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woollens the best season is passiag away ; still there has been a good demand for them. Turkey red goods remain light of stock, but the dealers have not been such ready buyers as before. In the shape of metals, copper, and iron remain depressed, and prices have further de clined. Spelter and tin plates are on the rise. Salt is slightly lower. Exports—Our market for country produce has con tinued very active, and the desire to operate has been universal; but the bare state of the bazaar has kept transactions within limits. The accounts just received from home are not quite of the same encouraging nature as before; but the slight depression which our advices represent owe their origin to the unsettled state of po litical affairs in Germany, and not to any change in the important principles which has imparted such a health ful tone to the English markets. Within the past two or three days the business has been trifling, in conse quence of the desire of parties to receive the balance of their correspondence by the regular dawk from Bom bay before entering into enlarged transactions. The extremely high rate of exchange has had its share in limiting shipments, but we are inclined to think that this item would be disregarded if our market had been better supplied; because there is a strong feeling among buyers that the home markets have not yet seen their highest, and that the domestic consumption mast in crease materially in consequence of the immense assem blage of people that is expected to take place during the Great Industrial Exhibition of 1851. Freights—Our freight market hat been very unsteady during the past fortnight, and on the whole rates have had a downward career under the iniluence of abundant tonnage and little prodnee to ship. Before the arrival of the mail there was some activity visible, and rice to London was shipped by first-class vessels at 3/.105., and other goods in proportion. The American ships have offered some competition, and have been, to a certain degree, instrumental in giving the market a d ownwar d tendency. In sugars the transactions lately have b een limited. Jute freight continues firm. To the Mauritius we. cannot qu ote beyond Company's rup ees 1 3 per b ag. To China a large shipping order was taken yesterday for rice at 80 cents per bag. Exchange—Our exchange market opened for the mail at 2 21, for American and other g o o d cre dit bill s at six months' sight, and 2 2, for best document bills. At, these rates a considerable business has been trans acted. The Oriental Bank also sold at 22/ for six months' sight, to some extent, and subsequently at 2 21, as the rate fell The bulk of the business has been done at the above rates, but some transactions in Baring's bills have, within the last two or three days, been concluded at 22. In Bank of England posters we have not heard of sales to any amount, but 2 If may be quoted as the rate at which large sums could be sold. Bank credits at 60 days' sight have been placed at 2PIto 2 per Com pany's rupee. On China sales have been effected for about 3 lacs of rupees, at rates varying from Company's rupees 223 to 225 per 100 dollars, which rates are still current and are likely to be maintained. On Mauritius we have no business to record beyond some trifling operations at 50 cents. Sin C. NAPIER AND THE INDIAN ARMY Sir C. Napier has issued the following " farewell" General Order to the officers of the army : " HEAD -QUARTERS, CAMP, FEROZEPORE, DEC. 15. " 1. It would neither be justifiable nor becoming in me to interfere with the private affairs of officers in the army which I have the honour to command, so long as those private affairs do not interfere with the public ser vice. But when they injure the public service, when they reflect disgrace upon our uniform, it becomes my duty to draw attention to the subject, and in this public manner call upon the officers of the Queen's and Com paay's services to exert themselves in maintaining the honour of their regiments, by assisting the Commander in-Chief in putting a check upon those whose debte are no less injurious to the fair fame of the military profes sion, than discreditable to their regiments and ruinous to themselves. "2. It is more than one year since I received a very excellent letter from a Brigadier upon this important subject. I had then just assumed my present command. I waited to see more clearly how matters stood before I felt justified in touching upon affairs of so private a na ture. From that time to this day a considerable portioa of my time has been taken up in the examination of weekly, if not daily, complaints against officers for non payment of debts, and, in some instances, the ruin of tradesmen has been consequent on that cause. There is, therefore, a call upon me for this order—a call which cannot be cast aside. " 3. When it is considered that the army is of an im mense magnitude, I am bouad to say that the number of officers who have misconducted themselves in a man ner so derogatory to the character of gentlemen is not inordinate; but at the same time it is so large as to demand repression with a strong hand; and I do trust that the officers of regiments will take not only vigor ous, but rigorous, measures to bring those who are guilty to a sense of shame at being ordered to appear before a court of requests for debt. An officer who is summoned before a Court of Requests must feel conscious that, although wearing the British uniform, he is not standing there in the character of a gentleman! He must feel, if he feels at all, disgust at his own degraded position. He may, by possibility, have been unfortunate; he may only have been thoughtless, but must feel in his heart that he is before the public, in a group with the infamous,—with those who are cheats, and whose so ciety is contamination. A well-bred gentleman cannot support this feeling. "4. I am not merely a rich man speaking to those who are poor. I have known poverty, and have lived for years on less than half what every ensign in this army receives, and so lived, too, in a more expensive country than India. I take no merit to myself for this —I only state it as a fact, that I may not be taunted on the tbreshhold of my argument by being told 3 know nothing of the difficulties of poverty. I do know them perfectly, and I know more—l know that every ensign in India can live well on his pay, and that many who have never appeared before a Court of Requests have largely assisted their families—largely, compared to their means. " 5. I do not say that a subaltern officer can give dinners; I do not say he can indulge in many luxuries; I do not say he can cast off all self-denial; nor do I see why he should do any these things. The proceedings before these Courts of ttequest are the shameful proolis that he should not. When an officer gets a commission, he, without that labour which attends the initiation into most other professions, at once receives a good income, and that before he has any knowledge of his trade. In most other professions a young man hardly gets his food at the commencement. The families of many officers, if not of all, have made great sacrifices to gain this amply sufficient income for those officers, and these last have no right whatever to live as if they were gen tlemen of landed property, nor as men do who have served longer and earned a higher rank and greater in come than themselves. It is the desire to imitate those above us, and not to regard our own means, that is mis chievous to all, and most so to young men. "6. The result is ruin to numbers. To show this I will quote from two Brigadiers! letters, sent officially for my perusal, upon this degrading subject. At a Court of Requests held on the 6th inst. there were 53 cases, and (with the exception of four of trifling amount) all against subalterns —amount. 4,875 rupees.' Again, the seine officer writes, ' Decrees of execution general are not unfrequent, and the efficiency of the officers seriously affected by their pecuniary embarrassments.' Again, Although lam aware that it is very difficult to cen t' of the expenditure of officers, yet when they are brought forward thus publicly, month after month, I consider it my duty to bring to the notice of his Excellency th e in volved circumstances of the officers under my command, with whom, in other respects, I have no fault to find.' " 7. Another Brigadier writes thus:—` Another officer I know enjoys champagne tiffins, leaviag his servants to drag him before the court for their just claims. How humiliating for those connected with, and proud of, the profession Yes, it is humiliating, and long experience tells me that it is to the exemplary con duct of regimental officers, and to the sentences of Courts-martial, that the army must look for cor recting this baseness in individuals. That the Com mander-in-Chief will support the officers of regiments I may venture to assert, whoever that Commander-in- Chief may be; but the close and dominating power to keep down such misconduct is in the messes. The man must be base, in every souse of the word, that can bear the contumely of his comrades, incurred by a disgrace ful action. B ut I mast not confine myself t o messes alone. Commanders of regiments should strenuously, exert themselves to maintain the good name of their re giments. They should recollect that Courts of Requests, when they decide that justice to a tradesman or other creditor demands of them to put an officer under stop. pages, pronounce that the said officer is a man so lost to all sense of propriety that he endeavours to defraud his creditor, and therefore can no longer be considered in the light of a gentleman. He is forced to be honoura ble against his will; and it is the bounden duty of the commanding officer to refuse such a person all indul gence, and to hold him so strictly in band that such misconduct on the officer's part may, at all events, be as disagreeable to that officer himself as it is to his regi ment and his tradesmen. 