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TUE WEATHER.—Srx Orncm, FEN 13. TIMUNOMETZA, Lowest, 28; Highest, 45 . Noon 36 B.anomwrza, 3006. Wi W.N.W.—fiae sunshiny weather. Immediately, in 3 Y 015., post STe., A DVENTURES of a GOLD FINDER. WRITTEN BT HIMSELF. " What is here ? Gold ? yellow, glittering, precious gold ?" Timon of Athens. lienry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. MISS HARRIET RAIKE'S NEW NOVEL, THE MARRIAGE CONTRACT, IS NOW READY at all the Libraries, in 2 vols., post Bvo., 211. " One of the best novels of the year 1149."—Athenmum. "Considerable ability is displayed in this work, which is evidently be production of a writer well acquainted with French society. There is no want of incident In this novel; indeed, it contains as much se is usually found in a dozen volumes. Nor is that its only merit. the style is vigorous, and there Is a knowledge of character and shrewdness of observation which we seldom meet with in novels. The doseription of French society is admirable."—Britannia. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. EWMARKET RAILWAY. Notise la hereby given, that the FEBRUARY HALF YEA.RLT GENERAL MEETING of the Proprietors of the New market Railway Company will be held at the London Tavern, Bi shopsgato-street, London, on TarasnAr, the 28th instant, at One o'cloak precisely ; and that the Books in which Transfers of Shares of this Company ars registered will be CLOSED from WanNisDAY; the Nth to TIIUMIDAT, the 28th, both day, inclusive. GEORGE MANNERS, Chairman. G. W. BROWN, Secretary. 117, Cheapside, Monday, lett. lA, 1580. This Erening being Ash Wedieeday, the Theatres will be Closed, TREATIti ROYAL, D,AURT-LANTI. Lew* aad Manner, Mr. J.kMEA ANDERSON. TO-MORROW EVENING, WM be presented, by hoc Majesty's Servants, JULIUS CALSAR. Julius Cesar, Mr. C. Fisher l OctayfuS Ctellar, Mr. Everstt; Mark Anthony, Mr. Anderson; Brutus, Mr. Vanden hoff ; Cassias, Mr. Cathcart ; Casca, Mr. Cooper; Trebonlus, Mr. Diddear ; Decins, Mr. Montague ; Calphurula, Mrs. Tanan ; Portia, Ws Fillips. To b. followed by a Mew Grand Historical, Metaphorical, and Diabolical Pantomime, by tbe author of " Bluff to ►o calls& HARLEQUIN and GOOD QUERN BE,SIi ,r. KERET/ ENGLAND L.N THE OLDEN TIME, r r i y . t . boxes, $4. 12s. oSd., 21. 21., 11. Ils. 6d., and 11. Is Stalls, ss. each. ■. d. • 71211 T rice. I. SECOND PRICE. Boxes . . 2 • Pit - - 1 • Lower Gallery - 0 6 No Ralf-price to Upper Gallery Mr. J. Povey. -- 4 0 Pit - - - 2 0 Lower Gallery - 1 • Vpper Gallery - • 6 Bex-book-k4 THEATRE KOYA.L, HAYMARKET. Mr. B. Webster, Sete Lessee and 'Amager, Old Bromptoa. TO-MORROW, Will be presented as entirely new and original Comedy, entitled LAP TBAR ; or, The Ladies' Privilege. Slr Solomon Sohn. Mr. Keeley ; Captain Mouser, Mr. Selby ; Mr. Dimple, Mr. Buckstone ; William Walker, Mr. Charles Kean ; Mrs. Flora Ylowerdew, Mrs. Charles Kean ; Miss Sally O'Leary, Mrs. ritawilliam ; Mrs. Crisp, Mrs. F. Matthews. After which the Comedy of NELL GWYNNE. King Charles, Mr. Webster; Charles Hart, Mr. Vandenhoff ; Joe Haynes, Mr. Selby ; Orange Moll, Mr. Keeley ; lell Gwynne, .Miss Reynolds ; Mrs. Snowdrop, Mrs. Stanley. To conclude with BOX and COX. Tha Sex-eflise Is ender the direction of Mr. I. T. Archer. TUKATtiII fIUYAL. ADELPHL Side: ',is ..11r6crion of Madame Caleer', TO-MORBOW, Will be performed a new domestic Drama, called THE WILLOW OPSE. Principal characters by Messrs. Hughes, Wright, P. Bed ore , 0. Smith, Worrell ; Madame Celeste, and Miss Woolgar. later which as entirely new Extravaganza, entitled DO efESTIC ECOAOMT. Joha Gramly, Mr. Wright ; Mrs. Grizzly, Mrs. F. Matthews. Tecor.clude with FRANEY NSTEIN; or, The Model Man. Franken ■tein, Mr. Wright ; the What is It' Mr. P. Bedford; Ewald, Mr. 0. esattk ; Otto of Rosenberg, Miss Woelgar ; Tiddlewinca, Miss E. ; Agatha, Mlaa Coveny ; Endine, Miss E. Harding. PItUiCESS'S THEATRE. Mr. J. M. Maddox, sole Lessee and Manager. TO-MORROW, Will be pertbrrned a new cemio Opera, entitled THE VALLEY OF ANDOREE. To conclude witk KING JAMIE ; er, Harlequin and Magic Fiddle Harlequin, Mr. Bologna ; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ; Clown, Mr. Flex more ; Coluraline, Miss Fawcett. ST. JAMES'-S THEATRE. FRENCH PLAYS AND OPERA COMIQUE. FIRST AND ONLY MOSINLNG PERFORMANCE, TO-MORROW MORNING, Commencing at Half-paat Two and terminating before Five. LE DOMINO NOIR, Lore Illfert, M. Chateaaert ; Juliano, M. Soyer ; Horace, M. Lac ; Gil Perez, M. Baguet ; Angele, Chttrton ; Brigitte, Madlle. Cotta ; Ureule, Madlle. Danhauseer ; Jacinthe, Madame Mancini ; Gertrude, Madlle. Vigny. The Lex-office et' the Theatre is open daily from Eleven till Five. NEW ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Sol• Lessee, Mr. W. Watts, St. John's Wood. TO-MORROW Will be performed THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. Duke, Mr. Johnstone; Antonio, Mr. Ryder; Bassanlo, Mr. Conway; Gratiano, Mr. Wigan ; Loreneo. Mr. Bel on ; Shylock, Mr G. V. Brooke ; Launcelot Gobbo, Hr. Compton; Portia, Mims Fanny Vining ; Ne- Tics*, Mrs. Seymour: Jessica, Kiss Oliver. After which a new Farce, e,titled A DEAD TAKB IN. Captain Darwin, Mr. Wigan; Hector Pealet, Mr. Compton; Clara, Miss DLIT.% Ts conelud• with Till MIDNIGHT WATCH. ♦STLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITLIZATRA, Pvoprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Last Week of the Pantomime. An entire change in the Scenes of the Arena. New Grand Spectacle. TO-MORROW The performance will commence at a Quarter to Seven, with a new Grand Spectacle of THE CORSE DE LEO T; or, the Brigand of Savoy. To be followed by a brilliant display of litatty's peerless seenes of the Circle, supported by the asefbraplished artistes of the establish ment. To conclude with a Brand Equestrian Combo Pantomime, by Nelson Lee, celled HARLEQUIN YANKEE DOODLE, who came to Town epos his little Pliny. nom-ernes , i7e, from EIVIte till Poor. inori KR AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tan DAT —Vorning, IA min. after 2 I Evening, 7 min. after I Cs- , i•asevr -)♦[irniny 23 min. after 3 Eveamg, 38 min after 3 poured into the Excise ! These 16,500/. were subse quently increased to no less than 29,0001., which amount was heightened through seventeen years' in fliction "in the chronic form of interest and compound interest," to the enormous sum already mentioned, of 32,0001. Thirty-two thousand pounds dead weight of taxation on a single work, and that work the " Penny Cyclopsedia"—a work calculated so directly to promote the cause of popular education Surely never were imposts more cruelly, more un warrantably, or more injudiciously applied ! Nor is this all. After exposing the miserable effects of the paper duty upon any one adventuring upon a scheme so magnificent as that which has, notwithstand ing all losses and obstructions, been actually realised in the " Penny . Cyclopxdia," Mr. CHARLES KNIGHT declares in so many words that unless the paper duty be abolished he will be wholly debarred from at tempting the publication of a new edition of this splendid work, a work in every respect honourable to the national enterprize and the national abilities. Of itself this is a sufficiently sorrowful and impressive declaration. But, while pronouncing it, Mr. CHARLES KEIGHT must not be regarded as numbered amongst the class of grumblers. He has nobly earned for himself in this matter the right of remonstrance. During the last twenty years, he says, " upon a tole rably accurate calculation, I have, from my own unaided resources, expended Eighty Thousand Pounds upcn Copyright and Editorial Labour ! " Again, says he, " During the same period I have paid Fifty Thousand Pounds Paper Duty 1 "—the latter sum being a double charge " by the inevitable opera tion of a tax upon raw material." Having fought so gallantly, and for so long a period, against all the crushing obstructions of excessive taxation, in the good cause of popular education, in the cause which is identical with the intellectual development and moral elevation of the masses, Mr. CHARLES KNIGHT has assuredly a right at last to appeal to the sense, and the justice, and the prudence of the Legis lature. Beyond the enforcement of his most powerful arguments against the intolerable duty upon paper by reference to the fortunes and misfortunes incident to his own great enterprise of the " Penny.Cyclopreiia," Mr. CHARLES KNIGHT demonstrates very clearly the impossibility of a good cheap periodical competing, under the present system of taxation, with the bad and vicious catch-penny publications now pouring in such poisonous quantities from the printing-press. At the first blush, it may appear absurd to argue the matter, one effusion having apparently precisely the same chance as the other. A moment's consideration, however, will show that the fact is quite otherwise. While the former, called for the nonce by our