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THE NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE. Now ready, at all the Libraries, In 3 vols., THE SCOTTISH CAVALIER, By JAMES GRANT, Esq. Author of The Romance of War ; or, The Gordon Pllghlanders;" " s.lemoirs of Ktrkaidy of Grange," &c. 'Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborongh street. TiIEA.TRE ROYAT,, DRURY-LANE.. Lone aid Manager, Mr. JAMES ANDERSON, NC, - Will to presented , by her 3fajesty's Servant, Shakespere's Flay of . • • • AS YOU LIMI IT. Duke, Mr. Catli art ; Amicns, Mr. Rafter JaCques. Mr. Van , lenlioff ; Orlando; Mr. Montague ; Adam, Mr. Cooper ; Touchstone, ➢lr. W. IL Angel ; Rosalind, Mrs. Nisbett To conclude with CHARLES THE TWELFTH. Private besot, V. 35., 21. 12s. 6d., 21. 25., 11. its. 6d., and 11. is Stalls, ss. each. S. d. S. d. FIRST PRICE. SECOND PRICE. Boxes - - 4 0 Boxes - - 2 0 Pit - - - 2 0 Pit - - 1 0 Lower Gallery - 1 0 Lower Gallery - 0 6 Upper Gallery -0 6 I No Half-price to Upper Gallery. Box-book-keeper, Mr. J. Povey. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, :cola Lessee and Manager, Old Brezuptuu. THIS EVENING, Will be performed CHARLES THE TWELFTH. To' be followed by a new Comedy, entiled THE SERIOUS FA MILY. Characters by Messrs. Webster, J. Wallack, Buckstone ; Mrs W. Clifford, Miss Reynolds, and Mrs. Fitzwilliam. To conclude with the Comedy of NELL GWYNNE. King Charles Mr. Webster; Charles Hart, Mr. Vandenhoff ; Joe Haynes, Mr. Selby ;' Orange Moll, Mr. Keeley; Nell Gwynne, Miss Reynolds ; Mrs. Snowdrop, Mrs. Stanley. The Box-office is under the direction of Mr. I. T. Archer. THEATRE itOYAL, r,der tae •:irc&iun f) Nleklama Ceie, THIS EVENING, • Will be performed a new domestic Drama, called THE WILLOW -CU:DSE. Principal characters by Messrs. Hughes, Wright, P. Et& bre , 0. Smith, WOrrell ; Madame Celeste, and Miss Woolgar. After wiiich MY PRECIOUS BETSY_ Characters by Messrs. Wright, Bedford, Worrell; Miss Harding, and Mrs. F. Matthews. To conclude with SLASHER AND CRASHER. PRINCESS'S THEATR;i, Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and .•lanager. THIS EVENING • Will be performed a new Opera, entitled CHARLES THE SE• COND. Atter which MOT AND COLD. To conclude with MT WIFE SHAN'T ACT. NEW ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Soso Lessee, Mr. W. Watts, St. John's Wood. THIS EVENING, Will be performed THE NOBLE HEART. Characters by Messrs. G. V. Brooke, Davenport, Ryder, Johnstone, Belton, Lee, Howard ; and Mrs. Mowatt. After which THE POET'S SLAVE. To conclude with DON C.ESAIt DE BAZAN. Don Caesar, Mr Davenport; Lazarillo, Mae ; Maritana, Miss Vining. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. FRENCH PLAYS AND OPERA COSIIQUE, Last Night of M. CHOLLET'S Engagement. Mr. MITCHELL begs respectfully to announce that the French Performances at the St. James's Theatre will commence TO-MORROW EVENING, -- At Eight o'clock, when will be performed _ Herold's Opera, in Three Acts, entitled ZAMP..A. ; oat, La Fiancee de Marbre. Zanipa, M. Chollet ; Alphonse de Monza, M. Killy Leroy ; Daniel Capuzzi, M. Soyer ; Dandolo, M. Chateaufort ; Camille, Al adlie. Charton ; Mita, Madlle. Guichard. •To conclude with the First Act of LE POS fILLON DE LONJUMEAU. Chapelou, M. Cholla. ..• The Mx-Wilco •f the Theatre is open daily Irom Eleven till Five. Bolei. and Stalls at Mr. Mltchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bondi street. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. r414.,r the Manage-ment of Madam:. Vt.llMts -ole Lessee, Mr. Charles Mr he R. TRISI EVENING, Will be perfo. med A LADY IN DIFFICULTIgS. • Atter which THE ISLAND OF JEWELS. To conc:ude with TWO IN THE MORNING. Dress Boxes 5-. ; Upper tloxec, 4s. ; Yit, as. ; Galleryls. half-price to any part of the house. All applications for Private Boxes must be made to Mr. Allcroft, 15 w Bond-street. ASTLEIT!,; E YAL IbIYHITHEATtix. rr, - ,; , rl , Aer, 74r. W. Batty. An entire change in the Scenes of the Arena. New Grand Spectacle. :goalies. Gardoni and Atnilic on the Dcuble Tight RDpes in a petite Ballet entitled The Hungarian Wood cutters. THIS EVENING, • The performance will commence at a Quarter to Seven, with a ne w Grand Spectacle of TIIE CORSE DE LEON; or, the Brigand of Savoy. To be followed by a brilliant display of Betty's peerless scenes of the Circle, supported by the accomplished artistes of the establish ment. To coneluds with BESS OF THE BELL; or, The Love Story. Boa-Office (ica awn Eleven till t r. WATZR AT LONDON BRLDOE. THIS DA °ming, 8 min. after 3 I Even:ng, 30 min. after 3 To- , foaaow -3i ,cing, 50 min. ester 3 1 Evening, 11 in. after 4 THE WEATHER.—Surt OFFICE, FEB 28 THERMOXETER, Lowest, 33 Highe,t, 36. Noon 37. BAROMETER, 30'21. WIND B.—dull foggy weather. 1; (At. CsL 4- L: i, *,44 -- i..'"v m. 0 , ~ MA[ i ./ 1 . 4 A4 - 'rf; - -..\ . ' • 1- 1 - '' "," ,fi r S,. , I) er:7,l, 4 r • env , s iiitTi -.'.. ......:: , ~. Mitening aint LONDON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28 1850. The second reading of the Marriages Bill was yes terday brought furward in the House of Commons by Mr. STUART Wonrnny, and although the entire day was consumed in the discussion, the debate was ad journed on the uoderstanding that it should be re sumed on Wednesday next. The opponents of the measure have mardf2stly determined to adopt the Fabian policy. They will accept no compromise, be conciliated by no concession. They still desire to bind the consciences of their fellow-men, and to compel the community in general to be guided by the limited and narrow views by which they themselves are actuated. It is eminently a question of civil and religious liberty, affecting the most sacred relation of life—the right of selecting a partner for life, a com panion in richness and in health, in poverty or affluence, through good report and through bad report. No merely political disability can be tor a moment considered as of equal importance. In one case your honourable ambition may be thwarted, a grievous slight may be inflicted which can be easily submitted to "for conscience sake ;" but, on the other, the happiness of life may be blighted, the best feelings of mankind seared and slighted, and the supreme law of nature controlled and set at nought. We should rather have said attempted to be controlled and, set at nought, for experience has shown, that no human legislatiam can have any practical effect in restraining them, and that the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the state and operation of the law of marriage as relating to the prohibited degrees of affinity, and to marriages solemnized abroad, or in the British colonies, were fully justified in stating their belief " that the statute 5 and 6 William IV. had failed to attain its object," and in expressing a grave doubt " whether any measure of a prohibitory character would be effectual." No person can deny the accuracy of the conclusion at which they arrired, after the most stringent and searching investigation into the entire subject, that " these marriages will take place where a concurrence of circumstances give rise to mutual attachment ; they are not dependent on legislation." _ _ The parties who still desire to retain these absurd, unjusi, and inoperative laws are those who would gladly repeal the " Emancipation," and reimpose the Test and Corporation Acts, who would bring back the " good,old times" when Dissenters were regarded as rebels to the authority of the :.:30VEILEIGN, as persons placed beyond the pale and protection of the law of ' the land, who might be tortured with impunity, or put to death at their own thresholds, in the presence of their weeping and terror-stricken families, for the - high Crime and misdemeanour, of worshipping their CREAToR in the manner which, in their souls and consciences, th ey deemed most proper. Are the sentiments and opi nions of such persons so universally recognised that they will now be acted on, or that they can be per mitted to impede and obstruct the progress of a mea sure in which the welfare end happiness, the future position and standing in society of thousands and tens - of thousands of their fellow-subjects are so deeply involved ? Most decidedly not. The voice of public opinion has loudly proclaimed that thi s unjust and impolitic law must be repealed, and no Parliamentary strategies of a minority can be sufferi d to defeat the clearly expressed determination of a large and ovi,r whelmning majority of the people. But even the ministers and members of the Church by law' established are by no means unanimous on the point. Some c.f the most le.arned, pions, and un eXecp clergymen have expressed their views in the mosttecisive mtnner in favour of the removal of the pro;!;;}i:i.qh such In n as the llon. and ;tev. YONTAQ;iO VILL!Fiv.?, the Rev. Tnoraas DALF, the W. GziAMl'NErs, the Itnv. J. 1.1. GURNEY, and a host Gf o hers of almost equal standing, have boldly _come rorwar(i—vilitn many_ of the m ost ainiA,l;l6.preltea have signified their decided opinion that there is nothing i mm oral or contr ary t o t h e law of G(AS iii such a connexion—when even .the peti tioners from the University of Cambridge have abandoned the untenable ground, the. ridi culous *.