The Sun. — London, England, 1845-03-14 00:00:00

NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. The THIRD EDITION of THE SUN of last (Thursday) Evening contained a full report of the Morning's proceedings on the trial of John Tawell, at Aylesbury, received by Express. The Betting at Tattersall's up to Six o'clock. The Spirit of the Public Journals. The announcement of the intentions of the Bank of England with regard to Discounts. Parliamentary Intelligence of the evening, being a full report of the proceedings before both Houses up to a Qum-ter before Seven o'clock. THIRD EDITION OF << THE SUN.' W hare received many complaints from Subscribers who are frequently disappointed in not receiving the Third Edition. The fault rests en tirely with the .News-agent who serves them, and who thereby not only injures the paper, but does injustice to his customer. This injustice is still further aggravated by an extra charge of a halfpenny (the Post office fee) being made for NOT supplying the latest or Third Edition. This Edition contains the Latest Netts: Parliamentary Debates up to a Quarter to Seven—The " Gazettes" on Tuesday and Friday, together with the " Prices Current" of all the Markets, as well as Official Prices of Shares in Railways, &c. Ax.—The Betting at Tattersall's on Monday and Thursday—The latest (closing) Prices of the Funds — The Proceedings in Railway Committees up to the close—and all other news arriving in London afer three o'clock in the afternoon, when the Second or Evening Edition goes to press. In distant parts of the country, the Third Edition contains news TWELVE NOtES IN ADVANCE, a matter of importance to those who want early intelligence. In those places where the evening matt arrives in the middle of the night, Me "MORNING SUN," containing ALL the Debates, dc. dc., will answer best, and Subscribers can suit themselves accordingly. Respectable Agen's will always supply the proper paper; but where any wilful neglect is experienced, we recommend parties to write to " The Sun" office, 112, Strand, where prompt attention will be paid to their representations. MERV HISTORY OF THE CONSULATE AND EMPIRE OF FRANCE. COUNTRY BOOKSELLERS are informed that the FIRST and SECOND VOLUMES, and also the FIRST FIVE NUMBERS, of M. A. TIMERS' " HISTORY of the CONSULATE and EMPIRE of FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON; a Sequel to the History of the French Revolution," WILL BE PUBLISHED on the 20th instant, on which day copies can be re ceived in the country, if previously ordered. This translation has been made with the sanction and approval of the Author, by D. Forbes Campbell, Esq. The price is only ss. per volume, or Is. per number. To prevent disappointment, it is im portant that orders should specify " COLBURN'S AUTHORISED EDITION, tranlated by D. Forbes Campbell." Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Orders received by Chapman and Hall, 186, Strand, and by all Booksellers and Newsvenders. Now ready, in 3 vols. with 34 Illustrations from Original Drawings, price 31s. 6d. bound, THREE YEARS IN CONSTANTINOPLE ; OR, DO3IEiTIC MANNERS OF THE TURKS. By CHARLES WHITE, Eq., " These' Three Years in Constantinople' may be safely taken as a text-book with respect to Turkey, its people, and its manners. Mr. White's useful work is well worthy of the attentive study of all wh ) would know Turkey as it is. Full, searching, complete, it will dissipate many prejudices, dispel many vague notions popu larly entertained of the much maligned Turks."—Morning Chronicle. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready, in one rol. Bro., with Portrait, price 14s. bonad. T" DUKE OF WELLINGTON'S MAXIMS AND OPt NIONS. " This volume is a tribute worthy of the great man, for the ad vancement of whose fame and honour it has been produced. It is the most compendious, the most agreeable, and, all things considered, the best book that has been published respecting the Duke of Wellington." —Times, March 10. Henry Ccli,urn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. CZ PA NISH PASSIVE BONDHOL DERS ! ! CAUTION. • Do not be tempted by the trifling rise in this Stock to sell. Your Stock is now scarce, and remember M. Mon, the Spanish Minister of Finance, has pledged himself to propose to the Cortes a settlement of the whole Foreign Debt of Spain. Is the Active Stock, then, only to be converted, and our interests be neglected ? Believe it not. Yon? 1001. Bond is now worth but 71. If you will but be firm, another month will make them worth lit. .. WIIBPER. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE: LAST NIGHT BEFORE EASTER. The Nobility, Subscribers, aria the Public are respectffilly Wormed That TO-MORROW EVENING WM be repeated (third time in this country), Verdi's now Opera, ERNANI. In Pour Parts—lst , The Bandit L 2d., Thu Guests 3d., The Pardon ; 4th., The Mask. With new scenery by Mr. Marshall. Elvira, Madame Rita Bodo diovanna, Bellini ; Buy Gomez, Signor Fornasarl ; Don Carlos, Signor Botelli ; Lrnani, lignor Moriani. To conclude with an entirely new Ballet, by M. I'crrot, entitled EOLINE ; on, LA DRYA DE. . The Music by Signor I'ugni. The Scenery by Mr. Marshall. Principal Characters—Eoline (betrothed to Count Edgard', Mddle. Lucile Gratin ; Rubezahl (le Gnome), M. Perrot ; Count Edgard, M. Toussaint ; Prince of Silesia (brother of Eoline), M. Gosseltn. In the course of the Ballet the following Dances will be introduced ; lcaltze nne, by the Coryphees of the Corps de Ballet. Pao de la Fiancee—Mdlle. Lucile Gratin and M. Toussaint. Pas do C'inq (composed bY M. Gosselin)--Mdlles. Louise Weiss, Fer dinand, Demelisse, Cassan, and Moncelet. Mazourka D'Extase—Mdlle. Lucile Gr lin and M. Perrot, Fourth Tableau. Grand Pas des Dryades by Millie. L. Gralin and the Ladies of the Corps de Banc . ipplicatlons for Boxes, Stalls, anti-Tickets to be made at the Box office, Opera Colonnade. Doors open at EeYen ; the Opera to commence at Half-past Seven oN.lock. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE. THIS EVENING Will he performed THE BOHEMIAN GIRL. Thaddeus, Mr. W. Harrison; Arline. Miss Rainforth. To conclude with DER FRIESCHUTZ. Adolph, Mr. D. W. Ring ; Ctspar, Mr. Stretton : Linda, Miss Romer. The Box-otlice is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six In the Evening, where Privaie and Family Boxes, Stalls, i laces, and Tickets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons. TH EATIC I RO l'A L, HAVY ARKET. LESSEE, rR. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING - Will be repe , ted a New and Original Comedy, entitled THE SHERIFF OF THE COUNTY. Principal Characters by Messrs. W. Farren, Strickland, Buckstone, Webster, Mrs. Glover, Mrs. W. Clifford, Mrs. Humby, Miss Julia Bennett, &c. In the course of the Evening Mr. John Parry will give his De- Scriptive Scene, " Cinderella " After which, SPEED TIIE PLOUGH. Sir Abel Handy, Mr. W. Farrell ; Bob Handy, Mr. 11. Holl ; Sir Philip Blandfird, Mr. Stuart ; Former Ashtield, Mr. Webster; Miss Blandford, Miss Julia Bennett ; Swan Ashtield, Mrs. Edwin Yarnold ; Lady Handy, Mrs. W. Clif ferrd-; Dame Ashfield, Mrs. Glover. To conclude with HOW TO PAT TIIE RENT. Private Boxes, Tw., Guineas and one Guinea and a-Halt each. Tickets and laces to be had of Mr. I. T. Archer at the Box-office, from Ten till Five o'clock. MEAT KE ItOyAL, ADELPIII UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING, Will be repeated a New and Original Drama, entitled THE GREE' BUSHES ; or, A Hundred Years Ago. Conner O'Kenned3', Mr. Selhy ; George, Mr. Hudson : Wild Murtogh, Mr. 0. Smith ; Muster Grinnidge. Mr. Wright ; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Geraldine, Mrs. Yates ; Nelly O'Neill, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; Miami, Madame Celeste. After which, MOTHER AND CHILD ARE DOING WELL. To conclude with NORMA. Polito, Miss Wool gar ; Norma, Mr. Paul Redford ; Adalcisa, Mr. Wright ; Oroveso, Miss Reynolds. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LEaSEE, MR. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING Will be presented DAMON AND PYTHIAS, Damon, Mr. Edwin Forrest ; Pythias, Mr. Graham; Dionystus, Mr. Archer; Calantho, Mrs. Stirling. Atlcr TILE QUAKER. Lubin, Mr. Hime ; Steady, Mr. Lettl - n• ; Cicely, Miss EGsbroke. To conclude with a New Ballet Divertissement, entitled LE FETE DES PECHEURS. Principal Characters by Mr. Gilbert, Mr. Mar shall, Mdlle. Teresinc, and Miss Marshall. Stage Manager, Mr. 11. I. Wallack ; Stage Dlrector, Mr. Emden ; Machinist, Mr. Ednluml P.radwcll. THE WEATHER-SUN OFFICE, MARCH 13. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 19 ; Highest, 35 ; Noon, 21 BAROMETER, 29.89.-WIND, E. .NOTE.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and "Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the Thermometer during the preceding twenty -four hours. All the other observations are made at noon. lIIGII WATER AT LONDON-RRIDGE TIIIS DAY. Morning •• 30 mutates after 5 Evening .. 48 minutes after 6, flt&rithm inm LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1845. The House of Lords met this evening at Five o'Clock, The Duke of WELLINGTON gave notice that he should on Tuesday move the adjournment of the House to the 3d of April. Lord BnouGtrAm brought in a Bill to enable non freemen to carry on business in the city of London, which was read a first time. The NOBLE and LEARNED LORD also brought in a Bill to amend the Law of Divorce. In answer to Lord BROUGHAM, the Earl of DALHOUSIE said that the Railway Department of the Board of Trade bad not come to a decision respecting the London and York Line until yesterday afternoon. That, therefore, it was impossible that the knowledge of that decision could have occasioned a rif a in the price of shares of the competinef lines at twelve o'clock. Lord BROUGHAM said he could not but say that the explanatio n of his Noble Friend, so far as it went, was s atisf actory ; but he must, at the same time, assert that judicature like that which was exercised by the Board of Trade over railway schemes, was one abhorrent to the Constitution, and odious to the whole country, and that should such accidents as these frequently occur, he should feel it his duty to bring a motion bi,fore the House fur a considerrble modification of that Board. The Jewish Relief Bill passed through Committee. The Companies' Clauses Consolidation Bill was read a second time, and the House adjourned. The House of Commons met at Twelve o'clo c k, an d immediately went into Committee on the Railway Clauses Consolidation Bill. On the 71st clause being proposed, Mr. HAYTmt moved, as an amendment, the insertion of words restricting the power of Railway Companies to raise