distin guished pamphleteer, " The Fountain," has to pay so much for good paper, so much for efficient editors and contributors, so much again for the proper labour of compositors, and so much for the work of correction, the latter, called by him for the nonce, on the other hand, " The Sewer," would be issued in reams of vile paper, from manufactories, where large bodies of chil dren are employed to arrange types at the wages of shirtmakers from copy furnished by the most ig norant, at the " wages of scavengers." Both " The Sewer " and " The Fountai❑ " being published at the same price, say a penny per weekly number, it must be sufficiently obvious from the previous considerations that the balance sheets would, with an equal circulation, pre sent to view a very striking and deplorable difference. Without the duties on paper, the tables would be very speedily turned ; with it, " the Sewer would reek on—the Fountain would cease to flow." After the hint afforded by the promised motion of Mr. MILNER GIBSON, and especially after the damning facts disclosed in the remarkable pamphlet of Mr. CHARLES KNIGHT—no one can possibly have the temerity to deny the necessity for some im mediate and comprehensive alteration. Not without cause did the printers, paper-makers, and publishers of Great Britain, wait yesterday upon the Prime Minister of England, through the medium of an im portant deputation ; not without reason do they re monstrate with the Legislature against an im post as unnecessarily severe in its operations upon themselves as it is detrimental to the interests, the morality, and the enlightenment of the vast body of the community. Among the many causes exciting to disease, there is not, perhaps, one more fatal than an insufficient supply of water ; to quote the words of Mr. Satost's report, " its unrestricted supply is the first essential of decency, of comfort, and of health, and any limita tion to its use in the metropolis is a barrier which must maintain thousands in a state of the most un wholesome filth and degradation." That the supply of water to the inhabitants of the metropolis is re stricted and insufficient, and that thousands of them must consequently remain in a state of the most un wholesome filth and degradation, is, alas! but too evident. It appears from the statements of the Ex ecutive Committee of the Metropolitan Parochia Water-Supply Association that there are at present in the metropolis not fewer than 80,000 houses, with a population of 640,000 persons, without a supply of water. The Health of Towns Report for 1845 thus adverts to the insufficiency of water supply to the metropolitan poor : " Although there is no portion of the town into which the mains and pipes of some water companies are not carried, yet we find that large numbers of the houses of the poorer classes receive no supply. In the district supplied by th• New River Company, containing about 900,000 persons, about one-third are unsupplied; and in the district of the Southwark Company, 30,000 persons have no supply, although the pipes of more than one company are Carried into some parts. A still greater proportion can obtain water only from stand-pipes, com wo❑ to a large number of persons, and supplied only at int‘amittent periods. We have already pointed out the evils of this system, and we have s no reason to believe them to be less injurious in London than elsewhere. they are attributable to the same causes—the natural reluctance of the companies to supply the poor except through the medium cf the landlord, and the expense of a separate cistern or water-but; for each house neces sarily entsiled by the system of intermittent supply." It is to the insufficiency of the supply of water that is in a great measure to be attributed that fearful epidemic from the visitations of which the metropolis now periodically suffers, and there can be no doubt tliat the ravages of cholera were caused quite as much by a scanty supply of water as by insufficient drain age, indeed without an illimitable supply of water perfect drainage is impossible. Under the present system we can have no perfect supply of water to the metropolis. Private companies look only to their divi dends, and will not, and indeed cannot, furnish a con stant and unintermitting supply of water at a cheap rate. There are at present no less_than ten private water companies, and consequently the establishments of each, with a numerous staff of officers, to be sup ported by the public, who are therefore obliged to pay ten times as much for an insufficient supply as they would have to pay for an unlimited supply under a properly organized system. To remedy this evil, a Metropolitan Parochial Water-Supply Association has been organized, of which Mr. deices WYLD, M.P., is chairman, and the executive committee of which is composed of representatives of the different boards of guardians of the metropolis. " This association"— we quote from their address, dated Central Offices, 30, Bucklersbury, Ist Feb., 1850— " This Association has been founded for the practical application of the following principles:— " 1. That water, a primary necessary of life, and es sential of health —an indispensable element of domestic comfort and decent social bahits' furnished by Provi dence for human use, with out skill or labour—is not a proper object of mercantile profit or private specula tion. " 2. That its unlimited and pure supply ought to be secured to the community at the bare lost of its conve nient distribution. "3. That it is equally the interest and the duty of the community, as a protection from contagion and dis ease; as a relief from the pressure of rates caused b ; the bad health and debility of the poor ; and as an in strument of the elevation of the morals of the labouring classes, by affording them every facility for the improve ment of their domestic habits, to enforce the .introduc tion of an abundant conveyed supply of pure water into every house in the metropolis, without exception or dis tinction of class, on the principle of constant service and high pressure. "4. That economy in cost of distribution, in survey, collection, and management, uniformity of plan. asses me9t, and regulation, and the requisitions of sanitary police and domestic morals, equally suggest that the necessary supply should be in the hands and under the contr o l of th e p u bli c , manage d b y a paroc hi a l repre sentation, whi c h s h a ll em b race t h e w h o l e area o f distri bution, regulated by a competent commission chosen by * " lp of Water to the Metropolis. The Cse of the payersßate and Consumers statcd by the Execau t!va Cornm,ttee (f the Metropolitan Parochial Water- Supply Association." London: kienry Renshaw. Mt. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1850. Although Mr. MILNER GIBSON has disappointed us of a discussion in the House of Commons on the burdens imposed by taxation upon knowledge—his anticipated motion for last evening having been un expectedly postponed—we have still remaining very sufficient occasion for comment upon a matter of such general and enormous importance to the com munity. We avail ourselves, moreover, of the op portunity with increased eagerness when we reflect that the subject referred to is one affecting in a very considerable degree the physical comfort, the intellectual improvement, and the moral ame lioration of the whole framework of English society. Through the operation of the ill considered duties levied upon advertisements, the physical comfort of the more necessitous portions of the population are manifestly interfered with to a most grievous extent. Through the heavy imposts upon paper as a raw material, the intellectual improvement of the multitude is materially impeded, if it does not prove actually in many instances to be altogether prevented; while, through the combined operation of these two ill-advised and ill-digested methods of taxation the moral amelioration of the masses is rendered almost an entire impossi bility, from the multiplication of those delete rious productions of a depraved and depraving literature which sprout forth with the celerity and fruitfulness of the fungus under the malign shelter of these lamentable burdens upon true knowledge. The opportunity which we have mentioned as having been afforded us for allusion to this gigantic grievance, even in the procrastination of the Par liamentary motion of the Right Hon. Gentleman, the Member for Manchester, is none other than the appearance of the pamphlet by Mr. CHARLES h.:sign-1 - , to which we yerterday made inci dental allusion. In this remarkable publication* that distinguished publisher—whose name has ac quired a large and permanent popularity, not only from his own incontestable scholarship, and especially from kis undisputed abilities as a commentator upon SHAILBrEitiI, but also in a very considerable degree as a promoter of popular