• pretext that marriage with a , de ceased 'wife's sister is prohibited by Scripture, and rested their objections to the measure solely on the ground of social inexpediency—it cannot be as serted, with even a semblance of truth, that the law 1 of the Church is clearly opposed to such unions, and, even were it so, how could the religious doctrines of one church control or affect those who owed - it no al. legiance, and who were strengthened in their own conscientious opinions by the unanimous judgment of their pastors—of the men whom they reverence and respect, and under whose ministry they sit ? We regard the exertions of Mr. STUART WORTLEY in thiscause with unfeigned respect. It is to himwe are indebted for bringing the matter prominently before Parliament. It was on his motion that an address was presented to the Crown, that led to the appoint ment of the Royal Commilsion that so fairly and impartially considered the entire question. We would not, therefore, willingly be considered as cast ing a censure upon the Right Hon. and Learned Gentleman. We must, however, emphatically warn him against the danger of procrastination and the pos sibility of the mattei being postponed for yet another year, if he should lose a single opportunity of pressing forward the Bill thiough all its stages. Let him consider what occurred during the past session—the various frivolous prel`e'xts which were made use of to retard its progress, and its consequent withdrawal at the very close of the session, after having been de tained from February until August on the table of the House of CJrnmons. He must also be well aware of the inutility of any concessions, and yet he has yielded in one point of no ordinary importance, a vacillation against which we must enter our most solemn and earnest protest. We cannot conceive any grounds upon which the prohibition against marriage with the niece of a de ceased wife can be retained or justified, when that with a nearer connexion, a sister, is ratified. Such marriages are, undoubtedly, of rare occurrence ; they are few in comparison to those which take place with sisters-in-law; but surely that is the very reason why our statute-book should not be encumbered with any useless law on the sub ject. If the restriction should be continued t would cast a certain degree of odium on the unions that were sanctioned and recognised by the Legislature; and it would prove utterly unavailing, for, to use again the language of the Commissioners— " these marriages will take place where a concurrence of circunzstances give rise to mutual attachment ; they are not dependent on legislation." We trust, there fore, that this ridiculous distinction may be abolished in Committee, and that marriage may be legalised with the Deices as well as with the sisters of deceased wives. One Porcius has recently chaunted a most eccen tric Jeremiad on the fortunes, or rather, we should say, the misfortunes of agriculture. A pamphlet on a pamphlet* has been the vehicle of his lamentations, and these lamentations are in tone, at least, if not in principle, so different from any that have hitherto is sued from the lips of the farmers of the United King dom, that they deserve a somewhat more attentive auditory. Even the title of this fantastic lucubra tion, as may be seen from our foot note, is an oddity, provocative of a close and scrutinizing examina tion ; and quaint though the garb may be, the form of argument concealed under it will ha found one entitled to something more than a merely flippant or superficial criticism. For Porcius, though decked out for the nonce in the masquerade of comedy, has within him the sobriety of one authorised to preach the funeral oration of Monopoly. His voice and manner, it is true, have each their incentives to laughter, but all his conclu sions are as dismal as his prophecies are dolorous. At the outset our pamphleteer is more than usually humorous—setting out with a sort of spasm of face tiousness on his Quixotic adventures against the dragons of Free-trade doctrines. He begins, for example, by likening certain agricultural speculators with the " wonderful black fellow in the Deccan," who on inserting a seed in a pot of mould, , and muttering over it, "some hocus-pocus of charm or conjuration" could almost in the twinkling of an eye cause a plant to arise from the germ, its branches to sprout forth, its buds to expand into leaves, its blossoms to open, and its fruit to ripen into the most delicious mangoes. Such men, says Porcius, as Mr. Maccnr and Mr. CAIRD are kindred in ambition at least with the con juror of the Deccan. " They profess," says he in Intinuation, " to teach the farmer how he may grow wheat and feed cattle at prices and in• quantities that have hitherto been unknown." Strange, in comprehensible, miraculous as those professions may appear to those who are resolved to be unbelievers, to ui they are nevertheless perfectly natural and conceivable. Nor can we 1),! charged with any very excessive incredulity when we reflect upon the yet more astonishing marvels that have been accomplished in our own times. To our thinking there is nothing whatever incomprehensible in the notion of increasing the fruitfulness of the earth by the application of chemical agencies—after the per mance of those yet more astounding marvels which have latterly come to be regarded as the every-day performance of scientific dexterity. Now-a-days, when we may be carried with astonishing ra pidity to any quarter of the land, nay, if we will it, to the very opposite extremity of the European continent at the tail of a fiery dragon of a steam-engine—when we can, out of the sediment of a transparent liquid grow a film of gold or copper upon the surface of a metallic substance—when we can soar into the clouds with the eagle aided by the science of aerostation—when we can convey our thoughts with the velocity of lightning along a wire stretching from London to Liverpool—when we can do all this, and more than this, is there any -thing, we ask, so incredible or impossible in the notion of increasing the abundance of our crops with the assistance and under the guidance of the agricultural chemist ? And yet the bare idea of such a scheme in this year 1850 appears to be one of such utter extravagance to the imagination of Por cius, that he classes the believers in it with the trickstering conjurors of the Deccan. He admits, of course he admits—for not to do so would be a fla grant proclamation cf his ignorance —that " through the aid of chemistry we have gained an immense ad ditional and minute knowledge of - the immediate fertilizing agents that we can now analyse manures and that we know what nitro gen is, and how . it passes into ammo nia." Yet, while acknowledging . that the storehouse of scientific knowledge has had of late a new and wonderful harvest of facts, he cannot, for the lire of him, credit bow all these things can affect our national agriculture to the dissipation of all its dreams of ruin and desolation. Now to us we must confess there does not 'appear to be anything so very wonder fully rash in the assertion that " the conditions of wheat and turnip growing, of cattle feeding, and ma making are reduced within the cog nizance of fixed principles." To assert other wise would be as frivolous as to deny the fact that the electric current is incapable of passing along a metallic conductor to any con siderable distance, or as to gainsay that steam can be applied as a motive power. Experiments have been made And have proved eminently successful. To talk derisively of these " fixed principles," because of the possible recurrence of " a wet or ungenial season is mere quibbling; and the derisive re mark that all . Mr. 1113XTABLV8 professions amount merely to Follow my example, put your faith in pig's dung, rear pork, trea sure ammonia, and I promise you a large amount of produce"—is nothing more nor less than so much perverse evasion of a truth that is beyond the reach of contradiction. n ure Other pamphleteer?, with all the earnestness •of Porcius, but without a particle of his amusing eccen tricity, are just now industrious in bewailing the catastrophe of the fortunes of British agriculture. Atn'ong. these the more noticeable are the writers of the series of brochure:ft now appearing under the authority of the National Association for the Protec tion cf British Capital and Industry, in whose argu. meats it is impossible not to recogniz-, in spite of their