8. That lam not exaggerating these matters I could easily prove by publiahing such facts to the officers of the two armies as would shcck every honest and honourable man, and show h ow entirely I am authorised in saying that these facts are, t o the last degree, dis honourable. One commanding officer of a regiment writes thus:—' I can confidently assert that the nume rous cases brought monthly before the Courts of Re quests is a disgrace to the army we belong to.' This is one among many who are labouring for the honour of the service. .9. I have not sought for this information ' from officers; these letters came uninvited from men services, and rank in both the Queen's and the Company's and have been sent to me, formally, as official complaints. They are men who feel as every officer in the Queen's and Company's services ought to feel. " 10. But, while stating how very disgraceful it is for an officer to appear before a Court of Requests, I will say a few words upon the causes of such conduct. "11. The first is, that some young men get commis sions without having had much education, or, perhaps, a vulgar o ne , which is worse. These officers are not aware that honesty is inseparable from the character of a thoroughbred gentleman. A vulgar man, who en joys a champagne tiffin, and swindles his servants' (as a Brigadier writes t o me, when speaking of these matters, and referring to an officer under his immediate com mand), may be a pleasant Companion to those who do not hold him in contempt as a vulgar knave, but ho is not a gentleman. His commission makes him an officer, but he is not a gentleman, and I claim that cheracfer in all its integrity for the officers of her Mejcstv ir 's senice and for n, t those of the lion. East Indi a C0,,,s speak of men whose own misconduct has brought them into deb!—not of those whom misfortune has thrown into debt. These last are very •few in number, and very unfortunate . in deed to be on the same list with those whom they de spise! Of those who are so unfortunate I need not sneak; their own exertions to pay their debts are unceas ing and honourable. " 12. The second cause is, that young men arrive "us India, and think that, having escaped from school, it is manly to be dishonourable. So they cheat the Govern ment by not attending to their duties, and they cheat their tradesmen by not paying their debts. They meet champagne-drinking swindlers, who sponge on them and lead them into expanse. Thus comes debt—then bankers are at hand to advance money; thus they become in volved past redemption, and soon the habit cf being constantly in debt makes them grow callous to the pro per feelings of a gentleman. " 13. Now, if all officers commanding regiments were to do their duty (as great numbers do), and if the body of officers of each regiment would give such a commander proper support, this course would not be followed by young men on their arrival in India. By strict lessons in their duties, and plenty of drill, the commanding officers of regiments would prevent Government being cheated, and by the proper gentleman-like conduct and honourable sentiments which should pervade every mess, reprobating expense and extravagance of all sorts, and by practising rigid economy in the establishment, the young officer would at once learn that to drink unpaid for champagne, unpaid-for beer, and to ride unpaid-for horses, is to be a cheat and not a gentleman. " 14. The third cause of debt is, the constant march ing of regiments. This has no remedy in time of war, and I have strongly recommended that it should be, as much as possible, avoided in time of peace. It is very severe on the troops, and on the State itself. The Governor-General concurred in my recommendation that the troops should not be generally relieved this year, and I hope none may be moved for some years to come, if peace continues. However, these marches ought not to throw careful and honourable men into debt. They are, when required, the proper and just demands of the service; and every man can be, and ought to be, fully prepared to meet them. Still these marches are causes of difficulty, and the difficulties which result from them are, in some degree, excusable in very young and inexperienced men, but not so in old officers who have risen to the rank of lieutenant. " 15. The fourth case of debt is the extravagance of messes. This I entirely charge upon the commanding officers. Many regiments (both Queen's and Company's) have economical messes, especially in the Queen's regi ments, because the number of officers in the latter is so large. But many regiments are extrava gant; and in all cases where a mess is extrava gant, the fault lies with the commanding officer. I have heard it said by some that • the commanding officer ought not to interfere with the mess, which should be considered as the private table of the officers.' Now, people who talk thus forget that there is a wide differ ence between a mess and a private gentleman's table. The last is regulated by his income, and there is bat one income and one master to be consulted as to expense. But in a mess there are many masters, and the mess must be regulated by the income of the poorest. The majority have no right to crush the poor and prudent officers, with the extent of whose liabilities they are utterly ignorant. Must an officer, because he belongs to a mess, explain all his distresses, his misfortunes, his generosities, his follies, to the members of a mess, in order to prove his incompetency to meet its extrava gance? Common sense forbids this; yet, unless the mess is on such an economical footing as to enable the ensign on his pay to join it, this infringement on a gentleman's private liabilities and demands must take place; and the commanding officer alone can protect every one under his orders from the often insufferable presumption of mess committees. He alone can properly direct and so rule matters that the ensign can live on his pay, and live becomingly; that is to say, save on his pay. Ido not call drinking wine or beer, or inviting friends, becoming.' It may be so, or it may not, according to the means and feelings of each indi vidual. All I maintain is, that the mess must leave each member free to do as his means enable him; for each officer is individually responsible for his conduct to the public, from which tie receives his pay. This is justice, and justice can never be wrong. The pay of an ensign is sufficient for his just expenditure, and the command ing officer is, and can alone be, responsible that this rule of rigid and just economy is never infringed. What officer will go to a mess committee and tell his private misfor tunes, or his difficulties, Yet this is what those people (who say that the commanders of regiments ought not to interfere with the mess) want ! They are overbearing tyrants, who want to set aside the pri vate affairs of officers, and to make those officers who cannot afford such extravagance pay for these persons' selfish enjoyments, which they want to indulge in at other men's expense. That is the real object of those who wish to prevent the interference of commanding officers; but the ralea of both Queen's and Company's services give commanding officers the right to interfere, and the Commander-in-Chief will take care to hold him responsible that the ensign has his rights; namely, the power to live at the mess as becomes an officer and a gentleman—chinking water if he pleases, or drinking champagne if he pleases; but able out of his pay to li quidate his debts like a gentleman, drinking what he may. That is to say, that the necessary mess charges leave him enough out of his pay to cover all his other reasonable expenses. " 16. The fifth cause of expense and ruin I believe to be the banks. They afford a ready means for the young and foolish to obtain money, but at an enormous interest. I have heard the objection to banks contested on the score that formerly officers who now borrow from banks borrowed from natives, and even from their own soldiers; that it is, therefore, better for an officer to be in debt to a bank than to natives. lam unable to say what was formerly done, but lam perfectly sure that whatever facilitates the borrowing of money produces ruin to young officers, encouraging those vices which are the most mischievous, especially