their tolls. After a short discussion a division took place, %hen there appeared—for the amendment, 19 ; against it, 21 ; majority against it, 2. The first public business transacted, on the re-assem bling of the House, was the swearing in of the Dart mou•h Election Committee. The Ministerial papers are greatly dissatisfied with the con- I duct of certain Conservative Members who deserted the; Ministry for the purpose of throwing out a Bill which, from all accounts, would not have been pressed through the Cham ber of Peers. "A strong difference of opinion"says the Journal des Debuts, " had arisen in the ranks of the majority relative to one of the clauses of the Bill. This dissent con tinued to the end, notwithstanding the chance which ex isted of the matter being fully re-argued before the Chamber of Peers. For this we are most concerned, for assuredly the satisfaction which certain Conservatives may feel in carrying out their individual opinion, by sepirating themselves from their friends on a secondary point, does not counterbalance the inconvenience of affording the Opposition one of those little successes which, for want of better, it makes the most of, as loudly as it can." The Constitutionnel, in fact, admits that several of the Conservatives were hostile to the mea sure ; and their Conservative feelings, therefore, caused the defeat. It was not, however, considered a vital question, the Conservatives, according to the Globe, only look ing at the law itself, and putting all political considerations out of the question, voted for or against it according to their personal impressions. IVe regret to learn that a fatal duel took place in the Bois de Boulogne, on Tuesday morning, between M. DE BEAV VALON, one of the editors of the Globe (Paris paper), and M. DILIARRIER, the director and principal proprietor of the Presse. The parties fought with pistols, and on the first fire M. DE BEAUVALON'S ball struck M. MUMMER in the right eye, and having penetrated into the brain the unhappy man fell dead on the instant. The seconds on the part of M. DUJARIDER were 31. DE BOIGNE and the son of General BERTRAND, and on the part of M. DR BEAUVALON, the Count DE FLAIR and M. DE QUIVILLIERB. The cause of the me lancholy quarrel is not known. The Revue de Paris states that the Duke de BROGUE was to leave Paris on Thursday for London, to enter upon a con ference with Dr. LUSIIINGTON, relative to the right of search. It adds—" The right of search is to be declared suspended for a time, and a certain number of cruisers of both nations are to be stationed at the usual points of arrival and depar ture of the vessels presumed to be engaged in the trade." The Constitutionnel contains the following paragraph rela tive to the affairs of Switzerland :—" We have received news from Zurich to the 9th instant. The French Ambassador had employed, more rapidly than was expected, the dis patches taken to him by Count CIIAPPEDELAINE. On the 6:h he informed the President of the Diet of a note from M. GI:11E0T, couched, it is said, in terms similar to that of Lord ABERDEEN, of Feb.ll." The Diet was not to meet until the 10th, to resume the discussion on the free corps. General SONNENBERG had disbanded a great portion of the troops levied by Lucerne on the sth inst. TIIE BOUlib'E--TuEsDAY, MARCH 11. Among the petitions presented were two on the sub ject of Post-office espionage: one by Mr. SHEIL A the other by Mr. WAKLEY. Mr. SREIL subsequently gave notice of a motion on the subject for Tuesday next. Sir R. PEEL stated that he would on Monday state in what order he intended to bring on the various Govern ment measures relating to Ireland after Easter. The Right Hon. Baronet also stated, in answer to Lord MAiloN, that it was the intention of the Government, in consequence of the destruction of the Portland Vase, to introduce a measure for the more effectual protection of works of art from malicious damage. - Mr. COBDEN then brought forward the motion of which he had given notice for a Select Committee to in quire into agricultural distress, and how far the present laws with regard to the importation of agricultural pro duce affected the agricultural labourers. As to the ex istence of that distress they could not have higher au thority than that of the Hon. Gentleman who professed to be the friend of farmers and protection, and the ex istence of distress being admitted, it was their duty to inquire into the causes which had produced it. It must be admitted that inquiry was necessary, for while, on the one hand, the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Treasury attributed the distress to local causes, which could not be remedied by legislative inter ference, the Hon. Member for Dorset contended that it was attributable to a deficiency of legislative measures. For himself he way ready to prove before a Committee, that the farmer had long been suffering from evils which were attributable directly to the corn-laws• To the operations of those laws he attributed the present bad farming and pauperism of the farmer. The farmer had no capital, and no capitalist would embark in farm ing unless under a proper lease. The Hon. Gentleman then went on to show the ingenious manner in which the present system of corn-laws operated on the tenant farmer and the agricultural labourer, and concluded by formally moving for the appointment of a Select Cow.- mittee of Inquiry. The motion gave rise to a lengthened and animated discussion, in the course of which the House was ad. dressed by Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT, Lord HOWICK, Mr. S. O'BRIEN, Mr. BRIGHT, Mr. WODEHOUSE, and several other Hon. Members ; and, Mr. COBDEN having briefly replied, the House divided, when the numbers were—for the motion, 121 ; against it, 213 ; majority against the motion, 92. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at a Quarter to One o'clock. A case occurred a few days ago at the Worship-street Police-office, which strongly illustrates the great utility of the police reports in the London newspapers and. beautifully exemplifies the genuine and unostt nta tious character of English charity. Long may the course of that charity continue its gentle, vivifying ; flow, unobstructed by the obstach s—undiverted by the opposing direction which the cold suggestions of utili tarian economists may interpose to it There is a species of private benevolence, whit+. may be erroneous in the contemplation of mere doctrinal policy, and may amount, even, to absolute evasion of specific Acts of Parliament for the statutable regulation of specific charities, but which has merits that are far beyond what the one can conceive, or the other can control. These merits receive their nohlest testimony in the enthusiastic admiration of a man's fellow-citizens, and their most cheering re ward in the impressive sanction of a man's own bosom. Accident had brought under the notice of Mr. BlNG nam, the magistrate at the Worship-street Police-office, a case of domestic privation and misery, in its intensity almost unparalleled, even in the appalling annals of me tropolitan destitution. An horn st Spitalfields' weaver, one MUNIKUUYSEN, htscl long been suffering, together with his wife and family, Ludt r the extren.ity of pinch ing distress. aggravated by the illness of one of their children. In spite of the want of continuous employ ment, of scanty wages for his labour when he was so fortunate as to find an employer—in spite of the require ments of his sick child—the poor man Lravely bestirred hirnseT to hold up his head, and, in the midst of deiti tution and wretchedness, to shun the lower degradatisal of becoming a chargeable parochial paupt r. In this determination he aprears to have been sustained by the devotion and fortitude of a very meritorious wife. But n deeper shade of desolation was yet to brood over their humble and mournful hearth. Their sick child died ; and in their inability to provide the means of defraying even the charge of its interment, except in the alterna tive of passing through the portals of the workhouse, to subsistence indeed, but subsistence at the price of sepa ration, they had the courage to live on in their dreary indigence, awaiting the better times which might enable them to remove from that which, abject as it was, had )et b :en and still was their common home, the un buried corpse. A fortnight passed, and the child, which had bt come of those who, in the language of Scripture, are " free among the dead," still remained a fearful, present embodiment of death at the side and in the midst of the living. Disease, aggravated doubtless by this un natural and horrid approximation of the survivors to the deceased, seems to have been on the point of snatching away another victim in another child of this suffering fa mily, when the facts we have thus lightly sketched were made known to the sitting magistra'e. The relieving officer, dispatched by this functionary to institute personal inquiries into the case, confirmed the statement which had been made in every particular. The attention of some few charitable individuals had been drawn to the case by the published reports, and they were nor low in sending in some charitable contributions. 