The Sun. — London, England, 1851-02-24 00:00:00

rtter; Zbttton SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock. THE NEW MINISTRY. Our anticipations with respect to the probable firmation of a New Ministry based on the coali tion of men of Liberal principles, whether Conserva tive or otherwise, are being realized. Lord JOHN IitUSSELL is now engaged in selecting his future coadjutors for carrying out the principles of Reform and ,Free Trade in an enlightened spirit. 'We heartily wish him success in his la bours so long as he has the true interests of the country at heart—totally irrespective of party, sectional, or class interest. The good of the country is paramount to all selfish interests, be they aristocratical or plebeian, and while Lord JOHN RUSSELL acts on that national principle he shall hare our support, but not other wise. The House of Commons was crowded to excess, and the avenues leading to it were full of people eager to learn the issue of the Ministerial crisis. Lord STANLEY was unable to form a Ministry. VICINITY OF THE HOUSE THIS EVENING. The greatest excitement prevailed in the neighbour hood of both Houses this evening, owing to the general ex pectation that information could be obtained which Would unravel the mystery at present overhanging the Ministerial crisis, and give some notion as to the proba ble successors cf the Whig Administration. Opposite the entrance to the House of Commons an immense con course of persons had assembled to witness the arrival of the diffErent Members, and they evinced the greatest anxiety to catch even at the slightest of the many rumours which were filing about in all directions. The excitement was increased towards half-put four by carriages driving rapidly and in quick succession, down Whitehall and Parliament-street, to the House of Commons. _ _ v. One of the rumours which seemed to be generally believed was, that there would be a change in the Mi nistry. Lord John Russell would still hold tho post of Prime Minister. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool sack at Five o'clock. CHLOROFORM. Lord CAMPBELL introduced a Bill for punishing persons who criminally make use of chloroform and other stupifying poisons. He proposed that a first offence should be punished with imprison ment, and a second offence with transportation. He re gretted to be obliged to extend the criminal code, but new crimes called for new punishment. The Bill was then read a first time. PETITIONS. The Earl of ST. GERMANS presented several peti tions in favour of the Marriage Bill. The Marquis of BREADALBANE presentiA several pditions from places in Scotland against the Marriage Bill. Lord BROUGHAM presented several petitions in favour of tho extension of County Courts Bill. The Earl of HARDWICKE presented several peti tions from Cambridgeshire praying for protection to the agricultural interest. Tile Earl of HARROWBY presented several peti• tions against Papal aggression. CERTIORARIS FROM THE COUNTY COURTS. Lord BROUGUAM. drew the attention of their Lord ships to the returns which had been made of the writs of certiorari which had been issued to remove causes from the county courts to the superior courts. They had been few in number, and he concluded, therefore, that the judgments of the county courts had given general satisfaction. MINISTERIAL CRISIS. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE rose and said— My Lords, I rise fur the purpose of moving that this House at its rising do adjourn to Friday next. I feel that in proposing this adjournment, it is due to the House, with regard to the present state of public affairs, that I should state al the information which I can properly communicate to your Lordship , . I have, therefore, to inform your Lordships that on Friday last, in conse quence of what had taken place on Thursday in the other House of Parliament. Her Majesty's servants considered it their duty to tender their resignations to her Majesty on that day. Some of her Majesty's servants—l myself among that number—were absent from town at the time, bat on Saturday we determined to tender our resignations to her Majesty. On the same day her Msjety sent to the Noble Lord oppo- site; and he, as I understood, after due consideration informed her Majesty that he was not prepared to construct a Government. My Noble Friend late at the head of the Government was then sent for by her Mejesty,and he is now engaged in reconstructing the Government. This is the present state of affairs. All I can state at present is, that my Noble Friend lately at the head of the Government, has ? on reflection, thought that it is a duty which he owes to her Majesty, and to the public to attempt the recon struction of a Government. Beyond this I shall say nothing—l speak as the Member of a Government which exists no longer. I hold office nominally only; I repeat I am only in office so long as our suc cessors shall not be appointed, and that therefore at present I am not in a position to make any further communication to your Lordships. Lord STANLEY—I will make no opposition to the motion of the Noble Marquis Your Lordships„will understand that it is at present impassible for me me, under the present circumstances of the coutry, to enter into any details on the subject to which the Noble Marquis had alluded, I have only to say that when I waited upon her Majesty and had the offer made to me to construct a Ministry, I laid before her Majesty, w h o ll y and unreservedly all my views. Nothing could exceed the graciousness, the condescension, indeed I may say the kindness, with which her Majesty received my communication ; but of what passed at that interview. and what was the advice as a Privy Councillor I tendered to her Majesty, of course I cannot at present say ono single word. When the time shall come—when this political crisis shall be passed over—then I shall be prepared to state, fully and unreservedfy, to tho House and to the country the advice which I tendered and the course which, as a public wan and a Privy' Councillor, I recommended her Majesty to pursue. The MARQUIS of LANSDOWNE agreed that it would be the duty of the Noble Lord, on a fitting oc casion, to fully and fairly state what had passed. With regard to himself, he had only satted facts of which he was cognizant, and he trusted, therefore, that th e i r Lordships would accede to his motion. MARRIAGE BILL. The Earl of ST. GERMANS trusted that their Lord- BhiPs Would sec no objection in sitting to-morrow, in order to discuss the motion for the second reading of the Marriage Bill, a measure which is not at all connected with politics, but which is of great social importance. Lord CAMPBELL wished most strongly to impress upon their Lordships the importance of allowing the discussion to come on to-morrow night. There was nothing political in it, and be fully concurred in the pro priety of abstaining from political discussion till Friday. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, on the understand ing that no political matter should be introduced into the discussion to-naorrCOUNTY COURTS.ow, would withdraw his motion., Lord BROUGHAM p ost p oned h is motion with re spect to the County Courts, which stod on the paper f o . t Thursday, till Monday. VICE-CHANCELLOR RILL! Lord LANGDALE moved the second reading o f this Bill, which was agreed to. CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT BILL. Lera CAMPBELL nominated the committee to which this Bill vas to be raf.rrod, and their Lordships then adj-)urned. ROUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEALER took the Chair at Four o'clock, when there was an unusually large numbers cf Members in attendance. NEW MEMBER. Mr. SMITH Camp took the oaths and his seat for North Stnffordshirp. SECOND READINGS. The followipg Bills were read a sEcond time, and ordered to be committed: — Bala Pool. Briton Ferry,,Docks, and railway. SUN, Cameron's Coalbrook Steam Coal and Swanilea and Loughor Railway. Christchurch (Southwark) Parish. Great Western Railway (Arrangements with reference to the Purchase, &c., of the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railways). Killarney and Valencia Railway. London and Blackwall Railway (from London and Blackwall Extension Railway to Tilbury, &c.) Manchester Waterworks. Manchester Improvement. Maryport and Carlisle Railway. Midland Railway (Purchase of Leeds and Bradford Railway and Increase of Capital). Richmond and Lancaster Turnpike Road (Western District) Continuation of Term, &c. - Sheffield and Glossop Road. Tenterden and Woodchurch Roads. Wiveliscombe Turnpike Roads. The second readings of the following Bills were post poned:—Buckingham's Compensation Bill, which was ordered to be read a second time on Monday next, European and American Printing Telegraph Company, &c., Bill, Metropolitan Cattle Market Bill, and the Sub marine Telegraph Company, between England and France, Bill. PETITIONS. Lord GEORGE MANNERS presented a petition from a place in Leicestershire, signed by 700 owners and occupiers of land, complaining of agricultural distress ; also two petitions from the same county against the Papal aggression. Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL presented a number of pe titions from all parts of Ireland against the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill. Mr. P. HOWARD presented two petitions from places in Northumberland to the same effwct. Sir R. H. INGLIS presented a petition from a place in Oxfordshire against the admission of Jews into Par liament. Mr. W. 0. STANLEY presented a petitiom from Cheshire in favour of the establishment of county financial boards. Mr. W. WILLIAMS presented a petition from Fins bury praying for the repeal of the window-tax. The Earl of ARUNDEL and SURREY presented a pe tition from Durham against the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill. Colonel SIBTLIORP presented a petition from Lin coln complaining of agricultural distress. Mr. WAKLEY presented a petition from Finsbury praying for the repeal of the window-tax. Mr. 0. HIGGINS presented a petition from the town of Westport against any interference with the doctrine, discipline, or practice of the Roman Catholic Church; also from the same place praying for the establishment of religious equality in Ireland, by a more proper appli cation of the funds of the Established Church; also from the Neale, Louisburgh, Bay erver, and various other places in the county of Mayo, against the Eccle siastical Titles Bill. Mr. REYNOLDS presented a petition from a parish in Dublin to the same effect; also petitions with a simi lar prayer from the corporation of Drogheda, and other places in Ireland; and a number: of petitions, praying for the repeal of the taxes on knowledge. Mr. R. M. lOX presented a petition from Longford against the Papal Aggression Bill. Lord DUNCAN presented several petitions praying for the repeal of the window-tax. Mr. MONSELL presented petitions from Limerick against the Papal Aggression Bill. Lord D. STUART presented a petition praying for the total repeal of the window-tax, and against the sub stitution of the house-tax. Mr. WYLD presented a petition against the paper duties. Mr. WILSON presented a petition against the win dow duties. Mr. P. WOOD presented a petition against the paper duty. Mr. lIUME presented a petition praying for a modifi cation of the income-tax, and another against the Bible monopoly. APPEARANCE OF THE HOUSE AT HALF PAST FOUR O'CLOCK. At half-past four o'clock both sides of the House wero nearly filled, but the Opposition benches appeared to be more closely packed. The Members' and strangers' gal leries were also crowded. The whole of the Ministers, with the exception of Lord J. Russell, Lord Palruerston, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer had by this time taken their seats on the Mi nisterial benches. The buzz arising from the almost generally suppressed tone of conversation carried on in all parts of the House prevented the reporters catching distinctly the prayers of the different petitions which were presented. ELEVATION OF SIR J. C. HOBHOUSE TO THE PEERAGE. Mr. HAYTER, whose appearance at the table pro duced an almost instantaneous silence in the House, said—Mr. Speaker, I have to move for a new writ for the election of a Member for the borough of Harwich, in the room of the Right Hon. Sir John Cam frobhouse, who has accepted the office of steward of the Chiltern Hue dreds.— (Loud laughter.) Hon. Members having now finished presenting peti tions, the House remained for more than a quarter of an hour without any business to occupy it. All the Ca binet Ministers had now arrived, with the excep tion of the First Lord of the Treasury, whose usual seat by the side of Lord Palmerston re mained vacant, when some considerable amuse ment was excited in the House by Mr. Monckton Milnes, who having just entered the House and per ceiving the vacant place unwittingly seated himself in it, apparently for the purpose of conversing with Lord Palmerston. This movement was received with loud laughter on all sides, apparently as if saluting the Hon. Member as the future Prime Minister, and clearing away the mystery which has enveloped the political world during the last day or two. Lord JOHN RUSSELL entered the House at five minutes to five, and was received with cheers from both sides of the House. The noise of conversation which had previously filled the House was now hushed, and, amidst deep silence tbo SPEAKER called on the Clerk to read the Orders of the Day. the Improvement of Towns (Ireland) 13111 was or dered to be read a second time this day fortnight. The announcement of the title of this Bill caused con. siderable amusement. The Metropolitan Buildings Bill was also ordered to be read a sec'nd time this day fortnight. MINISTERIAL CRISIS. On the motion for going into Committee of Ways and Means, Lord JOHN RUSSELL rose amid deep silence, and spoke as follows promised the House on Friday night that I would on this day state the reasons that induced me to propose the adjournment of the Committee of Ways and Means until the present time. I now rise to acquit myself of that promise. The House will remember that imme diately after the commencement of the present session a motion was mule by the Hon. Gentleman the Member for Buckinghamshire, calling upon her Majesty's Mi nisters to take immediate measures for the relief of the distress existing among the owners aad occupiers of land. Every Member of the House, every person in the country, must have considered that that motion was a motion to take the conduct of the Government out of the hands of the present Ministers. The Hon. Gentleman the Member for Buckinghamshire' took a perfectly Parliamentary course upon that subject, and I do not in the slightest degree complain of that course, I only state what must have been the effect of that motion in the view of every person if it had been successful. No less than 269 Members of this House voted for that motion, and 283 against it, and there was therefore a majority of 14 of those Ipersons who were present in the House who voted with the Government upon that occasion. Upon a question like that, brought forward with hostility to the Government, at the very commencement of the session, when the Chancellor of the Exchequer had given notice of his intention to bring forward his financial statement two nights after, it was evident that a majority of fourteen only must tend to weaken a Govern ment which was Icft in such a situation. It appeared to me, however, that although that majority was small, yet if there was a determination in all the Members of it to maintain those principles of financial po licy which in fact was the real question attacked by the motion of that day, that that union might have made up for the smallness of the majority,!and the Government still have conducted successfully the affairs of the country. Had it not been for those circumtances I did think that the position which the Ministry held might make up for the evil effect of the smallness of the majority, but ,I considered that the time at which that majority was obtained, and the circumstances in which it placed us would in all probability place us in constant difficulty. It exhibited in the Go vernment a weakness with which a Government ought not to be embarrassed. Close upon that came the divi sion of the other evening. It did rimer to me that the lateness of the hour and the weakness of the House might possibly justify the Ministers in carrying on the Government at any other period; but in the circum stances in which we were placed by the minority on the part of the Government I did. consider it my duty t o tender our resignations to her Llsjesty.—(hear.) - ive mig ht peasibly have been able to bring forward other measures which would have neutralized the effect of that majority; but with the threatened measure of the income-tax, and with this minority before us at this time, I did not conceive that I could come to any other conclusion than that even if we overcame the difficulties by - which we were surrounded, it would be possibe fur the Government to pass through the session successfully. —(Hear, kear.) To attempt to do so would, in my con ception, have been equally disadvantageous to the country and the House. This circumstance over weighed in my mind the consideration of the smallness of the majority by which wo were supported on the motion of the Hon. Member for Buckingham shire, though even that would have been a matter of serious moment at any time. I thought, and stated it to my colleagues, that it was my opinion that it was our duty to tender our resignations to her Majesty. My colleagues agreed with me, but at the time one of the principal and most important members of the Govern ment was absent from London—the Marquis of Lansdowne having left town on Thursday night, for his seat at Bowood, Wiltshire. I communicated with him, but he did not arrive in town until Satur day morning. That was the reason why 1 did not earlier tender our resignations to her Majesty. The Marquis of Lansdowne perfectly agreed with me and our colleagues, and on obtaining his opinion I immediately repaired to Buckingham Palace and presented our resignations to her Majesty, which her Majesty was most graciously pleased to receive, and informed me that it was her intention to send for Lord Stanley to form the Government. In thecourse of the afternoon I received a message requiring my attendance at Buckingham Palace. On arriving there her Majesty informed me that Lord Stanley had stated to her that he was unable to make a Cabinet, and her Majesty then directed me to reconstruct a Government.