The Sun. — London, England, 1850-02-21 00:00:00

ourti) 4ir-c°llWon SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. COMMON PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi Prius, at Guildhall, before the Lord Chief Jurtice WILDE and a Special Jury.) THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COSIPANY V. BRETT. This was an action brought by the Electric Telegraph Company against the defendants, M e s srs . B re tt and Co., for an infringement of patent. It appeared from the speech of the ATTORNEY- , GENERAL, who opened the case for thelplaintiff at great length, that the patent under which the Electric Telegraph Company's lines are worked was first taken out by Mr. Wheatstone, from whom it passed into th• hands of Mr. Coke, Mr. Ricardo, and Mr. Bidder, who afterwards as signed their several shares to the company in whose hands the whole profits from the patent are now ♦ested. The principal improvements, as stated by the Learned Counsel, consisted in securing a vertical angular motion to the needles, in the arrangement and combination of the ❑eedles in connexion with different batteries, in the arrangement and combination of diff,rent buttons to work the different needles, and in having duplicate dials, so as to communicate intelligence at any poiat between the two termini. Messrs. Brett's patent, it was con tended, was in every respect similar to this, except in the single fact that the needles or magnets were made curved instead of straight, as in Mr. Wheat stone's invention.—After the conclusion of the Learned Counsel's speech, the Clerk of the Court read some long extracts from a description of all the details of the working of the telegraph, to elucidate which frequent We was made of a model of a working telegraph, which had been erected in the court. (The cane had not concluded when our report left.) NORTHERN AND EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY.— The half-yearly general meeting of this company was held this day at the company's offices at the Bishops gate Station; Richard Paterson, Esq., i❑ the chair. The attendance of shareholders was but scanty, and the whole of the business consisted in reading the report and de• daring a dividend, after which the meeting separated. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) - 110 USE OF LORDS. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat upon the Woolsack at Five o'clock. SLAVE TRADE. The Bishop of OXFORD moved for the appointment of a Select Committee to consider the best method to be adopted for the extinction of the slave trade. AC TS OF PARLIAMENT ABBREVIATION BILL. This Bill passed through Committee. WAR MEDALS. The Duke of RICHMOND rose, pursuant to notice, to call the attention of the House to the awards of medals fur actions by sea and land, from 1794 to 1814, in pursuance of the general orders of the Admiralty and Horse Guards. He rejoiced that medals had been given in many cases to which he had drawn their Lordships' attention. It might be invidious to draw distinctions between cases in which medals had been awarded, and those in which they had not been awarded; but he thought that in all cases in which the thanks of Parliament bed been voted them, medals should be awarded. Sir James Gordon had been rightly rewarded with a gold medal forihis services in the Actaeon frigate,tbut why had not the man who fought at Washington and Bladenburgh also had a modal? The men who had captured St. Se bestian had received a medal, but those who fought at Sebastian() and at the Bidessoa, for the purpose of cover ing the attack, were equally entitled to a medal, but had received none. He hoped his Noble Friend opposite would revise the, list, and would advise her Majesty to award medals where medals were deserved. Be was rejoiced to hear that it was probable that justice would at length be done to the medical officers. In 1744 thanks were voted for operations in the West Indies—no medal. (The Noble Earl then rapidly read a list of actions. including the capture of the Dutch squadron, the taking of Monte Video, the taking of Copenhagen, the Barque Roads actions, the taking of the Mauritius, and of Java, in which no medals had been given.) Be asked upon whet principle medals had been refused for those. actions, while they had been awarded in other cases? kb thought some inquiry ought to be instituted before a committee of officers into these cases. He asked if it was the intention of the Govern ment to take these eases into consideration? Earl GREY said that it was not the intention of the Government to make any further award of medals. He considered the subject was one which it would he most inconvenient to discuss in that House. Nothing could he more inconvenient than that the Government of the present day should be called upon to review the de cision with regard to the distribution of honours of a Government which existed half a century ago. With regard to the distribution of army medals, the Government had been guided by the recommendation of the Noble Duke at the head of the army. It was con sidered that the expidition to Egypt fairly came within the rules laid down by the Noble Duke, and therefore medals had been awarded for that service, but he believed filet the Noble Duke agreed with him that no ,further_ award should take place. The Duke of WELLINGTON said that several ap plications ha 1 been made out of doors, and in both blouses of Parliament, for an award of medals to the army sus aged in the Peninsula, which it was said had not received the same honours as the eetey engaged in Flanders, in China, and in the East Indies aid elsewhere. He had been consulted on the meter, and he had advised the adoption of a plan which he thought would caret the wishes of the appficante and those of his Noble Friend, and which would gratify all parties, which was to grant medals to all those engaged in actions in the Pe nineela in which medals had! been previously granted, by order of the Sovereign, to the principal officers en gaged in those actions. That le as the principle which he had adopted, and he believed that it had given satisfaction It was a matter for her Majesty to decide whether or not this list should be extended. When he should re ceive her Majesty's orders to prepare an order for the extension of the ILt, he would exert himself to pre pare such extended list to the test of his ability. Lord COLCHESTER regretted that there was to be no further grant of medals for actions. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY thought that by increasing the number of medals they were decreasing their value, until at length a medal would be as valueless as the star of a continental order of knighthood.. He regretted to find that that Noble Duke (Richmond) was still press ing for an additional distribution of medals, and he hoped that it was the last time they would hear of the subject. The Duke of RICHMOND ceing of opinion that he had justice on his side, would not promise his Noble Friend that he would not again men tion the subject ; on the contrary, he would press it forward. Ile had quitted the army, but he had not ernes) .I it until all charm for foreign service was over, and until he had been seriously wounded, and then he had preferred quitting it to putting his cleitne at the Horse Ge e ards to the detriment of those who had perhaps seen mare service than he had.— (Cheers ) All honours proceeded nominally from the Crown, but really from the Ministers, and the present Ministry had, much to their credit, overthrown antiquated prejed:ces, and grantel the Peninsular medals. He could not agree with the Noble Duke, that the present distribution had given general satisfaction to the army. He coin pinined of the manner in which the Mint had exeaeted the medals, and of the delay which had taken place in their distibution. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY expressed his re gret that the Noble Duke who had just sat down had ever quitted the army. After a few words from Earl Grey, the Duke of Wel lington, and the Duke of Richmond, the subject dropped RAIL WAY ABANDONMENT BILL. Onthe onl,Lion of E, - ,rl GRANVILLE the order of the day for the House resolving itself into Committee on this Bit: was discharged, in order that that Bill might be reieriett to a Select Committee. IRISH POOR-LAW. Lord STANLEY presented a petition from the owners of land in the Balinasloe Union against the Irish Poor-law, and praying for protection to agri culture. The Earl of DESART considered that the peti tion which had just been presented by his Noble Friend would form a proper introduction to the motion of which he had himself given notice. Pie rose to move the following resolutions :-1. " That under the pro visions of the existing Poor-law the resources of many districts have been bound utterly inadequate for the sup port of the population; and that while the Act has thus failed to accomplish its purpose, it has produced bank ruptcy and ruin in some districts, has driven capital out of the country, and has enfeebled and paralysed the ef forts of both farmers tind landlords. 2. That it is the opinion of this House that these mischiefs have resulted from the ex tension of the Poor-law of 1838, and the adop tion of a se stem of out-door relief at that time not con templated; and it is further their opinion that no per manent system for the relief of the poor can be carried out in Ireland safely and beneficially to receivers or payers without a return to the principle of the original law, by a strict applicationof in-door relief to all classes of paupers. (LEFT SPEAKING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The S PEAKER tock the Chair at Four o'clock. WRIT FOR SLIGO. A new writ was issued for Slig,o, to replace Mr. J. F. Ff Iliott, who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. AGRICULTURAL PROTECTION. Lord GALWAY presented several petitions from Agricultural places in Yorkshire in favour of protection. SUNDAY LABOUR IN THE POST- FICE. Numerous petitions were presented from different parts of the country against Sunday labour in the Post-office. EXTENSION OF THE SUFFRAGE. Mr. HUME presented a petition from Sboreditch signed by upwards of 16 ; 000 person?, in favour of an ex of the suffrage. SECOND READINGS. The following Bills were real a secrnd time:, Borough of Salford Waterworks and Improvement. Childwall Waterworks. Mr. HUME presented a petition numerously signed from the letter-press printers of London, stating th at the present duty on paper prevented their obtaining that employment which would arise from the issue of new publications which sev,!ral parties were ready to give. They particularly complained of the evil effect of the stamp duty on f :evvspapr.rs.