think it the duty of civilised nations to do their best to bring to an end the long agony of a brave people that we would deprecate any rheto rical commonplaces about liberty and despotism and the iron domination of the Czar. In this respect the conduct of the French Government, with which we should have to act in any remonstrance, might wisely be taken as a guide. It may be said that the Emperor Napoleon has shown himself too favour ably disposed to Russia, and that his Minister the other day checked rather too unfeelingly the sym pathies of the Assembly with the Polish cause. But we cannot condemn this conduct when we remem ber how little was done by the annual protests of the Chamber of Deputies in Louis Philippe's time, and by that Monarch's ostentatious ratification of them. Nothing went more to give Nicholas a be lief in his own strength, and to encourage him in assuming an arrogant tone towards Europe, than the spectacle of the first Continental Power and its chosen dynasty thus showing their impotence to help his rebellious subjects. The French Emperor, perhaps, has no intention of interfering even by amicable counsels. It may be that when the dis cussion took place two or three days ago the Govern ment was not yet aware of the serious character of the insurrection. But even now it may think that the Russian army, with its numbers, its dis cipline, and its resources, must shortly crush the bands that have risen up against it. To do anything effectual for Poland must be to carry armies half over Europe, and first to fight the German Powers which shared the guilt and the spoil of the par tition. Influenced by these considerations, it may be that Napoleon will do nothing for the Poles; but whatever may be his intentions, we cannot blame his Government from refraining from any premature anti-Russian demonstrations, and we trust our own will follow its example. Far be it, however, from us to suggest that this opportunity of redressing the greatest of European wrongs should be allowed to pass away unused. It is impossible to read the intelligence which comes to us from Poland without feeling that the present is one of those great national struggles which ought not to be suppressed in blood. Nor are we without some reason for supposing that other provinces of the empire are almost wearied into revolt. In Poland itself it is difficult to conceive how an insurrection could have been so well planned, and should have broken out so suddenly and so successfully, unless something like disaffection existed among the troops who had been so posted, after the experience of many previous revolts, as to act with the best advantage against the population. The changes through which R uss ia i s passing and the personal character of the Emperor combine with the resolution of the Poles to encourage a hope that the Russian Government might be disposed to make concessions. The peace of Poland, the esteem of Europe, and the progress of Russia herself require that the scandalous ri gour of the Warsaw Government should be abated. Is it out of the power of nations like England and France to recommend these necessary reforms? We think it is not, and that the goodwill of Prussia and Austria might possibly be secured for such a scheme. At least, the opinions of the civilised West might be deliberately made known to the Czar, and DAILY NEWS.—A paragraph in the notices of motion printed in our summary of Parliamentary business yesterday discloses a little corner of Mr. Gladstorn's forthcoming Budget. The duties on tobacco and snuff are to be reduced. At present these duties yield nearly one-fourth (£5,604,032) of the total revenue (£24,000,000) derived from customs duties. Our financiers have always treated these luxuries as articles which they were war ranted in taxing as heavily as possible, without that tender regard for the interests of the consumer which is just when duties on articles of necessity, such as sugar and tea have become, are in question. Accordingly a customs duty 3s. I.ld. per lb., equal to 900 per cent. on the value, is levied on unmanu factured tobacco, and a duty of 9s. sd. per lb. on imported cigars and snuff. An agitation for a re duction of these duties in the interest of the con sumer is perhaps what nobody would think of at tempting. Not but that there is a great deal to be said of injustice and inequality in the levying of the tax on various classes of the community, since the real Havannah and the cheap and nasty cigar, the one worth ls., the other 10s. or I ls, per lb., pay the same duty. However, we do not expect to hear the Chancellor of the Exchequer proposing a reduction of the duties in committee on these