The Sun. — London, England, 1839-01-16 00:00:00

E TO-MOBROW. minutes after 3 minutes al :er 3 ,ng Morning. .... IS Majesty the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA, His Majesty the EMPEROR of RUSSIA, His Majesty the KING of PRUSSIA, lining AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several Distribu tions of Money , which (th oug h th ey are NO LOTTERI ES, and do NOT EXPOSE the Shareholders to Blanks) offer possibilities of obtaining LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS at HAMBURGH, and HEINE BROTHERS at LUBECK, have ceased to contract for Lotteries, but are NOW SELLING SHARES for any of the said DISTRIBUTIONS of MONEY, at various rrices. The Distributions contain various portions from el., to 20,0001. and upwards. Orders for less than 101. cannot be attended to. Persons desirous to purchase may receive PRE VIOUS to giving any orders, the Prospectus and particulars, upon addressing, WITHOUT DELAY, a line to HEINE BROTHERS a: HA3IBURGH. DIVIDEND. DROTESTANT DISSENTERS and GE NERAL LIFE and FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY. A HALF YEARLY DIVIDEND, at the rate of £4 per cent. per Ann., may be received by the Proprietors on any day between the hours of Ten and Four, at the Offices of the Company, No. 62, King William -street, London Bridge. By order of the Board, THOMAS PRICE. Secretary. On the Ist of February, in post Bvo., cloth, price 10s. 6d., WOMAN PHYSIOLOGICALLY CONSI DERED, with regard to MIND, MORALS, MAR RIA,GE, MATRIMONIAL INFIDELITY, and DIVORCE. By ALEXANDER WALKER, Esq. London : A. H. Baily and Co., 83, Cornhill. The publication of THa SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 30 minutes past Three o'clock. Ciel!i'-' - ' it , ~., . _•<, .. . -,.., ~ ~ 4 4 - _:: .1 . , - . ' ..: , 4 ,.. ,, , , : - = , , t ,, ,, , Alitiz•i-,.:-L,, -. e/In ':1-,tzili+ WITH WHICH THE " TRUE SUN" 1S NOW INCORPORATED. LONDON : WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 16, 1839, It is not a little curious, that the Tory Journals in their zeal to uphold the starvation laws, make vehe ment attacks on the cotton lords, seeing that their great leader owes most of his consideration to the fact, that his father was one of the greatest of them. If we acre not mistaken too, some of the brightest rising *lights of the party, such as the Messrs. GLADSTONES, MILNEs, and BA RINGS (Lord ASHBURTON'S son), owe their wealth to commerce and manufactures, which the Tories are at present so eager to decry. Are these gentlemen and their allies, anxious to kick down the ladder by which they have scaled the aristocratic heaven and are seated with the lords 01 the soil in the aristocratic elysium ? • We are inclined to think by the zeal with which the Tory Journals, from one end of the land to the other, at present depreciate commerce and manufactures. One of their great arguments, for example, which, though it was refuted and exposed when it appeared two months ago in"Blaekwood, has since been re stated by the Carlisle Journal, the Morning Post, the Morning Herald, aided by scores of subordinate copyists representing the clodpole interest, is that the agricultural interest is of infinite more importance, that its wealth is greater, its population more numerous and moral than those of the whole of our manufactures and commerce. Let us grant this assumed importance, for argument sake ; does it, therefore, follow that manufactures and commerce are of no importance ? Can it be con cluded, will any man dare avow, that commerce and manufactures are to be sacrificed to promote the pro sperity of the agriculturists ? To that conculsion, how ever, these comparative statements directly lead ; and we beg to remind our so-called Conservative Contempora ries, that they are pregnant with more disastrous and an .' - archical consequences, than any of the doctrines pro t - el I • • • • •• gave always been willing to believe that the interests of all men in society are the same, that one helps for ward another, that it is by mutual and reciprocal exertions; WhiCh are equally beneficial to all, by the great principle of division of labour, that the majority - are comfortably fed, lodged, and clothed, and the na tional prosperity promoted. That commercial and manufacturing aggrandizement enlarge the market • for the produce of agriculture and promote its prosperity, in accordance with this general principle, cannot, in Lancashire and Middlesex, or in any part of England, require a single observation to demon strate it. The increase of commerce and manufac tures is, therefore, a great and a direct benefit to the agriculturists, and all that the commercial and manu . facturing classes ask is to be allowed free scope for .their, industry, which will be sure to enlarge the de mand for agricultural produce: They do not ask a „ penny from the agriculturists, or for any restriction on them, or to impede in any manner their free agency in supplying themselves or cultivating the land as they please. But thelandlords do insist on taking agreat many pennies from the manufacturers, traders, and shipowners; they lay on them a most onerous restriction, and will not allow them to prepare their manufactures for the best market, nor purchase food where they please with the produce of their own labour. In short, they insist, because, as their advocates say, they are much more powerful, more opulent, and more numerous than the manufacturers, on sacrificing the prosperity of the others, in order to promote the prosperity of the landowners. That the whole scheme is most short-sighted, and must be in the end most ruinous to the landlords themselves, does not at all abate the anarchical iniquity of the principle on which it is founded. Government is organized to protect property, which is altogether of private growth and individual formation. Its duty consists in giving equal protection to property of all kinds, and it violates its duty when it sacrifices any branch of society, however minute, to say nothing of such main trtmks as those of manufactures and commerce, to enlarge or enrich another. We deny that the agricultural interest is promoted by any restrictions whatever on trade ; but the argu ment of the Tory Journals is, that the Corn-laws promote that interest, and they justify the sacrifice of trade and commerce, by claiming for agriculture a great comparative superiority. Thus they call on the Government or the Legislature to continue that vio lation of its duty towards the manufacturers, which it sometime ago . adopted under a short-sighted ignorant notion, that it was expedient to establish a system of enriching one class at the expense of another. But if ' the manufacturer is not to have from the State equal protection with the agriculturist, he will owe it less or no obedience. By what arguments addressed to his interest or self-respect can he be persuaded that his occupation is not as useful, as honest, and as deserving of that protection he enters into society to obtain, as the owner of land or the grower of corn ? No such argument can be adduced and the advocates of the Corn-laws, by proposing to continue the sacrifice of one interest for another, strike at the root of all good government. Their principles lead to separation and dissolution ; they would intro duce anarchy as well as decay, and would cut asunder the bonds which hold men together in society in peace by mutual service. Strange conduct in statesmen, and strange social facts have of late forced some unquestionably strange doctrines on public attention, but none surpass in • absurdity and mischief the doctrine that commerce and manufactures, however humble, may be impeded or sacrificed to promote agriculture. The Tories even go so far as to chuckle with delight at the announcement , IGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDG that our machinery is exporting daily, that our ma nufactures cannot contend with those of the Con- tinent, that our skilful artizans are daily expa triating themselves, and that our manufacturers are preparing to follow skilled labour and