The Sun. — London, England, 1850-01-15 00:00:00

[The following appeared in our Third Edition of yesterday :---] FRANCE. The Patric publishes the folio:vine . contradiction of the story originally published by the Ass?mMee National on the subject of the supposed declaration of 11. Achille Mould : " The Siècle aed National attribute t) one of the u mbers of the Cabieet lalguaeee he has never uttered. The Government repels in the most firreal manner those fJolish and incousiderat , accosa ions. It also deplores the facility with which several journals make themselves the echo of the most mi , taken and malicijus sories. They do not understand that they expose themselves by these fal , ehoods to the danger cf diminishing confidence and public credit, the rapid development of which ought to occasion the most lively satisfaction to all good citizens." General Lamoriciet A r a private audience with the President of the Republic ,yesterday. M. de Courcelles has also had a long interview with the President. • The Government has received the iriolligence that the Freoch fleet has left 0 arlac. The Prefect of Police (M. Carlier) has addressed a circular to authors, editors, printer 4, booksellers, and bibliophiles, to apprise them of his intention to estab lish in the prefecture a central library for the use of the prisoners :-- "It is not enough (says M. Carlier) to prevent them from reading anarchical journals and bed books, which too easily find sympathies in houses of confinement. I have provided against that danger ; it has ceased ; but it it is necessary that the minds of their inmates be occu pied, that their morale be support and that they be come roconciled to the principles on which fa oily and society repose." The municipal budget, however, allocating no credit for that object, M. Carlier is obliged to appeal to the generosity of authors and publishers to realise a philanthropic idea, which, he says, originated with the President of the Republic. " The Presse," says the Moniteur, " publishes an article entitled 'lnconsistencies,' in which it copies the entire article of the Reforme of the 2d Dec., for which the editor of the latter was sentenced, two days ago, by the jury, to fine and imprisonment. The Presse having printed the article apart from the report of the trial of the Reforme, inserted in its number of yesterday, the Attorney of the Republic ordered the Presse of this day to be seized in its office and at the Post-office." "The Presse," says its editor, "during the fifteen years it has existed was never the object of any sei zure. To-day it was seized by order of the Attorney- General Baroche, who no doubt is anxious to summon again before him AL Emile de Girardin. Why was our number seized ? We did not even take the trouble of inquiring, fur we are as certain of our principles as we are of our intentions. The Presse already suffered two persecutions, one in June, 1847, and the other in Jane, 1848. Their result is known. Eight months after the editor of the Presse was summoned to the bar of the Chamber of Peers, in June, 1847, M. Hebert, Keeper of the Seals, was ob liged, on the 24th of February, to fly in all haste and seek refuge in a foreign country. Seven months after the Presse was suspended, in June, 1848, General Cavaignac was condemned by the ballot of the 10th of December. " This evening," adds the Presse, " At the Passage of the Opera, the Five per cents., which had closed at 94f. 25c., fell 45 centimes on the report of the sei zure of the Presse. This measure, which nobody could account for, was generally regarded as a poli tical event." GERMAN Y. The Kolner Zeitung has the following telegraphic dispatch from Berlin of the 12th inst. : " The Gmamitipt.s. of the Lower House consulted list night in the presence of the members of the Cabinet on the ansendmerts which the Government proposed in the al mesa ;e. The first proposition to erase Art. t 7 :9 of tha &aught of the Constitst'on (treating of the press,) was accepted by a majority cf two voteF. (Cart •rts, 11; non-contents, 9.) The second amendment (on the landsturm) was voted unani mously, and so indeed was the proposition respecting the Civic Guards. The fifth proposition, treating of the responsibility of Ministers, was negatived by the Com mittee, and so was the clause respecting the term of prolongation (Verlangerungsfrist) of the homes and the proposition on the electionary districts. Having thus far proceeded in considering the royal message, the committee adjourned." " JAN. 12, 9 O'CLOCK,P.M " There is reason to hope that an honourable compro• mire between the Government and the Parliament will be eff,.c , ed. The Committee of the Upper House hay just concluded its general debate. " 9 O'CLOCK, P.M. The report of the Committee of the First Chamber proposes to accept the propositions 1,2, 3,4, 6. 11, 14, 15, to decline accepting the proposition 5, (Jlinis terial responsibil - ty) and 12 (pleetionary districts.) ANGLO-GERNIAN NOBILITY. The Almanaclt Imperial for this year, published at Vienni, contains the following list of British sub jects ennobled in the ancient Germanic or Holy Roman Empire : William Basil Fielding, E Irl of Denbigh ; said to bo descended from a branch of the Imperial House c f Hap:burgh ; a Count of the Holy Roman Empire. Neither pitent nor date extant. Henri Benedict Arundel!, Baron Arundell of Wardour ; a Count of the Holy Roman Empire. Creation 1601. Josef; Count de la Feld ; naturalised in England ; descended from the ancient counts of that name in Alsace, but his ancestor created a Count of the Holy Roman Empire after the battle of Zenta, 1697. George Spencer Churchill, Duke of Marlborough. His ancestor created a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire after the battle of Blenheifo, 1708. Jerome Count de Sali.a, naturalised in England; descended from the ancient counts of that name in the Grisons, but his ancestor created a Count of the Holy Roman Empire, 1748. Peter Leopold Louis Cowper, Earl of Cowper. His ancestor created a Count of the Holy Roman Em pire, 1758. Francois Taaff?, Viscount Tivlffe ; Chamberlain to the Emperor; a Count of the Holy Roman Empire. Creation 1784. Horace St. Paul (Barsheltus) ; a Count of the Holy Boman Empire. Creation, 1786. Thomas Free:mutt° (Barsheltus). Baran of Austria, 1809 Created a SERIOUS ACCIDENT. Connected with the Mottram tunnel of the Man chester Corporation Waterworks, which tunnel is to be the great conduit for the water through the hill, several vertical shafts have been sunk, by which the workmen in different carts of the tunnel descend and ascend to and from their labour, and up which the soil excavated is removed. ole of these shafts, which has a depth of nearly 200 feet, was the scene of an unfortunate accident, yesterday morning to two of the inspectors of the tunnel. The inspectors, Messrs. John Molyneux and Robert Taylor, were about to inspect the progress of the works below, and for that purpose got into the tub, which was suspended by a .flat rope and lowered and raised by a steam-engine, placed near the mouth of the faaft. The engineer, who we understand has only recently been em• ployed there, started the engine too quick, and the inspectors, as they began to descend, called ont to him to check its speed. Instead of this with care an•i caution, he checked it abruptly and at once, and the consequence was that the sudden check broke the large cog-wheel, and the drum on which the rope works having no longer any resisting .power, the weight of the two inspectors caused the tub to descend with great velocity all the. way to the bottom of the shaft—nearly 200 feet. Of course the concussion, when the tub struck against the bottom, was most ♦iolent, and both the inspectors received very serious injuries. They were placed in the tub in a helpless and almost insensible condition, and the tub was raised by means of a crab and windlass, and the sufferers at once conveyed to their own homes, where they were promptly attended by several sur geons of the neighbourhood, Messrs. Pomfret, Side bottom, and Ferneley. These gentlemen, on exa mining into the nature of the injuries inflicted, found that Mr. Molyneux had one leg severely fracturei, and that his whole frame was also suffering greatly from the concussion. Mr. Taylor had three of his ribs fractured, and he was also suffering internally from the effects of the concussion upon the system. We are glad to learn, however, that neither of the sufferers was considered to be in any immediate danger. The engineer has been apprehended. and will be detained in custody to await inquiry.—Man cheater Guardian. FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Thursday even ing* last, a young man P moloyed on tho Buckingham shire Railway, named Blward Anrr, came by his death in a shocking manner on the above line. The deceased incautiously missed his f and f.,11 under one of the carriages, to which, in his capacity as guardsman, he was attached, bct'a wheels of which passed over his stomach. He was immediately conveyed off the line in a perfectly insensible state, and on a medical examina tion taking place it was found that he had sustained severe injuries both externally and internally, the body presenting dreadfully mutilated appearance, and not the least hope was held out of his recovery. The poor sufferer continued to linger for two hours af era ands, when happily death terminated his existence. An in quest was held on the body the following day before Mr. J. W. Cowley, one of the coroners for the county, whei, after hearing the evidence, and no blame appearing to be attached to any one, the jury returned a verdi c t c f " Accidental death." e deceased, who had a wife and one child, was much respected on the line as buing a steady, civil, and obliging young man. BELGIAN Hors.