The Sun. — London, England, 1845-02-26 00:00:00

PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, MR. J. M. MADDOX. TATS EVENING Will be performed Shakspeare's Tragedy of MACBETH. Mac beth, Mr. Forrest ; Macdutr, Mr. Graham ; Hamitic), Mr. Henry Wallack ; Lady Macbeth, Miss Cushman. To be followed by LE SALON DE BAL. To conclude with THE WIDOW BEWITCHED. Mr. Clement Furnival, Mr. Walter Lacy ; Mrs. Lorimer, Mrs. Stirling. Stage Manager, Mr. H. I. Wallack ; Stage Director, Mr. Emden ; Machinist, Mr. Edmund Bradweli. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Private B:xes to he had at the Theatre, and at all the principal Libraries. THEATRE. ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. Last Week bct one before the Easter Holidays. THIS EVENING Will be performed THE PRISONER OF WAR. Captain Chan nel, Mr. Emery ; Pallmall, Mr. Keeley ; Clarina, Miss Walcott ; folly Pallmall, Mrs. Keeley. To be followed by a New Farce, entitled A MODEL OF ♦ WIFE. Principal Characters by Messrs. A. Wigan, F. Matthews, and Mea- Jows ; Miss Walcott, and Miss Fairbrcther. To conclude with VALENTINE AND ORSON. Principal Cha racters by Messrs. F. ; latthews, Meadows, Wigan, Collier, Turner, Kialoch, Yaraold, and Keeley ; Mrs. Wigan, Miss Arden, Miss Fair brother, Miss Grove, Mrs. Wooilidge, Miss James, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley. FRENCH PLAYS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 26, Will be performed DON CESAR 1)E BAZAN. Don Cesar de Bazan, Monsieur F. Lemaitre ; Charles 11., Roi D'Espagne, Mon sieur Oudinot ; Lazarille, Milne. Eliza Forgeot ; La Maritana, Mdlle. Clarisse. ASTLErS ROYAL AMPIIITHPATRE. PROPRIETOR, MR. W. BATTY. THIS EVENING Will be repeated TIIE ROYAL FOX HUNT ; introducing a Real rex-chase on the Stage, by Living Fox and Real Pack of Hounds. Entire Change in the Circle.—Unequalled Feats of Horsemanship. To conclude with the laughable Farce of THE KING'S GAR DENER. Galochard, Mr. Biddle (his first appearance). Box-office open irons Eleven till Five. 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Gd. bound, THE HISTORY OF MAR GA11:1;ST CATO lIPOLE, A SUFFOLK GIRL. " This extraordinary female underwent some of the most singular vicissitudes that perhaps ever marked the career of woman. She was tried and condemned to death at Bury Assizes in 1797, broke out of prison at Ipswich, was retaken, sentenced again to death, and her punishraant changed to transportation for life. Retrieving her character in Australia, she distinguished herself in many new ad ventures, obtained a free pardon, and married a wealthy settler, wdo left her sole mistress of an immense fortune." Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Just ready, in 2 Tols., post BTo. THE WORLD 01? LONDON. A New Series. By J. FISHER MURRAY, Esq. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. SEASON 1845. The tbllowing Outline of the Arrangements for the ensuing Season i s respectfully presented to the Nobility, Subscribers and the Public : ENGAGEMENTS FOR TIIE OPERA : Madame Grisi, Madame Anaide Castellan, Madlle. Brambilla, Madlle. Rossetti, Madame Rita Dori.), And Madame Rossi Caccai, Signor Moriani, Signor Corelli, Signor F. Lablache, Signor Paltoni, Signor Botelli, (Of La Scala, Milan—his First Appearance in this Country) and Signor Mario, Signor Fornasari, and Signor Lablache. In addition to the above, a conga has been obtained, and an arrangement effected by which the talent of Signor (Of the Academie Royale do Paris) will be secured for a limited num- ber of Nights Director of the Music, Composer, and Conductor—Signor COSTA. BALLET. Madlle. Carlotta Grisi, Madlle. Lucile Grahn, C2rito, Madlle. Louise Weiss ; Madlle. Ferdinand, Madlle. Casson, Madlle. Demelisse, Madlle. Moncelet, and Madlle. Taglioni, (Her Farewell Season.) The talent of this emineat Artiste has been secured for a few Farewell Nights, previously to her taking leave of the Stage. M. St. Leon, M. Gosselin, M. Di Mat!ia, M. Bertrand, M. Perrot, and M. Toussaint, With a numerous and efficient Corps de Ballet. Engagement has also been effected for a few nights with the Thirty-six Danseuses Viennotses, Who have lately appeared with extraordinary success at the Aca demie Royale de Paris. Arrangements have been made for the appearance of Signor Moriani and Signor Fornasari for the Opening of the Theatre before Easter. The THEATRE will OPEN On SATURDAY, the FIRST of MARCH, When will be produced (first .ime in this country), Verdi's new Opera, ER.NANt. With new scenery by Mr. Marshall, Ernani, Signor Moriani ; Ruy Gomez, Signor Fornasari ; Carlo Quinto, Signor Boteili ; and Elvira, Madame Rita Borto. To conclude with a new Ballet, by M. Perrot, entitled LA FILLE DE LA DRYADE. The Music by Signor Pugni. The Scenery by Mr. Marshall. In which will appear Middle. Lucile Grahn, Mille. Louise Weiss, Mdlle. Ferdinand, Mdlle. Demelsse., Mdlle. Casson, Mall:‘, Moncelet, &c. M. Toussaint, M. Gosselin, M. Di Mattia, M. Bertrand, M. l'errot. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING Will be performed TIIE BOHEMIAN GIRL. Thaddeus Mr. W. Harrison ; Arline, Miss Rainforth. To conclude with DER FRIESCIIUTZ. Adolph, Mr. D. W. King ; Caspar, Mr. Stretton : Linda, Miss Romer. The Box-office is open daily, from Ten in the Morning until Six in the Evening, where Private and Family Boxes, stalls, Places, and Tiekets may be had on application to Mr. John Parsons. THEATRE ROYAL, HA.YMARKET. LESSEE, MR. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING Will be repented :a New and Original Comedy, entitled THE SHERIFF OF THE COUNTY. Principal Characters by Messrs. W. Farren, Strickland, Buckstoile, Webster, Mrs. Glover, Mrs. W. Clifford, Mrs. Humby, Miss Julia Bennett, &c. Ia the coarse of the evening Mr. John Parry will sing his Now Historical Romance, " Fayre Rosamonde." After which, GRANDFATHER WHITEHEAD. To conclude with HOW TO PAY THE RENT. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Hall each. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Archer at the Box-office, from Ten till Five o'clock. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New and Original Drama, entitled THE GREEN BUSHES; or, A Hundred Years Ago. Connor O'Kennedy, Mr. Selby ; George, Mr. Hudson : Wlld Murtogh, Mr. 0. Smith ; Muster Grinnidge, Mr. Wright ; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Geraldine, Mrs. Ya , ,:e. ; Nelly O'Neill, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; Miami, Madame Celeste. After which, MOTHER AND CHILD ARE DOING WELL. To be followed by r New Dramatic Anecdote, entitled THE SOI,OIER OF FORTuNE ; or, The Irish Settler. The Duke of Anjou, Miss Woolgar ; Captain O'Rorke, Mr. Hudson ; the Baroness Beaupre, Miss Fortescue. THEATRE' ROYAL, ADELPHE THIS EVENING THE GREEN BUSHES, or A Hundred Years Ago ; by the Author of " The Wreck Ashore," " Victorine," &c. Principal Characters by Messrs. Hudson, Wright, 0. Smith, Paul Bedford, Selby, Cul lenford, and Worrell ; Mrs. Yates, Mrs. Fitzwilliam, and Madame Celeste. Alter which, a New Farce, MOTHER AND CHILD ARE DOING WELL. To conclude with THE SOLDIER OF FORTUNE ; or, The Irish Settler. The " Green Bushes" (No. 115) is published in Webster's National Acting Drama, price Is. Together with 114 of the most popular Comedies and Farces, including " Old Heads and Young hearts," " Thimble Rig," " Clesar de Bazars," &c., to be had at the Office, 19, Suffolk-street, Pell-mall, and of all Booksellers. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Another New Drama !—Triumphant Success of " 3filnight," Legend of St. Paul's. TIS Will be rep ea t ed a NewH Mama, with EVENING New Scenery and splendid ppointments, entitled M I ()NIGHT ; or, the Sentinel and the Hour. A Legend vf St. Pants In which the entire Company will perform. After which, BEBECCA ; or, The Carbonari and the Jew's Daughter. Supported by Messrs. 11. Hughes, Seaman, H. Corn, Mrs. Vining, and Miss Martin. To be followed by the Ballet of TILE SOLDIER'S DREAM. In which the whole of the Ballet Company will perfonn. To conclude with THE WARLOCK OF TILE GLEN. ROYAL VICTORIA TIdEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be repented it New Drama, entitled FEODORA ; or, , The Dropping Well of Gedar. Charact ers b y Messrs. Johnson, niggle, Searle, Herbert, Jones, Watkins, Miss Vincent, Miss E. Terrey, &c. To be followed by MARIANNE ; or, The Child of Charity. Sup roiled by Messrs. Osbaldiston, 11. Howard, J. T. Johnson, J. Her bert, E. E Jones, and W. Searle ; Miss Vincent, Mi ss E. Terrey, and Mrs. E. Jefferson. To conclude with THE HOUSE DOG. Supported by Mr. C. J. niggle, J. Herbert, E. Jones, Miss E. Torrey, Miss Jefferson, &c. Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is.; Gallery, Gd. ORDNANCE ESTIMATES.—The total estimates for the year 1845-46 amount to 2,287,7161., viz., for the effective service 2,122,1311., and the non-effective 165,5851. The total for the preceding year was 1,855,6731., showing an increase on the present year of 432,043/. The in creases chiefly under the following heads :—Commissariat and barrack supplies; ordnance stores; and works, build ings, repairs, and improvements. The Hereford adjourned Coursing Meeting will take place on Thursday neat, Feb. 27. HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE Tills DAY. Morning .. 