education, through the diffusion in the cheapest form of the wholesomest literary instruction—demonstrates with the lucidity of a syllogism the cruel hardships inflicted upon all who would strive to render themselves the benefactors of their fellow-countrymen by ca tering at the lowest cost to their intellectual requirements. To his exposition of the evils resulting from this species of taxation we would most earnestly commend all those who are unsatisfied that the in fliction is unnecessarily onerous. It will there be seen how sksingl e wor k like the " Penny CyclopEedia," than which no literary enterprise ever deserved more the patronage instead of the oppression of Govern ment, may be made not only a profitless but an absolutely ruinous undertaking through the apparently insignificant impositi on upon the paper of three half pence per pound. Never was the story of the arith metical increase of farthings on the nails of a horse shoe, a story immortelizsd in the golden history of " Sandford and Merton" more lamentably illustrated Out of this three-half-penny tax emerged a tremen dous incubus of thirty-two thousand Pounds, which bas been ever since weighing upon the origi nator and publisher of this noble and national cyclopre lia. Through the medium of im posts on the paper, the wrappers for the monthly parts, and the millboards for the periodical volumes, a gross sum of sixteen thousand five hundred pounds was inst Excessive •` The S truggles of a Boojc aga Taxation." 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That the example of all civilized nations, some of whom made the duty of personal and domiciliary puri fication doctrines of their religion, and all of whom, by the establishment of national canals, aqueducts, drains and sewers, and esdile police, censors, and curators, con stituted the means of cleanliness aid purification an im portant part of their public administratio), leads to the conclusion, that the supply of water to large cities can not safely or economically be left to the hazards of pri vate enterprise, or the disjointed action of conflicting bodies. The right of the indigent to be furnished with a competent supply of wholesome water is as clear as the duty of the community to place the poor beyond the want of bread; and the time hes long since arrived when, with the past experience of the ravages of pestilence, the rep-rts of Parliamentary Commis sioners, the remonstrances of sewage boards and the repre sentations of the sanitary inspectors and Registrar- General, all leading to one conclusion—it is imperative upon a community, with the present consumption of two millions and a quarter, and the annual increase of 45,000 additional inhabitants to provide for, immediately, by large, combined, and effectual administrative arrange ments, controlled by parochial authority and regulated by the wishes and wants of the inhabitants, to correct the evils of the existing system, and to secure by extent, uniformity, and foresighted economy of plan, an ample and permanent system of water supply to the metropolis. With the full enforcement of these general princi ples, the objects of this association will be attained. It leaves to the wisdom of Parliament the adjustment of all other details. It concedes to the existing water companies the merit of having partially supplied a pub lic want, which the public and the Legislature had ne glected to meet, or in the regulation of any provision tor which they had not had the prudence to interfere. The question of compensation, or of its amount, is not embraced within the functions of the association, which does not consider it to be within its province to suggest either the sources or the method of supply, further than is indicated in the foregoing declaration of the basis of its constitution." The association acts most wisely in confining its efforts to the assertion of the great principle that it is the duty of the Legislature to adopt measures for in suring to the inhabitants of the metropolis (we go further, and say of all large towns,) an unlimited and constant supply of pure water, leaving the adjustment of all details to the wisdom of Parliament. Had they meddled with details they would have been met and harassed upon these questions of detail by those wko are interested in upholding the present system, and thus would their strength have been in a great mea sure frittered away and much valuable time have been lost. As it is, by confining themselves to the enforce • ment of general principles, the Metropolitan Paro chial Water-Supply Association have taken up an impregnable position. The formation of this associ• ation is a giant's stride in the right direction in the cause of sanitary reform, and we hope that in every parish in the metropolis meetings will be called to promote the objects of the association, to adopt peti tions to the Legislature in conformity with its prin ciples, and to appoint deputations to wait upon the Members for the district, calling on them to present the petitions and to support them in their places in Parliament. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. The Assembly was occupied with the discussion of the clauses of the Education Bill on Monday. The sixth clause was passed at the conclusion of the sitting. General CLIANGA.RMER attended the Council of Ministers which was held at the Elysee on Monday. It is said that France is to be divided into four military districts, to be placed under the command of military chiefs, who will have very extensive powers, and, among others, that of placing their districts in a state of siege. These important commands will, it is said, be entrusted to Generals CHANGARNIER, DK CASTELLANE 7 MAGNAN, RoSTOLAN, eRd GEMEAU. The near approach of the elections creates some excitement in Paris, and M. CARMEL, the Prefect of Police, has addressed a circular to his sub ordinates, pointing out to them the line of conduct which he considers it adviseable to adopt. He recommends the strictest legality, as also tole rance during the addresses of the different candidates, but at the same time firmness and decision in the maintenance of order. He also dwells on the neces sity of enlightening the minds of the ignorant elec tors on the great social question of the day. The various parties are busily engaged in arranging the lists of candidates. The Socialists will, it is said, support MM. GOUDCHADX. and MALORMET, but they object to M. MARIAST, although the pure Re publicans would probably support his candidature ; M. EMILB DR GrIRARDIN is endeavouring to find favour in the eyes of the Reds, but hitherto he has not met with much success. The Ministerial candidate will be General LAIIITTP, the Minister for Foreign Affairs The Legitimatists talk of starting the Count DB CHABROL ; and the 13unapartists intend to put for ward M. THAYER and the Due Ds PADOUE. The Republican candidates will have the benefit of the support of M. Emun DE GIEARDIN, who, in the Presse of Monday, makes the following declaration : "Paris has to elect thr(• representatives. We dy Clare, in advance, that wheeler may be the three candi dates of the Opposition, our cc-operation and our vote shall be fully given to them. If all intermediary opinion has disappeared, it is not our fault, but that of the reaction. It is it alone, therefore, which must be accused. Between two dangers—that of going back wards and that of going forwards—we have chosen th• least, and have given the preference to the future instead of the past. The Revolution, which has twice—in 1830 and 1843—broken from its bounds, may be directed, but it cannot be stopped. On this point all illusions should be dissipated, all fears be resigned, all resistance be en lightened." The Aeseniblee Nationale says :—" The Cercle Constitutionnel, which for a short time past has bad its sittings i❑ the Rue Taitbout, in the house of the Marchioness of HERTFORD, the mother of Lord SEY MOUR, has been obliged to remove and to seek another place for its meetings. The motive for the can celing of the lease has not arisen from any difference between the contracting parties, but from the alarm _ _ caused to the Marchioness by the agitation which pre vailed for some days in consequence of the cutting down of the trees of liberty. The Marchioness feared that, in the event of any disturbance, the house might be attacked, under the pretext that it was the place of meeting of the moderate party." The final number of votes given at the election of the Charente has now come to hand. Lieut.