abounding fallacies, the fervour of belief and the emphasis of Conviction. So stubborn, however, is this belief, and w irretrievably blind this conviction, that it sets at nought the force of flab, the demon strations of logic, and the persuasiveness of elcquence. Thy have eyes,. but they cannot see. Alas ! it were * " Mr. auxtable arid his Pigs." By T'orcius. pp. 30. Blackwood, Edinburgh and Loildon, 180. t " Tracts on Protection. No. 1. latrodUctory Tract. No. 2. The Occupations of the People. No. 3, An Ab stract of Political Opinion." Bvo., pp. 46. Wirier, London, 1850. vain to offer them any longer the spectacles of expe rience, or the telescope of reason ; like the Scandina vians before Freya, they behold only beauty in the hideous idol of Protection. We call the attention of our commercial readers to a report of the meeting at the London Tavern of the "Benevolent Department" of the Provident Clerks' Association, and, in doing so, we concur in the al most unanimous expressions of regret at the slow progress made by this branch of the association. When we look back to tLe formation of this fund, in 1840, by the munificent donations of merchants and bankers, amounting to nearly 10,0001., it appears quite unaccountable that the clerks themselves should not have followed the example of their employers, and by this time have raised their permanent fund to treble its present amount. It was vary justly stated that all classes, from the highest to the lowest, supported a benevolent fund fur the relief of their distressed brethren—let us ask why the clerks should not do the same ? We have often commended the association, because we know that it has conferred great benefits upon clerks, their widows and families, and we now urge the body at large to exert themselves and raise a fund which will enable the association to dispense with certainty all the benefits to those who may re quire them. In order to avoid misapprehension, our remarks apply to the benevolent department, the mutual in surance department of the association continuing to progress most satisfactorily. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. The Assembly on Tuesday voted the second read ing of the Bill.for regulating education, by a majority of 436 to 205. It will be remembered that on Sunday, the anni versary of the revolution, several persons adorned with crowns of immortelles the column of the Place Bastile, beneath which the patriots who fell in defence of liberty in July, 1830, and in Feb., 1848, are buried. These crowns were removed in the night by certain officious agents of the police, and several of them were destroyed. In the morning of Monday M. CHARLES L GRANGES, accompanied by those who had deposited those crowns, waited on the authorities and demanded the restoration of the crowns, which they claimed as their property. The mayor and the commissary of police of the quarter did not seek to justify the act of spoliation, not to say of sacrilege, which had been committed; but, clothed in their official robes, they accompanied M. CHARLES LAGRANGE and his friends to the column, and restored the crowns of immortelles 'to their places. A collection was made amongst the crowd, and subscribed to by the inhabitants of the neighbouring houses, for the purchase o f f res h crowns of immortelles and of laurels, and the railing was decorated with these emblems and with ribbons. In the evening a large crowd was assembled around the column, but the utmost order prevailed, the people continually observing to each other, "No impru dence; what we now want is tranquillity to ensure the success of our elections." In the Assembly, on Tuesday, M. FERDINAND BARROT, the Minister of the Interior, was questioned on the subject, and he declared that the removal of the crowns had taken place without authority, and that the police agent who had perpetrated the out rage should be dismissed. The Moniteur of yesterday publishes the following communications on this subject from the Minister of the Interior : " This morning the chaplets which had been deposited at the foot of the column of July, on the Place de la Bas ille, had disappeared; they were taken away during the night without any order. The Prefect of Police, when informed of the fact, immediately gave direction t',at they should be replaced, and a comm.ssary of pc lice, in his insignia of office, presided, over the opera tion. An iLquiry is ordered to ascertain the author of this unjustifiable act, and severe justice will be exercised on him. " A. peace-officer, during last night, removed the chaplets which had been deposited on the 24th of Fe brutry round the column of July. The Prefect of Po lice, after demanding instructions from the Minister of the Interior, immediately dismissed this agent, who so far forgot his duty and acted contrary to bib instructions. The chaplets mere replaced during the day by the care of the authorities." Grievous complaints are made of the unconstitu tional conduct of certain of the prefects of depart ments in, interfering with the elections, and the conduct of the Prefect of the Loire et Cher in pre venting the addresses. of candidates from being posted up, was brought under the consider a tion of the Assembly by M. SALYAT. The Assembly, however, refused to entertain the question, and passed to the order of the day by 414 :o 203. After this decision, we trust we shall hear no more complaints of the commissaries of M. LEDRU ROLLIN, or of the circu lars of M. CARNOT ; the present proceedings of the reactionary party furnish an ample ex post facto justification of the conduct of both these gentlemen. The following semi-official announcement has been communicated to several of the journals The Minister of Finance having been requested to attend the committee ou the budget fa. regulating the estimates of the receipts for 1850, he did so yesterday, and declared that ho has no intention of proposing any new tax for these estimates, and could provide fur the public service without having recourse to a loan. lie added that he would ba able to arrive at an equilibrium f receipts and expenditure without applying for any new credi'. The committee on the budget, wishing to preserve the principle of the uniform postage on letters at the same time that it studi e d th e i nterest of the Tres- , sury,. has, in accordance with the Minister of Finance, modified the original Bill. It has confined itself to add ing 5 centimes to the present charge, making it 25c. in stead of 20c." The Patrie has the following relative to the va rious rumours which were in circulation during the course of Monday : " A thousand rumours have been current since yes terday. This is the ordinary macmuvre of the partisans of disorder at the approach of the elections. According to some we are on the point of a military occupation of the Swiss frontier to defend the territory and protect the Helvetic Republic against foreign aggression. War battalions had, it was said, received orders to march. We think that we can take upon ourselves to state that all these rumours are destitute of foundatign. The re port that M. Dupin has given in his resign a ti on as Pre sident of the National Assembly is untrue. M. Dupin is indisposed with a hoarseness, caused by the fatigue of the sittings of last week, but it is hoped that in a few days be will be able to resume his difficult functions, which - he performs with so much courage and talent.'! The reactionary journals have agreed to give their support to those of the three re -actionary candidates who shall obtain the majority on the preliminary scrutiny. M. FERDINAND For is the 'candidate of the Orleanists. M. ARIGHI DE PADOIIE has published an address to the electors, in which he declares his complete adhe sion to the policy of the PRESIDRNT of the Republic. Several rumours, says the Constitutionnel, were yesterday in circulation. In addition to that relative to the mobilisation of a corps d'arinee, it was pre tended that M. FouLD had manifested an intention to resigna report which, it is unnecssary to say, rests on no foundation whatever. It was also said that the National Discount Bank had some idea of entering into a loan of 20 millions to the civil list, and that, if it did so, it would issue obligations of I,ooof. for the amount at 6 per cent., and reimbursable. at I,loof. in ten years, by lot. If this assertion prove exact, it is probable that the first subscribers will be the creditors themselves of the civil list, and that they will exchange their vouchers for the obligations thus created. The report of the committee appointed to examine the proposition of M. ST. PRIEST, on the subject of usury, ha° just been distributed. The committee is of opinion that the present laws on the subject are capable of improvement, and it has, accordingly, drawn up a new Bill, in forty-four articles, founded on