24 minutes after 4 I Evening 42 minutes after 4, IR main ACATAL LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1845. The house of Lords sat at Five o'clock. Among the notices of motion was one by Lord BROUGHAM, for Thursday week, of a Bill to transfer the jurisdiction in divorce cases from the House of Lords to another tribunal. Their Lordships adjourned after sitting a very short ime . The House of Commons sat at Twelve o'clock. Tt.e report on the Railway Companies clauses Bill was received. The House then resolved itself into Committee on the Railway Companies Consolidation Bill. Various clauses were agreed to, as were some amendments, proposed by Mr. AGLIONBY and other Hon. Members, and the House resumed, on the understanding that there should be a morning sitting on Thursday, when the Bill would again come under consideration. The House then adjourned for an hour and a half, and resumed at Five o'clock. Various petitions were presented, and notices of mo tion given. Mr. WALLACE postponed his motion on the subject of railways to the 11th March. The Honourable Gen tleman thea brought forward the motion of which he had given notice on the subject of the admi nistration of justice in Scotland, which was : " To bring before the House the amount of business done yearly by the Court of Session, and the nature and extent of the duties of the judges composing that Court ; and to ask leave to bring in a Bill to repeal so much of the Act 1 WILLIAM IV., C. 69, as provides that there shall be thirteen judges in the said court ; and to extend the jurisdiction of the stipendiary county judges, called sheriffs, by giving them the power of awarding the punishment of transportation, in the event of the judges in the Court of Session being reduced below the number of thirteen." The LORD A DVOCITE and Mr. Fox MAULE opposed the motion, which was withdrawn. Sir H. INGLIS then rose to call the attention of the House to the condition of the negroes liberated from prize slave-ships, and moved for certain papers relating to the condition of liberated negroes in Sierra Leone and the Mauritius. Mr. G. W. HOPE seconded the motion, and defended the conduct of the Government as respected their treat ment of the liberated Africans. A short discussion ensued, in the course of which the proceedings of the missionaries were animadverted upon by Mr. AGLIONBY and defended by Sir T. ACLAND, and Mr. PLUMPTRE. The motion was agreed to. Dr. BOWRING moved for a copy of a certain procla mation issused by the Governor of Hong-Kong, for a census and registry of the inhabitants of that island. The motion was opposed by Mr. C. HOPE, on the part of the Government. Sir G. STAUNTON also spoke against the motion. Dr. BOWRING eventually withdrew the motion, reserv ing a right to bring it forward on another opportunity. Sir J. GRAHAM then rose to introduce his Bill for the . better regulation of medical practice throughout the United Kingdom. He proposed, first, to establish a Council of Health, to exer cise a superintendence over the medical education of the kingdom ; secondly, to secure to all medical practi tioners equal facilities of practice throughout the United Kingdom ; and, thirdly, by the standard of examination as to qualifications being uniform, to establish a registra tion of medical practitioners, and to confine eligibility to public medical employment to registered practitioners. He proposed to repeal the statute of lIENnv which gave to members of the Colleges,of Physicians and Surgeons the exclusive right of practising in a district of seven miles round the metropolis as far as regarded re gistered practitioners, but he would exempt graduates of Oxford and Cambridge from the operation of the Bill, the effect of which would be to exclude them from me tropolitan practice, unless they chose of themselves to come within the operation of the Act, and be registered. He hoped, however, some arrangement might be come to, to prevent the necessity of persevering with this clause. He proposed to repeal the Apothecaries' Act, not totally, but only so far as parties registered under the new Act were concerned. This would leave the provisions of the Apothecaries' Act imposing penalties on illegal practitioners totally untouched, and parties practising without quali fication, would be in addition liable, as they were at present, to a criminal prosecution at com mon law, for pretending to be that which they were not. Any person falsely assuming any medical title recog nised by the Bill to be liable to prosecution. He also proposed to make it necessary that every examiner of the Apothecaries' Company should be an apothecary of ten years' standing. With regard to physicians, he thought thirty-six 3 cars of age not too late to fix as the limit for their preliminary examination ; and with regard to surgeons, he proposed that no one should be qualified to act as surgeon who had not previously undergone an examination for the degree of licentiate in surgery. He also proposed that there should be an examination in midwifery as well as in physic and surgery. He pro posed that the Council of Health should be empowered to examine practitioners in all their branches. He con sidered it indispensably necessary that the great body of general practitioners should be connected with the College of Surgeons. He proposed to shorten the time of university residence required by the Bill of last year to qualify for the office of physician, and he adhered to the plan proposed in the Bill of last year for constituting the councils; and he also proposed to give to the councils the power of removing from the re gistry men who had been guilty of flagrant misconduct. He proposed to give to the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons in Glasgow co-ordinate powers of licensing with the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Edin burgh. He would give time to the profession to con sider the provisions of the Bill, which he then moved for leave to introduce. After a few words from Mr. WAKLES, leave was given to bring in the Bill. Mr. BELLEW then moved for copies of the papers re lating to the dismissal of the Earl of LLICAN from the magistracy in Ireland. Sir T. FREMANTLE said there could Le no objection to the production of the papers. After a few words from Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL, the ATTORNEY-GENECAL fur Ireland, and Mr. Boss, the motion was agreed to. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at One o'clock. It is so evidently the intention of men of all parties and some eminence, in the House of Commons, to burke the great pending question of Post-office violation, by putting Mr. THOMAS DUNCOMBE in a false position, that we cannot allow this opportunity to pass by without availing ourselves of it, for a protest against the scanda lous manceuvre that is on the eve of being attempted. When the party which calls itself by the general desig nation of " Liberals" (affecting to comprise, as it does, all shades of political dissent from the general princi ples of Whiggery in one common league with the repre sentation of Whiggery itself), permitted the motion for a new Committee of Inquiry on the Post-office question to be negatived by an overwhelming majority, they did not, we suspect, foresee all the inevitable conSegnences of their defection from the cause they ought to have sig nally upheld and vindicated. A few unmeaning genera lities from Sir JAMES GRAHAM, in the nature or a plea of official responsibilities and duties, under an obscure existing enactment, and Sir ROBERT PEEL'S cool assumption that his Government has already been acquitted by the finding of the Secret Se lect Committee—these were not, as one of our ablest Contemporaries seems to imagine, the real causes of the triumphant disposal of the Post-office question by the majority in question in favour of Ministers. It is impos sible that so broad a question of constitutional principle, of political, nay, of social morality, could have been thus dishonoured in any popular assembly, where the re presentatives of the people had honestly determined to dis charge their duty. The party accused, the home Secretary, admitted his offence, and justified it by (1) the autho rity we have j us t quote d ; (2) b y the precedents of former official practice in his department. The Premier and his friends relied on both defences, and twitted the members of the ex-Government with having resorted, when in power, to the same courses. This latter fact could not be got over. Lord Josa RUSSELL and his friends were hampered by it ; and some, who felt its pressure most painfully, actually concurred with their political antagonists in speaking, as well as voting, the case brought forward by the Member for Finsbury out of court. Now, here is the secret of the premeditated dilemma into which Mr. DUNCOMBE has been driven, it is hoped, by his motion. Here is the evil, so common to all cases where evil is committed that good may come of it. There were great names to justify, by example' gross malpractices. But there was also one way, and but one, in which the owners of those names might have mitigated the mischief they had committed, by sanc tioning those malpractices. They might have con fessed to the facts imputed, expressed their regret for them, and emphatically united in a declaratory vote to prevent their recurrence in future. Our affections, inter ests, opinions, as we have repeatedly declared, are cherished, engaged, or entertained for measures, not men. How large a proportion of the House of Commons majority must have voted solely out of consideration for