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' 0 , 4 Ydiet , 01,11 ati al°~ a°e vf th° e at se eri T v idwecilf il law s e r c° lli rind Je re ht. iog tbg o° ll •-ev iwtlf 1111 R at to alit ,ve tt NI ]; Or 111 MONE ir AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. In the Liverpool Cotton Market on Saturday the sales were 2,500 bales, at former rates, and all to the trade. The Share Market was good for Dover and Eastern Counties. Others were steady. Eastern Counties, 101; Grand Junction, 227 ; Birmingham Quarter, 274 ' • Brighton, 424 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 40 ; Pa r is an d Rouen, 324 ; South Eastern, 34 5; and Ditto New, 354. Much interest is felt in the City to ascertain the reply of Sir Robert Peel to the deputation from the Joint-stock Banks, the members of which waited upon him on Saturday after noon last. It is a subject of such vital importance to the im mense number of the shareholders in the establishments re ferred to, that a suggestion has been made that the delegates should issue a " Circular " periodically, stating such facts as may tend to afford necessary information. Our inquiries as to the result of the interview have produced but little intel ligence that can be relied upon. Promises of attention to, and consideration of, the claims of the Joint-stock Banks, on the part of the Premier there were many, but we do not think that many concessions will be made, unless indeed there be a bold stand in Parliament against the renewal of the Charter of the Bank of England upon its present terms. There will be many occasions to refer again to this subject. The advices just received from the United States are in teresting s t one point of view. The doctrines of repudiation, generally cherished by many of the States, are on the decline. It is true that a very long period must elapse before the capital advanced to Brother Jonathan can be paid off, but strong efforts, we l earn, are really being made to devise the means of meeting the interest as it becomes due. The New York Herald, upon this topic, remarks, and for the sake of the many persons on this side of the Atlantic who are so deeply interested in the matter, we trust the anticipations will prove to be entirely " rt eet :•••••• 44 A prompt payment of the annual dividends is as much as the most prosperous commonwealth will ever be able lowa: —This is all that is wanted. Thousands have made stocks an investment, and all they want is the interest. This they look for, and eventually will receive in full. The stock will, of course, be continually changing hands, the cre ditors will change from year to 3-ear, but the indebtedness will never be removed from the States. Those that have for Years been unable to pay the most trifling portion of the in terest due, must receive some other aid than what they have Within th emse l ves, to takeso great a step as the payment of the p r i ncipal. , " A resolution has been introduced in the Legislature of t Pen nsy lvania providing for the State debt. After stating fact that public debt amounted to nearly4o,ooo,ooo dollars, a lact that many are too well acquainted with, the resolution rfrceeds to state that the means of payment should be drawn ,o sources the l e a s t burdensome, and recommends the sale i iA t lte publi c i m p rov ements of the State, and the appropria -0 by Congress of so much of th to Pennsyl vae public lands of the United tates, or the proceeds thereof, nia, as would I l h t e inguish the State debt, and free the pe . ople from taxation. _ last two resolutions are so rich and important , that we will not abridge them 'Resolved,—That we recommend to our senators, &c., in ; - °ngress, to use their exertions to procure the passage of a 'Pr authorising the issue of 200,000,000 dollars of stock to be L i nstribut e d amongst the severa l St ates , i n propo rtion to their ,-, edst al , population, and to be payable by the United States lit of the p rocee d s o f th e sale of the public lands, which land s s it be pledged for the redemption of stock so issued.' The public debts of the States of this Union have reached • amount, and stand in a position that calls for w ho v!ction from those who created them, and those have the Power in hand to prevent an increase, and to provide for deb e ultimate liquidation of them. The whole and total in witekiness of this country in the aggregate, when compared I .' ll the immense wealth and unlimited resources of the treited States, is but a trifle ; but when the people proclaim }„ i t unwillingness to pay, when the disposition to not pay couies visible, then, and not until then, should those in psted, or those that have indebted, despair. The people of country can say to the nations of Europe we are able, " 1 will liquidate the last dollar of our indebtedness. The ii e -- the direct cause—of the insolvency of the States a e PIY indebted ca n be traced to the financial revolution we baeidust emerging from. The whole country has, for years, nati s truggling against the most desperate depression any 7 , 11 , - , a ever experienced." s o h e , Commissioners purchased this morning 20,0001. Con -13 • • ish 97 4, and this gave a tone to the market for all the Seeurias. However, not a great deal of business, in t ' respects, has been transacted, this not being regular sfer day. Bank Stock has this morning realised 195, ain u l tgh it is now rather cheaper. The opinion, at least, ci ng the holders of, and speculators in, this security, newthat the Charter of the Bank of England will be re -114:1r without many alterations injurious to the Share-' tol d . 8 * A point that will create great discussion, we are Priv' I , B ' whether one bank of issue shall be established. The we private banks were not represented at this interview, only, noth i ea r , the joint-stock banks. Sir Robert Peel promised ofi n lls , as already stated. The matter is much talked it a „-le City this morning. Reduced Three per Cents. have lo,yi. °l ,„'eci to 985. Exchequer Bills to 70 to 71 premium, and c" 'ends to 88 premium. There was one bargain made i_onsols for money this morning at 974. 1 4 , 4 all the South American Bonds a great deal of business • ist b een transacted to-day. The correspondence in Ithei e „ ° , lll ing Contemporary relative to Mexico is of up on -% date, still it has had an injurious effect tuvi the value of the Bonds, which are at 344 to 4. Pe ex, an Bonds have fallen from 314 to 30 and 304. Colombian, W, ' enezuelian, have been up to 144, but they are now 1 34. , i . th uelieve there is something coming forward for the benefit t 0 bondholders. Spanish Stock is to per cent. higher Sto,i ( t was wa s not afternoon last. In other Foreign To there was not much alteration to-day. lig c ; Share Market was rather flat to-day, as our corrected quotations shows : BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Official List) Bank St oc k 19 431 193 2 ,4 195 194 !Per Cent. Reduced Annuities - 2 , 3 Per Cent. Con so l s . A n nuities SnSI43% •ii i Per Cent. Reduced Annuities 103% ,ew 3% per Cent. Annuities 102304 " - ung Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 l2 13.16% Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct. 1859 India Bonds, 1,000 Ditto under 1,000 B5 88 Bank Stock for Account Consols for Account 9 7%36X tX elleqUet Bills, 1%,%d. •134 d 1,0004 5001. Ditto Small '',., Ditto Advertised 'REIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. B razilian Bonds 5 per Cent. Bueno s Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cen t ......... 'ulumbian Bonds.l ll% 13% 14 13% lifrxlcan Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. ... ....... 34 li n ts for the Account. 11 34 % 12% p eru kt ,lP Deferred Stock Dii t i ,:u Bond s 6 per Cents.... ......... :3 0 1 413 45 13:3 430% Port u f ur the 'Account. Dit gu " Bonds 5 per Cent. - 45 44% _._too Converted 81 , i ii ) , :Lt for the Account 2 3%3e Ditto for the Account Five per Cent 23%34% . br E : ttoc li:toh ;:as ee s nd i pe veß c on e d n s t. . Ditto Mr the Account r Cents 9234 33 102% New j e a n 1837, 5 per Cents. ....... ............. PRICES -OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. Bi sta , . RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE trii:'Viaand Gloucester itto New a I ; tut and Exeter 7O 6B '''' ,... t t r o l i N C e o w untics ....... ... ...... ..... M Ditto 2s td,. Extension 3Bl . 4d 5,.4 to Lri l ic ol r g,, z h s l:. eh n ra ;:asgow 5O 56% to 58 75 lO6 ... .... to 10554 50 67%; to Ettu..2nd Brighton 5O ... ... 43 4, 1 :140 Loan Notes /pun and Birmingham Stock .... ... 231% 1. 0 ,1f 0 New Thirds..... . ... 2 ......... 40 u n , and Guildford Ju nctio n 5 )i? ‘ 'n and South Western 41% 77304 ... to 7634 Loo,j 4° Eighths I' lmer e a t r T a C u r d otl e o e n ds (Trunk)... 1 7 :4Ni ••• 1 1 1 6 4 to 113 _ Zianester and Birmingham ... 40 bu t d Counties lOO ........ 86 Nor, ° Fallis 2 ..... ... 3 to Nes, "`" and Brandon ........ 4% to pail:agile and Darlington Junct. 15 ooh an , L , 6 Rouen so 32% ...... to irk aid and Dover V,,,j: . ‘.. ( ` . _sel_ l p bi t :_ "1, 1 4:•Uorth Midland 1 /0 2u .c them' Branch 2% ...... 183 19... to 18 I:4ILterSTER STOCK EXCHANGE,. FEB. 17.—We have no .1,11%6._ alteration to note to-day in our quotations. The ta4t7 continues for Manchester and Birmingham, South b h , rt, - 16 and Manchester. The sales are—Dublin and NI e( la, 6si b•Mtld w ; Manchester and Birmingham, 40j to A ; . Duffi eld .alld Manchester, 644 to 65 • South Eastern, 344 ; ri .cr ir , ti oh ; South',, 3s ; Sheffield and Manchester, quarter shares, g. ai . " estern, one-eighth shares, 3j ; Barnsley June , . S ol ... in this me coil note ago, two tailors Chesterfield, went to . the house the ,i ate, lan miles from is usual in b 'at • Y work (which evening, they ei t 6 L i. eir employers to . (father and son) home inthought, '4'tre 0-11)4004), and on returning as they Id to see, 4 orre rs smock in crossing age After makingda. pa ' 4l st • the path. se as e_altdiii,o,• quite still near the father boldly said,a the vllut Nvhat was best to be done, readiness for a blow, . Illy '4l, and h oldina Lis stick in 4 h no reply. .it but the supposed ke t y ° o gU il e,: jitahrein3g'oll4—ezfhaetndd o dumb, v id, ? er " , , , I Ybe 1" not speak (said the tati e , m ) .l . ined silent, _ m tt liiel, bht the stupid fellow bl r ow mixich made hi speak, 41 14. ae eOlit he received a severe will stri on if you will not . lwr,Qi -:\-0,,,, • ( 'd the tailor), see „ ,- 1 d violent lil 1 ' strike ' ' IT sa` 1 Qii , w„„ . agalll. Receiving to the go •..1 give which brought him and what was b. Weve, n, who fell also, and "te, di to na'ds the tailor, son then canr up, ~ , falling, aid, „ ~.._l/4 rogue uppermost. The ground; ~ (:)" replied he, . thi rik 1 what is he doing, father?" . t lise lit eau turn and after some violent oamtnle,gggilaesd of their ;,allgled linuself;and they both hastened h review the place, t heir '.41) the`ext morning, on going tou the ground, b u t klise„,rl, al v illain lying at full length on d been sowing c?,rn th,,titlted that arme of the field h 4e 'S IP„,„ cl ha d put • up what they 1„ rurter. ed 12 Mar i each aged girl tal.a we 'Watford and William called a " scarecrow. Led ve,e drowned at. Moulsey, on Tue sday c „ t .a z ;, the,..bnoronicie. L er ; ntured on the ice on a pond, wh i chand pens • • bed e d to save her itettnsford „, Y .n savoured The Itetc_. 