01 these contributors it is to be observed that their fit care seems to have been to give their assistance promptly ; their second, to keep their own names secret. There is no test that we can imagine of genuine benevolence so certain as the absence of all ostentation in its exercise. The last of the contributors, to whose case we would more especially refer, was a gentleman who, having in person addressed a question to the magistrate as to the truth of the statement he had read of the misery of the MUNIK HUYSEM family and been satisfied on that head, drew forth five sovereigns and begged they might be applied to the relief of these poor people. Whilst he was in the act of conferring wit'a the magistrate, and de clining to give any name with his alms, the bereaved mother made her appearance ; and it was in the course of her narrative to Mr. EINGHAM that the fact was learned, for the first time, of the other child's apparently imp Aiding dissolution, the dead body of its brother being still, after the lapse of a fortnight, un removed from the room in which itself was languishing in mortal sickness. The generous stranger, overcome by the tale of these accumulated distresses, presented other five sovereigns for the use of this afflicted fatal >"; and hastily quitted the office. After his departure the funeral arrangements were immediately made, and it may be, though we fear of this there is but slender hope, that the other child has cot yet been snatched away to share the sane grave. We feel so much and such pure phasure in recording these prompt responses on the part of the more fortu nately situated classes of society, that we gladly cite them, as furnishing incontestable answers to those sweeping imputations of apathetic and reckless selfishness which are too commonly cast upon them. Such instances as these are by no means rare, though few will, probably, be found to surpass, in spieit and genuineness, the un ostentatious humanity of the anonymous Samaritan, who, having " done good by stealth," may " blush to find it fame." We owe no apology for directing public attention, however, to his good deeds. We have done so in the earnest hope of inducing others who may have hitherto forborne to "learn the luxury of doing good," in thus ministering to the wants of the most unfortu nate of their fellow-creatures, to apply themselves to like active efforts of benevolence. We have done so with a view urging those who have already embarked in a similar career of relief to that vast class of cases of extreme domestic affliction and privation, which is sup. plied from the more miserable quarters and suburbs of this metropolis, to pers':vere unflinchingly in the path they have opened. We have done so in a sort of wil lingness-to believe, if possible, that other declining ar tisans, such as poor MUNIKHUYSEN, may be encouraged, like him, to face with constancy the most untoward and continuous misfortunes, in the desire and struggle to avoid that sort of self-abandonment which, we fear, is, in nice cases out of ten, the first and the irretrievable step towards social debasement. This social debase ment, for some reason or other, is always identified in the idea of that most deserving class of the extremely indigent who are most averse to enter the workhouse, with the mere fact of the throwing themselves upon Parochial relief ; and the idea is, unhappily, but too well justified by all observation and experience of that other and more extensive class which most unhesitatingly resorts to that source of subsistence. We have intelligence from Madrid to the sth inst. One of the papers _gives the following extract of a letter from Vittoria, of the 2d inst.:—" Individuals implicated in the re cently frustrated conspiracy are daily discovered. The ser geants have avowed all. It is said that next week some of them and an officer will be shot." The Three per Cents.closed at 3.1 i for cash, and 341 at 60 days ; the Five per Cents, at 253 a t 60 d ays. 1 An ink ff - :ctual attempt was made by Mr. PI. UMPTRE and Mr. SPOONEa to put down the running of excursion trains on Sundays. This was opposed by Mr. MuNTz and Colonel SIBTIIORP, who recommended them to be gin by prertnting gentlemen's carriages running on Sundays. Eventually clauses - up to 81 were agreed to, an the House adjourned to Five o'clock. The defeat of the Freud' iliinistry on the pensions forms the leading topic in most of the Paris. journals. The Oppo sition are rejoiced at the result, and regard it as another un doubted proof of the utter helplessness of the present Cabinet. TEE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, MARC 11 14 1845 MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, THURSDAY EVENING. The Funds leave off much the same. Consols 99 3 / 4 ' / ;'i for present transfer, and 100 to 14 for Account. Exchequer bills were 68s. to 66 premium. Spanish Actives are 29 3 / 4 K 3 ; and the Three per Cuts. 407 %. Portuguese Converted have realised 67 1 ,4 to 66. Mexican have been 36 3 / 4 ; and Dutch Two-and-a-lialf per Cents. 100 1 / z . The Railway Shares were buoyant in most instances up to the close of the market. (From The Sun of Last Night.) There was no change in Cotton at Liverpool yesterday, but the supply was free again. Sales, 6,000 bales, of which 500 were on speculation ; 400 bales Pernam went at 5 3 / 4 d. to 6 1 4 d. ; 100 Bahia, at 6d. ; 500 Egyptian, at 6d. to 7 3 / 4 d. ; 200 Surat, at 2 3 / 4 d. to 2',ZBd. ; and American at 3 3 / 4 d. to 7d. per lb.—A large business was done in the Shares reported on. Barnsley Junction, Half. Shares, 3 1 4 ; Birkenhead, Manchester, and Chester, 8% ; Blackburn, Burnley, and Ac crington, 5 ; Blackburn and Preston, 15 ; Bristol and Gloucester, 59 1 / 2 ; Belfast and Ballymena, 765. ; .Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 8 1 4 ; Caledonian, 7% 8; Cambridge and Lincoln, 6 tiji s ; Chester and Birkenhead, 41 1 4 ; Ditto, New Shares, 33 1 4 % ; Ditto, Half Shares, 20% ; Chester and Holyhead, 8% 8/. 3s. 9d. ; Chester and Preston Brook, 4 3 / 4 ; Churnet Valley, 71., 71. 3s. 9d ; Clydes dale Junction, 7% ' • Cork and Brandon, 4 ; East ern- Counties, 20% 20 3 / 4 ; Ditto, Perpetual, No. 2, 235. 6d; Glasgow and Dumfries, 175.; Glasgow, Paisley, and Gree nock, 16 ; Grand Junction, 223 ; Do. Halves, 111; Do. New, 44 1 4 %; Ditto Eighths, 183 , i 19 ; Great Grimsby and Shef field, 3 ; Great Southern and Western, Extension, 7%; Great Western, Half Shares, 100% ; Liverpool and Manches ter, Quarters, 51%; Ditto, New, 33 ; London and Birming ham, 231%; Ditto - Quarters, 29 3 / 4 30; Lon ion and Brigh ton, 63 3 / 4 %; London and York, 3%; Direct Northern, 4% 4%; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 6% 14 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 65 1 ,4 ; Do. Quarter Shares, 11%; Man chester, Buiy, and Rossendale, 13%; Manchester, Bolton. and Bury, 150 155 ; Midland Railway, 134 136%; Ditto, 40/. Shares, i 1 12 ; Ditto, Fifths, 3 3 / 4 ; bitto, Consolidated Bir mingham and Derby, 105; Newcastle and Berwick, 14; North British, 14 3 / 4 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 4% • Preston and Wyre, .29 3 / 4 30; Sheffield and Manchester, 104.' 2 ; Do. Quarters, 13; Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and . .Ifirmirgham, 3%; Shrewsbury and Grand Junction, 5%; Shrewsbury, Oswes try, and Chester Junction, 2%; South-Eastern and Dover, 42% 42; Ditto, New, No. 1, 16 3 / 4 ; Ditto, New, No. 2, 11 1 / 2 ; Ditto, New, No. 3, 714 8%; Scottish Central, 84s. 88s 9d ; West Yorkshire, 595. 605.; Worcester and Tring, 3 3 / 4 ; York and North Midland, New Ilaif-shares, 16 1 ; Bordeaux and Toulouse ( l llay.kenzie's). 2%; Bordeaux and Cete, 2%; Lions and Avignon, 2 3 / 4 ; Northern of France (English), 5/ 6%; Orleans and Bordeaux (English), 10%; Paris and Lyons, ( English—Latlitte's), 81s. 63. 80s.; Paris and Lyons (French), 3% Paris and Lyons (Ganneron's), 2% 2%; Paris and Rouen, 4514 ; Paris and Strasburg, 575. ; Parts and Quentin, ss. %. prem ; Verona and Ancona, 21s. There are no arrivals to-day from any quarter. In the produce markets the business doing continues very limited, but. it is hoped the duties question will be settled this week. The half-yearly meeting of the Proprietors of Bank Stock was held to- dav, and it passed off with much satisfac tion, and well may the Stockholders congratulatt, themselves on the preseut state of affairs. In the last year Bank Stock has advanced very nearly 20 per cent. The Governor, in reply to questions, stated that the account of the rest, as: published, was most correct. The announce ment that the rest, or balance of surplus profits, would, after the dividend was paid, be 3,079,025/ 7s. 9d., elicited much applause. There is a quiet market again for the Public Securities, but prices continue about the same, viz.-99% % for Consols for Money, and 100% for Account. Exchequer-bills have been firm, at the ad7ance of 665. to 68s. premium. South Sea Stock has been steady, at 116. Bank Stock, after beit42l9% to 220, has receded to 217. The Foreign Securities have been rather flatter. Spanish Five per Cents are 29% %. Mexican have been 36% to N. Portuguese Converted are 68 to 6714. Dutch Two-and-a- Halt per Cents. are 63% th. Shares are lively, but there was some fluctuation in them. The French 'lines are less buoyant. Direct Northern have risen again. PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. ONE II CLOSING O'CLOCK. PRICES. 3 per Cent. Consols ... 99:% South Sea Stock 99% 116 Bank Stock for Account... 21 9 14 220 217 216 Consuls for Account.... lOO% 10C IA Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., 1%d.... 63 66 pm. 66 Ditto 500/. Ditto Small Ditto Advertised — pm. ONE PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 — Ditto. Account 3 6 34 % Ditto, Deferred 167,4 --.1/ CLOSING PRICES. 36% 16 3 / 4 '94/ Peruvian Bonds , 6 per Cents 3214 33 32 3 Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto, Converted Ditto, Account 6B 67% 67 65% R, ian Bonds.- - 116% .iussl.._ Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840 Ditto, Account - 29 - A% 29% Ditto, Deferred Ditto, Passive Ditto 3 per Cent. ...... ... .. D:tto Account Belgian Bonds, 4 1 / per Cent lO l l, Dutch, 2 1 / per Cent . Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 9 9 14% 99 1 A PRICES OF CLOSING PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK. RAILSAY SHARES PRICES. Armagh, Coleraine, and I'ortrush : l% — Birming. and Gloucesterloo 133 131 1 / 2 — Do. New Ditto % Shares - Bristol and Exeter Do. New . . 2 ... . .. Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ~.... 53 59 Cakionian Camsridge and Lincoln 1%...... 6A 1 4 3 - 1 / 4 1 /.% Chester and Holyhoad... 5 Chichester and Brighton 5 ( bullet Valley Direct Northern 2% Dublin and Belfast Junc 2 1 4 6 Dublin and Galway..... 21 K 2 3 / 4... Eastern Counties 14/. 16s 2120% 21 1 A... Ditto ditto, No. 2. l3s. 4d O% ..... Eastern Union — lO .. Ditto Extension Great South. and West. (Ireland) Ditto Extension Great North of England..loo lBB 190 ___ Ditto New V 2 Great Western . 80 176 Ditto Fifths Guildford, Farn'rn,l'orts. 2/ 2 . .. Harwich Hull and Gainsborough 1% Hull and Selby 5O Do. Half glares Lancaster and Carlisle Lincoln, York, and Leeds 1% London and ltirminghm (5t0ek)...231 Do.Ncw Thirds - 2 - London and Blackwall. 161. 13s. 4d. 7% London and . 86g1it0n.... .50 Do. Consolidated Bths 16 London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. 18 Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. London ae.d S. Western 41/6s 10d 80 82 83 Do. New Do. New London and York 2 l /2 3 14 2 . ): Blanchester and Leeds... 73 146 145 Do. 14 Shares Manelie:ter and Birmin. 40 Do. Quarters 4 Midland 100 140 139 140 1 /.; 138% Do. New Midland, Birm., Derby 100 lO6 108 Newcastle and Darling- _. .... 40 5 / 101 64, 8X 644 27( 4 20% 39% 5 1 / g 1 3 4 1 1 A 96 234 44 28 184 11% 3% ton Junction . a ... 24 ...... 47 ... Do. New Brandling.:. 10 ...... Newark and Sheffield ... 1% 2 North British ...... ....; 10 Do. New Northern and Eastern... 45 Ditto Scrip. .. .. 30 ...... North Kent Norwich and Brandon... 10 Richmond and West End junction Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1 Shrews., Wolverhamp , Dudley, and Birm .... 