the men implicated, not from any conscientious judg ment upon their mc3sures The result has been this— that the House of Commons has justified the most atrocious and felonious tampering, on the part of a public functionary, with the private correspondence confided, on the faith of public honour, to the custody of one of the State departments of the Executive, in order that, by the condemnation of an unpopular Minister, his more popular predecessors in the same office may not also be liable to the same condemnation. Therefore the offender is " assoiled" from his great offence. One moral obliquity in public, as in private life, is sure to generate another. The Liberal party, who are so for ward to attend all public meetings in all public places, on economic and other questions, and to contribute their hest abilities to the lucid exposition of sound principles in reference to them, are silent, profoundy silent, almost to a man, on a matter of the highest constitutional importance. The reason is too obvious and palpable. But they must abandon, in such exigencies, the timidity of considerations founded on mere personal delicacy. Letter-breaking must be denounced, disowned, put down, whether the crime be perpetrated by Whig, Ra dical, or Tory. Yet what has been done with regard to Mr. DuNcomnE. Sir JAMES GRAHAM will not answer to the question whether he has broken open, or autho rised the breaking open, of Mr. DUNCOMBE'S letters, aye or no? He will not say whether a warrant was issued for such a purpose,—aye or no? Mr. DUNCOMBE is thus reduced to the necessity of moving that certain parties be called to the bar of the House of Commons in order to be examined, with a view to elicit the information thus withheld by Sir J. Guanim and the Government. The Minister, and one or two sycophantic journals who espouse his conduct and all the acts of his Government, endeavour to prejudge the decision of the House, and to prejudice Mr. Duricount's case, by saying that that gentleman is now occupying the time and at tention of the House, not in the endeavour to assert a great constitutional question, but on a matter purely per sonal, affecting only himself. We grieve to say, we fear that not a few of Mr. DUNCOMBE'S political associates, by silence, authorise this gross delusion, this most unfair imputation, this pitiful quibble, devised to get rid of the discharge of a high public duty. The mode in which alone the matter can now be brought on before the Commons was not of Mr. DUCOMBE'S seeking, but as the resu't of a necessity they have created. The question is still the same —not per sonal to Mr. DUNCOMBE merely, whose complaint as to his own letters is a mere corroborative incident—but a great question involving the honour of the Govern ment, which is something; the honour of the national character, which is something more. We warn the trimming, compromising Members of all parties, that they must on this question take a clear and decided course. The public cannot be de ceived ; its representatives must do their duty. It verily can be no reason that Mr. DUNCOMBE should not be satisfied to urge that the wrongs of M. Mazzna and others remain unredressed, though acknowledged in Parliament. No Member professing to represent popular feeling or opinion can, on this occasion, segregate him self from the body of those who will put their vote on record with a distinct reason for it. No Member may hope to escape from his responsibility, on this occasion, to the tribunal of public opinion. Madrid journals of the 17th have been received, but they bring no intelligence of the reported arrests at Vit toria, nor is any allusion made to them in the telegraphic dispatch received by the French Government from Ma drid, dated the 19th inst. In the Cortes, General NAR VAEZ stated, in answer to a question from Senor CAR BASCO, that the Bill for the restoration of Church pro perty had no reference to those in actual possession, and the rights of purchasers would be religiously preserved. The Bill contains only the following clause :—" The property of the regular clergy remaining for sale, and of which the sale had been suspended by royal ordon nance of the 26th July, 1844, shall return to the said clergy." The Three per Cents. closed on the 17th at 33 for cash, and 33 9-16 at 60 days ; and the Five per Cents. at 231 for cash, and 24-, at 60 days. The following telegraphic dispatch was received by the French Government on Sunday : " MADRID, F. 19. " The affairs of Sweden and Denmark, with Morocco, have been arranged by the mediation of France and Great Britain. " The Emperor has renounced the tribute. " The Danish and Swedish Consuls returned to Tangiers on the 14th inst." The affair of Morocco has so far been productive 'of good, and thus rescued these northern powers from the disgrace of being tributaries to pirates. There is nothing of interest in the Paris papers. A wonderful calm has succeeded the vote on the Secret Service Money Bill. The Ministerial journals appear satisfied with the result, while those of the Opposition announce their resolution to fight to the last, and to de nounce all backsliders from the party. Desertion, it would seem, is dreaded by M. TRIERS and his friends. " Everybody," says the ConsCtutionnel, "is convinced that the Ministry's position is untenable, and that it is impossible they can maintain themselves much longer in the equivocal situation they have been placed in by the successive votes of the Chambers. A determination has, therefore, been come to to continue the struggle on all important questions. The Opposition are sensible that, under present circumstances, nothing ought to prevent them from regularly attending the sittings. They have in consequence, agreed that the names of such Depu ties as may not be punctual shall be published in the newspapers." The accounts from Switzerland, in these papers, add little to the previous news. A letter from Berne of the 19th mentions the arrival in that town of the POPE'S Nuncio. He is represented to have come in order to confer with the French Ambassador, and to urge an armed intervention of France, in conjunction with the other great Powers. Letters from Lucerne of the 18th state that six battalions had been organised for the defence of the Government. The church of the Jesuits was turned into an arsenal, and consequently public worship was suspended. Tho French Funds were rather flat on Sunday. At TORTONI'S the Three per Cents. were quoted at 84f. 95c. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TUESDAY EVENING. The Funds leave off rather flatly, Consols at 99 3 / 4 % for Money, and Thursday Exchequer-bills fell to 62 premium, upon sales being made. Reduced Three per Cents. were 100 1 /, and the New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. 104. Spanish Bonds remained as in the morning. The Three per Cents. were done at 40 1 ,4 ; and the Passive at 6% ; Mexican were 35%; Buenos Ayres, 43 ; and Austrian, 115 ; Dutch Four per Cents. were 98%. The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been these :—Birmingham and Gloucester were 32 ; Bristol and Exeter, 12 1 /, to 134 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 4 to 1 ; Chester and Holyhead, 2 3 / 4 34 ; Churnet Valley, 43j to 5 ; Eastern Counties, 2 ; Eastern Union, 8% • Ely and Bedford, %; Great Southern and Western (Ireland), to 6 ; Great North of England, 88 ; Great Western, 94 ; Hull and Gains borough, % to 3 / 4 ; Ditto and Selby, 2S; Ditto Quarter, 5 3 / 4 ; Lancaster and Carlisle, 14%; Brighton, 84 ; Birmingham Thirds, 40 ; South Western, 37% ; London and York, 4% ; Manchester and Birmingham, 23% •, Newcastle and Berwick, 11 ; North British, 5 ; Richmond and West End, 2%; Rugby and Tring, 24 to %; South Devon, 6%; Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 24 to 174 ; South Wales, 24 to 1%; Trent Valley, 18 3 / 4 ; York and North Midland, Scarborough Branch, 21 ; Boulogne and Amiens, 4; Bordeaux and Toulouse, %; Great Northern of France, ; Orleans and Bordeaux, 4 1 / ; Paris and Lyons, 74 ' • and Paris and Orleans, 26% premium. Direct Northern have been IA to 3 / 4 ; Blackwell, 9 1 4 ; Greenwich, 174 ; and Midland Birmingham and Derby, 8 discount ; Australian Bank Shares were 4 to %; Com mercial, 1/., ' • and London and Westminster, 774 premium. British North American, 4 3 / 4 to 1%; and Colonial, 10% die. There was an improvement in the quotatim of Bills of Exchange on Amsterdam, Hamburgh and Trieste. Paris and Antwerp remained about the same as on last post day. The following is the official return of the exports of Bullion from the port of London for the week ending Thursday last. Specie to Sydney £5,000 Gold Ditto (Frons The Sun of Last Night.) The demand for bonded Cotton at Liverpool yesterday still exceeded that for the duty-paid article, and the former was about %d. per lb. cheaper. Sales, 4,000 bales, all to the trade at previous rates.—There was a dull market for Shares. Birmingham and Derby, 9412 ; Birmingham and Gl ouces t er , 129%Gloucester, ; Bristol and 56 ; Caledonian, 7 1 ,E 7 ; Chester and Birkenhead, 38 3 / 4 ; Chester and Holyhead, 8%; Dublin and Drogheda, 78 ; Churnet Valley, •7% 3 / 4 •, Edin burgh and Glasgow, 60% •, Glasgow and Dumfries, 161. 