The Sun. — London, England, 1844-03-04 00:00:00

Lieutenant Hockley, the commanding officer of the Winterton coast-guard station, and a body of his men were in attendance to work the life apparatus, which was on the spot. The instant almost that the ill-fated vessel struck, the mortar was fired, and a line carried over the ship; consequently, i n a f ew m i nutes, a com munication was formed with her from the shore. The next operation was that of dragging the crew through the surf to the beach, which we are happy to say was safely accomplished, and thus the whole of them were saved, to the great delight of all assembled. In the course of the same morning, another vessel, a sloop, called the Sarah, master Mr. Welldrick, of and for Goole, from London, was driven ashore about half-way between Gorton and Garlestone, and from the danger in Which she lies, it is expected she will ere long go to pieces, The captains of the colliers arrived in the roads this af ternoon, report that upwards of five vessels were lost off Tynemouth-bar during Saturday morning, and that the harbour, when they left on Sunday night, had the ap pearance of a ship-breaker's and timber yard, owing to the immense quantity of wreck floating about, most of the vessels having, by the violence of the sea,,lsfoken out. The accounts received from Staithes, bearing Tuesday's date, state that that coast, during the last two days, has been visited with one of the most terrific storms at sea remembered in the neighbourhood. It commenced on Saturday at noon, the g al e blowing from the north, and by night the sea was an entire foam. The fishing cobbles at sea were capsized, and the crews were picked off the bottom of their boats and landed in safety. The cobbles belonging to Remswick, a small fishing place near this, were similarly situated. One was cap sized, and a man named Robert Trattles was drowned ; the others were saved. Near Stockton no less than nine vessels were driven ashore in the course of Sunday morning, and many of them have since gone to pieces. They are the Unity of Faversham, the George Of Cowes, the Hope of Scarbo borough, the Felicity, belonging to Lynn, the Ponte fract, froin London to Stockton, the Niseus, from Hull, the Ondine, from Boston, Lincolnshire, the Lark, of Woodbridge, and the Rosehaugh, of Cromarty. Those vessels which have become a total wreck are the Lark and the Unity ; they were both laden with a general cargo, and unfortunately neither of them are insured. In nearly the whole of the cases the crews saved them selves by clinging to the rigging until taken off by the life-boat people, whose labours and exertions were ar duous in the extreme. Further up the coast, namely, at Hartlepool, four vessels went ashore, and remain in a dangerous state of ever again being brought afloat ; the crews were saved. The sloop Glengarry, of Dungarvon, for Swansea, which sailed from Angle Milford Haven, on the morning of the 24th ultimo, was lost on the following morning on the rocks a little to the southward of Sheep Islands_; the crew previously saved themselves by taking to the boat. A few tons of the cargo may probably be picked out from among the rocks. At Warkworth, on the coast of Northumberland, a large brig called the Blackbird was driven ashore at a place named Wellheaugh Lock, and was completely lost ; all hands were saved. Within a few miles of Wainfleet Harbour, in Lincoln shire, two other distressing shipwrecks occurred (in addition to the loss of the Carlisle steamer, pre viously mentioned), and several persons perished. The first took place at about three e'clock on Monday morn ing, on the Mamby Sands, the unfortunate vessel proving to be the Iris (a sloop), of Hull, laden with barley, bound from Ipswich to Fradingdon-bridge. There were on board six persons, consisting of the master, his wife, and one child, an apprentice boy . , and two men, all of whom (the master excepted) perished. At daybreak the Iris was found a perfect wreck, and her cargo strewn along the beach. The other vessel lost was the Thomas and William. It happened on the Wainfleet Sands, but in this case the crew were lucky enough to save themselves by the boats. It is sadly feared, from the terrific violence of the storm, that many other fatal and fearful disasters occurred at sea during its fury. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING, MARCH 4, Will be repeated, by permission of Charles Dickens, Esq., THE CHRISTMAS CAROL Principal Characters—Messrs. 0. Smith, Wright, Lyon, Maynard, Forman, Miss Woolgar. Mrs. F. Mathews, Miss Chaplin, and Miss Lee. To be followed by ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA MARRIED AND SETTLED. Antony, Mr. Wright; Cleopatra, Miss Woolgar. After which, ULRICA ; or, The Prisoner of State. Principal Characters—Messrs. Lyon, 0. Smith, Maynard, Forman, Wieland, and Hamilton ; Mesdames Yates, D. Lee. and Chaplin. To conclude with the Tragedy of RICHARD THE THIRD. Ri chard, Mr. Wright; Lady Anne, Miss E. Stanley. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. ; Second price at Nine. Doors open at Hal -past Six, commence at Seven o'Clock. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE THIS EVENING, MARCH 4, Will be performed a New Drama, entitled THE LAST SHIL. LING, supported by all the Company. After which, HAMLET, supported by Messrs. Saville, Hughes, Hicks, Neville, IL Honner, Heslop, Johnson, W. Smith, Miss E. Terrey, and Mrs. H. Vining. To conclude with A TALE OF MYSTERY, in which Messrs. Saville, Hicks, Neville, Johnson, Heslop, Mrs. Daly, and Mrs. Hughes will perform Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box.. office, from Eleven to Four. RAILROADS IN FRANCE. Prance is at length beginning to show great ac tivity, and is n"w competing with her Belgian neighbours, in facilitating provincial intercommuni cation by means of railways. In the month of April, 1842, it was stated by M. Messeger, in his " Commercial Tariff and Regulations of France," that, with the exception of a few miles of branch rails, the whole railroad communication of that ex tensive kingdom was comprised in a very bad line from St. Etienne to Lyons, one from Paris to St. Germains, and two from Paris to Versailles. In June, 1842, however, the French Government, seeing the immense increase of traffic secured to Belgium by means of its extensive railroad communication, set a very noble national example, and offered public en terprise a great inducement to enter upon the neces sary competition. The Government agi eed to de liver to such companies as should undertake the con struction of certai n li nes , f ree o f a ll c h arge, t h e l an d required for the whole line, and to complete the earthworks, termini, and stations ; leaving the companies to lay down the rails or per manent way, to supply the engines and carriages for Working the lines, and to maintain the works when completed. Under these regulations lines have been already undertaken from Paris to Havre, and from Paris to Rouen; and from Paris to Orleans lines have been completed. Another most important one is now projected from iiiaris to Strasburg, a line which pro mises to bring into close commercial intercourse England, France, and Germany. Both as regards agricultural and industrial products, the country be tween the French metropolis and the banks of the Rhine is important. In Alsace, the Lancashire of France, there are at present, even with existing de ficiencies of transit, no less than fifty-six factories, producing cotton twist and calicoes to the yearly value of 5,000,0001. sterling, and employing 110,000 persons ; and the kerseys and cachmeres of Nancy on the same line are beginning to rival those of the south of France . The vine and every description of agricultural production abound in the whole country to be traversed. With the French metropolis itself it is needless to say that a direct line, connecting it also with the German provinces, would conduce to a rapidly extending inter-national commerce. Between and among the towns on the projected route, an extensive traffic and interchange already prevails, but the want of a railway communication for the herds of cattle which pass from one province to another, on a line extending to 280 miles, must entail severe loss. It has been calculated that a loss of nearly 15 per cent. takes place in the value of cattle driven on the highway from Leicester to London, as compared with the depreciation, when transported the same distance by rail. But, without touching further on matters of detail, we shall only say that we hail the prospect of a direct and easy intercourse with France and the Rhine, as a matter of great importance, both as re gards this country and our relations with the Continent. COUNSEL AT SESSIONS. (From the Municipal and Poor-law Gazette.) Our readers will find, under the head a Administration of Justice," an account of a scene, which the reporter of the Times rightly describes as extraordinary. The grand jury, at the Middlesex Sessions at Clerkenwell, had found true bills against the occupiers of seventeen houses of ill-fame, all within the Strand Union. Mr. Corder, the clerk of the Strand Union, had the conduct of the business ; and being a zealous man, a member of an Inn of Court, and thoroughly conversant with the law which regards his office, seems to have judged it proper to pass over the counsel usually practising at Clerken well, and to give a brief to Mr. Pashley, a barrister, who is a stranger there, but in Mr. Corder's judgment, a more com petent lawyer. Now, Mr. Prendergast, Mr. Ballantine, and a few other barristers are in possession of almost the whole practice at