grounds. We rather anticipate that, like his predecessors, he will consider it right to levy as large an amount of duty as he can from tobacco, and will recommend a re duction of the rate as a protection to the revenue, and indeed as a means of increasing it. Mr. Glad stone proposes to reduce the duty on foreign cigars from 9s. sid. to ss. per lb., and on snuff from 9s. bid. to 3s. per lb., while other manufactured tobacco is to pay 4s. He further proposes that " unmanufactured tobacco warehoused in any warehouse approved for security of duties of Customs may, in such warehouse, be manufactured or converted into the articles denominated cavendish or negrohead tobacco; and upon every pound thereof produced by such manufacture or conversion there shall be charged and paid on the delivery thereof for home consump tion the Customs duty of 3s. 81." Some change in this direction is necessary if we are not to lose the large revenue we now derive from these articles, and with it the means of absolving more impor tant commodities from excessive burdens. Under the present system of duties the revenue from tobacco and snuff is languishing. It does not par take of the elasticity and movement common to the revenue derived from other articles which enter into general consumption. The duty is checking consumption, or at least what for fiscal purposes is the same thing, it is checking the consumption of the duty-paid article. In their report for 1861 the Commissioners of Customs show that while in the preceding year the consumption of currants rose 33 per cent., of spirits 11 per cent., of refined sugar 6 per cent., of tea 6 per cent., and of coffee 3 per cent., that of tobacco rose only 1 per cent. For the ten years 1850-1860 our importation of manufactured tobacco stood still, and since the latter date it has been falling off. Nobo. y believes that we actually consume less tobacco than we formerly did; the falling off arises from the evasion of duty. Our high rates place a premium upon smuggling and adulteration. The Report of the Commissioners of Customs are full of stories, some of them very enter taining, of the ingenuity by which the revenue laws are evaded in respect of these articles. Against the professional smuggler precaution may be taken, but when the bulk of our seafaring population, and nearly all the people who hang about the shipping in port, dabble in smuggling as an occasional occu pation, it is another matter. Indeed, our revenue officers admit that they cannot prevent the smug gling of tobacco while the inducements to it are so great. The true remedy for this state of things, injurious alike to the public treasury and public morals, is that which was pointed out by Mr. Hume's Committee in 1844 ; it consists in reducing the rate of duties to such a point as that smuggling may become unprofitable, while the loss to the re venue will be repaired by the increase in the quan tities of the commodity brought to duty. We have reduced Customs duties for various reasons of late years—some in order to encourage trade, some to lighten the burden to the taxpayer; these tobacco duties need alleviating for the sake of the public revenue. The enormous consumption of tobacco leaves not the least room for doubting that an aug mentation of the revenue would follow the proposed change. HERALD.—The Duke of Saxe-Coburg has defi nitely declined the throne of Greece. The an nouncement jars strangely with the report that Mr. Elliot bad intimated the consent of the Duke to the Greek Provisional Government. But from Lord Palmerston's explanations last night it may now be assumed that his Royal Highness is not likely to change his mind again ; and that, notwithstanding Duke Ernest's desire to oblige Earl Russell, who did soi-disant Liberal Germany a good turn in his Schleswig despatch, and who has set his heart upon giving the Greeks a King of his own choosing, the throne of Greece is still vacant. The terms of the Duke seem, indeed, to have been so exorbitant, or his determination not to " change his position" so strong, that Earl hussell at one time broke off the negotiation and looked elsewhere for an eligible Sovereign. And now the gift has dropped from his bands; he is once more in search of a constitutional King. We shall not be surprised to find him re turning toKingOtho,and recommending the Greeks to make a third trial of that unfortunate Sovereign. Possibly the lonian Islands may bribe them into accepting his lordship's dictation. For our own part we were not so confident as our contemporaries pro fessed to be, that the Greeks would ratify Earl Rus sell's undertakings. They gave him no commission to choose them a Sovereign ; and the particular per sons he had selected as King and Crown Prince were, for very good reasons, especially objectionable to them. The Great Powers, in recognising the Provincial Government, have recognised the right of the Greeks to choose their King, and have undertaken to recognise any King whose election should not be a violation of treaties or an encour agement to revolution and aggression on Turkey. The Greeks elected Prince Alfred, but the English Government intimated to them that the Prime could not accept the throne. The Greeks did not reply by asking the English Government to procure them some other King. Earl Russell has acted precisely as if they had given him that commis sion. He picked out King Ferdinand of Portugal, and declared him King. When Ferdinand de clined he elected the Duke of Saxe Coburg ; on the Duke's refusal he selected Prince Leiningen—and then he came back to the Duke, and presented him anew to the Greeks as their King. The Greeks we expected would resent this interference with their independence, and would resent more espe cially the selection. The Duke of Saxe-Coburg is an able and upright prince; he is connected with the Royal family of England. But these merits will scarcely weigh against his nationality, his age, and his unfortunate want of children. The Greeks learned in the reign of Otho to hate Germany and the Germans. What they most congratulate them selves upon in this bloodless revolution was that they had done for ever with Germany ; and yet they were asked to take another German Sovereign, to bear the presence of another shoal of German councillors and courtiers. They wanted a King for whom they could feel some enthusiasm; they wanted a young man, v%ho, living in Greece, mak ing it his country, might imbibe something of Greek feelings; a King who, although not born a Greek himself, might found them a Greek dynasty —a King from whom there might spring princes born on the Greek soil, bred up in Greek traditions and customs, knowing no other home than Greece, no other passion and interest than its glory and prosperity. They were offered a King whose age prohibits enthusiasm, who told them plainly enough that he did not care about them, and that he thought their sovereignty a somewhat thankless task; a King whose affections and interests, much of whose time, must have been devoted to his other posses sions, and who is childless. The only chance for the Duke of Saxe-Coburg was, that the English Government made his election the price of the cession of the lonian Islands. To gain that increase of territory the Greeks mightactept a Sovereign whom they disliked in the hope that they would soon have THE lONIAN ISLANDS. FEB. 1. The news that the Grand Duke Ernest has repu diated the crown of Greece, which has been hawked about among the princely families of Europe for some time past, has created considerable impression here, No respectable Prince, it appears, will have anything to do with it, and all seem to have too much good feeling to ascend the still warm throne of King Otho. The public does nothing but conjure up what it calls " candidates," but, in fact, possible or desira ble princes; the last is the Duke of Nassau and Prince Leiningen, the captain of the Magicienne, which lately left this for Malta, but who appears to prefer the probability of commanding the Queen's yacht. It would appear that the Princes of Europe are aware of what they have to expect in Greece. It is a great thing to be a king, but it is very igno minious to be unkinged by a mob of idlers who want a change for change's sake, or by a disaffected military. Any king who did not at once proclaim an aggressive policy towards Turkey would share a like fate; he must ascend the throne with the sword in one hand and the banner inscribed " In hoc vinces" in the other, and when beaten, which he indubitably must be, his throne would be declared vacant. The miscarriage would be laid at his door, and a more successful general sought. The supposed good faith of the British Minister as to the cession has caused a panic here among the holders of Government securities. The lonian Government has a loan on Exchequer Bills at three months, renewable, to the amount of £lOO,OOO. Notices are daily coming in to the treasury general for their payment, which must cause considerable embarrassment to the Govern ment. Up to this time these bills stood at par, and bear 5 per cent. Some have been taken up by the lonian Bank at 1 per cent. discount on speculation that the cession cannot be effected, if at all, for three months at least, which leaves a profit of 4 per cent. The first to give notice was Mr. Gladstone's chief councillor, whence