6s. ; Glasgow and Greenock, 15 1 ,4 3 /i ; Grand Junction, 220 ; Grand Junction, New, 434 ; Great Western, One-Fifth, 30 3 / 4 ; Liverpool and Manchester, 202 ; Ditto, New, 37 ; London and Birmingham, 321. Shares, 42 3 / 4 ; London and Brighton, 5714 % ; London and South-Western, 793 1 ; London and York, 7% 6% ' • Direct Northern, 2% ; Manchester and Birming ham, 624 ; Manchester and Leeds, 138% ; ties, 125; Newcastle and Berwick, 14 1 / ; North British, Half Shares, 2% ; North Union, 137; Preston and Wyre, 234 ; Scottish Central, 4 1 / 8 ; Shrewsbury and Grand Junc tion, 5_ 1 4 ; South-Eastern, 40 39 3 / 4 ; Ditto, No. 2,9%; Trent Valley, 19% 20; Pail(' and Lyons, 61g. 6d.; Orleans Tours, and Bordeaux, 6%; Northern of France, 5% %; Boulogne and .Amiens, 5%. The Cambridge packet brings advices of one day's later date from the United States. The papers give an account of the number of vessels, and their tonnage, that entered the port of New York in the month of January 1842, 1843, 1844, and 1845 ; from which it appears that in January, 1842, the number of American vessels was more by one-half, and the excess of tonnage was one-third over the arrivals for January, 1843 ; while on the other hand, there is a slight increase in the number of foreign arrivals, and amount of tonnage, in January, 1843, over the corre sponding month in 1842. In January, 1844, the gross amount of American tonnage entering New York from foreign ports had increased only to the standard of 1842 ; while the gross amount of foreign tonnage was in excess nearly one-half over the corresponding months in 1842 and 1843. The analysis of the arrivals during the last month (January 1845) is highly gratifying in its results, as it proves satisfactorily that our commerce is now in a more flourishing condition than it has been for the same month during the last four years. The gross amount of American tonnage employed in commerce considerably exceeds that of 1842 and 1544. It is stated that the pest fever was raging last month to a considerable extent at Port-au-Prince. It had been rather mild on board the American vessels, but very severe amongst tilt French seamen. From the Cape of Good Hope, adTices of the Bth ult. in timate that some of the Kafir chiefs were disinclined to come into the conditions of the new treaty proposed to them by the British. The Fueds are firm to-day. There have been sales made by the Chancery broker, but the speculative operations for April have most effect. Consols have realised 99 3 / 4 to par for present transfer, and 997/ 4 to par for account. Exchequer Bills have gone back to 695. and 675. premium. New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 104 to 1044 ; and the Three per Cents. Reduced 1004 to %. Bank Stock has been quiet, at 212. The Foreign Investments are flat. Spanish Actives at 27% ; and the Three per Cents. at 40%. Portuguese Converted have been 60% to 61. Columbian Stock is worth 1374; and Brazilian 90. French Five per Cents. are 122 f. 75c., with the Exchange at 25f. 50c. 'Venezuela Bonds are 44 3 / 4 . Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. realise 634 to %. Railway Shares continue flat, owing to the arrangements for settling the account. ONE CLOSING PRICES OF Bitrrisri FUNDS. O'CLOCK. ' PRICES. Bank Stock ... .... 212 212 3 per Cent. Reduced 3 per Cent. Consols New 3 1 A per Cents Long Annuities to expire Jan.lB6o 12 1-16 1 A 12 1 % Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 India Bonds, 1,0004. Ditto ander 1,0001. 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 98% Consols for Account... 987/ 4 99 Ji Exchequer Bills, 1,000/., I%d 69 67 pm. 62 Ditto 500/. . Ditto Small Ditto Advertised 67 65 pm. 65 ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian,' 5 per Cent. .......... Brazilianlonds Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent — Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela 13% Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837...... Ditto, Account Ditto, Deferred Peruvian Bmids, 6 per Cents Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto, Converted Ditto, Account Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Deferred CLOSING PRICES. 115 35% 35 1 4 16 • 301 A 61 1 4 Ditto, Passive Ditto 3 per Cent. ••• •• 40% Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent 4 4 3 /4 French, 5 per Cent Exchange 2sf. 50c. Dutch, 2% per Cent . Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 9 9% 98 PRICES OF PAID. AT ONE O'CLOCK. CLOSING W RAILAY SHARES PRICES. Binning. and Gloucesterloo ..... 133 Ditto 1 / 2 Shares Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ...... 5 3 7Y1 56 1 / 2 3% ... _ Bristol and Exeter Calodonian Cambridge and Lincoln 11/ 2% Chester and Holyhead... 5 ...... Cliurnet Valley Cornwall Direct Northern I hiblin and Belfast June 2 1 / 2 ...... 51, Dublin and Galway..... 2% 3q Eastern Counties 141. 165....... 16%8 17 1 4 17... Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1—.4/. 13s. 4d — Ditto ditto, No. 2. l3s. 4d. ... . Eastern Union Ditto Extension Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ...... 62 Ely and Bedford ...... ... 1 Great South. and West. (Ireland) Great North of England..loo ......191 190 Ditto New P. DittolNew 2 ... Great Western Ditto % Shares Guildford, Farn'm,Ports. 2% ..• .. 44 H arw i c h Hull and Gainsborough 1 % 1 .% 2 1 4 Hull and Selby 5O Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% Lancaster and Carlisle... 15 Lincoln, York. and Leeds 1% N London and Birminghm (5t0ck)...226 Ditto New Thirds Ditto, Quarters London and Blackwall. IGL 13s 4d 7% '7X London and Brighton... 50 London and Greenwich 12/ 15s 4d... London and S. Western 4116 s 10d 78 2% -.12 11% 12 1 % 111/2 781,6 Ditto New ll London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. - Ditto Guaranteed 5 per Cent..... 6% -f. -f. -c. 83!,4 16 3 / 4 18% 1% is" 29% - 4 . , 4% _ London ar d Y0rk...... 2 1 ...... i 76 7 , 8 Lynn and Ely Manchester and Birmin. 40 ... • Ditto Quarters ••• Midland 100 ......126 124 Ditto New 2 73/ Midland,Birm„Derby-100 . 921; Newcastle and Darling ton Junction ... 24 48 Newcastle and Berwick 1 1 /, 131/., North British Ditto New 1 ...... 31./” 278 Northern and Eastern... 45 ...... Norwich and Brandon... 10 ...... 16 Richmondand %Vest End Junction ............... 1 „ .... Rugby,Wor'ster,& Tring 1 ...... 34% Shrews, Wolverhamp , Dudley, and Birm 2 l /2 ...... 41/ South Devon... ............ 10 •••••• South Eastern & Dover 33/ 2s 4d... 39 1 % 40 Ditto, No. 1 ............ 8 14 15 Ditto, No. 2. ............ 2 ...... _ Ditto, No. 3 ............ 2% ...... 71/ Staines and Richmond... 1 ...... 1 1 % South Wales ............... 2 1 / 2 ...... 43,1% 1 4 Trent Va11ey............... 2 ..... . 19 3 / 4 % 1 A Waterford and Kilkenny 1 :34 York and North Midland 50 ...... 103 102 Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 20 ...... Ditto, Selby ............ 20 ...... 66 64 Ditto Extension ...... 1 1 % ...... 12 3 / 4 FRENCH RAILWAYS. Boulogne and A miens... 2 ...... 5%3/, Bordeaux and Toulouse 2 ..... Great North. of France.. 4 ...... Lyons and Avignon...... 2 ...... Orleans and Bordeaux... 2 ...... 6%% t'aris and Lyons . ........ 2 ...... 3 Paris and 0r1ean5......... 20 ...... Paris and Rouen ....•••• 20 ...... 42 3 / 4 Strasbourg and Bale ... 14 ...... 124 JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia ........... 40 ...... 44 ..... 44v British North American 50 Colonial 25 ...... Commercial of London.-. 20 ...... ... 21% London & Westminster. 20 ...... Erratum in yesterday's Li st— Read Shrewsbury, Wolver hampton, and Dudley first price 4%. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 24.—We have no new feature to notice to-day; a fair amount of business has been done. Edinburgh and Glasgow, New Quarters, 5 ; London and South-Western, 79 ex div. ; Man ehe.ster and Leeds, 138 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 14%; Man chester and Birmingham , Quarter Shares , 11 •, Sheffield and Manchester, 104%; South-Eastern, No. 2, D 10; Blackburn,ane,and Burnley, and Accrington, sv i ;Blackburn, Bolton, 3 15-16 ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 7% % ; Ca ledonian, 7% 7 ; Churnet Valley, 7% ; Dublin and Galway, 3 9-16; Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, 2 3 / 4 ; Hud dersfield and Sheffield Junction, 4 9-16 ; Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 3 3 / 4 ; London and Worcester, Oxford and Rugby, 31; London and York, 7 1 4 1 / 8 ; Manchester and Buxton, 2/ 8 ; Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, 255. 235. 9d. ; Trent Valley, 19 1 ,1 2 ; West Yorkshire, 3% ; Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, 11% ; Union Plate Glass, 19 18%. COURSE OF EXCHA_ Amsterdam CF. 12 Ditto, at sight l2 5i Rotterdam 2U. 12 8 Antwerp 26 10 Hamburgh M.B. 13 15 Alton l3 15 Paris, 3 days' sight— 25 85 Ditto, 3 months 26 0 Marseilles Bourdeaux 26 15 Frankfort on Maine 122 Petersburgh, 3Us 37 Berlin 7 Vienna, effec. 11 . 3 M 9 59 Trieste, ditto Madrid 36* Cadiz Bilbao 36 Barcelona 36 Seville 63 1 10. A 12 1 / 2 124 3% 3% 4% 16% 14% 7 3 / 4 4 1 A 204 61 / 2 6 1 4 12% GE.—(YE STERDAY.) Gibraltar... .....» Leghorn ••.• • 31 Genoa 26 15 Milan ...... Venice Naples ..... Palermo, par oz llBl Lisbon ........... 53i 0p0rt0.... • 53 Rio Janetro Bahia . •••• 24 Buenos Ayres.. N ew York.27dyssight PRIM% OF BULLION, PER OZ. FOrßigC. (3rold, bars...E.3 17 9 Porto gat Gold Coin 3 17 5 New Dtstib;oons..... 0 0 0 N e w DoL!ars 0 0 0 Silver iu Bars 0 0 0 STAMP DUTIES (IRELAN.