Clerkenwell, and of a good share of that at the Old Bailey. It is not every barrister who can or would suc ceed in these Courts ; and the few who do so are more than usually jealous of their monopoly, and use it in a fashion of despotism and caprice towards their clients which it will be our duty to illustrate on some other occasion. Mr. Prender gast has the reputation of being a great proficient in the language and other accomplishments more peculiar to these Courts, and his power over a timid prosecutor or witness may be inferred from that which he brought to bear, on the present occasion, upon Sir J. Hamilton, one of the Justices of the Bench, who, with all his spirit, will doubtless hereafter prefer a contest with the blackguards in the dock, to one with a gentleman of the Clerkenwell bar. The barristers who flourish in the hot atmosphere of Clerkenwell do not thrive in that of Westminster Hall. They seek to establish a prin ciple of compensation for this disadvantage. Nature and education shut them out from Westminster Hall ; it behoves them, therefore, to barricade themselves the more securely in Clerkenwell. Recently the monopoly of two or three barristers at the Old Bailey has been broken up by the ap pearance there of a barrister of great natural talents, against whcAn all the arts which desperation and failing bread sug gest had been practised in vain. Such might be, or may be, the result at Clerkenwell, where, although it has been wonderfully little in use, a knowledge of law would unques tionably give a new rival a dangerous advantage over the established men. Mr. Pashley is a successful sessions lawyer, as those who read the reports of sessions cases argued in the Court of Queen's Bench may well know; and it was, there fore, a most flagrant attack by Mr. Corder on the interests of the established Clerkenwell bar, to bring Mr. Pashley to their sessions. It may now be seen why Mr. Prendergast took on him self the defence of the keepers of the seventeen brothels, without being retained by them : why he suddenly finds that Mr. Corder's briefs, which had - never been objected to before, cannot now be held : why he rises as amicus and shows his amiable disposition towards the Court by the singular earnestness of his compliments to Sir J. Hamilton; and why all the bar of Clerkenwell, by their other mouth piece, Mr. Payne, testify to their conviction that Mr. Pashley could not be heard upon Mr. Corder's instructions, and that Mr. Corder was acting illegally in depriving some regular attorney of his fees. There is no doubt, that in point of law Mr. Prendergast and the other counsel were in the right—and that clerks of boards of guardians, and vestry clerks, are no longer com petent to act in matters of litigation for their unions and parishes as they have done. But the Clerkenwell bar gene rally displays great equanimity when mistakes in law are made, and they were never known before to object to briefs from whatever source they came • and our readers, therefore, with out our explanation, might have been unable to account for the mystery of their extraordinary excitement in the present case. In reference to the subject of the above remarks, we under stand that the promoters of the Attorneys' Bill of last session had no intention to deprive the non-professional clerks of boards of guardians, of the power to make applications to justices on behalf of their boards; and that it is intended to restore to them the power by means of a clause to be inserted in the Poor-law Amendment Bill, now in its passage through the House of Commons. DEAD MEN'S YorEs.--In,the division lists of the House of Lords, last week, on the Marquis of Normanby's motion on Ireland, the name of Viscount Sidmouth appears in the majority in favour of the Government, although he was dead at the time the vote was given. So much for dead men's votes and voting by proxy ! HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 31 minutes after 1 I Evening .. 51 minutes after 1 THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENI their strength of reasoning, will this evening annihi late the League, and bury in its ruins all trace of free-trade principles. We cannot contemplate this possibility without a shudder; but we console our selves, after all, in a strong belief in its improbability, and in our firm conviction that, on Wednesday even ing next, we shall at Covent-garden Theatre hear a full account of this great Anti-League demonstration, and hear of it, as we do of the illustrious little General Tom THUMB, as an object of admiration, on account of its dwarfish stature. The financial condition and prospects of the coun try are subjects of such vital and universal interest to the public at large, that we are somewhat disap pointed at the studied abstinence of almost every Member of either House of Parliament from any direct allusion to these topics. That they should be distasteful, dry—nay, even impracticable to a consi derable section of Peers and a goodly band of aristo cratic Commoners, is no matter for surprise. That' exceedingly defective system of education at our public schools and universities in England, which sends into the Legislature a senior wrangler from Cambridge, or a first-class man from Oxford, as profoundly ignorant of all political and economic learning, as he is, usually, of natural philosophy or the principles of perspective, the art of dancing or the theory of navigation;—that system applies the worst possible preparation for the practical business of statesmen. It is not until after such aspirants to legislative distinction have gone through the unwonted discipline of Private Committees on Local Bills, and the drudgery of note-taking in Select Committees to try the merits of election peti tions, that they to conceive the possibility of business-like habits of applicatiori, attention, and punctuality—of a knowledge of accounts, and a familiarity with those lower mathematics (which, though disdainfully remembered in connection with the honours of the "tripos " are absolutely essential to excellence in " vulgar arithmetic ")—are attain mentszot unworthy the attention of fine gentlemen, and Gran conducive to Parliamentary distinction. These good impressions, however, valuable though they be, are but the accidence of that forensic gram mar which ought to have been thoroughly mastered before they ventured to offer as candidates for these public " scholarships." If we only consider how much longer a period is required, especially by those who have not the advantages of official occupa tion, to become au courant to the varying statistics of public income and revenue ; the history of the National Debt and Taxation; the influence of these upon wages, prices, &c. ; we need not wonder at the school-boy awe with which so many senators, both of the upper and lower forms, regard what they suppose to be the " mysteries" of finance and currency. It is not the less deplorable, that a vast system like that on which our circulation is founded, should be left in its present disorganised and perilous state, to find its own adjustment. It threatens danger to capital, to industrial production, and the market of labour; to domestic and foreign trade, to the seenrity of all property, to investments, mortgages, debts of specialty and simple contract ; to the inviolability of public faith, and the guarantees of private honour. It thus menaces, indirectly, the prosperity of the State itself; directly, of all institutions within the pro tection of the State. Do her MAJESTY'S Ministers intend to stave off every previous consideration of the disasters produced by PEEL'S Currency Bill of 1819, until they can assemble their supporters in a field-day majority on the discussion on the Bank Charter ? Do they think it will sleep until they be pleased to wake ? Are they aware that, with every day's delay, they lose some portion of the power which it will require to beat down the Frankenstein monster of their own creation, in that unrighteous experiment of 1819 ? Let them be assured, that to delay the task of re tracing that fatal step, is to accelerate their own de struction, and to secure an imperishable record of their own imbecility. Besides, their hesitation in this matter is-paralysing the short remaining oppor tunity they have of diminishing the public burdens they have so largely enhanced. Foreign capital, as our City Correspondent tells us, is pouring into this country for investment. Money was scarcely ever so plentiful, nor the time so favourable, for a great funding operation on the part of Government. Yet the Government are mute as the silenced oracles on the destinies of the statute-consecrated enormity of PEEL'S currency scheme ; and have not made one sign of an intention to convert the Three-and-a-Half per Cents., whereby so enormous a reduction might be effected on the interest of the Debt. " At the last meeting of the Edinburgh and Glas gow Railway Company," says a Scotch paper, " Sir ANDREW AGNEW moved as an amendment to the ap proval of the Report, that the Sunday trains be dis continued ; at the same time he presented memorials against their continuance from the Free Church Presbyteries of Edinburgh and Glasgow. The vote being taken, the Report was approved of by 'a majo rity of the shareholders present, fifteen voting for it and nine for Sir ANDREW AGNEW'S amendment—the majority represented three hundred and fifty-five votes, the minority forty-six. Five of the minority held only one share each." Poor Sir ANDREW AGNEW ! He seems doomed to perpetual discomfi ture—predestined to be the very hero of defeat. Scotland, like England, will have