The Sun. — London, England, 1839-02-11 00:00:00

IDGE TO-MORROW. Morning ...... 39 minutes after 0 f Evening ll minutes after 1 TO THE PEOPLE OF GREAT BRITAIN. THE GENERAL CONVENTION OF THE INDUSTRIOUS CLASSES now assembled in London, have appointed Members of their body to visit the following places in the ensuing fortnight, to explain the prin eiples of THE PEOPLE'S CHARTER and NATIONAL PETITION : Messrs. R. Lowrey and A. Duncan—Devon and Cornwall. Messrs. H. Vincent and W. G. Burns--Gloucester, Somerset, and Hereford. Messrs. J. Collins and J. Cleave—Hampshire, South Wilts, and Isle of II ight. Messrs. J. Pearse and W. Cardo—Bucks and Berks. Messrs. L. Pikethly and J. B. O'Brien—Kent, Sussex, and Surrey. Persons in the above districts are requested to co-operate in the getting up of Public Meetings. By order of the General Convention, WILLIAM LOVETT, Secretary, (pro. tern.) CORN-LAWS. R. PAULTON, of Manchester, who has addressed upwards of 100,000 persons in the manufac turing districts, will LECTURE on TUESDAY and THURS DAY Evenings at the Mechanics' Institute, Southampton-build ings, Chance; y-lane ; and at the Large Room, Crown and Anchor, on WEDNESDAY and SATtrunAv Evenings. To commence at Eight o'Clock precisely.—Admission Free. TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS. WANTED. a GENTEEL YOUTH as an APPRENTICE to a SURGEON and CHE MIST in a populous neighbourhood, situated only a short dis tance from the Borough Hospitals. Inquire of E. CASE, Medical Bookseller, St. Themas's street, Borough ; if by letter, post-paid. NEW ROMANCE, BY THE Au moll. OF ROOKWOOD." Preparing for publication, Gu Y FA UK ES By F. HARRISON AINSWORTH, Esq. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THE PEOPLE'S PAPER THE CHARTIST • A Cheap Paper for the People. STAMPED. The Size of the Largest Daily Journal. Price TWO-PENCE HALFPENNY. Is published every Saturday Morning, in Town and Country. ENGLISHMEN, order of your Newsmen the CHARTIST. Office, 2?, Brydges-street, Covent-garden, London. This day is published, in Bvo., price 125., MEMOIRS of the EARLY LIFE and SERVICE of a FIELD OFFICER on the Retired List of the INDIAN ARMY. 'm. H. Allen and Co., 7, Leadenhall-street. T a PUBLIC MEETING of the ELEC TORS and WORKING MEN of KENDAL, held at the Odd. Fellows Hall, on the 9th February, to take into con sideration the SPEECH of Mr. G. W. WOOD, the repre sentative of this Borough, on seconding the Address to the Queen, the following resolutions were passed unanimously :- 1. That this meeting of Electors and Working Men of Kendal, h as h ear d w i t h indignation that part of Mr. Wood's speech on seconding the Address to the Queen, in which he alludes to the state of the manufactures of this kingdom, that instead of being in a " satisfactory state," as asserted by Mr. Wood, this meeting believes them to be in a most alarming and precarious state ; and tha. this position may be est tbilshed I y Mr. Wood's own delusive returns as given in his speech in proof of the opposite opinion. That this meeting has heard with still deeper indignation and contempt the conclud ing part of Mr. Wood's speech, in which he contradicts former statements, and while he admits that our mantea are in a precarious state, imputes to the master manufacturers a desire to remedy the evil b depressing the wages of the la bourer, which this meeting believes to be a libel upon the entire body of the master manufacturers. I P. That this Meeting believes that Mr. Wood, as President of the Chamber of Commerce in Manchester, and as the Re pre sentative of this Reform Constitueney, has inflicted irreparable injury, by the speech aforesaid, upon the great cause of the nation —the Repeal of the iniquitous Corn-laws : as his state ments with regard to the prosperity of our manufactui es have afforded to the advocates of the Corn-laws a powerful argument in their defence ;—while his declaration that the master manu facturers desire to depress the wages of the labourer, is calcu lated to create suspicion and coldness in the cause of repeal among the Working Class. 3. That this meeting, taking into its consideration Mr. Wcorl's conduct on this and on some former occasions, during his connection with this borough, feels hound to declare its total want of confidence in Mr. Wood's ability and sincerity; and that it deems him an improper person to present and support the petition from the inhabitants of Kendal, praying for a total Repeal of the Corn-laws. . . _ _ 4. That this Meeting urgently recommends to the Liberal Electors of Kendal the necessity of justifying themselves before . . the Public, by requiring Mr. 'Wood to resign the post of Representative of this Borough, to the responsibilities of which he has proved himself so unequal; and of making immediate preparation for the Election of a Successor, who may conciliate the confidence and support of all true Reformers in this Bo rough. 5. That this meeting requests that the petition for the total repeal of the Corn-laws, which has obtained our signatures, be presented by Mr. Villiers, with thanks to him for his manly stand against the mischievous statements of Mr. Wood. 6. That the rer,olutions of this meeting be communicated to the Chairman of the Anti-Corn-law Delegates in London ; and to The Sun, Morning Chronicle, and Northern Star, Newspaprs. 7. Iliat the thanks of the meeting be given to the Chair man for his manly and straight-forward conduct on this occasion, RIS Majesty the EMPEROR:of AUSTRIA, His Majesty the EMPEROR of RUSSIA, And His Majesty the KING of PRUSSIA, saving AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several Dis tributions of Money, which (though they are NO LOT TEPIES, and do NOT EXPOSE the Shareholders to Blanks) offer great many possibilities of obtaining_ LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS at HAMBURGH, and HEINE BROTHERS at LUBECK, are NOW SELLING SHARES for any of the said DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY, at various prices. The Dis tributions contain various portions, from NINE POUNDS TO TWENTY THOUSAND POUNDS and upwards. Orders for less than 101. cannot be attended to. Persons desirous to purchase may receive PREVIOUS to giving any order, the Prospectus and Particulars, upon ad dressing, WITHOUT DELAY, a line to HEINE BROTHERS at HAMBURGH. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. THIS EVENING, FEB. 11, Will be performed KING LEAR. King Lear, Mr. Macreadv ; Cordclia, Miss Helen FaUcit. After which HARLEQUIN AND FAIR ROSAMOND. To-tnor.w—William Tell ; The Omnibus ; and Charles the Second. Ash Wednesday—No performance. Thursday —The Lady of Lyons, and The King and the Duke. Friday—A grand Musical Entertainment by the Promenade Concert Band from the Engish Opera-house. Saturday —The Toni est and Fair Rosamond. TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS. In consequence of the great alterations in the arrival of the Mails in several parts of the Kingdom, we now publish a Morning Edition of The Sun, in time to be de , ,patched by the Morning mails. By this arrangement such of our Sub scribers as may receive the Evening Edition too late, can suit themselves by having a MORNING EDITION, containing the close of the Debates in both Houses of Parliament, and all other news arriving in London up to the hour of Morning Publication. Those Subscribers who wish to be supplied with the Morning Edition will please to notify the same to their respective News Agents, or to The Sun Office, 112, Strand, London. Second Editions, enntaining the Debates in Parliament up to the hour of post, in the Evening as usua 4 , .. , A: 4,..., C'' 1: ,4'14 ~..., J,.. ~ .-i«r,. ' Z. , 5 5t a1 4- 1 :; :64 ........._4- - ..„.....„,_:. , .1,,,,,,,,,,;,A. -:-. or, • f t t , r - Tr 4 •-!,-..v --1- 1 4/ 'jilt art,N....,, 41-4,0. ~ r ~ r;~ LONDON : MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 11, 1339. (EVENING EDITION.) Prompt justice has been done by the men of Kendal on Mr. WOOD. In another part of our paper will be found the resolutions come to by a body of the inhabitants of Kendal, including some of his constituents, calling on him to resign the trust whiCli they think, by his injudicious observa tions in the House of Commons on Tuesday, he has t ) ctrayed. Ail excellent warning this to slippery a dvocates of the Corn law Repeal. The Council of th e borough will meet on Wednesday especially and separately to enter into similar resolutions. The people of Kendal are justly indignant against Mr. WOOD for aspersing the master manufacturers, and 1,„ their speedy censuro have taught him a les son which our columns would never have impressed ( , ) . 1 ' him. If other constituencies wou ld b ut act in flee noble manner—let those who represent them fill hateve r stati ons th e y may, be they ever so high f n the Cabi ne t or t h e S tate — we s h ou ld h ave civic traitors in the Lib era l cam p, an d th e peop l e ght yet secure for themselves, speedy, effectual, a nd safe Reform. Great honour to the men of Kend al Th e d, 4etermined opposition made by the selfish landlord s, with a true dog-in-the-manger policy, to the Aboli t i on of the Corn-laws, for those laws pinch themselves while they starve the people, makes it necessary to continue our best exertions, and to call on the peopl e to continue their exertions, to save the ~...........___ THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY,-EVENING EDITION,-FEBRUARY 11, 1839 community, in spite of the landlords, if it be yet practicable, from the disasters with which it is threatened by their " slovenly" and scoundrel legis lation. We are glad, therefore, to be able to announce, that Mr. PAULTON is to lecture on Wednesday and Saturday evening, on the subject, at theNlechanics' Institution. The advertisment appears elsewhere. We are glad also to see that there was an excellent meeting at Taunton on this day week, when an Anti-Corn-law Association was formed, and at which the resolutions and petitions were una nimously agreed to, though, under Sir THOMAS LETHBRIDGE'S advice, the meeting seemed inclined to let the landlords down easy, in other words, to tolerate pocket-picking for a time, in order to encourage a renewal of the attempt. We have ceased, and so have all reflecting men, we believe, to advocate these half felonious measures, and agreeing cordially with Sir THOMAS LETH BRIDGE, that " men hate these laws," from their moral feelings and convictions, as they hate fraud, we go entirely and wholly with Mr. STURGE and his friends in demanding the total repeal. It is, however, necessary that the people should everywhere put forth their strength, and by a solemn moral declaration against the Devil's laws, to en able the Delegates to achieve the good work for which they have been sent to the metropolis. The advocates of the Corn-laws continually assert that the Abolitionists do not give them facts. The Abolitionists reply, " Your laws were passed ex pressly to secure steady prices, and within the last three years prices have varied more than 100 per cent. They were passed to give prosperity to agri culture, and since they have been in ex istence .the farmers have known nothing but uninterrupted distress. They were passed to secure the community an independent supply of corn, which suffers from a dearth, and is at the mercy for its supplies of the single empire of Russia. They were passed to increase cultivation, and little or no progress has been ma d e , w hil e , in a former peri o d, between 1773 and 1791, when the trade was free, the markets were steady, our supplies abundant, prices low, agriculture flourishing, the farmers prosperous, and cultiva tion rapidly extended." But when the Abolitionists in turn ask the advocates of the laws for facts, what do the latter say ? Why, that the land will go out of cultivation. Is that a fact ? Is it not a mere fancy ? Will the farmers and landowners be such fools as to allow it ? Will there be a single motive for allowing it ? The more, however, it is insisted on that corn would be so abundant and so cheap that our farmers could not grow it, the more glaring does the cruel injustice become of checking our manufactures and starving the people, merely to enrich farmers and landowners. England is at present distinguished amongst all the nations of Europe for cul tivating and :consuming comparatively few vege tables. That is partly on account of the dearness of land, and if there were no Corn laws, we believe that there would he a great increase in the quantity of vegetables consumed. Instead, therefore, of the land going out of cultiva tion by the abolition of the Corn-laws, the reverse would be the case. Lord WESTERN has re cently proved, as we asserted long ago, that 'Wheat can be grown by less labour in England than most of the countries of Europe, and so can other edibles. Repealing the Corn-laws, therefore, would cause an increase of the town population, horticulture would extend, and instead of the land going out of cultivation, it would gradually be turned into a garden. Such an assertion is every bit as much a fact as the only assertion on which the advocates of the Devil's laws rely ; and it has this to make it credible, that whereas their suppo sition is contradicted by all the phenomena of pro duction, and the motives that ordinarily actuate mankind, our supposition is obviously but an ex• tension and continuation of a progress that has hitherto been uniform and uninterrupted. The following appeared in our Morning lidition There are various reports in circulation as to the Successor of Lord GLENELG. The Earl of CLA RENDON, at present Ambassador at Madrid, is said to have been summoned home, and to be destined for the Colonies. Lord HOWICK is also mentioned for the same office. We believe, however, that the Marquis of NORMANBY is to have the Colonies, and the Earl of RADNOR will go to Ireland. We forbear to give coun tenance and currency to all the rumours we hear, but it is generally said that Lord GLENELG has not been very well treated. It is remarkable, however, that the Tory Journals, which have hitherto directed their sharpest arrows against him, have all at once taken up his cause as that of a most injured man. If Lord GLENELG wishes to stand well with the world, he must hasten to disen cumber himself of their help. Their approbation would make an angel be suspected. Since then, we have seen the Morning Chronicle, which asserts positively that Lord NORMANDY is to have the Colonial Seals ; and mentions the ap pointment of Lord RADNOR only as a rumour. Probably our Contemporary is correct; but our in formation leads us to suppose that to both appoint ments belongs the same degree of certainty. We beg the special attention of our readers to the report of a Church-rate meeting lately held at Devonport, which will be found in another part of The Sun. The case is of great importance, as it affords, perhaps, the most striking instance that has yet occurred of the desperate folly which seems to possess the thick-and-thin supporters of the present Ecclesiastical Establishment. The Churchwarden of Devonport, it appears, not being satisfied with the decision of the pa rishioners in vestry assembled, by which they had negatived his motion for laying a rate, proceeded, without further ceremony, to levy the rejected rate on his own official and individual authority. The utter disregard which this ecclesiastical under strapper has shown to the regular and deliberate decision of a large majority of the rate-payers, is not more remarkable for its insolence than is this high-handed proceeding itself for the legal ignorance which it displays. The estimate on which the Churchwarden presumes to claim the rate in question, contains charges which are totally inadmissible, inasmuch as they relate to ex penses already incurred. Now, if there be one point better established than another in Church rate law, it is this, that a retrospectiveaate is illegal. That any person holding the office of Church warden should be ignorant of this would sur prise us, had it not been stated the other day by the Poor-law Commissioners that one-half of the Overseers in the kingdom are unable to write. Putting, then, aside the question of the power of a Churchwarden to lay a rate against the will of the majority of the parishioners, it is clear that this rate is in other respects a mere nullity —it is fatally vitiated by its retrospective character. For our own part, however, we h a v e no t t h e least doubt that no rate, be it ever so prospective, be it ever so unexceptionable in respect of form, can be le gally enforced if it has been refused by a majority of the parishioners duly assembled. If any of our readers entertain a different opinion we recom mend an attentive perusal of the admirable speech of Mr. WOOLCOMBE, delivered at the meeting to which we have referred. It contains an able expo sition of the law relating to Church-rates, and is calculated to do essential service to the cause of abolition at the present moment, when a fiercer struggle than ever between the advocates arid opponents of the system throughout the king dom is evidently approaching. We cannot con clude these remarks without betowing a tribute of applause on the spirited and generous conduct of this gentleman, who has undertaken to conduct for .. the defendants the legal proceedings arising out of the contest which has commenced between the two parties at Devonport, without fee or reward. Such disinterestedness is not very common in the legal profession. We hope Mr. WOOLCOMBE will find imitators. Anger, it has been said, is a dangerous coun sellor, and, for the misfortune of the new dynasty in France, this is the counsellor whom Louis PHI LIPPE in the present critical position of affairs most of all listens to. He acted constitutionally in dis solving the Chambers, and he has the right by the Charter of dismissing PERSIL and every other functionary appointed by the Crown, but the great question for him to consider is, whether in stretch ing the Charter to its utmost limits against public opinion, and among a people like the French, he may not be playing as hazardous a game as that which cost CHARLES X. his throne. The French have had too short experience of the Charter to be imbued with any veneration for its principles, like that with which Englishmen regard their Constitu tion, and when they find all the leading men of the country but of one opinion as to the unconstitutional conduct of the KING up to the period of the dissolution, they may be inclined to believe that he has recourse to it only when it can increase his kingly power. Since the time of JAMES 11. of