racing —a vice always ac companied by gambling and extravagance. "17. Some of the evils which I have touched upon may be remedied by the Commander-in-Chief; some by com manders of regiments; some by the officers of regiments as bodies; and some by individualN themselves. To these I must leave them. I can only offer my advice as I quit the scene. To-day lam Commander-in-Chief ; a week hence I shall be no more to the armies of India than a private gentleman. But the armies of India must ever be much and dear to me ! For nine years my whole energies, such as they are, have been devoted to the honour acd glory of the Company's troops. I may say that I have become as much identified with the armies of the three Presidencies as if I had risen from their racks; I have jealously guarded their honour, and 1 have fought at their head. " 18. I now leave them for ever. But in the retire ment of private life, although no longer able to serve them. the destinies of the Indian armies will ever occupy my thoughts. " 19 I here take leave of them, hoping that this order will be of use, as the last which I can issue to the armies of India. " C. J. NAPIER, General Commander-in-Chief, East Indies. " By order of his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, " ARMINE S. H. MOUNTAIN, Colonel Adjutant-General of her Majesty's Forces in India. " Head-quarters, Camp Ferozepore, Dec. 9, 1850." THEATRE ROYAL, DRITRY-LANE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. James Anderson. THIS EVENING, Will be presented by her Majesty's Servants 14th time, a new Comedy, called, THE OLD LOVE AND THE NEW. Sir Algernon Courtonn, Mr. Cooper; Major Stock, Mr. Emery ; Captain Sidney Courtoun, Mr. J. Anderson ; Mr. Haythorn, Mr. Barrett ; Miss Trimmer, Mrs. Ternan ; Camilla Haythorn, Mrs. Nisbett ; Cherry Bounce, Mrs. Walter Lacy. After which THE ELDER BROTHER ; or Love at First Sight. Private Boxes, 3/. 35., 2/. 12s. 6(1., 2/. 25., 1/. lls. 6d., and 11. Is. To be obtained on application at the Box-office ; Mr. Sam's Libarary, St. James's-street ; Messrs. Mitchell Ebers and Co. ; Andrews and Alcroft, Bend-street; at Jullien's Music Warehouse, Regent street ; Chappels, New Bond-street ; Leader and Cocks, 63, New Bond-street; Ransford and Co., New Bond-street; and Bailey and Moon, Carlton Library. 12, Regent-street. Stalls, ss. each. First Price—Dress Circle, ss. Od. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit. 2s. 6d. ; Lower Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, 6d.. Second Price at Nine o'Clock—Dress Circle, 2s. 6d. ; Boxes, 26.; Pit, Is. 6d. No Half-price to Upper or Lower Galleries. The Box-office open from 11 till 4. It is respectfully intimated that seats in the Boxes cannot be reserved atter the First Aet of the Play. THEATRE ROYAL, IlAYMAtticzl. Mr. B. Wetster, Solo Lessee and Manager. 01d Rrompton. LAST NIGHT Of MR. MACREADY. THIS EVENING Will be oeilrmed KING LEAR. King Lear, Mr. Macready. After which a new translation of THE SECOND CALENDAR and the QUEEN of BEAUTY who had the Fight with the Genie. Principal characters by Messrs. J. Bland, Selby, Lebarr, Buckatone, Mrs. L. S. Buckingham, Mrs. Fitzwilliam, Miss P. Dorton, and Miss A. P.omer. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the direction of Madame Celesta, THIS EVENING, Will be performed an entirely new grand Drama, n 3 acts, entitled RELPHEGOR THE MOUNTEBANK; or, The Pride of Birth. Duke de Montbaaon, Mr. Hughes ; Count de St. Cyr, Mr. Boyce ; The Chevalier de Rolac, Mr. 0. Smith; Guillaume, surnamed Bel- Phegor, Mr. B. Webster; Ajax, alias Mr. Merryman, Mr. Wright ; Captain Pufferes, Mr. Worrell ; Madeliene, Madame Celeste ; Ni n i F lora Aphrodite Stilz, Miss Woolgar. To be followed by a new Extravaganza called LA TARANTULA ; or, the spider Zing. Ch arac t ers by Messrs. Wright, P. Bedford, 0. Smith, Honey, Miss Woolgar, Miss:E. Chaplin, Miss K. Fitzwilliarn, Madame Celeste, &c. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEA TRE, OXFORD-STREET. Un Management of Mr. C. Ream and Mr. Keeley. Will be performed the TH IS EVENING, Bartley. First Part of HENRY IT. Falstaff, Mr. After which a new Comic Christmas Pantomime, called ALONZO THE BRAVE AND THE FAIR IMOGENE ; or, Harlequin and the Baron all covered with Jewels and Gold. Clown, Mr. Flesmore ; Mr. Cormack ; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ,and Columbine, Harlequin , Miss Carlotta Le Clercq. ROYAL LYCEUM THEA' Under the Management of Madame y 601 e Lessee, Mr. Charles .Mathewrzia. THIS EVENING, Will be perftormed THE HANDSOME HUSBAND. After which an entirely new and original Fairy Extravaganza to be called KING CHARMING; or, the Blue Bird of Paradise. Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, F. Matthews, Horncastle, Suter, Bellingham, and Homier Madame Vestris, Mrs. Frank mattnews, Miss Ellis, Mrs. C. Horn, Miss St. George, and Miss Martindale. BOX AND COX. To conclude with ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Farren. Great hit of the Romance of the Nose. IS EVE N ING, Will be perfor ned ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD. An Entertainment by Mr. G. W. Pell, the Ethiopian Serenader. To be followed by PRINCE DORUS ; or, The Romance of the Nose, in which Messrs. 11. Farren, Compton, Shalders, W. Farrell, jun., Cooke; Mesdames Louisa Howard, Ellen Turner, and Matille. dele will appear. As I LEY's ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Under the Patronage of her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert. Proprietor arid Manager, Mr. W. Batty. Extraordinary series of attractive novelties. Last Week of the Pantomime. THIS EVENING The Grand new Spectacle or Ii ENILSIORTII ; or the Goldea Days of the Virgin Queen, with new and costly costumes. After Wt jell Moos. Plasche in his wonderful Ascent on the Barrel. Together with Batty 's Splendid Scenes of the Circle. To conclude with an entirely new and original grand historical Equestrian Christmas Pantomime, written expressly for this Theatre by the author of " Bluff King Hal," to be entitled HARLEQUIN AND O'DONOGIIUE ; or, The White Horse of Killarney, Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. T. Thompson. _,. -W THE SUN, DAILY WEATHER TABLE. State of the Wind and Weather at each of the following places at Nine o'clock on Saturday morning.—The stations are arranged in order of latitude. KINGSTOWN (DUBLIN)—Wind N.W., gentle breeze— overcast. PLYMOUTH—Wind S.E. strong breeze—partially cloudy. POOLE —Wind E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. Poaysmoum—Wind N. W., gentle breeze—overcast. BRIGHTON—Wind N.E., calm—overcast. HASTINGS—Wind N.E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. JOUTHAMPTON— Wind N., strong breeze—partially cloudy. FOLKESTONE—Wind S.W., gentle breeze—overcast. TUNBRIDGE—Wind N.W., calm—overcast. BASINGSTOKE—Wind N.E., gentle breeze —overcast. GREENWICH—Wind N.E., gentle breeze —overcast. SWINDON—Wind N.E., light airs—overcast. OXFORD—Wind S.W., calm—overcast. LEIGHTON -- Wind E., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. COLCHESTER—Wind S.W., calm —overcast. CAMBRIDGE —Wind W., gentle breeze—cloudless. RUGBY—Wind W., gentle breeze —partially cloudy. PETERBOROUGH—Wind W., calm—cloudless. YARmourn—Wind W., calm—cloudless. LYNN—Wind N.W., gentle breeze—foggy. CREWE—Calm— hard frost. CONWAY— Wind E., gentle breeze--partially cloudy. FIOLYHEAD—Wind N.E., strong breeze—partially cloudy. YORK—Wind N. W., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. LANCASTER—Wind E., calm—principally clear. Warrzy—Wind N.W., calm—foggy. DARLINGTON—Wind W.N.W., gentle breeze—strong frost. SNAP—Wind N.W., gentl e b reeze —f rost an d snow. WINTENAyEN—Wind S.W., gentle breeze partially cloudy. CARLISLE —Wind N., gentle breeze—partially cloudy. BaNwrot—Wind N., strong breeze—rain. Y+ ~b HIYI4~RU ilfl~ - rw 7 LONDON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 185 The great Irish, perhaps more appropriately, we should say the great Dublin demonstration in oppo sition to the abolition of the Viceroyalty, came off a few days since, under the auspices of the new Lord Mayor, Mr. GUINNESS. The meeting, though un doubtedly respectable, was not of that important character either in reference to its numbers, its en thusiasm, or its arguments, which the great prepara tions and long -trumpeted preliminaries would have led us to anticipate. The aristocratic order was duly represented on the occasion. But it should be borne in mind that many of those noblemen reside in the vicinity of the metropolis, within range of those courtly hospitalities which they are so eminently qualified to enjoy and reciprocate. The ancient castles of Howth and Malahide are within a con venient and neighbourly distance of the Phoenix• park• It is quite natural that their noble proprietors should throw the shield of their protection over the old halls of St. Patrick, endeared to them by many and agreeable recollections ; but social and convivial feelings, however generous or amiable do not, in our mind, constitute reasons sufficiently cogent to sway a Minister from his announced purpose of carrying into effect a great imperial project. The Noble Marquis