nothing to do with his panaceas for piety, but repudiates both him and them with equal pertinacity. On either side the Tweed he makes a stir only to be laughed at. The recent defeat of his amendment at the meeting of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Company which— as will be seen by the above paragraph—was a crush ing one, will, we trust, teach him a useful lesson of discretion whereof he stands much in need ; and convince him that it is only " labour lost" to attempt to make head against the common sense 'and right feeling of a community. Were the interests of true religion involved in:s4ch puritanical restrictions as this grim Baronet has now, for a long term of years, been assiduously endeavouring to impose on the Sab bath recreations of the people, we should not dream for an instant of objecting to them; but religion has nothing to do with the matter; the question is one of pure Pharisaical cant—of cant unleavened with the slightest admixture of toleration or common sense. Were it possible that Sir ANDREW AGNEW and the double-distilled Saints who think with him, could ever succeed in their efforts to pro pagate fanaticism among the people, they would do more public mischief, both in a moral and religious sense, than whole centuries of enlightened legislation could repair. For let no one imagine that a long faced puritanical community must necessarily be a moral and devout one. The records of our own history show that the reverse is the fact, for never were there greater outrages committed than during the reign of the Saints in England, when . robberies, and even murders, were continually perpetrated, under the pretext of religion, by Millenarians and Fifth Monarchy-men, who yet would have shud dered at the idea of missing attendance at a conventicle twice or thrice a day, and fancied themselves absolved from all crimes so long as they held fast by the prac tice of singing psalms and hymns in the key of a Tower-gun. Look, too, at the career of the Mun ster Anabaptists—men who cried down all innocent amusements as impious —who were strict to a degree in the performance of all external religious duties, yet who scrupled not to commit the most heinous ex cesses ! Generally speaking, a fanatical community must of necessity be a hypocritical one, and the day, we trust, is far distant when cant and hypocrisy shall find favour in the eyes of the major portion of the" people. Stringent religious restrictions, such as those which the grim-visaged Agnewites would fain impose upon us, invariably foster the very evil which it is their object to check. As they commence by making men hypocrites, so, in nine cases out of ten, they end by making them infidels. We have received Madrid papers of the 24th and 25th ult. Alicant held out on the 2lst. The Junta of Carthagena on the 18th declared the town and province in a state of siege, and ordered the surren der of all arms except those belonging to the Na tional Guards. From Madrid , the only intelligence is, that the Minister of Finance is actively engaged in schemes for raising money. None but fools will trust him. On this subject the Paris Siecle justly re marks :—" The present dictatorial Government of Spain having manifestly violated the Constitution by acting in the absence of the Cortes, whose ratification is indispensable, those who shall advance money to NARVAEZ must expect to see their security rejected by the constitutional Government, when it shall have been established." The Three per Cents. were done at 29i for cash, 30* at 60 days ; the Four per Cents., 21 for cash ; and the Five per Cents., at 22f at 60 days. The debate in the French Chamber of Deputies on the affairs of Otaheite lasted for two days; and ex cited long speeches and strong national feeling, but finally terminated in favour of the GUIZOT Ministry. The speech of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, in reply to M. CARNE, appeared in The Sun on Satur turday. M. BILLAULT followed, and made a violent attack on the Cabinet, accusing them of being guided in their treatment of Admiral DUPETIT THOUARS more by fear than reason. M. DUFAURE was equally violent—praised the French Admiral, blamed M. GUIZOT for disavowing acts which did honour to the navy, and summed up in these words :—" Much is said of the position that France ought to occupy as a naval power. We make in our budgets great sacri fices to sustain the dignity of our navy ; but, for my part, I declare it openly, I should prefer seeing France give up her navy for ever, to find her suffer ing such acts as the Ministry is defending to-day." The next speaker was the Minister of Public In struction, but he was listened to with some impati ence, as the affair had assumed a new form, in con sequence of a motion which M. Ducos handed to the President. This, of course, was known to the Oppo sition, and the President, on the last speaker leaving the tribune, announced that M. Discos had handed to him a written proposition, having for its object to terminate the discussion on the interpellations by a vote to the following effect :—" The Chamber, with out approving of the conduct of the Cabinet pass to the order of the day." M. GUIZOT seeing the temper of the Chamber, moved an adjournment, which was violently opposed by the Left, but ultimately carried. The debate was resumed next day, when M. GUIZOT and M. TRIERS addressed the Chamber at con siderable length ; and, on a division, Minis ters had a majority of 46, there being for the motion of M. Ducos 187, and against ,it 233. This is considered a great victory by the Cabinet, and had a material effect on the funds, the Three per Cents. having advanced from 82f. 20e. to 82f. 73c. as goon as the division was known on the Bourse. The Opposition papers of course are furious at the result. We give an extract from the National as a specimen : " It is with the heart deeply wounded that we take up the pen to give an account of yesterday's sitting. There were 233 deputies found against 187 to pronounce that Admiral Dupetit Thouars was wrong in defending the influence and honour of France against the intrigues of England -233 against 187 to signify to our seamen that in distant latitudes, where they are to carry our flag, they must, under penalty of reprobation on the part of their Government, respectfully withdraw before the lowest Eng lish missionary. Already, by the establishment of the right of search, there was imposed on them the obligation to let themselves be robbed and insulted with impunity by the cruisers of Great Britain. Now they will learn that there does not exist a single tribe of savages which has not the right to drive them away when it pleases, in the name of England. Admiral Dupetit Thouars and Captain Bruat, who supposed, very properly, that they deserved well of their country, will be 'struck as with a.thunder-bolt, when they receive the order to evacuate their conquest, and humiliate themselves before the protegee of Great Britain. Can we not see from hence the French authorities forced to quit Queen Pomard's house, and re-establishing there with their own hands the fancy flag given by Victoria to her sister, the Queen of Otaheite ? Do we not behold them, filing off like conquered troops, between two rows of English sailors, Methodist missionaries and savages, who will not spare them the most cruel mockeries ? In truth, we have cause to regret that the tricoloured flag was re sumed by France in 1830." • The discussion, which will be found in another part of the paper, will be read with interest. THE BOURSE—SATURDAY, MARCH 2. . _ _ . First highest Lowest Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents. 125 85 126 10 •• 125 85 126 10 Three per Cents..... 82 75 • • 82 80 • • 82 75 • • 82 80 Bank of France • • . ..3270 .•3270 • • 3270 ..3270 Belgian Bank • • .• 660 .. 660 . • 660 .. 660 Belgian Fives •••• • • • • ..... 104 .. 104 .. 104 • . 104 1840 ........ 1071 •• 107; .. 1071 107; 1842 1091 • • 1091 • • 1091 • . 1091 Spanish Active •••• .. • ..... 331 • • 33f • • 331 . • 331 Portuguese Five per Cents • • 46 • • 46 • • 46 .. 46 Neapolitan lOl 50 .. 101 50 .. 101 50 .. 101 80 RAILWAY SHARES. Rotten 832 50 .. 832 50 .. 832 50 .• 832 50 Rouen to Havre •• 675 .. 676 25 .• 675 676 25 Orleans • 852 50 .. 852 50 852 50 .. 852 50 Strasburg to Bale • • • . . ..... 245 .. 247 50 • . 245 Avignon to Marseilles • ..... 760 .. 760 .. 760 .• 246 25 •• 760 RAILWAY SHARES FOR FEBRUARY ACCOUNT. Versailles, R. 8.• • L. 8.• • •• • • 175 .. 175 •• 175 • • 175 Rouen •• Rouen to Havre 671 25 .. 675 Orleans .... • • 671 25 • ••• 675 • •• 852 50 .. 853 75 .. 852 50 •• 853 75 Strasburg to 8a1e.... 247 50 •• 243 75 - 247 50 RAILWAY SHARES FOR MARCH ACCOUNT. 352 50 •• 352 50 .. 352 50 .. 352 50 L.B 177 50 .. 177 50 .• 175 .. 175 Rouen to Havre.• •• ••••••• 675 677 50 .. 675 •• 677 50 Orleans •... Strasburg to Bale • • • • • • • • • • 247 50 .. 248 75 • • 247 50 .. 