England there has been hardly an instance of such general feeling among statesmen against the policy of the Sovereig❑ as at the present moment there is in France. It is not possible, indeed, to find out any man of note who sides with the KING, yet he proceeds in his course, displacing public functionaries, seizing newspapers, rejecting the ad vice of SOULT, the favourite of the army, and treating with contempt the leaders of the Chambers, as if he were backed by the voice of the people and the abilities of the most able counsellors, in an attack upon some band of Republicans or Buona partists. Even PERSIL, rendered so notorious in his service, he has rejected, and thereby deterred even the waverers from coining to his support. It is impossible to say what may be the result of the elections ; but one thing is certain, that with such a union of men of talent, favourites with one or another of the various parties in France, this head strong conduct, and this daermination to rule with out them, must injure rather than benefit his cause. If the great body of the people are against him, the army will not be slow to follow the example, and some symptoms of that sort have already appeared. The National has stated as much, and even a Go vernment paper admits that many agents have been discovered among the troops on the Eastern fron tier attempting to seduce them from their duty. While all these things are going on, the coalition remains firm to their purpose and determined to fight the Cabinet, that is, the KING, to the last. The following address of Guizot to his constituents is sufficiently explicit on that head : " Against the Ministry alone has our attack been directed, and it shall continue to be directed as our right allows and our duty teaches. To do this is to assure the conquest of representative government, which is our char ter. We cannot suffer a tittle of it to be lost ; our honour and that of France are staked therein. Nor is the repose of France less at stake than its honour, for you may be certain that as long as the present Government exists, every question and thing must remain in suspense. In foreign policy, as in domestic, you will see the same ab sence of foresight, the same folly, the same weakness, whilst, as the result of all this incapacity, you may look to a repetition of such measures as the present dissolution." The whole of the Paris Journals of Friday and Saturday have been received this morning. The Constitutionnel of Friday contains an address of nearly four columns of that Paper, from M. GUI ZOT to his constituents, in which the ex-Minister of Public Instruction, and High Priest of the Doc trinaires, justifies his conduct in joining the Coali tion against the Cabinet. M. GurzoT's justifica tion may be summed up in a sentence. He could not longer support a Ministry weak and imbecile in its composition, arbitrary in its designs, mischievous in its foreign and domestic policy, and unsustained by the respect, the sympathies, the patriotic reminiscences, nor even a numerical majority of the Chamber of Deputies. On the other hand, M. BARTHE, the Keeper of the Seals, and Minister of Justice, has addressed an official note to the civil authorities of the kingdom, commanding them to abstain from the employment of their official in fluence in securing the return of Deputies hostile to the Administration. As men in- authority can hardly remain passive in a season of such excite ment, the Minister of Justice prudently and dis creetly abstains from condemning any influence of the elections of an anti-coalition tendency. M. PERSIL is very indignant at his dismissal from the Mastership of the Mint, and has already commenced a paper war against Ministers. He will find few honest patriots to commiserate. When in office he betrayed the popular cause, and aban doned his principles ; and now the KING flings him all but characterless among the lumber of rejected Ca binets. Having prostituted his talents and his office to destroy the liberty of the Press—having played the part of a little pettifogging tinker, when it was in his power to have displayed the generosity of a patriot, and the capacity of a statesman, we are not surprised that the KING voluntarily makes the Coalition a present of the accession of discontent and disreputation which only he is likely to brillg to it. There is no other political news of any interest in these Journals. We subjoin from the _National of Thursday an article, on account of which that Paper was seized at the Post-office. The subject of it is the Army, among the officers of which the National retains a powerful influence, bequeathed to it by a late lamented editor. Such seizures are not the best ways of counteracting the attacks of obnoxious Journals, the more especially as they are followed up by prosecutions which give an eclat to offensive articles which they derive solely from the notice of the Government : A complete revolution has taken place in the minds of our soldiers. The army is no longer what it was a few years ago. Education, the liberty of the Press, the dis eussiotis in the Chambers, have enlightened the inhabitants of the barracks and purified their morals. Ideas of liberty and .equality now impregnate the atmosphere and pene trate ImieLth the uniform. The Bourbons wolld not now recommence the Spanish campaign with impunity. The partizans of war, who pretend that even war is honourable, as well for those who make it as for those who declare it, whether it betrays or promotes the dearest inte rests of the country—the men who deceive them selves respecting the-cause they sustain with arms in their hands by intoxicating themselves with the smoke of podwer, like others who try to forget their faults in excesses of the tavern—these men are daily disappear ing from the ranks of the army, and monarchical corrup tion, with all its artifices of advancement by favour, finds diffi.rmlty in maintaining some few disciples of that school of public immorality, some few successors of the Condot- tieri of the middre ages. Now, when told to fight, the soldier, the sub-officer, the officer, demand whilst they obey, the reason for shedding blood, and woe to the Government that wishes to engage them in an anti-national war, for 13ing, fraud, intrigue, will prove of no avail with them, nor induce them to betray their principles. It is conceivable, that in internal quarrels, power should succeed by dint of calumnies and expedients of all kinds in blinding for a moment the eyes of the army to plunge them into the horrors of a civil war. We know too well, indeed, that there are very marked and very often very specious differences of opinion upon the solution of such a political problem, or such and such reform. But when in questions of foreign policy, the point at issue is tco plain, and the facts are too evident for the most cunning Machia velism to overcome or obscure. Thus, the chateau may bc' certain beforehand that it will expend itself in vain efforts. None of the children of the country who inhabit our barracks—none will believe that he has been called to the frontier to serve the cause of the country. They see before them England and Prussia giving their hands to William of Holland : instead of the French qui vive ? of the Belgian soldier guarding Luxemburg, they wish them to hear the wild cry of the foreigner. The remembrance of the past, their simple good sense, has told them that the dismem berment of Belgium, voted by the absolutist diplomacy, consented to by the Cabinet of the 15th of April, was a misfortune for France and an infamy upon her head. They have well understood it ! Whether they remain in active during the execution of Belgium, or whether they lend their arms for that assassination, they will not be less the allies of the English and the Prussians, the auxiliaries of the soldiers Wellington and Blucher—they will have insulted the names of those heroic legions which fell on the supreme day of Waterloo. Scarcely three years ago France heard, not without asto nishment, that the eldest sons of the King, those young persons who wear the uniform of French general officers, had been sumptuously received at the Court of Berlin. What does this accordance signify? France perhaps will not penetrate it. But now those hosts of the Prussian monarchy place themselves at the head of the army of ob servation. What a contrast, what a ray of light for the most incredulous, the most blind ! BOURSE--PARIS, SATURDAY, FRE 9. QUARTER PAST FOUL—Very little doing. The Three per Cents. which closed at 78f. 40c. for cash, are now at 78f. 400. buyers, 78f. 50c. sellers. It is reported here that the Belgian Chambers are conveised for Tuesday next. First Highest I owest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French 5 per Cents. llO 25 ... 110 50 ... 110 20 ... 110 45 3per Cents. 7B 40 ...78 45 ...78 30 —7B 40 Bank - of France 2590 ...2800 —.251.0 ...2600 Lafitte Bank I,ooof. Sh 5,000 f. Sh. 5190 ...5195 ...5100 .. 5193 Belgian 5 per Cents. 3 per Cents. 66 80 ... 66 80 ... 66 30 ... 66 30 Bank 550 ... 5"4:1 1 ... 550 ... 550 Coupons Spanish Active Portuguese 3 per Cents. Neapolitan Roman 99X ... 9W„' ... 99% ... 99% RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain 585 ... 590 ... 555 ... 590 Ve sailles R.B. ' L.B. 175 ... 180 ... 175 ... 180 Charleroy 445 ... 