—The steam-ship Albatross, which usually trades to and from Ha'nburgb, when the trade with the Hanseatic States is opec, has arrived frcm Antwerp at the port of Hull, having on board twenty -6 vs bales cf 130ps, as a portion of her cargo, the produce of Belgium. THE SUN, LONDON, LARGE SEIZURE OF BASE COIN. APPRELIENSION OF A GANG OF COINERS. — In cansequence of the many complaints from shopkeepers and others which have of late reached the police, as to the immense quantity of base coin in circulation in Manchester, the chief superintendent of police, Mr. Ihswick, had for some weeks past been actively engaged in attempting to detect the whereabouts of a notorious gang which he had every reason to believe was located in the town. To insure the detection he put himself in communication with the superinten dent of the London and North-Western Railway station here, having reason to believe that the spurious coin in circulation in Manchester (chiefly half-crown and crown-pieces) was forwarded by railway from head-quarters in Landon to one or more accomplices here. Yesterday (Friday) morning, acting on some intelligence brought to him by three of ids officers (la,p.ctor Buckley and his assistants), who had been watching at the London-road Railway station, he went to an eating house in Lever-street, and there appre hended three prisoners, named Wm. Brown, John Thompson, and L vaisa Thompson. On visiting the house he found B:ovvn in bed, when he placed him in charge of an otficer, and passing through that room into an adjoining one he arrested Thompson and his wife, who sat conversing by the fire. In the lap of the female he found a base half-crown, and underneath the bed-clothes, near to where Tnompson sat, he found a lot more, wrapped up in papers containing 20 each, in all what purp aqed to be of the value of 14/. IW. After securing the parties, Mr. Beswick gave orders to his men to make a thorough search over the place, when Thompson said 'it was no use, they (the police) had got all in the house. The brown paper in which the base coin had been wrapped, and which had only come by railway from London that morning, was found in the room di- j rected to Thompson, in care of the person keeping j the eating-house in Lever-street. The coins, which are the best of the kind we ever saw, are most admir able counterfeits, and would indeed puzzle many to discover that they are base. They are principally of the reigns of George 111. and IV., and bear date 1817-19, and George IV., 1826. They are, we be lieve, made of zinc and - bismuth, which latter metal makes them ring like genuine coins, and they have been afterwards coated with silver by the electro plating process. As a proof that the spurious coins are difficult of detection, we may mention that a gen tleman whom our reporter met in Mr. Beswick's office was comparing one of his own genuine half-crown pieces with a handful of base ones, when the lot got so mixed together that he could not pick out his own coin, and was obliged to leave it with Mr. Beswick until that gentleman had leisure to find it for him.— Manchester Paper. DIFFUSION OF DEMOCRACY IN THE FRENCH PROVINCES. The Journal des Debats publishes an interesting letter from a gentleman just returned from a tour in the French provinces, containing an account of the rapid spread of democratic and social opinions in those parts. The writer begins by deploring the folly of the Conservative or anti-Republican party in wasting their time and provoking internal dissensions by mi serable dynastic disputes and old worn-out "contests cf factions. " You forget," he says, "that in order to have a king you must possess a kingdom, and that France, before asking herself whether she shall don a crown or a Phrygian cap, ought, in the first instance, to assure herself that she has a head on her shoulders." He goes on to denounce the apparent tranquillity which France now enjoys as utterly delusive. "We have not changed ; only let the National Guard have three months' repose and we shall again hear them raise the cry of Vice la Reforme r—we shall once more behold them giving 100,000 votes to M. de Causidi6re." Describing the state of public opinion in the provinces, the writer pourtrays a picture in the highest degree discouraging to the supporters of " order." " I am only now translating what I have heard in the heart of our pro vinces, and I can assure you that the inhabitants of those districts are far more attentive to the progress of the demoralization of the rural districts than to the process of fusion on the question of Ti Plata. It is, doubtless, a good thing not to he an alarmist, but it is still a better not to be blind to the tru`h. Now, it is certain that the work of destruction has recom menced more actively than ever in the bowels of the earth ; that the same hands are digging the mine anew under the feet of society, and that the Propa gandists, hunted out of the towns, have transferred their strength to the rural districts. They enter and infiltrate their doctrines through all their pores; they sow in every thatched roof, in every truss of hay, in every sheaf of corn, the invisible seed of their poison ; they penetrate every where with the very instruments of the Government, with the instructor, the agent, and the garde-champetre. The Almanack, become a dictionary of atheism and materialism, is everywhere replacing the catechism of infancy in the hands of the poor. It is not the small treatises of the Aca demy of Moral Sciences that will supplant it; they are too well written. The doctors of destruction' go to work more brutally. Tney have recognised the fearful force of the axiom and the amphorism ; they plant in the mind masses of monstrous proverbs which we re-echo ourselves in contending against them, and which, so to speak, carry with them their own memoria technica." And whence (asks the writer) are the forces to be derived for the resistance of this propaganda ? Authority and unity are nowhere to be found ; the Assembly is split up into sections, and its power is a nullity. The party of order is dispirited, and has no heart for the struggle. "Do Sou remember," concludes the writer—" Do you re member the words of the ancient orator quoted by Miraheau, Catiline is at your gates, and yet you de lib mate 1' Just so ; barbarism is at our gates, and yet we are divided and disputing with each other. Believe what I say, you must not cease either to unite, to hold together, or to act. Society has not changed during the last two years, and it is still the same mass of combustible material to which a cynical braggart one day boasted that he could set fire with a lucifer match !" DRY PROCESS OF PREPARING FLAX.—In the year 1810 a new method of dressing flex Ras r at.nt-id by which the woody matter was separat ad from the fibre without steeping it, by me acs of mechanical action and teen the flax was bleached by simply washing it in es a-in water. It would appear tEat the colouring matter is not chemically combined with the fibrous matter while the plant is vegitating, or after it is pulled, but that the chemical combination takes place while the plan• is et 'geed in water. The object of this steeping is to induce a fermentAtion, which loosens and destroys a cemeet which bound the fibres ( f fl Ix to each other and t the wood. The ferment Idea weakens considerably the strength of the flax fibres, and even destroys many f teem. This dry preparation, thenfore, if it be prac ticable on a la-ge scale, would be a prodigious improve ment. It would render the flax fibres much stronger, ,t would increase their quality, and it would save the expense r f the materials employed in bleaching the linen. It has been stated that the dry process has uni formly failed of success, when tried in Ireland. If this account be true, it is extremely difficult to explain About the time when the 1 atent was taken out the process was performed by workmen, under the direction of the patentee, at Old Bow, near Loedov, with the most complete success, tact merely upon handfuls of flex, but upon whole fields of ie ln dee4, the whole is so extremely simple, that it is diffi cult" to explain how it should fa', if properly conducted. It is, theref,re ' highly probable that the prejudices of the Irish, with which it would have had to contend at that eae, were too powerful for it; but, that as soon as it shall meet with fair play, it will be found just as prat icable, and certainly much cheaper and better, than the methods at present in use. It is during the steep, then, that flax aequires its permanent dad; colour; and four processes in bleaching are