44°RbINART PAcT Rampton, near Burrell, r w ok ee e k it, and let d a sow, and ~ Father s inside.-- bp :L i lt,. Mr. Richmond, of that . place, slaughtere_ pigs i n the —Lately at atiliQn?g her found the incredible number of 41 Doncaster Gazette. thild,, what do printers live ofnrrt'wo`o` Nil ' said you had not pai him o ?" " Take the ' .11141 Yet ou l sae week right or child out y lave his paper know about wro „of the room, what does he r N t V h il r e y e A S St,„, AZ' _ . , s 1 tire, Mr. , CitILAR A PPLICATION.—I n th e Secondaries Yesterd a t r : y, sel just as the jury were about to re sa i la s, a counen i re another case, hoped. h ur, t e VfOulde'Y luight be 53 L e s s Wished ju.st stoP and hear a short case in which he appeared, , sogeg in considering their verdic t, teltrueldviseed to go particularly on other businraiy 'decide 'econdarb however, informed him that The tea_ one case heiore they could hear a second. Th Secondary ration t.„ 0%1 Gentleman subsequently applied to the ._ e n ee iu m s e t Leercar t he caie in the absence of the jury,. oed Gentle his first aPPli cation 'and that man the to be as illegal as the func tions he did not feel disposed to usurp I en at which the eace.„ana embody the opinions of "thirteen gentlemen Mr Templeton inst ' finished, on Tuesday, the 13th t 11 a n ti with unprecedented eclat a series of entertainmen s, otiernatately between Liverpool and Manchester. The press, 1.4,41111_1d all in these towns, seem to wanton in their eulor of hailantron this gentleman's genius, o f glad, i Pnetr Y, and story. The piquant humour, and rich_ . I,i ors. rue to nature) with which he gives, whether speak as a vocal illustrato laibroe 11lag, the facetious portion of his Scotch Ente versal, lit, hag on for him a wreath in addition to the um whiyenalinovi,ledged one of a first operatic vocalist. . With th., ,i,_ r• • kzeere Colman's affairs, in connection soul, o - ''-aYlnarket Theatre were in great embarrassment, f . ii ..ae lamented that he (Mr. C) could not be relieved 4 ° t a ' t u r titl aera te gy res he by a bankruptcy, as he was atuker., • les I tun (replied Colman), I'm a paper- THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, .FEB_RVAItY 19, 1844. COURTS OF LAW. We have perused the first draught of a "Bill for altering and improving the Proceedings in the Su perior Courts of Common Law, as to certain actions for the recovery of debts, or damages, not exceeding . 201., and as to other actions in certain cases, pre ferred and brought on by Mr. JERVIS and Mr. WATSON, and ordered, by the , Commons, to be printed, on the 6th of February, 1844." This appears to be, we are sorry to say, the sug gestion of an additional chapter in the code of pains and penalties, which it has been' often attempted, for half a century past, and with various success—to incorporate into British legislation on that most inex plicable of social crimes among us—debt. The pre amble declares that it is expedient to render actions for the recovery of debts, or damages, in certain cases, of an amount not exceeding 201., more sum mary and less expensive, and to alter the practice and proceedings in the Superior Courts of Common Law in respect of such actions." Proceed ings for the recovery of such debts appear to be sum mary enough already, so far as the interests of the bond fide creditor are concerned ; and except where the party proceeding is disposed vexatiously to en force them, it cannot fairly be said that the costs of ordinary actions for debts under '2O/. are excessive. The law and legal process are sufficiently stringent already, unless it be proposed to leave no margin in the shape of consideration or indulgence for the simply unfortunate in increasing their pressure on the frau dulent and unprincipled. But we have another grave objection to the Bill before us. It is one of those plausible engines forincreasing the already overgrown patronage of our high legal functionaries to which we must say gentlemen of the long robe, of all parties, are too apt to lend themselves, in the House of Com mons. They seem to imagine, from the easy and deliberate way in which they give their sanction to the various Bills that in every session provide, in some shape or other, professional gratuities or new salaried offices for barristers, that they themselves hold some patent of exemption from that suspicion of interested motives which the world attaches to all other men under similar circumstances. Individuals who are for ever devising some means of adding to the appointments and advantages to be opened to the profession to which they belong, are shrewdly sus pected of a lively hope of participating, in time to come, in the harvest of the seed crop which they have been the first to sow. Assuredly this remark does not point to the respected and learned Members whose names are endorsed upon the " Bill " before us ; but neither will their names neutralise its general force and ap plication. For what is the case here ? Clauses Ito 25 provide that actions of this class and limit may be brought by writ of summons—which writ may be served personally, or by leaving a copy. If defendant do not plead to writ of summons, " within the time there specified," judgment may be signed; or, if ser vice not personal, judgment may be signed with leave of the judge. No appearance to be entered by or for the defendant; " and for the purpose of plead ing, the particulars underwritten shall be deemed to be part of the writ, and may be pleaded to in whole or in part, as may now be done, at the usual costs of a declaration." Judge, in Chambers may make orders for further particulars ; no plea in abatement to be allowed; judges of the Superior Courts at West minster, or any eight of them, the three chiefs being of the number, to have power to settle form of plead ings ; in case of departure from such forms, a judge may set aside the pleading, with costs. Certain pleas, however, may be pleaded together without leave ; particulars to be delivered with plea of pay ment or set off; no demurrer allowable for want of formal, commencement, and no demurrer for form deliverable without previous leave of a judge ; judge may permit the defect to be amended; sig natures of counsel not to be required to any pleadings ; if plaintiff do not proceed for a month, defendant may sign judgment of non pros.; defendant may take out a summons to stay proceedings, on payment of debt and costs claimed, or of a sum to be named; and the judge may make orders for payment, or give time for payment, not exceeding one month. Judge's summons to be pe remptory in thefirst.instance, and one shilling only to be paid for it ; in form as per schedule. Then comes the "patronage" olause, as we shall term it (26), touching " assessors to be appointed to the sheriffs of England and Wales ;" followed by clauses 27 to 30, illustrative of the functions, &c., of these new officers. Clause 26 enacts that the Lord Chan cellor shall appoint as " many persons as he shall think fit, not exceeding twelve persons in the whole," to be " assessors to the sheriffs of counties and cities in England and Wales,"—such persons to be barristers-at-law of not less than seven years' standing, or attorneys of one of the Superior Courts of not less than ten years' standing, removable by the Lord Chancellor for misconduct or incapacity, his Lordship having power to increase or diminish the said number as he shall see fit, until the end of the year 1845 ; after which no-more assessors to be appointed without consent and approbation of the Lords of the Treasury; as sessors may appoint duly qualified deputies (for pe riods not exceeding two months in any case) on suffi cient cause being satisfactorily shown. Salaries of assessors (amount in blank) to be payable out of the Consolidated Fund ; such assessors to act as judges on writs of trial and writs of inquiry. There are several other clauses relating to the duties of these provincial judges in embryo, all calling for notice and consideration ; but we must pass to clause 40, which really seems to drop all recollection of the preamble, and to contemplate a serious irrup don into the jurisdiction-demesne of the " Superior Courts at Westminster," and elsewhere; for it enacts that in any action which, if the amount claimed did not exceed 201., would be triable by writ of trial, it shall be lawful for a judge, on the application of either plaintiff or defendant, if . he shall so think fit, to order that such action, though for a debt or damages exceeding 201., shall be tried by writ of trial, and to name place of trial, and such writ of trial shall issue accordingly ; and thereupon further proceedings in the trial shall be such as if the debt or damages claimed did not exceed 201. Upon the whole, we think we have assigned tole rably strong grounds for the hope, with the expression of which we conclude—namely, that Parliament will vigilantly superintend the progress of a measure which does not appear to us so well calculated to carry out its professed remedial principles as to prove a golden egg in the snug nest of Chancery patronage. • SOUTH DEvoic.--The weather since Friday last has assumed a wintry aspect. In several parts the hedge rows were decked with spring flowers, in full bloom, and spring, with all its charms, seemed near at hand. A sharp frost has now set in, which will retard the progress of vegetation, which was in a very forward state. The lambing season has been very favourable and grass and turnips are very plentiful. During the last fortnight the corn trade has undergone an improvement, and prices have advanced. Cattle are rather dull at present. In the manufacturing towns, the woollen trade is going on briskly, and yolk wool is in good demand at 9d. to sid. per lb.