-Col. EDGAR NZT obtained 58,750 votes, and M. BA• DAUD-LARIRIERB 24,297. The judicial inquiry into the late disturbance at the Carre St. Martin is nearly terminated. The number of persons arrested who have been amnestied at Belle• Isle amounts to O. M. LEOUTEF, ex-responsible editor of the:Reforme, was on Saturday condemned by the Court of Assizes to four months' imprisonment and 3,000 f. fine for an article published in that journal on the 13th August last, tending to excite civil war, and excusing acts declared crimes and misdemeanours by the law. A letter from Marseilles of the 7th states that great agitation had been felt in that city for the last two or three days. The troops had been all confined to their barracks, and ammunition had been distri buted to the National Guards. The accounts from other parts of the department were also rather alarm ing. It was said to be the intention of the Reds to seize on the arsenal and the prefecture. All the posts in Marseilles bad been doubled. Accounts have been received from Algiers to the sth instant. Perfect tranquillity prevailed in the colony, even in the province of Constantine, where the late disturbances took place. The troops sent out for the expedition of tie Ziban were gradually returning to quarters. The only fact of interest mentioned in these journals is an account of the con duct of the natives to the crew of the Grand schooner bound for Phillippeville with wine, but wrecked on the coast of the Guerbes, between Bona and Pbi- lippoville. The natives treated the shipwrecked mon in the kindest manner exercised towards them a ge nerous hospitality, and appointed men to watch on the shore to prevent theft during the process of saving the cargo. ♦ letter from Toulon of the tth, says :—" The Spanish war steamer Vulcano, Captain Busquilo, cast anchcr in our roadsted on the 3rd. This steamer coming from Terracina and going to Spain, had on board 400 soldiers and officers. The iron steamer the Nerve], arrived on the 4th from Civita Vecchia, and landed 300 military passengers. The Eclaireur steamer, also from Civita Vecchia, arrived here yes terday with the mail. There is nothing new from the Roman Stater. The early arrival of the Pori at Bologna was announced. ♦s for the return of his Ho liness to Rome, it appears to be indefinitely adjourned. The French army makes no movement, and nothing at present announces that it is shortly to leave the Roman States. The Tenare steamer has left this port —some persons say for the coast of Italy— others assert that it is to carry dispatches to our Ambassador at Athens. It is again rumoured that the squadron of the Mediterranean will soon return, but this appears to us to be entirely unfounded. It is not very probable in fact that the •overnment of the Republic can have sent an order to these naval forces to return at the moment at which the English as sume a menacing attitude towards Greece. The Zenobie frigate, the Pomona frigate, and the steam corvette Prony, are to be put to sea immediately after taking on board marines, artillery, and infantry. These vessels form part of the expedition which is to be sent to La Plata. The expedition is to be under sail before the 15th." PARIS BOURSE, FEB. 12.—There were comparatively few speculators at the Bourse, and there was but little business transacted. The Five per Cents. opened at 96f. 50e., rose to 86f. 60c., fell subsequently to 96f. 25c., and closed at 96f. 50c. the Three per Cents. closed at 58f. 60c.; Orlams Railroad Shares at 810 f. ; Rouen, 5751.; Havre, 2501.; Great Northern, 4661. 25c.; Avig non, 212 f. 50c.; Vierzon, 3201.; Basle, 1151.; Bordeaux, 4111. 25c.; Paris and Strasburg, 358 f. 75c.; Tours and Nantev, 265 f. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, FEB. 12. Boulogne and Amiens, 7 1 4—East Indian, 3 3 / 4 —Namur and Liege, 71—Paris and Rouen, .3%. SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 6th have arrived. The Heraldo says that the official announcement to the Cortes of the interesting position of the QUEEN was to be made between the 10th and 15th of this month. The eighteenth aniversary of the birthday of the Duchess DE MONTPENSIER had been celebrated at Seville with great pomp. Some of the journals again repeat on the faith of foreign correspondence, that it is the intention of the Montemolinist party to com mence hostile expeditions in the spring, but the rumour was not credited. The Senate approved on the 3d the bill on public accounts, and received the report of the Committee on the Bill for authorising the Go vernment to levy the taxes. This report is entirely in favour of the Bill. General Ros DE OLANo had bee❑ appointed commandant-general of the camp of Gib raltar. M. GONZALEZ BRAVO was better. M. Rios Rows had not, it was believed, left Madrid, but he was in hiding, and a prosecution had been com menced against him for the wounding M. BRAVO in the duel. LOLA MONTES left Cadiz a few days ago, on board an English steamer, to proceed, it was supposed, to England. Frequent conferences were held between the POPE's Nuncio, and the Minister for Foreign Affairs, on the subject of the formation of a Spanish Legion, to act as a body guard to the POPIL MADRID BOLSA, F.En. 6.—The Three per Cents. were done on the Bola* at 291, and are reported since at buyers, 9-16 sellers; Five per Cents., are 121, ; Coupons, 7+, ; Passive Debt, 3i, 15-16. Exchange on London, 50 35. PORTUGAL. Intelligence has been received from Lisbon to the 2d. On the previous day the Count of LArita.mo had put a question to the Count of THOMAR, in the House of Peers, as to the correctness of the account given in the Morning Post of the 12th of December respecting the affidavit he had made with reference to the QUEEN. It was understood to be the Count of LATEADIO'E intention to move that the House should send a message to the QUEEN represent ing the necessity of dismissing from her councils a person who had, "in his individual capacity," sought reparation in a foreign tribunal for a libel alleged to have been published against her MA JESTY. The Count of THOMAZ had prevented his opponent from bringing on his motion by requesting that the paper might be handed to him, in order that he might examine it and see what he had to say at the next sitting of the House on the sth instant. Meanwhile the affair had created so great a sensation in Lisbon that Government salary receipts had be come undiscountable, although the public funds, shares, and Lisbon bank-notes continued at the quo tations of the packet of the 30th of December. The Duke of SALDANIIA had made a personal represents tio❑ to the QUEEN upon the affair, when it was re ported that her MAJESTY had made light _of it, and determined to stick by her Cabinet. GERMAN Y. The Berlin Chambers on the 9th adopted the Habeas Corpus Act for securing personal liberty. A letter from Mentz, of the 6tb, says that Count DE DEGENFELD, Vice-Governor of that fortress, had received intelligence of his nomination to the post of Minister of War in Austria, in the room of General GIULAT. The Austrian Government published on the 3d the provincial Constitution of Bohemia. It declares that the different races shall enjoy equal political rights, and guarantees them the preservation of their respec tive nationalities and languages. The Diet is to con sist of 220 Deputies, of whom 70 are to be elected by the principal tax payers, 71 by certain towns and districts, and 79 by the other communes. The qua lification for an el ec t or i s to be the paying of taxes varying in amount from five florins to 15 florins, ac cording to towns and districts. N lenna letters of the 3d, addressed to some of the German journals, state that the Austrian Government has directed its Ambassador at Athens to conform his conduct to that of the Russian Ambassador in the difference between Greece and England. HOLLAND. Tris HAGUE, Fan. 9.—lt is said that Prince HENRY of the Netherlands is to be appointed by the KING Grand Duke Stadtholder of the grand duchy of Luxemburg. By this arrangement his Royal Highness would reside several months in every year in the grand duchy. The Chamber of Luxemburg has been prorogued till the 12th. The cause for the same has not tran 7 spired, but it is supposed to have reference to the German question. DENMARK. COPEMIAGEF, Fan. 4.—The Minister of Finance has issued a notice that, according to the most recent information received in his department, the following portr, islands, and towns may be considered as in fected Asiatic cholera—the Russian ports, the Prussian ports, the other ports of the Baltic, and Kiel, both inclusive, the ports of the Elbe, and Bremen. 2. Of the yellow fe ver, not any port at present. 