446 ... 445 ... 415 ASPIIALTES AND BITUMENS. Seyssel (A) 2B'o —.23 0 ...2700 Polon'eau TOWER HAMLETS ELECTION (THIS DAY.) No other candidate having been proposed, Doctor Lus-hington addressed the electors at some length, and the Returning Officer declared the Right Honourable Stephen Lushington duly elected, amidst loud and general cheering. ROLLS COURT-(THIS DAY.) This being the first seal of Hilary Term, the Master of the Rolls this morning took motions. LITTLER V. THOMSON-CONTEMPT OF COURT. This case came before the Master of the Rolls a few days ago upon motion to dissolve an injunction granted in the long vacation, restraining the defendant, a nurseryman at Mile-end from cutting or selling any full-grown timber, shrubs, fruit or other trees. His Lordship hes not yet given judgment upon this motion, but this morning Mr. PEMBERTON was about to move on behalf of the plaintiff that Mr. George Glennie might be committed to the Fleet for contempt of Court, in having published a certain article in the Gardener's Gazelle, when he was interrupted by Mr. KINDERSLEY, who was instructed to ask on the part of Mr. Glennie that the motion might be ordered to stand over till the next seal, for his client had not until this morning received office copies of the affidavits, which ex tended to 400 folios. Mr. PEMBERTON had no objection t o th e mot i on stand i ng over, provided Mr. Glennie abstained from a repetition of the offence which ho had been weekly gu il ty o f . Mr. KINDERSLEY said his client had not the least objec tion to give such an undertaking. Lord LANGDALE-It will be for him to consider whether he will not place himself in a serious situation if he:does not Mr. KINDERSLE/ then handed to his Lordship an affi davit made by the defendant's solicitor and his clerk, and_by the defendant himself and his foreman, stating that they had nothing whatever to do with, no r were t h ey pr i vy to , the publication of the article complained of ; and the Learned Counsel trusted that his Lordship's mind would now be relieved of any prejudice that might have been ex cited by what had been addressed to him on a former occasion. The motion having been disposed of, Mr. TINNEY proceeded to open the case of LAMBERT V. HUTCHINSON. The question in which related to the distribution of the estate of the testator, James Hutchinson. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. (THIS DAY.) MILLS V. RICRMAN AND ANOTHER. This was an action brought by the eminent engineer against the executors of the late Mr. Telford, for a balance of 1,2001. due to him for services rendered by him in the surrey made for the purpose of supplying London with pure water. The plaintiff appeared in person, but in the middle of his opening the cause was referred to a gentleman at the bar. This was the last cause in the list. The sittings are therefore at an end. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY OLD COURT. (Before Sergeant AILABIN.) ROBBERY OF PLATE. William Smith, 23, a man of colour, was indicted for having stolen on the 25th of January, in the parish of St. Pancras, a (wan_ tity of plate, value 201., the property of the Rev. Dr. Moore, the Rector of St. Pancras. The Jury, after hearing evidence, returned a ♦erdict of Guilty ; and Mr. Sergeant Arabia sentenced the prisoner to be transported for ten years. (Before Mr. Justice VAuouAN.) Jane Reeve was indicted for having, on the 14th of January, in the parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, feloniously assaulted her new-horn babe, by knocking and beating it with her fists against the wall, by which the said child did die. The prisoner, who appeared in a delicate state of health, was accommodated with a chair during the proceedings. Mr. Bodkin stated the case to the Jury. Alfred William Wyse, a pot-boy, stated that about one o'clock on the day in question his attention was called to a ditch in the Hoxton road, where he observed the head eta child and a portion of a newspaper, with it. There was also an arm, and while he was looking at it, a gentleman came up, and by his assistance the body we. conveyed to the station-house. On the evening previous he met a female going in the direction of the ditch, and seeing him she altered her course and went ton ards the ditch where the body was found. He could not see her face as she had her hair over her face, and she carried a basket similar to that produced in her hand. She scented in great trouble, and the evening was very dark. E:iz tbeth Reeve, 17, and no relation to the prisoner, was a fellow servant with the prisoner for about two months as housemaid. They slept in the same bed; and, on the day in question, her master had a party. The prisoner was frequently observed about a week be. fore to sigh, and witness, seeing her look very large, charged her with being in the family way, which she strongly denied. They went to bed about eleven o'clock, and the prisoner got out of bed, saying, " Good God, I cannot lay." The bed shook very much, and she frequently left the room, after stopping at the foot of the bed, and witness fell asleep, but she heard a cry similar to that of a child. She had said at the office that it was the cry of the mother, but she thought it was the cry of a child. The pri. soner slid not come to bed that night, but she came at seven o'clock in the morning and called witness out of bed. There was a frock of witness in the room, but on her taking it to put it on, she found marks of blood upon it, and having asked the prisoner did she do it, she said it was the mark of a chicken or a rabbit which had been killed for the company. About three o'clock the prisoner was seen at the dust-bin for about half an hour, knock. ins the ashes about, and she said she was looking for the black-lead brush. When they were at the police.officc witness asked her was it not the cries of the child she had heard, and the prisoner said No, but herself, in consequence of the pain she was in. Cross-examined by Mr. CIARKSON.—She had an imperfect recol lection of what had happened, and offered no assistance, nor did she say anything about the child until she had been taken into custody herself. Her master had not gone to bed, and was sitting in the parlour, and the occurrence took place immediately on getting in to bed, but she never suspected that the prisoner was in labour, although she made an extraordinary noise. Anne Chatfield, mistress of the prisoner, observed her rather stout, and on asking was she inclined to be dropsical, she said she was not. By Mr. CLARKSON—The prisoner lived with her about five months ; she had a good character with her: but considered she deserved a better character than she got with her, as she was a very humane, good girl. By the COURT—Sitting where she was, she must heard of the birth of a child if it took place, and must have heard the door open. Bernard Sutherland, a porter, had occasion to go the dust hole, where he found the arm of au infant, which he communicated to his master, and the arm was subsequently shown to the inspector of police. By Mr. CLARKSON—He considered the prisoner a kind-hearted girl. Mrs. Chatfield behig recalled, identified the basket troduced as hers. John Robinson, inspector of police, proved that he took charge of the child's arm, and on taking the prisoner into custody, she said nothing, but upon telling her it was for the wilful murder of her child, she sz.id it was three weeks old, but it was dead, and on inform ing her that he had found the arm, she told him the rest of it was in the dust bin. On leaving her at the station-house, he returned to the dust bin, and found something else there, which he gave to the surgeon. Wm. Groves deposed, that on the 30th January, he was in the waiting room at Worship.street, for prisoners, before they go before the Magistrates. The prisoner and Eliza Reeve, were sitting to gether, and on his asking the policeman were they the persons charged with murder, he said he did not know. lie then asked the females, and Eliza Reeves said " not me but this one," at the same time pointing to the prisoner, who said, " the policeman has charged me, but I am not guilty, as the child was still-born, and when I put it in the ditch the head was not of Richard Hall, constable of the K division, who has charge of the van from Clerkenwell to Worship-street, proved that the prisoner, on conveying her, complained of being very cold, as there were some old women in the house who had called her a Greenacre, hav ing pulled her child asunder. She also said she had pulled the child to pieces with her hands, in the anxiety of the moment, and she ought it was dead two months before it was born. Mr. Charles Reedy, surgeon, proved having found the child's head and arms, and having them placed together. He had no doubt they formed part of the same body. They wereperfectly fresh, and could not be dead more than a few days. The arm, in his opinion, was taken off by an instrument, as was also ' the head, as the cartilage appeared divided by a sharp instrument. Decapitation took place decidedly after death. He noticed a contusion on both sides of the head, Parietal, temporal, and frontal on one side, and the parietal and temporal on the other, which could not have taken place before death. At the post-mortem examination there was a considerable extravasation