— Potatoes are selling from 3s. 6d. to 4s. per bag. Wheat 7s. 3d. per bushel ; Barley 3s. 10d. to 4s. ; Oats 2s. Bd. to 2s. 10d.— Plymouth Journal. _ _ WILL FORGERIES.—About eight years ago, an at.. toruey of the name of Hyte lived in the west of England, Barnstaple we believe, who far exceeded the present forgers in adroitness and wickedness. On one occasion he was re quested by a married man to make a will in favour of his brother, at which his wife complained to Hyte, who told her he would make all right for her, and trust to her liberality. He prepared two wills, one in favour of the brother, and another bequeathing the property to his wife. The first was read over to the dying man ; but before it was signed by the testator and witnesses he rang the changes, so that the widow became the sole object of his bounty. The brother suspected foul play and fraud, but could not prove it. Hyte afterwards obtained large sums from the widow, whom he kept in constant dread of an exposé, which, however, did not take place until she, on her death bed, confessed the whole, declaring that she had never enjoyed an hour's peace since the foul transaction. The last, among many acts of forgery which this villain committed, was that of the will of a person at Exeter. A gentleman, possessed of large property, was likely .to die, and Hyte inquired of the wife whether he had made a will in her favour. She replied, "She was fearful he had made no will." He said he would prepare one, and trust to her generosity. He called the next day, and was told it was too late, for, the man had just expired. He said he had brought a winess with him, and would manage it. They went to the bed-side and read over the will to the corpse, and having done so, he caught a live fly, which he put into the mouth of the dead man, and took his hand and guided it to sign the document, and the witness declared that he had heard the will read to the deceased, who signed it while life was in him (alluding to the live fly). The validity of the will, which was so much at variance with the expressed sentiments of the testator in the latter period of life, was dis puted, but no positive proof was manifest of the nefarious transaction, until at length, partly by threats, and more par ticularly from the accusation of conscien c e, th e widow and subscribing or attesting witness made a full confession, and being admitted as witnesses for the Crown, the scoundrel Hyte was convicted and executed in the year 1767.—Sher borne Journal. MONOPOLY AGAIN! TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR, — Monopoly is ,hydra-headed—corn cattle, sugar, water, coals, all a like, restricted, made difficult, and to the millions denied I In this vast metropolis—the queen of cities and of oolonisation—the focus of a hundred cha rities and a thousand schools—monopoly reigns para mount. No where else is there such a monopoly in fire—no where else is there such a monopoly in water. You did your duty long and ably in attacking the abuses of the coal monopoly. Do I err in thinking that you will aid the inhabitants of Lambeth, Southwark, and all South Londoa, in also attacking the water monopoly ? It so happens, that all the three companies supplying South London with water, have in their Acts of Parlia ment the same clause, making it " unlawful" to - supply such water in an impure state, which all join in treating with contempt. Their customers cannot help themselves; hence the enclosed petition, which is receiving signatures in all directions.-1' am, Sir, your obedient servant, A SURGEON. [We have received a copy of the petition, but at pre sent we cannot promise to find room for it.] ST. PAUL'S AND WESTMINSTER ABBEY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR; Parliament being now assembled, I beg to sug gest, through the medium of your valuable paper, the propriety of convening a public meeting, for the purpose of considering the steps which it may be advisable to take in reference to the present disgraceful condition of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, and the Abbey Church of St. Peter, Westminster, in order to effect, if possible, the following important objects First—The abolition of fees. Secondly—To obtain in these churches increased and better accommodation for the poor, belonging to the cities of London and Westminster, and Thirdly—To get the Pagan monuments, which dis figure and profane these holy temples, removed to some other more appropriate receptacle. • I am, Sir, your obedient servant, AN ENGLISHMAN. [We know of no Pagan monuments in these temples ; but we know of monuments to Johnson and Howard, and Watt, men who adorned and civilised Christian society. Could there be better places, too, for the monuments of gallent men who have died in the service of their country ? In the other two propositions, however, we entirely concur.] THE CURRENCY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Sir John Mandeville, who was in the military service of the Great Khan of Cathay, about the middle of the 14th century, thus describes the symbolic money in use among the Tartars : " This Emperour may despenden als moche as he will withouten estymacioun ; for lie despendeth not, ne maketh, no money but of lether emprented or of papyre. And of that money is some of gretter prys, and some of lasse prys, aftre the dyversitee of his statutes. And whan that money bathe ronne so longe that it begynnethe to waste, than men beren it to the Emperour's tresoune ; and than thei taken newe money for the olde. And that money gothe thorghe out elle the countree, and thorghe out elle his provynces ; for there and beyonde hem thei make no money nouther of gold nor of syiver. And therefore he may deepende ynou and out rageously." The above passage shows that the Tartars had much better notions of money than our modern statesmen ; that the leather and paper tokens of receipt issued by the Great Khan in return for the supplies levied by him passed current as a medium of exchange through all the country and provinces, performing, at a small cost, all the offices that gold or silver could have done. Our modern statesmen extort from the subject both the supplies and the gold to represent them ! and in this respect they show their inferiority to the Great Khan in the article of common sense —as, however, they are no way behind hand with the Tartar Potentate " in despen ding ynou and outrageously," the people of this country have a fair claim on them for an abundant and cheap circulating medium. It will be found, Sir, ere long, that Sir It. Peel " caught a Tartar " when he brought forward his .Currency Bill of 1819 ; it would have been well for the country had he deigned to take a lesson from him in the theory of money; indeed, a few Tartar instructors in that science would be of great service at the present time ; I could recommend several pupils, for instance, Mr. Jones Loyd, Mr. Norman, Mr. Horsley Palmer, and that last light of the age , Mr. John Gellibrand Hubbard—l am, your most obedient servant, London, Feb. 16, 1844. Q. T. MR. FERRAND, M.P., AND MR. COBDEN, M.P. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sia,—l am a Conservative, aye, a Tory, and a Conservative, or Tory, who will yield to no man in an honest and hearty desire to promote the happiness and welfare of the poor, the farmers, and I may add, too, the manufacturers, for I do not know that this class has not an equal right to justice as the other two. As such I have witnessed with sincere sorrow the perpetual contests that have been going on between the two Hon. Gentlemen whose names I have prefixed to the head of this letter. Sir, I fear that both Mr. Cobden and Mr. Ferrand overlook one " great fact," and that that oversight is the cause of both of them being at " daggers drawn," instead of being, as they ought to be, united in one common assault upon the common wrong that has been committed, and is sought to be perpetuated and even increased against the poor, the farmer, and the manufacturer. Sir, the fact of maintaining for foreign gold the fixed monopoly price of 31. 17s. 100. per ounce, has, since the year 1819, nearly . doubled the taxation alike of the poor, the farmer, and the manufacturer. Pre vious to that year the labour of the artisan was at ss. per day, the corn of the farmer at 10s. 6d. per bushel, and the calico of the manufacturer at 9d. per yard. They are now (under gold at a monopoly price) 3s. per day, 6s. per bushel, and 4d. per yard; and, con sequently, the taxation of these classes has been nearly doubled. Apply this to the case of this country, with a fixed taxation of 50,000,0001. per year, and it will be obvious that almost another 50,000,000/. is now being extorted from the tax-payers of this country — a sum amounting to at least 800,000,0001., or the entire national debt since the year 1819. Sir, the two productive classes—land and factory — are losing sight of the common enemy. Let them look to the money laws, and Mr. Ferrand and Mr. Cobden may shake hands, and rally under the same banner. Lord Brougham, with 5,000/. a-year pen sion, is getting, with corn at 6s. Bd. a bushel, 15,000 bushels of corn per year. Previous to 1819 the pen sion was 4,0001. a year, and, with corn at 10s., it was of the value of 8,000 bushels. The same appalling increase applies to labour calico, and almost every other 'necessaryof life. Sir, it extends also to the other fact of the 5 0,000,0001. per year; and it is no wonder that the labourer is poor, that the farmer is in difficulties, and that the manufacturer cannot, under such burdens, compete with the foreigner. The pro ductive classes must be united—not divided. Feb. TH One that wishe s t o see E I4, C I A B T 44. OUT OF THE BAG. Brighton, The splendid abode of the Right Hon. the Earl of Lichfield, in St. James's-square, is in George Robins's list for disposal. It is accounted one of the most complete mansions throughout the metropolis. METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS.—On Friday the large area of ground in Broad -street, St. Giles's, which has been obtained by the removal of the houses at the north end of Monmouth-street, was opened to the public, a granite road-way having been completed and laid down. The demo lition of the houses and the formation of the new thorough fare have added greatly to the improvement of this locality, as a very spacious thoroughfare has been made. At the end of Belton-street, adjoining the same spot, some houses have been cleared away, which has considerably widened that part, and which, when paved with stone, will open the com munication from Waterloo-bridge to St. Giles's. In Belton street (for the line of this new street), nearly half the houses between Broad-street and Long Acre are taken down, on the west side. Among the number was the Guy Earl of Varwick public-house, which was established a great many years ago. Upon a site near to this house, a chapel of ease to the parish church of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, will be built. Within the last half century rents have trebled, the price of wheat has doubled, and agricultural wages remain about the same. The landlord is therefore the only party who has benefited by the corn-laws.—Monmouth Merlin. STATE or TRADE.—Yarns have apin advanced in price this week. Wools still remain firm. No further pur chases of either yarns or goods are now making on specula tion, as the general impression seems to be that yarns have reached their maximum, and that nothing further is to be gained or saved by any further purchases than what are ne cessary for carrying on from w eek to week. London houses principle, and consequently buying are now:acting upon this sparingly, and only for present wants ; the present business, therefore, for useful goods is W limited to the actual consump tion at present going on. e trust there will b e no f ur th er speculation or advances upon material, as in that case, by in creasing the risks of accumulating stock, it will have a ten dency to throw workmen out of employment. —Leicester Mercury. STATE OF THE LACE AND HOSIERY TRADES.— The cotton manufactures in this district, which have been, for some time, in rather an healthy condition, are placed in a singular predicament from an unexpected cause ; namely, a great rise in the price of both hosiery earn and lace thread, which has, since the latter end of Novem ber, advanced 30 per cent. on the list price, to th e grea t benefit of the Manchester and other spinners, but to the loss and inconvenience of the trade of Nottingham. The cause is attributed to their being an extensive demand in Yorkshire, where the woollen manufacturers have mixed cotton with worsted, principally for warp, while others say, that whole warps are composed of cotton, having a woollen shoot, which are sold as being made wholly of worsted. A considerable quantity . of cotton yarn has, for many years, been exported to Russia and Hindustan.—,D er b y Reporter. DEATH OF LORD GLENTWORTIL—This Nobleman, after a painful and protracted illness, expired on Friday morning at his mansion, in Manchester-square. For some time past the nature of his Lordship's malady was such as to give not the slightest hopes for his eventual recovery, so that the immediate family connections were prepared for the melancholy result. The deceased Edmond Henry Lord Glentworth, was eldest son of the late Lord, who died in 1837, and grandson and heir of the Earl of Limerick. He was born 3d March, 1809, and married, Bth October, 1836, Miss Eve Maria Villebois, second daughter of Mr. H. Ville bois, by whom, we believe, his Lordship leaves a young fa mily. By his demise the families of the Earl and Countess of Limerick, Lord Monteagle, Lady Lucy St an di s h , M r . P. and Lady Louisa Pole, Sir Henry and Lady Frances Calder, Count and Lady Cecil Delafield, Mr. George and Lady Ca roline Russell, &c., are placed in mourning. METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS.—There is a Bill before the House to embank the river from Palace-yard to Chatham-place, to form a carriage road. This will be a great accommodation to the public, as it will take much of the thoroughfare from the Strand. A separate Bill will be intro duced for the embankment from Vauxhall-bridge to Batter sea-bridge. When completed it will be one of the most liplendid rides in orround Londop. .• THE DUKE OF SUTHERLAND ON THE CORN-EAWS. • (From the Shrewsbury Chronicle.) The following letter has been addressed by his Grace to his agent at Dunrobin, in the county of Sutherland:— " London, Feb. 12, 1844. " Dear Sir,—As I learn that in Sutherl an d some o f my friends and tenants are desirous of having a meeting to consider, the subject of the corn-laws, under appre hension. of the effects which the present agitation of that subject may have on our agricultural interests, it may be well for me to say shortly to you what I am diskosed to believe right and true in regard to it. It is very fair that the sentiments of any who feel desirous of communicat ing them should be expressed ; but it is also desirable that none should commit themselves incautiously, and under unnecessary apprehensiOns ; they may probably find that in this, as on many other subjects, great ex aggerations prevail. I take it for granted that none would think of considering societies for agricultural purposes as proper instruments for use, as machinery for extend ing any determined opinions that any number of mem bers may entertain on this general question. This, I think, should be carefully avoided. Of course, Ido not urge objections to any persons meeting as a society, for the special purpose of taking a part for or against a general measure ; but the societies which 'have been formed to promote improvements in all branches of farm ing should be kept clear of contention, and free from disputes of this nature. " My own feeling is in favour of the free current of national industry—of unfettered commerce--of purchase and sale generally—without excepting any trade on which the sustenance of the people depends. lam un willing to close the best markets for our supplies, and cut off from the people the sources which Providence offers, under the varying circumstances of seasons and climates, for the produce of commodities necessary for the enjoyment of life. Ido not think it is a solid good principle to maintain that a bounty should be given to the grower by a tax on the consumer—and I believe that the protest drawn up by the late Lord Grenville on the subject is substantially sound and just. I also, as I said, think that in conforming to these principles we shall not endanger ourselves; though no doubt in many parts, of England particularly, great improvements will be re quired, and under any system they should be enforced. " Important considerations arise from the artificial and complicated system which has made our condition so difficult to understand and manage: our national debt, complicated taxation, necessities of revenue—all these make great caution necessary ; and it is no doubt right and proper that all who have insight into these subjects should communicate—that agriculturists should express their sentiments regarding their own prospects and fears and expectations, as well as other members of society. But I do not wish to enrol myself among those who re quire restrictions interfering with trade and commerce in regard to the most important articles for man. " I am, dear Sir, truly yours, " G. Gunn, Esq." " SUTHERLAND." SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. ADVERTISER.—Sir Robert Peel succeeded in muzzling Lord Lyndhurst while the debate on Ireland was proceeding in the Upper House ; but he has not succeeded in sealing the lips of another equally dangerous colleague in the House of Commons. Lord Stanley, who iast session submitted with out a. murmur to the silence which his master imposed on him, has this session given indications that he will not con sent to play the mute any longer. He has, with becoming spirit broke through the restraints to which the Premier sought to subject him. "Richard's himself again." On Friday evening the Noble Lord proved to the House, and to Sir Robert Peel too, that he has not by the unbroken silence he submitted to maintain last year, lost any of that hastiness of temper, or impetuosity of character which he was wont to display whenever he took part in any of the discussions in the House. We are glad of this, while condemning the matter of his speech. We are gratified to see that he has had the manliness to rebel against the wishes of his Mi nisterial master, and that he is determined not any longer to. compromise his own character by consenting to maintain, at the bidding of Sir Robert, a.degrading silence. His speech of Friday is, we trust, to be regarded as an earnest of the pro minent part he means to take in the discussions of the session on which we have just entered. His Lordship's speech on Friday was a strikingly faithful transcript of the mind of the speaker. He was as fiery and vehement—as open and un guarded as ever. He compromised the Cabinet of which he is a member by every fifth or sixth sentence he delivered. His speech was the most d amag i ng t o Mi n i s t ers w hi c h h as yet been delivered since the commencement of the debate. It has done, and will do, the Government of Sir Robert Peel more mischief than even the speech of Lord John Russell. Some of his admissions were quite as in sulting and offensive as was the application of the word " alien " to the blood, language, and religion of the Irish, which Lord Lyndhurst was fiendish or foolish enough to make, a few years ago. The Colonial Secretary admitted, for example, that Ireland is ruled by military law, and that a rebellion is prevented solely by an exhibition of brute force. He virtually thanked God that there were troops enough in 'lreland to keep the people in subjection. Is this, then, a matter for gratitude to Heaven? Ought it to be a subject of self-gratulation to any Govern ment, that an entire nation are so maddened by the measures of that Government, that to prevent rebellion their country must be converted into one vast garrison ? We unconsciously ask ourselves, when we hear such language, in what country do we live ? In Russia or in Great Britain? Are we under a despotism, or do we possess a free constitution ? The lan guage of Lord Stanley might suit the meridian of St. Peters burgh, but it is language which the greatest enemies of Mi nisters could never have expected to hear in London. Does the Noble Lord imagine that this is the way to conciliate the Irish ? Does he suppose that the use of such language is calculated to tranquillise Ireland? The people of Ireland know, because they have felt it, that since the accession of the Tories to power, they have been living under a military despotism ; but is it wise, is it generous, is it safe to strike the iron still deeper into their souls, by openly proclaiming and in effect glorying in the fact? Is it not enough that Ireland is oppressed, de graded, insulted, by the men now in office, without having superadded to all her indignities and wrongs, the crowning insult of boasting in Parliament that, by means of an over whelming military force, the party in power can continue to trample her people in the dust ? 