3. Of the Oriental plague Tripoli, Alexandria, Damietta, Constantinople, Tunis, Morocco, Smyrna, and the Isle of Candia ; and suspected of the Oriental plague, all the Turkish and Greek ports, except t h ose a b ove indicated as infected, and the other ports and cities of Barbary. All the other porta and islands of Europe, or beyond Europe, are considered healthy, or non infected. SWITZERLAND. The Federal Council of Switzerland has issued a new circular, dated January 4, to the governmen s - of the Cantons, on the execution of the circular of the 19th of November last, relative to certain refugees whose expulsion was demanded by the Foreign Powers. This document, which is signed by AL DRUET, the President of the Confederation, after stating the purport of . the circ u l ar, procee d s to name the persons to whom it more particularly refers : " 'These refugees, it says, are Messrs. Fries, Mem ter c f the Provisional Government of the Pslat - nate ; Richter, De Rotteck, Thiebault, and Tor rent, Members of the Committee o f B a d en; G antert and Kuchling, ex-commis sio ners; Sznaido or S c h ne id er , and Racquillet, military ch i efs ; and to these are added, Messrs. Werner, formerly dictator, and Lowenfels mentioned in the decree of t h e 16th July. In come quenee we invite you, faithful an d dear confederates---I. To ascertain as soon as possible if t h e foreigners above ethem: are in your canton. 2. I n case be there, to invite th em t o ma k e preparations for immediately leavin g S w i tzer l an d, to cause to be transmitted without d e l ay to our depart ment of Justice and Police a personal description of those refugees, and to make known to it to what country they wish to proceed, and by what place they propose to enter France on their way to their destination. 3. To make us a report, between this and the 20th of February at the latest, ether measure, you of the result of the investigations of your authorities, r n oerfugoete,sariefaelr.sroelonto, any of them, be may have ordered in execution of the present circular, and of that of the 19th Novembe . r, 1849 . iwnh your ether a t n h t e o As regards the other refugee leaders !lamed .In, the circular of the 19th November, whose residence is known to you, you are invited to take measures calculated to hasten the de parture from Switzerland of such of them 1 18 are still i n your canton. You will also be kind enough to make us, before the 20th of the present month, a report on the re sult of the measures which yT u may hare p rescribed in consequence of this invitation.' The Swine announces that the Charnbre d'lnstruc tion of Geneva has decided that there is evidence sufficient to authorise the prosecution .of :MUTT!, " Agent of the Austrian P . olice . of Turin," for con . • to cause the assassination or the abduction of spring MAzzutl and other refugees. ITALY. - A rather poor drama, acted at Turin, called The Siege of Alessandria, and representing scenes from the time of BARBAROSSA, but of course full of allu sions to the late events in Lombardy, having exc i ted the displeasur e o f th e Austrian Minister, and i n d uced him to add ress a no t e to the Government ; D'Azzonio answered it by sending the Ambassador a few numbers of the Milan journal r Operazo, in which King VICTOR EMMANUEL IS most grossly calum niated, observing at the same time that under a stitutional Government many things cannot be pre vented, but that such language as that of the paper alluded to, printed in a city under the regime of martial-law, must have been at least connived at by the local Government. The result of this affair is not yet known. The departure of the Porz for Rome is fixed for the begin n i ng of Lent. He will be preceded by Cardinal s F RAN ZONI an d L A MBRUSCIIINL His HOLINESS, it is said, will re-enter his capital accom panied by th e S pan i s h troops ; and if France should not consent t o thi s , h e w ill pl a ce himself at Bologna, under the pr o t ec ti on o f t h e Austrians. By a notific a ti on o f th e R o man Government Com mission, d a t e d t h e Ist, the importation of corn, cattle, oil, soap, and a f ew o th er articles duty-fr ee , at Ancona and Civita Vecchia, is abolished. On the 30th ult. a society of 30 noblemen gave a grand ball at th e P a l azzo Pol i . G ene ral B ARAGUAY D I'll,llEl l s and General FERNANDO CORDOVA, and several French and Spanish officers, were present. The Tuscan Government has doubled the duties on corn and merchandise introduced into the free port of Leghorn, It has also increased the price of salt, and imposed a tax on mortgages. The Tuscan budget for 1850 is fixed at 35,000,000 francs. THE AFFAInS OF GREECE. TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCH. FROM THE GOVERNOR OF TRIESTE TO PRINCE SCHWARTZENBERG, PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL. " FEB 4, SEVEN O'CLOCK, EVENING. " The Greek Minister ZOGRAPHOS has just arrived here from the Levant, by the Lloyd steamer Europe ; he is going to St. Petersburgh. Another of the Ministers, M. TRIKUrIS, is en route fur Paris, and perhaps for London. "We learn from Syra, of 30th January, as follows :—The Governor of Syra has received an official notice that after this day no Greek vessel will be permitted to quit the harbour of Syra till the Greek Government shall have satisfied the demands of England. An English steam•frigate has been lying at anchor at the mouth of the harbour since the morning. I learn from the Austrian Consul at Athens, that on the 29 h of January thirty English vessels entered the harbour cf the Piraeus, and commanded that all the Greek vessels lying there should weigh anchor, and he taken in tow by two English steamers to SAlamis."—Wiener Zeitung, Feb. 6. A telegraphic dispatch, received in Munich, says— " The compulsory measures of the English are re doubled—all the Greek trading vessels have been for bidden to leave the Greek harbours. " The Ambassadors of France and Russia have put in a protest. " The vessels lying in the Pirmus have been towed to-day, by British seamen, to Salamis. In Athens and throughout the country everything is very quiet, and the greatest enthusiasm is manifested for the KING and the Government. M. Tamura will set off to day, as Ambassador for Paris, ZOGRAPIIOB, via Vienna, to St. Petersburgh." JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL.-(THIS DAY.) The Committee of the Privy Council was occupied throughout the morning in hearing the argument in the part-heard 'case of Anund Lal Singh Deo v. Maharaja Djerag Gurrood, which is an appeal from one cf the Courts of Judicature in Bengal, involving the question of a disputed pedigree. The counsel tor the appellants are Mr. Turner, Q.C., Mr. Forsyth, Mr. Maule ; and the respondents were represented by Mr. Loftus Wigram, Q.C., Mr. Lloyd, and Mr. Moore. Mr. WIGRADI was heard this morning for the re spondents. The Members of the Council present were—Lord Brougham, Lord Campbell, Lord Langdale, the Judge of the Admiralty Court, the lion. T. Pemberton Leigh, and Sir Edward Ryan. CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) ♦DAMS V. THE RLACKWALL RAILWAY COMPANY. The further arguments in this appeal were resumed and concluded this morning. The case came before his Lordship upon appeal from the judgment of the Vice- Chancellor Wigram, overruling a demurrer put in by the defendants to the plaintiff's bill. The plaintiff sought for a declaration from the Court, that the com pany were bound to complete their purchase of the Fair field Works at Stratford, and the demurrer was for n ant of equity. The LORD CHANCELLOR, at the conclusion of the ar guments, stated that he should consider the case before he gave his judgment. SECONDARIES'.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Secondary POTTER ) WARD V. PRITCHARD. This was an ecticn brought on a guarantee. Def,n dant suffered judgment to go by default. It appeared that the plaintiff had advanced 1501. to the defendant and others on their entering into a guarantee for the repayment of the amount, and also effecting a policy of insurance, and keeping up the payments thereon. The Learned SECONDARY held, that as the deed was set forth in the declaration, and defendant had, by not pli adtng, admitted the breach, the production of the d ed was sufficient to entitle the plaintiff to a verdict. Verdict for the amount claimed, and interest at 5 per cent. The parties in the c ther cases not being in attendance, the jury /1 ere c ise arged. BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) An elderly man named Neal, and a young man named Keef, were charged w,th a saulting the police. Police-constable F 119 stated, that while on euty last night, betwen seven and eight o'clock, he saw K of kick ing at a public house door in Brownlow-street, and per ceivit,g that he was drunk, he requested him to go away, but instead of doing so, he became very abusive, and u!t;mstely he attempted to take him into custody. Ti prisoner, however, reslitee, and during the struggle Nesl csme up, and demanded that Keef should be re leased. lie told him that his demand could not be com plied with, and thereupon Keef took hold of his coat collar at the back, and Neal in front, and after violently shaking, and nearly throtling him, they torn the collar completely off. They would have proceeded to further violence had not several other officers come up and stopped them. Neal went quietly to the station, but Keef resisted to the last, and it required the strength of three officers to carry him to Bow-street. On his way to the station-house Neal struck a boy with his stick, and knocked him down. Iceef said he was a plasterer, residing in Short's garthns. lie had been attending an arbitration, on Ba rcena, and having drank rather too freely, he was quite unconscious of what had occurred. Neal said he simply interfered because ho knew Keef was just at home, and if the officer had not laid hands upon him he would have gone away quietly. The fact was, some one in the public-house called him a bulldog, which exasperated him, but had the officer been more mild in his manner, no disturbanco would have taken place. Mr. lIENny fined Keef 10s., or seven days' imprison ment, and Neal is., or three days. The fines were paid. MARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY.) LOOKING OUT FOR ♦ BREAKFAST.