—(hear.) 1 thought it my duty to state to her Majesty—although I assured her that I would use my utmost endeavours to accomplish that object—that she must be aware there would be great difficulties in the completion of such a task.—(Hear, hear.) There are great difficulties in that task. I do not consider it my duty, after wt at has taken place to enter into any discussion, or to say anything further respecting what arrangements may be made—(Loud cries of " Hear")—but I shall merely move that the House do now adjourn till Friday next, when I shall be prepared to state what steps I have taken for the re-construction of the Cabinet.—(The Noble Lord sat down amidst cheers from both sides of the House.) Mr. DISRAELI said—Sir, it not my intention to trouble the House with any lengthened remark after the statement of the Noble Lord.—(Hear, hear.) It is most true, indeed it is a matter of public notoriety that Lord Stanley has had an audience of her Majesty, and when Lord Stanley has received the gracious permission of her Majesty to state what transpired at the audience, he will do so in a constitutional manner from his place in Parliament.— (Hear, hear.) But, Sir, there is one observation in the statement of the Noble Lord which I feel it my duty not to let pass unnoticed on this occasion. —(Hear.) Sir, when the Noble Lord states that Lord Stanley stated to her Majesty that he was not prepared to form an Ad ministration. Lord J. RUSSELL—Not then prepared to form an Administration— Mr. DISRAELI—The correction of the Noble Lord does not at all affect the statement I am about to make to the House. Now I have to express my conviction that when the Noble Lord said that Lord Stanley had stated to her Majesty that he was not prepared then to form an Administration, the Noble Lord made a statement to the House which, upon further reflection, I think he will acknowledge is not founded upon what really took place.—(Cheers from the Opposition.) Lord J. RUSSELL said—Sir, after what the Hon. Gentleman has stated I think it necessary to make a single observation.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") The Honourable Gentleman is no doubt correct when he states that Lord Stanley will, at the proper time, and when he has obtained her Majesty's most gracious per mission to do so, give an explanation of what took place at the interview between the Noble Lord and his Sove reign, and my opinion is that Lord Stanley's statement will bear out what I have already said, namely, that he was not then prepared to form an Administration.— (Hear, hear, from the Treasury benches.) Mr. ROEBUCK said—Sir, before the motion for ad journment is put, I am anxious to make one single observation upon the extraordinary state of affairs in which we are at present placed.—(Hear, hear.) The Noble Lord has moved that we should adjourn to Friday, and the Noble Lord is about to construct a Cabinet without the House of Com mons having the slightest opportunity to express any opinion of its own upon the subject. Her Majesty, we are told, has been obliged, if I may so use the phrase, to send for somebody to make an Administration, and that atop has hitherto failed. Now, Sir, Ido hope that the Noble Lord who has hitherto acted as the leader, not simply of a great party in this House, but also as being the representative of a great principle, will not forget in all the proceedings about to take place that that principle is now in his hand, and that in a great measure whatever will hereafter take place with respect to that great principle of financial arrangement in this country, its existence will &pond upon the pro• ceedings which he is to take, and upon him will rest the responsibility if we are again called upon to fight the battle of free trade.—(Great cheering.) The motion for the adjournment to Friday was then put and carried, and the House, which was full to over flowing, immediately adjourned. TATTERSALL'S-THIS EVENING. Six o'cLocii. LIVERPOOL SPRING CUP. 5 to 1 agst Panope 6 to 1 agst Doubt 6 to 1 agst Unity 8 to 1 agst Reversion LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 8 to 1 agst Sir John 9 to 1 agst Vain Hope—taken 10 to l agst Abd-el-Kader 10 to 1 agst Maria Day 10 to 1 agst Rat-trap—taken 25 to 1 agst Rescue CHESTER CUP. 2 to 1 agst Rhesus 25 to 1 agst Lady Evelyn 28 to 1 asst Wallflower 30:to 1 ag.st Knight of Avenel 40 to 1 agst Strap 40 to 1 egst Seaman DERBY. 6 to 1 agst Grecian 12 to 1 agst Mountain Sylph colt 20 to 1 agst Lamartine 25 to 1 agst Constellation • PUBLIC WOOL SALES. (THIS EVENING.) The extreme rates to the close of Saturday's sale were: —Australian sheep's clean, ls. to 18.11 d.; skin, Bd. to Is. 2bi. • Port Philip sheep's clean, Is. Id. to Is. 7d. ; scoured, is. 2d. to Is. I lid. ; and lamb's, ls. 41. to Is. Bid. Van Dieman's Land sheep's clean, Is. 3d. to Is. 7d.; scoured, Is. sd. to is. Bid.; and lamb's, h.*. to Is. Hid. Cape sheep's clean, 4id. to Is. 50.; and lambs, Is. to Is. 4d. East India sheep's clean, 64c1. to 7d. Merino, Ild. to Is. oid. Italian, Bid. to Is. 6d.; and some German, ls. 4d. The quantity of Wool that has been offered this even ing is 738 bales of Australian, 319 of Van Dieman's Land, 91 of Port Philip and Portland Bay, 36 of South Australian, 139 of Cape, 58 of German, and 86 of Goat's Wool. Australian Sheeps' clean has realized Is. lid. to Is. 7id., scoured ls. 4d. to ls. 7id., super Is. Bd., and Lambs clean and scoured Is. id. to Is. 7d., greasy 6id. to Wid. Van Dieman's Land sheeps clean sold at is. Id. to ls. 6id, lambs at Is. 6d. and Is. 7d., sliped at is. 241 to Is. 4d, Cape scoured sold at Is. Id. to Is. 4d., and Lambs at ls. id. Port Philip, Is.; scoured, Is. 6id. to Is. 9id., and Lambs, Is. 4id. to Is. 7d. South Australian, scoured and clean, Is. 2ip. to is. sd. German ls. Id. to Is. sd. Turkey Goat's Wool Is. 7d. to Is. Bd. To-morrow afternoon the series will be concluded, and the country buyers have already made arrangements to leave immediately afterwards by the different trains. Some have already quitted London. Irniax ARCHITECTURE.—The eastern world pre sents to the traveller nothing more extraordinary than the ancient city of Annaradbapoora—its sacred character, its great extent, and its wonderful ruins : for upwards of 1,300 years it was the seat of government, the capital of Ceylon ; first known by that name 500 years before the Christian era, and where ninety kings are said to have reigned. Its walls were 64 Miles in extent, enclosing 256 square miles ; con taining wide and spacious streets (one of which extended from the rocky mountain of Mehintelai, where 1,800 stone steps lead to its temples), palaces, gardens, tanks, water courses, and paddy or rico fields. It has dwindled into a poor village, containing a few native huts, a small bazaar, the cottage of Mr. Tronchill, the district judge, and a court house. The surrounding country, which is generally flat, is dense forest and jungle, where, in every direction, for miles around, are temples, dagobahs, sculptured stones, and graceful columns of granite, with elaborate sculptured capitals, ad mirably executed.—Builder. LOCHI3IIOOIII HEnumns.—For three months back we have been almost daily supplied with fresh herrings from Lechbroom, which are retailed at from sixty to seventy for 6d. We regret, however, to learn that although the loch continues full of fish, there is no demand for herrings for the south, consequently few exportations thither have taken place. It is fortunate for the natives that there is now such an excellent line of road opened up between this district and the low country, and that the steep and rugged Dixie Mor is altogether avoided. So plentiful are the fish that they are even taken in not more than two or three feet of water at the top of the loch, near Inveilael.—lnyerness Courier. Bramham-woor hdr., Wed. Spofforth; Fri. Marston; Sat. Pool-101. THE LONDON, .EVI4]NING, FEBRUARY 24, 1851. MONDAY PRICES OF SHARES IN BANK'S, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER cora. PANIES'STOCK. From the Official List. PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING. LONDON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21. zotNT-wrocn. aaitzo:w.a. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. --... - - - .4 s. d. X a. d. A.ustralasia •• .. .. •• • • 4/. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 - BritshNorth American Si. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 42 Ceylon .............. - 25 0 0 25 0 0 - Commercial of London 61. per cen'. 100 0 0 20 0 0 -- Colonial.. - Gloucestershire •.• • • • 15/per cent. - - - lonian ........ •••• .• 16/. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - London and County •• , 6/, per cent. 100 0 0 x 0 0 0 - Londn and Westminstr Of. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 - London Joint-Stock. - ' 6/. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 18 Provincial of Ireland•• Si. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 43 Ditto, New... ... •• • 81. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 - National of Ireland .. 51. per cent.l 50 0 0 22 10 0 - Nat. Provncial of Eng. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 - Ditto, New. ••••• • • 5/. per cont. 20 0 0 10 0 0 - South Australia -•• • • 61, per cont. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - Union ..)f Australia- • • 61. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0 - Ditto - ...... •• •• • • 6/. per cent. - 2 10 0 : . -,;4 Union of London. •• • • 64. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 12% Union of Madrid ..... - 40 0 0 40 0 0 - rasun.argrcza cora:?Azzams. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. Z s. klbion .......• •• •• • • n. 10a. 500 0 0 50 0 0 86 Alliance brit. and For. 7114 s Gd& bs 100 0 0 11 0 0 - Ditto Marine. ••• • • • 61. per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 6% Atlas . • Argus Life •••• - • • •• 41. per cent. 100 0 0 16 0 0 - tiritisti Commercial .• 7 8. 60. 50 0 0 50 0 7% Clericl,Med.& Gen. Life spr et.& bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 20 4/. 100 0 0' 10 0 0 86 14s. 50 0 0 , 5 0 0 15 Ea;le •• •• European Life •• •• •• 10s. 20 0 0 All paid. 11% General .••• • • •• .... - - 50 0 b% Gbbe - 13;% Guardian •••••••• •• • • 51. 100 0 0 45 0 0 56 Imperial Fire •• .... •• 121. per cent. 500 0 0 1 50 0 0 235 Imperial Life .••••• •• 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 18% Indemnity Marine.... 1/. ski. & bs. 100 0 0! 20 0 0 47% Law Fire .• •• ••••.• •• - 100 0 0 i 2 10 0 2% Law Life •••••• •• •• - 11. 16s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 46 Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 20 0 4% Licensed Victuallers - - 500 100 - London Fire ........ 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 17% London Ship -. • •..... 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 17% Uarine.. ..... • • •... 15s.per share 100 0 0 15 0 0 6% Sfed.lnvlid&Gen.Life 4%1. per ct. 50 0 0 20 0 2% National Lean Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 2% ational Life-- .•• 81. per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 - Collodium Life • • ...... 51. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 2% ptmenix .. ... ..... .. .. 3/. p. eh. & bs. - - 155 Professional Life...... 51. per cent. 6 5 0 010 0 206.0 d Provident Life•....... 11. ss. & bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 30 Rock Life............ So. 5 0 0 010 0 6% Royal Exchange ...... V. p.ct. & ha. Stock. - 215 . San Fire - 61. 10s. - - 209 Ditto Life .......,.. 11. 6s. - - 48 United Kingdom ~ •. 41. p. ct.& bs. 20 0 0 4 0 0 I 3% Universal Life.....; .. 10% et. & be. 100 0 0 10 0 0 - Victoria Life - - ..... 51. per cnt. - 412 6 b VTILTICIZ- 3 /7014=5. i Dividend Name of Company. per Annum. East London. .... 81. per cent. Grand Junction • • .... 41. per cnt. tent................ 41. per cnt. Lambeth ...... • • • . 51. per cnt. New Rivr Lndn lirdge 41. Os. 51. per cnt. West Middlesex . . . 61. Os. pr cnt. Name of Conapaay. Commercial ...... • • East unit West Int...—. Ea3t Country ..... London .... . Ditto 80nd5.... it. Katharine Ditto 80nd5........ ;otithampton ........ Name of Company; DOC Divhlend per Annum. di. pr cent. 61. pr cent. 20s. per sk. 51. pr cent. 41. per cent. 3% per cont. 4%1. pr cent. 21. per cent. zuzuo: Divigerici per Amount of Share. e. d. 100 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 AinGlint of Share. X 8. d. Stock. Stock. 100 0 0 Stock. Stock. bo o o f Amount of Shore. Annum. Z. s. d. Charing -cross• • Southwrk .• • • Ditto Nw of 7% p.e. Waterloo 1 356. per cent., 100 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 Paid. £ a. d. Paid. £ s. d. 5000 Paid. Z. s. d. Price, 57;i, 97 109% Price. P 4 142% Price, GA.S...lO[O=lO AND CoIEM CODIP.A.NICES• Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. ' Annum. Share. ---t - X. s. d. Z. s. d. 2 4 0 0 0 13 0 0 20 18 0 0 0 0 1 1 5 3 % Br D it l i t s t h ol:;o . v . in .. L . a . l . ... 6 ... . 11. 11 8 85. Brighton Si. 20 b 0 - - City of London -••. : 3 Cl. 100 0 0 150 6 0 - ConttnentalConsolidatt, 925. 75 0 0 31 5 0 1 - Equitable.• •• •• .. •• .. , 50s. 50 0 0 50 0 0 I - Imperial • • .... ••• • • • 3/. 50 0 0 50 0 0 704 Independent......... 61. 40 0 0 40 0 0 46 L0nd0n................- 50 0 0 50 0 0 - 50 0 0 60 0 0 - Do., Parl. Preference 61. 25 0 0 210 0 I - Phcenix .••..•• •• •• ••' i• • 4%1. 50 0 0 49 00 i 28% Ratcliff ••• • • .. ••• • • • 5/. 100 0 0 90 0 0 - United General ••• • • • '' ' 11. 50 0 0 50 0 0 15 Westminster Chartered , - 31. 50 0 0 - 46 Ditto, New •••• -• .. 12s. 50 0 0 10 0 0 9% .IST OP SCOTTifalf COVIPZ-NrES' PRICIS Div'dead Amount Name of Company. --- per - of Paid. Price. P :Annum. Share. -- .. -- - X s. d. X s. d Bank of Scotland British Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 200 Caledonian Bank City of Glasgow Bank 61. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 11% Clydesdale Bank -• •• •• 6% per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 13% Commercial Bank -•• 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 173 Eastern Bank .. ••- • • 61. per cent. 25 u 0 10 0 91. 4s. EdinbACHasgow Bank 6/.'percent. 5 0 0 5 0 0 44 Ezehangeßnk of Scot 4/...per cent. ' 100 0 0 50 0 0 15 !rational Bank ;1,4 per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 15 Northof Scotland Bank W.per cent. 20 0 0 2 10 0 21.125. Royal Bank of Scotland 51, per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 130 Unionßank of Scotland ,81. per cent. 100' 0 0 50 0 0 89 Western Bank.. - Affiance Fire and Life 94 Lpr cent. 10 0 0 10 G 0 20% British Guarantee Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent 100 0 0 10 0 0 23 City of Glasgow Life '6l:"per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 31. 5s Colonial Life ... - 50 0 .0 1 0 0 11.155. Edinburgh Life Insur. Si. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 20% Eng. & Scot, Law Life 51. per cent. 50 0 0 217 6 2% Life Assoc. of Scotland 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 2/. 5s National Fire and Life 5/. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 24,6 d North British Insur 6l. per cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 26 Scottish Union In3rnce.4 l o.• pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 23. ad Standard Life .• ••.. - 5;.30:r cent. 50 0 0 4 5 0 10 United Dep. Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 17s 6d ( MISCELLANEOUS.. iiiVidend Amount Name of Company. I per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. ---------- .......____--- ---- ---- ---- x. s. d. A. s. d, Assam Tea • • ...• •• • . _ 20 0 0 20 0 0 5 instrallan Agricultnrl 11. 100 0 0 30 0 0 15 &uctian Alert •••• •• •• 21 . 3 8 , b 0 0 35 0 0 21 Australian Trust •• • • 61. per cent. - -00 0 109%92208 4634 knglo-Mexlean Mint.. 2 10 0 6 Ditto. Half Shares.. British American Land - -- 38 10 0 - O 0 32 10 0 Canada ... ••.••• • • • • Gl. per cent. 100 uppr Canada Bonds 5/, percent. - - 108 Ditto ditto .• • • 6'. per cent. - - City Navigation Bends 31 per cent. - 11.10 s. 10 _ O O Gen. Revers . & Invest, sp. e. Ara t .,,, 2/ 100 0 0 100 0 0 91034 Equitable Reversioury Ditto New „ „ „ 50% Gen.SteamNavigatlon 11. Bs. 15 0 0 14 0 0 2114 0 00 10 1 0 0 Hudson's 8ay..., ~ ~ Stock . - 904 - - 100 0 0 47 Hungerford .... „ „ .. 21. ss. 78 15 0 7 London Institution .., - - 23 0 0 25 0 0 New Zealand Company 5P.c._&b5.5115000 0 0 - - O 0. 50 0 0 72 25 0 0 12 10 0 Ditto, New ~ „ .... - _ 26 5 0 - Russell Institution..., - PeninSlr IL Orient.Stm. g/. l3er cent. Royal Mail Steam.... 41. p. share. 100 0 0 60 0 0 7 2 : 0 7 A io u n gtr ar a y u I a n n t...S . o . e . . 41%41.eprrsharcenet.. 1 5 00 0 0 1.00 0 0 99 % 25 0 0 25 0 0 24 Van Dioman's Land.. - 100 00129 0 0 - Passengers, parcels, RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. THE GREAT NoRTHERN RAIL WAY.— (Miles in work, 236.) —Return of Traff ic f or th o Week ending Feb. 9, 1851 : horses, do ge , and mails ••• £ 4 , 137 9 9 MerchandL e an d m inerals —• 3,487 12 2 Cattle ... 174 8 7 carriages, Total .. "• "• £7,799 10 Corresponding Week, Feb. 10, 1850 (143 miles): Passengers, parcels, &C. .„ £1.208 19 6 Cattle ... 1,321 13 7 .7.Traffic EASTERN COUNTI ORFOLIC RAILWAY.. 1 Rs AND ... ... 2,530 13 1 return for the week ending Feb. 16 : Pa.sengers, parcels, fte. ... Z 5,761 14 3 Alerchandise, cattle, and cartage 6,598 12 4 Total ..• week of IESO ... 13,287 1 7 on T d o in to g l £12.3f0 6 7 B OS T O N, MATL OCK, AND MIDLAND S JUNC mAsCcioiritiseTspta, nox RAILWAY.--Return oftrAille for the week ending Feb. 16:— Passengers, &c. Merchandise ... X;ta 7 9 ... 