in the head, and fractures on either side, produced by external violence. By the COURT—A child might receive injuries on the head by a woman falling and having no person present to assist her at the time of her delivery. Such a case was possible, but barely possible. By Mr. BODKIN—On examining the lungs they were not decom. posed, and floated in water, and in his opinion they were thoroughly and properly inflated. Children frequently received injuries in the head during delivery, but not such as appeared in the present case. By the COURT— A fracture might take place in the struggles of theparent to deliver herself. By Mr. BODKIN—From the appearance he had not the slightest doubt that the child was born alive. The COURT—That the lungs were sufficiently inflated, is that what you mean ? Witness—Exactly so, my Lord. The witness underwent a lengthened cross-examination by Mr. CLARKSON, In which he dwelt on the probability of a child meeting with serious injuries on its coming into the world by involuntary means, and quoted Dr. Ryan's medical jurisprudence, in which instances have occurred of the kind. s George Henry C owar d, ano ther surgeon who assisted in the post mo rtern examination, confirmed the Evidence of the last witness in every particular. Mr. John Eason, a suraeon who examined the pris oner, p roved that apace she between admitte (1 the arm of ;he child formed part of the bod y , and the remainde r would be found where that was, and the child had been still - born. He did not think the whole of the fractures could be caused b y such an occurrence, but part o f th em might. He examined the room, and he t h oug ht f r om the narrowness of the p the bed and the wall, the prisoner might have unin tentionally trod on the child's head. Mr. BuOKIN said that was the only evidence he had to o ffe r re . specting the charge against the prisoner, but he was prepared to show that the accused had concealed the birth of her offspring. Mr. CLA lIKSON said he thought it would be unnecessa r y to draw the attention to that fact, still he would not opp o s e it should his Learned Friend think fit to proceed. Mr. Justice VAUGHAN said he would not oppose any further in quiry, but he was of opinion the case might go to the Ju r y in its pre_ sent shape. Mr. CtkrucsoN then addressed the Jury at considerable length, anafter his Lo r d s hi p had summed up t h e Jury deliberated for a short time, and retured a verdict of—Guilty of concealing the birth of her child. MS LORDSHIP, in the most impressive manner , sentenced her to imprisonment and h ar d labour for two years. the course of S unday RAVAGES OF THE HOOFING and Monday, a humbl e famil y of the name of Smith, residin g i n King -street west, were v i s ited with a large mea sure of sufferi ng b y the death of their three children in the sh or t space of twelv e h ours, occasioned by the h oo ping cough, viz., M ar y aged six years ; John aged two years and nine months ; and Wil. Ham, only eight months old. Stockport Advertiser. CuRN - LAWs„—We understand a requisiton to the Mayor is in course of signature, requesting him to call a public meeting, to petition in favour of the Corn-laws, and that the meet. ing is expected to be held in Doncaster on Saturday, the 16th inst. —.Doncaster Gazette. UNIVERSITY LIBERAL CLUB.—On Friday evening a nume rous meeting o f Liberal students in the Gla sgow University, a n d of Liberal gentlemen wh o have been s tudents there, was held in th e Assembly Rooms, f or the purpose of f orm i ng a Liberal University Association, having for its chief object to coun.. teract the influence of the University Peel Club—Alex. Graham, Esq. in the Chair. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. TWELVE O'CLOCK We have received files of American Papers this morn ing, which have come by the Europe, not of a later date than published on Saturday. Letters have also been re ceived from the above vessel. We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yesterday's date, Feb. 10. ( From the private Correspondent of the Observateur.) NEWS FROM THE FRONTIERS.L-HASSETT, FEB. 7. The Dutch army has not made any movement for several days past, but it is on its guard against any aggression. It keeps round its embankments and palisades. The inhabitants of the communes in the rayon of Maestrecht ap pear to have abandoned their ordinary occupations to fol low the course of events. The general conversation entirely relates to the Twenty-four Articles, and it is with indignation they are treated : it appears that they are resolved to fight. The enthusiasm is general as well among the old as the young. The best spirit prevails among those employed in the administration as well as the Custom House officers. They are anxious to march for battle. The Patriots on the right side of the Meuse, above all at Tanguemont, Sittard, and Vise, are decided on their part to defend courageously their cause—they wish to re main Belgians at all risks. More than seven thousand per sons are already armed and have appointed their chiefs to con duct them to fight. It is assured that a regiment of Prussians Hussars have established themselves at the distance of the frontier in face of the cannon of Sittard. I this moment receive the news that an order was received yesterday, at ten o'clock in the morning, to the inhabitants of Vendoo, that those who are not provisioned for a month must leave the town ; the garrison is continually under arms, the Prus sian army has made a movement towards our frontier, the cavalry has already taken up its position—a regiment of Prussian Cuirassiers is cantoned at Cald Merke, a small town of Prussia, on the road to Cologne ; a league from Venloo. The infantry is following this movement, greatly irritating the Rhenish population these provinces are greatly in favour of the Belgians. General Dibbets, Commander of the fortress of illaes trecht, has received orders to send back all vessels carrying the Belgian flag. They write from Tirlemont, on the 7th of February, " A letter from the environs of Juliens, announces that the Reserve of the Prussians are recalled to the pro vince of the Rhine and Westphalia. The small town of Juliens is crowded with troops." It is assured that the two ambassadors who have left Brussels are going to reside at Aix-la-Chapelle ; there to wait for further orders from their respective Courts. They write from Namour, February 7, that the public spirit is excellent. Arms are sent from Namour to the province of Luxemburg. They write from HeAtil, Limburg, February 7, that the Dutch have cut the roads leading to Cyndhoven, on our side, and have pulled down about fifteen houses, to esta blish a kind of tete de pont and batteries, to defend the ap proach to Cyndhoven. It is assured they are going to for tify Luxemburg. DUTCH FUNDS, FEB. 8. —Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 54i-; Five per Cents., 1003. We have received Hobart Town papers to the 6th of October. The Legislative Council will meet, according to ad journment, on the 15th inst., when we hope to see a full attendance of county Members; we understand that se veral new Acts of Council are prepared. • The Lieut.-Governor has issued his proclamation for dividing the island into districte, for the purposes required by the Act of Council, for the registration of births, death., or marriages. The thanks of the whole free community of this colony arc due to the respectable and spirited individuals in the Campbell Town district, who have so manfully come for ward to rescue the moral character of the colonists of Van Dieman's Land from the unjust and erroneous calumnies which have been heaped upon them. We learn with regret that apprehensions have been entertained that the contagious diseases which have proved so fatal to sheep in New South Wales have ap peared at Port Phillip. The French papers received this morning, in addition to the official accounts of the affair at Vera Cruz, state that Admiral Baudin has sent to the French Island for a dis posable force, and it is supposed he means to occupy Vera Cruz. THE FUNDS Consols, which closed on Saturday at 92 4 for the Ac count, Money 92 1, opened this morning with an im provement, and may be quoted at 92 for the Account ; Money 92:1- s ; Exchequer Bills 64 66 ; India Bonds 62 64 ; Bank Stock 2024 203 ; India Stock, 252 253. In the Foreign Market, Spanish is somewhat better, closed at 19 !-; at present 191 ; Portuguese same as they closed 37i- ; Three per Cents.23f; Belgian, 97i 98 4 1 ; Brazilian, 79.; Mexican, 23i 24; Colombian 284 291 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., improved, closed at 54i at present 54 ie ; Five per Cents., 102 a i• HALF-PAST ONE. LIVERPOOL COTTON -MARKET, FEB. 9. —The demand for cotton to-day has been but moderate, and about 2,500 bales have been sold at steady prices, although there ap pears more unwillingness to sell. The British Funds are not quite so good as in the early part of the morning, when they were 921 for the Ac count, at present may be quoted 928, Money 921. The Austrian and Prussian agents leaving Brussels, with the continued warlike preparations in Belgium, tend to affect the various funds. Exchequer Bills, 65 63 lower. India Bonds, 64 41 lower. Bank Stock, 203. I❑ the Foreign Market most of the prices continue as in the morning. Spanish Active, 191 ; Portuguese, 37N; Three per Cents., 231 ; Belgium, 981 9 ; Brazilian, 791; Colombian, 2E4 91; Mexican, 231 24; Dutch Two ana-a-Half per Cents., 54i Five per Cents., 1023- In the Share Market scarcely any business doing. Great Western, 121 prem. ; Birmingham, 84 pram. THRE. O'CLOCK. Consols for the Account, 9: PRICES OF STOCKS THIS Bank Stock 20314 3' 3 per Cent. Red. 9 3 1,1 3 3 per Cent. Cons. 92 M6 1 4 3 per Cent Ditto Red. New 3 per Cent... 99 100% 100 New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities to expire Jan. 5:1860 l5 1-16 Oct. 10, 1859 Jan. 5, 1860 Jan. 5, 1880 April 5, 1880 Jan. 5. 