who opened the debate said that when the measure was last year brought before Parliament he was favourable to it. His opposition to the Viceroyalty dated from the period when a certain Lord-Lieutenant, in the opinion of the Noble Marquis, abused the prerogative of mercy by extending pardon to several prisoners then incarcerated in Ireland. With all due deference to his Lordship, we think the abuse of any office may be a sufficient reason for the removal of the official who abused it ; but we are not disposed to think it a sufficient reason for the total abolition of the office itself, and we believe the Act referred to by the Noble Marquis was received by the great majority of the Irish people with expressions of joy and gratitude. Indeed, if the Noble Marquis could find no better or more substantial grounds than these on which to base his objections to the Viceregal office, it does not come upon us with much surprise to find his Lord ship following the fashionable tendency of the day, and becoming an illustrious convert to viceregal pro tection. The bar was ably represented by the talent of Mr. NAPIER and the eloquence of Mr. WHITESIDE ; but even the ingenuity of these eminent lawyers failed to make out a case for the continuance of a separate Ex ecutive now-a- days in Ireland. Mr. NAPIER spoke with trembling and alarm of the principle of centralization He asks, " Is Dublin to continue a metropolis ?" "Ifso, her metropolitan institutions should be preserved. Property could not be kept up without laws, nor learning without colleges ; and an aristocracy should be kept up by institutions calculated to sustain it." Scotland has no Viceroy, yet her legal and literary institutions have not been absorbed or centraliwd, her colleges and her laws remain untouched, and her aristocracy require not to be propped up by the sha dow of royalty. She has rapidly advanced, and is still advancing, in arts and science, in agriculture and commerce; and all this with out the aid of a Viceregal Court. Mr. NAPIER'S alarms about laws and colleges are, in our opinion, groundless. W e do not think he need be appre hensive that a riot between his clients at Belfast or Ballybay will be tried at Westminster; and surely 1 the encouragement given by the present Government to the spread of education, and their anxiety to establish colleges in Ireland, affords a strong gua rantee that Irish liter ary institutions are safe. Mr. WHITESIDE, who appears to have been more facetious than logical on the occasion, proposed the following resolution, which clearly shows that the gentlemen of the long robe had other business at the Rotunda than opposition to the abolition of the Vice royality, viz.—" That being convinced that the aboli. tion of the office of Lord-Lieutenant would speedily be followed by an open attempt to transfer our courts of law and equity to Westminster, we hereby declare, on behalf of the country, that all constitu tional means ought to be employed to avert so great and general a wrong." N(.l ILLiE LACRYBUZ. Not the loss of the Viceregal Court, but LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 3, 1851 NEW STORY OF SCOTTISH LIFE, by :the Author of i,rnytor, M h N By the Author of " Passages in the Life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland of Sunny Side, A work of extraordinary beauty and p ewer."—Weekly News. "The popularity of that most remarkable work, ' Margaret Mait land,' will be eN , en surpassed by Merkland.' "—Critic. " The merits of Merkland' entitle it to rank with these unrivalled works which have conferred enduring honour on the country of the great author, by obtaining the emphatic name of ' the Scottish Novels: "—Standard. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. MEETING of PARLIAMENT THE THIRD EDITION OF "THE SUN will be found highly interesting during the present extraordinary Session of Parliament. The THIRD EDITION will contain the DEBATIS of the SAME EVENING up to the HOUR of POST ; also, SPORTING of every description, with TATTERSALL'S on Monday and Thursday Evenings in time for Post ; with the GAZETTES of Tuesday and Friday, con taining Army and Navy Promotions, Bankrupts, &c., and ALL NEWS arriving in London up to the Hour of Post. EXPRESS EDITIONS ON ALL IMPORTANT OCCASIONS. Orders received by all News-agents, and at the Sun Office, 112, Strand. Sun Office, 112, Strand, JANUARY, 1851. HIGH WATER Al LONDON BRIDGE Tim DAY —Morning 2i min. after 3 I Evening 39 min. after 3 To -Moazow—Morning 54 min. after 3 I Evening 11 min. after 4 THE WEATHER.—Strx OFFICE, FESRUARY 2. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 39—highest since noon yesterday. 31—lowest this morning and during the night. 36—this day, at noon. BAROMNYEB, 29.56. Main S. to S.E.—dirty weather with rain and sleet—fine starlight in the evening. MONDAY, FEB. 3. THERMOMETER, EN THE SHADE. 38—highest since noon yesterday. 31—lowest this morning and during the night. 40—this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 29.55. WIND S.W.—morning foggy; afternoon dull. The Commissioners is Lunacy, the proprietors of private lunatic asylums—all, in short, who are inte rested in upholding the present monstrous system of lunacy law and of l unacy a d m i n i stration in this country—are just at this moment in a state of ludi crous distress and perplexity. They feel that the time is come when they must "set their houses in order," but they are exceedingly unwilling to set about it ; and, like the hero of PRIOR'S ballad, who— " Now fitted the halter, now traversed the cart, And often took leave, yet seemed loth to depart," these worthies have recourse to all sorts of in ventions to linger out the existence of those monstr ous thelatest examples of these was in the abusesby which they profit. O ne of shape of a paragraph w hi ch appeared i n a morn ing paper, announcing th at t h e G overnment o f the United States had applied t o D r. F ORBES WINSLOW for an analysis of th e l aw of lunacy in this country. Wow, seeing that Dr. FORBES WINSLOW has recently put himself forward as the champion of the Commissioners, of the keepers of private lunatic asylums, and of the present state of the law, the intention of this announcement is obvious, it was neither more nor less than a cunning red herring trailing affair, as " who should say" Behold ! our lunacy laws are so perfect that even the Govern ment of the United States come to learn wisdom from our G-arnaliels of lunacy, the Commis sioners; how absurd then must it be to seek to alter these most excellent laws I The red-herring trailers, however, reckoned for once without their host, they forgot that the Alleged Lu natic's Friend Society was still in existence, and still as vigilant as ever. The committee of the society saw this paragraph, and forthwith applied to Mr. LAWRENC E, the United States Ambassador, to ascertain its truth, whereupon Mr. LAWRENCE granted the depu tation an interview, at which he explained " that, from the nature of the constitution and powers of the Central Government, it was not probable that any application had been made to Dr. WlNsLow—that certainly none had been made through him, but that possibly one of the states of the Union had applied to him, or more probably some individual in one of these states." And then Mr. LAWRENCE, having been furnished by the deputation with the information for which it was asserted in the paragraph in question that his Govern ment had applied to Dr. FORBES WINSLOW, pro ceeded to assure the deputation that " there need be no apprehension entertained that the abuses of the laws here would be adopted in any of the states of America, or that they would put on our old-fashioned, and, he hoped he might soon say, cast-off clothes." Had the worthy red-herring trailers entertained the remotest notion that the only result of their cun ningly-devised scheme would have been to have elicited from the United States Ambassador such an unequivocal condemnation of the system which they are interested in upholding, that paragraph would never have appeared. But the matter did not stop here—Mr. LAWRENCE proceeded to detail to the deputation the state of the lunacy law and of lunacy asylums in the state of Massachu setts ; and Mr. M'Cuany, the Chargé d'Affaires from the United Srates to the Court of Vienna, fur nished them with similar information with regard to the state of Connecticut. The information thus afforded to the deputation will be found detailed in ....