it is generally supposed he has had the best financial advice. His example is gene rally followed ; but the probability is that he takes the lead with a view to embarrassing the Govern ment. The question is serious for these States, and up to the present time about half the debt has been notified. Great Britain in no way guarantees this debt, which has, moreover, been illegally contracted, having been raised without the authority of the Assembly ; hence, on the surrender, Greece would not be bound to recognise it. In point of fact, it is not a State security at all, but a loan illegally raised by Government, which Greek acuteness would not fail to discover and repudiate accordingly. The tradesmen are preparing a memorial to the British Government for indemnification on the ces sion being effected, on the ground that they in vested their capital i❑ various " plants" under the faith that they would live under the aegis of British protection, and that their property would become worthless after the surrender. Several merchants are said to have done the same ; and those who de rive pensions from the fund for that purpose which has been used by the lonian Government—that is, put into these illegal Exchequer-bills—are applying for a guarantee, to which they all are certainly equitably entitled. Great Britain may therefore add these sums to the present guaranteed Greek Loan, on which she has so long and cheerfully paid interest, and which may eminently be termed a bad debt. Great Britain's faith, however, in financial matters must be upheld ; and doubtless Mr. Glad stone, to whom the lonians owe so deep a debt of gratitude, inspired by the shade of Homer and the remembrance of Marathon and Thermopylae, will hasten to the aid of these disconsolate classes and take up their little bill for honour. We shall meet it again in the budget. While on the subject of finance, it will not be out of place to correct a misapprehension which natu rally exists in England that these islands are a source of expense. On the contrary, it is the only British possession abroad which is not so. The lonian state pays £25,000 a year for military pro tection, and £13,000 for the Queen's civil list. The former sum fully suffices for that amount of troops necessary for the maintenance of public order, and if the British Government choose to make the islands a depot for troops for the sake of conveni ence or health, and because Gibraltar and Malta are full, this expense should not be charged against the islands, nor the engineering works, which would be utterly useless if Great Britain had not the em pire of the sea, and equally useless inasmuch as she has it. In British colonies the Government and other employes are paid by the home Government, the colony, when flourishing, contributing what it may please; but here the state Exchequer pays all, and the home Government pays nothing. England then is at no expense on account of the lonian Islands, which, on the other hand, profit by the naval and military expending here that which in any case must be spent somewhere or other. Thus England benefits the islands to an extent greater than their own revenue, without either profit or loss to herself, and of this the lonians are well aware. The public now begins seriously to dcubt the good faith of the English Ministry on the cession question. They attribute the offer to revenge on the part of Mr. Gladstone in consequence of his utter failure here during his antiquarian expedition He threw himself into the arms of a party blindfold, who willingly misled him, and now openly congra tulates themselves at the facility with which they duped the great British Minister ; in the meantime they have succeeded in their object—that of getting Planes, and work unde r h an d t o t u t e li se an y p ro j ec t he may pro pose intend to ke; keep it. t. y have Peopleg otink t whathit theyimpossible want, and that England should not see the importance of the possession of the Sentinel of the ./Egean, m o p a e t , e w r h a l o s n e n s ;t e t t u a r n a c l e ally wh is er e F a r s a n e c h e e , especially since th e constitution of Italy as a w ha n d from Great Britain only mor a l support. Ao a p ff o o w r e d r ed in h E er ur mari time power of 22,000,000 has been formed in the Mediterranean, which thrown into the French scale, with whom all her sympathies lie, and under whose influence she is, cannot be indifferent to England. The idea of taking up Greece, as France took up Italy, on the national principle, is simply ridiculed, as it is notorious they are incapable of administra tive government ; nay, they themselves admit it. To adopt then such an element as the basis of ope rations, and as a counterpoise to French influence in the Levant, is purely an error, which must in evitably cause infinite trouble and national expense to England. The public of the Levant cannot imagine why Great Britain, and above all others Lord Palmerston, should suddenly take such an in- POLICE INTELLIGENCE--Feb. 9. MANSION-HOUSE.