requisite to restore it to its original white colour, or to separate the colouring matter, which is chemically combined with the fibre of the flax. INTERESTING DISCOVERY. About three weeks since, three quarrymen, while at their labour at Lanyon quarry, discovered a couple of gold coins almost as per fect as when they were issued from the mint. A gentle man of Penzance to whom they were taken has furnished the following description of the coins:—They are aurei of Theodosius the Great, and of his son Arcadius, or rather solidi; as the aureus in later times was called solidus, and by Byzantine writers numisaaa, or the coin; chrysinos, because of gold; and hyperpyros from its being of bright gold, flaming like fire. It was also called bezint in Europe because it came from Btzantium. The coin of Theodosius, who reigned from 379 to 395, has on the obverse the diademed head of the Emperor. legend Dominus Noster THEODOSIVS Pius Felix AVGustus. On the reverse, the two Emperors (Theodosius and Arcadius) in the toga, seated, holding in their hands a globe (the emblem of power), behind them a figure of Victory with raised wings, legend VICTORIA AVGGustorum. In the exergue COM Constantinopoli ,loneta. The coin of Arcadius, who reigned from 395 to 408, has also on the obverse the diademed head of the Emperor, legend—Dominus Nosier ARCADIUS Pius Feli xAVGustus. On the reverse the Emperor standing with his left foot on a prostrate foe, holding in his right hand the labarum (the sacred standard) and in his left a figure of Victory, Iegend —VICTORIA AVGGustorum. COMOB Conflate Monete Obryzo. — The In the exergue • letters which occur in the exergue generally mark the e the place of coinage, but in this insta n nce . name of a city, but is from Obryzin , in scription, therefore signifies, money - struck from of athe o the purity purest gold. This mode of marking °thberYez; i r s g n u o a t i piece is not unknown to the modern mint. The silver coins struck by George 111. for his Hanoverian domi nions are inscribed NDRFFSILB, that is, Nach den Retells Fuss Fein Silber, according to the Imperial standard of fine silver. A similar inscription is also found on the coins of Jeromp Boniparte (Westphalia). —Cornwall Gazelle. APPOINTMENTS.— The Queen has presented the Rev. W. J. Poole to the living of Aberffraw, Anglesea. Lieutenant-Colo ne l George Brodie Fraser, commanding the Royal Artillery at St. Helena, is appointed a member of the council of that island. James M`Nab (receiver general), W. Stairs, and Jonathan M'Cuddy, Esqs., are nominated members of the legislative council of Nova Scotia. Benjamin Simpson Houghton, Thomas Rudelle, and Alcide Cayron, P — Ns-, are appointed mcrobera of cewscil g; ;he Nouritio. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Jan. 14. :Sittings in Banco, in llllary Term, before Lord Chief Justice WILDE, and Justices 11.--uLE, CRESS- WELL, and WILLIAMS. lIILCOAT V. TUE ARCHBISHOPS or CANTERBURY AND YORK. Thi3 was an action tried before the Lord Chief Justice on the 14th of December last, in L radon, in which a verdict was found for the plaintiff, damages to be assessed on the second count of the declaration at 1,5411. This case was very fully reported at the trial. Sir F. THESIGER (with whom was Mr. Tomlinson) now moved for a rule to show cause why the verdict should not be entered for the defendants, upon the second and seventh issues, or why judgment should not be arrested, or for a new trial, on the grounds of misdirection, of the improper admission of evidence, and because the verdict was against evidence. Tne action was brought under the provisions of the 9th and 10th Victoria, chap. 312, which was a private Act for making a railway from Liverpool to Berwick, and by this statute it was provided that the railway was not to interfere with the church or chapel of St. slatthew's, at Liverpool, or with the c'iurchyard and ground and pas:age conm.c . ed therewith, without the consent of the Bishop of Chester and the Archbishop of York, and on payment of such a sum of money as should be agreed upon by the archbishop and bishop, in ascertaining which some regard should be bad to the cost of a site of equal dimensions, and for complet ing a new church capable of accommodating 730 persons, and, if the defendants should think fit, for the purchase of the surplus pew rents beyond the annual sum of 951. reserved thereout for the minister, clerk, and sexton. The declaration in the first count set out this statute, and averred that the passage and part of the ground near the church did not form the site of the church, and that the plaintiff was entitled to the value of that land taken by the railway com pany ; that the value of this land was 2,0001., which the railway company refused to pay. The second count alleged it to be the duty of the defendants under this Act of Parliament to ascertain the value of the ground taken by the railway company adjoin ing the church which did not form part of the site of the church, but that they had not used proper care in ascertaining its value, and that the railway company had taken possession of the ground without paying the plaintiff its proper value. To this count there was a plea of " Not Guilty." The seventh issue denied that the ground and passage adjoining the church did not form part of the site of the church. It appeared that in 1798 the present church, which was then a dissenting chapel, was purchased by bargain and sale, and con veyed to trustees to be consecrated for the use of the Established Church, and the land to its use for ever, and that the chapel was afterwards consecrated by the name of St. Matthew's church. In 1836 Dr. Hil coat, the plaintiff, purchased the church and ground for 1,2001., and in 1846 the Act of Parliament in question was obtained, the plaintiff getting inserted into it the clauses on which the present action was founded, constitutine, as the Learned Counsel con tended, the Bishop of Chester and the Archbishop of York statutable arbitrators to settle the value of the church and ground between the plaintiff and the rail way company; that they were bona fide to use their best discretion and judgment in so doing. Having been called on under this Act cf Parliament to act, the defendants bad heard evidence as . to the value of the ground. On one side it had been estimated for the plaintiff, by Mr. Holmes, of Liverpool, as building land, worth 31. 10s. the yard ; for the company the land was valued, as land which could not be built on under the deed of bargain and sale under which it was held, at 8111. The defendants awarded for the land and pew rents above 951., 1,5001., which sum had been ten dered to the plaintiff and refused by him. The rail way company, having indemnified the defendants, took possession of the ground, and the plaintiff brought his present action against the defendants. The Learned Counsel contended that the matter was submitted to the defendants as arbitrators, and that they had exercised their judgment with bona fides, and that they were not therefore liable, even if mista ken, to an action of tort. It was also contended at the trial that the plaintiff was at liberty to call other evidence as to the value of the land, and submit that to the jury, and if the jury thought the judgment of the defendants wrong, that then the plaintiff was en titled to a verdict for their breach of duty. That evidence was admitted and objected to. The Learned Judge who tried the case directed the jury that it was the defendants' duty to ascertain the full value of the land, and if they failed in that, the plaintiff had a right to go to the jury to ascertain it. This was the misdirection complained of. On these grounds he moved for the rule.—Rule nisi granted. COURT OP EXCHEQUER, Jan. 14. (Sittings in Banco.) BOSANQUET V. STIORTRIDGE. This action was brought to recover a very large sum of money against the defendant, as ono of the pro prietors of the Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint. Stock Banking Company. which stopped payment in 1848, and it was tried before the Lard Chief Baron at the last sittings in London, when a ver dict was taken by consent for the plaintiff, with liberty to move the Court above. Sir F. TIMMER now moved for a new trial, in accordance with leave reserred on the ground of the improper reception of evidence, and that the verdict was against the evidence. The defendant, who resides at South Shields, was possessed of 100 shares in the bank, and in July, 1847, he agreed to sell 50 of them at 51. 103. each, and the remaining 50 at 51., to a person named George Pringle Few, of Ness castle. The transfer was approved of by the manager of the bank, and a certificate was drawn out and signed by thn e of the managing directors; net at a !meting of the board, but separately at their residences, and the question arose whether the transfer was a legal one under the deed of settlement. It appeared that pre vious to this transaction the bank had been suffering from the effects t f the recent commercial de pression, and found it necessary to apply to the Baak of England for a loan of 50,0004, which is as ail anted on the condition that no transfers ef stares should take place until it was retard. In January, 1848, the alleged transfer was declared at a meeting of the board null aid void, and the rame of Few was struck out a the trans fer-book, and that of the defendant re-inserted. The hank subsequently stopped payment, and it was sought to attach the eltfenea; t with liability as a proprietor in respect of the present debt.