- eittenso in a letter from Mr. PERCEVAL, the Honorary Secretary to the Society, which appears in another column. The grand principles acted on are those which we have so long advocated, viz., that no person sh ou ld be incarc e r a t e d as an alleged lunatic without the previous in stitution of a preliminary inquiry before some public court of justice, at which the alleged lunatic should have every opportunity of being heard in his defence, and of rebutting the evidence adduced against him ; and that after incarceration every facility shall be afforded to him and his friends of renewing such r, 111/ We of the courts of law, has evoked the eloquence of `:rose gentletwn, e e f;:rnit if au ere made, is would be strong grounds for com plaint and remonstrance. But we believe it has been over and over repeated, on high authority, that no such thing is in contemplation ; we shall, therefore, dismiss it as an item in the list of grievances brought before the meeting not having the slightest foundation. We will, however, candidly admit that the Irish bar has some strong and just ground of complaint— we admit that the gentlemen called to the Irish bar suffer under a system of great injustice. It seems to us an unaccountable anomaly that an Irishman cannot be called to the Irish bar without becoming a member of one of the English inns of court, and serving half his terms is England. An Irish student on entering the Queen's inns in Dublin has to pay stamp duty to a large amount, larger, w e believe, than in England, at all events quite as much; after making legal indentures in Irish beef and mutton for nine terms, he is then obliged to come to England and enter one of the inns here, where he has to pay a second stamp duty, and serve eight terms, after which he is at liberty to return to Ireland, and, on exihibiting his receipt for two years' commons in England, and on payment of a third stamp d is admitted to the degree of barrister-at-law believe some drawback has been recently made in Ireland ; but still there is the additional and unneces sary expense of two years' residence in England. And, further, should a member of the Irish bar, no matter of what standing, seek to be admitted to the English bar, he must serve additional terms and pay additional stamp duty. We know the case of an Irish barrister admitted to the English bar last term who paid stamp duty four several times. This we look on as a real and substantial grievance, a deep injustice to the Irish student and barrister. To this we would call the at tention of Mr. NAPIER, Mr. KEOGH, and others, who in their places in the House of Commons should make an effort to remedy so great an evil, and thus confer a benefit upon their profession and their country. Before we close our observations on this demon stration against the abolition of the Irish Court, we again willingly bear testimony to the respectability of those who composed it; but we still look on it as a mere manifestation of the feelings of the citizens of Dublin, and a few kind-hearted noblemen and gen tlemen who sympathised with them. The country at large appears quite apathetic on the subject; no county meetings have been called, the large towns and cities have given no signs, no argument has been advanced to prove the necessity or utility of any longer con tinuing a Viceroy in Ireland, save the paltry one, un worthy a great city, that the withdrawal of the ex penditure of a few thousands a year would bring ruin upon the whole trading community of Dublin. The commercial interest of that city was fitly represented by the highly respectable Chairman. We entertain strong doubts if that gentleman would venture to assert that the withdrawal of a Viceroy could materially affect the great establish ment at St. James's-gate. The sale of a few gloves and ribbons are not sufficient to countervail the many social and political evils engendered and fostered by an Irish Court. The Tory Peer or Commoner will not make his bow to a Whig Lord- Lieutenant, and, vice versa, the Whig will not attend the Court of a Tory, while the rampant Radical will absent himself from both. Thus the whole country is split into factions, party feuds are fo mented, clam is separated from class, and that unani mity of action is destroyed, without which no national good can be effected. All these evils are attributable to the continuance of the Yiceroyalty ; and no matter how able, how wise, or how good the Governor- General may be, these vices will continue. Ages have proved that these evils are inherent in the system, and can only be cured by removing the cause —that is, by the abolition of the Viceregal office. `We have before pointed out the immense amount of good which might be effected by the Chief Secretary having a seat in the Cabinet, where such wholesome measures could be proposed and enforced as we have no doubt the present Lord-Lieutenant and his able colleague, Sir WILLIAM SOMERVILLE, would wish to carry out for the benefit of Ireland. The office of Chief Secretary is an onerous and a difficult one, and certainly the present Sight Hon. Gentleman is frequently daalt some hard knocks by some of the splenetic orators on the other side of the Channel knocks totally undeserved by his talents and long and faithful services, services which we trust to see, ere long, rewarded in a manner befitting bis large fortune and station, and his unremitting zeal in the cause o his country. whengneyer he or they 01,11 eon , ifier th a t he S V ST: • • t'ocri anether great principle adopted in the American system to which we would call the attention of all county-rate payers. In this country, although the pauper county lunatic asy!ums are by far the best managed of any (witness Hanwell), yet none but paupers are admitted to them, and these asylums are supported solely out of thw rates ; in America private patients, not paupers, are also admitted to these asylums, and the asylums are consequently self sustaining. We recommend this circumstance to the attention of the rate-payers throughout the king dom, and would urge them to petition for the introduction of a legislative measure authorising the reception of private patients into public county asylums. The adoption of such a plan would confer incalculable benefits upon the unfortunate lunatic by rescuing him from the grasp of the private madhouse-keeper, who has a direct personal interest in driving him mad if he be sane, and if he be insane in keeping him so ; while, at the same time, it would greatly diminish the burden of the county rate, and in many instances make that a source of profit which at present is a source of very heavy expense. THE LATE MR. SEDGWIC.K. We have often had to notice the undeserved per secution heaped, by a Tory Government, upon the late Mr. Sedgwick, a martyr, though a long-endu ring one, to the cause of the people. We have as often noted the shabby pretences of its Whig successors in denying a revision of previous injustice. Sacrificed as a detector of Scotch financial abuses, slandered to excuse the denial of justice, cast back from redress with offers of compromise on the virtual admission of deeds which his conscience and his honour revolted at, there can be little doubt that his disease of the heart was the consequence of long anxieties and bitter indignities, heaped upon him by those whose iniqui ties he would neither abet nor conceal. Peace be with him after his weary toil—after a life made fruit less by the idea of one continuous wrong. Let the people honour the memory of a man whom their ene mies persecuted because he was their true servant, and would not join in the conspiracy to rob them when he had undertaken to protect their interests.— Weekly Dispatch. [While we heartily agree in the due honour ac corded to the memory of a most worthy man, who in his public capacity was as much respected as the quiet, unostentatious dignity of bis private life en deared him to a large circle of friends and acquaint ances, we would, for the sake of a beloved child, say—" Let bygones be bygones !" For a long number of years Mr. Sedgwick had been allowed by the Treasury only 4001. something less than one-third of his public right ac quired from long services too well performed, as his sub • sequent persecution too truly and too bitterly proved I He had insured his life for 5,0001. for the benefit of his wife and daughter. That insurance he was not able to keep up in consequence of his crippled means, and the partner of his troubles, the wife of his bosom, died broken-hearted. He has followed her, bent down with the accumulated sense of his wrongs, leaving an orphan —a most amiable, accomplished, and beloved daughter, to mourn her too sad bereavement. Surely the Crovernment will now continue to the daughter the poor pittance so grudgingly awarded to her unhappy father ! The country will lose nothing, and the Government will be but making a partial atonement for justice too long de ferred. We war not with the dead—let us be honest-hearted to the living—and hope for mercy even as we bestow it.