its ingeni ous results, putting them to use in other countries, to which they will give all the advantages of British talent, British industry, and British capital. They wish the manufacturers a good voyage, and in form them that the country will be happy to get rid of them. The Devil's laws have been appropriately com pared to the revocation of the edict of Nantes, which drove from France the most ingenious of her people, and gave her manufactures and commerce a blow which they have never recovered. That revocation was dictated by blind, stupid bigotry which, we take leave to say, was a high and ennobling motive compared to the scoundrel avarice which dictates our Corn-laws. The present patriotism of the Tories, however, if we may judge by the Morning Post, partakes of the devilish character of both these motives, for they actually rejoice over the embarrassment and ruin, over the decay and ba nishment of our manufactures, which the Corn-laws are now causing. The Paris Papers of Monday announce the con tinuance of the debate in the Chamber of Deputies relative to the evacuation of Ancona, but to the hour when the mails left for London, no division had taken place. It was generally believed that Ministers would resign on the presentation of the address—even in the event of their maintaining their present small m.jo rity upon every subsequent division, of which they were rather doubtful. The correspondent of the Morning Chronicle, in a letter of Monday's date, very lucidly and forcibly illustrates the present state of parties in the Chamber. He states correctly, that what is called the Centre of the Chamber consists of about 200 members, placemen, pensioners, contrac tors, petty officials, and waiters upon Providence, who vote uniformly with every Cabinet. This is the KING'S party, and resemble that party in England, who, during the first American war, bestowed upon themselves the name of " the King's friends." To this party every candidate for a seat in the Cabinet hitherto was in'the habit of of appealing, and whenever the case was doubtful, the leaders took their cue from the intelligi ble hints conveyed to them directly from the Chateau. MM. THIERS and GUIZOT have, however, dared to set the Centre at open defiance, by forming a coalition with the Left, so formidable, as already to lead to numerous desertions from the old Royal phalanx. While occupying a Bench be hind the Minister, M. THEIRS made some friends who have ranged themselves behind him in his newly chosen locality. As this is tantamount to a threat to govern without the old acts of Ministerial corruption, and consequently to break up the Centre, the rage of that party is as natural as it is intelligible. Should M. THEIRS succeed, the KING'S influence in the Chamber will be reduced within Constitutional limits. Bur, unfortunately, no faith can be reposed in the pa triotism of a man more under the influence of tem perament than principle, and who will never be at a loss to discover in expediency an excuse for change of system. The Gazette de France, a Carlist organ, announces defeat of a detachment of Christinos at San loch, by - a band of Carlists, under CASTOR, in which the former had 700 men killed and wounded, while the latter lost only 80. Bulletins of this de scription are so frequently manufactured in Bayonne and Paris, that we place no faith in them. Possibly the above announcement has reference to a skirmish which took place on the 2d instant, at the fortified bridge of Udally, in which nearly 500 men were killed and w6unded on both sides; but which, except this amount of bloodshed, was productive of no result FRENCH FUNDS. —PARIS, JANUARY 14. First Highest Low. st La,t Price. Price. Price. Price. French 5 per Cent' 4 per Cents lO/ 40 ... 1 , 2 40 ... 11'2 40 ... 102 40 tlp r Cents 7B 135 ... 78 70 ... 78 65 ... 18 73 Bank of 1 ranee Lattitte Bank 1,00!f. Sh 1073 ...1 ,, 73 —.1075 ... ...1075 5,0 Of. Sh • 5310 —.5310 . ...5305 .. 5303 Belgian 5 per Cents. ICO4 ... 10014 ... 1 , 0 ... 100 3 per Cents 66 ... 66 10 ... (15 11) ... 66 10 Ba• k. ... 595 ... 585 ... 95 % L Spanish Active ... 1 ... 17 , 4 ... 1 4 ,6 7, Passiv e 4 ... 4 7Y.i ••• ... 4 Portuguese 5 per Cents Bl ... 81 ... 81 ... 81 3 per Cents 2H,4 ... • 21 , ,4 ... 21.', ... 21% Don Miguel . Boman lOO% ... 101 ... ICON ... 101 AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, JAN. 5. Five per Cents. Metalliques Four per Cents. lOO% Three per Cents. [lank Shares 1542 —A/ ( gemeineZeitung. Jan. 10. The German Papers received this morning contain very little news of general interest. The Emperor NICHOLAS has elevated M. TA TISCHEFP, his Am bassador at the Court of Vienna, to the dignity of a Member of the Council of the Empire, in consideration of his services in Germany. The King of SWEDEN, to improve his health, and allay the disaffection of his subjects, is making the tour of his dominions. The Quebec Mercury of the 14th ultimo, received to-day, contains a report of a meeting of merchants, held in the city of Quebec, to prepare a remonstrance to the Government against an order received by the Collector of Customs, to insist upon all payments of Taxes, and Port and Harbour Dues, being made in specie. Several resolutions were unanimously adopted, setting forth the hardships of such an order, at a time when the mercantile community were, by an Act of the local Legislature, compelled to receive Bank paper. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.' CORN EXCHANGE. There are small fresh supplies of all kinds of Corn, and also of Flour. Very little business has been transacted in Wheat to-day, and the factors are unwilling to take lower prices than on Monday. Barley is likewise dull, but not further reduced in value. Beans and Pease remain as last reported. In the Oat trade sales have been limited, yet Monday's rates are maintained. Flour continues to meet a very slack demand, at last quotations. ARRIVALS Wheat, I Barley. I,oloqrs I,s'7llqrs. Oats. 5301 rs 1,041) Flour 551 4. cks English Irish Foreign NEWGATE AND LEADEN'HALL. Supplies plentiful; the demand good, and prices as before. Poultry and Geese in good supply, and demand and prices as last quoted. - brls. CITY FISH MARKET. Supplies scarce still, and prices high. QUARTERLY INDIGO SALE.—SECOND DAY. The sale progressed briskly to-day. Prices are from Is. to Is. Gd , per lb. above those of last sale. COLONIAL MARKETS. A fair business doing and prices firm. British Plantation and other Raw Su4ars support their prices. Refined Sugar equal to the standard 775. to 785., and that rather under 765. to 775. At public sale 2,300 bags Bengal Sugar, with small parcels of Mauritius and Slams fetched yesterday's prices. Ginger, Cassia, Pepper, Mace, and Nutmegs, sold at their former value. Coffee-1,800 bags East India at the 9d. duty sold at 435. and 84s. according to quality; and 50 cks. Jamaica at its previous value. Rice is 6d. to is higher than it was this day week. The reported assassination of Col. Sir A. M'Nab created much sensation yesterday 'morning. Letters have, however, been received by very respectable firms here, de nying the truth of the reports circulated in the lower pro vince, and on the United States' frontiers, respecting that supposed deed of lawlessness. In addition to the denial in the letters, we believe on good authority that the gen tleman who brought despatches to-day from Canada to the Colonial-office has stated that Sir Allan M'Nab was alive and well.—Morning Paper. New writs will be moved the first day of Parliament's sitting for the Tower Hamlets, in the room of Dr. Lushing ton, promoted to the Judgeship of the Admiralty Court ; and for Sandwich, &c., in the place of Sir James Rivett Carnac, appointed Governor of Bombay. Lieutenant-General Sir Rufane Donkin, K.C.8., the Surveyor-General of the Ordnance, has started as a candidate for the representation of the united boroughs of Sandwich and Deal, in consequence of the retirement of Sir James Carnac, Bart., Governor of the Presidency of Bombay. Sir Rufane was the unsuccessful candidate for Berwick upon-Tweed at the last general election. It is, we believe, the intention of Mr. Baron Vaughan to tender his resignation immediately. This will still leave Lw o vacancies on the judicial bench. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1839 BANKRUPTCY COURT-THIS DAY. EXTRAORDINARY SYSTEM OF FRAUD. CHARLES NEALL'S BANKRUPTCY. This was the third examination of the bankrupt as to his property. The prisoner's examinations involved some disclosures of a most extra. ordinary nature. The bankrupt was formerly in business at Epping, and it appears has been connected in several transactions with Benjamin Parker, who was not long since committed and tried for forgery, but acquitted. This latter person's affairs are also under the jurisdiction of this Ct urt, and his examination has disclosed the most extraordinary and 110 it extensive system of fraud that has for some years bees known t ) have been practised upon the commercial world. The object princi pally sought to be attained hitherto by the examination of Neal', w a s the furtl er exposure and discovery of the system practised by him and his confederates. Mr. JAMES appeared as Counsel for the assignees, and Mr. STAFFORD attended for the bankrupt. At t! e last examination an objection was taken by the bankrupt's advocate to a question which was put to the bankrupt, and this question involving the paint whether a question tending to criminate the bank rupt e o Id be legally put to him, the Learned Commissioner said he would give judgment this day. Accordingly, at the sitting of the Court this morning, Sir C. F. WiLLIAMS said he had maturely considered the objection, and had looked through the depositions, and he must say he found no single question which the Judges had not ruled to be perfectly fair. Nor could he perceive that any of the answers of the bankrupt contained an imputation, on the contrary, they denied every thing that might tend to criminate. With regard to the point, whether a question tending to criminate the bankrupt could fairly be put to him, he had looked through 01l the cases bearing on the subject, and he was of opinion that such questions might be put. Lord Chancellor Eldon had ruled that mere tendency was not sufficient to stop the question being put. That Learned Lord had • invariably considered that to restrain Counsel from putting such questions as might tend to the discovery of the property of the bankrupt, was in fact putting a restraint upon the creditors. The examination of the bankrupt by Mr. Lucas was then proceeded with. The object of this day's examination was to discover the cir cumstances attending the disposal of his house and business as a cheese. monger, &c., at Epping. It appeared from his answers that he had disposed of his stock and furniture at Epping to a person of the name of Hills, for 601. There was a real person of the name, and he gave ac. ceptances for 601. The bills were not, however, turned into money. The bills were not drawn. He believed Hill had not been living as clerk with Marshall and Stephens, cheesemongers, Hill was acquainted with Ball and Metcalf (two of the supposed gang) but not with Parker. The person who introduced Hill to him (the bankrupt) was acquainted with all the parties whose names have transpired. Produces the two acceptances in their present state (they were torn into small slips, and appeared as if they had been carried loose in the pocket for some time) Received the acceptances from Ballard since his examination com menced. Does not know who delivered them to him. Does not know where Ballard is. Could not tell either by the envelope or the mes." senger where that person is. By Sir C. F. WILLIAMS—Had never had the acceptances in his pos. session. One was at two and the other at three months. By Mr. JAMES `-The acceptances were made at the Feathers. Re. ceived them from Ballard last week. By Sir C. F. WittrAms—Could not trace from the envelope or other. wise where Ballard is. Mr. JAMES—Aye, that is what we want to get at, but I am afraid we never shall. Examination resumed.—Hills was a real person. The sale for 601 was bona fide, but never received any part of the purchase.money. Cannot assign any reason why, if the tran=action was a bona fide one, the bills were not negociated, or why they were not made negociable (the bills were not signed by the drawer). Council pressed the bank. runt closely upon this point, but did not succeed in eliciting a decisive answer. The bankrupt was under examination when our reporter left OYD'S SHIYPING.-(THIS DAY DEAL, JAN. 15. —Wind N. W., strong breezes.— Arrived and remain the Britons' Queen, Newton, from St. Michael's; Somersetshire, Jackson, Bombay ; Transit (steamer), Wright son, Lisbon ; Ariel, Dye, Kutch ; Franklin, Niagara. Came down from the River the Indiana, Gillet, for Calcutta ; Daniel Clarke, India ; Newborn, Prak, Alexandria; Marie, Cockerell, Leghorn ; Iberia (steamer), Gibraltar ; Elliot, Martin, Leghorn. The outward-hound remain. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 15.—Wind N. N \V.—Arrived the En terprize, Smart, from Taganrog; Happy Return, Hutchins, St. Michael's; Albatross, Forbes, ditto; Juno (steamer), London. Sailed the Fly, Gibb, for Bordeaux. FALMOUTH, JAN. 14. —Wind W. to W. N. W., strong breezes.—Arrived the Alida, Borcher, from Palermo; Royal Adelaide (steamer), Jay, London. Sailed the Iberia (steamer), Cooper, for Naples, &c. ; Shannon (steamer), Pim, flatmouth ; Naples packet, Richards, London. MARGATE, JAN. 15.—Arrived off, the Roscoe Castle Mur ray, from the Mediterranean, with loss of anchor and chain. BRISTOL, JAN. 14 —Arrived the Rosalind, Drake, from Gallipoli ; Eliza, Cephalonia ; Sarah, Webber, Charente. SWANSEA, JAN. 14.—Arrived the Favourite, De Haan, from Callao ; Prima Donna, St. Ives, for Naples, to repair damages sustained in the gale 6th and 7th inst. YARMOUTHROADS, JAN. 14. Arrived the Atlas, Bjorneburg. NEWPORT, JAN. 14.—Arrived the Bellona, Hellman, from Mi;arnichi, very leaky, with loss of deck load. bulwark=, &c. SHOREHAM, JAN. 15.—Sailed the John, Crottin, Leghorn. TORBAY, JAN. 14.—Arrived the Grace, Welkin, from Newcastle; Orontes, Webster, Shields. DUBLIN, JAN. 14.—Arrived the Myrtle. from Lisbon. TUSKAR, JAN. 12.—Arrived off, Cambridge, Liverpool. CORK, JAN. 13.—Arrived the Sumatra, Harvey, Odessa Sir John Byng, Pearce, Kutcb ; Nuvo Diligcnte, St. Übe's William, Rose, St. Michaels. LYNIINGTON, JAN. 14 —Arrived the Governor, Corney and Fame, London. DARTMOUTII, JAN. 14.—Arrived off, the Buttemus, Batavia, ANNAN. JAN. 14.—1 t blew a 5p,,,,a _ . a-. Brost or the coasters were driven on shore; and twelve, mostly coal laden, from Carlisle, are on shore on some marshy ground at the entrance of the river. One, the Pilgrim, from Lancaster, has sustained some damage. The Eliza and Catherine, Quin, of the Isle of Man, is also on shore, but without damage. SHIELDS, JAN. 13.—Arrived the Reliance, Walters, from Cephalonia; Quebec Packet, Stephens, Taganrog; Rose, S:orey, Antwerp ; Lady Steward, Sim, Honfleur. HULL, JAN. 15.—Wind N. W.—Arrived the Transit steamer, from Hamburg. LEITII, JAN. 12.—Arrived the Duke of Gordon, Humphry, front Smyrna. LYNN, JAN. 13.—Arrived the Commercial Packet, Gowan, from Dieppe. BRIGIITON, JAN. 15.—A boat, marked " Edward Johnston, Lymington," has been picked up off this place. SOUTH FORT, JAN. I.4.—The papers of the Unicorn, Hall, of Wexford, have been washed on shore. 900 bales of cotton have been got from the Victoria (on shore near Seasome), without damage; the tide flaws through the vessel. Part of the wreck of a vessel drove against the Victoria's stern this morning, broke her rudder, and did her other damage. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 15. —Wind N. W., fresh breezes.—Arrived the Boyne, from Drogheda; Irish Lass, ditto; Town of Ross, Dublin; Queen Victoria (steamer), ditto ; Liffey, ditto; Unicorn, Glasgow. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 15.—The Cumberland, Tickle, from Amllwch to Troon, is believed to be totally lost near Black. pool, and crew drowned. COWES, JAN. 14.