M. ST. PRIEST'S views. It declares that every loan at interest, above the rate fixed by law, consti tutes the offence of usury, and that the persons so offending may be prosecuted by the law-officers of the Republic. The lenders can be condemned to re store the sums improperly taken, and may incur the penalty of fines with imprisonment, of from six days to sight months, as the case may be.' The Memorial de Rouen says :—" A strict search has been made in this place as well as at Havre and the neighbourhood, in consequence of the discovery of a Legitimatist conspiracy, the centre of which is said to be Amiens.. Several arrests have been made, but tli• parties are men without any influence ; poor devils who have been led into a stupid intrigue.' The insurgents of June detained at Lorient, in consequence of the late revolt at Belle Isle, have Leen removed from the prison at the former place, and taken to Vannes, where they will be tried at the ap-: proaching assizes. General CHAISGARNIRE on Monday reviewed the lit and 2d Cuirassif.rs, the 2d and 4th Dragoons, the sth Lancers, and the squadron of Guides, in all 20 squadrons of cavalry, and 62d, 3d, and 21st regi-1 merits of the line, with a battery of artillery, in the Buis de Boulogne. A great concourse of people had assembled. The Patsinns-r of the Republic, accom panied by an aide-de-carnp, who was taking a ride on horseback, arrived during the filing off, and stopped to witness it. PARIS BOURSE, FEB. 27.—Latest Prices—Five per Cdds., 95f. 20c.; Three per Cents., 57f. 40e. ; Bank of France, 2,200 f. • - BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, FEB. 27. Dutch Rhenish, I: : %—East Indian, s,4—Luxembourg, —Namur and Liege, 6%—Northern of France, 13%—Or leans and Bordeaux, 2% B —Rouen and Havre, 9%. • THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EYRNING, FEBRUARY 28, !ftso )IS - JE 14nd CO3IIIERCIAL NEW!". CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti mated at 3,500 bales. The market was steady.—ln Railway Shares a very limited business was done, and pric)s continued to decline. At Vienna, on the 2d inst., Austrian Metallics were 93 11-16ths. In the Amsterdam market the Dutch Funds were less firm and with limited transactions. The Two and a-Half per Cents. were 55. Foreign Securities also were duller. Advic s of the most recent date from Copenhagen ad vise us that the Bolt and the Sound were entirely free of ice, and the mails had resumed their ordinary course. A new discovery is said to have been made at the Constantinople Mint of a combustible matter. An offi cial was preparing a mixture of nitrate of potash and other substances, when a startling explosion occurred, and the operator being unable to resume his experi ments, they would be prosecuted by the Academy. The speculation in Coffee at Hamburgh has resulted in the suspension of Messrs. A. Herbert and Co., with liabilities amounting to 250,000 mares banco. It is stated in the Corn Exchange this morning, that the failure of an Irish factor, reported two days since by our morning contemporary, the Chronicle, is not correct. An interesting inquiry to City-men is made and an swered in some observations by Mr. J. Toulmin Smith, headed " What is the Corporation of London, and who are the Freemen?" The wr i ter d es i res to abolish the payment t f tines and stamp duties on the admission of free men of the city of London, and to make arid keep a roll of the citizens of the said city, and remarks upon points of some importance to our merchants and whole site dealers. He says— . " As regards the question of residence raised by some persons anxious to maintain by any tortuous quibble the wholly illegal system of exclusiveness which now rears its head within the city of London, it will be sufficient, out of many authorities which might be quoted, to quote one, which rchoose both because of its high authority and because it will show how long ago the idea has been scouted of its being necessary (as such arguers would persuade us) to con vert'London or other places into prisons in order for their c.fzens to be accounted free." The writer then quotes Coke's reports. Upon the question of taking up freedom in com panies, the author explains that " the term freeman,' as an exclusive one, grew into use, beyond doubt, in reference to particular trading companies which existed within the City, but which are altogether independent, as companies, of the Corporation, although all the members were and are, as individuals, members of the body corporate. Hence the continual question whether a man was free' of this or that company. This simple explanation clears many diffi• culties and inconsistencies that would otherwise appear ; and it is supported by many relics of forms which are still met with. We do not find a man ever described as a freeman and mercer,' i. e., _a citizen or member of the body politic of the corporation of London, and free of the particular company; in re ference to which latter the term freeman' may be, therefore rightly enough used. "Besides such existing relics illustrating this point, I have referred to a long series o f private deeds in my own possession, running back to a remote period, and find that, invariably, individuals among my own ances tors who have been members of the corporation of Lon don are described unquestionably according to the then usual form, as 'citizen and goldsmith," citizen and mer. cer,' &c. The term freeman' is not to be found." The following, from Aris' Birmingham Gazette, is rather an unsatisfactory statement upon the Iron trade: —" Within the last week or ten days an unwelcome lull has again crept over the market, and there appears but little anxiety to do business. Notwithstanding the re ported large influx of orders to different ports, but few of them seem to find their way here; in fact, the demand of the last fortnight has fallen considerably short of the previous one, and, though such ebbs and flows are con tinual and unavoidable, yet, considering that the present and the next two months are usually the most busy period of the year, the confi dence in looking forward to an early improve ment in prices is becoming less sanguine. At present, however, this relaxation cf demand has not reached such an extent as to induce any perceptible want of activity among our mills and forges; and if, as some suppose, it is only dependent upon the slight ru mours that have lately prevailed of threatened disturb ances among our continental neighbours, or re sults from the exposure of unsuccessful tactics among Scotch pig speculators, and the renewed indifference with which railway investment is again regarded by our capitalists, there is room to hope that the cloud will speedily be blown away, and we may yet look for the approach cf the halcyon days' of free trade promise. But there are parties, and those whose opinion on such matters are not in general to be disre garded, who fear , that more powerful causes are in ope ration, and that it is scarcely piobable that the future progress of the Iron bade in this country will again be marked by those attractive opportunities which in times gone by have been so well improved, and have led to the engagement in its_ undertakings of men of the highest station, ability, and capital. " The avowed attempts of our commercial politicians to convert this country into the workshop of the world,' are said to have aroused universal attention, and to have provoked the jealousy of other nations, lest the labour of their own populations, and the developements of their own industrial resources should be encroached upon. " In a long and able letter in one of the United States' journals, the position of the Iron trade there is represented as most lamentable, not more than two out of fifteen rolling-mills beir.g in operation. This para lysis is referred entirely to the ruinously low prices at which immease quantities of iron find their way there. The remedy proposed is a duty almost prohibitory, a determined agitation for which is being carried on, and should it succeed only to a partial ex 7 t- , nt, it must prove a great discouragement to our connexions in that quarter. In France, al though on the other hand a relaxation of import duties has been granted, extraordinary efforts are being made to compete with the cheap productions of this country, and t.) substitute their own home produce fir the supplies of foreign manufacture. The quantity of iron made, as appears from the official returns, has, within a few years, been, more than doubled, and the cost of pro duction reduced one-half. The same progress is obtain. ing in almost every country where the, materials are found." The Funds this morning do not support the highest quaations which they touched yesterday, viz., 951 i; Consols having been 948 to 958 for Transfer, and the same for Account. The French rentes come lower, but this was to be expected after the fiat reports received from London, and we find no political or others news of im . portance to act upon prices this morning. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 97* to 974, and the Three per Cents. 951 to 954. Bank Stock has been 206* to 2078. Exchequer-bills are 545. to 575. premium Foreign Securities have been very dull, this being settling day. Spanish Five per Cents. have been 17* to 18, and the Four per Cent. Portuguese Bonds, 311 to 32*. Mexican Stock has been inactive at 29k. Dutch Two• and-a-Half per Cents. are 54* to 558. Railway Shares are still neglected. ONE +;.i.t.; , 1 0 Pal' Zn in , •ILITISti YilliDzs O'CLOCK. PRICES. auk Stock g per Cent. Reduced Anne ... 95 1 /06% 95% 3 per Cont. Consols Annuities... -... 94% 25% 94% 94% Nr.wr 3 1 4 per Cent. Anns. .... [dont! Anns.to expire Jan.1860 Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860. 8 5-16 8 5-16 .n , ii:., Bonds, I,OOOL Ditto under 1,0001.. B4 87 p 87 p south Sea Stock Ditto Old Annuities Ditto New Annuities ...... Consols for Account 94% 95% 95 xchequer Bills. 1 , 4 d. & zd 1,0001. June 5001. June Smlll. Juns 54 57 p 57 p 57 p 57 p IILOSIIN 0 PRICES . t•RICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. oNE O'CLOCK. NI exican, 5 per Cent.lB46, with Coupons— Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons 29% 29 1 4, eeruvian Bonds, 4 per Cent 7B 76 3 % 77 1 4 77% Ditto, Account . llll.l. 78 Ditto Deferred Portuguese .5 per Cents. Ditto, 4 per Cent. Ditto, Account 32% . 32/ s. Russian Bonds — ... . Ditto Scrip -pganA 18 h 5 per Cent. 1840 17% 17 % Ditto, Account Ditto, Passive. 3% 33 4 Ditto. 3 per Cent Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent Dividends on the above payable in London French 3 per Cent Exchange , 2sf. 50c. l)titcL 214 1 per Cent., 12 Guild. .. 55 1 / a 54% 55 55 1 4 Ditto. 4 oer Cent. Certificates 86% 86 41 PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING A i LwAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Caledonian .;bester and Holyhead... 50 ...... ••• Ditto, Preference l5 ...... 9 1,4 3,1 95,1 9:uteri' Counties........ 20 ...... 6% 7 s.d 7 l /4 x.d 0 itto,Extension, 5 per Cent., No.l 61. 13s. 4d.... p Ditto ditto, No.' 2..6/. 13s. 4d... % p Do. North. & Eastern, - lAz P • P 6 per Cent. .... 5O ...... Ditto. 5 per Cent.... 50 heat Northern Do., 5 per Cent. Pref. 12 1 / 2 105¢% lO% t4reat Western 100 Ditto-, 1 4 ShareS Ditto, Fifths .. 20 Ditto. New 171........ 15 .... . ...... 7 x.d. Hull and Selby .. ...... 50 ....., Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 ...... 47:14 x.d 4 7 34 xd Lancaster and Carlisle... 50 - Lancashire& Yorkshire 100 „ Do. Quarters ..-..... 23% lO% .... Do. Thirds ... .. .. ........ 18 Le,,ds raid Bradford 5O ...... 97% . London & Black wa11...11/. 6s. 3d ... 3% xd. 3%x.d London, Brighton. tad South Coast_ ,„ . 103 Do., New; guarantee? 6 per Cent ..........100 134 L ndonandGreenwich 12 / 1 5s 4d... .. —-- • ••• Ditto, Preference., . 20 London and N Western 100...102 102 1 / 2 101 3 / 4 :x.d. 102 1 ,¢xd Ditto, New Quarters.: 12 ..... ll% x.d. i'to, Fifth. l2 ..... 11 3 474 x.d 11% x.d. London & &Western ..100.... 63 62% 63%x.d 63%2t.d Manoheiter,Buxton,and Matlock 5 Midland 4 •• . Do., 50/. Shares ..... 30 ..... 4% 3't Do. Consolid. Bristol and . Birming., 6 per ct.,...100 ..... 42% 122% Norfolk • •• • 100 • ". ' .... Do. Extension ......... 20 10 1 ,4 79% . , North BrigAii ........ .- 25 .... , 10 ... Ditto Preference North Staffordshire ... 17% 6 I Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Reading, Guildford, And Reigate l5 ....• —. . ... Shrewsbury and Bine— 12%...... -- Ditto ditto, Ciass B. 8 South En - tern Do., No, 2. r,3i Do., Registered No. 410 South Wales York, Newcastle, and Berwick..—• ....... ..„. 25 Do. Newcastle Eaten, 20 Do. G.N.E.Prefennce 8 York and North Midland 50 ..... 17 Vi 1 44 • t)' tto Preference ...... 1 0 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens... 20 MINES. Santiago de Cuba... lO United 11 exican JOINT STOCK BANKS Australasia 8% 1 3 / 4 [74, LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.) LONDON, FEE. 28.—Wind E., light airs and hazy. DEAL, FEB. 27.—Wind S. to S.S.W.—Arrd. from the River and sailed Bermondsey, New South Wales; Prin cess Royal, Launce►ton, Van Dieman's Land; Stag, Adelaide, South Australia; Cuba, Algoa Bay; La. , y, Dominica; Prince Albort, Azores. Sld. James Whi•e, Bombay; David Faye, Porto Rico. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 27.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrd. Nile, Balderston, Calcutta; Princeton, Russell, New Orleans; New York, Marshall, New Yoik; Nova Scotian, Can ning, St. John's, N.B. Ski. Patna, Shangbae; Ann Nelson, and Thomas Brockelbank, Calcutta; Brothers, Africa; Chemboraz ), Valparaiso; Fatima, Rio Janeiro; Lady Charlotte Guest, Barbadoes; Elise, St. Thomas; Jane Smith, Santa Martha; Henry and Mary, Vera Cruz; Elizabeth llastings, Tampico; Chesapeake, Balti more; Switzerland, New York. Put back, Britannia for Wilmington, leaky. Off Port, Mail (telegraphed), Africa. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 27.—The Caroline Frances is aground at the entrance of Langston harbour; assis tance has been sent to her. Sld. Prince Albert, New York; Joseph, Havannah. Off Port, Crisis, Shanghse. SCILLY, FEB. 26.—Some more casks of palm oil have been picked up off here, making in all 250 or more; they appear to have been but a short time in the water. A brig and a schooner have also been seen collecting them. Part of the poop of a large vessel, apparently not long in the water, was s(en off here on the 24th, and piece of the top side§ of a vessel (fir), apparently a long time in the water, has been likewise picked up. MARKET NE WS.—(THIS DAY.) NEWGATE AND T.E.ADEATHALL. The general demand ruled heavy tt,-Jay, at barely stationary prices. Beef, from 2s 4d to 3s 4d; Mutton, 2s 10d to 3s 10d; Veal, 3s to 3s 8d; and Pork, 3s to 4s per Slbr, by the carcase. NAY 141ARIEETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 2/ lOs to 3/ 10s; Clover ditto, 31 Os to 4/ lOs ; and Straw, 1/ is to 11 >is par oad. Both Hay and Straw moved off slowly, at the above quotati ms. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 2/ 88 to 3/101; Clover ditto, 3/ Os to 41 6s; and Straw, 1/ 2s to 11 9s per load. Trade dull, at late rates. WHITECHAPEL. Meadow Hay, 2/ 8s to 3/ 10, ; Clover ditto, 3/ Os to 4/ 10s; and Straw, l/ is to 1/ 8s per load. Supply good, and trade dull. DIEEILT SOUTHALL, FEB. 2,.—Beat=, the supply of which was good, sold heavily at drooping prices. In other kinds of stock only a limited business was transacted, at late rates. Beef from 3s to 3s 10d; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 6d; Veil, 3s 2d to 3s 8d; and Pork, 3s to 3s 8d per 81bs, to sink the on'. ROMFORD, FEB 27.—Our market to-day was fairly supplied with each kind of stock, the demand for which ruled heavy, on the following terms:—Beef, from 3s to 10.1; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 6d; Veal 3s 2d to 3s 8d; and Pork, 3s 2d to 3s 8d per 81bs. Suckling Calves, 18s to 255; Quarter•old Store Pigs, 16s to 21s; and Mileh Cows, with their small Calf, 161 to 181 each. HAILSHAM, FEB. 27.—The general demand ruled heavy, and prices were with difficulty supported. Beef, from 2s 10d to 4s; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 6d; Veal, 3s 2d to 3s 6d; and Pork, 3s 4d to 3s 8d per 81bs. ARUNDEL, FEB. 26.—Prime Sheep sold at full prices. Otherwise the demand ruled heavy. Beef from 3s to 4s; . Mutton, 3s 8d to 4s 6d; Veal, 3s 4d to 3s 6d; and Pork, 3s 4d to 3s 8d per 81bs. CHICHESTER, FEB. 27.—We had a slow trade ti day, yet prices were well supported. Beef from 3s to 4s; Mutton, 3s 8d to 4s 4d ; V ea l, 3 s 4d t o 3 s 8d ; and Pork, 3s 4d to 3s 8d per Blbs. Suckling Calves, 183 to 265; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s to 19.3; and Milch Cows, 151 to 18/ each. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORY For the Week ended Feb. 21, 1850, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Citiesand Towns in England and Wales per Imperial Quarter. . I WHEAT. I BARLEY.' OATS. RYE. I BEANS. I PEAS. PRICE 37s lld 23s 7d I Iss 6d 20s 10d I 24s 8d 126 s Osl DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. viIEAT. I BARLEY. I OATS. I ATE. I BEANS. I PEAS. Is Od Is Od is Od Is Od is Od is Od HOUSE OF LORDS.—(THIS DAY.) The' House sat to-day to hear appeals. The Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, and other Peers were pre sent. Nothing of any interest came before their Lord ships during the whole morning. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) THIRNBER V. SHEARD. The further arguments in this case, which has already occupied the Court several days, were resumed this morning, and occupied his Lordship the whole day. VICE-CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY. -(Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.) THE MAYOR AND CORPORATION OF BERWICK V. NORRAY. The further arguments in this case, which came before the Court upon at bill filed agaist the sureties of a defaulting treasures' of the corporation, were resumed this morning, and occupied his Honour the whole day. (Before the Vicc-Chancullor KNIGHT BRUCE.) DAVIES V. MDSSETT. The further arguments in this fart-heard case were resumed, and ceeupied the Court the whole morning.' (Before the Vice-Chancellor Wieners.) O'BRIEN V. LORD KEN YON. The arguments in this part-heard case were resumed this morning, and occupied his Honour the whole day. The case came before the Court upon a bill filed by cer tain creditors of the late Sir John Osborne against the defendants, Lord Kenyon and Mr. Metcalfe, who were the trustees under a deed for the payment of Sir John's debts, amounting to upwards of 46,000/. The object of the bill was to charge the trustees with the consequences of alleged acts of neglect in reference to certain schedules of debtF, being interest and the policies of insurance on the life of Sir John Osborne. QUEEN'S BENCH.—.(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi Fritts, at Guildhall, before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE and a Special Jury.) SMALL V. NAIRNE. In this case, which was a new trial, the Attorney- General and Mr. Sergeant Shoe were counsel for the plaintiff, and the defendant was represented by Sir F. Thesiger and another learned gentleman. The action was brought by the owner of a vessel called the Susan, to recover from the defendant a consi derable sum of money for insurance. It appeared that the vessel left Madras on the Ist of October, 1843, on a voyage to Coringo. The weather was fine for five or six days after leaving Madras, but about the 7th or Bth of October it became very stormy, and on the 10th the monsoon, which was then prevailing, changed, and the weather became much worse. The result was that the ship pitched and leaked considerably, had her topsails and some of her masts carried away, and otherwise sustained considerable injury. The captain in the emergency ran his vessel into Masulapatam Bay on the 13th of October. The inhabitants of the bay were wholly unacquainted with the science of building or repairing ships, and the consequence was that the ship was obliged to remain there, being unable in her then state to proceed on her voyage to Coringo. The plaintiff now brought his action to recover a compensa don in respect of his insurance for the damage the ship had sustained. The claim was resisted on the part of the defendant, on the ground that the captain ought to have known he could not get the vessel repaired at Masulapatam, and that therefore he ought not to have put her into tint bay, but ought to have steered for Trincomalee. The case, which was likely to last the whole of the day, was proceeding when we went to press. SHERIFFS' COURT.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BURCHELL.) ROBE V. BROWN. The plaintiff in this action is; manufacturing chemist at Chapel-le-Frith, near Stockport, and defendant is a commission-agent, formerly residing in Queen's-square, Goawell-street, and the action was brought to recover the sum of 2151. 18s. ad. for money had and received on be half of the plaintiff. It was stated that the money had been received for goods sold, and on defendant being sued for the amount, he filed his petition in insolvency, and inserted plaintiff as a creditor. The schedule being put in, a verdict was given for the amount claimed. WOOLLEN V. BAILEY. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, Mr. Jos. Jonathan Wool:er, and the defendant is a licensed vic tualler, in Warwick-lane, Newgate-street, and the action was brought to, recover the sum of 8/. for eightiweeks' board and lodging of defendant's wifc. Mr. Parry appeared for the plaintiff; and Mr. nallan tine for the defendant, who ph wied that he was not in debted. Mr. PARRY stated ti e case, from which it appeared that the ch fondant had expelled his wife from his houie on the evening of the 17th of September, between eleven and twelve o'clock, on some impression which he (the Learned Counsel) was instruet,d to say was erroneous, and had ever since refused t') maintain her, and hhe had been compelled to take refuge at the plaintiff's, who now claimed fir eight week,' board, lodging, and necessaries. He considered that the law was clear, that if a wife was compelled to leave in consequence of the ill-usuge of her husband, either under an erroneous impression, or from wilfulness, or antipathy, he was bound to support her. It would no doubt be set up,by way of defonce, that Mrs. Bailey bad committed adultery, but as there was no special plea on the record, he should contend that evi dence to that point could not be received. The Learned Counsel then proceeded to call witnesses. John Fulgar, Sergeant City-police, proved that on the 17th of September last, he was ou duty in Novgate" .~ 1 it azket. when he heard a noi.io in the house hetw ee n o, 1 and 12 o'clock, and went in. Mr. Bailey (chfendiatti 0 was very much exc it e d, an d there w as a dispute w. a that Mr. Stopford, and d e f en d an t sa id he was determine, o d Stopford should leave the house, for he had Itearucon. seen sufficient to pr ove th a t there was an improper .iso. nexion betw( en Stopford and Mrs. Bailey. Defeuden: g i r fora struck at Stopferd, and Mrs. Bailey interfered to T him. Defendant they said he would charge - i .„-I nes s with being there with an improper purpose. "1 Was d took the litter to the station-house, but the ease o id ismissed. On returning to the house defendant did he was determined his wife should go out, and if she l l & _ . not go he would turn h e r o u t. She said it wa s toe ` O. to go out that night as s h e did not know wh ere to geent Defendant said he . did not care, and e l3 ,e e d. up steirs and put on her bonnet an 5 4 so, Witness said he must leave, and Mrs Bailey saw' ' s in she must leave, for it wou ld b e unsafe for h er to rent behind. He afterward s saw her to her sister% '" Princes-street, Barbican. ha d Cross-examined—Knew St o pford by sight' a°en we frequently seen hi m come ou t l a te from the h ouse, times half an hour after the house had been closed. that Mrs. Wilkinson, sister to Mrs. Bailey, Proved ' el she went to defendant next morning, and he w at ,, l „ e y, much excited. He refused to give his wife any 133 :,„:' e d but sent a black satin gown. Mrs. Bailey reto7lo with her for three weeks and she afterwards sfen'eli plaintiff, who resides in , Carburton-stre et, r itir-i' square, and she had seen her there with the Weill. Cross-examined—Plaintiff has an office in South °IP ton-buildings, and Stopford was also there. his closed the case for the plaintiff. and old Mr. BALLANTINE then addressed the jurYi s.„ a or that the ease required few observations from il l r it would it be necessary for him to call witnesses, ° do appeared abundantly clear from the evidence, thet.r• defendant's case had been made out by Quidlai°loo. evidence. n He had no doubt that the jury be .' to vt ced that the defendant had had no alternative tha l ., • act as he had done, and that they could not eaterteltilte doubt on the subject. He contended that there vies e t„ na . sufficient to show that there had been an improper ec i. nexion between Stopford and Mrs. Bailey, end it /131 0 4 dent that Stopford was in reality the plaintiff in - th• suit, but had shrunk from coming forward iet°ooo witness-box to be examined, although h e t ; 1 4 er have been a competent witness. Nor had Stop is gl ade Mrs. Bailey for a moment denied the assertion presence of the police efflux.. , h Elf The UNDER-SHERIFF summed up, an d sa id e. t-e t man causelessly turned his wife out of doors she sip clothed with his authorit hanodwhoeulwdaLseltlteifiteetimint ik her, but if she was impure ' tee. her out of doors at any hour. The real questioet.% !s case was, whether the jury were satisfied on they evidence that the defence had been made out, if so t f o would find a verdict for defendant. In reference to t t l b l e fact of the case against Stopford being di s missed tl i re p police, the Learned Under-Sheriff said he w as tf *I / that a man might be indict e d f or such' a n offen ce tIS ths charged against Stopf o rd, b u t h e was not cert.t in. The jury gave a verdict for defendant. • SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 22d have arrived. The Duke DE Goa has been appointed Vice• President of the Royal Council. He will be obliged in consequence, to resign his embassy to Vienna. Several Carlists have been arrested. MADRID BOLA, FFI3. 22.