—EDITOR or The Sun.] PRINCESS'S THEATRE. As You Like ..11 was performed here on Saturday, with the same cast, with one exception, as it had been performed oil the previous evening before ber Ma jesty and the Court at 'Windsor Castle. The Rosa find of Mrs. Charles Kean has been always one of her most finished impersonation, and she never appeared to greater advantage in it than she did on Saturday evening. Mr. Charles Kean's Jacques was a most effective piece of acting; his declamation was beau tiful exceedingly. Mr. Wigan sustained the charac ter of Orlando for the first time, and has henceforth made the part his own ; he was most artistic yet most unconventional . ; his is the true Orlando of Shak spere. Keteley's Touchstone, Mrs. Keeley's Audrey, and Meadows's William were excellently quaint ; and Mr. Addison acted old Adam with great care and propriety. The min en scene was exquisitely beau tiful. The house was crowed. N I , ', P-- We have received the Paris journals of Saturday I and yesterday. The debate on M. NADAun's Socialist proposi tions was brought to a conclusion on Friday. The order of the day was voted by a considerable majority. On Saturday the Committee of the Assembly re solved to recommend that the authorization to arrest M. MAuGuils for debt should be granted. N. ETIENNE has presented the following proposition relative to the sale of juurnals in the public streets : —" Political journals which have not for the space of two years undergone a condemnation either by the Court of Assizes or by the National Assembly, may be sold in the public streets. The sale, however, may be interdicted in times of emeutes and political dis turbances." On Saturday the central jury for the choice of arti cles to he sent to the Great Exhibition in London held its first sitting. M. CHARLES DUPIN presided. The jury was addressed by the Minister of Commerce. General RULHIERES, representative of the people, and late Minister of War, when leaving the Club of the Rue des Pyramides slipped on the stairs and broke his leg. AI. MICHEL CHEVALIER, the celebrated Professor of Political Economy, has beea elected a Member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences. The Ordre affirms that the Dotation Bill will be presented on Monday or Tuesday. The committee on supplementary credits on Sa turday heard explanations from the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and 'War. Questions were put to them relative to the occupation of Rome, and several members of the committee expressed a desire that that occupation might cease at the end of the year. It is stated that General D'HAUTPOOL will soon return to France. The hea!th of the Governor of Algeria has rather severely suffered during his short stay there, and he has been obliged to ark fur leave of absence for some months. The Five per Cents. were done in the passage of the Opera at 96-85. BUStiNt SS i).•,% I , N FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, FES, 1. Boulogne and Amiens, 9. 7 4 —Dutch Rhenish, 2 1 4—East Indian, 12 1 / B —Luxembourg, 2 1 ,4. 2 —Namur and Liege, Si/2 Northern of France, 15'4—Orleans and Bordeaux, 4 —Paris and Strasbourg, 9;A—Rouen and Havre, 11 1 / B —Sambre and Meuse, 3'4—Tours and Nantes, 51/4. • 4 4 ), 4, ' , i : .. ~., ..., ,, . ..m.44 „.. ~ , ... , . L, , . 4 ' Rai .., ' c l - '"1111 10-'-(-: ....*/ .4; ' , ,• e • „lu e —iligte S.. , IL , ~ 4 _,, k '''„"f . r • mo''' '''.;`' ;, 74 . 4 ' • Jr . c "' , _... t .. z. ..., t .... ~,,,,, K -...., SPAIN. Madrid journals of the 28th ult. have arrived. They announce the death of General AMETLER a Madrid. Senor BUSTILLOS bas been sworn in as Minister o Marine. MADRID BoLsA, JAN. 28.—Three per Cents., 34f ; Five per Cents., 13} Exchange on London, 50 65 GERMAN Y. Letters from Vienna of the 29th state, that a con spiracy, in which several regiments of the garrison of Vienna are implicated has been discovered. The 4th of March was fixed on as the day tor a general out break. Three batallions of the garrison have been ordered to distant provinces, and several arrests have taken place. The Austrian journ als are forbidden to notice these occurrences. The German journals contain no news from Dres den; but they state that MM. I).E MANTEUFFEL and SCHWARZENBERG were expected in that city about the middle of the month, when, it is said, something respecting the proceedings of the conferences will be known. The Independance of Brussels says that even if no formal resoluti , )ns should have been come to, the conferences will be closed at Dresden at the end of the month, but continued at Frankfort. The First Chamber of Prussia commenced, on the 29th ult., the discussion of the. law on the state of siege. Most of the articles wer a adopted as presented by the Chamher, and the Ch.i.mber, i n comp li ance with the w i s h o f the Ministry, rejected an increase in the penalties proposed by tho Committee. On the 30th ult. the Second Chamber of the Prus sian States appointed its definitive bureau. Count SCHWERIN was re-elected President by a majority of 186 votes against 106, the la tter being obtained by his opponent Count ARNIM. M. GEPPART was elected Vice-President, in oppe sition to M. SIMSON, the votes for the former bohng 160, and for the latter 131. DENMARK AND T.HE DUCHIES. A letter from Hamburgh c' :n the 29th ult., in the lndependance of Brussels, says. that the difficulties between the Federal and the Danish Commissioners are far from being settled, an (1 that it is not true, as stated, that a new provisional. government for the Duchies has been formed. Rendsburgh is garrisoned by - . Austrian and Prussian troops. BOSNI A. The insurrection in Turki sh Croatia has led to a complete state of anarchy. The insurgents of Todoro vvo are preparing to attack the Seraskier at Bosnia Slerti. OMER PACHA is at Treuwik „ whence he intends to march upon Bihacz. SWITZER' AND. The GrandiCouncil of Tessi t ►n, in its sitting of the 20th ult., adopted a decree abol. fishing the punishment of death for offences of a pus' 31y political character, and substituting for it imprison, went for life. ITALY. At the request of the English legation at the Court of Sardinia all British subjecfr 3, not only residents in, but those passing through the Sardinian states, are called on to register their Et: xmes and other parti culars at the office of the may( ►r of the town where they reside. The Chamber o f Deputies at Turin have passed the Act ratifying the postal convention between Sardinia and France, 6. iwitzerland, and Bel gium. - We learn by express from '2 Curin, that the Postal treaty between Sardinia and Frs taco was brought be ' fore the Chamber of Deputies :s t Turin on the 28th ult., and adopted by a large maj6: rity. We read the following in a I. etter from Rome of the 22d, in the Risorgimento of Turin :—" The five dragoons who were said to have deserted from Capra. rola have returned ; they had on.. ly indulged in a plea sure-trip. Several political are , gists have been made at Rome, both French and Roma n soldiers being em ployed in that service. Seve.. a inviduals, five of whom are understood to be Fren., ch non-commissioned officers, have been arrested at the Hotel del Falcone. Rumours are current as to the existence of an ill-feeling between the Frenc I i and Roman troops; General GEMEAU has even prop o sed the disarming of nearly all the latter. DistustbLm ces, created by the Republican party, still occur 3o ow and then in the streets of Rome, but the crowds generally disperse at the appearance of a patrol." A letter from Rome of the 14th ult. states that Monsignor CONSOLINI is spoken , o f as the future Vice- President of the Council of St, s te. Advocate VAN , - NUTELLI, Professor °mow, an C 1 Signor RIGHETTI, are to be members of the Council. The same letter mentions the capture by the 1 0 Tench cruizers of a vessel under P or t uguese co l our: , having men and arms on board belonging to Massa am's expedition (?) against the P on tifi ca l St ates . i everal railway lines, connecting Some with Tuscany, Civita Vecchia, Fer rara, &c., are spoken of as being. under the consider ation of the Pontifical Governme t it. The Giornale di Roma quotes letters from Ferrara of the 17th ult., giving an accov nt of the operations of the columns sent against the banditti who invest the Romagna. It appears that several encounters have taken place, and that the re iscreants have been chased from place to place, and wo of them taken, while a third, named BIOLCAUA, a notorious robber, was killed, after having previous] ty shot two soldiers. Ropes are entertained of the sj ieedy capture of all the malefactors. DEATH OF SPON TINT, The Patric announces the dela :h of the illustrious Spontini, the composer of La V eatale, of Fernando Cortez, and of several other q 'eras. He died at lesi ' in the Roman State s , hi s ns tive place, whither he b ad gone to pass the winter„ in the hope of re establishing his health. He insisted on attending Divine service, notwithstanding the sever ity of the weather; and was seized, on leaving the chi arch, with a fit of shivering, which carried him off ii n a very short time. He expired in the arms of his the sister of the celebrated pianist Erard. THE PAPAL AGGRESSION. LORD JOHN'S ANTI PAPAL MEASURE (From the Spectator.) RESOLUTION ON THE SUBJECT OF THE RECENT ROMAN CATHOLIC PROCEEDINGS. TO RE MOVED RY LORD foHN RUSSELL IN THE HOUSE OF cuMMONS, AND MY LORD OVERSTONE IN THE HOUSE OF PEERS, ON MONDAY, PER. 10. " Where as an instrument, executed by the Bishop of Rome, pre tending to constitute her Majesty's realm of England a province of the Roman Church, and to divide the same in. to sees, and to appoint bishops thereof, has been published extensively: " And whereas this country is, by its constitution, subject to no authority, except that residing in and emanating from the lawful Sovereign and the United Parliament of Great Britain and Ireland, and will ever maintain ii;s independence against all foreign interven tion whatsoever: " And whereas the Bishop of Rome