—John Kean, 23, a bricklayer's labourer, living in Goulston-street, Whitechapel, was placed at the bar before the Lord Mayor, charged with a robbery. The complainant, Peter Gassowski, a foreigner, was in the Angel Tavern, John-street, Minories, about 7 o'clock on Saturday evening. Ho was the worse for liquor, according to the evidence of two witnesses, but that he himself denied. The prisoner was drinking at the counter with some ac quaintances, and the complainant, to whom they were strangers, treated them with some beer, for which he imme diately paid. As he did so he laid his purse, which contained nine sovereigns at least, if not ten, and some silver, upon the counter. At that moment some one pushed rudelyagainst him from behind, and he turned round to remonstrate. While his back was to the counter the prisoner, whom he had just before treated, snatched up the purse and put it into his jacket pocket. The barmaid, who saw him take it, charged him with the theft. The prisoner acknowledged it, and shook the sovereigns in his pocket. A labouring man, named Haynes, who was in the bar and had seen the rob bery, went out and brought a policeman ; but before the arrival of the constable the prisoner took the purse out of his pocket and replaced it on the counter, It was then found to contain only three sovereigns. On being searched in the publichouse £3 10s. in gold and 9s, 6d. in silver were found in the prisoner's jacket pocket, and he dropped a sovereign on the floor. Another sovereign was afterwards found con cealed in the lining of his coat at the police-station. The prisoner admitted that he took the purse, but said he did it as a joke, and sought to excuse himselt by saying he was in liquor at the time. He added he had worked for a large building firm continuously for the last five years, The Lord Mayor sentenced him to two months' impri sonment, with hard labour. GUILDHALL.—Narcisse Le Jenne, a young French man, was charged before Alderman Humphery with ab sconding from his master's employ at Amiens, and stealing bonds and other securities to the amount of 40,000 f., or £1,600 sterling, the property of M. Lucien Boileau, a prin ter and lithographer at Amiens. The prisoner was brought up in the custody of Serjeants Russell and Green, of the city detective force. Mr. Hamilton, the chief of the city detective department) stated that an application in writing was made to the Com missioner a few days ago, and that at the same time a num ber of bills were forwarded fir distribution among bankers and others containing information that the prisoners had absconded from Amiens, taking with him securities to the value of £1,600. In reply to questions put by Alderman flumphery, Mr. Hamilton said he found the prisoner in Earl-street Blackfriars, where he had been staying since his arrival in this country. He had got all the bonds back, with the ex ception of about £7. Alderman Humphery—l see they are Roman and Portu guese bonds, and negotiable in the same way as money. It is very fortunate the prisoner fell iato such good hands so soon, or the bonds would have been converted. Sergeant Russell said—Oa receiving instructions from Mr. Hamilton I made inquiries at the different bullion dealers, and at length ascertained from Mr. Haas that the prisoner had parted with some of the bonds, and given his address at Earl-street, Blackfriars. I went there, and found he had removed, but I succeeded in tracing him from place to place until I found him at the Argyll Rooms. I did not apprehend him at once, but kept him under surveillance until the prosecutor could be communicated with, and then, with the assistance of an interpreter, I told him the charge against him. He made nc reply at first, but, on seeing one of the handbills, he admitted that he was the person named in it, and gave up the bonds produced, four £5 Bank of England notes, and between £2 and £3 in money. M. Lucien Boileau said,—l reside at Amiens, where I carry on business as a printer and lithographer. The pri soner was a clerk in my employ, and had been in my service about five years. About 3. week ago he left Amiens, and three days afterwards I pissed the bonds in question, to the value of 40,000 f. It was all the property I possessed. I propose to take the prisoner back with me, and have no wish to prosecute him. Alderman Humphery—You may take the prisoner back with you; and you ought to be exceedingly grateful to the officers for recovering so large an amount of property. Th e case reflects the greatest credit upon the City police for their vigilance and expedition in capturing the delinquent. The prisoner was then discharged, and the bonds ordered to be given up to the prosecutor. The bonds were stolen on the Ist of the present month ; they were missed on the 4th; on the sth or 6th the infor mation was forwarded to the City police, and on the evening of the 7th the prisoner was in custody. MARYLEBONE.