55 9 4 ... £9B 17 1 85 9 7 Total Corresponding week lift year ... DEATH OF MR. MANNING The party who took the bet c,f 6,0001. to 1,0001. of Mr. Manning against Gre cian have agreed to draw their 1,000/. The 6,0001. will necessarily bo given to the legal representative of Mr. M Manning, who, we believe, is Mrs. anninA', l e ft so l e executrix. We understand that notice will be given next week of the day on which the money will be re turned to persons bolding tickets. EXTENSIVE ADULTERATIONS. We are gratified to learn that at length there is a pro °ability of this subject. being taken uric' good earnest. The many extensive adulterations in articles of food, &c., has by recent investigations and Governmental convic tions, become so public, that the necessity of some pre ventative measures has been generally acknowledged. In Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Liverpool, petitions to the Go vernment _are being actively signed, with the view of urging the Board of Inland Revenue to adopt r fficient measures on the subject of the adulteration of coffee, and to protect honest dealers by prohibiting as far as pos sible the vending of the noxious manufactures usually sold under that name. The Lancet reports the result of forty-three examinations of pepper, a great proportion of which yielded an abundant supply of linseed, mustard, pea flour and sago meal; and upon this matter we are as• sured that her Majesty's Commissioners are determined to use every effort to bring the offenders to the punish ment they so justly deserve. There are, however, many other articles equally adulterated in which the vigilance of the Excise officers, however needed, is seldom or never exercised. These are products paying merely a nominal duty, and consequently of no very great importance to the public revenue. It unfortunately happens that many of the articles thus loft to the mercy of dishonest traders are of a peculiar description, and especially require protection against adulteration, from the fact of heir use generally being, in critical cases, such as the "stment or food of invalide, &o. A couple of instances, ?irked from a great many, will serve to illustrate the position of such articles. Arrcwroot rays e.claty of 2s. 6d. par 112 ibs., and el,hough its cost reaches from two to four shillirgs per pound, it is greatly used for patients, and a variety of domestic purposes. This article has been proved to to grossly adulterated. A recent examination of samples, purchased of various London dealers, shovied a great proportion to contain only a very small particle of genuine arrowroot, while many specimens ware actually destitute of a single grain of the article it purported to be! The foreign matter introduced consisted of sago meal, tapioca starch, potato starch, and common flour. A recent analysis of sus pected isinglass made at Apothecaries' Hall, and also by Dr. Letbeby and the Pharmaceutical Society, has shown the, existence,of a very great fraud in the amalgamation of gelatine with that article before it is eubmiVed to the process of cutting. After an elaborate description of an analysis of isinglass by Mr. Theophilus Redwood of the abovenamed society, a report upon the subject, ema nating from the association, concluded with the follow ing words:— "It was evident from the results that the specimen under examination consisted of a mixture of isinglass and gelatine, and the optical examination showed that the two substances had been worked together in a manner well calculated to elude detection. I felt satis fied, and Mr. Waringtoa had previously expressed the same conviction, that sheet gelatine had been rolled between two sheets of isinglass, in the moistened state, so as to form a ribbon, in which the two substances would be united. "In order to get further evidence in confirmation of this view, I applied to Air. Vi c k e rs, proprietor of the house of Simpson and Humphrey, of Little Britain, who is an extensive manufacturer of cut isinglass and who, having been a sufferer from being undersold by the manufacturers of the adulterated article, expressed a willingness to render me any facility that his manufac tory could afford for elucidating the subject. I accord ingly had some genuine isinglass and sheet gelatine, in the proportion of three parts of the former and one of the latter, rolled into ribbon and cut, under my inspec tion. The specimen thus prepared could not be dis tinguished by the eye from the best Russian isinglass. It agreed entirely with the adulterated article met with in commerce, not only in appearance, but in the charac ters presented when examined in the manner already described. I feel fully justified therefore in the conclusion I have drawn, that a most ingenious but unwarrantable system of adulteration is adopted in the manufacture of cut isinglass, and I trust that this exposure will enable those who deal in isinglass to detect the imposition, if its practice should be continued." _ _ From the foregoing remarks it will be seen that adul terations are committed with the greatest impunity; and particularly in those expensive articles which pay but a nominal duty to the rev( nue. In the caseof isinglass 5. per cwt duty is paid. The value of the article, when prepared ''or consumption, is about 16 or 18 shillings per pound; there is, therefore a goodly inducement for knavish manufacturers to introduce some 25 or 30 per. cent of an article not costing so many pence, particularly when the small amount of duty is not thought worthy the protection of the Board of Inland Revenue. CASE OF MR. LUKE JAMES HANSARD. A preliminary meeting of the friends and admirers of Mr. Luke J. lianrard took place on Thursday, at that gentleman's residence, 7, Southampton-street, Blooms bury, for the purpose of considering the best means of raising a testimonial to that gentleman, in the form of an annuity, as a memorial of his high public example, moral worth, and private munificence; Mr. G. F. Carden in the chair. From a printed statement of the causes which have led to the present disastrous position, it appeared that, notwithstanding the fact of Mr. Hansard's forbearance and concession to his father, that gentleman at his death, although leaving 40,0001., made no provision for his son or his family, beyond 5001. payable on his mother's do cease. After twenty-seven year.' faithful service to the House of Commons, his daily attendance during those years not being less than thirteen hours, he was dis charged from his office on account of having written a strong letter to Mr. Hume, in condemnation of his re marks upon Mr. Spooner, who was at that time advo eating a Bill in Parliament for the prevention of pros titution. It appeared that preliminary meetings of the working clvsus had already taken place, and subscriptions raised. The reSolutions passed on those occasions were for warded to the present meeting, and proved how deeply that class of the community sytniathises with that gen tleman, pledging themselves to aid himself and family in every way within their power. After a few preliminary observations from the chair man, in which he stated it as his opinion that the present exact etate of Mr. Hansard's affairs should be ascertained by his friends, in order that they might be better enabled to see how they could be of the greatest assistance to that gentleman, a resolution was unanimously passed to the following effict:—That this meeting, anxious to support and second the simultaneous efforts made by meetings of the working classes (particularly that of a preliminary one of the members of the different trader, held at 5, Pemb« , rton.t:ow, Gough-square, Fleet-street, on February 19), for assisting Mr. L. J. Hansard and his family in their present difficulties, do forthwith form a committee to carry out the objects in view. A committee having been formed, the meeting se parated. • LAW INTELLIGENCE. . COURT OF QUEENS BENCH, Feb. 22. (Sittings at Nisi Prius, at Guildhall, before Lord CAMP BELL and a Special Jury, WEAVER V. SMITH. Mr. Sergeant Wilkins and Mr. Bagley were counsel fur the plaintiff, and the Solicitor- General and Mr. Wells for the defendant. This was an action brought by Lieutenant Weaver, son of Captain Weaver, secretary to the P en tonville Prison, against the defendant, who represented the Daily News, to recover compensation for an article which ap peared in that journal, and which it was alleged was a libel. It appeared that something had taken place at the Thames Police-court, wherein a charge was made by a Miss Couitnay against Lieutenant Weaver of his having detained some 5 hitticads, valued at ten guineas, which he bad originally given her, but which he had since bor rowed of her. The statement purported to be a report, or rather narrative, of what had taken place at the police court, and which, if not proved to be a correct report, was no doubt a libel. It is not thought necessary to repeat it. For the defendant, Mr. Elnor, who furnished a report, which, however, was abridged, was called, and he read from his notes what had taken place at the four dif ferent hearings which had been had at the police• court, and which he had furnished to different Sunday papers, from which his report was copied into the Daily News. The plaintiff, in reply, called witnesses to show that this report was incorrect. These witnesses were the clerk to the plaintiff's solicitor, the warrant-officer of the police court, the second clerk, and the usher of that court, but some of them admitted that the article in the Daily News was very temperate. Lord CAMPBELL, in summing up, said that it would be for the jury calmly and deliberately to find their verdict, and that verdict would depend upon this question— whether that which the plaintiff complained of as a libel was a fair account of this proceeding at the Thames Police-court between Miss Courtnay and Lieutenant Weaver. If it were a true and fair account of those proceedings, then he was of opinion that in point of law the defendant was entitled to a verdict. There could be no doubt that the law would justify