—(llear, beer.) Sir E. COLEBROOKE gave notice that he should po.cpone the motion which stood in his name for to ,tight until that day fortnight. . . RAILWAY AUDIT. Mr. STANFORD gave notice that on an early day be should move for leave to bring in a Bill for the better audit of railway accounts. CHANNEL ISLANDS. Mr. HUME rose to ask Sir George Grey, whether the, Government had decided upon carrying out the recommendations of the Commissioners for alteration of the criminal law, and the mode of its administration, in Jersey; and, if so, whether by Bill in Parliament or an order in Council ? Sir G. GREY said that the Government intended to introduce some reform, but the scheme which had been forwarded by the Commissioners bad been remitted back to them as not being altogether calculated for the purpose. In reply to Mr. HUME, Sir G. GREY said the Government would have no objection to lay the papers befere the House. SALVAGE MONEY. Mr. STAFFORD wished to know whether the atten- tion of the Admiralty had been directed to a circum stance which had lately come to his knowledge relative to a vessel that aas driven upon the west coast of Ireland in a state of distress. but was saved from destruction by a few fishermen. It appeared that these fishermen had 8001. awarded to them tor salvage money, but, in fact, only received 1101., the remaining 6901. being required to satisfy the Court. Sir T. BARING said he had not received any infor mation on the subject, but would institute inquiries as to the truth of the statement. LAW OF REMOVAL AND SETTLEMENT. In reply to Mr. STUART W ORTLEY, Sir G. GREY said a Bill on the subject of the law of removal and settlement was still under the consideration of the Government, but they could give no assurance that it would be introduced into the House this session. DEATHS FROM STARVATION IN IRELAND. Mr. P. SCOPE wished to know whether the Govern ment had received any information as to two inquests which had been held in a union in Sligo upon the bodies of two children, in which the verdicts were death from starvation ? Sir WILLIAM SOMMERVILLE: was sorry he could not give a satisfactory answer to the question of his Hon. Friend, but if his Hon. Friend would furnish him with the facts of the case he would write to Ireland and obtain the information for him. unceasingly urged it, and the result of their inquiries had been that a fixed duty of from ss. to Bs. would be the only sufficient protection for the agriculturist.—(Hear, hear.) To this he would adduce an authority which would be there unquestionable. It was the evidence of one whose word was always repeated in that House, and who was still a Member of that House. It was a communication which bore the date of the 22d January, 1846. It was a communication of the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Tamworth. The Hon. Member then read an extract from a speech of Sir Robert Peel, to show that there were peculiar burdens on land which ought to be compensated by some remission of fiscal imposition. He was astonished that the Right Hon. Gentleman should have recourse to so poor an artifice as this. When, his Hon. Friend (Mr. Disraeli) introduced an extensive measure the Hon. Gentleman said, " Ob, it was so gigantic a measure that he could not take it in." When his lion. Friend brought in a measure of less extent then the Right Hon. Baronet said, " Oh, it is only fourpence an acre, why make so much talk about that ?" All that he (Mr. Stafford) could draw was the inference that the Right Hon. Gentleman was at heart convinced of the justice of their claims, and as he had nothing better to say, he condescended to artifices so poor as these ; and the Right Hon. Baronet had said, now that all those meet ings were over of which they had hi and so much, he was glad to find that he had given up all idea of a return to protection. True it was there had been those meetings— not stirred up by the landlords, as Hon. Gentlemen op posite said, but by tenant-farmers—at which they were asked to do their best to return to a protective system. On their first entering into the House, they had introduced the subject, and had been defeated by a large majority, and as they did not wish the theme to descend to the level of a common debating so ciety, they had introduced it in the present shape. Now, what they said was, that the question had not been settled, and he began most strongly to believe that the Noble Lord and the Gentleman opposite were of the same opinion. It had been declared, and the assertion had: never been controverted, that the agriculturist had not free trade in land. They said, "We have a right to deal with the commodity of land as we please, but you have tied our bands, and prevented my dealing with my produce as I like, and therefore, until you deal with this question on your own principles, how can you pro nounce it settled?" The question was one merely of expe• diency, as it always ought to be, and not a question of a mere rule, which they could not or had not the courage to carry out. The Hon. Member for Manchester (Mr. Gibson) said he could not understand how they could make out a case of appeal to the House, and observed that he had some doubt about their character, but he coupled this with an expression! that there were two tests in store for them during the present session, viz., the game-laws and the Tenants' Compensation Bill. With regard to the latter Bill he would remind Hon. Members that it passed through the House last session with scarcely a division, and when iti had been re-introduced this ses sion, the only observation made upon it came from the Honourable Member for Cockermouth. The Honourable Gentleman had tested the Protec tionists by their proceedings on the Game-laws, and be would now ask the House just to see how the Hon. Gentleman himself had dealt with that question during the last five years. He found that in March, 1845, the Hon. Gentleman had given notice for a Committee on the game-laws, and in obedience to a suggestion of the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Tamworth, who was then at the head of the Government, the Com mittee was appointed. The Committee sat till July, and then recommended it reappointment; but the Hon. Gentleman the Member for Manchester had in the mean time either found his thirst cool or his difficulties increase, and he never moved for the re-appointment of the Com mittee during 1846 or 1847. In February, 1848, he ventured to inquire of the Hon. Gentleman what his in tention was, and his answer was, that he had been engaged in the consideration of the growth of cotton in India. That might have been a satisfactory explanation ; but at all events, after so long a consideration, be hoped the Hon. Gentleman had settled that question.. In March, 1848, the Hon. Gen tleman moved for leeve to bring in a Bill, but an amendment was proposed, that the House should adjourn, which was carried, and the Bill mysteriously disappeared, and it had not been heard of since. Now, his Hon. Friend the Member fur Derbyshire, not making such such great professions, bad in the interval brought in a practical amendment of the game laws which was carried, and had since been found to work exceedingly well.—(Hear, hear.) So that they were to go by that test, the Hon. Member for Man chester would come off very poorly indeed.—(Hear,hear.) He now came to a subject on which the Secretary of State for the Home Department had complained that the Member for Buckinghamshire had touched but lightly. He was sorry the Right Honourable Gen tleman had so closely followed the example of the Honourable Member for Buckinghamshire. Anything more meagre or niggard than his allusions to Ireland, he (Mr. Stafford) had never heard.—(Protectionist cheers.) It would be his painful duty to enlighten the House on the state of Ireland—at all events, on that part of it with which he was intimately connected—in order that the Irish Members who intended to vote against any reconsideration of the poor-laws and local taxation on real property should be able to get up in the House and say why they believed the present state of the country should continue.