has no lawful authority or power in this country, and no person can lawfully exorcise power, authority, or jurisdiction in England on his behalf, or is his name, or under his control : " And whereas great disquiet has been occasioned to her Majesty's loyal subjects, and made known by peti tions to this House, because of the invasion of her Ma jesty's royal prerogative and supreme authority, and great indignation because of the outrage on the constitu tional rights and prescriptive usage of England and the Protestant feeling of the people of this country, and of the public insult to her Majesty's Crown and dignity: " Resolved,—That such pretended bishops of English sees have no lawful authority over sees in this country, and that parsons acting under such instruments pos sess no power or authority whatsoever, and that no obedience is due from any of her Majesty's subjects to any such pretended bishop or persons so acting; but that if any such pretended bishops, or persons acting under such instrument proceed to exer cise authority by force or compulsion, such proceeding will be illegal, and will be punished on due prosecution of the offer ders in the courts of law. " That a n humble address be presented to her Ma jesty, embc dying the foregoing resolution, and request ing that her Majesty will graciously make known the same by her proclamation to the people of this realm. " Also stating that this House ever holds itself bound to co-operate with her Majesty's Government in the framing and enac ti ng o f measures that may be from t ime to time m ost , su i ta b le to secure full liberty of conscience o and free exrcise of religio us o b servances w ith in the law to every denomination of Christians, and to render the ecclesiastical' institutions of this country, as by law esta blished, more efficient, so that they may continue more firm, under Divine Providence, in the affections of her Majesty's subjects." The Address in the Lords in answer to the Queen's Speech will be moved by Lord Howard of Effingham, and seconded by Lord Cremorne. The Portland breakwater was 1,080 feet long on the 31st of Jrxtuary, 1851. DEPARTURE OF THE AFRICA.—The British and North American royal mail steam-ship Africa, Captain Ryrie, sailed from Liverpool on Saturday at noon, carrying 128 passengers, th.e usual mails, and a very extensive cargo of goods. THE Palau or A WHISKER,--A man lately sued another in the County Court, Lincolnshire, for having shaved one side of his face and head while he was drunk, and the practical joker had to pay 20s. damages and costs for his trick. ROYAL M.A.RINES, FEB. I.—First Lieutenant N. B. Dalby, of the Chatham division, serving on board the Superb, 80, o.e the Mediterranean station, is transferred to the Woolwich division, dated January 31, 1851. First Lieu tenants E. H. (Cox and A. Douglass, of the Plymouth di vision, and W. IL Burton, of the Portsmouth division, are transferred to the W oolwich division, but remain for the present at Port: mouth as supernumeraries in the Artillery ---------, ---------- companies. DANGEROUS ILLNESS OF CNA RLES WATERTON, Esq.—We regret to announce that the celebrated naturalist [ADVERTIS E.MENT.3—The Observer of Sunday, and traveller, Charles Waterton, Esq. . of Walton Hall, is Feb. 2, gave ne,lr ly five of their folio columns of particulars very dangerously ill, and that but sli p ; ht hopes were atl, one connected with the Great Exhibition, brought down to Sa- time entertained of his recovery. Aba ut five or six weeks turday night. The Observer of Sunday, Jan. 26, gave four ago he fell from a tree 21 feet high, a nd very seriously in folio columns (tt interesting incidents of the Exhibition , jured his left arm, and cause d cerebr a l c oncussion sufficient to chiefly original fa.cts, collected and written by the Observer alarm his medical attendants, Dr. Hobs on of Leeds, and Mr. reporters. The extensive publication of the Observer com- ' Bennett, of Wakefield. He was favour ably , recovering when, mences at four o'clock on Sunday mornings. Sunday, Feb.: about ten days ago, a chair was moved unknown to him on 9. a gratuitous : utpplement to the Observer. Price of the which be was about to sit down, and he fell all his length. Observer, Sixpent le. In a few days this was succeeded by p aralysis of the right Lord Newry,. whose state of health is very in- lower limb and numb ness of the left, and 1 during the whole of different, has cont n idicted the report that he has announced Wednesday and until Thursday morning, the sufferer was i n his intention of re signing the representation of the borough a Perfectly comatos e state, and his d 4 !ath was hourly ex . of Newry. petted the last rites of his Church be.' tg administered. On Thursday, after the application of Wises rs to th e w h ole of the DEATH OF M A 00R -G EN EMIL F EARON .—O n S yn . - head, the patient rallied, and was able to take some nutri withday last M a j or - 4 k neral F earon, w h o h as l a tt er l y resi d ed meat and to recogn i se hi s f r iends, and 1 'e are h a p py to learn his d aug h ter, Lady Palmer, at M uch Hadham, Ilehratsci General that considerable hopes of his recovery ' w ere entertained. committed suicide by s h oo ti n g himself. The beets for s ome t i me past unwe ll an d i n a d espon d ing state of Leeds I n t e lli gencer. iS id mind. H e was mi.: wed at luncheon, and on search being in- RELIEF F O R A TROUBLESOME C IDUGII. stituted, th e b o d y was f oun d i n an ou th ouse , at no great that a small piece of resin dipped in the water lt which sa is distance fr om th e d .welling of his daughter, by one of the placed in a vessel on a stove will add a, peculiar property to servants. On Mon .d a y an inquest was held on view of the the atmosphere of the room, which will give great relief to body, befor e T. Sa - o; .der, Esq., coroner for the county, wh en persons troubled with a cough. The h eat of the water is thejury f oun d—•` 7.'h at the deceased committed suicide whilst sufficient to throw off the aroma of the resin, and gives the suffering under teelp orary insanity." same relief as is afforded by the combs t.stion of the resin. It ST. HELEN'S RAILWAY. —At the h a lf- yearly is preferable to combustion, beca use i t i a more durable. The St. H a meeting of the Helen's Railway Company, on S aturday I rnri voLcterea, APPOINTMENTS...— Mr. Jean Marie e resin may be used for weeks. last, a dividend of 25s . per old share an d o f 3,. 15 s. per 100/ : St. preference share was a dopted, which will leav e a b alance of Alexander Aubert is appoint e d a mom bee of the Council of 3674 in fay our of thfa pi 'esent half yea r . i ot. Lucia. Mr. William Vesy Munningal is appointed a mem ber of the Executive Council of the Bel litma Islands, .7.7 .-."..._ r,K ;`,7,,T (AMIN EXCHANGE—(MOINDA Y ' ) ,. Notwithstanding that the supplies of Wheat on sale in the leading country markets, held on Saturday, p ets by no means extensive, the demand for all descriptions ruhel heavy at drooping prices. Fine Foreign Wh i , e , a ie t s were mostly held at full currencies, but damp ( It l3l n - d were again lower to purchase. Barley ruled dull , the turn cheaper. Malt, Oats, and all other articles, citulibg Hour, commuideu very little attentien. r i Generally speakin g , our foreign advices are deYni of interest. Large quantities of Grain and Flour eon; tinues to change hands on English accounts ; the Baltic and Black Sea markets next to nothing ' 9 " -- ing for forward delivery. Up to our mark e t l as t wee k t h e sup plies 0f vh°roliin: grown produce were co . nparativoly 09 5 abroad we received 31,427 quarters of Wheat ; 'l 6 O Barley ; 14,618 O ats ; 2,214 Beans ; 143 Pee s ; ,;4 5 Tares ; 20 sundry S ee d s ; 6,278 sac k s an d 4,52 1 "* Flour. at, For to-day's market the arrivals of Englisk,' — r e e• coastwise from Essex and Kent, were very nwu r ., e c rl t iU, whilst those by land carriage from Norfolk, ° tl- 1 , - . 03 % Cambridgeshire, &c., were small. Generally sP es ; :j o g the supplies came to hand much out of condition, ar. '""d. from the humid state of the atmosphere. Notwithste°3o ing that the sho w o f samp l es of both red and whi te Ic A ll limited, the time of year considered, the de1115 13 d ,,,0rb at descriptions, ow i ng t o th e pressure of f ore ign v " iit e i e i and Flour, was in a v e ry depressed state. Fine clu I "„ o f changed hand s s l ow ly, at pr i ces a b out equa l to th()% o Monday last; but in some i nstances o th er kinds g t o way is per quarter, a t w hi c h amount o f d e p re ssion market closed heavily. Vsgt Numerous orders still come to hand from the —0 coast; but we heard of very few transactions for for ws delivery. " thy We were heavily suppli e d w i t h f res h F ore ign as well as with parcels from granary. As most °f an d holders and importers refused to accept lower rate... 6 ', Dtr as the dealers refrai ne d from purchasing to any e ' - r e al all kinds must be considered heavy in the extren 3e g o almost nominal currencies. Floating cargoes of 11 ° A Odessa were freely offered at 34s to 35s per quarter, th e large number of vessels is still off the coast from Black Sea. The show of Barley samples, both English and was extensive. Malting parcels were mostly fir posed of at about sta t i onary pr i ces, b ut all ot h e r dos e ' tions were the turn cheaper. We had a very slow inquiry for Malt, at last ' re prices. The quantity offering was large. , Although the show of Oat sam pl es was not very" Jr tonsivc, it exceeded the wants of the dealers. The. mand was therefore heavy at late rates. 