1870 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS '1 Austrian Bonds Belgian Bonds Ditto Account OB% g Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account Chilian Bonds D tto Account Columbian Bonds Ditto Account Columbian Bonds, 182,1 2BN Ditto Account 28% 9 Danish Bonds Ditto Account 76 Greek Bonds — Ditto Bonds, 18:25 Ditto Account Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto Account ..... - Ditto, 6 per Cent Ditto Account Neapolitan PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. India Stock Ditto Bonds 64 61 pm. South Sea Stock Old Annuities New Ditto 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 Exch. Bills, £l,OOO ... 65 63 put Ditto 500 ... tis 63 pm. Ditto Small 6-4 tit; 63 pin. Ditto Commercial 7 9 pm. Ditto Advertised Bank Stock for Account ... India Stock for Account ... Consols for Account 'HIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Peruvian Bonds Ditto Account Portuguese Bonds. Ditto New Bonds Ditto Account... 37% Ditto, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account Prussian Bonds Russian Bonds, 1822 11434 14 Ditto Account Ditto Metallic Spanish Bonds Ditto Account Ditto Bonds, 1834 Ditto Account. 191,4% French, 5 per cent. 4 per cent. -f. ---- 3 per cent. ----. Exchange. -f. —c. Dutch, 2t per cent. 54% Ditto Account 5- 1 ,4 Ditto, 5 per cent . Ditto Account DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per tit:are 10% U, 5 65 77% Company 9O 173 4 pany 161.83, 4 5% 55 5434 263. Hibernian Mining Company Great Western Railway Company I rndin and Birmingham Railway ( London and Croydon Railway Cowl Ditto New Scrip North Midland hallway Company British North American Bank London and Westminster Bank.:: 20 - - PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, FEB. 9. 3:per Cent. Consols per Cent. Stock Ditto Reduced Ditto New, 1830 99% City of Dublin Steam Comp. 1174 11y4 par Cent. Debentures National Insurance Company Bank hock rirand Canal Stock Royal Canal Stock THE FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 2 3 India Stock 251 3 per Cent. Ited 93 Ditto Bends 6l 3 per Cent Ccas U2I4 L)itto Old Annuities :o,G per Cent. Red 10034 Ditto New Annuities ...... .. New 3 1 ,', per Cent 1 0 Ex. Bills, 1,0001 2 d.... 63 pm. New 5 per Cent Ditto 5001 i 3 pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto 500/ C'i pm. Jan. 1800 Oct. 1859 Jan. 1800 - ~ 2:lyi FOREIGN FUNDS. Asturian, 5 per cent Belgian, 5 per cent 99 Brazilian Bonds 79 Buenos Ayr.'s, 6 per cent — Chilian, 6 per cent Colonalhan, 6 per cent Ditto, 1824 :25% Danish, 3 per cent Greek Bonds, 1825, 5 per ct — Mexican, 5 per cent Ditto, 6 per cent., 1825 'eruvian, 1825,6 per cent BIIA Eastern Counties Railway Portuguese Bondi, sper cent. Ditto, New Ditto Prussian, 5 per cent Russian Bonds, 5 per cent 114 Ditto, Metallic Spanish, 5 per cent 19% Ditto, Consolidated French, 5 per cent....,,,.,, 781. —c. Exchange French, :3 per cent Dutch, 24 per cont. `4% Ditto, 5 per cent. It"S. I 1 I,i . - Great Western Railway .. 775% London and Brighton Railway lO% London and Blackwall Railway 7% London and Birmingham Railway 174 London and Southampton Railway 4 4 li London and Croydon Railway (New Scrip) London Grand Junction Railway ()Y e North Midland Railway SPORTING INTELLIGENCE LATEST BETTING AT MANCHESTER. CHESTER TRADES' CUP. 8 to 1 on the field 12 to I on the field, bar one 17 to 2 agst Mr. Copeland's King Cole 12 to 1 agst Captain Healey's Van Buren 14 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's lon—taken 16 to 1 agst Mr. Ferguson's Harkaway 16 to 1 agst Mr. Barrow's Eaglet -100 to 6 taken 18 to 1 agst Mr. Heseltine's Slashing Harry—taken 20 to 1 agst Mr. Topham's The Drone—taken 200 to g agst Chit Chat —taken DERBY BETTING. 9 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Brother to Bay Middleton 16 to 1 agst Duke of Rutland's Flambeau—taken 16 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Erin-go-Bragh—taken 20 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Dey of Algiers 60 to 1 agst Flambeau winning the Derby, Harkaway the Chestei Cup, and Commodore the Doncaster St. Leger 200 to 1 agst Brother to Bay Middleton winning the Derby, Shadow the Oaks, and Zimmerman the St Leger THE OAKS. 10 to 1 agst Shadow During the past week we (Kendal Mercury) have had very favourable and seasonable weather, which commenced at the close of the last week, and has continued permanent, and we have now a rather mild south.west wind. A sensible abatement cf the cold, and the increasing length of the days, betoken the ap proaching spring. The Guard of the Milford Mail, on Sunday morning fell off' his seat in s fit of apoplexy, between Taibach and Margam on his way to Pyle. He was was laid up at a little ham. let called the Groes, and by the care of Mr. Prichard, surgeon, he was enabled to be removed the same evening to Taibach. The name of the Guard is Hopkins, he is much respected, and has filled his situation with credit to himself and his employers. — Welehman. HOLLAND AND BELGIUM. The following official announcement appears in the Moniteur Beige of the 7th inst. It created considerable excitement in the Belgian capital : " The Count de RECHBERG, Charge d'Affaires of His Majesty, the Emperor of AUSTRIA, and the Count D'SESPENDORFF, Charge d'Affaires of His Majesty the King of PRUSSIA, quitted Brussels on the 6th of this month with the per sons attached to their legations." The Members of the Chamber of Deputies have agreed to remain in Brussels during the prorogation, that they may be at hand to communicate with the Government in the event of any measure contrary to their views, being resolved on for the settlement of the dispute with Holland. This, their real ob ject in lingering near the seat of their Legislative labours, though not avowed, is understood by every person, and creates uneasiness because indicating suspicions of the patriotism of the Government. The inhabitants of Venloo have been directed to lay in provisions for a month. It was rumoured that the QUEEN of the FRENCH and the Princess CLEMENTINE had left Paris for Brussels. A number of horses intended for the use of the Belgian troops, belonging to M. RUBERT, were seized by the Prussian authorities between Mun ster and and Wesel, and their owner taken into custody. The exportation of horses from Prussia being strictly prohibited, their seizure by the Officers of Customs was in execution of an ordi nary duty, and therefore totally unconnected with political considerations. Letters from Frankfort state that, notwithstand ing the warlike attitude assumed by Holland and Belgium, and the powerful armaments of Prussia already in motion, no doubt is felt as to the preser vation of the general peace. The military arrange ments made by Prus s i a are no t regar d e d in the light of measures meant to counterbalance the movements of France on the northern frontier, but rather as auxiliary to the pacific designs of the French Government. It was, moreover, the con- viction of persons who had recently visited Bel gium that the more respectable classes were all strongly opposed to the idea of a war with Holland. The manufacturers, in particular, were anxious for the continuance of tranquillity, so necessary to their recovery from the shock given them by the brief suspension of payment by the Banki , of Belgium; but their voice was drowned by the clamours of revolutionary demagogues, having everything to hope and nothing to fear from anarchy and the sword. Belgium has her CATALINES as well as ancient Rome. Sit powder wageons are gone to-day to Antwerp, to receive at the Citadel a quantity of ammunition to be con veyed to Limburg: A letter from Hasselt of the sth Feb., says:—." The garrison of Maestricht makes frequent sallies with a great number of men in the environs of the town." It is still reported at Maestricht, that a corps of 20,006 men is to be stationed in the town. This corps, it is said, is that which is posted along the Meuse, between Grave and Nimeguen. The inhabitants of Maestricht are much dissatisfied that the importation of corn and potatoes from Belgium is prohibited in the town. (From the Courrier Beige.) BRUSSELS, FEB. B.