—(Hear, hear.) He took the establishment charges in Ireland to amount 289,0001. He took the law expen9es at about 35,0001.; the collectora l poundage rate at 41,0001.; and the administration of justfae- at about 55,0001. He pro posed is addition to that, that 90,0001 should be paid for emigration ; 490,0004 was the amount which he proposed to be granted to Ireland. That would completely satisfy them of the truth of his observations. He would then read to them the commu nication of a highly respectable Roman Catholic eccle siastic, on whose word they might place the utmost reliance. The Hon. Gentleman then read the letter, and from histstatement it appeared that in a parish in Ennis, for which he had acted as clerk. in ruling off the applications for relief, which it was determined to refuse. The refusal out of a direction of the poor-law board to deny all relief to able-bodied paupers, and the consequence had been that throughout the union the relief had been reduced from 1671. to 1201. a week. Through that regulation upwards of 120 able-bodied labourers had been put on the list. He would next pass to the county o f Li mer i c k, w h ence certain resolutions had been forwarded from the board of guardians to the Noble Lord at the head of the Government, in which the idea that pauperism was on the decrease was fully refuted. He would ask the Right Hon. Gentleman the Secretary for Ireland whether ho had not received information from Ireland, whether the streets of Limerick had not been paraded by bands of armed men, whose cry was, "Bread or Blood I"—and to disperse whom, not only the police but the military had been called out. This rule of the House refused to allow Ireland to be separated from this question. They believed that Ireland, once injured by an Eng lish system of monopoly, was now suffering aqua ly from a system of free trade—equally a victim, though to a more novel, but yet not less noxious, system. They told Hon. Gentlemen opposite, that the question raised was too momentous to be decided by a single majority, and that they should continue, as far as laid in their power, to try and save themselves from their friends, if friends they could be called after their language at public meetings.—(Hear, hear.) They should still continue to contend that immediate cheapness ought not to be the sole rule which ought to guide the Legislature ; that with kingdoms, as with in dividuals, the cheapest bargain often proved the dearest purchase; and that a Legislature which only considered the interests of consumers, did not deserve that claim to greatness which they ought to possess.—(Hear.) They believed that they were an increasing party in the country—a party not pledged to this or that import duty, but deeply, and he trusted irrevocably, pledged to that cautious and comprehensive policy which had con solidated the resources of this great nati on . —(Ch eers .) - Sir R. PEEL and Sir J. GRAHAM, at the conclusion of the last Hors. Gentleman's speech, rose together, and immediately there were calls for each. The Speaker, however, called upon Sir James Graham, and Sir Robert Peel immediately gave way. Sir JAMES GRAHAM then proceeded to observe that it was with great diffidence that he intruded himself upon the House, but if it should be the pleasure of the House to hear his Right Honourable Friend, the Mem ber for Tamworth, than he would at once give way.— (Hear, hear.) He was not aware that it was the inten tion 'of His Right Honourable Friend to offer any ob servations to the House at that hour, and it was only in obedience to the call of, the Speaker that he now had risen a sevand time.—(Hear, hear.) Now he thought it most desirable that they should fix as near as possiblia the pr ec i se su bj ect which they were to discuss, and, therefore, he should not follow the .Honourable Gentleman who bad just Bat down into the Game Laws, the Ten Hours' Bill, and much less should he discuss the question of lanillord and tenant in the ques of Ireland, which was more german to the matter they were about to debate.—(Hear.) lie agreed with the lion. Gentleman that the que.ition they had to discuss was a very large one if be thought it was to be narrowed within the limits of the motion introduced by the Honourable Member for Buckinghamshire. be should have heed p erfectly willing to rest his vote on the conclusive speect s of the Right Hon. Baronet the Secretary of State for. the Home Department.—(Cheers.) (Y,AFT SPEAKING.) GREECE. Letters from Malta of the lath state that the resti tution of Sapienza has formed no part of the condi tions under discussion between the British and Greek Governments ; and that it is untrue that the British marines have taken possession of Sapienza and Cervi. The Corfu Gazette of the sth publishes the fol lowing letter from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands to the President of the Senate : "Highness,—The uneasiness naturally caused here by the present interruption of the friendly relations exist ing hitherto between her Britannic Majesty's Govern ment and that of his Majesty the King of Greece, and the charges openly preferred against her Majesty's minister at Athens and Vice-Admiral Sir W. Parker, of having provoked the rupture by the precipitation and dictatorial character of their demands, induce me to communicate to the Senate a statement published by her Majesty's Minister, Mr. Wyse, which places the course adopted by him, and the nature of the matters in dispute, in the clearest possible light. By this` your Highness will perceive that the claims preferred by her Majesty in behalf of British and lonian citizens, who have thrown themselves upon her protection are of very old standing, and have been repea'edly urged upon the attention of the Greek Government, which has either denied justice, or left the official applications made to it without a reply. The whole of the cases now at issue were recapitulated in a note addiessed to the Greek Government by Sir E. Lyons, on the 6th December, 1848 ; and that note again referred to matters, many of which were included in the warning given by him so far back as May, 1847, not to mis construe the forbearance shown by her Majesty, or to imagine that she was not determied to enforce the justice dne to her subjects for wrongs and outrages sustained, if that justice were further withheld.' I need not point out to your Highness the fact, that the right of Great Baitain to take the course which she has taken is incontestable. Greece is independent, but not irresponsible; indeed, it is because she is inde pendent that she is responsible for injuries inflicted upon the subjects of other independent powers. Of these in juries the power that sustains them must judge; and the Queen of England is no more bound by the opinion of the law officers of the Greek Crown, in sustaining what she considers to be the just rights of her subjects, than France was bound, some years ago, by the opinion of Mexican law officers, as to the equity of the indemnity for wrongs, said to have been sus tained by French citizens, which she claimed and en forced. The time has now arrived when remonstrances having been carried to the utmost extent, and justice being still refused, her Majesty has been compelled to have recourse to other means. Those means are recapitulated by Mr. Wyse in the documents which I have the honour to enclose. They have been carried out with the utmost desire, on the part of Sir William Parker and the officers under his com mand, to avoid irritation, or effusion of blood; but measures at first restricted to Government property have now been extended to Greek property engaged in trade, an embargo being laid upon all Greek merchant vessels which will be detained by her Majesty's ships, until a settlement can be effected of the matters in dispute. Your Highness will perceive that there is nothing in this question to affect the territorial in tegrity of Greece. The claim preferred by ber Majesty is a pecuniary claim ; and I believe that there would be no difficulty in submitting the details of that claim to arbitration, provided proper provision were made for the amount. It is the refusal of his Hel lenic Majesty's Government to entertain it in any shape—and the assertion that they alone are the judges of its equity—that have compelled her Majesty's Minister and Vice-Admiral Sir William Parker to resort to measures, the necessity of which they regret. But the case is one of those in which a community must suffer for the faults of its Government, because it is only by these means that the Government can be coerced. I hope that the evil will not be of long duration ; and I believe that I am authorized in assuring your Highness that so soon as the responsibility of the Greek Government is acknowledged, and proper provision made for the payment of such demands as shall be shown to be justly due, commerce will be re lieved from its present restrictions, and the whole of the property now seised restored. I have only to add, as a proot of the caution vs ith which tier Majesty's Mi ❑ister at Athens, and Vice-Admiral Sir William Parker have proceeded, that although a note ad dressed to the Greek Government eleven years ago by Sir Edmund Lyons upon the subject of the islands of Cervi and• Sapienza, was left unanswered and un noticed till the month of December last, when it was ge nerally understood that ber Majesty's Government was about to take measures for bringing this matter to a close, the question has not been included in the claims now preferred, facts having been stated in the note of Mr. Glarakis, which it was thought desirable to submit to the consideration of ber Majesty's confidential advisers, before any step was taken to enforce a claim, which can only be interesting to her Majesty, in virtue of the obli gation contracted by the Crown of England, under the treaty of Paris, to maintain the integrity of the lonian States. I have the honour to be• your Highness's most obedient humble servant. " H. G.. WARD. " His Highness the President of Senate, &c., Corfu." The same journal publishes the following letter from Sir Thomas Wyse to the British Counsul at Patras : " On board her Majesty's ship Queen. " Salamis Bay, 26th January, 1850. "Sir,—Various ineorr accounts have been pro pagated with respect t.) e proceedings adopted . by Vice-Admiral Sir Willi Parker, commander-in chief/ of her Majesty's naval forces in the Mediter ranean, and me, in obedience to the instructions of her Majesty's Government, for the purpose of inducing the Greek Government to settle the long-pend ing claims for losses and outrages inflicted in Greece on British and lonian subjects. It is therefore necessary to furnish you with a correct account of them up to the present moment, and you will find this in the accom panying paper, which you are at liberty to make generally known, together with the contents of this letter. You will be careful to make it clearly understood, that the claims, of which We, demand the settlement, affect, exclusively, the rights and int eres t s o f i n dividuals to whom her