—According to a D)re turn made to the House of C o mmons, the total amount of revenue from these duties for the year, ending Jan. 5, 1845, .was 583,3721., being an increase, as compared with 1842, of 129,014/. This is, in consequence of the additional duty on stamps, imposed when the Property-tax Bill was passed. WESTMORELAND SPRING ASSIZES. The commis sion was opened on Thursday, at Appleby, by Mr. Justice Coltman and Mr. Justice Wightman. On Friday morning the business commenced, the Crown Court being taken by Justice Wightman, and the Civil Side by Justice Coltman. w Lo a n rd do o n f -A Broad-street purpose vi•as held The business in both Courts was very li g ht. • BROAD-STREET WARD.—E E CTION OF A COMMON t New 'Ward School, l a Common Conn CouNctimAN.—Monday, at two o'cloc k, a wardmote of the cilman to fill up the vacancy occasione d b y the death of Mr. G. Hastings Hepp e ], who has been t hirteen years a re presentative of the ward in the Court of Common Cou ncil. Mr. Alderman M usgrove , the Alderman of the ward, eolfd c hoosing a t pre sided, when Mr. Barton proposed, and Mr. Sim pson _ seconded, the nomination of Mr. Thomas Willoughby Foster as Com mon Councilman for the remainder of the year. No other gentleman beiLg ricaut,i ;...r t - ...ii.:,, the resolution 7 . us F.;; and agreet to unanimously. Mr. Foster returned thanks. Mr. Abrahams then moved a resolution, which was carried unanimously, expressing the high opinion entertained by the ward of the decea se d, an d that the ward condoled with the family at the 190 they had sustained. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Vtibtir Opinton. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. At the division in the French Chamber which took place on Friday evening, 434 Deputies voted, 14 were absent from Paris, five were ill, two did not vote, and Marshal Sebastiani and M. Dupin paired off. The Committee on M. Duvergier d'llauranne's motion for the suppression of the vote by ballot has agreed to its report. It proposes that the opinion of the Chamber should be taken by dividing, and that the numbers be counted every time that a certain number of Members shall demand it. Should the recommendation of the Committee be adopted, there will be three modes of taking the opinion of the Chamber-Ist, the present mode, par assis et lea ; 2d, by dividing ; and 3d, by the ballot. The Constitutionnel publishes a letter from Berne of the 19th, from which it appears that the affairs of Switzerland are becoming daily more complicated and more threatening. The Unicers contains a proclamation of the Government of Lucerne, calling to arms the entire military population of the canton. The Gazette d'Augsbourg notices some rumours of contem plated disturbances in Italy, of which Gibraltar will be the focus. The same journal states that M. Guizot had given instructions to the French Ambassador in Switzerland to pursue a conciliatory course, and that similar instructions had issued from Vienna and Berlin. It was reported that 400 Swiss, residing in Paris, had pro posed to volunteer against the Jesuits; but a letter, signed by 40 Swiss, addressed to the Siecle, denies, on the part of the writers, any such intention. At the meeting of the Spanish Cortes on the 17th, General Narvaez, in reference to the preaching of certain priests, said the Government had ordered an inquiry to be made, the results of which were as yet unknown; but that, if such ex cesses had been committed, they should be chastised. " The Government," he added, "is aware that the enemies of the Government, of all parties, are conspiring against it, but it watches their machinations, and the sword of the law shall strike whoever shall dare to promote sedition, whatever mask he may assume." COURT-FASHIONABLE. _ The Queen and Prince Albeit attended the French plays on Monday evening. The Marquis of lleadfort and the Ladies Taylour have arrived in Chesham-place, from the family seat in Ireland, for the season. The Marquis of Salisbury has left town for Hatfield House, Herts. The Marquis of Bute shortly leaves town on a visit to Colonel and Baroness North, at Wroxton Abbey, near Ban bury. From thence the Noble Marquis goes to Cardiff Castle, his seat in Wales. The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield entertained Viscount Castlereagh, Count Alfred D'Orsay, the Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Anson, and a small party at dinner, on Sunday evening. at Chesterfield House, May-fair. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston received the Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne, the Earl of Clarendon, Lord and Lady Beauvale, Lord and Lady Dalmeny, Colonel and Lady Mary Fox, Mr. Monckton Milnes, Mr. Panizzi, and a select party, at dinner on Sunday evening, at their mansion on Carlton-hou e-terrace. The Hon. Mrs. Norton has engaged a new residence in Chesterfield-street, May-fair, this season. 1'; is the same mansion that was occupied by Mdlle. D'Este, last year. The Earl and Countess Fortescue have been passing the winter at their splendid seat, Castle-hill, Devon. The Noble Earl comes to town this week to resume his Parliamentary duties. The Earl and Countess of Beverley and Lady Louisa Percy, after a sojourn of near three months at Brighton, are expected in town, in course of the ensuing week, for the season. MISCELLANEOUS. The eighth annual meeting of the Tailors' Benevolent In stitution took place on Monday, at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-street, Mr. Cutler in the chair. From the re port read by the Secretary, it appeared that during the past year the health of the pensioners in the Asylum, at Haver stock-hill, had been good, and that the inmates now amounted to 73. The funded stock belonging to the Society was 11,304 L, being an increase over the previous year of 17S/ On account of the state of the funds, and the circumstance that at present the Asylum contained but one vacant room, the Directors had resolved to defer the usual election of in mates until August next. The receipts for current pur poses amounted during the year to 1,8831., and the expentli. tare to 1,5001. We understand that among the numerous and distin guished individuals who intend to honour the ball in favour of the distressed needlewomen at the London Tavern this day is the brave and kindhearted Mohan Lal, of Indian celebrity, who aided so materially in liberating our fellow countrymen at Caubul. The statement that the Wedgwood copy of the Portland Vase was not an original, is contradicted on the authority of Mr. F. Wedgwood, of Etruria, who says that Josiah Wedg wood stated in his account of the vase and his copy of it, published in 1790, that he had the original lent him for more than twelve months by the Duke of Portland, and the casts he took can now be produced. Thorswaldsen's statue of Byron, which was denied a plaee in Westminster Abbey a few years ago, and which has re mained since then buried in the vaults of the Custom-house, is about to be disinterred, and en honourable place afforded it within the bosom of the noble poet's own Alma Mater. Mr. Richard Albert Fitzgerald has been elected without opposition ostensibly to fill the vacancy in the representation caused by the decease of Mr. Otway Cave, but in reality to " swell the band of patriots," as the Tipperary Vindicator has it, now assembled for the dispatch of business at Burghquay. It is probable that the new member will, after going through the usual formalities, take his seat at the Conciliation-hall on Monday next. The remission of the coal duties, according to a letter from the Board of Trade to the coalowners of Sunderland, will take place from the day on which the resolution shall receive the sanction of Parliament. Ferdinand Hirschfield, Henrie Binck, and Isaac Ezekiel, Berlin wool-dealers, of St. Pancras lane, City, and John Jones, an attorney's clerk, charged at Guildhall a few day's ago with defrauding Captain F. W. E. Burrell, of Grosvenor-terrace, Camberwell, of the sum of 2501., under pretence of entering into partnership, were on Monday re examined and again remanded. They were liberated on bail. The civil bushicss at the Hertfordshire assizes will com mence on Saturday morning at 10 o'clock, instead of Monday morning, as originally proposed. FLANDERS MAIL. BRUSSELS, FEB. 22.—The cold continues to be very severe. The thermometer at, Brussels is at 12 deg. of Reaumer, or more than 15 centigrade (30 deg. Farenheit) below freezing point. We have not had such severe weather since January, 1839, when the thermometer of the Royal Observatory at Brussels was at 19 1 / 2 degrees of the centrigade ; but we must go farther back to find such a temperature at the end of February. CAUCASIA.—FROM THE BLACK SEA.—WC have received, from an authentic source, news from the Caucasia, coming down to the beginning of this year. The severe cold, which set in extremely early, and the heavy snow, which covered the mountains, impeded all operations on both sides. The Russians remained in their forts, over their fires, and Schamyl, with his warriors, did not stir from his Auls. It is thought that there will be no fighting till March, when the Terek and the Kuban are generally frozen, or have very little water. All the reports of great losses sustained by the Rus sians, in 1844, and of the capture of the fortresses of Chumak and Temir-Hautshura, by the Circassians, which were spread in Russia and Turkey, were false. In this campaign, which was opened by the Russians with such a powerful force, there were but few engagements, and only two of them of much importance ; but the Russians had the advantage, and their loss in killed and wounded was only 300 men. The Russians, however, look on the campaign as a complete failure, because no great blow has been struck. Schamyl, who had retreated to the strongly fortified Aul Buternao, situated on a steep eminence, would have been interrupted in his retreat, and probably ruined, if the Russians had made a rapid ad vance; but the order to attack him came from the Com mander-in- Chief eighteen hours too late. Schamyl seemed to perceive all at once his danger, and retired from his moun tain retreat by a defile, which the Russians occupied too late. This led to the recal of General Neidhardt, who had no great talent for carrying on the war, but showed extraordinary activity in the government of the Caucasian provinces.