4 5 1 / 6% South Eastern & Dover 3312 s 4d... 42 y, 413 A 42% Do., No. 1 8 Do., No. 2. Do., No. 3 South Wales 2% 5 % % Trent Valley 2 ..... 23 22% Waterford and Kilkenny 1 ... .... 3% ..... ..• West London,Old Shares 20 York and North Midland 50 lOO Ditto % Shards 25 Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 20 Do. Selby Do. Extension FRENCH RAILWAYS. Boulogne and A miens... 4 Bordeaux and Toulouse 2 Bordeauk, Toulouse. and Cette Dieppe and Paris June. 2 Great North. of France.. 4 Orleans and Vierzon ... 2 •••-• Orleans and Borderax... 2 Paris & Lyons, Laffitte's 2 Paris and Lyons, Can neron's, • 2 ••• Paris and Orleans 2O Paris and Rouen , 20 Paris and Strasbourg ... 2 Rouen and Havre Strasbourg and Bale ... 14 Tours and Nantes, New, 2 JOINT STOCK BANKS. British North American 50 .. London Joint Stock lO National of Ireland 17% l6 . Provincial of Ireland ... 25 MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 12.—The sales are :—Eastern . Counties, 20 % ; Manchester and Leeds, Quarter Shares, 17% • Manchester and I3irtninghani, 58 57 1 % ex new and ex div. ; 'Ditto, New Quarters, 4 15-16 3 : 4 prem. ; Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale, 14 ; Midland - Railway Consols, 135 140 ; Ditto, 40/. Shares 11 12%; North B r iti s h, New Shares, 4% ; Preston and ‘Vyre, 30; South-Eastern. 41% ' • Ditto, No. 3,7 3 A 8 ; Birkenhead, Ma nc h es t er , and Cheshire Junction, 8 %; Blackburii, Burnley, and Accring ton, ; Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 3 15-16; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 8 1 ,4 % ; Caledonian, 7%; Cambridge and Lincoln, Churnet Valley, 6% 3 / 4 ; Glasgow ant Dumfries, 18s. ' • Great Grimsby and Sheffi e ld J unc ti on , 4 3% ; Kendal and IVindermere, 4b/ t ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 6 3 / 4 ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston. 3 1 4 ; London and Worcester, Oxford and Rugby, 3% ; London and York, 4 %; Manchester and Buxton, 3 1-16; Newark and Sheffield, 2 5-16 ; Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, 255. 225. 6d. ; Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, Dudley, &c.,3 1 / 2 ; Trent Valley, 16 3 / 4 ex new; West Yorkshire, ; Great Northern of'France, ( English ), 61,‘. 3% 18 6 1 % 43 11 1 4 6 3% 22 99 14% 11% 2% 1714 2 51! 44 45% 14% A DRAMATIC VETERAN.—When the late John Eme' y, some twenty years ago, left a vacancy on the stage, in rm.. tic characters, several competitors strove-for the honour of being hie successor. The choice fell upon Mr. Rayner, whose tri umphant debut at Covent-garden, in the part of Tyke, in the School of Reform, must be in the recollection of most of our old playgoers. It will be sufficient to state, in addition, that Mr. Rayner takes his benefit te.night, at the Olympic, when be will re-appear In his first character of Tyke. The merits anti rho 4,, .04412¢0159 old a favourite ihotria not in Ovetlooliedt SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS MOM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERRDAT. GLOBE.—That the payment of Clerks of the Peace and 1 , Clerks of Petty Sessions by fees, instead of by salary, is a system fraught with mischiefs to the public, and calculated . to pervert the administration of justice in the inferior Courts, especially in the country districts, we have shown not merely by argument but by facts. Many of the latter we have ' carefully selected from the provincial journals, whose reports of the proceedings at Quarter and Petty Sessions we have referred to for the purpose. Intelligent cor respondents, in different parts of the kingdom, have also supplied us with well-authenticated cases, by which the vices of the existing system were exposed, and the necessity of a change in the made of remunerating these officers of justice was enforced. We may therefore be supposed to feel grati fied on finding that the Government has undertaken to cor rect the evils so generally admitted to exist. The Bill which Sir James Graham—as the Minister whose department is specially charged with the general superintendence of the public justice of the country—has introduced to the House of Commons, and which was read a second time last night, seems well adapted to remove the evils arising out of the present mode of payment. Having taken a special in terest in the subject, we congratulate the country on the interposition of the Government, and on the prospect of a more healthful mode of remunerating the Clerks of the Peace in counties, and the Clerks of Petty Sessions, than that which has been found to work so great an amount of mischief to the community. Sir James Graham, in the speech with which he moved the second reading of the Bill, stated the principle on which it was founded, and the means by which it proposed to secure the purposes it was framed to effect. The prin ciple of the Bill, as stated by the Right klon. Baronet, is in the nature of an axiom: "That, on the whole, justice is better • administered by public ser vants receiving salaries for the duties pertormed by them, than by receiving fees for those duties." To adduce proof support of such an axiom might, indeed, appear to be superfluous. The Right Hon. Secretary's remarks in sup port of this simple and self-evident proposition will be con curred in by all who have paid ordinary attention to the working of the system to which they apply :—" In the first place, he was satisfied that not only the ends of justice would be better answered by the payment of salaries, hot he entertained also a very strong opinion that, in the end,, economy also, and the inter ests of the ratepayer, would be considered, and advan tageously considered, by the measures they were then dis cussing." The cold and discouraging reception which the measure met with from several country gentlemen, who carped at rather than spoke against several of its provisions, shows the jealousy with which - the "great unpaid " view any interference with what they regard as a kind of hereditary jurisdiction. A poacher in their preserves, and a Secretary of State who , interferes with their magisterial privileges, is alike the object of their anti pathy. To transport the one, and thwa r t the othe r , is their study. Who, but persons under the influence of deeply rooted prejudices, would have started objections so positively puerile and self-stultifying as those which Mr. Egerton, Mr. Darby, and Mr. Henley substituted for arguments in the de bate of last night ? The former gentleman paid but a poor compliment to the county magistracy, as a body, V% hen he assumed that they would victimise the county rate payers by availing - themselves of the power vested in them by the Bill to award inordinately large salaries to the functionaries who are now paid by fees, for the purpose of in ducing competent persons to undertake the dittimewhich de volve on those officers. We know how dangerous !leis to en trust any man, or number of meq, with irresponsible powers, more especially with power over the public purse. We therefore recommend, as we have invariably done in similar cases, that the amount of salary proposed to be paid to the functionaries alluded to should be - ratified by the Secretary •of State for the Home Department. But who would have expected that a distinguished member of their own body, as the Hon. Member for Cheshire is, should have objected to the payment of clerks of the peace and clerks of petty sessions by salary, lest the magistrates should award an extravagantly large amount of salary to the officers of their selection ? STANDARD.--The Property-tax Bill was, as our readers have seen, read a third time and passed last night. Several amendments were proposed and discussed at greater or less length, but all rejected 'by considerable majorities. The amendment of Sir IL Inglis, limited as it was by the Hon.' Baronet, to incomes of 500/. per annum et. infra, shared the fate of the rest—sufficient proof that the House was resolved to carry the measure in its integrity, for if any alteration could be permitted, that proposition had certainly the strongest claims to consideration. • Most, indeed, will regret that the danger of allowing exceptions, which, once ad mitted, would soon eat up the whole measure, rendered it impossible to adopt the benevolent-proposition of Sir Robert Inglis. One or two points were raised in the successive dis cussions that are not undeserving of remark. Sir William Clay entered his, protest against the Bill, as en attack upon that most amiable and interesting class, misers; and Mr. Benjamin Hawes hurled after it his malediction with a spirit and energy, that gives us all reason to be thankful that the Member for Lambeth cannot yet launch thunder-bolts. Misers, says Sir William Clay, are the great benefactors o f mankind. Demosthenes thought differently when he called them " instinctive traitors." Bacon thought differently when he charged them as the collectors of fomites of misery and of moral con tagion. Lord Chatham thought differently when he called them bloodsuckers; History tells a ' dif ferent story of them, and history is not ill supported by the experience of common life. However, we concede, for argu ment sake, that misers are the objects of all that tender love and deep veneration which Sir William Clay demands for them, and we concede, absolutely, that men are not to be persecuted on account cf their wealth, or presented in the Turkish fashion with a bow-string, as the acknowledgment of their merit in accumulating money. But conceding all this, we take leave to ask, how is the miser more injuriously affected by a property and income tax than is any other person ? If the State' take more from the rich man than the poor man by a property and income tax, does it not leave him more and protect more for him also ? For example, the man of 150!. a year pays to such a tax but 4!. 10s. ; whereas the man of 1,500!. a year pays 451. This, however, is but one side of the account; turn to the other side. The State leaves to the former 1451. 