—Arrived the Martha Cairne, Lowther, from Lisbon ; King Alfred, St. Michael's ; Ballicum, John. son, Bahia. CREEK, JAN. 15.—Arrived the Reform, Sopet, from Cabia ; Sibra, Morton, Odessa; Ann, Johnston, Kutch; Atalanta, Sicily ; Diadem, Bower, Leghorn ; Malvina, Buckle, ditto ; Splendid, do. ; Sarah, Sadler, Gibraltar; Fidget, Hardy, do. RAMSGATE, JAN. 15.—Arrived the Patriot, Austin, from Newcastle. Sailed, the Antoinette Maria, for Bordeaux. HOLYHEAD, JAN. 14.—The Amy, Johnson, from Ipswich to Liverpool, which was on shore near this place, has been got off and brought into this harbour. DUBLIN, JAN. 14.—The Brilliant, Fitzgibbon, arrived at this port from Demerara ; saw a schooner with oranges on deck labouring heavily 7th inst., off Cape Clear, and does not suppose she could weather the hurricane. YARMOUTH, JAN. 15.—The Commerce, Kirby, was aban doned by the crew 7th inst., having sprung a leak —the crew saved by. the Ellen of Dundee. BRIDLINOTOI4,I JAN. 14. —The Exmouth, Eden, from Lon don to Newcastle, got in contact with the Rainbow, from Harwich to Shields, during a gale on the 7th inst., the latter foundered—crew saved by the former. HULL, JAN. 15.—The Transit (steamer) arrived at this port from Hamburgh, left Cuxhaven on the 13th inst. ; re ports the ice in the Elbe to be very heavy as far (or below) New Mills ; supposed packed 20 feet deep ; also, that many of the ships at Hamburgh received considerable damage dur ing the late gales. It has blown strong at N. W. during the night, and continues. ILFRACOMBE. JAN. 14.—The vessel seen off this harbour, 7th inst., capsized, is supposed to be the Echo pilot cutter, of Bristol. She was seen again on the 12th inst. ALDBOROUGII, JAN. 15.—A brig is sunk in about seven fa thoms water, about two miles to the southward of the buoy of the Knapes ; her topgallant -mast was seen this morning, just above water; her topgallant-sail has been brought on shore, marked "J. Storey, Pop'r, sail-maker ; M. W." The sail has been middle-stitched. A brig, without any signal of dis tress hoisted, sunk about 4r. m. Three smacks have gone out to both vessels. It is not known what has become of the crews. The Hope, Moore, from St. John's, New Brunswick, struck on the Owen Sands on the 10th inst., and filled with water ; the crew remained 'on board till the 14th ult. ; she was then towed by three smacks until off Cromer, when her two ropes broke, and she is supposed driven to the other side. The Messenger, Hill, of Hartlepool, has been towed into Barbour, having cut away her masts. THE FUNDS.-CLOSING PRICES Bank Stock 8R1T18120214 3 per Cent. Red 9 3 1 / 4, fi per Cent Ccds 9 2 7/ .s 3 , , per Cent. Red. oo3i N ew 3y,', per Cent ION Ncw 5 per Cent Long Annuities to expire Jan 1561 Oct. 1850 Jan. 1860 FOREIO TN FUNDS. Indial tack 0573 Ditto Bonds ;Ditto Old Annuities — Ditto New Annuities 'Ex. Bills, 1,11001 2%d 68 pin. I Ditto 50 0 1 f's pm Ditto 5001. 67 pin. Bank Stock for Act. India Stock for ._:t — IConsols for Opg ...... .... ....... Austrian, 5 per cent I FUNDS !Portuguese Bonds, 5 per cent.. 70 Belgian, 5 per cent e9%' Ditto, New Ditto Brazilian Bonds ..................... 77N, lPrussian, 5 per cent — Buenos Ayr 8, 6 per cent. — Russian Bonds, 5 per cent __al; Chiiian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic Colomb.an, 6 per cent 274 Spanish, 5 per cent 17% Ditto, 1824. ............................ Ditto, Consolidated ... .......... Danish, 3 per cent 7SS French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Greek Bonds, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange —f. —c Mexican, 5 per cent — French, 3 per cent —f. --r. Ditto, 6 per cent., 1825 kg% 1/utch ' 2% per cent..., 54 4 Peruvian, 1ff25,6 per cent...,,,, I Ditto, 5 per cent. ... 102% :(CLOSING PRICE OF SHARES.—(THIS DAY.) Eastern Counties Railway Great Western Railway... 78% London and Brighton Railway London and Black wall Railway London and Birmi ng h am Ra i lway ............... London and Cioydon Railway Manchester and Birmingham Railway Northern and Eastern Railway ...% 6 North Midland Railway ........,... .......... ~,..,.,. ..... „ 57 HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO THE HA YNI A RKE T. Her Majesty having signified to the Manager of the Hay market, through Lord Alfred Paget, an intention to patronise his theatre with her presence, paid him last evening the com pliment of selecting his benefit night as the occasion of a Royal visit. The performances—which by the way terminated the season—were The Irish Ambassador, O'Flannigan and the Fairies, and Tom Noddy's Secret , and they went off with the greatest spirit and eclat. Her Majesty (attended by the Countess of Charlemont, the Hon. Miss Spring Rice, the Hon. Mrs. George Campbell, Baroness Lehzen, Hon. Miss Paget, Lord Alfred Paget, Lord Lilford, and the Right Hon. George Byng) arrived at the theatre about eight o'clock, and the audience soon became aware of hey,presence. Just, how. ever, as at the termination of O'Flannigan and the Fairies, they seemed inclined to manifest their loyalty, Mr. Webster presented himself to make the following farewell address, throughout the whole of which be was immensely applauded : " LADIES AND GENTLEMEN—I have again to offer you my grateful acknowledgements for a most prosperous season, and that too despite of the unprecedented attractions of the larger legitimates. This theatre has now been open 243 successive nights, and believe me, Ladies and Gentlemen, it is with no small degree of pride I find that the taste of the public for pure tragedy, comedy, and farce, unaided by grand scenic effects, has enabled the little theatre in the Haymarket to suc cessfully hold the even tenour of its way unscathed, though with a veritable Tempest on one side and real roaring lions on the other ;—and it could still progress with increasing pro sperity, if the license permitted it ; and, had I not reason to be well satisfied as it is, it might be deemed somewhat hard to be obliged to close the doors in the midst of the most festive sea son of the year, and when all the theatres look forward to a certainty of profit. If the past may be taken as a presage of the future, you will, I hope, believe that during the recess neither money nor means shall be wanting in endeavouring, both before and behind the curtain, to merit a continuance of your distinguished favour, and I think I may venture to pro mise that all the available talent of first-rate excellence, either as regards authors or actors, will be presented to you in the course of the ensuing season. Again, Ladies and Gentlemen, sincerely thanking you for your patronage, I most respectfully —in the name of the company and myself, bid you farewell." At the close of this address there were loud calls for the Queen, to which her Majesty responded by making her ap pearance, and twice curtseying to the audience amid tremen dous acclamations. At the conclusion of Straus's " Hommage a la Reine de la Grand B. etsgne,"too, which ends with " God save the Queen," all the house rose, and stood during its per. formance, as did also the persons in the orchestra. Her Majesty remained till the termination of the entertainments, and then took her departure from the private entrance in Suffolk -street, where a considerable crowd had assembled, who greeted her with loud cheers. Previous to leaving her Majesty expressed herself to Mr. Webster as highly gratified with the perform ance of the ever Lig. IRELAND TEE PRECURSOR FUNDS.