—The Court granted a rule. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. A young man, named William Anderson, Blue Lion-court, Aldersgate-street, was placed at the bar before Mr. Alderman Carden, charged with robbing his ready-furnished lodgings, under the following un grateful circumstances : Mary Ann Myrtle, Beaumont's buildings, Alders gate-street, said that the prisoner, who is a tailor, and his wife took a furnished room at ss. per week, about eighteen months egc', where they remained until Saturday night, when they removed to their present residencein 13;ue Lion-court. After they were gone she went into their room, and missed a blanket worth 45., besides crockery to a similar amount, as well as about 101bs. of feathers, which had been taken out of the bed. On making this discovery she gave the prisoner into custody, as she thought both him and his wife had beha . ved in the most ungrateful manner, after all the kindness that had been shown to them, and the money they owed. . _ Alderman CARDEN asked how much rent was due Mrs. MyrtlP replied that it amounted to 11. 19s. _ . Alderman G ARDEN inquired the value of the missing articles ?—Mrs. Myrtle said they would cost about 14g. Alderman GARDEN wished to know what the kind ness was that prosecutrix had alluded to? Mrs. Myrtle said that, in the first place, when the wife was confined she supplied her with clothes for the child, and paid such attentions as were necessary to a female in such a situation. The wife exclaimed, "That's false." Mrs. Myrtle went on to say that for a long time the prisoner was out of work, and necessarily fell into ar rears of rent, until an offer of employment occurred in August last, but security was required. Her hus band at first refused to become the prisoner's security, until she almost went on her knees to him before he consented. Since then he had been in constant work, earning, according to his master's books (with the aid of another man), from 2/. Bs. to 2/. 12s. per week, and yet during the whole period he had not the honesty to pay what he owed. Alderman CARDEN—And this was done out of kindness to them ? Mrs. Myrtle—Yes, because I thought that being young people, it was a pity they should lose such an opportunity of getting on. Alderman CAUDEN—What amount was your hus band liable for ? Mrs. Myrtle—For any amount that he got from the shop. . . Alderman CARDEN—Then for the future never let your husband be security without having the amount fixed, for he may be ruined, and might have been in this instance. The prisoner, in defence, denied knowing anything about the blanket or feathers, but admitted all the :est. Alderman CARDEN sail. it was a most ungrateful act on the prisoner's part to rob his benefactors in the manner he had done, independent of his having com mitted a very serious offence, for which he might be sent to the Old Bailey for trial. The prisoner's wife here stepped forward, and said they had tried their best to pay the rent, and as for the kindness of becoming security, Mr. Myrtle only did so to secure what was due to him. She was pro ceeding in the same strain, when she was ordered to be removed out of court, which was instantly done. Alderman CARDEN remanded the prisoner until to morrow. CLERKENWELL. A respectably dressed middle-aged man, who ap peared on the police-sheet as George William Dow ling, Clarendon-square, was placed at the bar charged with having been disorderly. It appeared from the evidence of kolice‘constAble TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 15, 1850 Stoker 358, and Abrahams, of S division, that yes terday morning, about one o'clock, they were on duty in Weston-street, Somers Town, when the prisoner was hallooing and shouting, to the annoyance cf the inhabitants, who looked out of their windows. Oil being remonstrated with, he abused them, calling them filthy names, and continued following and an noying them until they were compelled to take him to the station-house. . . . LvonF, Illackfriars-road, wes brought before Mr. il'Beckett, charged with robbing her employer. It appeared that the prisoner had been but a short time in the service of the complainant, and that one morning last week his wife on rising from bed missed two sovereigns, which were safe in her pocket on retiring the preceding night. Although there was no doubt of the money being taken by some person who entered the room when she and her husband were asleep, still the prisoner was not suspected at the time. On Saturday night, however, complainant deposited some sovereigns in his trou sers pocket, and placed them on a chair by the bed side when he retired to rest, and when he got up the next morning lie missed two out of the number, which must have been taken by some person who entered the apartment when they were asleep. Suspi cien now was excited against the prisoner, who slept up stairs, and when she was questioned on the sub ject she at first denied that she knew anything about it; but when a promise of forgiveness was held out to her by the complainant if she divulged the truth, she then cont , ssed to having entered her master's bedroom when he and his wife were asleep ; that on the first occasion she took two sovereigns out of her mistress's pocket, and that on the second occasion, two nights afterwards, she again stole into their bed room and possessed herself of two more sovereigns out of her master'a pocket. She produced the four sovereigns, which she had concealed in her box, and was then given into custody. The MAGISTRATE directed that in taking • the depo sitions the promise of forgiveness held out by the complainant, and which appeared to be an inducement for her to make a confession of her guilt, should be added, as such circumstance would in all probability have its due weight on her trial. The prisoner, who said nothing in her defence, was committed. Mr. COMBE (to the prisoner)—What have you to say ? Prisoner—l have nothing to say to you, be cause I don't expect justice at your hands. i Mr. C° l lB al E l make no you have nothing to say ? Pri soner—lno further remark. Mr. COMBE—You are liable to a penalty of 404. or one month's imprisonment, or imprisonment, witl-.- out fine. Prisoner—l told you before that I decline making any remark ; if it had been any other magistrate I would answer him. I was once sent to prison through your negligence and partiality, arid I make no fur ther remark. Mr. COMBE—You seem to know me; pray what do you know of me? Prisoner--I make no remark. Mr. Baylis (the usher)—ll? was some time ago charged at this C ,urt for an indecent assault upon a womar, when your worship seWenced him to two or three months,' imprisonment, I am not certain which. Mr. Comno sentenced th.. prisoner to pay 5; , and in default of payment, a cmnmensurate term of im prisonment. Prisoner—l shall not pay it. I will go to prison first. He wai then locked up. Mary Sullivan was charged by Mrs. Julia Downes, of No. 6, Barclay-street, Somers Town, with steal ing a glove and 7s. 61. from her person. The prosecutrix attended divine worship on Sunday last at the Roman Catholic Chapel, Clarendon-square, and whilst in her devotions the prisoner was kneeling down immediately behind her, pretending prayer, when she was observed fumbling at the pocket of the prosecutrix, by a gentleman who kept his eye upon her, and soon after the clergyman commenced his sermon, the prisoner left the chapel. The prosecutrix was questioned, when she missed her glove and 7s. 61. .from her pocket, when the prisoner was followed and given into the custody of lisyes, 175 S, who took her to the station-house. On the prisoner being searched 7s. 6d. was found in her possession, and she said, " What a fool I was to get into trouble !" The prisoner had been frequently seen before in the chapel under similar circumstances. _ She denied the charge, but she was fully committed for trial. WESTMINSTER. Edward Summers, alias Gray, a 'well-known r.f. - - terer of base coin, was charged under the Poll v<i: circumstances : On Saturday night the prisoner went to Mr. West's, a confectioner, in Keppel-street, Chelsea, and having purchased two buns, gave half-a-crown in payment, and having received 2s. 3d. change from Miss Cox, the shopwoman, walked out, but bad scarcely gust into the street when Gosling, 162 V, who, knowing him to be a notorious " smasher," had, upon seeing him enter the shcp, watched his move ments, stopped him, and inquired of Miss Cox whether she had closely examined the half-crown pri soner had handed to her, and which it was evkAeot - , by her having given the prisoner the change, she had believed to be genuine. She then took it out of the till, and upon a close examination it was found to be spurious. The prisoner struggled violently to get away, but finding himself unable to succeed, he passed his right hand, with something in it, to his mouth, and then made a rush