—John Crawley, a member of the prize ring, was charged before Mr. Bingham with creating a disturbance and using indecent language at the house of Mr. Benjamin Caunt, Coach and Horses, St. Martin's-lane. Mrs. Caunt stated that on the previous evening the prisoner came into her house and called for a glass of wine. Seeing that he was already in liquor, she refused to serve him, and told him to go home and call again when he was sober. He said " he'd be d—d if he would go; he had come out for a row, and had made it all square with the constable outside for a dollar, and he was determined to get a break fast at some one's expense, so he might as well have a jolly row in her (witness's) house." He then became so violent, and made use of such filthy language towards her, that aho sent for a constable and gave him in charge. The prisoner, in defence, said he had been engaged to spar at Ben Caunt's benefit, at the National Baths, and called at Caunt's house last night for the purpose of getting his money. On telling the purport of his visit to Mrs. Caunt, she abused him, and threatened to kick him out. This was denied by Mrs. Caunt's barmaid, who was present the whole of the time. Mr. BINGHAM fined him 6s. for being drunk, and, in addition, ordered him to find one surety to keep the peace towards the complainant for two months. A CLERGYMAN CHARGED WITH F/t/Xl).—A well dressed man, who stated that his name was Richard Willis, and that he sN as a clergyman, residing at Min ster, Kent, was brought before Mr. Bingham, charged with fraudulently obtaining the sum of 51. from Mr. Hind, hotel-keeper, No. 30, Leicester-square. It appeared from the evidence, that in the month of July last the prisoner went to the prosecutor's house and dined there. His bill came to Bs., and in payment he gave the waiter a cheque fur 51., made payable at Messrs. Currie, Cornhill. Not having the least suspicion of the prisoner, who was dressed very respectably, the waiter handed the prisoner the difference, after deduct ing the Bs., and the prisoner left the house. The prosecutor payed the cheque away, and in a day or so after it was returned to him, marked " Not known; no effects." Nothing more was seen of the pri soner till yesterday, when the waiter met him in the street, and gave him in charge. The prisoner said ho thought it was all right, as he had an idea that he had an account at Currie's. Mr. BINGHAM remanded him till Tuesday. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, FEB. 13.—Wind, at noon, W.N.W., light pleasant breeze, and tine clesr dry weather. DEAL, FEB. 12.—a.st , Wind W.S.W., strong; P.M., W.N.W., strong and squally; 6 P.H., N.W., moderate.— Arrd. Sophia, Manilla; Agnes, Nassau. Arrd. from the River, Hebrides, Port Natal; Amazon, Trinidad. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 12.—1 t blew hard again last night, moderated this morning, but has again commenced blowing from N.W. to W.N.W ~ with rain and snow.— The Maria, from Chester, has been brought in here from Hoylake, where she was strandei, Feb. 5., and all her crew drowned. Arrd. Maracaebo; Queen Dowager, Laguna. Sld., Dec. 25., Ontario, Charleston; Annee, Charleston; Jenny Lind, (Newfoundland. Oil Port, Philadelphia, supposad from New York. RANSGATE, FEB, 12.—The John and Isabella, Sun derland to Portsmouth, has put in to-day, leaky, having struck the ground in Dungeness-roads. RuYL, FEB. 12.—The Ellen sloop, of Bangor, came on shore last night, abandoned in Abergele Bay. CARNA.RION, FEB. 12.—The report of a vessel called the Reindeer, from Australia, having been lost in the Bay, is unfounded. MILFORD, FEB. 11.—The Black Prince, Oporto, Newfoundland, is on the rocks, and likely to become a wreck; crew saved. The lanthe, Liverpool to Genoa, is much strained, and must be caulked. CLYDE, Fen. 11.—Arrd. Urgent, Mauritius; Huguenot, Savannah; Franconia, Liverpool, for New Orleans, leaky. Std. Minerva, Batavia; Clydesdale, Trinidad; Isabella, ditto; Charles APLachlan. Boston. RAMSGATE, FEB. 12.—Arrd. Pandora, from Hartle pool, with bows stove, having been in contact with the Prudence, of Newport ; the Athena, Newcastle t o Guermey, leaky, having struck the ground at Dun- genesa. GALWAY, FEB. Io.—The San Spiriden, which drove on shore at Hare Island sth inst, has become a complete wreck; some of her materials have been saved. An Austrian brig, coal laden, is reported to be on shore near Clifden; crew saved. RAMSGATE, FEB. 12. Wind squally.—Arrd. Sea Nymph, Blyth, for Havre, leaky; Prudence, from Har tlepool, with stern damaged from contact with the Pandora. WATERFORD, FEB. 11.—Wind N.E. to W.S.W.— Arrd. Alabama, for Galatz, leaky, &c. PETERHEAD, FEB. 11.—Wind S.—Sld. Traveller. Greenland. HARTLEPOOL, FEE. 12.—Wind S.W.—Sid. Leipzig, Calcutta. WIINFLEET, FEB. 11.—The Talisman, of Boston, London to Lynn, struck on the Inner Knock to-day and is likely to become a wreck; crew, except one man, saved. WELLS, FEB. 12.—The Jane and Ellen has been floated off shore, is leaky, and will require caulking. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE-WEDNESDAY The present week's arrival of English Wheat for our market, coastwise, has been only 450 quarters. By land carriage, the receipts have fallen off. To-day, the show of samples of both red and white was small. Selected qualities sold steadily, at full prices. In all other ; kinds next to nothing was doing. No Foreign Wheat has come to band since our last. Granaried samples moved off to a fair extent, at previous cur rencies. The show of Raley in both English and Foreign was but moderate. All descriptions were a slow sale but not cheaper. Malt—the supply of which was good—ruled very dull, and late rates were with difficulty supported. We bad a good show of English Oats; but that of Foreign was small. On the whole a fair business was doing in them, at full prices. Beans, Pear, Indian Corn, and Flour commanded very little attention. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. 'Wheat. Barley. Oats. --- Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. En list ...... 450 1,010 4, 840 1,020 5c0tch........ Irish .. Foreign ...... Malt. i Flour. sacks 40 THE DUKE OF BEAUFORT V. MORRIS. The further arguments in this part-heard case were then resumed, and occupied the Court th© remainder of the morning. VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.: (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND ANDERSON V. WARNIR AND OTHERS.—INJUNCTION. Mr. BETHELL applied this morning, at the sitting of the Court, ex parte on behalf of Mr. Anderson, the present lessee of Drury-lane Theatre, for a special in junction under the following circumstances:—lt ap peared that the plaintiff, Mr. Anderson, bad invented a cheque engine, by which the number of cheques taken at the door of a theatre, or any other place, could be as• certained, and fraud thereby prevented. The plaintiff, it appeared, had applied to the defendants, who are brass-founders and machinists, carrying on business in Jew in -crescent, Jewin-street, to manufacture the engines for him. Since doing so, the plaintiff had applied for a patent in order to secure the invention; and it was agreed, provided the patent was obtained, and the plaintiff and defendants could come to terms, that the latter should manufacture the engines for the former. At the present moment, although the patent was in pro gress, it was not yet sealed, but was in the Attorney- General's office. The defendants, it appeared, had manufactured a considerable number of ma chines, and notwithstanding the remonstrance of the plaintiff, insisted upon still manufacturing and selling them. The plaintiff, who was apprehensive if the sale of the machine took place it would amount to a publication of the invention and destroy the patent, filed the present bill for the purpose of obtaining an in junction to restrain the defendant from manufacturing, selling, or commnnicating, or publishing in any manner the nature of the invention. Mr. Bethell said that he would 13( t on an ex parte mo tion ask for the injunction to the full extent of the notice