--We have received the Dublic papers of Monday, The Pilot has a nine.columned report of the adjourned Pre. cursor meeting alluded to yesterday in The Sun, but is silent on the subject of the disagreement between Mr. Purcell and Mr. O'Connell. Not so, however, is the Mail, which, of course, professing not to care one straw for either of the disputants, dwells at considerable length, and with evident satisfaction, on the quarrel that has sprung up between the " Liberator" and his late Liberal coadjutor in promoting the objects of the Precursor Society. The Mail desires to disabuse the public mind " respecting the ongoings of this Society, and the malversation of cer tain parties with respect to the funds contributed!" And in pursuance of such ass extremely laudable desire, draws out an indictment of many counts, the gravamen of which is, that frauds have been committed. The proof of this fraud, it were needless to say, rests chiefly on those intrepid assertions for which the Irish Tory organ is notorious. Amongst other assertions equally hardy, and equally unsupported by fact, the M a il say," that from the first day of the institution, up to the publica tion of Peter Purcell's letter, the nominal treasurer never had a particle of cont., ul or check over the funds of the Society." Furthermore says this lovar of truth, " It appears to us a very doubtful point, v, he ther the private resolution of the Committee, authorising the money to be lodged in the Tralee branch of the National Bank, to the credit of Daniel O'Connell, Esq., ever had an existence on the books of the So. ciety, until after the appearance and date of Peter Purcell's letter, arraigning that arrangement." The launching of this lie shows plainly enough the Mail's animus, and relieves us from the necessity of any comment, The following letter, the pun or wit of which we confess we cannot discover, appears in the Marl;-- " Merrien-square, Jan. 10, I 539. " Sir—At a meeting of the trustees to the funds of the Precursor Society, held this day at the Corn Exchange, Burgh.quay, it was una nimonsly resolved—' That the subscription of Peter Purcell, Esq., to the Precursor Society, be returned to him.' Pursuant to the above re solution, I now hand you my cheque on the Tralee Branch of the Na tional Bank, for the sum of One Shilling sterling, payable at sight, and am, Sir, with sentiments of unmixed contempt, your obedient servant, " DANIEL O'CONNELL. " To Mr. Peter Purcell, Imperial Hotel." DREADFUL MURDER. from the w We have seldom(Ab ridged been called upon to Glasgo record a Argus.) more melancholy case of murder (perpetrated, we hope, for the sake of human natbre, under the influence of insanity) than that which we have this morning to lay before our readers. It is the murder, by stabbing, of a girl, deaf and dumb, by the hand of her own brother. The supposed murderer, M`Kinnis, and his sister, Helen, resided alone in the same house, and no person witnessed the bloody did, so all that is known of tl e circumstance comes from the information of the unfortunate man himself. On being examined in the Police-office, he stated some what incoherently that he felt unable to support his sister, and under the apprehension that she might be lett to starve, resolved, as a lesser evil, to take away her life by violence, which he (Id by,stabbing her its various parts of the body with a knife. He appeared unsettled, ' frequently said he loved bis sister, did not think she would have strug gled so much, and once uttered the exclamation, " 0 my God," and almost felt to the ground. Ile soon reeovared, however. His infor mation in reference to themode by which his sister's death was pro duced, received awful corroboration on an inspection of the body by the police. The poor girl was found lying on the filer, covered with a mat, with 7 or 8 wounds caused by stabbing in various parts of her body, deep wounds had been inflicted in the neck, throat, and breast, and two gashes in the belly, front which the bowels were protruding, besides several cuts on the legs and thighs. It appears that she had been in bed, when the dreadful thought of murder entered the head of her maniac brother, for we cannot conceive that the died was committed in a rate of sound mind, That some of the wounds were inflicted while she was its bed is certain, as the 1.1 inkets in various places were pierced through, as if by a knife, and M`Kinnis's own account corroborates the fact. On Vie assault taking place she seems to have risen from the bed, anti attempted to disarm him, for his own hand is cut, as if in a struggle to retain the In fa. This dreadful affair appears to have taken p'ace about two o'clock in the morning. At that hour some of the neighbours heard a female scream; but imagining that it came from the street nothing was thought of the matter. On Captain Miler and the police entering the house, they were much sti uck by the conduct of a dog, which at first resisted their admission, and afterwards lay over the corpse of its mistress whining, as in great distress, and refusing to leave the spot For some time it prevented an inspec tion of the body taking place, and had latterly to be removed by force The knife, with which the deed had been committed was found all bloody on the floor. We have already stated that Helen M'liinnis was deaf and dumb, and by all acounts, she was a quiet, inoffensive, and industrious girl, and rather 1;1mi-to:ling. Her brother, it is said, was much attached to her, and nothing resembling a quarrel was known to take place betwixt them. The idea of her dying by starvation, which seems to have taken possession of her brother's mind, seems sufficient proof that he was labouring under hallucination of intellect, if not in a state of thorough madness. M`Kinnis, is, we believe, about 30 yea! s of age, and has of late been too much given to the use of intoxicating liquors. His eye is wild and unsettled ; but considering the dreadful circumstances in which he is placed, his demeanour is, on the whole, calm. His unfortunate sister was about 23 years of age. nONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS - CITY ( TIHS DAY), TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, TUESDAY.- The demand for Cotton to-day has been only moderate. The sales 1,500 bags, at previous prices. Arrivals this morning, a French mail ; ship letters from St. Michael's and Lisbon, by the Transit, from Bombay. We have a very great scarcity of arrivals this morning, con sequently it is a blank day for news. Great doubts are now entertained in the city of the assas sination of Sir A. M'Nab, owing to private letters having been received by a commercial house of a later date from Quebec, which contradict the awful report. It is also stated that the person who brought dispatches from Canada to the Colonial Office states that Sir A. M . Nab was alive and well. Arr..--- • • T his is _P l. 2.9f.Thilt, TlRcrilithseE IN qiib it hfi l airs passing, in the Canadas. This is settling day in the British Market, and it appears that the greatest part of the Account was adjusted yesterday, and but little remains to be made up to-day. The extreme fluctuation in Consols during the Account is about 1 per cent., consequently there is no doubt it will go off well. The commercial letters received yesterday from the United States were of a favourable description. Commerce was improving, and money easier. Little business was doing yesterday afternoon in the foreign exchanges. Hamburg and Paris a little flatter. Dutch ex changes rather better. It is expected that considerable supplies of corn will soon be obtained from various parts of the Continent. We learn by_private accounts received from Paris, it was generally expected there that a partial change of the Ministry would take place. For these two or three days past a considerable improve ment has taken place in the Portuguese Stocks, and the cause, to the present time, is kept a profound secret. We hear that the rise in the above Stocks is owing to a negotia tion now going on between our Government and that of the Portuguese, for the purchase of the Azores by the British Go vernment, and for which twelve hundred thousand pounds have been offered. Should this event take place it will be a check upon the accumulating strength of the French in Africa. C , onsols which closed yesterday at 9414 opened at the same price this morning ; Reduced 93ii ; Exchequer Bills 66 68; India Bonds 63 65 ; Bank Stock 2021 2031 ; India Stock Mk 257 i. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active 11 i ; Portuguese closed at 344 i , improved to 34 35 ; Belgian 9944 ; Bra zilian 7 7i• 78 ; Colombian 28} to 29 • Mexican 24} 25 ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 544 j ; Five per Cents., 1021 k. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK, Bank Stock 20'2% , India Stock 3 per Cent. R e d . 9311 4 5g5. 257 l l Ditto B on d s • in. 3 per Cent. Cons. 9.1% %%I, ! south Sea Stock 10:1% 4, per Cent - Old Annuities 9IN Ditto Red. 100%%74 I New Ditto New 3% per Cent 10048i% 4 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751... New 5 per Cent. - Exch. Bills, £1,5 00 66 63 pm. Bank Long Annuities toexpire Ditto ............... 500 -.66 1;9 67 prn. Jan. 5, 1860 l4 15-16 15 Ditto Small ......... 66 69 67 inn Oct. 10, 1859 --_,. Ditto Commercial...-. J:n. 5, IS6O 14 11-16%i Ditto Adverti ... im ).T: Jan. 5,188 a --1 Bank Stock tor te Accourit . — — I April 5, 188(1 — i India Stock for Account Jan. 5, 1870 - , Consols for Account 9,1 PRICES OF FOREIGN F . U N,DIS ~I.,r'loeliDr:ltuiSitut:ttgDoioauAnAeAscYcepccoonoAutu:Tndnn:dt.7.s...N.........3E.....i;..o...l.C.s...%.E....o::4l(77,4;4s Austrian Bonds Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds 77A% .Ditto New Bonds ..... .3454 5% 5 Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds — Ditto, 3 per Cent. .......... . . 2 % Ditto Account Chilian Bond* 1) tto Account Columbian Bonds 274 Ditto Account ................ ___ Ditto Metallic ............. i ...... - Ditto Account Columbian Bonds, 1824 Ditto Account Ditto Account _ Ditto Account. ............. .. 1 7!t% ____— Exchange. ......... —r. —c. Greek Bonds French, 5 per cent. ......... —f. —c. 2 A ' 4 c e t) : u r n e t e Lt.. ............................. 3 A ' ' Ditto Bonds, 1825 _ --- 4 per cent. .... ..... —f —c. Ditto Account Mnexititcoa,n6Bilenridcse,nstp.e.r...C.e.: 3 per cent. ......... —. —c. Ditto Account 1,7 eap Dittooii t A a, c,f2! 2 1 75 I) D D upt i i ie t t th t t t o o o, , A s c p c e o r u c n e t n . t . .. ... .. .. ..................... PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK: Great Paid. Per Share. Western Railway Company... ......... ........ 65 78v Brighton Railway t noon and Bi rmingham Railway Conipany 90 113 b 111 :.nchester and Bi rmingham Railway - Do. Do. Extension '4 N ,nth Midland Railway Company 55 757 Colonial Bank .............................................. Ditto Scrip ... ......... Worthing Tontine . . :9" .... . ............................ U. 18. 1/.35. 6d. 1/. I Is, COURSE O F EXCHA qi NGE YESTERDAY. DAmsterdam. ............... C.F. 12 0'; hraitar ........................ .. ..... 48 itto. at sight ..... -...... .. - . 12 234 L eg horn... ............................. 31 ARotterdam .2 U. 12 4% Genoa 25 80 Hntwerp... ...... ... .............. 12 3 Milan ..... ....- ..................... :it Alamhurc' - ............ .... ....... .J 6 t0na..... .......... ............. 13 10 Naples .......... .. .................... 40 Paris, 3 days' sight ....... ~ 25 40. Palermo per oz. 118 Ditto ....... ............. .3 Ms. 25 65 Lisbon ....... 534 Marseilles. ............. 534 Bourdeaux Frankfort on Maine, ELM 15(.% Bahia 26 Peterabingh, ruble .3 Us. 11 Buenos Ayres ................ ...... Berlin 7 0 New York, 21 days' sight ...... 464 Vienna, effective 11 .2 M. 10 5 Philadelphia ..........................46 (rieste ditto lO PRICE OF BULLION, PER OZ. CMadrid 37 6 Portugal Gold, coin ...... _en 17 6 adiz.... ....... ............ Silboa .... Sevilleßarcelona Silver. bars. standard .....• 0 5 08, HALF-PAST ONE. The settling of the Consol Account is going off well, and Consols continue steady to the present time at 94k k ; Money, s Exchequer Bills, 66 68 ; India Bonds, 63 65 ; Bank Stock, 202 f ; India Stock, 2571. In the Foreign Market the only feature worth notice is the continual rise of the Portuguese Stocks. Should the pur chase of the Azores take place by the British Government, they will be able t• pay the dividends due, which no doubt will cause a further rise in the above stock. Spanish Active, 17f ; Portuguese has been done 35k, at present 35; Three per Cents. 22k; Belgian, 991; Colombian, 294 ; Mexican, 25; Brazilian, 77f ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half, 544 ; Five per Cents., 1021. In Shares a little doing. Great Western, 13 premium ; Brighton, 2i discount. ConsOls for the Acco un t, 9 4 i e. ra.Rsi O'CLOCK. COURT CIRCULAR. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the Foreign Office. The Marquis of Landsdowne arrived at the Foreign Office at half-past three o'clock to attend the Council, from his scat Bowood Park, Wilts. The other Ministers pre sent were Viscount Melbourne, the Lord Chancellor, Lord John Russell, Viscount Palmerston, Lord Glenelg, the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, the Earl of Minto, Mr. Poulett Thomson, Viscount Howizk, and Viscount Duncannon. The Council sat two hours. The Duke of Cambridge honoured the Catch Club with his company at dinner last evening. Viscount Melbourne had an audience yesterday of her Ma jesty. Viscount Palmerston arrived in town on Monday night from his seat at Broadlands, Hants. The Earl of Albemarle had an interview with Viscount Mel bourne yestcrda) in Downing -street. A meeting of the Russian and French Ambassadors, and the Prussian and Austrian Ministers, was held yesterday afternoon at the Foreign Office. The Belcian Minister transacted business yesterday at the Foreign Office. Mr. Moffatt, from Montreal, with despatches from Sir John Colborne, Governor of the Canadas, arrived at the Colonial Office yesterday morning. The Bishop of Baraloes, Sir J. Canine, and J. Walker, Esq., of Honduras, had interviews with Lord Glenelg yester day at the Colonial Office. Despatches from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope were received yesterday at the Colonial Office. Despatches were forwarded yesterday from the Colonial Office for the Governors of Jamaica and Barbadoes; and for the Officers administering her Majesty's Government in the Wind ward and Leeward Islands. Despatches, dated the 18th of July, were received yester day at the India Board from Lord Auckland, the Governor- General of India. Despatches dated the 19th of December, were received yesterday at the Foreign Department, from Lord Ponsonby, the British Ambassador at Constantinople. Despatches, dated the 27th of October, were received yes terday at the Colonial Department from Major-General Napier, the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. PAC II IC:0;4 A.111..0 ARRIVALS. Mr. Neeld, M. P., in Grosvenor-square, from Paris; Count and Countess Devini, in York-strect, from St. Petersburgh ; the Marquis and Marchioness of Lothian, in Belgrave•square, from their scat, New Battle Abbey, Dalkeith, N. B. ; the Coutess of Ludolf, in Gloucester -street, from Leamington Spa ; Lord and Lady Marcus Hill, in Belgrave-square, from a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Downshire, at East hamstead Park, I3erks: Sir John and Lady Shelley, in Bel. grave-square, from a visit to the Duke of Wellington, at Strathfieldsaye ; the Ladies St. Maur, in Berkeley.square, from Brighton; the Countess of Pomfret, in Belgrave-street, from Hastings; Sir George and Lady Grey, in Eaton-square, from Leamington Spa. DEPARTURES. Sir Richard Bulkeley Phillipps, for Picton Castle, Haver. ford West ; the Duke de Rigna, from Grosvenor-place, on a tour of visits; the Earl of Scarborough, from South-street. for Bith ; Viscount Maidstone, from Wilton -crescent, for Melton Mowbray; Lord Wharncliffe, from Curzon -street, from Strathfieldsaye, on a visit to the Duke of Wellington. CHANGES. The Earl of Aberdeen at Dalmahoy House, Mid Lothian, From Haddo House, Aberdeenshire ; Lord Loraine at Malta, from a tour in Greece ; Sir John Dunlop, Bart., M. P., at Dunlop House, Ayrshire, from a visit to the Rev. Mr. Cath cart, at Newhengrave House ; the Right Hon. Henry Man vets and Miss Pierrepont at Burghley House, from Belvoir Castle ; the Marquis and Marchioness of Bute at Luton Hoo, Beds, from Cardiff Castle ; Lord Cardigan at Deene Park, Northamptonshire, from Herles Place, Canterbury ; the Earl and Countess of Glasgow at Haukhead, Renfrewshire, from Kilburne