to she opposite side of the road, and whilst engaged in a desperate resistance was seen tothrow something over the railings into Oakley square, which turned out to be another spurions half-crown. He was conveyed to the station, when several pieces of small silver money and some trifling articles, look ing like recent purchases, were found upon him. The spurious half-crown uttered at Mr. Nest's was positively identified as that given by the prisoner, there being only some small silver in the till at the time. Upon the evidence in the above case being con cluded, _ _ Mr. R9ynolds, assistant solicitor to the Mint, who had conducted the prosecution, asked for a remand, in order that he might exhibit another charge against the prisoner for putting off a spurious crown piece at the York Hotel, Waterloo-road. Prisoner, upon being asked whether he wished to say anything, replied ♦ery coolly, that he would rather defer it until the whole of the cases were finished against him; He was remanded for a week. _ _ William Manning and Jane, his wife, uho stand charged with stealing a quantity of paper from the House of Lords, were again remanded for a week, bail being as on the previous occasion taken for the appearance of the male prisoner; but the wife, against whom there is another charge of felony, being com mitted to prison. MARYLEBOIVE. Edward Bradley, a reTectably-lressed young man, aged 20, was placed at the bar before Mr. Broughton, charged under circumstances of an ex traordinary n.►ture, the prticulars of which are below detailed. James Crump, a cabman, deposed that at ten o'clock on S sturday night last, he drove the defendant from It gent-street, to York-gate, Itagent's-park, and on setting him down there, he demanded 2.. 41. as his fare. Defridant alleged that he had no money, and he was desirous of being locked up, so he was therefore driven to the station-house, in Mary lebone-lane, where he was locked up. Inspector H mnant stated that upon the prisoner being searohed at the station, a quantity of the best white pepper ground was found in one of his po-I.2tp. He said he had recently left his friends at Birming ham, to come up to town for a little pleasure, and that having no money left, he purchased the pepper with the intention of going into a shop and throwing the whole of it into the eyes of the party who might which means he might b h e a v a e t e t ff h e e e t e c d o counter, ter robbery, through h u t his courage failed him, upon his conscience telling him that he was meditating a sin of great magnitude, and for which he should one day have to answer. He (prisoner) admitted to Mr. Ilannant that he had read in the police reports, a few days ago, a case in which a robbery was effected at a jeweller's in the City, and that the thief had Pff:'''`Cd g Pepper into the eyes of the shopman. his escape by throwin g Mr. BROUGHTON, after putting various questions to the witnesses, ultimately came to the conclusion that it was his duty to order the prisoner to pay the cab man 54., and to find two sureties in 201. each for his keeping the peace and being of good behaviour f)r the next six months. TV ORS/1113-S TREE 7'. Elizabeth Smith was placed at the bar, before Mr. Hammill, charged with havi ng b een concerne d , un d er very aggravated circumstances, in stealing a silver watch, gold ring, and-M nearly the wh o l e o f hi s persona l t ea i n de n in ce Essex. of sergeant Kelly, clothing, from r rst H Frederick H ar d y J ew i t t, of Lime s t r l e t e ta, p C l y ared all f d ro l m N the evidence p of the H division, that shortly before en4ht o'clock on Friday morning the prosecutor, who was suffering at the time under extreme nervou s p rostrat i on an d debi lity, was brought in a cab b y one o f h i s f r i en d s, t o the station-house in Leman-street, where he entered into a statement to the effect that while passing through Whitechapel-road on the precedi ng even i ng h e was suddenly jostled against by a c or p u l ent m iddl e - age d woman, who rapidly pressed a handk erc hi e f over hi s mouth, and he was immediately seized by a f eling of stupor,which was su cceeded shortly a ft erwar d s b y tota l insenaibility. He remained wholly unconscious of everything that ensued afterwards, until the following morning, when he partly recovered his senses, and found himself stretched upon a wretched bed, and at a low lodging-house, in 'Trawl-street, Spitalfields, completely stripped of nearly the whole of his cl o thi ng , and that his watch, ring, and a considerable sum in loose silver, had also disappeared. As soo n as h e became sensible of his situation he raised a loud out cry, which attracted the attention of a young man named Saunders, who lodged in the upper part of the house, and with whose assistance he was conveyed in a cab to the residence of the friend who accompanied him to the station-house. On receivi▪ ng the above in fermation, witness at once repaired to the house in Thrawl-street, and on searching the apartment in which the robbery had been committed, he discovered the hat and boots of the prosecutor concealed under the bed, and having ascertained that the room had been for some time pest in the joint occupation of the prisoner and a woman named Higgins, both of whom had ab sconded, he proceeded in search of them, and shortly afterwards succeeded in apprehending the latter, but the prisoner eluded pursuit until the i preceding even ing, when she was traced to a house n• George-street, Spitalfields, by Police-constable Johns, who int( r cepted and secured her while attempting to escape at the rear of the premises. The sergeant added, that from inquiries he had male that morning, he had ascertained that the prosecutor was still confined at home, under the care of a surgeon, from the effects of the treatment to which he had been subjected, and that he was unable a t present to attend and give evi dence in support of the charge. The prisoner, in defence, denied all participation in the robbery, and declared that she was not near the house at the time it was committed. The prisoner was ordered to be remanded, for the attendance of the prosecutor, and the magistrate di rected the police in the meantime, as it was evident that the robbery had been effected through the agency of chloroform, or some other narcotic, to use their utmost efforts to discover the parties who had sup plied such characters as the prisoner with ingredients capable of being applied to such nefarious purposes. SOUTH WA RK. Ann Bland, a young woman, in the service of Mr. FREE TRADE IN ENGLAND. THE COUNTRY MARKETS. (F4orn the Journal des Debats:) ••••••• The following i s th e o ffi c i a l statement of the quantities of Corn, B:f.u;:vnreec:etveed7tihn j th a e n., po i r ei t s o o f , I to mu t l h o e n i fr : j o th m j th a e n r 4 1850,0 aniinated debate has commenced in England rtspecting the merit d the advantages of free trade h E o 7 h e % in its relations with the national agriculture. The " farmers suffer extremely from the low price of corn, and several persons repeat to them that free trade is the cause. It is under these circumstances that Sir Robert Peel has just addressed to his tenants a letter in which he makes known his well-weighed opinion, which, like every other emanating from that illus trious statesman, is calculated to produce a deep im pression, not only in Great Britain but abroad. Is free trade to bear the blame for this sudden fall of the price of corn, which, if continued, would render its cultivation in England almost impracticable ? No, replies Sir li. Peel emphatically ; the principle of free trade must not be rendered responsible for a reduction of price which is not only cheapness, but a profound perturbation. This depreciation of ihe price of corn arose from the circumstance that after the cruel famine of 1847, as after all other famines, the fear of a scarcity of corn and the hope of profiting by high prices caused cultivation to be enormously increased ; much more corn was sown than formerly. It so happened that the crops were more abundant in proportion. Toe market was consequently glutted, and the inevitable result was that the corn was sold at a loss. The proof to it free trade is not the origin of this serious excess is this—that the fall was as great, nay, greater than in England in those states of the continent of Europe where the corn-laws underwent no alteration whatever. France is a striking example of this fact. Here, in Paris, we find the hectolitre of corn at 13f., instead of at 20f., the average price; and not a fieger has been laid on our custom-house system. It is even to be remarked that the adoption in lingland of free trade in corn must have pre vented the price of corn from falling in Paris as much as it would have done if left to itself ; for England has taken a pretty large quantity of grain from Normandy, and the glut of the markets in the north of France, inclusive of Paris, has been dimi nished by so much. Nothing is easier thin to mislead the man whose temper is soured by suffering and privation. The English farmers at this moment are rather severely tried When they accepted their leases they fore saw not that they would have to sell corn at pre sent prices. They can only fulfil their engagements, consequently, at a great loss. The " Protectionist" faction, in this conjuncture, hopes to succeed in rall:, - ing f.:1; counties round its standard. But Sir R. Peel boldly baffl,!s this cunning manceuvre with the resolution a-‘d the authority which have never yet failed him. "Itis my firm conviction," writes title i - errs statesman, -" that neither the present nor any Parliament will consent to levy duties on articles which are essential to the sustenance of man, either with a view to protection or revenue." Such is the style in which an aristocracy which would endure expresses itself when speaking of popular interests; and this spirit, by which the domi nant classes in great Britain are animated, explains more clearly than anything else why and how it is that the political constitution of that country resists the shock of continental revolutions Colchester.. Iliirwich Maldon i I 7- I , , 2. 