—WiIIiam James Lamb, a young man, calling himself a lawyer's clerk, was charged with making use of threatening language. Frederick Vickery, a glass and china dealer, at 38, Great Marylebone-street, stated that latterly he had become acquainted with the prisoner. He represented that he was in reduced circumstances, and that he could paint and write signboards and faciae. The witness employed him last Thur-day to write his name in gold letters over his facia, and in reply as to what he would charge the prisoner said ss. The witness said he would give him double that amount, and furthermore sent him to a tradesman in that neighbourhood to get the materials. The prisoner set to work the same day, and after doing the first letter of the witness's name packed up his things and went away. On Saturday evening he came into wit ness's parlour, as the latter and his wife were at dinner, and demanded to be paid. A refusal was given to him, when he placed his hand inside his coat and said he would knife him if he did not turn over the money. This threat he repeated several times, and a policeman was called in and took him in charge. In reply to Mr:Yardley, the witness said he believed the prisoner knew nothing about painting. He had made a sort of " F" which neither himself nor any one else could understand. The witness in answer to questions by the prisoner, added that the latter had fitted a key to his door, and also cleaned a clock for him, which since then did not go at all. Mr, Yardley said it Was perfectly clear the prisoner had no claim upon the prosecutor, and, as it was stated that there were further charges likely to he brought up, remanded him till Wednesday next, but allowed bail to be taken. CLERKEN WELL—Frederick B ar tl e tt , a respecta b ly dressed young man, who described hi mse lf as o f no occupa tion, residing at 48, George-street, Hampstead-road, was charged with stealing a pug dog, value £lO 10s, from 19, Tavistock-place. Mr. Lewis, of Great Marlborough-street, attended for the prosecution, and Mr. John Wakeling for the defet. ce. The dog is the property of Mr. Henry Gilbert, a medical man, residing at 2, Suffolk-place, Pall-mall. A few days since, when out with a lady near Tottenham-court-road, it ran away. She followed it as far as the British Museum, and then lost sight of it. The dog was next seen by a lady residing in Tavistock-place, who, when passing through Euston-square, saw the dog, which fell at her feet ex hausted. Sho picked it up and took it home and kept it until the evening, when the prisoner called for it and said the dog vas his. The prisoner wrote an address on a piece of paper, which his since been ascertained fro be false, and then the dog was given to him. The descrip tion given of the dog exactly corresponded with that be • longing to Mr. Gilbert, and there could be no doubt from the evidence that it was the same. From what came to the knowledge of the prosecutor he put the matter in the hands of the police, who apprehended the prisoner on Saturday night at a beershop where a dog show was being held. On telling him the charge he said he knew nothing of the mat ter, and that the police were mistaken. The prisoner then gave a correct address. Mr. Wakeling addressed the magistrate, and contended that the evidence was not sufficient to justify a conviction against his client, and asked for the dismissal of the charge. _ _ Evidence was given which showed that the prisoner bad borne a good character for years, that he was the son of a solicitor, that his brother held a commission in the army, and that he lived on an allowance provided by his family. Mr. Barker sentenced the prisoner to four months' hard labour in the House of Correction. Mr. Wakeling said he should appeal against the znagis [rate's decision, THAMES.