Britannic Majeisty's Government is bound to afford protection; that the patience and forbearance of her Majesty's Government during so many years have bad no other effect ups* the Greek Government than to cause it to treat with neglect and indifference the repeated and urgent reutonstrances, and warn ings, addressed to it :—that . the demands of her Majesty's Government do not, In the slightest degree, affect the independence of Greece, of which her Ma jesty's and ever` w ill b e , t h e e ff ec ti ve protector: bruttehat is that, on the contrary, they are exclu sively limited to the enforceent of that just and proper treatmen t, . which is di e by one Sovereign to gef r t e h a e ter in terestj sub jects sof another. No Government basstate to aln the tranquillity and pros perity G reece than th a t o f h pr Br i tann i c M a j esty, and by no one more than by Vicei•Admiral Sir William Parker, and me, twill any evil be lamented which may result to th e . country, from th e p ersistence of i ts Go vernment in refusing to redresa the wrongs and in juries, for the reparation of Which her Majesty's Government has for so many years ineffectually ap plied. No stronger proof of thi s can be given than the extreme care which was taken by me t o avo id, t o the last moment, giving any publicity to tqe instructions I had received. You will point out the opportunity thus afforded to the Greek G overnment for settl i ng the questions, without its ever becoming public that coercive measure had been in contemplation. The very mild nature of the measures at first resorted to, the slow degrees by *hick we have pro ceeded, and the extreme reluctance with which we have at last resorted to measures affecting Greek com merce. It will cause us the g l atest pain to be com pelled to have recourse to still re stringent measures; but it must be evident to every one that the Greek government is alo ne responsible f or consequences which it is in its power at cnce to obviate, by complying with a just and simple demand. Our present demands do not include the treaty engage ments relative to the regular payment of the interest on the allied loan of sixty millions.of francs, nor do they re fer in any way to theislands of Cervi and Sapienza. I have, &c., (Signe) T. WYSE. T. Wood, Esq., H.M. Consul, &c., Patras, CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN I Fe: the Week ended Feb. 14, 1830, - made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales per. Imperl al Quarter. I WHEAT. I Besticy.l I NaATs. ETE. I BEANS. PE•o. PRICE .. 1 37 e bd 23s 10d 1 15s 4d 20e 7d 34 s lid 126 s 105 DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. WHEAT. I BAILLEY. I OATS. I ETC ELANS, I PEAS. 15 Od 15 Od is Od 1$ Od is O dis 01 EXHIBITION OF INDUSTRY OP ALL NATIONS IN ISsl.—Among the subscribers announced this day at the great Westminster meeting, the following noblemen and gentlemen added their names for 2001., his Grace the Duke of Sutherland and the Marquis of Westmins • ter. For 100/., Earl Fortescue, Lord Ashburton, and the Attorney General. For 50/., Sir William Somer ville, Right Honourable W. G. Hayter, Lord Canning, the Lord Bishop of London, Messrs. Hunt and Roiskell. For 30/., Sir R. Glyn. For 25/., W. Baring Wall, M.P., Esq., Lewi s All en b y an d Co., Swan and Edgar. For 21/., John Wil son an d C o . For 201., T. F. Gibs on , Esq., Right H on . F. M au le, M.P., Right Hon. W. F. Barnes, M.P., Sir James Clarke. For 151., Lord Eb rington. For 10/. lOs., Messrs. Jackson and Grahame; White and Sons, White and Sons, W. and J. Freeman, Trollope and Sons, T. J. Miller, Esq., C. W. Dilke, Esq., Major-Gen. Sir John Roll, Rear-Admiral Sotheby, Mr. Alderman Copeland (further subscription), G. Morant. S. and D. Gass, Watson, Bell, and Co., Crosse and Blackwell, Hinchliff and Co., Charles Asprey, Esq., Sedgwick and Taylor. For 51. ss. and • 51., Owen Jones, Esq., C. H. Wild, Esq., Mr. Cundall, G H. Drew, Esq., Hering and Remington, J. G. Domv ille and W. N. J. Chappell and A. Chappell, Messrs. John stone and Jeanes, Savory and Moore, Basil Wood and Sons, Mr. George Barclay, G. V. Neale, Esq., W. B. Simpson, &c., Sze. AN UNPLEASANT RESULT.—At a railway station in this district, on Wednesday, an exciseman discovered a " grey hen" hidden in a basket of fish, end, uncorking it, took a drink, expecting the contents to be whisky, but got -a mouthful of—cod-liver oil ! hope it did him good.— G nteshead Observer. Mr. Francis Galton:(South Africa) had an interview yesterday with Earl Grey. COULTERSAY, ISLAY, FEB. 14.—Some fragments of wreck and part of the stern plank of a vessel marked Mary Wilson, have come on shore. WHITEHAVEN, FEB. 20.-The Magdalen of Cardigan, from Liverpool, got on shore and received some trilling damage. SHIELDS, FEB. 20.—Sld. Orlando, New York; Anne, Eliza, and Jane, America and Pernambuco. TATTER SALL'S-THIS EVENING Six O'CLOCK. LIT - ERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 8 to 1 agst Sir John 12 tc, 1 agst Meath 13 t o 1 agst Peter Simple 1 4 to 1 agst Knight of Gwynne 16 to 1 agst Victim 25 . to 1 Columbine NO RTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES. 7 to 1 agst Osterley 10 to 1 agst llarriott 14 to 1 agst Fernhill; 1 6 to 1 agst Belus 2 0 to 1 agst Damask CHESTER CUP. 20 to 1 agst Roland 2'"" to 1 apt 12:11erdale 30 , to 1 agst John Cosser 30 to 1 ag,st Lady Evelyn 50 /.0 1 agst Clermont 50 %o 1 ngst Horn of Chase 80 to 1 agst Gulliver DERBY. 2 11 6 481 t t t c o 1 111 a; 411 ggg s sss t tt ,TG I h a h v ei l o l r i es NiggerCallum Bolingbroke to 1 agot Hardingo 50 1c egst Deicovn THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 21, 1850. I am not acquainted with the fact that any money bes been given to the girl. Mr. Lewis said that Mr. Solomon was most anxious that the fullest inquiry should be made into the case, and if a sum of money had been given, his client ought not to be answerable tor the conduct of his friends, for there was an old saying of " Save me from my friends," and Mr. Solomon's case might show that he was in the position to make a similar exclamation. The bail taken for his appearance on the last occasion was small, being only himself in 80/., and two sureties of 401., and had he been guilty, seeing the punishment before him, he would have forfeited his recognizances and not attended. Again, if he was guilty, it would have been a most un wise thing to give the girl in custody on a charge of felony; hut the fact was (as he was instructed), the girl never mentioned the assault upon her until after she was in custody. The Chief Clerk—l must disabuse your mind on that subject; fur the evidence is, that she was not givel into custody until after she had complainei of the ill-treat.• meat she had received. Sir P. LAtirdE—l have read the case carefully in the newspapers, and a more disgusting remark made by the prisoner's mother I cannot conceive, when she said to the girl, " Well, I suppose ho did not kill you." My experience has proved to me that females are the great deceivers of their own sex. Mr. Robinson said that it was rather extraordinary that the brothers never moved in the matter until they were told some money had been given to the girl. Mr. Lonsda.le—ln explanation, I must say that the brother, who is in service, only first saw the report in the Sunday papers, and he then became anxious to get the girl back, and not allow any compromise, whatever the amount offered might be. Mr. Lewis—Well, I appear to be the middle man in the squabble (Laughter) but I must repeat that Mr. Solomon is most anxious to court the fullest inquiry; and he should like to hear what Webb, the officer, had to say. _ . . . Henry Webb said that be asked the girl's sister where she was, and she said that she had been very honour ably remunerated, and had gone into the country. She further said that since it had been set afloat that money had been paid, her brother had come and demanded it, and kicked up a row. Mr. Lonsdale said there were four brothers, but he only appeared for one to prosecute the cat°. One of the brothers here stepped forward, and denied being the one who called at Mr. Bradshaw's, and de manded the money. He only wished to know where his sister was. Bradshaw said he was not the brother who called to ask how the case was settled. He told him (the other brother) how it stood, and that the girl had received some compensation. Sir PETER LAURIE—Where is the girl? Bradshaw— I don't know. Sir PETER LAURIE—Did the girl say what money she received? Bradshaw—l can't say. Sir PETER LAURIE—Yes you can. Bradshaw—l believe it was 501. Sir PETER LAURIE—Where is your wife now ? Brad shaw—She is away because she should not be annoyed by her brother, who wanted to get the money. Sir PETER LAURIE—But where is she? You surely must know. Bradshaw—l do not know where she has gone. Sir PETER LAURIE—WeII, I shall remand the case, as the charge is one of an aggravated nature; and where, most likely, chloroform has been used. He then re manded the case until Tuesday next, and increased the bail, requiring Mr. Solomon to enter into his recogni zance of 200/., and two sureties of 1001. each. Mr. Lewis hoped that at the next examination some tangible charge would be made out. Sir PETER LAURIE said be should remand the case from time to time until the girl was forthcoming. The required bail was entered into, and Mr. Solomon left the court with his friends. MARYLEBOIVE. An extraordinary degree of interest was excited at this court, in consequence of its having become known that a woman named Elizabeth .Higgiits, the wife of a wheelwright, living at 33, Little Carlisle-street, Port man-market, was about to undergo an examination be fore Mr. Broughton, on the heinous charge of having attempted to murder her three children, of the respec tive ages of seven years, five years, and seven months, by drowning, and to terminate her own existence by the same means. Ann West, 32, Orcas-street, Paddington, deposed that on Monday evening last, at