10s., and protects it -for him; and it leaves to the latter 1,4554 and protects it fur him—there is surely nothing unequal or unreasonable in this as they will tell at any insurance -office, where we always find the premium bearing, ceteris paribus, an exact ratio to the sum insured. As to the ability of the parties to pay, it is a very simple sum, whether it is easier to live and support a family upon 1451, per annum, or 1,455!.? There is, however, another view of the subject, at which the Member for the Tower Hamlets appears to glance. He seems to think that men will be deterred from growing rich, by the fear of the property tax ! Let him dismiss all apprehension upon the subject ; men will grow rich if they can, in contempt of all such dangers, witness the well-taxed Jews of the 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries. Nobody will refuse 970/. because it is not a thousand. Well, if the property-tax neither persecutes the lovely miser class nor deters men from joining its ranks, where is Sir William Clay's objection? We, for ourselves, though not altogether so much enamoured of the venerable order of misers as Sir William Clay, have nevertheless the highest respect for the prudent, frugal, saving order, and therefore we much desire to see that orderinfinitely extended; confident that some thousands of prudent, frugal, and saving men, will accumulate more capital in a country than any possible number of mere misers—capital, too, which may be collected upon single objects of the greatest magnitude, as we have seen it in the case of our great companies, and as we see it in the case of railroads. But how is the order of prudent, frugal, and saving men to be extended, if not by giving to almost every man something to save beyond subsistence, and by un fettering the pursuits of industry?—the precise objects of Sir Robert Peel's financial reforms, of which the property-tax is the essential basis. The difference between the Member for the Tower Hamlets and the Premier is this—the former would nurse and fondle a few Harpagons, extending to their bags an inviolability from even equal taxation, the latter would have a rich and frugal, industrious and progressive people—not persecuting the Harpagons, but not sparing to call upon them for an equal contribution. The ground upon which Mr. Hawes hurried- his malediction is the opportunity which the property-tax gives to the Premier to remove the taxes that affect industry and commerce—a reason, in the full enjoyment of all the 'honour of whiCh we shall leave the honourable Member for Lambeth unmolested. There is a remark of Sir Robert Peel's equally profound and just, which goes to the root of the whole question of the preference due to direct or indirect taxation—a remark which will, we trust, be seriously considered by the people. All depends upon the social state of the country. In a new country, where capi al is scarce and equally distributed, and where the people live, as it were, from hand to mouth, almost without capital, direct taxation must be equally unproductive and oppreMive ; and whatever revenue the State requires must be raised from taxes on con sumption to which all must contribute more or less, and to which each may in some measure proportion his contribu tion to his means. Exactly the reverse obtains in a coun try where capital is redundant. In a country so cir cumstanced, " the pressure of contiguous wealth," unaided by the tax man, reduces the condition of the leas affluent below what it ought to be, and indirect taxation affecting them (witness the failure of the 5 per cent. duties • in 1840) becomes unproductive, and unproductive it cannot be without having been first most grievously oppressive. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING, _ TIMES.—It is understood that the Dutch Government are proposing to establish a line of steamers between Singapore and Batavia to carry the overland mails, and for the convey ance of Dutch passengers. The merchants connected with the trade of the Eqt are anxiously looking for the remainder of their letters by the Bombay mail of the Ist ult, via South ampton. The inconvenience of there being no regular steamer for this purpose is much felt in the City, and the plan of leaving the dispatches for the chance of a steamer from Con stantinople calling at Malta, en route for Southampton, to take them up, is greatly deprecated. The amount of remittances brought by the Tay packet, on account of the Mexican dividends, is 10,000 dolls. The mercantile letters from Mexico contain tolerably full particulars as to the capture of Santa Anna. Being in the vicinity of Mexico (city) with about 10,000 men, lie marched upon Puebla, which he attacked without effect on the Ist and 2d of January. Retiring to a neighbouring village, he remained there till the 10th, when hearing that Generals Bravo and Paredes had reached San Martin, with 9,000 men, he left the bulk of his forces at Las Vigus— having first directed them to make their submission to the new Government—and, with 2,000 men, marched towards the coast. On reaching the pass of La 011 a, which is situate between Las Vigus and Jalapa, and was strongly fortified by the troops under General Rivera, he asked in vain to be allowed to pass, and being unable to force it, abandoned the troops, who had remained faithful to him to the last. Oa the morning of the 13th of January lie went off, with half-a dozen followers, by an unfrequented path, along the Sierra de Perote, endeavouring to escape to the coast, but in the night of the 15th he was arrested at the village of Jalacingo, not far from his own estate of Mange de Chive, and was suit under arrest to the Castle of Perote, where he was a prisoner at the date of the advices. _ . Santa Anna has sent a memorial to Congress, wherein, after recapitulating the services be has done his country, he offers to exile himself for ever. Some think that Congress will ultimately accept this proposal, although there seemed a strong determination to bring him to the scaffold, and they had actually sent a judge to I'erote to question him, and had formed a grand jury to try bins. Legal difficulties will, it is Vmught, stand in the way of trying a chief magistrate ; and should the process—as it most likely would—prove of long duration, there is the chance of Santa Anna again rallying his party. The present quarrel, it is to be recollected, is between two sections of the Centralist party ; bat the Federalists are be ginning to stir themselves, and that might lead to a coali tion of their political adversaries. One of the ill cff•cts of the unsettled condition of Mexico was the state of the roads, which are now infested by robbers. In trade very little was doing. As far as concerns the mere fact of Santa Anna's capture, these accounts confirm these previously received from New York; but all the details are so very different, that there are , many in the City who consider that the former account was only a lucky guess, and that the advic es by WO Tay bring the g;et authentic information of the affair; •ip rtilq, , o rr 0 • ;_. . z , OIT y e 7p4oryt first Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents• ••• • . 117 30 .. 117 30 .. 117 30 •. 117 30 Three per Cents.— • • 85 10 .. 85 10 .. 85 5 •• 85 10 New Loan ••••• • • • 1.6 • • 1.6 .. 86 .• 86 Gouin Bank. 1,0001. Shares-1083 ..1095 ..1085 •.1088 ftwigian Bank..• • •••• •• • • • • 652 50 -. 652 50 -. 652 50 •• 652 50 Belgian Fives, 184./ ••••• • •• 104% •• 104% •• 104% 104% 1842 •••• •• 106% 106% .. 106% •• 106% Four•and-a-Half. 103% .. 103% •• 103% •• 103% , panlBh Active •• •. • . ;9 y e .. 39% .. 39% .. 49% Threes • • •• 40% •• 40% 40% •• 40% Passive .... 6% .. .. 6•% •• 6% ftrttigueac, Five rer Cents • . .67'74 , •• .67!6 . • • . 67 % . .. 67 j 4 Neapjlitan . . . 101 75 .. 101115 .. 101:75 .. 101'15 Ko tut ... ............... t 4 100% 1051 .. RAILWAY 811 St. Germain . • • • . • • •.......1150 —ll5O ..1150 ..1150 Versailles, R. 11... .......... 610 .. G 27 50 • • 610 .. 625 L.B. • • • • • • 400 .. 400 .. 397 .50 398 75 Rouen .• • • ..............1160 ..1160 ..1150 1150 gouen to Havre ..... • .... • 950 Orleans .• • • • ..............1315 .. 970 -1345 Ftrasburg to 8a1e...". •• •• 330 Avignon to Marseilles...... 1055 ilordeaut to Teste •..... 2 .5 • 950 -1315 .. 970 -1345 •• 337 50 330 •-112" -1085 .. 240 .. 235 336 2! ••1125 .. 240 ratris to Sceaux 7lO 7.0 .. 685 gAILWAYS FOR TUB ACCOUNT, MARCH 16. St. Germain •••••• Versa':les, ............610• 610 635 .. 610 .. 63.5 L.B.•••••••••• •• 390 .. 400 .. 390 .. 40 , ) Ron= • Rouen to 11avre............ 947 50 .. 975 Orleans • • • •• • • -.•• —l3lO • .1347 .70 547 50 .. 970 ••1300 Strasburg to Bale.. .... •• .. 330 Avignon to Marseilles.. •...1080 •• 33S 75 .. 330 ..1130 ..1070 .•1345 . 337 50 .• 1130 LONDON JOINT-STOCK BANK A general meeting of the Proprietors of this Bank was held yester day at the otUce in Princes.atreet, for the purpose of electing a Director in the room of Mr. Derthez, resigned. Some additional interest seemed to be felt in the proceedings, in consequence of misunderstandings which had arisen out of charges alleged to have been made by Mr. Meek, one of the candidates, against the Directors at a meeting in 1841. The attendance was very numerous. Captain LOCHNER, the Chairman of the Board of Directors, took the chair at twelve o'clock. In opening the business, ho stated that a vacancy had occurred in the Direction, and two gentlemen, William James Lancaster, Esq., and George Meek, Esq., had been proposed as candidates. On the question being put to to the meeting from the Chair, Mr. MEEK entered into a statement and defence of considerable length, in reference to what he had said at the meeting in 1841, and which was made the ground of opposing his election to the office of Director. Mr. HACKLOCK then addressed the meeting, and read extracts from shorthand notes of Mr. Meek's speech at the meeting in qtiestion, and contended that, after such observations on the part of that gentleman, the Shareholders would act imprudently in elect ing him to fill the vacancy in the Directory. The Honourable Proprietor was interrupted several times on the ground that he was introducing that which was irrelevant to the object of the meeting. Ultimately Mr. Meek resigned, and W. J. Lancaster, Esq., was unanimously elected as the new Director. A vote of thanks was given to the Chairman, and the meeting then adjourned, LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, Maacu 13, P.M.—Strong Northerly breeze and hazy.— There was a fall of snow las' night accompanied with a severe frost. SHIELDS, MARCH B.—Put back Friendship, of Whitby, with bow sprit sprung, having been in contact. DawrmouTu, 3-Wien 12.—Wind E —Arrd. Bristol packet, Llanelly, to Rouen, with loss of bulwarks &c., and other damage, having been struck by a sea off Portland. DUNBAR, MARCH 11.—The Mary Day drove from her anchor in a heavy gale, and went on the rocks west of Cateraig Harbour ; cargo discharged—vessel expected to become a wreck. STOCI:TON, MARCH 11.—The Mary Wilson, Ledsham, of and from Shields, on running for the Tees, on the 7th inst., struck on the North Gar and became a total wreck—crew drowned. WIVENHOE, MARCH 12.