— Allgemeine Zeitung, Feb. 19. BELGIAN FUNDS.—BEUSSELS, FEL 22. Actual Debt, 214 per Cent Rothschild's Loan, Fire per Cent • • • • Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent • • Ditto Three per Cent •• • • Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto ••• • • • 78% Ditto, ditto, 1840. 103% Ditto, ditto, 1844 • 103% Ditto of the City, 1843 • • •• • • • • • • • • • • • • 103% Ditto, 1832 Bank of Belgium 628 —Brussels rapers. Feb. 23. FIRE IN GROSVENOR -SQUARE.—Two FIREMEN IN JURED.—Monday evening, between eight and nine, much alarm was created in Grosvenor-square, owing to a serious fire in the mansion of the Hon. Captain Duncombe, M.P., adjoining the residence of the Earl of Derby and Sir G. Talbot. The discovery was made by some of the domestics, in consequence of the building being gradually filled with smoke, and on their proceeding into the hall they found the flooring to be all on fire. The engines from Wells-street, King-street, and Baker-street were quickly in attendance, and on the firemen, named Loder and Horden, entering the hall, the flooring suddenly fell in, the supporting beams having burnt away. They were immediately extricated from their dangerous situation, when they were found not to be severely hurt. In the meantime active measures were taken to stop the ravages of the fire, and Mr. Braid wood, the superintendent of the force, having arrived with more engines and men, the flames were prevented from ex tending beyond the basement. The furniture in the suites of rooms has, however, suffered much injury. The outbreak was ascertained to have originated in the overturning of a hot air stove. Up to a late hour the brigade were in attendance, In ease the flames should kindle again. The mansion has re cently undergone extensive repairs, preparato r y t o th e family's arrival in town, from their seat in Yorkshire. The property is insured. TAE NELSON LETTER', TOL. ll.—We are re quested to state that Mr. Colburn, of Great Marlborough street, has this day published the second volume of" The Nelson Letters and Dispatches," which can now be had of all booksellers. Mr. Colburn has also just published the following new works :-2. The Maxims and Opi nions of the Duke of Wellington, 1 vol., with portrait, 14s. bound. 3. Prince Puckler Muskau's Egypt under Mehemet Ali, translated by H. Evans Lloyd, Esq., com plete in 2 vols., with portrait, &c., price 16s. bound, com prising the three volumes of the German original. 4. Three Years in Constantinople ; or, Domestic Manners of the Turks, by Charles White, Esq., 3 vols., small Bvo. with illustrations. 5. Colonel Maxwell's Adventures, 2 vols., small Bvo., with portraits. 6. Letters of a Ger man Countess, written during her Travels in Turkey, Egypt, the Holy Land, &c., 3 vols., small Bvo. 7. A Second Edition of " Revelations of Russia," by an Eng lish Resident, 2 vols., small Bvo. Shortly after twelve o'clock on Sunday morning, a fire broke out upon the premises belonging to Mr. Raw bone, oil and Italian warehouseman, Frances-street, facing St. Mary's Church, Newington. The engines of the parish, London brigade, and West of England-office promptly attended, but by the time they arrived the flames were bursting forth through the windows and doorway. The Lambeth water works furnished an in stant and (bus:l4l:l,A iii" tv , ; ,tu r , engiue6 wove work,_d wit'n. full Nlp;our, ialL the firemEn were unable to subdue the conflagration before half-past one o'clock, and not before property to the amount of several hundred pounds was consumed. COURT cIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by the Equer ries in Waiting, took equestrian exercise yesterday morning, in the riding-school near Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty, accompanied by the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, and attended by the Dowager Lady Lyttle ton, took an airing in the Regent's Park yesterday afternoon, in a carrive And four. Celonel Buckley, Equerry in Waiting, was in attendance. His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yesterday at a meeting of the Commission tor Promoting ana Encouraging the Fine Arts in the re-building the Palace of Westminster. The meeting was held at Gwydyr House, Whitehall, at half past two o'clock. The Prince arrived at that hour. attended by Colonel Wylde, &perry in Waiting. The Corn • missitners present were the Marquis of Lnnsdowne, Viscount Palmerston, Lord Colborne, Sir Robert Harry Inglis, Mr. Henry Hallam, Mr, Thomas Wyse, and Lord Mahon. The meeting broke up at live o'clock. His Royal Highness Prince Alfred was taken an airing in the Royal Gardens yesterday. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited Pi ince Albert yesterday at Buckingham Palace. The Countess of Dunmore has succeeded the Countess of Mount Edgecumbe as the Lady in Waiting on the Queen. The Earl of Morton has relieved the Marquis of Ormonde in the duties of Lord in Waiting; and Mr. R. Ormsby Gore has relieved Captain Meynell, R.N., as the Groom in 'Waiting on her Majesty. The royal dinner party yesterday, at Buckingham Palace, included the Earl of Deuon, Viscount and Viscountess Can ning, Lord and Lady Stanley, Lord Glenlyon, the Right Hon. George Dawson Darner, and the Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay. The French Ambassador and the Danish Minister trans acted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. The Earl of Devon had an interview with Sir Robert Peel yesterday. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a meet ing yesterday afternoon, at the, office in Whitehall-place. There were present the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Exeter, the Bishop of Hereford, the Bishop of Lichfield, the Bishop of Llandaff, the Bishop of Norwich, the Bishop of Rochester, the Bishop of Worcester, Lord Ashley, the Right Hon. H. Hobhouse, and the Dean of Westminster. Mr. John Browne had an interview with Lord Stanley yesterday, at the Colonial-office. A deputation from the North Wales Railway, consisting of Mr. Ormsby Gore, M.P., Chairman, Sir John Rennie, Mr. Chadwick, Mr. Archer, Mr. Johnston, and Mr. Williams, transacted business yesterday, at the Railway Department of the Board of Trade. Dispatches from the Governor of the Mauritius were re ceived yesterday, at the Colonial-office. Dispatches were also received yesterday from the Governor of the Ca* of Good Hope. CORNWALL AND DEVON CEN TRAL RAIL W AY. Yesterday a special general meeting of the Shareholders in the Cornwall and Devon Central Railway was held at the Offices of the Company, in Old Broad-street, for the purpose of considering what steps should now be taken, the Board of Trade having reported against the line. Mr. TURNER, M.P. for Truro, occupied the Chair, and in opening the business of the meeting the Hon. Member di rected the attention to the adverse Report of the Board of Trade, and told the Proprietors that it was for them to de termine what was the best course to adopt for the general interest of the Company. He would not detain them with a long speech, but at once request their secretary, Mr. T. Harvey, to read the report which had been prepared for the occasion. The report commenced by stating that the standing orders relative to the deposit of plans were only complied with on the day on which the adverse opinion of the Board of Trade was made known to the public; and this had rendered it im possible for the Directors to lay before the Proprietors the rela tive advantages of this and the Cornwall coast- line. Previously , to this time, however, a suggestion was made that a confer ence should be had with the competing line, to see if their Parliamentary opposition against the coast-line could not be got rid of. Accordingly it was proposed by the Cornwall and Devon Central Railway Directors that the coast-line from Falmouth to Bodmin be abandoned, and the central line substituted, but the Directors of the coast-line declined to entertain the proposition. A petition had been presented to the House of Commons against the coast-line, on the ground that they had not complied with the stand ing orders of the House ; but should this oppo sition be attended with success, the Committee recommended that the application to Parliament for leave to construct their line should be postponed till next session. But, if otherwise, the Committee thought it advisable to go to Par liament at once for power to make so much of the line as extended" from Falmouth to Bodmin, in order that they might be in a position to support the. coast-line. The capital to be disposed of amounted to 18,7501., being three fourths of the originally estimated capital for that portion of the line of 500,000/. The Committee felt