0 I ° Beans moved off slowly, but we have no chsli notice in prices. Y's For Peas we had a very dull inquiry at last v i currency. Indian Corn and Meal were nominal. N- char- sle' of _ Per Ton. I Per ~ /r .a 70 Yorksh. Regents. 80 s t o 100sIEssex Shaws ... 600 to goe Scotch Regents 60e to 75 s K ent Regents.... 60s to 00 Wisbeach & Cam- Essex Regents... 60s to 60 . bridge . .„0 Foreign ...... .....3 to .. „e Lincoln. Shaws —s to -- s Cambridge ditto ...... 5 to ( a Kent Shaws 6 os t o 75 s C hats 800 to '- itOROUGH NOP IVIARZET. offe r Notwithstanding that th e supplies of Hops on 40 are large, the general demand is steady, and last wlOO prices are fully supported in every instance. Ten ;is.r bare reached us from O sten d . Factor's prices, „61 a v ready money—East Kent p oc k ets, per cwt. 3/ 161 'Ol 15s; ditto bags, 3/ 48 to 5/ ss; Mid Kent pocketsel o i to 5/ 15s; ditto bags, 2/ t o 4 / 10s; Weald a 0 pockets, 316 s to 412 s ; ditt o b ags, 2/ to 31 10s; $lll pockets, 2/ 18s to 3/ 16s. TALLOW. The somewhat large sales for forward delivery be oot reduced the available stock here to some extent. . h er market still continu es fi rm, and prices are a shade bh 3„t,ed than on Monday l a6 t. P . Y. C., on the spot, is qu at 37s 9d per cwt. Town Tallow is 37s per 0 1 1 ' cash; rough fat 2. Id per Bibs. 1..7.5t week the del ice ries amounted to 2,372, and the imports to 5 70 cask. 1847. 1848. 1849. 1850. Stock this day .... • • 14542 13.221 36,472 43,370 Price of Y. C. I s Ossis oto2s to tdd 515590% 39s Od 38 o s s O o d d to to Delivery last week .. 1,236 3,159 2.166 1,487 Ditto from June 1...• 65,016 76,689. 72,167 67,375 Arrivals last week . 259 1,771 2,714 Ditto from June 1 ... 68,935 81,809 101,136 85,274 Price of Town 52s Od 53s Od i 423 Od 39s 6cl ---rt 'I. 37 1,;(0 to 079 if' 024 6 5 70 9 0034 S.' 064 WOOL. During last week the imports of Wool into Lol l 491 were 230 bales from Adelaide, 16 from Hamburgh, j pd. from Rouen, 125 f rom M ogedore, and 5 from 'reit tijl The private market is very moderately supplied with fi r kinds of Wool, the prices of which are steadily 91 r ts ported. The following statement shows the i 0 P° a d from the colonies into London, Liverpool, Bristol, Leith in 1849 aad 1850:—. COLONIAL. New South Wales... ... Vau Diemen's Land ... Port Philip and Adelaide... Cape of Good Hope East Indies "' 1849. 1850. Bales. Bales. 51,397 52,509 17.926 17,46 8 5.5741 67,571 20,444 20 471 11,084 9,704 ... 156.592 167,733 CLYDE,-Sid. Glenorchy, Calcutta; Kerclaw, Cell and Madras; Francis, Antigua. .o change took place in the value of Flour. 00 that article progr esse d s l ow l y , w i t h a l arge suP PIY show. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. ~, t, 5 0 Wheat-Essex & Kent- , M a lt-Ch eva li er • • • • • • s'"- Red, Yew.. • • :16s to 43s Oats- Yo r k s hire And 1 91 Dltto,Will le, New 39j 49s Li nc olnsti., Feed. I„ L; 2 9 Norfolk and Mu- rolato ...... .• • • 1 " 17 0 coin. Red.- - 3's 41s Youghal ard Cori. ~ Ditto. WI•liz•-• ••• • • 363 4"s Black. ••• • • • 1 5 ' , 0 1 1 Irish, Red........ -s -s Cori., WM' e. •• •.• i" ~,,, Di' to,White...... -s -s Scotch, Feed. •• •• ~ •,, ;:ye—old •• ——•••• •• 26s 27s Beane-Tic'c ... ••• • - ;65 3 ,1, New............. :Ss 295 Pigeons. •• . .... ";5 A '`,, - , Barley-Grind' -7. .... '203 23s Peas-Grey .... •••• • • - P '- Malting . ... •• • - 241 27s Maple;..... .. •• •• 245 /7% . 0 Chevalier • ... •• • 28s 30s Wh i t e .- .• ••• • • , 2 6, 0 1Mal: -Suffon and NO2- Boilers ••••• • • •• 3 55 • folk.. .... •• .. . . 43s 48s Flo d r-T own . m ode.•• o`' Brown ....... •. -40 s 42s SuColk .... ••• • •, 299 J 40 95 Kingston and Ware 47s 51s St u cti n & Norfolk 2 SEED. The prices, Linseed, and Canary move off steadily 6 DO prices, but all other articles are quite neg l e cted- " o i, o f supplies offering are sea s o na bly extens i ve . The 5 Clover Seed in bond is 33,857 cwt. sY Turnip,White, per bush. 103 to 12s Carraway ...... ••• • " 3 10 04 Red aad Green.. . • lls 12s Coriander .... •••• •• " 1 5 .51 36 g4 j Mustard, 8r0wn.... • • 9s 12s llempseed, per qdarter .-- 5•• White, new ... • ..6s lid 8s Od Linseed, En,g.,owing•• 1: 4 ,1 Tares,Winter ...... ..4s Cd 4s 6d Crushing '-•• • • " 4 . -. 4- Old •... .. . • .. •• ..,s Od 4s Od Baltic „ „ ...... 3 ,- 41 0 Canary, per quarter • • 46s 51s Oc'cssa .. .. ••• • " 423 , i ds Rye g - .ass.. ,•• < • - 243 303 Linseed Cake,pr. ' ). 1--- 'l l 'T. 4 Clove ,ReElEng. (cwt.) 36s 56s En g li s h .... .7„, 1 1 1 7. N - 4 alto .......... 36s 51s Fcrei,gn per ton 6 / 55 4 / A '' , Foreign red.. - -34 s 50s Rape Cates, nr ton 3 115 , 5 0 21 1 ' , White.... 3fs 50 3 Rapese e d.N e W pr lst 251 , s' Trefoil • ...... 17s 22s svirTarxExal. stoA A very extensive time•ot-year supply of foreig n g• se el hes arrived in the port o f L on d on d ur i ng t he Pas! l i sal The total importation has amoun'ed to 2,65 1 . 540 itl against 454 during the same pericd in 1850; IP S 1849; and 453 in 1248. , NiPoRTs INTO LONDON IN 1212 FAST NVEIC' p' bvlS6 From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. ...- Rotterdam 34S ... 479 ... ... 236 q 5 Antwerp .. Havre •• •. ••• 3 .•• ... ... ••• ...- Harlingen - " .., Nieu IJiep .. 43 ... 295 „„ - ... 1 ....... -'O -. -.- Total - ... 350 :., 0 The yearly comparison of th e wee kly imports ''' under:— Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves- PIO ,. 1850 5l ... 200 ... ... 203 ••• ...• 1849 - ...., 1848... 132 ... 298 ... --. .23 ••• 0 02 A few head of stock have been landed at the o ut f o od, from Holland; but we ha Te had no arrivals from I T o ,ith Our market to-day was seasonably well supPl it ided foreign stack, in the general quality of which a u . 0 001 improvement was noticed. The demand for it ;be however, very inactive. From our grazing district s s gi j i i i arrivals of Beasts fresh up thi s morn i n g were oeir somewhat extensive for the time o f year; wil l ' s ' to es' condition was unusually goal. Owing i n a grest site' sure to the large receipts of Meat up to Newg‘ te s tte , Leadenhall, the Beef trade was in a very inaci lve ,,Abg at prices barely equal to those of Monday las t Of' highest figure for the best Scots being 3s 8 d K. fi e From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cumbridgee bir a,' EA received 1,500 Scots, Shorthorns, &c.; from the no rth or grazing counties, 1,000 shorthorns; England, 300 of various breeds; and from S o le to' chiefly per railway -340 horned and polled ,h ° Se from other Pr o d, - On the whole, the supply of Sheep was good, b ° :, to to number and quality. All kinds were in modert, u re quest, at last week's currency. The top genera l " u p• for the best old Downs was 4s 4d, whilst a f e , vi l 0 0 rior qualities realised 4s 6d per 8 lbs. Near l Y i ' lo o head were out of the wool, and there were ab °ll- icll Dorset Lambs on offer. Calves, the supply a w ion.• was small, moved off slowly, at unaltered quot at o or We were scantily suplied with Pigs, in which a limited business was doing, at late rates. 5. Per 81b 5. 5. to d. sink the offal. S• 4. ~ d, to d. to inferior Beasts..... 2 6 2 8 I n f er i or Sh ee p .. .. 3 4 3 3 0 1 ( 2 Second quality ——2 10 3 0 Second qual. Sheep 3 8 4 1 Prime large Oxen.. 3 2 3 4 Coarse-wociledoltto4 0 4 4 Prime Scots ...... 3 6 3 8 sodaulown "Nether 4 2 0 , A " i..arge coarse Calves 3 0 3 6 Ditto ect of the wool 0 0 erime small ditto -.. 3 8 310 Large hogs ...... 2 1 0 4 n u iucklina Calves ..18 0 24 0 Small :.'orkers •• •• 3 ! 10 w Lambs ••••• • • • •• 0 0 0 0 Qua r t er o l d Pigs •• 16 " 1 TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET rigs easts. i Sheep. 1 Ca,ves. 3,892 I 19,100 I 193 i 295 FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts. p. Calves. I 519 I Shee 1,380 I 127 00' NEVTGATE AND LEADENNALZ. ,s Of Since this day se'nnight only moderate suPIN" .be country-killed Meat have be en rece i ve d up t° tlie‘'o' markets; but those on offer sla ug h tere d i n the tno et :4l polls have been seasonably ext ensive. P rime Bee' ',iiii Mutton are in fair request at f u ll pr i ces. In ot h e r lino of meat comparatively little business is doing. At per stone by the Carcase. , :I , s. d. to s. d. I 0. d, to . 2 ' f Beef,lnterier.... •• 2 0 2 2 , 1111tton, i nferior 2 6 - ! middling •.• • 2 4 2 6 ! middling..' •'2 10 8 i . primelarge .. 2 8 3 0! prime . 3 tl 3 ! prime small 3 2 3 4 ; Pork, 1arge ........ ••. 2 6 II ' 210 It 8! ' small .. 3 8 4 BOROUGH AND SPITA.LFIELDS. T . ) During last w ee k upwar d s of 4,000 tons of .r°`-- tato& 0 Cat:oo to hand coastwi se an d by railway conveyan ce : 0 a excellent condition. Fro m R ouen we received 309! ;8' from Dunkirk 66 tons. S e l ec t e d qua li t i es are in fig!, - 0 quest, at full prices ; but all o th er ki n d s are very dap/ our quotations.