—The Rhoda, of and from London, to Hartlepool, has put in here with considerable damage, having been in contact with the Parbara of Sunderland. TONNAGE DUES AT MADEIRA. Advices have been received at Lloyd's from their agent at Madeira, announcing that the Portuguese Government had issued and put into operation, on the 21st of February, a decree, by which all vessels going there will henceforward be charged a tonnage duty, under the mune of " Health-office Fees," of 30 rs., equal to I!4d. per ton, and 15 rs. per ton for bill of health at departure, if the vessel be Portu guese, or any nation having treaties with Portugal. All others were to be charged 50 rs. per ton on arrival, and 20 rs. per ton for bill of kcalth on departure. In all cases the bill of health at departure to be charged at the above rates till it amount to four dollars, atter which no more, however large the vessel be. The above decree had been received with much opposition, and very strong representations from the merchants and others, were to be forwarded immediately to Lisbon, opposing the measure. Lord William Lennox visited Captain Siborne's new Waterloo model on Wednesday, his Lordship o as the fourth member of his family on this glorious field, accompany ing the late Duke of Richmond who was present, id th:mgh not a military man. CAY A LEY MOVEMENTS.—The following changes of quarters are now upon the point of taking place amongst the undermentioned regiments:—The Ist Dragoon Guards from Canterbury to Exeter ; the 4th Dragoon Guards from Ireland to Piershill Barracks, near Edinburgh; the sth Dra goon Guards from Manchester to Nottingham ; the 6th Dra goon Guards from York to Manchester; the 2d Dragoons (Scots Greys) from Piershill Barracks, near Edinburgh, to Ireland; the 4th Light Dragoons from Ipswich to Hounslow; the 6th Dragoons from Brighton to Birmingham; the 7th Hussars from Birmingham to Ipswich; the 16th Hussars from Ireland to Leeds; the 12th Lancers from Nottingham to Coventry; the 13th Light Dragoons from Exeter t o Ire land; and the 17th Lancers from Hounslow to Brighton. VAUXHALL GARDENS.—This popular place of en tertainment will oe opened at Whitsuntide, for the hundred and fifteenth season, under the direction of Mr. Robert War dell, the former proprietor, who has become sole lessee. The most extensive preparations are making, in order to render this delightful retreat as attractive as it was in its palmy days. We are assured, in a communication from what (without mentioning names) we may call the highest pos sible official source, that the rumours which we published a few days back ofintended changes in Sir Robert Peel's Government are without foundation. We are authorised to declare that Mr. Goulburn takes a statesmanlike, and not a religious view of his position in respect of the Bill for admitting Jews to muni cipal offices. He is satisfied that the Bill will pass whether he opposes it or not : he retains his position that the Bill is full of mischief for the country ; but is that any reason, he asks him self, why he should inflict on his country the additional mischief of the loss of his services as Chancellor of the Exchequer? Mr. Gladstone is to reunite himself to the Government, suc ceeding Lord Ripon as President of the Board of Control. We regret to hear that the Right Hon. Gentleman's health has been so far impaired by the frequency and zeal of his late volunteer defences of the Government, that he is not likely to be able to attend in his place during the discussions of the Jew Relief Bill. The Right Hon. Gentlemen will employ that time in recruiting his health, that he may after wards apply himself more vigorously to the dispatch of the official business which Lord Ripon has, for some time past, been allowing to accumulate at the Board of Control.— chronicle. Tu LITERARY FUND.—The annual meeting of the members of this Institution was held on Wednesday in the chambers of the Corporation, Great Russell-str: et, Sir William Chatterton Bart., in the chair. The report stated that the sum dispensed' during the past year, to distressed authors and their families, was 9551, and that the total amount applied to this purpose since the formation of the Society was 31,1831. The Committee felt happy to announce that her Majesty had granted the Institution the privi lege of bearing the Imperial Crown as an addition to its armorial bearings, with the title of the " Royal Corporation of the Literary Fund." The Marquis of Lansdowne was reelected President, and the vacancy, caused by the death of the Earl of Mountnorris, was filled up by the appointment of the Archbishop of Dublin. After the adoption of the report Charles Dickens, Esq,, Fraser Tytler, Esq., the Rev. Dr. Mill, Sir Harris Nicolas, Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, William Brockeldon, Esq., and Edward Gandy, Esq., were elected members of the Committee; and, thanks having been given to the chairman, the meeting separated. PAISLEY.—A PPLICATION OF GLASS TO LOOM MOUNT ING.—For some time past our weavers have been in the habit of substituting rods of crystal for the complicated mass compris ing hundreds of little wooden pulleys that were fixed in their harness carriages. This week we had an opportunity of seeing another preparation of crystal far a different depart ment of the shawl manufacture, where metal had formerly been employed. This last improvement has been introduced into the factory of Mr. Robert Kerr, and when it is considered that crystal can be at once moulded into any form, and that, at its formation, it possesses all the smoothness and hardness ' of polished and tempered steel, we have no doubt but, with the abolition of the duty, it will soon be applied to many de partments of our manufactures where light machinery is used, and that for a great number of purposes it will super sede cast metal and brass entirely. Besides its easy mid complete formation, glass is invaluable. from its being un affected by damp, heat, or cold, whi4. wood, and all the metals less or more, are.---Saturekty Post.. , CHESTER CkninDßATZ—The amount already sun - scribed for the restoration of this arcient ecelelastical structure is nearly 3,0001., including a ti•cond deflation during the last week of 100/. from the Marquis of Westminster. The cost of the 1 works already contracted for and In progress is 2,504/., and the complete restoration of Vic choir, it Is expected, oanuot be et feted for less than 5,000/. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND public 04titton. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. On Sunday evening the King of the French received the Prince de Ligne, the Duke de Broglie, the Marquis de Lagrange, Count Pbilip de Segur, ♦iscount d'Haussonville, Barons Bourgoing, de Barante, and Deffaudis, and General de Saint Yon. The Duke de Broglie was to leave Paris for London on Thursday. _ A duel took place on Tuesday morning In the Bois de Boulogne, between the editor of the Globe and the principal proprietor of the Prone, in which the latter was shot dead. several of the journals state that Captain Page, Aide.de.Camp of the Minister of. Marine, is about to leave France on a special mission for Otaheite. The Rouen journals state that the following curious notice was lately proclaimed by the town-crier of Yvetot (Seine Inferieure) : " A considerable number of Englishmen being about to be em ployed on the railroad, the mayor engages the ladies, both old and young, not to walk in the streets after nine o'clock in the evening A young girl hanged herself at Amiens a few days back, from ♦exation at not being able to procure anew dress to go to a ball I COUNT—FASHIONABLE. _ . His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge and suite are expected to arrive at St. James's Palace at the close of the present, or early in the ensuing month, from Corfu. The Prince's apart ments in the Palace are undergoing extensive repairs previous to his Royal Highness's arrival. The Marchioness of Douglas (Princess Mary of Baden) has been safely delivered of a son and heir. The Duke of Wellington will pass the Easter recess at Strath fieldsaye. His Grace is expected to leave town on or about the 20th instant. We understand Lady Charles Wellesley is in that interesting state which promises a contingent succession to the title and family honours of the house of Wellington. Lady Brcugham's party, announced for Wednesday evening, was at the last moment unavoidably postponed, owing to the death of a distant relative of her Ladyship. The Earl and Countess of Eglinton have arrived at the Claren don Hotel, from Eglinton Castle, Ayrshire. MISCELLANEOUS. James Matheson, Esq., M.P., has given the liberal donation of 1001. to the scheme for extending and improving the meat,. of education in Dingwall. Notwithstanding the most, active exertions have been used, both by the Metropolitan and City police, to obtain a clue to the disco very of the person or persons who committed the extensive rob bery of gold bars at the terminus of the Dover Railway, in the Old Kent.road, on the morning of Friday last, no trace had, up to yesterday, been obtained. The gold bars, two in number, and valued at 2,0001., and not 1,600'., as has been stated, were con. tained in a wooden box, about 3 feet 3 inches across, 13 inches deep, and 13 inches wide. A meeting was held on Tuesday evening at the George and Dragon Tavern, Blackheath-hill, to aid the central committee in raising a fund for the purpose of presenting to Thomas S. Dun. combo, Esq., M.P.. z testimonial of their esteem for his conduct in opposition to the Masters and Set vents' Bill, and also for his ex. posure of the Post office spy system. Thursday, the Ist of May, has been named for the formal open ing of the Bli..worth and Peterborough line. It is intended that the fares from Peterborough to London shall be—first-class car riages, 225. i second class, 12s. The time occupied in the journey will be about five hours. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert walked yesterday morning in the royal gardens of Buckingham Palace. The royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace yesterday included the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, the Marquis of Granby, the Earl and Countess Delawarr and Lady Mary Sackville West, the DO and Countess Rosebery, and the Hon. and Rev C. Leslie Courtenay. In the evening the following-had the honour of joining the royal circle : —His Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg!' Strelitz, his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Sala Wei:nar, the Earl and Countess of Jersey, and the Ladies Clementina and Adela Villiers, the Ladies A. and L. Primrose, Viscount Cantelupe, the Hon. Mortimer Sackville West, the Hon, Francis and Lady Anne Charteris, Mr. George Edward and the Hon. -Mrs. Anson, Captain Hamilton, and Captain the Hon. James Murray. The Hon. Miss Stanley and the Hon. Miss Hamilton have succeeded the Hon. Miss Paget and the Hon. Miss Kerr as the Maids of Honour in waiting to the Queen. The band of the First Life Guards was in attendance during dinner, at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday, and performed the following pieces : Sinfonia, No. 2, G minor Polka, Olmutzer Potpourri—Don Pasquale Donizetti. Walzer, Lebeus Pulse Launer. Quadrilles, Le Druid Polka - At the Queen's Levee, on Wednesday, in St. 