a quarter to seven o'clock, as she was coming up the Bloomfield-road, adjoining the Regent's Canal, she saw the prisoner on the towing-path with the baby in her arms, and the ether two children by her side; she lowered the baby gently into the water, in order, no doubt. to avoid the noise which a splash would have caused; and upon witness observing this, by looking between some palings, she instantly gave an alarm. The prisoner then put another child into the canal in the same way, and having done that she went in herself, dragging the third child in with her. _ Mr. BROUGHTON—Did the water appear to be deep? Witness—Very deep, sir; they all went down, and pre sently afterwards rose again to the surface. Mr. BROUGHTON—Did you hear any screaming from either of them? Witness—One of the children cried out "Father," and another " Help." A man came running towards me, and I said to him, " For God's sake, master, make haste, for there is a woman and her children drowning." Ho pullecrofr his coat liiilthat, and was going to jump in, when another young man plunged head foremostinto the water, and being a good swimmer be fortunately succeeded in rescuing the prisoner and her family from a watery grave. Mr. BROUGIITON—IWwhat condition were they when they were got out? Witness—The prisoner %as very faint and incapable of uttering a word, and the poor dear infant was much convulsed; and at the doctor's to whom they had been taken and properly attended to, the first expression used by the prisoner, as soon as she was in some measure restored, was, " What has become of my dear children?" had her baby in my arms, and when she saw it she burst into tears. _ John Rollins, a painter, living at No. 6, Devonshire street, Lisson-grove, stated, that hearing loud cries for assistance ho hastened to the spot, and divesting himself of his upper clothing, at once plunged into the canal, on the surface of which he perceived four persons floating in the middle of the water, the depth of which was very considerable. He laid hold of and brought out the pri soner and two children, and just as he banded them to some persons on the Lank, a boat came along, which prevented him at the moment from seeking for the other child. As soon, however, as it pawed by, he again swam out, in order to find the remaining one, if possi ble, and was in the act of swimming back again, being of opinion that the case was hopeless, when his foot struck against something, and on his putting his hand down as low as he could he seised hold of the other child by its clothes and got it out. It was then to all appearance dead. James Buyle, who received some of the unfortunate parties from the hands of Rollin, corroborated a great portion of his (Rollins's) evideace. Bates, 162 D, said that ho saw the prisoner with her infant and eldest child upon the bank. The latter said, " There was three of us; there's another in the water.' Witness thought when he first Meld the prisoner that life was extinct. He afterwards heard the prisoner say to Mrs. West, " What a foolish woman you were to give the alarm, for I wish that I and my dear children had all gone to heaven, as I have lived so wretched a life with my husband." The husband (who sat by the side of the bar) had in his arms ono of tbo children, five years old, and who was so miraculously saved. Mr. Sturt and Mr. Humby, surgeons, were examined, and they deposed to the dangerous condition in which the prisoner and two of her children were when brought to them in a cab. Inspector Wiggins, of the D division, was sworn, and he said, the first time I saw the prisoner was at halt past ten yesterday morning, at the Paddington workhouse, when I called there to see if she was in a fit state to be brought up here. I found her in bed, and asked her how she felt after what had occurred ; she then observed that it was all through her husband's bad conduct that she threw herself and children into the water. I said, " Does he beat you ?" and she replied, " Very frequently, and for no other reason that I had no dinner provided for him at times when he came home. He earns27s. a week, and out of that be gives me the odd 7s. to keep house and find every thing; the 20s. he spends entirely upon himself ; he comes home drunk, pulls me out of bed, and beats me, saying that he would be the death of me, and that it should not be a sudden but a lingering death. I have also been afraid that he would poison me, and I thought I and my children m i g ht asoell die at once as not." I this morning went down V-the workhouse and brought her up to this court in a cab. The prisoner had no ques ti o ns to put to either of the witnesses, and repeated that her husband's neglect and ill-treatment had brought her into all the trouble. At the time of her attempting to drown herself and children her mind was in such a state that she knew not what she was about. Mr. BROUGHTON remarked impressively and feelingly upon the heinous nature of the crime alleged against the prisoner, and said that he was bound to send her for trial; she would be brought up again next Wednesday, when, after th e d e p o sitions had been taken down in due form and read ov er by Mr. Fell, the chief clerk, she would be committed. She was then placed in a cell by Mitchell, the goaler, who took care that she was properly watched, and at five o'clock she was conveyed to the House of Detentio n , Clerkenwell. The children will, for the present, be taken care of in the workhouse. The magistrate praised highly the conduct of the wit ness Rollins, and said he hoped he would be hand somely rewarded by the Royal Humane Society. H e . also considered that much credit was due to Mrs. West for her exertions in this very distressing and heart rending case. COUNTY FINANCIAL BOARDS. Mr. M. GIBSON presented s petition praying for the establishment of county financial boards. . THE FRANCHISE . Mr. BRIGHT presented a petition from Mr. Charles Haslem, residing at a place in Lancashire, complaining that although he rented a house at ten pounds a year, and paid all rates and taxes, he was shut out from the franchise, and praying for an extension of the suffrage. SLAVE TRADE. Sir E. BUXTON presented a petition from tho county of Cornwall, in the island of Jamaica, praying the House to exclude the produce of slave-encouraging states from British markets. JUVENILE OFFENDERS. Mr. M. MILNES obtained leave to bring in a Bill for the correction and reformation of juvenile offenders, and the prevention of juvenile offences. ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION. Sir MONTAGUE CHOLMELEY said he had in tended to have asked leave this evening to bring in a Bill to enable the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and ecclesiastical bodies, sole and corporate, lessors of estates held for a term of years or on lives, to commute their interest therein for an annual rent charge (either fixed money payment or corn rent), and to appropriate, at their discretion, the whole or a part of such payment, for the augmentation of the livings of the parish in which such estate is situated. Since, however, he had given notice of his intention, he had seen the re port of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, in which certain recommendations were made to the Government, on the matters which the Bill he contemplated embraced. If the Government intended to bring in any Bill this ses sion, founded on those recommendations, he (Sir M. Cholmeley) would rather leave the subject in the bands of the Government, who were much more capable of handling it than he was; and, if such was their inten tion, he would withdraw the motion. Sir GEORGE GREY said the Government had it in contemplation to bring in a Bill partly founded on the recommendations of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and which he thought would embrace the objects of the Hon. Member's motion. AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS.—ADJOURNED DEBATE. Mr. DISRAELI presented petitions from several places inJfitickinghamshire, praying that the petitioners might be placed in the same favourable position as the rest of their fellow-subjects. The orders of the day were then proceeded to, when Mr. A. STAFFORD said that he had been exceed ingly pleased in finding that the Ministry of the day had not refused their sanction to the complaint which had been made respecting distress in the agricultural districts. Still more was he pleased when he found that the two questions which had forced themselves upon the public mind—namely, the existence of the dis tress and the continuance of it—had been publicly re cognised by the men in power. The existence of the distress was not denied, and the necessity for its reduc tion bad been acknowledged by the Chancellor of the Exchequer.--(Hear, hear.) That Right Honourable Gentleman had declared that the only relief that could be obtained by she agricultural classes could be derived from no other source than a rise in prices. He thought that the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite or ed them acme explanation, at least of the advanced stage at which cheapness ceased to be a blessing and becomes a curie. He had charged this side of the House with deceiving the farmers with holding out dc- lusive bores to them of a return to protection. He thought that such an accusation came with a very ill-grace from Gentlemen on that side when they were for the healing up the... farmers' wounds, by foretelling a :rise in prices; from gentle men who were in the habit of valuing everything by its cheapness, it was something new to hear them fore tellingiprosperity in consequence of a rise inprices. The Right Honourable Baronet had taunted his Hon. Friend with not introducing the subject ot the law of settlement into his resolutions, but his Hon. Friend (Mr. Disraeli) was quite willing, if the House went into Committee, to adopt any resolution which might be thrown out with reference to the law of settle ment, but he must remind the House that any alteration which might result in their statistics would rather astonish Honourable Gentlemen opposite. He must say, and be did so with great :regret, that when the Secretary for the Home Department brought forward the small number of paupers in the agri cultural districts as an argument why no consider ation should be given to the claims of the landed interest, he, in his high position, offered a very poor inducement to the employers ot . . - labour in those districts to continue the system which. at great inconvenience to themselves, they had continued, in order to diminihh the amount of pauperism in their respective parishes. He certainly could not imagine that they gave an opportunity to an officer of the Go ernment by making those exertions to say that they disentitled themselves to the consideration of their claims.