1 O CC) r; i 4 I c 7, •-• 98 128' 101 145 (70: , 24 851 2& 430; 1747] )2 220 24 989 60 - 26t 170 FIA DDINGTON, JAN. 11.—T grain at our market today:— First Second Third - 2391 12 33.11 Le folio win are the prices of Wheat. I Barley. I Oats. Bean,. ... 44A O,Y 1 233 Od 1 - 19 i 3d 26s Od ... 35s lld I 20:4 11 d} :6; 31s lid I 17z 011 12$ 611 But what is to be done? Tne status quo is impos sible. Free trade in corn, if not the cause of agri cultural distress may, nevertheless, place the farmers in a disadvantageous position. Tne old leases, gene rally granted tor a long term, may, under the new system, be onerous to this important class. Is there no room for an arrangement, and what ought the terms of that arrangement to be ? The manner in which Sir It Peel considers this question is worthy of notice; it contains a lesson for everybody's use. He admits that the old contracts must be amicably revised. He adjourns that revision until the moment—which he regards as proximate— when the accidental crisis that now prevails shall have passed away. But he does not hesitate even now to declare the bases on which he will accept the revision. Calculations must be made—not limited to a mere taking account of the fall of the average selling price, but embracing all the elements of the question. Many improvements have been made, and a great many advantages secured to the farmer of late years, so that the cost of cultivation has been materially lessened. Again, a distinction must be drawn be tween the laborious, intelligent, and active cultivator who keeps up with the progress of agricultural im provement, and the degenerate clodhopper who de tests work, and is utterly devoid of intelligence and moral force. Liternal competition will ruin these laggards far more surely than that from without. The principle of commercial policy of which Sir R. Peel has secured the triumph may thus ba enun ciated—every one is responsible for his own destiny, and ought to seek for success in sustained efforts, activity, intelligence, and good conduct, and espe cially to forbear from demanding that a tax be levied on his fellow-citizens fur his own especial benefit. This ought to be the law of agriculture as well as of manufactures. Bat between the landed proprietor and the farmer relations of mutual assistance are proper, and at certain times necessary. Sir R. Peel now intends to put in practice this sort of fraternity or patronage, without prejudice to ulterior conces sions. Under various forms he proposes to encourage the schemes of improvement of his tenants, with this proviso, that he will do nothing except for these who shall have paid their rents. He firmly maintains his rights of property. It is the general opinion of the best judges that Fanglish agriculture will successfully emerge from the trial of free trade, and succeed in producing corn at such prices as will prevent the native cultivators from bc.ieg see tented by foreign growers. Admitting that this anticipation will be realised, it must be at tributed to two special causes—first, the countries which export corn do not grow it so cheaply as we Lid ; :had again, they have commonly only a triflinrT excess of produce, ordinarily not more than 6,000,000 or 7,000,000 hectolitres can be taken away from the general market without inducing a marked rise in price; secondly, an agriculture which enjoys the twofold assistance of science and capital possesses great advantages, and has very little to fear from the cultivators of new regions, where land cots nothing, but where capital is scarce, and even science does not abound. Toe art of agriculture is brought to a great degree of perfection in Great Britain. The English farmers—persons in easy circumstances, and often exceedingly rich—bring up their sons to succeed them, and not, as in France, to make them, at all hazards, magistrates, officers in the arniy, or attaches of embassies. They give them a special, but oistin guished education, with that object in view. Lastly, capital in England is far more multiplied than else where. The Laglish do not make revolutions once every 15 years, by which a great part of the movable capital of the country is consumed. The capital of England is constantly increasing, and gives an admirable impulse to all branches of production. Now, capital is the material element of the progress of societies and popular improvement. Where capital abounds, society with the labour of the same number of persons may obtain a far larger mass of articles to distribute amongst men—a far larger amount of satisfaction fur the average number of men. 245 7d 244 01 . . Total quaniity of Wheat in tuArket 1,0 9 qrs., 937 sold 1)o. Barley do. 380 qs., 65 sold Do. Oats do. 433 qrs., 421 sold Do. Beans do. 128 qrs., 118 sold KIRKALDY, JAN. 12.—The following are the quotations up to this date : Wheat. Barley. Oats.: Beans. Peas. First 433 Od 22 6 195 6.1 I—s Od —B Od Second 403 Od 21s 6(1 17s Od —s Od —s Od I Third 313 Od 16i 6 I 14 ( 61 — s Od —s Od Ozstmeal, per ba4 of 28011 s. inip.. 24i to 00s Od. GLASGOW, JAN. M.—Provisions—Cheese, 48s to 50s Od per cwt ; retail, 5d to 6d per lb. Skins milk, ;8s to 00s per cwt. Country fresh butter, 91 to lld per lb ; Irish pow dered, in lumps, 9d to 10d; country powdered, wholesale, 7d to Bd. Country eggs, 9d per dozen ; carried hen ditto, 5s 6d per hundred, or 7d p er dozen. liens, 2s Od per pair ; ducks, 2s Od. STIRLING, JAN. 11.—Wheat, foreign, 215 to 21s Od; ditto, home, 0:)s Od to 050 d; ditto ditto new, 20s to 2, s; barley, per boll of 6 bushels, 00s Od to 00s Od ; ditto new, 13. to 2 s6d ; oats, common, 10s Od to 13s Oil ; ditto new, 9s Od to 105 Od ; ditto, Flemish, Os Od to Os Od ; ditto ditto new, Os Od; ma:t distillers, 33s to 35; ; ditto brewers, 3550E1 to 38s ; beans, per boil, Os Od to Os Oil; ditto new, lEs Od to 179 6d; peas, 14s 6d to Os Od ; flour, new, per sack, 34s to 35s ; ditto common ditto, 24s Od to 25s 6d ; oatmeal, per load, Os Od to 0504; ditto new 26s Od to 28s ; ditto per peck of 71bs, Bid to Os Od; fresh butter, per lb, 8d to 10d; eggs per dozen, Gd to 7d; hay per ton, 48s to 50s. KELSO, JAN. 11.—Wheat, old, 00s to 00s ; ditto, new, 21. to 29s lid ; barley, new, 13s to 175 Od ; ditto old, 005 Od to 003 ; potato oats, 00s to °Os ; ditto new, 1 sto 125 Od ; com mon oats, 9s to llsOd ; ditto new, las to 135 Od ; pea., 001 to 009 O; beans, 00s to 00s per boll of six imperial bushels. PERTH, JAN. 10.—Wheat, 32s Od to 375 Od ; barley, 18s to 20s Od ; oats, 13s to 16s ; peas and beans, 21s Od to 24, 0 4 per quarter. Oatmeal, per sack, 254 to 265. HAWICK, JAN. 10.—Wheat, new, 20s Od to 29s Od; barleys new, 12s to 15s 0.1; ditto old, 00s to 00s ; potato oats, 108 Od to 123 Od ; common oats, 8s to 12s Od ; peas, 20e Od to 24s Od ; beans, 20s Od to 24s Od per boll of six imperial bushels. BERwlciz, JAN. 10.—Wheat, 345:10d ; barley, 19s oats, 14s 8d ; rye, Os Od ; beans, 60s Od ; peas, 00s Od av~ rage per imperial quarter. FALKIRK, JAN. 10. —The supply of grain in this day's market was 819 bolls; wheat at I6s Od to 20s Od per b9ll barley, 13s 6d to 17s Od ; oats, 12s 6d to 14s Od; beans, I Is 3d to 13s Od per boll ; oatmeal, Os to Os per load. COAL MARK E' Carr's Hartley Chester Main l6s 6d Hot) well North Percy Hartley l6s 6d Ord's Redheugh Ravensworth'sW.Hart lis Od Canfield Moor Townley l7s Cd Wall's End, &c. T.-YESTERDAY. (Haswell 2os 31 Hutton Jonassohns ...... ...... 17s 9d Stewart's Whitwell ... lBs 6 1 Caradoc ..... Denison lBs 6d Thornley * Whitworth 153 61 Seymour Tees South Durham 195 Od Teen West Tees ... 185 6d Nixon's Merthyr and Cardiff ............. 21$ 6 1 Sidne) 's Hartley Ships at market, 53. Brown's . Buraton Killingworth 18s 6di Hilda Eden Main l9. Od Lambton Primrose dell Belmont l9s Od Hetton R. IN A Y s q A II BRISTOL, JAN. 14. STOCK ExcHANGE.—The market was firm to-d• Tb a transactions were as follow : —G rea t W estern , Q u arters? 1011 3 dis.—Ditto, New M. Shares, 6y2 dis.—Midland Stor 4 45 LIVERPOOL, JAN. 14. STOCK EXC JAW:Ht.—The share market was very firm to-day, and prices rather better. The transactions were 0 1 follow :—Edinburgh and Glasgow, '47 1 / 2 —Lancashire A" Yorkshire, unpaid up, 42 dis.—Ditto, Fifths, 7 1 A, dis.- 1 4° 110 don and North-Western, 115 —Ditto, New Quarters, l c. —Ditto, Fifths, 1 1 / 2 —Ditto, Quarters (C), 11A p.