'I he speech of Lord Stanley will produce a feeling of indignation in Ireland, which may be attended with results whiek no one can contemplate with out fear and trembling. Nothing which the plausible and cautious Premier may hereafter say, will neutralise the effects of that most insulting speech. It will rankle in the bosom of every Irishman who loves his country ; and it will strengthen and extend the feeling which exists in favour of a severance from Great Britain. Talk of Mr. O'Connell and " monster meetings" endangering the peace of Ireland 1 Why, this single speech of the Hotspur of the Ministry will do more to peril the peace of Ireland than all the repeal meet ings ever held, and all the repeal speeches ever made, in that country. HERALD..—We rejoice to find that the agricultural party aro at length proceeding to take vigorous measures to coun teract the Anti-Corn-law League. A meeting took place at the Duke of Richmond's on Saturday, for the purpose of forming a Metropolitan Society for the Protection of British Agriculture, when his Grace was appointed President, and the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos Vice-President of the Society. There were present at this influential meeting : The Duke of Richmond, the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, the Duke of Leeds, Lord Beaumont, Earl of Yarborough, Viscount Ingestre, Lord Rendlesham, Earl of March, Lord Worsley, Viscount Campden, Lord Newport, Lord Ossulston, Sir C. Burrell, Sir C. Knightley, Sir J. Trollope, Sir J. Chetwode, Hon. F. Scott, Messrs. T. Duffield, Stafford O'Brien, E. S. Cayley, E. Wodehsuse, R. A. Christopher, E. W. Mundy, C. Turner, A. Lawson, R. Eaton, R. Gordon, C. N. Newdegate, W. Long, Colonel Sibthorp, W. Beresford, C. Wyndham, G. Darby, P. Pusey, C. R. Colville, J. P. Plumptre, Q. Dick, H. S. Waddington, R. Palmer, T. W. Brampston, R. B. Hale, E. Yorke, H. Halford, C. Goring, W. B. Ferrand, A. E. Fuller, D. Watts Russell, W. L. W. Chute, W. Miles, J. P. Allix, and other Members of Parliament. Resolutions were agreed to, for the purpose of carrying into effect the great object in view— namely, the protection of the agriculture of the kingdom, and a deputation was appointed to confer with those gentle men who have advertised a meeting for the same purpose at the Freemasons"ravern. This is the right course to pursue. Where unity is strength, it is absolutely necessary that sonic ceetral association should be formed, with which the various local bodies, whose meetings we have so frequently of late adverted to, may communicate. APPEAL CASES FOR HEARING IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS, SESSION 1844. Sc6tt v. Ker (Ist appeal) Scotland • Scott v. Ker (third appeal) Ditto Vaughan v. Gronow, abated Chanc.,England The King v. Trafford, writ Kings a ' Bench, heard of error„ plaintiff's council)heard England. 1833 Blake v. Boyle, abated Attwood v. Small, abated Johnson v. Thomas, expartel Scotland. abated 1836 Goold v. Richards Fully heardf Miller v. Knox • Exch., Ireland Small v. !Attwood Exch., Ireland 1837 Farnell v. BPGauran, exparte, I Clime Ireland abated Ai tken . v. Finley and Another, exparte, abated Earl Belfast v. Marquis of Donegal, abated Crawford v. Edward, Pauper, exparte Andrews v. Walton (time given to enrol) Carrick v. Buchanan, exp ' cause remitted with direc tions Scotland Chanc., Ireland 1539. Scotland. Chancery, Eng land Scotland • ' - Farrell. v. Gleeson (Ist. ap.) l Exch. Chamb Ireland " _Ditto, ditto K2d appe.il) - . , Ditto Fully heard 'Charter v. Sir J.' Trevelyan Chane.,England 1841 Galway v. Barron, abated ... Each..-,lreland Adam v. Farquharson Scotland ' ~... -.. . . Second Sas- Thompson v. her Majesty's) sion, 1841 AdVocate-General, writ Exch., Scotland Fully heard , of errer: '' ~. .}. .... • Terbeargad by . is t rirCdunSa of a side. Fully heard { The Skinners'Compitn) ,l V - anc a . . - • '.'' .0.h., England the Irish Society . Waters v. Groom ' ` 4l-- Ditt'o' - ! •-' •- • Fully heard Earl of Rosslyti v. AytotAP - Icotland - • 1842 1 Druniiiiotid . V. Munro . (or} g ;ti o u t Fully hearill ." Ross) ; ''.- ''. , ' '' '..; •:!.. ? Duke'of 'Beaufort v. - *Tavler, ...11.:.: -t. , .. •'. Chanc.,Englarik expert° Fully heard { Knight v. Sir W. Bouetten -." .- ''' - .. - : '';', -, ! Ditto! 1; ,„..„ . ..„ 1 exparte Sandford v. Morrice • 'Rts.Chan.,Eng Stockte9._;iiinti . . 'Parlingtort COinnongle Itttihtiiy. CAVanx z. Bar- Engle . tid 4 : - . '- , rett, writ of eri r ot':: - ....„ .- ' Byron v. Cooper - - '- ' ' lY gielrea..., Fugl ...1t.".. - 3T.. - i :' , '. Marquis of Waterford v. / . D.... - :- - Knight taw :, E. ', , , Mackenzie v. Williamson Scotland Drummond v. Walrond and) Di i tto others v.Woode, exparte The Society of ontributors . to the Widows' Scheme of the Solicitors of the Supreme Court of Scot land, or Ellis v. Henderson, exparte . The Ironmongers' Company v. the Attorney-General Stirling v. Ewart, abated Bogie v. Bogie Murray r. Murray Lord Blantyre v. 'Earl of I Wemyss and March i Fully heard The Queen v. Mills, writ of error 1 Ditto The Queen v. Carroll, writ ofj error Creed v. Creed Lindsay v. Earl of Aboyne, et' econ .. , . Hatfield v. Phillips, writ of' ' error Taylor v. Clemion, writ of error Brown v. 'Boorm. 1n r, writ of error Ditto Chanc. England Scotland Ditto Ditto Ditto Queen's Bench, Ireland Ditto Chanc., Ireland Scotland Exchequer, England Queen's Bench, England x. .:hamber, England. llammersley v Baron do Biel Chanc:,England Bourne v. Gatliffe, writ of Com. Pleas, error Earl of Bucham v. 'Eiskirie; Scotland Dryburgh entail . Earl Buchanan N 7. Erskine Strathbrook Ditto Campbell (pauper),ir APLi ren v. Fisher (patiper) ex- ' parte ' •: . Forrest v. . " Robertson (or Rennie)' Ritchie • • • ; •,J Cookson v. Cook Son • • • Earl Stirling v. Officers of) State, Scotland Sir H. Brydges v. Fordyce Ferguson v. Mlames exprt Mackintosh v. Gordon (or) Mackintosh) exparte • f Provost, Magistrates, and Town-Council of Aber-• . brothwick v. Strachaii Purvis v. Lonsdell • Ditto The Irish Society, v. the • Exchequer • Bishop of Derry and Ra- . phoe, writ of error Stoke v. Heron, exparte Chanc., Ireland Vis. Dungannon v. Smith Ditto' Stuart v. Spottiswoode Ditto • The Rev. Dr. Gordon v. the D itto - Earl of Kinroul, abated Allen (pauper) v. Glasgow, Ditto exparte Beckham v. Drake, writ oft Exchequer, error 5 England Hamilton v. Watson Duke of Northumberlaud v Viscountess Strathallan, Ditto . exparte Fully heard... Ross v. Duke of Sutherland Ditto Allen (pauper) v. M'Pherson Chanc.,England Jacks (lessee of the Right Hon. George Robert Dint- Excheq. Chain son) v. APlntyre, writ of ber, Ireland error Sheeley v. Lord Muskerry Chanc., Ireland Ferrier v. Hutchinson Scotland Abercrombie (or _Dingwall. Ditto v. Dingwell Hon. R. B. Wilbraham v. / Duchy of Lan- Scarisbrick, exparte j caster Ferrier v. Dr. W. P. Alison Scotland Wattles v. Wright, exparte Ditto Mayor, &c., of Newcastle upon-Tvne v. Attorney - ) } Chanc ., England General' Cormack v..Erskino (or Hen- derson) Gordon v. Hawden Cleland (pauper) v. Pater son, or Cleland, exparto Hoare v. Byng, exparte Harrison v. Stickney, writ of error Broadley v. Stickney, writ of error Cruikshank v. Lady Cruik shank Hon. 11. Trevor v. Hon. G. Trevor Colvill v. Colvill 1844 Campbell v. Sir Colin Camp bell Ditto Ditto Ditto Chanc.,England Scotland Ditto Ditto Ditto Ditto Scotland Ditto Ditto Chanc.,England Excheq. Cham ber, England Ditto Scotland Chanc.,England Scotland Ditto ESCAPE OF A MILITARY PRISONER.—WiIIiam Blake, a gunner and driver of the Royal Artillery, who had been found guilty of repeated theft and desertion, succeeded on Thursday last in making his escape from the Infirmary, Woolwich. He had been sentenced to fourteen years' transportation. His escape was thus effected :—Upon being found guilty he reported himself sick, and was taken into the hospital, where he was admitted into the guard-room ward, and during the period of his confinement managed to . loose the fastenings of the lock of the outer door of his room leading into one of the passages At ten o'clock on Thursday night last he was abut into his room, and a sentry posted over him as usual, but about half-past ten o'clock he managed to elude the sentry, and made his way into the passage. The sentry at the outer door seeing somebody pass from the guard-room ward gave the alarm, but before any assistance could be ob tained the prisoner jumped upon the water-sink and out at the passage-window into the back-yard, and escaped over the outer wall, and has not been heard of since. A Court of inquiry was held in the Royal Ordnance Hospital on Friday to investigate and.report on the circumstance of the escape of the prisoner, and the sentry who was over him has been placed under arrest, but nothing further is known at present. A shrewd observer once said, that in walking the streets on a slippery morning, one might see where the good natured people lived by the ashes thrown on the ice before the door. BEWDLEY.—A days ,ago some workmen were .em ployed in removing some gravel from a gravel-pit in Bewdley Park, adjoining Tickenhill-house, when, about nine inches below the surface, they discovered a pair of bronze stands for candles. They appear to be composed of a mixture of copper with tin • and a little greasy wool was found in one of the sticks. Ticicenhill-house,was formerly the residence . of Prince Arthur, son of Henry the Seventh, and these in teresting specimens were probably Manufactured about.that period. They have been kindly presented to the Worcester Natural History Society's Museum, by Mr. Bryan, bookseller, of this town.