—(Hear.) They had been exposed to the competition of the whole world, and had been told that it was to the interest of every one to buy in the cheapest market and to sell in the dearest; and when they be came distressed in certain districts, by acting on the principles laid down by the Legislature, and by trying to get the commodity of labour in the cheapest market, the Right Ron. Gentleman (Sir George Grey) seemed wholly oblivious to those great principles, and declared that wages had been unduly reduced. That Right Hon. Gentleman had, in fact, conceded the whole argument to them, and he thought, after the statement made by the Hon. Member for Surrey the other night he would be convinced of his inconsistency, if not of the dangerous nature of the principles he advocated.—(Hear, hear.) The Right Hon. Gentleman said the criminal returns were highly favourable, and quoted a charge of the Learned Recorder, in which mention was made of the extent of crime prevailing in the metropolis in 1849 as compared with 1848, and showing that there had been a large decrease in the former years. He doubted, however, whether the Learned Recorder would draw the same con clusion from this which the Right Hon. Gentleman had, for in 1848 the Chartist disturbances made the criminal offences higher than they otherwise would have been.— (Hear, hear.) But a Scotch return had been put into his hand which showed an increase rather than a decrease in crime. It was a return for the county of Dumfries, which represented that in 1845 the property stolen only amounted to 2321. 135., while the amount stolen in 1849 reached to 8351. Now, if the Right Hon. Baronet had a right to draw conclusions from one return, surely he had a right to do the same from another; and the Right Hon. Ba ronet ought to see, from this, how very little statistics can bear upon the real merits of the case.—(Hear, hear.) The Honourable Member for Manchester folloWing the Right Honourable Baronet, quoted the criminal returns for 1836 at 20,000 as the lowest, and for 1847 at the lowest, but the Hon. Gentleman should have remembered, when he did so, that in 1836 we had a stringent corn-law, while in 1847 free . trade was in full operation, and if any con , elusion, therefore, was to be drawn from that it was one that would militate against his side.-- (Hear, hear.) The Hon. Gentleman also told them that when corn became remunerative crime increased, and if they were to draw anything from that argument, it was simply that corn ought not to be grown at all except at a loss. The Hon. Member for Manchester on Tuesday night adopted a tome which he (Mr. Stafford) must say, if he intended it to be the charmer's voice, to lure Hon. Mem bers to vote with him, was the most extraordinary pro duction he had ever heard. Whatever professions of qua pathy might be shown on the Ministerial side of the House towards the sufferings of the agricultural class, the Hoe. Member for Manchester did not disguise that he cordially hated the agriculturists.—(Laughter.) He (Mr. Stafford) firmly believed the Hon. Member hated them both individually and as a class. When the Hon. Member said he was not the farmers' friend, he could understand from the cheers which that ex pression elicited on that (the Protectionist) side of the House, how cordially they believed him.—(Cheers.) But he (Mr. Stafford) would like to know whose friend the Hon. Member for Manchester was? How angry ought the Hon. Member to be with every man who wished untaxed windows in his house, and who wanted a repeal of the duty on paper. Ile (Mr. Stafford) would charge the lion. Member for Manchester with for getting now what he furmerlyisaid of the agricultural po pulation, when he designated them a hard-working class. If there had been any objection to going into Committ ee it must h ave b een ent i rely removed by the speech of the Member for East Lothian, who speaks so well when he does speak that the whole House regretted that he spoke so seldom.—(Hear, hear.) This was not the first or second time that `this subject had been brought before the notice of the House and the public. Ricardo, Mac culloch, and all the writers on political economy, had , TV 01? SHIP-STREET. Alexander Lovey, a working gunsmith, was placed at the bar bcfore Mr. I ammill, charged with cutting and wounding his wife, Charlotte Lovey, with intent to murder her. Samuel Taylor, street-keeper of Whitechapel, stated that, while on duty in High-street, between six and seven o'clock on the preceding evening, he saw a gen tleman advancing towards him, supporting a woman, who was grasping the right side, of her neck with her hands, through the fingers of which the blood was streaming down upon her clothes, which were completely saturated. On questioning her as to the cause of the injury, she told him that it had been inflicted by her husband; and he, therefore, immediately directed Ser geant Barnes, who was passing at the time, to proceed to the house she i n di cate d an d tae him into custody, whilst the witness procured a cab, in which the wounded woman was removed to the hospital. A lad named John Woolcott stated that he had been for four years in the service of the prisoner, who lived in Boar's Head-yard, Whitechapal, and that he and his wife had lived upon very unhappy terms for a consider able time past. An altercation of a serious tleccription ensue-] between them on the preceding m orning, at ;* termination of which the prisoner's wife sharpe ned small table-knife, with the expressed intention of cutting her own throat, hut was dissuadel from it by ber hus band, who took the knife from her, and she soon after wards left the, home. On her return home in there ven ing the prisoner told her that he hoped they wou live more comfortably together in future, and went oat for some wine, with which be came back, and after partaking been of a portion of it, she apprised him that she bad to the Thames Police-court, to obtain a warrant against him, and that she intended to renew her a pp lication on the following morning. The prisoner, who vvr‘ cooking someting at the fire, and had a knife his hand, upon that became much excit ed, and in. stantly stabbed her in the neck, with the ex clam ation that she meant to swear his life away. The wifl started from the chair on which she was sitting, the blood pour . ing profusely from her throat, and rushed down litn t , r4 , screaming " Murder," and witness followed her ill the street, where a geatleman caught her in his arms $ she was in the net of falling, and assisted her to a en': goon's in the neighbourhoed, who directed her at removal to the hospital. The witness added that but niaraatiot! wife was a very sober and well-conducted woman , " jaten7 e. that the prisoner himself was addicted to very rate habits, though perfeLt'y sober at the time th e c ' currence took place. Sergeant Barnes, 16 11, stated that upon r eaching P e prisoner's home, he found him sitting at a table , ee l a slice of bread, and taking his tea in the mo st coear le manner; and upon apprising him of the nature (f charge against him, and that ho must take bin' jam cu be tody for cutting his wife's throat, he replie d ti l l t knew all about it, and that he had done it wit h the el, he then held in his hand. WitEsss immedi ately tee h possession of the weapon, the handle of which W 55 liniebe stained with blood, and with which, also. the floor of t er room and stairs were widely marked, and th e P rise° was then coveyed to the station-house. ital • boBP d A certificate from the house-surgcm of th was then produced, stating that the injured wen t° i h d s e d received an incised wound in the neck, which had div„,sus the gullet, together with numerous severe bruises auv the head, and that her life was in imminent de/gto Mr. HA Bum. thereupon directed the sergeant Ptiro°l; M ceed back to the hospital and ascertain if her eeetlitaus were such as to render his attendance necessary Lc' her deposition, and the officer having returnetY: the ported that the woman might not survive thaia"s.l,d vier ! Magistrate, accompanied by the prisoner and i" -r * a nd the first clerk, repaired at once to the institution, : she took down her statement to the following effe ct :- Z, oo er• had been married about eighteen years to theill,usa ge ~ and in consequence of his frequent acts of rfoed which were repeated with grew, violence on the jot ing morning, she proceeded to the to take out a warrant for his h • On reach', apprc ension. ing home in:the evening the prisoner asked bee at she she had been, and on communicating to him , vv m — s tiont had done, the prisoner uttered an angry ese' li n otiall, and at the same moment she felt a shag ) be- ber m against the right side of her neck, from which the ro d gushed out, although she felt no pain, and she rasped Thames police n him rapidly withdraw his hand, in which be i. e .- A lter , small table-knife. She then rushed into tu e , s on'et where she was assisted by two gentlemen to A 511.