248 75 The dinner to be given to Mr. O'Connell, at Covent garden Theatre, on Tuesday the 12th inst., already excites public attention in a degree beyond any simi lar occurrence in our recollection. The dinner given to Mr. Byng, on his completion of fifty years' service was a magnificent af ctiionould hardly have been musical arrangements have e present occasion. The e dinner, and f o r l a di es applications but ei will f t beo for r etxi t cc h ek i s ee dt county, sedtoontthh Neches have been more p s ated, and by parties who c eft t rh o xoap 1 t l l e l e e tt tehh b dee o i rtxoe stewardssa rankttteo n and h d hear a ra Thens t hettai been placed under the care of Mr. George Stansbury, and every pains taken 'to give effect to the band, compri s i ng t h e fi rst ta l ent pieces,. many of them new f or th e occas i on . A i f n ul l n will perform during dinner, and afterwards. Th e t oasts an d senti given, and the va r i ous spea k ers b y w h om are to be introduced and ac k now l e d ge d , h ave b een occasionally m senti ments ts L on don , to be milit a ry they carefully selected, so as to afford no ground for offence portion of the Liberal party, or even t o th ose to any , h o view the late trial of O'Connell as an unfair per version of justice, apart from all political or party considerations. After the debate of Friday last there can be but one opinion throughout the press as to the conduct which they must pursue on the present occasion, to vindicate themselves from any supposed approval of acts of espionage and violated confidence. THE PRIVY Cour/cm—On Saturday afternoon sum monses were issued to the Cabinet Ministers to attend a Privy Council this afternoon, at Buckingham Palace. a nd most of the Mi n i s t ers are expecte d to b The time appointed for th e Council is a quarter before therpeereose'cnlojk, DUTCH AND FLANDERS MAIL. The average price of Wheat last week was 17.03 f. and that of Rye 16.41 f. The duties on importation and exportation remain as before. A letter from Liege, of the 27th, says :—" Our rivers are rising in an extraordinary manner. The Meuse has risen y, and continues to rise. All the s under water. Several accidents lahoraifay p art rd reported. n f c t e h e y t e y r d The ship Ville de Bruxelles, which left Antwerp in April, 1843, with colonists, for San Thomas; in Guatemala, has just returned with a cargo of indigo, mahogany, and logwood, which will be sold by auction as soon as the vessel is unloaded. It brings very unsatisfactory accounts of the state of the colony. BRUSSELS, FEBRUARY 29.—The Sections of the Chamber, at the request of the Minister of Finance, are engaged, laying aside all other business, .in examining the project of law for the 'conversion of the Five per Cent. loans. Five of the six sections have already named their reporters. THE HAGUE, MARCH I.—The Second Chamber of the States-General in its sitting of to-day, agreed after long de bates, to the following project of law :- 1. For completing the ways and means for the years 1844 and 1845, by a majority of 29 to 25. 2. For paying the debt to the Handelsmaatechappy (Com mercial Company), by 31 to 23. 3. For regulating the claim of his late Majesty King Fre derick William, by 39 to 12. After which the Chamber adjourned indefinitely.—Staats Courant, Feb. 29 and March 1. AMSTERDAM, MARCH 2.—lt is with deep regret that we have to announce that the Second Chamber of the States General has had the courage to agree to the project of law for an extraordinary income-tax, &c. We say that it had the courage, for courage surely was necessary to pass such a law, for the dangers :which it threatens are great.—Amster dam lianddsbla4 March 2. THE AFFAIRS or OTAHEITN.--The comments of the French press on this debate are all of one character— vituperative, prejudiced, and unjust, and have consequently no claim upon the attention or consideration of a foreign reader. One imputation, directed - against ourselves, it may not, however be unnecessary to repel. These journals assume that " the Times, being the .only. London paper which an nounced on Tuesday the restoration of Otaheite to Queen Pomare, must have obtained that information from the British Government " (with whom they pers uade t hem selves we stand high in favour) " com M u nicated to Lord Cowley in Paris on Sunday." If our Paris contemporaries take the trouble to inquire, they will find that our special courier, with the Moniteur of Monday last, containing the announcement in question, left Paris at half-past nine o'clock, A.M. on that day ; that he arrived in Boulogne, notwithstanding the severity of the weather, in less than twelve hours and a half —that it being then low water, the Waterwitch steamer, specially engaged for us, could not leave the harbour of Boulogne before one o'clock on Tuesday morning, and that owing to the frightful state of the wind and sea, that steamer could not make Folkestone before eight o'clock. A. special railroad train, or d ere d immediately on his arrival, en abled our messenge r to reach the Times-office shortly before eleven o'clock. The important news brought by him, we published in a second edition in a few minutes after his arrival. —Times. One of the very few Tories in the Leicester town council, being unable to sleep o' nights, because of the want of a mace, has been endeavouring-to stir up his colleagues to recover the "bauble" which they disloyally sold, on their entrance to office, on the passing of the new Act. It was ", too bad," he sa id, t o se ll a " royal gift." Well ! to satisfy him, the town- c l er k searc h e d - the c orporate records, to trace the history of th e mace . Alas for royalty ! it turned out that the "royal g ift" was purchased, and paid for, by the town of Leicester, in 1645, in consequence of Charles the First and his soldiers having stolen the mace previously in we: Fact plays sad havoc with romance.—Leeds Times. G, MARCH 4, 1844. AMERICAN NEWS. LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY MORNING. By the packet United States, Captain Britton, which arrived at Liverpool yesterday morning, we have accounts frOm New York to the 14th ult., being five days later than those brought by the last arrival. 11er Majesty's ship Vestal, with Mr. Pakenham, the British Envoy to the United States Government, on board, reached New York on the 13th, after a very stormy passage. lie was to set out for Washington next day, to replace Mr. Fox, who would depart in the same ship for Vera Cruz, in a week or a fortnight. On reaching the harbour of New York the Vestal fired a salute of twenty-one guns, but, according to a correspondent of the New York Herald, the naval authorities were not prepared to return the compliment. "Permit me," says thewriter, through your columns, to inquire of the naval autho rities of the port of New York, what is the cause that on the arrival of a national ship of a friendly power in our harbour, and who salutes our flag, that we are not prepared immediately to return the friendly greeting ? We are induced to make this inquiry as we happened yesterday to witness the arrival of the British frigate Vestal (conveying to our shores a high diplomatic functionary), who, as soon as she came to anchor, hoisted the United States flag, and saluted it with twenty-one guns. We remained on the battery for more than an hour, eagerly watching the re sponse to so kindly a greeting, but, up to a late hour, yesterday afternoon, it was not returned." The dis cussion in Congress, on the tariff of 1842, was still going on. The last speaker was a Mr. Huntingdon, who stood out for high protecting duties, with as much fury and argument as any of our most deter mined monopolists, but his speech excited not the slightest interest. A correspondent, who writes from Washington on the 12th, gives the following report of proceedings in that quarter :—" The President is certainly expected to send into the Senate six great appointmenst, two Cabinet Secretaries, three Ministers, and a Judge, together with many minor appointments. The great debate upon the Oregon question is ex pected daily to arise. Mr. Allen will call it up to morrow. Col. Merrick will bring in his Post-office Reform Bill to-morrow ; that subject willthen be open to debate. This week, therefore, you may look for highly interesting and important news from Washington." Great expectations prevailed at New York that the markets, and chiefly the Cotton market, would be very brisk. Stocks in general were firm, and many of them had advanced considerably. We subjoin the only extracts of interest and amusement from the papers : _ _ . BnAm.—Advices from Rio, to the 13th of December, have been received in Baltimore. Affairs in all parts of the empire were in a prosper ous condition. Rio Grande was more peaceable ; indeed, the insurgents had been entirely subdued. The importance of the political movements of the Opposition party, which we have heretofore mentioned, have been greatly overrated in the Bahia and other papers. That party in Brazil is very much like the rump of the Butt-enders of this city. The increased anchorage duties have been put in force,:also a stamp duty on dispatches, which amounts to about 14rs. per barrel for flour, and 13rs. per bag for coffee. It was reported in Rio, that one the 28th of Novem ber, Gen. Rivera was on his march toward Monte Video. with the intention of raising the siege, and it was expected that the result of a general battle would ere long decide the conflict one wa or other. LATE FROM MEXICO via NEW ORLEANS.—WC have received advices from Vera Cruz to the 27th ultimo : The internal state of affairs in Mexico remain tran quil. Santa Anna is at his hacienda near Vera Cruz. He gives his persoal superintendence to the extensive repairs now making to the castle of San Juan de Ulloa, and the fortifications which defend Vera Cruz. The British frigate Inconstant arrived on the 22d from Port Royal. She reported that the whole British West India fleet was to sail for Vera Cruz two days after she left. . . ----- The condition of the Texian prisoners at Perote is worse, if possible, than by previous accounts, Sickness and suffering are thinning their numbers. Of the whole number confined, but eighteen are able to perform the labour imposed upon them by their brutal captors. It was reported at Vera Cruz that the British Minis ter had intimated to the Mexican authorities, that upon the arrival of Mr. Fox, the new Minister from England, the British flag, which was captured from the Texans, should be hoisted on the staff of the castle, in addition to the usual salute. This arrival was daily expected. There were in port two British brigs of war and two French sloops of war. IMPORTANT ARREST.