—Ten Towns Messenger. There is a strong belief, and it is a growing one, we hear, among well-informed circles in London, that Sir. Robert Peel's declaration in favour of the sliding scale, on the opening night of Parliament, was only part and parcel of the trickery and slippery character for which he is so famous—neither to be relied upon by the monopolists as a surety for his faith, nor to be feared by the free traders as the ultimatum of, his hostility. The idea, in short, is, that—preparing for the worst in the event of his Irish difficulties breaking up his Administration —he was merely renewing his promises and vows to' the sliding scale, in order to rally the agriculturists once more round him, in case of a new election as a consequence of the accession of a Liberal Ministry to power. He knows that the change in the corn-laws, which immediately fol lowed the hustings pledges of the majority of the present Parliament to the contrary, has caused him to be looked upon with marvellous suspicion by his rural sup porters, and, therefore, he thinks it necessary to at tempt to recover his lost caste with them, by assuming this blustering tone in their behalf, until he again feels himself upon his legs without them. At all events, such is the interpretation p u t u po n hi s meani ng; f or , s u c h is the general doubt of the man's sincerity, that every word he utters is always tried and sifted, with a view to prove that its signification is directly opposite to its outward seeming. But let it be otherwise; let Sir Robert Peel really have been in earnest on this occasion ; what then ? The advocates of Free Trade are not to be intimidated because he again declares himseif its foe :—they never calculated upon him as its friend. We are but where we were before. —Hull Advertiser. --- - GRAND DUCHY OF PosEN, FEB. 4.—Orders have been received here for all Polish emigrants who took part in the revolution, and most of whom have come to us from France, to quit Prussia within a fortnight. In this order it is' positively declared that no petitions for a mitigation of the measure will be attendad to. Only those who find it abso lutely impossible to settle their affairs here will be allowed to remain a fortnight longer. This measure will very se verely affect many emigrants who have resided for years among us. Many have been received into the families of Prussian subjects; others have acquired landed property, which they will now be obliged to sell at any price. Though notice was given to all of them, both on their arrival in Prussia and when they made purchases of landed property, that they could not by that means acquire any right of set tlement in Prussia, yet an order to quit so suddenly seems very hard. This makes it seem the more certain that our Government must have some mighty reason for this step.— Hainbuivh Papers, Feb. 13. •'• Lord Sandon had an interview with - the Chancellor of the Eiehequer on-Saturday. . COURT CIRCULAR-. WINDSOR, SUNDAY.—Yesterday morning the Queen and Prince Albert took their accustomed early walk, In the afternoon her Majesty and his Royal Highness rode out in a pony phaeton, attended by Lord Charles Wellesley, Equerry in Waiting, on horseback. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Alice were taken a carriage airing, and the Princess Royal rode out on her pony. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Ma• ,isty and her Illustrious Consort, at the Castle. This morning her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, her Royal Highness the Duchess'of Kent, and the Household attended Divine service in the Private Chapel within the Castle. The Hon. and ReV. C. Leslie Courtenay officiated. A Deputation, on the subject of New Zealand, had an in terview with Lord Stanley, on Saturday, at the Colonial office. The deputation included Mr. Somes, Governor of the New Zealand Company; Mr. Aglionby, M.P.; Mr. Buller, ALP.; Mr. Hastie, M.P.; Mr. Hutt, ALP. ; Mr. Harrington, Secretary to the New Zealand Company; Mr. J. Abel Smith, ALP., and several of the Directors of the New Zealand Com pany. A Deputation, on the subject of inland bonding, had an in. terview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday, at his official residence in Downing-street. The deputation consisted of Mr. Philips, ALP.; Mr. Tatton Egerton ' M.P. ; Mr. Brotherton, ALP. ; Mr. Buckley, ALP.; with Mr. W, B. Watki ns , th e T own Cl er k o f Manchester, and Mr. Gibb, a deputation from Manchester, on inland bonding. Mr, Dean, Chairman of the Customs, was present at the inter. view. A Deputation from the Committee of Deputies from the Joint-Stock Banks of England, Wales, and Ireland, had an interview on Saturday with Sir Robert Peel and the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, at the official residence of the Right Hon. Baronet, in Downing -street. The Deputies, twenty 'three in. number, were headed by Mr. P. M. Stewart, M.P. The'Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a meet lag . ? on Friday . : affenioon, at the office in Whitehall-place. The - Commissioners present 'were the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Hereford, the Bishop of Lichfield, the Right Hon. H. Hobhouse, the Right Hon. John Nichol, D.C.L., and the Dean.of Westminster. Bar* deakncorvo, Portuguese'llinister, and Mr. Murpy, gexip,an Minister, transacted busines s a t th e Foreign-uffice on'Satarday. Dispatches ere - received yesterday at the Colonial -office from the Governor of the Falkland-Islands. The Duke of Wellington•attended the early service in the ChapWßoyal,St. James's, yesterday morning. The Rev. Povah officiated and preached. The Marquis of An glesey, the Marquis of Normanby; Lords Ernest Bruce, Clive, Alfor11; .- and'eantilupe, attended the daily service in the Chapel Royal. -• 'lltelfrayers were read by the Rev. W. J. :Hall c thelessons by the - Rey..J. H. Dakins, and the sermon wpe. t preached by the Rey. Dr. Sleath. Lord,Slanle.y ; had a dinner party on Saturday, at his resi dence itiStlarue'SV•squpre.. Lady Stanley had afterwards . , an evening parts. - - - IL LNESS of the KING of SWEDEN. The latest accounts of the King's health are from Stockholm, dated the 6th instant, and- bring the follow ing bulleti ns: — . • - " FEB. 3, SEVEN, A.M.—His Majesty has passed a restless night; the redness of the skin, and a slight swelling of the foot, which remained yesterday, have rather abated than increased. 5, rac—His Majesty is gradually gaining strength, though his night's rest has hitherto been Indifferent. The state of his Majesty's health to-day increases the hope of progressive improvement. The state of the foot and leg is not changed. As there are at present no symptoms indicative of apoplexy, as was feared at the commencement of his Majesty's indisposition, only one bulletin will in future be issued every day at one o'clock. " FEB. 4, ONE P.M.—His Majesty has had a rather Jess restless night than the preceding; in other respects no change has taken place. "FEB. s.—His Majesty has had more sleep since the last bulletin than during the preceding days and nights, but his strength has not increased in proportion. At the top of the foot, near the great toe, there is a slight abrasion, the skin is discoloured, and without feeling; thepain in. the leg and foot is but slight, and the swelling has nearly disappeared. " FEB. 6.—His Majesty is on the whole, better than yesterday, the foot remaining as before." The Crown Prince held a Council this forenoon. 'TILTIIY AND DEAR WATER. The inhabitants of the parish of Bermondsey have adopted petitions to the Houses of Parliament, com plainini, of the present supply o f wa t er — ma ki ng many remarkable statements in support of the proceeding, among them, that a summons was obtained last year against the Lambeth Waterworks Company, for not supplying water " effectually purified by means of fil tration;" and a sample of the water supplied by the said Company was exhibited before Mr. Cottinglam, a justice of the peace of the county of Surrey, sitting at Union hall, and several witnesses gave evidence of its general filthy, unhealthy, and impure character ; and that the said magistrate declared the case to be fully proved, but the said Lambeth Water-works Company, by their coun sel, technically objeCted that there was no connection be tween the clause enforcing the penalty and the said 86th clause, enacting that water " not effectually purified by means of filtration should be unlawful," and the said justice of the peace holding the same opinion, declared that he was " reluctantly compelled" to refuse the en forcement of the penalties as prayed. That the Lambeth Joint-stock Waterworks Company, triumphing:. in the trick by which they had i n d uce d y our Hon. House to pass their said Bill, on the understanding that they had voluntarily bound themselves, after four years, to effec tually purify the water they supplied by filtration, still continue to supply " unfiltered water," at increased rates, in contempt of Parliament, in defiance of repeated remonstrances and entreaties from their customers ; en dangering the health of upwards of 200,000 h uman beings, who neither have nor can have any other means of obtaining water, and in .the teeth of their own Act, that it is "not lawful" so to do. That by a recent invention, vast bodies of water can be effectually filtered at one-tenth the cost, in one-tenth of the time, and less than one thousandth part of the space that water could be filtered when the said Lambeth Water-works Company obtained their said Act of Parliament ; and yet, though the ex pense be so much lower, and the facilities so much greater, the said Lambeth Water-works Company re fuse or neglect to adopt such filtration, but prefer, in stead of incurring such diminished e x p e n se i n making their water purer, healthier, and better, to increase their rates, and compel your petitioners to add im mensely to their profits while continuing to supply im pure, unhealthy, and, according to their own Act of Par liament, " unlawful water ;" and praying that Parlia ment will be pleased to inquire into the truth of these allegations ; to take measures to compel the said Lam beth Water-works Company, in honesty and good faith, to be subjected to the penalties of the said Act of the 26th March, 1834, if they do not supply, when called upon, " lawful water," " effectually purified by means of •filtration," and to take such other measures to protect 7our - petitioners from being compelled to consume the Impure and unhealthy water with which they are at present supplied, as to your Honourable House shall seem just, wise, and expedient. S U N 7-4 / 1 _ „ ~M~~ PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. SESSION .1844. THE LATE "REBECCA" RIOTS IN WALES.