House, Ayrshire ; Lord and Lady Southampton at Athens, from a visit to the lonian Islands ; Sir Robert, Lady, and Miss Peel at Drayton House, from Belvoir Castle ; Col. and Lady Alice Peel, and Lady Anne Baird from Paris, on a tour in the south of France ; Lady H. D'Orsay at Paris, from a tour; Lord and Lady Wharncliffe on a visit to the Duke of Wellington, at Strathfieldsaye, from a tour; Lord Decics and Lady Ernest Bruce at Brighton, from a tour ; the Earl and Countess of Miltown and family at Rushborough Castle, from a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby at Dub- Fri Castle; the Duke and Duchess of Leinster, Lord Otho Fitzgerald, and Lady C. Stanhope at Carton House, Kildare, from Dublin ; Lord William Graham, at Stoke Edith Park, the seat of E. T. Foley, Esq., M. P., from Leamington Spa; Prince Louis Napoleon, at Leamington, from the seat of the Earl and Countess of Warwick, at Warwick Castle, near Kenilworth ; Lord Newburgh, at Hindon House, Sussex, from a tour; Viscount and Viscountess Canning, at Malta, from Athens ; Viscount Lowther, M. P., at Paris, from Rome ; Viscount and Viscountess Ashtown, at Bath, from their seat Chessel House, near Southampton ; Viscount and Lady Sarah Ingestrie, at Castletown, Celbridge, on a visit to Colonel and Mrs. Conolly, from Curraghmore, the seat of the Marquis of Waterford ; the Hon. George and Lady Catherine Caven dish, at Ashford Hall, their seat in Derbyshire, from a visit to the Earl and Countess of Harewood, at their seat Harewood Hall, Yorkshire; the Earl and Countess of Listowell, at Dublin, from their seat in the north of Ireland ; Lord Ha_ warden, at his seat Dundrurn, in Ireland, from Lancashire; Lord Cassillis, at Melton Mowbray, from Scotland ; th e Dowager Lady Thellusson and the Hon. Misses Thellusson, at Paris, from Milan. ,ord and Lady Francis Egerton intend receiving a party at Oatlands, previous to the assembling of Parlia ment. The Duchcss-Countess of Sutherland will proceed on a visit to the Noble Lord and his Lady in a few days. Count D'Orsay left town on Monday for Rufford Abbey, the seat of the Earl of Scarborough, where a large party of distinguished guests are assembled. The Officers of the Royal Marines at Chatham have issued cards of invitation to about two hundred of the neighbouring gentry to a ball in their mess-room, on Fri day, the 25th inst. The Marquis of Douro intends shortly to leave town on a visit to Lord and Lady Sondes, at their magni ficent seat, Elmham Hall, Norfolk, which has been filled with a succession of visitors for several weeks past. Lord Sondes has been making great improvements at Elmham, since his Lordship's accession to the title many thousands of pounds having been expended in additions to the house and offices. The Marquis of Douro is expected to preside at a grand public dinner at Norwich at the latter end of the month. Lord and Lady Bolton gave a ball and supper at their seat, Hackwood, Hants, on Thursday, to which all the neighbouring nobility and gentry were invited. The Marquis of Hastings and a party of seven gen tlemen, visiting the Noble Marquis, at Castle Donnington, Derbyshire, at a grand battue last week, killed upwards of 600 head of game in the preserves attached to Donnington Park, in a few flours. We understand the Marchioness, who has been termed by a talented writer, " a sportsman wire," did not shoot on that occasion. - The Belgian Minister, after his marriage with the wealthy Miss Bates, intends to remove from his residence in Fitzroy-square, to the splendid mansion in Portland place belonging to Lord de Manley, and formerly the abode of the Duke de San Carlos, Ambassador from Spain, and of Marshal Soult, Ambassador-Extraordinary from the King of the French. THE CANADIAN PRISONERS' QUEEN'S BENCH. -(THIS DAY•) The Court was by no means so crowded this morning during the two previous days. The Jud g es took their seat s 8 a few minutes past ten o'clock, and Lord DENMAN said that for the information of the bar, to would state that they would give the whole of neat week new trials, and what remained of the term to motions and t peremptory paper. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that there was the c a sed Stockdale v. Hansard, and that only one dayVwas alloy for the special paper. Lord DENMAN said, if the Court came to it on Friday th e / would put off the Crown paper and finish it on 'Saturday. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said the case would occr tbe great deal of time, and with all his anxiety to husban _ to time of the Court he could not finish his argument in less n' two days. Lord DENMAN said they would say nothing more on Shij subject at present. Now, then, call on another return. ..A Mr. Hite—l propose to read the return to the writ Si"" out by Randol Wixon. The officer then proceeded to read the return. v s, Mr. HlLL—Read the date of the indictment, if it is g and the condition of the party. The officer then read the date of the indictment, which o p at a Special Session of oyer and terminer, held at Toronto 0, Thursday, the Bth of March, before John Beverley Rehl t el Chief Justice, and others ; that Randol Wixon was in° for the crime of high treason, and before arraignment he f i ;s. tioned the Court, ack now l e d g i ng hi s gu il t, an d t h at hi s ply. ment was commuted to 14 years' transportation to Van l ibel men's Land, commencing f r o m th e d ate o f his arrival ie colony. red' Mr. HILL—It now becomes m y d u ty t o move, on the die ing of this return, that the prisoner Randol Wixon b i e charged. My Lords, wh a t I s h a ll a dd ress to your Lor ns s of on this motion will be i n e ff ec t a rep l y to t h e o b se rvation oc h my Learned Friend on the case o f L eonar d W atson , with 'et. other matter, and it will b e very s h ort , as resu l ts froni d o l difference in the two cases of Leonard Watson and 1 1 , 811 It Wixon, the return to whose w r it h as j ust b een rend must always be a matter of pain to m e , w h en t h e novo which I have been compelled to condu c t a case i s pain or the feelings of any Learned Gentlemen who are so posed to me; and, my Lords, this is the rner e ey el when after a very ca re f u l cons id era ti on of , b its word that fell from me i n a dd ress i ng y our Lor ds I cannot feel myself permitted to retract any one observ_sos which I th en an d now t h oug h t i t my d uty to ma k e . I C 3 ; 1 0 1 see what p o ssibl e o bj ect h as b een atta i ne d, except that ra ctio p husbanding th e ti me o f th e C ourt b y t h e pre li m i nar y ohi e e . 0 4 which was made by my Learned Friend. My Learned r ri b i e li told your Lordships that the authorities on that point he brought before you w e r e con t ra di c t or y. ,M y L or ds, ° b eg years there has been nothi ng lik e a con t ra di ct i on -4149t 1 I ,d , , like the slightest int er f erence w i t h t h e pract i ce; an d st yle before I leave this topic, as I trust for ever, t° old that my Learned Fri en d eas l e d i nto an inacer ribs when he s a id th a t i n 1758 i t was on l y a ma j or ity „e e st Judges who were o f o pi n i on t h at t h e l aw as i t t h en stoon, b e powered them to grant w r i ts a t common -l aw i n vaca tion ' O O My Lords, it was all the J u d ges ; t h ey were una nimonos that point, but there wa s a diff erence o f op i n i on o n ano t' beS point which was this—whether that had always been tb!,,ei and upon that there was a diff erence o f op i n i on. B ut that the law in 1759, was the unani mous reso l ut i on o f a ll the 4 , 1; 00 present, in number 10. As y our L or d s hi ps sa id , Mr. jitj ll Foster was strongly of that o pi n i on ; an d L or d M ans fiei t it other of the twelve Judges, gave his opinion in f avo ur o f oic k, the House of Lords. H e was su p porte d b y L or d flar d ,, fel and the House acted on it by throwing out the Bill whie c e then proposed, as being unnecessary to the justice of the o pet My Lords, in answer t o some o b servat i ons w hi c h had or from me on th e mons t rous h ar d s hi p o f suppos i ng againn or