of motion, but only to restrain the defendant from communicating or publishing in any manner the invention, taking at the same time leave to serve a notice of motion on the defendant for Saturday next for an injunction to restrain the defendant from selling or manufacturing any appa ratus in imitation of the plaintiff's invention. The VICE-CHANCELLOR, thinking it would be most unjust for the defendant to be allowed to manufacture and sell the machine until the plaintiff had obtained his patent aed some agreement had been come to between them, granted the injunction in: the terms asked, and gave leave to give notice of motion for Saturday next for an intended injunction. Injunction granted. The Court tien proceeded to hear causes, and the arguments in the case of " Decks v. Bell," which earns Wore the Court upon demurrer, occupied the Court the whole morning. (Before the Vice• Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.) His Hozioun, after disposing of the bankrupt petition of "Johnson v. Bulmer," which came before him upon a special case, proceeded to bear the further arguments in th• part-heard case of " Powell v. Dobson," which occupied the whole morning. (Before the Vice• Chancellor WIGRAM.) JOHNSON V. JOHNSON. The further arguments in this part-heard case occu pied the Court the whole morning. QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.) The Court sat in Banco this morning and took the special paper, but nothing occurred sufficient to justify a detailed report, the proceedings having reference only to points of purchase and pleading. EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi Prins, at Westminster, before the Lord CRIEF BARON and a Special Jury.) THE QUEEN ON THE PROSECUTION OF MAUDBLAY V. LOWE AND OTHERS. This was a proceeding for the purpose of trying the validity of a patent which was granted in 1838 to a per son of the name of Lowe, for an improvement in the mode of propelling vessels, and was instituted by Mr. Mandalay, the well-known engineer, against Lowe and various other persons of considerable wealth and respect ability, who had become interested in the patent. Sir Frederick Tbesiger, Mr. Martin, and Mr. Peacock appeared for the plaintiff, and the Attorney-General, Mr. M. Smith, and Mr. Webster for the defendants. Sir FREDERICK THESIGER, in opening the case, said the invention had reference to an improved application of screw-propellers to vessels, and Mr. Blandslay alleged that it was perfectly well known to the world for many years previous to the patent being obtained. It appeared that various exf eriments had been made, with the view of ascertaining the correct principle upon which the screw ought to be applied. The first desideratum was to decide upon what part of the vessel the screw was to be placed. Some proposed the bow, some the midships, and others at or about the stern, but it was now univer sally admitted that there was only one useful and prac tical position, viz., the dead wood of the stern, a portion of which was taken out in order to make an aperture in which the screw might be placed. The next thing to be decided was the form of the screw, and various inventions had been made as to the con struction of it, and upon these the originality of Mr. Lowe'a would depend. Mr. Lowe said that his screw consisted of one or more curved blades set or fixed on a revolving sharp or axis below the water line cf the vessel, but he bad not the slightest pretence for claim ing a monopoly against the public in respect of any originality in his discovery. As long ago as 1785 Mr. Brame], who was familiar to the scientific world, took out a patent for a variety of objects, and among them one for propelling vessels by means of a screw, which to all intents and purposes was the same as the one claimed by Mr. Lowe. Again, in 1800, a Mr. Shorter obtained a patent for a screw on a similar principle. It was made with blades having the appearance of the vertical sails of a windmill, and its only difference to Mr. Lowe's screw was that it was worked by means of an out-rigger carried out from behind the vessel. Another patent was taken out in 1829, for an invention of a Frenchman named Cummoreaux, also in 1832 by a M. Woodcroft, and in 1836 by a Mr. Ellickson, all of which involve d to a certain extent the principle of Mr . Love ' s inventio n . It bad, in fact, been admitted by Mr. Lowe that t he ma en tire screws or blades used by hi m h ad beende and applied be!ore, but, he alle ge d, h a d proved failures, and his only claim to originality was applying the curved , blader, previously in use, on an axis below the water line. Independent of the want of originality, the Learned Counsel said was not sufficientlythat the s p ec ifi ca ti on explicit to inform the pub lic of the na t ure of the invention, and con tended, therefore, that Mr. Lowe was not entitled to the patent. Mr. Gallaway, the engineer, and several other scien tific gentlemen were examined in support of the plain tiff's case, but their evidence was almost entirely of a technical and scientific nature. The case had not concluded, and was likely to occupy a considerable time. PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco, before Mr. Justice MAIILE, Mr. Justice CRESSWELL, Mr. Justice WILLIAMS, and Mr. Justi , ce UFO unD.) The cases which came before this Court this morning prelerdpo pp feature of interest to merit a report. BOROUGH. HOP IVI.A.RILET. For all kinds of Hops, both Old and New, the demand is heavy, at barely stationary prices:. WHITISCBAPEZ. Prime Beef and Mutton commanded a steady sale, at full prices. In all akar kinds of Meat very little busi• ness was transactQd. Beef, from 2s 6d to 3s 4d; Mutton, 2s 10d to 3s ad; Veal, Ss to 4s; and Pork, 2s 10d to 4. per Sibs., by the carcase. WEDNESDAY CONCERTS.-MR. STAMMERS'S BEND. FlT.—The seventeenth of the London Wednesday Con. certs for the present season takes place this evening at Exeter Hall. The performances are for the benefit of Mr. Stammers, the director, to whose enterpriz e we are indebted for the establishment of these delightful weekly musical reunions. All the notabilities of the London Wednesday concerts (including Messrs. Sims Reeves, Forme', and Ernst) will appear on the occasion, and there can be no doubt but that the ball will be crowded to excess. LAUNCHES ON THE WEAL—The Sunderland ship builders are emulous of the skill of the Yankee gaiter maker, Rho threw his productions over his shoulder as he finished them, and had a gaiter continually in the air! There is everlastingly in Sunderland a ship rushing out of air into water—seeking, as our friends the penny-a liners periphrastically, if not philosophically affirn, " its native element." Only on Monday last, Rogerson and Wilkinson, and Briggs and Candlish, and Haswell and Naseby, and the veteran Laing, were all shoving new ships into the Wear; and it comforts us to know that Mr. Laing's splendid barque, the Talavara, 916 tons, classed at Lloyd's A 1, 13 years, has found a purchaser in Mr. David D un b ar, w h o h a d once a croc h e t i n hi s head (new happily ex p e ll e d) th a t s hippi ng was going to the dope—Gateshead Observer. MONEY arm COMMERCIAL NEV., CITIti. QUARTER TO TLInE• t There was a d u ll an d h ea vy market for C otten 3 Liverpool yesterday, and the sales were only 1,50 0 t° 2,000 bal es . A mer i can d escr iptions were 1-163. to id per lb. low e r.—H a il e ay Shares were dull, and priovs had a di.wnward tendency. tte Indigo aucticommenced an a The Tons yesterday.aa quantity d ec l are d i s 14 , 369 c h ests. This includes 8,4 d". chests of Bergal, Oude, &c., 1.164 of Madra s, 518 Kurpah, an d 3,790 chests of various kinds , in te4en' hands. The qualities of the Bengal aro abou t ou l: faurth goad and tine, and three-fourths mid. a nd t; The Madras i s one -thi r d mi d, an d or d., and twe-th ot ir ei good and fine. Th e K urpa h two thi r d s mid• and orda and one-third good and fine. The Oude, and Manilla chiefly ord. Th e sa l e - ro om presented alit appearance, including a f vir attandaree f foreign lailYors, but of the home trade very few, the latter cousiderinf that the advance which has taken place since last WI; her sales would not be maintained; the result, however, of this the first day has not only so far established late rise, but has even gone beyond ia The . 01 : ° P rig opened with a parcel c f Bengal, which, a c tor faw lots at full 9d. par lb. advance, was withdrawn. 