- There have been delivered from the " Vote-office" parts of the following papers, namely (No. 33), a copy of a " Proclamation issued by her Majesty to cer tain districts in South Wales, dated Monday, 20th October, 1843," which was ordered by the House of Commons, on the motion of Capt. Bernal, to be printed, on the 15th instant. This proclamation con cludes with an offer of 5001. and a free pardon from her Majesty, to any person or persons, not being the actual perpetrator of the outrages, or incendiary fires, or any of them recited in the body of the proclama • tion, who shall discover and apprehend—or cause to be discovered and apprehended—the "authors, abet tors, and perpetrators of any such incendiary fire—or any such outrage—whereby life shall have been sa crificed; or that they or any of them shall be duly convicted thereof;" such reward of 5001. to be paid " for each and every person who shall be so convicted. , Fifty pounds, and her Majesty's pardon, are also offered, under like restrictions against the actual per petrators, to any person who shall, in like manner, apprehend, or cause to be apprehended, any person or persons concerned in any other outrages besides these so described, within the same counties and dis tricts,—on their conviction. POOR-LAW (No. 31). —Copy of the Reports of the Poor-law Commissioners to Sir James Graham, on the law concerning the maintenance of bastards. (Ordered to be printed, on motion of Sir James Graham, Feb. 14.) NAVY (No. 16).—An account of the annual re ceipt and expenditure for the year ended on March 31, 1843. Presented (in the usual course) pursuant to 2 Will. IV., c. 40. (Feb. 7.) CLONTARF MEETlNG.—Proclamation of his Excel lency the Lord Lieutenant, in Council, against .meet ing summoned for Sunday, Oct. 8, 1843. Dated, " Council Chamber, Dublin Castle, Oct. 7." ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY. A distressing accident occurred last evening, shortly after eight o'clock, near the Wimbledon station of the South Western Railway. Two men named Henry Weller and John Weller (father and son), accompanied by a third in dividual named Pallick, had been spending the day with some friends at Chelsea, which place they left about eight o'clock to return home to Ewell, in Surrey. They arrived at that point of the road intersected by the South-Western Railway, near Wimbledon, about half-past eight, and as it was nearly dark did not observe the cross-gates, erected to prevent persons crossing the line, until they were close upon them, when John Weller called out suddenly, " Come on, here is a train coming," and imme diately after throwing open the gate attempted to cross the line. At the same instant the tive o'clock up-train from Southampton passed by at full speed, and on Charles Pallick (the third individual alluded to) and Henry Weller looking round they could see nothing of the unfortunate man who had but the instant before called out to them to follow him across the road. One of the policemen on the line coming up a search was made, and the unfortunate man was dis covered about a hundred yards from where he crossed the road, bleeding profusely from a wound in his head, where the skull was laid open, besides being otherwise much injured. He was removed with all possible care, and the best means at hand used to stay the hemorrhage. About half an hour subsequently the Woking up-train, on being signalled by the policeman, stopped and took in the unfortunate man, who was conveyed in one of the first-class carriages to the Nine elms terminus, where medical assistance was instantly ob tained. The poor fellow had not then ceased to breathe, but had remained perfectly insensible from the time of the acci dent. THE AWFUL ACCIDENT AT THE LANDSHIPPING COLLIERY. _• (From theysTlTian , of Saturday.) On the afternoon of Wednesday last, one of the most dreadful and destructive events ever known in Pembrokeshire took place at Landshipping Colliery, the property of Colonel Owen. The short time which has intervened has not allowed a sufficient opportunity to obtain full particulars of the sad catastrophe ; but the following circumstances connected with it are believed to be substantially correct. The colliery has for very many years been in full work, giving employment to a large number of men, women, and boys. —lt appears that on Monday last a lot of men and boys were set to work in a level, which was about a quarter of a mile long, and extended a considerable distance under the bed of the river Dungleddy, and which had not for about three years previously been worked, for the reason, it is said, that it was not considered safe to carry on operations there, the colliers having reported that in one place there was a leak of salt water over their heads. In the afternoon of Wednesday there were between forty and fifty men and boys employed in various parts of the level. Three of the boys, who were nearest to the mouth of the pit, were alarmed by hearing a violent rush of water in the interior of the works ; they instantly ran to the pit's mouth, and were only just in time to save their lives, by climbing up the sides of the pit, before the water filled the level—had they been a moment later, the water would have overwhelmed them, as it did all their unfortunate companions who were in the in terior. It was immediately afterwards found that a portion of the ground underneath the mud on the side of the river, a little above low water mark, and directly over the level, had given way, and the tide, which was then flowing, was ob served to rush with great force into the fissure, so as to drown the works, and render the escape of the hapless col liers utterly hopeless. Tidings of the sad calamity were quickly conveyed to the village where the workmen had re sided, and as soon as the nature and extent of it were ascer tained, a scene of the most heart-rending kind was exhibited among the surviving wives, mothers, and other re latives of the unfortunate colliers, which it is far easier to imagine than to describe. Immediately after the poor boys had come above ground, the landing-tub was lowered to assist any who might be at the bottom of the pit, but when it was pulled up it was found to contain nothing but water. Some short time afterwards, the steward of the works went down, but he could discover nothing but pieces of timber floating on the water. The greater portion of the poor men who have thus met a violent and untimely death, have left wives and large families to deplore their loss. In addition to the incalculable amount of distress and destitution which the surviving relatives must inevitably sustain, the injury to the proprietor, and the other colliers in his employ, is tre mendous, as it is thought that all the works on the estate communicate internally with each other, so that it is probable the water has extended through the whole, which may pos sibly occasion a total cessation of them, or, at all events, a vast outlay of money to stop the fissure and expel the water. THE MURDER AT PLUMSTEAD.—CONFESSION OF THE MURDERER.—We understand that John Bodle, who was found guilty on Tuesday last, and sentenced to twenty years' transportation, for extorting money from Lord Abingdon's butler, under throat of making a diabolical charge, and who, about ten years ago, was tried at Maidstone for the murder of his grandfather, by poison, on which occasion he was ac quitted, has confessed, since his confinement in Newgate, that he did commit that murder, and that no one but himself was concerned in the horrid transaction. _ _ The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of Com mons had his second Parliamentary dinner on Saturday last, at his private mansion in Eaton-square. Covers were laid for 30. Lord John Russell, Viscount Palmerston, Viscount Howick, Lord Marcus Hill, Lord Robert Grosvenor, Mr. Byng, Right Hon. Geo. Stevens Byng, Sir Geo. Grey, Sir John Cam Hobhouse, Right Hon. H. Labouchere, Right Hon. Francis Thornhill Baring, Right Hon. B. Macaulay, Mr. Vernon Smith, Sir Wm. Clay, Mr. Chas. Wood, Sir Thos. Wilde, Rear-Admiral Deans Dundas, Mr. Tufnell, Mr. Chas. Buller, Mr. Pendarves, Mr. More O'Ferrall, Mr. Ord, Mr. John Parker, Mr. Wyse, Colonel Fox, and Right Hon. R. L. Sheil, constituted:the party. Lord Seymour, Sir Thomas Troubridge, Hon. Fox Maule, and Mr. Pigot were unavoid ably absent. • FIRE.—Last evening, shortly after six o , clock, an alarming fire broke out on the premises belonging to Mr. Worssam, newsvender and tobacconist, carrying on business at 39, King-street, Snow-hill. The flames were first per ceived raging in the shop by some of the neighbours, who immediately raised an alarm, Mr. Worssam being at the time; in the upper part of the building. Such was the fury of the flames, that it was found impossible to enter the pre mises until the arrival of the engines. There being an abun dant supply of water, one engine was set to work, and by dint of great exertion, succeeded in confining the fire to that part of the building where it commenced, and soon extin guished the same ; not, however, until the whole of the stock in trade was either consumed, or rendered useless by the action of the fire. Gentleman Cadet Black, of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, has, in consequence of ill-treatment received from some of his companions under the vile system termed fagging, absconded, and has not been heard of since Saturday last.