° aft but had no distinct recollection of anything until she found herself in the hospital." „a dreg The prisoner, who appeared much dejected, 5- b e re' dined offering any defence, was then ordered w,", the mended for a week, to afford time for ascertainalb result of the injuries his wife had sustained. THE COUNTRY MARK-Eil :1- :dsno LIVERPOOL, Fxs. 19.—There is rather a bette r Itte't toe at this day's market than for some time past, and 6rui generally prevailed. Holders of wheat tnd flour are req se an advance on last week's prices, which shakes besir. e e : In the sales up to the present time are consequently `" other articles a retail business only doing at former rat: on ly I I NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET, FEB. 19.—W e i tld moderate supply of wheat this morning. Factors %% ri ots , " more firmness, but no advance on Saturday's rates can i 0 tte* Trade dull for all articles. Barley, oats, and other g r a n changed. NEWCASTLE CATTLE MAR K E T , FEB. 19,--1h e5 .10 1011 f ' fat cattle moderate, trade more active, and rather bebi",i o ;o ~., obtained. The sheep market to-day has been bett ti d e d some months past ; the number exhibited !loon Beasts 640, sheep 3,500. Beef, 4s Od to 55 9cl ; mo tto* to 6id. I O i l . LEEDS, FEB. 19.—We have a moderate arrival °ode! Wheat is of slow sale ; prices without alteration frel l l fu snd ° rates. Barley steady. For beans and peas the "'- limited. Oats and other articles as before. ,re in the EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET, FEN.l9.—There 280,-; meal market to-day 31 sacks oatmeal, each weighillissi" imperial, which sold thus : 2at 1/55, 18 at 1143, 81$0'0' 17.". eX and 3at 113 s Od ; average price of the whsle 1/ as - 0 1 4 4 sacks sour, whereof 2 sold at 28s, and 2 at 251 where", barleymeal, which sold at 205. 10 sacks pot-barleit O d, 2s" 8 sold thus :-1 at 11 5s Od, latll 3s 6d, lat 1 13° 112 s Od, and 3 at 1/1s 6d. EDIN G URGH HAT AND STRAY MARKBT, O• it; fr • fis 6d to 9s Od 11 if 16 steoe,-„.,0 6.6d' iat straw, from .. to 9s u.. per kemple of Ato wheat ditto, 8s Od to 8s 6d ; barley ditto, 6s Ov. Hay, D from 8d to 1d er stone. ALICEITM MEAL MA MEET, FEB. 18.—Ther e bags oatmeal, and 15 of barleymeal at this daY's, 7 0 1itl e of sales dull ; oatmeal down on the first and woo° es' from 6d to 3d per bag ; the parcel sold at 20s Per inferior quality ; the barleymeal unsold. A Th ira dn Oatmeal, per sack, of 280 lbs. First SeconL^ imperial .. 235 gd 225 ad Barley meal, per ditto ...° od Peasemeal —s Od Od Flour •" —5 Od --s I)ci Pot barley ... • _ s od Od o t e to 9 1 Coax, Fes. 1 8.—Flour— • First 12s Od to 135; suds , st• seconds, lOs 6d to 125 ;households 9s to lOs 'd• obe b • st l ; ton' per cwt. Oatmeal lOs to 10s 6d; Indian meal7o 5 o meal, lOstooOs ad per cwt. Indian corn 13040 d ts i ; .0 1 71 Bran 3/ 12s 6,1 to 3/15s per ton. Hay—Farmers 155 to 3 .... h farS i o di 00s; dealers 32s to 40s Od; average 37s per ton. Stl„ a i li t ggidi Ils Od to 26s Od ; average 225; dealers 2 6, "` . Bl°A average 28s Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf 4 , household loaf 5d to Sid per 41b. Fresh but Cs s s tb 10d per lb. Eggs-4s 10d to 5s Od per hundreLt r cpt, ' Newport 15s; Lyd ne y 17 5 ; L an d ore 155 'r - per ;at Culm 14s per ton. Tallow 40 s Od to un no . to Whisky, 25 o. p., 5s 9d per imperial, r;;Iil Od pd —Beef 4d to 6d; mutton 4d to 6d; ;05 rcle Od ; pork 4d to Od ; b ac o n 6d t o 7id ; satTo 5i„01 1 lb. flops 131 O s p er cw t. B angor s l a t es 3/ 2s v"0-i; ," ton. Bark—Barbary 715 s to 815 s; Valonia 14 1 t c , ° , g er ", red 715 a ; English Olper ton. Fleece Wool 105 to L 4 '; o ll o ,' per Hemp 321 toes)/ per ton. Fish—Scotch herring s iv ii to josi ditto 20s to 22s per barrel ; Newfoundland 9/ 0%0510 Os ton. Timber—Memel, 85s per ton ; deals, first 78 1 , second quality, 16s per 100. Hides—Market . 1 3 i e ito . , • salted 13s to 205 per cwt ; calf skins 2d to 0,30-01, Potatoes, white 7d to 9cl; Minions 12d to Peruvian, 111 10s; Icbaboe, 91 per ton; .01 • " ' 19s per barrel. T JR . o Haswell nsas Y es sl E lon . j i s .:. e . tr ‘ 6 8 :: 1)1 5; 4 Stewart's .............. tton 1 ....... 9d Reuel •• •' oP South Kelloe ...... „.. 14 ,9 d S ou th Hartlepoo . 0 6 4 Whitworth .......... IQv 34 51aclean's Tees . •.. •• 195 ~J South Durhatit ... Tees „.... ........ 156 Bartle y , Sidney's Haeti e Jiet, "'- Ships at TO' COAL MARKS' Carr's Hartley East Adairs Main l3s 6d Hasting's Hartley 153 4 Holywell New Tanfield Hs Od Old Tanfield Ord's Redheugb Rayensworth'sW.Hart 15s 6d Tanfield Moor Butes l4s 6d West W ylam Windsor's Pontop.... Wall's End, &c. Brown's . Hetton • ,A* o. t o- 0 * LAUNCH OF A NEW IRON SCREW ', g r - bu rglN t he At an early hour yesterday morning fror a f a , fine new iron screw-steamer was laune ne- ei b's tl building-yard of Messrs. T. and W. Piet' (I ` e c 'S We believe she is the largest steamer e / T o one - h a; at this port, and in model and aPF e IP" to i_n_ferior to none. She has been built 1 2 r fo r t' s Sloman merch liainbU r g Th O, C 1., 1 f Hamburgh and New York passenger trode'n named the Helena Sloman, and is to be~lo tons tell' the screw, with 120-horse power. She Is rolMe' den, 210 t long, and 27 feet broad. ro i get 0 , after the launch a large party of both ladies tikfasteci rell men assembled at th e R o y a l Hotel, and b gether in hono ur o f th e event.—Bull lack , dra g! CHESTER AND lIOLYHEAD B,AlLSVAT i csisi o i ; a rl sl. the Week ended F e b. 17, 1850:—C. Bu d , P":„,•bostOt fse 1,0701. 14s. id.; Mold, 1191. 7s. 10d.; skin Di e tts 45. Od.—Total, 1,2831. ss. 11d. S [ADVERTISEMENT.]—An obstinate t ie cured by Holloway's Ointment and Pills.--Mr asOn't-for of Broad-street, Bath, suffered for many years fr ie °- ;., tba'ot disease, which affected his hands to such a tl ,, g ;iness' joalf months together he was unable to work lace's "." - d for the consulted nearly all the faculty of the p,sh-rsited"°"iliat time used the Bath waters, which are so co ,- c op - f the n t 1 11 cure of cutaneous disorders, but the virulence 0 oi one d nn remained unabated. He then tried Holloways boo 1 1: v 8 11 Pills, which have so effectual!' cured him that Sold t . s p e r tt u ir g n gi o st f s, th a e nd ma a l t al r f o u f r a m so o r re ll - t o h i l io n wa ti y v,: t: Y o r t g A r blishe jea.' Strand, London. re BIRTHS. g c og y On the 14th inst., the wife of Captain el• of of H. M. 80th R e giment, of a daughter. the 13di On the 16th iest., at St. Augustine's , Ungele)'' f ' o J. B. Bowden, Esq. of a son and heir. tbe lad, On the 17th inst. , ,at Hope-ball, ne ar .1 1013- ' H. Edwards, Esq., M.P.,of a daughter . On the 17th hist ,at idge-house HamPs' e jo wl Pl'" the alleviating influence of chlorofOrin. M rs ' jun., of a son. t'k Of 6° ,,T 8% On the 18th inst., at Blandfurd, Mrs. W• Wile - On the 18th inst., at Clap ham-common, e _ to re, Howell, Esq., of a son.Brunsw ielvsq On the 15th inst., in Cromer - str eet, Mrs. 13ullen, of a daughter. Eofi_i o lidt n af t t be ti l r S e t n h t in ,: st , at tALßßAllEanry.lebone C.hurcb.,ll. ii:11.1111;031 Skinner, second son of the late George Henning, Mr. di :`, -., o;li ter the late es, ~ Geo l3 ; At St. G ' ' fr,oorndleorsfeTtsulinirber,idt;el= Maria, (-'3`" - ir o- 0 a• o.r..theeolragtee sc,oSLtoneihilonoslev,:e BonlinVilliam Edw, .f,.:n_na 0 , . 64ecribn Lieutenant R.N., third son of the late Ldino, „ e 4 ° oil Ar Cc:no:I . :, child ay ne r , DIED. On the 13th inst., at Midford Castle, I: oaigeigh-house. Devon, to Joseplau, titer of ` h° On the 16th inst.. at Cambridge, Louisal. datig;, i ll tile Rev. J o hn L e wis, rector of Ingatestone and IZivenhai county of Essex. Pals, tied county Ott the 17th in,t., at the vicarage, Biddenhant,,, pil Rev. Thomas S. Grimshawe, A.M., vicar of Biddenbal'a 73. late rector of Burton Latimer, Northamptonshire, re..„are, On the 17tli inst., in Charlotte-street, 13edtb I', On the I WI inst., at Runpgate, Michael S. Parnther, Esq., aged 73. Captain William Clark, of that place. .. Clark On the 16th imt., at Pakton-terrace, aged E 6, Esq., formerly' of the 4th (or King's Own) ltegl,,,iontaY Oil the 16th inst , the llcv. Horace Wlnbolt, late ra it. to the Jews, rind honorary British Chaplain at BeYV v . job! , On the 12th inst., at 13rightling, Sussex, the.',,., a bove B. Hayley, aged 69, rector and prebendary of L. parish for , Iti years ..--- TO° (7 ' f London : Printed and Published by 11113109., r ",„ 11 P i No. 112, strand, Printer, at The Sum Otneefoulty 1 Strand, in the Precinct of the SAVOY- in th e plitidleNX, Th urstilly,_Yobruary 21, 165 0 . Jane, (laughter of tlie late LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Feb. 20. Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Mr. Justice ERLE and a Common Jury.) EBEL V. THE BARON VON ANDLAU. Mr. Sergeant Wilkins and Mr. Bell appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Cockburn, Q.C., and Mr. Hogging fur the defendant. The plaintiff in this action, Joseph Ebel, was a fo reigner, who had lived as footman in the service of the defendant, the Baron von Andlau. The latter was for merly aide-de-camp to the Duke of Brunswick, but now kept a school for young gentlemen at Gothic House, Clapham. The plaintiff sued in forma pauperis, and brought the action, which was in trespass, to recover da mages from the defendant for causing him to be arrested on an unfounded charge of felony, and taken before a magistrate. It appeared from the evidence given by the plaintiff's witnesses, that the plaintiff had applied to the defendant for employment, and referred for his character to a shoemaker named Laubachet, carrying on business in theßurlington-arcade. The defendant called upon this person, and then wrote to the plaintiff recommending him to call on the Duke of Brunswick, who wanted a valet. The plaintiff called upon the Duke of Brunswick as requested, but was not engaged by the Duke. Shortly afterwards the th fendabt engaged the plaintiff us his own fcotnaap, but he had not been there more than two or three months when the defendant dismissed him from his service o❑ suspicion of stealing a sausage from the parlour cupboard. Tho plate having been examined, a portion of it was missed, and the defendant a day or two afterwards gave the plaintiff into custody on suspicion of stealing eight silver forks and ten silver spoons. The plaintiff was then taken by the policeman, who was in plain clothes, to the station-house, where the defendant, who accompanied them, made and signed the charge. The parties then proceeded to the Lambeth Police-court, where Mr. Norton was sitting; and, on the case being stated, the magistrate remanded the plaintiff, in order that an opportunity might be afforded of tracing the property. The plaintiff was liberated on his own recog nizanees to appear, and having appeared, and there being no evidence against him, he was discharged by the sit ting magistrate. The defence set up by the defendant was in substance that there were certain suspicions circumstances in the defendant's conduct while in the house, which reasonably led the plaintiff to suspect that the defendant, who had charge of the plate, had stolen the missing portion, and several witnesses were called in support of this defence. Mr. Justice ERLE having summed up the evidence, The jury, after a few minutes consideration, gave a verdict for the plaintiff, with 101. damages. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Feb. 20. (Sittings at Guildhall before Mr. Justice TALSOURD and Special Juries.) HOYLE IF. ENTHOVEN. In this case Mr. Watson, Q.C., Mr. Sergeant Channell, and Mr. Denman were counsel for the plaintiff; and Mr. Serjeant Byles and Mr. Bovill for the defendant. This was an action by the plaintiff to recover from the defendant the interest upon seven bonds or promis sory notes of the company of the Copper Miners of Eng land, under the common seal of that corporation, made payable to the defendant on order, and by him endorsed to the plaintiff. There were also counts for money had and received and money lent, to recover back the prin ciple. The bonds or notes were in the form of promis sory notes, bearing date of the 15th of July, 1845, for the sum of 5001. each, payable on the 15th of July, 1850, bearing interest, in the meantime, at the rate of 5 per cent., payable half-yearly. It appeared that the defendant was the Governor of the Company of Copper Miners of England, and was also the holder of a large number of the notes of this company. According to the evidence of Mr. Cunliffe, the banker, who was on terms of the greatest intimacy with the de fendant, Mr. Cunliffe had been repeatedly applied to by the defendant to take some of the notes of this company, which he invariably refused; but in August, 1845, Mr. Cunliffe having at the time 3,5001. in his possession on behalf of the plaintiff for investment, in an interview with the defeisdant upon the subject of these notes, told the defendant that he had this sum to invest, and had no objection to lend it to the defendant upon having the bonds as collateral security; to this the defendant, con sented, and he then, in the presence of Mr. Cunliffe, in serted his own name in the body of the seven bonds, and afterwards endorsed them and handed them to the wit ness. Upon being cross-examined, this witness admitted that the defendant had banked with Messrs. Cunliffe, Roger, and Co. for more than twenty years, and on the 20th of August, 1845, had deposited in their bank the sum of 20,0001, at 2k per cent. interest, payable at a week's notice. On the sth of August was an entry in the defendant's pass-book crediting with the sum of 3,5001., seven bonds, Copper Miners' Company; and there was also an entry in the plaintiff's pass-book of the same date debiting them with the sum of 3,500/., seven bonds, Copper Miners' Company. The defendant at this time had also a balance of from 7,000/. to 10,0001. at Messrs. Barclay's. Mr. Sergeant BYLES took several objections to the bonds upon the ground that they were in the nature of agreements and ought to be stamped accordingly. The Learned JUDGE overruled the objections. A nollo prosequi was entered by the plaintiff as to the special counts, subject to an objection by Mr. Sergeant Byles that it could not be done at this stage of the cause. Mr. Sergeant BYLES they addressed the jury on behalf of the defendant upon the common counts, and suggested the improbability of the defendant receiving this money as a lean to himself, when; on the 12th' of August, he bad paid into Messrs. Cunliffe and Co.'s bank the sum of 20,000/., and had also a large balance at Messrs. Barclay's. The Learned JUDGE then summed up, leaving it to the jury to say whether this was an absolute purchase from Enthoven, or whether the money was lent to him, and the bonds were given as collateral security; also, whether if it were a loan the principal was to be payable upon request, or in default of the payment of interest. The jury found that the money was lent to the de fendant as a loan to him, and became payable on defanit being made in the payment of interest. The verdict was therefore for the plaintiff for 3,500/. and interest, amount ing to 3,893/. 15s. Mr. Sergeant BYLES then presented a bill of exec's. dons, upon the question of the stamps and otherpoints. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Feb.2o. (Before Mr. Sergeant ADAMS, Assistant Judge.) THE ARGYLL ROOMS. At the sitting of the Court, Mr. PARRY said he had to make an application on behalf of some parties against whom two indictments were pending in this Court, in which they were charged with keeping as a " disorderly house" an establishment in the ;parish of St. James's, well known as the " Argyll Rooms." That application was, that the trial of these indictments might not take place in this Court till after an indictment which was now awaiting trial in the Court of Queen's Bench had been disposed of' by that tribunal. There was not the slightest distinction between the indictments in this Court and the one in the Court of Queen's Bench. No new circumstances had arisen to justify these latter pro ceedings, and, in point of fact, all the indictments were for one and the same offence. The attorney for the de fendants in his affidavit stated that the proceedings were taken solely to harass the defendants, and, if possible, to ruin them with expenses. The expenses they had incurred had been very great, and ho would ask the Court whether it would sanction the proceedings of the prosecutor, one Thomas Stowell, an informer, whose only object in taking them was to involve expense, and to harass and annoy the parties? The Learned JUDGE wished to know whether there was not an affidavit, in which the prosecutor swore there were grave matters of law involved, upon which it was desirable to obtain the decision of the highest criminal tribunal in the land? Stowell said he bad sworn no such affidavit. Mr. PARRY would undertake to furnish the Court with the affidavit in a very short time if the Court would allow him to renew the application. If Stowell had anything to say in reference to the defendants, he hoped the Court would direct that it should be by affidavit, so that the defendants might be enabled to prosecute him for perjury should he state anything that was false. The COURT then named two o'clock for a renoival of the application, and at that hour Mr. PARRY handed in the!affidavit, and repeated his application, contending that whatever legal wrong the defendants had done by keeping this establishment, they had done no moral wrong; that the Legislature ought to interpose and protect free subjects from the perse cutions of common informers, especially in such mat ters as these, and that nothing could be more fair, rea sonable, and proper than the application he made on their behalf. Mr. CLARKSON opposed the application, the object of which was that tho defendants might keep the place open until after the decision of a higher court had been ob tained, and the object of the prosecutor in opposing it was, that if the parties were tried in the ordinary course and convicted, the place might be shut up until that de cision were given. The Learned JUDGE said ho considered the question one of much importance, and one upon which the deci sion of the highest tribunal was necessary. If the par ties chose, they could remove the indictment to the Central Criminal Court, and such a course would be at tended with very little delay. It was known that he entertained some strong opinions as to the applicability of the law under which these proceedings were taken to the present state of society; but, though his private opinions would not operate upon him in telling a jury what the law actually was, that might be an additional reason why the case should be removed to another tri bunal. He had from the first considered that this case ought to be tried by the highest tribunal in the land; and ho should, therefore, order the trial of ,the indict ment in this court to be postponed until further appli cation. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Joseph Solomon, of Little Britain, again appeared be fore Sir Peter Laurie and Mr. Alderman Hunter to answer the charge of committing a rape on his father's servant. Mr. Robinson, the solicitor, who appeared on behalf of the girl at the two previous examinations, also attended to-day, and Mr. Lewis defended Solomon. Mr. Lonsdale, solicitor, said that he attended on be half of one of the brothers cf the girl, and wished for a remand, as she had been taken away, and her friends were most anxious to know where she was. Ile under stood that a sum of 501. had been given to the girl not to proceed further in the case. After the hut examina tion on Friday the girl went to her lodgings, and re mained there until Monday, when her sister and Mrs. • Bradshaw took her away, saying that she was her guar dian. lie was also informed that the money had been paid at Mr. Robinson's office. Mr. Robinson—l deny that any money was received at my office; and all I know of the transaction is that I called at her place of abode and fouud she was gone.