—J. C. Ashley, well-known in this city and Brooklyn, has been arrested on charges of forging mortgages on property in Brooklyn, and perjury in sustaining them before the Court of Chancery. The examination of the case will be concluded to-day, and the whole particulars given to-morrow. THE PLAGUE CONE TO THE UNITED STATES.—WC see it stated in some of the penny papers that a new disease, supposed to be the plague, has made its appear ance at Saxony in Massachusetts. About half-a-dozen persons had died suddenly after picking some Smyrna wool, which was thought to have conveyed the infec tion. In the present dearth of medical business, we think it would be a very good thing for the physicians to get up some plague excitement. It is now ten years since we had the cholera, and the plague excitement might go very well. CLEAN STREETS.—For several days past the streets have been actually passable—nay, they have been to lerably clean, in consequence of the surveillance of a new street inspector. For many years we have had here, in the Second Ward, honest Jack Hill, and he has kept clean streets. Recently, however, the Providence of Heaven has appointed a new Inspector in the place of the locofoco one, and he is generally called Jack Frost. He has a good many of the qualities of Jack Hill, being like him, honest, and straightforward, and for the last few days has kept the streets pretty comfortable. POST-OFFICE NEGLIGENCE AT WASHINGTON.—Yes terday morning no letters or papers came to us from Washington. We believe that the negligence of the Post-office officials at Washington begins to show itself again. These chaps have to be stirred up every now and then to keep right. COLD WEATHER IN ALBANY.—The thermometer at 8 A.M. on Sunday, marked 4 below zero. MONEY MARKET, TUESDAY, FEB. 13._ Stocks are on the advance. Every one on the list im proved. Ohio 6's up 4 per cent. ; Pennsylvania s's, ; Indiana ; Harlem 2 ; Illinois ; Kentucky 6's, ; Farmers' Trust ; Long Island ; Norwich ; Vicks burgh ; New Jersey I ; Paterson 1 ; North American Trust closed firm at yesterday's prices. The sales were quite large, and good spirit prevailed at both boards. Money is more abundant, and the stock market gene rally looks more favourably than it has for a long time. Counterfeit fives on the Onondaga County Bank at Syracuse are in circulation, dated Oct. 18, 1843, letter C, with the endorsement of the Comptroller forged on the back. The assets of the Commercial Bank, sold at auction, were nominally valued at between two and three hundred thousand dollars, and brought about five thousand. This shows many of the beauties of banking in a small focus. Evidence like this cannot be controverted. The present system of banking produces cases like the above very often. Tile paper currency of many of the southern banking and other corporated manufacturers of paper money, is fast going out of existence. At Milledgeville, Georgia, on the Ist inst., $296,000 in Central Bank bills were burned by the officers of the institution. They have on hand about $70,000 more to share the same fate. This will leave only about $275,000 in actual circulation. The surest method to remedy the evils arising from an over-abundance of paper money, is to destroy •he cause. Commence the purification at the fountain-het and the current will improve the rest. The Central Railroad of Michigan bids fair to be a very profitable and productive improvement. SALES AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE. $5,000 U. S. 5 . 5. '53 5,000 U. S. 6's, '62 10,000 Ohio 7's 1,000 Ky. Short Bonds 5,000 Penn'a s's ' 66a 23,000 Ohio 6's, '6O 9Bl 5,000 Illinois 6's, '7O s2O 41 10,000 Kentucky 6's, 30 years s 3 1021. 3,000 Indiana $ 3B 52 Shares Merch's Bk lO5 20 Bk of America 962 55 State Bk 75 Bk Corn. Scrip 9B 50 North American Trust s3o 163- 13 Farmers' Loan 33 3 ,- 50 Farmers' Loan b3O 331 50 Canton Co s3O 301 - ' 20 Dry Dock Bk 46 250 Vicksburg Bk • - 76 100 Patterson Railroad 100 Long Island Railroad blO 72 45 100 Harlem Railroad 93 344 150 North Jersey Railroad .... 25 Norwich and Worcester.... STATE OF TRADE. BREADSTUFFB.—FIour is looking up in this market, and Grain is high at the west. This looks favor a bl e . Genesee Flour is held by some in this city at $5. COTTON.—The market opened with a good feeli ng and fair inquiry from speculators , which soon ceases', however, as holders were firm, at full rates. After one o'clock, the tone of the day was entirely changed, and offers, which were refused in the morning, were soli cited ; but buyers were off. Arrivals, to-day, are very large, and, as acket owners are making an e ff or t to get freights up to d, at which, it is currently report e d, an en ii agement hasbeen made for the s hip G arr i c k , the proba bility 1,000 bales. NEW OLLEANS, FEB. I.—Owing to the non-arrival of the steamer's advices on either W e d nes d ay or Th urs d ay , the market, during both days, exhibited a very great degree of langour, and th e sa l es were genera ll y effected at a decline in prices of about a quarter of a cent. MOBILE, FEB. I.—The market has presented an extremely dull and inactive appearance, and the report of the arrival of later European advices yet wanting the proper authenticity, both buyers and sellers evince a disposition to withhold from operations to any great extent, until the true tenour of the accounts are made known. FE ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. SEASON 1844. The following outline of the arrangements for the ensuing season Is respectfully presented to the Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public. ENGAGEMENTS FOR THE OPERA. Madame Grief, Madlle. M. Favanti (her first appearance at this Theatre), Madame Bellini, Madame Dai Fiori, and Madame Persian'. Signor Mario, Sig. Correll" (his first appearance at this Theatre), Sig. Dai Fiori, Sig. Felice (his first appearance at this Theatre), Sig. Fornasarl, Sig. F. Lablache, and Sig. Lablache. Director of the Music, Composer, and Conductor, Sig. Costa. .THE BALLET. . Madlle. Carlotta Grisi, gale. Adelaide Frasi, of the Teatro di Pergola, Florence (her first appearance at this theatre) ; Mad. Guy Stephan ; Madlle. Scheffre, Madlle. Ferdinand, Madlle. Planquet, Madlle. Barville (their first appearance at this theatre) ; Madlle. Fanny Elssler, and Madlle. Cerito ; M. St. Leon, M. Montassu (his Arst appearance in this country), M. Coulon, M. Gosselin, M. Gouriet, M. Venafra, M. Bertram, and M. Perrot, and a numerous and efficient Corps de Ballet. Arrangements are also pending with Marine. Taglioni, and there is. every probability that the talent of this eminent artiste will be se cured for a limited number of representations. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS , EVENING, MARCH 4, Will be performed Shakapeare's Play (as alteied by Cibber) of RICH ARD lIL Richard, Duke of Gloater, Mr. Charles Kean ; Duke of Buckingham, Mr. Cooper ; Duke of Norfolk, Mr. G. Horncastle; Earl of Richmond, Mr. Hudson; Elisabeth, Mrs. Warner ; Duchess of York,Mrs. Selby; Lady Anne, Mrs. Stirling. After whicti, Will be repeated Albert's celebrated Ballet of THE BEAUTY OF GHEN F. Marquis de San Lucar, M. Albert ; Benedict, M. Hoguet Vestris ; Beatrix, Mdlle. Fleury ; Agnes, Mdlle. Clara Webster ; Julia, Madame Petit Stephan; Diana, Mdlle. O'Bryan. Dress Boxes 75., Second Price Si. 6d. ; Upper Circles of Boxes 55., S rond Price Ss. ; Pit 35 , Second Price 21.; Middle Gallery 28., Sycond Price Is. 1, - Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT.GARDEN, M JULLIEN'S GRAND BAL MASQUE. THIS EVENING, MONDAY„ MARCH 4, GENERAL ARRANGEMENTS. M. JULLIEN his the honour to submit the following Atrang?- ments for the BAL MASQUE: — The entrance to the Ball will be at the Grand Entrance in Bow street. The Doors will be open at Nine o'Clock. The Dances will commence at Ten. The Supper will be served at One. The Quadrilles, Waltzes, and Oalops will be under the direction of Six Masters of the Ceremonies, with whose regulations M. Jullien most respectfully requests the compliance of the Visitors, his only wish being to secure their comfort and convenience. The audience portion of the Theatre will be devoted to the use of those who wish merely to be spectators of the brilliant scene, and persons booking places will be privileged to have them retained during the whole evening. Visitors to the Pall, having also engaged Private Boxes, will be allowed to pass to and trom the Salle de Danse. Admission to the Ball, 10s. 6d. each ; the number being strictly limited. _ _ _ Admission for Spectators—Dress Circle, ss. ; 80xe5,33. ; Gallery,2s. N.B. M. Jußien, in answer to numerous inquiries, begs to state that it being his intention to make the Bal Masque an Annual En. tertainment, it will not be repeated during the present season. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. MIL BENJAMIN WEBSTER, LESSER 1 1 THIS EVENING, MAR Will be produced a New , Drama , called GE OF REASON. General Bremont, Mr. Stuart ; . Hen; Bertrand, Mr. Webster ; Pinchon, Mr. B , Ma dame Celeste ; Madame Pinehon, Mrs. Humby. After which, Mr. Buckstone's Comedy of MARK LIFE. Mr. Samuel Coddle, Mr. Strickland ; Mr. Henry Dove Mr. Buckstone; Mrs. Samuel Coddle, Mrs. Glover; Mrs. F. Y oung_ husband, Mrs. Humby. To conclude with MAKE YOUR WILLS. Joseph Brag, Mr. Buckstane. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Boxes, ss. ' • Pit, 35. ; Gallery, 25.; tipper Gallery, Is. Half- price—Boxes 36..; Pit 25.; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, 6d. Doors opened at Halt-past Six, and the Performance commence at Seven. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr I. T. Archer, at the Box office, from Ten till Five. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. SI. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, MARCH 4 Will be performed the Cemic Opera of LOVE IN A VILL AGE. Justice Woodcock, Mr.. Granby ; Young Meadows, Mr. Allen ; Hawthorn, Mr Wood; Hodge, Mr. Keeley; Rosetta, Mrs. Wood; Lucinda, Mss Grant ; Madge, Mrs. Keeley. After which, a New Petite Comedy, called AGED FORTY. Sir Harry Wilder, Mr. Walter Lacy; Mr. Dapper, Mr. Oxberiy ; Lady Clifton, Miss Fortescue. To conclude with THE QUAKER. Steady, Mr. Wood ; Gillian, Mrs. Wood ; Floretta, Miss Grant. NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS. HARnotras OF REFUGE.—A Folkestone " Turk" objects to our "nautical opinions" on this subject. His letter is so choice a specimen of composition, that we strongly recom mend him to get admitted without delay, into the safe keeping of some " Harbour of Refuge" —on shore. THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE ' MARCH 4= THERMOMETER, Lowest, 36 ; Highest, 48 ; Noon, 35. BAROMETER, 29.4.—W1ND, E. NOTE.-The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is usually placed opposite 30, and rain at 29. s 40 , • 4-• ( i t • 0 DIE „osWi PANT 7-, SECOND EDITION: g':btiliit - -ltatt LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1844. The progress which the Anti-Corn-law League has hitherto made in the spread of free-trade opinions, and in the advancement of anti-monopolist principles and feelings, among the people of Great Britain and Ireland, is at once a most signal testimony to the zeal and industry of that body, and to the truth of the doctrines, which its Council have laboured to instil into the public mind. Never, in the memory of man, did any cause make such rapid marches, or move onward with such resistless energy, as the cause which the Anti-Corn-law League espoused, and which has shaken to its very centre the empire of monopoly, and reduced all its strongholds. " Truth is great, and must prevail," has been the motto inscribed upon the banners, which the Anti- Corn-law League have carried in triumph, through almost every county and province, of England and Scotland. Plain and convincing truth, made plainer and more convincing, from the purity of principle, and the sincerity of heart, by which it was enforced, has been brought to the doors of every thinking man in the empire; until, at length, even the unthinking herd, who are found among all ranks, caught the sound, which roused them to some exercise of their faculties, and led even them, to the conclusion that monopoly could not be intended for the benefit of the masses, but must be, and was, supported for some exclusive, some privileged class, which derived advantage, and sought to draw its support, from the continuance of one general impo sition. The monopolists alarmed, frighted from their pro priety, forgetful of the many bitter taunts they have used against Sir ROBERT PEEL for allowing such a body as the League to run its course without re ' straint or interference by the Law-officers of the Crown, and totally regardless of the evils which spring from organized agitation, so long and so ear nestly denounced by them, have, it appears, formed— what do our readers believe ?—A NATIONAL ANTI LEAGUE ASSOCIATION. Not a society for the promo tion of agriculture—not an association to improve the condition of the farmer or the farm labourer—not a united body to make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before. No, purely and entirely, an ANTI-LEAGUE ASSOCIATION. And to such an As sociation they have dared to affix the name of National. Why, if they had called it anti-national, there would have been sense in their designation, and the intent would have borne out the name ; but to call a body, with monopolist intentions, or with views exclusively for the benefit of one class—a national body—is to use terms strangely at varience with the truth, and to misapply language most grossly. The Anti-Corn-law League fills Covent-gar den Theatre weekly, with audiences delighted and eager to hear the principles of free trade expounded. The Anti-League Association, not daring to tread the boards of the great theatres, has announced its debut at a minor place of entertainment, and this evening holds its Great National Anti-League demonstration, for so the cards of admission signed and sealed by the secre tary, declare it to be, at Freemasons' Tavern. Who is to be in the chair, or who is to speak to the meet ing, is not announced, but the chair is to 'ae taken at half-past six precisely. Well, time will show. " When Greek meets Greek, then comes the tug of war." Mr. COBDEN and Mr. BRIGHT have been allowed to disport themselves among the fertile fields of Britain too long ; they have mistaken their impunity from contradiction in argument, and from overwhelming declarations against their free-trade opinions, for an approval which it is now evident did not exist. The lion is roused : he has shaken his mane ; Mr. N. DORAN MAlLLARD— euphonious name—of ornithological- celebrity, has issued his cards for a great national demonstration against the League, and no doubt the orators who have so long concealed their powers of argument and (TWO DAYS LATER.) LIVERPOOL, MONDAY, 3 A.M. We have since received intelligence from our Liverpool Correspondent : By the packet-ship England, arrived at 10 o'clock, last evening, after an excellent passage of 16 days from New York, we have received papers to the 16th ult. inclusive. The American papers announce the arrival at Natchez, Mississippi, on the Ist ult., of Capt. Elliot, the English Ambassador to Texas. The Texian Congress is still in session; there ap pears to be a strong feeling, both in the Government and among the people, favourable to the annexation of that country to the United States. The Texian House of Representatives are unanimously in favour of the proceeeding. A communication from Key West, Florida, dated 30th January, states that an English ship, the Father Mathew, had been wrecked off Ccesar's Creek. She was quite a new vessel, and only on her second voy age, from St. Stephen's to Matanzas, with a cargo of sugar box-shooks. Part of the cargo and materials will be saved and brought to Key West. NEW YORK MONEY MARKET, FEB. 15. The advance noticed in Stocks a few days since is firmly sustained, without any further improvement being realised. Harlem advanced per cent. ; Paterson ; Pennsylvania Fives # ; Norwich down ; North American Trust Company ; Farmers"frust ; Ohio Sixes Indiana, Illinois, Ken tucky, Canton, and Vicksburg closed at yesterday's prices. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE-MONDAY. Fresh up, the arrivals of Wheat were tolerably good. The very finest descriptions found buyers at prices quite equal to those obtained on this day se'nnight, but all other kinds were a dead sale, though they were not considered cheaper. Free Foreign Wheat at fully, but at nothing quotable beyond, late currencies. Barley at a decline of Is, in some instances 2s, per quarter, and a clearance was not effected. Malt had a downward tendency. The best sound Oats at full prices. other kinds a mere drug. In Beans and Peas only a moderate business was transacted. Flour at from 50s to 535. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. WHEAT—Essex & Kent, I MALT—Chevalier... ..... 63s to _ red 44s to 635, OATs—Yorkshire and Ditto, white Norfolk and Lin coln, red 42s to 498 Ditto white 4ss to 58s Irish, red 47s to 50s Ditto white RYE—Old %a to 33s New 36s to 38s BARLEY—Grinding 2sa to 283 1 Malting Chevalier 328 to 35s MALT—Suffolk and Nor folk s6s to 62s Brown 504 to 51s Kingston and Ware 56s to 628 FOREIGN GRAIN AI WHEAT—Dantzic 5l. to 655: Lincolnth., feed 23s to Potatoe Youghall and Cork, black Cork, white Scotch, feed BEANS—Tick 30s to 36. PEAS— Grey 3ss to 38s Maple 33s to 34s White 30s to 351 Boilers 325 to 381 Elous—Town made Sufi° k 34s to 38s Stockton & Norfolk alis to 36 Hamburgh 36s to ITN BARLEY 3os to 33s OATS—New 13 FLOUR IN BOND. 'l3ssris Innis 23s to 21's FLotrit—American Baltic Feed l4s to 164 --- SMITHFIELD. _ _ The Beef trade was comparatively steady. The primest Scots found buyers at an advance in the currencies obtained on Monday last of 2d per 81bs, 4s 2d having been realised for such qualities. All other breeds supported their previous value in every instance. The Mutton trade was steady, and last week's quotations were supported, the best old Downs realising 4s 6d per 81bs. Calves at barely late rates. For Pork full prices were obtained. The following is an official statement of the imports of live stock from abroad, during the years ending the sth of January, 1843, and 1844 : Jan. 5, 1843. Jan. 5, 1844. Heads. Heads. Oxen and Bulls ... 3,156 1,114 Cows Calves Sheep Lambs Pigs Totals During the past week, 30 Oxen have been imported from Spain, and 10 ditto from Hamburgh. Per Sibs. to sink the offal. I. d. to s. d.i s. d. to s. d. Interior Beasts becond,quillty ditto 210 3 2, Second quality ditto... 3 2 3 6 Prime large Oxen 1 4 3 10', Coarso-woolled ditto.. 