—Naval and Military Gazette. GOVERNMENT CONTRACT FOR NEW STEAMERS. — A circular has been issued by the Lords of the Admiralty to the chief of our engineers, to send in, before the sth of next month, tenders for four new steamers, two of the first and two of the second class. The weight of the machinery, inclusive of the boilers filled with water, is to be 350 tons for the first class, and 300 tons for the second. The first class coal chambers are to be capable of holding 400 tons of coal, and for the second 350, taking each ton at 48 cubic feet. After giving a variety of necessary directions, the invitation to the engineers concludes by stating that those tenders, however, which place engines of sufficient power in a space less than 54 and 50 feet, and give the largest stowage of coals, will be preferred. The officers of the two regiments (the Ist Life Guards and the Grenadier Guards) in garrison at Windsor, have just arranged to give a second amateur performance at the Theatre Royal on Thursday next, in aid of the charitable institutions of the borough. At the last performance the re ceipts amounted to 106/. Is., independently of about 14/. re ceived for admissions to the full dress rehearsal. Captain Strange, of the 13th Light Dragoons, who escaped from the Military Lunatic Asylum, Fort , Cl a rence, Chatham, on the evening of the 15th of last January, has been discovered, in custody, at the town of Sandbach, in Cheshire, a distance of 160 miles from London. In the case heard in the Common Pleas, Guild hall, on Friday and Saturday, of the Fishmongers Company v. Robertson and others, the jury found a verdict for the de fendant, damages ls. A PITHY A N SWER. --A negro who was called on a a 'fitness in a North Carolina court, on being examined as to the nature of an oath, was asked if he knew what would be the consequences here and hereafter if he swore to a lie ? " Yes," said he, " ears off, and no share in de kingdom." AMERICAN NEWSPAPER " Halloo, boy, ain't you got a daddy living ?" " No, but my brothers have ?" " What's their names ?" " Why, they're both named Bill, except Sam, and his name's Bob ! My name's Booze, but they calls me Boozy, for short. Anything more to ax?"— Literary Gazette. On Thursday, two tine mushrooms, weighing about six ounces, were found in a field near Wheatley.—Leeds Mercury. SITAFTESBURY.—The scarlet fever still lingers here—there have been several deaths through this disease lately.—Sherborne Journal. BAPTISM.—The Nottingham Review says :—" On Sunday an aged female was baptised at Loughborough, in the open air ; the ice on the surface had to be broken before she could enter the water. She had recently joined the New Testament disciples." LIEUTENANT MAHON. The Naval and Military Gazette directs attention to a case published therein on the 3d instant, respecting the examina tion of Mr. Mahon, an Irish gentleman, before the Insolvent Debtors' Court, and the circumstances, which were peculiar. It seems this gentleman had served in the Royal Marines with the greatest credit. Having experienced kindness . from particular parties, he was induced, in return, to back halls to the amount of 6,0001., which bills, however, were dishonoured. To meet engagements in which he was thus unexpectedly in volved, he became deficient in, his public accounts to the amount of 2501., and being peremptorily called upon by the Admiralty to make good the deficiency, he was advised to resign. The Gazette then says—" Lieut. Mahon being thus deprived of his commission, thrown penniless upon the world, and quickly incarcerated, was compelled to take the benefit of the insolvent Act. The Chief Commissioner (Reynolds), who presided at the hearing of the case, said in his concluding address that during his many years' experience in that Court, he had invariably remarked amongst the number of persons and various classes of society which came before him (and there were some of all classes), he always found the officers of the navy were more tenacious of their honour than any other class of men, and he was happy to say that, in the present case, he saw nothing mean, nothing shabby nor dis honourable, and therefore the Court considered the insolvent entitled to the benefit of the Act, and ordered hiin to be dis charged forthwith.' Although we consider Mr. Mahon, like all other acceptors of accommodation bills, highly blameable, still his case seems to be deserving the consideration of the present liberal Board of Admiralty, and we hope to find him reinstated in the service." [We cannot but echo this opinion, especially as we have seen most honourable testimonials possessed by Mr. Mahon from Colonel Laurence, C. 8., and from Colonel Fergusson and Adjutant Heriot, and also his passing certificate for an Adjutant signed by a Board of Field Officers composed of Colonels Laurence and Wright.]— Morning Advertiser. The nature of the intelligence from Peru, which is generally known. in the City, is of itself almost sufficient to show that the price of Peruvian stock is kept up by specula tion rather than by any substantial ground. The army of General Vivanco, under the command of General Guards, and composed of 3,000 men, infantry and cavalry, has been de stroyed by the opposing army under Generals Castillo and Nieto, 300 men only escaping. The letters state that the Vivanco Government cannot last; there Js every appearance of anarchy, and yet the stock still maintains a high quota tion in our market. The accounts from Ecuador represent that Republic as suffering great poverty under the military despotism of General Flores ; so that, whatever may be the prospects with respect to New Granada, .there seems but a slight chance of any arrangement being made to settle the Ecuador portion of the old Colombian debt. Even as far as the New Granada portion is concerned, the rumour alluded to yesterday is without official authority, since the Spanish Americp committee have heard nothing of the projected mission of an agent to this country, or of a consent by the Government to the terms of the bondholders. Whether M. Mosquera has anything to communicate remains to be seen.— Times. In the course of the Irish State trial, Mr. Whiteside quoted an extraordinary figure once used by an advocate— " I smell a rat—l see it brewing in the storm—and I ' will crush it in the bud." We are informed that Mr. R. V. Richards, Queen's Counsel, of the Oxford Circuit, is retiring from the bar, and will not again go on the Circuit. TO THE EDITOR OF TILE SUN. SIR,—As a constant supporter of your valuable paper, I beg you would insert that there is now in my house, a man, by the name of Michael Gould, who was saved from the Royal George, when she sank off Spithead, and he has nothing. to subsist upon but charity. His age is eighty-five; he is now with tile with two of his old companions, one ninety-three, and the other ninety-one. I remain, &c., G. COLE. P. S.—l think that a few of the crumbs that fall from the table of the Lords of the Admiralty, would do this old servant of the Crown a good which he is justly entitled to. Rising Sun, Fish-street, Poole. Mr. Templeton has concluded his first series of Scotch Entertainments, with unprecedented eclat, at Blanches ter and Liverpool. Dr. Marshall, of Oxford, secured Mr. T's. services at a liberal remuneration to delight the Oxonians on the 16th and 17th inst., and we perceive that Briatcl, Bath, Taunton, &c. &c., have thrown out bait to ensnare for next week the treats this eminent vocalist is at present lavishing in the provinces. We are happy to find, however, that he has not entirely deserted the metropolis in the infancy of his newly-adopted popular line, for which he has proved himself' so highly qualified. Mr. T. commences a series Of enter tainments at the Music-hall, Store-street, on the evening Of the 28th inst., at eight o'clock: LADY SHOPLIFTERS. On Saturday afternoon, about five o'clock, two elegantly-dressed women entered th e . shop of Mrs. Rose, jeweller, &c., Farringdon-street, and after. looking at several articles, made a. small purchase and de-. parted. Mrs. Rose, however, having had reason to suspect them, sent her lad to watch them ; and after proceeding douse Farringdon-street, the younger person entered the shop, of Mr. Flemming, pawnbroker. As soon as she had left .the shop the boy entered, when he found that she had pledged a hand some gold locket for 21. The lad now followed them, and gave them into the custody of police-Constable Adams,. 214, who conveyed them to the Fleet-street police 7 station, where the younger woman was perceived to drop, a knife from a pocket made in her boa. The knife, which was a silver one, was identified by Mrs. Rose as her property ; and the locket above alluded to was subsequently identified as the property of a silversmith in Cheapside. The women, who were elm-- gently attired, gave their address Mrs. Enshaw and 'Wells, No. 8, Park-street, Camden-town, where City Police constable Wardle 325, accompanied by the above constable, Were sent, and on arriving at their apartments the constables found clothing of the most costly description, all of which, together with seven trunks and one carpet bag, were re 'moved in a coach to the Fleet-street police-station, where the boxes and carpet bag, on being opened, were found to be literally crammed with silks and satins, &c., chiefly net made up. In one of the trunks was found a quantity ofjew ellery, consisting of gold watches, brooches, &c. One of the watches is stated to be worth 301. This trunk contained abso 25 sovereigns. The whole of the property found is estimated at between 3001. and 4001. FIRE IN THE LONDON-ROAD.—Last night, between the hours of eight and nine, as police constable 156 L was proceeding along his beat, his attention was directed to the oil and colour-warehouse belonging to Mr. Grayling, situate at 37, London-road, by seeing a dense body of smoke issuing out of the fanlight over the shop-door. Perceiving that fire was raging in the interior of the building, he gave the necessary alarm, and dispatched a messenger with informa tion of the same to the engine station. In a short time the engines arrived in rapid succession, and soon extinguished the flames, but not before the greater portion of the stock trade was consumed, and the building extensively damaged. THE MACKEREL FISHERY.—It is said that the Mount's Bay boats, amounting to upwards of 100, have been very successful on the Plymouth station, the majority of them having taken from 4,000 to 10,000 fine mackerel per night, which realised from 10s. to 15s. per 120. West Briton. The Hunterian oration was delivered on Wednes day last, at the Royal College of Surgeons, by Mr. South, a member of the council; but throughout the entire lecture (says a medical journal) the name of Hunter was accidentallx or studiously omitted. CORNISH ENGINES.—The number of pumping en,„ gines reported this month is thirty-seven. 'ihey have co n . sumed 3,090 tons of coal, and fitted thirty milli on to , of water ten fathoms high. The average duty of the vg . il i a i s therefore 54,000,0001b5, lifted one foot high by the co ' nsu m m e tion of a bushel of coal.—Lean's Engine Reporter. - THE EARL OF CARLISLE..—.The ace( Castle Howard give ..a more favourable report f • 9 the condition of the noble invalid. Ants from , 6 - PO 9, 0 '4 4 " <0 1