—lt is said what most severely af fected the maritime commerce of Antwerp, was the obli gation to touch at Flushing or at Ternewzen, to wait for permission to enter the Scheldt or to put to sea. Often the winds and tides which were depended on had changed when the Dutch thought fit to allow ships to proceed on their voyage. There are continual remonstrances against this order of things, and it was,declared preferable to pay a higher toll in order to enter and depart without obstacles. This is the ground for establishing a Dutch officer at Antwerp. The proposed duty is certainly too high, and if our Minister for Foreign Affairs had intervened in time, we should doubtless have obtained a reduction. But it is only Just to say that this is a part of the bank, near Ter neuzen, the keeping of which in repair annually amounts to a large sum, which sum sometimes exceeds 900,000 florins. Though it is the interest of Holland to make those repairs, it has not neglected to endeavour to throw part of them on Belgium. However, the remonstrances of the English, Dutch, and French merchants will doubtless have much influence in the sequel in obtaining a modification of this duty, which will press more heavily on them than on us. A Cabinet Council was summoned and met at the Palace. In a letter from the Hague, dated the 7th inst., it is stated that the Speech of the Queen of GREAT BRITAIN, at the opening of Parliam en t, h as satis fied the Dutch that the dispute with Belgium will be settled without the firing of a musket. The pacific intentions of King LEOPOLD arc well known in Holland, and the unpleasant duty imposed by his position, of feigning a repugnance to sign the. Treaty, fully appreciated. But the portion of this communication which will excite most sur prise, is the following :—" The appointment of the Polish General was made by LEOPOLD, for the express purpose of affording the Ministers of Austria and P russ i a a ground to quit Brussels. By this demonstration, combined with the assembling of French and Prussian troops on the Belgian frontier, a reaction must necessarily take place on the part of those who do not join in the mad and wicked project of the advocates for war, but who have not yet had the courage to make themselves heard." Whether this statement be, or be not, correct, we cannot tell ; but for our own part we do not believe a syllable of it. Much as King LEOPOLD is opposed to a course which he must know would be attended with disastrous results to Belgium, we believe him to be far too patriotic to seek to avoid it by the repetition of a policy to be studied in the darkest pages of the history of unhappy Poland. On the 6th instant, the Prince of ORANGE set out for the head -quarters of the army. The Dutch Government, in order to manifest more clearly its pacific intentions, has ordered the troops in North Brabant to withdraw the distance of two leagues from the Belgian frontier. THE HAMM, FEB. B.—The Stag!: Courant contains a report of a negotiation for realizing Losrenten, bearing in terest at 5 per cent per annum, charged on the transmarine possessions of the kingdom, the interest of which is fully guaranteed by the kingdom by the law of the 22d of Dec. 1838. The amount of 14,000 shares of a thousand florins each, is to be issued in the negotiations of Losrenten to be sued according to the above law quoted. We have re ceived the important news of the prorogation of the Bel gian Chambers, and the resignation of two of the Mi nisters. BRUSSELS, FEB. 9.—lt is said that the Government is negotiating with the Conference to obtain that, in case of the compulsory abandonment of Luxemburg and Limburg, those two countries may be occupied for two years by some other power than Holland, in order to avoid the acts of revenge and reprisal, which many persons fear, who have openly manifested their Anti-Dutch opinions. We do not believe the news of the departure of M. Dumont for London, announced_ by the Beige : it is too late. It is a measure which the Ministry should have taken earlier; but in this, as in most of the negociations and resolu tions to which it is forced in its own defence, our diplomatic Minister has always been one idea and one day behind hand. The Minister of War, finding it impossible to procure horses abroad, has resolved, it is said, to purchase 1,800 in the Ardennes. Every body accounts, in his own way, for the resignation of Messrs. d'fluart and Ernst, and imagine from it that the Government gives up all resist ance to the last Protocol of the Conference. For our part, while we see in the Cabinet Nothomb, the learned author of the:" History of the Revolution of Belgium," we shall not despair of the cause. We believe, on the con trary, that we may affirm that the retirement of the two Ministers is to be ascribed only to the apprehensions which they conceived of the consequences which might result to Belgium from the appointment of the Polish General Skryznecki. DUTCH FUNDS.—AmsrEnnam, FEB. 3. Money. Sills. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. - • - Ainort Syndic, 454 per cent 944 9.4 Ditto ditto, 34 per cent. .79 . 80 Commercial tonifia . ny, 4 , , per cent l74► 175 Ditto (IKI2 and 1833) 5 per cent. Loan 1836, 4 per cent. Ditto 1037, 5 per cent. Exchange on London, One month Two months BELGIAN 1. UNDS—Baussti.s, FEB. 9, Actual Debt, per Cent. ... 52% Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent.."""""'................ 97'4 Loan of Thirty Rlillions, 4 per Cent. 3 er Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cepnt Cent. 6B Society of Commerce, 414 per Cent lib Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent National Society 100 —Brussels Papers, Feb. 9. GERMAN PAPERS. VIENNA, JAN, 31. The'" --- first news of the breaking up of the French Cabinet caused a decline in our funds, which may be ascribed to the reports of an interruption of the general peace which were connected with it. It appears to have been forgotten for a moment how little it would agree with the interest of Louis Philippe if a Movement Ministry should be formed, by which the state of peace hitherto maintained should be endangered. This decline is of little importance, and seems to have been momentary, for it has now ceased, and the prices re main unchanged. ROME, JAN. 20.—1 t has happened very unexpectedly on the death of Prince Lieven, who was a Pro. testant, that the body was conveyed to what is called the Protestant Chapel of the Prussian Legation, with public solemnity, and that a Protestant funeral ceremony was there performed, to which the members of the diplo matic body were formally invited by the Prussian Ambas sador. This event might lead to the erroneous notion that there is at Rome a chapel for the public exercise of the Protestant religion, and even recognised, or at least tolerated by the Government of his Holiness. N_Vo are desired publicly to declare that the above event took place without the knowledge, and contrary to all exp su eF it t a a b ti l o e n re o . f the Holy See, which has not failed to address monstrances on the subject to the representatives of Rus sia and Prussia ; and they have especially desired us observe that th e a b ove ment i one d P rotestant c h a p e l, as it is called, is not i n any manner to l erate d b y t h e P a pal Go vernment, and only su ff ere d f or t h e so l e pr i va t e use of the persons belonging t o th e P russ i an L egat i on . -to AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, FEB. 1. Five per Cents. Metalliques Four per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shares 1471 —"WgemeineZeitung, Feb. 6. HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, FEB.S. • Bills. Money. Austrian Metariques, 5 per cent. Ditto ditto $ percent. — Ditto alit to 2,1 per cent - lotto Bank Shares l4 0 14 7 , A , lglo-Russian Loan lOB% 1( 551 Russian 5 per cents. Metal. Paper Inscription, 6 per cent Russian Inscription, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th 11- 4 '% 1°6341' Series Ditto, Certificates Portuguese Regency Bonds,s per cent — -- Ditto, 3 per cent — Dutch 2% per Cents. Ditto 5 per Cents 99 Polish Bonds, 3 per cents. New Tickets 158% 15514 Anglo_Danish Loan, 3 per cents 72 71 3 4 Norwegian Loan of IKI4, 4 per cents ....... lOl% 101 % Spanish, in piastres, 3 per Cents — —. Cortes Loan, 5 per Cen - —.— Greek 4 per cents. 1513, guaranteed by France .... EXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG ' 1 Ea. 5 —l3 5N ; two months, 134. —Hamburg Papers, Feb. 5. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, FEE. 4. Bills. Money. St. Schuld. Sch., 4 per cent 103% :: 1 02 5 Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 102% 101 N Exchange on London, three monres 6 19% —Prussian State Gazette, Feb. 5. LLOYDS' SHIPPING-THIS DAY DEAL, Fee. 9.—Wind fresh--Arrived and proce eded for the River, the Red Port; Gibbons, Oporto ; Garrone, Breh en ' do. ; Wave, Goldsmith, Hobart Town. Came down from the Rive r Africa, Cape Coast Castle; Ceres, Haselwood, Demerara. 10 * —Wind N.N.E., moderate.—Came down from the River and pro' ceeded, Amity, Skead, Bermuda ; Elizabeth, Mogadore ; Rosali nd ' Collins, Bayonne. Remain the John Denniston, for Bombay ; Ho duras, Sydney ; and Ceres, Bombay. Po arsmOnTll, FEB. 9.—Wind W.S. W., fresh breezes and hag 10.—Wind N.N.E. to S.S. W., light airs and fine.—Arrived th e Eleanor, Halderness, London ; Georgina, Scott, do. ; Nymph, qtr. wicker, St. Michael's. Sailed the Yanston, Jarvis, St. Michael's; Thomas Coutts, Warren, Bayonne; Thracia, Brown, Havatmah; City of Rochester, Campbell, Barbadoes; George and Thomas, L id ; dle, iSeaham ; Greenwood, Donner, do. ; Leander, M`Dermal°, Leghorn; Ark, Jersey. LIVERPOOL, FED. 9 and 10.—Wind S.W., fresh.