3 8 4 2 Prime Scots, &c. 4 0 4 2 ' Southdown Wethers 4 4 4 6 Large coarse Calves 3 8 4 di Large Hogs Prime small ditto 4 8 410 Small Porkers 3lO 4 4 Suckling Calyes„ each 18 0 28 0 I Quarter old Pigs, eachl6 0 21 0 SUPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts. I Sheep. I Calves. Pies 1 2,115 I 22,619 i 50 358 NEVIGA.TE AND LEADENRALL. The quantity of meat on offer has been about an average. Prime qualities have commanded a steady inquiry at full prices, but the middling and inferior kinds have sold heavily at drooping currencies. At per stone, by the Carcase s. d. tog. cl.l a. d. to s. d. Beef, inferi0r............ 2 2 2 4 Mutton, inferior 2 4 2 9 middling ......... 2 6 28, --- middling 2lO 3 2 prime 1arge...... 210 30 ( --- prime ..... prime small . 3 2 3 6 , Pork, large 2 6 3 4 Veal ... ..... ........ ..... ~ 3 6 4 8I —small 3 6 4 2 ARRIVALS - DURING THE PAST WEEK. Beasts. Sheep. Calves. Pigs. Scotland 2O 500 700 Yorksilire Norfolk Suffblk 8 100 50 Cambridgeshire Essex Surrey lO 290 150 200 Devonshire Wiltshire Other parts ............ Total l5O 1,650 610 2,670 Previous week's arrival 2 ,19 2,565 812 3,214 Difference since our last... I'S 715 202 514 BOROUGH HOP MARKET. The advance noticed in the value of Weald of Kents last week is steadily supported, Sussex pockets are commanding more attention, and must be considered rather higher. All other kinds of Hops move off steadily at full currencies. BOROUGH AND SPITALPIELDS. Full average supplies of potatoes have arrived at the water-side from Scotland, and most other quarters, since this day se'nnight. With the exception of the best descriptions selling readily at full prices, the demand must be considered inactive. TALLOW. During the past week there has been rather more activity in this market. Y. C. is somewhat firmer, good parcels are fetching 41s, whilst contract Talow is only 40s 3d to 40s 6d. In new Tallow there is more doing, the price for the last three months is 41s 3d to 41s 6d. Town Tallow has declined Is per cwt, and is now 41s net cash. WOOL MARXET. Both English and Foreign Wools still continue in active re quest, and in some cases, further advanced rates have been paid for fine qualities. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, MARCH 4.--Wind light easterly breeze with rain. DEAL, MARCH 2.—Wind W.S.W. to W., strong.— Put back, Poictiers, for Madras; Thomas Snook, Cape of Good Hope ; Lady Gray, Hobart Town ; Pleaides, St. John's, New Brunswick. 3. Wind W.S.W., strong.—Arrd. Forti tude, Hatton, Singapore; Wellington, Chadwick, and John Carver, Pendleton, New York. Arrd. from the River, George town and Royal Saxon, for Sydney ; Derwent, Mauritius ; Barbadoes, Nevis. Put back, Lady Rowena, for Calcutta. STUDWELL ROADS, MARCH 2.—Arrd. Erin, London for China. OFF DARTMOUTH, MARCH I.—Sir Isaac Newton, New York. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 3.—Wind W.—Arrd. Catharina Julia, Amsterdam for Constantinople, leaky. JERSEY, FEB. 26.—Arrd. Mary Ann, Jensen, Rio Grande for Hamburgh. MILFORD, MARCH I.—Arrd. Sir Edward Paget, Tait, Valparaiso for Liverpool, out 130 days, with loss ofl sails, boats, quarter-galleys, mizenmast sprung, and leaky ; master and twelve of the crew sick. RAMSGATE, MARCH 2.—A light collier (name unknown) got on the Goodwin Sands this morning, but came off and proceeded north. COWES, MARCH 3.—The Meanwell, from London to Rio, which put into 'Yarmouth Roads 29th ult., is reported to be leaky. YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT, MARCH I.—lt blew a heavy gale to-day from S.W. to W., accompanied with leavy thun der and lightning. 2d. Strong W. wind, with heavy squalls. 3d. Wind strong from W.S.W. The whole of the fleet have rode out the gale without damage. LivisnrooL, MARctt 2.—Wind fresh. 3.1. Blowing hard.— Arrd. Nestor, Mauritius; Thos. Battersby ;' , Leitch, huco, Jan. 20 ; Roseanna, Brtiddle, Paraiba, Jan. 22 ; Brutus, Balbary, Bonny ; Rialto, Chase, New Orleans ; United States, Britton, New York, 14th ult. ; Sarah, M'Nairn, St. John's, New Brunswick. 3d. Hopewell, Rio de la Hache, Jan. 16; Ellen, Roper, Mobile ; Nelson, Cooper, Newfoundland. Off, Mary, England, supposed from New York. Put back, South Esk, for Boston. The Harp, from St. John's, New Bruns wick to Barbadoes, was fallen in with 14th ult., in lat. 38, lon. 58, dismasted and full of water ; crew taken off by the Rialto, arrd. here. A large ship was seen on shore previous to the 9th ult., 30 miles S. ofCape Florida light. CORK, FEB. 29.—Put back, Clio, bore up from lon. 10. SUNDERLAND. MARCH 2.—Sid. John and Richard, St. John's, New Brunswick. HULL, Damn 2.—Wind W.S.W.—SId. Corinthian, ditto. YARMOUTH, MARCH 3.—Arrd. Rebecca and Elizabeth, Shields, for London, leaky, and with part of her cargo thrown overboard, having been on the Barber Sand. HAnwicir, MARCH 2.—Arrd. Peace, London, for Sunder land, leaky, having been on the Sunk Sand. SHIELDS, FEB. 29 and DLutcH I.—Sld. Victoria Regina, and Neptune, Madeira ; Enterprise, New York. 2. Sld. Mar tha, Madras; Hinda, Rio; Kelsick Wood, Berbice. SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH I.—Sld. Medway, West Indies ; Oriental steamer, Alexandria. OFF LYNN, MARCH I.—Amity, Hartlepool, with loss of foremast. TROON, FEB. 29.—Arrd. Hamilton, Mitchell, Valparaiso. MILFORD, MARcn I.—lt blew a heavy gale yesterday evening from W.S.W., with heavy squalls and violent thun der and lightning. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 2.—Wind W.N.W. to W. 3. W.N.W., very squally.—Arrd. Ellison, Hull, for New York ; Rover, London, for South Seas; Richmond, London, for Algoa Bay; Vigilant, London, for Cape of Good Hope; Sydney, London, for China. 3. Harriet, Rio, for Antwerp ; Milton, Havre, for Mobile. It blew a heavy gale all last night at S.W., with thunder, lightning, and rain. FALMOUTH, MARCH 2.—Wind W.S.W. to W., strong gales and squally. 3. W., fresh and sqnally.—Arrd. Skipton (late Huntley), Mirigoane, from Hayti, sld. Dec. 16, Jamaica Jan. 16, short of provisions. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 3.—lt has blown hard since Ist inst., with tremendous squalls, and hail and rain.—The Virginia, White, from Liverpool to Boston, which put in here Ist inst., with cargo shifted, is discharging. ABERDOVEY, MARCH I.—A long-boat, marked on the stern " Minerva, Kincardine," came ashore to the northward this morning. WELLS, FEB. 29.—The Sisters, of Liverpool, and the Two Friends, of Clay, ashore near here, have discharged part of their cargoes. SILVER MINE.—We learn, from Stockholm, that a silver mine, which is expected to be very productive, has been discovered near the town of Lindsberg. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND publtr OptutOf• " Who runs may read." F. tO On Friday, the French Chamber of Deputies 0 0 41 1 division on the affair of Otaheite, when the Ministe_rate;g, majority of 46. This raised the funds in a few rahn eo „(ro o According to intelligence brought by the :ship b oa Monte Video, of the 31st December, affairs there l .l complicated to a most disastrous extent. On D ec v r h is pa' M. Pichon, the French Consul-General, deman ded 31st' i 1 ports, and having received them, embarked o n the, yttefal the Atalante. M. Leyde, the Portuguese Consul , iuseeb oer: on board a brig of war of his own nation. The F ren e e,eiv ° chantmen in the roadstead had, a week before , r o ot orders from the French Admiral to be in readiness ! c c : 0 ; 0 4 , the first signal, but on the 30th, the English, Anne; o f tla: Brazilian commanders posted a notice to the without teal" nations not to remove from their anchorage i:es orders. The town was nearly destitute of suPP , blockade being kept with the utmost rigour. 0 0 11 ",1 Queen Christifia arrived at Narbonne on the 24tu'i, aJ way to Barcelona. Her Majesty was received al": oe' 0( 17 honours by the authorities. She left on the a ftern, 26th for Perpignan. t° m enu A horrible crime (says the Paris Siecle) was Thursday evening at six o'clock, in the Rue de liaef;ieat Englishman residing in that street, No. 40, Wa s It is ° tir o ( in his apartment, by blows from logs of fire-wood• too. posed that the assassins expected to find a largteog money, which was said to have been received d P , day. The name of the victim was Ward. res ( at The Seine rose on Thursday to 5 metres 95 cent. - t i o ie feet), but had fallen yesterday to 5 metres 50 cell air Since the quays have been submerged, all the steP s _ideat'd ing-places have been lighted by lamps to prevent 11,`',,,,001,, Moniteur contains a notice of the Director-11510' the Post-office announcing that from the 4th of Mar e for of steam-packets, for the conveyance of passeag ers ' ply monthly between Marseilles and Alexandria. , According to a published report by the rrefecterolt lice, on the adulteration of wine in Paris, this frau d d cipally committed by the wholesale merchants antecjiioo dealers, who amount in Paris to 600. The ingredients r i y employed by them are syrups made from fecula, r ‘ is fer t t l eso sugar, dried fruits, and other similar things, whieti ii to ferment in a quantity of water, by adding su' (0 of alcohol, vinegar, and tartaric acid. f 14 10 ' The Moniteur publishes the table of the ricer Eto n the several market towns of France in last month, fr ° s,,, it appears that the average cost of the hectolitr e t yoftrj Gray, Toulouse, Marseilles, and Lyons, 22f. 17 0 -,; ;L e On and Bordeaux, 20f. 36c. ;at St. Laurent all 1 4(74 Lemps, 31f. 39c. ; at Mulhausen and Strasburft efl, .0 at Bergues, Arras, Roye, Soissons, Paris, and -De u ireel j 32c. ; at Saumur and Nantes, 19f. 92c. ; at Metz,per, and Charleville, 16f. 45c. ; at St. Lo, Paimpel, bfa Hennebon,l9f. 51c. The hectolitre is equal to 2i .la,e According to letters from Vienna of the 22d fah'', Rothschild, of that city, had held several conferene:llol,:ji Russian Ambassador on the subject of the decree 4,45" 0 ) moval of Polish Jews from the frontiers, and ' i ,r o entertained that the decree, which has a lready 1 r"" modified, will be entirely revoked. King of r We learn from Berlin, 21st ult., that the ..