'James's Palace, the Marquis of Westminster was presented to her Majesty on succeeding to his title, by the Es.rl of Wilton. His Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured Mr. Thor burn, with an audience on Wedne-day, at which the por traits of her Majesty and the Prince of Wales were sub mitted for his Royal Highness's inspection. Mr. Thomas Brigstock had the honour, by the Queen's command, of attending at the Palace yesterday, to exhibit to her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert the full length portrait of General Nott, G.C.8., painted by Mr. Brigstock, for the Town-hall, Carmarthen. Her Majesty was pleased to express her approbation. Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess (Stephanie) of Baden v►sited the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand Duchess of MecklenbUrgh Strelitz, on Wednesday, at Cambridge House. Yesterday their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Glou cester, the Duchess of Cambridge, and the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, paid visits of congratula tion to the Grand Duchess (Stepanie) of Baden yesterday, at the Duke of Hamilton's res►dence in Portman-squve. A Deputation of the Hull Dock Company had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Vice-President of the Board of Trade yesterday. Sir Edward Codrington and a Deputation bad an interview with Sir George Clerk yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. I),!spatehes for the Governor of Gibraltar were sent off from the Colonial-office on Wednesday evening. Mr. WiCkham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes, had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. Ricardo transacted business yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade. THE YARMOUTH BOATMEN. MUNIFICENT DONATIONS.-11r. Hardy, M.P. for Brad ford, has, we understand. with his accustomed lity , rality, sent to the Ma) or of Yarmouth 501, and Sir E. Kea rison, Bart., M.P. for Eye, 20/, to be applied to the fund for relieving- the necessitie s of the four widows and fourteen children, left totally unprovided for by the loss of their husbands, who, after saving the crews of four vessels wrecked on the Sands opposite Yar mouth, on the same day perished in attempting to save the crew of a vessel on the Serobv. We heartily hope a sufficient fund may be raised for the oltiects contemplated, namely, not only to provide for the destitute widows and children,, but to assist in re placing the serious loss of the boat (about 2004), and also to form a nucleus for a permanent fund for the relief of the noble-spirited boatmen. S ome of these fine fellows annually perish in their efforts to save • the crews of vessels wrecked on that dangerous coast, and yet never hesitate in the attempt, notwith- tan di ng there is not the slightest probability either of their saving property or cbtaiei , g any reward. We have ascertained that the Yarmouth boatman, on Sunda) morning last (Mar c h 9), at eight o ' clock, saved the crew of the Princess Ito ) al, of Newcastle, totally wrecked on the Scroby sand, under most difficult and dangerous circumstances. accounta received yes terday TIE B afternoon, ii° ir 1 1, 5 3- IF e iTa n t The Bishop of Ely still suffers from his cough, but we are glad to hear that in other respects his Lordship is better.—Cambridge Advertiser. The Baron D'Arnheim and suite arrived at Lon don bridge wharf from Ostend, by the General Steam Navigation Company's steam-ship Earl of Liverpool, early this morning. SNDEEN DEATH OF PROFESSOR DANIEL.—Last . night Mr. Higgs held an inquest in the Counsel Cham ber of the Royal Society, on the body of Mr Daniel, Professor of Chemistry, King's College, and Foreign Secretary to the Royal Society, aged 55. The jury having viewed the body, the following witnesses were examined. Mr. W. Bowman, assistant-surgeon to King's College Hospital, was present at a meeting of the Council of the Royal Society this afternoon ; at twenty minutes past four o'clock, was seated opposite Processor Daniel when he came into the Society he appeared in perfect health; but - shortly afterwards his eyes became fixed, and his breathing deep and laborious. Witness exclaimed, "Professor Daniel is surely in a fit," and im mediately every one got up to render assistance. His breathing became more and more difficult, and there was a great fulness of the vessels of the head. Then with the concurrence of the medical gentlemen present, I opened the jugular vein. The blood flowed freely. The opening was subsequently closed as he appeared to be rapidly sinking. He died in less than five minutes from the first attack. Various other witnesses were examined, and the jury returned a verdic*, " That deceased died of Apoplexy." THE HISTORY OF THE CONSULATE AND EMPIRE OF FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON.—We understand that the publication (so long expected) of this important historical work, written by M. A. Thiers, the late Prime Minister of France, and which forms a Sequel to his celebrated History of the French Revolution, is announced to take place during the present month. Mr. Colburn, of Great Marlborough street, has become the purchaser of the sole and exclusive right of prior publication of the work in Great Britain, and his translation has been made under the express sanction and approval of the author, by D. Forbes Campbell, Esq. The first and second volumes, price ss. each with illustrations, may be received in the country on the 20th of March, by being previously or dered ; sad an edition is also to be issued at the same time in weekly shilling parts. The perL.d ( mbraced by this work forms decidedly the most important era in the History of Modern Times. On the qualifications of the author it would be superfluous to descant. If the cha racter of M. Thiers, as a statesman.were not well-known to the whole world, the merits of his preliminary " His tory of the Fre nc h Revoluiion" would irresistibly claim the public favour in behalf of this now production, which becomes inve..ted with a deeper importance to us the nearer the history approaches to our own times, and the ino-e British interests areinvolved in the events which E records. EKTRAORDINARY SURGICAL. OPERATION IN THE GLASGOW .ROYAL INFIRMARY.—We understand that one of those brilliant operations which has crowned the labours of modern surgery, and made it the instrument of its unspeak able value to the species, was performed in our Royal Infir mary on Monday last. A boy, labouring under cancer of the lower jaw, which must inevitably.have consigned him to his grave in a few weeks, had that bone cut out of itsjoint at the temple, and with the bone the cancer removed. The boy i 3 • doing well, and we hare heard that sanguine hopes are-en tertained of his recovery. Indeed he has not bad a, bad . symptom.—Glasgow TIIB CITRE AS BAD AS THE COMPLAINT. — The uni• versa' inquimy is, where can all the base coin that is about London have come from ? Surely it is not in consequence of a dividend having been paid of the Pennsylvani4ll bonds hest week ?—fun ch. SPORTING INTELLIGEN CE ' TATTERSALL'S.—YIisTakDAY. 4 , 11 i ll , THE CHESTER Cup.—lillsineS3 wasnullSUßll~ ;4,- op beyond advancing Obscurity a point on 31onca3 i fsi! tions, was utterly void of interest. On the llerbY i t shade better, and from the spirit with which Clearl to o. and Old England were backed, and the repeated An d OA cessful attempts to back Ides, was not'alto,,ether uoilcott taking it as a whole, however, it was 'flat, ao d ',4erer, two or three instances in which the market pricesim 00' at nought, unprofitable. We give the average close,, of the few horses noticed in the course of the "" CHESTER CUP. 8 to I agst The Irish lot—taken. 8 to 1 agst the three yrs old—taken 15 to I agst Mr. scu A. Johnson's Oh - rity—tplen 25 to 1 agst Mr. Bell's Winesour 33 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Trueboy—ta__ v iska t 33 to 1 agst Mr. Daries'i Yheomitn.ac-Bi tu l.4 1000 to 15 agst Mr. Irwin's Foi a ballagb- ,-9 `" - WOO to 10 agst Lord Stanley'sAml , ition — ta kell 66 to 1 agst Mr. Armstong's Advice 9 to 1 agst Obscurity and Winesour DERBY. y d ' 10 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Alarm—t. to 200 1 . 1 13 to 1 agst Lord Stradbroke's Mos $ 16 to 1 agst Col. Peel's Cobweb colt—takea / 18 to 1 agst Mr. Ferguson's Clear-the-wai;„ daft' v " 25 to I apt Lord Glasgow's Miss Whipc--4.°7 30 to 1 agst Mr. St. Paul's Mentor—taken ilea, 30 to 1 agst A. W. Hill's Iromnaster—Ml in , " ) 150 4 ' 40 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Old England—takell!.., 40 to 1 apt Mr A. Johnson's Annandale--t5170.4 40 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Laird o Coc 4 _ . 50 to 1 aist Mr. Lintott's Cabin Bov tsk" 50 to 1 agst Mr. Coleman's Yoting-Eclipse'—,4o pod 1000 to 20 agst Colonel Craddock's Jinglep etl ' afterwards offered 1,000 to 13 agst Mr. Irwin's Connaught Ranger ---ts t hrow, Mr. Scott, a member of the Subscription - ro om , en V4s,ip by a run-away horse on Tuesday last, and concussion of the brain and other serious injuries' St. George's Hospital, in a very precarious s tate. „ A cP. WARWICK RACE-COURSE.—WARWICK", pco. THURSDAY Arr ERNOON, ITALF-r'tS"Rep.sl3 The ground being covered with snow, Six. inehe s ,.` ul „,h the jockeys objecting to the parts of the course jaecid, been swept as very dangerous, the Steward lirill;FiitlwiP that the races shall be postponed until to-morrow • ASSIZE INTELLIGEN C 'I2. OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Worcester. march bel / THE CROOME 3IURDER- po4c It was arranged last night that the trial of i"" Ace do for the murder at Croome should take place to-dsPiritere'4 ingly at twelve o'clock, after the disposal of some ot fore cb s l 4, business, the following prisoners were arraigned, be Baron Pollock :—.Thsephlrurcry, 43, gardener; ira,roofiliTis, ley, 34, eapen ter ; Samuel Turvey,37, labourer; 11 , e " coo/ 14 0 6 18. boatman ; Thomas Hooper, 19, labourer; ikt` n c e /10",, e labourer; Joseph Tandy, 42, gardener; Thomas „.. 02 • gardener; William Cosnett, 25, labourer; and .0 1 '.