—Three per Cents., 29f ; Five per Cents., 12k, both paper. Exchange on London, 50 20. GERMAN y, An ordonnance of the Grand Duke of BADEN con yokes the States for the 4th March. The Legislative Assembly of the' free city of Frankfort have adopted a proposition for referring to the Senate the demand for the accession of the city to the restricted federal state of Prussia. The Austrian diplomatists exerted themselves actively to prevent the adoption of this resolution. The Prince of PRUSSIA is prolonging his stay at Frankfort, where numerous feces are given to him. The Senate of Frankfort have resolved to give him a dinner—an honour rarely bestowed by the . Republican city on Royalty. A Frankfort letter of the 21st states positively that Austria and Russia have addressed remonstrances to Prussia against the convocation of the German Par liament, but have not, as had been reported, employed threats The official journal of Stuttgart states, on authority of a letter from Berlin, that Lord PALMERSTON has directed the diplomatic agents. of Great Britain to the German Courts to abstain from exercising any in fluence in German affairs; as the British Government has not yet decided what line of policy to follow with respect to the complicated question of the organization of the German states. A letter from Berlin of. the 22d states that the reports that have been currentof the recal of M. DB PERSIGNY, French Ambassador at Berlin, are unfounded. The ratifications of the treaty for the cession of the Hohenzollern principalities in Prussia were ex changed a few days ago. In the event of Bavaria, Wurtemburg, Hanover, and Saxony promulgating a new Constitution for Germany, in oppositon to that of Prussia, the Parlia ment will, it is said, meet at Frankfort. SWITZERLAND. The Paris Constitutionnel says---" Our letters from Berne of the 22d state that the sudden departure of the Prussian Minister after the official circular ad dressed on the 15th to the cantonal governments had been the subject of general conversation. It was regarded as the commencement of a disagreement with the Cabinet of Berlin." GREECE. Letters from Syra of the 9th state that more than 1,000 vessels had been seized and confiscated in the different ports of Greece. The maritime commerce had suffered severely, and if the blockade continued much longer, there were few who would not be re duced to bankruptcy. ITALY. Letters from Rome of the 18th state that the as sassin of the French soldier of the 53d Regiment was shot on the day previous on the Piazza del Popolo, pursuant to sentence of court-martial. There were upwards of 10,000 persons present to witness the ex ecution. The man who had attempted to murder Lieutenant VESSIGNY has made disclosures, and, in addition to those al re ady implicated, five others have been arrested. The Piedmontese Gazette states that two French steam-frigates arrived at Civita Vecchia on the 17th to embark fresh troops for France. Princess BEL GIOJoSO has addressed a letter to the POPE denying that the hospitals and ambulances at Rome had ever refused admittance to priests, or that priests had ever been prevented from administering the sacraments to the dying. The Princess reminds his Holiness, in support of her assertions, that as soon as the Papal authority:wits re-installed at Rome, the new Govern ment, immediately arrested and incarcerated the priests who had performed their office in the hospitals. The municipality of Ancona has opened a loan of 30,000 scudi (150,000 f.) at 5 per cent. The Nazionale of Florence states that General 13ARAGUAY D'HILLIEns has declared that some Aus trian regiments will shortly enter Rome. The Chamber of Deputies at Turin are engaged in discussing the civil list. Eight clauses have been adopted. General Count DELAIINA.T, President of the Council after the battle of Novara, died on the 22d. The Count DE MONTEMOLINO and his brother FERDINAND 'left Modena, on their way to Trieste, on the 16th. A letter from Florence announces that about 400 Austrian soldiers are suffering from ophthalmia in the hospitals of that city. The Milan Gazette announces that the ports of Venice, Pola, and Lissa, are to be declared ports of war, and that no foreign vessel of war can cast anchor in them. The port and roadstead of Trieste, from the valley of Aluggia to Punta Grossa remain open to the war vessels of foreign powers. Tne Venice Gazette states, from Ragusi (Dalma tia), 10th instant, that on the following day all the points of Zappa were to be occupied, in order to force the inhabitants to give up the ringleaders of the late resistance, as well as all the arms in their pos session. The individuals who had most compromised themselves had fled to Montenegro. There are about 6,000 Austrian troops in the circle of Cattaro. THE UNITED STATES. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY MORNING.—The packet ship Albert, Captain Gallatin, has just arrived in port, having left New York on the 7th instant. Her news is confirmatory of that received by tele graph via Halifax, per last steamer, with the excep tion that the price of cotton WAS not lower, although the business in that article was languid. STEAM TO AUSTRALIA, VIA THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. A deputation of gentleman waited on the Secretary of the Treasury, at two o'clock yesterday for the purpose of sidvocating "the Cape of Good Hope" route for the conveyance of the proposed Government mails by steam to Australia. Amongst those present were the following :—Sir Jame; Duke, M.P., J. A. Bagshawe, E s , q M.?., P. W. Flower, Esq., Hanson Watson, Esq., E. Gore, Esq., W. Young. Esq., P. Home, Esq., Captain C . D. Hays, and several other merchants and gentlemen interested in the Cape, Mattritius, Australia, and New Zealand. The above gentlemen, who represent the interests of a large and influential body of the commercial com munity of those colonies, and more particularly the colonists themselves, argued in favour of the Cape route over all others, on these useful, important, and national grounds—first, that the distance via the Cape to Ans trails, and New Zealand does not exceed the other routes via Singapore or Panama, but by a comparative trifle ; that the Cape road is always open to us, and that the voyage could be performed in the same time, and with less risk, taking into consideration the delays consequent o t u overland shipment of mails by the he That by the Cape the packets would leave tile mails other r routes. conveyance and re en route to all our African possessions, more particularly the Cape of Good Hope, the new colony of Natal, and the Mauritius; and that facility would not only be thus afforded for a regular and speedy conveyance, of mails to all those colonies, which would be by any other route entirely overlooked, but would also offer the same facility for passengers and goods at as cheap a rwaotuebistsprboyve to ss f the greatest benefit to th e co l on i es and to the mother country in future. That the same benefits that the direct line wo u ld g i ve ilin b g e o vessels, a commerci a l in terest w hi c h for emigration and commerce to the Cape, would be ex tended to Australia and New Zealand, and it was argued that the Government should be urged to consider < these benefits, in deciding on so important a matter, although this tisshroouutlde than by any other proposed, because greater sum to convey th e m while the mails w ou ld b e c arried with as much re gu larit.y and certai n ty by t h e Cape, the same packet s m i g h t be fitted fur the purpose of emigration and the convey ance of merchandize. The deputation receisel an intimation that these statements woutd tie laid before her Majesty's Govern ment; and that they would receive due attention. THE SOUTHAMPTON TOWN COUNCIL AND SlR,—Perhaps LORD GOUGH. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN Council of South ampton cons ists of forty members, and you are not aware that the Town only eighteen were present at the meeting, so do not at tach blame to the whole body for the apparent slight to the illustrious and respected veteran. Had not business prevented many from attending, and the Council been hastily summoned (on a Saturday), a different conclusion would unquestionably have been arrived at. I am, Sir, &c., A MEMBER 01111 E COUNCIL WHO WAS ABSENT. Southampton, Feb. 27. NEW QUEEN'S. COUNSEL.