strongly that the decision of the Board of Trade was manifestly unjust. Such a decision could not have been carried out if they had not misapprehended the facts, for in many instances the gradients of the coast-line had been found to be totally false. The report proceeded to lay before the meeting the state of the Finance Committee. The present liabilities of the Committee amounted to upwards of 9,0001., and the assets including certain deposits to 27,000/. The Finance Com mittee had examined the accounts, and they recommended that the sum of 7s, be deducted from the paid-up capital, to enable them to meet their liabilities; and if application were to be made for / the Bodmin line, they recommended a fur ther deduction to the extent of 7,000/. If, however, the meeting thought it advisable not to proceed to Parliament, the Committee would take immediate steps to return the balance of deposits. _ The report having been adopted, Mr. HAZLEWOOD said he understood a great many Share holders had not paid their deposits, and he wished to be informed if they were not responsible for the amount. Mr. TILLY, the Solicitor to the Company, replied in the affirmative. Mr. linnuarr suggested that the names and addresses of those who had failed to pay up their deposits should be published. _ _ Tne CHAIR3fAN said if they were to do so, they would be laying themselves open to an action for libel. Mr. HEMMETT thought it was exceedingly unjust these defaulters should be allowed to creep out of their liabilities. He certainly thought his suggestion ought to be adopted to prevent other Companies allotting them shares. Mr. HOLLAND submitted the following resolution for the consideration of the meeting :—" That in the opinion of this meeting, every subscriber to this undertaking. may withdraw his deposit on condition of his forfeiting 7s. per share, as his portion of the expenses incurred up to this day." Mr. Wnsorr seconded the motion. After some further discussion the resolution was put and carried. The CHAIRMAN then proposed that they should make an offer to the coast-line to abandon their opposition, on condi tion of their transferring to them 1,750 shares, and adopting the central line from Falmouth to Bodmin. Mr. TILLY strongly resisted the proposition, declaring that the Cornish people were averse to any other line than the Central Railway. The Company, he said, had nothing to do with the opposition. The petition was certainly signed by Mr. Harvey, the secretary, but he had done so on behalf of several shareholders in the country. A stormy discussion ensued, and Mr. Tilly resigned his office of solicitor to the Company, and declared his determina tion, on principle, not to shrink from the opposition. The Chairman, Mr. Shaw, and Mr. Hemmitt were then appointed to wait upon the committee of the coast-line, and endeavour to make terms, it being understood that, if none could be made, the Company were to proceed with the op. position. A vote of thanks was then awarded to the Chairman, and the meeting broke up, after a protracted sitting, extending upwards of lour hours. COURT OF ALDERMEN. Ye. tmlay a Court of Aldermen was held for the dispatch of busine,s. The first matter of interest which came before the Court was the case of Mr. Knill, who, after his election as Common Councilman for the Ward of Billingsgate, had declined to take, when required, the oath of ab juration,. - Tile TOWN CLERK intimated to the Court that he bad r , .w,ivc:d a communication from Mr. Kutli, dt-clario::,- his intention to attend in his piece in the Court of Common Council ou Thursday next. On this intimation Mr. Kull], was excused from further attendance in the pre sent Court of Ald.rmen; but Mr. KNILL to address a few words to Ve Court. Ile saiii decay taken hi.; the Court of Common Couticii, alai had subserib, at two of the oaths which had been tendered to him on two previous elections. It was only at the last wardmote that the obnoxious oath of abjuration had been tendered to him, which he had conscientiously refused to take. He had, however, to take and subscribe the oath pre scribed to be taken by persons who, like himself, were of the Roman Catholic persuasion ; but it appeared that neither the alderman of the ward, nor the ward clerk, knew anything about it. He (Mr. Knill) could not but complain that he had been dragged before the public iu this matter, and been made the subject of comment in the newspapers, as having refused to serve the office to which he had been re-elected. A long discussion followed, from which it appeared that there was no uniform practice subsisting in the City with regard to the administration of the Roman Catholic oath to Members elected to the Commoß Council. Mr. KNILL having withdrawn, The Lt_RD MAYOR announced to the Court that he had appointed the Rev. the Lord Bishop of Peterbo rough and the Rev. Dr. M'Caul to preach the Spital sermons for the present year. STREET NUISANCES. Alderman Wu.soN presented a petition from the in habitants of the north-side of St. Paul's Church-yard, complaining that for several months past they had suf fered a great nuisance from the congregation of large numbers of persons assembled in front of their premises offering various articles (which they cried at the highest pitch of their voices) fur sale. They prayed the Court to devise some means for giving power to the Com missioner of Police to effect its removal and abolition. He moved that the petition be referred to the Committee fur general purposes. The motion was then agreed to. After a long discussion, the bye-laws regulating the navigation of the river Thames by steam-vessels, which had been agreed to at the last Court, were confirmed, and copies of them were ordered to be laid before coun sel preparatory to their being submitted to the judges. STATE OF THE CITY Plenum. Alderman SIDNEY said he rose as a Member of the Court, and also as one of the Sheriffs of the City of London, to present a petition on the subject of the state of the gaols of the metropolis. If he were not irregular, he would embody the terms of the petition in the obser vai ions it was his intention to address to the Court. Alderman FARERROTIIER moved that the Court be cleared. Strangers then withdrew, and the Court continad until its rising, its proceedings with closed doors. We uoderstend. however, that the petition, which c(inplaitL.d of the impossibility of any system of discipline or classi fication being carried out in the City prisons, owing to their crowded state, was eventually referred to the Com mittee on general purposes. The Court adjourned at half-past four o'clock. CeLLinr.T. ex i :ll , sion of 13111 nil! to+A at the Marge,ir. 1."1 , .ky. Tie •--,•/:;e:17,11;1,1 were fortunately saved by throv.ing themselves on their faces into a stream of water running through the pit. One man named Jacob Jones, was, however, severely burial, but is in a state of recovery.—Cambrian. • THE DISTRESSED NEEDI Y ' . W OMEN. f The grand full and :fanny dress bait, in Rid 0 ' p r i funds of the society fur the pcotection and cuiplosll';'/ of distressed neediewotnen, takes place this eve'D ill ' e p ' . p ot ° the London Tavern. The Socirty is under th , age of her Majesty the Qoeen-Dowag, r. and hi - 111 0 Hit4hhess tho Du;;e of Catz,bri/L e. fir. A!de f° ? , rei' rother is its PN, ident, 11 d Lo:d lls dt Prosidi.nt. The both o f the Court * r .;d the city will, as we understand, honour the 12'211f; their presence. It is d e lightf u l to see the el aY ° classes thus uniting in aid of the cause of the poor the defenceless. OLYII rillir tTPE —4. t • W , > ; i,,is theatre cast,evening, and smv n lish version of La Dame de St. Tropez, which ivss„V t il duced in a manner which reflects grea t credit si r management of this elegant little theatre. The P e nd Hortense, the heroine, was sustained by Miss lls,v en ,f,,tl and sustained in a manner which cannot but ads g` ii " t o to the reputation of this rising arti.te. She pe rsoll . „i to the life the young girl, high-bred, high sensible (in the FiTnch sense of the term), s ud „bog thrown among rough, vulgar, brutalized persons, " 0 , 0 0 envy makes them ready to construe even the ess l ijet courtesies of society into an unpardonable crisie• bo or acting throughout was in perfect keeping, and els t erlP tiful, exceedingly, in the strictest sense of the 0 , spirite,descli Judging from her acting in La Dame de Si. Trop as should augur great things of her D:sdemona, i the hope soon to have an opportunity of seeing her character. She was excellently supported by *;..or whose George Maurice was a most careful astill 0 worthy piece of acting. Miss Kate H ews d Tur Madame Langlois, was excellent • our old fri sfi iv bir nour, as her henpecked husband, ' was exceedie ah l 4 '',3oe, morons. Miss Grey, too, was very good as t o me Antoine ; but we cannot say as much for the AD f ere Mr, Broadfoot—his strides and his contortiossoci equally awful, they savoured more of the ring n o re' the stage. It was melodrama run mad. W e les. s ` 4 commend him to go to the St. James's, and take!, by* or two of M. Oudinot. The drama was follorreuver ballet, in which a pas de deux was danced by A ir n . f more and Miss Wright, which, in a thelitr e i d - 11 5 , c ; higher pretensions than the Olympic, weuirols brought down enthusiastic rounds of applaus e . t , C O delighted dilettanti. The evening's amusesi e ,"4, eluded with the excellent old farce of the 0( 10 0 which Miss Davenport, as