-. ll e t et° 0 had been so unwell for some days, that he had 11°_,,riii his chamber ; but his illness was not of sufficient oto render it necessary to issue bulletins. Ta l g Advices from Athens, of the 10th, state that . 00 0 0 has had a narrow escape from being poisoned , 0 1 v esse l i o carelessness of his cook, who prepared a dish in, r he which verdigris had been allowed to collect. h ; however, soon gave way to proper remedies. n al CoUß,T—resizzorcanzs. de 4'ol The Court will change mourning on Thum d for his late Royal Highness the reigning Thlicellaly Coburg Gotha ; there will beta further change on th e 0, 4 0 se'nnight, the 14th instant, and on the 21st instantf the ~A will go out of morning. The posthumous bust c ee a, is Duke, which the Prince has continued to sup eriut completed. of o j, Lord and Lady Brougham entertained the vu.e,.„ - „, e s ton, Lord and Lady Stanley, Lady Peel, Sir Joll y "' o f JP2.4 Graham, Earl of Shaftesbury, Earl and Countess, pro Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, Hon. Colondhoolaj, Darner, Sir William Follett, and a distineis he s itotlV dinner on Saturday last, at their residence in Or. ei car,sl Sir Robert Peel, from a previous engagement to din i pa' Russian Company, could not honour the Noble Ow , k 5 Lord with his company. t' • t Sir Robert Peel, Bart., gives his first Cabinet wie season on Wednesday next, at his mansion 1 0 „,$# gardens. d ceaso The Earl and Countess of Eglintoun, Earl a n , sa d thl Craven, Hon. Frederick Craven, Mr. Grenfell dorati Grenfell, and a large party, have been staYing is sil last week at Croxteth Park, on visits to the Ea r teas of Sefton. Jane 011n° Earl and Countess of Verulam and Lady' t o CI? proceed shortly on a visit to the Earl and Orair a hle at Coombe Abbey, Warwickshire, where a fashi on will assemble during Coventry races. ste kJ, The Earl and Countess of Lichfield and fan 11 1 9 80 4 0 45 51 Graefenberg, in Austrian Silesia, where they ar s . OW" pass the spring. Lord Anson is pursuing hiss 410 studies, near Huntingdon, preparatory to ente r !L. versity. The Noble Earl's health is much ininrrillege The Earl and Countess Delawarr and Lad - w ow ville West left town on Saturday for Bourn HA ( ' ice shire. eld S o l t O il The Earl of Ilchester presided at the meeting,„ , - $ the mouth on Saturday, to take measures for e 1 of monument, in the county of Dorset, to the mens°'.' , gallant Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy, G.C.B. • Viscount Ranelagh has left town for Bordeaa' aseiscELLANBOTTB. Mr. Moxhay, the liberal proprietor of the #, ore; merce, has written letters to some of the gre 3 " hv incr i , houses in the City, offeri ng th e us e of his noble, " o pila ti os' the purpose of a meeting, to express the public t he Jo the conduct of the Emperor of R uss ia toward s i f e r, portion of his subjects. It is b e li eve d that the ° for accepted. _„,,, tb s be r, The Bank of England, the East India Comp Co ." c r shipful Company of Mercers, and the Worall l P•hscri e V; of Grocers have, during the past week, each su sum of 2001. in aid of the association for visiting :0000001.' ing the 'poor at their own dwellings. The gr°, s , 5 ye 96 0 f t l ofthe fund of this association is now, we hear , sis a l " and its operations are extended over upward s ° most destitute of the metropolitan parishes. • eec o, o _,, The President of the Royal Society held Lug s- jo b versazione on Saturday evening, at his P Ina ri the' A Terrace, Piccadilly. It was a very full meeting , o ca te t t ier at least 350 fellows and visitors present, incl ud i ll o g ias ti 4 members of the different literary and seient". Anent besides several learned sevens from GermanY• `3"hatlasoa The Marquis of Northampton was unavoid ablf. A irs f ita impaired health, but the honours of the recePora , ,,p acquitted by Mr. C. S. Dickens and Viscoun t ee ie im u si t The last averages show a considerable a dvan d. pe t I c o, of wheat—that of the last week being 5 5 e. ~,1 • 0 5 1 ' 1 , 1 /11 f il which is an increase of from 4s. to ss. on the P' ad I veiled during the greater part of the autumn . 4 0 0, tone and of 3s. sd. within the last five weeks ear ° P t Bean, who was taken into custody for attenr tf 0 0,4 her Majesty by presenting a pistol at her 31192 fig, u' lo as she was taking an airing in St. JanseS Co v e jeil i t ia which he was tried at the Central Crinl, t isea t d, Bailey, and sentenced to eighteen months' ° I WO ,1,1 the Millbank Penitentiary, was on Saturdsc o ei• teo ar g terns for which he was incarcerated having e' c l i eo astle 0 el A new floating steam-boat pier has been, go al ea tie; i ' s , the Fishmongers' Company, and thrown uut:wast,ao l o e front of t i beir spacious hall adjoining the norlu 4 ac., bi London-adge, which is likely to prove a greP ho st waif tion to the public making short trips per steanr'd'thel' minter, Greenwich, Woolwich, Linsehouse, a ° IA ! Pier. Is IC Y e LAW INTELLI A if ),,of II CHANCERY.—(THI S i li a The LORD CHANCELLOR sat in Linc oln's it. shortly after 11 o'clock. se er FOLEY V. HI LL. op pe l The further arguments in this part - hear" the Court the whole morning. A, CRIMINAL COURT.- - 4 - 0 1 46 111 OLD CO UR • court eci t o , I der t The 113th session of the Central Criminal, „,f o re a this morning in the Justice Hall, Old Bailey , aa t ieta s t ial' Hon. the Lord Mayor, the Recorder, the Sne" er ee re ii man Farncombe. On calling the grand i ttr r e iaied e the th the Hebrew persuasion, Simeon Optheinin to jet is:,ollt on the ground of being secretary and elect his 5 a,,, A 4 Synagogue, and that, were be absent from at business of the Synagogue would be almost s Pa" and the poor would materially suffer. l i g ht t ial' The RECORDER—YOU, then, are i n the .• is sa t 0 4 officer? dutie s je r Mr. Optheinm—Exactly so, but with .tatel ho As a further ground of exemption maY . , ' w ith liVa i ;,:s afternoon and to-morrow are high holyda..Y!dieres;‘,4o, and my services in the synagogue cannot oicod 1 0 . C?tfle - A e s ( bun under the cireine:;;Linces stateu __, s te,d o your attendanco P;aels' charge them. The Learned Gentleman sal , ,;f auniv - ai l , 4s e The grand jury being sworn, the ReCoar'l_soo ~,,to o o ot the present session did not appear, in Pei t n ed to lii -s, heavy, and the depositions, as transmit, it w as t t furnish any matter in general on whicunetruction;tl o;,51 for the Court to offer any particular 1 be 011' e berries There were, however, two cases on which ftes e fi na i ld er. O lei fet very few words to their notice. One o s for - o re . /l e a revolt on board a ship, and the other 1 0 . _ fi cl 4 6 1 : persons charged with revolt on boarn pr: 01, 1 . ' 00 11 Dl‘Gregor and Lambert. Theirs -was an ' 1 9,1 41 0 " e r ol s ot iP by the 1 lth and 12th of Wm. 111., e• 7 ' " o r Or o s ' , o amongst other things, that if any seartt an y ou'rks o f run away, or endeavour to run away, 1 -T-- lu e - e the° tg a nd er 'ret on nn d bfi e o a n vour to corrupt the crew, or se:ri- col lt - a Ai r "Iv to a the enemy, or to lay violent hands 0 a e rd him ship or the e t ' gr si !"; and d his make, was atrheengdiesr such t e clectiie M‘Gregor and Lambert), then all and va'. , th eft eau conl?•00ei'l guilty of felony. They would careful l y„ th e,. stances which would be brought hero t he aft , had banded together, with other ers.' to th e s e 7Nrf 71: with this charge, and decide whether n_r, ri ll e ° : for t .. b n e v o r into ti ib or e io Out to havereco l t o ' Ao t re e i eo cau s tYpe chargeraising tahraetvol theyt . should a was h a n v o e t necessary gt j ' h aw ad a Tb w y it deavoured to cause a revolt, on bor_i . et here,ol, t h h t e h ir es a l e u t p ie : n i a t weroutlhdebier s e r T s e , theship. toe of te, depositions he (the Learned Recque r _ ; tha!pst,,, 51; 0 was great dissatisfaction on board the _y e w, an ee sto;ro to the cap in °to the% crew used menacing language n ut 1 er he, assisted by his mate, had taken a: 0 y_ ire am;,, e ta „ o t e , of the offenders, that the prisoners s oss use dangerous weapons to effect /1 1 .re s 7wreng; t ith , r ibe r d qb were suffering under real or inlag,T ;e to da_ be tb e o ill e r question they (the jury) had any, l L". l ; fact T he 01' 0 16 40 must limit their inquiry to ascertain ' der ive _ 1 : 0 460 11u t0 was a conspiracy on board the ship T er t i te eer• t io f d " efi ce et . his command : in other words, whe tk t i w hethe r fel were aiding and assisting in that " c" then , . ti lf to I ' ll'l o o o an endeavour to cause a revolt, an , _ aveor , w oo, to o : this extent should be brought before o t i c „, a st 4 0 1 , 0 tainly be a sufficient ground for then' dop,, With regard to the charge of murdcra, !. et her e fklobUfe,shoae, choly case. It was the case of , s "' e a aft oi r ce destroying two of her own children, her ni erMag- Deo this, with making a serious attempi, ..e.„ te of i.bot al ose t st , ing, to a certain degree, the e xtreme ... b an " - was; po s l ,tj e ace o i ment under which the unhappY w l l or a the w efl o t i 0 e s , was bound to tell them that,Judgl_ w hich i bt w o o o e, before him, and from the declarations : 7_ no dot ,lo 0 . 1 the c do; tributed to the woman, there would I tte a. of voila the crime of murder had been corn Is e k heft press no opinion to them on the to 1 ‘" but it appeared to him (the Becorav) 1 1 0 ko ]