—We believe that the .following gentlemen have been called within the bar by the Lord Chancellor :—Messrs. Prendergast, Bliss, Greaves, Townsend, Carpenter, Rowe, Grainger, O'Malley, E. James, Peacock, and Macaulay. THE - Qt.rsEN'e VISIT TO THE ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. —Bet : Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by his Serena Highness the Duke of Saxe Coburg, honoured the French Plays with their presenc e last evening. The royal suite consisted o f th e Countess of Mount Edge cumbe,, Baron Apel, Lord Byron, Colonel Buckley, and Colonel Gordon. There were also present the Duchess of Sutherland and Lady Constance Gower, the Marchio ness of Downshire and the Dowager Marchioness of Downshire, 'the Marquis of Ailesbury, Lord and Lady Rendlesbam, Lady Frances Hope, Sir William Clay, Sir Ralph and Lady Howard, the lion. Mr. Willoughby, Sir Coutts Lindsay, Sce. INSOLVENCY -(THIs-DAY* IN RE THOMAS SHERIFF JACKSON. with This insolvent, who had been in partnerblliPt eet, William King, as warehousemen, in Wailil l 'it r oa appeared to receive the judgment of the Court. %ot. opposed on the part of several creditors residing la h od land. The insolvent had been a bankrupt and ging e d been an insolvent Without capital they , f ,` l n rin n t, partnership for a few months, from July ti" n c' bsa last, and in that period goods to more than 2. 000 " D el been obtained from wholesale houses. Very Wi le :: O. had been paid to the creditors, and to . one house' tbß Romanis, -of Edinburgh, who were cre ditors t° tort amount of 4161, not one shilling. Tire o insolvest' h e /O wes that he had been dup e d by King, Nvh ° -52il °o° sconded. Among the gulls of the parinersh a 101 1 to Swan and Edgar to upwards of 300/, of 2291. had been sustained. Mr. Commissioner Paimars now gave judgce e t n be was of opinion that the insolvent was not the at e ing pretended of King. There had been a reckless g e fy of of goods from wholesale houses, and a making o°- t i t bo money in a fraudulent manner. ' For the sak e I): ese mercantile community he was bound to inark: o h o e o l as b b e s r d e a b, very severe one. Goods to more than -en obtained, and the whole had disaplP was now nothing for the cred:Ors. His Son for ° for nounced a judgment of fifteen calendar months sag fraudulent • disposition of property, and the insolvea' taken to prison to be placed in the remanded Wel d ' ared--1 BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY' S A respectable-lo o kin g man , whose name did ae' -raors• pire, but who gave his address as 26, B ru nswick - l i g ea and described himself as a w i ne - merc h a nt, Was before Mr. Hall, as follows: f t he The shopman to Mr. P r i ce , th e p r oprietor Sta n d, the ing• Oxford and Cambridge Oyster-rooms, in deposed that abet half-past seven o'clock hot lOW the prisoner CAMI in in a terrible state of int qat th at and demanded to be served with a lobster-sala d ' - 0 01 as he had Lo money he would be obliged to owe %doe' it. Witness seeing the dreadful state he was io• 'r o per. to serve him, which greatly aggravated the yes The disturbance he created was so great th fli t i o - 00 0 . found necessary to send for the police. The,-P . , - ( ldre s : i when being taken into custody, vainly essayed 1° eialb 010 0 a multitude of some 200 persons who were „ gibe bins on the injustice of not being served in a bh ° vl t y to it was pretended that England was a free 0 ° 11 " -- " ' which every man could do as he liked. He was fined 10s., which was immediately P ia. 101 MARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS D A - os ROBBERY BY A SERVANT.-Emilu Knecketi°lloo brought before Mr. Bingham, charged with havl n g b one satin dress, one shawl, and a gold ring, the Prl re et. of Mr. Henry John Ruddell, jeweller, 22, Ileg ee „„ e " el tbP Mrs. Ruddell, the wife of the prosecutor, cleP"" id the prisoner had been in her service as a honse°l - beea about six months, during which time witness 1 °, 0 0; ru ,led of wearing apparel to a great extent. °,, 11 tow t day last the prisoner requested to go out for ea ", ° h - 'nes; remained cut fur tho whole of the night. 00 eye' morning she returned, and begged witness Vs lookeree her conduct, and take her back to her service. Th is - wale' fused to do, as she (prisoner) had staid out withou t o bieb Yesterday witness missed three dresses from a 12° , 5 haat no one had access to but the prisoner also tba,°"„l vile r kerchiefs, and other things. The box was 'ler" l ive n her bed; it was locked, and the ke was kept ill OP wardrobe, which was in the prisoner's depart raen- ' to which she only had access. In answer to a question from Mr. Bxrrafa''' ner stated that a g o ld ring had been found in the Prg°ol to box. Witn ess had no doubt that the ring belong 0 f her, as she had four rings in her possession, to which was mi ss i ng. T he ring found ans wered description of the others. eib ici3r Mr. Ruddell sa id t h e ring was his, and Wa s °°- rise his wife had by h ere He produced the other three of the same m a k e . h e re . Police-constable 358 said, from informa ti l6e e i to s ta u l t elved, he went to the prisoner's lodgings, bl ° ' s eon -street, Somers-town, where he found her; „ r obe d , hr the nature of the charge against her, and s- n - deaeT her boxes, in one of which he found the ring `,` Directly he found the ring the isoner excliw-- te a ° boa purchased it in the street for two ij - r pence. her into custody. None of the other property obi lie found; but if the prisoner was remanded, he W I NO should be able to produce important evidence - day. The prisoner was remanded till Monday next co , sr I. SPORTING INTELLIGE- 0 , aO DAY', LIVERPOOL SPRING MEETlNG. — W E , l) :,i'pti ° ,,A u ' The of Liverpooleach,Spring 10 r C t , Cup o d f o l o O ly o sr s ezo. b , y w i s i g h l - 0 l a dd'' : One mile and three quarters. 1 s srP) Mr. Meeson's Doubt, 4 yrs, 7st 51b ...... (W. /T r - t a ct) : Mr. Lawson's The Augean, 3 yrs, sst 31b .••( a n) - 3431 M rr r T.. . hGm H er o afe p noe k lgal i ao, n st i o o iso n spg ' b s oaa Q r:ditii u eoa i s, z ta , 04tan, 6 yr y tr3es r d, s ; , :b 8 8sto s , t tsl 7 :ll l le b blr . e2( .. Kib re not;;;e1.: plat ' The on Trial easy. Mr. Stewart's Wilmont, 3 yrs, sst (Clift). t Doub t. Betting -11 to 8 agst Osbaldeston, 7to 2 !V - W st O ak s o b a al o d f es s to a n or a a. ba e d ao t h h , ird. 0 18 1 and a quarter. tag ) 2 Mr. Hesseltine's Andalusian, 4 yrs. ....... (Leog s 50 ) Mr. W. Powlett's Pio Nono, 3 yrs ......... (Ke e c i : ..... The following also started, but were not plac, e Mr. A. Phillips's Montezuma, 3 yrs (Mitcbelll. Captain Fraser's Emma, 3 yrs (Arnold) ) Mr. Pedley's The Golden Lady, 3 yrs (BellarbYt . xim it r r .. . svv S t h ea a wt r tsa p rnt na f by Lanercost, 3yrs (Bashain)• Mr. Wright W W r il i k g i h n t s a a ' aa M a j f o T a b b g o ll y i w c c har ps). Mr. Osborne The Grand National Steeplechase, 3to 1 each agst Pio Wand Em 13 ' •Alici ma , a Won cleverly. Ma oe Wand,rf Coronation,, T 3 a y a y 0 s3( 3 uy y ri3ser at (yt w t . l- 0 :3 1 h as : : NI i , 3 1 0 t 0 r o. n o s o e ) d . ) . d ." ._ e (I , . . soya. each, h ft, and only 5 ece., with 10 0 al to pail, iscteepleohaaaboa,d athsivvrtepsttiegf tr: second to save his stakes, and the wi nrie ,, r 4o6) 4/. sovs. toward the expenses. Four miles and , 1 (70 Subs., of whom 26 declared, &c.) Greet ) / 9 Mr. Wilson's Abd-el-Fader, aged, 9st 121 b c ir 0 0) $ Mr. Fort na Knight of Gwynne,llst 81b...( t i va tt) Lord Waterford's Sir John, aged, llst 81b ••,'.„` 0 1:- -- , The following also started, but were not Pir" g barni t) , Mr. Lawson na Peter Simple, 12st 21b (C uunin Pbi l P ° Mr.J.Elmore's The British Yeoman, llst 101b.._bv), Lord Strathmore's Rattrap, aged, llst 71b (Fsfyittle)' Mr. Mason na Th e Chandler, llst 31b (Capttl:to, Mr. Mangan's Farnham, 6 yrs, llst 31b (A„ b a u .1 0 0. ~,,). L M o r r . d H G a . ss K al e l n 's oe T d h y e ,a V s i v e r t i im og , Bagueodkylst 21b 01Sn 3 P I , Mr. J. Bell's the Iron Duke, Mr. Harrison's Meath, ugrd, 10,t lolb (Neal,V„or)._,A. Mr. Westropp's Mulligan, 6 yrs, lOst 101 b (Y" f gage"A, 5 yr:gleod:LlOis2tibl.2(,poloar Lord Lurgan s Rory-be-Aisy, 5 yrs, lOst 10,T , a rre" Mr. Cunningham's Quadruped, P ged, lOst 81 f,;per). .( u ,D i aly)• Mr. Butler's b g by Laurel, aged, 10:t Slb Mr. J. C. Renton's Rainbow, 6 yrs, 10st Sln sa L it). ). Mr. Lewis na Everton, aged, lOst 8/b (A' f ßackl e i Mr. Treadgold's Maria Day, aged, lOst 51b,L nr oley> Mr. Williamson's Shinrone, 6 yrg, 103 t 511, 1 ~- " s uals o> Mr J. G. Murphy's The Oaks, lOst 51b (JA,`,1,,,r). Mr. Pocket's Columbine, aged, lOst 41b (Lf,, 3 0). Mr. Staffer's Sobri6ty, - aged, lOst 41b (Tb ° n r . , M ir r . . t o N gh ic o u s ly i s ,i F y i p s e t r ic a u ry in u a t g i3 e ,, d ag lO e s d t , ( I T ° j • t P ( l r). barli n g r Mr. Hunter's Hope, aged, 9st 121 b (Own e ,„./ o her). Mr. Vever s Vengeance, aged, 9st 101 b l ow i e r). i ilb Lord Sefton nd, Little Fanny, aged, 2st (ca rried Mr. Laing's Johnnie Barrie, aged, st ker.) . over) (MAtland). lb ( 1142 of> Lord Seaham na, Pegasus, aged, Bst 10 1b ( gess sir Mr. R. Brooke na The Pony, pg, d, Bst 7 to 1 ag, s 2 to I, Betting-5 to 1 agst Peter Simple, 7 ire tirib ', '- t0 I John, 9to 1 agst Rat-trap, 12 to 1 agst 'L o p la agst itnight of Ciwynne, 15 to 1 apt Ear° A