prisoners that it was only necessary for somebody WP: e ,.O l pened to have the cust o dy o f t h em — o b ta i n i t h ow he may he who he may—h e m i g ht b e t h e most i n f amous o f t ri o V be might be a beg gar , or a p erson aga i nst w h om i t err a mockery, as Mr. Justice F os t er says , to suppose t hat n o , could be any remedy by b r i ng i ng an act i on for f a l s e 'lbil sonment ; yet my Learned Friend thinks to get rid ° VP that hardship by calmly telling me that all these men :0 1 % it is proposed to se nd t o th e ot h er s id e o f the ,°0 may bring an action against Mr. Batchelor for ,s imprisonment. Mr. Batchelor may b e a mos t respec table o sol I know nothing against him, 1 know nothing of hitt? the rule would be the sa m e if h e was a r o t o f whom nobody would believe either upon his staterne er ,e 0 • upon his oath, if h e was p u t t o it—if h o wa s P o convicted of perjury, or the lowest or most infanieu 001 mankind. My Lords, this i s no reme dy a t a ll. I sle s e ile 4 my own opinion ; and I w ou ld c it e t o you , if I cou ld ree" the observations of that great constitutional lawyer , or Justice Foster, on that subject. He, using the argurnen w cordirg to him, of th e f r i vo l ous an d ill usory nature o f ts sc et medy, as the ground on which he believed there must he 60 14 mears of bringing the whole facts of the case before the n jot ifr and enabling th e C ourt to j u d ge, not on unauthorised angle way responsibl e statements, h ut upon evidence in sso. way or other given upon oath, on which your LordsiP O 4 judge. My Lords, the penal consequences to the eri s ot se, are sufficiently high_ I Lint a•-•skurdte th em by bg eh iptl sis. But suppos e thi s p ower which my Learned Friend rt d, is inherent in th e L eg i s l ature o f t h e C o l on i es, hadbeen exe„tlot not to send the pri soners h ere on t h e i r way to t ra nsper` t ; t eli to a penal C o l on y, b u t to sen d t h em h ere to b e exec sr why may not the Colony do that if it can do the other• pose your Lor s hip s were s i tt i ng t h ere i n j u d gment unde r t co circumstances on which two men sat on these benehe s o rt years ago--I mean Garside and his companion, w ho , e rs' guilty of a murd e r a t Ch ester , an d were sent up f or r" cet lion. Suppose your Lordships were called on to pronoti:oie rule, consigning those men, under some such law of the or cl , , nies, to execu t i on , I as k, wou ld i t b e poss i ble for your of ships to sit the re an d pronounce a ru l e f or the executletite, those men upon th a t return — u p on t h at unauthor i se d 6 0is 0t ment of a person acting as the prison-keeper of those c' right or wrong, a s m y L earne d F r i en d t h e Attorneys' it ral contends, and upon facts only to be learned from that statement himself—of matters of which he cannot be °V zant—of matters o f w hi c h h e must necessar i ly be iglinLrav-gb My Lords, the l ega l consequences are the same, altler somewhat less app a lli ng i n t h e one case than in the °t"-si have stated. But suppose all the other difficulties in tb e _, of an action f or f a l se i mpr i sonment h ave b een got rid of;:,,tel The ATTORNEY-GEN ERAL —I am sure my Learned r r " r , will forgive me for i nterpos i ng . I w i s h to as k h i m, i s be $ guing this upon the return ? i ye Mr. HILL—I don't know why my Learned Friend ass - f e et that question. I don't think ]shave travelled out of the o pt 4 corners of the return—l h ave mere l y use d suc h argottitli as occurred to m e t o s h ow h ow i mportant i t i s thate 'el the little light my Learned Friend has let in b ie this case, confining it to the return, your Lords v should look at it with eyes of the strictest scrutiny, and in el of it by the rules of the st r i c t es t l ega l scrut i ny. My Lear:nd Friend says there is no hardship to these men in being h ° ; io by the return. My L earne d F r i en d says t h at i f they Some exile they can h ave an act i on f or f a l se imprisonment. ''' p. of them, he says, are convicted of treason ; but if they be Id victed of tr eason , w ill my L earne d F r i en d tell you how two are to maintain an actio n ? Th e aut h or i t i es an d the ste'so invalidate the whole, if these men be convicted of treason. . toe says my L earne d F r i en d, us i ng t h e very terms of the se ct in answer to the points of objection I sent him. Sir F. POLLOCK-That was a private commutication. , 0 Mr. HILL—I be g my L earne d F r i end ' s parlon ; am sin e he means it kindly, but they are not a privatecommunicati en they were given under the direction of the Court. If, the?' some of these men are convicted, or to be 7eld in a state Olt' velem to conviction, let m y L earne d F r i e d tell me how I to maintain an action. But, as I said bsOre, the man agal est whom the ac ti on i s b roug h t may b e a b ggar , or , as Mr. .111;.; tice Foster sa y s , not wort h a groat. .l e may di e, the OD° may abate, there may never be a mode of joining issue, coming before a Jury to try th.: real facts of the case. My Lords, nothing is so cruel a mrekery—entle excites ° id " feelin g o f i nd i gnation of my mind so strongly as to be t°'. take y our remedy, and the morrent we come to examine i t i t turns out to be a mockery and a delusion. Better say at onc e submit to the arm of power—don't think b better your cond o ' tion—suffer, patience is your only remed)--bet ter say this tll 2ll point to somet hi ng w hi c h on l y exc i tes , l upes the more cr uellf, to disappoint th em . My L or ds. I was agood deal as t o nish' n to find fr om m y L earne d F r i en d s , t h at I ,ad been in utter MIP take in supposing that the statute of the all Geo. IV. had any bearing, in so f ar as it i s an e na ctment , nen this case. I der'. . '' find the slightest trace of any such answe to my objections in the communication of my Learned Frind. The commoni" cation says, when they are convicted, t in a state es pies' lent to it—.. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL—If my Leaned Friend make% any use of that communication, it should st be read. Mr. Elll.L—My Lords, I shall read it a instantly. These objections were furnished to my Learn( Friend after I re ceived your Lordships' direction. The fit is that there is no conviction. What is my Learned Friend'answer, the sth of George IV? The ATTORNEY G ENERAL—There is I reference t o the sth of George IV. Mr. I - Itee—The Court will see what retence there is when I read the whole. Ist objection—there is i conviction. An swer. There is a conviction, or what is equilent to a conviction. Is that a repudiation of the sth of Geon IV ? 2d. That there s is no jud gment to warrant transpoation. The same asto judgment. Now, the argument oft)? Learned Friend was— IThe ATTORNEY -GENERAL—You had later read the w hole. Mr. HILL—.I beg my Learned Frierwould allow me to take my own course, and if I comment ton these answers as Igo along, surely I have a right to do 1 With great de ference to my Learned Frier d and the Ott, I cannot submit to conduct the case if I am to be put in arness, and driven by my opponent with his bit and reins my mouth. 2d. That there is no judgment to want transportation. The answer is the same. 3d. That a Governors had no legal powers to warrant transportab. Ansvrer_The Governor had legal power to make tisportation a con dition of pardon. 4th, That the transptation was not le gally conducted. Answer—lt was, and It the prisoners are here in the execution of their sentence. h. That the ga oler had no warrant, authorising him to rece and detain the prisoners. Answer—No warrant was 'weary for the gaoler 6th. That the various documents referreo in the return are not set out with sufficient particularity. inswer—They are. And this is what my Learned Friend cakiving me informa tion. 7tb. That the averments contain in the return are unauthorised, and that the return is bsfor vagueness and generality. Answer—They are sufficily set out. And then my Learned Friend adds, of I own free grace, We contend, with respect to the nine, t they are liable t