—Arrived th e Java, late Hogan, from Demerara; Harriette, Wilson, Bahia; Rosendale, ditto; Nightingale, Pernambuco; Reliance, Demerara; Robert, Savanilla ; Mohawk, New Orleans ; Parthynon, ditto; Norman, ditto ; Ganges, Charleston ; Spring, St. Mark's ; Edwar d ' Jenkins, Savannah ; Hamel, Kerr, St. John's; Superior, St. as' chael's; Celebrity, ditto ; Premier, Newman, Denia ; Notio n ' Leghorn ; Oporto, Lisbon; Hiniter, Bordeaux ; Louisa, Kl ei ; Comet, Duselle, Ostend ; M a nu e lit a, Rotterdam ; Cincinnati, Oar stow, Naples; Lancashire Lass, Monte Video; Albion, Maranhatn; Isis, Graham, Savanilla ; Sandwich Bay, Figuera ; Grog, Lisbon' Mayflower, ditto; Hespeth, ditto; Montague, Leghorn; Ma ree° ' Genoa; Courtnay, Charleston. Sailed the Hankinson, for Africa; Georgina, Toole, Charleston. Off port, the Swittiltir e ' from Africa; Eagle, Leghorn. MARoATB, FEB. 10.— Arrived off, the Eagle, Stephenson, hots St. John's ; Ectam, Cadiz ; Fame, Bordeaux. Arrived the Britannia, from London ; King George, ditto. _ _ MOMSFE, FEB, 10.—Arrived the Antzic, from Harlingen• SHIELDS, Fen. 9. — Arrived the Cato, Christie, from Be lt.° Swaner, Nyberg ; Matilda and Charlotte, Dunkirk. GUERNSEY, FEB. 7.—Sailed the Haabet, for St. Übes. JERSEY, Fze. 7.—Sailed the Harmonica, for Oporto. ILFRACOMBE, Fee. B.—Arrived off, the Bellona, Warren, f Oin Pillau ; Jane, Ancona. LOCIIINDALE, FEB. 2.—The Earl of Errol, Wade, Prom (41° ; gow to Limeri c k, w hi c h was on shore on the 7th ult., has been r . off, after discharging p ar t o f t h e cargo, and brought into t'i" roadstead. MILFORD, Fan. 9.—The Edinburgh, Bristow, from New Orleans, was totally wrecked la s t n i g ht t o th e westward of the Ganges Han d ' The master, three of the crew, and three passengers drowned. PLYMOUTH, FEB. 8 and 9.—Wind S.W. Arrived the Jeune Fells' from Nantes ; Charles, Pierson, Odessa; Isole, Jacob, IsTaP tel j Natbalia, Ladsone, Bordeaux ; L a M e d ee, Aran°, Nantes; Genera l Lafayette, Bouchi, St. Gile s; M an l ey, Rid ley, Taragona ; St. Pierr e ' Marans ; .Schyke, Cherburg ; Hermida, Nelson, Arundel.. t FALMOUTH, FEB. B.—Wind S.S. W. 9th .— Wi n d S.S.W r • W.S.W., strong breezes.—Arrived the Fortitude, Wilson, 13411i , 5 ,: Active, Robson, Poole ; S peramee, Constantinople and Dial"-- Sailed the Opossum, Li eu t. P e t er, M adeira and Brazil, with raai'' , Lord Melville (steamer), Lieut. Webb, Halifax. YARMOUTH, FEB. 9.—Arrived the Hero, Barnes, from Dunkirk ; Neptune, Sabella, Ostend. BELFAST, FEB. 9. Arrived the Bolina, from Rotterdam ; 14aria Catherine, Antwerp. StiORSHAII, FEB. 9.—Arrived the Ruby, Wenther, Waterford. POOLE, FEB, 10.—The F or t una, T homas, from Bahia, which /10 on shore near St. Alban's Head, is gone to pieces. o of PORT TALBOT, FEB. 9.--A considerable po r ti on o f the car.,,,i, the Charles, from New Bru nsw i c k to Gloucester, wrecked near "'" port, has been saved. BELFAST, FEB S.—The Shannon, from Whitehaven to Dui - A ir/4 is on shore near Ballywalter, and it is feared will become a wreck- PWLLBILE, Fee. B.—The T rans i t, f rom Savannah to LiverP° ol, was wrecked yesterday n ear Hill smouth—crew, and par t of the materials saved. THE MARKETS --(THIS DAY•) CORN.EXCIIANGE. Last week's arrivals of English Grain and Flour were moderate of Irish Oats cons id era bl e, and of Foreign Wheat large . trade throughout the week was generally dull, without variation l!'t prices. There has been a small fresh supply of English Wheat, b i a good quantity o f B ar l ey, Beans, Pease, and Oats. The Wheat trade for superfine English is la. per q u ar t er d earer; f or othe r qualities last Monday's prices were slowly obtained. Foreig n Wheat having experienced some country demand, maintained i t. previous rates. Barley continues very dull, and has further de clined 2s. per quarter. New Beans, being chiefly tender, declin.' Is. to 2s. per quarter. Oats met a very slack sale, and were full i f • per quarter cheaper than this day se'nnight. The Flour trade r*" tained its heaviness, and ship parcels were offering for less Pr ice' to effect sales. PRICES ON BOARD OF SHIP. Wheat, Red (old) —s. —s. Beans, Small (new) 4 3, 41s —White (old) s. —s. Hed ll:138) 62s. 655. Tick (new) ........ 40,.42s . 35 7: -- Fine f;6, es; (old) -- Superfine 645. 70s. Harrow new) 3 es• ; cc White (1835) ....(Rs. 68s. 725. ---- Superfine 71s. 7635. - -Foreign free 78s. 80s. By( Barley Grinding... 3BB. - Malting 403. 425. Malt s6s. G 5;. line New .. 688. Pease, Grey ......, New 3.55. 365. Maple New . 37s. 384. White.... 4os. 425 . -- Boilers ............ ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LB heat. I B: 2,60.3 qrs. 8, Bran k Oats, Feed ------- New 248,284 Poland __,......5, New .......... 24 g 294 Potatoe 275. 29g. vew ......... 285.3 21 • ---Scotch 240 Irish 245.... 2 3 '.2 . ,," . Flour Town (per sack) .... 6 °' 4 'n. ' -- Seconds. .............. 56i.5z• —..... Bran North North Country , 520 s 4. 5 . 0 .. 111 )NDON DURING LAST WE ° arley. Oats. POW.. 431 qrs. 5,703 qrs 3,89A511 n 0,825 ----- 7,030 2,5 8 0 or English Irish Foreign 1 -- 21,786 301 SMITHFIELD. The weather cau se d trade to be very dull, at a decline of ed. t o 4cl per stone on i n f er i or qualities of Beef and Mutton, a nd there vias great deal uns o ld . P ork and Veal Were a heavy sale at full 4“ ,,. t 0 6d. per stone o n l as t week's prices. The supply of Calves and_orult ready slaughtered, a t N ewgate and Leadenhall Markets, has c * business of late b e i ng very limited in these departments at ST'exj, field. Beef 3s. 4d . t o 4s. 4d. ; Mutton, 4s. 2d. to ss. 2. 1 . ; he p, 4s. 6cl. to ss. 4d .; P ork, 4s. Bd. to ss. Beasts, 3,1231 g 21,630; Pigs, 310; Calves, 62. There was little don,)in ItShlisOmNarilleAt,RaKnEdT. prices o f most del eriP4 tions of go o d s i n i t were Is. to 2s. per cwt. lower riecs than/A st Weel. The stocks were heavy. TA LLOW MARKET Such was the v er y . o wn° uncertain state of this market, that litl° differed from each o th er b y as. per cwt.—some quoting r• ‘ f •a at 525., and others at 555. In the Pot a t o , H ops, and Seed Markets little was donill, and prices were not altered. There was no business done in the Colonial Market :OUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAST Wheat, Earley. I Oats. I F' Brans. Per Quarter. 50 55 35 48 P; ‘ , B 38 48 q. 32 94 4 2 34 88 -- 44 50 " 44 40 -- 30 42 - 40 ""' 36 40 - 40 45 S 8 36 42 37 44 94 34 48 34 38 40 B =singqtoke Bath Ashburn 64 80 40 45 28 33 76 88 30 37 20 28 70 81 31) 33 0 0 22 64 80 22 26 0 0 25 68 80 28 32 18 20 53 82 30 34 20 28 7 6 S 5 30 36 24 28 78 R) 35 44 20 30 80 30 21 65 8i 30 30 20 28 72 84 31 37 124 34 56 SO 26 38 22 20 83 24 56 83 33 47 i 21 52 hi) 81 30 34 28 27 80 30 25 -- • 4i 69 84 30 36 20 25 36 59 72 SO 28 34 21 9.6 39 44 76 29 18 -. 36 80 84 30 33 i2B 30 41 42 41 f 5 83 28 33 20 08 36 44 -; s. cf. s. d. s. d s d. s. d. s. d. s. d. 1• ( ;; 105 11 9 50 56 ; 36 44 00 00 0 • IKEFIELD CORN MARKET —Feb, 8, vs. 1, Norfolk and Suffblk ...... —s. 765. to 781. fin' v s, - Lin. and Cam. —s. 75 8 . t o 78s. fine 7 8,. Yorkshire —a. 725. to 765. fin e 8 4,, White Foreign, fled —s. —s. to —s. White s. —s. to —s. ft" - 445, Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk 42s. to 455. fin e 43 ,, Lincolnshire 18s. to 40s. One az, -- Yorkshire Wold . 3Bs. to 405. fi n : Foreign Beans, Small Tick 40s. to 445. Osts, Potato4os. Poland criezland and Small Shelling d s t 22 : 64 t 3 1 9 :. : tt :0 5e1 0 : 34‘226 71 ) p .: 11 1,03 ,4 : f a Malt 42s. fine 48s. per Rapeseed —l. Os M. Os. 321. Os. p er "'" Bridgewater _ Chesterfield Derby --- Doncaster Dorchester Ev;ter Gloucester Hungerford Newbury—„— Roinsey Shaftesbury Sherborne Vfotnton Yarmouth Yeovil Per Bushel Shrewsbury AT) Wneat, Red; BIRMINGHAM CORN MARKET, Feb. 7 4, Wheat, 62 lb. 6 o Barley, imperial quarter 3 Do. Grinding, 49 lb. Oats, 30 lb Old Beans, 66 lb l6 6 6 New ditto New White Boling Pease, 3 imp. bush. Ditto Grey ditto 1 1 4 6 tio SCOTCH MARKET, SCOTCH MARKETS. ----<. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Be ans . — 44 oatine 3 -- kberdeen 75 to 80 30 to 36 22 t o —t o _ 40 to 50 Berwick 45 58 26 32 20 24 30 43 ..... Celdstream - Cupar ,Fite) 4.8 65 126 31 18 22 22 26 """ .... Dundee 4B 98 30 33 20 25 30 31 --- ..... Elgin Inverness 62 70 2/4 22 25 26 32 33 Kelso ~ ~., !",0 56 2' 27 16 Kirkaldy Perth - B . :: :„,. Th o size of the measure varies throughout the country. HADDINGfON CORN MARKET.—Feb. 6. Bea"' Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. 5Q5 Od First 7B,s Od 47s Od 36 5 04 46s Od , 0,4 Second 7os Od 4 2 s Od 32s Od 42, 6 d 36 , NI Third 66s Od 36 s 04 28, 0,4 3Ss Od Average 3l. 98 10d. 8-12ths. DALKEITH CORN MARKET. —Feb. 7. Be o s, Wheat. Barley. 1 Oats. Pease. 44:0c1 First 74s Od 48s Ad 348 44 4 4 s Od 43 . o d Second 72s 03 43s Od 2711 04 43 ' 2 d , 34: 04 Third . 4 BB Od ;ads 00 18s Od 34 3 'l' CORNWALL MARK} (Calculated at 24 gallons to the bi ETS. lushel.) Wheat. Barley. s. d. to s. d. s. d. to s. d. s • d. cruro., Helstone St. Austell ..... Bodnun 0 24 6 0 9 6 _. X Liskeard Launceston Camelford 2l 0 24 0— 0 10 0 7 0 Penzance 24 0 26 0 —. 0 11 0 --- 0 -I. Q. 0 . 8 0 8 0 9 0 7 0 0 0 8 ° rw 0 Clo Ti le Man Ric e Vis e :, COlOl NON toree, Aft Th Pala( list• Iti l 9rez rields: Birm Lod e L4tu i 44 he Co 04 S i b e 'l op , Color Th melt), , M a `, 141 Y el try c D e Pote n Pore; Ti Whit llocc. m ann "Pre 'lane( lut e , s orm Th, . e r ead !of, LO O suit You ' 6 tOr , Rive a ce Th bri e