` 1 0 field, 19, labourer. George Lippett, 35, carpenter' • mitted approver. Mr. Lee and Mr. Whitmore conducted the rt;be V re Mr. Godson, Q.C., and Mr. Huddleston defers eto Boners. all' fe l .There were seven indictments against the Prill elOtie. the first, second, and fifth, the priioners Nve,r, e ;e , s„„0 4 „ r jointly with assaulting and beating Thomas N -a 'iv' t e.'" -. 0% hitting wounds of which he died ; with wounding ;e l sb° ( qhl ton, with intent to kill and murder him ; and wounding te t.. at John Frances, with the same murderous third indictment charged one of the prisoners, „ t i l er' . ling, with shooting at George Baylis, and the ant cbtt) aiding and abetting; and the fourth • indictEntodc,le Samuel Turvev, Thomas Hooper, and Josep h 1 0 . 1 1 0: 1 S e t• wounding Richard Compton and George Bran" : Thomas Collins, and William Co3nett, with n et - „ e 0 Ling. There were two indictments which W' t he - pris ° '•of but to the whole of those brought into Court r 3 pleaded Not Guilty. The whole of the Pris!„ ne t , 011 been placed upon their trial on the first indictire',/le 1 9 ' them with the murder of Thomas Staite 00. December last, ,ge Mr. LEE proceeded to state the facts.of the ', l id c have already been detailed in the n otepoPe r3 ' dlo witnesses. 00 11° 7 tt l The first witness examined was Mr. BOulte" th e hole ° ;it of the Plough Inn, Preston, in which town the 'Y e f o r prisoners lived. He merely proVed that on, : Jto,be t elo' question, Francis Dingley and Bromfield ePP" e 10,40 the loan of a gun, which, however he did net f r fi r ' The next witness, Thomas Kings, an proved that the prisoners Bromfield, Cool(' ean ie and the two Turveys, were seen together on the 0 0; ° t ot , ' The third witness was William Wheeler, wh ° , 3 10 time in custody in connexion with this a ffair ' red fr°. mony went to considerable length, and it OPPI by iiP e r:tho statements that the whole body of poac hers nie e o '. ment en the bight of the fatal affray, at a P T4 Hollow-way. It would appear from Wheeler:tot toil, that he was to have accompanied the party, h ti „j o gk i be r 4 last hour his heart failed him, and, instead of g; gie`. o bi he lent his gun to Cook and his smock frock to b l T ilt the party. Next morning his gun was toreturfle . pro , Dingley with the stock broken, as if by some vi° ler '• t ries e :oo 6 party were afterwards seen by several other wl ceeding in the direction of the Croome covers' 'Si, girls, named Mary Ann and Julia Ann W T e iten:"; poachers together as they were returning from. 0 . iess i 7;o o : (Croome), where they had been having a sin/PrP,s;atel:ol4l The evidence of Richard Compton, one' of the part I°l the night of the 19th December, then detailed 1 , e no b' of the attack upon them in similar term s to O T ic l r s by him in his evh , ence before the coron er, wh t so at lished at the time. lleth 1 %08 c' el t , George Lippett, the approver, was then c 3 beSt; examined at considerable length, his testinionYtho that already detailed as having been given o'c ic f,,ol" His examination was closed shortly - before eig°, - . 1 of evening, when an adjournment took place un whole t he morning. pow' It is fully expected that the trawl. 11-occuPY to-morrow. The popular excitement increases CORN AVERAGES• it CO GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRlltuciall,til'4/'' For the Neck ended March 8, 1845, made up iron t;,,a S P Inspectors in the different Cities aid Towns In 1 per Imperial Quarter. Wheat ...... Od Oats ........218 7d I Buns ...• I 328 2d Rye........ 30s 5d AVERAGES OF TIM LAST SIX 111; ' BO P— 7'4 Wheat. Barley. Oats. W e ' 15 1 --_-- 3s 35 0 21 61 31 3 , 3 / I 21 6 I 3.5 21 712 9 6 ° . 35 21 7 .4 - 21 7 3 . 0 6 ' 4 21 7 30 Weeks ending Feb. 1.. .. 45 5 33 10 45 6 33 0 45 4 32 3 45 2 32 4 45 0 32 3 45 0 ' 32 2 /.. i gi•O;J " 7 • 15 1 1 IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF Wheat .... • . 45s 3d I Oats • ..• .... 21 7d I .• •." 9~ tip Barley ••• • •• 32s Se Rye .. DUTIES ON FOREIGN OWL B Wl ar te le a y t 20s Od Oats . 6s Chi I 13:1• _,) •• 6s Od Rye . los Od r. _ 11 MARKET NEWS. (YE . - t ogeA ~1 4 , MAT MILIMS II9 :. 418 04 r s 9 'Sle Meadow 31 8 ° 41 lOs to SMITHFIELD 47 18s e .—Coar flu e 'Upland ditto, Hay 5/ to 5: 35; 411° ,45 , to 51 16a ; Oat Straw, 11 16s to I/ 188; Wheat Straw, 5 •., 1740 load. A moderate supply, and a heavy demand. ,„" 41 4 140 1 CUMBERLAND.—COarse Meadow Hay, 31 I ° s cove r s , ta• ditto, 416 s to 41 18s ; fine Upland ditto, 51 to 5155 ' o,, 1 1 I ditt! to 51 128; Oat Straw, 11 16s to 11 188; Wheat Stc 3 „ . „dill I', load. Supply tolerably good, and trade rather &Ili / go; WHITECHAYEL.—Course Meadow Hay, 318° W. 41 lOs to 41 16s ; One Upland ditt 4117 s to 5/ 3 ° • ' to 5116 s ; Oat Straw, 1/16s to II 1 8 s ; Wh eat e. Str it ofl o ' O ,P load. Trade rather inactive, at the above (1 110 '" • o f (b l o t, =EAT sica3tsiP'l'°; g oo SourUALL, MARCO 12.—We had only a WIN' sw ag, on offer to-day. Prime qualities commanded a nth er 1,21 ,, ,to 3 , 5 5 olf4; some instances, advanced currencies ; but, in, 3.0°44 ' P e ' „i provement was noticed. Beef, from 25 sc u t 4s 4d ; Veal, 3s 8d to 4s 10d ; and Pork. Supply—Beasts, 44 ; Sheep, 1,090 l e so, 01: ROHFORD, MARCH 12.—Prime Beastssold fre e : it 0 8 " 0 14 0_., - 2d per 81bs, while the value of other kinds a in e... 0 As tl l ' ported. Beef, from 2s 8d to 45 ; Mutton" 3 .! 41941". 4s 10d ; .and Pork, 2s 8d to 38 10d per Sibs. ni do , (.10w" ' 308 ; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 168 to 20s ; an d 311 y aas ie Small Calf, 161 to 191 each. guttan',lo t LEWES, MARCH 11 .— Beef, from 38 to 48; sag'. Veal, 4s to 4s 8d ; and Pork, 3s to 3s 6d per 8110. rate, and trade firm. Mar. 1.... _4.The,, '------- ve lr& - : is. The Chancellor of the Exchequer ack n t bs Of ° y}:6EeMaAn anniversary e , .. ry SERVANTSmeeting receipt of 401., No. 55,301, " from L. F. C ' f" SA the country." , , f im i # owl - ', A O. or da chair. The H .r o l h b e o trnep—o report l i d ta e r w hich 0 of felinTre the protection and religious and snore! instruction i d. 10 10 vents out of place, was held at the Inquest-fo°l°.' .0. 1 %. 0 d red of t H his ° l 3l oc g iety S, vents had been reeeived as inmates, and two thon"iii slt; 17:i ted rnau tha S t ir du jam ring es t hneupkase'l7,,j2;',l6tl;llll_, registered their names for situations in the inetroeoddeo;of receipts amounted to 1281. and the expond iture ..,die , elO" The report was adopted, and several eloquent 0 1 4- 4 st_ i t: p. the charity were made by the Rev. Mr. Br own, ' IP . k : 13 0 , nen. & ifpnero' foch ;he BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY --It IS 110 P /I; bi waij that by by one of the excellent arrangernen- ft at 1.- to .1.0 railway is distinguished, all articles lost or le rv ol fo f P" stations, or in any of the carriages, are fl at keo. o 401; Euston station, and duly registered in hou tot ielee it i atti c s purpose of affording a ready reference to t tion. It is necessary that parties inquir'ae'dsy el `el they have lost should be able to know the tied at t el e ,' , he , for i li ',.biOda was lost, and the train by which they trove' at all bit t r . they sustained the loss. The books are °P e n s roe ° / ACV inspection, and afford a ready reference -0 i „,.. t he pi lure for roe ° 0 with hot air to maintain a proper tempera_ that ,Atti, vation of the articles deposited therein. If, ca po, i l ;ocrf be found articles of all descriptionnesc—kehrac.'hl.stall; ii.liklitTer shawls, boas, tippets, shoes, gloves, handkerchiefs, and nearly every article of oroeir' 0 of all sorts, spectacles and e, e- bl, o ut sad 0 t r y bundles, parasols, umbrellas, and sticks let ieno aitr, Did, these articles have bee a certain tittle u e :10 trlo) t he ev Euston t• t.heir c.,- - _, I . s t ceived by the owners on making good t Genie ferent articles. P l 4 0 8 a lon, they arenald, and the ce tat& t ° ~ NO% 0 ti lli pli ca EXTENSIVE CONFLAGRATION - otiOooj, idi SunnEy.—One of the most etensive contlog to , t a wh o occurred for a considerable period near gl, l l l . e y, e n d fe l t bs on Monday night, on Tolworth-common, 0,,°„ sc reO„, of resulted in the destruction of from 20 to ov ois e . le%oKo, the property of 'Messrs. Baker and Fuller.. _!- - T hes it_natiiiii, extent of the conflagration may be formed " lb, s erenate4l that it was distinctly visible frotn Wandawt°lirsptbe7ottp distant, the inhabitants of which quick.lY,thartliftheasit de; Bence of the outbreak to London, thinktilb soo a ' prier s t ot had happened near their own village. As of °e ery - 10 4 started for the ,cene with an eu reached town, Mr. Henderson, the forel ut pOl-7. Abe gine audw e w e st °,_,,eri A tO engine. Upon reaching was followed by Mr. Connorton, with the V I, booe l i t oe;po were met by a mounted police-constalit_ c ol' is re A to Wimbledon-.1'1°,00 fredeoe' them the nature of the fire, and that WO VP . . t ipe t 'cip assistance if they proceeded any further:_ fie c_nons,oo throw its niece oyer the surrounding cotio.;;lP.,sr quenca, turned back. For many liourS tU_°...v. fflibe.!,i'ir a roan had been cut in two sides in which oc;tigeol, blew, or the fire might have reached th,..e.,00. lions. The origin of the outbreak. is tin , '" 40 0, tbo tlir )11 . ' - --- -./ttAi:&P—• „ pn e , t i Or ef itO At the parish church of St. 1,21."-r,-caritel" the pit, by the Rev. Edward Horne, Reet°rltieraoret' 4 ,1 ' d f it Esq., of North Audlev• street, to - - itioir - pt lot ° surviving rel-itive ot - the ,ran John _ of oepho 0 , 1 ,1 of the Priory, Hainpsteal. ddaughte.r„ s iece,, d ik t i of Sir John Patterson 1; i..t. of Eccles, M.' : f . the - i LadyWllil William Hume Sel °Clabtillyabr'etl"l:)f:e'lftt el ieleantill ' h i r t e e: :(I‘..f°l. Pel : 6-3 -0, e, Marchmont. _.,--'', , i o r , ' IP: ----i-'-.!--''. •VO 1 ci :of e l t c er 01. , L 0 ?-tof , t:raiter, 112. St s .ar. Priplc.r.. 4: Tile S ul ' jo 140 'tra-i':l, tlzm I•:erize! of t he So o t ? Middlesex, Frisian March 1.1,185 1" 12th A, G 'eTernn, !ranted t ' °r( ls Co: 1844, due A ,l ll gator "Poll° Alg er i ne lilenheirn 1 4114;41 e C° Mwalli Cambrian Col!lope f ' 9l utnbtn, Crtd,,, r Clio Childers CEtroellon A nd all pi 48 igian er orderp, as, r), Part, 1 ra 12th Apr, .4..: llll:: : : t l:4l; : t h b3ti e n:hie". M ll' rai, ing 1, 7 1 / 4 th tt vvlt in `"rellsed eALAsin To rim Snipi Troy t 18 wl h orfolk e t ,"&is `hglitnd. The ni ; 411' 1 "i r °bl th ftr, - r 'ler a nu( 4 DDe 4I rAti a , fi kt • lik'll3tlo o'4'hcLBir Xor bkvii ' , ll 11 1 , 4 • 011 • • t. 4441 i vxx n 11 21 14 c 11: aa I °•4' Mo 1 1)(1 ;1 tro tti, %11 , 46.1 ti t or 4a.. pi T te 14 - ' ll Co PI p :!ly o i rn De a r 7 Ike kVl;t•trniel h ron a j a '; satrtri. of k 0t six al r I t , 4ty 1 , • Dittr able.