—Johann Metze, aged 36, was brought up on remand before Yr. \Voolrych, charged with throwing a large quantity of vitriol over his wife, who has been under medical treatment for the last ten days, and appeared in court with her head, face, and neck covered with ointment and surgical bandages. The persons are Germans, who were only married a few months ago. Not long after the wedding the prisoner be gan to illuse his wife, and would not supply her with food. She then went upon the streets. Her husband, a stoker on board a steamboat called tho Falcon, made no objection to what his wife was doing, and paid very little attention to her. A few weeks since, however, he obtained a letter ad dressed to her by a sailor with whom she had been living, and this seems to have aroused his jealousy. On Saturday, Jan. 31, he found her in a beer and dancing-house called the Bremen Flag, in Ratcliff-highway, and asked her to come out. She refused to do so, and a few angry words ensued. He then took a bottle of vitriol from his pocket, and after deliberately uncorking it, threw the contents at her, which burnt the left side of her face, neck, shou ld ers , and arm in a f r i g h t f ul manner. Some of the burning liquid fell on the clothes of the bystanders, one of whom was slightly burnt, and upon the prisoner's own clothes, He ran away, and was taken a f ew m i nutes afterwar d s by a police-con- an opportunity of getting rid of him. We were to sacrifice the lonian Islands, abandon .."1 position necessary to the maintenance of our infit.'ence in the Mediterranean and our overland comm: 1111 e& - tion with India ; expose the Turkish empire, which we have undertaken to maintain, to the full force of intrigues which, as Eal Russell himself says, are highly " criminal," and " are directed ultimately to the subversion of every throne in Europe"—all for the sake of forcing the Greeks to elect a Sovereign whose occupancy of the throne could not fail to be disastrous alike to himself, t' Greece, and to England. If the Duke of Coburg had ascended the Greek throne, after an election is which there would certainly have been no unani mity, he would have found the country full of dis content and poverty. If he could be left to settle matters with his subjects that would not so much have mattered. But if England had put the Duke of Saxe-Coburg on the throne of Greece she would have had to susrain him there, alike against hie own subjects and other nations. We might have made the most solemn resolutions that we would do nothing of the sort, but it would be quite out of our power tokeep them. The Duke would have repre sented English influence, he is a connection of our Royal house, he had accepted the throne at the urgent request of our Government. We should have been bound to stand by him, and we should have been involved, from the day he assumed the government, in just the same entanglements and liabilities in which the acceptance of the throne by Prince Alfred would have involved us. Almost the first thing the future King of Greece will do, will be to ask the Government to lend him some money or guarantee a loan. Money he must have in order to start clear, and the application will be one im possible to refuse. Whoever takes the throne for our accommodation will certainly demand our help to make it comfortable. If he quarrels with his own subjects we shall land a regiment or two for his protection; if he goes to loggerheads with France, Russia, or Turkey, as he is likely enough to do, we shall have to lend him our support. As it is we are just as well pleased that we have not this new embarrassment on our hands. The dispatches we publish in another column show how earnestly Earl Russell has laboured to impose his will upon the Greeks. And we doubt if even the paramount ascendancy of Russia at Athens would do us half the mischief which we shall suffer from the efforts of Earl Russell to render English influence all supreme there. COUNTRY MARKETS. 4.,_._. COLCHESTER—FEB. 7. A liberal supply of grain, but trade dull, and prices un altered. Wheat, white 46s 528 Beans,Mazagan..3os 331 red 42s 48s middle & 5ma11.358 42s Barley Oats . 20s 26s gray 35s 380 GLOUCESTER-FEB. 7. To-day there was a good supply of English wheat from the farmers, which sold at is per qr less money. Foreign was in limited demand, and 6d lower. Oats, barley, and beans very dull. RD---FEB. 6. 1-day there was a dull trade e a downward tendency. teas, Partridge 37s 400 White 39s 400 Boiling .. 40s 430 Dun 35s 380 Ditto new —s 0.--13 Beans, Tick, old —348 39s new --0 —s Harrow Ticks 3ss 40s new --s —0 Mazagan ..... 3OB 38s CHELMSP At this corn exchange to. in wheat, and prices still have Wheat, old white 34s 52s new 36s 50s old red 40s 49s new 36s 47s Barley .. 36s Chevalier ..28s 39s Grinding 22s 31s Malt.... Chevalier 64s 69s Oats 20s 28s KIRKCALDY GRAIN-FEB. 7. We had moderate supplies of wheat, small of barley, but large of oats. Sales slow. Wheat brought 6d to is less money. Barley and oats much as last week. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First....3ls Od I 23s Od I 18s Od Second ..42s Od 28s Od 24s Od Third....—s Od —s Od ‘—s Od COAL N Prices of Coal per Ton at s. d. ARKET. the clove of the market. 0. di Byass's Bebside West - Hartley ...14 6 Carway and Duffryn Malting Lambert's West Hart- _ _ _ Walls End. Tunstall Hetton .. K elloe South Kelloe Hartlepool ***.: 1 1 1 65676 6 3003 South Hartlepool 15 0 aswell l7 6 6 Cassop ....... 16 0 Heugh Hall 15 inidon Hartlepool l6 6 6 Franawellgate Hunwick... .. l5 0 0 Rid dell .. . . . l4 0 Russel's Hetton 15 6 Eden 15 Acorn Close ..15 0 Byron l4 1 ?, Harton l4 ° Braddyll's Hetton 15 9 South Hetton 17 Stewart's ..16 6 ley 14 6 Morfa House.... 22 0 'fanlield Moor Butee 13 6 Davison's West Hart- ley 14 6 Ellison Main Steam 1:3 6 Hastings Hartley l4 6 North Pel ton Gas 14 0 Cowpen Hartley 14 6 Bower's West Hartley 14 6 Buddle's West Hartley 14 6 Holywell 15 6 West Wylam 14 9 Walls End. Whitworth l5 3 Caradoc Ships at market, 301; sold, 172. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. Feb. 18. via Marseilles ... Feb. 12. Lirazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Mar. 6. Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena. Mar. 3. China, Penang, and Singapore, via S'outhatapton.Feb. 18. via Marseilles ...Feb. 12. Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton Feb. 10. India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Feb. 18. -- via Marseilles Feb. 12. India (Bombay), via Southampton Feb. 1 0 ' via Marseilles Feb. 20. Portugal.... Mar. 8. :NI alto, Egypt, and Aden, via Southainptop Feb. 1 0 . via Marseilles Feb. 1 0 ... ` , :esvioundland Oporto and Vigo U. and British N. Amarica, Ly Brit. packet.... Feb. 12. _ _. 'by - U.S. packet -- by Canadian packet Feb. 13 ' W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe Feb. 10. Bahamas, via New York Feb. 1 2 . l‘lexico B. • • • • Feb.• Alt parts 01 West Indies, including Chili, l'etu, }Feb. 13. i. alitornia, and British Columbia.. GOVERNMENT EMIGRATION.—Her Majesty's Erni" gration Commissioners chartered on Thursday, the sth inst , the Nepisiquet, of :-40 tons, belonging to Mr. Henry John Hall of London, to sail from London for Nate!, South Africa, at £l4 ss. per statute adult, to be ready for the reception of passengers on the 16th of March. TheY have also given notice of their intention to receive tenders on Thursday nest, the 12 h inst., for a ship to proceed to Brisbane, Queensland, between the 26th of March and the 6th of April. [ADVERTISEMENT.I—HoIIoway's Pi:ls—Bad Digestion• —Few persons of middle age but suffer from indigestion none should be ignorant of tha striking success attained by Holloway's Pills in this complaint. These remarkable Pills have attracted the attention of the profession and the public, for the ease, celerity, and certainty with which,tbeY remove indigestion, acidity, flatulency, nausea, biliousness , and sick headache. They correct the fetid breath, gips keenness to the appetite, prevent uncomfortable distention after meals, and insure complete digestion with perfect assimilation. Holloway's Pills are the gentlest yet surest aperients. From their occasional use every one will derive benefit; from their constant use no one can receive injury' They are as innocent as they are purifying, as strengthen ing as they are safe. Births. BRADSHAW.—On the 7th inst., at Arno's-grove, South' gate, the wife of Captain Bradshaw, R.N., R. 1 ‘ 1 . 6 Severn, of a son. ELRINGTON.—On the 7th inst., the wife of Col. Elringtont Rifle Brigade, of a daughter. GWYNNE.—On the 6th inst., at Brecon, Mrs. Edmun d Gwynne, of a son. MILNE.—On the Bth inst., the wife of Jas. Dundas Esq., R,N., of a son. Marriages. C OOPE—B UTTERY.—On the 7th inst., at St. George's' Queen- square, Robert Coope, Esq., of St. Louis, 1 4°4 U.S., to Maria Ann, daughter of the late Chas. Butter'', of Cloudesley-square, Islington. MOENS—HILL.—On the sth Dec. at Bareilly, India, 3o / Moens, Esq., 8.A., Bengal C:S., to Emma Monteith! daughter of Lieut.-Col. G. M. Hill, Accountant-00 100 for Bengal. Deaths. BLuNDELL.—On the Bth inst., at 80, Piccadilly, Blundell, aged 74. GLADSTONE.—On the 7th inst., at Bowden-park, NO Captain Gladstone, M.P. Bed' HUNT.—On the 6th inst., a t L ang l ey Lodge, Luton, ." fordshire, Wm. Hunt, Eaq., solicitor, aged 51. HAmmorm.—On the 7th inst at St. Alban's Court , near Wingham, Kent, William Osmund Hammond, aged 73. JONES.—On the Bth inst, William Jones, Esq., late of th e Royal Arsen a l, Woolwich, aged 73. SELBY.--On the Bth inst., Margaret, wife of Wm. 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