—Midlan tlf 45 1 / 2 Ditto, Halves, 22 1 / 2 dis.—Ditto, Consol. B. and 1:).) ; 21—North Union (B.), 159 1 / 2 —Shrewsbury and , (N. W. M.), 71/4 dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, 1•48 ; (No. 2), 11 1 4 dis.—Ditto, Consol. (No. 3), 19A—Dit to (No. 4), MANCHESTER, JAN. 14. STOCK ExcuANGE.—The market has been very firm an steady, at improved prices. The transactions were as f Ol.. low : - r.ast Lancashire, 12 E-16—Ditto, Preference, Quarte r ' (min. 6 per cent.), VA—Lancaster and Preston, 2 disl Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, 7 , 4 Riding Union), 6 11-16 dis.- London and North `Vestal' Manchester and Birmingham, Quarters (C), 1 9-16 PC, Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, Preference, 8 5 ' 1 " 1 1 South-Eastern and Dover (No. 3), 19'4—Ditto (N .(4 ,: na ' . Scrip, 6% - Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston (Eastern Junction), 7 dis.—Bolton, Blackburn, Chitheroe, and Wes t Yorkshire (No 1) 5. If England had not had much capital at command, she could not have accomplished with such rapidity the evolution by which she has passed from the old system of " protection" to that of free trade. And now that she enjoys that liberty she will possess in a far larger proportion than in past times, the means of forming capital—that instrument of power over the world—that material foundation of the political greatness of nations—that marvellous agent of the internal order of states; for under that system every fragment of the national labour is employed in the most fruitful manner, obtains the largest return, and consequently permits the largest saving. England, therefore, has no reason to regret—rar from it—the great political manoeuvre which she ac complished, after the brilliant campaign of Mr. C ib den and his friends, by means of the energetic and far-sighted care of Sir H. Peel. Toe principle of tree trade will be maintained, but it might have been com promised, had not that eminent man dealt a deathblow to the Protectionist faction by his recent decisive de monstration. He has just done what was required to avert the tempest which was gathering. BIRMINGHAM, JAN. 14. STOCK EXCHANOII.-Our share market remains dull Spa _ inactive. The on ly t ransact i ons to-day were— Birmingham: Wolverhampton, and Dudley, 4t,4 - Stour Valley, North Staffordshire, 9 dis.—South Staffordshire, 3% DESPERATE AFFRAY WITH POACHERS AT iionNwr. —About three ,'clock on Saturday morning last a savage encounter took place between a gang of poachers and three of the keepers in the service of Pudsey Dawson, Esq., of Liornby Castle. For some time past the preserves of this gentleman have suffered from the nightly attacks of theSe uncertificated gentry, and he had resolved on the adoption of effectual measures for their supprt-ssion. With this view, Mr. Richard Sutton, the head gamekeeper, received instructions to procure additional assistance in order that the grounds might be more thoroughly watched. On the morning previously mentioned the keeper, with two other men, named Enoch Knowles and John flerst, proceeded towards the pre aerves. Oa entering the Great Park, which is shout a mile fro.rl the castle, they found that their friends, the poachers, were at work in the immediate vicinity. The keepers immediately rushed towards the place and dis covered four with guns, by whom they were in stantly attacked. A very savage aff,ay canamenced, the poachers using the butt ends of their guns, resulting in the complete disc militure of their watchers, who were lei% in a senseless state by their ersailants. Herst wa the first to regain sensibility, and f auld his compani,ns unable to proceed home. He gave an alar m , an d assistance being procurii , , his companions were removed home. At first the lives of Sutton and Knowles were considered in danger, but an improvem-nt is manifested, and hopes are entertained of their recovery. The re mains et' three gun-stocks were found at the of the struggle, end a el Ail cap belonj!.g to one if the poachers the in-id- f which from the marks of blood, testifio 1111. t t owiter had not esetiptd s3atnles.— Pre.ston Chronicle _ . YORK, JAN. 12. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were 01/ follow: York, Newcastle, and B erw i c k (O. N. E. V II I" chase), 3 1 4 Great Northern, 71. 88. 9d.—North British, Halves, 4 7 / s —York and North Midland, 18—Ditto, Prefe r ' ence, 6/. 8 ELorEstErtr.—A few days ago one of the old 1 ; ; and most respec age f in tle north f Set tlt.v' the di scendants Lf the celebrated Lord President Fel be e i and the nt possessors f the extensive estates t'cl Culloden, was thrown into a st tte if confusion an anxiety in c msequence of the eloie•ment cf the young 7 br ther of the laird with his brcther's scullery- 033 ' The young gentleman is only about 20 years ( f aKr , 9° a the fir damsel who won the h ear t an d secured the n e " a the gal:ant youth is a youn g Hi g hl an d l as s if , " • same a ;e, who possesses c on s id era bl e porsons i chso i .." ; Upon the discovery f the fli g ht cif the fugiti ves the I I I; and cry was immediately raised, and messengers Ig h ', dispatched in every directi on t o overta k e them yoitq 1 1 al and loving coupl e were trace d a l ong t he ' l4 6 tt land-road to Perth, and from thence to Glasgow. tee their arrival at Glasgow, the youthful rain were irn diately married. The p u r suers were t wo h our s too 10- 1 : and, to their erec t di sa pp o i ntment an d chagrin, The found, on their arrival, the happy pair asleep- bu t friends t f the young gentleman soon roused them' the bridegroom said he had made his choice, and resolve to live anti die in the society of his blooming bride. 'm i. THE LIVERPOOL CHAMBER OF C‘;MMERCE.' - t he 2,88 'elation has now fairly be en establist ad. Sine° t he meeting of the requisitionists held at the Town-ball' r . committee then appointed, including many of 0 11r .,:it spected merchants namely, T. B. Horafall, Horaby, Char ci Holland, James Stitt, &c., have duciasly and z?alously co-operated towards the ace! a s plishrzent of their labour; and after several ineettoa held at the Clarendon Rooms, the laws and consti tuti t he of the Chamber were drawn up and arc now ber yl ! 0 public. It is with much gratification that w e ott se , o t the successful issue of tho movement, and we are sanguine in its beneficial tendency. It becomes o 0 .„. gre tt importance fsr the institution to realise that o s u it , port which is rt quisi'e to carry out the objA3r, basis rests upon the united co-operation of all them ,- f hers of this gr e at commercial community. The members already eureel who have paid their subse_oo, lion in c l u d es many c f our mos t di s ti ngu i s h e d mere"' 7 1 ,00/ . B. ( St' The Itc.v G. Johns, of Dulwich, late O f o f Manes College, Che!ses, has Eta , -n elected Professor Latin at the Ladies' College. Bedford square. ve . [ADVERTISEMENT ]—A Sufferer from Severe. n .n i , bilit y and a Shattered Constitution cured by Holloway'sj i t i —Mr. Heintjes van Veerssen, a me rc h an t, residing at , 01 - er sl gen, in H o ll an d, h a d b e e n su ff er i ng f or years f ro m a g en es§ debility ; his strength had becom e so pros t ra t e d that 116 , 00 , quite incapable of attending twany kind of business ; his stitution was rapidly giving way, notwithstanding the e". ° ",. r isif the cleverest medical men to arrest the decline. At this his he commenced taking Holloway's Pills, and by their es! tu de health and strength are perfectly re-established, in gr ati thst for which blessing he desires that publicity be given to it , o r others may seek relief by the same means.—Sold by alij i tr ocit gists and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, ' London. ROYAL NAVAL BENEVOLENT S;CIETY.—A,dMi rial R. Ducliq I iiiv-r ha, iiiercasi , tl his itilhuat to 51.; and C: , rntnAndir Charles f )u liberd cup• porter o' the iusritaiion, has added to is luaus a tile subicripti94 9f 104 BIRTHS On the 9th inst., at Honfleur, France, the lady o f g —ai iiii" ton Hall, Esq., of a stn. the On the 9th inst., at Trafalgar•cottage, Kentish-V. on ' wife of Mr. A, Blaikley, of a daughter. r' 9. lg On the 10th inst., at the Pavilion, near Galashie% 11. P. llroadwoed, of a daughter. Viet n., At Tottenham, on the 10th inst., the wife of T. X• ch On the er, „ I e, the lth inst., at Arthingworth, Northamptonsb ir , Hon. Mrs. Charles Cust, of a son. 's "el Oa the 11th inst., the wife of George Simpson, Clapham-rise, of a daughter. e 1i ( ° On the 12th inst., at Victoria-grove, B rompton, rom ptoll, t il of J. E. Williams, Esq., of a daughter. i g r. On the 12th inst., in St. Martin's-lane, the wi. r ° ° _., J. Mayes, of a daughter. —_. , s MARRIED. y V: f _ On the 10th inst., at Cheriton, near Sandgate, 11 " - li f ter " P. Cunningham, Esq., R.N. to Frances, eldet daug the late Dr. Warden, of 11. M. Dockyard, Chatbalm e ,,,,tai, ll On the 10th inst., at St. Ma r y's Church, Devon, ‘l7lOOl Kitson, 45th Regiment, 51 N. 1., to Mary Elizabetb, n , t i s e, fa daughter of the Re v . Th omas Kitson, of Ship/10' that county. 