a fair account of the proceedings, althoagh it might reflect upon any party whose name was brought forward; for it was of the last importance that the public should bo furnished with fair reports of the procecdirgs in courts of justice; the benefit infinitely exceeded the evil, and he must go fur-. ther and say that it was not necessary that it should be a report of all that took place, for if that condition Were imposed the liberty of the press would be totally useless, because it was not possible that all that took place should be put into print. For instance, the very eloquent speech they had heard from his brother Wilkins, if it were merely said that "Mr. Sergeant Wilkins elcquently replied," it would not follow froth that that the account was an unfair one; or if it merely said that "Lord Campbell summed up and the jury reamed their ver dict," that would not show that it was unfair; but if the report were garbled, if anything .was omitted, or any thing introduced that did not take place, then it might be libellous, and the law would punish it, and give re dress. to the individual.. They were therefore ta consider whither this was a fair report, and, if it wac, the defend ant would be entitled to their verdict. Although the plaintiff might have been very ill war', that was not a question for them to determine. It would be ino e vi eou3 to say that the oithliLher of a newrparer should he liable because.the account given of a trial might reflect open true; . either of the parties or convey w ha t we.f, )30 it was only to be considered whether it was a fair report. It could not be expected that the defendant was to prove that all that was said at the police-office was true. All that could be required was to show that the report was true. The defendant said it was a fair report, and he had called Mr. Elnor to prove i t. They must first con sider whether they believed him; end, secondly, whether, believing him, they thought it made out the position that this was a fur account of the trial. Mr. Elnor seemed to him in every respect a gentleman in his ap .pearance, and in the iti6ttiry he had given Qf himself, and certainly there were other persons who might have contradicted him if he had said that which was wrong; but it did not appear that the witnesses called in reply for the plaintiff had been employed in 'taking notes of the proceedings, or had their attention p4rtieuhaly called to the evidecce. Still the question was for the jury. The jury retired for some time, and than sent to ask if a farthing damages would carry cons? Lord CAMPBELL sent for them, and stated, that although in his opinion he saw no reason why he should not answer them, still his Learned bret:aren had con sidered that no answer should be given , to that question. Acting upon that, they must again retire. The jury shortly returnvd, and gave a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, one farthing. Lord CAMPBELL —Gentlemen, I may now tell you that the plaintiff will not have costs. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Feb. 22 (Sittings at NisiPriu., at Guildhall, before the LORD CHILE JUSTICE ands Common Jury.) rOLTER V. ENGLAND. This won an action to recover damages for fahe impri sonmeut brought by the defendant, who is a domTstic servant, against his former master. Mr. Sersant Alien apprasecl for the plaintiff, and Mr, Lush conddeted'the defence. From the evidence it appeared that platutiff had for merly been in the service ot the defendant, and had then re ceived tOt a year, with liveries found. There was, hos, ever, a stipuration that all the livery coats should be delivered up by the plaintiff on leaving, and it was a rule with the defendant not to allow his servants any perquisites. The plaintiff left his service to be married, and on no doing, delivered up all the clothes which he had had from his master, with the exception of one coax, which was afterwards missed, and found by a po liceman, sent to search tor it, in the posses sion of the plaintiff, who alleged that it had been given to him by his master. The plaintiff was then given into custody on a charge of stealing the coat, but was dismissed by the magistrate before whom the case Was heard; and it was to recover damages for this im prisonment that the present action was brought. Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, one farthing. ASSIZE - INTELLIGENCE. NORTH 6 RN ClRCUlT.—Appleby, Feb. 21. Mr. Baron Platt arrived here yesterday afternoon, and immediately opened the commission; after which his Lordship proceeded to church and heard Divine service. This morning hie Lordship sat for the trial of priso hers at half past ten o'clock. There was no civil business whatever, not a single cause being entered fur trial. The calendar was rather heavier than usual, there. being 15 prisonsre. Two of. them were charged with setting fire to a steam-vessel on Lake Windermere; one was charged with arson in setting fire to a stack; all the rest were in custody under ordinary charges of larceny. John APDonald was indicted for havivg, on the 24th of November last, set fire to a stack of oats at Brough Sowerby, belonging to Thowas Kilvington. The jury acquitted the prisoner. James HUI,. a respectable lookine , man, and Wet. Jaokson Archer, were charged with' ) setting fire to a steam-vessel called the Lord of the Ides, the property of the Windermere Steam Yacht Company, on the 31st of July last. Overend and Mr. M'Oubray appeared for the pro secution, and Mr. Sergeant Murphy and Mr. Hodgson for the prisoners. It appeared, from the opening of the Learned Counsel for the prosecution, that a company called th e Wi n d er - Mere Steam Yacht Company had two steam-vessels ply ing on Luke Windermere, ens called the Lord of the Isles, and the other the Lady of the Lake, which plyed alternately between Atribleside and Newby-bridge, calling at Bowness. On the evening 'of the 31st of July last both vessels were moored for the night at the pier at lawness. The prisoner lily was fireman on board the Lord of the Isles, and the prisoner Archer was fireman on board the Lady of the Lake. Shortly before the Lord of the Isles reacbcd Bowness that night, hilly went to the captain and said he smelt fire on beard the vessel. In consequence every part of the vessel was examined, but no traces of any fire whatever were discovered. This, it was sug g ested, h a d b een d one by him to disarm suspicion as against himself, as he knew what was going to happen. A man named Hay dock was watchman on board these two vessels at night, and before Ilaydock went on board the two prisoners were only h-ft on board each his own vessel. On going down' to the lake's side about ten o'clock that night, Haydock met the prisoner Archer, and asked him where he had left Hilly, and was told he was still on board the Lord of the Isles. Haydock went on board that vessel and shouted for him below, but received no answer, and then stepped on board the other vessel which was moored close to, and went below to bed. He had not been below many minutes before he heard a footstep cross the deck from the Lord of the Isles. About three o'clock next morning Haydock was awoke by the noise of fire, and on getting on to the deck he saw flames issuing out of the cabin windows of the Lord of the Isles. He immediately gave the alarm, and by the exertions of the inhabitants of the place the fire was got out, but neither of the prisoners, though informed of the fire, got up or gave the slightest assistance. This, and some conversations which they had of a suspicious cha racter with other persons, was all the evidence affecting them. The vessel was afterwards examined by expe rienced persons from Liverpool, who gave it as their opinion that she had been set on fire wilfully. At the close of the Learned Counsel'a openirg, Mr. Sergeant MURPHY, for the prisoners, naked his Lordship's opinion whether there was any case for the jury against the prisoners beyond suspicion? ' His LORDSUIP being of opinion that there was not, The Learned Counsel for the prosecution said be could carry the case no further, and would not, th ere f ore , a persevere with it. The prisoners nerd thereupon Acquitted. This else concluded the criminal buirlese, tho assize terminating about six o'clock. POMACE INTELLIGENCE. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Arthur Douglas and Charles L. Douglas, two fashion ably-dressed young men, were brought before Mr. Hard wick, charged on' the police-sheet with having obtained a quantity of goods from Mr. Henry Gabell, hosier, 6, Burlington-gardens, by false pretences. Mr. Gabell said that on the 7th of January last the prisoners drove up to his shop in a fashionable dog-cart, and told him they had just returned from France, and had lost their portmanteau, containing all their linen and under -clothing, and they wished to have a fresh supply from him. Ho told them it was not usual to give credit without knowing something of the party. They replied that their father was a respectable man, living in Kent, and he need be under no apprehension about his money. The prisoners then gave a list of ar ticles which would amount to about 15/., observing that the or& r would be a very nice one for him. The pri• sown took away some articles, end cue of the prisoners at that moment had on a neck-tie obtaiiied from him. The prisoners gave the address, No. 6, Bulgrave terrace, Pimlico. Witness went to that addres,, end made inquiries as to the prisoners' re spectability. The servant replied that- the prisoners had occupied apartments in the house for some time, and were highly respectable. Witness then went on with the order, and sent in some of the articles. Some short time afterwards witness sent a further portion of the goods, but they were troughs back. From certain other cir cumstances which witness subsequently became ac quainted with, he considered he had beea detrauded, and lie caused the d e f en d ants to b e ta k en i n t o custody. Police -constable Downing, 1) 46, said that in conse quence of innumerable complaints at the station house by tradesmen, who said they had been defrauded of goods by two young men, who answered the description of the prisoners, witness looked after them, and suc ceeded in taking them into custody. The prisoners had defrauded Mr. Morrison, tailor, St. Paut's•churchy ard of a pair of trousers, and lair. Morrison would attend at a future time. Several other cases would no doubt be brought against the prisoners if they were remanded. Mr. Hartley, bootmaker, King-street, St. James's, said that the prisoners and a third young man ,drove up to his shop in a dog-cart, and one of them said' he wanted a pair of dress boots, to go to a ball in Kent. The pri. soner gave the name of Dougl as, but the one now calling himself Arthur assumed t he name of Lionel. The other, himself Charles, said h is name was Arthur. The call ing thir d person he believed was at that moment in court (pointing to a young man who appeared to take a deep interest in the proceedings), blithe would not swear to him. While witness was engaged in taking the order of his supposed customer a pair of dress boots was,nipped up by one of the parties. A second pair was also taken sway at the same time. The prisoners ordered several pairs ' o f boots to be made, and then l e f t . T he a dd ress given Nn. 6 i ß n e e l g r s r ave place, not t errace, an d o f course l were not kno wn t h ere . W itness me t the prisoners afterwards by a cc id en t, an d h e th en was tie prso N got their address, No. 6, Belgrave-terrace. Witness ap plied at the house, and was given to understand that either the father or the uncle of the prisoners lived there, who promised to see him paid. Witness bad not been paid. Mr.'Cross, who attended for the prisoners, contended that the cases were nothing snore than debts, and that no pretence existed for charging the prisoners with fraud. Mr. HARDWICK Could not take the same view of the case. He should require the prisoners to find good bail to appear again next Wednesday. LAMBETH. A lady of prepossessing appearance, who described herself as Lady Ilunlingtower, appeared before the Hon. G. C. Norton, presiding magistrate, and presented a me morial setting forth that she had been deserted by her husband in 1848, and that his family had refused to re cognise her claims or supply her with any maintenance. Coast fluently, she was left with three infant children in a state of destitution. The Rev. Mr. Cuff, a clergyman of the district, stated that ho bad made inquiry into her case, and bore testi mony to her respectability before and since her marriage to Lord Hentingtower. In reply to the question of Mr. NotaoN, the lady said that previous to her acquaintance With Lord Hunting teeter she had lived as housekeeper to a clergyman in the vicinity Of Bath. and also as companion to the lady of the Reverend Gentleman. While there she had been engeged by a gentleman, who described himself as a bar rister, to be lady's maid and companion, as she under stood, to Ledy Dysart. But en entering the service Lord liuntingtower at once made proposals of marriage to her, but said that he was in such a state of embac rasmnent at that time that he must go to Scotland to get married. She consented to accompany his Lordship, but only on the distinct understanding that he should perform his promise on reaching Scotland. On reaehiug Scotland they did not go t hrou g h any ceremony, bat having introduced her as his wife, and conceiving this to be bindingc, in la ° 88 marriage, she lived with him as his wife. Her pape rs ' she said, had been in the hands of a b a rrister, who gave it his opinion that the marriage, accoiding to the law of Scotland, was binding; but nut having the weans to bring over the necessary witnesses, she could nut enforce her rights. Mr. NORTON said her case was one deserviag of sympathy, and gave her two sove rei g ns f ro m the pour-box. THAMES. Three lilyturing men, named Thomas Walker, 31, Thomas Bishop, 39, end John. Herman, 4 8 , in the em- Herman, throning ploy of Air. Lucy, a lighterman, 13:age-owner, and Ceti tractor for removing mud from some of the clocks, were bruught before Mr. Ingh4m, charged with illegally wich, to the injury of the navigation, by which t The ad a quantity of Loud into the river below Green incurred penalties to the amount of 201. each. of incurred was proved, and the magistrate sentenced Walker and Bishop to pay a .fine of - 31. each, or be inipti.oned for one month, and Herman to pay a fine of 101, or be imptiioned for two months. THE COUNTRY lIIANKETS- Lxvrarcor., FEB. ' , 2.—The trade is without change to-day' MA NCD ESTER, FEZ. 2'.—During the presen t week . Do change has occurred in the tone of the trade, buyers contiotiog to act. with the greatest caution in their operations, which are merely with a view to their immediate requirement', a nd merely lower prices are taken fur almost all articles wher:. business can be promoted thereby. Of barley and malt r . wise, and oats and uatineal from Ireland, the arrivals at Live pool and Runcorn are moderate, but very light of other pm., duce ; whilst from abroad the imports „ f flo u r are to a libel% amount, and fair of wheat, beans, and Indian corn.. rns kets which, up NOTTINGHAM, FEE. 22.—The business of this ---r ... the new Corn-Exchange, and partly in the open air, is 1 ; ° _„, united. Hitherto the farmers have refused to sell in the n ew to.dav, has been divided, being partly is i i i; building, in consequence of an entrance tee being detour, but an arrangement having been entered into by which se t l 7 s, of grain are to be admitted free, and buyers only.paY th e ,: is by Ammon consent, the old market is done away with, e D,„... to be restored if at any future time free admittance W th a 7, change should be refused. The supply of wheat to - 1 y up h , not large, but quite equal to the demand ; fine 01 ° 0 1 a i ble. ported their previous value, but inferior were nearly ups* et ,lout The show of barley was good, but the trade was very ''' In oats and beans no alterations. roarke t GLASGOW CATTLE •MA BRET, FEB. 20. -- At our - 1 to-day the numbers were—oxen, 686; sheep, 1, 2 ° 2 ' Alth°nl tb l e the supply of cattle was small the numbers were equal to eo demand. Sales' ere slowly effected at barely lot We t, 42.; prices. Best ox beef 45s per cart, sinking offals. current) the to 435, inferior cows and bulls 30s to 365. SheeP mu ch tr same as last market. Good wethers 6d per lb, our reii. ;,l ar%; 5 1 hd, ewes 4d to 4 1 Ad. At the close of the market a e ‘. ance was not affected. • bushel l DA LKEITH, FEB. 20.—The relative weigh t p er fettr - d j o , of the three prices of wheat were IBst 91b, I7st 91b, " r 4111. 71b. Oats, 124 91b, Ilst 131 b and lOst 51 b. Barley, 16 : 4 d ib, fast 101 b, and lost llb. Peas and beans, 19st 51b, I°' and 18st 21bs. Interior' Qrs. . Best. Current. L ., 8 0 494 Wheat ... ...... £2 2 0 Xt 16 0 ''' 012 1663 Oats ' 1 288 Barley l6. 6 13 6 1. 6 '0 33 Peas and Beans. 1 • 9 6 1 7 0 Average of wheat ........... 35s 4d. , „.,000dt ABERDEEN, FEB. 21.—Grain—Oats (old), Os Od "' bio tic]; 401bs per bushel; oats (new), 14s 6d to 15s 3d, 401hs Pe nA r " to 200 barley, 10s to 20s 6d. 52Ibs per bushel ; bear 1 21 '"', igs(s l 0d,521bs per bushel; wheat 39sto 40s; oatmeal,'l2s6a t° s e t er boll ; flour, 29s to 30s per sack. Provision:lto, 46 to ol 6d per lb ; mutton, ditto 4d W 6d; ve si P, to P.!' to 6d ; pork, per stone. 3s to ...5 511; lamb, per __,,(lr , ‘ od to 7 5 3' tallow, per stone, 3.6 d to 413 ; potatoes, per Pe r "" e t ch,* hay, per cwt, Os to Os ; rabbits, each, 8d to 9d; hates ' 100; to 100; . to 28 tid ; grouse, per brace, Os to Os ; butter, petit' ''` : bet* eggs, per doz, 7d to 9d ; cheese, per cwt, 185 to du ckslt' ga te ditto, Fe. pair, 2s 6d to ?is; chickens, ditto, 2s Od to 266 d; , n edd 2s 6d to Vs Od ; ducklings, ditto, Os Od to Os; turkeys, w_ t rosess. to tOsOd; geese, ditto. 6s to 7s ; butter for exportationioPzen,B,l to 64d ; 41b loaf, cash, 5d ; credit, 6d cure), per cwt, Os to 645; eggs. wholesale price, per U . .. 1 3' t.d to 3s 6d; poll( fine, small, 55 6d to Os Od ; P° j ‘ to Os. 3s 6d to 4s 3d; ship pork per barrel of 204 -lb., ' (d! Is' ; Meal —Oatmeal, Is 3d to is 4d; barley d05t , ',.. 7 e 51,.! peasemeal, Is 8d to Is 10d ; aids, 6d to 7d; 11 1. 