1 1. other parcels were offered which sold readily a t 61 l°lb. per lb. above October rates for Bengal ; shove for Madras and Kurpah; and 41. per lb. for Ouet b. 1,022 chests passed to-day, of which 251 wer e wit drawn, 206 bought it), and 565 sold. H a t ted 'The rates at which bills of exchange were nege'", - ; ,. yesterday aft.ernoon, on the principal continental 64 were all higher. Ninety days' paper was done at 25 „ 36 4d. to a per . e. to 674 on Paris, at 13 12;1 to 13 on li a taburght to 40 on Trieste, and 12 24 to 3on Amsterdam - A 0,0 The accounts from abroad are tolerably gcod, o n " French Rentes continue to advance. InF glee, a l „ . „" nevertheless, how unsettled is the state cf public fee" - rj otherwise it would not be necessary to form Oe 311egY eg plans for re-organizing the army and distribillind it into four great d iv i s i ons un d er the ce rnW re a be of generals of known firmness and I,e a bility.; fear of anarchy tri um ph s even o ver the u tn esl itl of liberty, so stro ng ly f e lt b y the large i n - e a r its of Frenchmen. We are o f opinion that in som e 1.8 100 more is being made of th e threatening attitude ' for Socialists than is really justified by circumstio n lyelf trade in France is described as being t.tall comPa re- dily prosperous, the deposits in the savinge' banks are rtes tie eg nell7 t increasing, and the operatives and artisans are well employed, and, one would imagine, on that accent,. not much disposed to join in new g olitical tne fe . u3 .: c j i ll Finally, we should note that the P llentes ha" 6 ' e tended upwarda, and that sales of En lish S t°e ' Fs stated to have been made reeentl inu g dieiously ais think) for the purpose of investing the pr ocee ds French securities. There is a very fiat market again for English i n ee r ' u ce ri l: ties, and the Bug account is made to tall urn r t i tlist Great efforts are made also to keep the market, 3 : 0 0 point which will bring fewest "options" into Pi e ,4,00 10 the 16th ult., the first day of the new account, v:„"a111 were 964 to 97, and from that time have been 6 t a gh declinine, being at their lowest point this daY, t . c - 4 they were done on the 7th inst. also '' * Oa d The " puts " will be available, there for*, s eta those who have " call s " are d e barred fr eis ing, because there is no r i se s i nce they PurchaseticP rrate cl Rumour avers that an emi nen t fi rm has o versely to prices because of its hostility to any re s ores so ra in the rate of int eres t on C onso l s, an d t o this i ti latob supposing the Government had the chance, th e ;ve!' banks are likewise said t) be inimical. With his lent surplus, th e Ch ance ll or o f t h e E xc h e quer 1333 „ 1 tbet withstanding be y e t i n a p os i t i on to carr y out 5 ;00 1 operation of scarc e ly l ess i mportance, viz., narje- be his of part of the Iri s h l oan , an d suc h i s ' be/Laved 10 CO' intention. The New Three-and-a-Quarter Pf r nt have realised 97i t o 984, and the Three per t i e a t 26 5 ' (laced Annuities 951 to India Stock has bele - coo' Exchequer-bills have been 85s. to 58s. premium' sols now are 964 -1 make to fef, In the Foreign Mark e t p re p ara ti ons are tue i r t - 0 2 4 . to-morrow's settlement. Russian Scrip is 1 1 A bale premium, bein g ra th er hi g h er. M ex i ca n ne c .": l o 4 l touched 294 4. Equador are flat at 31 i; realise 18k ; and Buenos Ayres have rallied to ° B2 to 61. Peruvian Sto c k i s still rising; the Active i 5 e e l& 83, and the Defe rre d 37 to 3 74 . S pan i s h Five f e r r Cel o are neglected at 18 4 -1 , and Portuguese Four P er Celt s ' have been 354 ex dividend. Dutch Four Pe r have been 864. A gig giG. Railway Shares have Leon rather dePresseb- scold but they are not very much pressed for sale. We rather say th a t th ere was a temporary elog 6 s. ! ‘ buyers, and Vita the result of th e ensuing m e - Leing looked to ha f ore parties mak• investmetis' dons' we know that efforts are being made to k e l 001 prices, and that a small ra t e o f interest is P i " r i na Ou t ' instances to induce iarties not t o t a ke their s ha t next account day. 6 .0 4' , ..,--,ef .1, - ONE op 9P/4 PR. 1 , :, .o.t , toTttill , IrND, O'CLOCK, f • . 0 4 31 er Cent. Reduced Anns ...... 95 5 4, 3 / 4 % .2 , 1 / , 984, i per Cent. Consols Annuities........ 95% ii '7 4 , t 961 a _l6 New 3!,‘ per Cent. Anne....... 98 1 e:44 4 8 9 9 7 .16 6 'A _ong Anna. to expire Jan.l860 Ditto 30 yearr, Jan. 5, 1860. B% 86 P India Stock •• 265 86y 'mils. Bonds, 1,000/, Ditto under 1,000 t... .. 89 86 p 964 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 ... ousols for Account 9541 42‘2d bo P xchequer Bills. 11 ' 4 " .- 56 f 1,0001. June 55 .58 P 68 I ) 5001. June 58 P •.; Small. June 55 . e ir , rul e S ih 8914 ~-/. 59 6 1 5 8 7 2 1 00 4 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. olft o,cl,lCn razilian Bonds Ditto, Account Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 5 / ~., Ditto, Account . 59 ui Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent ..••• Do., 3 per cent • ............. -- Danish Bonds, 1825,3 per Cent. 04 ..., 0 GE rqDitto Grenada n oo ennr Bonds ss C , e 1 Cent... i t .. p . e . . r . . .... . 4,,ki C t kmexican, 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons -7 13 3 Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons eenivian Bonds, 4 per Cent Ditto, Account 83 82% 82 37 " Ditto Deferred - A Portuguese 5 per Cents. ,4 Ditto,4 per Cent. Russian Bonds Ditto Scrip 2 14 1% 2 P 131 1710 Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840 4 Ditto. 3 per Cent ......... ...... Venezuela Bonds, 2- 1 , 4 : per Cent Ditto, Deferred , 00% Dividends on the ab ove paya bl e in u" noon. 86," Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild. .. , d oe Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates B6 'A ..,.. 0 a f eE:O pO , •- FS' .4 PRICES OF ELISINESS,OO. Id lAILWAY SHARES. PAID. AT ONE 'Y' ... " 1 2 ,,,, ... 4 ;uckinghamshire ..... VP Caledonian Ditto, New 104 Pref... 10 ... .!hester an d H o l y h ea d ... 50 .... 10 ..,11.. Ditto, Preference ".. .. ... '.astern Counties........ 20 ...« 7 I A7a •" Ditto,Extension, 5 per ....... Cent., No.l 6/.135. 4d.... :N % P••• ....... Ditto ditto, No. 2...61. 13s. 4d... ;4 2 % P•• .. Pastern Union, Class A ..• (late E. U. Shares) 25 Do. Scrip (6 per cent.) 20 ._ 13 3 / 4 ... .............. .:: :: East Lancashire -• 2B 27. q ... ... ..dinburgh and Glasgow 50 .. ... ....... ;rest Northern I .;roat Western 100 ...... €6 65 ....... . . • Ditto, 1 ,4 Shares ... Ditto, 1 4 Shares .. .• Ditto, Fifths ..... Ditto, New 17/... ..... 15 ..., Lancashire& Yorkshire 100 - ............... Do. Quarters ........ 23% l2 •• -••°" ........ Do. Fifths..- ........ ... 10 Leeds and Bradford 5O lOO - ............. .. ••••• L'indon & Black w a 11...11/. 6 s . 3d 4 4•••• ..... 1 2 ti t Lo ,don and N Western 100 11 3 124 112 - . •• Ditto, New Quarters.. 12 13%...•• •'" '; , ,, Ditto, ... London SrS.Westcrn lOO .. - ..... '''•. .. i )0., New Preference ... Hid! Ind ... .. tlo.Consol.Bristol and Do., do., 50i. Shares 30 ... .. 6 64 ........ ;:: Do. Birm., and Derby ICO .... Binning., 6 per ct.... 100 .., 123 .... .. ... North British ... .... ... 25 .... Ditto, Quarters 0. North Staffordshire geading, Guildford, and Reigate l5 15 Royston and Hitchin .. .......... Shropshire Union %nth Staffordshire.— 8 % ...... -th 4%... '' .... • So ath Eastern .. o , uuth Wales Wear Valley 6 per Cent Guaranteed ... .- . .... Do. do. do. ... 25 York, Newcastle. and B D e o r . w* ( f . k N .. E. ... p . r " ertr z , 25 8 .........: 1 2 5 2 5 ; . 1 3 .6 :: 1 ii . 1: .. ..i1 5 :! . .: York and North Midland 50 FOREIGN RAIL WAY'' ....... • Boulogneoind Amiens... 20 Ditch Rhenish ......... 8 ... Paris and Orleans ...... 20 ..... 31 3 4 •-*" MINES. ....••' Anglo-Mexican lOO Australian 4 ..... . 6 1 / A.2,!--...... P f Mr. H. P. Davis, .0n the 7th inst., at --------Clarendon-square, S° l3l-- - WO* ..._ t o 7th inst., at Ferry-side, ,„,.:. t w o: wire o On the ir of iß a T d ff a S u . gliter . John Nunes,of 14 (0 ° a daughter. , the ' On the 9 , h • J. Ile • inst., at Onslow-villas, Brornpton eldie, Esq ,Ad • lof hll t lie On the mire ty, a son. , tt ivg-- I ' • 10th inst., at Ladbreke-square, 0° of 011°' wife of G. H. Ullathorne, Esq., of a 50 5: ~w• At Hampstead, on the 11th inst •' wile of q Esq., of a daughter. h Esq•' On the btu inst., the wife of J• Alderton Bu s- ' Union-grove, and Essex-street, of a daugh er• ; JO MARRIED. TT 1 3 1 irr. n of Cartnartue . f On the 11th inst., at the Church a the rio for . Paddington, Charls Goring, Esq., only son (4' gist /41/11" Dent Goring, Bart., of Highden, Sussex, second daughter of the late Jones Panton,..lau'' Eiq•+ Gwyn, Anglesey. o ttr DIED. h C 6ldee t 0 MariPir o f pia - At Trevandrum, on the 17th Decem'6er, jo- ri , be Pi Esq., KR-8-, F. R. A. S., director of his Highness . . 4 , tr' of Travancore's Observatory, aged 49 years. s de 0 1 On the 7th inst., at BrOnlpton, Miss Frann! . , 11, •,, tenet', niece On the rth inot , aged 84, Mr. Robert NI 11 ,'_ u o it:ngi o , P e ct , of the late Captain Sir J. Barcla";._ i f t rior o ? e _l and for nearly half a century a clerk in the Barth son, port At Du-ley, on the 9th inst„ Frederick A. john of o f rot. 27, youngest son of the late W. E. 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