Priscilla Tomboy; r i , v , e she is as much favoured by Thalia as she 1 9 w; pomerie, MUSIC. THE BLIND ORPHAN. Ballad, sung Ch o re" Grant. Composed by H. J. St. Leger, Esq. t h e New Bond-street. a n d he e The words of this lyric are very beautuwo io t sentiment conveyed by them is well express 01: melody. The accompaniment too is tastefalt,, sician-like, supporting without drowning the si b l e die elegant ballad will no doubt be a favourite ing:room during the approaching season. sd A SET OF NEGRO QUADRILL-- g. 5, a' lao " Sha Sha" Polka. By Francis (J;4l Musician. Purday, St. Paul's; Egan, Jcos cl t ' v roP t . We cannot refuse a passing notice to the fir s. ;,.. r ob s _,j o tion of a negro composer that has come under%iCn, vation. The motives are constituted upon ori1;": 4 airs, are extremely pleasing, and well modulat e... the ' entitled " The Farewell," a song composed Onjose parture of the Marquis of Normanby fro°, bed hi who, as Gov( rnor of that island, had distines- „der self as the fri , nd of the negro, is of a superior ° llt dr quadrille melody, and as a whole the arrangenhi,:chll,lll,o: infinite credit to " Mr. Francis Gilot Jullien, sician," as he styles himself, whose "full dreg "full fig." conducting his sable orchestxs, title page. This it ustrated titiv-pare is a ell ,„ - 0 0 % i r but we eemlidly confess our inability to its West Indian enigmatical allt4ly4. li ve doubtedly a sly hit et the composer's grea' 0 01Proe namesake, M. Jullien, in one or two of th e - 0 134 ments ; but our musical lady philanthrop ists v e friends of the negro will no doubt - go sh a themselves. LITERATURE. IV ( TEE GALLE.UY OF NATURE, 4*C. or Orr and Co. Paternoster-row . the This is the first part of a serial devoted ,t ° , ro e. tration of the natural history of the tn v ' tro o o o ) present number contains a short history of tiro e ,ell lo discovery, from the earliest ages to the Pres elit erf ° di/ the commencement of a description of the scriprofrof heavens. The work is well written and ' s fibelt° illustrated by diagrams and woodcuts, sonic e ° art. 0 04 1 of which are of a high order as works n'L l ibt neatly printed and well got up, and will on - with that success of which it is deserving. F Ofl•- PARLIAMENTARY COMPANIONd Cm' By Charles B. Dodd, Esq. Whittaker a 7 , e c Maria-lane. of e ia This is the thirteenth annual impression ° ll , ceedingly useful little manual, which, to e/elaciis,Loc' terested in Parliamentary proceedings, is 6° o O c- a sable vade mecum, containing, as it does, opetoe4 account not only of the manner of ll' 0 3 business, both public and private, before blitic.ol,:fed of Parliament, but of the connexions r d e' , personal of every Member of the Legisl o ; ; 13 to 30% person interested in any of the n e ,..iiss;;so . schemes should possess a copy of the V 6 '„ean) Companion, a reference to which may fr e4- them much valuable time. • GLASS DUTIES ,01, TO THE EDITOR OF THE 'bp li , MR. EDITOR,—You will greatly oblige 08 r i o tt ecet ir the following few lines in your valuable ple," g 'lo .4 A ta Being a commercial traveller in the flin i ,it; p er t ose l ' and now on my journey, I have, since t", otil alteration on duties by Sir Robert Peel, ir e t ybet 4 difficulties to convince my customers, an".., ° , - en,,,4 - La that there is any difference between the L. ge°o9 flint and sheet glass, in consequence of ereg e 4 ;cor r „if stating, in the House of Common*, that til e .4 o fr„ ove td about to be taken off glass would reduce"`" bela,, d l rl per cent.; but the present duty on flint.g%t th e ft I, three farthings per pound, it is my wisu t ;soli g it 'io ti,l; may be shown that the great reductions ibo t , „' t , ' :0 named can only be upon sheet glass, an du' i r s clot fortunate for the trade I am connected ,--,- taf ifo pr Robert Peel did not name the differenc' *'spec between the two articles. I are, Sir, veil., r5 O O W. 11. PAll vi r r eyte Of Stourbridge, " ° Lincoln, Feb. 23, 1845. ,---'--- . ‘ ,NC$' SPORTING INT ELI,IOJ" ,bit) CHESTER RACES. , , ii , " 0 Handicap for the Welter Stsr.e- 5 yr:116;os William le Gros, 6 yrs, 12st 71b—Win es l . sg e t ;;;•e r 'il * --John-o'-Gaunt, aged, list 51b—Naworr-,9, 51 t, 6 v 9dl l : l :,o: s rs t :tTriba ' :i i tt 'h , —Portrait, ,god, llst 516—Hooton, 5 yrs , l's The );at, 11,1 e aged, llst 316—Porto Beim, 5 yrs, llst 31b .--- 0 , 1 0 1 11'.0, Agriculture, 5 yrs, lOst 121b—The Dean, age d, 51 13 ":3 ,i t 3 :ll:ll m bl— r n s g l) . l l t o lt le T t h: ; il e a: g u r s e t , d i ' O , 6 yf ' . c . : :61 10 ' ::3 4 ; c :: 4 yrs, lOst 516—Babylon, aged, lOst 3 1 r„. s , 6s t - AO : e4 : 1: 1 1 t i i g i 'D i 8i 1 ...................... ....1 : . :57 i 1 Forfeit to be declared on or before 3, c it ie da ,it lo Her llajestv's st , 1 g h oun d s w ill meet et' ~ rsrl'' . t O P whliSeihuhLasllb-eoe.tatainne;el:lldlA:cd.ni:h;N:e: g il attl h--- s in e : 6; I , 4; ., :g ss u l a e ri P- i s r .l; , 10 ° ,1 ported from the United Kingdom A 013- e ,01 . ,1; the declared value of all mill work 11, °' t he ' 1 ,3 6 ; 4 (Wil l to 5 5 0 lei p-"lfs, it !-Tpt - i, !1, ,:. it 3ii-,,e:nc.d i 3 1 ..,/; Or td 4 1 ;n 1842 u) 554.653/.. in 1643 to 713,40 ' ~ tv to 773,187/. ' ' attP tb e v oter ode A sport was current through " vri l'octi °lb let r' the London and Birmingham, the Grand ' to 1 00 5 , ,f, Liverpool and Blanchester lines, were abou t ; 0 0 a We believe that then is no ground for this ru I 06°1 e posl Journal. i‘ C .. _.--0 0 ._,. o t , tbe REPEAL OF THE WINDOW -TA,' difi e , " l,lo 00 meeting of the delegates appointed by t hertli" reP ta e,Pe of politan parishes, to assist in agitating' if.;_arirho._o s t,sl m j window-tax, was held at the Marylebon: v ., gli' llt , r; e o purpose of hearine• a report from Lord. I) !l e r ; preS e boa lei , the question. ;bout forty delegates " fle titienos rtlis Duncan said that, on Thursday Jot , a 1 3 . - ,500C 1 a 0 t a t oli' placed in his hands signed by ninetp:one, ~„tt i on 0 . 5_ i a tioners in two day, who gave a ecidec,'„7oooate;otAga injurious effect of the window -duty on "'c oo hio_7o4or a jj th e of the people. He intended to brut oct Si ta t le ig a or t ° the House of Commons on Thursday age , but nbst, d o , day, when he was fully prepared to be I ,i' a e ilad to-d 5) _mod the not discourage him.—(Hear.) If li!i:lol.iireeef 0 6 a greater reason for renewed exertionsthera A e 0 Gresen, Hewitt, Norman, Gomm , e n t u d, 0Pre5:5,,101(3 P.,,,eil meeting, and a resolution was adoP e_,_„. fi,vo. .Aoo l ' pleasure of the meeting at the increasfp. t hen """ , poets of the agitation. The meeting 1 " - fiik . i until Saturday. 'LISTINGS 11All'oal . 0 1 Br igbt° ll . _..ps. ~e BRIGHTON, LEWES, AND The half-yearly meeting of the ProP_ r ~,.,, t a w re ed was th ip is t o l-44: : _ ,,, l)i r was held on Monday at the London b ti:Viiicia c a: of , rep Nash, Esq., in the chair. T h e eepo t r , . a _.,, g 080....„,t0rs 31r. Oxley, the secretary', stated thaetlngl:"- .) the 11 'Cong/0 lution passed at the last general, ru who were now registered Proprie oot ia pro motiVertef completed the airangement Iv:l, e r t e he„ 3,50 0 . str:yerf. , 3: ,g, Directors had been actively engaged _ roe s of th a ii Of,ntel - wade a ea e atisl A ' tli # and on the 23d of December they It iv ° . t ors °VI' Ist of February'. , p ro prie f I. cessary step towards the vigorous prog share, payable on the et the t o 0 ' 0 ,1 he call was rn ! a t se e Liv-. 4 promptness with which t recounting i f o f th ee only remaining unpaid. After ectors, on beb il _ :0 0 sce i Pt to them to be able to congratulate tile s ot o ,„ the contracts into which the Dtairted that the slittii 6 cieeivecji pany, had entered, the rep . :ern ComPanYeuir had r ec e et suggested by the South -E of the Director....,„-5, WV the most careful consideration bridge and 11011.0 „ ft s t • eel , r e P" pert °r the lines proposed between. Tun ~ _ n ue_ , e s.. o r a revival of the Headcorn line. i hvev...u_t the beam sae, its compete for the Hastings ;d London traiut in re 5 P A ale that between Lewes and Brightorne,grenssery bee hao - : 00 y 0 0 were to be encountered, gre h a e t 1), Fulmer tunet e occlridie titularly on each side of t an wind Plu m b e out , i t l er eac! bridges had already- been built' ad soon A i n re b ieci and viaduct over the London-ro . .on en s "' 0 0 ' 5° ' d a discuss' ... 0 _ The report was adopted, an the Dire e ve length. Between Fulmer and Brighton, i _ iic ro ad, h aek 0 ..-11 r ° 6 1,4 1° of the works on the line. LI ~,„ i s LoNP °l4 "f r oril Le 0 FREE TRADE BAzA.- contributions ;00at, _:0 to the contracts entered into by every reason to believe that the or ins i gYe inet;lo* t f Con' uli tCe i thei r Is t t6 l the course ofheen ,A, 1,, _ considerable encouragement in tep hay., 0, 0 1 ; r .e cio it areth i s undertaking informed that ltv the lel ladiesneither e ti i e f e w n We are not aware whether any s 5 ; Ithibition _l4. sheili:d complete 8 ~ . d e rs 0 ..w.t r insure the collection of a he Fre e- ir3 - ',. ~,., ti 1 , Inantifllcture2, !', ive o"er 7 e t . 23,1 , 1 ,:,,, • P- ' t be who are able and a•illing to furtne . ew __ thy j o u hind hand in seconding the prais IP v ladieS.—Leeds Mercury. L T e l i ic: , --,l;.'ir2;:iCL ~ice:" 1,,t: c ' : Lil o -sl i L . ii , I:.6ttho:clai ulisieta, , ii, J iiii:t o ri t o f tito --....'''''..*.' T L HE STJN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 26, 1845. ri qui *i nt I.< day relati to ci , Ti; A en