4 „`Id.; Wm to.ls 3d; flour, is 8d to is 100; barley, per /ht la '''' ' flour, 'sad to is 4d. ; pork, per Etowerc:t ital; I CORK, FEB. 21. ,d litt•e The trade during the week has been very quie t, " - ,,,, r ed in, change, whether as regards business or price, has ° ce 2l - h a le 0 ' any article of produce. We have had but feW A7l/1),", li re foreign grain. Those of home grain, wheat OP ° o nly• -- very mo erase. The receits for the week being qi to . Wheat, 194 barrels, at 17s to 19s per barrel ; barleY , ° it 7, to rels, at 9s 6d to Ils Ad per barrel ; oats, 3.139 barre h t o e Oa 93 8d per barrel. In prepared and foreign wheat we ;ig bee * . very few transactions ; any that have taken place be" froto th e of the mast retail ebarrcter, and without any change,.. beak prices of l , a r s e tw ar e e e d k. In barley some little bUsiee se ' 1 ,70 be 4e literally n ot h ing though prices are nominally the same as last quoted, wady in d tstl hara e asle n etd c sig y t aui i tonb s etu e eiti v dna i .d.c d tio e aa n Tnqr t suh l c y eoeot l rge dv o nua w .laiu e sl i r ett . Fiooeifsan T es h t e i l l sour in ee t ra ad descriptionse ge meet 00 01) t d i . u l e can e grq s tr ., cie ,,i t . , r . o r : e l e ba j o l e pa g ss r i i n n g d . ing it n u t imlapteoersaibteies.teleuffets,"kweii. tens Portuguese mod eratethe Higheste; s e p e n , r h el i ' e c s e : l- c e; 1 1 1 ; Galata, 71 12s 6d. _ 50 0 9 11 a ßß W rr ae e h dr i i l s i ew e yh w e h a e t a . t o^ s 00s Od d d t t o o 0000: Od od "C-Mirrin2°2:l:ll/rw--: ' 00s ° cl :l6 do COs ,u l 4 l It's Od to lit Od 2 Bore .9sBdto Os Od e s ,i„„,14 d_e. 123 Oats 15 0 b P a i n gs els Q wh u i r e tit e • ' wheat; 00 red • 25 barley; 0 er e •' Quantity s old O a d t to 31s Od 00s vn. , 5 pig.. 3L , , e k:•"'" Quantity of Grain and Number of Pigs sold !sib - e 1. Wheat, 167. Barley, 672. Oats, ;,374. Pig.' '2'6 PRICES OF BUTTER. Third SFeireotnElducalul quality it i y lit quality CANT. CURAN I4CI.. 811 ... 90s First quality ... ......... ' 771 ........... , ._ 86s Second quality . It' 80s Third quality ••-• .......... go Fourth quality Fifth quality Feb. . sr Sixth quality Ret urn of Cattle sold for the week ending e Pigs, 953. Cows, 9 8 . Q 0 Sheep, Sl9. eapeeracil.osOtaotrnme:l6ldursetroclwot3.6d;lnlnddiainan 6d ; extra 1'71,090 Coax.—Plour —First Ila 6d to 128 seconds, lOsGd to Ils 6d; ho , giolc6 9A to 108 Od; alit. wh o.' Od to 71 . s wage toi s i. Brass 92s 6(1 to 95s per ton. Hay-Farmers U9a to 40 , , Fari ors ' 2 6 os ; dealers 40s to 503 Od; average 4Gs per ton. Stra vi- ThOs t ici; Od to 32s Od; average 28s; dealers 33s OA to 6 d.; .LA to average Otis Od average ' 1 1 1 2 o d usc o.d loaf 4L:I to 5d per 41b. Fresh butter, Co _ per lb. Eggs-4s 6d to 48 8d per bundr„Ted;d2 er ton. Bread-Wheaten loaf us - sod to Newport 16s Od; Lydney 17s ; Landore 1 49 ; l' e " et C O` o." :(1:1377; tbisd to 84 104_ re I3s___ 6d per ton. Tallow 37s Od to 38s pet o.t w hisky, 25 o. p., as 9d per imperial 0 1° 2; Ad t° -Beef 4id to 6id ; mutton 5d to 7d; ve 7A 1 143 r i t 5d ; pork 4d to Oct ; bacon 7d to 8d ; sa usagnrsiOs lot Hops 6110 s to 0/ Os per cwt. Bangor slates 3/2 9 D u f fr°llc ton. Bark-Barbary 71 Os to 810 s; Valonia 16 1 to ° .„.; li tone: A . 61 Os ; Spanish 01 per ton. Fleece Wool 14s to lls 5° „„roOs; "". Hemp 32/ t 0341 per ton. Fish- Scotch herrings /-,i/ pit ditto, 24s to 00s per barrel ; Newfoundland, 10 t°. , yellt i r ton. Timber-Memel, 808 per ton ; red pine, S m l u " 'Hideo: ditto, 2/ 15s per ton; deals, 12s to 15s pe t i r.. calf : ,,.. --1 , Market 22s to 325; salted 23s to 32s per ow" Mitov-f -3111 to 3d per lb. Potatoes, white 7d to 10d; Ito 9/1 0, 10d to 13d. Guano- Peruvian, 11/ 103 ; Ichaboot 8 per ton. Tar-Archangel, 19s per barrel. - " TS' RAILWAY SHARE IVIAAla— we& BRISTOL, FEB. 22. ! s t and A Ag STOCK ExcuANGE.—The resignation of Mir" - s od y r ," t persons to be unwilling to enter into transactionst sos., e viresterns were done at 8 1 4, a receding O f ab°u nurc l34ls t h 0 only in a single transaction. There were wlll l :ice s of of various stocks at lower rates th a n the closing P' previous day, but holders would WI/ Ll Vlt ttPut .1., FEB. 22. . Od lia ll ,rbe STOCK EXCHANGE.- The share market cr ri ' : ed• a to-day, but prices, on the whole, were well ma iorea l i l i r e, el l j transactions were as follow : Birkenhead, Le r g e ster: c Northern, Cheshire (late Chester and Birkenhead) , 191 / 2 - inlit'nf s Holyhead, Preference, 1551-East Lancashire, •- pi - is ' -Ditto, s H a l, -Ditto,__ Preference, 13 1 43 ' Lancaster and Prestontetisiter,., 17 ' - '4 - Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fif th* 674 . o : 6 London and North- NVeTtern, 133-Ditto, Se C), 3 r l / 4 p.-Ditto, Fifths, 6 p.- Ditto, Quarters k.,1001,... Manchest•r, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 32,*2---3"7 1 6 dis,',„ 12 : 2 51 4 ... hropshire Union, 2%8-South -Eastern and li ortt sia _York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 21--York an land, 2.1. - - 1 / 4 c.-North and South Wales, 3 1 4' fol' Halves. 15% dis.-North-Western, • . 22. 40 MANCHESTER. EF )3 * ( l a y were 7..-• ST OCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to- _ oun . es ,.. orio Arnhergate, 4 15-16 dis.- Eastern . ~, : e a ti t, 1 or Lanensni u d jior N(C)B shire, and Windermere 11 6 - , 10 - "I; London an (GP shire, 57 3 / 4 -Ditto, Fifths, 7 3-16 •-•.e.-- Quarters,zarth Western, 1.33-Manchester and Birmingham, 394-'OO, 3 P.-Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, di,....50 Staffordshire, 61' ; dis.-North- Western, 11141 Eastern and Dover, 25 3 4. oin ber . BIRMINGHAM, FEB. 2 2 . Was r ox f or d, STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market of the A nd active to-day, but prices were firm. The lease,. Lov don eon. Worcester, and Wolverhampton line to th! b le effec t : e re North-Western Company has had a favouring prices gi a. the stock of the former undertaking. The ell ier s 13n 0 0), -London and l'• orth-Western, buyers 13 2, se d Birinieq" al& land, buyers 60, sellers 62-Ditto (Bristol an s ellers 51 eel" buyer 129, Sellers 130-North Staffordshire, 1 , 3 19 1 ,,, -Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, burbayerSicoo7. lers 193/ 4 -Shrewsbury and Birmingham ( A I die. -- ' sellers 5 dis.-Ditto (B), buyers 4%, se llers Bd. shire Union, buyers 21 18s. 9d , sellers 21. 1 65 . ere ° YORK, FEB. 21. do 0 ~,,,, STOCK EXCHANGE. -The transactions to' York, 11 , ilic i follow :-Caledonian, 111/2-North British, 91;L.,..Y01 4 ‘ '- castle, and Berwick (Newcast!e EXtenSioo, I ' ll North Midand, 244 , 9 . . :.....—.-- , ---...........—;.Z. BLETIi.S. uare' the, OF A SON. Etl o3ll-8q On the 2 , th inst., in Guildford - str eet, wife of William Burnie M. D. • of T. of 10 1 l On the 21st in a ' t Leytonstone, the w if e Buxton, Esq. On the 20th inst. S. Thompson, Esq. t il thethe wife 2lst of A. lady 0. ' squiaarlre,,a OF t 1 I A 0 a n t - A b t la Moat-hall, : E Yorkshiresi T. the en burg tv ' I. ) i . n Bird, l I e 3 t E h, -....._._ m.A.VUE , D. n , Fel" On the 20th inst., at Bray, Berkshire, Adolphus mdwiA rieus, only son of Baron Du U ois de Ferrieres; of i l Aist a hiil, near hepstow, to Annie, youngest daughter 01 Sheepshanks, Eeq., of Lee's and Harrogate. f Ilead' sego.te•street, Meek! On the `2oth inst., at York, Joseph Ho% Egg , °,,,.,, l a te, ingley, Leeds, to Mary Annette, younger daughter 0 i'• J. F's.v.-,ict, li,q., Huttbley-house, near Beverley. • DILT ad'S'g reCe" On the 20th inst ,a t John-street, Whitehe city- Cbrlsel, Horatio W. Mercer, Esq., of Water-lane, Dijr. On the 18th inst .at Albion-grove, Barnsbury-Par" P. On aged 70. r On the 18th inst.. at the Rectory, Stratton, near Ag,nes, wife of the Bev. J. Hardy, aged 58. coo litle On the 17th inst., at Cadbury-house, Somerset, prois Wentworth, second daughter of the late Rev. Will ie° Wickham, of Carlton-house, same county. ipiquares On the 14th inst. , at Upper Bedford lace, Russ e , George H. Vandeput, Esq., aged 6 0 London : Printed and Published by ISIURPO 11Y1' No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun 011ie* C - my Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in t he D/Liddleaes, Monday, February 24, 1851. • co o o 4000 Dittl Old Ann. ofBi. Ditto Nw ditto of T. Vauxhall 11. 43. Od. 11. is. Od. 70 10 3 .. .. CANALS. .* Dividend Names of ,t Diviilend D .., . Names of •-••• 1 i r Companies. d 1 per 1 ".". Companies. :a i Annul. Price. 1.1 ‘,., l x 1 A.nitma. ' -- 4 C 171 X , dishtn& Oldhi 97 i U. 11.3 Macclesfield . 100, 21. 10s. 50 Barnsley •• • • 11601 M. 180 Neatk ••• • • • leo 1 161. iirknk&A.brg 'l5O 51. 85 Oxford.... • • 1001 201. 165 Birmingham 40 J 41. 86 Peak Forest. 78 ' 2.1. 18s. 70 Coventry.. • • 100; 211.. 2CO Regent's.. • • 33 ; 11. 3s. 18% Derby ••• • • 100 61. 63 Rochdale.... 85 I . 41. 42 Ellsmre&Chs 133, 350.' 2674 Somrset Coal 15017/.los. GrandJunctn 100 4/. pr. ct. 63 Do.LkFdSt 12 61. p. e. Do., 6 pr. Ct. 7%' BSi StffrdikWorc 140 281. 405 Grand Surrey 100 , , 21 — .05. 33% Shrewsbury.. 125 (.rand Union 100 11.10 5 . 24 Stoarbrldga.. 145 , 201. 290 Kennt& Avn 39 21. Os. 24 4s, 51. 4 Severn and Lancaster ~100 '4l, • 32 Wye Rail. S 26 Leeas&Livrp 100 241. 1 400 Warwick& ? 41. 46 Leicester .. •• , 100 51, 66 Rirming. j 100 Leicstr&Nthl 83 41. 44% Warwick&/ ion i ak an Loughborogh , 142 701. 510 Napton...) ''' Nfonmouthsh; 100 81. Wercstr &/ 78 3/. 4034 Sintgamrysh I 100 1-31rming.3 Xeltlllllwbry; 100 —1 Wilts il.: :irks —i 11e. 6% ..-~"