'sttv ttrt On the 12th inst , at St. Bride's, Fleet-street, street, Mr. wcisagb pher T. Bennett. of Buckingham, to I,lizabeth Any' ter of Mr. N. T. Isherwood, of Ludgate-hill ----- D all At Dorking, on the 11th DIE inst., aged 56, the LiP'„ ll° Leslie, youngest daughter of George William Eve o. ' g bte r Earl of italics. On the ioth inst., in Russell-square, Catherine , d etig th e of G. Darling, M.D., aged 24. : ~lico, On the 19th inst., in Upper Belgrave-place, Po — he r ' fl.„?v. E(hYard A. Dunn. On the 1 tit inst., at the Royal Mews, Pearce, Esq., lor nearly 49 years in the department u' gob 1 master of the horse to the Queen. . go On the 11th inst., at Elm-grove,Soutbsea, age d bh, ~,, $. Pimlico, S t. .. e ft' ,lie Prymer Stanser, Esq.. only ttrviving son of the late Starner, Bishop of Nova Scotia. lo r 'it I th , Ith i; st. at Woodside-lodge, Westoff'h ill. 'wee wood. Wi Ham Atkinson, E-1.. many years one of the Of sengers the he C..ut i lankup Oil the I.2 t .th inst r o , Elizabet r h, wife of Mr. R. S. Sh arpy' Fenehurelt-strt et. ~,!,#., ci Puhtighed bv 'l. Prtnter. 11; 0 , "" - Allualc44.4lTileAlay, January 15, 1850. LAMBETH. William, alias Caleb, alias Bishop, alias Atkins Thomas, was placed at the bar before Mr. Norton, for final examination, on the charge of passing two ten and two five pound forged notes. In addition to the evidence given on a former oc casion, Mr. John Castle, proprietor of the City of S ilisbury publice-house, in Lock's-fields, deposed that on the 233 of last November the prisoner came to his house and asked for change of a 51. note, which was given to him. Mr. NORTON—Had you any previous knowledge of him ? Mr. Castle—Yes, sir, I knew him as a cus tomer, and I wrote his name and address on the note as he gave them to me. A few days after I , liscovered that the note was forged, and went in pursuit of the prisoner, but could not find him. Mr. John Wm. Fedge, a grocer, carrying on busi r cs:lin Crosby-row, Wal worth-road, sail L'lt on the November the prisoner came to Chop and purchased some articles, for the payment of which he tendered a +sl. note. He (witness) gave him the change, and sent the articles, as directed, to No. 36, Queen's-row. Two days after he paid away the note, but soon after it was returned to him, stamped " Forgery." Mr. NORTON—Can you identify the note you pro duce as the one that had been given to you by the prisoner ? Witness—Yes, sir ; I identify it by the name and address given to me by the prisoner, and which I wrote on it at the time. John Fellows, a ropemaker, residing in West street, Walworth, said that on a Sunday evening, about seven weeks ago, he was at Mr. Jeffery's, a beer-house, in East-lane, Walworth, and the prisoner was also there, and asked him to get change far a 101. note. He (witness) consented to do so, and took the note to the Sir William of Walworth public house, in the Walworth-road, where he got change. [-le took the change, which consisted of a Si. note, four sovereigns, and twenty shillings in silver, to the prisoner, who up to that time was a stranger to him, and he had not seen him from that time to the present. Mr. Charles Cleridge Howland, proprietor of the Sir William of Walworth public-house, deposed that on the 26th of November last he changed the 10/. note he then produced for the last witness, and wrote his (Fellows's) name on it at the time. He paid it away on the following day, and soon after it was re turned as a forgery. Police-constable John Harvey, 14 G-, deposed to having taken the prisoner into custody on the night of the Bth inst. Ile at first denied his name, but on his telling him he should take him into custody for passing 51. and 101. forged notes, he said he did not know anything about it. On his way to the station house, however, he said I have been made the dupe of others, and have lost 451. by it, and I'm glad you have come, for I'm sick of it. I have been out of the way for five weeks. The inspector of bank notes at the Bank of Eng land pronounced the three notes produced, as well as a fourth (a ten-pound note), taken by Mr. Edington, landlord of the Artichoke public-house, in Church street, Camberwell, whose testimony had been taken on a farmer day, to be forgeries, and the prisoner was fully committed to take his trial on each of the , four cases. A number of persons who had taken similar notes from a person answering the prisoner's description were in attendance, but were unable to identify the prisoner. The constable if irvey informed the magistrate that he was not surprised at the parties not being able to identify the prisoner, as he appeared com pletely metamorphosed, from having shaven off a large pair of whiskers, and so altered by the change as to render his recognition somewhat difficult. WANDSIVORTIL John Swaine, who described himself as a weaver, charged with having, in conjunction with another man, not in custody, committed the following daring robbery. On Saturday evening, between six and seven o'clock, Alfred Spice, a plain clothes constable, cf the \ division, who has exhibited very gre•At activity in many instances, was on duty opppsite Bedford Arms, Clapham-road, when he saw prisoner, in company with another man, near the shop of Mr. Taylor, an umbrella maker. Sus pecting they intended committing a felony, he went to a dark spot, and from thence saw them go to Mr. Taylor's shop; they stopped a minute or two, and presently came away, carrying between them four valuable silk umbrellas. He seized the two, but the man not in custody struck him a blow on the head with an umbrella, and made his escape. The con stable retained his hold of the priFoncr, who had three silk umbrellas in his possession, and having transferred him into safe custody, went back to the shop, the windows of which were fitted up with pa tent glass, the panes being at least three feet square, and the eighth of an inch in thickness ; one of them had been " starred," the major part of the glass care fully removed, and the property taken through the aperture, without the knowledge of the inmates. The missing umbrella was afterwards found in a neigh bearing garder, as also the glass tied up in a hand kerchit f. The prisoner, who made no deence, was remanded till Friday. THE WEATHER. AND THE PARKS. The thermometer during Sunday night in exposed situations fell as low as 24 degrees, or 8 degrees below freezing point ; and, during yesterday morning, it was down to 20 degrees, the highest elevation it at tained being 28 ; but, last evening, the mercury was still descending, showing every probability of another night of severe frost. The barometer stood in the morning at 29.08, but towards the evening was gra dually rising. The wind veered to different quarters in the course of a few hours, but in the evening was nearly due east, and blew exceedingly cold, with strong gales. The various ornamental waters in the royal parks were visited by countless thousands of persons during yesterday, but far below the number who flocked to the same places on Sunday. Every pre caution was taken by the officers of the Roy al Humane Society to prevent accidents on the ice ; and, although very few immersions happened, a great many persons were seriously injured by falling whilst sliding, and their heads coming in contact with the points of the skates were cut open. A very bad accident of this description took place in St. James's Park. A young man whilst amusing himself on the ice was tripped up, and falling with his forehead on the point of an other's skate, the flesh was laid bare, and the back of the eye exposed. The surgeon to the society promptly attended, and did all that was possible, but it is feared that the unfortunate sufferer will lose his sight. Several scientific evolutions were performed by the members of the Skating Club on the Long-water in Kensington Gardens, which were witnessed by some thousand persons, who, despite of the extreme cold, lined the bridge over the Serpentine, and the several banks along the river. ACCIDENT ON TUE ICE IN VICTORIA PARIC.—An alarming accident took place on Sunday afternoon in Victoria Park, Bonner's-fields, Bethnal-green. The ornamental waters, occupying an area of about twelve acres, which was frozen over, was covered with people, and upon that part near tiie entrance gate the skaters and sliders were unusually numerous. About four o'clock the ice suddenly gave way, and a frightful scene took place There were nearly 100 persons precipitated into the water. Many were clinging to each other, and others held fast by the pieces of ice. The people on the banks of the canal rendered every possible assistance, and dragged many of the sufferers from the ice. One man, regardless of the inclemency of the weather, pulled off his coat, hat, and waistcoat, and plunged into the water, and rescued several men and boys. He returned again and eg to the sufferers until he wee nearly ex hausted. The struggles and cries of the people con tinued for some time until it was believed all were saved. Many of them were benumbed wish cold, and were taken to the neighbouring taverns and public houses, and every attention was paid to them. Reports were abroad yesterday that some of them were in a hopeless state. It w4s also stated that two persons were missing. efre thei